Stephen A. thinks the Cowboys HAVE A CHANCE to BEAT the Eagles 😱 | First Take

Stephen A. thinks the Cowboys HAVE A CHANCE to BEAT the Eagles 😱 | First Take

You know, sometimes in life, you got to be on the move. You understand? You got things to do. You’re from city to city, state to state. I’m in a nation’s capital today. I got stuff to do. But there’s never fear. Never fear. Why? Because doggy dog is here in the house. B Russo ready to hold it down. My boy Swagoo traveling all over the country. all over the country being that soccer dad or whatever it is. But basketball, volleyball, everything like it’s like that. It’s like that. It don’t matter. I got Shay in the house. I got doggy in the house. My man Swag Goo is in the house. Ladies and gentlemen, you know what I like to say? Holl at your boy. Let’s go. meditating with excitement over the performance of CD Lamb last night, of George Pick last night. Devonte Williams, this is unbelievable. The Eagles think they’re going to beat this team 13-10, Jeff Saturday. I don’t think so. The Cowboys are going to put up points on Sunday. They’re going to beat the Eagles. They’re going to go into Thanksgiving with a chance and that’s all they need. You’re saying there’s a chance? Yeah, Greeny all in now on the Cowboys. He’s going to hold on to that one for a little bit. Good morning everyone. Chris Russo. You might know him as Mad Dog. Here with us. We got Swagoo, obviously, Stephen A as well. And yes, I am Shay Cornet. And guys, guess what? We can turn the page to week 12 in the NFL season. We’re here. I can’t believe it. And the highlight is going to be the Dallas Cowboys. What? Taking on the Eagles in Jerry’s World. This game so much more interesting after the Cowboys dominated the Raiders on Monday night and look to be much improved, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Monday was the first time we saw the Cowboys trade accusitions take the field along with those that came off the injury list, but on quite the display against the Ly Raiders. But can it carry over Sunday against a divisional opponent? Look, the Cowboys enter the game on Sunday with a 7% chance to reach the playoffs. 10th best in the NFC. With a win, the chances increase to 12%, but with a loss, they will have only a 3% chance to make it. So, they got to have it. Here’s Greenie going all in on the Cowboys. You might as well go all the way. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Which one of these is the front here? The small side. The small side is the front. Okay. How’s this look? Oh, yeah. Okay. I got two options. That’s it. Right. This is option A. I like it. I like it. And then I’ve got option another option. B. No. No. You’re a villain, Bernie. You’re a villain. Wear the black hat. You’re a black hat. All right, fair enough. Let’s go, Johnny. Don’t take that piece of lin off the front. Yeah, there you go. How’s that look? How’s that?ough. How about that? You got to hit us with a How about them Cowboys? How about them Cowboys? Oh, Greeny. If the Cowboys lose on Monday, it’s going to be a long day for him. But hey, Stephen A, he’s leaning into the bit. Okay, if Dallas can beat Philly, do they have a shot at the postseason? You mad he put a Cowboy head on? First of all, how dare him? How? Not only did he put a cowboy hat on, that’s my cowboy hat. The the producers at Get Up, you understand? Took my hat and put and gave it to Greedy. How offensive. How offens I am offended that they would do such a thing. They got some explaining to do right now. And here’s the biggest reason why they got explaining to do. Because it looked better on him than it did on me. I got to admit it. I got to admit it. It looked better on him than it did on me. I’m really offended by that. I’m really offended by that. greedy. Having said all of that, having said all of that, we got to be fairminded here. Cowboys got a really damn good chance of winning this game. I think Monday morning, it’s a very I think I’ll give it a 50-50 possibility that the Dallas Cowboys Greeny comes back on first take, you know, strutting and flexing and all of this other stuff. Dak Prescott, since Nick Serriani has been a head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles, Dak Prescott is 40 is 4-2 against him. All right, and this is including the the 24-20 loss in the season opener. They’ve been averaging 35 points a game against the Philadelphia Eagles defense. Okay, we got to remember that. 285 yards passing a game against the Philadelphia Eagles since Nick Serriiani has been coached. All right, 16 touchdowns and just one interception for Dak Prescott in those six games. Dak Prescott balls against the Philadelphia Eagles and they’re going to be on their home turf. You got Pickkins, you got CD Lamb. I mean, listen, when you look at the Dallas Cowboys offense, they’re formidable. When you look at the way the Eagles defense, um, the Eagles offense has been struggling, that’s definitely real as well. Now, the Eagles defense, you didn’t have Jaylen Carter who got suspended or got ejected rather in an opener six seconds in for spitting on a player. Okay, you know, overone, he wasn’t there. All right, but he’s back now. You look at Quinnon Williams, he’s there now. Okay, you look at Logan Wilson, he’s there now. And the Dallas Cowboys defense obviously is significantly better than they looked earlier on in the season. So, it is entirely plausible. I think this is a pick them game to be quite honest with you. The record is not something that you should pay attention to. You should pay attention to what the Cowboys are capable of and what the Philadelphia Eagles who just invent ways to win games. How interesting and compelling and intriguing they’ve made games all throughout this season when they ch when when you would think that they would run rough shot over somebody and run away with a game. It’s been far more interesting than we suspected. I suspect that’s going to be the case Sunday and we’ll see what happens. Stephven A yesterday was making fun of the Cowboys because they beat such a bad Raiders team and now it’s a 5050 chance they win on Sunday. Well, my friend, let’s let’s let’s be accurate, Shay. Here’s what happened. I was sitting up there and saying, “What is all the bloiating about with the Cowboys?” Because they beat the Raiders. We were, it wasn’t so much we were talking about what they’re capable of doing against the Eagles this Sunday, Detroit or Kansas City or anybody else. It was that everybody was acting like they wanted to throw a parade because they played a mora bun team like the Las Vegas Raiders. I mean, we’re talking about Sin City. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And you got people in Vegas that don’t want any association with the Raiders. That’s how bad they are. And we were making a big deal about that. I was like, “What the hell? Didn’t they play the Raiders? What are y’all making such a big deal over it for?” That’s all I was saying, but I understand. All right. So, so Swagu, what do you think now? If the Cowboys do win on Sunday and they do find a way to meet the Eagles, what are the chances that they make the postseason this year? I give them about a 20% chance. Listen, I understand the excitement of going into this game. It’s a divisional game. I played this game for eight years. You play twice a year and sometimes it gets out of hand, but majority of the time it’s a close game and it’s a battle until the end. But I still am on the fence about Dallas. I haven’t seen them perform well against really good teams in the last three outings. You think about the I’m talking about the offense in particular. The Las Vegas Raiders were hard. The Las Vegas Raiders, Shay, had 12 men on the field when Dallas was kneeling to end the game. That is inept. I think that’s the first time I ever seen that in my life. when a team is in victory formation and you have too many men on the field, that’s how bad the Las Vegas Raiders are right now. But beyond that, when you start talking about Philly and Dallas, obviously Stephen A made great points about how Dak has performed, but this team, the last two good defenses that I’ve seen them play from an offensive standpoint, hasn’t performed. Now, we know it’s in them. We’ve seen him be explosive early in the year. We’ve seen him go against Green Bay’s defense and put up 40 points and end in a tie, but I just have to pay attention to Dallas when it comes to this type of game, this type of atmosphere. Now, here’s the difference. And and not to bring it down. This team is playing for something more than football. Now, like this has changed the the the attitude, the atmosphere. We were there Monday night in Las Vegas, which has nothing to do with the Raiders. This team is playing with with not only heavy hearts, but they’re they they found a way to come together and band together in the midst of Marshall and Nean passing. But when you think about Philly and how this team has played and who they have played, Mad Dog is my big thing. Philly has beat every good team in the NFC. regardless of how it’s looked and how many points they put up on offense and how many and and how bad Jaylen has been in the tweets and the text and you know you and I have talked about this how I think this team thrives in adversity. I’m not willing to go out and say based on what I’ve seen from Dallas and based on what I’ve seen from Philly, who’s been playing top-notch NFC division opponents and winning those games, even though it’s been ugly, that Dallas can get a win against Philly, who I think is still the best team in the NFC until somebody beats them. Yeah, I agree with that, Swagu. And hello there, Shay. How are you? Couple things. Stevie is right. Dallas is plus 165 this week on the money line against the Eagles. That is a great bet. And speak to me about that because I took Carolina last week at plus 170 against Atlanta and I coupled them with Dallas and it paid 4 to1. Everybody knows about the gambling it is. Secondly, it better be a halfway decent game. Did you see the 400 PM schedule? Atlanta and the Saints Lord, Jacksonville and Arizona and Cleveland and Vegas. Those games are horrendous. So the Eagle Cowboy game better be the Ice Bowl if we’re going to have any juice on Sunday. We know where the ice bowl Steve Green Bay and Dallas in Green Bay. So we need a little juice. Now the other thing I would say before Stevie and Greeny, let’s all take it easy a little bit with Dallas. They got to get to 10 wins to make the playoffs. They got to go 10 six and one. 9 seven-1’s not going to do it. 106 and one in the NFC. Do the math. They’re four, five-1. That means they got to go six and one. Their next three games are Philly, Kansas City on Thanksgiving, and at Detroit, and then they play the Chargers, and Minnesota. So, let them see if they can win two out of three here before I start thinking postseason scenarios. And I give Joe Buck credit because I love Joe. And I said, Joe, do me a favor. Don’t tell me about playoff possibilities when you’re doing a Raider game because nobody care. We all know they’re not making the playoffs. But then ESPN has to put in the right column Dallas is sniffing the postseason with their win in the second half. They are swiffing sniffing nothing at the end of that game. Comes out. I know he means business and he was all over that with you Marcus. Go ahead. Yeah. Let me let me remind everybody too. Stephen A and Mad Dog. Remember, the Chiefs are a reeling football team that’s going to give everything they got cuz they have to win. And the Lions are just coming off that loss to the Philadelphia Eagles where I’m sure that performance. So, it’s not like they playing teams that that’s getting high on the hog or they feel like they cruising or already in the playoffs. these two teams after Philly, Philly is in great position, but after Philly, when you play Kansas City and the Detroit Lions, you are going to get their absolute best game because they are not clearly in the playoffs yet either. So, with both of those teams, you that that’s something to think about as we start thinking about Dallas having a chance to go two out of three in these next three weeks in order for them to have a chance to make the playoffs. I would feel a lot better if it was normal Kansas City who was already in the playoffs and rolling normally like they’ve rolled and Detroit wasn’t having the loss against Philly coming off a six points performance. So, there’s a lot at stake in these games for the teams they playing as well. I think that it’s two trades of thoughts here. If the Philadelphia Eagles win two of the next three games going against Philly, if if if Dallas wins two of the next two games, if going against Philly, Kansas City, Detroit, they win two of those three games, I think we have confidence that with a playoff birth on the line, they can run the table against those other teams. Minnesota with JJ McCarthy, the Chargers with their injuries and being up and down, never knowing when they’re going to show up. They go into Jacksonville the other day and get their ass kicked. I mean, we didn’t see that coming. um you you you you believe that they they they they they can get it done. So, it really really comes down to what you going to do over the next three weeks. Are you going to win two of these games? Dallas wins two of these next three games, I think Dallas goes to the playoffs. I think they got a damn good shot. They lose two of these next three games or dare I say all three, it’s obviously over. That’s what it comes down to. I think Dallas’s season is on the line over the next three weeks. But they do have a chance because the teams that are ahead of them, even though they lost to Chicago, who’s ahead of them. Even though they’ve lo they tied with Green Bay, who’s ahead of them record-wise. Even though they’ve lost to Arizona, who’s on the outside looking in, you see some of this stuff. Here’s the bottom line. You got a lot of these teams that are playing one another and are going to be beating up on one another in the West, and the North as well. And so, you have to take that in consideration. Carolina beat them. You still got some games in the South to have to deal with. So, you’ve got teams that have a schedule that’ll get in their way. That’ll give the Dallas Cowboys an opportunity. But that’s assuming Dallas handles their business. Doggy, I agree with you. They have to go six and one minimum over the last seven games in order to make the playoffs.

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and Marcus “Swagu” Spears join Shae Cornette to discuss Greeny’s reaction to the Dallas Cowboys beating the Las Vegas Raiders and what the Cowboys’ chances of making the playoffs are.

0:00 Stephen A. has something to say
1:30 The Dallas Cowboys playoff chances
2:17 Flashback to Greeny on Get Up
2:59 Stephen A. goes off on Greeny
3:45 Dallas Cowboys vs. Philadelphia Eagles
6:35 Can the Dallas Cowboys make the playoffs?
10:00 The Dallas Cowboys schedule

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