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predictions and all that fun stuff. But before we get into it, how about them Cleveland Brown Shout out Brown Wow, shout out. I've never been so hyped for a game and it didn't involve a team I care about. So they've turned their first game Sincember. They beat the Jets, and that was pretty exciting. I mean, I'm surprised they are still Browns fans out there, but there were a ton of themselves. Honestly, you're saying some hardcore fans in

Cleveland you would really hardcore. You would jump ship on the Cowboys if it wins South like that, You're just like, I'm not going to root for this. Well, it's different. The Cowboys do win games, but but what if they didn't. I mean, that's what that's what fans are for, Like, you can't leave your team like three years no wins. I mean, miserable fans, bro because of LSU. You know about that life. I don't even come at me, Garcia,

that's the most ignorant thing you've ever said. Wow, we haven't missed a bowl game since like nineteen ninety nine. I'll admit it. I don't know anything about college football, but I do know that what is it? SMU loses games all the time they do, and LSU loses game a lot of the time. I'm about to freak out. That's not even close to being the same thing. I'm just enjoying. I'm back and forth. But anyway, it's the Browns are celebrating today after did you watch the game

day whole thing? Yeah, the whole thing, And you said you were watched most of it. I had a little time, I couldn't watch it, but I watched most of it. So based on what you've seen in the past and now this game changer with this new quarterback, what are the expectations now that we need to talk a lot about the Browns right now, but it changes. I was actually kind of shocked that Baker played as well as

he did when he got in there. I mean, Dave, you've been saying, and I give you all credit, you've been saying forever. No. You said when they made the draft pick, you were like, he's gonna be good for them, And I remember us having that conversation. I was like, I'm not buying it. I have to see it. I

wasn't expecting to be that good. I love Baker, but anybody that says they expected him to go in in the middle of a game, I don't care if it is the New York Jets, like seventeen to twenty three for two hundred and there were a couple throws there that were like wow, leading them down, letting them back from fourteen nothing to win. I mean even I wouldn't have predicted he would be that good. And yeah, like he I mean he was slinging the rock like it was. Yeah,

it was impressive. It definitely was impressive. And I think we're impressive. Those those over there on Brown's break today, they got a lot to talk about. They're pretty excited right now, would expect which it's only one game. Hey, for all the haters out there, like Dak has played games like that, before. So don't you know he's not He's not the second Coming because of that game. He's gonna have his struggles. They're gonna quote unquote figure him

out too. That's what the NFL does. But no, like I would be so pumped if I was a Browns fantas see DeShawn Lesson. Yeah, well, congratulations to them, Jimmy Garoppolo, Go Brownies, Go Browns. Okay, so let's jump into the inactives. Who we think we'll be inactive this week. Cole Beasley did pop up yesterday with a limited um. He was limited in practice with an ankle injury, and I mean I don't know the severity of it. He was taking part in practice today actually, like I got, I have

so many things going on on a Friday morning. Not to pat myself on the back, but I didn't even make it to practice today. But he did take part in the open portion of practice today. I know that thinks to Twitter. So he's out there. I'm not super worried about him, I don't think So, who are you worried about it? You're worried about Millie Collins. Yeah, I don't think Millie Collins is well, he hasn't practiced. Yeah, right, he hasn't practiced. Um, so got him out. Then what

about Sean Lee? Sean he was limited yesterday. Sean says he's playing. Jerry says he's playing. He moved from did not practice to limited yesterday. Okay, can I ask you a question? And you you've been You're obviously a beat writer, so you kind of are in the mix. So what's the deal? Was it a what was the deal with his hamstring? Is it? Is it a hamstring? Is it a cramp? And it keeps kind of going back? Did you hear did you hear what Sean said yesterday? Yeah?

I kind of read a little bit of it, so described as hamstring tightness on Sunday, Right, Sean came back and he was like, I really thought it was more of a cramp and bait. I mean, I don't want to put words in Sean Lee's mouth, but like, and you could even see during the game he was like arguing with the medical stat like he didn't want to

go in the tent and get looked at. So I imagine a scenario where he's like it's fine, I'm fine, I'm cramping and they're like whatever, you got hamstring issues, but you know you need Yeah, we need to look at you. And so I think that's just an agreement. You agree to disagree about what's wrong. So he's still he still believes and wholeheartedly believes there was a cramp. The quote of the week probably was, um, somebody asked him that yesterday, were like, is it a cramp in

your hand? Like what's going on? And Sean was like, it's a cramp in my hamstring, and like everybody's like, that's not how that works, Like, you don't cramp in your hamstring. As far as I'm aware, I just think that's different. I think Sean is just trying to you know, I mean and rightfully so, like alarm bells go off when you hear Sean Lee hamstring. So I think he's just trying to do his part to allay that concern.

He doesn't want people freaking out. All the way that he allays that concern is he comes out and he plays. He's playing, rights saying so if he can play, then you're like, okay, it was a cramp. Yeah. If he can't play, then you're like, and he might be off

for six weeks. We'll see it's yeah, but he's I expect him to play, all right, good, good, Well he said he would play, but then Jerry, I don't know, he still said that it was hit about him and who else was it that he Gregory and and you know, teams don't want to give that away for game planning purposes, and also which I feel like Jerry has kind of

changed his tune about that in recent years. Like I think, you know, Jerry at one point in time would just be like, yeah, he's gonna play, but now I think he kind of defers to his coaching staff like, well, I'm not going to give up the goose on Friday morning when you know, we're trying to take this thing to Sunday. So he said Randy Gregory and Xavier Woods are game time decisions, but he said he feels very

optimistic that they'll be available. Me reading between lines, I think they'll both play and both of practice this week. So you would hope, you would hope that you're progressing. Would be disappointing if they didn't. Yeah, so this will be a little bit of a different week because when you start looking at inactives, yeah, you don't have the same number umber of guys that are injured that make your your inactive list a little. It kind of creates it for you. Right So basically, I mean right now,

he's Millie Collins, Trevis Travis Frederick. I think those are both very good bets. Mike White and every week is gonna be y. So then you got four you got to come up with that are healthy scratches. I think if Sean Lee is gonna play, that means you probably don't need Chris Covington. I don't think he got into the game against the Giants the other night. I don't think so he was active, but I don't think he played, so okay, so i'd be Chris Covington. You got four,

need three more. You pick an interior offensive lineman. Maybe you know Xavier sue A Philo, he's been here for a little while. Maybe he gets in or Adam Redmond, whichever of those, one of the two, one of the two, um, one of the two tight ends. Probably again, take your pick. I hope Rico's up again to think he showed he didn't really show anything, but just he had the opportunities

were there that I hope he gets another shot. I no, go ahead, I was just gonna say, surely, and I was moving on to the next position, and then you have to sit a receiver. I don't know how you don't, but no, that's that's an interesting question though, if right now you were you were faced with that question, which of those guys you think you put down? If everything is okay with Terrence, which so I mean, it's it's

it's always so convoluted with the Cowboys. But you know reports the surface last night that he was facing a suspension, and I think you know, when you add a seventh receiver that's familiar with the scheme in the middle of the week, that is something in your mind immediately goes to I don't think anybody would be smitching that yesterday. Yeah, super surprised. But the Cowboys don't appear to agree with that. Jerry Jones said he didn't know. You know, He's like,

I don't know about the accuracy of that. It would be bad if we didn't have Terrence, but we're counting on having him, So I don't know what to make of that. Yeah, And to be honest with you, it doesn't have to be anything. No, I think it's just again because of the nature of it, and this is what we were talking about yesterday because of the nature

of how it all came about with Bryce. Then all of a sudden they add a seventh receiver when they didn't think they need it one at first, and otherwise nothing has changed other than two games of play, where okay, is it because you think you need more help at wide receiver, or is because something's going to happen with Terrence because you know at some point the league's gonna have a ruling one way or the other one Terrence. In a way, it's a lot like the Zeke situation

last year. It's just nowhere near as high profile, one because it's nowhere near as serious of a situation, and two because Terrence is nowhere near is important to your team. So but I'm you know, let's say that happens, and I have no idea, but it might not happen this week. It could happen next week, and that could just be them trying to get ahead of it. I don't know.

That's what makes the most sense. Terrence has done so little this season that you could sit him, or you know, depending on how Bryce practiced this week, you could sit him, like if he looked terrible. If he looked like a guy who hasn't been practicing for a month, maybe you sit him, or maybe he looked great and he gives you something that you don't have, so you sit. I think it would have to be one of those two.

You don't think it would be a have a hard time thinking it would be, have a hard time believing it would be anybody else, Like it's it's not gonna be Tavon, It's not gonna be Gallop, It's not gonna be Coal unless Cole's hurt. Wait, right, he's practicing, so I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. Um Deonte Thompson's played more snaps than anybody, and those four seemed pretty steady. Can't imagine it would be Alan Hearns. I know Alan Hearns hasn't had like this crazy stat line,

but none of them really. But they're not gonna sit all I make him inactive. I wouldn't. I don't for a guy that just got here this week. I would think it's either Terrence or Bryce unless Cole can't go right, So that's yeah, So I'm gonna guess. I'm gonna guess. Mike White, Bryce, Adam Redmond, MALIEK. Collins, Travis Frederick, Chris Covington, who'd I forget? Oh? And Dalton Schultz. Sorry, there you go.

I can ask you this. Um, Let's assume for a second that the Cowboys had to play a week and may mean maybe not this week, but had to play a week without Cole Beasley. Do you think that they would use um ideally? Would they use um Tavon in that role as your slot guy or because Hearns can play the slot, will he be the guy that primarily would be in there? Who do you think would kind of jump into that role if Cole weren't available. I would hope it would be Tavon, just because he's got

that quickness. That's what makes Cole so valuable as a guy. You know, it's not that he's fast to say he's quick. Tavon's both, but like is Alan, Hearn's really going to create that instant separation with his quick feet, you know, within five yards of the line of scrimmage. I don't know. I doubt it. Um. I would hope it's Tavon, And Tavon has shown that he can do that again. You know, he hasn't He hasn't needed to. I guess he's only played eighteen snaps that's his season high. So but that's

what I would do. Well, he's the next man up closest to doing that kind right, He's the closest skill set to what Cole is. Yeah, so that's a fair assumption. Okay, before we're going to break and this might be a longer discussion, I wanted to touch on Chris Rashard and we talked about it a little bit yesterday. He did talk to Scott Linahan, you know, helping out game plan this whole thing. So he's an important guy this week, not only for the defense but also for the offense.

How big of an impact can we expect from him and the offense being able to give those insight information from the time that he was at Seattle. I asked Jason Garrett about that yesterday and he shockingly downplayed it. He was like, oh, always, well, there's interpersonal relationships all over the league and that's just a thing, blah blah blah. And then I asked Scott Linahan about it and he

was like, Chris has been great. He gave up every No, dude, I would sometimes I hear things that I would I would just pay so much money to be a fly on the wall. So Lenahan, Lenahan's like, yeah, he came in and we watched because Chris Richard was with Seattle for every game that Lenahan has coached against the Seahawks. So that's three games, the Classic in fourteen, the ugly loss in fifteen, and then last year's Christmas Eve game.

He's like, he came in, we watched all three games, and he went through the whole game with me and told me, like, you know how the Seahawks like to prep for us, and what they think they can do against us, and tendencies and all this other stuff. And I was like, man, the football dorc and me, I would pay an extravagant amount of money to just get to watch that. I think it would be so cool. And here's the deal. I'm not under the illusion that

this doesn't happen all across the league. Like, here's it. There are all those relationships, here's the difference. The difference is, I don't trust it. Every coach is smart enough or has a handle enough on what's happening with his old team to really be able to break it. Down as well as as at least I perceived Chris Rashard. Not only that, but like, okay, cool, you coached linebackers in Philly for a year and a half, Like big whoop. That's not the same Chris Roshard was. He wasn't the

architect of that defense. Dan Quinn was. But like Chris Rashard was in charge of that defense for like four years, and he was the coach of the Legion of Boom for three years before that, Like, he knows everything about how they want to play defense, and also he knows everything about how they schemed for this offense for years. And I know the quarterback has changed blah blah blah, but Lenahan's been calling it since since then, so he probably has a lot of information about how the Seahawks

might prefer to play them exactly. And and I trust based upon just the results of what I've seen from this defense, which I attribute so much of what we're seeing this year from this defense. I think this defense was good last year. I think this defense has a

potential to be great this year. And according to the things that I that I heard yesterday, it sounds like much of that is attributed at least from a coaching side of it, to Chris Richard, and not only is coaching, but his ability to call make call play calls during the game because they mean Lena, I mean, I'm sorry. Marinelli basically said as much yesterday though he's the one that's making these calls. The reason why they're blitzing so

much it is because he's making these calls. So he has quickly made an impact on this d defense and taking this defense to the point now to where I heard a commented earlier today say that that fearsome front, that fearsome Dallas front. When's the last time you heard that, right? It sounds pretty nice. Yeah, but I'm saying that's but that's that's what people are thinking right now around This is a national guy. That's what people are thinking right

now about this defense. Scared. The last time anybody said that about this defense was when Where and Spencer were your ends and Ratliffe was going to Pro Bowls at nose tackle. Yeah that was that was a Super Bowl for DeMarcus Ago. Yeah that was a long time ago. Yep. All right, let's take our first break when we come back. We're getting to yeah, yeah, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, I go all right. It can be hard to find the

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They have to keep going, and so do we. So if you want to give us a call, feel free to call in eight eight, eight, five, twenty two, nine seven. We'll be taking punk calls. So make it good. Better be good, better be good, better be good. Okay, predictions for this game. I wanted to ask you that, guys, do you expect this to finally be the time for Rico Gathers to make that game catching ball that will break the internet? Game catching ball however you want awarded?

I don't know, man, Just catch a ball, catch a ball that means something. I gotta I know. I know it was right there for him, and it's not his fault that Dak should have hit him. No, I gotta. I gotta see it to believe it, to be honest with you, like, even though it should have happened last week, I gotta see it. You don't think this is it? Well, we don't even know for sure if he's going to be active. So oh, you're just is this the law of attraction? You're just like Rico to the active roster.

I'm just expecting him to be I think that after them seeing how close it was, and given the fact that it was more Dak's fault not to make it happen and get that touch I think that they saw that, you know, okay, we do have the opportunity here, we can make this happen. And from what I hear, I mean they keep practicing this thing between them too, So I'm expecting them to keep him active and give him more chances for this to happen. I hope. So I'm gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna say

by the end of this year, Rico will have five touchdowns. Whoa, we have five touch based on bet on what, just based on the fact that I believe he just has too much skill and ability for them not to figure out how to use him in the red touchdown. Put money on five touchdowns, one of those happening this weekend. Anybody on this team besides Das have five touchdowns last year? Did anybody on this team besides Das have five and twenty six? Five? Yes, five five touchdowns. I'm telling you

five touchdowns. This year? We have fivedowns. Okay, I got thirteen steak so ober here, Yeah, Okay, no, not serve it. Just keep it in the back of your brain. So if this doesn't happen, what are you gonna give us? I don't know. I don't know. But what am I supposed to give you? Make something funner? He's gonna take it fun He's gonna take us all out to dinner. Like I don't do that all way to him? No, I know, but yeah, but I'm thinking like, Indy, Yeah,

that's that's my birthday? Did you say that was? Okay? We'll go out to dinner and but we won't know then if if if he actually won't, if he has, then you'll be paying for my Saint Elmo? Well yeah, is that is that? An Indie's the saying Elmo Steakhouse? A right? Good? So so wait wait wait so if he has three by then do you pay for my steak? No? No? Why not? Like this can't be a one sided bet. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it all right, all right?

So crazy predictions for this game? Do you feel that will make somewhat of a crazy play and impact this game in a positive way for the Cowboys? Uh? Somebody the Cowboys are gonna get on the interception Ledger this week. That's the protection for the Seahawks is too bad. Russell Wilson's gonna get hit too many times for him to play a completely clean game. I think he's thrown picks in both of their games so far. Yeah, he threw the pick that ended the Bears game, and he definitely

got picked in Denver as well. So uh yeah, the Cowboys are gonna get a pick. If I had to put money on it, I would say, obviously, Jeff you somebody step up and dethrone him. Then, I mean the guys led the team and picks three years in a four years in a row, right since fifteen? No, that's only three. Sorry, I can't count um either way. I would guess Jeff Heath, but maybe Bayern r Cheeto. But somebody's somebody's getting a pick and it'll be a big play.

Can the Cowboys score more points in this game than the Seahawks or I mean again, we talked to about this um maybe yesterday, I don't know, but that Seattle. I mean, yes, they've lost games, but they haven't really had issues with scoring points. And based on the still early but based on these two first games, I feel more confident with the with Seattle being able to score

than the Cowboys so far, I don't. Here's the reason why, Because I think the Cowboys defense is better than the defenses that Seattle's face so far, and so I don't. I expect both offenses to struggle. I don't. And here's the deal. When I say struggle, I think the Cowboys offense will actually play better this week than they've played the first two weeks, because I think Zeke will be better um and I think because they'll be able to get the running game going to some degree that will

help them and help their offense throughout the game. So I actually expect this to be a week where Zeke goes of one hundred yards. You look at his history. First two weeks is usually when he's not that great. Gets to the third week, that's usually when Zeke comes on. And I expect Zeke is gonna come on this week, and I think he's gonna have a good week. I still don't think the Cowboys are gonna score a ton

of points. I don't think they're gonna get into the twenty seven range, but I wouldn't be surprised her up at the twenty one range. Twenty four range maybe at the most, but I think that's gonna be enough if you look at it, because I just think that I think that both these defenses are gonna be pretty good. I mean, Dave broke it down for you to defense just say. Seattle's defense isn't bad. They're just not at Colt.

They're just not where we are accustomed to seeing them, Like they don't have the talent that they once had, but they still Any defense has got difference makers at all three levels, is gonna be a good defense, and they do. They have difference makers at all three levels. So it's gonna be tough for both teams to score.

I think I would guess it's gonna look a lot like the last two games, which twenty fifteen Seattle one thirteen to twelve and twenty seventeen Seattle one twenty one to twelve, and one of Seattle's touchdowns was a pick six, so their offense wasn't on fire by any stretch. I think it's gonna be a lot like that. Like I would be shocked if the winner of this game has twenty is about as hard at high as I'm willing

to go. But I really think the score will be more like seventeen to fifty fourteen, you know, sixteen to thirteen, something like that. I certainly could see that. I think it's going to be. I just think the defenses are better. Both the two defenses are better than the offense. Hopefully the Cowboys can get in the end zone because they have not in those last two games. Yea, all field goals,

but that problem. But that defense, those defenses they face, those two usual much better than the defense they're going to face the Sunday. Absolutely, well, let's hope you're right, Derek. Let's take a call from Tony in Denver. All right, how's it going, guys? Hey, what's up? Hey? I enjoy the show. And as fans do, we dare start to use the term doomsday defense again. And I think we've

finished number eight and defense overall last year. And should we have vander esh play more in this game against Russell Wilson then Damien Wilson, that's a that's an interesting thought. Uh yeah, Damian Wilson. I know you missed that tackle in Carolina, but I think that game, again Eli was maybe the best he's ever played. But um, I get your point. I mean Layton vander Esch, Him and Jalen Smith are your most athletic linebackers purely just from a

talent standpoint. Um, I guarantee you they're going to get him on the field. I don't I don't know what if you spy him. I'm curious about that. You mentioned Chris Rohard, like, are they gonna just blitz Russell Wilson a ton knowing that if it doesn't work, they're screwed, Because that sounds scary to me, whether he just beats the blitz with a throw or escapes from the blitz

and then you got nobody to account. Well, there are ways to to blitz in a way where you keep maintaining you're the gap in your you're laying integrity, and they're still not giving him escape routes. Right, that's the whole point. If you can do that without giving him escape routes, that's what you want to do. It's risky, but I think there are ways to do it where you can you can have both. You can blitz and

keep him from getting outside of the pocket. To answer the question more directly, I think Damien has played well enough that I would have expect he's your starting Sam still but I know that they want to get vander Esch snaps, and I bet you he will get fifteen to twenty. It's my guess. Definitely not a bad problem to how No, it's so it's really good. Still can't believe that we're talking about this, like how do you

get all these linebackers onto the field? Like I remember years where it was like, who's this guy they signed? Like last year I think it was, or maybe it was twenty sixteen, like they had to move Keith Smith back to the linebacker because they didn't have enough. They were like, hey, you still remember how to do that? Right, Well,

we have nobody left, so can you get over there. Yeah, So that's pretty cool that they're just absolutely stacked at linebacker, right and everybody and all of them are playing well. That's the thing about it too. It's not just they got bodies, like, they got guys that are playing really well and you're having to really like the fact that they're not having to put the first round pick on the field. That's all. I mean, that's just I know,

such great like people. I get it, you get drafted nineteenth. Overall, people want to see you play. People expect you to make a different But that's not the worst thing in the world. No, And most times, especially at that position too, you know, where it takes a little more time to get going and figure out the game. But most teams

aren't patient enough for that. Most teams they get their first round pick and they want the first round to pick on the field well and the fact that they've got guys who were here that are playing well enough for them to feel like they don't have to force him on the field. Your first under pick usually unless you do something you know, bold like draft of Pat Mahomes when you have Alex Smith, like, usually your first round pick is at a position where you don't have

a lot of EI one. Yeah, but you know, Joe Thomas even you know, I think people thought that was a good signing in the spring, but who's even exceeded those expectations. Jalen Smith is clearly just shooting right up like a rocket. I mean, yeah, but let's be real. That first round pick for the Cowboys last year was an insurance pick, yes, because they didn't know if Jane

would be back to being himself. They didn't know what was gonna happen with Sean and his injuries, and so that was an insurance pick and it paid off on him because now he really is insurance. I said it in August when people were killing the guy for not practicing, like you're gonna need him before the season's over, because somebody's gonna get hurt. Knock on wood, and you're gonna need him in the coming years because Shawn Lee's thirty two, right and has an injury history of a fifty five

year old. Flights al really popping off. Yeah, and exactly like going into third week cramp, it's a cramp. Layton vanderessh is fine, Like he's gonna be fine. Um, I was gonna say something, Oh, Damien Wilson, you know, Surprisingly to me, I honestly did not expect him to be playing as good he has been so far coming into this year. I don't know why. It's just he's been

because he hadn't been very good his career. I don't want to say his career has been disappointing, because if you're still on the roster as a fourth round pick in your contract year, you've been pretty good. But I always think he gets compared to Anthony Hitchins so much because from the same conference, same you know round, same position obviously, and he hasn't been anywhere near as good as hitch right, And yeah, no, I I going into you know, when they drafted Vanderash and signed Thomas, I

was like, oh, it's not a lot. Damien Wilson makes this team. So kudos to him that he's Yeah, I really thought he'd be gone by now, and he's you know, people dogged Kyle wilburto, but Damian Wilson is one of your key special teamers too. It's a contract you're for him, yes, because fifteen sixteen say yeah, yes, So this is his

opportunity to do like Hitchens and make some money. I don't think he's gonna do like Hitchens, right, but what I'm saying that that's his opportunity, right, that's his opportunity for a second contract, which will be far bigger than the one he's on right now, even if it's not huge. So yeah, let's take our final break and when we come back, we'll give our final score for this game,

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in writing. All right, let's take a call from in Las Vegas. Hey, everybody, Hey, you know, I guess to score a lot of points, you got to take chances. And I see Thako Mayfield last night, and the one thing I like about that kid is he just lets it go. He sees it and his brain tells his arm and the balls out and it's moving. And I don't see that with Dak. I see Dak he's like a little gunshot. And I don't know if that's started from Atlanta last year, but when he rose the quick slant,

that's his best throw because there's no thinking. He gets it and he fires it. But anything that's down the field, he's so afraid to make a mistake that when he finally decides, you see him throat in a dirty rushes it. So my question to you guys is would you rather have Dak be like this, protect the ball but you're one holding penalty away from maybe punting because this team has a hard time overcoming first and twenty, or would you like to see him take more chances let the

ball go. But he may throw some more interceptions, But you got a shot at making bigger plays. What do you guys think? Let me ask you this question. I want you to kind of walk through this yourself. What is what do the Cowboys do best? Run the ball, run the ball? Which of those passing strategies works best?

If you're a good running team. Ah, that's tough because if this if you're if you were going to tell me that this team could methodically march down the field and not get a penalty, I say, just checking it down. But the problem is, I don't think the offensive line is as good as it was and we've seen so far, especially in the first game. Is you get this team just one holding penalty, one offside penalty and they backed up first of fifteen, They're going to have a hard

time overcoming that. So if he I may personally, I think you have to stretch the field like they did against the Giant. I think he needs to take some shot. I don't mind him thrown an interception once in a while. You know, if he's going to throw me a forty yard pass down the middle of the field or something like that, I'll take it. I took it at Romo, and you know you knew Romo. How great is he

was throwing a ball? He was going to throw them in a suctions all the great quarterbacks do because they take chances. I think in this league they're begging you to take chances with the rules and everything, and I just think you're asking the office and you're asking a defense to be so precise. Just trying to work these twelve play drives. I don't think he could win consistently. Were you okay with the idea that? Were you okay with this last game? From the standpoint the frequency of

the downfill throws? They had three that were, to my opinion, kind of what I call downfield throws last week. They hit on one of them, So they connect on one on one of three, and when you're going down feel like that that's probably going to be the frequency. Maybe a little higher percentage, but that's probably gonna be the frequency with which you catch those. Were you okay with that frequency of doing it three, three or four times a game? Yes? I think you got to back them off.

You know, there's there's no mystery. Every defense is saying, we got to stop Zeke I mean the safety Land of College came right out and said it's there's no mystery, and that back them off. And I think in the long run, you may not hit it. We didn't hit it like you said, we hit one. But if they back up a few steps, maybe that opens up a little more room to zeke. You know. I just think in this league, if you're gonna think and dunk, I don't think it can work. Okay, I said, it's just

too much, too much overcoming, there's a penalty. I appreciate the call, and I actually I think kind of in listening to him talk about that and talk through it, I think the answer is really in what he was saying, which is as you got to do a little bit of both. You're not gonna go out and bombs away every play. You get three or four of those a game, and then the rest of the game you run the ball,

drop it off down low. I mean, there's there are different ways you want to attack a defense, and just going deep the whole game isn't the right answer because you're not gonna get enough percentage. You will be punting a lot, right because that's only a fifty fifty prospect in most instances, right, So you really want to have a balance of it. And I think, honestly, three or four times a game, to me, it's plenty to go downfield it especially if you connect on one of them

and it's a touchdown. That's going to force a defense to really think twice about whether they're willing to give that one play out of out of the three, and that may keep them back a little bit or at least make them hesitate a little bit on a run and give Zeke a little bit more of a headstart before he gets to that second level. Yeah, I think I'm officially ready to say, like we make too much

of a deal out of the down field passing. And when I said, I mean like thirty fourty yards down field, like you're gonna take a few of those a game.

Maybe like Ben Roethlisberger hits them with more frequency and a lot of people, but like he's going to the Hall of Fame and he's got a receivers probably the Hall to back a defense off when you have a run game like this, I really think it's as easy as like consistently hitting receivers for first downs like eight, ten, twelve, fifteen yards down field, like I you know, I'm not. I don't have issue with the call because I honestly

think Rob made a few really good points. But we did see this work in twenty sixteen, like it worked really well, like they put those drives together, and he's absolutely right. The offensive line was better, the running game was better, Dak was better to this point, and I think the Cowboys are in the process of trying to figure out how they get back to that. I don't know if they can do it with this personnel. I don't know if the receivers are good enough to scare anybody.

I don't know if Dak can make those plays. I don't know if the offensive line without Frederick and from what we've seen from them so far, can get to that level. But that's what they're going to try to do because that's the way they've built this team, And honestly, with the way this team is built right now, I would rather just not turn the ball over and it probably won't be exciting, sorry about it, but that is

the way they've built this team. You've got a good enough defense that it can keep you in and maybe even win some games if your quarterback doesn't turn the ball over. That's a pretty good formula for success. It won't be sexy. I'm sorry, but that's probably the best strategy for this team to win games. I'll take a game like last week for the rest of the season every single week if they're winning. Honestly, yea, And the

last week wasn't a beautiful thing to watch. They had a couple of moments that were really beautiful to watch, but by and large, that was one of those games and it was kind of ugly and kind of like you felt like they were I mean, you knew they were winning, but you felt like it was kind of tenuous, and you really didn't know whether they were gonna be able to maintain it, especially once you got into the second and third quarter and then an offense really wasn't

scoring at that point. But the fact of the matter is the way they played that game. They came out aggressive, they got to lead, the defense held, and then they got to the fourth quarter and they said, let's put this game away, and they put the game away. If you had that formula every week and you have the personnel to do it, that's a winning formula. We're seeing

that formula go to the Super Bowl. If that's a winning formula, and if you're a college football fan Alabama, I mean exactly, It's hard to play that way in the NFL because Alabama has such a ridiculous talent advantage. But that's the formula and it can work. Yep, It's gonna be tough because but it can work. And like I said, that's that's the way this team is built

right now and when you will run it. The good thing about that is there will only be one formula in my opinion, that would that would harm you if you're doing that, and you do if you do that well, and that is the super quarterback. If you're playing Aaron Rodgers, if you're playing Drew Brees, if you're playing Tom Brady.

But they're only a handful of those, right those are gonna be the only teams that are really gonna if you can do that well, if you can play really really great defense, you can run the ball really well and you don't turn over the ball, only those great quarterbacks will really have a great shot at beating you. And I'll take my chances with that. That's a pretty good that's a pretty good setup to say, Hey, if

that's the only people I can beat us. If those four or five can beat us and everybody else, we fact we can beat That's what's a that's what're taking. That's a shot we're taking, no doubt about it. And I really don't know how long it would take for Dad to get to that level as far as being able to make those long distance throws, especially giving the amount of opportunities that he gets in the game. I mean, you can't really see great progress when you don't get

many chances. But didn't need progress from what he did. I think what he did last week was no, it is fine, It is fine, and moving it slowly like that, as long as you get it moving and get to the no. I'm saying what he did last week as far as the deep now, yes, it was fine because one of me connected four touchdown. The other two didn't connect, and that's going to be the percentage you do when you're going that far downfield. But the thing is, Okay,

he's not consistent enough. And like you said, okay, yes, that's fine when you're making those few ones here and there. But at the same time, I think it can affect his confidence and start giving him that more of that hesitation that we've been seeing of like thinking, Okay, should I make this this throw or not. I think it affects him in his confidence and the way and how quickly he executes. I don't know. I think quarterbacks know that. They call it a fifty fifty ball for a reason.

I think quarterbacks, no, you're not going to connect that a lot, Like that's not if that's your bread and butter, unless you're the Greatest Show on Turf where they were doing that every week multiple times in the game. Then that's just not the way the offense runs, I mean, and that certainly is not the way the offense runs here.

That's not what they're even asking him to do. So I don't know that affects his confidence as much as it is just we're gonna take a shot here, and there is still value in the shot, Like even if you don't connect, the fact that you got somebody down feel and the fact that Dak threw the ball forces a defense to think they're gonna hesitate for justice. Staff second, thinking are they going deep here. We gotta make sure we'recovering that. We gotta make sure we got people in position.

So that's all you have to worry about it, and for me, that's that's the value of it. I don't think that everything else is working. That's those the defense is working. As long as able to run the ball and as long as you turn it over. I think those are the three critical factors. And if you can do those things, I think the deep ball becomes just kind of that added thing just to force them to

respect it. You know, I absolutely agree. Just when those other elements are working, then you got a great game going. But if one of those goes down, then everything else goes down. And we've seen that happen multiple times. So I don't know. I think Dad can be fine, but we'll see, we'll see how it's just a we'll see. He's yeah, absolutely, we haven't. I mean, I can't sit here and tell you that Dak is going to develop

into an all pro quarterback. But this is this is the way this team is going to have to win right now, and that's that's what's important today on Friday, and not mess those Rico passes in the end zone he's getting down. We're picking this game or what are we okay, final score for this game? Who wins? And what is the final score? All right, Um we go first, Yeah, all right. I think Cowboys win. I think they win twenty to sixteen in a close one. In another game,

it's just like the Giants game. That's I think that's what we're gonna have to get used to seeing. I do think they put up a couple more points, and I think the offense looks a little more efficient throughout the game, because I think the running game is going to be much better this week than it has been the first two weeks, so it'll look a little better, but the result will still be pretty much the same. It's gonna be right there around twenty points. In my opinion,

Cowboys will win. I said before a week one that I was going to choose to believe a lot of things about this team. The defense has it looks good. The offense not so much. Not enough time has passed from week one. There's not a large enough sample size of success for me to have a ton of faith in this offense. Seattle's offense has problems of their own. At the end of the day, they have an all Pro quarterback. It hasn't been pretty for him, but he's

still there. A lot of those guys are gone, but this is still a franchise with a great home field advantage that knows how to win games and is used to winning games. There's a lot of pride up there. Um. I don't think it's gonna be pretty at all for anybody, really, but I just think an Owen two Seattle team finds a way to keep it season alive. I'm thinking, like, I thought that was a must win when you were onto one to get it wasn't. It was a must win for Dallas, and this is a must win for

Seattle and three and oh and two? Right, but oh, I meant not that are we doing this right now? I'm just getting clarity. I'm just getting clarity. They like they needed to win that game and they didn't, But now it's must If it's only twenty twenty percent of teams making it Owen two, it's even fewer at three out about it. Um, I think Seattle wins fourteen to thirteen, fourteen thirteen. All right, an game. It won't be fun. It will not be fun, but it'll be defensive, be

a fun trip home, it'll be. It'll be. Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a slugfest. I think it'll it'll find a way to be entertaining. But I think Seattle gets it done. All right, Um, I will I'm gonna pick Seattle as well. I will say under twenty that's the final score. I don't know what it would be, but I would just say it's gonna be a one point difference for this game. So wa difference? Yeah, one point doesn't matter, doesn't Now it's gonna be thirty eight

thirty five. That would be fun. Yeah, for real, Dax is gonna be splinging it around. Hey, I don't mind that I bring it. Bring I'd be happy to eat some crow. That's what I want to do, all right. For Derek Eagleton, David Hillman, remember your seat. This has been the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.