WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Injury Bug 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.119 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:15.920 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.080 Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:19.960 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:20.759 Absolutely? 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.840 Ready for a break? 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.079 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.520 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:37.160 with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.160 It is Thursday, December fifth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.720 episode number eighty. Welcome to the latest edition of The 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.879 Break We Hear Live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.760 the Star, presented by LGLG is the world's number one 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:52.720 O led TV brand for eleven years in counting. See 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.760 why at LG dot com. Forward slash o leed Evo. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.040 Like Derek some money, some funds? Please? 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.480 Do I need to just do my cash? Yeah? And 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.839 just sayun your money if you'd like to get helped. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:13.280 Thought her discussions are outstanding. What you say, oh f 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:18.399 she was trying to do the old Yeah, what do 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.280 you know about what you know about that? What do 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.960 you know about that? Right? Hey, I'm trying to get 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.320 your art sold, That's what I'm trying. There no anywhere 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:30.320 this check. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:34.399 Out just off the rails of thirty check out check out. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.479 Her art show. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.080 More your football seconds to know what that was? 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.080 Sixty one year old man? 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.560 Wow, oh, I'm crying all right right here, Brian. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:49.600 Let's go. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:52.440 All right. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:53.960 That was a good, good laugh to start. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.520 Your boss looked at you. What do you know about that? 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:06.680 I'm literally crying right now. Well, okay, cowboy. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.640 How many pieces you got now that you're trying to like, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.000 I don't even say get rid of, but you're trying 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.520 to see if someone wants. 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.520 She's got some really good cowboy pieces too. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.120 I don't know. I I have some hanging around the house, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:20.560 and I rid of. 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.959 If someone wanted to buy it, Oh yeah. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.080 At the right price, right, But no, I still have 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.680 quite a few. I just thought I should probably start 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.280 putting it out there again because it's been a long time. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.680 It was like since before that was the one and 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.120 done I wanted. I did it for the experience, so I. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:43.560 Thought it was cool. The first time I ever went 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:44.720 to an arch show, and I thought it was cool. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.680 It was a lot of work put into it, so. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:52.240 Booze it up. Thought art shows are right, stand around, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:52.880 talk about it and. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.600 Drink Hey, you hooked me up with some wine. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.120 Yeah, Ben Glazier, Yeah, good deal. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.799 All right, let's let's talk some Cowboys for ball. We're 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.080 gonna talk about We got to catch up on some injuries. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.720 There are a lot of guys that although there was 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.120 no official injury report yesterday, there were lots of reports 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.880 that were coming out about different guys and where they 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:12.000 are as far as injuries are concerned. Then we'll get 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.720 into some discussions on the Cincinnati defense versus the Cowboys offense. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.960 We got some questions lined up from the fans that 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.440 we will get to and I would love to take 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.240 some phone calls, So give us a call eight eight 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.360 eight eight five five two two ninety seven. Again it 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.760 is eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.239 Our trusty producer Chris Ban will get you lined up 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.839 and uh, you can call us any time and we'll 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.760 jump on and take some calls. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.880 Sure we are full of jokes today. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.480 Yeah, wow, Okay, let's it. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.120 We'll just ring for forty five minutes. Let's go. Let's go. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.320 Let's catch up on some of these injuries. I'm gonna 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.200 throw out a name. You guys tell what you've heard 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.400 about them. Where with the where are we with DeMarcus Lawrence? 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:53.000 Uh? 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.600 Does not sound like he's gonna go this week. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.280 He did not have his practice window activated yesterday he 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.800 would have needed that, but continuing rehab work this week 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.760 and we'll probably be revisiting that come come Tuesday or Wednesday. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.400 All right, Zach Martin. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.120 Yeah, I mean I was. It's funny real quick. I 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.640 mean I was just happened to be walking down the 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.800 hallway and looked out there and just took it, you know, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.480 seeing how the weather was, and he happened to be 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.920 working out. But there was some good work. I mean 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.560 he it was Britt Brown and him are getting after. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.280 Britt will get after. We all know that. Yeah, so, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:28.680 but yeah, I was, man, I just from a scouting evaluation. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.560 I was really encouraged by the things that Britt was 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:32.880 kind of having Tom do as I was walking and 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.760 was watching the lateral drills and stuff like that. It 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.640 was very, very very promising though. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.040 All right, Zach Martin. 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.320 Zach Martin, it looks like they're just getting him back 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.560 on schedule. He did not practice yesterday, but taking that 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.440 veteran day as I think they're going to try to 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.400 be as as cautious as possible with him for the 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.560 rest of the season, and rightfully so. Yesterday was a 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.600 walk through, so it was very light day, so there 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.160 was no reason to put Zach out there. Today will 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.200 be the big threshold for Zach Martin, but I think 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.400 he's gonna be ready to go Monday. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.520 Nominated for Men of the Year award. 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.640 Sure did did outstanding achievement for him, As it is 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.200 for all the different teams they put out. Every team 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.840 will have one nominee from their roster that then makes 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.240 it to one of the thirty two and then they'll 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.880 have one winner for the entire league. So Cowboys have 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.839 now four or three. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.800 Four three three, Roger Staubach, Troy Aman, Uh and then 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.240 Dak And when Chase went won, Chase went, Chase. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.560 Went yeah, yeah, Okay, it's right. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.919 Four yeah, so Starbuck eight, Men, Witten, Dak got it. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.320 So they have four right now and Uh and Zach 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.880 Martin is the nominee for this year. All right, cool, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.320 let's talk about Trayvon Trayvon Dick. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.640 Sorry, I do walk by it. Really, That's the only 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.120 reason I knew. I walked by it every day, and 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:54.160 I'm like, oh there, Okay, Okay, Yeah, Uh, the fact 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:59.320 that he practiced I think was encouraging or they mock game. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.760 You know, I got fooled by that one time, the 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.080 old mock game, you know, thinking it was really a game, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.320 not it's it's bucket hats and shorts, but. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.600 Mock underware Olympics. 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.800 Yeah, but it was encouraged. Yeah, they did mock me. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:15.320 It was encouraging though that. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:16.919 He was part of that. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.359 So keeping an eye on there, keeping an eye on 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.240 that one. But they the fact that he at least 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.839 has been at least he was part of that was 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.960 something that they say that that was a step in 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.560 the right direction because they have the extra day. 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.039 Honestly, of all these names, that's the one that I 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.000 think is most critical this weekend. Obviously with the matchups 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.760 you got there on the outside, getting Trayvon Dicks back 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.599 will be huge I think for this week. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.000 Yeah, speaking of the cornerback position, they signed two guys 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.120 to the practice squad yesterday and Dee Delaney and Troy Pride. 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:48.440 Both of those guys have been in the league roughly 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.119 five six years. They worked at Xavier Howard, the former 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.280 All Pro for the Miami Dolphins, sounds that sounds like 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.000 a situation where the price would be a little too 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:00.359 high to to justify keeping him around for only five weeks. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.800 And it's not like there's a roster spot available, more 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:04.360 so a practice squad spot. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.680 So all right, catch me up on Amani or a war. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.000 Yeah, so he was had his practice window activated yesterday 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.160 back on the practice field and was he was. He 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.440 was moving around, you know, just like anyone else during 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.800 the Mott game. But not really sure as far as 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.360 availability goes. But that is a corner spot that they 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.040 will need with with Josh Butler going down, Kayln Carson's 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.600 gone on ir so it's kind of being left to 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.080 Keemon hall Amni or a warrier if he can make 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.480 it back, to try and figure out that other corner 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.920 spot opposite of Deron Bland if if Dix can't go, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.040 or if they need someone to come in in the 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:39.160 event of injury. 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.520 Right even if Diggs can go, you're gonna need that 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.760 other guy just to yeah, just have safety, some safety 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.000 in case in case of injury. 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.280 And also is Roe mkwamam I keep forgetting to factor 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.680 him and he's just kind of that chess piece you 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.120 can move around in the secondary. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.040 And he hasn't been bad either. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.680 I think I don't think what he is like. 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.520 He is a he's a guy's kind of a twiner 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.040 between corner and safety. But I think he's been fine 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.120 at the at the corner position. As much as they've 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:01.640 had to play him. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.880 I'm surprised they haven't valued him more, and not to 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.920 say that maybe they've just valued maybe that's the wrong word. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.040 I used him more, just because he is so versatile. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.360 We've seen him play multiple roles. We've seen him play 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.440 nickel outside safety when dan Quinn was here, we saw 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.440 him play in that kind of rover safety role that 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.800 jen Ron Curse got used to playing in. He's a 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.240 very versatile defender and he's good. He's a good defender. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.120 It's not like he's a liability out there. I think 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.160 there's been times in the past where you put that 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.400 depth corner out there, you put that depth dB up there, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.679 and you're like, oh, boy, hold on to your breeches. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.000 But this isn't I don't think it Israel mcwamu was 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:32.880 one of those situations. 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.000 The fact that he plays well enough in the nickel 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.960 at a slot and they could put Lewis on the 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.800 outside should tell you something a little bit, yep, because 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.200 usually trying to move Lewis out of the slot is 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.320 something you probably don't want to do very much. But 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.040 they've they've found a way though with mcwalmu to play 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.360 him inside a little bit and him be okay, and 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.480 that's allowed Lewis to play on the outside, which you know, 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.640 me personally, I hadn't seen Lewis play on the outside 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:56.760 since the Michigan days. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.640 Yeah, you know, I know, it's really wild to me. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.880 And you know, all of a sudden, Glenn like, yeah, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.560 you're seeing your guy out, You're seeing him, You're seeing 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.040 number two outside, and you're like, okay, they're doing this 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.200 just because they're really really banged up, but it's actually 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:11.760 kind of become something that they can go to. It's 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.319 a little bit of a change. Lewis playing on the outside. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.439 It seems like they're trying to attack him with a 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.280 vertical ball and he's like well, and you know, well 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.920 in step and hanging in there and so yeah, it's 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.840 but I think that says something about mccuamu because me personally, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:28.840 if I was a coach, I'd never moved Jordan Lewis 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.040 out of the slot. Just wouldn't do it. He's just 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.000 too good at that spot. But they've they've kind of 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:33.640 figured it out. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.319 As much as you guys evaluate talent for the draft show, 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.520 give me like it seems to me like the body 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.320 type of somebody like mccuam who typically doesn't do well 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.160 in the slot. Is that an accurate statement. 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.760 Yeah, it just takes that typically happened like that's that 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.920 seems rare. It takes those guys longer to move their bodies, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.640 and that you have to be able to move quickly 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.160 in the slot. You have to be able to carry 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:03.960 the field. Yeah, you got so that Bean Beyonce hips that. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:09.560 Pretty quick flexibility. Anyway, I would have gone with Shakura 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:11.880 either or either or. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.440 Like I never know, I gotta go. Look now, I 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.319 didn't realize she did. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.520 Their hips that this is this is Houston people. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.720 You know, people can't they're talking about No, it's not 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.079 that it's like I just that's not something I've ever 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.160 really heard about her. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:30.959 But I'm just I'll go. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:31.440 Check it out. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.359 Do you feel. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.440 That I'm not saying I'm gonna do anything. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.280 I just want to see. 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.040 Anyway, we're off the subject to get back to the subject. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.000 But that is I guess my point is with that 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.800 body type, is that tell you like he has a 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.960 little rare, rare ability there as a leggy guy. As 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:51.440 you mentioned. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.520 See, that's that's the problem ideally what you do when 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.080 you have tall guys. And Will Johnson, who will talk 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.719 about from Michigan is another one of these guys. It's 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.679 one of the highly rated corners. He's six two. People 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.360 will say, oh, he's a little bit leggy in his turn, 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.200 meaning it takes him when he pedals and then has 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.360 to turn. It takes in that to have to pick 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.760 up his leg instead of just flipping, you have to 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.040 pick it up and then get it go in the 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.000 right direction. So that's what that's what happens a little 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.360 bit what they talk about with Micuamu. He's a little 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.560 bit he's able to kind of stay in balance and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:28.600 then turn quickly to get to where he needs to be. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.600 So he's not as leggy as your normal six ' 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.520 two six y three type corners that. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.400 You see just another reason why it is a travesty 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:38.680 that Darren Woodson ain't in the Hall of Fame yet 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.160 at his size, not only leggy, but just a big 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.959 guy to be able to play the slot the way 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.439 he did for all those years. I mean, it's amazing 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.240 to me. He's not in the Hall of Fame. But 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:49.560 hopefully this is his year. 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:50.559 Huh. 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.080 Let's let's hope. So, I mean, what's weird to me? 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.040 I was at the super Bowl with him and his 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.800 wife after the after he you know, it was the 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.800 super Bowl. We were in Phoenix and he missed out again, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.000 and his wife and I we were both like cussing 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.960 up a storm right there in the terminal there in 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.240 Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. We're just cussing, cussing, cussing about 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.720 the thing. Darren walks up, like, what are you two doing? 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:20.080 Just stop? Stop this, you know. I'm like, why it's 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.000 a you know, and then I drop an F bomb 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.000 and say something about, you know, why he should be 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.320 I go, I was with Roy Butler he's not, you know, 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.160 and I was going on and on and on. His 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.480 wife's like, yeah, tell him, Brian, tell him what you know. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.520 But Darren's just like, man, just relax, both you relax. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.440 But that's Darren Woods who is That's I mean, he's 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.320 not going to make it about him. And you know, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.120 I was getting more mad than he was and so, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.760 but that's the kind of guy he is. He just 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.800 was like, Hey, it's fine, it'll be fine, don't worry 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.679 about it. Yeah, And I'm like, no, I want to 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.480 worry about it, you know. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.520 But extremely high character person. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.319 Really high character. My favorite player I've ever been around, 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.000 all the guys I've ever been around, my favorite player 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:00.440 by far. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.840 Absolutely all right, get this up on Tyler Guiden. What 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.200 are we hearing about him here? 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.079 In high ankle sprain? 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:05.280 There? 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:06.840 I would expect you when you don't go to start 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:07.960 on Sunday and that's. 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:09.960 High ankle sprain? Is that it for him for this year? 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.079 Because high ankle's brains take several weeks, right, Yeah, that's 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:13.480 not easy. 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.800 They're not putting him on on IR just yet. I mean, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.560 they haven't until Sunday just it would be still be Sunday, 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.080 right because it would be the game a day before 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.559 the game. They until Sunday to do that if they, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.360 if they feel it that's necessary. But yeah, it's definitely 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:26.200 not happening this week. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.600 Definitely not Yeah, but definitely a high ankle sprain, not 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.199 a regular ankle sprain. Or is that what we're just 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.120 kind of it. 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.200 Was very strange. It was very strange how he like 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.559 he got injured and you watch it and it wasn't 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.400 like he got rolled up on. It's almost like a 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.880 basketball injury where he stepped on it, stepped on scoon 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.480 Maker's foot and it kind of messed him up. But 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.160 he didn't get you know, your there and knee and 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.800 ankle and you you didn't see him get hit from 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.280 the side or rolled up on. It was just like 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.079 you know sometimes when a shooter goes up and they 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.080 come down on a defender's foot in it there. I mean, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.120 that's kind of I think what happened to him. And 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.600 then he tried to come back. They were playing with 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.680 the doga. They kicked a field goal or an extra 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.960 point and they had him in attack and he couldn't 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.840 put any weight on the left foot, you know, and 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.360 you're like going, okay, well now he has hurts, because 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.200 you could tell he was favoring it. 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They 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:58.320 are thirty thirty first in points allowed, but they're also 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.080 thirtieth in sacks. They're not getting a lot of sounds 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.240 with only twenty one when that being sick. That's what 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:05.920 I was going to say. Who is the best pass 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.679 rusher and what does he typically line up? 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.520 Yeah, it feels like Trey Hendrickson is about eighty five 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.159 percent of what their pass rushes and if he's not 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.560 getting home, there's not a whole lot elsewhere. He's leaving 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.680 the NFL with eleven and a half sacks, but everything 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:18.280 else crazy. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.520 Yeah, eating NFL and the team is thirty first. 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.879 And everyone else on the team he's nine and a 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.720 half combined. So yeah, that that pass rush has not 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.480 been a phenomenal. I've seen them line up more so 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.399 from the right side. I'll find the snap counts on 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:33.000 his right. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:34.920 Side, on the defensive their right side. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.920 Yeah, every one of his socks has been from the 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:41.639 right side. So my my gut feeling is it's a 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.600 chumadoga day. And so that's. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.000 Talk to me about that matchup. What you've seen from Chuman, 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:48.120 what you know Hendrix. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.240 This is where this is where Hendrickson kind of is 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:55.520 a problem is because he is capable. Some of these 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:59.440 guys are really good at just going outside outside, outside, outside. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.600 This guy does a really good job of setting you 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.840 up and he's not a get way up the field rusher, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.440 and then you push him past the quarterback guy he is. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.359 He's he he. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.760 He kind of You could tell he does film study 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.719 because he's rushing at the level of where the quarterback's playing. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.200 A lot of the time, like if a quarterback's a 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.560 little bit deeper of a dropper, you could see he adjust. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.520 If he's a little bit more shallow in the pocket, 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.159 you could see he's there. But he is going to 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.800 do He's going to rush off how he feels the 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:38.240 offensive tackles playing him So if a doga keeps white set, whiteset, whiteset, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:42.040 that thing's coming back inside. And he's strong enough and 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.600 he's got this this technique. And I know, Nick, if 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.960 you were saying when you watch him play hands, slap 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.120 and grab and pushing power, like yeah, when you try 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.280 and kind of sit when he when he's going to 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.240 get the edge, it's the edge. When he's going to 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.280 go inside, it's all power. He's like, Okay, I'm going 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.600 to take you to the quarterback. The Raider game, I mean, 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.720 he destroyed the Raiders. I think he had four sacks 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.399 in the game. It was crazy. But the Raiders were 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.000 struggling with their their left tackle spot and he just 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:16.000 took advantage of that. So Adoca's got to be ready 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.920 for that that he's going to always get to where 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.880 Cooper Rush is going to be. Don't if you think 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.280 you're going to push him past Heck, you might push 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:28.879 him into Cooper Rush because you know most. 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:29.840 Of you are going to be so flat. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:31.440 Yeah, he's gonna be so flat, and all of a sudden, 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.320 you're pushing him thinking he's going to he's going to 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.280 go by. Nah, you got to be You've got to 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.600 make sure, you stay with him, you just can't shove 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.600 him and hope that he's going to go to why 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:45.160 But he's also got to worry about the inside rush. 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:46.200 Here's the splits. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.199 He's played five hundred and sixty six snaps this season, 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.160 he has only played four. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:52.560 On the left side of the defensive line. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.560 So yeah, this is a pretty clear where he's going 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.359 to be. Yeah, yeah, I think I think of this one. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.920 This is the only guy I'm worried about on this defense. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.280 I would have said their linebacker and Logan Wilson, but 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.640 they just lost him for the season. Coming into this week, 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:07.760 they're gonna have some that they're gonna have some things 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:09.320 to figure out in that second level. He was a 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.800 really good run defender for them. But if I'm the 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:15.280 Cowboys offense, i am leaning on Rico Dabdle. I'm giving 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.080 him twenty twenty five carries and I'm saying, hey, you 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:20.080 need to go win the time of possession battle because 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.439 you need to keep the ball out of that offensive hands. 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.640 If they can do that, then it's why the Bengals 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.199 have had struggles this year is because this defense just 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.480 stays on the field and it shortens the game. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.879 And Nick makes an excellent point because I was curious 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.760 about their run defense. They're really good at the line 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:43.160 of scrimmage and behind the line of scrimmage, but teams 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:49.200 get yards after contact on them. So they've they're very 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.080 good at contact at or beyond or behind the line 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.600 of scrimmage. They just don't get the guy initially down 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.119 on the ground. That's the problem that they've struggled with 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.200 when the running game. Now, I'll tell you another thing, 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.119 and this is something I think is very very telling 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:07.080 about this defense running the football or running the football 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:12.439 against him. Six of their thirteen games they've they've the 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.800 opponent has rushed the ball thirty times. Thirty times in 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:20.080 six of their thirteen games. The Bengals record is won 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:22.720 in five. It was the only game they lost. The 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.240 only game they won was the Giants game. They won 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:28.560 that game seventeen to seven. But every other game where 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.600 the opponent has rushed the ball more than thirty times, 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:36.240 they've lost that football game. So you know, can you 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.760 with with no Logan Wilson him Jermaine Pratt. I think 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.760 Jermaine Pratt is an okay player too. For their linebacker, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:47.120 I think losing Wilson is really going to hurt them 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.560 in this situation because I kind of feel like, okay, 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.520 if Dallas gets into that mode where they you know, 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:57.400 and and Dallas has had their share of struggles running 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.400 the football we all see, but the last two weeks 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:02.480 they seem to have found something here. They seem to 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:04.800 have found a little bit of you know, with with rico' 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:09.240 daddle and his ability. But I'm with Nick, I'm committed 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:11.439 to running the football this game and seeing if the 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:12.920 Bengals can stop the run. 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.399 When you mentioned yards after contact, yeah, it appears to me. 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:18.040 And I don't have the numbers on this, I'm sure 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.520 we could probably look it up. It doesn't appear to 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.359 me that Dallas has a type of run game that 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:25.280 really drives on getting a lot of yards after contact. 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:27.159 Is that an accurate assessment? 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:27.800 And is so? 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:30.280 Do they have the ability to take advantage of this 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:32.480 perceived weakness for Cincinnati? 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:35.200 Yeah, I wouldn't qualify Rico Dawdle as a slippery runner 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:38.760 no physical Yes, and can fight forward for an extra 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.600 few yards you know, after contact. He's good about falling 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.440 forward rather than falling side or falling back. But I 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.399 wouldn't necessarily say this is an offensive running game that 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.440 is prone to missing tackles and making guys miss. 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:52.240 Just to give you a point of reference, because I 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:55.399 put it in my notes for my pregame show, and 0:23:56.040 --> 0:24:01.960 the Bengals have allowed thirty yards of yard of yards 0:24:02.000 --> 0:24:05.000 after contact in the running game, and just for a 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:10.920 point of reference, Dallas has allowed forty eight. So we've 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:14.440 all seen Dallas play and how it seems like, oh god, 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:16.600 it's just they can't get the guy on the ground. 0:24:16.840 --> 0:24:18.280 You know, the last couple of weeks they've done a 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.720 really good job on defense of getting guys on the ground. 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:24.840 The defense has but overall it seemed like, man, they're 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.399 not they're not They're not winning at the point of attack. 0:24:27.440 --> 0:24:29.480 They're not tackling. So that just gives you an idea. 0:24:29.520 --> 0:24:33.480 If you think Dallas has struggled stopping people at the 0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:35.760 line of scrimmage or beyond the line of scar behind 0:24:35.800 --> 0:24:38.520 the line of scrimmage, the Bengals have been just as bad. 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:43.199 So that you know, Dalla is kind of a run 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:45.960 and just blast into people and if he bounces off, 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:47.840 you know, yeah, he's not going to sit there and 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:50.800 spin and do all those things. But we've seen enough 0:24:50.800 --> 0:24:53.960 of him. Knowing though, if arm tackles don't always get 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:56.480 him down, you know he's got you got to kind 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:58.240 of wrap him up because he's going to kind of 0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:01.400 fall forward in the by the way, just to let 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.840 you know, Ambar, Detroit Lions have only allowed six six 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:09.520 hundred and seven yards after contact this year to running backs. 0:25:09.680 --> 0:25:12.560 It's first in the league. And you know, so Dallas 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.880 is allowed twice as many yards after contact. And then 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:17.040 what the Detroit Lions had. 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.399 We got some breaking news. If I could hop in 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:22.720 really quick, good or this is it's not good. Zach 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:25.520 Martin is having season ending ankle surgery. According to UH 0:25:25.560 --> 0:25:29.080 head coach Mike McCarthy. That just came down, all. 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.040 Right, So I guess the conversation we had earlier this 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:35.040 week about brock Kaufman. Hey, it's times. Let's see. 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:42.920 What's that you were so insistent of going with brock Kaufman. No, 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.560 I was you know something already? 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:44.720 No? 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.360 I didn't. I didn't. I I knew. We all knew 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:49.399 how banged up he was. I mean, we all we 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:52.080 talk about it every day. Derek asked his injury report, 0:25:52.160 --> 0:25:56.160 and you know, and I I to me, I was worried. 0:25:56.880 --> 0:26:00.879 I was thinking that that coaches are very much about 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:06.320 processing a system and keeping things the continuity of things. 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:11.120 You've run the ball well, you've protected well. A healthy 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:14.240 body at right guard has been one of the reasons 0:26:14.280 --> 0:26:18.920 why Zach wasn't healthy. It just wasn't healthy enough to play. 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:20.680 Y'all feel we already saw the end. 0:26:20.960 --> 0:26:24.160 No, I just I have a hard time. I thought 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:27.240 all the way up till this point that this might 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.760 have been the last year for him. I just now 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:31.600 I have a hard time thinking he's gonna want to 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:35.440 go out end his career on IR. And that makes 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:37.199 me wonder if he's like a guy I want, I 0:26:37.240 --> 0:26:39.520 want one more shot at this. Yeah, you know, I 0:26:39.520 --> 0:26:41.600 mean that's a hard thing to do when you've played 0:26:41.600 --> 0:26:43.600 as long and as great as he has to be, Like, 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:46.040 I'm going to end my career on IR. Like, I 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:47.480 think that's just a hard thing to do. 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:49.760 And we'll see, or he could look at it this way, 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:52.000 is I need to get fixed and now I need 0:26:52.000 --> 0:26:55.080 to go on with my life. Maybe. Yeah. What I 0:26:55.280 --> 0:26:57.159 what I hope doesn't happen is that all of a 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:59.080 sudden he gets fixed and the Cowboys say, we're not 0:26:59.080 --> 0:27:02.280 going to pay your salary anymore and move on, and 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:05.040 then he goes in place somewhere else that I wouldn't 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:05.800 like very much. 0:27:08.040 --> 0:27:11.399 There's a lot to consider here, but but yeah, that's 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.560 sad news for somebody at that caliber that he's now 0:27:14.600 --> 0:27:16.800 on ir And you know, it is at that point 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:19.120 where every year is a are you going to come back? 0:27:19.200 --> 0:27:20.959 Like that's a part of the conversation. He's even made 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:22.760 it a part of the conversation. He's talked about it. 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:24.480 So I think this. 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:27.480 Year was really, really, really tough on him. And as 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:30.800 we all have said many a day, father Time is undefeated. Yep, 0:27:30.920 --> 0:27:33.720 And there's a side of me that there's a side 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:36.119 of me that now is really wondering, are you just 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:38.960 getting fixed? So you can say goodbye? You know that 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:41.720 we could bring everybody, we could have a press conference, 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.119 and he could stand up there and thank everybody for 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.320 you know, the opportunity he had and then move on, 0:27:46.960 --> 0:27:49.199 kind of like what Travis Frederick did. Yeah, you know, 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:51.639 Travis Frederick kind of realized that he saw the end. 0:27:51.680 --> 0:27:55.199 He wasn't his Travis Frederick allpro center anymore. He was 0:27:55.359 --> 0:27:57.359 kind of a shell of that, and he said no, 0:27:57.760 --> 0:27:59.840 I'm done, and I wonder if Zack Martin's kind of 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:02.840 in the same way that you know, Hey, I give 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:04.840 it the best I could, you know, this year, and 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:07.400 I just got too banged up and happen to get 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:10.240 ready to play. You know, these seasons are they're tough 0:28:10.240 --> 0:28:12.280 on guys like that, very tough. 0:28:12.600 --> 0:28:13.040 Real quick. 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.240 Before we take our break, our final break, tell me 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:18.760 about the weakness of your past defense. If you look 0:28:18.800 --> 0:28:20.760 at the back end of their of their defense, where 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:24.000 are the weakness is where the Taylor I feel. 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:26.919 Like it's really everywhere. To be honest, it really is. 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.720 And I I look at Taylor Britton. There's up and 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.320 downs there. But I could say that for everybody. 0:28:32.320 --> 0:28:34.560 I mean, this is a young defense, not only in 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:37.160 the past defense, but they went and got three rookie 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:39.520 defensive tackles. They got a rookie linebacker, they have a 0:28:39.600 --> 0:28:42.000 rookie starting at corner and Josh Newton. 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:43.040 Out of TCU. 0:28:43.160 --> 0:28:45.160 There's a there's a lot of youth on this on 0:28:45.160 --> 0:28:48.280 this defense, and it's they've kind of thrown them in 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:50.160 the deep end and they haven't really been treading water. 0:28:50.200 --> 0:28:50.400 Well. 0:28:50.440 --> 0:28:52.360 I feel like there's gonna be a lot of opportunities 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.120 in the second area. They just have to keep Trey 0:28:55.160 --> 0:28:58.160 Hendrickson from regular shot in this game. 0:28:58.200 --> 0:29:00.880 If they can keep him over there and hilt back 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:03.760 like they've only got one guy, I'm like, just double him. 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:05.600 You speaking of a tight end, this might be a 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.240 game This team plays a lot of single high safety, 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:12.160 a lot of single high safety. And if that's the case, 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:14.640 then now we've seen with Ferguson, I know it was 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:17.400 Ferguson and Dac with those seam routes and stuff like that, 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:19.840 maybe this is one of those games where you can 0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:22.040 kind of get Ferguson going once he gets back that 0:29:22.120 --> 0:29:24.880 you could throw some steam routes on that single high stuff, 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:27.440 or get somebody in the slot that can play vertically 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:29.560 that can do that against this group. I kind of 0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:32.400 feel like that Mike Hilton the nickel is another guy 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:34.920 you can go after. So the two guys I would 0:29:34.920 --> 0:29:38.680 think about the most here is Cam Taylor britt he 0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:42.520 wears number twenty nine, and then Mike Hilton, he's number 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:44.719 twenty one in the nickel. Those are two guys. Just 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:47.920 block the front like we always talk about and attack 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:49.080 those guys from the jump. 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.520 Yeah, my guess would be I would expect to see 0:29:51.560 --> 0:29:53.360 a lot of twelve personnel and a lot of twenty 0:29:53.360 --> 0:29:56.240 one personnel. Either have that extra running back and lipg 0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.280 in there, or have that extra tight end in there 0:29:58.760 --> 0:30:01.040 so that you can give the li that you're gonna 0:30:01.120 --> 0:30:03.520 either run the ball or give the look that you 0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:05.320 can pass. Out of that you're just gonna get extra 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:07.880 protection for Hendrickson and that gives you, I think, the 0:30:07.920 --> 0:30:11.160 best case scenario where you can maybe again especially with 0:30:11.200 --> 0:30:13.400 single safety, to be able to get some opportunities on 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.080 the outside with those receivers downfield. All right, let's take 0:30:16.080 --> 0:30:18.200 our final break. We will come back and we'll talk 0:30:18.240 --> 0:30:20.080 a little bit about the Cowboys offense and how it 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:21.800 matches up. Maybe get to a question or two. 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At the press conference for Mike McCarthy right 0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:30.760 now said that Zach Martin will quote take a step 0:33:30.760 --> 0:33:35.000 back before deciding on his future, and Mike also said, 0:33:35.000 --> 0:33:36.360 we're not going to replace Zach Martin. 0:33:36.400 --> 0:33:37.600 He brings so much to the team. 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:43.560 So yeah, wild that is that is that's that's sad news. 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:45.960 But well we'll see how it goes and hopefully whatever 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:48.080 the decision is that Zach makes good for him and 0:33:48.120 --> 0:33:51.000 his family first and foremost. We want whatever's good for him, 0:33:51.080 --> 0:33:52.480 so see how that goes. 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:54.320 He was a lot of fun to interview last year, 0:33:54.600 --> 0:33:55.840 Like in a week we got at him. 0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:56.120 Yeah. 0:33:56.120 --> 0:33:58.080 One of my favorite stories about him was, I tell 0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:00.000 you the story about his when he won that trophy 0:34:00.160 --> 0:34:02.800 in the bowl game. He woulded he wanted like he was. 0:34:03.360 --> 0:34:05.400 He was, and he was going to m v P 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:07.400 of a bowl game. Yeah, the MVP of a bowl game, 0:34:07.400 --> 0:34:09.480 and they had the trophy, was right across the lake 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:11.520 to go visit like friends, and he had the trophy 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:14.120 in the boat and it fell out into the water 0:34:14.160 --> 0:34:17.960 and they didn't even go to his cap. He's like, well, 0:34:18.000 --> 0:34:19.480 I was going to share the trophy, but it's in 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:23.359 the bottom of the lake. I'm like, you didn't even 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:26.000 think about jump. He goes, nah, heck no, no, I 0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:26.719 didn't think about it. 0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:29.880 It's crazy at the bottom of the of a bowl. 0:34:29.840 --> 0:34:32.360 He was, Yeah, he was, he was m VP of it. 0:34:32.400 --> 0:34:34.080 Yeah, It's like he had to be. 0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:36.719 It's like Michael Dixon was the m v P of 0:34:36.760 --> 0:34:39.240 the Texas Bowl for Texas back then, back. 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:41.640 In I don't know when that was. It reminds me of. 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:44.200 That that is crazy, all right, that's real quick. 0:34:44.360 --> 0:34:47.560 It's kind of funny talked about this man because they 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:49.719 give him like the Thanksgiving trophy that everybody kind of 0:34:49.719 --> 0:34:54.680 looks at it like oh hey, oh here yeah, and 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:58.839 it's like a it's like a whacked out what are 0:34:58.840 --> 0:34:59.560 we gonna do with this? 0:35:00.719 --> 0:35:03.239 How much do you guys attribute the drops from CD 0:35:03.520 --> 0:35:05.120 last week to his injuries. 0:35:06.120 --> 0:35:07.600 The shoulder's got to be bothering him. 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:10.680 I mean, with an ac joint, there's only so much 0:35:10.880 --> 0:35:13.520 your shoulder is limited, especially as far as getting your 0:35:13.560 --> 0:35:14.080 hands up. 0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:16.440 I don't I can't. 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:19.360 Speak towards the drop specifically, but if I'm thinking about 0:35:19.360 --> 0:35:22.520 mechanics and how the arm and shoulder works, I'm sure 0:35:22.560 --> 0:35:25.120 it's not easy as easy as it would be catching 0:35:25.120 --> 0:35:26.640 normal balls. I mean, he said last week is the 0:35:26.680 --> 0:35:28.800 most banged up he's been in his career. He's playing 0:35:28.800 --> 0:35:29.359 through it, so. 0:35:29.360 --> 0:35:31.040 And we haven't seen him drop as many as he 0:35:31.120 --> 0:35:33.160 dropped last week in a game like that just felt 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:34.080 like something was off. 0:35:34.120 --> 0:35:37.239 He is the second highest or second lowest catch rate 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:40.640 in the NFL out of eligible receivers going into this week. 0:35:41.120 --> 0:35:44.440 He's dropping ten percent of his passes, which. 0:35:44.400 --> 0:35:46.040 I assume has to be a career high for him. 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:47.800 Absolutely, Yeah, by a long shot. 0:35:48.000 --> 0:35:50.080 He was in the He was on the complete opposite 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.480 end of the spectrum coming into the season as far 0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:54.279 as what he's done these last couple of years. So 0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:55.960 you would have to There was a lot of things 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:57.839 that I think factor into that. A him not being 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:00.160 at camp and taking a few weeks to get going, 0:36:00.160 --> 0:36:03.000 and then Dak move gets out of the equation, got 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:04.959 to get used to a new quarterback. Then you get hurt, 0:36:05.000 --> 0:36:07.160 and he was already hurt when the new quarterback came in. 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:09.840 But there's a lot that's been playing out of CD's favor. 0:36:10.000 --> 0:36:11.880 But I think more credit has to be given to 0:36:11.960 --> 0:36:14.319 CD than discredit, just because he's still at the top 0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:16.360 of the league in receptions, he's still top ten and 0:36:16.480 --> 0:36:19.960 receiving yards. He's still help helping to power this offense 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:21.960 even despite everything that's going on right now. 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:23.880 And you know that doesn't help when you have a 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.759 quarterback that's not always going to put it exactly where 0:36:26.800 --> 0:36:27.480 you need it to. 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:30.000 Be, Like you have to be what do you mean. 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:36.160 Minute, I know she is back. 0:36:38.320 --> 0:36:41.400 Hey, I have eyes I can see after getting lazy. 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:50.239 That's why I protect him, protecting my investment in my eyes. No, 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:52.680 but yeah, surely that doesn't help, and we've seen it 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:55.280 not just with him, but the rest of the receivers. 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:58.200 But I agree with you. I think, uh, the whole 0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:02.080 training camp conversation his way out the window at this point, 0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:05.920 and I think he's been solid enough given the situation. 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:09.960 Let's take a question from Carmine Polo. He says, with 0:37:10.000 --> 0:37:14.040 the offensive line playing better, MIC's offense is still mediocre 0:37:14.680 --> 0:37:16.640 now more than ever. He needs to open it up. 0:37:16.800 --> 0:37:19.160 And this is not specific to this week, because I 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:20.920 think we all agree that this week they need to 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:23.399 actually maybe throttle it down a little bit and really 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:25.640 rely on the run. But just in general, do you 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.400 agree with that statement, and if so, how should they 0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:30.400 open it up? How do they open this offense up? 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:32.520 Just be more creative, get the ball in the hands 0:37:32.560 --> 0:37:35.120 of their playmakers, and have blockers out in front. I 0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:39.120 feel like they don't. They don't utilize guys like CD 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:42.640 Turpin Cooks enough in the run after catch department, and 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:44.719 they have a ton of receivers that are good after 0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:47.400 the catch and can get out in space, and especially 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:49.400 with some blockers out in front that can make things happen. 0:37:50.440 --> 0:37:52.880 That would be my interpretation of opening things up. But 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:56.400 also we got used to last year so many mesh concepts, 0:37:56.400 --> 0:37:58.200 and I feel like we haven't really seen a whole 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:00.200 lot of that this year. You know, if it's all 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:05.040 felt very it's all felt very stagnant. So I would 0:38:05.080 --> 0:38:09.000 just guys on the move, always moving. There's been multiple times, 0:38:09.120 --> 0:38:11.880 and this goes back to when Dak was quarterback before 0:38:11.880 --> 0:38:14.359 he got hurt. It's been multiple times where it's four 0:38:14.680 --> 0:38:17.480 five seconds after the snap and all the receivers are 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.600 just planted, you know, and there's there's not any movement. 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:23.720 There's not any offscript movement. And you know that's what uh, 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.080 that's what Dak was so good at last year in 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:29.360 this offense, but just haven't seen it. 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:33.839 It's all agree, I mean seriously, I mean, you it's 0:38:33.840 --> 0:38:37.719 taken trying to get Turpin involved. You know, you get 0:38:37.719 --> 0:38:40.359 some you get some legitimate playmakers, and it just kind 0:38:40.360 --> 0:38:42.480 of makes me wonder if we've gone back to some 0:38:42.560 --> 0:38:46.600 of the concepts that were you know, the first five 0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:50.000 six weeks of last season. You know, we go it's okay, 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:52.520 let's we go back let's this, this will work. We'll 0:38:52.560 --> 0:38:56.080 we'll we'll tweak it a little bit. And it to me, 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:58.840 it's just I watch we all watch games every week. 0:38:59.080 --> 0:39:02.880 We watch, we see teams, we see how other offenses operate, 0:39:03.760 --> 0:39:06.919 and it just it seems like to me, it's very 0:39:07.040 --> 0:39:10.360 much the nineteen nineties offense where you're running the slants 0:39:10.360 --> 0:39:14.880 and the hitches and you know, the sprint right option 0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:17.600 on the goal line. You know, it's it's very very 0:39:17.680 --> 0:39:20.640 nineteen nineties that when Joe Montana and Jerry writes and 0:39:20.640 --> 0:39:23.160 then we're throwing it, it was really good. But right 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:25.919 now it's not the way to get your best playmakers 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:30.480 open consistently. And you know, Ambar's talked about this a 0:39:30.520 --> 0:39:33.520 bunch and I totally agree with her. You know it, 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:37.120 don't have problem with Mike McCarthy the coach, the head coach. 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.040 I have a problem with Mike McCarthy the play caller. 0:39:39.600 --> 0:39:42.880 I do know, you're you're you know, and Mike Zimmer, 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:44.880 friend of mine. I mean, I'm not saying it's because 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:47.600 of Mike. I think he's had his struggles too, but 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:50.680 I see him trying to do different things. He's just 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:53.960 not doing the same Damn thing every week. He realized, 0:39:54.239 --> 0:39:57.080 I'm playing with short you know, a short short stack here, 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:58.960 and I've got to kind of find a way to 0:39:59.080 --> 0:40:01.319 kind of, you know, use my guys. And he has. 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:03.160 He's kind of pieced the thing together and now he's 0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:06.320 starting to get guys back, and it's looking better because 0:40:06.320 --> 0:40:09.520 they're doing more things. I don't see that on the offense, 0:40:09.600 --> 0:40:11.520 and that that that's that's unfortunate. 0:40:11.800 --> 0:40:15.440 What's weird and what drives me crazy is like and 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:20.520 it's all about perspective, I suppose. But when we watched something, 0:40:20.640 --> 0:40:22.880 we talk about it for so long, but then we 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:26.959 don't see them basically, I would say seeing the same 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:29.880 things that we see. You mentioned Turpin and the conversation 0:40:30.040 --> 0:40:32.400 last year. Look how long it's taken for us to 0:40:32.600 --> 0:40:36.840 finally actually start seeing more of Turpin. Same with the 0:40:36.920 --> 0:40:39.919 Running Game for example, as far as this year, and 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:44.399 and what's happened with with Rico, Yes, Hunter Lipke, that's 0:40:44.440 --> 0:40:49.000 another guy that kind of we've saw. We've saw sparkle, 0:40:49.320 --> 0:40:59.080 sparkles and sparkles, what do you say, sparkles and sprinkles flashes, 0:40:59.200 --> 0:41:04.239 that's the world looking for flashes of insane thing. Same thing, 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:08.640 but even guys like Cooks last year. I know they 0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:11.080 tried one game it didn't work out, and I just 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:14.480 feel that one game earlier in the season it was 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:17.279 just maybe a part of him just having a bad day, 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:20.279 and then he got injured and went out, and then 0:41:20.440 --> 0:41:23.600 we saw the fact that he has on the offense. 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:28.160 He made two huge plays on last weekend's game. But 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:31.320 it's just it's always interesting to me how we feel 0:41:31.320 --> 0:41:35.400 like we see things so clearly from our perspective, but 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:39.880 it always it's different from what they show week after 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:41.480 week improvement. 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:45.000 There are things I think that they see in practice. 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:49.480 There are temperaments that they see dealing with the players, 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.480 Like the players are not Yeah, the players are not robots, 0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:55.359 and everything we see on the field isn't necessarily what 0:41:55.400 --> 0:41:59.040 they're seeing behind the scenes that makes them make certain decisions, 0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:01.719 you know, And I know just when you're leading a 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:05.200 group of people, sometimes the decisions you may have a 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:08.200 lot to do with what everybody needs to see. So 0:42:08.280 --> 0:42:10.279 if you've got a player, let's say, for example, there's 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:12.439 a player and I'm not pointing at any particular player 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:14.360 on the Cowboys, but let's just assume there's a player 0:42:14.480 --> 0:42:16.719 who everybody wants to see get more involved, but the 0:42:16.719 --> 0:42:18.759 coaches are seeing behind the scenes, he's not doing the 0:42:18.800 --> 0:42:22.879 study work, he's not paying attention during team meetings. Those 0:42:22.920 --> 0:42:25.279 are things that they look at and they're like, we're 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.960 not going to reward that behavior by giving him more 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:30.200 opportunities because the rest of the team is watching that, 0:42:30.600 --> 0:42:32.960 and so they have to make a decision that publicly 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:35.640 looks just like, why are you not getting this guy 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:38.359 more involved? But they're like, there are reasons why he's 0:42:38.400 --> 0:42:40.440 not more involved. And again this is not directed to 0:42:40.440 --> 0:42:42.920 any player. I'm just saying sometimes we have to think 0:42:43.120 --> 0:42:45.920 there are more things involved in the decision than what 0:42:46.040 --> 0:42:47.120 we know and what we see. 0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:51.400 And I agree with that. But the thing to me, yes, 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:54.160 if it is one or two players, but when you 0:42:54.200 --> 0:42:58.560 talk of a larger scale, then at some point the 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.120 players are not the problem. That's the point. Is the 0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:02.360 voice that they're listening to. 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:06.320 Well fair, But it also could be a situation where 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:08.080 again I'm not saying that's. 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:11.399 All, this is just all I saw something. 0:43:12.239 --> 0:43:14.120 The whole point I'm making is just I think we 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:16.560 have to be at least aware of the fact, and 0:43:16.600 --> 0:43:18.560 we have to if we're being responsible on how we 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:22.319 report this. There are other things that could be at 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:25.360 play than just the player's ability that we don't know 0:43:25.440 --> 0:43:26.600 about that they know about. 0:43:26.719 --> 0:43:30.040 You know, well, then maybe that it needs to be 0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:32.759 known that if they lose a game, And we asked 0:43:32.760 --> 0:43:35.920 Mike McCarthy, why isn't Turpin not playing more on the 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:39.399 offense than Mike McCarthy, if he would help me out 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:45.440 and say, Turpin's not practicing very well, He's missed, you know, 0:43:45.440 --> 0:43:47.480 he's missed some time in the meetings. He's not picking 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:49.839 things up. We're not very good at that position right now. 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:51.720 We don't trust him to put him in the game. 0:43:51.600 --> 0:43:54.040 Which exactly which the coach will never do. And again, 0:43:54.120 --> 0:43:56.839 please please, I don't want this started to Turpin's doing 0:43:56.880 --> 0:43:57.480 stuff off. 0:43:59.440 --> 0:44:03.160 Like that. He's a good teammates players just in general. 0:44:03.239 --> 0:44:06.400 It's certain player. But when you lose a game, you know, 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:08.480 then tell me why, well you know it, don't tell 0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:11.560 me it was well, you know, the pre snap penalties, Yeah, 0:44:11.760 --> 0:44:14.600 turnovers are bad. No, okay, if you know, if you 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:18.000 as a coaching staff, and maybe maybe off the record, 0:44:18.080 --> 0:44:20.880 they do more of that where they do explain that, hey, 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:24.360 this guy is not very football intelligent and we can't 0:44:24.360 --> 0:44:27.360 play him because we're gonna make mistakes, you know. I 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:29.160 I'd love to know that, if it has to be 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:31.000 off the record or whatever, I'd love to be able 0:44:31.040 --> 0:44:31.480 to know that. 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:33.799 You know, I will say and this back in the day, 0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:36.600 I used to appreciate this. Bill Parcells would actually give 0:44:36.640 --> 0:44:38.839 you a fair assessment of a player. He would actually 0:44:38.880 --> 0:44:41.200 go a little bit overboard, like he would even the 0:44:41.239 --> 0:44:44.759 good players. He's like, oh that guy, that guy, you know, 0:44:44.800 --> 0:44:47.040 he'd give hesment. 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:49.200 He would go, you don't have to coach that guy, right, 0:44:49.239 --> 0:44:50.640 he will give you that's what he should tell me. 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:53.160 He goes, you want that guy, you don't have to 0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:56.640 coach him. And I would go, that's fair. You know, 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:58.960 you're right, it's fair. I don't have to coach you, 0:44:59.080 --> 0:45:01.800 you know. And and that's but to me, I would 0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:03.760 I think we live in a day and age where 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:07.319 the criticism part. If you just told us why that 0:45:07.600 --> 0:45:10.520 certain things that some things would play calling, why it 0:45:10.560 --> 0:45:13.200 doesn't work, I think everything, we'd all have a better 0:45:13.280 --> 0:45:15.440 understanding of that, maybe a little bit more of a 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:16.160 pass on something. 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.000 And maybe that's the thing you do off the record. 0:45:18.040 --> 0:45:19.880 Obviously wouldn't go to get up on a stage and 0:45:19.880 --> 0:45:22.279 say that, but there are opportunities to tell tell the 0:45:22.360 --> 0:45:23.959 media that off the record, so at least the media 0:45:24.040 --> 0:45:25.840 colors how they were recorded. 0:45:25.920 --> 0:45:27.360 Right any ourselves is unemployed. 0:45:28.920 --> 0:45:30.920 Stop it all right, We appreciate you guys, join us, 0:45:30.920 --> 0:45:36.759 moving back to wrap this thing up tomorrow. 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