WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: TBD 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:07.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:16.080 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:17.640 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:18.200 Yes? 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.079 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:20.880 Absolutely? 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:25.239 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.600 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.279 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.440 It is Wednesday, October second, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.680 episode number forty. Welcome to the latest edition of The 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.199 Break Live from s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star, 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.479 presented by LG. LG is the world's number one OLED 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.400 TV brand for eleven years in counting. See why a 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.720 LG dot com for slash O led Evo. I gotta 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.600 give you these back. I can't read with sunshades on 0:00:58.680 --> 0:00:59.160 in the house. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.560 I'm just about to say, okay, give it back, professional. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.520 Right, or she doesn't even read anymore. She just memorized. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.360 He doesn't need he doesn't need a script. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.120 You just turn on the brightness on the screen. That's it. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:12.399 You can do that. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.800 On your iPad. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:18.360 Start. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:18.920 We're gonna start. 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.600 Here we go. This is the kind of day we're having. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.920 Yeah, yeah, I'm in a good mood. All right, let's up. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.760 We got a lot we're gonna talk about today. We're 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.000 gonna get to Brian's breakdown of the Pittsburgh offense versus 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.120 the Dallas defense, maybe even get to some player evaluations, 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.720 looking at particularly the Cowboys defense and some players that 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.600 we have maybe we haven't talked about as much here recently. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:39.200 Uh. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.000 And I'll start with some bigger picture questions heading into 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.480 week five of the season. This team, now obviously two 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.360 and two, I've had a lot of mixed results. The 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.760 teams that they've beaten don't appear to be very good teams. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.400 The teams that they've lost to, we don't mean, I 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.760 guess the words really, I mean, we really don't know 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.440 if those are great teams they have. I think New 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.240 Orleans has come back to the pack and they're two 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.040 and two as well. Baltimore is looking like the real deal. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.440 But if you were the head coach and you were 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.320 walking into the meeting with the team today, what would 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.680 be your message to this team entering week five of 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.919 the season, after what you've seen the first four weeks 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.360 of the season, and knowing where your team is with 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.000 all the challenges that are around them. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.200 One week at a time. I think that would probably 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:27.079 be the most coherent message. You have a gauntlet coming up, 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:28.959 and fortunately you have a bye week right in the 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.920 middle of that gauntlet. But I think you take one 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.320 week at a time, it can really kind of help 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:37.760 this process over these next few weeks of Pittsburgh going 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.640 up to Pittsburgh playing a physical Pittsburgh team that is 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.520 three and one and is looking to bounce back off 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.720 of loss a really athletic quarterback. You had to take 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.600 that challenge in its own right and focus on that 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:51.440 until that final buzzer hits on Sunday, and then you 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:52.840 move on to Detroit and then you move on to 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.160 the bye week. Especially with all the injuries that the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.200 Cowboys are dealing with on both sides of the ball, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.840 this is a really important time just to focus on 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.120 challenge ahead and not try to look at the whole thing. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.600 I'll go in there and be like, all right, guys, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.359 sink or swim? What are we doing here? We gotta swim, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:10.600 we gotta stay. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.720 Above with either. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.799 Why doesn't matter what, no, no, no. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:22.280 We ain't got no floating. We're struggling. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.000 We're in the this is the what what is that 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:31.200 hardcore training? Navy seals that going there and they just 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.080 gotta survive. The cold water is just like tough training, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.840 and you're just out for yourself. You gotta keep yourself afloat. 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.080 You can't be drowning other people. As soon as you're 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.920 doing that, you're taking someone down with you. So the 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.640 focus is focus on what you gotta do. Focus on 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.760 your job, focus on your assignment, do the best that 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.000 you can do. Don't be lollygagging during the week. We 0:03:54.040 --> 0:04:00.360 gotta prepare, do your job, study, learn, watch film, learn 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.160 your opponent, and do what you gotta do because there's 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 nothing else to be done. I mean, there's nothing else 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.080 you can be done because of all the injuries, I mean, 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.440 the way that they're struggling right now, things that you 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:17.640 can't control. So something that I learn about Garrett that 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.560 stuck with me because they would say it every week, 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.520 control what you can control, and one day at a time, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:25.520 that's it. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.520 Yeah, I think that I would walk in there and 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:34.040 my message to the team would be I need every 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:39.200 one of you sitting in these chairs, coaches, players, I 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.080 need every one of you. It doesn't look great right 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.920 now with the injuries we're dealing with. But nobody feels 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.159 sorry for us. You know, we got to find a 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.320 way our players. Dack gotta have it from you, CD 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.840 gotta have it from you. Guiden gotta have it from you. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:05:00.840 Golston gotta have it from you. I'd start calling guys out, individually, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.200 challenge them to play at a level that they haven't 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.159 played out so far this year. You know, maybe go 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.000 back and talk about, hey, when we had success when 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.640 we were down, uh, you know, when we were when 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.720 we didn't have everybody available and we were short handed 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.640 and we were playing on short weeks and we're playing 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:23.920 three games in eleven days. Remember how we got through that. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:28.640 That's what's going to take today because we are shorthanded. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.400 But again, nobody feels sorry for us. But I would 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.799 individually challenge those players. I challenge the leaders of the team, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.400 you know, and and by challenging them, they would then 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:45.080 challenge the players that are maybe player fifty fifty one, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.400 fifty two, fifty three on that roster. And it's gonna 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.800 maybe the practice squad guys too. It's going to take 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.360 them having a really good week like Ambar's talking about. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.159 You know, we're dealing with another quarterback where that does 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.160 read option stuff. We got to be disciplined. You know. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.719 Nobody's giving us a chance to go to Pittsburgh and 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.760 win this game. It's really important to Mike McCarthy. He's 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.720 from Pittsburgh, you know. I mean, you see Mike when 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.760 he gets kind of emotional about games Green Bay, you know, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.279 going to Pittsburgh now with this team, you know, it's 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.440 it's a challenge for him. But Nick's right, it's the 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.200 gauntlet that you're about to run. 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:22.720 This thing. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.640 These next three weeks could determine your season. You get 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.480 out of this thing two and five, you know, you 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.080 go and you go and lose to Pittsburgh, you lose 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.320 to Detroit, you take a buy and go lose to 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.159 San Francisco. We might have a new head coach here, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.360 and so now you know you have to and Mike's 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:46.040 not going to say that, but as a player, you've 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.640 got to realize that that everybody in this room is 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:54.880 really fighting, you know, fighting for an existence. Like Amber's 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.719 talking about, keeping your head above water and making sure 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.679 that we're doing everything possible to win these games. Don't 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:07.760 leave anything to chance, you know, Preparation, you know, taking 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.680 care of yourself, extra study, whatever you have to do 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.600 to go out and play better these next three weeks. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.600 We have to do that, and if we don't, then 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.320 the story could be really, really different for a lot 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:22.680 of us. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.440 Yeah, you know, I think and I was trying to 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.600 look it up here and I looked up I kind 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.960 of got some of the numbers. But I want to say, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.239 back in twenty ten, when the Packers won the Super 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.240 Bowl here and. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.480 Really banged up, they had an injury report that was 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.080 a crial long, and it was it was one of 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.880 those things where you kept waiting for them to fall 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.840 apart because of all the guys they were losing, and 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.080 I'm talking some of their top line starter type guys 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.520 that they were losing, and they didn't. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.000 They can't manage to keep it all together. And I 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.200 think those are the kinds of things that you would 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.080 want a head coach with this level of experience be 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.240 able to impart to this team. Is I've seen this work. 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.360 I've seen what teams can do when they pull together 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.920 despite injuries, despite injury to some of your best players, 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.720 what you can still accomplish if everybody's willing to get 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:13.520 on the same page. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.680 Are they prior to everybody kind of coming down. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:17.840 I don't know, and that's wy I was trying to 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:19.640 look up. I don't remember what the record was as 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.400 that was happening. I don't even remember exactly what part 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:23.480 of the year they lost all these guys. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.040 I just remember ten and six they were for the season, right, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.160 they were ten and six, because the next year they 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.200 went fifteen and one. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:31.640 Yeah, and all six of those losses were by four 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:32.360 points or less. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:33.719 Yeah it was, and it was one. But it was 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.679 one of those things where it's like I remember at 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.480 the Super Bowl, everybody saying, like, how is this team here? Like, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.480 how are they still alive with all the guys that 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.360 they've lost? And you're right, like, I'm not saying at all, 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.960 Dallas is that caliber of team. I don't know that 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.560 we've seen anything that tells us that. All I'm saying is, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.480 I think if you're the head coach, the message you 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.120 have to give the team is you can do remarkable 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.840 things sometimes if you're willing to everybody step up and 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.880 do their job and pull together in a different kind 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:04.120 away when you lose players, it's possible. And that's what 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.960 you're trying to sell I think to this team is 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.440 the hope that you can do something special if everybody 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:10.760 does as you said, does their job. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.280 That's the tough part. And like Nick mentioned, I believe 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.880 yesterday they were not playing well prior to all these 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:22.600 guys getting injured, and so that's the problem right there. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:27.920 You were already struggling with healthy players. So now how 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.240 do you add this new factor of starters being out 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:36.120 and then trying to put together this team and being 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.400 able to combat the struggles that you were already dealing with. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.160 That's a tough thing to do right now. 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.000 All right, another question I have for you guys about this. Now, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.880 let's let's flip a little bit and talk about specifically 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.600 the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are three and one heading into 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.960 this game. Everything they've played so far as two and two, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.440 so you can't really get a gauge for how good 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.120 these teams are that they've beaten or that they lost to. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.520 But as in the same way, Dallas is two and two. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.640 So here you go, right, what is your general impression 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.680 just big picture? We're going to dive into some of 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.280 the more specific things, but big picture, what do you 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.280 look at as far as stills are concerned and your 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.679 impressions of them as a team physical. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.760 I know we talked about it yesterday. Physical football team, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.280 and that's on both sides of the ball, specifically in 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.920 their pass rush. I mean guys like TJ. Watt, Cameron Hayward, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.240 even Nick Herbig. I mean, these are guys that get 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:30.400 after the quarterback, they generate pressure. They're active in the 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.000 run game specifically as well. I mean, if you're looking 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.000 for this Dallas Cowboys run game to get going, I 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.560 don't think this is the game where it happens. There's 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.200 going to have to be quite a bit of intention 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.680 put this week if you're Dak Prescott on understanding how 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.680 to escape the pocket and how to be able to 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.640 find your guys downfield. And I know we talked about 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.040 it leading into the Giants game. I know it's something 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.240 that he's been trying to emphasize in his game over 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:56.199 the past couple of weeks. I don't think we've necessarily 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.480 seen it to the level that we saw in twenty three, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.000 but I think there is still a layer that he 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.240 can add to escaping the pocket and making some plays 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.319 happen off script. I think he's going to have to 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:07.719 be able to do that in this game. I think 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.160 that's where he makes his where he makes his money 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.199 in this game up in Pittsburgh. If we remember back 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:13.719 the last time they went to Pittsburgh, he had to 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.760 make his money escape in the pick a couple of times. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.520 But then on the offensive side of the ball. Staying 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.120 on that point of being physical, they get after it 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.880 in the run game as well. I mean, they don't 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.920 have any super productive runners like Naje Harris has been 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.400 a little underwhelming since he's coming to the league, averaging 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.360 right around three and a half yards per carry at 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.839 this point in the season. But he's still a physical runner. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.840 He's a tough guy to bring down justin fields, is athletic. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.240 He's going to do a lot of different things out 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.959 of the backfield, read option design runs. He's going to 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.120 make it difficult for your defense to be able to 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.840 stay on track. And then the Swiss Army Knife Corderyl Patterson, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.800 who's like fifty six years old and has still found 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.280 a place in the league and he's still making it 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:49.480 work out of the backfield as well. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.080 Think, I mean, the one thing that just stinds out, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.000 what do you want me to say? After everything, he 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:01.640 just thought some No, the main thing that stood out 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.040 or stands out for me is the physical part that 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.320 he just talked about. And this is where we go 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.880 back to your team needing to be aggressive and keeping up, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.880 not falling behind. Not as well as how fast you're 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.520 playing the game, focus on doing like tackling the right 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.320 way and not being a step behind that We've seen 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.120 this defense or I've seen this defense do where there's 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.600 just a few steps behind and they don't get there 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.760 when they need to. So just it's tough again when 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.199 you're dealing with so many injured guys on your own team. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.720 Now you're having to combat a team that's not going 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.040 to give up easily. They're just gonna go out there 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:48.680 and fight. And what's the word. I can think of 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:52.920 the word, but basically tire you down. Where are you 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:53.480 out there? 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.199 Yeah, I think that it's all good thoughts. The thing 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.199 that Mike tom Wins one of the best coaches in 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.560 the National Football League, you know, and one of the 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.880 reasons why you won that game in twenty sixteen. He 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.920 kept going for it for two and Dallas kept stopping him. 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.480 Like four times he went for two in that game, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.559 and all the times Ben Roethlisberger got stopped. It's crazy 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.600 how that ending of that game. But just remember Zeke 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.480 running through, you know, breaking the Were you. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.120 Down sideline with us? I mean, Nick, we're talking about that. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.120 We were down the sideline when ZK had that big run. 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:22.800 Were you down there with it? 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:22.920 No? 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.480 I was not. I was not there. I was not there, 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.880 And so yeah, I've done traveling. I think at that 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:32.320 point that was like, ain't doing enough? Yeah, figure it out. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.040 I kind of wish Ul had gone to that game 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:35.719 because that was that was a fun one because Dak 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:36.200 had that. 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:37.880 Season here Buffalo game. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:44.240 I said, you guys flying through hurricanes and tornadoes and stuff, 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:45.880 and everybody, Oh, look at this. 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.079 It's like right, all right, yeah, yeah, roller coaster. 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.720 Everybody's happy, and Derek's looking for his doctor Pepper, and 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.199 I'm I'm not flying on this plane anymore. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.200 We got more cookies coming. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:59.120 Yeah, Trey's flying through the air. But yeah, you know, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.040 that was incredibly yearpe By the way, Dak is a 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.640 rookie winning at lambeau Field and at Hinesfield at the time. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.360 That's that was that. Not many rookies cause still Hinfield. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.000 I don't care what I do too. I still call 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:14.199 it and Jack Murphy Stadium, and Joe Robbie and and. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:16.000 People. 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.000 Yeah, named after people. But the thing with with with 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.120 it's one of the best coaching stabs in the league 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.240 and they do a great job. They have turnover with 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.760 some of their staff, but they just Mike Tomlin every year. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:28.960 It seems you talk about a guy that's dealt with 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.520 over the years of dealing with injury and mainly at quarterback, 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.440 and they don't they don't seem to get the quarterback 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.240 thing right. They always just kind of, you know, every 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.000 year they're playing with a different guy, and you know 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.720 it's it's well since Ben Roethlisberger's left, of course, but 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.480 it's just amazing seventeen consecutive winning seasons for this guy. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:55.680 And they're they're physical, they're tough, They their offenses. Their 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.360 offense has got some things about it that you can 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.320 take advantage of. And there's some things that they can 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.160 try and take advantage of you. I know, we'll get 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.440 into that. But when you think of the Steelers, you 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.720 always think of organizational You think of stability, you think 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.280 of toughness, and you think of going and having to 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.360 win at their places. How difficult, it is, but your 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.840 quarterback has done that before and hopefully he can relive 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.320 some of that magic that he did in twenty sixteen. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.560 Yeah, it seems like no matter whether that team is 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.160 good or not so good, they're physical, yeah, and will 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:27.640 beat you up. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:27.920 Yeah. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.280 They play a brand of football that's always tough to 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:30.640 match up. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:32.760 There was a stat at one time where we used 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.440 to keep up with this, and this was when I 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.320 was in scouting in the two thousands early two thousands, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.760 where you played the Steelers and then the next week 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.760 you automatically lost the game. I mean, they had a 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.040 run where you played them and the next week that 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.360 whoever played them that week and then played a game 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.120 the next week, you automatically lost the game because of 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.320 how much they beat your team up, how much it 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.320 took out of you to win that game, or that 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.760 you would lose a game and then week you just 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.400 couldn't you couldn't recover because they had beaten you up 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.880 that bad too, you know. So, but it's still I mean, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.600 maybe they're not to that level where they were back 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.200 you know, maybe with some Bill cowardays and stuff like that, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.520 but still with Mike Tomlin, just a ton of respect 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:17.480 for how they operate. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.440 Absolutely. 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I said they're the first 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:41.720 deep rushing that's why word for it, and my co 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:45.399 host quickly quickly told me, no, that's not accurate, And 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:46.679 so I went back to look at the site, and 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.679 I think I made a mistake. I looked at the attempts. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.080 They are number one in rushing attempts. They will do that, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.160 not number one in rushing yards, which probably is even 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.680 more alarming for me because they're so dedicated to the run. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:02.000 But let's talk about that. Let's talk about where they 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.520 are as a rushing team and kind of how Dallas 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.040 has to what the key is to their running attack. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.000 Yeah, and they've had some injuries at their offensive line, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:11.840 and they're they've got a little bit of the element 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.840 of the penn and pull stuff that we've seen before. 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.240 They like to move the offensive lineman around, they like 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.880 to try and trap, they like to use their tight ends. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.520 Their tight ends are horrible blockers. They really really are. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.359 I mean you say their tight ends they're tight ends 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.159 are horrible blockers. Darnell Washington is probably the better of 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.840 the blockers. So if you see number eighty, he's a 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.720 massive guy. A lot of people thought maybe he had Georgia, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.520 he should have maybe been an offensive tackle, yeah, coming out, 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:38.240 and so I think his knees were the problem. Yeah, 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.440 and he was a big, big problem. But they don't 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.520 block very well at the point of attack. We've seen 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.520 some teams that played the Cowboys. This team plays a 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.560 lot of thirteen personnel, one back, three tight ends. That's there. 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.119 They're like forty seven percent of doing that. When you 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.840 watch them in thirteen personnel. They don't run the ball 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.040 worth a dam. They really struggle with the yards they 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.920 gained when they run the football in their heavy personnel. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.320 That might play into Dallas's favor. They have some problems 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:09.199 with their offensive line with the health. Isaac Suamala should 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.879 be coming back this week, but if he doesn't come back, 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.639 then Mason McCormick is a rookie, will play in that spot. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.399 He played in the spot in the Colts game that 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.760 I watched last week at left guard. That means if 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.600 Suamala doesn't make it back, McCormick plays. So now you 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.320 get a rookie left guard and a rookie center. Okay, 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:30.800 that's kind of where they've had some problems. The guy 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.960 you attack here is their center, Zach Fraser. I love 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.520 Zach Fraser coming out of West Virginia in the draft. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:41.040 A really good athlete, second level player. He just doesn't 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:42.920 play with a lot of power. He gives up a 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:46.280 lot of pressures inside, and he doesn't always sustain his blocks. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:51.000 They've had some problems with sustains sustaining blocks when McCormick's 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.399 had to play at guard. He again, he's a rookie. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:58.199 As I just mentioned, he doesn't sustain particularly well. So 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:03.600 they tried to angle block, fold, block down, block, through 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.679 all these things because they don't want to play you 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:10.000 one on one. Now, their best running Najie Harris is 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.520 a physical back, there's no question about that. But the 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.200 guy that's actually had the most success running the ball 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.760 for them is Cordell Patterson. So when they hand the 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.920 ball to when they hand the ball to him, they 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.520 put him in the backfield, They swing it to him. 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.919 They you know, they throw it to him. They toss 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:29.240 it to him. But they've had some problems with their 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:33.399 offensive line getting sustained. The Chargers did a heck of 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:38.600 a job with their linebackers attacking this Steeler offensive line, 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:41.040 and and and the and the Steelers were slow to 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:46.239 react with how physical that and how quick the the 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.280 Chargers played in that game at linebacker. And I think 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:51.720 Dallas has got linebackers that are better than what the 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.879 Chargers were playing with, So keep an eye on that. 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:58.320 As far as Dallas playing down hill in this football game, 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.400 trying to beat these block to the point of attack 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.200 and make some plays. I mentioned the tight ends. 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:06.440 Frim Youth. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:10.080 You know, he's a good catcher of the football, kind 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:12.960 of an underneath at the sticks kind of guy. That's 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.200 their offense though. I mean, he'll throw the ball outside 0:23:16.240 --> 0:23:19.159 the numbers, justin fields will throw it outside the numbers. 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:22.399 They got they got a couple of quality receivers, but 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:26.080 you know, when they everything is trying to like take 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:28.920 care of him, it's routes to the sticks. 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:29.359 Turn. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.120 Every they throw. The majority of their routes, guys are 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:36.200 right at the sticks or in front of the sticks. 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.200 You know the routes, the combinations. It's just try and 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.359 get the ball. Try and give him some easy throws. 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:43.560 But when he does throw it down the field, it 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:45.720 is outside the numbers and they got a guy that 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.280 will go get it. When you talk about George Pickens, 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:53.600 George Pickens is phenomenal body control, balance, the way that 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.280 he plays when you you have to cover him the 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:00.520 whole time because when the play breaks down, he will 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:04.399 find space and then you see fields will sling it 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:07.320 side arm or run into his left. Just throw it 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:11.000 downfield and Pickens will come up with the ball. He 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.320 is a bad ball catcher and along the sidelines down 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.639 the field in the red zone. He is their best 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.080 receiver by far. They do have some speed. In number 0:24:21.160 --> 0:24:25.399 nineteen with Calvin Austin, was he wake Forest? Calvin Austin, 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:27.800 Calvin Austin, wake Forest. I'm trying to think about it. 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:29.920 I thought, off the top of the top of my head, 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.399 watch the Memphis God Dang, I thought it was a 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:35.159 wake Forest. But anyway, I'm glad. I'm glad, I asked you. 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:39.040 But see, he's the guy that's got legitimate speed, Like 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:41.560 they'll run him inside, throw him the ball and then 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:45.040 he'll bust tackles. So you got it. He's a smaller guy. 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:47.359 Got to tackle him or he's going to take it 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:49.879 to the house. But they've got some guys that are 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:53.560 pretty good run after the catch, guys with Austin and Pickens. 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:57.159 Their offensive line is is a little bit suspect, I 0:24:57.160 --> 0:24:59.640 think in the running game, and they've had some protection 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:03.960 problems with the center, and so those are all things 0:25:04.000 --> 0:25:05.800 I think Dallas can maybe take advantage of. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.880 Looking at justin feels, he's averaging two hundred and seven 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.119 passing yards per game. He only has one interception, which 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:14.560 that's the key. Obviously, you keep him from making at 0:25:14.680 --> 0:25:16.720 knocked in the air. Yeah, and you allow and allow, 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:18.840 you allow him to play, but you allow him to 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:21.199 play under the circumstances of don't mess it up. 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:21.439 Right. 0:25:21.720 --> 0:25:25.119 That being said, have you noticed anything different about his 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.800 game and his approach this year, about his mechanics, about 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:30.240 anything about what he does that's different than what he 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:30.960 was in Chicago. 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:34.440 He's the same guy. I mean really, when he runs around, 0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:38.560 that's when he's terrifying. He's like, he'll drop back and 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:40.800 the next thing, you know, when you're watching say end 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.920 zone copy, because you're watching the line, he'll drop back 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:45.960 and then you could just tell in his brain it's 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:49.040 like watch this, you know, and I'm going to take 0:25:49.080 --> 0:25:52.000 off running, you know, because he now he'll throw the 0:25:52.040 --> 0:25:54.919 ball in traffic. I mean, he's lucky he doesn't have 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:57.399 more interceptions because he's had balls to get knocked in 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:00.720 the air and you know, and the defense haven't come 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:03.960 up with him. But he's he will force some passes now. 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:08.200 But as far as the thing that you absolutely there's 0:26:08.280 --> 0:26:12.159 times where he will make the wrong read when it 0:26:12.200 --> 0:26:15.600 comes to the read option stuff. You could tell he 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:18.280 gives the ball to Harris and then it's tackled for 0:26:18.280 --> 0:26:21.520 a game to two, where if he pulled it, it's 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.320 probably gonna be a fifteen yard game, and you could 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:27.639 tell you he just slumps when you're watching it. He 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:29.080 hands it and he sees it it's a gain to 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:32.280 two and then he sees the edge and he's like, oh, 0:26:32.920 --> 0:26:35.000 you know, you can just you can see him body 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:37.480 language go down. I have a feeling in this game 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:39.600 he's gonna pull a lot of these balls and run. Yeah, 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:43.040 he's gonna test. He's going to test if Dallas is 0:26:43.080 --> 0:26:46.040 good enough on the edges, if they're disciplined enough with 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:48.399 you know, and we've seen Neil and play with some 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:52.760 discipline Golston, you know, discipline player. The guy that's been 0:26:52.840 --> 0:26:55.040 kind of confused a little bit has been or just 0:26:55.119 --> 0:26:57.240 kind of put in no man's land has been Micah 0:26:57.240 --> 0:26:59.920 a little bit. So we'll see how. But I have 0:27:00.200 --> 0:27:04.159 a feeling that you're going to see fields run the 0:27:04.160 --> 0:27:07.440 ball more. Remember the game's Chicago, Dallas played here. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:10.480 That's what he did. Michael made that wasn't Michael have 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:14.000 made the big playing for running down Yeah? 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.760 Yeah, so there he's going to run. But that that's 0:27:17.960 --> 0:27:21.000 that's his weapon. And they're good, you know they're good. 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:23.040 They're going to They're going to try and run the 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:25.400 ball on you. I mean, even though they haven't had success. 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:28.520 You mentioned it. Arthur Smith, who is a former Atlanta 0:27:29.000 --> 0:27:31.960 Falcons head coach. He was with the Tennessee Titans. We 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:34.159 all knew the Titans ran the ball, you know, with 0:27:34.240 --> 0:27:37.000 how they did. So Arthur Smith, uh as the o 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:39.000 c here. He's going to try and do things to 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:42.720 protect his quarterback the best he can. But if you 0:27:42.800 --> 0:27:46.240 make it into a passing game for this guy, could 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:48.320 be a little tough. Could be a little tough for him. 0:27:48.359 --> 0:27:49.960 When you look at a team like this that has 0:27:50.080 --> 0:27:53.400 George Pickens who he and and Friarmouth, I think are 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:55.800 really the passing weapons like those are the guys you 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:57.840 got to be most concerned about. How do you go 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.560 about trying to account for them, knowing that the secondary 0:28:00.600 --> 0:28:02.159 has been a little banged up and you're trying to 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:04.480 kind of manage that. Is this a game where you 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:07.560 have to really think about, uh, you know, how you 0:28:07.600 --> 0:28:09.679 match up with him knowing that you're gonna have some 0:28:09.760 --> 0:28:11.199 challenges maybe on the outside. 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:15.240 Yeah, this is a if anything, you need to shade 0:28:15.359 --> 0:28:18.240 his direction, you know, I'm talking about if you want 0:28:18.280 --> 0:28:21.719 a safety with the corner, I would shade that direction. 0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:24.040 I mean they got to guy. Scotty Miller is another 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:26.040 guy that they have. I didn't mention him. He's kind 0:28:26.040 --> 0:28:30.879 of a He's like a useful third down pivot route 0:28:30.960 --> 0:28:34.640 slot guy. Yeah, he's a smaller, so what you see 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:37.399 him is like they'll get in bunch formation, run to 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:39.480 inside and loop him around and throw it in the 0:28:39.520 --> 0:28:42.440 flat and he catches it and then he's up the field. 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:47.000 So they've got they've got third down options that they use. 0:28:47.360 --> 0:28:52.920 But to talk about furmuth Man, he he makes plays, 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:54.680 I just don't know, run after catch. 0:28:54.800 --> 0:28:56.520 Yeah, he's like a catch. 0:28:56.240 --> 0:28:58.600 It and get whacked and he's on the ground. You know, 0:28:58.720 --> 0:29:01.640 kind of a guy. He really doesn't. You know. It's 0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:05.840 not like just these new age tight ends are just running. 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:08.160 I mean the film I watched, it's like a lot 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:10.200 of catch and then a lot of get cut down 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:11.240 with him. 0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:14.160 But he knows how to get to it and catch them. 0:29:14.280 --> 0:29:18.120 Absolutely. I would Pickens could be a mess to deal with, 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:21.280 as you said, but you have to like with digs 0:29:21.880 --> 0:29:24.400 and then you know, hopefully Carson's back in that mode. 0:29:25.080 --> 0:29:27.440 But I would make sure that to that side of 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:30.760 fourteen that I'm kind of keeping an eye in that 0:29:30.840 --> 0:29:34.400 direction because he's the one guy that can make that 0:29:34.480 --> 0:29:36.479 play down the field when they decide to throw it. 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:38.680 All right, let's go and take our final break. 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Well, come back into the final segment, 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:03.200 final segment of the break life in the s WBC 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:06.200 Mortgage studios at the Star. Okay, so here's what I 0:33:06.240 --> 0:33:07.800 want to do. I want to find out from you guys, 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.280 Like right now, as you look at this defense, they 0:33:10.320 --> 0:33:13.680 obviously are without their two Arguably they're two best defensive 0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:16.520 players for an extended period of time. I'm not sure 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:18.400 how long for Michael, but at least for a week. 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:21.640 We know that for a week. That being said, if 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:23.440 you had one thing you could put your hat on, 0:33:23.440 --> 0:33:26.680 because I think last year, I think we all universally 0:33:26.680 --> 0:33:29.000 agreed this team could get after the quarterback if you 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:31.239 got them in situations where a team other team had 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:34.600 to pass, good luck to you. What would you say 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:36.719 that thing is this year? Does this defense have a 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:39.280 thing that it really does well that it can really 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:39.800 rely on? 0:33:42.000 --> 0:33:45.760 I will say to go first hereby could you know 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:48.800 it's funny this week I mentioned about this is something 0:33:48.800 --> 0:33:52.120 I was curious about when the Steelers we talk about 0:33:52.120 --> 0:33:54.760 how they run their offense at the sticks, you know, 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:58.320 the way the rally and play routes that are played short, 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:00.000 you know, kind of try and get off the field 0:34:00.120 --> 0:34:02.880 that way. I mean they can't run defense. I mean 0:34:02.880 --> 0:34:05.040 they get in a lot of bad situations, but when 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:09.360 they have to play third down pass defense at the sticks, 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:11.560 one of the best teams in the league when it 0:34:11.560 --> 0:34:13.719 comes So if you play short like that, if you 0:34:13.880 --> 0:34:15.960 play short like the Steelers are going to try and 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:19.080 play in this game with the tight end with Pickings, 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:21.759 with you know, with Austin, if they're gonna if they're 0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:24.000 gonna run routes at the sticks or near the sticks 0:34:24.440 --> 0:34:26.880 and play short, one of the best teams in the 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:29.800 league when it comes to defending those types of routes, 0:34:30.200 --> 0:34:33.799 believe it or not. So that to me was encouraging. 0:34:33.920 --> 0:34:36.160 If if if you're gonna tell me whoa wait a minute, 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:39.799 this they're the Steelers offense is based on this right 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:43.279 now for their quarterback. And what's the strength that Dallas has, Well, 0:34:43.360 --> 0:34:46.640 Dallas can combat you playing that way. Now, Dallas can't 0:34:46.640 --> 0:34:48.680 stop you from running the damn ball. Worth the heck, 0:34:49.040 --> 0:34:51.520 But you know, and and the Steelers. They're going to 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:53.080 try and run the ball. I don't know how well 0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:55.040 they're going to be with this offensive line. Running the 0:34:55.080 --> 0:34:57.920 ball might be like the Giants game, but if it. 0:34:58.040 --> 0:35:00.200 But the one thing that they can do is is 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:03.640 they when they get you in passing situations, they can 0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:05.719 find ways to get you off the field, especially if 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:06.840 you're throwing the ball short. 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.759 I do like this linebacking corps. I think there is 0:35:09.800 --> 0:35:12.640 still a lot of confidence that this linebacking corp should 0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:14.080 be able to take away. I think most of the 0:35:14.160 --> 0:35:16.520 issues in the run game have been a product of 0:35:16.520 --> 0:35:19.879 what's been going on up front, and the linebacking corps 0:35:19.880 --> 0:35:21.480 has been asked to do a lot of different things. 0:35:22.200 --> 0:35:24.279 But as far as the veteran leadership with guys like 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:29.759 Eric Kendricks, the young tenacity that Demarvin over shown has 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:33.560 shown mareslea foul. I still like what Demon Clark has 0:35:33.560 --> 0:35:35.680 done and his reps. Even though they've gone up and 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.839 down and up and down. I think there is still 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:39.520 a lot you could take away from that linebacking corps. 0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:41.359 I think that is a solid second level. I will 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:43.080 still stand on the table that this is a top 0:35:43.120 --> 0:35:44.880 five linebacking corps in the league. I think they just 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:46.480 need to be set up in better situations. 0:35:49.640 --> 0:35:52.560 I'll be honest, I don't. I mean, I don't. I'm 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:56.360 not hanging my hat nowhere. It's still on my head because, 0:35:56.640 --> 0:36:01.120 like as they were talking, I'm thinking of every facet 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:04.239 of the game, I'm thinking of the defense, every part 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:08.440 of the defense, and there's been issues in every part 0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:10.960 different times, and then they've had moments. And I agree 0:36:10.960 --> 0:36:13.560 the linebackers they've done a really really good job and 0:36:13.600 --> 0:36:16.879 I've only really seen them struggle when they don't get 0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:20.439 help from the defensive line. So that's an area that's good. 0:36:20.640 --> 0:36:23.240 But if I had to point something that has suit 0:36:23.280 --> 0:36:25.520 out and that I think has been better than I 0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:29.000 thought would be these younger players and the way that 0:36:29.920 --> 0:36:34.839 they've come into this season with no NFL experience and 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:38.600 they've been able to showcase things at a level that 0:36:39.280 --> 0:36:43.080 it's pretty decent, you know, given what it is, and 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:47.439 obviously always room for improvement there. But you talk about 0:36:47.480 --> 0:36:51.200 guys like Overshown, he was out all season last year, 0:36:51.760 --> 0:36:54.040 the way that he was able to come back this year. 0:36:54.960 --> 0:36:58.480 You typically expect for an injured guy that's been out 0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:01.640 that long that it would take several multiple weeks for 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:04.319 you to get back into rhythm. And he was right 0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:08.760 off the bat so good. So that's a plus. Even Carson, 0:37:08.840 --> 0:37:11.440 he's been out, he was out last week. We're hopefully 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:14.200 expecting him to be back for this weekend. But he's 0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:17.800 another guy that I think has shined as well. Marshall Kneeland, 0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:21.400 another guy that so these Yeah. 0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:23.520 I think I'm actually excited to see what he can 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.800 do with those guys out with more plays. 0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:28.400 So that's the thing. They they the Cowboys had taken 0:37:28.640 --> 0:37:34.359 a gamble on these drafted players and hope that they 0:37:34.360 --> 0:37:37.680 can be good, and they've been good. It's just now, 0:37:37.840 --> 0:37:40.800 you know, you got to elevate the game as a whole. 0:37:40.920 --> 0:37:44.640 But that's the one positive thing that I think these 0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:49.160 younger players have actually been pretty productive for what's being asked. 0:37:49.280 --> 0:37:50.920 All right, here's what we're going to do. I got some players, 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:52.319 some names I'm going to throw out to you guys, 0:37:52.320 --> 0:37:53.960 and I want you to give me an evaluation of 0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:56.680 how you think they've played. One thing that you you've 0:37:56.719 --> 0:37:59.120 really liked about what they do, and one thing that 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:01.080 you would say, hey, this is an area where they 0:38:01.080 --> 0:38:03.319 have to get better or they should be focused on 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:05.600 getting better. Let's start the guy we just brought up, 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:07.880 Marshawn Neeland. What if you liked from him, what do 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:09.640 you think where do you think he needs to improved? 0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:11.239 I like his physicality. 0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:13.560 I think there is Whenever he was coming out of 0:38:13.560 --> 0:38:15.560 Western Michigan, that was what he was hanging his hat on. 0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:17.560 As far as as far as a guy that can 0:38:18.440 --> 0:38:20.680 be two hundred and seventy plus pounds and get around. 0:38:20.480 --> 0:38:21.360 The edge with some power. 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:24.520 He's been able to do that in some instances, especially 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:27.440 in the run game. But I think I think overall 0:38:27.520 --> 0:38:29.279 there is still another level that he can take from 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:31.520 the pass rush perspective, you know, just trying to get 0:38:31.560 --> 0:38:33.840 after the quarterback, doing the similar things that you do 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:35.520 in the run game, just do it in the pass 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:37.839 rush and try to get to the quarterback a little 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:39.840 bit more. I mean, that was probably his one knock 0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:43.080 coming out of Kalamazoo was that he does not have 0:38:43.560 --> 0:38:45.759 those pass rushing knacks. I think he finished with four 0:38:45.760 --> 0:38:47.640 and a half sacks at wester from Michigan last year. 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:50.600 Excuse me, He's gonna have to be able to find 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:52.880 that here in these next few weeks, especially with Lawrence 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:55.040 and Parsons out because you look at the best pass 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:57.880 rushers on this team from an edge perspective, you're relying 0:38:57.920 --> 0:39:00.160 on him, You're lying on Chauncey Golston. These are two 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:03.040 guys who have not been traditionally guys who are getting 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.400 sack numbers. So Neilan's gonna have to be able to 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:08.200 find that that that sack ability here in these next 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:08.719 couple of weeks. 0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:13.040 Good opportunity this week with Broderick Jones and and Dan Moore. Uh, 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.680 you know these these tackles have you know, they've they've 0:39:15.680 --> 0:39:18.840 struggled at times on the edge and and so you know, 0:39:19.040 --> 0:39:21.400 he just I think he's one of those guys that 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:24.400 once he gets it going, it's going to come in 0:39:24.440 --> 0:39:27.040 bunches for him because he's going to figure out. He's 0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:28.799 going to figure out like, Okay, this is how I 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:30.920 break a guy down. This is how I get around, 0:39:30.960 --> 0:39:32.440 This is how I get to the corner, this is 0:39:32.440 --> 0:39:35.400 how I close on the It's tough with the quarterback, 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:37.120 the guy. You know this guy this week, because he's 0:39:37.120 --> 0:39:39.120 gonna run around, he's gonna make you miss. He's a 0:39:39.120 --> 0:39:43.360 big guy, he's a physical guy. But once he gets 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:47.040 one sack and then the second sack. He could get 0:39:47.040 --> 0:39:51.080 these in bunches. I love the way he plays with effort. Uh, 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:54.600 He's always trying to get to the football. He's learning 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.480 how to play with his hands. You know, there's some powers, 0:39:57.640 --> 0:40:00.759 as Nick mentioned, to his game. There's a lot of 0:40:00.800 --> 0:40:03.520 positive things about him if they could just get him 0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:06.160 going as a pass rusher. And I'm not saying he 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:09.000 has to be double digit sack guy right now, because 0:40:09.000 --> 0:40:11.120 I never think that was going to be his game, 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:13.880 but my gosh, he looks better now in the NFL 0:40:13.960 --> 0:40:17.000 rushing the passer than he did at Western Michigan, And 0:40:17.040 --> 0:40:18.279 so that's encouraging to me. 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:20.600 Have you seen flashes of that yet, Like as far 0:40:20.640 --> 0:40:21.680 as his pass rushing. 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:25.000 Yeah, it's just you know, what's so hard to evaluate 0:40:25.080 --> 0:40:27.640 the Cowboys pass rush is because they're never in pact. 0:40:27.719 --> 0:40:31.000 They never get to rush the passer. It's you know, 0:40:31.040 --> 0:40:33.960 it's teams that were running the ball fifty two percent 0:40:34.000 --> 0:40:37.040 of the time on Dallas. You're not good enough stopping 0:40:37.080 --> 0:40:40.000 the run too, you know, I do know this from 0:40:40.080 --> 0:40:43.040 metrics and looking at it. You know, with Tank and 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:45.880 Mike and out playing, you just lost forty seven percent 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:49.319 of your pressures. You know, somebody's got to step up there. 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:52.360 But the guy to me, if you said, give me 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:55.759 a guy that can rush the passer, that has a 0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:59.160 chance of the young guys like Carl Lawson at one 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:01.520 time could rush the pastor. I think Neelan's got a 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.799 better shot of getting home than Carl Lawson, does you know? 0:41:05.320 --> 0:41:08.280 I really do. Now we'll see what with kJ Henry, 0:41:08.280 --> 0:41:11.360 He's going to get an opportunity. I'm almost positive I 0:41:11.440 --> 0:41:13.879 worry about him because he can't get to the edge, 0:41:13.880 --> 0:41:16.200 but he's a little bit like Kneelan and he just 0:41:16.320 --> 0:41:19.640 can't quite finish yet. But once those guys kind of 0:41:19.640 --> 0:41:22.280 figure it out, then all of a sudden, it's okay, 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:24.480 that's how you do it. It just takes that one 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:26.160 or two sacks to kind of get him going. But 0:41:26.640 --> 0:41:29.399 I'm very encouraged by the player because he's he's far 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:32.000 better as a player than I even gave him credit 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:33.560 for when he was coming out of college. 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:36.439 No he I mean, yeah, he's put in the work 0:41:36.520 --> 0:41:39.160 and I think it's translated to while we're watching on 0:41:39.200 --> 0:41:41.520 the field, and I think one of the things with 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:43.960 him is he just needs some more opportunities and he's 0:41:43.960 --> 0:41:45.960 going to get out this weekend. He's about to get 0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:49.120 it and show up. I think he's a what he's 0:41:49.280 --> 0:41:52.360 missing is exactly that. I do believe. Once he finds 0:41:52.400 --> 0:41:55.359 that confidence of getting to the quarterback getting a sack, 0:41:55.719 --> 0:41:57.880 I think it's going to become more of a trend 0:41:58.000 --> 0:42:00.879 for him and he's going to be a very explosive 0:42:01.040 --> 0:42:04.120 and positive player for this defense for sure. 0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:05.680 Let's get one more player, Jeff. 0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:06.480 Yeah. 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:09.200 Just from Mike McCarthy at his press conference just now 0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:12.080 confirming that Brandon Cooks will not be playing this week 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.319 due to a knee infection that he has developed over 0:42:14.320 --> 0:42:16.640 these last few days. So we were waiting on official 0:42:16.640 --> 0:42:18.399 word for that before putting it out on the show, 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:19.919 but that's what we got. 0:42:20.040 --> 0:42:23.080 It's just keep on coming, keep on coming. I will 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:26.520 say this though, I Jalen Tolbert is a guy that 0:42:26.560 --> 0:42:29.200 I think has played well for what they've asked him 0:42:29.239 --> 0:42:31.680 to do so far this year, and I kind of 0:42:31.680 --> 0:42:34.040 want to see what he does with, you know, being 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:35.840 the number two. You would assume he's going to be 0:42:35.840 --> 0:42:37.480 probably the number two. The guy's going to get most 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:40.040 of those reps sliding into that number two position and 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:42.000 see what he can do with it. I'm interested to 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:42.759 see what that looks like. 0:42:42.800 --> 0:42:45.560 Everybody screaming for Ryan Flinoy to be active. This is 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.600 this is his time in the field. So yeah, all. 0:42:48.600 --> 0:42:50.920 Right, one of the let's get one more name for 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:52.600 me in the show here. Donovan Wilson. 0:42:53.400 --> 0:42:55.560 I love what he did against the Giants. I will 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:58.320 say it was a really nice bounce back game for him. 0:42:58.520 --> 0:43:01.239 Against the Giants, he was doing what we've gotten used 0:43:01.239 --> 0:43:03.280 to seeing Donovan Wilson do. But the first three weeks, 0:43:03.320 --> 0:43:06.560 my goodness, at times I wondered if Marcus Bell would 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:07.920 have been a better option, just to put at the 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:10.560 strong safety position and have him at least come and 0:43:10.560 --> 0:43:12.400 play the run a little bit better. I mean, it 0:43:12.440 --> 0:43:16.200 was bad angles, bad aggression and trying to bring down 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:18.480 ball carriers. It was a couple of times where he 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:22.280 was just kind of escorting Henry for fifteen yards against 0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:25.880 the Ravens. So but in the Giants game, I do 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:29.680 like the different approach that he took. He was big, 0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:32.279 and the Giants only having twenty six rushing yards in 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.280 that game as well. It was an all out defensive 0:43:34.320 --> 0:43:37.399 effort to that point. But Donovan Wilson was a part 0:43:37.400 --> 0:43:37.960 of that for sure. 0:43:38.239 --> 0:43:41.040 Yeah, the angles could be crazy. You're like, boy, did 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:42.920 he close his eyes on that one? You know, but 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:44.920 he's a blow him up guy, and he could get 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:47.799 around the ball. He can tackle, you know, with the 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.279 best of him. But you're also gonna every once in 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:51.759 a while you're going to have that one or two 0:43:51.760 --> 0:43:53.799 plays where you're like, boy, he did not see that 0:43:53.960 --> 0:43:57.000 very well. And I think he was much better against 0:43:57.040 --> 0:43:59.279 the Giants than he had been the previous games. And 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.880 you need him to be that guy because if teams 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:04.600 are going to run the ball and he's going to 0:44:04.680 --> 0:44:06.719 be in the hole or in the alley wherever he is, 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:09.279 they need him to make tackles, you know, they don't 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:11.920 need him to miss. And that's that's something that's if 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:15.280 if there's one thing that you could say that really 0:44:15.320 --> 0:44:18.680 bothers me about this Dallas defense is the miss tackles. 0:44:19.239 --> 0:44:21.560 I mean, they they give they've given up damn near 0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:23.800 five hundred yards just mis tackles. 0:44:23.800 --> 0:44:26.360 And that wasn't a problem last year, Right, wasn't a problem. 0:44:26.360 --> 0:44:28.480 I don't recall that being a problem for them last year. 0:44:28.480 --> 0:44:35.839 But for some reason, it's just been because I think, yeah, 0:44:37.239 --> 0:44:41.200 let's be clear, all bets off when you're talking about 0:44:41.200 --> 0:44:43.120 those particular games, because last year those games they just 0:44:43.120 --> 0:44:44.920 got disc We don't need to about it. 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:49.080 He's I believe he's not wrong. But to me, there 0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:52.239 there are some there. It seems like to me at 0:44:52.440 --> 0:44:55.319 every and the Giants game was far better than what 0:44:55.400 --> 0:44:58.880 the other previous three games were. But man, it just 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:01.640 seemed like to me that they've had guys in position 0:45:01.719 --> 0:45:05.680 in these linebackers in position in that the Ravens game, 0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:09.560 it's just mistackling, missa mistackling. You know, they were fighting 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:13.000 blocks and against the Saints, but they've just given up 0:45:13.040 --> 0:45:15.560 so many big plays. But last year I think there 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:18.320 was times where teams ranted a little bit and you 0:45:18.360 --> 0:45:20.879 were like going, well, they just got to tackle better here, 0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:22.239 and they didn't. 0:45:23.440 --> 0:45:26.000 Well real quick. With Donovan Wilson, he's a guy that 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:32.160 I absolutely love, but he he started to fade away 0:45:32.520 --> 0:45:35.800 in recent games. I mean last week he played well, 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:39.040 but he was a guy that prior to them giving 0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:41.719 them giving him the new contract, I mean, you talk 0:45:41.760 --> 0:45:45.399 about the most aggressive player on the defense. He will 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:48.840 not be afraid of tackling, and he's always there. He's 0:45:48.920 --> 0:45:52.120 always where the ball is somewhere around there, and then 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.040 all of a sudden that kind of started going away 0:45:54.239 --> 0:45:57.479 slowly or missing some of those tackles. So I think 0:45:57.840 --> 0:46:00.360 he definitely has it in him, but I want to 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:01.200 see more from him. 0:46:01.400 --> 0:46:03.520 All Right, that's a wrap. We'll be back tomorrow. 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