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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesay, November twenty, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighty three. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. After start talking
Speaker 1: some Cowboys football to day, we get you guys ready
Speaker 1: for Cowboys versus Redskins Thanksgiving Day Tilt here at at
Speaker 1: and T Stadium. I think the kick is three thirty
Speaker 1: for all you guys out there in the Central time zone,
Speaker 1: and I'll be just in time for you to sit
Speaker 1: back and watch some football after you finish stuffing your
Speaker 1: face with food. How's everybody doing today? Love the word tilt,
Speaker 1: tilt I do to one of my favorite football tilt.
Speaker 1: Not feeling it okay, so anything tilt, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like tilt. Just yeah, all right, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: with it to uh you eat you eat before the
Speaker 1: three thirty game. No, I eat Friday. Well thanks, if
Speaker 1: you didn't, if you didn't cover the Cowboys, you would
Speaker 1: eat like you're done eating when the Cowboys kick off.
Speaker 1: Eat years. But yeah, I would probably eat before or
Speaker 1: during that's I got. If you're a cow probably back
Speaker 1: to seconds by the time the game starts. If you're
Speaker 1: a Cowboys fan, I guess it kind of changes things
Speaker 1: Like when I was a kid, we would probably eat
Speaker 1: at like halftime in the Cowboys game, like five cents late. Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so what you've eating all day Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the best part. It's like I'd snack on
Speaker 1: what we're making, like in the kitchen while I'm watching
Speaker 1: the noon game, you know, like make deviled eggs. Maybe
Speaker 1: you eat two or three nix so out on this time.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know even well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you don't even know. If that's like any asking,
Speaker 1: I'm asking the wrong. Nick's been working on Thanksgiving his
Speaker 1: entire adult life. Yeah, I mean yes, And I've gone
Speaker 1: to a couple of games when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: I remember, like I went to a game and you know,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine, I was at the Bounty Bowl game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know it just whatever whatever works for
Speaker 1: I guess people and people in Dallas and Detroit it's
Speaker 1: a different animal for them, you know, like that is
Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, I used his football. I
Speaker 1: would wake up at like eleven and turn on the
Speaker 1: noon game and watch that and help my parents make
Speaker 1: dinner and we'd probably eat it like five. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think I'm as out as Hamburger is on this. So
Speaker 1: she's like, how Dominican. I'm an American? And no, we
Speaker 1: don't celebrate Thanksgiving obviously that's not a Dominican holiday. But
Speaker 1: my stepdad, he is white, so his white family does
Speaker 1: say Thanksgiving a lot. And all I knew was that
Speaker 1: you ate turkey and watch football. I didn't know anything.
Speaker 1: I'm on football, but pretty accurate. Sounds pretty accurate. Great
Speaker 1: while watching football, right, and then you went outside in
Speaker 1: the cold weather or coolish weather and through the football around.
Speaker 1: That's exactly that was my childhood. That was that was
Speaker 1: my childhood. It's not really cold in New Orleans on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: not Houston either, but still we go outside and throw
Speaker 1: the football. We really would make it to about third
Speaker 1: quarter and when we were young, because as kids like
Speaker 1: we just couldn't stand to be in the house. I
Speaker 1: know that's a change for kids these days, but like
Speaker 1: my third quarter, we were get the football, We're going out.
Speaker 1: I never saw a third quarter, probably for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I mean it was halftime, then you go play, and
Speaker 1: then it goes into the third, and then you come
Speaker 1: back and watch it exactly. Never saw a third quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder I've been kids. Don't do that right now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into some Cowboys versus Red Skins
Speaker 1: before we do that, though, we got to talk about
Speaker 1: that game last night. Red I'm sorry. The Rams and
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs play and break all kinds of records,
Speaker 1: ending score fifty four fifty one Rams win. My question
Speaker 1: to you guys is, did you is that entertaining? Did
Speaker 1: you like that brand of football? Because it seems more
Speaker 1: and more like that's maybe the way the NFL is leaning.
Speaker 1: But what were your thoughts just watching that by the
Speaker 1: time it was all over. Did you enjoy it? Yes?
Speaker 1: I thought was one of the best games I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: So yes, I enjoyed it. I don't I had a
Speaker 1: lot of people will come back to me on Twitter
Speaker 1: or I guess you don't like defense. I think that's stupid.
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot of defense. There was
Speaker 1: a lot of great plays in that game, great players
Speaker 1: going back and forth. Sometimes games take on the tone,
Speaker 1: you know, life of its own. And I thought it
Speaker 1: was two great quarterbacks going back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 1: defenses had to step up and they finally did there
Speaker 1: at the end. You know that guy in Kansas City's
Speaker 1: not gonna make a play, so I mean he had
Speaker 1: a chance to make it and he didn't, and that
Speaker 1: it was great. It was just like seeing that don't
Speaker 1: well even Daz went after him. Do you do that play? Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: make that play Scandrick. He actually he's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Whitten didn't say anything, Oh Witten, No, Witten
Speaker 1: said after the second touchdown, Witten was like, it's pretty
Speaker 1: clear that the Rams have decided that tonight they're going
Speaker 1: after Orlando Scandrick. That's it. And they were winning. I
Speaker 1: mean they were winning it going after Orlando Skendrick. I
Speaker 1: have a really vivid memory from my time covering this team.
Speaker 1: Twenty fourteen Chicago Thursday Night Football was the year after
Speaker 1: they got blown out in negative temperatures, they were up big.
Speaker 1: They let Jay Cutler bring the Bears back into it.
Speaker 1: They're rallying and Scandrick picked Cutler off in the end
Speaker 1: zone to kind of kill the rally, and I just like,
Speaker 1: he like fell to his knees and it was like
Speaker 1: the most over the top celebration I've ever seen in
Speaker 1: my life. And I was like, Okay, like good play, dude,
Speaker 1: but calm down, like it's a regular season game. But
Speaker 1: then I think about it now and I'm like, given
Speaker 1: his history trying to catch balls from opposing quarterbacks, there's
Speaker 1: probably a pretty big moment for him because he's not
Speaker 1: good at it at all. He had a chance to
Speaker 1: win that game for the Chiefs and did not make
Speaker 1: the play, which I thought it was fitting that the
Speaker 1: guy wearing twenty two for the other team, who also
Speaker 1: used to play for the Chiefs did make the play.
Speaker 1: I would get I would be over it if every
Speaker 1: football game looked like that, But I sincerely enjoyed the
Speaker 1: hell out of that. That was amazing. What I liked
Speaker 1: the most is that it was it wasn't just some
Speaker 1: random game. I mean, this was the most anticipated a
Speaker 1: regular season game, you know, in many, many years. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is you've got this late in the season two
Speaker 1: nine and one teams. There'd been a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about this game already, controversy. It was supposed to be
Speaker 1: in Mexico City. They moved to all this stuff going
Speaker 1: on in La where there's been a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: happening in that area as well, to go out and
Speaker 1: then just not only you know, live up to the building,
Speaker 1: but rise past that. I mean, I thought it was amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. If this every game, it won't be fun.
Speaker 1: But that's why, that's why it's good, because it's not
Speaker 1: that way, right and nothing. I was telling you guys
Speaker 1: earlier this morning that when I think about what would
Speaker 1: be an ideal game for me, that's a little bit
Speaker 1: too much scoring, Like I really want, I want a
Speaker 1: game where it's a little bit more defense. From the
Speaker 1: standpoint of it, it takes a little more for teams
Speaker 1: to figure out how to break through and get that score.
Speaker 1: I want to see that really really tough game that
Speaker 1: ends up being somewhere like a twenty one seventeen game
Speaker 1: with a lot of really big defensive hits and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And I know that's changed, Like that's
Speaker 1: not NFL football as as we used to know it,
Speaker 1: But that's what's ideal in my mind. That's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I never could quite get into arena
Speaker 1: football because it's just when it's so much scoring and
Speaker 1: it's just it loses a little bit of lust. But
Speaker 1: you know that's that's the beautiful thing about football, though,
Speaker 1: is like it that still is ANFL football. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we're about to talk about the Redskins. They
Speaker 1: just felt like twenty three twenty one, just the Textans
Speaker 1: slogged their way to this not all that pretty win.
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Falcons just did the same thing. Like defense
Speaker 1: is always going to be a component. I know the
Speaker 1: rules have drastically changed to favor offense and I hate it,
Speaker 1: but teams are going to adapt. And that's the cool
Speaker 1: thing about football is like the game the Rams and
Speaker 1: Chiefs just played is the same sport as the seventeen
Speaker 1: fourteen game that the Colts and Tech or the Titans
Speaker 1: and Texans are probably gonna play next week on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football Like and I think people exaggerate. I think
Speaker 1: it kind of course corrects. I enjoy the game. I
Speaker 1: would rather much see something like that than what we
Speaker 1: were used to seeing or like low scoring games. To me,
Speaker 1: that's super boring. The fact that they're scoring back and
Speaker 1: forth and that keeps you in the game, that keeps
Speaker 1: you excited, that keeps me one to keep watching. And
Speaker 1: to me personally, yes, defensive plays are great when it's
Speaker 1: your team making them, but touchdowns are even more fun
Speaker 1: to watch for me than just seeing the defense going
Speaker 1: at it and keeping a game low scoring. I think
Speaker 1: you're a soccer fan, all right, Sorry, yeah, you're a
Speaker 1: soccer fan, all right. So that's that's the one area
Speaker 1: where I get a little I feel a little bit
Speaker 1: like it's kind of talking out of both sides your
Speaker 1: mouth when people make the argument, well, scoring is great,
Speaker 1: like soccer is the most popular sport in the world,
Speaker 1: and obviously people are okay with the idea that in
Speaker 1: a soccer match you're gonna have what one or two
Speaker 1: goals in the most soccer matches. To be honest, I
Speaker 1: watch soccer like the second half, jes because you figure
Speaker 1: the first half is not gonna be too boring. It's
Speaker 1: like to me, I, yes, it's sometimes fun depending on
Speaker 1: what the team, who the team is and who they're
Speaker 1: going up against. But that's just too long of the
Speaker 1: ball going back and forth. So without a pain. When yes,
Speaker 1: when I watch soccer, i'll watch the second half of
Speaker 1: a game. Let me take it to a different sport.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of us will watch boxing at
Speaker 1: least you know half growing up and Amber, I know
Speaker 1: you watch some of it boxing as well. I mean
Speaker 1: you always say styles make fights. Sometimes you got you
Speaker 1: got somebody that's a really big heavy puncher and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, you can't stay toe to toe with them.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna have to win is do this this
Speaker 1: all this side stuff. It's you appreciate the fact that
Speaker 1: you've got too heavyweights going. I'm gonna stand right in
Speaker 1: the middle and we're just gonna trade blows. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna hit and I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: you back and whoever still standing at the end. And
Speaker 1: not everybody can run with the Saints and run with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and run with the Rams. Not everybody can
Speaker 1: run with Golden State. You appreciate when you have somebody
Speaker 1: that can play at that level and it's just back
Speaker 1: and forth, back and forth. That's kind of what I
Speaker 1: liked about it, and speaking of that, it's interesting this
Speaker 1: morning Jerry on his radio show said he thinks his
Speaker 1: team could play with those teams and not specifically saying
Speaker 1: a specific a specific team, but saying that style because
Speaker 1: he says the Cowboys would play with a different style
Speaker 1: one that is like what we saw last weekend, where
Speaker 1: they would try to slow the game down, they would
Speaker 1: try to control the clock, they would try to keep
Speaker 1: the opposing offense off the field. Do you think this
Speaker 1: defense is that good to be able to play that
Speaker 1: kind of game against a team that really right now,
Speaker 1: it's it's those two teams plus the Saints. Those are
Speaker 1: the three teams that just are going to score a
Speaker 1: ton of points. Is his defense good enough to play
Speaker 1: with those teams? And I'd have to disagree. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: be about the defense. It would be about the offense.
Speaker 1: Your offense is what's going to have to keep them
Speaker 1: off the field and help your defense. That's what You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be able to take these long third
Speaker 1: and ones and you know, and drive and extend the
Speaker 1: drive here and extend and then score. You can't be
Speaker 1: dropping balls in the goal line. So I think yeah,
Speaker 1: the defense would have to kind of hold up, but
Speaker 1: the offense would be the team that would have to
Speaker 1: get them off the field, sort of like what we
Speaker 1: saw in Atlanta. I mean that sounds good, but we've
Speaker 1: seen in history when defenses have been good enough to
Speaker 1: win championships against these high flying offenses. Typically they'll posing
Speaker 1: offense had a part in it, but really it's about
Speaker 1: that defense and they were having to make some critical Yes,
Speaker 1: the defense is good enough. You think the defense is
Speaker 1: good enough to do that, but can the offense score enough?
Speaker 1: That's that would be my point. I would I would
Speaker 1: love to see it. I mean, I don't you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the Homer that sits here, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they could play with them, the five and five Cowboys
Speaker 1: against these historic offenses, but like we see it all
Speaker 1: the time, and I mean that's I mean, throw the
Speaker 1: Bears in it. Bears are playing great defense right now.
Speaker 1: Are they good enough to beat some of these teams
Speaker 1: that are just scorn tons of points? Love to see
Speaker 1: that Bears pass rush against one of these teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: and again, that's the beauty of football. I Mean, nobody
Speaker 1: thought the Giants could hang with the Pats and Oh
Speaker 1: seven or the Pats with the Rams and Oh one.
Speaker 1: I mean it was, and obviously football has changed so
Speaker 1: much since then. But again, like that's the cool thing
Speaker 1: about this league. These guys get paid a ton of
Speaker 1: money to figure out how to stop that stuff, and
Speaker 1: from what we've seen from the Cowboys defense, I certainly
Speaker 1: think they could hold them to less than fifty four points.
Speaker 1: I think I think this Cowboys team could probably hold
Speaker 1: the Rams in the thirties, like thirty one to thirty eight,
Speaker 1: and then it's on your offense to play well enough
Speaker 1: and keep them off the field, YadA, YadA, YadA, And
Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if they'd win, but I don't think it would look
Speaker 1: like that. We'll see it, I mean, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the Saints are right there with those two teams,
Speaker 1: and so we'll see that style with them. I think
Speaker 1: the Saints can be just as much, yea even more explosive.
Speaker 1: They've got a good defense to this. The Saints beat
Speaker 1: the Rams at least by those I mean pretty bad,
Speaker 1: Like ten points against that team is convincing in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, they'll get a great shot to see
Speaker 1: what they look like against them in a week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll find out real quick if that style does match
Speaker 1: up with those teams and what they can expect in
Speaker 1: the future, because that's really a thing. You start looking
Speaker 1: at the future of where this team's going. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about few for years and you got those teams sitting
Speaker 1: there with quarterbacks that are young and still playing and
Speaker 1: up already playing really well. But I just make a challenge.
Speaker 1: It's and I'm such a dork for that type of stuff,
Speaker 1: but I just you know, we had it was a
Speaker 1: different team and a different style obviously, But like we
Speaker 1: talked this way about the Seahawks for forever, it's like, well,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna rule the league and they're gonna and
Speaker 1: you know, people implement things that they do and they
Speaker 1: copy them, and then the salary cap plays a role,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the Seahawks are five and
Speaker 1: five team that's scraping to get by like everybody else.
Speaker 1: And that's between teams scheming forum between Jared Goff and
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes needing contracts, not to mention the cost of
Speaker 1: the defensive stars that they have and the receiver. I mean,
Speaker 1: they got weapons everywhere, and that's the beauty of this league,
Speaker 1: as they're gonna slowly pick them apart. So my advice
Speaker 1: to them is capitalize on this window while you can.
Speaker 1: You won't have Patrick Mahomes at that cost forever, so
Speaker 1: take advantage. All right, let's take our first break. When
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Speaker 1: some injuries that the Cowboys have to deal with. Who
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Speaker 1: the second second of the Break live from the s
Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage studios at the Star talking Cowboys football, Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Redskins. This sat, I mean this. I'm sorry this Thursday,
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have to enter the game without Jeff Swain.
Speaker 1: How big is that he's got this injury now, this
Speaker 1: broken wrist, left half surgery. Um? How big is that?
Speaker 1: Big big? He's the only tight end that that's that's
Speaker 1: um good on this team? Mince words, Nick, tell us
Speaker 1: how you really feel. And I don't know how good
Speaker 1: he really is. I thought he played a nice game
Speaker 1: though against Atlanta. It's too bad that he got hurt
Speaker 1: there one of those last plays of the game. Um,
Speaker 1: but I just don't see anyone. I mean, no one
Speaker 1: else is playing well. I mean, Jarwin hasn't been his
Speaker 1: snaps have gone to Schultz and Gathers and they're not
Speaker 1: doing anything either. So I mean it's it's too bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna have to figure this out because
Speaker 1: they are going to be stubborn and play with tight ends.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what they're going to do, and even
Speaker 1: if they're really not good enough, and that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of what's scary is because this offensive line needs a
Speaker 1: little help there in the running game against Washington, and
Speaker 1: I don't know who can provide it. He catched two
Speaker 1: passes in the Sas game that to me, we're kind
Speaker 1: of impressive. Not in a way that it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, what a play, but in a way that
Speaker 1: when you see those kinds of throws to a receiver
Speaker 1: type of player, they usually drop it, and he was
Speaker 1: able to catch those. And then that caught my eye
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hmm, maybe he's not as bad as
Speaker 1: we think, and maybe he can be utilized more and
Speaker 1: be more productive in the offense. But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think we think Jeff Swim is bad. I
Speaker 1: think I think of Jeff Swim a lot of the
Speaker 1: same way I thought of James Hannah like underrated player.
Speaker 1: He can catch a little, he can block a little,
Speaker 1: he can do everything you ask him to do. Problem is,
Speaker 1: you know you always looked at James Hannah and in
Speaker 1: the context of a number two tight ends and whereas
Speaker 1: Swam as your starter. I don't in an ideal world,
Speaker 1: I don't think you want him to be your starter,
Speaker 1: but I think he's a hell of a valuable guy
Speaker 1: to have as your number two and just kind of
Speaker 1: be versatileike. I like the block on the goal line
Speaker 1: for Deck's touchdown, and he had that whole side sealed.
Speaker 1: There're sorry. I meant he did catch those two passes,
Speaker 1: one off the ground the other one that we saw it.
Speaker 1: It might have been because of the angle that we
Speaker 1: had in the press box where it looked like it
Speaker 1: could have been an interception, and he did a nice
Speaker 1: job of coming back to Dad making that catch. I
Speaker 1: think the angle, the angle had something to do with it.
Speaker 1: But like he attacked that ball, no, like it could
Speaker 1: have been a pick if he hadn't had been as
Speaker 1: aggressive as he was with it. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty routine twelve yard catch, but when you're looking in
Speaker 1: the context of this team's tight ends, which is easily
Speaker 1: one of the weakest spots on his roster, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a really nice play. I think he's
Speaker 1: made some great progress he has become. He's not a
Speaker 1: liability as a blocker like straight up, which is that's
Speaker 1: a compliment to him, given that you know where he's
Speaker 1: coming from and that he didn't get a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps earlier in his career. Yeah, when you look across
Speaker 1: the league of tight ends, he's developed I think into
Speaker 1: a very solid tight end. I don't think he's near
Speaker 1: the bottom. I mean not nowhere close. I think he
Speaker 1: is a very solid tight end, which is about as
Speaker 1: much as you can ask for. With Jason retiring at
Speaker 1: the time he did and the Cowboys not really addressing
Speaker 1: the position, it's about as best as best as you
Speaker 1: could probably expect from him this year. People play fantasy football,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a guy to be on
Speaker 1: your team, and he's not that type of guy. He's
Speaker 1: not going to come close to the Pro Bowl like
Speaker 1: that's not what we're trying to say, but for what
Speaker 1: he is, and to Nick's point, they're going to insist
Speaker 1: on using a tight end, slash multiple tight ends. Jeff Swain.
Speaker 1: He went out in the fourth quarter against Washington and
Speaker 1: missed all of Tennessee. So that's you know, sixty seventy
Speaker 1: snaps that he didn't play and he's still has. He's
Speaker 1: played eighty percent of the offensive snaps and at one
Speaker 1: point in the season before he got hurt, it was
Speaker 1: as high as like ninety one ninety two. Like behind
Speaker 1: dak Zeke and the All Pro O lineman, he's the
Speaker 1: next most consistent member of the offense. I think what
Speaker 1: you'll see is you'll see a lot more and you're
Speaker 1: starting to see Ola Wally in there a little bit
Speaker 1: as a lead blocker. You'll see that more. And I think,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I don't know this, but I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if we see more Cam fleming in in
Speaker 1: the goal line situations as coming in as a tight end.
Speaker 1: I think that I'm fine with that because or Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you work on Chrono Williams to do something,
Speaker 1: some kind of thing. He could be a fullback for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but either way, I think it's you're probably better off
Speaker 1: taking one of those offensive lineman as your extra guy
Speaker 1: rather than bring in a tighten on short yardage. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You kind of get the feeling though, that eleven personnel
Speaker 1: between the twenties Dalton Schultz. Yeah, which is not something
Speaker 1: I thought I would say. But he's he's shown progress.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's had some nice place since they
Speaker 1: brought him back. You know, maybe he's in game day
Speaker 1: on the game day roster now, and I mean he's
Speaker 1: just he's the best. If Freako is gonna get five
Speaker 1: touch down thereck, he's gonna have to start getting a gas.
Speaker 1: That's I mean. I as always kind of run his
Speaker 1: short here. I know we're gonna get there. I can
Speaker 1: hear the people calling for Rico, but I just think
Speaker 1: catch five passes, be right, Let's say passes. Let's just
Speaker 1: change it up. Let's get to five passes. Does he
Speaker 1: have right now? One? Two, two? Yeah? I know he
Speaker 1: had the big one in Houston and another one against
Speaker 1: Jacksonville where it was about thirteen fourteen yards. That's it. Though.
Speaker 1: I just think I think that they think Sheltz is smart.
Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I know Sheltz is smart. It's
Speaker 1: issue is he just needs to get stronger. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: he's not gonna do that till the offseason. He's made
Speaker 1: some strides, which yeah, I think Nick's right. They'll probably
Speaker 1: try to find a work around when it comes to blocking.
Speaker 1: But in terms of being the best mix of the two, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. It's it's a sneaky big loss. Like yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, he's got fifteen catches for two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty yards, but whatever, Like it's a sneaky big
Speaker 1: loss the way this team wants to play football. Yep.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about some of the other guys that have
Speaker 1: that missed last week still an injury where but a
Speaker 1: lot of them were limited yesterday in practice. Albeit that
Speaker 1: was a walk through, so you know, you can probably
Speaker 1: walk through a lot easier than you can if you're
Speaker 1: going even half speed. But Taco Charlton with the shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: he was limited. Lee Collins played last week, but he
Speaker 1: was limited yesterday with a knee injury. Daniel Ross calf injury,
Speaker 1: he was limited. Antoine Woods went full participation, which is
Speaker 1: a good thing. He's coming off the concussion basically already
Speaker 1: said he's playing right, And it sounds like it sounds
Speaker 1: like from what Jerry was saying, he expects that maybe
Speaker 1: Taco has a chance to play this week and Tying
Speaker 1: another guy didn't throw in there was limited yesterday. It
Speaker 1: sounds like the Cowboys are expecting him to play on Thursdays.
Speaker 1: Practice today. I mean, they've already had their practice. Taco
Speaker 1: was out there, Ross was out there, Antoine Woods, Malik,
Speaker 1: So it looks like the defensive line's going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit be better. Not David Irving, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not expecting to see him, but everybod I believe
Speaker 1: it when I see him back on the field. Honestly,
Speaker 1: everybody else though, all the other Ross, Woods, Taco, I
Speaker 1: think they're all heading toward availability. I'm telling you, Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin has to be close. He has to be close
Speaker 1: to coming back. I don't think he'll play this week,
Speaker 1: but there's no way that he won't be ready physically
Speaker 1: to play against the Saints. Now, does he play, that's
Speaker 1: going to be a different story. But physically he's got
Speaker 1: to be close to being ready. Why are you saying
Speaker 1: saying so emphatically like that, because nobody dances like that.
Speaker 1: We're still back to the dancing. He's again, like everybody
Speaker 1: else is stretching, and he's i mean, uncontrollably dancing. Is
Speaker 1: there dancing? Yes? I mean if you watched him, you
Speaker 1: were like, all right, you know he's he's like trying
Speaker 1: to be Michael like he's just he's ready, and especially Kiff,
Speaker 1: he's got a growing injury. He is ready. Did he split? Like,
Speaker 1: did he fall into a split? What do you do?
Speaker 1: Just the whole show? Can't just like this the whole show.
Speaker 1: There's no way, Tavon, Austin listens to music that sounds
Speaker 1: like that. I was about to say, that's probably not
Speaker 1: the music that looks like it, though it looked like
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, there we go the Austin Boyd. All right,
Speaker 1: um so, I guess just to be clear, it looks
Speaker 1: like most of these guys that are in your on
Speaker 1: the injury report, the Cowboys expect to play. Is there
Speaker 1: anybody that's on the injury report that you guys are
Speaker 1: a little bit hesitant. That's gonna be a miss of
Speaker 1: consequence for the Austin David Irving Tavon Austin. We know
Speaker 1: Lee is probably not what we know. He's not Sean Lee,
Speaker 1: Jeff swam Tacco, No, I think no Taco is gonna play.
Speaker 1: I think Taco is gonna play. All right, that might
Speaker 1: be my favorite. Coco. Just no, he's got an ass
Speaker 1: as the number one. You know, that's definitely the number one.
Speaker 1: Brian's got about not. We never hear Brian drops on
Speaker 1: this show because he's like, they're good. Vicky's is pretty
Speaker 1: good too. As crazy as Mickey sounds, I have to
Speaker 1: agree with him. I've heard that. I like, I'm the
Speaker 1: only one that's been in jail. I like Nick the Pirate.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's get to your breakdown, Dave. What
Speaker 1: do we have for this? Uh? This this Skins offense? Uh?
Speaker 1: Coming up the stars? What should we expect? Well? Uh,
Speaker 1: full disclosure, It's Tuesday morning and NFL Game Pass doesn't
Speaker 1: usually drop coaches film until Tuesday afternoon. Number seventy six
Speaker 1: excuses Champion, thank you. I watched the I watched the
Speaker 1: TV broadcast of the Redskins. I mean I tried um,
Speaker 1: but well they I mean the funny thing is like
Speaker 1: what they played a month ago, and they look pretty
Speaker 1: different thanks to injuries. I mean, who's not on their
Speaker 1: injury report? I mean, I know this was an estimation too,
Speaker 1: but they had a lengthy list all their own. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trent Williams is questionable. Um, he is not played? How long? Deeto,
Speaker 1: He's one of those guys that's been in and out
Speaker 1: of the lineup. To be honest with you, I don't
Speaker 1: know that off the top of my head. I'm pulling
Speaker 1: up the there it is Ryan Anderson, Tony Bergstrom, who
Speaker 1: is their reserve that came in for Brandon Sheriff. Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder is still not practicing with an ankle injury. Quentin
Speaker 1: Dunbar's limited, Morgan moses, they're right tackles limited with a
Speaker 1: knee injury, backup tackle tied, and Secky limited, durn Payne limited,
Speaker 1: samaj p Ryan, who's like their fifth running back at
Speaker 1: this point, he didn't practice, Adrian Peterson was limited. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll play. Chris Thompson still not practicing with a
Speaker 1: rib injury, and Trent Williams is limited too. So so
Speaker 1: focus right there in on the offensive line, because that
Speaker 1: seems to be the area where I've heard at least
Speaker 1: people talking about them having so many injuries. Talk me
Speaker 1: through the guys that are that are injured, and talk
Speaker 1: to me about guys that maybe we're starters at the
Speaker 1: beginning season that maybe are not there because of injury
Speaker 1: or I R or whatever. The big one is Brandon Sheriff,
Speaker 1: who they drafted in fifteen. Uh, you know, he's like
Speaker 1: there Zach Martin. Um, he's I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: as good as Zach Martin, but he's really good, really
Speaker 1: good players on IR done for the year. When did
Speaker 1: he get hurt? Um that after the Cowboys was in.
Speaker 1: It was like the week after the Cowboys. So Cowboys
Speaker 1: faced him. They won't have And that's we're trying to
Speaker 1: figure out the difference, Like who was there that day
Speaker 1: that is not going to be there Thursday. Sheriff is gone. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's their best. Well, I mean, Trent Williams has been
Speaker 1: amazing for a long time. Um, Sean, I can't. I
Speaker 1: struggled with Sean Lavaw he was They were doing this
Speaker 1: song and dance with all of these guys last month.
Speaker 1: And so the names are the same, their availability is different.
Speaker 1: He's on I R two, So that's two of your
Speaker 1: preferred five guards out both guards. Yeah, yeah, uh, Trent Williams,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go ahead and say that I think
Speaker 1: he'll play. Yea um as, there was a report just
Speaker 1: came out a little while ago saying that they're expecting
Speaker 1: him to play Thursday. So Morgan Moses is your preferred
Speaker 1: right tackle, he's limited. Tony Bergstrom not your preferred right guard,
Speaker 1: but the right guard right now, he's limited. Jonathan Cooper
Speaker 1: he is your left guard now. So I'll see a
Speaker 1: familiar face there. What obviously your quarterback is different, Colton
Speaker 1: McCoy is going to be starting. Yeah, that's although I
Speaker 1: will say, like in terms of you know, I'm sitting there,
Speaker 1: I actually wrote this note down. It was like McCoy
Speaker 1: brings a running element of this offense. And then I
Speaker 1: stopped and I was like, what am I talking about?
Speaker 1: So it's Alex Smith, Like they're very similar players, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think that it's gonna look drastically different. McCoy's
Speaker 1: been in the league since twenty ten, and you know,
Speaker 1: he's not the guy that I think you have to
Speaker 1: dumb down the game plan basically. But if my memory
Speaker 1: serves me correct, when he's had opportunities to play there
Speaker 1: in Washington. Seems like he's a little more willing to
Speaker 1: chunk the ball down feel a little bit more than
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Is that an accurate statement? I think the
Speaker 1: whole Alex Smith being afraid to chunk the ball, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying afraid. I'm just saying it seems like he
Speaker 1: does it more like he would he was more of
Speaker 1: a downfill thrower than Dan Alex Smith has been. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's afraid or unwilling to do anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still don't think the Redskins are gonna play
Speaker 1: that way though, Like that's not that's not that offense anymore,
Speaker 1: Like Deshaun Jackson's not there. We talked about that last time,
Speaker 1: Like this isn't really there. Crowder's not playing right now,
Speaker 1: and even still like he I always think of him
Speaker 1: as more of a side to side guy, like he's
Speaker 1: gonna kill you on the crossing route way more than
Speaker 1: he's gonna kill you streaking downfield. Ye. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think we talked about last time, like they're very
Speaker 1: similar to the Cowboys in terms of, you know, they
Speaker 1: obviously the offensive line is banged up, but they want
Speaker 1: to run the ball. Adrian Peterson's been the best thing
Speaker 1: about their offense to this point. He's still there. He
Speaker 1: had a touchdown against the Texans. Actually, like not a
Speaker 1: great day by what he's been doing at least I
Speaker 1: think he had like sixty five, but Colte McCoy had
Speaker 1: forty and that was just in a quarter and a half. Again,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's something you got to account for it.
Speaker 1: And a lot of that was designed runs too, so
Speaker 1: I think that's something you got to watch. Maurice Harris
Speaker 1: is a new name. He was there fifth or sixth
Speaker 1: receiver the last time they played. He has been severely
Speaker 1: bumped up due to injuries. You know. Paul Richardson's another
Speaker 1: guy they lost for the year. He had a really
Speaker 1: nice game against Atlanta, I think. And then a new name,
Speaker 1: Trey Quinn. I don't know if you remember him from
Speaker 1: the draft. He played at SMU. He's a thousand yard
Speaker 1: receiver alongside Courtland Sutton down there last year. Was on
Speaker 1: IR at the start of the season, came off. He's
Speaker 1: I mean, he's Cole Beasley. He's a slot extraordinaire. He
Speaker 1: had four catches for fifty yards in his first game
Speaker 1: ever rookie been on IR fifty yards right off the bat.
Speaker 1: He's gonna I mean, exclusively in the slot within ten
Speaker 1: yards of the line of scrimmage. It's something for Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown and these linebackers to worry about. So yeah, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: the cast is different even in the four weeks it's been,
Speaker 1: but I think they're gonna look awfully similar. That still
Speaker 1: isn't an explosive team. They run the ball better than
Speaker 1: anything else, and I have a feeling they're going to
Speaker 1: focus on that even more with a backup quarterback playing.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take our last break when we
Speaker 1: come back. I want these guys that kind of mix
Speaker 1: it up a little bit here and talk about or
Speaker 1: at least let's us talk about how we expect this
Speaker 1: to be a little different than maybe what we saw
Speaker 1: when we were in Washington before looking at the Washington
Speaker 1: offense versus the Cowboys defense. Will do it when we
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Speaker 1: At the start, Nick tell us about Tommy John. Well,
Speaker 1: Tommy John has got skins on the wall. I mean
Speaker 1: they've sold at least three million pairs sold and probably
Speaker 1: getting close to four million. That's because they're doing something right.
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Speaker 1: then makes sure you go Tommy John dot com and
Speaker 1: buy something. And if you already have bought some. You
Speaker 1: always need good depth, you need more, you know, Tommy
Speaker 1: John pairs there. Just like a football team, you need
Speaker 1: to have some backups there. And these guys are definitely
Speaker 1: gonna play. Speaking of backups, we're good there. Mark Sanchez yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh ah, yes, there's nothing about Mark Yeah, Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez Marco, he's actually signed with the Redskins. You didn't
Speaker 1: put that in the in the thing. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: see him. I don't us brought us those. I hope
Speaker 1: we see him. I don't expect him to play, but
Speaker 1: it's very possible. Yeah, notable. He's a hit away. Yeah
Speaker 1: I said that yesterday, Like he's had a funny history
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys and Thanksgiving because he beat him here
Speaker 1: in fourteen and then he was on the team in sixteen,
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite games from my time
Speaker 1: covering the team. Honestly, it was Dak. Dak did the
Speaker 1: daddy move on that guy, stiff armed him, and I
Speaker 1: think that was as impressed as I was at any
Speaker 1: point in that season with Dak, because Kirk Cousins was
Speaker 1: just bombing away, like he had four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards in that game, and every time the Redskins scored,
Speaker 1: Dak just calmly coolly led him back down the field
Speaker 1: and was like, yeah, this guy has got brass ones.
Speaker 1: It was impressive. Sorry, I didn't mean to hop up
Speaker 1: on my soap on. I had it. There was a
Speaker 1: good parallel there and I just missed it. I mean
Speaker 1: I could have easily done that. Mark Sanchez was he
Speaker 1: missed it, but fumble. All right, let's jump back in
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Redskins. We're talking about the Redskins offense versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys deef. As you go, I can look at
Speaker 1: that game that they played about a month ago, and
Speaker 1: to me, that the one thing that stood out of
Speaker 1: one of the many things that stood out when you
Speaker 1: talk about that matchup Redskins offense Cowboys defense, was that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense was really really good in the red zone.
Speaker 1: There were twice that the Redskins were in goal to
Speaker 1: go situations and the Cowboys held them to field goals,
Speaker 1: which that's a huge feat against any team to be
Speaker 1: able to do that, and the Cowboys still end up
Speaker 1: losing by three. Do you expect that the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: be able to repeat that? And why was that not enough?
Speaker 1: Just taking people back to that game, why was that
Speaker 1: not enough for the Cowboys ultimately get the win. Zeke
Speaker 1: wasn't a big factor in that game. They did a
Speaker 1: nice job of stopping him. So the Cowboys were always
Speaker 1: having some problems with a lot of penalties in the
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's probably one of their worst games and
Speaker 1: so that's one of the reasons. But you talked about
Speaker 1: the defense. I mean, yeah, I mean the defense did
Speaker 1: a nice job in the red zone. This is a
Speaker 1: good red zone defense the Cowboys had, but they weren't
Speaker 1: getting any help on offense until the very end of
Speaker 1: a scrambled mode. You know, it's just one deep ball
Speaker 1: to gallop. They didn't really drive the ball. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: I'm you know, kind of I gotta dig through my
Speaker 1: memory banks. But let's go through that, okay. Zeke's not
Speaker 1: a factor. Darn Payne and Jonathan Allen ate the interior
Speaker 1: that line for lunch. So cause for optimism, David Suafilo
Speaker 1: has played really well, more powerful guy than Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: Darn Payne's injured right now. That gives you some hope.
Speaker 1: Dak turned the ball over at midfield in that game,
Speaker 1: set up an easy drive for the Redskins defensive touchdown
Speaker 1: Dak Again, Dak turned the ball over on his own
Speaker 1: goal line and gave up seven of twenty points. So
Speaker 1: I mean the defense scored a third of their points
Speaker 1: in that game. So I mean that's a ten point
Speaker 1: swing right there. So uh yeah, I mean that the
Speaker 1: defense played pretty well in that game. The offense put
Speaker 1: them in terrible situations, situations for most of the day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a phone call. We got a
Speaker 1: call here from Bruce and play on. Bruce. What up? Bruce?
Speaker 1: You're there? Yes? What up? What do you have for us? Hey? Uh?
Speaker 1: What you guys were discussing earlier about with Slain being out,
Speaker 1: our different options, and you forgot the best option that
Speaker 1: I called last week and told you guys to consider
Speaker 1: Rod Smith triple fret. Put him in the backfield with
Speaker 1: Zeke for the majority plays. He can block, he can catch,
Speaker 1: you know, um, he made him live in the last game.
Speaker 1: He cut a one handed that past one handed. No
Speaker 1: it was only for one yard. But he's always making plays.
Speaker 1: But they're not giving him a lot of opportunities. So
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week our tight ends weren't doing anything.
Speaker 1: Our best tight end is out now, so time to
Speaker 1: put rod Smith in. All right, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: That's remember when he blocked that defensive end off the edge.
Speaker 1: Let's see the End's kind of where I was going without,
Speaker 1: but go ahead under another underrated player. Loved the role
Speaker 1: that Rod Smith plays. But again, you know this coaching staff, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're like they're not gonna draw it. They're
Speaker 1: not just magically gonna start playing twenty one personnel all
Speaker 1: the time. I said this last night. Nobody would love
Speaker 1: to see them just say, oh, no, tight end, looks
Speaker 1: like it's ten personnel from here on out. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. They're gonna like they want to play
Speaker 1: their game. They're gonna use a tight end. You can't
Speaker 1: play Rod Smith at tight end. You can't do it
Speaker 1: with Noah Brown either. That's another thing. I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of people say, he's never played the position, and
Speaker 1: he's at least twenty, if not forty pounds too light
Speaker 1: to do that. I just don't think it's a great idea.
Speaker 1: And that's Is there a way to scheme around it?
Speaker 1: Absolutely there is. That's not what the Cowboys are gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, this is what we do. We're gonna
Speaker 1: focus on ourselves and we're gonna execute, and we just
Speaker 1: need one of these guys to step up and do
Speaker 1: it better. That's what they're gonna do. Okay, take me
Speaker 1: back for a second. Wasn't a few years ago when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys try making converting Rod Smith to a fullback?
Speaker 1: Am I remembering that correctly? And it ended up that
Speaker 1: that was how they actually got Keith Smith converted to
Speaker 1: being a fullback, because Rod wasn't the answer that they
Speaker 1: were looking for it right, And the point I'm making
Speaker 1: there is this is not a novel idea, and that's
Speaker 1: for the call of Bruce. This isn't a novel idea.
Speaker 1: This is an idea that cowboys have had before and
Speaker 1: it didn't work. And sixty three running back, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be a fullback sixty three. You gotta get
Speaker 1: lows now tied end. That's a different story. But he's
Speaker 1: just too light to do it. That's not his position.
Speaker 1: You saw him make some nice catches out of the
Speaker 1: backfield one, so do it sometimes, right, right, you can
Speaker 1: do that sometimes. But he's not gonna be a fullback.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be a full time fullback for you.
Speaker 1: Even if he even if he's fricking Mike, I'll stot
Speaker 1: like he could be the best fullback in the world.
Speaker 1: What does that have to do with the fact that
Speaker 1: they need a tight end, like you know that doesn't
Speaker 1: They still need a guy out on the edge who
Speaker 1: can help you take care of those things, especially with
Speaker 1: the guys that the Redskins have on their front, and
Speaker 1: this is yeah, this clown I mean, Clowney and Watt
Speaker 1: have something to say about that. But one across the
Speaker 1: but across the board, this is one of the best
Speaker 1: fronts that they play all year. I mean, Karagan, what's
Speaker 1: the damn pressed? And Smith drew a blank there, and
Speaker 1: then those two defensive tackles in the middle, like you
Speaker 1: need some help with that. And I really like the
Speaker 1: role Rod Smith plays for this team. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the answer. That being said, you mentioned Suaphilo.
Speaker 1: How much do you think that that affects this and
Speaker 1: gives the Cowboys an opportunity to be a lot better
Speaker 1: than they were that day against that Washington front. I
Speaker 1: think it. I think Connor Williams was one of his
Speaker 1: worst games, if not the worst game that he's played,
Speaker 1: and I think Suafilo just gives him a lot more
Speaker 1: strength up, you know, the the way Colombo wants the
Speaker 1: block right through the middle. There more attacking mode. I
Speaker 1: think you'll see that in this game, and I think
Speaker 1: it helps tiring on the on the edge. I think
Speaker 1: it helps Looney, you know, once they've really gotten him
Speaker 1: in the game. I mean you've seen a big difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's a coincidence that that
Speaker 1: Suafilo is in the game and Zeke's flirted with two
Speaker 1: hundred all purpose yards twice. I just I don't think
Speaker 1: so I think like got boys win this game. I
Speaker 1: think I might be ready to jump on the hype
Speaker 1: train of them because for the team or first to filo,
Speaker 1: for the team. Okay, if the team is going somewhere
Speaker 1: like actually play, actually actually going somewhere and kind of
Speaker 1: changing this thing up a little bit. Because with the
Speaker 1: changes that they made on the offensive line and with
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper being here and all that, I think the
Speaker 1: Titans game might have been just one of those games
Speaker 1: that it just they had to sacrifice in order to
Speaker 1: get things kind of clicking and where they need to be.
Speaker 1: And maybe we're starting to see although these past two
Speaker 1: games they've been close ones as far as like, yes,
Speaker 1: they've moved the ball around, but they haven't been amazing
Speaker 1: as far as the red zone and getting there and
Speaker 1: getting touchdowns and all that. But they've come out with
Speaker 1: the victory. So I'm curious to see if this is
Speaker 1: really where it's headed to with the trend. I feel
Speaker 1: that they're gonna put up a pretty good battle against
Speaker 1: the Redskins, and it's gonna be another close one. But
Speaker 1: if they get this victory, which I think they're very
Speaker 1: capable of, I have no doubt with the defense. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident with the defense of the Cowboys. But as
Speaker 1: far as the offense, They're starting to give me a
Speaker 1: little something where now I'm thinking, Okay, maybe they're up
Speaker 1: to something here. If they do win this game and
Speaker 1: it looks a lot different on you know, with their
Speaker 1: offensive line. You know, if I'm Connor Williams, I'm starting
Speaker 1: to snap the ball, I'm starting to work on that
Speaker 1: because suaphilo is that would be a difference maker right there, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the change. It's not just coincidence. This is probably
Speaker 1: your left guard now for a while, and Connor Williams
Speaker 1: got to figure out where to play. A way to
Speaker 1: play center could be the issue next year, it could
Speaker 1: be tackle. I'm just saying your left guard would be solidified,
Speaker 1: if it's not already, it would be if you go
Speaker 1: out there and look completely different, because that's the difference
Speaker 1: on the line. Yeah, I don't I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think you can understate how big it is that he's
Speaker 1: under contract for twenty nineteen. I mean, yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: great point. They looked awful against this same front a
Speaker 1: month ago, so if they go out and take care
Speaker 1: of business, then that that says volumes. And yeah, like
Speaker 1: I like I said a week ago, I haven't heard anything,
Speaker 1: but just not gonna be surprised if Connor Williams magically
Speaker 1: has the feat to play tackle come January. We know
Speaker 1: what we said before. Yeah, all right, aprecate you guys
Speaker 1: joining us back tomorrow. We'll talk some more Cowboys versus
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Speaker 1: Redskins defense versus the Cowboys offense. To till tomorrow for
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