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Speaker 1: I'm not here, not here here. He's not in attendance
Speaker 1: right now, so he ain't getting that perfect perfect attendance
Speaker 1: record getting it. What a week this has been? Okay? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Barry Church got book I did. He was out and
Speaker 1: now we got New he out. You know what, he
Speaker 1: is out every other Friday, but now he's out. New
Speaker 1: he's out. Who has perfect? Who got perfect? This week week, Yes,
Speaker 1: this week alone, Yes, you're talking about this week. This week,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about monthly. Man, it's a little different story.
Speaker 1: I got on the road this week, thank you. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I might get something a little
Speaker 1: extra up every day all time, ready to work, all right,
Speaker 1: shout out there and for getting this fired up over here.
Speaker 1: But look, look, let's dive into last night's game. Were
Speaker 1: you able to watch the Ravens because I watched it.
Speaker 1: I was able to watch that, and to me, it
Speaker 1: was surprising, a little big. It's just it goes with
Speaker 1: what happened so far this or last week in the NFL,
Speaker 1: has all the teams that are, you know, supposed favorites
Speaker 1: kind of go down, have a bad game, and this
Speaker 1: was another one with the Ravens. I think we're favorite
Speaker 1: in this game going to a Miami team who they're
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. To talk about Loa, he wasn't even you know,
Speaker 1: the starter out there, he was still dealing with an injury.
Speaker 1: Now he came back, you know, and played well. But
Speaker 1: I mean, that was that was an interesting game. What
Speaker 1: you think about the Yeah, you know, I think the
Speaker 1: Bengals may have put out the blueprint, but how to
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens. I'm saying. So the Ravens go out
Speaker 1: and offensively, they did not look like themselves against the Bengals. Okay,
Speaker 1: I believe it had a bye week right before, and
Speaker 1: then they came back and last night the game comes on,
Speaker 1: and usually on Thursday nights you see like a high offensive,
Speaker 1: like a highly offensive. So usually you know, thirty five
Speaker 1: or forty two, something like that. And then yesterday you're
Speaker 1: watching the Ravens and I'm saying, what's going on? But
Speaker 1: shout out to Flores. And then, man, when you talk
Speaker 1: about blitzing, every play, everybody them dudes blitz from the left,
Speaker 1: the right, the middle. They had dudes running out the
Speaker 1: sideline blitzing. And I've seen the status. I said it
Speaker 1: was twenty four twenty four snaps where defensive backs blitz.
Speaker 1: So nine times that didn't take you gonna be a
Speaker 1: cover zero. I mean, so if you you know Baron Jones,
Speaker 1: Xavien Howard, those guys, those are the type of games
Speaker 1: you're like, all right, and I gotta buckle up because
Speaker 1: you ain't got no help. Cover zero and safeties is blitzing.
Speaker 1: How many times do we see haul in. The rookie
Speaker 1: safety out there blitzing off the they're trying to contain
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. But would you think of that game plan, because,
Speaker 1: like you said, they fired him up and they and
Speaker 1: they still kept him in the pocket. I think I
Speaker 1: think it was one of those old school game plans
Speaker 1: of listen, Lamar Jackson's gonna have to beat us, but
Speaker 1: we're not gonna give him time. We're gonna put our athletes,
Speaker 1: the dbs as the guys who are rushing so we can,
Speaker 1: you know, so he won't have an advantage as if
Speaker 1: he was going against a linebacker, maybe a defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, it was an athlete on
Speaker 1: an athlete, and those guys made the plays. Now the
Speaker 1: entire defense as a whole was making play. They was locking,
Speaker 1: they were locking up. They got them return for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He stripped it, recovered and took it to the cup.
Speaker 1: And they came out and they played complimentary football like
Speaker 1: they knew that their offense has not been rolling like
Speaker 1: like they expected it to be. So the defense had
Speaker 1: to come out and step up and they did and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, you know, we ended up with two hundred
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards Garber yards. But the game when it mattered, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they stone walled. It was out of touch from the beginning.
Speaker 1: And try out to the Miami because I had, you know,
Speaker 1: Lamar ja I was going against Lamar Jackson and fantasy
Speaker 1: and he only got twenty points. You know, it was
Speaker 1: projected to get thirty four. So shout out to Miami
Speaker 1: d on that one. But we got to get to
Speaker 1: the highlight of the game. I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: thought it was the funniest thing out of the scene.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to football in a long time,
Speaker 1: when my man, the officive lineman, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was a guard, if he was a tackle, I
Speaker 1: don't know what he was. But my man thought the
Speaker 1: screen was for him, like he had flashbacks. And nobody
Speaker 1: knows what I'm talking about me. It's an officive linement
Speaker 1: for Miami. They were in the red zone. It was
Speaker 1: a screen draw It was a screen drawn up for Gaskets,
Speaker 1: the running back. I guess he tripped a little bit.
Speaker 1: And the offitive lineman either he went out there and
Speaker 1: caught it like it was made for him, and he
Speaker 1: knows he's ineligible. He was a tackle or guard on there,
Speaker 1: but he set it up perfect, got the snag, had
Speaker 1: a couple of blockers played off the blocks with the
Speaker 1: dive in a move they cut his legs. He's spinning
Speaker 1: in the air and he still reached for the end.
Speaker 1: That dude had to play some type of skill position
Speaker 1: in high school. Oh listen. First of all, Gaskets was
Speaker 1: still standing up. He was just a little bit behind
Speaker 1: the offensive line and something. Dude actually went snagged the
Speaker 1: ball from the ring back He's supposed to in front
Speaker 1: of gascons. But I'll tell you this next week. Don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if you see him actually get a play
Speaker 1: out of the backfield because he has some sweet feet.
Speaker 1: They did the moves looked like he was a running
Speaker 1: back sometime in the in the recent path and not
Speaker 1: back in high school. He did some work like he
Speaker 1: did some work in college. Because I see, I know
Speaker 1: some running backs you wouldn't be able to do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to the dude who took his legs out,
Speaker 1: because if I saw that he scored. Yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: the flag. I saw the flag. What I'm not going
Speaker 1: in there with that. That's like three hundred pounds If
Speaker 1: he falls on top of you it's over. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a good place for him. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something, no matter if it counted or not,
Speaker 1: his own film and his family is super excited. He
Speaker 1: got that TV town in prop tib only only show
Speaker 1: on TV only. He's going down as a legend. I
Speaker 1: mean as in the officive lineman community. You know, they
Speaker 1: live for that, like you know, when the big guy
Speaker 1: catches a touchdown or something one of them trick plays.
Speaker 1: They live for that thing. So for him to do
Speaker 1: his sweet feet out there and score, well, would have
Speaker 1: been a score. But the penalty it was, it was
Speaker 1: pretty dope. To me, it was dope. But let's pivot
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's pivot a little bit and let's
Speaker 1: get into this Cowboys football. You know, they got a
Speaker 1: match up with the Atlanta Falcons, you know, the early game,
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock game on Sunday. One of our main defensive players,
Speaker 1: the guy that's been the catalyst of this defensive line
Speaker 1: since all the injuries went down, and pretty much she's
Speaker 1: passed a couple of weeks. The only guy that's able
Speaker 1: to generate some type of consistent pass rusher, and that's
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and you know he's going he's gone down.
Speaker 1: He's on ir now, so he's gonna miss it at
Speaker 1: least the next couple of weeks. How does this Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: this top ten, this dan Quinn defense, how do they
Speaker 1: generate pressure and try to get after Matt Ryan because
Speaker 1: we know if we let him sit back there, he
Speaker 1: got the capabilities to dice our defense up. I'll say this,
Speaker 1: if you have faith in your secondary, you might want
Speaker 1: to take a page out of the Miami Dolphins book
Speaker 1: from last night. You might want to be bringing some
Speaker 1: pressure with some skill guys. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn has been able in the past to manufacture pressure.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on previous podcast. When we went
Speaker 1: into games, We're like, how are we gonna be able
Speaker 1: to get this? I think this was beforeen Tank Lawns
Speaker 1: first one out, We're like, how are we gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get pressing? And we saw in the preseason
Speaker 1: that Michael Parsons will line up over the center, they
Speaker 1: would run twist stunts there, he would line up an end,
Speaker 1: they would run twist stunts. So you're gonna see Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons in a lot of different positions. But I also
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see us blitz a little bit more
Speaker 1: than Gasle to get Maddie Ice off office spot and
Speaker 1: try to force them to make some of those mistakes,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna have to depend on our secondary
Speaker 1: to hold up, all right, So play aggressive, go get
Speaker 1: your plays, but be ready to face some of those
Speaker 1: double moves. Yeah, And at the end of the day, Bro,
Speaker 1: you have to stop the run, all right. If we
Speaker 1: don't stop the run, whatever everything else I just said
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You won't be rushing the passing all right.
Speaker 1: You mean you're trying to stop somebody else from going
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety yards on you rushing the ball
Speaker 1: like we had to face last week. So first things first,
Speaker 1: stop the run. Earn the right to rush the passer.
Speaker 1: That is what Rod mary hillis always. So you got
Speaker 1: to earn the right to rush the passer by stopping
Speaker 1: them on first down, stopping them on second down, getting
Speaker 1: them in a passing situation. So stop the run. And
Speaker 1: then dan Quinn manufactured some some rush from from some
Speaker 1: some tricky type of scheme that you got drawn up
Speaker 1: back there. So you're going more with the scheme wise
Speaker 1: to go run a lot of you know, stunts or
Speaker 1: some type of te stunt. You know that for those
Speaker 1: who don't know, the defensive end and the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: running a little pick stunt to try to get one
Speaker 1: of them free. So you're more about the games, you
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do it that way. So you don't
Speaker 1: see anybody individually having like the ability to beat one
Speaker 1: on one, you know, protection consistently. We saw would do
Speaker 1: a little bit, but you know, after that first or
Speaker 1: second quarter, he was pretty much irrelevant after that. So
Speaker 1: do you see somebody along that deep SI line being
Speaker 1: able to step up because right now Tank out, Gregory out,
Speaker 1: and we got to bash them out there. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Yeah, step Michael Parsons. That's that's That's
Speaker 1: like if you said, because I'm thinking, so, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you showed a little bit what your keyword is consistent
Speaker 1: that all right? So being able to cause that type
Speaker 1: of consistently and have coaches offensive coaches say hey, we
Speaker 1: have to take care of that guy. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: anybody else will be able to garner that type of
Speaker 1: attention so consistently. No, but if you put Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: out there. You can create someone on ones with some
Speaker 1: other guys, and I think you might find find some
Speaker 1: ways to get some wins. But it's going to be
Speaker 1: a team effort, right so our entire officer, I mean
Speaker 1: defensive line. At some point, somebody's going to have to
Speaker 1: create pressure. That's true. I mean, and with that philosophy
Speaker 1: where we're getting pressure from somewhere. You know, we're running stunts.
Speaker 1: You got exotic blitzes, Baby sending to Jordan Lewis, maybe
Speaker 1: putting a you know double double a gap pressures with
Speaker 1: parsons and a bandar as we're getting after Mike Ryan somehow,
Speaker 1: some way. Do you think that secondary with brown digs
Speaker 1: and maybe even having Cursed or Kazy or somebody like
Speaker 1: that mixed in at the slot, do you think they'll
Speaker 1: be able to hold up, Like if we can't get
Speaker 1: rushed with four because we don't I don't think we
Speaker 1: can get rushed with just Russia, where we don't think
Speaker 1: we can get after Matt Ryan by just rushing four people,
Speaker 1: do you think that secondary will be able to hold
Speaker 1: up in the back end against you know, a Russell
Speaker 1: Gauge Pitts those guys at Atlanta possesses. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: And you know we always say on defense, rush and
Speaker 1: cover they go together, right, So if you're if you're
Speaker 1: going to bring that pressure, it has to get home now.
Speaker 1: It don't matter who you got in the secondary. If
Speaker 1: you're rushing right and the quarterback can find a way
Speaker 1: to extend the play and get some extra time, your
Speaker 1: secondaries in trouble, all right. So if we're gonna do
Speaker 1: all you know do, do the exotic blitzes and send
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, we're gonna have to get home and then
Speaker 1: UH forced Matt Ryan to get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: If we don't, then we're in trouble. But if we
Speaker 1: do run cover one and we rush for I believe
Speaker 1: that our defensive backs have a good match up against
Speaker 1: their UH group. I think Kyle Pitts is the one
Speaker 1: UH mismatch that we might have. But you got you
Speaker 1: gotta put your best cover guy on them, especially on
Speaker 1: those third and third and six and third and sevens
Speaker 1: when you know Matt Ryan is looking for him, right,
Speaker 1: So put you put your number one guy on them
Speaker 1: and tell everybody else, hey, man, hold up, hold up,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll dive into our first break right here
Speaker 1: on the Players Lounge twelve thirty pm. Here, when we
Speaker 1: get back, you talked a little bit about it, cow Pitts.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's a missmash nightmare for a
Speaker 1: lot of defenses out there. So when we get back,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about how we think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can match up against Pitts and how we think they're
Speaker 1: gonna take them away. That's when we get back. This
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Speaker 1: do that. I'm all about it. Type of guy to churches. Okay,
Speaker 1: your average box safety, Yeah, just your average box safety.
Speaker 1: You know, had an average little box safety. Could you
Speaker 1: cover Kyle Pitts without a doubt. I'm locking him up.
Speaker 1: There was. So that's what we're gonna touch into now,
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts coming there, If that's the solution. He they
Speaker 1: just signed me up. But we touched on it a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier going in before we got into the break.
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. He possesses that that mismatch that you know,
Speaker 1: physical specimen type ability at the tight end. He's that
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