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00:25with Cowboys insider Bobby Belt.
00:27What? Pickens and Joey Porter still on the injury report?
00:30Yeah. Now, Pickens was at least limited yesterday.
00:34Joey Porter Jr. was a DNP, though. Did not participate.
00:38And so that one is apparently lingering a little bit.
00:40And either that's his contract situation lingering, as conspiracy theorists have suggested, or the injury itself is lingering.
00:46But this one is particularly, I would guess, at least a little unsettling for fans.
00:51Because yesterday, Schottenheimer listed Joey Porter Jr. as the players that he expected to do something at practice yesterday.
00:58And then pops up on the injury report as a DNP.
01:02Schottenheimer does not speak today. The next time he'll speak will be to us on Friday morning.
01:05And so we won't have that answer for a little bit as to why Joey Porter Jr. ended up not
01:10practicing yesterday.
01:11What is the exact diagnosis of the ankle?
01:13Dr. Choppy, have you looked into this?
01:15I have not looked into this.
01:16WebMD? What is it exactly?
01:18Yeah, that's, uh, because yesterday wasn't it the, he was talking about, Nick Harris was talking about it was, like,
01:24morphing into a heel.
01:26Like, that there was a heel issue with it, too.
01:28So ankle, heel sort of thing.
01:30It's just listed as an ankle right now, but it's apparently lingering into also a heel issue for him.
01:36I do agree with you, though.
01:37Like, if I had to pick, I do think you would want Pickens more for this game than Porter.
01:44Yeah, because that was one of the things I was looking at yesterday.
01:46And we were talking about it a little bit on Cowboys Crosstalk, and Nate was saying, Nate thinks this is
01:52a bad week to miss Jake Ferguson.
01:54Oddly enough, he was saying that, he said he and Jesse Hawley have been looking and researching and watching San
01:59Francisco, and he's like, the one area?
02:01Jesse needs some cold showers after watching Fred Warner.
02:04Oh, does he love him?
02:05Oh, he breaks out of the man sweats.
02:08Smitten.
02:09So, they think that, apparently, Jesse and Nader have watched it and so far think, like, the mushy area you
02:15might be able to take advantage of San Francisco is some tight end play.
02:18And so, it'd be nice to have one of the guys who's, like, a little bit more of the pass
02:21catcher instead of Span Ford.
02:22But, no, I do think that if I can have one of them, most weeks I'm going to say I
02:26want Joey Porter Jr. available over Pickens, I think.
02:29This week in particular, their receivers are banged up.
02:33They just made a trade for Keenan Allen.
02:35They keep trying to get healthy enough to be able to throw a group of receivers out there for Brock
02:39Purdy.
02:40So, to me, it's like, I'd rather just roll the dice with Durant and Bland and Downs playing better and
02:46just say I need the extra weapon to get into a shootout potentially with this team.
02:50I mean, they could put – I mean, it doesn't matter who's out there.
02:54They could probably put this Cowboys defense into a blender with some of the concepts.
02:58Well, exactly.
02:59So, like, Joey Porter Jr. is out there.
03:02Like, if you've got to pick one, it's like you probably need the one that's going to help you score.
03:06And Jerry's been saying it.
03:07Our defense is going to be our offense being awesome.
03:09That's what we need.
03:10We need an awesome offense to be able to win games.
03:12And yesterday, Schottenheimer was asked how the defense has been improving.
03:16He said pass rush and third down, some mental errors over seven of the last eight quarters.
03:23Do you feel like pass rush is significantly improved?
03:25Or I guess he didn't say significantly.
03:27But do you feel like it's improved noticeably?
03:30No.
03:31Quinnen, I feel like, has, but that's it.
03:33Otherwise, third down's a fair one.
03:35They're not out there 70% of the time on third down anymore.
03:38It's hard.
03:38I couldn't take anything from this game.
03:41Right.
03:42It's a bad football team they played and a quarterback who doesn't look like he has any idea as to
03:48what he's doing.
03:49It's a good running game.
03:50Like, generally, it's been a good running game.
03:52And they slowed that down.
03:53So that, I mean, I guess deserves some credit.
03:55So the backup came in.
03:55McGowan.
03:56Yeah.
03:56That's what happens.
03:58You bring a backup into the game.
03:59That's the key to really torching the Cowboys defense we found.
04:01I'm still checking out spreads throughout the country.
04:05If I go to ESPN's spread, it is three and a half still.
04:10The Cowboys only favored by three and a half.
04:14Mark Slareth on G-Bag was asked if he's surprised and stunned by that like I am.
04:19Nothing surprises me.
04:21I mean, you know, the Niners, you look at the Niners, and they've got a ton of injuries.
04:26A ton of their receivers still hurt.
04:28Mike Evans still is not playing.
04:31And, you know, so much so that they went out and got a Colts receiver.
04:34And so, you know, they went out and made a trade.
04:38You know, I look at those things and those situations.
04:42And, you know, they have done such a great job from a system standpoint.
04:48You know, and understanding kind of who they are and what they have to do to win football games.
04:55And they're so tied together in their system and what they do.
04:59They create big plays.
05:01They create opportunities.
05:02They always adhere to running the football.
05:05So they just have so much experience in doing what they do that they're a tough –
05:11like they're just a tough team to play.
05:13But, yeah, nothing surprises me.
05:15They've got a ton of injuries over there as well.
05:18You know, the weird thing about this is it's not just the injuries.
05:21Because if you go look at the history of the line movements for this one,
05:25it opened – now, it opened back in May as Cowboys minus one and a half.
05:32God, I wish I could have jumped on.
05:33I should have jumped on like that.
05:35On November 3rd, so we're talking, you know, ten days ago,
05:40it was San Fran three and a half.
05:42Like San Fran was, I think, on the bye week at that point.
05:45Then on the 8th, it goes to four and a half.
05:48And then on the 9th, back to three and a half.
05:50And then on the 10th, back to four and a half.
05:52Or, I'm sorry, the 9th again, like later that day.
05:54And then later that night, it goes back to three.
05:56I mean, it goes up, down, up, down, up, down.
05:58So it's settled.
06:00It seems like it's settled down between that three and a half and four and a half number,
06:02depending on where you can get it.
06:06I don't think it makes sense.
06:08This is one of those things.
06:09Maybe we're too close to it.
06:11No, we're not too close to it.
06:12We know the Cowboys stink.
06:15Yeah, we do.
06:16The rest of the country thinks the Cowboys stink.
06:18Yeah.
06:18For whatever reason, and I'm sure it's injury related, has to be.
06:23And Sandler said, well, the Cowboys are now hurt too.
06:25Sandler says the Sharks are in early on the Cowboys.
06:29All of my bets are locked and loaded.
06:32Three different ones.
06:33What are they?
06:34I got two and a half.
06:36That's my medium porridge.
06:38This one is too cold.
06:40I got nine and a half.
06:41That's my cold porridge.
06:43Not as much on the line.
06:45And then my scalding hot bowl of porridge is four and a half.
06:51So two and a half, four and a half scalding.
06:55Nine and a half, beat down.
06:58You want to say cumulatively what those three porridges cost?
07:03What?
07:04That's $100?
07:05$5?
07:06Yeah.
07:06Is that $100?
07:08Nope.
07:09Oh, my God.
07:10Yeah.
07:11How could it not?
07:12That bonus better hit Friday.
07:13I know.
07:14I know.
07:15I'm going to need some Everman gas.
07:17I'm going to need some gas money for Everman and back.
07:20But so far, when I've gone that big, I think it's generally hit.
07:25It did it for the Washington game and then Bobby with the Raiders tip last year.
07:31So we shall see.
07:32What's going to happen, of course, is the Cowboys will lose by one.
07:37And I'll be devastated all up and down.
07:40They want to win outright?
07:41Okay.
07:42I'll take the loss.
07:43I love doing these win losses.
07:44Like tonight.
07:45Not like that.
07:46I feel, yeah, no.
07:47The win loss for that is like $100.
07:50That's the win loss for that.
07:51Yeah.
07:51Beating San Fran will, like, reignite the city.
07:55Now, I don't think it's going to reignite towards, it's not going to be like you're going to do anything
08:01really in the playoffs.
08:02But like Bobby said, you win the next two after that, then people will really, it'll be like the Philly
08:09-Kansas City run last year before that got smacked down.
08:14But I still, like, everyone's predictions tomorrow on this show, guaranteed, will be San Fran by more than seven.
08:22I would imagine it'd be double digits.
08:24Yeah.
08:24So, yeah.
08:25And see, that's the thing, you know, when you were talking about, like, is it just something Vegas knows that
08:31we don't know?
08:33I was trying to look over, like, I was, like, trying to think, like, okay, where have they been at
08:36this year?
08:36Or how close have they been on some of these spreads that Dallas has played in?
08:40They were minus four and a half against Indy.
08:42That was pretty close.
08:44But Dallas was a seven-point favorite against Arizona.
08:46They were only a four-point favorite against Philly.
08:49Beat them by, like, 20.
08:51You had the Packers game.
08:52Packers were only by one.
08:54Buccaneers were seven-point underdogs to the Cowboys.
08:57They got beat by eight.
08:58So, I mean, some of these have been off on the Cowboys this year.
09:01Like, tonight I'll put 100 or 200 on the Giants, and I'll be okay losing that because we really need
09:07the Commanders to win.
09:09That's a win-loss tactic for me.
09:11Man, see, you're still holding out for this division.
09:13You're still holding out.
09:14Well, I mean, not holding out.
09:17I expect the Giants to win the division, but 50% of the point of gambling is to make that
09:23night's game entertaining, as you know.
09:24Oh, for sure.
09:25That, to me, is damn near 100%.
09:28I don't like this tone.
09:30This lecture.
09:31I don't like these gambling lectures.
09:33Oh, no, no, no.
09:33That's not a gambling guy.
09:34It's like your Greg Abbott over here.
09:35No, no, no.
09:35It's not a gambling lecture.
09:37I'm all for the gambling.
09:37Scoot over here and tell me that.
09:38I'm all for the gambling.
09:41It's the, I don't like the insinuation that we're still trying to win this division.
09:45I want to just give up.
09:45What do you want me to do?
09:46Every night in your email, you write the same damn thing.
09:49Why didn't you just sell?
09:50Why didn't you sell?
09:51We're going to have to get over it.
09:52It's done and over with.
09:53I feel like choppy here, and you're like me.
09:55You're like stuck in the past, glass half empty.
09:58That's usually me, being all cynical and depressed and moping, and you're just moping over the trade deadline.
10:03It's over.
10:04It's done.
10:04I want to enjoy, and you just want entertainment and enjoyment.
10:07I want to somehow enjoy the second half of the season.
10:10I will enjoy the second half with every loss because it gets us closer to change.
10:15To not.
10:15Okay.
10:16How many wins do you think it would take for Jerry to do it?
10:19How many wins?
10:20Yeah.
10:20I mean losses.
10:21It doesn't matter.
10:21It's the same thing.
10:25What are they at?
10:25Four.
10:28No more than three more.
10:30Two more.
10:31Two more wins.
10:33That's it?
10:34Yeah.
10:34So you think six and 11, Schottenheimer gets fired?
10:38I think so.
10:41Six and 11 with a quit game.
10:44I mean, they're 10 games through the season.
10:45They're basically 500.
10:47It's a bad 500.
10:48Yeah.
10:48But they're right.
10:49Two wins is bold.
10:51What are the odds of that when you have Tennessee, Philadelphia, Commanders, Giants left?
10:58I know.
10:59Which you may not be favored in that game at home.
11:02So let's just say Tennessee's a win, and then you get one more win at least against Philadelphia or Washington.
11:10Yeah.
11:10So that's two.
11:11It is.
11:11So right now we're at six.
11:14Now it could definitely stop there.
11:16It could stop there.
11:17San Fran, Seattle, the Rams, Jacksonville Giants.
11:21Yeah.
11:21There'll be dogs in most of those.
11:22Maybe not the Giants game.
11:23Maybe they will be the dog in the Giants game.
11:25I don't know.
11:25So, yeah, it could stop.
11:27Like, they would have to lose.
11:28They would have to get upset.
11:30But there's no doubt about it.
11:31And it's like when they announced McCarthy coming back for his final season, that sucked the life out of me
11:36already for the offseason and that next year.
11:39Yeah.
11:39If they go 7-10, 6-11, let's call it 7-10.
11:457-10.
11:45And Jerry says Schottenheimer and Christian Parker are coming back, that will do the exact same thing to the fan
11:51base.
11:51What you're describing will suck the air.
11:53It will be the total opposite of this past offseason in which we all got overexcited.
11:59Oh, there was tons.
11:59I mean, this offseason was fun.
12:01Yeah.
12:02You know, it was a lot of excitement.
12:03That's why, like, not having the pick is what really sucks.
12:07To do all the draft prospects at the top, top five, top six, seven, the Indy trip, being saddled back
12:15there in the 20s and that's it.
12:16And that sucks, unless you do something with George, which people seem to be, maybe not Todd Archer, but Nick
12:23Harris and others are like, no, George may be back.
12:28Yeah, I would still, I'd be surprised still if he was.
12:30Did you?
12:31And even if you trade George, oh, let's preview the second round pick.
12:34Because you're probably not getting a first.
12:36Right.
12:36Well, I mean, in the 20s, you're in the range to reach on Arch Manning at that point.
12:40So that could be a discussion with Dak getting older.
12:43Yeah.
12:43Zach will fire that up.
12:44But, yeah, it's time to draft Arch Manning.
12:49What did you think yesterday about Todd saying that the thing that keeps ringing in his ears about regardless of
12:55the result is Jerry talking about Changay Lee letting him go after two years, and that's such a big regret
13:00of his?
13:02It's dumb.
13:03Do you think it's still applicable, though?
13:04No.
13:04In terms of Jerry's perspective?
13:06It's not, it shouldn't be applicable.
13:08They were a playoff team those two years with Gailey, so that's, it feels a little bit off.
13:11We aren't, we haven't been.
13:13So, like, at least you made the playoffs and you pulled the trigger too early because you were used to
13:17championships with Barry and Jimmy.
13:19This would be, as Jerry keeps saying, healthy Dak missed two straight in a weak division where Philadelphia got hurt
13:27and gave up.
13:28Inside the Stars.
