How about Low?

Remember that commercial?

How about low their low expectations?

Because it's Andy Dalton.

That's why I think that he's been contaminated and his first five or six years in the National Football League.

Andy Dalton was pretty damn good.

But when you stay in Cincinnati too long, bad things happen to you.

That just seems to be the case when it when it comes to football, bad things happen.

And you know what?

It is worse because the black cats running around there.

But, I mean, Cincinnati is just a different situation.

Least there's no state taxes in the state of Texas, and Dallas is a beautiful city, and you're playing a billion dollar playpen.

You got an owner with the starters helmets and this beautiful chili.

Just look at it over.

There's a whole bunch of things toe like about Dallas.

Even when the team stakes, there's nothing to like about six and Daddy I mean, so the bottom line is when you look at Andy Dalton, he's had a losing record the last four years.

Uh, percentages have dropped we get all of that now.

He's got a plethora of weapons and understanding.

He's not a scrub.

He could throw the football.

You got Gallup.

You gotta marry Cooper.

You got CD, Lamb.

We get all of that, Okay, But the reality is that the expectations toe live up to or exceed whatever it was that that Prescott brought to the table.

In order to do that, you're gonna have to get the ball.

Ezekiel Elliott more and when some football games.

But ultimately, when you look at that press got throwing the football, all right, He put up some pretty damn good numbers and deserves our respect, and I think we're gonna appreciate him or even more so when he's gone, the fact that Andy Dalton is gonna have to live up to that it's not like he's coming in there.

There was some no name that was there.

And, you know, a Dallas just stunk up the joint and that's it.

No, we've been looking at that Prescott perform.

And so with Andy Dalton, it's gonna be Do you measure up to that to some degree?

And that's why my expectations for him or not that I disagree.

I think they should have great expectations.

Charles Dickens's Stephen a great expectation Charles Dickens because Because, look, the fact of the matter is, Dak Prescott is better than Andy Dalton.

We all know this, but Andy Dalton's a competent NFL quarterback, and they've got five games remaining with the NFC East and five games remaining out of the division.

Okay, can they go three and two against the Giants and Eagles in Washington?

They got Washington twice, and the Giants once can.

They split with the Eagles.

They might go four and one.

Let's say they go 32 against the NFC East.

Can they go to and three against the rest of the league?

It's not the softest schedule against the rest of the league, but it's not the toughest, either.

They do have the Niners, but they also have the Bengals.

They have the Ravens, but they also have the Vikings, right and, you know, and the Steelers air tough.

But then again, the Cardinals are fine, but they're not amazing, like they should be able to win two out of those five games and go three and two against the division, which makes them 500 the rest of the way that they're one game below.

That makes them a seven win team.

They should run away with the N F C East, like they'll run away with it because the division so pathetic.

So what?

People will remember also how Maney ones they have with that Prescott one.

And then Andy Dalton comes in and they go more or less 500 win the division.

It's gonna make Andy Dalton look better compared to Dak Prescott than he really is.

Yes, I think they should.

I think they should expect Cowboys fans should expect to win the NFC East, and and what's sad is Max is that now that has become great expectations in Dallas.

That is not great expectations.

That is being the best of the worst, and that's exactly what you're saying.

But do they think you're wrong?

I think Andy Dalton, the Land of the Blind Dalton's gonna fall a little bit.

Ah, little bit in between where both of you guys are saying could see.

Here's what I know, You know, like I like to use like the paint pictures Let's take first take, for instance, First take is an excellent show.

First take is a show I watch all the time When Molly and Max and Stephen they are on it is an excellent show.

We take one of y'all off.

Still in excellent show.

Maybe not as good.

Maybe doesn't fit is right.

That's what the Dallas Cowboys are attempting to do.

They're going to take their star, one of their stars of the show.

One of the reasons why it work.

The main reason they were ever in any game because he was asked to play perfect.

And you're gonna change him out.

And Andy Dalton is competent.

Andy Dalton is an NFL quarterback, and he's gonna have some moments because there are people to throw the football, too.

There's somebody to turn around and hand it to, but y'all don't forget that defense stinks like that.

Defense is legit for lack of a better word, Dukie and we're gonna see it tonight.

You're gonna get the seat.

I'm listening.

Why can't I ever finished?

Because you use the word Dukie.

That's why you can't use the word Dickie on first take because doesn't get a cornea than that Dukie or natural television.

Dukie, your support be cool.

It's about have some swag and you use the word Dukie on national television.

Well, you can use the word you can't use other words.

Stephen E.

Understand?

I'm just talking about it.

Was court Stephen A So here.

You see?

See?

Here's the thing, Stephen A When you do have swag, right, when you do have cool, you ain't gotta force it.

You ain't gotta worry about it all the time.

I ain't gotta tell people you understand what I'm saying.

When I walk in the room, they know.

And so when I'm trying to explain that way, Ryan, let me just say real quick to your point, if Stephen A is not on the show, maybe someone else is doing a perfectly good job.

But they don't stop the segment toe.

Let you know that your corny for using the word right?

E o Prescott.

Without that Prescott, there's no one there you can use the first time.

They're not as good.

No.

Well, all I'm saying is this I believe Andy Dalton will be fine, but Andy Dalton will have to try to replace that Prescott who was doing everything to keep this team in any game that they were in, I believe.

The Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Eagles, when the NFC East Andy Dalton shows the Dallas Cowboys that what that Prescott was doing was special.

No, he may not be Patrick Mahomes.

He may not be Russell Wilson, but for them he is.

And that was why he should have been paid.

That's why this deal should have been done.

And Andy Dalton is gonna prove that even more than that was a really quarterback Andy Dalton.

Cowboys.

Really?

That's my point.

Yes, Dak is being victimized by circumstance.

A little here.

But you don't think Andy Dalton could win three out of five games against the NFC East?

Because if he came, was almost always got to the playoffs.

They didn't, but they didn't win in the playoffs.

Yeah, they got there almost every year.

He lost his for his career.

So we're just gonna sit up here and ignore and just ignore the fact that Ryan Clark, outside of using the word Dukie, I mean, just took away about about points outside that, that he actually mentioned First Tank and the Dallas Cowboys in the same breath.

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