WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting The Falcons Offense 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:03.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:07.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.799 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:15.120 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.480 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.639 Wait with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.200 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, November eight, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:33.320 episode number seventy one. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.040 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.520 and today we got a lot to talk about. We'll 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.519 start with the Atlanta offense today. We'll get into that 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.159 and tell you a little bit about what you can 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.879 expect as far as the matchups there. But first, what 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.440 I wanted to do is give everybody a good rundown 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.520 of what the storylines will look like for this week. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.720 There are a few that are worth keeping an eye on. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:00.800 How's everybody doing this morning? Great, Derek, wonderful, awesome cold? 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.960 You got on a coat? So yeah, all right, I'll 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:10.400 be okay. I want to be in bed, all right. 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.959 That just took me by surprise, Like I wasn't expecting 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.640 you to say it, wouldn't you want to be in 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.840 bed in your covers like all nice and coach. Actually, yes, 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.080 that'd be great, exactly awesome. No, I want to grind 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.959 and I only want to talk about Cowboys football, getting 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.639 this win against the Falcons, previewing this Atlanta offense, talking 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.200 to Dak Prescott and maybe Zeke today and just really 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.440 kicking ass. That's what I want to do. That's boy, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.360 That's what I'm talking about. Energy from Dave, That's what 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:42.440 I'm talking about, just saying, sure, all right, let's jump 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.520 right into this thing. Here the storylines for this, Dave agree, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.600 I don't know. We're gonna pretend he does. He's spilling 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.120 coffee everywhere. As long as long as he's got energy, 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.960 let's let's play that up and let's just give him 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.760 a good pat on the back and say thanks, David, 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.200 thanks for bringing that energy. All right, Let's talk about 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.160 Ezekiel Elliott. What's going on with him this week? Think 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.720 it's later this week, there's going to be another hearing. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:05.800 Give me the update on where we are and what's 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.680 going to happen this week and when that should happened, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.760 and when the Cowboys will know more and just the 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.160 whole nine, what's happening everything. I thought it was really 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.120 great because Jerry Jones was asked that question a little 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.400 a little bit earlier this morning, and he knows as 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.200 much as I know, which is like, not as much 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.679 as you'd prefer, you'd want him to know a little 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.520 bit more. Yeah, well, it's I mean, it's all in 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.160 the hands of a federal court, and like we've said 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.040 a few times on this show, they do whatever they 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.440 want on whatever timeline they want. So he's going to 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.760 have his appeal hearing on Thursday with the Second Circuit 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.960 Court of Appeals. It's a three judge panel, I believe. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.399 I heard it was two Democrats and a Republican. That's 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.240 a good thing, right, I think so. But I'm not 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.800 going to pretend to like, oh, yeah, well, you see 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.440 what they need here is this guy voted here, and like, 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.400 I don't know, it's got to go three nothing, right, 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.440 I believe, so does it? Yeah? I believe so appeals 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.200 it has to be unlike a regular district court. I 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.320 guess I don't know, but I think it does have 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:12.000 to be. It it's got to go well for Zeke Daniel, Yeah, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.200 Daniel Wallack, where are you, Um, that's gonna be on Tuesday. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.320 There's gonna be oral argument Thursday. Sorry, yes, yes, two 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.200 pm Thursday, Tuesday already happened. Yeah, it's gonna be Thursday. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.920 There's gonna be oral arguments. I think Daniel Wallack actually 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.919 said that, you know, they a lot for thirty minutes 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.480 on each side for oral arguments, but he expects in 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.800 a situation like this that it'll last longer than that 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.920 and then they just make their decision. And apparently right 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.440 there at the moment, no, they well they can they 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.360 can make it Thursday night, they can make it Friday. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.800 They could wait until next week, in which case Zeke 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.520 would be eligible to play against Atlanta. Could they wait 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.480 like feasibly? Could they actually do this at like one 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.760 thirty on Sunday afternoon? I don't think so, because again 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.440 courts closed it talking about the government, and government doesn't 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.520 work on weekends, like no exceptions, like president doesn't work 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.920 on the weekend. Depending don't get me stand all right, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.920 talk about something else? Yeah, Um, so yeah I would 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.040 if it's not by Friday, a like close of business, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.920 I would expect that he can play. And it took 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.120 ten days for this thing to go through the federal 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.479 the Circuit court in New Orleans. Having said that, it 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.040 just seems like they've been really good about doing everything 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.840 on a speedy time. It's like, how long in New 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.600 yorlds you said thirty I don't, I didn't. I didn't 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.760 hear what you said. You said, Okay, ten days. So 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.960 if that were to happen, presumably he could play two 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.080 games before you even have a decision if it took 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.839 that same timeline, right, theoretically, But I really just kind 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.279 of have a hunch that they're going to have it 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:46.800 figured out by Friday. I just everything ever since, ever 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.520 since Zeke had that overturned, so going back to the 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.840 bye week, ever since that was overturned and he filed 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.719 for the TRRO and that was, you know, blah blah blah. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.440 Everything that's happened since then has been fast, like by 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.080 court stand right, Yeah, So I think that's going to 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.720 keep up, and so we will We'll see what happens, 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.159 but I'm thinking maybe Friday. But as of right now, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.000 because there is not a ruling, the temporary restraining order 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.560 is still in place, which means he practices at least 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.520 until a decision is made right, Bay say, I'm sorry, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.279 temporary restraining order was two weeks ago. Got it, get 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.440 it out of the same terminology, But I don't think 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.799 that wrong. Okay. Either way, he's still practicing as of today, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.080 which does create I think an interesting conversation, at least 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.920 for us, of how the Cowboys should handle this week. 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.839 It's I'll ask you guys that question, knowing the situation 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.599 that they're in, that there could be a situation they 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.240 could find out his latest Friday, and even though courts 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.000 don't work on the weekends, I guess it could come 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.880 out this weekend. All that being said, if you're the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:50.800 Cowboys coaches, do you maybe just practice as usual assuming 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.160 that Zeke's going to be your starter, or do you 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.840 maybe say, Okay, Zeke, we're not going to practice you 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.400 this week. What we're gonna do is let you sit 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.560 in on meetings. You'll understand the game plan, you'll know 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.240 what what you would be doing. We know that you 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.039 know how to do it out on the field, but 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.919 we'd rather give the reps to the other guys to 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.800 get them prepared so that you basically are prepared for 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.520 either way, whether Zeke plays or does not. What do 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.719 you guys think is the best way to go somewhere 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.360 in between? Maybe I may split the reps a little bit, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.880 give Zeke some some time, give some to Alfred Morris 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.240 if he's going to be your starter, and then the 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.400 other guys he's just you know, they're gonna get scout 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.000 team reps. I guess. So that's why I would do it. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.880 I would not just sit Zeke this week. I would 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.080 I would just split it. Garrett had a really good 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.480 read between the lines type of answer about that back 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.240 on Monday during his wrap up press conference, which, if 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.080 you think about it, I mean, you watch training camp. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.960 That's not how these guys practice anyway, you know, like 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.080 you do, you do a period of you know, all right, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.120 you do individuals whatever. You go to full team, you 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.839 probably run ten reps. The starter will get six of 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.080 those seven and then you know, and so then the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.440 backup gets two, and the third guy maybe gets one 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:03.600 or zero or whatever. Like they always divvy it up. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.000 It's not like the starter gets everything always. And so 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.960 I would imagine you just adjust your game plan. Would 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.920 you flip that though? Would you would you maybe give 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:16.960 Morris six and give Zeke three? Like I would probably 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.200 give Zeke the lion's share of the work, but less 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.160 than he's used to. So if he usually gets eight 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.080 out of ten, I would give him five this week, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.720 or you know, something like that, and I think they will, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.320 like Garrett basically said, you know, we'll bury it up 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.440 and make sure that our you know, number two and 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.240 number three you get more than they're probably used to 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.200 getting in a situation like that. What's your opinion on 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.960 the Namber I trust whatever they're doing. I mean, this 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.280 is again something that it's not catching them by surprise necessarily. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.360 They've been dealing with this uncertainty, uncertainty for weeks, with 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.360 the exception of last week that Zeke was unable to 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.440 be here in practice, that's the only exception. But aside 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.120 from that, I'm sure whatever they're doing in the way 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:05.320 that they're preparing, they're making sure they covered in all areas, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.120 you know, with all their backups and including seek in 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.360 case he's able to play. All right, let's move on. 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.080 Let's talk a little bit about injuries. They got some 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.120 significant injuries that you'll have to keep an eye on 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.720 this week. Tyren Smith, Dez Bryant, Terrence Williams, Cheetobayo Woozy. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.680 I'm going to throw him in that category just because 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.320 we're still waiting for his return and it sounds like 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.200 that maybe he might be able to resume practice this week. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.840 Tell me about those four injuries and kind of what 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.439 you're expecting this week as we go throughout the week. Well, 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.920 Jerry tried to shed some light on those things this 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.720 morning and didn't really and come away from that really 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.600 feeling one way or the other about it. He said 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.160 he's not sure about he doesn't know that they'll have 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.360 desert terrence. But he doesn't know that they won't have 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.400 desert terrence, which great, thanks Les. Again, don't know, yeah, 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 he did. He kind of alluded that, you know, he's 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.520 hopeful that you can count on him from what I gather, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:58.959 and you never know. But it sounds like DEAs and 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.160 Terrence maybe that it's like a pain tolerance thing. Daz 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.079 has an ankle on a knee, Terrence has an ankle. 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.320 It up. I mean, Terrence played through this in week 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.760 two after hurting it pretty bad in week one, and 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.679 he was like adamant about it too. He's like, if 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.439 all it is is pain tolerance, I'll play so I 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.120 sort of feel like at least one of those two 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.680 guys will be out there, if not both. Tyrone's the 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.280 one that really kind of freaks me out. He's got 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:29.320 a groin injury, and I mean, I don't even know 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.160 where to begin with that, Like, it doesn't sound like 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.160 something you can play with six days later. But if 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.440 there's one type of iron man freak who can do it, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.680 it's probably him. I'm gonna go ahead and guess you 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.240 won't see him today or tomorrow at practice, and then 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.720 just be a matter of how he feels on Friday. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.800 If I had to guess, it should have based fine. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.440 He was playing basketball in the locker room. He's good 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.640 turn around jupper looking good defense. That he was playing 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.800 some defense. I mean, he didn't get hurt through that. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.560 I think he's I think he's gonna practice. I would hope, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:00.360 So I would hope that what we saw yesterday leads 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.640 us to think that he's going to practice, because if not, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:10.560 then yeah, he was active out there. Yeah, like hamper 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.800 Ball is back in the Cowboys locker I love it. Yeah, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.200 it was. It was a staple last year, right. It 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.640 really it helps the time go by in the locker room, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:23.560 and but typically hamper ball. Like you, you stand still 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.120 and shoot shots. It's like horse like but Cheeto and 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.520 Jordan Lewis are like backing each other down and just look, 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.360 he's just don't know how to play the game, play 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.079 the game the way it was meant to be played. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:39.120 Young for messing it up. Amber balls, he said, hamper ball, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.720 or like staff ball, hamper ball. I kept having to 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.720 look back every time. As I'm listening to Tackles Week, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.280 I'm having to look back every second to make sure 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.560 they don't they shoot this. They shoot this oversized tennis 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.079 ball into a hamper where also sweaty towels and stuff 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.480 are getting thrown into and jockstraps and all that, and 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.480 then they make they make it. Then they go and 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.800 tell me grab it and get it, and then shoot 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.600 it again, and then it vall goes over here, and 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.480 Dave picks it up and thirst over here and all right, 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:17.240 calm down, matches his eyebrows and it's all over his face. Sorry, done, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.920 hamper ball is much better than all right, all right, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.720 let's get back into this. All right, So we got 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.240 injuries lined out, kind of know what to expect here, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.160 at least what to be looking for with the injuries. 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.680 What to be looking forward, Zeke. Now, let's focus in 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.200 on the team the Cowboys have to play, the Atlanta Falcons. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.840 This is going to be another tough one, and I 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.200 know that they have not been the team that you 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.400 saw last year that went to the Super Bowl. They 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.680 are four and for right now, and they've had that 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.840 kind of season where it's been really up and down. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.320 But you cannot ignore the number of playmakers they have, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.960 specifically on this offense. Dave Giffish a scouting report on 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.400 the offense. Honestly, I the Atlanta Falcons don't make any 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.600 sense to me. That's really yeah. You set it up 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.960 pretty perfectly there. This is the number six team in 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.960 total offense, the number six team in passing offense, thirteenth 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.520 in rushing offense. Not great, but definitely not bad. You 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.760 have the reigning NFL MVP Matt Ryan, who's completing sixty 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.400 five percent and has thrown for two thousand yards halfway 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.559 through the season. You have a Pro Bowl running back 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.559 in DeVonta Freeman who's averaging four point five yards per carry. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.840 He's got five hundred yards at the halfway mark. Tevin 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.679 Coleman doesn't get as many carries as Freeman, but he's 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.840 averaging five yards per carry a weapon. So you have 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.600 two really nice running backs. And then there's Julio Jones 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.080 who has almost seven hundred receiving yards. And another guy 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.960 that you probably know from Fantasy is Austin Hooper who 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.640 he only has twenty five catches for three hundred and 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.960 thirty twenty five catches, but he's averaging thirteen yards per catch, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.640 so he's a big play threat for a tight end 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.679 as well. But the thing is, there's seventeenth in scoring offense. 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.360 They're averaging twenty one points per game. They've lost three 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:04.120 out of their last four with you know what they have? 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.240 They they beat the Jets, That's what it was. They 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.839 beat the Jets, I think that was last week after 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.680 giving up a twenty point lead to the Dolphins, and 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.960 obviously they lost to the Panthers. Um, there's talent all 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:21.160 over this offense, and they suck, suck for what they have. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.880 They suck, I think. And so I went and I 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.080 watched this game against the Panthers to try to figure 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.320 it out, and I just this is a team that 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.280 doesn't know what it is or what it wants to do. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.480 I really believe that. And I think they missed Kyle Shanahan. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.040 He was their offensive coordinator. He was amazing last year. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.319 They have Steve Sarkisian now who's famous for a variety 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.480 of reasons. This is like, this is a team that's 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.760 equipped to be like high flying, you know, limousine ride 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.839 and wheel and deal and kiss. Yeah, all that Rick 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.120 Flair stuff. But like, but they also want to They 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.240 also think they're like a Kyle Shanahan ground and pound 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.880 twenty one personnel twelve personnel. Like they've got two tight 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.400 ends on the field all the time, Austin Hooper and 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:11.120 Levine Talolo. I hope I pronounced that right, And and 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.480 they have two really nice running backs. So what are 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:15.640 you what are you doing here? Do you want to 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.640 ground and pound? Do you want to run that West 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.960 Coast like Spider two? Why banana throw it to your fullback? 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.720 Or do you want to go three wide with Julio 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:27.200 and Mohammed Sanou and Taylor Gabriel and just moved down 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.160 the field, And like it seems like they're trying to 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.560 do all of it at once and there's no rhyme 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.640 or reason to it. Devanta Freeman was averaging four and 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.200 a half yards per carry against the Panthers. Last week, 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:42.800 he carried the ball eleven times for like forty something yards. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.920 They carried the ball eighteen times on the day. And 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.480 this is in a game where they built up a 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.360 ten nothing lead on Carolina and then they just got 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.960 away from it and Matt Ryan wound up throwing thirty 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.600 eight times in a game that they lost by three. Like, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.160 it's just stuff like that where you're like, what are 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.280 you trying to do here? What's you know? Like you 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.680 to talk about identity all the time, right, the Cowboys 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.720 identity is so crystal clear, Like they're gonna run the ball, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.080 They're gonna get Dak on the move. Uh, you know 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.320 they're They're not They're not into that high flying stuff 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.600 so much. You just have a pretty good idea of 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.600 what their game plan is going to look like, regardless 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.800 of the opponent. I feel like these guys have no idea. Um. 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.680 They throw it fifty eight percent of the time, obviously 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.800 because they have a great quarterback and for my money, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.520 probably the best receiver in football, but they get distracted 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.920 by other stuff. I'm It's like it's like somebody told 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.240 them like, oh, you gotta run the ball to win, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.040 and that helps, but like they're not really committed to it. 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.040 But it sounds like from what you're saying, they at 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.280 least last week they should have stuck with the run. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.120 If that's averaging four point five, stick with it, keep 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.480 doing it right. That's what I'm saying is it doesn't 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.200 It doesn't make a ton of sense to me what 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:59.040 they're doing. Like it's they're caught between two different philosophies, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.360 and I don't get the impression that they really haven't 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.080 figured out what they want to do. And I actually 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.160 I went I read up on some of it. And 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.520 you know, anytime an offense this talented is struggling, you 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.160 hear rumors and whispers and you know there's talk of 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.920 disorganized game plans and you know, not really establishing an identity. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.280 And it certainly looks like that when you watch them, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.160 because I'm just like, well but DeVonta Freeman just did that. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.000 Where's where'd he go? Why why aren't you doing more 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.760 of that? Where's you know? Blah blah blah. The one 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.960 thing I will say is they are dedicated to getting 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.280 Julio Jones the ball and they should be. I mean 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.160 he had I think he had twelve targets last week. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.160 Obviously everybody saw the fourth down drop that would have 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.160 put them right back in that game. Um, he's got 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.120 sixty eight targets on the year, forty three catches, only 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.520 one touchdown, which is surprising to me. Um, yeah, this 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.800 just this was that last week. No, I thought. I 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.840 thought going into that game, I thought I saw somebody 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.680 says he was walking to the you know, they showed 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.800 the them getting off the bus. I thought they said 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.320 he had no touchdowns at that point, but maybe they 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.040 said one what game was earlier in the season or something. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.800 I don't know off the top of them. Okay, Matt 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.960 Ryan also has seven picks to just eleven touchdowns, so 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.680 for whatever reason, I mean, the gains are there. He's 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.720 got two thousand yards. I mean they hit big plays. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:23.360 Julio's Julio's averaging something like fifteen or sixteen yards per reception. 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.399 Like I said, Austin Hooper's averaging thirteen. So this is 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.400 a big play offense. But they just don't know how 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:31.280 to convert it into points, it seems like. And I 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.120 think that's because they don't really know what they want 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.640 to do. He had seven picks all of last year 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.920 in sixteen games. Seven now half we got seven halfway through. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.239 And he also had thirty eight touchdowns last year and 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.240 he's I believe he's got eleven, so you know it 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:48.879 pace for twenty two. Obviously things are different, you know, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.600 for him. So I'm going to be winning the MVP 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.879 this year. They are fifty one point eight percent in 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.080 the red zone, like they're just And that was actually 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:58.640 the question I was gonna ask. Usually when you see 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.680 a team that has a ton of yards, which they do. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.000 They're right now sixth in the league in yards, but 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.520 they're only seventeenth and points typically they're having issues in 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.760 the red zone. And it sounds like that's the issue 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.160 here is they're they're in the red zone and they're 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.320 not being able to convert it to touchdowns. Yeah. I 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.800 and again, you know, I took some notes, like, I mean, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.159 they've got two pretty nice tight ends they try to do, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.679 you know, the tight end screens and the movement the 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.800 motions like you see from the Cowboys. I saw. It's 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.680 kind of funny they tried to run a shovel pass 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.400 like Travis Kelsey style. And it just sucked, like they 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.960 didn't it did not work. So again, like it just 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.239 seems like they're trying to do it's a mismash of 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.159 all these different things, and like instead of instead of 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:40.919 being really good at one thing, they're trying to be 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.159 good at kind of good at a few things. And 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.399 I think that's dumb. Basically, all right, let's take our 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.480 first break when we come back quick. Can only just 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.159 throw some news in there that's been out there. M 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.960 Lewis and Neil has been signed to the to the 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.439 active roster. He's gonna be on the fifty three. My guy. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.240 They also replace that on the practice squad with a 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.560 defensive tackle, Joe Vellano. He's been around a little bit. 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.840 He's six two three hundred pounds, so getting a little 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.720 six two three hundred pounds. Um, he'll be on the 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.080 practice squad. He's been around the league a little bit. 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.480 But Lewis Neil on the team, and they'll figure out, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.760 you know, they'll figure out how how to make it work. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.960 I would imagine he's probably gonna be active too. I mean, 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.919 I don't think you would be inactive. They signed him 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.480 up there, so they only have four defensive well, full 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.200 time defensive uncles on the on the on the active 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:34.600 ross right now, right right, So I would imagine he 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.840 probably plays in your He might play in some nickel 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.239 situations because he can't get up the field a little bit. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.159 So we'll see. But they that's the move they made, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:47.919 and Brian Price is going to I R. So that's 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.920 that's where that's the spot he takes. 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