Talkin' Cowboys: Who Wins Round 2?

with your Chest Wednesday? Because normally we would have you know, I say it with EA Chess Thursday or Friday. But some of you might be thinking, why is it a say It with EA Chess Wednesday? Because the game is still on Sunday. But we don't actually have a Talking Cowboys tomorrow. We have separated kind of joint podcast with

the holidays coming up. So this is the last Talking Cowboys of the week, which is unfortunate because I'm excited to talk with you guys about this Philadelphia and Cowboys game, which we're gonna preview here over the next forty five minutes. But heck Mo Harrison Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back with you. I'm Kyle Yeomans and well, guys, we do have a lot to get to whenever it comes to this Cowboys

Eagles game. But first I just want to talk about how I'm sitting in a different chair because apparently somebody broke that microphone over there, and we have suspicions as to who broke this microphone. Rob, would you like a lot of cameras at that room? Kyle? Yeah, would you like to enlighten the world on your friend who might have broken the microphone? Could it be an older gentleman that used to uh kind of a flagship member of

the show back in the day. I think possibly, Yeah, that's the spial Ms. It's the suspicion that somebody broke the microphone. Chris is not happy back there. No, No, he's not. I doubt it's I think there's probably just something going on. But hey, if he broke it, and we'll just give him a lot more flak for breaking it later on. But uh, yeah, he's he's named after a Disney character, um and a very famous one. Maybe I don't know if that's actually what he's named after.

He might be named after a famous baseball player that last named Mantle. But we'll see I might actually have that conversation with him. Yes, heckma, I'm just nothing man. He's after famous Disney character. It's just like, God, well, good morning morning, everybody loving the all black you got going on? Dark Night over there? Yeah, I probably need to take it off. It's kind of hot in this studio. But hey, what's that? I mean? I feel like we're

one today, you know, because we're both wearing all black. Okay, that's fair. Okay, so let's go ahead and get into this Cowboys Eagles matchup because I feel like this conversation is going nowhere. But uh, Rob, whenever we wanted, hey, we wanted to talk about something else, but we only have one more show, so we couldn't. I don't know if we can pack in everything that we want to talk about. I know that it's kind of the sad part. Now we'll put it in the say it with Chess

Wednesday coming up later in the show. But whenever it comes to this Cowboys Eagles matchup, usually we'll break it up. But we're gonna go Cowboys ZO versus Eagles d In the second segment, but right now we're gonna look at this Cowboys or this Eagles offense and versus the Cowboys defense.

And uh Isaiah, I know you had talked in film room yesterday and you've talked throughout the week about Jalen Hurtz and the pressure that he's gonna put on this Cowboys d fence to get things right the first time. How important is it for this Cowboys team to kind of find a rhythm whenever it comes to reading the football out of the backfield with Jalen Hurts because he present presents a threat with his legs, but all of a sudden he can turn around and he can throw

the rock as well. Yeah, we have to be strongest where we haven't been very strong this year, and an incidant It comes into form being disciplined. We haven't been very disciplined this year, and I think against this quarterbacks he's a smart dude. Man, he's a smart dude anyway. You know, we did allude to the fact that he has obviously that go juice. He's strongest. Crap. I don't remember if everybody I don't know if everybody remembers that

he's a pretty strong fellow. He used to be a powerlifter, so he likes the weight room and they don't have a problem running his own reading with him and coming downhill. But more than anything, I think right now, he's probably more dangerous as a passer. He has it, he has his weapons, he has his tight ends that he loves to get the ball to, and who typically sticks tight ends safeties and linebackers. Yeah, so there's not not our strongest part of our of our of our defense that

has to guard these guys. Um, he's a problem. Man, He's a problem. And I just think more than anything, we're just disciplined of guys continue to be where they're supposed to be. But I think we'll have a we'll have a fighting chance, but we're gonna have to be at our a game now. I want to tell all of us, everybody, man, y'all need to go and watch this film study with Kyle and Isaiah's excellent and just drawing up what the challenges will be for the Cowboys defense.

And Isaiah, you're absolutely right about this about Jalen Hurts, and you know, so many things come to mind when you talk about a mobile quarterback, and you know, I'm just having those Lamar Jackson flashbacks and when we were playing in Baltimore, and you know, those coverage busts that we had are just up front and letting him run for forty yards for a touchdown. We can't have those miscues because his strength, one of his strengths is his leg. But the difference is from him in a lot of

guys is he has an arm. And so a lot of teams like to say, when you have an athletic quarterback, you want to approach, you know, have take zone coverage right because have him throw into a zone. Well, he likes the zone coverage and he's very comfortable when when you are in zone. So if you try and go man to man versus him, which is a big time no no. With an athletic quarterback, he does a read option and with your cornerbacks have their back turn, he

just runs by guys. So we have a challenge. And I think that one of the things that should give Cowboy fans, you know, comfort is the fact that defensively, we've gotten some of our miscues that we had in the past together in this communication and you you circled at it and talked about that in film study as well. Just simple things like passing off receivers when you have when they go to bunch coverages, and you know that the Eagles are going to present those challenges for our defense.

So this is gonna be This is gonna be your classic NFC East, Right. I have a ree game, man, I'm looking forward to this one. Man. Yeah, I know it's been two games, and I know there's probably some fans out there that are skeptical of Jalen Hurts. Can he keep this up? Yeah? He can keep it up. I fully expect him. I fully expect him to be the Eagles quarterback next year based on what I've seen, like just watching him for these two games. He looks

like a pro. He looks like a vet and that is probably a credit to the programs he's played in and just you know, his poise as a player. But you guys kind of hit on it. He's got a couple of things working for him. He's got you know, he's got some guys healthy back on offense, and they are really dangerous in terms of their just overall speed. You know, you guys mentioned he's got an arm. He can make throws, no question, But they're also putting him

in some good spots. You know, they'll they'll run a lot of screens with rayger Quez, Watkins took took a simple screen to the house thirty two yards out against Arizona last week with an all out blitz. That beat you that way. They have good tight ends. Um, they And that's like kind of what Isaiah heck you guys spoke about it. That's that worries me in this matchup because of what they can do to you in space with some of their some of their skill guys. Miles

Uh Sanders, I'm sorry. Yeah, Sanders has really stepped up his production lately. He's got some weapons around him, but he is just so poised back there. And and you throw in the zone read with it. Man. They can beat you in a lot of different ways, like the way they're playing offensively right now. Um, that's that's gonna be a huge challenge for for Dallas, for anybody right now. And Rob you and I wrote about this on Dallas

Cowboys dot Com yesterday in our big Picture article. But things changed between Week eight and now for both teams. I mean, the first matchup was going to be completely different than what we're gonna see coming up. Here on Sunday. I mean not even close really, because one, you look at Bend Nucci, a quarterback for the Cowboys, didn't have

Zach Martin in that game. Either, But you also, uh were basically down to your final count whenever it comes to an offensive line, and you saw that throughout then on Philadelphia's side, they had the majority of their offensive line, but they didn't have Miles Sanders. So the Cowboys haven't had to face Miles Sanders yet. And when you talk about the lack of run defense that the Cowboys have

shown this season, that's scary. I mean, that's something that the Cowboys ultimately are going to have to deal with coming up on Sunday for the first time. So there are a lot of changes, But Rob, when you look at the differences between Weekgate and coming up on Sunday, which one sticks out to you the most as the biggest challenge for the Cowboys on either side of the football, but most specifically on the defensive side for the Cowboys defense. Yeah,

Cowboys defense. I pitched that the wrong No, that's okay. I think Isaiah hit on it right off the top. I mean, I think what they've struggled with is what the Eagles do well and what they're really clicking on right now. And the Cowboys, you know, I'm not trying to, you know, throw a wet blanket over what they've done the last couple of games, because man, it's I mean, seven takeaways is huge. Everybody's been begging them for them to do. And you score forty one points off of that,

that's how you win games. But they're still leaking yardage, they're still having the trouble stopping the run, and so you know that, you know, if there's no latent Vanderesh, whether he's in or not, that's gonna be a huge challenge for the linebackers to be ready for some of the things they want to do. Get the ball into into guy's hands and let them go run and make plays. Like the linebackers are going to be challenged latterly. And that to me hurts too. Just being a more accurate quarterback.

You know, Carson Wentz in that first meeting and this is the reason why he's not playing right now, just not accurate, just can't make simple throws. Jalen Hurts is making simple throws and he's making tough throws too. He's playing really really well so far. Yeah, I just go back to that last game last year when we had the title on the line in Philly and trying to have you know, Sean Lee cover Zach ernts down the scene. It's just it was a nightmare. And here we are again.

It's like days Ja Vu all over again. Lady vander esh is hurt. And who's gonna be in that linebacker? I know we have a Joe Thomas or Sean Lee, but I think maybe they'll go with Sean Lee. But that's a nightmare matchup for us. And I think of all the matchups that you can you can look at on paper, that's the one that you really have that's gonna keep these defensive coaches up at night because of what Zach Ernst can do us in that defense. We've suffered.

We've we've suffered the tight ends all season, not only the run. I mean, even though those times that we've shut down the run, it's been the tight end that has really been our Achilles hill. And anytime any team sees us with our linebackers on their athletic tight ends, that's that's their focal point. He say that, say that tight ends name again zach ertz ERTs, Okay, I thought there was an end in there. I thought you were saying Ernst ERNs. But I'm sorry. I just also, man,

you know what I'm saying, changing shirts. I just wanted to I wanted to make sure that that's all it was. I say, what do you think is the biggest challenge for this cowboy's defense. I'm gonna go with the You you mentioned a rough draft, right, Uh? You mentioned you mentioned you know that the first time we played in And I look at that as like a rough drat. I like you like you write you Yeah, you know,

you write your you write your little story. You know, you have your essay and you look at it and you're like, yeah, no, that's not it. You ball it up and you just rewrite the whole story. And that's exactly what's gonna happen this time. We play them. Two totally different teams, two totally different teams, two totally different energies. Um, coming into this game, you know they have they they're running. They're running off a hurt. I'm sorry, you got me over.

They're messing up now, heck, rolling off they have to. They have a new found energy on the offensive side of the ball right with Jalen Hurts, and then we have a new found energy UM with our defense. And it's like these two these these two team, two teams coming together um and being dominant in two areas in which they weren't dominant and when the first time we met. So I'm looking forward to seeing that matchup. I don't like how we match up against them defensively, I just don't.

I think that we're at a disadvantage with those matchups. However, on the flip side of things, if we could bring the physicality to the game, I do. I do like the fact I like our our odds on the offensive side for us. So it's really gonna come down to which team decides to show up and play some defense. That's that's that's who's gonna win the game. And I know that sounds pretty cliche, but that's really the truth of the matter. I don't I don't think that either

team can really stop each other. UM. So the team that does stop anybody, they're probably gonna win. We'll talk about the Philadelphia defense here in a second, but I think there's a better chance that the Philadelphia defense stops the Cowboys offense than the Cowboys defense stopping the Philly offense. And I really think this is this is where and we'll talk about it here in a little bit, but I want to stick on this real fast. Heckmon, but and we'll actually come to you. I want to come

to you with this question. But whenever it looking at this, this Cowboys defense and up against this Philadelphia offense, this is where the game's gonna be won, right, I mean, this is where your defense has to win you another game. They did it last week against San Francisco. I mean your offense was pitter pattering, but I mean they took advantage of turnovers. Twenty four or forty one points came off of turnovers. Your defense is gonna have to win

you this game for the second straight week. Do you trust them to do that? ACMA, I do. And the reason I trusted is the way that Tank Lawrence is playing. And you talked about Isaiah and film study right getting home, Guys getting home, and when you get home, what you do it create those turnovers. You know, not only Isaiah, but Rob has talked about the turnover differential and those are just things that makes the game so much easier for your offense when your defense can put you in

a position to have a short field. We've seen how that work for us in Cincinnati and also in our game last week. Look, let's just make it. Let's repeat that. Let's have let's let's have our guys jump passes like you know Donald did last week, Anthony Brown did. Those turnovers make the game so much easier for us. And if at some point in the game our running game or passing game isn't working, presenting our offense with a short field is definitely gonna give us a leg up.

You know, to not only tank Lawrence, Randy Gregory, all of our guys up front have got to be aggressive in getting after Jalen Hurts. We have to be careful with him not to blitz him a whole lot, and we hadn't blitzed a whole lot anyway this year because what he'll do is just step up in the pocket and be gone. So we have to switch our defenses, defensive coverages up blitz him sometime in those zone blitz games. But we can't just sit back and wait and let

this rookie quarterback and his coach pick us apart. Rob Yeah, and he's not Yeah, he's hurts is not making dangerous. You know, I don't know if the Cowboys can count on what Nick Mullins did just kind of serving it up a couple of times a game, uh last last Sunday. Now he did put the ball on the ground I think three times against Arizona, and and that's you know that that's gonna come with uh running him and running

that zone read. But uh, you know, the Cowboys, what they've tried to do and forcing takeaways has been big. But it's got to be more than that, you know, because like I mentioned the yardage, they can't continue to leak yardage and seventy five yard drives like San Francisco had. That just that just can't happen. Um, And you know, just bail yourself out on takeaways that way, because I see a rookie quarterback who's who's pretty poised back there. Yeah. No,

I mean you guys are saying it. I don't feel good about our DEFENSI gives his office. I just don't. I think I think we have to force some kind of turnover. End is probably gonna come into form of forcing a fumble. You know, there's if there is a weak point and Jalen hurts is he doesn't, you know, protect the ball that will so you know, whenever you do have our opportunity to come up and get get a hit on him, make a count, make a count.

I don't suggest that we blitz. Also, don't suggest that we just sit back and let these guys run routes all day long on us. So, um, what what's what's in between that? Well, in between that is getting up and pressing these guys, pressing these receivers at the line of scrimmage, getting up and walking us safety or a linebacker over their tight ends, making it hard for them to get a get a clean release. And then hey, tell your front seven get home, get there. We need

you to get there. We can't sit back here and cover these guys all day. That's just being real. And with tanks motor, you do feel like he can wreck the game on a single player like he did, you know, forcing a fumble order, Yeah, making something happen like he's he's got to be the X factor that I could see that too, Yeah, and an X I'm looking for Joe Thomas. I know nobody, I know everybody sawing about Shaun Lee and talking about vander esh and I know

a lot of people like Joe Thomas. I felt like he did a really good job when he was in there early in the year, and I think that we're gonna need his athleticism in this game. I truly think we're gonna need his athleticism. We need Jalen, We need Jalen Our Jalen uh to play well, to play discipline. But both of those guys together with their athleticism, I think they can cause some problems if they're playing discipline football. And we've talked about it on a couple of occasions

this season. There are quarterbacks that you play along the way that are going to give you opportunities to take over a game. Kyler Murray, we said that earlier. He didn't necessarily do that. We said it about Carson Wentz later on, he did do that. He gave you some opportunities here and there. The same thing with Kirk Cousins in Minnesota. He gave you opportunities. That's the same thing

with Jalen Hurts. It was the same when he was at Oklahoma, even before that, when he was at Alabama, there were going to be certain points in the game where he will give you a shot at trying to convert. But whether or not you convert is going to be the difference in a win and the difference in a loss. And it's certainly he's going to be that case coming up on Sunday. But when we come back here on

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Rob previously to getting on. It wasn't about my hair, right, Well, Isaiah brought it up, but I'm all for talking about it. Let's talk. Isaiah brought it up. So it was the selor lenses that allowed you to see that that post. I simply saw your post that you retweet it, and I acknowledge the fact that you and Hecma have come a long way. There were some things that were disturbing

in that picture and slash video. There were just some things that I that you seemingly have changed since then, and that's called evolution, and I am proud of you, Like what is that? Just to make sure, just just don't be so vague, I feel like details, yes, yes, yes, just okay, so we're doing this, okay. So, um, there were there there was a there was a condition called

tightest pantses um that that goes on. Oh, this isn't the this isn't the one sign, this is the this is the hail Mary, this is the yeah, the hall Mary's been a lot of questionable things. Yes, I yeah. You didn't want you to bury it deep down aside and never bring it up again. Uh. So you and Heckma had the tightest pances condition and then you had um uh you had also a hair condition called umber dumber. Um it was dumb and dumber, and some people frame

it that way. There was a character by the name of Lloyd. I mean you favored him in that particular, but but in true Kyle Fashion, you came back and totally redeemed yourself. Thanks, Thank goodness. You can go find this heads are fallen off? Oh god, you can go find it on my Twitter at Kyle Underscore Yeoman's it's a. It's a two years ago, the tightest pants two years ago.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Hail Mary Um from the Galena Park North Shore against Duncanville, and I put up a video and I guess my pants were too fun, too tight. At that point, we were sitting on stools. Give me a break, Give me a break. I hadn't worked out. That's fine. We're gonna move past. Yeah, okay,

so it's fine. It's fine. So going into Sunday's matchup, we've already talked about this Cowboys defense in the tough task against this Eagles offense, but flipping it on the other side of the football, I'm worried about this offensive line, gentleman, and I need you to talk me down, Rob Phillips. I need I need Rob dadre P Island to come back and tell me exactly why that this Cowboys offensive line can have some success, because they have the last

two weeks, they've kept Andy Dalton upright. Against Cincinnati doesn't really scare me, and against San Francisco scares me a little bit. But they also struggled at times in that football game. But why can they have success against this Philly pass rush. So you're saying it's a little bit different with Fletcher Cox and Brandon Graham, Nny Curry and yeah, keep going. I mean they're all good. It's a lot it's a lot different. Yeah, Barnett, Yeah, keep yeah, Nick, Barnett,

keep going. Um, if there's a silver lining, it's that they have found some continuity on their offensive line. They've had the same starting five for three games, I think going on four now. And look, I mean, like I said last week, I'd like to see Tyler Bandish back at center, but they decided, you know, let's stick with the group that's been working that Andy Dalton has worked with. And yeah, to your point, Kyle, like, I think the

past protection not perfect. You know, I think they had some problems against the Blitz against the forty nine ers, but overall good enough to try to get get the job done. But I'm with you, overall, it's it's gonna be a tough matchup, no question about it. And the other thing too is can they run. They just have not been since Zack Martin went out. They have had problems establishing the run, whether it's Zeke in the game, whether it's Tony Pollter in the game. Although he did

break off that big time run at the end. Heckma man our last meeting versus the Eagles, Mike Schwartz had a field day versus being Denucci crowded the line of scrimmage and bringing all of that pressure. You know, we've used those words like continuity and obviously you feel really good about you deeps and after a victory, right, but you forget about some of the things that Eric Armstead

did and Ken Law did against the offensive line. And obviously, look, we got the win, but you can't kind of gloss over that they have a challenge coming this week in Fletcher Cox and Company and what they do and getting pressures I believe they lead the league and getting pressures on the quarterback. So that's that's that's what they do. And you know, if they have a chance verus us,

it's gonna be just completely eliminating the run. And anytime that we go back to pass, Andy Dalton is going to have to be looking to get the ball out pretty fast, and he's done a good better job of doing that over the last couple of weeks, just getting the offense in a rhythm and finding the open receivers immediately. He's gonna have to do that. Yeah, he's gonna have to do that warp speed. Uh come this Sunday. Well

in you just mentioned Jim Swartz, the defensive coordinator. But Isaiah whenever it comes to Swartz and what he brings to the table as kind of a defensive play caller and kind of the leader on that side of the football, he gets pressure no matter what. And like Heckman said, he had a field day against this Cowboys offense the first time around. Now that was led by Ben de Nucci.

How can Andy Dalton counteract that? From a veteran quarterback side of things, You're not in a seventh round rookie back there behind center anymore having to outsmart Jim Schwartz. It's instead Andy Dalton, who's at least played against the guy before. Yeah, Swarts, And the kindest way possible, I refer to him as a jerk. He's a jerk. He's he's a guy that you want. It's a respectful as

your defensive coordinator. That's a respectful jerk. Yeah, he's a respectful jerke because he's gonna, like you mentioned, he's he's relentless man. He's relentless. He doesn't care. He doesn't played by the rules. He doesn't played by the defensive coordinator rules. He's he colors outside the line and he'll get home to you no matter how regardless of a personnel he has. But guess what, he has a lot of personnel, So he is dangerous in that regard. How do you counteract that? Well,

Kellen Moore, here goes your challenge, buddy. Last time you face this, gentlemen, you did not have all your all your resources. You still don't have all of them, but you have a lot more than you did last time, and I think you're in a lot better position to be successful. Andy Dalton's has to step up and identify.

That's where his role comes in. Be the veteran, identify what you see, trust your eyes, and not only be able to identify it, but be able to communicate it and get your team in the best position to be successful. I don't think we want to play inside the box. With these guys, we want to get out and run and gun. If there's every time where we could check, say okay, Annie Dardon, you could throw the ball forty

times this game. This would be the game that we would want Annie Dardan throw the ball forty times because their secondary can't hold up to our receivers over a good point, because if there is there's a matchup Kyle to maybe exploit, it's their secondary. In terms of just their health, you know, they Michael Jacquette, they've had rookies back there, Marcus Epps at safety without Slay and I don't know what they're you know, they'll get back to practice.

I assumed today. We'll see what their status is. But they they forced takeaways in this Arizona game last week, but they also gave up a ton of yards. I mean, I think, what was it like five hundred yards offense against against Arizona. So there could be some opportunities downfield. Yeah, over under forty throws for Andy Dalton here heck, because I agree, And that's kind of where I was going to lead into this next is there's the front seven

is good at getting pressure. I mean, you look at the numbers their second in the NFL and sacks per pass attempt only behind Pittsburgh. And it's not by a whole lot. I mean, Philly's closing that gap pretty much week by week at this point. But you also look at kind of the yardage that they give up. I mean, they're twenty fourth in the league in terms of yards allowed, so or excuse me, twentieth in the league in terms of yards allowed. So this secondary gives up the big play.

You're a team that likes to live on the big play a little bit. Is this the time for Ceedee Lamb Michael Gallop to shine as the deep threats? Well, you gotta hope so. And I'm saying I'm gonna say under on that because man, all the times that I've seen Andy throw it over forty times has been disastrous game for us and we're playing from behind, and just no,

it hadn't been very good. But you want to see our receivers take advantage of where they are weakest, and it's on the back side, and so finding that it's what's gonna be important. Swards you call them a jerk, respectfully. It's going to bring that prec it's gonna bring that pressure and make Andy Dalton uncomfortable. But finding guys like Hoople who will have that have opportunities. He had opportunities

versus the Eagles with a seventh, seventh round quarterback. So we have got to come back to that, and Andy could Andy Dalton could come up a hero in this game if he's able to find his receivers and make those big plays. You think that's the case, Roan, Yeah, I'm going Isaiah, I'm going with the over. I'm going with the over. I say you want to throw forty times in You're absolutely correct. Heck, that stat line has not necessarily played in our favor. However our defense has.

Our defense hasn't played in our favor either, like they're doing right now. So hopefully our defense can get us the ball, will have a lot more possessions. And you want to get the ball out quickly. You want to throw these quick little screens. You want to get into these bunches and throw a little quick screens. Let your guys get out there and block it ahead. You want to do things like that to get the ball, get the ball in our playmaker's hands early. I'm not You

don't want to sit back. You're gonna have these five and seven step drops against his team. They're not gonna let you get over the top because if I don't know, if you guys watch the past few games, I know you guys have, but I don't know about everybody else. They play a softshell cover two defense, you know, and they don't want you to get beyond them. So you have to get the ball to your guys quickly and

get some of a yak yards. Yeah, I mean, I kind of hope he's not forty plus, just because the two times that he has this year Ravens game, Cardinals game, and they're you're behind, and you're just trying to stay in it, and you're probably getting beat up too because you're having to drop back as much as you are.

You know, to me, thirty three attempts against the forty nine ers, like, that's exactly what you want for Mandy Dalton, just because you're able to manage the game, and it probably means you you've got some options in terms of your balance offensively. May not be the case this week, you know. And and but to y'all's point, it's going to depend on matchups. You know what, what they give you.

You got to be able to take it. I do think it would be ideal for Zeke to get back this week and at least be that guy that can push the pile forward and help you in your down and distance a little bit more, because I think he can do that a little bit more of than Tony Pollard in terms of running between the tackles, and Rob just mentioned it. I mean, oh and two whenever he throws over forty in twenty twenty, but you look at

his career, he's nine twenty four and one. Whenever he hits over forty pass attempts in a football game, nine twenty four and one. I know a lot of that is situational, and you can you can go after looking at the situational side of it. But I mean, regardless, he's only had nine wins out of his entire career where he's thrown for over forty pass. Let's make it. Might gets in help. Isaiah wants it to happen. Isaiah wants it to happen. You know what I want to happen.

I want to say it with my chest. Go for it, Isaiah. You get, you get ten seconds, now you go, let's go. Let's go. It's gonna say it with our chests. Okay, you just don't want to, You just don't want to sit back. I guess this team, this frest step is too strong. Yeah, you don't want to do that either. You want to get it out quickly and get it to your playmakers and allow them with some space against kind of as a whole home secondary is what I

would like to call it. Whenever it comes to Philadelphia is back into that defense. But it's time to say it with the chest. Let's go with prediction. Time here on Talking Cowboys presented by Geico. When we come back, we'll update the standings, we'll look at some DraftKings players, and then we'll get you ready for a Week sixteen of the NFL season. Right after the break, we're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping airwaves and taste buds.

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to they have to. Isaiah, those those those airphones you you have in Texas, we call those something Another's some Southern anothers ashwood Isaiha's got on there? All right? Something I don't. I'm waiting for bows to bless me. Um, come on, both come thro both come through. Well we'll get you hooked up at some point. Now we'll get it hooked up. Man. Let's go into some Draft Kings players to watch this weekend. This is versus Philadelphia, Dallas Philadelphia.

We've got Andy Dalton, Tony Pollard to Mary Cooper, C. D. Lamb, and Dalton Schultz up at the top. And you know we we picked Tony Pollard last week. Isaiah, you talked about Tony as a value pick. He has seen his value right this week. He's at sixty five hundred dollars as opposed to being in the mid two thousands last week. But why is Tony Pollard still a value pick up

this week? Isaiah? Uh So, one more time? You said Cooper, we're talking about we're talking about Tony Pollard, Tony po Pollar, Okay, Paul Paul's a value pick. Yeah, he's a good pick. But I don't I don't like him this week. I don't like him this week. Um. I think there are other guys. I even know where you can spend sixty

five hundred dollars of your Draft Kings money. I think there's other places that that's that's that's better better place this match up because these front seventies guys are gonna be challenging. Okay, what about Andy Dalton up against this Philadelphia defense, achmn, we just talked about it. He may throw at forty times. He's got fifty five hundred dollars. I think that could be a value pick that took Andy Dalton last week. Man, he did pretty good um

against this defense and what we'd the conversation we just had. Yes, it's gonna be so many things that he's gonna have to do to be successful at looting, pressure and all of that. But I will take him. I mean, I think obviously it's going to be the big play in the receivers and getting it in the end zone. You may get some points that with Andy rob Do you think Dalton Schultz could have a big game thirty two hundred dollars. He's the cheapest on the board that we've

got at the moment. Yeah, I think so. I think Isaiah reference, you know, some of that soft coverage that there might be some opportunities underneath. I was, you know, I had him are last week that didn't work out, especially that reverse didn't work out for him. But in the in the receiving game, you know, I think he only needs forty two yards to get to a thousand. I think he'll bounce back. But yeah, I think yeah Coop, But yeah, I'll go Scholtzy. I think Schultzy's got a

chance to make some plays underneath. Oh, you guys know where I'm going with though. I'm going with mister C. D. Lamb fifty three hundred dollars. He is going to come out and have himself a party. He had that special team's touchdown last week. I think he has at least one, maybe two receiving touchdowns this week. That's my prediction, is that Seed Lamb. That's why you need and that's why you need Andy Dalton. Draft Kings is the official daily

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at the top. Rob Phillips. How about Rob danger p Island. My goodness, he's hit forty wins. He's the first one to forty as he is forty one and twenty one as he does the bushwhacker in the bottom rne hand corner. Heckma is two games back, as Rob gained a gain on a Heckma this week. Thirty nine and twenty three is heck my Harrison's record. And then you go way down and then it's Isaiah sitting in thirty three and twenty nine as he is now eight games back of

Rob Phillips. And I'm one game back of Isaiah. So I'm nine games out of first place right now at thirty two and thirty. So, uh, we've got some Uh, we've got some catching up to do, Isaiah. There's only two weeks later, So go hard to go home? Is what? It's not great? I don't like it. It's tightest pants. What's happening back here? I'm I'm a vegetarian. Eat all right, Here we go. We're starting with good life. Baby, gotta be quick here. Vikings against the Saints. Hackm go Vikings, Saints.

I'm going Saints, okay, Rob Saints, Saints All right, I'm gonna take Saints all Saints there. I'm gonna take the Vikings. I'm gonna take the Vikings on this one. I think they bounced back and they have an upset win. I've got a game games here, boys, So let's go forty nine Ers and Cardinals on the road at Arizona. But that's also the same stadium that the forty nine Ers have been playing in for the past three weeks. So, Isaiah, who you got in that one? Arizona? Rob Kyler Murray,

Arizona and Kyler Murray. Yeah, I'm gonna take Arizona and Kyler Murray there. I don't think there's any upset. Okay. Miami on the road against Las Vegas. Rob who in Las Vegas? Miami Dolphins and the Dolphins on the road against the Las Vegas Raiders. Miami, Isaiah Waller, da da da, Oh my god, Miami. Heck when I was at a pick for the Raiders, do it? Heck Mariota. Yeah, fins, Okay, I'm going to Miami. God give me Las Vegas at home. I'm trying. I'm going all in here to try and

gain a game here. So give me Las Vegas there. Colts and Steelers to ten win teams. The Colts all of a sudden starting to find a little bit of rhythm, and the Steelers all of a sudden hitting a wall. I'm gonna take the Steelers to get back on track here on CBS at noon. Heckma boy if ju Juice Smith Schuster dances on the logo one more time. I think Tomlin's gonna come unglued, but I'm gonna go with Indy. I think Indy has a better defense. Something's going on

with the Steelers right now. They can't get right, Brob, get right game for Pittsburgh. Mm brow Mike Tomlin. He's not allowing four losses in a row. It would loses to that's me. Rob didn't. Brob did not sound very confident in his pick, and I like it. Okay, this one's interesting. How about the Cincinnati Bengals at three ten and one, fresh off of that win over the Steelers, They're going up against the Texans down in Houston in the armpit. Where do you see this one going? Isaiah? Wow? Texans?

M Rob Yeah, Texans? Good good win though Beingals last week? Yeah yeah, that was fun. Oh I love this These toilet Bowl games that you pick every week. Texans too, Man, thank you. I'm gonna take you. That's the better quarterback and that's the Texans. I think Deshaun Watson's better. Okay, this is the one that could decide the cowboys fate in terms of the playoff push. The Panthers on the road against the Washington football team. If the Panthers win,

the Cowboys are alive. The Panthers lose, then it's all over for Dallas's last second playoff push. I'm gonna take man, I'm gonna take the Panthers. Why not. I'm gonna try and send some good juju that direction. I'm taking the Panthers. Go Carolina, Let's go Matt Rule and company. Get it done for the Cowboys. Let's get this push going into week seventeen. Okay, Isaiah, go Panthers. H it's your favorite animal Rob. I'm gonna go wet blanket Rob again. I'll

go Washington. If Alex Smith comes back. I like their chances to win this game. Jins is distracted. Man, Dwayne Haskins had himself a party a couple of days ago. But I still but I still like to I still like to Washington football team and this, and I hope I'm wrong, but just because I want to win, I'm going with the football team. Okay, Yeah, you're you're you're trying to stick up with Rob p Island over here. Try and keep pace with Rob. I don't know what

I'm trying to do. I know I see right through you. I see right through you. Okay, three more games left, Rams and Seahawks. Isaiah's gonna take the Seahawks here, Rob, who are you taking? Um Seahawks? MS? Yeah, I'm gonna Seahawks. Okay, I'm gonna take the I'm gonna take the Rams. And I'm, like I said, I'm trying to gain games. So Isaiah, I'm assuming you are gonna take Seattle here. Okay, Okay. Just wanted to make sure uh Titans and the Packers once again double digit in teams in a matchup. Lots

of good games this week. This is Sunday Night football, Titans on the road at Lambeau in deep December. I hope it snows. That would be fun. I'm gonna take the Packers at home. Heckma, you know what travels will baby, And that's a running game. We're going with the Titans. Somebody gets the stiff on Rob Heck just convinced me. I'm going with Derrick Henry. Oh, thank you boys perfect a Rogers, Aaron Rodgers about Torch. That that Tennessee defense,

Tennessee defense. Pleas man, you big man? All right? Eagles and the Cowboys. Can the Cowboys at least seemingly keep their game or their playoff hopes alive into the final week of the regular season and end Philadelphia's chances at making the playoffs with a win. Do exactly what the Eagles did to the Cowboys last year. So heck, moll you go first, Eagles, Cowboys? Who you got? You know, you boy? You don't have to ask me anytime the Cowboys played the Eagles, I care what our record looks like.

I am always gonna pick the Cowboys if and no if Anzel butts about it. But Toto, that was the Tostitos pick. That was the two to nothing. Yeah, oh wow, memories, that was the one show every time in the same place. That can't believe that. Yeah, you did pick the Nucci You think Dalton's gonna turn around? Okay, So what's the score. I'm going low score seventeen ten. Okay, Rob, I'm going

tostitos as well. There's a lot about this matchup I don't like, but you know, maybe they get five takeaways this week and they win all ago something like twenty four twenty three Cowboys. So I've picked against the Cowboys the last two I'm gonna let you go last, Isaiah. So I've picked against the Cowboys the last two weeks, and they've won the last two weeks. So it makes me really want to turn my pick around. But I'm gonna keep the thing going. I'm gonna pick the Eagles,

hoping that some reverse psychology helps some things out. So on the show, I will pick the Eagles. The matchups are there, it'll be a close game. I'm gonna say twenty three twenty one with a last second field goal from Philly to win it. That's that's where I'm gonna go with this one. Isaiah, who you got I'm gonna go with. I'm gonna go with the Cowboys. I think they're gonna come back and play on the spire Ball, and I'm gonna go with twenty four seventeen. I like it.

I like it. I'm cool with that. Let's do it across the board except for me. I'll be the lone ranger. But hey, I've taken the bullet the last two weeks. I've picked against the Cowboys and they've gotten to win. You can all send me thank you chocolate and whatnot if you want, I will take I'll take Venmo if you want that as well. But that's gonna do it for us here Talking Cowboys. Yes news, that would be fantastic. No Titus pants us. That's gonna do it for us.

Mary Christmas to everyone out there, and thank you for joining us. We are so thankful for each and every one of you that listen to Talking Cowboys. Whether it's live later doesn't matter. We are so thankful for you. Mary Christmas to your family. Catch up to all of these guys except for Rob. Rob's got the day off tomorrow, very well earned, mister Rob p Island, but Hecma and Isaiah will be on the later podcast tomorrow. Not exactly sure what they're calling it. I'll be on with Jesse,

Holly Berry Church and Nate Newton. That will be our podcast tomorrow, same time. It's Talking Cowboys nine thirty. You can catch it right here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Twitter Periscope Live if you would like, but that's gonna do it for us. For Chris Beam, Heck Harrison, Isaiah Standback and Rob Danger, pe Island, I'm Kyle Yeoman's saying so long from the start and Frisco We'll see

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