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Whose girl you are? Since itis four o four here on Friday,
the first of December. Now,if you don't have your head right for
Christmas and all that stuff yet,then I don't know what to tell you.
(00:23):
What does one do to get well? Yeah, what does one do
to get their head right for Christmas? Come? Mostly just clear Thanksgiving?
Okay, we did that, wedid it. Yeah, we did that.
We're all right there. But nowwe gotta worry and concern ourselves with
first making Christmas. Yeah, andthen we worry about who's clearing anybody can
(00:48):
make Christmas? The big question iscan you clear Christmas? Name somebody who
didn't Billy Martin, then George Michaelmade it, didn't made it, but
didn't clear I don't know dis day. Yes, that's a tough way to
go man or great. It's kindof like the sex thing, right,
(01:10):
that's how you want to go out, If you want to go out,
go out on a wonderful gift givingday with friends and family leaving. Yeah.
Yeah, And I guess you don'thave to worry about you know how
much they may be bummed out aboutthe whole thing. No, you don't.
And they're kind and at that pointlike, aren't we all tired of
New Year's and you don't have toworry about a week later? Can I
(01:32):
stay up till midnight? No,don't matter, I'm going. I'm going
for the long one. Go tothe big sleep. Yeah, the big
sleep before tonight night forever, oras they say in the movie Life,
the Upper Room it should be.You've got to watch it this weekend?
Watch what Life? Life? Yes, okay, it's so good. How
(01:55):
long are we going to be quotingLife for a while? Breath until Monday,
Tuesday, Friday, Friday when wehave to preview another Cowboys game.
So I'll have to come up withnew audio for categories. All right,
okay, one week at a timewhen we get a time. Right now,
it is four o six here onthe Freak. This is the best
(02:19):
damn short segment period. We'll talkabout Dak Prescott a little bit, but
not just yet. There's one otherthing I want to do first. You
can always go back by the wayif you've missed anything. We had a
nice girthy Cowboys segment at three o'clock, Yes we did, in Jeff's Bucket
of Cowboys and on the iHeartRadio appafter our shows shortly after the whole thing
gets podcasted, so you could goback and listen to that if you like,
(02:42):
and we'd appreciate it if you did. And this is the way it
rolls every single day. Show enough. Once we're done, whatever we did
goes up on the podcast scene andit's there for you to listen to it
for the first time, to listento anything you missed, to listen to
some of it all. But whateveryou want. You were in control America
anything ever ever put it all over. I want to talk about sometimes in
(03:12):
sport, when you're watching a team, you know, players come and players
go. It's really fun to mewhen you watch a guy grow and become
a dude. And it had beenkind of happening throughout the year, I
feel like for one Cowboy and itjust felt like this game solidified it.
(03:37):
And I would like to welcome Cowboystight end Jake Ferguson to Fold to full
dude status. He has achieved outhere. No, he's not, well,
he could be. I don't know. I don't know if i'd even
recognize him on site, but he'dbe big, be a big old dude.
But in this game, I don'tknow when i'm watching football. I
(03:58):
normally picture defensive players as the moretalkative, taunty, you know, talk
crap, getting your face, tryto get under your skin kind of player.
It'll be a little bit more edgy. And I thought it was a
really lovely sign for the Cowboys thatand Dak did this too. We can
talk about his play where he didit, which was awesome, But the
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Cowboys early in that game or earlyish, I don't remember the exact time
that this one happened, but JakeFerguson caught a pass and he hurdled over
Seahawks safety Quandre Digs, which whenpeople execute the hurdle, it is always
really cool looking. Yeah, whenyou can clear the guy because they're ducking
their head and oh no, itdidn't touch anything. What the hell happened?
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And then Frank Clark threw him onthe ground and talked crap to him,
because when you're coming down from ahurdle, it's tough when somebody's like,
yeah, but he hurdled Seattle Seahawksnumber six, Quandre Diggs. I
don't think Quandre Diggs liked it becauselater in the game on a second and
thirteen, because the Cowboys can't runthe ball to save their lives. So
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they lost three yards. But Dakthrew it to Jake Ferguson, who's running
over the middle, and a guywho I enjoyed listening to his podcast,
Nate Tice. I believe he calledJake Ferguson just the right amount of dumb,
like he will, He's gonna goget your football, even if it
means, oh, this is gonnaget me torpedoed by two safeties and a
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linebacker's gonna kick me in the balls. I don't care going to get it.
He doesn't really think about consequences.So he had to get thirteen yards.
So he did, and it meantgetting hit by this guy, then
this guy, and this guy,and then it meant that he was being
held by three guys while number sixQuandre Diggs lowered his helmet and went helmet
to helmet and smoked him. Andthis is the thing you'll learn about defensive
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players in football. They're weirdos.And we had one here that most people
will probably remember. Teams could gainseven yards on second and six, and
if Jaln Smith tackled them, hewould celebrate, and you're like, wait,
they got a first down? Whatare you doing? And so Quandre
Diggs hit the guy who had hurtledhim. Even though he got a first
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down on second and thirteen, he'stalking crap and Jake Ferguson, as he's
getting up, guy's still talking crap. So he stood up and he walked
directly through his chest while giving thefirst down side and so he's just he's
moving him three or four yards whilesignaling first down directly over his head,
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and so the ref kind of pullshim apart. And then Kandre Diggs probably
appealed to dad, and Dad isJamal Adams on the Seahawks, okay,
And so Jamal Adams he is nextas Ferguson turns and it's like, oh,
now you have something to say.And so Ferguson instead of walking back
to the huddle like some might do, like you know, I could have
caught a tenalty there. I waskind of taunting, and Jamal Adams is
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like, I'm next, and Jaketurns to him, and he's taller,
so he drops his face mask alittle bit, goes face mask to face
mask and begins walking directly through him. And they're John and John and John
and the first rule of a bullyversus bully tough guys showdown in football is
if we are face to face,whoever uses their hands for something, you
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lost, you got out bullied.And so Jake their face mask to face
mask and Jake is pushing him backwardsjust by them both leaning into each other,
and Jamal reaches up and pushes hisface aside. I was like,
ah, you lose. And Ienjoy when guys reach the status and football
where they are very comfortable with thatscenario, like no, I don't care
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who you are, You're not gonnapunk me. Yeah, like me too,
I play NFL football, I'm tough. Sure, let's talk crap to
each other. And I enjoyed watchinghim take I mean a lot of tight
ends are tough guys and willing totalk, and Jake Ferguson has shown some
of this, like when he blocks, and not that I've ever seen him
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back down from guys, but it'salways cool to see the guys take a
step where it's comfortable, because like, that's that's leader stuff, that's follow
me guys stuff, that's hey,we may not be winning in this moment,
but we ain't losing kind of stuffand I love it so watching Jake
Ferguson take the step of Oh no, I'm very comfortable out here leading and
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being the tough guy, and oh, is that what we're gonna do?
And he's done it before. Earlyin the season, he ripped in the
Eagle game when they tried to QBsneak Eagles safety Kevin Bayern. He yanked
him off the pile and like slunghim, and Bayer didn't like it,
so he got up and went topush him. But he's not as big
as Jake Ferguson, so his handsdidn't quite reach and Jake put him on
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his ass again, and I wasjust like, I like this guy.
He is here for your we're toughguys battle and I enjoyed that. Boy.
That's a really good way to gaincred in the room, too,
isn't it? Oh Man? Andhe talks that game too, like he
talks about uh, like when hetalks about Dak, He's always like,
oh, he's affing incredible, He'sthe best. And I'll go to war
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for that guy any day. AndI'm we could stay for eight hours after
practice if you want to. Like, he's doing the right job of kissing
ass and making sure that he knowswhat he's doing. You know, he
wants to be the next witting likeI want all the catches, give me
the ball all the time. Andso Jake Ferguson, welcome to dude status.
I really enjoyed it. And ahuge down in the game too.
We're like dude status because he's abully out there. But he's like,
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he's the I didn't mention, he'sthe guy who's making the play when it
needs to be made. Know whohe caught it on? Who was it?
Jamal who is a multi time probowler, probably All Pro even though
he's a really weird football player.Because they're like, here's a safety and
I'm like, no, he's not. He's a pass rusher that's two hundred
and twenty pounds. But he's kindof gotten thick on us. But yeah,
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And when he scored on Jamal Adamsone on one, he big boyed
him and as soon as he did, he turned and he had the football
in his hand and he was readyto toss it to Jamal Adams. Here
you go, can you carry thisback for me? As soon as he
caught it, what Jamal Adams didput his head down and turned away.
Jake, Dude, that was hiswalk of shame. He's like, dang
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it, I'm the one who usedmy hands and are I'm tough off and
I'm the one who just got scoredon. I can't look at him.
Sorry about you. So that wasgreat and then I love a tough night
for him. Yeah, and Ilove that Dak did the same thing.
On one of the plays where heran the ball. It was their big
old tall corner Wreek Woohlin, whogot Dak out of bounds but didn't take
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him to the ground, and soas they were kind of separated but within
three yards of each other, thisis a move that Dak went with because
he didn't ever hit the ground andhe I think he got the first down
or he get real close. Hedid two of these, staring right at
him. He did two big oldshoulder rolls and did a flex. He's
like, so if you don't thinkthat the Cowboys are even though they just
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had to play a close game andwe're battling all the way to get a
w against what is now a fivehundred team, they believe and they are
feeling themselves and it is glorious.Hey defense, wtf man, kick man,
what were we all doing. It'skind of cool though, I mean,
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because the defense has had plenty ofgames where they're kind of leading the
way right and especially touchdowns even Yeah, so it's it's good to know a
good football team is somewhat balanced andif one of the sides of the ball
is having an off night, theother one can pick it up. Yeah,
and that's what the offense definitely didlast night. And the way that
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the Philly game I think makes thatimportant too. That the Philly game,
it was like, we're not gonnabe able to win this, and it
was like, holy crap, howdid we get down here to the six
yard line with no time off theclock. That's amazing and then they farted
on themselves and fell. Yeah.I think that that is a really good
thing to have because it's like,while watching a game, if you're online,
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you're going to see a lot ofpeople who are just very negative about
anything that they can find. Andso during this game, it was like,
oh, yeah, I thought thisdefense was good, and it's like,
well, you know, we've playedtwelve games now and the evidence says
that they're I'd have to see itupdated, but probably one of the top
five defenses in the NFL. Sois it likely that this defense now sucks
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or is it likely that some combinationof the matchup, the three games and
twelve days by both teams like that, Oh, a team with a capable
quarterback who had a great day andthree really good wide receivers got us today.
That happens. But yeah, Ithink it's I think it's helpful for
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a football team because I think aboutthe Rangers. They won the fn World
Series. But over the course ofthe season, you think in that locker
room the lineup was looking over atthe or even the starting pitchers, We're
looking over at the bullpen, guyslike, you haven't kidding me, what
are we doing? Us are doingwhat we need to do to win.
Yeah. I think there is absolutelyvalue in one side of the ball being
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like, hey, tough day,we got you. Yeah, you've had
us, We got you. Andthat's why at the end of the game,
when the Cowboys just needed one morebig stop, Deck had to go
fire them up. He's like,Okay, okay, despite everything that's happened
on your side of the ball,look what we've been able to do Can
I count on you for one stop? Can I ask you, guys,
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we're at forty one? Can thatbe enough? Can we strike a deal
here? We've gone full forty burger. Here are you willing to do something
now? And you know what,that's something for what I think is one
of the most underrated cowboys in myadult cowboy watching life. Look, the
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defense had a bad day at theoffice, but boy, were there moments
where you had to have it Thatthe dude who people have killed for years
because he doesn't get fifteen sacks everyyear and he makes a bunch of money.
Tank Lawrence is an effing rock onthis team. And they tried to
go run the ball to Tank Lawrence'sside on fourth and two or fourth and
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one. That is football suicide.And he met that running back two yards
in the backfield because that man isa tank and he made plays. And
look, sometimes in football, here'sthe thing. Sometimes in football you tip
your cap and you say, ohmy god, they did a great job,
which is not how it works whenit's your team. You can watch
any other game and if the offensehangs forty, you're like, man,
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what a day by that offense.You don't go that defense sucks, and
if the defense is making a bunchof great plays, you go, oh,
man, what a great play.But it's like when it's your team,
whichever side of it is that yourteam is on the losing end of
it is idiots, they suck.Defense sucks, man. Yeah, and
it doesn't always have to be thatway. Sometimes you go, oh,
dk Metcalf had a big day.Should that be shocking? Not really,
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he's good, Jackson Smith, andJigba's very good, Tyler Lockett's very good,
and Gino Smith had himself a hellof a day. Despite the fact
Cowboys sacked Geno this many times,wow, zero zero sacks. Gino Smith
was pressured on almost sixty percent ofpass plays, the most he has been
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all year. Wow. That quarterbackballed his ass off. Yeah, he
got the ball out the fastest hehas all year. And despite the fact
that he got it out the fastesthe has all year, he was pressured
more than any game this year.Your pass rush is good. That quarterback
bawled his ass off and it happens. Yeah, I'd still love to know
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what is responsible for this late careerrevival for him, and he really like
he really hadn't been great this year, but he also got banged up,
and I think this game was hisfirst game being fully healthy after hurting his
throwing arm. Because yeah, I'mnot saying he's been great, right,
right, right, but he's kepta team which you know, nobody thought
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too much of and made them better. That he's kept him in contention,
and he's made him better than anybodythought they would be. Yeah. Do
you think that the Seahawks thought theywere about to get better quarterback play when
they traded Russell Wilson? Probably not? No, No, I don't and
they did. Yeah, are theynow? I probably not because the Broncos
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are kind of kind of going NowBroncos are kind of, you know,
a little bit of the same boatthat they are, although they're they're a
little bit better. Yeah, Ginopulled like a Remember when the Ravens won
the Super Bowl with Joe Flacco andthat year the Ravens didn't know if they
were gonna be keeping Joe Flacco.He was like, we'll see how this
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year goes, last year of hisdeal, and then he won the f
and super Bowl and they went,oh crap, we need to get him
all the money and then went backto being Joe Flacco. Like Gino came
in and it was like, well, you know, we wanted to move
on from Russ and like this guy'son the roster as our backup, like
he'll play, and then he bawledand they went, oh, crap,
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we have to give Geno Smith thirtymillion. Like they didn't see that coming,
but they got it. And youknow, that's life in the NFL.
The NFL's fun shout out to theworld. Yeah, it is the
way things go. Two numbers driventhings about this Cowboy game. I'm gonna
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give you Darn Bland's numbers through twelveweeks of an NFL season. Over twelve
weeks, he gave up thirty catches. It says less than three a game
for three hundred and forty yards,which three hundred and forty divided by eleven,
so about thirty yards a game.Three catches thirty yards a game,
and he allowed one touchdown total three. It's the average stat line he would
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give up would be three yard threecatches for thirty one yards, give or
take. In this one game,Duran Bland eight catches, one hundred and
sixty nine yards and two tudies.Yeesh. And we talked about that one
a little bit earlier. Yeah,that position's hard. Yeah, you are
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not often going to have a dudethat you go the whole season. Once
upon a time in our adulthood,we saw Darrell Reevas for a year or
two where he would play the bestof the best and he could kind of
shut him down. That's not howfootball works. It's not and that's not
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who Deron Bland ever. Was thathe's one of the like that he's the
best cornerback in football. But whathe is is a solid player. Yeah
that when you think you're gonna throwan out route or a stop route,
he's gonna come get you. Yeah. And he's been doing that. And
finally he got baptized. He ranup against DK metcalf and went, my
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god. I thought it was interesting. I guess it was maybe the sideline
one of the sideline reports in thegame, but they were talking about Dern
Bland and Al Harris and their relationshipand how I guess on the sideline if
it was Kaylee Hartungu it was doingthe sideline reporting, I think that's what
this was. But she had overheardhim saying like Okay, just go out
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there and get one more. You'reright there, get one more, like
focusing on getting an interception. Ohyeah, that was after he'd already had
one. He was he was saying, there's one more out there for that's
what he want to give us,one more, there's one more out there.
Force. It's like, that's that'sgreat. Obviously an interception is huge
and game changing, but in theirpoint where you can start thinking about that
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too much and that kind of that'sthe story of Trayvon Digsa really it is,
which is I'm gonna get the ball. You have another job duties,
right like, don't abandon everything else. And I don't think you know,
I know, we don't think thathe necessarily has been doing that and he's
not the type of player that doesthat. And Trayvon maybe was leaned that
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way a little bit more. Youhe's a risk yes, more of a
risk taker. But I mean ithas to get in your head a little
bit when you're breaking NFL records andyou're going on all the big national shows
and doing interviews, and you know, the ego is a real thing and
it and it creeps up, andperhaps that did get in his set a
little bit too much and all ofa sudden, the game can just get
away from you. Think about theDK Metcalf touchdown. There's seventy three year
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and the route was a slant.Yeah, And the reason that he got
to score there's two. I don'tknow the coverage they were in, so
I'm gonna blame Donovan Wilson partially withoutbeing fully sure of it. But the
safety on that half of the fieldcame running downhill and now a slant route
was behind the safety. But DeronBland thought like he was in good coverage.
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But he thought instead of staying onhis back upfield shoulder, where if
he catches it, I tackle him. Uh huh, he thought I can
get underneath him and get to theball. And he went for it.
And then when a quarterback makes aperfect throw up the field, you can't
reach it and you go, uhoh, that didn't go as plans.
Yeah, and then dk Metcalf runsa ten to four hundred meters dash,
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So ain't nobody catching that? Dude? He's a freak. Meanwhile, are
we still are we sure that AlHarris still can't play? Had to do
an age check, but I mean, he was quite a player in his
day. But I'm thinking Al Harrisis probably up about forty five. I
see him. I see him onthe sideline. He looks good. Along's
out there. He's forty eight.I mean, I think if you had
another injury, maybe he might suithim up over some of the back.
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He does look pretty young though.Yeah, yeah, he looks get out
there. Every time I see himon the sideline and I think, man,
it seems like that guy was playinglike yesterday. Yeah, well,
cows win. How about that?They go to nine and three, and
next week we will talk about thePhiladelphia Eagles. You didn't even get to
Dak yet. Really, Oh yeah? Why do I respond to people to
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six A two forty nine Ers thirtyone Seattle thirteen, Cowboys forty one Seattle
thirty five. Knoff said forty nineErs are way better. You can do
that with the Cowboys and Eagles,and you're gonna say the Cowboys are five
hundred points better than the Eagles.It's the dumbest thing you can do in
sports. Stop at forty nine fan. You can ignore the text. I
hope the Lions beat you in theplayoffs so the Cowboys don't have to play
you because I do fear your team. Just ignore the text and settle down.
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You're welcome to keep listening, though, because we appreciate you out of
that. Yes, we hate you, but we appreciate you. You're a
good friend and a nice man orwoman, I bet, but we hate
you. Yeah, coming up next? Oh my god, it's four thirty
on a Friday. Mike, youready? Wireless? Mike might mean get
barreling towards us. It's next.
Whose girl you are? Since itis four o four here on Friday,
the first of December. Now,if you don't have your head right for
Christmas and all that stuff yet,then I don't know what to tell you.
(00:23):
What does one do to get well? Yeah, what does one do
to get their head right for Christmas? Come? Mostly just clear Thanksgiving?
Okay, we did that, wedid it. Yeah, we did that.
We're all right there. But nowwe gotta worry and concern ourselves with
first making Christmas. Yeah, andthen we worry about who's clearing anybody can
(00:48):
make Christmas? The big question iscan you clear Christmas? Name somebody who
didn't Billy Martin, then George Michaelmade it, didn't made it, but
didn't clear I don't know dis day. Yes, that's a tough way to
go man or great. It's kindof like the sex thing, right,
(01:10):
that's how you want to go out, If you want to go out,
go out on a wonderful gift givingday with friends and family leaving. Yeah.
Yeah, And I guess you don'thave to worry about you know how
much they may be bummed out aboutthe whole thing. No, you don't.
And they're kind and at that pointlike, aren't we all tired of
New Year's and you don't have toworry about a week later? Can I
(01:32):
stay up till midnight? No,don't matter, I'm going. I'm going
for the long one. Go tothe big sleep. Yeah, the big
sleep before tonight night forever, oras they say in the movie Life,
the Upper Room it should be.You've got to watch it this weekend?
Watch what Life? Life? Yes, okay, it's so good. How
(01:55):
long are we going to be quotingLife for a while? Breath until Monday,
Tuesday, Friday, Friday when wehave to preview another Cowboys game.
So I'll have to come up withnew audio for categories. All right,
okay, one week at a timewhen we get a time. Right now,
it is four o six here onthe Freak. This is the best
(02:19):
damn short segment period. We'll talkabout Dak Prescott a little bit, but
not just yet. There's one otherthing I want to do first. You
can always go back by the wayif you've missed anything. We had a
nice girthy Cowboys segment at three o'clock, Yes we did, in Jeff's Bucket
of Cowboys and on the iHeartRadio appafter our shows shortly after the whole thing
gets podcasted, so you could goback and listen to that if you like,
(02:42):
and we'd appreciate it if you did. And this is the way it
rolls every single day. Show enough. Once we're done, whatever we did
goes up on the podcast scene andit's there for you to listen to it
for the first time, to listento anything you missed, to listen to
some of it all. But whateveryou want. You were in control America
anything ever ever put it all over. I want to talk about sometimes in
(03:12):
sport, when you're watching a team, you know, players come and players
go. It's really fun to mewhen you watch a guy grow and become
a dude. And it had beenkind of happening throughout the year, I
feel like for one Cowboy and itjust felt like this game solidified it.
(03:37):
And I would like to welcome Cowboystight end Jake Ferguson to Fold to full
dude status. He has achieved outhere. No, he's not, well,
he could be. I don't know. I don't know if i'd even
recognize him on site, but he'dbe big, be a big old dude.
But in this game, I don'tknow when i'm watching football. I
(03:58):
normally picture defensive players as the moretalkative, taunty, you know, talk
crap, getting your face, tryto get under your skin kind of player.
It'll be a little bit more edgy. And I thought it was a
really lovely sign for the Cowboys thatand Dak did this too. We can
talk about his play where he didit, which was awesome, But the
(04:23):
Cowboys early in that game or earlyish, I don't remember the exact time
that this one happened, but JakeFerguson caught a pass and he hurdled over
Seahawks safety Quandre Digs, which whenpeople execute the hurdle, it is always
really cool looking. Yeah, whenyou can clear the guy because they're ducking
their head and oh no, itdidn't touch anything. What the hell happened?
(04:44):
And then Frank Clark threw him onthe ground and talked crap to him,
because when you're coming down from ahurdle, it's tough when somebody's like,
yeah, but he hurdled Seattle Seahawksnumber six, Quandre Diggs. I
don't think Quandre Diggs liked it becauselater in the game on a second and
thirteen, because the Cowboys can't runthe ball to save their lives. So
(05:08):
they lost three yards. But Dakthrew it to Jake Ferguson, who's running
over the middle, and a guywho I enjoyed listening to his podcast,
Nate Tice. I believe he calledJake Ferguson just the right amount of dumb,
like he will, He's gonna goget your football, even if it
means, oh, this is gonnaget me torpedoed by two safeties and a
(05:30):
linebacker's gonna kick me in the balls. I don't care going to get it.
He doesn't really think about consequences.So he had to get thirteen yards.
So he did, and it meantgetting hit by this guy, then
this guy, and this guy,and then it meant that he was being
held by three guys while number sixQuandre Diggs lowered his helmet and went helmet
to helmet and smoked him. Andthis is the thing you'll learn about defensive
(05:54):
players in football. They're weirdos.And we had one here that most people
will probably remember. Teams could gainseven yards on second and six, and
if Jaln Smith tackled them, hewould celebrate, and you're like, wait,
they got a first down? Whatare you doing? And so Quandre
Diggs hit the guy who had hurtledhim. Even though he got a first
(06:15):
down on second and thirteen, he'stalking crap and Jake Ferguson, as he's
getting up, guy's still talking crap. So he stood up and he walked
directly through his chest while giving thefirst down side and so he's just he's
moving him three or four yards whilesignaling first down directly over his head,
(06:36):
and so the ref kind of pullshim apart. And then Kandre Diggs probably
appealed to dad, and Dad isJamal Adams on the Seahawks, okay,
And so Jamal Adams he is nextas Ferguson turns and it's like, oh,
now you have something to say.And so Ferguson instead of walking back
to the huddle like some might do, like you know, I could have
caught a tenalty there. I waskind of taunting, and Jamal Adams is
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like, I'm next, and Jaketurns to him, and he's taller,
so he drops his face mask alittle bit, goes face mask to face
mask and begins walking directly through him. And they're John and John and John
and the first rule of a bullyversus bully tough guys showdown in football is
if we are face to face,whoever uses their hands for something, you
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lost, you got out bullied.And so Jake their face mask to face
mask and Jake is pushing him backwardsjust by them both leaning into each other,
and Jamal reaches up and pushes hisface aside. I was like,
ah, you lose. And Ienjoy when guys reach the status and football
where they are very comfortable with thatscenario, like no, I don't care
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who you are, You're not gonnapunk me. Yeah, like me too,
I play NFL football, I'm tough. Sure, let's talk crap to
each other. And I enjoyed watchinghim take I mean a lot of tight
ends are tough guys and willing totalk, and Jake Ferguson has shown some
of this, like when he blocks, and not that I've ever seen him
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back down from guys, but it'salways cool to see the guys take a
step where it's comfortable, because like, that's that's leader stuff, that's follow
me guys stuff, that's hey,we may not be winning in this moment,
but we ain't losing kind of stuffand I love it so watching Jake
Ferguson take the step of Oh no, I'm very comfortable out here leading and
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being the tough guy, and oh, is that what we're gonna do?
And he's done it before. Earlyin the season, he ripped in the
Eagle game when they tried to QBsneak Eagles safety Kevin Bayern. He yanked
him off the pile and like slunghim, and Bayer didn't like it,
so he got up and went topush him. But he's not as big
as Jake Ferguson, so his handsdidn't quite reach and Jake put him on
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his ass again, and I wasjust like, I like this guy.
He is here for your we're toughguys battle and I enjoyed that. Boy.
That's a really good way to gaincred in the room, too,
isn't it? Oh Man? Andhe talks that game too, like he
talks about uh, like when hetalks about Dak, He's always like,
oh, he's affing incredible, He'sthe best. And I'll go to war
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for that guy any day. AndI'm we could stay for eight hours after
practice if you want to. Like, he's doing the right job of kissing
ass and making sure that he knowswhat he's doing. You know, he
wants to be the next witting likeI want all the catches, give me
the ball all the time. Andso Jake Ferguson, welcome to dude status.
I really enjoyed it. And ahuge down in the game too.
We're like dude status because he's abully out there. But he's like,
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he's the I didn't mention, he'sthe guy who's making the play when it
needs to be made. Know whohe caught it on? Who was it?
Jamal who is a multi time probowler, probably All Pro even though
he's a really weird football player.Because they're like, here's a safety and
I'm like, no, he's not. He's a pass rusher that's two hundred
and twenty pounds. But he's kindof gotten thick on us. But yeah,
(10:00):
And when he scored on Jamal Adamsone on one, he big boyed
him and as soon as he did, he turned and he had the football
in his hand and he was readyto toss it to Jamal Adams. Here
you go, can you carry thisback for me? As soon as he
caught it, what Jamal Adams didput his head down and turned away.
Jake, Dude, that was hiswalk of shame. He's like, dang
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it, I'm the one who usedmy hands and are I'm tough off and
I'm the one who just got scoredon. I can't look at him.
Sorry about you. So that wasgreat and then I love a tough night
for him. Yeah, and Ilove that Dak did the same thing.
On one of the plays where heran the ball. It was their big
old tall corner Wreek Woohlin, whogot Dak out of bounds but didn't take
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him to the ground, and soas they were kind of separated but within
three yards of each other, thisis a move that Dak went with because
he didn't ever hit the ground andhe I think he got the first down
or he get real close. Hedid two of these, staring right at
him. He did two big oldshoulder rolls and did a flex. He's
like, so if you don't thinkthat the Cowboys are even though they just
(11:13):
had to play a close game andwe're battling all the way to get a
w against what is now a fivehundred team, they believe and they are
feeling themselves and it is glorious.Hey defense, wtf man, kick man,
what were we all doing. It'skind of cool though, I mean,
(11:37):
because the defense has had plenty ofgames where they're kind of leading the
way right and especially touchdowns even Yeah, so it's it's good to know a
good football team is somewhat balanced andif one of the sides of the ball
is having an off night, theother one can pick it up. Yeah,
and that's what the offense definitely didlast night. And the way that
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the Philly game I think makes thatimportant too. That the Philly game,
it was like, we're not gonnabe able to win this, and it
was like, holy crap, howdid we get down here to the six
yard line with no time off theclock. That's amazing and then they farted
on themselves and fell. Yeah.I think that that is a really good
thing to have because it's like,while watching a game, if you're online,
(12:20):
you're going to see a lot ofpeople who are just very negative about
anything that they can find. Andso during this game, it was like,
oh, yeah, I thought thisdefense was good, and it's like,
well, you know, we've playedtwelve games now and the evidence says
that they're I'd have to see itupdated, but probably one of the top
five defenses in the NFL. Sois it likely that this defense now sucks
(12:43):
or is it likely that some combinationof the matchup, the three games and
twelve days by both teams like that, Oh, a team with a capable
quarterback who had a great day andthree really good wide receivers got us today.
That happens. But yeah, Ithink it's I think it's helpful for
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a football team because I think aboutthe Rangers. They won the fn World
Series. But over the course ofthe season, you think in that locker
room the lineup was looking over atthe or even the starting pitchers, We're
looking over at the bullpen, guyslike, you haven't kidding me, what
are we doing? Us are doingwhat we need to do to win.
Yeah. I think there is absolutelyvalue in one side of the ball being
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like, hey, tough day,we got you. Yeah, you've had
us, We got you. Andthat's why at the end of the game,
when the Cowboys just needed one morebig stop, Deck had to go
fire them up. He's like,Okay, okay, despite everything that's happened
on your side of the ball,look what we've been able to do Can
I count on you for one stop? Can I ask you, guys,
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we're at forty one? Can thatbe enough? Can we strike a deal
here? We've gone full forty burger. Here are you willing to do something
now? And you know what,that's something for what I think is one
of the most underrated cowboys in myadult cowboy watching life. Look, the
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defense had a bad day at theoffice, but boy, were there moments
where you had to have it Thatthe dude who people have killed for years
because he doesn't get fifteen sacks everyyear and he makes a bunch of money.
Tank Lawrence is an effing rock onthis team. And they tried to
go run the ball to Tank Lawrence'sside on fourth and two or fourth and
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one. That is football suicide.And he met that running back two yards
in the backfield because that man isa tank and he made plays. And
look, sometimes in football, here'sthe thing. Sometimes in football you tip
your cap and you say, ohmy god, they did a great job,
which is not how it works whenit's your team. You can watch
any other game and if the offensehangs forty, you're like, man,
(15:01):
what a day by that offense.You don't go that defense sucks, and
if the defense is making a bunchof great plays, you go, oh,
man, what a great play.But it's like when it's your team,
whichever side of it is that yourteam is on the losing end of
it is idiots, they suck.Defense sucks, man. Yeah, and
it doesn't always have to be thatway. Sometimes you go, oh,
dk Metcalf had a big day.Should that be shocking? Not really,
(15:26):
he's good, Jackson Smith, andJigba's very good, Tyler Lockett's very good,
and Gino Smith had himself a hellof a day. Despite the fact
Cowboys sacked Geno this many times,wow, zero zero sacks. Gino Smith
was pressured on almost sixty percent ofpass plays, the most he has been
(15:48):
all year. Wow. That quarterbackballed his ass off. Yeah, he
got the ball out the fastest hehas all year. And despite the fact
that he got it out the fastesthe has all year, he was pressured
more than any game this year.Your pass rush is good. That quarterback
bawled his ass off and it happens. Yeah, I'd still love to know
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what is responsible for this late careerrevival for him, and he really like
he really hadn't been great this year, but he also got banged up,
and I think this game was hisfirst game being fully healthy after hurting his
throwing arm. Because yeah, I'mnot saying he's been great, right,
right, right, but he's kepta team which you know, nobody thought
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too much of and made them better. That he's kept him in contention,
and he's made him better than anybodythought they would be. Yeah. Do
you think that the Seahawks thought theywere about to get better quarterback play when
they traded Russell Wilson? Probably not? No, No, I don't and
they did. Yeah, are theynow? I probably not because the Broncos
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are kind of kind of going NowBroncos are kind of, you know,
a little bit of the same boatthat they are, although they're they're a
little bit better. Yeah, Ginopulled like a Remember when the Ravens won
the Super Bowl with Joe Flacco andthat year the Ravens didn't know if they
were gonna be keeping Joe Flacco.He was like, we'll see how this
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year goes, last year of hisdeal, and then he won the f
and super Bowl and they went,oh crap, we need to get him
all the money and then went backto being Joe Flacco. Like Gino came
in and it was like, well, you know, we wanted to move
on from Russ and like this guy'son the roster as our backup, like
he'll play, and then he bawledand they went, oh, crap,
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we have to give Geno Smith thirtymillion. Like they didn't see that coming,
but they got it. And youknow, that's life in the NFL.
The NFL's fun shout out to theworld. Yeah, it is the
way things go. Two numbers driventhings about this Cowboy game. I'm gonna
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give you Darn Bland's numbers through twelveweeks of an NFL season. Over twelve
weeks, he gave up thirty catches. It says less than three a game
for three hundred and forty yards,which three hundred and forty divided by eleven,
so about thirty yards a game.Three catches thirty yards a game,
and he allowed one touchdown total three. It's the average stat line he would
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give up would be three yard threecatches for thirty one yards, give or
take. In this one game,Duran Bland eight catches, one hundred and
sixty nine yards and two tudies.Yeesh. And we talked about that one
a little bit earlier. Yeah,that position's hard. Yeah, you are
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not often going to have a dudethat you go the whole season. Once
upon a time in our adulthood,we saw Darrell Reevas for a year or
two where he would play the bestof the best and he could kind of
shut him down. That's not howfootball works. It's not and that's not
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who Deron Bland ever. Was thathe's one of the like that he's the
best cornerback in football. But whathe is is a solid player. Yeah
that when you think you're gonna throwan out route or a stop route,
he's gonna come get you. Yeah. And he's been doing that. And
finally he got baptized. He ranup against DK metcalf and went, my
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god. I thought it was interesting. I guess it was maybe the sideline
one of the sideline reports in thegame, but they were talking about Dern
Bland and Al Harris and their relationshipand how I guess on the sideline if
it was Kaylee Hartungu it was doingthe sideline reporting, I think that's what
this was. But she had overheardhim saying like Okay, just go out
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there and get one more. You'reright there, get one more, like
focusing on getting an interception. Ohyeah, that was after he'd already had
one. He was he was saying, there's one more out there for that's
what he want to give us,one more, there's one more out there.
Force. It's like, that's that'sgreat. Obviously an interception is huge
and game changing, but in theirpoint where you can start thinking about that
(20:15):
too much and that kind of that'sthe story of Trayvon Digsa really it is,
which is I'm gonna get the ball. You have another job duties,
right like, don't abandon everything else. And I don't think you know,
I know, we don't think thathe necessarily has been doing that and he's
not the type of player that doesthat. And Trayvon maybe was leaned that
(20:36):
way a little bit more. Youhe's a risk yes, more of a
risk taker. But I mean ithas to get in your head a little
bit when you're breaking NFL records andyou're going on all the big national shows
and doing interviews, and you know, the ego is a real thing and
it and it creeps up, andperhaps that did get in his set a
little bit too much and all ofa sudden, the game can just get
away from you. Think about theDK Metcalf touchdown. There's seventy three year
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and the route was a slant.Yeah, And the reason that he got
to score there's two. I don'tknow the coverage they were in, so
I'm gonna blame Donovan Wilson partially withoutbeing fully sure of it. But the
safety on that half of the fieldcame running downhill and now a slant route
was behind the safety. But DeronBland thought like he was in good coverage.
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But he thought instead of staying onhis back upfield shoulder, where if
he catches it, I tackle him. Uh huh, he thought I can
get underneath him and get to theball. And he went for it.
And then when a quarterback makes aperfect throw up the field, you can't
reach it and you go, uhoh, that didn't go as plans.
Yeah, and then dk Metcalf runsa ten to four hundred meters dash,
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So ain't nobody catching that? Dude? He's a freak. Meanwhile, are
we still are we sure that AlHarris still can't play? Had to do
an age check, but I mean, he was quite a player in his
day. But I'm thinking Al Harrisis probably up about forty five. I
see him. I see him onthe sideline. He looks good. Along's
out there. He's forty eight.I mean, I think if you had
another injury, maybe he might suithim up over some of the back.
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He does look pretty young though.Yeah, yeah, he looks get out
there. Every time I see himon the sideline and I think, man,
it seems like that guy was playinglike yesterday. Yeah, well,
cows win. How about that?They go to nine and three, and
next week we will talk about thePhiladelphia Eagles. You didn't even get to
Dak yet. Really, Oh yeah? Why do I respond to people to
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six A two forty nine Ers thirtyone Seattle thirteen, Cowboys forty one Seattle
thirty five. Knoff said forty nineErs are way better. You can do
that with the Cowboys and Eagles,and you're gonna say the Cowboys are five
hundred points better than the Eagles.It's the dumbest thing you can do in
sports. Stop at forty nine fan. You can ignore the text. I
hope the Lions beat you in theplayoffs so the Cowboys don't have to play
you because I do fear your team. Just ignore the text and settle down.
(22:55):
You're welcome to keep listening, though, because we appreciate you out of
that. Yes, we hate you, but we appreciate you. You're a
good friend and a nice man orwoman, I bet, but we hate
you. Yeah, coming up next? Oh my god, it's four thirty
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