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number sixty three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. It is founder day for the Omega So a little shout out to the broad shout out to the as we as we get this show flowing, Nick, give me a sixty three and I stretching, guy, it's time him started. I'm in I'm in a move. Clarence wears that. Clarence Hill wears Omega stuff all the time anyway, but he was decked out today when he came full it makes

a lot more sense all of a sudden. Sixty sixty, give me sixty three. Kyle Kosher, I like that underrated guard in my opinion. Oh yeah, he was like the worst worst lineman of the starting five, and he was like really good. Yeah, that was a good good player with three Pro bowlers and him and Colombo. I don't have a lot of other sixty threes, Tyler, be honest. Bye it is yeah bye bye bye is Glenn Titans, Sir, there's a player back in the eight. Never heard that.

Never heard of Glenn Titans or GTT No, I haven't heard him. See, Like, when you throw out a number, the first thing that I do automatically is just go back to the ninth nineteen eighty three, eighty four teams when I was like seven and eight. That was. That's one thing. I could just give you a number that. But I don't always want to do that. I want to mix it up a little bit. But sixty three Glenn Titans or yesterday I had to do with Brian Baldinger. Yeah, yeah,

I learned something. Yes, Yeah, what about Aaron Gibson Big his head was biggest came from the from the Lions five pounds or something. It was like four hundred pounds, and they they had to just give the Lions had to ship their helmet over and they and luckily they didn't have to do a lot of changing of the paint schemes and all that stuff. But yeah, he had the biggest head ever and they were like, well, we gotta,

we gotta figure this out. We gotta we don't have a helmet like that the last It wasn't Mike's here that long, I think for the Desperadoes at one point, but he probably had that same helmet. Jeez. All right, dude, all right, um, let's let's talk some injuries. We got a few guys we need to catch up on Tyren Smith. He's now missed two games games and uh and but it sounds like there's a possibility he may be back this week. Possible. Yeah, well, yeah, we'll stick with possible.

Stephen Stephen Jones gave him a glowing review on Monday. He was like, yeah, add him to the list of people who might be able, who should be able to play, And Jerry Jones says, yeah, I agree with that. We get this interview, He's like, I get yeah. He's like, I get the same report as Stephen does, so yes, yeah, they feel good. He's gonna he's gonna be involved in the individual you know, the early portion of practice before

you get into the team reps um. McCarthy said they'll evaluate him to see if he does more kind of feel like McCarthy just says that to make everybody feel better. Like, so I doubt, I doubt he'll do a ton in team today, but I guess we don't know that for sure.

But yeah, he'll be He'll be out there, he'll be practicing any idea what he has to do this week in order to pet I assume they have some kind of threshold where they say, okay, he's ready to go, get into the team period, whether it's today or tomorrow. Do tackle things, go against a rush and feel okay doing it? Feel okay on Friday? Yeah, let mean do

it Thursday, feel okay on Friday. What's your sense when Stephen Jones says on Monday like he's got a real shot, add him to the list of guys who should be able to step up and go I'm gonna rock with that. This is a huge game, absolutely playing the chefs. You gotta go out there, and that's went over a lot of people. I don't I know you guys probably do, but I think it's some some people that probably went over the all time great commercial. It was all time.

That's great commercial. Absolutely, what were you saying, Amber, I was gonna say that if that comment had come from Jerry Jones, initially we would have been like, oh, maybe let's not get so excited because we know he's very, very optimistic. That's what makes it funny and encouraging. Like Stevens not usually, Steven's pretty good about not giving stuff away. He plays a little closer to the chess than Jerry does, and he's just like, yeah, he's gonna play, so I'm

I'm taking that to the bank. If he doesn't play, I'll be surprised. All right, good talking about Seedee Lamb. He did get hurt in the game, it didn't seem like it was a huge deal. Seemed like they were kind of pulling starters at that point. Anyway, what are we hearing about him? It was a boo boo I think like, no, I'm not like making fun of CD Lamb. I'm just that's a he bruised his arm. He said it was nagging at him and it hurt. But like, if the game was close, he wouldn't have I don't

think he would have sat. So for going forward, we should be I don't nobody even asked McCarthy about it today because it's just a foregone injury as well, it sounds like he was additioning out more pain than than delivering it, you know, or getting you know. He yeah, seriously headbudded Dak in the face. That's pretty funny. Actually that's for everybody but Dak. Yeah, I mean he laughed, Dak. I mean some inside the NFL got him miked up. He was kind of laughing like cheez, CD, thanks man

of them. That's cool that they able to do that. Yeah, I thought somebody had kind of poked him, you know, like after in the postgame press conference, I'm like, what happened is I'm thinking somebody poked him and didn't know it was like his own teammates. That's a tough, real quick point about CD. He's a tough so yeah he I mean, if I think he used a different if if Dave can can that was a really good one, by the way, No, it was not didn't even do it. I saw all of our lives flash before my eyes

as he did that. What's so funny is just like like a week ago, somebody even asked me, how do y'all what do y'all do when you when y'all drop the F bomb. I was like, we don't, we just don't do it. Yeah, and then until but yeah, he was always the first time he's that probably wasn't the

first time. But real quick, real quick about CD. It's just a great example of like and that's minor, but when we talk about players are always dealing with something that only gets reported because he sits out for the rest of the game and it gets called up to the press box, like and we noticed it. We noticed when he left the field kind of moving his arm with that happens like six times a game. But the guy goes back in because it's a close game and

you have to. That's what we're saying. When you're like, everybody's dealing with something in November CD that it probably still but it's not going to keep him out of the game, you know. But I think the thing to remember too is that that's also the nature of football players. When there are adrenalines pumping, sometimes they can do things that then when it stops, they're like, oh gosh, this

is not this is a real injury. I mean, I think about Robert Woods out in LA They said he tore his ACL, he continued with practice, he did his post game, I mean, his post practice interview with the media. Then later they did some tests on it and found out he had torn his ACL. Like that's where you're like, it's it's just these guys are a different breed. They just aren't normal human beings when it comes to pain tolerance. And so that's why you have to at least ask

the question, is this something more? Because you just never know if it's something more once that adrenaline stops pumping. All Right, a couple of guys that we want to talk about from the standpoint of returning to the lineup, DeMarcus Lawrence, Nevill Gallimore. How far are we awaigh on

those guys and getting them back out there? This is this is becoming a subplot, and I totally under stand why, especially in the case of Neville Neville Gallimore, because he hyper extends his elbow on like August fourteenth, it's Thanksgiving basically, it's it's been so it's been three months, yeah, and he's not His practice window hasn't started, and people are like, oh my god, did he have a setback? Is something terribly wrong? Where the hell is this guy he hasn't

had a setback. I think he's out there every day rehabbing and doing the stuff that he's supposed to do. I think it's just a case of an injury that drastically affects the position that he plays. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if he's had a setback, but I'm not one hundred percent sure that he hasn't. I mean, this is a long window, right, I thought,

then they say that's no, it's eight weeks. It was it will but that's I feel like eight weeks, but people people here six to eight and then you hope for the best. So you're straight for a punter. You're leaning heavily on that six. Yeah, And I guess you're right. I don't know for sure that he hasn't had a setback, but I think this is just a case where you

need your arm strength to do that job. It's not something that you can gut through like maybe, um, who's a guy that doesn't necessarily need full safe Yeah, yeah, you need that leverage. And McCarthy has talked to us about this, where it's like you can see him hitting the sled and you just know that the arm strength isn't where it needs to be to get into a

game and be useful. I get that that's frustrating, but this is weird too, because, like y'all correct me if you think I'm wrong, it feels like we're kind of close to the end of the season right in your mind. Does it kind of feel that way? Yeah, when you when you start getting to Thanksgiving? Yeah, yeah, there's eight

games left to play. We're halfway through. They are at the halfway, but it just kind of feels in my mind like you're like a month away because the December is the end of the season, but they go two weeks into January this year because of the seventeenth game. There's a lot of football, and so I get that it's frustrating, but I don't think it's a huge deal.

And I think I don't think you're going to see the markets or Gallimore until December probably, But even then, you're talking about having him for five or six games maybe,

do you think? I mean, how do you? Because last year it was exciting the things that we got to see from him, but then with him being out this long, do you guys see it like really affecting kind of his improvement that he was already doing and him taking him maybe a couple of weeks to even I mean, my point is like he's been out this long, then he comes back, let's say December, and then even then you're not really getting much use out of him because it's kind of taking him a while to get that

rost of himself. So at that point, what January is when you're really getting good use out of him? Absolutely, yeah, you don't need him, that's the great part, right, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, but there's so many guys playing defensive tackle. I'm playing defensive tackle. Well, you don't need him, so whatever he can give you at that point is kind of gravy. Right, That's that's where I'm at. If no one else gets injured, good point of course, at this point of the season,

that's when that starts happening. I'm not trying to spin it as this positive that these guys aren't available, but it at least is fun to think. Let's let's so we we said Thanksgiving, right, initially, we we know that's not happening, and now I'm even so I'm thinking like December twelfth, December nineteenth, those are for both of them.

Probably no, I see, Um, you know, if you could look out the window and see Tank, You're like, you know, I would imagine you'd see someone that looks pretty good,

pretty good, like I've seen worse. You've had just this premonition if you could see if you could see him, Yeah, I think it's like he's working out and in shape, and I think he Yeah, I've had that same dream, like, yeah, like his footwork looks good for a guy that broke his foot, if you could see him, probably look better than the guy that's probably out there rehabbing with him and is going to play on Sunday. I'm getting a little crazy here, d law. I didn't have that dream base.

Let me go back, let me go back to Galimar. Yeah, well, you know, I don't know. I woke up, so I don't know. After that he lost. Yeah, um, I think Gallimar though, you know, you're like, well, you don't really need him, Like like forty three to three was was nice. Yeah, we're only about twelve days removed from like the Bronco Bronco Nagurski just running through them and all that, so somebody was needed there. It was getting the ass kicked

on that d line. So I'm just saying, like, yeah, they could show up the running game a little bit more. There's been some time, especially when you get a team that really likes to do that. So I'm not sure he's the guy to do it, but I mean, yeah, somebody has needed him, urban you know, somebody coming back. I completely agree. I don't I don't want to say they don't need him, but I do the fun thing for me, you'd love to have both of them back

a sap. But again, let's just say December nineteenth, just as a hypothetical date that they can both play. That's still yes, Giants game. That still gives you. So that gives you Giants, Washington Cardinals, Eagles. That gives you a month of games. Did you say bye? Yeah after that? Okay, whatever however you want to call it. That gives you a month of games. And then what's the end goal

for this team, the playoffs. So now you get four games to round those guys into form and get humming as you get into what matters where like this is this is unusual territory for the Cowboys because even in eighteen they were trying to catch up, they were trying to gain ground because they started three and five. This is a weird situation where, yeah, all these games are important and you gotta win them, but you can kind of you have that target in mind of like we're

not trying to make the playoffs. We are in the playoffs, and we gotta get ready for those games, you know, I mean, I know that makes people uncomfortable, but that's where this team's thought process. But the thing is is these four or five games in a row are tough. Like this is going to be the toughest stretch right here, and we're gonna get to that a little bit more as we go through the week and talk about Kansas City.

They've gotten to this point without those guys, so like, it's again, it's it's not the situation where like we need you back because we're a game back in the standings and we got to do this. It's like, yeah, we're we're ninety nine percent gonna win the division, ninety five percent, whatever you want to say it. And again, that's not to diminish the games ahead on the schedule, but there are larger things you need to consider as well. I feel like until this point, we've been or at

least me. I'm like, Okay, take your time, It's okay. But now I'm like, okay, getting answer up. Let's get moving here. It is the number one thing that we get asked, like it's our mail bag today on the site. I get it. Five tweets about it an hour, and I get it. I completely understand why it frustrates people. But there's it least a benefit to it. If there's a lot of football left to go. I'll tell you what, like this week, I would love to see and this

is when we go out to practice. I would love to see Randy Gregory on those chords because Gregory can come back after the Thanksgiving Day game if if he misses three games. But we saw with Dak, we saw what he I know, every calf injury in different. I get it. But like we saw with Dak, he was kind of on those chords, probably ten days or so before he actually played in a game. So it would be nice if Gregory can come back soon. It would

be nice to see him start already rehabbing. It's unfair to compare, but McCarthy did say it's more of a Dak calf injury than a Gallop calf injury. Which is very encouraging. YEA, all right, we're gonna take We're gonna take our first break and we come back. We're gonna have We're gonna be talking about Buckey Brooks of NFL Network're gonna talk about the Kansas City Office versus the Dallas Defense. We'll do that when we come right back.

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I'm done fighting it. As I said the other day, I mean, just because you wear red like you did on the show the other day doesn't necessarily mean that it's always about Christmas. Right my name Merry Christmas. All right, we'll joined right now by Bucky Brooks, NFL Network. Bucky. Let's talk some Kansas City offense versus the Dallas defense they have. Although they they seem to be rounding out into form at six and four, they did have a three and four start with losses to Baltimore and the

Chargers and Buffalo and Tennessee. What was the main reason for their slow start turnovers. This is a team that was leading the league in giveaways. They were turning the ball over at an alarming clip. Pat Mahomes was throwing interceptions, they were fumbling the ball all over the place, and because they were giving teams extra opportunities and costing themselves

scoring chances, they lost a lot of games. And the big thing that teams were doing, particularly that Pat Mahomes, is they were sitting in a two deep shield, they were park in the safeties in the parking lot, and they were testing the discipline and patience of Pat Mahomes. And he failed the test because he would continue to try and push the ball down the field when there was an umbrella there. And he had a number of interceptions on tips and overthrows because he's trying to fit

the ball into windows that just aren't open. So when you have Kelsey, why would you do that? Like? Why, I mean why? Why it is that just goes down to patience? Is it just like he's just one of those things where he just wants to let's get this thing done quicker, because it seems like you could with him,

you could kind of dink and dunk down the field. Yeah, but that's not fun for them, and that makes sense like the yeah, yeah, they'd like to go to State Warriors, and to go to State Warriors from where they're killing you with the three point shot. They are energized off big plays, and so when they don't get big plays, it's hard for them to kind of get into their rhythm and get into the group because they feed off Tyreek Hill going crazy, Travis Kelcey, Mikole Harman and any

of the perimeter playmakers making explosive plays. And so when they don't get that, Pat Mahomes gets impatient and he just hadn't been able early in the year to just live with they to five six R completion, We'll take our time moving the ball down the field. That frustrates them, and so when they don't stick to the script and play very patient in detail, it gets sloppy. They can

get away from them. However, the last couple of weeks they've shown more patients, they've taken better care of the ball, and the Chiefs that no one wants to see are beginning to come back. I'd love to hear that they got a lot of credit in the offseason for the way they just completely revamped their own line trade for Orlando Brown, drafted to guys, signed Joe Tuney, But it hasn't and hasn't looked that great for all the talent,

at least not to this point in the season. Is that is that just a time on task thing or is somebody not playing up to their reputation. What's kind of been the story there. Orlando Brown is not what they thought he would be, and you know, they kind of thought that they could put him in and put him at a premier spot and he would succeed because that's what he wants. He wants to be known as a left tackle as opposed to a right tackle, but his game is better suited to be in a run

heavy offense. Too many snaps and pass protection not good for him. The rest of the young guys are coming home well, and they're beginning to play the kind of football that we're used to seeing the Kansas City Chiefs play. And so it's one of those things where the more that they play, Andy Read gets a better feel for who they are and what they're about, and then he's able to kind of tailor the game playing to that. But I would also say some of this falls on

Andy Reid. Andy Reid, despite being a college offensive lineman, he prefers the photo ball all over the yard and sometimes to the detriment. They didn't neglect the running game. And when they didn't neglect the running game, they actually pay into the hands of defense because the defense wants to take away the passing game and they want to challenge Kansas City in terms of making them run it. But when they don't run it and keep throwing it, they kind of play into their hands. Fucking mineus a

pretty general question. I feel like, looking in the past few weeks, the end results of both teams have been kind of similar to each other as far as like what the defense is allowing versus what the offense is scoring, especially this past week with both of them kind of coming in with forty plus points. I just want to know, how would you compare these two teams in general, what the Chiefs are doing currently versus what the Cowboys are

currently doing. Actually think they're very, very similar on both sides of the ball. I think both teams their best defense is their offense. If they can put you in a situation where you're forced to chase points and they force you to be one dimensional when you have the ball.

That's the way that they want to play. And so both teams want to push the envelope a little more on offense so they can make you abandon the running game, and then you have to throw into a defense against the defense that knows that you have to throw, so they can put in their ears back and go rush the pass, so they can sit back and coverage and go kind of play the ball and read the quarterback size the Kencie. The Chiefs have improved the last three weeks,

particularly on defense. Spacks has kind of gotten the defense resolved and fixing. He typically likes to fix things by blessing. His answer to everything is able. Let's just dowalod depression. We're figured out, see if we can get a play or two. And that's what they're living for. And so this is a defense that lives off the big play, sacks, tackles for losses, interceptions, force fumbles. If they get any of those things, then they're playing the game the way

they want to play it. And so Dallas has to be aware it's a ball security game. You got to really take care of the football. When you go back and look at Tennessee's games. There's one clear outlier in my opinion, that's the game they played against Tennessee. Tennessee held in the three points, their lowest output all season. What did Tennessee do during that game that's shut down that offense? And the secondary question of that is does Dallas have that sort of repertoire, that sort of scheme.

Is that something that Dallas is capable of doing to have similar results? Well, one thing that you have to know when you play Tennessee, you get into a street fight. Their answer for everything is more physicality, more toughness. They want to make it an ugly contest by putting their bodies on you and seeing if you have the mental and physical toughness to withstand that steady badger body blows

that they throw at you throw at you. The Cowboys certainly can do that, because when the Cowboys wont too, they can be as physical as any other team in football. But it's going to require upfront. The defense is going to have to play big boy ball many They have to be able to win their matchups in the trenches. They have to be able to get around and make the quarterback uncomfortable. And if they can make the quarterback

uncomfortable without having to bring added rushes. Then they can sit back in coverage and make him throw the ball in front of the defense and rally and tackle. But it's gonna be a it's gonna have to be a team effort, a concerted effort between the pass rush and the coverage. Everybody has to be working on the same page, and they have to bring their a games. On Sunday, Bucky, I see where Byron Pringle, their receiver runs in the

four four range, and so Mikoel Hartman can run. Obviously Tyreek kill If those three guys were running a relay race and you were the fourth one, could they could the Chiefs still win the race with those three in you can you still bring it? And also can Tyreek kind of make up for it if you can't? Oh yeah, they can bring you. See because when you run a four bar one, Nick, what you can do is you can shorten how much I have to run at the end, so I can get I can either get the beaton.

What I would do is I will start with Tatreek to make sure that I had a big league and then they would give me the beaton at the very end of the exchange on. So I'm only running maybe eighty five ninety meters. All they got to do then is just hold on for dear life. I can hold on a little bit, but I need a big league and I'm just gonna just close my eyes and even though I hear the spikes ticking behind me, I'm just gonna leave it to tape and see if I can

finish it. But they are a fast I mean, they are a fast team, and when they get going, it is problematic. So it'll be interesting to see how the Cowboys practice. Sometimes when you play a team as fast as those guys, you will put your scout team receivers two or three yards down the field, so the guys can get used to feeling that pressure on their cushion when they're back faming, so they can get used to

anticipating their speed. I can't follow that up. Well, the funny thing that Nick didn't say was who are they running against? Because they're running aginst the four of us. No, I think they're probably okay. You know, when we come back, and we come back in the next segment, we'll talk about it more. But maybe we'll see who the Cowboys

is boys. I do know this. When you start talking about fastest players and receivers and all that stuff, that's one way to get these guys on that side of the building start chirping and oh I heard what you said, Like nobody wants to be if you're a skill player. We mentioned four guys, there will be three or four others of all like hello, yeah, you miss me me? Hey real quick, you have real quick before we let you go. I didn't want to have one other question.

Understand what Dallas has done on defense? How would you strategically defend guys like Hill and Kelsey because obviously they are really great, and they're really great with yards after the catch. How do you think what do you think is the best way to defend an offense like that with those two players? So, I mean, here's the dilemma, right. The teams that have had the most success have played a lot of Cover two against him, too deep safety,

split the field line. Those guys are about fifteen to sixteen yards, minimal pressure in terms of blitz pressure, line up and play coverage and make Pat Mahomes throw the checkdown. He canna have as much time as he wants to throw. But he's gonna have to throw the checkdown and we're not going to let the ball fly over the head. The Cowboys haven't been a big cover two team to this point. I don't know if they practice it enough. If they do what they've traditionally done, it'll be some

man coverage to be some traditional regular zone. I think the number one thing has to be no deep balls. Tyreek Hill cannot catch one over the top of the defense. Make everything that they catch go back to the quarterback. He has to catch you running back to the quarterback. The second thing, I need all eleven running to the ball like madmen, because this is a rally and tackle game. So whenever they catch it, they can have it. But I don't want them to get extra yards after the catch.

So that means defensive lineman, when you rushed the passer when the ball is thrown, I need everybody running back to find the ball, linebackers and everybody. It has to be all hands on debt. We need everybody throwing bodies to get them down. And so if they keep the ball from going over the head and they rally and tackle,

they certainly can't contain them. And then in the red zone when you play that way the red zone, you get three additional defenders the two sidelines and in the end marker, So then you got fourteen bodies on the field. Keep it in front, and as long as you can make them kick field goals, it's a win. They can have as many yards as they want to in between the twenties. You got to be great in the red zone. They do that, the Cowboys can win. All right, good stuff, Bucky,

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final segment. Um. I do want to talk about something. I started the conversation a little bit with Bucky on I want to get you guys's opinion. Actually, Dallas's ranked thirty first right now in yards after catch. They are allowing six point two three yards after each reception on average, McCarty says. He said in his press conference, is more in the Kansas City kills teams with their their yact their yards after catch? Is this the most important stat

for Dallas's defense this week? If we look at this stat at the end of the game, will it dictate who won this game? No? I mean it's it's very important, don't get me wrong. And it's it's been a problem. I haven't done the numbers since the bye week, but they gave up twenty seven in the first six weeks of the year. That speaks volumes and it's still it's I think it's probably been better, but it's still is

a thing. And that's what these guys do. Like for all the we were just saying this during the break, Like for all the worry about Tyreek Hill beating you over the top, how about Tyreek Hill stopping short, catching a thirteen yard hitch, slipping his guy and going twenty eight more. You know that that is what's terrifying. But that's not what's going to decide this I turnover margin, I know, I mean that's basic. But Pat Mahomes loves to give you opportunities. He loves it, and it's worked

out for him the vast majority of his career. He should have absolute confidence in himself. But I mean, if they can get two or maybe even three, I mean, that's what's going to decide this game for me. Well, I mean the way that Bucky was talking about it too. Whether the Cowboys play that you know, two safeties back like that, I haven't seen them do that much of

that year at all. Either way, though, the premise is going to be keep it, keep him in front of you, make him, you know, dump it off short and if it's third and twelve and the guy catches a screen and gets eight nine yards. I mean, yeah, he's gonna get ten or eleven yards of yak, but the punter's coming out, so so you know what I mean. If you can keep them in front sometimes that's that can be a little bit misleading. If your goal is to keep everything in front and then go go up and

make the tackle. That is It's a really good point though. Jron curse is he has lived in the box this season, like they don't drop two safeties very often, and that has flummixed Mahomes all season. Like that's kind of been the book on him too. Back. Yeah, and Gus Bradley is a cover three guy. He's got history in Seattle as well, and he just stubbornly ran cover three on

Sunday night and they murdered him. They murdered him. Yeah, he might have been for all I'm that's it very much reminded me of a we do what we do game plan and the Nasal opponent, the Chiefs were like, awesome, thank you so much. So I and we know dan Quinn has he hasn't been that way. He's it's it hasn't been boilerplate. But I do I wonder if is it as easy as being like, well, we gotta we need to that maybe this is a scenario where we

see more of the other guys. Well, maybe we see more of Mally Cooker this week than we have because the case both back then they need a guy in coverage. And I don't know the answer to that, but it's interesting to think about. I think we've talked about one of the main problems that this Cowboys defense has is allowing big place. Bucky talked about that big place that

Kansas City does. But then also we've seen how the defense don't make a really good play, but then the one after that, and that goes back to your stat I think the one after that, the guy will the opponent will catch the ball and then run for however many yards. So it's like it's never fully one way.

It's always okay, they stopped them here, but then give up this much and then come back and it's just like hold back and forth that I think that this week it really might bite them almost been my lip, but bite them in the butt this week. And I think that that's taught that you game, it's gonna be a bigger problem than we think. Yeah, you know, Dave, I'll go back to what you're saying. I actually hope they take that strategy of give me more of Hooker and Kazy back there at safety and keep two of

those guys back. But then let's let's lose a Curse as you as your nickel linebacker, and so really you're gonna have three safeties on the field. This is not a team that scares me at all when it comes to running the ball. I feel a lot better about trying to do as much coverage as possible, so get more secondary guys on the field. Curse is a big guy,

so he can play that nickel linebacker position. I think you do something like that and you might create a lot more opportunity for yourself to keep more guys back who can cover and possibly get some turnovers. And that's the fun thing about Curses. It's not as simple as like, well, he's a safety, so you gotta take him off put another seting. No, he plays lineback. He's basically a dime nickel linebacker. Put put him on kelsey. Here's what Kean

O'Neil kind of does as well. Right, if Micah and Curse are the only two linebackers quote unquote, that play and the game that's fine with me. Just get as much speed onto the field as possibly. If they do not win the turnover battle, do you think that the Cowboys can still beat them? Can? Sure will, Yeah, But if they don't win the turnover battle, I don't feel comfortable saying though. I think if if they if they if they lose the turnover battle, I think that they're

going to probably lose the game. But I mean, you could be won one or zero zero or whatever. Let's say zero nobody. Yeah, then I think the Cowboys will probably win the game if I think they're better. I will say this, if if it's like two Kansas City one Dallas, I think Dallas could still win a game like that. It can't be like they got two more turnovers in Dallas, like I can't. They can't be plus two over whatever Dallas. Then I think they're they're in

real trouble. I think if it's even they probably lose. I just you don't think in an even turnover game where they literally end up in a shootout back and forth, you don't think Dallas can win that game. I didn't say they can't. You don't think they will? Yeah, I just when you go into hostile environments against teams like this. I know it's just one game, but they seem like they're kind of rounding into form, Like they seem like

they're playing a little bit better. What we talked about in the first segment about like kind of starting to hum in December. They know what that's all about, Like they know what putting it together ahead of the playoffs looks like. So I just you probably need breaks to win games like this. And I'm not trying to talk down on the Cowboys. I think they're one of the four or five best teams in the NFL right now, but I still think you got to have things go

your way to win games like this. Not saying they can't, though they definitely can, just I don't know that they would. That's all I'm saying. I just wonder what the weather is going to be, Like I don't know why I keep thinking it's going to be like really windy, and if you can just okay, Derek's like, I got this because that's accurate, like no doubt about that. Let's just see if it's problematic, if the winds swirling and all that. See,

I don't like that. I feel like my homes can probably figure it out better than Dak Will throwing there all right, if it's just if it's just throwing the ball around, pitching and catch, I think things the Chiefs are gonna have a hard time stop at them. Three pm Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. It will be fifty six degrees, twelve mo parer winds, no precipitation, partly sunny. It sounds like a perfect day for football, absolutely to it, okay,

and and worry from stadiums. What's around something else? Missouri? I don't know, Missouri Missouri. I'm pretty sure Missouri is the way you say it, but maybe people think I thought we were about to teach you that Kansas City is in Missouri, and I was like, surely you've covered the NFL Kansas City, kans Well, it's I mean it's on the border, and I do, yeah, I do know how you can drive up there as well. Inside joke,

but yeah, I get it all right. So yeah, I think I think the weather will be as corporative as you can expect it in November in Kansas City. Like there could be worse weather situations in this for sure. I don't feel like I just I feel like I need to clarify this because I don't like the way I said it, Like I'm not trying to I'm not trying to. No, No, that's what I do. I'm always trying. Nowhere near as many people listen live as you think they do. But um, I see the numbers will go hit.

I'm not trying to suggest that like the Cowboys need all these crazy breaks to win the game, like this is an even matchup. The Cowboys are a very good team. I just tough to win on the road against really good teams. So just as that's that's all I'm saying. All right, appreciate you guys. Joant us to be back tomorrow. We're gonna talk about the Cowboys offense versus the Kansas City defense. That should be a favorable matchup for Dallas, but we'll get into it tomorrow too. Then. For Nick Eatman,

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