RJ Choppy | Morning Host 105.3 The FAN Dallas

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Yeah, Graybar does that. We're excited to welcome RJ Choppy, who's the morning host, morning co-host, from our Dallas affiliate, 105.3, the fan getting ready, warming up those chops. RJ, what do you say about this game this morning when you first get on the air? I think it was as we expected all week. I mean, the Cowboys have been rolling at home.

They really play a different brand of football at home. The Philadelphia's been sputtering, and the Cowboys off of a little kind of a mini-buy, right? They played on a Thursday night, so they had 10 days off. The Philadelphia was off a regular rest week. This was kind of like as we expected. We thought the Cowboys, at least I thought they were going to go in and they were going to beat them up, you know, and win by double figures, cover the spread easily.

So, it wasn't all that surprising. I mean, the turnovers at Philadelphia have been a little surprising, getting all three fumbles back, but other than that, I mean, the Cowboys off is just rolling right now, and it clicks on all cylinders at home. Why? Why is it so much better at home?

Great question. They're really not good on grass, period. Like, playing on turf, the team's got a lot of speed, and that really kind of shows up. I think they've lost like 8 of their last 10 games or some number like that on grass, and that's troubling. Super Bowls generally have been played on grass lately, but not this year. I think Vegas is a turf field.

Yeah, I really don't know the answer to that. It's surprising, but like, when they play at home, their fall starts are less, obviously, which I think is normal around the league, but they just played it back to base. Has Dak Prescott changed the minds of those Cowboys fans who doubt that they can win with him now based on his performance since the Niners game? Yeah, I think you have to be a real Dak hater to not really see what's going on here.

The first several years of his career, there were two camps. You were either a Dak fan or you were a Romo fan who never could get over the fact that Dak took his job. And I'm sure there are still those that feel that way, but they've kind of gotten over him at this point. He's playing a great brand of football, and the MVP race, it's him, it's Brock Purdy, and we looked at this like an elimination game kind of thing, even though it's really not. The winner of the division is going to be in play for the MVP either way, but Dak clearly separates himself, I think, from Hertz right now based on last night's performance and the way he's played over the last five or six weeks, to where it's him, it's Purdy, and you want to throw somebody else and they're fine, but he's playing at such a high level.

It's really hard for Cowboy fans to think that if you still are a Dak hater, that you really have much leg to stand on. What difference have you seen since Mike McCarthy took over calling plays and Kellen Moore moved on to the Chargers, which I suppose is something that may not last very long given their record and their tenure, but what changed? Well, they tried to change the whole thing in the off-season. They tried to make it, you know, obviously the West Coast offense, you know, one, two, three-step ban, get it out. They just tried to get the ball out faster, even though it's not like they was holding on to the ball a lot even before. But it didn't work, you know, like they went back and they kind of changed up a lot of things after that Niners game and then after the Chargers game when they had a bye, it changed up a lot.

So it's not like, it's not a traditional West Coast offense. They're allowing Dak some more leeway to, you know, break the pocket and he really started using his legs more. And, you know, he didn't necessarily use his legs last night, but he's been able to get out of the pocket, throw in the run, you know, break the typical three steps on a West Coast offense that you would get. And, you know, Yosidi Lamb also, his emergence has been tremendous. Brandon Cook's emergence and really Ferguson, the tight end, who is a younger player, but man, he has really turned into a real big weapon for Dak.

R.J. Choppy is with us getting set for his morning show. It starts at 5.30 Central Time on our Dallas affiliate, 105.3 The Fan.

It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. So I don't suppose Kellen Moore would be headed back to Dallas if he doesn't keep his job there in LA. But are you surprised, just out of curiosity, with how bad the Chargers offense has been this season? Nothing surprises me with the Chargers.

Literally nothing surprises me. We think they have a great quarterback and the great quarterbacks don't put up the numbers that they put up. We think they have a great offense coordinator. It's not working.

It's not working there. Their head coach is, I mean, he is what he is. I kind of like some of the things he does, but they're completely dysfunctional. Nothing surprises me with LA.

They played 16 road home games or whatever. It's crazy what goes on over there. Alright, so how about this for a surprise. How often does Jerry Jones surprise you on his weekly interview? Every week. Every week.

It doesn't matter if it's some old saying from the 1930s or 40s or whatever. Or if it's just something that he says, it's like, what? He surprises us every week. It never fails. So then when he said on Sunday night that this was the biggest win in Mike McCarthy's four seasons as coach, do you agree with that?

Are you on board with that? Oh, I mean, it's hard to beat a playoff win. Tom Brady in a playoff game is kind of hard to beat.

Even though that wasn't vintage Brady or anything. Yeah, I would probably say no. I think the playoff win might be a little bit bigger than this, but this puts them in a position to get what they have to have. This team can't win three road games, I don't think, in a postseason. Especially if they have to go to Philadelphia and to San Francisco.

Again, there's that natural grass theory where they haven't played well in grass. I think that's too much to ask. So from that standpoint, the future of this might be a bigger win, but it's hard to say that any win is bigger than a playoff win that's in the regular season. Alright, so let's talk about the 28-year-old rookie kicker who's actually a Dallas product. I didn't realize that he grew up in the Dallas area. How much is this legend of Brennan Aubrey growing over these first few months? He is, we call him Aubramatic.

I like it. Yeah, he's tremendous. Because going into the season, we had never heard of this guy. In camp they had him, they had a couple of other guys that were kind of competing for that job. Man, I don't know if it's something out there with the wind and Oxnard, the ball didn't travel well, but we were like, God, these guys can't make anything from like 45 yards.

They can't make anything. And next thing you know, you get in the regular season, this dude's like touting 60-yarders and 50-something-yarders and right down the middle. He's been phenomenal.

There's no other word to use other than that. This guy is like, he's automatic right now. And I had no idea that this had never happened before. So I know he's made more kicks in a row, more consecutive kicks to start a career than any other. But I had no idea that there was never been a kicker in NFL history with two field goals of at least 59 yards in the same game. I mean, I suppose you could guess that, but he's the first to do that.

This Aubramatic kicker from Dallas, who's a rookie, first guy ever to do that is pretty incredible. I didn't know that either. That's wild. I mean, you would think that somebody would have had it in Denver at some point by now, just the high altitude. I had no idea that was a thing until last night.

That's pretty cool. He said he's done nothing but make kicks this year. It's refreshing to have a guy that you don't worry about when they kick. We haven't had much. I mean, last year with Brett Maher, the playoff game, missing four extra points. It was a bad end to the season and this is completely different.

So just about 45 seconds here, RJ, before I let you go. Other than grass, since you already mentioned that, what's the Achilles heel for these Dallas Cowboys? What's the biggest threat to them? The Niners in general. They're the boogeyman. The Niners in general are. The matchups are terrible. From a coaching standpoint, like Shanahan has really kind of separated himself. Purdy is just so smart.

He doesn't make mistakes. They're a monster to have to deal with. The Cowboys want no part of them.

Just get them on the other side of the bracket and hope somebody ticks them off. All right. Good stuff in Dallas, though, on this Monday morning. RJ Choppy is on Twitter at RJ Choppy. Get ready to do his show in just about 40 minutes or so. Sean and RJ from 5.30 to 10 central time on our Dallas affiliate.

One of five three, the fan. They always have Jerry Jones on Tuesday mornings, right? Tuesday morning at 8.30. All right.

Prepare to be surprised yet again. Thank you, RJ. I appreciate a couple of minutes. Thank you. I'm Snoop Dogg and I'm giving up smoke.

I know what you're thinking. Snoop, smoke is kind of your whole thing, but I'm done with it. I'm done with the coffin and my clothes smelling all funky. I'm going smokeless. Solo Stove Fix 5. They took out the smoke. Now you can have a nice blaze without any clouds ruining your day. Go smokeless. Go to solostove.com.

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