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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, September fifth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number thirty four. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys, you join us. We got a
Speaker 1: great show lined up for you guys today. And just
Speaker 1: before we went on the air, there seems to be
Speaker 1: a little bit of news. It's breaking out there in
Speaker 1: the world of Earl Thomas. Dave, why don't you catch
Speaker 1: us up on what you're hearing now from Twitter? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like six months worth of the news cycle just happened
Speaker 1: in about twenty five minutes. It sounds like, um, I mean,
Speaker 1: according to social media, Earl Thomas is reporting to the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks under protest. It sounds like if you follow
Speaker 1: them on it. But Brian brought us had this thing
Speaker 1: nailed from the jump. I mean you I think Derek
Speaker 1: you said that too, to be fair, but you're asking
Speaker 1: a lot of a guy to pass up nine hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a week in game checks, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like that's something Earl wants to do. I haven't
Speaker 1: had time to verify any of this for myself, so
Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt. But the word
Speaker 1: on social media coming from you know, guys like Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter and Ian Rappaport, and again, you know, to go
Speaker 1: back to that point, these are these are the guys
Speaker 1: who talk a lot to agents, So it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: where they get that information from and how quickly they
Speaker 1: get it. But it sounds like the Cowboys made a
Speaker 1: concerted effort to get that deal done, like a lot
Speaker 1: of people speculated they might based on their reports. Yeah
Speaker 1: uh off, you know, up in their offer potentially to
Speaker 1: a second round pick, and the Seahawks said, nope, we
Speaker 1: like girl, we think he's great. He's kind of a
Speaker 1: key part of our defense, and we trust that he's
Speaker 1: going to report. And this is ridiculous, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: Why if you're Seattle, I mean, you would take that
Speaker 1: I would. I would take that deal, especially you have
Speaker 1: a guy that does not want to be there really
Speaker 1: because and you're not willing to give him what he
Speaker 1: wants money wise, and next year you're not going to
Speaker 1: have him, so why not go for a second round pick. Well,
Speaker 1: Dave made a great point before we went on the air.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it from a stampont
Speaker 1: of the contemptative that compensatory picks, they may be thinking
Speaker 1: about it as Hey, if he leaves next year, which
Speaker 1: we probably they probably feel like he's probably going to leave.
Speaker 1: The only way they keep him from leaving gets is
Speaker 1: if they franchise him. But if they let him leave
Speaker 1: and he goes and signed somewhere else, it's probably a
Speaker 1: pretty sizeable chance they're going to get a third round
Speaker 1: compensatory pick. So difference between a second and third plus
Speaker 1: you get him this year, maybe that's worth it to them.
Speaker 1: I'm a big believe kind of what you're saying from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of disgruntled players. I don't like having disgruntled
Speaker 1: players in my locker room, especially when I got a
Speaker 1: lot of young, impressionable guys around. I think it creates
Speaker 1: bad culture. But that's just my opinion. But then again,
Speaker 1: if Earl's a stand up guy, you trust that he
Speaker 1: won't poison your your locker room. I and further reck,
Speaker 1: I'm not I hear where y'all are saying. I'm not
Speaker 1: willing to say, like Earl Thomas, there's no chance he'll
Speaker 1: resign in Seattle, Like I mean, they can sit down
Speaker 1: like adults and have a contract negotiation once the season
Speaker 1: is over. And if you think if they're not willing
Speaker 1: to pay him now, they're gonna be willing to pay
Speaker 1: him with one more year on what did you say?
Speaker 1: He posts it on Instagram disrespect. It's real and it's
Speaker 1: threal and it hasn't been forgotten. But you can you
Speaker 1: can price saying going to go down, So time and
Speaker 1: money can heal wounds. I'm just saying money can. But
Speaker 1: that's my point. But you're talking, you're talking about it.
Speaker 1: You'll be having a completely different conversation after this season
Speaker 1: because he'll have to play games and put on put
Speaker 1: out tape if he dips, and Seattle's like, look, see,
Speaker 1: this is what we were talking about. He might swallow
Speaker 1: his pride depends on his market point. You can't say
Speaker 1: right now that he won't play for the Seahawks next year.
Speaker 1: You just can't. That's all I'm saying. I would bet,
Speaker 1: I would bet he's not going to be in Seattle
Speaker 1: next year. Pointing to go back to the original point,
Speaker 1: they are now going to get sixteen games out of him.
Speaker 1: This is a team that has lost a lot of
Speaker 1: talent over the last two years, and leadership Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: gives you an elite player on the back end to
Speaker 1: pair with Bobby Wagner and probably in their eyes, keeps
Speaker 1: their chances of having a playoff run afloat. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got Russell Wilson, Doug Baldwin, Bobby Wagner, Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: and not a whole lot else So and yeah, if
Speaker 1: he signed somewhere else, you'll get a comp pick out
Speaker 1: of it. So I get it. Yeah, maybe now saying
Speaker 1: talking a lot about this over the Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they don't want Dallas a second round pick? How about that?
Speaker 1: How about they Well they'll take Raiders second round pick,
Speaker 1: They'll take AFC second round pick. Why do they want
Speaker 1: to give the cowboy? He's the player that's gonna probably
Speaker 1: help him beat him in three weeks and you know
Speaker 1: that the team that you're gonna be, you know, fighting
Speaker 1: against in the NFC. Maybe they don't want Dallas' second
Speaker 1: round pick, they don't want to take put him in
Speaker 1: the NFC and have to face him right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I bet you if an AFC team jumped up and
Speaker 1: did that, then they might they might reconsider it. You know,
Speaker 1: that game is sitting there in three weeks. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna, you know, help them, help the
Speaker 1: Cowboys beat him if they played him. Maybe that second
Speaker 1: round offer sits there until the Monday after that game,
Speaker 1: and then they're willing to do it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I just think we're forgetting the part that
Speaker 1: maybe they don't want Dallas's offer, especially if the guy
Speaker 1: ran off to Jason Garrett like that, I'd be like
Speaker 1: that sting last team, I'm gonna trade him too. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no way of knowing that. I get a good point.
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing in all that that was being
Speaker 1: reported and all this is off reports, is the fact
Speaker 1: that you that you said that Seattle is willing to
Speaker 1: wipe out all those fines or not for missing all
Speaker 1: of the preseason. All that to me is big because
Speaker 1: that's some kind of agreement of like, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna be here here, we'll do this. You come in
Speaker 1: here and play. All's forgiven for now, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's pretty standard in situations like this
Speaker 1: is like, hey, obviously this is kind of a messed
Speaker 1: up situation and we're not all super thrilled thrilled with
Speaker 1: each other, but let's for you know, you come in
Speaker 1: and get to work, and we'll forgive these fines and
Speaker 1: we don't have to just completely despise each other for
Speaker 1: the next twenty weeks. You know. Great. I think Earl
Speaker 1: will be a lot happier about being in that building,
Speaker 1: knowing that he didn't lose five million dollars this offseason.
Speaker 1: It'd be great in Seattle after the Cowboys in Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks play. If he comes right back over to the
Speaker 1: locker room and say, man, come get me. I say,
Speaker 1: come get me. How does that play for a second time?
Speaker 1: Glieberg gives out the charter and it just says like
Speaker 1: Thomas and parents, He's like, return, who's sitting in twenty
Speaker 1: nine A. There's no way too there's no way to
Speaker 1: know for sure, So I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go off half cocked, but if the reports
Speaker 1: are true that you know, within the last couple of
Speaker 1: days they up their offer, just do it forever ago?
Speaker 1: Why did it? Why did it suddenly matter now? You know,
Speaker 1: because you got to the season and you're them having
Speaker 1: the upper hand, and then the cow is being kind
Speaker 1: of stubborn and be like, Okay, I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: down to what you have. If this is if this
Speaker 1: is the way it really played out, it's it sounds
Speaker 1: very stubborn and arrogant on the Cowboys part. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: is just just do what you need to do to
Speaker 1: get the player that you want, that apparently wants to
Speaker 1: be here. Make it happen, make your team better. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I even said this, I feel I don't know
Speaker 1: that they would have agreed to a trade without a
Speaker 1: new deal. I'd give up a two for Earl without
Speaker 1: a deal, and if he leaves next year in free agency,
Speaker 1: then you get the comp pick. So you get a
Speaker 1: second round pick for an all pro caliber player for
Speaker 1: one year, and then even if he gets away in
Speaker 1: free agency, you're going to get a decent draft pick
Speaker 1: in return. I'll do that all day like, let's stop acting.
Speaker 1: And we talked about this yesterday. Let's draft picks are
Speaker 1: the most valuable thing in the world, as this abstract idea,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as you make them, they're not
Speaker 1: that valuable because half of them don't pan out. Like
Speaker 1: how many second round picks have just been total flops?
Speaker 1: And here's Jaz Green was a third round pick. You
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to get him out of here. What I
Speaker 1: don't understand and this was this morning. I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: this of like why the Cowboys wouldn't do a second
Speaker 1: round pick, and then eventually I guess they have or
Speaker 1: that they made the offer, But like this, that round
Speaker 1: has been around that They've taken chances on people all
Speaker 1: the time. Bruce Carter, broken leg, bring them up. You know, oh,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith may never play against second round Brandy Gregory's
Speaker 1: fallen because he can't pass it as a second round.
Speaker 1: So they're taking risks all the time when it's an
Speaker 1: abstract concept of like that could be that could be
Speaker 1: the next Sean Lee, though you know Sean leaves another one,
Speaker 1: but it'll probably be. It'll probably be the next Gavin Escobar.
Speaker 1: Like that's the law of averages and that's not that's
Speaker 1: not me taking a shot at the Cowboys. That is
Speaker 1: the nature of the draft, like every I mean, for
Speaker 1: every hit, you're gonna have him, seems like especially in
Speaker 1: the second round, because that's where teams with the philosophy
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, that's where they will take a little
Speaker 1: bit of risk on upside of a guy knowing that
Speaker 1: he has specific warts that could backfire on you. Like
Speaker 1: that's their strategy in the second round always has. They're
Speaker 1: looking for a first round talent that has a reason
Speaker 1: why he's in the second Why is this big offensive
Speaker 1: tackle from Michigan State falling well because he's deaf in
Speaker 1: his in his left ear right, M. Well, let's put
Speaker 1: him or in his ride or whatever. Lets put him
Speaker 1: at left tackle and he'll be really good. And he
Speaker 1: is and flows out. Adams was good, same thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: Andre Gerard, Antonio, Bryant. They all are first round guys
Speaker 1: that slipped. Jason Witten was actually a guy that slipped,
Speaker 1: and he slipped all the way to the third But
Speaker 1: it happens all the time. You're taking risk for that,
Speaker 1: you know, just don't take the risk and take the
Speaker 1: risk on a six time problem. But I do want
Speaker 1: to go back and address something you said, Dave about
Speaker 1: the about the pick and in them maybe if the
Speaker 1: reports are accurate that they ate this offer, up their offer.
Speaker 1: I want to be very careful because we don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, this could have been something where they up
Speaker 1: there off for a while back and it's just coming
Speaker 1: out now. Because here's the thing to remember it does
Speaker 1: it seems like a real It seems like more than
Speaker 1: just a coincidence that this is all getting reported as
Speaker 1: kind of cowboys up their offer, Seattle declined, and today
Speaker 1: is a day that Earl says, all right, I'm showing
Speaker 1: up right. That all seems like a justicer. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like just a coincidence to me. It seems like
Speaker 1: maybe this has been conversations that have been going on
Speaker 1: all along. I don't know. I can't verify that. We
Speaker 1: can obviously ask some questions, but the point is it
Speaker 1: seems like this may have been going on for a
Speaker 1: while and maybe everything came to a head today and
Speaker 1: it was a final absolutely not and Earl said, I'm
Speaker 1: not getting traded, and so I might as well show
Speaker 1: up and make my money for this year. Knowing that noted, guys,
Speaker 1: you didn't give me what I wanted. So when the
Speaker 1: season's done, I'm will be a free agent. I can
Speaker 1: go do whatever I wanted. Yea, I will say, And
Speaker 1: I mean Ian Rappaport is certainly not an infallible source.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's not, but he said that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys up their offer to a second round pick in
Speaker 1: recent days, and again going back to that, so much
Speaker 1: of what comes out of those national outlets is coming
Speaker 1: from league office and agents and things like that, it
Speaker 1: sounds plausible to me that the Cowboys made their push,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks turned it down. Obviously, one or both teams
Speaker 1: would probably be in communication with Earl's people about what
Speaker 1: was going on. Earl found out they made, they made
Speaker 1: the final push that they were willing to and couldn't
Speaker 1: get it done, and then screw it. I'm gonna go play,
Speaker 1: not missing eight hundred thousand dollars for this. And he
Speaker 1: never was, I mean, he never was going to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, there's only a handful of
Speaker 1: players in like twenty years that have ever really done that.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard, but again, all this stuff is based
Speaker 1: upon reports. You're right, and it's hard to know exactly
Speaker 1: what happened. The only thing that we know at this
Speaker 1: point for sure is that Earl Thomas's reporting the Seattle
Speaker 1: and presumably is going to play for the Seattle Seawks
Speaker 1: this year, and so the Cowboys have to think about
Speaker 1: it from this standpoint. They really want his services next
Speaker 1: year in free agency. Have your money, right, I've said
Speaker 1: all along, I think he was gonna come here. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look at as good right now. It's still not done,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get He's gonna get traded. I promise
Speaker 1: you he'll get traded. For years. You said, right, He's
Speaker 1: gonna get traded by somebody. Call. He gives a secret
Speaker 1: call over here to Dallas and say, hey, just so
Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm still at high level, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be us this game, just them. I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: on purpose. Call that tampering of secret. Terence Williams just
Speaker 1: blows by him in the game, like what's going on here?
Speaker 1: It was on purpose. I don't think you want that
Speaker 1: guy though. Honestly, I know you're joking, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I don't think you want that player. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to God no matter what's going to play
Speaker 1: us hardest. All right, we're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Let's talk some cowboys Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: dave as a scatter report for us on their offense.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that conversation when we get right back
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Speaker 1: we're talking Cowboys and football. Today we get to talk
Speaker 1: about another opponent. Cowboys are playing the Carolina Panthers this
Speaker 1: Sunday in Carolina will be Game one. We can just
Speaker 1: say something real quick. So you weren't so confident with
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Gabe phrase here and the guys that
Speaker 1: you had, That's all I had to say. He just
Speaker 1: had to get that out. Oh my Oh, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd say, I'm glad we're all on the same page. Yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the petty I do I do? Did anybody?
Speaker 1: Did anybody on this panel believe that they were okay
Speaker 1: with that? If they can get all top talking about you,
Speaker 1: that's also the point too, right They may convince themselves
Speaker 1: that they're okay with that, but they never going to
Speaker 1: convince themselves they're okay with that if they can get
Speaker 1: ear Old Thomas, because Earl Thomas is a whole different
Speaker 1: level of player. Right, They're still in there right now,
Speaker 1: like we're all right, all right, until they get into
Speaker 1: a game and realize that they're not all right. But
Speaker 1: that's what happens every year. Every team has areas that
Speaker 1: they know in their heart is a problem, and it's
Speaker 1: until it actually shows up on the field that they're
Speaker 1: willing to admit to themselves this is a problem. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but especially publicly not Every team knows in their heart
Speaker 1: that they have a problem, but doesn't do stuff to
Speaker 1: address it, right, which I mean, okay, Basically you want
Speaker 1: to use an analogy like you were going for a
Speaker 1: home run or you're going to strike out, Like why
Speaker 1: not try like how about a single? How about you
Speaker 1: line out, you know, hustle out a infield single or
Speaker 1: try I mean for the millionth time, ty Trey Boston
Speaker 1: and Kenny Vacaro were out there to be had at
Speaker 1: a discount for forever. But maybe they didn't like those
Speaker 1: players something I mean, well again, no, I know they
Speaker 1: didn't fit the scheme. They're not there, They're not that good. Well,
Speaker 1: they're better than nobody, which is what They're better than Gempie,
Speaker 1: Cavan Frasier and not playing Xavier Woods, I think, And
Speaker 1: and a guy who's been here for three days and
Speaker 1: a rookie, I would have just go get Georgia Loca
Speaker 1: when he became was a to meet. That was a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to get a guy for a one year deal.
Speaker 1: And he's just here, he's he's veteran presence. You put
Speaker 1: him back there and to see what happens. Options, options
Speaker 1: just kept falling in your lap, and I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll work out. I maybe it will, Ambert. I hope.
Speaker 1: So we will be happy to eat crow together if
Speaker 1: it does well. I will say this though, this weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't think safety will kill you this weekend. I
Speaker 1: think that playing the team like this, that is a
Speaker 1: team that is predicated on the run, that does it
Speaker 1: very well, and that passes as they need to is
Speaker 1: a week Did you feel a little less exposed with
Speaker 1: what you have at say, Dave, I'm sorry, Nichol. Now
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about the scattering report. But this whole
Speaker 1: they the running back is a you know, he catches
Speaker 1: the ball and he absolutely does, and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: doing it in a spot where the safety needs to
Speaker 1: be paying attention at him. So I'm I think this
Speaker 1: could be a little bit. I mean, he catches a
Speaker 1: lot of balls. All right, let's get the scattering report day. Well,
Speaker 1: I learned a couple things doing this one, which I
Speaker 1: don't remember how I did this last year for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just easier when you play a division opponent,
Speaker 1: But like trying to piece together what a team's gonna
Speaker 1: look like based on what they do in the preseason nightmare,
Speaker 1: it's better to look at last year on top of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the piece has changed so much. I get it.
Speaker 1: But it's to me that's still a better indication than
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get the preseason. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna go watch tape of the Cowboys Seattle
Speaker 1: game and try to tell me that that's what the
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, that's what the Cowboys office is gonna
Speaker 1: look like, Daz Witton Rod. Let's be honest, though, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are way more turnover of front line players than
Speaker 1: most teams in this offseason. Umither that's that's not what
Speaker 1: I did. I watched the preseason. Which the other thing
Speaker 1: is I love NFL game Pass. I can't recommend it
Speaker 1: enough to anybody get But they don't offer coach's film
Speaker 1: of the preseason. Yeah, and they don't maybe well for
Speaker 1: me because for you don't try to tell me that
Speaker 1: you know what's going on on a football field if
Speaker 1: you're not watching that basically, because it's like watching another sport,
Speaker 1: like you can't see anything. It's I felt very hamstrung.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Um, for me, the main thing right now
Speaker 1: is let's get it right out of the way. Is
Speaker 1: like they're banged up, like I don't. Their left tackle
Speaker 1: situation is a mess. Their right tackle situation might be
Speaker 1: a problem. Mccalil is on Irum's Yeah, I mean he not.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been great, but he would. He would be
Speaker 1: their day one left tackle. He is on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: but he's a he's a veteran presence for that line. Yes,
Speaker 1: their right tackle, Darryl Williams, he's practicing and doing things
Speaker 1: right now, but he had a pretty major knee injury
Speaker 1: in July. And I actually I asked Ron Rivera about
Speaker 1: it an hour ago and trying to read between the lines, like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound super certain that he's going to be
Speaker 1: available either, So the tackle situation is a mess, they claimed.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. They claimed Corey Robinson off the Lions. He
Speaker 1: would probably be your swing, but he might have to start.
Speaker 1: And then they got a second round player by the
Speaker 1: name of Taylor Moten, second round pick who's probably gonna
Speaker 1: start at left tackle. Um, Ameni Salatzalu is their left guard?
Speaker 1: What was that? Ameni Salatalululo, Sillatulo. I'm sorry, thank you?
Speaker 1: The only one we got? Oh? Is that Midwest? We got?
Speaker 1: No Joe got the Midwest? Excuse me? I was gonna
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I don't remember him from the
Speaker 1: draft show, which I typically do, but Midwestern State. I'm
Speaker 1: not watching the tape of them. I'm sorry. Um, that
Speaker 1: was a few years ago, though, was it? Okay? This
Speaker 1: is like his fifth year, he still that's around, he
Speaker 1: should be starting by now. He's dealing with a well
Speaker 1: he probably might be. He's dealing with a knee though,
Speaker 1: and he might be out too. So No, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is you're you're pretty right, Derek, which is
Speaker 1: this team the Cowboys have a chance to mask their
Speaker 1: safety issues in the sense that hopefully this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a long day for Cam Newton because to Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence and Randy Gregory, I have to be really excited
Speaker 1: about those options. Curtis Samuel is also out. He had
Speaker 1: a procedure for a irregular heartbeat this week, which sounds
Speaker 1: terrifying to me. But everybody keeps saying he's not gonna
Speaker 1: miss that much time. But he is gonna miss um.
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss this game. So that's that's a nice
Speaker 1: little break for the Cowboys getting to who's actually here.
Speaker 1: This offense is fascinating to me because I think it's like,
Speaker 1: it's what offense is going to look like in the
Speaker 1: NFL and as trends continue in football. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: it's what I would like the Cowboys to look like.
Speaker 1: Because you've got a mobile quarterback who can do a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. You've got a wide receiver who
Speaker 1: can do everything. Christian McCaffrey. I know he gets the
Speaker 1: scatback label put on him, but they run this dude
Speaker 1: between the tackles plenty this year. He's gonna be the guy.
Speaker 1: He had twenty one carries in the in preseason over
Speaker 1: three games, so I mean that's a pretty good workload.
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty one yards, two touchdowns, six catches
Speaker 1: on nine targets for seventy three yards. So he's that guy.
Speaker 1: And C. J. Anderson's there. But Christian McCaffrey, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: said you got him in fantasy right now. I actually
Speaker 1: didn't think loved it. That was probably a really good call.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is they got these tight ends.
Speaker 1: Greg Olson you obviously know, but Ian Thomas is another one.
Speaker 1: He's a rookie that we really liked on the Draft show.
Speaker 1: He's a third round pick. This is that Jimmy Graham
Speaker 1: stuff where like, you know, this ain't Cowboys tight endplay.
Speaker 1: These guys are lining up off the line both sides,
Speaker 1: and they're basically big wide receivers. Um. And then you
Speaker 1: got Devin. You got Devin Funcius who's basically a small
Speaker 1: tight end too, So like there's a lot of size
Speaker 1: and a lot of athleticism here. Um, Tory Smith is
Speaker 1: is your speed guy. He was with Philly last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then obviously you drafted Dj Moore, who like him,
Speaker 1: I did. I really I did. Like DJ Moore, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's I mean he's not he's not like the burner
Speaker 1: of all burners, but he's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: do everything guy. He's definitely got some speed. And then
Speaker 1: Nick's guy, Jarius Wright is in from Minnesota, which he's
Speaker 1: pretty speedy too, so obviously, I mean, Devin Funcius is
Speaker 1: an outside receiver. He's a he's a Dez Bryant type
Speaker 1: of guy, which, yeah, I mean you see in the
Speaker 1: preseason the way that he can box people out and
Speaker 1: just go get those contested balls. That's going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting thing to watch. And then right and more
Speaker 1: or more of your traditional they can move inside and outside,
Speaker 1: and then Tory Smith I would say mainly outside going downfield.
Speaker 1: This is fascinating for me from the Cowboys perspective because again,
Speaker 1: you've got two tight ends who kind of function like
Speaker 1: wide receivers and a wide receiver who kind of functions
Speaker 1: like a tight end. What do you do with those guys?
Speaker 1: And Byron Jones we haven't seen him doing that type
Speaker 1: of stuff this year. That's typically what I would say
Speaker 1: is like, well, put Byron on the big guy, but
Speaker 1: can you do that now with him playing outside? Do
Speaker 1: you put him on Devin Funchis do you worry about that? So?
Speaker 1: And and then you got your slot guys. So what
Speaker 1: I come back to is this is going to be
Speaker 1: a really interesting challenge for these linebackers. Like we've been
Speaker 1: talking all night or all preseason about Jalen Smith and
Speaker 1: he's been he's had so much success going downfield. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be able to do that against Greg Olsen
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas potentially funcis depending on the formation. So a
Speaker 1: lot of athleticism here. I'm curious to see how it
Speaker 1: shakes out. Yeah, And you know that's that's actually an
Speaker 1: interesting point because going back to what I said first
Speaker 1: and what Nick said about it, when you start talking
Speaker 1: about a team that is heavy on tight ends and
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey being a guy that runs out of
Speaker 1: the backfield, it catches out of the backfield. That now
Speaker 1: puts a lot of extra press pressure on your linebackers
Speaker 1: and on your safeties. Do they have enough bodies? Do
Speaker 1: they have the right bodies to be able to cover
Speaker 1: those guys? Knowing that again, you have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: you might want to spy, which would take another linebacker
Speaker 1: kind of out of the mix there, right, And so
Speaker 1: you look at all that that could be and when
Speaker 1: you start talking about how you deploy all this that
Speaker 1: could be. The part that really hurts you is that
Speaker 1: they have linebacker. I mean, they have tight ends and
Speaker 1: they have running backs that really are probably even better
Speaker 1: than their weapons at wide receiver because that offensive line
Speaker 1: still an issue. Yeah, but that could be a challenge
Speaker 1: with him right, No, absolutely, And that's so again I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys best best shot in this matchup is
Speaker 1: I think your defensive line has the potential to wreck
Speaker 1: the game. I forgot to mention my guy, Trey Turner
Speaker 1: from LSHO. He's a he's a beast, he's a stud,
Speaker 1: he's a position sorry guard right guard. He I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not quite on the Zach Martin level, but he's
Speaker 1: certainly in the upper eche line. But like it's him
Speaker 1: and not a lot else that we know of. And
Speaker 1: even if Darryl Williams and some of these other guys
Speaker 1: can get into the game, they're probably not going to
Speaker 1: be at one hundred percent. So wreck that offensive line
Speaker 1: and I hope that it affects the rest of the
Speaker 1: game plan. I feel like last year when they played Washington.
Speaker 1: The Redskins had a situation like this where it was
Speaker 1: just all kinds of problems on their old line and
Speaker 1: it was a close game, you know, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't really pull away, but they did win. They dominated
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, so you know, Washington did a
Speaker 1: nice job of patching it together. There was a game
Speaker 1: in San Diego a few years back where the Chargers
Speaker 1: at the same thing. I mean, they had no offensive
Speaker 1: linemen and I think Rivers went for four hundred, so
Speaker 1: they yeah, for sure. Now, the Cowboys d line was
Speaker 1: like that was the year where anybody that's ever played
Speaker 1: it just comes off the street. And they brought in
Speaker 1: about fifteen guys that year, so then they didn't have
Speaker 1: what the dep they have now. But I'm just saying
Speaker 1: teams seemed to figure it out, you know, they seemed
Speaker 1: to kind of patch it together. And it's not you know,
Speaker 1: it's not just gonna be just just you know, no, no,
Speaker 1: of course not. I just I think that is one
Speaker 1: spot where it just looks like a unique matchup win
Speaker 1: at least on paper. And I would love to say
Speaker 1: the linebackers too, But I got to see him do
Speaker 1: it in a game. Again, that's what the potential is there.
Speaker 1: And if they look like they did in the preseason.
Speaker 1: But the Panthers are just so like they're such a
Speaker 1: hybrid again, like you got a lot of size, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of speed. You got a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can run better than anybody. He's not the best passer,
Speaker 1: but he can do that too. You gotta receive a
Speaker 1: running back who's a receiver, tight ends who look like
Speaker 1: big receivers, receivers who look like tight end. Like they
Speaker 1: can do a little bit of everything. And that's it
Speaker 1: makes it fun to watch just as a football fan,
Speaker 1: because they can do shotgun pistol option type stuff just
Speaker 1: as easily as they can do your tradition traditional you know,
Speaker 1: pro style sets. So it makes it hard to know
Speaker 1: what to expect. And I'm I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fascinating to see how the Cowboys defense matches up with it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll take some calls eight to eight, eight, five, five,
Speaker 1: two two nine seven. Also, I'll ask the question, who's
Speaker 1: the biggest threat to the Cowboys this week? From the
Speaker 1: standpoint the Panther's offense was zat Cam Newton, Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: or Greg Olson. We'll do that one. Come right back.
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Speaker 1: so let's get back into this. Here's the question I
Speaker 1: have for you guys. Who is the biggest threat to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys When you talk about the Panthers offense, would
Speaker 1: it be Cam Newton, Christian McCaffrey, Greg Olson. I want
Speaker 1: you guys think of it from a standpoint of how
Speaker 1: you match up against them to in order to neutralize them.
Speaker 1: Which of those three do you think is the biggest
Speaker 1: threat for the Cowboys? I think it's McCaffrey just because
Speaker 1: you know, you've got big linebackers that can run and
Speaker 1: then you hope that they can tackle, so you know
Speaker 1: that that's where you know Newton is gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: hurt you. But I think McCaffrey is just a unique player.
Speaker 1: I mean it's rare that a running back and get
Speaker 1: eighty catches like that. He did it in his first year,
Speaker 1: So he's just gonna you look at those numbers in
Speaker 1: the preseason that you know the average is up there,
Speaker 1: there's big play potential. I think it's gonna affect the
Speaker 1: safety's linebackers. I think he's the guy that they really
Speaker 1: need to focus on. This is a cop out, but
Speaker 1: I just think it's the duo of Cam and McCaffrey, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you handle it? Ding it? Like what I
Speaker 1: should have gone next? I'm sorry because that's what I
Speaker 1: was gonna say say it then. Now I was gonna
Speaker 1: say that because after listening to all the guys that
Speaker 1: are kind of banged up on their line, it just
Speaker 1: you would imagine, and you know of Cam being big
Speaker 1: on running. You know, he's a big runner, and I
Speaker 1: think it would be a combination of him either handing
Speaker 1: off the ball or him running the ball himself, because again,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be battling with that time
Speaker 1: of trying to get the ball out, and the quickest
Speaker 1: thing would be to just go for the run rather
Speaker 1: than have enough time to pass or try to throw
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. And obviously the Cowboys defensive
Speaker 1: line I consider them really good, so I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna have trouble there. And the biggest key point for
Speaker 1: the for the Panthers would be the running game or
Speaker 1: just trying to run it somehow a little by little,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I just said in the last
Speaker 1: segment that McCaffrey's gonna be a workhorse. He's going to
Speaker 1: carry it between the tackles. But I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: him dominating the game in that regard, like the way
Speaker 1: that Ezekiel Elliott can. I think between your defensive line
Speaker 1: and your linebackers. You can limit that, but just the
Speaker 1: different ways you can use both of these guys, I
Speaker 1: would have to guess they're going to do some read option.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey's going to be just a constant safety net who
Speaker 1: they will scheme ways for him to be within five
Speaker 1: yards of the line of scrimmage. Cam is going to
Speaker 1: break some plays. Not only if he breaks some plays
Speaker 1: and run him on his own, but he can break
Speaker 1: a play and then dump it off to the easiest
Speaker 1: throw where all I mean it looks like a throwaway
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, McCaffrey gets eight yards. Which
Speaker 1: is why I say both of them combine because they
Speaker 1: both have the potential to Obviously they have the potential
Speaker 1: to hurt you, but they both have the potential to
Speaker 1: make something out of nothing, like whether it's McCaffrey taking
Speaker 1: a short throw for long yardage or Cam turning a
Speaker 1: sack into a scramble. I just think keeping both of
Speaker 1: them under wraps is gonna be whether or not you
Speaker 1: stop this offense. Carolina has always used two backs, um
Speaker 1: you know they've They've always done a good job of having,
Speaker 1: you know, multiple runners, So I think c j Anderson's
Speaker 1: gonna play a factor here. And I think it was
Speaker 1: just a year ago. He had a really big game
Speaker 1: almost to the day, you know, a big game in Denver.
Speaker 1: I mean they couldn't stop Well I'm just saying, I
Speaker 1: mean he had he hadn't lost it, you know. So
Speaker 1: they've done a nice job, and it maybe it starts
Speaker 1: with Cam, you know, with with Jonathan Stewart that was
Speaker 1: there for so long, and they had the Angel Williams
Speaker 1: and they've had two different backs. So I could see
Speaker 1: where Anderson's gonna play a role into running some in
Speaker 1: between the tackles too. Do you think that, and I
Speaker 1: know we talked about the offensive line challenges that they
Speaker 1: have right now because of injuries. Do you think that
Speaker 1: because Cam is a mobile quarterback, it to some degree
Speaker 1: can neutralize the pass rush because now the guys have
Speaker 1: to be very discipline and how they rushed the passage.
Speaker 1: They just can't pin their ears back and go because
Speaker 1: you leave a scene and Cam Newton gets through it.
Speaker 1: He's now out in open space and it's hard to
Speaker 1: take him down with one guy because he's so big.
Speaker 1: Huge game for the tackles. You know, if if if
Speaker 1: Crawford is gonna be playing there or some and Collins
Speaker 1: will be in there, and you've got a rookie and
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. I would imagine it's gonna be playing there
Speaker 1: on the nose. And you know, if you've got situation
Speaker 1: there where those guys, like you said, are going to
Speaker 1: be come from the outside, and it's just natural to
Speaker 1: step up. If you step up, you know who's there
Speaker 1: waiting for you. You know. That's that's where MALIEK Collins.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen him much. We need, you know, need
Speaker 1: to see some some things from him. And how I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think they were going to get Price Price
Speaker 1: is no longer here. Ye, d Antone Jones is not available,
Speaker 1: but they think he will be. But for this game,
Speaker 1: your tackles, it's gonna be. They are hopeful Malik can go.
Speaker 1: He was at practice today, Um Malik and then Crawford
Speaker 1: probably right. Well, that depends on how they want to
Speaker 1: play it, because they've been saying for a while that
Speaker 1: they would like Malik to play. Three. Tyrone is obviously
Speaker 1: more of a three than a one, which you're kind
Speaker 1: of short on true ones. You have Antoine Woods who
Speaker 1: can do it. Brian Price has gone now and then
Speaker 1: Daniel Ross too, so it's gonna he's gonna have to play. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I thinks Garrett said today that they all eight, all
Speaker 1: eight of those guys need to play. Um. I would
Speaker 1: think that your primary three, it'll be Malik in Tyrone
Speaker 1: at the three in Woods and m Ross the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most likely, and then maybe maybe on on passing situations
Speaker 1: on third and long, that's where we've seen, you know,
Speaker 1: guys like maybe Taco can slide inside. I've seen it.
Speaker 1: You know that maybe as Crawford and Malik, I would
Speaker 1: have Crawford and Malague, I feel at the same time
Speaker 1: in passing situations, we've seen that they've done that some
Speaker 1: here in the late part of the training camp in preseason.
Speaker 1: I'll do my broadest in my Marinelli impressions. Keep them
Speaker 1: in the well, keep them in the park, I mean try,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean yeah, I don't want that dude
Speaker 1: running a round, not an open feel. If you can't
Speaker 1: get to them, at least force him to make a
Speaker 1: play from the pocket. Right, that's exactly right. Let's take
Speaker 1: a call real quick from Tray in Texas. Tray what upright? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So a big fan, thank you really appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: my Callum, you know, what's the news coming down about
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas today? My question is simply this, Um. You know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go in, He's gonna play. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, Seattle is gonna lose them more
Speaker 1: than likely. I mean, all signs point towards them leaving.
Speaker 1: And so my question really comes down to this, Seattle
Speaker 1: didn't want to trade them. They you know, it's not
Speaker 1: that they don't want to get rid of them as
Speaker 1: so much is maybe they want to say face. So
Speaker 1: does him reporting give them that opportunity to say face
Speaker 1: and say, look, we won, and I put that in
Speaker 1: air quotations. We won. Now we can trade him and
Speaker 1: come across like we're the winners, you know, because I
Speaker 1: don't know how GM thinks, but my belief that a
Speaker 1: GM doesn't want to be strong armed into anything, and
Speaker 1: so maybe now this gives them an opportunity to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, he's coming in. We won. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: now we can do something as far as a trade,
Speaker 1: because if they don't do the trade, then at the
Speaker 1: end of the year they get nothing. And so I
Speaker 1: just want to see what your thoughts were on that
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you taking my call and thanks for
Speaker 1: all Ch'll do all right, thanks. I don't know about
Speaker 1: the whole we won. I mean, you know they will
Speaker 1: see I mean, we'll see what happens here. Doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like he says he's playing it under a protest. It
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like there's any winners at all here. I
Speaker 1: think that Dave said earlier in the shows is that well,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, you're not happy, we're not happy coming
Speaker 1: here and play. You need the money, we need the safety,
Speaker 1: you know. But no one's no one's won anything yet here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I mean I get I think there is
Speaker 1: something to that is like, I mean, ego is so
Speaker 1: much a part of this. Like you don't want to
Speaker 1: look like you're left holding the bag or that you
Speaker 1: lost the deal. But Earl to show up and like
Speaker 1: three days later you're like, okay, we're ready to do it.
Speaker 1: Do the deal now. Like it doesn't jive with me,
Speaker 1: I think, And that's I mean, I said this earlier
Speaker 1: in the show. I don't just you can't just assume
Speaker 1: that Earl Thomas doesn't have a future in Seattle. They
Speaker 1: could franchise him, they could sit down and hash it
Speaker 1: out and come to an agreement, and even if he
Speaker 1: does leave, they'll get a comp pick for it. So
Speaker 1: I don't think it's I think it's disingenuous to say
Speaker 1: they'll get nothing, and they'll get They'll get sixteen games
Speaker 1: of high safety play from him, so they'll definitely get something.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, I didn't think it was likely
Speaker 1: to begin with. I mean, you're right, it's not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent impossible to happen, But I just I think
Speaker 1: it's dead in the water. Yep, Okay, So give me,
Speaker 1: I guess, give me your final word on this offense.
Speaker 1: Do you think when you look at all the things
Speaker 1: that that you that we've talked about regarding this offense,
Speaker 1: do you look at the Cowboys defense. Do you think
Speaker 1: at the end of this game, we'll sitting here on
Speaker 1: Monday morning and saying Cowboys didn't win this game or
Speaker 1: Cowboys did win this game because of the Carolina Panthers
Speaker 1: offense in the Cowboys defense the match up there check
Speaker 1: the weather real quick says, it's supposed to be raining.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be raining during
Speaker 1: the game. Last I looked at it, there was going
Speaker 1: to be rained later in the later, but it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be kind of like they're getting rain because of
Speaker 1: that whole weather pattern, that tropical storm or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: her weather pattern. Yeah, there's a weather pattern that's right
Speaker 1: in their way. I don't know that it's necessarily gonna
Speaker 1: be during the game though, right, Okay, it doesn't change anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the we'll get to the Panthers
Speaker 1: defense tomorrow, but I don't think they're gonna lose this
Speaker 1: game because of this matchup. I mean, there's this is
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff here that should be concerning.
Speaker 1: But with the injuries and again, I'm just I'm going
Speaker 1: to assume the defense is gonna play like it's been
Speaker 1: playing in the preseason, which is pretty good. I think
Speaker 1: I think they have the personnel here to match up
Speaker 1: and if I think it'll be way more because the
Speaker 1: offense can't do anything against the Panthers than anything else,
Speaker 1: which will get to that tomorrow, because this is a
Speaker 1: very very very good defense. Yeah, yeah, that was at
Speaker 1: the Yeah. To me, this defense, it comes down to
Speaker 1: it's like it's like when you're watching a men's tennis matchup.
Speaker 1: If you do watch that It's just like you can
Speaker 1: sit there and just hold serve all day long, but
Speaker 1: you gotta break some every once in a while to
Speaker 1: do anything, and you're gonna have to get a turnover.
Speaker 1: That's where what I'm trying to say is they need
Speaker 1: to get some turnovers. You can play well, fly around,
Speaker 1: get punts and all that, but I think the way
Speaker 1: the offense is going to go on the other side,
Speaker 1: this defense is gonna have to be better than just
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's gonna have to get some turnovers, sacks,
Speaker 1: not just a sack, forced the ball out, get something
Speaker 1: there from it. We've seen it in the preseason. We
Speaker 1: need to see it more there because I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna need all give the offense all the help they
Speaker 1: can get. Yeah, I agree with everything that you guys said,
Speaker 1: and I feel pretty good about our defense and I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do just enough to make sure to
Speaker 1: win the game as far as the defense side of
Speaker 1: the ball. But when it comes to the Cowboys offense,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it tomorrow, that's what it's more
Speaker 1: concerning to me and something that I really don't know
Speaker 1: what to think as of right now. And another thing
Speaker 1: is the coaching you know, I'm a big fan of Rivera.
Speaker 1: I just think he's a really good coach and he's aggressive.
Speaker 1: I like the aggressiveness in coaches, and I think that, um, well,
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see how Garrett is gonna handle
Speaker 1: this new game. I mean, is he gonna keep doing
Speaker 1: the same things or are we going to see some
Speaker 1: changes there? I think that Rivera is the type of
Speaker 1: guy that is not afraid to try different things and
Speaker 1: just go for it in a way. And did he
Speaker 1: cut his kicker right before? You know? I meant, hey, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: good point. But Rivera is a really good coach. He
Speaker 1: has been, and he's he's not a long time Yeah
Speaker 1: he has and he's a good coach, but pretty opposite
Speaker 1: from Garrett. And I would say, um, as far as
Speaker 1: strategy and vision and concept, why its pretty opposite. So
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see coaching side of the thing.
Speaker 1: And it's just tough to judge any team at this
Speaker 1: point when you haven't seen everyone together on the field.
Speaker 1: So we'll see tell me about it, all right, We
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