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Speaker 1: reeling off of this Atlanta win. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys getting that forty to thirty nine victory over the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: But boys, it's starting to get to that point where
Speaker 1: you're reflecting on the win. But Rob, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do before you take on the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks coming up this Sunday, y'all had I had a
Speaker 1: fan hit while y'all were talking, and I missed everything.
Speaker 1: Y'all are still laughing, like, let let the listener in.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? So we were we
Speaker 1: were waiting on you. We had of course every Tuesday,
Speaker 1: Rob's on the fan, and this is why I was
Speaker 1: just flustered to start the show first off. But I
Speaker 1: think we need to peel the curtain back. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: peel the curtain back. So we're talking to Isaiah and
Speaker 1: we're talking about how he's he's from Washington, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who played for the University of
Speaker 1: Washington Huskies for life. He were the were the Purple
Speaker 1: and Gold with pride. But he also has some allegiance
Speaker 1: to the Seattle Seahawks as well. As we're leading into
Speaker 1: that week. Now, he's a Cowboys fan too, don't get
Speaker 1: them wrong, but Seattle's home and that's what he was
Speaker 1: kind of talking about. And we started giving him a
Speaker 1: little flak. Heckmun I talking about how there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of there's more of the cheer for the check
Speaker 1: mentality right now. I mean, look what we're We're talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: We're not talking Seahawks. And so we start to give
Speaker 1: in Isaiah a little flat here, and of course heading
Speaker 1: into the week, and he wanted to remind us that
Speaker 1: you can get checks other ways too, and one of
Speaker 1: the ways that he does it is on Cameo, the
Speaker 1: the app that you have on your phone where you
Speaker 1: can record special messages via a paycheck for certain check
Speaker 1: for for a whopping twenty five ninety nine, you can
Speaker 1: get Isaiah to personalize a message for you or your
Speaker 1: family member or your friend and you can basically tell
Speaker 1: him what to say, and we pulled one up right before.
Speaker 1: What can I say? What? What was that? I'm a
Speaker 1: cheap date? You know, you know I'm easy. I said,
Speaker 1: you give him to me ninety nine. I got you.
Speaker 1: Hey man, every every little bit helps, right, I mean
Speaker 1: why not? You know what, I've only seen that one
Speaker 1: time and I can't remember the name of the celebrity,
Speaker 1: but it was basically he was taking money to to
Speaker 1: break up with somebody's girlfriend on the website. So I
Speaker 1: don't know you go that far or not. That's not true.
Speaker 1: After today's show, maybe I'm sure. I'm qui. I just
Speaker 1: started on there, so hey, we're gonna find out what happens,
Speaker 1: oh man. But yeah, I mean we were. We were
Speaker 1: we were cackling at the fact of of Isaiah being
Speaker 1: on cameo and he was talking about cankles on one
Speaker 1: of his his preview videos as it's hilarious. We're not
Speaker 1: we're not trying to plug it so that Isaiah gets paid.
Speaker 1: We're just plugging it getting funny, and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: we're not gonna talk about how he gets these other checks.
Speaker 1: We ain't gonna talk about that let's going to go
Speaker 1: to the next Yeah, we can't, can't mention that one
Speaker 1: on air, but glad you are. You guys are all
Speaker 1: having fun with us here on this Tuesday. But uh,
Speaker 1: but yeah, let's get into this this matchup, Rob or
Speaker 1: I guess the week ahead. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of injury issues when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and it comes to Tyrne Smith in the tackle position.
Speaker 1: I've heard from around the Star that they expect him
Speaker 1: to be ready to go. I've heard good news when
Speaker 1: it comes to Tyrant Smith dealing with a couple of stingers.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy talked about it a little bit, and then
Speaker 1: also Jerry Jones today on the Fan before Rob got
Speaker 1: on the Fan mentioned about Tyrn Smith and dealing with
Speaker 1: some of those stingers. But really, Rob, whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to injuries right now, the entire NFL is dealing with it.
Speaker 1: We thought the Cowboys had the wrong end of the
Speaker 1: shift in the first week. We two kind of flipped
Speaker 1: that script. But what are you hearing in terms of
Speaker 1: some of these different nagging things. It's crazy, right, you know.
Speaker 1: I think in twenty eleven, coming off the lockout, injuries
Speaker 1: went way up across the league, and I don't, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see, but right now it seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: with no offseason, maybe there's a parallel there, and across
Speaker 1: the league teams are dealing with it. For the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tyrn Smith, and what Jerry said is what
Speaker 1: I've heard too. You know that they thought maybe he
Speaker 1: could play in Week two, and there was some optimism there,
Speaker 1: but they ltimately decided, hey, let's give him another week
Speaker 1: because with it you mentioned the stingers, man, that can
Speaker 1: be a nagging thing. It can crop back up and
Speaker 1: can bother you all year long. You know, that's what
Speaker 1: Lady vander esh was doing with last year, and ultimately
Speaker 1: they shut him down, not saying it's the same injury,
Speaker 1: but they want to be real careful there. So I
Speaker 1: don't think he's guaranteed to play in Week three, but
Speaker 1: I think there's definitely optimism and see how he does
Speaker 1: throughout the week, and boy, that would you know. While
Speaker 1: while Brandon Knight I thought did a nice job. We
Speaker 1: talked about that yesterday. It's sure it would be nice
Speaker 1: to get things kind of settled down for you upfront
Speaker 1: and try to get some of your continuity back. So
Speaker 1: we'll see about their DeMarcus Lawrence. We mentioned yesterday, I believe,
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy kind of spoke to it. Banged up
Speaker 1: his knee in the game. It doesn't sound like they're
Speaker 1: too concerned about at least Jerry didn't indicate that on
Speaker 1: the fan just now. But that's something to watch this
Speaker 1: week as well. They just they've got to try to
Speaker 1: get healthy upfront, both sides of the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's where they you know, they've had some trouble and
Speaker 1: have tried to kind of do things to counteract it,
Speaker 1: but they need some contuity. They're both sides. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry now that's gonna double. Just just gets everybody's
Speaker 1: some a little bit of information, a little insight for
Speaker 1: those that don't know what a stinger is, okay, and
Speaker 1: everybody that might be trying to say, Tyronne or you're
Speaker 1: being soft, you know what I'm saying, get out there,
Speaker 1: listen up. If you guys have never had a stinger before,
Speaker 1: A stinger is essentially when you're you have a pinched nerve, right,
Speaker 1: so your body is trying to communicate to your different
Speaker 1: body parts right via your nervous system. When that nerve
Speaker 1: gets pinched, you get a shooting pain wherever that's at. Right, So,
Speaker 1: for instance, I've had one in the neck. It shoots
Speaker 1: down and it literally shuts off all functionality of that limb. Right,
Speaker 1: you have no function of that limb whatsoever. It is
Speaker 1: painful initially, is very painful initially, and then your body
Speaker 1: literally your brain cannot communicate with that side of your body.
Speaker 1: So for those of you that's saying all he can
Speaker 1: get out there and play, No he can't. And that's
Speaker 1: that stinger can pop back up at any moment. It
Speaker 1: just takes the right type of hit well. And it's
Speaker 1: also something complaining about the injury bug. It's hard to
Speaker 1: complain about the injury bug affecting us when you look
Speaker 1: around the NFL and show that those acls man a
Speaker 1: dime a dozen. Right now, it just seems like everyone
Speaker 1: is going down to that injury. But with the news
Speaker 1: about Tyren Smith and just looking from the past till now,
Speaker 1: I think that we all have just pretty much come
Speaker 1: to the fact that we know that Tyren Smith may
Speaker 1: miss a few games throughout the season, but we need
Speaker 1: to get him in the rhythm of this office. Having
Speaker 1: him miss last week and we pulled out the victory,
Speaker 1: thank god for that. But you're right, Brandon Knight did
Speaker 1: play really well in his absence, But this week is
Speaker 1: a whole nother story, and we absolutely need to have
Speaker 1: our stud left tackle well. And it's also that stinger
Speaker 1: and that neck issue is something rob that I know
Speaker 1: that Tyren Smith's kind of dealt with for quite some time.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is something that you mentioned it could
Speaker 1: be lagging from week to week, but the fact that
Speaker 1: it's also kind of hindered him throughout his career. And
Speaker 1: Heckmagreat makes a great point. This is a Cowboys team
Speaker 1: that's used to playing without Tyron Smith because over the
Speaker 1: last four years he's missed at least three games. He's
Speaker 1: played in thirteen games the last four years, and he's
Speaker 1: already missed one this year. Hopefully they get him back
Speaker 1: this week because you definitely need him up against a
Speaker 1: stout Seattle defense. I think the defensive line for Seattle
Speaker 1: leaves much to be desired, but that secondary is good
Speaker 1: enough to force some issues as well. But whenever, when
Speaker 1: you look at the defensive sign of the football, Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: he's on IR for a little bit due to that
Speaker 1: rib injury. Cornerback seems a little bit thin here. Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis had an okay game. I'm not going to necessarily
Speaker 1: give him a ton of credit because I thought he
Speaker 1: was beat on occasion. But whenever you look at this
Speaker 1: cornerbank group in the Cowboys secondary, specifically Isaiah, is there
Speaker 1: anything that kind of worries you heading into a week
Speaker 1: like Seattle where there are some pretty stout wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Isaiah gotcha. Yeah, no, so I think we have lost
Speaker 1: the audio from Isaiah, so Heckman, we'll go to you
Speaker 1: on that question. Is there anything secondary wise that you're
Speaker 1: that you're potentially looking at to move forward? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think a lot has been We've we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the dvs the secondary and just knowing coming
Speaker 1: into the season that that was going to be a
Speaker 1: group that we were looking to get better. We wanted
Speaker 1: more out of them. We definitely needed more ballhawks and
Speaker 1: we wanted to turn overs. We got that in the
Speaker 1: first week. From a woozier second week, man, it just
Speaker 1: felt like we took a little bit of a step back,
Speaker 1: but that I think that's credit to the Atlanta receivers
Speaker 1: with Jones and brittley engage. Uh, I just I just
Speaker 1: look for Jordan Lewis to take another step. You know,
Speaker 1: the higher ankle sprain may have been something that was
Speaker 1: limited him. He still didn't look like he was full
Speaker 1: fleshed back to himself. So hopefully another week of preparation,
Speaker 1: because of another week of which preparation will make him
Speaker 1: better for this week because God knows. Man, Uh, last
Speaker 1: week button his best showing at all. Yeah, Rob, I
Speaker 1: can hear We've got you. Now we don't, we do
Speaker 1: not have him. Let's go back to Rob here. Oh well, man,
Speaker 1: I want to hear us. I know I'm ready for Isaiah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got you know you mentioned Anthony Brown. You got
Speaker 1: Cheeto who got banged up I think a hamstring trying
Speaker 1: to block a punt on Sunday in the fourth quarters.
Speaker 1: So you'll see. You got to see how he is
Speaker 1: this week. Um, just every level of their defense has
Speaker 1: got somebody banged up. And so you know you're hopeful that,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, tank and get get back and be
Speaker 1: and be right. And to me, it starts there and
Speaker 1: I watched because I think that impacts what your secondary
Speaker 1: is doing. I thought when we talked about it, yesterday
Speaker 1: how Matt Ryan just seemed to have too much time
Speaker 1: overall in a game setting his feet and surveying the field.
Speaker 1: And Mike Nolan spoke to it yesterday. They've got to
Speaker 1: be better, not just individually rushing, but better collectively. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's talked about enough. With what
Speaker 1: you have to do upfront as a defensive line together,
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about offensive line continuity, defensive line
Speaker 1: running games, stunts, all those things, trying to free other
Speaker 1: guys up to get home on a rush. That's something
Speaker 1: they're still trying to work through five weeks after camp started.
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably normal with the new scheme,
Speaker 1: but they're just they're just not there yet. So you know,
Speaker 1: I went back and I watched it, and I thought,
Speaker 1: especially late in the game, they did a better job
Speaker 1: of forcing Ryan to throw the ball away and getting
Speaker 1: out of drives and so there are good things to
Speaker 1: build on. But that's going to help your secondary more
Speaker 1: than anything. Help Trayvon Digs more than anything as a
Speaker 1: young cornerback going up against you know what is another
Speaker 1: talented Seattle receiving corps. They're really good, Yeah, ktcalm those
Speaker 1: coverage who had a few of those cover sacks and
Speaker 1: it just seems like we had him and Ryan just
Speaker 1: got out of the pocket and tried to run for
Speaker 1: a first down. You know, that second half, it's a
Speaker 1: tailor two halves. Obviously we had the worst first quarter
Speaker 1: in football, but that second half, I think it said
Speaker 1: a lot about this defense. And also with Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: said yesterday and his presser was basically about Treyvon Digs
Speaker 1: and him winning those one on one matchups and talk
Speaker 1: about how long he is and how aggressive he is,
Speaker 1: and just saying that he's someone that's always touching the
Speaker 1: ball and he looks for those opportunities that he's missed
Speaker 1: in the game because we've he's been this close to
Speaker 1: two to two interceptions. He's getting close to one this week. Man,
Speaker 1: I just looked for that rookie to take that next
Speaker 1: step and be as dumbinant as he's been looking in
Speaker 1: past coverage. Yeah, and what I saw kind of this
Speaker 1: week from from Treyvon Diggs was a lot of what
Speaker 1: I saw on the college tape in Alabama, as well
Speaker 1: as the fact that he's a step behind and he
Speaker 1: allowed his athleticism to make up that gap and he
Speaker 1: has that athleticism and that length to be able to
Speaker 1: make up that gap. I mean the throw that he
Speaker 1: almost intercepted, Heckma, the one that you're alluding to. That
Speaker 1: was an awful throw for Matt Ryan. It was underthrown
Speaker 1: by about five yards. Treyvon Diggs was beat by at
Speaker 1: least two steps there, and the fact that Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: underthrew that ball helped treyvon Diggs almost come up with
Speaker 1: an interception one that I think was kind of a
Speaker 1: oh look at what I found type of thing where
Speaker 1: he was a little surprised, and the fact that the
Speaker 1: ball was hitting him in the hands exactly. But that's
Speaker 1: the thing with Treyvon Diggs that you have to get
Speaker 1: him up to speed in is being able to have
Speaker 1: that step initially so that way he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: make up that ground later on, because that's really what
Speaker 1: he's having to do is play a lot of catchup.
Speaker 1: And I think overall it's it's something that he's gonna
Speaker 1: learn and it's something that these receivers are teaching him
Speaker 1: right now. DK Mattcap quite possibly one of the best
Speaker 1: deep threats in all of the NFL right now coming
Speaker 1: up here on Sunday with the Seattle Seahawks. Isaiah may
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Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. You guys are bringing the fire and some
Speaker 1: of these questions already and I love them, keep them coming.
Speaker 1: First one has to do with the matchup that's coming
Speaker 1: up here this Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks and one
Speaker 1: early MVP candidate, and Russell Wilson has been just throwing
Speaker 1: the football around and running the football as well, up
Speaker 1: to four thousand career rushing yards now early in the season,
Speaker 1: and he's been fantastic for Seattle, leading them to a
Speaker 1: two and oh start. But first question comes from Broncos
Speaker 1: seven eight eight, and actually it was also asked by
Speaker 1: Strike Chris as well. Do you think that having a
Speaker 1: spy on Russell Wilson this Sunday will help? Is there
Speaker 1: a possibility that this could help? And Isaiah, if you're back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with you here. Yes, he's back. I
Speaker 1: think I'm back here. Very good, You're back. Let's go.
Speaker 1: So that's something that I was going to bring up
Speaker 1: in the last segment. Okay, when we started talking about
Speaker 1: the secondary. Russell Wilson, he presents a very unique issue
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, right, and Mike Nolan, especially because of
Speaker 1: his scheme. There really is no win, right, So it
Speaker 1: really is gonna come down to can this defensive line
Speaker 1: get pressure. If the defensive line cannot get pressure alone,
Speaker 1: then this secondary is going to suffer. The reason being,
Speaker 1: if you decide to play man to man, you can't
Speaker 1: match up against the Seattle wide receiver speed. You just can't. Right.
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf presents a problem, Tyler presents a problem, Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen presents a problem, right even O O g Right,
Speaker 1: So you can't line up man because if you go
Speaker 1: man to man against those guys, you're gonna lose with
Speaker 1: your receivers against the your dbs against their receivers, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a linebacker trying to spy Russell Wilson. So,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, that's not a good matchup. But
Speaker 1: then on the other end of that, if they decide
Speaker 1: to go zone. Right now, you're if this defensive line
Speaker 1: doesn't get pressure and they're playing zone, Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: going to pick you apart. So the d line has
Speaker 1: to show up playing spying Russell Wilson is a good
Speaker 1: idea if you're getting pressure with your with your defensive line.
Speaker 1: I think everyone knows that Bill Belichick is probably the
Speaker 1: single best game manager and prepare of anyone in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And last week he went from a zone,
Speaker 1: went from playing his traditional man to go and zone,
Speaker 1: and Stephan Gilmore his top dog and the Torch gave
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. So what do you do? Do you spy them,
Speaker 1: to spy or not to spy. It's really one of
Speaker 1: those situations where I agree with Isaiah, you have to
Speaker 1: get You have to generate some type of pressure and
Speaker 1: get Russell uncomfortable because what he'll do and that read
Speaker 1: option is just destroy you. He'll set He's so masterful
Speaker 1: as setting that up and creating plays with his legs
Speaker 1: and getting out of the pocket and looking up field.
Speaker 1: They just have way too many weapons for us to
Speaker 1: just relegate one guy to him. We just have to
Speaker 1: rely on our scheme and just try and do everything
Speaker 1: that we possibly can to generate those sacks. Yeah, Isaiah
Speaker 1: convinced me, I don't think. I don't think he can't
Speaker 1: spy him, at least not all the time. I thought
Speaker 1: I was encouraged in the second half just watching it back.
Speaker 1: You know, the Falcons tried some of that ram stuff.
Speaker 1: They tried some of the misdirection and boots and waggles
Speaker 1: and things like that a little bit. And I thought
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did a better job, like upfront, staying home
Speaker 1: on some of that stuff and being disciplined in their
Speaker 1: rush lanes and there. But there is no more bigger
Speaker 1: challenge than Russell Wilson when it comes to being disciplined
Speaker 1: with your rushes and working in concert there and trying
Speaker 1: to keep him in the pocket as best you can. Like,
Speaker 1: there's no bigger challenge in the entire league. So I'm
Speaker 1: really curious to see how they handle it. And I
Speaker 1: think what I saw down the stretch is encouraging. But
Speaker 1: until you see it, I mean, he can beat just
Speaker 1: so many different ways. He's reached a point in his
Speaker 1: career too, where he can just sit back in the pocket,
Speaker 1: like Isaiah said, and pick you apart two. So it's
Speaker 1: this is a this is a pass rush game. I
Speaker 1: think that's one reason why Mike Nolan was so emphatic
Speaker 1: yesterday about how they've just got to be better upfront together.
Speaker 1: It's really the first mobile quarterback that the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: faced this season. I mean, both Jared Goffin and Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan aren't necessarily the two quarterbacks that you're gonna see
Speaker 1: takeoff and run the football quite a bit. But you
Speaker 1: have some more coming up on the schedule. Not only
Speaker 1: is Russell Wilson coming up, but you got Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: who's not afraid to run the football. Kyler Murray's coming
Speaker 1: up in Week six. I mean, there's more quarterbacks coming up.
Speaker 1: I mean you even look ahead and you got Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson down the line later in the season. So this
Speaker 1: is really gonna be that first This is gonna be
Speaker 1: that first benchmark of how to handle a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I know, must Russell Wilson compared to Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray isn't as mobile. But this is going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how Mike Nolan plans for this
Speaker 1: and how even with some of the better matchups receivers wise,
Speaker 1: that Seattle has. It's going to be fun to see
Speaker 1: how Mike Nolan kind of schemes it up and gets
Speaker 1: the chess match going there. But I agree with Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be tough matchup wise to be
Speaker 1: able to cover both the receivers and also take up
Speaker 1: a defender. Worrying about the run, you may have to
Speaker 1: be bit a couple of times first before a switch
Speaker 1: is made in that regard. This question comes from Campbell
Speaker 1: eight nine, and he asked, why not just stick with
Speaker 1: the four three defense so we can get to Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence going? And now there's been a lot of frustration.
Speaker 1: I've seen this a couple times throughout some of the
Speaker 1: comments over the last two days of DeMarcus Lawrence. Is
Speaker 1: it an injury? Is it just performance? But heck, well,
Speaker 1: we'll start with you on this one. How do you
Speaker 1: get dlow going? And is it the four three defense
Speaker 1: that's stifling him? Yeah? And also and just going back
Speaker 1: and watching the tape first half of d law, d
Speaker 1: law played really well against the run. It's just what
Speaker 1: we're accustomed to seeing from d Laws, just getting those pressures.
Speaker 1: Also went back and watched and also saw some commentary
Speaker 1: on this about de Law putting his hand in the
Speaker 1: ground on the bicycle stands. Remember also DeMarcus Ware had
Speaker 1: to make that transition as well. He was a guy
Speaker 1: that had his hand in the ground but then also
Speaker 1: went to the bicycle stands. I just know that it's
Speaker 1: a technique thing, and I don't think the cowboy fantasy
Speaker 1: to panic so early on this. We know who d
Speaker 1: Law is. He's a dog and Isaiah, like you said
Speaker 1: this check says that he will make those adjustments. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't really have nothing to add. I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: hit it on the head. I mean, he's a pro.
Speaker 1: You know, he has to make an adjustment. It is
Speaker 1: a technique deal. When you're talking about making an entire
Speaker 1: change to a defensive scheme simply because one player hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten going yet, that's not what you you know, you don't.
Speaker 1: I just absolutely everybody, you make that one individual a
Speaker 1: just and he will. Yeah. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys disagree, but I think he's getting too much criticism
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah. I mean that that first game, Jared
Speaker 1: Goffton let them rush the passer, you know, and you
Speaker 1: go back and you look at the stats, and he
Speaker 1: had four pressures, which was most on the team. I
Speaker 1: know they didn't get a lot of pressure, but that
Speaker 1: wasn't the Rams plan. They weren't going to let them
Speaker 1: rush the passer. And then just watching it back yesterday,
Speaker 1: I thought, like, like Heck said, he did a nice
Speaker 1: job against the run. He was clearly laboring in the
Speaker 1: third quarter and that's when he went out. I mean
Speaker 1: he was trying to limping around, trying to get to
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't think we saw him at one
Speaker 1: hundred percent last week, and in Week one it was
Speaker 1: a weird game. So I'm just not there yet. I
Speaker 1: think when he's one hundred percent, he's still gonna be
Speaker 1: a good player for you. And but they absolutely need him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Two point stance like you guys are
Speaker 1: right like it does. It helps you with your eyes
Speaker 1: to be able to see what's going on in the backfield,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe your technique suffers a little bit. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe maybe that is an adjustment for him,
Speaker 1: But to me, it's more about just being healthy, because
Speaker 1: because he was not moving well in the second half,
Speaker 1: that's why he didn't play. It's why he saw more
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin and kind of going off of that, Rob,
Speaker 1: I think you made a great point on the Week
Speaker 1: one game specifically, nobody had pressure solely based off the
Speaker 1: fact that the Rams just didn't hold on to the
Speaker 1: football a whole lot. They were in the football with
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown, they switched it up with Cam Akers, and
Speaker 1: then there was the short Dnkin dunk passes, the death
Speaker 1: buy needles that we talked about all last week that
Speaker 1: really tore up the Cowboys defense because there was no
Speaker 1: ability to get pass pressure on the Jared Goffin and
Speaker 1: really kind of take advantage of it that direction. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the past rush in general, Rob,
Speaker 1: are you are you concerned about the fact that even
Speaker 1: in this Atlanta game, with an Atlanta offensive line that
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily come in with the best ratings, the highest praise,
Speaker 1: the fact that the Cowboys still really struggle to get
Speaker 1: any kind of pass rush into that fourth quarter. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they need They need more, for sure. I do think
Speaker 1: you know, I thought Atlanta we talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: how or I mentioned how they they've invested draft picks
Speaker 1: on that line. They've got some talent up front. Is
Speaker 1: the pass rush what we needed to be? No, it's
Speaker 1: not there. Yet, And that's one thing we I think
Speaker 1: was an emphasis for me going into camp, where it
Speaker 1: was like, the the overall talent they've assembled is really good,
Speaker 1: but can you put it all together with a new
Speaker 1: scheme right off the bat? And I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're they're there yet. But again, fourth quarter, man,
Speaker 1: I was encouraged because you saw a couple of rushes
Speaker 1: late Everson Griffin, Alvin Smith flushing Matt Ryan out of
Speaker 1: the pocket, throwing the ball away, they hold him do
Speaker 1: a field goal and a punt, And if you take
Speaker 1: away those first twenty points, I mean, I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't put any of that really on the defense. It's
Speaker 1: nineteen points after that, and then it's you know, there
Speaker 1: was stuff to be desired in the first game, but
Speaker 1: it's twenty points from the rams. You're hoping with the
Speaker 1: forty burger offense, you can win those games, right, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the defense isn't there yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not arguing that, but there is some good there
Speaker 1: and there is some stuff to build on. They just
Speaker 1: need to be healthy, and they're not healthy and they're
Speaker 1: not going to be fully healthy for a while. With
Speaker 1: vander Esche out for a while. Yeah, no, man, And
Speaker 1: then we saw a couple of instances where we only
Speaker 1: rush three and we dropped back eight, and we lan
Speaker 1: had to answer those questions about what are you doing.
Speaker 1: You're playing defensive ends in coverage. So I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: there's so much that's under the microscope and the people
Speaker 1: are trying to discern what exactly our strategy is. But
Speaker 1: I just feel like the longer this defense goes, the
Speaker 1: better they're gonna get. Because the second half. I just
Speaker 1: point to the second half and what they were able
Speaker 1: to do. It wasn't a bind but don't break sort
Speaker 1: of mentality. They got some quality stops and you saw that,
Speaker 1: Like you said, Rob from the defensive ends, I think
Speaker 1: you're right. I think it's I think in this situation
Speaker 1: with a new scheme, it's got they've got to build
Speaker 1: week to week. Now, gosh, you need it this week
Speaker 1: against Seattle, right, my goodness. But but but you try
Speaker 1: to build week to week and maybe Mike Noelan he
Speaker 1: talked about this a little bit yesterday. They're not doing
Speaker 1: as much schematically as maybe he wants to. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's still trying to figure out what his
Speaker 1: guys really do well and what they're comfortable with, and
Speaker 1: so they're just not they're not there yet. I think
Speaker 1: it's just too early to make a statement on what
Speaker 1: this defense is yet. Yeah, it is a little early.
Speaker 1: And you talk about two of the better offenses really
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You're going to get face another one
Speaker 1: coming up this week. But Los Angeles Atlanta each have
Speaker 1: great rosters when it comes to the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the football, and they're still left to be desired, of course,
Speaker 1: but I think you're you're also working on it as well,
Speaker 1: sticking on the same defensive side of the football. And
Speaker 1: this is a fan question from RJ Well's second straight week.
Speaker 1: RJ has been with a fire question. By the way,
Speaker 1: keep sending him in. We've got hey, we've got a
Speaker 1: couple more We've got a couple more minutes to answer
Speaker 1: your questions, so keep them coming here on the periscope,
Speaker 1: streaming on Twitter. But he asked, since every other defensive
Speaker 1: back other than Cheetoo Woozier gets their head around and
Speaker 1: looks for the ball to make a play even though
Speaker 1: they aren't necessarily locating the ball, do you guys agree
Speaker 1: that it would be a better team to put a
Speaker 1: better time to put Cheeto and Xavier Woods as the
Speaker 1: two safeties, like they had talked about heading into camp,
Speaker 1: then roll with the other guys in a cornerback rotation.
Speaker 1: Long question there, but basically moving Cheeto to safety, sticking
Speaker 1: with what you got at corner. What do you think
Speaker 1: and Rob will start with you? Was that As shaking
Speaker 1: his head, Well do you think? No? No, I mean
Speaker 1: you don't have a problem at safety right now. I
Speaker 1: mean now, I still believe. I still I still believe
Speaker 1: I agree with them, and I'll get to I still
Speaker 1: believe that. Yeah, I still believe that you should go
Speaker 1: out there and get that dude. As sitting sitting in
Speaker 1: his office with his feet kicked out. I don't know
Speaker 1: why Earl hasn't been signed yet, because if you want
Speaker 1: to have a dominant defense, you go add that extra piece.
Speaker 1: But I digress. Um, the problem is at corner. They
Speaker 1: don't have enough experience at corner right now and then
Speaker 1: and unfortunately these first two weeks you face some dudes,
Speaker 1: right a receiver. Um, so these rickies, say, these these
Speaker 1: younger guys, some of these smaller guys, right, you know,
Speaker 1: we got Brown, we got Lewis you know, going back
Speaker 1: and forth from I R these guys are smaller dudes,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be facing somebody like DK Metcalf who
Speaker 1: six four two twenty five or runs a four three three, Like, like,
Speaker 1: what do you do against that? Right? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like you don't win against that man? Demand
Speaker 1: So um, it's it's a matter of these guys just
Speaker 1: continue to get reps. You gotta remember they didn't have
Speaker 1: preseason to get these reps. This is their quote unquote preseason.
Speaker 1: But they just can't afford to lose the games and
Speaker 1: lose these battles. I agree one hundred percent. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they've got numbers at safety right now, they're just
Speaker 1: trying to I don't know if they're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out a rotation or what exactly they're doing. Because dary
Speaker 1: and Thompson, Darryl Worley, h and Brandon Carr all got
Speaker 1: snaps with Xavier Woods on on Sunday, so I think
Speaker 1: they they're trying to settle that down or figure out
Speaker 1: what they want to do there. But yeah, as it
Speaker 1: is right at the corner position, I feel better about
Speaker 1: having a healthy cheeto out there to try to counteract
Speaker 1: what you're seeing with some of these opposing receivers are facing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: J RJ with the tough question, this would this wouldn't
Speaker 1: be the week to try and have a position Cheeto.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's any week in the
Speaker 1: end on our schedule that you planned to do that.
Speaker 1: But I think if I'm just kind of reading in
Speaker 1: between the lines here for RJ's question, he's just saying
Speaker 1: that Cheeto isn't getting his head turned around so that
Speaker 1: he could track the ball and get an interception. And
Speaker 1: there was a couple of plays that you look at,
Speaker 1: there was a fourth down that Cheeto was right there,
Speaker 1: he just didn't turn to get the ball. So I mean,
Speaker 1: all those things will come. One of the things that
Speaker 1: I know about professional athletes is that their preparation is seamless,
Speaker 1: and these guys will continue to watch that film to
Speaker 1: get better. We also have to understand these guys didn't
Speaker 1: have the two of them all the off season of activities.
Speaker 1: Sounds they just rock knocking the rust off and so
Speaker 1: pretty soon Tito get there. But let's not move them
Speaker 1: the safety this week. PEO. Don't know if anything drove
Speaker 1: fans more crazy under the previous defense than than playing
Speaker 1: the ball and not the man at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: I feel like it drove fans crazy, and I think
Speaker 1: they're they're they're more playing the ball. It seems like,
Speaker 1: at least to me with Diggs and watching watching the
Speaker 1: guys play back there right now. Yeah, and remember that's
Speaker 1: kind of what the Chris Richard mindset was last year
Speaker 1: was let's let's play the receiver, not necessarily the ball.
Speaker 1: It was kind of what they were taught for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. Now you see a little bit of
Speaker 1: a shift. Dollar for every question I got exactly exactly
Speaker 1: and luckily I was a long time ago you would
Speaker 1: get some of the Meca Harrison off the off the
Speaker 1: air chicks. Yeah, some of cameo money man, it ain't cameo,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that much. Now, going off of what
Speaker 1: Isaiah was just talking about in terms of the Safeties,
Speaker 1: haven't necessarily played poorly. Darian Thompson has been on and off.
Speaker 1: He's inconsistent and is really the best way to put it.
Speaker 1: But Xavier Woods has been playing quite well and it's
Speaker 1: kind of one of those years that we expect Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods to kind of take that next step, and we're
Speaker 1: kind of starting to see that. I was kind of
Speaker 1: curious last night and I was looking up where actually
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams was in terms of ranking on safeties in
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus grades heading into this week, because I
Speaker 1: was just curious as to where Jamal Adams was. He
Speaker 1: seems like he's flying to the football. You hear his
Speaker 1: name every thirty seconds on the TV broadcast. He's twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: But I also was surprised at who was in the
Speaker 1: top three. Jordan Poyer leads the way with the highest
Speaker 1: grade of eighty seven. Then you've got Antoine Winfield junior,
Speaker 1: the rookie out of Minnesota in Tampa Bay. He's second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a pet cat of mine. But the third
Speaker 1: best player in terms of Pro Football Focus grade Xavier
Speaker 1: Woods at the safety position through the first two weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. Yeah, he's played well. And it's through
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty eight snaps. That's the major. That's
Speaker 1: the most snaps out of any of the guys in
Speaker 1: the top ten. So he's played the most and he
Speaker 1: has the best or third best grade out of any
Speaker 1: of the top ten safeties through the first two weeks
Speaker 1: of the season. A lot can change, but he's played
Speaker 1: well so far, and I think if you get him
Speaker 1: some help at safety, it can help him out. But
Speaker 1: I think Derry and Thompson's still kind of learning a
Speaker 1: little bit and there's still some room for growth there.
Speaker 1: As a guy who's still learning how to be a
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Speaker 1: the final segment here of our Tunday Show, Week three,
Speaker 1: Episode two. Glad you're with us as we roll into
Speaker 1: Seattle week Now Tomorrow we'll preview the Seattle offense versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense. We're talking a lot about that Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense right now. We'll talk about it again tomorrow and
Speaker 1: how they specifically match up with the Seattle offense, who
Speaker 1: has been firing on all cylinders. Then Thursday, we'll go
Speaker 1: through the Seattle defense and Jamal Adams of course making
Speaker 1: his first Seattle appearance against the Dallas Cowboys, and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about how they match up with the offense heading
Speaker 1: into Thursday, and then we'll give our predictions Friday. There's
Speaker 1: the schedule of the week. Write it down, pin it
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Speaker 1: ready for more talking Cowboys. But heading into this final segment,
Speaker 1: I wanted to stay positive. And of course we're one
Speaker 1: and one as a Dallas Cowboys and you get the
Speaker 1: win on Sunday. But there's been a lot of complaining
Speaker 1: in terms of really some of the different areas of
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that need to be addressed. Sure, one area
Speaker 1: that does not need to be addressed, because he's been fantastic,
Speaker 1: He's been unstoppable, he's been outstanding. Ezekiel Elliott is just
Speaker 1: a man amongst boys when it comes to even the
Speaker 1: men of the NFL. And if you disagree with that statement,
Speaker 1: go watch his run on the goal line where he
Speaker 1: just straight up ran over him. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a guy who gets paid to make tackles in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliott turned up into a statue. Yeah it
Speaker 1: was Uh, it was a hit that was heard around
Speaker 1: the world. You could hear it shaking from Mercedes ben
Speaker 1: Stadium in Atlanta. But really, overall, Ezekiel Elliott continues to
Speaker 1: be that workhorse, continues to be the bell cow for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense, and really heck, it opened things up
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to be able to have the run
Speaker 1: that they did in the second half on Sunday. That
Speaker 1: was the first time I'd ever seen a deep hug
Speaker 1: himself in the inn. It was Wakonda forever I think
Speaker 1: I heard him. You know, Zeke is like you you
Speaker 1: said to Kyle A man amost Boys. He is doing
Speaker 1: so much in this offense. But I think it's the
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't make the stat sheet that people should
Speaker 1: really look at. Last week Man his help with Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: Chip Luck, what he's doing in past protection. He's just
Speaker 1: doing so many great things that's allowing Dak to get
Speaker 1: the ball down the field, and not only on those
Speaker 1: plays where he's a decoy. He's a worthy decoy, right
Speaker 1: because the deepense has to account for what he does
Speaker 1: in the passing game. I just love the way that
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore is getting him involved, getting him in rhythm,
Speaker 1: and even with the score being what it was, Zeke
Speaker 1: still carried the ball twenty two times. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you get down that big you
Speaker 1: just completely abandon the run. And the Cowboys didn't go
Speaker 1: away from him. But Ezekiel Elliott no, no, that's some
Speaker 1: great points. Heck now, and I want to allude to
Speaker 1: what you sated, that what everybody doesn't see, right, Most
Speaker 1: people pay attention to simply what shows up on the
Speaker 1: stat sheet, right, how many how many rushing yards did
Speaker 1: he have? How many touchdowns did he have? But there's
Speaker 1: so much more to that position, right, there's so much
Speaker 1: communication between him and the quarterback, him and the offensive
Speaker 1: line right where the offensive line is slide in there
Speaker 1: blocking to who's the mic linebacker? What's his assignment as
Speaker 1: he blocked the front side linebacker, if he blesses us,
Speaker 1: he blocked the backside linebacker. He was doing all those
Speaker 1: things during the game. He was picking up so many
Speaker 1: blinches that they're the pressure that those guys were bringing
Speaker 1: on the opposing side of the ball. And then when
Speaker 1: it was his opportunity to run the ball, he came in.
Speaker 1: That boy was physziic coal. He kept bringing it. He
Speaker 1: disrespected so many falcons. Them them dirty birds turned into
Speaker 1: little baby birds because then boys was getting laid up
Speaker 1: and rolled up like little tortillas. I felt so bad
Speaker 1: for the little dude on the goal line. He just
Speaker 1: he just usually rolled up in a little ball and
Speaker 1: he said, Mama, he was just hoping they snapped his
Speaker 1: fingers to be gone, but he wasn't. He was laying
Speaker 1: on the floor. But no, he's doing the heck of
Speaker 1: a job, man. And you know he is the physical
Speaker 1: side of this, of this offense, and he has to
Speaker 1: continue to bring it. They have to continue to give
Speaker 1: him the rock. And if they continue to follow suit
Speaker 1: with that, I think they're gonna be They're gonna be
Speaker 1: in a good situation going forward with this season. Man,
Speaker 1: Tony Poll just eight snaps. I feel for him, but
Speaker 1: that's part. That's when you when you have a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame at running back, That's that's what happens. And
Speaker 1: you can't fumble. You can't fumble when you come again either.
Speaker 1: That too, that too, even though that was called right,
Speaker 1: was it was overturned, It wasn't. A film doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: but you're right the presson he can't play on the ground,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. But yeah, the little things Zeke
Speaker 1: does or make him a top back in the league.
Speaker 1: But what we've seen his explosive this so far, I
Speaker 1: think it speaks to last year not having training camp.
Speaker 1: He's not he wasn't washed up he didn't lose his
Speaker 1: explosive this. I think he needed time as a year
Speaker 1: went on to get some of that back and get
Speaker 1: a rhythm with the offensive line, and he did late
Speaker 1: later in the season, and you're seeing it from the
Speaker 1: jump this year. He's still he looks as good as
Speaker 1: I've seen him since twenty six to be honest with you, Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's exciting. And we had kind of
Speaker 1: talked about it. I think this was the topic on
Speaker 1: one of our offseason shows where I said, or maybe
Speaker 1: it was training camp where I was saying, hey, watch out,
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be twenty sixteen, twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen Zeke territory. And he does. He looks like that,
Speaker 1: and he's running like that. The yardage hasn't necessarily been
Speaker 1: there from a ground standpoint. I mean, he's still getting
Speaker 1: close to one hundred yards. He hasn't had a hundred
Speaker 1: yard game yet, but he's been over one hundred yards
Speaker 1: in terms of yards from scrimmage in each of the
Speaker 1: first two games, one hundred and twenty seven Week one,
Speaker 1: I believe he had one twenty two or more than
Speaker 1: that here this past week he gets to Atlanta, but
Speaker 1: really he adds that extra element though, of comfort whenever
Speaker 1: he comes to play calling Isaiah and you can look
Speaker 1: at Ezekiel Elliott and you can say, hey, let's run
Speaker 1: it with him, or let's throw it to him. The
Speaker 1: screen passes were working throughout the second half. That was
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that Kellen Moore made those adjustments.
Speaker 1: But what is the biggest part of the game that
Speaker 1: really he opens up for you as offensive coordinator just
Speaker 1: based off of his versatility? Oh, play action. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty pretty easy, you know, with his ability to tilt
Speaker 1: the ball the way he does, for him bringing the
Speaker 1: physicality that he brings him being you know, obviously cutting
Speaker 1: some week and being more explosive. Now you have to
Speaker 1: respect that you cannot just leave six seven guys in
Speaker 1: the box. That's not something that you can do, especially
Speaker 1: with this offensive line. Even with the tackle's gone right,
Speaker 1: you still have some guys in there that that know
Speaker 1: what they're doing up front, and you have to be
Speaker 1: able to respect them that they're going to move your
Speaker 1: defensive line off the ball. So, I mean with the
Speaker 1: combination of that old line, the combination of him tolding
Speaker 1: that rock the way he's doing, I mean, they have
Speaker 1: to come down in the box, which is simply opens
Speaker 1: it up for you're eleven person. Now right when you
Speaker 1: get your boys CD out there, he had his first
Speaker 1: hundred yard right, you got CD, you got Gallup, you
Speaker 1: got Cooper, you got some dues out there, right, So
Speaker 1: you can't forget about that. When you keep handing him
Speaker 1: the rock, handing him the rock, that safety keeps creeping up.
Speaker 1: They keep bringing the defense closer closer to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. Now, nice hard play action, and you dump
Speaker 1: that thing over the top, big plays all over the place.
Speaker 1: Heck nailed it too. They were able to work in
Speaker 1: Zeke throughout the second half, even when they were trailing
Speaker 1: by multiple scores. They Kellen Moore given credit. They didn't
Speaker 1: go away from it like maybe they did sometimes last year.
Speaker 1: And the play action, man, it gave me so much
Speaker 1: joy to watch in the second half of that game yesterday.
Speaker 1: Work in that play action. Good things always seem to
Speaker 1: happen when they do that. I love it. Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: tell the people about uh if Zeke is the leading
Speaker 1: Russia about that feed me tattoo, You're gonna get on
Speaker 1: your stone. That my best what I heard. I mean
Speaker 1: that he was the one that told me but I
Speaker 1: heard that one. I don't know. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: let me in on some of your away from talking
Speaker 1: with checks to be able to do that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know it, oh man, that I mean, that's
Speaker 1: there's no better way to end the show than on
Speaker 1: that one. And here's your friendly daily reminder. And heck
Speaker 1: talking about Bets and Isaiah talking about how he had
Speaker 1: his first one hundred yard game. Here's your daily reminder
Speaker 1: that the NFL let Ceedee Lamb slipped to pick seventeen,
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys have the best young wide receiver,
Speaker 1: best rookie wide receiver in football. And that's how I'm
Speaker 1: gonna end Talking Cowboys. Just a daily reminder. Let's have
Speaker 1: some fun with that because I think he'll have another
Speaker 1: big game coming up on Sunday, because that's just who
Speaker 1: he is. He's built different whenever he comes with it.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say that with my chest as always
Speaker 1: here on Talking Cowboys. But that's gonna do it. Glad
Speaker 1: you've been with us here over the past forty five minutes,
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