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September 20, 2023 33 mins
Brendan Abban discusses the injuries to Saquon Barkley and Nick Chubb and how it impacts the running back market. He also touches on the Dallas Cowboys 2-0 start and explains why they still have much to prove before being anointed Super Bowl favorites. Thank you for listening and hope you enjoy.

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and I would be much appreciated.But guys, of course it's been a
bit so I wanted to see howeverybody was doing. We now have NFL
football back, so that's a veryaiding prospect to have that back in our
braces and our crasies rather and tobe able to watch football again. I

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feel like when we go on thesehiatuses without football, it's it's it's weird
because you just feel as though forme personally, everything changes because my schedule
goes from revolving around the NFL scheduleas well as the NBA schedule, and
in the off season of both sports, it's really the most chill in a

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way. You are more you're themost creative. You will be with your
content to some degree, and thatcan maybe be a good thing or a
bathing depending on how your audience foreseesit. But I think it's fun when
you're in the off season and thenyou have that moment you have to be
admit more creative because then once youcome back in season, it's way more
easier to have talking beats of course, where you have the general newsweek from

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whatever transpire the previous week. Inthe NFL and as well as the NBA
is the everyday thing essentially, Soit's one of those things where you get
into a different aidence. And nowwe're in the full swing of NFL season,
so you're going to start seeing thiscadence pick up here. Because sometimes
I've it's hard because you don't everwant to take that time away really to

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some degree, because you feel asthough if you do that, you give
your competition some leg up in themarket where you're there's a vacancy, right.
But at the same time, ifyou never take a break, then
you eventually do reach a point ofburnout because having that schedule and then also
keeping up with trying to upload everyday shorts, trying to write and produce

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videos and so on, and thewhole gambit of running this operation. It
does take a lot of time,and it takes a lot of efforts so
and a lot of scripting and planningand stuff like that. So it's one
of those things that eventually you takeyou do you got to take a step
back and say one of these thingsthat we're gonna take a break from during
the off season, just to giveyourself a reprieve to some extent, And
normally podcasting, I guess to somedegree, just because you have to talk

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more long form with podcasting, thatthat normally is the thing that you will
naturally just take a break from becauseit gives you It gives you a nice
mental break because you don't Also,podcasting is probably the hardest thing to do
when you don't have natural talking beatsto talk about. When it comes to
short form content such as a shortor as a YouTube video, those things

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are normally about what short or TikTokthose type of things are only about two
minutes at the most, right.But when you're talking about a video,
maybe you're making a video for eightto ten minutes. But then the podcast
normally you're going on for about itcould range from thirty minutes to an hour
two hours, right, depending onif it's just me or if it's somebody

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else, or even sometimes if it'sjust me, it can go on that
long. So I guess that's whereyou you understand that there has to be
a given a take. But nowwe're back in the full swing of things,
so I would say just expect podcastsevery Wednesday as the NFL season is
back, and just reacting to allthe stuff that's happened in the NFL from
the week before hand. And I'mdebating if I'm gonna do if I'm gonna

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do, you know, picks andpick thems and embedding lines and stuff like
that. The reason why I debateif I'm going to do it because it
is. For one, it isa commitment. I know that it's it's
a benefit to you on I mean, let me know if you want to
see that, right, if it'ssomething that you want to watch or you
want to listen to, then Iwill I will find a way to work

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that in and I'll do it.It's just that it becomes such a bigger
task, especially if I'm not doingit by myself, because then I'm contingent
on someone else's schedule too, Andnaturally I don't like that. I never
I like doing things on my ownschedule. I don't like doing things on
other people's schedules. So normally,when I've done it in the past,
I have been at the behest ofsomeone else's schedule or whatever. And normally

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my time is so limited. AndI think everybody can say that to some
extent, right, But so whenI when I do have time, or
whenever I'm doing things on my time, I'm trying to fit them into the
schedule and whatever. I How Iscope out how long a podcast normally will
take, Like, I can lookat the amount of topics I have to
talk about it, and I canreally tell you, most likely how long
the podcast is going to take.Now, if I have another person,

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I practically just almost double that becausesometimes I won't say as much because I
have another person, or I knowI will talk more if it's just me
to some extent, or sometimes whenI have another person, you'll end up
you'll end up kind of going offthe beaten path and you just end up
talking about whatever, and that evenadds time on to whatever you're talking about.
Right, So these are all thingsthat go into consideration. So you

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guys are hearing the what is itthe producing or I guess, yeah,
the producing side of making a podcast, right and running one of these.
For me, I mean it's beenit has been ten years of doing this,
so there's a level of experience Ihave. I think they say,
like when you put in like overthree hundred hours into something or something like

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that, that makes you you havean expert level of skill. And I
agree and disagree with that to someextent, because just because you do something
for three hundred hours and mean,you're not actually good at it, right.
I don't know if if I wouldI really say I am good at
doing this, but I think Ihave an understanding of somewhat of what it
takes to do this, so especiallywhen it comes if I were to hire
somebody to help me do this,then I would understand the qualifications of what

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they need to be able to doto help me to do this and to
run this at an optimal efficiency.I think I think there's still a level
of this that we can we cantake this to another level, especially when
its when it terms of consistency,I think is the biggest thing. But
I think the break was needed.But also I do want to make sure
that I want to get to apoint where we have the content coming so

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regularly that you know, hey,every Wednesday, I can depend on this.
And also I'm trying to find away to also work in a plan
to make a Patreon and for thosewho want more content to be able to
get that there. So it's oneof those things that you know, you
you you have to scope out,and I think when you put so much
time and effort into getting you tohow things work here, you you then

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see like where where your holes are, where your gaps are, and where
maybe your level of commitment needs toincrease to be able to get all those
things done. But that's a topicfor another day. Guys, as at
this moment right now, I'm we'regonna be talking about obviously, unfortunately the
injuries to say Kwon Barkley and NickChubb, as that has an effect on
obviously the running back market and insome ways shows why the running back market

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in terms of pay and compensation hasbeen suppressed to a degree. And I
think that well, along with that, I am going to also talk about
I'm gonna talk I'm just gonna bringup a little TikTok I did and some
of the reaction I've been seeing tothat, and especially because it pertains to
the Dallas Cowboys and how people havebeen reacting to them having a strong start

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to the season. And so I'mgoing to touch on those those two things,
and if I have time for somethingelse, I will get into that.
I'm, like I said, myskill, I'm on such a time
crunch right now in terms of howmuch time I have to record. But
I did want to start with therunning back topic first because unfortunately this week
we did have two notable running backinjuries. But like I noticed, se

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Quon Barkley and Nick Nick Chubb.Nick Chubbs looks like it probably is going
to have him out for the restof the year. That's what the Browns
organization has been saying after the game. And if you watch the game,
you see that he took a justdevastating hit to his knee and it's the
same knee. And I'm real quickcriticism. I don't know what the heck

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Adam Schefter is doing. But hetweeted out when the injury happened that,
oh, he started out like peopledidn't know what the injury was. Right
at the point in time when ithappened. Adam Schefter tweets out like Nick
Chubb suffered a like, you know, dislocated knee, torn al MCL,

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lcl PC, all this stuff,right, and then goes on to talk
about how that was the injury hesuffered years ago and it was one of
those things. And then he saidthat's the same knee he injured Sunday night.
And you're sitting there, You're like, bro, what if the way

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he the way he framed the tweet, you would think that the injuries that
he was outlining is what occurred withNick Chupp's current situation. But he outlines
all those things and then states,oh, but that that's just that happened
you know, years ago and nowit's the same knee. It's like,
bro, come on, man,I think we can we can do a

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better job of not like just freakingout the whole entire sports world into into
a frenzy, right, Like that'sto me, that's some part of like
when it comes to being a journalist, And obviously I do have some experience
in this. It's realm because Iwas I covered the Rams beat for a
couple of years, and obviously,even through internships I've had, I've gained

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experience as a as a journalist coveringdifferent teams. I covered the Wizards at
one point, I also covered theLakers, but the Rams have been my
most consistent team I've covered. Andto some degree, you have a responsibility
because people are coming to your profileseeking news and seeking updates on certain players,
whether it be injuries or whatever thecase might be. In you have

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to you have to be particularly smart, especially in the day and age of
fantasy football, with how you're phrasingthings, and that Adam Schefter teeth was
just unhinged. But outside of that, the injury that Nick Chubb did suffer
seems like he is going to beout for the rest of the season and

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due to that now obviously they arebringing in Kareem Hunt to see if he
can be a guy that's he's beenan option for them before, and Ford
is one of their other I thinkit's Jerome Forward has been another one of
their running backs that was able totake step in for Nick Chubb at the
time of when he got hurt andable to sufflement some of what he was

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able to produce for them. Sowe'll see how that goes for them.
And then also say Quon Barkley havingan ankle sprain, which they believe it's
only going to sideline him for threeto four weeks maybe, and even the
coach this week has sounded way moreoptimistic, saying that it could be a
game to game or a game timedecision type thing. And that's good and
all well, but in the offseason we did have many discussions around paying

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running backs and that was taking placein mass My position on this has been
stated previously in which I believe thatwhen you work hard and provide value to
an organization, especially on a consistentbasis, you should earn the next payday
from that previous work done. Andjust like any other job, I think
running backs are no different because obviously, if I perform well at work and

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I'm hitting all my quotas and hittingall my milestones, and if I'm even
exceeding that, right, I'm expectingthat when it either comes to me getting
a raise or some type of compensation, I'm expecting to be paid on that.
Or if I'm seeking a new jobjob, I'm expecting to be paid
on my skills and ability that I'veperformed at a previous place. And with
that expectation of what that garners andwhat that carries with it, right,

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And so I feel as though whenit comes to running backs, all of
a sudden, people start acting likeit's a different type of conversation. But
no, I think they still deservethat similar pay day. Now, I
wouldn't be fair if I wasn't alsoacknowledging the other side of the fence.
Though I've never been blind to thereason why NFL teams are hesitant to pay
star running backs, because their usagerates are coupled with the pounding they take

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and makes the prospect of making along term investment feel irresponsible. And it'd
be hypocritical of me because for meto not acknowledge the fact that it's a
reality where I didn't even take arunning back with my first two picks in
my fantasy football drafts solely because Iwas anticipating injuries at some point in the

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season, right, And that's justme being honest. When I came to
fantasy football, pretty much the lastI think, outside of Derrick Henry,
the last three four years of fantasyfootball, I have entirely formed my team
around wide receivers, and now thatthat comes with its own up and down,
right up and down climbs and hills. But I've noticed when I've built

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around running backs, I either havea running back that can carry me like
Derrick Henry did for many of years. I won a championship on the back
of Derrick Henry's performance. But thenyou can also have a moment like this
where your running back gets hurt.It picks up dinging, nagging injuries that
keeps them sideline for an extending amountof time, and you're kind of sitting
there holding the bag and you're like, well, damn, I don't have

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anybody that can really supplement that production, and to some degree it really throws
you off. Now, with widereceivers, they don't get hurt as often,
they still get hurt. They stillhave a similar level of risk,
but I guess I would't even saysimilar. I think it's to a lower
degree of risk because wide receivers,from a play to play standpoint, they're
not just getting hit, they're notgetting to pound that. Running backs get

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hit, and the amount of timethey can get hurt on the plays is
different. Right, if a runningback carries the ball twenty times, catches
the ball five times, or youknow, thrown at multiple times, that's
twenty five opportunities on a tackle wherea running back could be hurt. Right,
a right receiver, I mean,ten targets in the game is a
lot. So even ten targets,maybe you catch eight of those, you're

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getting tackled maybe eight, whatever amountof times, and the rest of the
game you're you're obviously running routes,you're blocking, you're getting into it with
the cornerback, but you're not takingas much punishment on a play to play
basis as much as a running backwould be. So I started changing up
how I even started drafting in fantasy, and to some extent I acknowledge it'd

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be hypocritical of me not to acknowledgethe fact that that my mindset change because
of the fact that running backs tendto get hurt a lot, right,
And so I think that when itcomes to understanding where NFL teams are coming
from, it's one of those thingsthat now you see where And I think
that's part of the reason why,say, Quon Barkley was even so disappointed

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when he got hurt. When hegets hurt, you visibly see him so
angry. And I don't doubt thatobviously he wants to be out there with
his team. That's probably the leadingthing as to why he wanted to or
why he was so upset, right, But I think it would be a
bit a bit like naive to notbelieve that some of that frustration also came

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from the fact that he's trying toprove that he can finish a season healthy
and that he can warrant that longterm money. Because Quon did end up
having to come to the signing table, and he ended up signing a one
year, ten million dollars deal fortwo million dollars signing bonus with the with
the average shalary being ten year,with obviously ten million and with it being

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fully guaranteed, right, essentially aversion of the franchise tag, and signing
that because he had to make hismoviously. He's gonna get paid a lot
this year and he's fully guaranteed,but then next year he's an unrestricted free
agent and you don't have that longterm guarantee from a team, which is
what all of them want. Allthese running backs want long term guarantee because

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obviously they only have a window wherethey can maximize on their value. So
they're trying to go and get thatmoney now, but only on a year
to year basis. If an injurylike this happens, then the following year,
right where you're going into free agency, a team might not want to
pay you, but if you havea long term contract, you're covered even
if you incur an injury. Right. These short contracts are different from the

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NFL versus the NBA, especially withthe franchise tag and how it plays into
effect. Right franchise tag, ateam can still retain, you can retain
your rights and so on, andessentially, if no other team is willing
to bite on paying you a longterm contract or match that, in some
degree, you're just stuck with thatone year deal, right, Whereas the
NBA, if a guy is signinga one year deal, whatever the case

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might be, that gives a stara certain degree of leverage and flexibility that
Lebron James in particular. Now notevery person can exercises because even in the
NBA, right if you get hurt, granted, most guys, if you're
sending a one year deal or shortterm deal like that, most likely you're
one of the top five guys inthe league, and you know that even
if you get hurt, your valuestill stated, which is what Lebron was

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able to do, especially in theoptimal years of his performance and health from
about twenty fourteen, so i'd saytwenty eighteen is when he was sending a
lot of those two year with anopt out in the second year type of
deals. And I think NBA players, it gives you a level of control

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of your franchise because you could alwayshave the threat of leaving, right whereas
NFL players, because you're so muchmore likely to get hurt that threat,
you know, you just want tobe long term covered. And we do
end up seeing players will request tradesand so on because of the fact that
whatever changes with their franchise. Buta lot of times, what guys get
paid, you know, that's thethat's the whole grind. That's what you're

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going for for that long term contractand that long term money. And I'd
say that these injuries is set backthe running back market. It's always a
thing. Man. I feel badfor them, truth be told, I
feel bad because I feel as thoughI don't know what it's going to take
to I don't know if there's anythingthat's gonna change that's gonna be able to
reset the running back market in away that makes it for them to be

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viable paid long term investments. Ithink that running backs you probably get at
the most teams want to pay arunning back maybe two to three years.
I think that'd be the most theywant to pay. And then even when
you start talking about guarantees, thenthey started you start having all these walls

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come up about how much money someonecan get guaranteed and so on. So
I think there's so many factors thatgo into these things, and I think
it's interesting to sit there and thinkabout what it would take to be able
to get running backs to get therejust do and get paid. But I
don't know. I think it's oneof those things that if my kid ever
told me they want to play aposition, I'm saying, running backs the

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last thing I want them to play. I'd encourage them just to switch a
defense, play linebacker. I mean, most linebackers have the similar bill to
running backs, and I would justsay play that side of the ball because
you can defensive players. Look,you can get long term contracts as a
defensive player, and you're the onethat's dishing out the hits, right,

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you're not getting hit. So Idon't know, man, I don't know.
I feel bad for these guys,I truthfully do, and I don't
know what it's going to take forthem to be able to get their money,
because I just don't see the circumstancesthat they're being for running back.
To be able to earn that moneyin the first place, they have to
take a level of beating that isuntoward for organization to want to pay for.

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But also while taking that beating andbe able to show and display a
level of health and be able tofund off a level of attrition that comes
with that usage and that beating.I think someone like Derrick Henry was able
to prove that, right. Butthen when you look at se Quon Barkley,
sa Quan has had an issue wherehe hasn't been able to be available

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for all the games in a seasonsometimes, and last last season he was
able to play sixteen games, whichis really good for him. The year
before that thirteen, year before that, two year through it for that thirteen,
and then the year before that sixteen. So sa Quan, I think
for the most part he's played majorityof the games in a season and then
does miss games here and there,but I think he's done a good job

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of being around for the most part. I think obviously a team is going
to try and dangle the two gameseason over his head or whatever the case
might be. But I don't know, man, I think that to me,
it just sucks. It feels socreaty because even you look at a
guy like Nick Chubb, he's playedseven team games, he played all the
games last year, played fourteen games, a year before that, twelve games,
year before that sixteen, and thensixteen, right, So I mean,

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these guys are showing up. Ithink I think that they missed some
games here and they are due tosome injuries, But I don't know.
Man, I don't know. Iguess when you're trying to project, because
some of what you what happens whenyou give somebody contract, you're trying to
project future performance, and some tosome degree, I guess they're trying to
when it comes to paying running backs, they're they're trying to project whether or

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not a guy is going to beable to sustain that level of production.
Obviously you don't. You don't gethealthier to older, you get your body
just braced down even more. Andso I think teams tend to try and
look at that and that ends upbeing how they how they try to come

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to the negotiating table. But Idon't know. We'll see, man,
we'll see. We'll see this upcomingoff season. I think I still obviously,
like I still think that they deserveto get paid, and it sucks.
I feel bad. I feel bad. I feel bad. It sucks,
But I don't know. It iswhat it is. It is what

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it is. But I feel asthough I do talk see I try to
help out because I try to talkabout these things, so there's a level
of awareness for it, and sopeople are watching out for these things and
keeping their minds open to it.But we'll see how it goes. But
guys, I did want to transitionto the second topic. I noted I
talked about in a TikTok recently abouthow I think fans and analysts need to

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simmer down, right, let's calmcalm it down a bit whenever the topic
of the Dallas Cowboys comes up,right, And naturally, I think some
people roll their eyes because they're like, oh, people are talking about the
it's always Dallas Cowboys. What aboutmy team? What about my team?
Guys? Relax? Okay, Likesome people are like, get so pick

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me about who people decide to talkabout. And I'm just like, goodness,
gracious and one of the things.And it's like, normally, when
you see a lot more conversation andchatter about a topic, you do want
to search your own opinion on thatand be able to give your take on
that, because sometimes that is whatsomeone wants to see from They were like,
what is your perspective on that saidtopic? Yes, I could go
ahead and talk about the cults ifyou guys wanted me to write, I

(23:26):
could go talk about how well thecults are performing, and I could talk
about them being one on one Icould talk about Anthony Richardson and how well
he's performed so early on in hiscareer, but I don't the amount of
the amount of people within the cultsnation I want to see that, let
alone the amount of general NFL publicthat would want to hear that. Who

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knows, right, So, whenyou when you're when resources are limited,
you pick topics that you think peoplewant to hear you talk about, and
naturally, I feel as though theDallas Cowboys, like I've got so much
pushback on this comment about or tosome degree, I've seen so much consternation
around my TikTok and even on Instagramand reels and stuff talking about the Dallas

(24:08):
Cowboys, And I look at thecomments and I see some people because it's
pretty much my point when I talkedabout the Cowboys is that, look,
the Cowboys have played the New YorkGiants and the New York Jets, right,
people need to simmer down with howamped up they're getting bait on,

(24:29):
how they think that the Cowboys aregoing to go to the Super Bowl,
all these expectations people have for theCowboys because of the fact that, look,
I think the Cowboys are good.I think naturally good teams beat bad
teams. That's part of the processof being a good team. You have
to beat bad teams to do that. If the Cowboys lost to the Giants

(24:51):
are the Jets, that's when youstart questioning how viable they are. This
is a good team, right,so you need to beat those teams.
And they beat them handedly Giants fortyto zero, the Jets thirty to ten.
Right, But then there comes therealization of, okay, well,
we got to see them perform againstactual competition that we would hold them to

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a measuring stick of right or onthe level of them as a talented team.
So I would say someone like thePhiladelphia Eagles. If the Cowboys came
through and beat the Philadelphia Eagles likethat, you're like, who whoa,
whoa woa hold on now, right, okay, hold on, then we
gotta give you some more respect.Beat the forty nine ers like that,
we're like, wait a minute,hold up, Like these are the teams

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that we're talking about, right,Not as much as if the Jets had
Aaron Rodgers. That's a different conversationbecause the Jets with Aaron Rodgers were one
of the Super Bowl favorites because ofthe viability of Aaron Rodgers and that defense.
But when you're playing at Zach Wilsonled Jets offense, everybody kind of
had the foregone conclusion. And that'sthe difference. When you're playing a team

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that there's a foregone conclusion of youshould be able to beat them, that's
you know they're not really on yourlevel. But when people are struggling,
like, ah, do I takethe Cowboys or the forty nine Ers?
Do I take the Cowboys or theEagles, that's when you know you're more
of an evenly matched up type ofscenario. Or even when you're coming into
preseason odds in terms of betting,and you see how people evaluate these teams
based on their Super Bowl odds.Obviously, for a team like the Jets,

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their odds have entirely changed because ofthe injury to Aaron Rodgers. But
when you see a team like theforty nine Ers the Eagles, they're still
steady within that top ten of teamsthat were picked to go to the Super
Bowl. So I think those teamsaren't realistic measuring sticks for how good the
Dallas Cowboys are and how good theycan be going forward in the season and
from what to expect of them right, because I think that beating up on

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weaker teams is what you should do, but it shouldn't be something that we
take them to the super Bowl fordoing. Right. It's a combination of
beating bad and good teams and aconsistency to that, a consistency to your
performance. I still think the DallasCowboys, for as good as they've been,
they've been the number one defense they'vebeen. They led the league in
turnovers and points allowed and yards allowedthere, they're one of the top teams

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in scoring on offense and put theiryards. In terms of yardage, they're
right around the middle of the pack. They're about fifteen sixteen in the NFL.
So I think there's still a levelof prove it for me that I
need to see from the Dallas Cowboys. But I think that and it's funny
because I look at the comments andI see fans, their their own fan

(27:25):
base is going back and forth inthe comments, you know, going argue
with each other on the on theKBR Sports Instagram. So it's interesting this
to see. But I do thinkthat's one of those things you got to
take into account when evaluating how gooda team is or how valuable they are
for Super Bowl contention. And Ithink for the Cowboys the one thing that
interests me a lot is obviously Ithink one of the main points that people

(27:49):
tend to have with I guess tosome discretion or some is the viability of
Dak as a quarterback, and that'salways going to be a topic of conversation.
I think Dak has played solid atto start out this season. He's
he's about three hundred and ninety eightyards throughout two games or two touchdowns,

(28:10):
completed forty four of sixty two passes, So from a stamp, from that
standpoint, Dak has been pretty good. I would say, I mean I
complete, he's a completion percentage ofseventy percent, so he's averaging what that's
about two hundred and forty four yardsor two hundred and ninety or two hundred
forty nine yards between two games.So that's solid. And I think this

(28:33):
week they played the Cardinals, sothe Cardinals aren't necessarily a team that you're
gonna write home about. So Ithink that the Cowboys schedule everywhere the Cardinals
are owing two and I mean theCardinals just lost a game that was they
lost to the Giants and the comebackand win, and they lost to the
Commanders in week one, so that'sgonna be something. We'll see how the

(28:57):
Cowboys perform against them. I mean, as anybody anticipating a Cowboys loss,
no right. Then the following weekthey played the Patriots. And now here's
the real tests, right, becauseeven the Patriots are owing two. Obviously
they might be one and two orow and three after this upcoming weekend,
but the real test is coming upwith the forty nine Ers, like I

(29:17):
noted, and coming into that game, both teams could easily be four and
oh right. And that's just somethingdegree where you start getting into the real
meat of the Cowboys schedule, becausethey played the forty nine Ers, then
they played the Chargers, then theyplay the Rams, and then they play
the Eagles. Out of that slateof teams, the easiest team probably that
they're gonna face is either the Ramsor the Chargers. And the Rams have

(29:44):
a solid defense, obviously with Aaronbeing led by Aaron Donald with that on
that front, and then the Chargers, led by Justin Herbert, are nothing
that sneeze at as well. Butthey're even owing two in themselves, but
I think they're better than the recordit indicates, right. I think the
char just can put up points onanybody, which has been shown in their
first two games what they put upthirty four against the Dolphins and then twenty

(30:06):
four against the Titans, in whichthey lost both games. Titans they lost
in overtime, and I think theylost the two good teams. I think
the Dolphins and Titans are are prettygood teams. So that's going to be
a real test of the Cowboys medalright there. And then obviously then you
come back around to having a divisionalgame against the Giants, and then they
play the Panthers, Commanders, Seahawks, Eagles. You know, I don't

(30:26):
need to run through the whole gauntlet, but that's gonna be the real stretch
of where we see what the Cowboysare made of. And if they've lose
before that, they reach that stretchand you're like, wait, wait,
wait, wait a minute, now, wait, we wanted to see that
consistency. I'm not saying that Ithink that they should be able to beat
teams like no matter how well coachthe Patriots and the Cardinals, Right,

(30:52):
I think if you're somebody that goesinto those games and you bet on those
games, and the Cowboys come outlosers in those games, You're like,
oh, wait a minute, thatwas almost that should have been like a
sure thing. Now in the NFL, nothing's ever a sure thing. The
twenty seven Patriots taught us that.But just from a standpoint of evaluating these
Cowboys and how good they are interms of competing for a Super Bowl,

(31:17):
I expect them to play the fortynine ers at four and oh, they
beat the forty nine ers, thenyou start talking about them being the best
team in the NFC. Right,then you start talking about that because the
forty nine ers have been equally asdominant. I'd say the forty nine ers
are truly the Cowboys other team thatthey really need to be on the lookout

(31:41):
for. Forty nine Ers and theEagles obviously within their own division. Now,
I think both teams have a lotto prove. And that's just talking
from a talent standpoint, right,That's just purely talking from a talent standpoint,
because I think a lot of peoplehad the forty nine underspect there's a
team that could win or get tothe Super Bowl last year, but they

(32:02):
just had injuries at quarterback that stifledthem entirely when they actually reached the playoffs,
so that you couldn't see the fullfruition of that vision. So that's
gonna be interesting to see. Ifguys, that's gonna be it for me.
That's all the time I got,But I appreciate all you guys for
tuning into this episode of the podcast. Of course, I I really want

(32:22):
to hear you guys feedback on thesethings, So make sure you tweet at
KBR Underscore Sports or you can eventweet at me at Aben Brendan on Twitter.
I don't know why my thing islike that, but and my handles
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(32:45):
will see as well. So letme know what you guys think about the
plan schedule and if you guys dowant those those pickup shows and those betting
shows and stuff like that as wellas if you want to have a fantasy
I guess I can combine that witha fantasy type show as well, But
let me know what you guys think. I'm going to be looking for that

(33:06):
feedback, and of course, guys, I appreciate you every each and everyone.
Have yous for tuning in and listening. And until next time, guys,
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