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Speaker 2: about injuries walking Browns, Broncos, Yeah, Bears, Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 5: Uh, he ends up on the injury report yesterday. What
Speaker 5: are we hearing about that? Because obviously that's a position that,
Speaker 5: as we mentioned yesterday, Cowboys seemed to be especially hit
Speaker 5: hard there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he said he's feeling good. It's a calf injury
Speaker 6: that he he suffered in the game against the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers. He said he has a little just a
Speaker 6: little bit of tightness here early in the week, but
Speaker 6: he's not worried about his availability going deeper into the week.
Speaker 6: But we'll see today.
Speaker 5: Good Doron Bland did not practice. But one note at
Speaker 5: the cornerback position, Kayln Carson was a full participant.
Speaker 2: We're here and there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he was a full participant last week.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 2: Wasn't he stop you gotta kill everything? Yeah, I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to.
Speaker 3: Be real running back, a good running back on because.
Speaker 6: I don't want to get it.
Speaker 2: I got excited.
Speaker 6: I don't want to I don't want to get the
Speaker 6: tweets on Sunday, being like he's a full participant all week,
Speaker 6: why is he enacted today as well. I'm just letting
Speaker 6: you guys know.
Speaker 3: Right now, trying to get a running back on fair.
Speaker 6: I think, uh, I think with Kaylen moving into the week,
Speaker 6: I think there's a good chance he played, especially with
Speaker 6: a Monti or Warrior lightning on ir but Doron Blande
Speaker 6: officially activated to the active roster yesterday, that does not
Speaker 6: necessarily mean he will play Sunday. He needs to practice
Speaker 6: this week, so Mike McCarthy did say he hopes to
Speaker 6: get him on the field today in a limited capacity.
Speaker 6: We'll have a little bit more for McCarthy later, as
Speaker 6: I think his press conference starts in about four minutes.
Speaker 5: If you guys had to handicap it based on what
Speaker 5: things you've heard and seen, what do you think is
Speaker 5: his chances of playing this week?
Speaker 3: He started yesterday with the working group. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: The thing was when you ask him about injuries. You know,
Speaker 7: you start to ask questions about injuries, which one.
Speaker 2: They got a lot of?
Speaker 3: I mean, he can't even which one.
Speaker 7: A you're talking about. But it's going to be today.
Speaker 7: We'll see if Bland does in fact practice and we'll
Speaker 7: see if in fact, though that Michael Parsons practices and
Speaker 7: it I would say if neither one of those guys
Speaker 7: practiced today, I would say it's pretty good shot that's
Speaker 7: not going to play this week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there's a little bit more optimism on Bland,
Speaker 6: but still.
Speaker 3: A bit more but not. Yeah, it's kind of it's
Speaker 3: it's it's really touch and go with there right now.
Speaker 5: So yeah, man, it's tough because I think at the
Speaker 5: cornerback position you got so many guys out, so it's
Speaker 5: a volume thing. With the pass rush, it really is
Speaker 5: just Mike that you need Micaeh back. You need to
Speaker 5: be able to get some pass rush, and obviously they
Speaker 5: missed Tank, don't get me wrong, but it's like, if
Speaker 5: you feel like if you can get Micah back, at
Speaker 5: least you could just at least have one guy that
Speaker 5: is a real true pass rusher and then you can
Speaker 5: kind of work with that a little bit.
Speaker 2: You guys get that sense as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, especially in a game like this
Speaker 6: where they need pass rush. Yeah, getting Michael back would
Speaker 6: be huge. That's just in general across the season. I mean,
Speaker 6: look at these last three games that they haven't had him.
Speaker 6: They need him back for sure.
Speaker 7: It kind of gives you a little bit of idea
Speaker 7: for all the talk about trading him, what your team
Speaker 7: would look like without him in fact, you know, kind
Speaker 7: of give you a little bit of an idea there.
Speaker 3: But I you know, I just this.
Speaker 7: I know we talked about a little bit yesterday, but
Speaker 7: I would seriously consider playing Overshown as an edge player.
Speaker 7: I would you get a quarterback to play stationary football
Speaker 7: stands in the middle of the pocket. You know, if
Speaker 7: you beat one of these tackles, just Overshown has the link,
Speaker 7: has the ability kind of knows where the quarterback is
Speaker 7: going to be. I would consider maybe playing I'm not saying,
Speaker 7: you know, every down, but kind of a poor man's
Speaker 7: Micah Parson player. Just just use him in certain situations,
Speaker 7: put him on the edge and let him rush, you know,
Speaker 7: let him create some problems that link that quickness, the
Speaker 7: ability to finish in the pocket that what we saw
Speaker 7: the other day. You know, there's some things that you
Speaker 7: can do defensively in this game. Will they work Probably
Speaker 7: better than what you've been doing. Probably just you know,
Speaker 7: gives yourself a chance that maybe you do get this
Speaker 7: guy home once or twice. I mean, we're gonna get
Speaker 7: into Atlanta. They got nobody that gets home on their
Speaker 7: on their defense, and that affects how they play defense.
Speaker 3: So, you know, Dallas, if they can, if they could
Speaker 3: find a.
Speaker 7: Way to create some pressure, you know, maybe maybe it
Speaker 7: is a guy like overshown as that kind of that
Speaker 7: edge rusher at certain down and distances.
Speaker 6: How many more weeks do you guys feel.
Speaker 8: There are the crucial weeks for like how do I
Speaker 8: put it, like kind of to determine see how the
Speaker 8: season is going to end for the Cowboys, because I
Speaker 8: know a lot of people are a lot of fans
Speaker 8: are saying.
Speaker 3: Like, okay, this is it, like you're ready for the
Speaker 3: draft show that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, But realistically, obviously there's half of the season on
Speaker 8: their way, Like you still have half of the season.
Speaker 3: It's a difficult stretch.
Speaker 7: You got to get this thing to the to my opinion,
Speaker 7: this is the rough part of it right now for me,
Speaker 7: when you're dealing with we all felt like the Commanders
Speaker 7: were going to be better.
Speaker 3: But they're six and two better right now. And you
Speaker 3: you got Houston who's playing much better.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 7: You know, Philadelphia looks like they found something last week offensively.
Speaker 7: Uh you know, they're getting their running game going. You know,
Speaker 7: these are these are all you could look up and
Speaker 7: be on a bad one. We've lost four or five
Speaker 7: games in a row with the opponents that you've had.
Speaker 7: You lose today or you lose this weekend. It's I
Speaker 7: think it's only gonna get tougher.
Speaker 6: You pretty much know where you're at by Thanksgivings.
Speaker 5: Often, and in my opinion, I think to that point,
Speaker 5: I think after that Thanksgiving Day is gone, it's done.
Speaker 5: If they're not at five hundred, I think it's it's
Speaker 5: hard to imagine there's a scenario under which they could
Speaker 5: get back in.
Speaker 2: Because here's the thing.
Speaker 5: As tough as this next stretch is, the latter part
Speaker 5: of the season, December feels like there are some teams
Speaker 5: that are beatable there right they're good teams, but beatable Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati team that's good but they've.
Speaker 5: Been they've had theirs having their struggles. Yeah, I think
Speaker 5: you got more of a chance to run off a
Speaker 5: string of games in December than maybe you do over
Speaker 5: these next five. But I do think you got to
Speaker 5: basically hold tight and then hope that you get your
Speaker 5: at five hundred by the time you finish Thanksgiving, and
Speaker 5: hopefully you got Micah back, hopefully you don't sustain any
Speaker 5: other major injuries.
Speaker 2: Maybe you start talking about Tank and when he can
Speaker 2: be back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think if you get to that
Speaker 5: point and you're even that's when maybe you can make it.
Speaker 5: And you also need some of those things like you're
Speaker 5: gonna play Washington, You're gonna play obviously in New York again,
Speaker 5: You're gonna play Philly twice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think those are the games if you can.
Speaker 5: If you can make those some of the games you
Speaker 5: win and you're at five hundred by Thanksgiving, I think
Speaker 5: you got a shot to get yourself back into the
Speaker 5: mix for a playoff spot, maybe not to win the division,
Speaker 5: but to get yourself back into a playoff spot.
Speaker 8: So from now in Thanksgiving, how many losses could you
Speaker 8: technically afford?
Speaker 5: I'm saying you go three and two over these next
Speaker 5: five games, that's what you need. In my opinion, that'll
Speaker 5: get you to six and six. Am I doing my math?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 6: That's that's correct. Yeah yeah, with five games to go. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's doable.
Speaker 2: I mean, but to me, you don't have any room
Speaker 2: for air.
Speaker 5: If that happens you're at six and six, that means
Speaker 5: you got a real all five wins, like you gotta
Speaker 5: go through December and you gotta be winning every week,
Speaker 5: and that gives you a chance to maybe get into
Speaker 5: the playoffs.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 7: And I don't want to talk about another sport, but
Speaker 7: I do cover, you know, with one O five to
Speaker 7: three the fan we cover the Range Texas Rangers baseball,
Speaker 7: and they suffered a lot of injuries, and every week
Speaker 7: it was We've talked to the general manager, Chris Young.
Speaker 7: He's like, well, we're getting guys back. We're gonna get
Speaker 7: guys back. We're gonna get and then.
Speaker 3: It was too late.
Speaker 7: It was already by the time you'd gotten everybody back,
Speaker 7: it was too late. You were already out. And that's
Speaker 7: your hope, that man, we're gonna get these guys back.
Speaker 7: We're gonna get these guys back. That's kind of your
Speaker 7: rallying cry. But and then but yeah, you gotta tread
Speaker 7: water to get there. And then if you but if
Speaker 7: you don't, you lose, you know, say you lose three
Speaker 7: or four straight games, then getting those guys back is
Speaker 7: not gonna.
Speaker 3: Matter, just not.
Speaker 6: I think. I think the two guys you could look
Speaker 6: at that might not quote unquote be back by the
Speaker 6: time things are kind of decided. One of them tanking
Speaker 6: Marshawn Neeland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what what is the timeline on tank? Because
Speaker 2: I thought it was like early December? Is it later
Speaker 2: than that?
Speaker 6: And you're I'm thinking right around Thanksgiving? Maybe after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 6: So yeah, probably right, So he would that last stretch maybe, yeah,
Speaker 6: it would be. But let's say that they get to
Speaker 6: that stretch and they're five and eight forever.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, But that's my point, like right now, you
Speaker 2: have to tread water.
Speaker 5: You have to maintain the status quot as far as
Speaker 5: you can win, you can lose, but you gotta kind
Speaker 5: of stay right there around five hundred to give yourself
Speaker 5: even a shot to reel off some in December when
Speaker 5: you're at hopefully full strength.
Speaker 6: You can't fall two games below five hundred at any
Speaker 6: point I don't think that's why this game is crucial.
Speaker 6: A game against Houston would be crucial. I mean, there's
Speaker 6: you can't fall two games behind because then you're asking
Speaker 6: your offense or you're asking a defense that doesn't have
Speaker 6: a lot of guys healthy to go win three straight
Speaker 6: in December. That's that's tough thing to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, you look at some of these teams you're
Speaker 5: gonna face. Houston now is without its top two wide
Speaker 5: receivers after losing Digs.
Speaker 2: So you got some teams that are having some issues
Speaker 2: like you do. So you just got to take advantage
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: It's so funny, absolutely, but that's what you exactly to say.
Speaker 2: But you got to. You gotta take advantage of.
Speaker 7: Every every time you look at a team you're about
Speaker 7: to play, it's like, man, they're really bad doing this,
Speaker 7: and then you look at it as a matchup for
Speaker 7: you maybe and then you're like, oh, damn, we're worse,
Speaker 7: you know. I mean that's the problem is there's some
Speaker 7: things that the Orlando Falcons do defensively that that that
Speaker 7: most teams that would play them, that are hummel along
Speaker 7: on offense would punish them. Yeah, you know with your situation.
Speaker 7: You don't know if you can punish them for the
Speaker 7: things that they do poorly. San Francisco is the same
Speaker 7: thing last week too. You did get in the red
Speaker 7: zone and have some success last week, but you didn't
Speaker 7: do anything else enough to take advantage of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna real quick.
Speaker 5: I also want to mention two other vets that popped
Speaker 5: up on the injury report yesterday. Lynnville Joseph with a
Speaker 5: back injury injury did not practice. Zach Martin with a
Speaker 5: shoulder injury did not practice. Are we hearing anything about that? Well,
Speaker 5: there's more about the fact that you're just giving them
Speaker 5: a little rest or they significant injuries.
Speaker 7: I've just kind of always with Zack Martin always feel
Speaker 7: like that it's the rest day stuff. You know, they're
Speaker 7: just they're finding ways to you know, but that's not
Speaker 7: good offensive lineman with shoulder problems. It's never you know,
Speaker 7: lack of power. And we've seen some snaps, some reps
Speaker 7: where Zach is you know, he hasn't had the best
Speaker 7: of power that you know, we've seen.
Speaker 3: From him in the past.
Speaker 6: Felt very similar with Lindvall Joseph yesterday too. He was
Speaker 6: going through stretching and everything. During the media portion of practice,
Speaker 6: he just didn't have his helmet on, So I think
Speaker 6: it was more so arrests situation.
Speaker 2: And that does but it does concern me.
Speaker 5: As Brian was saying, offensive line with shoulder, yeah, defensive
Speaker 5: tackle with back. That certainly doesn't make me feel good
Speaker 5: because on any given play, you can have six hundred
Speaker 5: pounds leaning on you. So I certainly won't feel good
Speaker 5: for his back. But we'll see how that progresses throughout
Speaker 5: the week. Let's take our first break, we'll come back.
Speaker 5: Let's jump into this Atlanta defense and talk about some
Speaker 5: of the areas where maybe the Cowboys can take advantage.
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Speaker 5: Atlanta defense. The first thing that pops out about them
Speaker 5: as you start looking is they are dead last in
Speaker 5: sacks in the NFL. They don't have six on the season,
Speaker 5: their highest total for an individual.
Speaker 6: I'm all tangled over here. I don't know if you're like.
Speaker 2: Everyone.
Speaker 6: I was trying to be nonchalant about it, but it's
Speaker 6: not really working, you know.
Speaker 5: He has the four box up. So everybody's just looking
Speaker 5: dead at you. Great, yeah, sorry. So they have their
Speaker 5: their highest total for any individual players one and a
Speaker 5: half sacks. Like they don't have a lot of they
Speaker 5: don't get a lot of production out of their their
Speaker 5: past rush. My question for you is if there is
Speaker 5: a player, one player that has a certain level of skill,
Speaker 5: that this would be the week they could get going
Speaker 5: and actually create some some pressure. Knowing that Dallas has
Speaker 5: had its issues being able to protect, who would that player.
Speaker 3: Bet it's gonna be Matthew Jerdon doesn't it it would
Speaker 3: beat you don.
Speaker 6: I also kind of look at Grady Jared Jared, Yeah,
Speaker 6: Judn just doesn't feel comfortable there. Yeah, it doesn't feel
Speaker 6: like he's the he's yeah, he's lost a step.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Matthew. They traded for him from New England. Yeah,
Speaker 7: And and Dallas has faced him before. If you remember,
Speaker 7: there was he was two years ago, maybe last year.
Speaker 7: New End came here last year last year Dallas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And so Dallas did a nice job
Speaker 3: of handling.
Speaker 7: I think he got hurt in that game, matter of fact,
Speaker 7: for the season. Yeah, so that would be the one guy.
Speaker 7: The thing with Matthew Greudondo if you watch him, and
Speaker 7: I went back and watched because I was curious, like,
Speaker 7: what's going on with this? Why is he why is
Speaker 7: there the struggle you talk about how comfortable or lack
Speaker 7: of He's getting double team more than any time.
Speaker 3: He has in his career.
Speaker 7: Because I went back and looked, I'm like, what's the deal?
Speaker 7: They Atlanta, as you mentioned, doesn't have great pass rushers.
Speaker 7: He's their best option. So teams have said, okay, let's
Speaker 7: take their best option out of the game. And so
Speaker 7: he's faced more double teams this year. Like I think
Speaker 7: the metrics said it was like ten percent, which is
Speaker 7: the most hit he's faced since two.
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Speaker 7: But the yeah, so what's happening is more double teams
Speaker 7: his direction because they don't have somebody opposite. This might
Speaker 7: be the first time that that uh Tyler guid gets
Speaker 7: to play against a guy that he's equal to or
Speaker 7: or maybe a little bit better. This is it's so
Speaker 7: we take into a week nine, but maybe we got
Speaker 7: a guy here that will be good for him to
Speaker 7: be able to handle.
Speaker 5: And you know, that's actually one of the questions I
Speaker 5: have for you guys, like looking at this and how
Speaker 5: poor they are when it comes to the pass rush.
Speaker 5: Really what I think and I've made it no, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's been very clear that I feel like the biggest
Speaker 5: problem the Cowboys offense has is their offensive line and
Speaker 5: their ability to consistently protect Dak. Is this a week
Speaker 5: where maybe the offense now can really get going because
Speaker 5: as you just said, like there are actual guys on
Speaker 5: the other side that they can actually block that will
Speaker 5: give Dak time. Now Dak can maybe do all the
Speaker 5: things that this offense wants him to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is an opportunity. I'm covering my mouth because
Speaker 6: I don't have a water to watch down this chocolate
Speaker 6: that I just say I think this is an opportunity
Speaker 6: for Dak to be able to really get this passing
Speaker 6: game going. And I've said it before, but I'm standing
Speaker 6: on it this week. I think this is going to
Speaker 6: be a shootout because I think this passing offense is
Speaker 6: going to get going. There might be some opportunities in
Speaker 6: the run game that we'll dive into here in a bit,
Speaker 6: but in the past game specifically, I think they can
Speaker 6: get multiple weapons involved. I'm looking at Jake Ferguson after
Speaker 6: the week that Kate Otten had last week. I'm looking
Speaker 6: at Jalen Tolbert just because I think he can be
Speaker 6: able to get open on some opportunities CD in the
Speaker 6: slot specifically, I don't necessarily like him on the outside
Speaker 6: in this game. A guy like aj Terrell, we've got
Speaker 6: a little bit more physicality. I want him to be
Speaker 6: able to isolate his beat and get out in the
Speaker 6: get out in the open field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he needs to attack d Alford in this game.
Speaker 3: The Alfred is their nickel.
Speaker 7: And if you watch the Kansas City game, ten targets,
Speaker 7: ten receptions and Kansas City's got you know, Kansas got
Speaker 7: Rice and this before he got hurt. But you know
Speaker 7: they they have guys that can run, and they have
Speaker 7: guys that can play well on the slot and the
Speaker 7: Alford all year long, teams have gone after him a
Speaker 7: little bit. Now we'll say this about when you when
Speaker 7: you look at Terrell, Terrell and Lamb have played against
Speaker 7: each other twice and you're thinking, oh, man, he carried
Speaker 7: him all.
Speaker 3: No, he there was.
Speaker 7: I think there was only like five times where because
Speaker 7: usually Tarot in the old regime, the old coaching staff
Speaker 7: of the Smith regime, they kept him on the left side,
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys took Lamb and took him.
Speaker 3: Put him away from Terrell and with the other way.
Speaker 7: So CD has had some success against the Falcons in
Speaker 7: two games, but the but it hasn't gone against Terrell.
Speaker 7: He was always playing left side. But well now they're
Speaker 7: poking in. But see now that yeah, that's he's always
Speaker 7: getting in your way. But the thing about with Terrell
Speaker 7: now is he plays both sides, so you're gonna see
Speaker 7: him well, yeah, he plays left and right. I mean
Speaker 7: almost fifty to fifty on how he plays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess the question I'm asking is do they
Speaker 5: indiscriminately move him around in their scheme or is it
Speaker 5: more about I'm gonna take this guy and wherever he goes,
Speaker 5: I'm going with him.
Speaker 3: They move him around, they move him around the scheme.
Speaker 7: Now, maybe the way to get away with this, Like
Speaker 7: I said, maybe think about playing him more than the slot,
Speaker 7: because every time I watched these games, Alford was playing
Speaker 7: in the slot.
Speaker 2: So Terrell doesn't move into the He didn't move in
Speaker 2: the slot.
Speaker 3: He wasn't moving the slot. The games I watched they
Speaker 3: went with Alford.
Speaker 7: There now could be a situation, you know, team's like, hey,
Speaker 7: our best chance, we're not going to get pass rush.
Speaker 7: Our best chance is to just travel Teroll with and
Speaker 7: see what happens. Yeah, this team plays a ton of
Speaker 7: zone coverage. Okay, but they also play a lot of
Speaker 7: off coverage. Did you see any of the Yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: take a guess who your best off coverage receiver is.
Speaker 7: If you look at just the metric side of things,
Speaker 7: if teams are going to play off your receiver, who's
Speaker 7: the cowboy receiver that has the most success against off coverage?
Speaker 6: I would have to assume CD No, Jalenbert, Tolbert. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was actually gonna mention Tulbert.
Speaker 7: It's got seventeen receptions, which leads the team in off coverage.
Speaker 7: So if they're gonna play zone, which they play eighty
Speaker 7: percent of the time, you can watch a play and
Speaker 7: you're like going zone, zone, zone, and then you look
Speaker 7: at the metrics side of things, eighty percent. They used
Speaker 7: to be very man heavy, like almost fifty to fifty
Speaker 7: man heavy last year under the old regime. Now they
Speaker 7: play far more zone. They got no pass rush and
Speaker 7: they're playing zone.
Speaker 3: This is dangerous. This is a very dangerous situation for
Speaker 3: them to have to deal with.
Speaker 7: But that's what they believe in. That's how they play it.
Speaker 7: They're not going to sit there and try and blitche
Speaker 7: you in all those things. They're going to try and
Speaker 7: see if they can hold up and not give up
Speaker 7: big plays.
Speaker 6: From my notes here, it felt like the only time
Speaker 6: that they ran man on a consistent basis was in
Speaker 6: second and third and long situations.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. So yeah, that's to me.
Speaker 7: To me, the guy I go after, like I say,
Speaker 7: try and make sure you secure Judawn the edge and
Speaker 7: then make sure then you try and get as many
Speaker 7: guys on all For number twenty, the Nickel, he's the
Speaker 7: guy that seems to have when they run routes on
Speaker 7: him the most separation, you know, even when they care
Speaker 7: and he has to carry guys you see breaking routes.
Speaker 3: He's kind of in your trail position right there.
Speaker 5: Who is the best person Let's assume for a second
Speaker 5: they're going to travel trail and they're going to travel
Speaker 5: him everywhere. Let's say that they're going to run him
Speaker 5: into the slot as well. Who is the next best
Speaker 5: person that Dallas could run out and put in the
Speaker 5: slot in situations and still get the production if you're
Speaker 5: trying to get them matched up with with that their
Speaker 5: nickel corner, you.
Speaker 6: Feel confidence Hulbert in the slot because I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't I would put I put Turpin in there
Speaker 7: and just go because I think that Alford has had
Speaker 7: some problems with Kansas City.
Speaker 3: He had the problems with speed inside and quickness inside.
Speaker 7: You know, I was watching that game. I'm like, gosh, dang,
Speaker 7: he's given up. Every time they throw at him, he's
Speaker 7: given up. And I went back and looked at the
Speaker 7: numbers ten for ten. You're like, going, Okay, here we go.
Speaker 7: That's what we got to do here. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 7: kind of I'm kind of in that mode right now
Speaker 7: where I would definitely I would think about putting I
Speaker 7: think about putting turpin inside on that in that situation.
Speaker 6: Alford on the season has allowed thirty five receptions on
Speaker 6: forty five targets for two hundred and eighty four yards.
Speaker 7: So three touchdowns I believe too. I think I looked
Speaker 7: at that. Yeah, no picks, three touchdowns.
Speaker 6: Not necessarily a lot of yards per attempt, but kind
Speaker 6: of granted, given the nature of his position, he shouldn't
Speaker 6: be given up the play, but he still gives a
Speaker 6: healthy amount of yards up per game.
Speaker 5: Run defense, what do they look like? Is that an
Speaker 5: opportunity for the Cowboys or where is there's the opportunity?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and how confident do you feel in this offensive
Speaker 6: line being able to pull consistently to bring polers around,
Speaker 6: run counters, things of that nature depend It depends on
Speaker 6: who's pulling. But I saw things against Tampa Bay where
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay's offensive line, Granted they had Tristan Wurz at
Speaker 6: left tackles, it's a little bit different, but they were
Speaker 6: pulling guys to the right side and Bucky Ring Rashod White,
Speaker 6: those guys were able to find holes and they weren't
Speaker 6: really having to make guys miss until four or five
Speaker 6: yards down the field. So I think if they can
Speaker 6: try to lane on these pollers a little bit early
Speaker 6: in the run game, I think there might be an
Speaker 6: opportunity there at the first two levels of for the Falcons.
Speaker 6: They just could not find consistency in that game against
Speaker 6: the Buccaneers. It was tough for both of those levels.
Speaker 5: I think there are two guys on the offensive line
Speaker 5: that I feel good about pulling, Tyler Smith and and Bebie.
Speaker 5: Those are the two I feel comfortable pulling. I think
Speaker 5: Zach Martin getting him out of space. I just it
Speaker 5: looks like there was a play last week where he
Speaker 5: was kind of run out. He was just he couldn't
Speaker 5: get to the sounder guy coming up. It just it's
Speaker 5: just like it's it looks like he's laboring out there
Speaker 5: to try to get in position to make a block,
Speaker 5: and I just think that's not not going to help you.
Speaker 7: Something that I just looked up in just because of
Speaker 7: the question you brought up or the point you brought up, Nick,
Speaker 7: Because Dallas had their best success with Elliott running against
Speaker 7: that light box, which is six or less, Falcons are
Speaker 7: going to play light box six or fewer defenders fifty
Speaker 7: three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 3: That's eighth most in the league right now.
Speaker 7: So if they're going to be committed, if they're going
Speaker 7: to say, Okay, we're going to play six defenders and
Speaker 7: try and handle everything else on the back end, Dallas
Speaker 7: has had some success running against that.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it was.
Speaker 7: It's fleeting at times, it really really is. But at
Speaker 7: least that's the one thing last week when you look
Speaker 7: at San Francisco that the runs that like of the
Speaker 7: of the of the positive runs four yards or more
Speaker 7: that of I think the ten carries, half of them
Speaker 7: for Zeke were four yards or more. Yep, they were
Speaker 7: against slight box.
Speaker 3: So maybe maybe that might be an avenue for you there.
Speaker 2: We're gonna take our final break when we come back.
Speaker 5: I want to dive a little deeper into that conversation
Speaker 5: because I went back and watched the runs in that
Speaker 5: game last week, and I want to want to ask
Speaker 5: you guys a little bit about number one, how you
Speaker 5: assess Dalvin Cook's play, but number two, talk a little
Speaker 5: bit about what Zeke was able to do last week,
Speaker 5: because I don't know if that's getting enough attention that
Speaker 5: he can get a lot of opportunities, but the opportunities
Speaker 5: he got. I want to get your opinions on how
Speaker 5: well you think you performed. We'll talk about that when
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Speaker 8: While Brian was doing his breakdown, I was just I
Speaker 8: was thinking should I eat the candy or just wait
Speaker 8: to have my lunch? Like, I was just thinking about food.
Speaker 8: And then also I was thinking, which I wanted to ask,
Speaker 8: what do you know the average for the time of
Speaker 8: possession that the Falcons offense tend to have.
Speaker 6: I will say they've only won the time of possession
Speaker 6: battle twice and they're won and one in those games.
Speaker 6: So factor that for what you will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, all right, let's talk about the running game
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys. I want to go a little, a
Speaker 5: little farther into that conversation. This These spiderwebs are killing
Speaker 5: you guys.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: First of all, give me an assessment on Dalvin Cook
Speaker 5: from last week. He only had six carries, But of
Speaker 5: those six carries, what did you see from him? Was
Speaker 5: there something you like? Was there something that was like, Eh,
Speaker 5: I don't know, just what was your assessment of his
Speaker 5: play last.
Speaker 6: It kind of reminded me of the opportunities that Douce
Speaker 6: Fawn has had this year, where it's just like, Okay,
Speaker 6: he didn't really have a lot of protection, so you know,
Speaker 6: it is what it is. I loved the ten twelve
Speaker 6: yard reception he had to his first touch over the middle.
Speaker 6: That was that was something I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: hey bringing that and you know we can we can
Speaker 6: get active with him. But as far as the run game,
Speaker 6: I don't think there was really any positives to take away.
Speaker 6: But I don't think there was necessarily any negatives to
Speaker 6: take away from Dwin's perspective. It was just a product
Speaker 6: of that protection unit not having its best game in
Speaker 6: the run game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the running game, you know, we start
Speaker 7: to talk about, you know, try and point your finger
Speaker 7: at something. Is it the backs is that they're really
Speaker 7: struggling blocking piece body. Yeah, yeah, they're they're they're struggling
Speaker 7: blocking people and they're you know, they finally when they
Speaker 7: have gotten guys up on second level, it's been fine.
Speaker 3: When they don't, it's I don't I don't know how
Speaker 3: you can have a running play and not block Fred Warner.
Speaker 3: I just don't. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm I'm thinking if okay, we're gonna call
Speaker 7: a running play and we're gonna gonna block Fred Fred
Speaker 7: Warner on this play, What do you.
Speaker 3: Think the game's gonna be.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say it's probably gonna be a zero or
Speaker 7: negative play. And you know that's what happens to you.
Speaker 7: You and they don't run all that much, and then
Speaker 7: when they don't block the best run defender, now you're questioning, like, well,
Speaker 7: why run it all if you're.
Speaker 3: Not going to block the best guy?
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's.
Speaker 7: Probably something they didn't go into the game thinking they
Speaker 7: weren't gonna block him. Something happens, they don't get up,
Speaker 7: you know, so it's hard to evaluate where they're at.
Speaker 7: I like what Nick's talking about with some poll stuff though.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm liking that because I think that, like
Speaker 7: you get Smith out there and poll in space, I
Speaker 7: think that that's not a bad thing out there. You know,
Speaker 7: you get some angle blocks, you get some guys coming down.
Speaker 7: We talk about Member Arizona and we did the pen
Speaker 7: and poll stuff. You could, you could a lot of
Speaker 7: teams are doing that. A lot of you can gash
Speaker 7: some people doing.
Speaker 3: That pen and poll stuff. Get the ball to the edge.
Speaker 7: You know, Dallas is not a great edge rushing team.
Speaker 7: Everything kind of comes downhill and then cuts. So maybe
Speaker 7: they don't have unless they unless you put somebody in
Speaker 7: the backfield like Turpin and go Pin and poll, or
Speaker 7: put somebody in the back of CD. Somebody it's got
Speaker 7: a little bit more explosive, this is a little bit
Speaker 7: more quickness, you know, then I would think that that
Speaker 7: would be something that I would be a little bit
Speaker 7: more interested in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm being very negative right now, and not even
Speaker 8: the candy and not even the candies helping my mind,
Speaker 8: because everything is just like, Okay, I like what you're
Speaker 8: saying about this matchup, and like it favors the Cowboys
Speaker 8: offense a lot more and somebody. But at the same time,
Speaker 8: I think, okay, what if it's the other way around
Speaker 8: to where maybe this is the time that they make
Speaker 8: their defense look good.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always, yeah, there's goodwill games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they probably look at this game and they're like,
Speaker 5: our pass rush might be able to get That's exactly.
Speaker 2: There's there's a flip side to everything, absolutely, So.
Speaker 8: It's hard to get away from that because even the
Speaker 8: and we've talked about it, everybody knows already on here,
Speaker 8: like the games that they've won. Even then, the Cowboys
Speaker 8: offense has been struggling all throughout the season. Even in wins,
Speaker 8: they just don't make a few serious and that are
Speaker 8: really really good.
Speaker 6: And then it just disappears.
Speaker 8: And then so you I feel like you see maybe
Speaker 8: two series in a game where they're really good and like, Okay,
Speaker 8: that's what you gotta do, and then it just goes away.
Speaker 8: So it's just one of those things that it's hard
Speaker 8: to even see the matchup being favorable for the Cowboys
Speaker 8: this weekend.
Speaker 6: I think more often than not, this is something that
Speaker 6: I just feel like might not happen for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Pulling guards. If we're talking about that pulling guys gap
Speaker 6: scheme runs. They only ran two against the forty nine ers,
Speaker 6: and if you're pulling guys nine times out of ten,
Speaker 6: that's gonna be a gap scheme type run. So it's like,
Speaker 6: if you want to isolate Dalvin Cook on the outside,
Speaker 6: which the coaches have talked about, they want to get
Speaker 6: him out on the outside into space, why don't you
Speaker 6: pull some guys to help kind of pave that way
Speaker 6: and assign them to defenders rather than you know, just
Speaker 6: areas of the field. Because I feel like I feel
Speaker 6: like there's a little bit too much guessing going on
Speaker 6: at things in the run game. From the protection perspective.
Speaker 3: They to be honest with you, they might not have
Speaker 3: confidence in the point of attack. Tight end blocks, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was actually real.
Speaker 5: I was watching the runs in this last game and
Speaker 5: one of the big things that kept popping up. Now,
Speaker 5: part of it was they were putting tight ends in
Speaker 5: situations where they were having to block Bosa one on one.
Speaker 5: They ain't gonna win that. I'm just gonna say, you know,
Speaker 5: you're not gonna win that. But but I do think
Speaker 5: that was a and you talk about it all the
Speaker 5: time this too, Brian. The wide receivers they aren't great
Speaker 5: blockers either, and so you start thinking about it from
Speaker 5: that standpoint, like there's just there's so much, there's so
Speaker 5: much to go around when it comes to missing blocks
Speaker 5: in the run game, it's really across the board.
Speaker 7: The receivers have problems blocking because of the I think
Speaker 7: because of the width of the offense.
Speaker 3: That's something they can't get there. Yeah, there's something.
Speaker 7: I'm watching these teams that run the ball well, and
Speaker 7: a lot of them do it out of condensed looks.
Speaker 7: They do it where they play they're twenty yards across
Speaker 7: and they're not twenty seven yards across and trying to
Speaker 7: get you know, trying to get a receiver to make
Speaker 7: a cutoff block. A lot of teams just play condensed.
Speaker 7: They're like, we're going to run the ball, we're gonna
Speaker 7: make sure a guy's get in position, or we're going
Speaker 7: to bring an extra blocker over with motion. You know,
Speaker 7: I watched, I say, I'm watching the Tampa Atlanta game.
Speaker 7: I'm watching Atlanta's defense. I'm watching Tampa bring a guy
Speaker 7: in motion. As they're bringing in motion, they snap the
Speaker 7: ball and he goes and blocks and they throw a
Speaker 7: swing to the back. But they got a blocker in
Speaker 7: motion going up the field. It's not just throw the
Speaker 7: swing and hope they miss. They've dedicated a guy moving
Speaker 7: across the formation to be a kickout block. Then once
Speaker 7: they catch the ball, then they just go up the field.
Speaker 7: So it's not like, Okay, catch it and make a
Speaker 7: guy miss. No, we're going to block that guy and
Speaker 7: we're gonna make you have to make the second guy miss.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: That's that's the things you got to think about it.
Speaker 5: And that's just so people understand when you're talking about condensed, condensed,
Speaker 5: and then think one of the big things when you
Speaker 5: when you're out wide, you think about it. You gotta
Speaker 5: Let's say a cornerback is out he split five yards
Speaker 5: from the from the tackle or from the tight end,
Speaker 5: and and in that situation, he's got a guy across
Speaker 5: from him.
Speaker 2: If that guy goes screaming down to what the run
Speaker 2: are going to stop, you can't get to it.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 5: Now, if you're compressed, which means you're condensed, you're closer
Speaker 5: to that tackle or that that end than what you're
Speaker 5: able to do is now you just get in a way.
Speaker 5: You have to be a great blocker. You just can
Speaker 5: get in the way, kind of shield a little bit.
Speaker 5: It gives the running back and opportunity to get around
Speaker 5: you and be able to make the run. So that's
Speaker 5: what you're talking about there, And yeah, how you how
Speaker 5: you make it easier for your wide receivers.
Speaker 7: The best condensed teams in the league are San Francisco,
Speaker 7: the Rams, the Dolphins. You know, they all share that
Speaker 7: where they they everythinks it's great to spread everybody out
Speaker 7: until you have to block. Yep, and then when you
Speaker 7: have to when and then if your guys aren't you
Speaker 7: know hinz Ward come flying down there and blow people
Speaker 7: up kind of receivers, then you're going to have a
Speaker 7: lot of miss blocks.
Speaker 5: Yep, absolutely all right, So right now, based on what
Speaker 5: you saw this last week, and maybe you didn't see
Speaker 5: enough to change it, but how would you utilize your
Speaker 5: running backs going into this next game? If you had
Speaker 5: to say, I'm going to give this guy this number
Speaker 5: of carries, this guy this number carries, this guy this
Speaker 5: number of carries, how would you how would you split
Speaker 5: that up?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 6: Man? I if I want to see what Dalvin has
Speaker 6: in a healthy opportunity, I mean trade deadline is next Tuesday.
Speaker 6: If they are actually if they are thinking in the
Speaker 6: back of their mind to make a move, then they
Speaker 6: need to see what Dalvin has to offer it for
Speaker 6: a full opportunity, not necessarily six carries for twelve yards.
Speaker 6: So I mean give him five to ten more touches.
Speaker 6: I was split it up evenly three ways. Rico zeke
Speaker 6: Dalvin five to ten touches each. That's that's how I
Speaker 6: would do it.
Speaker 3: Do you play one?
Speaker 7: You play them every series, just alternate series, and then
Speaker 7: whoever has the hot hand in the second half, that's
Speaker 7: your guy. I'm with that, you know, like if it's
Speaker 7: Zeke and like, that's a good series for Zeke and
Speaker 7: every well, bitch because they'll say, why'd you take him out?
Speaker 7: He had the hot hand. You better figure out maybe
Speaker 7: you could come back to it, you know, I would.
Speaker 7: I would definitely give each one of them a series
Speaker 7: and then whichever looks the best out of the three
Speaker 7: series to start the game.
Speaker 3: That's my guy the rest of the way.
Speaker 5: And Hunter of course, Hey, by the way, Hunter, I
Speaker 5: still as much as I love his game, they still
Speaker 5: gotta do He's got to do better in the blocking game.
Speaker 2: That's another guy that had. He had a couple of
Speaker 2: plays there it was like, come on, man, you.
Speaker 8: Can only do so much.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 5: But but again that that goes back to you can't
Speaker 5: really blame any one person. If you say, I take
Speaker 5: this person and I'll change him out, the running game
Speaker 5: isn't going to get better.
Speaker 2: It is a holistic thing.
Speaker 5: You need a better You need better blocking from almost
Speaker 5: everybody up there, because everybody has their moments when it's
Speaker 5: just like that wasn't that wasn't what you need in
Speaker 5: order to make the successful.
Speaker 6: I would need to go back and look at the
Speaker 6: numbers on it, but just off of vibes and feelings,
Speaker 6: it feels like they haven't lined up Hunter in fullback
Speaker 6: situations to go downhill dack.
Speaker 2: Under not a lot they did a lot for They
Speaker 2: put him on the wings a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they did that a lot for Paula last year.
Speaker 6: And Hunter he got in there and he got dirty.
Speaker 3: Got better.
Speaker 7: He was a half man blocker, and but that second
Speaker 7: half of the season he was taking people on full
Speaker 7: and they're.
Speaker 5: Not doing it this year, not doing it, which again
Speaker 5: that that gets up being the question why you know
Speaker 5: so anyway.
Speaker 6: Lacks in the running game.
Speaker 8: Man. I like where you guys are saying, but it's
Speaker 8: hard to think that they would actually do something like that,
Speaker 8: Like it's hard to envision like letting some one guy
Speaker 8: go first, do all of them, then take it out
Speaker 8: put somebody else in.
Speaker 6: So it's I don't know, i'd.
Speaker 7: Actually you can actually do what they do with the
Speaker 7: what the Lions do? Lions switch their guys out, like
Speaker 7: every play, Yeah, they'll run a guy and then they'll
Speaker 7: run another guy. I mean, just roll them just what
Speaker 7: you get.
Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't.
Speaker 8: It's just I see the pros and cons on both scenarios.
Speaker 8: I think they both bring different things. I think he
Speaker 8: could mess up the rhythm, but then at the same time,
Speaker 8: it's like, do you even have rhythm? So it goes
Speaker 8: into that.
Speaker 3: It's all con. Yeah, it's all Conn right now, there's
Speaker 3: no pro.
Speaker 8: But you know what, I just wonder how I'm curious
Speaker 8: to see because he did show these few plays last
Speaker 8: week where he shows some aggressiveness in his game that
Speaker 8: we have been used to seeing years ago, right, and
Speaker 8: then we haven't seen it yet. And then all of
Speaker 8: a sudden in that game, maybe it was the whole
Speaker 8: Darvin Cook coming up, and then maybe he's like, let
Speaker 8: me mark my territory here, and then he showed that
Speaker 8: aggression in there, which is what you want to see
Speaker 8: and what you love about him or what you're to
Speaker 8: loving about him. So I wonder how he goes into
Speaker 8: this game, because it did started fading away last weekend
Speaker 8: as the game went on. He just had those power runs,
Speaker 8: but then that was it.
Speaker 2: Really well, I'll tell you this. One of the things
Speaker 2: I loved about scored Off too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the things I saw from Zeke last
Speaker 5: week that I loved was it was really the yards
Speaker 5: after contact, right, because there were a number of runs
Speaker 5: square a couple yeah where he got hit, you know,
Speaker 5: two or three yards past the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 5: he ended up getting another three or four yards. And
Speaker 5: that's what I like, because again, when you have an
Speaker 5: offensive line and tight ends and wide receivers and fullbacks
Speaker 5: that aren't really blocking great on any given play, anybody
Speaker 5: could have a bus you need a running back that
Speaker 5: could still get yards after they've been contacted. And I
Speaker 5: think that's what I saw from him that really, I
Speaker 5: think was some of the better running we've seen all
Speaker 5: season in that game from him.
Speaker 2: He just didn't get enough opportunity.
Speaker 3: It might be the fact that number twenty actually dressed
Speaker 3: for that game that got Zeke a little motive.
Speaker 6: Maybe maybe this came from Mike McCarthy and yesterday's press conference,
Speaker 6: he was asked about Dalvin Cook, and I think he
Speaker 6: kind of an interesting answer about the entire running back situation.
Speaker 6: He said, I thought he did a nice job. Didn't
Speaker 6: get a lot of opportunities, but it's a challenge to
Speaker 6: get multiple guys reps. Running back by committee is definitely
Speaker 6: not the preference, but we feel it's the best way
Speaker 6: to utilize these guys. We didn't have enough trips to
Speaker 6: the plate just as a whole.
Speaker 2: Yep, did he say anything we didn't know?
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, I think it's interesting Mike McCarthy
Speaker 6: saying running back by committee is definitely not the preference.
Speaker 8: Well, the bi committee in any position ever worked for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Made him trade a first round pick for a while.
Speaker 6: Exactly exactly, Well.
Speaker 2: Running back by committee has worked in the past, long
Speaker 2: time ago.
Speaker 3: I'll take Detroit committee of running the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say, if you got the right running back.
Speaker 5: I remember the Giants when they had Tiki Barber and
Speaker 5: what was the big guy's name, Brandon j Like that
Speaker 5: was a nice tandem. I mean, you can make running
Speaker 5: back back commedi work if you got the right running
Speaker 5: We're gonna face it this weekend, Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: I mean. The thing about it is, though, to me,
Speaker 7: if you're going to play all three of the guys,
Speaker 7: use them alternatum every play, Just see what you got,
Speaker 7: find somebody and then and then maybe it doesn't become
Speaker 7: committee anymore. Maybe all of a sudden, Mike Mark's a
Speaker 7: play on his play sheets like, oh, that was a
Speaker 7: pretty good one. Okay, go back to that one when
Speaker 7: Zeke's in there, Go back to this one when Cook's
Speaker 7: in there, Go back with this one with Daddle. You know,
Speaker 7: I'm all for throwing the ball to Dalvin Cook. By
Speaker 7: the way, whatever we can do to throw the ball,
Speaker 7: did you.
Speaker 8: Do the same thing of switching them out on third downs?
Speaker 3: Are okay?
Speaker 7: This is this is where maybe the one time that
Speaker 7: I needed And maybe this is because Dalvin Cook hasn't
Speaker 7: played a lot of plays for you. I wish he
Speaker 7: would have just been aware to pick up that that
Speaker 7: pick up Bosa when Steele got beat inside. If he
Speaker 7: just turns and picks up Bosa, maybe Dak can get
Speaker 7: the ball down the field. You know, if Zeke's in there,
Speaker 7: maybe it's a little bit more awareness of don't worry
Speaker 7: about checking inside as much. I need all the help
Speaker 7: on the outside. It's probably Dalvin just not playing a
Speaker 7: lot with Steel, because if I'm a running back, I'm
Speaker 7: kind of keeping an eye. If I'm over that side,
Speaker 7: I'm always looking at Steel. I'm thinking Still is going
Speaker 7: to need my help here one way or another, you know,
Speaker 7: or if you're on the other side, It's like, okay, Geyton,
Speaker 7: I know, Smith's get a block.
Speaker 3: I don't worry. I'm worried about geitting over here, you know.
Speaker 3: And you needed a hero block. You needed one of
Speaker 3: those aware hero blocks where.
Speaker 7: He all of a sudden he's looking inside, but oh no,
Speaker 7: he peels back and he takes Bosa.
Speaker 3: Now Dak launches it down the field.
Speaker 7: It's a touchdown, and you go back and then Chris
Speaker 7: Collinsworth goes watch the block here by Dalvin Cook, you know,
Speaker 7: and that got the ball.
Speaker 3: Ask you, yeah, that's that's what you needed. But maybe
Speaker 3: a lot of time on not time on task, affected
Speaker 3: you that way.
Speaker 1: And we know.
Speaker 5: But one thing we will say is we've seen Deep
Speaker 5: Zeke make those kind of hero block hero blocks, right,
Speaker 5: So I do think maybe the answer is Zeke or
Speaker 5: I've actually been pretty happy with Lipkey on third down too.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's been a liability for them, So
Speaker 5: I think I would probably go with one of those
Speaker 5: two guys and continue that on third down for the
Speaker 5: most part. All right, appreciate you, guys, Jones. So we're
Speaker 5: back tomorrow. We'll wrap this thing up. Get you guys
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