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Kevin, Let's do it. Cowboys crushed last night. Look, biggest game
of the year because you know, you get the win and you're tied.
Technically the Eagles kind of have the tiebreaker right now, but you put yourself
in a good position to at least have a chance at winning the division.
And I kind of what's been happening. I am a big fan of the
idea of you defer and you kick, and then you get the ball coming
out of the second half, and you can kind of manipulate the end of
the first half as best as you can to kind of get more points.
But the Cows screw it. Our offens is going, let's just get the
ball, and man when they come up and they just turn up and have
a ten play, seventy five yard drive for a square five minutes and it
ends on a touchdown to a little past the ceedee lamb im. Like another
week, another opening drive score. Yeah, we don't have to do the
whole defer bit right now in the regular season. Let's just keep jamming.
Yeah, and you see it. Anytime the Cowboys have struggled at all this
year, it's when they play from behind. Yeah, you saw it last
week. You know with Seattle. They obviously beat an inferior team in Seattle,
but that was the closest game really they played all year, and the
questions, the question has been asked all season. Okay, great, they
oh, they finally beat a team with a winning record, But then you
criticize that because the way they played and the fact that that team was only
a game over five hundred coming in to Dallas. This was a big boy
test, and not only did they pass it with flying colors, and aside
from a defensive touchdown by Philly, they absolutely smashed them. Yeah, one
hundred percent in all three phases. They're that Cowboys defense is freaking elite.
They're skilled and they will knock the living crap out of you. Yeah,
that's the the number one revelation over the past few years that's been different from
I guess let's use the early dac era in late Romo era. A.
This team gets turnovers, a lot of turnout turnovers and has since dan Quin's
been here. But b they beat you up, yes, and you know
sometimes that can cost you, you know, injuries on your end as well.
It's a ball for a reason they have gotten. I'm to the point
I feel the same way with watching the Cowboys. Even says up play when
I do watch the forty nine ers, and you're like, God, I
don't want to play the forty nine ers because the forty nine ers hit you
hard, and they beat you up and they kind of bully you a little
bit. The Eagles try to do that to you offensively. The Eagles do
not do that to you defensively. The Eagles are not that type of team
on defense. They have a good defensive line. The rest is just trying
to figure it out. I was surprised, and people have been saying that
the Eagles were prime for the picking that maybe they're not as good as their
record, But man, that team they look kind of flawed. Man,
they are and this is where like the Cowboys have been up there, and
because they haven't had like a good close game or a real signature victory until
last night, it makes it hard to go and sit there and really champion
the Cowboys like that because the Cowboys, what happened to them at San Francisco
happened so much earlier in the year that a lot of people have forgotten.
I mean, like the Eagles. When that happened to the Eagles. Now,
that's when people started talking about the Eagles being flawed when the forty nine
ers ran them last week, And it's like, man, if you flip
the schedules, the forty nine ers probably would have ran the Eagles back then,
and they might have ran the Cowboys last week, who knows. But
this is a different Cowboys team than what the forty nine ers faced in Week
five, and that's what gives me hope. And the Eagles are a different
team than they were in Week five when they were very dominant. They're not
that right now. And that's football is long, man. There's only a
fewer games, but these teams change in more. I mean, dude,
after the first month of the season, it was on with Denver Broncos suck.
God, They're terrible, and it's look at them like a decent team.
Yeah, teams can. Teams can get worse, can start out great
and get worse as the season goes on. And that is I think that
can be a combination of injuries. Yeah, it can be a combination of
other teams around them doing what the Cowboys are doing, which is clearly getting
better and better and improving as the season goes on. And you're hopefully now,
look, their schedule is no cakewalk at all. They've got Buffalo and
Miami left Detroit after that, and Detroit after that. Piers could be a
Detroit team that's scrapping and fighting for their life. Absolutely, you kind of
look, you cannot assume the Cowboys are gonna win out, but you know
what, the way the Eagles are playing right now, you can't assume that
they're gonna win out either. The Cowboys had their Arizona You're not getting that
one back. And we said that at the time, and we've said it
multiple times that there's a possibility that when we are in week eighteen, they're
going to look back at that damn Cardinals game and go, God, how
did we let that happen? I still think that's what happens. I think
that's the game that we go h if you had that one and we did
this damn bit last year with exact bit last year and said if we would
have closed out Jacksonville when we were beating them by seventeen and end up losing
that game when Dak threw it off Noah Brown's chest and they caught it,
there's no around what wasn't ready for it and they caught it and scored in
overtime. But it's like, you win that game that you were up by
seventeen, then you have home field advantage in the playoffs and you're not having
to deal with going and facing the forty nine ers in their place, and
maybe you don't get them till the week after that, or maybe you don't
get them at all. I think the fear for me right now is that
you do because of what's coming, and like injuries and getting worn down is
a thing that happens in the NFL. That's the fear is that that hits
when you do have Buffalo and you do have Miami. Those are gonna be
tough road games, but you want to show everyone that you're different than maybe
you know. The thing is, there's five teams in the league that jump
out to me, and the Chiefs are not one of them. The Cowboys
are, and I'm removing the Eagles a little bit from this because of what
we did to them last night, but also because I don't know, you
could just see it coming. With Eagles, you could tell you could score
on them, you can throw on them. You have the Cowboys and the
forty nine ers and the AFC. You have the Jets. I have,
sorry, the Jets, the Dolphins and the Ravens and the Bills, who
have been better than the record has shown all year long. Veils have not
been struggling as bad as people think. They've been losing some close games at
the end. The Bills are highly dangerous and they go beat the Chiefs yesterday.
It was a close game and all that stuff and had a big storyline
to it. But to me, there are five teams, and then I
think, you give your grandfather in KC who can go win this? And
maybe Philadelphia is in the a Phila Dove is gonna have to figure out how
to not get thrown against. I don't know, there's nothing that makes you
think that Philadelphia can stop anyone through the air right now, Well, especially
when you have a quarterback who is firing on every damn cylinder that he has,
that is hitting his stride at the perfect time in his career, who
I really believe had he not already, there's still some more football to play.
But I'm gonna make a maybe it's a ridiculous claim, had he already
not had locked up the MVP the bomb to Gallop at the end of the
game, which was just gorgeous. It was a sick, sick catch too,
but he laid him out and Gallop pulling that in. I really believe
with all nationalize on that game last night, for dak to do what he
did to Philly, a two lost team, Dude, say what you want
about Philadelphia's defense, say what you want about their secondary. That was a
two lost team last night, and Dallas made them look like babies. Yeah,
And that completion to Gallop I think had people going that have a say
in this going, Yeah, who else can it be that dude is playing
an MVP year. I think he's gonna freaking win it. He's your front
runner in Vegas today as we stand here this morning. We saw this happen
with Tony Romo. Now, granted, Tony Romo was never surrounded by the
personnel that Dak has right now, but we saw this happen in Tony's career,
where early on you saw a dude with just an incredible amount of really
good football instincts and an unlimited ability, but there was there was a learning
curve, but there was also that that kind of like that Ven diagram of
your skill set still being really good and really effective and athletic and able to
do the things that you want to do physically to be considered a good athlete
in the NFL. Hitting colliding with the maturity, the knowledge, the football
IQ and all of those things colliding and happening at the same time. I
think we're watching them. Yeah, yeah, of course, but I think
that we're watching that happen was with Dak right now, it's his eighth season
in the league. He's thirty thirty, thirty one nine. But are you
sure he's not thirty thirty? Okay, that's that's the perfect time. And
that's what happens to great quarterbacks. They hit that point to where they still
have a great physical ability to to to perform, but something clicks. There's
yeah. And when Romo had that that window, there's nobody better than him
in the NFL. He was incredible. And I think we're seeing that happen
with Dak and that window doesn't last forever. You have outliers like Tom Brady
h that uh, that are just things that that that are maybe multi genera
generational that you just don't see in a lifetime. Well, it's part.
It's just the ability to see what he what, what what he sees,
and do exactly what he envisions in his mind, and it working out the
fact that he is able to throw downfield with accuracy, with consistency. His
footwork is just impeccable. He reads defenses, uh huh, he escapes,
he moves within the pocket, he escapes at the right time to avoid getting
sacked. I don't know, man, we're seeing we're seeing a very special
moment in this young man's career right now. We're seeing it happen before our
very eyes. We're very lucky that we are into this team and we watch
them as closely as we do every week, because we're really seeing a very
special moment in Dak's career, and it's happening right now. So they get
the ball. It's seven to nothing. They get the ball and they take
it down the Eagles, I mean Eagles are about to score, you know,
they're inside the red zone. And then Jalalen Hurts runs and then Donovan
Wilson comes in punches the ball out. We had two or three of those
last night where the ball was punched out, which part of that is a
little bit of luck too, like you just half a dyke hit it right
on the money, right there, ball comes out, Cowboys get it,
and the Cowboys next drive penalties hit them. I'll be damned. I thought
they were gonna punt, and Brandon Aubrey goes out from sixty and drills it.
And that was one of four field goals he made last night, sixty
fifty nine, fifty two, and forty five, and all of them were
no doubters. This is a ridiculous story. It is, and it gets
a little you know what it's I would say it gets overlooked, but we're
talking about it right now. And he was one of the three interviewed after
the game last night. Yeah, boy, and you could tell I haven't
been interviewed much. Yeah, I don't do this. I'd chucked, you
know, one day at a time in my process. Yeah, and uh,
you know, but you know, whatever, glory to God, but
for that, you know, goes back. We dine a whole segment on
Brandon Aubrey before the season started and his kicking coach that he started working out
with because he was kicking around with his in laws, Matt Gay, the
kicker for the Colts of the Rams. Sure, one of them, but
you know, his kicking coach that he'd been working out with was a Mississippi
State guy who knew Dak. So there is some like a little bit of
a small deck connection there, which is cool, but geez, I mean
some of those you got you missed that, and you're like, you're giving
them the ball at the fifty yard line if you don't nail this. Yeah,
Like these are kind of gambles sometimes when you start talking about kicking field
goals are more than fifty yards and dude's like, I'm so confident in running
him out no matter what. Now, who knows, I don't know.
Maybe it's different in Buffalo next week when it's cold. Sure, this team
is like really ridiculous, the one, the way that the whole first half
there were four for four on scoring drives. Then I know there's another twelve
place seventy five yard drive and they end up Rico Dowdle punched it into the
end. It was seventeen three, and the Eagles came back and made it
seventeen six, and it's like, okay, cow get the ball two minutes
left. Yeah, they're gonna go score. Of course they are, and
they did. And it's just it's gotten to such a point where you're confident
every time. If it's a third and twelve, you're like, oh,
yeah, they're gonna get it, or they're gonna at least you know.
Probably he didn't always feel like that in Dak's career, especially early in his
career. Yep. And then a little bit he transitioned over time, and
then you know, Scotland Ahn's offense went out and all that stuff. So
there are things that changed and he got more control. But now it's like,
hell, yeah, I felt it the same way when I watching Deck
the way when I watched my homes play. And that sounds nuts to say,
but true. When the Chiefs have a third to fifteen, I'm like,
we'll just wait and see and they might get it. I feel the
same way about the Cowboys. A lot of penalties last night, too many
Cowboys. There's one thing that I would love to see different happen for them
as they, you know, wind this regular season down, it's to clean
that stuff up because they really don't need to. More often than not,
they're going to be the better team on the field. And if you could
and you don't need to try to get an edge or an advantage by committing
penalties. And by this time in the season, I really do feel like
there's probably folks that are looking at last night going, well, the Eagles
shot themselves and the feet they you know, they committed penalties and they were
penalized more than the Cowboys. The officials had to say, and the no,
you can't look at this point the season, I think penalties are the
mental mistake. Aspect of penalties becomes less as the season goes on. People
commit penalties to get to get over on you. People commit penalties to get
the slight edge, the slight advantage, lining up too close to the ball,
off sides, false starts, things like that to get a jump mistiming
things because you were trying to get an advantage. Holding because a guy beat
you, and you need to protect your quarterback pass interference because you've got beat,
you need to cheat. That's what penalties are. You're cheating. You're
cheating because you have to otherwise. Otherwise your quarterback's going to get killed,
or a dude is going to run untouched in the end zone on a bomb
because you couldn't cover m. And that's that's what the penalties are about,
you know, And that's that should just be a glaring thing. Yeah,
the penal the Eagles were penalized more than the Cowboys last night. Well maybe
it's because they needed to cheat to stay in the game. There's were more
active penalties, you know, like that was you're kind of getting beat.
Yeah, the Cowboys stuff is always real dumb. I agree, And that's
a little concerning. They got away with one too on a play it was
a turnover. OsO was lined up offside. Just he'll do sometimes. Yeah,
I know you wanted to make that comparison to what happened in the Chiefs
Pals game last night. The thing about let's talk about that for just a
couple of minutes. And if you have audio of Patrick Mahomes, I think
this is a good time to play it if you want to pull that up
and plug your thing in. The still shot of what happened in the Chiefs
game is clear. That it is absolutely clear. It's you can't argue that
that was off sides. The still shot that was shown that you sent me
last night, that somebody posted on Twitter that said, hey, this was
the play where the Cowboys are off sides on offense, right and they and
it didn't get called on them and that resulted in a touchdown? I believe
is that correct? Uh? Well, it was the play. It was
the play. So in the in the Chiefs game, it was the past
to Kelsey and then Kelsey laterals across the field to the guy who was off
would have been the go ahead touchdown, which not only would have beat them,
it would have beat the spread and and and Malki would have gotten anyway
the fourth quarter. He would have gotten a fourth quarter point. But you
know, this was a first quarter play that everyone's kind of huning it on
with oh so lining up off sides. To me, it wasn't To me,
it was it was too nebulous. It wasn't clear, you know,
because if you look at it a certain way, it's like, yeah,
his the toe of his foot. Could you could argue that it was in
the space of the angle that's underneath the angle of the ball before it snapped.
But man, the Chiefs penalty was egregious. They've been calling it a
lot this year. I think going into yesterday's NFL games they called it,
I believe twelve times this season, whereas last season they called it two.
In the year before they called it one. So it's clearly something the refs
are focusing on more and that they are going to throw a flag on.
They threw a flag on Dallas for doing it later in the game. Yeah,
you know. So, yes, they got offensive off sides in the
Cowboy game yesterday, just not at the time where Phillies fans or Philly fans
would want them to. Here's Mahomes after the Chiefs game where he's pissed at
the refs. You should. I mean, it's I mean obviously tough to
swallow. I mean not only for me, but just for football in general.
I mean, just to take away greatness like that, I mean,
for a guy like Travis to make a play like that, and who knows
we win. As I know, as fans, you want to see the
guys on the field decide the game. And that's why last week I didn't
say anything about the flag. Didn't get called him Mark lez and so I
mean, well, because they did get screwed on that, but also they
benefited from a call to plays earlier. I don't handle ref stuff very well.
To me, you're just coming off like a bitch. You are,
and and he did. I love Patrick Mahomes and I'm sitting here going dude,
you you you're what you might be the best quarterbacks ever played. You
do not get freaking hand out. JJ made the point earlier that maybe this
is about him, you know, I don't know, protecting his guys,
rather than saying, yeah, hey hey, dude, line up on sides.
The referee is standing right there. Look to your left. He never
looked to his left. Find out where you are on the field. It's
your job to know that you were off sides. It should have been called
yes. Yeah. I don't think he's that kind of a guy who's going
to under the bus. I don't like belittle you and pitch you out on
the side. I guess he's going to put it for something else and maybe
you Okay, I think I say it was us. I did line up,
you know what I mean. They're on a podium and call out referees
for this, and for Andy Reid to follow suit and do the same thing,
I mean, it's kind of it's kind of lame. I think it's
lame the ref after the game too, because the refs have to answer questions
too, and the ref said, it's one of those things we don't want
to be overly technical on. But in his alignment, he's lined up over
the ball and that's something we're just going to call as off sides. So
that's what he saw. He saw that he was lined up in front of
the ball, and that's what he ruled. And if he and that's what
it is, I'm sorry. Like it was a great play, that was
awesome to watch, but sure great should if the Chiefs, if the champions
and the best quarter wack of all time are getting breaks. Yeah, if
you're sorry, you're If you're the Chiefs, you should be better at crossing
your t's and dotting your eyes, especially at a crucial moment of the game
like that, And had that play not been called, had that offside has
not been called, and the Bills lose that game. The Bills have a
very valid bitch, Yes, very valid. Well, and and this is
where the Chiefs two. One thing that is very important. And Tony did
not do this as you see it. And everyone who says who watched it
closer too has said he's not just your wide receiver. You do the refs
do help you. You can line up. He didn't do that. This
happened a Jalen Tolbert last year in the Cowboys game against the Packers. Okay,
and Jalen Tolbert, who was a rookie, got crucified for it.
But it was a huge penlody in that game that they ended up blowing to
the Packers. But he said he checked, So he was saying, he
checked with you. Jaalen Tolbert did. Yeah, he said, the officials
said, you're good when you watch it, and that one's I remember talking
about that last year though he didn't he did like so like I don't know,
but hey, cowboys kicked ass. What more on that at eight we'll
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