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Speaker 2: It is Thursday December nineteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 2: episode number eighty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: Everybody good?
Speaker 7: It's one of my favorite football weekends of the year
Speaker 7: because you have Texas high school football state championships. Now
Speaker 7: you throw in the college football Playoff first round.
Speaker 2: It's great Saturday. Time to be a live I saw
Speaker 2: some moody teeth this this morning Saturday. That lineup of
Speaker 2: football between college and pro like, I don't even know
Speaker 2: how I'm gonnatch, but Saturday the games or the game Friday? Inside,
Speaker 2: I thought they were Saturday.
Speaker 8: And Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Speaker 2: Oh there's something Saturdays.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sad my guy, Craig Waye is not gonna
Speaker 6: be able to call the the sixth day, the six
Speaker 6: A final.
Speaker 2: Yes, but he's got who's in the six A final?
Speaker 4: Who's got your sixth question?
Speaker 7: Probably Ted Emrick or not said who's in the North
Speaker 7: Crowley and Austin West Laker in six A D one?
Speaker 2: Nor Crowley is a team to be Dunkncanville? Right? Which
Speaker 2: is this? That is the standard? Yes? High school football
Speaker 2: in Texas.
Speaker 8: Six A D two is Southlake Carroll and Austin Vandergrift.
Speaker 3: Okay, I cannot imagine keeping up with high school football.
Speaker 4: This man did it pretty well for a long time.
Speaker 7: It's it's because it's a passion of mine. That's that's
Speaker 7: why I keep up with it. It's it used to
Speaker 7: be working. Now it was just a passion.
Speaker 2: It's a It's also why on this show we randomly
Speaker 2: are like, he'll talk, we'll talk about something. He'll be like, oh,
Speaker 2: and by the way, this guy came up in.
Speaker 8: This small draft, the Draft show Texas.
Speaker 2: He's all over it.
Speaker 4: Am I a bad guy?
Speaker 6: I I can tell a real quick stormed by a
Speaker 6: guy's coming in the complex today.
Speaker 4: And yes at a young man. Uh he hit a football.
Speaker 6: Okay, he was throwing it around and he was acting
Speaker 6: like he was running with it. I knocked the ball
Speaker 6: out of his hands.
Speaker 2: Wow. How young.
Speaker 4: He's probably like thirteen fourteen years old.
Speaker 2: But he killed his hopes and dreams.
Speaker 6: But he was, but he was he was acting like
Speaker 6: so I did a maris lea foul like he was
Speaker 6: running with the ball and I went boom and I
Speaker 6: knocked it out of his hands on the ground and
Speaker 6: go gotcha.
Speaker 4: And he's like, oh, he's like he was.
Speaker 8: Kind of it will hurt you.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: I just yeah, the kid was kind of like playing.
Speaker 6: He was playing with the ball and then he was
Speaker 6: acting like he was running. But then I caused a
Speaker 6: fumble coming into the building. Is that bad? Is that
Speaker 6: it's bad?
Speaker 8: Yes, It's only a good thing.
Speaker 4: It taught him, taught him secure the ball.
Speaker 7: It's only a good thing to a ball scurity shop security.
Speaker 7: If you say that, then it's okay. He's smiling, he's smidstand.
Speaker 6: But yeah, like I pulled the mareslia fell on him
Speaker 6: like he was running and he kind of went by
Speaker 6: me and I just went boom and I knocked it
Speaker 6: and he went to the ground and I and I
Speaker 6: turned gotcha and he smiled about it. He picked it
Speaker 6: up his buddies and like we're starting to laugh at himself.
Speaker 6: But he was doing the ball security like he was
Speaker 6: running like he was like he was running through the building.
Speaker 2: It just reminds me of the program that scene with it, Hey,
Speaker 2: you got to learn, you got ball And he's like
Speaker 2: the coaches like I was the hell of a run.
Speaker 2: Imagine what it would be like if we still had
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 4: You remember that?
Speaker 2: And then now I want you to hold onto this
Speaker 2: ball for the next week on camp.
Speaker 6: Now he's walking around campus with the ball, but he.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he deserved it.
Speaker 4: You talk about the turnovers, Ambar can't have turnovers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but not to a stranger that's just trying to
Speaker 3: live out his childhood out here.
Speaker 2: And got to learn.
Speaker 6: Man, one day, that kid's gonna thank Nick's gonna let's
Speaker 6: him a sideline reporter.
Speaker 4: He's gonna go.
Speaker 2: We gotta protect the ball.
Speaker 6: One time I was coming out of the Star and
Speaker 6: this ball dude knocked the ball out of my hand.
Speaker 4: And you know here I am. I never fumbled again, Yeah,
Speaker 4: never fumbled again.
Speaker 2: Then he goes on to be the greatest running back
Speaker 2: in the issue of the interview. You go all the time,
Speaker 2: Ryan knocked the ball there, you go, good job, Ron.
Speaker 4: Thank you. All right.
Speaker 6: Hey, if you visit the Star, you never know what's
Speaker 6: gonna happen. You gotta be ready for everything that's tracks. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you gotta be ready.
Speaker 4: We live that. We we work here every day. We
Speaker 4: live that. Yeah, be ready. You ever know when someone's
Speaker 4: gona knock the ball out here?
Speaker 2: Okay, another episode?
Speaker 6: Your popcorn out of the tub, Just dig right into it.
Speaker 6: Remember that, mbarah, I remember that.
Speaker 2: Let's get it up there.
Speaker 9: We shall further discuss that.
Speaker 2: Let's get an update on some injuries. There are a
Speaker 2: few that jumped out to me that that I figured
Speaker 2: we should talk about. TJ. Bass, Jumi Edoga, Mazzie Smith
Speaker 2: all did not practice yesterday with varying injuries. What do
Speaker 2: you know about those three and the chances that they
Speaker 2: will be out this week when the Cowboys take the
Speaker 2: fill on Sunday?
Speaker 8: Rub me through the Three, you're talking about TJ.
Speaker 2: Bass, Jumi Edoga, and Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 7: Yeah, looking at TJ. Bass, that's probably the only one
Speaker 7: I have an update. Four is McCarthy said yesterday that
Speaker 7: he's going to have a chance to go, So it's
Speaker 7: I don't think it was necessarily as serious as they
Speaker 7: initially thought. They were thinking maybe a two week type situation,
Speaker 7: but that he has a chance to go on Sunday.
Speaker 7: As far as Adoga and Mazzie Smith, I'll have to
Speaker 7: refer to my guy to the right to see if
Speaker 7: he has.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't have anything updated on that. I'll try
Speaker 6: and grab us something as we go along here. I
Speaker 6: have not heard back on those, but yeah, the one
Speaker 6: also too with the with it being a Wednesday, you know,
Speaker 6: and you got a lot of these guys that aren't
Speaker 6: used to playing or hadn't been playing, and now they're
Speaker 6: kind of veteran players, so you might you're like, maybe
Speaker 6: the guys that aren't used to playing, all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: it's like, oh man, I'm not it's feeling great about
Speaker 6: four weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Now I'm not feeling so great.
Speaker 6: So maybe that, But I'll rally on the other ones
Speaker 6: and we'll have an answer before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: A couple others that stood out to me for good reasons.
Speaker 2: Jordan Lewis, who have the elbow injury.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: He said after the game he thought he was gonna
Speaker 2: be okay, but obviously he didn't know for sure. It
Speaker 2: looked like he was in a lot of pain there
Speaker 2: on the field. He had limited participation there, so I
Speaker 2: would assume that's looking good. And then obviously Cooper Bebee
Speaker 2: uh center for the Cowboys with the concussion he missed
Speaker 2: last week's game, he was a full participant there you
Speaker 2: go yesterday. So that's a good thing. He's moving in
Speaker 2: the right direction. And certainly I guess at that point
Speaker 2: the TJ. Bass injury becomes a little less critical because
Speaker 2: you can now slide Hoffing back out to his spot
Speaker 2: at right right guard.
Speaker 7: One yea Thomas also back on the practice field. And
Speaker 7: passion limited capacity, limited capacity.
Speaker 6: You have no compassion for play, You have no compassion random.
Speaker 6: You gotta learn, man, gotta learn. The young age ball
Speaker 6: secure is important.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is, all right. Let's talk about.
Speaker 6: Once we're asking about we're asking about Mozzie Smith and Jima.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir right transaction yesterday or today, Cowboys sign Justin
Speaker 2: Rodgers to their active roster. He was a seventh round
Speaker 2: draft draft pick back in twenty twenty four. He's been
Speaker 2: on the Bengals practice squad. My question for you guys is, really,
Speaker 2: what did you see from him? He was in training
Speaker 2: camp with the Cowboys this last training camp. What did
Speaker 2: you see from him? And is this a move that
Speaker 2: you're excited about because of what you saw or was
Speaker 2: it the opposite.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's necessarily excited, but he was
Speaker 7: a big guy. He definitely passed the eye test. He
Speaker 7: passed the all lobby test, I guess as they walked through.
Speaker 4: But getting off the bus.
Speaker 8: Getting off the bus test.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he he had some moments at camp, don't
Speaker 7: get me wrong. I mean that that big frame at
Speaker 7: works and being able to fill up running lanes. But
Speaker 7: I was a little surprised that he didn't end up
Speaker 7: making the final cut.
Speaker 8: I will say that, but.
Speaker 7: I was surprised that he They even didn't even retain
Speaker 7: them to the practice squad either. Yeah, so that was
Speaker 7: that was a surprise overall. But getting him back in
Speaker 7: the building right before the season ends, I think that's
Speaker 7: that's kind of funny because there were a lot of
Speaker 7: fans that thought that they released Aaron Donald whenever he
Speaker 7: walked out of the building.
Speaker 4: So yeah, hey, you live that way too, Huh, he's back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I I kind of to me, I
Speaker 6: was surprised it wasn't the practice squad situation too. I
Speaker 6: was thinking, man, but I don't, like I said, I
Speaker 6: don't think I was in a situation either where I
Speaker 6: was really like blown away by the guy. I felt like, okay,
Speaker 6: but they were, they were rotating guys in, and they
Speaker 6: were trying to find guys, and you know, it just
Speaker 6: it to me it was a little bit of a
Speaker 6: strange maneuver that because it usually you find them, they'll
Speaker 6: they'll they'll find a way to protect their draft that way,
Speaker 6: and then in this case, they didn't.
Speaker 4: They didn't do that.
Speaker 6: So I was I was a little bit surprised he
Speaker 6: wasn't on the practice squad. But I don't remember it
Speaker 6: as one of those things where you know, gosh, I mean,
Speaker 6: this guy was the better of you know, the fact
Speaker 6: that they were going out and trying to get guys,
Speaker 6: I think probably probably tells you what they thought about
Speaker 6: him initially and now they're thinking about, Okay, well, next
Speaker 6: year we might not have Maybe this is more about
Speaker 6: the depth you know, going into next year than it
Speaker 6: is about maybe playing some games right now.
Speaker 4: I mean, in my opinion, it.
Speaker 2: Was his first camp. Did you see moments where he
Speaker 2: may have flashed that gave you hope that maybe he
Speaker 2: could develop a little bit more into the player that
Speaker 2: you need him to be a defensive tackle.
Speaker 7: You might have a different or anyone at this table
Speaker 7: might have a different opinion, but I think it's really
Speaker 7: hard for defensive tackles to flash in.
Speaker 8: A training camp type environment.
Speaker 7: It's tough for that position of flash in general, but
Speaker 7: especially in a training camp type environment. All you can
Speaker 7: really see is you know, pad level stuff, and you
Speaker 7: know how they're applying certain coaching points because you can
Speaker 7: hear it. You're right there, especially if you're listening to
Speaker 7: coach Jeff Scanino on the defensive line, you can definitely
Speaker 7: hear it. But I wouldn't say he necessarily flashed at
Speaker 7: any point, or there was any point in camp where
Speaker 7: I walked off the field and was.
Speaker 8: Like, man, you hussy.
Speaker 7: Justin Rogers today, Yeah, that's nothing against Justin Rodgers.
Speaker 3: No, are you on the ground or are you not?
Speaker 9: Are you standing or are you laying down on the floor?
Speaker 4: Think about it.
Speaker 6: Like I said, I I was just when they kept
Speaker 6: trying to roll guys through and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 6: this is fine.
Speaker 4: Let's let's keep going.
Speaker 6: Because I don't remember it as being something where we
Speaker 6: got down to the final fifty three and I was
Speaker 6: like going, well, gosh, they got to keep justin rodders.
Speaker 6: This there's a there's a debate here. I never I
Speaker 6: never got that that kind of a vibe. And so
Speaker 6: you know, they they're, like I say, they're in a situation.
Speaker 6: Maybe they're already thinking about they had a roster spot.
Speaker 6: They're looking at it like, well, okay, we're going to
Speaker 6: probably need some defensive lineman. Let's give this kid another shot.
Speaker 6: Let's instead of going out and maybe having to draft
Speaker 6: a guy or signed a guy as a free agent,
Speaker 6: you know, let's go poach a guy that we kind
Speaker 6: of liked a little bit, I mean, but not enough
Speaker 6: to keep around here. See this is where it bothers
Speaker 6: me a little bit. If like, okay, if you like
Speaker 6: the guy, to put him on the practice squad and
Speaker 6: you have him for the whole year and then maybe
Speaker 6: you have a little bit better understanding.
Speaker 2: Not just as for a point of clarity, when it
Speaker 2: comes to the practice squad. At that point it's his
Speaker 2: choice to you. If he wants to be on the
Speaker 2: other practice squad, can choose another one. And maybe he
Speaker 2: thought that was maybe that's what happened. He thought there
Speaker 2: was more opportunity here than what he saw here. Who knows,
Speaker 2: but there is that opportunity when you're not on the
Speaker 2: active roster.
Speaker 4: But he also has.
Speaker 6: Been in Cincinnati for a while, and so now he's
Speaker 6: got invested into them, and you know, Okay, I am
Speaker 6: I going to get a chance next year being here.
Speaker 6: The fact that he went ahead and jumped with three
Speaker 6: games three weeks to go, I need to check on
Speaker 6: the rules too. By him being on the active roster
Speaker 6: for three games, I think he gets credited for a year.
Speaker 2: For his pen That would be worth it.
Speaker 6: So to me, that's when that's when it becomes like, okay, wait,
Speaker 6: I've got three games. If he could be on the
Speaker 6: fifty three, even if he's inactive for three games, I
Speaker 6: think that he gets a year accredited to his pension. Yeah,
Speaker 6: And so you got to pick those up when you can.
Speaker 2: And he does get paid differently being on the active
Speaker 2: real question in the practical question. So a lot of
Speaker 2: this nice Christmas? This is a nice Christmas.
Speaker 6: No, absolutely, yeah, I mean it's a the team gets
Speaker 6: a guy they're familiar with. He potentially, I believe, gets
Speaker 6: a I've got to I don't understand the system like
Speaker 6: I used to. But he could get a credited year
Speaker 6: which helps to getting the three years and then getting
Speaker 6: fully vested. That's important, ye and then also too that
Speaker 6: maybe next year he can come into training camp and
Speaker 6: be ready to go and better compete.
Speaker 2: Yep. All right, let's take our first break. When we
Speaker 2: come back, we dive into the Tampa Bay defense. We
Speaker 2: talked about that offense yesterday. Deefn's a little different story.
Speaker 2: There's some challenges there for them, and I'll talk to
Speaker 2: you guys about how they match up with the Cowboys offense.
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Speaker 2: Bay Defense. They are right now ranked twenty seventh in
Speaker 2: total defense, thirtieth in past defense they have. This was
Speaker 2: one thing I thought was really interesting. They have the
Speaker 2: third highest blitz percentage. They're blitz yeah, thirty two point
Speaker 2: seven percent dropbacks, but they only have their only twenty.
Speaker 2: They're twenty first U in pressure percentage only twenty two
Speaker 2: point three. So they're blitzing a lot, they ain't getting
Speaker 2: home a lot. That being said, it when you see
Speaker 2: them blitz for as much as they blitz, are they
Speaker 2: running a lot of man. And that's why they're ending
Speaker 2: up in situations where when they don't get home they
Speaker 2: have the thirtieth ring pass defense because it's hard to
Speaker 2: stick around.
Speaker 6: With a man or what are you see? No, No,
Speaker 6: their defense gets killed when they don't blitz. That's their
Speaker 6: problem to me.
Speaker 2: So the other sixty sixty eight percent of.
Speaker 6: The yeah, this is this is, this is where I
Speaker 6: think this is, and and correct me if I'm wrong here,
Speaker 6: But I feel like they do have it.
Speaker 4: Really, they've they've they've had some really.
Speaker 6: Bad injuries to their secondary, Like you know, I know
Speaker 6: their general manager and so they.
Speaker 4: They've they've had some really really.
Speaker 6: Bad things that they've had to deal with injury wise
Speaker 6: in the secondary, not having winfield play.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, they've they've dealt.
Speaker 6: With They've they've had to kind of shuffle some guys around. Uh,
Speaker 6: this Christian Eisen who plays safety for him, had to
Speaker 6: play corner in a game. They've had some they've had
Speaker 6: some situations. They're a team that also plays a lot
Speaker 6: of off coverage. Remember we were talking about Carolina last week,
Speaker 6: and you watch them play and I'm watching Zion McCollum
Speaker 6: the corner and the first three play it's out route, out, route, outround.
Speaker 6: They just keep giving up plays. But they've they've had
Speaker 6: they've had some problems in their secondary. Their their front
Speaker 6: could give you problems, you know, uh, you know, can't
Speaker 6: see they David is a blitzer as a linebacker. You know,
Speaker 6: They've they've got some guys that can can cause some problems,
Speaker 6: but they just have not Their secondary just has not
Speaker 6: been I don't think it's healthy. Antoine Winfield, I mean
Speaker 6: there's questions whether he'll play this week. You know, just
Speaker 6: kind of talking to some folks down there in Tampa
Speaker 6: and and that's been a big, big problem over there.
Speaker 6: But they're they're trying to kind of mix and match
Speaker 6: with some guys. They got a rookie this Tyke smith
Speaker 6: Is is a rookie that they drafted and they've had
Speaker 6: to play them at nickel and he started off kind
Speaker 6: of slow, but he's gotten better. They've their health and
Speaker 6: their secondary has improved. I think it's a lot like Dallas.
Speaker 6: Dallas's numbers were so bad from the initial part of
Speaker 6: the of the season when the season started that they're
Speaker 6: digging out and I think Tampa is a little bit
Speaker 6: of that that way too.
Speaker 2: So you say they're better than their Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: their numbers are.
Speaker 6: I think their team is better defensively. And I noticed
Speaker 6: another thing when you watch their tape. There's not a
Speaker 6: lot of run after catch with these guys. You know,
Speaker 6: there's like to me, it's like it's completion its tackle.
Speaker 6: It's completion its tackle. They're one of the better teams
Speaker 6: in the league, I think when it comes to the
Speaker 6: ones I've seen, when it comes to making place after
Speaker 6: the balls in someone's hands.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think from a pass rush perspective, I spent
Speaker 7: a lot of time on their pass rush and where
Speaker 7: exactly it's coming from, how they succeed with it. It
Speaker 7: comes from the interior completely. It's it's Vidave and Colijah Cansi.
Speaker 7: Those are the two guys that you have to look
Speaker 7: at now. Yah Yah Diyabi he was a third round
Speaker 7: pick up.
Speaker 4: Diaby's got the most pressures of the on their own.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he he makes it happen off the edge too.
Speaker 7: He he was a Rookie of the Year candidate, defensive
Speaker 7: Rookie of Year candidate last year, the third round pick
Speaker 7: out of Louisville a couple of years ago. Really talented
Speaker 7: athletic speed rusher, but can also use his power as well.
Speaker 7: He gets he affects the play more than those two guys.
Speaker 7: But those two guys get home more than dab Dabi does.
Speaker 7: So yeah, Klijah Knsi, Vidavea, these are two very talented
Speaker 7: interior defensive line when we've talked about Veya for years,
Speaker 7: but Kancy is starting to emerge in his own right.
Speaker 7: And I just think it's funny to point out Kalijah
Speaker 7: Cansi was a twenty twenty three defensive tackle drafted in
Speaker 7: the second round.
Speaker 4: So yeah, all right.
Speaker 6: Which, well, I'll say this though too about this team
Speaker 6: where you have to be alert on these guys. Is
Speaker 6: the linebacker blitz with with Levonte, with David, you also
Speaker 6: have nobody blitzes more from the secondary than these guys.
Speaker 6: So all of a sudden, yea, And what happens is
Speaker 6: you got a quarterback that averages like four point eight
Speaker 6: yards of completion when he's getting blitz or feeling pressure.
Speaker 4: And if I'm if and they're gonna they're gonna blitz.
Speaker 4: We know this, they're gonna blitz.
Speaker 6: Because, like I say, they probably don't feel like their
Speaker 6: secondary could hold up.
Speaker 4: But honestly, the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Have got one guy that you feel like can win
Speaker 6: on the outside.
Speaker 4: I know I do.
Speaker 6: I mean I you say what you want about cooks
Speaker 6: and stuff like that, But if if say Dak was
Speaker 6: playing this game, I'd feel so much better because of
Speaker 6: what you're gonna see blitz wise, I feel like, I
Speaker 6: don't know if Cooper Rush is necessarily going to handle
Speaker 6: what's about to happen, their pressure in the middle and
Speaker 6: then their ability to their linebacker blitz, their secondary blitz
Speaker 6: and you know the coverage can't and he handles that.
Speaker 6: If Dak is playing in this game, you feel so
Speaker 6: much better about Sure, bring the blitz.
Speaker 4: But do you have anybody this game could come down
Speaker 4: for Dallas? Can you? Can you?
Speaker 6: Do you have anybody on the outside other than Lamb
Speaker 6: that can win and make plays for you?
Speaker 2: Well, you said earlier that they tend to play a
Speaker 2: lot of off coverage.
Speaker 4: That's yeah, that's Carol.
Speaker 2: Opportunities. It gives you opportunities. You can recognize it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you saw last week. He saw that too,
Speaker 4: and what happened.
Speaker 6: Tolbert has one reception Burks have. Yeah, they're big receptions.
Speaker 6: That's touchdown touchdown. Sure, if you can get one receptions
Speaker 6: a touchdown. But they're going to have to find a way.
Speaker 6: What's really funny about this team too, is against the run.
Speaker 6: They're a better run defense without Vidave on the field,
Speaker 6: like when he's off the field. Like when he's off
Speaker 6: the field, they play better run defense when he's on
Speaker 6: the field. And what teams will do everybody runs the
Speaker 6: ball in the edge against these guys is what they do.
Speaker 6: You can watch it. I was like, okay, how do
Speaker 6: teams how they stay away from Vida Vea? You know,
Speaker 6: I was thinking he's just going to kill the game.
Speaker 6: But the teams run the ball like Dallas is. Everybody
Speaker 6: in the league runs the ball on Dallas on the edge.
Speaker 6: It's like the fourth team in the league when it
Speaker 6: comes to teams running the ball on the outside. But
Speaker 6: what does Dallas do when they run the ball? It
Speaker 6: goes inside. The majority of their runs are inside. Maybe
Speaker 6: this is a situation where all of a sudden you
Speaker 6: see a little bit more with what we saw with Turpin,
Speaker 6: those types of you know, I mean, if you can
Speaker 6: get your tight ends to block, if you get you know,
Speaker 6: you get steel and whoever's playing right, you know, right
Speaker 6: guard Hoffman this week and maybe you can get a
Speaker 6: little bit of what you had going because, like I say, inside,
Speaker 6: it's it's it's a monster.
Speaker 4: That dude.
Speaker 6: Inside is a big, large man and he doesn't you
Speaker 6: don't move him all that well. But it's funny that
Speaker 6: I'm like, I was just curious. I was like, I
Speaker 6: think they got to be better with him on the field.
Speaker 4: They weren't.
Speaker 6: The statistics say that they're not better run defensive wise
Speaker 6: with him on the fields off I.
Speaker 7: Think the run defense starts and ends with one guy,
Speaker 7: and it's Levante.
Speaker 4: David makes every tackle.
Speaker 7: If they can figure out a way to get into
Speaker 7: the second level and disrupt him, I think they can
Speaker 7: find some running lanes.
Speaker 8: But he's just such a game wreckerd.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You look at what Rico Dwell has done and what
Speaker 2: he did this last game, twenty five carries for one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine yards. After the game, he talked
Speaker 2: about it. I think McCarthy has talked about it. This
Speaker 2: is really the game plan they think favors them right
Speaker 2: now and gives them the best chance to win, which
Speaker 2: is really relying on the run. Something we all have
Speaker 2: been saying for a minute here. But that being said,
Speaker 2: is this a game where you look at it and
Speaker 2: you say that's what you should do or do the
Speaker 2: numbers kind of deceive you into thinking this is a
Speaker 2: pass defense you can throw against, when really it's just
Speaker 2: as tough to throw against these guys that it may
Speaker 2: be to run against them.
Speaker 7: I think there's different schools of thought that I think
Speaker 7: could work here, because on one hand, you would like
Speaker 7: to keep the ball out of the hands of that offense,
Speaker 7: and so you would like to try to find some
Speaker 7: consistency running the football. I think if this were me,
Speaker 7: I would still come out in the first quarter trying
Speaker 7: to run the football and trying to find some ways
Speaker 7: to control the time and possession early on. And if
Speaker 7: that doesn't work, then you know you have some things
Speaker 7: in the in the passing game that can work. You
Speaker 7: would assume by that point you would need the passing
Speaker 7: game to get you back into back into the game,
Speaker 7: because this offense telling you it's gonna score it will.
Speaker 7: I don't have a ton of confidence in this defense
Speaker 7: being able to stop this offense.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati liked you in this game a little bit. Is
Speaker 6: it like Cincinnati playing the Bengals a little bit?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it is that feeling that you have.
Speaker 2: Are they that good? I mean, because Cincinnati we're talking
Speaker 2: about one. We're talking about one of them.
Speaker 4: This offensive lines better in Cincinnati's offensive line.
Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is, when you talk about Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: youre talking about one of the top three quarterbacks in
Speaker 2: the league. You're talking about an easy top five wide
Speaker 2: receiver in the league, and his second guy can be
Speaker 2: probably top fifteen. You're talking about a lot of really
Speaker 2: really great talent. I know, Mike Evans, is that the
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield that I don't think I would put him up?
Speaker 8: Like more talent spread around?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have more guys.
Speaker 7: It's not as powerful as I was like Burrow and Chase. Absolutely,
Speaker 7: but you have two running backs.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't have said the Bengals had anybody.
Speaker 2: It's the volume you're saying. The volume people. You got
Speaker 2: to keep up.
Speaker 8: Hot and tied, you know, like Bryan' said, the offensive
Speaker 8: line is much better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the offensive line is much better than than what
Speaker 6: you saw at Cincinnati. Their holes in Cincinnati's offensive line,
Speaker 6: there's not that many holes in what Tampa does with
Speaker 6: their offensive line. Quarterback's accurate. He's gonna he's not gonna
Speaker 6: hold the ball. You know, Burrow is gonna make They're
Speaker 6: gonna try and make plays down the field. This guy's not.
Speaker 6: This guy's a seventy one passer, and so he's he's
Speaker 6: doing something right. Uh, if I could circle back about
Speaker 6: the defense real quick. We talked about running the football,
Speaker 6: and I always look at explosive runs. It's team's fourth
Speaker 6: best in the league. And not allowing explosive runs, you know,
Speaker 6: they're not going to they they they're they're they're like
Speaker 6: they're they.
Speaker 4: Don't allow run.
Speaker 6: They give you run the allow yards before contact, but
Speaker 6: after contact, boom, they're making tackles. So this is like
Speaker 6: I was just curious again, nineteen percent of all runs.
Speaker 4: They face get stuck.
Speaker 6: That's no yards, you know, no yards or zero yards
Speaker 6: or less, you know, a care negative yards nineteen percent
Speaker 6: of your runs. So that way, so it's a pretty
Speaker 6: significant number right there. And then then don't allow explosive runs.
Speaker 6: They're going to make They're going to make Dallas have
Speaker 6: to travel.
Speaker 4: In this game.
Speaker 6: You know, we'll see, we'll see if their secondary can
Speaker 6: hold up. But the thing that concerns me the most
Speaker 6: is if they start blitzing, because they have guys like
Speaker 6: I say, they have guys like that, they and they
Speaker 6: run the games like Dallas does. It's the twist fronts,
Speaker 6: movement fronts, things like that. Can Dallas sort all that
Speaker 6: out in this football game? And we've seen a little
Speaker 6: bit with Cooper Rush that sometimes when it gets kind
Speaker 6: of muddy in there, he'll just go down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's what worries me the most about about
Speaker 2: this kind of setup is he doesn't seem to have
Speaker 2: much movement to him. And when you got a team
Speaker 2: that likes to blitz, they know where he's gonna be.
Speaker 2: He's not moving around a lot, and that tends to
Speaker 2: create some issues. And I don't think he's always at
Speaker 2: his best when he's having to move around or when
Speaker 2: he's facing that kind of pressure, So that it does
Speaker 2: worry a little bit. All Right, We're gonna take our
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Speaker 2: this last segment. We want to get into kind of
Speaker 2: what you guys are thinking about this game and the
Speaker 2: overall matchups. Let's start first with this question. Which Dallas
Speaker 2: defender do you think has to have a great game
Speaker 2: in order for Dallas to have their best chance to win.
Speaker 8: AMMANI or Warrior.
Speaker 4: I think whoever starts at left corner.
Speaker 7: Yeah, whoever started, whether it be him or Israel mcwamu, right, Yeah,
Speaker 7: they got to have two corners in this game that
Speaker 7: can play and be ready to go.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 4: I totally agree.
Speaker 2: You said defender, right, yep, Cowboys defender.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, that's a good answer, I would say,
Speaker 3: because even when you look at the different guys that
Speaker 3: are creating pressure, there's so many options that the Cowboys
Speaker 3: are have been able to utilize in the like defensive line,
Speaker 3: the linebackers as well.
Speaker 9: So I think probably a cornerback would.
Speaker 4: Be the can I give you?
Speaker 6: Can I give you one a sure marys Leafel, That's
Speaker 6: where I was going, And I think Mars Lael because
Speaker 6: of how much they throw the ball to the backs.
Speaker 6: So if you get Mike Evans is your big time playmaker,
Speaker 6: but these backs are big time playmakers too. And if
Speaker 6: they saw what Cincinnati did to you throwing the ball
Speaker 6: to their guy, they're going to throw the ball to
Speaker 6: Irving in White and they're going to make Mary foul
Speaker 6: playing this game.
Speaker 2: Yep. And I'll even throw this in. I think when
Speaker 2: you think about if net standpoint, if you're facing a
Speaker 2: team where you feel like the offense is a real
Speaker 2: beast to defend and you know they're going to get
Speaker 2: their plays, what equalizes that, in my opinion at times
Speaker 2: is turnovers. And so if you've got playmakers who can
Speaker 2: create turnovers. Where we look at Maris and that seems
Speaker 2: to be maybe at least a part of his game
Speaker 2: where he can create some of those turnovers. If he
Speaker 2: has that kind of great game, that could be the
Speaker 2: equalizer because you know you're gonna give up something. This
Speaker 2: is not going to be a game. We're going to
Speaker 2: shut them down completely. The turnovers will make a difference,
Speaker 2: and I think a guy like him could do that.
Speaker 2: Mike is another one. I know we kind of it's easy,
Speaker 2: that's an easy answer to say, but if Mike can
Speaker 2: get to the quarterback and create some turnovers, because we
Speaker 2: know Baker Mayfield will fumble it, if he can create
Speaker 2: some turnovers there, that also can change this game. So
Speaker 2: I would look at those two guys. I know the
Speaker 2: cornerback is extremely important, but I would also look at
Speaker 2: those guys as very important to this game.
Speaker 8: That was my stat. Baker Mayfield leads the NFL and
Speaker 8: fumble recoveries.
Speaker 2: Bumble recoveries his own fumbles. Yeah, exactly, you create a
Speaker 2: problem to solve it. That's a that's a good yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's look on the opposite side of the ball,
Speaker 2: which Dallas offensive player do you think has to have
Speaker 2: a great game in order for Dallas have a chance.
Speaker 7: Man I would say, Rico Dawbell, I would say, if
Speaker 7: he's able to keep his running game consistent and he's
Speaker 7: able to get over the century mark for the four
Speaker 7: straight game, I'd feel much better about this offensive chance
Speaker 7: to put up points.
Speaker 6: Brock Hoffman dealing with Vida Vea and plus the middle
Speaker 6: stuff that's about to happen with these blitzes from David
Speaker 6: the linebacker, They're gonna these guards and centers are gonna
Speaker 6: have to the garden. The center is gonna have to
Speaker 6: sort this thing out. They can't let Vida Vea just
Speaker 6: contently push them into the pocket because we talked about that.
Speaker 6: The quarterback doesn't move very well and all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: if he feels guys into his lap, then he might
Speaker 6: shut it down and then see what happens on the outside.
Speaker 6: So yeah, right guard center combination, that's going to need
Speaker 6: to be the best for you tomorrow or Sunday.
Speaker 9: Sunday.
Speaker 3: I'm with Rico as well, because I don't think you can.
Speaker 3: I don't see if possible you winning this game without
Speaker 3: a running game like we've seen Cooper rush. What he's
Speaker 3: done through the air and when they haven't been able
Speaker 3: to run the ball. So I think that what has
Speaker 3: been able to create that challans and help Cooper Rush
Speaker 3: has been that running game. So if Rico has a
Speaker 3: good day, I can feel more confident and comfortable thinking
Speaker 3: that the Cowboys can definitely win this game.
Speaker 8: Evergreen statement. By the way, ever green truth.
Speaker 6: What do you have a number in mind when you
Speaker 6: start to think about Cooper Rush and number of attempts
Speaker 6: that you don't want him to go over?
Speaker 9: I don't want him to go over?
Speaker 4: Hmm.
Speaker 8: It feels like when he hits thirty, they're kind of
Speaker 8: pushing a little bit.
Speaker 4: I'd say so too. The number.
Speaker 6: When I see thirty, I think of loss right there? Yeah,
Speaker 6: kind of That's where I'm at.
Speaker 4: I see fifty, I.
Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, that means you got blown out.
Speaker 4: Probably Yeah, we've seen that, sure, probably out for sure.
Speaker 3: That sounds like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and more than anything else, it means if you're
Speaker 2: throwing the ball that much on this team, it means
Speaker 2: that the other team scored a lot, and they scored quickly,
Speaker 2: which means you got the ball back and now you're
Speaker 2: just trying to get back in the game. So you're
Speaker 2: just throwing, throwing, throwing like that's that's probably a recipe.
Speaker 2: You got beat bad, all right, So let's look at
Speaker 2: the flip side of that. Who on the Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: defense cannot have a great game if Dallas is going
Speaker 2: to have their best chance to win.
Speaker 6: I like that one dated the linebacker for me, Yeah,
Speaker 6: because run the run fits and then also him potentially
Speaker 6: blitz the.
Speaker 7: I thought about Cancy just because he can he can
Speaker 7: cause disruption and if Cooper rushes out of sorts, it's
Speaker 7: gonna throw this whole offense out of sorts. And he
Speaker 7: can also affect the run game quite a bit. But
Speaker 7: I think David is just as impactful, if not more so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say, because I just have have Peter. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I have trauma from that guy, so he has Any
Speaker 3: time I know we're about to face the opponent that
Speaker 3: has him on the roster, I'm like, oh lord, because
Speaker 3: of what I've seen in the past. So I would
Speaker 3: say him.
Speaker 2: All right. And then on the opposite side, who cannot
Speaker 2: have a great day on Tampa Bay's offense and Dallas
Speaker 2: have a great chance to win?
Speaker 4: I would go with.
Speaker 7: I would go with Bucky Irving because if I say
Speaker 7: Mike Evans, then that just allows the opportunity for another receiver.
Speaker 7: And granted there's still another opportunity for another running back
Speaker 7: and Shod White, but I think if they can keep
Speaker 7: Bucky Irving limited both in the run game and in
Speaker 7: the receiving game and just trying to make them one
Speaker 7: dimensional as far as pass just going past, I think
Speaker 7: that they'd have a better shot.
Speaker 4: Here. Take your pick at the offensive tackle.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's I didn't think about it a lot.
Speaker 6: Take the pick the offensive tackle, whether it's left or right.
Speaker 6: You know they're going to trade both these tackles block well.
Speaker 4: Michaeh.
Speaker 6: Parsons has got to find. They got to find the
Speaker 6: one guy they can win on. You know, if not
Speaker 6: try and move him inside, move him around, maybe the
Speaker 6: guard situation might be better off. But pick either tackle.
Speaker 6: You don't need either one of these guys to have
Speaker 6: a great day, real quick.
Speaker 2: I saw a stat this morning on Twitter. I say,
Speaker 2: worfs He and Penna School are the only two tackles
Speaker 2: in NFL history that have never given up a sack
Speaker 2: with the number of reps that they've had of dropbacks.
Speaker 4: Yeah never, wait, what does that mean.
Speaker 2: Like they've never given up a sack. Worfs is never
Speaker 2: given up a sack? Is what this? That's what the
Speaker 2: graphics did. And I was like, I've.
Speaker 4: Seen, I've seen. I think he's got two and a
Speaker 4: half this year.
Speaker 2: Like that doesn't sound right, But I saw a graphic.
Speaker 2: I can't remember who it was from. It's from a
Speaker 2: like a media outlet, not from a person.
Speaker 4: Dave Hellman kill dude, Dave mself, Dave, David Dave's coming
Speaker 4: for that. Then he's he needs to do something.
Speaker 2: I'll have to look that up, but it just it
Speaker 2: kind of startled me. I was like, really, may nice
Speaker 2: for the season. Maybe maybe he's not giving up, but
Speaker 2: he's seen him give up about pressure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, y'all got a thing going on here between PFF.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, man, you've seen a couple.
Speaker 6: I'm really I'm really kind of this next gen stuff.
Speaker 6: I maybe I stake my reputation on it way too much,
Speaker 6: but my gosh, they haven't let me down yet. Yeah
Speaker 6: you know, so yeah, let me look it up here
Speaker 6: real quick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there was also not a lot of
Speaker 7: sack per PFF, so maybe maybe that's where maybe.
Speaker 2: That's what it's for this season. Yeah, but even at that,
Speaker 2: to go that many games this season and not give
Speaker 2: up a sacks pretty remarkable. I mean that that is
Speaker 2: a remarkable statue.
Speaker 6: All right, I'd love to see how their great sacks
Speaker 6: over there, you're seeing something a little different, Yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean I'm all about that.
Speaker 2: Brian's like he's got twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, it's a complicated answer because everyone that comes
Speaker 3: to mind, you can come up with another option. Yeah,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have to go with the head of
Speaker 3: the offense, the quarterback.
Speaker 9: And even then, Baker.
Speaker 3: Mayfield, I mean, he even when he has bad games,
Speaker 3: he can still manage to win those games. So even
Speaker 3: with making making mistakes or turning over the ball, he
Speaker 3: can still manage. So but I'm gonna go I'm gonna
Speaker 3: go with him. I think that if the Cowboys do
Speaker 3: create those turnovers again, it will just facilitate their own
Speaker 3: offense to be able to score points. And that's the
Speaker 3: biggest question for me. Will the Cowboys be able to
Speaker 3: score enough points to win that game? And that's the
Speaker 3: key of the game obviously, that's how you win games.
Speaker 3: I know it sounds dumb, but this offense needs to
Speaker 3: be able to score, and it's gonna come down to
Speaker 3: how well the defense is able to defend this game
Speaker 3: and keep Baker under pressure constantly and create you.
Speaker 6: Guys kind of feel like the defense is gonna play
Speaker 6: well and the offense is gonna let him down.
Speaker 2: That's what we're seeing for a good part of this
Speaker 2: when when there have been issues, that's what we've seen
Speaker 2: mostly this year, the defense has played pretty well or
Speaker 2: hanging in there, and then the office just can't get
Speaker 2: anything going. They can't get And I actually agree with you, Ambro.
Speaker 2: I think Baker Mayfield is kind of the central figure
Speaker 2: for me because if he has a bad day, Mike
Speaker 2: Evans can't get off off, his quarterback can't get the
Speaker 2: ball to him. And I really think this is one
Speaker 2: because they've got so many weapons that you guys mentioned,
Speaker 2: they got so many different guys that can hurt you
Speaker 2: if you can if you can get Mayfield out of
Speaker 2: his game, if you can get him in situations where
Speaker 2: he's having a rush, you can get him in situations
Speaker 2: where he's on his back, you get him in situations
Speaker 2: where he's fumbling. I think that gives your best chance
Speaker 2: to win, and it negates all these other weapons they got.
Speaker 6: The way they avoid that is hand the ball to
Speaker 6: Bucky Irving. That's the way they avoid that. If Baker
Speaker 6: Mayfield starts playing bad, you know, but.
Speaker 2: They saw the run defense, I w don't worry about
Speaker 2: that famous last one. All Right, we're gonna it's time
Speaker 2: to take some get some picks from you guys. Go
Speaker 2: around the table. See what you guys think is going
Speaker 2: to happen on Sunday when Cowboys take on the Buccaneers
Speaker 2: on Sunday Night Football. Nicholas start with you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna have to take Tampa Bay and this
Speaker 7: one I'm gonna go thirty one to twenty one. I
Speaker 7: think I think this offense is gonna have a good
Speaker 7: day against this Cowboys defense. They've been rolling since their
Speaker 7: bye week. Mike Evans is healthy and he's trying to
Speaker 7: get to a thousand yards and that's a very specific
Speaker 7: point in his career where he's trying to get it
Speaker 7: to and I think they're gonna try to.
Speaker 8: Feed him in this game. I think he's gonna I
Speaker 8: think he's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, twenty eight to twenty eight, twenty Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: Okay, see, I feel like one team has more to
Speaker 3: lose by the if they lose this game, and that's
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay with where they're at.
Speaker 8: But wait, come on, come on, man, really come I
Speaker 8: don't know. You do have a head coach who has
Speaker 8: a lot to lose in.
Speaker 2: This game, no doubt about that. But that I was
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 9: Okay, obviously you do. Everybody has to say something to
Speaker 9: miss it.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying Cowboys, like he's still one percent are
Speaker 2: over there the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Camber is just calling Derek out for not being a
Speaker 6: one percent, and Derek.
Speaker 2: Is like, but a gang.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 6: I think at Texas A and M they have a
Speaker 6: deal with if you're a ten percenter, like you sit
Speaker 6: down during the game.
Speaker 2: I think I remember that from like Sunsy Anarchy. I
Speaker 2: think like one.
Speaker 4: Turned on the volume. You maybe just watched the video.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't share that you do everything that happened, I
Speaker 6: knew exactly how it ended.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, my point being agree, there are coaches that
Speaker 3: are fighting for their jobs and all of that. Absolutely agree.
Speaker 3: But whatever, you guys can believe what you want. Anyways,
Speaker 3: the point is, somehow I think that the Cowys can
Speaker 3: actually win this game despite everything.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you surprised by my answer.
Speaker 6: I am very surprised because you usually like you usually
Speaker 6: like miss realistic.
Speaker 3: No, but my point is based on what I saw
Speaker 3: the defense play against Cincinnati at the Cowboys I was
Speaker 3: gonna say, Cowboys Stadium, atant Stadium, you know that the
Speaker 3: defense can do enough to help you out. You know,
Speaker 3: all you have to worry about is figuring out how
Speaker 3: to score points. And if the running game gets going
Speaker 3: and they still have that balance there, I think they
Speaker 3: can go into the end zone. Maybe Rico will find
Speaker 3: his first touchdown and we'll walk out of there with
Speaker 3: a win. But I see it being your low scoring
Speaker 3: game twenty seventeen Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Yep, I think this game is gonna I kind of
Speaker 2: think I'm with you on that, Amber. I think this
Speaker 2: is going to be a lower scoring game that people expect.
Speaker 4: You guys, get the memo or something this week.
Speaker 8: No, honestly got the script.
Speaker 2: We dig get early at the script. This is your
Speaker 2: Christmas Day script. Yeah, yeah, it was always nice in
Speaker 2: the building. You could actually get the script last.
Speaker 4: Year a lot more.
Speaker 2: No, But I really do think this is a game
Speaker 2: that's much closer than people think. I look at how
Speaker 2: they play Cincinnati, and I just have a hard time
Speaker 2: I hear what you guys are saying. I have a
Speaker 2: hard time thinking this offense presents way more of a
Speaker 2: problem than that offense presented, and Dallas played pretty good
Speaker 2: defense against them. All things considered, I think this is
Speaker 2: a game that's close. Twenty one to twenty. Cowboys win
Speaker 2: at at and T Stadium. Be fun, all right. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna say Mark Christmasye because we'll have some shows
Speaker 2: before Christmas, so we will see you guys on Monday.
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