Speaker 1: It is Friday, December eighth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighty five. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We are a live from that WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: studios at the Star, and today we get to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about Cowboys versus Eagles. Will let you
Speaker 1: know what we think is gonna happen this weekend. That
Speaker 1: game is a Sunday night tilt. Should be a very
Speaker 1: interesting game, hopefully a fun game, and hopefully Cowboys got
Speaker 1: a win. We'll see before we get going.
Speaker 2: That new game hit the over. Oh my god, by
Speaker 2: barely did you watch it? No?
Speaker 1: I did either, Like I was like, I'm not watching this.
Speaker 2: I was watching.
Speaker 1: I'm I was watching, and I watch anything.
Speaker 3: I'm not happy. Wasn't half bad, but it was a
Speaker 3: Zeke game.
Speaker 4: Kudos to Zeke for being able to basically get that
Speaker 4: he willed.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Zeke, I couldn't watch it, bro.
Speaker 3: That was the game. I can over one.
Speaker 4: Hundred and fifty roughly one hundred watch from scrimmage. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: like that helped see.
Speaker 3: The win for them, but all screaming for him.
Speaker 4: He saved a pick six, so z that he throws
Speaker 4: the ball and it would have been a pick six
Speaker 4: that probably would have one would have won the game
Speaker 4: for Pittsburgh, and Zeke went from zero to I did
Speaker 4: see that gun the guy down through knife through guys
Speaker 4: to gun the guy down at the sideline and it
Speaker 4: ended up the next driving the turnover on down so
Speaker 4: Patriots got the ball back.
Speaker 3: So Zeke was playing defense and offense.
Speaker 2: That's why his mom tweeted out he made a tackle
Speaker 2: at Florida. A.
Speaker 3: Yeah she did.
Speaker 2: She's like this guy he could tackles, acting like he
Speaker 2: can't tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, still love hes such a football mom. You
Speaker 1: could see the football mom.
Speaker 2: Too, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, they're a family full of athletes, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Mom was an athlete. Think she's a big time track star, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that's where they kind of get. But so
Speaker 3: it was that dad was in the as well. So
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's in the blood.
Speaker 1: Lineeah, no doubt. But before we get going, we gotta
Speaker 1: say happy birthday time on B hey G, happy birthday.
Speaker 5: Thank you, So don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: It's twenty one and we'll just repeat, okay, just twenty one.
Speaker 3: I was going to say twenty nine. Q so because
Speaker 3: we're like this.
Speaker 5: You know this My funny thing is, you know, the
Speaker 5: funny thing is that when I was a lot younger
Speaker 5: I used to be, I would get so annoyed with
Speaker 5: women that wouldn't say their age. I'm like, who cares big, Like,
Speaker 5: You're so ridiculous. And now I've hit this and I'm like,
Speaker 5: well now I get it. You know, man, all types
Speaker 5: of happeningsday.
Speaker 2: But man, so Pollard and Micah together, Brian.
Speaker 5: Scouting, Yeah, football team, it's not scouting people's ages.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm about to be sixty right Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Man, every year is a blessing. So I'm like, you
Speaker 1: can know exactly how many you might.
Speaker 2: Do without me soon? You know.
Speaker 5: That's Oh no, don't say that.
Speaker 1: You got one coming up here too, Tuesday?
Speaker 2: Is that going to be sixty sixty? One of my
Speaker 2: fun times to my memory, I turned fifty Nick Arrange. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Sean Lee, oh bring me fifty Jersey on birthday?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Nice?
Speaker 2: That was That was one of the cooler times. Sewan like,
Speaker 2: I heard there's a birthday and Sean Lee like, what
Speaker 2: did I say?
Speaker 1: Did I make mad?
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, happy birthday, and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Luckily it was a great player that wore fifty at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a great player that worked all right.
Speaker 1: But happy birthday a genre. Happy to have you on
Speaker 1: the show today. I didn't know if you show up.
Speaker 1: I figured you might be like, wake up and be like,
Speaker 1: I'm chilling the day, I'm not coming in. So I
Speaker 1: was waiting for that phone call.
Speaker 5: But no, no, no, I was gonna show up. I'll
Speaker 5: come in here now. I have issues today.
Speaker 1: You know, was that on the show you were talking
Speaker 1: about it yesterday or was that just off the show?
Speaker 5: It was on the break.
Speaker 1: It was on the break and you just put it
Speaker 1: like I'm pretty sure, she said on the air, So
Speaker 1: you might. You might just need to tell everybody why
Speaker 1: you're now.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 5: Some people know what I'm talking about. It tends to
Speaker 5: get under my skin sometimes with some of the updates.
Speaker 5: Love you Ben, yeah yeah, but they love doing updates
Speaker 5: and Geary up dates, and this one in the middle
Speaker 5: of the season they decided to do when he just
Speaker 5: screwed up my whole computer and he messes your workflow,
Speaker 5: like things don't work properly, your dog is it's messed up.
Speaker 5: And I was complaining about it yesterday during the break
Speaker 5: and then today, and I remember, I'm like, man, I
Speaker 5: how to change my password today, which was yesterday my
Speaker 5: last day.
Speaker 1: And I waited god like, by the way, by the way,
Speaker 1: they give you a two week notice, like they start
Speaker 1: every day counting down like fourteen days, you have thirteen day,
Speaker 1: twelve days, like they gave her a chance. They gave
Speaker 1: her every opportunity.
Speaker 2: Me and Hellman used to gamble on this all the time.
Speaker 2: How close can you get before it actually goes away?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm locked. I'm locked out today and I have
Speaker 5: to go find that ta and see if they can
Speaker 5: unlock my account.
Speaker 4: I'm just imagining the smile on Ben's face as you
Speaker 4: walk up.
Speaker 3: It's just ear to ear like the cheshire cat. Oh
Speaker 3: oh now.
Speaker 1: All right, yes, happy birthday he is. Let's go and
Speaker 1: jump in. Let's talk a little bit about some injuries.
Speaker 1: We got to get update on Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4: What do we know, Yeah, fantastic news. Mike is back
Speaker 4: in the building this morning. Oh and Jerry two days ago, Yeah,
Speaker 4: two days ago, not even forty eight hours, less than
Speaker 4: forty eight hours ago.
Speaker 3: So he's back in the building.
Speaker 4: And Jerry Jones Tote one O five three the fan
Speaker 4: this morning that it will be quote unquote business as
Speaker 4: usual when it comes to the coaching regimen for this Sunday.
Speaker 4: So Mike and I'm assuming that means Mike will be
Speaker 4: on the subside, because business as usual is exactly that,
Speaker 4: business as usual. Kind of a funny thing that Dak
Speaker 4: said yesterday when I asked Dak about the potential of
Speaker 4: Mike being on the field or being available to coach,
Speaker 4: and he said, you know, he's he's a tough guy,
Speaker 4: and he's always saying he's a tough guy, so so
Speaker 4: prove it.
Speaker 3: Okay, I love that. I love that. So I'm sure
Speaker 3: Mike saw that.
Speaker 4: It was like, oh, okay, so yeah, Micha will be
Speaker 4: back in the bill. We'll see if he's on the field,
Speaker 4: but it sounds like he'll be on the field less
Speaker 4: than four days after having an emergency ampedectomy. As far
Speaker 4: as the injury report, with a lot of guys returning
Speaker 4: from a veteran rest day, it trunk quite a bit
Speaker 4: veteran rest day for Zach Martin on yesterday. Tyrone Smith
Speaker 4: is still on the planned Capital T Capital P Matt
Speaker 4: Well Let's go Who's twenty one day practice window was
Speaker 4: activated on Wednesday, he was upgraded to full participant and
Speaker 4: the usual Rico Daldo still dealing with that ankle, he
Speaker 4: was limited Peyton Hendershot, he's still on the injury report,
Speaker 4: but he's been activated to the fifty three man roster,
Speaker 4: sending Sean McEwan with an ankle injury to IR. So
Speaker 4: for the most part, outside of those who are on IR,
Speaker 4: Cowboys are really healthy going into this game, So knock
Speaker 4: on wood that stays the case. After Fridays and Saturday's practice.
Speaker 1: Have you guys gotten any indication as to whether what
Speaker 1: they did with Zach is going to be a normal thing.
Speaker 1: Obviously right now Tyron really isn't practicing on full practices
Speaker 1: and it's worked like it does seem as though he's
Speaker 1: a little more spry. Does it seem like maybe they're
Speaker 1: they're going down that track with Zach now this week,
Speaker 1: giving him that rest as.
Speaker 2: We we have the opportunity on win five through the
Speaker 2: Fan to interview him every Thursday, and he he talks
Speaker 2: about how hard it is to get back for these games,
Speaker 2: and especially with the number of games they played in
Speaker 2: the number of days. So I think they're being very
Speaker 2: mindful of his situation. And you know, his his age,
Speaker 2: but yeah, he I it sounds like just talking to
Speaker 2: him that he really appreciates he likes to practice, but
Speaker 2: he also, you know, he also appreciates feeling better because
Speaker 2: we asked him the question about that, and you know
Speaker 2: he's talking about the mini buy and how much it
Speaker 2: helped his body and stuff. So I think the I
Speaker 2: think the organization is being just really mindful about it.
Speaker 2: If he said, if they said go practice, he'd go practice.
Speaker 2: But he does appreciate them allowing him not to have
Speaker 2: to go out there and bang around a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not a spring chicken anymore, and I think
Speaker 4: everybody involved recognizes that. And now we're getting into the
Speaker 4: back end of the season where you know, the wear
Speaker 4: and here it can really start to show itself. So
Speaker 4: it just makes sense that, you know, you would start
Speaker 4: to kind of ease back on his practice workload. But
Speaker 4: like Brian said, Zach, whatever you need him to do
Speaker 4: as far as press, he will get out there and
Speaker 4: do it. But it's just wise by McCarthy and his
Speaker 4: staff to look at a guy as valuable as Zach
Speaker 4: Martin on an offensive line that has had more than
Speaker 4: its share of adversity this season with injury and saying, hey,
Speaker 4: we need you.
Speaker 3: For this, for this push.
Speaker 4: So yeah, if you don't practice one or two times
Speaker 4: a week, if it helps you be refreshed for Sunday
Speaker 4: or you know, Monday, so be it.
Speaker 3: So I like it.
Speaker 5: And it also comes at a time where now you
Speaker 5: can say everyone's on the same like in sync and
Speaker 5: on the same page. As far as the old line,
Speaker 5: I know we were. There were a few weeks where
Speaker 5: we were discussing they needed to practice together and that
Speaker 5: wasn't happening. They have enough enough time to do that.
Speaker 5: I think they found the rhythm now and it's okay
Speaker 5: for those guys to to rest and then give reps
Speaker 5: to the other guys behind them.
Speaker 4: That just really just put el DeBarge in my head.
Speaker 4: So now it's gonna be stuck for the rest of
Speaker 4: the day, in the month, and in the morning. I'm
Speaker 4: showing my age now. But yeah, thanks for that, because I.
Speaker 1: Love this, like you just had to sing it, like, okay,
Speaker 1: oh I'm not afraid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll put myself out there.
Speaker 1: You know, I ain't man at you. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: let's go. You mentioned him what what realistically can they
Speaker 1: expect from him. Is this really more about just getting
Speaker 1: in practice time or is this something where they expect
Speaker 1: that maybe he can fill in and be a backup
Speaker 1: type player for this season.
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like this is more gear to
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think this is like, you know, kind of figure out,
Speaker 2: let him have these next you know, the twenty one days,
Speaker 2: take the full amount about it and go about it
Speaker 2: that way, you know. But and maybe they'll have an
Speaker 2: ability to put him on hopefully they won't have to
Speaker 2: use him in any way. But I think this is
Speaker 2: more about he's missed a lot of time, yeah, and
Speaker 2: so now it's trying to make up. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much you can make up in twenty one days
Speaker 2: with the way that they practice, but at least he's
Speaker 2: out there doing something. And I think this is more
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty four hopefully for that.
Speaker 4: I think it's it's that in addition to just its insurance, right,
Speaker 4: so you never know what's going to happen with the
Speaker 4: injuries on the offensive line. So if you start this
Speaker 4: twenty one day window, now, that's it's allowing him to
Speaker 4: practice and get those reps in so best case you
Speaker 4: don't need him, and a guy like Austin Richards remains available,
Speaker 4: and then you let him revert to season ending and
Speaker 4: hey see you again in twenty twenty four. But then
Speaker 4: another scenario is if you were knock on wood to
Speaker 4: lose a guy like Austin Richards for whatever case in
Speaker 4: late December, guess what, Well, let's go has been practicing
Speaker 4: and he's ready to be activated. So it just makes
Speaker 4: sense on both on both notes.
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Speaker 1: Welcome Back. It is the second segment of The Break
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Speaker 1: in the sock a little Cowboys versus Eagles. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys saw Nick Bosa was speaking to
Speaker 1: the media, and I thought it was really interesting. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are rooting for the Cowboys this weekend because
Speaker 1: they're thinking, hey, we need somebody else to put another
Speaker 1: loss on the Eagles. I'm sorry, forty nine put another
Speaker 1: loss on the Eagles because you know that'll put them
Speaker 1: in position to be the number one seed, which got
Speaker 1: me danging. I don't know I necessarily want them to
Speaker 1: be the number one seed, especially well, especially if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys is gonna be the fit seed. I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want them at one. But that all beside the point
Speaker 1: he made the comment that they put on tape the
Speaker 1: blueprint for how you handle Jalen Hurts. My question for
Speaker 1: you guys is, as you watch that game and have
Speaker 1: watched film, what do you think is that blueprint.
Speaker 2: And talking about it?
Speaker 1: It's that four man.
Speaker 3: And hold, contain, keep containing, keep him in the pocket.
Speaker 2: Don't get at a lanees. That's the whole thing. You
Speaker 2: got to play with discipline. Buffalo did the same thing,
Speaker 2: you know, and but it's when you it's when they're
Speaker 2: a good enough offensive line that when they when you
Speaker 2: twist your front, when you move your front, they're good
Speaker 2: enough of taking your two guys and pinning them to
Speaker 2: one side. They're they're that type of they're they're powerful,
Speaker 2: they're athletic. And so what happens if you keep your
Speaker 2: rush in your integrity of the pocket and the way
Speaker 2: you rush. We talk about making him play backwards, make
Speaker 2: play off his back foot, make him hold the ball,
Speaker 2: make him make the decision of nobody's open, I've got
Speaker 2: to throw it away. That's what That's exactly what Buffalo did.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what the forty nine ers did. You know,
Speaker 2: they maintain their their level of rush and they didn't
Speaker 2: give him the gaps, the crevices, the space anything. When
Speaker 2: he sees that, when he sees you your defensive front
Speaker 2: all wadded up on one side of the field, he's
Speaker 2: going to run. That's just the way he plays. I mean,
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to run, but he'll do it in
Speaker 2: a way to hurt you to get to the next down.
Speaker 2: So that's exactly what Bosa was talking about.
Speaker 4: And what's wild about it about it is the outrage
Speaker 4: from Eagles fans. And I don't understand it because if
Speaker 4: you've watched your quarterback over the course of this season
Speaker 4: we'll keep it to this season, then you know that
Speaker 4: that's something that opposing defenses continually try to do, is
Speaker 4: they try to keep him in the pocket, maintain the lanes,
Speaker 4: and keep him contained and then force him to either
Speaker 4: make that throw or stand there and get sacked by.
Speaker 3: The interior pressure.
Speaker 4: So seeing Nick Bosa say it, I think for Eagles
Speaker 4: fans it was just more so, Oh, well, it's a
Speaker 4: guy who just helped humiliate us on our own field,
Speaker 4: and now he's also rooting for the Cowboys to do
Speaker 4: the same. But truth be told, we talk about I
Speaker 4: said it yesterday. It's one thing to have the blueprint
Speaker 4: of another team It's another thing to have the toolbox.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys have the toolbox. So I love what Bosa
Speaker 4: said because it's true. Hopefully you know, while the Cowboys
Speaker 4: are handling business against the Eagles and the hours prior,
Speaker 4: the Seahawks would have handled business against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: to kind of wipe that smug look off his face,
Speaker 4: because I mean, thanks for cheering for the Cowboys, Bosta
Speaker 4: this week, but go Seahawks, right, So I mean, but
Speaker 4: nothing Bosa said is pulled out of thin air. It's
Speaker 4: something that teams have been trying to do to him,
Speaker 4: and they did it successfully.
Speaker 2: See what you worry about in this game is it's
Speaker 2: really easy to say to brush for and play and
Speaker 2: try and contain he is banged up. I think he's
Speaker 2: more healthy, if that's just the right way to say it.
Speaker 2: I think he's healthier this game than he was in
Speaker 2: Week nine with his injury. And so now it turns
Speaker 2: into like, Okay, I'm just gonna run and I'm in pain.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run and i'm gonna get down and i'm
Speaker 2: gonna get out of bounce. But I'm gonna make you.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you have to defend me running. I
Speaker 2: don't think he wants to do all the read option stuff.
Speaker 2: I just think it's now either handed off or throw
Speaker 2: the screen. I don't think he's interested in running the ball.
Speaker 2: But if you force him to run the ball, he
Speaker 2: will run the ball. And but you got to be
Speaker 2: you gotta be disciplined the way you play against him,
Speaker 2: because even as banged up as he might everybody thinks
Speaker 2: he is, he's still capable of getting spring one, eight, ten, twelve,
Speaker 2: fifteen yards and then get down or get out of bound.
Speaker 1: So here's one of the challenges. I think that happens
Speaker 1: sometimes in football. You can look at a matchup like
Speaker 1: this and I hear what you guys are saying of
Speaker 1: you know, you you kind of have to stay in
Speaker 1: your lanes and maybe avoid some of those Yeah, some
Speaker 1: of those twists and stunts. But the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is that's what they do. Like, they do a
Speaker 1: lot of twists and stunts.
Speaker 2: So they don't rush four, right, But how do you
Speaker 2: look at the metrics? They don't rush four. This is
Speaker 2: something that they're not accustomed to. They blitz on second
Speaker 2: down and they rush more. They're five to six man
Speaker 2: rush team. Now I get that.
Speaker 1: I guess. What I'm saying though, is they also do
Speaker 1: a lot of twists, right, a lot of stunts. And
Speaker 1: so where I'm wondering is how much do you say,
Speaker 1: for a particular matchup, let's get away from what we
Speaker 1: normally do in order to take advantage of the matchup
Speaker 1: versus this is what we normally do, and it's what
Speaker 1: we're best at, and we're gonna stick with that, even
Speaker 1: if that could expose us a bit.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing about it is twists and stunts and
Speaker 2: games and all that go really well when you play
Speaker 2: the Giants or the Rams or somebody that has a
Speaker 2: bad offensive line. That's the problem when you play the
Speaker 2: Eagles is that you know where Dallas is going to
Speaker 2: have to win this game, I think is in the
Speaker 2: middle of their defense. I think they're gonna have to
Speaker 2: find a way to affect and bosas also talking about
Speaker 2: affecting eye level, which is every quarterback's nightmare. When you
Speaker 2: see the rush and your eyes go down and then
Speaker 2: you you take it, and that's why it hurts holds
Speaker 2: the ball, you know, he holds it. He sees the
Speaker 2: rush and it keeps coming, and then he looks back
Speaker 2: up and then he tries to make a play. The twists,
Speaker 2: the games and all that that that get you could
Speaker 2: get away when you have an offensive line that doesn't
Speaker 2: have athletic ability. That's the one thing that these tackles
Speaker 2: to me, running Micah against these offensive tackles is a
Speaker 2: wasted rep that it just is. You know, put him
Speaker 2: against you know, Cam Jurgens, or put him against Kelsey,
Speaker 2: you know, put him against one of those guys that
Speaker 2: he could clearly win one on one. You know, with
Speaker 2: those other Johnson will just run you wide. I mean,
Speaker 2: he'll just push you why And my Allota on the
Speaker 2: other side is big enough that sometimes you can get
Speaker 2: him on the inside rush. But if you keep going
Speaker 2: wide on him, he's just a big body he's gonna
Speaker 2: make He's just gonna force you wide, force you wide,
Speaker 2: and you'll never get there. So to me, I when
Speaker 2: the twist, the games, the front, all that stuff against
Speaker 2: inferior offensive lineman work. When you twist, like I said earlier,
Speaker 2: when you twist against this front, they'll pin you to
Speaker 2: one side there good enough to adjust back and just
Speaker 2: pin you down there. And now that whole left side
Speaker 2: of of your defensive line is exposed. And there's the
Speaker 2: ability to kind of go out that door.
Speaker 4: If you want to approve you're an elite defense, you
Speaker 4: have to be able to be versatile and what's required
Speaker 4: of you on a week to week basis. Go back
Speaker 4: to week five and we talked about going into that
Speaker 4: game against the forty nine ers. What did the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers typically do as far as defensive secondaries go.
Speaker 4: It was primarily zone and then they switched to man
Speaker 4: on demand and they were very effective in stopping the
Speaker 4: Cowboys and doing that. This is not a different situation
Speaker 4: entirely when you say, okay, well, yeah, you're better as
Speaker 4: a defensive front in Dallas with twists and stunts and
Speaker 4: games and things like that, but be able to adapt
Speaker 4: to the opponent. This is an opponent that you would
Speaker 4: have a much easier time dealing with if you just
Speaker 4: say line up one, two, three, four and go beat
Speaker 4: your man. Go beat your man straight up. We're not
Speaker 4: going to get fancy with this. And then for those
Speaker 4: times where you can't beat your man, make sure you
Speaker 4: get your hands up in the passing lanes. They try
Speaker 4: to bat down some of those quick outs, those quick
Speaker 4: slants and things like that disrupt the level, like Brian said,
Speaker 4: and this is definitely one of those games where don't
Speaker 4: get too fancy with a lot of that that movement
Speaker 4: with the twists and the stunt.
Speaker 3: Just go line up nose to nose and just beat
Speaker 3: your man.
Speaker 4: And then if you lose that particular rep, make sure
Speaker 4: that you impact that rep by hands in the air.
Speaker 4: You know, go full JJ Watt if you need to
Speaker 4: just try to disrupt the rep however you can.
Speaker 5: I have a question before break. We know we've seen
Speaker 5: some struggles in the secondary the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: If you were to evaluate the Cowboys defense right now
Speaker 5: versus how they looked the first time they faced the
Speaker 5: Eagles earlier this season, how different are they.
Speaker 2: The Eagles or the Cowboys. I think there was the
Speaker 2: questions that I had about the Cowboys defense the first
Speaker 2: time around. I was worried about the run defense at
Speaker 2: that point in time. I was really worried about their
Speaker 2: ability to I was I thought that Philadelphia would just
Speaker 2: load up been trying and run the football on them.
Speaker 2: I think they're better equipped now. I've learned this about
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. It's usually not about them getting whipped up front.
Speaker 2: With how teams play against them. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: it has to do with self afflicted where they jump gaps,
Speaker 2: don't play, scheme, don't fit, you know. I think they
Speaker 2: have a better understanding of where they need to be
Speaker 2: in the run game part of it. So I think
Speaker 2: that's something you could kind of count on. What I
Speaker 2: would worry about in this game is that we saw
Speaker 2: the Seahawks with some of those inbreaking routes and I
Speaker 2: mean the slants, and this could be this is something
Speaker 2: that the Eagles like to do. They like to throw
Speaker 2: the end, they like to throw the slant. Can Bland,
Speaker 2: can gilboth? Can they safeties? Can the safeties react? You know?
Speaker 2: You know, but you play so much single high there
Speaker 2: that it's kind of hard to take away slants, which
Speaker 2: is one unless you're shading to that one side, you know.
Speaker 2: So I feel like the Cowboys defensively against the run
Speaker 2: could be fine in this game. The pass this is
Speaker 2: what worries me, especially the quick stuff. If they go
Speaker 2: to the slant game and we've seen them give up
Speaker 2: some plays down the field with some of the vertical
Speaker 2: routes and stuff. I felt like that maybe the first
Speaker 2: time around we didn't see that as much, but now
Speaker 2: we're starting to kind of see that teams are you know,
Speaker 2: you throw the slant. I mean they what the they've
Speaker 2: had they if you go back throughout the year with
Speaker 2: the Jets, the Jets had a slant in what Week
Speaker 2: two that went for a touchdown long one. We've seen
Speaker 2: them have some problems with with those, with those routes
Speaker 2: that break inside a little bit, And that would be
Speaker 2: my concern, my biggest concern if I were the Cowboys
Speaker 2: in this game coming up.
Speaker 4: I think they've shown that they haven't figured out in
Speaker 4: both run defense and pass defense. But when you come
Speaker 4: out of a game like you had against the Seahawks,
Speaker 4: and I've said this before, I sait it on the fan,
Speaker 4: I can't give enough roses to Geno Smith for being
Speaker 4: able to get the ball out just as quickly as
Speaker 4: he could. There was nothing you could really do about that.
Speaker 4: But the Cowboys need against the Eagles, they need to
Speaker 4: combine those two things. They need to combine the fact
Speaker 4: that they helped bottle up Jalen Hurts in that run
Speaker 4: defense outside of the you know the game world touchdown.
Speaker 3: That was more and SOI screen to the right.
Speaker 4: But they were able to show that they can bottle
Speaker 4: them up there, and they've been showing that they can
Speaker 4: bottle up receivers through the course of the season by
Speaker 4: not allowing a one hundred yard.
Speaker 3: Receiver until the Seahawks. And there's other contextuals there as well.
Speaker 3: As three games in eleven days and your third game
Speaker 3: happens to be against this corps, that receiver corps. That's
Speaker 3: that's a handful.
Speaker 4: So now they're more arrested coming off of the many
Speaker 4: buy it's the second another chance for them. I don't
Speaker 4: see them having a bad day at the office in
Speaker 4: the passing game. Two games in a row, and both
Speaker 4: of those games are at home. I think they bounced
Speaker 4: back well. But as far as the totality is concerned,
Speaker 4: I think this is a better defense than the one
Speaker 4: that went up to Philadelphia, and it's definitely a more
Speaker 4: motivated one because there's more on the line now and again,
Speaker 4: they do not want to be the reason that the
Speaker 4: Cowboys are fearful of losing this game late in the
Speaker 4: fourth quarter, not for a second consecutive week. The offense
Speaker 4: saved the game save the day last week, So you
Speaker 4: better believe Michaeh Tank and those guys. They're like you're
Speaker 4: not going to with that on us this week. We're
Speaker 4: going to be out there, we're going to play some ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, we mentioned Seattle, and I wonder if
Speaker 1: this whole concept of the blueprint goes both ways.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if Philadelphia looks at that game and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: if we can get our quick passing game going, Dallas
Speaker 1: might struggle with that because, for whatever reason, a lot
Speaker 1: of times those corners will back off and they'll give
Speaker 1: you that quick that quick slant, they'll give you that
Speaker 1: quick end, that quick out. If you can get your
Speaker 1: quick passing game going, that could be a problem for Dallas.
Speaker 2: Yeah. There were a couple of times too where I
Speaker 2: thought Dallas against Seattle got caught in some bad coverages
Speaker 2: third and two and they're playing off and it's a
Speaker 2: nine yard pass to Smith and Jigba on the out
Speaker 2: and you're like, going, man, that was way too easy
Speaker 2: for them. You know, they're fighting, you know, you're fighting
Speaker 2: to get off the field, and you allow them to
Speaker 2: catch the ball for nine yards. Yeah, that that might
Speaker 2: be a little bit of being a little shy about. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're if we play up on these guys, we're going
Speaker 2: to give up a bigger play. Yeah, you know, so
Speaker 2: they were explosive. Yeah, this is a good receiver crew.
Speaker 2: And we'll see what happens with their tight end. You know,
Speaker 2: him coming back and is he in game shape? Is
Speaker 2: he ready to go? There's so many problems that he
Speaker 2: presents on third down and I think the Cowboys saw
Speaker 2: a little bit of that last time that they played. Well.
Speaker 4: The beauty of it is and as we have this conversation,
Speaker 4: we talk about, you know, where defenses are. I think
Speaker 4: the Eagles defense is it was already not great. Run
Speaker 4: defense was in week nine, the secondary not so much.
Speaker 4: I think the secondary is worse now entering week fourteen
Speaker 4: than it was in week nine. And the Cowboys offense
Speaker 4: is better entering week fourteen than it was in week nine.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we're talking about, you know, how Dallas got
Speaker 4: it impact the game if he will? Will he have
Speaker 4: some rush that he needs to knock off and these
Speaker 4: quick end routes which is nothing that the Cowboys aren't
Speaker 4: accustomed to, because this is what the Eagles do anyway,
Speaker 4: So the Seahawks doing it no big deal. But when
Speaker 4: you talk about the Cowboys and Lamb being moved all
Speaker 4: around and Cook's now getting involved in some of these
Speaker 4: other guys. Jake Ferguson really coming on strong, and the
Speaker 4: list goes on and on, Cavante Turpin. There are a
Speaker 4: lot of stress points for this Eagle secondary that is
Speaker 4: one of the worst in the league. So you know
Speaker 4: the have more than their handful as well. So as
Speaker 4: long as the Cowboys offense is what it has been,
Speaker 4: they could get out to a fast start and they
Speaker 4: could use the scoreboard as the twelfth defender.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick, let's talk about the have these
Speaker 1: two questions. I want you all, you all to answer,
Speaker 1: Who's the most dangerous offensive player for Philadelphia and who's
Speaker 1: the most dangerous defensive player for Philadelphia in this matchup.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lean with the Smith that I know. Everybody
Speaker 2: talks about Brown and what he can do. AJ Brown
Speaker 2: and he's just a physical beast out there. But Davonte Smith,
Speaker 2: to me is the one I feel like though when
Speaker 2: the game, when Hurts needs a play a convert, he
Speaker 2: is going to look for number six. His kid has
Speaker 2: got great body control, he plays with balance, he's fast,
Speaker 2: he catches everything you throw at him, So I would
Speaker 2: worry about him. He's the guy that bothers me the
Speaker 2: most going into this one.
Speaker 4: Offensive Liam, I'm gonna go with Jalen Hurts. I mean
Speaker 4: that's as we have this conversation. He's still on top
Speaker 4: of the conversation for MVP. And if you can, if
Speaker 4: your game plan is effective against Hurts and or you
Speaker 4: can get hands on him, or you can force him
Speaker 4: to throw where you want him to throw, how you
Speaker 4: want him to throw. You will negate Davante Smith, you
Speaker 4: will negate aj Brown, you in the gate, Dallas got it.
Speaker 4: So for me, their passing game, it starts and it
Speaker 4: ends with what Jalen can do. And that also includes
Speaker 4: if you allow him to leak out the backside and
Speaker 4: stretch plays and extend drives. That's just going to make
Speaker 4: for a longer day. So for me offensively, Jalen Hurts. Defensively,
Speaker 4: they have some dogs up front. But I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with Hasan Reddick. Yeah, Hassan Reddick. He's just too good
Speaker 4: at what he does. He can go speed to power,
Speaker 4: and his speed is that real problem for opposing offensive tackles.
Speaker 4: So keep an eye on on Hassan Reddick if you
Speaker 4: can bottle him up or keeping keep him kind of
Speaker 4: negated as much as you can, then you will have
Speaker 4: an opportunity, several opportunities for explosive plays. If not, Dak's
Speaker 4: gonna have to use his legs more than he has
Speaker 4: been using.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a can very well come down to
Speaker 2: how well Terrence Steel plays and how well that they
Speaker 2: they handle Reddick off that off that left side for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I still think that Terrence still has been improving. Yes,
Speaker 5: and he's a guy that right now, A lot of
Speaker 5: the senses that I'm getting from a lot of people
Speaker 5: is they don't they still have full trust in him
Speaker 5: just yet with him with dealing with that injury and
Speaker 5: the way he's coming back, even though he's been improving,
Speaker 5: he's still a guy that you know, you mentioned it
Speaker 5: the other day. If you allow a pass rusher to
Speaker 5: get through you, ye three times, you're that's a bad game.
Speaker 5: Like So it's it's a it's an area where it
Speaker 5: can definitely affect the game and affect how Dak Prescott plays.
Speaker 5: So one thing that that is in their advantage for
Speaker 5: the Cowboys is the fact that Dak is playing so
Speaker 5: fast and he's getting rid of the ball so quickly,
Speaker 5: and he's been feeling a lot more comfortable using his legs,
Speaker 5: getting out of the p if needed, and running. So
Speaker 5: at least there is that positive side that you have
Speaker 5: a quarterback that right now feels a lot more comfortable
Speaker 5: with everything that he's doing. So hopefully that doesn't become
Speaker 5: a factor, but definitely a player to watch there and
Speaker 5: a matchup to watch. And I was gonna go with
Speaker 5: Galen Hurts too, just because I mean that's where it
Speaker 5: all starts. And Gellen Hurts even when he was injured
Speaker 5: that last time they played, he was still running like
Speaker 5: he used his legs a few plays and it was
Speaker 5: positive for them. So he's still a weapon. He's healthier
Speaker 5: quote unquote than the last time they wear and it
Speaker 5: concerns me when you have a quarterback that can run,
Speaker 5: because we've seen how much that can affect this Cowboy's defense.
Speaker 5: So those would be my two guys as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, after seeing what DK Metcalf did last week, I
Speaker 1: got to think it's Aj Brown. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a clone, right that's a clone and probably a
Speaker 1: better version of that clone. And the things that we
Speaker 1: saw DK Metcalf do last week, I think Aj Brown
Speaker 1: can do that and then some and so I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit worried about that. Like all season, they hadn't
Speaker 1: really had receivers get them like that, and then you
Speaker 1: have now two games in the last what two games,
Speaker 1: two in the last two where you've had a receiver
Speaker 1: go over one hundred yards, And so I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit concerned about aj Brown and what he can do.
Speaker 1: He's been having one of those years, So it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be shocking if he does to the Cowboys what he's
Speaker 1: done to many many other teams this season. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our final break, will come back. Got a
Speaker 1: few more questions for you guys. We'll get to our picks.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Final segment of the Break. Lie s w
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Speaker 5: Derek is. I'm not in the head space.
Speaker 3: You never met him.
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm just gonna say you get to fifty nobody start.
Speaker 1: When I woke upset, it was that Sunday morning after
Speaker 1: the Texas game. Wow, that was a rough days, A
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Speaker 1: a question. Brian Woodward. His question is yes, sir.
Speaker 2: No, it said Brian, no question.
Speaker 1: Brian Woodward. His question is is the Cowboys offensive line
Speaker 1: jelling at the right time? Says Doc is playing lights out,
Speaker 1: but the O line holding up is what makes that
Speaker 1: possible in many cases?
Speaker 4: What do you think not perfect quite yet, but absolutely
Speaker 4: coming together with their continuity and jelling at the right time.
Speaker 4: And we talked about it mid season, but when the
Speaker 4: question was posed, how many games does this front five
Speaker 4: need to have together in order to start really establishing
Speaker 4: the continuity and not set four? Okay, well we're past
Speaker 4: that marker now when they got the plan down pat
Speaker 4: with Tyron Smith not practicing, sprinkle some of that magic
Speaker 4: on the Zach Martin as well, and now every single
Speaker 4: game these guys play together, every single rip is another
Speaker 4: opportunity for them to kind of come together chemistry wise.
Speaker 4: So yeah, they are in fact coming together at a
Speaker 4: perfect time. Because this stretch is about to be brutal
Speaker 4: for the couples.
Speaker 2: Big challenge at center. The audist is playing better and
Speaker 2: your right tackle's playing better, and that's made this line
Speaker 2: better overall, so that you need those two to continue
Speaker 2: this weekend. For sure, it's going to be a real
Speaker 2: challenge inside for these guys. It's not about the movement,
Speaker 2: it's about can you just do you have enough rocks
Speaker 2: in your pocket to keep them from knocking you back? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know that's the problem you're going to deal with
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been talking about December for quite a while
Speaker 5: and how tough it's going to be, the challenge and
Speaker 5: everything that's to come. So this is definitely the perfect
Speaker 5: time for the line to start jelling and us seeing
Speaker 5: some of the improvement there as well as the running game.
Speaker 5: Like the run game has improved. We've seen it get
Speaker 5: better the last two weeks, so it's trending upwards. Tony
Speaker 5: Pollard the way that he's playing as well, and that's
Speaker 5: credit to what's happening with the old line and everything
Speaker 5: that they're doing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, next question from Timothy Peters.
Speaker 2: His question is will the actually have names?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: This is cool, No, I know, I appreciate that they
Speaker 2: really do.
Speaker 1: Question is will cowboys put a spy on Hurts? Also
Speaker 1: will cowboys give her and still help with the chip
Speaker 1: block from tight end down the stretch when steel is
Speaker 1: getting tight.
Speaker 2: I think those are two things you have to always
Speaker 2: think about. Always hate the spy thing. It never works out.
Speaker 2: I saw somebody the other day. I think your Georgia
Speaker 2: Bulldogs did this. It's actually a really good plan. I
Speaker 2: think play two. Play two had him anyway he goes,
Speaker 2: that's right, and the one time we didn't, yeah, he
Speaker 2: split the the one time. You know what, you hate
Speaker 2: that because because the spy gets lost in the track
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden the spy runs the hump
Speaker 2: and then now it's a seven eight yard run already,
Speaker 2: and you're not you know, if you're a spy, you
Speaker 2: got to go attack the guy. You can't wait around.
Speaker 2: I think Georgia and Kirby Smart and that staff did
Speaker 2: a really good job of understanding that if the guy's
Speaker 2: going to go right or left, now, maybe you set
Speaker 2: it off the way you set your rush. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe you say, okay, we're going to rush, We're going
Speaker 2: to force him to go to our left, and you
Speaker 2: set the guy right there, Michael Parsons or somebody right
Speaker 2: there off that side. But man, I just can't tell
Speaker 2: you how many times the spy has ended up not
Speaker 2: getting the job done. I always worry about that, And yes,
Speaker 2: I think during the game you have to find ways
Speaker 2: to try and help steal. You just don't let Hassan
Speaker 2: Reddick or Grammar or Sweat or anybody that's rushing out
Speaker 2: there feel comfortable that it's going to be a one
Speaker 2: on one game the whole time. Yeah, chip at him,
Speaker 2: cut at him, hit him in the legs, whatever you
Speaker 2: have to do to try and slow up those edges.
Speaker 4: I think when you're talking about Jalen Hurts, you do
Speaker 4: have to consider it. But for me understanding that Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts does not want to run, and me tasking my
Speaker 4: front four with the job of keeping him in the pocket,
Speaker 4: maintaining the contained, and then trying to disrupt him from there,
Speaker 4: I personally would not go with the spy because that
Speaker 4: takes someone out of coverage, That takes someone out of
Speaker 4: you know, covering laterally, because he's just focused on this
Speaker 4: particular guy who doesn't want to run. So if it
Speaker 4: was more so a run first kind of guy. Eg
Speaker 4: Jalen hurts. When he's healthy, then that's more of a
Speaker 4: consideration before a guy who's dealing with the knee injury
Speaker 4: and maybe he is feeling a little bit better, but
Speaker 4: he's not one hundred percent, so that's not going to
Speaker 4: be his first or even his second thought.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't put a spy on that.
Speaker 4: I would just look at the front four and say
Speaker 4: go win, and then I would look at the back
Speaker 4: seven and say, here are your assignments and go from there.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna do it. Bell's the best open field
Speaker 2: tackler you got in.
Speaker 1: My opinion, Yeah, and he's got the speed to run,
Speaker 1: but he's got to.
Speaker 3: Speak it to him.
Speaker 2: He does. Question amber Garcia.
Speaker 5: Amber Garcia, since this question, Well, I'm just here thinking
Speaker 5: as you were talking, Patrick, I'm thinking, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 5: obviously I get it in situations where you have to
Speaker 5: run and you see the opportunity as a quarterback, right,
Speaker 5: you just do it, right, That's what it is. You
Speaker 5: got to play, This is what it is. But looking
Speaker 5: at December where they're at, I mean, are you trying
Speaker 5: to avoid possibly like at all costs, like limit the
Speaker 5: amount of times that you as the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Run, they have to worry about him getting hurt. Their
Speaker 2: season falls apart you. Last year they played Garden Minshew
Speaker 2: for what two games. One of the game the second
Speaker 2: Cowboys game, I believe he started, and they they went
Speaker 2: zero to two in games this guy didn't play. They
Speaker 2: they realized without him and most teams, you know, most
Speaker 2: teams without their starting quarterback are not going to fare
Speaker 2: very well. I think they're very mindful of how banged
Speaker 2: up this guy can get run in the football.
Speaker 3: So you're not on the Marcus Mariota train something.
Speaker 1: But you know, the interesting part about that is it
Speaker 1: doesn't mean well.
Speaker 2: I do understand. I do understand what the what he
Speaker 2: what uh what Car said? Because he's saying play him
Speaker 2: until he's health, until you got healthy out, give him
Speaker 2: a chance to get help. That part of it, I
Speaker 2: do respect.
Speaker 1: H Yeah, I will say this. I don't think it
Speaker 1: means he can't run. I think it means that they're
Speaker 1: probably preaching to him when you run, know when the
Speaker 1: ride's over and get down, like don't he understands, don't
Speaker 1: take the unnecessary hit. So he's and he's actually pretty
Speaker 1: good at it, like you don't see him taking a
Speaker 1: lot of big hits the league.
Speaker 2: He gets the sidelines and then he goes.
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. He knows how to do it quite well.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that. I don't know that he's
Speaker 1: not that that that stops him from running. I just
Speaker 1: think it's it's more being smart. I mean, we've seen that.
Speaker 1: That's been the conversation that they've had around here with
Speaker 1: Dak after his injury. Was not necessarily one to take
Speaker 1: it out of him, but we do need to be smart.
Speaker 1: You hear Jerry say that a lot. They did take
Speaker 1: it out of it, but Jerry said I remember Jerry
Speaker 1: saying on the on the fans several times, we're not
Speaker 1: necessarily telling him to stop. We need him to be smart.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure that he's not And I
Speaker 1: don't know if that translated to him as I just
Speaker 1: need to stop. And now he's getting that back. But
Speaker 1: you don't see Dak taking a lot of big blows
Speaker 1: right now either. I think there are moments in games
Speaker 1: when you will expose yourself for the risk versus the reward.
Speaker 1: But the vast majority of the time smart NFL quarterback
Speaker 1: knows has to know when it's time to get I.
Speaker 4: Think last year's version of Jalen Hurts you'd be more
Speaker 4: apt to put a spy on that guy this year's version.
Speaker 4: As we have this conversation, I'm not there that I'm
Speaker 4: looking at my front four and saying, you know, you've
Speaker 4: proven that you can all four of you and the
Speaker 4: wave behind you. You've proven that you can go out
Speaker 4: there and win the game, So go do it.
Speaker 1: All right, time for picks, Well.
Speaker 2: We have thirty twenty seven Dallas. I think it's going
Speaker 2: to be a Seattle game all over again. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to come down back and forth. I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be both teams are going to be
Speaker 2: fighting to try and stop the other one. There's gonna
Speaker 2: be huge plays in this game. And hopefully this Cowboy
Speaker 2: crowd has done a great job fourteenth straight wins. I
Speaker 2: believe now at home they're really getting into it is
Speaker 2: a hated rivalry. You need this game desperately. You find
Speaker 2: a way to get it done at the end. Dallas thirty,
Speaker 2: Philadelphia twenty seven.
Speaker 4: I think this is going to be a close game
Speaker 4: all the way down to maybe the last five six
Speaker 4: minutes of the fourth quarter, and I think ultimately the
Speaker 4: Cowboys defense gets a critical stop and the dek Prescott
Speaker 4: in the offense they go down, and it's a one
Speaker 4: score game all the way to this point.
Speaker 3: But then this is the nail in the coffin.
Speaker 4: So thirty five twenty four, but it's a one score
Speaker 4: game until the Cowboys put a nail in the coffin.
Speaker 5: I think you'll be close one all the way to
Speaker 5: the end. Thirty five thirty two Cowboys. He'll be one
Speaker 5: of those games. The same yeah, same thought with like
Speaker 5: how he went with Seattle, just a lot of back
Speaker 5: and forth and the offense being the protagonist of the story,
Speaker 5: both offenses scoring points.
Speaker 1: I think this secondary of the Eagles is worse than
Speaker 1: the secondary of the of the Seattle Seahawks. I think
Speaker 1: Dallas is in the forty range again this week. But
Speaker 1: I think it's a close game. Obviously, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think that the Cowboys necessarily have shown me that
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to stop this Philadelphia offense either,
Speaker 1: So I think it's gonna be back and forth game.
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to Brandon Arbery and his
Speaker 1: leg and that's what gets to win for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Forty one thirty eight in a very very entertaining but
Speaker 1: very stress It's gonna be very very stressful, gay stress,
Speaker 1: very very stressful game. All Right, we appreciate you guys
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Speaker 1: what went right and wrong for the Cowboys till then.
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