The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 9-19-25 PREVIEW | Cowboys Bears preview and Jared Sandler and Chappy's locks of the week

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

Listen to the entire episode by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Cowboys open up as 1 point underdogs on the road in Chicago in what should be a high scoring affair. Oh, and Dak's music taste is horrible ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumzone.com. All right. Oh, yeah, I like that. Let's just go over Sunday night or Sunday afternoon a little bit here. I'm going to take the over, and it feels like the Cowboys can put 40 on the Bears' defense the more I look at it.

The Cowboys version of a shootout, I feel like, is different than Chicago's because the Dallas defense might be good for, like, a few drives. fourth quarter Philly overtime here and there Giants game the Bears defense has done nothing at all they have one good corner

he's out Jalen Johnson so if you're not looking at a GPCD combined 250 game you're looking at a loss they don't have anybody to cover anybody their pressure really

Josh sweats a nice player but outside of that Montes Swett outside of that they don't have much up front you got to just light it up on them. You have to. And live with Caleb Williams having a great fantasy line. Try to get yourself a turnover or three. Did you say their top corners out? Yeah. The only corner they have. Which incidentally is kind of in the situation Dallas is in with

Duran Blandout. They just have another guy who makes like 18 million to be their second cornerback. They're a mess, man. You remember Ty Dunn, the football writer? Yeah, Tyler Dunn. Yeah. I think he was the one who wrote the, well, he was the one who wrote the McCarthy, Aaron Rogers, Massage Table Story. Yeah, he's got like a big substack. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

He was the one who reported on Sean McDermott's interesting motivational tactics and speeches regarding the AQ boys. I was thinking about that last night. He survived that. Survived it. Well, he's thriving. Yeah. Yeah. I think teams generally look at people look at his team now and they're like, damn, yeah.

Al-Qaeda. I'm very afraid of them. No, I don't know. But he has a long series of articles about the dysfunction within the bears. And there's all the like Caleb Williams' dad stuff. There's a whole series on his substack about what a disaster they are. This is pre-Ben Johnson though, right? It's still into Ben Johnson.

Oh, okay. Yeah. He's not smiled upon favorably in this series either. Now, there's also... They still have the same GM? He just got extended, and he is getting lit up in this stuff. Ryan Poles, is it? Throughout the whole, yeah, this whole last five years or whatever, craziness?

Yeah. So I don't, you know... Like, he's the guy that traded for Mitch. Chibisky? No. That's what I'm wondering. That might have been Ryan Pace, Flower Mountain Marcus, I believe. Oh, okay.

But this guy's... They've had some big misses, dude. And, I mean, it's one of those deals where they bring guys in and they haven't done anything. Keenan Allen did nothing for them last year, is back on the Chargers. Roma Dunzee hasn't really popped the first year, but he's, I think, three touchdowns already this year. But now they have two guys instead of three. So, yeah, I don't know. They're a bit of a mess.

The reason I picked the Cowboys or the Bears for real in this game is just that it seems like a line that Vegas is trying to suck everybody in to bet on the Cowboys. like you're looking at it and you go i can't believe this are you serious i'm betting on the cowboys and those are the times that on monday everybody's saying god what did what did they know and i think that time will come i uh as the season goes on and we buy in a little bit more and you know they're even if they're just like what five and three or something they'll crater i just think they're still on the ascendant part of their season right like i don't think they're be, like, there'll be somewhere in between week one and two, but I think the DAC CD pick and thing is, it's only growing. I think they can, they can light people up.

I mean, there's also the look-ahead possibility. Yeah. You know? I hope they just go ahead and look ahead and consider that a loss. They don't need to get ready for it. Well, and that's why this game. Realize how important this one is. This game is very important, yeah. Dude, it's the NFL. Imagine how crazy this is. They could have lost the other day. easily played the exact same quality of game lost go out there this week about ball bounces

weird a couple times it's 2824 you go into the backer game easily can imagine that team getting hammered like that's in the cards so if they lose this weekend they can't yeah seriously dude i mean they will have to get one of those you don't think him to get it Yeah, like, you don't want to, obviously, it's a big sports talk thing to say it's must-win game, but it's, if you expect to make the playoffs, you better win this game. Because the schedule is brutal. Yeah. Up ahead. Don't you have some cowboy audio?

I do. Our quarterback's lame. The Cowboys quarterback is lame. Okay. Well, I almost bought a Mississippi State jersey this morning, so... Doesn't paint his nails, though, right? No, he's not to that degree. He is generic.

He is vanilla. He is a 0.0 on the litmus scale. But I can deal with all that if he's playing not like that. Because there's been times where it felt like he was just boring, beaten, down quarterback if he wants to act boring but play like fucking john wayne i'll take it and that's what he's been doing i like that he's generic but any glimpses that you do get into his personality concern you well allow me to introduce you to some of his music taste which if you remember about a month ago we had machine on this very couch say that uh he fired up his

his iPod and was blasting train. And some people thought that maybe Dak is messing with the machine. Dak is putting, you know, doesn't want to listen to his real music in front of someone he doesn't know. People were making excuses for the quarterback. We're good at it. But, um, this music taste is just atrocious. Yeah, you said at Britten Aubrey dessert his own hype song is like a close.

You have a hype song? You have a go-to song that you like plan and repeat before you're not a go-to. Favorite? What kind of music do you want? Whichever is your favorite? I don't even know if I've got a favorite. I started from the bottom, obviously, from Drake. Then I can go.

Drake guy? Jake? Is that cool? I also love the, like, I don't know. I think it's too hard to choose. Give me Drake. Obviously. Obviously. See, Dak has another verbal crutch that I noticed

to listen to some audio last night. Do you guys know he says understanding? Listen for that. He'll go, yeah, obviously the Giants, understanding they're a good team and understanding what we have to do. I halfway expected him there because he goes, obviously, started from the bottom because he's a robot. I guess he deserves some credit for being a guy who's sticking with Drake publicly because there are very few.

And I'm not surprised he's one of them, but sure. All right, I'm going to let this play out, but just feast your ears on his iPod playlist. I don't even know if I've got a favorite. I started from the bottom, obviously, from Drake. Then I can go train. me Virginia drops of Jupiter I can go country

some Darius Rucker all right Yeah that's country Yeah I don't know I can keep going very No it's boring It's shitting actually It's not eclectic dude

That's just like the most Vanilla music you can think of I'd like to hear the Yeah it again at the end Because it sounds like the media starts going nuts like Oh yeah Well, I paused it there because we get a really good ghost car.

Oh, man. Okay. Oh, no. Darius Rucker, all right, wagon wheel. Ah! He's so lame. He's so lame. Some Darius Rucker.

All right. Wagon will. Yeah, I don't know. I can keep going very practical. Very versatile. Very versatile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, listen to us.

that is incredible renaissance man remember me remember i last remember me i love you jack i want to be i can keep going all these deep shit zeppelin you heard of zeppelin dude i'm in on all that stuff all every one of the beatles albums i've heard it a little known group i don't know maroon five yeah love them dude i was i was there i remember when they put out their their first album i think it went like number one but nobody really what an insane i have so many thoughts uh i've never actually heard a person and say they like the song Wagged We know. We all hear it. It's on, but you're like, I mean, it's not a bad song.

I just, it would be like saying your favorite song was happy birthday. Do you choose it? No, I didn't know people did. You hear it at the bar at 1.45 in the morning. But that's not all. He said Darius Rucker, which, unfortunately, I feel like this is probably racist, because I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they look similar. but he reminds me a lot of Darius Rutgers.

Boring. He's just kind of, I guess, but yeah. But these are just all artists that your parents know and listen to, and then he, at the end, very eclectic. Oh, my God, I could keep going, dude, Colplay. I know them all. That's this, you have to be the Dallas Cowboys quarterback making $60 million and everyone telling you you're the man

to be able to talk like that i'm a film buff you guys seen uh there's a few of them diehard can we do this one more time i don't even know if i've got a favorite uh started from the bottom obviously from drake then i can go um i go train me virginia drops to jupiter uh i can go country um some darius rucker all right wagon wheel um Yeah, I don't know. I can keep going very quickly. Very versatile. Very versatile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little cold play. I can keep going.