Cowboys Break: The X Factor

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It is Friday, January twelfth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen, Episode number one seven. Welcome to the latest edition All the Right. We are alive from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the start, and it is our job today to get you ready for Cowboys versus Packers Week one of the NFL Playoffs. We're gonna talk about some different aspects

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Do it five and eleven seasons. It'll do it three and we'll do it.

By the way, Patrick is living up to the motto if it's free, I'll take three if I.

Have to pay one way, So yeah, seize everything, especially if it's free.

If it seize the free teacher, I can get it right.

Well, they did hand these out to employees, and uh, I think they're going to be available for the general public to sure. I'm guessing at working here, they're already fans who tweeting some pictures about it, so they've already got there as ready.

And then the Cowboys I confront with pr They will have the seas everything white towels on each one of the seats at a tree stadium. So Cowboys are going or hoping for the white out as much as possible.

Any Yeah, so for the white out, if you're going to the game, make sure you where you're white because there will probably be some Packers fans.

As we can get, so make sure it looks right.

That it has to look right. So make sure you where you're white if you're coming to the game this weekend. All right, Green Bay versus Dallas. Let's start first, the most important key for the Dallas offense. Let's go around the table. Let's start with you, Brian.

Yeah, I think it's going to come down to with Dallas disability to be able to handle the edge rush from the Packers. I think the one thing the Packers do well on defense is their ability to sack you and put pressure on you, and it comes from a couple of different guys. But you know, you can't allow Gary to dictate how this game goes for the Cowboys have to be able to block the twist fronts when they move, and you have to be able to handle

Good job of that.

It's going to be about it's gonna be about your right tackle in this one. It's gonna be about your center in this one as well. I think everybody else is kind of can handle the things one on one, but those other two need to make sure that this game's taken care of in that way.

Yeah, I agree.

I think as long as the line does enough for Dak and he's not constantly feeling under pressure or getting sacked, then it.

Should be okay.

Even if this is a game where Green Bay's defense tries to target Ceedee Lamb and take him out of the game, Dallas does have a bunch of different other weapons that I think are reliable and that Dak and fine and target and connect with. So the key in this game to me is your doc.

I think that Dak Prescott obviously big key to the game in the passing attack and being able to expose a poor Packer secondary, But I think the biggest key for me is you got to contain Aaron Jones between the twenties. You got to make sure that he's not one of the reasons or the key reason that the Packers are able to move the ball and move the chains ahead of getting into the red zone, which is where they typically struggle.

But if you can bottle up Aaron Jones and.

Keep him from averaging five to five and a half yards per carry, contain him on those screens rout side of the backfield.

Things like that.

It's gonna make for a very very long day for Jordan Love And I think if that happens, then Michael Parsons, the Marcus Lawrence and those guys they can have a day.

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Oh okay, I got a right, So Cowboys offense get his key on the Cowboys offense is going to be Dak Prescott. I mean, I'm with Ambro on that one. I think that we talked about it yesterday. I think this is a game where Tony Paul and Rico DWD could have a solid, if not a big day against the Packers run defense. But I don't think you try to go into this game using the run to set up the pass. I think when you look at the coverage struggles for the Packers, you have to use the

Yes, yeah, other side, take take a ability now on the other On the flip side to me, I think this is a great matchup everywhere for the Cowboys defense against the Packers offense.

I think they match up really well on every level. But the key for this game would be playing clean football. Don't come out there and start making drawing flags and making penalties. Sam get your act together on special teams and everything. So to me, play clean football, and then I think they should be more than well dominated in this game.

Make this quarterback have to throw the ball forty times.

Oh that's tasty, and you.

Know, because that means you've probably you probably eliminated.

What they can do. Your offense has probably put up some points.

I think if you find a way to speed this quarterback up, he gets a little bit anxious and sometimes he's not as securities he needs to be. The last several weeks that he's been a very an outstanding quarterback. But I my thing is, try and make this guy throw the ball forty times, because I think if you make him throw more than forty times, he'll be it won't be comfortable for him to.

Have to deal this way.

So that will that the play caller, you know, kind of keep him off balanced a little bit. But make this quarterback have to make those throws.

Yeah, And interestingly, the Cowboys have been pretty good against the run since the Buffalo game. If they can do the same thing this weekend, it does put a lot of pressure on their passing game. And by the way, it got some capable receive absolutely young, but they got some capable receivers. So just saying put it in his hands, I think that's still gonna be Calvioys is still going to have to be really good in the secondary and get pressure in order to to off.

Yeah.

The strength of the Stallas defenses we all know all years pressure, you know, and usually if you can get Dallas, it gets into a game where it turns into pressure.

They're going to have some success.

Yeah.

Christian Watson had what three touchdowns when the Cowboys played.

He was Randy Moss with m Rodgers.

They're young.

He was terrible until that game.

Yeah, Yeah, and all of a sudden just showed up.

And from that point on he started making plays. Yeah.

Yeah.

So keeping on the injury report for Green Bay today, By the.

Way, Alexander he was downgraded yesterday to the d MP from limited uh right ankle, Lafloor said. On Wednesday, I went back and looked to try to find the reason why what happened there. The coach called it a quote unquote freak accident or freak injury. Basically, it was a jog through on Wednesday and Alexander rode his ankle on somebody's foot.

Yeah.

So I believe that given the magnitude of the game, that he'll play. But it's hard enough to defend ceede Lamb on two good ankles.

Yeah, I'm gonna say, if you're playing and you got a bad ankle, yeah, that ain't good yea.

And bad enough where he's missing practice a couple of days before, so, like Bren said, something to definitely keep an eye on there. As far as Cowboys injury report, they're trending in the right direction. Gilmore returned in a limited capacity yesterday and everybody else's on schedule.

Zach. I spoke with him yesterday, Zach Martin.

He said the first thirty six hours of that illness was pretty much a buck kicker, which we knew it would be, and I can attest it. But he said he's feeling a lot better. He's ready to go. Tyler Smith, he's ready to go. So the Cowboys are training in the right direction. But when you talk about aj Dillon and you talk about Alexander Packers are not training in the right direction, all right.

Zach Fowler sent us a question. I thought this was interesting as a precursor to the game. He says, who's one role player on offense that we're not talking about who could make a big impact this weekend. Brian, let's start with you.

It is now, do you consider where do you consider Cooks.

He would be in that category.

Okay.

I think this is because if it turns into say Alexander does find his health and is able, he's going to travel with Lamb. He's going to go with him in the slot. He's going to go with him on left and right. This could be a game where it be But he he did a great job against Alexander last year in this football game, and he's been great

This could be a.

Problem for them to have to deal with Cooks. He's a vertical player, as we've seen, he's a red zone player as we've seen. He's good underneath. This could be a This could be a troublesome game for the Packers having to deal with him.

I mean, yeah, he's definitely a weapon and one that tends to more often they're not get open and be open and find his way into the end zone.

But I would.

Say I would like to see some of Turpin back on offense. I think that should be a very very explosive weapon that if they use him. I mean, we've seen it this season and then kind of disappear. They haven't used him a whole lot, but I think bringing him back into the mix could be something that just kind of helps them out, kind of at another spark into the office.

I remember a victory at lambeau Field with Lucky Whitehead Ye Place, and it was right before half. Dallas was facing a third down and they handed him a jet sweep. They get the first and now all of a sudden, Dac and them are on the march and they throw the corner route to our guy, the golfer. Who's the golfer now it lives in Arizona. He got the twelve man on the front, Bryce Butler.

I couldn't remember.

I knew he was a golfer. I know he got twelve man and he was yeah Butler. He throws a touchdown the Butler in the end zone. Really nice play, by the way, So yeah, you know you're to your point. Somebody like that has shown before, maybe limited snaps, but all of a sudden, huge play in the game to kind of get the game to go in the right direction for you.

I'm going to stick with and I think Cook's definitely it goes without saying Turpin. I love that one certainly because, like you said, it's kind of disappeared, which I feel like now that you mentioned it could be a setup for reappearing when it matters most, which would be in the playoffs. I'm going to stick with my X factor in Jake Ferguson, though, I think Jake Ferguson, I think he's due. I mean he's kind of ramped up, not a great pass or two games out of the last three,

Yeah, you could carry this thing a little bit further on those tight ends. And if they're going to get in twelve personnel because they can't, they want to scheme, well, not scheme, but maybe Hindershot oh yeah, yeah, maybe you know, Hendershot hadn't shown, you know, I mean he's starting to kind of work his way back into if Dallas is saying, listen, your linebackers are not good enough, your safeties aren't good enough to cover, We're going to scheme you in twelve personnel to put.

You make you have to cover these guys. So those kind of matchups like that's the deep, deep, deep kind of guy that might have a have a good game.

Hindershot is that guy that I would think two or that could make. And it's not it's not that it's the number. It is just their big plays, big plays in moments when you really need a play.

One or two. Yeah, time, one or two time.

And that's the playoffs too, Like in the playoffs, you need all hands on deck. It will be the guys that come in and make plays that people aren't really expecting to make.

Those monew That song's gonna get stuck in my head. Bro, you need a hero. Yeah, thanks for that.

Way back, that's up the defensive side. Give me one X factor player that we're not talking about who could make a big impact on this game.

M give me Dumon Clark. I'll take the Moon Clark, especially after seeing the game he had against the Commanders. If he gives you another game like that against Green Bay and then you defeat Green Bay and then going forward, then that that would just be fantastic because what we saw against the Commanders is the version of the Moon

Think I would go with someone like Curse Jaron Curse.

He's he has and it's all out of me feeling a vibe.

Okay, going back to my vibal the actor has.

He just has this demeanor and every time after even when they win games, he's just so locked in and focused and you see him sometimes just angry or upset, like he's not content with the results that are they've gunn so far. So I think this is a game leading up to this week that he's locked in and he's gonna make a few big plays for the Cowboy Sefens.

Dante Feller is going to play twelve plays and have a sack.

That's your guy, that's my guy.

This this is the type of game that Dante Fowler will shine in. He's gonna get in there, He's going to find a way to win with his quickness, his ability to use his pass rush moves. He's not gonna play a lot of plays, but he's going to find a way to get a sack when they need one. So Dante Feller is going to be my guy.

All right, let's take our first break. When we come back, We'll get a little bit of a G a F. We'll do that for a segment.

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So we're gonna do it first the Alpha Beeg game. I'll give you a topic and then you start naming things from the first letter A, B, C and as we go around. So we're gonna do a practice round.

Okay, boys, let's do it.

We're gonna start off with fruits. Okay, so Derek, you start apple banana?

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Thinking the most difficult things you ask.

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So Cherry Okay, when you run out of I hate Cherry. No, I don't.

We're gonna keep going around.

And then when you run out you can say, Okay, I'm out, but then I'll switch the topic.

Then, okay, so we'll keep going.

Okay, we're really leaning on you.

We get to me, we might be out every time.

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Right, Cowboys play your name and it could be first name or last name, starting with a this.

This one first, go ahead, go ahead.

Ryan, No, you're gonna run out of this one is easy.

Starting with a Cowboys player whose name starts with a first.

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Bet Nick is like right now fevers trying to text me that he's got I can't think of you. We're out. I had a year, all right?

Is there one? Is there one? Beamer?

Can you think of you?

I can't think of one right now.

Like I said, Nick will probably be hitting me here in second. I'm sure, like you idiots, you forgot this person, all right? And there he is. I love how No, he didn't even have any you, I don't think.

Okay, okay, football equipment, okay, anything related to football equipment. This could be a band aid. This could you know anything that involves football in the sports, Bryan, do you want to start.

With ace bandage?

You said equipment? Just equipment in general, stuff that they have to have a game. Mm hmmmm.

I just said what I know, but he's I didn't want to do that because he said bandage. But okay, band aid.

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Okay, all.

Right?

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Equipment.

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Is that a thing that you.

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I got one. I got one. I got one.

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The shoes, the shoes, yeah.

Yeah, the shoes for sure.

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No quarterback communication, it's the quarterback in the helmet.

I don't think that's what that's called it. The actual equipment is called that.

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The official referee referee of cheat?

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That's a good one. Rule book, rule book like that.

I actually have two. We can do shoes or we can do seats either one.

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It's time up yet on the show towels?

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That's what I usually have you. But we gip that other one, so now you gotta do it.

I know underwear, underwear, that's what I was gonna say, underwear.

I call that a strap though, but okay.

Pikes, I mean that could be another underwear, underwear. I mean it's different.

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I don't want it like that.

With the handle.

I want it like that.

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Zipper on the jacket.

I thought you gotta say zebras. But yeah, sure that works there.

It is all right. We got all the way through, we did that cheating and everything.

But today then you envisioned this game. Was it just how it went?

No, he thought it was. I think it was all right.

It's gonna be entertaining at least.

I mean I had a few good laughs.

Anything that shows how dumb works for works for the listening audience because they get to say, y'all, I don't it was funny. We're gonna take our final break. We will come back. It's time to get into some picks. We'll talk about a little bit about these these games are coming up. I'll have a question for these guys about the players. If the Cowboys get past this round, who they most or would not want to see in the second round. We'll do that and we'll make our

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It is the final segment of the Break Life from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's talk a little bit about the games coming up this weekend. I want to start first with if the Cowboys you happen to get past this game against the Green Bay Packers, I want you to put in order. There are three teams they could possibly play in the second round. I want you to put an order from the one you think is a best matchup for the Cowboys all the way to the one you think is the worst matchup.

Let's start with you, Patrick, Tampa Bay, Philidelpia.

That's the worst right you can put them in.

You put them in order, the one you want to play the best matchup versus worst matchup. Yeah, the three of them, Tampa Bay, Philly, Detroit. Those are three you could possibly play in second round.

Best matchup Tampa Bay and Philly Detroit. I'm gonna go with Philly as the best matchup. And I say that.

Because I think Philly cooked and their secondary is just ridiculously horrible. Cowboys offense is very very good. And of course second round, if the Cowboys advance gets where, that's played here at at and T Stadium, where the Cowboys offense is explosive.

So I don't think the.

Philadelphia Eagles secondary has anything for Dak Prescott cited Lamb and those guys. So that's the best matchup. From there, I'm gonna go with. I want to go with Tampa as the second. I think Baker Mayfield is capable. I know Mike Evans is capable, but I don't think that Tampa would give the Cowboys as much of a challenge as the Detroit as a rematch with the Detroit Lions would. I think the Detroit Lions they would be out for revenge. Obviously good news, they still have to come back to

Absolutely, I agree.

I'm pretty good for writer. Yeah yeah, OK.

No, for this way, I.

Have the same exact opinion. I think number one, and that's if the Eagles get through if but I think, yeah, the Cowboys tend to match up really well against the Eagles.

I mean it's.

Always even when they lose It's always a very competitive game, and they can compete against that team, and I think they've they're going downhill on their team and just everything since the last time the Cowboys even face them. So I would agree Philly then Tampa, mainly because Detroit. I

Tampa, Philly, Detroit.

For me, I think exactly like you. I mean, factor matters. You can say whatever you want about Philly. Is still a division game. Yeah, Tampa, let's not very lead here. They're coming out of NFC South. That was a horrible division. I'll take anybody out of NFC South before anybody else, So I'll take them first, then Philadelphia, then Detroit. All right, Next question half for you guys, is I want you to define for me what success would look like for

Season for me, it has to be excuse me, winning the Super Bowl. And I say that also in the context of you have no clue what your defensive coaching staff looks like next year. You have no clue as far as attrition goes, what players you can get back in free agency during Somstrong some of these other guys who will come in back, well, coming up for a contract negotiations. You have no clue. Your window is right now.

It's got to be right now.

Man.

I like what you're saying there, I really really do, because I feel like that there's you probably got the best quarterback in the NFC playing for you right now, and you got to take advantage of that. And I kind of thought getting past San Francisco and getting to the super Bowl would be a really good thing because I think playing, say, the Ravens is going to be difficult for anybody to have to deal with. But if you got to go now, Patrick's absolutely right this this team.

Is not going to be the same. We don't know about all the contracts that they have to deal with. The coaching.

You know, the coaching thing could be way way up in the air too. You know, there's just you gotta you gotta make hay while you can right now. You've got you've got the best players in position to get this done. You just got to find a way to go do it. That's that would be the success for me.

Yeah.

Same, And that's not to say enough to give credit for everything like Mike McCarthy has done. I think he's done an excellent job since he got here, and it has been a successful year given everything that they've done this year and all the changes that they've done in recent like even.

Since last year.

But it has to be it has to be the super Bowl because again, the Cowboys have gone.

To playoffs, to the playoffs.

A bunch of times before, never to the championship. But but even then that wouldn't be enough just because everything that Patrick just said and Brian like, there's no guarantee whatsoever, Well, it just isn't. Every year the team looks completely different than the year before, So that's just gonna be hard, very hard to kind of replicate what what's currently what they currently have.

Yeah, I hear what you're saying. At the end of the day. For me, though, if they get to a championship game, I feel like this is a successful season because guess what, they ain't been there. As you said, you mentioned you said it kind of like they've never

Wins Houston Browns.

I go with Cleveland.

I go with Houston as well. So we got two and two on that one.

All right.

Miami at Kansas City is supposed to be pretty cold weather. They're I think it's in the negative negative negative thirty.

Negative thirty.

Yeah, yeah, might be the coldest game in NFL history.

Jeeves, and look, and Miami has to go there. If you've never been to Miami, it is the most humid place on the face of the planet year round, and they're going to play a negative thirty degree.

Okay, yeah, Miami. Miami lost their opportunity by losing the Buffalo last week. Give me Chiefs.

How is that even.

It's it's can.

Go somewhere else, neutral field, neutral.

Will be.

I don't be them.

Just have to take that much.

I don't know how cold those boogers are gonna get. Frozens.

Miami fans ain't traveling for that game.

No, I'm just gonna go pick Kansas Kansas City.

I say Kansas City as well, all right. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, And by the way, this one has winter weather. Christ just sent me a picture, can't It's like the snow everywhere. That's gonna be a snow game. So what do you think. Pittsburgh versus Buffalo, Both those teams are are from those types of environments.

So give me Buffalo there.

Yeah, that's gonna be a close one.

Quarterback is going to be the difference to that point.

Buffalo. Yeah, same, Yeah, me too, Buffalo.

All right.

If we go to the NFC Rams versus Detroit at Detroit.

Rams, m hmm.

Because Porter is also dealing with it, he hasn't practicedly stint so Rams as we talk about them, they're showing ye. I think Matthew Stafford cooks. It's a home game for Matthew Stafford.

I actually I think it will be a close one, but I think the Rams pull off the win.

Give me the Rams, me Rams too. I think all of us on the board there, Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, I.

Think Philly's cooked man Tampa. I think Mike Evans and Baker Mayfield just towards their secondary.

Tampa.

Every time I said, oh, they'll get away now, they end up losing again. In reference to Philly.

I'm talking Philly will run the ball in this game, Philly will win.

Yeah, me too. I think Philly's gonna win his game. I think they'll get it right at least for a week, and then we'll see what.

Has smashed him pretty good in week three. I know it's a totally different team now from what you're talking about, Patrick, but yeah, Philly will go back to that game.

Playing NFC South is still the NFC South. All right, Let's get to the game of the week, Cowboys Packers at Dallas. Who do you think is gonna win this game? Give me a score, Garcia, what are we even thinking?

Like, do you know the answer? It's obvious. I mean, if we don't pick it obvious, I'm saying there's no way. Even if you thought they were gonna lose, you wouldn't pick the Packers, would you?

If I thought they were gonna lose, yeah I would. But I don't think they're gonna lose. Would you like for me to go ahead and get money?

Go ahead?

All right, Cowboys?

If the Cowboys execute as they can, and if they eliminate self inflicted wounds, this is a game where the Packers are capable, solid team, but they're not equals to the Cowboys. I think the Cowboys can walk away in this one forty two seventeen.

Okay, thirty four to twenty four.

Dallas thirty five fourteen Cowboys. I think, like I've said before, this is a great matchup, and I think, uh, the Cowboys just have everything that they need currently to be the one that comes out with the windows.

So they gotta do is be focused and play clean.

What I know about this team is when they've played teams like this at home this season, they've vote raced them. I don't think this is gonna be very different. I think Cowboys win thirty seven to twenty. I do think it'll be a close game at halftime, but I think as the Cowboys tend to do, I think by the second half, late in the second half, I think they go in the fourth quarter, day through two or three touchdowns and they pull away thirty seven to twenty. All Right,

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