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Thursday before game Day.

Because I'm feeling good about this one, guys, and I'm going to speak a win into existence because I cannot endure another one of last week.

But we will go.

Into the matchup this weekend and we're gonna give you guys some exce's and o's talk about some of the defensive matchup specifically, because I know that all eyes are on the defensive side of both teams going into this weekend.

We'll talk about that in.

A moment, but I do actually want to lead all since we are in the celebration season.

Pro Bowls were.

Announced this week, and as you guys know, the format did change.

There was you know, it was the Pro Bowl game.

They kind of did some things and then we determined that listen, Pro Bowlers aren't going to try and go and get hurt, get injured. It was just not something that people were enjoying watching anymore. How can we spice things up a bit? So now you're going to have the skilled Challenge format AFC versus NFC. I do think it is brilliant because it is the Manning brothers and if you are a fan of the Manning cast, like

For the eighth time, Casual, Zach.

Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence third time, and the first timers. I thought of you immediately, everyone to first of all, Tony Pollard. We could talk about that, but your guy Turpin made the cut, first player in Conwy's history to make it as solely a kicker and punt returner.

I mean, are you just thrilled for him? I'm so excited for him.

I mean, I'm excited for all of them obviously, all all very well deserved, and we'll talk about some snubs that I think happened too, but for Cavante specifically. You know what's funny is Aisha and I coming in as the rookies.

If you will, you just kind of talk to these rookie players.

And you feel like you're in the same kind of timeline of you know, you're just getting established and knowing all the ropes and all of that, and so with these rookie players, you know, you really you have a different kind of conversation with them, Like I know Kvante and I We've talked about a million other things other than football. But I'm just so out of him, especially coming off of the muff punt that everybody was talking about. Good for him, Good for Cavante. He absolutely deserves it

Nah.

Yeah, I'm excited for Cavante Turpin, Tony Pollard like it's about times. Yeah. I mean Tony Pollard being involved in this offense and what he's meant to this offense for him to start getting I'm just I'm happy that some of the guys are getting the recognition. And then when you look at DeMarcus Lawrence, who I've been just rooting for all season, all of the things he's playing through and has been very vocal about playing through that.

He hasn't made a Pro Bowl what three.

Years, And for him to get in this position and be there, these guys have work their tails off. They work their tails off well, Cavante Turpin. I think it's good for people to see other USFL players to see that they can go that route, that it's possible for them to get to this level in the league and to keep working.

Yeah, it is a really great story, and I think it's really exciting for him.

It is funny though.

I was looking at the list, and first of all, Zach Martin making his eighth time to the Pro Bowl makes me feel really old or the same age, and that in itself is just like terrifying. I think the one that was fun for me was the Tony Pollard. You know, Turpin, I'm excited about, but I knew you'd carry you know, that baton for all of us. The Tony Pollard one, though, is really fun for me because Tony's been around for a minute with this team. He's

But it's I just feel like this is.

A coming of age for him, if you will, or additional, just hey, listen, like, yeah, you are that guy that everyone has been saying, at least at Cowboys Nation like, but like we are reaffirming that that much more.

Yeah.

And to add to that, even with Tony when he was in college, you look at the roster he was on in Memphis, he had he had backs before him even then, you know. So for him to finally for this offense and this ohsh to finally get him involved this year and for him to it's also a conversation.

People know who Tony is.

I think they knew all but now he has I think, cemented himself as one of the best running backs in this league right now, and that's exciting and that's a dope way to look at it.

Oh yeah, and I also think too, when yesterday, when we're talking about Noah Brown and talking about a guy that waited until his number was called, Tony Pollard never had to really wait. I think their stories are completely different. But he slowly stepped up, so it wasn't like this huge jump that you're seeing from one year to the next. I mean, for those of us that have been paying attention to Tony Pollard since twenty nineteen, you knew this

Football players have resume. No, of course they don't.

There you go. It's another thing to add to his resume to say, hey, look I'm worth every single penny that I'm going to get.

And I love that for him.

We put some respect on my man's name and I am here for it. But on the flip side, with respect comes disrespect. And I do feel like there is some you know, I don't know, some snubs that might have happened people that were left off this list. I cannot believe one of the names that I wrote down. And if y'all are anywhere on social media and you follow.

Me, you will laugh, you know what it is.

You will laugh about what I'm going to say, but I will not kick things off because I want to hear y'all's list of who you felt like just should have been on that list and be going to Las Vegas.

Well, I'm sure I know who hers is, but it's the same as one of the same as me.

Okay, well I'm a number six stand Hey, listen. Donovan Wilson has been one of the best safeties in the NFL this year, and I felt like he's been playing to that level. I think he was at some point in time he was like second and stops in the NFL, Like he's played some fantastic ball and he's I think he's an alternate.

Oh yeah, he's an alternate.

Yeah.

But I felt a little different.

With the yes, Yes, you're like, go ahead and alternate me into that lineup.

Yes, because at the same token where I mentioned DeMarcus Lawrence, who doesn't have a whole bunch of sacks, but he's dominant in the run game for him to get voted, you look at someone like Donovan, I'm like, do y'all not see him everywhere? He affects almost every level of the game. And so I was disappointed in that. But other than that, well, I know the other one something.

Well, I'm gonna save Kelsey's because I know we agree with that one. But I'm gonna say Layton vander USh. Okay, because Leyton has absolutely.

High a dominant year.

I mean just pulling up his stats right now from his rookie season and now, of course they're not identical, but you did kind of see a drop off for Layton from that rookie season to twenty nineteen to twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and then you see twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two and the jump that this man

It's hard to do when you got Michael Parson's said linebacker too. It's true that they're gonna that linebacker. Yeah, but I do agree. He has definitely played well this year. He stepped his game up, and you obviously you see you need him like you missed him.

Y'all ahead, get it off your chesir.

We know we know who it is, all right.

I cannot believe that the time has come that I am actually going to say this.

But where is Brett Maher? Where is Brett Maher?

We knew on the list, we knew my how the turn tables.

I am now upset. I don't know what's going on.

I am justice couse views as you.

Why is Brett Maher Brett Murphy Maher not on the list? I have no idea if that's his middle name, but it is how.

Kind of curious? You know what I want to say, I did you name your dog after Brett Maher?

If that is his middle name, that would be hilarious. I need to know his middle name immediately.

I think that maybe it is because and this could just be me, at the beginning of the year you had Cooper Russian. Brett Maher was, like you need, like he was his he was leading the team in points a lot of the time of course games. And then since Dax's come back, he's he's kicked field goals, but it's just dropped significantly, So I wonder if maybe that had something to do with it. But the guy's been money.

Don't like that.

I mean, he's twenty three for twenty six field goal percentage eighty eight point five percent.

He's, you know, not that he's.

Leading the league, but like he's doing pretty darn well. And like you mentioned, there was a point in our season that that that man who was carrying the team on his back, you know, on his leg, and you know what, guys as one of his biggest.

Folk vocal supporters.

I have always been a Brett Maher fan, always kelse, I'm upset, so uh, Bretty boy, I am upset for you. I am upset with you, and I just feel like we should have thought of that one. He falls right in the category for me with the Christian McCaffrey's the two is the Justin Fields and you know, Jayleen Waddles, all those guys didn't make the cut and Brett money Mahrt is on that list, and I'm upset.

And who would have thought.

I mean, you go back to even training camp when the entire kicker situation was just rampant in the headlines. And look, I'll be the first to admit when it came to bringing Brett Maher on, I was nervous. I was nervous because look, as a Cowboys fan, you remember, you remember those things, you remember the trauma that you're put through in certain situations. Brett Maher's name in my life at that point with like, Nope, please don't do

A new kind of composure.

I feel it's a very mature and even killed composure that even when you're just talking to him, he's just very, very even killed. And what I can appreciate about him too is in those high pressures that youuas when he was the only person scoring points for the Dallas Cowboys at the beginning of the season, Not once did you.

See that reaction from him.

Even when he makes field goals and clutch field goals, man barely reacts. I mean the amount of even killed I guess mannerisms that this man has is incredible. But good for him. I'm really proud to see how he's progressed through his career. You want to talk about progression and all of that and proving and saying all right, I'm not even gonna say anything.

I'm just going to show you.

And that is the definition of Brett Money Maher who does not have a middle name.

By the way, well.

It's Murphy now. So the playoffs, yees, I'm just saying, all right, guys.

We checked his leg at all costs. We are going to.

Take our first break and we're going to jump into some of the key matchups, specifically defensively, that we think you guys should be looking at and taking notes for. Come Saturday, stay with us.

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Go vote Dak, but also let's go ahead and talk about Dak and the guys this weekend. I want to break down some key matchups to watch going into this big rivalry game. Albeit it's maybe not going to matter as much to the Eagles because it's Jalen Hurts is out, he's kind of got resting the injury. They were more focused on the postseason.

They're obviously on a roll.

Both these two teams aren't a position where they've already clinched the playoff positions, but at the same time, for the Cowboys, there are implications in terms of where their seating could be. But also I just feel like coming off of this past weekend, there's a lot of, you know, mental implications that I think are important to focus on where they need to really get back up again, gain that momentum, and continue to build some continuity as they

So I.

Depending on what happens with the secondary, that's gonna be huge, but for now, it's the defensive line. The Eagles offensive line is definitely the strength of theirs. I think it's the full strength of their team. They are so dominant, they have so many guys, and with the Cowboys defense, if they're able to get after the quarterback, it's gonna help out this secondary. I'm like we talked about dan Quinn talked about it being a competition, so we're gonna

So that is a huge part of it.

But also the defensive line and how they play, how stout they play, how they're able to get off of blocks with this Eagles offensive.

Line that can get up on you fast.

So that that's kind of my matchup I'm looking for right now.

I think for me, the matchup that is most intriguing for me in this game is the return of Dallas Goddard because he's been such a key component to this Eagles offense when he has been playing. I mean, you're talking a tight end that has such versatility within the way he plays, he can be a pro blocker. Yeah, he's very essential with his blocking, but vertical threat. I mean,

This is how are you feeling? And he's feeling good.

But he's also very aware of the amount of versatility that Dallas Goddard brings to this Eagles offense and I said, well, you know, how do you manage somebody so versatile and how do you stay focused on that? And it's all. We talked about this yesterday. All where your eyes are right, So Jaron really has to be on que with that. He said, Really, what he's looking to do is what Dallas Goddard looks to do is to make guys miss. So he can be very quick in making guys miss.

Mattering matter, I think, I think mattering works. Mattering. Yeah, we'll go with that.

We make a word one hundred percent. Okay, Well, how it matters. Dallas Goddard is going to be key for that. So Jaron, eyes on you, my guy. Yeah, keep in my eyes on Jay Roon to see how he contains Dallas Goddard.

I think that the Dallas Goddard one is a great one, you know, with that tight end position. There's especially with this this Cowboys defense. I feel like it's a great opportunity for the Eagles in terms of a mismatch, you know, any tight end though really in general, like that's kind of one of the main things that they can present because they can be that blocking, the can be that you know, vertical threat too, and obviously they're just massive

I mean, we talk about it like longevity with these players and preserving players, and when you look at Michael on tape, the way he's getting chipped, the way he's getting it's part of the game. Nobody's complaining in here. We understand that it's a part of the game. But you have to be realistic in the fact that it does wear.

On guys eventually.

And I also want to add that, like where you're talking about maybe him not completely staying there, you kind of need a band aid at linebacker right now, Like short week, you don't got a lot of time to change a whole bunch. Layton went down like you kind of need a band aid and someone to come in, and I'm going to assume that he would be the quickest band aid. Maybe that does help protect his body

Double team him.

Maybe him going back to middle linebacker and situation rationally will help preserve him but also make him It may also just give the def the offense another look again like the way that it was before. I could be beneficial for both for schematically and also for his health as well.

Yeah, and I think that's yeah, you took my longevity thing, because that's always what I fall back on, because it's true. I mean, you look at Micah Parsons and you forget this is.

Only his second year. I know that is insane.

You forget that because he's become such a staple and such a quick staple within this team and within this locker room. So I forget it sometimes, like you even talk to him and it feels like you're talking to a well seasoned veteran who's been in the locker room for ten years at this point. Right. But the longevity does concern me for Micah because.

Of that competitive nature of him.

He's not gonna be somebody that's like, oh, sit me down, like I need to sit this out. He will never do that, and so preserving health is always number one in my eyes. But I think as far as what Mica can and bring is I think the last couple of weeks we've seen the decline in sacks just from the defense overall. And I think what Mica does well is he tries to collapse that pocket and he bullies

You have Gardner Minshew.

This week, who isn't I don't want to say a watered down version of of Jalen Hurts because he's not.

He's not.

But what the Eagles are going to have to do is, and this is any time you have a backup quarterback and you have to take a step back from what you would do with your starting quarterback, you're not going to get the same kind of scheme. You're going to get a similar one, and it's just kind of a lowered version of it. For logistical reasons. You have a backup quarterback that doesn't get every rapid practice. You don't

So I feel like with Minshew you can obviously expect to drop off from Hurtz, right. I look at the Goddard as a matchup that you'll he'll definitely whenever there's.

Like a big tight end in the game.

I like to call them like the woob be right, like they're kind of like the go to and the yeah exactly like that like warm blanket that like you always lean on, Right, I definitely think that you'll see that with the Dallas Goddard situation. I definitely look at the d line and kind of have some questions, but man, yell it's the corner for me. Yeah, that I'm really

It's just it was just.

Very obvious that they were attacking him and targeting him and game planning against the weakest link. And I feel like that is a solid strategy in Minshew, while he may not be the starter, has enough experience that I feel like he would have confidence in trying to exploit

Yeah, I mean, you don't have a lot of options of guys. They've brought in quite a few guys Sheffield, Sheffield, McKenzie, Mullins. They brought in some veteran guys who have had tenure in this game.

I don't both of them.

I think two of them weren't able to even be elevated if I'm not mistaken. Last game, so you know, dan Quinn talked about, hey, there, this is a competition. So that's what I'm looking for in this game, to see if who's gonna line up there, how that changes things.

And quite honestly, at this point, I'm just waiting for.

Just somebody has to be out there that's gonna make the quarterback just look off there the because what's happening is that the quarterback's literally just dropping into doing their drop and they're like.

Eh, there it is.

It's not even half the time.

They're not even going through their other reads.

So at this point, I'm hoping that DQ can formulate some stuff and maybe find a guy that at least makes defenses think twice. And this defensive line, like we talked about with the pressures, they're also missing covered sex as well. But I will say that when the Cowboys played Philly last game, they sucked Jalen Hurts four times, So there's opportunity there. There's opportunity there. And I also think the Cowboys offensive line is better this time. I know we'll get into that.

We will get into that here in the next break. But speaking of Christmas and Christmas movies and quotes that Kelsey Charles likes to repeat on the regular, the Grinch movie where he's like, hate hate louth entirely. Jess just gave me a nice little report. The injury report did come out today and officially counter Cowboys cornerback Trayvon Diggs with an illness was reported as a potential questionable for Saturday versus the Eagles. Michael Parson's illness, Jake Ferguson concussion.

Yeah.

I don't see Trayvon days, not like personally does. He's most of the guys that have been ill this last couple of weeks, and it sounds like something's going around.

We'll see if he touted through it. This is a big game.

Yeah, we'll see.

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I was looking to at the Eagles practice report too, and so the only two rolled out obviously quarterback Jalen Hurts and then titan Tyree Jackson also ruled out. Ruled as questionable is wide receiver Zach Pascal. So other than that, those are the only game statuses that we know on the Eagle side of things. But all of the guys that we talked about yesterday having those limited reps or not participating due to just resting. Most of them all full participants today, So again that was.

Just they're healthy.

Yeah, they're they're trying to preserve healthy. They're healthy.

They're kind of they kind of how are how the Cowboys were? Will besides obviously deal with Jalen, but they're about this time last year that we were like, cowboys are healthy. Everything's coming together with the same thing, the seven of their quarterback right now.

So well, let's go ahead and dive into the other side of the ball in terms of matchups. And you know, I might just slander that Bird team and then I know you have some past interference for us, Jess, so go ahead and stay with us. We're gonna go ahead and take our final break sand jigs Dat.

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As I prepare to hopefully watch the Dallas Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles, I want to talk to the other side of the ball here and what Dak Prescott and this Cowboys offense has to do. Listen, I think we all know that the interceptions is something that really has to get cleaned up. And I mean I think they're saying all the right things, They're taking accountability for their actions.

Am I still concerned?

Yes?

But I'd love to hear you know matchups that you guys are looking at in terms of this Cowboys offense exploiting this Philadelphia defense. I'll start with you, Ayisha, and what you've got on your list.

Oh, I was looking at I was looking at last game just how physical, how physical Chicago played Philly, and it threw them off their dime a bit. They they struggled to fight through that. And when you look at when the last time the Cowboys played played the Eagles, the Cowboys ran.

The ball effectively.

Ezekiel elliott I averaged six point two yards of carry had not thirteen. Yeah, because you know that's another thing like Zeke. It's something about Philly that it gets inside him and you can.

See how he's running the ball.

I also feel with the addition of Tyrone Smith at right tackle, your offensive.

Line's still weird.

But at this point in time in the season, I venture to say, you feel better about your offensive line than you first did. We were still very unsure at that time. So this Cowboys, this Cowboys offense, I'm hoping comes out and runs the ball and runs the ball physically right at these guys. They have some linebackers that can fly, but Seed Lamb also had success against them the last time they played, which was if I'm not mistaken. I was thrown off by the fact that they were

So I'm wondering if they're still gonna.

See that the other their breakout game. I wonder if they're gonna if we're gonna see some of the tight ends getting involved again. And also Dalton Sheltzon play so with their.

Secondary being so stingy the.

Way that it is, hoping that the the Cowboys come out and run the ball effectively and also get the tight end uses in. But ceed Limb's not afraid of these guys and when he got one on one matchups, he made them pay. And I want to see it again.

I'm laughing at the tight ends because I was thinking about their nicknames that they had, like Mary, Kate and Ashley.

Oh, like yeah, that's literally where my mind was going.

Like I was like not laughing at the concept, I was just more laughing at what their nicknames were.

So anyway, sorry, justict no you're good, You're good.

What I'm keeping an eye on is the Eagles D line because they came at poor justin fields.

Oh my goodness.

Yeah, they had six sacks last week and each of these guys had two sacks last week. Josh Sweat had to, Javon Hardgrave had to, and Hassan Reddick all had two sacks last week. That was just in one week, six sex in one week, which you know, as a spoiled Cowboys fanatic, right with your deal with your defense, You're like, ah, that's nothing, but that's big.

That's big.

So what I'm looking for specifically within this game is the offensive line to have that continuity really established after last week with Tyron back in and you know, maybe Jason Peters is the swing tackle there, but I want to see that continuity because you're going to need it for this game with this D line that's gonna go rushing at Dak Prescott.

You need the continuity there.

You need that physicality, and you need to be clean with it. That mental focus needs to be absolutely on. That's what I'm looking for because there was there was a little bit of leakage at last week against the Jags two sacks I believe on Dak Prescott. So what I want to see is that just being cleaned up because I don't want anyone near Dak. Nobody is allowed near Dak unless it's Ezekiel Elliot or Tony Pollodgreb in that ball, I don't want anybody near him because this

In total in his career he has ten. Oh, let's see.

You have Fletcher Cox, who let's see, he has a total of six sacks.

He has five point five or.

Six sacks this season, but five point five career sacks against Dallas. So notoriously, Again, this goes back to this rivalry just being a game that everyone plays a little bit harder.

For sure, it's Philly.

You know, I didn't even want to wear green in this building this week for that reason.

But absolutely not, it's one of those things. I better not catch y'all wearing green at all this week. I don't care if it's Christmas week.

I wore green last night, but that's because I had to wear I worked for the Stars game last night. So stars are green, you have toug you have obscured. But my point is they're going to play harder. And that goes for Philly too, So everyone needs to come in and protect your quarterback because they're going to try to get in that pocket. They're going to try to collapse that pocket, and they're going to try to exploit personally. I think Tyler Smith. I think that's who they're going

No way