Cowboys Break: What’s To Gain?

twenty two, season seventeen, episode number ninety one. Welcome to the very latest edition of The Break We Life from thats WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start at the full crew today will be joined by Bucky Brooks here in a moment he will he is of NFL Network, and he will talk to us a little bit about the Philadelphia offense versus the Dallas defense. That game coming up this Saturday night at a seven fifteen I think is kick time, but it'll be you guys will be able

to check that out. It will has been moved from Sunday, So if you had not noticed that it was moved from a Sunday noon game to a Saturday night game, go ahead and get it out of the way. Get the Cowboys ready for the playoffs. How's everybody doing today? Great? Good? Everybody's good? Nick? You wanta give me a ninety one LP? Wow? Is that kind of damn best you got? Darren Benson?

You ever heard of him? Yeah? He was. He was doing some roofing work in in nineteen ninety four and they Cowboys called him and said, you want to play football? A pretty big guy. They're like, yeah, okay, and he played a couple of years. Darren Benson, Okay, don't like a story. It seemed fair to say that kind of day about a guy who was here for like sixteen years. I think he's got did his job. Most great stories in the history of the Cowboys, does he? Yes? Yeah,

oh yeah. The way you got here, I mean, we've never done it before. We've never ever other than one time in two thousand and five, if we stayed over for a week forty nine Ers Raiders. And because of that, when you say stayed over, we were in town for one game, we stayed the entire week in that city for another game that was going to be in the first game against the forty nine Ers, this deep snapper had another bad snap and Parcels were like, yet you're

out cut? Them, you gotta get someone else, and since we're out there, can we get someone local. There's a guy over here Atkyle Berkeley named LP a little bit and they're like, okay, well get him in here and see if he can do it just for a little bit. And then he did it for seventeen years without a bad snap. It's amazing. If we were back to Dallas, like we've probably should have been. Parcels just wanted to

do that. If we were back to Dallas, then we would have gotten the pool of you know, seventeen snappers and this guy, this guy cool, and probably LP would have never done it. Also, like at this point has trained a decent number of successful long snappers that are in the league right now. I don't I don't know their names he did. I don't know their names off

the top of my head. But there were at least like three or four long snappers in the league right now who were to his understudy and training camp who went on to be successful. Just working under him for a summer here we had, Yeah, there's probably four. Crater c was one of them. Would yeah there, Like I said, I don't know their names, but there have been a few really really. You can scoff at it all you want, but like the best long snapper and team history and

one of the best ever. No, he was the LP was the best LP. I mean, hellster, I did it for equally as long he did, what twenty something years? Right? How long is he here? Not not that long? Not that How long is he you know? Not off the top of my head, but I know lpsteen ninety to two thousand and one. I don't know, twelve years, I guess something like that. If LP didn't set the record for years served, he definitely like tied it, right, Yeah, he didn't have the most games. No, you know, Witten

was like, you guys, gotta come on now. Never heard his voice ever, not once LP. Yeah, I don't know what he hounds. Not a big talker, not a very not a very friendly guy he would like. That's probably what you hear about voice, way more than is him as a long snipper. See, I'm I'm more than willing to acknowledge your contributions on the field, even if you weren't the nicest off of it. That's okay, I guess all right, let's go ahead and get into some of

the we'll talk on this team. Let's talk about a couple guys on the injury report. Let's start first with jay Ron Kursey popped up yesterday on the injury report. Was limited, but Mike McCarthy had a couple of things to say. What do we hear Dave from McCarthy on him? He's got a hammy, didn't do well they walked through yesterday. Anyway, they're not expecting him to do a lot today, at least not at the outset. Questionable to play, which hey sit him? Oh no, a really good player can't play

in this game and needs to take the week off. No, I hate that. I don't like getting my guys rest heading into the playoffs. Is also on the list limited. I'm sure you're Pollard, so I'm sure you're probably thinking the same thing. They're like, please just sit him down. I guess I'll just have to watch Edo Smith like terrible. I haven't heard that, Like that was you and Lindsay doing that? Yeah, I was like, I've heard that somewhere before.

But it's just my whiny baby voice. I mean, hopefully these guys are all okay, and it becomes a problem if they're not ready for the playoffs. But I thought that was kind of like y'all, sort of a Mickey voice. We have a lot of bits, Lindsay Draper, and I have a lot of bits. Lindsey me too, She says, Hi, I talked to her often. Her kids are great. Funny thing is I literally this was And I'm getting way off the track here, but you are this is literally a two or three months ago. Me and my wife

were out. We never go out. We were out one night at a bar having drinks, and who runs up on us but Lindsay and her husband. And there is like a rooftop bar at a hotel and they're staying at the hotel. They're in town for the weekend. So we got to hang out with them a little bit. But yeah, I miss her. I really miss sir same. All right, let's let's find out about Blake Darwin. Like there was, there's news around him right His practice window has been activated, so he should be out there today.

It's fun. So he got they have twenty one days to evaluate him. There's no rhyme or reason to what that means. If you remember, they activated Maurice Kennedy's practice window gave him like three hours to get ready and then activated him to the roster. Some guys they take all the way through the twenty one days. I think

it just depends on how physically fit you are. He according to the rules, there's nothing stopping him from being activated and playing against Philly, but that'll probably depend on how he practices. That's a situation where you would love to get him out there and get him on the grass and just get him back in the flow of a football game before the playoffs. But even if that's not doable, it's very encouraging to think. I mean, he'll be available for the playoffs. That's just a guest by me.

But if you're at practicing this week, that gives you next week. I think he'll be available for the playoffs. Well, I'm a little I'm interested to see how they will do that. You know, how they'll use him, Um, if he is active, you know, say for the playoff game, because they like McEwen, Sprinkle gets some decent amount of snaps for blocking tight end. But they also can have all these other guys jumbo packages and stuff like that, So I don't know if you would need the four

tight ends. But yeah, I mean I definitely think you use them if he's out there, And I agree with David, if he's ready to play, I'd play him for this game. Just get him some snaps, get him back in the flow, because when the playoff game hits, it'll be That's what I was gonna say. I'm like, if he's ready by then, by the playoff game for sure, at that point, how much work do you actually give him to where he is going to be productive for you with being on

the field. He's been out for what is it now, long time, so it makes me wonder, like how much time does he really need us, like playing time to kind of get back into things and actually be productive. Yeah, I think I just don't. I don't like the setup at tight end. I don't like these two tight ends as your tight ends because they don't block. That's the problem.

You don't think that's a big deal. No, I mean yes, but I mean they both okay, they're both pass catchers, but they don't do what you want them to do to like two tight end set. Could they run? Could they pass? They're probably gonna pass because they're not gonna They don't get an advantage by having two tight ends that just maul you and run. These aren't the two tight ends sets that create this mismatch problems, because they

are problems sometimes in the running game. But I will say this, there have been I think there have been games this year where Dalton Schultz has been pretty good blocker. I know there have been players where I've seen him make some really good blocks. And that doesn't mean he's a consistent blocker. That doesn't mean he reminds me of what Jason Witten was for a lot of his career. Like I think early in his career he got the reputation of being a really great blocker, and I think

he was earlier. I think as he got into his career, he was a willing block in the way, which means he knew how to get in the way, he knew how to position his body, and in doing so, he could create the right kinds of opportunities I kind of lanes for running game. I think Dalton Schultz has become that kind of blocker. He's not horrible at it. I'm fine any and I'm fine with that. Yeah, don't need two of them. See I actually I disagree, And it's

not they're not They're they're not. Yeah, we need that, right, we do every once in a while. At least. They're not great blockers, and we've there. You can go pull up the tape of both of them failing in especially in space, going all the way. But what you just like, you always like, I feel like you're gonna interject, even though I'm about to agree with you. Okay, I want to I want to hear you go, so go. They're not great blockers, they're not good in space, they're not

good one on one. But what they do, and especially they work in tandem, like when they run twelve personnel with these guys, they're almost always next to each other, and together they can be useful in that regard. They can seal off the backside. They can keep a guy from coming around the edge and that opens up their back to get where he needs to get without somebody chasing him down. They can do that type of stuff.

And they're both really at athletic. So if the Cowboys go twelve personnel with Blake, Dalton, Cooper and CD and you load the box because it's twelve personnel and you think they're gonna run, well, you're screwed now because you got two really athletic tight ends who can get out in space on top of your receiver personnel, and if you drop back because you're worried about what they can do in the passing game, they're good enough to be

plus blockers together. Like it's they're not Marty B. They're not just gonna mash the front side, d end on their own and hold the edge so you can get around them. But together they can do just enough to make the running game viable while making you respect the passing game. Yep, I agree with that. I know That's why I got frustrated because I was like, you're gonna try to make my point for me. No, no, no, I agree with that, and I will say this too.

I will say when it comes to the twelve personnel, I think that's what he can add to this, because what we were talking about back when they were coming into the season was where are you gonna go twelve? Or are you gonna go third? Or are you gonna go I'm sorry eleven. When you have Michael Gallup and you had those tree wide receivers, it was kind of

that well, which which gives you an advantage. Well, now without Gallup, I actually think that you might have a little bit more of an advantage having those two tight ends with two wide receivers, because you can do some different things with Jarwin up the middle of the field, which I don't think they've exploited quite enough this year. I think they use cd in in that role some,

but I think they can do more with that. And it's funny because I think I think Blake has ten catches on the year, Like I don't think he even has one hundred receiving yards on the year. Like I don't want to, I definitely don't want to blow this out of proportion like this is he does. Yeah, but I just think his ten catches for ninety and two touchdowns. We're not talking about bringing Kelsey into the lineup, you know,

but his skill set. I don't think it's a coincidence that when they lost that personnel grouping that was when they were at their best. It was when they had they love twelve personnel. Kellen Moore loves it. They've been using it like a quarter of the time, even with all the receivers that they have, and I just don't think it's been the same since Blake left. And so I don't know if this is a magic pill. But I'm optimistic that this could be really beneficial for them.

All right, Okay, my point. Really, they'll be fine in these couple of games. I don't think it's going to be the make or break in the playoffs or whatever. But you do have some decisions to make coming up next year. You've already paid Blake Dalton. Schultz is getting close to eighty catches for a season. He might be gone, I mean, and he probably will be. But you know, I don't think you signed both of them. I think

you need. I mean, I don't think you have both of those contracts here, but I mean if you had to pick one of the two, I mean, wouldn't be Schultz. Well, well, and I think that's the conversation we definitely will have because I think, yeah, that's offseason conversation because and the reason why I say that's because I do think you have a very tough decision there to make, Because it's not so much that of the preference of one or the other. It's about how much Dalton's gonna cost you.

That may be a very well, relatively expensive it's it might be a contract more expensive than you thought you would have coming into this season just based upon his production this year. All we're gonna take our first break and we come back. We got Bucky on the line. We'll talk to him about the Philadelphia offense versus a Dallas defense. We'll do that when we come right back. Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. At ATNC, everyone new and existing customers get our best deals on every smartphone. Why

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joined right now by Bucky Brooks and NFL Network. Bucky, you were listening in on that last conversation that we had about Blake Jarlin and his return, what he might bring to this team once he returns. Tell me what your thoughts are on them. Look at me. I think it may be a blessing in disguise for the Cowboys if that's the boom, because what it may do it may force Killing Moore and Mike McCarthy to balance up the office little bit, not just in terms of run fast,

but in terms of formation diversity. Killing Moore was the guy that played a boy the state Chris Peterson with the head coach, that they utilize a lot of motions and shifts to kind of change up the look and what it does. And here's the advantage of twelve personnel.

It adds extra gap for the running game. And so regardless of whether the guy can block or not, from a defensive perspective, do you have to account for the extra gaps when you have an extra body at the end of the line, whether it's tight end on either side or tight ends in a wing formation. And so what it does is it makes the defense after just it also creates some opportunities maybe where you can create one on one coverage for a Marit Cooper and Cde Lamb,

And so it may not be all bad. Then they have to use a little more twelve personnel because it could help them not only in the running game, but in the passing Again, So just so I'm clear on what kind of what you're saying is is with Jarwin out there as opposed to a Connor McGovern, they might lose a little bit in the space blocking, but this the versatility of Jarwin could do more things, is probably more beneficial. Is that what you're saying, Well, yeah, because

then as a defensive coordinated you got to make a decision. Okay, how do we want to treat there? It in do you want to treat them as a wide receiver? Do you want to treat them as tight ends? Do you want to put a base personnel or nickel personnel on the field. And depending upon how you kind of do the alignment, you put both tight ends on one side and the NCD Lamb and Cooper on the other side. You put them where the wide receivers are wide and

to tied end or inside. There are a bunch of different things that you can do to create one on one matchup. Now. I don't know if tell them more of want to get into his bag like that versus Philadelphia, But it has to be something that's the thought because when you get into the postseason, you got to have something that you may not have shown. A wrinkle, a trick,

a gimmick, something to just roll opponents off. And so it may give them an opportunity to be a little more diverse and some of their formation and alignments and maybe even some of the play coling to be used. Buck going back to the Eagles, I mean, all I keep hearing about is how well the Eagles have run the ball since they kind of got their act together. Am shoot, it was week three. It feels like a lifetime and goo since then. So just when people say that,

I mean, what exactly are they doing? And I know they got guys on the COVID list for the purposes of this, let's just pretend like they don't. What are they doing that's making them so successful running the ball? They become the NFL's version of Oklahoma. Basically, they're lining up and running Jim and Hurst's offense from Oklahoma. He is that quarterback. He's a sent a piece of the offense. He's not Lamar Jackson, but they used them like Lamar Jacklins.

I mean, he's the center, the focus on the running game. And so when the quarterback runs and you got GT pool garden tackle pool counters, read game, it changes how you have to play on defense. And because so few teams jutilize the quarterback like that, it's like playing Army and Navy in a week. And so when they went to that move, the offense exploded. They were rushing for one hundred and seventy five per game over like five or six games. Stretch and the crazy They weren't even

using the mouth standards at that point. Then they started incorporating the running backs and all that other stuff. It gave them an identity and some confidence. And so the problems that you've seen teams have with Baltimore in San Francisco when they begin to utilize all the fucking stuff from Shotgun with jet sweeps and fly sweeps and quarterback run, yeah, it's problematic. And now they have so much confidence in it that they feel like they can beat you up.

And it's made them a more physical and a tougher team, which has also hit their defense. Bucky, what are your thoughts on playing the starters? This is a game where the Cowboys kind of start out slow and it goes into the second half where you're still kind of trailing behind. Do you keep the starters in, do you pull them out?

What do you do? Well? It's a trade. White. If you told me that last week that the Cowboys played well against the Cardinals and everything was butting up, I was like, Hey, give me talk could be fresh and ready to go in the playoffs. Because they didn't play as well, I think they have to play a little more. Now. You don't want to risk injury because the only thing

that you're playing for maybe is seating. But it seems like you're already locked in to Arizona, So you kind of want to treat this like one of the final preseason games. You want to give them enough work if you're good about going into the postseason, but you don't want to expose them too much because you want everyone

available and ready to playing the post seasons. All Right, So I'm looking at this team, and I'm looking at what they have done so far this year in Philadelphia I'm talking about and I noticed the fact that they have not beaten a single team that's over five hundred. Their best wins came against New Orleans, who's eight and eight, Denver, who's seven and nine, in Atlanta, who's seven and nine. Is their record recently in their production and then getting

in the playoffs. Is all that a reflection of the opponents that they've played, or do you think that team is good enough to actually make some noise in the playoffs? Look? Man, look you are what your rector says you are? Is that what Bill Bull says? Yeah? Um, they haven't beaten any major teams, but all they can do is be

the teams that are on this KIP. I would just say that their style of play is tricky and if you're not ready for quarterback run game, you're not ready for some of the re option stuff and power be stuff that they do. Yeah, it can get ugly at times. Um are they the best team you know? But a team playing with a bunch of confidence that somehow found their way into the postseason tournament when no one expected to be there. They're dangerous team and for them, man,

they would love nothing better than a knockoffs down. So they're gonna be ready to play, regardless of who's playing, how long they play, and so it's one of those games where you gotta get ready, gonna buckle up that they're gonna play. It's a robbery game. Fucky. Do you vote for players of the year? Do you get that vote for like APT defense Player of the Year and stuff. Yeah, I just get I just get to do the Twitter stuff. That's it. It's good since since you don't have to,

since you're not revealing your vote. Who would be your comeback player of the year in the NFL? Man definitely back player of the year. I mean, it's loaded because nobody was saying Jack. But I think Dak's paid. Yeah, kind of made it hard. Um, Cincinnati, I mean, Joe Burr. You can't count Joe Burrows a comeback player, can you? Like you can't, But like, how many games did he wins? He like all the legaments in his knee. I think if he's if he's Ellible Ford, then I would just

dave a ball and go with it. I mean, just just because there's something to seeing him coast look like he does in the locker room. You see him with Jamar Chase and Tyler Boyd, he cigars up. You see him with a back Taylor and everybody else. He's super corporate. I give him credit because he's one of the best that I've seen from a leadership perspective of being able to bring everybody an So, yeah, if he's Dollible, he definitely should be not only comeback player of the year.

I think you got to talk in the MVP conversation, Okay, don't. I don't hate that. I mean because I'll say this. I was in Cincinnati last year when the Cowboys were a bad football team and dominated that train wreck of a team. But Brandon Allen and those guys they were bad and to think that three hundred and sixty five days later that here they are winning a tough division. I mean, that's a tough, gritty division. And to win

it with him, Yeah, he's pretty valuable. So yeah, I think the difference is I think a couple of things that I learnt from watching Cincinnati kind of about back. One. Quarterback is everything, and quarterback has to go beyond what they look like, how they throw it or whatever. It's more field and intangible, and that's are the culture changes in the locker room. Technically, they did a good job

on defense, and no one talks about their defense. If you want to be a team that is blue collar and you pride yourself and being like a try hard, work hard team, you have to get guys that embody that Trey Hendricks and Sam Hubbard, even Cheeto when he was playing, he was doing a good job everybody on their defense the brand, and I think that is the big thing that you have to do when you reading your team. Buck. I'm interested in one of the last

things you said about the Eagles. It's possible they played Dallas in the playoffs, but not super likely. If I had to guess it's looking like they're gonna play the Rams or maybe the Buccaneers. Is there a team that you think the Eagles match up really well with in the sense that you know they might be the seventh seed, but they could give somebody fits. I think it gets them. You're okay playing the ram because the Ram's biggest issue had been when people have stocked him in the mouth.

Physical football teams have given them problems. We saw him struggle last week. Could get in Baltimore, but the backup quarterback in Tyler Huntley and a team that has been ravaged by injuries. So you're the Philadelphia Eagles, You're okay lining up and having to play Matthew Stafford. And that because even though the Ramblers motivates, star powered and they may be the best team that emerges in the NFC, I think you take your chances on being able to

deal with the team. Then more to death and powers other than winning this game and having no injuries, are what are you looking for in this game? Cowboy's got to get back on track. Like I don't like some of the things that came out of the last game. I don't like all the wine. And then crying about officiating and that stuff, because to me it may be

paused a little bit because it springs up immaturity. And I just need to see them play well because despite the bad cause, a lot of the issues that the Cowboys had were self inflicted. And when you have turnovers, you have a bunch of penalties, you have errors in the kicking game, and you give up big plays over the top of the defense, you're going to lose game.

And so that part of it needs to be cleaned up because for the majority of the season, the Cowboys are being great at those areas and so I don't like trans happening. So I want to see that be erased. So they play well against Philadelphia and to claim for ball game? And did you feel better about what? Did chance? Starting to post? You? All right? Buck, We'll appreciate you man. We'll have you back tomorrow. We'll talk about this Philadelphia

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in Dallas defense. I did have a question for you guys about this defense and how they match up against Philadelphia. Right now, Dallas is twenty fourth NFL. There ranked twenty fourth in rushing yards per attempt at four point giving up four point five yards per tempt. Do you see the rush defense as a problem for Dallas because there have been some games it's been kind of like shaky, But I don't know if they've been killed by it.

Do you see it as a weakness. They've been killed by it one time and it was Denver in my opinion, and everybody on the team admits that they forgot to show up for that game. So no, yeah, I mean they're not great, but I've never felt like it was just this this issue that's going to kill them, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's not like last year. Last year that was a big problem. It was the worst I've ever seen. I've seen high schools that play the run better than last year's. Y. Yeah, it was bad.

But to my point, it's like when they're doing so much else for you and it's not you're not walking out of a game and we get on this show talking man that run defense, they just absolutely suck. Well, they're not great or the best at it, but they're giving you so much more to the point where you're not necessarily complaining about it that much. So it could come back and bite you in the butt in the playoffs if they're unable to perform in other areas on

the field. So as of right now, I don't I don't think it's a huge I would rather take what they're doing right now. It's it's the same as almost every other facet of the Cowboys game, you know, it really is. I mean, look at the run defense. It's like, no, they're not world beaters. They don't. They don't get gashed every time either. I mean, I think it's the same as the secondary. I think it's the same as the passing game. I think it's the same as the kicker,

you know what I mean. You can say, oh, you want to about the kicker missing kicks. He's hit some big kicks too, and so is that the biggest problem for the same though that there's it's like they're not bad. They're not great, but they're not bad. But like the everybody just is this gonna be a problem. So it's gonna be problems and it might be. I mean, think about the Colts back in I think it was like twenty two thousand and five. Vander Jack was their kicker.

I don't think he missed a kick all year. He didn't miss a kick until the championship game and he missed and they didn't go to the super Bowl. So it can go the other way. I mean, you just gotta go play the damn game. Like that's it. You just gotta play the game. And so they've got some issues, like they're just kind of in the middle. I also think, I mean this, this team's potential is unlocked when they're playing up to their offensive ability. That's when they've been

their best. And I think a big part of their run defense not being a liability is they take that away from you. The Saints also ran all over them until they were put in a position where they couldn't do that anymore. And then what happened. They started throwing picks because Taysom Hill's awful, and I mean, I think that's a big part of their game plan. And it's not totally fair because Kyler Murray is unique. I mean, there's there's only so much you can do to contain

a guy like that. But the Cardinals got the ball back with how many minutes to play the other day and they ran the clock out ye, And so, like I said, it's not totally fair comparison because of who Kyler is. But if you wind up in that situation, like let's just say they're in Lambeau, do I completely trust that they can stop aj Dillon and Aaron Jones from pounding on them until the clock runs out? Not really, but well, they're gonna have like good four days to

prepare for that or so why four or five? I mean whatever, No I know, but just I guess my point is. And of course, the deeper you get into the playoffs, the better the teams you're gonna play, and you're not gonna be able to build these second half leads. But just like everything else, it's on the offense to take some of that strain off the defense. In my opinion, I mean, we're all we've all been very clear. This

defense is fantastic. There are such a huge success story, but they're not at their best if the offense isn't putting them in a better position. One thing to note that I think we all should remember is that first game Cowboys played against it Philly, and the argument can be made that Philly is a very different team. Now. Eight of the first offense, not eight of the first nine offensive plays run by Philadelphia where passes they came

out with the hint that they were going to throw. Now, they did throw an interception in those in those plays, but they went into that game, whether it was strategic, whether it was before they found their identity as this running team, they came in that game with the intention that they were going to try to throw the ball. We'll see if that's going to be their intention this week, but I suspect it's not on a twenty degree night outside in Philly. I don't think, and by the way

that their identity, as some would change. I don't know that they had this identity of this running team back then. But we will see, and we'll see if if they're they're strategic, they go into this game strategically thinking we got to put up points, and that forces them out of what they want to do. Maybe I'm just the hater and we won't really know, probably because the Eagles are going to have guys missing because of COVID. I still think the Cowboys are probably gonna do what Bucky

said and kind of be smart about snap counts. But Vegas, what's I don't even know the spread like seven and a half Dallas. Yeah, that's weird to me. But I don't think Philly is a different team. I'm sorry, the same thing. I think they're They've benefited from playing a lot of in the league's trash at The Cowboys have only blown out one playoff team and that's Philly. And I know the Philly is different than they were, but

I mean, maybe not that much different. But but the other two, you know, Patriots and the Chargers are not in. But I think that they're gonna get in. Um, you know, they took walk off touchdowns and then and then the other playoff teams they didn't beat. So who would you say, out of the two teams Cowboys and Eagles is playing for the most in this game that would go in

that game. The Cowboys. The Cowboys, Well, a good question, but the Cowboys a little bit because they their percentage, I mean, their chances of moving to three and even or two. Philly doesn't I mean, Philly doesn't have a lot of time. I mean, and even here's the thing, even if they moved from seven to six, I mean seven to six, he doesn't change anything. They're not getting a home game. All it's gonna change is who they're gonna face, right and unless that seven team loses, I

mean wins, then they're not gonna get home. They can have the Rams because I'm telling you, like, I like the Cowboys chances of beating any other team in the NFC more than the Rams. And seriously, I don't like you think the Rams are the toughest matchup for the Cap. Without a doubt. I believe that more Southern Green Bay. Yeah, I hate to say that, I do, and I mean, I just don't think they would beat the Rams. The Rams, to me have Italy, and I know they have issues.

I mean, they lose, but I take my chance of Stafford's dying to give the ball away. I know he's dying to throw picks Cooper Cup. I mean, I know, I just think. I mean, they have three of the very best players at their position in the NFL, and I think that is I mean, and maybe even four. I mean, when von Miller is playing and really on his game, he definitely up there up got he got the corner of Ramsey, I mean, you got Cooper Cup is just a nightmare to to stop. And there the

way that makes faith. I mean, they end up getting a lot out of Beckham right now too. He's he'sn't at von Miller cap Gary of when he's at his best, he could be right up there with the best. He seems to do it when the Cowboys are on the other side. So to go back to your question, I think you also have to remember the Eagles are just happy to be here, like they're I'm not that's not to throw shade, I'm dead serious. They should be thrilled.

They're in the first year of a new regime. They're kind of in a rebuild, you know, they're all year long, like they're focused on what they're gonna get out of the Carson Wentz trade and the Dolphins trade. Like, Okay, we're gonna have all these picks next year. They got they can rebuild that thing. Who do they have who do they have cap space committed to right now? Yeah? They got money? Right? Good about where we're going. If you're an Eagles fan, you're like, man, were we made

the playoffs with this? This is great? And meanwhile, the Cowboys, you got big money everywhere you started six and one, Like, if they don't get to the conference championship game, it'll be a disappointing season. Philly's not thinking like that. So, I mean the Cowboys have way more to gain and way more to lose. Three picks, Yeah, first rounders, Yeah, because I mean wins only Wentz had to play seventy

five percent of the snaps. As long as he plays this game on Sunday, he'll hit that it's not about them making the playoffs, it's about his snaps. Yeah. Oh well then yeah, but they won't be It won't be a great pick because the Colts will probably be in the playoffs. But like, so they'll pick Philly will own. There's Indies and Miami's first round picks. So they're gon, Miami is gonna be love What about did Yeah? Something

like that. So you got three picks that'll be like in that fifteen to twenty something range and which you can not beat. Yeah, you can use that to move if you want. When you could move. He Hurts has played well enough that maybe you don't have to worry about now. I'm not saying a great quarterback draft. I don't think people I've been reading. I'm not saying he's your quarterback of the future. But he's been good enough

that you're like, well, let's address the line, let's do this. Yeah, there's a lot about that that makes me a little worried about what Philly can become over the next few years. No doubt about that. All Right, we're gonna we appreciate you guys, you wantas We'll be back tomorrow. We'll talk about Cowboys offense versus this Philadelphia defensiltant for Nick Eatman, Dave Helmt, and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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