Speaker 1: Deuce Vaughn is now in their new set of downs
Speaker 1: to work with.
Speaker 2: Prescott will throw it left side, It's caught by Lamb
Speaker 2: breaking away.
Speaker 1: Waham, good bye touchdown Cowboys. Lamb is exclusive. Deonda Banks
Speaker 1: catch beet on the play fifty five yards of a
Speaker 1: catch and run for Lamb.
Speaker 3: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we hit all our field goals. Okay,
Speaker 3: Brandon Aubrey didn't actually do that tonight, but the Cowboys
Speaker 3: get it done twenty to fifteen.
Speaker 2: The Cowboys survived. This was a get it done and
Speaker 2: survive type a night.
Speaker 3: Hopefully my guest today on NFL Daily can do the same.
Speaker 2: Danny Heifeitz of The Ringer.
Speaker 3: Danny, I'm sorry to have you on after a Giants
Speaker 3: loss that was a tough one tonight.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I feel like football
Speaker 1: now is officially back because we've had a Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game where we had a split screenshot of Micaeh
Speaker 1: Parsons being carted off. Will mylak Neighbors was like carried
Speaker 1: to the blue medical tent and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I feel inside the whole time watching this game.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was not a pretty game. A lot
Speaker 3: of penalties in the first half, come down in the
Speaker 3: second half. Al Michaels was groaning. It looked like it
Speaker 3: was all but over. Late in the game, Brandon Aubrey,
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, lines up for a fifty one yardfield goal, misses.
Speaker 3: It gives Daniel Jones one chance to go fifty four
Speaker 3: yards in twenty eight seconds.
Speaker 2: They get no yards.
Speaker 3: Throwing the ball down the field late was as ugly
Speaker 3: as it was throwing the ball down the field early.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, Daniel Jones played pretty well.
Speaker 3: We'll get into all that, but yeah, you kind of
Speaker 3: led with the big stuff which late in the game.
Speaker 2: We'll just mention it right off the top. Monik Late.
Speaker 3: Neighbors leaves with a concussion. Micah Parsons was carted off
Speaker 3: the field it appeared, I believe, with a lower leg
Speaker 3: injury they're calling it. And DeMarcus Lawrence had left in
Speaker 3: the third quarter with a foot injury. So all of
Speaker 3: those injuries loom large, especially considering what a big part
Speaker 3: of the offense Neighbors was. He hit his head on
Speaker 3: the ground on what was to me really the end
Speaker 3: of the game, which was a fourth down play where
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones left the pocket. I thought a little early
Speaker 3: Danny and scrambled it. Actually made a nice throw in
Speaker 3: the end, got it on Neighbors' hands, and you hate
Speaker 3: to see the game and that way he tried to
Speaker 3: make a nice toe tap. It would have been a
Speaker 3: sensational play, but actually the ball did get to him
Speaker 3: and he couldn't quite pull it in. You think of
Speaker 3: the game a couple of weeks ago in Washington, different situation,
Speaker 3: but Neighbors, who has been their best player by far,
Speaker 3: unfortunately in that spot, couldn't bring it in.
Speaker 2: And yeah, now it sounds like he could miss some time.
Speaker 1: It's just an awful ending to a game. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I look like Neighbors. I could be totally wrong, but
Speaker 1: it looked like he actually got knocked out cold trying
Speaker 1: to do the toe tap that he had two feet
Speaker 1: on the ground at a weird angle, two hands on
Speaker 1: the ball, and it looked like you just hit his
Speaker 1: face on the ground. And I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was knocked out or what, but I mean, it sucks
Speaker 1: seeing him go out like I mean, Neighbors is the
Speaker 1: entire team. I've been trying to figure out when the
Speaker 1: last time a single NFL offense relied so heavily on
Speaker 1: a rookie that was not back immediately, like even Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham for the Giants, I mean Adell barely. I don't
Speaker 1: think Odell even played the first month of the season,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And like you know, Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson didn't do anything til week three. I mean, all
Speaker 1: the great seasons you think of. Frankly, I think you
Speaker 1: might have to go back to like Adrian Peterson for
Speaker 1: the last time a team entered a season and was like,
Speaker 1: this kid is our offense because Neighbors it's closer to
Speaker 1: like my career in like a Madden or NCA the
Speaker 1: new college football video game, where like you're doing the
Speaker 1: Creative Player and like every player is for you, Like
Speaker 1: that's what the Giants offense is. And then when they
Speaker 1: double Neighbors, it's for Wandell Robinson. It's the entire offense.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So on the night, Neighbors ends up with twelve catches,
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifteen yards on fifteen targets.
Speaker 2: He had a.
Speaker 3: Route early in the game that embarrassed Andrew Booth, the
Speaker 3: Cowboys cornerback, maybe more than any route I've ever seen
Speaker 3: any wide receiver embarrass a cornerback. At that point, they
Speaker 3: were like, you are not allowed to cover him with
Speaker 3: the rest of the game, And he didn't like Trayvon
Speaker 3: Diggs had to cover him the rest of the game.
Speaker 1: It looked like Michael Irvin going to the bucket in
Speaker 1: the longest yard over Adam Sandler.
Speaker 3: Danny, by the way, of course, from the Ringer Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Show, does great stuff over at the Ringer.
Speaker 2: You should check him out.
Speaker 3: He's with Danny Kelly over there, and it has been awesome.
Speaker 3: And yes is a Giants fan, and I was hoping
Speaker 3: for a Giants win just for content sake. It would
Speaker 3: have been exciting to have you on after a win
Speaker 3: and to see what this Cowboys team would do at
Speaker 3: one in three.
Speaker 2: I will give them credit for doing enough.
Speaker 3: I don't feel any differently about the Cowboys after tonight
Speaker 3: than I did going into the night.
Speaker 2: But it was a crucial victory.
Speaker 3: And Dak Prescott is still such an advantage, you know,
Speaker 3: at quarterback, and it's tough to overcome that big of
Speaker 3: an advantage at quarterback. And what was the stat al
Speaker 3: said at the end of the game, thirteen straight over
Speaker 3: the Giants or it's fourteen out of fifteen. For I
Speaker 3: mean that is that is absolutely outrageous doubt. Dak finishes
Speaker 3: twenty two to twenty seven, two hundred and twenty one yards,
Speaker 3: two touchdowns. It was a very twenty twenty four night
Speaker 3: by Dak where it's just like everything's just out of
Speaker 3: his hands so quickly, almost everything's within ten yards. But
Speaker 3: they moved the ball and they scored enough when they
Speaker 3: had to. They left the door open a little bit
Speaker 3: for the Giants at the end. But yeah, you've got
Speaker 3: to be sick of losing to Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: It's it's non competitive, frankly, I mean the Giants again,
Speaker 1: So the Giants. Dak is thirteen straight wins over the Giants.
Speaker 1: The Giants have not beaten Dak Prescott's is twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: and time the Giants have beaten thatk. So the Giants.
Speaker 1: It's not just the Cowboys either, just too. The Giants
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys and the Eagles since twenty seventeen are
Speaker 1: four and twenty five, which is a worst winning percentage
Speaker 1: of the White Sox.
Speaker 4: So the Giants are basically the White Sox inside these games,
Speaker 4: except they're actually worse the White Socks actually are like
Speaker 4: almost twice as good as as the Giants against the
Speaker 4: Eagles Dallas. So it's like the extent to which the
Speaker 4: Giants have been futile, it's hard to even explained.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, they're tired for the worst record over
Speaker 1: the last seven years. That barely touches it.
Speaker 3: Right, because it's not like it's the Bills during the
Speaker 3: Brady era who have a similar type of record, or
Speaker 3: the Bears during the Packers Rogers era, like post Cutler
Speaker 3: has a very similar record. Okay, it's like, we don't
Speaker 3: have any quarterbacks. We're going against one of the all
Speaker 3: time great teams. You go to against the Cowboys, which
Speaker 3: has found a little consistency under Mike McCarthy, but they've
Speaker 3: been rolling through, you know, Jason Garrett and Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 3: They haven't been able to string together playoff seasons in
Speaker 3: a row until the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: This is not Aaron Rodgers and Tom.
Speaker 3: Brady that you can't get a win against tonight.
Speaker 2: I thought it might be your night, but it was
Speaker 2: not you.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy, these guys that
Speaker 1: everyone is making fun of of, like Oh, look at
Speaker 1: these bozos. How are they beating anyone? Meanwhile, the Giants
Speaker 1: have not beaten this team in seven years, basically the
Speaker 1: only time it had to be Andy Dalton quarter That's
Speaker 1: the other thing I did even mentioned this. Of the
Speaker 1: four and one, there are four wins twenty five losses
Speaker 1: against Dallas and Eagles. Two of those four wins were
Speaker 1: against backup quarterbacks, once against Marcus Mariota for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: once against Andy Dalton for Dallas. They've beaten Eagles starters
Speaker 1: at Cowboys starters twice in eight years, so it's worse.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love that we got comments in the chat here.
Speaker 3: Anvil writes high Fitz rest harder against the Giants than
Speaker 3: Cowboys fans, which is fun. And yeah, someone mentions Waddle's
Speaker 3: rookie year had a crazy target Charehip fits. I believe
Speaker 3: it was thirty four catches in the first four weeks
Speaker 3: for neighbors unless he tacked one on after that, which
Speaker 3: was second most in NFL history. And he's special and
Speaker 3: he's gonna make this Giant season worth it no matter what.
Speaker 3: Let's we'll get to more Giants in a bit, but
Speaker 3: I do want to talk Cowboys in this game. They're
Speaker 3: they're gonna be the more relevant team long term, although
Speaker 3: I don't know how much is really separating these two teams.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys decided tonight. I thought it was interesting to
Speaker 3: basically go with a two man backfield. It was just
Speaker 3: Rico Daddle and Hunter Lipkey. Hunter Lipke is their third
Speaker 3: down running back, which is funny. He's their fullback. He's
Speaker 3: actually he's kind of sneaky good. But as a Giants
Speaker 3: fan who saw Ceede Lamb go in for that you
Speaker 3: know touchdown, Tyler Nuban, your rookie safety, takes a terrible
Speaker 3: angle on that Deontay Banks, who's like always in position
Speaker 3: for plays but never makes plays. So I don't think
Speaker 3: he's a bad cornerback, but he's not. He's not, you know,
Speaker 3: a standout cornerback yet. And that's okay for a second
Speaker 3: year cornerback. If you're just like, okay, that guy's a starter,
Speaker 3: that's not a bad outcome. I don't even think for
Speaker 3: like a late first round pick. But he never makes plays.
Speaker 3: He's always there and he never makes.
Speaker 1: Him I'm gonna steal that. He's always the he's standing
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 3: Yes, and Nubin is the one that really should take
Speaker 3: the heat for that play. But Ceedee Lamb came out
Speaker 3: and this game had a monster first half ends up
Speaker 3: seven for ninety eight, had a great rushing attempt in
Speaker 3: the first half, and then they went back to that
Speaker 3: and it didn't work in the second. But after that
Speaker 3: and Ferguson's a good tight end after that, it's crazy
Speaker 3: to me my theory. And I know Cavante Turpin maybe
Speaker 3: didn't get on the field on offense. He was on
Speaker 3: the field, but I don't think he got a target.
Speaker 3: My assessment of this offense right now is that Hunter
Speaker 3: Lipke and Cavante Turpin are weapons three and four, which
Speaker 3: is not what you want. I think Lipkey is actually
Speaker 3: a pretty funky player. He's pretty fun He's pretty athletic
Speaker 3: for a fullback. He could do lots of things like
Speaker 3: he honestly could who knows. I don't want to get
Speaker 3: over my skis, but he could have a pretty fun career.
Speaker 3: But if he and Cavanti Turpin, who's dynamite anytime he
Speaker 3: gets the ball, but must not know how to run
Speaker 3: routes or else, like he would be in the lineup
Speaker 3: more like I don't know, Like he's unreal. Uh, Cook's
Speaker 3: cook looks cooked to me, Like, I don't know about
Speaker 3: Brandon Cooks. At this point, he gets four targets, one catch.
Speaker 3: Jalen Tovers never done anything, and just it's a little thin.
Speaker 3: Everything's hard for the Cowboys, even against this Giants defense.
Speaker 3: Everything is hard for them in terms of moving the
Speaker 3: ball down the field.
Speaker 1: I totally agree. I don't think that this game, if
Speaker 1: your Cowboys fan, changes anything about how you feel about
Speaker 1: the team. I still I don't care that they had
Speaker 1: the Giants only have one yard of carry. I still
Speaker 1: think Massi Smith has a habit of kind of like
Speaker 1: making the guys blocking him look like they're shack botting
Speaker 1: people out of the paint. I don't think, you know,
Speaker 1: I think when you face it tougher rushing team, like,
Speaker 1: I don't think those questions are answered. And then I think,
Speaker 1: like ceedee, Lamb's incredible. Yeah he sent Tyler Newban into
Speaker 1: like the astral realm, like Tyler Dubin. Like I just
Speaker 1: flashed back to when the Giants were like, damn, all
Speaker 1: the guys we wanted were taken. I guess we'll take
Speaker 1: Tyler Duban. But yeah, I mean to your point, about Hunter.
Speaker 1: I agree, I think Olypke actually looks solid, But overall
Speaker 1: I think Dallas they're almost They remind me of a
Speaker 1: way of the Jets, where it's like there's like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are just four acls from this whole thing collapsing
Speaker 1: at any point, and so what happens to this team
Speaker 1: if you know, unfortunately anything with Michael Parsons neces serious injury.
Speaker 1: Dak looks incredible. I thought, honestly, that scramble he had
Speaker 1: to lip key for that third and three thirty four. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was one of the best throws of the whole game.
Speaker 1: But overall, I just keep looking at Mike McCarthy with
Speaker 1: the Nick Sirianni thing. I'm like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 1: Why is nobody open? Why? Like I don't understand much
Speaker 1: about this. Dallas has developed talent. I look at Tyler
Speaker 1: Goutton struggling, and I'm like, you know what, Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: didn't have a great necessarily September. Like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about a bunch of stuff for Dallas, but
Speaker 1: I don't think I looked at this game and think
Speaker 1: there are anything. There's still the big bad wall for
Speaker 1: the regular season but I don't know.
Speaker 2: Right, and we'll see in the nfcas like I don't.
Speaker 3: I think they're a tick lower than they were the
Speaker 3: last couple of seasons. I'm much more concerned this Mike
Speaker 3: Zimmer defense, like wasn't getting a lot of pressure on
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones. I checked out the pressure numbers via Next
Speaker 3: Gen Stats, and I was surprised to see that Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones had a pretty good numbers against pressure tonight. It
Speaker 3: was it ended up six for eleven for sixty nine yards,
Speaker 3: which is not great. I think that was the last
Speaker 3: three plays basically, but before that he was like six
Speaker 3: for eight. But I barely saw any of those pressures
Speaker 3: and they weren't touching him like Daniel Jones has. I
Speaker 3: can't remember a Giants game where Daniel Jones got out
Speaker 3: as Scott free as this. Maybe the Commander's game, you
Speaker 3: know too, there was a little bit of that, but
Speaker 3: like he barely got hit, barely got knocked down. They
Speaker 3: did a good job against Parsons for the most part.
Speaker 3: Andrew Thomas is a stud and when Lawrence goes down,
Speaker 3: it's just it's just on the even Like, I don't
Speaker 3: see big time talent and the criticism you're saying about
Speaker 3: McCarthy in this offense, Like, what does that remind me of?
Speaker 3: Like the end of days in Packers Land, which is
Speaker 3: just like they want to play though we have the
Speaker 3: better players and we're just gonna beat you offense, And
Speaker 3: it does feel to me, without getting ageists, there's a
Speaker 3: little bit of like some of this old these old
Speaker 3: guard offensive coaches. I don't know, I think getting closer
Speaker 3: to the end, Doug Peterson and Mike McCarthy ar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the Pete Carroll of offense where you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna line up and beat you, and it's
Speaker 1: like that doesn't work anymore. Like Cody Alexander at match
Speaker 1: quarters Alway says like static is death, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at a bunch of this. I
Speaker 1: thought the most creative thing they did all night was
Speaker 1: put Cede Lamb in the backfield. Both teams did that. Actually,
Speaker 1: Milick Dabors, one of the drop Beckx Jones had all
Speaker 1: freaking season, was actually like Milik Dabers basically just ran
Speaker 1: a dig out of the backfield that was kind of awesome.
Speaker 1: And then Cee he had the longest run of the
Speaker 1: night he ran for like, however many yards on that
Speaker 1: first and twenty. But to your point, I think that
Speaker 1: the Mike Zimmer defense part. Sorry, I know, I'm going
Speaker 1: back and forth between offenses.
Speaker 2: No, I love it.
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys defense, you know, the dan Quinn he
Speaker 1: has the how do you do my fellow kids, He's
Speaker 1: got the backwards hat, and like, I don't know scmatically
Speaker 1: if it's still the best thing, but he resonates with
Speaker 1: the players and defenses for all the schematics. It's also
Speaker 1: a lot of effort, and I think dan Quinn was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you guys can do cool stuff. Michael Parsons one gap,
Speaker 1: get in the backfield, disrupt, get to the guy Trevon Dicks.
Speaker 1: You know what, Just jump routes, get pick sixes. He
Speaker 1: gets hurt, Oh okay, cool, we're gonna have to run
Speaker 1: plan jump routes, get pick sixes. Mike Zimmer comes in,
Speaker 1: scream it at everyone. He's mean, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like no one does anything cool. Everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: do your your unset really bored like job like hold it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's not the jobs aren't
Speaker 1: it's fun. And so when the defense doesn't have results.
Speaker 1: I think that over the course of the season, I
Speaker 1: think that could wear on people. And I think the
Speaker 1: pass rushed in there. I'll see if there's one thing
Speaker 1: they did really well. The tackling by Dallas was phenomenal
Speaker 1: and they really needed to get better at that. Wanda
Speaker 1: Robinson five eight, So I don't know how much credit
Speaker 1: they get. Wandaal Robinson stopped on third down a yard
Speaker 1: short of the sticks I think five times tonight, So
Speaker 1: I will give Dallas credit for tackling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and one of them, he kind of it was
Speaker 3: late in the game. Was that before that they they
Speaker 3: picked up the fourth down in that in that one
Speaker 3: but eleven catches for Wandell for seventy one yards. I mean,
Speaker 3: he is your twelfth round or free agent pickup in fantasy.
Speaker 3: You play him in your fourth flex spot dream right now,
Speaker 3: because like he's gonna give you, Like he's not going
Speaker 3: to have a high ceiling, but he's gonna get you
Speaker 3: your thirteen fourteen fantasy points. Man, it's not gonna be pretty,
Speaker 3: like you might not want to watch it, but he
Speaker 3: actually usually makes the first guy miss.
Speaker 2: I think he's played well.
Speaker 3: I think he has a role in an NFL offense
Speaker 3: as a very useful player. If he's your three slash four,
Speaker 3: if you happen to have a good tight end, like
Speaker 3: that's perfect. He's a little overextended right now. Is like
Speaker 3: that it's neighbors in him and that's it. Slayton, you
Speaker 3: needs to get Slaton more involved. But I think Wanda
Speaker 3: is a good player. Actually that's my that's been my
Speaker 3: takeaway from the end of last season and this season.
Speaker 1: I totally agree he's a good player. He's probably a
Speaker 1: little miscast as the Yeah, if it's not neighbors, it's him,
Speaker 1: and uh he's so On the Ring of Fantasy Football show,
Speaker 1: I joked up PPR point perception scoring his participation trophies,
Speaker 1: and like, Tonight's kind of a good example where I'm
Speaker 1: like seventy one yards but he gets eleven points for
Speaker 1: eleven catches, Like, yeah, almost none of which went for
Speaker 1: first down, so frustrating.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, the first couple of games he was picking
Speaker 3: up fort souns. But yeah, it's crazy. They showed the
Speaker 3: third down passing tonight and he had more targets than
Speaker 3: neighbors and they had all of them. And that's really
Speaker 3: all they ever did. Zachary Janda says we should end
Speaker 3: the show with some tennis talk. I mean, don't temp
Speaker 3: me with a good time here. We got the Tokyo Open,
Speaker 3: Kaanie Sheikori bringing it back to twenty fourteen, little revenge
Speaker 3: over Marion Chilich. You know, I'm not going to talk
Speaker 3: tennis at all. I will completely bore everyone love Tiafo.
Speaker 3: We have to have a Tiafa conversation. I would love
Speaker 3: to it probably should be off off Mike, Michael Parsons. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's no update from Mike McCarthy. We're taping this as
Speaker 3: they're doing the press availability. It is an ankle injury
Speaker 3: for Micaeh Parsons, so that's worriedsome Lawrence with the foot
Speaker 3: is extremely worrisome. The results of those two injuries is
Speaker 3: going to really shape this Cowboys next month, you know,
Speaker 3: potentially season, because right now they are at team that
Speaker 3: isn't good enough at anything to survive losses. Like they're
Speaker 3: bad enough on defense with those two guys, who are
Speaker 3: two of their three best players on defense, you know,
Speaker 3: including Diggs as well. You know at this point with
Speaker 3: Lawrence probably around the same level. Without them, they're cooked
Speaker 3: because yeah, they they went into the week. We got
Speaker 3: to stop the run. We're sick of everyone saying we
Speaker 3: can't stop the run. The Giants did not have a
Speaker 3: run over five yards, but that was the Giants who exactly.
Speaker 1: And I mean, look, I feel like the worst defensive
Speaker 1: lines in the league right now that are making the
Speaker 1: defenses just dea or like Cincinnati Carolina Arizona. I think
Speaker 1: if Dallas doesn't have any game where they don't have
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons or DeMarcus Lawrence, I think Dallas is right
Speaker 1: there because they already the defensive tackle, the whole spot
Speaker 1: of the defense is already their biggest issue. They already
Speaker 1: have Rick Hendricks, who I mean, frankly, this Eric Kendricks
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer thing wasn't working like three years ago. It's
Speaker 1: kind of incredible it's still happening in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: And then if they I mean, yeah, I frankly, maybe
Speaker 1: am I being hyperbolic and saying this is like a
Speaker 1: bottom five defensive line without those two dudes and maybe
Speaker 1: a bottom five defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's not hyperbolic.
Speaker 3: I mean they through the first three weeks, which is
Speaker 3: all we can really judge. We're pretty close to a
Speaker 3: bottom five defense overall, just in terms of the eye
Speaker 3: test and pretty much the numbers. And this is a
Speaker 3: night where you know, I just don't think they have
Speaker 3: the talent on defense, and so you need Dak to
Speaker 3: carry you. But like I said, everything is so hard
Speaker 3: last week, next sense that's had something that was the
Speaker 3: lowest you know, separation that he's ever seen in a game,
Speaker 3: and tonight, whether Cowboys fans like it or not, because
Speaker 3: I know they're not aiming for a first round exit,
Speaker 3: and this season they're not getting to twelve wins.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Like I think they're aiming for win the division at
Speaker 3: ten or eleven wins and hope that's enough. They're not
Speaker 3: going to be that team this year. The reason you
Speaker 3: give Dak Prescott all that money is actually games like this.
Speaker 3: It's because he goes nineteen for twenty two against zone coverage,
Speaker 3: thirteen for fourteen, when he gets rid of the ball
Speaker 3: under two and a half seconds for one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty three yards in two touchdowns. He can say, man,
Speaker 3: that's wasn't that exciting, wasn't that boring? But it's like
Speaker 3: he's moving, he is basically controlling the entire game himself
Speaker 3: against an inferior team in the division, and that he's like,
Speaker 3: he's gonna get you those wins almost by himself without
Speaker 3: a lot of help. He's got ceedee lamb and a
Speaker 3: little bit of coaching. But I don't know that right
Speaker 3: now that the talent around him isn't that great. And
Speaker 3: so that's it's partly why you give him all that
Speaker 3: money and the rest of the numbers. You know, they're
Speaker 3: not doing a lot down the field, but other than CD,
Speaker 3: who's not you know, that's not what he majors in.
Speaker 3: I don't know what they're downfield passing is. I mean,
Speaker 3: if the if the Giants and Cowboys weren't in the
Speaker 3: same division, I'd say they should they should call the
Speaker 3: Giants about Darius Slayton.
Speaker 2: Darius Slayton could help them. Yeah, I take him.
Speaker 3: I would take him over the in Brandon Cooks in
Speaker 3: the Cooks role any day.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because Darius Slayton led the Giants and
Speaker 1: receiving four years in a row and they try to
Speaker 1: cut him every one of the four seasons, so that
Speaker 1: actually would work really well. And then no, I totally agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dak Prescott used to make annually under seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a year, and now he's making like
Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars per quarter of every game, and
Speaker 1: so like you watch a game like tonight and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, he's playing really well and almost in
Speaker 1: a weird way. I don't know if it's stylistically, but
Speaker 1: he almost reminds me of Matt Stafford in the middle
Speaker 1: of the twenty tens with the Lions, just because if
Speaker 1: he was on a different team, I think you'd really
Speaker 1: quickly be like, oh my god, like he might win
Speaker 1: the MVP, like like in a weird way they like
Speaker 1: there's questions about how good he is and what is
Speaker 1: he accomplished. But then you take Stafford off, you put
Speaker 1: him on the RAMS, and you're like, oh, they won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. And I kind of think Dak's actually
Speaker 1: in that range too, where if you know, if you
Speaker 1: had been air dropped into Miami in a you know,
Speaker 1: in a healthier at Miami season, I'm like, I kind
Speaker 1: of think it would be immediately unbelievable. But you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is older than Joe Biden, so this team
Speaker 1: isn't very good.
Speaker 3: Harrison call toon, Beck says, this Cowboys defense looking this
Speaker 3: bad in weeks two through four really shows you how
Speaker 3: bad the Shaun Watson is. You're telling me Watson was
Speaker 3: useless against the Steven I have thought about that a
Speaker 3: little bit, like like all the Watson games and in
Speaker 3: like the Jaguars game, like everything. When you see those
Speaker 3: defenses play other teams, you're like, man, you know Watson
Speaker 3: is really struggling. All right, we'll take a quick break
Speaker 3: and we'll be back to talk some giants after this.
Speaker 2: It is kind of crazy, though, like the.
Speaker 3: Disrespect for your giants, and let's switch over to focusing
Speaker 3: on the Giants a little more that. You know, you
Speaker 3: only gave up fifteen points to the Giants and it's
Speaker 3: considered a terrible performance.
Speaker 2: I think Cowboys defense.
Speaker 3: I guess the reason for that is there weren't a
Speaker 3: lot of stops. The Giants moved the ball all day,
Speaker 3: but it was like long field goal drives. Stand up
Speaker 3: with three hundred yards and yeah it comes off five
Speaker 3: field goal drives.
Speaker 2: Way, they didn't have a touchdown in this game right
Speaker 2: in my career.
Speaker 1: No, they did not have a touchdown. I mean Dable
Speaker 1: went for it on every on every fourth down that
Speaker 1: mattered except the one that actually mattered the most, which
Speaker 1: was the one like three yards in the goal line,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, he settled for a field goal. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, look, the Giants lost. Here's the thing, the
Speaker 1: Giants gate. You want the big picture, Giants, or you
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 3: First one, Well, first I want you to take just
Speaker 3: put a pin in that for a second and say
Speaker 3: or I can mention just the situation there at that point,
Speaker 3: they're down by five.
Speaker 2: Is it's either late third or early fourth.
Speaker 3: Both defenses are struggling to get stopped, and they choose
Speaker 3: to kick a field goal on fourth and goal from
Speaker 3: the three to cut it from five to two, which
Speaker 3: was patently insane and shocking to me because he's an
Speaker 3: offensive coach and he had he did go for fourth
Speaker 3: down in the other key spots in the game, and
Speaker 3: it was kind of obvious to me. It's like, man,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be hard for them to get close to
Speaker 3: the goal line because they're not getting any chunk plays.
Speaker 2: And they got it.
Speaker 3: And it's like the next time they had fourth and
Speaker 3: four in midfield, they got it. Like I trust them
Speaker 3: to get three yards. I don't trust them to get
Speaker 3: down there.
Speaker 1: And it's like Nick sirianni ESK, where it's like you
Speaker 1: have a chart that you consult, and again, a coach's
Speaker 1: job is to take the analytics and assess it to
Speaker 1: real life whether the numbers apply. Having said that, I mean,
Speaker 1: any of the decisions they had made earlier, if those
Speaker 1: were goes, Like I don't know why fourth to three
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a goal. It wouldn't be like a go
Speaker 1: for it, except the answers they're like, oh, take the points.
Speaker 1: Because for all this stuff like fourth downs about analytics,
Speaker 1: it's also just also about like, yeah, it's like Madden.
Speaker 1: You're like, I would like this points down, and then
Speaker 1: you get really close and you're like, oh, we got
Speaker 1: the field goal. I don't know. I mean even maybe
Speaker 1: this is wilder too. But they had a I think
Speaker 1: it was a fourth and nine, and then the Cowboys
Speaker 1: went off sides, which was insane on the field goal,
Speaker 1: and they could have taken the three points off and
Speaker 1: go off for the fourth and three there, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was a little concerning, But I don't think
Speaker 1: the fourth downs what bothered me the most. Frankly, I
Speaker 1: thought the Giants game in a nutshell was that the
Speaker 1: first quarter was that the refs shot the Giants to
Speaker 1: the foot and you know the face mask on Daniel Bellinger,
Speaker 1: that he got face masked and flagged for it. So
Speaker 1: the Giants lost thirty yards the shit out of first
Speaker 1: intent at the eighteen, and so they had a second
Speaker 1: and eighteen at the forty eight, and then the next
Speaker 1: and then the next drive the Cowboys. Objectively one of
Speaker 1: the worst calls of the NFL season. I actually am
Speaker 1: not a get on the refs guy almost ever, just
Speaker 1: because it seems like an impossible job whenever you see
Speaker 1: it live there down on the field, and we recognize
Speaker 1: like that players and coaches screw up a million times
Speaker 1: every game and there's no acceptance that, like, of course
Speaker 1: the referees do. But that one, to your point, put
Speaker 1: them out of like a great touchdown situation to absolutely
Speaker 1: killing the drive. And it was a mystifying, like reversal call.
Speaker 1: You you rarely see a call hurt a team that much.
Speaker 1: That is inexplicable. So I will give you that as
Speaker 1: a Giants fan, it just it really is. And I'm
Speaker 1: actually agreed to I think people are too hard on refs,
Speaker 1: But like the contrast with the next drive when the
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson has clearly holding on a cornerback and he's
Speaker 1: pulling its pure jersey. I know, holdings every play, but
Speaker 1: it's like pull jersey. They throw the flag. They picked
Speaker 1: the flag up, and I'm like, come on, dude, you
Speaker 1: started the ground. That give us, you know, to pull
Speaker 1: the makeup call away, And it wasn't a makeup call.
Speaker 1: He did it. So then that gives the Rico Dawdle touchdown.
Speaker 1: So but having said that, I'm not gonna blame the
Speaker 1: rest for the game because the first quarter was the
Speaker 1: rest shot the Giants in the foot. The second quarter
Speaker 1: was the Giants shot the Giants in the foot, because
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's so funny. Daniel Jones finished
Speaker 1: this game with twenty nine to forty. It really was
Speaker 1: like way fewer incompletions until the last drive two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty one yards, took no touchdowns at one interception
Speaker 1: at the end that didn't count. I thought Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: kind of played in a way terribly in this game,
Speaker 1: and that actually breaking quarter alone not terribly, but like
Speaker 1: he probably left twenty one points on the board. They
Speaker 1: should have like he he missed a deep touch on
Speaker 1: a free play, he under threw Darius Slayton for a
Speaker 1: touchdown by fifteen maybe like twenty yards, considering Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: was in a full sprint and to slow down. He
Speaker 1: missed Milik Neighbors in a full sprint on like a
Speaker 1: like a like basically like a giant deep cross. He
Speaker 1: didn't get to see Melik Neighbors down the sideline up
Speaker 1: pile on another time, he missed Layton short again on
Speaker 1: the last drive, like every single play that could have
Speaker 1: broken open the game that Dable I think schemed really well.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was short by an amount that it was
Speaker 1: more like is he healthy than anything else, Like I
Speaker 1: was wondering if he actually can physically do it, because
Speaker 1: every single time he needed to throw ball over forty
Speaker 1: yards he could not do it. Period.
Speaker 3: So the numbers on his deep passing this year are insane.
Speaker 3: Now he's two for fourteen and throws over twenty yards.
Speaker 3: And it was something that the Giants beat writers were
Speaker 3: saying all camp like Dabeles really stress in vertical vertical.
Speaker 3: They want to go vertical, but it hasn't looked good
Speaker 3: for Daniel Jones when he goes vertical, and you're right
Speaker 3: the broadcast, which you know, I have my issues with
Speaker 3: this this Thursday night broadcast basically Al.
Speaker 2: But it's a little bit of Alian, is it?
Speaker 1: Because Al basically admits he doesn't want to be there
Speaker 1: at every quarter of the game.
Speaker 3: He's not adding to it. And I get that it's
Speaker 3: fun when he bangs on the raft. That's probably the
Speaker 3: best part of Al. Actually, let's take a listen to
Speaker 3: Al having his version of fun on Thursday night.
Speaker 5: A warning, it's not a curve the flag. It's like
Speaker 5: June fourteenth here anyone was known as flag days, you know.
Speaker 3: And he's probably checking his mentions because there was about
Speaker 3: fifteen different other little one liners and.
Speaker 2: Jokes after that. You seem like you want to go
Speaker 2: after it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how far you want to go, I'll say,
Speaker 1: is Al Michaels? I don't know? I mean, does does
Speaker 1: he want to be do with this?
Speaker 2: I love I love Al Michaels.
Speaker 3: The thing that bothers me the most by far is
Speaker 3: more just updating the audience on really important parts of
Speaker 3: the situation in the game. So that's your job as
Speaker 3: a broadcaster. When Neighbors was concussed. They didn't mention it,
Speaker 3: and then he was, oh, yeah, then Neighbors goes into
Speaker 3: the blue tent.
Speaker 2: He just says Neighbors went into the blue tent, and
Speaker 2: that was it.
Speaker 3: And then at the end he said he had a concussion,
Speaker 3: didn't say he's really and just barely made a very
Speaker 3: similar situation with two a couple of weeks ago. And
Speaker 3: that came like a minute or two after he had
Speaker 3: already given the Cowboys the win. I'm like, wait, the
Speaker 3: game is it over? He was talking about what a
Speaker 3: great ride, It's gonna be back. Okay, I don't need
Speaker 3: to get into all that, but it bums me out
Speaker 3: a little bit. This Giants night, I think was probably
Speaker 3: most disappointing if you drill down into the defense. Dexter Lawrence,
Speaker 3: according to Next Gen Stats, was double teamed on twenty
Speaker 3: of twenty five plays. It's eighty percent. That is the
Speaker 3: highest rate of double teams in any game for any
Speaker 3: player since twenty sixteen. Yeah, and it's crazy. You need
Speaker 3: the other guys to step up more. It's kind of
Speaker 3: my takeaway from that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, and I know I'm this is
Speaker 1: biased fan brain speaking, but I actually think I'm right.
Speaker 1: I think Dexter Lawrence on a better team would be
Speaker 1: on like a Hall of Fame track. Like, I think
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence is very clearly like the best player in
Speaker 1: the on defense. That's not Aaron Donald. If you want
Speaker 1: to throw Chris Jones out there, because he's done it
Speaker 1: at the super Bowl level, sure, but Dexter Lawrence is
Speaker 1: like a special player that is being just a bond
Speaker 1: abominably wasted. And it's crazy to say this out loud,
Speaker 1: but I believe he turns twenty eight this season, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well, do the Giants freaking have
Speaker 1: to trade him just because he's not going to be
Speaker 1: good enough on the path that the Giants are on.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the only strength of the team
Speaker 1: is Burns, Brian Burns, Thibodeau, who actually did stuff tonight
Speaker 1: and then undid it with he got a sack and
Speaker 1: then immediately committed a penalty to undo the sack. But
Speaker 1: then this is the strength of the team, and it's
Speaker 1: back to old school Giants of like having a great
Speaker 1: defensive line. The secondary's a mess. I'm kind of like,
Speaker 1: whatever you can fix that, if the pass rush is
Speaker 1: good enough. But yeah, I mean, Lawrence is a special player,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm very excited to waste his prime.
Speaker 3: Anytime they just put one guy against him, I mean,
Speaker 3: it's over. It's absolutely over. I'm with you. Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame trajectory is too far because he had such a
Speaker 3: late breakout. Really, his his breakout was two years ago,
Speaker 3: and so this is the third year he's stacking as
Speaker 3: an elite player. But you're not crazy because he should
Speaker 3: he got robbed. He should have been an All Pro
Speaker 3: last year, like first or second team.
Speaker 2: He certainly was a bowler, like I think you will
Speaker 2: be an All Pro this year.
Speaker 3: And if you start stacking up a couple of pros
Speaker 3: in a row like then you start getting into the discussion.
Speaker 3: So if he keeps stacking these years, he can do it.
Speaker 3: But you need more out of Brian Burns, who's hasn't
Speaker 3: been bad this year, but hasn't been special. This game,
Speaker 3: he was absolutely silent. He was not credited with the pressure.
Speaker 3: Now Dak gets credit for some of that, certainly, but
Speaker 3: Kavon had a great night. Like Kavon was beaten get
Speaker 3: In pretty regularly, and the matchup, I guess for Burns.
Speaker 3: Then was Terren Steele, who's been struggling all year quite badly. Really,
Speaker 3: the whole Cowboys offensive line has been up and down.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin hasn't really been who Zach Martin wants to
Speaker 3: be the rookies today, right, Well, yeah he got an
Speaker 3: eye injury.
Speaker 2: That that was.
Speaker 3: There was a lot going on in this game in
Speaker 3: terms of injuries, guys getting in and out. Diggs had
Speaker 3: a cramp at one point. But yeah, you this defense
Speaker 3: isn't gonna be special enough. It's tricky. I I I
Speaker 3: feel for you. I feel for Giants fans. I've come around.
Speaker 3: I'm finally over it. Well, finally over what happened a
Speaker 3: decade plus ago.
Speaker 1: I understand because it's weird. It's also weird as a
Speaker 1: Giants fan because two things are true. Giants won two
Speaker 1: Super Bowls this century, and it's like, how do you
Speaker 1: complain about that? The flip side is they have they're
Speaker 1: tied with the Jets for the worst record in the
Speaker 1: NFL over the last seven years period, They've been the worst, Wow,
Speaker 1: the worst team in the NFL. And so it's a
Speaker 1: really weird identity shift to go from like, yeah, we're
Speaker 1: like the asterisk on the Patriots dominance of this century
Speaker 1: and also the worst team at the same time. And
Speaker 1: also the Giants.
Speaker 3: Coplin never met, like they never made the playoffs with
Speaker 3: the I like, other than when they won.
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl. I mean they did once or twice,
Speaker 2: but it was like barely.
Speaker 1: The Giants are an anomaly that happened twice. Like the
Speaker 1: Giants big picture are just this, like Buster Douglas never
Speaker 1: fought Tyson again the US. They'd never like beat US's
Speaker 1: and the Soviet Union again. Like the Giants are in
Speaker 1: the conversation for the biggest upsets ever, but then they
Speaker 1: won the rematch. But like it was, everything else is
Speaker 1: a fluke. But it's weird because they're celebrating quote they're
Speaker 1: quote celebrating the one hundred season. The Giants are on
Speaker 1: a quivocally in the worst seven year stretch of the
Speaker 1: entire history of the franchise. Like it's not even close.
Speaker 1: And so with that, I ask you, in your unbiased opinion,
Speaker 1: they got to move on from Jones, right, because I
Speaker 1: think he played well tonight, Because I look at this
Speaker 1: game as a very well seemed game by Dable that
Speaker 1: Jones frankly ruined by not hitting the three things that
Speaker 1: should have been touchdowns.
Speaker 3: I think you're probably closer to the truth than just
Speaker 3: saying he played well. I think you've just the bar
Speaker 3: Is Solow for Jones coming into the year because of
Speaker 3: the couple last games that we saw in play last year,
Speaker 3: and then the preseason what you heard, and then the
Speaker 3: Week one was such an abomination that the last three
Speaker 3: weeks in a league where so many quarterbacks are looking
Speaker 3: just absolutely terrible, Daniel Jones is just like, he hasn't
Speaker 3: killed you the last few weeks. He's completing a high
Speaker 3: percentage of passes like tonight, Yeah, on over two and
Speaker 3: a half second throws. And this all got worse at
Speaker 3: the end, but at one point he was kind of dealing.
Speaker 3: He's sixteen for twenty five for two hundred and four yards. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean the one play down the field is when Neighbors,
Speaker 3: you know, shakes his cornerback to be like twenty years open.
Speaker 3: But yeah, of course they have to move on from
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones like this after this season. I think he's
Speaker 3: played well enough that there's no need to go to
Speaker 3: Drew Locke now he's playing. My thing with Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: was always if you protect him, he could be replacement level,
Speaker 3: which which is to say he's not a franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3: He's not above the Dalton scale as a franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3: But he's not like a catastrophe. He's just like he's
Speaker 3: a bridge quarterback that you should have never given the
Speaker 3: contract that you gave to him.
Speaker 2: It was obviously when it happened.
Speaker 1: In dating terms, he's a nice guy, yeah, nice, And
Speaker 1: he does seem like a nice guy. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: nice guy. It's fine.
Speaker 2: Having you on tonight.
Speaker 3: I was thinking about it. It could possibly be my
Speaker 3: subconscience as revenge.
Speaker 1: You just wanted to just.
Speaker 3: Like, oh seven, yeah, just you know, just teach you
Speaker 3: a lesson in professionalism, you know, coming off after a
Speaker 3: tough loss. My first Super Bowl that I covered, which
Speaker 3: was an absolute thrill, was for nbcsports dot Com in
Speaker 3: the seven season, oh eight. It was you know, the
Speaker 3: eighteen and one game Giants Patriots, and yeah, I had
Speaker 3: to do some digital hits that probably sixteen people watched
Speaker 3: after the game. But you know, we we we we
Speaker 3: had a microphone and there was cameras there, and I thought,
Speaker 3: like we I think we did like five reasons why
Speaker 3: the Giants won or something. I was like, I was, like,
Speaker 3: I nailed it, like totally unbiased professional.
Speaker 2: It was awesome. I watched it the next day and
Speaker 2: it looked like my parents had like just fallen like
Speaker 2: deeply ill, and like I was just like totally ashen
Speaker 2: and sad, and I totally had faked myself out into
Speaker 2: thinking that I like wasn't disappointed when I was when
Speaker 2: I was very disappointed.
Speaker 1: It's funny because while you were doing that hit, that
Speaker 1: was the best moment of my entire life. Literally they
Speaker 1: were handing you the date.
Speaker 3: I actually had a fun It was a really fun
Speaker 3: night and a fun experience, and that like the adrenaline
Speaker 3: of the whole thing didn't really hit me until going
Speaker 3: to a bar afterwards and starting to see the highlights
Speaker 3: on on the TV and then realizing like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's real.
Speaker 2: That happened.
Speaker 3: And I actually, you had no idea in the stadium
Speaker 3: that the helmet catch was the helmet catch. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: like I was immediately filing and going on the field,
Speaker 3: so he wasn't even on. You know, it's like it's
Speaker 3: two thousand and eight, you're not on today. I had
Speaker 3: no idea what that the helmet catch was was the helmet.
Speaker 1: Catch Samuel drop was like, actually the I mean I
Speaker 1: saw Randy Moss, my favorite player, score a game winning
Speaker 1: touchdown in what would have been the best drive of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's career.
Speaker 3: If Manning didn't ruin it like that. People kind of
Speaker 3: forget that drive.
Speaker 1: That oh he had Stephen Corey Webster, Yes, and then
Speaker 1: Jay Alford came home and just you know, like can
Speaker 1: it on that third down? But yeah, I thought I
Speaker 1: remember every single play of that game.
Speaker 3: But it's fine, Anvil says Daniel Jones is tearing the
Speaker 3: Hifitz family apart. I love that there's a lot of
Speaker 3: hy Fitz fans who came in tonight and GEO Central
Speaker 3: ass is Washington the second best team in the NFC East.
Speaker 2: That's a fun question.
Speaker 3: I think they have a chance because I think they're
Speaker 3: obviously either the best offense or the second best offense,
Speaker 3: and that'll take you far. They probably have the worst
Speaker 3: defense in the entire league. But if they could be
Speaker 3: a top five offense with a bottom five defense and
Speaker 3: go eight to nine or nine and eight with that
Speaker 3: in a bad division, that could be better than the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty down on the Cowboys right now. It's one
Speaker 3: reason why I thought the Giants would cover this game.
Speaker 3: I guess they did with that Aubrey miss at the end.
Speaker 3: It depends where you when in the week you got
Speaker 3: your number. I thought the Giants would cover and maybe
Speaker 3: win this game. And because I just don't have much
Speaker 3: faith in this Cowboys, so I will say they're about
Speaker 3: tied with the Cowboys if I had to power rank.
Speaker 1: I mean Bill Barnwell, who I believe is watching the
Speaker 1: stream right now, picked Washington as a potential surprise team
Speaker 1: that could make the playoffs. I think they totally could.
Speaker 1: I think Cliff Kingsbury is like somewhat consistently just his
Speaker 1: offenses have stailed as the season's wane, and so I
Speaker 1: think that I'm a little hesitant to kind of assume
Speaker 1: that the incredible Jane Daniel start will go. I actually
Speaker 1: think there are a few reasons that it might not
Speaker 1: happen this year. But until I see it, I'm a
Speaker 1: little hesitant to be like, yeah, this stuff, Cliff Kingsbury's
Speaker 1: doing great week three is going to continue to week thirteen.
Speaker 1: Whereas Dak I think is just you know, been there,
Speaker 1: done that. But yeah, I mean again, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to sell like some salty giants Finn either. I just again,
Speaker 1: it's Dak. They couldn't do it when DAK was making
Speaker 1: seven hundred k a year and now Dak's making eight
Speaker 1: hundred k a quarter. And Mike and Parsons and CD
Speaker 1: used to make two three percent of the Dallas cap
Speaker 1: and now they're about to be like twenty two to
Speaker 1: twenty four percent. And I just overall again the lack
Speaker 1: of depth on this Cowboys team. It's like people get hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, but there's no next. Like they've developed some people,
Speaker 1: but again, and the Dallas the next I mean the
Speaker 1: next games, the Dallas plays. I mean not to beat
Speaker 1: up on the Cowboys right now, but.
Speaker 2: No, let's look ahead a little bit.
Speaker 1: Heelers, Lions, forty nine Ers, Falcons, Eagles, Texans. That's what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have coming up.
Speaker 3: And their bye is in there. And it's funny because
Speaker 3: I listened to a lot of team podcasts. I've started
Speaker 3: doing that lately just to get get the vibe. And
Speaker 3: I listened to Love of the Star podcast and the
Speaker 3: Cowboys and a lot of and like I listened to
Speaker 3: a forty nine Ers podcast and a lot of them
Speaker 3: are like, man, if we lose this week, if you
Speaker 3: look at the schedule, they might we might not win
Speaker 3: again until the bye week. And I'm like, wow, Cowboys
Speaker 3: reporters are saying this, like we could be one in
Speaker 3: five and then McCarthy would be in trouble at the
Speaker 3: bye week, and I'm like, wow, that's dark. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: go that far, Like you're you're probably gonna be able
Speaker 3: to beat some of these good teams. But this win
Speaker 3: was absolutely crucial with the injuries now to think about.
Speaker 3: And yet that the Giants head to Seattle next week,
Speaker 3: I believe, and that's brutal. That's a tough spot for
Speaker 3: That's a real litmus test for Daniel Jones, who hasn't
Speaker 3: had the toughest you know run that I mean, he's
Speaker 3: survived against the Browns defense, That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, you played the Browns defense and you survived.
Speaker 1: Those two defenses though are the past, like Jim Schwartz
Speaker 1: is the last one of the last guys doing static
Speaker 1: defense with any success, and then Mike Zimmer is the past,
Speaker 1: and like Mike McDonald is the bleeding edge of the future.
Speaker 1: And I think Daniel Jones is going to do very poorly.
Speaker 3: It's I mean, it's going to be his last season
Speaker 3: with the Giants. I think how the rest of the
Speaker 3: season goes will decide if it's if it's stable in
Speaker 3: Joe Shane's last season with the Giant, this will not
Speaker 3: be your last time on NFL.
Speaker 1: Next year we'll do this again when Bill Belichick is
Speaker 1: coaching the Giants and Deon Sanders is coaching the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: That would be awesome. We don't need to wait till
Speaker 2: next year.
Speaker 3: It's in the title Danny NFL Daily, So I want
Speaker 3: to have you back again.
Speaker 2: You're almost too good at this.
Speaker 3: I'm having major camera problems before we take to delay
Speaker 3: us like five minutes. I set up this beautiful new
Speaker 3: camera that uh it's it's just amazing, but it didn't
Speaker 3: didn't get a rolling tonight, and I'm I'm frazzling. You're
Speaker 3: just You're just cool as a cucumber with your Alec
Speaker 3: Baldwin hair back there, and I appreciate you. Everyone should
Speaker 3: check out Danny the Ringer Fantasy Football show.
Speaker 2: You're writing, what else? What else can we plug? Danny?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Just I mean the Ringer dot Com great website, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Ringer Fantasy Football Show do with Danny Kelly, Craig
Speaker 1: Whorlbeck and yeah, it's it's it's a great fantasy football
Speaker 1: show because we're kind of dumb and we're but we're
Speaker 1: right sometimes, but we have a very fun time. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we actually give good advice. We were the only show
Speaker 1: I think that didn't have Christian McCaffrey as the number
Speaker 1: one guy. But also we argued today about for like
Speaker 1: five ten minutes about whether Jupiter is made of like
Speaker 1: gas or solid. So yeah, we're a different show. So
Speaker 1: check it out. Thank you for having me, because this
Speaker 1: is this show. This show is incredible and you're doing
Speaker 1: an amazing job.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. And that is a very smart take
Speaker 3: on McCaffrey. I would like to think that back, you know,
Speaker 3: if I put myself in the shoes when it was
Speaker 3: back in the fantasy minds, you know, working hard, I
Speaker 3: don't think I would have had McCaffrey first. Just all
Speaker 3: I needed was like, I'm not taking anyone with a
Speaker 3: soft tissue.
Speaker 2: Injury before the season period.
Speaker 3: It's like if I like, I'm not saying not take them,
Speaker 3: but I'm not taking first overall, and I'm probably not
Speaker 3: taking him above his average apposition. If you just did
Speaker 3: that as a fantasy football owner, you're probably gonna like
Speaker 3: win way more than you lose. Oh, a guy that's
Speaker 3: had like injury issues before, and you know there's I
Speaker 3: don't even want to get into, you know, his history
Speaker 3: and stuff, and now he's going to Germany. I would
Speaker 3: like to think I would have had the same opinion.
Speaker 3: I told my son not to take him, so that, well,
Speaker 3: there you go.
Speaker 1: That's all that matters. They gave the only advice that
Speaker 1: really mattered, So there you go.
Speaker 3: He did not listen, but he didn't get the first
Speaker 3: overall pick, so he didn't wind up with him.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Danny high Fitz. Again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, check out the fantasy show, The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
Speaker 2: I will be back on Friday.
Speaker 3: We do our little mini pick show with some picks
Speaker 3: against the spread with Cynthia Friedland and so yeah, the
Speaker 3: Giants are one and three. That's that's when you know
Speaker 3: for sure that football is back.
Speaker 2: See you next time.
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