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Speaker 1: We've got the whole cast and crew ready for you
Speaker 1: to rock today with Patrick Nosey Walker, Josh Rodriguez back
Speaker 1: in the building. We've got Isaiah stand Back with Chris
Speaker 1: Beam in the back of Kyle Yeoman. So glad you're
Speaker 1: with us here on this wonderful Wednesday, which of course
Speaker 1: is going to be our Cowboys offensive preview as they
Speaker 1: get ready to take on the Philadelphia Eagles defense. I
Speaker 1: like you sure, Patrick, I just realized that you got
Speaker 1: one of those absolutely, where's mine?
Speaker 3: Fine?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 6: That's being he was.
Speaker 3: He was handing him out like dandy handing him out
Speaker 3: like candy.
Speaker 7: And then he saw me and he's like, oh yeah, not.
Speaker 6: That we need to find one for everybody.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 6: I agree.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have QB vision coming up in the next segment. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: stand back. I saw you down in the training table
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of film study.
Speaker 6: You saw me.
Speaker 3: I kind of like peeked around the corner.
Speaker 6: Freak you were down.
Speaker 7: Thankfully that's what was on your computer.
Speaker 5: It's giving and everybody sees me in there. I'll be
Speaker 5: in there getting my study on, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: just perform it, trying to make sure that we make
Speaker 5: our family is the smartest ones in the room, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: And instead of going to a coffee shop and studying
Speaker 1: out in public, he just sits here and let's like
Speaker 1: Dack walk in front of him.
Speaker 7: He's like that one muscle bound influencer. It's just like
Speaker 7: this ten thousand.
Speaker 5: It's like those old, like eighties and ninety sitcoms where
Speaker 5: someone's sitting at the computer, but it's not actually something
Speaker 5: on the screen.
Speaker 6: It's like a piece It's like paper with some fines
Speaker 6: on it. Right, bro.
Speaker 5: It's literally to the point now where all the coaches
Speaker 5: will mclay's scouts, they all come back, or what are
Speaker 5: we looking at today?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Now do you sew like sugarcoated?
Speaker 6: A little? Straight up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have some good conversations, not like, man, this
Speaker 1: secondary has been trash ship.
Speaker 3: You haven't done anything this week?
Speaker 6: Now, Okay, he's playing the Firefox Dinosaur Snake on his Nokia.
Speaker 1: Hey, what are we looking at today? And it's like
Speaker 1: he's just playing Mario Kart like some I love it
Speaker 1: all right, playing Gallagha.
Speaker 3: I'm back to Gallagher. I think your your microphones off there?
Speaker 7: Hello, I didn't touch it, beam, you didn't touch it
Speaker 7: as low there touch there you go, and we're playing
Speaker 7: Gallay building and now your microphone is just not one more?
Speaker 6: What the heck's wrong?
Speaker 3: If it's not one thing, it's the next thing. It's Grimlins, actually.
Speaker 1: The studio Grimlins. By the way, speaking of studios and
Speaker 1: speaking of trolls. We got to reveal what happened this
Speaker 1: last year because now that Josh is back.
Speaker 3: In the building, I have a bone to pick with you, sir.
Speaker 6: What you guys tricked us? The clapper.
Speaker 5: The fiasco that wasn't real, That was not real, and
Speaker 5: I thought it was one I was pretty got you
Speaker 5: pretty good.
Speaker 1: One thousand percent, and I thought, that's like the best practical,
Speaker 1: practical joke you could pull on somebody armless.
Speaker 6: It was hilarious.
Speaker 7: Well, it started as an innocent way of doing it,
Speaker 7: but Beam like took it to the next step because
Speaker 7: we were just messing with Isaiah and then it did
Speaker 7: the clap at the beginning of the episode and then
Speaker 7: be changed it. I was like, okay, we're doing this.
Speaker 6: Then you kept the whole time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, if you're into improv at all, yes, it's yes.
Speaker 7: And so I just kept going with it and uh, yeah,
Speaker 7: we got you guys pretty good.
Speaker 1: Here's when he started saying it changes cause like, oh crap,
Speaker 1: I haven't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but but that was the part because we never
Speaker 7: talked about changing colors. I was like, no, so if
Speaker 7: you say the color and then you clapp like, it
Speaker 7: was hilariously and Beam and I were communicating the telepathy.
Speaker 6: Yeahs going here here was the tail.
Speaker 5: Eventually, this is where we started to think, like, probably
Speaker 5: did an idea later in the episode when the timing
Speaker 5: became off, so I figured it was like lights on
Speaker 5: the back end of the episode. It was like clap, clap,
Speaker 5: oh it didn't work. Clap clap, And it was because
Speaker 5: Beamer was back to.
Speaker 8: Like, oh crap, I've forgotten the bit.
Speaker 6: No, I had to switch pages on there. I had
Speaker 6: got them, dude. It was so funny. It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: My favorite part about it is Josh just like didn't
Speaker 1: even say anything at the end, and then once we
Speaker 1: all kind of got up, he goes, it's not real.
Speaker 1: He just goes, it's not but the clapper the one too.
Speaker 1: And I was even thinking in the middle of it,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like that's gonna be problematic
Speaker 1: at some point some show. Mickey Spagnola was going to
Speaker 1: be like, I can't believe that, and then that's going
Speaker 1: to change just like that, you know, Like I I
Speaker 1: knew there was gonna be something there.
Speaker 3: But man, good job, well done. Of course number one.
Speaker 3: I wanted to wait for you to get back in
Speaker 3: the building.
Speaker 7: More improv for for talking cowboys.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 5: And also, now that you're back in the building this Friday,
Speaker 5: we get to where our fanily.
Speaker 3: Yes, we did hoodies.
Speaker 6: Hoodies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, all right, Pat, let's get into some news
Speaker 3: and notes.
Speaker 5: Absolutely so, First and foremost, the cowboys did wave linebacker
Speaker 5: Damone Clark form a fifth round pick. Damon Clark, I
Speaker 5: mean he overcame the next fusion surgery, you know, to
Speaker 5: avoid his rookie season being a red shirt year. He
Speaker 5: came in when they really needed him in October of
Speaker 5: that season because of injury at the position. He got
Speaker 5: off to a fast, hot start there. You know, the
Speaker 5: potential was most certainly there, kind of thrived a bit,
Speaker 5: he was up and down, but had some thriving moments
Speaker 5: under DQ. But in the post Dan Quinn era, it's
Speaker 5: just not worked out for the Mohne Clark Mike Zimmer
Speaker 5: just did not find a way to utilize him. Things
Speaker 5: looked very, very good and promising for him in this
Speaker 5: year's training camp he was ebra Flus. Yeah, he was
Speaker 5: flying around, he was doing some things in training camp.
Speaker 5: But then the season started and not unlike marys Lea File,
Speaker 5: you know, just they got kind of pushed to the
Speaker 5: back as the Jack Sanborn variable came in and that
Speaker 5: was Eberflus's guy. And then now you add Logan Wilson
Speaker 5: to the mix and de Moon Clark was already not
Speaker 5: getting utilized. So I'm surprised. I'm surprised that that was
Speaker 5: the move instead of Sandborn. I do agree, because I
Speaker 5: feel like I do. A key gives you more than
Speaker 5: Sanborn gives you both agree the defense side and in
Speaker 5: a special team special I do agree. So I don't
Speaker 5: that move doesn't I don't understand if you're going to
Speaker 5: make a move at that position. I don't understand why
Speaker 5: you would choose him versus.
Speaker 7: Could they make a move with Simmoorn being on IR?
Speaker 6: I want you to put dmon on Ir. Well, he
Speaker 6: got that fingernail thing.
Speaker 3: That's what I was about to say. I was like,
Speaker 3: hold on, we got to make something up there.
Speaker 6: You know what I think?
Speaker 5: I think, and this is from I mean, I've had
Speaker 5: endless conversations with Demon from day one, him as a rookie,
Speaker 5: through this entire process, as recently as Monday ahead of
Speaker 5: the game, after the enactors came out, and he just
Speaker 5: his spirits were as high as they could be, but
Speaker 5: it just felt more and more like he was kind
Speaker 5: of dejected with not getting the opportunities and frustrated. And
Speaker 5: then I think, more so what kind of fracture the
Speaker 5: relationship between he and the organization, more than anything was
Speaker 5: after what happened with him and Mike Zimmer as far
Speaker 5: as just him not being able to get on the field.
Speaker 5: Here comes either flu a linebacker's coach, you a little
Speaker 5: bit more youthful, and then you know, da'mon is feeling like, okay,
Speaker 5: here we are and then it doesn't happen that way,
Speaker 5: and it's so deflating and it's so defeating. And I
Speaker 5: really think that Schattenheimer said it best when he said
Speaker 5: that he told him On he was like, sometimes you know,
Speaker 5: a fresh start somewhere else, it's just the best medicine. Now,
Speaker 5: sometimes that's just political speak, but in this particular case,
Speaker 5: actually do agree. I think Damon Clark needs a fresh
Speaker 5: start somewhere else.
Speaker 7: But that was a pretty final uh word to have
Speaker 7: on Damone Clark in his I guess his future here
Speaker 7: in Dallas, Like that was a pretty definite thing for
Speaker 7: Schottenheimer to say. I was surprised to hear him say
Speaker 7: something so definitive in that, like his future is elsewhere
Speaker 7: and not here with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was waved in this scenario. He was
Speaker 1: waved so he could be brought back to the practice squad.
Speaker 7: I don't but I don't think that's that's not going
Speaker 7: to be especially after shot he's feels yesterday. But of course,
Speaker 7: with all respect in the world to dmon and what he's.
Speaker 5: I think it's also because in that conversation, whatever however
Speaker 5: that dialogue went, I think both sides understand that it
Speaker 5: needs to end. So even if he were to clear waivers,
Speaker 5: he's not interested in rejoining the press.
Speaker 6: So that's what I mean.
Speaker 5: Now with that, that frees up the spot that was
Speaker 5: needed for you want you want some good news because
Speaker 5: you do love your DTS. Perry and Winfrey is activated
Speaker 5: from injured reserve. So now we're talking about a defensive
Speaker 5: tackle rotations. Yeah, that's going from arguably the weakest up
Speaker 5: against the cornerback position at a certain point, arguably the
Speaker 5: weakest position on the team, to arguably the strongest. So
Speaker 5: walk with me now. So we got Quentinn Williams. Okay,
Speaker 5: we got Kenny Clark. Those guys are pretty good. We
Speaker 5: gotz oh, yeah, he's good. Got Solomon Thomas, Ad Perry
Speaker 5: On Winfrey, and then you got the rookie J Toya,
Speaker 5: who now gets to also get mentored by those guys
Speaker 5: that I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: Didn't J Toya? I have a sat Wait, no, that
Speaker 1: was James Houston. James, come on, he pay too much
Speaker 1: money to mix it. James Houston with j.
Speaker 6: Come on, Joe don't even look alike.
Speaker 5: But so yeah, So Perryon Winfrey, former All UFL team
Speaker 5: guy leader in tackle tackles at UFL.
Speaker 6: We all know about his emotional.
Speaker 5: Roster edition, I should say, because when they were doing
Speaker 5: the final roster cuts, he was under the belief that
Speaker 5: he had been cut. He went to Schottenheimer and he's
Speaker 5: very emotional and he's just like, ah, just give me
Speaker 5: a shot, and the whole time they're looking at him like,
Speaker 5: we didn't cut you. So it was turned out to
Speaker 5: be a fun, powerful story for a guy who's worked
Speaker 5: so hard to get to this point but then unfortunately
Speaker 5: got bit by the injury bug ends up on ir.
Speaker 5: So whenever he does play this season, which now he will,
Speaker 5: it will be his debut for the Cowboys at a
Speaker 5: position of strength.
Speaker 6: Now, so that rotation is just nast.
Speaker 7: That's so exciting for me, especially coming off of that.
Speaker 7: Was my guy tell me at a camp because I
Speaker 7: was so excited for him to finally get on the
Speaker 7: fifty three and I was in every facet. I was
Speaker 7: like this guy's on my fifty three no matter what.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 7: And to see him actually make the team and then
Speaker 7: to not play any snaps and since then has been
Speaker 7: tough to kind of like be on the cusp of
Speaker 7: waiting for him to return. And then now that, like
Speaker 7: you said that one of the strengths of your defense
Speaker 7: is now the defensive line, the interior defensive line at
Speaker 7: that I mean you had also digg Z with Quinn
Speaker 7: Williams grade top five overall in your defensive is good
Speaker 7: over the entire league of last week?
Speaker 6: Did you guys know that seems good?
Speaker 3: It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 6: It seems good.
Speaker 7: Also, diggi zo graded out at a ninety point six
Speaker 7: sounds good to me. Winning Williams graded out in ninety
Speaker 7: point two best for two and four pff pff yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5: What's your what's your starting off starting defensive line? In
Speaker 5: second string defensive line?
Speaker 1: You're talking about dtackles specifically or across the cross the board?
Speaker 6: Oh, so four and I got two ds for down linemen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna go four.
Speaker 1: Okay, Man's Clark and william on the inside. Will Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing and probably so osa second string. I see
Speaker 1: this is what I'm toy with.
Speaker 6: I would I would toy with Osa at at edge.
Speaker 7: I would throw him out there as a five me
Speaker 7: that last week you wanted on the edge.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't really do a whole lot of you.
Speaker 5: Williamste is coming. It's coming along, Quinn Williams. And then
Speaker 5: there's Kenny Clark both interchange between one and the three.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah for me.
Speaker 5: Jadeveon Clowney, that's his run stopping ability and he's doing it.
Speaker 5: He's doing a relatively good job at a pass rush.
Speaker 1: You can tell he's ramped up now. Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: playing back to what you kind of wanted to see.
Speaker 6: And his football IQ is there, Yes, very much. It's incredible.
Speaker 5: So Jadevion Clowney is at one of the ends and
Speaker 5: is playing at the five mm throw Osa five call
Speaker 5: it quinnin at the one yet and he had the three?
Speaker 5: All right, I'm sorry. Yeah, you guys are what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And then you have and then your second wave, your
Speaker 5: second wave, Dante Fowler, Donovan Azeraku at the ends okay,
Speaker 5: interchangeable with James Houston. He rotate through there, and then
Speaker 5: you have Perry on Winfrey and Solomon Thomas two words.
Speaker 1: Hell, isn't it crazy that we were in training camp
Speaker 1: and Josh, I give you credit for this. We were
Speaker 1: talking about Perry On Winfrey coming off the street, signing
Speaker 1: as a free agent and immediately being thrust into a
Speaker 1: second or third spot on that defensive line. We didn't
Speaker 1: know what Solomon Thomas was going to be.
Speaker 7: Of course you didn't know what j was, but you
Speaker 7: didn't know how he was going to contribute in this defense.
Speaker 6: That age, right, And so.
Speaker 1: With all of that being said, now you're looking at
Speaker 1: Perry On Winfrey as a fifth or sixth option on
Speaker 1: your defensive interior as opposed to a second or a
Speaker 1: third option.
Speaker 3: That shows just how much this entire group has.
Speaker 6: Grown healthy six months.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable to class not even six months, it's more
Speaker 1: like four months, and it's just completely revamped two.
Speaker 7: Weeks, you know, like you considered the trade being the
Speaker 7: biggest piece of it all to really uh solidify that
Speaker 7: defensive line.
Speaker 6: It's crazy and no snap, and that's what happened.
Speaker 3: Any other news and nodes, Patrick.
Speaker 5: Yes, the Cowboys did wave h Wesley French from the
Speaker 5: practice squad.
Speaker 6: He was a center. He's he'd only been here a
Speaker 6: few weeks.
Speaker 5: He had arrived a couple of weeks or so before
Speaker 5: the BI week, so no real traction there. They saw
Speaker 5: they needed to see or didn't see what they wanted
Speaker 5: to see, so they waved him uh. And then they
Speaker 5: waved injured tight end John Stevens Junior, who was still
Speaker 5: on IF so they waved injured him with a settlement.
Speaker 5: So now John Stevens Junior, once he finishes getting back healthy,
Speaker 5: he'll have an opportunity with another team. And I agree
Speaker 5: with you, Isaiah, I hate that the end came for
Speaker 5: John Stevens Junior and the fashion in which it did.
Speaker 6: He just not stay healthy. His body just not work
Speaker 6: with him.
Speaker 5: After such a promising rookie training camp in preseason first
Speaker 5: two training camps for you would you would have loved
Speaker 5: to see what he could have contributed to his Titans room,
Speaker 5: But unfortunately, John Stevens Junior, he's no longer with the
Speaker 5: Cowboys in any capacity. So John Stevens Junior, all I
Speaker 5: can say is get healthy and go continue to pursue
Speaker 5: your dream man, because the talent is absolutely there.
Speaker 1: Ye just has to stay healthy, man, John Stephens Jr.
Speaker 1: And then you talk about de Moon Clark. Those are
Speaker 1: two really good dudes that that the Cowboys had to
Speaker 1: move on from people and good people that were in
Speaker 1: this locker room and that were very beneficial to the
Speaker 1: locker room.
Speaker 5: I really hated for John Stevens because he doesn't get
Speaker 5: the mentorship and coaching and development from London Wells anymore.
Speaker 5: That's like it's one thing to have talent. Really, he
Speaker 5: spoke very highly of very highly of him, and everybody
Speaker 5: who comes into that room develops just one of the
Speaker 5: most undervalued, from my perspective, one of the most undervalued
Speaker 5: position coaches in the league.
Speaker 6: I agree, and.
Speaker 5: There hasn't been enough of an emphasis they did almost losing.
Speaker 6: Hasn't been enough.
Speaker 5: But one of the only guys that came on position
Speaker 5: of coaches in this league and developed by a hand
Speaker 5: they held. They're holding onto him because of his the
Speaker 5: work that he puts in into that room. So I
Speaker 5: hate that John Stevens, even though he'll have other opportunities,
Speaker 5: I highly doubt that he'll be able to go somewhere
Speaker 5: where somebody cares as much as Linda does.
Speaker 7: Invaluable for sure, you can't really put a price on
Speaker 7: what he's able to contribute, and uh, you saw that
Speaker 7: more like you see the progression of like brevn svan
Speaker 7: Ford and his blocking ability. We've talked about it so far,
Speaker 7: and honestly, we're one of the only podcasts to really
Speaker 7: bring him up on a pretty consistent basis because we
Speaker 7: sort of see that. I mean, if you're watching tape,
Speaker 7: you see what he's able to watch tape.
Speaker 6: We do on occasion.
Speaker 3: He plays so downhill. He's a big dude, a big
Speaker 3: freaking dude.
Speaker 1: But the way that he has a nasty finish with
Speaker 1: his blocking, you can you don't. You don't, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't teach that, but you have to want to.
Speaker 1: He's doing that up himself, Like he wants that physicality,
Speaker 1: he wants the smoke and I really did catch and
Speaker 1: he can.
Speaker 7: Catch and his yards after catch. Man, Come on, don't like.
Speaker 5: Just a high talent, high ceiling guy whose body has
Speaker 5: just been betraying him in his young NFL career.
Speaker 3: He's talking about John Stevens.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's what I mean.
Speaker 5: I'm really hoping that that, you know, he can stay
Speaker 5: healthy and if he can stay healthy, if he lands
Speaker 5: somewhere with the right type of coaching, Yeah, I hope
Speaker 5: in a year or two from now, we're looking back
Speaker 5: at it and we're saying that that's what we wanted
Speaker 5: to see with the Cowboys. And of course it'll be
Speaker 5: no one's fault. It's not a situation where all the
Speaker 5: Cowboys gave up on him and he went and balled
Speaker 5: out somewhere else.
Speaker 6: Like no, no, no.
Speaker 5: For both of these guys, they gave them to give
Speaker 5: him opportunities. He just could not stay healthy. And we're
Speaker 5: not talking about talking about minor injuries either. We're talking
Speaker 5: about to devastating injuries, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 7: But I could see him like do really well on
Speaker 7: a team like Baltimore or a team like the Patriots,
Speaker 7: you know, like flourish. Really if he's given another.
Speaker 1: Oportuityve got to be in the right spot. But stay healthy,
Speaker 1: that's the other thing. Yeah, we'll figure that out. Speaking
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Speaker 6: How's it going? You see that Cowboys game?
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Speaker 3: I watched.
Speaker 8: I've been seeing some good things totally. They have some talent,
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Speaker 1: the fifth member of our crew. Michael in the comments said, Bro, seriously,
Speaker 1: every episode, I'm more convinced of Isaiah Standback being part
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Speaker 3: And then he put in parentheses he said, I like that.
Speaker 3: Bring that wisdom, Bro. That's a good segue into a
Speaker 3: little bit of some.
Speaker 6: Why Eddie, Why Eddie cut up?
Speaker 5: It's time for QB vision with Isaiah's Standback. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I hate that this has become the tradition. First of all,
Speaker 5: shout out, appreciate the love. You won't find me in
Speaker 5: any coaching rooms, unfortunately. I will stay on the media
Speaker 5: side to make sure.
Speaker 3: That's what all coaches say before they take a new coach.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you have a really big personality, You have lots
Speaker 7: of love to give. You have listen, I need your
Speaker 7: arms in many fires if you will.
Speaker 6: He's attested to my feminly.
Speaker 1: He sounds like Laye Kiff and that's what he sounds like.
Speaker 1: That's what he wow sounds like. Oh I'm at old mess.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about.
Speaker 3: That Florida job or I'm not worried about that l
Speaker 3: s U exactly. All right, I were getting to the
Speaker 3: bottom of dB.
Speaker 6: Everybody's all right, all right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 5: We're about to play the Philadelphia Egles and Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5: We all understand that this is not the Las Vegas Raiders. Okay,
Speaker 5: let's just keep it one hundred. And what were the
Speaker 5: What were the Raiders? You said trash?
Speaker 3: And what are the Eagles not trash?
Speaker 5: I'd even recycled com post, not any of that stuff.
Speaker 5: Listen to Eagles. The Eagles are good, man, Keep it
Speaker 5: one hundred. I am looking forward to this matchup because
Speaker 5: I think that this I think both of our teams
Speaker 5: are built to beat each other.
Speaker 6: I truly believe that. I think that.
Speaker 5: That Howie Roseman and Double J are literally building their
Speaker 5: rosters to compete with each other. I think they understand
Speaker 5: that they are the two top dogs in this division,
Speaker 5: and their rosters are indicative of that. It's no different
Speaker 5: than than the Buffalo Bills building their roster to beat
Speaker 5: the Ken City Chiefs.
Speaker 6: It just is what it is.
Speaker 5: You got to play these guys twice a year, and
Speaker 5: in order to get to where you want to get,
Speaker 5: you have to get past his team. So I think
Speaker 5: that obviously what the Howie Roseman has done with his
Speaker 5: roster defensively, Dallas has combat at that. They've invested a
Speaker 5: ton into their defensive line. We've invested a ton into
Speaker 5: our offensive line. They've had a lot of young talent
Speaker 5: show up at the linebacker and secondary position.
Speaker 6: We've added a lot of talent there as well.
Speaker 5: Right, They've invested in Jake Ferguson, they invested in CD
Speaker 5: and now hopefully George Piggins. They brought him in over
Speaker 5: on the trade. He was there a week one when
Speaker 5: we played them, and obviously hopefully he gets an extension here.
Speaker 6: But do it, they will do it. Probably won't be
Speaker 6: the number he wants, but they'll do it.
Speaker 7: And mirror images in terms of receivers very much, drafting
Speaker 7: a generational talent and then also trading for another guy
Speaker 7: that you absolutely needed.
Speaker 1: Because for them it was DeVante Smith was what first
Speaker 1: rounder in twenty twenty one, and then aj Brown was
Speaker 1: traded and then for US of course Ceede Lamb and
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and George Pickens was traded so it's almost
Speaker 1: like I.
Speaker 5: Like peaking as a home where quarterback point. I like
Speaker 5: quarterbacks invested in tight ends. Both have seven touchdowns. Receivers
Speaker 5: they're under Their receivers are under productive right now, but
Speaker 5: they can still strike fire. But let's talk about this
Speaker 5: defense all right. It starts with their defensive line. Defensive
Speaker 5: line is nasty. Defensive line has been nasty. When Dallas
Speaker 5: lost in Week one, they obviously lost their best player
Speaker 5: prior to the game.
Speaker 3: You don't think that'll happen again. You don't think we'll
Speaker 3: get lucky.
Speaker 6: Like that getting a loogi. Bro, we're not even getting
Speaker 6: a Jamar Chase Lugi on the lucky loogie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not getting that. His presence was missed in
Speaker 5: that game, Dallas. Yeah, not happening. Reflection, I think Dallas Tyler, right, Tyler,
Speaker 5: I believe that Dallas had more success than they would
Speaker 5: have had in Week one in the running game because
Speaker 5: Jalen Carter was not present. I'm not taking anything away
Speaker 5: from our offensive line, but we know that Jalen Carter
Speaker 5: is one of the best interior defense linemen in the league.
Speaker 5: That's factuals true. He wasn't there because of his actions
Speaker 5: he will be there.
Speaker 3: Yes, you think he's ready for this game too?
Speaker 5: Yes, Jordan Davis will be there. Moro Jomo will be there.
Speaker 5: Number ninety seven. Oh, and then there's a new guy
Speaker 5: that they added. Who's that, Yeah, Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 6: Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 5: They have them listed as an outside linebacker because they
Speaker 5: have it on the depth trod as a three to
Speaker 5: four defense.
Speaker 6: He will be there, and he's a dude this defense.
Speaker 7: But we don't know him as much. Are you sure
Speaker 7: he's a dude.
Speaker 5: He's a dude, and he has infused even more energy
Speaker 5: into this defense. I truly believe that their front seven
Speaker 5: is the best part of their defense. Their their defensive
Speaker 5: linemen are all dangerous in their own right. Jalen Carter
Speaker 5: is disruptive, Jordan Davis is hard to move. Moro is
Speaker 5: active and very physical.
Speaker 6: And now they have a true pass rusher that can
Speaker 6: be disruptive. They didn't.
Speaker 5: They didn't have a disruptive pass rusher when we played
Speaker 5: them in Week one. Now they do in Phillips. Jalen
Speaker 5: Phillips is a disruptor. Number fifty. He'll be standing up
Speaker 5: on the edge. I don't remember if he switches side,
Speaker 5: but I know he'll be over Terrence Steele. So that
Speaker 5: front line is something that you have to be concerned about.
Speaker 5: I went back and I watched Week one. I loved
Speaker 5: how intense Dallas played. Dallas played very physical. If this
Speaker 5: is a ball game that Dallas wants to win, you're
Speaker 5: going to have to out physical.
Speaker 10: The Philadelphia Eagles are are. Yeah, listen, it's a hell
Speaker 10: of a matchup.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: I truly think that they probably have the best linebacker corps.
Speaker 5: I think they probably have the best linebacker core in
Speaker 5: the NFL. Wow, that's my last one.
Speaker 6: That's my opinion. They have the best line In my opinion,
Speaker 6: they have the best linebacker cord in the NFL.
Speaker 7: And linebackers have been giving this sea many problems at the.
Speaker 6: Moment at the month. That's all I can speak to.
Speaker 6: That's all I can speak to. Zach Bond is smart,
Speaker 6: very smart, cerebral.
Speaker 5: This defensive line just for the same reasons why I
Speaker 5: wanted Quinn Williams and Kenny Clark playing together. It's hard
Speaker 5: to get up to those to that second level. So
Speaker 5: when you're spending your time at the offensive line blocking
Speaker 5: that you know those interior defensive linemen. Their linebackers don't
Speaker 5: wait like they really don't wait like they their linebackers
Speaker 5: react the way in which I wish that our linebackers
Speaker 5: had up until this point of the season. Yeah, when
Speaker 5: a hole opens up, Zach Bond freaking hits it. He's going.
Speaker 5: He's not waiting to see what happens. I'm not waiting
Speaker 5: to see if he's gonna go on door A or
Speaker 5: door B. He's taking whatever door opens, and and they're
Speaker 5: playing off of that. They have Nikobe Dean, who I've
Speaker 5: had the pleasure of.
Speaker 6: Meeting and talking to.
Speaker 5: Listen the same way that we speak about de Marveion
Speaker 5: overshown in terms of his passion for the game, same
Speaker 5: vibes I get from Nakcobe Dean that is correct. He
Speaker 5: loves the game of football, correct, like genuinely like it,
Speaker 5: like it's exuding off him, like it just it just radiates.
Speaker 5: He's a dude. He'll be the one in the elbow brace.
Speaker 5: He's a he's he's athletic. He makes it very difficult.
Speaker 5: I talked a lot about how how Jake Ferguson's going
Speaker 5: to have to have a day for Dallas to be
Speaker 5: successful offensively, where he's got to deal with Nikobe Dean,
Speaker 5: and Nikobe Dean can run. You're not going to outrun him, right,
Speaker 5: And he's he's going to be in your hip pocket.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to make contested catches. He's going to
Speaker 5: be there, right, He's always going to be in the
Speaker 5: play Jaylyx Hunt fifty eight. He's he's a dude as well.
Speaker 5: So frot seven is a problem. You got to meet
Speaker 5: them head up right, take care of your business. You
Speaker 5: were able to have success against some last time, do
Speaker 5: it again, except this time you got a block ninety eight. Okay,
Speaker 5: so tight ends were physical last time. I was very
Speaker 5: impressed with with our guy Brefence spam Ford. He was
Speaker 5: very physical. Schoolmaker I was actually.
Speaker 1: I was about to say Scoomaker, I remember being really
Speaker 1: physical and Schoolmaker was physical. So they were amped up
Speaker 1: for week one and they utilized ferg a lot in
Speaker 1: the in the passing game.
Speaker 6: Yes, the used him a lot.
Speaker 1: As a receiver in that game, and they kind of
Speaker 1: had Schooonmaker as the physical rightforcer yep.
Speaker 3: And a lot of that allowed for Ferguson.
Speaker 1: To do what he did, which we were just talking
Speaker 1: about yesterday, is something that you want to get back
Speaker 1: to correct.
Speaker 5: So they listed as a three man front, but they'll
Speaker 5: is really a four man front. They'll stand up Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 5: He'll be like a kind of an in bicycle stance.
Speaker 5: So I consider it a four man front. They can
Speaker 5: call it three four all day long. It's four to three.
Speaker 5: Let's go to the secondary. Secondary, solid physical, physical secondary.
Speaker 5: I will say that I'm not sure that they're the
Speaker 5: best cover guys in the league, but they're very physical.
Speaker 5: I can tell you one guy who does cover well
Speaker 5: is Cooper Dejing, number thirty three. I like everything about him. Young, talented, physical, feisty,
Speaker 5: right punching him out. He punked Jalen Tolbert the first
Speaker 5: time we played him. I'm really hopeful that Jalen Tobert
Speaker 5: gets some get back. He came down hill in the
Speaker 5: screen game. Jalen Tolbert was supposed to be blocking and
Speaker 5: just slapped him, just slapped him around. Ceedee Lamb had
Speaker 5: to come to Jalen Tolbert's defense, Dak Prescott had to
Speaker 5: come to Jalen Tolber's defense. So I'm hoping that Jalen
Speaker 5: Tolbert get some get back. Within the parameters of play
Speaker 5: and don't hurt your team.
Speaker 6: Don't do that.
Speaker 5: So Cooper Degen's nice red Blanken ships one of the
Speaker 5: better safeties in the league. I think he's just he's smart,
Speaker 5: he's he's reactive. He goes sideline the sideline. Quinnon Mitchell,
Speaker 5: I give him his respect. He's he's he's he's okay.
Speaker 6: I don't, I'm not. I know a lot of people
Speaker 6: are high on him. I'm not.
Speaker 5: I don't think that they are put in a lot
Speaker 5: of positions to play a lot of man to man coverage.
Speaker 5: I think maybe twenty five percent or something like that.
Speaker 5: I think they're more of his own team. They do
Speaker 5: a really good job of hiding what it is that
Speaker 5: they're doing in terms of their safety movement. It's very late,
Speaker 5: it's big. Fan Gill's defenses are always disciplined. Dak Prescott
Speaker 5: has success against Vic Fangio's defenses, but collectively as a team,
Speaker 5: he hasn't won much against him. I think he's one
Speaker 5: in four you go, but he has done a good
Speaker 5: job in terms of his statistical category against him, five touchdowns,
Speaker 5: one interception. I believe so Dak has seen everything before.
Speaker 5: These guys will try to bring pressure, but Dak does
Speaker 5: handle pressure very well. Where I think these guys are weak,
Speaker 5: trying to give you kind of a front to back
Speaker 5: type of overhaul. Here the middle of their field, it's
Speaker 5: it's booty button naked, no huggies, just just go streaking
Speaker 5: through the quad and the coliseum.
Speaker 6: It's the middle. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: You got three of them jokers running around the middle
Speaker 5: of their field is open. It is so vacant that
Speaker 5: that's why I feel like Jake Ferguson can have a day.
Speaker 5: I mentioned Ceedee Lamb on his over routes.
Speaker 6: I mention.
Speaker 5: George Pickens on his deep en routes. Those are typically
Speaker 5: the routes that those guys run. I hope that they
Speaker 5: mix it up a little bit more so it's not
Speaker 5: as predictable. They will cut your over routes, just like
Speaker 5: we saw this past week. Yeah, where Ceede Lamb is
Speaker 5: trying to run an over route the safety season he
Speaker 5: drops down from a two high look to a one
Speaker 5: high look to enter and intercede and prevent Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 5: from getting over. Okay, cool, But the end routes, the
Speaker 5: slant routes, all those things, they're going to be contested.
Speaker 5: But if you can catch it and you can make
Speaker 5: one man miss the guy who's on your back, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of yak yards to be had.
Speaker 6: And I really think that Dallas.
Speaker 5: Can expose Philadelphia in the passing game by taking advantage
Speaker 5: of that vacant mental And I'm talking about like thirty
Speaker 5: yards of vacancy here.
Speaker 6: Now I'm talking about a couple of yards. This is
Speaker 6: like it's like the freaking Red Sea.
Speaker 5: But by doing that, guys have to win at the
Speaker 5: line of scrimmage getting off the ball, and then you got.
Speaker 6: To be able to block it up. So Dak has
Speaker 6: time when you look.
Speaker 1: At the middle of the field, and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of Texas fans that watch this, so I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are going to ask about Andrew.
Speaker 3: Mccooba, the safety.
Speaker 1: What is he been tabbed with doing in this Vic
Speaker 1: van Gel type of defense and in his system? And
Speaker 1: how has he played to start the year as a
Speaker 1: rookie safety.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they usually wrote him down to be like the
Speaker 5: down safety. He'll start high again, they'll give a two man,
Speaker 5: they'll give a two high look and then it'll be
Speaker 5: like a late rotation, right, It'll be late sign yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't not a Texas fan. We're talking about Andrew.
Speaker 6: We didn't tell you. Congratulations, I'll being ranked by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thank you very much. Relation our college football. Man,
Speaker 1: it's coming on on Friday with plenty, so.
Speaker 5: They do a lot of late rotations and they they'll
Speaker 5: cut those guys. So what they're trying to do is
Speaker 5: they play their safety is really deep. They really try
Speaker 5: to get you to hold onto the ball.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: We've seen this before. Denver did a really good job
Speaker 5: about this. I've made everybody aware of what Denver did.
Speaker 5: Denver brought pressure, though, I mean really counting on their
Speaker 5: front seven to get home while you were sitting there
Speaker 5: patting the ball, waiting for your guys to get beyond
Speaker 5: their secondary.
Speaker 6: Don't try to get beyond their secondary. Ceede Lamb did
Speaker 6: a really.
Speaker 5: Good job of it in Week one, but it was
Speaker 5: off of double moves right Ceedee Lamb was able to
Speaker 5: get him fake the end route, fake the post route,
Speaker 5: getting the bite on it, and then break it back
Speaker 5: out to the sideline.
Speaker 6: He had a lot of success versus them on that.
Speaker 5: George Pickens was able to get some some pass interference
Speaker 5: calls because Dak had the time to sit back, pat
Speaker 5: the ball a little bit and throw the ball down
Speaker 5: the field and let George Pickens try to get it.
Speaker 5: They held them. We got the ball all the way
Speaker 5: moved to the goal line. So we have some success
Speaker 5: in week one versus this defense. I'm not saying that
Speaker 5: you can't beat this defense. I'm saying that they are
Speaker 5: very vulnerable to get beat. But you have to protect
Speaker 5: and you have that afore the time.
Speaker 6: You have to have the time.
Speaker 5: Your guys can beat their guys. Our receivers are better
Speaker 5: than their secondary. Our tight end can body up. I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna say he's faster and can out rout them up,
Speaker 5: but he can body up. You can get the ball
Speaker 5: to Jay Ferguson on some plays across the middle twelve yards,
Speaker 5: you know, fifteen yards whatever it is, but he's gonna
Speaker 5: be it's gonna be a contested catch. Don't expect a
Speaker 5: whole lot after it and catch, tackle, whatever. And then
Speaker 5: you have to be able to run the ball. If
Speaker 5: you can run the.
Speaker 6: Ball effectively, you can control this game.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be competitive. You're gonna have your wins, you're
Speaker 5: gonna have your losses. It's gonna be a freaking battle Royale.
Speaker 5: But you can beat this defense up, you truly can.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to do it by having sustainable, long,
Speaker 5: methodical drives and then when you get your shot, you
Speaker 5: got to you gotta connect.
Speaker 7: I love what you're saying about Jake Ferguson and the
Speaker 7: ability that he has to sort of take advantage over
Speaker 7: the middle. And it's one of those things where, at
Speaker 7: least for the Cowboys, if they're able to take advantage
Speaker 7: of that early. The Eagles are smart enough, especially Vic Fangio,
Speaker 7: to account for that. If they see the Dallas attack
Speaker 7: in the middle, then they have to They are able
Speaker 7: to and they will adjust. And you have to be
Speaker 7: able to take what the defense gives you, which opens.
Speaker 6: Up CD and C, George and George.
Speaker 7: And that's exactly what you want to do. And a
Speaker 7: part of that too is like I don't necessarily think
Speaker 7: you need to just pound the run game the entire game. Like,
Speaker 7: I really don't think that that's necessary.
Speaker 1: It's also not going to happen a whole lot of effective.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be effective.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 7: I think if they're rely on quick passes, let that
Speaker 7: set up your run game like that. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 5: Their linebackers are so aggressive and they're so good, right,
Speaker 5: They're so reactive to the run. Right, So if you
Speaker 5: have success in your run game, Zach bond Nikobe, they're
Speaker 5: not waiting right to see if you're handing the ball
Speaker 5: off or doing play action.
Speaker 6: They're shooting the gap. Right. So if you're you have
Speaker 6: you can establish a running game in the beginning.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about four yards of pop, right, I'm not
Speaker 5: talking about no big splash play four yards four yards
Speaker 5: consistent like crap, man, these guys just there, he's running
Speaker 5: into the back of the lineman, but then they're following
Speaker 5: for four yards like all right, a second to six crap.
Speaker 5: If you can do that consistently, then those linebackers have
Speaker 5: no choice but to react to the run. And now
Speaker 5: Jake Ferguson could eat now now actually exactly, and.
Speaker 7: When we're talking about mirroring what Philadelphia does, use Jake
Speaker 7: Ferguson like they do Dallas Goddard because there are so
Speaker 7: many situations where he's wide open the middle field because
Speaker 7: we're the teams are having to account for the smith
Speaker 7: and a j Brown and Goddard is wide open.
Speaker 6: Please do that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, all right, let's talk about the offensive
Speaker 1: line here, and Isaia, you just talked about the defensive front. Yes,
Speaker 1: how good they are and how much they do challenge you.
Speaker 1: But Patrick, I'll throw it to you to start here
Speaker 1: with the five guys up front, everybody being back in
Speaker 1: the full, Is this the game where you finally see
Speaker 1: this offensive line click against a formidable opponent. Because they
Speaker 1: played well against the Raiders for the most part, they
Speaker 1: have not played well against the formid opponent since kuber
Speaker 1: Bebe returned. Can this be the game where they step
Speaker 1: it up and you finally see what you want to
Speaker 1: see out of the investment that you've put on your
Speaker 1: offensive line.
Speaker 6: It can in it better. I'm kind of happy to
Speaker 6: be it has to be, But I will say this.
Speaker 5: Tyler Booker before injury and coming back off of injury,
Speaker 5: now that he has a couple games under his belt,
Speaker 5: he looks like he's getting back into his groove.
Speaker 6: We know that he's he's just a road greater, right,
Speaker 6: so he's going.
Speaker 5: To hold up very well against that Eagles interior defensive
Speaker 5: line Cooper Bebe. He's a couple of games back now,
Speaker 5: I think he gets back into his groove. I think
Speaker 5: the Raiders game being his second game back, that was
Speaker 5: a good way of getting his confidence back to where
Speaker 5: it needs to get. Tyler Smith, I think Tyler Smith's
Speaker 5: going to be Tyler Smith. I just need him to
Speaker 5: kind of get away from the penalties that are kind
Speaker 5: of starting to crop up with him, right So, and
Speaker 5: I know that he can because he's not normally a
Speaker 5: highly penalized guy. But that interior offensive line for the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: I believe it can hold up and it has no
Speaker 5: choice but to. Now the bigger question mark is can
Speaker 5: your tackles hold up? Okay, talk about the addition of Phillips, right,
Speaker 5: so they're stronger. The Eagles are at the edges than
Speaker 5: they were in Week one, where they were heavy in
Speaker 5: the middle and then the edges you were like, eh,
Speaker 5: whatever you got That not the case now. I will
Speaker 5: say there are some promise here going into this game.
Speaker 5: First and foremost, let's talk about Tyler Gotten. Look at
Speaker 5: Tyler Gotten's protection numbers from against the Raiders and he
Speaker 5: allowed only one pressure with no sacks on thirty four
Speaker 5: drop backs. Despite he didn't get a lot of help,
Speaker 5: not a lot of chipwork. Almost eighty percent of the
Speaker 5: time he was one v one, So that's promising. He
Speaker 5: was on his island more than three quarters of the time,
Speaker 5: and he held up well. He only faced Max Crosby
Speaker 5: one v one on two occasions, but no pressures allowed.
Speaker 5: So Tyler guyton Oscar nominations aside, he acquitted himself well
Speaker 5: and now comes a guy like Phillips in this front. Now,
Speaker 5: the bigger question was with Brian Schottenheimer saying that there
Speaker 5: was an open competition at right tackle. His words, his
Speaker 5: words looks like Terren Steele understood the assignment.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: Terrence Steele's numbers against mostly Max Crosby, okay.
Speaker 6: So Terrence Steel overall had.
Speaker 5: Sixteen out of sixteen reps versus Max Crosby, fifteen of
Speaker 5: them were one v one. He only got assistance on
Speaker 5: one of those reps. He only allowed two pressures out
Speaker 5: of those sixteen total reps fifteen one v one and
Speaker 5: no sacks because even the strip fumble that came from
Speaker 5: Tyler Guiten's side could argue that Dak held the ball
Speaker 5: a little too long, whatever the case.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: So that being said, I love what I saw against
Speaker 5: a Max Crosby led defensive end room. That gives me
Speaker 5: very good confidence that you can repeat it against a
Speaker 5: Jalen Phillips led defensive in room.
Speaker 6: But you gotta go and do it.
Speaker 7: There is a word that Isaiah kept referring to last
Speaker 7: week when talking about the Raiders defense outside of Max Crosby,
Speaker 7: and what was that?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: I think that is in large part due to how
Speaker 7: well the offensive line played last week. One thing plays
Speaker 7: into the other thing. And yes, it was a stout
Speaker 7: game from Tyler goiiton it was a stout game from
Speaker 7: Terrence Steel considering going up against Max Crosby. But that
Speaker 7: is one player, and as Isaiah just eloquently put, they
Speaker 7: have several guys that you got to account for and
Speaker 7: worry about, and through the totality of the season, you
Speaker 7: have not seen a very consistent Tyler Guiton. I would
Speaker 7: not expect a very consistent Tyler Gotton in this game
Speaker 7: because of the challenge that's in front of him, and
Speaker 7: that's not to dissuade him. And part of me is like, okay, well,
Speaker 7: if the feeling that the offensive line gets after this
Speaker 7: Raiders game says like, all right, we're those guys. We
Speaker 7: can do this on a week in and week out basis,
Speaker 7: you know, fake it till you make it, sure, absolutely,
Speaker 7: but you have a real test coming in front of you.
Speaker 7: And what we talked about, even if we were able
Speaker 7: to beat the Raiders, and granted I think we would
Speaker 7: have beat the Raiders had we not had a brand
Speaker 7: new look defense, I think that was very much a possibility,
Speaker 7: even with how poorly we were playing. And then you
Speaker 7: get these new guys and now you have a you know,
Speaker 7: a new sense of like, okay, a new look defense,
Speaker 7: this is how we're playing now. Again, that is a
Speaker 7: tough tough thing to say after a team like the Raiders.
Speaker 7: And I don't want to be like, oh, well, it's
Speaker 7: just the Raiders. It's all competition, but you have to
Speaker 7: put it in context of like, these guys are really
Speaker 7: really good that you're going up against it, and you
Speaker 7: have to have that same mentality if your Dallas again
Speaker 7: this week, So you have to come in with that
Speaker 7: same grit determination all of those things, and like I said,
Speaker 7: even if you're not the best one v one, you
Speaker 7: have to fake it till you make it and have
Speaker 7: that confidence that you can do it. So I'm concerned
Speaker 7: for sure going up against this defense. And this feels
Speaker 7: like another one of those games where the Dallas always
Speaker 7: have to be perfect on basically every level team in
Speaker 7: the game. So I do I agree, And you're going
Speaker 7: up against the team. Sorry, you're going up against the
Speaker 7: team that is not playing their best football and still
Speaker 7: winning just about it.
Speaker 1: They're playing their best football on the defensive side, though.
Speaker 1: I mean they've allowed sixteen points since Week eight and
Speaker 1: against two really good offenses Detroit last week they gave
Speaker 1: up seven points. Detroit was unstoppable. They going into that
Speaker 1: and they could not do anything. And if they got
Speaker 1: into the red zone, they knew it was one of
Speaker 1: their few opportunities to score and to put points on
Speaker 1: the board.
Speaker 3: So what did they do.
Speaker 1: They went forward on fourth down instead of kicking field
Speaker 1: goals because they knew field goals wouldn't have gotten it done.
Speaker 6: So I do agree with Josh.
Speaker 5: One thing plays until the other absolutely correct, and we're
Speaker 5: talking about the Raiders, absolutely correct. What I would counter with, though,
Speaker 5: is if these numbers that I was seeing from Tyler
Speaker 5: Guy and particularly Terrence Steele versus Max Crosby, if these
Speaker 5: numbers had a higher percentage of chip blocks and assists,
Speaker 5: then I would be more inclined to say, Okay, well,
Speaker 5: it's more so because the interior defensive line against the
Speaker 5: Raiders were so poor it allowed for the Cowboys to
Speaker 5: throw extra bodies at Max Crosby. Terrence Steele and Tyler
Speaker 5: got and they were doing this in one on one
Speaker 5: owners island with Max Crosby. So while I do agree,
Speaker 5: I would add that context to say what we do
Speaker 5: agree upon is that consistency needs to happen. They've been
Speaker 5: inconsistent both of those guys, so they need to replicate
Speaker 5: what they did last week. But considering who they were
Speaker 5: on an island against last week, Max Crosby is.
Speaker 3: A whole dude, So I'm Phillips is a dude.
Speaker 6: Phillips is not better than Max.
Speaker 5: Noun facts. No, listen this, I just I have confidence,
Speaker 5: I truly do. I think that our offense will have success.
Speaker 5: You're gonna take some else, You're gonna take some sacks.
Speaker 5: You're gonna take some tip balls. You're gonna're gonna you're
Speaker 5: gonna take some l's right. It's gonna be a battle royal.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be like a game of Pong, going back
Speaker 5: and forth. Okay, you're not gonna feel as if there's
Speaker 5: just this wave of Yeah, it's not gonna be a
Speaker 5: wave of just all you're just dominating the egos. You're
Speaker 5: gonna have a negative play. You're gonna have positive player negative.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be back and forth. I have confidence, But
Speaker 5: this team has to They have to do two things.
Speaker 5: His offense we're talking about. They have to play as
Speaker 5: a unit up front. It can't be individuals. And you
Speaker 5: have to have emotional intelligence. You have to approach the
Speaker 5: games as a one unit of dogs, like you gotta
Speaker 5: go out there with the mentality we're about to put
Speaker 5: these casts through the ground.
Speaker 6: Yes, you have to have this.
Speaker 5: You have to have this arrogance in this this approach
Speaker 5: to the game. But you have to be able to
Speaker 5: know when to cut it off, like when that whistle blows.
Speaker 5: You gotta be able to turn the switch off. Okay,
Speaker 5: it's not gonna be no clap on all right, like
Speaker 5: we're doing here, but you gotta be able to turn
Speaker 5: it off.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I'm excited. I'm excited because you're gonna find out who
Speaker 5: the heck you are this week.
Speaker 6: I liked it. I like that.
Speaker 7: I like those words.
Speaker 1: A lot of different things gonna happen throughout the course
Speaker 1: of this week leading into that matchup with Philadelphia coming
Speaker 1: up on Sunday Tomorrow. We're gonna flip it to the
Speaker 1: offensive preview for the Philadelphia Eagles taking on this new
Speaker 1: look Dallas defense. Can what Dallas did I at the
Speaker 1: trade deadline and getting them back from injury?
Speaker 3: Can that help out what this.
Speaker 1: Team is going to do against the Philadelphia offense, who
Speaker 1: has not been playing their best football as of late.
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