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his stand Bull with OLOG thirty eight to three year Final yesterday at AT and
T Stadium, the biggest loss in Bill Belichick's career. Couldn't believe that,
you know, in couch for a long time, you think it would have
run into one forty point loss. Yeah, you would think Belichick raves.
It's hilarious that that was a little footnote at the end of that game that
I was kind of like, really, do you think that if you've been
in the game that long, you're bound to get routed at some point.
I'm sure he suffered some routings up there in that that New England, but
not not to this level. We learned. That's bad. And part of
it's the quarterback. You know, Kirk Cousins is not good. Part of
it's the Cowboys being a good team. Like I don't think Kirk Cousins isn't
good, but Mac Jones Jones, Sorry, I said Kirk Cousins, Mac
Jones. I don't know why I had Kirk Cousins on my mind, Mac
Jones, but we all knew that. So it's like this game was weird.
It was a six and a half point line. I never once for
a minute thought New England would have a chance to cover because I saw they
played the Jets. But then the Jets last night were competitive with the Chiefs.
So football's dumb and none of us know anything. That's how you look
at it, at least this early in the season. I mean, the
way the how I was pitt against the Cardinals last week was such garbage.
And then you know, the Cardinals played the forty nine ers fairly tough at
a couple times yesterday, so maybe you think higher of them. I really
don't know. I know, I walked away from yesterday's game going I don't
know any more about this team than I did going into the game, except
for a couple of things. One are kickers solid a thirteen for thirteen kickers
on fire. Yep, So cool, that's worked out, which is great
for you know, a team that struggles the closer they get to the goal
line. It's nice to have a dude that is going to be automatic from
you know, thirty to forty five yards. You would think, okay,
first drive of the game. Glad you said that, first drive of the
game. Wrote my notes on a note card. Use a notepad. I
did a note card yesterday, except I was struggling the first drive. They
throw it to Scoop Maker in the end zone and he continues the trends of
our tight ends dropping passes. But man and as Schoomakers a pick I did
not like. I thought they should have drafted an offensive lineman. The second
round. There's a guy I wanted. They didn't get him whatever as another
tight end. We got Ferguson, We got a hinder shot. Yeah,
we got these guys who are not like game changing tight ends. Bubb me.
Damn that schoonmaker. I was like, Okay, he will look pretty
fast, and he dropped it and they end up settling for the field goal.
Where did they draft him? What round? Second round? They didn't
need to do that. Man, put your eggs in the Ferguson basket.
I'm telling you that I'm him, absolutely love him. Get those guys practicing
on catching footballs better. That's a pretty damn good core with I think Ferguson
leading it, and I think he is going to emerge. Man. I
love everything that I've seen out of that guy, other than the fact that
he has at little bit of difficulty. You know, it's early, he'll
get there, I think, but I think he's I think he's really solid
and I liked I always thought he was more athletic than Dalton Schultz agreed,
and I think everyone was like find with Dalton Schultzon was definitely more physical.
Yeah, but what Wisconsin, dude, though, Wisconsin guy will out physical
Stanford guy anytime. This it's Christian McCaffrey because he's just sick. Oh.
But one thing that so that touchdown, I was sorry to touchdown. Passes
dropped. The next play or one of the plays after that. On that
first drive was the third down and it was supposed to be a handoff to
Tony Pollard and then either Dak turned the wrong way or Tony Pollard went the
wrong way and I kind of bump into each other. Well, there was
some pre plays over. Yeah, there was a little bit of pre snap
panic. Yeah, because Dak called off the pass. He audible out of
that out of the pass play, and I just don't know if his signal
was clear or Pollard was confused. But there was something something afoot that they
were They didn't have it solid in their brains on what to do on that
play. And that was third and one correct and then second stop they have
to sell for the field goal. But whatever. But as you're going,
here we go again, Yeah, still bad in the red zone. Patriots
come back down and they drive down the field and the Cowboys end up getting
to stop or whatever. But like Patriots are like, okay, this is
gonna be a game here. They kicked the field goal, it's three three,
and okay, this could be something. Patriots were kind of slicing them
up pretty good on that. On their opening drive, Yeah, fourteen plays
and then they had they had a play for forty two yards. But I
mean after that, that's about all that. And I don't know, man,
the Cowboys next drive, the CD Lamb touchdown, like that was beautiful.
That was greatly That was on the twenty. So if it's funny that
that does not get counted as a red zone TD because it was literally on
the twenty. I didn't realize you had to be basically it's it's nineteen or
lower to count as red zone. Yeah, you absolutely should count that as
a red zone touchdown now. I also think when that drive happened, I
was like, whatever, the offense looks good, who cares? But then
the game went on ended up going Okay, we're doing a lot of like
we can sustain drives, we can hang out with anyone, but when does
this get fixed? Now it's weird to complain at thirty eight to three,
and I don't know if I'm calling it complaining, but I don't feel better
about my red zone offense and I don't know, man, you don't it's
weird. You don't play a real team until next week where he gets forty
nine ers. Is it true? And they brought this stat up early in
the game talking about the Cowboys red zone woes and maybe is it just because
it's it's so glaring that there percentage of red zone touchdown conversion is low,
but the amount of times that they've gotten down there is just astronomically far more
than any other team in the NFL. Yeah, that's they converted on a
league average red zone touchdowns compared to the number of times that they've been in
the red zone on drives, that this team would be winning every game seventy
to twenty. Basically. I like that, Like I'm I, I do
agree with that. And and here's here's my problem. You just sounded like
a goat. I did, Cass, I could go that was weird.
My problem with what you said is it's right, but I also feel like
it would be better still with Kevin. And I know that everything shouldn't go
back to who's calling your plays, but it kind of does. And I
think that's gonna be the downfall of this team. I think that's why they're
ultimately not gonna get to where they're supposed to go. I think it's gonna
be because I don't think they're play caller, and I'm not doing the guy
that go question the guy who calls plays and look at it. I just
worry that he hadn't done it in six years. Well, people are just
fast. Yeah, it does. But people are also gonna say that you've
got him slotted just because your history with him as a head coach of the
Packers that you probably feel like they should have had more super Bowl wins,
more and more championships than they did. You know, they only had one
with him and a Rod, So maybe they're in sour grapes. That's what
people are gonna People are gonna say it. Maybe it's true, maybe it's
not. Probably is no, And I'm not. I for everything that I
have a complaint about McCarthy, I usually have a lot of good things to
say about him too. I try to be then I'm not. Then you're
all you're doing the play both sides thing. So she says, you still
don't like look like the complete a hole. No, I'm just telling you,
like McCarthy as it called play plays in six years or five years,
whatever it is. The NFL network puff piece to get him a job was
bs and that's all a whole other thing. There are good things about him
building an organization, building a program, consistently making the playoffs. You're in
year out building something. Love that. Let's get someone calling plays. We
had a good play caller here. Now everyone liked a bitch about Kellen.
Despite being a top five team in points and red zone efficiency and all that
stuff. People like to bitch at Kellen when you're losing the playoffs. I
don't get that. But whatever people want a bitch about is fine. I
might get serned about Mike McCarthy's and I still haven't seen it this year.
Where are the guys running free, just wide open all day? You saw
that with Kellen. Kellen seemed to be a play caller that would take more,
more chances. It may have looked more. What people would say is
creative. You know you hear that term thrown aloud. He's a very creative
offensive coordinator. He's a creative play caller, which I think just means something
that's not boring. And what Mike McCarthy's formula is on offense appears to be
kind of systematic, kind of boring about risk management, minimizing the chances that
will get you in trouble. And I think if you're playing a team that
you are clearly better than and can establish a lead early, I think it's
very easy to implement the McCarthy formula. Yes, and we've seen it happen
three out of four times this year. They have absolutely looked dominant over the
teams that they have their three victories against. You know, you can look
back at last week and that could just be attributed to personnel, because I
don't care what team you are, if you are missing three out of your
five offensive lineman, you're going to have a rough time. That was their
first game without Diggs, and I'm sure there was an adjustment and an adjustment
time frame that they needed that they probably didn't have enough time, I guess,
to kind of understand what their defense was gonna look like without Diggs.
Now they've had a game and then a full week in the defense looked phenomenal
yesterday. Granted New England sucks. Mac Jones is a garbage pail of a
quarterback. Yes, he's horrible. That guy is not their future. It
was funny that they were comment He's like, well, you you kind of
wonder if mac Jones is the quarterback of the Patriots for the next fifteen years.
I don't know if he's gonna even start next week. That guy sucks
so bad. I think Belichick's had after the game. There wasn't any point
in keeping him in the game anymore. You could have said the same thing
about our quarterback for different reasons. Can we get Dak and Mike got out
of the game? Why what are we doing? I don't understand it,
and I'm tired of hearing you. No, you just can't ask Mikey to
come out. No you can you just take it out and you just say
no, you're not like you're just not, especially when he's been hobbling around
all day. Anyway, that came out of the game two times due to
injury, dude, and worked himself back in. Put him back in the
game. Then I understand maybe leaving Dak in because on offense, you can
kind of control what he's going to do. You can. It can be
a lot of handoffs, it can be a lot of three step drop quick
pass kind of things, things where Dak knows to protect himself and to not
get himself injured. But on defense, that's such a man. Anything can
happen at any time, and you're you're more reacting to stuff on defense and
you don't have much control over what's gonna happen to you. I don't understand
why number eleven was in that game at all. In the fourth quarter.
All I was sitting on it is literally thirty one to three right now,
and he's rushing the bassard this it makes no sense. Well, the guy
only knows one speed man and you can't you know, you can't coach that
out of him. Well you can take his ass out of the game.
And you say, no, you're not You're not playing now, duds,
And you know it's fine. Let's go get some ideas going for your podcast
tomorrow, Like we're gonna take something you don't have to like. I get
it. He probably just wants to rack up these sacks stats and all that
stuff. I want to ask you something real quick. Something I thought about
this morning when I woke up, and I've seen a couple of people on
Twitter posts this. It's like, you know, we're going into Week five
against San Francisco and I don't really I don't really know anything about what this
offense is capable of. I really don't have a good read on this team,
just because when they've been good, the defense, the defensive performances have
been so dominating, the takeaways have been great, the scoring from the defense
has carried the team in two out of those three games that they've won.
They don't really know what to think about this offense, and I I kind
of in the same It's hard to argue that because we come in here on
Mondays and talk about what we've seen, and the reason we do this,
and the reason people you know, do this on Mondays is because you kind
of want to manage how much headspace you want to give your team. Yeah,
because in New England right now, you know what they're thinking about hockey
season starting. The Red Sox missed the playoffs. They know that, they're
that the Patriots are an absolute dumpster fire. But we're in hockey preseason.
The Bruins are probably gonna be pretty good. I texted with my mom about
this yesterday and she goes, yeah, Mac Jones sucks. It sucks.
You know, the lifelong those of you don't know. I'm adopted, reunited
with my birth family a number of years back, and I'm very close with
them. But they're all up in that New England, Connecticut and western Massachusetts.
And we were texting yesterday a little bit about the game, and she
goes, I was talking about what you guys got, Zeke, And she
goes, yeah, we'll see what happens. Mac Jones is not a very
nice person. I'm not confidence in his abilities nor his temper. Let's go
Bruins. They're done ready for hockey. They're ready for hockey right now because
they know and they know how much, they know how much room to give
their thoughts to their team. What we do is we can look back at
where we are right now through four weeks and go, you know what,
Yeah, are they the best in the NFC right now? Probably not,
but you know, depending on injuries, how healthy they can stay, the
way they have looked when they're good, how great their defense is, we're
in the mix. Well, it's okay for us to start thinking bigger picture,
a great playoff run, perhaps a super Bowl. Yeah, you know,
because the only thing, the only real competition in the NFC right now
is San Francisco and the Eagles, who look better than the Cowboys. They
just do. Maybe the Lions, maybe, but the Lions don't look better
than the Cowboys. I don't think. I don't think. I think there's
two teams in the in THEFC that look better and anything can happen from this
point forward. You have every right to be excited about it. I think
it's debatable that the Eagles have looked better than the Cowboys. Honestly, Yeah,
you're right, But you know, I think a lot of people thought
they would be three and one or four now at this point. You obviously
were expecting the Week two game against the Jets to be Aaron Rodgers. Ye,
so that's a that's a part of it. But you know, I
want to be I wanna be like real clear. I am not bitching.
I am very happy about that win yesterday, but we still kind of don't
But they haven't played a good team. It's just so hard to tail tail
it's so hard to tell. Question, Yes, please jump in. Do
you believe and I think I believe this. Do you believe that they have
not fully opened up the offensive play? Oh? I hope that's the case.
But didn't like McCarthy make it like a statement, kind of like,
oh, our offenses are going to be like a full four going to like
five. That's just I've just historically never listened to anything Mike McCarthy says,
because he's a liar. And if anyone, if you're a Cowboy fan,
I'm just telling you, as someone who knows who's been too close to that
man, he's a liar. Could changed. No, he didn't change during
that absence of the NFL. He could have found himself. No, they
tell you that he went to the barn and he watched all the plays and
then the opening press conference. He lies and he says that he only said
that stuff so Jerry would give him the job, and Steven Jones laughed central
awkward look. Mike McCarthy's a fine coach. Mike McCarthy's the play caller.
We're gonna find out a lot. And we needed to find out that clarity
because we'd had enough time doing it with Kellen all right, so we needed
to find out. But this idea that it's it's gonna open up, I
certainly hope so, and I think it probably will. Also, you don't
need to open it up when you're winning by thirty or forty, so we're
good. So I mean, you make that's a great point. You don't
need to open it up when you're getting touchdowns from your defense. Oh my
god, the defense, Oh my god, two picks. He likes the
party. Yep, he does like the party. I didn't realize that uh
interception stat about him that he's leading the league in interception since last year.
Yeah, last year. Yeah, I think he's up the eight total now
that Dante Fouler play and then later vanderess scoops it up and beautiful, absolutely
beautiful. That's something that we learned though that because if people were freaking out
with digs out that Bland can handle himself on the outside, we knew he
was good and slot it's just like, okay, now can you handle yourself.
We're gonna learn so much from the forty nine ers. You actually have
talent. Yeah, it's what we've been waiting for. But we've been crapping
on the pages. But mac Jones dropped three hundred yards and then against the
Eagles, Okay, against the Eagles, So we're talking like I'm not too
sure how good we are and how good they're not good. I'm like Mac
Jones. He played a good game against the Eagles when they played him.
So the Eagles were farting around with Sam Howell yesterday. Yeah, who is
the grandson of mister and missus Howell on Gilligan's Island, as you'll remember.
Okay, his grandparents were on the island, and he uh made it out.
You're ridiculous. You know that. I'm aware of that. Coming up
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