You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak again. We have a pair of Green Day tickets to give away all week. I don't know if we'll do it one today or not. There's some seven for later in the week. Maybe make sure we're teasing across the entire week too. But five pair of Green Day tickets? Where's that out? It's gonna beat Globe Life Field on September eleventh, twenty twenty four. That's the home of
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fun. There are people who like Creed though, fun and then we'll go to that have a blast. Their names are Andrew Heeney, who the Rangers re upped. Will he be there? He will, He'll be in town. No, Actually, they may be a road trip for the Rangers September eleven. Next year. We'll see you. I really know he is back next year. Heine and Leclerk got their options picked up over turned the Rangers. Will the Rangers make a run it show? Hey, o Tani.
Maybe we'll get into that at nine o'clock today, but I think we should probably waste no more time and finally get to Cowboys and Eagles here because it's how it went. We have an intro for the segment called Sports at seven. I go and now Sports no sponsor today? Oh no, damn it. Yeah, well that's gonna hurt our bottom line. I relying air conditioning. I think you'll hear from quite a bit today, but I'll say this, if it doesn't impact our bottom line, maybe we'll have a sponsor tomorrow.
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did Aaron Aaron Andrews have an orgasm? These your all questions we're gonna answer at eight thirty and Dingu's Morning News Guests column from Kevo Cowways come out and they went, you know what, We're going to establish the run, run, run, pass and three and out and then the Eagles get it and go score real quickly. Four catches for AJ Brown on the first f and drive yep, and then gain will scores. It's seven to nothing Eagles right off the bat. What were your thoughts then? I thought AJ Brown was
gonna go for about two point fifty himself. Yeah, because he seems to be doing that. I'm surprised that he was held to sixty six yards when you look at the end, especially after how that game started. They did a really good job of adjusting quickly to whatever they did there. Yeah, because he got another catch on the next drive. I think he was at
five. I think at halftime he's at five catches. Yeah, I ended up with seven, So yeah, I know, not great at the very beginning, but I will say overall, and the rushing numbers are poor again three and a half yards per carry across the board. There was a couple of moments where I was like that kind of that looks like old Tony Pollard. Yeah, I don't know why. You know, it's not like the injury is still healing, you know when you've played as many games they have.
But he had some a couple bursts that really looked sort of impressive, but all in all, running game was pretty empty. You are going to go as far as Dak Prescott could take you, and he took you about as far as he could take you. And what how much more do you need do you need? He was? He was really good. I thought you're gonna have to beat teams like the Eagles by scoring thirty points, and
they almost did, so you know there's a there. You can go look at the short term of version of discussing this game, and we can and will. Okay, from the long term version of this game, though, I look at it and go, I don't see how given the problems it Well, the NFC is the Cowboys, it's the Eagles. If you want to throw Detroit there you can, and then it's the forty nine ers, and the forty nine ers have their woes. I don't think you've lost.
I don't think yesterday. Lost to the division by any means that Eagles are about to run through a gauntlet and the Cowboys are about to run through some nancies. Cowboys are next, four Giants at Panthers, Commanders, Seahawks. It's like this is the softest zone and it's kind of weird. The Syhawks are five win team. As someone who plays little Fantasy and has a Geno
Smith, he looks terrible. Yeah, I don't know how they're five and three, but yeah, no, you have the little soft run and then it gets really hard in December, dude, because you have the Eagles again, you have the Dolphins in Miami, you have I think at Buffalo. Yeah yep, so someone else good. So anyway, this is the spot where they're going to rattle off probably four straight wins and yeah, you're right, maybe maybe get themselves back into the conversation at least for the division.
The problem is, you win that game right through any of those one feet that you needed in assorted places. Eagles are on buy next week, you get the Giants. You I don't expect you're gonna smack the Giants. And that means if you won that game and you beat the Giants. You essentially take the lead in the NFC East. Yeah, and that's where that's where it hurts. Although most years, including this one, I'll probably go, you know what, Eagles and Cowboys are probably gonna hedge each other out.
They're gonna go one on one, right, hedge not edge, Yes, hedge not edge, Hedge each other out one and one and ride it off as a you know, as an even thing. Here's the Eagles have coming up bye week at the Chiefs on a Monday night, short week, against the Bills San Francisco, Dallas, and then at Seattle, and then they closed the year with Giants, Cardinals, Giants. So they will win the
year three to zero. Yep. Now if they want to, they may not have to play with eighteen, so you have a chance to make up that ground. And then we're set up for December tenth, you know, just thirty five days from now, we're set up for Cowboys Eagles Round two. And that can lead you to a lot of things. The Cowboys goal has to be a win the division. If you can't win the division,
be the five seed. That's it. Have the best record of the wild card teams because that will assure you that you are taking on the Falcons or the Bucks or the Saints, whoever wins that come out of the South. So go be the five. You're good if you're the six or the seven. That's where you're flirting with playing in Eagles or a forty nine ers team. You know, all the Seattle could hypothetically beat that, you know, win that division, the NFC West, because the forty Niners of's take
a mess lately. They were off yesterday. Lot. There you see the little stuff in the game. Personally, I don't have a lot of bad things to say about the way they played overall. Wasn't good enough. Penalties are a problem. Terrence Steele is not back yet. That is a problem, but it's not like anything that you can fix. And I don't think you would even consider replacing him at right tackle. Terrence Steele is gonna be
fine. I think he's still just getting back from an acl and he's gonna have games like that, and he's gonna have a couple of moments like that where he just gets beat really quickly. Yeah, maybe that's on your quarterback to get rid of the ball. I think some of those are too fast, you know, some of those happened really fast. In the end. Greg Olsen was really griping about their urgency on the second to last drive. Yeah, and I do kind of understand, But I would have had a
problem with it if they burned their time outs. By keeping those timeouts, you gave your defense a chance to get you the ball back, and they did, so you gave yourself, you know, two possessions there. So I don't really have a problem with their what what Greg was concerned about, they essentially handled. They just didn't execute their plays down the line and just couldn't get the ball in the end zone. Now, if you want to have the bigger, long term thing, why does it seem like they lose
these big games. Why does it seem like everything's a little discombobulated in those tense moments. Is that on deck? Yeah? I think a lot of that is on Dak. And I think it's not that he's bad in those moments, it's that he leaves you wanting more in those moments. I think that's a big difference. Yeah, and that's been consistent with him. But I thought he was great yesterday, And I don't know, unless I'm missing
one, I don't feel like any of those sacks were on Dak. You know, like you got to get rid of it, and yes, I guess, yes, you have to get rid of it. Yeah, you said they throw it a wrap that we say on from our couch is so so stupid, you know, relative to what that dude's seeing looking at. And you can't just throw an interception, and yeah, you don't want to just ground the ball, which you know they're calling the hell out of But he was sacked five times, and I feel like they were almost all on
Terrence Steele. That's not the case. I mean Zach an inside rush and gave up a sack technically, although he had to switch in there. Well, the Eagles put pressure on quarterbacks too. Yeah, and the d line is a bunch of animals, So I don't know. Yeah, in the biggest of pictures, you want Dak to have more of these signature moments and
go and beat these good teams and do it on the road. And yeah, it does fall into consistency of what we've come to expect of Dak and this team is you know, give us excitement, get kind of close, and ultimately don't get these wins of substance that you need these signature wins well, and that game changes on a couple of different elements. And this is where see, I have a hard time coming in and crapping on all of the cowboys when you do look at things and go, dude, legit one
two inches making a difference. The Schoonmaker touchdown that was called back. That is legitimately just the NFL world we live in where everything is reviewed. Yeah, you watch that to the human eye, and he lets a touchdown every time, and then you review it and you see, okay, he was half yard short. Yeah, we all knew it like the first time they showed it. And that's that. I ask you this though, and this hit me and i've't seen this anywhere. And you may be like, no,
that's stupid, but it was fourth and too right. If if Zach Zach, if Dak, you know, drop back and threw it to Schoolmaker or anyone at the two yard line, right and he gets tackled, we'd all be going, you have to throw it into the end zone. You have to make it to the end zone. But it didn't have you know it, I know it seemed like it. But whether it be the route or him, they still threw it short end zone and get wrapped. I mean it's fair to say afterwards, right, Yeah, in the moment,
you're like, that's probably good enough for a touchdown. But yeah, dude, they did a great job. Greg Olsen did a great job. The Greg Nator did a great job of showing that. Jake Ferguson should have done a better job on his illegal screen. You know, on the pick, play a little deeper there gives you a little more space than it's a wide up and easy touchdown makes sense. So let's again back to little things. Dak I saw it live, Dak stepping out of balance? Yeah, did
you? I don't know. I'm not much live. I'm like, yep, he's out, he stepped Did he step out? And I'm hoping I'm just an idiot. No, it was It wasn't even that close. I mean he was wasn't that close? And you're like, tough man, that's close. Are you mad at Dac for that? I don't know. I don't know a moment or you should you be mad at Dak for that? I don't know. I just know it's it's just it adds to another thing in the ledger of well there's another reason why this team can't get it done.
You know, in these crunch time moments for whatever, like a vet court. You know, it's not it's like a rookie thing. It's just kind of lose track and you know you're running for the corner. There's two things in play. It's the out of bounds line and the pylon. Yeah, you have to kind of know your launch point. But who the hell are we? I guess they would go for that, but yes, that was massive and he knew it and he walks off. He's like, oh
my god, I stepped out. And then you can tie the game with a field goal, and you do because you have the greatest kicker that's ever played the sport of football. Ununbelievable doink one, but you knew it was in after the doort, guys like, no pe missing this year. And then he's self corrected, knocks a fifty one yarder and what is it? Nineteen straight? Yeah, nineteen straight field goals to open a career NFL record. Brandon Aubrey. So I may upgrade my He's not going to miss a
kick this year too. He will never miss one for his entire career career. I feel like calling that he's not going to miss a kick this year. It's just too soft. The it guy is a bad man, missing anywhere near the right of that we had last year. We'd been here pissing and moaning absolutely rightly so about the kicker. So I think the other side is true too. He must be celebrated. So it's twenty eight, twenty three and they go for two. He steps out of bounds, then the
defense gets to stop his. Eagles had like I think, fourteen year olds on their last three drives total. Is it blam? Somebody had a great tackle on that. At open field, Cow's got the ball back with four forty three left on their own twenty eight. They passed to Seedee Lamb. We'll see underneath the Cooks. Third and ten, Dak gets Ferguson. Then two sacks happen third down at the two minute warning, and then Dak hits
Lamb down to the twenty nine. It's fourth and seven and they throw it to Jalen Tolvert on that comeback route and Dak slings it over his head. Tough play. People were gonna say it's past interference. I thought, if you're a rough and you're calling a flag, then I think that's weeny stuff. I did not think it was past interference. I thought it was just kind of My question was why are we throwing to Jalen Tolbert on fourth and seven? Yeah, that was a question, and now they asked that as
well with CD option and hell Ferguson option. I guess Ferguson's turned into that guy A hadn't he one game? It seems he was great though, But then they go through, they get they burn all the timeouts and they get the ball back so on their own fifteen and there's forty seconds left, and that's where you start looking at things where you're like, well, every second matters in this game. It's a weird g gotta pick on for a minute. But Camante Turpin, once a week we'll do something that makes you go
that was dumb. And then also once a week he'll make you go, I think he's gonna take this back to the house. You absolutely settle for the trade off there. Yeah, one of those dangerous kick returners in football. Bro, you have to come catch that because he doesn't make the fair catch, the ball bounces and five six seven seconds run off the clock and they start that driving their own fifteen to forty seconds left, and then they
throw the bomb ski down the left side. Pass interference, so move the ball up to midfield, and then they hit Ferguson and he gets out of bounce. Then there's the rough in the passer added to it for you know it. You're in there at the twenty hit seedee lamb, you're down to the eleven yard line. Twenty seven seconds left and you're on the eleven yard line and then Dad gets sacked. Didn't they make it closer? Do they not make it to the six yard line? Am I crazy? Yes?
Because the Eagles had it off sides penalty, okay, like the way I had it. They went from their own fourteen to the Eagle six with no timeouts and they did that in nineteen seconds. Incredible. I mean, that is it's good. That is unreal. And the Eagles think they were trying to melt down, and it was with mistakes, pass interference, roughing the passer. You know, you can question them, but they're still close enough to even be arguable encroachment. They were trying to melt down on the on
a big old stage. And then the Cowboys said, hold on, that's our this is our move. This is kind of what we do. Let us show you how hold the Bruski as he gets sacked, and then the delay of game and you get it sacked, and then the hustle of the line. Instead of spiking it, he just launches it out of the end zone like on the sack three seconds row it away and he almost kind of did the cross body just chuck. No, you shouldn't have done that.
I mean, I know the sack is brutal. That could be an interception, but he can't do that. Yeah, good god, they had him by the ball. They had him, dude, they had him and they needed one play. I mean the delay of game, I don't know. Yeah, it hurts you, and it looks it just just looks bad more than anything. You just still look like the team who has a lot of
penalties. Well and you are. They are, and they be kept sacking it with zero one or zero on the clock, and I get that it's loud and you have to do the Zach Martin hand wave to let him know when it's to go time, and I don't know that he can hear Dak doing the panic collapse now I don't care, go go, go, all right, they don't happens. And then the pass to ceedee lamb, I mean down to the two yard line, you know, Yeah, I don't
know, I don't know. I mean it's a mirror, you're looking for a miracle, and the way they have their defense so far back, I guess I'm okay with that one. Like otherwise it's essentially a hell Mary. Yeah, right now, if there was anyone trailing and and CD could have lateraled the ball right there. I was thinking, again, why not run the halfway there on like a slant route to CD? Right, he catches it wide open, plants his feet and throws a old bullet to the left
sideline to someone who's just standing there. I don't know, maybe that's a crazy ass play, but like an intended full pass one or two yards backward, you know, to Turpin or who's ever just kind of alone on the left side as the old tire defense converges down to the right. People have tried plays like that, you know, but it's usually on special teams or
something like that. But then you just dreaming crap up, like there's no great answer there either, just sort of throw a mini Helmary into the end zone, or get a completion and hope he can control it and maybe pitch it to somebody I don't know. A couple of little things, and you're in a position where you can just tie it and extend the game. And but do you see where I'm having a hard time coming in and just ripping them. I think they kind of played fine outside of the penalties, which
are constantly a problem. And it's gotten to the point of that I don't even even bitch you about it anymore. This team gets penalized a lot. It's what it is. It's never gonna change. We know that. I have a hard time. I don't those the Eagles are that better than they are. Well, I mean they're eight and one. They're a very good team. They're they're very good. Yeah, they do have seemingly more holes this year maybe the last year, it seems, when they were undefeated for
most of the season. But that's a hard place to win. So are you good enough to strut in there? I mean, you look a lot better than you did against the forty nine ers, But yeah, the fact that they had him by the nuts. I'm watching it right now. I'm stepping out of bum uh yeah dude and watching it again too. You're like, he like, you can't do that, he can't do that, and we can do this. Oh, let me just tell you this as it's horrible. Dak's never gonna do it, and that Dak's never gonna be done.
Dak, that Dak, I can't go there with you. And I can't do that because Mayaf and quarterback as a Packer fan is Jordan Love and he's terrible. So I can't. I can't play that game. I can't go the Taylor Heineke' out. I can't do that. Dak is good enough, Okay, he is good enough because I ain't playing the game of suck. I'm just not. If you're willing to do that, then you're ballsy if you want to do that. And there are a lot of people out there do say Dak sucks. I had to do the whole thing and move
on and no, that's what we do. No, No, now, yell at coaches and quarterbacks only. And there's one hundred people in here, you know, contributing to everything that happens out there. I think the Cowboys could go beat them in a month. And then look at the records and I think they'll both have three or four losses. Dude, totally dog fighting down to the end. Cowboys have four hundred and six to the Eagles two
ninety two. I mean, they won most things. My fear is that we're gonna look back and last year I look back at losing that Jacksonville game, which you had, you know, I think we're gonna look back at like losing that Cardinals game back in September, and go, if you would have won that one, you would have won the division. I think it's gonna be that close. And now those are the little problems you have. But this is not over. This team is okay. This team is okay.
Well I was a fourth down party, wasn't it. Oh my god? So much fourth down seven total, seven total fourth down attempts. No Cowboys went three or five, Eagles went two or two. I mean that cooked pretty much all day yesterday. So I don't Michael Gallop dropping that pass on third and five. Oh, there's so many things. Yeah, I have a Kevio's Morning News coming up at eight thirty five where I've got some audio, some observations from the game. We'll review, our Ghost Pepper Pavilion
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