What's the emotional
Fallout from me? Lose guy like that for your team?
Well, I think like, you know anything, I mean Andrews is
part is part of it but yeah, Doc is our quarterback is it
one of our top leaders
like nope,
franchise quarterback, but
it's week one, you know.
Just speaking with him last night, I hope will still be
a part of it every day. So
again it's part of the challenge.
So it's quite a challenge.
Hey, when you have two quarterbacks you have none when
you have one quarterback who's injured, you have none.
That's the reality for the Cowboys and they decided to go
with Cooper rush and look couple years ago.
Andy Dalton was the backup Dak Prescott out for the year week.
5 with a broken ankle and it's not like Dalton came in and
save the day so
I guess they made a strategic decision not to have a
accomplished veteran backup but now Kris
Surgery on a joint above his thumb. Dak Prescott is expected
to miss six or seven games.
They are hoping he's back for week 8 against the Bears or
week, 10 against the Packers. Have a week. Nine by, they do
week, Seven Lions. We gate Bears week 10, Packers week, 11
Vikings, it's an
NFC North tour. They hope to get him back at some point in
there. But what do you do
without him? What's Cooper Rush going to do Chris. I know he
beat the Vikings last year on a Sunday night, but I I think you
can expect to
come close to running the table without Dak Prescott. No way,
no way, like they're in big trouble. I mean, I want to be
like dandi Dandy. Don Meredith here and say, turn out
the lights, the party's over, let's just get ready for 2023.
I really do. They don't have the team. They had last year.
Last year, they did a special team. They can hide and help,
you know Cooper Rush that way,
you know, yet all the concerns we had about the Cowboys, we
saw a flat on our face, right? They're on Sunday night,
the offense aligns, not that good. It's overrated.
The zika, Elliott is good, nothing great
CD. Lamb is a good receiver. He's not a superstar.
I mean Dak Prescott is the best player on their team with
Michael Parsons. Now he's gone they can't run the ball and
they're gonna have to depend on the pass game and I want to go
well
alright I don't think it's going to be all that special.
I know defense will be they lost players
to wear eye. Just go man. Dallas is in trouble and Mike
you know, you said it like 8-10 weeks, whatever game, 10 game,
ate, whatever somewhere there.
Yeah, he'll be back. Then
he's not going to be like
throwing Spirals and missiles all over the field. He's gonna
get back just like we saw Russell Wilson with the
the injury last year. It's gonna come back and he's not going to
throw the ball as well. It's going to be getting used to it.
He's not
going to be himself like,
sorry, it's over Dallas. See you later. I hope this doesn't
get thrown back in my face, but that's just the way. I feel
I think it's over. See you a plate and a pin in the hand
and your right? He's he'll be back and you'll be able to play
but he's going to be 100%. The question is at what percent? Do
you take that Prescott over a 100% Cooper rush and and what
else can you really do?
If you're the Cowboys
so much to that pride in that delusion creeps into this
and maybe Cooper Russia is going to become
a great store. Maybe he's ready. Maybe this is his Geno
Smith moment, I don't know, prove us wrong. Cooper, let's
see. There's only one way to do it. Go out and and show us but
I know, there aren't enough good quarterbacks to go around.
There aren't enough bad quarterbacks to go around but
this is why the NFL worked so hard to protect players. And
there's nothing you can do to protect the quarterback,
specifically, there's
nothing you can do to protect quarterback against throwing
the football and following through and maybe hitting
someone and that's exactly what happened.
That that can't be taken out of the game
and
You get a starting quarterback on a marquee, team injured and
out for a while. And this now it'll be interesting to see if
people still tune in to watch the Cowboys because of
the Cowboys even if it is Cooper
rush. But there's gonna be a long time and by the time he
gets back Chris,
I agree with you
there. They're kind of like the Browns. Now, we're
DeShaun. Watson is not coming back until December.
I feel better about the Browns frankly. Yeah, me too
Cowboys right now, right? Without their starting.
Quarterback. That's right. I mean, the Browns, at least we
know has one of the best offensive lives in football,
right? I mean, we know that we know those two running backs
are special
and their defense has
some freaking studs around.
I mean studs Dallas, other than like, well, we named it. They
have a stud quarterback
and a stud Michael Parsons.
That's it. That's the the
limit of their study nasaan, their vo ball team. I'm sorry.
So I worry about them, let alone their schedules, not all
that easy. I mean in there
I don't see it, I don't, you know, they,
they blew their chance last year. They had a team that was
in the window that was talented. And, you know, they
had salary cap issues and didn't pay Randy, Gregory and
some other things there. And I just, I don't see
where it comes from
that the pickup, you know.
Browns, you know, I think, as we said, like, we don't expect
as good Browns, but I think there's ways where we looked
at. Well, they can see,
there's still a lot of good players on that team that they
could be a pain in the butt. Still here, Dallas, I don't see
that at all. No, I always felt like they had a ride, the right
arm of Dak Prescott and now they got nothing to ride. So I
think they're in big trouble.
They have a good year and they just allow that Carnival
Barker, hearing barking barking that they do to become
a self-fulfilling non prophecy
where they hype themselves into thinking, they're going to be
better than they are. And they cross the line between
salesmanship and self-delusion.
They've unreasonably, believe this team was going to be good.
Even Jack Prescott healthy.
I agree with you
and hey we'll both wear it on Old taste exposed. Okay
happens. All right. We won't be alone. They're done. Yeah, it's
over. It's over.
It just is and maybe they'll scratch and Claw some winds and
maybe they'll hold it together. Maybe they'll be in a position
to make a run after Thanksgiving but
DAC will be back and he won't be 100% And this team isn't
going to be 100% and somebody's going to have to rise up.
That's the caveat you're going to have to have somebody on
that team,
rise up and take
Take charge and step up and get it done or
we're not going to see the Cowboys
competing for the postseason.
Would you make a move for Jimmy Garoppolo if you were
the cowboys? Well the the real question is
would you make the move if you're the 49ers and I would
just say he'll freaking no like no. I mean again we've
discussed this a lot they got a good team
Trail and certainly didn't do anything to give us confidence
that he's the guy and ready to go here yet after week one. And
it was a very Situation in that weather.
But
you the 49ers can't trade, Jimmy, G, unless they want to
trade, like a first rounder for him or something like that.
I mean, it would have to take something like remarkable
for me to move Jimmy Garoppolo from the 49ers if I'm Kyle
Shanahan or John Lynch. So, yeah, you can look at that, but
I just don't even think that's a realistic thing right now.
And I don't even know if it's smart for Dallas of the future
of their franchise, to let up that kind of a set of
first-round, pick a
Around. Pick anything like that. I don't know if that's
actually a good move for them in general. Anyways. So
yeah, I think they're, they're they're in, they're in a bad
spot
and Garoppolo has that no-trade Clause. So he would have to be
on board with it. The Cowboys would take on the salary, he's
walking in the door cold. How do you really get him ready in
a way?
That's right. Do a trade today, right? And somebody raised with
me an interesting twist, although I think it's
completely impossible.
Well, it's not completely impossible, but Highly
improbable the idea that the Cowboys trade for Jimmy G and
then at the trade deadline, they re trade him to someone
else
when tax ready to come back. But it's just it's teams are so
wired into that next man, up mindset that they're just going
to go forward with who they have now Cam Newton's out there
but there's been no no Jason Rudolph them.
Those are the guys I think of like you know a team that has
a little like wait we got two quarterbacks we can maybe get
rid of the third
you know that but the Steelers did that three years ago.
I know after Nick Foles, broken collarbone, they traded Josh
daughter. I Jacksonville. And then they lost Ben
Roethlisberger. The very next game. Yeah, right. It was
amazing. It off and duck. Hodges is to the way,
right? So that's part of what they're concerned about.
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