Talkin' Cowboys: Final Thoughts & Predictions

is finally here. It's time for the real deal, and I think we're all ready for it, right guys? Absolutely yep, nice alliteration. A fabulous or fantastic football football Friday here and and what a great football weekend. We're not going to belabor the point, but huge games for Rob Phillips and Brian brought us as Rob Phillips Aggies will take on Clemson and Brian brought us LSU Bayou Bengals will play the Texas Longhorns. You're not going down to Austin,

are you? If you had a high school game there tonight and I'm driving home right afterwards. Really gonna stick around, hope, I canna stick around. Yeah, my son plays down there Friday night, and so yeah, we're gonna head back after the game. Okay, all right, very good and uh and love the well. And of course, we had a high school football game here at Ford Center at the Star last night as play O played at El Paso Eastwood.

A great scene there. Jerry Jones was out in the Tostitos Championship plaza greeting the Eastwood team as they made their way into the Star. And good feelings all around on that. And Mickey, you got a big game tomorrow two at eleven am West Virginia. I try that's the ugly off. And now we get to the Giants and what's Oklahoma? Everyone to play South Dakota. We don't need to talk about South Dakota. Okay, it's our one layup, all right, So let's move on to the New York Giants.

And speaking of Jerry Jones and the Zeke Elliott press conference yesterday, I just think Jerry Jones has been on his game, and not only this week but throughout the preseason. And I think one of the reasons is he feels very good about where this football team is right now. He has to feel better about getting that elite running back in here, for sure. And I think that if you are a fan of football and you watch last night's games, you'll see what a lack of a running

game will do for you there. And neither teams really could do anything offensively. And if you if you're gonna have in balance and you're gonna have problems throwing the ball, you gotta have something to hang your hat on. And

I feel like that Jerry Jones knows. Now. You know, Tony Poller did a lot of nice things, but Ezeki Elliott is an elite player, and to turn around and be able to hand him the football if things are kind of a little crazy on offense, you know, those are the things that can give your offense some stability. And so I think he has to be very happy about that, about having the group of players he has,

about having Kellen Moore is his offensive coordina. I'm really excited to see what Kellen Moore can do with this offense, I really am. I think he's got some some weapons that he can work with the defense. We've talked about them a bunch yesterday, But I think this offense has got the chance to be really good in a lot of different areas. In regards to that game last night, the Chicago Bears, I'm laive. I heard on the radio. This is right. Their last thirty three plays were past

plays for a ten three game. You still have to have balance in this that quarterback. Yeah, that's the thing, and I think that to me. People ask me about Dak Prescott and what you know, and you know, can you throw the ball with him forty times a game and have success? You know, last night we saw it and I was the guy Yeston heck, I would draft Aaron Rodgers is one of my first guys if I was looking at a team. But that's what you see

the quarterback. If you have quarterback inconsistency in a game, you're gonna need something else to hang your hat on. And I think that's where Ezekiel. This offensive line is the difference to things. If Dak were to get into a rut like they had last night, at least I feel like that they could do things offensively running the football to kind of get themselves going. Maybe we need more preseason games. That was ugly and neither team was ready to play or any preseason games, just you guysenies,

the penalties, the lack of protection for the quarterbacks. I mean, it was we did and we talked about yesterday's terrible tackling can be an issue in week one because you're not really you're not doing it in practice, your and your starters are doing it very minimally. That's a word in preseason games. So we'll see. I mean, you know, the Cowboys I think have been sharp. The starting units were sharp and limited preseason action, so we'll see if

they can carry that over. But to your point about Jerry being on his game, I think that press conference illustrated better than anything his experience with these types of contracts. And you know, he never seemed frazzled by the situation when asked about it over the last six weeks. And obviously he and Zeke are not taking whatever back and forth was the dance involved with that. Nothing was was

taken personally. Obviously, based on that T shirt that's now on sale free order at the Cowboys Pro Shop, all proceeds go into Salvation Army. That's right. And there's no way that Zeke took a fense to what Cherry had said in Hawaii is he does. Anybody asked Zeek that, Uh, he said, it's it's so far away now, Yeah, he was anymore. But I'm in my opinion. I mean, I think the agent used that just as you know. May maybe the agent took a fense to it. I don't know.

But they have too good a relationship and everybody's happy. Everybody. Yeah, he got especially you hear the context of what got their player and he got his money. So yeah, I mean there's a lot to be happy about. But you know, we need to see that. But to answer your question, I think, yes, he understands how good this team could be. Yeah, And I think he's feeling good about what he's seen so far. And he's no different from the rest of us, right, I mean, we can see, we can see what you know.

If I don't think it was a mirage what we've been watching for six weeks, this should be a very good team. We talked yesterday Buil at the end of the show, what concern I think Brian went around the room, what concerns you the most about this team? And it's really hard to pick. For me, it's hard to pick something and say I'm really concerned about this or this like top to bottom, it's a pretty solid football team.

The one thing for me is, and we talked about the kicking, you gotta see consistency there as he moves out of preseason Brett Maher, But you know guys coming off of injury and the offensive line hasn't been together for a little stretch here, so you know some of your key guys coming back. Can they get back to the standard they're used to? And one concern for the overriding concern for me is and I think that this team is in good shape because it's got enough veterans

on the team that understand this. But it's not reading your press clippings basically and not being overconfident going into the season. Um, I think if they if they are ready for in a mental state of mind to understand that those New York Giants can beat you on Sunday, which they should understand that, and they're ready to go,

then they're going to be fine. Um. Injuries are always a concern, and they've got better depth now as we've talked about throughout the last six weeks that the depth on this team is the best it's been in years. Of course, but there are certain injuries that no team could could overcome and reach the goal that your e have set out in front of you. But that's my biggest concern. It happened in twenty fifteen. You lose Romo

in your seasons, right, you know it's it's an uphill climb. Yeah, but I look at the look at it this way from an offensive standpoint. Look at the weapons that Dak Prescott has at his disposal going into this season opener compared to last year. Yeah, You've got Amari Cooper, you got Randall cop Cole Beasley, and if you want to say that's a washwever Okay, Witton's back, you got Tony Pollard. I'm missing a Travis Frederick. Michael Michael Gallup is now

a second year guy. Yeah, okay, last year and he's a rookie. You know, everything's just flying by so fast. I mean I count it. There was There's six weapons, not even including the return of Travis Frederick. What he does front with the whether whether they run the football, He's a key part of that six skill position guys that chasing this team. Yeah that that weren't here last year. Who has to give? And the quarterbacks not lacking in

confidence even when he didn't have these guys. But you can only imagine what he's thinking going into this right now. Even this is better than Terrence Williams and Deonte Thompson starting at whiten receiver. Well, they made a huge mistake and they admit it. They knew that schiever by committee was not the way to go. Give him credit for that, yep, making the move absolutely, And you might even throw a

Blake Jarwin in that mix. Now that yeah, that's right, a guy, you know, a year under his belt, truly a year under his belt and back practicing. It looks like you who was the NFC Offensive Player of the Week the last week of the season last year the

New York Football Giants. That's right, you know, and he was he was so green going into last year even though he hadn't he had been in the league, but he hadn't played, you know, he hadn't played, wasn't and the other guy had and Gallup hadn't played, you know,

and so right right, and Rico hadn't played. And having said that about the list, having said that about the whole offense, then you look at this defense and go the defense, it looks like it's going to be good enough that you're going to be in every game, you

know what I mean. Oh, there's no question if you look at what they did to that offense that you said, had all these guys play, and I mean not to everybody practiced every single snap, but I thought this defense really held this offense to task and having to having to pass to football, whether it was a seven on seven drill, a team period of two minute drill, whatever, Yeah they if it was good verse good out there work and you saw it, you know, you saw those guys.

It makes you feel a little bit better about it. If if Byron Jones doesn't start, at least you feel good about Anthony Brown. I used to feel good about George Lewis. At least you feel good about a woozy A. You feel good about those guys for what you saw from them, really all ot a and then all through training camp, and that was without Byron Jones, De Marcus Lawrence, Tyrone Crawford. Absolutely get in the field. Yeah, think about it. Yeah, they're missing Zeke too on the other side, but in

Amari for most of camp. But look it'll y'all right, Dak nothing Dak got was really easy, and I didn't

think it was. I thought it was good competition. And when people said, well, Dak didn't look good to day, I'm like, well, it's really not Dak's fault, because what happens is Dak was getting, you know, the coverage that they you know, even guys like Michael Gallup, who we've talked about as potentially being having a great as being one b in my mind, you know, he was having a fight for space out there on the outside, some tight window throws and so some days it was really good.

Some days it would But I think it wasn't because Dak Prescott was just throwing the ball all over the park and missing throws. It was because defense was having to play and having to cover those good receivers and then having to make plays on the football. Mickey, you've seen a couple of practice reports and concerns injury wise

going into Sunday. Not really I expected them to be very conservative with Zack Martin, and he was really the only one that was that we thought was going to play was limited and it sounded like he was going to jump into practice today fully, So yeah, I think that was more of a precaution more. Yeah, I think Mickey's onto something here because Zack Martin, to me, is the one guy that's going to have to play the

whole game, you know it. Because it's easy to monitor the reps of the defensive lineman or the cornerbacks and kind of shuffle those guys in and out. It's a little bit more different cool to do it with an offensive lineman. You're not gonna sit there and say, oh, Xavier two, Philo is going to go in here now for two for two reds or for two series or something like that. You need the continuity with the offensive line.

So if you kind of baby him along to get him to the end of the week and get him to the game, maybe you're saving a little where and tear of him having to potentially play sixty sixty five snaps in this football game. You know the feeling I get on this team and it's like first games can create anxiety, like you don't know, Jason Witten said that I just get. I just get the feeling that this

team is like bubbling to get going. Yeah, like for real, it's like they're not scared and it's still a young team, but it's a young team with experience. So that's just the vibe I get from in that locker room, right And I'm not going to compare. I'm not going to say this is a super Bowl team yet, but it's

the same. By the way, it's the same type feeling that I had for those Cowboys Super Bowl teams in the nineties in that two week period leading up to the Super Bowl, where they just were going to get unleashed come game day. Now that sort of thing, you know, Yeah, and you mentioned over confidence. I don't think I would worry about that with this group, even though they are young,

because man, they were. They were left in the ditch mid season last year and had to crawl their way back, and I think that's a good lesson for a young group, honestly, and Amari obviously it's a big part of that. But everybody kind of pulled together to get this thing back on the road, and I think that's a good lesson. I think there was a ditch after the loss to the Rams. I don't think people initially, before all this started,

people took this team seriously. You know, if you looked at nationally power rankings twelfth, fifteenth, no one was taking them seriously. Now I see the tide turning, and it's like, oh, this team might be pretty good. Now Locally people are picking the Cowboys to win the division. But now nationally, isn't it that they're they're going Eagles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And usually the players are watching the national shows. Yeah,

so that's that's what they're seeing. Yeah, yeah, I think that I think it'll be it's you know, you go player by player with Philadelphia, there's a lot of similarities between the two teams. If you talk about the offensive lines, you know, the skill I think, you know, they Eagles have better tight ends, the Cowboys likely better wide receivers. You know, say what you want about their quarterback, your quarterback. You know, both the same draft, you know, both similar records,

both similar stats. Kind of a thing. So one stays healthy the other doesn't, you know. So yeah, I think if you look at overall, you would say these teams are pretty evenly matched. And that's why I feel like that that that national people are looking at the Eagles.

You know, the Eagles have in the last couple of years want a super Bowl with that coach, So that's you know, that's probably thinking, okay, with that talented of roster and with that coach that gives them the edge O with the Cowboys right now, that's a good point. And then if you look across the conference, man, you can I mean, I think everybody feels like it's the Eagles are the biggest threat to the Cowboys over the

course of the entire season in the division. But you can look at the other divisions and look at maybe at least two teams and say, wow, that's that's a playoff caliber team. It's a really good conference. And a lot of these guys are on their schedule, so they're gonna have to be read. They're gonna have You're gonna see if this team is in fact what you would

say bill a super Bowl team. By the time you get to the schedule, when you get to first of December and then you've made a trip to Foxborough and you've already played you know, you get the Rams, I think ahead and some other games like that. But you'll know, you'll know because you'll have a couple of Philadelphia games done. You'll have a you'll have your Saints game done, You'll have your Packers game done. You know, you'll you'll have a really good understanding of where your team is at

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Check out the Thursday show for some of the breakdown on these New York Giants. But let's go around the horn. What concerns you the most about this opponent this week? The Giants? You know, I'll leave everyone else to talk about the runner, because I kind of feel like that's the direction I'm going to talk about something that could

be a problem. I don't think the Giants can create much of a pass rush, Okay, So I feel like though that the James Betcher, the defensive coordinator for the Giants is going to have to come up with some creative ways to get pressure. I think that the Cowboys upfront can protect if if, in fact, he just tries to rush for but where he's going to have to attack?

And I think he attacks because if Ezekieli does play, and he's one of the best bullets pickup guys I've ever seen, but how much is he really going to play? Can they catch him when he's not on the field and take advantage of say Tony Pollard or take advantage of Jamais Olawally. This is going to be the for what the Giants are going to have to do for their game plan, because if they just sit there and

rush four all they Dallas will eat them up. And Garrett talked about their secondary being good and all that and having respect. He's right. They've got a couple of rookies. They got a rookie at the nickel, they got a rookie on the outside, they got a gambler on the other side. So you know, there's some things I think you could do this group, but they're going to have

to create pressure. If the Giants are going to have success, it's going to be blitzing the Cowboys and seeing if these cowboy running backs can pick up the blitz and can handle the pressure in order to get the football off. That's something that would be concerning to me because Zeke hasn't had the training camp practices. Can you get him off the field? Is that Pollard in there? Is that

Oldiwally in there? Who is the guy that's gonna be blitz picking up That's going to be the key for the Cowboys right now, Mick, would you like to take the runner? I'll take the runner. I just knew you, guys. I mean I was just trying to. I mean, there were very few things to worry about other self infliction. But yeah, I think that he's a guy that can take over the game. They did a pretty good job early last year against him when he was a rookie though,

just starting off. But he did catch enough passes for eighty yards receiving in that first game. You know, the second game, I canna throw it out. They didn't play everybody on defense. I know Dak played and the whole bit, but they didn't have all their defensive guys on the field. So yeah, I think that they got to make sure that he doesn't single handedly take over the game because any play he's gone, right, he's gone. And I thought Rod Maronil he talked about it yesterday, comparing him with

Barry Sanders. You know, you stop him for two, you stop him for three, and then he goes eighty. So I think that's the one thing they can't not allow to happen. They've got to make sure if the Giant score touchdowns, they got to drive the field. They don't

get it all in one fail swoop. I don't know if this is a concern necessarily, but we've been pumping up this Cowboys defensive line all offseason, training camp, preseason, and speaking of the ditch, I mean a lot of people feel like Eli Manning, you know, he's in the twilight of his career all that if they can protect him, he can still beat you with his arm. And we talked about it yesterday. They've added a couple of pieces

to the offensive line to try to help that. They've got to be able to get to him and affect him and prevent him from using that play action that they've they've used throughout his career that's been so effective, especially now at sa Quon as the runner. So we'll see how much does the Marcus Lawrence play How effective is he? And Mickey talked about the other guys in that rotation, Dorn's Armstrong, if Taco, whoever's active, can they

can they affect the quarterback from mult multiple spots. That's a question off periscope, Rob and actually good ones. How much does the d line depth affect these this game? How much will that affect And you went right into that with you know all those and they've got some guys that that you know, haven't played a lot of

snaps or played no snaps in training camp. When you talk about the two starters with Lawrence and then Crawford, you know, how do they go Do they go light at defensive tackle heavy at defensive end to kind of make up for that? So how they set up their roster? Usually they'll address eight, will they dress nine? You know if you take if you add one, you're gonna have to take someone from somewhere else. So, yeah, the depth is going to be key for how they play in

that rotation. I know Rod Marinelli Shoby Rod Mirinelli was talking about that yesterday. Yeah, and yeah, Rod said he likes what he's seeing from Tank and from Tyrone. To your point, they hadn't played much, hadn't practiced a whole lot, so he didn't give us an idea of how many snaps they might play. But we'll see. We'll see how they rotate those guys. And they've beefed up that interior too. You know, Antoine Woods was a godsend last year coming

out of nowhere to help this defensive tackle rotation. Christian Covington, Tristan Hill. Can those guys get in the mix and help there as well. I think the key thing is when they put that forty six man roster together, and normally you only keep eight on the defensive line. I think maybe the last two spots come down to versatility. I agree, who can play end and who can brush the quarterback inside? Now we know Crawford can do both. We've seen Carrie Hyder do both good points, So I

think you keep an eye on that. I don't know if they want to try to put our I'm strong inside or not. That's probably not Jackson maybe, but Jackson is a guy that can do both also, So they're gonna have to figure out. You know, there's gonna be two guys they're odd man out, So how do they

come to that conclusion? But it could be I'll guarantee you it's a it's a rotation for sure, because they cannot wear out to Marcus Lawrence, you know, you can have all the legs you want, but remember he hadn't been taking much punishment on that shoulder that got repaired. Can I ask a question, and I don't want to put anybody on the spot here, but have you seen

more from Taco than Dord's Armstrong? If you had to say if if you know, I mean, I know they love Doret's Armstrong, and they they you know, he got all the work and the OTA's and got a lot of work in training camp. But have you seen more from him or have you seen the improving Taco the last two not he didn't play the last preseason game, but the the the Rams game and then the Texans game to kind of make you feel like, well, maybe

putting him in there might be a good thing. That's a good question because I think we talked about Lawrence's first step. That's pretty evident in the practices we watch every day. In the games, I'd say Taco has been more productive in the preseason game. But I think the key thing will be who's playing the run the best. See we all focus on who's rushing the quarterback, who's

getting to the quarterback. If you remember last year early when the defense had problems, they were having problems against the run. They were having problems setting the edge to the point they needed Crawford to go back out to defensive end. So again, if DeMarcus and one of the great things DeMarcus Lawrence does is play the run. He's not just a fancy pass rusher. So that guy on that strong side better be able to play the run. And if Lawrence has to come out, who is it.

They've been using Armstrong there if you think about it. Sometimes Jackson, I haven't seen Taco on the strong side. He's been on the right side. Jac Garrett told us that he felt like that Taco's best position was playing left end. Well, cho said, that's his best position. I said, but you got all your production trying in a preseason playing the right side. Used to playing that in college too, he was a left defensive end in Michigan. Yeah, well, you better be able to stand up against the run.

He said, he'll play anywhere, but he was very he was asked the question, and you know the guy with the most power then is Joe Jackson. Yeah, Joe Jackson's the one that you got to kind of keep an eye on. And I'll tell you this though, keep an eye on what they might do with Tristan Hill, because if you know, if it if it comes down to, okay, we can get by with just having these many defensive tackles. Tristan Hill could be an odd man guy out here.

And Okay, we've got a dress. We've got a dress. Armstrong, we gotta dress. Taco, We've got address Hider, we got a dress. You know. I mean, you start talking about all the guys that they need to have, and then Mickey's right. The flexibility. Joe Jackson has flexibility. He could play either end or he could play as the under tackle. So Joe Jackson might be a surprised dress over say a Tristan Hill. Well, I could see, I mean, I could see that. Yeah, I mean I look about that.

That's a good man. Haven't considered the fact that Tristan Hills. I'm just looking at Mickey got me to look at They're they're gonna have to go long there and you go short on the offensive line. We can keep more than seven on the offensive lines. We said yesterday, you can. You can knock out three guys for the forty six already. Yeah, Gifford,

Thompson Wilson haven't practiced all week. If they're not practicing today, Yeah, they got some issues at safety, even to the point even to the point where C. J. Goodwin is having to take some reps safety, And that affects things as far as special teams go. When you've got when you've got two safeties and a linebacker already, Okay, that aren't going to be on your game day roster, right and then so when we are we still in agreement on the roster move to get Zeke on the roster, which

would have to come by tomorrow. Yeah, And I asked you, you know, I I've still you know, to me, I was trying to read between the line with Jason Garrett today and the press conference questions about Alfred, a lot of questions about Alfred Morris. He talked about Alfred Morris in a very positive light. And I just feel like though that I'm gonna still go with it. I'm still gonna go with that thought that they're gonna, they're gonna address,

They're gonna, they're gonna they need Chun. Now, they could switch Chun out if they feel like that. Okay, Alfred's okay, but Alfred plays. Alfred's gonna play. How many plays is Alfred gonna play at running back? And how many plays is he gonna play on special teams? I could tell you that he's gonna play none. So although early in the week they had him working with the coverage units. Yeah, well, now I don't know if that means yeah, but that

was before Zeke. See that's what I'm saying. Yeah to me that if you're addressing a guy in your forty six, that's or that's only gonna play three plays because you're gonna trust Pollard to play. And we talked about it. If it comes down to passing and they don't trust him to play in the Blitz pick up Olva Wally is one of your better Blitz pick up guys. So bigger picture the season, Zeke hasn't been hurt in his career. But if Zeke got hurt, do you want Alfred Morris

on this roster? Yeah? Yeah, So I didn't look at and are the coaches can look at Okay, yeah, but they were. They were prepared Bill to start Pollard. They were prepared. I mean, I'm one of these guys. It said, if they had to play tomorrow against the Giants, they would coach. I mean you would still need another season running back. Yeah, you know that you can depend on if if there was an injury, I watch it would be how far do you want to extend this insurance policle,

I'm gonna put him Taxi squad. Taxi squad. Yeah, that's a back in the day line that's way over my head. We don't get we don't get that. We don't do that. And he would literally just be a taxi or be an uber, right, yeah, taxi squad. I just don't Rob was talking about her. I think everybody agrees this is a really deep roster. Now, okay, do you sit there. I don't think they want to put they They've gone through this whole struggle of getting Brandon Knight on the

active roster. Obviously they feel like, you know, if you just said, oh, well, Brandon Knight, we're gonna now maybe it's a thing where Okay, nobody's gonna claim Brandon Knight on a Saturday, you know, that kind of thing. But put it by one. Are these personnel guys around the league to go, wait a minute, an offensive lineman's out there and we're playing with like we got three bad offensive lineman at the end of our roster and maybe we had a draftable grade on him. And that's that's

what I always say about those rookie guys. Or do they or do they look at it? Okay, we can get through special teams this week without Chun until you run Chun off the roster and then back on whatever. Yeah. See, that's what I'm saying. If you needed think about the linebackers that don't play special teams, vander esh Smith, Lee, that's three of your six that are dressing that played no special teams. They might turn around say, okay, Chunt's

off and Gifford's probably not going to be active. Yeah exactly right. Yeah, so chucking off and then do you bring Cubington up? You know, I mean there's all kinds of po you still have to cut somebody. Yeah, And that's what I'm saying. That's why I think Alfred Moore's to me makes the most sense. Alfred Moore's thank you I kind of it was kind of like a little kind of seeing my mind is Jason Garrett giving him a nice sind off, like thank you for everything you've done.

Alfred Moore's kind of a thing. So if Alfred's off, chun's gotta be active, right right, right, So now he plays special teams for all those linebackers. Yeah, he's line or they switch Cubington out. They bring Cubington up to play special teams and switch. Yeah, two ros. So the only the only way I can see you do it. If if Saint Morris is off, right, Okay, you've got three guys that are injured, they're they're inactive, right, You're

gonna have to do two defensive linemen and two offensive linemen. Yeah, to get to seven for right, to get to your forty six. Yeah, because otherwise you can't. You can't. I don't think you can cheat it. You can go four wide receivers. I would not dress Smith Smith Smith is Smith is a luxury. Yeah, Smith's a luxury to me. You're not doing it at safety. I got three tight end cornerback because you're already down one one safety right

right right, See that's what tight ends. Only three three and need your full back, right, you need a backup quarterback? That's yeah. So yeah, the wide receiver. Can you go in with four? Yes, yeah you could. I'm going some of the wide root. Now. The problem is if something happens to Cooper, but but the Randall cobbs your next guy up. But then you're then you're in a situation too where you can say Pollard could play as if you had what I was thinking, you can line him up. Yeah, anyway,

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Zeke zee ze Yeah it was Zeke. I wish Jerry had a nose ring on. That would have been so much fun. I heard you yesterday talking about that. At least get a temporary one exactly. Okay, do we want to go with some picks to click in our last five minutes here? Let Mike you start this day. You know what? I got it backwards because it was dak It was who da remember? Day to help myself out last shovel full of right on top. What do you want? I want you get a pick to click in the game.

Pick a player, Pick a player. I just know what he's gonna steal mine. Who's that? Michael? Ahead and take it? Michael Gallup? Okay, I was ahead. I knew it. I knew it well. I mean we talked about it. It's a young secondary, it's a talented, giant secondary. I'm more looking at the fact that Gallup has been excellent in the preseason and all the camp games or camp practices. Um. I think he's prime for a big year. I really do. Um. Now it's gonna come doubt how many balls he gets

thrown out him. Mamari Cooper's back, but um, he's he could. He might be able to light it up on Sunday. We'll see, Okay, Michael Gallop, So since you did that, I will go with de Marcus Lawrence. I think he's chomping at the bit to get going after kind of holding him back all during the preseason, all during training camp, and I think he will take advantage of whatever the Giants put out there on their offensive line. Okay, do you want to go ahead? I'll go with the star

of the preseason, Malik Collins. There you got. He's my guy, whether it's in the run game or getting some penetration up the middle. One, Lie Manning, do you want to Collins? And his presence will be felt whether it's on a stat sheet or not. Do you want to walk him upstairs and see get him a new contract? Yeah? I don't know if there's any how much of that pie is like plenty of pie. You know the guys will be happy to see him if he shows up in that door. I'm gonna go with Layton vander esh because

I think the Giants offensively are going to it. This is a big offensive line, it's approved offensive line. They've had some problems I talked about Rumers the right to tackle. I think he's better than what they played at with the Bobby Hearts of the world. The Wheelers guys like that that they've run out there in the past. So I feel like though, but he's been a little banged up, but he should make to start there at right tackle. But I think overall the Giants with their offensive line

are gonna have trouble getting blockers to these linebackers. You could have gone either way. You could have gone Smith or vander Esh. But if you allow either one of those guys to run to the football the way they can, they're gonna make a ton of tackles. And you need to make tackles with the Sequon Barkley in the backfield. So give me Layton vander Esh at the end of the day, Yes, look at that stat sheet. He will likely be on the very top of it after playing

very well against these New York Football Giants. How do they handle Evan Ingram. That's gonna be a trick and you it's likely going to be there, or it's safeties like we talked about, They're likely going to use Jeff Heath. We've seen that in the past. The way he's had to deal with the tight ends to play in this division.

I think they will mix some things up. I think you'll see Xavier Woods played down in the in the box and try and help them with some coverage with with Ingram, I would personally treat him like a wide receiver. So you might see Byron Jones maybe that they played dime. Maybe we'll see some Byron Jones or or or George Lewis walk over the top of him and match them

the way they had. But it's gonna be Jeff Heath initially and then figure out how you want to kind of mix things up, not to give them a good read on that. All right, very good, and hopefully I don't want to go to school with what the Rams did when Heath was trying to cover the tight end in motion yea in that game and he got blocked in the middle of the play and no flag. It

was a huge play too. Just want to point that out. Rob, Yes, Rob, are you going to take us home with a well, do you have you made predictions on a Cowboys record this season? Around the horn? Have you all made a prediction on that? I'll show up in my column today. One good feeling. Right, here's the way I break down

the schedule. Okay, especially after watching Chicago and Green Bay, two opponents on this schedule, and I'm sitting there driving in, going all right, let's just break it down by division. I think they'll go three and one against the NFC North. Okay, they'll go three and one against the AFC East, five and one in the division, and they'll split the two games Rams Saints, which gives him a twelve and four record and a division title. That's the way I got

it broken down. That seems very reasonable. Yeah, the loss the losses in New England, right, is that the loss? I'll put that in. What is your North loss? Well, I was thinking Minnesota, but they got Minnesota at home. Yeah, and it might be a surprise I'll go. I'll still go in Minnesota, whether Detroit Detroit, ye, yeah, flukey games if if lukey things always happened in that where yeah? Yeah? Uh. You think to split with the Saints and the Rams, which do you think they get? Let's get let's get

the Rams at home at the Saints. That that to me is very reasonable. That's a very reasonable way of looking at this. It's weird when I went through it, I felt like that they would lose a game to Philadelphia, but I thought they'd lose the game to Philadelphia at home and then win the one on the road, which I kind of It's usually that's not the case, but you know, I I if I had two twelve and fourth sounds very reasonable to me as well. Final seconds.

I'm gonna go on the record right now, Okay, and can go back and listen to it. It's an all Dallas super Bowl. It's the Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs. There you go in the super Bowl in Miami. Enjoy the game. We'll talk at you again on Talking Cowboys on Monday. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Hmmm.