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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Pan and camps are going to be opening here pretty soon,
the Cowboys starting twelve days out in California. And yes,
football season is just a few weeks away if you
count preseason games, and the regular season for college football
is seven weeks from Saturday. There'll be some Thursday and
Friday night games that week as well. And the first
NFL game is eight weeks from tonight. So we're fifty
(00:25):
six days away from the first NFL game.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And how many days away are we from head coach Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Trailer in the mighty seven weeks yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So forty eight days.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know, you and the guys be careful when y'all.
You know, when y'all are on your way back after
you beat the little brother in that colt up there,
there's going to be you know what, Mike Elkham may
not make it to the locker room if A and M.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Even if you TSA beats them, they're still going to
win six or seven eight games.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh wow, Well, babe, maybe they just don't.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have a winning record. It's not like they're terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The definition of insanity Andy, that that's A and M
right there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
What would you expect them to do? That they haven't done,
let's see, win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But how are they going to get there? You win
all of your games? Yeah, do you win at least
eleven of them to the playoffs? Do they need to
hire somebody? Do they need to pay people more? I mean,
what do you what do you think they It's not
like they're not trying to do that. I don't know, Andy,
I don't. I mean, they've been doing it for one
hundred plus years.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And the only eighty five that's the last time they
won a championship.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, they've never won a national.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
They won a national championship in nineteen thirty nine. Really, yes,
are you sure?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I am one.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Nineteen thirty nine national champ I don't know what you
would want them to do that. They're not alway.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Trying to do Uh, you're right, yeah, yeah, they're only one.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well there you go. Well, it's not like they defeated
Tulane in the shirts.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tu Lane may have been a stellar power back in
the day. I mean, Army and Navy used to be
the top ten team in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
They're not anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Because they had the original in the first Captain America
back then.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's why, well you know, but they were army, and
Navy was good in the thirties and forties before Roger
Staubach was even born.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
All right, let's get to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Seth Walder writes for ESPN, and he is he has
this story online where he is grading all thirty two
teams and their acquisitions and trades from the off season,
and he gives the Dallas Cowboys a C. Now, there
are teams that got a D, and there are a
(02:45):
few teams that got an A, but the Cowboys get
a C. He is not very high on the acquisition
of George Pickens, and he does not like at all
the Cowboys running back room. But he does like the
fact that they have signed the defensive end and drafted
Donovan as Araku, so they're doing okay on the defensive side.
(03:09):
So here's my thought on the Cowboys. They won seven
games last year with a terrible offensive line, injuries on defense,
nobody to get take pressure off of Cde Lamb and
Rico Dadell is their primary running back and for most
of the back half of the season, Dak Prescott was
on the injured list. Dak is coming back. The offensive
(03:31):
line is better. They have George Pickens, who if he
will accept his role, and I understand that is a
huge if, if he'll take a back seat to knowing
that CD's number one, and because CD is still going
to get doubled until Pickens proves his worth. He's gonna
get a lot of targets and he better make some catches,
and he's gonna do a really good job.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to find the end zone some and.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I would say on all of those fronts, the Cowboys
have done well. Now, I agree that Miles Sanders doesn't
light my world on fire, and much more than Rico
Daddle did. But what does give me hope that the
Cowboys running back room can at least be decent is
the acquisition in the draft of Jayden Blue. I always
(04:18):
thought Jayden Blue was kind of overlooked at Texas because
he played in the shadows primarily of a quarterback in
yours and when Manning was in the game that took
all the star power, they got all the accolades. I
think Jayden Blue, if he can stay healthy, is going
to be a really good acquisition, and I would hope,
(04:39):
if not on opening day, at least by the second.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Or third week of the season.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If he's not starting, he's the primary back running the
football that he's getting twenty twenty five carries a game.
I think that will be a major difference. If the
Cowboys can somehow figure out a way to win seven
games last year with that dumpster fire that they had,
and would that coming back. I think they can at
least get to nine. Now ten is probably what it's
(05:04):
going to take to get you a wildcard spot. Now
you look at the NFC East and actually look at
the entire NFC. In the NFC South, Atlanta and Tampa
are the best teams, but they're likely going to win
that division with nine or ten wins and everybody else
is going to be well below them. And in the
(05:26):
NFC West, I think the Rams are the best team,
and I don't think that San Francisco, Seattle, or Arizona
is going to challenge for a wildcard spot. Maybe Seattle,
but they're a nine win team. I think the Rams
are an eleven or twelve win team and they win
the West. And in the Central I think there's gonna
be a lot of cannibalization going on there. I think
(05:47):
Detroit's the best team, but I think the Bears are
going to be better, not a playoff team yet. I
think Minnesota is going to be a little bit less
than they were last year, but still in the mix
for a potential playoff team, and green Bay is always decent.
And I think you could have Detroit win the division
with eleven or twelve wins and everybody else be eight
(06:10):
and nine or nine and eight. So the Cowboys can
get a wildcard spot even if they can't beat Washington
in Philadelphia. There could be a third team come out
of the NFC East if they can somehow get to nine,
ten eleven wins, and that's not a stretch when you
look at the fact that they won seven last year. Now,
I don't think that Brian Schottenheimer is a terrible coach,
(06:32):
but we're not going to know if he's a good
coach or not until he actually gets to coach a
game with him being in control and him being the
one that's calling the shots. So I don't think the Cowboys.
I would give the Cowboys a B or B minus,
not necessarily to see because I still am questioning the
running back room and if the running back room is
(06:52):
not only productive but is a threat to the defense,
where they have to honor third down and one third
down and two as but potential running downs. Then I
think the Cowboys could be in some trouble. But if
you listen to Colin Coward, if you listen to all
the national shows, everybody thinks the Cowboys are going four
and thirteen and they're going to be in complete rebuild mode,
(07:14):
and then that Schottenheimer is going to last one year
and Jury's gonna actually go higher.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Coach, I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think this Cowboy team is going to be close
to or a little bit above five hundred, and if
they get the right breaks and Dack stays healthy, they
could win ten games and sneak in as the seventh
seed in the East. But that the hour glass may
not be completely completely full, but it's not completely empty either.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and I have a feeling that the fact that
they have not given Michael Parsons the new contract deal
as well, that that's probably what's affecting that potential rating.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But they got another wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Regardless of whatever however people think about him, he's still
a very good number one, legit number one receiver. They
addressed the running back room. Whether you like him or not,
we actually do have running backs on the roster, you know,
even besides duce Vaughn. You know, you talk about Jayden Blue,
(08:17):
who at Texas took advantage of the opportunity that he
was able to get because the reason he was able
to play was they lost.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Their highly touted recruit CJ. Baxter in the spring spring
spring game, not spring game, but in training camp last year.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Training camp is last year, you know, toward the a
CL and then another one of their running backs toward
the a c L as well. So Jayden Blue got
you know, hey, you're gonna be the number one. He
was battling it out with the young freshman Jared Gibson
as well. But he waited his time because Andy Jaden
Blue was in a running backs room of b Jon Robinson,
(09:00):
Oshawn Johnson, Keelan Robinson. So he waited his time and
waited his turn, and we got to see what he
can do. He is one of the fastest players that
was on the Longhorns roster last year. The only issue
that he had and it came towards the end of
the season, he had an issue with fumbling. That was
(09:22):
the biggest criticism that I had on him was he
had issues with hanging on to the football. I want
to say he had a couple in like the last
two or three games of the season, not counting the
game against Ohio State. But you know he's going to
be the number one. If not by week one, he
(09:42):
should be no later than week two.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I think he should be the starter right out of
the gay. Now, Miles Sanders has been around before, so
maybe he's got some opportunities there. But I think when
you have a running back and an offensive line in
tandem that are good enough that third and two at
least fifty percent of the time is running down, then
you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Convert a lot of third downs.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And so that's the thing I'm looking at from the
Cowboys point of view. But I don't think the doom
and gloom of the Cowboys. They're at worst if they
miss the playoffs, it's only gonna be by a game
or two. And my guess is that they're gonna be
drafting in the teams, not in the one, not in
the first ten picks of the draft next year. I'll
be surprised if this is as bad of as a
(10:24):
lot of people are saying that it is all right.
Scotty chopin going on and Scotty is three off the pace.
We'll run down everything that happened in North Barrick today Next,
it's the Indie average show on the ticket.
Pan and camps are going to be opening here pretty soon,
the Cowboys starting twelve days out in California. And yes,
football season is just a few weeks away if you
count preseason games, and the regular season for college football
is seven weeks from Saturday. There'll be some Thursday and
Friday night games that week as well. And the first
NFL game is eight weeks from tonight. So we're fifty
(00:25):
six days away from the first NFL game.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And how many days away are we from head coach Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Trailer in the mighty seven weeks yesterday?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So forty eight days.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You know, you and the guys be careful when y'all.
You know, when y'all are on your way back after
you beat the little brother in that colt up there,
there's going to be you know what, Mike Elkham may
not make it to the locker room if A and M.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Even if you TSA beats them, they're still going to
win six or seven eight games.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Oh wow, Well, babe, maybe they just don't.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Have a winning record. It's not like they're terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
The definition of insanity Andy, that that's A and M
right there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
What would you expect them to do? That they haven't done,
let's see, win a national championship.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But how are they going to get there? You win
all of your games? Yeah, do you win at least
eleven of them to the playoffs? Do they need to
hire somebody? Do they need to pay people more? I mean,
what do you what do you think they It's not
like they're not trying to do that. I don't know, Andy,
I don't. I mean, they've been doing it for one
hundred plus years.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
And the only eighty five that's the last time they
won a championship.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well, they've never won a national.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
They won a national championship in nineteen thirty nine. Really, yes,
are you sure?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I am one.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Nineteen thirty nine national champ I don't know what you
would want them to do that. They're not alway.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Trying to do Uh, you're right, yeah, yeah, they're only one.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well there you go. Well, it's not like they defeated
Tulane in the shirts.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Tu Lane may have been a stellar power back in
the day. I mean, Army and Navy used to be
the top ten team in the country.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
They're not anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Because they had the original in the first Captain America
back then.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's why, well you know, but they were army, and
Navy was good in the thirties and forties before Roger
Staubach was even born.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
All right, let's get to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Seth Walder writes for ESPN, and he is he has
this story online where he is grading all thirty two
teams and their acquisitions and trades from the off season,
and he gives the Dallas Cowboys a C. Now, there
are teams that got a D, and there are a
(02:45):
few teams that got an A, but the Cowboys get
a C. He is not very high on the acquisition
of George Pickens, and he does not like at all
the Cowboys running back room. But he does like the
fact that they have signed the defensive end and drafted
Donovan as Araku, so they're doing okay on the defensive side.
(03:09):
So here's my thought on the Cowboys. They won seven
games last year with a terrible offensive line, injuries on defense,
nobody to get take pressure off of Cde Lamb and
Rico Dadell is their primary running back and for most
of the back half of the season, Dak Prescott was
on the injured list. Dak is coming back. The offensive
(03:31):
line is better. They have George Pickens, who if he
will accept his role, and I understand that is a
huge if, if he'll take a back seat to knowing
that CD's number one, and because CD is still going
to get doubled until Pickens proves his worth. He's gonna
get a lot of targets and he better make some catches,
and he's gonna do a really good job.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to find the end zone some and.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I would say on all of those fronts, the Cowboys
have done well. Now, I agree that Miles Sanders doesn't
light my world on fire, and much more than Rico
Daddle did. But what does give me hope that the
Cowboys running back room can at least be decent is
the acquisition in the draft of Jayden Blue. I always
(04:18):
thought Jayden Blue was kind of overlooked at Texas because
he played in the shadows primarily of a quarterback in
yours and when Manning was in the game that took
all the star power, they got all the accolades. I
think Jayden Blue, if he can stay healthy, is going
to be a really good acquisition, and I would hope,
(04:39):
if not on opening day, at least by the second.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Or third week of the season.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If he's not starting, he's the primary back running the
football that he's getting twenty twenty five carries a game.
I think that will be a major difference. If the
Cowboys can somehow figure out a way to win seven
games last year with that dumpster fire that they had,
and would that coming back. I think they can at
least get to nine. Now ten is probably what it's
(05:04):
going to take to get you a wildcard spot. Now
you look at the NFC East and actually look at
the entire NFC. In the NFC South, Atlanta and Tampa
are the best teams, but they're likely going to win
that division with nine or ten wins and everybody else
is going to be well below them. And in the
(05:26):
NFC West, I think the Rams are the best team,
and I don't think that San Francisco, Seattle, or Arizona
is going to challenge for a wildcard spot. Maybe Seattle,
but they're a nine win team. I think the Rams
are an eleven or twelve win team and they win
the West. And in the Central I think there's gonna
be a lot of cannibalization going on there. I think
(05:47):
Detroit's the best team, but I think the Bears are
going to be better, not a playoff team yet. I
think Minnesota is going to be a little bit less
than they were last year, but still in the mix
for a potential playoff team, and green Bay is always decent.
And I think you could have Detroit win the division
with eleven or twelve wins and everybody else be eight
(06:10):
and nine or nine and eight. So the Cowboys can
get a wildcard spot even if they can't beat Washington
in Philadelphia. There could be a third team come out
of the NFC East if they can somehow get to nine,
ten eleven wins, and that's not a stretch when you
look at the fact that they won seven last year. Now,
I don't think that Brian Schottenheimer is a terrible coach,
(06:32):
but we're not going to know if he's a good
coach or not until he actually gets to coach a
game with him being in control and him being the
one that's calling the shots. So I don't think the Cowboys.
I would give the Cowboys a B or B minus,
not necessarily to see because I still am questioning the
running back room and if the running back room is
(06:52):
not only productive but is a threat to the defense,
where they have to honor third down and one third
down and two as but potential running downs. Then I
think the Cowboys could be in some trouble. But if
you listen to Colin Coward, if you listen to all
the national shows, everybody thinks the Cowboys are going four
and thirteen and they're going to be in complete rebuild mode,
(07:14):
and then that Schottenheimer is going to last one year
and Jury's gonna actually go higher.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Coach, I don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think this Cowboy team is going to be close
to or a little bit above five hundred, and if
they get the right breaks and Dack stays healthy, they
could win ten games and sneak in as the seventh
seed in the East. But that the hour glass may
not be completely completely full, but it's not completely empty either.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, and I have a feeling that the fact that
they have not given Michael Parsons the new contract deal
as well, that that's probably what's affecting that potential rating.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
But they got another wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Regardless of whatever however people think about him, he's still
a very good number one, legit number one receiver. They
addressed the running back room. Whether you like him or not,
we actually do have running backs on the roster, you know,
even besides duce Vaughn. You know, you talk about Jayden Blue,
(08:17):
who at Texas took advantage of the opportunity that he
was able to get because the reason he was able
to play was they lost.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Their highly touted recruit CJ. Baxter in the spring spring
spring game, not spring game, but in training camp last year.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Training camp is last year, you know, toward the a
CL and then another one of their running backs toward
the a c L as well. So Jayden Blue got
you know, hey, you're gonna be the number one. He
was battling it out with the young freshman Jared Gibson
as well. But he waited his time because Andy Jaden
Blue was in a running backs room of b Jon Robinson,
(09:00):
Oshawn Johnson, Keelan Robinson. So he waited his time and
waited his turn, and we got to see what he
can do. He is one of the fastest players that
was on the Longhorns roster last year. The only issue
that he had and it came towards the end of
the season, he had an issue with fumbling. That was
(09:22):
the biggest criticism that I had on him was he
had issues with hanging on to the football. I want
to say he had a couple in like the last
two or three games of the season, not counting the
game against Ohio State. But you know he's going to
be the number one. If not by week one, he
(09:42):
should be no later than week two.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I think he should be the starter right out of
the gay. Now, Miles Sanders has been around before, so
maybe he's got some opportunities there. But I think when
you have a running back and an offensive line in
tandem that are good enough that third and two at
least fifty percent of the time is running down, then
you're gonna.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Convert a lot of third downs.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And so that's the thing I'm looking at from the
Cowboys point of view. But I don't think the doom
and gloom of the Cowboys. They're at worst if they
miss the playoffs, it's only gonna be by a game
or two. And my guess is that they're gonna be
drafting in the teams, not in the one, not in
the first ten picks of the draft next year. I'll
be surprised if this is as bad of as a
(10:24):
lot of people are saying that it is all right.
Scotty chopin going on and Scotty is three off the pace.
We'll run down everything that happened in North Barrick today Next,
it's the Indie average show on the ticket.
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