It's the downbeat. I'm ninety seven to one, the freak. I woke up to the morning skys Baby Blue. Just like when I get up on this ground, I should leave back. Though some songs are hard to jump in. You know, why would you listen to me when I know it's a beautiful tan It's so good one of the songs the highest like Q rate like, who doesn't love this song? I was shocked at this tune.
Didn't want to Grammy A couple of years back. I thought for sure they were gonna do the right thing and pick some a little lesser known and go for art as opposed to popularity, because this was, I mean, for a lot of people the song of the year. Man, yeah, man. And that's thing. It's funny about a tune like this. You do something like this and you are forever chasing it in the minds of most, and they ain't done nothing as good as that Colors. Man, it's not
a good tune, not ever. The redneck doing the voice. How many people are out there just full redneck, just bitching about them not being able to back up Colors. I don't like that new record, man, way too out there. They neither I know may colors, Dude, they hit it. Should we be doing more stuff like that? No, man, it's got like everything in it now that new stuff. That old fella's just
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God, we had Cowboy football yesterday. Dude, watch it. I did. I watched it and watch it in tape delay. That was those noon kickoffs when you've got a baby or just not conducive for really soaking in a game the way I like to, when you know you're going to talk about it the next day. So I started that sucker at about four thirty and watch. I was rolling through commercials. I didn't see any commercials that were
fresh and new to talk about. I think I was able to get that thing done by about seven o'clock, so a little two and a half hour investment. It's a great way to watch for an NFL game if you're able to, you know, avoid the score, which I did. It's kind of a good and bad thing that the Cowboys are the way they are. They've won seven games now the season, six of them by twenty or more
points. Yeah, which doesn't lead to the most you know, edge of you or chair excitement, you know, not that that's what you care about. You want dubs, and they got another dub. They wanted the road and got a victory in the NFL. Good probably against the worst team in
the sport, and maybe not all that. I don't know. I guess it was plenty convincing the final score, but probably a tighter ride than most of us expected through most of it, considering we were at what it was, seventeen to ten at the end of three Yeah, one score game and in the fourth quarter, and I was watching the whole time I was watching that game last night, the only thing that I could think of. One of the things I could think of was how did the Giants have any wins
at all? If this is a one and what were they won in one? In eight? Eight last night? Now one and nine? I guess one nine, that team has one win. They looked a lot better than either of the Giants teams we faced, like a lot better. Yeah. And then the Giants beat Washington yesterday. I don't get it. Yeah, And that's kind of what makes it great is you never know, and you can lose to the Cardinals all for a reason. It's for a reason.
All of it's for a reason. They What I can't believe is the punting, Like why some teams know they still fight to the end, Like, I don't know how that and maybe some don't. You know, but if you know, your season is screwed. I mean, Carolina doesn't even have their first round pick, right they send that to Chicago, I think, But if you are one to nine, what are you doing? Like lose?
But they most teams tend to fight to the end of the year, and it's because I guess coaches demand it because coaches lives aren't, you know, endless. They know they're probably going to be on the move, still getting that paycheck. They're still in the paycheck, but so is everyone in every sport, and the NBA teams punt and they're still fighting for jobs for
the next season. That's exactly it. It's the coach is still fighting and then the percentage of the roster that is essentially trying out for their next team. I don't know. I just don't know why. Some teams fight like the Giants, but they're still fighting with Tommy. Do you don't think I got a damn win yesterday? One thing that I did? I don't know.
I think this Cowboy team has definitely gotten better through the season, which I guess is better than the alternative is starting out super hot and then sucking towards the end. But the fact that they they lost to the Cardinals early in the year. I think that this team has gone beyond that being a possibility of getting snake bit by a garbage team. And does the lost Arizona is that did that give him the early reminder? No, I don't know.
I mean, look, you can it's hard to want to take McCarthy at his word that this was all part of his grand scheme, but it's kind of playing out the way he described it. Hey, it's gonna take us a few weeks to get everything implemented, to know, but people to buy in. And that's about it all started happening about when he said it
would, was around week four or five. And I just think that this team, I think it's if you've got the Cowboys playing a below five hundred team and the spread is ten or less, always take the Cowboys because I think they're gonna smush teams. They thought they've done it all year, but the exception of the Cardinals, they have smushed, Yeah, below five hundred
teams. Yeah, and like they're good enough to basically smash a team thirty three to ten and not play all that well offensively, at least not really, you know. I mean, they got a lot of help yesterday. This thing was close close, Well, you had the one drive that they was nothing but Carolina penalties at the end of the first half, which that
should have never been the case. They had gifts third and nineteen, So Panther gave in the first half Cowboys first downs on second and thirteen third and nineteen third and ten third and sixteen third and nineteen third and ten, third and sixteen, and you gifted a team first downs on penalties on penalties, and then we're still in a one score game at the beginning of the fourth. I'm not looking to find negatives and highlight them. I'm really not.
But that's strange for a team that's that bad and Carolina. I was reading a local thing from Charlotte and they're like, that's the worst game they have played. And statistically there was such some terrible, terrible stuff with those penalties and stupidity. You just can't afford to do that stuff. That third nineteen. How about that it was a short pass to Cooks when we saw one of the first ever simultaneous face mask and horse callers both called them the same
dude, incredible, that's a rarity. You had to have two different camera angles, one from the back and one from the front to full Describe what happened on that play. Yeah, you knew it was one or the other. Yeah, I saw a horse collar when he went down. I was like, oh, they're calling that immediately. They don't hesitate to throw the flag if if your hand's anywhere near that that back of the neck. And how about on that play there was three flags that came in and they all
landed within one foot of each other. And I'm like, why didn't we you just think of some prediction you could have made. I don't know, it's so dumb. Two penalty flights touching when they come to rest, but there was three of them just sitting there within a good twelve inches. Well for Yeah, the final was what thirty three to ten? Thirty three ten? Didn't look like a thirty three to ten game until the three three quarters at all. No, But at no point where did I think the Cowboys
were not gonna win. No, no, no, I feel like they were comfortably leading, even though statistically they weren't. And then they did. Yeah, it's a weird one. Not only that they smashed them, Yeah, they smushed them, and Dak had less than two hundred yards passing. Yep, they had no receiver hit fifty yards. I mean nothing was just that a press. I mean, look the I think their running game stood out, you know, well he had one at times big boy run then
looked looked real good. But in the beginning of the fourth Yeah, and the yards per carry was fine, he was over five, but sixty one. At least the guy got in the end zone. That's the first He hadn't stood in the end zone since week one. Yeah, Tony Pollard, and he did get in and on a tough, badass run. But you had other people, I mean, like CD had quiet one even though he had a touchdown. But I don't know if something was up with him.
He looked either unhappy or maybe a little hurt. I don't know what was his problem. But whatever. Six, I mean, it doesn't matter.
They won, they smashed. Would you think would you agree that the last two weeks the Cowboys offense has played at maybe for the last three weeks, has played at such an elevated level that a game like yesterday is almost to be expected that there's got Can you know how impossible so difficult it would be to play seventeen games at that level in the NFL as wacky and weird as the NFL is, where good teams lose to bad teams every damn week.
Yeah, and you're not gonna have six hundred yard games like you did last week. It's fine. And we look at yesterday as a thirty a win by right three over three touchdowns, and we're looking at that going, oh man, they just didn't really, they didn't have it yesterday, and I hate to do that. I don't want to be the guys who do that. They won, they won big, you know where everyone they and overall, like kind of what you said earlier, since the bye week, it
almost is like they've been listening to whatever the bitchings are. Like, they're letting that cook, They're letting that run with designed runs and letting them cut out. You need Brandon Cooks involved. Fine, Brandon Cooks is now involved. We want more pre snap motion. They've added a ton of pre snap motion, which gets your beasts freed up and open, and that has led
to ceedee lamb excellence over the last month. So yes, it seems like the team offensively is evolving, but the consistent thing needs to be that defense and They were excellent yesterday again and it was led by Deron Bland, who it's consistent enough to not be a fluke that this dude is just good and maybe he is a ball he is a ballhawk. He's more than that.
Yeah, Like he's an all pro? Are you excited? He They described it pretty well in the booth yesterday, by the way, week four in a row, little baby KK and third Leg and the Gregnator, the Gregenator Ace and who's uh uh. But they talked about how you know he's more than just a ball hockey uh, big play interception guy, like he hits, he tackled, he covers. Well, he's a total package. And you know he's leading the league in interceptions from twenty twenty two through this season.
He's got some lowest yards per past attempt stat to whatever it is. He's excellent. He's better than Diggs, dude, no metrics speaking. Yeah, when's the last time he saw him get burned? Dick still got burned? Yeah. I think Bland is as with everyone every corner in the league, I guess, especially second year corner, which is all he is is second eear corner. You know, the double move is tricky, But I don't know that's actually a hot sports opinion that it might be accurate that he's
better than Diggs. I I don't know. Eleven picks in one season is a whole different level. But Diggs is sometimes feast or famine where Bland might be I guess, quieter or more consistent or better at everything. And he's proven to be really good at a highlight level interceptions as well, which is you know, that's exactly what Digs is. The way he was able to catch that ball, that's it. These are not like Larry Brown interceptions.
This, yeah, these aren't that balls that just fall into your bread basket. That was like sauce gardener, where you have that little burst at the end, you make the super athletic catch, one motion roll, you're back on your feet and you know it is destination pay dirt and there ain't nothing stopping you from getting there, and you have to put a little move in and sure that you do that. He looks like a fifth round pick at a Fresno State. Huh, just now giving him the credit that he deserves.
Why did he have to get his fourth pick six of the season for us to really, really, really really start talking about him. Well, I mean he's been I don't know that that's that's fair, because he was great last year. He had a lot of I mean had four or five five picks last year, six picks this year. This is consistent interception production, way more consistent that he had in college. By the way, he
didn't really do this in college. I guess what my point is is for me to say that I think he's probably better than Digs overall, and for you to go, you know what, that's you could be right, that's that's a very arguable point, whereas maybe last year you'd be you would say, no f and way, no FN way, or in the beginning of the season you'd say, no f and way, You're nuts, you're crazy, and it's not crazy thought. Right now, it's not no, you're kind of right, it's not. I don't I mean last year, you
didn't you know, start that many games. You know, he was sort of a fifth round rookie. That's not what you do is throw a fifth round rookie into you know, into the cauldron. And now you imagine next season with Digs on one side and him on the other. When's the last time this Cowboys team has been that shored up at corner to that to that
level, potentially to that level. I mean, I think Stefan Gilmore is really solid this year and maybe losing a step, but it tends to be that you don't hear his name, and we know that what a lovely luxury that is to not hear cornerbacks names all that often. So maybe they teams challenge Bland instead of Gilmore. I don't really know, but the dude has a knack for it the ball and the goal line, and that's what brings you to that next level, you know. And you could play solid cornerback
play and have two interceptions on the year and go relatively unnoticed. But it's the picks, and it's the picks sixes that are the highlight reel things that earn you those all Pro nods. He's got four of them in this season, and no NFL players ever had five in a season, right, so he's tied, and you know what, with the sports gun to my head, I would guess he doesn't have another one, just because they're really hard to get this, but he does have six picks on the year, four
of them, and he'll get a couple more of those. You think, you think, you don't know team has no other team in the NFL has four defensive touchdo this season, and he has four himself. Are you kidding me? Yeah? The Todd Archer article kind of explaining how crazy this stuff is. And his four touchdowns are tied for second on the team with Jake Ferguson two behind Ceedee Lamb. Like, he is the second tied for second
touchdown producer on this team, and he does it as a cornerback. I couldn't believe that was Pollard's first touchdown yesterday since week one, yep, since week one. Incredible, real quick. We'll do if we have to do, Jerry, Jimmy, We're only gonna do it because Jerry said something dumb. We can do it in the in the morning news. I got a bunch of cowboy audio for that. Micah was amazing. Sure, and you don't have a week where you keep him off the stat sheet and have him
have the lion at rest two weeks in a row. He was awesome. The whole defensive line was insane. They were in in Bryce's kitchen all effing day. I know you're about say some real quick one thing that I was a little bit disappointed about is he was oh molested the entire game that you never got an opportunity to see what the kids really about. Yeah, you never had an opportunity. I was thinking about him versus c J. Stroud, And right now everyone's like, oh my god, c J. Stroud
is unbelievable, Rookie of the Year. Locke MVP put him in the conversation and yeah, that's all true, and it looks like c J. Stroud is just better than brace Young. But you how how do you even judge it? It's the offensive line, it's the coaching, it's the receiving weapons that I maybe c J. Strouds just making Tank Dell and Noah Brown look like all world receivers, you know, and who the Carolina Panthers have, Jonathan Mingo and Adam Thielen and that's his safety. Valve, Steven Sullivan,
Leaviska Chanlt Like, you just don't have the weapons. I'm not ready to say that brace Young's not. Yeah, and no one is. No one is. He's just got a tough, tough road to hoe. I mean, Dallas's defense is strong, their pass rush is really good, but man Bryce's offensive line. Did them no favors? Yeah? I mean, my god, or did them all the favors? Did him no favors? Seven sacks and I think it was officially two and a half from Micah who had a bunch of tackles as well. Wait they changed that, Yeah, I
think they downgraded it from three to two and a half. They gave Curse I think a half sack because Curse said his pinky on his on his jersey. I read this. I don't know all about this next gen stats and stuff, but I these people stare at every play from someone named Seth Walder. Micah Parsons has a forty pass rush win rate today and he raised his season long a pass rush win rate to thirty five percent, which, if that holds, would be the record for greatest pass rush rush win rate season
of all time, which was Joey Bosa in twenty seventeen. It's just never forget that that dude does things that when they aren't sacks, they are still just dominant maneuvers and he is the best in the game at it, and he's got at least a few stats to back it up. I love him thirty three ten a Cowboys win seven and three. That's their third year in a row, by the way, they start the year seven and three, and if Kevo is here, we'd find reasons to rip on McCarthy. And
I'm not going to argue him too hard. But head coaches job is to win games seven and three ten years in a row. I think only six times in the twenty years prior they had seven and three to start the season. That's a great start to the season. They're a very good team,
and they went and smashed a very very bad team. They got a couple more smashables, and then it's time to play some good teams and then we can, hopefully, you know, see if they've improved over their inability to get past big, big teams and maybe grab a couple of these getting up each your smashables. This Thanksgiving, just a couple of days from now, we are back again against Washington. All right, we are the down beat
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