Cowboys host Lions in Week 17: Is this a must-win game for Dallas? | NFL | UNDISPUTED

Skip Bayless, Richard Sherman and Keyshawn Johnson discuss the Dallas Cowboys matchup vs. Detroit Lions in Week 17. The Undisputed cast decide if Saturday’s matchup is must-win for Dallas amid their two-game losing skid.

#Undisputed #NFL #Cowboys

SUBSCRIBE to get the latest UNDISPUTED content: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeUNDISPUTED
Listen to UNDISPUTED on Spotify: https://foxs.pt/UNDISPUTEDSpotify
The all-new FOX Sports App, built for the modern sports fan: https://tinyurl.com/y4uouolb

► Watch the latest content from UNDISPUTED: https://foxs.pt/TheLatestOnUNDISPUTED

▶ First Things First’s YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeFIRSTTHINGSFIRST
▶ The Herd with Colin Cowherd’s YouTube channel: http://foxs.pt/SubscribeTHEHERD
► SPEAK’s YouTube channel: http://sprtspod.fox/SUBSCRIBEtoSpeak
► The Skip Bayless Show YouTube channel: http://sprtspod.fox/SUBSCRIBESkipShow
► What’s Wright? with Nick Wright YouTube channel: http://sprtspod.fox/whatswright/youtube
▶ The Carton Show’s YouTube channel: http://sprtspod.fox/SubscribeCartonShow

See more from UNDISPUTED: http://foxs.pt/UNDISPUTEDFoxSports
Like UNDISPUTED on Facebook: http://foxs.pt/UNDISPUTEDFacebook
Follow UNDISPUTED on Twitter: http://foxs.pt/UNDISPUTEDTwitter
Follow UNDISPUTED on Instagram: http://foxs.pt/UNDISPUTEDInstagram
Follow UNDISPUTED on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@undisputedonfs1?lang=en
Follow Skip Bayless on Twitter: http://foxs.pt/SkipBaylessTwitter

Cowboys host Lions in Week 17: Is this a must-win game for Dallas? | NFL | UNDISPUTED

Undisputed
https://www.youtube.com/c/UndisputedOnFS1

I don’t think it’s all that important maybe for for from a psychological mental standpoint that you could stop a dominant run team maybe that but it’s not going to change their seating I believe and I think Richard believes the same thing and many other people believe

They’re stuck in in in in fifth that’s where they’re going to be they’re they’re probably stuck in fifth so you you want to play the game you want to end the season on a good note you want to do all of those things it’s more important for Detroit because Detroit

Really actually has a chance to get a higher seed than where they’re at right now so I think I I personally think it means nothing to the Cowboys other than finishing on a good note walking into the playoffs feeling good knowing that you can retool your defense to stop a

Hard noosed running team that you getting ready probably one of not one of probably the best pound-for-pound running team in a National Football League right now did Buffalo do to you right you start to think about those sort of things make the corrections here’s an opportunity to do that now

Winning you always want to win there’s no question about it that’s the important thing but as far as seating goes I I don’t think it means anything you’re at home you always went at home whole what they call it uh uh home court or whatever uh serve home or

Whatever however you say that holding serve yeah holding serve yeah that’s what you need to do well okay yeah and that’s what they’ve done this so this will be um likely their last home game of the season they’ve been undefeated at home the entire time uh I mean I’m not even

Really joking I mean unless something crazy happens Arizona beats Philly or or New York beats Philly then for all intents and purposes this will be their last home game so um I guess it means something if you want to you know go undefeated at home it’s still a big game

Against a a team with a winning record so sure it’ll count for something it’ll give you confidence going into the playoffs but it definitely means more to Detroit I think it means more to the city of Detroit um what they’ve been through I mean these last two years Skip

And and key this this has been the most wins they’ve had backtack years in the history of the Detroit Lions and they’ve only had 20 wins and so this is just this is history in itself this is a franchisees fans who haven’t won a a Central Division title since 93 never

Won an NFC North division title and so to have a home field playoff game at this day and age for some of these Detroit fans that have never even seen a playoff game never even seen a playoff win it would mean a ton and so yeah this

Would mean a lot for Detroit because they still have a chance at the number one seed if they win out and and maybe San Francisco stumbled somewhere along the line they could potentially get the one seed even the two seed they’d get a home playoff game which is more than

They could say for a very long time so I think just in general in terms of Aesthetics in terms of the Feelgood story it means more to Detroit in Dallas I mean it doesn’t change anything like Kean said he said they they they’re in the same seed whether they win they lose

They they tie they’re going to be in the same spot okay so to kean’s point is there still some Longshot hope of winning the NFC East yes there is I already told you well it’s like that I already told you I still believe Philly will lose another football game not to

Arizona I just think somehow I don’t know if Tyrod is going to be starting for the Giants in that last game but but it it’ll depend on whether Philly needs to win the last game or not but if they do I still think the Giants will beat

Them at the Giants to close the season they almost got them in Philly this past Sunday or was it what day was that Monday yeah mondek okay the point is I already told you I don’t think my Dallas Cowboys can beat the Detroit Lions right now cuz I think

The lions are playing at a higher late season level than the Cowboys are I do think my team has lost some Edge some momentum some confidence some Spirit some something that winning teams have and losing teams this late in the year just don’t have

And I’m still left flat by what I saw at Miami because I didn’t love it but I couldn’t hat it what they did at Miami because they played okay they they played some solid defense they they held the Miami Dolphins in Miami to one touchdown they held him till late in the

Game to 19 points until the last walk-off field goal so you have to say Okay that that was pretty good but I never ever during that whole football game did I ever think the Cowboys are going to win it and that that’s horrifying to me this late in the year

So how much do they need to get back back on that horse and ride it well if if they go home and win a game against Detroit and they are six-point favorites which surprised me I was try I tell you guys I try to guess the spread before I

See it I thought they’d be four point to go to Six they’re saying Dallas is significantly better than Detroit and I don’t think Dallas is if I were a bet man I would bet against my team I would take the six points at home they’re a better team okay theyve been Sensational

At home they’ve won 15 straight games by lopsided scores at home they’re better team than Detroit at home but as far as what they could prove by beating Detroit toishan or Richard I think they’d prove nothing because you guys would just throw up your no that’s not true if if

Here’s what they I said to you skip yeah show me you could stop what’s been bothering you the entire year from the Arizona game show me you can stop the run okay but they did that Miami pretty well they outrushed the Miami Dolphins 97 to 91 coach pretty good different

Type of run team okay well obious but this is a more physical it is Buffalo S franisco Plus physical jir Gibbs is flat out electric and and he can catch it as well as run with it and if you look at what he’s been doing the

Last couple of weeks he is Catching Fire he is figuring it out go ahead Richard yeah but this is one of the best offensive lines in football and they’re bullets and they’re they’re mean they’re they’re you know you about uh pan soul and the rest of these boys they they get

They get after it their head coach is that kind of guy Dan Campbell B the kneecap caller guys he you Johnson oh yeah in Ben Johnson’s one yeah one of the best coordinators uh in football and he’s going to get a head coaching opportunity this next season so

He’ll draw up some cool things Aon Glenn on the other side I don’t know if they have enough defensively in the back end you know they have some guys that can play but they they just I don’t know if they have enough to stop uh what you

Guys have been able to do and what you the Rhythm that you’ve been in in the passing game and D Prescott um so I think that’s why Vegas has the six-point spread because that’s kind of the unknown your receivers CD lamb Cooks Gallop uh your your tight end uh against

This defense but offensively I think they’re going to have some success but Jared G is a wild card yeah wild card always he’s a wild card in this game always is and if you if he’s clean and they keep him clean he will he it will be surgical skip it’ll be surgical it’ll

Be a long day for this defense yeah if they get to him early and they they’re hitting him that he’s hitting the ground they’re putting pressure in his face every single play yeah he’ll start to make mistakes and that’s just been the history of jerck G so this offensive

Line versus this defensive line will really tell the story of the game early on if they keep him clean and and he can go back there and diagnose he can read defenses he can process and he can get the ball where it needs to go and they

Got weapons man cuz St Brown and it’s leapor the the rookie obviously and then he can flip it to Gibbs and he’s got Josh Reynolds and Jameson Williams hasn’t really sort of gotten his feet back under his legs back underneath him but they got weapons and I know they’re

Going to feel good about playing in this building because I remind you you can say well it was last year but but they they still got a good taste in their mouth at least for three quarters because I’m going to remind everybody the first play of the fourth quarter

Last year at Jerry World they have it first and goal at the one just like we had at first and goal one on our opening drive at Miami but this is the first play of the fourth quarter if they cash this they go up 13 to1 early in the

Fourth quarter and they know that and Jamal Williams got stripped at the goal line and lost it and all of a sudden we pounce on it and all hell broke loose on Detroit because that was their first turnover then go through an interception to Richard’s point and fumbled another

Got strip sacked on another one all a sudden the the game just blows up on Detroit and they lose 24-6 but I’m telling you it should have been 13-10 Detroit early in the third quarter so I don’t think they’ll be intimidated by you know 15 in a row at Jerry world I

Think no they’re not they’re not going to be intimidated but you are a better team at home you’re averaging 40 points unbelievable I mean it’s you know this is the best team that you will play at home this year cattle gave you a good run for the money Philadelphia whatever

That was they walked in and that was it the Rams at the time were not playing good you knocked Stafford out of the game y but this is the best team Like Richard said they’re looking they’re scoreboard watching they’re trying to see if the if the Rams could upset San

Francisco or some somehow the commanders get an onside kick and win the game that’s what they’re looking at the’re scoreboard watching because they have an opportunity to get the number one seed if they get the number one seed in Detroit that I mean like come on even

The two seed they already got a home game and because they won the they won their division so they got a home game and when you’re the two you never know what could happen to the one and you don’t know what’s going to happen when you’re the two right all a sudden you

Look up in a one oh I got HomeField Advantage as a two throughout the playoffs now so they’re going to come in there ready to play I want to see though can Michael Parsons and Lawrence and the rest of the defense stop the physicality of Dan Campbell and

Ben Johnson and what they’re going to try to unleash on play calling against you they are third in rushing behind the Ravens and the Chicago Bears led by Justin fields in his leg so you you can see they’re third in rushing they’re fifth in points scored but to Richard’s

Point they’re 24th in points allowed so they’ve been pretty shaky to B on defense so this is the game where the off you you just have to outscore them because you’re you’re going to think they can score even if you even if you outscore them and you won the game if

They rush for 190 yards I got a real problem with that I know and they well might I think they got potential I think jir Gibbs I I think he’s better than the cook kid up there in Buffalo I I I just think he’s more explosive than James

Cook was who exploded all over us at Buffalo obviously and just ran us completely because because Richard knows this as a defensive player come playoff time the teams that are portable that you go up against that can run the football those teams are dangerous all right so here’s my weird theory about

This weird Dallas Cowboy team because we’ve seen them explode before we see the Firepower we see the the positives and we see all the negatives so I don’t care whether they win this game or not in fact I don’t really want to come in here on Monday and hear you guys say

Well that’s what you always do you win at home it it’ll only validate the The Narrative of well you can’t win on the road right so if we lose at home I I’ll just I’ll just throw up my hands and say okay next because they won’t play their

Starters at Washington in the finale because they don’t need to they’re just resing up for the the first road playoff game which we it looks like at this point it would be at as I say Tampa Baker As in at Tampa Bay featuring Baker Mayfield So if that’s the case I think

We could go win that game we beat Tom Brady in that same game last year and beat them badly so if we do go win that game to me I would like Dallas’s chances of going on the road San Francisco wherever it would be in the next you know the

Next level here the problem that you have here’s the problem that you have they’ll skip with what you just said the Dallas Cowboys are not the type of team that need need to rest up okay they just not they need to win every single game they’re just not okay but you want to

Make sure you’re healthy going to Tampa but if you’re but you want to go into the playoffs with some momentum man you don’t want to lost the moment you don’t want to talking about no resting up because you will get your doors blown off all right but you already said it

Doesn’t matter whether you win this game or not right yeah but you still want to show up you don’t want I’ve been there I’ve been there with the resting up and all that looking ahead because clinched early and then we get our doors blew off in the first round which probably going

To happen to y’all anyway I don’t think it you always end up in in in a dog fight early on and you don’t you don’t have like the most veteran Championship pedigree team right now you know if you if you had a team where you’re like hey they’ve been in NFC championships

They’ve been in Super Bowls like rest them they know what to expect you got relatively young team when you come to you when it comes to your foundational pieces um you know your CD Lambs your Michael Parsons um those guys are young those guys need to play they need the

Reps they need to be out there and understand the sense of urgency out there sometimes you rest a guy like that and it gets you gets you get Lac ofical and you go into this next game and the playoffs or it’s a different kind of sense of urgency that people are like

The game’s faster I don’t know if the game’s necessarily faster it’s just everybody is serious every play matters there’s a sense of serious urgency each and every play and if you haven’t been in that environment then it kind of catches you by okay but hey we’ve been a lot of NFC

Championship games we who in the 90s right in the ’90s it’s been 30 years right okay we need to talk some Aaron Rogers because he’s at it again he fires back at his critics again and this man is a master media manipulator we debate next thanks for watching Undisputed fans

Do you want more highlights from the show make sure to click that subscribe button for all the exclusive content from Undisputed