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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, November eighth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number seventy six. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star. We're
Speaker 1: talking Cowboys football with you guys for an hour. Got
Speaker 1: my regular co host here and we're gonna jump right in.
Speaker 1: We got to catch up on a lot of injuries.
Speaker 1: This Cowboys injury report looks as full as I remember
Speaker 1: seeing it this season, So there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: we've got to catch up with. There an interesting note
Speaker 1: on the injury report for the Eagles that we'll talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about. Dave has his update for us
Speaker 1: on the Philadelphia Eagle defense. Will jump into that. We
Speaker 1: also have a new segment that we're going to be
Speaker 1: trying out this today, and our third segment, we've got
Speaker 1: a guy from Draft Kings by the name of Stephen Buchanan.
Speaker 1: He is a fantasy expert that we're going to start
Speaker 1: adding in on Thursday afternoon to do a quick segment
Speaker 1: with us for our fantasy players out there, just to
Speaker 1: be able to give you guys some really quick fantasy
Speaker 1: notes and nuggets that you might want to think about
Speaker 1: this weekend. I know we're getting too that part of
Speaker 1: the year where for fantasy players, this is where you're
Speaker 1: really gotten trying to position, get yourself ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Not gonna be a long segment for those of you
Speaker 1: that are not fantasy players. Will also have him talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about some of the players on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Eagles that may be of note from
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, and some of those matchups that could
Speaker 1: affect just the game overall, and then we'll get to
Speaker 1: the end of the show. A lot to do, a
Speaker 1: whole lot to do. So let's jump right in. Let's
Speaker 1: talk injuries. Let's get a catchup. I'm gonna run down
Speaker 1: this list and I want you three to tell me
Speaker 1: what you know about where they are from an injury standpoint.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with Taco Charlton he has a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: did not participate in practice yesterday. Where does he sit? Oh,
Speaker 1: he wasn't out there today either, So still having a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Still having a shoulder Henry yea, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not good. Yep. Inside jokes aren't really good when it's
Speaker 1: just us. And yeah, most people don't even maybe not
Speaker 1: know what the joke was. Yeah, So anyways, he's still hurt,
Speaker 1: he's sorry. I don't he didn't practice today or he's
Speaker 1: not out there now, so it doesn't look like he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. Not a great sign for him. Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: is out there, okay, So that's that's something to watch,
Speaker 1: which we'll see how they shuffle at David Irving's not
Speaker 1: out there, so I would guess they are going to
Speaker 1: have to shuffle their defensive line once again. I would
Speaker 1: guess No on Taco, Yes on Randy, No on Irving.
Speaker 1: That's significant. Those are two people that would play significant
Speaker 1: amount of time or your defensive line. Right right, I'll
Speaker 1: pick up some guys that were out there. Deonte Thompson ribs.
Speaker 1: He was out there, he was so he's having ribs.
Speaker 1: He's having ribs, Okay, Yeah, he's ribs for dinner. Jeff
Speaker 1: Swain not out there then out there, not really sure
Speaker 1: because he did not participate, like in the stretching part
Speaker 1: of it. But then he was up working on the
Speaker 1: side with the trainers. Then he got back out there
Speaker 1: doing stuff. He's got a lot of metal going on
Speaker 1: there and his knee, big brace, quite a brace going
Speaker 1: on with his knee. But he was out there like
Speaker 1: catching passes and stuff. So so optimistic about him for now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeahstic shows how bad the tight end position is it
Speaker 1: really I don't think. I think if they had let's
Speaker 1: say Witton was the starter and he was the backup,
Speaker 1: I don't think he'd be playing. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I just think they're like, we
Speaker 1: kind of let's put that thing on his knee and
Speaker 1: let's go play. Yeah. I tend to agree with that.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to note too that they're in shorts today.
Speaker 1: They were didn't even wear helmets yesterday, so they're not
Speaker 1: gonna do like a real practice before they play this game,
Speaker 1: which that's not surprising because it's a short week, but
Speaker 1: small mental reps anyway, you kind of get in the
Speaker 1: game plan down, what are you do in this situation,
Speaker 1: how do you react to this this kind of thing
Speaker 1: that makes it even harder to get a gauge on
Speaker 1: who's actually available to play in a full contact football
Speaker 1: game because running around our shorts, you know, for us exactly,
Speaker 1: I mean they know, but they don't let us or
Speaker 1: take in those conversations, which I think they should connother
Speaker 1: aacy against the Cowboys to give the Super Bowl champion
Speaker 1: Eagles twelve days to prepare and expiracy, give me an
Speaker 1: update on Jeff Thomas because if Sean Lee now I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, now that we know that Sean is out
Speaker 1: for a little bit, you'd like to have Joe Thomas back.
Speaker 1: I think it helps to have Joe Thomas back. Where
Speaker 1: does he sit with the foot injury? Making progress according
Speaker 1: to Jason Garrett, but not not on that level. It's
Speaker 1: still not ready to to be playing. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. So how does that affect the linebacker position?
Speaker 1: Obviously you've got Damien Wilson. Um is that enough? I
Speaker 1: guess it is the best question. Wolf Hunter and the
Speaker 1: younger Smith get after it. Go you're young, you're fresh,
Speaker 1: play well. The expectation is that they are going to play.
Speaker 1: That's my question. Do you think that that's enough. You
Speaker 1: think that's enough, you feel good about hurt? Okay, don't.
Speaker 1: How does that change things? Though? With the struggles that
Speaker 1: you're having on the D line, what is that? What
Speaker 1: do you mean? I mean some of the guys are
Speaker 1: kind of banged up, and like, honestly, when you mentioned
Speaker 1: for example, and I know we haven't been relying on
Speaker 1: David Irving or Randy Gregory, but then now you have
Speaker 1: tackle also kind of banged up. You got DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 1: who he had he's been playing, but still kind of
Speaker 1: keep in mind that he's been also dealing with the
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Even though he says it's fine, it's still
Speaker 1: something to look for. So there are several guys there
Speaker 1: there are struggling a little bit healthwise, which I think
Speaker 1: maybe starting to affect the game because they haven't been
Speaker 1: as productive as they've been in the past. And obviously
Speaker 1: when the line has been playing well again, you get
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith and Layton playing really good too, and it's
Speaker 1: all like a combination of things. I don't disagree that
Speaker 1: the fact that they did not have they weren't at
Speaker 1: full streak of defensive line, and then they had their
Speaker 1: worst game, the linebackers had their worst game. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a coincidence, but I will say this. You
Speaker 1: talk about last game, You've got Gregory out, Taco got hurt,
Speaker 1: Taco probably won't play. Gregory probably will, So you can
Speaker 1: flip there, they're gonna stay the same at tackle. Then
Speaker 1: at linebacker Sean Leadon is not going to play. Who
Speaker 1: plays more there? I think that's what you were asking,
Speaker 1: was depth wise march Lillard. Yeah, not only the depth wise,
Speaker 1: but also when you think about it, I guess if
Speaker 1: you believe that maybe the reason why they or if
Speaker 1: you believe the comp that they did get worn down
Speaker 1: as the game went on, then maybe an answer for
Speaker 1: that would be you had one less guy rotating, because
Speaker 1: if you notice Sean Lee, basically what they do is
Speaker 1: they rotate those three linebackers by series. So one series
Speaker 1: you'll have two of them out and one will be out,
Speaker 1: and then the next they'll be the other one is
Speaker 1: in and he'll take one out. Does that affect That's
Speaker 1: my question is does not having Sean Lee affect that
Speaker 1: rotation to the point where those guys are out there
Speaker 1: and maybe don't have the ability to stay as maybe
Speaker 1: they're not as good when they're having to play as
Speaker 1: many reps as it would take for them to play
Speaker 1: the whole game. I would like to have Sean Lee available,
Speaker 1: and I would like to have Joe Thomas available, and
Speaker 1: it could probably help. But I mean that was kind
Speaker 1: of my point. Is I hear what you're saying, Sorry
Speaker 1: you don't have them. Absolutely, there's nobody's gonna feel sorry
Speaker 1: for him. I get that. Well, but they're twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty three, and we weren't talking about this when
Speaker 1: they were playing really well when Sean Lee was hurt.
Speaker 1: I mean Layton vander esh got the start because of
Speaker 1: an injury in the first place. Yeah, and they played
Speaker 1: great for about three weeks and Nobe and people we
Speaker 1: were sitting here like, how are they going to rotate
Speaker 1: these guys? Is that going to throw them off their game? So, no,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't need to rotate. They need to
Speaker 1: play better than they did last week, and I feel
Speaker 1: reasonably confident that they will because they've played well more
Speaker 1: often than they haven't. So what do you think about
Speaker 1: signing like Justin Durant or somebody? And I'd say you
Speaker 1: got your three Damien's, you're Sam and Bass, and then
Speaker 1: let the young guns. John Smith Jones comes in here undoing. Yeah, yeah, available, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think you'd bring in Zach Thomas
Speaker 1: maybe maybe a draft pick that was a good one,
Speaker 1: but that might work special teams. I know that's ideal.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't need to rotate these guys.
Speaker 1: I need my two cornerstone linebackers to play better, play
Speaker 1: like badass. I talk about Joe Thomas and forever I
Speaker 1: forget Shawn Lee and Joe Thomas both heard of in
Speaker 1: the same at the same time. Was there a game
Speaker 1: where they were both out like at the Cowboys show
Speaker 1: got hurt in Seattle and Joe hurt his foot? Um,
Speaker 1: what game was that that would have That was Houston?
Speaker 1: Maybe it was a few weeks ago, week five, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe the Detroit game. Yeah, I felt like it wasn't
Speaker 1: at the same time. I just wonder, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have they played a game with just really them too.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have yet. How don't recall
Speaker 1: maybe Houston they were both healthy. They would have both
Speaker 1: been healthy in week one and week two. Oh, but
Speaker 1: that was a while ago. Well, yeah, I know, but
Speaker 1: that's that's my point, Like when just you're just relying
Speaker 1: on Jalen and vander esh had they kind of had
Speaker 1: that before without any experienced depth behind him like that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Houston probably, but sorry, I played well.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Yesterday we talked about the Philadelphia offense and
Speaker 1: a name you throughout was Darren Sproles has been out
Speaker 1: for them. The expectation was that he was going to
Speaker 1: be active back this week. Dave. There was a report
Speaker 1: that just came out from Adam Scheff to what do
Speaker 1: he say? He tweaked his hamstring in practice and he's
Speaker 1: down again, which I would never year for an injury
Speaker 1: for anybody, but helps the Cowboys. It definitely helps the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And he had smart Alex in my mentions today, like
Speaker 1: big deal was he going to play quarterback for? Like
Speaker 1: why is this matter? It's like it matters, dude, And
Speaker 1: that's if you don't think it matters, you haven't seen
Speaker 1: Darren Spowls playing. He's a mismatched player. He can return punts,
Speaker 1: he catches the ball out of the backfield. I mean
Speaker 1: I've seen him kill the Cowboys for two different teams. Actually,
Speaker 1: did anybody watch the game last week? I mean nobody's yeah,
Speaker 1: Deon Lewis and he's the same kind of player that's well.
Speaker 1: Sproles probably a better player at least in his career,
Speaker 1: he's been a better player than Dion Lewis, but it's
Speaker 1: that kind of player for sure. He did not account
Speaker 1: well for receivers catching the ball out of the backfield
Speaker 1: in that game. And so it matters that Darren Sproles
Speaker 1: can't play. Wendel Smallwood and Corey Clement can still do
Speaker 1: the job, but they'll do those kinds of things. They
Speaker 1: don't scare me as much as Darren Sproules does, even
Speaker 1: at forty five or whatever. How he's He's been in
Speaker 1: the league, man like since I was ten years old,
Speaker 1: So I don't know that's it's a significant development, all right,
Speaker 1: real quick, um, And this is just for people to
Speaker 1: just kind of keep an idea of where he is.
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin, He's still obviously going to be out, but
Speaker 1: have we heard anything more about where he is? This
Speaker 1: progress progress back? Is this something that may be coming
Speaker 1: in a week or two. Is this something that really
Speaker 1: is going to be here at the best case scenario
Speaker 1: you're looking at late November December. I'm gonna peel the
Speaker 1: curtain back on the way like beat writers do stuff,
Speaker 1: which is like, depending on the injury, you're like hounding
Speaker 1: people for information, especially like if you're like, well can
Speaker 1: he get back? What game Tavon Austin or for any
Speaker 1: injury where you know. And again, when he got hurt,
Speaker 1: there were rumblings that maybe I R was a possibility.
Speaker 1: And in a situation like that, if it's very obvious
Speaker 1: he's not coming back for four or more weeks, it
Speaker 1: just kind of flies under the radar. It falls in
Speaker 1: that category. I'm not gonna worry about it until it
Speaker 1: falls in the category of he ain't playing against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: So I got other stuff I gotta worry about. And
Speaker 1: then in another there two or three weeks, people will
Speaker 1: start saying, where's Tavon? At is he? Is he getting
Speaker 1: close to coming back? And so I feel like we're
Speaker 1: still a little ways from that. I mean, so this
Speaker 1: is not a thing that's even imminent. And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking this week, I'm talking about next week. It doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like it's imminent. It feels like it's something that's
Speaker 1: farther off than that. I don't get the impression he'll
Speaker 1: be ready, okay until maybe after Thanksgiving, yeah, like Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: or maybe the game after Thanksgiving, or haven't been seeing
Speaker 1: him around in the locker room either. He's been around,
Speaker 1: but like, yeah, exactly, like you know, you keep it again.
Speaker 1: You go to practice and you're like, well, Jeff Swain's
Speaker 1: on the chords, and you know Taco's doing this, and
Speaker 1: Tavan's just one. I mean, he's at practice, but he's not.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like a guy who I was standing
Speaker 1: in a ball cap, yeah, wearing a ball cap in
Speaker 1: a hoodie and you know, chatting with the offensive coaches
Speaker 1: and looking like a guy who's not planning on playing soon.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, Dave's gonna give us a scouttering report on
Speaker 1: this Philadelphia defense. It's gonna be an interesting one when
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Speaker 1: Football Back to the Break, Welcome back. It's the second
Speaker 1: second to the right flash in the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star talking Cowboys Versus Eagles, and Dave is
Speaker 1: going to give us the scouting report on the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagle defense. Tough unit. What you got? Tough unit, but
Speaker 1: a banged up unit. Uh, big time. Like we we
Speaker 1: talk a lot about the injuries Washington is dealing with.
Speaker 1: H this is you know, you look at the Eagles numbers.
Speaker 1: They've fall into seventeenth in total defense, they're twenty fifth
Speaker 1: against the past, they are second. Yeah, carve him up.
Speaker 1: Well we'll get I'll get him. We'll get to that. Uh,
Speaker 1: just salivating over there. Still still second against the run
Speaker 1: eighty four yards per game and fifth fifth in scoring.
Speaker 1: Which you so you're like, well, this what happened to
Speaker 1: this mighty unit? Why are they mediocre? Everybody's hurt? Um,
Speaker 1: starting with most importantly, in my opinion, Rodney McCleod, their
Speaker 1: free safety. Gave him a lot of money a couple
Speaker 1: off seasons ago, and he's played, he's played very well.
Speaker 1: He's not back there. Um. Tim Jernigan, defensive tackle who
Speaker 1: partnered so well, the guy they traded for, he was
Speaker 1: he wrecked shop next to Fletcher Cox. He is on NFI.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been able to play. Oh yes, his issue
Speaker 1: his knee. I think he's been out. He's limited in
Speaker 1: practice right now. Like he's he's kind of like Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: like he's on the field, but they haven't activated under
Speaker 1: the active roster. I don't expect to see him this
Speaker 1: weekend Superstar. First round draft pick Derek Barnett had two
Speaker 1: and a half sacks in the first few weeks of
Speaker 1: the season. He's on IR reserve linebacker Paul Warlow, reserve
Speaker 1: safety Chris Marigoes. So they've got three starters and two
Speaker 1: other like key contributors on IR right now. On top
Speaker 1: of that, you got Jalen Mills dealing with an injury
Speaker 1: an ankle. Yeah, they're starting cornerback jale Mills. LSU guy
Speaker 1: dealing with an ankle, uh Corey Graham, their replacement safety
Speaker 1: has been in and out of the lineup with injuries
Speaker 1: of his own. So they're banged up. Um, but they
Speaker 1: still got the one notable dude down in the middle.
Speaker 1: Do they really do? And that's the funny thing is
Speaker 1: like this pass rush looks completely different than it did
Speaker 1: even a year ago. Like they shifted of any Curry
Speaker 1: off to Tampa Um. Jernagin hasn't been playing. They got
Speaker 1: rid of they got rid of another end that they had.
Speaker 1: Derek Barnett is on it. No, they still have well,
Speaker 1: they they have Brandon Graham. But then but they got
Speaker 1: some horses. They got Fletcher Cox. Ye, he's really good. Um,
Speaker 1: he's he's really he's really good. And uh he scares me.
Speaker 1: I mean so that it's it sucks because the things
Speaker 1: that the Eagles don't do well are things that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can't take advantage of or haven't been able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of. And the things that they do really
Speaker 1: well are exactly what the Cowboys want to do. They
Speaker 1: want to run right at you, right. The Eagles don't
Speaker 1: let people do that. I'm gonna I'm gonna read some
Speaker 1: stats off to you. Against Atlanta, they gave up seventy
Speaker 1: four total rushing yards. Those are good running backs against them. Tampa,
Speaker 1: it was forty three against Indy. It was sixty eight
Speaker 1: against the Titans, it was seventy Minnesota seventy seven. Slipped
Speaker 1: up and gave up one hundred and fifty total rushing
Speaker 1: yards to the Giants, who they beat by thirty points.
Speaker 1: They gave up one twenty one to Carolina and seventy
Speaker 1: to the Jags last week. You're leading rushers. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: just throw this out there. Saquon Barkley had one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty yards against him, played the game of his life.
Speaker 1: So far. He's the only running back that has tallied
Speaker 1: fifty yards against this front so far, the only one
Speaker 1: Atlanta's leading rusher thirty six, Tampa twenty two, Indie thirty three,
Speaker 1: Tennessee forty six, Minnesota forty two, Carolina forty nine, Jacksonville
Speaker 1: forty three. Now, the one thing you can say about that, though,
Speaker 1: is Saquan is the only best caliber, high caliber running
Speaker 1: back in that group except for maybe mccaff free. You
Speaker 1: want to put him in that category that he did
Speaker 1: some other things catching passes out of back room, I will,
Speaker 1: I will throw this sliver of hope out at you. Yeah. Four, well,
Speaker 1: a sliver of hope. Depending on how cynical you want
Speaker 1: to be. Four different quarterbacks have been their team's leading
Speaker 1: rusher against the Eagles, including Cam Newton who went for
Speaker 1: seventy one. Yes, you think that the Cowboys are gonna
Speaker 1: do that? Okay, they have to, they do, have they have.
Speaker 1: There's no way they can look at those numbers and
Speaker 1: not say we got to get him involved in the running.
Speaker 1: It's what you think we're gonna do. If they try
Speaker 1: to line up and smash the ball right up the
Speaker 1: gut of this defense, they're going to have a bad time.
Speaker 1: That's just what I think. I think so underestimating Sulphie Little,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe or Adam Redmond. We don't know yet. Whoever.
Speaker 1: We didn't even talk about that real quick. We saw
Speaker 1: that a practice today yesterday. I think Redmond got a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps left guard today looked like so to
Speaker 1: see out but without when you're doing it in shorts,
Speaker 1: can you really tell anything other than do they have
Speaker 1: the assignment right? That's what I was just saying to
Speaker 1: Rob and Nick at practices, like how are they supposed
Speaker 1: to evaluate these guys? Yesterday was a walkthrough? Do they
Speaker 1: know the assignment? Like that's a part of him seeing
Speaker 1: this sign and no one's supposed to do which Nick
Speaker 1: Nick had a very uh he had a useful conversation
Speaker 1: where what the thing they like about Adam Redmond is
Speaker 1: he's incredibly smart, very smart. Actually, I mean I talked
Speaker 1: to Will McClay a little bit this morning. He's doing
Speaker 1: special Editions show. Talked to him this morning. He said
Speaker 1: he is extremely smart and understanding things I would have
Speaker 1: thought that when I saw the roster that said Harvard,
Speaker 1: I would have already assumed that you didn't need to
Speaker 1: hear it now. But but from a football smart situation,
Speaker 1: it sounds like that that's one thing that'll help him.
Speaker 1: Swophilo has got the drafted higher and played more games.
Speaker 1: Smart's one thing. But is he strong? Because if you're
Speaker 1: going to be up against that beast, you better be strong.
Speaker 1: I was about to be a jury can say it's
Speaker 1: awesome that you're smart, But is that really going to
Speaker 1: help me against Fletcher Cox? Because I know now and
Speaker 1: well that's not directed at you, but I mean go,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a Cowboys fan, you've seen him play,
Speaker 1: but like, go throw on the all twenty two of
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox and just watch him like either just rip
Speaker 1: past double teams or just push two guys into the
Speaker 1: backfield which allows Michael Bennett to one each yeh, he's
Speaker 1: just bench pressing. He's just like and the crazy thing
Speaker 1: he still gets he's still leading the team in sacks,
Speaker 1: even though every week the opponent comes in like, we
Speaker 1: gotta do something with this guy. He's got He's got
Speaker 1: four sacks, I want to say five tackle for loss
Speaker 1: he's double teamed every week. It doesn't matter because even
Speaker 1: he's blowing it up and then Michael Bennett's looping behind
Speaker 1: him and just getting the free run at the quarterback
Speaker 1: because there's nobody left to block it. I would I
Speaker 1: think I would too, because you've talked to him a
Speaker 1: little bit um in the locker room. But there's something
Speaker 1: about his demeanor like it's like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is good or bad at it maybe not fit
Speaker 1: exactly what Mark Colombo's style is, but I just the
Speaker 1: whole it's gonna be too big for him. I don't
Speaker 1: think this would be I don't think anything. Really. He
Speaker 1: was really upset. He's a really nice guy, very friendly guy.
Speaker 1: Always says, Hi, how are you doing? Yesterday I walked by,
Speaker 1: didn't say a word. I'm like, oh, he's playing, he's playing.
Speaker 1: How are you. He's like, I'm just upset and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to calm down, and I'm like, why what happened?
Speaker 1: He's like, just just practice and he stayed out there
Speaker 1: longer and he said he made one mistake and I
Speaker 1: don't know what the mistake was, but he made it
Speaker 1: and that really upset him. He's like, I cannot make
Speaker 1: that kind of mistake. I'm like, well, you need to
Speaker 1: calm down, like, that's what practice is for, for you
Speaker 1: to make those mistakes here and fix them, work on it.
Speaker 1: And then the problem is for him right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's auditioning for an opportunity that maybe his only opportunity.
Speaker 1: The heart one. Dan Bailey was a rookie and there
Speaker 1: was five kickers on the team. Seriously, five kickers. Every
Speaker 1: practice kick was a huge It's an audition that was
Speaker 1: But I told I told him, I'm like, look, the
Speaker 1: fact that you're feeling this way shows that you care
Speaker 1: and you're you're invested in it and you're wanting to
Speaker 1: try and do the best that you can, and you
Speaker 1: always want that in a player. So he I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't talk to Uh, maybe I should. I think
Speaker 1: that's the fair thing to do. You need to go
Speaker 1: to Dan, talk to Redman. He doesn't. He should have
Speaker 1: the benefit of having Spanish. He should have the benefit
Speaker 1: of having you come and sit down and counsel him
Speaker 1: the same way you did with Suafhilo. Right. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: analyze him today, see what the mood. Analyze like, I'll
Speaker 1: get to the different, different guy because like the other
Speaker 1: day practice in the locker room him was a Friday
Speaker 1: and things were a little bit loose. He is like
Speaker 1: blaring his music, which is no different than a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that will do that country music. Though, yeah,
Speaker 1: like I don't really he Selo, yes, like ten fifteen
Speaker 1: songs on a round Redman Suphilo, So you're not giving
Speaker 1: him his dude, Suahilo has been the DJ in the
Speaker 1: country music No, no, it's okay. He plays everything I
Speaker 1: thought you're meaning, like daily he is in there. It's
Speaker 1: country time. He was playing Cameo a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He was playing he plays Marvin Gay and he'll play it,
Speaker 1: so he knows he's doing Oh, he definitely knows. He'll
Speaker 1: play Hispanic music that. I'm like, how in the world
Speaker 1: you know this song like this is old school, like
Speaker 1: old schools things that only he lived in Houston for
Speaker 1: like five years. I mean, what does that? What does
Speaker 1: that mean? So he lived there for thirty does does
Speaker 1: that have anything? The one thing wrong Hispanic culture in Houston.
Speaker 1: That's all of Texas. I feel like Houston more so,
Speaker 1: though I don't know, maybe I haven't lived there in
Speaker 1: twenty five thirty years, So maybe I would start Swiffhilo.
Speaker 1: Maybe we've seen we've seen that left guard position. We've
Speaker 1: seen guys that come in that that play well there,
Speaker 1: now you've changed your mind from moving lyle. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it. No, I think he prefers that. I
Speaker 1: think he just knows that that's not gonna happen. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. Now, say it's like, do you want me?
Speaker 1: Do you really want me to just wax on about
Speaker 1: like what I what I want to happen or what
Speaker 1: I think will will happen. But I like it. Wax
Speaker 1: On never heard somebody say like, I got it, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wax poetic. Yeah, I've heard that gonna rant. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard that gonna go. But wax last time I
Speaker 1: heard wax On was Kreti kid. Yeah, um, you watched
Speaker 1: this problem. Yes, I think, Yes, I am firmly in
Speaker 1: the Connor Williams. I'm on that bandwagon. I'm not getting off.
Speaker 1: But it might be a blessing in disguise that he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to play this game, which and so I would.
Speaker 1: I would play through a filo too. I think he
Speaker 1: gives you the best bet against the sky with especially
Speaker 1: if you think he's If he's a strong player, like
Speaker 1: he plays with power, then to me, you may actually
Speaker 1: be better off. And this is not about what Connor
Speaker 1: can be in the future. It's about where Connor is
Speaker 1: right now. Is a rookie. He's not gonna come in
Speaker 1: as a rookie. I mean, we knew when he was
Speaker 1: drafted that all the scouting reports. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that he's gonna have to get stronger, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to put on like he's got to do those
Speaker 1: things in order to get to where he wants to be.
Speaker 1: But you can't do that in that offseason where you're
Speaker 1: just getting drafted and then you're coming into the NFL.
Speaker 1: He'll be there next year the year after that. So
Speaker 1: this may actually be a good thing, like you said,
Speaker 1: not only for Connor, but for the Cowboys. If Suefila
Speaker 1: can play with power, or whoever's gonna play that position
Speaker 1: can play with power, I think we've seen in the past.
Speaker 1: I remember a couple years ago against the Giants up
Speaker 1: there where they had those two big guys in the middle,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys did not feel comfortable running the ball
Speaker 1: in between the tackles. You saw a lot of it
Speaker 1: might have been the first game we saw a lot
Speaker 1: of lucky Whitehead go on side to side. I think
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to do that more than ever
Speaker 1: in this game. I mean, run jet sweeps, run Dak
Speaker 1: to the side, do those things to kind of saw
Speaker 1: from the middle. I'm not I'm not saying do a
Speaker 1: lot of counters around the gold line where take four
Speaker 1: hours to get there. I'm talking about running misdirection type
Speaker 1: things like that. I would because I hope you can't
Speaker 1: just move these guys. That's I agree, and I think
Speaker 1: that's misdirection. I think Dak needs to have an active
Speaker 1: role as a runner in this game, or at least
Speaker 1: the threat of it. I would love to see some
Speaker 1: jet sweet type of stuff or maybe like bubble screens,
Speaker 1: like they don't ever throw those types. I mean they do,
Speaker 1: but not. Re Cooper would be pretty good for that.
Speaker 1: Cooper had a really nice play. A slant over the
Speaker 1: middle might have been his last catch, ten yard catch.
Speaker 1: Guys jumped on him. He got about sixteen yards. That
Speaker 1: was the most deslike thing that we've seen out of
Speaker 1: him in that first game. But I mean it wasn't
Speaker 1: just getting open and making a catch. It was it
Speaker 1: was actually, you know, just kind of carrying defenders being
Speaker 1: a big body guy. I thought that was the most
Speaker 1: encouraging thing that I saw out of him. And I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's got to make some plays down
Speaker 1: the field. Ronald Darby's a solid cover guy. Jayleen Mills
Speaker 1: is gimpy. He's also he's he is an up and
Speaker 1: down inconsistent guy. Corey Graham is not your preferred free safety.
Speaker 1: He's also gimpy. They might have to play Avante Maddox,
Speaker 1: who was a rookie at safety. And then I respect
Speaker 1: the hell out of Malcolm Jenkins, but he's not like
Speaker 1: he's not an elite cover safety like they put him
Speaker 1: in the box. He blitzes, he contributes to pressure. He's
Speaker 1: not you know, he's not taking the deep ball away,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, I saw him give up
Speaker 1: balls down the field to Blake Bortle, indeed Westbrook. So
Speaker 1: you can take advantage of these guys, and they just
Speaker 1: they have to. It's unfortunate because this is it's strength
Speaker 1: on strength and weakness on weakness. I mean, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are going to have to play well in the passing game,
Speaker 1: which is not something they've been able to do on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. You know me, I would ask you
Speaker 1: if like Eric Allen was playing for them, But he
Speaker 1: works here, so we've seen him in good points. So
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take our final break. When we
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Speaker 1: the line. We're gonna start a new segment today we'll
Speaker 1: do each Thursday. We've got Steve Buchanan from DraftKings joining
Speaker 1: us to talk a little bit of fantasy football. Here's Steve.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey, guys, thanks for having me on it.
Speaker 1: I wish you were being under different preaks, you know,
Speaker 1: after feel like I moved through better the wind. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's part of the gig, unfortunately, but you you're
Speaker 1: not You're not wrong. Part of what we do. Okay,
Speaker 1: fantasy never sleeps, right, That's right, you got it. So
Speaker 1: what you got for us today? Let's start maybe with
Speaker 1: some some some people that we should be looking at
Speaker 1: this week, maybe some starts and some sits that just
Speaker 1: based upon different matchups around the league. Yeah, definitely mean
Speaker 1: we'll just start with the Cowboys here with Amari Cooper.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is certainly an encouraging game used for
Speaker 1: Cooper last week. Caught five of the day's targets or
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards in a touchdown, and looks they have
Speaker 1: a fantastic fatchup coming up this week against the Eagles. Specifically,
Speaker 1: Cooper is going to be and Jalen Mills. Ye. I
Speaker 1: don't know how familiar you guys are with Mills, but
Speaker 1: I mean he has just been absolutely atrocious and coveraged
Speaker 1: so far this season. Has been target against forty nine times,
Speaker 1: allowing thirty two receptions for five hundred and sixteen yards.
Speaker 1: This is just one of those matches that you dream
Speaker 1: about for Cooper here and it's like you should really
Speaker 1: flourish in this spot here. I'm really all the Cowboys
Speaker 1: receivers are in great squats there in such a poor
Speaker 1: Eagle secondary. Do you factor in at all? Like you mean,
Speaker 1: you're looking at what other guys have done and against
Speaker 1: the Eagles. But obviously the Cowboys passing game has been
Speaker 1: challenged and Dak Prescott has not played, you know, to
Speaker 1: the level that people maybe we're expecting what you're factoring
Speaker 1: in that kind of stuff. I mean, even though the
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't haven't really as Dave said earlier, this is
Speaker 1: kind of weakness on weakness the Cowboys are as the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Um does that way into to your you know, value
Speaker 1: that you put on receivers like Cooper and Beasley, I mean,
Speaker 1: it certainly does. But when you when you look at
Speaker 1: what some of these teams have done to these guys
Speaker 1: already they're talking about the Eagle secondary, you know, they
Speaker 1: just can't cover any guys when it goes through practice years.
Speaker 1: So many issues in that realm. So you know, while
Speaker 1: that does come into factor, I mean we saw a
Speaker 1: Cooper did so quickly already in the and the connection
Speaker 1: he had with Prescott, so I don't mind taking that spot,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be going heavy with them, but I think,
Speaker 1: like you know, like I mentioned earlier, Cooper is in
Speaker 1: such a just a great spot that I'd definitely be
Speaker 1: looking at them. Would you expand that out to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and maybe consider Dak Prescott a sleeper type quarterback
Speaker 1: this week if you had guys on buys or whatever
Speaker 1: the case might be. I mean, obviously Prescott is someone
Speaker 1: that it's tough to trust on a weekend and week
Speaker 1: out of basis, but this is one of those matchups
Speaker 1: that he should be set up for success. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw how well they did against the Jaguars earlier
Speaker 1: this season, so I mean, he how does that potential
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of that he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to actually come through for us here. So you know,
Speaker 1: Prescott is some and I probably use maybe just in tournaments,
Speaker 1: but he's definitely in play here in such a good
Speaker 1: match up for him. How About like the Eagles. Obviously
Speaker 1: they got one of the best tight ends of the league,
Speaker 1: but after arts, they seem like they're they're tough for
Speaker 1: fantasy owners because they just play so many guys. And
Speaker 1: then now you're factoring in Golden Tate, who has done
Speaker 1: great things in Detroit. But where do you put him
Speaker 1: when when now he's in this mix of a lot
Speaker 1: of talented players over there. Yeah, I mean obviously they're
Speaker 1: going to be feeding the balls to Tate. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's who they got for. I mean it's detrimental to
Speaker 1: the value of Nelson Agolo, who's just absolutely gone in
Speaker 1: terms of you know, youth gets here. But you know,
Speaker 1: I like Tating this spot. I think he's someone that
Speaker 1: you know they're going to be looking to feature more
Speaker 1: and more, and it just really opens up for other guys,
Speaker 1: like also on Jeffrey. I mean, with Tate on the
Speaker 1: Steel now it's just another threat there. And Arts is
Speaker 1: on the Steel Dalis Walls, I mean, weekend and week out,
Speaker 1: the Eagles of somebody you're definitely going to be looking at.
Speaker 1: But you know, the Cowboys aren't terrible defensively either, so
Speaker 1: it's not a smash spot for them. I like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys matchup more than I do the Eagles. But school,
Speaker 1: I think this is good. I think there's going to
Speaker 1: be a pretty solid game. DFF wise, I got a
Speaker 1: question for my own personal team, and I think that
Speaker 1: some other people might have the same thing, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously dealing with buys. Justin Tucker Kicker for Baltimore, who's
Speaker 1: a guy you can pick up? And this week, who's
Speaker 1: who's a waiver wire type guy that would have maybe
Speaker 1: a good matchup specifically for kickers or just in general. Yeah, kickers,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I mean you have anybody? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean lasts aren't really two kickers too much. I
Speaker 1: mean I can't say that, you know, over the problems kickers.
Speaker 1: I just picked up a forty five year old Adam Vinitary,
Speaker 1: So there you go. I mean that works, Bailey, No, thanks,
Speaker 1: the lead score all time? Yeah guy, Yeah, absolutely, And
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you know, okay, who's kicking indoors or
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville or whatever. I don't you know, I don't
Speaker 1: don't get me a guy that's going to Soldier Field
Speaker 1: this week, you know, or whatever you could call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's uh. I guess one out throw out there
Speaker 1: is what do you think about a guy I've been
Speaker 1: having a hard time figuring out how much I want
Speaker 1: to use him in Adrian Peterson. He's a guy that's
Speaker 1: been up and down. He's had some great weeks, but
Speaker 1: even on weeks when statistically he does well from a
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, it hasn't been great. What do you think
Speaker 1: of a player like that. Yeah, so Peterson has been
Speaker 1: more you know, game script dependent. I mean, in wins
Speaker 1: he's averaging over twenty five, he gay fantasy points in
Speaker 1: those games when they're when they're losses, he's everything just
Speaker 1: six in. The problem is he's just not utilized enough
Speaker 1: in the passing game to really be someone that you
Speaker 1: can rely on. But in a game like this week
Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're not terrible against the run,
Speaker 1: but we know how to have a Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: defense is overalls. I mean, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: a spot where Peterson should bounce it down because last
Speaker 1: week he was he was terrible. I mean, the Falcons
Speaker 1: just absolutely threw the doors off of the Redskins there,
Speaker 1: so we only scored six point three decay fantasy points.
Speaker 1: But this is a game where it's things the riskins
Speaker 1: should be in it a bit more than they were
Speaker 1: last week, so that should just given the carries to Peterson.
Speaker 1: But like I mentioned, he just doesn't get enough work
Speaker 1: in the passing game. He's only seeing three targets at
Speaker 1: the most anytime this season. But yeah, Peterson, he's only
Speaker 1: fifty seven hundred this week. I think this is a
Speaker 1: really good spot for and so I like him a lot.
Speaker 1: Talking to Steve Buchanan of Draft Kings, uh, and before
Speaker 1: we let you go, we'll give you one more quick.
Speaker 1: Give me one guy that would be a sleeper type guy, uh,
Speaker 1: that you that people might be on if they're playing,
Speaker 1: you know, daily fantasy, they maybe look at and say, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a guy I might want to pick up for
Speaker 1: relatively cheap that can give me a big return. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I really like Dion Lewis this week. He's only done lately.
Speaker 1: But I mean, just again, this matchup sets up so
Speaker 1: nicely and for him against the Patriots. I mean, first
Speaker 1: of all, we've got to talk about the revenge yard
Speaker 1: if he's going against his former team here, but they
Speaker 1: simply have no answers for running back to catch passes
Speaker 1: up the backfield. Talking about the Patriots, I mean, if
Speaker 1: the Bills can scrape up ninety three yards of offense
Speaker 1: and situation, you know, he got some issues there. I mean,
Speaker 1: but they're allowing in average sixty one yards per game
Speaker 1: in this scenario with three touchdown to scored. I don't
Speaker 1: think Titans are gonna win this game, but they're gonna
Speaker 1: be playing from behind. So let's just benefits the opportunity
Speaker 1: that Lewis is going to have here. And look, the
Speaker 1: Titans offense is not somebody who really looked for for
Speaker 1: offensive production, but a new type of game. I think
Speaker 1: it matches up so well for Lewis in the spot.
Speaker 1: All right, great, Steve, we appreciate you join us. We'll
Speaker 1: say next Thursday, y'all take I mean, I appreciate that, um,
Speaker 1: And we'll do that every week. So if you guys
Speaker 1: have any questions out there specific to fantasy football, you
Speaker 1: want to get those questions in, we'll definitely ask Steve
Speaker 1: in future weeks to send them to Cowboys Break on
Speaker 1: Twitter and we'll make sure we get those questions to
Speaker 1: him soon. Lewis, Yeah, we've heard his work before. We
Speaker 1: before we end did. Had I known he was gonna
Speaker 1: start doing this, I would have probably started playing fans.
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you that, No, Yeah, that got left
Speaker 1: out of the pre production the production meeting. That's okay,
Speaker 1: though Nick knew cool Now that's fun though. Cool. All right,
Speaker 1: so let's get this. I did have this one question
Speaker 1: I wanted to go back to you, Dave. You were
Speaker 1: talking about the Eagles defense, how they fared against running
Speaker 1: backs coming out of the backfield, because he talked about
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis, obviously, and when you look at um, you
Speaker 1: look at um, a guy like Christian McCaffrey, you look
Speaker 1: at sa Quon Barkley. How did they fare when it
Speaker 1: came to situations where they were catching out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: We did see Cowboys do a little bit more with
Speaker 1: with Zeke last week. Let's not let's not compare anybody
Speaker 1: to what sa Quon Barkley did against this team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I gotta see it with my I mean, he put
Speaker 1: up three hundred yards offense all on his own. But
Speaker 1: I mean this is they still lost about thirty Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you say thirty? They lost? They lost thirty four
Speaker 1: to six. But no, I mean this is a bad
Speaker 1: This is a bad pass defense all the way around.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, I mean Christian McCaffrey caught six balls for
Speaker 1: fifty yards. Um, So that's a typical day for him.
Speaker 1: Nothing crazy, I mean, but it's first of all, it's
Speaker 1: a nice day, and it's something that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: the Cowboys consistently do with Zeke ever, I've given up
Speaker 1: last week though, didn't he have like five catches? I
Speaker 1: want to say, was it four or five? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: he's catching the ball. He's just not going anywhere. They did.
Speaker 1: I mean he did. Yeah, he had a nice screen,
Speaker 1: and then usually when he does have a nice day,
Speaker 1: it's because a screen pops, you know, the Detroit pass
Speaker 1: being the big exception. But it's the only time they've
Speaker 1: ever done that, and they haven't gone back to it.
Speaker 1: I would recommend they try to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, again, Steve said it. I mean I was
Speaker 1: trying to be nice to my LSU guy, but I
Speaker 1: mean Jala Mills is having a bad season. Darby's pretty good,
Speaker 1: but he can't do it all himself. Jenkins is not
Speaker 1: a cover guy. Mcloud's hurt. Even Sidney Jones is their
Speaker 1: nickel back and he's hurt right now too. Like they
Speaker 1: are not good. So yeah, Zeke going against these linebackers
Speaker 1: and safeties, I think is a nice matchup. Again, short routes,
Speaker 1: maybe throwing some bubble screens, some slants like you can
Speaker 1: make this thing easy for Dak, and I think he
Speaker 1: can still have a nice day. I just, you know,
Speaker 1: it was funny listening to you know, he Steve inspired me.
Speaker 1: Like I was like, yeah, maybe maybe the Cowboys can't
Speaker 1: get their passing attack going because I've just seen this
Speaker 1: song and dance too many times in a row to
Speaker 1: like really believe that they can. But if you look
Speaker 1: at it objectively, it is a really favorable matchup. Do
Speaker 1: you think this is among the worst past defenses they
Speaker 1: faced this year? Off the top of my head, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, because they've played more good defenses than bad,
Speaker 1: although I will say the Texans statistically horrid against the
Speaker 1: pass and it didn't seem to matter, which yeah, that's
Speaker 1: I appreciate Nick for asking that question because I'm just like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: their secondaries bad. This passing attack is ranked thirty first
Speaker 1: in the league. Like, so I gotta yes, it's an
Speaker 1: objective it's objectively a favorable matchup that hasn't mattered in
Speaker 1: the past. I'm playing the Eagles defense and fantasy, so
Speaker 1: you are, yeah starting them, I mean just because of
Speaker 1: the game and we've seen this type of game, see turnovers,
Speaker 1: we see turnovers for touchdowns. I just don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that this is one where the Eagles have
Speaker 1: a better chance of getting on track than the Cowboys
Speaker 1: on track their defense does use. Yeah, I mean this
Speaker 1: is what Dave said, weakness on weakness in that particular
Speaker 1: passing game matchup. I mean I see them Cowboys struggling
Speaker 1: more than I see the Eagles. Like man, they don't
Speaker 1: stop anybody. I honestly think if they struggle, though, they
Speaker 1: will struggle because they're trying to beat their head against
Speaker 1: a brick wall. What I mean by that is they're
Speaker 1: trying to just run up the middle, knowing that that's
Speaker 1: the area where they're strong. I think if they are
Speaker 1: willing to do things that are not the things that
Speaker 1: they've been doing, if they're willing to run back a
Speaker 1: little bit, if they're willing to do some of that
Speaker 1: misdirection like you were talking about, they're willing to utilize
Speaker 1: Cooper and their other receiving threats out on the outside
Speaker 1: and really exploit the weaknesses of this defense. I think
Speaker 1: they can have some success, but we haven't seen them
Speaker 1: consistently go into games and use those things. We've seen
Speaker 1: them more frequently say we're going to run the ball
Speaker 1: even when running the ball isn't work, and they are
Speaker 1: going to do I mean, that's that's their identity, even
Speaker 1: though it doesn't work, which so that's problematic. We know
Speaker 1: they're going to try to run the ball. It's just
Speaker 1: how they do and they have to. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: get away from the run. That's what you do. You
Speaker 1: still got to do it. But I think there are
Speaker 1: other ways that they can get these other facets of
Speaker 1: their offense going, and that will only help you be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball when you want to run
Speaker 1: the ball. All Right, we'll appreciate you guys joining us
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We'll get you guys ready for the game,
Speaker 1: tell you our predictions for this weekend. Till then. For
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