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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, January third, twenty nineteen, Season fourteen, episode
Speaker 1: number one oh seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC Morta Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. We're talking Cowboys football today. We're talking Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Seattle Seahawks. Big playoff game for this weekend, the
Speaker 1: wildcard weekend in the NFL. Cowboys will play the Seahawks
Speaker 1: this Sunday, I mean, I'm sorry, this Saturday night at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium. We will spend quite a bit
Speaker 1: of the show today with Dave giving us his scattered
Speaker 1: report on the Seattle offense. We talked about the defense ester,
Speaker 1: we talked about the offense the other day. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about defense today. How's everybody doing today? Great? Yeah, awesome,
Speaker 1: Let's jump right in. Let's talk about this injury report
Speaker 1: there were two guys that did not practice. Both did
Speaker 1: not practice on what would have been I guess I'm
Speaker 1: confused on Friday, on Wednesday, what would have been a
Speaker 1: Thursday with David Irving and Xavier seue Philo. Are you
Speaker 1: guys at this point thinking that Xavier suel Philos is
Speaker 1: unlikely to play due to the fact that he has
Speaker 1: not practiced this week? At this point, I am yes,
Speaker 1: because it's Friday in Cowboys world at least, and he
Speaker 1: is not at practice. Jason Garrett also said today that
Speaker 1: he is not going through the walkthroughs, So he's not
Speaker 1: even doing not even doing walkthrough just to know what
Speaker 1: his mental reps. Yeah, to me, suggests that he does
Speaker 1: not have a very high likelihood of playing in this game.
Speaker 1: How concerned are you, Verry? He's way better than Connor Williams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hunter Williams did not play well in that first game
Speaker 1: against Yeah own, hopefully he's better, you know, better player.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't think it's a coincidence the
Speaker 1: team started winning once they put him in. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not just Cooper. He was a big part of it.
Speaker 1: And so I think he's a better player, and I
Speaker 1: would like to see him out there more than Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: Yet you want to have a few things that are
Speaker 1: different than that first game because they kind of kick
Speaker 1: your ass the first time around, so you want to
Speaker 1: have some things that are different. This is a noticeable
Speaker 1: difference to me, and him not being out there is
Speaker 1: a big deal. They will talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: that defense, but in that last game they were able
Speaker 1: to hit. They hit Dak ten times and they they've
Speaker 1: sacked him five times, So a defensive front, they had
Speaker 1: some You with the whole turnover thing. He didn't throw
Speaker 1: an interception, they didn't let the ball the ball lose
Speaker 1: and that's a big thing with him when he comes
Speaker 1: to plane. So I'd be interesting, a curious to see
Speaker 1: if he can do that. It managed to do that
Speaker 1: again with more struggles on the outline. We're talking, we're
Speaker 1: talking Dac right now. Yeah, he had he had two
Speaker 1: turnovers in that So y'all game two. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like the last game. Oh no, Yeah, he's been great
Speaker 1: at ball security the last two weeks in Seattle. No,
Speaker 1: not so much, which we'll get into it. What has
Speaker 1: given the Cowboys problems this year? Interior pass rushers and
Speaker 1: Seahawks have a good one. So yep. They fumbled twice
Speaker 1: in that game against Seattle. Zeke did Dako just throw
Speaker 1: two picks? Yeah? And both of the interceptions they were
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah they were. They were kind of free
Speaker 1: plays a little bit. But but you know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you put the ball in the wrong place, that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff ends up happening. And certainly on the second
Speaker 1: when you could make the argument that he probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have made that throw into that particular coverage. But I
Speaker 1: will say, in defense of Connor Williams, I would much
Speaker 1: rather have a healthy Zavier suea Philo. But he's not healthy.
Speaker 1: So I think I said that yesterday. I think I'd
Speaker 1: rather have a one hundred percent healthy Connor Williams than
Speaker 1: a Xavier sue Philo who you know, can't put any
Speaker 1: weight on his foot. And I don't think that's that
Speaker 1: That sounds like a recipe for trouble to me. Um,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it's definitely concerning, but you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta make do. And in times like I keep thinking, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, he's gonna play. They're just gonna wrap
Speaker 1: the crap out of that ankle and just wrap it
Speaker 1: and wrap it and wrap it and help it. You
Speaker 1: row him in there, but the crap out of that ankle.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, though, how often do we I mean,
Speaker 1: every it's a very it's a common theme on our show,
Speaker 1: and like he's gonna play like they're shoot it up,
Speaker 1: wrap it up, shoot it up, get him out there.
Speaker 1: But every now and then you come up against the
Speaker 1: problem that you can't do that with and just can't
Speaker 1: fix it, can't rule him out. But if he I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not even going through walkthroughs, that to me suggests
Speaker 1: that they are preparing Connor Williams to have to play
Speaker 1: this game because if nothing else, to walk through, make
Speaker 1: sure that mentally you know what right to do so
Speaker 1: that when you are healthy, if there's a game time decision,
Speaker 1: you're a guy, if you're a guy that can you know,
Speaker 1: tape it up and shoot it up, then then you're
Speaker 1: probably going through walkthrough And they're like, all right, you
Speaker 1: can't practice, but let's make sure you know your assignments, right,
Speaker 1: That's not the case here, So all right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of the guys that were limited. Dave. Yesterday
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tavon Austin being limited this week. He also
Speaker 1: is joined by Sean Lee, Zach Martin, Tyron Smith, Tyron Crawford,
Speaker 1: and Darien Thompson as guys that are limited. How concerned
Speaker 1: are you about that from standpoint of Tavon Austin and
Speaker 1: what you talked about yesterday him being limited this week
Speaker 1: when last week he was full. We actually so I
Speaker 1: asked Jason Garrett about it today in his press conference.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, he's coming back. He came I think,
Speaker 1: Garrett said, he played fifteen snaps. He kind of came
Speaker 1: out of that, you know, favoring it, trying to you know,
Speaker 1: listen to your body type of deal. He was at
Speaker 1: practice today, he was fielding punts today, he was taking
Speaker 1: part in things. So I guess that's a good sign.
Speaker 1: And Jason said they're optimistic about his availability for the weekend,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Now. Most of the guys on this
Speaker 1: list of limited are guys that are kind of been
Speaker 1: a similar boat from the standpoint of they've been hurt,
Speaker 1: they they're veteran players, and it made me wonder if
Speaker 1: this is more just one of those things where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're limiting them because we don't necessarily want to overwork
Speaker 1: them and practice their veteran players. We want them to
Speaker 1: be ready for game day. Take it. Tavan and Thompson
Speaker 1: are the guys that I'm watching in terms of their availability.
Speaker 1: Darry and Thompson strained his growing in practice yesterday. He
Speaker 1: wasn't he was out there, but he wasn't practicing. He
Speaker 1: was doing rehab. The other guys, I those are all
Speaker 1: those are veteran guys. It's not the same situation to you,
Speaker 1: Tavon as these other guys. I know, Zach's gonna play,
Speaker 1: Tyrone's gonna play, Tyrone's gonna play. Yeah, Derek, I mean
Speaker 1: that's standard injury procedure. Those guys are playing. I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna say it's a short week, but those three guys
Speaker 1: it hasn't been. Tyrone and Tyrone and Zach all didn't play.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do think the short week is, you know,
Speaker 1: it's something that they're trying to manage as well. I
Speaker 1: do think Tavan and Suafhilo are tied together on this.
Speaker 1: I think that if Sua Philo is going to play
Speaker 1: and then you need more offensive linemen. I think Tavon's
Speaker 1: a guy that maybe sits, but the fact that he
Speaker 1: was working on the punt return team as the punt
Speaker 1: returner on today's practice makes me think he's going to
Speaker 1: be active for the game. And if Darian Thompson is
Speaker 1: now limited with with what I guess as a growing injury,
Speaker 1: it's just happened. That also gives you if he if
Speaker 1: he ends up in a sea, make a decision that's
Speaker 1: he has been participating. But I could not definitively tell
Speaker 1: you what he's what he's done. He's special teams. That's
Speaker 1: what I was trying to figure out. Just now. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what what if he's been active. If he's been active
Speaker 1: and he can't play, yeah, Dry and Thompson, Um, I
Speaker 1: think that that he could be released and you put it,
Speaker 1: put a little guy out, put a lumbo or somebody
Speaker 1: that that can run down on Maybe possible if he
Speaker 1: is playing and he can't. I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's like what if we don't have him for the
Speaker 1: next game, Like, nah, you'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would agree with that, but he I mean, if they don't,
Speaker 1: he's a candidate to being active for sure. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and jump into this this Seattle offense
Speaker 1: that I'm Seattle defense killing me with this to all
Speaker 1: off of my days and everything. But let's jump into
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense. Obviously, the one thing that jumped out
Speaker 1: to me as I was looking back at the previous
Speaker 1: game to this game. It wasn't really I don't know
Speaker 1: that we talked about it enough on this show, how
Speaker 1: dominant their defense was, particularly in the first half. Catch this.
Speaker 1: In the first seven possessions the Cowboys had, Seattle held
Speaker 1: them to a three and out. Now, one of those
Speaker 1: was an interception on the third play, but five of
Speaker 1: seven possessions they had three plays and then they got
Speaker 1: rid of them and then Seattle took over. It's it
Speaker 1: was a in my opinion, a pretty stifling defensive front
Speaker 1: or defense that the Cowboys face, and the Cowboys really
Speaker 1: didn't find any answers to it until the second half,
Speaker 1: and that was still very marginal. Dave talked us about that,
Speaker 1: that Seattle defense, so well, I'm gonna sort of undermine
Speaker 1: what you just said, but this is just my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't want to make excuses, but
Speaker 1: like that, the main thing that jumps out to me
Speaker 1: from that game, and I'll throw the Carolina game in
Speaker 1: there is that it was just like it was off
Speaker 1: offensive execution, like unbecoming of the NFL. Basically, Like it
Speaker 1: was that it was atrocious, and it was so atrocious
Speaker 1: that I tend to put more of it on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys for just being bad than the Seahawks for being good,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I felt the same
Speaker 1: way about the Carolina game. Eight points, thirteen points, however
Speaker 1: many three and ounce what was their third down percentage
Speaker 1: in those games, Like those were numbers so far below
Speaker 1: the average of what you see in the NFL that
Speaker 1: I put more of it on the offense than the defense.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why you saw this team go
Speaker 1: out and spend a first round pick on Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: They're like, we cannot continue to play this way, like
Speaker 1: it's embarrassing, for lack of a better word, like that's
Speaker 1: what this team started out. And if you go back
Speaker 1: and look, I know he fumbled twice. Ezekiel Elliott ran
Speaker 1: for one hundred and twenty seven yards in that game,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like they couldn't get anything going. They
Speaker 1: were just so unbalanced. They could not protect ac he
Speaker 1: could not throw the ball. Oh no, I was just
Speaker 1: you asked the question, and I have the answer. Three
Speaker 1: of thirteen third down in that game, second worst only
Speaker 1: to Carolina. Embarrassing again, like just not like you play
Speaker 1: bad offense sometimes in the NFL. That was so bad.
Speaker 1: It's just it just was not professional football, at least
Speaker 1: not the standard that you come to expect from NFL teams.
Speaker 1: Weird that last week's was by far the best third
Speaker 1: down without your your you know, goal line running back.
Speaker 1: They found a tight end eleven of seventeen on third down.
Speaker 1: They have been so unbelievably better since they got Cooper,
Speaker 1: and it's not all it's not all Cooper, but obviously
Speaker 1: it has a triple down effect. Uh So I want
Speaker 1: to start you know, I don't want to take credit
Speaker 1: away from the Seahawks, but I kind of just basically
Speaker 1: did you did? Yeah? No, I mean, I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: but but but just to be clear, I don't think
Speaker 1: you're saying the Seahawks defense isn't good. You're just saying
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had as much to do with that poor
Speaker 1: performance as absolutely and and not like oh we can't
Speaker 1: we were shooting ourselves in the foot like no, like
Speaker 1: you didn't have players like straight up like you couldn't
Speaker 1: block them, you didn't have a receiver that could get open.
Speaker 1: That's Dak's picks were both volleyball to quote Nick, and
Speaker 1: that's because nobody could get separation on anything in that game.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all of that said, this is a good
Speaker 1: Seahawks defense. They're not the legion of Boom. Their middle
Speaker 1: of the pack statistically, and I think that's you run
Speaker 1: into a scenario where maybe the stats lie a little bit,
Speaker 1: like I think they're better than you know, Okay, they're
Speaker 1: sixteenth overall, seventeenth against the past eleventh and scoring decent.
Speaker 1: I think they're better than that, as evidenced by things
Speaker 1: like they have the fourth best red zone defense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have a better red zone defense than
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do, which we've been talking about how good
Speaker 1: the Cowboys red zone defense is all year. They get
Speaker 1: kJ They've got kJ right back, which is a big deal.
Speaker 1: They got two studle you pair him with Bobby Wagner.
Speaker 1: Right missed the first game with a knee injury. He
Speaker 1: missed the vast majority at the season, really, but he's
Speaker 1: been back for three weeks now. He appears to be
Speaker 1: playing like the same guy. Who was pretty good. Um,
Speaker 1: you've got a fourteen sack end and Frank Clark, you
Speaker 1: have Tyrant Smith fits in that first game, just absolute fits.
Speaker 1: Jaren Reid is a guy. How do you do you?
Speaker 1: Just like they? Is there a list somewhere on the
Speaker 1: internets like these are all the king I'm just saying
Speaker 1: all of them? Yeah, okay, coretty much. Well he's got
Speaker 1: ten and a half sacks, second round pick out of Alabama. Um,
Speaker 1: he is a ball, that's you know, the first game
Speaker 1: was in Week three. He hadn't really had a chance
Speaker 1: to establish himself. But he is well established. And this
Speaker 1: is this isn't the same Seahawks pass rush from years
Speaker 1: past where they went like eight deep. But those two
Speaker 1: guys concerned me specifically read because of how much trouble
Speaker 1: we've seen these these dominant interior pass rushers give the Cowboys. Um,
Speaker 1: so this is that's a huge number two and a
Speaker 1: half for an inside he has played. I know in
Speaker 1: that game he played outside a little bit because there
Speaker 1: was one sack that he got up against. He's a
Speaker 1: he's a versatile player. He can do both, but he's
Speaker 1: primarily played on the inside. Gotten a lot of his
Speaker 1: push from the inside too. Um, the front is really
Speaker 1: what concerns me here actually something to watch, uh there?
Speaker 1: Which you know again you manage guys in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I get that, But basically their entire secondary is on
Speaker 1: the injury report right now. We'll see what today holds.
Speaker 1: But Shaquille Griffin their best corner and Brad McDougald their
Speaker 1: best safety have not practiced yet this week. Didn't they
Speaker 1: have a safety earlier this week that was put on IR.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was a backup or special
Speaker 1: teams guy, but I thought, I remember you mentioning that
Speaker 1: sety that went on IR. It's not IR, guys. I
Speaker 1: just noticed that because it usually you'll see it on
Speaker 1: social media and then it just kind of pops into
Speaker 1: my head. But the last time we argued about this,
Speaker 1: I was wrong. I'm not I'm not making a definitive declaration.
Speaker 1: You tried to tell Hollins was out and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: he's right here on my sheet. Um, yeah, we don't
Speaker 1: trust that SAT anymore all the time. Tedrick Thompson is
Speaker 1: their de facto starter with with Earl Thomas obviously being
Speaker 1: long gone. He's at a Colorado He's on the injury
Speaker 1: report as well. He's not on injured reserve, he's limited.
Speaker 1: He's been limited this week in practice. So the front
Speaker 1: impresses me a lot more than the back, which is
Speaker 1: obviously not the case from previous years. And any I
Speaker 1: don't nick what you got nothing? Oh you're shaking your head? No,
Speaker 1: what is it like? There was a reason why there
Speaker 1: was a pause there, and I wasn't even going to
Speaker 1: look up and make eye contact with anyone, So I
Speaker 1: thought what Dave just said was going to be one
Speaker 1: of those moments, and I was trying to get out
Speaker 1: of it. So I have no idea what you're talking of.
Speaker 1: Good implied, No, it was good. I was trying to
Speaker 1: stay out of it. It's my fault the implier. Yes
Speaker 1: you said it, you said it, So I was just like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I don't even want to touch this. So I just
Speaker 1: stayed out of it. And now imagine I'm scared. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of the red zone again. I know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: had success with Blake Jarwin last weekend, but I'm concerned
Speaker 1: if they're gonna be whether they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: keep this up or not and actually do it once
Speaker 1: again in the red zone and with the other guys
Speaker 1: in you got Zeke and all these other tools, and
Speaker 1: also like using Dak running the ball. But like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: why were they in running defense and red zone defense?
Speaker 1: They're allowing a touchdown forty nine percent of the time,
Speaker 1: which is fourth best in the league. Cowboys are at
Speaker 1: fifty one. They're ranked seventh, and when the Cowboys played
Speaker 1: them before, Cowboys with thirty three. Cowboys only scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown on one of the three times that they were
Speaker 1: in the red zone. One time ended up an interception.
Speaker 1: I like it at all. I think you're at and hey,
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, do it again please because this could be
Speaker 1: a big week for it. It's gonna be interesting. You know,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett loves to say at the Seahawk they run
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's Chris for yards scheme. It's the
Speaker 1: cover three scheme that has taken the league by storm
Speaker 1: because it's been so popular in Seattle. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're famous for you like, we're just gonna play
Speaker 1: our guy. We're gonna play man up. You know, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna follow you all over the place. Although I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to see if that happens this week. Because
Speaker 1: Shaquille Griffin can play all over the field, did they
Speaker 1: try to shadow him with Amari Cooper because the rest
Speaker 1: of their dbs are banged up? Trays as he is
Speaker 1: as well? Yeah, Tray well, yeah, he hasn't practiced yet.
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers is their other corner, Like they don't they
Speaker 1: don't have the corner tandem that they're used to having.
Speaker 1: I don't think like the strength of this secondary is
Speaker 1: their safeties as certain. McDougall's having a great season. Obviously
Speaker 1: when Earl was there it was better. But so I
Speaker 1: wonder if they try to adjust that to recognize the
Speaker 1: fact that they are injured, that maybe they can't just
Speaker 1: play their man straight up the way they would prefer. Also,
Speaker 1: you bring kJ right back into this thing with um
Speaker 1: with Bobby Wagner, and now you've got two really good
Speaker 1: linebacker who can do a little bit of everything. It's
Speaker 1: obviously gonna make things tough in the running game, but
Speaker 1: the short passing game too. You know, you try to
Speaker 1: check down, which Dak loves to do with Zeke, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have two guys right there. And same thing
Speaker 1: for the tight ends. I hope Blake Jarwin can find
Speaker 1: some similar success because I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: tougher against these guys. I would think, though, that this
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense with Amari Cooper is better suited to be
Speaker 1: able to defeat a single safety high type team where
Speaker 1: the corners aren't across the board significantly better, because one
Speaker 1: thing we know about this offense over the last month
Speaker 1: two months of the season is in in an offense
Speaker 1: that's starting to find its way when it comes to
Speaker 1: hitting some of those deep balls downfield. When you got
Speaker 1: a single man downfield and there's one safety back, he's
Speaker 1: having to choose which side he's gonna go to, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to make the right read on the
Speaker 1: quarterback to be able to know where he's going. I
Speaker 1: think you can the Cowboys will have some opportunities. I
Speaker 1: also like the opportunity of Amari Cooper facing man a lot.
Speaker 1: If he's facing man coverage, I don't care who it is,
Speaker 1: even if it's it's Griffin. I think that he is
Speaker 1: good enough where he's gonna make some plays. I think
Speaker 1: they're much better suited to take advantage of that than
Speaker 1: they were the first time. Around one hundred percent and
Speaker 1: that's straight up. I mean, like that's why they couldn't
Speaker 1: do anything like they could not they could not beat
Speaker 1: what the Seahawks wanted to do. They could not force
Speaker 1: them to adjust, which is one why I wonder, Okay,
Speaker 1: how are the Seahawks going to handle this or they
Speaker 1: really they're gonna trust themselves to do that against Cooper,
Speaker 1: maybe they will play more zone than we're you're used
Speaker 1: to seeing. And on top of that, the other thing,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't really care,
Speaker 1: because that's why you brought Amari Cooper here in the
Speaker 1: first places. He's gonna have to make some place. This
Speaker 1: is I don't think. I don't think you can win
Speaker 1: this game with Amari Cooper having four catches for thirty yards.
Speaker 1: And really, I mean unless somebody else really steps up,
Speaker 1: really steps up, though, Like, no, I don't think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the way I look at that is if
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper forces Seattle to pay more attention to him,
Speaker 1: that creates opportunities for other guys. That's how you would
Speaker 1: win it. But it has to be those other guys
Speaker 1: stepping up. Yeah, I think it has to be other
Speaker 1: guys stepping up. If he doesn't. Somebody is gonna have
Speaker 1: to step up and do something greater than what they
Speaker 1: typically do. It could be a Maria. But if they
Speaker 1: say we're gonna take Amar away, somebody else is gonna
Speaker 1: have to be the benefactor of that. And guess my point,
Speaker 1: you're right, But I don't trust Blake Jarwin or Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop to Cole or Cole to blow up against this
Speaker 1: team on this stage. Like I mean, that's one thing
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Yeah, I haven't seen it on a
Speaker 1: consistent enough basis. I don't think you can take away
Speaker 1: Zeke and Mary Cooper. And if you do, then you're
Speaker 1: not a good team, that's the hope. You're just not
Speaker 1: a good offense. You're not. You don't have a good coordinator,
Speaker 1: you don't have a good quarterback, you don't have a
Speaker 1: good system. If you're if you get to the playoffs
Speaker 1: and you allow a team to take away your running
Speaker 1: game and your best receiver, especially when they're when they're
Speaker 1: fourth overall picks and there and they're supposed to be
Speaker 1: catalytic players like they are, I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: I don't think that you can take away both. I
Speaker 1: will say this though, that's that would be if you're
Speaker 1: a Seattle, that would be the beauty of playing single
Speaker 1: safety high. That means you got that extra safety down
Speaker 1: in the box that you can use to be able
Speaker 1: to help against the run, and you can shade your
Speaker 1: safety the safety that's deep, you can shade him till
Speaker 1: Maury's side to hopefully keep him in check. That's my
Speaker 1: point though. If you do that, then it's up to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to figure out. Now, if they're gonna play
Speaker 1: that way, how much can Beasley can get single? How
Speaker 1: much can Cooper beat you in man coverage? How much
Speaker 1: can dact because they're playing man coverage now, take some
Speaker 1: of those runs because everybody is preoccupied with the guy
Speaker 1: that they're holding, that they're trying to that they're trying
Speaker 1: to keep up with. How much can he turn that
Speaker 1: into a fifteen twenty yard rundown feel scramble? Right? That's
Speaker 1: where I think that again, if the Cowboys, if everything
Speaker 1: works out for the Cowboys playing against this kind of defense,
Speaker 1: I think they can actually do something this type of defense.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm fascinated to see how this running battle shakes out,
Speaker 1: because we already I mean, Wagner's Wagner and kJ writes back,
Speaker 1: and he appears to be playing like his old self.
Speaker 1: And we talked about their defensive line. It seems like
Speaker 1: they should be well equipped to limit the Dallas run game,
Speaker 1: but they are given up one hundred and thirteen yards
Speaker 1: per game, which is so so And we've already seen
Speaker 1: Zeke actually like he had a really good day against
Speaker 1: this team if he doesn't turn the ball over, if
Speaker 1: he doesn't step out of bounds. It was a mentally
Speaker 1: weird day for him. Like, yeah, it just seemed like
Speaker 1: he was off. That it was a game unlike any
Speaker 1: we've ever seen from him before, Like he just he
Speaker 1: put balls on the deck way like twice as often
Speaker 1: as he normally does. He stepped out of bounds on
Speaker 1: what would have been a touchdown. I've completely forgot about
Speaker 1: that until we started getting into this thing this week. That, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was weird. I think after that game, Nick phrased
Speaker 1: it as like he played his best game in his
Speaker 1: worst game at the same time. Yeah, like it was
Speaker 1: one of his worst games as a pro, in which
Speaker 1: he also really had a nice outing. So we've seen
Speaker 1: him do it before, can you do it again? I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's simplistic legs are rested up. It all. It
Speaker 1: all comes down to that for me. All right, Look,
Speaker 1: but you know dak is averaging two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: four yards per game since Cooper got here to seventy
Speaker 1: four to seventy four. Receiver makes a difference, not bad, right,
Speaker 1: but the receiver matters, the catcher matters. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's throwing. He's not throwing the stop. He's not throwing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to a win on this defense, I don't think.
Speaker 1: And they're not. They're not this jugger not But they've
Speaker 1: been here before and like a lot of those guys
Speaker 1: are gone, but a lot of them are still here.
Speaker 1: I mean, Wagner and Wright were there for the whole thing,
Speaker 1: like they get it, So I think Seek needs to
Speaker 1: be there. All right, We're gonna take our first break
Speaker 1: when we come back. I have a list of things
Speaker 1: that happened in that game, just observations from the first game.
Speaker 1: And what I want to do is I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: through the list, and I want you guys to tell
Speaker 1: me number one, if you think they will be the
Speaker 1: same or different, and how much you think they matter.
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Speaker 1: is the second segment of The Break live from the
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star, talking Cowboys and Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna go through a
Speaker 1: list of observations from the first matchup in Week three,
Speaker 1: verses the Cowboys versus and the Seahawks, and some of
Speaker 1: them it's pretty apparent there will be a difference. But
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me, if there is a difference,
Speaker 1: how much you think that difference will matter, or if
Speaker 1: it's not going to be a difference, and so you
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna make much of a difference, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's start with the first one. In that game,
Speaker 1: as Dave alluded to, the passing game for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: was very It was really not that good. Of course,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper was not a part of the team. Prescott
Speaker 1: went nineteen to thirty four, fifty six percent completion rate,
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty eight yards, one touchdown, twoptions, and
Speaker 1: then a fifty four point five quarterback rating. And by
Speaker 1: the way, that touchdown was a fricking handle. It was
Speaker 1: basically what it was was It was a it was
Speaker 1: what Actually one of our callers mentioned this a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. He talked about how in the red zone,
Speaker 1: maybe the Cowboys should think about a shovel pass to Tavon.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it was in that game. That was
Speaker 1: their only touchdown was a shovel pass to Tavon. I
Speaker 1: think they were at the three, I want to say,
Speaker 1: and he gets into the end zone. Exactly what Tavon
Speaker 1: could theoretically bring to this offense, not what he has
Speaker 1: brought to this offense. It's actually the only touchdown the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have scored against the Seattle Seahawks in the
Speaker 1: last three meetings. Wow, so you don't know that that's
Speaker 1: they did not score a touchdown last year? Field goal fest,
Speaker 1: Dez drop fest, ugly, ugly, ugly, and then twenty fifteen
Speaker 1: four field goals, Greg Hardy picked off Russell Wilson. Terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible game. So much so, how much of a difference
Speaker 1: do you think of Marii Cooper makes in this game?
Speaker 1: A big difference. I mean, go, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: snap count for the receivers in the first game, and
Speaker 1: I mean, Alan Hearns had forty one snaps. Last week
Speaker 1: he only had ten against the Giants. And I did
Speaker 1: have a nice catch, but only you know, and Deontay
Speaker 1: Thompson remember him twenty eight, Terrence Williams ten and guys
Speaker 1: that aren't doing anything. They're not playing any kind of football.
Speaker 1: Hearns sort of is. But but those three guys right there,
Speaker 1: he's not playing. He had ten snaps. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: that's how big difference it is, Michael gall that's from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of how they they literally they have shrunk
Speaker 1: this this rotation at the wide receiver not trying, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly excitements, but love that Kurt is a drop. They
Speaker 1: so literally they started the season with receivers that they
Speaker 1: have gotten rid of or down literally you know, quite literally,
Speaker 1: like they were like, we can these guys can start,
Speaker 1: and then by week six it was like these guys
Speaker 1: can't start right, And so that's where guys don't even
Speaker 1: need to be here, that's where that's where we are in.
Speaker 1: So I think that Cooper not only is a difference
Speaker 1: maker on offense, we've seen that. I think Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: is a different receiver as well. I think the combination
Speaker 1: of those two guys and the it's a little mensition,
Speaker 1: a subtraction of one Earl Thomas, it makes that whole
Speaker 1: passing game going on the list, Oh, I think it
Speaker 1: will make. It makes a difference because he is a
Speaker 1: wide receiver that can definitely get open or it's so
Speaker 1: good that he demands double teams that should theoretically help
Speaker 1: other guys get open, and it's just it's Earl Thomas
Speaker 1: not being on the team that actually on the list. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: I just said that Cooper just solidified the whole wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. And like they mentioned just now, back then,
Speaker 1: that's when the Cowboys still had a whole mess with
Speaker 1: the wide receiver. They don't know what that we're doing,
Speaker 1: just rotating everyone now, and that that was a problem
Speaker 1: because you don't really by not giving so many opportunities
Speaker 1: to one guy, they don't really have the chance to
Speaker 1: kind of light up and get going. So it changes
Speaker 1: everything not only for Cooper, but for the other white
Speaker 1: receivers as well. Okay, Zolan else see the name or
Speaker 1: hear the name Cooper and just think Cooper Rush. I
Speaker 1: used to not anymore. I need to like even a
Speaker 1: little bit Jonathan Cooper. That's who I think of. No,
Speaker 1: I like Cooper, Yeah, from Amari Cooper. I mean, you
Speaker 1: don't walk through I got to catch a flight later
Speaker 1: today and I'm going to walk through DFW Airport and
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be a ton of Cooper Rush jersey's
Speaker 1: hanging in the store. So there's gonna be a ton
Speaker 1: of Amari Cooper jerseys. Not my point. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: who's more significant. I'm just saying I still think of
Speaker 1: when I hear Cooper. I don't think of Amari guy
Speaker 1: because I say it most of the time, you just
Speaker 1: say it as one am Mark Cooper, Mark Cooper. But
Speaker 1: I just think Cooper. I'm thinking Cooper Rush or Jonathan Cooper,
Speaker 1: Winnie Cooper, Mari Cooper, I'mari Cooper. So Nick, you did
Speaker 1: mention Earl Thomas, So let's flip over to Earl Thomas.
Speaker 1: And yes, obviously Earl Thomas makes a difference. My question
Speaker 1: would be, though, and goes back to what Dave was
Speaker 1: saying earlier in the show, the secondary is not the
Speaker 1: strength of this defense. They've been doing it this year
Speaker 1: mainly with the fact that they have a good pass rush,
Speaker 1: They've got good guys down in the strenches, and their
Speaker 1: linebackers are really good. That being said, how much is
Speaker 1: a difference does he make in a defense where that's
Speaker 1: not really the best of what? Okay, here's what. To me,
Speaker 1: the difference will be that, for some reason is extremely
Speaker 1: lucky with defensive backs and linebackers who can't catch his passes.
Speaker 1: I mean, there should have been at least four or
Speaker 1: five more interceptions, three or four more pick sixes this
Speaker 1: year because he's thrown it right to people bad reads
Speaker 1: and he's been lucky in the sense that they've dropped
Speaker 1: it and Earl Thomas didn't. Earl Thomas caught one off
Speaker 1: a shoelace Earl Thomas caught ball that was deflected four
Speaker 1: times by Jarwin, So he's not there to catch those
Speaker 1: passes which other people to not catch. Which it is
Speaker 1: a valid question. I'm not trying to make fun of you, Derek,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, it's gonna make a difference that a
Speaker 1: generational talent is not in Seattle's secondary. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: that's fair to say. My question, though, was how much
Speaker 1: of a difference? Is this a situation where do you
Speaker 1: think it Well, I'm just saying, do you think that
Speaker 1: this is a defense that goes from being one that
Speaker 1: you just say, hey, I don't know that we can
Speaker 1: really pass very effect can expect to pass effectively against
Speaker 1: with him back there to one that I think we
Speaker 1: got opportunities when without him. That's my point, how much
Speaker 1: of a difference. I know that he makes a difference.
Speaker 1: We all agree with it, like we all agree that
Speaker 1: he's that he makes a difference for their team, But
Speaker 1: their defense has played well without him most of the year.
Speaker 1: That's no, and there's still a good defense. And that
Speaker 1: was the point I made, is all right, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is not passing them to a victory. I don't think
Speaker 1: like you're gonna need balance, You're gonna need the run game.
Speaker 1: So a difference, but just you know, they they have
Speaker 1: not fallen apart without him, but still a difference. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Let's talk about Zeke Elliott. That in
Speaker 1: that game, they obviously ran the ball signific fickantly well.
Speaker 1: Zeke had sixteen karas f one hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 1: yard seven point nine average, did have the mistakes. Do
Speaker 1: you think that we will see a different za, different
Speaker 1: Zeke this week? Do you think that with the addition
Speaker 1: of a guy like kJ Wright, maybe the running game
Speaker 1: isn't as effective as it was when they were in Seattle.
Speaker 1: I think you've got a better chance to have a
Speaker 1: more focused Ezekiel Elliott than he was in that game.
Speaker 1: And we're not talking like he was you know, space
Speaker 1: Mountain here. I mean just he's stepped his foot, stepped
Speaker 1: out of bounds. I mean, you know that he doesn't
Speaker 1: normally make a play like that, and he normally doesn't
Speaker 1: fumble either. You know, he had a chance to score
Speaker 1: another field goal or touchdown there on that drive. So
Speaker 1: I think he will just be a better player than
Speaker 1: he was, and he was pretty good that day. I
Speaker 1: agree with you. The combination of probably Connor Williams at
Speaker 1: left guard and then kJ Wright also being there worries me.
Speaker 1: It definitely worries me. And that's why I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. I think that's like the story of the game.
Speaker 1: And Connor, I mean, was playing in that game. And
Speaker 1: again I'm all for Suafila trying to that's a really
Speaker 1: good will to fread this thing out and maybe play.
Speaker 1: But I know you're right, Connor was in there. They
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and twenty seven yards. I think
Speaker 1: he's better. Yeah, I would hope. I would hope every
Speaker 1: player is better in Week eighteen than they were in
Speaker 1: Week three, especially a rookie. Um that's it's still dead.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the other thing too, Remember that was
Speaker 1: that up until Indy. That was their biggest deficit of
Speaker 1: the season. And your running back's not going to factor
Speaker 1: as much in the fourth quarter when you're down twenty
Speaker 1: four to six. So here's the thing. Hopefully they don't
Speaker 1: let that happen and he can have a role in
Speaker 1: the second half. Sick almost always has a good game.
Speaker 1: Like some are more noticeable than others. Some it's just
Speaker 1: one of those that they stop him in a few yards,
Speaker 1: but then at the end of the game, those yards
Speaker 1: just all add up and he's still a good game
Speaker 1: for Szik So as far as him and especially after
Speaker 1: being rested and he the energy there, the focus is there,
Speaker 1: So I have no doubt that he's gonna be good
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be able to do something for you,
Speaker 1: whatever that is. He's gonna do something in like twenty
Speaker 1: it's a great point in twenty nine NFL cities. Eighty
Speaker 1: five yards is like at a boy way to go
Speaker 1: and here Pittsburgh when Bell is there and probably La
Speaker 1: it's like eighty five that's all you had. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: didn't get a hundred day. Yeah, yeah, all right, it's
Speaker 1: like our final break. We'll come back. I have about
Speaker 1: four other things that were observations from the original well
Speaker 1: the first meeting between these teams this year. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about those when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: at the Star, Nick tell us a little bit about
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Speaker 1: and who did you bring up? Jack Prescott. So I'm
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Speaker 1: mail bams. Kidding? Okay, interesting neighborhood is all right, let's
Speaker 1: get back into this. I had some more observations from
Speaker 1: the game. I want you guys to tell me how
Speaker 1: much of a difference or how much you think they
Speaker 1: will be different and how much of a difference they
Speaker 1: would make in this game. Zeke in that game only
Speaker 1: had three catches for eleven yards and one thing that
Speaker 1: you would notice on the second half of the year,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have been very much have been a lot more
Speaker 1: intentional about getting him involved in the passing game. Do
Speaker 1: you think that will be a difference this week? And
Speaker 1: how much of a difference does it make in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys being able to win? Well, he was very involved.
Speaker 1: He actually could have had a lot more involvement there
Speaker 1: if you wouldn't have stepped out of bounds. That they
Speaker 1: actually had eight targets in that game. They just weren't
Speaker 1: connecting for whatever, you know, what I'm gonna go look
Speaker 1: at that if it's hard to think about now, the
Speaker 1: dude basically has eighty catches. But like we talked about,
Speaker 1: he was not part of the passing game. W he was,
Speaker 1: it was one yard in front of the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage with his back turned. And for the record, I
Speaker 1: still think they could utilize him more creatively as a
Speaker 1: receiver down the field, but it's hard to argue with
Speaker 1: the results. Yeah, he's a checkdown machine, but he turns
Speaker 1: those checkdowns into four or six, eight, ten yards, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna I think it's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: a role because Dak is probably gonna have to check
Speaker 1: it down. He's gonna need safe places to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: The big boys have kind of lowered it down as
Speaker 1: far as passing game and his involvement later in the season. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm about to give you a sat that you're not
Speaker 1: gonna like, give me a stat hit me all right?
Speaker 1: Before Cooper got here, twenty five catches for Zeke. I
Speaker 1: don't really have the targets here, but what twenty five
Speaker 1: catches and then since then in the last eight games,
Speaker 1: fifty two catches, So doubles in the last and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean down the stretch. These are the last eight
Speaker 1: games just in catches five seven twelve six five seven
Speaker 1: six four. That's all with Cooper there. So why does
Speaker 1: it feel like it's gone down? Though it doesn't to me,
Speaker 1: actually using him a lot in the passing game, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. To me felt like at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season they were using him a lot more.
Speaker 1: Maybe there were more mistakes and maybe that's why I
Speaker 1: noticed it a lot more. Well, another theory I would
Speaker 1: suggest is I think it's definitely fair to say he
Speaker 1: made more big plays in the passing game in the
Speaker 1: first half of the season. Detroit comes to mind. He
Speaker 1: scored on a screen against who was who would that
Speaker 1: have been? Touchdown? He had touchdown against Detroit, touchdown against
Speaker 1: at at Philly, and a touchdown. These are catches you
Speaker 1: touch at Philly and then New Orleans he caught. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so well no, so that's not even completely true. It
Speaker 1: felt he had big plays. He hasn't made as many
Speaker 1: big plays since Thanksgiving in my opinion, meaning like touchdowns
Speaker 1: or thirty yard games. But that's but go look at Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had a reception over nine yards
Speaker 1: in that game. But he just was consistently there, consistently
Speaker 1: moving the chains, and it might not be pretty, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly important, Bill that you point out. I was
Speaker 1: just pointing out that he had a thirty four yard
Speaker 1: or against Atlanta, but I kind of wanted Dave to
Speaker 1: just go with it. Yeah, oh, back down near the
Speaker 1: goal line, right either most of him. I remember, thirty
Speaker 1: four yard catch? How many? Yeah, it was a screen
Speaker 1: and he took it down into the red zone and
Speaker 1: they probably didn't score if I did it because Beasley
Speaker 1: dropped it right first drive of the game. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: How many catches did he have in that game? Seven
Speaker 1: for seventy nine. Yeah, So that's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: that's what they were doing in the latter part of
Speaker 1: the year when they were actually having a success in
Speaker 1: that little winning streak. I thought they got him very
Speaker 1: much involved in the passing game and he was making
Speaker 1: a difference. And that's what I've been waiting for since
Speaker 1: obviously really since the time that they drafted him, because
Speaker 1: when they drafted him, that's one of the benefits that
Speaker 1: actually I do well, I don't have his I don't
Speaker 1: have his target tallies from September. But I know over
Speaker 1: the second half of the or no month of December,
Speaker 1: he's second behind Cooper on the team in targets. You
Speaker 1: know who's third, Carlin Blake Darwin and targets, targets, targets.
Speaker 1: How about that? You know what the apples Darwin's um.
Speaker 1: Darwin's stats look a lot like Jason Witten's rookie year.
Speaker 1: He caught thirty five passes his rookie year and I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe twenty eight or of making a lot of
Speaker 1: comparison between those two lately. Did he break his jaw
Speaker 1: at any point? Not yet? Oh God, Jarwin, not trying
Speaker 1: to try. Jacket Jarwin? Is that world jacket jars? Oh
Speaker 1: gold jack gold jacket Blake, We're there yet, stop it?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you can't compare Wit his Witten number one,
Speaker 1: never had three touchdowns in the game, and he's never
Speaker 1: one Player of the Week exactly. Yes, get out of here,
Speaker 1: just over here, Slandering, one of the greatest players. We're
Speaker 1: almost at being the show. But I did want to
Speaker 1: at least get this one in obviously that last but
Speaker 1: her why because I'm something that Jason did to him?
Speaker 1: I won't say it on He's just buy her her.
Speaker 1: We have see Actually, y'all have another show tomorrow. I don't.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm like, we need to talk about the game.
Speaker 1: But y'allre like now, no, no, no, I'll just I'll
Speaker 1: text y'all my prediction tomorrow. Okay, So notice he's not
Speaker 1: gonna call in. Yeah no, no, four sheets, not no,
Speaker 1: not at eleven. I'll probably be hungover if I had guess.
Speaker 1: That's twice this week. Man, what can I say? It's
Speaker 1: this whole side of the table, the youths of today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go in the show tomorrow. We will get
Speaker 1: to that final question of how much the venue matters.
Speaker 1: Last time they were in Seattle, it matters a lot.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks haven't beaten somebody with a winning record all
Speaker 1: year on the road, Thanks Dave, Cowboys. Only loss at
Speaker 1: home is to a team with a winning record. That
Speaker 1: a playoff. You want to be on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to fit as much stuff, h It's important.
Speaker 1: The seahawks earner is good on the road. They lost
Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers on the road two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: oh four and twelfth, San Francisco. All right, it's important.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you, guys, John Us. We'll be back tomorrow
Speaker 1: for Nick Keaton, Dave Helm and Progressie. I'm Derek Eagleton.
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