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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman, David Hillman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Break. We're gonna be getting into a
Speaker 1: lot of exciting stuff, hopefully a lot of fun talk.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing well? Well? Break? Good? Awesome?
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Speaker 1: Okay bro? All right, Well, before we get into the
Speaker 1: Texans um offense, I wanted to hit over a few
Speaker 1: points in regards to the white receiver position, starting off
Speaker 1: with Terrence William who wasn't at practice on Friday, was
Speaker 1: inactive during the game, and then today it wasn't an
Speaker 1: ad practice again. So I want to know the mystery
Speaker 1: behind this whole deal and what is really going on here.
Speaker 1: Any answers to this or any any how do you
Speaker 1: call those like super supposition no SUSI speculations. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: we go, whole I wish I could help you, Amber
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get to the bottom of it,
Speaker 1: and what I've been hearing back is I wish I
Speaker 1: could help you, like you've been hearing that back from
Speaker 1: people you've been talking to. Yes, yeah, it's scene. I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I think we've kind of had an
Speaker 1: idea that something weird was going on ever since Bryce
Speaker 1: Butler joined the team basically, which was what after week
Speaker 1: two or three, regardless he's been. Yeah, he's been. He's
Speaker 1: been here for two games. We've known for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks that something's up with Terrence. He didn't practice Friday,
Speaker 1: he wasn't at the game Sunday. He's dealing with some
Speaker 1: off field issues. We asked Jason Garrett before practice today
Speaker 1: at his press conference if he's going to practice, and
Speaker 1: he said, we'll see. Which somebody made the astute observation,
Speaker 1: like practices in fifteen minutes. What do you mean you
Speaker 1: don't know? It's weird. Cole Beasley mentioned, maybe you know
Speaker 1: he's got something going on with his foot. He had
Speaker 1: his foot surgically repaired during the offseason after he broke it,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's an injury component. There's been reports about
Speaker 1: a possible suspension. I haven't the slightest idea. All I
Speaker 1: know is that he's not practicing and he has not
Speaker 1: had much of an impact at all on this team
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. And that's the key is he really
Speaker 1: hasn't had much of an impact. So it doesn't help
Speaker 1: hurt you one way or the other. It's more just
Speaker 1: a you want to kind of know what's going on
Speaker 1: because obviously you've got to figure out what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with David Irving and if he is going to
Speaker 1: be a guy that could be a potential possible cut
Speaker 1: to get make room for Irving. You kind of want
Speaker 1: to know that, right just as you know, as curious
Speaker 1: people that follows a team want to know. But right
Speaker 1: now out there doesn't seem like they're very there's very
Speaker 1: much in the way of facts that are coming out.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's such a curious phenomenon with this team.
Speaker 1: And I chalk it up to how popular it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the most popular football team in
Speaker 1: the world, draws a lot of scrutiny, gets a lot
Speaker 1: of coverage, like stuff like it's never as simple as
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be with the Cowboys, like any other team,
Speaker 1: it would just kind of be, it would be under wraps,
Speaker 1: and then one day they'd be like he's suspended or
Speaker 1: he's going to i R and that's they're like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: but he's back. Nobody cares. But here like there, you know,
Speaker 1: there's reports, there are leaks, there, speculate and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, it reminds me of when Dez
Speaker 1: skipped as MRI I a couple of years ago, Like
Speaker 1: it's just like, why, why can't the most mundane of
Speaker 1: activities ever just be as straightforward as they're supposed to be,
Speaker 1: Like teams, teams make roster moves all the time, and
Speaker 1: it's just never seems like it's that easy here. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: And another wide receiver who we know um has some
Speaker 1: fun tweeting about the days. That's Bryant, and we know
Speaker 1: he's been getting ready into football shape, or at least
Speaker 1: based on all his pictures and videos of him working
Speaker 1: out and doing all that football stuff. Someone tweeted at
Speaker 1: him asking him who you signing with, and he responded back,
Speaker 1: I'd rather it be the Dallas Cowboys. If not, I'll
Speaker 1: be ready to play somewhere else now to me, That
Speaker 1: was a surprising response because based on how things kind
Speaker 1: of went down, I wouldn't expect that kind of response.
Speaker 1: But hey, if he wants to be here, cool Now
Speaker 1: is this a real scenario? Do you actually see this happening.
Speaker 1: We've talked about maybe Dak having the need of having
Speaker 1: some kind of wide receiver that has the experience and
Speaker 1: being able to help him on the field aside from
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elia, Do you guys really see this happening later
Speaker 1: on in the season or at some Honestly, this reminds
Speaker 1: me of when I was a single man and you
Speaker 1: date somebody and then you break up with him, and
Speaker 1: then it's like six months later you run into him
Speaker 1: and you kind of like, man, I kind of missed them,
Speaker 1: but you don't think about all the things that were
Speaker 1: the problems as to why you broke up with them
Speaker 1: in the first place. I hope the Cowboys don't get
Speaker 1: in that situation. And the reason why I say that
Speaker 1: is because last year, let's be honest, wasn't Dez. Wasn't
Speaker 1: doing Dez things. Last year for the most part, he
Speaker 1: was not the player, and there can be a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons for that, and I think it's people have
Speaker 1: a valid point when they say maybe it was the
Speaker 1: quarterback not being able to utilize him the right way.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's true, Maybe that's very valid, right, but guess what,
Speaker 1: that quarterback is still here and as of right now,
Speaker 1: that quarterback isn't going anywhere. So if we saw that
Speaker 1: last year, I don't think anyone should be under some
Speaker 1: sort of illusion that bringing him back somehow it's gonna
Speaker 1: be different, because I don't think it necessarily will be.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have a path they want to
Speaker 1: go down. Go down that path for right or wrong,
Speaker 1: whether it works or doesn't work. You selected a path,
Speaker 1: go with it. I don't think they go back and
Speaker 1: revise that at this point, in my opinion, I thought
Speaker 1: Nick had the line of the day. Yesterday we were
Speaker 1: talking about this, which people that listen to the show
Speaker 1: don't know William, But William works on the back end
Speaker 1: with us. You know, he did a post slave our stories.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of web stuff, crucial piece of what
Speaker 1: we do behind the scenes. But uh Rob was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Dez said if he could sign anywhere, he wants to
Speaker 1: play for the Cowboys, and Nick goes, so does William.
Speaker 1: So what like of course, Das wants to play for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Dez always wanted to play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: William William was like, just give me one rep. Rep
Speaker 1: this whole thing. It was never about what Dez wanted
Speaker 1: to do. It was about what the Cowboys wanted. And
Speaker 1: I get it. I'm hey, I love Dez Bryant. Part
Speaker 1: of me probably would be excited to see him resigned,
Speaker 1: just for the spectacle of it all. But numbers, yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, the story would get the story would get clicks,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about that, but some extra attention. I
Speaker 1: love that point. I mean here, I mean at this
Speaker 1: point in the season. Last year, Dez had two hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve receiving yards. That's about fifty three a game.
Speaker 1: He did that on sixteen catches, which is for a game.
Speaker 1: More importantly than that forty targets, So he's catching less
Speaker 1: than half of his of his targets for fifty three
Speaker 1: yards a game. He did have two touchdowns, but remember
Speaker 1: those numbers are super inflated because Dak was just chucking
Speaker 1: him the ball. He threw him the ball sixteen times
Speaker 1: in a thirty point loss in Denver. I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's so many ways you can go with this, Like
Speaker 1: you can argue whether they should have cut him, you
Speaker 1: can argue whether this is the right path to be
Speaker 1: on the point is that they're on this path already.
Speaker 1: I legitimately, I don't I would even be willing to
Speaker 1: concede that maybe it wasn't the best idea to cut
Speaker 1: him in the first place. But I really, I genuinely
Speaker 1: believe this team wouldn't be any better with Dez Bryan
Speaker 1: on it right now based on what we saw last year. Um,
Speaker 1: and the numbers don't bear out that it would be
Speaker 1: this amazing idea to bring him back. But he claims
Speaker 1: to being super Scian mode. What else would would you
Speaker 1: say to somebody? Is the all the Goku post? I
Speaker 1: just think in no offense to how we started the show,
Speaker 1: But I just think those are two irrelevant topics because
Speaker 1: none of them matters. Like Terrence Williams like, he's not contributing,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter. Yeah, it's interesting, of what's
Speaker 1: the deal? Is he gonna go? I r is he
Speaker 1: gonna go cut? But I don't think he's mean. I
Speaker 1: think he's caught his last pass with the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: I think that's wow, That's that's a big statement, though, Nick,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you really think I don't know? I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: if this is a situation he hasn't, then that's six
Speaker 1: more yards. I mean, but no, it isn't. I mean
Speaker 1: I don't maybe. I mean, that's that's a pretty big statement.
Speaker 1: I'm a little more with you on that one for sure.
Speaker 1: About with any team. I mean, don't you think that
Speaker 1: Dez just doesn't want to play football and all? This
Speaker 1: is just kind of smoking me. I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: I think Dez wants to play under death circumstances. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, I think Dez wants
Speaker 1: to play at the right place for the right amount
Speaker 1: of money is and the right play because he's had opportunities.
Speaker 1: Baltimore was offered him a deal, right, he wants to
Speaker 1: play football. I think if the Giants would offer him
Speaker 1: in that same deal, he would have done it in
Speaker 1: a minute. He made it clear which teams he wanted
Speaker 1: to go to. You know, if it's one of those things,
Speaker 1: I think he's in Ronda Rousey. They were the biggest,
Speaker 1: the baddest until they got punched in the mouth and
Speaker 1: then they're like, it's different. It's a totally different thing
Speaker 1: now after that. And the thing is, Dez did things
Speaker 1: des way, I go, I jump over people, I make
Speaker 1: these plays, get off me whatever. But when you're not
Speaker 1: that guy anymore and you're getting called out by the
Speaker 1: cornerback from the Panthers, who's now with the Josh Norman,
Speaker 1: you're getting called out by other people like this guy's
Speaker 1: not very good, don't it's kind of embarrassing to go
Speaker 1: out and play that. You can't do all this X
Speaker 1: stuff like that when you do it once a year.
Speaker 1: But I don't see Dez as that kind of timid player.
Speaker 1: Timid persons to me, that's that's the kind of person
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of timid. So they will back away
Speaker 1: from a challenge. I don't see does is the one
Speaker 1: that will back away from a challenge. He does is
Speaker 1: one that will attack it. Whether it's whether he will
Speaker 1: still point to the things that said that says he's
Speaker 1: successful even though he really isn't. Because you asked him
Speaker 1: about last year, he probably wouldn't tell you that he
Speaker 1: didn't have a great year, right, But the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is I don't think he I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a kind of personality that would back away from
Speaker 1: that challenge just because other people saying he wasn't great. Aw,
Speaker 1: he's just not signed with anyone. Yeah, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's been opportunities. I just don't know what it is, man,
Speaker 1: what's the reason? I just I think deep down he
Speaker 1: doesn't really want to play. Well the well I don't.
Speaker 1: I hope you're wrong, because the football fan in me
Speaker 1: wants to see him play. Yeah. I would be so
Speaker 1: excited if he signed with the Patriots or the Saints
Speaker 1: or really the Browns, anybody where he could be a
Speaker 1: future nurs I think if he went to the Packers,
Speaker 1: I think he would have a really I think that's
Speaker 1: the one place in the league where he could actually
Speaker 1: go in and have an impact immediately. Regardless it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself why it hasn't happened when
Speaker 1: partially maybe he wants to play under his circumstances, maybe
Speaker 1: there's not that many teams who think he can help them.
Speaker 1: I don't know. The other point I want to make
Speaker 1: is that what's different from April to now, like what
Speaker 1: changed here in Dallas, So you could well the offense
Speaker 1: looks like crap. The wide receivers aren't any good. Like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys knew exactly what they were signing up for
Speaker 1: when they did this, Like I can go pull you
Speaker 1: the sound clips from May when they were like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be on Zeke to play well until these receivers
Speaker 1: find their footings, Like we know we're facing stack boxes.
Speaker 1: We know these guys, you know they gotta We're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a wide receiver step up. Like it's
Speaker 1: not like they were expecting these guys to be magical
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers from the word go. And all of the
Speaker 1: people who signed off on cutting him are still here.
Speaker 1: And all of the players who supposedly were okay with
Speaker 1: it are still here too, except for Jason Witten, well
Speaker 1: a couple of I mean that Travis Frederick is still
Speaker 1: in the building, Shaan Lee is still in the building,
Speaker 1: Snake lead, whatever, hurt, whatever you want to call on.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're here, they still play for the team.
Speaker 1: I just I don't think anything's different from the day
Speaker 1: that they just made the decision. Yeah, so well, credit
Speaker 1: to him to keeping it live and keeping it's always
Speaker 1: fun the expeculations going in. But it was interesting. Even
Speaker 1: last week he was tweeting some stuff about battling was
Speaker 1: a depression or anxiety, anxiety, anxiety, and it's just like
Speaker 1: there was a I don't know, there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of it was I don't remember the exact quote, but
Speaker 1: he was just talking about going through a period of
Speaker 1: anxiety where he's experienced a lot of anxiety and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and I don't know, it just I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of retrospect there's a lot of retrospectiveness,
Speaker 1: if that's a word coming from death right now, Like,
Speaker 1: I think he's probably coming to terms with the idea
Speaker 1: that maybe he's not as valued around the league as
Speaker 1: he thought he was. Like people aren't. People aren't just
Speaker 1: saying we will give you what you want, We just
Speaker 1: want you on our team. And so I think that's
Speaker 1: there's probably some of that that happens with every professional
Speaker 1: athlete that has always been the top when he gets
Speaker 1: to the point where he realizes everybody doesn't see him
Speaker 1: as the top, right So I don't know, I wonder
Speaker 1: if some of that's happened. And that's my point. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's easier to just not play and not be exposed
Speaker 1: because of what the character that he's kind of created,
Speaker 1: and it's it's tough to go back on that and
Speaker 1: just be this guy that's kind of hanging on. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what Jason Witten did not ever want
Speaker 1: to do, is to play like that when you're in
Speaker 1: a liability And it was getting kind of close, and
Speaker 1: I mean, he still made the Pro Bowls last year,
Speaker 1: but it was getting kind of close. He was getting
Speaker 1: penalties a lot, off sides, whatever, and I think he
Speaker 1: was like, this is better to go do this. And
Speaker 1: that's just in the thing about it. As former players,
Speaker 1: they they may may or not missed the game, but
Speaker 1: most of them missed the spotlight. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: Dez is gonna continue to be. You saw you said,
Speaker 1: did you see on social media? Was at the other
Speaker 1: night when whenever the Drake Drake concert was happening, or
Speaker 1: a bunch of fans there and they were all throwing
Speaker 1: up the ax for days, and you know, you could
Speaker 1: see in his face that there was just that moment
Speaker 1: of and it's cool, I kind of missed this, you know,
Speaker 1: and you throughout the yeah, no doubt, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like that's the part that gets to what you're saying
Speaker 1: is missing, that that adulation that you get, that feedback
Speaker 1: you get from fans of you're the man. You know
Speaker 1: that that could be hard. I would assume you know.
Speaker 1: I'll bet you might paycheck that neither Terrence Williams nor
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant registers a catch for the Cowboys on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: this coming Sunday. Yeah, right, who are you betting with it?
Speaker 1: By the way, I'm just anybody. I'll take her, your
Speaker 1: your best I mean, your your text is out there
Speaker 1: at this point. So at this point, if one of
Speaker 1: those things happened this time, we will take we will
Speaker 1: take your check and decide how we want to disperse
Speaker 1: it sure throughout, just hey, disperse it throughout that. There's
Speaker 1: no risk in this for us. So I'm in on that.
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. God, I hope I don't reco
Speaker 1: I was about to say, this is gonna be really
Speaker 1: interesting Friday Friday morning, like breaking pretty funny. All right,
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Speaker 1: Let's go into the Texans offense. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: break it into two parts. First of all, let's start
Speaker 1: off with the quarterback and their O line. Let's start
Speaker 1: off with their quarterback. Indeed, Amber because DeShawn Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: is a fun player. Um, I don't know where do
Speaker 1: I want to start with this? Honestly, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean we all watched the Chiefs um Broncos game on
Speaker 1: Monday night, getting a lot of the same stuff in
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Honestly, I mean, I know. Pat Mahomes is
Speaker 1: like off to this insane start. The Texans are one
Speaker 1: in three. It feels weird to compare him, but you're talking.
Speaker 1: They were drafted on one spot away from each other,
Speaker 1: big live arm guy with mobility, and they've tailored their
Speaker 1: offense to suit him. Um, this looks like a college offense.
Speaker 1: Like it looks I wrote, it looks very chief. See
Speaker 1: this is Chief See yeah, it's this is an offense
Speaker 1: full of motion. There's a wide receiver moving through the
Speaker 1: backfield before every single snap. I mean, Watson's in the
Speaker 1: shotgun way more often than he's under center. Uh. There's
Speaker 1: a read option element to damn near everything he does.
Speaker 1: Like it. It is a common sight to see, like
Speaker 1: you know, a wide receiver move across the formation, takes
Speaker 1: the snap, does the read with the running back and
Speaker 1: the wide receiver too. Just again, God, I wish the
Speaker 1: Cowboys would do this type of stuff more often because
Speaker 1: you can see it. The defense has to read and
Speaker 1: react just that little bit before they know where the
Speaker 1: ball is going. I love your hand signals. Yeah, your
Speaker 1: foot came up, pick your foot up. Thanks. I appreciate that,
Speaker 1: the signal that you're ready for the ball. Right. No,
Speaker 1: I mean DeShawn Watson is, he's he's crazy. I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's mobile, He's mobile mobile, He's got a really
Speaker 1: strong arm. Uh, he is. He is a threat to
Speaker 1: run and throw even more than Dak And to be
Speaker 1: bluntly honest, I think the Texans know how to use
Speaker 1: his skill set a little bit better than the Cowboys do. Um.
Speaker 1: He has run the ball twenty four times this season
Speaker 1: for an average of six point seven yards per carry.
Speaker 1: He's also been sacked seventeen times. But he said today himself, Yes,
Speaker 1: their offensive line is bad. Since you asked about that,
Speaker 1: it's it's real bad. Um. They don't have a left tackle. Basically,
Speaker 1: they're trying to find an answer between Julian Davenport and
Speaker 1: Martinez Rankin uh Nick Martin Zach's little brother is good
Speaker 1: at center. But like, this is not an offensive line
Speaker 1: worth getting excited about, which they're only averaging three point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry when their running backs take the
Speaker 1: ball like it's it's not a strength of their game.
Speaker 1: But watts and can make up for that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: he's six point seven yards per carry. He's also got
Speaker 1: the mobility to get away from it, he said himself today.
Speaker 1: He runs himself into sacks a lot of times too.
Speaker 1: I think I watched the Colts game yesterday, and I
Speaker 1: think he was sacked seven times. Four of those he
Speaker 1: was running forward looking for empty space in the defense
Speaker 1: and was tripped up right at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: So four sacks that could have been four gains of
Speaker 1: five to ten yards if you don't tackle well. So
Speaker 1: that's the big thing for him, obviously, containing but he's
Speaker 1: got he's got great arm. Strength. It might not. I
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody's got as good of an arm
Speaker 1: as Mahomes right now, but he's got a cannon, and
Speaker 1: he's got DeAndre Hopkins, who's certainly on the shortlist of
Speaker 1: best receiver in the league. And then Will Fuller, who's
Speaker 1: a speed demon like. He's got two very scary options
Speaker 1: on the outside who can do that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: And then real quick what I just mentioned with all
Speaker 1: the motion, they got a kid named Kiki Kuti. Shout
Speaker 1: out out Texas Tech for anybody listening, because he's only
Speaker 1: played in one game, but he looked scary when he
Speaker 1: did it against Indianapolis this past weekend. He was targeted
Speaker 1: fifteen times, got eleven touches for one hundred yards average
Speaker 1: ten yards per touch, and he was He's what I
Speaker 1: want Tavon Austin to be like. Before every single snap,
Speaker 1: he's motioning, he's coming off the line. Sometimes they throw
Speaker 1: him a pop pass, sometimes it's a reverse. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything. He's just a decoy, but he is
Speaker 1: a factor in every single thing they do. They got
Speaker 1: him the ball eleven times and only once was it
Speaker 1: more than ten yards down the field. Why can't the
Speaker 1: Cowboys do that. But he was averaging ten yards to
Speaker 1: play to touch and he touched it within three yards
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage every single time. Wow, And
Speaker 1: I mean he's dangerous. He's a fourth round pick. He
Speaker 1: was a great player at Texas Tech. He's the guy
Speaker 1: I'm watching Watson obviously, but that guy, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: him the ball. So why do they suck? I don't know.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, sorry, no, you see right here?
Speaker 1: Why are they not winning? Yeah? I mean you know,
Speaker 1: obviously y'all don't get to see our office, But I
Speaker 1: sit eight feet away from Brian. I try to do
Speaker 1: my own tape study. I don't just want to copy
Speaker 1: off of him. But he watches the tape for three
Speaker 1: days and like four times this week. I've just like
Speaker 1: looked over at Brian been like, why do these guys suck?
Speaker 1: Like none of it doesn't make sense. Why they're not good.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten to their defense yet. I know there.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the defenses struggled. I mean, they gave up
Speaker 1: thirty four, but they got a ton of players over
Speaker 1: there the front. I haven't gotten there. But this is
Speaker 1: the fifth best offense in football. Four hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: yards per game. Uh yeah, and they're actually better. I
Speaker 1: would have thought they would be better running. Oh I know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. They are better running. They run for one
Speaker 1: twenty three, they pass for two ninety one, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that comes on broken stuff because like I mean,
Speaker 1: the playbreaks down, Watson gets out of it. And they
Speaker 1: do a lot of design stuff too, same bootlegs. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it looks a lot like what Dack does, just better
Speaker 1: and what the DAK did in year one. But like,
Speaker 1: is they not doing a lot of that now? I know?
Speaker 1: But they don't have a Zeke Lamar Miller. Lamar Miller,
Speaker 1: I remember not to like I'm not trying to pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back, but I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people wanted to sign him in free agency after DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: I mean DeMarco Murray left, which I know they don't
Speaker 1: have the line the Cowboys do. But like he's yeah,
Speaker 1: like the Texans running backs are like a waste of time.
Speaker 1: Like Blue, he's fine for what he does and he's
Speaker 1: all right, I'm a boy Blue. I'm not talking about him.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of Alt for Blue because he came out
Speaker 1: of Lsu like he barely got drafted. He's like that
Speaker 1: and just holding on. He's just still in the league.
Speaker 1: He's he's not he's a third down back. He's not
Speaker 1: anybody that should scare you. Um, But yeah, they can't.
Speaker 1: They don't run the ball well, like when they want
Speaker 1: to run, they don't run well. But Watson scrambling and
Speaker 1: designed runs and they're not afraid to do it. He's like,
Speaker 1: he's carried the ball seven more times than Daku, and
Speaker 1: I think he's got a one hundred and six team
Speaker 1: rushing yards on the season, and a lot of that
Speaker 1: is designed stuff. Like I said about the Chiefs, like
Speaker 1: you'll see receiver motion down. They did this cool thing
Speaker 1: where Kut he comes out of the slot, comes into
Speaker 1: the backfield, motions back out, and then Watson runs a bootleg,
Speaker 1: but it's really an option where he pitches it out
Speaker 1: to Kuti, like they're trying. He's a spread quarterback in
Speaker 1: college and they're trying to incorporate that into their offense
Speaker 1: instead of hammering a square peg into a round hole.
Speaker 1: So you look at these and it sounds like from
Speaker 1: what you're saying, the best of what they do is
Speaker 1: their wide receivers and their quarterback. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: how do you think these cornerbacks on the Cowboys. Wait
Speaker 1: before we get into that, Okay, yeah, running the show
Speaker 1: today there absolutely Okay, that's gonna be the second part
Speaker 1: of it. I wanted. I know, yesterday's you guys talked
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys defensive line. You talked about the possibility
Speaker 1: of David Irving coming back the Millie Collins injury. So,
Speaker 1: given all of what is going on on the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: if line, how does this line matchup against a team
Speaker 1: like the Texans we've heard so far, I think it
Speaker 1: matches up very well, and even better if David Irving
Speaker 1: can get fifteen or sixteen snaps in this game, because
Speaker 1: the line's not good, you can pressure Watson and get
Speaker 1: to him. The thing for me, they better tackle well
Speaker 1: because if he gets out of it, then like he's
Speaker 1: gonna off, Yeah, he's gonna pick up yards. Which but
Speaker 1: I mean, this is you know, much like when we
Speaker 1: talked about that in Seattle, they got two sacks. They
Speaker 1: weren't great, but this is another opportunity for them to
Speaker 1: pile up some sacks here and impact the game for sure.
Speaker 1: Great game for the Markets. No, I'm just waiting like
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. I'm waiting for my queue ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 1: hit it, Derek, No, I just wanted to know, like
Speaker 1: I get the defensive front, and I was a little
Speaker 1: less concerned about that matchup because it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: definitely a guy you can sack. Yeah. My bigger question
Speaker 1: is looking at the cornerbacks and how they match up.
Speaker 1: This will be yes, this be the best wide receiver
Speaker 1: that they have faced so far this season, DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a better receiver that they faced
Speaker 1: this year. Do you come as better? Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I believe that, And if you go back
Speaker 1: and look at their numbers for the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: I think DeAndre Hopkins, even with lesser quarterbacks, has been
Speaker 1: a more productive But it's arguable, it's arguable, let's at
Speaker 1: least say, let's at least say from the standpoint of that,
Speaker 1: it's an arguable thing that he is at least, if
Speaker 1: not the top receiver, then the second receiver that they
Speaker 1: will have faced this year. That being said, how do
Speaker 1: you think they match up? Because he does present some
Speaker 1: some issues for any team because he's a guy that
Speaker 1: can go up and get the ball. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that can go down feel. He has a lot of
Speaker 1: things in his game that makes him a very dangerous
Speaker 1: wide receiver. This is football one on one. But if
Speaker 1: it was Eli Manning, I would be like, this is
Speaker 1: a decent matchup, Like you're gonna give up some yards,
Speaker 1: but the the line's gonna pressure him, They're gonna get
Speaker 1: him on the ground. But Watson's ability to create players
Speaker 1: makes it scary for anybody. I don't care if you've
Speaker 1: got the legion of boom. I don't really like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just following one cornerback to with, you know, with
Speaker 1: another receiver. Ever, but if I'm down in the red zone,
Speaker 1: I will do that. If I would you match up
Speaker 1: Byron Jones? I mean Byron Jones was a first round
Speaker 1: pick because he can jump, not because he could play.
Speaker 1: Because he could jump. This is why he got him
Speaker 1: in the first round. He's gotten a better as a
Speaker 1: as a corner. He's having a good year so far.
Speaker 1: He's an athletic freak and that you're gonna need that
Speaker 1: because that's the type of playball well hopkins Um does
Speaker 1: a lot. He's a big jumper, so Um, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do it all over the field, but when I get
Speaker 1: to that situation, I'm at least gonna help myself not
Speaker 1: to say that Cheeto hasn't can't get up there and
Speaker 1: make plays and do that kind of stuff too, But
Speaker 1: I will probably put Byron on him just in those situations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, because and Hopkins, he's not like he doesn't
Speaker 1: have that Deaz build, but they throw him a lot
Speaker 1: of jump ball, you know, especially in the red zone,
Speaker 1: like they're gonna try to he's lean and he can jump. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that matchup, which you're as always you're gonna
Speaker 1: give up yards, you will. But what scares me is
Speaker 1: if Watson, if it becomes backyard football, especially talk about
Speaker 1: these safeties. I mean, Byron Jones can do a great
Speaker 1: job all day, but if there's a miscommunication there and
Speaker 1: the plays eight seconds long, are the safety is going
Speaker 1: to be in the right position. You know, you talked
Speaker 1: about Watson being having a strong arm and also being
Speaker 1: very mobile and that you know, Michael Vick, that is
Speaker 1: what comes to mind there. But but accurate, you know,
Speaker 1: that's one thing that he hasn't really been he was.
Speaker 1: I went and looked at he's twenty seventh in the league.
Speaker 1: And accuracy now that's twenty eight. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: issue that those guys are the same way. They can
Speaker 1: throw the ball from point eight to point B. But um,
Speaker 1: I don't I think is Watson what's he doing with interceptions?
Speaker 1: He throwing few, throwing one in every single game at
Speaker 1: least one, so you know. Yeah, But and they've been
Speaker 1: down too, you know, they've been down just like trying
Speaker 1: to get themselves back in game. They'll have a running
Speaker 1: game that they can lean on like Dallas has. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up, which I guess we can
Speaker 1: talk about that tomorrow. But they've been working in a
Speaker 1: crappy deficit in three of their four games. They actually
Speaker 1: built a big deficit against the Colts on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: in their games that game still came down overtime. Right, Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: their defense is not as good as the talent suggests.
Speaker 1: That's the only conclusion I can come to. But they
Speaker 1: were trailing in they were trailing New England twenty four
Speaker 1: to six. At one point, they were trailing Tennessee their
Speaker 1: Week two opponents fourteen nothing and twenty to six against
Speaker 1: the Giants in Week three. So if the Cowboys can
Speaker 1: get out to a hot start on offense, which they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to do for most of this season,
Speaker 1: but if they can, it could be good in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, make DeShawn throw. He's averaging thirty seven attempts
Speaker 1: per game, and some of those are going to be
Speaker 1: picks based on prior experience, even with this team who
Speaker 1: doesn't have well, that's a great point. That is a
Speaker 1: really good points. Given the lack of you know, being
Speaker 1: able to get some picks and turnovers, who would be
Speaker 1: the guy that would most likely be able to catch
Speaker 1: that ball and get any interception? I mean, if you
Speaker 1: want to go past experience, it has to be Jeff
Speaker 1: heat I would assume. I mean, we still haven't seen
Speaker 1: these corners really be ballhawks. I haven't seen these corners
Speaker 1: turn you know, what would have been just a ball
Speaker 1: they knocked down into an actual interception, not in regular season.
Speaker 1: We should so I start seeing that. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know that we should play that game. Who's going
Speaker 1: to get the first pick on this team? You want
Speaker 1: Tom all right, it won't be a defensive back, Thomas.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of thinking it's gonna be a linebacker. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm thinking. It's gonna be a linebacker. And
Speaker 1: that okay, even if even if Watson has shown a
Speaker 1: pension for picks, I think it's way more likely that
Speaker 1: you affect the game in the pocket. Like if DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence can rip around and and you know, strip him
Speaker 1: or something. I think that's based on what we've seen,
Speaker 1: it's more likely than forcing them into a ton of picks.
Speaker 1: I gotta see that before I think it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So and I just and that's not even just do
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a while, Like it's been a while
Speaker 1: since his team has had corners that get intercepts regularly.
Speaker 1: Like that's been a long while. Even going back to Terrence.
Speaker 1: That was knock on Terrence for a long time was
Speaker 1: Terence is a really good cornerback. But Terence will knock
Speaker 1: the ball down way more than he's going to catch
Speaker 1: the interception. So we don't This team hasn't had that
Speaker 1: guy that's got the instincts to jump into the throwing
Speaker 1: lane on a regular basis, at least like in the
Speaker 1: time that I've been here, we haven't had that guy.
Speaker 1: The only one, Like you said, Jeff, he's the one
Speaker 1: that has been the closest to making those kind of plays,
Speaker 1: but then he drops the ball. But even the numbers
Speaker 1: for that, like his numbers are very modest for interceptions.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like he's in the league leaders.
Speaker 1: He's just leading this team which has been deficient when
Speaker 1: it comes to trying to get interceptions. So the other
Speaker 1: which going back to affecting the game in the pocket,
Speaker 1: like I hope David Irving can do something in this
Speaker 1: game because this is football one on one to a degree.
Speaker 1: But as mobile as he is, Watson just loves to
Speaker 1: he wants to be moving toward the line of scrimmage. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like if the rush he doesn't completely trust his pocket.
Speaker 1: He loves to stay hit. No, yeah, he loves to
Speaker 1: step up like he's gonna try to step up right
Speaker 1: into the space and it's it happens every time, Like
Speaker 1: he's looking to throw. But he wants to be moving
Speaker 1: forward because he can go and get seven eight nine yards,
Speaker 1: which is which is not But that's not great right
Speaker 1: now when you think about it from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys right now having the most injury issues
Speaker 1: right in the middle. When you're talking about those two
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, like you got Crawford there, but Blique's out,
Speaker 1: You're just getting David Irving back, So who knows if
Speaker 1: he's even gonna be active. You have anybody to push
Speaker 1: the pocket, need him to play well, both of them.
Speaker 1: Need David to play fifteen sixteen snaps and I need
Speaker 1: Tyrone to fall out. Yeah, this is a game. I
Speaker 1: would definitely use David a lot as much as I
Speaker 1: thought I could get away with with his level of energy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wonder, I don't. I mean, you've definitely, especially
Speaker 1: their right tackle gets beat all the time. Like DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence is going to have a good game, but I
Speaker 1: wonder if he'll be able to actually finish the play
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis. And that's because he's gonna push up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's not his fault. That's just Watson's tough guy
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Speaker 1: you still up, Dave? I thought you were right. No
Speaker 1: like to talk about the Dyes. Okay, So here's a
Speaker 1: question from Twitter out of the Cowboys defense matching up
Speaker 1: against this team, who would be the guy that would
Speaker 1: be the most surprising to make a play for you
Speaker 1: in this upcoming Parents Williams defense. Sy, we're talking about
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. I just um, I wonder, well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think Sean Lee's gonna play, but that's an easy one.
Speaker 1: I wonder how much the way the Texans want to
Speaker 1: play suits the linebackers period. Honestly, Uh, it's just a spread.
Speaker 1: They're they're playing spread option football. They're playing college football.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that as a you know, slight,
Speaker 1: but they don't target. They don't target their tight ends
Speaker 1: or their running backs that much, and they don't run
Speaker 1: the ball that well. But that seems like that might
Speaker 1: be even more like what an opportunity for these linebackers
Speaker 1: because now what they're doing is they're playing a lot
Speaker 1: at either they're blitzing or they're playing coverage, which for
Speaker 1: both of these linebackers, that seems to be what they
Speaker 1: do well. Right I will, can they cover that well
Speaker 1: against the personnel that'll be on the field, is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. They're gonna be in zone? Why not?
Speaker 1: But you have to make them one dimensional. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if they don't want to run the ball or not.
Speaker 1: You have to continue to put them in third and
Speaker 1: long situations. So I think that they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: run it some and then when they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: keep tabs on that quarterback, which again I think when
Speaker 1: you have young linebackers that are fast, that can run
Speaker 1: sideline the sideline, I feel good about them in that
Speaker 1: situation against a Watson. Right, that's fair because Layton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith are not your average linebacker when it
Speaker 1: comes to athleticism. They're much faster than that. I just
Speaker 1: so they target their tight end six times a game
Speaker 1: and they're running backs three and I just yeah, And
Speaker 1: I just said, Watson throws thirty seven times a game,
Speaker 1: So that's thirty times where he's targeting receivers. And again,
Speaker 1: it's all a lot of it is stuff near the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, trying to create easy throws for him.
Speaker 1: So if Kiki Kuti takes a pop pass coming around
Speaker 1: the end, is Layton Vanderesh gonna get there? He m?
Speaker 1: He better? That's a great way to phrase it. He better.
Speaker 1: That kind of scares me. Yeah, but I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that just listening to what you just say right there,
Speaker 1: what scares me even more is the safeties. We talked
Speaker 1: about the safeties, We talked about the struggles that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had there, and now you're talking about a
Speaker 1: team that now throws the ball thirty seven times a
Speaker 1: game and throws it primarily to wide receivers. That should
Speaker 1: scare everybody. That should make everybody at least that's a
Speaker 1: matchup you better keep your eye on and see what
Speaker 1: your safeties are doing, because this is a team that
Speaker 1: can get behind you if you're not playing good sound defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be my next question. We talked about the
Speaker 1: corners and then we mentioned Jeff Heath who is still
Speaker 1: battling through some injuries. And now with the other safeties
Speaker 1: that you have left, how I mean, what is the
Speaker 1: level that you need to play up to when he
Speaker 1: comes to safety looking at these white receivers and knowing
Speaker 1: that this quarterback can throw down the field pretty well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, no, I agree with you. I'm
Speaker 1: asking how much does your safety really need to put
Speaker 1: in the work in this specific game. I think this
Speaker 1: is a huge game for the safeties. Again, up until
Speaker 1: last week, I didn't think that the secondary had really
Speaker 1: been challenged. Last week, they got challenged and that offense
Speaker 1: were able. They were able to put up some points
Speaker 1: in some yards. Is this more challenging than last week?
Speaker 1: I think for different reasons. Last week you had a
Speaker 1: more skilled passer I think that you were going up
Speaker 1: against this week. I think you've got you got to
Speaker 1: deal with the fact that this quarterback can run. And
Speaker 1: like Dave was saying, it's kind of multifaceted. On any
Speaker 1: given play, there are probably four different options of things
Speaker 1: that can happen even before he gets to the point
Speaker 1: where he actually decides who he's going to throw the
Speaker 1: ball too. That takes a lot of just kind of
Speaker 1: understanding what they're doing, being true to your assignment, doing
Speaker 1: your job, and making sure that that that you don't
Speaker 1: let a big play get behind you. So it's it's
Speaker 1: challenging in different ways. A I don't know if I
Speaker 1: would say once more challenging or less challenging the other
Speaker 1: just different kinds of challenges. Nick usaid, No, So are
Speaker 1: you based on last game? I mean, are you expecting
Speaker 1: the safeties to be able to play better this game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little bit. I just don't think they'll be um,
Speaker 1: they'll be challenged as much in that particular way. I
Speaker 1: think that they'll be okay. I think that their strength
Speaker 1: of what Houston's wants to do will match up better
Speaker 1: with what the Cowboys strength is with the guys up front.
Speaker 1: I think they can get after that line. I think
Speaker 1: it'll cost problems for for Watson. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: the type of passer obviously that that Stafford is, and
Speaker 1: so I think he'll he's throwing the ball to the
Speaker 1: other team and he's not that accurate in some of
Speaker 1: his throws. So I don't think they'll be challenged as much.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that they won't, you know, make some big
Speaker 1: plays on him. It just has all the makings of
Speaker 1: a shootout type of game, and those type of games
Speaker 1: can get you know, he can get scary because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys gotta on the earth side. They got they gotta
Speaker 1: be able to score points to get there. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be like it was last week.
Speaker 1: I think the safeties will be okay. I just think
Speaker 1: it's I agree with that, it's just different. Like I
Speaker 1: don't Deshaun Watson's not going to be like moving and
Speaker 1: baiting safeties. I don't think he's on that level which
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is. But I hope, I hope the pass
Speaker 1: rush can make life difficult on Watson. I'd way rather
Speaker 1: he run it ten times for sixty yards than run
Speaker 1: around in a circle. And then you know, the safeties
Speaker 1: banging to each other like the Keystone Cops, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know Will Fullers in the end
Speaker 1: zone seventy yards later. And that's my concern is he
Speaker 1: buys extra time, and when he buys extra time, I
Speaker 1: don't care who you are, even if you're the best safety,
Speaker 1: the best corner, keeping up with guys, especially guys out
Speaker 1: of the caliber of DeAndre Hopkins when the play breaks down,
Speaker 1: good luck with that. So it's gonna be so imperative
Speaker 1: on them to not only get to him, but to
Speaker 1: get him down. Don't let him buy that extra time,
Speaker 1: because if he buys it extra time, all bets are off.
Speaker 1: Don't even get him down on it. I mean, hopefully
Speaker 1: you do, but like harass him to the point that
Speaker 1: he has to take his eyes down down. You know,
Speaker 1: you can't look to extend to just run out again,
Speaker 1: I'll take that. Kill me with a thousand paper cuts
Speaker 1: running for five yards at a time before you hit
Speaker 1: seventy yard touches. That's also where I trust my linebackers.
Speaker 1: I trust these two linebackers that in nickel situations, if
Speaker 1: he gets outside the pocket, they can run him down.
Speaker 1: I really do trust him to do that. Now, again,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a matter of trust because we haven't
Speaker 1: had to see them do that against this caliber of
Speaker 1: running quarterback. Because I don't know if Russell did that
Speaker 1: a whole lot in the game against the Cowboys, but
Speaker 1: I trust him to do that. I trust him way
Speaker 1: more do that than I trust the safeties if the
Speaker 1: plays break down to be able to cover downfield. I
Speaker 1: didn't make that face because I disagree with you. I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking about, you know, three chunk touchdowns given up
Speaker 1: in the last two games. I just I would probably
Speaker 1: bet that there will be another one this weekend. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, hopefully it's not mop not a lot of Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's another question from Twitter. And I'm not a huge
Speaker 1: believer on the whole home field advantage stuff, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have lost are all their games wrote games? So
Speaker 1: given the matchup over there and the Houston is playing
Speaker 1: at home coming off of one win, how big it's this?
Speaker 1: And I hate asking this question, but it is. I
Speaker 1: get it a lot. It's not, but the home field advantage,
Speaker 1: I just I'm not a huge believering, but it matters.
Speaker 1: A bad question now, I don't think so either. I
Speaker 1: think it matters from the standpoint that when you're on
Speaker 1: the road, it limits what you're able to do because
Speaker 1: noise becomes a factor, right, and so you know some
Speaker 1: of the audibles that you may want to make, some
Speaker 1: of the things you want to do. It but at home,
Speaker 1: when you're at home, it's not the same. And I
Speaker 1: will tell you this this weekend, expect, especially if the
Speaker 1: Texans are in the game, this is gonna be loud
Speaker 1: because it's it's different when you have a team that
Speaker 1: you're playing that's just a team. It's a whole different
Speaker 1: thing when the fan base hates the other team, and
Speaker 1: there is that situation. You see that on the road
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're at some of your division rivals when
Speaker 1: they hate the other team, there's a whole different level
Speaker 1: of vitriol that the fans can inject it too the game,
Speaker 1: and that will be there this weekend. Make no mistake
Speaker 1: about it. Houston fans hate the Cowboys. Houston hates Dallas.
Speaker 1: I mean as a city you know, and probably true,
Speaker 1: and that's just the way that it is. And that's
Speaker 1: why I mean, it makes for a good rivalry. Um,
Speaker 1: as you're gonna intimate. Actually wrote it, it's this week,
Speaker 1: No I wrote it today. I just I feel like
Speaker 1: Dallas and Houston. I think they should play every year.
Speaker 1: I think the nfls can figure out a way to
Speaker 1: do that, and I bet it happens at some point.
Speaker 1: But um this it'll be interesting. But remember a lot
Speaker 1: of Dallas fans will be at that game as well,
Speaker 1: so the atmosphere homefield advantage isn't a big deal if
Speaker 1: you're proven that you're capable of dealing with it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's six and two on the road in sixteen and
Speaker 1: eight no on the road in fourteen. But this team
Speaker 1: has looked like trash on the road going back to
Speaker 1: last year and certainly this year. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a thing. You got to prove that it's not a thing.
Speaker 1: There you go, you know, So we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: and tomorrow we'll get into the Texans defense versus the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense. For Derek Gildon in David hell amember Garcia.
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