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Speaker 4: Barry Church, Sir, mister Internationals Toledo Rocket Hall of Fas.
Speaker 2: City, Toledo.
Speaker 6: You see what we did to the SEC. I'ma pay
Speaker 6: you know, I'm gonna pay them forty two dollars. Man
Speaker 6: stopped four that two dollars. I got you, I got
Speaker 6: you a new instruction. I want I want you to
Speaker 6: understand it.
Speaker 4: These are the lies we tell ourselves right here for
Speaker 4: Bury Church talking about paying a.
Speaker 5: Booster dudes hated dude.
Speaker 4: I've been around, I've been around and put this man
Speaker 4: in the Hall of Fame and not a dollar has
Speaker 4: gone to the school an il you know, church fund
Speaker 4: going on as much bag ashd Con game they hooked
Speaker 4: me up.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 4: There should be a bury Church endowed scholarship. That sounds good,
Speaker 4: you know, a safety something, you know, a great player
Speaker 4: Toledo every year should be getting me Buryed Church endowed scholarship.
Speaker 4: But they talk about it too, but they can't even
Speaker 4: get the forty two dollars for the Booster Club for
Speaker 4: my man.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna hook him up, man, I'm telling, and then
Speaker 6: you get up and you tease the people like that, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna hook him up. Past dues and everything.
Speaker 5: The Rockets did beat up on Mississippi.
Speaker 4: Steven tapped it so so so there you go, Cowboy fans,
Speaker 4: Ravens coming to town with the number one offense offense
Speaker 4: in the league and the number seven rushing attack in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 5: And the news got worse to day.
Speaker 7: Sweet Jesus, why give us the bad news.
Speaker 5: Mozzie Smith.
Speaker 4: Mozzie Smith left the field walking with trainer Jim Mauer.
Speaker 4: We don't know exactly what happened and why we don't
Speaker 4: We don't know.
Speaker 5: That's all we know is Mozzie walking off the field.
Speaker 4: Cowboy beat writers out there tweeting about it will dive
Speaker 4: into a more media mash of coming up at three o'clock.
Speaker 4: So that's the issue. The other issue is Jordan Phillips
Speaker 4: wrist is going to go.
Speaker 7: On I R.
Speaker 2: That's at least four right at the very least.
Speaker 4: So yeah, man, yeah, here comes Lamar Jackson r POS.
Speaker 4: Here comes King Henry roll Tide coming in here.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's ugly.
Speaker 6: Now, yeah, that's ugly because you're talking about the spine
Speaker 6: and defense, the middle of your defense, which for the
Speaker 6: past couple of years has been the weak spot of
Speaker 6: this Dallas Cowboys defense. And look, it's not like, you know,
Speaker 6: those guys on the inside were world beaters.
Speaker 2: I mean, we all understand that. But man, you're talking
Speaker 2: about depth.
Speaker 6: If Mozie is not able to go, you already got
Speaker 6: you know, Phillips on ir who you're gonna slide in there?
Speaker 6: What beef do you have Pauls that is gonna be
Speaker 6: able to withstand what King Henry and this Baltimore team
Speaker 6: is going to be able to do on the inside.
Speaker 7: You know what we got at well today, y'ah in trouble.
Speaker 2: You're in trouble.
Speaker 7: If we got if I gotta call Joe, we did
Speaker 7: sign Collins Watkins today. Colins Watkinson in the building. He's
Speaker 7: added to the fifty three, not the practice squad, however,
Speaker 7: that maneuvers around. But you do bring in a guy
Speaker 7: knowing that you are losing Jordan Phillips to I R.
Speaker 2: It's concerning.
Speaker 7: It's concerning not only the way that you looked in
Speaker 7: the Saints game, but then as new he just stated,
Speaker 7: you have the number one offense with oh, by the way,
Speaker 7: one of the best beasts of running backs that is
Speaker 7: going to be on the field with you on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's concerning.
Speaker 7: And the thing about the performance that you had against
Speaker 7: the Saints, you gave up one hundred and ninety yards
Speaker 7: on the ground. You know that a team like Baltimore
Speaker 7: is going to get on track by running the ball.
Speaker 7: They're gonna They're not gonna set their attention towards throwing
Speaker 7: to flowers or doing any of that. They're gonna feed
Speaker 7: their running back and try and get their running back
Speaker 7: get their running game back on the tracks as well.
Speaker 7: You look at a coach in Harball who has been
Speaker 7: fundamentally believed the defense in the running game, and that's
Speaker 7: something that they've always been able to bring to every
Speaker 7: city that they go to. And as we know, defenses
Speaker 7: and running games do travel, and so I think that
Speaker 7: our defense, if it has never been a get right
Speaker 7: game for a defense, this one is it. Because you
Speaker 7: gotta find a way to generate stops. And oh, by
Speaker 7: the way, as we're talking about Derrick Henry, they got
Speaker 7: a guy over there in Lamar Jackson that is a
Speaker 7: change agent in football and one of those guys that
Speaker 7: you gotta scheme up for to try and stop.
Speaker 6: And I will say this when it comes to the
Speaker 6: Baltimore in Dallas' defense.
Speaker 2: When you look at Dallas's.
Speaker 6: Defense, the backs that they kind of usually struggle against
Speaker 6: are those quick, hit the whole like a you know,
Speaker 6: like a lightning bolt type of backs. One thing about
Speaker 6: Derrick Henry is he's not that hit the hole with
Speaker 6: the you know, like a lightning boat. He's kind of
Speaker 6: those labor through here. But once he gets going, now
Speaker 6: it's kind of hard to stop him. He's like the juggernaut.
Speaker 6: But if you can get to him at that line
Speaker 6: of scrimmage, if you can stop his momentum before he
Speaker 6: gets going, he's a back that you can kind of
Speaker 6: corral a little bit. And I've seen the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 6: defense have success against those bigger, physical laboring type backs.
Speaker 6: So that's one thing I will say. But if you
Speaker 6: don't got the guys on the inside to at least
Speaker 6: make those holes money, and you're giving him holes that
Speaker 6: we saw Kamar run through.
Speaker 2: I mean he kissed the baby. It might be curtains, so.
Speaker 4: Heck refreshment memory. Carlos Watkins, we've seen him before.
Speaker 7: Yes, we have not fantastic twenty one to twenty two,
Speaker 7: those are not fantastic years to talk about.
Speaker 2: I mean, I like how you do it set it up.
Speaker 5: We've seen Carlos before.
Speaker 4: And where was Carlos located last before the Cowboys just
Speaker 4: recently got him commanders? Was he on a on a
Speaker 4: practice squad?
Speaker 7: I mean, at this point, I don't think you can
Speaker 7: get Jones in a trade from Kansas City. You're not
Speaker 7: gonna get Aaron Donalds. So when I say that, I
Speaker 7: wasn't trying to wow you with the fact that we
Speaker 7: have Carlos Watkins.
Speaker 4: You're bringing the facts. Yeah, this is not a slam
Speaker 4: on you at all. You're bringing the facts. I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to make sure that you know, we remember the
Speaker 4: last time we saw Carlos it was.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, yeah, we're good. They we're good.
Speaker 7: This is I mean, look, hey, it was concerning. It
Speaker 7: was concerning before you had Carlos Watkins. And I think
Speaker 7: again for this defense, no matter what they're thinking, koz
Speaker 7: Zimmer has been through the ringer of these last couple
Speaker 7: of days because everybody's questioning him, his tenure in the NFL,
Speaker 7: his defense.
Speaker 2: What is he dated? Is he out did all all
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 7: And I think once you start those those whispers about
Speaker 7: a coach that's been in this game, that's had some success,
Speaker 7: that's got a dig on his skin a little bit,
Speaker 7: and his guys are responsible for that. He fell on
Speaker 7: his sword. He said it was you know, it was
Speaker 7: what I was calling. It wasn't on the guy's effort.
Speaker 7: The guys were saying, hell no, it was our effort.
Speaker 7: So look, we will see on Sunday, because you know,
Speaker 7: you have a team in front of you that has
Speaker 7: one of the best. And I'm not talking about Henry
Speaker 7: I'm talking about Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: That's a weapon. That's a weapon.
Speaker 4: So Carlos Watkins, by the way, wearing number ninety two
Speaker 4: by Jersey, Yeah.
Speaker 6: Playing this week, playing this week, righties, young man?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: So I mean remember those ten snaps I was talking
Speaker 7: about for lyn Vald Joseph. Remember remember those Joseph snaps
Speaker 7: I was telling you about third times as well Shot Phillips. Yeah, Joseph,
Speaker 7: And you're doing wat I mean who else is?
Speaker 2: I mean really nowhere else where you can go right now?
Speaker 7: Hey, teams are not giving up their good D the
Speaker 7: their D twos, their D three is. They're not giving
Speaker 7: up their tackles, They're not giving up their centers. They're
Speaker 7: not giving up any of those guys. The enforcer, he's
Speaker 7: the enforcer.
Speaker 2: Gator Roll. We shouldn't know who you're talking about.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 2: We noticed that.
Speaker 7: Who Gator Roll, he's doing this thing.
Speaker 9: Just man, look that some hard times right back, hard
Speaker 9: times here on.
Speaker 2: This D line and Gator Road. I mean, here we are.
Speaker 4: It's week three, guys, yes, sir, something we are the
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Speaker 4: been speaking about this since the season ended. Okay, you've
Speaker 4: got issues stopping the run and we didn't see it
Speaker 4: in the draft. You didn't see it in free agency.
Speaker 4: They tried to make a couple moves here at at
Speaker 4: the end of camp, bringing in some bodies, but as
Speaker 4: you talked about Church.
Speaker 5: You guys are old on the street for a reason.
Speaker 4: And after the Saints ate you up for one hundred
Speaker 4: and ninety yards, we see more issues. This is a
Speaker 4: team in Baltimore. It's gonna come here and punch you
Speaker 4: in the mouth.
Speaker 2: They have to.
Speaker 4: They are zero and too. They're going to punch you
Speaker 4: in the mouth. And right now my concern for this
Speaker 4: football team HECMA is we watched them at home their
Speaker 4: last two games at home get punched in the mouth,
Speaker 4: and they've laid down and they've taken it. Yea, At
Speaker 4: what point in time do these guys stand up here
Speaker 4: and fight back. This is an embarrassing moment. Is one
Speaker 4: where this is where the old players got to come
Speaker 4: back here? Man, You know, and I know Charles Haley
Speaker 4: wear people.
Speaker 10: Out, We've seen it before, but somebody's got to sit
Speaker 10: up here in this is some embarrassing stuff here.
Speaker 4: Man. You know, you know, you know the old guys
Speaker 4: and your uncle Joe Green, you and the old guys
Speaker 4: come back, man. You know, they bring their families and everything. Man,
Speaker 4: they don't want to come back here and come get embarrassed.
Speaker 5: Come out here and watch this.
Speaker 4: If I got to spend all my time and you know,
Speaker 4: because you know, going to a game, man the hours
Speaker 4: and taken all the coting, can come out here and
Speaker 4: just get a beat up and the game is over
Speaker 4: by that before halftime.
Speaker 5: I don't want to see that.
Speaker 4: This isn't they need to show Vegas already has the
Speaker 4: braven favorite in this game.
Speaker 5: Cowboys need to respond.
Speaker 7: As they should. And those are the things that that
Speaker 7: locker room can't. They gotta they gotta block all of
Speaker 7: that out because this is this is a gut check time.
Speaker 7: You know, for lack of better words, this is must
Speaker 7: win whatever, it's a gut check game. And put it
Speaker 7: on the put it on the.
Speaker 2: As well man.
Speaker 7: Put it on coach Mike McCarthy, because I think what
Speaker 7: people have really had a gripe with him is his
Speaker 7: team's being ready in those moments. You didn't feel like
Speaker 7: they were ready last year doing the playoffs, some of
Speaker 7: the biggest games where they were coming up against some high,
Speaker 7: you know, heightened opponents, and they didn't show up. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 7: we can show up versus the five hundred, the little
Speaker 7: below five hundreds, and we could flex our muscles, but
Speaker 7: in order to get to that next step get over
Speaker 7: the hump. As people say, you're going to have to
Speaker 7: beat some of these upper echelon teams. Now the tape
Speaker 7: is out. Yeah, the tape is out. And I don't
Speaker 7: care what neighborhood you grew up in. If you're with
Speaker 7: a guy that's always getting picked on, the bully, do on.
Speaker 7: They didn't even have to know you to come and
Speaker 7: pick on you, right, And so every team that comes
Speaker 7: to at and T Stadium think that they can do
Speaker 7: the same thing that the Saints did, that the forty
Speaker 7: nine ers did, that Green Bay did, because it's an
Speaker 7: equation that works each and every time. And so to
Speaker 7: speak to what you're saying, it's on the coaching staff.
Speaker 7: You guys got to be ready. I don't care what
Speaker 7: bus you got to get on to get out here.
Speaker 7: Once you got to get on the first bus, the
Speaker 7: second bus, but you better be ready when.
Speaker 2: You get to the stadium.
Speaker 4: I'll give you some of that, But I'm still the
Speaker 4: same guy that gave McCarthy credit because they went against
Speaker 4: went out there against Cleveland and they ended up getting
Speaker 4: it done. But you know, if we could jump and
Speaker 4: do podcasts and we can sign new contracts, and we
Speaker 4: can do all these things.
Speaker 5: This is the play. This is still player's lead. This
Speaker 5: is about dudes.
Speaker 2: And Barry, you speak to him.
Speaker 4: You know, Coach can sit up here and give you
Speaker 4: the plan all day long. You gotta go out here
Speaker 4: and execute it. But most of Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 4: they're not standing there on that field getting beating them
Speaker 4: out and taking it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: And he can't walk out there and do it for you.
Speaker 5: I mean, this is some time, and Michael, they're running
Speaker 5: at you. Bruh, what you're gonna do?
Speaker 2: Running that? You getting blocked up?
Speaker 5: And Camargo still the pin. He goes slide the ball
Speaker 5: across the bot. I mean, you guys gonna take that.
Speaker 4: I remember one time, and this is baseball, but got
Speaker 4: picked the home run, and but show Walts was the
Speaker 4: manager and he just looked down the bitch. He just
Speaker 4: looked at him, looked back and he said, you know
Speaker 4: he ain't seen oracks. Oh you okay with this? He
Speaker 4: just leaned back, look at his players. Real simple, you
Speaker 4: guys are okay with this dude hitting a home run,
Speaker 4: having a party out here. I'm just gonna sit back
Speaker 4: and see what you guys do. Yeah, And to me
Speaker 4: while yes coaching, getting your guys ready. At some point
Speaker 4: in time, these dudes have to stand up here, just
Speaker 4: like you talk about getting bullied and picked on. You
Speaker 4: can tell you mom and daddy all day long, but
Speaker 4: you're the one that got to go to school. When
Speaker 4: do you stand up and say, hey, man, no, I
Speaker 4: remember Jimmy Johnson when he was here, you're too young
Speaker 4: for this.
Speaker 5: Jimmy Johnson talked.
Speaker 4: About sit this for that, and Jimmy Johnson talked about
Speaker 4: them having to take on uh, taking on Washington. You know,
Speaker 4: when you're facing a big bully, what do you do.
Speaker 4: You gotta really gotta hit him with everything and the
Speaker 4: out go ahead and beat these dudes up. Jimmy got
Speaker 4: him ready, but they had to go out there and
Speaker 4: they had to go execute it. And that was that
Speaker 4: ninety two season. They ended up winning Super Bowl. Some
Speaker 4: point time, you got a man up. You have to
Speaker 4: be an active participant in your own rescue. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: can't save you.
Speaker 5: You in the.
Speaker 4: Water, drowning, Grab a stick, swim to this show. Do
Speaker 4: what you can tell somebody else in the room. You
Speaker 4: coming with me. We're getting this done. But right now
Speaker 4: we're watching do do something, bebout boombox, do something, find
Speaker 4: out the boom bottle. But like you said, I'm a
Speaker 4: flaw since I go across the end zone. They're taking it, man,
Speaker 4: and here come the Ravens at zero and two. And
Speaker 4: you know what they you know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: You know what they're gonna do.
Speaker 7: So let me ask you this, and I agree with
Speaker 7: you that the sense of I call it a gut
Speaker 7: check situation. For the players, Micha McCarthy is on. I
Speaker 7: don't know the hours, minutes, and seconds that he's gonna
Speaker 7: be here, but he can't stand to have another embarrassment
Speaker 7: like this at home. And that's that's what I'm speaking to.
Speaker 7: Michael's gonna be here, Okay, Michael's gonna be here. Trayvon
Speaker 7: Diggs is gonna be here these that's happening to these guys.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about the coaches that are on month. They
Speaker 7: got a couple of months in this deal. So you
Speaker 7: have got to get this thing under control. You can't
Speaker 7: have guy show up to the stadium and think they're
Speaker 7: just gonna roll their helmets out there and gods are
Speaker 7: gonna lay down.
Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 7: And that's why I put the onus there on the
Speaker 7: coaches as well, because if you don't get these guys
Speaker 7: ready and they lose something that somebody else scored another
Speaker 7: forty burger at home.
Speaker 6: I bear raight, mi raight, But it goes exactly what
Speaker 6: you said. You gotta go out there and you gotta
Speaker 6: punch the bully in the mouth. Sometimes we saw example
Speaker 6: after example of this defense going out there, even.
Speaker 2: In offenses as well. If you look at that offensive.
Speaker 6: Line, it's the one on one opportunities. That's all that
Speaker 6: football comes down to. In my opinion. I mean, you
Speaker 6: just scheme everything up. You can get your players with
Speaker 6: opportunities to go out there and make big plays. You
Speaker 6: can scheme you know, Michael Parson's being able to loop
Speaker 6: around and get to the quarterback back the end of
Speaker 6: the day, he's got to win some type.
Speaker 2: Of one on one out there to make that scheme
Speaker 2: come alive.
Speaker 6: When you looked out there on that defensive side of
Speaker 6: the football, and that's because I played that sass, that's
Speaker 6: the side I'm gonna talk.
Speaker 2: To, there was no wins. People were veil.
Speaker 6: Crow to the offensive lineman out there, not getting off
Speaker 6: of blocks. There was a stat out there that said
Speaker 6: Alvin Kamara had one hundred and thirty eight yards total.
Speaker 2: Before he even got touch.
Speaker 6: Like if you add up everything before he reached contact,
Speaker 6: it was one hundred and thirty eight yards like that.
Speaker 6: That that to me is embarrassing. And like you said,
Speaker 6: he gets into the in so he's leaning up against
Speaker 6: the railer. This is easy to me. That's what it
Speaker 6: made it look like to me. And now it's embarrassing.
Speaker 6: And you you heard the players. They talked about it. Man,
Speaker 6: we can't let this happen. It's a punch in mouth.
Speaker 6: We gotta retaliate, we gotta respond. But there's only so
Speaker 6: much you can scheme. You gotta go out there and
Speaker 6: you gotta get the job done. As players, somebody got
Speaker 6: to step up and they gotta get the job done.
Speaker 6: And so far this year they were able to do
Speaker 6: it against a lackluster Cleveland team that you pointed out
Speaker 6: without those two tackles. I mean compromise. It was a compromise,
Speaker 6: you know we did. We kind of glossed over there,
Speaker 6: but that was compromising. Now the Saints team that nobody
Speaker 6: had respect for, I know I didn't going into this
Speaker 6: game and going into the season, and they came and
Speaker 6: embarrassed you at your own front and your own home place.
Speaker 2: And that's the second one in the row. You're talking
Speaker 2: about home games.
Speaker 6: Because Green Bay came into the same thing. And it's
Speaker 6: not like it's just one phase of the football game.
Speaker 6: We were able to run and throw the football with ease.
Speaker 6: You gotta be able to go out there and win
Speaker 6: your one on one opportunities. It comes down to the
Speaker 6: player scheme. Everything you want to but at the end
Speaker 6: of the day, those one on one opportunities you got
Speaker 6: to take advantage of.
Speaker 7: That's what's scary about this game. That's what's scary about
Speaker 7: it because if you get embarrassed the same way again,
Speaker 7: if you get embarrassed the same way, if King Henry is,
Speaker 7: if Derrick Henry is leaning up against the you know
Speaker 7: got it. If Lamar Jackson does has those big eighty
Speaker 7: yard crazy runs that you know Lamar Jackson is able
Speaker 7: to have, it's look, it's going to be demoralizing and
Speaker 7: not only is a fan base, but as a team
Speaker 7: to see that continuously happen and you not be able
Speaker 7: to do anything about it, and nobody has any backbone
Speaker 7: to stop it. Nobody stands up and says, look, got
Speaker 7: this on us. We got to go do something about it.
Speaker 7: Did you see that on the sideline?
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 7: Y'all was looking for it. I didn't see it. I
Speaker 7: didn't see that one guy that was saying, look.
Speaker 2: Radley, the truth.
Speaker 6: Something was here in twenty ten. Look uncle Wade, who's out?
Speaker 6: I messed with Uncle Wade heavy. That was my guy
Speaker 6: players coach. But there was all these so many embarrassing
Speaker 6: games you can take. You. I don't know if you
Speaker 6: was there, but you was covered the squad. We went
Speaker 6: up to Green Bay that that Monday.
Speaker 4: There was a Monday night game, so no, it was
Speaker 4: Sunday night games, Sunday the National everybody saw you TV.
Speaker 4: I mean, there was just so many butt kickings you
Speaker 4: can take to where at the end of the day
Speaker 4: it was like we got to make a change.
Speaker 2: Quit team, quit team, quit on it. I was playing
Speaker 2: at half time after the rookie playing that it was bad.
Speaker 6: There was only so many times you could take those
Speaker 6: punches in the mouth before something's gotta happen.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get our break in here. You know,
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Speaker 4: a bounce back factor very well. This is going to
Speaker 4: be a challenge because here's a team coming in here
Speaker 4: that's zero and two that a lot of people like
Speaker 4: myself thought we'll go to win the division. I actually
Speaker 4: had this team in the Super Bowl. They lost at
Speaker 4: home to the Raiders and Gardner Minshew. That was embarrassing.
Speaker 4: They lost their first game on Thursday night to the
Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs. You fall the oh to three, you
Speaker 4: about to be in some trouble here. Cowboys do not
Speaker 4: want to fall the O and two at home. You're
Speaker 4: gonna be in some trouble if you can't win these
Speaker 4: home games here. So this is going to become a
Speaker 4: battle of wills and a battle of character here. Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott has played against the Ravens. He was twenty seven
Speaker 4: to thirty six four three hundred and one yards and
Speaker 4: three touchdowns as a rookie. That's the last time he
Speaker 4: played against Baltimore. I was twenty sixteen. He did not
Speaker 4: play against the Ravens in twenty twenty. That was because
Speaker 4: of the ankle injury that he suffered early in the season.
Speaker 4: So this is Dak's second time facing these Ravens. All right, heck,
Speaker 4: ma Harrison, I know you start to study just a
Speaker 4: little bit here with some of the matchups.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have, and I think that the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 7: are still surprising that they're O and two Kansas City game.
Speaker 7: As we all watched that one as a banner was
Speaker 7: lifted in Kansas City. That was a close ball game.
Speaker 7: But I think you you started to see that the
Speaker 7: Lamar Jackson still has a bunch of talent on his roster,
Speaker 7: but they lost a lot. They lost fifteen players last
Speaker 7: year to free agency and a lot of the big
Speaker 7: part of that came from their offensive line. They're struggling
Speaker 7: in that department with the losses that they have, but
Speaker 7: you talk about who they do have and for me,
Speaker 7: and there's something that you pointed out, and we've talked
Speaker 7: a lot about safeties, and I'm kind of leading you
Speaker 7: in to this. They have a guy by the name
Speaker 7: of Isaiah likely from the coast of Carolina, and I'm
Speaker 7: gonna tell you, like a fourth round draft pick. Then
Speaker 7: it just amazes me how barry they miss on guys.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's a guy that's taking the fourth round
Speaker 7: that clearly should have been drafted higher. Just a very
Speaker 7: talented dude. I mean, route runner has hands and for
Speaker 7: our safeties, I think Dunban. Wilson's kryptonite is a a
Speaker 7: is a guy that can rout him up and a
Speaker 7: tight and a tight end that can route him up.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we saw We've.
Speaker 7: Talked about this with Kittle and then some of those
Speaker 7: other matchups, but that's just a longer line of scrimmage.
Speaker 7: One of those guys in the box that could come downhill.
Speaker 7: I love him in that capacity. What we've seen also
Speaker 7: from our linebacker is that is they're a lot better
Speaker 7: now with the way these guys run, but we haven't
Speaker 7: seen them. We see them up against Joku. Joko got hurt,
Speaker 7: went out. But I think this is a bigger test
Speaker 7: for them. And not only I mentioned in Isaiah likely
Speaker 7: they also have the all everything Mark Andrews take and
Speaker 7: they have paid him a grip. So Mark Andrews is
Speaker 7: going to be a part of that as well. The
Speaker 7: other thing that I want to say, and I wanted
Speaker 7: to get your feedback on, is how you scheme as
Speaker 7: a defense for Lamar Jackson, Because in my thought, Barry
Speaker 7: is if you go man cover zero in any situation
Speaker 7: versus Lamar, and you bliss en and you miss. So
Speaker 7: so you know that I know that, So the for
Speaker 7: the defense. I'm trying to come up with this with
Speaker 7: a plan that says, look, this is how you stop
Speaker 7: this team because number one is obviously stopped to run.
Speaker 7: But I'm just telling you how they can also hurt
Speaker 7: you in the passing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Cowboys, in my opinion, they're in a little
Speaker 6: bit of a pickle right now, a little bit of
Speaker 6: a pickle when you talk about these matchups, because to me,
Speaker 6: Isaiah Likely is probably one of the hardest matchups as
Speaker 6: far as a tight end in the National Football League.
Speaker 6: You put a linebacker on hem gonna outrun him. You
Speaker 6: put a safety on him, he's gonna he's gonna route
Speaker 6: him up. And if you use your resources to put
Speaker 6: a corner or nickel on them, let's just say they
Speaker 6: put you know, Jordan Lewis, he's too small. He's too
Speaker 6: small for a guy like Isaiah Likely. And that's one
Speaker 6: of the guys that when everything breaks down, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 6: starts scrambling around back there. That's who he's looking for
Speaker 6: to add lib and make a play. So, to me,
Speaker 6: Isaiah Likely is gonna be a tough, tough matchup for
Speaker 6: this Dallas Cowboys defense. Now, when you talk about trying
Speaker 6: to contain a guy like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the that's the key.
Speaker 6: Right there, and it is gonna be tough because you know,
Speaker 6: we gotta get We've got a lot of guys out
Speaker 6: there with natural ability, natural speed, but you gotta be
Speaker 6: able to keep him in the bus. Now, I understand
Speaker 6: that's a lot easier said than done, because this guy
Speaker 6: makes the fools out of a lot of people in
Speaker 6: the phone booth. All right, So I understand it's gonna
Speaker 6: be a lot easier said than done. But this is
Speaker 6: the type of game where, like Anthony Hitchin said, you
Speaker 6: can't have hero ball. You can't have guys over there
Speaker 6: and say I'm gonna go out here and make the play.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do this and that to make the play,
Speaker 6: you gotta trust your teammates on the inside but on
Speaker 6: the outside to be able to do their job. Like,
Speaker 6: if it's your job to contain and you see Lamar
Speaker 6: sitting there, don't try to go underneath and make a
Speaker 6: play because he's gonna make.
Speaker 2: You look foolish. You gotta trust that old DIGGI Zoo.
Speaker 2: You gotta trust that d law.
Speaker 6: These interior players and the other guys on the outside
Speaker 6: are gonna do their job and when it comes to you,
Speaker 6: you gotta make it. But to me, if you go
Speaker 6: out there and you try to blitz this guy, because
Speaker 6: Kansas City had some success blitzing Lamar Jackson, but I'm
Speaker 6: not so sure we have the guys on the second
Speaker 6: level to be able to match up with that. If
Speaker 6: he does get through that blitz, and we've seen it
Speaker 6: time and time again, if you miss him on that.
Speaker 2: Blitz, he's gonna make you pay.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: So to me, this defense is in a bit of
Speaker 6: a little pickle right here. But you do have that
Speaker 6: one chess piece. You do have overshown out there, and
Speaker 6: he's shown the ability to go sideline the sideline and
Speaker 6: be able to keep up with some of these guys
Speaker 6: in the National Football League. Is that a tall task
Speaker 6: for a guy coming in basically his first year. Of
Speaker 6: course it is, because Lamar Jackson is that guy. But
Speaker 6: you got a chess piece there that you can at
Speaker 6: least spy on him and make things difficult for him
Speaker 6: to where if he just jumps out the jumps out
Speaker 6: the window, he just can't get loose. He Man, you
Speaker 6: got a guy and overshown that has the speed that's
Speaker 6: at least going to be able to make him go
Speaker 6: sideline the sideline and not downfield and where he could
Speaker 6: just run straight through your defense. So to me, you
Speaker 6: gotta look use over shown last week he only had
Speaker 6: what eighteen some snaps out there. This is the game
Speaker 6: where he's got to play because I think he's your
Speaker 6: chess piece, he's your speed piece on that second level
Speaker 6: that can at least contend with a Lamar jacks Let
Speaker 6: me just say this, Max Crosby had a hell of
Speaker 6: a game. He was at two sacks in that game.
Speaker 6: He was just ruptive off the edge. He was a
Speaker 6: big time matchup problem for them. Ronnie Staley is going
Speaker 6: to have his hands full with Michael Parsons. And this
Speaker 6: is one of those games where all the whispers about
Speaker 6: Micah's out, Uh he plays when he wants to, where's
Speaker 6: he gonna You know, he has to show up And
Speaker 6: I mean you've seen there's there's a road map here
Speaker 6: for the success that teams have had against Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 6: and a guy like Max Crosby showed you last week
Speaker 6: that man, if you if you stay aggressive out on
Speaker 6: the edge, Mac Trisby obviously from the fighting Chris Bean
Speaker 6: Colinville Heritage High School here uh in in the state
Speaker 6: of Texas.
Speaker 2: But man, he was a beast out there and we
Speaker 2: need that kind of effort to.
Speaker 5: Helping his team.
Speaker 6: Harassed in the quarterback, Yeah yeah, yeah, And this is
Speaker 6: a big.
Speaker 7: Game and they did that to him at home and
Speaker 7: so the one needs to me two sacks.
Speaker 5: Eight Hutchinson four and a half sacks. Miles Garrett was said,
Speaker 5: t J.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a trend. There's a trend. Where's where's Waldo?
Speaker 7: But here's what you what you were just talking about
Speaker 7: as far as Lamar Jackson stressing your defense because he's
Speaker 7: a perpetual scramble drill and.
Speaker 2: That's the hardest thing in the second.
Speaker 7: You have to stay stuck your man for longer than
Speaker 7: you want to and even if you actually have the
Speaker 7: perfect defense, can't stop a guy like Lamar Jackson. And
Speaker 7: I mean, I love that you spoke to that, because
Speaker 7: I don't think that people even understand how hard that
Speaker 7: is to stay at attention for four quarters like that
Speaker 7: with a guy that you know that at any moment
Speaker 7: he could change the dynamic of this game.
Speaker 6: And when he starts getting back there, and he's doing
Speaker 6: these scramble jills left and right. It's hard enough to
Speaker 6: cover ride receiver concepts when they're.
Speaker 2: Running the actual route.
Speaker 6: Imagine if you give a guy extra three to four
Speaker 6: seconds to just add lib out there. I mean we
Speaker 6: see it all the time with Kansas City and Travis
Speaker 6: Kelce like, guys will have him locked up and then
Speaker 6: here comes this boy Mahomes running around. Next thing you know,
Speaker 6: he's looking this way, turning that way. It's impossible to cover.
Speaker 6: That's why Russian cover works so much well together. And
Speaker 6: like your boy says all the time, you can't the
Speaker 6: secondary can't do nothing. If that defensive line ain't working
Speaker 6: and they're not then after job, the back does not
Speaker 6: work without the front. And if Lamar Jackson got all
Speaker 6: day back there and those guys start adding living in
Speaker 6: the secondary.
Speaker 2: I don't care who you have prime out there, I
Speaker 2: don't care.
Speaker 6: It's hard to cover people that long in the national
Speaker 6: football these guys are just too good.
Speaker 5: You gotta make Lamar Jackson a pocket pasture.
Speaker 4: You want him throwing the ball forty times in Kansas
Speaker 4: City had him throwing it forty.
Speaker 5: Times, and the Ravens ran a great bunch in that game.
Speaker 4: And by the way, we make sure we don't forget
Speaker 4: he came back in that game and it looked like
Speaker 4: Likely caught the touchdown pass that could have tied it up,
Speaker 4: and then he had like like a thw thumb toe
Speaker 4: just right there, you're a Kirk toe. Didn't get it
Speaker 4: done that light between. If Likely and Andrews are both
Speaker 4: hitting and your d line is not able to help
Speaker 4: your line back, you can get up. King Henry right,
Speaker 4: there's this is a challenge, man, this is a serious challenge.
Speaker 4: And we're going and learn a lot about the Dallas.
Speaker 7: Cowboys this weekend. Yeah, with at and T Stateium. Now
Speaker 7: what do you made of Yeah? And that's what the
Speaker 7: challenge is is. Now we're in a league all of
Speaker 7: a sudden now loves the running game, you know, and
Speaker 7: what are teams presenting each and every week? They are
Speaker 7: coming to your stadium and if you cannot stop it,
Speaker 7: they're just going to continue to pour it on you.
Speaker 7: And the Cowboys literally right now are the poster child
Speaker 7: for that team that cannot stop the run. And then
Speaker 7: we're talking about something. Running backs are so in.
Speaker 2: Vogue, you know.
Speaker 7: Now all of a sudden the running game is like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, you know, look at what we can do.
Speaker 7: And I just feel like Zimmer has been a guy
Speaker 7: that's been in the league long enough that he's seen
Speaker 7: every type of scheme. This Shanahan scheme, it's an old scheme.
Speaker 7: He didn't create something new, he just revamped something old,
Speaker 7: and so I look forward to what he does, the
Speaker 7: adjustment that he makes. Whatever it is, man, it's gonna
Speaker 7: be on full display on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: but service announcement. Okay, the Rangers final game is Sunday.
Speaker 4: Get to your get there early if you go into
Speaker 4: the Cowboy game because you know, fan appreciation, getting last
Speaker 4: time you see the world champion Rangers, because it's their
Speaker 4: last time as world champions playing this year because they
Speaker 4: will not be making the playoffs.
Speaker 5: Get their early baby.
Speaker 2: It's feast of famine out there.
Speaker 5: Is their early parking is you know?
Speaker 2: And if you how do you feel about that?
Speaker 7: I mean, they were riding the high as as a
Speaker 7: team winning the World Series and this year just did
Speaker 7: not go.
Speaker 5: So the man I was there, I was there.
Speaker 7: No no, no, I'm saying no, no, I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And I say that I don't care. I don't care
Speaker 5: about twenty thirteen. Don't care.
Speaker 4: I don't care if this is a bad season. Heck,
Speaker 4: all I know is that ride and what they did
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 5: That stuff. There's a couple of things that you just remember.
Speaker 2: Coupling teams.
Speaker 4: I'll never forget that ride that they went on. I'll
Speaker 4: never forget the twenty eleven rides that the Mavericks went
Speaker 4: on and watching it and seeing the whole thing the
Speaker 4: next year for both of them. But nah, I'm the organization.
Speaker 4: Unlike the Mavericks, the Rangers organization, in my mind, did
Speaker 4: everything that they needed to do to try to repeat
Speaker 4: and go out here and do it again just didn't happen.
Speaker 4: It didn't happen. Guys were injured from the time they had.
Speaker 4: It was a mix of both. You know, Corey Seeger
Speaker 4: wasn't healthy. I mean, just you had Evan Carter, who
Speaker 4: played such a big role last year as a rookie,
Speaker 4: as an outfielder.
Speaker 5: He was hurt.
Speaker 4: Just a lot of stuff didn't go their way, but
Speaker 4: management put the money into it.
Speaker 5: It's not like the players when I loaf and everything.
Speaker 5: It just didn't go your way.
Speaker 4: It's so hard, and that's one thing that I have
Speaker 4: such respect for for the teams that have repeated throughout
Speaker 4: sports history. It is hard just to do it once,
Speaker 4: but you do it again, you climb the mountain and
Speaker 4: everybody knows that's the standard. You're that team, and you
Speaker 4: can do it again.
Speaker 5: It's hard.
Speaker 4: Bruce Wunch, he's never repeated, and he's won the World
Speaker 4: Series four times. I mean, he never even made the
Speaker 4: playoffs next year. I mean, his teams have a falloff.
Speaker 4: But having been there in twenty eleven when the Rangers
Speaker 4: were won out away from winning the World Series twice
Speaker 4: and then to watch them win it. It didn't matter.
Speaker 4: They could have been the worst team in baseball. It
Speaker 4: had been all good.
Speaker 5: It had been all good because they raised the banner.
Speaker 4: And when you win a championship, man, it is it
Speaker 4: is outstanding. If the Cowboys ever won a Super Bowl
Speaker 4: again under Jerry and they went and won three games
Speaker 4: next year, you know what I say? Okay, fine, because
Speaker 4: when you get to that mountain top like that hack,
Speaker 4: especially for the fans, and then to watch some of
Speaker 4: the long suffering staffers, Man, that was a fun thing
Speaker 4: for me because I saw guys who were still with
Speaker 4: a team that were there at twenty eleven, just saw
Speaker 4: the letdown. I was really happy for them. I felt
Speaker 4: bad for Adrian Beltray, Ian Kinsler and Michael Young because
Speaker 4: they were on the field at Arizona and they stood
Speaker 4: back just first of all, what great leaders. They're like,
Speaker 4: hey man, we weren't a part of this. This wasn't
Speaker 4: our team. I'm going to stay back. When I tried
Speaker 4: to interview, I'm like, nope, no, you talk to them.
Speaker 4: I wasn't a part of this. Had my shot, didn't
Speaker 4: get it done. But they were happy for them. And
Speaker 4: then you know, two of the guys worked for the organizations,
Speaker 4: so they were gonna get rings anyway. But no, man,
Speaker 4: they go out there Sunday, they don't get it done.
Speaker 2: Fine, yeah, I'm good with it.
Speaker 7: And I think the emotional part of you is obviously like,
Speaker 7: hell yeah, they got it done. And you watched the parade,
Speaker 7: you were a part of it. And then some teams
Speaker 7: in the off season after they win a championship, they
Speaker 7: go through wholesale changes where they you know, you know,
Speaker 7: get guys off of the roster. It seemed like to
Speaker 7: me that the Rangers were trying to get better, you know,
Speaker 7: the in the off season as well. And so look,
Speaker 7: that's why you look at the Kansas City Chiefs and
Speaker 7: what they're doing in their pursuit for a third and
Speaker 7: how you know a team is building and with the
Speaker 7: in the salary era, to be able to continue to
Speaker 7: play at a high level like that, it's it's really impressive,
Speaker 7: and I think it's a lot. It's a lot harder
Speaker 7: than the casual fan gives it to reaching that to
Speaker 7: reaching that mountaintop, to be able to win that championship.
Speaker 5: It is made.
Speaker 4: Against you in the NFL. It's not made for you
Speaker 4: to sustain it. They've made rules to try to hurt you.
Speaker 4: But this is you know, first off, when you have
Speaker 4: generational talent like a Patrick Lomees, you can tell Tyree
Speaker 4: Hill thanks and we can go win without you. I
Speaker 4: always tell people, look at the running backs. They've gone
Speaker 4: through all these different teams that made.
Speaker 5: The Super Bowl. And Andy's an exceptional coach. You know,
Speaker 5: he's going into the.
Speaker 4: Pro Football Hall of Fame and you've got it outstanding
Speaker 4: quarterback and they management is giving them what they need.
Speaker 5: Chris Jones, Steve spa.
Speaker 4: You know, they they they don't put assistant coaches in
Speaker 4: the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which is an area
Speaker 4: I think they really need to correct.
Speaker 5: Some guys are going to be head coaches.
Speaker 4: But you talk about what with Steve Spagnola has done
Speaker 4: as a defensive coordinator, and people forget when Bill Belichick's
Speaker 4: undefeated Giants team lost Spagnolo, that was Spagnolo getting that done.
Speaker 7: Always had great personnel, guys that can rush the passer,
Speaker 7: and right now here Jones is probably I mean, it's
Speaker 7: a delight if you like, you know, trench warfare, you
Speaker 7: like that kind of football. When you see a guy
Speaker 7: that side doing what he's doing and moving around on
Speaker 7: that defensive line, and people don't give that. Last year
Speaker 7: as Kansas City, the Chiefs team enough credit for having
Speaker 7: the number one defense and having the kind of leaders
Speaker 7: that they had on that side of the ball. There
Speaker 7: was an ugly point in the season where they said,
Speaker 7: this is the worst statistical year that they had offensively.
Speaker 7: It was because the defense carried him. And here we
Speaker 7: are talking about defense and a defense potentially being able
Speaker 7: to carry you at certain points during the season.
Speaker 2: And I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 7: After last week, I don't have any hope have left
Speaker 7: in that department to think that that's the kind of
Speaker 7: balance that we can have as a team.
Speaker 4: So, speaking of hopium, I'll give you a sliver. What
Speaker 4: if they could figure out how to run the ball?
Speaker 4: And we brought up the name Dalvin Cook. We don't
Speaker 4: know what they're going to do, but we saw what
Speaker 4: they rolled out there last week.
Speaker 5: It was unsuccessful, that wasn't it.
Speaker 4: So maybe trying Dalvin Cook against his former team because
Speaker 4: he played for Baltimore last year, played in the playoff game,
Speaker 4: maybe that is something they've got to figure out something
Speaker 4: as a coaching staff, how do you get this run
Speaker 4: game going, because if Baltimore is out here running and
Speaker 4: putting up numbers that they have had one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty yards last week you had like a bucks seventy
Speaker 4: or something plus against Kansas City, your defense is going
Speaker 4: to be worn out. You can't go out here with
Speaker 4: a three and out drive. You can't have a drive
Speaker 4: that last, you know, two seventeen. I mean, you're going
Speaker 4: to have to figure out how to run the ball,
Speaker 4: protect to protect.
Speaker 7: Can't just take kickfield goals either, you know, you gotta
Speaker 7: go score for score with them.
Speaker 2: And those are some of the things that changes it up.
Speaker 7: I mean, look, you know this is what everybody knows
Speaker 7: that it's evaluated the tape on Baltimore.
Speaker 2: They're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 7: And if your defense cannot be steady enough to not
Speaker 7: allow those long sustaining clock draining, it drives. And those
Speaker 7: are the things like when you look up, it's like, damn,
Speaker 7: they've had the ball for eight minutes quarter, you know,
Speaker 7: the whole quarter they take it up, and then not
Speaker 7: only that, they've gone down and they've scored, and then
Speaker 7: you get the ball back and it's a three and
Speaker 7: out and it just it just starts all over again,
Speaker 7: and that's why. Look, when you look at the numbers
Speaker 7: on Baltimore, they are great in so many areas, but
Speaker 7: then they are really.
Speaker 2: Bad in other areas.
Speaker 7: So as we know they're gonna run on us, they
Speaker 7: know we're gonna pass on them. And so that's that's
Speaker 7: where I think the swing comes in this game. Where
Speaker 7: people can whether it's hopingum or not, you can you
Speaker 7: can feel like, look, we got seed. You saw what
Speaker 7: Devontae Adams did last week versus versus the Ravens. So
Speaker 7: in steps our offense to to take advantage of that defense.
Speaker 7: And when it comes to our offense, and y'all, I know,
Speaker 7: we love Ma McCarthy and he's the heck of a
Speaker 7: play caller on what he does.
Speaker 6: But there's things that they got to get better at.
Speaker 6: You know, we talk about this running attack, they got
Speaker 6: to get better at it. Do we have the juice
Speaker 6: to be able to do that, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 6: Even with the Dialbin Cook, I'm not so sure. But
Speaker 6: one area that they've got to improve on if they
Speaker 6: want to be able to beat these good teams is
Speaker 6: the red zone. I mean, we looked at it the
Speaker 6: first two games one for four in the red zone.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna win these games. You'll beat Cleveland with
Speaker 6: no tackles off, You'll beat Cleveland, but you're not gonna
Speaker 6: beat these good teams.
Speaker 2: Going zero for three in the red zone. Kick the
Speaker 2: field goals with Brandon Aubrey.
Speaker 5: That Bd Aubrey, get me wrong, that's last year's that's
Speaker 5: the thing.
Speaker 6: You can't do it. You gotta cash it when you
Speaker 6: get down there. That's a must. Where's hell Boogie when
Speaker 6: you need them?
Speaker 2: Bring out where pro Bo? Bring out Bookie out. We
Speaker 2: need to Pro Bowl, we need to pro bom.
Speaker 5: You bring him out something some gotta happ bring him out,
Speaker 5: bringing out what you're doing.
Speaker 6: So far it has not been has not. It has not,
Speaker 6: It don't look like it will.
Speaker 2: Hey, we got a Pro Bowl on the line. I'm
Speaker 2: which I hope you go out there and give yourself.
Speaker 4: Just remember Cee Lamb's first four games last year. We're
Speaker 4: not Pro Bowl games. It took him a minute to
Speaker 4: get you did. So maybe that's what Mike needs. Maybe
Speaker 4: Mike has to just kind of stumble into this thing.
Speaker 4: And you don't have like the l Boogie package, Like
Speaker 4: what is it?
Speaker 6: Something gotta ain't nobody getting open. Outside of nobody's getting open,
Speaker 6: you know it is you torpor Mad a hell of
Speaker 6: a catch, but he was, he was locked up.
Speaker 2: He was.
Speaker 6: He made a hell of a catch though, But other
Speaker 6: than that, who's getting open?
Speaker 7: And that's why you hope that Ferguson can come back
Speaker 7: and be healthy. And I mean, even with that knee
Speaker 7: sprain and Bruce, how elusive is he going to be?
Speaker 2: How mobile is he going to be?
Speaker 7: I don't know, but I know that Dak was missing
Speaker 7: a piece of that offense last week, and that was
Speaker 7: something that was something that was off and if it
Speaker 7: was just that they didn't have Ferguson, Ferguson is a
Speaker 7: big part of this offense.
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