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its buch as a Talking Thursday? Oh my gosh, you're right. It's a say with your Chest Thursday here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco in the s WBC Studios in Frisco, alongside Isaiah stand Back and Chris Beam Solo DRID Today Kyle Yeoman's solo DRID hit No. Two d No Patrick No C. Walker. He will be joining us for our Pickham segment coming up, and I'm sure he's watching. Oh, he wasn't gonna miss

that one. He ain't gonna miss the Pickham segment and he's not gonna miss it. But uh, happy holidays everybody, it's our final show before Christmas. Chris Beam DJ Beemer in the back spinning the tracks as we get you ready for the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles coming up on Saturday three twenty five, kick and a Christmas Eve that the Cowboys will look to spoil for the city of Philadelphia. Isaiah, how are we doing? I'm good, man, I am swell. Yeah. Yeah, how about yourself doing good?

Had a busy day yesterday, but a good busy day, which is nice. It's always good you get the bus. But it's been fun. Had a press conference with North Texas's head coach. Then I drove to Stephenville, called the basketball game, drove back and oh, by the way, Pro Bowlers were announced. That it was freaking awesome. There really was really good stories out there, man. And let's talk

about the ones in house. Yeah, I'm talking about I want to talk about the ones out of the out of I know, as soon as I was starting to kind of form that sentence, I understood what was going on there. I mean Washington's video if you haven't checked it out yet, the Commanders, I know they're a divisional rival, but that's awesome. That shows how much the Pro Bowl still means to players, and it really is a cool video.

Go check it out. Went viral last night. Seven Pro Bowlers for the Dallas Cowboys this season, which is a good number to have. Well, I'll just name them all first and then we'll talk about it. Zack Martin his eighth selection on that offensive line, just continuing to be a dude. DeMarcus Lawrence defensive end, his third, Trey Von Diggs, Ceedee Lamb, Micah Parsons, all in their second Pro Bowls as really the three that are supposed to be the

future of this franchise. Then you've got Tony Pollard at running back. I don't just the storyline of him and what he's done for this organization, what he's done over these last three years, and then now into a contract year, he's thrown up a Pro Bowl berth. That is really cool to see. Cut the chick, Yeah, exactly, he's earning

the big bucks now. And then Cavante Turpin, That's what I'm talking to talk about, a storyline, That's what I'm talking You and I were calling the game with the Chargers in so far we didn't know what was the future. I mean, he should probably just hire us as professional hypere. He goes if he's here every somewhere else, he's just probably just hiring us. I mean, I mean, because we definitely called that game, and you know, you knew you

were watching something special. You knew that you were watching something that if somebody was going to be selected to the Pro Bowl as a return man, you have to fear that individual. And I think that the league determined not to just a league, the players, everybody, okay, determined that he is the most dangerous threat as a return man kickoff return and punt return from from where he started in his entire journey, the things he's had to overcome,

the storylines he already had coming into this season. Man, just just I couldn't be more happy for an invidude. They're playing flag football at the Pro Bowl. Yeah, yes, yeah, or fifty yes, he's gonna be all over the place there can wait any of those guys gonna be able to pull one of his floor straight speed. I mean, he would be the first pick if I had a flight, no wonder, he's a Pro bowler. Absolutely. Uh. That's the thing about Turpin. I mean, going into that game against

the Chargers, you and I were having production meetings. We were talking about the content that we were laying out there, and one of the storylines was does Covante Turpin earn a spot on the roster? Is he is he capable of being on an NFL roster? A long ways away from that, absolutely No longer is it a just an NFL roster. It's a Pro Bowl roster, which is really cool. One of the two best in the entire league. Yeah, at what he does? Do you do? You agree with

that sentimentsolutely because I think he's fear him. You fear you, fear you, legit fear him and whatever special teams unit is on the field with him. And I guess the recency bias probably has the muff punt against Houston in the back of the mind. Everybody's gonna make a mistake. Zach Martin gives up a sack. It happens. I mean, people have mistakes. Kavant de Turpin is as dangerous as anybody in the league as a as a return man, and we don't talk about it enough. I don't think

he honestly has played it so safe this year. He's played it so so safe. How is that? Oh, there's so many punt return opportunities that he's had that he's just opted to protect the team first. And that's the stuff that people don't see. You know, typically people are going to commercials, nobody's really paying attention to a somebody

fair catching like nobody cares. But if you watch all twenty two and look at some of the opportunities that he's had, but understanding the situation that he's in, saying, hey, if I simply just fair catch it right here, I put my team in a good situation as well. That is his maturity, not trying to do too much in so many situations where as a punt returner, your instinct is literally to return everything. So he's had to subdue his instinct in order to tech the team a lot

of times this year. And I just hold him in a high regard. I'm just very happy for him. Kind of been that same light. Think about Tony Pollard. I mean, this is a guy who's been, for lack of a better term, stashed away for the last three years. He's been used. Sure, we've seen his explosiveness, but this is finally the season where you're starting to see what Tony can do. Coming out of party and he's been fantastic

from the jump. I mean, how cool is it to see him on a Pro Bowl roster next to the other two running backs are sa Quon Barkley and Miles Sanders, And I mean, both of those guys are great. Specifically sa Quan's having a phenomenal year, but you can see just how good the NFC East Division is in terms of running the football. They're solid, and he's electric. I mean, I think he is. He has literally just shocked the

entire league in terms of how dangerous he is. I mean, you just mentioned that the Dallas has utilized him, you know, every so often, you know, in accordance with Zeke, but this year he's been highlighted and this year they gave him the keys a little bit more. And you've seen what he's been able to put on display so many times in the past. You've seen him kind of show these flashes. You're like, Okay, yeah, he has some speed. Okay, if you know, if he gets to the outside, it's

a problem. But he's not every down back. I think he's proven everybody wrong in that regard and he's proved in a very important year for him financially right in career wise, they way to freaking go way to take advantage of opportunity that's presented to you because he's he's definitely due for a pay day and Dallas is gonna to open up that check book to keep him here.

Think about a guy who has his experience in the NFL, but it's as fresh as he is in terms of running the football and the tread on those tires, you're not very thin. They've got a lot of tread left now. Out of the other five guys, Zach Martin, D Law, Treyvon Digg, CD Micah D law Man, which one sticks out is the law absolutely? I mean you talk about d law somebody who had a camp who came back

this year on a substantial pay cut. He came back this year knowing that they weren't gonna he didn't have the opportunity to make the bread that he wanted to make. So he's like, Okay, I'll come back, all right, I'll take this amount of money because I want to put the team first. And I understand that I didn't come off the most amazing season last year, but I'm gonna show you and I'm approved to you that I'm still

capable of that. You hear all these all these murmurs of this this young bull coming in, Michael Parkson's comes in and has a dominant year, and you kind of get put on the back burner. You don't have the year that you were expected to have. You got everybody, everybody and Mama talking about this other guy playing across from you. He's getting all the love. And you know, you got Doran's Armstrong getting brand new contracts, you know, MICA's you know, all over TV, all over the place,

and you're just a guy. Now. You are from being the guy to just being a guy. And this was his year to remind everybody, I'm gonna ahead and chop these dreads off and I'm gonna come back brand new, and I'm gonna show you guys that I'm still a guy that you got to be concerned about. So kudos to him as well. He didn't talk a lot, He just could went out there and showed you. Yeah. And even the stats, I don't think tell the whole story. And that's been the case throughout d Law's career. Is

the sacks versus pressure's argument. Cowboys Nations had it for years I've always been on the fact that d law does more than sack. Absolutely, I mean he does more than get in the backfield. He's got a big runstopper. This year, he's been huge stopping the run. He sets the edge, he does such a good job just being disruptive, and even after the play is over, guess who's running around the football ninety I mean if it's five or ten yards down the field, he's nineties back there too,

because he's playing until the whistle. I would have absolutely voted for DeMarcus Lawrence in terms of the Pro Bowl. Now kind of transitioning over. He's also on the injury report, so news and notes. What would Rob do? What would Patrick do? I'll run the injury report rundown. I guess today Dawrence Armstrong, Noah Brown, Jake Fergus, and j Ron Cursed d Law all limited in practice. They were a part of practice yesterday. Micah Parsons and Layton Vanderesh both

d n p's. Of course, Layton with that knack or the pinched nerve in the shoulder, and then Micah Parsons with the illness. So I don't think there's a whole lot of concern on Micah playing this weekend, and even Mike McCarthy echoed that same sentiment, Layton Vanderesh probably not gonna play this week Nope. I don't think you're gonna see fifty five out on the field. And then the Philadelphia injury report is just a mess because they just

rested a ton of guys. James Bradberry, A J. Brown, Fletcher Cox, Landed Dickerson, Lane Johnson, Jason Kelsey, Cardner Minshew who's going to be possibly the starting quarterback, but he was a full participant yesterday, and then Josh Sweat. They were all limited in terms of a resting fashion. So long injury report, but not a lot, whole lot going on there. If you're if you're to Eagles, what would be your approach to this game? I was going to ask you the same thing. Yeah, I mean I'm not playing,

Jalen Hurts. Yeah, there's no there's no point, you get. The point is to wrap up the division because even though the chances are slim, and I was talking about this on a radio call, this poor chance, there's absolutely a chance because if you if you let one game slip all of a sudden, that momentum is upended, and maybe these final two games of the season don't go as well as you think. I totally understand securing the bag. Yeah,

I understand controlling the controllables. But if I'm Philadelphia, I'm not playing Jalen Hurts. Everybody else might play, but I'm not playing Jalen Hurts. I don't think this is a resk game for everybody just to land and chill it just because you seemingly have it can come in the next two weeks. Absolutely, once you wrap up the number one seed. But I think that you do protect your most important player. Yeah, I can see that if he's

dealing with a legitimate injury, which it is. If it's an ac joint and it's a shoulder what I saw on film, it's a legit injury, then yeah, absolutely, I think you do. You you set them aside and you say, hey, thanks for trying, but let's let's wrap this. Let's try and wrap this thing up now. If not, we'll force you back in the future when you've got more time in between. Um. So that is a topic of conversation, I think, and Philadelphia said yesterday they're not ruling out

Jalen hurts playing. Is that just gamesmans? Absolutely? Yeah, I think so absolutely if you're if you're looking at it, the care for both Kyle. Yeah, ESPN's on the air and they're saying, oh my gosh, Jalen Hurts might play, and everybody else is like, no, no, that's I know. They probably had an acy joint spring before on your throne shoulder. Has that given you nightmares this week? I feel like every time you talk about it, you've got more flashbacks ks behind you. It freaking hurts. Yeah, like

not Jalen hurts, but it hurts, like seriously. So if he does play, oh, man, hit him, hit him because he's going to hurt. Oh gosh, Gardner Minshew though, he's going to be interesting. He brings a specific skill set spark plug. Yeah, yes, he's got that energy. The video surface last time that he started and they gotta win was after the game he was with his dad and you could see like the the excitement in the patchon that Minshew plays with. He's still got that going into

the twenty twenty two season. Now, today we're previewing the Cowboys offense up against this Philadelphia defense, and you very much so love the front seven of the Philadelphia defense. I mean, they are as loaded as anybody. They are the only team in the NFL that has more sacks than the Dallas Cowboys. They get after the quarterback, they it after the football, and they can stop the run because they've got a couple of guys in the middle that can clog up poles. What's the biggest thing about

this defense? That's the thing about it. Like when you think about the Philadelphia at least, when I think about the Philadelphia Eagles front seven, specifically their front four, I

think about their ability to stop the run. I think about your ability to work the ball down the field if they choose to go ben but don't break defense and then they just halting you in the red zone or the black zone because they have the big fellas up front and they can stop your running game, and they have cornerbacks that can go up there and press you and stay in your hip pocket as well. So

this defense up front for me, is very dangerous. You talk about the guys that there's some guys we haven't even faced yet, and we played against those guys against Philadelphia's front seven obviously earlier in the season. But now they have all their goons. Okay, they have you know, Fletcher Cox, Joseph Linfield, you know Hardgrave, Riddick, Josh Sweat and Dominicans Okay, Graham and all those names mean something.

But if you read them off in the depth chart, yeah, that's when it gets really scary for me because it's Fletcher Cox, Javon Hargrave, shwtt. That's your your front offensive line. Oh by the way, Brandy Graham's up there too. Then you go to the second level, the second level bench of the depth chart. Off the bench absolutely, okay, Lynnville, Joseph Jordan Davis, Genarius Robinson, Robert Quinn who's on IR

but he's listed as the second. Then you go to the third string Isaiah, and then you've got Milton Williams, and you've got the Dominican Sue. They've got dudes, they got friends. And it's the same problem teams have when they face the Cowboys, because the Cowboys, you look at it, and they've got Johncy Goldston. They've got these guys at the next level. That's the thing. So when you when you face the Dallas Cowboys, you fear their pass rush.

You don't want to have to be in a passing situation against the Dallas Cowboys, right, that is the one area where you're like, crap man, I we we gotta get the ball out quick. We have to push it down the field and we just have to take a risk roll the dice because they're probably gonna get back and hit us in the mouth. That's where you fear the Dallas Cowboys. You don't fear the Dallas Cowboys in terms of if you have to run the ball against them,

actually welcome it. Yeah, you welcome running the ball again the Das Cowboys to day without a Jonathan Hankins. Especially when you look at the Philadelphia Eagles. You just mentioned the stat about them having more sacks, Like you don't. I don't think about them in the light of sacks. I think about them in terms of all the beef that they have up front. If they get down to the goal line, who are they gonna put in on

the goal line. They're gonna call it Lynnfield, Joseph, They're gonna call it in, Fletcher Cox, They're gonna call it in big big Baby Davis, and they're gonna call it in Dominican Sue. Those are the four big nasties that you're gonna put on her on your front line. Oh and then you have Sweat, Graham all those other guys as well. It's get pretty good. Yeah, those guys are pretty good too. So I think about them in that regard.

But then when you start thinking about their ability to then so that fears you, that that that you should be afraid of, that you don't want to run into that brick wall. Then you look at the pass rush and you have to acknowledge the fact that they have Brandon Graham, you have to acknowledge the fact that they have read e Pro Bowl. You have the adnowledging fat that they have Sweat. So they are all three of

those guys. By the way, Reddick, Hargrave and Sweat have more than nine and a half sacks, Brandon Graham has eight to half, Fletcher Cox has six, and Brandon Graham has been around since Jesus was born, right, So it's like all guys like the original Chris exactly. So all you fear them in terms of you running the ball against them and you fear having to drop back against him. So in that regard, I think their front seven is more dangerous in Dallas's front seven because you fear both

aspects of their of what they present. Yeah, no, I agree. But now, and you've talked about this previously, which type of pressure is tougher on a quarterback? Outside pressure, an interior pre interior pressure all day and where's the pressure coming from Philadelphia? Coming right up the middle. So it's the same reason why we talk heavily about Jonathan Hankins. Sure, okay, why are we gonna miss him so much? Because he takes up multiple takes up multiple guys. Man, he takes

both guys. He puts their hands in a chance, he declares them that, he makes them declare him all day long. Two guys, you better put two guys on me. Either I'm gonna get in the backfield I'm a disrupt things, or You're gonna take these two guys and I'm just gonna clog everything up. Yeah. Well, they have four of him. They have four versions of him. They literally have four versions of him. So we're sad because we're missing one and we know how much is going to hurt. But

they have four Jonathan Hankins. Yeah, guys that are actually rated higher than Jonathan Hankins a lot of areas. Who is going to say that cow But yeah, that it's true. I mean, that's how it is. It's the fact of the matter. They're good players. Yes. Now with interior pressure coming, I mean it's almost like Game of Thrones. Winter is coming, so is the interior pressure. Absolutely, But with the way that that's all going to play out on Saturday, who

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I'm sure he sees listening. So Patrick Nose Walker, if you if you want to prove that you're listening, shoot us a text message right now. I want to see if he texts into the group message. Today is a black rifle coffee type of day. Yeah, have you been outside today? Yeah? It's it is Uh, it's chilly. It's definitely he's seen what's going on tomorrow or tonight. I heard about it. I mean I feel it. I can

feel what's what's what's coming on outside? Be be safe, everybody, Yeah, please be safe because it's going it's it's already dipped under freezing now. It's twenty seven degrees right now. It was forty when I left the apartment this morning. The temperature by the end of the night is going to get into this single digits. Sorry, what was that? Yep? Single digits in Dallas? Is that will the windshill is like negative sixteen is what it's gonna be. Because it's

gonna be super windy. So yeah, I hope you brought your your Washington coat, your Sideline coat you used to. I'm going to my Boston coat now, yeah, the other way. You gotta go to the other side of the closet. Okay, So according to the weather app that it's called ACU weather, that's the one that I've I've always used. Seven am. That's what's gonna look like. Gardner just got announced now, is it? Is it? For sure? Yeah? Okay, so there

you go, breaking news here I talking Cowboys. Gardner Minshew will be the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles this week. No more gamesmanship on the way seven am tomorrow, Isaiah. So right, whenever you're you're normally leaving the house, you're getting out seven degrees real feel, which is wind chill negative fifteen. Let's freaking go man in Texas. Yeah, shorts weather. Yeah, there's a bowl game up here tonight. Air Force and

Baylor are playing in Fort Work Sick and Bears. Right, beam, are you going? Yeah? I actually my wife actually has her company Christmas party tonight, so oh oh my goodness, Nike likely excuse so you'll get some burlap for my plants. M I know, yeah, do that quickly. You better go home right after this forget special edition. We gotta we gotta go. All right, let's continue previewing the Cowboys offense up against the Philadelphia defense as they face each other

coming up on Saturday. And I asked you the question before the break you did which offensive lineman needs to have his best day of the year on Saturday? Is it the interior guys? One of those two guys, three guys? Is it the tackles that need a bit of a rebound after a rough week in Jacksonville? Which one do you have your eye on? Uh? First, middle, last name? Okay, all of them, So you gotta pick one. If I had to pick, it has to be the interior line.

It has to be the interior line because you one, well, you talk about one one guy, one guy, give me one guy defensive line has Tyler biod really has to have the game. If he haven't been talking a whole lot about time, Tyler Beiodis has to have the game of his life because you think about somebody who's gonna have extreme pressure on them. You just talked about the

depth chart. Okay, So Tyler Beiods at any given time is going to have Jordan Davis, Fletcher Cox, those guys go out, Okay, that's fine, Okay, neck next guys coming in, Okay, Lynnfield, Joseph In DOMICANU. Is that the next fresh fresh legs, fresh legs. Okay? Those that's the backups, Okay, and then you're probably not going to the thirst ring. You're probably getting those other two guys right back. So you're talking about somebody who's gonna have absolute monsters on either side

of him. He looks to his left, monster, he looks to his right. Monster. Sometimes those monsters are gonna hit both gaps, gonna hit both shoulders of his He's gonna have to have his feet dug in the ground. He better have his dog on, screw in cleats on because he's going to have a long day. Matter of fact, y'all might want to do a goal for me for his massage because he's gonna he's gonna need it before

and after the game. He's gonna be challenged. And we haven't been talking a whole lot about Tyler and what he's been doing this season, partially because of the musical chairs going on around him. Has been more of a topic of conversation. When you've watched him this year, how would you how would you grade out what he's done here in year three? You haven't, you haven't had to

talk about him. So, I mean that's a good thing. Yeah, I mean, I think he's been doing his job, and I don't think that he's been necessarily challenged on the interior on interior front, but he will this week. He will this week He's gonna go from you know, just easy breezy, beautiful cover girl. So and now all of a sudden, he's gonna have to he's gonna have to figure it out because these guys are coming. I don't even mention Javon Hargrave. I mean, these guys are man man. Yeah,

I'm worried. If I'm worried, I'm worried on interior line, I'm I'm gonna give you some some ease to your worry, thank you, sir. So Back in week six, and I know they didn't have any the Dominicance or Lynville Joseph, but against Philadelphia he played sixty seven snaps, which is one of the tops in the entire year for Tyler

Beatis in terms of snap count. He allowed not one pressure it just zero pressures, one hundred percent win rate, one hundred percent efficiency, and the blocking percentage twenty six run blocks, forty one pass blocks. Blanked the Eagles in Week six, which is great. Worst game he's had all year, probably Green Bay, maybe New York. The second time around, he wasn't very good. Three pressures in each of those games, and then against the Rams he gave up three pressures,

including two hurries in that one. He hasn't allowed to sack this year. I'm not as concerned in the passing game, Okay, I know those are those are the analytics, and in regards to the passing game, I'm more circoncerned with his ability to move these guys off the ball. And if you can't move these guys off the ball, he's already undersized. He's undersized already for his position. He is facing some of the more aggressive, larger humans in this league. And

these aren't just big guys. These are guys that like to get vertical and create havoc. Every single one of these guys, Hargrave having Limpa, Joseph having pleasure, Cox having big baby, Davis probably the lesser of all of them in terms of creating Havoc. He's still figuring these about not the one that plays Celtics. Yeah, I'm playing him in a nickname. But his ability to get underneath these guys paths, that's going to be an advantage. But can

he move these guys in the opposite direction? And if he can't, then what is this running game? Yeah, and he'll have help with Zach Martin two is right, But if you're one on one with those guys, who's gonna win that battle? Um, And there's not really a stat that really he says, there's not pass or pass blocking versus run blocking. There's a grade on PFF. So, for lack of a better stat his overall grade this year sixty seven in terms of pass blocking, fifty nine terms

of run blocking. His exact his exact grades in Week six against Philadelphia sixty seven in terms of pass blocking and fifty nine run blocking. So it was right at his average of what he was able to do against Philadelphia in Week six. So outside of the front seven, where does Philadelphia challenge you defensively? Can these wide receivers get some separation, maybe help Dak Prescott get the ball out quickly in order to counteract what they do upfront

kind of the same way teams are looking at the Cowboys. Yeah. Absolutely, I think it's a very similar approach. I mean, the only difference is these guys have really good dvs on both sides. Darius Slay is a complete beast. We know about him. And in Bradberry and you know he's he's hurt us. He heard his last time. Yeah, so, I mean, both of these guys are are ballhawks. Both of these guys are aggressive. This is going to be a heck of a challenge for this offense of Kellen Moore in

these players. I know the Pro Bowl things just came out, but these guys are gonna have to go out there and show exactly why they have the starrun and eat them on Madden and why they should be classified as as as all pros in the NFL X factors. Absolutely, absolutely so. And this is a fan question actually that just kind of popped up on my phone earlier in the week. You said this is a playoff level football game. Yes,

this is playoff level. This is going to be the toughest test the Cowboys will have prior to actually getting into the Wild Carter Divisional Round. Do you still think so with Jalen Hurts out, now that that breaking news has just come down, with Gardner Minshew out or I mean Gardner Minshew in for Jalen Hurts who is out on Saturday, is this still a playoff level football game? Yes?

Why is that atmosphere? This the situation of what we know both of these teams have on the line, And I don't think as good as Jalen Hurts is, they're still going to be able to do what they do. They're not changing their game plan because of Gardner Misshus now the quarterback of this particular game. That alone allows

for them to still be relatively dangerous. Now had this team had a totally different style of quarterback and now they're having to change everything, and now they can't utilize Sanders, they can't utilize Goddard, they can't utilize you know all you know, A J. Brown and everybody else they have. I would say, okay, yeah, we can, we can change our game plan up. But these guys are going to be able to run the same exact offense regardless of

who's that quarterback. And that's why I think that even though that quarterback is not gonna be as talented, these guys can still hurt you so and that part of that is on the defensive side of the football because they're not effected at all outside of what they do, and they're still one of the best pass rush is one of the best secondaries. I mean, you look at even the secondary for this Philadelphia team and some of

the guys they have. Darius Layser, pro Bowler, and for a reason, he's one of the best zone coverage corners and even press corner. He does it all well. I mean, he's been one of the best in the league for a reason. But where do they challenge you outside of the quarterback position that worries you the most offensively and defensively. I would say their secondary. Okay, I would say their secondary with the issues that even more so than their

front seven. Well I thought you said outside of that, No, outside of the quarterback position. Oh is it the front seven? Yeah? Okay, so the outside of the front seven now, yeah, outside. So we talked about that enough of the reason why it's because you Dallas needs to run a ball to get going. Okay, that's just facts. Okay, Dallas needs to run a ball to get going. In if they can't run a ball to get going. Now you're face yourself in a situation where Dak's having to throw this ball

forty plus times a game. We know the results of what that what happens whenever he does that, we don't like it. Okay, Dak had had a relatively good game. I don't disagree with with Jerry Jones and his statements. Okay, Dak went twenty three for thirty last game. That's that's pretty dark going instant line. But unfortunately two of those

seven were interceptions. Yep, so that's what kills you. If Dak has more of those opportunities and he's forced to throw the ball and thirties guys to victory, I'm not sure that I have full confidence that they win ball games like that. So, yes, they're front step is dangerou because they don't allow you to get going, and they don't allow you to get to your to your play action game if if if if that's your game plan.

But outside of that, if you have to sit back and throw the ball, it's not like you're you're playing against bumps. These guys. These guys will make you pay. They made us pay last time. Now people can say, oh, well there's miscommunication and that. Okay, there's all those things that that took place, possibly, but these guys are still fully capable of going out there making plays. And they don't just make plays against Dallas. They've made plays against

other teams as well. It's one of those things that and Patrick said this last time, but Dallas is beating themselves in multiple areas. But what happens whenever not only are you beating yourselves, but you're playing a team that can beat you. Yeah, then and right now, that's what you're doing. That's what you're doing this week. It makes things tough going into it with or without Jalen Hurts in the fold, and right now it is without Jalen

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how we doing. I'm doing great, got the foot resting up over here, you know, limited participants never DNP not going on ir up here. Let's get these plays running. I'm reading to run these routes for u QB one dB DNP, DMP, DMPs. Trying to get back in the fold, trying not to, trying not to lose his starting job. I mean, there's nobody else in here to replace you, though, Patrick,

You're irreplaceable if we're being honest. So let's let's get into some draft kings and Patrick, I'll do my best to outline what this looks like draft kings wise, but Dak Prescott sixty one hundred is the total, Tony Pollard is seven grand. Apparently Patrick has seen this graphics, so that's nice. CD Aam is seventy five hundred, and the Cowboys Defense and Special Teams unit with pro bowler Cavante Turpin twenty six hundred on the bottom of the list.

You can play for free for over a million dollars with your deposit on Draft kings dot com. I say I'll start with you on this one. What you got on the Draft Kings pick him. This maybe the most difficult one we've had. It's pretty tough because Philadelphia is good against all of these these fantasy numbers. I'm gonna go with the defense and Special Teams. I'm gonna go with Cavante Turpin for twenty six hundred. Kyle, Okay, I like it. What about pro bowler Tony Pollard. That's what

I'm gonna go with. I think he's gonna have a big game because they're gonna rely on the run. They're gonna stick to it all the way through, and he's gonna test the edge, he's gonna get outside, he's gonna get to the numbers. Ain't gonna turn up field and torch the Philadelphia Eagles. Making a bold prediction. It's bold prediction time. I bet he runs for a one hundred

yards this week? Who against Josh two touchdowns? Hassan Reddick a hundred yards and two touchdowns against Philadelphia this week. Let's see it, man, I would love to see that. Say it with your chest here on a Thursday, Patrick, who you got out on him? I'm going to say it with much just as well. I'm going with the defense and special teams. I think Fonte Turpin getting his first Pro Bowl nod and as an NFL rookie, that's gonna juice him up to make a big play against

the Eagles. But the advantage slightly goes towards the Cowboys with Jalen Hurts being more or less ruled out. I think Gardner Minshew is a drop off from Jalen Hurts, though he can win the game. Be careful there, but I'll take the Cowboys defense holding the Philadelphia Eagles offense to two hundred seventy five yards of offense, keeping it tight. I like it. Patrick, Well done, my friend. All right, let's welcome in our fan picker this week. I do

not have a standings update at the moment. I'm sorry, everybody, I don't have one. Sorry, guys. I will tweet it out today. I'll tweet it out. I'll get it out there. Make sure everybody knows the update and knows the standings heading into the final week of the regular season. Final two weeks of the regular season. But let's start things off with Mike in New York. Mike, welcome back to Talking Cowboys. How's it going? Who's going on? Guys? So you were our second picker last year Week five and

you went a whopping five in one. I mean, you were fantastic. Can you can you follow that up? Mike? Can you can you find a way to get it done again? I hope? So there you go. And what part of New York are you calling from? I live I live in Hudson Valley. I live in Yeah. It's cold here too, man, it's real cold. What's the temperature right now? I actually it's probably one mo than in

Dallas right now. It's probably about thirty degrees. Yeah, summer up there, Na, Na, No, yeah, he's saying, no, thank you. All right, let's pick some games. Let's start things off. This is the Thursday night game. We never get to pick the Thursday night game, but it's actually pretty good this week. The New York Jets at home seven and seven. New York Jets fighting for a playoff spot. Who are they fighting against? The Jacksonville Jaguars. And that is where

this one is. Jacksonville, who just knocked off the Cowboys, going on the road to try and face the Jets on a Thursday night football game tonight, Patrick, who you got Jets needed badly? Jack wars Ryan too high? After that went over? The Cowboys? Give you the Jets. J et S. Mike, who you got up there in New York? I got? I got Jacksonville. Oh, he's gonna make some enemies up there. I like it. Yeah, I know, I I you know, it's It's just one of those things.

I don't know. I'm gonna take the Jacks too. I'm right there with you, Mike. I'm going with the Jets. Left tackle for the Jacks out for the year, Cam Robinson had unfortunate for them. Uh Seahawks at the Chiefs Arrowheads Stadium. Seahawks has been playing good. Gino Smith's a pro bowled quarterback. How about that? And then you've got the Chiefs who struggled to get past the Texans. Can they bounce back? Isaiah? You would come to me first with this one. Yeah, I just wanted to. I just

want to get It's in arrow Head, Oh, Kansas City. Yeah, going with the Chiefs, Patrick, hear me say that? Patrick? True? You got next time? Say it Louder No, I will not, sir. Chiefs got the scary against the Texans. They're back on their grind. I'm giving them. Going big with the Chiefs. Yeah, give me the Chiefs big, Mike. Who you got? I got the Chiefs, Chief Chiefs. They're not gonna lose. Man.

The Seahawks just must be garbage. I guess if we're picking, we're picking all against the Chiefs, so or all with the Chiefs. I should say, all right, Giants on the road against the Vikings. Giants trying to wrap up some playoff positioning with a big win on the road up at US Bank Stadium. I'm gonna take the Vikings to win it. I think the Giants make it really close, though, and I think they get back within striking distance late, but the Vikings pull it out. Mike, who you got?

I got Minnesota Minnesota at home. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be. It's gonna be a close game. I think Minnesota's gonna I don't know, though, yeah, less at all. I don't know, But I still think Minnesota's gonna pull it off. Yeah. Hey, hey, he picked against both New York teams up there, Isaiah, who you got? Give me the Giants, Patrick, Giants needed to remain in the playoff picture in a good seating. Minnesota's one historic comeback away

from being wexed twice at home. So give me the Giants. All right? How about this one? Cincinnati going up against New England on the road, the Bengals at the Patriots, Patrick, you got. I don't think we'll see any more lateral plays from the Patriots. Give me New England. New England at home against Cincinnati and Joe Burrow. Wow, that's wouldn't taking set it with your chest? Isaiah. Give me the Bengals. Give me Joe Burr because it's probably gonna be pretty

darn cold up there in New England. Mike, since Cincinnati, Yeah, Joe Burrow and Chase they're they're tough in the way New England's playing that I think Cincinnati. All right, last one, and this is the battle of the disappointments. Who is

going to be the biggest disappointment this season? We might as well pick who's gonna lose this game, because it's it's more so like that the Denver Broncos at four and ten on the road against the Los Angeles Rams also at four and ten, two teams that had high expectations and have safe to say they have not lived up to those expectations this year. Patrick will start with you.

I'll tell you who's going to lose. The fans um, Yeah, Broncos lose this one, and you think about the other teams that are four and ten, Cardinals, Colts are four to nine and one, but close enough. Those are four teams that are all at four and ten that just haven't played well this year. But we're either close to or playoff teams a year ago. I'm gonna take the Broncos on the road. I think their defense is good enough to shut down the Rams offensively, and so give

me give me Denver to win it at Sofi Stadium. Isaiah, Let's ride. Oh God. I think Russell Wilson gives them the reason to give it to have hope win it to the next season. I know, gross, Uh, Mike, who you got is even going to play the entire game? Hi? Guy, I got? I actually got the Rams winning. I don't know. I don't trust Denver right now. Wilson is not having a great team. You trust the Rams? The Rams? You yeah, you throw Baker Mayfield into the fold. He's not playing

that good either, Mike. He's not setting the world on fire. But you know who has been set in the world on fire? A couple of teams out of the NFC East and they meet up this week, the Philadelphia Eagles on the road against the Dallas Cowboys. Eagles at thirteen and one, with a win will wrap up the NFC first seed, the bye week, the division, all the marbles on the line for Philadelphia if they can just get a win this week, and the Cowboys at home at AT and T Stadium have a chance to avoid that

and push it off at least one more week. We'll start with Mike, who you got this week for Cowboys and Eagles. Cowboys, man ain't been Cowboys. They gonna pull it off somehow. Thirty three twenty seven Dallas. I mean, we don't want him winning the division out of hometow New There you go, Mike in New York, bringing the energy, bringing the passion. Thirty three, twenty seven. He gives the score for the Cowboys over the Eagles. Mike, thanks so much,

appreciate you calling in again. We'll talk to you soon. You guys have a great holiday, all righty, you too. He brings the energy. That's that's fun, man, that's fun. Patrick. We'll let you continue this one. Who you got um gonna be a close one, but give me the Cowboys by ten. I'm taking Cowboys twenty seven seventeen. Less offense with no Jalen Hurts on the field for the Eagles. Cowboys need a bounce back desperately to send a message to the world and get ready for the playoffs. So

Cowboys twenty seven seventeen. Okay, I'm actually not too far off of that. I'm gonna do with with Gardner Minshew, and it's not a huge drop off, but it is a drop off. Give me the Cowboys twenty seven. I'm trying to think of a weird score, like a weird score combination that would get us there twenty seven twenty

and I'm just gonna go with the normal one. Twenty four twenty seven, twenty four, Cowboys get the win by three in a tight one late a late field goal from Brett Maher enough to distance themselves and get the win, number eleven on the season. Isaiah, who you got thirty four twenty four? I don't. I don't know if Dallas gets the ring game going. Yeah, so I gotta go

with Philly. Okay, that's fair. I don't blame you. I'm kind I would kind of be sad if we didn't go at least one Philadelphia, because that would make me think that the Cowboys would not pull this one out. Sorry, that's okay. I thought about picking Philly two, I really did. The difference is about six had split. Yeah, yeah, I want to say Dallas, but I mean I think Jalen Hurts costs Philly six points and I have the Cowboys winning by three. I had him losing by three against

if Jalen Hurts was playing. The scheme is more about scheme than it is about player over there. Sure so I can see that, no doubt about it. But there you go ahead. I had Philly taken the first matchup in Philadelphia, and they did, and regardless of what was going to transpire ahead of this game, I had the Cowboys getting revenge. So just so happens. What's happening is to change a QB one for this weekend, but it doesn't change the fact that the Cowboys want revenge for

what took place in Philadelphia's Cowboys. They've had this circled for quite some time. They've had this circled since that game in Week six, I mean ten weeks later down the road. They have wanted this one bad and so no matter what happened in Jacksonville last week, I think this is a team that's gonna be out to prove something heading into Week six. Team, but that's gonna do it for us this week on Talking Cowboy, there's no

shows tomorrow. Merry Christmas, everybody, Happy holidays, enjoy your holiday season. Be sure to join us on pregame live two pm Central Time here from The Star and Frisco. Will be on postgame as well. Isaiah Standback, Berry Church, Nate Newton, Hayley Sutton in the entire crew. Patrick nose Walker keep up with him on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Chris Beam will be out there as well. Stay warm, Stay safe, everybody throughout this holiday season. We'll catch back up with

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