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You're listening to the downbeat on ninety
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get your little primer for Dolly parton
coming to town tomorrow, and a

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little more in the scuttle butt.
Eight o'clock will give you our prediction,

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sell you what's gonna happen at tomorrow's
game between the Cowboys and the Commanders.

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But before we get there, we
should probably talk a little bit about the

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game for a second, and other
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very powerful. As long as Beto
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we'll be fine. Oh my god, we're gonna talk hardcore politics at seven

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point thirty. Stick around for that. Kidding, kidding, frankly, a

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couple of cowboys. Things I would
want to share with you, Daddy,

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tell me everything you know about Sam
Howell. Sam Howell was a quarterback at

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North Carolina. He's in his second
year. He was a guy who didn't

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get to play much last year because
Washington was like, let's have a chance

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and compete, so they ran a
lot of Taylor Heineke out there. Washington

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now is a team who's traded defensive
end Chase Young to the forty nine ers

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for a third round pick. They
traded defensive end Montes Sweat to the Bears

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for a second round pick. They've
basically given up. And you know that

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they've given up because they lost to
the Giants and Tommy DeVito last week,

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which as a guy who was in
New York at the time, as I

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was flipping through on Sunday night,
it's kind of interesting to flip to the

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New York news channels too. God, the amount of just wild things that

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happen that are so normal for them
and every day just crime, right,

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But Tommy DeVito is live doing the
Mike Doosey or New He Shrug Show or

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whatever that it would be in live
and studio, and I was like,

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what a beating He played a football
game today and he's got to go do

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a five minute TV interview on Sports
Night, New York or whatever. Like,

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dude, Dak, I'm sorry.
Dak would never have to go to

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the Fox four or Channel five or
Channel eight studios and do a five minute

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interview after a game. Well,
neither would Daniel Jones. It's because he's

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Tommy, Because he's Tommy DeVito and
he can't say no to media requests at

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this point in his career might as
well take advantage of it. How do

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you get beat by the Giants?
How does anybody get beat by that Giants

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team? There was a wild play
that happened in that game where Sam Howe

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was running to the end zone,
was about to score and two Giants just

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basically picked him up and threw him
out of ounce and it started a big

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fight on the sidelines. The guy
got ejected. It was very funny because

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Sam owl was basically he was flying
through mid air. It's strange because he

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does have some like he can run
a little bit, but he's not good.

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And that's what I end up coming
back to. So you were in

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New York on Sunday for the I
guess it would have been what eleven am

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kickoff for the right, Yeah,
a little later start. Were you able

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to watch the game? I was
able to watch it in a fashion that

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is not watching it closely phone.
I was at a brewery in Brooklyn called

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the Other Half, which is known
as a decent brewery. But I had

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they had read Z and I had
my phone on, so I was kind

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of, you know, bouncing around, but I was also drinking. Any

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thoughts A lot of playing with your
food there, But I think that's a

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little bit to be expected after you
wiped out the Giants, and I mean

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a lot of people. Well,
the Cowboys and the Lion should be used

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to this. Every year they have
this gauntlet where they play three games in

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eleven days. Okay, yes,
they also like some of these games are

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challenging. These are three, you
know, opponents that can't be taken seriously,

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no matter what you think of them. Right So, and there were

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some people kind of bitching about the
Cowboys playing with their food a little bit.

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I'm not in that boat. I
think the Cowboys are just trying to

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get through that thing healthy. Win
clearly, get through it healthy, and

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then you know, I think you'll
see a good effort from them tomorrow.

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I don't think you'll see them screwing
around tomorrow. I really don't. Yeah,

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I did this on and I wanted
to play this for you and JJ.

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I'm gonna fire off a little bit
of audio right here, so just

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to revisit a little bit the Cowboys
Panthers game. Because Katie wasn't here until

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he wasn't here on Monday and Tuesday's
first time he's probably getting to hear these

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calls. So the Cowboys are up
seventeen to ten at the start of the

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fourth quarter, and you talked about
how they kind of played with their food

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and how in the hell is this
ding Dong Panthers team even in this game

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realistically? Yeah, with fifteen minutes
left, and I thought this was pretty

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fascinating because this following sequence I'm gonna
play for you all happened in about four

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minutes. Okay, this is how
you fourth quarter if you are an elite

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team or a very very good team. I don't know if the Cowboys are

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considered elite yet, but they're really
pretty damn good. And this is how

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the fourth quarter basically started, and
how the Carolina Panthers were absolutely out of

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it with zero chance to come back
after about four minutes. Here the Cowboys

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won big hole power run up the
middle twenty five be the toy line is

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he in he is Pollard? Baller
baller ass run? Really did? It?

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Looked like old school Tony. That
was great. A mere ten seconds

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afterwards, we get this, here's
bride Sean, what's the time here?

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And it's intercepted. It's for Ron
playing again. Plan you can save another

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pick six and he's done it.
It's his fourth of the year. Sounds

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like they're in Arlington. Yeah uh
so, Yeah, Doron Bland gets his

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fourth pick, sixth of the year. The Cowboys go up by fourteen.

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The game is basically over there.
Yeah, that Carolina team ain't making up

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twenty one points at that point,
No way, don't they had a chance.

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And if there was anything left up
for debate or any question, this

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was what happened on the first three
plays after Carolina got the ball back and

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are down twenty one to nothing.
Young in trouble he is said, it's

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Parsons again with help from curse.
Pressure again, any show as pressure again,

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Parsons again. Young in Trouble stays
a lot now he dropped the football

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him, Who's got it? Dallas? Good night. That's a part of

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the game where Brash shows going Jesus. Yeah, he was saying Jesus a

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lot during that game. But yeah, I fully expecting I we'll get to

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some picks here in a minute,
but I fully expect a lot of the

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same. You know, it's football
for a reason. Dallas is firing on

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a lot of cylinders right now,
especially offensively, especially defensively. After that

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game against Carolina. I mean,
what a what a great A great way

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for Parsons to come out of an
over in the week before, Hobo say

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this. He was an outstanding He
was good knack. You could see that

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coming a little bit because he was
clearly frustrated with how that a Giants game

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went for him. So I get
criticized a lot for being hard on Mike

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McCarthy, and I am and I'm
fine with it because I think the things

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I can plain about with Mike McCarthy
are fair. I think they're very fair.

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I have problems sometimes with play calling. That's a little different right now

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because things are going really well,
although you've been playing a lot of cake

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walk components. I have problems with
time and game management, always have,

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and I have problems with this unaccountability. That's why I think he's not I

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think he will pass the buck.
He will pass the buck, and I

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don't like that. We've seen it
happen here after a playoff loss two years

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ago. You know, talking about
penalties, Well, that's on you.

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You were to was penalized a lot
this year. So when your team gets

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penalized that many times in a game, it's not the rest fault and there's

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that. So I've been hard on
him. I also compliment him a lot,

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and I think I need to be
uh, I want to be like

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I've always been pretty fair towards him
and a couple of things. He has

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a big picture outlook on the season, and I appreciate that because there's so

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many damn coaches that are it's all
whatever game and you're lock in on what

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they get. He will try to
get guys out of the game. I

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think, you know, we've seemed
a little bit took Dack out of the

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game a couple of weeks ago,
two back to back weeks with Cooper Rush

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playing yep. But he does believe
in keeping guys healthy ramping up at the

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end of the year, because that's
how he won his for Super Bowl.

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That team was not healthy at all, but they were playing well, got

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hot at the end of the year
and ran through the playoffs. And this

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is the last cake Walk game until
Week eighteen when you play them again,

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and then you're looking at five straight
games. You're gonna have Seattle next Thursday,

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Philadelphia on the tenth of December,
then you're gonna get at Buffalo at

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Miami on Christmas Eve, and then
you will get Detroit at home on Saturday

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night, which I think is December
thirtieth's that's tough. It's a little bit

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like that we talked about. The
Eagles are going to the Gauntlet where they

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just had the Chiefs. The Eagles
get the Bills this week. I go

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back to a couple of things.
I want to give McCarthy credit that McCarthy

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has prepared them for. We know
these games, I guarantee you behind the

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scenes, we can't take them lightly
blah blah blah. But we know these

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games are not what we're about to
They know what, they know what was

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about to turn into and very you
know. Fortunate for them, they've had

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some Patsy's on the schedule to be
able to kind of go through some stuff

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to practice against a lesser opponent.
It's almost like, if you look at

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their season divided into two parts,
the second half of it, these games

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we've seen in the one that we'll
see on Thanksgiving Day, it's kind of

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like a second preseason for them a
little bit. No, it kind of

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isn't, which is good as long
as one gets hurt, right, Yeah,

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as long as everyone say's healthy that's
as you come up, and as

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you mentioned, he's been pretty diligent
about getting starters out when they're no longer

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needed. Yeah, I think he's
I think he's pretty big on that.

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I think he's like that in training
camp too. And some people say,

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well, the training camp they don't
really do anything, and no one,

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Well, the Chiefs do, but
not a lot of teams practice hard in

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the preseason. On the other hand, can you imagine what Dak's numbers would

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be. It would be if he
were left in these games for the duration

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against crap teams when they're absolutely buried. Yeah, And I know people don't

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want to hear it because we haven't
won a big, close game against a

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really good team yet. Dak deserves
to be in the MVP discussion right now.

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He absolutely does, because you can
go around well in Buffalo, they

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want to fight you on Josh Allen
right now. Look, the Bills are

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good. The Bills are six and
five and might miss the playoffs. They're

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good. There's one stat I do
like. I don't like this in baseball

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too, but I do like it
a lot in football as well, because

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it just shows you, over a
long period of time, how dominant a

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team is being. I think point
differential is something you can look at.

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It's not fully running up the score
on bad teams. It is sometimes it

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sure worked out in the Rangers favor
this year. Boy, as sure as

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all like through the end of it, you go, well, the run

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differential will be way different at the
bullpen. Wasn't blowing a bunch of leads

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too. It shows you you're in. You look at those teams whose run

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differential was way above everyone else is
You're like, yeah, that's about right.

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Run to a point differential. In
the NFC, Cowboys number one one

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at one twenty seven plus one twenty
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plus one twenty two. Cowboys have
I think more of the schedule has been

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a little easier, I think than
the forty nine ers to like let them

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maybe do it. We saw what
happened when these teams played. So I'm

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not gonna come and tell you the
forty nine the Cowboys are better than the

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forty nine ers. I'm not.
I do think the Cowboys are better than

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the Eagles, and I think we'll
see this play out. The Eagles are

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eight or nine to one, they're
going to lose. They're going to lose

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at least two more games. The
problem the black They just beat the Chiefs

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at Arrowhead after being down, I
know, and the Chiefs beat at first

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half unbeatable. This is where actually
defensively, my god, I think the

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Cowboys black eye on this season.
I thought it's come back to this three

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or four times. Is that Arizona
game we get it out? That time

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cost you. This is going to
cost you. Yes, yep, because

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all you is beat Detroit and you're
gonna play them. You're gonna beat Detroit,

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the one thing that got an easy
path to hopefill advantage. I will

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say this about Dallas right now,
as compared to what they were when they

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played who they were as a team
when they played Arizona. They don't lose.

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They don't lose that game now,
No, I don't think so.

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You know, they're trying to figure
things out, and maybe that's the downside.

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McCarthy's take a little while to get
together. It takes me all Craper

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go with the Paul Well. Sometimes
you just go sell on the paw Well.

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Week five, we'll figure it out. By the way, I'm just

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making all this up as I go, because like everybody else in life,

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I'm winging it too. It's turned
into Elvis a little bit. That's over

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the AFC. It's the Ravens at
plus one twenty seven, the Bills at

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plus one o four, the Bills
who are currently the eight seed in the

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AFC and may miss the playoffs.
That's crazy. If you told me the

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Ravens, the Bills, the Cowboys
and the forty nine ers like the four

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best teams in the league, I'd
go yeah. With's some room for debate

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for the Eagles, and some room
for debate for the Lions, and the

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room for debate for the Chiefs.
They're right there maybe. I mean it's

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you know, the Dolphins are kind
of like I think they're good. I

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think they're really good. Depending on
what happens between now and the Buffalo game,

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my Dak might win the MVP that
night against Buffalo in a head to

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head match, It's yeah, and
then maybe fire it up again match against

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uh Tua true, and then a
head to head match the week after against

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Jared Gruff. I mean, the
season is defined by and I won't even

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take Seattle that seriously, I just
don't. But yeah, they're probably gonna

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make the playoffs, and we'll need
to see them tomorrow night against the forty

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nine ers and the nightcap as we
do triple headers on Thanksgiving. Now,

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if the bottom line is as as
Dak goes, this thing will succeed as

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he goes, This team goes regardless
of how great this defense is, and

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keep in mind they're badass. Yes, this is a very ver this is

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an elite defense. Get this.
Cowboys have not allowed a one hundred yard

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rusher, they have not allowed a
one hundred yard receiver, and they have

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not allowed a three hundred yard pass
so far this year. That's incredible.

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That is an incredible You don't see
that happen anymore. But regardless of how

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good your defense is, this team
will go only as far as Dak can

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take them. And based on the
play that he has exhibited since the bye

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week, if he keeps this up, there's no reason for them not to.

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I don't say went out, but
put themselves in a very good position

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going into the playoffs. He can
also absolutely crap the bed and bring all

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the naysayers back and all the see
I told you so, guys, he

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was never that great. You can't
win with him at quarterback. He's just

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a caretaker. You know, you
got to surround him with better talent.

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You're gonna get all of that argument
again, which is kind of good and

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bad because it does put this entire
season on his shoulders moving forward, and

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it does the success of this team
is one hundred on his shoulders. Someone

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dug up, perception wise, someone
dug up his old tweets, and then

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they came out when he was drafted
of him kind of being hard on Romo,

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and it's very funny. It's it's
dacked from twenty sixteen before he was

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drafted, so that's just twenty fifteen
whatever, And it's funny to read.

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I mean, the tweets are like
done with Romo, no excuses, He's

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going back. It's like, this
is the life you live. If you

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win, it's fine, and if
you lose, people are gonna be hard

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on you. Is he a cowboy
fan growing up? He was, And

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he had some harsh tweets, not
harsh, but like he had angry fan

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tweetings. He commented on that,
like how young was he college? Yeah?

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Okay whatever, Yeah, no,
who cares. It's just funny to

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really, because like that's the life
he's living right now and he can handle

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it. It's something not that big
of a deal. This is where I

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was thinking about a lot of things, and I think this is very important

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to remember when it comes to the
Cowboys. See the Lamb pouting, throwing

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a fit, whatever he did on
the sideline, but then basically saying give

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me the ball changed the entire offense. Yeah, And it was almost like,

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hey, I'm here, dummy,
give me ball. I'm good.

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And McCarthy goes, oh, yeah, just we'll wake up and gives you

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a bowl. Now. Now he
got Seedney Lamb's getting the ball that many

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times, and he have to have
a big day against Carolina. I know

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they get through it. That's the
key to unlocking the offense is having your

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number one step up and free up
Cooks and Gallop and Tolvert and on the

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other guys are able to start,
you know, contributing a lot more.

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And that's where I think the offense
has gotten freed up a little bit,

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just the idea of we have our
go to guy, let's feed the go

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to guy. And it took him
being a bitch. It took him being

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a bitch for a day or two
because it was warranted. It needed to

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happen. We needed him to act
like that. We needed him to stand

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on the sideline by himself and go, what are we doing? Why?

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We don't have to be this bad? And I think that's a big thing,

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and I'm glad it happened. Yeah, changed a lot of things.

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You know, sometimes Kevin being a
bitch can serve the greater good. Hell

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yeah, dude, unless you work
in radio, I've never seen it really

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pan out me either. I'll do
it sometimes just to see, you know,

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that's really just a social experiment,
really, yeah, just to make

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sure that this is as a nasty
bitch, make sure it still doesn't work,

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