00:00The five things RJ Choppy wants to see tonight and hear on The Fan.
00:05Number one, guys have bad games.
00:09Bad stretches. It's okay. It happens. It happens to everybody.
00:13So I want to see Dak take control. Stabilize things a little bit.
00:16We have this idea that if you don't have your A game that something's wrong,
00:19maybe nothing was wrong. Just be the general again.
00:23This guy runs this team. It's his team, his show.
00:27I want to see Dak take some control.
00:29I also want to see them run the ball. That's number two.
00:32You want to see them run the ball?
00:33Yeah, up or down. I want to see them run the ball.
00:36One running play in the last 38 plays, that can't happen.
00:40Give Bobby a chance to get a respectable score against me in fantasy.
00:43He's got Javante.
00:44All right, so let him get some garbage time points.
00:48But I want to see that.
00:49Number three, and I know it's not going to happen because he's out of practice,
00:53but I want to see it.
00:54Can I get a partial print of Mike Pettin on this defense, a partial print?
00:58And it could simply be something that he charted tying up a loose end.
01:04Doesn't have to be an actual play.
01:07Just some of the loose ends that were tied up by him charting these plays.
01:11Number four, George Pickens' Troy Aikman revenge game.
01:17Yep.
01:18Caleb Williams.
01:19Yeah.
01:19Assuming it was you.
01:20Assuming it was actually George they were talking about.
01:22And this is Aikman with Mike Fisher.
01:24When Fish asked if Cowboy receivers, we don't know whether he's talking about this season or in the past.
01:32Aikman bringing it as strong as possible when talking about effort of Cowboy wideouts.
01:38No.
01:39And they haven't.
01:40They haven't in a while.
01:41So that makes it hard, too.
01:43When you have free runners at the quarterback and the quarterback's not exactly sure, one, if a receiver's going to
01:50come off the ball and run,
01:51or two, if he's going to run a route that creates separation, it's hard.
01:56And, you know, Ernie Zampisi and Norv used to tell receivers, you know, that he was going to put them
02:03at quarterback and let the blitz come to them and get an idea as to what it's like.
02:07I mean, it's a helpless feeling when you're back there and you know you're about to get hit and you've
02:11got nowhere to go with the football.
02:12So those things have to be better.
02:14Brian Schottenheimer, he addressed it.
02:16I've talked about it in years past.
02:19I won't name names either, but there's one particular player I was embarrassed.
02:22It's the worst performance I've ever seen from a wide receiver on a football field.
02:26Woo!
02:26Woo!
02:27If that's you, George, that they're talking about, this is an earn that paycheck show out game.
02:34This is a, this is one of those kind of games where you've got to like...
02:37Assume it's you.
02:38Assume it's you.
02:39Just assume it's you and go out there and play hard.
02:41Would the Lions game last year have qualified under this?
02:45Yeah, I thought that was pathetic.
02:46Okay.
02:47That was awful last year, and it was a huge part of the season that he did not care to
02:51play that day.
02:52Okay.
02:52Was that a Troy game?
02:53Did Troy do that game?
02:55Was that a Thursday night?
02:56It was a night game.
02:59It was a Monday night, I don't believe.
03:01And then number five.
03:02Five, protection.
03:03There's been some protection issues.
03:05Like, when you have three first-round picks in your offensive line, you can't be giving up sacks and not
03:12run the ball as well as you want to.
03:16Whatever they're doing with their twists that they've allowed over the last couple of weeks, that's got to be fixed.
03:22Protect your quarterback or find five guys that will.
03:25All right.
03:25Let's get to the predictions.
03:28Is it going to be 60% filthy?
03:3060% Cowboys on the Franklin and Franco fan text at 877-881-1053.
03:36Even the way they are right now, it'll be 90% Philly, I think, on the fan text.
03:40They're going to say, oh, Philly's going to be...
03:42Usually it's overwhelming in one direction just based on how surly are they feeling at the moment.
03:48Pick Roberto.
03:52They're so bad.
03:55Philly's so bad.
03:57And they're just...
03:58They keep losing people.
03:59Like, I don't...
04:01They're worse than Houston was a couple weeks ago.
04:04They're worse than Washington was a couple weeks ago.
04:07What about Tampa?
04:08They're worse than Tampa was a couple weeks ago.
04:10Tampa at least had...
04:11Mecca booka!
04:12This is...
04:12And Bucky.
04:14And they had a mobile quarterback.
04:15Yeah.
04:17But this is in Philly.
04:19I don't want to pick them.
04:20I don't want to pick Dallas because I don't trust them.
04:22Yeah.
04:23But I...
04:24Philly...
04:26I'd find...
04:27Eagles, 2017.
04:31Pepe.
04:32Oh, man.
04:33The fan text rolling in now.
04:34Just a bunch of people saying filthy.
04:36Filthy's winning.
04:36Nine-end score.
04:374-6-9 says Cowboys win 27-14.
04:40Another one.
04:412-1-4.
04:41Cowboys win 24-17.
04:43I have the Cowboys winning close one 23-20.
04:46I can't trust this offense to lie to the scoreboard.
04:48They haven't scored 16 points in the last two weeks.
04:50And, you know, Sean, I'm sorry.
04:52The Cowboys have not.
04:53They scored, what, 7 against the Packers and 16 against the Bucs?
04:57Pickens will have one catch, five yards, and get ejected, Sean.
05:00So, I'm sorry about your fancy team.
05:01But, yeah.
05:02But I have the Cowboys winning by three.
05:04Ralph?
05:06There's a lot of...
05:07There's a lot of both coming in on the fan text.
05:10You know, I don't want to pick the Cowboys.
05:12I feel like picking them is like a referendum that they're doing things right.
05:15Yeah.
05:15And this has less to do with the Cowboys than it does with Philadelphia.
05:18Yeah.
05:20I just...
05:21The way Bobby's talking about the Eagles, the fact they got Tanner McKee out there,
05:26all the injuries, the Cowboys probably win 24-20.
05:33You know, I don't feel great about the point total.
05:37I thought over all week.
05:39I don't know that I trust that either.
05:40So, I'll just go 24-20 and I'm staying away from this game monetarily.
05:45I'm staying away from it monetarily as well.
05:48And all the hesitation and unease and discomfort that y'all have,
05:52I have the same exact thing.
05:54I actually feel like Vegas and the line and Calci have this dead-on in both areas.
06:01Yeah.
06:02That's why I'm like so uneasy to go away from it.
06:04But I can't...
06:07I just can't say that the Cowboys are going to lose this game because of the desperation.
06:11Now, again, they are the perfect team that doesn't respond to anything.
06:16You can challenge, you can call out, and I'll be tweeting tonight.
06:21Nick Eatman will be loving it.
06:22Me saying gutless and cowardly and spineless.
06:26But I can't.
06:29I can't say with everything that Philadelphia is missing and Tanner McKee.
06:32And I have it basically the same exact as you and Pepe of 23-20, 24-20.
06:37The spread is 4.5 and the over-under is 43.5.
06:42And right now, I think both of those are dead-on.
06:45So I'll say Cowboys 23 or 24-20.
06:48Philly's bad enough right now that if I hadn't seen the last two weeks from Dallas
06:52and known what they did against Tampa Bay and Green Bay,
06:55if this was coming off of the Houston game
06:58and it was what we'd seen from Dallas for the first month,
07:00I would be like, Dallas will win this in the second quarter.
07:05Because Philly's that bad.
07:06It's just Dallas has shown you no reason to trust them anymore.
07:10Yeah, and I expect Sirianni to do some crazy stuff in this.
07:17Like, why not?
07:19Try to embarrass us.
07:20Like trick plays?
07:20Yeah, Houston with their hook and ladder.
07:22Houston loves their trick plays.
07:23I would expect two or three crazy trick plays.
07:27We haven't seen fake pump, fake field goals against us.
07:30I would expect that type of stuff.
07:33And we'll see if Saquon plays or not.
07:35But what I'm telling myself is, Cowboys win, good mood, you be filthy,
07:42get us through the rest of the week.
07:44If they lose, though, I'm setting myself up for like,
07:48I'm going to get out my lawn chair.
07:51I'm telling myself right now, I'm not going to freak out.
07:53I'm not going to melt down.
07:54I'm not going to yell and scream because they've deadened me inside already.
07:59But I don't think I'm going to be as depressed as I normally get because I think
08:05Schottenheimer fireworks and Dak Prescott fireworks will be worth enough for me
08:10to just pull out a lawn chair and sit back and watch.
08:13Especially with Jerry Jones tomorrow at 830 with us reacting right to this.
08:18Oh, this is watching a car accident.
08:20Yeah, and I'm not saying that they lose Schottenheimer's fire tomorrow or anything,
08:24but, like, the noise, it's loud, it will all become deafening.
08:30If they lose to Philly, that's a fireable conversation.
08:33If it's 37, somebody just said Eagles 37-17.
08:36If that's the score, then that's, yeah, you get too fired.
08:39You can't be embarrassed on national TV by Tanner McKee.
08:42For who, though?
08:43Who are you going to elevate?
08:45Who would you elevate?
08:46Mike Patton.
08:48Mike Patton?
08:49Seriously.
08:49He was in Italy last week.
08:51Hey.
08:51Oh, hey.
08:53What?
08:54Oh, I was just doing the O.
08:55Oh, oh, oh.
08:56Aikman.
08:56He was in Corey Mages a couple weeks ago.
08:58Oh, Troy, you want to get into this?
09:00Tony, you want to get into coaching a hair year for you?
