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give you the first down. Yeah, that saved one of them, I think, so I'll push it down. I was like, oh god, because it was a late scratch of Tyron Smith. So Chuma Idoga starts at left tackle and kind of work display very quickly, and I went oh no, oh no, And honestly, you didn'd been a great day, so not a problem at all. Because the Cowboys won forty three to twenty, and the game was really never that close. Now, Danny, you were watching on post delay big time, like hours after. I think I started
the game at five and was able to avoid knowing the outcome. Although AD opened up Twitter or some I can't remember. I opened up like Google Chrome or something, and there was a score update and I saw a score of nineteen to three, and I also knew that, oh gosh, I don't even remember now, but I knew that the score at one point was nineteen to three. That was really early on that it was nineteen to three, and I'm like, how did they get to nineteen? So I started trying
to do the math in my head, you know. And as I'm watching the game progress, and you know, the touchdown and a field goal, I'm like, how are they? Oh my god, there's going to be a safety. Holy crap, When is the safety gonna happen? So? Yeah, you well, you had it all in that first quarter everything. Yeah, block punt, good, block punt. Blocked it so hard. I just wouldn't stop bouncing. I picked six, and that's three for blab
this year. Three this year one shy of the record regular season record, Yeah, Daron Bland is very interesting because he's a guy who college played outside, and everyone in the league goes, well, he's five ten, so he can only play inside. We can't have him outside run around with those big wide receivers. So he comes to the Cowboys and Jordan Lewis gets hurt. He plays inside last year in the slot mainly taken away your faster guys
and things like that. Has a bunch of interceptions, like on a Trevon Diggs type trajectory here in terms of number of interceptions, do you know how many on the year last year? I think it was five, but I would need to double confume. Sorry, no, no, don't apologize. It was six. Okay, yeah, I believe it was. It's fair and pertinent to the conversation. And then five last year, four so far this year. Does that seem right? Yes, that's true, that's good,
that's fine. And then you know that's only eight starts last year, yes, and this year only five starts. And he started starting once Trevon Diggs got hurt. But he's kind of doing the thing of like, and he's playing outside now right, And people were like, oh my god, I can't believe he's doing this outside and he's like, guys, chill your bottoms. I played outside cornerback and held my own all through college. I
know what I'm doing. It's a little similar to Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith played guard last year after playing a lot of tackle, and when he played some tackle, they were like, oh no, yeah, it's good tackle the future. And then we're gonna move back and he's gonna be our starting left guard and he's like, guys, chill your pants. I played left guard a little bit in college. I can do this. Everyone calm it down. It's really awesome. Dron Bland is I don't know how much of
that is luck. When it comes to the interceptions, it can be a little bit of a luck stat but good lord, this is I mean, it's kind of amazing. And every time the cow was getting interception, you should assume it's Bland before you can fully see the number, because he's the guy that's gonna do it. Offense was good. Ceedee Lamb cooked kind of
waiting on that. I mean, Ceedee Lamb's been solid. His numbers stack up pretty good, you know, with a lot of the guys he was complaining, you know, about getting touches and now they're starting to come and they were in a graphic during the game. It was just like Dak when he throws to Ceedee Lamb, Well, his completion percentage is up almost fifteen percent. Yeah, waterbacking up almost like twenty five percent. Fourteen targets.
Just throw it to him, twelve catches, City Lamb will go efficient fight for it too. Who like Ceedee Lambs is awesome? Yeah, Dak was exceptional yesterday. I don't know what more you can say about that performance. I mean, other than the ill advice throw and allbeit it was tipped that did look like a lot of traffic up down there near the goal line where he threw his one loan pick of the of the night or the day.
And he was great. And it's not like he was getting killer protection because most of the damage that he did was outside of the pocket and they mentioned that quite a bit in the broadcast yesterday with KB and Olsen. But he was a joy man. He was great, He was accurate, he under pressure, he made good decisions. He had receivers that were able to get opened. I think that helps a lot too. But boy, he is a real treat to watch when coverage breaks down and he's able to kind of
maneuver a bit out there. We were trying to did you guys think of dact pretty Oh my god, I thought it was great. Yeah, I thought he was awesome. Maybe his game of the year. That touchdown pass, the first one was great to fergus And, yeah, the one handed catch is fun. But you know anyone who's played football, and one handed catch is not the hardest thing in the world, especially when it's perfectly laid in the way it was. I thought that pass was excellent. And those
gloves are like glues. Yes, if you've ever worn that, like, actually put on real NFL gloves. It's incredible. Catching of football with those one handed catches. It as hard as they look. I mean some of them, you know, the Odell catch, these some of these things are wild when you do it with a couple of fingers. But his accuracy on the Cook's back of the end zone long pass was perfect. The location was
absolutely perfect. It could only be where he caught it. Let's go to the first touchdown to Jake Ferguson. Yeah, for sure, that throw on the money. Did you age say that? Sorry, that is what we were talking about. I'm so sorry. Fine, you're fine. I'm so
sorry. We haven't had that happen in at He's been missing that throw a little bit, despite the one that scoon Maker dropped, but like that's something that like Dak's in the last few games has missed a throw on the first couple of drives and you're like, okay, what you can't we can't have that. We're hard on him. We miss one throw in your heart on
the guy and we talked about justin Herbert and how he throws. He's been missing, but there was something about they didn't run the ball very very well and they have it yet and I don't know that they are, but you can offset that by getting the ball to ceedee Lamb a lot in the first half. Just get in the ball and opens up everything else. We're trying
to edit a watch along thing with some old friends yesterday. A live stream during the game is great, and we're trying to decode when the finger gets sniffed when you're a CD Lamb. Yeah, it's it's a tough thing. It's not every time. And then I think it's essentially when he receives a pass that is a first down, but not what he runs, because I've seen him run for first downs where he didn't do it, and then he did catch a touchdown, which we were arguing, is that technically a first
down? I don't, you know, not statistically, but and he did it when he scored a touchdown last night. But just trying to decode the finger sniff is I think he really knows what to do. Okay. I think there's not much rhyme or I think that once he you know, once the tackle happens, the whistle's blown and he stands up, I think he's very uncomfortable. I think he's really awkward with how he him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has shown a tendency to be absent minded at times.
If you remember on Draft night when he that his side chick or girlfriend at the time, have his phone, Well he didn't let her. She took it. She took phone too, and he was do you remember that? And he even kind of loves like, no, no, no, no, you realize whose night this is. I need all my phones, baby, you're on my couch right now, and I'm about to have a
lot of couches. He was great, and we all want CD to somehow bust into that highest echelon of receivers and it's it's days like yesterday that'll get him in that direction because that was dominant. He's great after the catch. For a dude as lean as he is, he is tough as hell. He sticks his nose into contact and often runs through tackles. HiT's it's a game he really needed. God, wouldn't you love to see that CD in terms of targets and production for the better chunk of the rest of the year.
And if you really have one of the most dangerous receivers in football, And I think he's got that as a ceiling, So love love seeing him. Yeah, you still want him to be like top ten, Not that it matters what you're ranked, I guess, And at the end of it, it's like how do you fit the offense and how does the offense work around you? But you would like to see him be, yeah, top ten in receptions or yards, yeah, touchdowns, And I don't you know
if you ask most people ranked him in the league. I mean, I guess he would come around right around the tenth best receiver, but one of the dudes that would be in front of him on almost all lists to be Cooper Cup, and he was I mean again, fourteen targets for Lamb and then we know the production Cup had ten targets, ended up with four catches for twenty one yards. Was essentially invisible. And that's two weeks in a row for him being sort of a visible. But oh then the defense was
monstrous and the special teams was monstrous and it wasn't a game. Another Cowboys win with the game was it close'? That's the I guess it's a good problem to have. When's this team gonna win a close game? I don't know. Yeah, I mean that Chargers game, technically, I guess was close. Play a close game? Yeah right, I mean there are two losses have been sort of That Chargers game was so weird and had no flow to it, and there was penalties galore. It's hard to take a lot
from that. I think you can play a real close game against the Eagles next week. I'd assume they are definitely one of the best best teams with the best records in the NFL that you kind of feel you know very little about. Yeah, I still think they're good. I mean I still lean there. I my my reservations about the offense. You look at yesterday and go, well, that's calm down quite a bit. I still have a problem. They can't run the ball. I mean, that's a that's a
weird thing. Was it like just over three yards per carry? I think think again, Yeah, I think it was averaging three point nine yards to carry. Tony Pollard I hate to do the day after dominant win and then lean toward talking about the very few things that work me too, So maybe not even but the you know Pollard through you know how many games is this
eight? I don't know, Like you just hasn't been what I think we all thought it was going to be before the season started, with you know, that crazy yards per carry and these huge flash plays, and he's had a few of them, but there's just it's just not looking like we have the world beater back there and not his fault and the old line has been banged up. I get it, but don't what's his yards per carry yesterday? Three fifty some odd yards? Fifty two I think was that day,
And that's what we're you know, hanging our hat on that yard. I was okay, it was four point four, so it wasn't the end of the world. I'd like to normal. You know, what I'd like to know is I'd like to know the breakdown of his yards per carry between the tackles and his yards per carry when he gets off the edge in a little bit in space, because that's where he's most effective. He doesn't last year inside runs he was really effectives. Hey you can do every yeah, but
he had a lot. But did he have better holes last year? I feel like they're not. Those gaps just aren't as wide as they used to be in the interior right now for him. Whereas you know, Zeke was a pounder, and Zeke's probably just based on his style and size alone is going to get you an extra yard per carry inside the tackles, regardless whether there's a hole or not. I don't know. I just feel like Pollard is most most good when you get him off the edge, for sure.
His best game for yards and average per rush was that Arizona game, a loss. We're playing behind the whole game, Yeah, but that's not oaking you to run. You're playing ahead all the time. They're expecting you to go on. That's the only great gaming crack the hunter. He had one twenty two in his next highest game is seventy two yards, which whatever. I don't know. I mean, it's fine technically he's at the age when running backs slow down, but I don't know where there is that right twenty
sixty six. I mean we're getting there about it, but I don't know. He didn't have the wear and terror amount of touches the other guys do at that age. Well, I predicted that it would be. It could possibly be a game where bones fossil overstays is welcome, And boy did I miss that. I just maybe lose half a point. That's because you get a block punt turpinhead a couple returns. Turpin had a ding dong play too, trying to bring that kick off out of the end zone nine yards deep
and got smooshed at the fifteen. I don't mind the risks. Sometimes it's so dumb. Why would you do that if you think you got something? I don't know what. Sometimes I mean he lost the score in the game. They I mean the score in the game was a route from the beginning. I don't care at that point. Maybe I don't know. There are times where the offense is like stalling out, and the way the offense had been playing leading up to this where I'm like, you know what, that
might be my best chance to crack one opens. I kind of don't mind that. I'll trade off of ten yard had ten yard distance. We're just gonna get called for holding it a little bit. Anyways, I've got a bunch of audio for the pull out section and the morning news. A couple of observations that I did have. Did you see that that we mentioned that one sequence of great special teams plays with the safety, the block, punt, the picks or not the pick six? But I think they had one
other. What was the other thing that happened, like write in sequence where he had like two big special teams. Maybe it was a it was a big turp in return is what it was. And Fossils running up and down the sidelines, and at one point they had the camera on him and he's kind of like running, you know how he is. He's like real excitable, and he just kind of stops and grabs a water bottle from one of the water guys, just scuorts in his mouth and hands it back to him.
It's like I'm working over here. Pretty funny. I thought that Jake ferguson touchdown celebration was weird. Do you remember what he did? Do you ever watch me dance when I'm sitting in my chair when music comes on and I kind of do like this, Yeah, it's robody thing. It's something like that going on Trump sometime to see it, you know when he does the yeah and c Yeah, a little awkward, Yes, yeah, yeah, it was cool. I think he's going to be good in this league.
Ferguson, Yeah, I do, I do. He is. He's got some he's got a skill set they need to target. I'd like to see him get targeted. I don't know McCarthy had his heart on forgetting a second tight end. They're not booing, they're schooning. Get another offensive lineman with that pick. Yeah, so much a way all day, all day, a pile of name on the offensive line. And if you have any doubt or if somebody snipes your pick, like right before, just pluck something
from the line pile. If you are going to draft a tight end, and what rounded he go in? Second round? Yeah? Second round? You that's I hate that pick unless he is an immat he feels an immediate need where you are so at it tied end that you've got to have a starter. He got a second tech yesterday. That's a wasted pick. I'm sorry, it's a wasted ass pick. I have the best guard in the draft was available right there and his name was Cyrus. That's pretty cool.
Oh yeah, does just to catch any of the MAVs. On Friday night, we had Game one of World Series. You know, it's funny. I was watching with brother Cash. We were watching baseball, and I don't know was the baseball game over whatever. We clicked over and I saw all three of Luca's consecutive three pointers and it was three or was The fourth was four. The fourth one was the the hook, the other hook shot on
he was in the zone. Man, it was nuts. How many things has Luca done to make you just say that he's not from this planet, so far above me, beyond like what maybe anyone in the league can do. And then he does that three of them clean, and then he's wedges himself in the elbow and he's screwed out of time and he just does the wacky crap that he claims he does practice too, which I believe him too, because we see him shooting from chairs and lawn chairs, and you know,
in a raincoat. We see all of his wacky shots he takes. That's the thing about those shots is the sample size is large enough that you just can't attribute that to him being lucky or squirrely. No. Yeah, he practices that stuff. He really does. Man, He's probably made that shot one hundred thousand times just goofing around. But he knows, he knows what it feels like to make that shot, probably from that position. Yea. The thing is, even when he misses, whether it be half,
any of it, it's always close. Yeah. Like even if he misses this full court whatever it is, wildest shots, they're always in the neighborhood. This is so so good. He was on full heater. I pulled it up. I was watching on my phone because Rangers were on. And he ended up with a forty nine points I think, and Kyrie had seventeen. And even Kyrie, there's a video of the MAVs got him like walking off to the locker room and and he was like excited. His like good
team win. It sounds because it was like a five to six point win, and that's aren't gonna be good this year. Tim Hardaway Junior had nineteen off the bench. There's big questions about him being upset about his role and basically being told you're not gonna start, and that Jason Kidd had maybe not communicated that the right way. Tim Hardaway, Junior has been great in two games off the bench, scoring buckets for you. So the Mats are two
and zero and they're happy and they have Memphis tonight at seven. Did you get to watch much of the game or do you? I don't know if you record. It was just kind of watching on my phone, you know, Yeah, but I wasn't like locked in. I watched one of the YouTube replays and once they posted it, but they that was usually take a while. But yeah, he made that shot. It was one twenty to one twenty with twenty six seconds left, after he'd made three consecutive threes to
get it to that score. Oh yeah, he had to put the team on his back to win that game. Like, is magic real? I mean I think you I have it? Yeah, but it's just me and Luca. Why you're in the system is right? No, I'm clearly not. But Luca is like, there's some people who are just subscribed to the Magic policy and he is, and he keeps proving it. That next game last year was the wildest ever. Missing the free throw and how does the
ball bounce anywhere near you much less you can't have it. That's magic, That is magic. But oh he's on fire, even even take that shot out of it, which is ridiculous. The three threes in a row, YEA with them, everyone in the world probably knowing that he's gonna shoot it
right, And statistically he's a decent three point shooter. He's not like Steph, Yeah, I mean it's not great, but he's magic because he's we know he's he's a he's a very good three whatever you want to put it as statistically, But at the end of games, it's like, oh, yeah, he's gonna make that. I don't care how far back he is, and that means he's got the magic and he gets to his spot and
that's that to me. That's the thing that's that's wild is he's able to get to that left wing and I guess it's kind of the wing spot where he loves to shoot from. He's able to get open or even when he's not open, he still makes him. But everybody on the on the defense knows that's where he wants to be, and they just can't stop it. And they could. They did stop it there. He had to hook it up like a one handed hook with less than thirty seconds in a Thai game
with the shot clock expiring. He it's a it's terrible to be, you know, forced into that corner and have no better option, and yeah, no it goes in. He banks it in. And and what Kyrie thinks of him, I'm just fascinated, especially after some game like that, because Kyrie probably is, i mean, the best player on the floor at any moment, the best player on his team. Probably thought he was the best player on his team, even when he was playing with prime Lebron and winning
a championship. Kyrie is a you know, in his own head, he's probably like, look, I'm better than this guy. But he's really good. Right now. Kyrie has to look at this dude like he's a witch. Like I'm the witch. I'm Luca, but I'm Luca. Kyrie says, right, dude, I'm Luca. But he looks at him, He's like, how, I know, how you doing? What is he doing? It's got to just be magic. I think that's we should coin that
phrase Luca magic. And that's how you're an idea is man ever said that, you know what, I'd like to hear about some more of your ideas and some quality products. Oh but after that we'll do the scuttle but in which we discuss Look what happened in that hot tub? The conspiracy theories are out. A big celebrity death on Saturday Night at the details next nice I'm wonderful