This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert May is joining me tonight.

It's my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well. Although there was a couple more QB injuries, it was still a very

enjoyable slate of games from kick. Awesome day. From whistle to whistle. It was fantastic.

I think I sparked it. I want you guys can all thank me. I got a workout in this morning.

So I started December Strong.

I started the January, you know, January New Year's resolution a month before. Like I didn't start January first to get back in shape. No, we're just going to start December. So started the day off strong. I thought it was such a great slate of games. Can't wait to talk about them today. So many great games,

tons of important implications in those games. The wildcar races are a mess. Just an absolute mess. We'll do a little bit of a check-in on those a little bit later. Talk about some of the

more entertaining games that we saw today. But let's start with the game that we just watched.

Everything that happened to the Cowboys since the buy, everything,

always came with the caveat of, who have they beaten? Who have they beaten? Where's there a moment?

That's true for the Cowboys. It's true for Mike McCarthy. It's true for Dak Prescott's MVP candidacy.

Here we are. They come in and get a monstrous, decisive, impressive win over the Eagles,

puts them in first place in the NFC East, and here we go. We got three teams with three losses

in the NFC, the three elite teams we thought we would have coming into the season. They're all at

various states right now. It's been some vacillations in those years for all three. But Dallas made a

monstrous statement today and kind of asserted themselves in that race. And it's going to be a

sprint to the finish line here. But the Cowboys are looking to be in very good shape. Yeah. And

they got a couple real tough, real interesting, real fun matchups. All teams will probably be talking

about later in the show. But I thought this was a complete Cowboys victory tonight. And it was one that they kind of needed. It was almost like exercising some demons. Almost like that Bucks playoff win last year was like, okay, all right, a little bit of something just off our chest, off our backs. And it felt like this game was a little bit, even though they won, it was, you know, Gardner Minshue last year when they beat the Eagles last year and this kind of current iteration of the Eagles, uh, Gillen Hertz missed that game at home at Dallas. Um, it felt even after the fumble return for a touchdown, it felt like just the Cowboys were in control the whole game. And, you know, they got some fumble luck, of course. But they were, I thought the game playing that the Cowboys had on offense was just great. Everything made total sense. The touch, it felt like everyone that made a big play offense and defense for the Cowboys. It was like, oh, these are these new guys that they really are highlighting Stefan Gilmore, Brandon Cooks,

even Gallup was getting some shine today.

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