NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Tuesday Night Football - Cowboys Ravens Recap

Episode Date: December 9, 2020

Dan Hanzus and Marc Sessler recap the matchup between the Cowboys and Ravens on a rare Tuesday Night Football.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Hey, everybody. Daniel Jeremiah here. And I'm Bucky Brooks. On Move the 6th, we take you inside the game from breaking down college prospects and NFL rookies to evaluating team building philosophies, coaching trends, and how front offices construct winning rosters. We study the tape, talk to decision makers, and give you a perspective you won't find anywhere else.

It's everything you need to understand the why behind what happens on Sunday. Don't miss it. Listen to the Move the Sticks podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Jackson gets it and goodbye. Touchdown Lamar Jackson right up the gut. And welcome back to number eight. 37 yards on fourth and two. Dolbin end zone passes caught. Flag on the play. Touchdown Gallup. Over 200 yards rushing are the Ravens in the ballgame third time this season. End zone and caught for the touchdown. What a grab by Brown. The great Joe Buck with the call for Fox and NFL Network.

It was a performance by the Ravens that evoked memories of a year ago as Baltimore ran for nearly 300 yards of on the ground and a 34-17 win over the Dallas Cowboys, a Cowboys team that looked like they are ready to go home for the winter. Yes, it is our Tuesday night football recap. And joining me is the great Mark Sessler. Mark, you are a Browns fan. You are riding high. You're nine and three.

You know what's coming up next week. It's the Baltimore Ravens. And are you a little bit nervous right now about what you saw from the Ravens? tonight? I think I'd be more nervous. I mean, I think number one, it was a get-right game, and they got right. So they did what they would want to do and what they were asked to do. The ground game looks potent. But I feel like you played a Cowboys team, as you said, that is ready for a long winter's nap. I think it's a bit embarrassing to have Orlando Brown roll into the end zone and scream to a cameraman, easy money. And I think that from the outset, it looked like

the Cowboys defensive line and linebackers were so out of position that I had to ask if they had taken generous tabs of Sillosybin before the game. I mean, they seemed completely out of any sort of a game plan, poorly coached, and the Ravens took total advantage of it, ran roughshod, and that's their strength. I don't trust the Ravens through the air, but I do trust them on the ground. I mean, they had four 30-plus-yard plays in the first half alone to zero for the Cowboys, and three of those came on the ground. So they are dangerous in that area as ever. Yes.

You have to keep in mind that this is the Cowboys. And the Cowboys have been dreadful on defense all season. But I do think that the Ravens had been going through a really tough six-week stretch. They started out five-and-one, and then things have gone sideways. They had the COVID disaster a week and a half ago. riding a three-game losing streak. And sometimes you just need the get-right game to get your swagger back a little bit. And I'm trying not to let my analysis from our prior podcast overly shade this situation

because I predicted, as you did actually, that we both see the Ravens going on a big run here to close the season. But this basically, I'm glad I said that before this game because now that feels almost like an obvious prediction to make because they just had this. It seemed like they had their swagger back. And yes, Orlando Brown yelling easy money into the camera. As Fox goes to break, Troy Aikman, the Cowboys legend turned color man with Buck, says the following.

I just don't know where this organization goes as Tuesday's Gone by Skinner plays them out to break. It felt like a super low moment for the Cowboys for some reason. And even though they already were dead entering this game, now they're three and nine. And by the way, we get to fork another team mark in one of our recaps, goodbye cowboys. And Andy Dalton's playing for Dak Prescott. They were never going to go anywhere this year at this point. But it just felt like a dark cloud is over this organization right now.

Yeah, I think they have a big decision. And we've mentioned this, I think prior to others to some degree, the future of Mike McCarthy. And we don't need to dwell on it. We've talked about it before. but Jerry Jones, are you going to simply confirm your decision from a year ago to hire him and make no moves? Or take a deep look at this. The team has been poorly coached all year. But beyond that, it's the one team that I think about.

And Troy Aikman pointed to this too. And I think that I kind of enjoy the irritated Troy Aikman because I think it gets more irritated at the cowboys than anything else because there's a lot of pride there. I like that it's real because Troy at his heart, he's a cowboy. He'll always be a cowboy, and he doesn't run from that. No, I'm with you. I think it's when you see genuinely raw emotion and analysis and irritation from him, and he called the Cowboys out, especially on that last Ravens touchdown March, where they just rolled through Dallas's defense as players that look like they've given up.

And I think that has something to do with the fact that they've not bought into the scheme on defense specifically. they got a little bit better, I thought, in the sort of second third of the season where you saw them tighten up a bit, but slightly a mirage. I mean, they, you know, the holes that were open for Baltimore to run through tonight. And, you know, we saw Cleveland run for 300 plus yards on this defense, too. So it's, it's not an aberration. This is a terrible defense. Baltimore, that said, like, I don't discredit teams for beating up on lesser competition. That's what Baltimore did. I'm with you in the sense that they can feel good about this game. They've got a huge matchup with Cleveland. It's going to look different than week one.

I do think these are two different teams, but the Ravens are not the team that just got pounded by the Steelers with RG3. Lamar is back. He looked healthy. He looked good. And I think that this team, according to our predictions, so we already know the result, are vying for the postseason. I would not take them lightly at all. I don't think think anyone is. Yeah. Sad situation for the Ravens with Des Brian. Hasn't he had like a really bummer end of his career. This was one of the, the reason Des is always being written about is that he was such an electrifying player in the last decade and he was such a fun player to watch and he was doing it all on quote unquote America's team. He gets back into the league last year and gets

signed to the Saints, and right when he's going to be activated, he blows his Achilles. This year, he catches on with the Ravens, has, you know, he plays, he's not a major player on the team, but he has a role. He gets out on the field bright and early tonight, today, because he's playing the Cowboys, and then he gets told, oh, you have COVID, and he gets pulled off the field. I thought that was a little bit of a sad post-script to his career for one of the more exciting players during our shared run at NFL media. Yeah, and because they're so close to the testing facility, they're getting results at a different time than other teams.

And so he found out at an inconvenient time. And, you know, he tweeted at one point, he tweeted a bunch, but at one point he tweeted, you know, I'm just going to sit back and drink a glass of wine, which I think of most, most of America could relate to in 2020 to some degree. But there were also images of him hugging all sorts of Cowboys personnel and players. So I don't know. It's another very foggy corona issue that I thought raised questions, but that's apparently above our pay grade.

Many things are above our pay grade. That's not hard to accomplish. That is another snapshot of Corona life in America. It is often hard to decipher what is going on. All right. There we go. Any other thoughts? We're cool forking the Cowboys at 3 and 9.

It's a little bit late to the game. given the shape of that division three and eight seem like a chance to still have a play. But now you have the Cowboys, now you have the Giants in Washington thriving. So Cowboys are done. Yeah, and I think that, you know, when we fork a team, they should just pack it up and go home. I don't know why they continue to play games when we do that because our batting average is pristine. It's 1,000. We are essentially a voice of God on that front.

So, well, that's why, and at the risk of making light of the situation, that's why Santa Clara shut down contact sports. Sure. So there's no reason to have them. Why risk it when Dan and Mark had already forked the 49ers anyway, there's no reason to continue playing? So now that the word has gone out in Dallas, we'll see what happens with the Cowboys of the rest of the way. Well, I trust the Dallas-Fort Worth civic community to follow suit. It just as Santa Clara did. I mean, you know, local governments listen to this show, and they take orders from it.

More people should. That, I mean, in general, you and I should just fork teams, and for once it has some teeth. And then as soon as they're forked, you shut the whole thing down. It's our own version of the bubble. It's the fork bubble. We're doing a service, and it's a good service. And more people should praise the work we're doing while I'm here, I feel. I believe, I believe, I'm with you on that, Mr. Sessler.

All right, Ricky, we're going to shut this thing down. Did you have anything to add before we sign off? I have one point that I think really, really needs to be said that you said this was going to be 90 seconds. And it wasn't. That was close enough. What, about 10 minutes? And may I add that with you, you were in front of a Christmas tree. stockings behind you, you look like the girl next door. I mean, what a sweetheart you appear to be

behind the virtual glass tonight. Yeah, I'm going to cozy up with some hot cocoa, maybe throw on a Christmas movie. You know, it's, it's getting around that time. What is, what is definitely code for something else. I can promise you that. What is your favorite Christmas movie, Rick? Huh. I like the, um, Chris Kringle, you know, the, the animation. kind of 3D one where he saves Christmas and the the guy that hates Christmas, the mayor. Come on, you know what I'm talking about.

Like I miss that. When Santa Claus comes to town. It's a raging classic. Yeah. I don't know. What about you, Mark? Christmas movie? Eyes wide shut. Hands down. Wait. Go watch it. It is a quintessential Christmas film. All its imagery. You think Mark's kidding, but it's,

it's true. Like, if Mark had one path to take in life, it was like you need to inhabit one Stanley Kubrick movie, it's absolutely eyes wide shut. And I don't even need to tell you anything else other than Mark is running into that life scenario. Yeah, I'd have to agree. I mean, I wouldn't disagree. The preeminent Christmas movie is a Christmas story starring Peter Billingsley. I won't, I won't hear anything else, but that's it. nice very solid choice you'll get your eye out kid all right that's it uh next time you hear from us it will be Thursday when we oh my god it just never stops the week 14 preview when we preview all the games to come tired and we'll have a second show on Thursday as well uh Greg and a mystery guest of some kind will recap uh the Rams and Patriots a game we previewed on a different podcast we did today. That's a lot of content. Like Ricky said, please go over to Apple, iTunes, and rate us five stars, leave a review. It's all we ask in return. That's the

currency we request. Mark, again, Mark asked for Venmo. The rest of us are above the board. Just give us a star rating and a comment. Okay. Amy? This is. And if you're listening, if you're, it was supposed to be 90 minutes. It's supposed to be 90 seconds. It's going to be 90 minutes. It's supposed to be 90 seconds, but now, you know, it's past that. If you've made it this far into the show, just tweet at Greg and Greg alone, hashtag Nirvana. That's all you have to do is text or if you have his number, text him, but tweet hashtag Nirvana at Greg Rosenthal. Would you like to give his phone number out? Sure.

Do it twice. I don't know, you know, whatever you got to do. Yeah. And he might end up muting the word. like I did with Godzilla, so maybe do hashtag and then, like, and then space out. He won't do that. I don't think he'll do that. I don't think he'll even know to do that.

He's like, oh, this is annoying. And he won't change anything. Okay. Yeah. So make sure. Oh, geez. What is that too far, Mark? Should be not?

No, no, no. I cannot undo what's been done. So, you know, at this point, you know what? Let's see what happens. Let's put this on Erica. Erica, Mark and I both said this might be a little bit too far. but sure we want to follow through with this that's fine yep go ahead all right read away everybody for listening and get to work over on the Twitterverse and we'll see you on Thursday

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