Talkin' Cowboys: Back On Track?

Cubbies in the building. And we are here in the s WBC Mortgage studios, and you know what, it's time to win some football games around here, wouldn't you say? Sounds like from everybody, uh, they're happy, meter it's past time to win. Time to win some football games. In fact, Jerry Jones was making the rounds this morning on local television and that's what he was saying, win some football games. And he's not encouraged that they're gonna win some football games.

And it starts tomorrow at three thirty at AT and T Stadium against the Buffalo Bills. Well, you know it's postgame comments kind of scared the children a little bit, so he wanted to make sure they have nightmares when they went to bed at night. So they wanted to ease things a little bit. Let everybody know, Hey, we're not going to panic here. We're not in panic mode. I just wanted to scold the kids a little bit. So now we're back on track, we're back to the

optimism that is Jerry Jones exactly. You know, I thought, even when the schedule came out and before they got to this point in the season with this record, I thought, with these three away games in four starting with Detroit, that for them to kind of come out on the back end of that, well, that they needed to win three of the four. And I still think that's got to be the goal. Got to win three of these four, and you've lost the one. So now it's time, as

you said, to start winning. And the game that you thought they would lose those four would be the trip to New England. That's right, probably, that's exactly right. Yeah, And who knew, and at beginning of the season, who knew what the Patriots were going to be. You just knew going to New England it was going to be a tough road and playing back to back road games like that. But you didn't you didn't factor in the weather. Yeah, being being such a such a problem that you can't

even judge where you are right now. And to me, that's we keep falling back on weather and you know what, what are we right now? To me, New England was just like a pause. It didn't prove us anything. It didn't show us anything. We didn't show them anything. You know, it was what it was. It's what we figured what happened. But we wanted to be in in ideal conditions what

we could say, Okay, well the offense is bad. You can't really we couldn't really judge that just based on the conditions that we were we were looking at I mean it was kind of an even Stephen game if you if you kind of looked at it. I mean, they didn't do much offensively. The Cowboys helped them, uh to at least ten points. So yeah, but I think you just gotta you gotta go forward. And these these next couple of games, you sound like you've been hanging

with Gotta go forward watch, right, that's the tagline. You sound like the Republicans demand. I was gonna say we need to be great again. You know. Wow, wow, man, I was gonna say, I was gonna say I need to be great today. All right, no mistakes. Back to football, I would say this, Yeah, it was. It was a close lot. It shows you the expectations of this team.

You lose by four points at New England and you know this this thing is it's controversy around here because they've lost now to what is it, four teams with winning records. They're oh and four in those situations, and it's just like the Minnesota game though, where you feel like late in the game you had a chance to win it, Questions about the special teams, questions about the plate calling, and then Jerry comes out and voices frustration. And that's that's where we are. I mean, I think

if you take a big picture look at it. Look, they're where they They're right where they could be in terms of trying to win the division. Everything's still in front of them. But they feel like there's missed opportunities. And you still feel and the players say it too, they don't feel like they've played their best football yet. And so there is a Jason Winnen say yesterday, we're all frustrated. You know, he said, Jerry's right to feel that way, and it involves the players too. We got

to execute better. So there's good stuff, but I don't think anybody feels like this team's where they need to be right now, as they got so much hype. There was so much hype in the offseason. Everybody just a championship game or bust. Were still there no matter how much we're screwing up right now, all this talent we have. And let me tell you something, guys, if you get a good defensive back on a good wide receiver, I don't care how much talent you have. If I'm a

good defensive back, You're gonna have some problems. I don't have to be Everson Walls or Mike Haynes or Lester Hayes. I could just be a good, solid defensive back, and I could. I could. I could upset your entire game plan. So let's let's just be real about how we've got so much talent. Nobody else can compare. Obviously they can, so we need to realize that this season, every season, every game. This gotta come from the heart. Guys. Let's just be real. We can't go out there outthink anybody,

we gotta go out there and outfight them. And I thought the Patriots game brain or shine. I wanted to see them out fight. Okay, whether we want or not, we talked about before the game, all we want to see was fight in the game. We want to see effort. We were hoping to see better coaching. We were hoping to see few of mistakes. But I wanted to see what kind of heart they had as they went up

to New England. All you're gonna be afraid. All you're gonna choke under the pressure, whether it's rain, whether it's defense, whether it's Brady or Belichick. How are you going to respond? That's what I wanted to see, you know? And the defense responded. I mean, well, I guess both defenses responded the Yeah, they had a little help, right and we tripped them. So come on right, oh don't get me started to go. And so starting tomorrow now they need

to show that fight. You know. That's one thing that's that in the last few years, there has there's always been a crisis point in a season, and this team has responded in the regular season three out of the last five years to come back and win a division. But I straight last year seven seven and one downtown to try. The Indianapolis game was the one the middle

of that. Yeah, but and and there was definitely a crisis going on at that point after the Tennessee game last year, and they responded okay, even a couple of years ago, the horrible November that they had when Zeke was going through his suspension. And I remember interviewing Dak Prescott right after the Thanksgiving game, and I was I was taken aback by how confident he was after those three straight games in which they could do absolutely nothing.

Three games and single digits. It was. It was horrible. I was like, how in the world can you be confident about the future. But Dak and I came out of that one. They actually got a chance to get back in this thing, and they did, you know. And it came right down to the Seattle game before Christmas. Uh and the year before that they won the division. So three out of the last five years they won the division when they've been into crisis point in the season.

And now we're going to if for the first time since two thousand and four, there will be a repeat champion of the NFC East It will depend on how the Cowboys respond, you know, And the Cowboys have the chance to be a repeat winner and be the first time since the Eagles back in two thousand and four that we've had a repeat winner in the NFC's see. And that that's why this is kind of a weird situation. I don't know how you guys look at it, as

I might be off base here, you probably are. Is everybody mad because they're not they're not very good and they're six and five? Or is everybody mad is they're too good to Yeah, it's the expectations for this time. The talent is better than six and five. Wow, if they were seven and four right now, I had they won that game against the Jets, And I hate to keep bringing it up, but Jerry brought it up, by the way, you know, the one loss that uh well, we really had no chance even in the end, right

is that? What is that? I mean one that the Jets? Yeah, I mean even Packers was bad. We came out bad, but we still had a chance. But the Jets that was the that was that was definitely our local, especially looking at what their record was and then what they did the next week and the next week and uh, and you got to make up for that loss, and the chance to make up for it was New England. You didn't get it done. Now what's the next chance to make up for it? Probably have to beat the Rams.

And I think everybody thought the beginning of the year, well that's a loss. I guarantee you whoever filled out those schedules, they got to the RAMS and checked an ELL there. Now it's not an l. They're the same as you are, and they're worse. Yeah, that worse ms. Oh, that deal Monday night was just unbelievable. So in other words, it's the bills. Yeah, you gotta beat the bills. That's it. I don't know what the approach was in the previous

years where they made this streak. You know, of course there's confidence and all that, but you have to make up analytical change and whatever you're doing. And I don't know what they've done in the past to make that happen, but they they've better repeat it this year. Yeah, And I know we've talked about the bill schedule and ever since you pointed out that, you know, they haven't played a tough schedule on paper at all. You look at their personnel, though, it's a good team, and that's the

team with a lot of motivation. Because I just went back and look at their past record history, I think this is an opportunity for them to make the playoffs to the last three years. You go back beyond that, like twenty years. Hey, you know they're trying. Phillips. I was looking at this last night. I'm glad you brought it up. Since Wade Phillips coached the Buffalo Bills nineteen ninety nine, they made the playoffs, and I think that was the game in Tennessee, the playoff game Music Music

City Miracle where they lost. Okay, since nineteen ninety nine, nine, okay, Oh, but prior to that eighty eight to ninety nine, which included four straight Super Bowl losses, could get you're very familiar with Everson. They had nine out of twelve seasons in which they had ten or more wins. Since nineteen ninety nine, the Buffalo Bills franchise has had three seasons that they have had a winning record, and in those

three seasons their record has been nine and seven. Three years in basically twenty years that they've had a winning record, and they've won nine games in those three years and oh four in twenty fourteen and twenty seventeen, and here they're looking at if they can win tomorrow it's their ninth win of the year. That looks like a mix shot for today. Welcome, thank you. I don't mind stealing. But how about that? Yeah, search Bill Marv Levy, Where

have you gone? How many coaches have they been? Have they gone through since since marveling Wade have like two winning seasons out of the three he was there, and they fired him, and they fired him. Careful what you ask for, right, and so the coaches that they've had since then have included I was going to be my next question. Okay, I just went back over the last ten years, starting with Jan Gaily in twenty ten, and then it was Doug Morone and then Rex Ryan and

now Sean McDermot. He's doing a good job with him. But you go back to the previous decade, Dick Geron was one. I'm trying to remember. I can't. I can't. It's hard, it's hard to remember. So you're saying after Wade, yeah, after Wade, Yeah, it gets Ryan. Ryan always brought Dennis Thurman with him everyway. When when he coached back then because it was the Jets first. Then he went to Buffalo.

Both of them were failed campaigns. But having just seeing Dennis Thurman on the sidelines of Thurman stieves I was always good to see him. Yeah, But but really with Buffalo since right before Rex was there, for two years, they've been hovering around five hundred. It's like they haven't been two and fourteen to get the top pick in the draft. Now now they were. You know, they're always right around. But they're very remarkable. They were always very unremarkable.

Defensively they were okay. Offensively they weren't and that was always the problem offensively. All right. One of the note before we take a break, Darren Woodson is a semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the fourth time. That was announced yesterday. I think it's three times in the last four years time he's been semifinals, Top twenty five, top twenty five. And it's a twenty man class this year,

so maybe there's a more opopportunity. I think it's five modern ary guys get Yeah, I don't know if that's is that more than usual? No, that's about it's about so it's not. It's all about those senior guys. Yeah, they're trying to get us out of the way before we start dying off. You know, that's all it is, because I think ten of those are going to get in. Seniors. You're talking about guys played back in the fucking thirties, man, Yeah,

you know, I want they're still alive. It's like they're playing catch up, right, Yeah, Okay, they're catching up with the with the grandkids. The grandkids. Hold now all the seniors they're trying to put in. We got to get Everson in there, Yes, we do right, walk up there, all right? We continue with more talking Cowboys in just a moment. Selor is a proud sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys, helping fans see more and do more with our best

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Dallas Cowboys. Back to the Talking Cowboys. The Big twelve Championship Game is coming up a week from Saturday at at and T Stadium. It's the Oklahoma Sooners and Everson Wall's favorite quarterback Jalen Hurts against the Baylor Bears. It's an eleven am kickoff. Don't miss your opportunity to get tickets before they sell out. Tickets on sale now at seeked geek dot com. You got bj who you got better bou okay, better be better. But I have a feeling that Baylor's I tell you what, Baylor's got a

really good coach. That is a great story. That's just an amazing story. You talk about mister Art, you know, just kind of crapping on the whole program. And you know this guy comes in. I thought they would be years I mean years before they came back. I mean it could have been. I just think that is such a great story. Matt Matt Rule came close to being the head coach of the New York Jets, had a very good chance of getting that last year and he uh.

And you talk about Lincoln Riley being on the radar of NFL teams, I'm thinking Matt Rule ought to be right there at the head of the class. Coaches though that are in college, they're just better for college. I don't mean they're better fit for college. That college is better off having them having those type of coaches. He seems like one of those type of coaches. See, I

think Lincoln Riley is that too. I think one of the one of his strengths is his recruiting, and so everyone talks about him being in NFL coach and so forth, and he has not. And one of the things you look at on that is all right. It worked with Sean McVeigh, a young coach in the NFL. Well, John McVeigh basically as Tom Brady said, he came out of the womb hating the Cowboys. Well, Sean McVay came out of the womb preparing to be a National Football League coach.

His grandfather, of course, was a coach in the NFL, one of the architects of the forty nine ers. Though Bill Walsh gets all the credit. But Lincoln Riley he's never basically set foot on an NFL campus. He's been He's come out of the womb training to be a college head. To me, I mean, I know I'm going back, but it's like Eddie Robinson. They touted him for the Rams job years ago, right after I left out the things on the in the mid eighties, and it just

wouldn't have been a good fit. Yea. He has made for college coach. Lincoln was great recruiting. There's a reason that they're getting such good recruiting classes. He and he really has a passion for recruiting too. All right, these Buffalo Bills, can I ask questions that you were on that had dawned on me today and maybe you guys know the answer. When when's the last time a highly successful college coach who still had a job left that to come to the NFL to be a head coach?

Jimmy Johnson, Well, I mean you might be right, Jim think about it. Was Hardball successful? Yeah, made to Super Bowl? Yeah no, no, no, answered luck and he was winning ten eleven games stah, okay, yeah, Pete Carroll did pretty good. And well Pete Carroll was an NFL guy before Harball. Yeah yeah, John Harball, Mr John Harball. Yeah, so how did you do? Got to Super Bowl? Yeah? He was okay that one year? Yeah, that one though. But what's

happened these college quarterbacks? I mean, who was this boy man? Alex Smith? The successful college coaches aren't leaving their jobs to go to the NFL. There's a bunch of them who have who have not been successful. And Chip Kelly once again doesn't have UCLA in a bowl game. He's back now in the college rings. There's something to be said for earning a state pension because you're big money down there too. Right, college coaches are getting paid like

you don't have to lead to get a better paycheck. Hey, so let's just say, with players about to get paid now without cut into the coaches, that's why they don't want the kids to get paid. I'm wondering how that's going to and that is that is the money factor is a huge deal. When you're talking about college coaches leaving a top ten type program and this job security that you have, they're compared to this, Well, you've got four different potential sources of income gear, TV show, radio show,

and you're coaching salary alone. That's a good point, but sometimes it's just you know, Saban did it though, he's it's that brass ring. You know, you want to try and see just how good you are. But when you get there, you don't get to pick every player you want because you're one of the top programs in the country. So I'm going to rely on the draft. You gotta rely on free agent is hoping to come to you. It's a little bit do you have to take all

this from your GM? There you go? Yeah, I wonder what Saban would have been like if he had stayed, whether it's at the Dolphins or another NFL job, what kind of success he would have had over the last twelve years. Approach and knocked it out that I love Nick, but I don't know he he doesn't do well with pros. You know, you can talk to college kids like that, but when it comes to the pros, it's a totally

different thing. Yeah, all right, these Buffalo Bills, Everson. In the first segment, you talked about a defensive back and shut down a team. Well, the Bills got a pretty good defensive back, a corner or their first round draft pick from twenty seventeen, tra Debs White, who has four picks on the season. That's one of the strengths of that team, and that defense is pretty strong. They'll use him too to fall around the best team's other team's

best receiver too. We saw that last week with Stephane Gilmore. I don't know if they're going to do that against the Maury Cooper, but that's how much confidence they have house Cooper feeling seems like he's doing okay, right, He's he took part in yesterday's practice. Yeah, but they really haven't practiced hard this week he was he was full participate last week. He did have fifty two snaps in the game last week, which is a little bit less

than what he is accustomed to. I wonder if they're trying to manage him a little bit, not as much as they did the week before against Detroit. But I think one of the things they did with him to manage that knee is when they knew they were going to load up and run the ball, they didn't have

him out of course. Yeah, yeah, And that that really it kind of contributed to a little negative commentary on Coop because everybody's thinking, you know, because he's over there waiting to get back in the game, and he looks like, you know, I don't want to get back in the game, but he's really just over there waiting for the coaches to call him back in. He's over there soaking, and it just looked bad. So everybody was thinking soaking or sulking,

interesting both, and that's what it looked like. It looked like he was soaking while soaking. But it was just you know, when you're out there soaking, then yeah, you're gonna souk. That's it comes along with it. They wouldn't got to look the same way on the side. Yeah, when he was out the same we all looked like

with soaking as with soaking. But he I think it's I was still worried at that time if the effectiveness by Gilmore was was was contributed by the injuries that the mari he had just not being full strength, and so I was hoping they just wouldn't even practice him this week. But somebody that the story that affected him as playing on the road, that he doesn't play well on the road, and I'm going okay, one road game in a in a downpour. He played three games on

the road against the Jets. Three plays in that game and came out. So they were comparing his road catches to his home catches and it's like he just doesn't go on the road. I said, oh, it doesn't travel. Yeah, look at that. I'm sure that who are you playing too, right, Who's the you're going up against in some of those games? And and the one game on the road, um Saints. Yeah, the Saints. They didn't do anything off nobody. And then there was another road game where they were kind of

controlling his snaps. He didn't want to overdo it, and I still think that's kind of what's been going on with him. But having said that, you know, okay, he got shut out right, Well, he had two catches called back by penalties and they were significant catches. And then you can argue about the big one that the fifty yard line at the end of the game. Did he have it, did the ground cause it to move or did it were his hands underneath the ball and then it popped up? So I was I was riding home.

You know, I hate listening to sports talk radio. I can't believe in one of you guys now music music with you way after after games. Music I just happened to you know you is he getting the call? You're thinking, and then all of a sudden you hear somebody say something stupid. They tried to call it the drop. Oh no, the the guy called it a drop the fourth down down in completion. It was considered, like the narrative is already you know, printed in stone. It was a drop,

you know, like we alreaydn't know this. It's a drop. And so that's just, you know, that's so much I am with you. There's an old there's a proverb about that when you don't hear wisdom and get away from them, all right, how about this, because it's interesting. I haven't looked at the home and road splits for Amari Cooper this season because I just hear the narrative out there.

I hear it asked by reporters in press conferences or in the locker room or whatever, and I just just said, Okay, they must be know what they're talking about, all right. And so I'm sitting here looking at his game by games this season, okay, And these are his road games. At Washington, he had four catches for forty four yards on a touchdown. Okay, it's not huge, but got a touchdown four and they won the game thirty one one. No problem on offense. Okay. Next road game was at

New Orleans, which was a twelve ten game. He hit five catches for forty eight yards, which isn't big numbers at all, but okay, that was typical of the offense period, right, That's the way that game win the Jets. As Mickey mentioned, he was in for three plays in that game. He had one catch for three yards, which is pretty good right there. If he was in for sixty plays, sixty catches at the Giants. Okay, at the Giants only four catches, but eighty yards and a touchdown, which can catch twenty

yards a catch, Yeah, twenty yards a catch. And then at Detroit three for thirty eight we wouldn't. Okay. So he's got of his touchdowns this season, three of them have coming road games. I mean, I think he's dealing with some stuff right now. It's started since training camp. He's had a lot of little lower legs stuff, and this is a tough stretch for him. I think he's gonna nobody's gonna enjoy that ten day break after the Chicago game more than is just they just got to

get him through to the Chicago. Yeah, the different the differences on the home games. He's had four one hundred yard games, and so people look at that and say, oh, there's a huge difference between home and road. Point, it's always a difference between home and road, whether it's a team situation, the individual situation. Who everyone plays better at home,

that's just the way it is. And the timing itself, you know, the timing slf with the injuries and all of that, and you know, sometimes the offensive I put can be a little shady. So he's just a bit. Can you watch when he gets nine catches for one hundred and fifty yards and two touchdowns tomorrow? How come you play so much better? It'll it'll increase in there. That's exactly right, all right? What else concerns you about this Buffalo team? How are the special teams? The returners

are good? Good? Yeah? Um Andre Roberts, yes, out of the Citadel saw him last week? Yes, he did well last week. I saw that what you're looking up, mec I was looking up the return yards and yet to be a little quicker than that. It might be they might show up the Minnesota game, might show up the preseason. Let's see. I'm saying what they did in the presets they do in August. Yeah, since you're reading out a SATs, I see this is about Okay, Micky's looking at his

analytics there and it's not happening quick enough. That's why you can't be listening to the analytics guy and your headset, Vicky right during the game their stats. I saw on Twitter last night. I saw just your face, Mick, and they said the most most knowledgeable person of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, you know what, I you know what I did say, why did you? Did you know what I did this morning?

Get back at him? Douglas and I were clown clowning around, and I said, oh, okay, stone Age, I said, when we start the show today, I'm gonna have the theme song from the flint Stone owns. Did you crack them? Good? Crack them? Especially when the yaba daba dude, stone Age. I was a little worried that it would go right over their heads, like they didn't know what it was. You know, the theme song from one the opening of the Stones. No, I thought you, I thought you said

flint Stones at first stone the Stone. Yeah, thank you. The Bills on defense, strong tackling team. They got good linebackers. Um Jordan Phillips is a problem to get sooner has seven sacks from an interior defensive line. He is a monster. Yeah, no one knew that. Yeah yeah, different type of defensive tackle than the Cowboys deploy, but it's he's he's productive. And I saw a stat where the Bills lead the league in negative plays defensively well, tackles for losses and sacks.

They actually have one more than San Francisco. So run games gotta be sharp, gotta protect DAK and minus plays and plus you know, penalties, pre snap penalties have really affected this offense, especially earlier in the game. You gotta know if they're if they're all these out yards negative yards for plays, then you're talking about an aggressive front line front seven. Possibly. Yeah. George Jellis has been like

that even college. He's a penetrator. Even at six six, three hundred and forty one pounds is what he's listed at. He's a load. He's got ten tackles for loss now and at Oliver their first round draft pick Houstons. Okay, so Phillips is six six three forty one, Oliver is six one two eighty seven. Yeah, he's he's like at

Aaron Donald tip. Yeah. So they got two long kick returns sixty six yards by Robertson Hyde forty five yards and their average So that'll help your average because you don't have that many kickoff return back special averaging twenty nine point two. He found the found took five minutes. We ran through the entire normal Normally, when they do stats, all the offensive stats are on the front page. Now

this one's on specicky. How did they do on special teams in that big win over the Vikings for a touchdown? Which one was that? How that return? Guys now at home depot, how do you do in that game? Now? But what you see is, now, have you got that aggressive front line? You gotta look for screens. We have to have a screen game on. Yeah, we've gotten who's going up against Foster? Who's the matchup with Foster on the old line? Um, that's a good question. He's inside interior. Yeah,

so it would be Foster. We're looking at the d lineman for Buffalo, and I'm asking the matchup that, Oh Phillips, who's gonna match up with Foster the defensive lineman for Buffalo? Offensively, who goes against Foster on our offensive line? Okay, Jordan Phillips, you mean the guy I was talking about? Yeah, I thought Foster was Buffalo. Jordan Phillips. He's a Travis who's ever right side, right, So that's what that pressure comes

from up the middle. Jack Martin fort Williams. Yeah, starting low to Lelee has two sacks the last two games. And Oliver, by the way, two of his three sacks have come in the last two games. So who was that against Miami? Was one on there? Like five six sacks against Miami and then Denver. We don't count. I was then we don't count that right, that's right. And so all of these stats were thrown at you. They don't matter because the Bills have not beaten the team

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a shower? Okay. We continue now here on talking cowboys, and we should point out the Buffalo Bill's coaches during last decade after Wade Phillips, they were Greg Williams, Mike Mularkey, Dick Geron, and then into this decade it was Chan Gaily, it was Rex Ryan, it was Doug Marrone, Anthony Lynn was actually an interim head coach for one game. Of course, he's now the Los Angeles Chargers head coach out of Texas Tech University, Salina, Texas. So was it the last

game of the season. I think I think that was the game that Tyrod Taylor, as you were pointing out, may have been In the break, you pointed out that Tyrod was benched in favor of Peter Nathan. PETERMSS who may be at home depot now are actually on the practice squad for the He's on I R for the Raiders. Oh yeah, like he still could be at home depot right now. Yeah, that's his other guy. Okay, it's the return of Cole Beasley. Yes, about the return of Cole Beasley. Good,

that's a nice match up with Joan Lewis. Yes, sir, I would think, I mean Cole Beasley. I'm looking at snap counts and they apparently go a lot three three receiver sets. Buffalo does, yep, a lot. Was he like sixty some percent? Six? Oh? Well, he's uh the last couple of games. I looked at snap counts the last couple of games, and he had sixty four snaps and John Brown had seventy snaps sixty five last week and John Brown seventy four, So they're leading snap count guys.

A wide receiver. Well a minute there. He had a nice little streak going, I think, but made three straight games. What a touchdown? Yeah, and he had one last week too, last week too, and a lot like here. I mean he's a guy they looked to on third down to move the chains. You know, he's got underneath guy, very reliable. Sixty eight and a half percent of the snaps. There you go, well quickly, uh, Cobb or hot sauce. You

know what? Cobb didn't cost twenty nine million dollars and that's what his I think his four year deal was twenty nine million. Cobbs cost him five million for one year contract A side, yeah, just performance contractor side. I've always been a Randall Cobb guy. Nothing against Colby's nothing. He's a different type of slot receiver because the run after catch is I think what makes him different. It's not a co you know, the little ten yard out

and okay, fine, I got ten right now. Beasley, he's gotten downfield and he was for Buffalo just a little bit as well. That's why I'm wondering if they're used him outside a little bit too. When I watched he was mostly in the slot. But but in terms of yards per catch, mic Cobb is second among all Cowboys skill players this year I think two hundred and forty yards after catch, behind only Zeke, which you kind of expect that given the types of route Zeek runs. So

that's probably a little bit of a different dimension. But I think Cole was a big loss that they had to replace and and Cob has been able to do that because Cole, I think I looked it up. He was their top third down guy last year for Dak, and Cobb is this year as well. So that's a guy that Dak looks to and it's the whole quarterback

friendly thing. He's very quarterback friendly. I mean, he's had some drops this year, but I think overall there, you know, he's been what they expected somebody, and replacing him with Cobb we were extremely pretty good front off the street right. Addie probably leads the league in touchdowns called back by penalty. He has four. Yep. The Bills have small wide receivers,

but basic least five eight one seventy four. John Brown's five eleven one seventy eight and their third receiver Isaiah McKenzie five eight, one seventy three, no back door phase right, no back shows well. But keep an eye out for Dawson Knox, their tight end who is six four, two fifty four. He moves like a wide receiver, third round draft pick out of Old Miss. I gotta say we have had problems with our interior man to man coverage.

Linebackers have not been doing a good job at that as far as matchups are concerning, I mean in critical situations, red zone things of that nature. We always look at overall stats, but my thing is there are certain times in the game where you gotta make a stop and that's when the tight ends and the linebackers really having taken control of the running backs and the tight ends

and coverage in the red zone. And Josh Allen, the quarterback we've talked about earlier in the week, Robs pointed out his running ability and he's got a touchdown run, and um, well, he's on the season. He's got seven touchdown runs and it's seven of eleven games. He's got to rush over ten yards and they use him in some of his own read stuff. How big is he guys, he is six five, two hundred and thirty seven pounds sling. It's a lot like Driscoll. And that's why I think

my pick the click. If I gotta pick one, it's gotta be Sean Lee because I think and the linebackers because they got to be aware of him. I'm talking about and Devin Singletary's an impressive young running back for them, big powerful back, got good vision um. Tackling is gonna come at a premium ever since they're gonna come at us with would they like the third in the league and or fifth in the league. And rushing they're they're

pretty high in in in the rankings. They are fifth in the league and rushing pretty good on my part, So you know what they're gonna do. They're gonna come at They're gonna make this a boring. They're averaging one hundred thirty nine yards a game rushing, and a lot of that has to do with what Alan does you know in Singletary's averaging five point eight to carry, So yeah, they're gonna run. Now. What surprised me is everybody is talking about the year Frank Gore's having. Right, Well, he's

rushed for five hundred and forty one yards. I think that's based Morlan. It's just amazing that in your league. Yeah, still has five hundred something. Yeah, that's pretty impressive. But that's a whole different thing. Right, he's a Hall of Famer, So so you better watch the running game because that's what's now. They're going to control the tempo of this game with their running game. That's how they're gonna come out.

You want to keep Dak Prescott in this offense off the field, right, that's the way the coach is going to proke this game, especially when the Cowboys are at home, right, especially at home and it's going to be raining outside. But there's a roof here in twenty nineteen, so they want to mention that, mate, because there wasn't a roof last week. It does matter to those who are coming to town and aren't aware of what the weather situation is going to be tomorrow and it's projected like rain

all day, all day, all day time. To make our picks, you got Sean Lee as your pick to click. Yeah, I'm going I'm going defensively as well. I have to go with Malik Woods when I saw how effective he

could be Collins. I'm sorry Collins. And by the way, Antoine Woods is out with the injury, but Malikie Collins showed me what he could, how effective he can be the way he played last week, and we're gonna need him to clog up that metal because when those offensive lineman start getting out on our linebackers, first of all, the defensive lineman's already beat there, past him, the linebackers

already shut off. That's how you get the crease you talked about Lombardi talking about seal here, Seal Hill up the alley. That's what we've been getting hit with all year long, and we MALIEK Collins would be the one I think to help remedy that situation. And and here's a thought on that too. So with Antoine Woods out, you know everybody's talking about, well, Tristan Hill is going to be active till Covington's going to take us. But last week, or nice keep saying last week, last Sunday,

Michael Bennett played his most snaps so far. He had fifty sums snaps before everything was in the forties. So I would imagine you're going to see him out there a little bit more and maybe one of the reasons why Collins was so active. When Bennett was in there with him. They were double and triple teaming him. They did not want him to mess up anything. But he was still getting a push. I got to give it to him for effort. You know, his effort is amazing

when he's out there. You know, somebody asked today about how he kind of walks around and it's real slow and kind of his own man. But when he's on the field, there ain't nothing slow about it. That's that's Texas guys. That's Texas guy from East Texas. That's my dad. That's okay, the whole county of those guys. So your pick to click, my pick to click. Um, this isn't a new thing. We just started. I am gonna do when the right thank you, deep thinker block in his mind.

Since they're at home and there's a roof, I'm going with a Mariy Cooper, Okay, all right, there you go. I'm gonna go Jordan Lewis. Jordan Lewis gonna make a pick and he's gonna make some plays and that's fun. Going to get an old teammates. Yeah, they have practiced they practiced many times. Yeah, like going back home, especially when this is real because when they practice against each other hard, it's training camp. Right during the season it's

scout team. Yeah, but doing training camp, yeah, ask when you go each other's right, Yeah. So is it going to be a happy Thanksgiving post game interview for Jerry Jones tomorrow? Be? It shall be? I agree with ever since. I mean, I think everybody's talking about Jerry's putting everybody on notice this week, and you know he's made some critical comments. But I think this team's already the motivation is there. They they feel like they're better than their record.

I think they get back on track at home. They've played better at home. I think they get this one. When you when you put in this much money and your team is playing the way it is, you'd ratter say something. Yeah, right, it's gonna What is Jerry? How did he do for the red kettle campaign this morning? Jerry didn't he do it? Did he do interviews with you guys where I heard them talking about it at the time of win football games? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, and

they will thirty one seventeen Cowboys thirty one seventeen. Okay, did you what was your score, brob I'll go twenty eight, twenty four, twenty four Cowboys. There's too many? Does I think that's too high? Too high? I gonna control of this game, and they're gonna try to keep the scores down the way they always have all year. They might scored twenty one points. I look at twenty one seventeen, twenty one seventeen, and what does super Bowl Bill pick?

The Road to the super Bowl. The Road to the super Bowl starts tomorrow at at and T Stadium against the Buffalo Bills. And we're gonna have a flashback to Super Bowl twenty seven, a fifty two to seventeen Cowboys winow Michael Bennett. Michael Bennett is going to pick up a fumble and run it all the way to the end zone and Cole Beasley is gonna knock the football out of the end zone into the red kettle. Otherwise it'd be fifty nine seventeen. Instead it's fifty two seventeen.

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