Talkin' Cowboys: Midseason Awards

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Talking Cowboys. We're setting you up for a buy weekend where the Cowboys of course won't play, but it is a busy sports weekend. And then we get set for the New York Football Giants halfway point of the season next week. And I'm excited about watching some football other than what the Cowboys put on display each week this week? Do you think that's what the fans do? I cannot live without my NFL Sunday. I'm sorry, I just can't. So you're gonna do your pregame show anyway, I'm doing.

That's what we're doubling up this week. I mean we're paid for I got. I've got more work today and Thursday in regular weeks to buy those for me. Three days off Friday, Saturday, Sunday, how about you, guys. Yeah, I'm watching some football for sure, that might be might be at another stadium. We'll see. I'm gonna try and go fishing. Yeah, I knew Brian was going fishing. I'm gonna try two nice for a weekend, not to try. I think Dak's going fishing this weekend. I wish if

I'd love to go fishing with Dak. I'll see. I want to go fishing with its Lyle Collins. Yeah, Lile Collins seems to go out there and pullings. He's got this system or something he knows how to pull some big fish out of them lake. So imagine we're not very smart, but we can fish. So I was gonna say no. Since Brian went on his campaign to lose weight. I was gonna say, that's a lot of weight in one boat. Yeah, I try. But I'll tell you what. Let's start with Lyle Collins. How well is Lyle Collins

playing football? This? You know what? You know me? I came up with some questions and that was one of my questions. That was one of my questions I had for you guys because I was I just kind of it was just kind of in my head, was sitting there and and I was thinking, Okay, who who's been better at their job this year? If you think about things, just better at his job? You know byron owns like Lyle proved on their own. Yeah, from the year before. Yeah,

who who's been better at their job? It's Lyle Collins been one of those guys that's uh has been you know as you as you you know, we we've talked so much about all the other guys. Heck, I was wrong about him possibly getting an extension. I thought, you know, Lyle Collins was going to go off and be a Tampa Bay buccaneer or some other you know, NFL right tackle. But you know, the Cowboys get him, you know, sign

him up, keep him here. I think that's impressive. But is he has He's been one of the better offensive lineman you have. And again I was trying to compare him, like as far as your job, it's taking offensive player and a defensive player on my question, but you know it's a children question we'll pose out there. Yeah, is who's who's done, Who's been better at his job? Who's improved? Yeah,

who's improved? Is this fifth year? Now? Jerry Jones said yesterday in the radio, that's the best game he's played Dallas Cowboys. But he's the kid Brandon Graham's ass. He really never heard Brandon Graham's name. No, no, no, no, that's a good football player, real good football player. The guy he had to worry about him and him and that I guess maybe not so much Fletcher Cox anymore. I was gonna say, I've only heard his name once. Yeah, I tell you what, I've been super impressed with with

Lyle Collins. So he might be the most improved guy on the team. I'm trying to think of somebody else that is really like exceeded expectations, and he has high expectations. He's a starter. But Michael Gallop except for that one on one or two series. Yeah, and he's he's missed a couple of games. But it goes back to the word of consistency, you know that consistent improved. He has improved,

but most improved, most improved. I don't know if it if it's well he said improved at their position than that? What the question? Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, I pose my own question. Well then, yeah, I was just trying to Okay, well, let me throw the quarterback out there. Okay, when you got the quarterback who's improving his yards per attempt? Can I can I prove that for you statman? Yes, So he has completed seventy point six point seventy point six

percent of his passes. That's third in the NFL. Right now, all right, and what was the everybody's worry he's not accurate, he doesn't throw the ball accurately. Yeah, he's third, right now. Well, that's one thing. If you can throw seventy percent, if you're averaging five point six yards. Here is the next one on that. He is averaging per attempt eight point nine two yards, third in the NFL eight point nine.

One who's won by the Cousins is first nine oh five Mahomes tied with him nine oh five and then dak eight point nine two. I saw this stet on Twitter. Aren't there two guys in the history of the league who have done this? I mean it's halfway through the year one and average Joe Montana was when I'm again in slinging Sammy bah yeah, nineteen something like that, and then his two thousand, one hundred and twenty three yards passing right now is third in the NFL. Okay, how

about that? Is he your offensive MVP? That's my next question for halfwayutely PUPPETSI MVP. Yeah, no question, no, no question, not even close. No, He's he's putting up big time numbers and there's a lot of people that thought he couldn't do it. Yeah, so yeah, I'd go with dec Rain Dakota I Scott, I agree with that. Yeah. And the only guys that have thrown for more yards than him at this point, uh Matt Ryan. And how are

they doing? Not very well? Now? They're playing from behind in a lot of games and mahomes with twenty one eighty DAC has twenty one twenty three. Okay, wait then can I pose this question on you? If that? But would he be. And maybe this is a bad way to ask it, but was I wanted to know the player you felt better about now that you didn't at the start of the season. There you go. It's it's so, I mean, we felt to your point of exceeding it. Yeah, we felt good about We felt good about Dak. But man,

I mean, it's do you feel been better about Dak? Right? That's the way I feel about him, and I think everybody. I mean, and he's handled it. The leadership stuff that was all there, right, But it's this being able to develop a vertical passing game. Oh yeah, down the field, it's where the improvement comes. And Amari Cooper is the is the critical guy that has allowed that to happen. That's true. Could it be that a little bit of a scheme change and adjustment has allowed him to be

able to do that? I mean it was because he was doing it the second half of last year. If you think about it, as soon as Marie got here, nobody voted for a Mari for offensive end Right. That's because we have said, well, yeah, oh MP halfways improved because he's been he's been doing this. No, no, but offensive MVP through the halfway wow, um, we all started. Either one of them can do what they're doing without

the other. I mean I might put Tyrn Smith in that boat just because of what they when they don't have him. Okay, it affects the quarterback. Throw another question out there, who is the most influential player on this offense or team? Who influences how well they play? It's a lot to choose from. I think it's got to be the quarterback, or about the left ackle. There's no question about that though. Either well, the most irreplaceable yeah yeah, yeah,

although trying to replace Dak. We've seen somebody try to replace Tyran. But see what happens when you don't play with a Maori two for three plays, See it all goes together. I wouldn't want to play without Zeke either. They've tried doing that before. Mari might beat it, you know, because of a year ago. Remember what it was like. Oh, they've won a bunch of games since Mickey made the trade.

How many games have they were ago yesterday? Yeah, so I'm saying how many games have they won with the Marie Cooper Eleven and five in the sixteen regular season games, so seventeen and I mean twelve and six if he count the playoffs right, and one of those games he hardly played in, but they and they lost it, by the way. Yeah, yeah, that's a first round by a record,

twelve and six. It's pretty good from and Okay, I'm calling that twelve and five because he played three plays against the Jets, and really, if he plays half the game against the Jets, they win that game. If he plays a quarter of that game, they win that game. If he played more than three snaps are what are you gritted about? I just just it's so funny because we all just immediately, said Dak Prescott immediately because the quarterback, it's all the place in terms of improvement. No no, no,

I was saying offensive MVP, MVP. Okay, I've got our categories mixed up. No no, I've started with it was improved the most thing. But we've answered that. We've answered that one. I think we've answered that. We could have given a defense no no i quinny I was gonna say, who do you got defensively for? Which? Question for not the offensive MVP, not the offensive VP, which part of the improvement or defensive MVP. Because MALIEK. Collins was played pretty darn well. Okay as a guy, and he's not

getting much credit for he's healthy. Okay, okay, that's the improvement guy. The surprise is there was there a surprise question there all over the place. No, no, I was just trying to I was trying to get to all my questions here at a time. You're going to give you an answer. You just fitted in whichever question it fits. Okay. Robert Quinn Robert quinno had been my defensive MVP at

the halfway point. Yeah, I can't argue that one. Yep, I think especially it's like playing Jeopardy, right, I'll give you the answer that I was just but but yeah, I had Robert Quinn totally in mind on that defensive MBPS. Yeah, just missed two games and is leading this team in sacks and has been a force on that side of the ball. So he's got six sacks in basically four

and a half games. Yeah, he didn't he didn't play the second half of the game last week, y't play the second and didn't miss the first two games of the season. Yeah, that's right, So calculating games. Okay, Well, here's another qu will go ahead, here's another question. Then for you if I keep doing this, I love doing this to you guys, make you think a little bit. Who is the player you have the most confident sin like, just to do their job? Yeah, just to be every week,

just week. Zach Martin, Zack Martin, rob you throughout? Tyren Smith. Yeah, yeah, I might go with Tyren Smith when he's healthy. Zack Martin. Sammons struggles with his health too, a little bit not missing. Yeah, the back and feel him on the back. The ankle too, had a thing last week. Yeah, they're just trying to manage him all week, every week. Um, like most reliable players. Yeah, like weekend week out. There's a lot of those guys,

mister dependability. We're sorry. I was doing my math. There's no time for math here, Mickey. When I'm asking questions, who who is the player ourselves? Who is the player that you had the absolute most most confidence in, you know, on the entire team, the entire team, on the entire team that they're going to do their job. Yeah, they're going to play play and play out weekend week out. I hate to be jump on Bill's back, but I'll go with Zach Martin because he's missed what one game

in his career. Sure, and he's always there, He's always ready, and he's about as steady as the players there is in the entire league, even though he is dealing with some stuff this year. Ezekiel Elliott, Mickey, I knew you were going to go that route. Do you realize that's that that they had their total yards from scrimmage. He's over six thousand. He's tied for the second fastest to ever do that. Yeah, behind Edward James did it in forty four Dream James. Yeah, sure, think about that. Then.

I think Geric Dickerson was in that list too. It was a pretty pretty lofty list of players. You know what I love what you guys are talking about, was Zach Martin. I agree with Mickey. I agree with Mickey just I know what I can get. That's one of the reasons why I thought about paying him, because I felt like that every week, I know what I'm gonna get from him. You know, every week, I know what I'm gonna get. That's what people said, like he ran

so hard these last couple of games. He always runs hard. I mean, I know he ran over a guy in the first quarter, but sure, yeah, he does set the tollon Brian A question. Oh, he ran over him because he was silly enough to get in his way. A lot of time guys don't want to get in his way. What's your confidence factor in the quarterback going forward? Going forward? Well, you want to give me a scale one to ten, one, okay,

whatever high. I don't want you. I don't want you to put your number on it, you know, I mean, I just you know, it's what you've seen in the first half or even or even if you mister statman, Yes, eight point nine yards per attempt. What's he's gonna what's he gonna end the season with? As far as his yards per attempt at games against that's a good who's available around him? Let me think about in Minnesota if they can stay health flow New England. I don't see

how it's changing though. I mean, if he's got the line and he's got the protection and he's got a Mari and they think about these defenses you're about to face, yeah, I know, but they also you got a media guide there. I would like to know what the record is for the team for you're there, four and three yards yards per give me the thing, yards per t I'm just I'm just thinking about I'm confident. I'm confident in him. I am confident in him. I see some I see

some potential. Okay, so he's gonna have to play his rear off games. Yeah, Minnesota's defense, Buffalo, there's a defense. I just I'm just outdoor games. Outdoor games at the Giants, at New England, at Chicago, right, Yeah, there's no Chicago's. And see I think you know it's funny about Chicago's here about Philadelphia. I think Mickey's hometown team is getting demoralized because their offense is so bad. I really do.

I think that the defense is getting affected in Chicago because of how bad their offense has been and lost a Keem Hicks too. Yeah, but but that but that's gonna be a tough game. But here's the deal. When, as you know, Parcel has talked about this all the time, you get into November and December and you're playing outdoors

and so forth. That's that's where I not only the fact that I think if someone had the time to do the research, I think you would find that these passing offenses the second half of the year, just because teams figure you out a little bit, you know, and this is the course of things. They're not as productive the second half of the year. But weather con factor into that too. Yeah. Outdoors at New England, right outdoors

to Chicago, at Philly, outdoors at Philly. Who knows what they're going to be at the end of the day. You know that's Christmas time. Yeah, who knows? All right, but I mean answer the season right, first season percentage of completions, Okay, got it, caught it. I didn't know we were looking at that up sixty nine point nine percent. Romo Romo what year nineteen school nineteen was a playoff year.

So that's when Romo went on that incredible run. Remember de Marco Murray I think broke his hand and then all of a sudden it came. It came down to throwing the football in that month of end in November, all of December. Troyankman second at sixty nine point one in ninety three. Then Dak is at seventy something. Right now he's seventy and Dak's actually his third at sixty seven eight buildings. That tells you what whether he's at you guys make a good point. The weather could affect

the yards per tempt. But Statman had something last year about, you know, with Amari down the stretch, well, what do you rest of the year. So I don't I don't know if that would drop necessarily, they might not be able to sling it around in that cold weather as much. So yards gain right now twenty one twenty three in seven games, the records forty nine, probably not going to get there. Romo in twenty twelve, but second is Romo in two thousand and nine four four eighty three. So

that's that's with it. He's on pace for that, right And then on average gain, I'm gonna get to this for you guys now, average gain Roger Staubach nineteen seventy one, eight point nine two, Craig Morton eight point seven nine, Craig Morton eight point six seven. But remember they're not throwing the ball quite as much back then, but they had Bob Hayes to catch the true I'd hand it to Tony Dorset a lot too if I was in Yeah,

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here on talking Cowboys. Make you you remember the phone number eight two nine seven, Right there you go, there you go, and um question me for a new number, I wouldn't have had it, but old numbers. I will remember. Here you go, you go. The question posed out there right before the break, who needs to be the Cowboys MVP on offense and defense the second half of the year to get to where they want to go? And

I will submit Ezekiel Elliott on offense. I said, Deck has been at the first half of the year, but I think for them to get to where they want to go, it needs to be Zeke so needs to be not necessarily who it's going to be. I'm not predicting. I'm yeah, if if they're going to get to where all right, if they are going to get where I predicted that they will go. Confusing show today, this award show is all over. Yeah, exactly, go ahead, Brian, Yeah, I you know what I think that I just I'm

gonna go with the quarterback. I think the quarterback is going to have to be that guy because I think there's going to be some defenses where it might be a little bit tougher to run the ball, it might be a little tougher to throw. I think he's gonna have to keep playing at the pace that Mickey has kind of laid out for him there. So I'm gonna say it's gonna I first half. If it's if you're going to be the first half guy, go ahead and be the second half guy as well. I'll go back

to what I said the first segment. I think Tyrn Smith, they need him healthy the rest of the way. This bye week comes at a perfect time for him and a lot of these guys. It feeds into the quarterback. I think that's a different player when he's got that comfort level in his blind side. So I'll go with number seventy seven. I like that. I do like that. I think I'll take the quarterback too. Okay, how about

on defense because he doesn't see ghosts. We can talk about that Halloween, Mickey, we all see ghosts on defense. By right right on defense, I'm going with Tank Lawrence. I'll second that motion. I think that was a great thing we saw the other night, open of things to come in the second half of the season. And not to say that DeMarcus was playing poorly the first seven games or the first Yeah, he's tried, and there's a reason for some of the stuff not not getting the production.

We're grown accustomed to. But I think it's he's gonna be effective and productive in the second half. Yeah, somebody, I'll third that you got a different guy, did you everybody go with everybody? Yeah? Well, I'll say you know what, I man, I need Layton Vanderesh to be well. Yeah, I did need one. And I think that Layton Vanderesh is, as we've seen before, is very capable. I think we

saw some good things from him the other night. I think we saw something really good from all the linebackers in that game, Sean Lee stepping up and doing some good things. But Layton Vanderesh is the one guy I think that can affect games. You know. I think he really can tackling, the tackling behind the line, creating turnovers, all that stuff. He kind of gets. This defense feeds

off big plays by him. I know, Tank and Quinn and those guys as well, but when he makes a big play, watch how everybody kind of rallies to him and kind of gets excited and all that. So more Layton vanderesh big plays, I think leads to other plays for Lawrence and then Quinn and those guys. I was thinking about maybe somebody at that cornerback spot that they're you know, they're gonna have to start. You're gonna get in some games where you're playing again against teams that

could throw the football pretty well. Minnesota was a team that Mickey mentioned, New England another team that throws the football. Well, so somebody that secondary's got to have to step up. But Laton van rish will be my gay. Well, let me throw this out from Clarence Yee on Twitter. He was talking about Jordan Lewis as most improved in the second half of the year. Had to step up with Anthony Brown out. Plus he didn't fit the Rishard mold of cornerbacks, so he has that work against him. But

fast forward that. Mickey shakes his head. Fast forward to the second half of the year, and can Jordan Lewis have the kind of an impact at interesting to see? Do you think he keeps his job? Look, the guy that needs to have an impact Byron Jones was playing pretty darn good. Yeah, now it's time for a woozyer to match that. Yeah, there's cap and he has the talent. Now if he can go find the ball on those close fifty fifty balls, yeah, he can make a difference.

Over there. I like what Mickey's saying there. I do like Jordan Lewis, though, and I'm wonder if you keep his job. I hope he does. I love when Jordan Lewis plays because I think he brings that nastiness. I think we talked about it last week. Yeah, but then why do you think I don't know, I don't know what why you think he doesn't play that slot one hundred percent of the time. I I don't want to put words in somebody's mouth and they because somebody's watching us,

and then they tweet it over to Jordan Lewis. Let him no, No, I love I love Jordan Lewis, like dag him on it back and all have said that you get lost. It's okay. Mickey will live to fight another day. We usually outlast him, like Scandrick. You know, he was all over us, but out him by the way, that was breaking news out of Philadelphia. It's okay. There's a lot of breaking news coming out of Philadelphia or retirement, um,

a lot of being going on out there. I just think that to me with Jordan Lewis, it it's hard to It's hard for me to sit there and say oh, just because he's shorter than Anthony Brown, he shouldn't be playing. You know that? To me? Is that? I especially that's the reason, though, Nicky, I think so. I think so. Either that or they don't trust Jordan Lewis, which but that's stupid to say, because Jordan Lewis when they have biggest sigm it covers what they do. They put Jordan.

They said, okay, listen, by the way, we think the Saints are gonna this is the best offensive player of the Saint Scott. So let's you know, Jordan Hay by the way, you're gonna play ten snaps against that guy. I would say last year Anthony Brown did a nice job in the slot. I thought he you know, the year before he had a ton of penalties and it wasn't a great year for him. I always worry about that. Last year he was better at it. Even they wouldn't

starting anymore right, play you know, playing nickel snap. Yeah, so what, Mick, what do you think it is? Without he knows, without getting aggregated on social media aggregated, Yeah, yes, okay, they source it s the reason everybody everybody's on that he got an interception that the quarterback through to him. It was a Larry Brown interception. It doesn't like he had Larry Brown. Yeah right, Larry, think about it. The

guy beat him on the route. The past was like five yards behind the receiver and it went right to him. He also had a big third down snow he did in the game. What he did, I got that. Wow, Mickey, Are you going after him a little bit? No, I'm just saying I appreciate your honesty. I mean, there's one play. There's one play, and everybody gets all fired up about it. I think the slot blitz was good. No, it was, but if no one touches you, you could have snacked

that quarterback. I don't know if I got there that quick, I could. I'd love to see Mickey on a quarner blitz. I just once in my life the same size you weren't born yet. I got there. They sent you on those, and just before I hit the quarterback, I said, Okay, this is going to be embarrassing because he's a lot bigger than me, and if I hit him, he's not going doubt how many people would like how many people would like to see Mickey out on the island at

cornerback with student Buddy. Right of it, Eddie, this was in the slot. I don't. I shouldn't make any comments. You should have been there, I should have been there. I don't. I don't have a great answer for Jordan Lewis, and I'm sorry. I pride myself on either having a really bad answer or a really good answer. There's a lot of people, a lot of people when he came out of for the draft who had him rated very high.

Of course, he went in the third round and had the off the field that probably dropped him a round. They thought that, and he won. That cleared his name of that, right. But the point is a lot of people have thought very highly of Jordan lewis ability coming out of college. Yeah. Absolutely, And believe me, the coaches have been asked about this, Rod Marinelli, Christmas Shard, Jason Garrett, and it always goes back to just competition. We've got a lot of good dbs on this team, and we'll

see what happens. I mean, there's never like one of them, is he. It's not that he's not one of them. They just they really liked the guys ahead of him too. But I don't know behind closed doors, if there is something else, not off the field or anything, but just comes to work. Everybody he does. They need a good guy. He they bench him, they do things and like what is Lenahan grabs and said, hey, you want to run some jet sweeps? Kind of got him engaged again, you know,

kind of got his confidence back playing again. I don't know, I just know when he's on the field, generally good things happened. I mean, the size is what everybody points to just on Chris Richard's history, but Chris Rochard has never said that publicly that you know, Oh, it's because he's short. Is this his fourth year? Yes, so it would be a fragent next year. You'll get an answer to your question. Yeah, sure that I think he's yea, yeah,

thirty seventeen, Anthony Brown's fourth year. Of course, Anthon Brown. Right now you get your real answer there. Yeah, all right, let's go to Corey and Amarillo here on talking Cowboys. Hello, Corey, I called back the week of the Dolphins game, and I asked that question about Jordan Lewis, and I believe somebody said that they thought Richard had a little bit more trust and maybe and that I think Mickey said

kind of you get diminishing returns. I mean I kind of took that as you know, the more he plays, he might get lost in coverage or you know that jump ball is gonna get him at his size. But by the way, this guy said that, not me, okay, Coy Amarillo said Corey and Amarillo I get. I didn't say then returns. I'm all about Jordan. I said that,

You're right, what have you been scared? I was kind of thinking with the competitiveness at that spot, so many good players, yeah that you know, if these guys are neck and neck, you know, well, Anthony Brown's got a couple inches on him, you know that that may just if they're so close talent wise, maybe just the size of just a little bit to push him a little bit forward. That's kind of what I'm thinking, because because the competition is good. I mean, our eyes tell us,

what do our eyes tell us? What do they what do our eyes tell us? That he's around the ball a lot. Yeah, Yeah, he's around the ball. He makes play. I just don't know if he's played enough to say that. His sample side, you know, he the more he plays, he'll fade a little bit. I mean, he played a little bit, they're reasoning. Yeah, I mean, he only got probably what eight snaps a game last year. Let's question the coaching a little bit. Then there I will I

mean to me, I just I don't know. That's that's I have a problem with that, and that's the one I'm hopeful in the second half we see more Jordan Lewis. If he spits the bits and spits the bit and it's terrible, I'll take the heat. I got big shoulders, still smaller than they once were. But I'm you know, I mean, I'll take it because I just feel like he's just so competitive. He's just you know, he he tackles well, it bothers him. If he does get beat,

it means something to him. He's around the ball, you know, things like that happened. I haven't seen Anthony Brown really around the ball, you know. That's that bothers me a little bit. And Anthony Brown's injury situation, he'll be good to go at Anthony Brown, I think good to go for the New York Giants a week from Monday. All Right, we have more talking cowboys in just a moment. It can be hard to find the right resource for learning

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he's tied for second second and who leads? You would ask that, would you? I have the answer tie and Jeff Heath. So he's not tied for he's not inse Well, he's gone fired for the second most. Don't start. I would have gone that. I would have gone down that route. Will be the third most. Yeah, Jordan Lewis has two. There you go. Well he's also not playing as much all right, Speaking of picking out of stats, speaking up man, how many games did the Cowboys need to win to

make the playoffs this year? I was gonna say, I had a question about what's the record, what's the what's the record that wins the NFC East? I say, pick six, Okay, pick six wins. Pick six wins. Pick six wins in the last nine games, and you're in at ten and six. So ten and six, you take ten and six, kitch you six and three the way the way Philadelphia is playing the second place in the East last year, Like what Philadelphia? I know? But at what round? So it

needed ten yeah, I mean ten wins probably. Yeah. The only way you're getting in the playoffs I think is through the winning division. At the start. Already I've already projected you're gonna play Minnesota in the first round at home. Yeah, that's you might be right on that one. You've got all right, like Seattle Minnesota. Probably your two wild card teams San Francisco six and oh Saints or six and one. I had the Rams out, Wow, that'd be some than huh Rams out. Maybe they get it rolling in the

second half. Of course, this is that's one of the games on this schedule. The San Francisco's record or schedule get any tougher, not at all, I don't think so. How about their move, They've already beaten, They've already beaten, They've already beaten the Rams in Los Angeles, right, yes, yes, yeah, and they traditionally play the Seahawks. Well, you know, I mean Arizona the Arizonalina this week, Yeah, Carolina at home, and Carolina's playing well, they're at San Francisco. Yeah, that

Carolina game might be a ten to sixth game. But I was a big move, but big enough Emmanuel Sanders though they neither add some firepower on offense. A third and a fourth and they're getting a twenty twenty one fifth back right, so right, and you have to win six to the three, right, the sixth to nine, and yeah, looking at the forty nine or schedule the rest of the way. Yeah, they got Panthers, they're at Cardinals. And

by the way, the Cardinals winning three straight games. Have you seen who they played to win those three games? It doesn't matter, Bill, we just need to win. Yeah. So I've got Cardinals, Seahawks, Cardinals, Packers, Ravens, Saints, Falcons, Ram Seahawks. So there you go there, San Francisco schedule four or five games. That'll be tough, but they've already won six. So the minimum amount of wins is probably nine.

I mean, it depends on if Philly can get things right, you know, because I think the Giants or any youth movement, and obviously they're gonna try to you know, they might. They're gonna have some juice in a couple of weeks against the Cowboys. But and the Eagles gotta go six and three, just get to nine, yeah, yeah, I mean it, you know, has a huge win. It's trending downward for other teams in the division right now. Now things can turn around. But you know, it took ten is usually

the number minimum to win your division. Who does the Cowboys play after Chicago Rams, that's who I can remember. Okay, and at Philly and then Washed Hilly, Washing. Okay, think about this. Okay, So you got giants, we call them that a w yes Minnesota at home. Oh, don't do this. That's a night game, right, Sunday night game. Minnesota. We're on a roll. That's three. That's three in a row. Minnesota win Wiper Bowl Bill. How about it? Lost in Detroit.

That never seems to work out really well. Right, Yeah, going back to Mabe scratch his head. New England, we don't I think they're gonna win a game that they don't New England. You got the New England win. I just don't win over the paper. I know you're worried about still the Lion. I know you're worried at Chicago though you've been talking about. No, Chicago was a game I thought the weather could be a huge factor in and the Chicago defense and if you couldn't get it

going and all that stuff like that. That was a game I worried about. But if it's a bad weather, the Chicago offense will fold. Yeah. No, they can't score ten points on a gym floor. I mean you put them indoors. They can't score Chicago. Yeah, I'm calling that to w the Rams. I'm calling aw. I'm saying they win the last four games. Everything got him one, you got one loss, I've got I've got I've got at the starn between Minnesota and Detroit, I'm torn between Minnesota. Well,

I was actually I got Heny wins. I've got six right there. The losses or could go either way. Detroit, New England and Buffalo were the games I kind of had circled this. I'm not too sure boy that that coach is gonna build a hot seat again come Thanksgiving. Yeah, they lose the Minnesota, New England and Detroit and buff What was it? I had? I had him, I had him. I had him with the win at Minnesota. The problem the game in New England and Buffalo three straight losses, Well,

I had him as questionable. Those are questionable games in my mind. So you would be looking at Okay, they started the season three and zero, then back to three and three, had then three straight wins gets them to six and three, and then that would be three straight losses. At Thanksgiving they'd be six and six. I didn't say

that would lose I don't know it's about those games. No, I'm just saying, question if that were to play out the worst case scenario six and six at Thanksgiving with the final four Chicago and you got a Philly in Washington, you got to run the table. Then if you get to ten and six, can you imagine what Thanksgiving would be like if that happen? If tense, I'll tell you what. That New England a lot of turkey legs being thrown around. You got to find a way to definitely split that

New England Buffalo. If you can win both those games, my gosh, that'd be huge. Two games in five days. Yeah, huge? All right, watch Buffalo play, I mean New England play. If if the World Series goes to a game five on Sunday, that will be the only day of the year where you've got the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and the NHL all with games on the same day, and NASCAR as well. Thank you for that, Bill, You go, Anny Soccer, and there's Premier League Soccer two for you,

Mickey earlier the morning Sunday. We'll talk at you next week. I'm talking Cowboys. This has been a product Dallas Cowboys dot com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club