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a state championship tennis team in high school. Oh, I did not you watched your high school tennis team win state? That something? Did not say that we went to state. You went to state, you didn't win state State, And that's right. They went to watch that's right. And our state championship games being played at at NTS Stadium today, tomorrow and the next day. I understand Refurio is behind right now. No, not not Refugio, Refurio from down to the south. That's not six man football, No, no, it's

eleven man. Six man was yesterday, all right, all right, And there are more than six men on the football field right now. Cowboys practicing outdoors today and it's a big practice too, twelve o five. Unfortunately we're in here. We need to be outside. Come on, man, we're bringing it to the people now. Need to be good news is that at twelve fifteen we will have a break and then Ricky will go spy on practice and watch the booze lining up at right tackle. Yeah. Watch, I'll

go watch him stretch. Let's go watch him ONEm up. You think that the who's playing right tackle is going to be determined by practice reps? Yeah, that's why I think the head coach has said that for three days right, we follow the practice reps. So we'll see how that goes. They have many alternatives, but I still think the simplest one is get ready Tyrant Smith to play right tackle. That's it. That's what you're voting for. That's what I'm

voting for in Jacksonville on Sunday for a couple of series. Okay, yeah, but let him get his legs underneath them. And then maybe for Philadelphia on Christmas Eve. Do you think that when they walk out there the media they will see him at right tackle? That's the question. They probably won't do anything to expose what they're doing. Try tackle. They'll wait until they're gone. They on the ropes with Britt up until yeah, right, exactly, that's right. Yeah, So the

play Okay, let's let's get beyond one day. All right, let's get beyond even Christmas eve. Let's get to the playoffs. And assuming everyone is healthy, what is your tackle situation in the playoffs. Who's playing left tackle, who's playing right tackle, who's playing left guard. We're gonna assume be Audish and Martin right center and right guard. Okay, who are who's playing that? After the after the Cowboys earn the first

round by the divisional playoff round of the playoffs. I love it because I'm still on that bandway yet a lot of winning to do to get there. Got win, just wing, just gotta win, win, right, have you explained it yesterday? Just win? And that means you beat the Eagles and then have the Eagles lose one game and you're in and be on the row going in. I see no reason why to upset the entire offensive line to get one guy on the field. So to me, Tyrn Smith, he's not just one guy, he's two. He's

biggest too, but he's also the guy. You know, if you were just talking about another art right, I got you. Yeah, but you've won ten games with Tyler Smith playing left tackle, So just put Tyron at right tackle. It seems simple to me because if you put him at left tackle, then you're putting Tyler Smith at left guard, and then you got Jason Peters at right tackle with Josh Ball. Yeah. No, Tyron Smith isn't no, no, no, I'm saying if you, if you, because if you put Tyron Smith that left tackle,

then you're making all those other moves. Yeah, it got too many moves to make. So just simplify it to me. Now, I'm not watching all the practice and the reps and Graydon film, but um, you know, will will Tyron Smith make that big of a difference at left tackle as Tyler's Smith ever played right tackle? No, I don't think so. I think he was, like, that's why they he spent a strictly a left side player. Yeah this year, that's why they kept him on the left side, just whether

it's playing left tackle or left guard. And he's not an old dog yet, can Yeah, well he's old now in the NFL. He's got thirteen games under his belt. Right, because if you do it the other way, then who's playing right tackle. It's either Jason Peters or Josh Ball or a combination there. Yeah, I don't know that you want Hey, Beyante Collins was active last game. Yeah, and so Tyland is of the mindset just put me anywhere, I think. So. I don't think he handled it as

a twenty year old rookie. I don't think he'd come in and say no, I'm left tackle. So it hadn't been posed to him yet. I talked. I thought maybe someone would come out and ask him already. Well, you don't ask Tyrn Smith. We talked about from my standpoint, you only maybe you can only if the coaches talked about only if Tyrant offers it, will it get? You'll get You'll get a grunt, right stock was the word that was used in the press. Offer Yeah yeah, so

oh really yeah. Todd Archer asked the question about it, and he described him as stoike. Yeah so that he said. Todd said, he's he's shall I say stoik and um, so he's not. He doesn't say much to us. How excited is he to get back? Oh? I'm I'm sure he'll smile and say, yeah, really, that means he's excited, man a few words. That's try, gentle giant, And that's okay as long as he plays the way he plays, right. I'm gonna find that video of him dancing one of

these days. And Mike McCarthy said, he that he's got the perfect pr yeah stance. You know, he there's a great job handling pr I just don't know that you want a forty year old tackle that has played all that many snaps this year suddenly starting and playing one hundred percent of the snaps at right tackle and that means sixty to seventy a game. I just I don't

see it. Me. They might. So then on Sunday, if Tyrne is available to play, if he is active, I mean, if he is active and playing in the game, you anticipate that he would be starting at right tackle. No, not necessarily, okay, he I mean, if McCarthy says we're following our practice reps, he said he needs a couple practices in pads. Today will be the first one. Next

week would be the second one. If indeed they're in pads because it's a Saturday game, right, that's right, And he might back off and say no, I got to get my guy's legs underneath me. And then problem is and then maybe one padded before you go to play Tennessee on Thursday night or is that you know, considered another short week? Yeah, Saturday shorter than next week, right, Yeah? So I just just judging the way they've done previously

and not knowing what they've you know, doing. Uh. Usually guys need two weeks of practice, uh in practices with pads before they play a game after being out for a I mean, look look how they treated uh Michael gallup right, that was almost three weeks, right. I think

he used all his ramp up before. And then the other thing is when you activate them, you got to cut somebody, probably because they just signed a cornerback, uh to the roster or waiver claim, waiver claim, I should say tray ViOn trayvon mulluch Avon Mullins singular mull mull Mullin. Who's a Mullins. That's not is it the football coach at Florida? Is it Mullin Mullin. Yeah, he's a singular Dan mull They're not related. Yeah, Yeah, I had a

feeling that was accurate. So yeah, you know you and and um, so you gotta you gotta find room for guys and not you're cutting somebody. Um you know they've got those other corners on the practice squad if any of those kind of show up. I mean, this guy only played five games last year, um Vegas. He had

foot injuries, and then he's played Mullin. Yeah, and then he's played eight games this year and maybe one of the reasons he got cut was he wasn't starting that when they traded for him, they gave up a seventh that can become a sixth after if he plays ten games. They cut him after eight, so maybe they and that's a four and nine team that cut him. Yeah, and so they're Arizona. They're not going anywhere and might as well protect your draft let go by one to fifteen team.

Don't judge a man like that. Okay. No, I like it much worse than that. I love the fact that there may be an underlying reason why he was let go by the Cardinals and maybe not just just play. Whatever it had to do with not giving up seventh round draft to sixth round. That's their show, Okay, I'm sorry if it was dress up Thursday. We missed it. We Bill didn't. It's my dress up day too. Um. Trayvon Muellin, by the way, another product of Clemson University.

So now the Cowboys have jay Ron Curse as well as McKenzie Alexander, who they signed last week to the practice squad, and now the waiver claim of Trayvon Mullins. So barely they loved Brent Vinible's play. There a connection. No, I was wondering if that's their entire secondary when they won a national championship, you know, light in it. That's he came into the well. He was at Clemson twenty sixteen, seventeen and eighteen, so he was a part of two

national champion teams. Curse actually was not on and I got to look up Alexander as well. Alexander was on maybe on the twenty sixteen team, but Curse was. He came into the league twenty fifteen or fifteen. I was going to say twenty sixteen. So yeah, So anyway, Um and Mullin and the other thing. On Mullin, he is a bigger corner. He's six two, and so McKenzie Alexander is that slot guy five ten five eleven. Yeah, he looked like he was about five or eleven. Quick footage, right,

quick footage. Everything was a quick voice with him, right. He started thirty one of forty five games in his career, but the majority of those were with Vegas. I think his second and third year. Maybe the second round pick fortieth overall by the Raiders. Yeah, Mike Mayock liked him. Yeah, that's why Mike Mayock he's back in the broadcast booth. By the way, he and Herman Edwards, Yeah, yeah, Herman was By the way, he showed his butt on TV

the other day. Oh yeah. And when I say that, I mean he pretty much showed where his bias lies all regards to the Cowboys Eagles and who's the better team. And you know, he was upset about how Cowboys are always talking about how they believed they're going to go to the Super Bowl, and boy, he really ranted on that one. I hadn't seen him back on TV in a while since he his storied college football coaching career, but he really came up and jump right into the phrase,

do you think these guys actually read stuff? They do not or they just have they do reception? They do because there's nobody have a bias just because those guys in the locker room say, yeah, our goal was doing everybody's goal. Everybody, every fan says their team's going to that's the way it goes. But they hear where it's like the whole team saying, but their kids Jay's but when they see him, but their dog is proud of You know, is anybody gonna criticize Mike McCarthy saying, you know,

the goal is to win eleven games? I mean to you know, when you win eleven games, then you kind of know who you are right now that it's a seventeen game season. Used to be ten and that was the barometer. They're nothing wrong with that. It's amazing. No, he ranted, Oh, he ranted the back. Well, you realize that the Cowboys are the upset pick this week? Oh yeah, everybody's yeah, because they haven't been playing very well to

get up. So yeah, they they've been struggling. It's such hope out there for that, hopefully a lot of it. I hopefully you know what happened to the unbiased opinion? Yeah? You know not. Actually, what I'd like to see is how much um t Y Hilton does today because he sounds like he's ready to go. Jerry sounded like he was going to hit the ground running. Um, so does he need ramp up or can they send him out

there for a couple plays. It dawned on me after our show and stop me if I said this yesterday, because I set it on a radio show that it kind of reminded me of what DeShawn Jackson did. Stop up I did. I just wanted to make sure. I wanted to make sure it went deep, like three times. There you go, t Y Hilton, that's kind of you know, he doesn't have to play forty snaps. Just get him out there for twenty Here's what I see with him. And someone said it yesterday and it's exactly what I

was thinking. When Amari Cooper came in, there was instant success, instant improvement and connection between him and Dak Prescott because of the veteran leadership, sorry, the veteran way he carries himself, his ability to run precise routes, knowing exactly where he wants to be, and then you can have those trust of faith throws, as Jerry called it in regards to Dak and and Ceedee lamb. This guy t Y is that person running the slot, a smart, smart receiver. He

should bring immediate impact on our third down success. And when you look at some of the comments made by his quarterbacks, these are guys that they don't have any loyalty to him anymore. But god, what's the old man that he just had that with the Coats? Luck? No, no, I can't believe. I can't remember the CORBA Philip Rivers. Rivers, thank you Philip Rivers. Oh my god. He talked about him so much about what the professional he was and that is a true. Yeah, he's a true veteran wide receiver.

I think the improvement. And Oliver Luck also said something along the fact of one of the things that he misses about playing with the Coats is playing with t Y Hilton. I mean just they just asked him what do you think about him? And this is the is the comments that came out yesterday. So this is how he's thought of by his peers, guys that owe him nothing anymore. When you look at how Cooper came in

and they just immediately had a connection. Man, I don't want to jinx it, but I really think that this is the same scenario. The only difference is is Cooper was playing the entire season. Yes, this guy hasn't played since last year, and Cooper was like seven years younger. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. More than that. Yeah, I think he can help him. I just don't know how quickly, how sooth you and the other thing. I think it would be where he needs to be, and that to

me is important. Right. But you also want to make sure that he is ready to go, yes, because at thirty three years old, you want him healthy a month from now. Yeah, you don't want the first tackle to knock him out four weeks or just the first time he comes off the Yeah. Yeah, a line of scrimmage and you've seen it. He's a very special receiver. Yes, everything he does is instinctive. You talk about getting knocked

out and getting hit things that nature. He's always been able to avoid the big blow, like like Dossett was able to do at his size, understanding his limitations physically. That that's just what they do. They know instinctly how to go into a situation and coming out of it safely. You know. Jerry kind of echoed what you said on Tuesday, saying he's a veteran receiver, so he knows the routes. It's not like they're going to come up with different pass routes, right, he knows. He knows what they did

at the Colts. And if the comps the combination, it's the route within the combination. Yeah, he knows. He understands the idea of it, you know the scheme behind it. And that's what you want with a veteran receiver. And I would imagine Dak will have instant trust with him. That's my point. But you don't need him out there for sixty snaps a game, you know, give him thirty twenty whatever. You know, your third receiver, the best, the best, the safest route for for him to run is a nine. Right,

let's go straight. Let's go straight. You ain't got a plan or anything, just like the Sean Jackson right here we go. Stop. We don't say that stop all right? All right? Well, is it's time for you? Yes, you need to go check and see who's playing right tackle for the Cowboys. This peak like k on the end

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very adequate, very good. We want oh Mickey's back from his peak, from his peak. Well, watch going on on that practice field. There a lot of individual drills going on right now with the offensive linement. But I did see seventy one out there and he had pads on. Collins is back. Yeah, So seventy seven's out there with pads on, pads on for the first time since whenever

since he heard himself. Oh no, no, I take that back, because when they were out there doing stuff before practice, some of the drills he was doing was with pad with pads on. That counts. He wasn't hitting anything, you know, I forgot to look for him, But so that counts as a padded practice. Well, it was a padded rehab. Let's put it down. He's been rehabbing in pads. Yeah. By the way, our producer Supreme has sent me the college snaps of Tyler Smith. The question was posed last

segment about Tyler Smith. Has he ever played right tackle in college? He had seventeen hundred seventy eight snaps at Tulsa. Seventeen hundred seventy six of them were at left tackle and two were at left guard. Yeah, I wonder what the heck happened. Somebody was getting that butt kicked over there on the other side. They'll go hand to that for no, No, it wasn't it was left guard. It was the other two. He was a left guard. He never went to the right side, never went to the

right laft offensive lineman. And I think he was like a defensive defensive lineman at North Crowley High School. Yeah, so, um, it would not be prudent to give him his first snaps that that was never posed. Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah, all right, um, let's see where do we saw this? It was very interesting with Jacksonville. Yes, five and eight. Yes, Trevor Lawrence has lit up the field in November. He's

been awfully, awfully good. But what stuck out to me is the Jaguars lead the league with number of times they have shut out the opponent in sacks. Six games. They've given up no sack only twenty three total on the season, I think, or and they're all for him, by the way, for Lawrence, as a matter of fact, they're tied. They have twenty three sacks and their opponents have twenty three sacks. So he has not been sacked all that much. Although the Cowboys are you know, better

than that. I think Dack's only been sacked nine times. Maybe, I wrote it down. Hang on. I figured that they had more sacks on defense than that, but they haven't. Twenty three twenty three, it was it was a tie. They got number one pick in the draft, Trayvon Walker, who has three and a half sacks. I think. So Dack's been sacked nine times and Cooper Rush was sacked seven times, so they're the cowboy quarterback has been sacked sixteen times. That's pretty good, especially when he got forty eight.

And by the way, they no longer lead the league because the Eagles have forty nine. Okay, hmm, I love it. That's what happens when you get shut out. How to make them mad. But yeah, I was just reading this stuff about Lawrence and it was it was pretty interesting. Last last five games, now, is it? He's got ten touchdown passes and no interceptions, sou and I think they are three and two during that time, He's got six

consecutive games with a passing touchdowns. He threw for three hundred and sixty eight yards, the most by any player in franchise history against the Titans. Now, I don't know if that meant against the Titans or they did it

against the Titans. Uh. Since the month of November. Lawrence ranks first in the NFL in completion percentage seventy one point eight, second in NFL in passer rating one hundred and eleven point seven, tied for six and passing touchdowns with ten, and rank seventh in passing yards with thirteen hundred sixty two. So they've been throwing the ball pretty well. I've watched him play and launch. To me, can I call him Sunshine? Sunshine that's what they call him, Sunshine

for something. I think it's something that with the Titans movie with Denzel Washington. But Sunshine himself has really been playing well, I think, especially depending on you know, when you look at the team that he's playing with. He's a guy. He reminds me a lot of Joe Burrow. Very daring in what he does. He's not afraid. He won't back down from anyone. I don't care if it's getting sacked, I don't care if he's throw it, throwing

it into a tight hole. He's a guy that I think is is going to warrant extreme caution against him because he can. He could blow you out if you're not careful. He's got armed, talented, he does, and he gets it out quickly, which is something we just got accustomed to last week. Right, he's tall not He's definitely taller than the quarterback that we just went up against sixty six, and he is a dynamic player. To me, he's a winner. I really think he's a winner. And

by the way he'll pull it down and run. Yes, that's why he reminds me of Joe Burrow. Because of that, he's averaging four point seven yards a carry. Here's another anomaly for them. They have scored two hundred and ninety four points average twenty two point six a game. They have given up two hundred and ninety How does that happen? I had to double check. I said, maybe I didn't see it right, right, nuts two ninety four in two ninety four, So there's exact number. Yo, see a team

like this. I'm glad that the stats are glaring. Yeah, because we don't have to worry about I'm hoping a letdown to get your attention. Get your attention, and you're going down to Florida. I don't know what the weather is there. It's always hot and human, you know. I remember seeing um down in games. But when Emmett Smith was in college, and his jersey always looks soaked, you know. And it wasn't just from him from his own sweat, it was just from the humidity itself in the in

the city. And so they're going to be tested, They're going to be challenged, and I hope they come in there ready to play in hot weather because back in effect your performance and your mentality as well. The Cowboys have never won in Jacksonville. You know how many times they played there? Once Gard Gerard, Yes, David, he beat them. I remember eight. I remember being there that he was. He played, He played like Johnny Unitas. They beat the

Cowboys twenty four seventeen in two thousand and six. Yeah. And the other time they played him, not in Dallas, was in London in twenty fourteen. Do we win yeah, okay, no, nope, no, so we have it says this was the year was in this was their deal? Had had an all? What year twenty fourteen? Yes, Joseph Joseph Randalls was Randalls game? Yeah, absolutely, When you say Randall's game, he had a big game

against Jacksonville in London. Okay, the only big game of his career I think does Brian had a big quarter if you remember correctly, in that game, Yes, he had like he had other big quarters in his career. No, he had like the biggest quarter in Cowboys history. I think he had like one hundred and eighty five yards in one quarter. That was the game, my two tds. I think that was the game he almost missed because he was almost late for the bus to go to

the murder. That's correct. That was the one game you gotta pay for. Whether he would have missed it, he would have had to cover his own way to London. The bus was leaving for we had to go through security in the It was at the ranch, right in the cheerleader's dance room. I remember that I was staked out outside. We were getting video of the team departing right to go to London. And whoever if Brett Kelly or Bill ellis my photographer CBS eleven. We're sitting there

and wait, why isn't the bus leaving? And then about thirty minutes later here minutes I don't know, fifteen minutes, I don't know what it was. It was supposed to part. Here comes this. We were supposed to depart at four o'clock and I think at like three fifty eight. He pulled into the parking lot, but he had to go through security. Right. See that makes sense because I've was doing live shots outside Valley Ranch that Cowboys. I'm out to the part for London, and you see the scene

behind me. We don't know why the bus is not left yet. It's news here. Oh now we figured out why that was when I got caught. I got caught, well, not caught, but I was telling a joke because we were lead. We were in London, and I was having problems with my computer, so I had to get another charger. So I was sitting where all the Cowboy offices were in this hallway and uh, we were supposed to get on the bus to leave for practice eleven thirty. In

about eleven twenty five brought us. Calls me and goes, you're coming to practice and I go yeah. He goes, well it leaves in eleven thirty. I said, it's eleven twenty five. He goes, well, it's almost there. I said, I am on Dez Bryant eleven thirty A very important. Just when I said it, Jason, Jason Garrett comes walking down to haul of me and how you're good there? Right, Yeah,

you're eleven thirties. Eleven thirty. By the way, that game against Jacksonville in two thy fourteen, Dez Ryant had six catches for one hundred and fifty eight yards and two touchdowns, both those touchdowns coming in the second quarter of that game, and Joseph Randall had seven carries for fifty six yards and a touchdown, eating a forty yard touchdown run the Everson. You asked about the weather in Jacksonville on Sunday, What would you determine it would be in December a warm

to hot day in Jacksonville. Anything over sixty five degrees with eighty percent of humidity. Well, you're in luck because the high in Jacksonville on Sunday fifty seven degrees or the low of forty. It can't get cold in Jacksonville, Yes it can. It's one o'clock start though in Jacksonville. That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, sometimes late afternoon in month anyway, when you're on the water, it's cold.

That's right, that's right, All right, we continue. Could you think you can legal for you to go sneak another peek out there? Okay, he's gonna take another peek or I'm acting like I'm walking to the training table back in a moment on mixed shot. We paid how much for those lessons? She's doing 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?

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out to practice right now. Is he usually at practice? Yeah? He comes out every now and then. Okay, when he doesn't have business business, yeah, I'll yeah, yeah, he comes out. Um, so the media was just walking off, and if they were paying attention, uh, the offensive line was still doing some individual drills. But I did see him line up five across and seventy seven was at right tackle. Oh we got breaking news here. M hmmm. So you lined up? Okay?

They so they This wouldn't be considered first reps in practice team. It was against the other offensive line playing the defensive line. Okay, so yeah it's not practice right, So and and and again that could be the acclamation period right before they actually get into doing something. So it comes with a major qualifier there. Yes, I don't want anybody is breaking. I just did get the sounder out there. Uh yeah, yeah, all right. So do you think that what happened and the way in which the

Cowboys won the game over the Texans last week? Um, how does that affect this week's game against Jacksonville as far as their mindset goes? Um, I think you have confidence, but you also realize the urgency because if you think about it to come out with your synopsis there on how they're going to win the East, they can't lose. And I could remember in ninety three when the Cowboys lost the opening two games and then as defending Super Bowl champs lost the two games Thanksgiving Day to Miami

and the game before they had four losses. I think at that point or one two, three, Yeah, because they finished twelve and four. Jimmy Johnson basically threw down to gauntlet and said we got to win out, and he worked their tails off to the point, you know, they were nearly exhausted, and they won out, but didn't win out until the final game of the year in overtime against the Giants to win the East and get home

field advantage. Had they lost that game, they would have been second place and they wouldn't have had home field vantage all the way through. So the gauntlet that Bill throw down is you better go on a what is it, six game winning streak? Seven? How many in a row have they won right now? Four right now? And you got to win four more right That means basically, you gotta win right what will come out to an eight game win streak to close the season, which is not easy,

but you're halfway there right now. But you can't get to eight unless you get to five. And this is the fifth one. I think they understand the significance. I think people are overreacting with all this upset special Jaguars over the Cowboys, and they're gonna have to play because I think they're gonna get a really good test from Jackson anytime the Cowboys come in, they get if they're five incally against a talented team. If they don't win out,

they're not getting into the playoffs. Yes, right, because there's one two, I think there's like four teams. Hang on one two, three, there's three teams at seven and six ahead of them New England right now. By however, tiebreakers they used would be the seventh seed at seven and six, and then the Chargers are seven and six, and the Jets are seven and six, and then Jacksonville, Vegas, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh are all five and eight. So they understand

the significance of every game they play going forward. Yeah, this is so you're gonna get their best shot. Well, well, Bill was asking about what did this this last game do for us? Well, first of all, to put things in the perspective, let you know you're not you know, you're not all that you thought you were. And the second thing is you have and offense. Really you have a team that when they put their mind to it, they can win any game that they want to win.

When they put their mind to it, they made the stops that need to be made, not just one time they did it twice when it came down to it, and not on that they topped it off with a ninety eight yard game winning drive. They need to go They need to go back to that mindset. Okay. I don't know how, I don't care how they practice, but they need to go back to that mindset of being able to win no matter what the situation. And I'm

not talking about the impossible tasks. I mean put yourself in position to have that opportunity and then take advantage of it. Happens every week. You know, you got a quarterback sitting back there, he can't do anything, his defense gives him a spark, he takes it at the end of the game. Game over. Now, I don't know how many game winning drives Dak Prescott has eighteen and compare that to who I mean, running Romo leads with twenty four. Okay,

so I mean the Cowboys. Yeah, I don't mean any Cowboys, I don't mean him. Yeah, because they talk about how you know, we need this more from Dak. If I recall, at one point Dak had better passes under pressure than any quarterback and he had a once again, you've got the at that time, seventeen game winning drives, and not to mention just the game winning drives, Guys, what about just go ahead drives where the defense eventually gave it

up in the end. See what I'm saying. Go ahead drives also are important because those, of course are potential game winning drives. So you have to look at how many times Dak did that as well. So, and I mean I don't mean just Dak, but I mean offensively, and when he was able to do that, when they were able to do that, they had an entirely different wide receiver crew. So it's a matter of trust when it comes down to doing that in the past. Now he has to trust the wide receivers that they have

right now. This team has to trust the offensive line, the running game, the execution down the stretch. You can say what you want about quarterback, wide receiver, but the entire team has to execute to have a game winning drive, ort to have a go ahead drive. So it's all about the team. I keep on mentioning that I'm trying to correct myself because it's all about the rest of the team coming along and being making a unified effort. So here's your list his game winning drives twenty sixteen

through twenty twenty two. I mentioned it was eighteen. He's tied for seventh most in that time period. Derek Carr has twenty eight, Matthew Stafford twenty two, Kirk Cousins twenty two, Russell Wilson twenty one, Roethlisberger twenty and Ryan Tannehill nineteen. But this is his rookie year. Yeah, starts with so, and if you're not trailing a lot, you don't have you go there, you go, there, you go. So anyway, there's what you're looking forward here. It's the other thing

on Jacksonville. You mentioned their playoffs scenario from a wild card, but really their best chance of making the playoffs is winning the division. They just beat Tennessee on the road. If they can beat the Cowboys, Tennessee's playing at the Chargers this week, and the Chargers have a good chance of winning that game. They can be if they beat

the Cowboys. They're one game back of the Titans for the division lead with three games to go, and they finish the season at home against Tennessee, which and in Tennessee has to play Dallas two weeks from now also, and so they can even stub their toe and still be in a position if they're a game behind Tennessee going into that last game of the season. If they beat Tennessee, they win the division because they've got the

tiebreaker and the games at Jacksonville. Oh it's in jackson Yes, they just beat them last week two touchdowns in Tennessee, so they yeah, they're they're thinking playoffs absolutely. So those other seven and six teams ahead of them don't matter. The only one that mattered they got there focused on that division is uh is Tennessee, and as we've seen here of late with Tennessee, they ain't all that's try what happened to those guys? Yea, yeah, so very interesting.

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