It's the downbeat. I'm ninety. See, it's a long December Mic thirty
one days in it. Happy Friday everyone, and uh yeah, we are
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right, you know we'll have Danny back next week. You know, get
those copy points short up. He's the one who's always took out all the
copy points. He's in charge of all though. It's amazing. He's just
got a whole folder, very organized. He'll have those next week when he
returns. Okay. So last night the game starts and I'm like, okay,
well, the Cowboys have the most unstoppable offense of the world. Big
play to Ceedee Lamb, big play to Brandon Cooks. They get that third
down completion to Turpin first and goal with the two and they handed off to
Pollard, then an incompletion and then Dad gets sacked and they sell for a
field goal and it's three nothing. But it still felt like, well,
they still can't be stopped. Well, they can't be stopped. No one
could be stopped. Last night, right, and then we saw the first
episode of drawing Bland getting torched, and I take back everything I said about
Geno Smith on yesterday's show. Is he delivered a beauty of a throw to
DK Metcalf and then DK takes it to the house. Yeah, and this
beautiful Seattle Seahawks uniforms seven to three. He looked great, you know,
look great all day? Uh boy, DK Metcalf looked unstoppable. For sure,
he's really good, too big, But that was a great throw and
at least Bland was near near him on that one. I mean, if
had they lost, that's the story of the day. Well, no,
the story of the day had they lost, is it can't beat a team
of the winning record, right, Yeah, probably that is it da kid
could have done in a close game, all that nonsense. Yeah, but
yeah, Dron Bland had had himself a day And I hate to start with
a negative in a game that turned out to be a solid win, an
exciting win, a win where they you know, we're up back up against
it. And you know it's cliche, but teams need to have days like
this. You can't, you don't do what they've done in most of their
victories and just steam roll everyone. You have to have these these toughies.
And that was a tough ass game against a very salty team that Uh,
I don't know how good the Seahawks are. It's a real tricky one.
But they're well coached and there are some talented dudes for sure. And the
Cowboys buckled down and made plays they need to, especially on defense. You
could play a lot of different games with yourself when about like what you think
about that crazy like no, like in your head, you can play a
lot of different games with yourself about what to think about the Cowboys after this
thing. And I just sit there and go, well, they played their
third game in eleven days and they won all three of them. That's the
answer. Yeah, I bet they were a little tired. The Seahawks played
their third game in eleven days and they lost all three of them. So
like and that might account for some of the sloppiness of that game. But
no one could get off the field. And that's kind of the game where
you're worried about the past defense. I think I am a little more than
maybe I thought I was. But look the Cowboys when they lost to the
Eagles a few weeks ago and that big game. Yeah, the Eagles were
able to score on them. So the defense is good. Is even's the
best defense in the league. No, No one really ever thought that.
I don't think like decent teams can score points in the Cowboys. This is
the same thing that happened last year. It's the same thing that happened the
year before that. Hopefully you're ahead and hopefully you can go make plays late
in the game and Micah Parsons can go, you know, get a sack
for you, or DeMarcus Lawrence can get a big stop on a fourth and
short for you. Although, Seattle, what in the world are we doing
now? They had a fourth and one late in the game. Let's run
it right at DeMarcus Lawrence their best run stop. Yeah, the last play
of the game on fourth and two, let's not block Micah Parsons their best
pass Rusher. You know there's some psychotic stuff right there. Do you get
mad or if you're a Seahawk fan, to get mad that Gino didn't kind
of just chuck it anywhere up? Yeah? You know, like you,
I mean, you're screwed and I don't know, maybe you're living to fight
another day and not dying when Michael Parsons evaporates you if you stand there for
a second, but maybe just throw it way high in the air, at
least past the line of scrimmage. I don't know if they're just I would
be frustrated with just do something with it, but it's not like he had
any time to do anything at all day. I agree with you on that,
like's this is the game. You you liked it. For him to
know that Mike is You're almost like though you can't. There's two lines of
thinking. You know where Michael Parsons is all time, but also, how
can you play the quarterback position if you're just staring at Micah? Yeah,
but for no one to touch him? Yeah, that's they played all right.
They got couple of lineman backs, so I mean Seattle played tough,
but yeah, and the Cowboys defense looked tired. Their secondary looked poor at
times. I mean, Duran Bland, if that was the first game you
watched, you you would think that he has a liability on his defense,
not a candidate for Defensive Player of the Year, which he is and he
still is. And he did steal a pick and it was a nice pick
too. Man, he's got sticky hands. I mean, he's a hawk,
but he could have had another one that that kind of throwaway ball in
the corner, you know that he dropped. I mean it's the same thing
that people were talking about with Treyvon Diggs. Right, yeah, ballhowks youreing
to hit the ball for you? As long as they end up getting there,
then I can kneel. It's getting beat up little bit too. He's
also a matchup for him that is not going to work for him, as
DK metcalf against him because he's a smaller guy. Yeah, in college he
played outside cornerback, and then he got drafted in the fifth round. A
lot of NFL teams when they scattered him, said he can't play outside.
They're just a slid guy. Now he's playing outside and sometimes he's gonna get
beat by a guy who's six' four he's yeah, happened, pushed around,
but he kind of got torched by every he did every receiver at one
point or another. But whatever. I you know, everyone got torched last
night a little bit. And we said it earlier how hard playing corner is
in the league. It's fine, and every cornerback does get beat now usually
isn't quite so like consistent and just seemingly play after play. I mean,
you didn't hear Stefan Gilmour's name in the first half. They didn't even throw
that way, and it is weird. They clearly were not scared of land.
That was their playing. That's the mark. Actually, yeah, well,
the the mark on the Cowboys defense is probably won if they get one
of their safeties in coverage. But if we're talking about cornerbacks, it's it's
going after him, and that probably will be the case into the playoffs.
And if you can make a couple of plays in the ball, then they
had offsets. It all offsets everything you've ended the possession because there were no
punts last night. Fifth game all time, they said, was it really?
Yea of all time? I think the fifth game all time, first
since twenty twenty one, A game with no punts were cheer. I was
kind of cheering for the no punt game. You knew it was happening.
I also think it's just kind of great and it may have snuck up on
us this league where everyone just goes nuts on fourth down. I mean,
we were yelling for this five years ago. You know, it sort of
started. And whether it's analytics or whatever, but I kind of love that
it's you don't even think about it now. I mean, hell, when
we grew up, it was punt team, run them out, fourth and
one, fourth and two. I mean even a fourth and one was like,
oh my god, they're going for it. Yeah. Well, the
way we watch football growing up is so different. Yeah, I mean I
remember watching replay some Super Bowl in the nineties. I think it was ninety
six and rember Bill Parcells Patriots being down by two touchdowns with like eight minutes
left in the fourth quarter. It's like a fourth and three and they ran
the punt team. Yeah, punted got to yeh eight minutes left, and
we would have had a hissy fit back then if they went for it before
we fully jo the offense. Let's talk about some end game decisions. Okay,
twenty eight to twenty. The Seahawks lead, the Cowboys go score.
There's three minutes left in the third quarter, so eighteen minutes left in the
game. It's twenty eight twenty six, and they like to kick the extra
point. At the time, I'll tell you what I was thinking. Okay,
I was thinking, right, call, there's a lot of time left,
and no one's goetting stops. We don't have to chase two points.
What were you thinking at that time? I was surprised they kicked the extra
point. I mean, did you agree? No, I don't. I
mean, it's not the end of the world, because there is you know,
you have a full quarter plus three and a half minutes. But you
know, I disagree with I think they should have gone for two. I
mean we just said in the you know, everyone goes for almost every fourth
down. You have a high powered offense, you have a series of plays
that you know are designed for that two point conversion or very short yards guaranteed
type plays, and nothing is guarantee obviously. But yeah, no, I
think they should have gone for it. I was surprised they didn't. Yeah,
okay, So I was perfectly okay with it because I thought there's a
lot of time. But you know, either way, there's there's none Like,
I don't think analytics would give you a definite answer on that quite frankly,
Yeah, I don't think there's some you know. And then the Seahawks,
uh it ends up. I mean, we get the ball back and
think that might have been the Bland interception, and we get the ball back.
It's twenty eight, twenty seven, and then the Cowboys end up taking
the ball and this is the drive where they end up kicking a field goal,
and it's thirty to twenty eight. So you're like, okay, that's
cool. Now I'm trying to get to where the fourth down was, where
it was fourth and two and the Cowboys went for it. Okay, Yeah,
so that was the next Once the Cowboys got the ball back twenty eight,
twenty seven, they had a fourth and two on the Seattle thirty.
Dak rolled out to his right, threw it to Seedee Lamb, and Seedee
Lamb dropped it and a lot of fans were like, why do you just
kick the field goal for the lead man? I have met. I was
in go for it mode right there. Yeah, So I agreed with McCarthy
on both of them, and you don't hear me say that. I agree
with Mike McCarthy a lot, but I totally agreed with it because he was
chasing at that point. He was chasing four points, not one point or
two points. That's the way I kind of view it. I'm okay with
chasing four points. I don't know if I wanted to chase two at the
extra point, but four points is what he would have been chasing there,
and I kind of liked that. Maybe he was chasing five points if you
would go for two if you scored or whatever, So I kind of liked
that decision. It didn't work out. Then the Cowboys were able though,
to get the ball back. Well no, then the the Seattle went down
scored thirty five twenty seven the first to at the beginning of the fourth quarter,
Cowboys go down, they can't get in the end zone, they kick
a field goal, so it's thirty five thirty Seattle. This game was crazy
last night. That was But the number one takeaway of the entire game for
me is like the Cowboys offense can kind of do whatever they want most of
the time, and it's gonna come down to are they able to finish.
Once they get in the red zone. That's what it's gonna come down to.
It's that simple, because they had a million ways to beat you.
And once they realized after week six that Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks are on
their team, that's when I knew this team has a chance. Yeah,
it is odd how much the team has changed within the season. And I
don't know if you see that all that often, you know, but because
you and everyone was really bitching about the Mike McCarthy offense after a few weeks
and they seem to listen or figure the stuff out for themselves. But they
are potent and it's fun, you know. A rare interesting take from Kirk
herb Street last night. Herb's fine. Herby's fine. Just know I like
him doing college games. But he said, look, sometimes when you haven't
called plays for you years, it takes you a while to get going.
I said, you know, that's something I haven't really thought about that he
hasn't done it in a long time. Instead of just looking at the negatives
of someone who has it cold plays in five years, maybe you look at
it from the standpoint of it takes you a minute to get it in gear.
Just takes you a minute to get it going, you know, So
I kind of can stand by that a little bit. I will go to
my I mean, I'll fight for this one. I hain'te ceedee lamb.
Throwing a fit on the sideline is the best thing that's happened off it's all
year long. Yeah, maybe, but Brandon Cooks is amazing. And the
reason I knew Brandon Cooks is amazing is because I'm a damn gambler and he
was in our DraftKings lineups all year last year for the Texans with Davis Mills
putting up good numbers, So what can he do with a real quarterback?
Good stuff? Brandy Cooks is great. Jake Ferguson makes you go Dalton Schultz,
who Yeah, Ferguson was a standout last night, just because the saltiness,
you know, was so salty, like he got in their face.
That was kind of bad ass. I thought they were gonna get him on
the on the go ahead touchdown catch, Yeah, I thought they were gonna
get him on a little OPI push off, yeah, really little, because
there's a little nitpicky and they were damn sure throwing the flags last night.
It was cool in the uh they had Dak in the at the table after
the game, you know, and they brought up Ferguson because Tony Gonzalez was
there. It's funny. They only want to talk about their positions, you
know. Andrew Whitworth wants to talk about, oh, the on line play,
Richard Sherman wants to talk about DB's and Tony Gonzalez goes straight to side
it whatever, and he's like, I got any favorite player, you know,
Ferguson, And Dak's like he's crazy and I believe it. And he
called him the enforcer too, which I thought was cool. Like, I
don't think Jake Ferguson takes any s and he will run your ass over and
he probably could have got a flag for the Cowboys on that helmet to helmet,
yeah, when he was right over the middle when that safety popped him
directly in the top of his damn helmet with his helmet. But he pops
up and talks S and I don't know. I the evolution of Jake Ferguson
into a bad MF is a fun thing going on this year. And he's
really good and he's more athletic than people think too though, Like for like
you think of Wisconsin tight end, you're just thinking just a big milk boy.
Yeah, you know, big team milk boy is a big team milk.
I didn't know he was Barry Alvarez his grandson. What you know that?
No, he said it during the game. Oh my god, the
legend Barry Alvarez? Was it me? Or as it was just like the
enthusiasm from Alan Kirk just really draining. Or am I just tired? Maybe
that's probably he was tired. But anyway, he was awesome in that game.
Fourth rounder and it's cool that you know, another nods to their you
know, front office to know that, Yeah, the Schultz is Dak Prescott's
will be. He loves him. Well, so is it the position or
is the man? And it might be a little bit of both because you
know, when Schultz was out, he didn't utilize the tight end here as
much. But once he has someone he trusts in that position, they're gonna
get the rock. I always thought this last year that and if they would
have got into ballmore, he's like he's got some yack to him yards after
catch. Thanks is what that means. But I was like he seems like
he's got more potential to do things after the catch than even Schultz had,
even though he's a little bigger's a little more thick. Do you just see
it? Just a little more loose in the hips though, and he could
get a little little more action for you yardage wise after the catch. I
always thought that. But he did the hurdle last night too, I mean,
only got your extra yard. Yeah, And Frank Clart came over there
and tried to taunt him, told him only got one more yard out of
the hurdle. Yeah, he said, Well, still still cool though,
wait till the snapshots come in. Yeah, to my email inbox, I
was not gonna know. Only got one yard, Just like when Jason went
and got his helmet ripped off. You know, he didn't score on that
play, but doesn't matter in the photo, No, looks bad ass.
We've done all of this, Mike without even mentioning ceedee lamb seventeen targets.
Give the man the ball he can get up in ninety five different ways.
I feel like he is almost like he spoke it into existence, like he
almost started yelling at everyone like, why don't you guys think I'm Jamar Chase
or Justin Jefferson, and then by saying it out loud and then obviously by
the production, he is making himself. That dude second in the league in
receptions with ninety is that right now? He'll get passed by Tyreek Hill this
week and maybe Stefan Diggs. But through Week thirteen he is number two in
the league. Through his week thirteen, number two in the league in receptions,
Keenan Allen's number one at ninety seven. He is second in the league
in receiving yards because no one's going to catch Tyreek Hill. He is fifth
in the league in receiving touchdowns, and he could have more, but they're
getting Brandon Cooks involved in the offense and he's gonna score some touchdowns and Ferguson's
gonna steal a touchdown or two from me as well. But otherwise he would
be up there with Tyreek Hill and Mike Evans and Stefan Diggs. Like he
is a monster. And I knew this was coming because he was too good
at Oklahoma. You just see it the million ways that he can get open,
whether it's giving him the ball right when he snap it, by the
deep ball, I mean, he's a good route runner. He's just good
that he doesn't have a weak trait about him. It just needed to all
come together somehow. And once he finally went and stood by himself on the
sideline and held his helmet over there and then went, oh, had a
bye week, and MacArthur went, oh, yeah, he plays for us,
and here we go. Yeah, here we go. Please don't so.
Cowboys won forty one thirty five, Mike Big one. It was a
big one and three four found stops in the fourth huge And that's what you
want to if it's will get stops for you. Sometimes you gotta wain a
tough game man, and they did. I you don't find me bitching man.
Nay, you can rest up and you get the Eagles. And I
think they're going to get the Eagles. I really do. Yeah. I
have my questions about are they be able to run the table? Here?
What you gotta go to Miami, you gotta go to Buffalo. Definitely have
my questions about that. But this is a good team. It's a really
good team. I don't know that it's different than last year. I don't
know that it's different than the year before that. But get in the tournament
and give yourself a chance. You said we didn't mention much ceede Lamb.
We didn't mention much Dak in that whole damn segment. And we'll do it
at some point. We'll do today because you want to talk different, something
different, or something different. I think it's because he's pregnant. He's not
pregnant. Well they are, Bud, he's not pregnant, Kevo, Well
he's not. It's not a joint thing though. When the girl gets pregnant.
Yeah, I don't think they were pregnant. Yes, he's pregnant.
Then he's well, he was different before he was pregnant. Oh see CHRISA.
Thompson bought him a gift. Oh she did. Yeah. In the
postgame, someone watched the post game. Someone else went to bed. I
stuck her around because knew Dak was coming up. Yeah, we'll talk a
little Dak later. Yeah. Absolutely, what a win? What a when?
What's a job to be alive? Coming up next? Though? Boy
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