Cowboys seven and three Dallas
nine-point favorite at home,
your New York. Giants
going in to try to
turn things around after the disappointing home lost in
the way this season is gone, right? We're all going to think
the Cowboys going, look at the Cowboys team. We saw on Sunday,
look how good they are. Look how dominant they were
we know that things can flip around like that. We see it all
the time.
We believe that what we have seen most recently is going to
continue indefinitely.
And then the Giants role in, and they play the Cowboys
clothes,
and maybe they can steal one from them.
That's why I look at that nine points, Chris, and I think in
both of these games, I'm probably going to pick
the favorite to win, but the underdog to cover. Because
I think these spreads are too big, and I think the Giants are
going to play him tough.
And I think the bride and a ball
has been all over them
for losing at home to the Lions.
A game that they should have won
a game that they needed to win to continue to be in that spot.
They've occupied all year where it feels like they have
the shine of a playoff team. So I
I believe in the Giants, I think the Giants are gonna are
gonna
wipe it. You know, the Vikings got to wipe a bad taste out of
their mouths, from losing to the Cowboys away. They did
the Giants have to wipe the bad taste out of their mouth from
losing the lines away. They did
no question. I mean yes,
you know, again it just they left their formula. What's made
them successful as a football team, right? Mike. I mean, all
the things that we've talked about that you know, have
Help them through the winning streak. It was kind of
opposites day last Sunday verse the Detroit Lions, the lions
were doing things that kind of the Giants have done two teams
all year long,
you know, long drives control, the clock, running
the football, you know, create that one or two turnovers just to
give them the extra Advantage there. So that was not
the Giants football we saw.
And that's a as we've talked about a lot. The Giants just
aren't good enough
to make some of those mistakes
and win football games. It's just, you know,
plain and simple. There's
There's nothing more to it.
Daniel Jones, the two interceptions. You know,
the first one was bad. It was a great play by Ian Hutchinson
that hurt the Giants. You talk to that was a jump off spot.
The second one was a fourth down
but then the fumble there and
when they were kind of trying to mount the comeback, kind of
put the game away in a lot of aspects but you know, as far as
the Giants. The one thing
I'm I guess I'm worried about more than anything in
the matchup. It's just that,
you know, Dallas is offense is kind of rolling it. He is
there's a lot to like and
and you know, Dak Prescott. Yeah, they lost a Green Bay two
weeks ago. I know that Dak Prescott didn't even, he didn't
play that well and that game, I mean they were up 28-14 he
threw a pick in the end zone
and through another pic when they were backed up and kind of
in their own area that led to points for the Green Bay
Packers so they made mistakes in that football game. But
the balance Dallas is showing right now is what scares me for
the New York,
Giants. The Giants aren't a great defense. They've been
getting it done with bells and whistles. And Wink Martindale
being creative and finding ways to just give them a schematic
will Advantage.
But this is a matchup where
I don't know if there's enough schematics, I can get it done,
the Giants are not great at stopping the run down, this is
really running the ball well and Tony Pollard scary and
the pass game for Green Bay you know. Other than like you know
like we talked about that Green Bay game there.
It's I mean for Dallas it's been clicking here.
It's been clicking and CD. Lamb is come alive, or seeing
a little No more, Michael Gallup. So that's where I worry about
the Giants. Can the defense stop the bleeding and kind of
control the game. Are we going to see Dallas kind of explode
like we did last week and what they did
to the Minnesota Vikings.
Well, and we saw that defense explodes seven sacks of Kirk
Cousins. He had never been sacked that many touches entire
career. Here's Giants coach, let's have a listen to Brian
table and also quarterback. Daniel Jones on the challenges
of facing that Cowboys pass rush,
led by linebacker, Michael Parsons,
but really dry. I think it's execution
because if you get into passing situations against this team,
I mean just put on the tape, there's a ton of - plays.
So if you're playing a game in third and long and second
longer you get behind,
We got to try to make up ground. That's a bad spot to be
in against this team. Yeah, they're good. Defense are fast
and physical
good pass rush up front
and go players in the back end. They're smart,
you know, instinctive and
make a lot of plays. So we'll have planned for it. We're
confident and
ready to tackle.
Hey, look the Vikings learned the hard way. If you can't run
the ball, they're going to come after. Yeah, that's right. And
they're going to
get you and this was
even though they held the Cowboys to three points on that
first drive, after the strip sack from Michael Parsons that
set the tone. And
you know the Vikings have been saying we need to get the ball
out faster. Well, how much faster can you get the ball out
when they're all over you
right after you get the ball in your hands. This isn't classic
Kirk Cousins, taking too long in the walls, close in
there. All Over him. And that's what Daniel Jones. You know,
we've talked in the past about how
he has to accelerate the clock in his head.
It's, he's gotta make it even faster
against the Cowboys. He definitely you can't, you know,
that that was the beauty of the Green Bay game. And this is
the other aspect of the matchup. And I giving you talk about
this, a lot when teams play the Chiefs and,
and, you know, that offense in my homes, where this is a game
where I do, look at the Giants offense
could be, you know, their best defense in this football game
as well. Can they run the ball? Can they control the clock?
You know, one just to help their defense out who I do
think is mismatched by the Dallas offense but to
they got to run the ball for the reasons. You heard a ball
talk about. That was the beauty of the Green Bay game. When
the green baby Dallas, they can they kept said, hey a second
and for Dallas has to play run defense. They got to respect
it. Michael Parsons then,
doesn't get to play defense and he plays linebacker
and that changes the game.
Your Viking seen last week, got stuck in a lot of second and
third and longs to where they were. Went well, it's pretty
sure they're going to pass here.
Let's put Michael Parsons a defense end and you just got no
chance. He's the best pass rusher in football right now
and and Mike,
you know, that's where the running the ball and and me
being there in person. The first time to see this matchup,
the Giants could not protect against Dallas
at all. Daniel Jones. If you remember that Monday night game
his scrambling and ability to run and extend plays was really
what saved the day
and then and then
that bought some time and whatever
Rouse and say Quan broke a big run there in the third quarter
to score a touchdown. And that was kind of the one positive of
the day, but they looked a little outclassed in the first
matchup. I know it was
23 to 16, but I remember sitting there in person going
men doubtless, looks big Dallas looks fast and the Giants.
Don't look like they're quite on their level. And I don't
think they are on their level. They're going to have to play
a game that, you know, controlled the ball. Hope for a turnover
here or there.
I think if they want to try to win this game, I don't
I don't think they're on the same level as the Cowboys.
I remember having that Vibe watching that game. The Giants
are going to win this game. The Cowboys really had to slam
the door. On them catch up. Yeah, they kept hanging around, can
have. Yeah, it felt like the Giants were going
to Prevail and this time around, I think the Giants can
give them
everything they can handle. Especially because
he's just, you know, at the end of the day,
even though they are impressive, physical specimens, and they
look almost like
space Travelers in these
new, you know, these helmets that they
Are now, I mean it's so futuristic and I think back to
the seventies in the eighties and the nineties and how
different a football player looks
but they're still inside human
and they're young
and it's got to be easy for some of those Cowboys players
to get caught up in thinking. Hey we're pretty good right
now.
Hey you know we're pretty good. All we have to show up, we
don't got to spend extra time doing. We're
kick the crap out of the Vikings. We're pretty good
right now. We're just going to continue that. Well, that's
what the Cherry grinding away. Grinding away from Dallas.
Right. You know, even in a short week and we see that we
see that inconsistency
with the Cowboys. Yeah. Tom they're riding high in this.
This hey, there's no dominant team in the NFL right now.
There isn't
every time it looks like a team is dominant. Somebody beats them
and the Eagles were looking dominant, they lost the bills.
At one point were looking dominant. They lost the Vikings
were looking dominant at least dominant when it comes to what
the final score is, not the process of getting there
and then it get blown off the field it shifts in it changes.
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