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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy two. Welcome
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Speaker 1: earlier time today. So for you the for those of
Speaker 1: you out there listening live, thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 1: get us on demand. Got Nick in studio, We got
Speaker 1: Amber studio. Brian should be joining us momentarily. Nick, before
Speaker 1: we get into it too much. I did want to
Speaker 1: we had a question yesterday and I would be interested
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on this. I asked these these guys,
Speaker 1: um did anything that happened Monday night in that Washington
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game change your opinions of Philadelphia, Washington or the
Speaker 1: NFC East. Uh, yeah, a little bit. I mean, well
Speaker 1: just just knowing that, you know, if Philly's not going
Speaker 1: to run away with anything. I mean I did kind
Speaker 1: of mention that I thought Washington had a chance. You
Speaker 1: did you call that? And somebody on Twitter actually called
Speaker 1: that out there, like Nick actually said this was going
Speaker 1: to happen. Yeah, but as you and Todd Archer point out,
Speaker 1: when you make a lot of predictions, yeah, there's about that.
Speaker 1: But but division games, we've seen it several times where
Speaker 1: you know, you blow out the team the first time,
Speaker 1: and the second time around, it's not the same. So,
Speaker 1: and I said this before, I think Washington's gonna be
Speaker 1: a factor in this thing. Had they even played the
Speaker 1: Giants yet? Washington and the Giants, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they have. And I know that Giants haven't played Philly yet, So, like,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot to be done here. I just
Speaker 1: think that it's going to it's going to be interesting
Speaker 1: how how it goes. Philly though, they're good, I mean,
Speaker 1: they were better than Washington. You know, face mask penalty
Speaker 1: didn't get called, and that deep ball with the Fumm,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of some slooky things. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you know, but it's good to know that
Speaker 1: they can be beat. Yeah, looking at Washington, No, and
Speaker 1: looking at their ability to u to run the ball
Speaker 1: pretty good, Looking at their ability to stop the run,
Speaker 1: they're pretty stout there. As you look at all the
Speaker 1: teams in the NFC East, if you had to prioritize
Speaker 1: them as the team that is the worst matchup for
Speaker 1: Dallas through to the how would you rate them? Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's Philly, Washington and the Giants.
Speaker 1: That's just because of that run matchup and stopping the run.
Speaker 1: It's what they're trying to do. Um. Also, you get
Speaker 1: to go at Washington, so Philly, Washington the Giants, which
Speaker 1: I think that's what y'all said, right, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we all agree the same. Yeah, yeah, order, And I
Speaker 1: mean they're all they're all tough. I mean, it's I
Speaker 1: think you said that. I think you said on the
Speaker 1: show that you felt better about the game. I felt
Speaker 1: worse about the Packer game because you're just like, I mean,
Speaker 1: think about just think about what the what the perception
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys would have been if they would just
Speaker 1: win the game. Just whatever, whatever play you want to say,
Speaker 1: it goes their way and they win that game. And
Speaker 1: then that happens to the Philly You're like, there we go,
Speaker 1: Cowboys could get the one seed. That that's what you'd
Speaker 1: be thinking. They could get the one seed. So that's
Speaker 1: that's why it's a little frustrating to know. That's why
Speaker 1: I would, you know. I mean, I'm not saying I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the headset and slam it down. You know
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. But you're the only one. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: But you know, honestly, though, I still look at it
Speaker 1: again because of what happened Monday night, I do think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys still could get the one seat. I think
Speaker 1: it starts with this week, and they gotta win this
Speaker 1: weekend if they want to to get that in that error.
Speaker 1: But look, Philadelphia is not unbeatable and the Vikings aren't unbeatable.
Speaker 1: There's nobody in the NFC that you're like, I really
Speaker 1: worry about them. The teams that I worry about most
Speaker 1: are below the Cowboys right now. And I heard you
Speaker 1: talking this morning on the fan like San Francisco is
Speaker 1: the one I still look at, like man, I don't really,
Speaker 1: I don't know how well Dallas matches up there. And
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is still a team. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how well Dallas matches up there. And if the Packers,
Speaker 1: who now are only two games out of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they happen to get back into it, I don't know
Speaker 1: how well they match up there if they had to
Speaker 1: play them again. So it's the teams below than the
Speaker 1: teams that are right now. I'm there at the top
Speaker 1: for the psake of the discussion, and you know, like,
Speaker 1: how confident are you even about the Cowboys right now?
Speaker 1: Because we I mean, I get it, you got to
Speaker 1: win these games and you can get up there or whatever.
Speaker 1: But when you look at what the Cowboys currently are,
Speaker 1: what they did last week or yeah, I guess that
Speaker 1: was last week some day when they did what they
Speaker 1: did there, and when you start looking at the issues
Speaker 1: that they currently have, and you've seen them in their
Speaker 1: best moments, and you've seen them what they can do
Speaker 1: and when the offense is working, when the defense is
Speaker 1: attacking the way that they do, being able to pressure
Speaker 1: the quarterback and all that, But now when you look
Speaker 1: at the areas where they're really lacking, and you can
Speaker 1: still point out the receivers group and also the quarterback,
Speaker 1: I mean Dak at times is not perfect. And then
Speaker 1: on top of that you add the run defense and
Speaker 1: what they're currently struggling with there, and you look at
Speaker 1: the analysis of now where we're at with them, how
Speaker 1: is your like, where is your confidence level at when
Speaker 1: looking at the Cowboys as a whole for the for
Speaker 1: the second half of the season. To me, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: same they got. They got one major flaw in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and that's they can't stop the run. And my belief
Speaker 1: is if and this is going to start with the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and go down the line, if everybody from
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator all the way down to the players says,
Speaker 1: stop worrying about getting after the quarterback as your primary concern,
Speaker 1: Your primary concern is stop the run. If all of
Speaker 1: those people make that the primary concern, my belief is
Speaker 1: that they will be adequate at stopping the run. If
Speaker 1: their adequate is stopping the run, they win that game.
Speaker 1: They win that win game going away in Green Bay
Speaker 1: they had a fourteen point lead in the fourth quarter, Like,
Speaker 1: they win that game going away. And you can say
Speaker 1: what you want about the offense and DAC and whatever,
Speaker 1: but guess what yet started off. It wasn't perfect. They
Speaker 1: got twenty eight points by the beginning of the fourth quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can stop the run, you win that game.
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is like, there are lots of
Speaker 1: areas where they can improve. Don't get me wrong, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they can't improve. Dad can be better, the
Speaker 1: receivers can be better, the offensive line can be better.
Speaker 1: They got one major flaw that if they don't fix that,
Speaker 1: they're not going anywhere. And that to me is a
Speaker 1: run defense. Yeah, and it's probably gonna come to I mean,
Speaker 1: they can stop the run. They can get the runs stopped.
Speaker 1: It's just that that's not the way they want to play.
Speaker 1: And there's guys that they that are on this team
Speaker 1: that are supposed to be here for you know, dynamic
Speaker 1: pass rushing ability, and they won't get to play the
Speaker 1: same way. They're gonna have to stop the run. And
Speaker 1: then after that, well we'll see. I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be different personnel. I mean, I think you got to
Speaker 1: play guys like Chauncey Golston in there, and there's somebody
Speaker 1: I believe I don't know what I'm implying. Somebody's getting cut.
Speaker 1: I do think that somebody, somebody that's a player like
Speaker 1: that's actually playing games. Yeah, somebody like a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: they or or or just benched. But but maybe cut
Speaker 1: because you're gonna need roster spots. I just think that
Speaker 1: they got too many of these guys. There's just too
Speaker 1: many of them. They're similar kind of yeah, So I
Speaker 1: just think that there's there's not enough space who I'm
Speaker 1: not saying you bring in anybody necessarily unless you unless
Speaker 1: you've got a defensive end that's out there. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that they'll they'll keep There's no room for
Speaker 1: bash them Fowler, Doran's Armstrong and Sam Williams. There's no
Speaker 1: room for all of those guys. And we know when
Speaker 1: you already got Tank, yeah, and you already got Micah
Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, there's just not room for all them.
Speaker 1: And so you can look at it and say, all right,
Speaker 1: who makes the money, who's drafted, who's young, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna keep me, and you can kind of figure it out,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, you don't have to keep some
Speaker 1: of those guys. Um, there may be more help on
Speaker 1: the practice squad coming. I mean, I mean, there's there's
Speaker 1: there's names out there being floated out there that are
Speaker 1: going to happen here on the You know that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are bringing in from the practice wide. Not the
Speaker 1: biggest name, not the OBJ name, but there's some others
Speaker 1: that are out there. So we'll see, we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens here. I think today is going to be interesting day,
Speaker 1: just roster moves wise. You keep hearing this name in
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue that fans keep throwing around as as an
Speaker 1: option to bring in defensive tackle. Obviously I'm not as
Speaker 1: big a fan of it, but what do you guys
Speaker 1: think as far as that being something that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: maybe should consider. I mean, they're not stopping the run
Speaker 1: on the edge like it's probably defensive tackle. That's that's
Speaker 1: the problem. I think I think they could get it
Speaker 1: stopped up the middle. It's it's the outside runs and um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he helps you there, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I mean, I know why Obj's out,
Speaker 1: you know, he's rehabbing his knee. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: why Sue is out. Yeah I don't, I mean, I do,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. My assumption is just because
Speaker 1: he's not in football, nobody just signed him. And by
Speaker 1: the way, that doesn't mean that doesn't mean players like
Speaker 1: that can't come in and add something to your team.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it solves the problem. I
Speaker 1: think you got Hankins to solve that problem, and I
Speaker 1: think Hankins is doing an adequate job. I did notice
Speaker 1: one thing. I saw this I I was looking at
Speaker 1: on Twitter and Brian baal Dinger, you know he does
Speaker 1: his breakdowns. He did an interesting breakdown and on one
Speaker 1: play it was actually the touchdown play where Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: ran off tackle and scored the touchdown. And and to me,
Speaker 1: that's where you look at and you're like, whoa defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: that was probably not the best idea because essentially what
Speaker 1: happened play starts defensive end and defensive tackle both just
Speaker 1: shoot outside and create this gaping hole that now your
Speaker 1: linebackers have to fill. The problem is offensive lineman's on
Speaker 1: Micah on him pretty quickly, and so now him trying
Speaker 1: to get off a block and basically control of this
Speaker 1: big gaping hole. It's like, that's a That's an example
Speaker 1: of where I said earlier in the show. It has
Speaker 1: a start with the defensive coordinator and go all the
Speaker 1: way down that the priority needs to be stopping the run,
Speaker 1: which in that instance you don't send your tackle outside.
Speaker 1: Now we also have to we were I'm assuming that
Speaker 1: was not it that was his assignment. Maybe it wasn't
Speaker 1: his assignment and he messed it up. But but that's
Speaker 1: where I think there are some issues here with this
Speaker 1: run defense that maybe fixable if you just either focus
Speaker 1: on what you're doing or everybody know their assignment and
Speaker 1: play their assignment and fit in their gaps. You can't
Speaker 1: keep worrying about sacks all the time. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got guys that come off the field
Speaker 1: and they're they're they're asking about that I get a
Speaker 1: sack there, and they need to call in the league
Speaker 1: to see if they can switch the sacked, you know,
Speaker 1: for it was my sack versus I mean, they're all
Speaker 1: worried about it. I get it, because that's that's the
Speaker 1: stat that people view. But it's causing problems. And I
Speaker 1: say it all the time about the Colts bet way
Speaker 1: back in the day, Dwight Freeney, those guys, Dwight Freeney
Speaker 1: cared about sacks. They didn't ever stop the run because
Speaker 1: they got up the field. And so you gotta be
Speaker 1: you gotta find a way to be disciplined and and
Speaker 1: know that this is more embarrassing. Is getting two hundred
Speaker 1: yards rushing on you is more embarrassing than finishing a
Speaker 1: win without a sack. They all need to realize that.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that they do. I mean, whether
Speaker 1: they do or not. You know, we've seen, we've interviewed
Speaker 1: players that aren't real happy about a win because they
Speaker 1: didn't get individual stats. That brings him an interesting point.
Speaker 1: How do you guys think Mike is gonna respond to this?
Speaker 1: Because this will be the first time in Micah's career
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys where people are talking about him
Speaker 1: in a negative way. I saw this morning on Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football. They were basically saying, oh, yeah, here's the
Speaker 1: blueprint for neutralizing Michael Parsons. And and I wonder a
Speaker 1: guy like him who is very, very prideful and takes
Speaker 1: a lot of pride in the fact that he is
Speaker 1: among the best in the NFL. I wonder how he
Speaker 1: responds to a game where everybody's looking at him and
Speaker 1: saying you're part of the problem. What do you guys think? Well,
Speaker 1: I think he plays I don't think he plays well
Speaker 1: when he's frustrated. I think he plays well when he's
Speaker 1: pissed off. Though, Oh maybe that's a good thing for
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, I mean I think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: last time he went to Minnesota, he was a defensive
Speaker 1: player of the week. I mean, had four tackles for loss.
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see. I mean there's another element
Speaker 1: on this too that yes, they gave a lot of
Speaker 1: rushing yards to the Bears because the Bears just kept
Speaker 1: doing it and that's the only thing the Bears could do,
Speaker 1: so they just kept running and running, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: kind of let him have it and all that. The
Speaker 1: Packers did it as well, and Aaron Rodgers did a
Speaker 1: really nice job there. But I don't think other teams
Speaker 1: are going to have the same success because they don't
Speaker 1: have the same quarterback as Aaron Rodgers. And I think, yes,
Speaker 1: you can keep running it, you can running, but at
Speaker 1: some point you're gonna have to make a play. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that the next three opponents, even though
Speaker 1: they've got three great running backs, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be the same. But I do I do
Speaker 1: this week, and it's not so much that the quarterback
Speaker 1: is great. I think the receiver is great and the
Speaker 1: quarterback is pretty good, and so because of that, I
Speaker 1: do think there will be times in this game where
Speaker 1: it's the similar kind of thing is what you experience
Speaker 1: with Green Bay. They may not have to throw it
Speaker 1: a lot. They can get going with the running game
Speaker 1: and do a lot of their damage on the ground
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are going to give up that ground yardage,
Speaker 1: but they can make a few big plays in the
Speaker 1: passing game as well, which is exactly what the Packers did.
Speaker 1: They just made a few big plays in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and with those receivers out there, I think they can
Speaker 1: make those big plays. They've been making them all season.
Speaker 1: We saw last week. I should not have been a completion,
Speaker 1: but just Jefferson is just He's just stupid, crazy good, right,
Speaker 1: And so that's where I differ a little bit on that.
Speaker 1: I do think this. I agree with you with the Giants,
Speaker 1: but I think for this week, I do think it's
Speaker 1: very similar to what you face last week. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say this because it's gonna be recorded,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to regret saying this. Here we go.
Speaker 1: It's good time to turn around, I know. But whatever
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it, it's in regards to my come
Speaker 1: I think I do think he's one of the greatest players.
Speaker 1: He's definitely the best player that the Cowboys currently have
Speaker 1: on the roster. But I feel that in the past
Speaker 1: weeks and he's the type of player, Yes, you can
Speaker 1: move him around and do all that, but when you
Speaker 1: take him away from doing the defensive end job and
Speaker 1: like pressuring the quarterback, and you put him a linebacker
Speaker 1: and have to and he's still the type of player
Speaker 1: that a lot of the times you see him just
Speaker 1: show up, he's like, how how did he get there
Speaker 1: faster than anybody else? But there have been time certain
Speaker 1: places that I've seen, especially in this last game, where
Speaker 1: him being like that part of the field linebacker, his
Speaker 1: game is kind of looking like a little slower where
Speaker 1: he's not as impactful as he can be on the defense. Overall,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's bad or anything, but I think
Speaker 1: that his game is taking a hit. When you take
Speaker 1: him away from just pressure in the quarterback, his game
Speaker 1: goes down a level, and I'm not saying that level
Speaker 1: is bad whatsoever, but it's not at the top where
Speaker 1: it's been this whole time. So I do think his
Speaker 1: game is just he looks at time a little not
Speaker 1: a step behind, but just a little slower and differently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have noticed that, And
Speaker 1: I know people are kind of starting to comment about him,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you saw the comment. I
Speaker 1: was trying to look for it, but dan Quinn was
Speaker 1: act do you know what I'm talking about? Where Mica
Speaker 1: made a comment about accountability and like players taking accountability
Speaker 1: and he said some like players weren't taking accountability, and
Speaker 1: then dan Quinn was asked about it and he just
Speaker 1: came back and said everybody has everybody's back and kind
Speaker 1: of switched it around. But that's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't expect him necessarily to say, because I
Speaker 1: do see him kind of as a leader and all that.
Speaker 1: But when he gets to him, it does get to him.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference between how he responds. Does he
Speaker 1: play harder and go out there and play even more,
Speaker 1: or does he become that frustrated player where now he's
Speaker 1: going on Twitter saying all kinds of things, just letting
Speaker 1: it the frustration get to him. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see when, if it happens again this weekend, how
Speaker 1: he responds to all those types of comments and how
Speaker 1: he handles that, because he hasn't faced any of that
Speaker 1: since he got here. I don't know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know where do you play him. That's the problem.
Speaker 1: He's a tweener. And it doesn't matter what position that is,
Speaker 1: no matter what sport, basketball, football, anybody that's ever been
Speaker 1: labeled somebody like that and in between end, in between linebacker,
Speaker 1: in between a forward or a guard or whatever. Like you,
Speaker 1: Mismatch problems are are good when it's in favorable for you,
Speaker 1: but it's also a mismatch problem. It depends on who
Speaker 1: you're facing, you know, and that's the problem. They just
Speaker 1: don't You don't know exactly where to play him. If
Speaker 1: you just played him strictly at defensive end all the time,
Speaker 1: I think he'd get I think they'd run at him
Speaker 1: a lot. I think he'd get worn down a lot
Speaker 1: more in the games, and he'd probably be playing a
Speaker 1: lot less snaps. He's defensive, he helps he wouldn't be
Speaker 1: as effective. And if you play him at linebacker, we're
Speaker 1: finding why you don't draft linebackers that high in the draft,
Speaker 1: because that's why he didn't go that high. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean went high, but I mean that's why he
Speaker 1: didn't go top five because he wasn't a pass rusher
Speaker 1: until he showed he could pass rush. So it's just
Speaker 1: it's a cat and mouse game all the time. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out how to do it. They
Speaker 1: gotta stop the run. They gotta get this run stopped.
Speaker 1: They get it stopped. Put him in third long situations.
Speaker 1: Then you could play Mica wherever you want. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask these guys, if you were the head coach,
Speaker 1: what would be your message to the team coming off
Speaker 1: that game and now heading into a game against Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: the head coach right now, and you got a team
Speaker 1: that you think is a really good team, but there
Speaker 1: are some some cracks that are appearing, and you lose
Speaker 1: a game like that on the road that you probably
Speaker 1: should have won, and now you got to face a
Speaker 1: team that is one of the better teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC from a record standpoint, on the road again, heading
Speaker 1: into a period where you got some clean games close
Speaker 1: back to back to back. What would your message be
Speaker 1: to the team right now? My message would be, we're
Speaker 1: damn good football team, and usually things that that kind
Speaker 1: of everything that goes up should come down. It all
Speaker 1: pretty much evens out. I would say of the losses
Speaker 1: this year, I would say two of the three losses
Speaker 1: you could have won. The game you made your own mistake,
Speaker 1: she could have won. There's not many wins that you
Speaker 1: could say we should have lost. I don't think there's any.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati was closed. They were better than Cincinnati all day long.
Speaker 1: They were better than them, so they won the game there.
Speaker 1: When you look at it that way, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's like, well, these four wins, you know,
Speaker 1: these four loss should have been wins. But then you
Speaker 1: can also count about the same. Right now, I think
Speaker 1: they are playing better than their opponents most of the time.
Speaker 1: They're a better football team and their opponents. That says
Speaker 1: so in the record, it says so, in the points
Speaker 1: that are scored, says so in their rankings on you know, offense,
Speaker 1: defense rankings. So stick to the script, keep going, keep fighting.
Speaker 1: Let's figure, let's plug these holes a little bit. Should
Speaker 1: get some help coming back here, I mean, should get
Speaker 1: some other you know, Zeke's gonna help. Zeke's better than
Speaker 1: Leeg Davis, so Zeke will help. I think Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: is going to come back. I think he's gonna play
Speaker 1: left tackle. I think he's better than Tyler Smith right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, so I think they're gonna get
Speaker 1: some help. And I think that they're a good football team.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we would be saying that. You know,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be saying anything different about them. If there's
Speaker 1: no holding penalty there, they drive down, they win the game,
Speaker 1: right then they win in overtime. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: talking about this team, and it's just that much of
Speaker 1: a difference. So I don't think it's time to hit
Speaker 1: the panic button at all. This is a good team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it all comes down to let's play clean football.
Speaker 1: You just have to clean it up on offense because
Speaker 1: the defense you talk about, the run defense, I don't
Speaker 1: think you can fix that in a week. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take a little bit more time to do that. You
Speaker 1: can see certain types of improvement depending on what dan
Speaker 1: Quinn decides to do scheme wise and all that. But
Speaker 1: on offense is where if you play just tight, tight
Speaker 1: the game, you know, don't get too I'm not cocky
Speaker 1: is not the word I'm looking for, but a little
Speaker 1: greedy or overconfidence. You know, there are some throws on
Speaker 1: there that you don't need. Greedy's the word greedy, and
Speaker 1: that was the word. That's what Yeah, it's true, that's
Speaker 1: what they did when it was seven nothing and they
Speaker 1: were there was no need to that, especially when you
Speaker 1: see you're being able to run the ball like the
Speaker 1: running game wasn't an issue there. They were running successfully,
Speaker 1: so there was no need to make a throw like that.
Speaker 1: So it's just that clean it up on offense and
Speaker 1: I think you're just a few step away from just
Speaker 1: fully clicking there. And I think that's the most immediate
Speaker 1: part of the game that you can change from this
Speaker 1: weekend to next weekend to go up against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: You don't give up no turnovers, protect the ball, and
Speaker 1: just play clean football, run the ball when you need to,
Speaker 1: and then when you need to make those passes that
Speaker 1: you check it down and you're like, okay, I can't
Speaker 1: make that, But don't play a guessing game either, like
Speaker 1: if you feel confident. Also, don't don't bring up that
Speaker 1: CD play into this game. I think you need to
Speaker 1: put that like over the middle, the one over the
Speaker 1: middle right past. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they I saw a
Speaker 1: breakdown of that play too. It's very interesting they broke
Speaker 1: it down on one of the ESPN shows. But basically
Speaker 1: the way that they defined the way they broke it down,
Speaker 1: which again they they're taking some liberties, but essentially what
Speaker 1: they said was basically what they showed confused both to
Speaker 1: CD and DAK. Basically, you know traditional cover two where
Speaker 1: you got your linebacker in the middle of the field
Speaker 1: and he's basically dropping deep. They put a safety back
Speaker 1: there and he was playing kind of going downhill. And
Speaker 1: so if if it's a traditional Cover two, then in
Speaker 1: that situation you've got a CD would would would go upfield.
Speaker 1: If it were a situation where there was going to
Speaker 1: be a guy in the middle of the field a
Speaker 1: single safety high, then he would cut across the middle. Basically,
Speaker 1: what they showed him was Cover two and there's a
Speaker 1: guy in the middle of the field, and Dak decided,
Speaker 1: I think I need to go upfield and in a
Speaker 1: post and Dak thought he thought he should have gone across,
Speaker 1: and there you go. That's your your answer. The point
Speaker 1: is they actually ran that similar play later in the
Speaker 1: game and actually connected on it, so they've had some
Speaker 1: success with it. Did you notice if there were other
Speaker 1: options on that particular play, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't see whether there were other I wouldn't need
Speaker 1: to go back and look at us. That's another thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are the other options? When you see
Speaker 1: that you can't make that throw with CD, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Then? Who do you I personally think if
Speaker 1: CD would have gone across, that's a completion. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: the guy who was sitting in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: the safety'll sit in the middle of the field. He
Speaker 1: was too deep. If he goes in front of his face,
Speaker 1: he was too deep to make a play on the
Speaker 1: ball that would have been a completion. So I actually
Speaker 1: think Dak was throwing it to the right place. I
Speaker 1: think CD misread it, and I think he went up
Speaker 1: feel where he actually ran into the coverage rather than
Speaker 1: going across his face and now making an easier completion.
Speaker 1: But again, those are the kind of things where that
Speaker 1: happens in the NFL. Guess what, guys, everybody's getting paid
Speaker 1: out there. They're all professionals, and these coordinators are looking
Speaker 1: for ways where they can create indecision, where they can
Speaker 1: have the quarterback and the receiver not be on the
Speaker 1: same page age in these option type situations. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what they did, and it worked for it did,
Speaker 1: But but I think the problem is is that when
Speaker 1: you see it done right before the half against the Bears,
Speaker 1: and you let the Bears back in the game because
Speaker 1: of that interception, and then you go to the bye
Speaker 1: week and two weeks later, right before the half, you're
Speaker 1: trying to get some points and you do the exact
Speaker 1: same throw in exact same play against the Packers, like
Speaker 1: they watch film too. They're watching, Yeah, that's their last
Speaker 1: tape of film that they've got on you So they
Speaker 1: see that, Hey watch for this Rudy Ford and that's
Speaker 1: what happened. And so, you know, I get it. Give
Speaker 1: them five days off, get them off their feed, do
Speaker 1: all this cool stuff, which is a lot of it's
Speaker 1: required by the league, you know, but for the bye week.
Speaker 1: But it's like they didn't learn from there. They don't
Speaker 1: coaches don't have to be off five days. You know.
Speaker 1: Well the other thing too is I don't think you
Speaker 1: tell me. I don't think the players, according to League US,
Speaker 1: have to be off as many days as they got. No,
Speaker 1: you think that was part of the problem here, Well,
Speaker 1: they weren't. I mean they were flat. I mean they
Speaker 1: didn't seem that flat. Okay, they didn't seem ready to play.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know. I mean, there's ten
Speaker 1: coaches that are going back to Green Bay, including the
Speaker 1: head coach. They were fired up and ready to go.
Speaker 1: But where the players ready to play? I don't know,
Speaker 1: and I'm not You can't. You can never figure that out. Well,
Speaker 1: heading into the bye week, we talked about it on
Speaker 1: this show. How okay, Well, this is a week where
Speaker 1: you'll do some self evaluation and you look at the
Speaker 1: things that you do some self scouting as well to
Speaker 1: look at the players you got and all that. But then,
Speaker 1: like you said, going, well we saw last weekend. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything that I saw that would
Speaker 1: make me think they improved in that aspect. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: it was about the same. Yeah, if I mean, you
Speaker 1: could argue the running game, running defense slowly getting worse,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned that yesterday, Derek, But overall, I don't
Speaker 1: think there was this pacific area where I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they improved there. I mean, the biggest play of the game.
Speaker 1: And going back to the Packers, when I mean you
Speaker 1: could say that the touchdown, the second touchdown to Watson
Speaker 1: on fourth down. I mean, obviously they don't get that
Speaker 1: the game's over, but the first touchdown like that would
Speaker 1: was huge too, because that let everyone know, okay, this
Speaker 1: we're back in this, we tied the game. We just bombed,
Speaker 1: you know, the defense. And then Anthony Brown gets hurt,
Speaker 1: and I don't care what you think, I don't care
Speaker 1: what the fans that Anthony Brown is a good solid
Speaker 1: cornerback and he gets picked on all the time because
Speaker 1: for whatever the reason, he's a good player and he
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt right there. I think it's a different
Speaker 1: game because it exposed the Cowboys are already down, Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis are already having to play d Ron Bland. Now
Speaker 1: you have to play d Ron Bland and Kelvin Joseph.
Speaker 1: I guess Aaron Rodgers man. I mean it's kind of
Speaker 1: surprisingly they didn't light them up even more really so,
Speaker 1: because they were they were committed to the run and
Speaker 1: the run was working. That's why they didn't. Well, he
Speaker 1: had a concussion, right, yeah, concussion you died, you don't.
Speaker 1: But McCarthy said on Monday that he has an excellent chance.
Speaker 1: I think was it excellent was the word he said? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and to play excellent chance to play with and that's
Speaker 1: and that's that's big on a Monday. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: big difference, and you saw it. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think any of us trust Kelvin Joseph. No, no, I
Speaker 1: won't say what Nick said to me when when we
Speaker 1: when he first went down. But yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: either one of us felt very great about the idea
Speaker 1: that Joseph was the guy who's going to be coming in.
Speaker 1: No he um, no at all. Like, honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's working out. I really don't. That's just what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. It's not working out. And and yes,
Speaker 1: he runs down and makes plays on he makes plays
Speaker 1: for you on the special teams. He's had like four
Speaker 1: or five, but he gives them away. I mean, he
Speaker 1: has stupid penalties at times that don't make any sense. Um,
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, it's it's it is what
Speaker 1: it is. It's kind of like what reminds me about
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys drafted Dez Bryant ten twelve years ago.
Speaker 1: Here's all these bad things about dis here's all these
Speaker 1: good things about des and after his ten year career,
Speaker 1: guess what they were. All Right, he's gonna be late,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be volatile. He's got off the field issues
Speaker 1: that you know that are going to carry over. Great passion,
Speaker 1: great player, playmaker. He's a leader, I mean or he's
Speaker 1: an Everyone loves him. He'll he'll he'll do anything for
Speaker 1: you to make plays. He'll be a highlight reel. They're
Speaker 1: all true right now, Calvin Joseph. It's all true, except
Speaker 1: for the pros on great cover guy, whatever got him
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round. It's just not it's not
Speaker 1: working out. The immaturity and all that we've seen all
Speaker 1: of that, not to mention off the field, I mean
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, speaks for itself and tragic. But
Speaker 1: on the field, I mean it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: as soon as he goes down, sous Anthony Brown goes down,
Speaker 1: everybody in the press box like, oh man, that means
Speaker 1: he's got to play and think about it this week
Speaker 1: coming up, Nashan right has been inactive. I think I
Speaker 1: take my chances with Nahan right at corner. Yeah that's
Speaker 1: saying a lot, no, But but Nashan, like as as
Speaker 1: training camp wore on and certainly as the the preseason
Speaker 1: wore on, we saw some holes in his game. Like
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, he's got some more development to do, right,
Speaker 1: that's a big statement to say you'd rather see him
Speaker 1: than than Calvin Joseph. Yeah, you know, and it just
Speaker 1: hopefully it gets better. But like but just saying, and
Speaker 1: you said it on here too, like you know, just
Speaker 1: because all he's a good special teams guy, that's not
Speaker 1: what you want from a high second round pick. He
Speaker 1: was a high second round pick, and it's just not
Speaker 1: it's not. It hasn't. It hasn't been good there, and
Speaker 1: I think they got to figure something out if, if,
Speaker 1: even if Anthony Brown comes back. I still think that
Speaker 1: their depth there is not what they want. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to overreact on Darron Bland. Deron Bland had
Speaker 1: a couple of bad moments in that game, a couple
Speaker 1: of them where he slipped down. He also had some
Speaker 1: good moments in that game too, where he made some plays,
Speaker 1: and so I still I'm big and I've told I
Speaker 1: told you actually before he went down, before I said
Speaker 1: once once Brown went down, I said, Deron Bland, it's
Speaker 1: the next best cornerback. He should be out there rather
Speaker 1: than bringing in Kelvin Joseph. Now, they went with Kelvin Joseph.
Speaker 1: But in my opinion, I think Deron Bland is your
Speaker 1: next best cornerback on this team. And I will continue
Speaker 1: to believe that even though he had some rough moments
Speaker 1: in this last game. He has a rookie, and so
Speaker 1: in a late round pick for a rookie, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be some growing pains. But everything that I've seen from him,
Speaker 1: from the time he arrived here suggests it's not too
Speaker 1: big for him. He is a really good player and
Speaker 1: he's only going to get better. So I would this week,
Speaker 1: if you don't have Brown, I would probably opt to
Speaker 1: have him out there as my other starter playing all downs,
Speaker 1: and then you'll bring in l. Joseph, even if you
Speaker 1: push Bland into the slot when you're gonna go Nickel,
Speaker 1: which is a whole different conversation, I think Cowboys get
Speaker 1: away from Nickel a little bit and go four three
Speaker 1: a little bit more if they got the linebackers say
Speaker 1: that too, And I was also going to say, this
Speaker 1: is not a good week to do that. You don't think, Well,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's Minnesota. You're you're right. Minnesota can
Speaker 1: their it out. Minnesota could run. That's why it's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons why they're so good, as they're very,
Speaker 1: very versatile. I mean on offense, they can do multiple things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got a good tight end, got good receivers, got a
Speaker 1: good running game. Yeah, it's it's a tough one. It's
Speaker 1: a really tough one. Are we're gonna take our final
Speaker 1: break when we come back. We'll talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this Minnesota offense in the Dallas defense. I want
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Speaker 1: segment of the show. We got literally only about six
Speaker 1: minutes here, uh, and we will get into some more
Speaker 1: of this stuff. Brian actually couldn't end up joining us today.
Speaker 1: We'll get into a little more of the breakdown of
Speaker 1: the Minnesota offense tomorrow. We'll get up the offense and
Speaker 1: then can you Yeah, Dalvin Cook's a really good runner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tough as hell to bring down. Yeah, Justin Jefferson catches
Speaker 1: just about everything, so good luck with that digs. Adam
Speaker 1: Feeling is a great route runner, so whoever's on the
Speaker 1: other corners, that's gonna be a problem. And then they
Speaker 1: added T. J. Hockinson from the Lions in the division,
Speaker 1: just another weapon there. Kirk Cousins is not playing at night,
Speaker 1: so it's a day game. It could be a little
Speaker 1: tougher for him, and uh, but they're eight and one
Speaker 1: and they're ready for a loss. Okay, not bad, that's
Speaker 1: not a bad little breakdown. Let me ask you this question,
Speaker 1: knowing how good Justin Jefferson is, what do you do
Speaker 1: with him? Would you travel digs on him? Yes? You would. Yes.
Speaker 1: There's too many times in the game that I saw
Speaker 1: And there was one play in particular last week where
Speaker 1: it was late in the game and I'm watching and
Speaker 1: Lazard goes in motion and nobody's no receivers on this
Speaker 1: other side, Digs, it is just kind of flanked out
Speaker 1: and he's kind of covering a tight end that's basically yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's not covering anyone. It's over there. It's just
Speaker 1: Bland and Joseph and then you've got, uh seven yards
Speaker 1: off the b and linebacker, you got Michael Parsons. And
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Wow, Packers have them exactly where they want.
Speaker 1: Their two best players are not doing what they do best,
Speaker 1: which is cover receivers and rush the quarterback and and
Speaker 1: and then it was a first down pass over the
Speaker 1: middle and all that, and I'm just thinking the Cowboys
Speaker 1: got to do what they do. So Jefferson Diggs. Diggs
Speaker 1: will give up some plays. He'll get some as well,
Speaker 1: and and then you know they have to because if
Speaker 1: you don't that Jefferson's going up against two. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Anthony Brown is going to come back. But
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown hasn't been There have been moments he I mean,
Speaker 1: he got the concussion. When he got the concussion, that
Speaker 1: was a touchdown pass that he Yeah, he looked kind
Speaker 1: of lost there too. Yeah. Yeah, So I mean I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think Justin Jefferson is your biggest
Speaker 1: challenge maybe he's a receiving standpoint. No, no, he didn't.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't. They wouldn't have let him play if they did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't play like that. Now you can't know his head.
Speaker 1: His head slammed down into the into the y. So
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think justin Jefferson's your biggest challenge,
Speaker 1: and I think you put your best cover guy, especially
Speaker 1: when there's such a big difference between your best cover
Speaker 1: guy in the next closest cover guy. I put him
Speaker 1: on Jefferson. You know, it's crazy. It's like I was
Speaker 1: thinking here how comfortable I was with like the depth
Speaker 1: on defense and every you know, every spot. The only
Speaker 1: one was maybe linebacker. But then you kind of address
Speaker 1: that and you're like, thinkyo, we're good. But then now
Speaker 1: we're just like, what are you should we should we
Speaker 1: be allowing that one game to challenge our beliefs on
Speaker 1: what we think of this defense's depth. I think so yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at when you mentioned, for example,
Speaker 1: Bland again going back to that kind of a point
Speaker 1: of they've been good term players, including like Sam Williams,
Speaker 1: I feel that they've been good when given the opportunity.
Speaker 1: But Sprinkles of it. You know, Now, what does that
Speaker 1: look like when you have them out there full time?
Speaker 1: You know, So there's a difference there because of the
Speaker 1: growth that there needs to happen, and when you're playing
Speaker 1: at this level already in this part of the season,
Speaker 1: you just you need that person to have it or
Speaker 1: you don't. Yeah, but if not, you sprinkle them in
Speaker 1: in rotations like that kind of led them because you
Speaker 1: have to also rotate players. But right now, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about players like even in the Sean Wright
Speaker 1: you mentioned him that was someone that I was a
Speaker 1: fan of even back at training camp, just because of
Speaker 1: his physique, his all armed, his length, So those qualities
Speaker 1: that you want in a player that you look for
Speaker 1: and then how does that translate into when they're out
Speaker 1: there playing? And just like it's maybe just the part
Speaker 1: of not being at that level where you ideally want
Speaker 1: them to be when you meet them to be at
Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, but I guess the way I look
Speaker 1: at it is you're still talking about a guy. You're
Speaker 1: talking about guy? Is that where your fourth and fifth
Speaker 1: cornerbacks now having to be your second and third cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: That to me is not a depth issue because if
Speaker 1: you had one of those guys, like for example, when
Speaker 1: you lost when you lost Jordan Lewis, then everybody's sliding
Speaker 1: up one spot. It didn't become an apparent problem, right,
Speaker 1: It wasn't until you lost two of them, when you
Speaker 1: lost him and Anthony Brown. Now you got a problem
Speaker 1: because and that's gonna be on any team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You take your fourth and fifth cornerbacks and now making
Speaker 1: your second and third cornerbacks, you're gonna have some issues
Speaker 1: because there's a reason why they're fourth and fifth. To me,
Speaker 1: I don't know that. I don't know that the depth
Speaker 1: challenges anymore today than it was before. It's just they're
Speaker 1: having to tap into guys and make them do more
Speaker 1: than they're really capable of doing right now. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and that's very similar to what happened at wide receiver
Speaker 1: as well. Anytime you know, you're talking about Noah Brown
Speaker 1: last year was the fifth receiver and now he's been
Speaker 1: the third and at times he's been the number two,
Speaker 1: and he's not ready for that difference those that was
Speaker 1: self inflicted. True, Yeah, that's the only difference. It's self inflicted, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't they didn't address that and free agency like
Speaker 1: they should have, and you know, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing right now with with with James Washington.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not sure why he's not there, you know,
Speaker 1: and especially with Noah Brown catching one pass and Jalen Tolbert.
Speaker 1: You know, he's ready, he's ready. Rossington is ready to play.
Speaker 1: He's ready to play. And I'm pretty sure I don't
Speaker 1: know exactly what he's gonna do in the route, but
Speaker 1: I mean he'll line up right, just just so I
Speaker 1: understand it. So the listeners out there understand, how's that
Speaker 1: twenty one day thing? Where can you bring a guy
Speaker 1: back immediately and not do the twenty one days? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just have twenty one days by which you can
Speaker 1: have him start him. You have to start the window.
Speaker 1: You can start the window and he can play immediate immediately.
Speaker 1: He can play that week if you want to, or
Speaker 1: he can go twenty one days and and he can.
Speaker 1: You can do that, you know, and then he has
Speaker 1: then something's got to happen either you know, he's got
Speaker 1: to go back to IR or you gotta put him
Speaker 1: on the roster. You don't have any inkling as to
Speaker 1: why the whole why there's the hold up. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: the only thing now we heard them saying from mccarth
Speaker 1: that's the only thing. I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 1: anything differently, was the whole thing of like timing. Why
Speaker 1: it's how the schedule and the opponents and Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: all that, how that looks likely and ideally you don't
Speaker 1: want to bring a player back in with those kind
Speaker 1: of weird schedules. Well, they're not practicing that much today,
Speaker 1: and so that's why the schedules a little bit different.
Speaker 1: And that was because that's why they didn't do it
Speaker 1: last week, because last week would have been one week.
Speaker 1: This week's kind of weird, and then the third week
Speaker 1: would have been the Thanksgiving week that's not even a
Speaker 1: real week. So I mean, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: care about all that stuff. I care about like they
Speaker 1: need to start him. He needs to start practicing so
Speaker 1: he can start to play, because it's a problem. Tolbert
Speaker 1: and Noel Brown aren't really giving them anything. And Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup only a little bit. And I think Washington, you
Speaker 1: signed him for a reason. I think he's got the depth.
Speaker 1: I think he adds some depth. He had some playmaking ability,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a former second round pick. I think
Speaker 1: he can. He can make some plays. You know what's
Speaker 1: crazy now that I thought about it, I forgot like
Speaker 1: he actually has not practice right at all with this team.
Speaker 1: Like if going back to training camp, he was struggling
Speaker 1: with some injuries one day the second first day of
Speaker 1: camp and that was it. That was it. So he
Speaker 1: had also a problem here, right, Like, whenever you get
Speaker 1: him back, you might need that full twenty one day
Speaker 1: period and those practices because he literally has not practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's probably what they're thinking. Yeah, they're thinking, we gotta,
Speaker 1: we gotta really utilize these twenty one days so we
Speaker 1: can kind of get you know, implemented in the offense,
Speaker 1: which means you may not open that twenty one day
Speaker 1: period and so you literally get into December. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you get that full week of practice and give him
Speaker 1: twenty one days and you're hoping he can be back
Speaker 1: and maybe give us something for the playoffs. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much how you have to think about at that point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they don't sign other guys, you know, before then,
Speaker 1: and even if you do, it's still he still could
Speaker 1: play a role maybe, right. You know, they rotate the
Speaker 1: receivers quite a bit. So maybe he does play a role.
Speaker 1: And maybe that means Jayleen Tolber, just go sit down
Speaker 1: and just watch the rest of the year and we'll
Speaker 1: figure out how we start growing you next year. Right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the penalty kind of rubbed me
Speaker 1: the wrong way. But you know, maybe maybe he just
Speaker 1: needs some time just to sit and maybe James Washington
Speaker 1: allows you to allows him to do that. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have He's not he's not ready. He's not ready
Speaker 1: to contribute. He's not scaring anyone. Um. I think he
Speaker 1: plays some on special teams though, which which if like
Speaker 1: James Washington comes in, I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that. Noah Brown plays special pay I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I mean, at some point he gotta be thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to be. He was never, I don't think
Speaker 1: a starter for most of his career and plays burs Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: He wasn't, which makes me think he probably was doing
Speaker 1: some special teams there. But I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: that for a fact. I don't know he played some.
Speaker 1: He played some over there, I mean he I mean,
Speaker 1: he played a lot of receiver. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was a starter, but you know they had they
Speaker 1: had the four five different guys and he played a lot,
Speaker 1: especially his second year, so I don't think he was
Speaker 1: a regular on special team. Came all right, appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: you on us. So back tomorrow we will break down
Speaker 1: the Minnesota defense versus the Cowboys offense. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a little bit more on this Minnesota offense as well.
Speaker 1: We'll do that tomorrow Southern for Nick Keatman and Amber Garcia.
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