Cowboys Break: Final Predictions

We are live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Start talking Cowboys football with you guys for about thirty minutes today, a little short show, but we're gonna get lot in today. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys versus the lines. Get you guys ready for the game, tell you what's going to happen. Joined by Nick Dave Amber as usual, let's jump right in. Let's get caught up on this these injuries. Um, cot Boys have a

pretty large injury list this week. And it seems to me, and you guys can correct me if I'm wrong, it seems to me like a lot of these are kind of like you just don't know, you think everybody's all right. At least that's the impression I had. And then I look at the injury part. I'm like, well, maybe that's a little more than I thought it was. So let's walk through this. Talk to me about Lyle College. You hadn't practice all week until today, practicing today, he's got

he's got a back problem. I think it's it's a maintenance thing. I mean, you always hesitate to say he's gonna play, but he was moving around pretty good, Nick, would you say moving around pretty good to day? I think I don't think it's a big long list anyway. I mean, it might be a long list, but I don't think it's gonna be a big deal on Sunday. A classic case of a long list that won't be

super long, okay in time for kickoffs? Are like injuries like this in the O line all around the league or like I don't really keep up that much with on their teams. So it's this like a very common thing. It's like a very common thing for every player on every team in the NFL. Like if your injury list is shorter than five people by November, than what's going on?

I mean, it just you probably means you probably got a lot of them a high are Yeah, they just they're not even on the on the active roster either got a lot of guys on ir or you're lying. I'm not trying to accuse people of anything, but it's it's just a violent game, and that's it kind of makes me laugh every week, Like, you know, I put out the injury report every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and there's

always somebody that's like everybody's hurt. I'm like, is this your first week following the NFL, Like this is what the injury report looks like? It is a war of attrition? Yeah, Like whoever can survive as far as offensive linemans and their backs and all that? Is that just very common all around the league? I don't I don't think. I don't know. I think that's true. I think you're I think I mean the Cowboys right here. You know, most of these guys are battling with some kind of back injuries.

So I'm just wondering, is this a common theme around the league when it comes to offensive linemens or is this something that the Cowboys are struggling with on their own? Basically, Yeah, the one thing I will say it's hard. I think I agree. I don't know that this is something you see around the league that all offensive linemen have back issues. But I do think it could be one of those situations where it's just like, sometimes these random things happen.

It's hard to assign, well, there's a reason why this is happening. It's just the randomness of where they are. Says that all like and surely not all of a sudden, like over the last couple of years they've had these back injuries with their offensive linemen. I don't know that it's anything that you can point to to say, well, this is why the Cowboys have back injuries or offensive linemen.

It's just kind of there. It's just random. I remember when I first started covering the team, they couldn't go two weeks without a receiver hurting his hamstring. Ye, And I mean we would get flooded with questions like what what aren't they doing? Why are their hamstrings falling apart? Like they need to change the training staff, they need to do this, they need to do that. I just think, I mean, wide receivers run a lot, so you're gonna probably hurt the muscles that are involved in you running.

Linemen leverage their entire bodies into holding defenders back, use your back to do that. I think it's just a byproduct of playing a very physical game. It's unfortunate, though, and it is weird. I agree with you that it is weird to see I think four of the five starting linemen dealing with back injuries at the same time. Is that also maybe speak to the age of of this line. Again, they're not old, but they're not young either.

These aren't guys that just got into the league. They've asked a lot of this line that you know, they lean on them physically. I mean, no pun intended, they do, I mean, and that's what that's what this is supposed to be. So yeah, I mean, I don't think it's common that you have this many injuries, but it's kind of to be expected. But you know, again, a lot of it comes down to what teams want to do with the injury report. Do you want to put everything

on there? Are you trying to make sure you don't get in trouble with the league? Are you trying to show something out there that maybe there's more of a problem. I mean, people have different you know, definitions of what injured, it hurt. Are you injured? Yeah, And I think there's different definitions of that. Some teams probably wouldn't put fourteen guys on there, where some teams said I'm gonna put

everybody on there. So I think it's better to err on the side of caution so that you know the Lion the Lions are probably wishing they put Stafford on the injury report a week earlier, with the league sniffing around to make sure that they're doing everything the right way. Ye all right, talk to me about some of these other guys. Obviously we know Connor Williams won't play this week, but let's talk about guys like Amari Cooper, Cam Fleming,

who's missed a couple of games. C J. Goodwin, Jeff Heath, DeMarcus Lawrence, Zach Bardon, Antoine Woods. They were all limited yesterday. Talk to me about any of those guys that you think have injuries that could concern you going into the game on Sunday. The name that jumps out to me is Heath. Probably what he hasn't been doing a lot. He was out there today but wasn't participating a ton and and you know it's he's got a list of stuff. I mean it's like both knees. His neck's been bothering him.

Garrett sit that after the game last week. Yeah yeah, shoulder and too shoulder. You're right shoulder, shoulder injuries, um, head, shoulders, knees and toast everything. Um so I yeah, I wonder if he can get himself ready. Who else did you say? Fleming? I mean Cam came back on Wednesday. I think he'll be good to go. It is interesting while Lyle was out, they were working Brandon Knight at right tackle and not Fleming. I think maybe that just speaks to how good of

a job they think Brandon Knight's been doing. Yeah, um, bust c J. Goodwin. He came back yesterday. I don't I don't get the breed that there's something seriously wrong there. He's a significant special teams player absolutely yeah. And speaking of that, I mean I think losing Jeff Heath would be big on special teams. You know, he's the personal protector on the punt team. Um, you can expect some

some all out rushes if he's not out there. You know, I think Pollard does some of that and some other guys that will fill in there, but you know, that's something the teams look at and if he's not there, and he's one of the better special teams players they've had, so it's not just old Darian Thompson can play safety. He can, but I don't know if they have a good backup for what he does on special teams. All right, So talk to me about the nactus for this week.

The way I'm looking at this thing, you are you already know that Connor's out, um, and then you're looking at the guys that have traditionally been out. You got guys like Adam Redmond, Joe Jackson, Tristan Hill, Luke Gifford, Um, Devin Smith's, Cedric Wilson. Um. My assumption is Brandon Knight, with the injuries that that that they have a tackle, may not be a guy you put on that list. But let's talk about it and are fleming right? Yeah? Well so that's my question. Did you say Redmond that

is seven? Although do you want to? I mean, you still have Joe Looney, you can still sit in Redmond if you want to. Yeah, I would think that. I I thought Redmond, that's when I'm not really worried about I'm more concerned about maybe having Brandon night. Even if I have Lyle Collins active and Fleming active, just because Lyle's been built dealing with something all week, I wouldn't take a chance. You can get you got to seven

without needing too, so I think so. The two receivers Cedric and Devon, Tristan Hill, Joe Jackson, Luke Gifford, Adam Redmond, and Connor Williams. Yeah, boom, and that keeps Donovan Wilson active, right right boom shaka laskod. That was easy, all right. Now we're gonna take our first break. When we come back. I want to get some questions from you guys. Give us a call. Eight eight eight eight five five two

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Back to the Break, Welcome Back. It is the second segment of The Break live from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At the start, we're talking Cowboys versus Lions. We're gonna take some phone calls you guys, call us eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. Before we do that, though, I want to give you guys an opportunity to answer a couple questions I have for you that are big picture questions about this game. Really, what I want to know is what do you think is

the biggest challenge for the Cowboys? And we're going to talk first about offense. What's the biggest challenge for the offense this week? And then we'll say what's the biggest challenge for the defense. Let's start with you nick biggest offensive challenge for the Cowboys this week? I would say that the thing that's been about, you know, really hurting this team is there is the red zone and scoring in there and run the ball when they need to.

And I know they have a big guy in there and Snacks, So I would say, when you get into third in short situations, let's see if Suaphilo really does help. I mean, I think you will, but let's see, and let's see if they can move these guys around and run the ball when they really need to and everyone knows they're going to. Yeah, the combination of I guess the best Lions talent on defense is up front between Snacks and Trey Flowers, and then the line is banged up.

You got eighteen back injuries and Connor Williams isn't out there. I mean, yeah, I think Suaphilo is not that there's going to be this huge drop off, but it's still a guy that hasn't been part of the lineup. So handling that front, I think they'll I think they'll be okay though. I guess finding that balance between the passing

game and the running game. Obviously, when they do, they have been successful at it, and I would say starting out fast, but clearly that I mean, they got to figure that out, but we don't necessarily have an answer for it. So see what they do. How do you think you do that? Like I've always thought about, Like you obviously go into a game saying, okay, guys, we want to score every time we get the ball. I don't know how you get a team to start fast.

Is it that you change up maybe what you're doing, like from the standpoint of your scheme, your play calling, what do you think can help with that? I asked that same question to Stephen Jones this week and he just said, finish the drive, I mean, which I don't know if that's even the thing. I mean, it's not like we talked about the other day. I don't know if you were on here, but we talked about they haven't had a lot of three and outs. I mean,

they've kind of been driving the ball. The things are working, and then all of a sudden that you know, treacherous forty yard line hits and it's like, oh man, you gotta go backwards. That's because they know they got a kicker. Then kick that's another thing. Not fifty seven then, right, not fifty seven, but sixty two. All good Callam Moore said the same thing yesterday. He was like, look, it's not like we're going three and out right off the bat and punting four plays into the game, like we're

getting yards. We just we gotta stay consistent when we get down into that part of the field. And a lot of that comes down to just like running the ball when you really need to. I mean, it's one thing when you're seventy five yards back there, those receivers have a you know, a way to stop and you know the route running really comes into play. But when the field starts to shorten a little bit, can you just say, get out of my way, Snacks, I'm running

the ball. That's what the great offensive lines can do. Great running games can do is just push people out of the way. Is this running go ahead? I'm sorry, finish that was gonna Is this running game that good? At this point? There was a time you could say that, is this running game still that good? Where they can just say I don't care what you're doing, I'm gonna move you out of the way, and we're running the ball.

Not unilaterally. Well, obviously they couldn't just last week, but against this defense, I think so, Like, I think there's enough of a talent advantage there that they I mean, lest we forget, and I'm not trying to discount what happened against Minnesota, but they were doing that the three weeks prior to that, where they I mean, they were just bowling people over. So yes, I do think they

can do that depending on who they're playing. Frankly, they've only been two games this year where they didn't do that right, where they didn't have their way in the running game right, and one game they scored ten points, one game they scored twenty four. I mean, so they got to give them credit for finding a way to throw the ball around, and that's I think. Maybe the encouraging part of this is that you know, there's a

lot of third and tens and they converted. Dack did a nice job of converting, and Gallup and Cooper and Cobb did a really good job. So Sprinklin a little bit more running this week and maybe, like she said, balance, I think they'll be fine. And obviously the talent is not the same with the lines defense and the vikings.

I thought DeMarcus Ware made an interesting point. I did our Happy Hour show with him on Wednesday, and I don't know, maybe it's a little simplified, but he basically was like, just jump in the pool, like don't don't just dip, you know, don't dip your feet in the water. Come out like, Okay, how are they playing our guys, what coverage is this? What do we think is gonna work? Kind of what jumped in the pool? I did jump in the pool exactly. I jumped right in the pool.

It was it was probably fifty five degrees in November, and I was like, whatever, LSU beat Alabama. I don't care anyway, Yes, jump in, just just go just don't feel it out and kind of let's see how the flow of the game goes. Just jump in. Just I don't know if that means. I'm not calling for him to just take shots down field from the date but first first place if they want to, that would be fun. But man attack if they score a touchdown on a flea flicker, like just log off Twitter for the day's

to be like, I mean it will be through. Yeah, that happens on every Saturday. Somebody, I mean two lane gets one on on Southern Miss or something and there's a couple of people just see the flea flicker. I'm like I don't see them all, but like, yeah, I'm just like associated with you gotta have the brand and

that's your brand. Mind, Yeah, but I do. I was just gonna say, you have to start incorporating all these different plays where you, Okay, do the screen pass, get Dak running with the ball, give the ball to Tony Potler. What are you doing with him? What is tap On Austin doing? Just because I'm feeling like we're running out of time, you know, there's only what seven games left, and you have to start putting those things on tape

for the upcoming opponents. Make them just don't let them know everything that you do, basically like, oh, this is all we can do. This is everything we can do, you know, mix it up, give them things to be thinking about to where now you can be more effective when you run whatever player you decide to run. You know, I just think they're running out of time and you have to start putting those kinds of things on the tape. One thing I will say about that though, from standpoint

of just the time. Remember last year at this point they were four and five, and Dave and I were talking yesterday and we were like, you know, if you want to make the argument, like if you just wanted to make the argument to convince somebody that the Cowboys are in a good place right now, or at least in a place that is familiar to them. This time last year they were four and five and they went on run. And you start looking at the teams that

we look at the beginning of this season. We looked at the schedule and we said, man, that's gonna be a brutal second half of the season. That's changed a little bit some of those teams that we thought were going to be really good. I don't know if you think they have the same opinion of the Rams that you once did coming into this part of the year. Certainly had a big change last year. And that's a

market all that. I get all that now, Like I said before, as I started that, if you wanted to convince yourself, because the problem, the problem with it is the problem with it. And the flip side to that is they haven't shown this year that with the pieces they have, which like you said, there's no new pieces coming. With the pieces they except for Suepilo like, there's not they haven't shown that they could be consistent even against subpar competition, that's where you start to get a little

bit worried. But if they rip off another six and one run and you know after he joins the lineup, like yeah, because Cooper log out of Twitter for that one too, because his starting you know, starting record is seven and one as a starter. Yeah. Know, a game that they didn't win was the game he got hurt

in the second quarter on it. There's everything you just said is right, but I would have hoped that we would have seen the signs a little bit more clearly, like it still can click, but there is not not a lot of evidence helping you come to that conclusion. Right, two big changes last year it was Amari Cooper and then offensive line coach would change last year and that that showed a difference with what they were doing. We

can't forget more ben it. I mean, I think been it is a big change for them, and we I think we kind of sweep it under the rug a little bit because it's just not a part of the narrative. But but that I think that the past rush has been better since he got here, and so we'll see how that continues to help them down stretched defense. That's on the get it but I'm just saying that it's a change to the team and I think it should have an impact. Again, I'm not saying they're about to

run run the table here. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that this is not unfamiliar territory to them. It is. They've been here before. I don't I'm not going to try to quote the numbers because there's so many of them and I can't remember them all. But I'll take you on Twitter and the metrics will tell you, like the Cowboys are in the very good category across most ways that like advanced metrics chart these things as

far as determine who are good teams. I expected plays per average and DVOA and all that super smart Harvard stuff that I try to understand, Like they're really good statistically. It has not translated yet and maybe it won't. But that's also why the games they've lost have been really close. It's not like they've been getting there the butts wooked. It's that they've really just they've played a lot of close games. They just haven't figured out how to win

in this game. And I looked this up about clutch, you know, fourth quarter comebacks, and twenty six quarterbacks in the league have a fourth quarter comeback, and Tom Brady doesn't. We know why Dak doesn't, and neither just Carson Wentz. Which they're five and four. They haven't had a comeback in the fourth quarter where they've come you know, they haven't proven to be clutch either, So there's this kind

of a silver lining there. It's well, maybe, you know, maybe the Eagles are kind of have the same problem as a Cowboys do. Would I feel comfortable betting that that December twenty second game is kind of side the whole thing? Yeah, I bet, I bet you the Eagles are a game up on the Cowboys by then going into the game, I said, I think I can Cowboys seven and seven, verse eight and six, and the winner gets the tiebreaker and all that good stuff. Then gotta

go beat Redskin. Yeah, yeah, I can see it. What got the Giants the Giants? So you get so whoever wins is going to be playing a bad team in Week seventeen, you'd like their odds to win. I can just picture it. I can just see it. All right, we're gonna dive into our final break. And speaking of diving, we got video of one David Helmet from last week, as you guys's diving into the pool to celebrate LSU had been a long decade. He'd been waiting for that for a long a long time. All Right, we're gonna

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what up? Hello, fellas and ladies. Two questions for you. Number one, Zeke slowed down in y'all's opinion. I remember him playing when you played the Bengals in his rookie a year. He split the safeties and took it to the house and no one touched him. Not seeing that now, and I'm I'm I'm not sure if I'm seeing the right thing or have you seen the We all seem to sing number two. Where is our dear friend Brian Broadness. I'll hang up and listen. All right, thanks for the call.

So what do you think is z I think that the defense they play him a little bit differently, you know, his rookie year or I don't know if teams are thinking that guy's going to just split the safeties like that, that big old back is not going to do that, and he did. He did it a few times, and so I think when you look at how teams are playing him now, they do play him a little bit differently. Is he slowing down? Probably anybody that gets hit eight

hundred times or whatever, he's a lot of touches. He's probably slowing down a little bit. He was beat up last year. That's why they drafted Pollard. I don't not worried about the sixty yarders. I want to see more of the twenty fives and thirties. So yeah, I think a little bit, but I don't think it's alarming. But I think it's he's slowing down a little bit. Yeah, that's kind of been my stock answer is I would love to see more twenty thirty, forty or longer runs.

And I definitely I mean whether whether he bulked up a little bit and he's not fat. I promise you that I think that narrative finally died. But he's not. But maybe he's bulked up a little bit to handle the beating that he takes as a feature back. Maybe defense is just key on him that heavily that it's just not there, or maybe he's just lost a step to a step and a half from taking what is it like seven hundred carries to this point in his career.

I don't know, but he doesn't. He doesn't look explosive, like you don't hold your breath when he's carrying the rock the way that I was doing for Dalvin Cook the other night. But I still don't find it alarming because of everything that he does. And again, you know, he's got plenty of twelve, fifteen and sixteen yard carries and that does plenty. I mean, if he's rushing for one hundred or more yards per week, then that's fine with me. But I do miss that element of explosiveness

that we haven't seen in a while. Yeah, I don't know that. I don't know that that's a bad thing. I mean, you'd love to have that but like you said, if he's putting up the numbers he's putting up and they're able to run the ball effectively in most games, I think he's doing what you really pay him to do. With regard Bryan, I will just go I was just gonna say this might be a dumb observation. I don't know, because I haven't followed the NFL long enough too to

really know. But is it me or does it happen when these players get these contracts and then they come back and it's like they're not necessarily playing at the level they should be playing. They're not playing any differently, just the expectations go up. It changes the expectations. I remember, which is when I got here, was like when the Deaths contract happened, and then he came back, and then I forgot what happened. But he wasn't playing. He just

wasn't playing. How expected that one of the things that happened, So little things like that, I don't know. Again, I don't really know, but I'm just wondering Zeek doesn't really do that before he got paid, though, Like I would guess, and again this is a guess, but I would guess that like four of the six of his longest runs of his career happened when he was a rookie. I would get I mean, you know, he had a sixty yarder, he had a forty something yarder against Detroit that year.

He's had a few screen passes that he took a long way, but that's more about patience than outright speed. I struggle to think of a run he's had that went longer than maybe twenty eight thirty. But you know, I will say this, if he can make those long runs on screens, I think it does have something to do with speed, because guys aren't catching him. It's not like a situation where he's getting run down. We've seen backs that get run down. He's not getting run down.

I think that it may just be more of a situation where maybe he's not able to squeak pass that that secondary guy, whereas maybe before he was, or just that defenses so much like we're not letting him get beyond us. We'll give up that ten to fifteen to twenty twelve yard but we know we can't let him get behind us because we can't catch I think that's

definitely part of it. With regards to Brian. I just it's gonna say, uh, he is handling a private matter and we're gonna leave it private because it is a private matter for him. He is fine, but he has a private matter he's handling, and that'll be he's not it. He's not sick, and for anybody, like for anybody that's worried about his health, he's fine. And that he's handling a private matter and his his he has a right

to have his own privacy. So we're not gonna gonna talk much more about that, all right, So let's get to some predictions here really quick. We got to go around the table. Let's start. Let's start with Dave. What as somebody. Let's start with Amber. Let's start with Dave and get your prediction. Dave h Man famous last words, because I've I've I said this about the Jets and it pit me. But I don't know. Stafford's not playing, by the way, he's not paying. He's out. Patricia ruled

him out. So it's gonna be Jeff driscoll um. They's just i'man even you know, no, I'm even gonna I'll double down on it, like even Sam Arnold was a top five pick. Like this is this is a journeyman quarterback. This defense it is far too good to allow them to score more than fourteen to twenty points. And this offense should be able to score more than that against the thirtieth ranked defense. I struggle to overthink it more than that, even though there's a boatload of history that

suggests that I should. But I think the offense can score twenty seven or more and I think the defense can hold them to seventeen or less. So I just it would be so bad if this was a dramatic game, because it shouldn't Beah, it should. They don't have a running back. I mean, Gala Day and Jones are great, but I don't think Driscoll can get it to them

consistently enough to win this game. So I'm thinking like twenty seven to thirteen not I mean, I don't trust this team to like completely blow anybody out, but it should be a pretty comfortable game. And I'm sorry if it's not one thirteen, wouldn't scores defense scores go? There?

We go? Sorry I went to I'm gonna be a blowout, blow out they will, Okay, you know, I hate myself for just being a believer again every week it comes down to it was like, she was like, you're not gonna convince me, and I was like, the hell we are. They're gonna win this game about because by Friday I go back again. Here we are in week eleven? Is it? And is it? Tanner eleven? It's eleven and they really

railing back in. I believe in them again. It's it's they're gonna start slow again, but they're gonna figure it out. And I think with Driscoll playing, the Cowboys defense is going to be able to create some turnovers and get the ball maybe twice and get it over to the offense and they'll be able to capitalize on it. You don't have to apologize for thinking they're gonna win this game. Next week. We can have a conversation. Right this week, you're okay, I think all right, I think the same

thing as all you guys think. I don't even think it's a close game game. I think the Cowboys should run away. I will say this just for the record, if Matt Stafford was playing, I think this would be a totally different game. I'd be picking the Lions. If Matt Stafford, it would definitely be a much closer game.

But I think without Stafford, I just don't. I can't see how without a running back and without their quarterback, how they're going to really be able to move the ball enough against this off It's a Cowboys office, which I think can score. They've been good at that all most of the vast majority of the year. So you think this is y'all kind of get the vibe that this will be dominant from beginning to end. No, I

think that the final score. I think the final score will if you don't watch the game and you just look at the final score, I think the final score is somewhere in the thirty four thirteen range. I think it's gonna be a game you look back at the score and you're like, man, they must have just dominated for start to finish what I've seen so far this year. We all get a bad competition. They don't start fast.

We are all thinking like thirteen to ten at halftime, yeah, something like that, and then all of a sudden they get rolling. And when they get rolling, they can't stop them, and it's just pop pop pop, it's tochdown, touchdown. He every other game they've won, the kicker, Do they have a good kicker greater. Yeah, he's good. It's look kid from field goals. All right, appreciate you guys joining us. We'll be back on Monday. We'll let you know what

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