October 2, 2025 • 61 mins
Mark and I talk #Cowboys #packers exciting Sunday night thriller. We look at the positives and some of the negatives that will either make or break the Cowboys this season. And yes, we got on each others nerves. Whatcha gonna do Clyde?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All THEILM Dallascam, Hello, yeah, Jixie, some of that, and
we're back.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Fan Poll Sports, the true tech sports podcast for the
true tex sports fan. Once again, I'm your host, Ronnie Langford,
back at it, back at it here with the main Man,
fifty five Grand, the Double Nickel himself, the man, the myth,
the living legend in his own mind, Mark MRAs the
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Silver Fox himself, Mark ra Mirs. Welcome back to the program,
my friend.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hello, Hello Tono.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
When we are back to talk blue and silver and
stars and a shit ton of points.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You know, last time we spoke, we talked about victory
Monday or Tuesday or whatever day it was. And now
I don't know how to describe this feeling because it
wasn't a loss, it wasn't a win, it was a tie.
So hmm, how do I feel about this day? I
don't know what the title is. It's kind of weird.
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For the first time in a long time. I'm stumped.
I don't have a word, but yeah, dude, a ton
of points, a ton of craziness, especially in that fourth quarter,
a lot of excitement. I mean, if you were at
that game, or if you stayed up to finish watching
that game. You got the bang for your buck. You
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got every every drip of excitement, every drip of oh
my gosh moments, every drip of this is wild. This
is crazy that you could want in a game as
the Dallas Cowboys tie what some claim to be best
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team in football in the Green Bay Packers. What are
your thoughts, first of all, on the game itself and
what were any of the things that you took away
from this game when you look at both of these teams.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, I'll start with the Packers, and it kind of
they are who we thought they were, right. They did
what they wanted to do. They went up and down
the field. But that really didn't happen right away. It
didn't happen in the first half. I mean, it happened
in the first quarter where even though they went up
on the Cowboys, I think it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was thirteen.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Zero, and then all.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hell started breaking loose.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, there's a block extra point return for two points,
and that was just.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Kind of the small crack and the dam you know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
A little leak started, you know, spewing, and then it
just turned into a freaking damn burst.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
That's basically the best way to describe it because.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Green Bay, like as far as we know, in the
past few years, and again they're still a young team,
they still got a young quarterback. They're still trying to
build their resume and their place in this NFL world.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And they they got punched back in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
They they came out swinging.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
They hit the Cowboys quick, They went up and down
the field as expected because again you know, the defense
again you and I know is suspect. But did they
lay down and just take it and just cower into
a corner? Know what they did is they got up
off the mat. They fought themselves back into you know,
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a game that I mean, by all, by all accounts,
they should have had.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Any business getting close to.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Winning or having the players losing linemen. The list goes
on and on. Micah shows up.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And again they're still touting him like it was I
love how to.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Keep throwing it in Jerry's face and and it just
to me And this is just.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I guess personally, between I guess me and you and
anybody else who's listening.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm sick of this talk. I'm sick of Micah being
with the Packers. And the Cowboys don't have Micah anymore.
And I'm I'm fucking fed up, dude, up to my.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Gills of just okay, we get it. We traded him,
and he's gone, and he's in the rear.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
View mirror, and can we just stop, can we just
stop already stop mentioning number eleven slash.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
One, because it just makes me want to vomit and puke.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
As far as the game, man, it was slow going
for the Cowboys. You know, as I said earlier, the Packers.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Were doing what they felt they could do to just.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Kind of, you know, impose their will on the Cowboys.
And then obviously that plan didn't come to pass. You know,
it wound up in a time. I get all that,
but I will say this, Number four, it was it
was bouta quatro bro. It was this guy was spreading
the ball around. He was putting the ball in people's hands.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That you know. Again, maybe it was just.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Them being committed finally and all inim you know, because
it was floorinoy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was it was it was pickens. It was lip Key.
There was a Lipkey sighting in there.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I mean, it was turfing, it was I mean, I know,
I'm forgetting everybody, but he was spreading the ball around.
Not only was he doing that Tobert, sorry Tobert with
that great catch in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I mean, dude, he was slinging.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
The ball and it wasn't like he was and if
you look at the timeframe of the game when it ended,
he really didn't have as many attempts.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
As you would think.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
But it seemed like.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They did kind of abandon the running game and stretches
where I mean, they're they're very consistent with it, they're
solid with it, they gain yards, they can move the ball,
they can I'm not gonna say they're gonna get first
downs with it a lot, but they put you in
thirty shorts and it's effective.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm not going to say.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's game busting, and it's you know, like Jacob's had
what was it, He had tons of yards in this game,
But I mean it was all around, all around. Like
I said, I don't know what podcast it was earlier,
I said, if this is what they're gonna do, then
then I'm all in because at least you know there's
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a game plan. There there's a structure, there's a there's
a commitment, there's guys that are wanting to and the
want is not as easy as you know, the will
in your mind to go get it and get the
ball when passes are in the air or when the
balls in your hands when you're running it. And also
on the defensive end, you know, again we can that's
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again suspect.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
But it was not just entertaining, but it showed me that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They had fight.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You know, they were they were greedy to want to
win the game.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, I mean, there's you said pretty much everything that
needs to be said. So that's a rap. Thanks for
joining us. But no, I mean, I think you're right, man.
I think I think they were greedy. I think, you know,
they they did. I think I think they played like
kind of like what you were just saying about the
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whole Micah situation. They were tired of talking about it.
They were tired of having to hear about it. They
were tired of, you know, all the oh, the Cowboys
defense isn't as good because they don't have a pass
rush and all this other stuff, and they just said,
screw it. We're gonna we're gonna play, you know, with
our hair on fire, and we're gonna come after him,
and we're gonna take care of some business and do
some things. And you know, they exposed They exposed Green
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Bay in a lot of ways. And I know that
Green Bay lost that defensive tackle early in the second quarter.
You know that maybe that maybe did hurt their defense
up front, especially with the Cowboys running game. But you know,
I mean, it's next man up. You know, the Cowboys
have a lot of injuries too. They had a lot
of guys out too that you know, key players like C. D.
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Lamb and and so I mean, it's it was great
to see it, you know. And I've said this on
numerous occasions about different things that go on in life.
I just want to be entertained. And that game had
everything in it, even though I only watched the first
three quarters live, you know, because I'm old and I
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had to go to bed because I'm a responsible adult,
so I could go to work the next day and
not be tired. But but but you know, it was
one of those things man, that it was really good
to see them fight, Like you say, because there's been
so many games over the last few years man that
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you know, when the Cowboys get down, their spirits are crushed,
their emotions are gone, and they just quit, and you
hate to see it as a fan because you know
all these guys will say the same thing. You know,
I do it because I love the sport. I do
for the love of the game. And then they go
out there and they play like crap, and then you know,
they make excuses, and it pisses you off as a
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fan because you're thinking, well, if I got paid the
money you got paid, I would be able to go
at it better than that. And that's another topic for
another time. But the proof is in the pudding. And
there were times that they did just quit, They did
just let things fall by the wayside and not do
anything about it to get back in the game. That
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wasn't the case on Sunday night. They got after it.
They kicked ass, they they did everything they could to
give them chance, give themselves the chance to win that game.
One guy you didn't mention there had an amazing game,
and that was George Pickens. And I know you'll probably
talk about him here in a little bit, but Pickens,
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Pickens showed me something. He showed me that he has
the potential to be a number one receiver. He has
the ability to get out there and make big plays,
and like I was telling, like I was telling Cody
the other day, he reminds me a lot of Dez Bryant.
I mean, just an athletic freak. He's got them long
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arms and then big hands. He can make every catch
you can imagine. And he's he's he's I think he's
a little more flexible than Dez, so he's a little
more of a mobile type guy. And I mean he
did an amazing job to step up the way that
he did, and for him and Dak to be on
the same page the way they were throughout that game
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was huge. I thought he had a tremendous game. And
I mean you mentioned dude, Turpin played big, Tobert played big.
Ferguson got his first touchdown of the season. I think
it's been over a year since he last made it
to the end zone, so I know he was pretty
excited about that. The running game again did very well,
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So I mean, there's just there's a lot of good
things to talk about. The defense made plays. Sure they
didn't make as many stops if we as we would
have liked, but they gave this team a chance. They
gave them a chance, and the offense did what they
needed to do to have the opportunity to win this game.
And I think there's a lot you can build off
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of this game. You know, anybody, anybody that talks any
shit about the Cowboys or this game, that that just
solidifies that you're a hater on every level. And and
I mean, if you can't look at this from the
football perspective and see that this team first of all,
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isn't as bad as we think it is. And second
of all, they've got some guys that are just gonna
go out there and leave it all all out there
and try to get the win. If you can't see that,
like I said, you're just a hater, you know what
I mean. I mean, I don't get me wrong. I
have been very critical of the Cowboys. I will continue
to be critical of the Cowboys. But when the Cowboys
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do well and the Cowboys get out there and get
after it like they did on Sunday night, I have
no problem. I have no problem getting out the silver
and blue pomp poms and waving them mightily for those Cowboys.
So as I look at some of the things that
we talked about, man, you know, my first question to
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you is should they have run the ball more. Should
they have tried to control the game late a little
more and kind of run down the clock to not
give Green Bay's offense the chance to get down there
and scoring position. What are your on, you know, some
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of the stuff that they did down the stretch and
there in the overtime.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
When the game began.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
When the game began, I'm with you, and I'm seeing
on the same page that yes, they should have committed
a little bit more to that, but I think the
running backs.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Got banged up.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So when that happens again, in my opinion, you want
to put it more on Dak's shoulders. And I'm okay
with that, And I'm going to tell you why. I mean,
this motherfucker is dialed in, Bro. He was dialed in
in the Eagles game. He was dialed in that that night,
he was putting it on people, Bro. I mean, everybody
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was touching the ball. And I got to touch a
little bit more on what you said about Pickens. He
to me is the number one. I mean, and I
know this TV is the number one, and he's been
the number one on the team forever in a day,
but that game right there showed me that the connection
that he has with number three is a different level.
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And I'm going to tell you why, because it it
doesn't seem like that that feeling, you know when let's
just say I'm throwing the ball to you back in
the day, right in the street, I'm throwing it to you,
or am I thrown it to somebody else who I
don't have confidence in, Not that I don't have confidence
in that guy, but I'd rather throw it to my
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money guy.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And and that's what I see.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And it doesn't seem like that that fear or that
nerves or that little tiny hesitation to not want to
let that ball go. I think he's happy to just hey,
I'm a fifty to fifty ball.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I got number three.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Out there, and that is I mean, that's that's what
you want, need, and you need to have on your team.
On a team with all this kind of caliber of talent,
Man Dak played probably the best I've seen in a
really long time. And I'm tired of all these naysayers
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and the screaming a's and all these people.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And and it gets sickening, Broy.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They always want to minimize, like they'll say, oh, well shit,
he had to throw more because they went into overtime, right,
It's always a fucking excuse, dude, It's always an excuse,
and it just and again it's it's almost on that
same level of talking about Micah and this and that that.
It just frustrates me to no end. But at the
same time, I'm like, you know what, I just let
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it slide off my back now because I mean, Dak
don't care. You know, Dak's gonna go out there and
just be the man. You know, again, I told you
at the beginning of the season, I thought he could
be an MVP guy if he just had the right
tools around him, you know, if he had the right
players around him. And now that he does, look at
his numbers. His numbers show it, and you know what,
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they would be even more exaggerated if Idiator would have
caught those fucking balls in the Eagles game.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know you're right?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, I mean, go ahead, no, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Agree with you. I think you're right. I think you know,
the the numbers would be even greater if if he
would have made one of those catches. And you're you're
you're talking about Dak in a different light. If CD's
available in this game and if he makes those catches
in that first game, and the Cowboys could be just
like the Packers right now, two to one and one
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instead of one two and one, you know, so you know,
I mean it was it was that close that they
could have gone a different way if they would have
got that win against the Eagles. But yeah, go ahead, man,
keep going, no man, I.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Mean that the way he was dialed in and just
the way he was even on the run, man, even backpedaling.
Even he knows where his people are, like he doesn't
like just know it, he feels it.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
He knows.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Okay, I know this guy's going to be in this
specific area. It might be an up for grab ball,
but it's not going to be a spot or a
place that the defender is going to be able to
get to it. Only my guy's going to get to it.
And it's either going to be something positive or it's.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just going to be an incompletion.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And his efficiency is off the off the charts in
my opinion, and again it would be even more off
the charts, like I said with with drop passes, and
I think you said it earlier, not earlier, but other
podcasts he said, Hey.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I mean he's putting it where he needs to.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Then then the onus falls on the receivers right and
falls on them to make make the connection, you know,
execute the play.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And I mean he's just at that level man, now
is And.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Again you can talk about Josh Allen, you can talk
about all these other guys. At the end of the day, man,
I'd have I'd rather have number four running my ship,
running my team, you know, being my guy, you know,
ten times over against those those fools. Yeah, man, I'm there.
I'm all in with Dak this year. I mean, stay healthy,
you know. And and again all that wouldn't fall on
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his shoulders that had anything to do with his offensive line.
And again I know you had the question here like
what are your thoughts on it? What did you see
with them in the protection for him?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, I think I think the protection overall was good.
I mean, when you consider the game plan was to
slow Micah down. Uh the game plan was to you know,
try to minimize the impact that Micah had and and
and I mean to impact the whole uh D line,
you know what I mean, slow them down because they
had a pretty good pass rush. And I think I
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think that what they did by you know, rolling, rolling
the pocket a little bit and moving back around a
little bit. I think that helped. I think running right
at Micah. You know, we talked about that before. You know,
as great as he is as a pass rusher, he's
been suspected best in his career as a run stopper.
And the Cowboys exploded that in different scenarios on Sunday night.
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And you know when you look at that and you
just said the thing right now, dude, stay healthy. If
four stays healthy, there's not a team in this league
that are gonna be able to slow him down when
he's on his game. You know, I don't know what
that was in Chicago a couple of Sundays ago, but
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if the Cowboys would have played against the Bears against
the way that they did against the Eagles and the Packers,
the Cowboys blow the Bears out with no doubt in
my mind, you know what I mean. So yeah, if
he stays healthy, and you know, he doesn't have to
have all of his weapons every game. I mean, again,
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CD's out probably another week. But if he continues to
build that relationship with Pickens, continues to get confidence in Tolbert,
continues to get the ball to turpin in spots, and
then of course Ferguson. I mean, it's gonna be tough, man.
There's so many weapons on this team. And remember the
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Cowboys were without two offensive linemen and well their center
and their right tackle. Both of those guys were out
as well. So it just imagine how much more dominant
that front of the Cowboys would have been on the
offensive side had those other two guys been there. So
I give a lot of props to those guys that
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sucked in. I know early on there was a few penalties,
a few things that you know, kind of gave you
pause and scared you, as a Cowboys fan a little
bit to go, oh shit, we're about to get exploited.
But it never happened. It never happened, and they kept
Dak clean. They kept them upright. I know Micah got
credited with that sack there at the end. I call bullshit.
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I don't think it was a sack. Ye, I think.
I don't think it was a sack. Think he was.
He was just beyond the line of scrimmage. Uh to
count it as a tackle, sure, no problem, counted it
as a sack. Nah, They're wrong. I don't agree with it.
But if you're telling me that the most impactful play
that Micah Parsons made came in overtime or the end
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of the fourth quarter, I mean, aren't you taking money
on that? Like if somebody said, Hey, the only play
that he's gonna make is at this time of the game,
and you sit there and go, man, there's no way
this dude's gonna have I mean, there was people talking
about he's gonna have three sacks, he's gonna dominate, he's
gonna embarrass the Cowboys offensive line. He's gonna he's gonna
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put back Dak on his back and all this stuff,
and all he did was come away with eight pressures
and one sack. And I give a lot of credit.
I give a lot of credit to that offensive line.
As great as Dak played, if they don't keep him upright,
he doesn't play that well if he's on his ass.
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So you know that's what I think.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I'm with you there, Bro, I agree man, the offensive line,
And here here's I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna touch
harken back to It's funny man, that Sunday I was
working an event, right and I missed part of the game.
There was a speaker there. And this is so funny
because it resonates with what happened that game. The guy
that came on and this was for like Waburger, Right,
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so they've been around seventy five years, and you don't
that just doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
So the gist of his speech, like his motivation was,
you know what Waterburger does that that.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Great teams, great players.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
He talked about the bulls, he talked about the packers
of old, and he talked about all these different things.
He says, you know what they do better than anybody.
They do the basics better, like base things. Yep, what
is more basic than an offensive line? And dude, it's
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so funny because when I watched the game in its entirety,
finally I said, man, this guy he put his finger
right on the fucking polst.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Of what he's right.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Man, you do basic things right.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You're blocking, you know, you're creating holes for your running back,
your and and that's I think that's what shoddy is.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He's a basic kind of emphasis on the basics, and
then the great things will come, right, the big players
will come here and there, but the offensive line even
when we had what one, two, three guys down three
and you know we're going backwards, we're losing guys.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But at the same time, the next man and people
can say.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Next man up till they're blue in the face until
that next man does come up and has to perform.
And I think, man, this this guy when he was
talking to this speech, it was Man, it was really
motivating me, Like, man, this guy is right. You know
what does barteriworker really do? They just make burgers, right, bro,
majority of the time, ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But what do they do?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
They do that basic thing better than anybody else. That's
why they've been around for so long. And I think
that's that can resonate with football teams, right because when
when when he said that vincelam Barty took over the team. Dude,
they had they had a they were I think they
had zero wins that the season before, and he turned
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the guys around. And I hate bringing it making it
about the Packers, but what did he do?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now? What do we call our trophy?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
We call it the le Vinsulabardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Why because he turns zeros into heroes and and again.
It's it's it's that's what I saw with the offensive line. Man,
they're just seeming to.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Like, hey, this guy's down.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Hey, we're still.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Gonna do our basic blocking, blocking and our basic techniques
and we're gonna keep Micah off Dak and we're gonna
I mean again.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Dak again.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I think not with the Bears game, but with all
the other games, he's been fairly clean. Right, he's been
kind of and even when he does get the things
start falling apart, he's smart enough now to know how
to move and slide in the pocket and make play still,
so again that's not his game, but he can use
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that and use his legs and he doesn't really do
anything fancy. He just he just moves the chains too,
like it's a basic Okay, I'm gonna the pass rush
is coming, the offense is breaking down, my O line's
breaking down. Okay, I'm gonna slip over here and slide
over there. But I'm still gonna get positive yards if
I get a first down.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Great.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
If I don't, at least you know i'm gonna make
the attempt and it's gonna be and not just like
an educated guess. It's gonna be a calculated precision pass
or him running or whatever it is. It's always something
positive and never a fumble, never an interception. And again
it's something basic, you know, keeping the ball in your
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hands and moving your team forward and getting in positions
to score touchdowns. And dude, it's it's like, it's basic stuff.
And I think that's what Shoddy has put in their minds,
and those old little basic things that they're doing now,
they they're they're they're resonating.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Man, It's it's good to see.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
It's great to see it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And think about the penalties right there again another game
with minimal kind of you know, killer penalties. There was
some here and there that I questioned, but at the
same time, okay, I'll take that there. But it wasn't
a habit. It wasn't a bad habit. And they're breaking
those bad habits slowly but surely every single game. And
I love every bit and piece of it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
The offensive line, man, my hat's off to them. I
know the guys won't be hurt forever. But again, I
think we're gonna have to transition and kind of speak
about the defensive line and the defense and all that
and I know it's the sucky part of this conversation,
but it needs to be had.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
There has to be something that has to change, and
it has to change quick.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Well before we do that, just one thing on Shoty.
You know you talked about how he's doing the basics
very well. I mean again, think about who his dad is.
Marty Schottenheimer was a very successful coach in this league.
And what did he do. He kept it very simple.
He kept it very basic, whether he was in Kansas
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City or San Diego or even Washington. I mean, his
teams were known for what ball control, running the ball well, quarterbacks,
not making mistakes, you know, and just playing good, solid
offensive control line of scrimmage and then having a sound defense.
And the Cowboys right now don't have a sound defense.
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So to me, the jury is gonna still be out
on Shoty until we see where this thing goes. But
to me, he called and put together the best game
plan in his short tenure as Cowboys head coach, and
they executed it very well. And I'll give him again,
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I will give him credit for that. I'll be the
first to rag on him, but I'll also be the
first to give him credit. So I wanted to give
us a small shout out to Shady and how well
that game plan was put together defensively. Dude, Again, they
couldn't stop a cold. They couldn't stop kids from crossing
the street to get to school in the crosswalk. You know,
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they they couldn't stop nothing. Okay, they gave up forty points,
they gave up big yards. It sucked to watch that
side of the ball a little bit on Sunday night.
But I will give them credit. They made some plays
in some crucial times in that game to give this
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team a chance to win. You know, they had that
big sack before half time time that turned into a touchdown.
I think they need to figure out a way to
get Clowney and Houston on the field together. Those guys
might be the best pass rushers that they have the secondary.
I know they're playing more zone than they have in
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the past. Uh. That is not one of Diggs's uh
strong points. He's much more of a man to man
type of defender.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So they're gonna have to get that figured out. Man.
They're gonna have to figure out what they're doing scheme
wise to to get these guys in a better position
because that secondary, especially is giving up way too much.
I think they played better when Hooker was out, and
I know he got dinged up. I'm hoping he's not
out for an extended period of time. Uh, But it
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looked like they were a little bit better in the
secondary in the second half until until late when the Packers,
you know, made their made their comeback to tie and
go to over time. But you know, again, the linebackers
are still suspect. The kid I can't remember his name,
Lafoul or what is his name, the one that the
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one that had that big hit on the kick returner
or punt returner from Green Bay. That kid that that kid,
that kid needs to get on the field. That kid
needs to be given an opportunity to get out there
because he was playing with his hair on fire. So
you know, yes, I think they need to make some adjustments.
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They're gonna get some guys back, they're gonna get healthy.
But I think the linebackers and the secondary are probably
the weakest part of this defense. And as long as
they keep playing this zone coverage, man, they're gonna struggle.
They're gonna give up a lot of yards. My hope
is that they'll start to tighten up in the red
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zone and maybe not give up as many points. But
when you're giving up as many yard yards as they
are and that opposing team's offense is on the field
as long as they are, that's gonna wear your defense out.
And when you can't make stops and you can't make plays,
that's gonna hurt you in the long run. So they
really do need to figure out what they want to
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do up front, I mean in this linebacker corps and
secondary to make some things happen. There is a rumor
going around, and I don't know how true this is,
if there's a rumor going around that the defensive end
from the Raiders, Max Crosby, who is an All Pro
defensive end, may want out of Las Vegas, and the
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Dallas Cowboys are top of his list. So we'll see. Man,
I'm not gonna hold my breath. I don't think stuff
like this happens in the NFL like it does in
other sports. But you never know. I never thought Micah
Parsons was gonna get traded, and look what happened. Your
thoughts on the defense, Your thoughts on the defense, and
how things looked on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
For me, man, it's.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Remember when we used to have Quinn and and it
was kind of a bend.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Don't break. This is more of a bend than they break.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, if.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
They just.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
If if they could just you know, get a few
field goals instead of touchdowns, or giveaway field goals instead
of touchdowns and minimize that a little. With the way
Jack's playing and with the way the offense is clicking,
and I mean to me, it's I and I keep
trying to Okay, is it the linebackers that are sucking?
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Is it digs that doesn't want to commit to getting hurt?
I mean to me, it's I think the defensive line
is doing the best that they can bro they're battling.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think the.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Linebacker play needs to be adjusted and tweaked because once
they get past those those linemen, the defensive lineman, I mean,
it's almost like there's empty space and there's empty air.
And I'm all for you know, Shoddy sticking with his
defensive coordinator and shit, but I mean the linebacker play
has to get better because if you shorten those those
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second and longs, you make it second and long or
third and long, then that's where you know, you're you're
starting to get on the right side of the defense,
you know, getting three and outs or getting a field
goal instead of a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And for me, it's hard to watch Row. It's hard
to watch. But I hope the Cavalry, like you know,
I sent you that info earlier, right, Yeah, I hope
that Cavalry Overshown coming back. And I mean, he's just
one player, but all these guys have been kind of
banking on and they drafted and all that shit, and
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let's just hope all that starts to just pan out,
and then that just gives Clowny that little bit more
of a less attention. And you're right, Houston man is
just balling out as best he can. Man, He's kind
of he did a lot of it in the preseason.
I know you didn't really watch a lot of the preseason,
but I noticed him. I noticed him right away. He
was a big standout, a lot like Overshown was last
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year to me. But but he's just one guy, man,
and they all have to play as a unit. They
have to play a little bit better and gel as
a unit.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Right now, remember when we talked.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Earlier about what the identity is to me, it's just
Dak Prescott slinging it and it's Brandon Aubrey and special.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Teams and that's not good enough. That's not good enough.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
You got to have at least get this defense.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Some kind of success, you know, do something put him
in position to be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Get more turnovers like that turnover was a game changer.
That block kick. That's a special teams thing, right, you
know they're contributing.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But they need a little bit more of that on
the defensive side of the ball, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And I agree with you, man, I mean, they do.
They need to. They need to improve on that defensive
side because it is very hard to watch. And you know,
when when your defense looks as bad as it does,
and I can sit here and tell you that the
Cowboys defense when Dave Campo was the freaking defensive coordinator
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looked better than this defense. That's pretty bad. So yeah,
they they've got some work to do on that defensive side.
But one thing I wanted to bring up, man, you
posted that that thing yesterday where you said that this
that that it's a wash because the Cowboys have the
number three offense or whatever and they have the worst defense.
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But the yardage difference is like under under thirty and whatever,
and you're like it's a wash, and it's like, that's
not a wash when you're giving up more than you're gaining,
you know, And that's that's exactly what's happened. That defense
can can't stop anybody. They're not getting off the field
when they need to. There was multiple third downs, especially
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in the first half that they had them, third and five,
third and seven, and Green Bay still found a way
to move the chains and get the first down. And
those are the types of things that they're gonna have
to clean up. They if they want to really make
a run to the playoffs, they have to take care
of that business on the defensive side, because that's the
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decide that's gonna keep them out of the playoffs. In
my opinion, when you look at this schedule, they have
the Jets this week, they have the Panthers next week,
and then they have the Commanders or the Redskins or
the Washington Football team or whatever the hell you want
to call them. They're playing that sorry ass Maroon and
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Gold team from DC and they have a chance man
to win these three games. I think they should win.
In New York. I think they should win in Carolina
and then they should be able to beat the Redskins
when they come to town in a few weeks. So
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here's the Cowboys chance man to really make some moves,
make some waves to show everybody. Y'all can talk about us.
Y'all can talk shit about us all you want, but
at the end of the day, we're right in the
thick of it. And I mean, I don't give a
shit with them idiots from Philadelphia say that team in
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Philadelphia is average. They're not as good as they were
last year, and they've been very lucky to get some
of the wins that they've gotten this season, because they
should at least be two and two right now. They
shouldn't be four and oh they should have lost to
the Cowboys, and they probably should have lost to the
Buccaneers as well, but for whatever reason, Tampa Bay didn't
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show up in the first half of their Yeah. Yeah,
So that's why I say, like they they're not as good.
So the Cowboys have a chance still to make some
moves and be a player in this division. But that
defense is gonna have to play way, way, way better
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in order for them to make those waves and make
those moves as we go forward. I mean, like I said, man,
tremendous game. You know, Aubrey hit a couple of big kicks.
Give credit to the Dan Packers kicker. He made some
big kicks, some big kicks. Again, I loved it. I
thought it was a great game. It sucked that it
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ended in a tie. There's been different ideas thrown around.
One of the ideas is they should do like they
do in soccer and have penalty kicks and the kickers
start at the thirty five yard line and then they
just moved back five yards until somebody misses. In theory,
that sounds fun and it sounds exciting, but if your
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kickers having to kick five six extra times in overtime
to get you a win, is it worth it. I
don't know how I feel about that, But anyway, hopefully
the NFL takes a look at the overtime and tie
circumstances and maybe they do do some things to change it.
I know they changed the rules a few years ago.
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It used to be an entire fifteen minutes. It's only
ten minutes in overtime now because they talked about player safety.
So we'll see if they do anything differently, man, But overall,
I'm gonna give the Cowboys an a minus for this
tie because I really think they gave it. They're all.
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I really think they put forth a great effort, and
I get I have to give them credit. Dude. That
game was really good and I think they did a
great job. I did. I think they did a great job.
What are your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'm just gonna point out three things, and the first
one is just that one pass to Tobart, and Tobart
seems to like and I'm hoping that I'm not jinxing
his ass seems to fucking get it in his head now,
it's in his brain, it's in between his ears now.
But his his his mind, his body, and his soul
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are now all in. You know, that one catch was,
you know, probably one of the better catches he's ever had.
But he was consistent throughout the whole game, Like because
I watched the whole game. I just saw that one
play when I got home. But when I saw the
whole game, I said, Okay, he's involved in this. He's
a part of this.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
He's got two ten toes down in this on this offense.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Now, because you know ceed's not there and maybe that's
the reason why, but then you.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Should always be like that.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
You know, Florinoy was made I think one or two
catches that got first downs and.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
You didn't expect that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
And again that give boosts his confidence because hey, when
the guys go in and Schoonmaker made a few plays in.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
There as well.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
And again you could if I looked at the stats, and.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I'm not gonna pull it up, but he he was
putting in the ball on a lot of people, a
lot of different people, and that tells me that's that's
a shoddy thing, right, that's a because he's one calling
calling the plays right. And then I've noticed things with
dak now where you know he kills the play, he's
like kill, kill, kill that he kills a play and
then and then they know that he what he's switching to.
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But then they then they shift their defense and then
he switches it right back to the to another play
like he's he's.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Like playing chess with these guys.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
So he's not just okay, I already killed that one play.
I'm gonna okay, now I gotta run this.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
No, he's he's man.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
He's moving the chess pieces with his mind and I
like that. And that's what I noticed. And that's the
second thing, the last thing I gotta say, dude, and
this has to do with the Packers, and I think
it was the biggest pussy move at the end of
that over time, with one second left to kick a
field goal. I think so because for a lot of
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myriad of reasons. Number One, you got a tough division,
the same thing as a compeyst. You got a tough division,
you got a tough team, teams you got to play
in your division. And the fact that they didn't go
for it?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
What do you think about that? I mean, I thought,
what the hell kind of pussy move is this?
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I mean, are you kidding me? Either?
Speaker 5 (42:29):
You want to win this game?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
You just played, you just played a full game, and
you're about to play another overtime game.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
And I don't get it, dude, I don't get why
you kick a fucking field goal there?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Bro, Well think about it, think about it, think about it.
What time did that game end? What time was it over?
Speaker 5 (42:51):
It doesn't matter, no, no, no, what.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Time was it? What time was the game? What time
was the game over?
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I don't know it was close. It was close to midnight, right, Okay,
So now you've played sixty minutes. You had to play
an extra ten minutes, so you've played seventy hours, four
hours of football, and you're you're right, they're within scoring distance.
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I think if there's five to ten seconds on the clock,
they take a shot and they try to score a
touchdown to win. There was one second on the clock,
You've got a very good field goal kicker. You can
walk away with a tie and end this thing. And
you have to take that into consideration. By the time
they're done with the press conferences and the showering and
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loading up and getting on the plane and flying home,
they're getting home at four or five o'clock in the morning,
probably six o'clock in the morning. Just like the Cowboys.
They have an early game this next Sunday. They're gonna
want to get out of Dallas as fast as they can.
So whereas I understand the competitor in you and the
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competitor in me is saying go for the touchdown, go
for the win, the flip side to that is, okay,
this is game four out of seventeen. This isn't This
isn't a game to decide who's the number one seed.
This isn't a game to decide who's getting home field advantage.
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This is a game in September. That's important. But at
the very least, we walk out of here with a
tie and it doesn't hurt us right now. So I can't.
I can't be mad at them for going for the
tie instead of the win. I agree with a lot
of Packer fans that I've heard on podcasts and different
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things that I've watched that say that they had terrible
clock management. So you cause, when you think about it, Bro,
he throws that second down pass in the flat and
he gets tackled, and there's about thirteen seconds left on
the clock, and I understand that that's third down, but
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you got to get those guys lined up to take
that shot to the end zone. They take a shot
to the end zone with about seven seconds left and
the ball falls short, you know, and then they have
time to come out for the field goal. So I mean,
I'm more like on the Michael Irvin side, I want
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to know who the hell was running the clock and
didn't just let the clock go to zero. That's what
I want to talk to that guy because the Cowboys
should have home field advantage for that run. That damn
clock down to zero, so they don't have that chance.
But I get what you're saying. I think they played
it smart. I think they played it right, and they
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did what they had to do to get out of
the get out of that game and get on the
road and get on home. You know, they'd already lost
a couple of guys to injury in the game. They
probably had a bunch of guys exhausted. I mean, think
about it, dude. They don't play preseason games like they
used to. They don't do in training camp the same
stuff that they used to. They don't tackle, they don't hit,
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they don't they don't do a lot of those things
in the preseason like they used to. So these guys
are just now getting into game shape. So if you're
in a if you're playing the last game on a
Sunday night and you had to play ten extra minutes,
you're trying to figure out as a coach, how can
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I get out of here without any more injuries, without
any more issues, and either with a win or a
tie to go home. And I think that that was
a bigger factor than going for the win. But again,
the competitor in me says, fuck that, go for the win,
and they didn't do it. And it's fine because the
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Cowboys came out looking better than the Packers did, because
people have more questions about Green Bay and who they
actually are than they do about the Cowboys and the
what the Cowboys could be. That's the way I see it.
So I don't know, man, I'm.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Not with you, bro, And I'm gonna tell you two
more things about that.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
You said you had three and now you got two.
Well goddamn, but you.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Just you just you just spark something in my head
when I'm watching the end of the game too. We're
not just talking about one second. We're talking about he
probably could have run five, maybe five plays, but the
team was lollygagging and they were whatever the hell they
were doing.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
They were tired. They were tired.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
I don't give a shit. I don't give a ship. Hey,
you could say all this shit about it being a
Sunday night game. Fuck it. There's people that play on Monday, Bro,
I get less. They get another less day to play.
I understand, That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
But but look at those games too. You think that
the those guys are gonna want to play late into
an extra overtime and not get out of there. And
I understand that, but again, you have to take it.
You have to take in everything that comes with that.
And that's why I'm telling you these guys are just
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now getting into game shape four weeks into the season
because of everything that has changed to get them ready
for the season. I mean, I know what you're saying,
but you think about it. What if that gets hurt?
What if Parsons gets hurt? What if one of these
others start? Look, Tyreek Hill is out, he's gone, Molik
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Neighbors gone. You're talking about some of the best players
in this league, superstar level players in this league gone
because of injuries. And those two guys got hurt in
the middle of a game. How much worse would it
have been because they were trying to win a game
that they could tie. Look, if they're at the fifty
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and they're trying to score, I get it, But they
were inside the thirty and they try to run their
best plays and the defense forced them to throw shorter
plays inside without being able to stop the clock. The
Cowboys defense did their job. The Packers felt the best
thing to do is get the tie and get out.
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So I mean, I don't I still disagree with you.
I understand what you're saying. I still disagree with you.
I think they made a business decision and that was
the right decision for their team. Because what if it's
the flip side. What if it's the Cowboys going down
and the Cowboys decide to go for the tie. Why
so that got sacked on second down when Micah sacked them.
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How come they didn't go I'll come, they didn't try
to do something else on third down to try to
score a touchdown or go for a touchdown on fourth
down to win the game. I mean, but that's okay.
He threw exactly. He threw the ball away. He threw
the ball away, so he still gave his team a
chance to kick the field goal. He did the same thing.
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He did the same thing that the Packers did. He
did the same thing.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Okay, here's here's why I'm gonna disagree with you, bro
Tobert just made that badass catch inside the five, and
they tried to throw the ball three times. They should
have just handed the ball off, bro Right.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I understand what I understand. I understand what you're saying. Okay,
you're right. They were within the five yard line. They
should have tried to run it at least one time
to see what they could get. But they went to
three different pass plays and thought that that was the
best way that they could score, and they didn't do it.
So then why not go for it on fourth down?
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The same thing you're saying about what Green Bay didn't
do the Packers, the Cowboys didn't do either. Why didn't
the Cowboys go for seven? Why didn't the Cowboys go
for the win? Where was their competitive fire? Why didn't
they go for the throat? So again, you can disagree
with me, but it's the same scenario on both sides
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of the ball team. Both teams. Both teams played it safe.
Both teams played it safe.
Speaker 5 (51:24):
No, they only played it safe because Shy made three dumb.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Ass Again, I don't care. I don't care why they
played it safe. They played it safe. The Cowboys had
the same opportunity on fourth down to go for a
fourth down play to try to get a touchdown to
win the game. They did it. They played it safe
and brought out Aubrey. He kicked the shortest field goals
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he has all season. The Packers ran plays down inside
the twenty or whatever it was, they went for it
on third down, they didn't get the pass completion, and
the coach did what he played it safe and got
his kicker out there to kick the shortest field goals
of the season, and he tied the game. It's the
same thing, the same thing. No, go look at the video.
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It's the same. It's not it's there. It's the same thing.
You're you are not gonna win this one. You are
not gonna win this one because it's the exact same scenario,
the exact same scenario.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
I'm actually defending.
Speaker 5 (52:33):
But at the same time, I'm calling them a pussy
for not going But.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
But but I'm saying, why are you calling them Why
are you calling them that when the Cowboys did the
same thing. Why aren't you calling the Cowboys a pussy
for not going for it on fourth down and trying
to win? No, dude, no, because if the cowboy listen,
if the Cowboys score a touchdown, games over, game is over.
The Packers don't get the ball back, the game is over.
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The only reason the Packers had a chance to get
the ball is because the Cowboys kick a field goal.
The overtime rules are is this, If you score a touchdown,
if each team has already had it one time, you
score a touchdown game over. So if the Cowboys did that,
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the Cowboys should.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Have won the game, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
So but we'll see, I mean again, we'll see what
it happens. We'll see how they do it, and it
will go from there. So again, doesn't take away from
the game. It was a great game. I thought it
was a lot of fun and I can't wait to
see what they're gonna do on Sunday. I hope they
blow the doors off the Jets like they should and
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we'll go from there. They got anything else before we
wrap it up?
Speaker 5 (53:51):
Yeah, man, this Jets team, Man, they got a good running.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
Game and they got ball.
Speaker 5 (53:57):
They got those guys, and they're gonna have to shut
the ship down. Bro.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
And I think the quarterback is average at best compared
to the guy we got.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
And again, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (54:08):
Jinxing anybody, but Dak just needs.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
To continue doing what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
He needs to run.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
Those plays that have you noticed, and it is one
big thing that I've noticed.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Remember when Dak.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Was throwing all these picks and he was, you know,
always slinging him to the left, or he was doing
they were getting balls, were getting tipped, or he was
short or he was whatever. All those plays have disappeared.
And to me, I think that's a good connection that
he has with Shoty and shot he is putting him
in running place for him that Okay, I'm just gonna
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take all those and throw them in the truck, in
the garbage.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
I'm gonna throw them in the trash.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
And I'm gonna call the plays that I think Dak
No only can make, but succeed at and.
Speaker 5 (54:52):
Also excel at. So it's always like a step up
up up with that. Well he's gotten I.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
Think he's gotten better every every week and he's he's
slinging it around to everybody.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
And like I said, I want to say after the.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
Eagles game, I said, man, this league better watch out
because dak if he plays like he did that day,
you know, barring the drops, this this league is in
trouble no matter who they play well. And Sunday night
was a perfect, a perfect example of that.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Well, I'm going to tell you why he's better, and
it has it doesn't just because of what Shody's doing
and putting him in those positions, it's because they're running
the damn ball. You think about how good he's been
in his career when he had a solid running game
behind him. The last couple of seasons, he didn't have
shit for a running game. When they put Pollard as
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running back one, the running game fell off. When Zeke
started getting hurt and the running game was falling off,
Dak started to struggle last year. He struggled early. Why
because he didn't have a running game. Even with Zeke back,
he didn't have a running game. So yes, I think
Shody is putting in a position to do well, But
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I also think it's because he has a running game
finally that'll take some of the pressure off of him
and do what he does best, which is the play
action pass that is key to their success. So as
long as they keep running the ball effectively, and we'll
see if they call up Jayden Blue this week. If
if Sanders is hurt and can't go this week, they're
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gonna need to bring up Blue. And the thing that
I don't like is the fact that we only have
two running backs on our active roster because we have
so many needs on the defensive side. That's the Cowboys
justification for not bringing Blue up was because they had
too many needs on the defensive side. They needed to
have more defensive guys on the active roster. Well Sanders
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goes out on Sunday, you leave Williams back there as
your main guy. And yeah, there was a Lifty siding.
But let me tell you something, if that guy getting
more than five touches a game, we have a problem.
That's dangerous. All due respect to that guy, that's dangerous.
That is not a good thing. If Lifty's getting more
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than five touches a game, So they.
Speaker 4 (57:14):
Need to catch to him. Like I said, I don't
care if those are five players for him. I don't
care because I think he would have got him in
the zone.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
But oh well, and maybe and maybe they do. That's
why I say they didn't run the ball enough when
I think they should have. And I think part of
that was that that there, then they could have just
they could have really slowed it down after getting that
first down. Excuse me, after getting that first down, they
could have really slowed it down and drugged that clock
out a little bit more. If they would have run
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the ball on first or second down and given them
a chance, give themselves a chance to take a shot
on third down, or get inside the one and go
for it on fourth down, because I think, I think
if they would have run the ball, they would have
broken the Packers spirit at that point and they would
have scored. So they need to figure out. They need
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to figure out this running game. They need to make
sure they're doing the right things. They need to do
the right things in that running game to get to
get them where they need to be. So but that's
all I got, man, You got anything else before we
wrap it up?
Speaker 5 (58:25):
No, sir go, Cowboys beat those Jets. J E t
as shit Jets.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Well, I'll tell you what Sunday is gonna be fun.
I've got the Cowboys by ten. I mean, that's how
much confidence I have in this offense. The Jets defense
has some pretty good players on it, but I don't
think they have enough to stop the Cowboys offense. Even
if CD doesn't play. If we can get those offensive
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linemen back healthy in this game, that'll make a big
difference as well. And you know that the Cowboys defense
this week, I just need them to bend, just don't break,
Just don't break. You know if they're I mean, I
know they're gonna give up yards, they're gonna give up
some points. But this Jets offense, even though they can
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run the ball, well, you're right, their quarterback is average
at best, and they need to take advantage of that.
So we'll see what happens. Man Fan Poll Sports a
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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Hello, Hello Tono.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
When we are back to talk blue and silver and
stars and a shit ton of points.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You know, last time we spoke, we talked about victory
Monday or Tuesday or whatever day it was. And now
I don't know how to describe this feeling because it
wasn't a loss, it wasn't a win, it was a tie.
So hmm, how do I feel about this day? I
don't know what the title is. It's kind of weird.
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For the first time in a long time. I'm stumped.
I don't have a word, but yeah, dude, a ton
of points, a ton of craziness, especially in that fourth quarter,
a lot of excitement. I mean, if you were at
that game, or if you stayed up to finish watching
that game. You got the bang for your buck. You
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got every every drip of excitement, every drip of oh
my gosh moments, every drip of this is wild. This
is crazy that you could want in a game as
the Dallas Cowboys tie what some claim to be best
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team in football in the Green Bay Packers. What are
your thoughts, first of all, on the game itself and
what were any of the things that you took away
from this game when you look at both of these teams.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Well, I'll start with the Packers, and it kind of
they are who we thought they were, right. They did
what they wanted to do. They went up and down
the field. But that really didn't happen right away. It
didn't happen in the first half. I mean, it happened
in the first quarter where even though they went up
on the Cowboys, I think it.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Was thirteen.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Zero, and then all.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Hell started breaking loose.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
You know, there's a block extra point return for two points,
and that was just.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Kind of the small crack and the dam you know.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
A little leak started, you know, spewing, and then it
just turned into a freaking damn burst.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Man.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
That's basically the best way to describe it because.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Green Bay, like as far as we know, in the
past few years, and again they're still a young team,
they still got a young quarterback. They're still trying to
build their resume and their place in this NFL world.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And they they got punched back in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
They they came out swinging.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
They hit the Cowboys quick, They went up and down
the field as expected because again you know, the defense
again you and I know is suspect. But did they
lay down and just take it and just cower into
a corner? Know what they did is they got up
off the mat. They fought themselves back into you know,
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a game that I mean, by all, by all accounts,
they should have had.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Any business getting close to.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Winning or having the players losing linemen. The list goes
on and on. Micah shows up.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
And again they're still touting him like it was I
love how to.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Keep throwing it in Jerry's face and and it just
to me And this is just.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
I guess personally, between I guess me and you and
anybody else who's listening.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I don't give a fuck.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I'm sick of this talk. I'm sick of Micah being
with the Packers. And the Cowboys don't have Micah anymore.
And I'm I'm fucking fed up, dude, up to my.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Gills of just okay, we get it. We traded him,
and he's gone, and he's in the rear.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
View mirror, and can we just stop, can we just
stop already stop mentioning number eleven slash.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
One, because it just makes me want to vomit and puke.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
As far as the game, man, it was slow going
for the Cowboys. You know, as I said earlier, the Packers.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Were doing what they felt they could do to just.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Kind of, you know, impose their will on the Cowboys.
And then obviously that plan didn't come to pass. You know,
it wound up in a time. I get all that,
but I will say this, Number four, it was it
was bouta quatro bro. It was this guy was spreading
the ball around. He was putting the ball in people's hands.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
That you know. Again, maybe it was just.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Them being committed finally and all inim you know, because
it was floorinoy.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It was it was it was pickens. It was lip Key.
There was a Lipkey sighting in there.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I mean, it was turfing, it was I mean, I know,
I'm forgetting everybody, but he was spreading the ball around.
Not only was he doing that Tobert, sorry Tobert with
that great catch in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I mean, dude, he was slinging.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
The ball and it wasn't like he was and if
you look at the timeframe of the game when it ended,
he really didn't have as many attempts.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
As you would think.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
But it seemed like.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
They did kind of abandon the running game and stretches
where I mean, they're they're very consistent with it, they're
solid with it, they gain yards, they can move the ball,
they can I'm not gonna say they're gonna get first
downs with it a lot, but they put you in
thirty shorts and it's effective.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I'm not going to say.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It's game busting, and it's you know, like Jacob's had
what was it, He had tons of yards in this game,
But I mean it was all around, all around. Like
I said, I don't know what podcast it was earlier,
I said, if this is what they're gonna do, then
then I'm all in because at least you know there's
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a game plan. There there's a structure, there's a there's
a commitment, there's guys that are wanting to and the
want is not as easy as you know, the will
in your mind to go get it and get the
ball when passes are in the air or when the
balls in your hands when you're running it. And also
on the defensive end, you know, again we can that's
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again suspect.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
But it was not just entertaining, but it showed me that.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
They had fight.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
You know, they were they were greedy to want to
win the game.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, I mean, there's you said pretty much everything that
needs to be said. So that's a rap. Thanks for
joining us. But no, I mean, I think you're right, man.
I think I think they were greedy. I think, you know,
they they did. I think I think they played like
kind of like what you were just saying about the
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whole Micah situation. They were tired of talking about it.
They were tired of having to hear about it. They
were tired of, you know, all the oh, the Cowboys
defense isn't as good because they don't have a pass
rush and all this other stuff, and they just said,
screw it. We're gonna we're gonna play, you know, with
our hair on fire, and we're gonna come after him,
and we're gonna take care of some business and do
some things. And you know, they exposed They exposed Green
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Bay in a lot of ways. And I know that
Green Bay lost that defensive tackle early in the second quarter.
You know that maybe that maybe did hurt their defense
up front, especially with the Cowboys running game. But you know,
I mean, it's next man up. You know, the Cowboys
have a lot of injuries too. They had a lot
of guys out too that you know, key players like C. D.
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Lamb and and so I mean, it's it was great
to see it, you know. And I've said this on
numerous occasions about different things that go on in life.
I just want to be entertained. And that game had
everything in it, even though I only watched the first
three quarters live, you know, because I'm old and I
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had to go to bed because I'm a responsible adult,
so I could go to work the next day and
not be tired. But but but you know, it was
one of those things man, that it was really good
to see them fight, Like you say, because there's been
so many games over the last few years man that
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you know, when the Cowboys get down, their spirits are crushed,
their emotions are gone, and they just quit, and you
hate to see it as a fan because you know
all these guys will say the same thing. You know,
I do it because I love the sport. I do
for the love of the game. And then they go
out there and they play like crap, and then you know,
they make excuses, and it pisses you off as a
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fan because you're thinking, well, if I got paid the
money you got paid, I would be able to go
at it better than that. And that's another topic for
another time. But the proof is in the pudding. And
there were times that they did just quit, They did
just let things fall by the wayside and not do
anything about it to get back in the game. That
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wasn't the case on Sunday night. They got after it.
They kicked ass, they they did everything they could to
give them chance, give themselves the chance to win that game.
One guy you didn't mention there had an amazing game,
and that was George Pickens. And I know you'll probably
talk about him here in a little bit, but Pickens,
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Pickens showed me something. He showed me that he has
the potential to be a number one receiver. He has
the ability to get out there and make big plays,
and like I was telling, like I was telling Cody
the other day, he reminds me a lot of Dez Bryant.
I mean, just an athletic freak. He's got them long
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arms and then big hands. He can make every catch
you can imagine. And he's he's he's I think he's
a little more flexible than Dez, so he's a little
more of a mobile type guy. And I mean he
did an amazing job to step up the way that
he did, and for him and Dak to be on
the same page the way they were throughout that game
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was huge. I thought he had a tremendous game. And
I mean you mentioned dude, Turpin played big, Tobert played big.
Ferguson got his first touchdown of the season. I think
it's been over a year since he last made it
to the end zone, so I know he was pretty
excited about that. The running game again did very well,
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So I mean, there's just there's a lot of good
things to talk about. The defense made plays. Sure they
didn't make as many stops if we as we would
have liked, but they gave this team a chance. They
gave them a chance, and the offense did what they
needed to do to have the opportunity to win this game.
And I think there's a lot you can build off
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of this game. You know, anybody, anybody that talks any
shit about the Cowboys or this game, that that just
solidifies that you're a hater on every level. And and
I mean, if you can't look at this from the
football perspective and see that this team first of all,
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isn't as bad as we think it is. And second
of all, they've got some guys that are just gonna
go out there and leave it all all out there
and try to get the win. If you can't see that,
like I said, you're just a hater, you know what
I mean. I mean, I don't get me wrong. I
have been very critical of the Cowboys. I will continue
to be critical of the Cowboys. But when the Cowboys
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do well and the Cowboys get out there and get
after it like they did on Sunday night, I have
no problem. I have no problem getting out the silver
and blue pomp poms and waving them mightily for those Cowboys.
So as I look at some of the things that
we talked about, man, you know, my first question to
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you is should they have run the ball more. Should
they have tried to control the game late a little
more and kind of run down the clock to not
give Green Bay's offense the chance to get down there
and scoring position. What are your on, you know, some
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of the stuff that they did down the stretch and
there in the overtime.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
When the game began.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
When the game began, I'm with you, and I'm seeing
on the same page that yes, they should have committed
a little bit more to that, but I think the
running backs.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Got banged up.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So when that happens again, in my opinion, you want
to put it more on Dak's shoulders. And I'm okay
with that, And I'm going to tell you why. I mean,
this motherfucker is dialed in, Bro. He was dialed in
in the Eagles game. He was dialed in that that night,
he was putting it on people, Bro. I mean, everybody
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was touching the ball. And I got to touch a
little bit more on what you said about Pickens. He
to me is the number one. I mean, and I
know this TV is the number one, and he's been
the number one on the team forever in a day,
but that game right there showed me that the connection
that he has with number three is a different level.
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And I'm going to tell you why, because it it
doesn't seem like that that feeling, you know when let's
just say I'm throwing the ball to you back in
the day, right in the street, I'm throwing it to you,
or am I thrown it to somebody else who I
don't have confidence in, Not that I don't have confidence
in that guy, but I'd rather throw it to my
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money guy.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And and that's what I see.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
And it doesn't seem like that that fear or that
nerves or that little tiny hesitation to not want to
let that ball go. I think he's happy to just hey,
I'm a fifty to fifty ball.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I got number three.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Out there, and that is I mean, that's that's what
you want, need, and you need to have on your team.
On a team with all this kind of caliber of talent,
Man Dak played probably the best I've seen in a
really long time. And I'm tired of all these naysayers
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and the screaming a's and all these people.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And and it gets sickening, Broy.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
They always want to minimize, like they'll say, oh, well shit,
he had to throw more because they went into overtime, right,
It's always a fucking excuse, dude, It's always an excuse,
and it just and again it's it's almost on that
same level of talking about Micah and this and that that.
It just frustrates me to no end. But at the
same time, I'm like, you know what, I just let
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it slide off my back now because I mean, Dak
don't care. You know, Dak's gonna go out there and
just be the man. You know, again, I told you
at the beginning of the season, I thought he could
be an MVP guy if he just had the right
tools around him, you know, if he had the right
players around him. And now that he does, look at
his numbers. His numbers show it, and you know what,
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they would be even more exaggerated if Idiator would have
caught those fucking balls in the Eagles game.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know you're right?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I mean, I mean, go ahead, no, oh, I.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Agree with you. I think you're right. I think you know,
the the numbers would be even greater if if he
would have made one of those catches. And you're you're
you're talking about Dak in a different light. If CD's
available in this game and if he makes those catches
in that first game, and the Cowboys could be just
like the Packers right now, two to one and one
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instead of one two and one, you know, so you know,
I mean it was it was that close that they
could have gone a different way if they would have
got that win against the Eagles. But yeah, go ahead, man,
keep going, no man, I.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Mean that the way he was dialed in and just
the way he was even on the run, man, even backpedaling.
Even he knows where his people are, like he doesn't
like just know it, he feels it.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
He knows.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Okay, I know this guy's going to be in this
specific area. It might be an up for grab ball,
but it's not going to be a spot or a
place that the defender is going to be able to
get to it. Only my guy's going to get to it.
And it's either going to be something positive or it's.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Just going to be an incompletion.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
And his efficiency is off the off the charts in
my opinion, and again it would be even more off
the charts, like I said with with drop passes, and
I think you said it earlier, not earlier, but other
podcasts he said, Hey.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
I mean he's putting it where he needs to.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Then then the onus falls on the receivers right and
falls on them to make make the connection, you know,
execute the play.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And I mean he's just at that level man, now
is And.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Again you can talk about Josh Allen, you can talk
about all these other guys. At the end of the day, man,
I'd have I'd rather have number four running my ship,
running my team, you know, being my guy, you know,
ten times over against those those fools. Yeah, man, I'm there.
I'm all in with Dak this year. I mean, stay healthy,
you know. And and again all that wouldn't fall on
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his shoulders that had anything to do with his offensive line.
And again I know you had the question here like
what are your thoughts on it? What did you see
with them in the protection for him?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, I think I think the protection overall was good.
I mean, when you consider the game plan was to
slow Micah down. Uh the game plan was to you know,
try to minimize the impact that Micah had and and
and I mean to impact the whole uh D line,
you know what I mean, slow them down because they
had a pretty good pass rush. And I think I
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think that what they did by you know, rolling, rolling
the pocket a little bit and moving back around a
little bit. I think that helped. I think running right
at Micah. You know, we talked about that before. You know,
as great as he is as a pass rusher, he's
been suspected best in his career as a run stopper.
And the Cowboys exploded that in different scenarios on Sunday night.
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And you know when you look at that and you
just said the thing right now, dude, stay healthy. If
four stays healthy, there's not a team in this league
that are gonna be able to slow him down when
he's on his game. You know, I don't know what
that was in Chicago a couple of Sundays ago, but
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if the Cowboys would have played against the Bears against
the way that they did against the Eagles and the Packers,
the Cowboys blow the Bears out with no doubt in
my mind, you know what I mean. So yeah, if
he stays healthy, and you know, he doesn't have to
have all of his weapons every game. I mean, again,
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CD's out probably another week. But if he continues to
build that relationship with Pickens, continues to get confidence in Tolbert,
continues to get the ball to turpin in spots, and
then of course Ferguson. I mean, it's gonna be tough, man.
There's so many weapons on this team. And remember the
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Cowboys were without two offensive linemen and well their center
and their right tackle. Both of those guys were out
as well. So it just imagine how much more dominant
that front of the Cowboys would have been on the
offensive side had those other two guys been there. So
I give a lot of props to those guys that
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sucked in. I know early on there was a few penalties,
a few things that you know, kind of gave you
pause and scared you, as a Cowboys fan a little
bit to go, oh shit, we're about to get exploited.
But it never happened. It never happened, and they kept
Dak clean. They kept them upright. I know Micah got
credited with that sack there at the end. I call bullshit.
(20:55):
I don't think it was a sack. Ye, I think.
I don't think it was a sack. Think he was.
He was just beyond the line of scrimmage. Uh to
count it as a tackle, sure, no problem, counted it
as a sack. Nah, They're wrong. I don't agree with it.
But if you're telling me that the most impactful play
that Micah Parsons made came in overtime or the end
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of the fourth quarter, I mean, aren't you taking money
on that? Like if somebody said, Hey, the only play
that he's gonna make is at this time of the game,
and you sit there and go, man, there's no way
this dude's gonna have I mean, there was people talking
about he's gonna have three sacks, he's gonna dominate, he's
gonna embarrass the Cowboys offensive line. He's gonna he's gonna
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put back Dak on his back and all this stuff,
and all he did was come away with eight pressures
and one sack. And I give a lot of credit.
I give a lot of credit to that offensive line.
As great as Dak played, if they don't keep him upright,
he doesn't play that well if he's on his ass.
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So you know that's what I think.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I'm with you there, Bro, I agree man, the offensive line,
And here here's I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna touch
harken back to It's funny man, that Sunday I was
working an event, right and I missed part of the game.
There was a speaker there. And this is so funny
because it resonates with what happened that game. The guy
that came on and this was for like Waburger, Right,
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so they've been around seventy five years, and you don't
that just doesn't happen by accident.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
So the gist of his speech, like his motivation was,
you know what Waterburger does that that.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Great teams, great players.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
He talked about the bulls, he talked about the packers
of old, and he talked about all these different things.
He says, you know what they do better than anybody.
They do the basics better, like base things. Yep, what
is more basic than an offensive line? And dude, it's
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so funny because when I watched the game in its entirety,
finally I said, man, this guy he put his finger
right on the fucking polst.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Of what he's right.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Man, you do basic things right.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
You're blocking, you know, you're creating holes for your running back,
your and and that's I think that's what shoddy is.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
He's a basic kind of emphasis on the basics, and
then the great things will come, right, the big players
will come here and there, but the offensive line even
when we had what one, two, three guys down three
and you know we're going backwards, we're losing guys.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But at the same time, the next man and people
can say.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Next man up till they're blue in the face until
that next man does come up and has to perform.
And I think, man, this this guy when he was
talking to this speech, it was Man, it was really
motivating me, Like, man, this guy is right. You know
what does barteriworker really do? They just make burgers, right, bro,
majority of the time, ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But what do they do?
Speaker 4 (24:08):
They do that basic thing better than anybody else. That's
why they've been around for so long. And I think
that's that can resonate with football teams, right because when
when when he said that vincelam Barty took over the team. Dude,
they had they had a they were I think they
had zero wins that the season before, and he turned
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the guys around. And I hate bringing it making it
about the Packers, but what did he do?
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Now? What do we call our trophy?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
We call it the le Vinsulabardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Why because he turns zeros into heroes and and again.
It's it's it's that's what I saw with the offensive line. Man,
they're just seeming to.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Like, hey, this guy's down.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Hey, we're still.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Gonna do our basic blocking, blocking and our basic techniques
and we're gonna keep Micah off Dak and we're gonna
I mean again.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Dak again.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
I think not with the Bears game, but with all
the other games, he's been fairly clean. Right, he's been
kind of and even when he does get the things
start falling apart, he's smart enough now to know how
to move and slide in the pocket and make play still,
so again that's not his game, but he can use
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that and use his legs and he doesn't really do
anything fancy. He just he just moves the chains too,
like it's a basic Okay, I'm gonna the pass rush
is coming, the offense is breaking down, my O line's
breaking down. Okay, I'm gonna slip over here and slide
over there. But I'm still gonna get positive yards if
I get a first down.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Great.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
If I don't, at least you know i'm gonna make
the attempt and it's gonna be and not just like
an educated guess. It's gonna be a calculated precision pass
or him running or whatever it is. It's always something
positive and never a fumble, never an interception. And again
it's something basic, you know, keeping the ball in your
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hands and moving your team forward and getting in positions
to score touchdowns. And dude, it's it's like, it's basic stuff.
And I think that's what Shoddy has put in their minds,
and those old little basic things that they're doing now,
they they're they're they're resonating.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Man, It's it's good to see.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
It's great to see it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
And think about the penalties right there again another game
with minimal kind of you know, killer penalties. There was
some here and there that I questioned, but at the
same time, okay, I'll take that there. But it wasn't
a habit. It wasn't a bad habit. And they're breaking
those bad habits slowly but surely every single game. And
I love every bit and piece of it.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
The offensive line, man, my hat's off to them. I
know the guys won't be hurt forever. But again, I
think we're gonna have to transition and kind of speak
about the defensive line and the defense and all that
and I know it's the sucky part of this conversation,
but it needs to be had.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
There has to be something that has to change, and
it has to change quick.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Well before we do that, just one thing on Shoty.
You know you talked about how he's doing the basics
very well. I mean again, think about who his dad is.
Marty Schottenheimer was a very successful coach in this league.
And what did he do. He kept it very simple.
He kept it very basic, whether he was in Kansas
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City or San Diego or even Washington. I mean, his
teams were known for what ball control, running the ball well, quarterbacks,
not making mistakes, you know, and just playing good, solid
offensive control line of scrimmage and then having a sound defense.
And the Cowboys right now don't have a sound defense.
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So to me, the jury is gonna still be out
on Shoty until we see where this thing goes. But
to me, he called and put together the best game
plan in his short tenure as Cowboys head coach, and
they executed it very well. And I'll give him again,
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I will give him credit for that. I'll be the
first to rag on him, but I'll also be the
first to give him credit. So I wanted to give
us a small shout out to Shady and how well
that game plan was put together defensively. Dude, Again, they
couldn't stop a cold. They couldn't stop kids from crossing
the street to get to school in the crosswalk. You know,
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they they couldn't stop nothing. Okay, they gave up forty points,
they gave up big yards. It sucked to watch that
side of the ball a little bit on Sunday night.
But I will give them credit. They made some plays
in some crucial times in that game to give this
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team a chance to win. You know, they had that
big sack before half time time that turned into a touchdown.
I think they need to figure out a way to
get Clowney and Houston on the field together. Those guys
might be the best pass rushers that they have the secondary.
I know they're playing more zone than they have in
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the past. Uh. That is not one of Diggs's uh
strong points. He's much more of a man to man
type of defender.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So they're gonna have to get that figured out. Man.
They're gonna have to figure out what they're doing scheme
wise to to get these guys in a better position
because that secondary, especially is giving up way too much.
I think they played better when Hooker was out, and
I know he got dinged up. I'm hoping he's not
out for an extended period of time. Uh, But it
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looked like they were a little bit better in the
secondary in the second half until until late when the Packers,
you know, made their made their comeback to tie and
go to over time. But you know, again, the linebackers
are still suspect. The kid I can't remember his name,
Lafoul or what is his name, the one that the
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one that had that big hit on the kick returner
or punt returner from Green Bay. That kid that that kid,
that kid needs to get on the field. That kid
needs to be given an opportunity to get out there
because he was playing with his hair on fire. So
you know, yes, I think they need to make some adjustments.
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They're gonna get some guys back, they're gonna get healthy.
But I think the linebackers and the secondary are probably
the weakest part of this defense. And as long as
they keep playing this zone coverage, man, they're gonna struggle.
They're gonna give up a lot of yards. My hope
is that they'll start to tighten up in the red
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zone and maybe not give up as many points. But
when you're giving up as many yard yards as they
are and that opposing team's offense is on the field
as long as they are, that's gonna wear your defense out.
And when you can't make stops and you can't make plays,
that's gonna hurt you in the long run. So they
really do need to figure out what they want to
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do up front, I mean in this linebacker corps and
secondary to make some things happen. There is a rumor
going around, and I don't know how true this is,
if there's a rumor going around that the defensive end
from the Raiders, Max Crosby, who is an All Pro
defensive end, may want out of Las Vegas, and the
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Dallas Cowboys are top of his list. So we'll see. Man,
I'm not gonna hold my breath. I don't think stuff
like this happens in the NFL like it does in
other sports. But you never know. I never thought Micah
Parsons was gonna get traded, and look what happened. Your
thoughts on the defense, Your thoughts on the defense, and
how things looked on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
For me, man, it's.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Remember when we used to have Quinn and and it
was kind of a bend.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Don't break. This is more of a bend than they break.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, if.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
They just.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
If if they could just you know, get a few
field goals instead of touchdowns, or giveaway field goals instead
of touchdowns and minimize that a little. With the way
Jack's playing and with the way the offense is clicking,
and I mean to me, it's I and I keep
trying to Okay, is it the linebackers that are sucking?
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Is it digs that doesn't want to commit to getting hurt?
I mean to me, it's I think the defensive line
is doing the best that they can bro they're battling.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think the.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Linebacker play needs to be adjusted and tweaked because once
they get past those those linemen, the defensive lineman, I mean,
it's almost like there's empty space and there's empty air.
And I'm all for you know, Shoddy sticking with his
defensive coordinator and shit, but I mean the linebacker play
has to get better because if you shorten those those
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second and longs, you make it second and long or
third and long, then that's where you know, you're you're
starting to get on the right side of the defense,
you know, getting three and outs or getting a field
goal instead of a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
You know.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
And for me, it's hard to watch Row. It's hard
to watch. But I hope the Cavalry, like you know,
I sent you that info earlier, right, Yeah, I hope
that Cavalry Overshown coming back. And I mean, he's just
one player, but all these guys have been kind of
banking on and they drafted and all that shit, and
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let's just hope all that starts to just pan out,
and then that just gives Clowny that little bit more
of a less attention. And you're right, Houston man is
just balling out as best he can. Man, He's kind
of he did a lot of it in the preseason.
I know you didn't really watch a lot of the preseason,
but I noticed him. I noticed him right away. He
was a big standout, a lot like Overshown was last
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year to me. But but he's just one guy, man,
and they all have to play as a unit. They
have to play a little bit better and gel as
a unit.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Right now, remember when we talked.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Earlier about what the identity is to me, it's just
Dak Prescott slinging it and it's Brandon Aubrey and special.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Teams and that's not good enough. That's not good enough.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Man.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
You got to have at least get this defense.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Some kind of success, you know, do something put him
in position to be successful.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Get more turnovers like that turnover was a game changer.
That block kick. That's a special teams thing, right, you
know they're contributing.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
But they need a little bit more of that on
the defensive side of the ball, in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
And I agree with you, man, I mean, they do.
They need to. They need to improve on that defensive
side because it is very hard to watch. And you know,
when when your defense looks as bad as it does,
and I can sit here and tell you that the
Cowboys defense when Dave Campo was the freaking defensive coordinator
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looked better than this defense. That's pretty bad. So yeah,
they they've got some work to do on that defensive side.
But one thing I wanted to bring up, man, you
posted that that thing yesterday where you said that this
that that it's a wash because the Cowboys have the
number three offense or whatever and they have the worst defense.
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But the yardage difference is like under under thirty and whatever,
and you're like it's a wash, and it's like, that's
not a wash when you're giving up more than you're gaining,
you know, And that's that's exactly what's happened. That defense
can can't stop anybody. They're not getting off the field
when they need to. There was multiple third downs, especially
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in the first half that they had them, third and five,
third and seven, and Green Bay still found a way
to move the chains and get the first down. And
those are the types of things that they're gonna have
to clean up. They if they want to really make
a run to the playoffs, they have to take care
of that business on the defensive side, because that's the
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decide that's gonna keep them out of the playoffs. In
my opinion, when you look at this schedule, they have
the Jets this week, they have the Panthers next week,
and then they have the Commanders or the Redskins or
the Washington Football team or whatever the hell you want
to call them. They're playing that sorry ass Maroon and
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Gold team from DC and they have a chance man
to win these three games. I think they should win.
In New York. I think they should win in Carolina
and then they should be able to beat the Redskins
when they come to town in a few weeks. So
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here's the Cowboys chance man to really make some moves,
make some waves to show everybody. Y'all can talk about us.
Y'all can talk shit about us all you want, but
at the end of the day, we're right in the
thick of it. And I mean, I don't give a
shit with them idiots from Philadelphia say that team in
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Philadelphia is average. They're not as good as they were
last year, and they've been very lucky to get some
of the wins that they've gotten this season, because they
should at least be two and two right now. They
shouldn't be four and oh they should have lost to
the Cowboys, and they probably should have lost to the
Buccaneers as well, but for whatever reason, Tampa Bay didn't
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show up in the first half of their Yeah. Yeah,
So that's why I say, like they they're not as good.
So the Cowboys have a chance still to make some
moves and be a player in this division. But that
defense is gonna have to play way, way, way better
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in order for them to make those waves and make
those moves as we go forward. I mean, like I said, man,
tremendous game. You know, Aubrey hit a couple of big kicks.
Give credit to the Dan Packers kicker. He made some
big kicks, some big kicks. Again, I loved it. I
thought it was a great game. It sucked that it
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ended in a tie. There's been different ideas thrown around.
One of the ideas is they should do like they
do in soccer and have penalty kicks and the kickers
start at the thirty five yard line and then they
just moved back five yards until somebody misses. In theory,
that sounds fun and it sounds exciting, but if your
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kickers having to kick five six extra times in overtime
to get you a win, is it worth it. I
don't know how I feel about that, But anyway, hopefully
the NFL takes a look at the overtime and tie
circumstances and maybe they do do some things to change it.
I know they changed the rules a few years ago.
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It used to be an entire fifteen minutes. It's only
ten minutes in overtime now because they talked about player safety.
So we'll see if they do anything differently, man, But overall,
I'm gonna give the Cowboys an a minus for this
tie because I really think they gave it. They're all.
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I really think they put forth a great effort, and
I get I have to give them credit. Dude. That
game was really good and I think they did a
great job. I did. I think they did a great job.
What are your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
I'm just gonna point out three things, and the first
one is just that one pass to Tobart, and Tobart
seems to like and I'm hoping that I'm not jinxing
his ass seems to fucking get it in his head now,
it's in his brain, it's in between his ears now.
But his his his mind, his body, and his soul
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are now all in. You know, that one catch was,
you know, probably one of the better catches he's ever had.
But he was consistent throughout the whole game, Like because
I watched the whole game. I just saw that one
play when I got home. But when I saw the
whole game, I said, Okay, he's involved in this. He's
a part of this.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
He's got two ten toes down in this on this offense.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Now, because you know ceed's not there and maybe that's
the reason why, but then you.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Should always be like that.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
You know, Florinoy was made I think one or two
catches that got first downs and.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
You didn't expect that.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
And again that give boosts his confidence because hey, when
the guys go in and Schoonmaker made a few plays in.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
There as well.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
And again you could if I looked at the stats, and.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
I'm not gonna pull it up, but he he was
putting in the ball on a lot of people, a
lot of different people, and that tells me that's that's
a shoddy thing, right, that's a because he's one calling
calling the plays right. And then I've noticed things with
dak now where you know he kills the play, he's
like kill, kill, kill that he kills a play and
then and then they know that he what he's switching to.
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But then they then they shift their defense and then
he switches it right back to the to another play
like he's he's.
Speaker 5 (41:36):
Like playing chess with these guys.
Speaker 4 (41:38):
So he's not just okay, I already killed that one play.
I'm gonna okay, now I gotta run this.
Speaker 3 (41:43):
No, he's he's man.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
He's moving the chess pieces with his mind and I
like that. And that's what I noticed. And that's the
second thing, the last thing I gotta say, dude, and
this has to do with the Packers, and I think
it was the biggest pussy move at the end of
that over time, with one second left to kick a
field goal. I think so because for a lot of
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myriad of reasons. Number One, you got a tough division,
the same thing as a compeyst. You got a tough division,
you got a tough team, teams you got to play
in your division. And the fact that they didn't go
for it?
Speaker 3 (42:24):
What do you think about that? I mean, I thought,
what the hell kind of pussy move is this?
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Bro?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
I mean, are you kidding me? Either?
Speaker 5 (42:29):
You want to win this game?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
You just played, you just played a full game, and
you're about to play another overtime game.
Speaker 5 (42:38):
And I don't get it, dude, I don't get why
you kick a fucking field goal there?
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Bro, Well think about it, think about it, think about it.
What time did that game end? What time was it over?
Speaker 5 (42:51):
It doesn't matter, no, no, no, what.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Time was it? What time was the game? What time
was the game over?
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I don't know it was close. It was close to midnight, right, Okay,
So now you've played sixty minutes. You had to play
an extra ten minutes, so you've played seventy hours, four
hours of football, and you're you're right, they're within scoring distance.
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I think if there's five to ten seconds on the clock,
they take a shot and they try to score a
touchdown to win. There was one second on the clock,
You've got a very good field goal kicker. You can
walk away with a tie and end this thing. And
you have to take that into consideration. By the time
they're done with the press conferences and the showering and
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loading up and getting on the plane and flying home,
they're getting home at four or five o'clock in the morning,
probably six o'clock in the morning. Just like the Cowboys.
They have an early game this next Sunday. They're gonna
want to get out of Dallas as fast as they can.
So whereas I understand the competitor in you and the
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competitor in me is saying go for the touchdown, go
for the win, the flip side to that is, okay,
this is game four out of seventeen. This isn't This
isn't a game to decide who's the number one seed.
This isn't a game to decide who's getting home field advantage.
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This is a game in September. That's important. But at
the very least, we walk out of here with a
tie and it doesn't hurt us right now. So I can't.
I can't be mad at them for going for the
tie instead of the win. I agree with a lot
of Packer fans that I've heard on podcasts and different
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things that I've watched that say that they had terrible
clock management. So you cause, when you think about it, Bro,
he throws that second down pass in the flat and
he gets tackled, and there's about thirteen seconds left on
the clock, and I understand that that's third down, but
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you got to get those guys lined up to take
that shot to the end zone. They take a shot
to the end zone with about seven seconds left and
the ball falls short, you know, and then they have
time to come out for the field goal. So I mean,
I'm more like on the Michael Irvin side, I want
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to know who the hell was running the clock and
didn't just let the clock go to zero. That's what
I want to talk to that guy because the Cowboys
should have home field advantage for that run. That damn
clock down to zero, so they don't have that chance.
But I get what you're saying. I think they played
it smart. I think they played it right, and they
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did what they had to do to get out of
the get out of that game and get on the
road and get on home. You know, they'd already lost
a couple of guys to injury in the game. They
probably had a bunch of guys exhausted. I mean, think
about it, dude. They don't play preseason games like they
used to. They don't do in training camp the same
stuff that they used to. They don't tackle, they don't hit,
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they don't they don't do a lot of those things
in the preseason like they used to. So these guys
are just now getting into game shape. So if you're
in a if you're playing the last game on a
Sunday night and you had to play ten extra minutes,
you're trying to figure out as a coach, how can
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I get out of here without any more injuries, without
any more issues, and either with a win or a
tie to go home. And I think that that was
a bigger factor than going for the win. But again,
the competitor in me says, fuck that, go for the win,
and they didn't do it. And it's fine because the
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Cowboys came out looking better than the Packers did, because
people have more questions about Green Bay and who they
actually are than they do about the Cowboys and the
what the Cowboys could be. That's the way I see it.
So I don't know, man, I'm.
Speaker 4 (47:16):
Not with you, bro, And I'm gonna tell you two
more things about that.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
You said you had three and now you got two.
Well goddamn, but you.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
Just you just you just spark something in my head
when I'm watching the end of the game too. We're
not just talking about one second. We're talking about he
probably could have run five, maybe five plays, but the
team was lollygagging and they were whatever the hell they
were doing.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
They were tired. They were tired.
Speaker 5 (47:45):
I don't give a shit. I don't give a ship. Hey,
you could say all this shit about it being a
Sunday night game. Fuck it. There's people that play on Monday, Bro,
I get less. They get another less day to play.
I understand, That's what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
But but look at those games too. You think that
the those guys are gonna want to play late into
an extra overtime and not get out of there. And
I understand that, but again, you have to take it.
You have to take in everything that comes with that.
And that's why I'm telling you these guys are just
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now getting into game shape four weeks into the season
because of everything that has changed to get them ready
for the season. I mean, I know what you're saying,
but you think about it. What if that gets hurt?
What if Parsons gets hurt? What if one of these
others start? Look, Tyreek Hill is out, he's gone, Molik
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Neighbors gone. You're talking about some of the best players
in this league, superstar level players in this league gone
because of injuries. And those two guys got hurt in
the middle of a game. How much worse would it
have been because they were trying to win a game
that they could tie. Look, if they're at the fifty
(49:03):
and they're trying to score, I get it, But they
were inside the thirty and they try to run their
best plays and the defense forced them to throw shorter
plays inside without being able to stop the clock. The
Cowboys defense did their job. The Packers felt the best
thing to do is get the tie and get out.
(49:27):
So I mean, I don't I still disagree with you.
I understand what you're saying. I still disagree with you.
I think they made a business decision and that was
the right decision for their team. Because what if it's
the flip side. What if it's the Cowboys going down
and the Cowboys decide to go for the tie. Why
so that got sacked on second down when Micah sacked them.
(49:51):
How come they didn't go I'll come, they didn't try
to do something else on third down to try to
score a touchdown or go for a touchdown on fourth
down to win the game. I mean, but that's okay.
He threw exactly. He threw the ball away. He threw
the ball away, so he still gave his team a
chance to kick the field goal. He did the same thing.
(50:15):
He did the same thing that the Packers did. He
did the same thing.
Speaker 4 (50:19):
Okay, here's here's why I'm gonna disagree with you, bro
Tobert just made that badass catch inside the five, and
they tried to throw the ball three times. They should
have just handed the ball off, bro Right.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I understand what I understand. I understand what you're saying. Okay,
you're right. They were within the five yard line. They
should have tried to run it at least one time
to see what they could get. But they went to
three different pass plays and thought that that was the
best way that they could score, and they didn't do it.
So then why not go for it on fourth down?
(50:54):
The same thing you're saying about what Green Bay didn't
do the Packers, the Cowboys didn't do either. Why didn't
the Cowboys go for seven? Why didn't the Cowboys go
for the win? Where was their competitive fire? Why didn't
they go for the throat? So again, you can disagree
with me, but it's the same scenario on both sides
(51:15):
of the ball team. Both teams. Both teams played it safe.
Both teams played it safe.
Speaker 5 (51:24):
No, they only played it safe because Shy made three dumb.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Ass Again, I don't care. I don't care why they
played it safe. They played it safe. The Cowboys had
the same opportunity on fourth down to go for a
fourth down play to try to get a touchdown to
win the game. They did it. They played it safe
and brought out Aubrey. He kicked the shortest field goals
(51:49):
he has all season. The Packers ran plays down inside
the twenty or whatever it was, they went for it
on third down, they didn't get the pass completion, and
the coach did what he played it safe and got
his kicker out there to kick the shortest field goals
of the season, and he tied the game. It's the
same thing, the same thing. No, go look at the video.
(52:18):
It's the same. It's not it's there. It's the same thing.
You're you are not gonna win this one. You are
not gonna win this one because it's the exact same scenario,
the exact same scenario.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
I'm actually defending.
Speaker 5 (52:33):
But at the same time, I'm calling them a pussy
for not going But.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
But but I'm saying, why are you calling them Why
are you calling them that when the Cowboys did the
same thing. Why aren't you calling the Cowboys a pussy
for not going for it on fourth down and trying
to win? No, dude, no, because if the cowboy listen,
if the Cowboys score a touchdown, games over, game is over.
The Packers don't get the ball back, the game is over.
(52:58):
The only reason the Packers had a chance to get
the ball is because the Cowboys kick a field goal.
The overtime rules are is this, If you score a touchdown,
if each team has already had it one time, you
score a touchdown game over. So if the Cowboys did that,
(53:18):
the Cowboys should.
Speaker 5 (53:19):
Have won the game, all right, man.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
So but we'll see, I mean again, we'll see what
it happens. We'll see how they do it, and it
will go from there. So again, doesn't take away from
the game. It was a great game. I thought it
was a lot of fun and I can't wait to
see what they're gonna do on Sunday. I hope they
blow the doors off the Jets like they should and
(53:46):
we'll go from there. They got anything else before we
wrap it up?
Speaker 5 (53:51):
Yeah, man, this Jets team, Man, they got a good running.
Speaker 3 (53:56):
Game and they got ball.
Speaker 5 (53:57):
They got those guys, and they're gonna have to shut
the ship down. Bro.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
And I think the quarterback is average at best compared
to the guy we got.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
And again, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (54:08):
Jinxing anybody, but Dak just needs.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
To continue doing what he's doing.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
He needs to run.
Speaker 5 (54:14):
Those plays that have you noticed, and it is one
big thing that I've noticed.
Speaker 3 (54:20):
Remember when Dak.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Was throwing all these picks and he was, you know,
always slinging him to the left, or he was doing
they were getting balls, were getting tipped, or he was
short or he was whatever. All those plays have disappeared.
And to me, I think that's a good connection that
he has with Shoty and shot he is putting him
in running place for him that Okay, I'm just gonna
(54:42):
take all those and throw them in the truck, in
the garbage.
Speaker 5 (54:44):
I'm gonna throw them in the trash.
Speaker 4 (54:46):
And I'm gonna call the plays that I think Dak
No only can make, but succeed at and.
Speaker 5 (54:52):
Also excel at. So it's always like a step up
up up with that. Well he's gotten I.
Speaker 4 (54:58):
Think he's gotten better every every week and he's he's
slinging it around to everybody.
Speaker 5 (55:04):
And like I said, I want to say after the.
Speaker 4 (55:07):
Eagles game, I said, man, this league better watch out
because dak if he plays like he did that day,
you know, barring the drops, this this league is in
trouble no matter who they play well. And Sunday night
was a perfect, a perfect example of that.
Speaker 2 (55:23):
Well, I'm going to tell you why he's better, and
it has it doesn't just because of what Shody's doing
and putting him in those positions, it's because they're running
the damn ball. You think about how good he's been
in his career when he had a solid running game
behind him. The last couple of seasons, he didn't have
shit for a running game. When they put Pollard as
(55:45):
running back one, the running game fell off. When Zeke
started getting hurt and the running game was falling off,
Dak started to struggle last year. He struggled early. Why
because he didn't have a running game. Even with Zeke back,
he didn't have a running game. So yes, I think
Shody is putting in a position to do well, But
(56:06):
I also think it's because he has a running game
finally that'll take some of the pressure off of him
and do what he does best, which is the play
action pass that is key to their success. So as
long as they keep running the ball effectively, and we'll
see if they call up Jayden Blue this week. If
if Sanders is hurt and can't go this week, they're
(56:29):
gonna need to bring up Blue. And the thing that
I don't like is the fact that we only have
two running backs on our active roster because we have
so many needs on the defensive side. That's the Cowboys
justification for not bringing Blue up was because they had
too many needs on the defensive side. They needed to
have more defensive guys on the active roster. Well Sanders
(56:51):
goes out on Sunday, you leave Williams back there as
your main guy. And yeah, there was a Lifty siding.
But let me tell you something, if that guy getting
more than five touches a game, we have a problem.
That's dangerous. All due respect to that guy, that's dangerous.
That is not a good thing. If Lifty's getting more
(57:11):
than five touches a game, So they.
Speaker 4 (57:14):
Need to catch to him. Like I said, I don't
care if those are five players for him. I don't
care because I think he would have got him in
the zone.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
But oh well, and maybe and maybe they do. That's
why I say they didn't run the ball enough when
I think they should have. And I think part of
that was that that there, then they could have just
they could have really slowed it down after getting that
first down. Excuse me, after getting that first down, they
could have really slowed it down and drugged that clock
out a little bit more. If they would have run
(57:45):
the ball on first or second down and given them
a chance, give themselves a chance to take a shot
on third down, or get inside the one and go
for it on fourth down, because I think, I think
if they would have run the ball, they would have
broken the Packers spirit at that point and they would
have scored. So they need to figure out. They need
(58:07):
to figure out this running game. They need to make
sure they're doing the right things. They need to do
the right things in that running game to get to
get them where they need to be. So but that's
all I got, man, You got anything else before we
wrap it up?
Speaker 5 (58:25):
No, sir go, Cowboys beat those Jets. J E t
as shit Jets.
Speaker 2 (58:31):
Well, I'll tell you what Sunday is gonna be fun.
I've got the Cowboys by ten. I mean, that's how
much confidence I have in this offense. The Jets defense
has some pretty good players on it, but I don't
think they have enough to stop the Cowboys offense. Even
if CD doesn't play. If we can get those offensive
(58:51):
linemen back healthy in this game, that'll make a big
difference as well. And you know that the Cowboys defense
this week, I just need them to bend, just don't break,
Just don't break. You know if they're I mean, I
know they're gonna give up yards, they're gonna give up
some points. But this Jets offense, even though they can
(59:13):
run the ball, well, you're right, their quarterback is average
at best, and they need to take advantage of that.
So we'll see what happens. Man Fan Poll Sports a
true tech sports podcast for the true tech sports fan.
Once again, this has been Ronnie. That's Mark and we're out.
Here's a little surprise for Mark and David. I have
(59:36):
the exclusive audio of Jerry Jones visiting with Micah Parsons
after he was traded to the Packers.
Speaker 4 (59:45):
Any attention, I'm barely keeping porters from knocking down my door.
Speaker 5 (59:49):
Pretty popular man, and but I knows who I am.
Speaker 4 (59:52):
I said, that's pretty smart.
Speaker 1 (59:54):
Yeah, but I thank you for getting a little something.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
I like what I like?
Speaker 5 (59:58):
A little matter of fraud.
Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Have fraud you've been committing on sixty thousand unsuspected fans,
especially when Lula here offers you all that money.
Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Hold on, Dusty, no, you hold on. I want you
to disappear, buddy. If I ever hear of you making
another comment to the Prince, if I ever see your
face around country music again.
Speaker 5 (01:00:20):
I'll see you so fast you.
Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Won't believe it. At gone, get your ass out of here.
Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
You are wrong ever, lave me alone.
Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
And now you're slid your long sum instead, and you see,
be happy if you could just come back home.
Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
Well, here's a quarter called some one.
Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
He kids, all some and not get out.
Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Damn every one of your sort off.
Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
Don't your collar around here. And then the note of
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