September 5, 2025 • 5 mins
"Did Jalen Carter really spit in the cleavage of our quarterback?"That jaw-dropping moment sets the tone for a wild, hilarious, and brutally honest breakdown of the Cowboys’ season opener on this episode of The Ben and Skin Show, live from Pluckers on Lovers in Greenville. Join Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they dissect the highs, lows, and WTFs of a game that somehow felt like both a moral victory and a missed opportunity.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, yes, it is The Bit and Skin Show ninety
seven point one. The Eagle and we are on the road,
hanging out at Pluckers Lovers in Greenville, the og Dallas location.
Come on out here. There's a bunch of people hanging
out at the bar right here in front of us.
I snuck over there and I had to bite a
lemon pepper wing off. My wife's played over there. Got
me through the commercial break.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Man, Oh, the wings are so good here, so good.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We have lots to get to today, lots of fun
stuff to get to coming up at the bottom of
the hour in the Hollywood Shuffle the three most popular
shows that people are streaming right now. But we're talking
Dallas Cowboys football. They lose twenty four to twenty. But
we are certainly style pointing that loss because I think,
you know, it's the first game of the year. You
(00:46):
don't know what your team's gonna be like, especially now
that nobody plays in the preseason. Mika gets traded, you
have some concerns. You don't know what the offensive line's
going to be like. There's just a lot of things
you don't know. And man, they went toe to toe
with the Super Bowl tchmps last night, and I'm not
blaming it on anybody, but it's safe to say that
if Cede Lamb has a second half like he did
(01:08):
in the first half, i think we're talking upset here,
or at least at coming down to a final play
in Philly having the ball and having a chance. Two
huge drops for Cede Lamb. One was very difficult, but
the one that bounced off his hands would have put
the Cowboys at the twenty yard line with a couple
of minutes to go. You know what, it reminded me of, guys.
It reminded me of it's revisionist history. But since we
(01:31):
just watched the Netflix documentary series, I mean, the Cowboys
didn't win every game going away. They had tough games,
and when they absolutely had to have a play, they
went to Michael Irvin and he delivered. I'm not knocking
Ceede Lamb, but I'm just saying you expect those guys
to make those plays. At that time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He gets paid what thirty four million a year or
something something like that, you know, like that seventh highs
paid non quarterback in football. I saw that some people
were calculating at four drops for over one hundred yards
and you know, and you even even for him that
last ball, You're like, Okay, he was all out diving
for that. I wouldn't call that a drop, but for
(02:10):
his standards, he usually comes up with that ball, and
I guarantee you he's beating himself up for not coming
up with it. And so yeah, you could look at
it on one hand and say, yeah, there's so much
to be happy about, but at the same time, like
the way the game started with, you know, their best
defensive player, Jalen Carter getting kicked out of the game
(02:31):
for spinning on tack. That was such a gift and
amazing weren't able to capitalize on that. You know, It's
like they got to play us without Micah, but we
got to play them without their best defensive player too.
And then they lost a guard along the way too.
It's like they were they're very shorthanded comparatively. If we
had just been able to put a spy and maybe
(02:52):
it's like if we have Overshown, maybe Overshown is the
spy and maybe, you know, but we don't have him.
He's out hurt. But you know, they didn't assign a
spy to Jalen hurts, they brought four, they dropped back
in zone coverage or whatever it was, and then he
just basically stood around back there until he wanted to
run for a first down.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he wasn't trying to throw it now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But he didn't throw it last year, dude. The Cowboys
just played Philly on the road and lost by four
and had some drops on a final drive and held
Saquon Barkley to like sixty yards.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Also, you know that the Eagles also had a bunch
of penalties, a lot of them awarded the Cowboys first down.
So it's got lucky on that end.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
True.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The problem with the Cowboys, I think now is I'm
gonna do the other side now instead of looking at it.
His cowboys don't have the margin of error that they have, right, Like,
they can't like little things like this, You're gonna look
back later, Like, oh, and they had all those penalties
and CD dropped all those passes. CD had seven drops
last year. He had four last night. And Jalen Carter
spit in the Cleveland yard quarterback like when all that happened, Like, oh,
(03:52):
that's the difference in us making him missing the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, they also got the gift of on third and
twenty two, an absolute garbage call that benefited the Cowboys,
the red Blinking Ship personal foul in third and twenty
two that chop Ferguson had, What is he supposed to do? Yeah,
like there's nothing he can do. He didn't even really
try to hit him. And it's like, yeah, sure, I'll
take that, but it's like, that's a garbage call, boy,
(04:17):
and and dude, and really that whole sequence of First
of all, Miles Sanders has got to be the slowest
running back in the league, Like, how does he not
take that to the house? And a linebacker not only
catches him, but circles him strategically to try to bump
the ball out of his hand, and uh, and then
you know there was the uh there was a play
(04:39):
that Dak threw just I thought Dak was great all night, awesome,
but he underthrew Ferguson just a little bit. Or that's
a touchdown, right, And then none of that other stuff
that happens, the pickens melde and the fumble and all
that stuff doesn't matter. And how about Dak's tackle on
the fumble?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Tackle saved the game? That whole sequence deserves a full
segment later on that game.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
We'll do it for we'll get back into it, but
uh then we have cussing the cowboys at five Lots
of cowboys today. But coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle,
let's do the three most popular streamed shows right now
live for pluckers lovers in Greenville here on the Eagle
Ah, yes, it is The Bit and Skin Show ninety
seven point one. The Eagle and we are on the road,
hanging out at Pluckers Lovers in Greenville, the og Dallas location.
Come on out here. There's a bunch of people hanging
out at the bar right here in front of us.
I snuck over there and I had to bite a
lemon pepper wing off. My wife's played over there. Got
me through the commercial break.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Man, Oh, the wings are so good here, so good.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
We have lots to get to today, lots of fun
stuff to get to coming up at the bottom of
the hour in the Hollywood Shuffle the three most popular
shows that people are streaming right now. But we're talking
Dallas Cowboys football. They lose twenty four to twenty. But
we are certainly style pointing that loss because I think,
you know, it's the first game of the year. You
(00:46):
don't know what your team's gonna be like, especially now
that nobody plays in the preseason. Mika gets traded, you
have some concerns. You don't know what the offensive line's
going to be like. There's just a lot of things
you don't know. And man, they went toe to toe
with the Super Bowl tchmps last night, and I'm not
blaming it on anybody, but it's safe to say that
if Cede Lamb has a second half like he did
(01:08):
in the first half, i think we're talking upset here,
or at least at coming down to a final play
in Philly having the ball and having a chance. Two
huge drops for Cede Lamb. One was very difficult, but
the one that bounced off his hands would have put
the Cowboys at the twenty yard line with a couple
of minutes to go. You know what, it reminded me of, guys.
It reminded me of it's revisionist history. But since we
(01:31):
just watched the Netflix documentary series, I mean, the Cowboys
didn't win every game going away. They had tough games,
and when they absolutely had to have a play, they
went to Michael Irvin and he delivered. I'm not knocking
Ceede Lamb, but I'm just saying you expect those guys
to make those plays. At that time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He gets paid what thirty four million a year or
something something like that, you know, like that seventh highs
paid non quarterback in football. I saw that some people
were calculating at four drops for over one hundred yards
and you know, and you even even for him that
last ball, You're like, Okay, he was all out diving
for that. I wouldn't call that a drop, but for
(02:10):
his standards, he usually comes up with that ball, and
I guarantee you he's beating himself up for not coming
up with it. And so yeah, you could look at
it on one hand and say, yeah, there's so much
to be happy about, but at the same time, like
the way the game started with, you know, their best
defensive player, Jalen Carter getting kicked out of the game
(02:31):
for spinning on tack. That was such a gift and
amazing weren't able to capitalize on that. You know, It's
like they got to play us without Micah, but we
got to play them without their best defensive player too.
And then they lost a guard along the way too.
It's like they were they're very shorthanded comparatively. If we
had just been able to put a spy and maybe
(02:52):
it's like if we have Overshown, maybe Overshown is the
spy and maybe, you know, but we don't have him.
He's out hurt. But you know, they didn't assign a
spy to Jalen hurts, they brought four, they dropped back
in zone coverage or whatever it was, and then he
just basically stood around back there until he wanted to
run for a first down.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
And he wasn't trying to throw it now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But he didn't throw it last year, dude. The Cowboys
just played Philly on the road and lost by four
and had some drops on a final drive and held
Saquon Barkley to like sixty yards.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Also, you know that the Eagles also had a bunch
of penalties, a lot of them awarded the Cowboys first down.
So it's got lucky on that end.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
True.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The problem with the Cowboys, I think now is I'm
gonna do the other side now instead of looking at it.
His cowboys don't have the margin of error that they have, right, Like,
they can't like little things like this, You're gonna look
back later, Like, oh, and they had all those penalties
and CD dropped all those passes. CD had seven drops
last year. He had four last night. And Jalen Carter
spit in the Cleveland yard quarterback like when all that happened, Like, oh,
(03:52):
that's the difference in us making him missing the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, they also got the gift of on third and
twenty two, an absolute garbage call that benefited the Cowboys,
the red Blinking Ship personal foul in third and twenty
two that chop Ferguson had, What is he supposed to do? Yeah,
like there's nothing he can do. He didn't even really
try to hit him. And it's like, yeah, sure, I'll
take that, but it's like, that's a garbage call, boy,
(04:17):
and and dude, and really that whole sequence of First
of all, Miles Sanders has got to be the slowest
running back in the league, Like, how does he not
take that to the house? And a linebacker not only
catches him, but circles him strategically to try to bump
the ball out of his hand, and uh, and then
you know there was the uh there was a play
(04:39):
that Dak threw just I thought Dak was great all night, awesome,
but he underthrew Ferguson just a little bit. Or that's
a touchdown, right, And then none of that other stuff
that happens, the pickens melde and the fumble and all
that stuff doesn't matter. And how about Dak's tackle on
the fumble?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Tackle saved the game? That whole sequence deserves a full
segment later on that game.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
We'll do it for we'll get back into it, but
uh then we have cussing the cowboys at five Lots
of cowboys today. But coming up next in the Hollywood Shuffle,
let's do the three most popular streamed shows right now
live for pluckers lovers in Greenville here on the Eagle
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