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This is the Players Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCrae, Hecma Harrison, and New He scrugs.

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We're gonna do Hey, man, we are here at the TAJ Hall of Football in Frisco, the Dallas Cowboys headquarters. I'm heckm Harrison, He's Danny McCrae, and that's Buried Church.

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I hate that stuff. Bro. Went to the Dinners Wisdom team. You gotta get them things out.

They said, you're good, I gotta go and get them wizards. And she said, you've been doing a good job. Yeah, but some teeth in the back, you know, they you know, they cause you a little trouble. So on you, I'm gonna have to go ahead and get them out. How long you've been living with the wisdom teeth? Man, Look listen, my wife win't got her wisdom teeth taken out back in like twenty fifteen.

I had to go pick her up and take care of Bro. I'm like, I don't want to be.

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Hey, the same in mind. Man, what's going on with you? Bro?

Everything's good? Everything's good, man, Well that's good. Not too hot, not too cold, So man, I'm good. I ain't gonna lie to you, man, complain about.

Only man I know and leave keys to the Bentley and still go and started. I don't even know how they adjudgment. I don't know how they say where they do that. I don't even so you've been a load lady. Yeah, when you went about the frontal pedalizer, man big, they sent you a photo on the little machine. Bro. You got to go get the little machine. Bro calls you, like, seventy bucks, Bro, seven.

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I don't know what what. I don't know what inflation I was working with three dollars? Yeah, I can't do it. It's definitely, it's definitely forty dollars. But the players lound sponsored by twos Titos, the official chip and dip of the Dallas Cowboys. Cannot forget about our sponsor. For guys, we are getting close. We're getting close to this. This matchup on on on Sunday, man And what's exciting for me is the fact that the Miami Dolphins are playing

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You might have a preview the final four for Championship weekend. But but the but you know, Roger Goodell said, let's do it in Germany. We don't have to do it state side. I don't know who lost home game. I think it may have been Miami. But man, there's some big games coming up this weekend. Yeah, without a doubt, there's a lot of big time games. The number one, as we all know, it's gotta be Philly versus Dallas Cowboys.

And as we have the you know, Washington Commanders versus Eagles game going on in the background.

Look this defense, it can be had, It can be had.

Going earlier into this week, I'm like, in my man, I'm thinking all these mismatches are gonna be too much.

Philly gonna route them.

But as we get closer the game day, I start looking a bit a little bit more and more hearing y'all talk about this offense Roland and Dak Prescott and all that gus stuff. I'm starting to swape me a little bit because this defense can be had. We don't know how healthy Jalen Hurts is. I mean, he's ducking in dodging questions about his knee. So I don't know. Man's starting to you know, favorite the boys maybe a little bit here, Man, I don't know. I don't know.

We'll see.

Well that's all for Heckman to talk positively about about no, no, no, And then you go back and watch the game from last week and how they played, and you're like, you know what, the defense may be a little susceptible to some stuff that I let me tell you this. Okay, time prove consistency, all right. What the office did last week has happened one time this season. What they how they performed last week against the L. A. Rams has happened one time this season. The other forty point games

Man, I remember when Dak.

Prince got was throwing forty times, no touchdowns, all stuff. It's possible. I'm just saying, but I don't want you to feel that way. You know, just based off of one he looked down that office before he did he looked at that.

He did. Yes, here we go.

Objection you go with all of that. As you were looking at the all twenty two, what did you see? You saw Sam Howe missing wide open stuff out there. Samhow finished the game well. He passed for fifty to fifty two attemptsright, thirty nine thirty nine completion, three hundred and ninety seven yards against.

This vaunted, big, strong, tough.

Philadelphia Eagles defense, four touchdowns, one interception, and he missed a lot of plays. I'm just saying, when you go back and look at it, for all of the huff and puff about the Philadelphia Eagles defensively, there's a lot of stuff going on with him. Go to the film study Isaiah stand Back. He does a wonderful job of drawing it up, just showing you how this Dallas Cowboys offensive line if they can script the same way. And I'm not saying letter for letter from what the commanders did?

The numbers are here, Brian Robinson Jr. Ten Rushes fifty.

Come on, now, come on, now, you have to look at the situation. You have to look at a situation, especially for Tony Poller. What have we been talking about all week? This running game has to get what it has to get going. This is the game where you possibly can get it going. Because right now the Philadelphia Eagles are giving up chunk yards? He said, are we doing twenty out the playing again? Because it's morning? It's morning, bro, Because I listen this one, I don't understand. Okay, listen,

In front of you. Fair same thing with the Eagles.

So we go back and look at the all twenty two and who was susceptible to Wood. Don't forget about the Cardinals game. Okay, it was Josh Dobbs. We talked about Sam Hobby. It was Josh Dobbs that it was leakas there. We're still talking about the LA Chargers. How many passes that Justin Herbert missed when Keenan Allen was no.

I'm I'm never gonna say that.

We're probably gonna blow the dose off of them, but they're beatable because that's that's that's the game of football. Like the officive coordinator, the defensive coordinators got to figure out ways to get guys open. And sometimes it happens. Sometimes we miss quarterbacks, misreceivers, but blow the doors off year on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and you get coming here on Thursday.

I'm leaning up and not a defense not I just don't happen. I'm leaning us. I'm leaning up.

And so what I was telling you about yesterday was his offensive line. I was telling you about the offense. I was talking about A J. Brown, I was talking about Davonte Smith. I was talking about Swift. I was talking about the guys that's really getting things done. That offense is still A J. Brown is dominating. I can't take anything away from that, and if I could, I would, honestly I would, all right, but I didn't see that.

Even look, they got Jalen Smith, Kobe Dean, all.

Of these guys at Georgia Philadelphia team right defensively, Mike McCarthy has got to be looking at this Philadelphia team saying, we gotta take our shots with Ceedee Lamb. What have we been saying, Ceede Lamb's been begging for the ball, We've been looking for these opportunities. Well, look this this Philadelphia team is gonna play him man the man. They're not it's not gonna be no trick bag out there

You can't eat nowhere in the league. And come on, y'all played the game. You tell me no, No, I just told you. I don't know.

So when you talking about these opportunities that we gotta get yes or the Cowboys gotta get ceedee Lamb, gotta get galloped, gotta get Cooks involved. So are we saying going into this game? You know, we talked about it

To get a dumb I'm gonna say this, Barry. I think coming into the season, both of y'all were talking about Dak Prescott in the turnovers. He led the league into turnovers and he missed five games. That's abysmal as a quarterback. That's horrible. There's no excuse for that, all right, But this season, what did Mike McCarthy come into the season with an attention of detail on turning the ball over?

Last week when you.

Came into the Los Angeles game, it was like, okay, well, how do you play against the defense that you really don't know a lot about. But that same defense that we were talking about only allowed four passing touchdowns through the season. Dak did that in one game. So put it on Dak. That's the Day's your time, consistency and proof right there, because he's shown you that if you give me an opportunity in this offense, I can actually

They all got a tuddy in that game. Now, if I can't look at the.

Same guys that we've been talking about that wide receiver room that we did not go into the deadline making a trade for, you mean to tell me we can't duplicate that same effort.

D Mack, I'm looking at you. I'm not. I gotta listen. I'm not.

That's the thing I'm not falling for, bro, because we go through this every week, all right, how one team performs against another team.

The Eagles have lost one game.

And what I said I liked about the Eagles is no matter what's happening on whatever side of the ball, they figure out a way to win. So they go into that game, oh, defense not showing up offense to figure out a way to get it done. Defense is gonna make the stops when they need to make the stops. Every big time defensive game is not gonna look like going only allow on ten points.

Some of them look like, hey man, we're gonna get a.

Big time stop when we need it, and that's what the Eagles have been able to do. They are also multiple with their defensive Like if they don't show up last week, that damn showed on me, They're not gonna show up the next week because we know what their defense can do because we've seen them do it. So I'm not gonna play too much into what happened with the Washington team because that's the same thing that happened

And then even if we do become one dimensionally, you look at that Washington Receiver Corps. You know they got you know, Terry McClure and Dosos guys you just named. Outside of CD Lamb, when you talk about the Dallas Cowboys, where's that other production coming from the spread the Eagles out Because if we look at it, they were able to spread that ball around.

Because those receivers were getting separation.

They were able to go out there and beat those and beat those one on one coverages out there.

Where have we seen that from Gallup so far this year? You know?

And Boks is coming along ferguson that tight end group they're dropping past.

I just I mean, it's gonna be tough because if they're gonna they're gonna put a lot of infhasis on CD Lamb.

He can't go the past two games, he has nineteen catches, two hundred and seventy five yards. They're not gonna just let him go one on one out there. They're gonna have something for CD Lamb. So then it comes down to can Cook's gallop, Tolbert Ferguson and the crew. Can they win those one on ones? Can they help this offense be productive? Because we saw Washington their secondary receivers were able to do so as you just.

Named off those stats.

Can we still feel that way about this Cowboys offense or they're gonna have to be able to win those one on ones to be productive.

I see, I like you see, he sees you. You not.

You're looking at the season in its entirety and not just as Washington Commander's game, because all twenty two got you feeling real good about what you saw against the Washington Commanders in and you know, albeit that is what happened, but they ended up winning that game. I feel better about where Ceedee Lamb is. And I also feel better about the discovery of Brandon Cooks.

Discovery. No, he's he's been. We located this guy, and so look here's it.

And I guess I'll pose it as a question your expectation for Ceedee Lamb coming into this game after what you what you say nineteen two seventy something like last two games of last two games, your expectation for Cede Lamb if he is that number one unquestioned, because he's taking the next steps that you want him to as a wide receiver. What are your expectations for him coming into a game like this versus the Eagles, Well, you know, we got to show up listen ten targets, Like I

They should be going to Cede Lamb.

He should have the most targets, and then you should focus on how you get branded cooks involved.

I don't know if he's gonna.

Have one hundred and fifty whatever it is, because with the Cowboys, you never you never know how they're gonna play.

One week we come out.

There and we try to run it twenty five times, and the next week we come out and that Prescott is throwing four touch down. So I don't know what his numbers will look like, but I need to see him get ten targets. He cannot disappear he has to be a part of the game plan.

Yeah, this guy has got to be on his AJ Brown type game. I mean, he's got to go out there and find a way to be that number one target and find that way to move the football offensively. You look at AJ Brown, you look at some of those other receivers in the world or in the National Football League. Teams know that they're going to get the ball,

Me on.

So to me, he's going to go up against better competition. And this is why I say those other receivers have got to be able to step up because Cook Slave, he's arguably what a top three corner in the National Football League. Bradberry's not too far behind. So to me, that secondary is going to give him a lot more trouble than we've seen in the past two games. And that's why these secondary pieces gotta get wrong.

You have faith in Bernon Cooks. It's being that second piece if we if we include him in the offense and he's continued to be found and then all of a sudden disappeared, that you have faith that he can make it work out there.

Yeah, because speed kills. I mean, we all understand that.

And I think the Philadelphia Eagles that's what they struggle with defensively, is when you got a burner, when you got a guy that can get over top of the secondary and that's what Cooks. You know, he hasn't been able to do that consistently this year, but in years past he's been able to burn defenses. So if we're able to test them at least open it up a couple of times, I think we should have success in there.

Has got to be cd Land. He's got to be the guy out there.

And Dan, I'm gonna just tell you straight up, this is the game where Brandon Cooks has to show up, I can't come to Sunday night. I'm sitting there and I'm saying, I'm looking at Brandon Cooks, and I'm like, where was Brandon Cooks? Look at these numbers and we don't have completions or seven targets in eighty yards a touchdown.

If you can't do that, man.

It make the whole game plan easy for whatever else they gonna do, because then they could play in zone, they could be I mean, like you said, they play multiple They're gonna do different different things all the time.

This is the game. This is the game.

When I say discovery, I'm talking about we just the trade we didn't make. But that's the trade. Brandon Cooks is your acquisition that you needed at the deadline. Because if he shows up in this game and he gives you a big time production, then that means that the Eagles are trying to play extra attention to Ceedee Lamb take him out of the game. And he's the one component that went out there and wanted to Look. I ain't gonna lie to you, bro, I'm just processing. I'm

And then and then and then.

And then come here after you make the one ady and be like, oh huh, I've been saying this.

Nah, Bro, I know that, I know.

I know that the defense and the offense they different, but the blowing the dose off of them. Listen because you have to, huh, because you have to you have to play a physical brand of football versus Philadelphia. You know that it's the same brand of football that you didn't show up with with the forty nine ers.

And you got your doors. Put that, put that, put that tasty cake on it. Bro.

Man, Look, you gotta lot it. We got a lot to go, We got a lot to go, we got allowed to go. And matter of fact, we're gonna take our first break on that note. Talking tasty case We're gonna do that, and when we come back, we're gonna go back into this offense and see what they gotta do to get a win here. Because man, everybody know, all eyes will be on the Dallas Cowboys Philadelphia Eagles game on.

We'll be right back after this.

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See what your kids when you add another one to the family, be even more. Look at you ain't right, You're right. Let's go back to this football. I don't want to get this man out, but look, we want to talk about down the distance. What's the most important down in distance for the Dallas Cowboys. You're watching the game? Is the first down? Second down, third down? What's the most important down the distance for you?

To me, it's got to be the Cowboys gotta have some type of positivity on first down. We all understand third downs of money down, that's how you continue. You know you're driving all that, But leading up to that, it can't be, you know, second and twelve because that's gonna more than likely lead to a longer down the distance on third down. So I think you gotta be positive on first down. I'm looking for a lot of runs on first down, whether you know Tony pol just to keep them honest something.

I just don't want to.

Go into there against the chains because we all understand if you go out there and it becomes a third and long fest.

The Eagles are just like the Cowboys.

They're gonna go out there and hunt like that's what Dan Quinn loves for offenses to get in those long passing down the distances going against his defense, and that's the same with the Philadelphia Eagles because they can rush the passer. So to me, they got to get something done on first down, whether it's.

Two yards three yar. Don't gotta be nothing.

Crazy, but just something to where you can keep those third downs manageable. Yeah, I'm going first down, but just for a slightly different reason. I think it's more of you got to be able to mix it up on first down. You can't to me, you can't become like, hey, we know exactly what they're going to do on first down and then they can stack the box or trying to dictate what you're doing on first You got to be able to mix it up so then you can have them on their heels on second and third down.

Right, you want to make sure that you're not able to be kind of like a predictable offense. So for me, I want to see some boots, some waggles, maybe a quick slam, bubble screen, whatever it is. Just mix some stuff in there so you don't just become that same team on first down. Then y'all see at the beginning of the season. I think those first couple of games

Then his whole offensive play call and change.

So the question that we bring up, man, that's a big time question because that dictates the way that Mike is gonna call this game. So I flipped the question on you that if you're not having that success on first down and you are having to go with more wide open concept instead of just being generic and conservative, can the Cowboys play to that?

Yeah?

This is why, because at the beginning of the season, like what, however, you want to change your offense. Okay, don't forget who your defense is, all right, So whatever you start the game off and it's not working for you on first down, mix it up. Do not turn into we are gonna throw on first now every time, to where we gotta just hey, that gonna throw it fifty times, and if we win by that, we win by that.

If we lose, we lose.

You know, at the beginning of the season, Mike McCarthy came out, he said, we are going to play to our defense, right, make sure that they are rested so they can hunt when they get out there, because they are usually the difference makers in the games, especially our forty point wins. They have usually made some type of huge play to swing the momentum and make sure that the Cowboys on offense and then have a shorter field to score on.

So yeah, just mix it up, bro, mix it up. I don't want to see that.

I don't want to see that because you said it, Bro a lot of times when we go into that offense where Dak Prescott is going to be the guy where he's gonna throw it forty times, maybe fifty. It's just too iffy, man, it's just too iffy, especially against a defensive line who set the record last year for sacks.

That's true. You don't want to put yourself in that position.

Oh yeah, by the way, it's Tyresmith playing, Like what type of situation do you want to be in as far as hey, we behind the sticks and then now we gotta just face that defensive You know, I'm gonna let I want to make sure you stay on your one eight and feel come, I'm gonna.

Be there anyway. It's not gonna be nothing to you. What are you saying?

What were you saying as far as conservative game plan on first down or or open this up?

Man, I think it's tough.

It's tough because you can't play like you can't be too conservative to where they know every time you come out on first down, hey, they gonna do something either, you know, quick out of his hands fast, they're gonna run the football. You can't be that conservative because it makes you too predictable. But then again, you don't want to get in those long down distances. But to me, the Cowboys are gonna go out there and then they're

You got to keep them guessing.

That's why this the balance approach to me is the best, and that's why I feel like Tony Poller got to get his touches up just a little bit more.

And it doesn't have to be all runs like.

It doesn't have to be you know, we got to get this man eighteen to twenty two rushing attempts. It could be fifteen rushing then, Oh everything's kind of blocked or kind of covered up up there. Let me dump it down to Tony Polla a couple of times, a screen here and there, just different ways to get him the ball to make sure that this defense is kind of man should should we play uptight on these guys and take away the short stuff or do we play on top to make sure we keep everything in front

Then, you guys, expect a little bit more from our screen game. Absolute, Yeah, Like I think, yeah, I think that's one of one of the fastest of offense where I'm like, I would love to see some improvement in that area, all right, just all around though, like to I feel like Tony Poler should be a really good screen back.

He should be able, like a little bit out.

He should be able, Like we should be able to make some plays like that ceedee lamb turping those guys out there on the edge. We should figure out we should be able to figure out a way to get them involved in the screen Ferguson, We got guys who when you get the ball in their hands early and let them let them do what they do, I think they can make some play. So I would like to see our screen game, you know, become a little bit more successful throughout the season.

And I'm glad you brought up because I meant to talk about it.

Do you think he should get a little bit more for some snaps like every time the game he kind of it kind of makes something happen, whether it's a you know, reverse, let me throw them on an inside fade. When he seems to get the ball in his hands, he seems electric. So to me, would you want Turning to get a little bit more playing time? Seeing as though these wide receivers outside of C. D. Lamb, you know, cooks getting you know, we gotta see because you know,

I'm not saying he's gonna be out there all day, but I think that's a little bit.

I think he's the X factor also in this game, and he's a guy that can give your offense some juice immediately. The problem that we had in the two losses that we've had is that we got off to a bad starts.

Arizona.

You walked out there and it was it was literally looked like it was over before it started. San Francisco horrible start. And this is and that's for me, like when I look at this this Philly game, you cannot get off to a bad start in this game. And a guy like Cavante Turpin, whether it be in those specialty plays with him or something that he does special teams and we saw last week. Now, I don't know if the NFL is on notice, but y'all saw it.

So yeah, he's definitely an X factor.

I can see him making a big time play in the game for us, but I would like to see him a little bit more.

I want to call him.

Like Gadget plays, But Gadget plays.

You picking, I'll tell you tomorrow.

I mean, I'm allowed to pick Philings just because the way you came here to.

Just to spike you. You go with your heart. You going with your heart.

This is uh as we get closer and tomorrow, and I know you want to put a tasty cake on this. And the thing about it is, you know it's got to go both ways. It's gotta be something beneficial also on the other side.

I mean, you want to tell a twenty other player, I'll take any bet you give me off the plane. He did say that. Yeah, So.

In this matchup, guys, I mean, we we've talked about this offense all day. We we we talked about the defense. But there has to be a miscellaneous player. It doesn't matter offense defense, it is a miscellaneous player. That is, like, if this guy has a big game, we're gonna win this game. Who is that guy? Who is your Who is your miscellaneous guy?

M I S C. Who is your guy? My guy is Aubrey the kicker.

That's gonna be my If he out and he has a dominating day, which means he's going out there, he's making all the extra points, which means we're scoring some tubs. And if he's out there having a dominant day, that means the field goals are involved as well, which means this offense is ending each and every time they you know, they have the bather ending with some type of points, a kick, whatever, extra point, whatever the case may be.

I'm going for big fire. Yeah, like, what just happened? What time is it? Two thirty three? No, remember to six. Listen.

My first one was gonna be d Law, but I expect him already. You know what I'm saying. Yes, I gotta go, I gotta listen. If you are able to get an other weapon, all right, especially a weapon that can attack the middle of the field, because once you get somebody who can attack the middle of the field, it spreads the defense out right, then they have to focus on that part. It opens it up for the extra seve on the outside, which would be CD Lamb.

Single or the z out there. Whatever.

It spreads it out for you. So whoever that is, it's gonna be Cooks man. It'll open it up for Cooks. And it opened up for CD Lamb if somehow we can get Ferg in there working the middle of the field. And you see that with every team across the league. If they have a tight end, who can one create a mismatch with the linebackers and even on safeties and

We're just saying it was. It was bad.

And this is another situation where you come into a game where with a offensive coordinator, a head coach. That's going to test you with formation. It's definitely gonna test you with the tight end.

They have too many. Who do you cover?

So who do you see covering Goddard more out of Donald and Bell?

I said, Dom From what I've said, they've been putting Bell on on these side. They've been they've been having them out there, and you know he's done. He's done a good job because we haven't seen him out so he must be doing eye in courage because we haven't even been like man who's out there getting shirt so but but God is a different animal. Man, that's that's a different beast.

See, I got faith in playing and and Bell.

He's only giving me reasons to believe in what he can do, especially since he's been getting better every game. Okay, And if they are going to put him on the tight end, then I gotta know, I gotta believe that they've seen something in him that says that's our best chance is stopping this stopping this guy, because God, it is a real, a real weapon out there, so you have to figure out what to do.

I just don't know about Donald on and coverage.

Now, He's just the thing that I see about Dallas gott Is, he's so patient, he understands defenses, and he's not one of those guys that's gonna, you know, get run full speed to the linebackers. He's gonna, you know, play it, play the block, chip, get around the back, and then just way on jaylen Hurst to find right

Play in and play out.

De Marcus Lawrence is your most physical, dominating, intimidate, whatever you want to call it. He is that guy for our defense. So I mean, look, that's that's for me. He has to show up and my other guys gotta I mean, who are your other guys?

You know, come on, dogs zuga gotta he gonna get hit, He gonna get it.

It is start and it ends with number eleven.

So he doesn't if he doesn't perform, if he doesn't have if he's not balling, this defense is gonna suffer.

What I feel like, the defense feeds off of him.

I feel like I think if they go in the field and you guys, come on, y'all tell me when you're playing with a world class dog and y'all going to y'all turn on the film, y'all looking at this dude like, did you.

See what salt of you?

Oh?

You won't in on that. You won't in on that.

And so to me, I feel like that's what this defense does. They feed off of what number eleven does. So if he come on the field and he's.

Like, oh man, I don't know how this is.

Gonna go, everybody else can feed on that. You know, Hey, don't shoot me for this. Okay, who's having who's having the best year? The best the player that's having the best year on our defense? All right, all right, I may.

Take pick six? Is that the just steal it up? Because I mean, regardless if he threw the.

Ball behind him or where it is, I mean, that's a guy that's catching the ball and he's taking it to the house. That's momentum changing. He's done that several times, but right now, I mean it's one A one B. Michaeh is the tone seenter. No, I know you, I know I wanted to say that because he's a tone setter. But I'm just looking at a guy like dron Bland knowing that A J. Brown is out there and the slim reapers out there, if he's able to make some

An opportunity to do so because we looked at it as good as Hurts as looked at times this year, he's looked outstanding. He has turned the ball over ete interceptions far this season, second in the league, and then another three fumbles, So that's a that's eleven.

Wow.

So he's gonna have the opportunity to take the ball away. They gotta take advantage of it. Wow, you can't drop one. Don't give him but take it out there, take it out man. We're talking about feeding because that's the man. If we come back in here on money, it's gonna be some feeding up. And anyway, we're gonna take our.

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It is your week. Don't try and change it.

Dog.

No last year, bro, he did he or did he not? Say the Eagles was trash? Did they go to super Bowl? That?

I mean, what were talking about?

So I was arguing with you saying that they're not training, they're not trying to be killed, they're not trying.

They went to Super Bowl. We didn't. So I was right, you was wrong.

Anyway, last second, all the players lounge been doing this all week, Philly week.

Man.

I can't wait to see what y'all gonna do. I can't wait to see what y'all gonna do. I think I know what you're gonna do. But you you you well you didn't turn into the mail on me this week. Now every since we didn't one on one, you done got more political over.

He had.

I don't really have when we did our picks before the season started, Okay, I know for a fact I picked us to lose to Philly, uh in the first game, maybe the second one too, So I just I don't know I had them. I think you got a split. I have was going twelve and five. I think we got swept out of Eagles. I thought you was at thirteeny four. No, I said we was gonna let the last game go because we was gonna already be have our spot locked up.

Yeah.

Yeah, So tonight with Thursday Night Football, it's gonna be all eyes on this game tonight, all eyes going on everybody watching Prime tonight. You got the tend to see Titans versus your other boys.

It's your hometown, your time, man, a bird.

I know you got a terrible town around somewhere, somebody somewhere church, some church, some church, some church family member got they got.

Oh yeah, it's all around. It's all around. I don't even let them in my house though. Ones that house, my pop's the only ones that ain't like Man. Now, everybody.

All right, Church for you, hey, church Church has been in Texas so long. Somebody start asking where you're from, he'd be like, yeah, out there in south from up the way, from up the way, around you, block down the street, take away anywhere.

Texts ain't I can't turn the back of the bird, but take the street the wild.

So who y'all got, Man, I'm gonna stuck with you.

Who you got, I'm going Pittsburgh because that you know, when you play a team like this where Tennessee, we don't know DeAndre Hopkins had the four catches he spoiled, you know, on the scene last whatever. But Pittsburgh, I don't know. They be fine and waste to win. Man, they make the games ugly, and the ugly game is the best game for them. So I'm going with Pittsburgh. They did lose last week, so they didn't get back.

What I'm saying, they let you down.

I mean, come on, after the win versus the Rams, then they come back and they pull that first was it?

Dubal put it on. Jacksonville was a good team.

The good team, not that they later, like every team around the league is later, you know at this point. But they later against the JB. But I mean against who did Jvill lose to? Because they five and two?

Right?

Yeah, it was some something ugly and I was like, oh, man Houston or something. I think, oh yeah, what's your score? Twenty seven to seventeen, ten points?

I think the defense is gonna score for Pittsburgh. Give me Pittsburgh in this one, this one twenty four fourteen.

My wife just think you don't do that my wife.

I can't believe it.

What Look, we'll split household in the Pittsburgh Stealers man whisper because y'all know my uncle joke, damn throwing up man. My my daughter, I don't know what's going on with her.

Her other boys is the Stealers.

So so I do have a terrible talent in my house. I call you right now, Jersey. He don't lie that calling out. I sit up here trying to do a whole podcast, and she's gonna hit me. Doing ain't trying to throw it on me. I'm so glad somebody's holding what co work?

So what's your what's your school is?

Four fourteen twenty four fourteen. I'm gonna go with them again. Man, they disappoint me. Boy, this is it though. I'm with it like Atlanta. I got out there Atlanta Bandwagon. But it's boy, Pittsburgh, y'all do this to me again. I'm done with y'all. So I'm going Stealers twenty one. I'm going twenty one, twenty one, twenty one, thirteen, twenty one, thirteen, twenty one, thirteen. But hey, that has been real, Yeah, I mean plenty insight putting the extras and os and schemes.

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