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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's alongside Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips and heck
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Speaker 1: some time. I mean, I personally like the Arby's man.
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Speaker 1: But glad you're with us here. I mean, we got
Speaker 1: we got to Kyle before the show. If people can
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Speaker 1: being no, no, no, you you know you you guys
Speaker 1: that brought it to me whatever. Okay, that's not true
Speaker 1: at this point. Oh, but we're gonna talk about this
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense versus the Steelers. It's pretty good, Uh, the
Speaker 1: Steelers defense, so it's just one of the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL against this Cowboys offense, who at least over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks has not gotten off the ground.
Speaker 1: But before we get in to the matchups there, Rob,
Speaker 1: we did see the Cowboys yesterday in practice and a
Speaker 1: little bit of an injury report surprise yesterday. We heard
Speaker 1: about Chris Jones from Mike McCarthy on Tuesday, But Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott showing up and he was limited in practice. Have
Speaker 1: you heard anything further on what Zeke's situation is at
Speaker 1: the moment. Well, Zeke was limited with a hamstring. I
Speaker 1: believe it was on the injury report and Alden Smith
Speaker 1: with a knee, both limited. Doesn't sound like anything to
Speaker 1: be alarmed about going into this week. It is twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: it is the Cowboys this season, so you know, it
Speaker 1: always raises your eyebrows, like what else can happen to
Speaker 1: this team? But I don't think at this point. It
Speaker 1: sounds like they're probably just trying to manage both guys,
Speaker 1: get him to the game. And you know, Zeke talked
Speaker 1: yesterday about having to chop wood, you know, keep coming
Speaker 1: at it in the run game to try to help
Speaker 1: the Cowboys get some balance in this game, and obvious
Speaker 1: they're gonna need it in this game now. Injury report
Speaker 1: was not good when I saw Zeke there with the hamstring,
Speaker 1: But you know, as you said, man, it's just maybe
Speaker 1: one of those things where you're getting guys some rest,
Speaker 1: especially if they're nicked up. For me, Aldon Smith the knee,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah said something about this a couple of shows ago,
Speaker 1: about him possibly being heard and maybe he's dealing with
Speaker 1: the knee issue. But we'll see it. Sounds like both
Speaker 1: of those guys will be ready for game time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's more so on that heck than anything
Speaker 1: I think Alden has. I think we've obviously seen a
Speaker 1: drop off of his production over the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: so I think he's probably a tough dude. He's already
Speaker 1: quiet dude, so I'm pretty sure he just internalizes it.
Speaker 1: He's just dealing with, you know, dealing with the pain
Speaker 1: of whatever he has. So I'm pretty sure they're trying
Speaker 1: to get him right in terms of in terms of
Speaker 1: Zeke that way, he about to have to carry the
Speaker 1: whole team like a jam sport, So I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: they just make sure his legs right. Yes, well, and
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin on conference call with local media in Dallas yesterday,
Speaker 1: said that he was asked, how do you approach the
Speaker 1: week whether it's Cooper Rush or Garrett Gilbert a quarterback,
Speaker 1: he said, either way, we're preparing for Zeke, and that's
Speaker 1: the Steelers mindset because they know exactly what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: need to try to do to have a chance in
Speaker 1: this game, and let's get the run game going. Well,
Speaker 1: he's probably also got a little bit of PTSD whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to Elliott and what he did in his
Speaker 1: only career game against Pittsburgh Week ten, twenty sixteen, two
Speaker 1: hundred and nine scriptman yards, three touchdowns in that thirty
Speaker 1: five to thirty win. That's the last time these two
Speaker 1: teams have met, and he also had a career high
Speaker 1: ninety five receiving yards in that game. That was I mean,
Speaker 1: you could argue that might have been the establishment of
Speaker 1: Zeke or maybe even his best game of his career,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't had anything close to that recently. So
Speaker 1: what I get the point of Mike Tomlin of showing, hey,
Speaker 1: we need to play him for Zeke no matter what,
Speaker 1: which is kind of the case right now due to
Speaker 1: the one sided offense. But Isaiah, whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: Zeke and his protect this year, has not hit a
Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards this year, hasn't done it in fourteen
Speaker 1: of his last sixteen games. At what point do you
Speaker 1: stop blaming the offensive line and you basically just say, Zeke,
Speaker 1: you've got to be better. Well, the running back is
Speaker 1: nothing without their offensive line, so we could say you
Speaker 1: got to be better all day long. I think the
Speaker 1: thing that he has to be better at it, and
Speaker 1: he obviously already knows this is just protecting the ball. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the opportunities that he has had to be productive on
Speaker 1: the ground, has been halted by his ability to hold
Speaker 1: on to the ball. We've seen that visually, how he's
Speaker 1: been visually frustrated from that. That's a point of emphasis
Speaker 1: for him. Um, I think that's more so his focus
Speaker 1: in anything, I mean, running the ball yardists. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's I don't think we were sitting up here
Speaker 1: saying he see we see a hole that he that
Speaker 1: he doesn't see, or he's hitting a hole and he's slow,
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. It is just he's getting
Speaker 1: what he can get, Um, and try not to throw
Speaker 1: a fit because because right now it's slim pickings out there,
Speaker 1: and you know it's gonna be even more shading probably
Speaker 1: this week. Rob. Yeah. I mean I mentioned yesterday or
Speaker 1: the other day that I know his production isn't near
Speaker 1: what he expects or what the Cowboys are used to.
Speaker 1: He's up there in terms of ten plus yard runs
Speaker 1: this year, you know, I know that's I know everybody
Speaker 1: talks about they want to break off the big runs,
Speaker 1: the twenty plus yard run. He's still moving the chains
Speaker 1: when they actually have a chance to run and are
Speaker 1: being balanced, and some of that is he said, it's
Speaker 1: his own fault. Like Isaiah mentioned, the turnovers have hurt
Speaker 1: their balance, and defensively, their struggles have hurt their balance
Speaker 1: getting behind on the scoreboard. Man, But I was encouraged
Speaker 1: by the way they were able to run the ball
Speaker 1: against the Eagles again again, yeah, again, against the good
Speaker 1: Eagles front. You get Zack Martin back, you get some
Speaker 1: of those combo blocks going inside between the tackles, And
Speaker 1: I thought Zeke had some success. But Tony Pollard looked
Speaker 1: awesome last week. I think he you know, seven carries
Speaker 1: forty yards. Maybe you see more of Pollard and Zeke
Speaker 1: together to try to help whatever whoever quarterback is in
Speaker 1: there going or the next week or two. No, I
Speaker 1: absolutely agree with both of you guys. And I think
Speaker 1: for Zeke and people not wanting to hear the excuse
Speaker 1: about the offensive line. Look, man, when you go to
Speaker 1: the injuries on the offensive line, it reads like the
Speaker 1: end of a pharmaceutical commercial with all the guys that
Speaker 1: have been hurt, and so you have to consider you
Speaker 1: have to consider that. But I also think with the
Speaker 1: combination of the you know, the musical chairs on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, I think that's also impacted him. Look, no
Speaker 1: one wants to hear that excuse. They want for Zeke
Speaker 1: to be dominant. But like you said, Rob, the balance
Speaker 1: just hadn't been there offensively, and the turnovers have plagued him.
Speaker 1: Now thankfully he didn't have any against Philly. But also
Speaker 1: you have those those broadcasters like Chris collins Worth that are,
Speaker 1: you know, showing that Zeke may be missing a hole
Speaker 1: here or there. Look, I attribute a lot of that too.
Speaker 1: Just Zeke, as soon as he gets the handoff, he
Speaker 1: typically has someone on him the first man to miss,
Speaker 1: so that hadn't been his emo. We've been using a
Speaker 1: guy like Ezekiel Elliott running downhill for four quarters and
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen that. So look, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of the criticism is warranted, but just the way
Speaker 1: that this season is going, Look, I just want to
Speaker 1: see Zeke be healthy coming out of this season. Uh,
Speaker 1: nothing catastrophic, and just get those fumbling issues under control.
Speaker 1: I have a question. I have a question. I know,
Speaker 1: I know this is usually out the ordinary, but just
Speaker 1: what if what if obviously we saw the production difference
Speaker 1: last week by Martin coming back right, what if we
Speaker 1: put Looney left at left guard and kept be honest
Speaker 1: that center. Now we have our guard shirt up right
Speaker 1: and our tackles are getting better. What if? What if?
Speaker 1: What if Looney bumped over to left guard? Could he
Speaker 1: do it? And what do you guys seek the production
Speaker 1: would be if he moved over there. I've been saying it.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I'm fine with best five man
Speaker 1: like whether it's I guess that'd be moving Connor to
Speaker 1: right tackle. Is that what you're thinking as a like
Speaker 1: do that or you know? I know Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 1: basically he said, it's what fantasy football to think about
Speaker 1: moving Zach to right tackle. But I mean he's done it,
Speaker 1: he did it in Seattle. I just would be especially
Speaker 1: with this matchup. I know they're not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna keep Zach where he is what
Speaker 1: it sounds like, But yeah, I would be looking at
Speaker 1: shoring up the tackle spots. And they've got with Looney
Speaker 1: coming back, they got depth. I didn't think Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: was that bad at right tackle a right guard, excuse me,
Speaker 1: when he was in there for Zach. So I just
Speaker 1: feel like their their interior depth, to your point, is
Speaker 1: better than their tackle depth at this point Yeah, we
Speaker 1: continue to go back to that continuity and that's what
Speaker 1: your offensive line is gonna need. And this is our
Speaker 1: eleventh combination of guys starting at the at the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and at some point these guys have got to get
Speaker 1: used to playing together. Now. Still look, it's it's the
Speaker 1: tape is already out, so we know and the questions
Speaker 1: have been asked, how does this guy continue to start
Speaker 1: every week? But if the coaches trust him to be
Speaker 1: out there on Sundays, then we have to Also, I
Speaker 1: want to see Zach where he is. I know he
Speaker 1: he is all world right there at right guard, but
Speaker 1: we know what our issues are at left guard as well.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. I want to say he's getting better as
Speaker 1: the season progresses. But one of the things that I
Speaker 1: am just really I think it's positive. It's just to
Speaker 1: see Beatish be able to get to the second level
Speaker 1: and what they did last week against Philly. So another
Speaker 1: week of these guys together all you know, look, hopefully
Speaker 1: it can get better. Hopefully doesn't get any worse, I think.
Speaker 1: And that is the Devil's advocate point. Sorry, Kyle, That
Speaker 1: just that Mike McCarthy wants to preserve any type of
Speaker 1: continuity has If he could get the same five starting
Speaker 1: two weeks in a row, that's a win for him.
Speaker 1: So that's I think that's probably what he's pointing too well.
Speaker 1: And I think whenever it comes to that question, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: and you're you're talking about replacing the left guard, it
Speaker 1: would have to mean that Williams would move to tackle.
Speaker 1: If you're just doing it to replace him, I don't
Speaker 1: think Looney's an upgrade over but if you're moving him
Speaker 1: out to tackle, then I'm there with you. But I
Speaker 1: also think the reasoning behind Mike McCarthy keeping this continuity
Speaker 1: with the interior of the line is because he thinks
Speaker 1: these are the guys moving forward. He thinks that Beyondish
Speaker 1: would be at center, Williams at left guard, and then
Speaker 1: Martin had right tackle, win Lyle Collins and Tyrann Smith
Speaker 1: come back at the tackle spots. Barring any big draft
Speaker 1: picks coming up this offseason or any signings or whatnot,
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to the offensive line, I think that's
Speaker 1: his plan with the offensive line moving forward. I think
Speaker 1: it's those guys that he could see a little bit
Speaker 1: of continuity with and I feel like that's at least
Speaker 1: part of his reasoning with maybe trying to get Tyler
Speaker 1: Beyotish in a rhythm with those two guys around him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now I get that, and I understand it from the
Speaker 1: coach's perspective. But however, I don't find security in knowing
Speaker 1: that there's a man that could could help you out
Speaker 1: substantially on the office of line and he's sitting on
Speaker 1: a bench. I don't like it. And so I'm all
Speaker 1: about trying to find a way. Now you've been doing
Speaker 1: music with chairs for this long. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: make sure we get our best five guys out there
Speaker 1: and we'll figure it out. Right, Like I find security,
Speaker 1: And the fact that Beyanda is holding the center down
Speaker 1: and then you have Looney and freaking Martin on each
Speaker 1: side of him, right, that makes me feel a lot better.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it makes it. It It makes the rest of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks feel a lot better too. And then the
Speaker 1: counter and then the counnor. Yeah, he could bump out, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't been that that successful at the
Speaker 1: guard position, so let's put him out there a tackle.
Speaker 1: I think he's a smaller officive linement any way, that
Speaker 1: that's probably quicker than the rest of the guys. So
Speaker 1: put him out there, you know, let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: But I like those three guys being on the inside.
Speaker 1: Beyanda has proven himself to be a starter in this league.
Speaker 1: Now kudos to him, young guy coming in and taking
Speaker 1: care of business. Now, let's make sure we put some
Speaker 1: some veteran guys on each side of him to help
Speaker 1: him out. No, that's that's awesome, I said, And that
Speaker 1: may be a wrinkle that these the cowboys look at.
Speaker 1: And I'm offensively, I'm looking for whatever new wrinkle calling
Speaker 1: Moore is gonna have this week, because last week was disastrous.
Speaker 1: And if you have a guy like Looney that you
Speaker 1: can move, like say, to a jumbo package where you
Speaker 1: put him out like a report is a tight end.
Speaker 1: So you know, so to speak like that to whatever
Speaker 1: side we're running to instead of doing a wildcat sort
Speaker 1: of situation like we had last week. But getting Looney
Speaker 1: involved one way or another with this offensive line, I'm
Speaker 1: ford Brandon Knight is still he's still on ir I
Speaker 1: guess yeah, coming off he had the scope I believe,
Speaker 1: was that correct. I'm losing track of all these entries, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: So maybe when he gets back maybe there's a competition
Speaker 1: at right tackle with steel and if they're happy with
Speaker 1: Cam Irving at left tackle. But like Isaiah brings up
Speaker 1: a great point, and I've been saying it to that,
Speaker 1: especially with this matchup. You know, you go back and
Speaker 1: you watch a little of the Steelers on tape and
Speaker 1: you see Bud Dupree and t. J. Watt meet at
Speaker 1: the quarterback on some of these plays and just kind
Speaker 1: of high five each other like that's it's a huge problem.
Speaker 1: It's a huge matchup problem that they've got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to address. And Isaiah, I'm glad you brought
Speaker 1: up this question specifically because kind of going off of
Speaker 1: what Rob said earlier, there was some positive moments in
Speaker 1: the run game against Philadelphia and the way you were
Speaker 1: able to kind of control the line of scrimmage from
Speaker 1: time to time, and what is what is really a
Speaker 1: good front for Philadelphia. But now you go into this
Speaker 1: matchup and if you make those moves and you shift
Speaker 1: around the offensive line, it'll shure up your pass protection.
Speaker 1: That's really kind of what we're talking about here is
Speaker 1: pass protection. But is it really the kind of move
Speaker 1: that is going to help the run game against a
Speaker 1: front like Pittsburgh. I think so, you know, on an interior,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the most uh, that's the most amount
Speaker 1: of weight that you really have, right, I mean, Connor
Speaker 1: is probably the ways least less than than Luney. Um,
Speaker 1: And I think that I don't think he's Probably if
Speaker 1: I had to put those two in the weight room,
Speaker 1: I would assume that Luney would be stronger. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he's just yeah, the fact that
Speaker 1: he's just a vet alone. Um, you know, putting those
Speaker 1: guys on each side of Beadest makes me feel secure.
Speaker 1: I'll run the ball up the middle with those three guys,
Speaker 1: I would. Um. Now, as we talk about the outside,
Speaker 1: that's something different. But you know, we run his own
Speaker 1: scheme anyway, So that shouldn't matter that much. The fifth
Speaker 1: rated rushing defense in the NFL are the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: Are you guys worried and the fact that Zeke may
Speaker 1: not be able to get off the ground this week
Speaker 1: at all and even see any kind of improvement based
Speaker 1: off of what we saw last week? Why would you
Speaker 1: let him? Yeah? Why would you let him get off
Speaker 1: the ground as a defensive As a defensive coach? Why
Speaker 1: would you let him? Yeah, I mean you you heard
Speaker 1: what Robers said in terms of you know Tomlin's interview.
Speaker 1: That's that's number one numero Oh No, nothing nothing else matters, right,
Speaker 1: nothing else. If I'm playing against hex my son, who's
Speaker 1: out there, Moss and everybody, guess what I'm putting all
Speaker 1: attention on a little heck, that's all. That's all I'm
Speaker 1: worried about. Exactly if something else manifests itself, and guess what,
Speaker 1: we'll figure that out. But this is what's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen tonight, right, Yeah, the couples are bare, and it's
Speaker 1: like Schwartz last week, it was the easiest defensive call
Speaker 1: for him, knowing that at one after the first quarter,
Speaker 1: it's like, look, this guy can't get the ball to
Speaker 1: his receivers to save his life. It's gonna be the
Speaker 1: same situation with the Pittsburgh Stillers defense. And you when
Speaker 1: their film study that you guys did, which was awesome
Speaker 1: and amazing as well, just showing that zone defense that
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Stillers playing and the zone blitz package that
Speaker 1: they're going to present to the Dallas Cowboys. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who starts, they're going to confuse our quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: make it increasingly difficult to try and stretch the field
Speaker 1: and get the ball down the field. So it's gonna
Speaker 1: be important that we established a run game one way
Speaker 1: or another, win, lose, a draw. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: the part that we have to stick to if we
Speaker 1: want to have any success. It not looked like a
Speaker 1: complete whatever show you want to call it, dumps the fire.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, but we have to we have
Speaker 1: to stick to the running game. And I would go
Speaker 1: back to say that, look if the if the quarterback
Speaker 1: throws the ball thirty five or forty times, we lose,
Speaker 1: But hey man, that's just been a going thing. We
Speaker 1: go to throw the ball flenty times no matter what. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, Baltimore had some success last week many I
Speaker 1: think they had two hundred and sixty five yards rushing
Speaker 1: and it wasn't all Lamar Jackson going crazy. So I
Speaker 1: would say there's a template there, but that's Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: that prevents presents that that threat back there. And that's
Speaker 1: why that's why I'm sure the coaching staff looked at
Speaker 1: it with their quarterback situation and said, we have to
Speaker 1: have a veteran guy even if it's a veteran guy
Speaker 1: that's had three career pass attempts, whether it's Gilbert or Rush,
Speaker 1: we have to have a guy that's played a little
Speaker 1: bit in the league because it's and it's no knock
Speaker 1: on bend Nucci, but they the downfield passing game was
Speaker 1: there was zero threat. No, there was no threat in
Speaker 1: the game last Sunday, and he just wasn't ready. And
Speaker 1: so I've at least watched Cooper Rush in preseason games
Speaker 1: with starting the starting offense. I've seen him move the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, with Kellen Moore here, with some form of
Speaker 1: this offense, I've seen him do it. It's not an
Speaker 1: ideal situation, but that would be my pick, just because
Speaker 1: I know more of him than Garret. Gilbert will see
Speaker 1: what they do. But that's why they're doing that, because
Speaker 1: you have to give it. Try to give some kind
Speaker 1: of threat for both run or pass. Rob being one
Speaker 1: of the few that have, I guess seen Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: every single snap of his preseason career and then his
Speaker 1: limited action in terms of the regular season kind of
Speaker 1: give me a synopsis on what he brings to the
Speaker 1: table as a quarterback. What kind of person is he
Speaker 1: behind center. He's you know, he's solid backup. He was
Speaker 1: a solid back up for a couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think he's gonna I don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna build a game plan defensively around him necessarily.
Speaker 1: But but I he to me there after his first year,
Speaker 1: you could see progress in terms of it. Again, it's
Speaker 1: training camp in preseason. We're not talking about big sample
Speaker 1: size here, yea of cutting it loose a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and you know, he can make those intermediate the deep throws.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be just Dick can dunk. So I
Speaker 1: guess that's somewhat encouraging given a situation that they're in.
Speaker 1: But like Isaiah said yesterday, there is no just great
Speaker 1: answer here. I mean you're talking even for him. He's
Speaker 1: coming in I think this week. You know, he had
Speaker 1: to go through the COVID testing protocol, so like he
Speaker 1: literally just got here technically. And if it's Gilbert, Gilbert
Speaker 1: got here two and a half weeks ago something like
Speaker 1: that too. They signed him right after Dak got her.
Speaker 1: So I mean, this is just kind of the situation
Speaker 1: they're in. It is the situation they're in. It's the
Speaker 1: one they're faced with, and they're faced with possibly the
Speaker 1: best defense in the NFL coming up on the other
Speaker 1: side of the football. So coming up on the other
Speaker 1: side of the break, we're gonna talk about that defense
Speaker 1: and just how the Cowboys can help out in terms
Speaker 1: of maybe moving the football a little bit against the
Speaker 1: AFC defensive Player of the Week. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about Cameron Hayward or JJ or t J. Watt. Rather,
Speaker 1: that's how deep this defense is. We're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: That's the retaliation for that. But that's okay. Hey, we'll
Speaker 1: invite you next time we might go. We might go
Speaker 1: somewhere over there school. I mean, it's cool. I understand,
Speaker 1: I grew up in a bad neighborhood. Rob has a
Speaker 1: has a you know, rapper's name rot p. It's all good.
Speaker 1: I understand. How where the direction is going, we see it.
Speaker 1: Somebody salting my Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, and guys,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through a couple of names for you
Speaker 1: here on this Steelers defensive side of the football. How
Speaker 1: about this Joe Hayden from Florida cornerback, Minka Fitzpatrick's safety
Speaker 1: from Alabama, Terrell Edmonds out of Virginia Tech. He's a
Speaker 1: safety as well. T J. Watt, we all know about him.
Speaker 1: Devin Bush Junior, Bud Dupree, and Cameron Hayward. Those are
Speaker 1: all first round picks starting just the first string on
Speaker 1: the defense for the Pittsburgh Steelers. All first round picks.
Speaker 1: So I guess one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: seven of their eleven starters first round picks in terms
Speaker 1: of this Pittsburgh defense. Oh and by the way, the
Speaker 1: reigning AFC Defensive Player of the Week, Stephan two it
Speaker 1: is coming off that left edge and so you've got
Speaker 1: quite the task whenever he comes up against the Steelers
Speaker 1: defense this week, but whenever he comes to the front
Speaker 1: seven or the secondary, which one scares you the most.
Speaker 1: In the matchup with the Cowboys, this weekeck, But whenever,
Speaker 1: it really could go either way. Man, When you go
Speaker 1: through those names and all that, it says to me,
Speaker 1: it's just the legacy that the Pittsburgh Steelers have had
Speaker 1: on defense for so many years. And it just started
Speaker 1: from I mean from you go back to the Steel
Speaker 1: Curtain and more recently the Dick lebol defenses with Troy,
Speaker 1: Paulamalu and Porter. I mean, they've all with Harrison, They've
Speaker 1: always had some guys, and now they just continue that
Speaker 1: legacy with more dogs. And you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden yesterday and his ability to you know, cover
Speaker 1: guys and he's just the master of that zone defense
Speaker 1: that they played. But also Mica Fitzpatrick. Mica Fitzpatrick is
Speaker 1: from Alabama's man, He's about as hard hitting as they come,
Speaker 1: and he's going to be meeting Ezekiel Elliott a lot
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. So you go through those names,
Speaker 1: but I mean guys like Kevin Bush who's hurt and
Speaker 1: is out for the year. But man, you talk about
Speaker 1: a young linebacker that is a dog and flies around
Speaker 1: TJ WHT Bud Dupree, all of those guys. Man, And
Speaker 1: it's not just, uh, those guys, it's just the rotation
Speaker 1: that they have with additional guys. Cameron Cameron Hayward, Ironhead,
Speaker 1: Hayward's son, another guy with it been in the league
Speaker 1: for I believe eleven years, but has a motor, has
Speaker 1: a motor and is a big part of what they
Speaker 1: do as far as being a run stuffer. So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive line, I know that's not fancy talk, but
Speaker 1: they're gonna have their work cut out for him. But
Speaker 1: that secondary Mica Fitzpatrick, but also Terrell Edmonds. You talk
Speaker 1: about him out of Virginia Tech. He's a big part
Speaker 1: of He's like the glue to that whole thing. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers defense is like, you know,
Speaker 1: release the cracking every time they take the field. So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be interesting to see how we, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, gain any success on this defense. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be inch by inch, right. Yeah. Actually, heck,
Speaker 1: I was gonna hit you with what you just said.
Speaker 1: Going back to your guy me and Joe, like, just
Speaker 1: watching them on tape, is there any like we've talked
Speaker 1: about just a general thought about the Steelers. We talk
Speaker 1: about identity with the Cowboys under Mike McCarthy, like, who
Speaker 1: do they want to be? What's their culture? The Steelers
Speaker 1: on defense, they've had the same identity for fifty years.
Speaker 1: Fifty years, it's the same thing. You watch them on tape,
Speaker 1: and I'm not comparing them to the Steel Curtain of
Speaker 1: the seventies, but you just watch the way they play,
Speaker 1: how physical they are, and how much speed they have
Speaker 1: on defense, and it's every decade they've they've had the
Speaker 1: same type of identity and they've got They've got it now, Kyle.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, I would say upfront is probably
Speaker 1: their bread and butter, because I think just watching them
Speaker 1: a little bit of them on tape, it just seems
Speaker 1: like the secondary feeds off of their pressure and the
Speaker 1: way they get after the quarterback and the way they
Speaker 1: stop things in the run game. You know, the two
Speaker 1: leading the two leading guys in the league and tackles
Speaker 1: for loss or on the Pittsburgh Steelers, it's TJ wat
Speaker 1: and I'm blanking right now. No, No, it's Vince Williams.
Speaker 1: Sorry guy, another guy. And like I thought of I
Speaker 1: thought of Isaiah when I was watching it the other
Speaker 1: last night where Isaiah you said they're bullies like Vince Williams. Bullies.
Speaker 1: Guys you watched, I mean Ryan Tannehill trying to take
Speaker 1: off and scramble and he got blown up by Vince Williams.
Speaker 1: He looked like one of those tackling dummy toys back
Speaker 1: in the day, you know, just getting thrown around like
Speaker 1: these guys are. They're really good. And I think it
Speaker 1: comes down to though, their pressure upfront really allows the
Speaker 1: Joe Hayden and Mike and Fitzpatrick and those guys to
Speaker 1: really fly around and go make plays on the football.
Speaker 1: If you if you get in third and long against
Speaker 1: these guys, you're in big trouble. Big trouble. Absolutely correct man,
Speaker 1: and phrase the front seven for me, Kyle, to answer
Speaker 1: your question. The front seven is they're relentless. That There's
Speaker 1: there's no other word that describes these guys except for
Speaker 1: that they're relentless. They don't stop. You guys talk about
Speaker 1: the idea. You know, we've talked about. I brought it
Speaker 1: up about identity and culture. You know what you're getting
Speaker 1: when you play Pittsburgh. You know exactly what you're getting.
Speaker 1: There's only a handful of teams that can run with Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and that's Baltimore and you know Baltimore probably you know
Speaker 1: Tampa and KC. Just because of the speed of their offenses. Right,
Speaker 1: just because they can run with these guys, they can
Speaker 1: they can move them, they can make them move off
Speaker 1: their mark. These guys trust their front seven. Their front
Speaker 1: seven knows that their job is to get pressure. If
Speaker 1: they get pressure, then quarterbacks are gonna make mistakes, right,
Speaker 1: and the quarterbacks make mistakes, they're gonna throw the ball
Speaker 1: up and probably gonna land in the hands of the
Speaker 1: defenders of the Steelers. Simply because these Steelers defenders, as
Speaker 1: good as they are in man to man coverage, as
Speaker 1: we talk about the Joe Hayden's and you know, and
Speaker 1: all these guys right, as good as they are in
Speaker 1: man and man coverage, guess what, they're not being asked
Speaker 1: to play man to man. No, they if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: They they can play man to man and lock you
Speaker 1: up if they wanted to. But guess what in a heartbeat,
Speaker 1: why why? Why I put this pressure on you? Hell,
Speaker 1: how about I take this guy who's an absolute dog
Speaker 1: at man to man coverage and guess what, how about
Speaker 1: I give him a ten a ten yard box that
Speaker 1: he has to cover. How about that? How about take
Speaker 1: the pressure off you and just say I need you
Speaker 1: to own this ten yards and I need you to
Speaker 1: trust the teammates next to you to that they that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do their job as well. And guess what,
Speaker 1: when opportunities present themselves, take advantage of them. If somebody
Speaker 1: presenting stuff to you, knock the win out their dog
Speaker 1: on a chest. And that's all these guys are being
Speaker 1: asked to do. And they are having fun doing it.
Speaker 1: They're playing balls to the wall, they're just it's just
Speaker 1: it's NonStop, right these guys. And it's it's deflating as
Speaker 1: an offense. It's very deflating because there's no point in
Speaker 1: the game where you feel like they're gonna wear down, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give up guys. As you guys talking about,
Speaker 1: there's a whole new wave right when the guys do
Speaker 1: when you do see them get their hands on their hips,
Speaker 1: guess what their coaches pulling them out, and they're bringing
Speaker 1: in a couple more dogs that are gonna bring just
Speaker 1: the same amount of fire that the original guys did.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to deal with it all day long,
Speaker 1: from snap to snap. And as you guys talk about
Speaker 1: those you know, talk about that pressure. He's talking about Rob.
Speaker 1: The bullies on this defense. That's what they do and
Speaker 1: they feed off of it, right, They feed off each other,
Speaker 1: the energy that they have. They know that they're the
Speaker 1: heartbeat of this team. They're really connected defensively when you
Speaker 1: watch it. Yeah, that's when we talk about being connected
Speaker 1: defensively with the Cowboys trying to get to that point.
Speaker 1: The Steelers are at that point. They just work so
Speaker 1: well together from the front seven and the backs in
Speaker 1: the back end. And the first thing I thought about it, coaches, God, No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna just the football cliche of guy's defense
Speaker 1: being like a link in the chain. You know, they
Speaker 1: played very well together. Everything, all of these positions are strong.
Speaker 1: But I just wanted to go back to what you said, Rob,
Speaker 1: as far as just the culture of the Pittsburgh Steelers man.
Speaker 1: They've been practicing at the same the two of days
Speaker 1: is at Latrobe. It's every year they don't and their
Speaker 1: football organization is filled with football people, right, and so
Speaker 1: this team last year lost Ben Roethlisberger, but still was
Speaker 1: a game away from actually making it into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So we look at your circumstances and you look at
Speaker 1: other teams and you see how they've overcome as well. Now,
Speaker 1: all be it not in the pandemic and all of
Speaker 1: those things that go along with it. But that's the
Speaker 1: culture that you say, next man up kind of mentality,
Speaker 1: even when you lose your number one guy. And so
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you lose your middle linebacker or
Speaker 1: a defensive end. The product, the product that you're gonna
Speaker 1: get on the field is gonna be hard nosed, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hustling, and it's gonna be bullyball no
Speaker 1: matter who puts that that helmet on. This is always
Speaker 1: a this is always an intense week for heck Mon
Speaker 1: because he grew up in a family full of Steelers
Speaker 1: fans with Cowboys fandom oozing from himself. But I will
Speaker 1: say I completely agree with this point, and I want
Speaker 1: to add to it is the fact that they're bullies
Speaker 1: on the defensive side. Of the football. And I know
Speaker 1: we're not going to start a rookie quarterback, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna start a very inexperienced quarterback no matter what. But
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks are owing five versus the Steelers since twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: and rookie quarterback versus the Steelers since so four since
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Four and twenty four is their
Speaker 1: record against the Steeler's offense. And this is just talking
Speaker 1: about there is a chance. And guess who was the
Speaker 1: last one to do it. Guess who was the last
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback it was. It was Dak Prescott. Now, unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: was listening to it was in my car, goodbye, goodbye,
Speaker 1: oh whatever, stop it. I think I was at church.
Speaker 1: It was a Sunday night. But anyways, whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to inexperience at the quarterback position, this team feasts. This
Speaker 1: team feasts on inexperience at the quarterback position. When we
Speaker 1: come back after the break, we're gonna talk about how
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Speaker 1: stand back, Rob Phillips, heck Maharrison, Kyle Yeoman's with you.
Speaker 1: Glad you're having fun with us. Hope you're having as
Speaker 1: much fun as we are breaking down this game. Somebody
Speaker 1: needs a little positivity in their in their life right now.
Speaker 1: Of course, we have a lot going on in our country,
Speaker 1: we have a lot going on in our football franchise
Speaker 1: at the moment. But hey, we're staying positive. We're smiling
Speaker 1: through it, and we are glad you're here with us.
Speaker 1: And heck well, you you brought up a great point yesterday.
Speaker 1: You brought up a point of we need positivity right now.
Speaker 1: We need to bring some positivity. So let's do that
Speaker 1: with this Cowboys offense. Let's find the positive side of things.
Speaker 1: Is there some place that the Cowboys could have some
Speaker 1: success against the Steelers come Sunday? Heckmah Well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make me earn my fifteen dollars earning. I want you
Speaker 1: to day. I think that's about where you guys are.
Speaker 1: So you're my cameo numbers. Now, that's what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about it. So, man um, if I'm looking for anything,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be and just based off of And this
Speaker 1: may be a complete fantasy to even think this, because
Speaker 1: you know in the Baltimore game that the Pittsburgh stealers
Speaker 1: were keying off on Lamar Jackson as well, and that's
Speaker 1: why that other running backs were able to have success.
Speaker 1: But that's it. I'm the only thing that I'm looking
Speaker 1: at is for our running game to try and get established.
Speaker 1: And if Zeke can't do it because of what Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard did last week, hopefully him as a changeup can
Speaker 1: have break off some big runs because that's the only
Speaker 1: place that I see it, especially with the Pittsburgh still
Speaker 1: a defense being the fifth ranked defense. Keith Butler, the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, has these guys playing lights out, and like
Speaker 1: we said before, you know, once the running game becomes obsolete,
Speaker 1: all they're gonna do is pin their ears back and
Speaker 1: come after us and you know, and crowd the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and once it gets to that point, it
Speaker 1: increasingly becomes difficult to run, and so it's gonna I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that we can have those big gash runs, but
Speaker 1: also looking at Ezekiel Elliott out of the backfield, and
Speaker 1: I know that they're going to be keen on that
Speaker 1: as well. But trying to get him involved in the
Speaker 1: passing game, and also Tony Pollard involved in the passing game.
Speaker 1: We talked about him coming out of Memphis being looked
Speaker 1: at as a flanker receiver type. Hopefully we can get
Speaker 1: him involved because everything else, as far as getting throws
Speaker 1: down the field, I don't think Rush or Gilbert is
Speaker 1: going to be effective there. Rob I want to see
Speaker 1: I want I want to see Scholtz in our movement.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see. I want to see
Speaker 1: Schultz cotches in somebody these underneath routes and and breaking
Speaker 1: a tackle. He needs some yack yardage. I think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do a lot of two tight just like
Speaker 1: we did last week. In turn, trying to keep guys
Speaker 1: in the box and try to block it up as
Speaker 1: much as possible to give this quarterbacks pressure. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give these quarterbacks somehow give them some relief from the pressure.
Speaker 1: But I think, I think that whatever we do get
Speaker 1: on the move, you know, in bootlegs, nakeds, you know,
Speaker 1: spread out stings of that nature, I think Schultz has
Speaker 1: to be that guy, um that's that's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: be the outlet for him. And you know, you turn
Speaker 1: those five yard players, right, those easy little drop offs
Speaker 1: um into into twenty yard games if you could break
Speaker 1: a couple of tackles. They actually, you know, Benda Nucci
Speaker 1: actually when he got something going late in the game,
Speaker 1: he seemed to settle in just a little bit. And
Speaker 1: Schultz was guy he was looking towards late in the
Speaker 1: game against Philly. Yeah, I mean, it's got to be
Speaker 1: the run game. And I again I'm encouraged by what
Speaker 1: they did against Philly last week. I still feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys receivers can win matchups one on
Speaker 1: one no matter who they're up against. And to Isaiah's point,
Speaker 1: they did go more too tight to more twelve personnel
Speaker 1: last week. I think Cede Lamb only had maybe thirty
Speaker 1: snaps in the game. But I still think maybe maybe
Speaker 1: with a more experienced quarterback, whether it's Gilbert or Rush.
Speaker 1: The timing and the rapport isn't there, but there might
Speaker 1: be more of an opportunity to get the ball down
Speaker 1: the field if they can protect, and that's a huge
Speaker 1: question mark. But if they can protect, I still believe,
Speaker 1: you know, we just haven't seen it because of the
Speaker 1: just the lack of continuity upfront and the lack of
Speaker 1: continuity at quarterback. But I still think they've got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win their battles, get separation, and I think
Speaker 1: it's going to have to take a chunk player two
Speaker 1: to win this game. These give yourself a chance to
Speaker 1: win this game and move the ball offensively. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can have fifteen play twelve play drives against
Speaker 1: the Steelers defense. They're eventually going to force you in
Speaker 1: a mistake. You know, I was watching that game very
Speaker 1: casually last week against Baltimore, dealing with the baby and everything,
Speaker 1: and every time I looked up, they were stripping the
Speaker 1: ball and they're picking it off. So they are they
Speaker 1: are a high turnover defense. Rob Whenever you talk about
Speaker 1: the timing and the continuity with an offense and a quarterback,
Speaker 1: is there going to be that much of a difference?
Speaker 1: Is that much of an improvement from Ben d Nucci
Speaker 1: last week to either Cooper Rush or Garrett Gilbert. Whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to them playing as the starting quarterback, can
Speaker 1: you get worse? Yeah? Yeah, there you go. I wish
Speaker 1: I knew that answer. I don't think we're gonna know
Speaker 1: until we see it. Yeah, but that's just right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think those guys have a little more experience,
Speaker 1: just in terms of well, Cooper Rush in this in
Speaker 1: this offense to begin with, but Danusci's pop presence, I
Speaker 1: just think he wasn't ready for the speed of this game.
Speaker 1: And maybe these guys are a little bit more And
Speaker 1: maybe that's maybe, you know, and that Mike basically said
Speaker 1: yesterday again against the defense of this caliber, you've got
Speaker 1: to have more experience. You absolutely have to. That's that's
Speaker 1: a that's a loaded question, uh, Kyle, And I don't
Speaker 1: know how you answer it. And the thing is is like,
Speaker 1: if if these guys are any better than Danucci, hopefully
Speaker 1: they're better at not getting sacked and fumbling, you know,
Speaker 1: like hold on to the ball. The the offensive play
Speaker 1: calling has got to be better this week for Rush,
Speaker 1: our Guilbert who whomever it is, and if we get
Speaker 1: into the red zone again this week, we gotta punch
Speaker 1: this end. We gotta get we gotta get points and
Speaker 1: not a field goal. So that's gonna be very important.
Speaker 1: But what you say about the Pittsburgh stilla defense is
Speaker 1: it's also true. Man, these guys are punching and ripping
Speaker 1: at the ball. And with a team like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: that has just been a fumble turnover machine, that's not
Speaker 1: that's just not a good thing to walk into a
Speaker 1: game like this knowing that this Pittsburgh still offense turns
Speaker 1: those turnovers into points. And that's been that our Achilles
Speaker 1: hill all season long is turnovers and team scoring point
Speaker 1: telling those turnovers. So look, ball security, getting into the
Speaker 1: red zone, if we get in the red zone, actually
Speaker 1: get in points touchdowns and not field goals, it's going
Speaker 1: to be important for the Cowboys for sure. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So as we talk about which quarterback, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I already said that the rock it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: The thing I'm more concerned about is these quarterbacks trying
Speaker 1: to get the ball out when they when they sense
Speaker 1: and they see pressure. Right. The reason being is when
Speaker 1: when Pittsburgh blitzes, they're not blitzing and playing man coverage.
Speaker 1: They're doing zone blitz. And this is probably the first
Speaker 1: team that we faced this year that runs a true
Speaker 1: zone blitz where they're dropping a defensive ends altu into coverage.
Speaker 1: And Isaiah Isaiah Isaiah Tell explain because people, I don't
Speaker 1: think they understand the difference between that and actually being
Speaker 1: in man and how a quarterback processes. Now. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: typically whatever you see a blitz right, a lot of
Speaker 1: times it can be man coverage. So if you if
Speaker 1: they have you know, three down lineman or four down lineman,
Speaker 1: they'll bring the line backers up the middle right and
Speaker 1: you know that everybody else is all your receivers, your
Speaker 1: two three receivers and your tight end are gonna be
Speaker 1: a man coverage is gonna be one person sticking them
Speaker 1: versus a zone blitz. Say I step up to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage as a quarterback and I see two
Speaker 1: guys looking like they're about to come off the left
Speaker 1: side right, Well, my eyes go where my eyes go
Speaker 1: to the left side, and I'm in my head, I'm thinking, okay, blitz,
Speaker 1: I have man and man coverage. Maybe one of my
Speaker 1: inside receivers can now run a one step slant. The
Speaker 1: whole middle of the field is open, right, So all
Speaker 1: he has to do is get inside that defender. I
Speaker 1: can throw the ball to him really quickly. You can
Speaker 1: catch it and take off for twenty yards if you
Speaker 1: get some yack yardage. Pittsburgh knows that. So what do
Speaker 1: they do. They bring pressure back. They bring pressure from
Speaker 1: one side. Right, they bring pressure from one side. All
Speaker 1: the linebackers shift over to the side that just vacated
Speaker 1: and where they just vacated. Now the defensive end, the
Speaker 1: defend line defensive lineman, who has his hand in the
Speaker 1: ground now drops back into that void into coverage where
Speaker 1: you typically would throw your hot route or your your route,
Speaker 1: you know where you you know, you kind of like
Speaker 1: your your safety blanket. So a lot of times as
Speaker 1: a quarterback on the line of scrimm, you don't see
Speaker 1: that because you're in a panic. More. You're like craft
Speaker 1: they're coming. I have to get out of my hand.
Speaker 1: I got to get it to my my nearest guy. Well,
Speaker 1: typically your nearest guy is exactly where that defensive end
Speaker 1: is looking up for it. He's going towards that guy
Speaker 1: because he knows that's the only place you can go.
Speaker 1: With the ball. That's that's the only place you have
Speaker 1: time to throw the ball. And Lamar Jackson threw a
Speaker 1: pick six just like that, just like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: actually didn't and just generally having that clock in your head.
Speaker 1: Danusi's first fumble, it's that pocket awareness we're talking about,
Speaker 1: like he had. I don't know, maybe you shouldn't dial
Speaker 1: up a passing situation like that with a young quarterback
Speaker 1: in the red zone, but he should have gotten rid
Speaker 1: of it. And so that those kind of things you
Speaker 1: think where a quarterback he's been around a little bit longer,
Speaker 1: they can they can sense those things and be a
Speaker 1: little bit more mindful to football. It should be interesting.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna have to figure it out on the
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football to slow down
Speaker 1: that Steelers defense. They did it in twenty sixteen. I
Speaker 1: mean that was a different season than twenty twenty. But
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott had a really big game and we mentioned
Speaker 1: it a little bit early years. So I'm gonna ahead
Speaker 1: and sign off for heck Ma Harrison, for Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: for Isaiah dan Back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's a special thanks
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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott is twenty sixteen. Let's go and play that out.
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