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edition of Talking Cowboys. Is our football weekend is already kicked off in a big way on Thursday night, and we get you sent for the Cowboys in the Saints Sunday Night football at the Mercedes Been Superdome in New Orleans and the Cowboys with a chance to go to four and oh on the season for the first time in a season since Tony Romo's first full year is a starting quarterback back in two thousand and seven, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, Brian brought us. Mickey's got his

college colors on who does MISSOI play this week? Who are you're dressed in red? Well, but it's not that has nothing to do no logo on it? Right, it isn't work out. Troy University, all right University, They've already already beating us once, so yeah, be careful. Yeah, okay, And big weekend for the Aggies as hosting Arkansas. Well, I say hosting, it's at at and T Stadium, So I think that's at Arkansas home game. Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. That's always a close game. We'll see how

that one goes. Jerry World, well one suite is Yes, it definitely his home field advantage there. And Brian, what does LSU doing this? Wait for Utah State next week? Waiting for you to state, well, my Sooners will play Texas Tech. Got that out of the way. Here you go. And how does that go over at home? Oh? Yeah, my wife's a Texas Tech grad. It doesn't go over

very well either way. Years where I've been in a bad mood and there have been other years that more years that she's better to say anymore, especially when we take their quarterback and with Eisman Trophy. But anyway, Um, how about Thursday Night Football last week to kick things

up because that game obviously affects the Cowboys. The Eagles were able to come away winners at Green Bay, so the Cowboys do not have the opportunity to build as much as a three game lead on Sunday night could be down to one game depending on what happened Sunday night. But what y'all make of last night's game, that's a heck and effort from Philadelphia. Yeah, it really was to see their teammate laying on the field and those waning moments of that game and then make a stop like

they did. And yeah, you could say what you want about to play calling for the Packers in the final two drives that they had Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, he's he's got guys out there. Mickey said it on the radio this morning, one oh five three. Who is he throwing to? You know, his best receivers standing and there on the sidelines with a with an injured toe, And that just shows you when you have a quarterback it's capable of carrying a team. But great effort by the

Philadelphia Eagles to at least get a stop there. I mean, it's the that's the worst situation you could do is trying to fit a ball in there and have it knocked up in the air and then and in the game that way. But give the Eagles credit, it's not easy to win at lambeau Field, Like it's not easy to win at at the Superdome. So you know, that's

what you got to do. If you want to be a good team and want to be recognized and win divisions, you got to win those games that maybe you look like you weren't going to win, and you find a way to get it done. Desperate team theory. And they're probably a better team than they showed the first couple of games. And I wonder what the stats are when you start one in three in a season, because we know, oh and two is the odds are very low that

you make the playoffs. But they were staring one in three in the face and now all of a sudden, there still in this thing. Yeah, and have a chance to close the gap. If the Saints can pull it off on Sunday. We'll see what happens. Obviously with the Cowboys. You know, when I start picking these games early in the season, I look at the record a lot and try to figure out, Okay, who needs to win more than than another team does. And that's why I picked the Eagles to win, even on a short week, playing

on the road, because I thought they'd be more desperate. Whatever. I think it also bodes well for the Cowboys going in this week, that Seattle. That New Orleans won at Seattle last week, they aren't quite as desperate as what they would have been otherwise, even with their quarterback situation. Mickey, what do you make of the last night's game? The NFL is getting closer and closer to college and high school football. No defense could play defense, no defense, I

mean Packers. The Packers put the Packer. I mean they put four hundred and some yards on them on Philadelphia supposed to be a great defense. And then I thought Green Bay had a great defense and they can't stop the run. Yeah, and then this whole thing with the officiating last play of the game. You don't look at that? How do you not look at that? To me? And I totally understand where Mickey's going with that, But I would rather the officials let them play. Well, they let

them play and made the wrong call. That's okay, but no, it's not. Go ask green Bay. Go ask Jason Garrett after the twenty fourteen playoff game, asked the Philadelphia Eagles they thought it was a really good play. Yeah, well, but it wasn't. I have no dog in the fight. It was interference. Philadelphia's two and two, and yeah, Green Bay team, you want to say that, you know, it's not easy. You're you're you're lost exactly that You would be bitching right now if it was Dallas, that that

happened to Dallas. But if it was the other way, you would be the first guy to say, I would tell the truth. I don't I don't know. That was a bad call. They look, even if they made far worse calls in that game, even if they didn't overturn it, they owed the teams to look at it. They're even look at it. They're not going to look the guy upstre is supposed to look at it. They're not gonna look why they're not? But why did you see? What did you see? What's happening in the league? You? I

mean you watch the other game. I watched a lot of games, and you see there's far worse calls than that. Well, not to decide the game. Well that's that's welcome to the NFL. Well, no, that's not right. Okay, the NFC Championship game has decided on a bad and that wasn't right. Yeah, Well, am I right? They're not going to change. This is not going to change. It needs to be We could sit here and bitch about this all day. This is

not changing. The officials will continue to protect each other, the replay officials, but will tinue to protect the officials on the field, Al river on, that whole group will continue to protect each other, and they'll they'll make up, as Jason Garret would like to say, they'll make up calls or they'll make up you know, explanations and stuff. And he's not wrong about that. But but to me, the final players of the game. Let the players decide it. I don't. I mean, if they make that call, would

you think that would have been a fair call? If you're a Philadelphia fan, I did. All I said was it should have been reviewed. It wasn't. They let him just I know it wasn't. Yeah, but it should have been. Well, they let him decide the game. Well, they could have said, hey, we looked at it and it's it stands. I guarantee Dallas is going to get screwed on a call and you're gonna be in here screaming on the screaming right now.

And it aid Dallas, I'm talking about what's right. Yeah, you can say all this stuff, but it ain't right. It doesn't make it. Okay, I'm not saying it. The game is. They should let him decide the game on the field. That's the bottom line. They should let him much just have anarchy. I have no rules. They didn't say that, Well you did. You said let's decide it on the field. Let him decide on the field. While you have read a stupid call by the Packers not

running the damn ball stupid? Well, no it was. We didn't get to that. Well why make a stupid throw in the on the goal line when you got two timeouts and a chance to run the ball in there with a running game? Why not? They should have looked at it. It's a rule. Okay, they didn't it. They haven't looked at one yet. Well they haven't. They have a final two minutes. Why that guy? Why is that guy up in the box? Then, if it's not going to be looked at it, you're dreaming? Who was job?

You need to stop dreaming. No, I'm not dreaming. You're dreaming. Well they're not going to look at the somebody else ought a dream with me and get it right? Well they're not sharing your dream? Well they better, all right, I've watched it for the first time right now, And I'm gonna have my take on it. I was in the car and so I was listening on the radios, have to And so you're you're talking about the interception at the other game, right, Yeah, the interference when the

ball popped up in the air. Uh in the meantime while I oh, ooh, okay, yeah, I just saw it, both arms around him. I'm going to expand my picture and take a closer look at things happened down on the goal like that all the time. You could call holding the called defensive holding down on the goal line anytime you want. But I'll take a look during the break. It wasn't holding. It was interference. He hit them before

the ball got all right. So, as far as the past interference and now obviously the ability to challenge it, potential pass interference, what do the coaches know about that? And through now three games that they're not going to overturn it? Yeah? And so and how does how does that affect what whether the coach uses a challenge flag or not. Couldn't challenge in the last two No, No No, I'm not I'm talking. I'm talking in general about the

past interference. I'm not talking about that point. They should have known in the preseason when they kept challenging those flags and it looked like obvious pass interference. How many how many times did we do play a preseason games this year? You were doing television, I was doing radio, and all of a sudden, like interference and they challenge it and the official says, no, that's not interference. Okay,

that's that's That was the indicator that was handling. That is the indicator that we're not going to We're not going to just sit here and roll over and call pass interference every single time. They don't want to set a precedent for throwing a flag every time it might be on that line, you know. And you got to be judicis anyway, because you still have the same number of timeouts that you're risking if you if you're wrong.

So it is what it is. I'm kind of with Brian on that, but I need to see the play, and you see the play before I take a side between this two this round of boxing, we just before porter before Saturday night. Here we go. By the way, Mickey, you're going to have more time than you thought to go back and review that play. Tomorrow because your Missouri Tigers are not playing Troy tomorrow. It's not Troy. They're

not playing anybody tomorrow. They're playing Troy next week. Can you please learn what he's studying for his next career. He's coming in his next life. I got a replay official, I got the opponent right, though didn't Your next deponent is next week. A reason why backup when you say stuff or call don't call him, but I will. I'll call you out on the air on that too. By the way, my football weekend got started last night with a high school football show at out here at the

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high school. So just a shout out there to the Donley family of Frisco, Texas as we keep it Cowboys. All right, injury report, give me an injury report. You may give you Jason's injury report. Okay, I'd give you Jerry's. All right, go ahead. Did you listen to Jerry this morning? I did. Oh, that was good stuff. It was. It was. It was a lot of different topics as far as the injuries. He thinks Mary's ready to go. All signs are. I think the question was should he be full power

in the game, and he said yes. Now I don't know exactly what Jason said, but he talked about Zack Martin too, right, Mick yes, and Jerry said no, Gary Gart did Yeah. I don't think Jerry touched on Zach. Yeah, he said he anticipates him practicing today. They gave him yesterday off because he didn't make it through Wednesday's practice, So I think they are doing what they need to do to get him to Sunday. Same thing with Cooper. Fair enough. How concerning is this, Well, I think it's

someone he's got a bad back. We're a week four. I mean they're going to talk about this every week. I mean, the this thing might clear up, but it touched a nerve and the nerves still gonna cause you problems. Yeah, he's gonna have to ask somebody here at the table. I mean, it's something you deal with every day or your life. And and he I believe had a full practice last week, but that's the only one he's had since it took him off the argery list and put

him back on it. Yeah, I mean they're trying to manage him throughout the year, no question about it. Him and Mark Cooper. Wait, wait, he knew this coming out of and get ready. We're gonna have Tyron Smith. That's another one, you know, knock on wood. But that's you know, as these guys as we get to week seven, week nine, and week fifteen, you know, these injuries, I mean, it's harder for these guys to have to play these games and then turn around and do it again. And so

with all that being said, just be ready. As long as you don't have the injury that lands guys on ir or you know, knees or shoulders or anything like that, then you know you're gonna have to just find a way to manage through these things. You can lump Tyrone Crawford in that mix too, although it's not looking good for this week. Yeah, he's that's another one in our woods. Yeah, Antoine woods. Yeah, but something you got to manage throughout

the year, Tyrone. This is something, I mean, Antoine's knee spraying knee. You hope that thing heals and then he's he's to go. I don't know. I don't know if Tyrone or Zach or you can say, oh, there'll be one hundred percent at any point this year. You know, you just you just got to be able to fight through it. And those are tough guys. Yeah. But see, here's what scares me with Crawford if you can't just been through it. But this has been going on since

the offseason, right right, right right? I know, so and then he played one game, and he played one game, and here it is again. I mean, if you can, I mean, if you're if you're not able to out there, you can't do it. But yeah, he's not wrong because you know, with a lot of those things and I'm not saying this about his what you know, it's like when you end up with a bad shoulder and they put a harness on it and try to get you through the season, and then when it's January, you get surgery.

You know, at sometime you're trying to get the guys so you don't have to do surgery. I think we as observers treat surgeries like getting a flu shot. You know, that's a major thing. Yeah, and they don't want to do surgery. Just to do surgery, you really have to have it. So if they can help you who this and rehab and rest, then they don't do surgery. But sometimes it comes back to get you. Well, the thing that they fixed on him is not the hurt part

of his body. It's the other hip that's hurt. You know, look with Byron Jones, give him credit for that. They fixed Byron Jones. Byron Jones looks good out there. Look at you know, the human log. His thing was a knee. It wasn't his you know, he was dealing with a shoulder and stuff like that. That seemed to be okay. He didn't have a problem with That happened in the Rams game. Well, and let's use Byron for an example.

I mean that happened during the season last year. Yeah, and it was like, okay, let's see if we can get through this rest, see if we do rehab. And then when was it he had the surgery. It was like April. Yeah, like they tried, they tried to manage it in the offseason and it got to the point where, okay, we need to get this right for the season exactly. Yeah. Yeah, So I think I think Crawford's in the same boat. Yeah.

I don't think that's getting any better. That's the one that if you want to worry about one, that's that's one. You're gonna have to find a way to rotate those defensive ends and hopefully Tristan Hill could be continue to be good as a nickel tackle, give you some rush play with this pad level down, you do the things that they think that he could do as they drafted

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the one third mark of this season Cowboys. He's reported to Oxnard, California nine weeks ago. Okay, nine weeks from now, we'll be Thanksgiving weekend, and nine weeks after that we'll be Super Bowl weekend. So we are at the one third mark of this season. Okay, fast, Okay, it does it does fast. I've got it planned for the entire season. Yeah,

Rannois says it. You wake up one day and it's Thanksgiving. Yea, and here we go, yeah a month right, that's right, right, And then you'll wake up nine weeks after Thanksgiving and the Cowboys will be in Miami, Miami, the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and we'll get to go to Amari's hometown. Do stories. That's right, yep. And then that's when I pull up Troy's tweet from this week about Patrick Mahomes and how many Super Bowls he has called me called when he gets one third of my

Super Bowl. So Troy made a low key Twitter sabbath. Yeah, and by the way, how is he last night on the past interference stuff in the in the broadcast booth. Did he oh he has opinion, Yeah he was, and he had a bunch that were wrong too, like he said, oh, that's interference in it. Oh no, it wasn't that. Troy was wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, Brian, how his periscope coming along? They hate they say, our first part of the show is embarrassing. That's okay. I don't really care

about what that. Were on the right track, No, no, they we're on the right track. We're pissing people off, and that's a good thing. That's good folks. By the way, if you don't know, by now, fifty percent of you hate us and fifty percent of us love us. They were doing a pretty damn good radio for your fifty percent of you hate us, fifty percent of us love us. Yeah, yeah, whatever,

that's that's that's part of it though. But no, it's uh, they're they're uh, they're just they're they're talking about what they feel like the Cowboys have to do to win this football game. I mean, they're talking about stopping Kamara and stuff like that, and what they think the game plan would be with Teddy Bridgewater. You know, how do you do you you limit Kamaro and Thomas we talked about this Chester bill. We had we had a few questions that we went through yesterday and you know that

kind of broke that down a little bit. Let me ask you, besides Thomas in the passing game, who else you worried about for the Saints. Well, they didn't have ted Gin the last time they played, right, you know that would some Hill the tight end. I would worry about him a little bit. Cook. We've seen Cook makes some plays down the field against this team and over in this building. Yeah, exactly, So you got to find a way to you know that that would that would

concern me. On offense, anything that anything that Teddy Bridgewater can do that's easy for him, you know, and and you know they'll he'll like we've seen he's not willing to throw the ball down the field. But if you watch the Cowboys defense, it seems like that the Dolphins were throwing the ball down the field. And we'd said that yesterday either a catch or a pass interference. Yeah, so you know that's something if I think I'm Teddy Bridgewater, I say, oh, you know, and I'll take a shot

with Michael Thomas down the field. Take a shot with Teddy Gin down the field. I got a I got a real sleeper guy to keep an eye on that. Sean Payton's going to work into his work a package out for this guy who was just called up from the practice squad last week. That's little Jordan Humphrey. He's going to be involved in some way you might. I know he's he's more of a tight end than he is a wide receiver, but as a as a big slop it catch the ball very well. That's something he's done.

He did that at Texas very very well. Again, the speed is not going to be a factor something you have to worry about. So if you're somebody that's covering number eighty four for the New Orleans Saints, you know, be physical with him, Deny him the opportunity in routes, and then you know, see if he can make a tight window catch. And like I say, it's a very sleeper pick. He only had six snaps last week in

his first NFL game. But Sean Payton being from here and knowing where little Jordan Humphrey came from against he come from Bill from South Lake and in Texas, and he's gonna have something for little Jordan Humphrey in this game. Let's go to New Orleans. You want to go to New Orleans. Let's go to New or Let's check in with Ray in New Orleans. Hello, Ray, Hey, guys, how are you guys doing great? Man? I had to call. I haven't called in a while. But it's it's Saints

Cowboys weekend. This matchup always makes my stomach just turned from the beginning from Monday Monday. So, I mean, if you're listened to Brian brought us and everybody does, you will scare us have to death. But rightfully so because the team has so many weapons and kamalare such a big weapon. Sure, I remember a game against Kansas City where I didn't even want to listen to you anymore. I mean, you were so thorough and all the weapons I had with Kelsey and everybody. I was like, how

the hell are we gonna win the same? Sure, and we ended up doing a damn the job and winning that game by our large margin. But man, we've fared pretty well against the Saints in the Dome. I mean we've had even three and seven time in the Dome. You're three and seven even even when we didn't Saints teams too three and seven, that's not fair. And well when we didn't have Romo and it was what we I mean, Breeze wanted to give you that game early on, you dropped a couple of picks. It ended up being

seventeen seventeen. They beat us in over time. One of our linebackers went went down and he beat us with a wheel route the very next play. But these matchups have been very We played really really well. Who are you? Who are you not? Who are you not? Scared of? On the Saints who? Right now, it's kind of hard to gauge it because of well, you've only had Bridgewater for one week, so we don't know. I'm sure he's gonna do better. So I'm scared of Kamara. Sure you should,

but what's up? Sure you should be? Yeah, I'm I'm great. And so I think we tackle. I mean, one of you guys said during the week the key to this game is I think Rob said it tackle, tackle, tackle, tackle. You said that. I did say that. Okay, you said tackle four times. Nicky, you I haven't forgot about you. I mean, Nick is the all around numbers guy man. So no, you don't. You mean you you give him hell? I see you on Twitter, Mick. I don't know how you do it. I'm not a Twitter guy, don't go

on very much. That's what that's the success. So are people believe it? In this Bridgewater thing down there? You know, everybody wanted to put in seven. No, they're hot to answer you a question, they're not, And it's it's a trip on Facebook. Everybody wanted to see number seven. And I'm like many water in my mind, I'm thinking, give Bridgewater a chance because they wanted him to come in.

Bruce wasn't doing anything against the Rams, and they wanted they wanted Bridgewater to come in and be doing things that that even Breeze couldn't do in that game. That's you know. So I don't know now, but it's it's it's it's week to week. Like with us, Nick, I mean, I don't I don't look past Miami. I don't look past the Giants. I don't look past in Washington. I remember this team barely being able to score points against

Seattle to go to the playoffs year before last. So for us to score I don't give a damn who it's against. For us to be able to spot points that we've been doing. It's as now our defense they haven't had those splash plays. But let's see what happens. Because this is a four quarters season. You know, the first four games. What you look like right now, it might not be what you look like you know going forward. So did hear was a great chance? I played football

in this stadium, little league, junior high, high school. It's loud, we understand that, but we do know that we've had some success in this stadium. So that's what I Okay, that's what I'm look forward to. Okay, Hey, hey, Brian, one more thing. I'll let you guys go. How about them Tigers? Baby? The best thing you said? Also appreciate it. Ray, thank you. You're right about three and seven. I mean they went in two thousand and nine and had a

great performance there. But overall, I was at a game and I think the I think the Saints got fifty first downs. Macky. You at that game that day? Yeah, yeah, they had four hundred and something yards at half. Maybe it's a Sunday night game that won the eighty nine game. No, no, it was the it was before Christmas. Now I'm talking about we went recent. Yeah, it was very recent, like four years ago, went down twenty fifteen, forty nine to seven, it was twenty thirteen. It was a forty nine seventeen

New Orleans win. Okay, And twenty thirteen, twenty fifteen was the overtime, twenty fifteen was overtime? Twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen years forty nine seventeen Saints caught Damian Wilson on the field and will Route. Yeah, you know, had a great game. Though. I'm looking through the series and the Cowboys have actually lost nine of the last twelve meetings. Yeah. What kind of team did the Cowboys have? In two thousand and

nine they had a very good teammate playoffs? Okay, they beat they beat New Orleans that year, that's one of those wins. What kind of team but the Cowboys? Wasn't that the big DeMarcus Ware game? Yes, yep, they beat New Orleans? And what kind of team New Orleans had? They had a really good team, right, thirte k, that's right? Okay, twenty fourteen, what kind of team the Cowboys have? Not? Very good playoff team? Play team fourteen? Ye? What your romo get hurt that we went to fifteen okay, m

fourteen Cowboys. That was in Dallas. Cowboys beat the Saints thirty eighth seventeen. Right, what kind of team did the Cowboys have last year? Playoff team? Playoff team and they beat New Orange. They're only three wins they've had since nineteen ninety four in twelve meetings against the Saints have been when the Cowboys have had a good team. We've been a lot of Saints teams too. You're right, and so is this a litmus test for this team? It's

a what's next week? Then exactly another test? The correct The point is when the Cowboys have had a good team, they've been able to handle whatever the Saints have thrown at them. Yeah, and there's gonna be blue in the stadium, there's no doubt about it. But that crowd noise is a factor. Kellen Moore said, what they've done in practice, like the noise level with the music and everything has been out like an eleven out of ten. Witton said when they come back to the huddle, they're not cutting

the music off. They're trying to, you know, simulate that as best they can. We talked about it yesterday. I think with a veteran offensive line. I don't Yeah, I don't feel like that's a major concern, but it is there. And especially if they if the Saints get off to a good start, if you get behind the chains on these guys, that can be problems. That's where the problems come into. You gotta stay ahead of schedule when you play these guys. Okay, I'm debating whether to take a break.

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dog Romo. Oh no, my dog Romo had been let out by my lovely wife Stacy along with his brother Bo to go outside at five o'clock whatever, and there was a skunk out there. Oh no. I got awakened to Romo on my bed, tried to get the skunk smell off him. No, No, that's not good. Is that possible? I mean it's not, trust me, it's not. It's a second time this has happened. I heard you had to bathe them like inta baking soda or whatever we gave them.

Two bads whatever. But what that's what I gotta wake until Jack Romo on my bed with the smell of a skun. Okay, there you go. But otherwise, Tony Romo had a great day yesterday, shot as a chance to make the cut at whatever tournament he's in. All right, safe, Now let's go to Brian in Maryland. Next up, I'm talking Cowboys. Brian. Hey, how are you doing, guys good?

I was looking at some of the Saints tapes from earlier this year, and I see where they're having problems with now or like the weakness would be as far as us scoring points would be between the tackles, because I believe Sheldon Rankins is still out and Anzeloni, their inside linebacker, isn't he Uh he won't be active for this game. I don't believe, No, he won't. So I see where we would have the most uh success is handing Zeke and Tony Pollard the ball. I see that is,

and also with our tight ends. I know people are worried with Gallop and Cooper, but the key to this game, as I understand, would be just running it between the tackles and us having success that way. I wanted to know. And did you go back and watch the Rams game at all? I did? It was it was great for the Rams. Yeah, did you see what the Rams did running the ball? Yes, what did they do? They just spread them out, took their gaps and went, okay the

ugly yards. Yeah. They they actually ran the toss sweep. They they hit that part of the game. What the Rams did was they ran the ball downhill with the toss sweep. So yeah, that was that was a more effective way of running. I think what you want to do against the Saints is you want to get them going one way and try and get back to the way. You're gonna see some counters in this game. I think you're gonna see some toss sweep. I think you're going to see the ball more on the edge than inside.

So you know, that's where I think that that to me. If you also go back and watch the Houston Texans game, the Texans were able to run some read options stuff and the and they the Saints did not have a very good answer for that. So Mickey's gonna give you a bunch of numbers why you should run the ball against these guys, and they're all true, But to me. The biggest plays they give up are on the edges. But good job, are you watching tape appreciate that? Yeah,

thank you very much. Saints are twenty sixth against the run. Yeah, and Rankins has been limited all week with an achilling Achilles. Yes, and Angeloni they must have put him on IR because he's not even on yeah, exactly. Yeah. They they've been playing with uh, they've been playing with A. J. Klein and then Kiko Alonso have been their guys. They signed Stefan Anthony this week. Sure. Yeah, they've had some problems, you know, they're defensively they've had some problems again, but

you've got to be able to. You've got to be able to. Like I say, the teams that had success running the ball, the Texans, a lot of read options, the rams, the toss, sweep stuff. The Seahawks, I didn't think, not so much because the Seahawks were behind in that game and so it didn't Mickey. Then we'll tell you that you throw the ball against these guys, so if you get protection, you can throw. So that's to me.

If I'm running the ball, I'm running it on the edges is what I'm trying to go practiced that running game because the Eagles ran for one hundred and seventy six yards against the Packers. Eagles got some good backs. Saints have given us some pass plays too. I think it's fourteen explosive class plays in three games now. Yeah, and Brian's talked about, you know, they work the middle of the field and that's something that Cowboys have done too,

with Cooper moving him around. Their safeties are bad, I don't think again, I'm not a big fan of Marcus Williams. I know he's a couple of years ago he was everybody he's rave, but him and Vaughan Bell. Von Bell can't run. I don't see if you get von Bell in space, he's it's it's very similar to watching uh, you know Frasier play. You know they can hit you, but if they can't get to you, then they can't hit you. And that that sends to be a problem

for Vaughn Bell. Okay, picks to click. We got our four minute offense here from four minutes left on the show. Picks to click. Let's start with Mickey Well having said what we just said, I'm taking to coda Prescott. Okay, code to Prescott. Pick to click going going late in Vanderesh went back and watch some of the game from last year and Brian is talking about those splash plays. But he had some splash plays in that game, tackles

behind the line of scrimmage, sideline to sideline. Maybe this is the game he really breaks out, because I think he's been productive. He's mate tackles, but they've got to be on their screws against Kamara and just making making plays at the linebacker position. I think he can do that. How was Layton been playing like Layton? I think the linebackers in the hole have been good. But the problem is, and I've said this a bunch, I overrated these linebackers.

I propped them up too much on where I thought they could be and how they could play, and you know, they still could very well get there. But they're playing well enough. It's just like Rob was talking about the splash plays and stuff like that. You know, I was watching the game the other day, went back, and everybody was killing Smith for the way he played, and I felt like he only had four bad plays and then we had a bad play where he got the defensive

holding was one of them. And then whether you're doing the next play, knocked the ball out of a guy's hand to get it, you know, get a turnover. So you know these linebackers, yeah, they played better. Absolutely they could and they're capable of doing that. My pick the click is Lyle Collins. I think that when you look at when you look at the situation with the Saints, the one way that they can hurt you is with

Cam Jordan. And Cam Jordan to me, can affect the game as a rusher and as also a run defender. If the Cowboys are going to be right hand and it running the ball trying to get it to the edge, you're gonna have to be able to find a way to secure that edge. I think that Cam Jordan can affect you that way. This is going to be about

Lyle Collins. He talks about his past protection. He's shown a lot more patients with that, which is good, But he needs to beat up on Cam Jordan if he can be physical coming off the ball, get that edge secured and let that ball get to the outside of whether they're running the toss the thirty eight they run to his side, or they're running the read option plays off that right side. I think could be key in this game, not only protection wise, but the ability to run.

And they will move Cam Jordan around. They but you want to move him against Tyrn Smith. I don't think they want to do that, right, or they'll double up and put Davenport in and him on the same side. And yes, and Will McClay did a great job, as he obviously would do on the Jason Garrett Show this week, breaking down those two edge rushers and how they use them and how that makes them susceptible in the secondary, which leads me to my pick to clicks, which is Randall.

And Randall almost had a huge day last week except for a couple of penalties and that weren't his fault and this is his week for me to click against this saint ninety forty yards worth of loss. There you go, that's a shame. He's such a great player, he really is. I mean, we talked about him when he when he

came here. What a difference maker he can make. And Mickey said on the radio this morning talking about there's things that Cole Beasley because to do very well for you, but there's things that Randall Cobb does for you even better. And I think that's the thing that I'm the most impressed by such a pro in the way he approach the game play he has and Cole Beasley last week and his game against Cincinnati, he was the leading receiver for the Bills, had eight catches for forty eight yards.

So did you six yards again? Did you hear Joe Buck's comment as they went to break after Davante Adams went out, I did not bet they wish they had rand Cob, but he's playing for the Cowboys. It's true. I'll get to see Randall Cob next week. Yeah, and we'll get to see him on Sunday night. And Brian, what time are you doing your thing before the game? But time we get a seven seven o'clock if it's a seven thirty game, yeah, we're u see like a six six fifteen. Yeah, on all the all the Dallas

Cowboys platforms, okay, and Mickey and Rob making the trip. Yes, we'll have Nick and I will have hits from the sideline as per usual on pregame Live seven twenty kickoff. So yeah, we'll see sixty on the fan my pregame segment. All right, very good, and we will talk at you on Monday here on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.