Talkin’ Cowboys: Game Over/Under

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It's a Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas in the SWBC studios. As we welcome you into a regular season edition. It is Week one, as the Cowboys get ready to face the Cleveland Browns Sunday at three twenty five Central Time on Fox.

Welcome in, Isaiah Stanback. We've got Josh Rodriguez. This is happening. Patrick, No, Cy Walker, I can't get Josh across table. We can, we can make Let's go ky.

Everybody seems a little extra, We get a little extra peppinist day.

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What's that?

Because Dallas Cowboys a undefeated Ah that is true. Yeah, that's very true.

I mean we're merely days away from NFL football. Actual NFL football literally come on.

Say forty eight hours, because Thursday night it gets started and then Friday night, I was like it's like fifty.

Something something, a little over forty eight. But I see you right.

Yeah, we'll get early indication of the NFC East On Fridays, we get to see what happens with the Eagles and Brazil. You gotta say it like domb but I see it. But you gotta say it like Dom from Fast and Furious.

That's how you know football is back.

Whenever cowboys will be excited to watch two teams that they just absolutely cannot stand.

Lovely, but like, I'm gonna watch every moment I know you are, it's gonna happen.

Are you gonna wear them in your you're a scuba shorts?

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She gotta word of Brazilian scuba shorts to watch the game?

Oh, I haven't worn those in years? You have them? Oh?

Of course?

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Right since college?

The people no a quality banana? Him along came BALI, let's go.

There's probably something about Mary.

We are officially back.

Whenever Isaiah starts ripping out these random movie references.

Isaiah is a movie guy.

You're a movie guy to how many movies did you see in training camp?

Uh?

Like actually goes went to the movie.

You went like at least twice, like six times. Yeah, yeah, you're not bad. Good for you, not bad at all.

You know, there are just too many.

Speaking of movies, quick shout out, quick shout out to uh Nick Harris and the entire Dallas Cowboys media team. They had a screening for the Merriam Barber documentary last night in Dallas. It was a really cool event. A great job for everybody who helped put that together.

Did you help put that together? Yeah?

So I have relationships with the Angelica Theater in Dallas, which is where they went, which is on mocking Birdline, sponsor and support local cinema.

Yeah, yeah, you know, also do that movie.

Theaters are they're not doing great, Yeah, because people like you guys just streaming movies.

That people like you know. You know, you're not talking to me, you know.

I invited Patrick to several movies.

You know. Damn, I'm a theater guy.

I'm just kidding. I'm just don't watch movies in the.

Theaters while we're at training house. I actually went to go see a movie in four D or is it forty forty X? Yeah, I went and saw a movie in.

That is that where it like blows wind on you, but I went I supported. Did you watch Dear John, I did not. I saw, I saw the Wolverine? Whatever the notebook? You mean dead respect.

Let's move the news in this, because what we're not do is movies, are we Josh?

Oh, you can disrespect them all.

No, we can't respect it.

I mean unless you know you're really there's a disrespect roller coasters.

You know, don't you do it? I know, I know. We're excited. I know we're excited.

We got to stop talking over each other, guys, we were talking over each other a lot.

Let's get started. The news and notes.

Oh, people are going to be lost by the time they listen to this in the audience anyway, All.

Right, news and notes. Injury updates all positive as far as returning to practice this week. The moon Clark dealt with a knee injury, obviously on the back training camp. He was back at practice on Monday, as was one year Thomas with what was described initially as a minor growing issue turned out to be exactly that. Israel Mkwamou was absent last week in practice after having returned for the preseason finale, but he was back in practice on yesterday as the Cowboys get ramped up for week one

He continues to look good.

They have him on a pitch counting practice and they're ramping him up with every single practice. So he practiced a bit on Monday, We'll practice more on Wednesday, more on Thursday, and then that much more so at the end of the week. No concerns on Brandon Cook's.

Real quick before we move to Brandon based off of what you've seen so far out of CD LAMB, the first.

Couple practices where it was completely open.

But there weren't any pads, and then now the media portions of practice where you really don't get to see a whole lot. Have you seen anything from CD to this point or is it kind.

Of an unknown to the media.

What I have seen has given me comfort because not only does he look great as we've seen and he's added some lean muscle, but he's moving extremely well. He's moving with quickness. He's moving with speed. They've had to turn him down a couple times in practices because he wanted to go full of speed and they're like, whoa there, youngster, we got to make sure that you're wrapped up the right way so that you don't know, suffer a soft tissue issue going into Cleveland. So he's moving, you know,

You're ready, You're ready, You're ready. What is it? Cooper Rush's quarterback? Too? Oh breaking?

I thought you were about to say, like Dak requested to change his number, and then Zeke went back to twenty one, and then Kayln Carson and him.

I don't know.

There were a lot of Cowboys fans that were wondering if Trey Lance had done enough, even with the five interception game that we talked about, if he had done enough, shown enough to be a QB two for the Cowboys, and Mike McCarthy put that to bed. He did praise Trey Lance for the progression that he made over his three preseason games, but McCarthy made it unequivocal that Cooper Rush is definitely QB two for twenty twenty four.

Thank goodness, we got that settled, got that out of the way. Why do you hate the number change thing.

For the audio listeners?

Yeah face? Why did it bother you so? Like somebody just like kicked his dog, Like I.

Would have liked to have seen Kayln Carson get past Marie Cooper before it changed his number.

To Deon Sanders.

Well, speaking with the young man yesterday, he said, that's not why he changed it.

I don't I understand that. Yeah, doesn't take away the fact that it's the number. Listen, let's not add like the numbers with the star don't have some affiliation and some weight that comes with it.

So let's let's deal more ward twenty one last year will be all the favors, So like, let's let's not let's put some respect respects to do.

I'm not saying he might go out there and show out.

All I'm saying is I would like to see the young fella put some film out there before he changes his number to somebody one of the greatest of all times. How much the time have we spent on this show talking about the weight that eighty eight carries eighty twenty two, Like there's there's certain numbers.

Well, nobody's wearing twenty three three, everybody's winning.

But I'm saying, like there's certain numbers around here that when you put it on, you got to show up.

But everybody's wearing like thirty three.

I get what you're saying, and you're not wrong, and that's why it broke the internet on that side of the because it's a rookie cornerback who's about to start now all be due to injury, and then he moves from forty one to twenty one.

Do what you want to do.

I just personally, I would like to see him get past Mark Cooper first.

No, No, I want to see the confidence before, not after the fact. Like it hits different if it exists beforehand, you.

Know what I mean.

But much like.

The young man, Kaylen, Carson will be more than all right, seat belt, Carson will be more than al right. Does that mean he will walk out there and you know, shut down into Mary Cooper.

I'm not saying that.

I will say this, expect some help for Mariy Cooper and covering the Mark Cooper no matter what side of the field he's Let's put it that way. Kyl Carson will have a solid game, though, I just.

Don't I don't know, guys, I don't know if we're stretching here. I mean, here's the names of guys that have worn twenty one since Dion left, Lynn Scott, Derek Ross, Julius Jones, Adam Jones, Mike Jenkins, Joseph Randall, Terrence Mitchell, Ezekiel.

Elliott, and Stefan Gilmour.

Let's not pretend like that one is a number on that side of the Mike Jenkins Hearnce Mitchell in twenty fifteen. I mean, let's not get carried away here.

Changing two.

Does Caitlyn Carson have to step up this year?

There's logistics that going on with changing two. What's different receive it.

What's funny about that is you're saying, and actually I agree, certain numbers do carry more weight, right, But it's funny because when I asked about it yesterday, he said the reason he changed wasn't necessarily because of Dion. He said, I don't want to get into all of that. That's that's not the reason.

He said.

It's because the forty one felt heavy on him and the twenty one feels lighter. So good, interesting, feel good. More pressure is lighter on this young man. You know, I like, I like this dude. This dude is a dog.

Sell Carson, Baby.

I don't know if I can do the Georgia thing. They look good by the way week one, they look good.

Draft first, he listen, it was against the top twenty team and they beat him.

Third. The standard is the standard. Kyle.

I'm just saying, all right, real quickly before we get into some predictions here, yeah, seventy. Before we get into some predictions, I want to give you guys an opportunity get your calls ready. We are going to talk to Cowboys Nation today eight eight, eight five five two two nine seven eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.

We'll take your call starting in the second segment.

But it is the final show before the ramp into the week, right because Wednesday we're gonna preview Cowboys offense. Then we're gonna preview Cowboys defense on Thursday, and then Friday, it's to say with Chest Friday, and we'll have some extra predictions in terms.

Of the game going into it. But since it's the final.

Real push into week one, let's give some predictions on how the season is gonna get it started. The question today, by the way, for those that are calling in, is going to be how many games will the Cowboys win this season? This panel will give their answer in the third segment. But let's start with some individuals. I've got some over unders for you, and this is the the Kyle Yeomans Scorebook.

Over under. This is not from Vegas. This is not from anything.

Definitely not from Vegas.

Definitely not from Vegas. Have you looked at it compared to it yet? No? I haven't either.

I'm in touch anything Vegans. You know what I'm saying.

No, this is from the Kyle Yeomans Sports book because the gambling, what is gambling?

I don't even know. I don't even know what it ish. Dak Prescott, of course, he.

Had a phenomenal year last year.

Was second in MVP voting.

He has the old time Cowboys single season touchdown record with thirty seven previously thirty four and a half touchdowns. Do you think Dak hits thirty five touchdowns or not? Over under Isaiah under why is that?

I have just I just have concerns about this receivers group's ability to stay healthy.

For an entire year.

We've already seen some soft tissue stuff out of that group already. We have somebody else coming back, and we're expecting him to just walk back into the same state that he was in prior to taking off all of carany camp. I think it's kind of hefty to put that on that group right now, and if you have one guy missing, that group at all. That group takes a tremendous hit. So I'm not sure that it's not as less about daxability as more about that room and

I agree with you.

I think if Cooks is hurt, it changes the dynamic of the offense. I think if Ceedee Lamb has hurt, of course it's a complete game changer. But he had thirty seven touchdowns in twenty twenty one when he played all sixteen games. Each of the last two seasons, he's played every game, or at least should have played every game, he's had at least thirty six touchdowns because he had thirty six last year to lead the league. It's possible even with one of those guys. Without CD, it's not possible.

I do.

I just I think he's that good of a quarterback and he's been that element of the offense.

I'm going over on this one.

I think Dak is going to throw more tds, but I also think it's gonna be it's gonna lead to more interceptions this year than last year as well. I think it's gonna get closer to that ten than he did last year. I think he ended up with eight last year, nine on the year because I think the running game is not exactly a strength on our team right now, at least you know, thus far, we really got to see how that will works, especially with the

Speed, and in Ceede's Lamb's absence.

I think the chemistry was built there, and I think they will get more play this year than last year.

Obviously, you know, I was My initial reaction was to go under because my thought process behind that was, you know, you have a rebuild offensive line, Your offensive line presumably is going to perform better, and that in and of itself, regardless of who's taking the handoffs, that should improve your running game.

So if your running game is better, then you know.

Turn down the passing game a little bit because it gets closer to balance. But then going back to a cow started talking about twenty twenty one, Ezekiel Elliott was

Okay, I like it.

What about Ceedee Lamb, since we're on that topic of conversation, he had a one hundred and thirty five receptions last year, so I set the over under at one thirty four point five. Do you think he has a better year receptions wise? Of course he led the league in that category. Or do you think he said sees a step back, Josh.

I'm good.

I'm going under for CD, he didn't get a full offseason to ramp up.

I think that's going to show in Week one.

I think we were talking about that too, where it's like you might not see the receptions or yards necessarily.

There for them, a lot of decoy, a lot.

I mean they're gonna be scheming up for CD, obviously, every team is, and I think they have to do that more than they did last year because of the output that he had last year. But I think that does lead to more windows opportunity for floy Tolbert and Turpy.

Like we said, Speedee, like you said.

Like we collectively said whenever you brought up the name Speedee, and I was like, honestly, man, it didn't really catch off for me.

But honestly, the more.

And more, the more and more we say it, it's gonna catch on. Catch What do you think that?

Like Boler point five for CD, people are gonna call me hater, but I'm gonna say no, okay, And I don't really hate. Why don't that make you a hater because people don't just hater. I don't really care. But I think I would love to see CD continue on this pace of just continuous growth every single year, number wise, catches, attempts, yards, touchdowns, all that stuff is literally just been on a what's the prices right now?

I knew you're about to say that, you know a mountain climber there, you don't fall off.

The clif I would love to see it. I just I'm not going to put that pressure to expect that of him, even with this new contract. I just don't expect that to be the case. It has nothing to do with how teams are going to approach him, has nothing to do with his abilities. I just think that it's hard to continue to stay on that continuous pace year after year after year.

Agreed.

And I also think that this is a situation where we just talked about how Brandon Cooks can impact this Cowboys team going forward. Got off to a slow start, and Mike McCarthy's playbook and scheme last season before kind of heating up, never really caught fire, but kind of heat it up. I'm assuming that Brandon Cooks is going to catch fire, and probably earlier then later, and that means that Dak Prescott's going to spread the ball around

We talked about.

I think Jake Ferguson is in line for a possible All Pro season and that happening. Obviously, it's only one ball to go around. And then if you're talking about the run game improving as well because of the offensive line and now you're handing off the ball a little bit more and more effectively, Yeah, I think Ceede Lamb's still going to be an absolute monster, still a first team All Pro.

But give me the under on this one, all right.

Micah Parsons thirteen and a half sacks. That's kind of been his number the last three years, and he's been incredible in terms of providing that pressure but actually getting home to the quarterback. Of course, we've talked about it already. To drop off gets more steep as the season goes on.

Pat, I'll start with you on this one. Thirteen and a half sacks for Micah over under.

I'm going over talk about trajectory, Isaiah. It's different from Mike than it is for CD, where it's been up explode right. For Micah, it's been this steady. It's thirteen, it's thirteen and a half, it's fourteen. And now he gets in a system with Mike Zimmer who allows him to be more versatile, which means you're not going to be able to know every time where he's coming off for the ball. So I think that unpredictability is going to lead to more opportunities to get in his hands

I think, Joshua, let's go with the under on this one. I think the double teams will be.

More wow wow, Oh, so I need to do it.

I think the double teams on Michael will be more prominent this year. And I also think he has a new role within the defense. He's not just rushing the pastor right. You have him lining lining up in linebackers certain schemes. So I think that along with getting more opportunities for Nieland and d law throughout the season, I think d laws sack number is going to go up this year.

I like that.

And then of course you have Marshall Nieland who's hungry. He's he's going to get out there. And yeah, granted I think the number ninety four. Yeah, interesting how that happens.

Yeah, I was surprised by that, honestly.

It really was like that was a talented rookie.

Yeah, he's not.

He's not the d n Yeah.

I think I'm just calling how I'll see it.

It's fair.

Albeit, I think we've unless we've proven that we can stop the run, you're not going to see as many sack numbers this year, if that makes sense.

Fair you're also doing this, by the way, it's point all right, I'm going with under just from their perspective of again, has nothing to do with his talent or his abilities. I just don't think that the defensive imposition is the star of the show in this defense. The linebackers are the star or the show in this defense?

What are those so?

Yeah, I don't dan Quinn was going to scheme up matchups based upon his best player period point point, like whoever is my dog, Like, go eat, I'm gonna put you in a position to win. That's why he saw when Micah was standing up and he was over the center. It's because he you know, they had widened out the formation in terms of the D line, and they're getting ISOs with the center versus Micah Like that was dan Quinn's thing. I have not seen through training camp coach

I think the one thing with Micah that makes me believe the over as possible is kind of like what you guys are both talking about in different ways.

The versatility and the thought process is that you never know where he's coming from. First off.

Secondly, all it's gonna take for Micah to elevate above the sack numbers that he's already have or already has, is by having success in November and December and January hopefully. So I think if he does add imagine if he adds two or three sacks in November and December, which is not asking a ton for one of the best edge rushers and pass rushers in NFL right in the NFL right now, almost like college football.

That's where the mindset's been in the past Weekend we are so bad. I hope we are so bad.

But in the NFL right now, I think Micah can get there. So I'm gonna say over. I think he may squeak over maybe like a fifteen, which is still a phenomenal season by any stretch, but I think he can get the over all, right final one before we take our first break. Trayvon Diggs throughout his career, he has eighteen interceptions.

It's about six on average per season.

I mean, of course, he didn't really have a season last year because he only had the two games before he got hurt, but he did have a.

Pick in those two games. So we'll set it at five and a half.

Do you think Trayvon Diggs hits his season average of six interceptions or do you think he goes under?

Over Over, You're not a hater anymore, not a hater anymore.

I think that the cornerback position is going to be asked to less work. They're going to be asked to do less working, be gifted more opportunities.

I'm going over as well.

I think that I think Trayvon is coming in with a chip on his shoulder, so obviously give him a little bit of grace over the first couple of weeks to get his sea legs back as far as coming back from the twin Aco but I think mindset wise, he wants to come out and number one, prove that he's still the best ball hawking cornerback in the league. But also there's going to be that added motivation when Deron Blank comes back. They're going to be playing off of each other. He gets a pick, oh, I want

Do you want better. I'll give you a number. Okay, give me a number. Give me.

Seven interceptions for Traylon Diggs and two pick sixes.

Wow, Okay, I'm down with that.

I would love that. But when you saw him last year.

When you saw him last year, I thought that he had improved the physicality of his game. He was getting in there, stripping the ball. I liked his ability to tackle last year and like it was on a trajector where he was going to have his best season life.

First pick six was because of him exactly.

It was looking that way, it was it was trending that way, and I think he's going to get back to that. I think we're going to see a more physical Trayvon Diggs than we've seen him in years past. And I think that also opens up more opportunities, like I've said before, for Kaylen Carson and for Jordan Lewis too. I think Jordan Lewis Is it's gonna make sure that it's gonna be really hard to complete those slot passes, uh, which opens opportunities for Trayvon. You know, it's it's all,

I'll leave it now. One one more thing.

The safety unit, right, you have safeties that are elite and playing.

By side, sideline, the sideline.

And in coverage you got Malie Hooker, one gave Thomas Marquise Bell. Donald plays a bit more forward than Downhill, but you have at least three great coverage safeties. They're gonna make it difficult to stretch the field, so that's gonna shrink the field by default. And that's gonna make you the quarterback throwing at tightle windows against a guy like Treylon Diggs. A tight window against Treyvon Diggs is likely an interception for Sue.

So I like it the Safeties are gonna eat this year.

Yeah, just because I'm looking forward to seeing Trayvon Diggs again expand his role.

Last year, he expanded.

His physicality, right, that was something that he added to his tool belt.

He was he was thumping last year.

Now I think they're going to especially coming off the injury, I think they're gonna play a lot more zone. Zimmer is his own guy, who he likes man, but he's his own guy. And I think that now you'll see Trayvon add the cloud. You'll start seeing him add that the trap, uh the trap aspect of the zone coverages. And I think he's going to become a lot more versatile in that sense. Not to say that he wasn't

So what you're saying is on one side, wearing the number twenty one, we've got seat belt Carson, and on the opposite side roaring number seven is two belt trayvon as what we've got.

That's what we've got going off the tool belt.

What kind of harness are we wanting with the seatbelt?

Is it a five point?

Is it a five point harness?

Is I would have like to see?

I want to see it. I like what I saw in portions of the preseason, but I just want to.

And there's there's some dogs now you see it.

You haven't seen it, But I will say that what I have seen from Kayln Carson invokes plenty of confidence that he can hold down the fort, at minimum hold down the fort in the absence of dron Blant.

I'm not saying he's.

Going to go out there and he's going to get an interception in the first you know, three or four games that he's played, but I think a lot of people are going to get big eyed. When they see how physical and how steaky he is in coverage he is. They call him seat belt for a reason, and I've seen that he translated one's.

Going to get burned once or twice early, it's going to happen.

It's going to happen.

He's by fire exactly.

The one thing I like about Kayln Carson that I saw in camp, the times that he got beat, he was able to literally etch and sketch it away. Yeah, etching sketches it. He right back to the drawing board and he's he's on to the next player. I like that he has a short memory in that regard. And then he's competitive, right, He's very competitive. Most cornerbacks are, right, they're chippy their mouth, Ye, they're super competitive, and that's

Oh yeah, Gona, they definitely are. Let's take our first break when we come back, give us a call. Eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. The question is how many wins will the Dallas Cowboys have in twenty twenty four.

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Dan Oh in Florida, dan Oh, you're on Talking Cowboys. How many wins will the Cowboys have this season? Is our question of the day.

Remember Daniel fourteen fourteen and three wow, I got forty three, okay, And the reason the reason is, I think we're going to be a team that's gonna be able to run the ball a lot better. Last year I thought got blown up a lot in the middle of the line. I think this guy Bbie is the next trave Is Frederick. I think Guan's gonna be uh. He's gonna hold his own, He's gonna have some grown pain. So I think the run game will be there. We have a top three

There you go, Nickel, Dano appreciate it a little bit optimist. I like the optimism to start today. I like it.

Dano and Florida always bringing it all right, who's next on our phone line as we continue eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven, We've got Mike in New York talking about energy.

Yo, Mike in New York, what's going on?

Don't be picking on the Boys this year. We're gonna win eleven games. Guess what, We're gonna beat the.

Chiefs in the Super Bowl.

Brandon Audrey full of win with three seconds sixty JW York till go back Doublins winning the Super Bowl.

Yeah, yeah, I'm glad. I gave like a little bit of a warning there, but I still wasn't ready for it. I had to take the headset off Mike with so much energy. We appreciate you as always.

Mike in New York. Okay, we're two for two. I didn't think this segment would go this way. I'm not gonna lie to you, guys. Whenever I put it on the schedule, you just knew. I kind of thought it would go the opposite way. I thought there would be guys that were a little.

Pessimistic about this team and girls that were a little pessimistic about this team, and two for two.

They're probably on the line right now. Those on the opposite side of the coin.

We think. So, oh yeah, Okay, let's track out with you a bit. Take this nice call.

Let's try Gary in New Mexico. You're the next one up on Talking Cowboys. How many wins will the Cowboys.

Have this year?

Twelve or thirteen?

Wow?

K three for three? Why is it? Why do you think that way?

I don't know that they've got a lot of talent. I mean, we get caught up in all this stuff that we talk about all the time, but you've got Pro Bowlers and All Pro players at almost every position group minus running back.

Okay, and I'm.

Different, you know, and I'm stone colls Over. When I tell you this, I am. I am a Mike McCarthy fan. I think he's done it. I think, considering what he has to work with with Jerry and Steven, I think Mike McCarthy's done a great job. Is he perfect?

No?

But man, we could do a whole lot worse at head coach. So yeah, I think.

Uh.

Did the Cowboys have a motto yet for this season? Have they released their saying.

They'll reveal it later this week is what we've been told. So I haven't heard anything. Yeah?

Can I can I share mind?

Yes?

Can I share my idea? I've got I've got one for the team, and I've got one for the fans.

Okay.

My motto for the fans is cautiously optimistic. That's how I am going into this season. I'm cautiously optimistic. And my motto for the team is real simple. Man, do better, Just do better, do better in big moments, every player, every coach, Just do a little bit better. This is a twelve win team, so yeah, I think they'll be fun.

I like it. I think it a T shirt.

I think it would because and it'll fit.

It's not too complicated, and do better man, Thank y'all, thank.

You so much.

Good call out from the land of enchantment. Now, yeah, the last couple of years it was victory. It was when carpe Omnia last year, of course, and then.

I would be okay with do better.

I like to do better, you know what, because no matter no matter how they win the game, let's say it's a blowout or whatever, in favor of the Cowboys, still do better.

Always be doing better. I like that it do better?

All right, Bob and Rio grand Valley, We've got you on talking Cowboys.

How many guys?

How many wins for the Cowboys this year?

At thirteen? I'm with the the guys that are already called in. And I'm gonna tell you my reason why am I thinking? Will McClay he does a job of getting talent on that team where he's drafting her free agency at the coaching staff, you don't get them any better than Mike. And he's done him a real job of surrounding himself with good coaching talent, which brings out the best.

Would you say, Will mclu he eats Do you think he eats as a as a roster acquisition and as a as a a player?

Personnel guy, I day you what he's topped or there you go?

The best of the league very.

Much so I like it. Appreciate the call.

Thank there he goes, all right, may have time for one more, especially we're rolling through these yes, Josha and Chicago. You're a final call here on this talking Tuesday. How many wins for the Cowboys this year?

Hey, guys, I'm honored. I'm going to say twelve and five in the regular season, four and oh in the postseason.

Gosh, off the top row. Everybody's excited. I like it, Josh. Why why do you think that way?

Oh?

I just think like you guys were just saying they have a lot of blue chip players and spots and need them. Besides running back, I think we have a lot of really good depth and yeah, I just think they're going to go all the way though this year.

Josh, I got a good radio voice. I like he does.

I appreciate that, guys. I always feel that we missed out on Isaiah's standback a professional wrestler, though.

I agree.

I agree completely, and thank goodness he's a broadcaster.

Because this is a face made for TV right here? How about that? Not for radio?

All right, appreciate you very much. We five for five and optimism.

I like Josh and Chicago, and Chicago was a real cult of personality.

You know what I'm saying. He really nothing more for Patrick. But I like this guy. I like this guy.

I like the optimism overall. I'm surprised, like you said, surprising, I.

Am shocked that it was five for five twelve thirteen super Bowls. I mean, we have two Super Bowl calls and it's we're not even there in Week one yet.

Guy, I wish we could have taken these calls back in March.

Oh, here's well then, you know you know what I mean. You mean like when Dano had already pecked up.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a very different vibe. Yeah, very different vibe. All right, let's take our second break. When we come back, we'll give our predictions for the season. Give you how many wins the Cowboys will have here in twenty twenty four and how.

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I don't do that. Well, there go.

I mean that's what it's all about, right, That's what it's all about, is a lot.

We'll start with Patrick knows.

Well, first, I'm going to land right at twelve wins, twelve, five, twelve and five, twelve and five Okay, this were that?

Yeah, okay, twelve, Kay, you love me in the water.

So twelve will for the Cowboys. I could even see a plus one somewhere, don't necessarily see a minus one, but twelve or thirteen, I'll go twelve. How far in the playoffs do they go? God, is so impossible to predict that right now because you don't know what the if the run game will take that step.

Of the matchups are. Yeah, you just you don't know, you don't know what, you don't know, you.

Don't know what you don't know. But I'll tell you what I'm gonna. I'm gonna I'm going to ride the wave. Nothing of the callers. And I like mich McCarthy's twenty one game plan for the Cowboys.

So the Cowboys will appear in the Super Bowl this year. But I also add this.

I also add this because I'm big on on trends and does it again in the last year. I was going to say, I'm big on trends and patterns. What happened year five of McCarthy in Green Bay, He went to SUP he went to the Super Bowl.

I'm just not saying, but I'm so.

I mean, you are saying I am saying saying but you're not.

Saying but I'm not saying but I'm just saying itself. And then what what I'm just saying.

So, yeah, Mike mccarthur, year five, contract years a proven year for him. You saw what he did in Green Band year five. I just it's a pattern for me. So twelve and five Cowboys make it to the Super Bowl.

Josh eleven and six, I think, uh, you got to bring up I think twelve and six, twelve wins four years in a row, is going to be tough. I don't think that happens. I think the NFC is going to NFC East is going to be better. I think the Commanders are going to be better this year. And I think the Commanders might even win the division. I really do, I really do. I think there's a possibility.

Joe Mouth, give me that meal. What was in that meal of both?

I don't think.

Yeah, eleven and six. I think we're gonna be very competitive, depending on that means.

Washington is either eleven and six as well or twelve and five and they've beaten you once or twice.

I could see that happening.

Isaiahs scared me enough to believe in the Commanders.

Okay, I'm not.

I'm between twelve and twelve and five and eleven and six wait wait wait wait playoff season prediction. Yeah, playoffs you tried to get.

Sorry, yeah, win the division? No playoff run, yes, question mark. I think we get to the divisional round again, and that's where we go all right back to you.

Yeah, I'm between twelve and five and eleven and six. Not really sure what you want. I want to put my finger on, so I'm shut of that line.

Nah, you're a professional. Plus gave himself a rule.

I did say, plus give us a plus for mind twelve five minus one. All right, okay, but I think they go two rounds deep. So yeah, that's it. I I mean, that's hard saying without knowing what their matchups are, because that's what I'm saying. Playoffs as we as we do it right now. These are now bold predictions. These are both and I reserve the right in the bye week to alter.

Giving. In a wildcard round.

You might face somebody that you couldn't just smack up right the next round.

It's not going to be okay.

I'll stand on because do you get to read draft your fantasy football team halfway through the year. You draft right now, you make your predictions, you put your team together, and you stand on it throughout the years.

That's how you do it.

Said Kyle, what about you, buddy, I don't.

Want to trade. Yeah, looks smart. Looks different. As the season goes along, it is different. Give me give me ten wins for the Cowboys. I think they don't win the division.

Optimism, I think they I think they do end up winning the division or the wildcard round. I think they win the Wildcard round, go to the divisional off of ten wins.

Uh.

I don't think it will win the division. I think somebody else will get you to the playoffs. I don't think so it'll they'll squeak in wins.

Yeah.

So who does win the division for you?

Then Philly, I think for sure. Yeah, yeah, I think it's Philly.

But I think Washington's right there. I think it's gonna be a three team race in the division. You're going to see each team take something from the other teams.

I think Washington will probably steal one from Dallas.

I think Philly well, or Dallas may steal one from Philly, and then vice versa, and it kind of go back and forth.

Uh.

The only reason I say this is because I think I don't think this team is as good.

As last year's team. I was all in on last year's team.

I thought that team had everything that you needed to make a run to do something special. It had depth, it had the starting caliber, it had all sorts of core players. You still have those core players, but I'm worried about the depth.

I'm worried about the run game. I don't know if they're gonna be able to run the ball effectively.

If that's the case, I don't know how how seamless this offense will go because I think, like we've talked about before, you need a solid run game for Dak Prescott to be set up.

Now.

They didn't necessarily have that last year. Teams know that, teams know that they won't run the ball, and they will. They're this team to throw it or to run the ball and make them throw it around.

I don't know. I just I don't know.

You have, ahead of ten wins in the prove it year, who has shown what he can do in a year five with the organization, you have a number one offense that.

Could take a step forward if their run game goods could take a step you have it very much. So backwards could very much.

You have a defense that should take a step forward under Mike Zimmer with better linebacker play.

You got some big boys down could take a step.

Could I mean, of course, I'm point point being as it's there's a lot of hope in this building and the season is not built on hope.

As it stands.

This defense they've shown in the preseason, albeit that they can still take away the ball and if they can improve with Zimmer. Then there's that side of the equation. Number one offense should take a step forward. There's that side of the equation. Even that twelve wins, I think Philly wins the division maybe with thirteen, because that's how the NFC East goals goes, right. You can't win this division two years in a.

Row, but at some point it'll happen. Though at some point, you know, I'm.

Not saying this is a bad football team. And if you think they're gonna miss the playoffs, I think you're wrong. I think they will be in the playoffs.

But I don't. I'm not here for the if.

Hans or Butts.

I want to see actual film.

I want to see improvement and I want to see it before I really say this team is gonna make a deep run in the playoffs.

But nobody's all.

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