WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting Seattle's Defense 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.840 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.239 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:26.759 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.040 Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, September twenty of twenty eighteen, 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.800 Season fourteen, episode number forty four. Welcome to a new 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.560 edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.800 Studios at the Star. Great show lined up for you guys. Today, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.760 We're gonna get into the Seattle defense. Dave gave us 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.479 a great report on the Seattle offense yesterday. Today we 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.479 go to their defense. We'll talk about how it matches 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.760 up with the Cowboys offense in the upcoming game. This Sunday, 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.400 Cowboys will take on the Seahawks in Seattle. It is 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.200 a three twenty five kickoff. I think it is in 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.240 a low cool time here in Dallas, so you make 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.399 sure you want to want to catch that. How's everybody 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.759 doing today? Awesome? Well? Good? Yeah? One time? Is it 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.440 over there in Seattle? It'll be one twenty five, wake 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:15.200 up early, man, Yeah I didn't. I I had that 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.240 same thing happened yesterday. I was like, oh yeah, three thirty, 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.640 three thirty kick first, bus won't leave till one blah 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:24.400 blah blah. And then I realized that it'll wake up 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.960 at six thirty. Probably. Yeah, you'll be like, something's not right. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.360 I want to say our bus leaves it like ten fifteen, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.280 but he will. Waking up at six Third's not a 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.320 big deal. Like I woke up at seven in Charlotte, 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:38.000 but I went and had breakfast and my relax change. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.200 It'll be three three thirty game, it'll you know what 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.639 I mean. But like, but I'll have less time because 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.880 for a one o'clock game, we'll be on the move 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.680 by ten. Yeah, but your body, you will fake it's new. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.480 But it's not about my body. It's about like do 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.520 I have can I go work out? Can I wake up? Yeah? 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.560 It's fine, it's fine. Whatever. This is one of those 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.400 goals because we never just you just told the fans 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.080 to make sure and check out the game. I mean, 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:09.079 they're gonna be listening to this, but they might not 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:11.280 oh the game, you know, but you have to tell 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:16.360 the time. Everybody know somebody has it tattooed? Everybody, if 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.520 somebody somebody has not everybody, it's twenty I mean, as 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.000 long as we're off the rails, let me, let's just 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.079 go the ditch. It's a pet peeve of mine when 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.639 people like tweet at me, like what times the game, 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.440 what channels it on? Blah blah. I'm like, it's twenty eighteen. Man, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.120 you got a phone. You're tweeting me on a phone 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:37.320 that gives you the power to look up the answers 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:39.239 to all these questions. I just want you to go 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.360 to them. I don't know. And all that being said, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.160 I still like to give our fans it's fine, extra 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.760 help if they needed to know that. Cool, all right, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.880 everybody good now starting? Everybody good now? Yeah, all right, good, Yeah, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:52.640 let's get into it. I also I want to let 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.359 you guys know what we're gonna try to ease in 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.480 some phone calls. I know Nick is Nick, and I 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 got a couple of tweets from people like asking or 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.000 maybe one person asking for more opportunities for questions. So 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:04.680 we take that as maybe there are other people out 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.960 there thinking they'd like to have an opportunity to ask questions, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.320 give us a phone call. You can call us anytime. 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.000 We'd love to get your phone calls. We love to 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.600 integrate you into the show. So if we have a 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.720 topic that we're talking about and you have a burning 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.920 opinion on it or have a question about it, call 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.600 us eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.679 Again it's eight eight eight eight five five two two 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.079 nine seven. We'll try to work in what Just to 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.120 be clear, I mean, if we jumped at every person 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.080 that had some kind of request on something, we'd all 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.040 be kicked off the show a couple of times. No, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.480 I know, so, and we just try to accommodate where 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.880 we can. Yeah, probably a good. Yeah. We get into 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.680 our show sometimes and we forget about phone calls because 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.840 we can start talking. So let's go. Let's talk about 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.640 the injury report from yesterday. There are a couple of 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.400 notable names on there. Malie Collins did not practice with 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.640 a knee injury. Sean Lee did not practice with a 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.160 hamstring injury. Xavier Woods was limited with a hamstring. Talk 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 to me about those three guys in particular. Well, let's 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.800 just spin it forward to today. Malie Collins was not 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.720 at practice. Actually, MALIEK. Collins and Travis Frederick are the 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:08.040 only absences from practice today. Sean Lee does not look 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.880 like a guy who's going to go through a full practice. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.440 He was doing rehab, you know, strength and conditioning rehab. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.800 But he was there. He was in uniform. Randy Gregory 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.479 was there. Look good to go. He's made full yesterday. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.400 He was full impressively. Xavier Woods and Dayton Jones were there, 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.520 which we won't know the extent of it till the 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.960 report comes out at probably three, but it's a good 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.719 sign for the time being. And you know, if Dayton 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.000 Jones being able to do something, could play this week. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.480 So if MALIEK. Collins sits down, that's your eight guys, 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.000 you know, eight lineman active again. You know, obviously you're 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:46.040 you're dropping off if you don't have MALIEK. Collins to 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:47.960 Dayton and Jones, but they like him for a reason, 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:50.200 and he's kind of a similar type player. He's a 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:55.640 little bit more undersized, but because wasn't he a defensive end. Yeah, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.160 he was drafted to be like a three four end. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.760 I believe that's kind of a tackle by the Packers. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.120 So so are you guys. Can see Brian Price was 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:08.320 cut the other day too, Yeah, and I heard. I mean, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.640 you never know there. I think there's interest there. They 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.240 liked him, they didn't want to lose him in the 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.080 first place, but did cut him. They well, not only 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.120 did they cut him, but they gotta make a roster 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.680 spot for David Irving in two weeks anyway, So I 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.000 wonder how they weigh that, Like, is it worth bringing 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.960 this guy back if we're trying to get David Irving 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.880 back on the roster anyway? We like grade Daniel Ross 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.560 always kills me. And they do that stuff. They cut 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.600 guys that they like, you know, I mean like they 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:39.680 like outside, they like everybody like they don't I mean, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.839 at least what they say publicly. Yeah, well no, I don't. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.640 I don't have a hard time believing that they like 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.920 Brian Price. But is he just like like him as 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.800 a person. No, No, like him as a player. But 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.479 like there's like, and then there's like, no, of course 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.680 we can't cut necessary. You can cut a guy you like. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.760 I mean I don't, so I don't know. It's something 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.760 to watch. They might be interested in bringing him back, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.760 but you know, if Daytone Jones can play, and you've 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:06.360 got Daniel Ross and Tyrone Crawford and I'm totally spacing 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.799 on the other guy. Oh Andre Antoine Woods. Gee, another 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:13.480 tackle that's coming too. Who's that David Irving? Well, that's 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:15.640 what I meant. And that's so if if David Irving 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.040 can come back, and somebody asked me that yesterday, if 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.040 he can come back the day after the tech Um 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.960 the Lions game, that's literally a week and a half 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.440 from now. Like, maybe you don't bother bringing back a 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.280 friend roster guy if you just got to cut him 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.320 in ten days. Anyway, this defense is going to get 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.800 better the next couple of weeks, which is amazing to 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.239 say when you start talking about personnel. Now we always 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:35.840 talk about this on the show too. You just never 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:37.520 know what's going to happen between now and then some 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.640 of those Sometimes those things kind of level off. You know, 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.760 you you gain a guy and somebody gets hurt or 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.919 something like that. I mean, obviously Malie Collins right now 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.400 is hurt. So those things happen. They got two games 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.680 to play, so we'll see where they are in two 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.560 weeks when it's time to add David Irving back to 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:53.640 the roster. And we'll also see if he's ready to 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.240 play immediately. He didn't go to training camp at all, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.640 so is he ready to even play where he gets 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.000 back into well he has he is able to work 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.480 out here right and end the football things in right? 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.160 How long? Yeah? And you're right in LA was it 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.640 last year? Depending? I mean came back did well, but 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.000 he was also a training king, right, Yeah, so I 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.720 think he's gonna. I mean, he's one of those guys. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.200 He's kind of a freak guy. Yeah, or ways than one, 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.520 and he's he's a good player. He comes out there 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.520 and he can just play. Yeah, we'll see. I don't know. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.760 It's encouraging that he's here. I was like, waiting to 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:29.640 let you finish. You you had it like you kept going. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.920 I was like that was somebody tweeted at us the 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.760 other day. That was your line of the free takes 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.040 a freak to get a free. They come out at night, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.800 they do let's go all right. Um, So they had 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:44.680 a couple of guys that were full. We talked about those, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:49.880 Cavon Frasier, Randy Gregory, Datson Jones, and Daniel Ross. Looks 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:52.000 like from the injury report, really that the guys keep 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.120 an eye on the rest of the week Armie Collins 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.080 and Sean Lee and presume that Xavier is going to 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:58.920 get even more time as the week goes on, and 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.880 he should be hopeful ready to go on Sunday. Xavier 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.960 said on Tuesday, I believe like he's like, I'm good 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:07.240 to go, and you can't. You never want on one 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.880 hundred percent trust a player's evaluation of it. But limited 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.000 on Wednesday. Back at practice Thursday, and he says he's fine. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.120 I mean that's it's trending in the right direction. So 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.360 I don't worry about him so much. Uh, I hope. 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.240 I'm not worried about Lee. I said that yesterday, Like 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.040 missing Wednesday for Shaun Lee is not a big deal 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.800 for me. I mean, Romo didn't practice for like three 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.000 years in a row. On Wednesday, it felt like, um, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.000 you just lose the Thanksgiving Day game horribly. Sure, Well, yeah, no, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.400 I mean it's you. We're for practice. We're for practice. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.480 But I'll be curious to see what the injury. If 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.160 he's a DNP today, then I kind of get worried. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.000 If he's If he's limited today, then it's fine, all right, 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:52.120 We're gonna take an early break here. Oh, would you 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.160 get worried though if he doesn't practice two days in 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.839 a row, like one hundred percent completely shut down with 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.959 a hamstring With an answering, yeah, absolutely, well yeah, but 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.120 I'm saying as far as okay, based on what we've 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.960 seen now with let's say, when shan Lee comes out 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.000 of the field and what they're able to do compared 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:12.880 to last year, I didn't mean worried that is going 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.720 to fall apart. I just meant worried that he won't 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.160 be able to play. But that's one of the things 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.599 that and I love shan Lee and I'm always like 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.600 wanting to keep him, sorry Derek, wanting to give him 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.800 very safe. But I am feeling so excited and confident 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.880 about the linebackers right now, especially after seeing them what 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.640 they can do with shan Lee being off the field 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.679 and the way that compared to last year, how it's 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.240 not really affecting it. Where shan Lee goes out and 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.599 then the defense goes to hell. There is like I 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.640 don't know, reflection there. No, it was perfect. Actually, um, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:50.920 there's no doubt that they're better equipped to handle that 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:52.920 than they were last year. But I'd still rather have 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.320 him than that so well, yeah, but what we've seen 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.280 from him so far, I don't know, he's been off 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.719 his game lately and I don't know what's going on 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.920 really with him. But well, I you know, let's not 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.559 forget that he was off to fill the last two drives, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.360 you know, of the game, and that's when the Giants 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.560 kind of started to move the ball. So I'm including 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.839 the hands team on the on side kick. He was 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:17.559 out there on the second on side kick, but he 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:19.880 was not out there the first one. Yeah, I mean, 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.760 we don't have to bring this up for the millionth time, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.439 but he didn't have much of a preseason, a little 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.360 bit of rust, which oh oh no, he's rust. He 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.240 didn't play while he's still there, and I'd rather have 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.720 him get reacclimated on the field while he's still making 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.559 plays than be unavailable. But then the question becomes, and 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.400 then the question becomes and I always thought that this 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.280 could be something that could factor in when you're not 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.600 practicing as much during the preseason, you're not playing during 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.120 the preseason, didn't do you open yourself up to once 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.520 you are playing more injury soft tissue injuries like campstrings. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.480 So it could go both ways, right, we can do 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.120 this for eternity if we want to. My point was, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.040 it's like, okay, we know Sean Lee prone to injury, 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:59.640 blah blah blah. My point was, Okay, right now, I'm 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.280 not freaking out as I would in the past, based 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.760 on the linebackers that we have, Sean Jalen Smith playing 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.599 the way that his Layton kind of catching up and 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.760 playing up to that level as well. So they have 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.960 that was just four. They have four linebackers playing at 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.920 a very impressive level even without Sean Lee, which is 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.760 something that I don't remember the last time that you 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.760 don't put Joe in that in that are Oh so 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.160 who the four you mentioned Joe, Damien, Jalen and then 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.839 um probably and um like Laton Vanderish. I mean like 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.839 he's playing well for this small sample size. He's getting 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.640 right right, So yeah, all right, let's go ahead and 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.360 take our break. Let's take our first break. When we 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.600 come back, we're gonna get into the Seattle defense. Dave's 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.680 gonna give a scouttering report. We're gonna talk a little 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.880 bit about how they match up between the Cowboys offense 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:45.800 and the Seattle defense. With that, when we come right back, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.839 this is Dallas Cowboys dot com radio. It can be 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.560 hard to find the right resource for learning about important 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.560 financial matters. You search how to build savings, you end 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.640 up reading about the one weird ingredient from supermarkets that 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.840 can make you taller. 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Slash football terms, conditions, exclusions and warranty 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.160 limitations applies. You can be looing for details. Back to 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.520 the break Welcome back. It is the second segment of 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.920 The Break Life from the s WBC Morgan Studios at 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.240 the Star. We're talking Cowboys and Seahawks. Before we get 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.839 to Dave's assessment of the Seahawk defense, Let's take a 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.360 phone call. We got a call from Awards in San Diego. George, 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.160 what up? Hey, what's going on guys? For all? Good 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:15.080 morning Ambery. So just a quick, uh, just a quick, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.600 quick little note here. So I was watching the Seattle 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.560 games against the Bears, and I don't know, to me, 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.280 it just seems like Earl Thomas wasn't really playing that hard. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.960 Did you guys think that maybe he's trying to save 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:32.320 himself or is that something that you know, maybe he 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.840 was just you know, trying to like not put not 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.840 play as hard, to try to get that trade because 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.520 we know that after this week things might change. And 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.640 the last thing is um Dak Prescott. Me personally, I'm 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.600 really happy with the way he's playing, and I actually 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.000 think that we will we will see some improvement, you know, 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.320 throughout the rest of the season. And he just seems 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:58.800 to always play big and big games. Okay, thanks for 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.200 the call. Um, I mean it's a it's your opinion. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.680 I mean, I don't know how anybody can be really 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.080 happy with how he's playing. I don't think the offense 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.280 is one of the worst in the league, and um, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.480 you know they've become one dimensional a little bit. So 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.560 I think he I agree, I think he'll be better 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.880 And I don't know about it. I don't know. Does 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.960 he have a track record of playing big and big games. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.920 I don't. I don't know. He's only one in the 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.360 playoffs and I won some big games as a rookie. 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.480 He won some big games. Honestly, one of his best 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.720 games a game that game in the playoffs. In my opinion, 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.520 I thought he played really well in that game. Personally, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.080 that's just my Yeah, I'm he's seeing I mean, Romo 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:38.080 should have played, But you know that's my opinion. Go 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.840 back to that, and it's getting stronger rather by the day. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.960 So I don't know. I honestly, I don't know if 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:45.840 that would have made a difference. And I told this, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.160 I think Amber and I were having this conversation one day. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.320 I was like everybody that keeps throwing up Romo Romo 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.120 It's not like Romo didn't have opportunities in the playoffs. 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.160 This wasn't like Romo was you know, he just this 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.240 was the first year he actually got to the playoffs 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.200 and then it was taken from him. Like he's had 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.960 opportunities in the playoffs before and they hadn't gotten passed 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.000 a game and so they've got he had what two 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.960 playoff wins. So I mean, it's not like and the 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.520 fact matter is he was playing the in my opinion, 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.640 the best quarterback in the league. So I mean it 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.800 is what it is. Oh man, but we're back there. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.760 I didn't want to go back. I'm just saying we 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.560 could do that. I'm just saying we could go back, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:24.680 and you know, that thing's been kind of buried. But 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.560 to play, I mean, you look back and you think 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.440 about that team and how good that team was and 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.640 how that team was sort of built for Romo to beat. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.080 Do you think Romo would have been healthy if he 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.080 was her quarterback? No health, yes, But if he would 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.600 have been if you'd have brought him back in week 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.080 eight or nine, whatever, that was. What makes you think 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.280 by the playoffs he would have been healthy because history 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.680 didn't say he would have been. I mean I would 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.960 have just played him. I would have just played him. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.880 Whatever her you take him, I'll throw bag back in. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.480 Nick said, it's Nick said, that issue is dead. That 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.960 issue is wearing it's wearing a Michael Jackson read let 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.320 their jacket and dancing around like that is how dead 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:10.240 that is? Okay, iron what go ahead? Kind he's dead too? What? Sorry? 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:17.800 In the music video, he's not. He lives for um. Sorry. Ironically, 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.600 off the air, we were like, let's just get the 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.400 call out of the way so we can get into 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.280 the Seattle stuff. Oops. Well but that that first part 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.200 we'll get get us in. Yeah, and that's actually I 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:30.639 thought Earl Thomas actually that should have been challenged. I mean, 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.840 I nobody but Earl Thomas knows the inner workings of 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.800 his mind. Maybe he's doing that, but uh no, I 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.720 don't think so. He's got eleven tackles and a pick 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.520 through two games after missing everything in the off season, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.480 like not even ota um and I'm pro football focus 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.640 is not the gospel. I get that. But they rank 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.800 him as the number one safety in the NFL through 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.280 through two weeks, and yeah, let's just start it with there. 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.480 His counterpart, who people don't know. People are so focused 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.240 on Cam Chancellor that they don't know about Bradley McDougald. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:08.399 He's ranked number three in the league. He's got uh three, No, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.920 he's got two interceptions. He had two picks in the 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.399 first game against Denver, and he batted the ball up 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.440 that Shaquille Griffin intercepted the other night. So he's got 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.399 three game changing plays. And that's really came on Frasier 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.440 on that list at all. And I'm not really laughing. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.520 I'm not joking about our list of safeties. I mean, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.720 he because I don't think so, because he's got sacks, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.320 he's got some tackles, he's got some plays I don't believe, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.960 so I would guess that is miss tackles probably, yeah, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.640 you probably gotta get picks to do that, because I'm guessing. Yeah. 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:40.719 But that's really uh, this a lot like the Giants. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.159 The Seahawks. Game changers are all in the back, not 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.000 all because they got good They got some good players 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.879 up front. But these safeties are these safeties are really special. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:53.320 Earl Earl Thomas looks like Earl to me. Bradley McDougald 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.359 is having himself a really nice season. He as good 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.080 as Cam Chancellor. Does he do the same kinds of 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.600 things as Cam Chancel. I don't know, I don't. I 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.000 mean Cam Chancellor was an amazing player, and he's he's 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.040 more like he is. You always say like, oh, safeties 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.800 are interchangeable, Like Cam Chanceller was a strong safety. He 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.000 was a thumper. This guy doesn't hit like that, but 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.200 he does the job. And he's very instinctive, Like he 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.399 can cut in on these plays in the backfield and 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.160 bring a guy down for three yards instead of letting 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.240 him get past him for twelve. He's definitely not afraid 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.440 to tackle. But I don't want to compare anybody to Cam. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.200 I loved Cam Chancellor. Um, So that's where this thing starts, 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:34.320 because honestly, outside of Frank Clark, I am not afraid 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.960 of the Seahawks pass rush at all. It's it's fine 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.600 Geron Red. They drafted him out of Alabama to kind 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.399 of be a space eater. Quentin Jefferson is your left end. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.399 Nazair Jones. I don't think he's related to Nasir Jones 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:53.640 of Illmatic fame, but he's there the rest of this though. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.880 Like again, Frank Clark's a really good player. But outside 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.200 of that, this looks very familiar to what the Cowboys 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:01.719 used to do when they we're talent deficient. Like they 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.560 brought in bar kivous Mingo, who's a draft bust of 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.800 all draft busts. He's there. He's not terrible, but it's 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.120 that classic like, oh, he's got a lot of talent. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:11.879 Let's see if he can do something for us. We 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.280 don't have anything better. Dion Jordan, the guy from the Dolphins, 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.879 he's here too, for the same reason. He does some 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.359 stand up stuff. He plays it in but he'll stand 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.640 up like it's just kind of like, oh, we're kind 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.439 of talent deficient. Case in point Michael Kendricks, who they 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.600 got him listed at outside linebacker, but isn't he really 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.879 more of an insider? If you catch my drift, you know, wow, 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:36.320 I'm sorry, I like it. I thought of that joke 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.960 yesterday and I wanted to use it good. But yeah, 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.840 it's it's there. I feel like they're kind of hodgepodging 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:46.199 it together. But the thing is is they've got an 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.840 elite player at every level of the defense. You got 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.560 Frank Clark, who's probably gonna be Tyron Smith's main assignment. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.560 You got Bobby Wagner, who, when he's healthy, look is 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:58.879 one of the best middle linebackers in the game. And 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.159 then you have a role. I don't want to put 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.159 McDougald in that category, but your safety play is really great. Obviously, 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.000 Earl as a Hall of Famer. Kill Griffin's pretty good too. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:12.800 He's the guy to watch. Earl Thomas Hell yeah, hell yeah, right, 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.840 I think so, but I'm biased. Got six Pro Bowls? 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:19.320 How many All Pros? I don't know. Woodson had five, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.200 and he won three Super Bowls. On that I mean, yeah, 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:24.560 but he was he was a safety. We're seeing that 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:26.600 with John Lynch. John Lynch is getting a little bit 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.960 more I think love and he's gonna get in I 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.359 think soon, because it's not just because he's a good safety, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.439 but because he was on an all time I mean, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.680 he probably will, especially if he if he goes for 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.000 another team and does well, you know he will. I'm 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:42.720 just saying if he does, if he does, hey, he 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:49.280 will go. And this is something DOESNA doesn't believe in 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:53.159 love attraction, But yesterday he gave in and put it 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.600 out to the universe. You did you did so expect 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.600 what did I said? I don't remember what I said. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:01.359 I'm gonna you're like, you know what, I'm putting it 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:03.440 out there, like I don't believe in this crap, but 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.920 if it helps, then it helps. Fine. What did you 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.120 decide you're gonna do? If it's a it's your call, 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:13.520 like a cookie or something like that, But you ought 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:15.720 to do something a little more elaborate than that. Oh, 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:19.840 he'll he'll do something. The frosted cookie cake with like 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:27.440 an earl Thomas motif is not enough that. Okay, get me, Well, 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.080 we'll decorate the cake somehow, but come get me with 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:35.840 the et. Do you want cookie cake or ice cream cake? Um, 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.760 let's go with cookie because you know you don't need 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.080 to refrigerate ice cream cake or mean cookie? Can we 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:43.879 gotta eat it here on the shelf. Yeah, okay, we 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.840 needed to be just a regular cook. This is getting 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:51.920 out of control and it's your fault. You did this. 0:22:52.840 --> 0:22:56.479 Here's so I don't know. Honestly, I love Bobby Wagner. 0:22:56.560 --> 0:23:00.480 He's one of my favorite players, um defensively in the NFL. 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:02.760 Over the last you know, ten or so years I 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.600 watched him, and he's dealing with an injury. He does 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:08.840 not look like the Bobby Wagner I'm used to watching. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:14.600 He misdiagnosed some plays in Denver. He was not everywhere, 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:16.600 which is what you expect from those types of guys, 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:18.399 a lot like what Shaun Lee has looked like like 0:23:18.480 --> 0:23:21.240 it still better than your average linebacker, but not that 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:26.240 just unstoppable force that makes every tackle and diagnoses every play. 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.639 And that's probably why the Broncos gashed these guys for 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.960 one hundred and forty six yards on the ground. Um. 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:37.560 I believe they averaged four point six yards per carry 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.440 in that game? Yes, four point six? Yeah, now I think, 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.560 well't go ahead. Do you think that on the Hawk 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:48.280 Hour or whatever they have over there? Yeah, you take 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:50.840 over with something or like Seattle Crew or whatever they 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:53.520 called flang in Seahawks. Yeah, I don't know. Shaun Lee 0:23:53.600 --> 0:24:00.399 does not look like yeah you Zeke like Zeke is 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.320 not the Zeki was last year. He doesn't look like 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:04.119 that through the first two weeks, which it gets. So 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:09.680 what they're saying, the difficult thing is which team, which 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.240 defense is this? Because in Chicago they held the Bears 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.960 to three point two yards per carry. Jordan Howard nothing, 0:24:17.200 --> 0:24:19.840 nothing doing, and that was without Wagner. And kJ right. 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:24.040 So that leads you to think, like, well, Mitchell Trubisky 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:26.920 not a very trustworthy quarterback, not a passing game that 0:24:27.040 --> 0:24:30.399 just absolutely terrifies you. And if that's the case, can 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:32.760 they shut your running game down? Exactly right. Sounds a 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:35.280 lot like the Cowboys. And that's where you would think 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:37.159 the Cowboys have to go in this game and be 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:39.119 aggressive like they were in the last game and go 0:24:39.240 --> 0:24:42.800 after their cornerbacks because you don't have Richard Sherman there anymore, 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.200 So go for go at them a little bit. See 0:24:45.240 --> 0:24:46.959 what you can have happened. Now. Of course you got 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.639 to do with the safeties, but I still think you 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.240 got to be aggressive throwing the ball at least early 0:24:52.359 --> 0:24:54.440 if you want to have a chance of listening. It's 0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:56.919 not our weather report. I was looking at that sunny 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.160 sixty five high for fifteen. I can't wait, bat. I'm 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.040 packing a hoodie this weekend. It's gonna be awesome. Are 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.720 we gonna be wearing the beanie? No, it's not beanie 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:13.240 Beanie Beanie weathers when it dips below like forty five? No, 0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:19.159 well no, because I like wearing beanies. Yeah what sixty five? Yes? Stop, 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:25.880 it's gonna be nice Seattle's Here's here's the thing though, 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:30.400 to your point, Derek Shaquille Griffin is a very solid cornerback. 0:25:30.480 --> 0:25:33.000 He can only be in one spot and the other 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:36.320 one is is up for grabs because Trey Flowers is 0:25:36.320 --> 0:25:39.879 battling an injury he hurt himself against Denver. Nico Thorpe 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:43.159 and a Keen King are the guys there. They're not 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:46.080 anything special, but like neither of these Cowboys wide receivers. 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:49.040 So again and who who steps up into that? Uh? 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:51.720 And the other thing too is the Cowboys have a 0:25:51.920 --> 0:25:56.160 third safety by the name of Tedrick Thompson Um who 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:59.480 actually played with Cheeto at Colorado. Very good player who 0:26:00.359 --> 0:26:02.800 they brought him onto the field because of their depth issues. 0:26:02.800 --> 0:26:04.760 They played a lot of three safety dime sets like 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.360 the Cowboys like to do. Yeah, and he looked really 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:11.159 good doing it. So I wonder if they incorporate that 0:26:11.240 --> 0:26:13.000 into their game plan this week to make up for 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:18.800 the cornerback issues. All things being equal, this is as 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:22.200 beatable as the Seahawks have looked on defense in a while. 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:25.480 Their twentieth overall their nineteenth against the past. They're giving 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.960 up two hundred and fifty four yards per game, and 0:26:28.160 --> 0:26:33.800 that's so that's case Keenum and Trubisky, which you'd like 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:37.119 to think Dak is not a huge step down from that, 0:26:37.320 --> 0:26:39.760 right m I know, Case Keenum had a great year 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.000 with the Vikings. I don't believe in him as like 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.680 this other worldly quarterback he threw three picks in that 0:26:44.840 --> 0:26:47.840 game against the Sea does have better receivers. I would 0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:52.119 think absolutely Emmanuel Sanders did whatever he wanted to against 0:26:52.160 --> 0:26:55.040 the Seahawks in Week one, and that that's a really 0:26:55.080 --> 0:26:57.119 good point. They're also, I think Chicago's more kin the 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:59.240 Cowboys from a standpoint of the quarterback and the receivers. 0:26:59.400 --> 0:27:01.760 They're giving up one sixteen against the run, which is 0:27:01.840 --> 0:27:05.560 twenty third. So I don't know. I think this is 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:07.840 a better defense than the stats say through two weeks. 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.119 I think, you know, there's still guys on here that 0:27:10.200 --> 0:27:14.000 are used to winning. Earl is a difference maker. Bobby Wagner. 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.840 I assume he's gonna keep getting healthy and he'll look 0:27:16.920 --> 0:27:20.240 like himself at some point. Frank Clark is probably going 0:27:20.320 --> 0:27:22.720 to sign a big time money deal one of these days, 0:27:22.760 --> 0:27:24.639 if I had to guess, so, it would be a 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:29.119 mistake to take these guys lightly. But I'm interested to see, like, again, 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.159 are they played the run really well against Chicago? Can 0:27:33.280 --> 0:27:35.960 the Cowboys run the ball if Seattle's committed to taking 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.280 it away? They did all right against the Giants, but 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:43.600 they weren't amazing. But I think, as is always going 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:45.200 to be the case, that's going to be the storyline. 0:27:45.240 --> 0:27:49.119 It's can the Cowboys impose their will? I'm a lean 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:51.119 toward thinking they can. To be honest with you, at 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:53.239 least to some degree, Like, I think that they can 0:27:53.320 --> 0:27:57.080 finish this game with their highest rushing total that's not 0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.440 that high of a well, well, they've run against his 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:02.560 defense and it was better, so so they can. They can. 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.280 Seattle is not a place where Dallas has been intimidated 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:07.000 to run the ball since Zeke has been here, so 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:10.000 or playing that team, they've him intimidated to run the ball. 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:13.399 It's a thing I can't quite Yeah no, and that 0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:16.440 thank you. That's the perfect segue because I struggle with 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:18.400 this and I actually, like I tried to ask people 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:22.600 all day yesterday on the record, and off is Wagner's 0:28:22.600 --> 0:28:25.160 the type of linebacker that kills you if you can't 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.480 get to him. And that's what Travis Frederick was always 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:29.160 so good at it. He was like he was never 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:31.680 late to his second level block. He could watch that 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:33.840 guy out of the play. They could not do it 0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:37.040 to Keekley and it killed them. Can they do it 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:39.760 to Wagner? But on the flip side, I don't think 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:43.920 Wagner looked amazing in week one, so maybe he won't 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:45.840 be on the screws as much as he usually is. 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:47.880 That's that's something to watch. I think if they can 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.720 handle Bobby Wagner, I think they'll run the ball like Gangbusters, honestly, 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:55.080 And if they can't, it might be tough. So Joe Looney, 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:58.800 this is your week. You can Connor Williams and Zach 0:28:58.880 --> 0:29:01.240 Martin obviously, but I'm not here about him. Yeah, it'll 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:02.880 be fine. All right, We're gonna take our final break. 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:04.560 Come back. We're gonna get some calls. 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How 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:37.640 they prove that? Yeah, I don't. I don't really know. Actually, 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:40.880 I'm not sure how they do that. You know, you 0:31:40.960 --> 0:31:42.680 have a car accident and then you call your insurance 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:45.800 company and the aspect. Yeah, I'm not one hundred percent 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:47.520 sure they're gonna. I think they're just gonna take your 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:49.760 word for it, all right. Yeah. I don't think they 0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:52.840 have like a you know, it's awesome crack reporter or 0:31:52.880 --> 0:31:55.000 anything that's gonna figure this out there, just gonna figure 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:57.160 it out Tom john dot com for it's like cowboys go. 0:31:57.600 --> 0:32:00.920 Derek didn't get that at first. I didn't. It's it's hilarious. 0:32:01.120 --> 0:32:03.800 That's good. Okay, all right, let's get back into this. Yeah, 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:06.360 we're taking phone calls eight eight eight five two two 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.160 nine seven Again eight eight eight eight five five two 0:32:09.200 --> 0:32:11.240 two nine seven. We got a call from TC. You 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:14.280 just have real quickly, just one last thing I might 0:32:14.360 --> 0:32:17.040 have touched on it. But this team doesn't get sacks, 0:32:17.120 --> 0:32:19.880 but they do get takeaways. Three sacks in two games 0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:23.680 not great. Five takeaways in two games pretty good. So 0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:26.880 anyway that is I just broke down at play yesterday. 0:32:27.000 --> 0:32:30.760 Well I'm posting it today. But Errol Thomas, of course, 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:35.440 And I mean, his instincts are amazing, and that was 0:32:35.480 --> 0:32:38.200 an interception that he got. I forgot what game, But 0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:41.120 the way that he reacts and that's that kind of 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.760 that is pretty scary. When you talk about Dak Prescott 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:46.400 and his passes, how he throws those, just having earl 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:49.400 back there and being able to have good instincts and 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:52.680 good hands, I mean, that could be a really big problem. 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:55.760 I wonder, I wonder what Dak's trigger finger is gonna 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:58.520 look like with those two safeties back there. You know, 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:01.160 we said he was has a tent on in week one. 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:04.160 Can't I can't imagine he's gonna be just firing the 0:33:04.240 --> 0:33:07.000 ball off. How far are they back there? That's the key, 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:09.000 that's what running the ball. And the other point of 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:10.680 that is, I don't I don't think they're gonna be 0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:13.600 playing too deep, right, They're gonna one guy's still gonna 0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:15.960 have to patrol both sides. So if you can create 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:20.280 enough enough stuff on both sides where he can't make 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:22.840 a decision until the last second, then that helps you 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:24.600 a lot. Because they're gonna have that eighth guy in 0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:26.240 the box. There's no doubt about it. Every week the 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.000 Cowboys are going to see that there will be an 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:30.960 extra safety in the box or a safety in the box. Um, okay, 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:32.280 so let's get a phone call. We got a call 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:36.320 from TC and DC TC. What up, man, Derek. I 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:38.080 don't even have to look at the analytics on this 0:33:38.160 --> 0:33:40.160 show because when you and Nikki used to be in 0:33:40.200 --> 0:33:41.880 the hall close that I could call whatever I want 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:47.120 to day. Yeah, it gets kind of tough, man. Yeah, man, 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:49.120 I mean that's just kudos to you guys. This is 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:52.040 AWFU obviously means doing a great job. I'll make it quick. 0:33:52.840 --> 0:33:55.040 I've been watching a lot of film on Dak or 0:33:55.080 --> 0:33:57.400 watching the last couple of games, and if maybe you 0:33:57.480 --> 0:34:00.600 guys can elaborate on this, I think that Dak plays 0:34:00.640 --> 0:34:03.120 his best football really when he stays in the pocket. 0:34:03.160 --> 0:34:05.760 And I know we've been talking about him running and 0:34:05.800 --> 0:34:07.520 being able to throw on the run, and really I 0:34:07.560 --> 0:34:09.520 feel like that's been out of necessity. But some of 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.560 the best throws he made last week and in previous 0:34:12.640 --> 0:34:14.440 games has been when he's been in the pocket he 0:34:14.480 --> 0:34:16.640 could trust it, and really that's when he's been able 0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:18.719 to throw the ball down field. So I wanted to 0:34:18.760 --> 0:34:20.759 see you guys saw the same thing, because I've been 0:34:20.800 --> 0:34:22.160 watching a lot of that and it seems like when 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.600 he escapes, we get all this credit for him throwing 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:26.799 throwing on the run, and that's great, but I've seen 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:29.080 some of his better throws have been the ones where 0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:31.600 he stays in the pocket, makes his drops, bigs his reads, 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:33.359 and throws the football. And I think if he stays 0:34:33.400 --> 0:34:35.960 in the pocket this game, our receivers are gonna look 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:37.839 a whole lot better because that means he's not taking 0:34:37.840 --> 0:34:39.400 the side of the field away from himself. And I 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:41.680 hang up, politic, guys, stick care all right, thanks for call. 0:34:42.280 --> 0:34:45.480 That's a tough one. I understand your point the throw. 0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:48.600 I mean, I think we think because he runs the 0:34:48.680 --> 0:34:52.200 ball well, that he throws the ball well when he's running, 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:55.360 and I don't know, I don't know if that's always 0:34:55.400 --> 0:34:57.879 the case, but yeah, he's probably making better throws when 0:34:57.880 --> 0:35:00.239 he stands there. That's that's why they teach good you know, 0:35:00.760 --> 0:35:04.239 footwork and mechanics. But I don't know, I think you 0:35:04.320 --> 0:35:06.560 saw the difference there. He's got to be able to 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:09.719 run the ball and be a guy that that can 0:35:10.080 --> 0:35:13.919 move like that. And typically when he is keeping the ball, 0:35:14.239 --> 0:35:16.759 there's there's really no throw option there. It's just the 0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:19.800 guy's blocking and he's running and he's got fifteen twenty yards. 0:35:20.320 --> 0:35:22.879 So well, I think those are two different conversations though, 0:35:22.880 --> 0:35:26.600 because I I mean, he is remarkably accurate on the run. 0:35:26.719 --> 0:35:28.680 I remember, you know, the play he diagrammed for us 0:35:28.719 --> 0:35:31.160 in the offseason with Terrence where he ran right up 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:32.719 to the line of scrimmage and got it to him. 0:35:32.800 --> 0:35:35.360 Or even training camp, you know, we there was so 0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:38.680 much angst about his downfield ball and when he would 0:35:38.760 --> 0:35:41.080 throw it, well, it all almost always seems like he 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:43.800 was rolling out and would just fire something off. But 0:35:44.480 --> 0:35:47.120 I think there's a point to that too that he 0:35:47.320 --> 0:35:49.920 doesn't like he's more accurate than he gets credit for 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:52.000 from the pocket. A lot of times I think, like, 0:35:52.120 --> 0:35:53.800 you know, again, the first throw of the game to 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:56.840 Hearns on the slant, which it wasn't well defended, but 0:35:57.040 --> 0:35:58.880 it was right where it needed to be the Deontay 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:01.560 Thompson throw, and he did it all through his rookie year, 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:05.160 Like he can make those throws. My thing is like, 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:08.800 what happens that messes him up? Though? Like, is it 0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:11.000 when he's not comfortable with his pocket? Does he have 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:14.840 to feel completely confident in his protection? What is it exactly? 0:36:14.880 --> 0:36:18.680 Because we all know he can look terrible too. I 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:20.560 don't have a great answer for that. I don't know 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:24.640 if this, if this is right or wrong, I don't know. 0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:27.920 But going back to that, and we've seen plenty of 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:30.480 times where he has stayed in the pocket for a 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:33.319 while and it gets to a point where okay, it's 0:36:33.320 --> 0:36:36.200 too late and whatever play you make, it's not good. 0:36:36.719 --> 0:36:40.600 But I think that maybe right now he's just needing 0:36:40.719 --> 0:36:44.920 that extra time to think and make the play. And 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:48.600 when he runs with the ball and throws it, I 0:36:48.760 --> 0:36:51.080 feel that going back to that confidence level is just 0:36:51.440 --> 0:36:54.160 keeping him i movement and just not having him still 0:36:54.320 --> 0:36:56.880 there and just overthinking. I think that as soon as 0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:00.279 he starts running, and from what I've seen so far, 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:03.040 this is what I imagine, he runs and he keeps 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:06.719 him active and he still has time to think and 0:37:06.800 --> 0:37:09.399 then make that throw. When he just sits there, he's 0:37:09.440 --> 0:37:12.520 just overthinking too much, in my opinion, and then that's 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:15.480 when he makes the throw and usually it doesn't turn 0:37:15.560 --> 0:37:18.719 out good. Well, you can't also underestimate the power of 0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:23.280 his ability to give receivers more time, and that happens 0:37:23.320 --> 0:37:25.560 when he gets outside the pocket. So you're talking about 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:29.160 it yesterday talking about the flip side with Russell Wilson, 0:37:29.480 --> 0:37:32.480 Like when he moves around, those receivers now have instead 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:35.320 of four seconds or two seconds whatever it might be, 0:37:35.480 --> 0:37:37.920 now they've got nine seconds or whatever the amount of 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:41.040 time is. It gives you infinitely, I mean a lot 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:43.319 more time for a receiver to get open. And it's 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:45.840 much harder for a defender when things break down to 0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:47.680 be able to keep up with a guy, or especially 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:50.120 if you're playing zone, to kind of know where everybody is. 0:37:50.200 --> 0:37:52.600 And so I think that's a part of it as well. 0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:55.680 Is that for a guy like Dak Let's assume for 0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:58.879 a second you don't think he's the most accurate passer. Well, 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:01.160 if you can create opportune for yourself to give your 0:38:01.200 --> 0:38:03.600 receivers more time and things start to break down to 0:38:03.640 --> 0:38:05.399 where now they can move around a little more freely 0:38:05.440 --> 0:38:08.120 and try to find open spots. Then it gives him 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:11.960 a cleaner look. It gives him a bigger window to 0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:13.480 be able to find that guy and be able to 0:38:13.520 --> 0:38:15.400 get the ball to him without all the trash of 0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:17.640 the offensive and defensive line in front of him. So 0:38:17.920 --> 0:38:20.560 I think all those things matter, um and I just 0:38:20.719 --> 0:38:23.560 think personally he is a better quarterback when he's dynamic. 0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:24.759 So give me a little bit of all of it. 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:26.160 I think there's sometimes I want to see him in 0:38:26.160 --> 0:38:27.560 the pocket. I think there's sometimes I want to see 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:28.960 him rolling out. I think there's sometimes I want to 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.520 see him running. He's just better when he's dynamic. He's 0:38:31.600 --> 0:38:33.200 much better than he is at just doing one of 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:36.759 those things exclusively. I completely agree. I just I just 0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:40.960 wonder what it is that causes his inconsistency, Like is 0:38:41.000 --> 0:38:45.560 he thinking too much? Does he not trust his protect protection? Inexperience? Maybe, 0:38:45.680 --> 0:38:47.640 but that doesn't hold a lot of water when you've 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:52.480 started like thirty three. But I think that again, we're 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:54.520 at the beginning of his third year. I think quarterbacks. 0:38:55.080 --> 0:38:57.040 I was saying this to Brian the other day, is 0:38:57.400 --> 0:38:59.759 when did Rolmo start like he wasn't playing at this 0:39:00.160 --> 0:39:03.360 in his career, so I think it just takes getting reps. No, 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:05.239 my point is he was getting reps in practice, so 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:06.840 they were seeing him in practice and didn't think he 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:09.440 was ready. But my point is, I think that how 0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:12.160 many reps does a third or second string quarterback get 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:15.680 in an all fair regular season practice? A regular season 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.279 all fair? But my point still is I think it 0:39:18.400 --> 0:39:20.800 just takes some quarterbacks longer. We forget he was a 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:22.840 fourth round pick. This was not a guy that was 0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:25.440 coming in NFL ready. No, he wasn't. I don't forget 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:27.680 that because I'm the first to say, like I don't 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.680 expect him to be Rogers. But you know the throw 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:33.560 to the throw to Gallop in Carolina, Like I can't 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:36.040 get over that, Like that's just that's throw any starter 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:38.480 in the NFL's got him. He's not an accurate I mean, 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:41.759 accuracy is not his best thing. We know that. That's 0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:44.160 why he's a fourth round pick right there, because he 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:47.320 is not the most accurate quarterback out there. He's just not. 0:39:47.520 --> 0:39:50.040 Now he keeps he I don't know if he trusts 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:52.320 his arm all the time. Too. He's got some some 0:39:52.520 --> 0:39:55.120 throws down the field that he doesn't always take. He's 0:39:55.160 --> 0:39:56.919 got to be open. He's playing it safe. He doesn't 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:58.800 want to throw a lot of interceptions, and he doesn't. 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:01.120 He protects the ball, he keeps it short. They move, 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:03.839 they can run. But I mean, I think we've I've 0:40:03.880 --> 0:40:06.520 said this thousand times. You don't he does not going 0:40:06.600 --> 0:40:10.439 to Hawaii and winning the passing contest. You know that's 0:40:10.520 --> 0:40:13.160 not his thing. No, But but that's okay. I mean, 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:15.640 you can still win that way, right, So I think 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:18.920 to answer my answer to your question of what happens, 0:40:18.960 --> 0:40:21.880 I just think that it's got to be perfect for him. 0:40:22.000 --> 0:40:24.040 He's not going to take chances. It's drilled in his 0:40:24.120 --> 0:40:27.040 head not to throw interceptions. And sometimes that's why he's 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:29.200 overthrowing deep, he's overthrown out of the back of the 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.720 end zone because he's not going to do that, especially 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:34.960 down in the red zone. And that's okay, that's okay, Yeah, 0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:38.440 it's okay. It's okay for now, for now. And that's 0:40:38.480 --> 0:40:39.719 the other point. I mean, I guess that's the point 0:40:39.719 --> 0:40:41.799 of what I'm saying is that I think right now 0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:44.040 we have to remember where he is in his development. 0:40:44.280 --> 0:40:46.640 Right that doesn't mean he can't someday be a really 0:40:46.680 --> 0:40:48.880 accurate passer. He's not there right now. No, you know that, 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:50.719 But but that doesn't mean he can't be at some 0:40:50.920 --> 0:40:52.920 point in your passing game. I think that they're going 0:40:52.960 --> 0:40:54.879 to realize that you have to have an elite player 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:58.160 in your passing game, whether or not you have, you know, 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:01.600 just a pretty good quarterback and then pretty good receivers. 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:03.319 I don't think that's gonna get it done. I think 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:04.640 you need to have one of those. You need to 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:07.600 give him. Yeah, if Aaron Rodgers is gonna have average receivers, 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:10.080 that's fine and not average, but I mean he makes 0:41:10.120 --> 0:41:12.520 them good. Tom Brady the same thing. But if you're 0:41:12.520 --> 0:41:14.279 gonna have the flip side of that and he lies 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:17.040 gone down in his career a little bit, you got 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:19.239 a guy like Odell Beckham, so you're gonna have to 0:41:19.320 --> 0:41:21.440 give him if he's the quarterback. I think you need 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.359 to have some elite players in there. Yeah, that makes sense. 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:26.560 I like that, you know, I do wonder. I wonder 0:41:26.719 --> 0:41:29.520 talking about Russell Wilson this week. I wonder at this 0:41:29.680 --> 0:41:32.200 point when Russell, because Russell started playing from the beginning. 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.200 I wonder if at the beginning of his third year, 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:37.719 were you seeing the same player as Dak or were 0:41:37.760 --> 0:41:39.320 you seeing a different player? And I don't know that, 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:42.600 but I wonder. He's definitely gotten much better. He's got 0:41:42.840 --> 0:41:44.759 he's got a ton better than what he was early 0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:46.160 in his career. But I don't know at what point 0:41:46.200 --> 0:41:49.160 he made that ascension to where it literally started where 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:51.360 you go in to play them and you knew he 0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:53.120 would he could beat you with his arm. Give me, 0:41:53.120 --> 0:41:55.040 I don't know when that transition happened. Give me the 0:41:55.120 --> 0:41:57.359 week off from all my other duties and I figure 0:41:57.360 --> 0:41:58.920 it out, go watch tape. This would have been the 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:02.440 week to do it. Yeah, I can't fit it into 0:42:02.520 --> 0:42:05.759 my schedule and give him credit because you look at 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:09.080 other guys that have come in and they're more athletic, 0:42:09.200 --> 0:42:11.960 mobile quarterbacks. They kind of took the league by storm, 0:42:12.040 --> 0:42:15.560 and then the defensive coordinators caught up. They definitely caught 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:19.400 up to to RG three, They caught up to Kaepernac, 0:42:19.960 --> 0:42:21.319 you know, in a way, and I think that they've 0:42:21.360 --> 0:42:24.239 kind of caught up with Dak. But Russell Wilson won 0:42:24.480 --> 0:42:27.680 another another level and now he improved his game in 0:42:27.760 --> 0:42:30.200 his passing to the point where you know he's he's 0:42:30.200 --> 0:42:31.600 one of the best in the league. He really is. 0:42:31.880 --> 0:42:33.680 He really is. And I remember the very first pass. 0:42:33.719 --> 0:42:35.840 I remember the game he played them up there. In 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.919 his very first pass, I was like, this guy's gonna 0:42:38.920 --> 0:42:41.000 beat you. This guy can't beat you. This guy, I 0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:42.960 mean was it was like in Seattle win that game, 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:45.880 but twenty points. But his his very first throw, I 0:42:46.040 --> 0:42:48.400 thought hit a cloud. It was just like, this is 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:52.239 I think it was all yeah, it started raining right 0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:55.120 then and there, just like that. I remember being really 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:58.600 embarrassed that my guy, Matt Flynn lost the starter job 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:01.600 to Russell that year. I was like, a third round pick. 0:43:01.800 --> 0:43:03.359 Come on, I didn't know where he was gonna. Where 0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:06.239 is he now? He's out of football? Yeah he went? 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:08.759 Was he out? After two years? After that, he's been 0:43:08.960 --> 0:43:11.040 I know, he jumped around to another team. He went 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:13.160 back to Green Bay and made a little more money, 0:43:13.200 --> 0:43:15.799 and and it was like, I'm good, Hey, nobody's made 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:18.600 nobody's made more money off less starts in the history 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:22.320 of the NFL. That's the way he doney. Is it 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:24.120 him for sure that I don't know if it's for sure, 0:43:24.160 --> 0:43:26.080 but he made a lot of money off Kevin Cobb. 0:43:26.520 --> 0:43:28.960 Both of them made a ton of money all right, 0:43:29.000 --> 0:43:31.160 we appreciate you join us. We're back tomorrow. We will 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:32.839 give you guys, get you guys ready for the game. 0:43:32.880 --> 0:43:35.040 We'll tell you what we expect to happen. We'll give 0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:36.960 you our picks for the game to then for Nick even, 0:43:37.040 --> 0:43:39.600 Dave Hellman, Camberagarcia. I'm Derek Eaglets and this has been 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:50.080 the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Reading This 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:53.000 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:55.000 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.