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tell me everything you know about Sam Howell. Sam Howell was a quarterback at North Carolina. He's in his second year. He was a guy who didn't get to play much last year because Washington was like, let's have a chance and compete, so they ran a lot of Taylor Heineke out there. Washington now is a team who's traded defensive end Chase Young to the forty nine ers for a third round pick. They traded defensive end Montes Sweat to the Bears
for a second round pick. They've basically given up. And you know that they've given up because they lost to the Giants and Tommy DeVito last week, which as a guy who was in New York at the time, as I was flipping through on Sunday night, it's kind of interesting to flip to the
New York news channels too. God, the amount of just wild things that happen that are so normal for them and every day just crime, right, But Tommy DeVito is live doing the Mike Doosey or New He Shrug Show or whatever that it would be in live and studio, and I was like, what a beating He played a football game today and he's got to go do a five minute TV interview on Sports Night, New York or whatever. Like,
dude, Dak, I'm sorry. Dak would never have to go to the Fox four or Channel five or Channel eight studios and do a five minute interview after a game. Well, neither would Daniel Jones. It's because he's Tommy, Because he's Tommy DeVito and he can't say no to media requests at this point in his career might as well take advantage of it. How do you get beat by the Giants? How does anybody get beat by that Giants
team? There was a wild play that happened in that game where Sam Howe was running to the end zone, was about to score and two Giants just basically picked him up and threw him out of ounce and it started a big fight on the sidelines. The guy got ejected. It was very funny because Sam owl was basically he was flying through mid air. It's strange because he does have some like he can run a little bit, but he's not good.
And that's what I end up coming back to. So you were in New York on Sunday for the I guess it would have been what eleven am kickoff for the right, Yeah, a little later start. Were you able to watch the game? I was able to watch it in a fashion that is not watching it closely phone. I was at a brewery in Brooklyn called the Other Half, which is known as a decent brewery. But I had they had read Z and I had my phone on, so I was kind
of, you know, bouncing around, but I was also drinking. Any thoughts A lot of playing with your food there, But I think that's a little bit to be expected after you wiped out the Giants, and I mean a lot of people. Well, the Cowboys and the Lion should be used to this. Every year they have this gauntlet where they play three games in eleven days. Okay, yes, they also like some of these games are challenging. These are three, you know, opponents that can't be taken seriously,
no matter what you think of them. Right So, and there were some people kind of bitching about the Cowboys playing with their food a little bit. I'm not in that boat. I think the Cowboys are just trying to get through that thing healthy. Win clearly, get through it healthy, and then you know, I think you'll see a good effort from them tomorrow. I don't think you'll see them screwing around tomorrow. I really don't. Yeah, I did this on and I wanted to play this for you and JJ.
I'm gonna fire off a little bit of audio right here, so just to revisit a little bit the Cowboys Panthers game. Because Katie wasn't here until he wasn't here on Monday and Tuesday's first time he's probably getting to hear these calls. So the Cowboys are up seventeen to ten at the start of the fourth quarter, and you talked about how they kind of played with their food and how in the hell is this ding Dong Panthers team even in this game
realistically? Yeah, with fifteen minutes left, and I thought this was pretty fascinating because this following sequence I'm gonna play for you all happened in about four minutes. Okay, this is how you fourth quarter if you are an elite team or a very very good team. I don't know if the Cowboys are considered elite yet, but they're really pretty damn good. And this is how the fourth quarter basically started, and how the Carolina Panthers were absolutely out of
it with zero chance to come back after about four minutes. Here the Cowboys won big hole power run up the middle twenty five be the toy line is he in he is Pollard? Baller baller ass run? Really did? It? Looked like old school Tony. That was great. A mere ten seconds afterwards, we get this, here's bride Sean, what's the time here? And it's intercepted. It's for Ron playing again. Plan you can save another pick six and he's done it. It's his fourth of the year. Sounds
like they're in Arlington. Yeah uh so, Yeah, Doron Bland gets his fourth pick, sixth of the year. The Cowboys go up by fourteen. The game is basically over there. Yeah, that Carolina team ain't making up twenty one points at that point, No way, don't they had a chance. And if there was anything left up for debate or any question, this was what happened on the first three plays after Carolina got the ball back and are down twenty one to nothing. Young in trouble he is said, it's
Parsons again with help from curse. Pressure again, any show as pressure again, Parsons again. Young in Trouble stays a lot now he dropped the football him, Who's got it? Dallas? Good night. That's a part of the game where Brash shows going Jesus. Yeah, he was saying Jesus a lot during that game. But yeah, I fully expecting I we'll get to some picks here in a minute, but I fully expect a lot of the same. You know, it's football for a reason. Dallas is firing on
a lot of cylinders right now, especially offensively, especially defensively. After that game against Carolina. I mean, what a what a great A great way for Parsons to come out of an over in the week before, Hobo say this. He was an outstanding He was good knack. You could see that coming a little bit because he was clearly frustrated with how that a Giants game went for him. So I get criticized a lot for being hard on Mike McCarthy, and I am and I'm fine with it because I think the things
I can plain about with Mike McCarthy are fair. I think they're very fair. I have problems sometimes with play calling. That's a little different right now because things are going really well, although you've been playing a lot of cake walk components. I have problems with time and game management, always have, and I have problems with this unaccountability. That's why I think he's not I think he will pass the buck. He will pass the buck, and I
don't like that. We've seen it happen here after a playoff loss two years ago. You know, talking about penalties, Well, that's on you. You were to was penalized a lot this year. So when your team gets penalized that many times in a game, it's not the rest fault and there's that. So I've been hard on him. I also compliment him a lot, and I think I need to be uh, I want to be like
I've always been pretty fair towards him and a couple of things. He has a big picture outlook on the season, and I appreciate that because there's so many damn coaches that are it's all whatever game and you're lock in on what they get. He will try to get guys out of the game. I think, you know, we've seemed a little bit took Dack out of the game a couple of weeks ago, two back to back weeks with Cooper Rush
playing yep. But he does believe in keeping guys healthy ramping up at the end of the year, because that's how he won his for Super Bowl. That team was not healthy at all, but they were playing well, got hot at the end of the year and ran through the playoffs. And this is the last cake Walk game until Week eighteen when you play them again,
and then you're looking at five straight games. You're gonna have Seattle next Thursday, Philadelphia on the tenth of December, then you're gonna get at Buffalo at Miami on Christmas Eve, and then you will get Detroit at home on Saturday night, which I think is December thirtieth's that's tough. It's a little bit like that we talked about. The Eagles are going to the Gauntlet where they just had the Chiefs. The Eagles get the Bills this week. I go
back to a couple of things. I want to give McCarthy credit that McCarthy has prepared them for. We know these games, I guarantee you behind the scenes, we can't take them lightly blah blah blah. But we know these games are not what we're about to They know what, they know what was about to turn into and very you know. Fortunate for them, they've had some Patsy's on the schedule to be able to kind of go through some stuff
to practice against a lesser opponent. It's almost like, if you look at their season divided into two parts, the second half of it, these games we've seen in the one that we'll see on Thanksgiving Day, it's kind of like a second preseason for them a little bit. No, it kind of isn't, which is good as long as one gets hurt, right, Yeah, as long as everyone say's healthy that's as you come up, and as you mentioned, he's been pretty diligent about getting starters out when they're no longer
needed. Yeah, I think he's I think he's pretty big on that. I think he's like that in training camp too. And some people say, well, the training camp they don't really do anything, and no one, Well, the Chiefs do, but not a lot of teams practice hard in the preseason. On the other hand, can you imagine what Dak's numbers would be. It would be if he were left in these games for the duration
against crap teams when they're absolutely buried. Yeah, And I know people don't want to hear it because we haven't won a big, close game against a really good team yet. Dak deserves to be in the MVP discussion right now. He absolutely does, because you can go around well in Buffalo, they want to fight you on Josh Allen right now. Look, the Bills are good. The Bills are six and five and might miss the playoffs. They're
good. There's one stat I do like. I don't like this in baseball too, but I do like it a lot in football as well, because it just shows you, over a long period of time, how dominant a team is being. I think point differential is something you can look at. It's not fully running up the score on bad teams. It is sometimes it sure worked out in the Rangers favor this year. Boy, as sure as all like through the end of it, you go, well, the run
differential will be way different at the bullpen. Wasn't blowing a bunch of leads too. It shows you you're in. You look at those teams whose run differential was way above everyone else is You're like, yeah, that's about right. Run to a point differential. In the NFC, Cowboys number one one at one twenty seven plus one twenty seven, forty nine Ers number two at
plus one twenty two. Cowboys have I think more of the schedule has been a little easier, I think than the forty nine ers to like let them maybe do it. We saw what happened when these teams played. So I'm not gonna come and tell you the forty nine the Cowboys are better than the forty nine ers. I'm not. I do think the Cowboys are better than the Eagles, and I think we'll see this play out. The Eagles are eight or nine to one, they're going to lose. They're going to lose
at least two more games. The problem the black They just beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead after being down, I know, and the Chiefs beat at first half unbeatable. This is where actually defensively, my god, I think the Cowboys black eye on this season. I thought it's come back to this three or four times. Is that Arizona game we get it out? That time cost you. This is going to cost you. Yes, yep, because all you is beat Detroit and you're gonna play them. You're gonna beat Detroit,
the one thing that got an easy path to hopefill advantage. I will say this about Dallas right now, as compared to what they were when they played who they were as a team when they played Arizona. They don't lose. They don't lose that game now, No, I don't think so. You know, they're trying to figure things out, and maybe that's the downside. McCarthy's take a little while to get together. It takes me all Craper go with the Paul Well. Sometimes you just go sell on the paw Well.
Week five, we'll figure it out. By the way, I'm just making all this up as I go, because like everybody else in life, I'm winging it too. It's turned into Elvis a little bit. That's over the AFC. It's the Ravens at plus one twenty seven, the Bills at plus one o four, the Bills who are currently the eight seed in the AFC and may miss the playoffs. That's crazy. If you told me the Ravens, the Bills, the Cowboys and the forty nine ers like the four
best teams in the league, I'd go yeah. With's some room for debate for the Eagles, and some room for debate for the Lions, and the room for debate for the Chiefs. They're right there maybe. I mean it's you know, the Dolphins are kind of like I think they're good. I
think they're really good. Depending on what happens between now and the Buffalo game, my Dak might win the MVP that night against Buffalo in a head to head match, It's yeah, and then maybe fire it up again match against uh Tua true, and then a head to head match the week after against Jared Gruff. I mean, the season is defined by and I won't even
take Seattle that seriously, I just don't. But yeah, they're probably gonna make the playoffs, and we'll need to see them tomorrow night against the forty nine ers and the nightcap as we do triple headers on Thanksgiving. Now, if the bottom line is as as Dak goes, this thing will succeed as he goes, This team goes regardless of how great this defense is, and keep in mind they're badass. Yes, this is a very ver this is
an elite defense. Get this. Cowboys have not allowed a one hundred yard rusher, they have not allowed a one hundred yard receiver, and they have not allowed a three hundred yard pass so far this year. That's incredible. That is an incredible You don't see that happen anymore. But regardless of how good your defense is, this team will go only as far as Dak can take them. And based on the play that he has exhibited since the bye week, if he keeps this up, there's no reason for them not to.
I don't say went out, but put themselves in a very good position going into the playoffs. He can also absolutely crap the bed and bring all the naysayers back and all the see I told you so, guys, he was never that great. You can't win with him at quarterback. He's just a caretaker. You know, you got to surround him with better talent. You're gonna get all of that argument again, which is kind of good and bad because it does put this entire season on his shoulders moving forward, and
it does the success of this team is one hundred on his shoulders. Someone dug up, perception wise, someone dug up his old tweets, and then they came out when he was drafted of him kind of being hard on Romo, and it's very funny. It's it's dacked from twenty sixteen before he was drafted, so that's just twenty fifteen whatever, And it's funny to read. I mean, the tweets are like done with Romo, no excuses, He's
going back. It's like, this is the life you live. If you win, it's fine, and if you lose, people are gonna be hard on you. Is he a cowboy fan growing up? He was, And he had some harsh tweets, not harsh, but like he had angry fan tweetings. He commented on that, like how young was he college? Yeah? Okay whatever, Yeah, no, who cares. It's just funny to really, because like that's the life he's living right now and he can handle
it. It's something not that big of a deal. This is where I was thinking about a lot of things, and I think this is very important to remember when it comes to the Cowboys. See the Lamb pouting, throwing a fit, whatever he did on the sideline, but then basically saying give me the ball changed the entire offense. Yeah, And it was almost like, hey, I'm here, dummy, give me ball. I'm good. And McCarthy goes, oh, yeah, just we'll wake up and gives you
a bowl. Now. Now he got Seedney Lamb's getting the ball that many times, and he have to have a big day against Carolina. I know they get through it. That's the key to unlocking the offense is having your number one step up and free up Cooks and Gallop and Tolvert and on the other guys are able to start, you know, contributing a lot more. And that's where I think the offense has gotten freed up a little bit, just the idea of we have our go to guy, let's feed the go
to guy. And it took him being a bitch. It took him being a bitch for a day or two because it was warranted. It needed to happen. We needed him to act like that. We needed him to stand on the sideline by himself and go, what are we doing? Why? We don't have to be this bad? And I think that's a big thing, and I'm glad it happened. Yeah, changed a lot of things. You know, sometimes Kevin being a bitch can serve the greater good. Hell yeah, dude, unless you work in radio, I've never seen it really
pan out me either. I'll do it sometimes just to see, you know, that's really just a social experiment, really, yeah, just to make sure that this is as a nasty bitch, make sure it still doesn't work, all right, seven twenty five. You're listening to the Morning Downbeat right here on ninety seven one the Freak. We're you here every damn weekday. We start our show at six am. We love it when you join us. Coming up next, we have these scuttle Butt featuring one Kevin KT Katie
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