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Hour 2: Lions vs. Cowboys, Caleb Williams Concern, Josh Pate Fixes CFB

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Get up resumes with a Thursday night game filled with playoff implications in Detroit. Find out who our experts think is going to take one! (0:00) Meanwhile - The Bears are thriving, but the numbers and tape aren't in Caleb Williams' favor. DanO tell us if we should be concerned about his shaky play as the Bears battle for the NFC North crown. (12:20) Then - Josh Pate fixes college football. Find out what he would change to make sure coaches don't leave their playoff teams in the dust! (24:30) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2

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0:38.0

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0:46.6

The bus and guys are here.

0:48.1

The regular crew has shuffled in.

0:49.7

Chefty is rolling along.

0:50.7

Josh right in our studio today for the first time.

0:53.7

It's to busy show

0:54.5

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biceps bycette say nothing like you then is it bar

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one back to like hey you know looking at looking at paint like you know he's on a smith's

1:07.2

machine yeah yeah smith machine later you'll tell me what that is. Elbows, sleeves, the whole thing. 24th. Then I'll have to be labeled. Countdown clock people. Week 14 in the NFL kicks off tonight. We are now 11 hours and change away from the ball being in the air in Motown and the Lions and Cowboys playing an enormous game. Hawk, let's do over-underers brought to you by Draft King's Sportsbook. Let's start there. Jack Prescott, we're talking about MVP conversation. His passing total is 268 and a half yards. You're going over or under? Give me over. In the last three games, which they've been on a win streak, he's passed for 942 yards

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and eight touchdowns. Dack is playing at an MVP level. I remember when they hired Brian Schottenheimer and everybody wondered if the office would regress, no, Dack Prescott is playing the best football of his career. And one of the reasons is George Pickens. So his total is 81 and a half receiving yards over under. me over again because there's no way that you can take George Pickens away because C.D. Lamb is out there. And that's what you hope for with the Cowboys Office. You can't placate to one receiver or the other. So George Pickens will continue to get one-on-ones and he'll continue to ball. And then there's Jemir Gibbs on the other side. His rushing total, 76 and a half yards over or under? We're going with the trifecta Greenie. I'm going over again because Amman Ross St. Brown, whether he plays or not, he's hobbled. So they're going to rely on other playmakers like Jemir Gibbs and all facets of the game. So give me more. And Dan wants six offensive linemen out there. Dan Skipper. Dan Orlovsky wants Dan Skipper, which means more yards for Gibbs. Well, first and foremost, we like over, over, over. If you like those picks, they're a parlay on the Drap King Sportsbook app. Look for the over under featured parlay price at plus 385. So good odds there. If you like everyone to have a big night tonight. very quickly, we start with the Amin Rae St. Brown of it all. We talked a lot about the Cowboys side of this and their offense and how great they've been. On the flip side, the lions are supposed to have a great offense, but they are decimated to the point of almost being unrecognizable. Will they have their heart and soul, Amman Ross. Brown, tonight? He's being listed as questionable. If he plays, he's not going to be at full strength. And that's if he plays. He didn't practice early in the week. I think he was limited yesterday. The fact that he's questionable, I think, is something of a victory because when he went down on Thanksgiving Day, I think people thought this might be a multi-week absence. But he's so tough that he's made it back to at least questionable tonight, though it's hard to imagine he's not going to be out there full strength if he's out there at all. Yeah, look, I mean, we've talked a lot about the cowboy side of this because that's just who we are. but the reality is the lions are a team who two years ago were on the doorstep of the Super Bowl

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and then last year got injured beyond belief and it fell their season apart. And now they lose tonight, Dan. They are in all kinds of trouble of missing the playoffs here. So let's talk about their offense and what we're looking for tonight. Yeah, tonight, Jim, Mir Gibbs would be Christian McCaffrey for me. How many different ways can I get you to football? I'm talking 30 to 35 touches. I'd also turn it into a rugby game, not a track meet. I would put six offensive linemen on the field. Dan Skipper would be that sixth offensive lineman, and I would pound the Dallas's defensive speed. I'm not going to let you play with speed. So six offensive linemen, I'll put another tight end, I'll put a fullback, I would turn it into a jumbo game, and it would be outside run after outside run after outside run. This is something that the Cowboys, while the defense has improved, they struggle with. And it would be different ways to get the speed of Gibbs on the perimeter. I also think this. I'm not going to let you mention Clownie. He's been very good. I'm not going to let him rush. I'm not going to let him rush. I'm going to go max protection. If there's no Amman Ra, the best thing you can do to help receivers that maybe aren't dynamic is give the quarterback time. Make Jared golf hold it for four and a half seconds, try to push the ball downfield.

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Jemir Gibbs and Jameson Williams have to be the explosive elements.

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Jameson as a crossing receiver, you've talked about Dallas's defense.

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It's not great defending the middle of the field.

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It's something that Jameson is absolutely taking a step forward in.

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So that would be the game plan for me if I was Detroit tonight. And it's Gibbs and, but Gibbs would get realistically push 35 touches. So let's get the busing guys in on this because the Cowboys defense has looked so much better since they got all of these additions. Some of them coming back from injury like overshone, some of them coming in trades like Logan Wilson and especially Quinn and Williams in the middle. They haven't really faced a rushing attack like this, though, right? Philly hasn't run the ball this year. Kansas City never seems to want to commit to running the ball. And the other team they played with the Raiders who are struggling in every way. So do you expect, if the Lions try to run the ball down their throats tonight, do you think they'll be able to? Dallas has a different defense than they did in the beginning of the year. Like in the beginning of the year, you could put a good offense, a bad offense didn't matter. Like they were getting 400 total yards on this Dallas defense. Over the last three games, they went from 29th and total defense to now they're sitting at 15. We just need to be middle of the back.

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Rushing defense, they went from Bottomton in the league. Over the last three weeks, they were second in the league at rushing defense. So I do think they have a tall task to stop in Jamir Gibbs and this Lions offense because they're going to get in all these running situations. But this is a different defense in Dallas than we've seen from the first half of the year. All the things that Daniel Olavski pointed out, I agree with.

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