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toward the weekend and chilling. I'm just kidding because if you guys are Cowboys fans, what you are if you're tuning in? Ezeki Elliott has been announced as eligible to play this Sunday. So the hell Mary was a complete pass? Mick whoa catch? He caught it in bounds, in bounds, and I'm sure the NFL thought it was out of bounds. Yeah, no review, no, Dean Blancino, Yeah, they didn't go back to the video review on the on Judge Carney's decision today,

John Carney, remember old John Carney. I do I give a kicker? This was Susan Carney. Well maybe maybe some relations we've we've seemed they need to get her on the three judge panel next week. Yeah, we do. So what happened exactly? Of course, we wake up to this news and and you know, everyone was pretty convinced that this was going to be in effact, Brian, you being one of them, you know, this was something that looked like it was not going to get overturned or accepted. So, Mickey,

can you walk us through what happened? Well? I think why everybody thought it was a long shot was fact that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York was supposed to be closed yes, yesterday and today, and it sounded like as soon as they can hear the request for a stay would have been next week. Now, I did read at some point somebody said, well, some judge can come in and make a ruling on it. Now. I don't know if Susan Karney, God bless her, came

in or she ruled from home. You know, do have internet and WiFi and things like that, and she could just send in an email and say yeah, here's my decision. So basically, because they couldn't get a three judge panel together in time, they decided, you know what, we'll hear this as soon as possible so they called it an administrative stay and pointed out that they would rule on the appeal expeditiously. I think we learned that word last summer when the Cowboys were supposedly looking for a veteran

backup quarterback. So in the meantime, this lady decided that game's missed our irreparable harm and decided, okay, well you play while we make this decision, or until we make this decision. So ruled this morning. I think it's about nine o'clock. We find out that you know, he's eligible to play this game. And this has no bearing on the merits of the case. Meaning they're not saying, hey, we think you got a pretty good case here and

you're probably gonna win it. They're just saying, unlike Judge Catherine, that miss games are irreparable harm. Yes, they're allowing him to play until the appeal is hurt exactly. Absolutely. There hasn't been a resolution there, so let him continue to be on the field. And I don't know how soon it'll be. It could be tuesday, it could be two weeks, who knows. But this the brief stay is until they can hear the case. So we'll see how soon they can get three judges together for a panel to basically

hear the deal. Little by little, they're just kicking this can on down the road. Judge, Susan just came into checker mail. Maybe, Hey, Susan, got something for you. You know what's going on Amazon package girl end. It's pretty high profile too. Hey hey Susan. Yeah, Hey Susan, this end. Susan there said there's this folder on your desk you might want to take a look at. And technology is good techno, right, yeah, resolutely. Yeah, I didn't say technology

wasn't good. Yeah, well I said Twitter is not good. That's all all right, Well it's really good. When Ezekillett takes to his own Instagram to post a video of himself driving up to the facility this morning with a caption better late than never. Yeah, and as you've seen on Twitter, probably by now, zekiellet is back out at practice getting ready for this week. Rob. You listened to Jerry Jones this morning? How did he respond? Only the cowboys, man, Only the cowboys. That's why we get to do what

we do. Why I love this job. He was giddy, He was positively giddy on the radio this morning, and He even said he's never seen anything in his time with the Cowboys so ambiguous, ambiguous circumstances where week to week you just don't know if a guy's going to be on the field, and it's totally at the mercy of various courts rulings. So it's been a roller coaster for everybody. Tay has spoken to that many times that

it's got to be affecting Zeke. He said a couple of weeks ago, it's a little tiring, and I think this is probably his biggest test yet when you think about it, because he was suspended I think for all of a day a couple of weeks ago, and got back in time for a full week of practice and played. I forget which week it was at all running together now, but now you're talking about him missing really the meat of your prep week. I mean, Wednesday is your day

in pads, it's your heaviest workload day. Friday is kind of a clean up type day. But still there, sound confident that he'll be caught up and ready to go. Yeah, we talked about this on their blueprint. The thing that could affect him running into football will not be a prompt for him What will be a problem for him though, is the fact that if with Kansas City and some of their blitz packages, some of the protection packages, you know, where he needs to fit. I mean, he'll he'll study up,

He'll be fine in a lot of ways. But like I say, the reps part of it, I think is because if you do make a mistake, they can go back and say, okay, wait, this is what you need to look at. This is what you need to see. So I don't worry about handing the football to him. I worry about though, with because they have repped Morris, they have repped Smith, and they have repped McFadden, and you know, they do have a blitz period every day that they run where you know, eight plays, here we go.

This is this is how we're going to attack their blitz. You know, if this turns into a game where all of a sudden it is a shootout and you have to throw the football a ton, you know, let's see if if if he's assignment sound there, I think that'll be important. But just just handing him the ball to run, yeah, just act like they sat him out two days because it's foot hurt. Yeah, And it's like Okay, let's go practice down. The part is he wasn't in the meetings.

That's I understand that. Yeah, but they gotta practice today. They could play, they gotta walk through. They gotta walk through tomorrow. To make the walk through a little bit more and walk through there's ways to compense. Say that's missing the details. Yeah, that's the only issue I would see with him. That's the only issue if in fact that they don't get the rep as many as they want. You know, he generally takes every single rep that they

have when they go with their first offense. And I'll guarantee you when they got and did their little skeleton drills where they lined up and threw the ball against air or did formations and ran a play, he was first up. He was no messing around whatsoever. And I'll tell you what. And it happens on Friday all the time. A little more bounce and everybody's step because it's basically the last work day, because I don't know if they considered the game work, but practice his work. Things were

pretty spirited out there. There was a little bit more hop and everybody's stepped, a little bit more screaming, a little extra dancing by Joe Looney, who was all in, had his black undershirt on. I don't know if he was trying to do some Tonga dance in the middle or the hakka dance. And then he started again when they started doing stretch and people were hooting and hollering, so I could tell that the vibe was just a little bit a little bit different out there, and I

think everybody was glad to see him, you know. I saw him walk in. I don't know if he was going into a team meeting or the offensive meeting. It was about nine thirty nine thirty five. He was upstairs getting ready to walk into a meeting, so he got here pretty quick because the ruling didn't come down to bright nine o'clock. Yeah, so he didn't take much time. Hopefully he didn't go one hundred miles an hour on

Sam Rayburn to get here. I was with Mickey. I'm on this because I was downstairs at the in the dining hall and was walking through and Dez came jogging by and he yelled at me. He goes, he's playing, he's playing, you know, and he was running right into the meeting. So yeah, I think everybody is pretty excited about having him back, at least for this week against a very difficult opponent. Is everybody is Darren McFadden is

Alfred Morris. I mean I had a quote from him yesterday, Rob did I thought was a great quote that showed this running back group is like, Okay, we're good too. Yeah. Absolutely, I think you're Your job as a teammate overrides has to override being a competitor and wanting to play. And I think they're going to be happy for him playing, but I think it's more Yeah, Morris's comments about being kind of insulted was more directed towards the media, like you guys think we can't come in there if needed

and do the job. And I think they were They're anxious for that opportunity. But you want to win football games, bottom line, and you got to have a guy like Zeke with you to ride with you in this type of situation. This is probably the best team they played all year long. Certainly it'll be the best offense I think by far. I mean the defense doesn't look good. What saved this defense is their ability to take the ball away, but they sure give up a ton of

yards their offense saves them two. Yeah, their offense puts a lot of pressure on you. You You have to keep up with them. It's volleyball, right, and if you don't, you know, and if you don't keep up, then they can bury. They make you one dimensional and all of a sudden, then it becomes about you know, justin Houston and those guys, so d Ford and those guys screaming off the corner. But to Tay's point, and we'll get into inactives, if we goes back to status quo, it's

big Fadden inactive. I mean, it goes from goes from having a role in this game, maybe a pretty significant role, to not playing. We'll get into inactives, but first I want to talk about Okay, so this stay now. You know, when the decision comes for ze Gillett, more people are looking now it could effect if the Cowboys make it to the playoffs. Now it doesn't. Well that's what Jerry addressed it. Right, Well, it just came out just now, Mick.

There's a new article on ESPN that says the NFL is insisting that if Ezekieliott does get suspended, it will be in the playoffs as well. Yeah, but then There's another one from Amy Dash that says camp Zegilliott's camp would challenge the NFL if they try to spend during the playoffs because Goodell's original letter only said regular season games. Well, most suspense suspensions go into the playoffs. They'll they'll say,

now that's not what we meant. They'll make it up as they go anyway, Jerry said, Jerry said, Jerry said, is his assumption. Assumption it would care all games except pres and the way it was worded that And my assumption is because it came out in August, they didn't want you to because I had the question to ask me. It was like, do the four preseason game counts to

the six? Right? Absolutely? Not right. So I can't imagine you could sit here and have a year long suspension and then you get to the playoffs and you go, oh, I'm playing, and I've you see fans reaction on Twitter today, you know, oh, no, they're kicking this down the road. And eventually everybody says, the odds are he's gonna lose and he's gonna have to sit. So what if this team does make the playoffs, Well, I argue, if you don't win, this game Sunday. Your odds of even getting

their decrease anyway. I think you've got to have him on the field as much as you can. I mean, I don't think you. I don't think you look at this and say, oh man, he's playing. That sucks. Yeah. Yeah, I mean this original decision came down on August eleventh. If you can believe that they would argue a technicality of wording, you think O that never. I can't imagine. I mean that that would be silly to me. We've seen I know, I know, I know, because it says

regular season. So what if he serves five games, he's got one more to go, and you're gonna say, okay, season open, or you can do the other one, but go ahead and play. I would actastic. I would assume they will challenge anything I would. I would say that would be unfair. Yeah. Yeah. Is this making a mockery of everything? I mean, you know, so many tweets are coming out, like you know, what people need to understand is this whole thing comes down to how a particular

judge interprets the law. Yeah, and if you get the right judge, you can win. You get the wrong judge Catherine, you lose because right here, Judge Crotty basically, when he was trying to rule on irreparable harm, he said, on balance, the defendant's hardship substantially outweighs the plaintiffs, which means Zeke has more to lose by not getting a stay than the NFL. This whole thing is kind of like the

Cowboys record. It's almost like four to three, you know, like four judges have ruled for Zeke and three halfs right, and unfortunately the ones going, the ones that haven't, the one that needed to, you know, it was her opinion, right. The three judge panel in New York, I mean in New Orleans was two to one. So one judge thought, oh okay. The Texas judge thought, oh okay. Karate thought oh okay, and she goes absolutely not clean. Sweet, no, no, no,

you haven't proven anything that this should be allowed. Can I ask smarter people than me a question? Then we better get Jason Cohen down. I'm just I'm asking you guys, though, because I think you guys will know the answer. Is this something is the NFL, I mean excume is the players Association fighting for something bigger here with the way that this is handled for disciplinary reasons. Well, I mean

the NFL is fighting for something bigger, ycause says this. Yeah, they lose this, then they've basically set a precedent going forward, deciding to prosecute somebody in the league that hasn't been prosecuted or charged in the core legal system. Yeah. I've said that alone. But I mean that's why they're fighting. Yeah, that's why I'm asking this question because it seems like to me, the league, the league doesn't want to give up.

The players Association realizes what's at stake. Yeah, this is really it might be Ezekiel Elliott's name, but it's about something bigger. To stop being about just about Zekel. Yeah, every Yeah, every player in the league should be behind this. Yeah, every player because that affects them. Right. See that's where that's where to me, Ezekiel Elliot's name just happens to be on top of the letter head, you know, or the top of the docket. You know. This is about

something bigger. Why is this Kurt Flood? Yeah, they don't know the Kurt Flood. Yeah. There it's a free agency. Yeah, that's baseball right, it was Baseball seven is the first player to challenge the free agency system. Yeah, and when the courts ruled in favor of Kurt Flood, he ruled in favor of every player he came after him, and that there would be like that, that would be free agency. I learned something new every day to Yeah, and you see this, this might affect other things as well as

including Goodell's extensions. I do I do believe that. Well, he's got six guys on his side. Yeah, yeah, the six the Cowboys would play without him. Yeah, you don't think they're sitting there going, no, we don't want him eligible? Yeah. Oh, Clark Hunt, Clark Cutting. Clark Hunt lives here in Dallas. Cancer's owner, you know, the great son of Lamar Hunt, and Clark's probably he probably picked up the paper now looking at it. An't going my gosh, my own hometown.

He goes and I thought I could keep the Preston Road Trophy. There's no questions. The best this, there's no question this is. This is going to be a standard to how future cases, how much power hour does the NFL ultimately have? Right, The outcome of this will decide that. In addition to like we said yesterday, the new CBA

is going to be that's gonna get ugly, get ugly. Well, and that's what's seeing that and think about what you said, because that's what they're they're they're using the Tom Brady case as the precedent that the courts ruled in favor of the league, and the league's leaning real hard on that. And if they get this one, they got a clean sweep now. But if they don't, yeah, they're they're in trouble.

This is if they want to administer their you know, their CBA punishment the way they have sure, because the courts are gonna say, hey, we're gonna judge how fair you were? Right? We don't want you railroading things through. Yeah, and seeing and I hope everybody understands what we're talking about here. We're not talking about did Zeke do it or not. We're just talking about getting a fair shake in the arbitration system. And he didn't. I don't care

how anybody looks at it. He didn't. And that's what's at stake right now. Was it fair or not? Can't just say yeah, I know this, I know this. We're gonna talk to this person. We're gonna talk to this person. Yeah, and I don't want this person being cross exam yea. By the way, yeah, I don't feel like that she's gonna be very favorable for us, so let's kind of avoid her. Yeah yeah, absolutely. Yeah. All right, well, let's take our first break here in the SWBC Mortgage studio.

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Ford slash Cowboys is not like the read option or something. Yeah, the read option, little misdirection. Yeah. The Cowboys have their last practice here at the Ford center forward center at the Star here this week getting ready for the Chiefs and a Luckily we had some tweets that said Dan Bailey and you were out there. Dan Bailey and Millie Collins were the only absentees from the media portion today. Actually, Dan Bailey was there, he just wouldn't. He was just

playing catch on the sideline. Spotted him in the hallway yesterday. I hadn't seen him at him. Yeah he was. He was gingerly walking. He's not going to play for the rest of this month. Yeah, it's just enjoy your deep fried turkey. The worst Thanksgiving man, it's got to be the worst injury a kicker can have, other than a broken foot. It's your legs. It's made right, how you make your living. I mean, even with a broken foot, swing your leg would have past on it right right.

But he had a hand injury or anything else, you'd be fine. So yeah, filling with the groin injury and Collins. Collins wasn't out there. Tyrone was moving pretty well when they were doing their little runaround. Stuffy's tank was dancing. He looked good. Cole Beasley's good and be good to go. I'm told he had a really good practice yesterday and he was back out there today, so if he had any side effects, they wouldn't have left him back out

there today. So he's good to go. Wuzier was doing his normal deal, kind of warmed up with the team and then he'll go and practice outside by himself and yeah, whatever they do with him. And they're going to be ultry conservative with this sign because think about he's gone out twice and come back twice, and we know how Britt doesn't like guys he rehabed to come back to him. Yeah, so this one he's gonna have to really prove that he's ready to go. And Dez was there, he was fine.

I'm trying to think whoever else was Limited said about MALIEK. Collins? Right, Yeah, I said Malik wasn't there. He DMP so that that looks kind of serious for Sunday. Yeah, we'll see any other updates. Yeah, Tryan Price was on the practice report yesterday, but he was full. It just showed a back. Yeah, we'll see. Now that's if we if you're getting into MALIEK. Collins playing that nose tackle spot, okay, and if there's any compromise there at all, That's one of the things

I'm gonna write about in my notes today. My final thoughts it is, it's Brian Price, it's Richard Ashe. You know you're gonna have to, you know, play this run defense. You know, Mickey's got to plan it. Hey, I need to see I need to see my nose play well, and I need to see my three technique play well. I got my linebacker someplace. But now you might be a little compromised at how long if if Mallie Collins does play, how long can he go? Yeah? The foot,

the foot, Yeah, the foot. So that's something to keep an eye on as we get to the pregame show. Tay, I know you guys love your field reports and something. We need to keep an eye on you and Rob. Yeah. Plus, I don't think they want to mess around with Crawford like saying, Okay, we'll slip back to one and Benson Mayo comes out there. I think Crawford needs to stay right anywhere. Oh you're saying, yeah, exact, because he can

move inside. Yeah, you could kind of flip him impriving however you want to work that right, But that's that's too many moving parts, right, Mallie Collins was poked in the eye last Sunday as well during the Redskins game, and he was seen wearing some sunglasses fashionable. I don't know if they're fashionable as they were protective. Oh, those are hard to get. Those are hard to kind of get from the eye doctor. Not very fashionable. Not proud as he's seeing double or oh touche kind of like,

not tackle the right guy, I hope not tackle them all. Tackle, tackle, grab everything, anyone that's in your way. Hit the one in the middle. Yeah, yeah, we'll look into I can't see the ball before we get to the inactives for the Dallas Cowboys. Not much change for the Chiefs practice report as well. It was pretty much exactly the same as the day before, So they're not looking at that many injuries, but the one that I'm concerned about, not concerned,

but looking at particular. Yeah, another back you're talking about that. You brought that up the other day, and I was kind of thinking that D four to play, but a D and P. I need to see what happens today with him. Yeah, I mean he could, he could. He could cause some problems on the outside for you though. You just have to be him and that and justin Houston.

Yeah what they with their ability to rush. If it turns into a track meet, you're gonna need Both sides are gonna need as many of those guys that can get to the pastor I mean this game to me, I don't know about you guys. This game is gonna come down to two second half stops. If you could get two second half stops, if the game's tight, both teams are going back and forth, it's gonna be two stops somewhere. Maybe one in the third, one in the fourth. But you're gonna have to come up with two stops.

That's just my if you want one of those gut feelings, I'm not even right about that today. So you're thinking, like another game, somebody he's at home. Yeah, somebody on defense, somebody on either defense is gonna have to get a stop. And I know it's captain obvious to say, oh yes, but I don't know if really each any defense could stop the other one. I mean I can really. I think I think the Chiefs are gonna make some huge plays in this game. I think the Cowboys are gonna

make some huge plays. Inness what do you think is a better quarterback Alex Smith or Derek Prescott at this point right now, Well, Smith's playing better. Smith is playing better, no interceptions on the season, eighteen touchdowns. He could be he could be the MVP if he keeps this up. I mean, he's having that type of season where he's just not making mistakes. That's a big thing. And that's a big thing. And you know, his yards per attempt

is what's most impressive to me. Along with that, he's he's he's averaging more yards pert tempt going down the field. It's not like he's just driving the bus, dinking dunk down the field, which has been kind of his rep that's he's making plays for this offense and not turning it over. And really, Andy Reid's done it he alway, He's done it throughout his career. He always puts his quarterbacks in good situations to make plays. Eight point four

yards an attempt, pretty that's significant. And he's and you know when he gets in trouble, he's made some key scrambles too. I mean, you have to be you have to be alert. You know, some spy stuff going on. Don't let him break the pocket and take off running on you. You know, when you're playing Deacon, whoever that

linebacker is, whoever that the defensive back is. You know, if you're if your job is to spy, spy, don't let don't let him take off on a third and seven and get you know, fifteen yards on you that that could be a problem too. But I think Dak Dak has played better than his numbers. Say absolutely, his numbers are good. They're not Alex. It's no disrespect if you're comparing him. If you're comparing the two, you know, he gives you some pause. It does give you some pause.

But if you look overall what Kansas City's done, you know who compares them frequently is Dan Mullen because, of course he coached Alex Smith at Utah. Actually, Alex Smith was in Dan Mullen's wedding, if you can believe it or not. Yeah, he was a very young coach at the time when he was with Urban Meri at Utah and very very close to Alex. He was in his wedding of course. Then Dak Prescott is his guy at Mississippi State the summer when we went to go visit,

me around some great quarterbacks. Yeah, Tebow, Yeah, Pebo might be the best college quarterback every twomey. Oh absolutely, But the summer when we were talking about it, he was comparing Alex Smith and Dak frequently. Yeah, you know, kind of their poise and their ability to kind of shut out the outside noise. Yeah. Rough start to his career

is San Francisco, but definitely found at home in Kansas City. Well, Dak said that when he was at Mississippi State, they studied he studied Alex Smith, rightw they ran particular plays in particular offense. Right, So, yeah, Melon's had a big effect on both guys. First one to forty wins, Wow, thank you forty? Yeah, whatever, who whoever gets there first, Yeah, you may have to there's no question you're gonna have to do. You guys think that Cream Hunt is a

contender or a pretender. And I say that because Okay, yes, he's had a great start sobbing in this year for at their starter running back who got injured in the preseason. But you know, is he going to find some bumps? Is he going to be able to Uh? Well, he already has exactly he has against the Steelers and then even this past week again to the Broncos. But what I what I'm saying is, you know, it's like, is he really the real deal running back? Yeah? I do

think so, I do. I think that, And I think Mickey's biggest nightmare should be everybody's nightmare that they load up and start running this football and then he shows patience running front side, and then all of a sudden, you're overly aggressive on the backside. Damian Wilson's in the game and he comes flying down inside and missus a tackle, or Jeff Heath missus a tackle, or somebody misses attack on the whole, and what should have been a three yard game turns into an eight or nine yard game.

I think that's where you have to be a little bit nervous about playing. I think this guy's a real player because A he has that that type of ability to carry the football a bunch and be successful. But b he could also you could throw it to him and he can have success too. So he's a kind of a dual threat guy in that way. What do you what do you how do you qualify real deal? Like what I'm saying is, you know, will he continue

to have this success throughout the season. Of course, We've seen him have some bumps, But is he the guy that's going to be like an Ezekiel Elliott? You know, I mean look at it this way. He's I mean, he's lad in the league in rushing. He's got seven hundreds sixty three yards. Yes, he's played one more game than Zeke and he's only seventy three yards ahead of him. Right, So if you're comparing him to Zeke and Zeke's production, it looks like he's pretty real. Right. Yeh, He's pretty comparable.

And like I said, I think I go back to the throwing the ball apart to him too, right. You know that's something that's always been a really staple of the and you read offense, is that ability to have a back that could be a little bit of a run, run, run, and then hey, I'm gonna throw you a red zone screen for twenty eight yards of a touchdown kind of kind of remember the twenty yard touching on twenty eight outside the red zone. The Eagles running back that kind

of was Westbrook actually was was a Deuce Staley. Yeah, Douce Staley was the Douce Staley was more of a physical Yeah, but he could catch the ball too right, he could. He wasn't as good as what Westbrook was a guy. Yet when they got Westbrook in there, then all of a sudden, that ability to throw screen passes the way that Kansas City could very well control your rushes say, Okay, we're gonna throw screens all day. We're

gonna make you have to defend screens. You know, we saw what happened in the the other day in the Washington game. What happened they got a screen that went out the left side there for a big, chunky yards. You know, if your linebackers aren't getting over that, Chris Thompson Thompson R. Thompson called like an eighteen yard screen going to the left. It's kind of early running back in the NFL. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I just if you don't play things well, teams will say, oh,

let's see if you can cover these screens. Let's see if you can get over there. I mean, sometimes you get them in man coverage and Shaun Lee, you know, goes over and breaks things up. And then other times it's like, oh my gosh, to drop the back coming in the flat and here he goes up the sidelines. I think, Yeah, the passing game is where he can

still always have an impact. But to your point, I mean, the most impressive thing to me about Zeke the last year and a half is team start keying on him and loading up the box and he's still productive and an offensive line is still productive. And we saw Kareem Hunt. I don't know if they're keying on him a little more, but he didn't have that one hundred yard all purpose yard game this past week. So you know, are we've

seen Denver take people out of games. Yeah, I mean, you know, team's gonna adjust and see why this guy is. You have to focus your defensive game plan around him. So how does he respond? But he does have that versatility to still leak out get plays in the passing game on you. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, let's get into the inactives for the Cowboys. This is what I believe to be the seven guys that will be down for the Cowboys. Of course, guys me if I'm wrong at the end,

but let's get through him all right. Eighty nine I'm saying Blake Jarwin is inactive ninety six MALIEK. Collins. That's kind of a surprising when you get to Justin Durant, the linebacker, cheetom, Dan Bailey, the obvious one there, twenty Darren McFadden and seventy five Byron Bell. Yeah, so of course, Yeah, MALIEK. Collins, I assumed he would be down after I've seen, you know, the up and down of his practice week, especially not

being there on a Friday. What if he what if he's ready to go, If he's ready to go, That's that's where we have host down. I think I think, Tay, I think you've got three. Tay, I think you've got I think you've got six of the seven. I really really do. I think the one that we have the question on Mickey just asked, was MALIEK. Collins. They made me trying just to get him to Sunday. Yeah, that that could be. That could be very well it But

I if you did you go fifty to fifty three three? Yeah, fifty to me, this is where it comes down to Justin Marshall, Yeah, it comes down. Yeah, here we are. I get in trouble just saying numbers. Sorry about that, but yeah, if it's if it's March Lillard or I think that there. I think that that Noah Brown is one of these guys they rely on on special teams now, So to me, it's always like, Okay, well, who Noah Brown or March Lillard Marshall Lillard played two seasons for

the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, or what about ash see if yeah? Yeah, I don't, I don't think so. I mean, I I think this is gonna be one of those things. We get to the field report on Sunday and Tay's gonna tell me the inactives are and then we'll see what happens with with Malie Collins. But I think I think you've got six of the seven right now, with fifty three being March Lillard as being the potential with Collins just Kyle Wilbur on this injury report this week. No, no,

he's not. If he's good to go, then my guests would be, you keep Noah Brown up if if Malik can go, and and you you go a little lighter at Lightemacker, Well, who did they who did they put in there for Irving at the three when they went to their second line this last game, Like when Irving came out, I don't remember seeing it, and I know he didn't play every play, No, because they would use price in ash. No, it was Collins. Collins, Yeah, Collins, yeah, exactly,

exactly exactly, Yeah, that's how they played it. Yeah, all right, well then that's easy as it is now. The one that I was also concerned about was Darren McFadden. You know, if they were putting Morris as the potential starter for this weekend looking at more or McFadden as the second back, would he then be active this week A lot of people are saying, play all all the running backs this weekend. I just don't think that will happen. For I don't think it will happen. I would say twenty as an

active Like why keeping Rod Smith up? Because if everything he gives you on special team? So yeah, I think you would probably be sas quo the way it's been for seven games. Yeah, if you if you if, if you're you would not trust four running backs plus the two plus the fullback. I just think that's asking too much. I mean, we talk about how many cares just Morse getting a game anyway, you know, and then on Thursday he had eighteen and game thirteen. Yeah, so that doesn't

make a lot of sense to play it. Just keep playing the way you're playing with these running backs, and then and then when we get to the point where we run out of court stuff, then we'll then you just will that ever happen? Though, I don't know. Yeah, it may never end, you know, because then if it goes, you're right next week then you're looking at the Christmas Eve game for his return, which would be the Seahawks. Yeah. I'll tell you one thing I got. I got my

midst incredible. They get I get my mean nasty running back back. I was asking for one. You got him. Yeah, I want. I wanted a mean, nasty running back and I got him back. And the players know it too. How excited the juice the guys, the reaction to it. I mean, they love all these backs, but I mean

Zeke is special about it. From back is different. I was talking to someone randomly around this building and they're closer to the team than I am, and you know, they were asking me, are you concerned about this game and this weekend? I was like, yeah, I have no Zeke And they're like, I think some of these players are a little bit ready to show everyone that it's not just Zeke who could win this football game. Yeah.

I hope so, especially you know, when you have somebody who's leading the league in sacks, you know, a defense that's finally showing up, like, hey, we can be a difference maker in a football game. Tyrone Crawford Special Teams Player of the Week, and he just told me first to forty wins it maybe sometimes it's not what we think it's gonna be. Well, I'm not saying it's gonna be in the teams, but I'll say it again, this is the game we find out if this defense is

for real or not. I played a run defense for sure. Yeah, we'll find out. Yeah. I think they're gonna give up some big plays in the secondary. Myself, I just I just don't see him. I just don't see him completely

covering all the weapons that the Chiefs have. I'd just be ready for a big play, a big play, a big play, and then hope, like hell, you get those two stops I asked you, then and then you somehow get ten points, fourteen points, many four point place here, you know what you hope four point play if you get if you get beat on a play like that, you physically got beat, right, somebody didn't bust an assignment

and let Tarik hill run down the hash uncovered. Yeah, you know we've seen Oh I thought we were in zone now No, you was your man. You know one of those things you know covered the guy make sure you don't bust the coverage. Yeah, that's what That's what I think you would hope for. Let's take our final break here in the s to BBC Mortgage studio. We'll be back. You guys can call us the numbers two and four eight seven two twenty one O two. We'll have Rob's Twitter poll right when we get back from

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so good. I feel sorry for your blood pressure because you go from a rant to literally you flip a switch in two seconds and you're reading that and it was a great liner. Hey, it's showtime, showtime put on for the city, Robert, get to your Twitter pole. Yo. Okay, most important key Sunday versus Kansas City. What's the biggest factor for Dallas to get a win. We've talked about a lot of them this week. I've got four. Oh, we got four right ends well for you, Mickey five? Yeah, absolutely,

stop the run. Number one two, pressure Alex Smith. Brian's been talking about, keep him in the pocket, make him hold the ball, Yes, make him hold that ball, keep him in the well. Marionelli say number three, this was posted yesterday. Keep the running game going. That was with Zeke not in mind. You got to keep the running game going. Yeah, I'm with you. Or red zone score focusing on those four point plays. Brian talked about it, well, red zone, thirty yard line, inside the thirty or twenty

guys got a number one. I know what's tying? I voted for? Who'd you vote for? Red zone scoring? Okay. One of the best teams in the league when it comes to it comes to third down conversions. Opponents have only been able to convert nine percent of the time. That's a great stat on third down. Yeah, when nigget inside the red zone. So Cowboys has done a nice show you. The Cowboys are at forty seven percent on those conversions. So keep keep finding a way to convert

on third downs. Get in the red zone. There, I can say convert and finish those drives with scores four point plays. Miss stern I said red zone as well, But I also feel like you have to look at their side two. They have one of the best red zone tight ends in Travis Kelsey. You know that most likely he's going to get that when they're down there at the goal line. So yeah, I'd love to see this defense Shoup. I mean, they were able to hold

a lot of teams to just field goals. I'd love to see them get some turnovers in the end zone. They've able to do that in the past. And the other thing I worry about is them just picking on Anthony Brown. Can't give up those big plays down the field. I'll go with stop the run, and that's been a key for this team. When they haven't done it, they've lost games. And Marinelli spoke about it yesterday. Coach Rod

how they're exotic in their looks. They throw a lot of different personnel packers at you to try to kind of throw you off a little bit, but ultimately they want to pound the rock. They want to run the ball and play off of that. So they've got to be able to be physical and stop that. Who you got, mick, stop the run? All right? But I do have a write in vote. Oh here we go. Gas. Do not, absolutely do not turn the ball over. That's good. They

are a plus ten plus ten. Yeah, they don't make mistakes and that's probably what saved this defense that's ranked thirtieth in the league. They get takeaways yea, which prevents teams from scoring. Cannot turn the ball, Zeke, don't fumble on your first this week. You know, I get you're out there, you're excited, but not this week. Can't have it. Don't muff a punt, don't have a drop pass, get intercepted and returned for a touchdown. None of that stuff.

If you didn't know, goofies, if you didn't have the rite in. When you're saying the run defense, run deep, you got to stop the run. Yeah, but my ride in would be that one well run defense wins this one of the closest polls, we've had twenty nine percent, stop the run, twenty five percent, pressure alex twenty eight percent, keep the run game going, and red zone scoring got eighteen percent. So it was all indus. They're all important. All I know is I know you better just keep scoring. Yeah,

keep scoring. Put as much pressure on them two stops and keep scoring. That's all I need. I wonder if the Chiefs will get held or called for holding calls this weekend because nobody else does. Nobody else does. Let's see the Cowboys, you know, Tyrn Smith will just be doing his job and we get called. They get called for holding on touchdowns, not they us, the Cowboys. Yeah, we should do a poll. That's what it is like.

And you get you get a whole appealing on a touchdown a four point play in that game, right because they end up kicking a field goal. Absolutely, Yeah, maybe we'll do a poll. That's the toughest thing to define a catch or holding in the NFL. Butler, the Brice Butler, Fenel, I'll tell you what happens more often is trying to figure out what holding is. You know, every once in a while you get to catch thing. Maybe once or twice a game majority of holding or a key playoff game. Yeah,

but how many times you get holding a game? About five for both teams. Football lifers like Brian will tell you. I mean, you can call holding on every single player. I'll tell you what. That's why I thought when Tyrant Smith's hands get inside like that, there's just a quality block for me because I see that every day watching take Now, I understand when they get outside and you're trying to hook guys, I get that. Like, yeah, call that Frederick point a few weeks ago that was maybe questionable.

But if your hands are inside, in your hands are inside, you're you're driving a guy. Tyren Smith is so strong when he drives a guy, it makes it look bad. It makes a guy that, I mean, it looks I mean the guys flop. That's what I'm getting ready to say. Yeah, it's like we're turning in the soccer. Oh god, I just got any flopping. Yeah that again, Mick, that's ridiculous. And those guys get paid. They seed enough football to be able to tell the difference between a darned flop

and getting held in and grabbed. And the other thing is you got the guy blocked and he turns around to run after him, and he's acting like you're holding him from behind. Well, why had you? You just bailed out? You know they they see things too late, you know, see it. Don't react you turn in, look and go, oh look what's going on there? No, it's been going on. Watch the thing. In your next life. You're going to come back as an NFL. I am, yes, you are.

You know what a lot of money. And at the the last day at fifth grade, the teacher would have roused the room and predicted what everybody was going to become. I said you were a pizza maker. No, she said, I was going to be an official and a referee. Well you're always you're always arguing. Probably he likes the power of being This is this, I'm right. I was the guy that was fair when we played softball. Fair.

I didn't know. I'm telling you I would have done that if I didn't end up with the job I did. I had to work on weekends. Yeah, I couldn't. You know, what would you referee basketball? I'd love to do basketball? Yeah? I could see you being like everybody hating you like they do em. Yea, the officials like oh, we got Spagnola again. I didn't never heard like when they have the finals. Yeah, they always complain who the official? It was the guy that used to see everybody up? Was

it Joey Crawford? You're the Joey cross up. I just argued with you, maybe you could have been the ref for the Utah Jazz because our caller, Johnny is from Salt Lake City and he can watched you. Then, Hey, guys, how are you doing? How about that? Hell are you pass that? They just converted about that? Ezekiel Elliott back on the field. It's a good Friday. It's a good Friday. I'm just excited to have him back on the field. I think just increase their chances of winning. And I

can't wait to see this game. It's a possible Super Bowl you know, appearance both of these teams. So I just want to hear your take on that. Thanks guys, thank you. Super Bowl run. I got some hard teams down. It's a little early for that. I can't. I can't

say that but not yet. But um, I was looking up and I know it's stat related, but when you have a quarterback that's playing as well as Alex Smith in terms of passer rating in the history of this league, like he's it's it's in the top ten that he's at in NFL history right now for a season and a lot of those guys went to the Super Bowl.

So Kansas City's playing championship type football right now. Let me ask you this great test, he said yesterday, I think you said this team would be seven to one, right, they should be. If it was seven to one, would you feel differently then? Yeah, like if the defense was Because the quality of the team team right now is

not matching the record. Okay, let me ask you my opinion is if you had the defense from last year and you have the record of four and three, but the defense from last year that I trusted, yeah, would you feel like this was a Super Bowl? Yeah? Yeah, well I think I mean, there's there's more youth on this defense than there was last year. And but we've said all along, you get to December and you're still in it, guys will be better than they were in

sept Hope. Yeah, hope. They were a super Bowl team last year, they just didn't make it. Yeah, they were that quality of team. Yeah, the defense is holding you back in your mind? Is yep. What if Zeke gets suspended six games? That hold you back even more. That's where my reservation a little bit? Is this a little bit? And yes, a little bit of a lot well the defense, But say then the defense has to become a bigger factor in everything to win games. Yeah, can't can't say Okay,

I'm gonna win thirty five thirty. You know you're not going to do that every week. So that's why I'm saying, this game right now is going to be the barometer going forward. So if you get and you'll read it tonight in my column, what if? What if? What if Dallas loses this game? What if this Dallas? Is this this game twenty eight to twenty four? Do you feel like the defense did their job? Courage? Then yes? But no, But I'm saying, would you say, you know what, defense

did everything eight? If you'd have said twenty four, twenty, then I would okay, absolutely, yeah, twel Okay they kick a field goal to win at twenty one. Yeah, then you say, are about the def defense did enough to win this game and offense let them down? Yeah, because they offense things that nobody ever said. The offense has gotta gotta do its deal? Just like last year? Right? Why were they winning most of those games? The offense was averaging until they punted the last game of the season.

They were at like twenty seven points a game. Eight. Hey just said something really important. How's the kick time to go? How's the kicker going to continue to kick? Because I can only worry about so many Well, I'm just telling you. You know you got four point placed. Let's not worry about anything else. Score touchdowns? Can you just score touchdowns? Nugent was really good last week, but it's week to week with kickers. I mean, we take Dan. I'm just saying, wet blanket here we go close games.

That's me. I'm wet. I'm not trying to be wet blanket mine. I'm just saying, you gotta in these close games clutch kicks. He's got to continue to be consistent. And you know, it was a good starting. It's a good point. But I also think field position will be a big thing. Even making thirty three yard extra points. That's what got him fired the first time. I know it's for some reason. It's in the back of my mind. Right. Not a big guy, is He's not. He's a lot

shorter than I expect. He's a skinny me, skinny button, good old skinny butt, Mike Nugent, I'll tell him that. At lunch man well, three weeks ago, we're sitting here talking about the Packers loss, and Mickey was very about the play of the game being the Ryan Switzer punt. Yeah, you know, the muff punt Ryan Switzer. Back at at and T Stadium this weekend. Oh, that was the Rams game. That's a ram Ram Rams Rams. I apologize, no, no problem, Yeah, readers,

where you're going? Yeah, go ahead. The interception was the the bad one to pack. Yeah, yeah, Ryan Switzer, don't do that. Yeah, we got give him good field position for the offense to be in a better go about. Yeah, he's just gotta make sure he catches the ball and there won't be any wind or rained in his face. Was he tracking it poorly? Though? The other day? What was up with that? Looked like me out there, the ones that were circus tent over, the ones that were short,

he should have gone up and kill it. The one that went over his head, I can excuse it. The wind was conceptive, you could tell from your press box. Yes, because we're underneath making what's the time on the clock? Is the game over yet? I don't know. I got that question one more time, but you couldn't if you're literally the press box. Oh, I been here. That's why. That's why I'm so glad I don't sit it on the TV. And I'm like her that that was my seat. I'm so glad I don't go with you see any

one of these deals. When they go to third down and they take away the down and distance and time on the board, you can't see it. Yeah, it flashes third down, right, something to address in the offseason. I think that's why I address the food that keeps my part. It did my TV on or my computer on with the TV broadcast that I got yelled at there for doing that because I was taken up too much bandwidth. Let it go where it's press box in Washington. Yeah,

tell them that. You know what? So I'm found Sam played about my seat. Yeah, and he goes, next time you're here, why don't you complain to Tony Wiley you'll get a better seat. I go, okay, I'll get on that. Yeah, let's get our rank. Thems in rob do it. I hadn't thought about it. No, hell, oh, I thought you didn't need to do that. Rank. You're same guy every week as well, the law as well. Okay, Mick, we got you down. This is not even fun. Okay, well that's what Nate did to us, and it wasn't It

wasn't fun. So yeah, you don't get law. Yeah, I mean yeah, no, just goes go somebody around and I'll pick somebody. You go, Bran, I'll go ahead. Take Seriously, I knew you to think about this one from Dak Prescott. Whoa Dak Prescott. It's going to be like, Okay, Dan Mullen, No, you loved Alex. I wasn't in your wedding. You're already married by the time, but I should be in all of your weddings. Everyone like, oh, line, you guys are

going to love Dak Prescott this weekend. I think he is obviously been preparing for son Zeke, so he's got a lot on his plate. Hopefully Zeke kind of helps that so he can just show up and just go out. I'm gonna go with David Irving and he was great yesterday in the locker room talking about his journey. Came from Chiefs practice squads that he owes them a lot. He don't know where he would be if they didn't

take a chance on him initially. I think, you know, it's gonna be a big game for him, and it's important for him to get going because if you're gonna limit big plays down the field, they've got to get some pressure on Alex Smith. I'll go with David Irving Byron Jones, Byron Jones, you know, And I don't think it's all gonna be Byron Jones taking Travis Kelsey. But every time that Byron Jones is on Travis Kelsey, make it as hard as you can for him to catch

the football. I'll be okay with some past interferences because I think officials sometimes they give it to us, sometimes they don't. So be aggressive, stay aggressive, battle your battle your rear off to try and make a limit as many big plays as you can there. Maybe they can handle things with Hill, you know, maybe. I mean he's like a sixty percent catcher. Travis Kelsey is a higher catcher than in most So I battle your rear off,

Byron Jones and do some good. Okay, So we said Dak David Irving Byron Jones, Mickey Specnola and Des Bryant. There you go, Ben demand Bryant, whose birthday is common Row, Yeah, common right now try to pick a one bee and it's gonna sound really strange. Cole Beasley, I know he's coming off the concussion stuff, but they need to get him going. And you know what they I mean, we've saw some stuff with with Ryan Switcher playing some offensive snaps,

but they need to get Cole Beesley. This could be a game where a four or five catch Cole Beasley day all of a sudden, keeps change moving all of a sudden. It's not you. It maybe Dez covered up and we'll be done. Get open on the play. Wittens. They're taking Witt out. You know, watch watch Cole Beasley in this football game a little bit. I know he had that. I could say the concussion stuff, but keep an eye on this one like that. We can't say Tony Romoka. They'll be in the broadcast booth. Oh sure,

I'll have a good broadcast. He will. He had a great broader. If we're calling out plays, I heard more than one. Lynn Han said that Dak said that in these production meetings this week, they're gonna tell him, Hey, just kind of don't don't give away any secrets on us, don't don't put us in that. I was working last night, so I was listening with one year. Was he doing it last night? And he did, Yeah, he's doing this

at MetLife Stadium last night. And it was pretty funny because Jim Nance goes, oh, you know, we're going to Dallas this weekend and he goes, oh, yeah, we are. And Nance was like, well, you'll have a great outpouring for He goes, yeah, I have good relationships in Dallas, my wife and kids. I'm wondering, I'm wondering, Uh, do they allow the coaches in the box like to have a TV broadcast and listen to the game. I'm sure

they do. I'm sure somebody to be listening. Although it doesn't matter adopt by time they commune to snap it, it's like it's too late, the TV's on. A where he could where he could kind of kind of be insightful for the fans, is that they get in a two minute situation and he says, oh, and they have a time out. He could kind of say okay, hey, their thought process here is to try and get the ball here and then trying. You know he can, he's

been good at that this season. Well, he could say, okay, this is because he talked about the Raider I think it was the Raider Chief game. He was saying, this is where the Raiders need to attack. It's too deep. They need to put the ball right here. So he could offer some insight of where Scott maybe with play calling would be more aggressive, not aggressive, where he might thinking about attacking just looking at you know, he's seeing Kansas City play a lot, so he understands what they

do defensively. So it's as I mean, you can mike me up. I'll tell you what they're doing in two minute. Yeah, first play, they're going to hand off to Zeke. The second play, it's going to be a past to Witton. Third down, they're down there, already got a first down. Okay, so now we're moving the ball. We're moving the ball, and now we can throw the ball around because we're up about the thirty five or forty yards. I'm thinking about the the ball inside to Jason, inside to dos

Brian for a big play too. Yeah, I'm thinking about well, thank you guys. Hey, we got this thing covered. Roma'm gonna be here today. You think, is they coming in to do interview? I'm sure you'll wear his ass out. I will, all right. Well, thank you listening to us all week as it needs to be on the Legend Show. Happy birthday to Ken Garrison. Our thinking of him, and we will be back on Monday. Stay changed to the AT and T commercial coming up next. Hi everyone, I'm

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