Cowboys Break: Let's Clinch?

twenty twenty one, season seventeen, episode number eighty one. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break live from the s WBC mor Studios. Have to start, Nick and Amber here. Dave will be joining us momentarily. Nick, give me an eighty one starts show. I gotta go backwards, all right. We've been doing this eighty times, now, eighty one times. Ye Never have I had more people hit me up on Twitter view of the I'm sorry and they're right.

They're right because if you would have asked me the greatest play in Cowboys history, in my opinion, it would be Alvin Harper's play against them. Not Hell Marris. No, not to me, not because I watched it. Yeah, nineteen eighty I mean, I mean the eighty Alvin Harper to play seventy two yards against the forty nine ers, that that would just that what kind of propelled them to a dynasty. I loved Alvin Harper. I loved his game.

I just kind of I just overlooked it yesterday. And so all these people that hit me up yesterday, I apologize eighty all right, eighty one. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't say it. Don't even use him. Give me another one. I don't want that one. I give that one back. Give me another one. Oh, peerless price? Maybe really Laurn Robinson. He busted out eleven touchdown. He actually had one of those years where he got paid off that year. Yeah, yeah, he got a nice deal

for another team. Yeah, that year he had here. I guess I thought, you're gonna say your boy, James Whyland mean trust me, Chris, I can do. I can wait like four more times with him. Because he passed around. He weren't more numbers than anybody. Yeah, all right, I'll take my popcorn somewhere else. All right, you weren't going for it, you're not having it. Whatever. Great player, Yeah, it was a great player. He was great drama. Do you know who we're talking to the drama. Nope, popcorn,

get your popcorn ready? What about Jackie Smith? Oh? I remember? Because who was it that Maine a comment about it? Was it Celee that one time kind of set a comment like that too, was it? Do I say something about that? Lately? Somebody said popcorn? I forgot who it was it was recently said it? We're talking about Arrell? Was that Jerry on his radio show the other day? Maybe?

Well there was somebody else's I'm pretty sure it was Celee Lamb earlier in the year that he said get your popcorn ready in reference to the three wide receivers playing together and all that, something like that. Yeah, old Terrell Lawns. He was different. Yeah, no, Jackie Smith. And nobody wants to hear Jackie. People would rather hear to than hear Jackie Smith, Who's in the Hall of Fame.

So it's hey, look, don't get me wrong. TiO was a really good player and really good player here to was just one of those guys that it was always you were kind of weighing that balance between his talent and the drama he brought, right and whatever point, the talent was not enough to overcome the drama. Then he had to be out, And that's the hard part for guys like that, Like he probably could have played here, He probably could have had a much longer career if

the drama didn't always seem to follow him. I'll tell you I've played basketball with him. I've shot some hoops with him. Before the game in Carolina in two thousand and seven, our hotel had a basketball court and went up there and were shooting with another guy who covers. He used to cover the team, and we were shooting and it was just three of us, two basketballs, and you know, TiO had his own ball. You know how maybe you miss, you know, then you know you don't

get changed. You know, he get the ball. But with TiO, we were just send it back to him, you know, and he was like, noah, man, let's just shoots. So it was good. And then all of a sudden we had to go to the bus and all that, and then he went and played the game and got hurt and hurt that night. Certainly didn't get hurt before, right, No, it got hurt that making sure. Yeah, So basically I got pink eye that night. Two that night, I got pink eye, And yeah, it was a bad day. It

was bad. Yeah, it was a bad day on the plane. Like I don't know what that story looks like, but I was trying to write after the game with Pink Eye, Yeah, I was gonna say he actually didn't really play together. He basically was just around picking up probably true. Yeah, there was no one on one with with TiO or anything like that. Speaking of basketball, one of the best basketball game pick up basketball games I ever saw in my life. And I think I've told you this story before.

It happened at training camp years ago. I was my room was like literally there was this little area in the restricted area of the of Oxnart where we where we stay, where they had a basketball goal that would sit there at the end, and every once in a while guys would come out there and play a little bit. But I was already getting ready for bed, and all of a sudden, I'm hearing all this noise and that the players had gotten out of their night meetings and

a pickup basketball game and gotten started. And Tony's out there, Cole Beasley's out there, Daz is out there. I mean, it's like all the players are out there, and it was a battle. I when I tell you they were battling back when I sat there at my window because I was on the second floor. I sat there in my window and watched the game because that's how entertainment it was. Yeah, did you see it too. I kind of came out of there because it was there. Was

one of those same people were talking about. Yeah it was. It was a good and you could hear it. Yeah, you definitely heard was there. Yeah, so you can definite right, so you knew something was there. And then uh and Sean Lee I believe, Yeah, John was out there a payer. But all of them, like I was like, but this just tells you how great athletes Like I saw my wife this other day, Like, there is no guy that's playing professional football, professional basketball that is not a great,

I mean, an outstanding athlete. People would like to say, oh, he's he's crap, he's trash whatever. Trust me, none of these guys are trash. These are these are top world class athletes. And all you gotta do is watch him do other things that are athletic and you'll see just how athletic. They saw that firsthand. We played flag football back in the day. Um Tony was on that team for a little bit and no one even knew him.

But that wasn't what I remember the most. Well, yeah, I do remember that in the most because he was a quarterback. But he was a great defensive player too. But Marcus Steele an back, Yeah, fourth round pig usc wasn't that grade. It was Okay, he comes out playing with us. Dude was a baller, like as a as a receiver. I mean, I mean that he was a pretty big linebacker. He wasn't a little used to have a show called Pros Versus Joe's, Yeah, and it was that's what it was. I mean, Marcus Steele was just

just Andy mosson people us out there. You know, he was on our team. But that that was a good example of like these guys are just they're differently phenomenal athletes. Phenomenal were named. Yeah, all right, so here, let's go into let's get some injury updates here. What do you know about Tony Pollard At this point, I think Tony polar I mean, it looks like it's going to go down to the end again, but I mean it sounds like it's kind of progressing. I mean, I don't know.

I didn't get a chance to listen to McCarthy there, and I know we're still we're still listen to it now, but like sounds like from this morning that that is still like they're kind of ramping it up where he's going to get at least a chance to do it. Now he'll be on the field before the game. I bet it comes right down to it again. It's all about the comfort level of how he's feeling pretty much that day. Yeah, when it's when it's a torn plant or fascia, you might know more about this side. I

don't know a ton about it. I don't. It sounds like it's a pain management kind of thing. It is that I've always been to pain tolerance, pain tolerance and also but from what I've heard of like that one, the one that he has is the time that if you like keep walking on it too much or whatever, you can make it actually worse. Really, Yeah, that's what

I've read somewhere and heard about his specific one. Because you can have one that it's just pain related, but I believe that his, if he gets out there too soon or whatever, he can actually just make it worse. Clementins the Giants, I mean, I don't mean I don't need to tell you wouldn't even would you just not even chance to just be like give him another week? Why, I mean, you do want to clench this thing. I mean, I don't think it's good. We're gonna get in that

a little later. There are all some scenarios, but go ahead, he can need a whole segment if you need a lot. Yeah, we're gonna go down that thing. I'm gonna make Amber pick all the games too. I mean, I just if in that case, in that scenario, making it worse, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not in the business of making it worse. So I could beat the Giants on the road and then I'm not saying that it's gonna be a cakewalk

or whatever. But I think you if you could beat Washington on the road without him, I think you can beat the Giants. Yeah. So no, I'm not risking it. I mean division games or division games, there's no such things an easy division game. But I get your point out Pride. They hate the Cowboys. I mean, you know the fans that go to the game that are for the Giants. I mean, it'll it'll it'll be a I'm not gonna say it's a battle. I think they're gonna

do the best they can. I just think the Cowboys are just head shoulders above them, and I don't think they're in they're in the boat right now that they're gonna be looking past anybody. I think we've kind of done that. I think they're gonna get their attention. And if they get their attention, and then we just think they're gonna get their best. I don't think the giants can hang in there. So we're just picking games right here for a segment. No we're not. But well we'll

get to that. De Marcus Lawrence, tell what's going on with him? He dis practice yesterday or it was limited. I shouldn't let me, let me pull that stuff up. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I gotta ask about Tank, and I was like, Tank, it was good. I don't honestly that that one caught me by surprise this morning. I didn't even know anything about the Marcus Lawrence. So I need David here to mess

with all. He's the one that's been talking to coach here for the last what thirty minutes, forty five minutes? I guess let's let's wait on a tank update. Okay, I did hear them this morning. They'll say Cedric Wilson. Wilson sounds like there's a possibility he could be back at practice today. He's out right now with COVID. I assume there's a test that he's gonna have to pass. He's negative, but it sounds like there's a possibility a chance. Okay, I know they have the new protocols coming out, or

they they're out. I guess. Yeah. One of them was that you only have to pass one test. Yeah, so those new protocols. I guess they asked him about that, and he said, I'm not that's not necessarily what I'm saying. What I'm saying is based on where he is and in the protocol he is, there's a possibility that he can be back. He didn't. I was. I think he was being very careful not to say one of the

other ways, the old protocol, new protocol. He just said, based on what I've been told by Jim this morning, Jim Mauer, he says, it sounds like there's a chance that he could be back to it, which means it comes down to symptoms. I mean, it starts with symptoms. With players like that, because if they don't have symptoms, then that's the first thing, and then they got a past ten. It's just a test, not the other way around.

It's it's the symptoms, sir. So he's if he symptom free, um, you know, that's that's obviously a good thing, and that'll be a good you know, he's a guy that he needs to play for this offense. I think he's a real big part of this offense, big part of the special teams. You know. He's just one of those glue guys that I always compared to Patrick Crayton. I think he's that type of guy, and I think those guys

are important and more than anything else. I really at this point, with with all the challenges they're having right now on the offense, I want as many of the guys out there as possible because that all allows those repetitions, allow them to hopefully get back in that rhythm that they were having earlier in the season. And he's a part of that. So he's not a key cog. There are other guys that are more important, but I do think him having him in the mix, I think is

a part of it. And I kind of wanted him to get back out there. I wanted to be out there, to be able to be playing tank. Yeah, tanks playing Okay, good, We're not a tank? All right? Good? Are we worried about anybody? No? Okay, can shoot? Even Cedric Wilson apparently might be back at work today. Um, I still don't feel great about that one. We'll see, we'll see better. I feel the same way that I have earlier this week, which is like not confident, but has anything changed in

what he's doing or he had was limb. He participated in practice for the first time yesterday he was limited, which means he did something other than rehab on the side, So step in the right direction. Yeah, Nick was saying he thinks it, you know, if it was up to him, he just sent him this week, Like why mess with it? If given another week? If it's what Amber said, if it's a situation that it can get worse, if you get if you if you, you know, run on a walk on it. There is some talk too that if

it tears, it's better, so more you. But he hasn't he torn it. I thought the way he was talking when he had his press conference, it sounded like it was already torn. He just wasn't seeing the benefit yet of it being torn, which waiting on it to feel better. Right, Yeah, he was waiting for that point grimacing. Imagine imagining lang a professional sport with a torn anything. Yeah, but good for you, right. Pro football players are tough. Yeah, all right.

What we're gonna do is we're gonna take our final break when we come back. I got some storylines we're going to talk through. Like final thing was that long first break? Sorry, first break. When we come back, we have some storyline items we're gonna get to and we will at some point in this show breakdown the scenario Cowboys have a chance this weekend. There is a chance Cowboys can wrap up the division. We'll talk about those scenarios.

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the Southern Marching Band. That's a good band, right, that's one of the best bands. That's a good band right there, all right, Welcome back. It is the second segment of break off from WBC Morgage Studios at the Star where you're talking Cowboys versus Giants. They play the Sunday noon Central Time. We will get to a little later these scenarios that the Cowboys have or that that could possibly allow them to clinch the NFC East this weekend. But before we get to that, let's hit some of the

storylines of this game. I think there's a lot of intrigue for me, at least on what's going to happen with the offensive line, because there could be some moving parts. Still, let's talk first about the left tackle position. Who do you think is the better option. I'm not saying necessarily who's going to be out there. I think we all know who's going to be out there, But who's the better option between Tie and Seki and Terrence Still at left tackle? I think it depends on what you're asking

them to do. I think you're asking them to play the Giants. No, I'm like asking them what job you want them to do? Run blocking, verse, pass blocking. I think Inseci give him some credit, Like for as much as people dog him, he's gone in a couple times this season and held his own. He did it Sunday, he did it against He looked. I thought that. I thought Cooper Rush was gonna get killed in Minnesota when he first came in, and then he'd settled down and

was great for the rest of that game. I think Tie and Secki gives you something as a pass protector better than what Steel can give you, at least comparable, if not outright better. Yes, I don't see them that much different from the each other. Yeah. I would go down to Kellen Moore and be like, what what are you going to do this week with Terrence Steele as far as the jumbo packages? Are you going to use him? Do you want that a part of your game? You know?

If so, because because it's that close to me, it's the Inseci and Steel if it's that close. If it is that close, and then Steele helps be that extra tight end that reports eligible and all that stuff. Then I'm then I'm okay with with starting in Sechy. I'd be okay with that. Um, I don't think that's gonna happen. I think Steel's gonna start at left tackle though, that's what I think it all, But I no that I

think he's right. I think Steele will start. I'm not gonna be surprised if they both have a role though, you think in that jumbo role or that pretty good the rotat them like they did, definitely jumbo and depending on the situation. I just I think we'll see both. I think we will era you do what you do the defensive line, same thing to say it doesn't work. All right, Let's talk about the guard position. There's been talk this week that the Cowboys should or could change

the left guard. UM. Who do you think is to be at a better option there, Connor Williams or Conomal Governor. I think it's um. I think it's very similar, and I don't think the drop off is that severe. I think Connor Williams is a better athlete than Connor McGovern,

at least when it comes to playing offensive line. I think Connor McGovern deserves a lot of credit for how well he's done that hulk thing the fullback basically, I mean it started out as kind of a joke, like, oh, Kellen's just showing off, but like he's pretty he's pretty good, like and that's an element that they haven't had, Like Connor Williams has kind of done it, but it's just

not the same good and so I don't mean that. Like, obviously Connor McGovern is a great athlete in his own right, but I think Connor Williams as a guard gives you more athleticism. I don't think it's dan Orlovsky was talking about this this week and people were asking Kellen Moore questions about it, like they don't pull anymore since Connor McGovern became a starter, Like they don't do any plays that involve pulling or getting your guards out in space,

which we know something Zach Martin can do. I think Connor Williams is better out it than Connor McGovern, and I also expect to see a change there. I think Connor Williams is going to start this week. We should the change. Yet left tackle with Tyron being out, affect the decision of what you do at left guard. I don't think so not anymore. I mean, you got to

get the best guys out there. Not only that, but at this point, I think there should be plenty of reps between all these guys, Like, first of all, we know they rotate everybody anyway, Like Connor Williams has been getting reps throughout the season he was starting. He's still been getting reps while he's been on the bench. The same thing went for Connor McGovern, Like they were repping Connor McGovern with the starters during practice before he officially

got the job. They've been doing this since July. I just think I'm not buying that in December as like a reason to be worried about. I just hate that we're all the way down in December, almost finishing up December, and we still don't really know what the best combination

really is. I mean, we were here sitting talking about Connor Williams how he needs to get out of there, and then they finally eventually make that move, and then we don't necessarily like it either, and we're like, Okay, well that's not working out too well, not a big drop off like we said, But then we've seen the changes, like even running game, he just hasn't been the same. So it's just and I get it, like you're never gonna really know what's best until you actually go out

and try it. But it sucks that it's happening at this time of the year where you're still kind of like, Okay, well, who are our best five? You know, I kind of wonder if we do know, Like the answer is there, It just isn't the answer we all want, which is, you know, the best five, but the best five isn't as good as you want them to be. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say, for sure. It is just like this, it is. That's the reality. This offensive line and ain't gonna get you back. This isn't a dominant

offensive line. You know. I'm Connor Williams seven and two as a starter. I mean, they Cowboys are seven to two when he starts, Connor McGovern two and three, and that's it is what it is. I mean, you think it makes that much of a difference. I'm not saying I'm just telling you what the records are. I mean, we always talk about sample size and if that's enough and all that I mean, and who they played and all this stuff. I mean, they play nine games with

him left. We were hoping that McGovern would fix the problem. Maybe that's the fix, and it wasn't. That wasn't that's not the issue that he didn't fix anything. So I'm not saying it's on him or whatever. Maybe that's not the problem. Maybe it was never the problem. The penalties have gone down some, but I don't think the running

so is the running game. So I'm gonna laugh ruefully, like it shouldn't be that simple, right, You're always like it's all connected, there's all these reasons for all of it. I'm gonna laugh if they just run over these guys with If Connor Williams starts, which I think he will, Yeah, exactly like everybody his whole career, everybody's like he's not strong, he can't push anybody off the line. Guys. Now we get to see the Cowboys go for two thirty with

Zeke and Edo Smith because Connor's back in the lineup. Yeah, sorry, where you gonna gonna say? You know who else? Will laugh? His agent? Oh yeah, yeah, he's gonna write he was out four games, Zeke struggled. Whatever, he comes back in

the lineup. Yeah, what do you guys think is the biggest will be the biggest thing that Dallas needs to do this weekend to get their offense back going, particularly as Dak was talking about the big challenge being the defenses are playing back, they gotta be patient and that sort of thing. What is the biggest thing that they need to do this week to get back on track?

This is nothing makes sense if they're playing back, so there's no more deep ball and then Schultz isn't catching anything and the running game can't run and the little screen passes aren't working. I don't know, Like I don't have they played that good at safety. They can cover. They it's like pick your poison, all of it. It's all working. It seems like I think the biggest I mean, and I don't know, it should it should be working. It should be working better than it has been with

the way teams have been playing them. But like the number one thing that could fix that is just if the running game is gives you a threat. It doesn't the worst thing though, you know, like if you're like a mechanic or something or just the stuff that Chris Beam does on that side of it, and you're like it should be working. Yeah, it's all, what's the problem and why why can't you hear? If you ever want to say nothing nothing, it makes me more frustrated than that.

Like if you know, if everything's like my headphone, Jack's plugged in at the wire's fine, everything looks like it's and I still can't hear, like I will free. I hate the term and I don't ever use it. I hate the term talent, Like you know we draw on the camera like, well, all the talents on there. That's bs because it takes a lot more talent to fix it if it messes up, you know what I mean.

That's why I look at it. I know that they always say talent, but I think there's more talent on the other side, because I couldn't if it, if it troubles shoots, I couldn't fix it. Wow, that's a great analogy, because nobody is about to say where you gonna say, nobody gives credit to the offensive line, and yet they make everything for everybody else talent. Yeah, they make it work for the talent, and so we want to if

you're gonna fix something, that's what needs to get fixed. Yes, absolutely, Like and I I'm the past happy guy, like for early first and second down runs piss me off. I don't like it, but that is the quickest and easiest way to fix this thing. As if your running game scares anybody, and that they don't have to run for two hundred yards, they just have to be averaging four or more per carry. It would be so nice to see some six eight twelve yard runs with some regularity.

And it didn't look great in Washington, but it looked as close to good as it has in a minute, in my opinion, and so maybe Connor Williams can help with that. Every indication that we're hearing is that Zeke is getting better, like they feel. They that's I don't get that, speaking of things you don't get. You're like, he can't make this worse and he's just going to play through it until he feels better. Like that doesn't seem like it should make sense, but according to them,

it does, like it. They he feels better this week than he has in recent weeks. He's got a brace now he's I think that's that'll help him in terms of like feeling confident in it. So I don't think he's gonna look like he did in September, but maybe he will look as good as he has in a while, especially when you think about all the losses the Giants have on their defense right now. You know, Nick, you

said it doesn't it doesn't really make sense. But actually a lot about what I think is happening with this offense started to make sense to me this morning as McCarthy was talking when he talked about and I think he talked about this on his radio show, not in his press conference, but he was talking about how early in the season teams can get by with skiing. You can do a lot of things that teams haven't seen and that can make you look really, really good early

in a season. As a season wears on, you get to week six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Now it's more about execution because teams have seen what you're gonna do. You're not gonna roll out a bunch of new stuff out him every week that they don't really know what's coming. Now it's about your execution. And if you watch this offense play, it's not that everybody is messing up all the time. It's that on a lot of plays, this guy messes up on this play, and then this guy

is up on this play. This guy on this play, and so what tends to happen is it's really more about the fact that just as a unit, they have not been able to consistently execute, and that's what's causing the problems. If they can clean that up, they can fix this offense. And that goes to Dak, that goes to the running backs, that goes to the offensive line, that goes to the receivers. You know, think about all the mistakes, the drops, the penalties, like, that's what they

got to clean up. They clean that stuff up. I think that fixes the problem. They just don't seem to be able to get into rhythm because of that. But I'll say this, expect to see more from the tight end position this week. That's all I'm gonna say. Now, whether or not it's gonna be good, that's knowledge. Yeah,

I got eyes. That is a nick That is a Nick Eatman kind of drop right there, like just throw it out there and you've been talking to somebody or something and it's like, I'm just gonna throw this out there, something to keep an eye, which she did not. She didn't say the tin sit in the title is sprinkling in A little knowledge over started this week sprinkling in a little knowledge of my season's done. Hops, Ober, He's

already killed you. He killed me last week. I don't I don't get this will be the moment, this will be the moment he Doteller game fantasy. Just yeah, that's exactly right. Are we gonna take our final break? We'll come back. We're gonna talk about this, these scenarios that Cowboys have to be able to clinch this weekend, and we're gonna pick some of these games and then pick obviously the big game Cowboys versus Johnson that win come back because his das Cowboys dot com Radio. I want

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excellence on the field. Helped Dak earn a twenty five thousand donations to his Faith Bite Finished Foundation by voting on Twitter and tweet hashtag wpmoy challenge followed by Prescott through January seventeenth vote Dak, welcome back my final segment of a break? What was that? Welcome back? I don't know what back? Welcome hey, wow? Segment of the break that WBC morg Studios at the Star. Hey, okay, so here's the deal. Cowboys have a scenario, a couple of scenarios,

where they could clinch the NFC East this weekend. The first thing, I absolutely has to happen, and we all know this. They've got to beat the Giants in order to clinch. That's the first thing. The second thing, there are two different options. One first option easiest option. There has to be a tie between Philadelphia and Washington's easy. That's the easiest of the options. That tells you how likely the other option is. All right, now, the other one, did you do the math on that? Is a tie?

Statistically more probable than getting all of these results? What would you guess? Oh? Yes, because I mean even though about five game parlay or really it would be like seven guessing a seven game parlay, it's almost impossible, it is. But how I mean, how many there's like a tie a year in the NFL? Maybe and there's already been one. Yeah, I just I don't I would love to see the numbers on that. I don't know that I think there's a better chance of that happening than this. The seven

laugh goes seven to seven games. Man, that's a lot. Keep in mind too, Washington is decimated by COVID, like they're like ten point underdogs to a mediocre Eagles team. So that could happen, Like I mean what I'm saying, It could happen that the Philly Philadelphia Eagles win. Oh yeah, because that's scenario. It's Cowboys win, Eagles win. Yeah, if Cowboys and Eagles win, here's the scenario you got. Actually, there were five or six games that you had to

get out the window already that already got killed. You gotta get five or five Saturday and Sunday because the Chargers and the Chargers acted like last night, I was like, maybe they're gonna pull this off. They end up losing, so that one's out the window. You gotta get five or five on these here. Talk to Dave about that afterwards. I want to talk about about that game after surey, go ahead and talk about it right now. Just did you think that because you're a real big don't score

too early, don't score too early? Did you think were you watching it that close? I wasn't watching it super close. The Charger scored or the Chargers scored early. The Chargers had the lead right. They scored in twenty eight twenty one with about two twenty two thirty to go and got up seven and then they wouldn't scored it with like with one ten to go. The Chiefs went down and scored twenty twenty eight and then they both teams

got the ball back again. I mean it was so Yeah, if you're north of the two minute warning hard that's different for me. Like what pisses me off is when you score with one ten left and you could have taken it down to like twenty five, and it's and they're like, well, what could we do? We had to score?

It's like, no, you have to recognize who you're playing. Yeah, it's a little different when you're north with a two minute When I saw there before half though, and when they tried to go for it on four, it's rather than field goal. I thought it was a horrible decision, but I was thinking to myself, I'm sure days like

that was absolutely right decision. Someone here with you. Well, somebody on Twitter made a good point that if you are going to settle for a field goal, that's not a bad place to do it because you don't get the benefit of penning mahomes deep because you're just gonna go at halftime, right, so like you can. I mean, if they had kicked a field goal, I wouldn't have killed them for it. But I'm just I'm never going to kill you for being aggressive, especially in a game

like that. I mean, you got score a lot. Ironically, well no, because even I mean you wound they wounded up needing thirty four points to win. Field goals aren't gonna get it done against those types of players and those types of offenses. And if you managed to score, they would have gone into halftime, what twenty they would have been up eleven points, right, twenty one ten. So now though thirty four twenty nine would have got you to win, because it's overtake, okay, I mean, I'm just

saying you wins overtime. So if you needed a lot of points on the board, you needed basically thirty points to win that game. I mean, at the end of the day, yeah, I get it. But the irony is that both teams missed their opportunities and so it was a much more defensive game than we were probably expecting. But like I said, it's not always going to work. I'm not going to kill you for it, especially when you're playing that type of team. I just think you

need to be aggressive. So does Akland do twice as many games as Romo? Is that what he does Thursday and Sunday? I mean, does that? Is that the thing? I thought Romo does some Thursday games. It's either or NFL Network does it alone. Like NFL Network has a few exclusives that Fox doesn't do. But yeah, pretty much every Thursday's been been doing double dipping here. Yeah, and Buck and Aikman have done like every Thursday and everything

money yeah for them? All right, Okay, so we're gonna go We're gonna go through these five games, and I want you guys to pick these games for me. Okay, So Cowboys need five or five? Um pat Patriots, I'm sorry, Patriot Patriots, Patriots versus cults. Cowboys need the Patriots to win. How likely is that to happen? Nick, don't day style? What's in? It's in Indie? Oh you don't know enough Spanish to know that what that means? Where's the game? Sorry? Okay? Cool?

You've lived You've lived in Texas like your whole life. Yeah, okay, cool? All right? You work with Amber Colts Colt is the game in Indy, Yes, okay, I guess I don't know. I apologize. Well, I'm gonna go with the home team on that one, but I would go with the Colts there. You think the Colts gonna win there if it's in Indianapolis, I'm gonna say, I'm sorry that matters. I don't And I also I'm sorry. I know that they beat the

Bills in the Northeaster and whatever, I'm not. I don't buy the Patriots not as like not as a like super Bowl winning team. Like they are a good team, they're the they're the twenty sixteen Cowboys, like they're a good, solid team. But how far are you gonna get with a rookie quarterback? You just, I mean, I just I don't do that Indy. By the way, yeah, I know, like, no disrespect to Belichick, he's the goat, but like, no, yeah, a seven winning streak right now, I get it? Got

it at some point? Does it? Yes, nobody nobody in there. If that Patriots team beats the Chiefs in the playoffs, no matter or where the game is, just put Belichick in the Hall of Fame, like, just let him move against him. I'm just saying I wouldn't bet against He's already moved in, by the way. No, I'm saying no, but like I just give him a whole wing, Like, just give him a whole wing of the building. He's just adding new wings at this Yeah. Yeah, he's already

in and got as much space as he wants. All right, So you guys are basically killing it by tomorrow and not you think this is done. I mean, I'm boys having a shot other than a tie. Of course, anything's possible in the NFL, but I'm not going to be surprised if if yeah, I do too. Cards have to beat the Lions Cardinals in that game, okay, uh, Bengals

have to beat the Broncos at your boy. Look, I'm emotionally, I'm emotionally invested in the Bengals, but and I follow them way more closely than I normally would because of who plays for them. If I've learned anything about them, they are like the classic late Tony Romo Eric Cowboys, where like they win the games they're not supposed to and lose to the teams they're not like. So, but isn't Denver kind of there the full AFC is in the playoff race, like the Jets are like the only team,

and the Texans and the Jags. I guess like those three are the only ones that are like out of it. And this is also the time of the year you have to look at weather reports, like who knows what that's gonna be like in Denver this weekend? Who You just never know. It could be twenty feet snow. I hate to bet against my boy, but I could just see the Broncos smashing them for some years. The Bengals went in that one. So Dolphins have to beat the Jets. Yes,

Jets are awful. I'm taking the Jets on that one. You were taking the Jets over the Dolphins, I am, which ironic, Yet it goes to my point. The Jets are putrid and they beat this Bengals team, So yeah, give me the Jets. They're at They're at Miami two, you're still taking Almost asked the dumbest question in the world. Almost asked where the game was. I'm sorry I didn't. I caught myself. It would be dumb because the playing

and the Giants flit. Yeah, Derek didn't even know why that was dumb as they're like, okay, okay, I seriously was like, where's that game? Yeah, it's somebody they could have played Saturday night whatever. No, yeah they could have played that. They could have but yeah, that Saturdy Sunday. It seems like a quick turnaround because because they have to flip everything that. It's kind of cool how that works. Like if you go there for a Jets game, everything's green.

If you go there for a Giant's game, everything's blue, and there's like a whole army of people that like the Jets have their own Ring of Honor and their own Super Bowl band restincil the field, like the field goes without saying. But even like the banners and stuff change when they play games. Those Hall of Fame, I don't know if they cover them, but they could look for Mark Gas to know, see if he's up there. They might Yeah, they might keep I think they keep

both rings of Honor up. But like the banners at the top that say like Giants Ball and stuff like those go away during Jets games. J I don't think so can I switch. I'm sure I'm gonna go back to Miami on the okay, Miami, and I was gonna say, with all these teams, I mean, the only one that I think everyone could be certain enough or to say it's like that Giants game. But other than that, even with bad teams, like it plays in your head like hey,

I could see it the other way. There's only there's only one, I mean, only one of these games where it's like the team is there's such a lopsided thing between the two teams, and that's Cardinals, Allions, all the rest of them. It's a it's a game where you might have a favorite, but it's like they're kind of shaky. So I don't really are dedicating a lot of time to something trying to win the division. I get it.

It's just it reminds me of like the guy in your office that's like, so then I need Keenan Allen to do this. But if it goes to Eckler, then I'm gonna lose my matchup. And I'm just like, oh my god, I don't care about all these details. But I get it. I get it. You know, we're filling radio times. I try to want the Colts to beat the Patriots and just to get it over it. I want no, absolutely not. I want the Cowboys to lock up the division as soon as possible so that they

can do stuff like rest guys that need rest. It's just it just seems like such a small percentage, not dramatic enough. You know, Cowboys, you need some drums to steal Nick's line, Like is McCord packing hats? Like are the equipment guys packing hats? Yes, and they are if they want to celebrate it. I'm guessing they are. And by the way they they actually they will not. I just thought about that they will not because they won't know until after the three o'clock games are done, because

there's one game. All these are noon games except for well there's a Saturday night. Then the rest of them are noon and then the other one is the Broncos and Babies that happens at three, So they won't know until we're maybe in the air. Yeah, you can't open up a box on the plane. You would, you could, but I think it's it's that's also kind of thing of are you doing it so you can get the photo op or you doing it just to give them

out right? I mean, I mean the the Philly Washington games at noon, they could tie and we win the game and then the very true, very true, very true. That is such a hotly crew right there. I mean these offensive linemen right now, Oh my god, n I mean, what does Joe have on? Oh? I mean this, this right here, seriously is the same guy I've never Yeah, I mean this was Joe Looney was Nate, you know, jolly wise and all that. I mean he was. He

was the same guy where we're looking at. I'll just let you guys know, just stay tuned with the boys. There's gonna be something going on on hanging with the boys to day, So basically stay tuned for this is gonna be interesting. I guess. Yeah. Well, Chris, the camera days him in the background. You guys get get a chance to look behind the Oh god, all right, real quick, let's get some picks. Cowboys versus giants. Who wins this Sunday Amber You go first? Cowboys? That's all I'm gonna say.

All right, Dave, I think I'm I'm just gonna I'm I'm gonna keep betting on this offense to finally get it right. I really, it just reminds me of like one puzzle pieces in the wrong spot and then they're just gonna they're eventually gonna get it. I don't know why it's taking them so long, but this is a good opponent to do it against. M Yeah, I mean they should win comfortably similar to last week. I think they're capable of building out a lead, and I mean,

what's Mike Lenning gonna do. Hopefully it's a little more pretty in the second half, and like thirty thirty, they're gonna crack thirty first time since Thanksgiving thirty four to thirty four to fourteen. Okay, yeah, boys, they won twenty seven to seventeen and twenty seven to ten. I'm gonna stick to twenty seven the less and these three road games on the road. I'm stay at twenty seven twenty

seven to twelve. I think they're better. I think Giants will mess around and have you know, a few field goals here or do something. But I think it'll be kind of an ugly game. I think it's gonna be very similar to what we've seen before. They're better, you can, you'll take two minutes to see who's better, but it'll take it'll take fifty five to really just kind of all right, put it away. I think this is a blowout.

I think by my third quarter. I'm gonna put into writing emoji to Dave on Twitter saying go and get your story done. Man. Let's you know it's got to be happening. What they're gonna blow him out. He's gonna be like Broncos Broncos twenty one. Yeah, and beles exactly what's gonna be happenings, exactly what's gonna be happening. We're gonna be by the by fourth quarter, we're gonna be watching the other games on our laptop. But then but then,

like something bad's gonna happen. Look, the Gallary's gonna take it works than everybody. I want to be about three testdowns and then Barkley breaks along and I'm like, whoa man, take a second. The one Derek will annoy me. That is what It will happen one way or that either I know, Hill will be like slapping me and tell me to get started working, or complaining that why is Barkley averaging eight yards of the Giants have got back into this game. Take one Barkley with a druct shown

and we'll be right back. They ended up looking at the guy like now this will this will be this is gonna be the most fun we've had watching the Cowboys since Atlanta. Like, Wow, that's what they're gonna put up this one. They're gonna get a butt Like, is it gonna be a takeaway faster as the offense actually gonna play defense? Is gonna score at least one touchdown? All right? All right, that's my question. So sixteen guys have scored a touchdown this year, which just ties the record.

Mike is gonna get one. It's gonna be one. Who the next guy that hasn't scored, Mike's gonna get one. Um going with the easy one, and it'll just know it'll be that's across the whole team, right, whole team. It'll just be boring, Like Jeremy Sprinkle will catch a touchdown on Sunday's actually an easy one. Yeah, yeah, No, Mike's gotta get in the zone. He's gonna get in the en zone. That would be awesome, don't get me wrong, just on media mish before because he's got more stats

than Lawrence Taylor's rookie year. When you know that, But what Lawrence Taylor did? I think it was Thanksgiving against the Lions, he picked off a pass at the one yard length, a little out. He picked it off at the one housed it, I mean as at the one or whatever against the lines his rookie year on Thanksgiving, and that was like, okay, MP defensive that would be the thing, like that's how you win, all right, that's

how you do it. I hate that that's true. But like if Micah gets a pick six before the season's over, I think that could be enough to like swing it where you're just like cha, what can't he do? Right? I've seen somebody go one hundred yards at MetLife Stadium there. Do you remember one hundred yard interception returning for a touchdown interception? Yep? Yeah, the cowboy legend Brian McCann, Oh, I do remember that. Yeah, that's the craziest game. Remember

Garrett's first win? Lights went out? Sitting next to lights just go out? Yeah, Rob? Rob and I both were weren't what was that? That was not cool? I don't have to think what that wasn't the game where that towards the end of the game they had it. They kicked the ball off and kicked out of bounds of giants. Did no, No, I'm think that's a parcels right, Yeah,

that's parcels right. Yeah, seven years off, it's been like MetLife has been the scene of some really cool stuff, but recently it's just been kind of mad too bad. Like Jarwin the Black Cat was at MetLife, lost to the Jets at MetLife that married basically obviously, ob J. I know, sorry Cowboy fans, not to trigger you, but as this said, we still got that done, as every Cowboy fan ever, Like, man, what did you know they won the final score? Did you hear the final score?

You know who won? Shut up? Shut up, Obja. Still the best catch of ever, absolutely absolutely credit it is because all these other catches that guys have done like that, they do it like from the six Yard Life. That thing was coming from the fifty Yeah, I mean just think about how strong your arm and your hands have to be to connect, roll it and catch it because it's coming down people. People will try to discredit it because of the gloves, and these gloves definitely help you

catch the ball. But like, get it, ain't stick him. Get real. I mean you know that you still got it too. I didn't think he did, man, I was watching him the other Dayly he could still play. I remember at the Pro Bowl. We were at the Pro Bowl in twenty fourteen and Witt and it was one of those practices wherever just got the goofy hats on

and you know, not really a practice. Witten makes it catch and we're kind of standing over there and he goes Odell Beckham is the most exposive player I've ever seen, and it just goes back to the huddle. Yeah. I caught him back. Most post player I've ever seen. Yeah, he's already back. I'm like, oh, I guess we're not early talking. Just that was just know that you want to say that. Just drop it on you, all right, We appreciate you, guys. Jones. We'll be back on Monday.

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