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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. What's up, guys. I don't really know what
Speaker 1: episode we're on. I do know it's September thirteenth. Do
Speaker 1: you know where Derek is? I don't really know where
Speaker 1: Derek is, but I know he's somewhere. That's got to
Speaker 1: be really really important because he hates the misshow especially
Speaker 1: game week. Not more important than his show, his baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's why. Wherever he is, that's really really important.
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna be with us today for sure.
Speaker 1: Last yesterday he said he might sneak in today, He's
Speaker 1: not gonna make it. So it's just gonna be the
Speaker 1: three of us and Kent the four of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's okay, we don't need It'll be okay, Amber Garcia?
Speaker 1: Are we doing and we're the three best friends? I
Speaker 1: knew that was gonna happen I had a feeling. Have
Speaker 1: you played that? Have you played that one before? Of
Speaker 1: course I just knew they was gonna play that one,
Speaker 1: but really we rarely have three people, so I really
Speaker 1: have a time that I can do it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Amber How are you doing good? Dave good? I'm like,
Speaker 1: you're like about to take a test or something over
Speaker 1: there with studying out manudn't studying the Bronx. No, your opposition?
Speaker 1: I got it? Love it? All right, let's tuck a
Speaker 1: little bit about um, just what kind of what's been
Speaker 1: going on to It's kind of weird because there's not
Speaker 1: a ton and like last week it was who's your
Speaker 1: running back going to be? I mean, who you know?
Speaker 1: How long is he gonna be playing? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be here? Is you gonna miss six games? And your
Speaker 1: backup quarterback and all this stuff? And now it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, all right, please don't suggest to me that
Speaker 1: you're like board my bored. I'm just saying it's it's nice.
Speaker 1: I gonna say I like it this. It's not bored.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. No, I like it
Speaker 1: as well. When I'm writing down what we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about, and I've got Anthony Brown on my on
Speaker 1: my list here. I mean that's that's a good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is finally some peace and quiet. Let a beast
Speaker 1: and quiet. Now we're going the other way here because
Speaker 1: before before we know it is going to be. Yeah, today,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna happen to all right. It always usually
Speaker 1: starts with injuries. So let's just kind of run down
Speaker 1: real quick. Orlando Scandrick, Terrence Williams, Chittabay Woozier. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much the three that came out of the game. Yes,
Speaker 1: are we expecting I know we'll see today a practice.
Speaker 1: We always always say this, and we got about an
Speaker 1: hour ago. But Jordan Lewis, but he's Jordan Lewis, He's
Speaker 1: been there. What are we expecting of those four guys?
Speaker 1: And they kind of are tied together since three of
Speaker 1: them are cornerbacks? What would you if you had to
Speaker 1: guess right now? Would you say Scandrick maybe the only
Speaker 1: one to miss for sure? No Scandrick at all? Who
Speaker 1: am I? Who is the Terrence? Terrence? I feel complete
Speaker 1: confidence he'll play, but I bet he'll be limited or
Speaker 1: sit today because it's Wednesday and Cheeto, I'll throw a
Speaker 1: limited on him, like, I just, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know see what he can do. That sucked. I really
Speaker 1: I went back and watch the game, and I mean
Speaker 1: it was just such a nothing pass and yeah, they
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything and the Giants really weren't even gonna score.
Speaker 1: And then he gets hurt, like I get and I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's it's bad to speculate on injuries until
Speaker 1: you have concrete information. But I don't have a vibe
Speaker 1: like he's gonna miss playing time. May if he if
Speaker 1: he doesn't do anything in practice today, maybe it'll just
Speaker 1: again it's Wednesday, you know, cautionary, We'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about the cornerback position. We're going to kind
Speaker 1: of go through each position here in a little bit
Speaker 1: before at the end of this segment, but talk about
Speaker 1: the cornerback position. Anthony Brown. And there wasn't a whole
Speaker 1: lot going on in the locker room yesterday, which is
Speaker 1: there never is Tuesday. That's kind of the way it is.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown did say something kind of interesting. He was
Speaker 1: talking about turnovers. He has the only turnover for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys this year. But he was talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that that Rod Marinelli basically challenged the whole defense and
Speaker 1: said the goal this year for turnovers is forty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just told me that before zero. I was not
Speaker 1: there when he said that, because I was I was
Speaker 1: doing TV stuff. A little high, that's absurd, or a
Speaker 1: little behind. That's where they are right now. They're they're
Speaker 1: at one. That's absurd. They didn't have forty and twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen when they were actually getting all kinds of takeaways.
Speaker 1: I think they had thirty four. Well, this isn't like
Speaker 1: our HR system where you know, you just throw some
Speaker 1: goals out there to try to get the mean you
Speaker 1: want to get some goals so you can lofty goals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if this team forces forty takeaways, then that
Speaker 1: they were probably a super Bowl caliber team. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you mix this offense with that type of ability
Speaker 1: to get the ball, that's a super Bowl recipe. You know.
Speaker 1: The about the one turnover that that they had, Um,
Speaker 1: that was a t that was an encouraging play. I
Speaker 1: mean that we haven't seen that that kind of you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of play on the ball from a defensive
Speaker 1: back in a long time. Yeah, he jumped and Rick
Speaker 1: doesn't make those plays. That's more often, you know, I
Speaker 1: can't play cornerback in the NFL. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: knock you for picking off a pass, but more often
Speaker 1: than not, when this secondary has gotten turnovers, it's just
Speaker 1: been because you know, Aaron Rodgers didn't see Barry Church
Speaker 1: and threw it right to him, or Eli literally threw
Speaker 1: it right to Brandon Carr or um, what's the other
Speaker 1: big one that I'm forgetting? I mean, remember Orlando Scandrick.
Speaker 1: I think maybe his last pick was against the Bears
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, and Jay Cutler didn't see him sitting
Speaker 1: in the flat like you don't see him making plays
Speaker 1: on balls. Orlando McClain against the Dolphins, where it's just
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, um, or well Mo. Last year he had
Speaker 1: that pick of Blaine Gabbard. I think it was again
Speaker 1: he was burned. It was. It was a badly thrown ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, he made the play on it, but you not.
Speaker 1: You don't see Dallas cornerbacks jump routes and read people's
Speaker 1: eyes and cut in front. And Anthony Brown did that
Speaker 1: on Sunday night though, So it was a it was
Speaker 1: an impressive and an encouraging He almost lost it too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: almost got away from a I amost really sure donned
Speaker 1: that they didn't review that play right, honestly. All right.
Speaker 1: Another thing that came from the locker room, which is interesting.
Speaker 1: You're starting to see t shirts and memes and all
Speaker 1: that stuff about Cole Beasley and the catch. Cole was
Speaker 1: asked about it, you know, in typical Coal fashion. He
Speaker 1: was kind of downplated. He hadn't really you know, He's
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of people saying, hey, great catch, and
Speaker 1: he says, oh, thank you. He said, I have mixed
Speaker 1: feelings about this play because if I really would have
Speaker 1: done my job right and it would have never happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if I would have get turned around made
Speaker 1: the catch clean, you know. He and that's a perfectionist
Speaker 1: right there. He doesn't look at it like, oh, I
Speaker 1: made this awesome catch. He shouldn't have had to tip
Speaker 1: at two times to himself. Yeah, he said that on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He said, uh, like Witten was the hot read and
Speaker 1: it like he was like, it was so obvious that
Speaker 1: that's where the vall should go. Basically that that I
Speaker 1: figured it was going to him, and then I had
Speaker 1: turned around late and saw it coming to me, and
Speaker 1: if I'd look back half a second earlier, it would
Speaker 1: have just been an easy catch and instead, you know,
Speaker 1: all that, all those theatrics. It's funny. All the fans,
Speaker 1: fans are going nuts, media is going nuts. The players
Speaker 1: sort of the receivers, that's what they do. Like they
Speaker 1: see that in practice all the time, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: Bryce Butler talked about it, and it's like not not
Speaker 1: to like downplay it. It's just that they have seen
Speaker 1: these type of things. I mean, Odell Beckham, I guarantee
Speaker 1: that catchy made against the Cowboys two years ago, three
Speaker 1: years ago, three seas seasons as I guarantee that, like
Speaker 1: they've seen this type of stuff all the time. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just unfortunately it's kind of become second agent. Now
Speaker 1: it happened in a game. It's a little different. I
Speaker 1: will say, I'm not trying to take anything away from
Speaker 1: Coal whatsoever. But I had a guy email me and say, well, why,
Speaker 1: First he said, why isn't this Coal catch being blown
Speaker 1: out of proportion the way that Odell Beckham's catch was.
Speaker 1: First of all, I think it is getting a hefty
Speaker 1: amount of publicity it is or whatever that it was
Speaker 1: number one on Sports Center. Second of all, and he
Speaker 1: said it's a better catch than Odell's catch. That's what
Speaker 1: this guy told me today, and it's not. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't care what you say. A touchdown too. DALs
Speaker 1: was for a touchdown from fifty yards away and he
Speaker 1: caught it with the pads of his fingertips fifty yards away.
Speaker 1: That's that's that is the key. I mean that ball
Speaker 1: is coming from I mean it's coming down too, so
Speaker 1: I mean the hand strength that it took to catch
Speaker 1: it like that, And yeah, that was a better That
Speaker 1: was a better catch in my opinion, and this one
Speaker 1: was it was. This was a fantastic catch. And I
Speaker 1: don't think you can undersell how important, how important it was.
Speaker 1: I think Jason Garrett said that Monday too, was that
Speaker 1: it was third and six and obviously the Giants didn't
Speaker 1: wind up scoring, but we didn't know that at the time,
Speaker 1: and it kept the ball moving. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: if they had had to punt right there, New York
Speaker 1: probably gets pretty good fuel position with a chance to
Speaker 1: make it sixteen to ten, I think with six or
Speaker 1: seven minute or no like eight or nine minutes left.
Speaker 1: So I actually put that on my five plays. Don't
Speaker 1: forget about five plays, which usually it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: Sports Center top ten, top number one play on there.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't about the catch from Beasley. It was
Speaker 1: about what you just said, what it did to extend
Speaker 1: that drive, because I did look at it. With nine
Speaker 1: minutes to go, they got the ball at their own ten.
Speaker 1: They probably would have had the ball at eleven minutes
Speaker 1: to go around their own thirty thirty five forty. It's
Speaker 1: a pretty big different difference there when they're trying to
Speaker 1: come in there. So, but it's not a better catch
Speaker 1: than no Deels. Sorry I don't think it is either,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a different type of catch too
Speaker 1: because he had his feet and bounds and you know,
Speaker 1: to stay on the sideline and do all that. It
Speaker 1: just just secured it though. I mean, it wasn't like
Speaker 1: it's very easy to be bobbling that ball like there
Speaker 1: when it's bouncing around your full up box. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: he did a nice job with that. Okay, let's move
Speaker 1: on a little bit to um some of the you know,
Speaker 1: yesterday we were talking about We've been talking two days
Speaker 1: about the backup running back, talking about Darren McFadden all that. Yep,
Speaker 1: So I talked I got a chance to talk to
Speaker 1: a couple of people yesterday and I was like, let
Speaker 1: mean some inside sources, let me just see what's what's
Speaker 1: really happening here the word here, and it's really nothing
Speaker 1: new than what kind of we had talked about. There's
Speaker 1: people that believe that that that offered. Morris outplayed McFadden
Speaker 1: in the preseason, so it was it was like he
Speaker 1: kind of had earned it. But I think the notion
Speaker 1: that McFadden is a better blocker, while he might be
Speaker 1: in his career, that was the issue right there. There
Speaker 1: were times in practice, there was a time in a
Speaker 1: game where he absolutely missed the read, just just didn't
Speaker 1: get didn't get the great guy, and so his blocking
Speaker 1: was something that they were concerned about, um at the
Speaker 1: last preseason game he played, and then some some into
Speaker 1: practice as well. So this thing about Morris isn't a
Speaker 1: good block erb mcfatten is much better. That either has
Speaker 1: changed or it was temporarily changed. They know that he's
Speaker 1: got more juice and he's a quicker, faster player, all that,
Speaker 1: but it was the blocking that they kind of got concerted.
Speaker 1: But it's almost like sounded like a little punishment. Can
Speaker 1: I stir the pot a little bit. Bring it. The
Speaker 1: margin of error? Is that slim for your backup running back?
Speaker 1: But it's clearly not that slim for your backup quarterback. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's clearly not. I mean, yeah, I mean we got
Speaker 1: a month worth of tape on that, but hey, whatever
Speaker 1: that's there. Well, well it's two veterans. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it is two veterans. I mean that's like I guess
Speaker 1: it's saying, wow, Amber, Amber making that point, doesn't well,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the one thing they keep talking about.
Speaker 1: It's like a veteran versus a rookie, and they rather
Speaker 1: be safe with the veterans. And you're talking about Morris
Speaker 1: and yeah Badden, who well, no you're not. You're talking
Speaker 1: you're talking about quarterback. But when you're talking about, yeah,
Speaker 1: two running backs who've both been playing in the NFL
Speaker 1: for the better part of a decade or more in
Speaker 1: McFadden's case, I mean, I guess it really is only
Speaker 1: a matter of a couple of goofs and that it's
Speaker 1: kind of weird when you think about that. Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: is only like four years away from yeah, like a
Speaker 1: almost a seventeen hundred yards season. It was sixteen hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty twelve, thirteen hundred and twenty thirteen and like
Speaker 1: eleven hundred, like he steadily went down every year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gone down every year. But but that first year
Speaker 1: is more than what Zeke did, right, I believe so,
Speaker 1: like by a by him by a hair yea like
Speaker 1: sixteen thirty eight and rookie rushing record, I believe. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's not it's not the rookie rookie
Speaker 1: rookie rushing rights. Yeah, let's just so based on what
Speaker 1: we saw against the Giants, do you think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to keep that the way it was with
Speaker 1: Morris as the second guy? My first thought would be,
Speaker 1: it's you should change it. But if that is an issue,
Speaker 1: if they really feel like the blocking is an issue,
Speaker 1: it's only the blitz and the rush is only gonna
Speaker 1: get a little bit worse this week, So you would
Speaker 1: change it. What about you? If no, I wouldn't change it.
Speaker 1: If well, and I think you just said you wouldn't either,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I would. I think what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do is get his attention. I think that's
Speaker 1: what they're trying to the Number four overall pick from
Speaker 1: it nine years ago or whatever. He's not used to
Speaker 1: being inactive. I think they got his attention. I would
Speaker 1: play him this week, but if that is a concern,
Speaker 1: if blocking is a concern, and I would leave it
Speaker 1: the way it is against this team, because, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna it's not gonna be fun out there. Although you
Speaker 1: could argue McFadden's quick and he's got some receiver abilities,
Speaker 1: so maybe he gives you like an outlet, you know,
Speaker 1: for some passing yards and stuff like that. But anybody
Speaker 1: that's gonna help me block is who I want playing
Speaker 1: against this team. I think that a lot of it
Speaker 1: too is And I know the fans are not gonna
Speaker 1: like this, but I think it's it's true. They just
Speaker 1: love this guy, Alfred Morris. They love it. But Alfred
Speaker 1: Morris brings to the team. Now. He might be limited
Speaker 1: in some ways, but from work, ethic, attitude, just being
Speaker 1: a professional football player, this guy is as good as
Speaker 1: it gets. He really is. I mean, he does the
Speaker 1: everything the right way. And I know that people don't
Speaker 1: want to hear that kind of stuff, but it does
Speaker 1: matter when you're talking about, Hey, this guy's done everything
Speaker 1: we've asked him to do. He deserves the right to play.
Speaker 1: You know, we're talking about a few snaps here and there,
Speaker 1: let's go with it. And I think that that does
Speaker 1: factor in. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: and I don't I don't think there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: set plan for this, Like you kind of get the
Speaker 1: idea that Kellen Moore is going to be the backup
Speaker 1: unless something crazy happens. But I really wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if they mix and match this and you know, one
Speaker 1: guy's up because he had the better week, or one
Speaker 1: guy's down because it's a better matchup for the other guy.
Speaker 1: And I So either way, I think you're gonna look
Speaker 1: and say, well, Morris this week, maybe he could have
Speaker 1: done more against this team. McFadden sat, I wonder what
Speaker 1: he would have done. I mean, it's always it's going
Speaker 1: to be a tough decision because they're they're interchangeable at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. In my mind, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't think they're that much different, Like they played differently,
Speaker 1: but the results are not very different, and the sample
Speaker 1: size isn't large enough for me to really get worked
Speaker 1: up about it either, because I don't think either one
Speaker 1: of them is ever going to have more than six
Speaker 1: or seven carries in a game. Well, the good news
Speaker 1: is is that a few weeks ago, even a few
Speaker 1: days ago, we thought we would really be talking about
Speaker 1: Morris and McFadden for this Broncos game, And now we're
Speaker 1: talking about who's going to get the three to four
Speaker 1: carries and not you know how many reps stuft they
Speaker 1: would take, because I guarantee if Zeke was not playing,
Speaker 1: it would be this would be a huge deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would be. But I think they would both play
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, I don't think it would be
Speaker 1: one guy takes the amount that Zeke gets in the
Speaker 1: other way. I think it would be almost the sixty
Speaker 1: forty type split, which it probably should be. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's flip over to the linebacker position. I feel
Speaker 1: like yesterday we did talk or the last two days
Speaker 1: we've talked about Jalen Smith some. But I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can still talk about him enough. You know,
Speaker 1: when you just look at at the game that he played,
Speaker 1: and and like you said yesterday, Ember, it's we're getting
Speaker 1: to that point where we're not talking about the injuries
Speaker 1: as much. We're talking about because because he doesn't talk
Speaker 1: about the injury, we're talking about just what kind of
Speaker 1: dynamic player that he can be. So let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about him. What, Dave, what do you
Speaker 1: see kind of from him like moving forward as far
Speaker 1: as just what kind of what kind of player on
Speaker 1: this defense that he can be? I mean, we expecting
Speaker 1: the middle linebacker for years to come. You think that's
Speaker 1: his best position? Do you think you know he's more
Speaker 1: of an outside guy. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: raise the bar too high too quickly because he just
Speaker 1: played his first game. But Jerry Jones had a really
Speaker 1: interesting quote yesterday on the radio about how they see
Speaker 1: him becoming a three down line backer just like Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: really handling that role where he never has to come
Speaker 1: off the field. He's athletic enough to do everything you
Speaker 1: need a linebacker to do. Because and you know, as
Speaker 1: great as he was, you saw that in the game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, he would I mean he was sprinting on
Speaker 1: and off. They didn't want him obviously. He came out
Speaker 1: for dime stuff. He came out a little bit for
Speaker 1: like Deacon and Nickel stuff and had justin Durant come
Speaker 1: on for two plays. So you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's quite at that point where he's not coming off
Speaker 1: the field ever, obviously, And I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the case this year. If I had to guess,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, and like, I can't say enough
Speaker 1: about how impressed I am with how he played, but
Speaker 1: I think you're still gonna be smart with it. You're
Speaker 1: still gonna watch him. They only had to play fifty
Speaker 1: three snaps on defense the other night, and he played
Speaker 1: thirty six. But there's gonna be a day where they're
Speaker 1: playing probably sixties seventies snap, you know, a much higher
Speaker 1: snap count, and I don't think you want to expose
Speaker 1: him to that too quickly. Sorry, And you've got Anthony
Speaker 1: Hitchins coming back back one point here. I mean they
Speaker 1: said eights. It might be a little bit sooner than that.
Speaker 1: Someone told me the other day he jumped off the
Speaker 1: bus to get to the game, Like he basically just
Speaker 1: two feet jumped off the bus. That seems like that
Speaker 1: seems ill advised, but yeah, good sign, a good sign,
Speaker 1: but maybe ill advised. Yeah, hopefully there wasn't a setback there,
Speaker 1: you know. Talking more about Jalen it's almost like when
Speaker 1: you listen to him and he's he's an impressive guy
Speaker 1: to just listen to, it's like he basically willed himself
Speaker 1: back to this point like where he is right now,
Speaker 1: like absolutely no negative energy, no thoughts of I'm not
Speaker 1: ever gonna make it. It was just not if, but
Speaker 1: when I will be back and I'm ready, and like
Speaker 1: nothing would ever get in his way. It's just it's
Speaker 1: an amazing journey. The fact of like he was not
Speaker 1: going to take no for an answer to get back
Speaker 1: on the field, and that helps a lot. And one
Speaker 1: of the things that I was really impressed about the
Speaker 1: game against the Giants is we've heard the Cowboys kind
Speaker 1: of say how they're going to rotate him and Duran
Speaker 1: and just think of them as one player. Just the
Speaker 1: amount of time playing time that they gave Jalen out
Speaker 1: there says a law, especially with how careful they've been
Speaker 1: with him throughout this whole journey. Yeah, no, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh I just saw you having a face that you're
Speaker 1: about I'm I'm getting ready, but go ahead. No, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just overall, I'm just really excited and super impressed
Speaker 1: with the outcome so far. And I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's done a great job, and honestly, when I see
Speaker 1: him from practice, the relationship he has with Shaun Lee,
Speaker 1: I just think of him as a young version of
Speaker 1: Shaun Lee went on the field and I said that
Speaker 1: before the season started, he blew me away with the
Speaker 1: progress that he made to the point where probably in
Speaker 1: June or July, I still wasn't sure what he would be.
Speaker 1: And now at this point, I really do think he's
Speaker 1: capable of being an everyday starter, Pro Bowl caliber player
Speaker 1: just a matter of whin though, like he's not gonna
Speaker 1: He's still not going to be that this week or
Speaker 1: next month. I don't think. I think that's in the future,
Speaker 1: but my confidence is at an all time high that
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. And the thing that I thought
Speaker 1: was really interesting, Jason Garrett talked about that, you know,
Speaker 1: they went into this game with a plan to split
Speaker 1: those guys and they really didn't. And Garrett said something
Speaker 1: along you know, the long lines of well, you know,
Speaker 1: games kind of unfold differently than how you anticipate, and
Speaker 1: it just so happened that, you know, we wound up
Speaker 1: in more of these situations where Jalen could stay out
Speaker 1: there and blah blah blah blah blah. But the thing
Speaker 1: that I took from it was, well, that's really encouraging
Speaker 1: because like if you didn't think he could handle that,
Speaker 1: then it wouldn't matter, like you would have put Durant
Speaker 1: in right, like you would have found a way to
Speaker 1: get him off the field. But they're just like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: just let him roll with it. He's fine. And the
Speaker 1: fact that in week one he can be in a
Speaker 1: spot where you kind of play differently than you were
Speaker 1: expecting to just based on the situation on the field,
Speaker 1: and not really be worried about his leg, that's pretty
Speaker 1: that's pretty great, especially when you when you think about
Speaker 1: week one, if if you would have told us that
Speaker 1: Zeke would come off the field more for Alfred Morris
Speaker 1: than Jalen Smith did. Yeah, justin Duran Seriously, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's impressive. I mean, like you said, we're at a
Speaker 1: and and you can't forget about it completely, and they
Speaker 1: definitely haven't, and they're gonna keep that in mind with
Speaker 1: everything that they do with him. But it's almost in
Speaker 1: a spot where you don't have to think about whether
Speaker 1: he can physically handle it. Like I said, I mean they,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you they weren't planning on him playing sixty
Speaker 1: seven percent of the snaps, which is what he wound
Speaker 1: up getting. All right, we're gonna take our break here,
Speaker 1: can't We have the phone number out there as far
Speaker 1: as on the it's on the screen. Twenty one two.
Speaker 1: All right, we got some lines open, so give us
Speaker 1: a call. We'll try to get to a little bit
Speaker 1: more calls today than we have in the last couple days.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go on, Let's get into the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit um in this game and their
Speaker 1: their offense. They get a lot of they get a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about their defense, and rightfully so one
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. But
Speaker 1: their offense though, and that if the first game is
Speaker 1: any indication that they'll be able to do some things. Uh.
Speaker 1: The quarterback, I thought looked looked pretty good out there.
Speaker 1: You know, he's making moves, like you said, he was
Speaker 1: running the ball around the goal line, making throws. He
Speaker 1: kind of extended plays with his feat. So, Dave, looking
Speaker 1: at their offense, what are some things that kind of
Speaker 1: stand out the most real quick? I just I want
Speaker 1: to note this because it is important. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's quite on the level of m Odell Beckham's ankle
Speaker 1: last week, but the Cowboys are excuse me, The Broncos
Speaker 1: are facing three at least somewhat significant injuries. Are our guy,
Speaker 1: Ron Leary, the starting right guard, is in concussion protocol
Speaker 1: right now, so keep an eye on him. That's that's
Speaker 1: not a good indicator in today's NFL. Most guys aren't
Speaker 1: playing a week after a concussion. Um. I mean, you
Speaker 1: never know for sure, but so keep an eye on
Speaker 1: Big Ron. That's something to watch. Then their defense has
Speaker 1: two injuries, starting safety Darien Stewart, who played like a
Speaker 1: man on fire on Monday night. He's got a groin injury.
Speaker 1: He is. His status is up in the air, as
Speaker 1: is Brendan Langley, who's their fourth corner. So that's three,
Speaker 1: three guys they would probably prefer to have, especially Leary
Speaker 1: and Stuart. So that's worth watching. That'll unfold as the
Speaker 1: week goes on, I'm sure. But yeah, if I'm a
Speaker 1: Broncos fan, I gotta be pretty psyched about what I
Speaker 1: saw on Monday night. Given that you know that your
Speaker 1: bread and butter as your defense, you know that they're
Speaker 1: the reason why you're going places. So if I can
Speaker 1: get a ninety four quarterback rating out of Trevor Simeon,
Speaker 1: and that's all this gnashing of teeth about the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's John Elway, but seventeen to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: two hundred nineteen yards and two touchdowns as well as
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown, so he helped account for all of
Speaker 1: their touchdowns on Monday night. Looked I mean he looked.
Speaker 1: He looked incredibly confident in my opinion, that's I watched
Speaker 1: it obviously. I mean, they got twenty four points, they
Speaker 1: kind of let San Diego back into the game, and
Speaker 1: then the thing that I thought was really impressive, San
Speaker 1: Diego comes back to cut it to a three point game.
Speaker 1: He gets the ball and moved him right down not
Speaker 1: just in fuel goal range, but easy fuel goal range,
Speaker 1: with I think three plays. I mean that the ball
Speaker 1: he hit down the seam to his tight end. I
Speaker 1: don't remember which one it was. I think it was.
Speaker 1: Was it Derby? Derby, the old Arkansas guy. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: wasn't foul, It wasn't him, But I mean, I know
Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about. It made a great answer
Speaker 1: to yea, to the momentum that was shifting, and then
Speaker 1: and the confidence that they put on him to say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go down there. Let's turn this thing around. Well,
Speaker 1: fittingly enough, they got down there and were immediately sacked
Speaker 1: out of fuel goal range, which maybe you put a
Speaker 1: little bit of that on Simeon for you know, feel awareness.
Speaker 1: You can't take a sack in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: But I mean that is affect back back to back
Speaker 1: sacks minus six yards Ingram and Bosa and then minus
Speaker 1: thirteen yards Melvin Ingram. Like I said, maybe you put
Speaker 1: a little bit that on Simeon. But then that is
Speaker 1: the other issue for the Denver Broncos is I don't
Speaker 1: have and and granted, you know Melvin Ingram and Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa are great. The Chargers have a very nice pass rush,
Speaker 1: but four sacks, it's probably not what you want to see.
Speaker 1: After trying to rebuild this offensive line. You drafted Garrett
Speaker 1: Bolls in the first round, seventeenth overall to be your
Speaker 1: left tackle. You signed Ron Leary to a big time
Speaker 1: contract at right guard, and then they brought in Minelick Watson,
Speaker 1: who was a draft pick with the Raiders for a
Speaker 1: long time. So this is a completely new look offensive line.
Speaker 1: You would think better given the money that you gave
Speaker 1: Leary and the fact that Bowls is a first round pick. Utah,
Speaker 1: that's right, I think, and I think he and he's
Speaker 1: he's the older guy, like he's ancient by first round
Speaker 1: pick standards. He's like twenty five, I think. But um,
Speaker 1: and I think he acquitted himself fairly well for the
Speaker 1: most part. But your quarterbacks getting sacked four times in
Speaker 1: the season open around almost get the film that their
Speaker 1: their offense is like the Cowboys defense. It's like, we're
Speaker 1: not asking you to go win the game, don't mess
Speaker 1: up the game, and anything you can do will probably
Speaker 1: be you know, gravy. So do you guys expect this
Speaker 1: game to turn out kind of similar to what we
Speaker 1: saw against the Giants given the fact that their defense
Speaker 1: it's one of the best both teams for the Broncos
Speaker 1: and the Giants their offensive line not the greatest. Now,
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Broncos quarterback, you mentioned all
Speaker 1: the things he did, But me personally, I still think
Speaker 1: he's a little shaky. He you know, he still needs
Speaker 1: to improve his game. But don't get and I mean
Speaker 1: the Cowboys clearly have the edge in that department. I
Speaker 1: mean the Cowboys quarterbacks a little Shaky's true. She doesn't
Speaker 1: like Dak either. No, no, no, I do like Dak.
Speaker 1: Let's just make that clear. I just thought I know
Speaker 1: how he can play, and he didn't play up to
Speaker 1: his highest level. And I think that, you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about this before. Good defenses make people make quarterbacks play,
Speaker 1: you know, off their game a little bit. And then
Speaker 1: here's another one right here. But it will get to
Speaker 1: the Broncos defense tomorrow a little bit. But to answer
Speaker 1: your question, I don't see it being like that. I
Speaker 1: definitely think Denver will score more than a field goal.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be a game more into the twenties.
Speaker 1: I know that their defense is better, and it's a
Speaker 1: good aggressive defense, but they give up the run and
Speaker 1: that's something that Cowboys do very well, and so I
Speaker 1: think that I think that it'll I could see this
Speaker 1: game being a lot more like the Pittsburgh game a
Speaker 1: few years ago or last year than the Giants game.
Speaker 1: I would be fairly surprised if both of these teams
Speaker 1: got into the thirties. But I am I mean, I
Speaker 1: said twenty four to twenty for the Giants game. That
Speaker 1: was my score prediction. I think it'll be something along
Speaker 1: those lines, you know. And yeah, I mean, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have the edge here, but I think and granted I
Speaker 1: never would have thought the Giants would only score three
Speaker 1: points honestly, but you look up and down this this roster.
Speaker 1: I mean Damarius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. That's and build there,
Speaker 1: both of whom are completely healthy, unlike Odell Beckham. It's
Speaker 1: to me, that is what I would prefer in a
Speaker 1: receiving corps. If you if you could get it the
Speaker 1: way you want it. I like that. I like the big, veteran,
Speaker 1: possession type guy who can still go deep and make
Speaker 1: big plays. And Thomas and then you're you're speedy underneath.
Speaker 1: You know, Sanders guy that that could also can also
Speaker 1: be some explosive over the top plays. I mean, both
Speaker 1: of those guys, I mean, I just think they compliment
Speaker 1: each other. Well, um, I kind of think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have similar guys in there one too. I think Terrence
Speaker 1: and Desert a little closer than that. Of course, they
Speaker 1: have Beasley, which changes things. But Denver's running game not
Speaker 1: not bad at all, bad night, whatever whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say about them allowing four sacks. Broncos running backs
Speaker 1: ran for four yards a carry against San Diego thirty
Speaker 1: six carries on the night for one hundred and forty yards,
Speaker 1: which is a tick under four yards a carry. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Trevor Simeon a little bit of credit
Speaker 1: there because he carried six times and joked Joey Bosa
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. So I don't think that's the end
Speaker 1: of the world. I loved his answer too about that play.
Speaker 1: I don't think I saw it, but they were talking
Speaker 1: about him getting him on the on the goal line
Speaker 1: and all that, and he said, well, he said, what
Speaker 1: you know, one of the questions was that you you
Speaker 1: you know, shook Joey Bosa there and all that. You know,
Speaker 1: we got anything to say about that? He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we play him again, so, um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not really gonna say anything about that. That's smart. He knows.
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon went to Northwestern. He is not a dummy.
Speaker 1: He's probably faced Bosa before. I don't know. Maybe Simeon
Speaker 1: was undrafted. I think in fourteen, maybe maybe thirteen. I
Speaker 1: didn't Actually I didn't do this today. I didn't have time,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go back. I'm curious. We all know
Speaker 1: about Paxton Lynch. He's not going to play a role
Speaker 1: in this game, which is all kinds of ironic. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a story right there. But I thought about that
Speaker 1: this week. What I really want to know is who
Speaker 1: is the who's the draft pick that the Cowboys have?
Speaker 1: I actually, I think I just know that off the
Speaker 1: top of my head. The Cowboys have MALIEK. Collins because
Speaker 1: they were not willing to give it up to get
Speaker 1: Paxston Lynch. That was the third. It was the third
Speaker 1: that not right, well, Jalen Smith too, because they were
Speaker 1: trying to trade back into the first round. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: would have had to give it up that second round
Speaker 1: pick there. I thought it was I guarantee that they
Speaker 1: were trying to give up forty yeah, and then to
Speaker 1: get in there and then it was it was the
Speaker 1: third or a fourth round pick. Probably they probably wanted
Speaker 1: to give up the fourth, and they that Denver wanted
Speaker 1: their third, That's right. So they were willing to give
Speaker 1: up Tap and Jalen Smith knowing that they weren't going
Speaker 1: to play, and they was like, no, we want hypothe
Speaker 1: so well, but jayl I mean, but it's not hypothetical
Speaker 1: to say Jayalen Smith and Elite Collins are probably on
Speaker 1: this team because Paxton Lynch is not exactly Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Dak as well, and well and Dak yes the important part.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just wrote yourself a story. I don't
Speaker 1: know when you're gonna be able to fit it in, yeah,
Speaker 1: or maybe your column. I'll throw that into my collegne.
Speaker 1: That that is. I mean, it's almost like the trade
Speaker 1: that wasn't. Yeah. You know, that's why the draft is
Speaker 1: so fascinating to me, because every team can point to
Speaker 1: something like that every year and yeah, this is what
Speaker 1: we could have had. It's amazing. Um Damarius Thomas honestly
Speaker 1: not a great night by his standards. Eight targets, five catches,
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards, and he had a really bad drop
Speaker 1: on a second down in the second half, and then
Speaker 1: came right back and put them position in the red
Speaker 1: zone right after that. So I know, I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: they just very successfully defended Brandon Marshall. But I all
Speaker 1: always worry about these big body guys. Um, take your pick.
Speaker 1: I think da Marius Thomas missed a ton of time
Speaker 1: off in the training camp in preseason games. It just
Speaker 1: he was battling an injury. I don't remember what it was,
Speaker 1: hip maybe or something like that, So they didn't know
Speaker 1: for sure if he was going to play until maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of days before the game. Let's let's think
Speaker 1: about this though, because let's I mean, Orlando Scandrick's not
Speaker 1: going to play in this game, that's my guess. So
Speaker 1: that leaves you with Anthony Brown, Nolan Carroll, and Cheeto
Speaker 1: Woozier hopefully maybe Jordan Lewis. To deal with these guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta throw Ben Wickery in there. I just mean,
Speaker 1: until you see for sure that Lewis and Wusier, you're
Speaker 1: really concerned about the seventh rond Is it the seventh
Speaker 1: round pick? Who's that for? Ben Wickery? Oh? Oh yes,
Speaker 1: yes it is. I think the seventh round pick. All right,
Speaker 1: so you don't get the draft of Moud Dixon. Good point.
Speaker 1: I mean or guy though, that was your guy. He
Speaker 1: was he was for a while. Um how about you
Speaker 1: know who else was in that draft when they when
Speaker 1: they took five, they took five seventh rounders. He saw
Speaker 1: them tho they playing for the Chiefs. Terrence Mitchell, Yeah,
Speaker 1: still playing, still holding, still getting pis. But he's out there.
Speaker 1: He had a rough night, but he is starting in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So anything else on the offense we want
Speaker 1: to go to. Well, I'm I'm I'm just sitting here wondering. Really,
Speaker 1: who's dealing with Damarus Thomas? Oh yeah, I think well,
Speaker 1: between Anthony Brown and Cheeto, I think you can hand
Speaker 1: not handle, because he's really good. But Emmanuel Sanders I
Speaker 1: can see that. But on a cornerback group, this small
Speaker 1: Damarius Thomas is basically a tight end as far as
Speaker 1: I see it. So what are you doing with this guy?
Speaker 1: I want? And I wonder what they will do? Right,
Speaker 1: Rod Marinelli's not really the type to travel, and you
Speaker 1: need Anthony Brown to play in the slot, probably if
Speaker 1: Orlando Scandric can't play right. I don't know, though, I
Speaker 1: it's a it's a tough task for a guy that's
Speaker 1: never played at all. But I think it might be
Speaker 1: one where they throw Jordan Jordan Lewis out there. Do
Speaker 1: you think so? Maybe I was I would welcome to
Speaker 1: the league, get in there, or maybe well you're saying
Speaker 1: throw Jordan into the slot, Yeah I could. Actually, that's
Speaker 1: not the worst thing I've ever heard, is if you're
Speaker 1: asking Jordan Lewis to play the slot, and then that
Speaker 1: frees you up to move Anthony Brown to deal with
Speaker 1: wrys Thomas. That'll be interesting. I can live with that.
Speaker 1: I would imagine it might be a situation where they
Speaker 1: go a little bit longer there, Like maybe Lewis and
Speaker 1: Ben Wickery are active. Yeah, maybe Xavier Woods isn't at
Speaker 1: safety or I know they like to do the four
Speaker 1: safeties there, but it might be a situation where you
Speaker 1: just do three if you can get away with it.
Speaker 1: I could see it. Maybe maybe shoot Jay. We'll get
Speaker 1: to an active later in the week. Jay Ron Elliott
Speaker 1: didn't play anyway last week. Yeah, trying to get that
Speaker 1: draft pick back. All right, let's go to the phone
Speaker 1: line here, Let's go to Peyton. I'm not sure where
Speaker 1: you're from, but Peyton. Hey, how's it going guys? Hey,
Speaker 1: where are you from? Minnesota? Awesome? Right, quick question. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry you guys already talked about this. UM. One of
Speaker 1: my biggest concerns with our offense is, I mean, we
Speaker 1: though last year multiple times was dak getting up to
Speaker 1: a slow start, and I think we pulled off some
Speaker 1: really nice comeback wins. But I mean against Green Bay.
Speaker 1: When you say some offense like that, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just not gonna cut it. And then my other question
Speaker 1: would be, do you guys think that Anthy Brown is
Speaker 1: kind of a gamer? Because I feel like here, like
Speaker 1: your practice season so great, but then the games steps up.
Speaker 1: So that's my questions. Thanks, Okay, I think you've got
Speaker 1: selective memory on Dak because you can talk about the Packers.
Speaker 1: You're right that they didn't cut it. He was had
Speaker 1: a slow start there in that game. For sure, the
Speaker 1: whole offense did um and you know, they got down
Speaker 1: and they did come back to tide and so they
Speaker 1: didn't really lose the game because of that, but sure
Speaker 1: would have been nice. But I think if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at the season, I thought Dak actually
Speaker 1: was pretty good in some games where w wasn't it
Speaker 1: like the first seven or eight games and that they
Speaker 1: went down and scored on the first drive. They were
Speaker 1: on a tear there for two or so months where
Speaker 1: they did score every first drive. Philadelphia at home. He
Speaker 1: did not play well until the end. There was some game,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Pittsburgh or something. But I'll leave it
Speaker 1: to be fair to Peyton. I'll even throw in, um,
Speaker 1: San Francisco. They fell down to nothing in that game.
Speaker 1: I think No. Fourteen nothing. But that was the one game,
Speaker 1: the one game out of like the first seven or
Speaker 1: eight where they did not score on the first drive, right,
Speaker 1: and that's because Keith Smith had a full start. Really,
Speaker 1: they're about to get a field goal. But it was
Speaker 1: a great memory that happened. I remember, not not really,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Like that's a lot of games,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it was about third down, third
Speaker 1: and two, and he had a false start and then
Speaker 1: they got pushed back and Bailey missed a field goal.
Speaker 1: I remember Bailey missing I don't remember the false start.
Speaker 1: I think that there are times where he doesn't you know,
Speaker 1: the offense hasn't done well, But I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a trend. In fact, I think you would say he's
Speaker 1: more prepared than most quarterback, especially rookie quarterbacks. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna disagree on that. Just when you look at even
Speaker 1: considering those touchdowns that he did score, if you look
Speaker 1: at the overall season last year, you would summarize that, yes,
Speaker 1: I just want to know where you're going with this,
Speaker 1: you would summarize that, yeah, the first half of the game,
Speaker 1: he did start off very slowly, and he would always
Speaker 1: come back the second half and play completely different and
Speaker 1: really move. That's when he really moved the offense. That's
Speaker 1: when they really started scoring in the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you guys don't agree with that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was all the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think there are better but first for all'm
Speaker 1: okay with that. Okay with a guy playing better as
Speaker 1: he Oh yeah, yeah, he was a rookie that was
Speaker 1: seeing everything for the first time. Up aside from three
Speaker 1: games where you played the division. You're seeing these guys
Speaker 1: for the first time, and I think that he kind
Speaker 1: of processes things as they go, you know. I know
Speaker 1: he talked about Anthony Brown being a gamer. Dak is
Speaker 1: the equivalent I mean of that he's a gamer. I
Speaker 1: don't think Anthony Brown's a gamer. I think he's just
Speaker 1: a good player, good player. He has good practices too.
Speaker 1: I don't picked off. He picked off Tony in his
Speaker 1: first ever practice rep um and and he had a
Speaker 1: great training camp when he was healthy. And yeah he
Speaker 1: had a hammy, but and liked we If you compare
Speaker 1: him to the whole Dak situation, I mean he didn't.
Speaker 1: He was not a great practice guy. Oh no, no, no no, no, no,
Speaker 1: and so maybe he's kind of seeing that, you know,
Speaker 1: kind I'm kind of processing through this as we think
Speaker 1: about it. I mean green Bay was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a slow start because it took that three play
Speaker 1: I'm talking about regular season green Bay, and you know
Speaker 1: they kind of needed that ninety seven yard drive to
Speaker 1: get it going right. No no, no no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: you're talking about Atlanta last year. Yeah, no way. I
Speaker 1: mean he got the ball, went marched down the field,
Speaker 1: and I remember tweeting like, really, like, lamb all the
Speaker 1: mystique he went, he shoved it right down their throat
Speaker 1: and threw a touchdown to Beasley. I can't keep up
Speaker 1: with his I'm saying, if I remember, that was the
Speaker 1: game where I was like, hey, this guy is not
Speaker 1: phased by anything. He went down the field and threw
Speaker 1: a touchdown to Beasley, down and right in front of us,
Speaker 1: right there at the I just feel like I remember
Speaker 1: they it had kind of stalled out and then and
Speaker 1: then that three play ninety seven yard drive kind of
Speaker 1: picked it back up. I think if we broke down
Speaker 1: his seventeen sixteen starts Eagle game that was from at
Speaker 1: the end sixteen starts, really maybe seventeen if you count
Speaker 1: the playoff, I think he'd have a mixed bag. I
Speaker 1: think he'd have five or six one. But I think
Speaker 1: there was a report on this. I think the vast
Speaker 1: majority of the time you would say he didn't start slow.
Speaker 1: I mean, they might not have scored on their first
Speaker 1: three drives every week, but I don't think of him
Speaker 1: as a slow start. I think it's a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think you'd have some. I think you'd have four
Speaker 1: or five average ones. You'd have four or five not
Speaker 1: so great, and four or five really good. Did you
Speaker 1: notice a significant change between the first half versus the
Speaker 1: second half in the way he played, or would you
Speaker 1: say desively? I really am not as a trend. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, Oh my god. I'm gonna look into it.
Speaker 1: I can't do it right either way. I don't really care,
Speaker 1: as you know, I don't care the game. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if you're winning the game, that's all it matters. It
Speaker 1: just makes those last two minutes kind of okay. So
Speaker 1: we have a game for the borrow. Amber is gonna
Speaker 1: Amber's right down tell us how wrong we are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope so forward to it, all right. I think
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Speaker 1: We're gonna kind of go through the positions. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna try something that this week and just see
Speaker 1: about sometimes. You know, we'll have week one to week two.
Speaker 1: You can see some some changes or some things that
Speaker 1: the teams want to have wrinkles. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: imagine defensively, the Cowboys would love to just keep the
Speaker 1: same thing each week. But if you if you expect
Speaker 1: the whole teams to a field goal, then you really
Speaker 1: do need to figuring out where the parade's gonna be. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if if that happens. But let's kind of go through
Speaker 1: real quick, just the positions. Do we expect the same
Speaker 1: something different? What kind of new wrinkle we we could
Speaker 1: um plan to see this week? Maybe somebody playing a
Speaker 1: little more. Let's kind of go through a little bit
Speaker 1: of quarterback. Do you expect anything obviously we want? I
Speaker 1: mean maybe the quarterback can can start out a little
Speaker 1: bit better this one obviously you want. And I'll talk
Speaker 1: to Dak about looking up to your lofty expectation back
Speaker 1: up in changes there, Kellen Moore, I just don't see
Speaker 1: how you would make that move to Cooper Rush. I
Speaker 1: mean no, it doesn't they're not changing that as like
Speaker 1: you said, Dave, unless something happens to Dak, then we'll
Speaker 1: see it change. Well even if even that in this game,
Speaker 1: I don't want Cooper Rush dealing with von Miller. There
Speaker 1: you go right now? Just but but I mean, do
Speaker 1: you want it? Do you want Kellen Moore? Kellen Moore's
Speaker 1: already six seven years into this thing, Like you can't.
Speaker 1: He is what he is. You're not going to ruin
Speaker 1: him if von Miller, I don't know. My theory is
Speaker 1: is like if you see him how he played in
Speaker 1: a preseason game when they're not necessarily the best guys
Speaker 1: out there, you want to put him in. Actually, but
Speaker 1: if if, But that doesn't matter. There's something going to happen, Dak.
Speaker 1: I'm chalking this one up as an l anyway. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: about But I'll say this about you're talking about Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush doing things against the second and thirteen defenses. Remember,
Speaker 1: he's got a second and third team offensive line blocking
Speaker 1: for him, and he's growing a second and thirteen receiver.
Speaker 1: So all right, running back? Would there be any changes there?
Speaker 1: You see anything like that? Backup changes? No, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call it. I'm gonna say that. You're gonna say they
Speaker 1: go back to twenty Yeah, I'm gonna say they make
Speaker 1: a switch to McFadden. And I honestly, when I was
Speaker 1: telling you, I was talking to some people about that
Speaker 1: that I didn't get the vibe there. I still feel
Speaker 1: like that they they like Morris, but he did say
Speaker 1: there's more juice, there's more explosiveness, and I think that
Speaker 1: that will weigh in. So I'm gonna go there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ride with alf. They already got a lot of
Speaker 1: juice and explosiveness from their starter. So okay, Okay, um, shoot,
Speaker 1: I would go with Alfred, but I have my doubts
Speaker 1: on this one. I think they might kind of throw
Speaker 1: McFadden in death in there instead, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just based on what we saw from Alfred's Alfred receiver
Speaker 1: the Terrence, We'll see about Terrence practicing and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: because if he's banged up, they might want to I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can afford it. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go, but you might want to go
Speaker 1: a little bit longer there. If you had bringing Noah Brown. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'd have to say I'd make a call on that
Speaker 1: one with with Terrence and say either you can play
Speaker 1: or you can't. I don't see how they can address
Speaker 1: they can dress six receivers to this game. No, So
Speaker 1: you just have to say based on his confidence that
Speaker 1: he'd be ready to play expletives in all I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he doesn't practice much this week, but
Speaker 1: I just I'll trust in him to be ready to go.
Speaker 1: I'm staying on that topic real quick. From Twitter with
Speaker 1: the rust shaking off. Does Desk and Dak have a
Speaker 1: better connection going on the road? What do you guys?
Speaker 1: Wait there? Do they will they have a better connection
Speaker 1: or are you Are they better on the road, says
Speaker 1: will they have? Oh? Yeah? Um especially I don't know
Speaker 1: way game. I just I just would let it, Let
Speaker 1: it happen, Let it happen with with this, it'll it'll
Speaker 1: be there. He's too good, he's too good not to
Speaker 1: get involved. Uh you know, it'll it'll, it'll be there.
Speaker 1: Now to leave and Chris Harris, I mean say this
Speaker 1: secondary I hate watching Bronco games too because the crowd
Speaker 1: always yells incomplete after every incompletion. It drives me nuts, like,
Speaker 1: and that's why they do it is I'm sure it
Speaker 1: drives the opposing team nuts too, But I don't know
Speaker 1: one way to prevent that complete Yeah, complete your passes.
Speaker 1: I mean it feels the same size. I don't think
Speaker 1: where they're playing really makes that much of a difference
Speaker 1: so much as the matchups. And this is not a
Speaker 1: favorable one for deaths. So I mean, well, it'll be
Speaker 1: it'll be a ton I mean, it'll obviously be super
Speaker 1: loud there or Denver, and we'll we'll see in practice,
Speaker 1: I would imagine today and tomorrow tomorrow when they go inside,
Speaker 1: we'll probably we'll see the music and the crowd noise,
Speaker 1: you know, cranked up. But there will be a ton
Speaker 1: of cowboy fans too. I don't know if enough to
Speaker 1: make a difference there, but anything, but I mean, based
Speaker 1: on what I remember from last year, that wasn't something
Speaker 1: that really affected them at all. Just a crowd noise
Speaker 1: a one at Hinz Field. You've got a quarterback who
Speaker 1: has faced bigger crowds in college. I mean, and that
Speaker 1: is a thing that is a big deal. When you
Speaker 1: go to play in the SEC and you you've played
Speaker 1: at Alabama and you've played at LSU, they call it
Speaker 1: Death Valley, you know, I mean, and the Swamp and Florida, Florida,
Speaker 1: and I mean, I mean, and they're all they're all
Speaker 1: tough except for a couple, but um but I'm just
Speaker 1: they can handle Bandy well. You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: Vandy and Ducky are preparing are preparing you to play
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But all the other ones are really loud.
Speaker 1: And I think that and he kind of said that,
Speaker 1: you know, respectfully, when he went to Washington last year
Speaker 1: for his first road game. It's like it's loud in college.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just have to you have to learn
Speaker 1: how to deal with the signals and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You're right, it really wasn't a huge deal. They were
Speaker 1: good on the road. They've been a good road team
Speaker 1: the last few years except twenty fifteen. They just weren't
Speaker 1: a good team. No, they were not a good team.
Speaker 1: All right, tight End, you expect I expect the same
Speaker 1: three and for the rest of the year unless somebody
Speaker 1: gets hurt. Yes, no no changes there and no changes
Speaker 1: as far as now. The one change you might see it,
Speaker 1: tight end, is you might see a little bit more
Speaker 1: guys in there to help blocking that right side. Helped
Speaker 1: Bil Collins. If von Miller's around the edge, Um, James
Speaker 1: Hannah proved all the good stuff we say about you
Speaker 1: as a blocker, right, get out there and show it.
Speaker 1: Offensive line. Um, they last week there are guys that
Speaker 1: were active, were Bell and and Looney. I assume they.
Speaker 1: I mean, Chaz was great. I don't know why. You
Speaker 1: you know, fix it if it ain't broke. No, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna You're not moving it. You know you're not
Speaker 1: gonna move there. And again this is another huge test.
Speaker 1: And if they passed this one, well, and then you
Speaker 1: got Arizona. Arizona's pretty stout on defense too. So this
Speaker 1: offensive line and this offense is going to get tested
Speaker 1: by three really good defenses to start offing. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure in week four when Aaron Donald is back and going,
Speaker 1: but uh, I want to kind of take a break
Speaker 1: from that real quick. And I was thinking about Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: He'll play for that game. I mean, I think he'll
Speaker 1: play this week, this week probably, But from the when
Speaker 1: you think about just fantasy drafts and fantasy players, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna miss two of the top three or
Speaker 1: four players in the league in this first month here
Speaker 1: with Odell being out clearly affected the Giants three and
Speaker 1: who I'm missing Dave David Johnson and then probably Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: I mean, not fantasy, but I mean well, I mean
Speaker 1: I think Aaron Donald will play, right, Oh, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. But but David Johnson, I mean, we're talking
Speaker 1: about one of the most versatile running backs in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be out for two to three months
Speaker 1: and to catch some breaks. So that that's you. I
Speaker 1: mean that they're signing Chris Johnson, which you know it.
Speaker 1: I feel like Cowboy fans are always the joke is
Speaker 1: that they the Cowboys don't catch the break like the
Speaker 1: guy gets healthy enough to come back just in time
Speaker 1: for their game. So I'm gonna get a few this month.
Speaker 1: That's nice. And I think we addressed it. I mean
Speaker 1: I said it earlier this week. I mean I I
Speaker 1: was wrong. You guys were right, or definitely Amber was right.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you stood on it. I kind
Speaker 1: of rode the fence a little bit, I mean, and
Speaker 1: that was partially because you just really want to see
Speaker 1: Odell play. Yeah, y all do. Mean he's a great player,
Speaker 1: but I typically I went off history. Those guys that
Speaker 1: they play, they play in games. You don't miss a
Speaker 1: lot of games. I was surprised that he did not play.
Speaker 1: So so now just go ahead and keep missing games.
Speaker 1: You can miss this one if you want to, Then
Speaker 1: this next one, I'm sure he'll be back. I think
Speaker 1: it's Monday night against the Giants. Make it's the Lions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll be there for that one, all right, Um any
Speaker 1: Twitter questions with her. Here's a little quick question. This
Speaker 1: guy is asking. I thought I saw some of the
Speaker 1: hardest hitting by the Cowboys defense in a long time.
Speaker 1: Do you guys agree? I think that's a trend for
Speaker 1: this entire I mean preseason two. They hit hard and
Speaker 1: they're active. That goes back to the Anthony Brown thing
Speaker 1: that he actually made a play on the ball to
Speaker 1: get that pick. Like they make the play where they
Speaker 1: come up, they're just they fly around. That's what Rob
Speaker 1: Marinelli wants. There's I mean, I think back to the
Speaker 1: we talked about the hit on Sterling Shepherd where like
Speaker 1: three different guys all popped them right away. I mean,
Speaker 1: these there you talk about, you know, they're kind of
Speaker 1: turning this defense over. There's a lot of youth out there,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of talent out there, and maybe
Speaker 1: they're not gonna get everything right every time, but they
Speaker 1: should be within the vicinity of the ball quickly. And
Speaker 1: I mean that's played out so far. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that the physical nature of the linebackers has increased. I
Speaker 1: mean I think that that Damien Wilson and of course
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith and Hitchens has been when he was out
Speaker 1: there training camp and he was yeah, of course. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying those guys I think are better in
Speaker 1: the you know, just in terms of hitting. But I
Speaker 1: do think that they've lost some at the safety position
Speaker 1: because Jj Wilcox. That's one thing he could do very well.
Speaker 1: He was a big time hitter, and Barry Church was
Speaker 1: really physical as well. So I think that they might
Speaker 1: have lost a little bit of that safety. We'll see
Speaker 1: how how those guys kind of, you know, if they
Speaker 1: become that type of those type of players, but they've
Speaker 1: gained it in linebackers, so to me, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a wash. So now, overall, I know we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before the season started with compare whether
Speaker 1: they've made improvements on the defense compared to last year.
Speaker 1: After watching this first game, do you guys feel like overall,
Speaker 1: not by position, but just overall in general that these
Speaker 1: defense it's somewhat more promising than the one they had
Speaker 1: last year? I think again, and yeah, in the big picture, yes,
Speaker 1: but these guys are young, they don't know what they're
Speaker 1: doing yet, they're not proven yet. But you just look
Speaker 1: at the talent. I mean, you got you have first,
Speaker 1: second and third round picks playing the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the important or I mean Anthony Brown's hidden gems who
Speaker 1: have and he's proven himself. But you've got talented guys
Speaker 1: playing the I mean Malee Collins should Obey Woozier Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith is now playing, which is amazing. Still like
Speaker 1: you've got young, talented premium draft picks playing all these spots.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that you I'm ready to say
Speaker 1: that they're going to be great this year, but the
Speaker 1: big picture is very very encouraging. Yeah, and if first
Speaker 1: game is any indication, they're shortinly gonna make some some
Speaker 1: big strides this year. Yeah, all right, that doesn't music
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