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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, September twenty of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Season fourteen, episode number forty four. Welcome to a new
Speaker 1: edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. Great show lined up for you guys. Today,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the Seattle defense. Dave gave us
Speaker 1: a great report on the Seattle offense yesterday. Today we
Speaker 1: go to their defense. We'll talk about how it matches
Speaker 1: up with the Cowboys offense in the upcoming game. This Sunday,
Speaker 1: Cowboys will take on the Seahawks in Seattle. It is
Speaker 1: a three twenty five kickoff. I think it is in
Speaker 1: a low cool time here in Dallas, so you make
Speaker 1: sure you want to want to catch that. How's everybody
Speaker 1: doing today? Awesome? Well? Good? Yeah? One time? Is it
Speaker 1: over there in Seattle? It'll be one twenty five, wake
Speaker 1: up early, man, Yeah I didn't. I I had that
Speaker 1: same thing happened yesterday. I was like, oh yeah, three thirty,
Speaker 1: three thirty kick first, bus won't leave till one blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And then I realized that it'll wake up
Speaker 1: at six thirty. Probably. Yeah, you'll be like, something's not right.
Speaker 1: I want to say our bus leaves it like ten fifteen,
Speaker 1: but he will. Waking up at six Third's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. Like I woke up at seven in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: but I went and had breakfast and my relax change.
Speaker 1: It'll be three three thirty game, it'll you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But like, but I'll have less time because
Speaker 1: for a one o'clock game, we'll be on the move
Speaker 1: by ten. Yeah, but your body, you will fake it's new.
Speaker 1: But it's not about my body. It's about like do
Speaker 1: I have can I go work out? Can I wake up? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine. Whatever. This is one of those
Speaker 1: goals because we never just you just told the fans
Speaker 1: to make sure and check out the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be listening to this, but they might not
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Speaker 1: the time. Everybody know somebody has it tattooed? Everybody, if
Speaker 1: somebody somebody has not everybody, it's twenty I mean, as
Speaker 1: long as we're off the rails, let me, let's just
Speaker 1: go the ditch. It's a pet peeve of mine when
Speaker 1: people like tweet at me, like what times the game,
Speaker 1: what channels it on? Blah blah. I'm like, it's twenty eighteen. Man,
Speaker 1: you got a phone. You're tweeting me on a phone
Speaker 1: that gives you the power to look up the answers
Speaker 1: to all these questions. I just want you to go
Speaker 1: to them. I don't know. And all that being said,
Speaker 1: I still like to give our fans it's fine, extra
Speaker 1: help if they needed to know that. Cool, all right,
Speaker 1: everybody good now starting? Everybody good now? Yeah, all right, good, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. I also I want to let
Speaker 1: you guys know what we're gonna try to ease in
Speaker 1: some phone calls. I know Nick is Nick, and I
Speaker 1: got a couple of tweets from people like asking or
Speaker 1: maybe one person asking for more opportunities for questions. So
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Speaker 1: be clear, I mean, if we jumped at every person
Speaker 1: that had some kind of request on something, we'd all
Speaker 1: be kicked off the show a couple of times. No,
Speaker 1: I know, so, and we just try to accommodate where
Speaker 1: we can. Yeah, probably a good. Yeah. We get into
Speaker 1: our show sometimes and we forget about phone calls because
Speaker 1: we can start talking. So let's go. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the injury report from yesterday. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: notable names on there. Malie Collins did not practice with
Speaker 1: a knee injury. Sean Lee did not practice with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. Xavier Woods was limited with a hamstring. Talk
Speaker 1: to me about those three guys in particular. Well, let's
Speaker 1: just spin it forward to today. Malie Collins was not
Speaker 1: at practice. Actually, MALIEK. Collins and Travis Frederick are the
Speaker 1: only absences from practice today. Sean Lee does not look
Speaker 1: like a guy who's going to go through a full practice.
Speaker 1: He was doing rehab, you know, strength and conditioning rehab.
Speaker 1: But he was there. He was in uniform. Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: was there. Look good to go. He's made full yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was full impressively. Xavier Woods and Dayton Jones were there,
Speaker 1: which we won't know the extent of it till the
Speaker 1: report comes out at probably three, but it's a good
Speaker 1: sign for the time being. And you know, if Dayton
Speaker 1: Jones being able to do something, could play this week.
Speaker 1: So if MALIEK. Collins sits down, that's your eight guys,
Speaker 1: you know, eight lineman active again. You know, obviously you're
Speaker 1: you're dropping off if you don't have MALIEK. Collins to
Speaker 1: Dayton and Jones, but they like him for a reason,
Speaker 1: and he's kind of a similar type player. He's a
Speaker 1: little bit more undersized, but because wasn't he a defensive end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was drafted to be like a three four end.
Speaker 1: I believe that's kind of a tackle by the Packers.
Speaker 1: So so are you guys. Can see Brian Price was
Speaker 1: cut the other day too, Yeah, and I heard. I mean,
Speaker 1: you never know there. I think there's interest there. They
Speaker 1: liked him, they didn't want to lose him in the
Speaker 1: first place, but did cut him. They well, not only
Speaker 1: did they cut him, but they gotta make a roster
Speaker 1: spot for David Irving in two weeks anyway, So I
Speaker 1: wonder how they weigh that, Like, is it worth bringing
Speaker 1: this guy back if we're trying to get David Irving
Speaker 1: back on the roster anyway? We like grade Daniel Ross
Speaker 1: always kills me. And they do that stuff. They cut
Speaker 1: guys that they like, you know, I mean like they
Speaker 1: like outside, they like everybody like they don't I mean,
Speaker 1: at least what they say publicly. Yeah, well no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a hard time believing that they like
Speaker 1: Brian Price. But is he just like like him as
Speaker 1: a person. No, No, like him as a player. But
Speaker 1: like there's like, and then there's like, no, of course
Speaker 1: we can't cut necessary. You can cut a guy you like.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't, so I don't know. It's something
Speaker 1: to watch. They might be interested in bringing him back,
Speaker 1: but you know, if Daytone Jones can play, and you've
Speaker 1: got Daniel Ross and Tyrone Crawford and I'm totally spacing
Speaker 1: on the other guy. Oh Andre Antoine Woods. Gee, another
Speaker 1: tackle that's coming too. Who's that David Irving? Well, that's
Speaker 1: what I meant. And that's so if if David Irving
Speaker 1: can come back, and somebody asked me that yesterday, if
Speaker 1: he can come back the day after the tech Um
Speaker 1: the Lions game, that's literally a week and a half
Speaker 1: from now. Like, maybe you don't bother bringing back a
Speaker 1: friend roster guy if you just got to cut him
Speaker 1: in ten days. Anyway, this defense is going to get
Speaker 1: better the next couple of weeks, which is amazing to
Speaker 1: say when you start talking about personnel. Now we always
Speaker 1: talk about this on the show too. You just never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen between now and then some
Speaker 1: of those Sometimes those things kind of level off. You know,
Speaker 1: you you gain a guy and somebody gets hurt or
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, obviously Malie Collins right now
Speaker 1: is hurt. So those things happen. They got two games
Speaker 1: to play, so we'll see where they are in two
Speaker 1: weeks when it's time to add David Irving back to
Speaker 1: the roster. And we'll also see if he's ready to
Speaker 1: play immediately. He didn't go to training camp at all,
Speaker 1: so is he ready to even play where he gets
Speaker 1: back into well he has he is able to work
Speaker 1: out here right and end the football things in right?
Speaker 1: How long? Yeah? And you're right in LA was it
Speaker 1: last year? Depending? I mean came back did well, but
Speaker 1: he was also a training king, right, Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna. I mean, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a freak guy. Yeah, or ways than one,
Speaker 1: and he's he's a good player. He comes out there
Speaker 1: and he can just play. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's encouraging that he's here. I was like, waiting to
Speaker 1: let you finish. You you had it like you kept going.
Speaker 1: I was like that was somebody tweeted at us the
Speaker 1: other day. That was your line of the free takes
Speaker 1: a freak to get a free. They come out at night,
Speaker 1: they do let's go all right. Um, So they had
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that were full. We talked about those,
Speaker 1: Cavon Frasier, Randy Gregory, Datson Jones, and Daniel Ross. Looks
Speaker 1: like from the injury report, really that the guys keep
Speaker 1: an eye on the rest of the week Armie Collins
Speaker 1: and Sean Lee and presume that Xavier is going to
Speaker 1: get even more time as the week goes on, and
Speaker 1: he should be hopeful ready to go on Sunday. Xavier
Speaker 1: said on Tuesday, I believe like he's like, I'm good
Speaker 1: to go, and you can't. You never want on one
Speaker 1: hundred percent trust a player's evaluation of it. But limited
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Back at practice Thursday, and he says he's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean that's it's trending in the right direction. So
Speaker 1: I don't worry about him so much. Uh, I hope.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Lee. I said that yesterday, Like
Speaker 1: missing Wednesday for Shaun Lee is not a big deal
Speaker 1: for me. I mean, Romo didn't practice for like three
Speaker 1: years in a row. On Wednesday, it felt like, um,
Speaker 1: you just lose the Thanksgiving Day game horribly. Sure, Well, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean it's you. We're for practice. We're for practice.
Speaker 1: But I'll be curious to see what the injury. If
Speaker 1: he's a DNP today, then I kind of get worried.
Speaker 1: If he's If he's limited today, then it's fine, all right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take an early break here. Oh, would you
Speaker 1: get worried though if he doesn't practice two days in
Speaker 1: a row, like one hundred percent completely shut down with
Speaker 1: a hamstring With an answering, yeah, absolutely, well yeah, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying as far as okay, based on what we've
Speaker 1: seen now with let's say, when shan Lee comes out
Speaker 1: of the field and what they're able to do compared
Speaker 1: to last year, I didn't mean worried that is going
Speaker 1: to fall apart. I just meant worried that he won't
Speaker 1: be able to play. But that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that and I love shan Lee and I'm always like
Speaker 1: wanting to keep him, sorry Derek, wanting to give him
Speaker 1: very safe. But I am feeling so excited and confident
Speaker 1: about the linebackers right now, especially after seeing them what
Speaker 1: they can do with shan Lee being off the field
Speaker 1: and the way that compared to last year, how it's
Speaker 1: not really affecting it. Where shan Lee goes out and
Speaker 1: then the defense goes to hell. There is like I
Speaker 1: don't know, reflection there. No, it was perfect. Actually, um,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that they're better equipped to handle that
Speaker 1: than they were last year. But I'd still rather have
Speaker 1: him than that so well, yeah, but what we've seen
Speaker 1: from him so far, I don't know, he's been off
Speaker 1: his game lately and I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: really with him. But well, I you know, let's not
Speaker 1: forget that he was off to fill the last two drives,
Speaker 1: you know, of the game, and that's when the Giants
Speaker 1: kind of started to move the ball. So I'm including
Speaker 1: the hands team on the on side kick. He was
Speaker 1: out there on the second on side kick, but he
Speaker 1: was not out there the first one. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't have to bring this up for the millionth time,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have much of a preseason, a little
Speaker 1: bit of rust, which oh oh no, he's rust. He
Speaker 1: didn't play while he's still there, and I'd rather have
Speaker 1: him get reacclimated on the field while he's still making
Speaker 1: plays than be unavailable. But then the question becomes, and
Speaker 1: then the question becomes and I always thought that this
Speaker 1: could be something that could factor in when you're not
Speaker 1: practicing as much during the preseason, you're not playing during
Speaker 1: the preseason, didn't do you open yourself up to once
Speaker 1: you are playing more injury soft tissue injuries like campstrings.
Speaker 1: So it could go both ways, right, we can do
Speaker 1: this for eternity if we want to. My point was,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, we know Sean Lee prone to injury,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. My point was, Okay, right now, I'm
Speaker 1: not freaking out as I would in the past, based
Speaker 1: on the linebackers that we have, Sean Jalen Smith playing
Speaker 1: the way that his Layton kind of catching up and
Speaker 1: playing up to that level as well. So they have
Speaker 1: that was just four. They have four linebackers playing at
Speaker 1: a very impressive level even without Sean Lee, which is
Speaker 1: something that I don't remember the last time that you
Speaker 1: don't put Joe in that in that are Oh so
Speaker 1: who the four you mentioned Joe, Damien, Jalen and then
Speaker 1: um probably and um like Laton Vanderish. I mean like
Speaker 1: he's playing well for this small sample size. He's getting
Speaker 1: right right, So yeah, all right, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our break. Let's take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna get into the Seattle defense. Dave's
Speaker 1: gonna give a scouttering report. We're gonna talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about how they match up between the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: and the Seattle defense. With that, when we come right back,
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Speaker 1: The Break Life from the s WBC Morgan Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. We're talking Cowboys and Seahawks. Before we get
Speaker 1: to Dave's assessment of the Seahawk defense, Let's take a
Speaker 1: phone call. We got a call from Awards in San Diego. George,
Speaker 1: what up? Hey, what's going on guys? For all? Good
Speaker 1: morning Ambery. So just a quick, uh, just a quick,
Speaker 1: quick little note here. So I was watching the Seattle
Speaker 1: games against the Bears, and I don't know, to me,
Speaker 1: it just seems like Earl Thomas wasn't really playing that hard.
Speaker 1: Did you guys think that maybe he's trying to save
Speaker 1: himself or is that something that you know, maybe he
Speaker 1: was just you know, trying to like not put not
Speaker 1: play as hard, to try to get that trade because
Speaker 1: we know that after this week things might change. And
Speaker 1: the last thing is um Dak Prescott. Me personally, I'm
Speaker 1: really happy with the way he's playing, and I actually
Speaker 1: think that we will we will see some improvement, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the season. And he just seems
Speaker 1: to always play big and big games. Okay, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call. Um, I mean it's a it's your opinion.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how anybody can be really
Speaker 1: happy with how he's playing. I don't think the offense
Speaker 1: is one of the worst in the league, and um,
Speaker 1: you know they've become one dimensional a little bit. So
Speaker 1: I think he I agree, I think he'll be better
Speaker 1: And I don't know about it. I don't know. Does
Speaker 1: he have a track record of playing big and big games.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. He's only one in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and I won some big games as a rookie.
Speaker 1: He won some big games. Honestly, one of his best
Speaker 1: games a game that game in the playoffs. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: I thought he played really well in that game. Personally,
Speaker 1: that's just my Yeah, I'm he's seeing I mean, Romo
Speaker 1: should have played, But you know that's my opinion. Go
Speaker 1: back to that, and it's getting stronger rather by the day.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I honestly, I don't know if
Speaker 1: that would have made a difference. And I told this,
Speaker 1: I think Amber and I were having this conversation one day.
Speaker 1: I was like everybody that keeps throwing up Romo Romo
Speaker 1: It's not like Romo didn't have opportunities in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: This wasn't like Romo was you know, he just this
Speaker 1: was the first year he actually got to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and then it was taken from him. Like he's had
Speaker 1: opportunities in the playoffs before and they hadn't gotten passed
Speaker 1: a game and so they've got he had what two
Speaker 1: playoff wins. So I mean, it's not like and the
Speaker 1: fact matter is he was playing the in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the best quarterback in the league. So I mean it
Speaker 1: is what it is. Oh man, but we're back there.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go back. I'm just saying we
Speaker 1: could do that. I'm just saying we could go back,
Speaker 1: and you know, that thing's been kind of buried. But
Speaker 1: to play, I mean, you look back and you think
Speaker 1: about that team and how good that team was and
Speaker 1: how that team was sort of built for Romo to beat.
Speaker 1: Do you think Romo would have been healthy if he
Speaker 1: was her quarterback? No health, yes, But if he would
Speaker 1: have been if you'd have brought him back in week
Speaker 1: eight or nine, whatever, that was. What makes you think
Speaker 1: by the playoffs he would have been healthy because history
Speaker 1: didn't say he would have been. I mean I would
Speaker 1: have just played him. I would have just played him.
Speaker 1: Whatever her you take him, I'll throw bag back in.
Speaker 1: Nick said, it's Nick said, that issue is dead. That
Speaker 1: issue is wearing it's wearing a Michael Jackson read let
Speaker 1: their jacket and dancing around like that is how dead
Speaker 1: that is? Okay, iron what go ahead? Kind he's dead too? What? Sorry?
Speaker 1: In the music video, he's not. He lives for um. Sorry. Ironically,
Speaker 1: off the air, we were like, let's just get the
Speaker 1: call out of the way so we can get into
Speaker 1: the Seattle stuff. Oops. Well but that that first part
Speaker 1: we'll get get us in. Yeah, and that's actually I
Speaker 1: thought Earl Thomas actually that should have been challenged. I mean,
Speaker 1: I nobody but Earl Thomas knows the inner workings of
Speaker 1: his mind. Maybe he's doing that, but uh no, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. He's got eleven tackles and a pick
Speaker 1: through two games after missing everything in the off season,
Speaker 1: like not even ota um and I'm pro football focus
Speaker 1: is not the gospel. I get that. But they rank
Speaker 1: him as the number one safety in the NFL through
Speaker 1: through two weeks, and yeah, let's just start it with there.
Speaker 1: His counterpart, who people don't know. People are so focused
Speaker 1: on Cam Chancellor that they don't know about Bradley McDougald.
Speaker 1: He's ranked number three in the league. He's got uh three, No,
Speaker 1: he's got two interceptions. He had two picks in the
Speaker 1: first game against Denver, and he batted the ball up
Speaker 1: that Shaquille Griffin intercepted the other night. So he's got
Speaker 1: three game changing plays. And that's really came on Frasier
Speaker 1: on that list at all. And I'm not really laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm not joking about our list of safeties. I mean,
Speaker 1: he because I don't think so, because he's got sacks,
Speaker 1: he's got some tackles, he's got some plays I don't believe,
Speaker 1: so I would guess that is miss tackles probably, yeah,
Speaker 1: you probably gotta get picks to do that, because I'm guessing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But that's really uh, this a lot like the Giants.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks. Game changers are all in the back, not
Speaker 1: all because they got good They got some good players
Speaker 1: up front. But these safeties are these safeties are really special.
Speaker 1: Earl Earl Thomas looks like Earl to me. Bradley McDougald
Speaker 1: is having himself a really nice season. He as good
Speaker 1: as Cam Chancellor. Does he do the same kinds of
Speaker 1: things as Cam Chancel. I don't know, I don't. I
Speaker 1: mean Cam Chancellor was an amazing player, and he's he's
Speaker 1: more like he is. You always say like, oh, safeties
Speaker 1: are interchangeable, Like Cam Chanceller was a strong safety. He
Speaker 1: was a thumper. This guy doesn't hit like that, but
Speaker 1: he does the job. And he's very instinctive, Like he
Speaker 1: can cut in on these plays in the backfield and
Speaker 1: bring a guy down for three yards instead of letting
Speaker 1: him get past him for twelve. He's definitely not afraid
Speaker 1: to tackle. But I don't want to compare anybody to Cam.
Speaker 1: I loved Cam Chancellor. Um, So that's where this thing starts,
Speaker 1: because honestly, outside of Frank Clark, I am not afraid
Speaker 1: of the Seahawks pass rush at all. It's it's fine
Speaker 1: Geron Red. They drafted him out of Alabama to kind
Speaker 1: of be a space eater. Quentin Jefferson is your left end.
Speaker 1: Nazair Jones. I don't think he's related to Nasir Jones
Speaker 1: of Illmatic fame, but he's there the rest of this though.
Speaker 1: Like again, Frank Clark's a really good player. But outside
Speaker 1: of that, this looks very familiar to what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: used to do when they we're talent deficient. Like they
Speaker 1: brought in bar kivous Mingo, who's a draft bust of
Speaker 1: all draft busts. He's there. He's not terrible, but it's
Speaker 1: that classic like, oh, he's got a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: Let's see if he can do something for us. We
Speaker 1: don't have anything better. Dion Jordan, the guy from the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: he's here too, for the same reason. He does some
Speaker 1: stand up stuff. He plays it in but he'll stand
Speaker 1: up like it's just kind of like, oh, we're kind
Speaker 1: of talent deficient. Case in point Michael Kendricks, who they
Speaker 1: got him listed at outside linebacker, but isn't he really
Speaker 1: more of an insider? If you catch my drift, you know, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I like it. I thought of that joke
Speaker 1: yesterday and I wanted to use it good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's there. I feel like they're kind of hodgepodging
Speaker 1: it together. But the thing is is they've got an
Speaker 1: elite player at every level of the defense. You got
Speaker 1: Frank Clark, who's probably gonna be Tyron Smith's main assignment.
Speaker 1: You got Bobby Wagner, who, when he's healthy, look is
Speaker 1: one of the best middle linebackers in the game. And
Speaker 1: then you have a role. I don't want to put
Speaker 1: McDougald in that category, but your safety play is really great. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Earl as a Hall of Famer. Kill Griffin's pretty good too.
Speaker 1: He's the guy to watch. Earl Thomas Hell yeah, hell yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I think so, but I'm biased. Got six Pro Bowls?
Speaker 1: How many All Pros? I don't know. Woodson had five,
Speaker 1: and he won three Super Bowls. On that I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was he was a safety. We're seeing that
Speaker 1: with John Lynch. John Lynch is getting a little bit
Speaker 1: more I think love and he's gonna get in I
Speaker 1: think soon, because it's not just because he's a good safety,
Speaker 1: but because he was on an all time I mean,
Speaker 1: he probably will, especially if he if he goes for
Speaker 1: another team and does well, you know he will. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying if he does, if he does, hey, he
Speaker 1: will go. And this is something DOESNA doesn't believe in
Speaker 1: love attraction, But yesterday he gave in and put it
Speaker 1: out to the universe. You did you did so expect
Speaker 1: what did I said? I don't remember what I said.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna you're like, you know what, I'm putting it
Speaker 1: out there, like I don't believe in this crap, but
Speaker 1: if it helps, then it helps. Fine. What did you
Speaker 1: decide you're gonna do? If it's a it's your call,
Speaker 1: like a cookie or something like that, But you ought
Speaker 1: to do something a little more elaborate than that. Oh,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll do something. The frosted cookie cake with like
Speaker 1: an earl Thomas motif is not enough that. Okay, get me, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll decorate the cake somehow, but come get me with
Speaker 1: the et. Do you want cookie cake or ice cream cake? Um,
Speaker 1: let's go with cookie because you know you don't need
Speaker 1: to refrigerate ice cream cake or mean cookie? Can we
Speaker 1: gotta eat it here on the shelf. Yeah, okay, we
Speaker 1: needed to be just a regular cook. This is getting
Speaker 1: out of control and it's your fault. You did this.
Speaker 1: Here's so I don't know. Honestly, I love Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite players, um defensively in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Over the last you know, ten or so years I
Speaker 1: watched him, and he's dealing with an injury. He does
Speaker 1: not look like the Bobby Wagner I'm used to watching.
Speaker 1: He misdiagnosed some plays in Denver. He was not everywhere,
Speaker 1: which is what you expect from those types of guys,
Speaker 1: a lot like what Shaun Lee has looked like like
Speaker 1: it still better than your average linebacker, but not that
Speaker 1: just unstoppable force that makes every tackle and diagnoses every play.
Speaker 1: And that's probably why the Broncos gashed these guys for
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty six yards on the ground. Um.
Speaker 1: I believe they averaged four point six yards per carry
Speaker 1: in that game? Yes, four point six? Yeah, now I think,
Speaker 1: well't go ahead. Do you think that on the Hawk
Speaker 1: Hour or whatever they have over there? Yeah, you take
Speaker 1: over with something or like Seattle Crew or whatever they
Speaker 1: called flang in Seahawks. Yeah, I don't know. Shaun Lee
Speaker 1: does not look like yeah you Zeke like Zeke is
Speaker 1: not the Zeki was last year. He doesn't look like
Speaker 1: that through the first two weeks, which it gets. So
Speaker 1: what they're saying, the difficult thing is which team, which
Speaker 1: defense is this? Because in Chicago they held the Bears
Speaker 1: to three point two yards per carry. Jordan Howard nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing doing, and that was without Wagner. And kJ right.
Speaker 1: So that leads you to think, like, well, Mitchell Trubisky
Speaker 1: not a very trustworthy quarterback, not a passing game that
Speaker 1: just absolutely terrifies you. And if that's the case, can
Speaker 1: they shut your running game down? Exactly right. Sounds a
Speaker 1: lot like the Cowboys. And that's where you would think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have to go in this game and be
Speaker 1: aggressive like they were in the last game and go
Speaker 1: after their cornerbacks because you don't have Richard Sherman there anymore,
Speaker 1: So go for go at them a little bit. See
Speaker 1: what you can have happened. Now. Of course you got
Speaker 1: to do with the safeties, but I still think you
Speaker 1: got to be aggressive throwing the ball at least early
Speaker 1: if you want to have a chance of listening. It's
Speaker 1: not our weather report. I was looking at that sunny
Speaker 1: sixty five high for fifteen. I can't wait, bat. I'm
Speaker 1: packing a hoodie this weekend. It's gonna be awesome. Are
Speaker 1: we gonna be wearing the beanie? No, it's not beanie
Speaker 1: Beanie Beanie weathers when it dips below like forty five? No,
Speaker 1: well no, because I like wearing beanies. Yeah what sixty five? Yes? Stop,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be nice Seattle's Here's here's the thing though,
Speaker 1: to your point, Derek Shaquille Griffin is a very solid cornerback.
Speaker 1: He can only be in one spot and the other
Speaker 1: one is is up for grabs because Trey Flowers is
Speaker 1: battling an injury he hurt himself against Denver. Nico Thorpe
Speaker 1: and a Keen King are the guys there. They're not
Speaker 1: anything special, but like neither of these Cowboys wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So again and who who steps up into that? Uh?
Speaker 1: And the other thing too is the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: third safety by the name of Tedrick Thompson Um who
Speaker 1: actually played with Cheeto at Colorado. Very good player who
Speaker 1: they brought him onto the field because of their depth issues.
Speaker 1: They played a lot of three safety dime sets like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys like to do. Yeah, and he looked really
Speaker 1: good doing it. So I wonder if they incorporate that
Speaker 1: into their game plan this week to make up for
Speaker 1: the cornerback issues. All things being equal, this is as
Speaker 1: beatable as the Seahawks have looked on defense in a while.
Speaker 1: Their twentieth overall their nineteenth against the past. They're giving
Speaker 1: up two hundred and fifty four yards per game, and
Speaker 1: that's so that's case Keenum and Trubisky, which you'd like
Speaker 1: to think Dak is not a huge step down from that,
Speaker 1: right m I know, Case Keenum had a great year
Speaker 1: with the Vikings. I don't believe in him as like
Speaker 1: this other worldly quarterback he threw three picks in that
Speaker 1: game against the Sea does have better receivers. I would
Speaker 1: think absolutely Emmanuel Sanders did whatever he wanted to against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in Week one, and that that's a really
Speaker 1: good point. They're also, I think Chicago's more kin the
Speaker 1: Cowboys from a standpoint of the quarterback and the receivers.
Speaker 1: They're giving up one sixteen against the run, which is
Speaker 1: twenty third. So I don't know. I think this is
Speaker 1: a better defense than the stats say through two weeks.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, there's still guys on here that
Speaker 1: are used to winning. Earl is a difference maker. Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: I assume he's gonna keep getting healthy and he'll look
Speaker 1: like himself at some point. Frank Clark is probably going
Speaker 1: to sign a big time money deal one of these days,
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, so, it would be a
Speaker 1: mistake to take these guys lightly. But I'm interested to see, like, again,
Speaker 1: are they played the run really well against Chicago? Can
Speaker 1: the Cowboys run the ball if Seattle's committed to taking
Speaker 1: it away? They did all right against the Giants, but
Speaker 1: they weren't amazing. But I think, as is always going
Speaker 1: to be the case, that's going to be the storyline.
Speaker 1: It's can the Cowboys impose their will? I'm a lean
Speaker 1: toward thinking they can. To be honest with you, at
Speaker 1: least to some degree, Like, I think that they can
Speaker 1: finish this game with their highest rushing total that's not
Speaker 1: that high of a well, well, they've run against his
Speaker 1: defense and it was better, so so they can. They can.
Speaker 1: Seattle is not a place where Dallas has been intimidated
Speaker 1: to run the ball since Zeke has been here, so
Speaker 1: or playing that team, they've him intimidated to run the ball.
Speaker 1: It's a thing I can't quite Yeah no, and that
Speaker 1: thank you. That's the perfect segue because I struggle with
Speaker 1: this and I actually, like I tried to ask people
Speaker 1: all day yesterday on the record, and off is Wagner's
Speaker 1: the type of linebacker that kills you if you can't
Speaker 1: get to him. And that's what Travis Frederick was always
Speaker 1: so good at it. He was like he was never
Speaker 1: late to his second level block. He could watch that
Speaker 1: guy out of the play. They could not do it
Speaker 1: to Keekley and it killed them. Can they do it
Speaker 1: to Wagner? But on the flip side, I don't think
Speaker 1: Wagner looked amazing in week one, so maybe he won't
Speaker 1: be on the screws as much as he usually is.
Speaker 1: That's that's something to watch. I think if they can
Speaker 1: handle Bobby Wagner, I think they'll run the ball like Gangbusters, honestly,
Speaker 1: And if they can't, it might be tough. So Joe Looney,
Speaker 1: this is your week. You can Connor Williams and Zach
Speaker 1: Martin obviously, but I'm not here about him. Yeah, it'll
Speaker 1: be fine. All right, We're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 1: Come back. We're gonna get some calls. Give us a call.
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Speaker 1: we're taking phone calls eight eight eight five two two
Speaker 1: nine seven Again eight eight eight eight five five two
Speaker 1: two nine seven. We got a call from TC. You
Speaker 1: just have real quickly, just one last thing I might
Speaker 1: have touched on it. But this team doesn't get sacks,
Speaker 1: but they do get takeaways. Three sacks in two games
Speaker 1: not great. Five takeaways in two games pretty good. So
Speaker 1: anyway that is I just broke down at play yesterday.
Speaker 1: Well I'm posting it today. But Errol Thomas, of course,
Speaker 1: And I mean, his instincts are amazing, and that was
Speaker 1: an interception that he got. I forgot what game, But
Speaker 1: the way that he reacts and that's that kind of
Speaker 1: that is pretty scary. When you talk about Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and his passes, how he throws those, just having earl
Speaker 1: back there and being able to have good instincts and
Speaker 1: good hands, I mean, that could be a really big problem.
Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder what Dak's trigger finger is gonna
Speaker 1: look like with those two safeties back there. You know,
Speaker 1: we said he was has a tent on in week one.
Speaker 1: Can't I can't imagine he's gonna be just firing the
Speaker 1: ball off. How far are they back there? That's the key,
Speaker 1: that's what running the ball. And the other point of
Speaker 1: that is, I don't I don't think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: playing too deep, right, They're gonna one guy's still gonna
Speaker 1: have to patrol both sides. So if you can create
Speaker 1: enough enough stuff on both sides where he can't make
Speaker 1: a decision until the last second, then that helps you
Speaker 1: a lot. Because they're gonna have that eighth guy in
Speaker 1: the box. There's no doubt about it. Every week the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to see that there will be an
Speaker 1: extra safety in the box or a safety in the box. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get a phone call. We got a call
Speaker 1: from TC and DC TC. What up, man, Derek. I
Speaker 1: don't even have to look at the analytics on this
Speaker 1: show because when you and Nikki used to be in
Speaker 1: the hall close that I could call whatever I want
Speaker 1: to day. Yeah, it gets kind of tough, man. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean that's just kudos to you guys. This is
Speaker 1: AWFU obviously means doing a great job. I'll make it quick.
Speaker 1: I've been watching a lot of film on Dak or
Speaker 1: watching the last couple of games, and if maybe you
Speaker 1: guys can elaborate on this, I think that Dak plays
Speaker 1: his best football really when he stays in the pocket.
Speaker 1: And I know we've been talking about him running and
Speaker 1: being able to throw on the run, and really I
Speaker 1: feel like that's been out of necessity. But some of
Speaker 1: the best throws he made last week and in previous
Speaker 1: games has been when he's been in the pocket he
Speaker 1: could trust it, and really that's when he's been able
Speaker 1: to throw the ball down field. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: see you guys saw the same thing, because I've been
Speaker 1: watching a lot of that and it seems like when
Speaker 1: he escapes, we get all this credit for him throwing
Speaker 1: throwing on the run, and that's great, but I've seen
Speaker 1: some of his better throws have been the ones where
Speaker 1: he stays in the pocket, makes his drops, bigs his reads,
Speaker 1: and throws the football. And I think if he stays
Speaker 1: in the pocket this game, our receivers are gonna look
Speaker 1: a whole lot better because that means he's not taking
Speaker 1: the side of the field away from himself. And I
Speaker 1: hang up, politic, guys, stick care all right, thanks for call.
Speaker 1: That's a tough one. I understand your point the throw.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we think because he runs the
Speaker 1: ball well, that he throws the ball well when he's running,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't know if that's always
Speaker 1: the case, but yeah, he's probably making better throws when
Speaker 1: he stands there. That's that's why they teach good you know,
Speaker 1: footwork and mechanics. But I don't know, I think you
Speaker 1: saw the difference there. He's got to be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball and be a guy that that can
Speaker 1: move like that. And typically when he is keeping the ball,
Speaker 1: there's there's really no throw option there. It's just the
Speaker 1: guy's blocking and he's running and he's got fifteen twenty yards.
Speaker 1: So well, I think those are two different conversations though,
Speaker 1: because I I mean, he is remarkably accurate on the run.
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, the play he diagrammed for us
Speaker 1: in the offseason with Terrence where he ran right up
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage and got it to him.
Speaker 1: Or even training camp, you know, we there was so
Speaker 1: much angst about his downfield ball and when he would
Speaker 1: throw it, well, it all almost always seems like he
Speaker 1: was rolling out and would just fire something off. But
Speaker 1: I think there's a point to that too that he
Speaker 1: doesn't like he's more accurate than he gets credit for
Speaker 1: from the pocket. A lot of times I think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, again, the first throw of the game to
Speaker 1: Hearns on the slant, which it wasn't well defended, but
Speaker 1: it was right where it needed to be the Deontay
Speaker 1: Thompson throw, and he did it all through his rookie year,
Speaker 1: Like he can make those throws. My thing is like,
Speaker 1: what happens that messes him up? Though? Like, is it
Speaker 1: when he's not comfortable with his pocket? Does he have
Speaker 1: to feel completely confident in his protection? What is it exactly?
Speaker 1: Because we all know he can look terrible too. I
Speaker 1: don't have a great answer for that. I don't know
Speaker 1: if this, if this is right or wrong, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But going back to that, and we've seen plenty of
Speaker 1: times where he has stayed in the pocket for a
Speaker 1: while and it gets to a point where okay, it's
Speaker 1: too late and whatever play you make, it's not good.
Speaker 1: But I think that maybe right now he's just needing
Speaker 1: that extra time to think and make the play. And
Speaker 1: when he runs with the ball and throws it, I
Speaker 1: feel that going back to that confidence level is just
Speaker 1: keeping him i movement and just not having him still
Speaker 1: there and just overthinking. I think that as soon as
Speaker 1: he starts running, and from what I've seen so far,
Speaker 1: this is what I imagine, he runs and he keeps
Speaker 1: him active and he still has time to think and
Speaker 1: then make that throw. When he just sits there, he's
Speaker 1: just overthinking too much, in my opinion, and then that's
Speaker 1: when he makes the throw and usually it doesn't turn
Speaker 1: out good. Well, you can't also underestimate the power of
Speaker 1: his ability to give receivers more time, and that happens
Speaker 1: when he gets outside the pocket. So you're talking about
Speaker 1: it yesterday talking about the flip side with Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Like when he moves around, those receivers now have instead
Speaker 1: of four seconds or two seconds whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: now they've got nine seconds or whatever the amount of
Speaker 1: time is. It gives you infinitely, I mean a lot
Speaker 1: more time for a receiver to get open. And it's
Speaker 1: much harder for a defender when things break down to
Speaker 1: be able to keep up with a guy, or especially
Speaker 1: if you're playing zone, to kind of know where everybody is.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's a part of it as well.
Speaker 1: Is that for a guy like Dak Let's assume for
Speaker 1: a second you don't think he's the most accurate passer. Well,
Speaker 1: if you can create opportune for yourself to give your
Speaker 1: receivers more time and things start to break down to
Speaker 1: where now they can move around a little more freely
Speaker 1: and try to find open spots. Then it gives him
Speaker 1: a cleaner look. It gives him a bigger window to
Speaker 1: be able to find that guy and be able to
Speaker 1: get the ball to him without all the trash of
Speaker 1: the offensive and defensive line in front of him. So
Speaker 1: I think all those things matter, um and I just
Speaker 1: think personally he is a better quarterback when he's dynamic.
Speaker 1: So give me a little bit of all of it.
Speaker 1: I think there's sometimes I want to see him in
Speaker 1: the pocket. I think there's sometimes I want to see
Speaker 1: him rolling out. I think there's sometimes I want to
Speaker 1: see him running. He's just better when he's dynamic. He's
Speaker 1: much better than he is at just doing one of
Speaker 1: those things exclusively. I completely agree. I just I just
Speaker 1: wonder what it is that causes his inconsistency, Like is
Speaker 1: he thinking too much? Does he not trust his protect protection? Inexperience? Maybe,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't hold a lot of water when you've
Speaker 1: started like thirty three. But I think that again, we're
Speaker 1: at the beginning of his third year. I think quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I was saying this to Brian the other day, is
Speaker 1: when did Rolmo start like he wasn't playing at this
Speaker 1: in his career, so I think it just takes getting reps. No,
Speaker 1: my point is he was getting reps in practice, so
Speaker 1: they were seeing him in practice and didn't think he
Speaker 1: was ready. But my point is, I think that how
Speaker 1: many reps does a third or second string quarterback get
Speaker 1: in an all fair regular season practice? A regular season
Speaker 1: all fair? But my point still is I think it
Speaker 1: just takes some quarterbacks longer. We forget he was a
Speaker 1: fourth round pick. This was not a guy that was
Speaker 1: coming in NFL ready. No, he wasn't. I don't forget
Speaker 1: that because I'm the first to say, like I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to be Rogers. But you know the throw
Speaker 1: to the throw to Gallop in Carolina, Like I can't
Speaker 1: get over that, Like that's just that's throw any starter
Speaker 1: in the NFL's got him. He's not an accurate I mean,
Speaker 1: accuracy is not his best thing. We know that. That's
Speaker 1: why he's a fourth round pick right there, because he
Speaker 1: is not the most accurate quarterback out there. He's just not.
Speaker 1: Now he keeps he I don't know if he trusts
Speaker 1: his arm all the time. Too. He's got some some
Speaker 1: throws down the field that he doesn't always take. He's
Speaker 1: got to be open. He's playing it safe. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want to throw a lot of interceptions, and he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He protects the ball, he keeps it short. They move,
Speaker 1: they can run. But I mean, I think we've I've
Speaker 1: said this thousand times. You don't he does not going
Speaker 1: to Hawaii and winning the passing contest. You know that's
Speaker 1: not his thing. No, But but that's okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can still win that way, right, So I think
Speaker 1: to answer my answer to your question of what happens,
Speaker 1: I just think that it's got to be perfect for him.
Speaker 1: He's not going to take chances. It's drilled in his
Speaker 1: head not to throw interceptions. And sometimes that's why he's
Speaker 1: overthrowing deep, he's overthrown out of the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone because he's not going to do that, especially
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. And that's okay, that's okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay. It's okay for now, for now. And that's
Speaker 1: the other point. I mean, I guess that's the point
Speaker 1: of what I'm saying is that I think right now
Speaker 1: we have to remember where he is in his development.
Speaker 1: Right that doesn't mean he can't someday be a really
Speaker 1: accurate passer. He's not there right now. No, you know that,
Speaker 1: But but that doesn't mean he can't be at some
Speaker 1: point in your passing game. I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to realize that you have to have an elite player
Speaker 1: in your passing game, whether or not you have, you know,
Speaker 1: just a pretty good quarterback and then pretty good receivers.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna get it done. I think
Speaker 1: you need to have one of those. You need to
Speaker 1: give him. Yeah, if Aaron Rodgers is gonna have average receivers,
Speaker 1: that's fine and not average, but I mean he makes
Speaker 1: them good. Tom Brady the same thing. But if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have the flip side of that and he lies
Speaker 1: gone down in his career a little bit, you got
Speaker 1: a guy like Odell Beckham, so you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: give him if he's the quarterback. I think you need
Speaker 1: to have some elite players in there. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I like that, you know, I do wonder. I wonder
Speaker 1: talking about Russell Wilson this week. I wonder at this
Speaker 1: point when Russell, because Russell started playing from the beginning.
Speaker 1: I wonder if at the beginning of his third year,
Speaker 1: were you seeing the same player as Dak or were
Speaker 1: you seeing a different player? And I don't know that,
Speaker 1: but I wonder. He's definitely gotten much better. He's got
Speaker 1: he's got a ton better than what he was early
Speaker 1: in his career. But I don't know at what point
Speaker 1: he made that ascension to where it literally started where
Speaker 1: you go in to play them and you knew he
Speaker 1: would he could beat you with his arm. Give me,
Speaker 1: I don't know when that transition happened. Give me the
Speaker 1: week off from all my other duties and I figure
Speaker 1: it out, go watch tape. This would have been the
Speaker 1: week to do it. Yeah, I can't fit it into
Speaker 1: my schedule and give him credit because you look at
Speaker 1: other guys that have come in and they're more athletic,
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks. They kind of took the league by storm,
Speaker 1: and then the defensive coordinators caught up. They definitely caught
Speaker 1: up to to RG three, They caught up to Kaepernac,
Speaker 1: you know, in a way, and I think that they've
Speaker 1: kind of caught up with Dak. But Russell Wilson won
Speaker 1: another another level and now he improved his game in
Speaker 1: his passing to the point where you know he's he's
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. He really is.
Speaker 1: He really is. And I remember the very first pass.
Speaker 1: I remember the game he played them up there. In
Speaker 1: his very first pass, I was like, this guy's gonna
Speaker 1: beat you. This guy can't beat you. This guy, I
Speaker 1: mean was it was like in Seattle win that game,
Speaker 1: but twenty points. But his his very first throw, I
Speaker 1: thought hit a cloud. It was just like, this is
Speaker 1: I think it was all yeah, it started raining right
Speaker 1: then and there, just like that. I remember being really
Speaker 1: embarrassed that my guy, Matt Flynn lost the starter job
Speaker 1: to Russell that year. I was like, a third round pick.
Speaker 1: Come on, I didn't know where he was gonna. Where
Speaker 1: is he now? He's out of football? Yeah he went?
Speaker 1: Was he out? After two years? After that, he's been
Speaker 1: I know, he jumped around to another team. He went
Speaker 1: back to Green Bay and made a little more money,
Speaker 1: and and it was like, I'm good, Hey, nobody's made
Speaker 1: nobody's made more money off less starts in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL. That's the way he doney. Is it
Speaker 1: him for sure that I don't know if it's for sure,
Speaker 1: but he made a lot of money off Kevin Cobb.
Speaker 1: Both of them made a ton of money all right,
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