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REVENGE: Micah Parsons RETURNS to Dallas | Can Cowboys Pull Off MASSIVE Upset?
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Can Dallas pull off the upset of the decade? Marcus Mosher and Peter Bukowski break down the high-stakes matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers. Key topics include Parsons' emotional return, Jordan Love's potential breakout game, and how injuries could reshape both teams' strategies.
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Micah Parsons against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys. What could be better than that on Sunday Night Football. We'll break it down next. You are Locked On NFL Crossover part of the Locked On Podcast network. Your team every day foreign.
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Welcome back.
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To this crossover edition of the Loton Cowboys and Lock on packers podcast. Part of the Locked On Podcast network. Your team every day. We'd like to thank you for making us your first listen of the day. Crossover Thursday is presented by Prize Picks. Download the Prize Picks app today and use promo code locked on NFL to get 50 in lineups after you play your first five dollar lineup. Welcome back. I am your host Marcus Mosher. He is Peter Bukowski of Locked on packers. And on today's show we're going to talk about some keys to victory for both teams, if there are any. For the Cowboys, we'll talk about the biggest matchups to watch and I guess the biggest storylines. I can't, I can't think of any big ones that are coming off the top of my brain. Anything for you, Peter.
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Mike McCarthy revenge game. Oh, that's right. Mike McCarthy's not the coach anymore.
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I, I forgot about that. Matt Eberfluss against the former division rival.
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Yeah, maybe.
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All right, so let's, let's go ahead and do it. Micah Parsons first game back against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry Jones has already said there will not be any kind of like tribute video for Micah. This is a business game for the Cowboys. They're. They're not having any of this Micah Parsons shenanigans for you. What's the. I mean, obviously Mike is the biggest storyline here, but what are you looking forward to see?
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So interestingly, I don't, I don't think that for the Packers, I don't think that's the biggest storyline. I mean, I think for Micah Parsons it certainly is. But for this Packer team is coming off a really dispiriting loss to the Cleveland Browns. I think that is what they're focused on. They are focusing on this offense getting back to being what they're all about, pushing the ball down the field if they can do that. And so I think for me, that's the storyline that is. That is most salient for the packers and for packers fans. Would they love to see Micah Parsons go off and have one of those just like signature three and a half sack dominating performances? Yeah, sure, they would love that. But for this, for the packers to really feel good about where they're headed, this is a defense that loves to give up explosive plays, does not have an impact pass rusher like Miles Garrett or anything close to it. They used to, he plays in Green Bay now. And so this is a defense that they feel like they can get after you joke about paths to victory. I did a show last week with Spencer German Marcus and we were doing that. We were twisting ourselves in knots trying to like laughing about a Brown's path to victory. And the Browns won. So for the packers, this is like this is, this is let's go get right against the Cowboys. I think it's less for them, at least about Micah Parsons.
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There's no such thing as a must win game in, you know, September, but it does feel that way for both sides, a little bit. Like from the Cowboys perspective, right? They're 1 and 2. You lose this game, you're 1 and 3 and things start to get dark really quick, especially with how good the NFC is. And I would assume same for the packers. Right? I mean, they're two in one. But because of the division they play in and because of how good Detroit looked on Monday Night Football and you know, the Vikings have bounced back a little bit, it feels like this is a game they have to win to at least just keep pace with everybody else in that. In that division.
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Yeah, it's. The comparison that I've made is like if you're, if you're a golf fan on par fives and on the PGA Tour, if you make par, you are usually, usually giving up a shot to the field. These are the sorts of games where you just have to win. Like you're going to play enough good teams that you're going to get beat. You're going to play the Ravens, the Packers play the Ravens. The Eagles, they have to go to Minnesota, they have to go to Detroit. Still, they have tough games left on the schedule. These are the games. No Tyler Booker, no CD Lamb. A defense that has already just been barbecue chicken through the last three weeks. Like Russell Wilson had a career game against them and gets benched like eight days later. I mean, that's, that's the kind of thing where you just, you have to go and take care of business. If you're the packers and you can't think this is the Browns, you can't think this is a team that you should just walk all over that you can just show up and beat. I think they kind of did that last week, Marcus, and it bit him in the ass. They can't look at it that way. They have to get up for this game. And I do think the Micah Parsons revenge factor, like everyone knows what the deal is with Micah and the fact that he has had the kind of impact that he's had here, I think that that brings so much more juice. Plus, it's prime time. It's in Dallas where the packers, where it's certainly Aaron Rodgers, but the packers over the years have had a lot of success. I think that that helps them in that way.
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Yeah. And for the Cowboys, this is a, I don't want to say it's a pride thing, but they played so poorly against the Bears last week. You're at home, you mentioned big time stage. What kind of fight do you have in this game? You are way undermanned when it comes to talent. Even if the Cowboys were healthy, they would have been in trouble here. But you mentioned it. No CD Lamb, no Jonathan Mingo, who would have been, you know, a guy that could potentially replace CD Lamb in the starting lineup? No Tyler Booker, no Cooper bibi. So that's 2/5 of your offensive line that are out. The defense has been an issue all year long. I think for Cowboy fans, this is a big game to see what they have in Brian Schottenheimer, because if they come out and lay an egg and there's just no fight and it's clear that things are going in the WR direction, that's going to be really concerning. But if the Cowboys make this a game, and I'm not saying win, but if they could keep it close to the fourth quarter and you see the effort there and you see them playing above their talent level, I think even in a loss, that could get you excited about the direction of this team long term.
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Well, the difference between last week and this week, for at least for a Packers opponent standpoint, is Dak Prescott. Like, we've seen Dak Prescott carrying inferior talent over the years. I mean, he's had to. Now, that was, you know, like with CD Lamb, no run game, no offensive line. This is now George Pickens. But we know what George Pickens, from a combustibility standpoint is, is capable of doing, creating big plays and all those things. Dak is not going to get fooled. He's going to be able to move enough to make some plays here. And, and so if. If you're the packers, you have to be, you know, on your P's and Q's, certainly on that side of the ball, understanding, like if you get into a shootout, that can, that can go touchdown for touchdown against the defense if the defense is not playing particularly well. Now, the flip side of that, and we'll get into this matchup, I'm sure, later in the show, Marcus, but the packers have allowed the fewest explosives in terms of passes this year. And so if you're going to have a defense that's going to keep you in a game from that standpoint, like if George Pickens, if he catches three 40 yard passes, that could, that could be, you know, a huge thing. The packers don't give up those big explosive plays. And so if they play to their normal defensive standard, that makes it tough.
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All right, let's take two minutes to talk about the Micah thing, because I have no doubt that Mike is going to show up and play at a high level. Like, he always gets really juiced up for these games. So I, I have no doubt that he's going to play well. What I'm really curious to see is how did the Cowboys handle Micah and really just the packers pass rush overall? Because I think they're going to want to try to run the ball so they're not in all these drop back situations. And I think Dak's going to want to get rid of the ball quickly. So, you know, you don't have these long developing plays. Report Parsons can win, but this feels like with the Cowboys offensive line situation, one of those, oh yeah, Michael Parsons. This is why he's worth everything the packers gave up together.
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Well and you know, I had, I had Terrence Parsons Jr. On the show earlier in the week and he was talking about, yeah, no video Mike is going to take that personally. Like after all. Yeah, after all we did for the, for that, for that team. I mean Terrence is still a Cowboys fan. He grew up a Cowboys fan. This is, this is hard for him. And look, there was that quote. I thought Adam Schefter did a pretty despicable job of putting context on the quote when he point out like, oh, you know it's going to be painful to sack Dak and it makes it seem like he's trying to hurt Dak Prescott. What he said was if you read the whole quote is it's going to be painful because he cares about Dak Prescott and that team and it's a reminder of this fissure that happened between those two teams. Matt LaFleur addressed it on Wednesday, said, I'm not worried about Micah freelancing and trying to do too much because Micah Parsons can just be Micah Parsons and wreck a game. He doesn't have to do anything extra. Now do I think they're going to move him around and, and maybe do some special things with him? Yeah, but they were already doing that, Marcus. Like that's already built in here. They're moving him around as a queen on the chessboard type of piece anyway. Head up over the, over the guard, head up double A, you know, mug pressures. They're going to do everything they can to try and mess with an offensive line that has had its problems and is now going to play without their, you know, their first round pick.
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And that's nothing new for Dallas. I mean, that's the same way they use Michael Parsons. Right. There's going to be, there's going to be nothing that they see on Sunday night that's new to them. Like they've seen Parsons wreck practices. When you've got a guy over at the tackle, Chipping them. They've seen him wreck practices, you know, going one on one against your center. Yeah.
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Now I know we got to get to a break, Marcus, but I do have to point out Rashawn Gary leads the NFL and sacks right now and and Lucas Van Ness has double digit pressures. They're the only team in the league with four players who have double digit pressures. It's not just Micah Parsons. The rest of this defensive front can can wreck a game too.
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Welcome.
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Back to this crossover edition of the Loton Cowboys and Lock on packers podcast. Peter, let's talk about some matchups that you are going to be watching here on Sunday. What do you got?
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I I think I mentioned at the top this this Cowboys secondary, past defense in general against Jordan Love and and the packers offense. Through the first two weeks Jordan Love was leading the NFL in average depth of target by three full yards depending on whose charting you were looking at. It was like 2 to 3 and had an average depth of target of less than 2 against the Browns. His time to pressure against The Browns was 1.99. No one in the NFL with any number of attempts has gotten rid of the ball in less than 2 seconds this year with any number of attempts. So it was just untenable. What this offense looked like last week and the pressure that they were under. It's one of the worst offensive line performances I can remember by a Green Bay packers team. Them getting back on track this week against a team that has some issues generating pass rush. I saw stat Donovan Ezraku, the rookie, his pass rush win rate is like some astronomically low number. I saw someone quoted at zero, which has to be wrong.
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Zero from last week. Yeah, he didn't have any wins last week.
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No wins last week. I was like okay, that's crazy. And I liked Donovan as a Roku by the way in the draft but they just have not been able to find pressure and then guys just running free through that zone coverage in part because they can't play man coverage. But Matty Eberfluj in general doesn't play a ton of that or at least didn't until the end really with Chicago. So them finding opportunities here and I want to put a finer point on it, it's Matthew Golden. I think this is the Matthew golden breakout week. Marcus should have had a 95 yard touchdown last week if he could have found a way to stay in bounds. Jordan Love just missed him on a 95 yard touchdown two weeks ago. Just missed him on a 35 yard touchdown two weeks like he Matthew golden could be leading the NFL in receiving right now today. If if not, if three throws go slightly differently, I think that he's going to find more opportunities in this Cowboys Secondary. I know that they're going to focus right on, on some of that stuff. Guys running wide open. You mentioned how embarrassing that was for them last week. The problem is like, do they have the players to fix it? I don't know. I don't know.
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I, I don't know either. Now the expectation. And again this is Jerry Jones talking, so take it with the tiniest grain of salt. Is that the Ron Bland, the Cowboys all pro corner is going to play in this game after missing the last couple weeks? Yeah. With a foot injury. We'll see. I'm not sure about that. But if he does play, this defense is completely different. And we saw it in the Philadelphia game when Bland and Diggs play together like they can keep everything in front of them. The issue has been when they don't have Duron Bland. Now you're playing some corners out there that shouldn't be on NFL rosters. Right. Like just to be honest. And Bland does change the angles a little bit here, but I have to imagine even a 75% healthy to Ron Bland will help. It's still not a good pass defense.
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If you can't, if you can't pressure Jordan Love, you just have no shot. His, his productivity from a clean pocket this year has taken a noticeable jump up. He's had really good answers for the blitz this year. This is his best season as a pro so far. I mean it's only been three games handling the blitz. So the, the biggest problems have come when four man pressures have been able to get home and that's just not been what the Cowboys have been able to do. What from your perspective, Michael? Like or Micah Marcus? What, what is, what is the biggest thing that you, you think will decide this game for Dallas?
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Hey, it's Kenny Clark revenge game, right? The packers just traded away this really.
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He's been really good.
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He has been really good. And honestly, that's how the Cowboys win this game is if you look at the interior offensive line of Green Bay, it has not performed up to what you think. Right. And no Zach Thomas we get right tackle. So that's obviously an issue. But it's going to have to be Kenny Clark and Oso Digizua. If those guys can stop the run and get Green Bay into some of these third Ns. Third. Third and long. Maybe that's when we see more blitzing. Maybe that's when we start to see Matt Eber floose use some of the slot blitzes that he's done at times this year. But if the Cowboys want To have any chance. It's those two up front. And we did see last week, like Cleveland's defensive tackles played really well. Mason Graham had the game of his life against Green Bay or sorry, against, yeah, Green Bay last week. Clark and OSA Digizua have to dominate if the Cowboys want to have a chance.
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It was all about the inability to pick up the stunts, the twists, all of the different games that they were running up front. Now, part of that is the packers had sent a ton of help toward Miles Garrett and for my money, way too much. They played scared of Miles Garrett and I think it affected everything about their play calling. There were a couple times they had. They had an RPO where it's like if this or it was. I think technically it was a play action pass, not an rpo and if it had been not a receiver screen. The middle of the field is wide open and like those are the opportunities that you have. But they played scared and so I don't think they will play scared of the Cowboys defense. That's the difference. But you still have to pass off a stunt. You still have to be able to do that. And until the packers show they can do it, teams are going to keep calling it. And you know, it's. I would say it's not Kenny Clark's forte anymore. He used to be because his movement skills have, you know, he's now an older player, but that's still. Odigizua certainly is capable of doing that, has the agility to do stuff like that, can win with quickness. The packers have to get that ironed out. We don't even know who's going to play Marcus like we. Is Aaron Banks gonna play left guard? Is it going to be Jordan Morgan? Are they gonna.
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If.
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If Anthony Belton is the right tackle, the rookie Anthony Belton. Is Jordan Morgan gonna rotate in at right guard? Is he gonna play left guard? Is what's the situation there? We don't. We don't actually know. And that sets up for some questions given how this offensive line performed last week.
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One more matchup that I'm keeping an eye on. It's really the Cowboys run game against the packers run defense. We saw Quinton Judkins have a lot of success last week and that's with a statue at quarterback in Joe Flacco who wasn't going to scare them at all in a patchwork offensive line. Even without Tyler Booker and even without Cooper. BB The Cowboys feel like they can out physical Green Bay now. Will they do that? I don't know, well, I have my doubts and I think that's sometimes good in theory to talk about on a Thursday and Friday and then you get to the prime time. We'll see. But the Cowboys have been really good at running the ball this year and they believe with Brock Hoffman and TJ Bass, the two backups, that they can still run the ball.
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And I think withoute Williams, a resurgent season from him. Yeah, he's looked awesome.
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And I think the Cowboys without CD Lamb, they're going to load up on tight ends. Brevin Spanned Ford is the highest graded run blocking tight end in the league and they're going to just try to run the ball 25, 30 times, keep the possessions down. You can only do that for so long if your defense is just getting gashed. But I think that's the plan here for Dallas.
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That's interesting. You know, the packers do have a top 10 run defense, but they are, they are smaller in the interior than they, than they were with Kenny Clark. And you know, Nazir Stackhouse, who's an undrafted free agent that they brought in from Georgia, has not played a ton. Now I will say their linebackers, especially if you're going to try and run outside the tackles, they were outstanding.
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And, and you know, even against guys like Jameer Gibbs, like they, they can fly with Adrian Cooper and Quay Walker. So it has to be on those downhill runs where they're going to come down and you're hoping, you know, Quay jumps in the wrong gap or Edro and Cooper gets engulfed or he, you know, he tries to shoot a gap and all of a sudden you're, you know, you're, you're digging him out on a trap play or something like that. But the packers do play a decent amount of single high safety. They will put extra bodies in the block in the box to handle the run. And if Dak Prescott can't create down the field one on one to to George Pickens, the Packers are just going to live in that world and be happy to do it.
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All right, let's talk about some keys to victory for both teams. Obviously the window or the path is a little bit smaller here for the Cowboys. How did the Cowboys and the packers get a win on Sunday? We will get to that next. This episode is brought to you by Game time. The NFL season is back and honestly there's nothing better than being in the stadium surrounded by fans cheering on your favorite team. But let's be honest, getting tickets can be a pain. Between login screens and prices jumping at checkout. It's all incredibly frustrating, but that's why I only use Game Time, the app that gives the advantage back to the fans. Game Time is fast, easy, and backed by the Game Time guarantee. You'll always get 100% authentic tickets delivered on time and at the best price. Plus all fees are included. So the price that you see is the price that you pay. I love that I can see exactly what my view is going to look like in the seats in the app before you buy. It's one of my favorite features in the GameTime app. So download the GameTime app, create an account and use promo code locked on NFL for $20 off your first purchase terms. Apply again, that is promo code locked on NFL for $20 off swipe tap ticket Go download Game Time today.
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Welcome back to this crossover edition of the Laton packers and Laton Cowboys podcast. We'd like to thank you for making us your first listen of the day. For your second listen, check out the Lock on NFL show two podcasts every single day. One in the Morning with Tyler Roland, one in the Afternoon with Tony Wiggins. Available wherever you get your podcasts. All right, Peter, how did the packers win this game? Like what, what couple things do they need to do to secure a victory and improve it? 3 and 1.
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I I think it's Protect Jordan Love. That that is, that is job one and and I said last week, job one, two, three and four is is protect or is block Miles Garrett. There is not a player like that for the Dallas Cowboys. But if they can protect Jordan love, I think they're just they're going to be enough opportunities against this Cowboys team to generate explosives to convert on third down. For all the issues the packers had last week, third down was not one of them. They actually performed pretty well on third down overall. It was that they just, they couldn't get out of their own way. It's false starts, it's penalties. And that's the second part of this just, just get rid of the pre snap penalties. The pre snap penalties were killers last week. There were third and 1 becomes third and 6, third and 4 becomes third and 9. Like that, that kind of stuff. Especially against a team that, let's be honest, like the Cowboys are not as good as the Packers. No, you, you lose games in the NFL because you don't play like the better team. You, when you are the more talented team, if you don't play like it, you're going to lose. Like the talent difference is small. This is not college where you go out and you play our little sisters of perpetual sorrow in week one to get ready for your actual season. It doesn't happen like that. So that's protect Jordan Love and the pre snap penalties. Michael Parsons lined up offsides on the final drive, gifted the Browns five yards. The Browns couldn't get five yards of play all game. They were averaging 3.9 yards per play all game. You just gift them five yards. That kind of stuff can't. And by the way, Micah took responsibility for that. Said, they didn't bring me here to be offsides, but he's lined up offsides. I think like in every game. Line up, line up on side. Come on. And it's those kinds of little mistakes, they just can't happen. They didn't happen in Week 1. The Packers, I believe, had three penalties in Week 1. Then they had 10 and 14 the last two weeks. Get rid of those penalties and I, I just feel like the talent then wins out.
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And for Dallas, it's all about winning in the margins. Right? Because you're right, they are not as good as the packers even when they're fully healthy. You know, this is a team on FanDuel that had a win projection of seven and a half with Micah Parsons. Right. Like they're clearly not the better team. But that doesn't mean you can't win games like this. And it starts for me on special teams. The Cowboys have a really good special teams unit with Brandon Aubrey, who for my money is the best kicker in the NFL. Brian Anger, one of the better punters in the league. Kevonte Turpin, probably the best kick returner. You're gonna have to make plays in that phase of the game to make up for, you know, an offense that has injuries. And the defense, it's not very good. So can you block a kick like Cleveland did last week? Can you have better field positions? I know it was a lot of fun. Can you have, can you start drives at the 38 yard? Line rather than the 22 and give your offense a shorter field. Yeah, that's the kind of things you have to get. If the Cowboys lose a special teams battle, they have absolutely no chance on Sunday. None.
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Well, the good news for Dallas is Rich Pistachio has not fixed the special teams. The special teams have been a problem really every year for the packers to some degree. Whether it's the kicker. They fixed the kicker with Brandon McManus but like Brandon McManus that the kick that got blocked was a low kick on a, on a makeable, like we're talking about a low 40s yard field goal. Like this should have been a gimme. They got blown up on the interior to get that block. Shelby Harris, one of the best in the NFL at doing that. But still like that's ridiculous. So that, that is a problem. And I said it during the week, I said one of the ways, one of the paths for the Browns is specialty. You return a kick for a touchdown or you block a punt. I didn't think blocking the game winning field goal would, would be on the, on the docket there, but that's what happened. And so I think you're right. The special teams piece of that like for the packers just don't, just don't lose emphatically. Don't get, don't, don't have a punt blocks, don't have a kick blocked. If Brandon Aubrey is going to make a 60 yarder, it's like that's fine. You're not going to lose on six 60 yard kicks.
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Yeah. The other thing for the Cowboys is just.
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Well, I do remember 1996. When was it? Who's the kicker in 96? Was that Bonyo?
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Chris Bonyo? Yeah.
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And he made seven, seven field goals to beat the packers in Dallas the year they won the super bowl. It was 21 points. And I, I remember like I would, I had to go to bed because I was, you know, I was nine or whatever and I woke up and I saw the final score. I was like oh. And then I realized it was field goals and I was like oh come on green bay, like 20 points.
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It's not like Mason Crosby didn't get them back. You know, listen, a little bit later.
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Look, look, you know I, I'm just, I'm offering a heartfelt memory about a Cowboys win. You gotta, you gotta go with me.
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On that last thing before we go. We're not gonna do predictions but Landon McCool, my co host, we were talking about this game. We think if the Cowboys were to pull off this upset. They are currently, I think, seven point underdogs right now on FanDuel. It might be the biggest upset that they've had, especially from an emotional standpoint in the last 20 years. And I know a week four game really doesn't feel like a big upset.
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B
No, but when you. I don't think that's crazy. Like, I really don't. Because of the Micah Parsons factor.
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A
Yeah.
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Because of the expectations coming in. Because of CD Lamb, because of Tyler Booker. It would, it would be a little bit like the 2015 game. Right. The Matt Flynn game when, when the packers come in and they come back from two touchdowns down to beat the Cowboys in Dallas memory. But you flip it and it feel, it would feel like that even though Dak Prescott is not Matt Flynn, obviously. But you know, it. It. That that is interesting and that there is, I think there is quietly more pressure on Green Bay in a game where they are 100% touchdown because everybody.
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Thinks that Green Bay is going to win this game and they're going to win going away.
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I, I agree. But I think there's quietly more pressure on Green Bay than maybe the average fan would realize in a spot like this because of what you're saying. Like, it would just be a huge. And it would be. Look, it would be a huge lift for the Cowboys season if they could win a game like this. Like, you can treat it and I don't know if Brian Schottenheimer is going to, but you could treat it like your Super Bowl. Hey, we win this game and the rest of our season is out in front of us. You know, we lost a game we probably should have won in week one, frankly. And, and you know, you have a brain fart game last week. Both these teams kind of coming off those, those kinds of games where you have a Murphy's Law finish. It would. Now, now you're making me nervous that this would be the biggest upset in 20 years. But I think that also says something about the Cowboys. Like they've been a, they've been a pretty good team for a long time. They haven't been in a position to upset anybody by a touchdown since, like Quincy Carter. This has just been a good, steady franchise, even if they haven't been a Super bowl contender for, you know, 20 years now.
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I'd like to thank you for making this your first listen of the day. Make sure you follow Peter on Twitter at Peter underscore Bukowski. I'm at Marcus Underscore Moser. Enjoy Sunday Night Football. And we'll see you guys back here on Friday.
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