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Speaker 6: It is Wednesday, January third, twenty twenty four, season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number one hundred. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 6: We're talking Washington Commanders versus Cowboys today. We'll start off
Speaker 6: with the Washington offense versus the Cowboys defense. Got lots
Speaker 6: of storylines that hit there before we do that, though, Man,
Speaker 6: some interesting little developments here around the roster over the
Speaker 6: last twenty four hours, and one that I don't know
Speaker 6: if I would say it's even likely, but I think
Speaker 6: it's worth a discussion of a player that's been released
Speaker 6: and looks like he may be available at some point here.
Speaker 2: So let's talk a little bit about first Lyle Collins.
Speaker 6: At the end of our show yesterday, Patrick, you reported
Speaker 6: that the Cowboys are going to have him in for workout.
Speaker 2: What were the results of that workout? Number one? By
Speaker 2: the way, I love that hat, thank you. What was
Speaker 2: the results? What was the results of the workout number one?
Speaker 2: And number two?
Speaker 6: Where do we stand as far as contract, no contract whatever.
Speaker 4: Collins was exceptional in the workout. Cowboys were very, very impressed,
Speaker 4: particularly with his physical shape. I saw him walking through
Speaker 4: the facility yesterday, so he certainly passed my eye test
Speaker 4: with Flying Colors. Looks in fantastic shape, physically went through
Speaker 4: his physical past that with Flying Colors, and they moved
Speaker 4: on to the negotiation phase as we speak. It is
Speaker 4: expected that it will land. It could land at any moment,
Speaker 4: but it's not official quite yet. We saw that Lyle
Speaker 4: Collins was celebrating online yesterday. We'd love to see it.
Speaker 4: And via multiple reports, it is expected that they've agreed
Speaker 4: to terms, but sounds like they were working through just
Speaker 4: a little bit more contractuals to make sure things get done,
Speaker 4: you know, agreeable to both parties. But as far as
Speaker 4: the expectation for Collins win, which is what the expectation
Speaker 4: is when he comes in, He's not expected to take
Speaker 4: anyone spot on the starting five. He would be a
Speaker 4: depth piece, likely going to the practice squad. So that's
Speaker 4: the latest. Barring any type of unexpected mishap with the
Speaker 4: during the negotiations, Colin should be rejoining the team.
Speaker 2: Brian, tell me give mess scatter report. What was he
Speaker 2: at the last time he was playing.
Speaker 7: He was not a good player. He was broken down,
Speaker 7: He couldn't move, he couldn't bend. One of the reasons
Speaker 7: why they didn't play mcguard is because he couldn't bend
Speaker 7: very well. Wasn't in great shape physically. He was beat
Speaker 7: up really bad. He was dealing with the back, he
Speaker 7: was dealing with the knee. You know, the Bengal are
Speaker 7: a team that struggles with their offensive line, and they
Speaker 7: clearly moved on from him. He just wasn't a good
Speaker 7: enough player. The availability wasn't there either, So there was
Speaker 7: a lot of things about that experience in Cincinnati that
Speaker 7: that really didn't pan out very well for him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's the thing I assume at this point,
Speaker 6: at least from from what we're hearing, they think he
Speaker 6: looks good now and maybe that time away could have
Speaker 6: helped with some of that that physical stuff that was
Speaker 6: going on.
Speaker 2: That may make him, you know, a little more available
Speaker 2: to the cow.
Speaker 6: It wasn't quite Frankly, if he's a backup, my thought
Speaker 6: is you need him to just be available to you
Speaker 6: in the event of something going wrong with ty.
Speaker 7: I think there where you look at this is he's
Speaker 7: they're clearly going to look at him as a tackle.
Speaker 7: I talked to somebody in an organization. They want him
Speaker 7: to play tackle. They didn't want him to play guard.
Speaker 7: So if you were worried about this, I think it's
Speaker 7: more of a protection about what's going on with ty
Speaker 7: Uh with Tyron Smith that left tackle. Now, the problem
Speaker 7: you get into is Lyle Collins is a left tackle
Speaker 7: is probably not the best answer, But that give you
Speaker 7: the flexibility to move if you had to, if you
Speaker 7: had to move Terrence Steel over and let Steal play
Speaker 7: left tackle, let Collins play right tackle. You know, you
Speaker 7: know they've got a Doga. I'm talking to folks in
Speaker 7: the organization about it. They're like, you know, if you
Speaker 7: had to play with Lyle Collins for one or two games,
Speaker 7: you could probably be just fine doing that.
Speaker 3: That's kind of how they're looking at this right now.
Speaker 6: Did this all come about because of a Doga's game?
Speaker 6: Versus Miami, where there were just lots of questions about.
Speaker 3: The mental stuff.
Speaker 7: Was that was I think that it was really more
Speaker 7: about that, I don't know this time of year, you
Speaker 7: have to trust your players, and I don't know from
Speaker 7: my experiences when a guy has a bad game where
Speaker 7: it turns into a mental are you making mistakes? Are
Speaker 7: you're making mental mistakes? Can we trust you in these
Speaker 7: games when they put you out there? And if they
Speaker 7: can't trust you, then they're not going to play you.
Speaker 7: The games are too important now you can't afford to
Speaker 7: miss in any way. So that's I think that's why
Speaker 7: they're they're trying to Will has always done a good
Speaker 7: job of signing guys and trying to kind of cover
Speaker 7: his positions if he can.
Speaker 3: And you know the fact that they're getting into.
Speaker 7: The playoffs, you know, you don't want to bring if
Speaker 7: something were to happen to Smith, Tyron Smith, and you
Speaker 7: bring in, say bringing Lyle Collins the week up, he's
Speaker 7: not going to be ready to play. Now, you're giving
Speaker 7: him a chance to at least be ready to play,
Speaker 7: you know, in the coming weeks if he has to.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys had already had Collins on their radar after
Speaker 4: his split from the Bengals for such an occasion. So
Speaker 4: if Chumi Ydoga had played well against the Dolphins, then
Speaker 4: it's all likelihood of Lyle Collins is not in the building.
Speaker 4: So that is in fact what caused him to pull
Speaker 4: the trigger. But they at least had Collins on the
Speaker 4: on the brain already. Well.
Speaker 8: Also, you gotta be mindful of the Tyler Smith injury,
Speaker 8: which I know we talked about it on the show
Speaker 8: already yesterday. I think where it's more pain and he's
Speaker 8: got that injury, he's gonna play with it, but still
Speaker 8: an injury nonetheless, where you got to take that into
Speaker 8: consideration also, and they're dropping like flies, like you got
Speaker 8: to bring him bodies. You literally have no other people
Speaker 8: you can rely on. And I remember back with like, oh,
Speaker 8: I mean, it got to the point where you just
Speaker 8: decided to release him, like okay, get out of here
Speaker 8: because it was that bad and he was just not
Speaker 8: being very I forgot he was. I know, he didn't
Speaker 8: he didn't want to play guard and he wanted to
Speaker 8: be a tackle or advice which one was it?
Speaker 4: He was? He just you do what you're told, Just
Speaker 4: do what you're release Les.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So anyway, I'm sure clearly what we
Speaker 8: saw on his Instagram, he seems to be happy to
Speaker 8: be coming back, so definitely something something and someone that's
Speaker 8: familiar with the offense. What year did he leave.
Speaker 4: After twenty one? He spent one? Yeah, he spent one
Speaker 4: year with the Bengals. It was a three year deal
Speaker 4: signed March last year, but it only extended the one year.
Speaker 8: So it's pretty different the offense from the last time.
Speaker 4: He was the same quarterback, same tyrants. Yeah, so I
Speaker 4: mean as far as familiarity, there's.
Speaker 8: Familiary different, but a lot of familiarity.
Speaker 2: Here, so that helps with the players.
Speaker 6: Maybe a different, different offense than what they were running back. Then,
Speaker 6: does this say anything for you guys about where they
Speaker 6: think Austin Richards is.
Speaker 4: I think it does by default. I mean we talked
Speaker 4: about awesome a couple of weeks ago, if that, and
Speaker 4: I think they would like to see more from Austin
Speaker 4: Richards from Austin Richards before they throw him out there,
Speaker 4: especially as we approach the all important playoff games where
Speaker 4: it's winner go home. I don't think that they feel
Speaker 4: that there's a trust level there that they have with
Speaker 4: him quite yet in his first year development. If that
Speaker 4: were the case, he would have been taking snaps already
Speaker 4: over like Chiumydoga, for example. But the fact that it's
Speaker 4: Chillingeydoga getting the nod again against the Dolphins instead of
Speaker 4: a guy like Austin Richards based on the importance of
Speaker 4: that game as well, it tells you where the team
Speaker 4: is and the coaching staff is mentally awesome. Obviously that
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that they're out on him, but most certainly
Speaker 4: they want to see more and I don't think they
Speaker 4: think he's ready.
Speaker 3: A coaching deal. Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 2: All right, let's uh.
Speaker 6: One of the guy I wanted to talk about, running
Speaker 6: back Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 2: He was released by the.
Speaker 3: He had been on waivers.
Speaker 4: He's not He's not on waivers, okay.
Speaker 7: And now this morning, Well, when I asked somebody in
Speaker 7: the organization last night to comment about it, he had
Speaker 7: not been released on waivers.
Speaker 3: So I'd be careful what you're doing.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay.
Speaker 6: Well, let's just put it like this as we have
Speaker 6: to do. Yeah, this is all just based upon us
Speaker 6: talking speculative.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 6: The reports are that he will be released and will
Speaker 6: be on waivers as a four PM today. That is
Speaker 6: what NFL tom is reporting, the NFL network is But so.
Speaker 7: Last night at about six o'clock, he had not been
Speaker 7: on waivers.
Speaker 2: So being clear, this is not tampering.
Speaker 6: We are we are talking just among the four of
Speaker 6: us us friends talking about what the.
Speaker 2: NFL dot com and network our report.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 6: So all that being said, uh NFL team, all right,
Speaker 6: So let's just start there, though, Brian, I I want
Speaker 6: you to give me kind of a scouting report on
Speaker 6: Dalvin Cook, the running back. Obviously, last year I thought
Speaker 6: he was still a really good back in Minnesota. I
Speaker 6: thought Minnesota made a move that was probably more about
Speaker 6: money than ability. But then he gets to the Jets,
Speaker 6: hasn't played very much. I think he has sixty or
Speaker 6: seventy runs this year. So where is he right now
Speaker 6: in his career as a running back?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he should feel real comfortable coming here and not
Speaker 7: getting any run block and if that's the case, because
Speaker 7: the same thing happens to him at the Jets. He
Speaker 7: doesn't have the explosiveness he once had. I watched a
Speaker 7: couple of games. Actually, with our ability, we can watch
Speaker 7: all his carries and his most productive game was against
Speaker 7: the Atlanta Falcons and only had thirty eight yards on
Speaker 7: the day.
Speaker 3: He hasn't played a whole lot.
Speaker 7: He gets limited carries, he still catches the ball very well.
Speaker 7: He does not pass block at all, and that will
Speaker 7: drive these guys crazy here because they rely on their
Speaker 7: guys to be able to blitz, pick up and stuff
Speaker 7: like that. He struggled to get to the edge the
Speaker 7: inside stuff. Again, they didn't block for him very well,
Speaker 7: you know, the handoffs, which just seemed very much of
Speaker 7: getting into the line. You know, we've seen him at
Speaker 7: Minnesota with his ability to make people miss. He couldn't
Speaker 7: make people miss, but the Jets they just don't block,
Speaker 7: and so he's having to make a lot of people miss.
Speaker 7: I don't think the Cowboys are going to do anything
Speaker 7: with him, That's just my guess. I think they're you know,
Speaker 7: even with the situation I saw today there was a
Speaker 7: report that they put a dud on on ir now,
Speaker 7: so you know that's you know, to bring up Fooko there.
Speaker 3: So we'll see.
Speaker 7: But I think it's going to be about you know,
Speaker 7: getting Rico daddle back at using Hunter lipkey, you know,
Speaker 7: trying to get him some confidence or get the coaches
Speaker 7: some confidence. In him, But I really don't see them
Speaker 7: going after this guy right now if he becomes available.
Speaker 4: And just to be clear for everyone listening, every veteran
Speaker 4: that is waived is subject to the waiver claim, So
Speaker 4: if a team wants him, they first have to place
Speaker 4: a claim, and then if they clear waivers, that player
Speaker 4: does then prede signed anywhere. I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 4: questions on that on yesterday because they're saying, well, what
Speaker 4: if it was mutual, it doesn't matter if he's waves
Speaker 4: slash released, got to go through waivers after the trade deadline.
Speaker 4: I don't think Brian's wrong. I would I would speak
Speaker 4: on it. From my aspect, I would bring Dalvin Cook
Speaker 4: in because I know that to Brian's point, he struggled
Speaker 4: with his limited reps in New York, but it's also
Speaker 4: largely due to the fact that, well one, he's not
Speaker 4: as explosive as he was in his prime form. But
Speaker 4: that offensive line in New York is just it's abysmal.
Speaker 4: It's abysmal when I know that the Cowboys have had
Speaker 4: their issues blocking for Tony Pollard and that's been one
Speaker 4: of the reasons that Pollard hasn't been as successful. But
Speaker 4: I would love to see if Cook can do anything
Speaker 4: here as RB three, and that means if needed. So
Speaker 4: for me, you've now moved Deuce font Ir. I wonder,
Speaker 4: and I said this yesterday, I wonder if Hunter Lip
Speaker 4: kids kind of stealing the doghouse from that fumble because
Speaker 4: it felt like it was it felt like he was
Speaker 4: in Looking at the last game against the Lions, I say,
Speaker 4: you bring in Dalvin Cook, you put him on the
Speaker 4: practice squad. You have as much veteran talent depth at
Speaker 4: positions as you possibly can, which is one reason they're
Speaker 4: looking at bringing LiOH Collins back. Because you want talented, proven,
Speaker 4: veteran depth. You're going into the playoffs. You do not
Speaker 4: want it to be a situation where, knock on all
Speaker 4: the wood, you're in San Francisco in January with your
Speaker 4: season on the line and one of your top running
Speaker 4: backs goes down with injury, and you're like, where do
Speaker 4: we go from here?
Speaker 3: Where do you stand with Malik Davis.
Speaker 4: Last year going into the season, I had a lot
Speaker 4: of promise for Maliite Davis because I love the way
Speaker 4: he flashed last year when given the opportunity. But in
Speaker 4: seeing his three elevations and the lack of utilization from
Speaker 4: Elite Davis or the lack which goes to lack of
Speaker 4: coaching coaches wanting to put him into those situations. For example,
Speaker 4: against the Lions, they really beat that horse with Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard absent Rico Dalda. That's a situation where had Elite
Speaker 4: Davis been able to be elevated, I would have liked
Speaker 4: to see what they've done with him. But I don't
Speaker 4: have a good sample size for twenty twenty three to
Speaker 4: make me confident right now going into the playoffs and
Speaker 4: Elite Davis. But I'm willing to see what that looks like.
Speaker 4: If you bring in Dalvin Cook, put him on the
Speaker 4: practice squad, let him and Elie Davis kind of battle
Speaker 4: that out, and then if the situation presents itself where
Speaker 4: player X I'm not going to say names because I'm superstitious.
Speaker 4: If player X at the running back position goes down
Speaker 4: with injury in the playoffs, then you look at the
Speaker 4: leak and you look at Dalvin what they've done in
Speaker 4: the practice squad. Thus far as you say, Okay, that
Speaker 4: guy or this guy, I just want the option is well,
Speaker 4: if they're.
Speaker 3: Not going to play Milik Davis are they going to
Speaker 3: elevate this guy? Are they going to ellen? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Are they going to elevate I mean you're talking about
Speaker 7: that that there's not a big sample size and the
Speaker 7: elevations you weren't overly impressed with. Is there a reason
Speaker 7: then do you think they would elevate Dalvin Cook?
Speaker 4: I think it's just it goes to one is proven,
Speaker 4: one is not as far as the league is concerned.
Speaker 4: In the league, so in the situation where playoff game
Speaker 4: might be on the line, if you lose one of
Speaker 4: your top if you lose this guy or that guy,
Speaker 4: you look and you say, well, Malik, we believe that
Speaker 4: you can do something for us. But we know what
Speaker 4: Dalvin Cook has been able to do in this league.
Speaker 4: And if Dalvin has come in in the practice squad
Speaker 4: and at least impressed in any fashion, then I say, okay,
Speaker 4: you go with Dalvin. If he comes into the practice squad,
Speaker 4: minimum money, low risk, and he's not impressed, then in
Speaker 4: that situation, you say, okay, elite, get in there and
Speaker 4: let's see what happens. Not just the option is what
Speaker 4: I'm asking for. So for those that are and or
Speaker 4: speculating that those of us who would like to see
Speaker 4: Delvin Cook in Dallas. I know, because of the headline name,
Speaker 4: people say, well, why do you want him to replace TP?
Speaker 4: That's not what most of us are saying.
Speaker 7: Do you guys feel like it's Pollard's fault or the
Speaker 7: line's fault that he hasn't had success this year?
Speaker 4: I think it's been both.
Speaker 6: Yes, I think it's been both, and I think at
Speaker 6: different times it's been both. Because here's the thing on
Speaker 6: the offensive line. I don't think it's one particular guy
Speaker 6: that's a problem when it comes. I think they all
Speaker 6: take their turn.
Speaker 3: They the tight ends in their too right right.
Speaker 6: I also think there are a number of times when
Speaker 6: I've seen where it looks like Tony has opportunities and
Speaker 6: just doesn't seem to get there, doesn't see the right
Speaker 6: hole to get into. So I think there are times
Speaker 6: when both things can be true, and if they could
Speaker 6: all get on the same page, and at least when
Speaker 6: when when somebody's gonna mess up, let them all mess
Speaker 6: up on the one play and you just put that
Speaker 6: one away and move on to the next one and
Speaker 6: then get it right. I just think too often, too
Speaker 6: many people are making mistakes, including the line, including the
Speaker 6: tight ends and including the running back.
Speaker 7: I wonder though, too, that the Cowboys did have an
Speaker 7: opportunity because he did become available, and you know it
Speaker 7: was named that we kind of kicked around, but they
Speaker 7: didn't go that, right. I wonder if they're I wonder
Speaker 7: if they're holding that thought still. And I wonder if
Speaker 7: they're holding that thought thinking that, well, we know we
Speaker 7: like our guys, which they always say they do. And
Speaker 7: I wonder if though it's a situation where they're watching
Speaker 7: him play at the Jets and say it's not worth
Speaker 7: it for us right now because they're gonna have they
Speaker 7: would have to. You talked about the practice squad stuff
Speaker 7: and all that they're having a hard time finding roster
Speaker 7: spots for guys right now. That's that's that's you know,
Speaker 7: that's a big thing for them.
Speaker 6: Here's the thing I would I would wonder. I think
Speaker 6: this decision for the Cowboys comes down to one thing.
Speaker 6: Do they think he can come in here and be
Speaker 6: a short yardage back, because that's a role that they
Speaker 6: clearly have not identified an answer for.
Speaker 2: Right If they don't think that's the case, I don't
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 6: There's another role that really necessarily makes sense here, right.
Speaker 7: See the thing about it is, if Hunter Lipkey doesn't fumble,
Speaker 7: we're talking about Hunter Lipkey, the short yard is.
Speaker 6: Absolutely but after that fumble, they're not sold right now,
Speaker 6: right right, So that's my point.
Speaker 2: They're still kind of searching for what's that going to be.
Speaker 6: Who's gonna be our guy that we can rely on
Speaker 6: in those situations? And unless Dalvin Cook can do that,
Speaker 6: which it sounds like from your scouting report, yeah, you
Speaker 6: don't necessarily trust he could do that any better than
Speaker 6: anybody else.
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 7: I don't think Dalvin Cook gets much help with the Jets.
Speaker 7: I just don't feel like that Dalvin Cook is Dalvin
Speaker 7: Cook that you saw averaging six point two yards of
Speaker 7: carry against you last year Tooeah, Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 7: had a really good year that like he was a's
Speaker 7: it's it's really kind of falling apart for him a
Speaker 7: little bit. You know, he doesn't have the explosiveness that
Speaker 7: he had at one time and stuff, and it's really
Speaker 7: it's a strange.
Speaker 3: And maybe say the same thing about.
Speaker 6: Polar Can a running back ever get that back? Have
Speaker 6: you seen running backs get that back once? They're not
Speaker 6: that can they get that back. Could it be a
Speaker 6: situation where because you're not playing as much, you're not as.
Speaker 7: Into us like Adrian Peterson and stuff that have gone
Speaker 7: to different places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's all time special, right, But that's.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: If you know, you'd have to be It's it's hard
Speaker 7: once that goes away and you see you can maybe
Speaker 7: say that some of the things that Zeke's done in
Speaker 7: New England, you know, has been a positive thing that
Speaker 7: you didn't see with Dallas.
Speaker 8: You know, I don't think that bringing down you bring him.
Speaker 8: I don't think much changes. I don't like the way
Speaker 8: that the Cowboys have handled the running back position from
Speaker 8: the beginning of the season. We can talk about the
Speaker 8: O line having their struggles, which is true and obviously
Speaker 8: it correlates. It goes hand in hand with the running
Speaker 8: back the running game. But at the same time, you
Speaker 8: saw flashes from Hunter Litke at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 8: we were excited about him. You saw flashes with Deuce
Speaker 8: and you're like, Okay, we're intrigued, we're excited. Let's see
Speaker 8: he has the quickness of speed, and then all of
Speaker 8: a sudden he just disappears, right, and you don't. You
Speaker 8: don't don't give them the opportunity to be out there
Speaker 8: and get those reps, even though the other running backs
Speaker 8: are not being fully successful, and you talk about a
Speaker 8: good amount of time where you could have given them
Speaker 8: just sprinkles of it. And then this last game you
Speaker 8: throw Inducevoon out of nowhere. Obviously you can't expect him
Speaker 8: to be successful being thrown like that back into the fire.
Speaker 8: Then Hunter Lipke with that fumble, if it was really
Speaker 8: a communication issue, you can't. You gotta move past that.
Speaker 8: And we ain't got time to be angry and medn't
Speaker 8: nobody We need, we need your help, and let's let's
Speaker 8: figure this out, let's communicate, and let's get back in it. Uh,
Speaker 8: Milick Davis, I think it's unfortunate that we haven't really
Speaker 8: seen him because last year it was very promising everything
Speaker 8: that we saw from him. Honestly, when he when the
Speaker 8: starters came out, you felt like you weren't missing the starters.
Speaker 8: He was doing things similar to what you were getting
Speaker 8: with Tony Poller orco.
Speaker 4: Everything was injured last Yeah, Yeah, that's why Malik ended
Speaker 4: up getting those reps last year.
Speaker 8: And when he came out, they were still being productive.
Speaker 8: They were still running the ball, they were still getting
Speaker 8: into the end zone. I don't know how many touchdowns
Speaker 8: he ended up with, but given the small amount of
Speaker 8: reps that he did get, he took advantage of all
Speaker 8: of it. So it's just kind of unfortunate that you
Speaker 8: never saw him again.
Speaker 7: What I think is should be intriguing to everybody outside
Speaker 7: is that they took they activated an edge rusher for
Speaker 7: a running back instead of replacing a running back. They're
Speaker 7: out of elevations with Malik Davis. They're out, So you know,
Speaker 7: if you had the opportunity to switch it back for
Speaker 7: a back, there must be something going on there, because
Speaker 7: I don't I don't see how Fojoko helps you right now.
Speaker 3: I really don't.
Speaker 2: Probably on the field.
Speaker 3: I'm trying.
Speaker 7: I'm trying like hell to get Fouler on the field.
Speaker 7: I can't even get him on the field, you know.
Speaker 7: And the one thing in this team is and I
Speaker 7: don't even want to talk about health. I don't even
Speaker 7: want to because the minute you start talking about it,
Speaker 7: it goes south on you. But that is that's the
Speaker 7: intriguing thing to me, is they make a roster move
Speaker 7: to get a edge on instead of getting a running
Speaker 7: back who probably could be a little bit of a
Speaker 7: difference speaker. So maybe they don't really care about adding
Speaker 7: another running back one way or another.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it might be going back to that. I think
Speaker 6: what you were alluding a few minutes ago. Maybe they
Speaker 6: really do believe that Lipkey's gonna be their short yardist
Speaker 6: guy and they're going to start working at and they
Speaker 6: gave themselves no more options, like, we don't have any
Speaker 6: other options.
Speaker 2: There are no These are the three we got. That's
Speaker 2: our option getting.
Speaker 3: Doubt back, you know, you get dabble back. I think
Speaker 3: we all like that the way that Dawdill plays.
Speaker 6: No I'm saying I'm saying this is assuming that they
Speaker 6: made this move because they think Dowall's going to be back.
Speaker 6: Oh no, and they're believing in the fact that they're
Speaker 6: going to give Lipkey another chance. He's going to be
Speaker 6: incorporated into this thing, and that's going to be their
Speaker 6: three backs and they're going to ride with that through
Speaker 6: the playoffs because at this point Deuce cannot come back
Speaker 6: before put them potentially a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: I just thought, so that's too much trauma from January
Speaker 4: in Santa Clair, when I saw Tony Pollard go down,
Speaker 4: the offense looked completely different. Now I get it. It's
Speaker 4: also different in the aspect of this is much more
Speaker 4: of a pass first offense, yea than it was at
Speaker 4: that point, So that's also true. But yeah, I'm having
Speaker 4: those flashbacks. And again, me wanting Cook on the on
Speaker 4: the practice squad is simply because I want to feel
Speaker 4: comfortable with my insurance options. It's not because we all
Speaker 4: know I'm on the record and we're all on the
Speaker 4: record believing in Rico dald Or what he can do,
Speaker 4: believing that Tony Pollard when he gets the right blocking
Speaker 4: and his vision is on that particular day, he can
Speaker 4: be Tony Pollard from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: But in the situation, in a situation where insert like
Speaker 4: you know, hypothetical here, then I would like for them
Speaker 4: to be able to at least look at Hunter, Malik
Speaker 4: and Dalvin who's proven in the league, and say, this
Speaker 4: is what we've seen from each of you thus far
Speaker 4: in practice, we're gonna go with this guy or that
Speaker 4: guy that guy. I don't like the fact that, like
Speaker 4: what you just said, this is who they have so
Speaker 4: ride with it and not when the season's on the line.
Speaker 4: Give me all the options, all the options, and just
Speaker 4: kind of let it sort itself out organically.
Speaker 7: I think this team is only going to go as
Speaker 7: far as Dak Lamb and Parsons carries it. I agree
Speaker 7: that's where they're.
Speaker 3: At right now.
Speaker 8: I was gonna say, we're talking about injuries and what
Speaker 8: happened in the past, but I'm like, okay, either way,
Speaker 8: it's not being productive on or off the field, is
Speaker 8: still not happening.
Speaker 6: So there literally has not been a single game this
Speaker 6: year where I would say the offense that the rushing
Speaker 6: offense for the Cowboys carried them to a victim. No,
Speaker 6: not a single one. So I don't think it's going
Speaker 6: to start now. So it is what it is. As
Speaker 6: you said, Brian, like, it's about can Dak and see
Speaker 6: if he get connected and do what they do.
Speaker 7: I think we got a real That game against the
Speaker 7: Lions was a playoff game. It was a playoff game,
Speaker 7: and you saw what they did in the four minute
Speaker 7: offense to try and kill that game. They threw the
Speaker 7: football and McCarthy went for the win for it, and
Speaker 7: I you know what, now, I look at it, I
Speaker 7: applaud him to do it because he can't run the football.
Speaker 7: He knows he can't run the football, and so you know,
Speaker 7: he can run the jet sweeps and maybe get six
Speaker 7: seven yards on those and maybe hit a big play.
Speaker 7: But it's gonna be about your quarterback who's done a
Speaker 7: great job of limiting turnovers. It's about an all pro
Speaker 7: wide receiver, and it's about maybe the defensive player of
Speaker 7: the year. That's what this playoff front is going to
Speaker 7: be about.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna take our first break. We'll come back.
Speaker 6: We'll jump into the Washington offense and really kind of
Speaker 6: break down where they are now versus where they were
Speaker 6: on Thanksgiving Day when the Cowboys matched up with them.
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Speaker 6: All right, let's talk about this Washington offense and Brian
Speaker 6: Washington plant. Going into last week, they had planned to
Speaker 6: start to Kobe Brisset at quarterback Hamsham he got an injury, yeah,
Speaker 6: and they were not able to play him.
Speaker 2: Sam Howell ended up being the quarterback.
Speaker 6: My question for you is which, let's start here, which
Speaker 6: of those two present the most challenges for an opponent,
Speaker 6: assuming that Brissett is healthy enough to possibly go this.
Speaker 7: S week set is because he's not going to turn
Speaker 7: the ball over. That's the That's the thing. Sam Howe
Speaker 7: will turn the ball over. So you want to play
Speaker 7: against Sam Howe? Uh, you know, because the more you
Speaker 7: pressure him, the more he feels it. Then the more
Speaker 7: he makes mistakes. Brissett's likely going to get rid of
Speaker 7: the football. The opportunities that he's had when you've watched him,
Speaker 7: when you've watched him play, he's done a good job
Speaker 7: of moving the offense, not creating turnovers.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 7: But you know he's he's really good at making all
Speaker 7: the throws. How can make all the throws too. The
Speaker 7: problem is how will throw you one or two in
Speaker 7: a in a game, or he will make a He'll
Speaker 7: make a critical mistake in the pocket and set.
Speaker 3: The reason why they wanted to start Set.
Speaker 7: Is because that of that stability, they've still got outstanding
Speaker 7: skill people that you're going to have to deal with
Speaker 7: on this team.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 7: Going to be if if he plays, uh, I expect
Speaker 7: the offense to be a little bit more efficient. Uh
Speaker 7: if if Hal has to go, if you're trying to
Speaker 7: keep the second overall pick, I would play. How if
Speaker 7: you're trying to if you're trying to send Ron Rivera
Speaker 7: out his last coaching game ever, I think he's probably
Speaker 7: done after this. You know all the things he's gone
Speaker 7: through in his life, and he's probably deserves to retire now.
Speaker 7: But if if you want to win one for him,
Speaker 7: you would start Jacobe ressetting this game.
Speaker 6: Okay, I want you to take your analyst half off
Speaker 6: for a second, and I want you to talk to
Speaker 6: me like you are personnel guy and your experiences in
Speaker 6: that realm in the situation like this, because you brought
Speaker 6: it up and it's interesting to me in a situation
Speaker 6: like's terrifying where the team, the team and their goals
Speaker 6: may be very different than the coach and his goals.
Speaker 2: He knows he's out. He doesn't care about next year.
Speaker 2: Probably that being said.
Speaker 3: Can I be the owner of the Commanders and handle it?
Speaker 2: How do they handle a situation like?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 7: If I'm the owner of the Commanders, I walk into
Speaker 7: Ron Rivera's office and say, we have the second overall
Speaker 7: pick of the draft right now. Ron, you know the situation.
Speaker 7: You've been around a long time. You know this is
Speaker 7: probably not going to work out for you. I'm going
Speaker 7: to make a change at the end of the year.
Speaker 7: I understand. I appreciate everything you've done, but this set
Speaker 7: an overall pick means a lot to me. It means
Speaker 7: a lot to our organization, It means a lot to
Speaker 7: our future. If Ron backs up and starts to say,
Speaker 7: now I'm really going to try and go out and
Speaker 7: I'd like to finish this thing out and all that,
Speaker 7: I would say, Ron, you're fired. Just like that, I
Speaker 7: would fire him. Yes, I would fire him, and I
Speaker 7: would name somebody interim. It doesn't have to be Eric
Speaker 7: b Enemy. It could be the it could be the
Speaker 7: special teams coach, it could be anybody. It does that
Speaker 7: point you just want to I'll coach, I'll coach the team.
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter at that point in time. So if
Speaker 7: the second overall pick to you is that important, we
Speaker 7: saw it last year at Houston. Houston had the first
Speaker 7: overall pick in the draft. That going the last game
Speaker 7: and Levy Smith decides to give the double birds to
Speaker 7: the front office and say, I'm leaving on my own
Speaker 7: terms here. If you're gonna get rid of me, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna go win this football game.
Speaker 3: He did.
Speaker 7: He made some decisions that won them the game, and
Speaker 7: you're probably wondering, why the hell you didn't do that earlier.
Speaker 8: What do you tell the players in the Hey, guys,
Speaker 8: take it easy. We're not really trying to just.
Speaker 3: Tell the head coach. Tell the head coach.
Speaker 4: With the player is going to do what they wanted,
Speaker 4: what they need to do because they get paid to
Speaker 4: play and put them in the right position to win.
Speaker 4: Because from a players standpoint, if you're a player, what
Speaker 4: you put on film is on film, and you're trying
Speaker 4: to get a job next year, if you know, whatever
Speaker 4: the case may be. So that's why Brian said, you're
Speaker 4: talking to the head coach because you can't rightfully welcome
Speaker 4: to a player and say laid down, because they're not
Speaker 4: going to lay down.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that's when you get hurt when
Speaker 2: you're not playing.
Speaker 7: They're they're going to want to go out. You know,
Speaker 7: you have an opportunity to the players.
Speaker 8: You can get the sense of it too.
Speaker 7: Oh no, they know the situation. They know Ron Rivera
Speaker 7: is about to get fired. But they could also have
Speaker 7: the utmost respect for Ron Rivera as players and say,
Speaker 7: you know what, it's our fault that he's getting fired.
Speaker 7: We owe it to him to play hard this last game.
Speaker 7: And there's so much on the line for There's so
Speaker 7: much on the line for them. I mean, the second
Speaker 7: overall pick is huge.
Speaker 2: That could change their fate, the second and fourth yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, second or seventh, or the way they fall down
Speaker 7: the list even first. I mean, you know, you never know,
Speaker 7: So to me, I have that discussion with him if
Speaker 7: it's that important ownership. Now, ownership might step back and say, Ron,
Speaker 7: if you want to win this game, go win this game.
Speaker 3: That's the fear I have playing this team.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 7: They've got they've got a lot of talent, they've got
Speaker 7: a coach that they'll that they'll they really like, and
Speaker 7: they'll they'll try and play hard for But he has
Speaker 7: nothing to lose. He could go for every fourth down,
Speaker 7: he could go for every two point conversion.
Speaker 4: You know he can.
Speaker 7: As a defensive coordinator, he can blitz Dat Prescott every
Speaker 7: single snap if he wants what happens. Okay, Okay, that's fine, Ye, Dallas.
Speaker 7: The most pressure in this game is on Dallas. Indeed,
Speaker 7: that's that's the problem you run into. And I guarantee
Speaker 7: you people listening to me right now, they're going to
Speaker 7: Cowboy fans are seeing the thirteen and a half point
Speaker 7: spread and they're going, ah, broadest, it's the Commanders.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: These are the types of games you worry.
Speaker 7: About because the team you're playing has absolutely nothing to lose.
Speaker 7: The Arizona Cardinals, Yeah, the Arizona Cardinals last week, go
Speaker 7: to Philadelphi.
Speaker 3: You know why they played hard. They played hard for
Speaker 3: their coach.
Speaker 7: Their coach made it important like that was in a
Speaker 7: game like Mike McCarthy, that Green Bay game that was
Speaker 7: important to him and six seven other dudes that were
Speaker 7: on that coaching staff. You know that might that might
Speaker 7: be the game that Mike McCarthy had enough of. Kellen Moore,
Speaker 7: you know it just said, you know what I'm gonna
Speaker 7: I'm gonna start calling the plays.
Speaker 3: Next year, I'm going to call him, you're gone. You
Speaker 3: know that these.
Speaker 7: Games, they these types of games bother me a lot
Speaker 7: because the pressures on you to go out there. And
Speaker 7: Dallas hadn't exactly played great on the road. You know,
Speaker 7: tell me the last time he got a road in Carolina? Right,
Speaker 7: that's it.
Speaker 3: Last couple of weeks time's been out hadn't been so good.
Speaker 7: So I like, I say, Commanders have got to get
Speaker 7: to If as the owner, I would tell Ron Rivera
Speaker 7: we're going to lose this game, and if he doesn't
Speaker 7: want to lose this game, then I would fire him.
Speaker 4: So often the phrase trap game is thrown around, and
Speaker 4: I just kind of batted away because I'm like, no,
Speaker 4: you know, these guys know what's what's up up for stakes,
Speaker 4: and not that they don't this week, but when you
Speaker 4: talk about this particular opponent, everything Brian said is what's
Speaker 4: terrifying about it because you don't know which Commanders team
Speaker 4: you're going to get, No question you could have. You
Speaker 4: know that the ownership went to Vera and he conceded, hequiesked,
Speaker 4: and he said, okay, well that's fine, we'll start sam
Speaker 4: Our coach down, But then you don't know what you're
Speaker 4: going to get from the players. Maybe the player said,
Speaker 4: as we want to go out on a high note
Speaker 4: for Ron Rivera, and or we do not want the
Speaker 4: Cowboys to get what the Cowboys want to get on
Speaker 4: our field. Or you could have it where the players
Speaker 4: have already started to check out and they're going to
Speaker 4: make business decisions on the field because they don't want
Speaker 4: to risk themselves to injury or things like that and
Speaker 4: not be able to play next year when the new
Speaker 4: regime comes in, maybe for a new team, whatever the
Speaker 4: case may be. You quite literally have no clue what
Speaker 4: you're walking into. And that's what's terrifying, because one Brian said,
Speaker 4: most of the one hundred percent of the pressure is
Speaker 4: on the Cowboys for all the reasons that we're talking about.
Speaker 4: NFC East title is on the line. Number two seed
Speaker 4: in the NFC, which goes with at least one home game.
Speaker 4: You win that game, you get another home game that's
Speaker 4: on the line. We've seen how poorly you've played on
Speaker 4: the road, and then on top of that, you don't
Speaker 4: want a three and six road record going into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: You need this win on every imaginable level and you
Speaker 4: don't know what you're walking into.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the part that worries me the most about this game.
Speaker 6: In addition, what you guys are saying is typically this
Speaker 6: is the time of the year, and Nick always says this,
Speaker 6: and I think it's so true. Is bad teams lose
Speaker 6: these games sometimes because of what they're doing on Wednesday
Speaker 6: and Thursday. It's not that they don't give effort on Sunday,
Speaker 6: it's that they don't see any future in what's happening,
Speaker 6: So they may not be studying as hard, preparing as
Speaker 6: hard on Wednesday and Thursday. That's when they lose them.
Speaker 6: Here's where the flip side of that comes. You're playing
Speaker 6: an opponent that knows you and knows you extremely well.
Speaker 6: When you're playing a common opponent division team, then that
Speaker 6: kind of goes a little bit out of the window
Speaker 6: because on Wednesday and Thursday, a lot of that preparation
Speaker 6: you might have to do for an uncommon opponent you
Speaker 6: don't have to do for an opponent you play twice
Speaker 6: every year, Right, And so that's where I'm a little
Speaker 6: bit more concerned in this one that they have every
Speaker 6: incentive I think as players for the Commanders just to
Speaker 6: not let Cowboys do what they want to do in
Speaker 6: a game like that where what it means it could
Speaker 6: mean the difference in how far the Cowboys going to the playoffs,
Speaker 6: because we all know road versus home is a thing
Speaker 6: for them right now for whatever reason, as they've said,
Speaker 6: for whatever reason, can't put our fingers on it, but
Speaker 6: for some reason, it is a thing you're and that's
Speaker 6: the part I think that gives.
Speaker 2: The Commanders a little bit more impetus.
Speaker 3: They like or the cow probably neither.
Speaker 6: Will not be in their stadium on Sunday, so they're
Speaker 6: gonna be like, we can handle what we can handle,
Speaker 6: and I think that's gonna make it a tough game
Speaker 6: for the count.
Speaker 7: Dallas's existence to to get to the super Bowl depends
Speaker 7: on this game. This game is this game. If you
Speaker 7: do not if you do not win this game, you're
Speaker 7: likely not going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's just that's that's I'm just going.
Speaker 6: To Basically, you're gonna say you're gonna do in three games,
Speaker 6: you're going to do back to back to back wins
Speaker 6: on the road.
Speaker 2: You haven't done that yet. You haven't done that, So
Speaker 2: it's just you don't have anything to really put.
Speaker 7: I think nineteen seventy eight was the last time they
Speaker 7: did that. That's how long ago this has been. I mean,
Speaker 7: I know it's history and all that stuff like that,
Speaker 7: but you know it's the Giants. Sure, but this team
Speaker 7: has shown you so far that going on the road
Speaker 7: for three straight games would be very difficult for them
Speaker 7: to win. But give them two home games. There's a
Speaker 7: good shot they're going to get to the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 4: Ye good shot. And by the way, the weather may
Speaker 4: not play nice, so.
Speaker 2: You well that has it has flipped, I've seen it.
Speaker 4: But the temperature is still the temperature, so it'll be
Speaker 4: upper thirties at kicking.
Speaker 6: But I talked about I don't worry so much about
Speaker 6: temperature unless you're talking like Chicago temperature. Right, I'm not
Speaker 6: worried so much about temperature. What I'm more concerned about
Speaker 6: is what's the wind and is the precipitation. Well, it
Speaker 6: doesn't like either one of those factors will be in it.
Speaker 6: So you give me an up a thirties day for
Speaker 6: grown men running around.
Speaker 2: That's going to feel really good, like a breeze.
Speaker 3: The game's gonna be a darkness at the end, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it definitely.
Speaker 2: Will, maybe even by the beginning, like it gets dark
Speaker 2: so quick quick during this time of the year.
Speaker 6: But again I just think for me, I was worried
Speaker 6: more about the precipitation, and earlier it was shown that
Speaker 6: was actually going to be snow that day in Washington,
Speaker 6: that worried me a lot. But without the precipitation, without
Speaker 6: the wind, I think Dallas should be.
Speaker 4: My only concern when it comes to temperature is just
Speaker 4: the receiving game, and not necessarily for guys like Jake
Speaker 4: Ferguson who played at Wisconsin and you know those kinds
Speaker 4: of guys who know how you know, big tim they
Speaker 4: know how to catch in those temperatures. But for the
Speaker 4: guys who you know, the southern bred guys, your Texas boys,
Speaker 4: you're Georgia boys, you're etcetera, etcetera, even without the precipitation,
Speaker 4: catching that ball and you know, thirty six degrees on, yeah,
Speaker 4: once the sun goes down, that hurts, and now you
Speaker 4: might be in a situation where it guess what you
Speaker 4: might need to lean on a little bit more running
Speaker 4: game exactly. So that's why I look at the temperature
Speaker 4: as much as I would look at the precipitation as well.
Speaker 4: All of that matters, but most certainly, if you're a
Speaker 4: Southern boy and this is where you grew up playing football,
Speaker 4: you're maybe not Jake Ferguson, who's out there practice dipping
Speaker 4: his hands in ice water because it's it's normal for him.
Speaker 4: So that that's my only concern. And I say all
Speaker 4: of that to say I would love for the running
Speaker 4: game to get going against Washington and find some momentum
Speaker 4: to take into the playoffs. I will love it. I
Speaker 4: need it. I need to see it.
Speaker 6: My hope is at this point, living in Dallas, they've
Speaker 6: got used to that temperature because that's not an uncommon temperature.
Speaker 3: Michael practice outside too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, my hope is that they're comfortable in a upper thirties,
Speaker 6: you know, temperature type game. They should feel, I should
Speaker 6: think at this point, living in Dallas, you feel their
Speaker 6: own benches.
Speaker 2: That's the question, Like that is the question. All Right,
Speaker 2: we're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 4: We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We got more to talk about.
Speaker 6: I want to talk about Curtis Samuel because he was
Speaker 6: the Washington Commander's player that probably had the best day
Speaker 6: against Dallas last year. Talk about how the Cowboys control him.
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Speaker 6: Final segment of The Break Live from the SWVC Mortgage
Speaker 6: studios at the Star Man. We've been talking and we
Speaker 6: just ran over. We ran over in both segments. We
Speaker 6: don't have much time left here. We got about six minutes,
Speaker 6: so let's see what we can do here. Curtis Samuel
Speaker 6: last game against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day, caught nine
Speaker 6: passes four hundred yards?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is he how many play?
Speaker 4: How many receivers have.
Speaker 2: Gone over hundred yard against Cowboys this year?
Speaker 3: He was the first.
Speaker 6: I know he was the first, But have they had
Speaker 6: have they had one sense that? Because I know Tyreek
Speaker 6: did not? Uh, Saint Brown did not. I don't think
Speaker 6: he didn't go over a hundred?
Speaker 4: No, no, he didn't. Ninety Yeah. I want to see
Speaker 4: no one.
Speaker 2: Is he the only hundred yard receiver and he only
Speaker 2: had one hundreds?
Speaker 3: But double no?
Speaker 6: No, you're right, yeah, okay, So tell me how do
Speaker 6: they how did they put put the clamps on Curtis Samuelis.
Speaker 7: You really don't because he's kind of like ceedee lamb
Speaker 7: and they're now moving him around all over the place.
Speaker 7: They've kind of figured these things out, and so what
Speaker 7: happens is when you try and double him, they put
Speaker 7: him in the slot, they'll move him, they put him wide,
Speaker 7: they move him. He's the one guy that moves the
Speaker 7: most of all the Commander receivers, and so having to
Speaker 7: double him, I think it's going to be more more
Speaker 7: about trying to be able to play him once he's
Speaker 7: on the move, if he shifts from one side to
Speaker 7: the other, maybe you could bracket him a little better,
Speaker 7: you know, in and out the Cowboys play somewhat single
Speaker 7: high safety, though it's hard to you know, bracket guy
Speaker 7: like that, but you can maybe cheat, you know, cheat
Speaker 7: hooker to that side and and help him. But I
Speaker 7: kind of feel like, though, man, they've done a great
Speaker 7: job in the history of Terry McLaren of covering him,
Speaker 7: and every time you're like, mcclarten, yeah, it's but yeah,
Speaker 7: he's so underrated as a player. Terry McLaren is, and
Speaker 7: so I always worry about him. But you know, you're
Speaker 7: absolutely right about Samuel. I mean, he's he's like he's
Speaker 7: second on the squad. Now in targets receptions, I mean
Speaker 7: he's only.
Speaker 3: Had one drop.
Speaker 7: I mean he's he's done a really nice job, super
Speaker 7: reliable player. But they're going to move him around a bunch,
Speaker 7: and so how you take care of him likely will
Speaker 7: be just some of the one on one coverages you'll
Speaker 7: have in that game.
Speaker 2: When you look I'm.
Speaker 7: Talking about I'm talking about Samuel now, not the mccla,
Speaker 7: but McLaren's good too.
Speaker 6: When you look at what the Cowboys have done the
Speaker 6: last couple of weeks. Last week against David Montgomery, they
Speaker 6: allowed fourteen catches for sixty five yards of four point
Speaker 6: six average. Jamir Gibbs, who I thought was gonna to
Speaker 6: be the guy that was going to give them so
Speaker 6: many trouble, so much trouble, I had fifteen carres for
Speaker 6: forty three yards only a two point nine average. You
Speaker 6: look at that and then also add in what they
Speaker 6: did against Miami running backs. What is the conclusion and
Speaker 6: left with about this Dallas rush defense.
Speaker 7: Well, the good plan here, we'll see, We'll see if
Speaker 7: our guy Eric Bienemy stays true to form. He hates
Speaker 7: running the football, you know, he really does. And the
Speaker 7: commanders I always ask myself when I watch the Commanders,
Speaker 7: I go, why don't they run the ball more?
Speaker 2: Actually thirty second in the league in attempts in rushing attempts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said it in week eleven.
Speaker 7: I really do like this group, and they just don't
Speaker 7: get the opportunity like others do. And the unit, like
Speaker 7: you just said, Derek, is last in the league in attempts,
Speaker 7: but they're first in the league. A number of pressures
Speaker 7: they give up. So why are you not running the ball?
Speaker 7: Why are you not trying to help your quarterback more?
Speaker 7: If this turns into a foul weather game, maybe you'll
Speaker 7: see them try and run the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 7: When Dallas played in the first time around, their averaging
Speaker 7: right around four point seven of carry at four point five,
Speaker 7: but they don't run the ball. I think you have
Speaker 7: to be ready with this group. They're really a talented group.
Speaker 7: Gibson Robinson. They're really a talented group. It's a shame
Speaker 7: that they just don't use them more. The thing that
Speaker 7: you have to worry about them if they're going to
Speaker 7: throw the ball. These guys are really good with the
Speaker 7: screen pass stuff, you know, And that's one of the
Speaker 7: things Dallas rushing Dallas pressure screen. You know, now it's
Speaker 7: out the gate and all that. So I think that's
Speaker 7: what you have to be worried about the most. But
Speaker 7: if the weather turns a little foul, a little nasty,
Speaker 7: stays cold, whatever, I wouldn't be surprised that they try
Speaker 7: to run. But right now, this is not in this
Speaker 7: coach's DNA to do that. And I think that plays
Speaker 7: right into the Cowboys hands that they don't try and
Speaker 7: run the ball.
Speaker 4: It's a great matchup for the Cowboys in that capacity
Speaker 4: because you have the run defense trending in the right direction,
Speaker 4: yeap versus an offense that hates running the ball. So
Speaker 4: you know, to answer your question, I think the Cowboys
Speaker 4: run defense. I don't know that I've used the word
Speaker 4: fixed just yet, but it's definitely repaired over what it
Speaker 4: was against Buffalo. And I mean also when you look
Speaker 4: at the macro, more often than not, they've they've performed
Speaker 4: well against the run. It's just when they don't, it's
Speaker 4: it's a really bad day.
Speaker 8: Well it's when they don't don't. Plus the offense.
Speaker 3: It's not scoring points for you.
Speaker 8: So it's that combination of both. Absolutely, they've been able
Speaker 8: to do enough just enough when the offense is still
Speaker 8: getting into the end zone. But the combination of two
Speaker 8: is to.
Speaker 4: Brian's point about the screen, I keep an eye on
Speaker 4: that when it comes to the Washington Commanders. But then
Speaker 4: I turned my direction and attention to guys like Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 4: You saw he was able to do the screen game.
Speaker 4: You saw Joey Lewis was able to do in the
Speaker 4: screen game. And then of course Marquis Bell, who's shown
Speaker 4: that he can knife through those will be blockers and
Speaker 4: get to the ball, to the receiver and bring down
Speaker 4: the play.
Speaker 7: So yeah, what's which changed is their offensive line. Charles
Speaker 7: Leno and Chris Paul were the starters the last time
Speaker 7: these two play, and they're no longer.
Speaker 3: Those were guys you wanted to do kind of attack.
Speaker 7: Cornelius Lucas and Shadik Charles have kind of taken their place,
Speaker 7: and there they've done a really a better job. When
Speaker 7: you watch in the San Francisco game and all that.
Speaker 7: Trent Scott is the starter at right tackle, and they've
Speaker 7: had to do that because Andrew Wiley, their normal tackle,
Speaker 7: had an elbow injury in Week sixteen against the Jets,
Speaker 7: and so he hasn't played. We'll see if he plays
Speaker 7: this week. But Scott would be the guy. Trent Scott,
Speaker 7: the right tackle would be the one that I would
Speaker 7: try and go after. And I think Nick Gates the
Speaker 7: center has some issues as well, So your center and
Speaker 7: your right tackle would be the two pressure point areas
Speaker 7: I would focus on if I was the Cowboys front seven.
Speaker 6: And based on all that you guys just said, that
Speaker 6: makes me even more concerned that Washington's gonna come into
Speaker 6: this game and say, we've got really good running backs. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we've got a team that we're playing that we're afraid
Speaker 6: to debt. They're gonna go get our quarterback. They did
Speaker 6: sack them four times in that previous matchup, and they
Speaker 6: go into this game saying we're gonna load up and
Speaker 6: we're gonna run the ball, and then we're gonna see
Speaker 6: if the Cowboys really have fixed this run defense, because
Speaker 6: I do believe that that's the smarter play for watching.
Speaker 6: I know they haven't done it all season, but as
Speaker 6: you said, they got nothing to lose.
Speaker 3: At this point.
Speaker 6: They may say, Hey, we're looking at what that what
Speaker 6: Buffalo did to them on the road. We think we
Speaker 6: can line up and do something similar. We got a
Speaker 6: better chance of doing that than trying to throw the
Speaker 6: ball around the yard against this pass rush.
Speaker 4: Which which goes to my point that I met yesterday
Speaker 4: and Amburst point as well. This is why when it
Speaker 4: comes to Tyler Smith, I'm fine with resting him and
Speaker 4: then you bring him back for the playoffs. If Jonathan
Speaker 4: Hankins can play in this particular game, I say, you
Speaker 4: bring Jonathan Hankins back because you want to protect help
Speaker 4: protect against that, but also you want to get some
Speaker 4: Russ knocked off of Hankins because he's missed a few games.
Speaker 6: Real quick, before we end the show, Nick did just
Speaker 6: text me and told me metcalf he was the other
Speaker 6: one hundred yard receiver.
Speaker 2: He had six catches one and thirty one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he stay on your show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nick, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I was trying to get out of my head that
Speaker 7: recovering those sailors.
Speaker 2: All right, we appreciate you. Guys.
Speaker 6: Back tomorrow we'll jump into the Washington defense versus the
Speaker 6: Cowboys offense.
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