the game
was all that good last year. 31:29.
Last year, the Buccaneers in the Cowboys, the two
highest-scoring teams in the league first time ever. The
number one, and number two, scoring offense is from
the prior year, get together and week one. So it's going to be a
shootout is going to be a barber. It's gonna be
2:41 was the final score
of the game between Tampa Bay
and Dallas. However, miles.
Sound the alarm in Big D.
Dak Prescott, broken bone. In his hand above his thumb.
Jerry Jones says the Dak Prescott is out
several weeks. There it is there.
It's one of the great risks of being a quarterback, you're
throwing your hand in the direction of the bodies,
the helmets
the shoulder pads,
anything that they may hit on the follow-through lip readers
out there. Broke it.
I am not a skilled lip reader. I broke. It is what he said,
and he was right miles.
Yeah, he was man. Is that unfortunate? And I, you know
what, we talked about this before, not necessarily in this
context. But generally, when you lose your starting
quarterback,
like you're kind of gonna be messed up for the rest of
the season unless you're the 2017 Eagles, right? So we saw
a couple years ago when obviously Dak had the compound fracture
with the ankle they had Andy Dalton
It's like okay well I mean what he was fine, sort of as
a starter but whenever you to frame their grab a rifle.
Well, I mean, am I what? What Mike what I'm like they were
they were they were they were better than 6 and 10,
we're going to do that because they weren't like, you know, he
liked and so I don't know. I mean, I just,
I don't feel bad for Dak Prescott because of all that,
he's gone through in the last couple of years to have this
happen again. Nowhere. It's something that it's through, no
fault of your own, you're playing the game, you're
playing the position,
you make a throw and then the defender just happens to be
right there. So you end up hurting your hand, pretty
seriously. And you're going to miss a substantial amount of
the Season like that that's really
unfortunate. Just from a Dak Prescott standpoint but from
like a larger bigger pictures Cowboys standpoint, now you're
going to have Cooper rush and will Grier at quarterback. Now
feel the excitement there, man. Feel it. Mmm.
The only good thing about will Grier is a backup to
the Cowboys. He does not fit this mold of backup, quarterbacks
throughout the NFL, where their first names and last names can
be flipped.
Cooper, rush, rush Cooper.
There are guys like that throughout the league who are
backup. Quarterbacks, I think that's a prerequisite to bring
a backup quarterback in the NFL. You have to be able to
flip your last name and your first name, and it sounds
the same or better in some cases
than your normal name.
All the things they do
to protect quarterbacks in the NFL.
There is no protection for the very basic reality when you
throw the ball, you follow through. And if anyone is in
the vicinity of you, you may strike them and Cris
Collinsworth pointed out last night, one of the Hidden
benefits of
the Guardian caps that were being worn during training camp
to protect against head injury. They were protecting against
hand injury because usually that's
Happens. The hand hits a helmet, although we saw it last
year, it was Russell Wilson, hitting the arm
of Aaron, Donald on a Thursday night that knocked him out for
a few weeks and he was never the same really in my
estimation. After that, that's the other side of this too.
They haven't given us a clear timeline. I don't think they know
dr. Jerry Jones last night
because during football season, he definitely is a medical
doctor.
He said a few weeks. It's it won't be the full season which
Which got me thinking you know if he's so insistent on that
maybe it will be or maybe he won't be the same
because you know how this go. They gotta get him back, gotta
get it back right Dak Prescott it. X percent below 100 is
better than 100% Cooper rush. I don't know.
60% 70% I don't know. They're going to rush to get it back
and and
there is a stubbornness you know next man up. Somebody who
knows our system is the system. So special that that's what you
need like is.
Shooting out of the question.
I don't know who else is out there.
But if I'm a Cowboys fan
and I'm looking at Cooper rush
for the foreseeable future,
I'm,
I don't know, I'm finding something else to do with my
time over the next several weeks and maybe for the rest of
the season.
Well right, but that's what I mean, you know, like I said if
you lose your starting quarterback like there's no
real good option for that. Whether it's Cooper Rush,
whether it's Cam Newton,
whether it's Jimmy Garoppolo,
Frankly, I don't think the 49ers would be so Keen to give
up right now. Like there's no real good option because that
position is so important. And because if you have a good
quarterback,
it means that you're competitive in basically every
single game and there's a reason why guys are backups.
So, I mean, I don't know, is Sam Donald a better option,
if they want to go trade for him,
is that really something that you want to do?
Like, depends on how long Dak Prescott Sout depends on all.
So what what is the competitiveness of that NFC
East and what is that really going to look like once Dak
Prescott can come back? There are just so many unknowns
especially when the quarterback gets hurt in week one.
Mason Rudolph is the first name that came to mind because
I believe the Steelers are keeping him on the roster
because they want to trade him. Now, there was a great note
from jury, do lack of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
recently, because it was
The Steelers went down this road three years ago, Nick
Foles the ultimate backup quarterback gets injured in his
starting turn with the Jaguars. The Steelers trade, Josh Dobbs
to the Jaguars six days later Ben's done for the year
and they're down to Mason Rudolph and Devlin
duck Hodges as their quarterbacks for the rest of
the season.
So they're leery about trading Rudolph
because you trade Rudolph,
then mituba ski gets injured.
It's Kenny. Pickett plus whoever they happen to throw
a rock and hit
to play quarterback. So that's another reason why they've been
leery. But that's the only guy out there
where I think they could make a deal quickly if that's even
with the Cowboys want to do
but there's that stubbornness arrogance that teams have that
they're going to hold it together with their back up and
you're right. These guys are backups for a reason. I mean,
no
disrespect to them. I appreciate the fact that they
love the game that there there that there. Working hard that
they never know when they're going to get called upon to
play.
It's a thankless job in many respects because then when you
do play you get you have idiots like us pointing out that
you're not as good as the starter
which is obvious and they probably don't need to hear
a say it but we're analyzing here and it's just a mess for
the Cowboys. Now, it's just a mess and this is the thing
that I both love and hate
about all the time we spend
and we'll keep doing it because there's an insatiable appetite.
All over the world for NFL news and information and discussion.
But everything that we talked about and all the predictions
we make are premised on this perfect laboratory in which
everyone stays healthy and we know that guys are going to
start getting hurt and it's going
to blow up everything that we talked about from February
until September. We just have no idea who it's going to
happen to. So we just assume it's not going to happen to
anybody. We know how naive that is. And here we are. Here we
are already
Dak Prescott out for the first Able future in the Cowboys season
wherever you thought they were going to be
there already knocked down.
Well, I don't know. I mean I picked him to finish seventh in
the NFC and I feel like that's still possible. I mean I saw
the Eagles winning that division anyway and nothing
I saw yesterday makes me come off of that. Although
you know when you see what happened with the Giants,
maybe the Cowboys will finish even further down
the standings in that nfc's, depending on how long Dak
Prescott stop. But you, you know, they have guys that are
there that can help you mitigate what the quarterback
needs to mean in that office.
And by that, I mean,
you've got what Mike McCarthy called, like a really good
running back tandem right with Tony Pollard with zekiel
Elliott. Like those guys should help any backup quarterback
that has to play.
You've got guys like CD lamb that are still in that offense
and yeah, they've still got some injuries at the dealing
with that the wide receiving Corps, guys, come back but like
there are there still Talent there
that should be able to help? But I mean, when you've got,
also the injuries along that offense.
Line that also doesn't help you. So the Cowboys are dealing
with a lot. You know, from the quarterback standpoint from
the receiver standpoint, the oh well like there's just a lot
that really is not going right
early for them and that's going to make it difficult for them
to really just not just make the postseason, but even Excel
there. If they happen
to get one of those last spots.
Oh, and the Bengals come to town
in six days for one of those
massive late afternoon. Contest which one
which Has a little bit less Sizzle now, then it's at
the Giants for a Monday night game week. 3, Washington comes to
town after that, at the ram. You can go
see Cooper Rush play in person. Coming up in week, 5 on October
the 9th at the Eagles for a Sunday night game. Fingers
crossed DAC. His back by then a little too early to flex.
Although it is in that
and glassware. And well, well, it's that break glass in event
of emergency early Flex option in the event, that it's
a disaster.
Stir like this could be if Jack's not available.
Then they've got the Lions, the Bears and they have a week 9 by
so,
who knows. Cowboys, may be toast by the time we get to
week nine, a lot of it depends upon a number one, will deck it
back. Number two. How would they do with Rush Cooper?
I mean Cooper Rush as their
backup quarterback.
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