Tuesday Night Football - Cowboys Ravens Recap

call for Fox and NFL Network. It was a performance by the Ravens that evoked memories of a year ago as Baltimore ran for nearly three hundred yards of on the ground in a thirty four seventeen win over the Dallas Cowboys, a Cowboys team that looked like they are ready to go home for the winter. Yes, it is our two day night football recap, and joining me is the great Mark Sessler. Mark, Um, you have a you are a Browns fan, you are ride and high, you're

nine and three. You know what's coming up next week? It's the Baltimore Ravens. And are you a little bit nervous right now about what you saw from the Ravens tonight? I think I'd be more nervous, Um, I mean, I think number one, it was a get right game and they got right. So they did what they what they would want to do and what they were asked to do. The ground game looks potent, um, but I feel like you played a Cowboys team, as you said, that is

ready for a long winter snap. Um. I think it's a bit embarrassing to have Orlando Brown roll into the end zone and screamed to a cameraman easy money. And I think that from the outset, um, it looked like the Cowboys uh defensive line in linebackers were so out of position that I had to ask if they had taken generous tabs of psilocybin before the game. I mean, they seem completely um out of any sort of a game plan, poorly coached, and the Ravens took total advantage

of it. Ran rough shot and that's their strength. I don't trust the Ravens through the air, but I do trust them on the ground. And I mean they had four thirty plus yard plays in the first half alone to zero for the Cowboys, and three of those came on the ground, So they are they are dangerous in that area. UM. As As as ever, yes, you have to keep in mind that this is the Cowboys, and the Cowboys have been dreadful on defense all season. Um, but I do think that the Ravens had been going

through a really tough six week stretch. They started out five and one, uh, and then things have gone sideways. They had the COVID disaster a week and a half ago, riding a three game losing streak, and sometimes you just need to get right game to get your swagger back a little bit. And UM, I'm trying not to let my analysis from our prior podcast overly shade this situation because I predicted, as you did, actually that we both see the Ravens going on a big run here to

close the season. But this basically, I'm glad I said that before this game, because now that feels almost like an obvious prediction to make because they just had this It seemed like they had their swagger back. And yes, Orlando Brown yelling easy money into the camera. As Fox goes to break, Troy Aikman, the Cowboys legend turned color man with buck Uh says the following, I just I don't know where this organization goes. As Tuesday's gone by,

a skinnerd plays them out to break it. Just it felt like a super low moment for the Cowboys for some reason, even though they're already were dead entering this game. Now they're three and nine, and by the way, we get to fork another team Mark in one of our recaps, Goodbye Cowboys, uh, and Andy Dalton's playing for Dak Prescott. They were never gonna go anywhere this year at this point, but it just felt like a dark cloud is over

this organization right now. I think they have a big decision and we and we've mentioned this, I think prior to others um to some degree the future of Mike McCarthy and we don't need to dwell on it. We've talked about it before. But um, Jerry Jones, are you going to simply confirm uh your decision from a year ago to hire him and make no moves or take a deep look at this. I think the team has been poorly coached all year, but beyond that, it's the

one team that I think about. And Troy Aikman pointed to this too, and I think that I kind of enjoy the irritated Troy Aikman because I think it gets more irritated at the Cowboys than anything else, because there's a lot of pride there because it's Troy at his heart, He's a cowboy, will always be cowboy, and he doesn't

run from that. No, I'm with you. I think it's it's um when when you see genuinely raw emotion and analysis and irritation from him, and he called the Cowboys out, especially on that last Ravens touchdown March where they just rolled through Dallas's defense as players that look like have given up, And I think that has something to do with the fact that they've not bought into the scheme

on defense specifically. Uh, they got a little bit better, I thought in the sort of second third of the season where you saw them tighten up a bit but slightly a mirrage. I mean they they you know, they the holes that were open for Baltimore to run through tonight. And you know we saw Cleveland run for three d plus yards on this defense too, So it's it's not an aberration. This is a terrible defense. Baltimore that said, like, I don't discredit teams for beating up on lesser competition.

That's what Baltimore did. I'm with you in the sense that they can feel good about this game. They've got a huge match up with Cleveland. Um, that's an it's it's gonna look different than Week one. I do think these are two different teams. But the Ravens are not the team that just got pounded by the Steelers. With r G three Lamar's back, he looked healthy, he looked good. And I think that this team, according to our predictions so we already know the result, are vying for the postseason.

I would not take them lightly at all. I don't think anyone is sad situation for the Ravens with Dez Bryant has hasn't He had like a really bummer end of his career. This was one of the reason Dez is always being written about is that he was such an electrifying player in the last decade and he was such a fun player to watch, and he was doing it all on quote unquote America's team. Uh. He gets back into the league last year and gets signed to the Saints and right when he's gonna be activated, he

blows his achilles. This year, he catches on with the Ravens. Has you know, he plays nothing, He's not a major player on the team, but he has a role. He gets out on the field bright and early, uh tonight today because he's playing the Cowboys, and then he gets told, oh, you have COVID uh and he gets pulled off the field. I thought that was a little bit of a sad PostScript to his career from one for one of the

more exciting players during our shared run at NFL Media. Yeah, and it's and and because they're so close to the testing facility, they're getting results at a different time than other teams, and so he found out at an inconvenient time. And you know, he tweeted at one point, We tweeted a bunch, but at one point he tweeted, you know, I'm just gonna sit back and drink a glass of wine, which I think of most most of America could relate

to in to some degree. Um. But there were also images of him hugging all sorts of Cowboys personnel and players. So I don't know, it's another very foggy um Corona issue that I thought raised questions. But that's apparently above our pay grade. Many things are above our pay grade. Uh that that's not hard to accomplish. That is that is another snapshot of Corona life in America. It is often hard to decipher what is going on. All right, there we go any any any other thoughts were cooled

forking the Cowboys at three and nine. It's a little bit late to the game, but given the shape of that division, Uh, three and eight seemed like a chance to still have a play. But now you have the Cowboy, now you have the Giants and Washington thriving. So Cowboys are done. Yeah, I think that you know, when we fork a team, they should just pack it up and go home. I don't know why they continue to play games when we do that, because are we're are batting

averages pristine. It's one thousand, Um. We are essentially a voice of God on that front. So well, that's why, And at the risk of making light of the situation, that's why Santa Clara shut down contact sports. So there's no reason to have them. Why why risk it? When Dan and Mark had already forked the forty Honors anyway, there's no reason to continue playing. So um, now that the word has gone out in Dallas, Uh, we'll see

what happens with Cowboys the rest of the way. Well, I trust the Dallas Fort Worth Civic Um community to uh to follow suit it just as Santa Clara did. I mean, you know, local governments listened to this show and they take orders from it. Um, more people should that. I mean, in general, you and I should just uh four teams and and for once it has some teeth, and then as soon as they're forked, you shut the whole thing down. We it's our own version of the bubble.

It's the fork bubble. We're doing a service, and it's a good service. And and and more people should praise the work we're doing while I'm here. I feel so I believe, I believe, I believe I'm with you on that. Mr Sessler. All right, Ricky, we're gonna we're gonna shut this thing down. Did you have anything to add before we sign off? I have, UM one point that I think really really needs to be said, Um that you said this was gonna be ninety seconds and it wasn't.

That was close enough? What about ten minutes? And may I add that with you? Uh, you were in front of a Christmas tree, their stockings behind you. You look like the girl next door. I mean, what a sweetheart? Thank you appear to be in the virtual behind the virtual glass tonight. Yeah, gonna cozy up with some hot cocoa. Maybe throw on a Christmas movie. You know it's it's getting around that time is definitely code for something else. I can promise you that Christeners. What is your favorite

Christmas movie record? Huh? I like the Chris Kringle you know, the the animation kind of three D one where he saves Christmas and the the guy that hates Christmas, the Mayor. You know what I'm talking about. When Santa Claus comes to town. You've got a raging classic. Yeah. I don't know what about you. Mark Christmas movie, Um, eyes wide shut, hands, don go watch it. It is is It is a quintessential Christmas film imagery. I think works kidding, but it's true.

Like if Mark had one path to take in life, like you need to inhabit one Stanley Kuber movie. It's absolutely eyes wide shut. And I don't even need to tell you anything else other than Mark is running into that life scenario. Yeah. I have to agree, and I wouldn't disagree. The pre eminent Christmas movie is a Christmas story starring Peter Billingsley. I won't I won't hear anything else, but uh, that's it very solid choice. Your eye out, kid,

All right, that's it. Uh. Next time you hear from us, it will be Thursday when we oh my god, that just never stops. The Week fourteen preview, when we preview all the games to come, and we'll have a second show on Thursday as well. Greg and the mystery guest of some kind will recap uh the Rams and Patriots, a game we previewed on a different podcast we did today. That's a lot of content. Like Ricky said, please go over to uh apple um your iTunes and rate us

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tweet at Greg and Greg alone hashtag Nirvana. That's all you have to do is text or if you have his number, text him, but tweet hashtag Nirvana at Greg Rosenthal, would you like to give his phone number out? Do it twice? I don't know, you know, whatever you gotta do. Yeah, and he might end up muting the word like I did with Godzilla. So maybe do hashtag and then like and then space out Vana. I don't think he'll do that. I don't think he'll even know to do that. You're like, oh,

this is annoying and he won't change anything. Okay, Yeah, make sure, jeez. What it is that too from our marks should be not no, no no. I I cannot undo what's been done, so you know, at this point, you know what, I gonna see what happens. Let's put this on Erica. Erica. Mark and I both said this might be a little bit too far, but you want to follow through with this, that's fine. Yeah, go ahead, all right, everybody for listening. I get to work over

on the Twitter birds and we'll see you on Thursday. M. S.