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Speaker 1: episode number sixty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're live from s WBC Morges Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Got my crew with me. We're gonna talk from Cowboys football.
Speaker 1: We can get you guys ready for this Cowboys versus
Speaker 1: Jets game coming up on Sunday. That's at three thirty
Speaker 1: Central time. So I guess let's first jump been and
Speaker 1: get started talking about a couple of injuries. Three guys
Speaker 1: miss practice yesterday. Talk to me about Layton vandresh Dave.
Speaker 1: You mentioned yesterday he wasn't at practice. We've learned more
Speaker 1: about why he wasn't at practice us a little bit
Speaker 1: about what's going on there. He's sick. He came in
Speaker 1: yesterday and was feeling under the weather, and they were like,
Speaker 1: let's hold you out. And Garrett said, this morning he
Speaker 1: feels better, but they're still holding them out. He came
Speaker 1: out to practice. He's not padded up, but he's out there.
Speaker 1: It looks like he's rehabbing with Britt Brown and then
Speaker 1: training the athletic training staff. Does he also have an
Speaker 1: injury or is it just the illness that's well said
Speaker 1: an illness? No, no, and but I think you know,
Speaker 1: it's more like if you're not going to practice, at
Speaker 1: least get out there and get your wind up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I you know, people brought this up like it looked
Speaker 1: at times like he was hobbled in a couple of
Speaker 1: these the Saints and Packers games. Specifically, he's not on
Speaker 1: the injury report with a physical ailment. Haven't heard anything
Speaker 1: about it. Um, so it's not it's not related to that,
Speaker 1: you know, just Nixon knocks that happened during a football game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would expect he's gonna play in this game. It's
Speaker 1: just you know, illnesses. It's I said this on the
Speaker 1: fan earlier today, is like when you have a team
Speaker 1: of highly trained professionals helping you get over the flu
Speaker 1: or a cold or whatever. It seems like athletes kick
Speaker 1: it a lot quicker than the rest of us do. So, Yeah,
Speaker 1: talk to me about Lyle Collins and Tyron Smith. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that Tyron Smith. They still saying that he is,
Speaker 1: uh it was promising to play, but he hasn't practiced yet.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to get him out there Friday tomorrow
Speaker 1: to see if he can do something. Can I do
Speaker 1: my best Nick impression real quick? He's gonna play. He's
Speaker 1: gonna play. I don't think you don't think he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it like that. That does That's I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's what you say. It's you typically say
Speaker 1: it about the other teams. Yes, you're like, he's gonna play,
Speaker 1: he's Odell Beckham, he's Tyrant Smith. Though he's Tyron Smith,
Speaker 1: he's a mutant. But I don't do that as it's
Speaker 1: like I didn't do that. Boy Davante Adams like him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't think he was gonna play? Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: I think that if I had to guess, I would
Speaker 1: say Tyre and plays Lyau doesn't. I agree with that,
Speaker 1: But it is the Jets, and I hope that doesn't
Speaker 1: factor into anything but okay, but see when you say
Speaker 1: it's the Jets, when you're arguing whether or not you
Speaker 1: sit like you're running back. You know, like if Zeke
Speaker 1: had had knocked up ankle right now, you know, an
Speaker 1: ankle bruise, maybe you have that conversation because you have backups.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't want to send Dak out there
Speaker 1: against any NFL team without either of his tackles. That's
Speaker 1: a terrible idea. If the Cowboys were five and oh,
Speaker 1: then yeah, you can delimit things with well, it's the
Speaker 1: Jets like they're three and two right now. They need
Speaker 1: every game and and so for me, I don't I would.
Speaker 1: I would look at it as he's able to play
Speaker 1: or is he not able to play? If he's not
Speaker 1: able to play us one thing. If he's able to play,
Speaker 1: then put him out there. I don't. I don't hold
Speaker 1: back just because of the opponent, in my opinion, not
Speaker 1: where they are right now, if it was. If it was,
Speaker 1: I think they do that. I mean, and I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as easy as saying black white, like he
Speaker 1: is able to play or he's not. Yeah, he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna be limping around and if after the
Speaker 1: Saints game, Danny, I'll let you answer this. At the
Speaker 1: Saints game, you saw that injury, you were like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss least one game, maybe two, And you're looking
Speaker 1: at it and you're like, well, Packers, you don't want
Speaker 1: to miss that one. But yeah, it's the Jets. You
Speaker 1: could probably miss that one getting ready for the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the Cowboys are in your position
Speaker 1: where they could use that as an excuse, Like Derek
Speaker 1: was saying like this that the Cowboys need to get
Speaker 1: back to winning games. You don't want to start getting
Speaker 1: on this losing streak and lose to the Jets, who
Speaker 1: haven't won a game yet. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: that team and then you don't have momentum going forward,
Speaker 1: and then you start losing confidence. I agree. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're in a position where you can say, but
Speaker 1: there are the Jets. If he needs another week, that's fine,
Speaker 1: and they're not near their bye week. Can they win
Speaker 1: without them? I see, But that's that's what it goes back,
Speaker 1: So you see it's I think it's I think it's different.
Speaker 1: Like if you told me Layton Vanderesh wasn't feeling great,
Speaker 1: But on Saturday, I'd be like, yeah, it's the Jets
Speaker 1: sid him. You got Shawn Lee, you got Joe Thomas.
Speaker 1: You can get through this game without Layton Vanderesha. Is
Speaker 1: that anything to do with how he played the last
Speaker 1: game a little bit? Yeah? I mean, like he's not
Speaker 1: playing that amazing. You know, you're missing a whole lot
Speaker 1: Smith though. Tyron Smith is just a different story, not
Speaker 1: only because of how good he is at his position
Speaker 1: and what he does for like everything, but also again,
Speaker 1: I don't want my quarterback to get murder, and so
Speaker 1: if he's healthy enough to play, then I would play him.
Speaker 1: That's even in preseason games though, right, literally, you don't
Speaker 1: want to throw my quarterback out in the preseason in game,
Speaker 1: in a game that legitimately didn't matter. Last year, preseason game,
Speaker 1: they sat Dak because Tyron couldn't go, and I mean
Speaker 1: Zach couldn't go either, and blah blah blah. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the hardest hit that Dak has taken since
Speaker 1: I remember any of these games since he's been here,
Speaker 1: I think was against the Saints a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He threw a pass. Remember that he threw that. He
Speaker 1: threw a pass kind to the right flat. Maybe in
Speaker 1: the first half he got smashed, like the one to
Speaker 1: w Yeah on the on the right side. Life he
Speaker 1: hit Witten on the sideline. Was early in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I think Cam Jordan, I think it
Speaker 1: was a combination. He got destroyed. I do remember what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. I mean, it happens. He takes hits,
Speaker 1: and but like we've said a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when when Cam was out there, I think he was
Speaker 1: rushing the ball and forcing it. I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: nobody can beat like the Jests can't win the game.
Speaker 1: Not saying that, but I'm saying if he's not healthy
Speaker 1: and they're rushing him back, I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: rush him back for anyone, especially in a game like this,
Speaker 1: word they should be able to win. They should be
Speaker 1: able to win. I think we're kind of saying the
Speaker 1: same thing because I agree with you from the standpoint
Speaker 1: that I don't think you necessarily like rushing guys back.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a dicey thing. Rushing guys back if
Speaker 1: they can play and they can play reliably and they're
Speaker 1: not going to cause increased damage to themselves. Then I'm
Speaker 1: all in. But I know in the NFL, and I
Speaker 1: know that look that you have David the NFL, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're probably guys to get back out there before their
Speaker 1: bodies are really ready to be back out there. Always um.
Speaker 1: But but I also don't think that you should make
Speaker 1: that decision based upon the opponent. Me personally, I think not.
Speaker 1: Not when you're three and two team. If you're five
Speaker 1: an old team, yeah, I think you have some leeway
Speaker 1: to be able to say, you know, let's take a
Speaker 1: little chance here. We think we feel pretty good that
Speaker 1: we can win without him, so let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take that chance. At three and two, you need every game,
Speaker 1: which means, in my opinion, you need all hands on deck,
Speaker 1: every player that is capable of playing, uh and and
Speaker 1: and not sitting anyone that that that's you know, it's
Speaker 1: really don't have to. This is the difference between talk
Speaker 1: radio and like reality for what they say, because they
Speaker 1: don't even look at any of that stuff, or at
Speaker 1: least they don't say it publicly. Right, They're just gonna
Speaker 1: be like, well, if he's ready to play, he will play.
Speaker 1: If he's not ready to play. He won't play simple
Speaker 1: as that doesn't matter for playing the AFC Pro Bowl team.
Speaker 1: Or we're playing the Jets and the gray happens in
Speaker 1: the room and then we're not Yeah, the door and
Speaker 1: they're like, can can we beat these guys behind closed doors?
Speaker 1: They absolutely say stuff that how good is he gonna be? Like?
Speaker 1: Can he run? Who's cam gonna have to face? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Jordan Jenkins, all right, cool? Yeah, if it
Speaker 1: was yeah, I can't even if it was a much
Speaker 1: more badass pass rusher. They're like tire and tyrant. Any
Speaker 1: chance you turn, maybe just get out there a little bit,
Speaker 1: put some more tape on that bad boy. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break. We'll take a little early
Speaker 1: break here. We'll come back. Dave's gonna give us a
Speaker 1: breakdown the New York Jet defense. Talked about the offense yesterday.
Speaker 1: We'll see if this defense is any better than the offense.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, but we'll do that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump Backy and Dave. Are you ready
Speaker 1: to give us your New York Jet defense scouting report? Yes?
Speaker 1: I can do that. Um, the New York Jets, it's
Speaker 1: honestly like they have I don't want to say an
Speaker 1: impressive amount of talent, but they have more talent than
Speaker 1: I think they do an offense just because they've invested
Speaker 1: resources there. Um, they're still playing. They're playing a three
Speaker 1: four under Greg Williams. M. Leonard Williams is still there.
Speaker 1: Arguably the top talent in the draft back in I
Speaker 1: want to say twenty fifteen. He's a three to four
Speaker 1: in pass rusher, running stopper kind of guy. Um. Obviously
Speaker 1: the name the name to know if you know any
Speaker 1: name is Jim Jamal Adams. He's there, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of their their leader, their heartbeat, the top five pick.
Speaker 1: Actually Hebron's own Dallas fan, the Hebrew and Hammer right
Speaker 1: up the road here in the Carrollton area. Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: They gave a bunch of money to Trumaine Johnson at cornerback.
Speaker 1: They gave a bunch of money to C. J. Mosley.
Speaker 1: He's not going to play in this game. Good player though,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, he's great, Like that makes a world
Speaker 1: of beaver backers. That makes a world of difference. Came
Speaker 1: up from Baltimore. If he was playing in this game,
Speaker 1: I would be a decent bit more nervous about it.
Speaker 1: But the production hasn't. Really it's not let me let
Speaker 1: me change that. They're actually they're pretty good for what
Speaker 1: they're dealing with. Like their thirteenth in total defense twenty
Speaker 1: first and pass yards per game not great, top ten
Speaker 1: against the run eighty eight yards per game twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty fifth in points per game at twenty five points
Speaker 1: per game, which to me, like it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me the twenty fifteen Cowboys. Honestly, because their defense is
Speaker 1: talented enough to keep up with some of these teams
Speaker 1: and they just wear down because their offense doesn't give
Speaker 1: him a ton of help. I will say the Patriots
Speaker 1: kind of jumped out on him. Like the Patriots I
Speaker 1: think scored on their first two possessions, So like they're
Speaker 1: not this impenetrable unit, but they're good enough to hang
Speaker 1: with you. Like they're not just atrocious. I don't think
Speaker 1: they don't get sacks, though they do. That's the thing is,
Speaker 1: like they don't Going back to the conversation about the tackles,
Speaker 1: they don't really have a pass rusher, not one that
Speaker 1: just strikes fear into your heart. Jordan Jenkins is a
Speaker 1: name that I think you should know. Third round pick
Speaker 1: out of Georgia. He's been there for a few years.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been amazing, but he will probably be going
Speaker 1: against the right tackle, which will probably be Cam Fleming
Speaker 1: or brand No. When I would say, well, I would
Speaker 1: say Cam Fleming or Lyle Collins. I don't think Lyle
Speaker 1: is going to play. But Jason Garrett said today if
Speaker 1: Tyrant plays, then Cam would probably move to right tackle.
Speaker 1: He's their swing tackles, so they expect him to be
Speaker 1: able to do both. So I don't think it'll be
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight because I think Tyron will play. If Tyron
Speaker 1: doesn't play, then it would be either way. You're talking
Speaker 1: about probably a favorable or at least a compromised matchup
Speaker 1: for Jordan Jenkins. That's something to watch. Nathan Shepherd another
Speaker 1: good player. He's on a six game suspension, so he's
Speaker 1: not there, but they're leading Their leading guy right now
Speaker 1: is a guy by the name of Neville Hewitt with
Speaker 1: two sacks. They don't get after the quarterback that well,
Speaker 1: So I feel like that's a break for what is
Speaker 1: a gimpy offensive line back has two sacks? He does, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure. What's the Cowboys leading three? Oh yeah, Quinnon.
Speaker 1: So I mean this early in the season, I get that,
Speaker 1: but you just don't see him, in my opinion, generate
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure. Another thing to watch. Brian actually
Speaker 1: wrote about this today. But Steve McClendon. They got him
Speaker 1: this year. He's new. He's their nose tackle. He's gonna
Speaker 1: play head up on Travis Frederick. He's pretty good. I've
Speaker 1: never heard of him before I started watching him and
Speaker 1: kind of reading up on the Jets. But he's a
Speaker 1: he's a good player. Typical nose tackle like hard to move,
Speaker 1: trash can, full of dirt, but he gets a surprising
Speaker 1: amount of penetration since that's not necessarily what nose tackles do.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be a fun matchup for Travis Frederick,
Speaker 1: see who gets the better of that. But they I
Speaker 1: think it helps that C. J. Mosley isn't gonna play,
Speaker 1: but like they could gunk this up for Zeke and
Speaker 1: at least you know it's not just going to be
Speaker 1: a breeze. I don't think I'll throw this. I was
Speaker 1: looking at there at the running game, and I saw
Speaker 1: what you just mentioned about them having the seventh best
Speaker 1: rush defense in the NFL. But if you go and
Speaker 1: look at the teams as they've played, haven't really to
Speaker 1: play teams that you would consider to be power running teams,
Speaker 1: teams that are committed to the run. They have Buffalo
Speaker 1: and Week one, Devin Singletary rushed for seventy yards. He
Speaker 1: was at a leading rusher, but he did it only
Speaker 1: on four carry, so he had a big run. Broke one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had a Chubb. Against Cleveland, he had eighteen carres
Speaker 1: for sixty two yards or three point four average Rex
Speaker 1: Burkhart with New England, Chubb has been dynamic. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I get that. I'm not saying he wasn't. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying is they didn't really run a ton and I
Speaker 1: don't think you would consider them to be a team
Speaker 1: that's committed to the run, like you look at Dallas.
Speaker 1: Dallas as a team that's committed to the run. There
Speaker 1: are a few teams around the NFL that are committed
Speaker 1: to the run like that and have that kind of
Speaker 1: dynamic runner, and I don't know if they've played in
Speaker 1: them again, same thing for for Rex in New England,
Speaker 1: same thing for Jordan Howard in Philadelphia. These are all
Speaker 1: guys that are kind of running back by committee. They
Speaker 1: run as necessary. They aren't really teams that are that
Speaker 1: you would consider to be running teams. All that being said,
Speaker 1: though the averages are pretty good. You look at Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: they average four point eight to carry New England four
Speaker 1: point three. Obviously Philadelphia got them pretty good and got
Speaker 1: and like I, you know, to my amateur, I at
Speaker 1: least like I don't know how well disciplined they are,
Speaker 1: Like they seem like they get out of position a lot.
Speaker 1: Trumaine Johnson, we know him from the Rams. He's the
Speaker 1: guy that started that. He was one of the instigators
Speaker 1: of that brawl at training camp a few years ago.
Speaker 1: He feisty, he's aggressive, but like undisciplined. I feel like
Speaker 1: you could use that against him. Marcus May. Their other
Speaker 1: safety was the guy if you remember the Jets game
Speaker 1: where O'Dell went like ninety three yards, everybody was making
Speaker 1: fun of him because he sort of like ran in
Speaker 1: a circle, like he got the lead blocker. He got
Speaker 1: so turned around by O'Dell that he basically ran in
Speaker 1: a circle. He looked like the pace car for Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just kind of come on this way to
Speaker 1: the end zone and he like, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to tackle you. He's like, this is this is
Speaker 1: the path coming with you. I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: they're well disciplined. I think play action screens and things
Speaker 1: of that natures doing that. No, well, I don't want
Speaker 1: to gush too much about Jamal Adams, but like you
Speaker 1: know where he went to school. I just he's so
Speaker 1: much fun to watch Hebren, You're right, and also Louisiana
Speaker 1: State El Presidente President Mall. He's so much fun to watch,
Speaker 1: Like I know, like you want the Cowboys to win.
Speaker 1: I get that, but like just keep an eye on
Speaker 1: him because he's just the most fun Swiss arm knife. Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a safety, but he's like the field general type
Speaker 1: of guy who's lining people up. His instincts are incredible.
Speaker 1: I actually the Jets put out a video with Adam Gase.
Speaker 1: I think it was the Cleveland game, but like Adams
Speaker 1: is down on the line, like pointing out the splits.
Speaker 1: He's like, this is what they're gonna do, and this
Speaker 1: is what I want y'all to do. And he just
Speaker 1: nice through the line and tackles Chubb like behind the line,
Speaker 1: and Gas was like narrating it. He was like, he
Speaker 1: drives me crazy as an offensive play caller because when
Speaker 1: you see a safety doing that, like you failed because
Speaker 1: he diagnosed the whole thing before the ball was even snapped.
Speaker 1: And like he's just that smart. Like he drives me
Speaker 1: crazy in practice. That's what Gay said. He's like, he
Speaker 1: drives me crazy in practice because he does this three
Speaker 1: or four times a day. I would guess he's going
Speaker 1: to live in the box and try to make life
Speaker 1: difficult on seek. So we know Jabal Adams is a
Speaker 1: guy that can change the game. Is there any other
Speaker 1: player on this defense that you would consider to be
Speaker 1: a dangerous player, Like if we come in here Monday morning,
Speaker 1: win or loss, we're saying, you know, that guy made
Speaker 1: it tough on the Dallas Cowboys to do what they
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I think it would be Adams because
Speaker 1: mostly is with hamstring. Yeah, well we know, we know
Speaker 1: Adam Adams. Is there anybody, I don't think there's one
Speaker 1: that I would say. I think it is a major threat.
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams is probably better than he gets talked about. Four.
Speaker 1: But that's the position that he plays, you know, like
Speaker 1: it's a kind of a thankless position. Um. But again,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about it, like if they gunk up
Speaker 1: the run game, I think that could be why and
Speaker 1: and he could put some pressure again if you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about a compromised offensive line, and McLendon too for
Speaker 1: that matter. I mean, if you know Frederick will see
Speaker 1: how he handles that, because like you don't see the center,
Speaker 1: I mean you don't see guys have one on one
Speaker 1: matchups that often like centers are typically available to help
Speaker 1: out with guys to either side of them. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna be the case this week. So
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the point in the game where
Speaker 1: you know, and we all know this, if if they
Speaker 1: don't run the ball, then you you're putting everything on
Speaker 1: Dac and Dak at times can can do well. But
Speaker 1: if he's having depressed too much, like we saw last week,
Speaker 1: he could struggle. And when you look at the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Tyrant's banged up, he may not play. Lyle's banged up
Speaker 1: even more, he might not play as well. To Zack
Speaker 1: Martin has been dealing with back injury. Frederick. I think
Speaker 1: Frederick is back to one hundred percent, but we'll see
Speaker 1: against a match up like this, and Connor Williams I
Speaker 1: think is the weakest part of the line when they're
Speaker 1: all healthy. He's had his moment. So when you look
Speaker 1: at the jet, you got McClendon, who you said is
Speaker 1: a you know, a good player in there. You got
Speaker 1: a first round pick, in top six pick I think
Speaker 1: in Leonard, and you got a top pick in Quinnin Williams, right,
Speaker 1: he's even mentioned Quin Williams. He's well, he's been hurt.
Speaker 1: He's limited, first round pick, top three pick, monster, yea monster.
Speaker 1: And then you know, and then you got something to watch.
Speaker 1: He's been on the injury report, not one hundred percent
Speaker 1: sure if he's going to play. And then I don't
Speaker 1: know if that Anderson is it Henry Harry Anderson. Henry Anderson,
Speaker 1: the guy that had a shoulder. He's been a good
Speaker 1: player for them. He pull up the injury. He had
Speaker 1: eight sacks for them last year. So and he's a
Speaker 1: guy that that plays. They have a lot of games,
Speaker 1: an interior guy. Yeah, I think he's a tackle. I
Speaker 1: won't be surprised if running the ball is a challenge
Speaker 1: for them in this game. It's like everything we just
Speaker 1: set about their front and then if there's a safety
Speaker 1: who can really limit what you do in the run game,
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is one of them. Um. But this is
Speaker 1: huge for Gallup and Cooper because they can beat anybody
Speaker 1: off the line, and that's seen that I didn't have
Speaker 1: to just stretch it that way. And then I like
Speaker 1: that matchup. Like May Marcus May, the other safety. He
Speaker 1: was a second round pick. He hasn't really lived up
Speaker 1: to the hype of where he was drafted. And I
Speaker 1: think Trummay Johnson's a pretty overrated player. I think there
Speaker 1: was like a There was a report that came out that, like,
Speaker 1: the Jets are concerned that he doesn't really care about football.
Speaker 1: This was like a month ago or something like that,
Speaker 1: which never something you want to hear about a guy
Speaker 1: that you gave a boatload of money to um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I mean, I like that matchup for the receivers,
Speaker 1: which makes me feel better about the fact that it
Speaker 1: might be a tough day for Zeke. It's a matter
Speaker 1: of not cheating yourself in the foot, which has been
Speaker 1: a problem for them, you know, because you're right and
Speaker 1: you say that, and that sounds very cliche, but it's not.
Speaker 1: You get a holding penalty. It's first and twenty Now. Now,
Speaker 1: running the ball a couple of times with Zeke is
Speaker 1: not favorable because even if he has four yards to carry,
Speaker 1: you're still looking at third and twelve, so you know,
Speaker 1: you can't get behind the chains that way. I think
Speaker 1: that they're better equipped than they were last year to
Speaker 1: make that. I mean, had their first and twenty five
Speaker 1: and they got just throw a deep deep de Zeke here,
Speaker 1: you know, deep de Zeke right in front of Garrett
Speaker 1: kind of we thought that was gonna get him off
Speaker 1: the hook, but it didn't. We still talked about it.
Speaker 1: People started saying ball don't lie when that happened, and
Speaker 1: it made me laugh like Rashid Wallets. You know it's funny. Good.
Speaker 1: Sorry but yeah, no, go ahead, sorry no, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, apologizing. We'll take our final We'll take our
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pound the drum for a royal blue Cowboys
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Speaker 1: get to us some calls, you guys, calls five, five, two,
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Speaker 1: your questions that way. We have a call first from
Speaker 1: Pierre in Shreveport. Pierre, what up? Three one eight? Hey man?
Speaker 1: What's going on? You know? I'm okay, sir, I have
Speaker 1: a question about the coaching. Okay, okay, all we ever,
Speaker 1: everyone get us a coach. It's gonna go for blood.
Speaker 1: I mean the way that Garrett has told him our game,
Speaker 1: he's always happy about everything, and I'm just i just
Speaker 1: want to coach. It has a little bit more fire
Speaker 1: on him and that a hold of player accountable on
Speaker 1: television and not you know, second for him at the
Speaker 1: press conference. Is this a recorded call? Like is this live?
Speaker 1: Or did you call last week? Because I mean I
Speaker 1: did not call. I mean, I'm just saying, of all
Speaker 1: the times to make that call, I wouldn't think it
Speaker 1: would be this week. Well, sir, I mean, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm a cowboy fan and I've been here to
Speaker 1: do and the bad. Do you watch the Packer game? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: I watched the whole game. It was it was a
Speaker 1: heart wrenching. Yeah. I mean, I hear what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and I know one game doesn't change everything and all that,
Speaker 1: but like, it's just funny that that that Garrett doesn't
Speaker 1: have the fire stuff would come out this week when
Speaker 1: he got a fifteen yard penalty for losing its basically
Speaker 1: losing a school and doing something. Now, I know that's
Speaker 1: not every game, but I'm just it just seems am
Speaker 1: not the only one that seems like I think people
Speaker 1: make a joke too. He's such a big clapper and
Speaker 1: everyone likes We've covered that. Yeah, but that's doesn't mean
Speaker 1: he doesn't have passion and everything. As I've made this
Speaker 1: analogy before, like as somebody who doesn't outwardly emote very often.
Speaker 1: It drives me crazy that people think that that means
Speaker 1: you don't care. Like, it's just people react to things
Speaker 1: different ways. And you know, I mean, first of all, yeah, Garrett,
Speaker 1: it's it was really funny, like if a player had
Speaker 1: done that and cost the team fifteen yards, everyone would
Speaker 1: have lost their mind and hated him forever. But Garrett
Speaker 1: emotes so rarely. Everyone was thrilled to see him get mad.
Speaker 1: Everyone a lot of here Freeport. Well, yeah, it's weird
Speaker 1: timing that this week of all weeks, like after he
Speaker 1: flipped out for the first time in his life, he
Speaker 1: wants to see more. I don't I never understood that,
Speaker 1: which I have the privilege of seeing Jason Garrett every day,
Speaker 1: and I mean you can go watch All or Nothing
Speaker 1: and see what he's like behind the scenes, like that
Speaker 1: was such a great look, Like he isn't like that
Speaker 1: when he's actually coaching the team. He's just an even
Speaker 1: keel guy on game day. It's never bothered me. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I respect the hell out of Chris Richard,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't seem like fans are into his passionate
Speaker 1: routine right now because the defense is still struggling. And
Speaker 1: by the way, he called the whole defense up this
Speaker 1: last game and the game before and gave him a
Speaker 1: fiery speech, and guess what, they went back out there
Speaker 1: and they still give up more points. I mean, there
Speaker 1: is no right, no exact way that you have to coach.
Speaker 1: Like coaching is, you have to be true to who
Speaker 1: you are, because if you're not that's the other part.
Speaker 1: If you're not true to who you are, your players
Speaker 1: are gonna look at you and role their eyes. Like,
Speaker 1: whoever Garrett is, he has to be true to that
Speaker 1: with his players. Whoever Rochard is, he has to be
Speaker 1: true to that to players. And guess what. There have
Speaker 1: been coaches in this league that have been very successful
Speaker 1: that are mile mannered. There have been some coaches that
Speaker 1: have sucked, that have been like fiery and always scowling
Speaker 1: and going off on the play it. There is no
Speaker 1: one way that's going to lead to successful a coach. Okay,
Speaker 1: the accountability is the part that's important. I think he
Speaker 1: does all these players accountable. Tom Landry was not, like
Speaker 1: I was not even alive when he coached the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But wasn't he like the most mild mannered He wore
Speaker 1: a suit on the sunny Dungee Tony Dungee because notorious
Speaker 1: for standing out and not really losing it, certainly not
Speaker 1: losing it. People are dismissed that part. Let's listen, miss
Speaker 1: but let's let now. We got a lot of people
Speaker 1: that are listening. They're like, all right, well, here's the
Speaker 1: real problem, whether it's fiery or not, how about what
Speaker 1: is going on with this team and from what you
Speaker 1: can blame the coaching staff is is that for whatever
Speaker 1: the reason, they're not ready to play in the first quarter.
Speaker 1: They got by with it with the Dolphins, the Giants,
Speaker 1: the Redskins. They did not get by with it with
Speaker 1: the Saints, and sure it's hell didn't with the Green Bay.
Speaker 1: So that is the problem right now. Is whether or
Speaker 1: not he needs to be throwing flags right before pregame,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but whatever it is, like, that's the issue.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's if it's how mad you
Speaker 1: get on the sideline, but if we want to you know,
Speaker 1: put points and fingers to the coach and staff, is
Speaker 1: that these guys are not ready to play football for
Speaker 1: some reason and it's cost them the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: I've actually, I've gone back and forth with that. I
Speaker 1: actually I asked Barry Church about it on cover for
Speaker 1: this week, where I was like, you know, every morning,
Speaker 1: every morning, and that you want to watch, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's I don't know exactly how to feel about that
Speaker 1: because it's like, well, they're not ready to play. That's
Speaker 1: on the coach and I agree with that to a degree.
Speaker 1: But then Dak throws a pass to a wide open
Speaker 1: to Marii Cooper and it bounces off his hands and
Speaker 1: it's an interception. Like is that the coach's fault? Like
Speaker 1: because they zipped up and down the field throughout the
Speaker 1: first half, and like, what is Jason Garrett supposed to
Speaker 1: do about the fact that the player didn't catch the
Speaker 1: ball or the quarterback didn't see the safeties sitting on
Speaker 1: the throw. The coaches can only do so much about execution,
Speaker 1: which and I'm not trying to absolve Jason Garrett, but
Speaker 1: I really I am conflicted with that because I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: the team wasn't ready to play. They fell into a
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing hole. That's on coaching. But then you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I can pick out about half a dozen reasons where
Speaker 1: the players just didn't execute something that would have worked otherwise.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a little bit of both. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of blame to go around. When you are
Speaker 1: down thirty one to three, there's no doubt, and that
Speaker 1: always becomes the argument. Even in situations where the players
Speaker 1: should have executed. Then you say, well, why aren't the
Speaker 1: players executing. It still is the coach's responsibility. Well not
Speaker 1: even just that, but just it still is the coach's
Speaker 1: responsibility to get his team in a position where they
Speaker 1: can execute right, and yet they have to be accountable
Speaker 1: for executing and doing that. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it still always goes back to the head coach.
Speaker 1: It begins and end with the head coach. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think those are all fair criticisms. I just get
Speaker 1: a little tired when people start going to the stuff
Speaker 1: that's off around that. That's not the stuff that's important.
Speaker 1: It's it's the team and how they're performing and whether
Speaker 1: the tea the coach is getting them ready to perform
Speaker 1: their best. I guess you know, that's a fair point
Speaker 1: because last week's probably not good to say that about
Speaker 1: the coaching staff or whatever. Aaron Rodgers goes out there
Speaker 1: was it. I don't know if it was a three
Speaker 1: and out, but they punted quick, cowboys got the ball
Speaker 1: and it was three and now they got the ball,
Speaker 1: went down three or four plays. Cooper catches that ball.
Speaker 1: He's I don't know if he scores, but it's probably
Speaker 1: first in goal from the inside. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Is like, yeah, they actually yeah, and they it's not
Speaker 1: like they went three and out three times in a
Speaker 1: rotist which actually happened in the playoff game against the Packers.
Speaker 1: Like they couldn't do anything at the start of that game.
Speaker 1: If you want to blame that on coaching, I'm listening.
Speaker 1: But like they literally they didn't play the right quarterback.
Speaker 1: Oh good god, I'm not kidding. But they moved the ball.
Speaker 1: They moved the ball at will at the start of
Speaker 1: this game, and to Danny's point, could not get out
Speaker 1: of their own way. I don't know how much of
Speaker 1: that lex on the coach, but he's still the coach,
Speaker 1: and if you want to criticize him, he's handsomely paid
Speaker 1: to put up with that. Absolutely, thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: Pierre Reports. Not trying to kill you too much. I
Speaker 1: just I disagree with you, bro. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: a call. Actually, this a tweet from Brian stim He says,
Speaker 1: does Zeke look slower since his rookie year? And he
Speaker 1: makes references in fact, you don't see as many of
Speaker 1: those sixty yard bursts. You hadn't have those those big
Speaker 1: long runs. What do you guys think about him? And
Speaker 1: kind of where he is at this point his career.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that. It's true, we haven't seen that
Speaker 1: run um slower M. Maybe you know what he might be.
Speaker 1: It's okay to say that he might be. He's been
Speaker 1: hit a lot since his rookie year. Um, you find
Speaker 1: a lot of rookies, like a lot of running backs
Speaker 1: that way when you when you go and you look
Speaker 1: at them the rookie year and you come back and go,
Speaker 1: that's not the way they are anymore. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just kind of happens. Not an excuse, but uh, you
Speaker 1: don't have to be that guy that that makes all
Speaker 1: those long runs. I mean, that's not exactly why they
Speaker 1: pay him, but it would be nice to break one
Speaker 1: every now and again. And how many I'm not I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily disagree. I know this, which I hope the
Speaker 1: Zeke is fat narrative is long dead. I see the
Speaker 1: guy in the locker room every day. He's not fat bad,
Speaker 1: He's in fantastic shape. So I'm just I'm legitimately trying
Speaker 1: to remember. I know, Week five, Cincinnati, twenty sixteen, he
Speaker 1: took it right up the gut, split the safety's sixty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. How many other genuine house calls did he
Speaker 1: make as a rookie. He wants to say Detroit or
Speaker 1: Tampa those games had a long one against Tampa. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that's true. And he had the eighty nine
Speaker 1: yards screen against the Steelers. I don't ever think of
Speaker 1: that as just blazing speed. He was kind of bothered
Speaker 1: and with the next year with the screen pass for
Speaker 1: different because you're following blocks and yeah, but there still
Speaker 1: is an element of speed run since his rookie year.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know off the top of my
Speaker 1: head neither why. I mean I would. He definitely did
Speaker 1: it a few times as a rookie. He hasn't done
Speaker 1: it as much since. Has he lost a step? Is
Speaker 1: that about an increased attention like tames come into games
Speaker 1: now saying we're not going to let him do that.
Speaker 1: I bet the longest run was the one he hurdled
Speaker 1: the guy in Philly, which would have been probably a
Speaker 1: thirty five yard touchdown. No, No, I would would have been. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's not as long as run. I will figure
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, I don't necessarily think it's wrong, but
Speaker 1: I all, I mean, he's still plenty father reason why
Speaker 1: he's he's he's leading the league in explosive runs, which
Speaker 1: coaches twenty plus, no twelve. That's the thing, is a
Speaker 1: coach's idea. You know, fans want to see forty and
Speaker 1: fifty yard runs and that's fun. But to a coach,
Speaker 1: it's twelve plus and it passes sixteen plus. And he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of those multiple sea this year or
Speaker 1: since he's known just this season. I think he's got
Speaker 1: I haven't looked since the Packer game, but I think
Speaker 1: he's got fifteen or something like that. Like it's impressive.
Speaker 1: So I don't necessarily think it's wrong because he hasn't
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown from a long way away in a while.
Speaker 1: But I'm not worried about it either. Okay, I have
Speaker 1: a question for you, ays from Devin. Don't laugh at this.
Speaker 1: Think about it for a second before you answer. Are
Speaker 1: we missing tackle at all? I mean, I don't if
Speaker 1: he was, if he was here, would he be active?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna say no, I think so.
Speaker 1: I don't, Like, I don't think that like talent wasn't
Speaker 1: the whole story there, Like there was clearly a rift.
Speaker 1: He was clearly in the doghouse, and no It's cliche,
Speaker 1: but like I sometimes players just need a change of
Speaker 1: scenery and he like if he had a ten sacks
Speaker 1: season for Miami, I don't I feel like he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that here. You know, he were here, would
Speaker 1: we be wanting to see him over Quinn? No, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Absolutely not. Yeah, I mean that's what
Speaker 1: it and butt their guys. I mean, they wrote take
Speaker 1: their guys, so he would he would still probably still
Speaker 1: be inactive, just because for whatever reason. It's he had
Speaker 1: fallen out of favor with the coaching staff or at
Speaker 1: least the people that were making decisions as to how
Speaker 1: much he was going to play. And I think he
Speaker 1: probably was over them just as much as they were
Speaker 1: over him. And I just I think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: Carry hiders played well. Doren's Armstrong had a sack last week.
Speaker 1: I mean, so you don't think the talented defensive end
Speaker 1: is the issue. They're just not getting sacks right now.
Speaker 1: There are other things that are caught right now. I
Speaker 1: don't know the last two weeks, I'm not super concerned
Speaker 1: about the pass rush. Like they got to Bridgewater five times.
Speaker 1: Rogers is a different animal. They still got him twice,
Speaker 1: and there were another handful of plays where he had
Speaker 1: to do something miraculous to avoid a sack. Lawrence almost
Speaker 1: killed him on the shovel pass. Ye, So I think
Speaker 1: they're fine right now. Like set I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that wasn't super convincing, the seven seven sacks in the
Speaker 1: last two games, and Green Bay was bringing anybody and
Speaker 1: everybody that could help deal with Lawrence. They were using receivers,
Speaker 1: they were using tight ends. That doesn't it doesn't worry
Speaker 1: me right now. I think that'll be okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Since his a key year seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, zekee zeke.
Speaker 1: How many rushers do you think he's had over thirty
Speaker 1: yards over thirty uh two years Memory had the suspension,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say three. I would guess over twenty
Speaker 1: over thirty thirty, I would guess eight five. Three nailed it. God,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Only three. That's he has not done it
Speaker 1: a lot year. In seven twenty seventeen, member he missed
Speaker 1: six games. That was against the Redskins. Then he last
Speaker 1: year he had a forty seven at home against Philly.
Speaker 1: Don't remember that forty one against the Redskins. Also, he
Speaker 1: doesn't do it often, and like you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen off and in the NFL either anyway. But like
Speaker 1: Nick Chopp just went eighty eight against Baltimore's I mean,
Speaker 1: it would be fun to see that more often. But
Speaker 1: if he's leading the league in n explosive I mean
Speaker 1: twelve plus yard runs, it's not sexy, but it's it
Speaker 1: gets the job done. Like I'm not losing, and most
Speaker 1: coaches are probably rather have that than have a guy
Speaker 1: that gets you. Yeah, but every seven eight, But you
Speaker 1: could have both. But what's the what's the flip side?
Speaker 1: Right now, in five games, there's the only team in
Speaker 1: the league that's got two receivers averaging hundred yards a game,
Speaker 1: and that's gallop in Cooper. So they're you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not getting these big long runs because they're making
Speaker 1: sure of that. But on the on the other end,
Speaker 1: these receivers are I mean some of these passes to
Speaker 1: Cooper with him just being wide open with no safety help.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a great route runner who's got
Speaker 1: deceptive speed and once he gets by the corner, there's
Speaker 1: no one there. And the reason why there's no one
Speaker 1: there because Zeke's not getting the ball going sixty yards again.
Speaker 1: You know, so there's good and bad to it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it, he might have lost the step a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I still think he's very, very productive.
Speaker 1: And I think that they're they're paid, they're taking advantage
Speaker 1: of it. Do you think that's problematic though, from the
Speaker 1: standpoint that they're able to do that in the passing game,
Speaker 1: but it's not really hurting teams to the point where
Speaker 1: they're beating them. And I mean those two last two
Speaker 1: teams that are really good teams. Yeah, the Cowboys are saying,
Speaker 1: we will make you pay for having to do that,
Speaker 1: but it's not resulting in them getting enough to be
Speaker 1: able to get points. Do you think that that's a
Speaker 1: problem for Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's other issues there too.
Speaker 1: But and and there's a cycle of that, like Okay,
Speaker 1: Gallup and Cooper will continue to do that, and then
Speaker 1: teams will not let that happen, and then Zeke will
Speaker 1: have a big run. But will they if it's not
Speaker 1: ending up in losses, then we'll teams say, hey, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll take the big plays by them, but we also
Speaker 1: think they'll make enough mistakes to where we still can
Speaker 1: beat them. We don't. We're still not gonna let Zeke
Speaker 1: get off, right, right, I mean, I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to take a long period of
Speaker 1: them killing teams with the past before they don't make
Speaker 1: Zeke their priority. I mean, the Saints game is so
Speaker 1: weird because we just know how it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, Let's say that pass over the middle, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say there's no PI or whatever, and he gets
Speaker 1: ten more yards. They rush up there, they still spike
Speaker 1: it with one second, ten more yards. They're kicking a
Speaker 1: sixty yard field. I don't know if he makes it
Speaker 1: or not, but if they win, we're not talking about
Speaker 1: the same issues that we're still there from the defense,
Speaker 1: still there from the offense. You know, Jason Garrett is
Speaker 1: a much different coach. If they make us, you know,
Speaker 1: it's always happens like that. So the Packer game was
Speaker 1: more troubling though, for sure. Ye all right, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you guys joining us. We are back tomorrow eleven forty
Speaker 1: five till then predict even Dave Hellman, Danny Serect, I'm
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