Cowboys Break: Rivalry Week?

Episode number twenty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of the Break Clock from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Nick, you gotta give me a twenty eight, but it better be the one I'm thinking about, or I'm kicking you off the show. Yeah, there's only one twenty eight right, good? Yeah, because he's not hanging on the wall. Hell ever, I mean, Arkansas has got a big game this week. I'm gonna say, you're talking to the wrong guy. I gotta go with a little Felix Jones. Well,

also a twenty eight. But Darren Woodson's my guy, right, That's I love Darren Woodson. He can't be anybody. But every anytime we do twenty eight, it's got to be Darren. It's Darren Woodson. I'm not gonna say Tyson Thompson. Please don't Darryl Worley gets no love. Please don't, okay, please? You know, I was thinking we maybe I ought to extend this out and we ought to do two, like we get Nick to give us one and then Dave give us one that's more recent, like because give us

something within the last decade. Yeah, that's all you got, right? That might be a good way to do it. I don't know. Um, you have Nick one. He has to pick the years he's actually on the team. How about that. That's a good one. All right? Go oh y, let me give you one right now, I got you one. All right, let's go with How about Curtis Stewart. Oh man, this is twenty eight. Oh, I'm sorry, nineteen sixty four to sixty six. I don't know. Nineteen eighty nineties are

running back for Oh that's a skit. Eighty nine eighty nine it says thoughts never heard of him. Start. I thought you were gonna say somebody like Norm Granger. I think he played in the eighties sometimes twenty eight I think so it would be it would be terrible radio. But Nick does have a photographic memory of Cowboyer running back nineteen eighty four. All right, but back but back then. But I'll tell you you feel like, what about week one?

I'm like week one, Yeah, Nick can't remember the score of the Bucks game, but he'll be like, yeah, ninety four Philly at the Vet. Yeah, seventeen sixteen or whatever, half times wild, Yeah, ninety four, speaking of just to go full circle, ninety four at the Vet. That's Darren Woodson had a ninety five yard interception return. I believe

they won thirty thirty one nineteen. What was the what was the time in the game when Darren had late because it was twenty four nineteen, I believe, and he picks off a pass and takes it like ninety four yards for a touchdown and they went I must say thirty one nineteen nineteen. Yes, and Woody with the huge player only touchdown, but that was a big one. That's I mean, that's wild. But he does he does not

remember the score of like any game from last season. Right, asking about Week one, twenty twenty one, it's like, yew was the Bucks thirty one twenty nine? And I do though, Hey, when we were writing about the last week's game with Steele and how went full circle? I did. I did remember that they won twenty to seventeen, you know, last week and lost twenty to seventeen in that game against the Rams. So this is a huge full circle game for him. Terrence Steele. Yeah, so all right, we got

a lot of things we're gonna talk about today. We're gonna talk about with the storylines for this game. We do that every Friday. I got some story last you guys on the offense and defensive side of the ball. But before we get to that, let's catch up on some injury updates. We know that there are a few guys that are definitely going to be out this game. They're too in particulate. I want to get your feedback on how you think the Cowboys will handle it. Let's

start with Carlos Watkins defensive tackle. What do the Cowboys do at defensive tackle from your opinion this week? Good question. I mean, it's that's been a that's been a low key situation since training camp with what happened to Neville. You still have Osa, you still have Brent Urban, still have Quentin Bohanna. I bet they'll call up Justin Hamilton from the practice squad between now on Monday, and that'll probably be your four primary. I think the guy that could.

I hate saying this because he's barely practiced, but at some point Chauncey Golston's got a factor into this defensive end. He's a guy that kind of can slide down into tackle they which they might need him at end because Doren's armstrong. God yeah somewhere, yeah, you know, somehow, some way I won't be It's funny. Could like last week and people have asked me, I get it. People are curious and they're like, well, he practiced, where is he? It's like that was his first pro practice in pads.

It was the first time he's put on pads since he was at Iowa. So I'm sitting here like, well, they're not going to throw him into a pro game after two padded practices or sorry, one padded practice, three practices overall, like that's insane. But now second week, I'm like, might need you, buddy, sorry, Like that grace period was one week helped me with with Gholston. I remember whatever they listed him at the highlights that we showed were there.

The was the opposite position. So we don't have the rights to college film without paying out the ass for it. So sorry, that was two crafts. Yeah, so he was an end. He was an end to Iowa, but we can get Senior Bowl tape. And he got to the Senior Bowl and was kind of doing mental math. He was like a lot of ends here, not very many tackles, and he went to the Senior Bowl coaching staff and was like, kick me inside if that's where I can get on the field. So he played a lot of

tackle with the Evil. They had him playing some tackle at OTA's a lot of people I think, um. I think Mike McCarthy said yesterday he was like, Chauncey was the young lineman that I was the most excited about heading into camp, and then we just didn't get to see him. And Osa has kind of taken his place as the ex so there's reason to be excited about that.

He just hasn't had a chance to do much. Didn't he also say, And I might be mistaking this, but I thought I heard that McCarthy said that he expects him to actually be playing this week, right. I don't remember him saying that he might have I'm not saying he didn't. I don't remember it off the top of my head, but that's kind of my point is he was healthy. He was fully healthy last week and they

were like, not yet. But especially with the injuries that they're facing, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him up this week and in either one of those spots defensive end or defensive tackle. Some utility man get out there. Yeah, all right, Dorian's armstrong, he's the other guy. He's out at defensive end. Obviously, Chauncey Golston may fit factor in there. But what else do you think the

Cowboys will do at defensive end? They do get Randy Gregory back this week, is there anything else that you think they'll need to do in order to adjust for the numbers that they need to defer? Anybody else that could rush the passer, somebody that doesn't play the defensive end but could rush the passer. I feel like we've talked about it. Maybe I think you'll you will see, you will see mica A gale mp. I'm just curious

about the percentages. Is it going to be completely pass rusher again or is he going to do a little bit of both. Yesterday at practice, they you know, they do their individual warm ups, first ten minutes, just getting loose. He was with the linebackers, and then he made a b line for the pass rushers, and he was there for the rest of the time. We were outside. Now we don't see them run plays, we don't see any of the game plan stuff, so I don't know what

that means. But he's gonna he's gonna have a role on the edge again this week, I guess. Isn't this awesome? But like just having him like that is like that reminds me of like a high school player, like when you're you're at a high school guy and like, oh, this guy right here, he's going to Oklahoma or whatever, you know, like he's a stud. Like he does this, he does that, he does all that, Like you don't

see that in the NFL. And I get it's only two games, but it's just like this is fun, Like it's fun to and it's surprising that I know it's only been a couple of games, but you do kind of go back and look at the draft and go who was taking ahead of him, because it just seems like this is such a dynamic player. That you why wouldn't Why wasn't he taken earlier? And I guess there were some off the field issues there were, ye, and that's probably that might take him off a few boards.

And it was just an incredibly offensive heavy draft as well. I mean, the first defensive player didn't go off the board until eight. You know, offensive tackles, a boatload of good wide receivers, and the teams at the top of the board needed those things. I think that's a big part of it as well. I think, yeah, objectively, just in a general draft class, I think he would have

gone much higher than he did. And we've talked about we talked this the other day, Nick, I couldn't think of another defensive player in the NFL who was more versatilet probably since Troy Palamala. He was a guy that you would see all over the field. You'd see him up rushing, you'd see him up in the box playing to run, you see him back deep covering against the

pass like he did a little bit of everything. And it's hard to find those kind of guys when you think about it, even across the league that can do so many different things like what we've seen in this just in the early career of Michael Parson. I just want to say, though, and I'm not trying to rain on anybody's parade. I'm as excited about Mica as anybody. I wrote a whole column about all of the things that I think he can do to help you in

this game yesterday. But I think like people are so eager to win, you know what I mean, like people and they want to declare Mica, Like, look at all these dummies passing on Mica and it's like it's still week three of the rookie year. Patrick Surtan and j C. Horne. It's a bummer. J C. Horne got hurt last night, but they were off to awesome starts. They both already have interceptions. We don't have to declare winners and losers

in September, and it could be a lot of winners took. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean that's hopefully everybody wins. Like I don't you know, I don't care, Pat, you know, Sir Tannon Horn are not gonna drastically affect the Cowboys fortunes. They're not in the division or anything. Like. I hope every I hope everybody gets to have a great player yea, all right. UM, one thing I also want to talk to you guys

real quick about before we get to the storylines. There was a lot of talk yesterday about the about the coach in in Philly wearing a T shirt during his press conference that said beat Dallas, and it maybe start thinking about, obviously, in in Philly this week, like it is called Dallas week. Every time they play the Cowboys, it's called Dallas Week. I don't think. I don't live in Philly, but I don't think they have a giant sweet Cory Washington football team Weekum. Their their sights are

firmly placed on Dallas. If you ask the Philly fan, I'm guessing they all will say in consensus, Dallas is the primary rival. It made me start to think, does Allas really have a primary rival? I know that obviously the divisions the division, but I also get the impression that a lot of those teams fan bases look at Dallas as more of a rival than Dallas looks at them as a rival. So I put out a little

pole on Twitter. It was interesting what came back. I asked fans, who do they think the Cowboys primary rival is? Sixty seven percent of them said Philadelphia, which doesn't necessarily shock me with followed by the Washington football team at

twenty three, Giants at ten percent. And I did find another interesting thing, which was it really kind of seemed to divide along your age, like older fans are like, oh, there's no doubt it's the Washington football team, much younger fans who have lived and been fans in this last twenty years fifteen years. For them, it was all about Philadelphia. So it made me, you know again, I thought that was very interesting. I'd love to know what you guys think.

Who do you think is Dallas's primary rival or do they have a primary in this division? I think that's a really fun thing about how huge and all encompassing this fan base is is It's gonna be a different answer for everybody, in my opinion, their primary rival, just in general, is whoever is the biggest obstacle in the way of winning the division and getting else? When I got here, I was arguing about this on Twitter with

people yesterday. When I got here, everything was centered around the fact that the Cowboys couldn't beat the Giants at at and T. They could not get over the hump against Eli Giants knocked him out of the playoffs. The year they won their first Super Bowl, everybody was just fixated on not being able to beat the Giants. They've been beating the Giants asses for a decade now, and so nobody cares. Thank you, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm not sorry. Whatever.

Wait Clarence hill on yesterday and it was way worse than that. Oh good, Okay, shouts out Clarence. But nobody thinks. Nobody thinks about the Giants anymore, and it's mainly about the Eagles. The Eagles have won a Super Bowl recently, they've had better teams recently. Washington is I know you're an older and if Washington's your biggest rival, because they haven't been relevant basically in my lifetime, not other than a weird year or two here and there, like the

Robert Griffin year or last year or last year. But they weren't good. Yeah for them, that's relevance. Yeah, they want a division that's relevant, so I think it changes. And then the other fun thing is there's people here listening in Dallas or Texas. We got a boatload of people in the DMV South Jersey, North Jersey. That's gonna matter if you're catching hell from Washington fans every day.

That's who you're gonna hate the most. If you're surrounded by Eagles fans, you need them to win those two games more than anything. And I'll take it outside the division. Even we got fans in Seattle who are surrounded by Seahawk fans and that's who they hate just because they're like, I just need you to give me something that I can hold against these Seahawks fans, so they leave me alone. Like it's a fun thing about a fan base this big. So I don't think there's one answer, but right now,

I think it's the Eagles. Well, and there's three or four other teams you throw in there. If you if you grew up and follow the Cowboys in the nineties, there was one team, one team you had to beat, and there was San Francisco. If you were in the seventies, there was one team you had to beat. If you live in San Antonio right now or south of the border, I guarantee you the Cowboys and Raiders. That's a that's a really big rivalry there for a lot of our

Hispanic fans. You live close to Houston, because you know there's hatred for Dallas there, you know, from the Texans and all that. So there are you think there might be more to Cowboys fans in Houston than Texans fans. Maybe, but you would know that creates state rivalry. Yeah, I mean, and and also you think about Washington. You know, Washington, there are so many Cowboy fans, and we know we can look at our state map to see who's who's watching our our stuff and who's clicking on our website.

It's always the bigger states at California, in Texas and Florida, New York, and then Virginia always slides in there, and a lot of it has to do with that. So I think I think historically it's Washington, you know, a lot of big games. But I think Dave's right, it's kind of like who who it is right now? I do nobody hates the Cowboys more than Philly, which that

brings it up a little bit more. And that's that's part of it too, is Philly does have this fixation on Dallas and and you kind of return the favorite. But it's the you know, think about them from the seventies and eighties and stuff like that. Remember the TV show Philadelphia. No, there was a show called Dallas. I mean, that was the show. It was like, yeah, I Dodelphia. But but it's it's it's the perception too. That's why they'd probably view Dallas way more than the other teams

in the division because they're all Northeast. They all feel like, you know, they work hard, they grind their steel mill, all that stuff, you know, lunch pale type guys. And then Dallas it's glitz and glamour and ball this blah blah blah, which both of them is too stereotypical. But I mean, I just think that's kind of the view. It's like Dallas, you know, absolutely, and that's you know, when Ship Kelly was there, We're from Philly and we fight Rocky this and that, and Dallas's see is this

yeah right, He's yeah exactly. But you know I think Dave, yeah, I think you hit it on the head. For me, like fandom, it's the great thing and it's the heartbreaking thing about being a fan. The greatest rivalries are for everybody. It's personal because it's about who you got to deal with.

The reason why I hate OHEU so much is because I got so many friends who went to OU, which means that every year, that Saturday, that's gonna dictate our conversations for the next year until that next game, because anytime college football comes up, I gotta deal with whatever

happens in that Texas OLI game. And it can be great if we win, it can be heartbreaking and just like you're depressed for a week having to deal with them, knowing you got to deal with them for the next year coming off a loss, and if you get stomped, oh my god, Like nobody wants to have to deal with that. That's fandom. I was so spoiled. And there's no other team than LSU in South Louisiana. That's it. You can go. You don't have to worry about what bar you go do to watch the game. It's the

only thing on. It's the only thing anybody cares about. Then I move here and I got Arkansas fans and Longhorn fans, and I can't get the bar to turn my game on because there's a Texas A and M watch. But I'm like, oh my god, these people are the worst. But it but it makes it fun. It makes it fun that you get to have that give and take but that's what the rivalry is built on. It's whatever your personal thing is. Nicky and I were talking about

this like it's whoever is that. There's always for every team that's that target that the coach knows, because the van base knows if you win that game, that's gonna get you a lot of grace. You can lose a lot of other games. Don't lose that game, and don't consistently lose that game because that'll get you fired. Yeah, all right, appreciate We're gonna go ahead and take our first break when we come back. We're not gonna be out. We got we gotta have our first break when we

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at the Star. Let's talk some storylines. There are lots of storylines going into this game, as there are every week in the NFL. Let's start with the offensive side of the ball. Philadelphia right now is ranked eighteenth in rushing defense. They're allowing one hundred and twenty yards per game. Dallas's defense, I'm sorry. Dallas's running game ran for one hundred and ninety eight yards last week against the Chargers Los Angeles Chargers. Is this another game where Dallas relies

on the running game? I think yes, I think that's where it starts. We're seeing that where these you know, but the running game is a dynamic running game. That's that's what we saw in that last game. And as and I love what Dave said two weeks ago the running game was it was really no different before with with the you know, with Tampa Bay. I mean, like that throws these passes that some of them, you know, is it a run, is it a pass? Is it behind the line of scrammons? Either way, it's it's just

to the outside. It's a safe play, but it helps them get yards. So it's a it's an aggressive um kind of open ended running attack. I'm just curious to see. You know, we're so early in the season, the sample size is still we haven't played enough games to have a true idea of what these guys can do. Um, So you know the Eagles gave up one hundred and eighty nine to Jimmy Garoppolo, Matt Ryan only threw for one sixty four. Is that because they have this elite secondary?

I kind of doubt it. Maybe maybe you just prefer the matchups. We know Kyle Shanahan loves to run the pall. I don't know if anybody in the league's better as it run the ball. Yeah, Um, so that plays into it. So I don't go into this thinking like, yeah, that they can just gash them on the ground. They should

be able to get yards. I don't know if they need to run for two hundred and personally, just with my own experience watching the Cowboys play the Eagles, I assume there will be plays there to be made in the passing game. So yeah, I don't have a firm clue of what they are and what they're going to do yet, But I'm not going away from the passing

game if it's me. And the reason why I was getting into this question is because I think in Week one and Week two, going into the game, you had a pretty clear understanding of I think we did of what those defenses like to do and what they try to do. And I think with Tampa, you know, stopping the run is priority one for them. You're going to run into a brick wall. Why do it when you could have when there was yards to be gained in

the passing game. We talked about it yesterday. The Chargers are team that will play back a lot, and so they give you that opportunity to run, So why not run this game? I don't really know what that's gonna look like. It feels like it could be a little bit of both. But you look at the statistics and right now it says that running stopping the run is not something that has been a priority for them or that they've been really good at here in these first

two games. Let's we want to the second topic. There's growing talk of Zeke and and Pollard and kind of how they're divvying up their roles and responsibilities. Although Pollock has more yards on fewer carries, should Dallas increase his workload at the expense of Zeke? I mean, I think you just keep you just keep playing it and see how it goes. Um. I think it's fine right now, just as it is, and I think the game will

dictate if it's a little bit more. It's probably game plan wise, it's probably like sixty forty Zeke right now the game plan going in, which is fine, and then as it goes he keeps popping some of these big runs you and you see, hey, this is working around the edge and all that. But you know, I don't like looking at average. I don't think that's fair to

either one of them. Average yards per carry, yeah, I don't that because because when Zeke, you know, if it's third and one and they give the ball to Zeke, he gets a couple of yards. I mean, that's that's what he's supposed to do. It doesn't help his average, but it does. It's what he's supposed to do, and that moves the sticks and all that. So there are

two different players. I like it. If it I like a sixty forty, If it goes down to fifty fifty, goes sixty forty the other way, that means Pollard's doing his job and they're and they're gashing them. So I think it's fine. And the thing is the only people that are having an issue is on the outside. I think Zeke and Pollard are totally fine with it. I believe. Yeah, I don't. I don't see why this is an issue. I thought they both played really well and we're actually

seeing what we've wanted from Tony Pollard. I don't know anybody that's been calling for him to be like the lead back in the offense. They split the snap seventy thirty. I'm looking at the statue right now. Thirteen carries, three receptions, throw in three kickoffs, so that's nineteen touches. He was averaging seven or eight. That's not okay, that's not enough. Twenty touches a game across all of it. That's tastic. Seventy snaps snap split. If you want to bump it

up to sixty forty, I'm okay with that. If for some reason you think you see something from Zeke where he needs to be on the field more. Tampa Bay is a great example where they're going to send the house at you, and you want the better pass protector he is, by the way, Yeah, that's not lip service and it's not deferring to the more expensive player. He's so much better than Tony at that's one of the better ones I've seen at the position he's so if it's something like that where he needs to be on

the field, let what you're seeing dictate that. The fact that they're willing to have Tony in as many as thirty one percent of the time like that can only be seen as a good thing, because what we were worried about was them not using him enough. I don't think we can say that right now. Is anybody just

like Pollard needed it more last week? I mean, maybe that person exists, But I will say this, in a lot of the national coverage I've seen this week, there are people out there that are saying they need to have the Pollard out there more frequently and defer less to Zeke because they feel like he gives them more juice. That But that's idiotic that it is because of what

we're just talking about. It doesn't work that way. This isn't high school where the guy yell you know you, You grab the you know wide receiver by the face, bask, give him the play, run it in and run it. It doesn't work like that. They have all these plays they can do. They can switch from here to here, and when he has to switch from a run to a pass, then Dak wants to have Zeke right here.

It goes knowing this linebackers coming in. That's why he's got value on the field more than just the juice. And let's be honest, Pollard, you know, there was a there was a reason why. One of the reasons why that whole thirty three seconds messed up is because Pollard didn't have the he was supposed to come off the field. And I'm not saying it happens all the time, but we've seen some lapses in his game like that as well.

That's fine, It's gonna work out perfectly. And I think nobody has a problem but the guys on the outside or whatever, and maybe fantasy owners of Zeke because you know, because Pollard is cutting into that and I'm not about but remember when he was drafted, what's the one player everyone kept comparing him too or Stephen Jones compared him to com Comar. Well, Camarrow again made it to the

Pro Bowler, has made it a few Pro Bowls. One year he made it to the Pro Bowl with mark Ingram and I believe Drew Brees was also in the Pro Bowl. So it can be done. You can have success doing in different ways. There nineteen touches on Sunday thirty percent of the snaps, and again I'd have to go back to really see the substitution patterns, but I know for a fact that it wasn't the old, boring

third series of the game. Pollard is in like they're they're bringing them on and taking them off because it's modern sometime they have him out there. Yeah, yeah, So I just I cannot think of a reason why anybody should be upset about the way that this has played. So when they handed that ball off the off the edge for the touchdown, you know, just you You're thinking it's gonna pound it in and all of a sudden around the corner. I mean, I looked over in the

press box at Dave. I thought Dave would give me a little bit more excitement than that, because that's a play, that's a type of play you've been talking about for years. You were just kind of like, we're you and I are. We're we're just different in the way that we digest the game. Like I'm all, I'm in my own head most of the cerebral That's not what I'm saying. I just I'm in my own head and I'm thinking about things, and I'm like, okay, what's what's going on the sideline?

And Nick just Nick needs a dialogue. Nick wants to talk it out and be like, what's Oh, I know that's I don't know what to talk about. Every game, the whole game, I don't know if it was I don't know if it was Tampa or this pass game. But Nick was like, oh, you're not used to sitting so close to me, like you're gonna be able to hear me. And I was like, I've been hearing you for eight years, it doesn't matter. How about every game? All right? Last year? What I hate? I sat in

these damn sweets by myself. Yea, yeah, that was probably what's this? Oh gosh? And then the lady would come in and bring like all these sandwiches for one person, even though it was like it's a sweet twenty sandwiches and I'm so I was just like, hey, they're gonna flip flicker, you know whatever I'm being. By the third quarter of every game, I would get a text from Nick like what y'all doing? How's it going back here?

Everyone having a good time when y'all eat? Like this sucks like me to bring you a sandwich, which I do not. I do not find you annoying, but I do think probably I'm I'm self conscious about being annoying because we work with people who're just like, oh my god, please stop talking. So I and I'm a lowed person. I know that about myself. I'm self aware. So I'm just kind of like, let me just be over here and be quiet and not have somebody hate me for

narrating a game. That Derek will do when I get really annoying in the game, and this is pre COVID, when we sit really close to each other, he'd be like, you get on that ice there, I'll chomp some ice now, like during games, you will go to good you get on that Yeah, all right, we'll gotta take our final break and we come back. We got to talk about the defense. There a few storylines we want to hit there. We'll do that win cover back. This is Dallas Cowboys

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Caliber dot com. All right, let's go. We got seven minutes, six minutes. I don't know what our producers gonna tell me, but we got a few minutes to get through the defensive storylines and to get our predictions. So we're moving here, all right. Okay, So first thing, Dallas has played the twenty third and thirty first rushing teams in the league.

More about Dallas's ability to stop the run or the opponent's inability to run, or even their desire to want to throw instead of run when you evaluate this defense, I mean this defense, I am just not ready to think the Cowboys are some brick wall after what we watched last year. I mean, they added Parsons, he didn't even play linebacker. Last week, they got a rookie starting at one of the tackle spots. I just think I think teams know that or think that they can get

their yardage through the air. I mean, we talk about we talk about Anthony Brown all the time. You know, where's Waldo? What do you? How do you want to attack these guys? And I think until maybe that'll start changing. But they're getting takeaways, they're getting picks. People don't maybe don't want to throw at Trayvon Digs too. Much longer that type of thing. But I just think it's more about them thinking, yeah, we can get chunks on these guys,

and the Chargers did. Cowboys won the game, held them out of the end zone, but Herbert hit some disgusting gains in the passing game. So not a lot of teams that just want to line up and run the ball at you. And Tampa's not one of them, and neither of the Chargers. And you know, I don't think the Eagles are that way too. I mean the Eagles rushing yards, a lot of it's gonna come from hurt, so it's not traditional running. I don't know if you're gonna even see it till you get to I thought

you'd see it next week. Yeah that might is he out in McCaffrey, it's hard to maybe he will. Cowboys haven't had a lot of join injury. Sounds like it's not good. They don't they don't know the severity, but uh, they made it sound like it'll be a multi wackloin. I'm sorry, Ham's tramps string. I'm sure JC Horn is out. Yeah it's broken foot. Yeah, so that you know that that's a storyline right there, and obviously we're not trying to jump ahead. But you know that's that's a break

for the Cowboys to not play them. But but they'll they'll be ready, they'll they're prepared that they're gonna be three and oh so I know from experience, Hubble Hubbard is not a joy. He's a pretty decent running back home the States guy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'll be ready to go. But I mean not until maybe they faced Minnesota. You're gonna really you know, tested running team. So we'll we'll see. But I mean, this week without Carlos Watkins in there, and they're gonna have to figure it out

on the defensive tackle spot. But I mean, that's why keep it justin Hamilton, a four year veteran on your practice squad. Yep, these practice squad rules. This is where it benefits you right here. This you know, having a guy because you usually you have to bring up a practice squad guy. You guys making his NFL debut, He's calling his family, getting eight hundred tickets, all that stuff. This guy's played. Yeah, you like whatever, Yeah, I think one of the things and I'm moving on to the

next topic. But one of the areas where I think, or really the area I think that this offense actually gets any traction. I'm talking about Philadelphia. Is Jalen hurt and the two dimensional part of his game, the fact that he can run and he could pick up big chunk yards. What do you think is the best way for Dallas to be able to neutralize him or stop him and then in the process shut down their offense. I would spy him all the time. I wrote a whole column about it. I don't know if that's what

they're gonna do. Since I took the time to write a column about it, they'll probably do the exact opposite and have Mica rushed the passer. I'd spy with Michael Parsons like as often as I could, and maybe not every single play, but we talked about that we don't have to get into the nitty gritty of it again, but especially third down situations, longer distances where he can kill you that way, um obvious passing downs, because that's what I mean. His the scrambles are what kill you.

Like he ran for eighty two against San Francisco, sixty nine of them were on scrambles like designed runs. Niners had that lockdown, but scrambles where he can break, contain and do whatever he wants. That's where he can kill you. So it doesn't have to be Mica, but I would have a guy on him. I thought about this yesterday. Um Jay Ron Curse could maybe fill that role. If Kean O'Neil's out this week. Yeah, I would with the Cowboys and Parsons. I would you know, I would spittack him.

That's yeah, that's a I just created that word spack. I would spy attack him. Yeah, I'd spy him, but I'd also get after his ass too. And at times I'm not just gonna spy him. Wherever you go I go, you can actually rush in a less disciplined way. You also have spy. You're right, right, but but it's like you don't want him that Okay, where I goes, where he goes, well, then sometimes he's gonna snap the ball. He's gonna be right there, so I'm gonna attack him. I think I want to see Mica blitz the A

gap in this game. I don't think he's done that yet. Maybe he did against Tampa. I don't see remember pretty good. I think he did. Yeah he is. I think he did against Tampa give it. I'm pretty sure he did give it a shot. Well, you got Landon Dickerson starting for Brandon Brooke is uh yeah, Brandon Brooks. Why can't I am I saying his name? Yeah? I think that's right. Sorry, guard, you got a new guy, got a rookie, Got a rookie starting right guard. Yeah, I mean a good player.

He's a good player, but he's a rookie starting. Just throw some stuff at him, make him pick up some blitzes. He did do it against Tampa and he got picked up. But that's a fantastic line. That's why he got off that block though, and he pressured him. I thought, I remember that play supposed to get all twenty two on game pass today. That's what I'm hearing. I cross those fingers. That's truth. But that's what I'm hearing. All right, Well, you don't want to hear a VP say that he

knows more than I've heard too. I just don't know if that's true or not. We'll see, all right, So real quick, we only have about a minute and a half minute left. Give me some predictions. What's going to happen this week? Dave. We'll start with you everybody thinks I'm the chicken little who won't pick the Cowboys because I started off with back those were tough games, and that I said it at the time, That is not a reflection of what I think this team is or

could be. Just really hard games to start a season. I have absolute faith in the Cowboys to win this game. I think they're better across the board. I think the Eagles have are really good on the line on both sides of the ball, but both of those lines took a hit. They lost the starting right guard, they lost their best defensive end, Cowboy killer, Brandon Graham. Cowboys are at home, Cowboys have Dak. I just think they're better across the board, and I trust what we saw they

were able to do against Jalen Hurts. I trust Dan Quinn to have a plan of attack to limit him. I got the Cowboys winning like thirty one, twenty thirty one, seventeen. Honestly, I think the spreads four. I think they hit that easily. I just if they are as good as I think they have the potential to be, this is a game they should win pretty comfortably at home. And this is in college football, where you're you know You're not gonna

win forty five ten almost ever in the NFL. But thirty one twenty in and division game is a comfortable win, and I think they'll get it twenty Dallas. Yeah, I was, I was right there in the same boat. I was thinking about twenty seven seventeen. I think it's gonna be a comfortable win for Dallas. I think that it might be a little close early, but I think Dallas has more I think Dallas has more ways of being able to beat them, and I think they'll pull away at

the end. I think Dallas gets to win. All right. Appreciate you guys. Jonas will be back on Tuesday, Actually Monday, we will not have a show because it's a game day, but Tuesday we will let you know what happened, what went right and wrong with the Cowboys toll. Then for Nick Gateman and David Hellman, I am Derek Eilton. 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.