Cowboys Break: NFC's Best Team?

forty seven. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, Live from Yes WBC Mortgage Studios at the Stars Big Picture TUSI. A lot of topics we're gonna hit today. We're gonna talk about some injuries. Catch you guys up there. We're gonna talk about this NFC. There are five teams in the NFC who are all right there at the top. We're gonna talk about how they stack up and which ones might be the toughest matchups for the Cowboys. And then when get some fan questions a little later in

the show, we want to hear from you guys. You can call us eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. Already have a lot of quarters questions I got from Twitter yesterday from you guys. We'll get into some of those. If you want to send me some more, you can hit me some more on Twitter, or you can call us again at that number eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. We'll get to that in the second and third segments. Nick, it's your time forty seven. I saw you smile of

one of my favorite names of all time. Okay, Dexter clink Scale. I thought you were gonna say Osaka Polite, just because that's a great name. No, he's like, not the number. I'm saying the name. Go ahead, Dexter clink Scale. It sounds like something from Madden Mode and franchise, like you know, generate a player. Well, actually clever last night. I actually everyone now and again, I just like to

look at some old YouTube videos whatever. Something came out from like nineteen eighty two and he made an interception for a touchdown and I'm like, oh, Scale, Yeah, it was not big in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, but what about Lawrence Vickers? Sure him? No, I do remember the name. Oh I don't remember. I thought you were here for that game. No, that was the that was high. It's a ninety game. Oh no, that's all that something else the year before him, before me and getting forty seven's

on your radar. No, I'm like, I'm I'm drawing just like I'm out. This is this is a really bad stretch. I'm sting like forty two is probably the last. Not what well, not what number did God? People are gonna hate me? What God didn't wear? What number did Moose wear? Forty eight? Okay, we'll get him. I was gonna say Moose obviously it was in the forties, and then like Barry Church and but nobody wants to wear a number in the forties, and Terrence Newman as well, but drafted

and back in the nineties they draft third round. They drafted get him Clayton Holmes that they thought was going to be the name. He didn't work out so well, end up on the Desperados. No, No, he didn't make the rest. Nah, he had some It's funny like I get an arguments with people all the time. I'm like, the player makes the number. Any number will look cool if the player is good. I firmly believe that. I actually believe that too. But at the same I'm sorry

to make thirty six look good. If Tony Pollard was still wearing thirty six, it would look bad ass because he's a good player. Earl Campbell, Yeah, thirty six look pretty good. Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome, do it? Earl Campbell made thirty four look awesome. Like, well, back in the day, thirty four was a great four number number. I'm just I'm just saying thirty two. Yeah, the player

can make the number. But at the same time, like forty forty six, forty seven, forty a, forty nine, like, hey, we'll lead it up tomorrow. Well, forty seven is dexter clean scale. Forty eight we're gonna step it up. Just we'll just be like moose and we'll go because there really know a lot of options there, and we got a lot of stuff talk about. Okay, so here we go. All right, here we go. Let's let's catch up on some injuries. We got three names I want to throw

to you guys. You guys, tell me where they are and what you expect for this weekend. Dak Prescott, what are you hearing about Dak Prescott and where he is in his recovery? Let me start because I I probably need to change a little bit of my opinion has changed somewhat from you since yesterday. I think he's yeah, I think he's gonna play a little bit. I mean, I do think he'll play. I don't. Again, I do not think he will be normal. Is not gonna be normal, Dak,

I don't. I don't think he'll be running any like. Is there anybody that's normal at this point? I don't think. I think he's got it's gotta be wide open for him to run. I don't. I just don't think he's gonna be looking to run. I don't. I bet you that sneaks. Let me ask you this, Does that affect his mobility in the pocket because he does move around and look to throw. Are you saying you don't expect him to do a lot of that. No, he'll have

to do that if he's gonna play it. But I just I just feel like, and I think he is going to play. I think it's more encouraging than what I thought. But I'm saying I'm just gonna say it. He's got to be careful with it because it can it can just come up and grab you at any time, and so that's that's the one thing that's kind of alarming. Well, I really think and I was thinking about this on my drive up here, because we do we do these hits with one oh five three in the morning, and

they ask us, what's that good hit this morning? Thanks, they ask us, but they ask us a ton of questions about player availability. And I mean, I get that, and we have a sense, but I really do. I think people forget that this is an evolving conversation, like I do. I think Dak's gonna play I think again, you read context clues. He stepped out. He stepped out of the facility yesterday during media availability in front of the whole Cowboys beat probably thirty reporters and the team nutritionists.

Scott they had a private bet where Scott would Scott agreed to run win sprints and do a bunch of work like calistenics and stuff in exchange for Dak going to his kids little league game and breaking them down. And I mean, that's that's fun. Like if you know the quarterback of the Cowboys well enough that you can kind of bribe him to break down your kids little league game, Like how cool is that? But talk about

that in a second too. That speaks a lot towards that, But he's not doing that if he's not feeling pretty good, he's just not. He came out in slides with no boot on, and Clarence Hill and some of the other reporters are kind of heckling him from a distance, like why don't you come over here and talk to us, and he's like, why would why would I give that away? Today? He's not doing that. If he's not feeling pretty good

about where he's at, he's just not. And then you talk to other people in the organization, you have conversations, maybe you see some things like that. I do think he's gonna play, but they haven't practiced yet, and so if he goes through a full practice regiment today and halfway through practice it's bothering him. The conversation changes. So you have an inkling on Tuesday, but that can totally

change based on the workload. And I do think there's a threshold that he needs to clear by probably Friday, and we'll know more then. So maybe that sounds like a cop out, but he's got to go through two days of practice without having it bother him, and I think that's important. To remember, well, they had a light practice yesterday close to the media, and from what it sounds like he was able to do a little bit

enough where Jerry Jones was encouraged to buy it. And you know, it's Monday, and if if you know, they could have easily just kept him out and not on his feet and all that. So if he is doing some things throwing the ball around, that that's a that's a good sign. Um. I don't think he'll do a lot of running right now. I mean, because you have a full week, you know, you have six more hours than you normally would because it's a Sunday night game

as well. So I think all things, the signs are encouraging that he's going to be able to do something here. I still think I'll be surprised if he's if he's at full mode, if we're not, like I don't even know he's hurt. I think you'll see a little bit of that. But that's okay. If he's ninety percent eight percent, that's better than I think it's better than what you have with Cooper Rush, just because of the dynamics of the entire offense and what and how it's just working.

So well, I said today. I mean, if he's if he's at a percent, that's good enough for me, because nobody's at one hundred percent anyway. So if you assume you're regularly at somewhere between ninety and one hundred eighty, I can live with eighty. Yeah, it was interesting both of you guys. I think hit the nail on the head when you see when you kind of qualified it. I heard Jerry Jones this morning on Sean and RJ on one or five dot three. He was saying something similar.

He said, you know, he said, I think about some of the these injuries that I've heard, and I think he was mentioning Zach, but he was saying, you know, what he'd heard was there are mornings you wake up and you feel great and it feels like you can do everything you normally do. And then the next day you might wake up and it feels like you got hit by truck. Like it's just it's not a it's not one of those injuries that seems like it's just always Yeah, I feel good today, That means I'm gonna

feel even better tomorrow. And I see you over there looking like that. But I think that's kind of your experience as well. It's just it's one of those things. It's just like hello, I'm still here. Hi. Oh yeah, don't forget about me. It's like wamam, Well yeah I was coming. Yeah. So I think that all signs are certainly positive in it, and it looks like it looks like they're progressing in the right way. Uh. It certainly sounds like he's actually moving around, which is a positive sign.

We'll see how that progresses throughout the week. Yeah, we'll go back to Dak real quick because I have a feeling how that whole thing went was um and and the nutritionist, Scott he Um probably asked, you know, he probably said, hey, my son, you're his you know, favorite player or whatever, and then have a game and can you come to the game and break him down in the huddle and all that, And Dak probably said, all right, yeah, I could do that, but what are you gonna do?

You know, He's like you need to do? You know, probably do these wren sprints or whatever and all that, which I hope the sun realizes what Dad's out there doing running around. But Dad was like cheering him on, like goes out there and he's yelling, He's like, let's go in his clappings like very facetiously oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just I just love that that he's able to you know, that he does things like that. And you know, I still can't get over the tie and

sech golf tournament thing. You know, like when Tian Secky got here and I think he had a golf tournament. Nobody knows this guy and he's here and he's a new player and Deck shows up. He's he's the ultimate teammate. And not just to players, but to the football staff and that community and that that group and the other thing I'll point out about that And this is not I'm not taking a shot at anyone else, um, but we have seen over the years, uh specifically with the

quarterback take it. As time goes and they become more entrenched as the starting quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, they change and that a lot of that I think happens because you've got so many people pulling at you, you got so many people asking things of you. You have to adapt to that and and kind of take control of yourself in order to make sure you're not just completely stretched. Then Dak has done that he has certainly like tightened the boundaries of what he's willing to do

and not doing those kinds of things. But Dak as as as far as what he has represented to certainly what I've seen has not changed, Like he's been the same dude. He's been that dude from the moment he arrived all the way to the current moment. And that's the part I appreciate it about him the most, is that he just seems to be the same dude, which

I love authentic people. He's just an authentic person. I just want to throw out there to which I thought about this because I had to figure out a way to put that in a tweet yesterday, which it's a lot when you're dealing with a character limit. But he's tech. The director of sports Performance, Scott centered And and I'll throw a shout out to his assistant as well, the

assistant dietitian Claire Gilbert, who actually went to LSU. I just think it's interesting, like there's an army of people that make this thing go and Scott and Claire are a big part of it. I always laugh like they they are running around throughout the game, like helping get stuff for the players on the sideline getting the postgame meal ready. Like there's whole people that like don't even

see the operation to this thing is crazy. You don't like, you don't see the game because you're making sure sixty people have a burrito or whatever the meal is that night that they can grab on their way to the bus. And it's cool that it pays off for them in ways because lord knows, I mean the equipment guys, the video, Like, the hours that you put in working for a football team is insane. So shout out, shout out to them for being the faceless people who make all this go.

Let me go back to what you were saying. You weren't saying it. I'll say it, Tony Romo to me, I'll say it. I'll say it, Tony Romo. I don't know if he changed his life changed. I mean, I mean, he was the backup quarterback that was sitting there just talking to people in the locker room, and then all of a sudden, yeah yeah right, he was playing. He was playing our flag football team, you know, played well to the playoffs and then um wow, that's what happened.

It's what it's what happened. Number nine. I love Tony. I I would caddy for him if he needed me too, which I did. No, I love Tony, But I'm saying his life changed, So how how do you react to that? How do you handle it? It's not like all of a sudden he just changed everything. Now he's getting asked to judge Miss America contests, So his life changed and he kind of he had to adapt with it and did it. You know, that's what happens. Do you leave put people behind you? You remember when you used to

do this. That's just the way it was. I just applaud Dak for being able to sounds like being able to handle it in a different way. And so I'm not That's why I'm not I'm not trying to crucify Tony Fresh. I'm not judging anyone. Yeah, I mean, his life changed in a big way. Dak's life has changed too, but he's he's kind of figured it out a little bit. And you gotta remember too, DA's work a year. He's

like three weeks what three months into it. He's the man, and by the way, when he was in college, he was the man, so being a man was not something new for him. Now he was a man in college. He's awesome and and there's a lot of people that say, well, he's not like this. Yeah, Dak and Tony are totally different, and people compare him all the time. But I just it's more about what Dak is, I don't think, than what Tony is not. And I'm not trying to It's

really about what Dak has done here. Yea, all right, let's let's get a couple of other injury updates. We got a couple of guys there, all right, you were trying to go down a list and we just went in, no, no, no, that's fine. I knew you were going to take a long time on deck, which we should. There are the two other guys, though, we have to talk about Michael Gallup Tristan Hill. Where are they in their returns? Michael Gallup is supposed to practice tomorrow, um, and Tristan Hill

is as well. And we'll throw in Francis Bernard he's obviously yeah, he's I completely forget about his name. He I mean, he's not on the same level Michael. Oh yeah, but Gallup is starter. Tristan was a big piece of the rotation, which you're right though, Bernard kind of shores up your your linebacker numbers that we've been worried about. So all three of those guys supposed to practice doesn't mean they're on the roster again. It's a could Gallop

play Sunday theoretically, Yeah, but maybe he's not ready. I think it just depends on how he looks. I should know this is Semi Fihoko on the roster, Yes, Okay, I think now, I mean second guessing myself. I should know. I mean, I know the roster is not what it used to be. Ok We used to do like inactive on Friday's. Like I wouldn't want to try to go down there. There's one hundred different lists to put these ya, SEMy, Simmy's still on the team. He's been inactive recently because

Malik Turner came back. One of those two guys is probably not going to be on the roster if I can't imagine at this point, I just I can't imagine that they risk losing Semi. And I know, I mean, I know we overanalyze that, you probably can, but they've carried him this long. Yeah, it certainly seems like his

development is a piece of this whole thing. Knowing that Cedric, Noah, and Gallop are all slated for free agency, I just I would be kind of surprised at this point, but maybe, I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do in the course of the season. I want to talk about one other guy, and I want to put a pin in Michael Gallop for a second, because I think what I'm about to talk about with Lyle Collins, I think

could possibly be a similar conversation for Michael Gallop. He's obviously Lyle Collins is obviously back on the active roster now after his five week suspension, and there have been comments from Jerry and Stephen this week that suggests that there's a possibility at least that he doesn't start, mainly from the idea of, hey, why rush it. If he looks a little rusty, if he needs to work back in, we don't have to rush him back into the lineup.

The first question is do you think he starts this week? And then I want to talk about it from the standpoint of both he and Gallop. Is this the right approach when you got a guy it's already in there. Cedric Wilson's playing well, Terrence still play is playing well. Do you take the right approach with this of letting those guys kind of ease back in. Maybe Gallup isn't

even active this week. They don't have to necessarily make him active right now, and you just kind of let those guys ease back in rather than rushing him back in because the guys who replaced them are playing well. Can I just say, I really I know you're trying to kind of marry the two together, but I really think these are completely different situations. All which one do you want to take? Day you I'll do what you don't do the receiver. I'll talk about the receiver position. Though.

They can figure out how to get Gallop in there, just like they getting set looks like they were getting Cedric in there, like that Norah Brown kind of fits into it. You can figure out a ways to kind of do that in some way, give him some snats that snaps to, you know, ease back into this. So that's why I kind of feel like it's a completely different situation of making the move, you know, because either one of them not I mean, because these receivers won't

be the starter or be the third guy. So the third and fourth guy is not that. I mean, I'm not saying it's not big a deal because it's a huge deal for mismatches and stuff like that, but I think there's ways to get him and Millie Turner was getting in, so I think you can get Gallop in there in his own kind of way and getting ease

him back into it. I don't think it's a different with the right tackle, I agree, but I do think it kind of plays into what we said about Dak is that's what this week is four And I actually it's funny because I think I think the Jones has played that the right way. But by not just saying like, yeah, Lyle will be right back in there, then that does the other thing where it creates a quote unquote controversy about like, well maybe maybe Terrence Steel is going to

keep his job. And I think it's really more along the lines of this guy's played one game since twenty nineteen and then he took five weeks off and you just want to see where he is. Every report, every indication that I've heard is that Lyle, I mean, he's been allowed back in the building since like week three, so I think his conditioning is good. I think he's ready to hit the ground running, but you know, you don't need him to if he's not ready, And so

they're just like, we can keep our options open. We can practice Terrence, we can practice Lyle. If he just looks like a boss and he's ready to go right away, he could play Sunday. If he's not, that's no problem either. And I actually this wasn't related to Lyle at all. It was about it was when Tyrone was hurt. Mike McCarthy kind of he didn't laugh at me, but I could tell he didn't think it was a great question, which wasn't the first time or last, No, not at all.

That's okay, Yeah, that's the point sort of you try to ask good questions. They're not all gonna be great. But he I asked about like Inseci playing left tackle because Tyrone was limited or whatever, and he made the point again he didn't laugh, but he was like, this is kind of obvious that they practice all of those guys anyway, And if you remember training camp, they move them up and down as well, like even when everybody's healthy, they were given guys looks. So I think Lyle will

practice with the first team this week. I bet no. I know Terrence Steele probably will as well, and so you don't have to make that decision on Wednesday. There's another element to this that I think is always a thing. It's always a thing with the Cowboys. And when it comes to talking to the media, Jerry and Stephen talk a lot for owners and general managers and you know, well whatever that were weekly shows multi multiple times they're they're on each of them are on the radio at

least twice a week. They talked more in a given week than most owners do in a in a year, really, because the average NFL owner talks at the owners meetings and maybe the combine and and like once at training camp, and that's all you ever hear from him. And and I would say, and this for this, they're the GM you know, talk to either way. They talk a lot. And there's been I'm not saying it's happened so much

this year. Maybe there was one time I can't remember what it was where Mike said something and Jerry kind of said something different. I forgot. Do you remember what it was? It was? Yeah, because it's something it was about it was an injury. It was injury related, like Mike was, you know, trying to do the coach thing and keep it close to the chest, and Jerry like the next day it was like, well, yeah, he's so start. So I don't remember who it was. I don't remember either,

but I mean, it happens. It's always kind of happening. It's happened, it happened for you for years. And so what I'm saying is is would when they say, well, well we'll see about that, we'll see, let's let's let Mike McCarthy address that. It's not necessarily like I'm not trying to answer this. It's more like, sorry, you're right, Mike, you address these. And now we're dealing with a coach

that doesn't want to tell you anything. He doesn't want to tell you what he had for lunch today because he just feels like somebody might change it, might might like take that into something, you know. So that's that's where the rub is. It's not just about trying to be really coy about it. It's like, well, you know, the head coach is supposed to announce this, he doesn't want to announce it because he doesn't have to. So

that's where I think some of this is. I do think if elc proves that he's healthy and conditioned and ready to go, that he'll be in the starting lineup. That's just my guess, but I guess you know, we'll see. All Right, We're gonna take our first break. When we come back. Let's talk about the NFC. There are five teams Arizona, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles Rams, and the Cowboys who are sitting at the top of the division. I want to ask you guys, where the Cowboys rank

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division and they all are looking really, really good. Right now, You've got Arizona, who is seven and oz and then you got all the next four teams who all have one lost, Green Bay, Tampa Bay, Los Angeles Rams, and the Dallas Cowboys. What do you think Dallas falls in this mix of these five teams sitting atop the division, I mean the conference. I'm gonna take your question and I'm gonna turn it so that I don't really have to answer. Yeah, I just said I I don't know.

I don't know. Arizona looks scary. The second place team in their division might be the most complete team in the league for my money, just with what Matthew Stafford's doing for the Rams and what they have on defense, Packers, Bucks, you get it. But I said this Sunday Night more so than the higher key of how those teams fall. Nobody's in a better spot than the Cowboys, just in terms of their outlook. Like I'm not talking about how good they are or their record. They play in the

East they have. I mean, look at Arizona's seven and oh and they've got a team breathing down their neck the Bucks have. The Saints are gonna be pesky. They play this week, by the way, Green Bay, maybe they're in a similar spot. My point just being is like the Cowboys can realistically start thinking about locking up the division now and we can worry about the buy and all that type of stuff when it happens. But I mean, you only got to win like four more games to

assure yourself of a home playoff game. I mean maybe that's an exaggeration, but maybe not. I mean, if these teams keep losing, like, that's what I'm saying, and so all I'm all I say by that is like I don't know where they fall in the in the standings, but they have the easiest path of anybody in the NFC to playing a home playoff game, and that's exciting. I think. I think it's very important to get out

of that fourth spot. Yeah, I mean, you need to be better than fourth of those of the division winners. If you're gonna win the division. Obviously you got to do that, and they look like they're gonna have a great chance to do that. But you can't be fourth because because there's five teams right now, they're showing that they're good and and if it's like you said, it could be the Rams or it could be the Cardinals.

One of those two could be the fifth place team and come in and play the Cowboys right off the bat. You know, it's supposed to be a wild card game, and that thing would be a four or five games gonna be. Yeah, it's like the difference between maybe playing that team or playing maybe the the Vikings or or whoever else ye saying, and that will be a tough game.

I mean that's not obviously it will be playoffs. Um, but I'm just saying no. But there's a there's a big difference between second, third, and fourth, and obviously a big difference for one to get to buy, but two, three and four, you don't want to be that fourth spot. The best the best wild card team and it's early, but the best wild card team is looking like it could be a ten eleven, maybe twelve win team. So

that's a really good point. I didn't. I wasn't going to rule out the forty nine ers either, but I mean they had a tough loss. It's tough like back back there. Those teams, I mean, conditions in that game were pretty I'd rather too, so I'd rather solve like the quadratic formula then try to figure out the Saints. I don't know what they are. God, that was I think I'm starting to know what they are. Like, well,

Sean Payton coach, keep expecting. And I told you this yesterday, I think Dave, when we were all standing up there talking, I was like, I don't I don't ever want to count out a Sean Payton coach team. But the more I watched them play last night, I know they won, But the more I watched them play last night, the more I was like, this team doesn't scare me at all at all. Okay, number one, No, I don't think

they should scare you. But if you're gonna give the Niners credit for playing in a monsoon that, I mean, that was gross last night. What they were playing with Sunday night, I mean game Sunday night. Like literally, I don't know if I've seen a game that had such a heavy downpour the entire game. I'm just entire game, I agree. I mean they played in a bomb cycle and that bad worse. Yeah, it was a con setting sidelines in twenty fifteen for Baylor TCU. It was an

absolute pneumoniable. It was unbelievable. I'm just saying this over and see. I don't think the Saints and Seahawks got more than fifteen minutes of clear skies, like it was raining all night, more than what I mean, we're quickling here. The Saints don't scary. Who does well out of this list? I think Arizona is a scary team. And I know it's gonna sound crazy to people out there listening, who are Cowboys fans who have lived through Aaron Rodgers. I'm

not as afraid of the Green Bay this year. I think Green Bay's pretty good and they're great because they're a coach. I mean, I'm sorry because of their quarterback gonna play, but but that's not a team that I look at it. I say, Dallas, the audacity, worried about the audacity to say that you're not worried about Aaron Rodgers, the absolute audacity market down They're going to play. Yeah, and I'm okay, know they are. You know McCarthy's gonna

face Aaron Rodgers. You know Jalen Smith, if he's still on the team, is gonna play for the You're gonna play against the Cowboy, and I'll throw you one other. I'm also not really that worried about the possibility. By the way, all these seems are good. So don't get me wrong. All of them are gonna be tough back. But but you look at Tampa Bay. I would like to see Dallas get another shot at them. I don't think Dallas would be intimidated by them. And you mentioned

it yesterday, you get Zack Martin. I think that's a different game. I think they run the ball a little bit more. That gives them a little more balance, and we see where they fall out again. I look at this list and Arizona is the team I look at and say, of this list, if I had to choose which team I don't want to play, Arizona is a team I think the rams of the team I wouldn't want to play. Yeah, if you're Arizona did to them, I know, I mean, I'm I'm I'm with it. I mean,

Arizona is gonna be tough. But if I had to just choose a place that the Cowboys would go on a playoff, definitely Arizona because it's it's it will be a ton of fans because as great as the season as they're having, you still gotta go buy the playoff tickets. You still got to you got to purchase them, and so Cowboy fans could get in there too. Hey, I'll take much chance with Kylin Murray in his first playoff game. That's saying great, But that's the part that scares me.

You look at all these other quarterbacks and the dimension that he adds to the game makes him such a tough matchup. Don't get and I'm not I'm not trying to say he's better than Aaron Rodgers. That's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is it's just a different kind of dimension. You have to do things differently when you're facing that team because of what that quarterback can do with his legs. And in addition to that,

he's got weapons. Everywhere. You talk about the Cowboys being loaded, they got a ton of weapons out there in Arizona, and then they just added Zach Ertz who had a big play for him last weekend. I just look at that offense and I'm like, that offense probably reminds me as much of the Cowboys offense as any of the offenses that you look at, just with their ability to

kind of do a lot of different things. And I mean, I get we're just riffing and having fun and I'm a big ere, but I did, like, I just I hate these conversations because going back to your point about the Saints, Yeah, they don't scare me right now either. It's not even Halloween. Michael Thomas is going to factor into their plans at some point. Well I didn't even do that on purpose, but they're gonna get Michael Thomas back. People are gonna get hurt. I think I brought this up.

If I didn't bring it up on this, she's got a lot of defensive player back. This last I just brought it comes up. I mean, the Bucks were just a middling team until about Thanksgiving last year. I think about this. I brought this up when we were talking about it yesterday. For my birthday in twenty eleven, my parents got me tickets to see the Saints on Monday Night football against the New York Giants. The Giants didn't even look like they belonged on the same field with

the Saints. It was disgusting. Like the Cowboy game in twenty thirteen, that's what it looked like. They ran them out of the building forty twenty four. Six weeks later, the Giants won the Super Bowl. And that's just that's the type of stuff that I think about when we're having these conversations. I know it's fun and I agree with you. I mean, I don't think the Cowboys should

be intimidated by anybody in the NFC. I also know there's a lot more twists and turns to this whole thing for before we even have to worry about who they're gonna plays. Is fluid. As my man Jock Taylor always says, I think as of right now, and when I ask these questions, I'm asking as of right now what we're seeing. Who scares you? Yeah, I mean, Aaron Rodgers should always scare you, Cowboys fan. I just want

to say that again. Yeah, I mean, and this is this goes back to the where you know, are the Cowboys a real complete team? Because my first thought is, would you rather go to Arizona. Would you rather go to Green Bay? You know? And I look at it like, I'd rather go to Arizona from a standpoint of a lot of things. So you're you're facing an experienced quarterback in the playoff, You're facing you're gonna have a good weather a situation there to to function your offense. But

then I start thinking, is that a good thing? Because the Cowboys can play in any any kind of thing. I mean, if you say, let's say you go to Green Bay and it's one of these, you know, Blizzard type of games, I think I would rather have the Cowboys offense though, I mean, yeah, that's not going to be what he normally is, but they're built to play any kind of style. And so McCarthy said that recently.

I don't remember what he was talking about, but he was like, yeah, we're a Dome team, which is technically true. But I don't think of them that way, you know, Like I don't think of them as having this offense that can't travel, because we've seen them lean on the run already a lot this year. So I think if they got in it, and really, what are we talking about here? Just just Green Bay? I mean of all these teams who would be a bad weather game literally

just screen. I mean, Tampa could rain of it now, but it'll be to be seventy degrees. It'll be sixty five degrees. It will rain in Tampa. Yeah. That's of the teams that look likely to be in the playoff picture in the NFC, Green Bay is the only one where you would think there would be bad weather and less and less an NFC's team makes it as a wildcard, which looks really unlikely right now, because even you know the Vikings play indoors, they're h I mean Seattle and

San Francisco, I guess, but again they don't. They're not looking too promising my own games, No, at least not off the yet, which again and same thing Washington. I'm just I'm just keeping an eye there because, like Fitzpatrick is due back at some point right and there, you would imagine their defense can get it together at some point as well. It seemed like I didn't watch the whole game against Green Bay, but it seemed like they played them tougher than they've played some other games. I mean,

holding them to twenty four points on the road. It was in Lambeau. My point being is just like they shot themselves in the foot offensively, is what they did. Washington just has the potential, I think, to where we could look up in a month and be like, oh damn, they're like they're they're five and six, like or you know, they're five and seven, like they're still they're still alive. I wouldn't surprise me or the Giants. No, I don't. I do not buy them. I don't. I don't know.

I don't I've been saying it. I mean I I don't believe in Daniel Jones. I know I don't believe in the Giants at all. Um, can I just say, whoever are Joe and Flower Mound would be the guy that's that's mad right now? Gary and Grapevine, Gary and Grapevine. We know that they play the Vikings this week, and we know that the Vikings are good, and we know that they we'll get to that tomorrow Tuesday, and we're going to get tomorrow. All the guys over there they're

already talking. Okay, we're we know they're good. It's going to be it. They will. They will dominate our conversation for the rest of the week. Starting to think I mean, just from our perspective, which this is kind of rare too. The Vikings were off as well, so we don't even have a Vikings game to analyze. So from last week, it's Tuesday, the team's off. We got Yeah, we'll be neck deep in Vikings. I said this yesterday. If the if this game, if this game isn't in doubt with

five minutes left to play, I'll be surprised. I mean, it's a tough place to play. I think they're better than their record indicates that they are. Yeah, I think this is this might be I don't want to say a wake up call, but you know, the Cowboys have just kind of been on this fun role. I don't. I don't think this game is gonna be fun. They might win, but I don't think like you're gonna be

stressed when it gets down to crunch time. Yeah. And the good thing about it is is they have I mean, the bad part about it is they have an offense with the great receivers and they have Kirk Cousins. The good thing is is they have Kirk Cousins. Because I don't I'm not. I mean, he's playing well, but I mean I'm taking he'll he'll give it up for you, although he hasn't doing it this Sho has not been giving it up this season. Maybe this is the game

he begins. Maybe he hasn't faced right. Yeah, but but he only had I think he has two interceptions. He's not he doesn't. He doesn't have to throw interceptions. He I mean, it's not necessarily interception. He struggles in the fourth quarter sometimes, I've seen it. We've seen enough games we did. Last year. He dominated that game last year. I mean they were up and down the field with those cornerbacks that shouldn't even be in the league and

they're not in the league anymore. But then in the at the end after the Cowboys, Shoult scored a touchdown to take the lead, Like here we go. They got plenty of time and it was like three or four now yeah, and we got to pull it up. I mean, his his record in primetime games is it's not good. Yeah, he doesn't really not. It might be a big fact there for for Clarity's sake. Again, I love the way

this all changes. Like Week one, they losing overtime to Cincinnati and you're like, oh, that they probably should have won that. Well, Cincinnati's on top of the North right now. And then they probably gave Arizona their closest game of the year and they lost on the last play. They lost. They played a terrible game against Cleveland, which again is I know, their records not great, but that's a talented team.

That that's three plan I mean, which I mean they're Their wins aren't great either though, Like they barely beat Detroit, they barely beat Carolina. That's the way I was thinking about Kansas City until they lost like that, like like because I was thinking, look who Kansas City is lost to? But then but then they they lost, I mean bad to the type the way they lost last week is more telling than that they lost. Yeah, I would have been I would have thought, did I just see what

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Final segment of The Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We only have a few more minutes left. But I did promise that I would get to some questions from some fans, and so I got one question I want to hit you guys with before we end this show. This one came from Devin on Twitter, Devin Delgado. He says, what position could the Cowboys look to trade for that would push us over the top? Trade deadline I think is next week November

second Tuesday, next week. Um, And so that being said, where do you think the Cowboys should look if they were like, hey, we just got one position. If we addressed this position, it can push us over the top, and we think will be perfectly suited to be a Super Bowl winner. I blame Jerry Jones for this because he talks about Charles Haley so much. He's like, that's what pushed us over the top, and that's and so

we do this all the time. But you've talked about this before, David, unfairness, you've talked about the Giant I'm sorry, not Johns. The Eagles and what they did the year they won the Super Bowl. When you kind of go all in you find that guy. But it was it was the running back that year that they picked up. What I love about the Eagles is like they're aggressive, but they don't they don't quote unquote go all in

like what like they do calculated stuff. Like what I love that they did the year that they won that Super Bowl was they traded like mid draft picks for Timmy Jernegan, who at the time was a really disrupt to defensive tackle. That's the type of stuff I wo, which this could be that kind of stuff, like you're not going out and getting a guess, a level player, right, which when you say when you say push us over the top, that's what I think and're arguing semantics, it's

not an Amari Cooper type of true. I'm not going to do that, right Yeah, but I guess that's what I mean. It's like, I'm not out here looking for big but who could you? Who could you? Maybe what position? I'm not who, but what position could you possibly be looking at you think could have an immediate impact and make you a team that you're like, Man, if that hole is short up, I think this team is well

on its ways. Like six positions like that, Okay, I mean every position that you that you don't and this is a good football team. But not every position is gonna have a guy in the Pro Bowl obviously, so any of those, any of those guys like a center, a guard. The only problem about those two is that you're talking about continuity, and it might not be the easiest thing to just plug a guy in and say he's way better. I don't know about that, but you could.

You could practice him, get him read, and by December he could be way better. Right in a perfect Yeah, I mean center comes to mind. What we're not going to say names, but if you're if you follow the league, there are some veteran centers on some bad teams. Yeah, I mean, if that was capable of happening, I would do it. But again, are the Cowboys in a place where they think they so drastically need that that they're

going to give up valuable assets for it. And the better the player, the better the asset, Right, I don't think so. I would have done I guess since he already got trade. I think I would have done the Gilmore thing. I would have done that, but they didn't. I probably would have done the assuming they did their homework on him. I would have done the Henderson thing that Caroline is just they got every cornerback that was available. Anyway,

I would have done that. But those situations are hard to find because like the team that has him has to be willing to trade him, the price has to be okay, and you have to be able to fit it under your cap, and so the better the player. That's what makes that more difficult, because can you take on eight million for Stefan Gilmore? Probably maybe if you really want to, But do they want to center? If there was another cornerback that was available, I would be interested.

I don't think there is. When I'm out defensive tackle, I mean, that's what you think right now. But Tristan Hills up coming back now, well, Gallamor will be back soon. Like, I don't feel some sort of drastic need there. You know, we've seen the Cowboys do it. They did it with Amari Cooper. But they did that and they said it a thousand times. Why they did it. It was because he's twenty four years old, and they said, this is

going to be a future guy. This isn't just to help us now, which it certainly did help him now, but it still is. So it still is this It would be one of those type of things. I still think that's the case here, even though this team's five and win and maybe need a guy to over the top, you know. I mean, I still think you got to look at a player like, hey, we're gonna get this guy.

Maybe he's on the last year of his deal, because usually that's how you trade guys, it's the last year or two on their contract to make it easy for them to trade. But I still think it's a guy like, hey, he's still twenty six, he's twenty seven, he's going into a second contract. He's a guy will probably want to resign, So it would have to be a good situation that way.

I really loved. And this is the framing that we're getting from Jerry Jones, which I love, is you're getting a lot of talent back over the second half of the season that you didn't have in the first a thousand yard receiver in Michael Gallup a fifty games starting right tackle, and Lyle Collins promising young defensive two promising

young defensive tackles Gallimore and more so than Hill. But that's still two guys that were drafted highly and then further down the line and all Pro defensive end and another defensive end too, and George Arms or arms ND as well, And so it's probably better than Basham, Yeah, I think so. Well, look at the how much they were playing in before you got hurt. Yeah, and so when you and there's gonna be other injuries that offset that, and I get that, But that's that's a lot of

talent that's coming back to your roster. And like almost none of those literally none of those guys that I just named hand in getting you to five and one, Like Gallup and Lawrence played in week one, they didn't have these amazing games. Lyle played week one as well, but like, um, Gallimore hasn't played at all, Hill hasn't played at all. Yeah. Um, that's that's a lot of talent that's gonna be available to you in the next

month or so. You've got Kelvin Joseph, the second round pick that everybody's clamoring to see he I think he might play in this game. He's gonna be He's gonna practice for the second week this week, so they I mean, that's the biggest thing they've got to do is figure out how to get them on the roster. I mean, you you've got guys that you've got to figure out. And I'll tell you the toughest guy to get on

the roster and maybe is Josh Ball. We didn't even mention that, but here's here's an offensive tackles coming back. He's a rookie fourth round pick. He's gonna be on the team. He's gonna be here. So you gotta can you just leave a guy on ir like, do you have to bring him back even if he's healthy. You don't have to write there still is an eye off for the rest of the season, right, Yeah, well, I think the way of your twenty one day and if they don't if they're not ready, and the way it

works right for the rest of the season. Yeah, Well, so you activate a guy's three week practice window and if you don't move him to the roster after that window, then he reverts to I R for the rest of the year. But if you don't even activate his practice window. I think he can just sit there as so, yeah, I would so I would assume he could. I mean, obviously you want a young guy like Josh Ball practicing

and getting better. But I'm just saying, you know, but rather than risk lose him, maybe well they're not, They're not going to lose him. There would do it. It would just figure it out. But I mean, yeah, you can. You can do that until they the league probably you start abusing it, you know what I mean like that, because that's it's already been hurt. So who's to say that's not right? Yeah, yeah, maybe they have to do

a physical or something like that. But but yeah, I mean, that's another player that's coming back to the team that I don't think he's an option to play though. I don't think that they would try to play. He's so far down the depth. I don't know how you. Yeah, that's I'm and he he is the forgotten man. But with Lyle back on the team, they have four or experienced players at this point, really experienced players. Yeah, I don't know how, so, yeah, I wonder if he might

just be camping out on IR for a little while. Yeah, all right, we appreciate you guys. Join us. We'll back tomorrow. We're gonna start talking Cowboys versus Vikings. We'll have Bucky Brooks join us tomorrow talk a little bit about the Vikings offense versus the Cowboys defense. Still in for Nick even Dave Hellman. I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.