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on Sunday. In fact, you can make the case that the top four teams and the National Football League will be squaring off against each other on Sunday afternoon. And Sunday night you've got a Buffalo Kansas City game on CBS at three twenty five. Those are two four and one teams, the only four and one teams in the AFC, and over in the NFC. The only unbeaten team in the league right now, the Philadelphia Eagles hosting the four and one Dallas Cowboys. There's only I think one other

four and one team in the entire league. No, there's two more, the Giants, two more the Giants. Giants. That's the other thing. The Giants play the Ravens. Also on Sunday afternoon and the raven and Dallas time. Right Ravens are three and four and one, and then there's one other four and one team in the league. That little trivia question. As we start today's show, Bill Jones, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola, they are all confused. No, I'm on it. You fat it? You got who got? You got the

You have the Vikings? Yea, there it is. Yeah, the Vikings yep four and one. They play again in Miami against the Dolphins, yep. Three and two. That can be an upset. And can you find another four and one team? Four and one team? That would be? You said the Giants. We said the Giants, four and one Giants, Bills, Chiefs, and Cowboys. And so it's here's your here's your schedule

for Sunday. Yes, schedule the Right Ravens and the four and one Giants at noon on CBS at three twenty five on CBS, you got the four and one Bills and the four and one Chiefs, and then Sunday night you got the four and one Cowboys at the five and o Eagles. People are going to be worn out by time the Sunday night game starts. Here's the development. He's kind of related to that. So what's the tight end? His name Greg Alson. Yes, he's now the number one

guy analyst. He's the number one guy now yeah, yeah, now that Troy went, what happened? What happened to Darrel Johnston car Well, actually, Darryl is I always thought he was really good. I think he's basically on the number two team, right. How did Olsen jump ahead of him? Well, here's what happened with Darryl. Darrel was great. Darrel was climbing the charts, and then he got set back a little bit, and then now he's on the rise. He's on the rise again. We have been heading for a

game yet right now, and we need him for a game. Yeah. You know. One of the things with him, you know he uh, Daryl Johnston was the man in charge of the the revival of the USFL and the TV contract that was involved in that on Fox and everything. And I think the Fox executives, you know, were working with Daryl on that and they figured out, you know, guy, this guy's pretty sharp, like we've known for thirty years.

And I think and his stock is once again rising at the network because those executives have been around him enough to know that, hey, it's unusual that he doesn't get the benefit of the doubt, you know, right, Well, that's it's with age, you know, that's his hair is too great. There you go. All right, So here we are, and there's still so a lot we could get to about the Sunday win against the Rams. But there's so much to look forward to Sunday night against the Eagles too.

I s's so much to talk about last night. The quarterbacks. Man, what are we doing with the qbs? I mean, are we gonna consider them football players? Are we just gonna consider them? I'm glad you went there ever soon, because that's where my wife was going. You know, she's a Texas Tech grad and there's so many of those Texas Tech grads who are into those Kansas City Chiefs. And so she is watching she's watching Cowboys and now she's watching the Kansas City Chiefs because of my homes. And

she just got so mad last night. She just went to bed after after that penalty and with the one against Jones, against Chris Jones. Yeah, I just don't understand it. She can't understand it either. I mean, you can you can protect quarterbacks without ruining the game and without being so involved in it as as an official that you are the reason for the outcome of the game. You don't want to be a part of the game. You want to be seamless. It's like you're not even there.

And right now, referees are really injecting themselves into into ball games unnecessarily. I think they're paranoid, like if we missed that call. The two other things, yeah, same thing, such a difference though you can kind of see it. It's right there, the two a thing. He had a history which went back seven days, well less than that, but back four days, and you can see how he went down. You know, you have to use your own common sense as you judge to play as you judge

to play. Right there, in real time, Tom Brady was not under any drest. I don't know why he got upset about the sack. First of all, he seemed like he tried to kick the guy when when he was getting up off of him. I don't know what that was all about. I don't know if that had anything to do with the referee throwing the flag, because there's in no way Brady was treated like two of and then you look at last night with Car the same thing. Not only did he not land on him, he stripped

him of the ball. So when you strip someone of the ball, the quarterback is no longer an issue, you know. Now you have the man with the ball, and that to me is the priority of the entire The other thing is, when you've got the ball cradled in your arm, you cannot you cannot stop your fall. Okay, you stop it with your left hand, And it almost looked like his left hand he was trying to let Car down

easy in my opinion. Now listen, so when do we Okay, if I'm three hundred and fifty or three dwhere dude, that's what gives me like, Okay, I felt on him with all my weight? Well, how do I use partial weight? Yeah? How do you following some one using halfway? I don't understand that. And it's not like because he's got the ball, right, I mean you got to tackle him. How many times do Cooper rest get sacked in the game three? Did we look at his sax? Have we looked at his sacks?

Did they? Did they look? As it was he landed on he almost got killed by Ramsey. I don't even remember if Ramsey landed on him or not, but I know that the ball, thank god, was like right there, fell on top of it. So come on, that might have been called in the Grady Jarrett tackle of Brady. I mean I thought he was taking care of Brady as he took him down. He hadn't slung him. But but but I mean, he's tall, you go with him.

He had to. He had to. Oh it's killing me, man, I mean end it affected the outcome of the game. It affected the outcome of the game. It's almost like they're erring on the side of oh, if I don't call this something in trouble because it's a bit top of mind right now after what happened with two, I would feel safe as a referee, and if I did not make that call, I would be okay with it. I would not feel like I was in fear of not going, you know, going further into the playoffs as

a referee. Okay, So I think what they need to do, and they won't, but they need to have an eye in the sky. Well they sort of do that. They need to with the authority. Yeah that if there is an egregious mistake made like that that they and and it's and it's a judgment call, just like it's a judgment call on the field, And don't put the official in the position where he has to make that judgment call in real time spur of the moment. Like that,

you have the benefit of replay up top. And it doesn't have to be a challenge or anything like that. It's just you have an observer at every single game, the eye in the sky and when something like that happens, and it can be the other away. I mean, let's say that the too a thing happens and the official doesn't make the call on the field, then you can say no, that one needs to be looked at. I wonder when when they get judged, if they get drudged,

judged more harshly if they don't call it. Then if they do call one, that really isn't like do they say, well,

which one which one holds? Well? It's almost like what's happened on turnovers, where if there's a fumble on the field, they will let it play out even though I even though they don't think it was a fumble, they'll play it out to make sure and that the whistle is, and so the call on the field becomes it's a fumble, okay, and then they review it, and so that takes off from a base right right right, and and it's almost like that they Okay, if I think that it was

too aggressive, I'm going to call it just to cover my butt. It lands to just privilege. Man. You know, I'm a defensive back, if I'm a dB, I'm a running back. We're out there getting the hell knocked out of each other, and then this guy gets laid on the ground and we have to protect him. I'm sorry, it's it. It doesn't land having much respect for that position itself because it's being treated so and if they're gonna call it like this, there's gonna be a whole

lot of flopping going on amongst these quarterbacks. And so now so now you better call it like if I just if that's got you, yeah, that's not what I expected to but late, but so you have to be but you have to be now in the glass rather be quick. It better be quick. If I just have you any kind of casual way whistle now at the beginning of what I'm saying, yes, and always happened at

the beginning of that game last night. I mean they were sacking the quarterback and they were just they were just running up to them and putting them in a grasp and that was it. Pro Bowl. Yeah, exactly what. It reminds me of the beginning of the vision. I have got ba holding up. You're not good anywhere. You just had to wrap them up. That's all you gotta do. Don't take them. Rather call it quick now. You got

to blow that whistle quick now. If this is what we're gonna have, you know this is gonna be prevalent, we better call it real quick. That have brought my white hat intoday. Yeah, we need we just ranted it's too late now. But I mean it's a problem that they need to address. The owners meet next week. And uh yeah, I'd say immediate. I'd say it better be immediate. Yeah, and it needs something needs you got you got the outcome of games in the in the way here. This

is crazy. When you got a lady who is a Patrick Mahomes fan and she's going because something has to be done right now. Damn, you're you're losing those fans that you could could consider casual fans that put this league over the top as far as viewership and popularity, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah, all right, So Jerry was on the radio this morning. You know, Jerry is now the countdown to birthday number eighty. It's two days away now, it's Urday Thursday, and he had the first half of

his birthday gift on Sunday. He's looking for the second half this coming Sunday. You go, we have gift enough birthday muff, you celebrate all muff. Yeah, So that's good albumuff. Everyone will be a favor of that if they continue. You have it a chance to listen to him this morning. I did go back and listen to it, um trying to see where had a update for us daks paying a visit to the doctor. I assume today for today. But it's about the grip. Gotta be able to spin it.

Got to spin it. H huh. If you can't spin it and you need your spin it, oh man, that that's the that's gonna be uh. And so we'll see what he what he's able to do out on the practice field tomorrow. Right. I don't think they're gonna they're not letting anyone see him throw the ball and they're not gonna and they're not gonna say it. He's not gonna be outdoors. It's like Mike saying it's day to day, right, Well, yeah, it's day to day. That's a Bill Belichick's. Yeah, that's

an easy way to get out of it. Even if he happens to throw the football, and as I told you, can he take a snap. You know, he might be able to spin it, but you better be able to take a snap under center because that thing is coming fast and hard, right yeah, And a center doesn't have the luxury too generally take a little off of it, not like my handshake, right right. Um, So yeah, you know, and I'm glad he made mention of this because now

everybody's like, okay, when Dad comes back. Now they've got the formula to win. You play good defense and run the football. Okay, So what happens when somebody scores twenty five thirty points on You can't play cozy football now, And he was pointing out how and maybe McCarthy did too, or maybe it was Kellen Moore. They all go together. But this is a league of big plays. You want to stop them, but you need them, yeah, offensively and you're not gonna win a heck of a lot of

games scoring twenty two points. Now, what Cooper has done, he has come through in the clutch right because the defense has they kept him in the position to win the game, right and to make those plays on third down, move the chains, get that field goal, they'll get that last touchdown. I was trying to see how how Jerry put it here. He said there's a big play influence on better defense. He was just talking about, you know, as long as you're you're not turning the ball over,

you can kind of play this. But then you've got a resource like Dak who can come up with the big place and do you want to mute that? And I think people have gotten carried away with this, you know, run the football. Okay, So I looked and I think maybe two of the five games they've played they rushed for a hundred yards. So it's not like you've got this rushing juggernaut out there. It worked this game because

the defense held the Rams to ten points. What if the Eagles score twenty seven, you're just gonna keep handing the ball and okay, well you better run for fifty seven yard touchdown then to be able to make up for it. So they are playing the way they should be playing with a backup quarterback. And you know, let's not get carried away that while all you gotta do is, you know, complete ten of sixteen passes for one hundred and two yards, and you can win. Not every Sunday.

I wouldn't lay my bet on that. You have too many good teams in league whose offenses up. Eventually, you know you're gonna come up against an offense that's going to give our defense problems. It's just the way it is. You're in the NFL, you got seventeen games, Someone's going to figure out what your weakness is. I don't care how good the team is. We've seen it in the past, and especially as you get closer to the end of the season and then to the playoffs. Coaches are smart.

They can game plan you very well in big games, and you have to be prepared to answer that yourself. I don't mind Cooper Rush with his menial yardage. I like the fact that he makes the plays when we need to make them. And I'm hoping that when Dad comes back, we can keep the same formula. But we still they're gonna be moments to where we need more big offensive plays. That's gonna come, right, We're gonna need more offensive plays, and we're gonna need them in bunches.

And you know why because the league is about to start scoring more points than what they've scored the first month of the season. Newton has put it, as Nate Newton has put it, we got through the preseason. Okay, cowboys went three and one in the preseason, and now they're want to know in the regular season and the rest of it because no one's playing in the preseason, and so now we use September for the preseason, and so the offenses are now starting to catch up with

the defenses. When you look at that one one extra game, you really have two extra weeks. God, it just still kind of tips the scale a little bit, you know, and sometimes you can't predict it. So here we are with seven games. It just makes that season seem even longer, and so the changes are going to be made and the UH people are gonna have to adapt more than

once during the season. And while all games are important, right because you only got seventeen, but it kind of got put to me today, what's you know, Oh if you win this. I said, what if you lose the game, you know you still got what eleven more games to play. It's not like you win this game and okay, it's over with right the rate, No, the best you are is tied for first place. And right now, we looked at the NFC East as uh, you know, the bottom

of the league. Now our schedule looks from from going to one of the easiest in the NFL to a pretty formidable Uh yeah, right, like when you have to play all of a sudden giant out eagles a different game. So I found out what Jerry said. Uh. He said, well, it only took you ten minutes. I find it when you have a highly skilled player, meaning Dak, you don't

want to mute him. And and then he went on to say, uh, and thank goodness, we are successful not having that dimension, and when we get it back, that will be a real additive, will be a mess if we can keep playing defense like this. So his point is why you go ahead, you go ahead, and point his point is you keep playing defense like this and add some more offense, you're gonna be pretty and that

that gives the DAK the biggest endorsement. So far from Jerry, because everyone's been, you know, trying to read behind Jerry's statements and trying to say that he's like putting the pressure on that that Dak was never got, that he really ever believed in. And he keeps saying, though, Uh, isn't that great that you ask me that question? Because that means Cooper Rush is playing well enough for somebody to propose that question. Look, look at this legal pad.

I mean, look at all the notes, Look at all the boat that he takes from a Jerry Joe radio interview. That's something that's something that coaches need to learn from. You can't have too much on your play sheet. You won't be able to find this is the game. In just a moment, I figured. The Medal of Honor is our country's highest military award for valor in combat. More than forty million individuals have served in the armed forces since the Civil War. Fewer than four thousand have received

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That was the instruction. So back when on the website somebody wrote someone's name and they didn't get it right. So I emailed the person that was putting the stuff up and I said, no, the headline should read this, And it was supposed to be possessive. So they I put it in parentheses. They reprinted the headline with possessive at the end. They didn't they didn't get that. That was the instruction that persons name wasn't built, wasn't Everson

Walls possessive? I just wanted to apost field. You weren't clear, man, you weren't clear. And we just learned in the break that Everson Walls skip second grade, first grade, skip first was in the first grade for two weeks. We took that aptitude test back in the day. You were so bright, I was yeah, yeah, emphasis on on was yeah, all of a sudden, man, when I got when I got out of elementary school, it was like, oh that stuff

is hard nowadays. If they looked at Everson like I'm going to hold him back to nineteen to be really good athlete. So actually that you were probably two years younger than others that you were playing against in high school, those that were held back, Yeah, you not to mention college. Yeah, some of those guys in the NFL. And so so how old were you when you graduated from Birkener seventeen seventeen? But but but my birthday was in Is in late December, so you know it'll be I'll be I did my

whole freshman you at gambling, I was still seventeen. So how old were you when you were draft? Oh never mind? When when after after? When I was, when you unfed? When you when you got eleven picks in his room the host time. That's a record that will never be tyless. The youngest person to ever have eleven in actually at thirteen. Yeah, because count the playoffs well, but then by the time the playoffs came, yeah, he got the start of the season twenty one. Yeah, so and the end of the season.

About about my notes, I wrote down you remember the deep past at Well two at Well and Diggs was right there, and I wrote down my notes. Malik Hooker late coming over. And yesterday in Dan Quinn's press conference, someone said something about how he's playing, and he goes, well, he goes there was a couple big plays, but one of them, really Hooker was supposed to be over the top. And I said, see, I had it in my note. Tom Langie would never do that. He would he would

never do that. He'd be like you just you just bathe in it. If the safety you just sold you Ouyeah, it's a quarterback. You just you just take it then, buddy, Yeah, I love that that and I saw honest well, but I love the honesty on it too. And well, but when Malik Hooker also is playing as well as he is, he can do yes. And he prefaced he that prefaced it. What is it when you do it afterwards? Uh? Posts

said it whatever? And he said and he said, and and I'm sure Malik would admit to it, like you know, he knew that he should have been there. And it was one hell of a pass by the way, in a catch and his hand was right there by the ball, but he should have had safety help. And he pointed out that on the other one, meaning the touchdown to Cope, he said, he should have stayed over the top of his shoulder instead of instead of trying to undercut it, because when you're on the top and he catches it,

he's got to turn towards you. Hey, that's my trust me, right, That's the only way I could play it. When you when you're slow, you have to play it like when you're under But when you have speed, if you recall Digs got an interception like that last year, he was able to catch up with the receiver, but only because the quarterback waited until he got to the sideline. This time, Matthew caught him just as he was coming across the

middle of field. He didn't wait for Dicks to catch up, and the rest of the field had been cleared out. But here's the other thing, Tom Land you one thing I hate it the way he taught us man to man at times because he made us prioritize one thing is you have to be inside and deep because if you are not inside and deep on your coverage, most likely there's no one there to stop your receiver from scoring a touchdown, just like we saw against Cooper Cup.

My thing is this, we and not just the Cowboys DBS now are allowing these receivers to just release inside. He was in the slot and he can't couldn't get his hands on him. But you know, that's why your your alignment is important. And when he came off the line of scrimmage, Digs was a beat slow and Cups That's that's why Cup is gutsy. But that's but you have to be prepared for the worst case scenario. Man. That is the worst case scenario, a quick release inside,

he has leverage on you. Now, that's why when we played the flex, there were times when you saw wide receivers catching sideline have the sideline on us unless you change the defense. Well, that was the weakness of our defense, and Tom Landry allowed us to give up that route because it's the weakness of the defense. They were so paranoid. Do you remember Billy Waddys and they beat us nineteen

eighty I wasn't there yet. Nineteen eighty We lost the game because Billy White ran all the way across the field on the indcut for a touchdown in Texas Stadium, and that just that was a surprise. We weren't ready for that and then knocked inside of the playoffs. That right there taught Tom Landrier lesson and that was the reason that we played man to man the way we did. Worst case scenario is a release inside or a route inside, you have no help if he catches that ball. And

that's what's been happening throughout the entire league. Kelsey four touchdowns last night, each time he released inside and there was no one there. I don't know why. I don't like the design of the defense itself. If you're just going to let them run inside, then you chase them with the hopes of tracking them down before they catch them go to the house or they're playing zone. Maybe, Nah, they were in No, they went man to man. They were in man to man all four times. All four times.

So I just think it's a flaw in the design the way they have defensive backs playing these days. Speaking of Kelsey, I saw in the Philadelphia Inquired that Jason Kelsey and Landon Dickerson both kind of injury concerns going into this week practice. Jason Kelsey Jason as good as Travis Kelsey is. Jason Kelsey is just as good as right center. Yeah, so that's one we'll keep an eye on when they practice tomorrow they have any other injuries. That was the only two I saw that were highlighted.

Because this is going to be our challenge this spot. This would be the best we played against so far. The mistakes that the being was made. These Eagles don't do that. Yeah, and that's why you know they have to give Parsons a couple of days this week to try to get him strong enough for the game. Jerry thought that he would be able to do something on Wednesday and be ready for the game on Sunday. I'm thinking if they have to go go sit over there,

you know, don't worry about Wednesday and Thursday. We just need you. And if all I need you to do is come in on third down, it's nothing fancy, right, go get the quarterback. You didn't got to practice that. U So, Yeah, which which which? Which position? Do you think would be more taxing on him in regards to

his injury. I think linebacker maybe, because you've got so many different ways you got to go right, you might have to drop, You got to go sideways and maybe run five to six yards when you're rushing the quarterback. A lot of pivoting and you're just going straight right. You might have a little spin move, although you're trying to push a three hundred and thirty pound guy out of the way, which he a lot of times does

at his size. It's amazing the times he bull rushes. Well, even the last sack he had, Yeah, he's he just came into the huddle, limping into the huddle and then he just right just just bogus just kept coming right and it's almost like they're backing up and they can't stay with them. It's it's an amazing talent. His all right, I'm just lost in thought on Billy Waddy. He still

got me point. You got me researching Billy Waddy. And it's just interesting because that was it was actually nineteen seventy nine, Yeah, which was that might have been eight yeah, yeah, and it was. It was. It was December thirtieth, nineteen seventy nine, and it turned out it was Roger Staubach's last last yew was Cowboy and it was a twenty last play last last Yeah, the last play off game,

last regular season game was the winner against Washington. The post by Tony Hill, Tony Hill, right corner of the day. You gotta believe he couldn't play that year because of this is a funny story. I sprayed my ankle after after Roger Starbax touched out past to Tony Hill. What do you mean I believe that he completes that pass. I went running out of our front house, jumping up and down. The first time I've ever admitted that I could see it. Really, I could see it, man. That

was a that was a great moment. I mean to come back itself and of course, they had the picture of Springs jumped into Starback's arms. They have a good picture of that after you threw that touchdown. Yeah, glad you're lifting up. Yes and so and so. Then the following week it was Cowboys Rams in the playoffs, and it was Billy Waddy fifty yards from Vincent. We had the game. We had the game, and he's a nineteen fourteen league. Yeah, it came just a deep end cut

across the middle. And from then on time Landry changed the way we covered wide receivers from then on, and I have been teaching kids at camps to do the same thing, and they hate it because, like I don't want to just give up the outside short routes. It just kills them, Like, don't worry, man, It's gonna come to you, and every time it does, you have to be patient. There you go. That is wild. That's some great history, right stuff you don't get just anywhere else.

All right, Nate Newton has informed us it's time for us to take a late break here on mix shot. Probably peeking around the corner somewhere. We paid how much for those lessons? She's to really great? Oh yeah, totally? Can you pass me a Pepsi zero sugar. Great job, honey, Oh look at that. That's not the end, No way, Now it's time for the encore. You know what, You're right? Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in

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I saw a headline, but I did yesterday. Well, Ralph Vacciano is reporting today that Commander's coach, Ron Rivera, one day after saying quarterback is why other teams have pulled ahead of his team in the NFCS. Today, he opened his press conference saying he spoke to the team before practice this morning and apologize his Monday comments, which he said he didn't present. Well, I should know better, s word, I had a bad day. Let's move forward. He was

still pissing it still bad quarterback? Right? It was an end zone interception. Man, it was dude, it was typical. I didn't see it. You know what, I really I have always liked Crossing Wentz. I really have um watching him, you know, developed especially when they took the Eagles to the playoffs that year. I showed a lot of grit. Man. The way he won the Super Bowl that year was not him, but he had something to do with it. This guy man just snake bit. Well, I wouldn't say

that's not bad luck, just bad decisions, you know. He just I don't think he ever saw the linebacker because when he threw that pass, it looked like he was Aaron Rodgers. It looked like he was you know, Matthew Stafford. We're just gonna flip it off in there, you know, my homes and it was gonna be a good play. But the tight end, I mean, the linebacker saw it. And he had three hundred plus yards passing. He was having a great game. But this is what he does.

He did it to the coach last year, and that's two coaches that are gonna be in trouble because of him, because Frank Wright. They were mad at him last year. I'm surprised he still has his job this year because they were so upset that he put all his faith into Carson Wentz. He said it verbally a hard knocks in season. This is our guy. We're gonna ride our quarterback, and he can do it. He always backs the wrong horse. Well, in this case, that wrong horse has been backed a

couple of times. Poor quarterback player will get a coach fired. It's sure will rule, It's sure will. It's sure will. And three twenty plus yards passing. He had a couple of touchdowns. If I'm not mistaken, and he just throws that oh man, and you could just see how disappointed he was. I know he's thinking to us out, man, am I stupid? Come on? We've all said it to each other, right you though we have? Man, how could

I have been so stupid? Okay? So, like examine the NFC East the quarterback play, Well, okay, you've got Jalen Hurts at Philadelphia and here in Dallas, Dak the first game, but the wins have been with Cooper Rush at quarterback and then Daniel Jones with the Giants coming off a win over Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in London on Sunday. So which messes up our preseason preview of the conference saying, well, when you look at the conference where you're gonna pick

our division, are you gonna pick the win? Well, who has the best quarterback? Well it's Dak Preskin. Now he's nowhere to be found. He's not found if Daniel Jones and Hurts are playing, you know, okay, And so what are the Eagles doing? And we'll get more into him as we go through the week. But your talk about points scored in the Eagles in the first game of the year against Detroit, they got a big lead and then that held him off for a thirty eight thirty

five win. But since then they've scored twenty four, twenty four, twenty nine in the rain in Jacksonville, and then twenty against Arizona. So it's not like they've been in the thirties every game. And if you if you listen to Jalen Hurst's interview afterwards, he was pretty honest about that. As happy as he was, He's like, we we still we've got to play bad. And you got Cooper Rush's stats there, Uh yeah, no picks, four touchdown passes right there.

It's quarterbirt rating is ninety three point nine. And I also figured out if you throw out that when he what did he play in a quarter and again when he came in so as a starter. As a starter, his quarterback rating is ninety two. Okay, no picks, four touchdowns. He's completed right at sixty one percent of his passes, which is what he has now. How many sacks seven? Okay, and I don't know how many of those might have been in the first game. Hurtz has four touchdown passes,

two picks, and been sacked eleven times. He's running sixty eight times for two hundred and sixty six yards and six touchdown questions. That's the difference right there. That's what's making And think about it. You played defense. You get a team third and seven, third and ten, third and twelve and the quarterback takes off for fifteen yards rand coming him. It just breaks your heart. The same team. Yeah, Rando coming him happened all the time back in the eighties,

and that's just the way it was. We had a lot of quarterbacks that had that ability. Jeff Hoste. Look, yeah, he helped carry us to the super Bowl with the Giants just by doing that, not just in the Super Bowl, in the playoffs, but he laid us down the stretch during the regular season with timely scrambles that really got us out of a lot of trouble and help his win. So two things on that for this game, and probably too early start analyzing it, but number one, they can't

let hurts when they when they rushed the quarterback. It can't be all out here. The same thing Russell Wilson early in his career, right where you gotta be control, controlled and can't just be out of control saying okay, I gotta get through the quarterback no matter what. And then secondly, um, and who did they do this with Maybe a little bit with the Giants with Daniel Jones. They had somebody watching for and I think it was Donovan Wilson quite a bit. And you would like Michael

Parsons doing that. But if he's somewhat limited, we'll go back to where we start. Like Wilson doing that. Yeah, I like jay Ron Curse doing that, and they well j Donovan is gonna be that's true, but but jay Ron's gonna be close. The probably play him closer to the mind the scrimmage, right, Yeah, and let jay let let Wilson help in the bat because he's gonna go. He's gonna take off. He's taking Goddard. That would be

j J j Ron. That's why you have Curse don Goddard and then Wilson as your Now Wilson could also Yeah the tea, that's the luxury that we've gotten better at. Yeah, Um, two hundred and sixty six yards rushing. But here's the bottom line on two hundred and sixty six yards six touchdowns. Well, yeah, they know when they get in the red zone. The spell he's gonna run. That's right close to the goal line.

He's keeping it. Yeah. And so when you look at a team like that, I say, a quarterback of that caliber doing the things that he does, that's going to cause us to play more zone defense. You just don't really want to be playing man to man with your back. Turn into a quarterback that will that has a tendency to take off right, you know, that could really lead to some huge plays. Our one defense is so good. We can attack someone you know in in unison and

keep those scrambles to a minimum. I think it'd be the smarter way to go any more predictable circumstances. Now, the other thing I saw at twelve forty six. Man, Wow, Well we'll finish here and pick up tomorrow. Yeah, let's you want to tease the other thing that you saw. I want to say it and then we'll verify it tomorrow. No, no, yeah, you're gone and we're gonna double check it. But I read that this is only the third time in Eagle's

history they've been five and oh wow. So we're gonna research to see how many times the Dallas Cowboys have been five and oho to start a season. Okay, that's coming up on the next edition of mix Shots, Oh Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.