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but last night maybe I feel strongly about this jmck it may be a preview of the NFC Championship I got to tell you I have two big takes last night number one Detroit got outplayed and out coached and won that's okay that's not Detroit we grow up with they are not a one-off from last year they're tough they're resilient they're deep their offensive Line's the best in football and that's a pretty good sign the Rams dominate the second half with McVey and staff and the Lions won an overtime where the Rams looked exhausted and just ran out of players now the the the lions got a little bit cute for me this is a power run team and you know I like Jared gof more than everybody else I think on the planet less Goff more running two really good backs one's a star offensive Line's the best in football I would just run nonstop if I was Detroit and Dan Campbell so my first take is Detroit would have not only lost this game in previous decades and years they may have gotten blown out and they won and they were outplayed for big chunks of it in the second half all the second half except overtime and I think they were out coach here's my second take that's the best loss I've seen in years for any team the Rams were missing both their offensive tackles their best corner three offensive linemen no puka AA down 14 at half Sunday Night Football in Detroit and Matt Stafford put on a clinic if you that's the best quarterback in the NFC that's a top five quarterback in the NFL I don't care what list you're doing he and Cooper cup without puka AA not a lot of time to throw backups on the offensive line they went into the teeth of that defense and just first down first down first down first down dominated total plays dominated third down dominated time of possession and they were down several of their top players and it got to overtime and they ran out of bodies and they ran out of gas and Detroit Maybe because they were so fatigued said guys let's not get cute let's just run the football over and over and over and the Lions this is what they should be doing nine out of 10 plays and you know I'm a golf fan this team is built to control the clock what happened in the second half of Detroit should not happen run the ball eat the clock Force teams to get physical because I don't think many can so I would not be shocked this was a great loss by the Rams they'll never be this unhealthy I would not be shocked if this isn't the NFC Championship that's how strongly I feel about it in fact I think the lions got too cute and the Rams ran out of people but it's week one don't overreact Matt Stafford uh whatever you think of all the great quarterbacks in this league and we can put we can put momes on a level above everybody else then it gets into the herberts and Lamar and whoever you want up there half of you want Dak nobody throws a prettier football including uding momes than Matt Stafford and for all you young quarterbacks this is what it looks like all you young quarterbacks you're missing your tackles your best or second best receivers out you're on the road you're down 14 do you understand that you could put some of the most talented players in the world in that spot as a quarterback and they would be engulfed by it they'd be overwhelmed by it on the road one of the louder stadiums pass rush everywhere missing your tackles three missing offensive linemen your top corners are out and Matt Stafford put that franchise on his shoulders last night against a great football team and nearly pulled it out there are not five quarterbacks on the planet that can do what Matt Stafford did last night that was a clinic they just ran out of bodies good game good teams all right so Dak Prescott you know Jerry Jones loves this right before the game Jerry Jones announces Dak has a new deal so it's 230 million 60 million annual average uh you know 4 years 240 million so two things happened yesterday with the cowboys that are very predictable uh they paid a lot of money for a player they drafted they love to do that and the Cowboys looked absolutely brilliant in week one of the regular season do you know what they did last year in week one of the regular season they won they won by 40 points this is what the Cowboys do now Cleveland's a mess the DeShaun Watson contract I don't know what happened he's not the same player I can't explain it 13 starts for Cleveland he's got a 78 passer rating and completing 59% of his throws he's not as athletic he doesn't see the field he's not that accurate I never loved him as a quarterback he's bad now so I don't know what to say about it he changed jerseys I don't know it's not working now he was missing some offensive linemen Dallas has a good pass rush I'm trying to contextualize all of it but that contract now you thought the Russell Wilson Denver deal was a bad one but they hit on B Knicks so that means they'll be able to make up on that big salary for Russell Wilson very quickly in one year Cleveland's trapped three years of that and when you're missing offensive lineman you don't want to face the Cowboys because they got a pass rush but it was so Dallas sunny weather dax's got a new contract the pass rush is huming uh it it just felt like Dallas and the reason I've always stayed very consistent with my cowboy predictions is because the Cowboys stay consist assistant they overpay they win a lot in the regular season and inevitably they don't do very well in January in fact the what I was really Blown Away with was the play calling by Mike McCarthy it was such a classic cowboy quarter they were getting a great pass rush McCarthy and Dak were in Rhythm beautiful sequencing by the Cowboys and then they almost butcher it at the end of the half with a clock guy hits a 66 yard field goal but they met situationally and they messed up their clock the timeout it it just was so Dallas Big pass rush play calling and Dak humming and they can't quite get situational football right but I'm not going to get too worked up over this because I've seen this movie so many times I still think it's a very very weak running back room I still think they're incredibly dependent on CD lamb but to Mike McCarthy's credit they use CD lamp it didn't matter if it was jet sweeps bubble screen down the field to Mike McCarthy's credit and he's a good coach I don't think he's a great one he's a good one they went to CD lamb I don't know if you can sustain that for 17 weeks I think teams with better corners and a better consistent pass rush could give them trouble but the last three years the Dallas Cowboys I kid you not look it up have one more regular season games than the San Francisco 49ers okay so I've seen this before uh but let let's be honest here's the good news if Dak is your qub back you're never in chaos if Dak is your quarterback you're always viable until about January 15th if Dak is your quarterback Jerry Jones is happy and here is hi everybody it's me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the 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