WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Has Defense Regressed? 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:19.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.079 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:27.440 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:41.240 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Okay, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.080 welcome back, guys to another episode of The Break. I'm 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.000 here with Nick and Dave. We are gonna be breaking 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:54.120 down the Lions defense today. But to start the show, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.640 when I get an update on these injured guys that 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.760 we're out, Yes, you're they kind of see what's going 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:08.640 on there today. What's the update for Lyle Collins is 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.440 still absent from practice. Connor Williams is too, But we 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.840 knew that Jeff Heath is doing rehab. I don't think 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:21.039 he's gonna actually practice today. Amari Cooper was rehabbing and 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.120 doing injured guy things. Didn't see him actually practicing, but 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:31.000 he was inside with everybody else. I'm not sure what 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.840 that means for his participation level, but classic case of 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.760 a guy who's trending toward getting ready. I'm tempted to 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.320 think that that's just going to be the norm for 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.080 him for the rest of the year. Michael Bennett's back 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:49.200 from his excused absence whatever it was. Ah, yeah, all 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:53.120 things considered. Oh, Zack Martin's back to all things considered. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.680 Not too shabby, too shabby. Jeff Heath what about CJ. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.800 Goodwin back? He's pctice. Yeah, he returned. It was his ankle, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.680 not as back, but he's back now. Before the show, 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.840 I asked some people on Twitter to send me some questions, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.840 So if you guys want to send some more hit us. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.760 At Cowboys Break I saw one of them, which I 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.480 honestly have not thought of this this way, But you know, 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.000 we keep asking and wondering, why are the Cowboys having 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:30.280 slow starts now? With having so many guys being out 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.600 during practice time, you know, due to injuries and the 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.480 lack of them being pressing and being able to participate. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:41.320 Could that be a reason why the Cowboys are having 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.919 slow stars and maybe just takes them like a quarter 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.639 to kind of get back on track. I would buy 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.760 that if they were going three and out and punning 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.280 right off the bat, which just happened maybe at once 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.200 or twice, but for the most part, they're driving the ball, 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.680 they're getting down there, they're getting in position of you know, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.160 feel goal or maybe red zone, and then something messes 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.680 up early in the game, a drop pass or a 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:10.960 penalty or missfield goal or drop pass or poor decision 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.600 to make the field goal attempt, you know that early 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.000 in the game, just from that from that yard line, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.440 from that yard line, I think there. I think somebody 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.520 looked up to stat Maybe you may have heard this. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.960 It's like the first time someone's tried to field goal 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.560 fifty five yards or more in the first drive of 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.400 the game in like twelve years. I mean, it just 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:36.000 doesn't happen a lot. I yeah, that reminds me of 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.160 a stat I think our friend Bob Sturm had it something. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.640 They're like, only only four or like, only eight field 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.440 goals have been attempted from that range that early in 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.320 the game, like ever, and four of them are Jason 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.480 Garrett's decision. Yeah, early, I mean it's yeah, I don't 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.880 want to paraphrase, but it's something like that. We believe 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.960 in our guys, believe in Brett Maher. I mean, you 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.920 know what, believing Chris Jones that he's going to get 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:04.680 the ball down to the eight yard line, fair catch, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.000 and believe in the defense for stopping him, and then 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:08.920 you'll get the ball in midfield and let's do it again. 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.360 That's what I would believe in. But whatever, where are 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.840 you getting that? Like, where would you get that information 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:19.440 from that it's Garrett's decision. Out of those times, well, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.839 just how many field goals they're been And then they're like, well, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.599 if it says I guess, I mean the Cowboys with 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.599 Jason Garrett as the coach. I mean, so I'll try 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.559 to find it. It was. It blew my mind about 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.880 the injuries affecting it, just because I think that they 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.560 they've actually moved the ball pretty well. They they just 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.800 something's messing them up early in the game. They're not 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.120 It's a it's a good thought, you know, because if 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.159 we keep trying to find an answers, you know, the 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.599 media keeps asking asking Jason Garrett. I mean they asked 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.520 the players. No one really has an answer asked to 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.560 why they're having these types of starts. I mean, the 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.640 offense really hasn't been great. The defense got a couple 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.000 of turnovers in the Philadelphia game, right, and then they 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:05.840 were able to punch it in, but as far as 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.280 taking the ball driving it. But I would argue with 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.400 you that you're, yeah, like they're not going three and out. 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.680 Like I'm thinking about the Packers game right now. They 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.000 looked great right up until that ball bounced off a 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.760 Mari's hands. They got to the thirty nine the other night, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.840 and then Cobb dropped the pass that I thought was 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.280 a pretty big drop in the game, and that on 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.320 that third down against UM in the first drive Vikings game. Yeah, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.440 I found it. By the way Pro Football Reference, four 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.120 field goals attempted of over fifty three yards in the 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.640 first three minutes of an NFL game since ninety four. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.400 It's happened four times in the last what is that 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.320 twenty five years? All last or Sunday Night was the 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.520 only time it's happened from a distance longer than fifty 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.440 four yards. Of those four times, two of them are 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.280 Jason Garrett, So it was the other kicker? Was it 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.839 maher Or It doesn't say what year It doesn't. It 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.400 just says it's happened time since ninety four. It doesn't 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.840 say what years those happen. How do you know it's 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.160 Jason Karrett because I assume two of them were tempted 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.320 by the Cowboys during Garrett's ten years head coach. Okay, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.120 I was just trying to see who the kicker was 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:18.520 ten years. That's amazing. But you know, it's a trust. 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.680 It's a trust in the defense to stop them, which 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.560 they didn't. It's the trust and the kicker to make 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.920 it well. Another question, speaking of the defense. You know, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:29.560 we we've talked about the offense and the issues that 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.520 they've had, but when you look at the defense, I 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:36.040 see some people having concerns as to why is this 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.279 defense not looking like they were looking last year. You know, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.360 you still have essentially somewhat of the same type of players. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:48.240 If anything, you've added talent on the Rocks. It's the 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.880 same defense plus a couple of good players you'd help you. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.000 That's that's the baffling part about it. And you know, 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.359 people pointed out it's you know, defensive consistency, especially in 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.800 the NFL, it's hard to translate it from year to year. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:02.880 A lot of people are making a big deal of 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.440 the fact that, you know, I think the Cowboys win 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.480 eight and two in games decided by a possession or 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.480 last last year, and it's oz and three, like that 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.240 type of stuff. Regression to the mean is a big 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.640 thing in a league with this much parody, But it 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:20.160 is still weird that a defense that is essentially the same, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:25.480 like Robert Quinn is the only major difference, has had 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:31.160 so many lapses at like doing the basic stuff like tackling. Yeah. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.480 I don't have a great answer, you know, but you know, 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.800 we did see it last year or two. When teams 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.640 really focus on wanting to run the ball and move 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.280 you out of the way, they can do it. And 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.920 the Colts did it, the Rams did it, and then 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.640 you know this year, the Packers have done it. The 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.720 Vikings did it. So there are some teams that have 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:54.800 the ability to run the ball at will and it's 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.480 it's Cowboys obviously haven't won any of those games, and 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.840 they really haven't been that close. I guess the Vikings 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.160 game was closed. The Vikings game was close, but for 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.400 the most part, you know, when you when you run 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.520 the ball like they have, and the Cowboys tried to 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.400 address it. They reached in the second round to take 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.520 a defensive tackle that can't get on the field. That 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.720 was a bad pick at this point. At this point, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.600 it has been a bad pick because he does not 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.559 play and they need that position to play well. It's 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.760 it's crazy that. I mean, that's nothing new. A guy 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:34.360 drafted that high at a position where they're not stacked. Yeah, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.679 isn't playing a role at all. And that doesn't necessarily 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.360 mean he'll be a bust, but it's disappointing right now, 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.200 but that they need him to play well, like that 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.880 they need the position. That's the one thing. It's like, well, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.120 they drafted him, but they got six other guys. Well 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.880 they don't though, Well, do you think they were even 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.760 expecting to have to need him this year? I think 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.720 they expect him to be ready to play. I think 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.480 that's a factor when you draft the guy in the 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.360 second round, like he is he going to come in 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.280 and control? But you know, how do they make some 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.160 decisions sometimes and it's like not necessarily for the year, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.079 but for the next year. True. Yeah, no, I mean, 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.320 and we've talked about this, we're kind of I guess 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.880 we're getting off the plot of the current team, but like, yeah, 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.560 it just it it stinks, for lack of a better term, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.079 of them being like, this is the guy who can 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.360 do what we need him to do, and we got 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.120 to get him now, regardless of whether or not we're 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.240 reaching or whatever, Like we need him in the future. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.400 He can do what we want him to do in 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.480 this scheme, and we got to get him right now, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.920 even if it doesn't line up perfectly with our board. Like, 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.480 that's what I think happened, And the fact that he 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.520 can't even get a jersey on game day only seems 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.880 to emphasize that. But I would bet that they're I 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.360 don't know, I would hope that they're surprised that he 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.480 can't even get into a uniform because he was drafted 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.360 fifty eighth overall. Yeah, I mean, that's that shouldn't happen 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.720 now real quick? On going back to Jeff Heath and 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.400 most likely wouldn't play this weekend I would assume, right, 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.720 or maybe you just never know until Yeah, it's hard 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.040 to say. I leaned toward thinking maybe not. But with 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.960 Darien Thompson, I know we don't get to see much 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.160 of the practice, but based on the very little die 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.160 you've seen and heard, how is this looking like as 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.840 far as him and his participation. I like Thompson. I 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.280 think I like Thompson better than Heath to play in 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.800 these games out healthy or not. I think Thompson is 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.120 a you know, he's playing for Heath, but he's a 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.000 he's an active player, like he's having to play some 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.160 strong safety now. He's always played free, but you see 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.360 him in the backfield, you see him making some plays. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.319 I like him. I like him out there, and I 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.480 don't think they're going to miss a whole lot there 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.560 and you miss someone special teams. But I don't think 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.520 the jump from Heath to Thompson is a big, big loss. No, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.480 I mean it hasn't been to this point. I think 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.040 Thompson's played really well. I heard a whisper. I guess 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.560 this shouldn't be surprised. But keep an eye on Heath 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:07.280 because if he's unavailable, that leaves you with essentially three 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:12.079 safeties and only one real fallback option. It could be 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.200 a scenario where they need Josh Jones to come up 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.920 from the practice squad, maybe you know, hand special teams, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.800 all hands on deck type of situation. They brought him here. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.080 He's been here for what like a month. Former second 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:26.640 round pick of Green Bay. I know a lot of 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.439 people have asked about him because he was I mean, 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.880 he was the lofty draft choice. So that's something the 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.520 Cowboys like to do. 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So first thing I 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.640 do when I go down, you know, when I look 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.080 at an opponent, I just I write their roster out. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.400 I look at who they got, and I'm sitting here, 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.360 I'm like, okay, yeah, Damon Harrison remember, you know, remember 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.720 him from the Giants. Trey Flowers, big money free agent 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.120 from the from the Pats, a Shaan Robinson, big nasty 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.200 nose tackle from Alabama, Jared Davis first round pick out 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:38.160 of Florida, Gilani Tava, Dane Brugler's favorite player in last 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.000 year's draft. I'm like, yeah, these guys are talented, man, 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.440 this is this is good. And then you watch them 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.440 play and you look at what they've done this year 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.800 and you're like, oh, it's uh, that sounds kind of familiar. 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.200 It doesn't look as good on paper as it should. Yeah, 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.320 but okay, we're so hard on the Cowboys defense. They're 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.080 still pretty good. Yeah, these guys aren't really Um, they're 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.360 thirtieth in the league in total defense, twenty fourth in scoring, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.440 so they buckle down when they need to a little bit. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.760 Twenty fourth US. I mean they're thirtieth in defense, twenty 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.960 eighth against the past, twenty sixth against the run, twenty 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.520 fourth in scoring. Like so they're a little better at 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.200 holding people out of the end zone than they are 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.520 everywhere else. It's pretty terrible. They are defense terrible. They're 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.680 not good. Um, they're ninth. They have nineteen sacks on 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.000 the year. That's twenty six in the league. They don't 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.240 get a lot of takeaways either. Um. Their best dude 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.000 to take him the ball away, Quandre Diggs as a seahawk. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.920 Now he might have seen him the other night getting 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:46.440 a takeaway. Is their best player probably Darius Slay cornerback. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:50.080 He's really good. Um, that's something to watch. I wonder 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:54.720 if he'll travel with Amari Cooper. He's a really talented, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.920 confident press man corner. He's man to man a lot. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.880 He gets up on his guy, he bullies him. Um, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.320 which is impressive because like he's not he's not this 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:08.840 huge dude, but but he's he's good at playing press technique. Um. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.600 I mean, Trey Flowers is good and I don't he's 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.640 got five sacks. I don't think that's terrible. Uh again, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.240 you know, going back to that Green Bay game, he 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.200 should have had like two more that got waved off 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:24.440 by flags. Um oh and Justin Coleman. I'm curious to 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.440 see what they do. He's a he's kind of a 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.600 BADASSU They he's their slot corner. They got him out 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.800 of Seattle. Uh. He's playing really well, but they traded 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.520 Digs away, So I'm curious to see how much he 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.680 plays outside versus inside. But he's he's having a really 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:46.600 nice season. He's got ten pass breakups. Um playing really well. 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.960 You know, going back to what you said about Sleigh 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.960 moving and following Cooper, you know, I used to think 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.520 that was kind of like a bad thing for the Cowboys, 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.000 But I don't like it, Like, I don't think that's 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.880 something that that the Lions should do, or really any 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.120 team travel somebody. No, because I think Gallop is probably 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:13.359 just as good. Gallop is probably better than a second corner. Yeah, 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.919 so so therefore I don't think he'd be better than Slagh. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.480 So I don't know. I just look at it like, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.480 I still Cooper can win. No, that's that's the classic. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.159 I mean, that's what you need a number two receiver 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.840 who's good enough to make a team pay for doing 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.960 that type of thing. And like I said, I don't 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.640 know if they will. That's fine with me though, Like 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.000 I'll I like Michael Gallops chances against most number two corners. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.119 One thing, if you thought Slagh or Zavian Howard or 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.439 whoever the corner was would shut down Cooper, but I 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.600 don't think he can. I don't think so. Who would 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.320 you say would be the toughest matchup here for the Cowboys, 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:51.880 like across the defense, across yeah defense versus Cowboys offense. 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.480 I mean Snacks Snacks Snacks has given them fits for years. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.080 And he's still a good player. He's not, I mean, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.199 he has an dropped off drastically. I watched two games 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.880 and I thought he looked good. Um, And that's one 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.840 thing about Travis Frederick that you wonder about is the strength. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.040 You know, he's yeah, yeah, the recognition is fine. But 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.000 they said with this, in with with the illness that 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.679 he had last year, um, strength would be an issue 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.919 for him. So and I think we've seen that at times, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.040 and they they're adding you know, Sophilo obviously that'll help 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.320 with some strength. Yeah, but you know, Zach Martin's got 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.399 a back injury, much like the much like the Giants. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.320 I think this is better. This is better than the Giants, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.800 I think, But like in terms of rushing the passer, okay, 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.480 and you have Trey Flowers, um, but there's not there's 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.360 not much else in the way of guys that are 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.480 like getting a lot of push to the point that 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.639 they use their Sam linebacker Devon Kannard a lot coming 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.040 off the edge. So that's something tight ends should probably 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.800 be watching for um Witten or Jarwin like I would, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.560 He's gonna be trying to add pressure a lot because 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.320 they don't get a lot of push with just their 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:08.439 front four nineteen sacks twenty sixth in the league. So 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.240 I like Dak's odds to have a pretty clean pocket. 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.000 The linebacker play like Jared Davis was a first round 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.320 pick out of Florida. I remember liking him a decent 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.399 amount and him and then, like I said, Gilani Tavai, 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.920 he's a rookie. They don't. It doesn't seem like they're 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.200 playing great. I was actually reading up on it from 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.320 Detroit writers. Like, again, Davis is their big first round pick. 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.640 He's supposed to kind of be the center of their defense. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:40.399 And they reduced his role in this loss to the 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.640 Bears last week, like he played fewer snaps. They gave 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.000 play calling duties to a rookie over him. I was like, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.160 that's probably not what you want in your first round pick. 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.400 So he gets, he gets washed out of plays, blockers 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.400 get to him, he gets you know, he gets picked 0:19:55.480 --> 0:20:00.679 up a lot and doesn't get move in the right 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.320 direction fast enough to make a lot of tackles. Dalvin 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.000 Cook killed them the same way. It looked a lot 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.439 like watching the Cowboys game. Honestly, when they played the 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.040 Vikings a month ago and they lost forty two to thirty, 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.480 Kirk Cousins had all day. Play action worked really great. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.960 That's I got halfway through the tape against the Bears 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:22.919 and I was like, why am I watching this? Like 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.760 Mitch Drubisky sucks for lack of a better word, like 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:30.399 I'm not getting a good indication of what they're capable of. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.840 Because they were playing great against the Bears. I was like, Oh, 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.280 this is a pretty good defense. And I was like, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.119 they're playing Trubisky, Dave, why don't you go watch him 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.840 against a better quarterback? And I did, and it wasn't 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:44.119 very good to your point, So I mentioned Justin Coleman, 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.719 he's their slot guy. He can play outside. But if 0:20:46.760 --> 0:20:49.760 he doesn't, they got a veteran corner by the name 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:55.040 of Rashaan Melvin, and he is a liability. He can't 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.520 You're gonna say he's good, No, he can't cover. He 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.760 I mean, he was getting picked on. It didn't matter 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.840 if it was theeln or digs. They put him on 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.320 Kyle Rudolph a couple of times and it was it 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.119 went how you might expect, just getting bullied off the ball. 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:15.520 So fine, what number twenty nine, twenty nine in your programs? 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:18.320 If if Darius Slay wants to travel with Cooper, find 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.120 whoever twenty nine's got, and I like that matchup a lot. 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:26.760 They they're they're susceptible over the middle of the field, 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.240 That's what I wrote, because their linebackers don't cover well. 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:32.960 Tavai is like a big, bulky mic guy, like he's 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:35.199 he's good. I mean, he's a good player, but he 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.040 coverages in his strong suit. And then Jared Davis just 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.560 doesn't look super impressive. So whether that's Randall Cobb, whether 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:44.600 you want to look I mean, I know we've kind 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:46.840 of been talking down on it, but Jason Witten, I 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.480 think he can get open against these guys that should 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:53.159 be there the middle of the field and the cornerbacks 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:55.200 that aren't Darius Slay. I feel good about that. It 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.959 was twelve years ago, I believe. But two thousand and 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:02.840 seven Head a lot fifteen catches in a game up 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.760 there he really Detroit, Yeah, and the game winner in 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:07.720 the final seconds of the game to win the NFC. 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:09.679 So it was kind of a big game. But a 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:11.800 lot has changed in twelve years. But I do know 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:14.240 that he had about fifteen catches that day. We don't 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.840 talk about it a lot. Maybe we I don't know, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.280 but we talked about it Uncover four. I was like, 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:23.160 this is a fun series, like the games are usually 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.800 really Yeah, Cowboys Detroit, like it came. It was a 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:29.960 walk off field goal last year they beat there but 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.880