Dallas Cowboys X-Factor:Īmari Cooper Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images However, these two individuals, one a Cowboy, one an Eagle, will have the biggest impact on Monday’s game. You can look at all three phases of both these teams and convincingly state that there is an X-Factor on all three units.
However, injuries aside, the winner of this game could make a case to be in the driver seat for the division, at least early on, which is all the more reason why the Cowboys must find a way to come out victorious on Monday. These are two teams with obvious talent but they both find themselves dealing with a wide assortment of personnel issues heading into the Monday night showdown.
Any time these teams play it always seems to be a battle, and as you look ahead to week three, there’s no reason to think we aren’t in store for more of the same. The Manningcast will return next week when the Giants travel to Arrowhead Stadium and face the Kansas City Chiefs.A hated rival on Monday night football, and the Cowboys home opener? Yeah, this one is going to be good. “I can’t reveal what’s in the sauce,” he added, but Eli mentioned that the equipment workers would rub and sand the balls while Peyton added that they’d put them in the sauna.
Later in the broadcast, after the Lynch and Brady segments ended, Peyton mentioned only Warren Moon could throw the new balls with spirals “out of the box” and how the equipment workers had a “special sauce” when it came to breaking in the new footballs. “Thank you for that tribute,” Peyton replied. When Eli asked Lynch if he “warmed up” before the Manningcast segment, Lynch replied that he had a “three-shot minimum.” One for him, one for “big bro” and one for “little bro.” Lynch’s segment, on the other hand, included an F-bomb and a reference to his pregame ritual of taking one-and-a-half shots of Hennessy. Tom Brady joined Peyton and Eli Manning’s alternate “Monday Night Football” broadcast. 20 Manningcast appearance about not watching film.
For their fourth week, Brady was one of four guests - along with Marshawn Lynch, Sue Bird and Drew Brees - and appeared on the broadcast the day after he became the first NFL player to throw for 600 touchdown passes.īrady discussed the process for retrieving that historic ball after wide receiver Mike Evans gave it to a fan during his celebration, and also addressed Rob Gronkowski’s statement from his Sept. That left them with seven games left over the season’s remaining weeks to reach the 10-game threshold outlined in their deal announced by ESPN for the 2021, 20 seasons. Their audience reportedly reached 1.89 million for that game, up from 1.86 million the previous week and they attracted 14.6% of the September game’s total audience, according to ProFootballTalk. The Manningcast returned to ESPN2 as an alternate broadcast for “Monday Night Football” for the first time since Week 3, when Peyton and Eli called the Dallas Cowboys’ win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Let me know how that conversation goes at breakfast in the morning.” Peyton Manning, who hosts the broadcast with his brother Eli, replied “I’m sure (Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety) Antoine Winfield (Jr.) really appreciates those comments, for sure. “You wonder why they play defense and after about two minutes you go, ‘Yep, they could never be an offensive player.’” “Have you ever been in some of those defensive meeting rooms?” Brady said.