Speaker 1: The following he's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Bill Jones. And it's a fabulous Friday edition of
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys as we get you ready for the Finns
Speaker 1: on Sunday at noon at at and T Stadium. I
Speaker 1: caught the Finns. Yeah, it's a fabulous finn Friday edition.
Speaker 1: And over the course of the next forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: we are going to figure out what the Dolphins would
Speaker 1: need to do to pull off the shocker on Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys. And in the meantime, Jason Garrett just
Speaker 1: had his press conference. Jerry Jones just talked on the
Speaker 1: flag Ship Station the Fan and we get started with that.
Speaker 1: First off, I wasn't able to listen to Jason because
Speaker 1: I was listening to a little bit of Jerry. Caught
Speaker 1: the tail end of Jerry. Anything coming out of the
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett press conference we need to know about off
Speaker 1: the top, uh, injury wise, we can probably start there
Speaker 1: then if I getting nothing new on that front, yeah,
Speaker 1: get my list here, so we don't forget anybody, but
Speaker 1: the same guys that have been out still out, still out,
Speaker 1: Tavan Austin out, Tyrone Crawford out. We knew Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: was out. Anton Woods sounds out. He's out, and a
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods is maybe likely out. What do you think
Speaker 1: I think he's out? He's out. So we got five
Speaker 1: guys right there, right now, we gotta figure out that
Speaker 1: six Gifford Gifford. So yeah, we'll just have to figure
Speaker 1: out one more guy. So one of those off lineman, Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably Redmond Redmond or Brandon Knight, Yeah, one of those guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody else gotta have a uniform on and play number. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's start at the safety position. How are they
Speaker 1: upsetting the loss of Xavier Woods. Thompson will be your
Speaker 1: Staran Thompson. Yeah, But then you also you're also getting
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson is getting some work with the twos. He's
Speaker 1: playing two uh two with the defense, but he's also
Speaker 1: running scout team stuff, so he's working his way back
Speaker 1: in both ways there. But yeah, I think it picks
Speaker 1: up a special team he picks up a special teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right, because, uh, we'll see what happened. Thompson
Speaker 1: is still when I was talking to some guys this morning,
Speaker 1: Thompson's still on all the special teams. But if they
Speaker 1: have to go with if they if he for some reason,
Speaker 1: you know, they say they need to give him a
Speaker 1: little bit of arrest. Uh, you know, for all the
Speaker 1: special teams, he plays Wilson. Like Mickey said, Wilson can
Speaker 1: jump in there and play those spots too, So out
Speaker 1: to be a good thing for him as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move up to the defensive line, and both Tyrone
Speaker 1: Crawford and Antoine Woods out both out. Yeah, and so okay,
Speaker 1: this is where I think. This is where again talking
Speaker 1: to some folks, that could be interesting because I feel
Speaker 1: like this my gut feeling that Quinn could start, because
Speaker 1: Quinn has been running with the first team. But could
Speaker 1: they be running Quinn with the first team to get
Speaker 1: him work and then they start Doran's armstrong. That's the
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like you know, if you're
Speaker 1: if they're saying, there's eight reps and usually the first
Speaker 1: guy gets say six of those reps. Well, that's been Quinn,
Speaker 1: you know, so you're thinking, ah, Quinn's the starter. But
Speaker 1: could they be using Quinn? Could they be getting him
Speaker 1: ready or could they be using those reps to get
Speaker 1: him in shape and then turn around and start Dorn's
Speaker 1: armstrong could be I'm very curious about his snap count
Speaker 1: because Mickey mentioned, you know, you kind of hearing that
Speaker 1: maybe it's more in line with what Tank got right. Sure,
Speaker 1: thirty something snaps, but he did have training camp, or
Speaker 1: at least part of training camp, so and the hand
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be an issue at least the first
Speaker 1: couple of days in practice, so maybe he can bump
Speaker 1: higher than that. Regardless of who's starting, we'll see. Gut
Speaker 1: says he's going to start. Mickey's right on the reps,
Speaker 1: and but we'll see how it plays out. Is that
Speaker 1: armstrong Joe Jackson over there as the backup guy, but
Speaker 1: that's losing Crawford hurts you a couple of spots because
Speaker 1: it hurts you to start right in, but it hurts
Speaker 1: you in the nickel. Mickey brought that up yesterday and
Speaker 1: now that's gonna be okay. Did you have to move
Speaker 1: Collins to get hill on, you know, all kinds of things,
Speaker 1: so you kind of have to work through just for
Speaker 1: that one little bit of one injury that you have
Speaker 1: to Crawford and then you The other thing that happens
Speaker 1: is you lose your support system at left defensive end
Speaker 1: behind de Marcus Lawrence because where you would have probably
Speaker 1: Armstrong over there, you may need him on the right
Speaker 1: side to help out with Quinn, and then Carrie Hyder
Speaker 1: might have to go inside or Joe Jackson might have
Speaker 1: to go inside to help that defensive tackle. You've got Hill,
Speaker 1: but he hadn't played yet, so how much does he
Speaker 1: help you? But I think the good thing from I
Speaker 1: think what we deduce from yesterday talking to the assistant
Speaker 1: coaches and Jason Garrett, is that they feel like MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins can play the three technique and the nose, and
Speaker 1: Hill can do a little of both also, so that
Speaker 1: gives you some versatility there. And then you got Hyder
Speaker 1: and Jackson who could go inside right and I would
Speaker 1: think Tristan Hill would would be active and will and
Speaker 1: he would that was inside rushes that Tyrone Crawford gives
Speaker 1: you that that's where Tristan Hill would fit in I's
Speaker 1: gonna say he's gonna have to chew up some snaps
Speaker 1: for him. If there he had antoine and tyrone, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to play something no, no, And that's the
Speaker 1: whole idea. And again talking to folks that he's had
Speaker 1: a good couple of weeks of practice this last week
Speaker 1: after the first week where he was inactive, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh wait, I'm don't get the address said this. You know, no,
Speaker 1: this is not Central Florida. You're not playing Temple this week.
Speaker 1: You know you wasn't. Yeah, he wasn't really aware of
Speaker 1: that rule. So now he's in a situation where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't like standing over in the sidelines next to Mickey.
Speaker 1: I want to be out there playing. So so that's
Speaker 1: where I think that to me, uh, this is where
Speaker 1: you're going to see a difference with him. They've had
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have had some problems inside by the way,
Speaker 1: handling some twist stunts and things. Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Dan Kilgoord, their center just hasn't very good at doing that.
Speaker 1: So if we see some games inside, maybe you can
Speaker 1: get Tristan Hill some confidence and some good stuff going
Speaker 1: that way and they're starting a left guard as a
Speaker 1: rookie out of Wisconsin. Yeah, Deeter, Yeah, And so I
Speaker 1: mean you couldn't hand pick a better place a team
Speaker 1: for Tristan Hill to make his NFL debut. Might score
Speaker 1: get him ready. This is as close to Temple as
Speaker 1: you'll get in the absolutely right. Yeah, there you go. Um.
Speaker 1: And then on offense, of course, we've known that Gallup
Speaker 1: would be out and Devin Smith, who had a very
Speaker 1: nice game a week ago. We'll get many more opportunities
Speaker 1: this time around. Yeah. Again, I this this whole thing.
Speaker 1: I tried to ask coach Garrett the question about just
Speaker 1: stressing four and he smartly said, hey, we'll figure it
Speaker 1: out at the end. But I have a feeling they're
Speaker 1: gonna go for I don't think they're gonna bring anybody up.
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to put anybody down for
Speaker 1: it or while I'm with you, yeah, I think for
Speaker 1: it wide receiver because they're I don't think they're going
Speaker 1: to make a move to bring up another receiver. I
Speaker 1: think that they're going to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: play twelve personnel stuff, use Jarwin us Witten and just
Speaker 1: attack the Dolphins. That Pollard exactly. Do you think that's
Speaker 1: because they've got versatility with their tight ends and they
Speaker 1: think that, yeah Pollard and those guys, or does it
Speaker 1: also speak to maybe, Okay, get through this game and
Speaker 1: maybe you get Tavon back and maybe gallops a little
Speaker 1: closer next. Yeah, I know, there's no question. I think
Speaker 1: that's what they're do. I think that they look at
Speaker 1: the they're evaluating the Dolphin film and when we get
Speaker 1: to pick the click, I'm going to blow you guys
Speaker 1: away with my pick to click. All right, So but that, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that they're gonna they're going they look
Speaker 1: at this situation and say, Okay, we could get away
Speaker 1: if we have to play with eleven personnel, we could
Speaker 1: use that. We could use Cooper Smith and then and
Speaker 1: then uh Cobb and get away with that. And then
Speaker 1: if we have to have to say, okay, we want
Speaker 1: to put another receiver on the field, like Bill's talking about,
Speaker 1: you could put Pollard on the field. You could put
Speaker 1: Jarwin on the field as a detached player, right, so
Speaker 1: you could put some pressure on them that way as
Speaker 1: or you can go empty. Yeah, empty is another way
Speaker 1: of going. Yeah, So there's ways to manage it. I
Speaker 1: think without having to cut somebody to bring in a
Speaker 1: wide receiver who's just kind of in. They just can't
Speaker 1: have somebody get nicked up at that respect. That's the
Speaker 1: big thing. But play double advocate. I mean they didn't
Speaker 1: do that last week. They made a move to get
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson up for this, but they needed him also
Speaker 1: for special team stuff to have somebody return punts too,
Speaker 1: so Cobb didn't have to do everything. Cobb had that
Speaker 1: rib injury that that yeah, maybe they were thinking about
Speaker 1: that a little bit, and then they're still going light.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying you're still going light at receiver, there's
Speaker 1: no question, but there's ways to manage it because of
Speaker 1: their massatility with the tight end and the running back
Speaker 1: and the other thing. If they just go a bunch
Speaker 1: of two wide receiver, Cob can play on the outside.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be Devin Smith for sixty snaps
Speaker 1: or whatever, because they did that in training camp when
Speaker 1: they went two wide at times, Cobb was the second
Speaker 1: wide receiver, So they can also go that route, which
Speaker 1: would mean if he's taken that many snaps, maybe he
Speaker 1: doesn't return punts and Cedric Wilson's the guy to go
Speaker 1: and catch punts, which which is always a concern, right
Speaker 1: because one drop punt can turn a game around. Mickey
Speaker 1: has not forgotten to run game to wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up that Rams game. And you don't give Ryan Switzer
Speaker 1: Christmas card. No, I don't two years ago, but still no.
Speaker 1: It's if you talk, you know, talk to the special
Speaker 1: teams people and they'll tell you the one thing that
Speaker 1: can ruin a game faster than anything is not catching
Speaker 1: a punt. There's no getting one blocked. Those two things
Speaker 1: turn a game. He just makes it sound like they
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs in twenty seventeen because of one guy
Speaker 1: one play. Well, well, what if they had won that game?
Speaker 1: All right? Right, all right, all right, I a little
Speaker 1: in a house thing with my head set here. I
Speaker 1: believe Kayden might have tried to say something to me
Speaker 1: which I could not hear very well, and I gave
Speaker 1: because it was working. Said that again, Kayden, there was
Speaker 1: the fumble and put the punt. Oh, I thought you
Speaker 1: were giving me some directions watching Tulane in Houston. I
Speaker 1: know about anybody else. Yeah, that's when I was watching.
Speaker 1: What did he say? A better game? Probably? He said,
Speaker 1: you're doing a really poor job early in the show
Speaker 1: to Steff about as well as Jacksonville's offensive line run,
Speaker 1: they were no worse than Tennessee's offensive line and protecting
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Do you realize they won that game rushing
Speaker 1: for eighty eight yards on twenty carries and one of
Speaker 1: the carries was sixty nine yards. Yes, I do realize that.
Speaker 1: So that was nineteen carries for nineteen yards to Linda Houston.
Speaker 1: But you're missing the point, man. They got the stash. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna help. I'm gonna grow mine back. Please, please,
Speaker 1: dear Lord, do that for us. Please. And when you
Speaker 1: sacked the quarterback nine times, you can do that, and
Speaker 1: everybody's got down on Mariota and it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: having chance probably should be. I wonder what Mariota would
Speaker 1: do behind this offensive line. You know what, though, there
Speaker 1: was a time when he was something about those Oregon quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that that guy that I worked, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wear Joey, Are I wear that one? It's something
Speaker 1: about them Moregan quarterback other than Dan Fouts. I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, there's something something going on there. While guarantee
Speaker 1: of Mike Leach has thrown a party today because no
Speaker 1: one would listen to him about minshew. Oh, he's good
Speaker 1: players player, And he said they would I heard an
Speaker 1: interview with him. He said the scouts would come in
Speaker 1: and they'd ask about him, and they, oh, but he's
Speaker 1: only this tall. Yeah, well, the guy has thrown for
Speaker 1: more yards in the National Football League. Is the same height,
Speaker 1: you know, and on and on and no, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have an arm, and he's been all over the place
Speaker 1: he goes. Okay, don't take him. I think I think
Speaker 1: times have changed. We drafted a five eight quarterback. First. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think times have changed. Baker scouts quarterbacks. We've gone
Speaker 1: back to where we were in nineteen sixty exactly exactly now.
Speaker 1: I don't know this, but how how how tall's too?
Speaker 1: He is? He's he's over, he's like six two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's a good size scout. He doesn't look big
Speaker 1: out there, all right. So the other bit of news
Speaker 1: that has happened since we last convened, Taco Charlton has
Speaker 1: found a new hall. He was claimed on waivers by
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. He was he was claimed and he
Speaker 1: was that was the only team that claimed him. So, uh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a you know, that's for a team
Speaker 1: that is looking for you know, they're kind of void
Speaker 1: of some pass rushers. We've talked about Charles Harris being
Speaker 1: their best passioners. They play a three four and odd
Speaker 1: man's front, So how does Charlton fit into that? Probably
Speaker 1: gonna play him an outside linebacker and an outside linebacker
Speaker 1: that rush, not a not a like on the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, outside like Charles Harris, y like. Charles Harris
Speaker 1: was their first round pick about six picks before Taco
Speaker 1: in the same draft, and not happy with him. He's
Speaker 1: he's he's their best rusher. I will say that about him,
Speaker 1: and again, Lyle Collins has played a lot better or
Speaker 1: well he's he's played better, but I mean he's looks
Speaker 1: technique more sound than he has been in any time.
Speaker 1: And they'll move him on the other side, so they'll
Speaker 1: try and keep him away from Tyrant Smith, I want
Speaker 1: to say. But they'll, they'll they gonna have to do something.
Speaker 1: Last week against the against New England, they played clog
Speaker 1: and cover. Is what they did is you know, with
Speaker 1: a rush three drop eight. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: get away with that playing against press Scott run right
Speaker 1: over him. Yeah, I think that. To me, it's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to they're gonna have to find a way
Speaker 1: to get pressure, and they're probably the similar to what
Speaker 1: the Giants, but they've got they've got a legitimate secondary
Speaker 1: that Xavier Howard is is a really good player. He's
Speaker 1: one of the better corners in this league. Of course,
Speaker 1: they don't have Fitzpatrick who they had against New England. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and keep an eye on him. By the way, Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: was the personal protector on the punt team. This team
Speaker 1: has gotten almost got a couple of punts block. Don't
Speaker 1: be surprised. Yeah, Keith O'Quinn goes. They've had problems with
Speaker 1: the snap. Don't be surprised if Keith O'Quinn goes after
Speaker 1: a punt or two in this game because of some
Speaker 1: of the problems they've had. New personal protector, high snap,
Speaker 1: left footed punter. Keep an eye on that. And Tacco
Speaker 1: if all he has to do is rush the quarterback,
Speaker 1: even if he has today's practice, isn't easy, you think.
Speaker 1: If you think Taco will be on Sunday, I think so.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't guarantee that well I just got here. Yes, today,
Speaker 1: basically he's had practice today wearing number ninety six. Reports
Speaker 1: that on Miami and Gate. If they just want him
Speaker 1: to rush the pis rush, you have a role for him, right,
Speaker 1: they have us. They are very I mean, they just
Speaker 1: don't have much depth eat. They really don't run. They
Speaker 1: really don't, you know in Harris is if he's their
Speaker 1: best pass rusher. He's got three sacks in twenty nine games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's he's had more than that in one game
Speaker 1: at Missouri. Yeah, so fans, we got fans reaction to this, well,
Speaker 1: why why couldn't they've gotten a pick for him? Then?
Speaker 1: You know, to Miami, if you want to look at
Speaker 1: it now, you can look at the Quinn trade and
Speaker 1: take your six pack you gave it for Quinn. Basically
Speaker 1: said you gave up a six and Taco Charlton for
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn. Yeah, so that trade what just wasn't made
Speaker 1: back in April, So for both sides. Yeah. But the
Speaker 1: great thing from a Cowboys perspective, and they probably are
Speaker 1: doing cartwheels here, that there was a team that claimed
Speaker 1: him the money. Yeah, well, and what was the question,
Speaker 1: why couldn't they get a pick for him from from
Speaker 1: Miami because Miami didn't want to give it to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's the answer, but fans are asking, well,
Speaker 1: maybe a late round, and at this point they would
Speaker 1: have taken anything. That's what we've been talking about doing
Speaker 1: this week is teams monitoring the situation say, look, he's
Speaker 1: probably there's a good chance he's gonna get let go.
Speaker 1: You're doing you're doing your job too well. You're letting
Speaker 1: teams know that read our stuff that like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get released, and this is what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that you know, teams monitor
Speaker 1: what would do. In a matter of fact, I had
Speaker 1: a couple of teams call me the other day and said, hey,
Speaker 1: I read what you said this about him? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is there anything more about this? You know that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. So yeah, it's the way that you know,
Speaker 1: the way you cover this team is you could you know,
Speaker 1: people have a pretty good idea that yeah, he had
Speaker 1: a pretty good preseason. They could watch the tape and
Speaker 1: see that. But they also I know there were a
Speaker 1: couple of teams that were interested in but they were
Speaker 1: One of the teams was cap strapped and they couldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, they couldn't take take his contract on and
Speaker 1: that's that's a hard thing to do. But there were
Speaker 1: teams that were interested in him, it's just they didn't
Speaker 1: they were they were hopefully that he would get by
Speaker 1: the way. That's why Miami claimed him because it was
Speaker 1: so it was one point six million. Yeah. But but
Speaker 1: even with that salary and inheriting that contract, is Miami
Speaker 1: knew that he feeds out there as a free agent.
Speaker 1: He's not signing with Miami. The only way that they
Speaker 1: were going to take a player was if so that's
Speaker 1: the reason Miami does that. And there's reports that the
Speaker 1: cow Taco had wanted to trade for a while back,
Speaker 1: and so maybe nothing had materialized. He was on the bubble.
Speaker 1: He was on the bubble beyond the reporting and all that,
Speaker 1: inactive for two games and then the social media stuff.
Speaker 1: I think any chance of trying let's go back and
Speaker 1: listen to Jerry Jones day about that social media and
Speaker 1: there's some tweets out there, uh talking about that and
Speaker 1: other teams that were mentioning that that we're concerned about
Speaker 1: his social media post and so forth. What has posted
Speaker 1: on one oh five three, the fan right now. Cowboys
Speaker 1: owner Jerry Jones said Friday on the Fan they released
Speaker 1: Taco Charlton after he quote Wilton and had trouble recovering
Speaker 1: from bad practices. So that's what's well. Goes back to
Speaker 1: the toughness we talked about. Good thing. Antonio Brown is
Speaker 1: in here. If social media means anything, good point all right,
Speaker 1: I think we probably need to take a break and
Speaker 1: we're going to come back and we're going to dive
Speaker 1: further into the Dolphins. And I cannot wait to hear
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Speaker 1: It's now been posted what Jerry said on the fan
Speaker 1: this morning about Taco and briefly, let me just run
Speaker 1: through a little bit of it. He says, when you're
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, it asked of more from you
Speaker 1: than other positions in terms of being motivated, in terms
Speaker 1: of fighting through just the nature of the activity in
Speaker 1: the defensive lines. Is just fighting through You're fighting through pain,
Speaker 1: You're fighting through really serious obstacles. With all those big
Speaker 1: offensive lineman you've got to absolutely be eating raw meat
Speaker 1: to be a defensive lineman. In my mind, For whatever
Speaker 1: the reason, that area of taco and it had as
Speaker 1: much to do with his own disappointment, his own feeling
Speaker 1: that he can do better. I've seen him do a
Speaker 1: rep in practice and when he didn't get there, he
Speaker 1: just wilted. It just looked like it impacted everything that
Speaker 1: he was going to do for the rest of the practice.
Speaker 1: You can say, well, I can correct that if you're
Speaker 1: a coach, But on the other hand, you've got to
Speaker 1: get it done. So there you go the full context
Speaker 1: of the clore. If you're going to be a defensive end,
Speaker 1: you can't be a vegetarian. There you go, There you go.
Speaker 1: All right. As far as the Dolphins are concerned, how
Speaker 1: about we around the horn as we explore these dolphins.
Speaker 1: I've got some thoughts on what I think some areas
Speaker 1: might be where the Dolphins can hope to have a
Speaker 1: little bit of success and where they I think will
Speaker 1: have extreme failure in this game. Sure, but how about
Speaker 1: it a pick to click who wants to go first
Speaker 1: on a pick to click. I'll go. I'll go first.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm gonna dance with these these tight ends.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dance with Alake, with Blake Jarwin. I think
Speaker 1: that Blake Charwin is going to have a big game
Speaker 1: against these guys. They haven't stopped a tight end from
Speaker 1: catching a football thirteen targets, thirteen receptions, and so all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, if you're a team that's that's not
Speaker 1: able to stop athletic times, and the Ravens have good
Speaker 1: tight ends, and yeah, and then also the Patriots, you
Speaker 1: know they don't have Grenkowski, but here still they're throwing.
Speaker 1: You know, they're got in a lot of twenty one personnel.
Speaker 1: The Patriots took advantage of that. These tight ends had
Speaker 1: big games. I have a feeling that Blake Jarwin is
Speaker 1: going to come out of this game with with uh,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe six receptions, a giant's performance, maybe a
Speaker 1: gian or maybe not the three touchdowns. But I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that these tight ends are going to play well.
Speaker 1: But I'll pick him to be my pick to click
Speaker 1: because I feel like that they just don't they have trouble,
Speaker 1: you know, this, uh this Jones, the safety they have
Speaker 1: has been banged up a little bit, hasn't practice, you know,
Speaker 1: so shar Jones, I mean that's those are the things,
Speaker 1: if you you know. And no Mika Fitzpatrick who was
Speaker 1: kind of having to cover some guys. So yeah, they're
Speaker 1: having problems with with these tight ends. So I'll just
Speaker 1: be a little unorthodox today and go with Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: here is having a big game for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think that's a wise choice. And especially where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are at the wide receiver position. Shure, they'll probably
Speaker 1: make some players on the outside there too, But just
Speaker 1: keep an eye on these tight ends making plays. I
Speaker 1: let you go last time. I'll let you go now.
Speaker 1: I stole your last time. Take my guy. That was
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Okay, I got the guy last time,
Speaker 1: and I'm riding them again this week. Okay, Oh, you're
Speaker 1: going with Ezekiel Elliott this team. And I know when
Speaker 1: you get beat as bad as they do, teams tend
Speaker 1: to run a lot on you because they don't need
Speaker 1: to do anything else. They've given up three hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety one yards rushing in two games. That's almost like
Speaker 1: two hundred a game, so I understand what happens at
Speaker 1: end of games. But they're also the opponent's running game
Speaker 1: is averaging four point eight yards a carry a carry,
Speaker 1: that's almost five yards a carry right half of first down.
Speaker 1: Zekiel al is going to have a field day behind
Speaker 1: this offensive line. And aren't the Cowboys glad to have
Speaker 1: this offensive line? Because when you watch that game last night,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my, does anybody got offensive lineman in
Speaker 1: this league? Good drafting, and we don't get a chance
Speaker 1: to watch enough other games, and so when you get
Speaker 1: to sit back and watch an entire game of what
Speaker 1: these other teams are doing, geez well, And it's to
Speaker 1: the point of people wondering, Okay, how come you're keeping
Speaker 1: Brandon Night when you when you're looking for people to
Speaker 1: get to your practice squad and trying to make a
Speaker 1: roster move, and the Cowboys keeping these offensive lineman. Well,
Speaker 1: you can understand when you look around the league again,
Speaker 1: and we saw it right twenty eleven, twelve, maybe even thirteen,
Speaker 1: what they were throwing out there. Yeah, and it's like, gosh,
Speaker 1: the transformations unbelievable. I'll stick with the offensive theme, and
Speaker 1: I know they don't have Michael Gallop in this game,
Speaker 1: but I'm going with Randall Cobb because Brian mentioned the
Speaker 1: matchup with Howard against Amarty Cooper. That's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Howard is a Pro Bowl player, but I
Speaker 1: think Cobb. One of the reasons I feel comfortable about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys winning this game is what Mickey just said.
Speaker 1: The offensive line is as good as we've seen it
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, and Dak spoke about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Not only is he trying to get the ball out quicker,
Speaker 1: they're doing a good job up front. He blamed himself
Speaker 1: for the one sack, but the receivers are getting separation
Speaker 1: down to down. And I think Cobb has been everything
Speaker 1: is advertised as a steady guy, and I think he's
Speaker 1: going to take advantage of some opportunities in the passing
Speaker 1: game because I think that's gonna have time to throw
Speaker 1: in this guy. Yeah, this is the way that the
Speaker 1: way that they're gonna Last week, we had the discussion
Speaker 1: would they walk Norman and we're kind of thinking maybe,
Speaker 1: maybe not, But that's not the mo of what's going
Speaker 1: on there in Washington. The mo here is they'll walk guys.
Speaker 1: This guy Xavian Howard, he'll walk. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: like watching a college defense a little bit with you know,
Speaker 1: you've been watching tape and all of a sudden, guys
Speaker 1: are playing boundary corners and guys are playing field corners
Speaker 1: and stuff. So you see him go and sometimes you
Speaker 1: see him even playing the slot. So it's a New
Speaker 1: England Patriot Way where Brian Flores he's from, to try
Speaker 1: and take away your best player and then let everybody
Speaker 1: else see if they're good enough to beat. So I
Speaker 1: like what Rob saying there. If in fact they try
Speaker 1: and take away Cooper, then it's gonna have to be
Speaker 1: Cobb and Witten, another guy, Smith and other guys win
Speaker 1: in to to to win this football gallup. They're gonna
Speaker 1: miss Gallop for however long he's out. Yeah, but they've
Speaker 1: got enough weapons I think to withstand some of this.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe this week. Yeah. Well okay, no, that
Speaker 1: that's you're worried about it, Okay, Saints. I mean I
Speaker 1: think teams would still like to have rental Cobb as
Speaker 1: your second option in the no, no, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: a particular eye. Yeah, and the tight ends and all that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they can get through this for
Speaker 1: two weeks or whatever it's going to be. This could
Speaker 1: be a low scoring game too. If if what Mickey's
Speaker 1: saying is true, that they turn around and hand the
Speaker 1: ball to Ezeki Elliott thirty times, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: If they if they can, if they you know, if
Speaker 1: they get maybe this turns into a game where Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's final numbers are eighteen of twenty four four, you know,
Speaker 1: and then the rest of it comes with through the rush,
Speaker 1: you know, with with Pollard and and and and Elliott,
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah. We talked earlier in the week about
Speaker 1: the fact that the game last week against the Patriots
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins, with three minutes to go in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, it was thirteen to nothing. Actually, they scored
Speaker 1: with one something left in the half, and that was
Speaker 1: about to say I would rewatch the first half again
Speaker 1: this morning, and with the minute twenty to go in
Speaker 1: the first half, it was still a seven nothing game.
Speaker 1: And then they scored, right, yeah, exactly, Antonio Brown made
Speaker 1: it thirteen nothing. So who's your guy? Um, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this Dolphins offensive line. Look at Bill's got his chart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got my chart and everything I said, I'm doing
Speaker 1: a game. No I'm not, but I decided I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna prepare for this as if I'm doing the game.
Speaker 1: And here's the reason. All right, I'm looking at this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team and I'm going, Okay, what do we really
Speaker 1: know about this team at all? Okay? The only way
Speaker 1: that you can really learn about a team is to
Speaker 1: dive into it. I'm really digging and figure out who
Speaker 1: are they actually playing because we all know that they
Speaker 1: traded they traded away Laramie Tunsil. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: it'd be like, Okay, where are the Cowboys if they
Speaker 1: traded Tyrann Smith on the off inns of line? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So they've got okay, at left tackle, they've got Jesse Davis,
Speaker 1: who has been a guard I believe in his career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's now out at left tackle. He did start
Speaker 1: sixteen games last year at right guard, but now he's
Speaker 1: playing left tackle. Okay, Um, well did in the New
Speaker 1: England game, JaMarcus Webb started at the left tackle. He
Speaker 1: actually started at right tackle. Okay, Okay, yeah, okay, because
Speaker 1: Isaiah Price Prince, that's right, Yeah, Okay, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: the right tackle right. Jesse Davis is at left tackle.
Speaker 1: JaMarcus Webb was at right tackle. And that's why I
Speaker 1: brought up Jesse Davis first, because I thought that they
Speaker 1: had Webb at left. He was actually a right I
Speaker 1: was looking at my notes and that right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: art right tackle one, that's right. JaMarcus Webb out of
Speaker 1: North Mosquite High School, West Texas A and M. Remember
Speaker 1: when he first came into the league. He was with
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, and he actually was a starter's first
Speaker 1: three years in the league. He's got sixty six starts
Speaker 1: in his career. Last year he was at Indianapolis. He
Speaker 1: got into one game, one start. In twenty seventeen. He
Speaker 1: did not play. In twenty sixteen, he was in Seattle
Speaker 1: and had three starts. The last time that he was
Speaker 1: a full time starter in this league was four years
Speaker 1: ago in Oakland. Okay, yeah, DeMarcus Lawrence has got to
Speaker 1: be just licking his chops. If if sixty one JaMarcus
Speaker 1: Webb is starting at right tackle for the Dolphins, DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence is going to have a huge day. He is
Speaker 1: my pick to click. We gave him like the best player.
Speaker 1: We just went around the league. I mean, we just
Speaker 1: went around the whole thing and we just toy discounted,
Speaker 1: took Mickey asking Bill, who's your pig. I'll take de
Speaker 1: Marcus Lawrence. But that's the reason it's it's DeMarcus against
Speaker 1: Jay Marcus and uh, no offense to JaMarcus Webb and
Speaker 1: his family. It might be longtime cowboy fans. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. They got to help him so much and
Speaker 1: is not going to be able to get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball quick enough. I will say that that's one
Speaker 1: thing Ryan Fitzpatrick will do. But this is a This
Speaker 1: is when you're saying this, Bill, It's interesting because we
Speaker 1: said it yesterday. What's the one thing if you had
Speaker 1: to nitpick about this team, it would be the pass
Speaker 1: rush or lack of So do they get it right
Speaker 1: this week? Does all of a sudden we start to
Speaker 1: see DeMarcus Lawrence. Do we get to see uh you know,
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn, do we get to see more pass rush?
Speaker 1: I like your pick on another front, And that's because
Speaker 1: we talked to DeMarcus I think it was last week,
Speaker 1: and he said, I'm still trying to get to my
Speaker 1: standard of play. I'm starting to get my pad level right,
Speaker 1: my counters all that stuff. I think his condition, he's
Speaker 1: getting better with more practice, but this might be the
Speaker 1: week three games in he puts it all together. On
Speaker 1: top of what his matchup is, they might not have
Speaker 1: to play defense. If you have to pay going to
Speaker 1: keep running, Yeah, you're just gonna hog the ball, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's why it might be actually a
Speaker 1: low scoring game if you if you think about low
Speaker 1: scoring games, I mean again, Dallas will probably score somewhere
Speaker 1: between twenty four and twenty eight points. And you know,
Speaker 1: the Miami wants to make it as low scoring a
Speaker 1: game as possibly want to make. They want to make
Speaker 1: it as ugly as possible. And that's why I felt
Speaker 1: like if Fitzpatrick played in this game, that that that
Speaker 1: was the I think the Dolphins just took their best
Speaker 1: chance away from having a very competitive game. Yeah with Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: because he if they threw the ball fifty times, each
Speaker 1: guy will be intercepted. Why they could very well be,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't care. Why do you think they make
Speaker 1: the switch on a Thursday like that? Though? Well, I'll
Speaker 1: just what they threw out there. They had this in
Speaker 1: their mind, right, but they said each guy got equal
Speaker 1: stabs and and Rosen played the best during the two practices.
Speaker 1: I decide, I think I think the get rid of
Speaker 1: this so far as it was on a two. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I see guys announced on Tuesday that Fitzpatrick was starting,
Speaker 1: and I think there were some conversations behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Oh there's no question, there's no question. Look, the guy
Speaker 1: who's pressure applied that no Rosan started. He had completed
Speaker 1: fifty percent of his passes, one touchdown, four interceptions. He
Speaker 1: was only averaging five point four yards an attempt with
Speaker 1: a thirty nine point nine quarterback rating thirty nine point nine,
Speaker 1: but then the other guy had a fourteen point two.
Speaker 1: I just the thing is, I just go back and
Speaker 1: they're never going to get the ball. I just go
Speaker 1: back and think about Fitzpatrick and being undermanned and you
Speaker 1: never know when he's gonna light it up. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I was And if if the pass rush is
Speaker 1: not there and a quarterback can kind of feel comfortable
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, yeah, they don't have a lot of weapons.
Speaker 1: That that was my worry in this game. That that
Speaker 1: was my Now, you Brian Flores has eliminated the one
Speaker 1: worry I've had in this game. I got one question
Speaker 1: for Caden game. Uh do we have need to take?
Speaker 1: Are we contractually obligated to take a breaker? Can we
Speaker 1: just wig it here? From pure on out? We have
Speaker 1: to do Jack Black, talk about Jack, talk about Jack,
Speaker 1: Jack Black, and can Mickey just talk about Jack the
Speaker 1: biggest size biggie size thing? All right? Are you ready
Speaker 1: to do Jack three ouncers this week? And if you
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Speaker 1: product this week? Only very good? How's that? All right?
Speaker 1: It's great to look at um any other threats that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have that the Cowboys need to be concerned about.
Speaker 1: I've got one you throw out one. DeVante Parker, the
Speaker 1: wide receiver. This is a guy that can go get
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls. If if they in fact Rosen can
Speaker 1: even throw the ball down the field, He's I think
Speaker 1: the game plan changes for them. For underneath, Rosen tries
Speaker 1: to be perfect. He tries to be perfect passing the ball,
Speaker 1: whereas Fitzpatrick will just wing it. And that's where I
Speaker 1: felt like that, you know, maybe that Parker down the field,
Speaker 1: those fifty fifty balls middle of the field. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could break down plays where you see the ball
Speaker 1: going down and him going up and getting and he's
Speaker 1: clearly taller than a lot of guys that he plays against.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the things that I would
Speaker 1: definitely worry about if I'm the Dallas Cowboys. Is that
Speaker 1: ball going down the field to him? And Oh, are
Speaker 1: we going to get pass interference calls? Are we gonna
Speaker 1: get challenges of pass interference calls? I mean all kinds
Speaker 1: of things. So he is he is the best threat
Speaker 1: that they have on the outside. And then they also
Speaker 1: have the rookie who's undrafted, Preston Williams, right out of
Speaker 1: Colorado State. He's and he talked about it now Parker
Speaker 1: sixty three. Preston Williams is six five, right, and he
Speaker 1: replaced Michael Gallup at Colorado State. Just as productive at
Speaker 1: Colorado State. And I believe he was that last week
Speaker 1: you scored a touchdown or the week Greg last week,
Speaker 1: last week he gets New England. No, no, no, they didn't,
Speaker 1: they didn't score. They didn't. That's right. Against Baltimore, he
Speaker 1: has their one touchdown on the year exactly. And you
Speaker 1: know what Rosen Now in his last seven games, so
Speaker 1: two with Miami, five with the Cardinals when he was
Speaker 1: the starter, he's got one touchdown in five picks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's That's what I'm saying. You just took away my
Speaker 1: threat is what hey, people on BHIL, did you want
Speaker 1: to give your name? Han Elbert by the way, you
Speaker 1: Preston Williams was the other guy. And and the other
Speaker 1: thing about them. People talk about the tight end Mike gisicky. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and it's actually he has not been productive at all
Speaker 1: his career so far. And in fact, they came out
Speaker 1: in two tights last week and it was the other
Speaker 1: two tight ends, uh Durham Smite out of Notre Dame
Speaker 1: and Nicolo right and there other wide receiver Albert Wilson's
Speaker 1: not practiced all week, right now. Guy, the other guy,
Speaker 1: I would mention his Jachem Grant. Yeah, he's the jet
Speaker 1: sweeper right and on special teams he can bring it
Speaker 1: out of it. He's got two punt return touchdowns and
Speaker 1: a kickoff return touchdown in his career. Of course, he's
Speaker 1: out of Texas Tech and Mesquite Horn Go ahead, last.
Speaker 1: The last thing we go at is just periscope point.
Speaker 1: Is there a do you feel like there's a really
Speaker 1: a huge drop off between Woods and Thompson at safety
Speaker 1: for this team? Well, I think there's a drop off
Speaker 1: for sure. I don't know about huge. Yeah. Look, if
Speaker 1: you get beat and you're gonna blame it on the
Speaker 1: free safety, then you've got other problems. Yep, that's my
Speaker 1: take on safeties. I'm sorry. Yeah, Rob Phillips, go on, Robin,
Speaker 1: you were about to say something. Well, to Bryan's point,
Speaker 1: they Dolphins just have to manufacture some chunk plays. We don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have a running game because
Speaker 1: they've only had is this right, they've only got twenty
Speaker 1: seven rush attempts. Yeah, they've they're I mean, so they've
Speaker 1: been playing behind so much. You don't really know. So
Speaker 1: can they stop Parker? Can Rosen pull a rabbit out?
Speaker 1: We'll see that's their best shot early in the game.
Speaker 1: Guess the Patriots last week it did not appear that
Speaker 1: they had a running game. But I wouldn't blame the
Speaker 1: running backs for it. You don't have much upfront. And
Speaker 1: when you saw last night, Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 1: and look the idea is to win this game, right,
Speaker 1: you don't need to score fifty points. So if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys come in with win twenty four to three, year,
Speaker 1: that's exactly my score. It's it's it's like just like
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. These teams are coming coming up. They
Speaker 1: o they're catching onto this a Wayne Thomas will be
Speaker 1: the star of the game. The idea is the twenty
Speaker 1: four to three Cowboys win. There you go, all right?
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