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Speaker 8: episode number thirty eight.
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Speaker 8: All right, let's talk to this today. We're going to
Speaker 8: do a quarter recap. First quarter recap. It is not
Speaker 8: the first quarter of the game, but the first quarter
Speaker 8: of the season.
Speaker 4: Then we will be recapped.
Speaker 9: Why are you looking at.
Speaker 4: Me, Brian, We're gonna recap the first quarter of the season.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna say that, all right. So what we're
Speaker 4: gonna do is, I'm gonna have some names.
Speaker 2: Hear Ambar's first quarter recap from the game of the game.
Speaker 9: Okay, for those who are like, what the heck is
Speaker 9: going on? Right before the start of the show, Derek
Speaker 9: is like, Okay, for the show, we're gonna recap the
Speaker 9: first quarter. And then that was that. And then in
Speaker 9: my head, I'm like, wait, of the game, Like what
Speaker 9: are we doing? Like that sounds like an awful show?
Speaker 9: Why are we recapping the first quarter of the game.
Speaker 9: And he's like, no, it's of the first quarter of
Speaker 9: the season.
Speaker 6: Come on.
Speaker 9: I'm like, Okay, relax, let's just do the show, all.
Speaker 8: Right, So we relax. Now we're gonna talk about first
Speaker 8: quarter of season. Now, here's what I'm gonna do. Before
Speaker 8: we get into that, we're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 8: about some injuries. But once we get to the player
Speaker 8: to the first season, I have some questions for you guys.
Speaker 8: Some player evals to have some names that I want
Speaker 8: to just get you guys to give me an opinion
Speaker 8: on what you think of.
Speaker 4: Their first quarter outstanding and uh.
Speaker 8: And we'll go through some of those, hopefully hits, some
Speaker 8: names that we haven't talked about as much for folks,
Speaker 8: just to give them an idea of where everyone is.
Speaker 8: But let's start first with the news that really has
Speaker 8: been been the most predominant news for the Cowboys ever
Speaker 8: since the game. Michael Parsons and de Marcus Lawrence both
Speaker 8: gonna miss time.
Speaker 4: Both have injuries.
Speaker 8: Brian, what do we know about their injuries and and
Speaker 8: what do we know at this point or what are
Speaker 8: we're surmising at this point with regard to their the
Speaker 8: amount of time they'll miss.
Speaker 2: Okay, I could, I could tell you the amount of time.
Speaker 2: How about that? Does that work work? You're probably not
Speaker 2: going to get Micah back until after the bye.
Speaker 4: That's kind of two games you got and.
Speaker 5: Then yeah you got this, get the Pittsburgh game, you
Speaker 5: got this game. Yeah, the Pittsburgh game, you get the
Speaker 5: Detroit game you.
Speaker 2: Got to buy.
Speaker 5: And then now you're looking to potentially get him back
Speaker 5: at that spot for the forty for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: When you look at the injury to Tank, and I
Speaker 5: know that Todd Archer is reporting a List Frank injury,
Speaker 5: which is a foot injury, which Todd is very accurate
Speaker 5: on this stuff, so I would trust exactly what he's
Speaker 5: saying there. All right now, when you ask people in
Speaker 5: the building about this. They said they really don't know,
Speaker 5: really a firm timetable. They probably won't know for a
Speaker 5: good two weeks and then we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 5: But they were thinking that four weeks on this thing
Speaker 5: was very optimistic. So this thing's going to likely go
Speaker 5: longer than four weeks, is what they're looking.
Speaker 2: At right now.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of what your timetable, Micah closer to being,
Speaker 5: you know, the three weeks, and then Tank will see
Speaker 5: what happens, you know, after an evaluation of two weeks
Speaker 5: and then another two weeks and then we'll see where
Speaker 5: it goes from there. But it sounds like that one's
Speaker 5: going to be pretty pretty significant and you know, maybe
Speaker 5: any probably you know, maybe six weeks if you're really
Speaker 5: on it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, when you look at this team and what's happened
Speaker 8: since last season where they allowed two of their their
Speaker 8: defensive ends, dranch Armstrong and Dante Folo to both leave
Speaker 8: in free agency. And by the way, I don't want
Speaker 8: to be a revision's history guy. I think back at
Speaker 8: the time, I was like, for the amount of money
Speaker 8: they are generated that that's going to cost, I'm comfortable
Speaker 8: with the Cowboys letting them walk. But obviously you didn't
Speaker 8: predict this. You got those two guys gone, then you
Speaker 8: get to training camp, you lose Sam Williams. At this
Speaker 8: point you got Marshawn Kneelan, But what else do you
Speaker 8: have and how does how do the Cowboys recover and
Speaker 8: make this go without these two defensive ends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there should be a little bit of
Speaker 3: confidence in what Marshawn Kneeland and Chauncey golds and I
Speaker 3: assume that's going to be the one two punch should
Speaker 3: be able to produce.
Speaker 10: Is it going to be at Mike and de Laws level?
Speaker 10: Absolutely not.
Speaker 3: There's going to be some responsibility that falls on the
Speaker 3: second level on the interior defensive line, even in the secondary.
Speaker 3: The rest of the defense is going to have to
Speaker 3: pick up the slack for sure. But you look at
Speaker 3: what Marshaw Kneelan can do from a power perspective, I
Speaker 3: think there's some things that he can do in the world
Speaker 3: game that can kind of match what d Law brings from.
Speaker 10: A skill set standpoint.
Speaker 3: Is it as refined and as polished as what d
Speaker 3: Law has brought in is eleven years in the NFL?
Speaker 10: Absolutely not.
Speaker 3: He's still a rookie at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: but he can kind of give you that big presence
Speaker 3: off the edge, kind of help conceal the edge. I
Speaker 3: look at Chauncey Golston and I know we've talked about
Speaker 3: it quite a bit. I love Chauncey Golsten way more
Speaker 3: as an edge, So I think this is going to
Speaker 3: really allow him to flourish and finally play the position
Speaker 3: that I feel like he's best at and do it
Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 10: Stack some reps there.
Speaker 3: As far as what he could bring from a pass
Speaker 3: rush perspective, I mean, we're gonna have to see.
Speaker 10: I do like his athleticism off the edge.
Speaker 3: I think he brings some power to but all in all,
Speaker 3: it's gonna have to be an all out approach from
Speaker 3: those two guys, Tyruswe Carl Lass and anybody else that
Speaker 3: they bring in. They're gonna have to rotate bodies in.
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to figure this thing out for at
Speaker 3: least a couple of weeks. My information kind of corroborates
Speaker 3: and and Brian has a lot more, but it corroborates
Speaker 3: what he was saying as far as Micah probably not
Speaker 3: getting him back a'til after the bye week, and then
Speaker 3: as far as d law looking like an ir stump there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this conversation is making my heart race very very fast.
Speaker 9: I'm like starting to freak out because we already know
Speaker 9: the struggles that were there prior to these two injuries,
Speaker 9: very very important injuries. And we've also seen that it's
Speaker 9: not just the past rush or the defensive line what
Speaker 9: they're doing there, but it's also what it creates for
Speaker 9: the rest of the defense. We've we've seen it with
Speaker 9: the linebackers. When the defensive line plays better, it allows
Speaker 9: your lampmackers to be a lot better and execute those
Speaker 9: plays better.
Speaker 10: But it's just.
Speaker 9: I don't know how you get through it. I get it.
Speaker 9: People want to say, oh, next man up, Well, yeah,
Speaker 9: that's what happens in the in the game, Next man up.
Speaker 9: But it's just it's tough giving all the struggles that
Speaker 9: they've already been having.
Speaker 5: You need to find a way to turn the clock
Speaker 5: back for Carl Lawson a little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you need.
Speaker 5: I mean he's been a he's been kind of a
Speaker 5: spot player for you right now, and he should be
Speaker 5: ready to go.
Speaker 2: You know, we've we've been through now a month of
Speaker 2: the he's and he should be ready to go.
Speaker 5: Conditioning should be fine, you know, instead of playing, you know,
Speaker 5: fifteen plays he needs to play. He's probably gonna have
Speaker 5: to play forty plays, you know, but they need him
Speaker 5: to kind of get back to that that I like
Speaker 5: what we and I know you're going to go through
Speaker 5: some players, and I guarantee you that you know that
Speaker 5: that this these edges. Kneeland is a guy you're probably
Speaker 5: going to talk about. And you know, Nick, I think
Speaker 5: gave a pretty damn good assessment of him as a player,
Speaker 5: and you know, this could be a great opportunity for him,
Speaker 5: It could be a great opportunity for Golston. They just
Speaker 5: can't afford anything else to happen to these guys. And
Speaker 5: it might even be to the point where we might
Speaker 5: see them bring somebody in to work somebody out some
Speaker 5: of these defensive ends. I have this group I called
Speaker 5: my Gang of Seven, which are guys and gals around
Speaker 5: the league that are in player personnel departments. And you know,
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get them to say, Okay, give me
Speaker 5: all your best practice squad poachers. You know, if you
Speaker 5: have to go poach a guy off a practice squad.
Speaker 5: It's never a bad thing because those guys are, those
Speaker 5: guys are playing, you know, those guys are practicing.
Speaker 2: Those guys are.
Speaker 5: You know, so if you can find that guy me,
Speaker 5: that would be better then because I need guys that.
Speaker 2: Can play right now. I don't need somebody that's been
Speaker 2: at home and.
Speaker 5: Hasn't done anything and then now all of a sudden
Speaker 5: you have to ramp them up for three four weeks
Speaker 5: and you don't get what you need out of it.
Speaker 5: But I would consider poaching a guy off somebody's practice squad.
Speaker 5: You know, if you identify maybe a young player or
Speaker 5: somebody like that. You kind of said, hey, we like
Speaker 5: this guy in college. You know, he's he's at the Buccaneers.
Speaker 5: Can we go get here, you know, put tank on
Speaker 5: ir and then go get you know, go poach one
Speaker 5: of these guys. This is where it can kind of
Speaker 5: be for a personnel guy. Could be a little fun,
Speaker 5: you know that, you know, Hey, we got to figure
Speaker 5: out something here. Let's let's figure out the best options here.
Speaker 5: And their pro department does a pretty damn good job.
Speaker 5: So that's the route I think they might go to.
Speaker 3: That same point, I had a conversation in the last
Speaker 3: few days, and it was saying that, yeah, we're having
Speaker 3: to put trust into Marshall neland into Chauncey Golston, but
Speaker 3: we're putting trust in a Will mclauch because that was
Speaker 3: the guy that they wanted to go get in the
Speaker 3: second round last year. Okay, now he's gonna need to
Speaker 3: be steps stepping into a starting role and the trust
Speaker 3: is really falling on the clay in his department, as
Speaker 3: Brian says, here to be able to identify that pick
Speaker 3: and hope that he can step in and be ready
Speaker 3: to play in a situation like this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for me, when I look at this,
Speaker 8: the first question obviously becomes, how do you generate pressure.
Speaker 8: I think Marshawn Nealand can be fine on the edge
Speaker 8: playing against the run. I think a Golson can do
Speaker 8: the same thing. I just don't know if you've got
Speaker 8: anybody that's really gonna scare another team when it comes
Speaker 8: to the pass rush. And so this is where and
Speaker 8: I'm not sure this is Zimmer's game. I know he
Speaker 8: likes to run the a gap begap blitzes, but really
Speaker 8: I think if you're going to generate pressure You're gonna
Speaker 8: have to bring pressure from a lot of different places,
Speaker 8: whether it's linebackers. You do you line up over shown
Speaker 8: on the outside and rush it from the outside. Do
Speaker 8: you send corners? Do you send safeties? Like you have
Speaker 8: to do a lot of creative stuff. And I don't
Speaker 8: know if that is that Zimmer's defense. Does he have
Speaker 8: that kind of thing in his day?
Speaker 5: We saw the other day the Giants had a play
Speaker 5: where they actually made It was a pretty good play,
Speaker 5: but they picked up they picked up Jordan Lewis on
Speaker 5: the blitz. It was a slot blitz, so you know,
Speaker 5: you know he's got that in the bag of tricks
Speaker 5: to try and but you're absolutely right. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: going to be about uh, you know, finding Kendrick's, you know,
Speaker 5: and trying to get to these guys, get to Kendricks.
Speaker 5: You know, they need to get healthy in the secondary though, too.
Speaker 5: It's a lot easier to send people and blitz people
Speaker 5: and stuff like that when you're not playing with your
Speaker 5: fourth or fifth corner, you know, and those guy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't think you're gonna get I don't think you're
Speaker 5: gonna get Bland back this week. You know, we'll see
Speaker 5: what happens, and you know the Detroit and and and
Speaker 5: beyond the sixth week mark or what is it.
Speaker 10: A four week mark, but six weeks since he had
Speaker 10: the surgery.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so there you know that. But it's
Speaker 5: he's coming along really well. I was just told it's
Speaker 5: not going to be this week, so you know, maybe
Speaker 5: getting back for Detroit. But if you if you know
Speaker 5: that you can cover with if you can cover with Digs,
Speaker 5: you can cover with Bland, you can cover with Lewis,
Speaker 5: it kind of makes up a little bit for the stuff.
Speaker 5: Then now you could take some chances with your linebackers
Speaker 5: and and uh, you know, and and group like that.
Speaker 3: Mayerslulfowl a year ago at Notre Dame three sacks. I
Speaker 3: think that's an interesting guy that they maybe a pressure perspective.
Speaker 3: We talked about it on the Draft show. He's a
Speaker 3: situational third down pass rusher and he can he can
Speaker 3: get to the quarterback and if he's not sacking the quarterback,
Speaker 3: he's at least generating pressure and altering the place.
Speaker 5: Over shown too if you watched him at Texas was
Speaker 5: a little bit you know some you know, former safety
Speaker 5: and all.
Speaker 4: That, but man, they rushed from the outside.
Speaker 5: Alle Yeah, just anything you could do to create opportunity
Speaker 5: for your guys, that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 2: And and you know, but a lot of it is
Speaker 2: covering on the back end. You know. If they don't
Speaker 2: do that well enough, Blitzen ain't ain't gonna matter.
Speaker 8: I know, this isn't gonna happen. But he did run
Speaker 8: a three four when when Bill was here and maybe
Speaker 8: morph a little bit and kind of get some of
Speaker 8: those linebackers on the outside rushing that way rather than
Speaker 8: having them, you know, having to try to put their
Speaker 8: hand on the ground or try to figure out no
Speaker 8: way to get him around that edge.
Speaker 4: But I just that's the part I'm concerned about.
Speaker 8: I'm really concerned about how they're going to get pass rush,
Speaker 8: especially in situations where you play teams that have some
Speaker 8: really good quarterback receiver combinations. I think you're gonna have
Speaker 8: some of those here in the next several weeks.
Speaker 3: And I wonder how much trust there is and Massie
Speaker 3: Smith after the performance, That's what I was going to
Speaker 3: say too, Yeah, because if let's say that they were
Speaker 3: to move to a three four kind of help the
Speaker 3: defense out a little bit, then you're putting a lot
Speaker 3: of trust in the MAZI to be able to control
Speaker 3: those gaps, really hold appliants exactly.
Speaker 10: So I wonder how much absolutely it was.
Speaker 3: His best game as a pro on Thursday night, and
Speaker 3: you could tell after in the locker room. That's about
Speaker 3: his upbeat and the most words I've heard from Mande
Speaker 3: Smith since he's been here.
Speaker 4: So it was actually good to see.
Speaker 10: It was phenomenal.
Speaker 8: You could see, you could see the level of pressure
Speaker 8: kind of be lifted for a little bit. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 8: it's a week to week in the NFL. You come back,
Speaker 8: have a bad game next week, and it's all back.
Speaker 8: But it was good to see him in that moment.
Speaker 2: We got thirteen more of these. Let's go settle up,
Speaker 2: no doubt.
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Speaker 8: we're gonna do. We're gonna do some player evaluations. I'm
Speaker 8: gonna run down a list of names, and for each name,
Speaker 8: I want you guys to tell me what you like
Speaker 8: that you've seen so far in the first quarter and
Speaker 8: where do you think their biggest need for improvement is?
Speaker 8: All right, so let's start first with probably the guy that,
Speaker 8: in my opinion on the offense, has gotten probably more
Speaker 8: talk than most Tyler Tyler Tyler Goydon.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Nick Tyler Guiden.
Speaker 3: I you know, through for the first four games, I
Speaker 3: think having the context of how he has come into
Speaker 3: the year is really important. Only having fourteen college starts
Speaker 3: at being on the right side, yes, he was still
Speaker 3: protecting a blind side of a quarterback, but moving to
Speaker 3: the left side, there's still some things to work out
Speaker 3: in that kind of situation. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: if we call back to training camp in those first
Speaker 3: couple of days, he was just beating Michael Parsons at
Speaker 3: DeMarcus Lawrence over and over again, and everybody was like,
Speaker 3: oh my goodness, so we already got another All Pro
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame left tackle. I was like, look, the
Speaker 3: bumps and bruises are going to come along the way,
Speaker 3: and I think we're starting to see those bumps and bruises.
Speaker 3: And I think you just ride the wave with Tyler Gouyden.
Speaker 3: And I think more importantly, if Tyler Goeydon rides the
Speaker 3: wave of Tyler Goyden, he's gonna be all right, especially
Speaker 3: once you get to the end of the season and
Speaker 3: he's literally doubled his amount of career starts. I think
Speaker 3: by whenever you're looking up in December, he's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lot more refined. But I think as far as
Speaker 3: immediate immediate correction needs to be on the holding penalties,
Speaker 3: it has to be on the discipline stuff. I know
Speaker 3: it's kind of a factor of him getting beat around
Speaker 3: the edge with his feet and he needs to get
Speaker 3: out of his stance a little bit quicker against some
Speaker 3: certain guys, and as a result, he's been hooking some guys.
Speaker 3: I think if he can just kind of whittle that
Speaker 3: down a little bit, then he could start getting back
Speaker 3: on that progression up swing, and I think it'll work
Speaker 3: out just fine for him. As I've said from the beginning,
Speaker 3: we're going to look up at the end of the
Speaker 3: rookie season with all these first round picks, we probably
Speaker 3: won't be talking about Tyler Geiden as one of the
Speaker 3: best first round picks of the year. But I think
Speaker 3: when we look up three four years from now and
Speaker 3: those guys are starting to get their fifth year options,
Speaker 3: he's going to be one of the most no brainers
Speaker 3: to get that fifth year option. I think his development
Speaker 3: is just going to go up.
Speaker 9: Yeah, all I know, I think he's been he's been
Speaker 9: all right now this last game, I mean, the penalties
Speaker 9: came big into play, and that's something that he's going
Speaker 9: to have to be very very mindful and learn where
Speaker 9: to do. Everyone does it, everyone holds, So just figure
Speaker 9: out how do you hide the hide that a little
Speaker 9: better to where the officials are not calling a flag
Speaker 9: on you. But he he he's the type of guy
Speaker 9: that is very, very dedicated into the game. He will
Speaker 9: put in the work. All that comes out of his
Speaker 9: mouth anytime I've heard him speak, it's football, football, football, study,
Speaker 9: learn practice. So I believe that this is something he's
Speaker 9: going to look back into this past game and he's
Speaker 9: going to keep working on improving week after week. But
Speaker 9: I would say that just finding that comfort and just
Speaker 9: believing in his strength. He's such a tall guy and
Speaker 9: he's very powerful, So I think if he works on
Speaker 9: his how do I say this this.
Speaker 2: Is gonna sound weird lower body strength?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 9: Yes, I was gonna say spreading his legs right, terrible.
Speaker 9: I still said it, But the stance basically the stands
Speaker 9: where his feet just kind of plank on there on. Yes,
Speaker 9: that I just I need to improve my vocabulary. But yes,
Speaker 9: just working on his stand and stands, and I think
Speaker 9: he will get the job done. It's just it's just
Speaker 9: part of where he's at in his career right now.
Speaker 2: It's amazing to me they've thrown him deep into the
Speaker 2: pool and said swim.
Speaker 4: Especially his last game.
Speaker 5: Man, they don't even give him of those little orange
Speaker 5: life jackets to wear when you were a kid, you know,
Speaker 5: around your neck. It was embarrassing.
Speaker 2: It's so big. He didn't want to wear it.
Speaker 8: And they did the school school, yeah, swimming lessons there
Speaker 8: you go figure it out.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 5: It is like, yeah, like you know, sometimes he goes
Speaker 5: all the way to the bottom, he touches and he
Speaker 5: bounces back up to the top.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 5: They've got to figure out ways to give him a
Speaker 5: little bit more help if they can. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: there's gonna be some games coming up here and he's
Speaker 5: already faced some guys that.
Speaker 2: Can rush the passer.
Speaker 5: And you know, if you continually have him single block
Speaker 5: eighty nine ninety percent of the snaps I get it, man,
Speaker 5: I mean, hey, good for him, but you're also crushing
Speaker 5: him in a lot.
Speaker 2: Of ways to where people are getting film on.
Speaker 5: Okay, take him hard inside, take him to the edge,
Speaker 5: you know, beat him when he's in this stance. So
Speaker 5: he's gonna break him down this way. You know, there's
Speaker 5: there's guys that are getting a lot of film and
Speaker 5: my man.
Speaker 2: Is in some survival mode.
Speaker 5: You know, really the ball go, it's snapped a deck
Speaker 5: and it's survival mode ball, you know, and that's you
Speaker 5: know inside. You know, Cooper bebe this last game. You know,
Speaker 5: he was double team blocked eighty percent of the time.
Speaker 5: He was getting help. But they you know, Lawrence is
Speaker 5: a good player, actually a great player for the Giants.
Speaker 5: So I just kind of feel like you've got to
Speaker 5: find some ways to kind of mix it up and
Speaker 5: help and not let everybody just have a free rush
Speaker 5: on him the way until he figured out the stance,
Speaker 5: the feet, the hands, everything about him needs to kind
Speaker 5: of be working. But you see it at times. There
Speaker 5: could be times when he's really good at it, and
Speaker 5: then there's times where it's like, oh damn, here comes
Speaker 5: survival mode. But I mean, the kid's tough and he
Speaker 5: doesn't back down, and he's getting better. Though when he
Speaker 5: knows it might be holding, he kind of puts his
Speaker 5: hands up, you know, he like falls on the guy
Speaker 5: and kind of puts his hands.
Speaker 2: Up so the officials don't call it.
Speaker 5: But he gets his body positions bad at times, and
Speaker 5: you know, he just got a lot of improvement he
Speaker 5: needs on that.
Speaker 2: But they got to help him a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned his name, but let's move on to
Speaker 4: Cooper Bebe.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Cooper Bebe.
Speaker 3: I think whenever you look at his first four games
Speaker 3: and you look at the stats on PFF about pressures
Speaker 3: allowed and sacks allowed and things like that, he looks
Speaker 3: absolutely phenomenal. He has been great, but I think there
Speaker 3: are still some things in the running game that he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to work on.
Speaker 8: I think as you watch the game right like, they're
Speaker 8: just thinking, you're, like, he's not as great.
Speaker 3: Lawn a few times. Yeah, like Dexter Lawrence beat him
Speaker 3: up a few times. The stats do not show it.
Speaker 3: And hey, whenever you are a starting center, sometimes you're
Speaker 3: able to get away with those things a little bit
Speaker 3: easier than others, just because the nature of the defensive
Speaker 3: tackle position. And what success actually looks like from that
Speaker 3: position just looks a little bit different from the rest
Speaker 3: of the eleven. But I think from a Cooper BB perspective,
Speaker 3: I love what he's done in pass pro. I think
Speaker 3: in run block there just has to be a little
Speaker 3: bit of correction that's going to have to be applied.
Speaker 3: And we talked all year last year about how the
Speaker 3: guys up front were a big catalyst towards the run
Speaker 3: game not being as productive as it could have been.
Speaker 3: I think as a unit all five, when you look
Speaker 3: from a run blocking perspective, it has been better, but
Speaker 3: there are still some guys that can improve a lot.
Speaker 3: And I think Cooper BB is probably suspect number one
Speaker 3: in that instance, just because you know what his development
Speaker 3: will look like whenever he does get to his max
Speaker 3: level of progression. So I think there is still some
Speaker 3: learning going on with the center position, specifically in run block.
Speaker 3: I think from a pass pro perspective, though he has
Speaker 3: exceeded my expectations. I think he's been really strong in
Speaker 3: the middle. He's he's created a really great depth of
Speaker 3: pocket for Dak Prescott. I think that's only going to
Speaker 3: improve as his time gets more more in depth.
Speaker 5: The way the Cowboys run the ball, he's got to
Speaker 5: be better, you know, and I mean I mean and
Speaker 5: I mean better, because I think there's been times where
Speaker 5: he has been better.
Speaker 2: Some of their bigger.
Speaker 5: Runs are him and Martin or him and Smith push
Speaker 5: the middle and then the ball cuts behind them because
Speaker 5: it doesn't like to me, and nothing on the outside
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys, there's nothing outside the tackle. It always
Speaker 5: seems like it's in between either the tight end to
Speaker 5: the center box, and that's where they try and kind
Speaker 5: of take the ball inside and cut it from that.
Speaker 3: But it was that one run on Thursday night Reco
Speaker 3: and I think it was a BB Smith and guid
Speaker 3: and just kind of pushing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Huge, Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: They you know, even the run that even the run
Speaker 5: that Zeke got called back where they had two holdings
Speaker 5: on the play that Tyler Smith and BB both which
Speaker 5: I thought were questionable calls.
Speaker 2: But still that that, you.
Speaker 5: Know, the run part of it, that's how they're going
Speaker 5: to him and those guards to do it because any
Speaker 5: other way of running the football, we just haven't seen it.
Speaker 5: We just haven't seen they be able to create. They
Speaker 5: haven't got the ball to the edge with any effectiveness
Speaker 5: unless it's a jet sweep or something like that. But
Speaker 5: they're going to need him to be a little bit
Speaker 5: better inside the pass block and stuff. Has actually been really, really,
Speaker 5: really good because I was surprised to make a call,
Speaker 5: make the snap, find out where you need to go,
Speaker 5: and he's doing all that pretty well right now. He
Speaker 5: did have the problems with when the twist stunts where
Speaker 5: you pass and he would get too engaged. And when
Speaker 5: you become so engaged, that allows the looper to come around,
Speaker 5: and he's got to be He got better at just
Speaker 5: getting rid of that guy and then being there ready
Speaker 5: for the looper to come around. So he's going to
Speaker 5: see more of that. You know, people are gonna run
Speaker 5: twist stunts inside and stuff, and he's gonna have to
Speaker 5: be able to handle.
Speaker 3: Much of the word surprising, and I think an extra
Speaker 3: surprise element is effect of the system he came from
Speaker 3: at Kansas State being so run down it and just
Speaker 3: loading up and you know, twelve and twenty two personnel
Speaker 3: and just running the ball downhill. That he's been so
Speaker 3: great in pass pro and it's not that they don't
Speaker 3: pass the ball at Kansas State. I mean they spread
Speaker 3: it out. Chris Cleman does a good job of being
Speaker 3: able to get those receivers involved too. But it's it's
Speaker 3: pretty surprising how well he's been able to pick up
Speaker 3: the pass block.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think, And this is not a shot to
Speaker 9: to be yaddish.
Speaker 10: Yes, he's actually looked pretty good, has.
Speaker 4: Been pretty good from what I've seen.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but no shot to him. I actually love him.
Speaker 9: I love the guy. But I think that in the
Speaker 9: long run, this has been an improvement for the position.
Speaker 9: I think that next year is when you're gonna start
Speaker 9: seeing BB really grow into what he's supposed to be.
Speaker 9: He's a big guy, and he's very he has the power.
Speaker 9: But you can you know that jump from year one
Speaker 9: to year two where they just gained so much more
Speaker 9: strength and muscle mass. And I think that's something that
Speaker 9: he's he he likes at times. For sure, they're blocking
Speaker 9: for the running game, but also it seems to be
Speaker 9: the collective problem here where it's not just one person
Speaker 9: messing it up. It's something that everybody along the line
Speaker 9: needs to improve on.
Speaker 8: If I had to ask, if I ask you guys
Speaker 8: to rank the offensive lineman one to five. As far
Speaker 8: as how well they've played so far during the first
Speaker 8: quarter of the season, how would you rank them.
Speaker 2: I would say Tyler Smith won BB two, Martin three,
Speaker 2: Steal four, and guid In five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd probably have the same ranking I was. I
Speaker 3: was between Guiding and Steel there at four and five.
Speaker 3: But you're right, A Steel's had a couple of really
Speaker 3: solid games and so yeah, I got to give the
Speaker 3: edge to Steal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Same, I like it.
Speaker 4: It's kind of interesting. It's kind of interesting to me exactly.
Speaker 8: I would have thought maybe still got a little more
Speaker 8: love because I think some of the games he's played well,
Speaker 8: he's played really well.
Speaker 5: Now have some games it was like, oh no, we
Speaker 5: always talk about Stell riding the roller coaster six flags.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 16: He's a serviceable right tackle, yes, yes, and when he's on,
Speaker 16: he's really on.
Speaker 9: Oh No.
Speaker 5: There are games where there are games where you know,
Speaker 5: you go back and you watch him play, and but
Speaker 5: there's you know, like we was talked about grade the
Speaker 5: sixty five plays, and then there's the two plays where
Speaker 5: you're like, oh damn, he gave up a sack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was on a pace to for giving up a.
Speaker 5: Sack a game and then he kind of curtailed that
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 9: Well, the thing for him is like you've seen him
Speaker 9: be really, really good, so you expect more from from him.
Speaker 9: He's been here a while now. Also his a whole
Speaker 9: year out from the injury that he had, I mean
Speaker 9: last year, that's where you could blame some of those
Speaker 9: issues that he had. But now in him speaking himself
Speaker 9: even at training camp saying like this is the best
Speaker 9: he's ever felt, you just expect him to be a
Speaker 9: lot more solid. But I absolutely love him. I was
Speaker 9: saying I was criticizing Mike McCarthy back in the day,
Speaker 9: remember when we were doing those shows and we're like,
Speaker 9: what is happening here? They be lived in him and
Speaker 9: I think he definitely earned his spot, and but yeah,
Speaker 9: he just needs to be a little bit more consistent.
Speaker 2: I didn't influence you guys with Martin at three.
Speaker 4: That well, see, that's what I was just about to go.
Speaker 8: I was gonna say, if for those out there listening,
Speaker 8: that was not a mistake.
Speaker 4: You said Bebe was too a baby? Put Martin at three? Yeah,
Speaker 4: how does that? I mean, like, why is it? Why?
Speaker 4: What have you seen from Zach Martin that will make
Speaker 4: him the third.
Speaker 2: It looks mortal, he does. It looks very mortal.
Speaker 3: There have been two or three moments in almost every
Speaker 3: game when you're like, oh, he's yeah, it looksien old.
Speaker 10: The problem.
Speaker 5: The problem, the problem that did Zach be respectful?
Speaker 9: Respect the bar is.
Speaker 2: The bar has for so many years has been so.
Speaker 5: High that when you see, you know, and you see
Speaker 5: a little bit more breaking down, you see guys breaking
Speaker 5: him down a little more, and you never saw that.
Speaker 5: So to me and I like what Bbe has done.
Speaker 5: I think there's stuff in the running game and that
Speaker 5: he can get better at. But I'm man, I'm happy
Speaker 5: with the way he's played. But I guess it's just
Speaker 5: with me. With Zach Martin, there's been things that he
Speaker 5: looks just mortal. He looks like a guy that all
Speaker 5: of a suddenly gets put push back. And in the New
Speaker 5: Orleans game, he gets pushed back in the pocket and
Speaker 5: they slapped the ball out of Dak's hands and now
Speaker 5: it's on the ground and Tobert has to run over
Speaker 5: and cover it. You know, I mean, right down, I
Speaker 5: mean that Zach Martin getting walked.
Speaker 3: First play from scrimmage of the season dad got whacked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a.
Speaker 3: Guy beating Zach Martin, I don't remember who it was
Speaker 3: beating Zach Martin.
Speaker 10: And pass and pass protection. I think on that.
Speaker 3: Same note, Zach Martin has still been solid. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think all five guys have had their moments. But I
Speaker 3: think when you look at Tyler Smith and Cooper Bebe's
Speaker 3: case so far, those guys have played at Pro Bowl levels.
Speaker 3: And I feel that way about Cooper bb too. I
Speaker 3: don't feel like Zach Martin has really reached that. I
Speaker 3: think he'll end up getting the Pro Bowl, but he
Speaker 3: hasn't seen it. I haven't seen that from him so far.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what's rough about it is you go a
Speaker 8: whole season or half a season and not see Zach
Speaker 8: Martin give up a play, and so now when you're
Speaker 8: seeing it more regularly, multiple times through the first quarter
Speaker 8: of the season, it is a bit jarring when you
Speaker 8: look up and you're like.
Speaker 4: Oh, Dak got hit. Oh that was Zach. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the part.
Speaker 8: I think that's just it probably stands out a little
Speaker 8: bit more than even other offensive line because you're just
Speaker 8: not used to seeing it.
Speaker 13: All.
Speaker 9: Right, Why these ratings are I mean, you can be
Speaker 9: fully fair because you're giving these ratings based on individuals
Speaker 9: and where they're at in their career. I mean, but yeah,
Speaker 9: it's just man, this might be this might be it.
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Speaker 8: All right, let's jump back in. Let's jump back in. Uh,
Speaker 8: let's get to some more names. Let's go with Hunter
Speaker 8: Lipkey just for Nick since he was Johnny on the
Speaker 8: spot there.
Speaker 10: Uh, what what has he done wrong?
Speaker 3: I h I love the integration that Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 3: put Hunter Lipkey into in this offense going into this
Speaker 3: year a receiving weapon and I I don't think I
Speaker 3: anticipated that being the case after the situations that they
Speaker 3: put him in during his rookie season. But I think
Speaker 3: if you call back to some of the great moments
Speaker 3: he had in the preseason last year, and specifically that
Speaker 3: Raiders game at home, I believe he had somewhere around
Speaker 3: seventy five receiving yards, had the receiving touchdown where he
Speaker 3: hurdled the guy. He can be a weapon in the
Speaker 3: receiving game. He has a route running tree. It was
Speaker 3: developed at North Dakota State. He comes out of the backfield.
Speaker 3: They've lined him up at tight end. That corner route
Speaker 3: that he ran against Kyle Hamilton in the in the
Speaker 3: Ravens game. I mean that was that was what a
Speaker 3: tight end does, and he was able to get some
Speaker 3: separation and hauld that in. Typically when the ball is
Speaker 3: thrown his way, he's hauling it in. And so I
Speaker 3: think if he's developed more as a receiving weapon, that
Speaker 3: can kind of open up this offense. I'm not there yet,
Speaker 3: but I'm close to just making the proclamation give the
Speaker 3: ball a hundred lockey fifteen times a game. I'm very
Speaker 3: close to making that proclamation because he's gonna.
Speaker 2: I don't see that as a problem.
Speaker 10: He's gonna be a guy that can give you four
Speaker 10: yards per carry.
Speaker 2: I don't see that as a problem.
Speaker 5: He's always going to fall forward, he's always going to
Speaker 5: find he's got a feel for how to get through
Speaker 5: tight spaces. He's got really good balance, he's tough, you know,
Speaker 5: the whole thing. Until I mean, everybody will bring up
Speaker 5: the thing that what happened to him in Miami. You know,
Speaker 5: unfortunately it happens. It happens to a lot of them.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this. I think he's one of your
Speaker 5: three best offensive players. When you look at when you
Speaker 5: start to name the best offensive players, Hunter Lipkey needs
Speaker 5: to be in that top three or four names. He
Speaker 5: is a weapon in every sense.
Speaker 2: Of the word.
Speaker 5: His ability on that fourth down play to you know
Speaker 5: what happened the very next play you score a touchdown,
Speaker 5: they throw the ball to Lamb and it's a fifty
Speaker 5: something yard touchdown pass he had.
Speaker 2: He had a third down.
Speaker 5: Catch that got eleven yards that next play touchdown. This
Speaker 5: guy all he does for you is make plays. He's
Speaker 5: he had three special teams tackles too, you know. I
Speaker 5: mean he plays a ton in these games, never comes
Speaker 5: off the field, and a lot of these circumstances. But
Speaker 5: when you start to say who the Dallas Cowboys three
Speaker 5: best offensive players, I put Hunter Lipkey in that rule
Speaker 5: through through four weeks of watching football right now, I
Speaker 5: put him in as one of your top three players.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be the guy to break away for
Speaker 3: a sixty yard touchdown if you do give him the
Speaker 3: bulk of the running back responsibility.
Speaker 4: That's what I was about to say.
Speaker 3: It's not like, it's not like you got him on
Speaker 3: the roster already, so you may as well give it
Speaker 3: to the guy that can at least get you four
Speaker 3: yards of care.
Speaker 9: No. Well, when he first got here and that Nick
Speaker 9: was all in love and started printing pictures and hanging
Speaker 9: it up all over his little hards around that's still
Speaker 9: do you know anywhere? I was just like okay, But
Speaker 9: then then I started falling in love too, and I
Speaker 9: started seeing the beauty he's. He's he's a true he's
Speaker 9: a true professional. And when you see him, I mean
Speaker 9: he's always laser focused, and that's the guy that he's
Speaker 9: gonna My only thing right now is that they're not
Speaker 9: playing him enough. I want to see him more on offense.
Speaker 9: He hasn't made any big mistakes or anything. Everything that
Speaker 9: he's done, he's been very, very productive. So that's the
Speaker 9: only thing is just get the ball to him a
Speaker 9: lot more.
Speaker 8: And I'll say this, I think you talk about him running,
Speaker 8: but I think he's the best pass catcher out of
Speaker 8: the backfield the Cowboys have. There was one catch he
Speaker 8: made this last game over the middle Yeah, that's a
Speaker 8: receiver type catch. That's not a typical running back type
Speaker 8: catch because it was a tough catch. There was a
Speaker 8: guy kind of on him and he used I mean
Speaker 8: it was a handscatch. This was a type of catch
Speaker 8: where I'm like, that's what I want to see. And
Speaker 8: that's why I think he's kind of gotten. He's kind
Speaker 8: of solidified the role as a third down back. He
Speaker 8: has that role kind of his that's his thing at
Speaker 8: this point. And I think it's because he can pick
Speaker 8: up the blitz. He can also sneak out and get
Speaker 8: you some yards in the passing game.
Speaker 3: Everyone's talking about him being a little Mike Allstart Like
Speaker 3: that's been thrown around the locker room. You may as well.
Speaker 3: You may as well just give him one hundred touches
Speaker 3: in the season, you know what I mean, Because that's
Speaker 3: what they did with all Stott and it worked out.
Speaker 5: I lived I lived the nightmare of Mike Alstott when
Speaker 5: I was in Green Bay. One hundred Lipke's got more
Speaker 5: balance and more lateral quickness. Mike Alstott was a downhill.
Speaker 2: He was a big dude. No, he was tough.
Speaker 5: I mean he really him. Christian Nkoya. Those guys like
Speaker 5: that back in the day.
Speaker 2: They just just bounce off from This guy's.
Speaker 5: Got the ability to get out and the like Derek
Speaker 5: was talking about, get out in the flat, soft hands.
Speaker 2: You know, been able to. He doesn't fight the ball,
Speaker 2: he catches it.
Speaker 5: You put somebody on him, he get away, he breaks tackles,
Speaker 5: he has bound I mean, there's all this.
Speaker 2: Michae Alstott was a hell of a football player, don't
Speaker 2: get me.
Speaker 5: Wrong, but man, I think this guy's got more athletic
Speaker 5: ability than Mike Alstott had.
Speaker 8: For those out there that are younger that may not
Speaker 8: have seen Michael.
Speaker 2: Google him. Google him.
Speaker 4: You'll see there's some really good players out.
Speaker 5: There where you're like, wow, this is He's just banged
Speaker 5: off people when he was rushing, you know, when he
Speaker 5: was running the ball.
Speaker 2: It's a hard guy to tackle, seriously, just banging around.
Speaker 8: Let's try to get one more guy here before we
Speaker 8: end the show. Give me a Klin Carson. He missed
Speaker 8: this last game. A guy that's kind of been you know,
Speaker 8: he's been challenged a little bit in.
Speaker 4: Those first three games. What do you think as far
Speaker 4: as what you like from him and what do you
Speaker 4: think he's got.
Speaker 2: Improved, you know'd say something real quick about him.
Speaker 5: I hate this for him, but it always he's one
Speaker 5: of these guys that I don't think things bother him,
Speaker 5: you know, when it comes to giving up a play
Speaker 5: or you know, I mean, every time that something bad
Speaker 5: has happened to him, it's like, the next six plays
Speaker 5: are really really good for him, you know.
Speaker 2: He he he had the deal.
Speaker 5: Where uh, you know, he missed the tackle and they
Speaker 5: got it. You know, the Saints got a huge gain
Speaker 5: out of it, and you know, and it it's it's
Speaker 5: it's a it was a bad play. But he he's
Speaker 5: one of these guys he challenges you. He's willing to tackle.
Speaker 5: I think he's physical. I just hate the fact that
Speaker 5: it takes a bad play for him to kind of
Speaker 5: get going.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like he he misses the tackle and now he's
Speaker 5: having to like the next six tackles are like all
Speaker 5: good tackles, Like he remembered how he's supposed to tackle,
Speaker 5: you know, not go high, wrap him up, stay, you know,
Speaker 5: get a shoulder in there. But the coverage stuff in
Speaker 5: two I you know, it's and it's it's it's learning.
Speaker 5: I mean it is so much learning for him, and
Speaker 5: you know the right, but I think he's better when
Speaker 5: he could play tight, when he plays back, I don't
Speaker 5: think he has a chance.
Speaker 2: I really really don't. I don't. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the quickness of the foot speed is there.
Speaker 5: And I think that when he can main contact with
Speaker 5: a receiver is when he's a better player. And I'd
Speaker 5: like to see him play more in and and and
Speaker 5: those kinds of roles. I have really really high hopes
Speaker 5: for him. I high high expectation. I think he's a
Speaker 5: really good player because I love how physically he is
Speaker 5: for a corner. Sometimes these corners want nothing to do
Speaker 5: with being physical. They don't want anything to do with tackling.
Speaker 5: Or I know this kid gets it. You know, if
Speaker 5: he makes a mistake, he's gonna get He's gonna come back.
Speaker 5: The next five plays are all going to be good
Speaker 5: plays for him.
Speaker 3: And I think there is still room for him to
Speaker 3: grow physical physically. That absolutely get yeah physical and to
Speaker 3: you know, uh step up and make those plays in
Speaker 3: the run game and that tackle and or Sean Babman,
Speaker 3: I'm just just pushing him to the sideline.
Speaker 10: You gotta be more physical there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think all in all, when you factor
Speaker 3: and he's a fifth round rookie who is asked to
Speaker 3: step in on two weeks notice and start the first
Speaker 3: three weeks of the season. Now, I guess we'll anticipate
Speaker 3: four of the first five it's been serviceable.
Speaker 10: And I think you take that ten times out.
Speaker 3: Of ten, he's he's as far as exceeding expectations, he's
Speaker 3: been my easy rookie of the year so far for
Speaker 3: this draft class.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree, he's been He's been pretty solid given
Speaker 9: the circumstances and where he was drafted and everything's and
Speaker 9: he my thing with when you were talking about speed
Speaker 9: and sometimes there is a big separation. But at the
Speaker 9: same time, what I give him grace in that aspect
Speaker 9: is like everybody else is doing the same thing, Like
Speaker 9: he's not the one standing out. Everybody on defense is
Speaker 9: also collectively doing that as well. So I give him
Speaker 9: some grace in that aspect. I think he's a guy,
Speaker 9: like like you said, Brian, he makes a mistake and
Speaker 9: he comes right back up. It doesn't mentally affect him,
Speaker 9: which is something big when you're asking a young guy
Speaker 9: to be mature, mentally mature, to be able to forget
Speaker 9: that play, keep going onto the next and again remembering
Speaker 9: that this is a tough position to play when you
Speaker 9: come in sometimes most of the time you're on your own.
Speaker 9: It's all it's you and the receiver figure it out.
Speaker 9: And I think all in all, he's he's done a
Speaker 9: pretty solid job. I really really like him. Obviously, there's
Speaker 9: gonna be mistakes and they're gonna continue to happen, but
Speaker 9: I think he's gonna be a very good guy.
Speaker 5: Can I ask a Tuesday question right now? What is
Speaker 5: it gonna take to get John Stevens active?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a great I would love to see it.
Speaker 8: But but you know, honestly, with these issues that you're
Speaker 8: gonna have on defense, the way I look at this
Speaker 8: is maybe the best thing you can do is try
Speaker 8: to fire out how you can score more points on offense.
Speaker 8: Now that's gonna require that's gonna require your offense to
Speaker 8: play call and maybe changing up how he looks at
Speaker 8: the game. It may also mean having to get a
Speaker 8: guy like John Stevens active because he can give you
Speaker 8: a little bit more and maybe you can track that
Speaker 8: running back room a little bit. As far as the
Speaker 8: guys that are active, maybe instead of having duce out there.
Speaker 8: Maybe you make John Stevens acting. Maybe that's standard.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, I just I just I'm curious because the
Speaker 5: span Ford thing, I don't see, you know. But that's
Speaker 5: why I've got a mic and I'm sitting here talking
Speaker 5: to you guys. I don't see it. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: not in that room. But John Stevens it's every week,
Speaker 5: you know. John Stevens is now becoming a healthy scratch
Speaker 5: for this team, and I think there's something about him
Speaker 5: that could just give me maybe a little bit more
Speaker 5: than what I'm getting from span Ford, maybe a little
Speaker 5: bit more than I get from Luke scoon Maker.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm flipping the two for these two weeks before
Speaker 3: the buye. If it were me, I'm activating John Stevens
Speaker 3: Junior and activating Reveen span Ford, just to see what
Speaker 3: he can do, see what he can bring from an
Speaker 3: offensive perspective in the past game, because you need the
Speaker 3: defense to step up, and the best defense is a
Speaker 3: good offense, so you may well give it another receiving Opestionah.
Speaker 8: What do we hearing about Kayln Carson right now?
Speaker 3: It sounds like he's gonna be good to go this week.
Speaker 3: There's there's a more passing that he'll have to do.
Speaker 3: As far as on field work, I believe that's starting
Speaker 3: on Wednesday. But nevertheless, it sounds good that you'll be
Speaker 3: ready to go for the Pittsburgh.
Speaker 10: It's a good thing for them.
Speaker 4: They'll need that body.
Speaker 10: All right.
Speaker 4: All right, appreciate you guys. Join us.
Speaker 8: We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna continue our player evaluations.
Speaker 8: We got a lot more players we'll get through till then.
Speaker 8: Nick Harris, Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton.
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