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Speaker 1: here with the Ultimate Survivor. Danny mccraig got his first immunity,
Speaker 1: you know, his first immunity idol last week on Survivor.
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Speaker 1: It's about making yourself happy. Sometimes it's speaking of being happy.
Speaker 1: It is a victory Friday. We were able to watch
Speaker 1: the game last night, and look, I'm just gonna dive
Speaker 1: straight into it. Let's get let's dive straight into the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the footballers. To me, that was the
Speaker 1: most impressive part about this game. This defense showed up
Speaker 1: and showed out. So, d Matt, I'm gonna give the
Speaker 1: floor to you. You you were the man that said
Speaker 1: it from the beginning, hired dan Quinny's gonna turn this
Speaker 1: defense around top ten. I'm not so sure about the
Speaker 1: top ten, but you were ahead of the mark about
Speaker 1: hiring dan Quinn. So I'll let you go ahead. I'll
Speaker 1: give you the floor. What did you think about listen
Speaker 1: for them? Okay, listen, listen. Let me ask you this
Speaker 1: before we get into it. Okay, top ten defense. This
Speaker 1: is what This is what I say we should at
Speaker 1: least do it to like half a meal. Listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: This is why I say that. This is why I
Speaker 1: say that, not with people, not a meal, a meal,
Speaker 1: half a meal and half half a meal. Okay, this
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You you were watching, you were watching
Speaker 1: this defensive play, all right? Yeah, outside of like total yards,
Speaker 1: Outside of total yards, would you agree that this defense
Speaker 1: outside of one to two games this season has looked
Speaker 1: like a top ten defense. If you don't know how
Speaker 1: many yards they were giving us some of them were
Speaker 1: under certain circumstances. Even last night. You see this last touchdown,
Speaker 1: they hold them like three or five or whatever, three
Speaker 1: fifty and all of a sudden there are four or
Speaker 1: five right empty game. Um so I think, I think
Speaker 1: because of that is gonna be hard for us to
Speaker 1: get to like top ten because of just the yards
Speaker 1: giving up, but the way this the team is playing, turnovers,
Speaker 1: stops on third down, not giving up scores like we
Speaker 1: give up a big play every once in a while,
Speaker 1: and that just started happening in these in these recent games.
Speaker 1: But when I talk about when you see our defense
Speaker 1: plays better based off our offense plays. Now, offense didn't
Speaker 1: have a great game less like, but our defense played
Speaker 1: from ahead and we are able to do that. Our
Speaker 1: pass rush and the way that we're able to get
Speaker 1: our eyes on the ball and read the quarterback and
Speaker 1: make those plays. We're almost unstoppable. Which is the issue,
Speaker 1: right because you see you have a Michael Parsons what
Speaker 1: he has tax he got ten sacks. Now you see
Speaker 1: you see guy Tank came back and for his first
Speaker 1: game back games man looked good. Dbes look Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: bounce back game came back, played, played a good game.
Speaker 1: Trail un did should have had three picks? Um curse?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about curse? Yeah? We could go ahead. Man,
Speaker 1: Like when you talk about somebody maximizing the opportunity because
Speaker 1: he came in as a guy where you're like, it's
Speaker 1: a one year deal. We're not really sure we'll see
Speaker 1: hype plays. This dude is looking like a bona fide
Speaker 1: star in the league. Like dan Quinn is putting them
Speaker 1: in a position around the line of scrimmage to make
Speaker 1: those plays. You see him rushing every once in a while,
Speaker 1: he's holding the edge, he's making tackles in the backfield,
Speaker 1: he's bawling all overall. Dan Quinn has the post on
Speaker 1: this defense, and the post is we are rolling. They
Speaker 1: are Neville Gallimar coming back, Randy Gregory coming back one
Speaker 1: more time for the people in the Galimar, coming back,
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory coming back. If you get a chance to
Speaker 1: get this offense back to rolling how they were before
Speaker 1: and we're playing ahead just by a touchdown, just by
Speaker 1: ten points, I think that we will be unstoppable on defense.
Speaker 1: It's that it's that leakage that we get in the
Speaker 1: ring game, which we got to try to find him
Speaker 1: way to fix it. I think, I think Neville and
Speaker 1: Randy will will help us when we get to that point.
Speaker 1: But outside of that, you clean up a couple of
Speaker 1: big plays and this defense is stout. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: really really happy and impressed with what dan Quinn has
Speaker 1: been able to do, and also the players buying in
Speaker 1: and being able to up their games since dan Quinn
Speaker 1: has been here as well. Yeah, I'm gonnagree with you
Speaker 1: one hundred percent on that one, all right. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn has come in here and he's definitely shifted
Speaker 1: to molder. He gave him this, this winning mentality, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, He's got this defense flying on
Speaker 1: all cylinders. You just mentioned Curse, who was supposed to
Speaker 1: come in here, and I thought, like a majority of
Speaker 1: the people, you know, he's gonna come in here, contribute
Speaker 1: on special teams. He might play a little bit in
Speaker 1: a dime package or something like that, but his overall career,
Speaker 1: you're looking at it like, Okay, this guy, he can't
Speaker 1: be the guy, but he has come in here and
Speaker 1: it's started from training camp. This guy started in training camp.
Speaker 1: He became that leader, that vocal leader. As we see,
Speaker 1: he has the green dot on his helmet. So he's
Speaker 1: the guy out there making all the calls, getting everybody adjusted.
Speaker 1: And if you look at it, that pregame huddle, if
Speaker 1: you look at it when they're all getting done stretching
Speaker 1: and everybody's coming to hypeing everything up, who's in the
Speaker 1: middle of that circle, it's this guy is in there
Speaker 1: or jay Ron I'm sorry, jay Ron curse. He's in
Speaker 1: there hyping these guys up. So not only is he
Speaker 1: a lead by example guy, but he's a vocal leader
Speaker 1: as well, and that's what this defense needs. And overall,
Speaker 1: getting back to the Saints game, this defense was extremely
Speaker 1: impressive to me. I mean, just to be able to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, like you mentioned, DeMarcus Lawrence coming
Speaker 1: back from a ten game injury prone or injury injury,
Speaker 1: was out for ten games for the injury. He came back,
Speaker 1: he look like he didn't miss a step. The guy
Speaker 1: him a sack if the edge rolling. Of course, Parsons
Speaker 1: was bawling. We're gonna talk about him a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But this defense bottled up this Saint's attack. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: you know the Saints was hurting a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: their team is hurting. You know, they got Taysom Hilling
Speaker 1: in that quarterback, and I fought for from the beginning.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, going into this game, that Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense will be able to take advantage of Taysom Hill.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who's only throwing eight
Speaker 1: passes so far this season, so I thought we'd be
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of him. I knew he was
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, good running because this guy's a load.
Speaker 1: I mean about two forty five wild cat. He's back
Speaker 1: there like basically a running back, and they got speed.
Speaker 1: The guy has some juice, so he ran over for
Speaker 1: over a hundred. So that's one thing the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: got to get better is that run defense. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: because when you go against teams once you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs that can run the ball well as well
Speaker 1: as have a good quarterback, it might cause a little
Speaker 1: bit dilemma. But last week or last night, they did
Speaker 1: a great job on Taysom Hill. As far as throwing
Speaker 1: the football. They intercepted them four times, and to me,
Speaker 1: the most important part about that interceptions they were able
Speaker 1: to turn those interceptions into points, whether it's them taking
Speaker 1: the ball back or getting the offense in great position.
Speaker 1: So I mean to me that this defense played lights
Speaker 1: out and you can't say enough about Dan Quinn and
Speaker 1: what he's been able to do for this defense. And
Speaker 1: then substituting the form Mark McCarthy, who had COVID, he
Speaker 1: came in there, oversaw the entire the scheme of everything.
Speaker 1: He didn't let the moment get too big for him,
Speaker 1: and he went out there and they did what they
Speaker 1: were supposed to do. Defensively, they dominated a team that
Speaker 1: they knew they had the upper hand on. They had
Speaker 1: the better talent, they had the better individuals, and they
Speaker 1: did what they had to do. Now, offensively, we'll get
Speaker 1: into it a little bit, but we gotta make sure
Speaker 1: we get this thing rolling a little bit because we
Speaker 1: right now the defense is not the reason this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team is lackluster in games. They should be blowing people out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the truth is the defensive has had more good
Speaker 1: games than the offense has. I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: I would agree at the beginning of the season you
Speaker 1: would have came in here and said, hey, man, if
Speaker 1: the defense is gonna hold of offensive majority of the time, right,
Speaker 1: you'll be like, oh man, Yeah, y'all crazy. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: but at this point, you're looking at the defense to
Speaker 1: have to play a certain way in order for our
Speaker 1: offense to get back on track, because, like you said,
Speaker 1: we're dealing with injuries. We're trying to figure out the
Speaker 1: offensive line. We're dealing with an injury from Zeke, So
Speaker 1: they're looking at the defensive. Dan Quinn has these guys
Speaker 1: ready saying, hey man, that's why you hear it's a
Speaker 1: guy like Curse. Come out and say against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: what we hold them to eight, then we win? Right?
Speaker 1: You know what type of belief in your coach and
Speaker 1: your system and your players you have to have to say,
Speaker 1: hey man, I do want to hear none about the offense.
Speaker 1: All right, If we hold these dudes to eight points,
Speaker 1: they score less than we do, then we win the game.
Speaker 1: And I believe we can go out there and do
Speaker 1: that against anybody. That is the ultimate confidence in what
Speaker 1: you're doing over there. And they got the right to
Speaker 1: believe so because go out last night and get four picks.
Speaker 1: Trayvill Didz gets eight. He's trying to keep up with
Speaker 1: Michael Parker and everybody's like, now you got one, I
Speaker 1: need one. Give me the right. They did exactly what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do against a guy who is not
Speaker 1: a proven passer. And what you're supposed to do is
Speaker 1: go out there handle your business. If you play how
Speaker 1: you know you can play, that's how the game should
Speaker 1: end up for you. Trash yards. Yeah, I just wish
Speaker 1: we could fix it. And that's that's my own selfish
Speaker 1: thing because I'm just like, I want us to be
Speaker 1: top ten in yards. They deserve to be in the
Speaker 1: top ten, But nobody can look at this defense and say,
Speaker 1: hey man, they're not playing like a top ten that
Speaker 1: like one of the top tier defenses. That's why you
Speaker 1: see when the pro football whatever comes out there, they're
Speaker 1: number five, they might be number six because they're watching.
Speaker 1: They're watching the game and they're able to see exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on. Just like last night, you said, all right,
Speaker 1: yeah that was actually random ball. Okay, the head hundred
Speaker 1: forty six yards. We didn't know one run from from
Speaker 1: from which I'm thankful I got you in fantasy. But
Speaker 1: he take away that one run. It was twenty two
Speaker 1: carries for fifty seven yards, and that's just that's just
Speaker 1: not gonna work offensively. But back on the defensive side,
Speaker 1: does it worry you a little bit that if we
Speaker 1: don't get takeaways that we'll have what it takes to
Speaker 1: beat a playoff team. Like, I'm not worried about these
Speaker 1: next five games. We got the Division for four of them,
Speaker 1: and then we got Arizona, which will be a tough contest,
Speaker 1: but I'm not worried about that. But once we get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, do you just does it make you
Speaker 1: nervous a little bit that we have to take the
Speaker 1: ball away four times in order to get this victory
Speaker 1: or do you think this offense will continue to get
Speaker 1: into shape and eventually round into the offense that we
Speaker 1: thought they would be. Yeah, listen, if the offense doesn't
Speaker 1: pick it up, I don't think we have a shot.
Speaker 1: You can go back to Week one against Tampa. We
Speaker 1: get four, we get four takeaways, we lose the game.
Speaker 1: I think Aaron Rodgers has only thrown four you know
Speaker 1: that season. Kylin Worry is also taking care of the ball.
Speaker 1: I think the only way you can turn him over
Speaker 1: is if he's running it. And then also you get
Speaker 1: a sack force fumble. So you got quarterbacks who you're
Speaker 1: gonna face, who are able to take care of the ball.
Speaker 1: So the offense needs to get on track so we
Speaker 1: have those opportunities, because what we also saw was against Denver,
Speaker 1: if we're playing from behind, those opportunities to take the
Speaker 1: ball away, they aren't gone running that right. So you
Speaker 1: have to be able to play compromentary football, and so
Speaker 1: far we haven't been able to since the buy week.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with the offense, but
Speaker 1: hopefully we get that back on track so the defense
Speaker 1: can play how how we expect them to play. Pin
Speaker 1: your ears back, earned to write the rush on third down,
Speaker 1: and you got a guy with ten sex, then you
Speaker 1: got Randy Gregor, who get pressure on the passer. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta take Lawrence we know can get person on
Speaker 1: the passer. Then you also rusting a guy like Kurty,
Speaker 1: rusting a guy like Jordan Lewis, Like, you have ways
Speaker 1: to manufacture this stuff, but if you're if you're not
Speaker 1: able to stop the run or play from a head,
Speaker 1: then all that is knowling void. Yeah, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll just got me thinking a little bit
Speaker 1: of you know, once we get everybody healthy, you know,
Speaker 1: the Randy Gregory's come back. Neville Gallimore. Just think of
Speaker 1: the package defensively we could put out there on third down,
Speaker 1: like just a NASCAR package we got. You can put
Speaker 1: Parsons on one edge, Randy Gregory on the other, you
Speaker 1: can kick d Law on the inside, and put the
Speaker 1: Daurn's armstrong in their calling, some type of a NASCAR
Speaker 1: package or whatever it may be. But we got an
Speaker 1: opportunity defensively to do some damage once we get to
Speaker 1: these playoffs. Now, our matchup, if everything stays the same,
Speaker 1: everything stays the same. You know, Tampa wins their division,
Speaker 1: we win ours. You know, Green Bay wins theirs, and
Speaker 1: let's just say, you know, Arizona wins the West. Our
Speaker 1: matchup in that first round could possibly be the La Rams.
Speaker 1: It could possibly be the La Rams. And we know
Speaker 1: what they have over there as far as firepower offensively,
Speaker 1: So that could be a game that if we don't
Speaker 1: get you know, this offense going in the right direction,
Speaker 1: it could get a little sticky for me. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say one it done, but we're
Speaker 1: kind of nervous about that. Listen, and you know, because
Speaker 1: I got to step before our defense. Okay, if we're
Speaker 1: moving on to possibly playing in la if we do
Speaker 1: everything shakes out. They having the same issues that we
Speaker 1: have offensively. Oh yeah, yeah, they have no idea where
Speaker 1: to go would a turn. They have not looked like
Speaker 1: the same offensive team. Matthew Stafford has been turning the
Speaker 1: ball over. Yeah, I've seen. He's my starting quarterback and
Speaker 1: fantasy so I'll pay a little bit extra attention to him. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're not they haven't found it yet. They lost it. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're realizing that that that that loss of Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: just like like we've realizing that loss of Amark Hoopers.
Speaker 1: It's bigger than we thought it was. It's not that
Speaker 1: the next guy just step in and get the thing rolling. Um,
Speaker 1: So their defensive is feeling the same. They're not able
Speaker 1: to get that pass rush. You got behind Miller, you
Speaker 1: got Aaron Domino. But those guys aren't able to pin
Speaker 1: their ears back and rush the pastors because they haven't
Speaker 1: been able to get anything rolling on offense. But the
Speaker 1: defense of the other offense to have to score those
Speaker 1: points and move the ball like that. So we're going
Speaker 1: through this same thing. So right now, as of today,
Speaker 1: I think it would be okay. I think we'll be
Speaker 1: okay two struggling offenses against two good defenses. That would
Speaker 1: be one of that, like like the game we played
Speaker 1: last time. Yeah, it'll be definitely be a toss up
Speaker 1: on that one. And real quick, I know we're about
Speaker 1: to get into our break here in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I gotta discuss this guy before we get off
Speaker 1: of this subject. Well, we'll talk about Michael in a
Speaker 1: little bit in the next segment. But d Law this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, he came back ten game hiatus, ten game hiatus.
Speaker 1: He comes back, first game in a long time against
Speaker 1: the New Orleans team. How did you think he performed
Speaker 1: out there? Listen, As you know, I expected d Law
Speaker 1: to come out and play well. Um, I said, if
Speaker 1: he's healthy and and he's able to move how he
Speaker 1: normally moves when he's actually one healthy, which we don't
Speaker 1: we haven't seen often, and I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: a huge impact on the game. Um this is his
Speaker 1: first game back. We saw him move really well. He
Speaker 1: looked healthy. He brought a different intensity to that left
Speaker 1: side of the defensive line. All right, he was wrestling,
Speaker 1: he was coming off the ball. You see him line
Speaker 1: up over the three technique. You see him I meaning
Speaker 1: over the guard. You see him line up outside, I
Speaker 1: think they were getting them back into the game. And
Speaker 1: he made some plays out there, right. He made me nervous.
Speaker 1: One he come across the field, he makes the tack
Speaker 1: on the guy, he catches a knee to the hem
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh no, come on. And he gets
Speaker 1: back in the game. I'm like, yes, he's rolling. So
Speaker 1: I was really impressed with what he was able to
Speaker 1: do with coming back after such a long time off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. I mean ten games off.
Speaker 1: I thought for sure the guy was gonna be gas.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he's gonna go out there and have a
Speaker 1: couple of good plays and then be like I'm tapping out.
Speaker 1: But you can see out there, it was like they
Speaker 1: had to hold him from coming back in the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy was like, look, I don't snap
Speaker 1: count all that pitch count. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: nothing about that. I haven't been a part of this
Speaker 1: team in ten games and I'm looking to put my
Speaker 1: impact on this game. And I think he did a
Speaker 1: good job of that. You know, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: along that defensive line plays the run as well as
Speaker 1: d Law did. And you saw that last night. He
Speaker 1: was able to get in there from his defensive imposition
Speaker 1: and shut things down. When they're talking about the running
Speaker 1: back now, Tasom Hill, that's that's another story. But d Law,
Speaker 1: I think he did a good job. Came in there.
Speaker 1: He almost, like you said, he almost forced to fumble
Speaker 1: out there. It came through His pass rusher is getting better.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy that's missed ten games. This
Speaker 1: is his first game back. To me, it didn't even
Speaker 1: look like he missed a step. So I'm excited for
Speaker 1: what I've seen with d Law. This defense right now,
Speaker 1: the sky can be the limit. If they continue to
Speaker 1: take the football away like this. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: winning formula right there. If you can get the ball
Speaker 1: back to your offense and let's just say, our offense
Speaker 1: gets back in the shape and what they've been doing
Speaker 1: and what they're best at is scoring points. If you
Speaker 1: can take the ball away and get it back to
Speaker 1: them on a regular basis, I think this guy's limit
Speaker 1: for this team. I think the one thing that's scary
Speaker 1: about d Law is this. Okay, give him the same
Speaker 1: time that everybody is else. Everybody else's had with Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn to elevate his game, all right. He had one
Speaker 1: game he came out forced fumble that he's been out.
Speaker 1: Give him the same opportunity to trade Munds, Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: and Curse and all those guys have had to elevate
Speaker 1: their game, like uh, playing under Dan Quinn get d
Speaker 1: Law that time, and I think you're gonna see something special.
Speaker 1: You forgot one persona. Sorry, but well he didn't elevate
Speaker 1: his game, all right, I'll give you that, you know.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Michael Parsons, we're going to dive into this
Speaker 1: guy and how explosive he has been so far in
Speaker 1: this rookie season when we get back from break. This
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Speaker 1: the SWBC studios. I'm here once again with the Ultimate survivor,
Speaker 1: Danny mccraie. It was top six right now, still kicking
Speaker 1: only six level, only six left. That's hell of a
Speaker 1: performance right there, man, top six. He's doing it. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you were to pray, you would have never heard
Speaker 1: the end of it. I say that right now. It's good.
Speaker 1: You're good. You're good. You made it to the top ten.
Speaker 1: So you know, hey, I gotta give you props on that.
Speaker 1: I gotta give you props on that. It's just me,
Speaker 1: your average box safety over here. So look, we're gonna
Speaker 1: dive before we dive into this offense, because we gotta
Speaker 1: have a whole segment, you know, dedicated to this offense
Speaker 1: when we did the defense early, got to have a
Speaker 1: whole segment to the offense. But before we dive into that,
Speaker 1: we have got to take a look and give this
Speaker 1: man his flowers. Micah Parsons, I mean, look, this dude
Speaker 1: is playing at an all pro level right now. I
Speaker 1: said it earlier in the year. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've seen a rookie outside of maybe Das Bryant to
Speaker 1: have this big of an impact for a team. And
Speaker 1: I would even say it's a bigger impact because this
Speaker 1: team is winning right now. You know, rookie year, we
Speaker 1: was six and ten, even though that guy was bawling,
Speaker 1: we was still six and ten. But Michael Parsons, he's
Speaker 1: playing on another level right now, and it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where you put him. You can put him at the
Speaker 1: d N spy linebacker. You put him at the d tackle,
Speaker 1: nose guard, it doesn't matter. He seems to be able
Speaker 1: to make an impact wherever the case may be. We
Speaker 1: saw him go out there and get a sack. His
Speaker 1: closing speed is amazing. That's ten on the year right now.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy's ten sacks on the year right now.
Speaker 1: We also saw on that j Ron Curs interception. We've
Speaker 1: seen him carrying a wide receiver up the seams. Like
Speaker 1: I don't under think people understand how difficult that is.
Speaker 1: Because even for defensive back to carry a wide receiver
Speaker 1: on a wheel route, that's tough, especially a guy like
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills who can run. But Michael Parsons were there
Speaker 1: step for step broke the pass up led to a
Speaker 1: Jay Run cursed interception. This guy is bawling on another level.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I just don't know if I've
Speaker 1: seen an impact man like this before. D Mac, what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the young man? I tell you,
Speaker 1: when I watched Michael Parson's player, I tell you what
Speaker 1: I used to hear from coaches all the time. Basketball
Speaker 1: coaches say, hey man, you can't coach hype. Yeah, football coach, man,
Speaker 1: you can't coach speed. And when you watch the guy
Speaker 1: like on the boat right, you think that you're gonna
Speaker 1: slow him down a little bit on the boot and
Speaker 1: then Taysom he'll come around the corner and say, oh man,
Speaker 1: le's dude to my face already the closing speed that
Speaker 1: this dude has amazing. It is dB closing speed. Some
Speaker 1: facts have closer speed like this when they're trying to
Speaker 1: track about that. Dan Sanders had a closer speed like
Speaker 1: this year. He would make you believe it's your head
Speaker 1: up it and when they throw the ball, he go
Speaker 1: get it up. Michael Parsons, is that guy from the
Speaker 1: linebacker position playing great? Another sack? Five tackles? I mean,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't even account for all the pressures, all
Speaker 1: the confusion that that he that he calls us on
Speaker 1: the defense, because now offensive coordinators have to really plan
Speaker 1: for him specifically, they say, look at the defense, they say,
Speaker 1: who who do we have to play for? Who is
Speaker 1: it who? And you got a big eleven. So when
Speaker 1: they're a practice and when when the Saint Sara practice
Speaker 1: on their scout team, somebody has the eleven jersey highlight.
Speaker 1: So now he's playing amazing man and I think at
Speaker 1: this rate he could end up with fifteen and sixty
Speaker 1: sixteen sacks easily, and there's no longer defensive rookie of these.
Speaker 1: Put it in the trophy case already, it's over with.
Speaker 1: You're up now for Defensive Player of the Year, and
Speaker 1: your team is going for the suit, going for a
Speaker 1: playoff run, right, playing for the Cowboys be seen all
Speaker 1: the time, and you just continue to keep rolling, right,
Speaker 1: because we noticed a such thing called the rookie wall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much everybody's hit it. My man is in week thirteen.
Speaker 1: He ain't hitting that and he is doing just fine.
Speaker 1: So shout out to him. The dude's playing amazing. And
Speaker 1: you know when I see him, and I told you that,
Speaker 1: I saw Lee up to me, he's the best stack
Speaker 1: linebacker that he's ever seen coming out of college and
Speaker 1: being able to do what he's done. And I'm just
Speaker 1: and I just I'm like, dang, Sean, he was like
Speaker 1: two years late. That's it. Imagine that Shun Lee next
Speaker 1: to Michael Parsons kidding, You got Sean Lee, who's basically
Speaker 1: would have been an extension of the coaching staff out there.
Speaker 1: He would have been able to head Parsons. You go there,
Speaker 1: you go there, and then you got the athletic ability
Speaker 1: and explosiveness of Parsons out there. That would have been
Speaker 1: a magical combination. But look at it. I mean, this guy,
Speaker 1: it don't matter where you put him. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where you put him. He defensive end, no tackle. Coach,
Speaker 1: go get the quarterback. I got your coach, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna make the play. And what's most impressive to me
Speaker 1: is it seems like the moment is never too big
Speaker 1: for this guy. The bright lights, prime time, It don't
Speaker 1: matter what type of game you could be, in the
Speaker 1: street somewhere, he's gonna give you one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: he's gonna make plays. I mean, this guy is a
Speaker 1: bona fide playmaker. And look, I didn't see it. You
Speaker 1: know that when we missed out on certain we missed
Speaker 1: out on Jason, I'm like, man, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know about what this guy gonna do. But y'all
Speaker 1: hear this. Y'all hear this, right, because because you knew
Speaker 1: he sit there talking about, Oh but look what Michael
Speaker 1: is doing. I was like, yeah, but eld the day
Speaker 1: of Yeah, I didn't the day of there's no way
Speaker 1: in here like they can say they knew that he
Speaker 1: was gonna play well. We've drafted a lot of linebackers,
Speaker 1: all right, who they who played well, but not like
Speaker 1: not not a team in the league expecting Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: to be able to play this well. Now, if we
Speaker 1: go back into a redraft, he's going he might be
Speaker 1: only one number one overall. I mean, the way this
Speaker 1: guy is doing things, I mean, it's and to be
Speaker 1: a rookie and a guy that didn't even play football
Speaker 1: last year because of the COVID situation opted out For
Speaker 1: him to come in here and still be able to
Speaker 1: play the way he's playing, I mean, it's remarkable. It's remarkable.
Speaker 1: It's because it's weird uncle, like that weird uncle. Everybody
Speaker 1: like everybody like he's a magic listen, listen. In any
Speaker 1: of the scheme, I'm sure Michael Parsons will still be great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn knows exactly what to do with this guy,
Speaker 1: which is amazing. So quick before we get on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of things, where do you put him going forward?
Speaker 1: Because you know Randy Gregory's coming back soon. He seems
Speaker 1: to be able to ball out and have a bigger
Speaker 1: impact on a defensive line. But he makes great plays
Speaker 1: at the linebacker as well. And when you already have
Speaker 1: Tank Lawrence and Gregory there, do you push him back
Speaker 1: to that linebacker spot or you say, you know what,
Speaker 1: this guy's causing too much havoc. I gotta keep him
Speaker 1: on a d line. Go ahead and get after that quarterball.
Speaker 1: You play that linebacker, okay, And then and most of
Speaker 1: the time you're rushing five add on tokay, or if
Speaker 1: you want to, you move Randy in, or you move
Speaker 1: or you move d law in, you move Micah up,
Speaker 1: roll up another another safety. Right, You got many options,
Speaker 1: and that's what's great about what Michael Parl's can do
Speaker 1: because the defense can't plan for where he's gonna be it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the best the best thing that you have now is
Speaker 1: the mystery of like where is eleven? Right? As long
Speaker 1: as the offense can't determine or dictate that, then you
Speaker 1: have the advantage with this guy. Yeah, you're right, you
Speaker 1: got the advant with this guy. But overall, man, this
Speaker 1: guy's playing amazing and man, look, Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: That's that's so. Now we're talking about defensive player of
Speaker 1: the Year. Now, and the Cowboys got two people in
Speaker 1: that category. I mean, you got Digs and you got
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. I mean, I didn't see it coming into
Speaker 1: this to this year. You know, I knew we got
Speaker 1: Dad quitting all this stuff. I didn't see it. I'll
Speaker 1: get kudos to you because you did see it before.
Speaker 1: Because you saw it, man, I'll give you credit. You
Speaker 1: said before they even thought about hiring Dan Quinton, you know,
Speaker 1: before we were working it would still work. He was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this guy's gonna be available, but
Speaker 1: if he is, we gotta grab him. And I gave him. Man.
Speaker 1: I don't know, league, I don't know anything about but
Speaker 1: you was right. So I'll give you the no Shore
Speaker 1: domas McCrae for now and see we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: with that top ten. But right now, you're looking right,
Speaker 1: you're looking back. Well, now it looks like we got
Speaker 1: to dig into this offense a little bit. Um. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that you know, they played terrible like. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like they were just god awful out there. They put
Speaker 1: up some points and they made enough plays to win
Speaker 1: the game. But you look at how this offense was
Speaker 1: playing early on in the season, you would have thought
Speaker 1: this was going to be one of the one of
Speaker 1: the miracles on turf, looking like like like the ninety
Speaker 1: nine Rams or something like that. They have that potential
Speaker 1: going into this season. Now, we had a couple of injuries.
Speaker 1: We missed Tyron Smith for a little bit, but those
Speaker 1: guys are back right now. We got the offensive line
Speaker 1: communicating well out there, and they still they still the offense,
Speaker 1: it just seems like it's stagnant. They can't get one
Speaker 1: thing going. If it's if it's the past that's doing well,
Speaker 1: the running game, stop the running games doing well. We
Speaker 1: can't see the pass the ball. We haven't had one
Speaker 1: of those complete games, like you said, since Atlanta, since
Speaker 1: we were able to blow out Atlantis. So to me,
Speaker 1: I gotta know your thoughts. McCray. What did you think
Speaker 1: of the offense in yesterday's game. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think I've been talking about this for a while and
Speaker 1: it's and it's the run game, right, Like I think
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, you have to you
Speaker 1: have to put it in your mind and get that
Speaker 1: mindset of like we're going to establish the run going
Speaker 1: into these games, and then when you go into the
Speaker 1: first game and you just automatically just shot away from
Speaker 1: it because of what a team has already done. You
Speaker 1: are you already setting the tone for what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do for the rest of the season. Right, You're letting
Speaker 1: the defense dictate to you how you're going to play
Speaker 1: the game. Right, So you don't run, you don't run
Speaker 1: the ball in the first couple of games. All right,
Speaker 1: everybody's like, Zeke had a good game here, a good
Speaker 1: game there. Zeke has not been having the Zeke type
Speaker 1: of games that we expect them to have. But now
Speaker 1: you have to say it's a good game because we're
Speaker 1: a passing team. Right, he gets ninety yards. You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: not a good game for Zeke, not under to the
Speaker 1: standard day we're using. That's a good game for everybody else.
Speaker 1: But when I see Zeke and the Zeke that I
Speaker 1: know that he can be, especially when you say that
Speaker 1: he came in a training camp, he was slimmer. They're
Speaker 1: gonna try to keep him more healthy, They're gonna give
Speaker 1: him the rock ninety yards. I know Zeke can rust
Speaker 1: from one fifty. I know he could be up there
Speaker 1: at the top echelon of those guys that are playing
Speaker 1: running back, so we don't establish the run. We hadn't
Speaker 1: been a running team, and now all of a sudden
Speaker 1: quarterback goes down. People start getting hurt. Now you want
Speaker 1: to become a running team. It don't work like that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work like that. So now you see us
Speaker 1: now trying to trying to force it right, force it
Speaker 1: a little bit. And then every time you get a negative,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh this why we didn't run the ball?
Speaker 1: Right now we're behind. I'm like, you ain't the only
Speaker 1: team who've been hit with a negative two or been
Speaker 1: on second and ten. I was second to ten and
Speaker 1: you getting stuffed in the run. It's the same second
Speaker 1: and ten when you throw that deep ball on first
Speaker 1: down and all of a sudden you're a second of ten,
Speaker 1: and now the defenses dictated to you, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: now you got two downs to get ten, so we
Speaker 1: know you're gonna run it. We run so many boots,
Speaker 1: we run so many quick players. Now we worked the middle,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, has has he been figured out? Has
Speaker 1: he been figured out? Kelly Moore been figured out? It
Speaker 1: could be this is this is a long stretch of
Speaker 1: deep defenses looking like they know, just going on a
Speaker 1: three game run. Now, even even the catches for scores
Speaker 1: or first downs, they are very very tough catches every everything.
Speaker 1: And before it was like, okay, here's a catch and
Speaker 1: he's gonna run for about ten fifteen yards. He's gonna
Speaker 1: get that explosiveness. But now you're saying, it's like these defenses,
Speaker 1: they're all they're right on the hit pocket. Now granted
Speaker 1: we've played you know, a couple of good defense or
Speaker 1: a couple of better defenses they we did earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, But I just don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's more of Kelly Moore not being as creative as
Speaker 1: he was earlier in the season, or like if you said,
Speaker 1: people have kind of figured this guy out and knows
Speaker 1: his tendencies and knows where he loves to go with
Speaker 1: the ball. But to me, if the if the intermediate
Speaker 1: or the deep ball is not working, like if you
Speaker 1: know what, we can't get the run game going because
Speaker 1: the Saints they stacked the box. They was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, we are gonna make you one dimensional. We're
Speaker 1: gonna stop this runs. And they did a good job
Speaker 1: of it. Outside of that Tony Polar fifty seven yard run.
Speaker 1: They did a good job of it, and they made
Speaker 1: this team one dimensional. But even making this Cowboys team
Speaker 1: one dimensional, you would think with those trio of wide receivers,
Speaker 1: with Schultzing there, with Dak Prescott at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: you would think they would still be able to move
Speaker 1: the ball, and that just wasn't the case. Now. I
Speaker 1: would love for them to see for them to implement
Speaker 1: more of that screen game. We saw the bubble screens
Speaker 1: to Cede Lamb and what he's able to do when
Speaker 1: he gets the ball in his hands. I would love
Speaker 1: to us for us to see some of that, but
Speaker 1: just drop him back and trying to hit these intermediate
Speaker 1: digs or these deep balls. I just don't see that
Speaker 1: being consistent. You know, I always think at this offense
Speaker 1: is at its best, it's at its peak powers, it's
Speaker 1: at you know, the magnitude of all offenses. When they
Speaker 1: have a balanced attack. When you don't know what they're
Speaker 1: gonna hit you with, you gotta pick your poison. Do
Speaker 1: we hit you with this run or do we hit
Speaker 1: you with this pass? And when defense makes when defenses
Speaker 1: make us one dimensional, it kind of bogs us down
Speaker 1: and we get to that stagged offense that we've seen
Speaker 1: last night. Give me a top five team that is
Speaker 1: not successful, sussful running the ball. Name can the Packers
Speaker 1: run the ball? The only one I can think of
Speaker 1: is maybe the Chiefs. That's it. They're not top five,
Speaker 1: teeny they score nineteen on us. They were just struggling
Speaker 1: when you look at Look at Lena Fournette, the second
Speaker 1: coming of Leoni Fournete in college right, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden four touchdown last week, hundred yards rushing forty yards catching.
Speaker 1: Tampa can run the ball. They situationally, they know when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, they're able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Look at New England, they can run the ball. Look
Speaker 1: at Lamar Taxes. You have to be able to Like,
Speaker 1: if you can't run the ball with these teams who
Speaker 1: can play defense and they once once they make you
Speaker 1: one dimensional. You look the way that we've looked over
Speaker 1: the past few weeks, then you're gonna be in trouble. Like,
Speaker 1: now's the time to be like, hey man, we need
Speaker 1: to go back to the lab, figure out what it is,
Speaker 1: what type of runs work for us? Right, Obviously you
Speaker 1: can't just run power encounter because it's not working, you
Speaker 1: ain't even be able to line up and go. You
Speaker 1: gotta have something, so so find out what runs work
Speaker 1: good for Tony Pollard, find out what runs work good
Speaker 1: for Zeke. At this point, especially with a hurt Zeke,
Speaker 1: you need to find out what what what he's able
Speaker 1: to do if you're not gonna rust them, and then
Speaker 1: keep hammering that, man, keep hammering that because the likelihood
Speaker 1: of you making the playoffs is really high. But the
Speaker 1: likelihood of you going out in the first round if
Speaker 1: you're not able to establish the run against the team,
Speaker 1: if the passing game is not working, it's really really high.
Speaker 1: All right, So I think it's time to get there.
Speaker 1: And if we don't, we can talk about Killer Moore
Speaker 1: and all the offensive creativity and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna look just how it's looked in the last
Speaker 1: few weeks. I would have to agree with you on
Speaker 1: that one. I mean, look, this team, they have to
Speaker 1: get back to the run, and they got ten days.
Speaker 1: They got ten days to figure out. I'll get back
Speaker 1: in the lab, get these guys some rest. And speaking
Speaker 1: about rest and Zeke and Tony Pollard, in your opinion,
Speaker 1: should the Cowboys have I mean it's too late now,
Speaker 1: But should the Cowboys have rested that zeke? Because in
Speaker 1: that game last night, and me and you and me
Speaker 1: both we've watched it, it looked like the man was laboring.
Speaker 1: It looked like he had a big old truck tied
Speaker 1: to the back of his back, and he just seemed
Speaker 1: to couldn't get out of second gear and he was
Speaker 1: hobbled a little bit, limping here and there. You could
Speaker 1: see he was just you know, on his face. Everything
Speaker 1: is demeanor. It just wasn't the zeke that we were
Speaker 1: used to seeing. Usually we see this guy three yards
Speaker 1: in a cloud of dust and by the time the
Speaker 1: fourth quarters going around, he's getting up out the pile
Speaker 1: talking about me. Feed me. You just didn't see that,
Speaker 1: you know, last night. So to me, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you the question, is it it's too late now,
Speaker 1: but should they have rested him a little bit and
Speaker 1: gave him to those two weeks because now we get
Speaker 1: ten days off in between this Thursday and the following
Speaker 1: Sunday game against the Washington rest or the Washington football team.
Speaker 1: Should they have rested him? I'll say this, so I
Speaker 1: don't know the total breakdown on how many runs he
Speaker 1: had in the first half, how many runs he had
Speaker 1: in the second. But if you weren't going to make
Speaker 1: him a focal point of the offense, you should arrested
Speaker 1: the ship, all right, because like, I don't know enough
Speaker 1: about the injury, but I'm sure that Britt and Jim
Speaker 1: and Gee and all those guys they got a better
Speaker 1: idea of like what's going on with and what he's
Speaker 1: able to know what he's not. But what we do
Speaker 1: know about injuries is if you go out in pregame
Speaker 1: and you get warm and you're feeling good, right, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you don't do anything for
Speaker 1: a while. You're not running the ball, you're not really
Speaker 1: having to use use that burst and get all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you get stiff? You look how Zeke looked when
Speaker 1: he turned that corner in the second half. Aside, that's
Speaker 1: that's when the injury gets stiff. That's when it's cold
Speaker 1: outside and all those old injuries start hurting. That's what
Speaker 1: Zeke looked like at the end of the game, right,
Speaker 1: And you can expect that when when you're coming out
Speaker 1: of halftime, you try to go to get a guy warm.
Speaker 1: But if you're not gonna make him a focal point.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, let's Tony Paula get in there and get there,
Speaker 1: get those twelve carry thirteen carries and then rest Zeke. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that's where it makes sense. But if if
Speaker 1: the assumption was, hey, we're gonna focus on running the ball,
Speaker 1: like we've heard Jerry Jones say, like we heard Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy say, then yeah, I mean, I guess they went
Speaker 1: with the right decision of trying to get him going,
Speaker 1: but we never saw him get going. Yeah, you're right
Speaker 1: about that. Real quick before we take our second back,
Speaker 1: real quick, Tony Poler to Zeke, who needs to get
Speaker 1: more carries going forward? If Zeke's hobbled like that, Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's you're gonna have it's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be more. Even so, so Zeke got double of what
Speaker 1: Tony Parler got, I think it's gonna have to be more,
Speaker 1: even more off. And that's only because we need a
Speaker 1: healthy Zeke, like I said, because our running game is
Speaker 1: Tony Poler is great, He's he's also a change up,
Speaker 1: all right. We need somebody with the power running game
Speaker 1: who can go in there and punish those guys, open
Speaker 1: open the lanes off for Tony Poler because last night
Speaker 1: we saw it. If it's not, if Zeke is not Zeke,
Speaker 1: then Tony Poler runs. Sometimes they don't go as long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might be a splash play, but you can't depend
Speaker 1: on that, you know, every game. All right, Well, look
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Speaker 1: your boy, just an average box safety. So here we go. Mad.
Speaker 1: Look the whole offense, it wasn't all bad. It wasn't
Speaker 1: all bad. One person in particular stuck out to me,
Speaker 1: and that was C. D. Lamb. This guy continues to
Speaker 1: just put game after game together where he's bawling like it.
Speaker 1: No matter how you get him the ball, whether it's screens,
Speaker 1: whether it's deep passes, whether it's intermediate routes. This guy
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Speaker 1: that number one position above Amari Cooper on the wide
Speaker 1: receiver pecking scale. So listen, this is what I said.
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the year, I was hearing all
Speaker 1: the rumbles of what Ceedee Lamb was doing with a
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper out during training camp looked amazing. I even
Speaker 1: heard people compared to Dais Brian some of the stuff
Speaker 1: that he was some of the catches that he was making.
Speaker 1: And then you see a flash of it on hard knocks.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh man, this dude is this dude is
Speaker 1: is serious? Right? So I'm saying I'm not gonnahead. I'll say,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you can compare to this guy
Speaker 1: to Das Brian and he's making those type of catches
Speaker 1: on the favor routes because I'm Mark Cooper can can
Speaker 1: do it, but that's not all right, then you also
Speaker 1: add what Ceedee Lamb can do coming out of the
Speaker 1: backfield running jet sweeps. Every time we've seen the Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper trying to get one of those. It doesn't usually
Speaker 1: he ain't going down. You see, when you see ceedee lamb,
Speaker 1: get it in your mind, you're like, oh man, this
Speaker 1: this could this could go right here, right. So I
Speaker 1: think that he's a little bit more versatile to the
Speaker 1: Mark than the Mark Cooper at this point. He's also
Speaker 1: more available than the Mark Cooper at this point, which
Speaker 1: to me adds up to being yes, number one option,
Speaker 1: trusted option. But then you got to throw in shots.
Speaker 1: You got security blanket. Who's he more comfortable with at
Speaker 1: this point, Schultz or Mark Cooper? Like It's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that Shultz is better than the Mark Cooper.
Speaker 1: Please please don't. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying
Speaker 1: Shultz has been available. Schultz has turned into that winding
Speaker 1: type of thing that Romo had. But the connection that
Speaker 1: they had when you look up and you say, man,
Speaker 1: if DA's in trouble, who's he looking for? Shultzons catching
Speaker 1: the balls. I was actually more nervous when I thought
Speaker 1: Schultz was gonna be out of the game. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we're through, We're in trouble. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: all CD, right, So Yeah. Like, like I said, at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, I think we will come
Speaker 1: back to these conversations. Say, man, I think Cede lamb
Speaker 1: outperformed Mark Cooper one because he was available more in
Speaker 1: two because he's a little bit more versatile. And then
Speaker 1: shout out to Michael Gallup as well, who we've all
Speaker 1: said that deep ball and those over the show, those favors.
Speaker 1: That's his specialty. And if you're looking for a guy
Speaker 1: that you want to pay ten to twelve, twelve to fourteen,
Speaker 1: who could make those type of place, you need to
Speaker 1: follow up. You need to go down got about. So like,
Speaker 1: if you're looking at this guy played when when he's
Speaker 1: able to be a number two and he had some
Speaker 1: type of help, we ain't getting double team. He can
Speaker 1: make some plays, So shout out to him. I saw
Speaker 1: on Twitter what they said. Then, uh it, CAZy is
Speaker 1: missing a lot of tackles. You believe he is? He
Speaker 1: playing that bad? He's slipping a little bit. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna like his CAZy. You know he he had
Speaker 1: an interception last or this last game. But if you
Speaker 1: look at the angles that this guy's taken out of
Speaker 1: the post, it's just not good. I mean, half of
Speaker 1: the time you would think man or they didn't cover zero,
Speaker 1: like where's the free safety yet? But CAZy, he's just
Speaker 1: making He's just doing his own thing back there, just
Speaker 1: roaming it and reading, and you ain't got the cache
Speaker 1: to be to be a reading out there. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think they definitely gotta gotta hone in on his
Speaker 1: skills and make sure he's in the right right position,
Speaker 1: because there's been plays where look at that that um
Speaker 1: the end of the game where Harris called the ball
Speaker 1: was like a punt retest. You're supposed to have somebody
Speaker 1: back there stopping everything. He took away everybody's angle. So
Speaker 1: I definitely think he needs to get better in his
Speaker 1: post sfety skills. But I'm right there with you on
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. I think he's risen above Amark Cooper. One,
Speaker 1: like you said, because of the availability and two they
Speaker 1: highlight this guy. They move him around the formation each
Speaker 1: and every play. He's not gonna be just stagged it
Speaker 1: on the outside. He's not gonna be just stagged it
Speaker 1: in the slot. They move him around, hit him with
Speaker 1: the post or a pre snap motion, so it's hard
Speaker 1: for defenses to kind of focus in and get their
Speaker 1: best cover guy on him. I mean, look, how many
Speaker 1: times was Lattimore watching cde Lamb yesterday. He didn't have
Speaker 1: an opportunity because he was moving him around. He's moving
Speaker 1: all over the place, so it's hard for defenses to
Speaker 1: pick up on him. So I think they're highlighting cdee Lamb,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what's giving him him the ability
Speaker 1: to kind of sturtplant Amark Cooper as that number one
Speaker 1: ride receiver. I mean, he's doing great things with the
Speaker 1: ball after the catch. He's running great routes, and even
Speaker 1: though some of his catches are contested, he's making them.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins knows he's the number one receivers. That's why
Speaker 1: that's like your worst nightmare as a safety when you
Speaker 1: come now, this guy got half of the field and
Speaker 1: it's just you and him one on one and you
Speaker 1: in the full speed sprint. Yeah, that's just it's it's
Speaker 1: hard in that situation, Jenkings, if I'm Jenkings, you gotta
Speaker 1: just shoot your gun. Like If you don't, you just
Speaker 1: get shook and get like this stuck like that. It
Speaker 1: looks wet. I've been in that position, Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 1: So we're not saying that we're gonna be better at it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would have. I would have broken ankle. At least
Speaker 1: he was able to finish the game. Broke my ankle
Speaker 1: out there, but he took it. So But but here
Speaker 1: one thing I want to maybe I read too much
Speaker 1: into it, but I can't remember back when Dez Bryan
Speaker 1: started to become the number one guy here before that,
Speaker 1: he was returning punts last night. Okay, in previous games
Speaker 1: we had seen ceedee lamb be back there being a
Speaker 1: print return, said Wilson had the injury. I think, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: but did you see who was returning punts like yesterday?
Speaker 1: Was it? Was it? Okay? Am I see in the
Speaker 1: same type of pattern where I think Das broke his
Speaker 1: ankle on point return and then Jerry was like, hey,
Speaker 1: no purpose. And then you start to look at what
Speaker 1: we had a Mark Pople being hurt and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we need CD lamps, so let's take them out return.
Speaker 1: Is that what we're seeing here? He's starting to climb
Speaker 1: the charts. Man, he's starting to climb the charts, and rightfullymself,
Speaker 1: the man's balling out. And yesterday he had another fantastic game,
Speaker 1: So hey, he's taking he might be taking over that
Speaker 1: number one spot. But let's get into the NFC's real quick.
Speaker 1: We only got a couple of minutes left here. Are
Speaker 1: you nervous or should this Cowboys team be slightly worried
Speaker 1: that Washington is starting to pick up their game? I
Speaker 1: think they won three straight. Their defense is starting to
Speaker 1: perform a little bit better. Taylor Heine kids out there
Speaker 1: doing some things here and there, but they do have
Speaker 1: a strong running game with Gibson and m Kissick. Should
Speaker 1: the Cowboys be worried looking in the rearview mirror that
Speaker 1: maybe this Washington team has an opportunity to catch them
Speaker 1: in the rankings because we still got to play him twice.
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a two and a half game lead onto
Speaker 1: the division. Should they be nervous? If the Cowboys are smart,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say should be worried, but I think they
Speaker 1: should be aware. Right just based off how you've performed
Speaker 1: since the bye week. I don't think there's any gimmes
Speaker 1: right even last night. Even last night wasn't a gimme.
Speaker 1: We spared seven on defense, We gave him the ball
Speaker 1: and they in our own territory a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and we end up with twenty seven points, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So we have It's not like we've
Speaker 1: been blowing them out of the water. And when when
Speaker 1: I made my picks and I say we're going thirty,
Speaker 1: I looked at you. I said, you don't think we
Speaker 1: gonna go thirty on the Saints And you were like,
Speaker 1: we could. Yeah. So I look at the game last night,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you take off that seven. That's twenty if
Speaker 1: we don't get those four turnovers and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you don't know how we're gonna be able to drive
Speaker 1: the ball to turn and play. When when Parsons tipped
Speaker 1: to play and Kurse got the pick, it's the Saints.
Speaker 1: Were to keep running the football, they might have been
Speaker 1: in the zone right there, we'll listen. And then also,
Speaker 1: as much as we complained about the referees the week before,
Speaker 1: that crackback block that we got all about that, that
Speaker 1: was one of the worst calls I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life. I thought they were saying, okay, he blocked
Speaker 1: them in the back, and I was like, it still
Speaker 1: was a chip tiki tack call. But whatever. But when
Speaker 1: they said that was a peel back, so you I
Speaker 1: can't even pick up blitzes now, Like, how about that?
Speaker 1: Even my man's lined up on the other side of
Speaker 1: the formation, he has to get his read of a
Speaker 1: blitzing player. What is he supposed to do? Him at
Speaker 1: the quarterback to me like he's rest sometimes that that
Speaker 1: changed the momentum of the game, BROI momentum of the game.
Speaker 1: Shout out, shout out, shout out the best. And also,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd love to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: Grag the Leg. And you know I call him hooking left.
Speaker 1: You know, I give Greg the Leg a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of flak on this show. But he stepped up.
Speaker 1: He stepped up yesterday. I think he was two for
Speaker 1: two from the field goals, he hit a fifty plus yarder.
Speaker 1: I think he was three for three on his extra points.
Speaker 1: So he stepped up his game. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Zerline you did. You did a little bit better. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you because I got your fantas so you did
Speaker 1: a little bit better for me, So I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: So good thing for him stepping up. But overall it
Speaker 1: was a complete game by his Dallas Cowboys team defensively,
Speaker 1: I think they played one of their best games offensively.
Speaker 1: Still a little bit of struggles, but we got time
Speaker 1: to pick it up and look, ladies and gentlemen, that's
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