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Speaker 5: It is Wednesday, October twenty third, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
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Speaker 3: We got a lot we're gonna get into today.
Speaker 5: We will start our breakdown of Cowboys versus forty nine Ers.
Speaker 5: Brian will have his breakdown of the forty nine Ers
Speaker 5: offense versus the Dallas defense. Will talk some about the
Speaker 5: Dallas defense in some of the areas where they're going
Speaker 5: to have to.
Speaker 3: Improve in order to get a win this weekend.
Speaker 5: Let's start first though, with this, I guess the bigger
Speaker 5: picture look at this matchup between the Cowboys and forty
Speaker 5: nine Ers. Dallas has now lost the last three times
Speaker 5: they've played them. Two out of the last three that
Speaker 5: they lost were games that they played in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: So it stings a little bit more because the forty
Speaker 5: nine ers have ended their season in those two years
Speaker 5: they did.
Speaker 3: They lost the last two.
Speaker 5: Times they've played in San Francisco, and the last time
Speaker 5: they beat the San Francisco forty nine Ers in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 5: that was a drubbing forty to ten. That was twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: So that being said, do you guys think that this
Speaker 5: has become a mental challenge for the Cowboys as much
Speaker 5: as it is physical.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's pretty bad.
Speaker 8: I would, Like I said yesterday, this team has been
Speaker 8: kind of the Cowboys boogeyman over the course of the
Speaker 8: last few years. Definitely during the Mike McCarthy era. This
Speaker 8: is as much of a mental challenge as it is
Speaker 8: a physical challenge for this team, in my opinion, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think so when it's one of those things when
Speaker 2: you kind of you feel like your roster is really
Speaker 2: really good till you play these guys and then you
Speaker 2: realize your roster might not be as good, and you're
Speaker 2: always trying to kind of get to that level. I
Speaker 2: think Will McClay and those guys here have done a
Speaker 2: good job of understanding how to win their own division,
Speaker 2: building a teams that can handle what you do with
Speaker 2: Philidel for the Giants and the Commanders. The problem is, though,
Speaker 2: then you go and play some of these other teams.
Speaker 2: You now play Detroit, you now play San Francisco, It's
Speaker 2: a totally different beast and the way that they attack you,
Speaker 2: the way they do it with formations, the way they
Speaker 2: do it with personnel. Done a great job with just
Speaker 2: their roster when you feel like you match up well
Speaker 2: in certain areas and there's others that you're completely, you know,
Speaker 2: undermanned at So they're very, very difficult. Since Kyle shanahan
Speaker 2: and John Lynch have come on board there, they've gotten
Speaker 2: so much better with their roster but also the depth
Speaker 2: of their roster as well in order to combat you
Speaker 2: who you know, a lot of teams a lot of
Speaker 2: personal guys around the league. I know my Gang of
Speaker 2: Seven always talk about the Cowboys roster, but man, it's
Speaker 2: a really difficult matchup when they go up against the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers because there's things that they can neutralize
Speaker 2: of yours, and then there's a couple of different areas
Speaker 2: that they're just better at than you.
Speaker 6: I will say more physical, more in the physical part
Speaker 6: of things rather than mental, because I would imagine with
Speaker 6: the mental aspect, if anything, you're more pumped up, you're
Speaker 6: more mad, you're more eager to go out there and
Speaker 6: beat these guys and shut them up, and it hasn't
Speaker 6: been the case. You kind of just it's kind of
Speaker 6: how the Cowboys look when they get to the playoffs.
Speaker 6: They just kind of you know, there's talent there, but
Speaker 6: for some reason, the level just drops off and it
Speaker 6: kind of disappears and it's not present. So I don't
Speaker 6: know what to tell you at this point, because going
Speaker 6: back to last year and the current state of the
Speaker 6: team of the Cowboys at the time that they've faced
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers, I truly believe that that was
Speaker 6: going to be the time that they finally beat them,
Speaker 6: and it wasn't the case. And right now the team,
Speaker 6: in my opinion, is way lower the level that they're
Speaker 6: playing this year right now compared to what it was
Speaker 6: last year. So I don't know how you go into
Speaker 6: this game mentally and physically ready to compete against them again.
Speaker 5: I want to go back, Brian, you said something I
Speaker 5: thought was interesting about them building the team, Yeah, to
Speaker 5: play the NFC East. What are some of the things
Speaker 5: that you can see about the seamen and how maybe
Speaker 5: they're constructed to be able to win in the NFC
Speaker 5: East that may be glaring problems when you face teams
Speaker 5: like San Francisco, Detroit, other teams outside the division.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, there used to be a time where,
Speaker 2: you know, with with Philadelphia, and now it's now it's
Speaker 2: not so much Well, they're they're getting back to their
Speaker 2: ability to run the football. You know, with say Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 2: you were built to be able to stop, to put
Speaker 2: pressure on teams. You were built to you know. The Commanders.
Speaker 2: The Commanders are another team in the in the division
Speaker 2: that to me have gotten better just because of the quarterback,
Speaker 2: you know, and then their skill guys. Their skill guys
Speaker 2: have always been good. They just never had a quarterback
Speaker 2: and then the Eagles, on their hand, they've kind of
Speaker 2: always tried to build the running game and really haven't
Speaker 2: got it going other than the quarterback being the main
Speaker 2: the quarterback being a runner, some of the backs, I mean,
Speaker 2: they've had some good backs, but they now have a
Speaker 2: back that can legitimately take a game over. So your
Speaker 2: team is built to like get a lead, put pressure.
Speaker 2: You've always been able to kind of play Philadelphia well,
Speaker 2: get ahead of them, play with the lead. It's real
Speaker 2: hard this season for Dallas to play with the lead.
Speaker 2: And so that's where I felt like though in this division,
Speaker 2: when they do get a lead, then they could stick
Speaker 2: that pass rush on you. And that's where they've had
Speaker 2: success against the Giants, getting after Daniel Jones, getting after
Speaker 2: whoever's played quarterback with Commanders, you know, and now it's
Speaker 2: a different story we'll see. And then also with Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 2: you know, I think you know, if you talk about
Speaker 2: huge moves that were made, getting Saquon Barkley gave Philadelphia
Speaker 2: that power running game that they've been looking for that
Speaker 2: matches with their offensive line, and it's helped their quarterback.
Speaker 2: It's taken their quarterback out of harm's way. Of having
Speaker 2: to make plays. So, you know, Dallas has yet to
Speaker 2: show that they could play with a team that has
Speaker 2: a power type of running game. Now, Pittsburgh ran the
Speaker 2: ball with volume, but their line and their backs probably
Speaker 2: not you know, good enough. They just run it to
Speaker 2: try and help a young quarterback. Philadelphia. Now the Commanders,
Speaker 2: they run it because they've got the ability to do
Speaker 2: it and with the personnel.
Speaker 5: When they've played premier runners this year, it's not been good.
Speaker 5: I think that's that's kind of the point of that
Speaker 5: in Sa Kwon Barkley certainly showing this year that he
Speaker 5: is a premier runner. I guess if you believe in
Speaker 5: any way that the mental is a part of this,
Speaker 5: what do you think has to be the message from
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy to his team this week to get them
Speaker 5: ready and prepared to go and play a San Francisco
Speaker 5: team that's had their number for the last few times.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's still eleven on eleven. It's still you know,
Speaker 8: what they've been preparing for the whole season. I think
Speaker 8: I think last year you kind of saw the mental
Speaker 8: ramifications of this matchup really come to a forefront. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and it kind of snowballed there in the second half,
Speaker 8: and that's why it ended up being what it was.
Speaker 8: I think if you play that game later in the
Speaker 8: season after the Cowboys, it kind of figured out a
Speaker 8: lot of things that I don't I'm not saying they
Speaker 8: would have won, but I don't think it would have
Speaker 8: forty two to ten. It would have been a much
Speaker 8: more competitive contest. But I think looking at it this
Speaker 8: year in the twenty twenty four vacuum, they are battling injuries.
Speaker 8: Cowboys are battling injuries. They have had some inconsistent Siaeson
Speaker 8: to start the season, So of the Cowboys, I mean,
Speaker 8: there's a lot of parallels between these two teams right now.
Speaker 8: It's not the daunting task that maybe it was in
Speaker 8: the last couple of years. But even if it was
Speaker 8: that daunting task, it's still eleven on eleven. It's all
Speaker 8: about the preparation they put in during the week, which
Speaker 8: obviously has been under a microscope these last few days,
Speaker 8: and they'll see how they how they take it to
Speaker 8: take it to Sunday in the Bay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What's really funny is when I really started to
Speaker 2: dive in watching the tape and then looking at some
Speaker 2: of the metrics, and things. You would not believe this,
Speaker 2: but Dallas and San Francisco are the two top teams
Speaker 2: in the league when it comes to tight window throws.
Speaker 2: You would think the forty nine Ers with all the
Speaker 2: motions and things that they have, But I think the
Speaker 2: Cowboys and the forty nine ers receivers are very similar
Speaker 2: in the way that they don't have game breaking type speed.
Speaker 2: You know, they have guys that are really good at
Speaker 2: you know, when the catch and stuff like that. Some
Speaker 2: run after catch, but when it comes to you know,
Speaker 2: this is a team that usually will punish you with
Speaker 2: run after catch, not only averaging four four point four
Speaker 2: yards per you know, run after catch and so our
Speaker 2: yards after catch, and it's and they usually lead the
Speaker 2: league in this, and this year they have it. They're
Speaker 2: near the bottom, you know, And that's something that we're
Speaker 2: not accustomed to seeing from a San Francisco team. It's
Speaker 2: always been routes, run after catch, routes, run after catch.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that this year when you watch their
Speaker 2: tape and you know, and and they're also they're not
Speaker 2: separating from people and that's been a little bit of
Speaker 2: a problem for uh for for brock Party. And we'll
Speaker 2: get into that. I mean, this guy, he will hold
Speaker 2: the football. The problem is can your pass rush get
Speaker 2: home on this guy when he holds the ball. Kansas
Speaker 2: City was able to do that to him, and that
Speaker 2: and that's something and that's and that's something that Dallas
Speaker 2: will have struggles with.
Speaker 6: Well, for me, it's very hard to have this conversation.
Speaker 6: Tried to answer your question, Derek, because currently I see
Speaker 6: this team having so many like the issues go far
Speaker 6: beyond the mental part of things, and it goes way
Speaker 6: further beyond on whoever the opponent is. Like this is
Speaker 6: like it doesn't matter who the opponent is. The Cowboys
Speaker 6: have been struggling this season so far. It just makes
Speaker 6: it worse that you're about to face the forty nine
Speaker 6: ers that tend to I'm trying to find the proper word,
Speaker 6: but beat you basically.
Speaker 3: Use yes.
Speaker 6: Yes, there are just so many underlying issues that need
Speaker 6: to be fixed, and it's just how do you do
Speaker 6: that in just a bye week? How do you turn
Speaker 6: things around? And I think that the Cowboys can potentially
Speaker 6: start turning things around at some point in the season
Speaker 6: because I do believe there is talent. The team has
Speaker 6: talent here both on the offense and on defense, it
Speaker 6: just has been working out. Maybe there is a point
Speaker 6: where McCarthy now he took this time during the bye
Speaker 6: week to analyze the play call in and maybe change
Speaker 6: things up with the scheme and position their players in
Speaker 6: a better way and maybe potentially start running the ball
Speaker 6: some more. But there's just so many unknowns that it literally,
Speaker 6: to me doesn't matter who we're facing this week.
Speaker 5: But you know, I will say this, and I think
Speaker 5: I'll use Mazi as a good example microcosm of what
Speaker 5: this team is. There have been moments this season when
Speaker 5: we said, oh, wow, that's really good play right there, right,
Speaker 5: And I think that's the same thing for this team,
Speaker 5: which says to me they're capable.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 5: The question is can they consistently put forth that same
Speaker 5: effort that we've seen them do in moments when they've
Speaker 5: looked good, when moments when they've been able to stop
Speaker 5: the run, in moments when they've been able to run
Speaker 5: the ball, in moments when they've been able to make
Speaker 5: big plays like all these things we've seen them do
Speaker 5: in spurts this season, we haven't seen them consiststantly do
Speaker 5: it really even for an entire game.
Speaker 3: So that's where I say, that's why he's a frustrated right,
Speaker 3: But that's.
Speaker 5: Also my point of that's where I look at this
Speaker 5: and I say, this is in some respects a mental
Speaker 5: thing of challenging these players to say, can you put
Speaker 5: together a game of what you've done in spurts throughout
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 2: Do you think the Dallas Cowboys trouble in the red
Speaker 2: zone is mental or physical? Because that's where they're getting
Speaker 2: killed right now? That quarterback offensively now, quarterback can't complete
Speaker 2: any passes in the red zone. They can't run the
Speaker 2: ball in the red zone. Mental or physical.
Speaker 7: I don't have any red zone personnel.
Speaker 8: I mean, who on the roster do you feel like
Speaker 8: it is like a comfortable red zone target.
Speaker 2: I kind of felt like that maybe that Ferguson was
Speaker 2: a red zone target. Yeah, I felt like that Ceed
Speaker 2: Lamb when Cooks was healthy. I felt like that was
Speaker 2: a guy because I sat there and watched practice after
Speaker 2: practice and watched them run two point plays and create
Speaker 2: opportunities for him. I've seen Hunter Lipkey with a red
Speaker 2: zone screen, you know, I've seen yeah in the red zone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I wonder is this a mental or physical thing?
Speaker 2: Because this is right now. In my opinion, you could
Speaker 2: talk about we could talk about run defense all you want.
Speaker 2: Their inability to score in the red zone consistently is
Speaker 2: killing them in these games. Yeah, and we all love
Speaker 2: Brandon Aubrey, you know, congratulations making field goals being being
Speaker 2: up three to nothing and then down seven three, and
Speaker 2: then down fourteen to six, and then down twenty one
Speaker 2: to nine, and you know that that's not getting it done.
Speaker 2: That's just not getting it done. So to me, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out is it scheme, is it personal?
Speaker 2: Is it the offensive line? Is it the quarterback? Is
Speaker 2: it the receivers? You know, they have a disconnect problem
Speaker 2: now in the red zone.
Speaker 8: Next to last in the NFL thirty seven point five
Speaker 8: percent of the time they are scoring touchdowns in the
Speaker 8: red zone.
Speaker 3: And I want to say San Francisco is not much
Speaker 3: better than that.
Speaker 7: Twenty or seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not performing in the red zone either.
Speaker 5: But to answer your question, and Brian, it goes back
Speaker 5: to what I just said about the about the idea
Speaker 5: that we've seen them do it in spurts, and that's
Speaker 5: where I'm like, y'all got to figure this out to
Speaker 5: do it consistently. Because trust me, I sit next to
Speaker 5: this one in the press box a lot. And if
Speaker 5: you want to get no sorry Amber, you want to
Speaker 5: get her upset, run run Aubrey out there when you're
Speaker 5: in the red zone for another field goal, and she's
Speaker 5: gonna be like, why can't they get an end zone? Like,
Speaker 5: I think it's a it's a very it's a problem
Speaker 5: that we all see.
Speaker 3: It's very apparent.
Speaker 5: But I also think that there are, as you just said,
Speaker 5: there are players we've seen them be able to be productive.
Speaker 3: In the red zone. For some reason, they're not able
Speaker 3: to do it consistently.
Speaker 5: And that says to me, either they're not having the
Speaker 5: right kinds of plays that fit what they're trying to do.
Speaker 2: Owner came out and said that basically, I mean, he
Speaker 2: hinted to it.
Speaker 3: He said, he said, there are lots of problems, and
Speaker 3: that was part of it.
Speaker 2: And if you if you said, if you said, where's
Speaker 2: the biggest to me? Moving the football? It's a struggle.
Speaker 2: But when they get inside the twenty, it is like
Speaker 2: they have no idea of what their plan is to
Speaker 2: move the ball down there? Agree, and I have no
Speaker 2: execution of a plan that and it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: a It seems very grab baggie, and I know that's
Speaker 2: a terrible way to describe an offense, but there's teams
Speaker 2: that you see that have rhythm and understanding and Okay,
Speaker 2: once we get down there and how we're gonna go
Speaker 2: into this mode. We're gonna run it this way, We're
Speaker 2: gonna throw it this way. We're gonna create picks and
Speaker 2: opportunities and separation. It's like it's like you hit that
Speaker 2: wall at the twenty just to be like, like me
Speaker 2: calling place like there's no why, I mean, why why
Speaker 2: why did you do that? You know? So I that
Speaker 2: that to me is a huge, huge problem.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back. It is the second segment of the Break live.
Speaker 5: From the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. It's our
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Speaker 5: the San Francisco offense. I want to start with Brock Purdy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there was an interesting thing that jumped out at me
Speaker 5: as I was looking at his stats. So far this season,
Speaker 5: he has nine touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Speaker 14: Ye.
Speaker 5: Last year, for reference, you have thirty one touchdowns and
Speaker 5: eleven interceptions, a much lower clip when you think about
Speaker 5: percentages or ratios touchdowns. The interceptions. Why are there so
Speaker 5: many turnovers this year versus last year?
Speaker 2: Well, if you watch the Kansas City game, one of
Speaker 2: the he loves to throw the ball at intermediate routes,
Speaker 2: and the intermediate routes are like that ten to nineteen
Speaker 2: yard range. So they like to attack the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. And the way that Kansas City affected him
Speaker 2: and this is Kansas City had a turnover. They get
Speaker 2: in a single high look and what they're trying to do,
Speaker 2: Dallas has got to be every team that plays I
Speaker 2: should say Dallas has to be ready this week, but
Speaker 2: every team that plays the forty nine ers has to
Speaker 2: be ready for the tight end delay and then run route.
Speaker 2: They kill you. They kill you with the Okay, we're
Speaker 2: gonna block. You know we're gonna block Kittle. He's a
Speaker 2: count one town, two count. Now he takes off running
Speaker 2: in a route. What happens is that like teams like
Speaker 2: the Chiefs have kind of figured out though, if you
Speaker 2: follow Kittle, if you play the middle, if you're if
Speaker 2: you're a defense that plays well in the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. Cleveland did it last year. Jim Swartz did
Speaker 2: it last year against him with the Cleveland Browns. We
Speaker 2: talked about Robert play with the guy at two level safeties,
Speaker 2: play there in the middle, play one short, keep the
Speaker 2: crossing routes. What'll happen is that that that that party
Speaker 2: is so conditioned at throwing the ball in the middle
Speaker 2: of the field that sometimes he'll just throw it and
Speaker 2: he'll he'll think, Oh, Kittle's there, Ayuk's there, Samuel's there,
Speaker 2: somebody's always Jinny's Someone's always going to be in the
Speaker 2: middle of the field. So he will throw balls that
Speaker 2: he has no business he's throwing to a spot. And
Speaker 2: last week what Kansas City did to him is single
Speaker 2: high safety. When Kittle crossed, they drove the safety down
Speaker 2: and were able to kind of disrupt the crossing routes
Speaker 2: but also get the be able to pick balls off
Speaker 2: that way down in the red zone. He had a
Speaker 2: tip ball. Just you know, he gets pressure. He feels pressure.
Speaker 2: No quarterback, I said, no quarterback. He is when you
Speaker 2: look at him, and I was wondering this because you
Speaker 2: watch the tape. He holds the ball. He holds the ball.
Speaker 2: He holds the ball. At times he does a good
Speaker 2: job of holding the ball and making something happen and
Speaker 2: allowing things to open up and making the play. But
Speaker 2: a lot of his mistakes come from hold the ball.
Speaker 2: Hold the ball, hold the ball, and now he's not
Speaker 2: on a base, he's not comfortable, and he throws the ball.
Speaker 2: He's off balanced, there's not a lot on it. There's
Speaker 2: a tight window throw like we talked about earlier, and
Speaker 2: then the ball's picked off. But he's going to hold
Speaker 2: the ball. He's not interested. In most quarterbacks they talk
Speaker 2: about that two point five. In his head, he's like
Speaker 2: three three one three. You know, he's standing there and
Speaker 2: he's averaging three point two. Yeah, he is waiting, but
Speaker 2: his numbers. A lot of quarterbacks, if they're numbers that
Speaker 2: they if they hold the ball along time, it's usually
Speaker 2: going to be a throwaway or something bad. With him,
Speaker 2: it's not that way. But the majority of his interceptions
Speaker 2: have been with him holding the football and then teams
Speaker 2: finding ways to drive on those intermediate routes, which he
Speaker 2: has thrived on in his career.
Speaker 7: A couple of points I have to back that up.
Speaker 8: I think Party is just trying to overcompensate for the
Speaker 8: lack of health and the skill group, and when you
Speaker 8: look at what he's trying to do when he's pushing
Speaker 8: the ball further than fifteen yards downfield. There's no rhythm,
Speaker 8: there's no timing because it's in the game against the
Speaker 8: Chief specifically, it's guys like Jacob Cowing, Ricky pier Saw.
Speaker 8: I mean, these guys are really banged up in the
Speaker 8: receiving corps. And then if Samuel and or Kittle cannot
Speaker 8: go on Sunday, then that's just going to add to it.
Speaker 8: I put that only Kittle should scare you more than
Speaker 8: fifteen yards downfield. I think anybody else that the timing
Speaker 8: is not there, that the rhythm is off with that offense.
Speaker 8: And you talked about that safety kind of creeping from
Speaker 8: the top. That's how led to that. Justin Reid interception
Speaker 8: early in the Kansas City game, just a product of
Speaker 8: him being in the area and party not anticipating him
Speaker 8: being there. But you also talk about him holding onto
Speaker 8: the ball quite a bit when Case dialed up the pressure,
Speaker 8: Perdy was awful and that's what they did. That's what
Speaker 8: they threw at them. That's what SPACs threw at him
Speaker 8: early in the game. And I believe right before that
Speaker 8: final scoring drive in the first half, so it was
Speaker 8: about three minutes left in the first half, he was
Speaker 8: roughly about two for eight for thirty yards in an interception.
Speaker 7: I mean, he was awful, real quick.
Speaker 5: When you said they threw pressure at him, was it
Speaker 5: a four man pressure or were they blitzing him?
Speaker 8: It was a little bit of both, and it was
Speaker 8: just when over the pressure was getting home necessarily, and
Speaker 8: when Party is pressured, he has a negative seventeen point
Speaker 8: five EPA expected points added, which basically just kind of
Speaker 8: adds to you know, it's a statistic towards the offensive success.
Speaker 8: When he's not pressured, it's plus forty three point seven.
Speaker 8: That's a sixty point two EPA difference. Wow, that is unreal. So,
Speaker 8: I mean, if you want to get to party, if
Speaker 8: you want to affect Party, get the pressure on him,
Speaker 8: which if you don't have a guy like Michael Parsons
Speaker 8: in this game, let's tough.
Speaker 6: So I was gonna ask you, guys, do y'all feel
Speaker 6: like currently the teams the Cowboys going into this weekend,
Speaker 6: do they have enough to create those kinds of pressures.
Speaker 8: The one guy well that I think needs that has
Speaker 8: the potential to get home, The one guy that I
Speaker 8: think has the potential to get home against.
Speaker 7: This offensive line.
Speaker 2: You think it's Henry.
Speaker 7: I think it's o'dige Zula.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because yeah, because what's happened. Aaron Banks at
Speaker 2: guard is not very good.
Speaker 8: And Jake Jake Brindle as well. I mean these guys
Speaker 8: are I sores at center.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See the thing the thing that I noticed the left
Speaker 2: side of their offensive line. I felt like even with
Speaker 2: Trent Williams, Trent Williams has giving up some pressures. He's
Speaker 2: given up a couple of sacks.
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Banks has struggled a little bit. You think
Speaker 2: it's mckivitz on the right side, that would be the
Speaker 2: guy that you would attack, but Kivitz is actually playing well.
Speaker 2: They've had a little bit of a situation with Dominic
Speaker 2: Pooney playing some guard. I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 2: start good. I'll say that, yeah, Pooney just look good.
Speaker 2: And I don't that Spencer Buford used to be the
Speaker 2: guy that played there. I think they're gonna go with
Speaker 2: with with Poony in this game. But the number sixty
Speaker 2: five Banks is the one that struggled with pressure one
Speaker 2: on one. That to me, and if like I say,
Speaker 2: Trent Williams as greate as trit Williams has been it
Speaker 2: looks like there's a little bit of some slippage in
Speaker 2: his play. But I would I would try and attack
Speaker 2: the left guard spot. But you mentioned that, uh you know.
Speaker 8: I mentioned because of Brendel. I know there was multiple
Speaker 8: opportunities in one on one the center Brindell was getting
Speaker 8: pushed back into party and it was affecting that. Chris
Speaker 8: Jones had a hell of a game in that. In
Speaker 8: that with Kansas City, you.
Speaker 5: Wish he had Christian I was gonna say Chris Jones
Speaker 5: holding from beast, But I will say this, I don't
Speaker 5: have much faith in the fact or what I've seen
Speaker 5: so far that a four man pressure that the Cowboys
Speaker 5: can get four men pressure. I really think if they're
Speaker 5: gonna get pressure on him consistently, they're gonna have to
Speaker 5: bring it from a lot of different places. They're gonna
Speaker 5: have to blit some linebackers. The're gonna have to bplit
Speaker 5: some safeties, They're gonna have to blit some cornerbacks. Like
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna have to do other things in
Speaker 5: order to get them off because I don't think there
Speaker 5: is a or at least I'll put it like this,
Speaker 5: I have not seen anybody that currently is projected to
Speaker 5: play if if Parsons doesn't that that would necessarily be
Speaker 5: able to have that. I have confidence in that they
Speaker 5: can get pressure one on one or even if they're
Speaker 5: facing a double team.
Speaker 8: Obviously, I will say the bright side of what the
Speaker 8: San Francisco offensive line, or at least what I've seen
Speaker 8: from them early on this season, is it's not really
Speaker 8: a complex It's not a complex thing that they try
Speaker 8: to do. Remember, they're polling guys. They do not have
Speaker 8: success pulling guys. And there was one play in the
Speaker 8: Kansas City game where they were trying to pull the
Speaker 8: left guard you said, Banks and the tight end Eric Saubert,
Speaker 8: who was in this building for a little bit last year.
Speaker 8: They tried to pull them both to the right side
Speaker 8: to clip off Carloftis, and Carl Loftis just ran right
Speaker 8: around them, wasn't even touched and got to perty.
Speaker 7: So I mean there's.
Speaker 8: Multiple instances of them trying to pull guys and it
Speaker 8: just not working. So it's not like this depth unit
Speaker 8: for the Cowboys pass rush is going to see anything
Speaker 8: too complex.
Speaker 7: They just need to get home. I think there's gonna be.
Speaker 8: A lot of one on one opportunities, but you just
Speaker 8: have to see as time goes on.
Speaker 3: Let's talk to talk about Jordan Mason.
Speaker 5: He right now is has six hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 5: yards on the season, a five point two average per carry,
Speaker 5: ninety five yards per game on the ground. He is
Speaker 5: coming well for them in the absence of Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 5: What does he do well and what are the things
Speaker 5: at Dallas or what can Dallas do to maybe slow
Speaker 5: him down?
Speaker 2: Okay, San Francisco's running game is going to come from
Speaker 2: underneath center. Okay, and you've played this will be the
Speaker 2: fourth team. You've played three other teams that play under
Speaker 2: center more, you've played the Lions, You've played the Ravens,
Speaker 2: and you've played the Lions. What's all the common thread there?
Speaker 7: Saints?
Speaker 2: Sorry, Saints, not the Saints. Yeah, the Saints.
Speaker 3: That was a disrespectful later the common thread.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: This is whatever Heason about to say.
Speaker 2: See, that's that's the problem, because you're gonna get you're
Speaker 2: going to get a You're going to get them playing
Speaker 2: underneath center seventy six percent of the time, and that
Speaker 2: means that's when that's when Mason's going to get the ball.
Speaker 2: So San Francisco's running game is from underneath center. They
Speaker 2: do it with a lot of different You mentioned about
Speaker 2: the movement and the pulling and stuff like that. They
Speaker 2: do it with yuscheck. He's been unmoved by far more
Speaker 2: than any time in his career. You've got to follow
Speaker 2: forty four. You got to follow these tight ends. You
Speaker 2: got to follow Kittle. Those are guys that will kind
Speaker 2: of tell you where. It's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 2: blocking back. It's gonna be a lot of pulling this back. Though.
Speaker 2: I feel like he leads the league and broken tackles.
Speaker 2: I think he's got fifty one of them, which leads
Speaker 2: the league. He's got nineteen explosive runs of ten yards
Speaker 2: or more.
Speaker 7: He has a run of at least twenty yards in
Speaker 7: all but one game.
Speaker 2: Yay. Yeah, just to give you exam, Just to give
Speaker 2: you an example, that guy at the Ravens has seventeen.
Speaker 2: You know. So this is what you're dealing with right now,
Speaker 2: is with an explosive back, it's gonna be from underneath center.
Speaker 2: It's going to be to the outside. Generally, they don't
Speaker 2: run the ball in the middle as much as they
Speaker 2: run it on the edge. Their running game is they
Speaker 2: try and get you to defend the whole field. They're
Speaker 2: going to play you sideline to sideline, but their running
Speaker 2: game is predominantly on the edges, so you've got to
Speaker 2: be ready for that. They face a ton of loaded box.
Speaker 2: Dallas is fourth best in the league when it comes
Speaker 2: to loaded box. Loaded box, the extra defender, the eighth
Speaker 2: defender down in that loaded box. Dallas plays it a lot.
Speaker 2: They don't have success playing it. That's your issue right there.
Speaker 5: So you would say that worries you if they have
Speaker 5: eight guys down the box and they don't have and
Speaker 5: they still can't stop Dallas.
Speaker 2: Dallas is one of the worst tackling teams in the league.
Speaker 2: They're they're They're well over sixteen percent miss tackles this year.
Speaker 2: Last year they were at eight percent, which was only
Speaker 2: it was tops in the league. Last year. They were
Speaker 2: much better tackling team than they are right now. But
Speaker 2: they are about sixteen seventeen percent misstack.
Speaker 5: What would you attribute that to because there are a
Speaker 5: lot of guys on this team that are the same
Speaker 5: guys from last year, with the exception of guy that
Speaker 5: you thought should have improved that in Eric Kendricks. What
Speaker 5: would you attribute that to?
Speaker 8: You have an idea on this one, Yeah, this is
Speaker 8: I think I think health has definitely played a key,
Speaker 8: but I miss tackles is a tough one to pin.
Speaker 2: Marque spell not playing, I think really hurts you a
Speaker 2: little bit because he's a guy that's good tackling. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a good tackler, and they haven't had that. You know,
Speaker 2: we've seen uh, we've seen Hooker, we've seen Wilson, we've
Speaker 2: seen linebackers. You know, Kendricks is for the most part,
Speaker 2: has done uh, you know, a pretty decent job. But
Speaker 2: he's had some missus. Overshown's had some missus.
Speaker 7: Mary Diggs.
Speaker 2: Diggs has had missus, Marris has had missus. They've had opportunity.
Speaker 2: The problem is they've missed tackles and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of teams running the football against them. You know, that's
Speaker 2: that physical aspect of you're dealing with backs. You're not
Speaker 2: dealing with receivers. You're dealing with you know, you're dealing
Speaker 2: with Alvin Kamaras and and you know the guy at
Speaker 2: the Raven's Henry, and you're you know, you're dealing with
Speaker 2: that kind of a back and it makes it tough
Speaker 2: on these defenders to have to make those tackles getting
Speaker 2: you know, the getting position, and they don't get they
Speaker 2: don't finish like they absolutely should. But this will be
Speaker 2: a problem this week because to me, if I'm the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, I'm not interested in throwing the football.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to see how committed you
Speaker 2: are to playing the run. And if you do play
Speaker 2: stack box with the eighth defender down in there and
Speaker 2: you're not very good at it, you're not giving me
Speaker 2: any confidence. You could stop me from running this football.
Speaker 5: So if Deebo who is just was released from the
Speaker 5: hospital yesterday, so we don't know what his status is. Uh,
Speaker 5: Jennings prospect, Jennings was out last week, so we don't
Speaker 5: know what his status is. Obviously Ayuk is out. What
Speaker 5: are the who are the offensive skill players outside of
Speaker 5: Mason and Kittle that when we come in on Monday
Speaker 5: we may be talking about, like this guy was their
Speaker 5: difference maker. This guy was the guy that that we
Speaker 5: didn't talk about, but we think he can be.
Speaker 2: I'll throw a name out there, Ricky Piersaw. I think Ricky.
Speaker 2: He's the he's the young man that got shot in
Speaker 2: the chest and crazy and and now is back playing
Speaker 2: and last week was his first game. I believe they
Speaker 2: drafted him to take Brandon Ayuk's They they talked about
Speaker 2: trading Brandon Ayuk during the during the spring, and they
Speaker 2: couldn't really pull it off. I think they drafted Ricky
Speaker 2: Pearsaw to be that guy. I could see Ricky Pearsaw
Speaker 2: playing in the slot lot more in this snk uh
Speaker 2: and making up for those Brandon Eye the reps that
Speaker 2: he takes over there. But I have confidence that Jordan
Speaker 2: Lewis can take care of Ricky Pearsow. You know, I
Speaker 2: bet if you want to mention a name, Jacob Cowing
Speaker 2: is a guy that for some silly reason, they've tried
Speaker 2: to throw him the ball. He made a big play
Speaker 2: in the in the Kansasity game. It was forty one
Speaker 2: yard reception that he had down the right sideline. A. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he's kind of a quick, shifty kind of a player. Uh,
Speaker 2: they like I say, they don't. If I anticipate Deebo
Speaker 2: Samuel playing, I'm sorry, I just do. I think he's
Speaker 2: going to They're going to iv up all week and
Speaker 2: you know they're going to get him. He might not practice.
Speaker 2: But this is the problem you get into with Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 2: It's like they put him in the backfield and they
Speaker 2: actually hand him the ball. They haven't thrown him the
Speaker 2: ball as much as they have in the past. Uh
Speaker 2: they usually like he's only had one target this season
Speaker 2: where they've thrown him the ball of the backfield. Everything
Speaker 2: else has been a run. But I anticipate him playing
Speaker 2: in this football game. I just don't. I don't. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe I'm wrong about pneumonia, but I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like the fact that he got out of hospital early
Speaker 2: enough that they might be able to get him well
Speaker 2: enough to play that scares me a little bit.
Speaker 5: The question for me on him debo is are they
Speaker 5: able to give him a large dose of plays coming
Speaker 5: off pneumonia, Like does he have the lung capacity to
Speaker 5: be able to Because I think this is a game
Speaker 5: where if you look at it and look at the
Speaker 5: history of the forty nine ers, they'll have games like
Speaker 5: this where they have guys that are not in that
Speaker 5: are compromised and they're like, all right, this is gonna
Speaker 5: be a debo game, and they just load him up,
Speaker 5: they throw it to him, they run, they do a ton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but my question is, like my thought with Corinda.
Speaker 5: I don't know if Yeah, I don't know if they
Speaker 5: will be able to do that with him coming off pneumonia.
Speaker 5: Maybe he is capable of doing that, but I just wonder,
Speaker 5: like coming out, if you had pneumonia bad enough where
Speaker 5: you had to be in the hospital, my guess is
Speaker 5: that your lungs aren't.
Speaker 3: At full capacity to be able to maybe run a
Speaker 3: full I.
Speaker 2: Always expect the worst, you know, when I'm playing somebody, and.
Speaker 5: Because it isn't happen like that, Yeah, everybody gets ready
Speaker 5: for the count.
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, he's in the hospital on Sunday, and
Speaker 2: then you know, and then and then the fallowing Sunday,
Speaker 2: he's nine receptions for one hundred and twenty seven yards and.
Speaker 3: A touchdown, Aaron Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just you just there. They are compromise, And
Speaker 2: I think Nick's right about this offense though. It's gonna
Speaker 2: come down to can you stop Jordan Mason and and
Speaker 2: and can you also handle George Kittle and can't? And
Speaker 2: you also got to be ready for the Kyle us
Speaker 2: check wheel route up the sidelines where all of a
Speaker 2: sudden he's blocking, blocking, and then he goes up the
Speaker 2: sidelines and you know, the Chiefs did a really good
Speaker 2: job the one shot. I guarantee you they're going to
Speaker 2: take a wheel route shot with Kyle us Check playing
Speaker 2: full back and sneak him through up the sidelines and
Speaker 2: see if they can hit him.
Speaker 3: He just love time.
Speaker 8: I do, I do, and this is my favorite one.
Speaker 8: He has a season high in receptions last year with
Speaker 8: four against Dallas. He had the touchdown, but not only
Speaker 8: as a as a passing weapon. They get really creative
Speaker 8: with him and run block as well. They'll do some
Speaker 8: lipky things with him. Well, they'll line him up at
Speaker 8: tight end. They'll have to cross the farm well enough,
Speaker 8: exactly right, he's the originator. They'll have him crossing the formation,
Speaker 8: kind of pay some running lanes on the edges. I
Speaker 8: think if in this game with Jordan Mason specifically, if
Speaker 8: you can contain the edge, you can seal the edge
Speaker 8: and keep him between the tackles, I think you can
Speaker 8: find some success against this running game. It's it's gonna
Speaker 8: get its production. It's gonna happen. But I think if
Speaker 8: you can keep it between the tackles. I think you
Speaker 8: can manage what happens out of that.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to take our final break when
Speaker 5: we come back. I'll have a couple questions for you
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Speaker 5: I got a couple questions for you guys about Dallas
Speaker 5: defense uh, And I really want you to think about
Speaker 5: this question because I think there's one answer that's very
Speaker 5: apparent after the conversation we've had.
Speaker 3: But I really want you to think about it.
Speaker 5: What can this defense do more or better to have
Speaker 5: the greatest impact. The two options are tackle or discipline
Speaker 5: on their assignments.
Speaker 7: Tackle. For me, it's tackle.
Speaker 3: You didn't do what I ask you to do. Ask
Speaker 3: you to think about it.
Speaker 7: Tackle I was like, what did I miss here?
Speaker 8: No tackling and discipline on assignments definitely, But I mean
Speaker 8: there was multiple occasions in these games that they've lost
Speaker 8: or they're just not getting guys down on first contacts.
Speaker 8: I mean, you see how many yards after contact that
Speaker 8: they're giving up. It's like, come on. I mean the
Speaker 8: way that opposing offenses have been able to sustain drives
Speaker 8: have been a key contributor from misstackles they got to tackle.
Speaker 2: But give the listeners your theory on why on how
Speaker 2: you would play your edges this week?
Speaker 8: Okay, ye, with the edges this week, I would want to,
Speaker 8: like I said before the break, if the edges can
Speaker 8: contain the running game and keep things between the tackles,
Speaker 8: I don't have a ton of trust in that interior
Speaker 8: for San Francisco to be able to sustain drives with
Speaker 8: the running game. So if they can keep Jordan Mason
Speaker 8: between the tackles, I'm completely okay with telling these defensive vents. Hey,
Speaker 8: let's overcompensate for sealing the edge on the runs.
Speaker 7: Let the interior.
Speaker 8: Focus on generating pressure on Party. Let the linebacking corps
Speaker 8: focus on you know, situational blitzing on getting to Party.
Speaker 7: I want these edges focusing on the run game. One
Speaker 7: that would be mine.
Speaker 2: I guess if you could give me a choice for
Speaker 2: this particular game to how to handle and and maybe
Speaker 2: maybe San Francisco will be stubborn and continue to try
Speaker 2: and throw crossing routes after watching Detroit dis dismantle you
Speaker 2: throwing crossing routes. Safety play has got to be better
Speaker 2: here too, you know. I mean, if you tell me
Speaker 2: tackling discipline better safety play, I give you the better
Speaker 2: safety play. Right now, you're getting killed in the middle
Speaker 2: of the field. You just are. And you know, somehow,
Speaker 2: some way that you could be like a Kansas City
Speaker 2: And I know that's a two time Super Bowl champion team,
Speaker 2: but man, their safeties and the way they play the
Speaker 2: way they drove on balls, the way they the defensive line,
Speaker 2: tip and balls. I mean there were guys open ball,
Speaker 2: you know, tip they had Are you kind of drop
Speaker 2: Dallas will never be as that lucky. I mean, Kansas
Speaker 2: City caught some luck in that game with some of
Speaker 2: the things that happened with through the health of the
Speaker 2: of the forty nine ers, but they also caught breaks
Speaker 2: with tip balls on defense, and they caught breaks on
Speaker 2: guys dropping balls or not be in a good position
Speaker 2: to catch a ball. Ricky Piersoll inside route and he's
Speaker 2: kind of getting mugged. And you know, Dallas never gets
Speaker 2: that kind of a break.
Speaker 5: Between Between Wilson and Hooker, which of those two do
Speaker 5: you need more from.
Speaker 7: In the passing game? Hooker hooker and hooker game? Hooker
Speaker 7: by far?
Speaker 2: I mean to me, I think, you know, Wilson can
Speaker 2: lower the boom and you know, create problems physically, but Hooker,
Speaker 2: he's got to put himself in better position. Read it quicker,
Speaker 2: drive on it, man. I've seen him. I've seen him
Speaker 2: make plays like that, like read it the right way.
Speaker 2: Drive Kansas City did that? You talk about the interception?
Speaker 2: Here comes Kittle on the cross. They aren't even thinking
Speaker 2: about Kittle. They're driving to a spot because they know
Speaker 2: that's where the ball is going to end up, and
Speaker 2: they get an interception off it, you know, and you're
Speaker 2: like going, well, I wish Dallas' secondary or safeties would
Speaker 2: have that kind of awareness, that kind of vision, and
Speaker 2: then that kind of finish right there.
Speaker 6: Well, between the two, tackling or discipline, I would agree
Speaker 6: with the tackling aspect of it. I think there's a
Speaker 6: whole sense. It's a whole different energy that comes when
Speaker 6: you tackle well and you set the tone, you're aggressive,
Speaker 6: you show that hey, I'll make you rethink that next
Speaker 6: time on the next play because you're about to get
Speaker 6: hit and I and we've seen it, just like Nick
Speaker 6: mentioned so many times that the yards that come after
Speaker 6: the contact, it's it's absurd. So I think that you
Speaker 6: have to start setting the tone that way and show
Speaker 6: that you are an aggressive team. And I think that
Speaker 6: right now this season, I mean there's been there's been moments,
Speaker 6: like we've seen overshown moments that you're like, WHOA, that's
Speaker 6: I love that guy. He's shown that. Maris I think
Speaker 6: he has that aggressiveness in him as well, We've seen
Speaker 6: it with Kendricks too, and Jordan Lewis. Can everybody just
Speaker 6: play like Jordan Lewis right now? He sees I mean,
Speaker 6: he has that fire and that aggressiveness in him that
Speaker 6: I think should be contagious. And everybody else I think
Speaker 6: you bring that and he just changes the dynamic overall
Speaker 6: and better plays come from that.
Speaker 2: To your point, Ambar, I mean we talked about Mason
Speaker 2: and his ability to break tackles. I looked this up.
Speaker 2: He's had four hundred and sixty five yards after contact,
Speaker 2: you know, and I mentioned about forty nine ers run
Speaker 2: after catch or yards after catch. They're near the bottom.
Speaker 2: Don't let them all of a sudden figure that out
Speaker 2: against You make tackles. Get these guys down if they
Speaker 2: catch the ball, get them down. If it's a six
Speaker 2: yard gain, it's a six yard game. Don't was a
Speaker 2: six yard gain turn into an eighteen yard game. You know,
Speaker 2: find a way to get these guys on the ground.
Speaker 2: But man, they're going to have their hands full with
Speaker 2: this runner. For sure.
Speaker 7: A lot of these teams right a fok in the road.
Speaker 8: A win for either of these teams could be a
Speaker 8: big confidence booster for the second middle part of the season,
Speaker 8: no doubt.
Speaker 3: All Right, we appreciate you guys, Jones. We're back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We're going to dive into the San Francisco defense, really
Speaker 5: good unit that the Cowboys will have to face, and
Speaker 5: the Cowboys offense and what things they may have to
Speaker 5: do in order to maybe get back on track and
Speaker 5: get a little more consistency in what they're doing.
Speaker 3: Score in the red zone. We'll talk about all that tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Till then for Nick Harris, Brian brought us Namburcarcie. I'm
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