WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Jarring Mason 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:16.640 Cowboys, Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:18.520 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.279 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.680 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.880 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:34.560 right with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris and 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:35.760 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.960 It is Wednesday, October twenty third, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.120 episode number fifty three. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.000 The Break. We are live from that s WBC Mortgage 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.400 studios at the start, and we're presented by LG. LG's 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:50.839 the world's number one OLED TV brand for eleven years 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:53.920 in counting see why at LG dot Com. Forward slash 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.800 O led Evo. Welcome to show, everybody. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.160 Welcome back, Amber, We'll see you here. 0:00:59.320 --> 0:00:59.960 I missed y'all. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:01.560 Did you get in? 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:03.400 Just kidd in. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.000 We got a lot we're gonna get into today. 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.280 We will start our breakdown of Cowboys versus forty nine Ers. 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.959 Brian will have his breakdown of the forty nine Ers 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.520 offense versus the Dallas defense. Will talk some about the 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.800 Dallas defense in some of the areas where they're going 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:17.319 to have to. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.600 Improve in order to get a win this weekend. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.000 Let's start first though, with this, I guess the bigger 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.360 picture look at this matchup between the Cowboys and forty 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.120 nine Ers. Dallas has now lost the last three times 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:30.760 they've played them. Two out of the last three that 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.920 they lost were games that they played in the playoffs, 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.480 So it stings a little bit more because the forty 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.080 nine ers have ended their season in those two years 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:40.319 they did. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:42.240 They lost the last two. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.119 Times they've played in San Francisco, and the last time 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.720 they beat the San Francisco forty nine Ers in twenty seventeen, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.120 that was a drubbing forty to ten. That was twenty seventeen. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.040 So that being said, do you guys think that this 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.720 has become a mental challenge for the Cowboys as much 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:58.600 as it is physical. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:01:59.960 Yeah, I think that's pretty bad. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.200 I would, Like I said yesterday, this team has been 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.640 kind of the Cowboys boogeyman over the course of the 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.959 last few years. Definitely during the Mike McCarthy era. This 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.239 is as much of a mental challenge as it is 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.560 a physical challenge for this team, in my opinion, Yeah. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.519 I think so when it's one of those things when 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.080 you kind of you feel like your roster is really 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.320 really good till you play these guys and then you 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.760 realize your roster might not be as good, and you're 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.600 always trying to kind of get to that level. I 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:30.960 think Will McClay and those guys here have done a 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.240 good job of understanding how to win their own division, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.560 building a teams that can handle what you do with 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.480 Philidel for the Giants and the Commanders. The problem is, though, 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.680 then you go and play some of these other teams. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.480 You now play Detroit, you now play San Francisco, It's 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.840 a totally different beast and the way that they attack you, 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.560 the way they do it with formations, the way they 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.320 do it with personnel. Done a great job with just 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.119 their roster when you feel like you match up well 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.240 in certain areas and there's others that you're completely, you know, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.320 undermanned at So they're very, very difficult. Since Kyle shanahan 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.960 and John Lynch have come on board there, they've gotten 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.919 so much better with their roster but also the depth 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.080 of their roster as well in order to combat you 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.160 who you know, a lot of teams a lot of 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.560 personal guys around the league. I know my Gang of 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.399 Seven always talk about the Cowboys roster, but man, it's 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:26.880 a really difficult matchup when they go up against the 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.119 forty nine ers because there's things that they can neutralize 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.240 of yours, and then there's a couple of different areas 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.160 that they're just better at than you. 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:39.440 I will say more physical, more in the physical part 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.960 of things rather than mental, because I would imagine with 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.640 the mental aspect, if anything, you're more pumped up, you're 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.960 more mad, you're more eager to go out there and 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.000 beat these guys and shut them up, and it hasn't 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:57.000 been the case. You kind of just it's kind of 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.360 how the Cowboys look when they get to the playoffs. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.080 They just kind of you know, there's talent there, but 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.000 for some reason, the level just drops off and it 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:11.760 kind of disappears and it's not present. So I don't 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.200 know what to tell you at this point, because going 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.440 back to last year and the current state of the 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.719 team of the Cowboys at the time that they've faced 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.440 the forty nine ers, I truly believe that that was 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.560 going to be the time that they finally beat them, 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.719 and it wasn't the case. And right now the team, 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.320 in my opinion, is way lower the level that they're 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.719 playing this year right now compared to what it was 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.080 last year. So I don't know how you go into 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.880 this game mentally and physically ready to compete against them again. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:46.840 I want to go back, Brian, you said something I 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.599 thought was interesting about them building the team, Yeah, to 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.200 play the NFC East. What are some of the things 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.240 that you can see about the seamen and how maybe 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.440 they're constructed to be able to win in the NFC 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.320 East that may be glaring problems when you face teams 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.200 like San Francisco, Detroit, other teams outside the division. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.440 Yeah. You know, there used to be a time where, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.920 you know, with with Philadelphia, and now it's now it's 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.520 not so much Well, they're they're getting back to their 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.680 ability to run the football. You know, with say Kwon Barkley, 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.680 you were built to be able to stop, to put 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.760 pressure on teams. You were built to you know. The Commanders. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.680 The Commanders are another team in the in the division 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:31.000 that to me have gotten better just because of the quarterback, 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.480 you know, and then their skill guys. Their skill guys 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.960 have always been good. They just never had a quarterback 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.680 and then the Eagles, on their hand, they've kind of 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:43.279 always tried to build the running game and really haven't 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.600 got it going other than the quarterback being the main 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.360 the quarterback being a runner, some of the backs, I mean, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.560 they've had some good backs, but they now have a 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.560 back that can legitimately take a game over. So your 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:58.719 team is built to like get a lead, put pressure. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.559 You've always been able to kind of play Philadelphia well, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.520 get ahead of them, play with the lead. It's real 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.920 hard this season for Dallas to play with the lead. 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.920 And so that's where I felt like though in this division, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.680 when they do get a lead, then they could stick 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.200 that pass rush on you. And that's where they've had 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.720 success against the Giants, getting after Daniel Jones, getting after 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.640 whoever's played quarterback with Commanders, you know, and now it's 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.520 a different story we'll see. And then also with Jalen Hurts, 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.320 you know, I think you know, if you talk about 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:35.440 huge moves that were made, getting Saquon Barkley gave Philadelphia 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.120 that power running game that they've been looking for that 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.719 matches with their offensive line, and it's helped their quarterback. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.000 It's taken their quarterback out of harm's way. Of having 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.600 to make plays. So, you know, Dallas has yet to 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.640 show that they could play with a team that has 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:58.159 a power type of running game. Now, Pittsburgh ran the 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.520 ball with volume, but their line and their backs probably 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.680 not you know, good enough. They just run it to 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.280 try and help a young quarterback. Philadelphia. Now the Commanders, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.400 they run it because they've got the ability to do 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:14.080 it and with the personnel. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.800 When they've played premier runners this year, it's not been good. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.520 I think that's that's kind of the point of that 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.160 in Sa Kwon Barkley certainly showing this year that he 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.080 is a premier runner. I guess if you believe in 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.440 any way that the mental is a part of this, 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.560 what do you think has to be the message from 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.000 Mike McCarthy to his team this week to get them 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.760 ready and prepared to go and play a San Francisco 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.560 team that's had their number for the last few times. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.720 Yeah, it's still eleven on eleven. It's still you know, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.600 what they've been preparing for the whole season. I think 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.400 I think last year you kind of saw the mental 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.680 ramifications of this matchup really come to a forefront. Yeah, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.720 and it kind of snowballed there in the second half, 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.680 and that's why it ended up being what it was. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.200 I think if you play that game later in the 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:56.920 season after the Cowboys, it kind of figured out a 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.640 lot of things that I don't I'm not saying they 0:07:58.680 --> 0:07:59.960 would have won, but I don't think it would have 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:01.520 forty two to ten. It would have been a much 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.040 more competitive contest. But I think looking at it this 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.080 year in the twenty twenty four vacuum, they are battling injuries. 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.320 Cowboys are battling injuries. They have had some inconsistent Siaeson 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.240 to start the season, So of the Cowboys, I mean, 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.800 there's a lot of parallels between these two teams right now. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.480 It's not the daunting task that maybe it was in 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.160 the last couple of years. But even if it was 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.080 that daunting task, it's still eleven on eleven. It's all 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.000 about the preparation they put in during the week, which 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.559 obviously has been under a microscope these last few days, 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.480 and they'll see how they how they take it to 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:31.560 take it to Sunday in the Bay. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.320 Yeah. What's really funny is when I really started to 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.800 dive in watching the tape and then looking at some 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.640 of the metrics, and things. You would not believe this, 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.439 but Dallas and San Francisco are the two top teams 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.560 in the league when it comes to tight window throws. 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.760 You would think the forty nine Ers with all the 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.560 motions and things that they have, But I think the 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.120 Cowboys and the forty nine ers receivers are very similar 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.800 in the way that they don't have game breaking type speed. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.640 You know, they have guys that are really good at 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.000 you know, when the catch and stuff like that. Some 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.959 run after catch, but when it comes to you know, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.560 this is a team that usually will punish you with 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.920 run after catch, not only averaging four four point four 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.839 yards per you know, run after catch and so our 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.480 yards after catch, and it's and they usually lead the 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.960 league in this, and this year they have it. They're 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.920 near the bottom, you know, And that's something that we're 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.360 not accustomed to seeing from a San Francisco team. It's 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:30.240 always been routes, run after catch, routes, run after catch. 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:32.640 I haven't seen that this year when you watch their 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.920 tape and you know, and and they're also they're not 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.120 separating from people and that's been a little bit of 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.920 a problem for uh for for brock Party. And we'll 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.240 get into that. I mean, this guy, he will hold 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.000 the football. The problem is can your pass rush get 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.920 home on this guy when he holds the ball. Kansas 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.960 City was able to do that to him, and that 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:54.240 and that's something and that's and that's something that Dallas 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:55.280 will have struggles with. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.000 Well, for me, it's very hard to have this conversation. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:04.000 Tried to answer your question, Derek, because currently I see 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.720 this team having so many like the issues go far 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:12.280 beyond the mental part of things, and it goes way 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.440 further beyond on whoever the opponent is. Like this is 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.320 like it doesn't matter who the opponent is. The Cowboys 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.880 have been struggling this season so far. It just makes 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:24.760 it worse that you're about to face the forty nine 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:30.400 ers that tend to I'm trying to find the proper word, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.520 but beat you basically. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.080 Use yes. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.199 Yes, there are just so many underlying issues that need 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.200 to be fixed, and it's just how do you do 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.800 that in just a bye week? How do you turn 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.360 things around? And I think that the Cowboys can potentially 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.200 start turning things around at some point in the season 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.920 because I do believe there is talent. The team has 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.559 talent here both on the offense and on defense, it 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.439 just has been working out. Maybe there is a point 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.320 where McCarthy now he took this time during the bye 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.160 week to analyze the play call in and maybe change 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:12.319 things up with the scheme and position their players in 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.880 a better way and maybe potentially start running the ball 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.559 some more. But there's just so many unknowns that it literally, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.800 to me doesn't matter who we're facing this week. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.000 But you know, I will say this, and I think 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.679 I'll use Mazi as a good example microcosm of what 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.400 this team is. There have been moments this season when 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:36.000 we said, oh, wow, that's really good play right there, right, 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.559 And I think that's the same thing for this team, 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.800 which says to me they're capable. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:41.400 Yes. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.360 The question is can they consistently put forth that same 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.800 effort that we've seen them do in moments when they've 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.320 looked good, when moments when they've been able to stop 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:52.360 the run, in moments when they've been able to run 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.679 the ball, in moments when they've been able to make 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.200 big plays like all these things we've seen them do 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:00.480 in spurts this season, we haven't seen them consiststantly do 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.720 it really even for an entire game. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.720 So that's where I say, that's why he's a frustrated right, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:07.600 But that's. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.160 Also my point of that's where I look at this 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.560 and I say, this is in some respects a mental 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.200 thing of challenging these players to say, can you put 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.840 together a game of what you've done in spurts throughout 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:21.440 the season. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.960 Do you think the Dallas Cowboys trouble in the red 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.199 zone is mental or physical? Because that's where they're getting 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.720 killed right now? That quarterback offensively now, quarterback can't complete 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.520 any passes in the red zone. They can't run the 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.960 ball in the red zone. Mental or physical. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.360 I don't have any red zone personnel. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.440 I mean, who on the roster do you feel like 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.680 it is like a comfortable red zone target. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.520 I kind of felt like that maybe that Ferguson was 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.960 a red zone target. Yeah, I felt like that Ceed 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.840 Lamb when Cooks was healthy. I felt like that was 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.439 a guy because I sat there and watched practice after 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.400 practice and watched them run two point plays and create 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.640 opportunities for him. I've seen Hunter Lipkey with a red 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.440 zone screen, you know, I've seen yeah in the red zone. Yeah, 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.000 So I wonder is this a mental or physical thing? 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.360 Because this is right now. In my opinion, you could 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.760 talk about we could talk about run defense all you want. 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.560 Their inability to score in the red zone consistently is 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.280 killing them in these games. Yeah, and we all love 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.200 Brandon Aubrey, you know, congratulations making field goals being being 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.320 up three to nothing and then down seven three, and 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.719 then down fourteen to six, and then down twenty one 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.400 to nine, and you know that that's not getting it done. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.800 That's just not getting it done. So to me, I'm 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.520 trying to figure out is it scheme, is it personal? 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.600 Is it the offensive line? Is it the quarterback? Is 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.680 it the receivers? You know, they have a disconnect problem 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:48.760 now in the red zone. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.280 Next to last in the NFL thirty seven point five 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.319 percent of the time they are scoring touchdowns in the 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:53.880 red zone. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.800 And I want to say San Francisco is not much 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:56.400 better than that. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:57.200 Twenty or seven. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.040 Yeah, they're not performing in the red zone either. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.920 But to answer your question, and Brian, it goes back 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.319 to what I just said about the about the idea 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.959 that we've seen them do it in spurts, and that's 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.320 where I'm like, y'all got to figure this out to 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.040 do it consistently. Because trust me, I sit next to 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.920 this one in the press box a lot. And if 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:18.640 you want to get no sorry Amber, you want to 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.640 get her upset, run run Aubrey out there when you're 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.840 in the red zone for another field goal, and she's 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.600 gonna be like, why can't they get an end zone? Like, 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.440 I think it's a it's a very it's a problem 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.240 that we all see. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:31.240 It's very apparent. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.120 But I also think that there are, as you just said, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.440 there are players we've seen them be able to be productive. 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.720 In the red zone. For some reason, they're not able 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:40.680 to do it consistently. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.360 And that says to me, either they're not having the 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.000 right kinds of plays that fit what they're trying to do. 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.840 Owner came out and said that basically, I mean, he 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:50.840 hinted to it. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.640 He said, he said, there are lots of problems, and 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:53.280 that was part of it. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:55.720 And if you if you said, if you said, where's 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.360 the biggest to me? Moving the football? It's a struggle. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.280 But when they get inside the twenty, it is like 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.040 they have no idea of what their plan is to 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.760 move the ball down there? Agree, and I have no 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.320 execution of a plan that and it's it's kind of 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.760 a It seems very grab baggie, and I know that's 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.560 a terrible way to describe an offense, but there's teams 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.240 that you see that have rhythm and understanding and Okay, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:23.920 once we get down there and how we're gonna go 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.360 into this mode. We're gonna run it this way, We're 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.040 gonna throw it this way. We're gonna create picks and 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:33.280 opportunities and separation. It's like it's like you hit that 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.320 wall at the twenty just to be like, like me 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.960 calling place like there's no why, I mean, why why 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.040 why did you do that? You know? 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It's our 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.240 time now to jump in. Oh. This segment's brought to 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:04.080 you by Blockchain. All right, so, Brian, let's talk about 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.520 the San Francisco offense. I want to start with Brock Purdy. Yeah, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.399 there was an interesting thing that jumped out at me 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.040 as I was looking at his stats. So far this season, 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:14.280 he has nine touchdowns and seven interceptions. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:14.399 Ye. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.800 Last year, for reference, you have thirty one touchdowns and 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:21.640 eleven interceptions, a much lower clip when you think about 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:25.480 percentages or ratios touchdowns. The interceptions. Why are there so 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.840 many turnovers this year versus last year? 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:29.879 Well, if you watch the Kansas City game, one of 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.760 the he loves to throw the ball at intermediate routes, 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.199 and the intermediate routes are like that ten to nineteen 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.159 yard range. So they like to attack the middle of 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.840 the field. And the way that Kansas City affected him 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.320 and this is Kansas City had a turnover. They get 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.720 in a single high look and what they're trying to do, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.280 Dallas has got to be every team that plays I 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.399 should say Dallas has to be ready this week, but 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.399 every team that plays the forty nine ers has to 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.800 be ready for the tight end delay and then run route. 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.520 They kill you. They kill you with the Okay, we're 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.439 gonna block. You know we're gonna block Kittle. He's a 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.520 count one town, two count. Now he takes off running 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.760 in a route. What happens is that like teams like 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:14.439 the Chiefs have kind of figured out though, if you 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.800 follow Kittle, if you play the middle, if you're if 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:18.680 you're a defense that plays well in the middle of 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.679 the field. Cleveland did it last year. Jim Swartz did 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.359 it last year against him with the Cleveland Browns. We 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.520 talked about Robert play with the guy at two level safeties, 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:29.720 play there in the middle, play one short, keep the 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:34.359 crossing routes. What'll happen is that that that that party 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.840 is so conditioned at throwing the ball in the middle 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.520 of the field that sometimes he'll just throw it and 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:44.160 he'll he'll think, Oh, Kittle's there, Ayuk's there, Samuel's there, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.879 somebody's always Jinny's Someone's always going to be in the 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:49.439 middle of the field. So he will throw balls that 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.600 he has no business he's throwing to a spot. And 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.480 last week what Kansas City did to him is single 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.399 high safety. When Kittle crossed, they drove the safety down 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:02.919 and were able to kind of disrupt the crossing routes 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:06.040 but also get the be able to pick balls off 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:08.240 that way down in the red zone. He had a 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.360 tip ball. Just you know, he gets pressure. He feels pressure. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.600 No quarterback, I said, no quarterback. He is when you 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.040 look at him, and I was wondering this because you 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.120 watch the tape. He holds the ball. He holds the ball. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.640 He holds the ball. At times he does a good 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.600 job of holding the ball and making something happen and 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.399 allowing things to open up and making the play. But 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.359 a lot of his mistakes come from hold the ball. 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.600 Hold the ball, hold the ball, and now he's not 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:37.440 on a base, he's not comfortable, and he throws the ball. 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.000 He's off balanced, there's not a lot on it. There's 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.880 a tight window throw like we talked about earlier, and 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.480 then the ball's picked off. But he's going to hold 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:52.080 the ball. He's not interested. In most quarterbacks they talk 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.040 about that two point five. In his head, he's like 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:58.639 three three one three. You know, he's standing there and 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.800 he's averaging three point two. Yeah, he is waiting, but 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:05.639 his numbers. A lot of quarterbacks, if they're numbers that 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:08.160 they if they hold the ball along time, it's usually 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.800 going to be a throwaway or something bad. With him, 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.960 it's not that way. But the majority of his interceptions 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.920 have been with him holding the football and then teams 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:22.879 finding ways to drive on those intermediate routes, which he 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:24.480 has thrived on in his career. 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.080 A couple of points I have to back that up. 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.240 I think Party is just trying to overcompensate for the 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.240 lack of health and the skill group, and when you 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:31.879 look at what he's trying to do when he's pushing 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.520 the ball further than fifteen yards downfield. There's no rhythm, 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.480 there's no timing because it's in the game against the 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:40.560 Chief specifically, it's guys like Jacob Cowing, Ricky pier Saw. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:42.320 I mean, these guys are really banged up in the 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:45.159 receiving corps. And then if Samuel and or Kittle cannot 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.960 go on Sunday, then that's just going to add to it. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:50.760 I put that only Kittle should scare you more than 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:53.560 fifteen yards downfield. I think anybody else that the timing 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:55.840 is not there, that the rhythm is off with that offense. 0:22:56.280 --> 0:22:59.359 And you talked about that safety kind of creeping from 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.520 the top. That's how led to that. Justin Reid interception 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.159 early in the Kansas City game, just a product of 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:06.679 him being in the area and party not anticipating him 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:09.600 being there. But you also talk about him holding onto 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.359 the ball quite a bit when Case dialed up the pressure, 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:14.720 Perdy was awful and that's what they did. That's what 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.000 they threw at them. That's what SPACs threw at him 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.439 early in the game. And I believe right before that 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:21.680 final scoring drive in the first half, so it was 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:23.720 about three minutes left in the first half, he was 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:26.400 roughly about two for eight for thirty yards in an interception. 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.040 I mean, he was awful, real quick. 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:29.960 When you said they threw pressure at him, was it 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:31.760 a four man pressure or were they blitzing him? 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.240 It was a little bit of both, and it was 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.000 just when over the pressure was getting home necessarily, and 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:41.040 when Party is pressured, he has a negative seventeen point 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:43.800 five EPA expected points added, which basically just kind of 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:47.080 adds to you know, it's a statistic towards the offensive success. 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.680 When he's not pressured, it's plus forty three point seven. 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:54.560 That's a sixty point two EPA difference. Wow, that is unreal. So, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.560 I mean, if you want to get to party, if 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:58.840 you want to affect Party, get the pressure on him, 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:00.639 which if you don't have a guy like Michael Parsons 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:01.440 in this game, let's tough. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.240 So I was gonna ask you, guys, do y'all feel 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:06.520 like currently the teams the Cowboys going into this weekend, 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.960 do they have enough to create those kinds of pressures. 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:11.600 The one guy well that I think needs that has 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:13.560 the potential to get home, The one guy that I 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:15.240 think has the potential to get home against. 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:15.800 This offensive line. 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:16.960 You think it's Henry. 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:18.399 I think it's o'dige Zula. 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:21.280 Oh yeah, because yeah, because what's happened. Aaron Banks at 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:22.320 guard is not very good. 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:24.560 And Jake Jake Brindle as well. I mean these guys 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:25.600 are I sores at center. 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:26.080 Yeah. 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:28.400 See the thing the thing that I noticed the left 0:24:28.440 --> 0:24:30.520 side of their offensive line. I felt like even with 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.479 Trent Williams, Trent Williams has giving up some pressures. He's 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:34.600 given up a couple of sacks. 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:35.159 That's interesting. 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:37.560 Yeah, Aaron Banks has struggled a little bit. You think 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:39.960 it's mckivitz on the right side, that would be the 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:43.280 guy that you would attack, but Kivitz is actually playing well. 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:46.240 They've had a little bit of a situation with Dominic 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:49.000 Pooney playing some guard. I don't know if he's gonna 0:24:49.040 --> 0:24:51.760 start good. I'll say that, yeah, Pooney just look good. 0:24:51.880 --> 0:24:54.080 And I don't that Spencer Buford used to be the 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:56.120 guy that played there. I think they're gonna go with 0:24:56.119 --> 0:25:00.120 with with Poony in this game. But the number sixty 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:03.320 five Banks is the one that struggled with pressure one 0:25:03.359 --> 0:25:06.400 on one. That to me, and if like I say, 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:09.520 Trent Williams as greate as trit Williams has been it 0:25:09.560 --> 0:25:11.480 looks like there's a little bit of some slippage in 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.719 his play. But I would I would try and attack 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:17.960 the left guard spot. But you mentioned that, uh you know. 0:25:18.080 --> 0:25:20.480 I mentioned because of Brendel. I know there was multiple 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:22.879 opportunities in one on one the center Brindell was getting 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:25.679 pushed back into party and it was affecting that. Chris 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:27.159 Jones had a hell of a game in that. In 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:29.000 that with Kansas City, you. 0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.000 Wish he had Christian I was gonna say Chris Jones 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.280 holding from beast, But I will say this, I don't 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.720 have much faith in the fact or what I've seen 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.919 so far that a four man pressure that the Cowboys 0:25:38.920 --> 0:25:40.800 can get four men pressure. I really think if they're 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:43.080 gonna get pressure on him consistently, they're gonna have to 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:44.600 bring it from a lot of different places. They're gonna 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:46.360 have to blit some linebackers. The're gonna have to bplit 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.760 some safeties, They're gonna have to blit some cornerbacks. Like 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:50.639 I think they're gonna have to do other things in 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:52.320 order to get them off because I don't think there 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:53.720 is a or at least I'll put it like this, 0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:57.720 I have not seen anybody that currently is projected to 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:02.359 play if if Parsons doesn't that that would necessarily be 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:04.760 able to have that. I have confidence in that they 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:07.320 can get pressure one on one or even if they're 0:26:07.320 --> 0:26:08.080 facing a double team. 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.199 Obviously, I will say the bright side of what the 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:12.280 San Francisco offensive line, or at least what I've seen 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:14.280 from them early on this season, is it's not really 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:16.600 a complex It's not a complex thing that they try 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:18.719 to do. Remember, they're polling guys. They do not have 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:21.080 success pulling guys. And there was one play in the 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:22.639 Kansas City game where they were trying to pull the 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:25.480 left guard you said, Banks and the tight end Eric Saubert, 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:27.200 who was in this building for a little bit last year. 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:29.040 They tried to pull them both to the right side 0:26:29.040 --> 0:26:32.000 to clip off Carloftis, and Carl Loftis just ran right 0:26:32.000 --> 0:26:33.680 around them, wasn't even touched and got to perty. 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:35.000 So I mean there's. 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:37.600 Multiple instances of them trying to pull guys and it 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:40.520 just not working. So it's not like this depth unit 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:42.359 for the Cowboys pass rush is going to see anything 0:26:42.359 --> 0:26:43.040 too complex. 0:26:43.600 --> 0:26:45.199 They just need to get home. I think there's gonna be. 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:47.240 A lot of one on one opportunities, but you just 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:48.280 have to see as time goes on. 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:50.359 Let's talk to talk about Jordan Mason. 0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:52.720 He right now is has six hundred and sixty seven 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.879 yards on the season, a five point two average per carry, 0:26:56.240 --> 0:26:59.399 ninety five yards per game on the ground. He is 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:03.160 coming well for them in the absence of Christian McCaffrey. 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:06.560 What does he do well and what are the things 0:27:06.560 --> 0:27:08.400 at Dallas or what can Dallas do to maybe slow 0:27:08.440 --> 0:27:08.800 him down? 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:11.640 Okay, San Francisco's running game is going to come from 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:15.960 underneath center. Okay, and you've played this will be the 0:27:16.000 --> 0:27:19.120 fourth team. You've played three other teams that play under 0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:23.080 center more, you've played the Lions, You've played the Ravens, 0:27:23.760 --> 0:27:27.400 and you've played the Lions. What's all the common thread there? 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:27.680 Saints? 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.440 Sorry, Saints, not the Saints. Yeah, the Saints. 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:33.400 That was a disrespectful later the common thread. 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:35.560 That's what I'm saying. 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:38.240 This is whatever Heason about to say. 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:43.720 See, that's that's the problem, because you're gonna get you're 0:27:43.760 --> 0:27:46.480 going to get a You're going to get them playing 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.919 underneath center seventy six percent of the time, and that 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:52.360 means that's when that's when Mason's going to get the ball. 0:27:52.720 --> 0:27:56.200 So San Francisco's running game is from underneath center. They 0:27:56.200 --> 0:27:57.920 do it with a lot of different You mentioned about 0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:00.440 the movement and the pulling and stuff like that. They 0:28:00.480 --> 0:28:04.120 do it with yuscheck. He's been unmoved by far more 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.600 than any time in his career. You've got to follow 0:28:06.680 --> 0:28:09.119 forty four. You got to follow these tight ends. You 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.560 got to follow Kittle. Those are guys that will kind 0:28:11.560 --> 0:28:13.040 of tell you where. It's gonna be a lot of 0:28:13.040 --> 0:28:16.720 blocking back. It's gonna be a lot of pulling this back. Though. 0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:20.320 I feel like he leads the league and broken tackles. 0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:22.639 I think he's got fifty one of them, which leads 0:28:22.680 --> 0:28:27.320 the league. He's got nineteen explosive runs of ten yards 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:27.720 or more. 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:30.359 He has a run of at least twenty yards in 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:31.040 all but one game. 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:32.880 Yay. Yeah, just to give you exam, Just to give 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:35.000 you an example, that guy at the Ravens has seventeen. 0:28:35.520 --> 0:28:38.360 You know. So this is what you're dealing with right now, 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:41.880 is with an explosive back, it's gonna be from underneath center. 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:44.880 It's going to be to the outside. Generally, they don't 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:46.880 run the ball in the middle as much as they 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:49.520 run it on the edge. Their running game is they 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:51.720 try and get you to defend the whole field. They're 0:28:51.760 --> 0:28:54.360 going to play you sideline to sideline, but their running 0:28:54.360 --> 0:28:57.560 game is predominantly on the edges, so you've got to 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:02.320 be ready for that. They face a ton of loaded box. 0:29:02.800 --> 0:29:04.920 Dallas is fourth best in the league when it comes 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:08.360 to loaded box. Loaded box, the extra defender, the eighth 0:29:08.400 --> 0:29:11.800 defender down in that loaded box. Dallas plays it a lot. 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:15.480 They don't have success playing it. That's your issue right there. 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:17.080 So you would say that worries you if they have 0:29:17.160 --> 0:29:18.840 eight guys down the box and they don't have and 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:20.080 they still can't stop Dallas. 0:29:20.160 --> 0:29:22.440 Dallas is one of the worst tackling teams in the league. 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:26.760 They're they're They're well over sixteen percent miss tackles this year. 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:28.920 Last year they were at eight percent, which was only 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:30.920 it was tops in the league. Last year. They were 0:29:31.000 --> 0:29:33.560 much better tackling team than they are right now. But 0:29:33.640 --> 0:29:36.320 they are about sixteen seventeen percent misstack. 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:39.200 What would you attribute that to because there are a 0:29:39.240 --> 0:29:41.920 lot of guys on this team that are the same 0:29:41.960 --> 0:29:44.760 guys from last year, with the exception of guy that 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.560 you thought should have improved that in Eric Kendricks. What 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:48.480 would you attribute that to? 0:29:49.520 --> 0:29:51.360 You have an idea on this one, Yeah, this is 0:29:51.520 --> 0:29:53.600 I think I think health has definitely played a key, 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:56.920 but I miss tackles is a tough one to pin. 0:29:57.440 --> 0:29:59.520 Marque spell not playing, I think really hurts you a 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:01.680 little bit because he's a guy that's good tackling. Yeah, 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:03.880 he's a good tackler, and they haven't had that. You know, 0:30:03.920 --> 0:30:07.360 we've seen uh, we've seen Hooker, we've seen Wilson, we've 0:30:07.360 --> 0:30:10.560 seen linebackers. You know, Kendricks is for the most part, 0:30:10.560 --> 0:30:13.200 has done uh, you know, a pretty decent job. But 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:16.080 he's had some missus. Overshown's had some missus. 0:30:16.480 --> 0:30:17.440 Mary Diggs. 0:30:18.200 --> 0:30:22.080 Diggs has had missus, Marris has had missus. They've had opportunity. 0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:25.600 The problem is they've missed tackles and there's a lot 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:28.680 of teams running the football against them. You know, that's 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.440 that physical aspect of you're dealing with backs. You're not 0:30:31.480 --> 0:30:34.240 dealing with receivers. You're dealing with you know, you're dealing 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:37.600 with Alvin Kamaras and and you know the guy at 0:30:37.640 --> 0:30:39.640 the Raven's Henry, and you're you know, you're dealing with 0:30:39.680 --> 0:30:41.880 that kind of a back and it makes it tough 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:44.680 on these defenders to have to make those tackles getting 0:30:44.680 --> 0:30:46.440 you know, the getting position, and they don't get they 0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:49.800 don't finish like they absolutely should. But this will be 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:51.960 a problem this week because to me, if I'm the 0:30:52.000 --> 0:30:54.600 forty nine ers, I'm not interested in throwing the football. 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.400 I'm going to I'm going to see how committed you 0:30:57.480 --> 0:30:59.680 are to playing the run. And if you do play 0:30:59.720 --> 0:31:02.479 stack box with the eighth defender down in there and 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:04.680 you're not very good at it, you're not giving me 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:07.400 any confidence. You could stop me from running this football. 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:11.160 So if Deebo who is just was released from the 0:31:11.200 --> 0:31:14.360 hospital yesterday, so we don't know what his status is. Uh, 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:17.880 Jennings prospect, Jennings was out last week, so we don't 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:21.360 know what his status is. Obviously Ayuk is out. What 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:24.960 are the who are the offensive skill players outside of 0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:27.560 Mason and Kittle that when we come in on Monday 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:30.360 we may be talking about, like this guy was their 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:32.560 difference maker. This guy was the guy that that we 0:31:32.560 --> 0:31:34.200 didn't talk about, but we think he can be. 0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:37.000 I'll throw a name out there, Ricky Piersaw. I think Ricky. 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:38.920 He's the he's the young man that got shot in 0:31:38.960 --> 0:31:41.560 the chest and crazy and and now is back playing 0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:44.000 and last week was his first game. I believe they 0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:46.880 drafted him to take Brandon Ayuk's They they talked about 0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:49.960 trading Brandon Ayuk during the during the spring, and they 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:52.560 couldn't really pull it off. I think they drafted Ricky 0:31:52.600 --> 0:31:55.520 Pearsaw to be that guy. I could see Ricky Pearsaw 0:31:55.560 --> 0:31:58.400 playing in the slot lot more in this snk uh 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:01.440 and making up for those Brandon Eye the reps that 0:32:01.520 --> 0:32:04.600 he takes over there. But I have confidence that Jordan 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:07.600 Lewis can take care of Ricky Pearsow. You know, I 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:10.200 bet if you want to mention a name, Jacob Cowing 0:32:10.280 --> 0:32:12.960 is a guy that for some silly reason, they've tried 0:32:13.000 --> 0:32:14.680 to throw him the ball. He made a big play 0:32:14.880 --> 0:32:17.640 in the in the Kansasity game. It was forty one 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:23.160 yard reception that he had down the right sideline. A. Yeah, 0:32:23.200 --> 0:32:27.240 so he's kind of a quick, shifty kind of a player. Uh, 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:30.280 they like I say, they don't. If I anticipate Deebo 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.760 Samuel playing, I'm sorry, I just do. I think he's 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:34.920 going to They're going to iv up all week and 0:32:35.280 --> 0:32:37.680 you know they're going to get him. He might not practice. 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:40.720 But this is the problem you get into with Deebo Samuel. 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:42.240 It's like they put him in the backfield and they 0:32:42.280 --> 0:32:44.720 actually hand him the ball. They haven't thrown him the 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:46.920 ball as much as they have in the past. Uh 0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:49.719 they usually like he's only had one target this season 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.040 where they've thrown him the ball of the backfield. Everything 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:55.080 else has been a run. But I anticipate him playing 0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:58.240 in this football game. I just don't. I don't. I mean, 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.800 maybe I'm wrong about pneumonia, but I kind of feel 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:02.680 like the fact that he got out of hospital early 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:05.240 enough that they might be able to get him well 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:07.720 enough to play that scares me a little bit. 0:33:07.880 --> 0:33:10.840 The question for me on him debo is are they 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:13.040 able to give him a large dose of plays coming 0:33:13.040 --> 0:33:16.160 off pneumonia, Like does he have the lung capacity to 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:18.520 be able to Because I think this is a game 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:20.200 where if you look at it and look at the 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.840 history of the forty nine ers, they'll have games like 0:33:22.880 --> 0:33:24.680 this where they have guys that are not in that 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:27.000 are compromised and they're like, all right, this is gonna 0:33:27.000 --> 0:33:28.920 be a debo game, and they just load him up, 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:31.600 they throw it to him, they run, they do a ton. 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:34.720 Yeah, but my question is, like my thought with Corinda. 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:35.880 I don't know if Yeah, I don't know if they 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.480 will be able to do that with him coming off pneumonia. 0:33:38.720 --> 0:33:41.360 Maybe he is capable of doing that, but I just wonder, 0:33:41.480 --> 0:33:43.840 like coming out, if you had pneumonia bad enough where 0:33:43.840 --> 0:33:45.320 you had to be in the hospital, my guess is 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:46.440 that your lungs aren't. 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.360 At full capacity to be able to maybe run a 0:33:48.360 --> 0:33:48.680 full I. 0:33:48.640 --> 0:33:51.640 Always expect the worst, you know, when I'm playing somebody, and. 0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:54.240 Because it isn't happen like that, Yeah, everybody gets ready 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:54.680 for the count. 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.720 He's like, yeah, he's in the hospital on Sunday, and 0:33:57.760 --> 0:34:00.520 then you know, and then and then the fallowing Sunday, 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:03.560 he's nine receptions for one hundred and twenty seven yards and. 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:05.440 A touchdown, Aaron Player of the Week. 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:09.000 Yeah, it just you just there. They are compromise, And 0:34:09.080 --> 0:34:12.520 I think Nick's right about this offense though. It's gonna 0:34:12.560 --> 0:34:16.320 come down to can you stop Jordan Mason and and 0:34:16.320 --> 0:34:20.240 and can you also handle George Kittle and can't? And 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:22.759 you also got to be ready for the Kyle us 0:34:22.880 --> 0:34:26.320 check wheel route up the sidelines where all of a 0:34:26.360 --> 0:34:29.680 sudden he's blocking, blocking, and then he goes up the 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:33.120 sidelines and you know, the Chiefs did a really good 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:35.680 job the one shot. I guarantee you they're going to 0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:39.120 take a wheel route shot with Kyle us Check playing 0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:41.960 full back and sneak him through up the sidelines and 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:42.960 see if they can hit him. 0:34:43.080 --> 0:34:44.319 He just love time. 0:34:44.400 --> 0:34:45.960 I do, I do, and this is my favorite one. 0:34:46.040 --> 0:34:47.880 He has a season high in receptions last year with 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:50.760 four against Dallas. He had the touchdown, but not only 0:34:51.080 --> 0:34:53.720 as a as a passing weapon. They get really creative 0:34:53.719 --> 0:34:55.680 with him and run block as well. They'll do some 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:57.440 lipky things with him. Well, they'll line him up at 0:34:57.480 --> 0:34:59.920 tight end. They'll have to cross the farm well enough, 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:04.400 exactly right, he's the originator. They'll have him crossing the formation, 0:35:04.719 --> 0:35:07.440 kind of pay some running lanes on the edges. I 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:11.120 think if in this game with Jordan Mason specifically, if 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:12.759 you can contain the edge, you can seal the edge 0:35:12.800 --> 0:35:15.120 and keep him between the tackles, I think you can 0:35:15.160 --> 0:35:17.480 find some success against this running game. It's it's gonna 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:19.960 get its production. It's gonna happen. But I think if 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:22.279 you can keep it between the tackles. I think you 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:23.600 can manage what happens out of that. 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:26.200 All right, we're going to take our final break when 0:35:26.200 --> 0:35:27.680 we come back. 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But sometimes like if you get assigned 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:52.240 to like a big case, you're you could be gone. 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:54.839 That's my that's my fear. That's my fear. 0:38:54.920 --> 0:38:56.600 I get into this case where I'm just there for 0:38:56.719 --> 0:38:59.759 weeks and literally like I'm not at work. I'm not 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.360 I'm not doing with my family. They sequester us like 0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:03.319 I want them. 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:06.320 Would you like the trial? 0:39:06.440 --> 0:39:07.160 Absolutely not? 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:07.560 No. 0:39:07.880 --> 0:39:09.640 I mean so I can bug deal out of it 0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:11.400 on the back end, for sure? You did, all right, 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:14.879 you're a writer, you know what. Never mind work out 0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:16.480 all right? 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:21.040 Yeah, I don't want any part of that. 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:21.759 All right, Here we go. 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:23.960 I got a couple questions for you guys about Dallas 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:26.000 defense uh, And I really want you to think about 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:27.759 this question because I think there's one answer that's very 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:29.399 apparent after the conversation we've had. 0:39:29.400 --> 0:39:30.799 But I really want you to think about it. 0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:33.680 What can this defense do more or better to have 0:39:33.719 --> 0:39:38.040 the greatest impact. The two options are tackle or discipline 0:39:38.080 --> 0:39:38.920 on their assignments. 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:40.840 Tackle. For me, it's tackle. 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.080 You didn't do what I ask you to do. Ask 0:39:43.120 --> 0:39:43.880 you to think about it. 0:39:46.600 --> 0:39:50.080 Tackle I was like, what did I miss here? 0:39:50.440 --> 0:39:54.080 No tackling and discipline on assignments definitely, But I mean 0:39:54.080 --> 0:39:57.040 there was multiple occasions in these games that they've lost 0:39:57.280 --> 0:39:59.360 or they're just not getting guys down on first contacts. 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.360 I mean, you see how many yards after contact that 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:03.920 they're giving up. It's like, come on. I mean the 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:07.200 way that opposing offenses have been able to sustain drives 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:11.479 have been a key contributor from misstackles they got to tackle. 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:14.120 But give the listeners your theory on why on how 0:40:14.160 --> 0:40:15.560 you would play your edges this week? 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:18.400 Okay, ye, with the edges this week, I would want to, 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.080 like I said before the break, if the edges can 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:23.440 contain the running game and keep things between the tackles, 0:40:23.680 --> 0:40:25.400 I don't have a ton of trust in that interior 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:28.600 for San Francisco to be able to sustain drives with 0:40:28.719 --> 0:40:30.800 the running game. So if they can keep Jordan Mason 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:34.560 between the tackles, I'm completely okay with telling these defensive vents. Hey, 0:40:35.120 --> 0:40:37.880 let's overcompensate for sealing the edge on the runs. 0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:39.360 Let the interior. 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:41.880 Focus on generating pressure on Party. Let the linebacking corps 0:40:41.920 --> 0:40:45.240 focus on you know, situational blitzing on getting to Party. 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:47.040 I want these edges focusing on the run game. One 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:48.040 that would be mine. 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:50.319 I guess if you could give me a choice for 0:40:50.360 --> 0:40:54.760 this particular game to how to handle and and maybe 0:40:54.840 --> 0:40:57.600 maybe San Francisco will be stubborn and continue to try 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:00.640 and throw crossing routes after watching Detroit dis dismantle you 0:41:00.760 --> 0:41:04.680 throwing crossing routes. Safety play has got to be better 0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:07.239 here too, you know. I mean, if you tell me 0:41:07.800 --> 0:41:13.600 tackling discipline better safety play, I give you the better 0:41:13.640 --> 0:41:16.200 safety play. Right now, you're getting killed in the middle 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:19.160 of the field. You just are. And you know, somehow, 0:41:19.280 --> 0:41:22.040 some way that you could be like a Kansas City 0:41:22.080 --> 0:41:25.359 And I know that's a two time Super Bowl champion team, 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:27.960 but man, their safeties and the way they play the 0:41:28.000 --> 0:41:31.359 way they drove on balls, the way they the defensive line, 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:33.640 tip and balls. I mean there were guys open ball, 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:36.520 you know, tip they had Are you kind of drop 0:41:36.600 --> 0:41:39.960 Dallas will never be as that lucky. I mean, Kansas 0:41:40.000 --> 0:41:42.680 City caught some luck in that game with some of 0:41:42.719 --> 0:41:45.239 the things that happened with through the health of the 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:48.360 of the forty nine ers, but they also caught breaks 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:52.000 with tip balls on defense, and they caught breaks on 0:41:52.120 --> 0:41:55.040 guys dropping balls or not be in a good position 0:41:55.080 --> 0:41:57.839 to catch a ball. Ricky Piersoll inside route and he's 0:41:57.920 --> 0:42:01.040 kind of getting mugged. And you know, Dallas never gets 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:01.920 that kind of a break. 0:42:02.040 --> 0:42:04.880 Between Between Wilson and Hooker, which of those two do 0:42:04.920 --> 0:42:07.520 you need more from. 0:42:06.800 --> 0:42:10.000 In the passing game? Hooker hooker and hooker game? Hooker 0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:10.480 by far? 0:42:10.760 --> 0:42:14.120 I mean to me, I think, you know, Wilson can 0:42:14.200 --> 0:42:19.200 lower the boom and you know, create problems physically, but Hooker, 0:42:19.640 --> 0:42:22.600 he's got to put himself in better position. Read it quicker, 0:42:22.719 --> 0:42:25.120 drive on it, man. I've seen him. I've seen him 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:27.560 make plays like that, like read it the right way. 0:42:28.120 --> 0:42:31.520 Drive Kansas City did that? You talk about the interception? 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:34.719 Here comes Kittle on the cross. They aren't even thinking 0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:37.600 about Kittle. They're driving to a spot because they know 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:39.719 that's where the ball is going to end up, and 0:42:39.800 --> 0:42:41.919 they get an interception off it, you know, and you're 0:42:41.960 --> 0:42:46.480 like going, well, I wish Dallas' secondary or safeties would 0:42:46.520 --> 0:42:49.799 have that kind of awareness, that kind of vision, and 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:51.440 then that kind of finish right there. 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:55.960 Well, between the two, tackling or discipline, I would agree 0:42:56.120 --> 0:42:58.640 with the tackling aspect of it. I think there's a 0:42:58.640 --> 0:43:02.359 whole sense. It's a whole different energy that comes when 0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:06.640 you tackle well and you set the tone, you're aggressive, 0:43:06.800 --> 0:43:10.320 you show that hey, I'll make you rethink that next 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:12.759 time on the next play because you're about to get 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.560 hit and I and we've seen it, just like Nick 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:19.480 mentioned so many times that the yards that come after 0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:24.520 the contact, it's it's absurd. So I think that you 0:43:24.760 --> 0:43:28.520 have to start setting the tone that way and show 0:43:28.640 --> 0:43:31.759 that you are an aggressive team. And I think that 0:43:31.920 --> 0:43:34.800 right now this season, I mean there's been there's been moments, 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:39.320 like we've seen overshown moments that you're like, WHOA, that's 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:42.640 I love that guy. He's shown that. Maris I think 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:45.600 he has that aggressiveness in him as well, We've seen 0:43:45.680 --> 0:43:49.920 it with Kendricks too, and Jordan Lewis. Can everybody just 0:43:49.960 --> 0:43:52.160 play like Jordan Lewis right now? He sees I mean, 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:55.279 he has that fire and that aggressiveness in him that 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.560 I think should be contagious. And everybody else I think 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.839 you bring that and he just changes the dynamic overall 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:04.560 and better plays come from that. 0:44:04.960 --> 0:44:07.280 To your point, Ambar, I mean we talked about Mason 0:44:07.360 --> 0:44:09.920 and his ability to break tackles. I looked this up. 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:13.320 He's had four hundred and sixty five yards after contact, 0:44:13.920 --> 0:44:17.040 you know, and I mentioned about forty nine ers run 0:44:17.080 --> 0:44:20.200 after catch or yards after catch. They're near the bottom. 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:23.080 Don't let them all of a sudden figure that out 0:44:23.360 --> 0:44:26.880 against You make tackles. Get these guys down if they 0:44:26.920 --> 0:44:29.160 catch the ball, get them down. If it's a six 0:44:29.239 --> 0:44:31.239 yard gain, it's a six yard game. Don't was a 0:44:31.280 --> 0:44:34.680 six yard gain turn into an eighteen yard game. You know, 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:36.720 find a way to get these guys on the ground. 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:38.360 But man, they're going to have their hands full with 0:44:38.400 --> 0:44:39.439 this runner. For sure. 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:41.200 A lot of these teams right a fok in the road. 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:42.920 A win for either of these teams could be a 0:44:42.920 --> 0:44:45.960 big confidence booster for the second middle part of the season, 0:44:46.000 --> 0:44:46.319 no doubt. 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:48.200 All Right, we appreciate you guys, Jones. We're back tomorrow. 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:51.080 We're going to dive into the San Francisco defense, really 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.239 good unit that the Cowboys will have to face, and 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:55.360 the Cowboys offense and what things they may have to 0:44:55.400 --> 0:44:57.200 do in order to maybe get back on track and 0:44:57.200 --> 0:44:59.240 get a little more consistency in what they're doing. 0:44:59.080 --> 0:45:01.120 Score in the red zone. We'll talk about all that tomorrow. 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:03.239 Till then for Nick Harris, Brian brought us Namburcarcie. I'm 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:05.240 Derek Eilton. This has been The Break live on Dallas 0:45:05.239 --> 0:45:07.000 Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:45:07.680 --> 0:45:10.680 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:13.800 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.