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Speaker 7: It is Monday, October second, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 7: episode number forty three. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 7: The Break. We are live from the SWBC boy studios
Speaker 7: at the Star and today we're talking about the Cowboys win.
Speaker 7: They get back on the win to their winning ways.
Speaker 7: They beat New England thirty eight to three at home,
Speaker 7: and now it all sets up for the game we've
Speaker 7: been waiting for Cowboys versus forty nine Ers. But before
Speaker 7: we get to that, today we will recap the game,
Speaker 7: tell you what went right and wrong for the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: We'll talk about this defense that did a little more
Speaker 7: of what it's been doing in the first two weeks
Speaker 7: of the season, and also talk about a bit about
Speaker 7: the offense and what Dak Prescott was able to do yesterday.
Speaker 7: Let's get it going. Let's start first on the defensive
Speaker 7: side of the ball. Yesterday they allowed two hundred and
Speaker 7: fifty three yards as two hundred passing fifty three rushing.
Speaker 7: And actually, before I get to that real quick, let's
Speaker 7: go around and see what everybody's storyline of the game
Speaker 7: was coming out of that game. What do you think
Speaker 7: is the big picture storyline you'll remember from Week four
Speaker 7: of the twenty twenty three NFL season, sybody Patrick.
Speaker 8: Other than the Cowboys handing Bill Belichick his worst loss
Speaker 8: at South Carline.
Speaker 1: That's a massive storyline.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, when you're going against someone that cerebral
Speaker 8: as Bill Belichick, you always have concerns, and then you
Speaker 8: know you have the subplots of Ezekiel Elliott and Will
Speaker 8: Greer being quote unquote interrogated and hand signals and all
Speaker 8: of that. But the Cowboys again showed resiliency. I mean,
Speaker 8: they hadn't lost two consecutive games since November of twenty
Speaker 8: twenty one. Question was could they protect home field? And
Speaker 8: they not only go in and do that yesterday, but
Speaker 8: the fashion in which they did it was just flat
Speaker 8: out impressive. They executed and I've said it and I'm
Speaker 8: going to continue to say this Cowboys team is going
Speaker 8: to go as their run defense goes. One week after letting,
Speaker 8: you know, allow two hundred and twenty two yards on
Speaker 8: the ground in Arizona, you hold Remandre Stevenson the thirty
Speaker 8: yards and Ezekiel Elliott and emotionally charged to Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 8: to only sixteen yards on the ground. That allowed the
Speaker 8: Cowboys to earn their pass rush and from there they
Speaker 8: teed off and you gotta love it.
Speaker 1: So the win is huge.
Speaker 8: The fashion in which they did it makes it that
Speaker 8: much more meaningful and puts them back on solid ground
Speaker 8: for what we know is an all important game in
Speaker 8: Santa Clara.
Speaker 9: Coming up a lot of good things to talk about
Speaker 9: on defense, special teams, but also offense. Everything we saw
Speaker 9: from them, I know there's still work to be done
Speaker 9: around the red zone, but you saw improvement. Was a
Speaker 9: red zone? Was a twenty yard line? That was confusing?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he did saything idea. You were like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I learned something new today.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, I asked pr. I'm like, so, wouldn't like
Speaker 9: if you're on the freaking twenty yard line, doesn't that
Speaker 9: count as red zone?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: It does not.
Speaker 9: Your tone needs to be passing the line, you need
Speaker 9: to be inside anyways, just it is promising and it
Speaker 9: gives you something that Okay, now we got something. You
Speaker 9: feel like they're working with something you see and you
Speaker 9: weren't expected at least. I wasn't expecting a night and
Speaker 9: day difference as far as improvement in just one week.
Speaker 9: But they were able to show different things offensively where
Speaker 9: it gives you promise to like, okay, they're trending upwards.
Speaker 9: Now they're changing some things around any it shows to
Speaker 9: be working.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I was surprised how easily they were blocking the Patriots front,
Speaker 10: especially when it came to throwing the football. I felt
Speaker 10: like that maybe the Patriots were going to try some things.
Speaker 10: I was worried a little bit about Patriots coverage. I
Speaker 10: think when Gonzales got hurt that kind of took them
Speaker 10: out of some things they might wanted to do coverage wise,
Speaker 10: traveling wise. Initially in the game, they didn't start off
Speaker 10: traveling Gonzalez with say Lamb. I thought that maybe that
Speaker 10: was something that they would try initially. They didn't never
Speaker 10: got to that because Gonzales got hurt. But it was
Speaker 10: really a nice effort up front for the Cowboys. The
Speaker 10: one sack that they had was a little disturbing was
Speaker 10: the one that Dietrich Wise had where really four guys
Speaker 10: missed on the play. You know, it's like they run
Speaker 10: a two man game and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 10: it's like three guys are kind of looking and another
Speaker 10: one's trying to look, and say, you have two guys reacting,
Speaker 10: one guy not reacting. It was a little bit of
Speaker 10: a mess that way, but overall, the way that they
Speaker 10: were able to have time throwing the football and even
Speaker 10: when there was a little bit of pressure, receivers did
Speaker 10: a great job at driving routes coming back to the ball.
Speaker 10: Dak put it where it needed to be, So a
Speaker 10: lot of positive on that side of it.
Speaker 7: Let's talk about the defense specifically. As I mentioned a
Speaker 7: little earlier, they allowed two hundred and fifty three yards
Speaker 7: two hundred passing fifty three on the ground. Going to
Speaker 7: Patrick's first point about the fact that they stopped the
Speaker 7: run this week and how effective they are when they
Speaker 7: can do that. The other thing note there was they
Speaker 7: had seven quarterback hits and two sacks eighteen quarterback pressures.
Speaker 7: They didn't get the number of sacks that they've been
Speaker 7: getting when they've been successful. But the pressures were definitely there,
Speaker 7: and you could certainly feel that in the eighteen times
Speaker 7: that they pressured mac Jones. Would you guys assess that
Speaker 7: defense overall yesterday?
Speaker 8: I thought it looked fantastic. And it's a perfect example
Speaker 8: of why although sacks matter, why it's mind boggling people
Speaker 8: kind of disregard disruptions and QB pressures and QB hits
Speaker 8: because all of those things go to the overall category
Speaker 8: of disruptions, and the Cowboys were insanely disruptive on yesterday. No,
Speaker 8: they didn't walk away with five, six or seven sacks,
Speaker 8: but they did force mac Jones into a passer rating
Speaker 8: and thirty nine point nine ultimately got him pulled from
Speaker 8: the game. For Bailly Zappi, they forced him into two interceptions,
Speaker 8: which also goes to dron Bland quickly coming into his
Speaker 8: own as boundary corner. And now I think that's also
Speaker 8: helping the Cowboys as a defensive unit try to find
Speaker 8: their identity in the post Digs era for this season
Speaker 8: until Digg's come back in twenty four. So when you,
Speaker 8: like we talked about when you earned that pass rush
Speaker 8: by stopping the run, and that stopping the run was
Speaker 8: made effective because the front four was winning their matchups
Speaker 8: and that allowed guys like Leyton Vandersh who was reading,
Speaker 8: reacting and executing filling gaps. He was magnificent. Damon Clark
Speaker 8: helped in that capacity as well. Now you're forcing the
Speaker 8: guy to throw. And when you forced the guy throw
Speaker 8: against the Cowboys defense that loves to take the ball
Speaker 8: away in the air as much as they love to
Speaker 8: take it away on the ground, it's a recipe for
Speaker 8: disaster for you. And that's what happened with the Patriots yesterday.
Speaker 8: So I think it was masterclass by the Cowboys. Dan
Speaker 8: Quinn had those boys ready to play some football.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I can care less about sacks and stats and any
Speaker 9: of that whatsoever when your defense is playing the way
Speaker 9: that they did they did when you got guys they're
Speaker 9: on blind Leyton vandor Esh getting in the end zone
Speaker 9: and scoring points for you. And going back to stopping
Speaker 9: the run that has been the main problem for the defense.
Speaker 9: We saw it last weekend, and then just seeing them adapt,
Speaker 9: adjust and make those changes and improving an area that
Speaker 9: has been their weakest point. I'm just I was super
Speaker 9: excited by everything. So I'm sure Micah left that game
Speaker 9: a little bit upset about himself, you know, not being
Speaker 9: able to shoot.
Speaker 7: I'll talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 9: No, and he should not because what he's doing, his
Speaker 9: presence and everything that he's doing creating opportunities for everybody
Speaker 9: else to play the way that they did. So even
Speaker 9: guys like Golston when he's doing those plays, I mean,
Speaker 9: you got to credit mic along with that, but I'm
Speaker 9: going back to him as a player. We know Mike
Speaker 9: how competitive his But either way, credit to everyone on
Speaker 9: defense and the great job that they were able to.
Speaker 10: Yeah, his pressure. I don't know why the on that
Speaker 10: first drive, the Patriots through the football on third.
Speaker 3: And one down there on the goal line. I you know,
Speaker 3: I felt like they were going to.
Speaker 10: Try and run it down there and see if they
Speaker 10: could make some hay out of that. It might have
Speaker 10: been a you know, it might have been something they
Speaker 10: thought about, but they didn't. They tried to throw the
Speaker 10: ball at the back of the end zone and might
Speaker 10: Gasicki and Parsons pressure forced mac Jones to throw the
Speaker 10: ball too far. You know, you know, it's a decent
Speaker 10: play call, but that pressure from Parsons, you know, it
Speaker 10: really forced mac Jones to have to make a quick decision.
Speaker 3: And you know, Kasiki was a clear of Hooker.
Speaker 10: In the end zone and so you know, if he
Speaker 10: has time to throw that ball, then maybe it's a
Speaker 10: touchdown there. But you know that pressure is what adds
Speaker 10: up there. The scoop and score was really a great
Speaker 10: backside pressure as well when they you know, when Fowler
Speaker 10: beats his guy in the way he was able to
Speaker 10: track mac Jones, Mack never felt him there and so
Speaker 10: to hammer the ball.
Speaker 3: The thing that concerned me about.
Speaker 10: The defense was the forty two yard pass play that
Speaker 10: they gave up in this game. And it's We've seen
Speaker 10: this a couple of times when Dallas is bad on defense,
Speaker 10: they lose coverage, they lose and I was trying to
Speaker 10: figure out by watching the tape. They're playing man on
Speaker 10: the outside, they're playing zone on the inside, and you
Speaker 10: get a route that comes across and you don't know
Speaker 10: if they're supposed to pass it, and again this is
Speaker 10: curse and Hooker playing inside. Everybody else has got manned.
Speaker 10: They've got everybody locked up. But then the route materializes
Speaker 10: where it turns across and now it goes into into
Speaker 10: a Curse's zone and they just lose. And then Curse
Speaker 10: gets kind of caught in no man's land. Here's the
Speaker 10: quarterback moving and just throws the ball over the top,
Speaker 10: and and you know, they give up a big play.
Speaker 10: But you know, you got to wonder about that sometimes
Speaker 10: when they give up these chunk plays. We saw it
Speaker 10: happen in the Arizona game. They lose track of a
Speaker 10: guy in route, big play sixty nine yards. Again this week,
Speaker 10: lose track of a guy inside running the route, big play.
Speaker 10: You know, you can't have that happen in the game.
Speaker 10: It didn't kill him in this situation, but we've seen
Speaker 10: it two weeks in a row. Now, good defense for
Speaker 10: the majority of the game, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 10: you give up two big chunk plays like that back
Speaker 10: to back.
Speaker 8: You know, what I definitely did love about the defensive
Speaker 8: line is that you had you have guys that are
Speaker 8: getting their legs back, like Donovan Wilson. He had a
Speaker 8: much better day than he had in Arizona, which was
Speaker 8: his first game back. But when you see the interior
Speaker 8: of the Cowboys defensive line in names like Neville Gallimore
Speaker 8: start to flash, and then you see Mizzie Smith, although
Speaker 8: you won't see him on the stat line, but he
Speaker 8: was able to push the pocket a few times and
Speaker 8: arguably he had the best showing so far in his
Speaker 8: young career. When those guys start to step up, in
Speaker 8: addition to some of the bigger name guys that you
Speaker 8: expect to step up, Jonathan Hankins and Chauncey Ghosten and
Speaker 8: of course Osa Diggie Zoo on that interior, and then
Speaker 8: you have Michael Parsons and his presence and you know,
Speaker 8: disruptions and being able to take away you know, the
Speaker 8: ability for other teams to try to shade one way
Speaker 8: or the other. I mean, this Cowboys defense as long
Speaker 8: as they continue to execute, and I keep harping on
Speaker 8: that word execution, execution, execution. If they continue to execute,
Speaker 8: the only team that can beat them is themselves.
Speaker 7: When you talk about the run defense, was there something
Speaker 7: that you guys saw that was different in what they
Speaker 7: did this week versus Arizona or do you think it
Speaker 7: was just better execution of what their roles were.
Speaker 10: I don't know why more teams don't try and do
Speaker 10: what Arizona did when it comes to running the football
Speaker 10: with not I think that with New England and give
Speaker 10: Dallas credit for this. They did a nice job along
Speaker 10: the defensive line. When you start to talk about the
Speaker 10: physicality which they played with, the ability to state square
Speaker 10: not get hooked, you know, the linebackers were much better
Speaker 10: shape when this team's had trouble. I think now in
Speaker 10: this this is something that maybe somebody will take advantage of.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 10: But when they play their diying package, they're running the
Speaker 10: ball at these linebackers that are defensive backs, they're kind
Speaker 10: of figuring out, Okay, is Kurse going to be able
Speaker 10: to hang in there? Is Bell going to be able
Speaker 10: to hang in there? Is Wilson going to be able
Speaker 10: to hang in there? When they're having to deal with
Speaker 10: blockers that get up on them. You know that's going
Speaker 10: to be the key going for the Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 10: how you play your run defense against how the offenses
Speaker 10: attack this Dallas defense will be Now, can these linebackers
Speaker 10: or these safeties who are playing down in the box,
Speaker 10: if linemen are getting free runs at them, that's a
Speaker 10: problem for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: It didn't.
Speaker 10: It showed up a couple of times yesterday in a
Speaker 10: couple of the runs they had. But I would worry
Speaker 10: about a team that really really runs the ball well
Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden they're like, Okay, we're
Speaker 10: going to make you with that bubble. That linebacker who
Speaker 10: is a safety, who's not a big guy, We're going
Speaker 10: to make you defend the run with him. And I
Speaker 10: think that's what Arizona did. The Pinn and poll stuff
Speaker 10: was really effective. Didn't see any of that really from
Speaker 10: from New England. Just a couple of times they ran
Speaker 10: guys that pulled. But the Cowboys did a great job
Speaker 10: of hanging in there when they had to, you know,
Speaker 10: dealing with the run, staying square, playing downhill, and then
Speaker 10: finishing the play the moon. Clark played the best game
Speaker 10: he's played in four for the Cowboys this year.
Speaker 8: Shades are big, Yes, I like it, big win, shades
Speaker 8: come back, Yes, that's how we roll up.
Speaker 7: Oh, you know it was interesting to me, Brian on
Speaker 7: that point though, I actually saw that that demon Clark
Speaker 7: actually played only forty five percent of the snap. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and Bell actually played forty percent of the snap, which
Speaker 7: made me think the Cowboys maybe were doing a little
Speaker 7: bit more of having those safeties in there. Yeah, at
Speaker 7: that linebacker.
Speaker 10: Well, it turned into a game where they knew New
Speaker 10: England was going to have to throw the football, so the.
Speaker 3: Run game was just completely out the window. I think
Speaker 3: that the Moone.
Speaker 10: Clark, I wanted to believe that the Moon Clark was
Speaker 10: a guy that could play all downs and never come
Speaker 10: off the field.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they completely trust him again.
Speaker 10: And that's just a thought by me, not anything to
Speaker 10: anybody said to me or anything like that. But I
Speaker 10: just wonder when it turns into a passing game, having
Speaker 10: Bell on the field is at a little bit of
Speaker 10: a difference with the way they play their coverage.
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Speaker 7: nine zero three two nine eight. Let's talk about Dak
Speaker 7: Prescott yesterday. It's twenty eight to thirty four, eighty two
Speaker 7: percent completion rate, two hundred and sixty one yards through
Speaker 7: the air, one touchdown, no interceptions, A one hundred and
Speaker 7: eight point five quarterback rate neat rating. He also threw
Speaker 7: uh to. He completed passes to nine different receivers. Uh
Speaker 7: did have Schoonmaker who he targeted three times, who didn't
Speaker 7: get a catch that would have been ten. But all
Speaker 7: in all, good day for Dak Prescott. How did you
Speaker 7: guys assess his play?
Speaker 8: I think he was surgical again and like you mentioned,
Speaker 8: with no interceptions. It's his third out of three out
Speaker 8: of four games he's not turned the ball over, so
Speaker 8: he's playing you know, clean football and not putting his
Speaker 8: defense in bad positions where they have to come back
Speaker 8: out and fight against the time of possession battle and
Speaker 8: then that you're fighting against your own fatigue and then
Speaker 8: sloppiness and like of execution comes from that. But I
Speaker 8: mean Dak Prescott. You look at the first offensive driving.
Speaker 8: There's a reason the Cowboys lead the league and offensive
Speaker 8: drives that have ten plus plays or more, and that's
Speaker 8: because of Dak Prescott in a large part. And the
Speaker 8: red zone issues come from again. And you're gonna get
Speaker 8: tired of me saying it. I'm tired of hearing me
Speaker 8: say it's execution. The drop by Schoolmaker that should have
Speaker 8: been Dak Prescott's first touchdown the handoff to Tony Pollard
Speaker 8: on third and one where they collided. Execution right, little
Speaker 8: things that can be cleaned up, but need to be
Speaker 8: cleaned up. But from an aspect of what Dak Prescott,
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott did in the air, I mean, he was
Speaker 8: in complete command for the most part. He spread the
Speaker 8: ball around very well, and he's really finding that security
Speaker 8: blanket in Jake Ferguson that he once had with Dalton Schultz.
Speaker 8: Ferguson seven targets, seven catches, seventy seven yards magic number seven.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 8: Twelve catches one hundred and twenty five yards over the
Speaker 8: last two games from Dak to Jake. So that connection
Speaker 8: I think has become kind of the stabilizing force while
Speaker 8: the Texas Coast offense tries to figure out things outside
Speaker 8: of that.
Speaker 1: So that'll be promising going forward.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I feel like Dak has become more mature this year,
Speaker 9: Like there's something about his game, probably that he's just
Speaker 9: freaking tired of hearing. Yeah, we got a little bit
Speaker 9: of that yesterday at the press conference. Good stuff, but
Speaker 9: it's wonderful. But I just think he's still lacking that
Speaker 9: like and I really thought and that's why I chose
Speaker 9: Dak to get the first rushing touchdown. I really thought
Speaker 9: that part of the red zone work that they were
Speaker 9: doing this week was going to involve at Dak Prescott
Speaker 9: that gets out of the pocket and runs and gets
Speaker 9: in the end zone, and we didn't really get to
Speaker 9: see that, and I was disappointed about that. But I
Speaker 9: think that's part of the game that's kind of missing
Speaker 9: from him right now. It's just kind of letting it
Speaker 9: lose a little bit. At the same time, I don't
Speaker 9: think they're playing super super conservative. I think that he
Speaker 9: some of those throws that he's thrown down down the
Speaker 9: field has been really really good. But that's the missing
Speaker 9: part that I think for me is where where the
Speaker 9: game is lacking. It's just letting him be free a
Speaker 9: little bit, use his legs, use his body. But all
Speaker 9: in all, I think he's he's done a great job.
Speaker 9: I think the fact that you saw him connect with
Speaker 9: so many different receivers that's exciting because now you see
Speaker 9: McCarthy allowing all the different weapons to be utilized. And
Speaker 9: Patrick just mentioned those little errors that did occur. But
Speaker 9: all in all, I think he did a really good job.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that to me that the routes were deeper,
Speaker 10: the opportunities were deeper. Receivers did a better job of
Speaker 10: getting open for him. They did a better job of
Speaker 10: finishing for him when he put the ball on target.
Speaker 10: The decision making I thought was good.
Speaker 3: To a point.
Speaker 10: The pass that he threw to Gallop in the early
Speaker 10: on the first drive was a really nice read by him.
Speaker 10: A corner falling off and then you know Gallup still
Speaker 10: maintaining leverage going up the field. Dak saw that when
Speaker 10: when the corner dropped, he knew, Okay, that's where I'm
Speaker 10: going to go with the ball. They were trying to
Speaker 10: kind of maybe think about the ball was going to
Speaker 10: go to Lamb, but that when the case, Dak did
Speaker 10: a good job of getting.
Speaker 3: The ball to the outside.
Speaker 10: He's going to look at the tape today and he's
Speaker 10: going to see that he should have pulled the ball
Speaker 10: twice on a Reid option. He's going to see he
Speaker 10: had a walk in touchdown with Ferguson. It's a play
Speaker 10: we've seen with the Kellen Moore regime before where they
Speaker 10: bring the tight end across.
Speaker 3: And he's going to lead Dak.
Speaker 10: He hands the ball inside the Pollard it's a three
Speaker 10: yard gain, but we've seen it before where he's where
Speaker 10: the tight end has led him in. We see Schultz
Speaker 10: lead him in before. There was two times where I
Speaker 10: felt like that he could have walked this thing in
Speaker 10: if he wanted to, but he chose to give the
Speaker 10: ball inside.
Speaker 3: That's the read that he made. And I think when
Speaker 3: he watches the.
Speaker 10: Tape, he's gonna say next time, I'm gonna pull that.
Speaker 10: Because after the play, you see you see Ferguson like
Speaker 10: turn around to him and like slap him on the
Speaker 10: chest like what are you doing kind of a thing,
Speaker 10: and you see Dak kind of like I know, I
Speaker 10: get it, you know that kind of thing. So but overall,
Speaker 10: the way through the football was well. He move around
Speaker 10: in the pocket, the way he delivered the ball, decision
Speaker 10: making and finding the open guys on the routes. But
Speaker 10: like I said, I think he's gonna look at the
Speaker 10: run option stuff and say, man, I got to pull
Speaker 10: that next time. I think I could walk this thing.
Speaker 9: I think that's the most frustrating part when watching yesterday's
Speaker 9: game in the red zone area, you see them playing
Speaker 9: so well, moving the ball so well prior to getting there.
Speaker 9: Then they get there and every play that they make
Speaker 9: it is so close, like they're just right there and
Speaker 9: something happens. It doesn't work out him running into Pollard,
Speaker 9: I mean.
Speaker 3: Get out of the way.
Speaker 10: But see, I think that was really on Pollard because
Speaker 10: what happens the hole opens up, and I think Pollard
Speaker 10: was looking to where he was going to go, and
Speaker 10: what happened It opened up to the right of where
Speaker 10: the center was, and so Pollock's probably got his eyes
Speaker 10: up and his eyes are taking him to that direction
Speaker 10: and Prescott's kind of standing there like, wait a minute,
Speaker 10: I'm in your path now.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're you're right about the way.
Speaker 10: That there's sometimes like there's things that happened that they
Speaker 10: have miss blocks, you know, Stell I don't think Steele
Speaker 10: was really as good as he normally is in the
Speaker 10: red zone with some of the blocks that he had.
Speaker 10: They had a little bit of some trouble securing some
Speaker 10: of those down linemen, and you know, those are the
Speaker 10: things that kind of kill you when.
Speaker 3: You run the ball.
Speaker 10: And you know, I think the thing with Hunter Lipkey,
Speaker 10: I mean that was a well designed Again, Ferguson runs
Speaker 10: the Ferguson with a really good seal block Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 10: They bring him in motion and set in there and
Speaker 10: he gets block right at the point of attack. So
Speaker 10: that's how you have to find a way to get
Speaker 10: these some of these touchdowns in this If you get
Speaker 10: these guys, put them in position, and they're able to finish.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: The interesting thing about it is, I actually look at
Speaker 7: the red zone offense and I have reason to believe
Speaker 7: it'll get better over the season because of the kind
Speaker 7: because of the reasons why they're not getting in right now.
Speaker 7: It would be one thing if it was one or
Speaker 7: two players that were always making the mistakes and you
Speaker 7: were like, man, we're not getting rid of this guy.
Speaker 7: But he's a problem in the red zone. He's they
Speaker 7: don't have a good runner in the red zone, or
Speaker 7: they have an offensive line who's all who can never
Speaker 7: secure his block.
Speaker 3: In the red zone.
Speaker 7: It's not that it's almost on every play. It's almost
Speaker 7: like there's a different thing that's happening. And that's just
Speaker 7: to me something that as season goes on, more repetitions,
Speaker 7: the hope is that they will get better and get
Speaker 7: more consistent.
Speaker 10: The thing they have to figure out is how many
Speaker 10: plays are you going to put in the game plan
Speaker 10: where you're trying to fool somebody, because they've had some
Speaker 10: red zone struggles this year where they've just they've they've
Speaker 10: they're thinking, Okay, this fake or this movement will draw
Speaker 10: this guy inside. For example, you know that they try
Speaker 10: and they've got a good idea. They're gonna try and
Speaker 10: throw the ball to Gallop. It's one of the sacks
Speaker 10: that Prescott's Prescott gets against Tavai, you know, and they're
Speaker 10: gonna try and fool him with the run. They're gonna say,
Speaker 10: full flow run to the right and they're gonna hope
Speaker 10: that he trails down inside and then Dak's gonna loop
Speaker 10: and they're gonna throw a little pivot route to the outside,
Speaker 10: a little little in and out route to Gallop and
Speaker 10: it's it's there. The problem is they don't fool the
Speaker 10: in man. He doesn't go down. And they've had it
Speaker 10: a couple of different times where they've left guys unblocked
Speaker 10: and they're saying, Okay, this heavy playfake is going to carry.
Speaker 3: Guys away, and it just has it. They've they've had.
Speaker 10: Two three plays this season where they've just guys have
Speaker 10: been left unblocked and.
Speaker 3: They're not fooled.
Speaker 7: Is that also because they haven't been as successful running
Speaker 7: the ball down there? Because if you're not being that successful,
Speaker 7: then nobody's gonna like really take that hard playfake, Yeah,
Speaker 7: because they're like zoom running well anyway.
Speaker 10: They assume that people are gonna be undisciplined down there.
Speaker 10: You really do, I mean to me, that's it happened
Speaker 10: in Arizona, it happened this past week. You know, you
Speaker 10: just assume that that this guy is going to go
Speaker 10: flying down inside. And you know, to your point, I
Speaker 10: don't know if it's so much about the running the
Speaker 10: ball down there?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 10: Is it more that you're playing against teams they have
Speaker 10: to think, okay, we have have we seen this guy before?
Speaker 3: Chase?
Speaker 10: You know, to me, that's where I would base the
Speaker 10: game plan. If you've got somebody that's super aggressive always
Speaker 10: chasing the ball down inside, I could see doing that.
Speaker 10: But they've had a couple of different times now where
Speaker 10: they've tried to do movement on the goal line and
Speaker 10: it hasn't affected the.
Speaker 3: Guy they're trying to move.
Speaker 10: That's where I kind of maybe some rethought about what
Speaker 10: you're doing game plan wise, skime wise.
Speaker 7: Speaking, of the red zone. One area we did. They
Speaker 7: did get one positive note coming out of that. They
Speaker 7: use Hunter Lefki down there. He gets into the end zone.
Speaker 7: We talked about it last week, and does that Does
Speaker 7: that kind of make you think, okay, if they if
Speaker 7: they're getting that, if they're starting to realize he could
Speaker 7: be that guy in that area, that that could be
Speaker 7: at least the impetus to get the red zone offense
Speaker 7: moving in the right direction. And then from there you
Speaker 7: play off of that with other things. But you know,
Speaker 7: you can maybe rely on him a little bit more
Speaker 7: in those tight situations just handing the ball into the
Speaker 7: end zone.
Speaker 10: More so handing him the ball than letting him block.
Speaker 10: He's not and that's he's a young guy. He'll learn,
Speaker 10: but they're his blocking down there is not as good
Speaker 10: as it needs to be. But you hand him to
Speaker 10: the football, he has a feel for how to get forward.
Speaker 1: I believe that kind of to your point.
Speaker 8: And this is why I wanted Hunter Lopke to be
Speaker 8: more involved in those handoffs because the question last week
Speaker 8: was do the Cowboys missu Ezekiel elliet And I said,
Speaker 8: only as far as comfort level goals, but physical build
Speaker 8: and being able to just hammer a ball in on
Speaker 8: short yardage. I think Hunter Lopke has that ability. And
Speaker 8: then you see them hand him the ball and what
Speaker 8: does he do? He hammers that in. So that gives
Speaker 8: opposing defense as something that they have to concern themselves with,
Speaker 8: because if Hunter Lipky is on the field and there's
Speaker 8: only one or two yards to go, then they're probably
Speaker 8: the more you handed off to him reasonably, so you
Speaker 8: don't want to, you know, overload it. But the more
Speaker 8: you handed off to him, the more they have to
Speaker 8: account for him, and by doing so, that puts them
Speaker 8: at a slight disadvantage. If you then want to run
Speaker 8: the creative play that becomes the passing play out in
Speaker 8: the flat or on the you know, in the back
Speaker 8: pylon or something like that. So one thing has to
Speaker 8: compliment the other. And I am a big believer that
Speaker 8: integrating Hunter Lipkey Moore in the short yards game is
Speaker 8: going to help free up some of those passing routes.
Speaker 8: But again, once it does, the execution has to be there.
Speaker 8: I believe that not out of ten times Schoolmaker makes
Speaker 8: that catching the end zone. So those types of things
Speaker 8: have to come into play as well, because the play
Speaker 8: call can be fantastic, but what the player does or
Speaker 8: does not do after that is what really matters.
Speaker 9: Well, we'll see what happens with Rico Dowll's injury. He
Speaker 9: left the game with a hip injury, and I believe today.
Speaker 8: Or you're not kind of yeah, yeah it was X
Speaker 8: rays were negative last night, which is positive. But the
Speaker 8: MRI is scheduled for today if it has not already occurred,
Speaker 8: so we should hopefully get an update on him.
Speaker 9: Then what happened with him? If he does have to
Speaker 9: miss some time extended time, I think we would be Oh,
Speaker 9: I would imagine the Cowboys utilizing Hunter maybe.
Speaker 8: So then you also have to look at Miliite Davis squad.
Speaker 8: He'd likely get a lot of that burn as well.
Speaker 8: So being that Malik Davis is the insurance on the
Speaker 8: practice squad, you know that he's going to come up.
Speaker 8: The question still becomes how much of you know those reps?
Speaker 8: Or Hunter is Hunter that you be going to see?
Speaker 7: All right, we're gonna take our final break, we'll come back.
Speaker 7: I want to talk about the passing game, particularly the
Speaker 7: deep passing game, Brian, you mentioned it a little bit earlier.
Speaker 7: We saw some things that were pretty I don't know.
Speaker 7: Pretty uh. That that made me think that maybe they
Speaker 7: can get this going and maybe it can be something
Speaker 7: that can be a benefit for them even in this offense.
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Speaker 7: It is the final segment of the Break Life in
Speaker 7: NESWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we'll talk about the
Speaker 7: Cowboys win yesterday. They beat the New England Patriots thirty
Speaker 7: eight to three at home and set up the meeting
Speaker 7: that we've all been waiting for. Cowboys versus forty nine Ers,
Speaker 7: make sure you check us out all this week. We'll
Speaker 7: be telling you what we think is going to happen.
Speaker 7: We'll break down that forty nine Ers team, really interesting
Speaker 7: and very good team. We'll break all that down this
Speaker 7: week and get you ready for that game. Let's talk
Speaker 7: about the passing game, in particularly the deep passing game.
Speaker 7: Yesterday Dak Prescott about well, first of all, about thirty
Speaker 7: percent of the throws they threw yesterday worth ten plus
Speaker 7: yards in the air, so getting the ball downfield a
Speaker 7: little bit more. Now, only one pass was twenty yards
Speaker 7: or more. It was the one twenty yard touchdown they
Speaker 7: did through the CD LAMB. But they are getting a
Speaker 7: ten plus yards down the field a fairly good amount
Speaker 7: of time. And he's been pretty good yesterday on that
Speaker 7: seventy eight percent completions of those passes that were ten
Speaker 7: to nineteen yards, That was seven of nine for one
Speaker 7: hundred and eleven yards. That being said, is that enough
Speaker 7: for you to feel like this team is getting what
Speaker 7: it needs out of a deeper passing game or do
Speaker 7: you really think they need to see more of those
Speaker 7: twenty plus yard plays to really really be able to
Speaker 7: get what you need out of this offense.
Speaker 1: I think you need more.
Speaker 8: I think it's positive, it's its progress and kind of
Speaker 8: like what I wrote in the Science Lab last week,
Speaker 8: I think you need more. And then when you look
Speaker 8: at this next gen chart and it breaks down, you
Speaker 8: still even in yesterday's game, you didn't see anything past
Speaker 8: twenty yards in the middle of the field. So that
Speaker 8: middle of the field is still still a glaring opportunity
Speaker 8: for the Cowboys to try to attack. And I know
Speaker 8: they it seems like their gun shot from it because
Speaker 8: of the interceptions that happened in that particular area of
Speaker 8: the field. But I feel like that's leaving some meat
Speaker 8: on the bone. If you want an opposing defense and
Speaker 8: an opposing secondary to cover, you want them to cover
Speaker 8: the entire field, not just two thirds of the field,
Speaker 8: not just the boundary. Make them cover that twenty plus
Speaker 8: yards and down the middle as well. So yes, there's
Speaker 8: some progress being made there. But I think that while
Speaker 8: we understand that the West Coast at its basis is
Speaker 8: about getting the ball out quickly in the hands of
Speaker 8: your playmakers so they can make the plays, I do
Speaker 8: think when you have a guy like Ceedee Lamb and
Speaker 8: you have a guy like Michael Gallup who's a deep
Speaker 8: threat on the goal ball, and you have Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 8: who you added via trade. You have guys that can
Speaker 8: go deep. So you need to try to at least
Speaker 8: take those shots and stretch that field, which will make
Speaker 8: opposing defenses play with more on their heels. And then
Speaker 8: guess what you get to do. Then you get to
Speaker 8: run the ball more effectively. One thing comes one hand
Speaker 8: washes the other in that capacity.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you mentioned a touchdown to with where Lamb was
Speaker 10: able to score, and you know everybody's asking about, well,
Speaker 10: did you take advantage of Christian Gonzales being out? That
Speaker 10: was the next play. Yeah, he's on the other side
Speaker 10: after Miles Bryant in this one. It wasn't the replacement
Speaker 10: of Gonzales. It was they went after the starter, is
Speaker 10: what they did. And it was a really well designed play.
Speaker 10: They went thirteen personnel with it, three tight ends, the
Speaker 10: one back, and I mean Lamb gets separation right off
Speaker 10: the jump, and I think this is where the cowboy
Speaker 10: deep passing game could flourish if in fact, you're winning
Speaker 10: off the jump, if you're winning off the line, if
Speaker 10: you're able to get separation as you're going up the field.
Speaker 10: They did a great job of driving play a lot
Speaker 10: of his own coverage. The Patriots, they're do a great
Speaker 10: job of driving these defenders back and then coming back
Speaker 10: to the ball. But if you could win right off
Speaker 10: the jump, like Lamb was able to win off Miles Bryant,
Speaker 10: you could throw the ball down the fields. That's the
Speaker 10: possibly the matter of fact. The schoon Maker pass going
Speaker 10: back and thinking about that when it went to the
Speaker 10: middle of field was a longer play.
Speaker 3: But man, he could.
Speaker 10: Throw a touchdown to Brandon Cooks over in the right
Speaker 10: corner of the end zone. Cooks was that down the
Speaker 10: field separation, you know. I mean Dak was trying. Okay,
Speaker 10: I'm going to fit this thing in between those two safeties,
Speaker 10: and this thing's going to be a touchdown.
Speaker 3: And it should have been a touchdown. It was.
Speaker 10: He should have been a touchdown. But the thing about
Speaker 10: it is, though they are doing a better job. If
Speaker 10: they can win off the line, they can get vertical
Speaker 10: in a lot of these routes, and that that will
Speaker 10: help them with their long passing game.
Speaker 3: Well, for.
Speaker 9: Long passes like that, I would say, yeah, absolutely needed.
Speaker 9: When you're trying to put that on film, film and
Speaker 9: keep defenses on their toes and all that. But right now,
Speaker 9: I personally, I'm okay with what they're doing just because
Speaker 9: I mean, they moved the ball so quickly anyways, they've
Speaker 9: been so good at it, and that's if there are
Speaker 9: no penalties or a flag or anything like that. It
Speaker 9: just moves so quick. I'm looking dot on my computer.
Speaker 9: They're on the field, start all the way to the right,
Speaker 9: and I look up and they're about to get into
Speaker 9: the you know, the twenty yard line. And so it's
Speaker 9: been effective what they're doing. But I would say it's definite.
Speaker 9: It would definitely be beneficial to start incorporating more of
Speaker 9: those taking those chances and hopefully they're positive and it
Speaker 9: works because then you're putting that on film for other
Speaker 9: teams to be aware of and keep them guessing.
Speaker 8: I think this might be setting them up in a
Speaker 8: good way to be able to go down the field
Speaker 8: in the coming weeks. Because, for example, we talked about,
Speaker 8: you know, how does Michael Gallup play into this Texas
Speaker 8: Coast offense? Is a square peg round hole? Well, okay,
Speaker 8: we've got that question answered. Over the past two weeks,
Speaker 8: he've hit he's had two really solid, two really solid
Speaker 8: games one in Arizona. Now that sixty yard game he
Speaker 8: just put up against the Patriots. But then if you
Speaker 8: also look at what he's been doing, it's forty four
Speaker 8: yards after the catch against the Patriots. So he's getting
Speaker 8: separation and better than I've ever seen him get separation
Speaker 8: on his breaks, and then he's getting a ton of
Speaker 8: yeck thereafter. So what's going to happen is opposing defense
Speaker 8: is they're going to start try to play him up
Speaker 8: because they're going to say, oh, well, Michael gallup. He's
Speaker 8: not just the goal route guy. He can attack us
Speaker 8: at the second level. And then when they do that,
Speaker 8: that's when you tell Michael go, and that's when you
Speaker 8: can really start to break the game open.
Speaker 1: So I think this might be that long.
Speaker 8: Term chess match that McCarthy's playing over the course of
Speaker 8: seventeen plus games.
Speaker 7: Let's get a question from Dan and Philly. He says,
Speaker 7: thoughts on Cooks not really getting involved in the passing game.
Speaker 7: It's disappointing to me. I thought they would use his
Speaker 7: speed to go deep more. You guys disappointed about what
Speaker 7: he's been able to do so far.
Speaker 10: Well, I think that there's to Dan's point, there's things
Speaker 10: I mentioned the block on that he was able to
Speaker 10: get on the touchdown they had down there in the
Speaker 10: red zone, that he's doing what he has to do.
Speaker 10: They're asking to run crossing routes things like that, they're
Speaker 10: asking to drag routes. I mentioned that the pass that
Speaker 10: went to Schoonmaker down the middle of the field, he
Speaker 10: was opening the end zone. That could have been a
Speaker 10: ball that was throwing his direction off the right side there.
Speaker 10: Dak took the shot. He saw cover too. He's trying
Speaker 10: to fit Schoonmaker in there, and you know he had it.
Speaker 10: And you know, but if if when he watches the
Speaker 10: tape today, he's going to see there's a couple of
Speaker 10: different times where Cooks was open and you know, the
Speaker 10: ball just doesn't go your direction. Sometimes that's a great
Speaker 10: thing about sitting down and studying these games that you say, well,
Speaker 10: I'm a little disappointed in this guy or that guy.
Speaker 10: But then you say, well, man, this guy's doing his job.
Speaker 10: He's getting open. You know, the ball is just not
Speaker 10: going his way. And I think that I think there's
Speaker 10: going to be some opportunities where they do figure out
Speaker 10: how to get him the ball down the field. He
Speaker 10: is a weapon in every sense of the word.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 10: But again there's there's you know, the balls that Dak's throwing.
Speaker 10: He's throwing to the right guys, they're they're getting finishes.
Speaker 10: But I think Cooks is finding ways to get open.
Speaker 10: I don't think Cooks was.
Speaker 3: Open as much last game against Arizona.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 10: That was a little bit of struggle for all the receivers.
Speaker 10: But in this game, these guys did a nice job
Speaker 10: of finding separation in this own defense and making some good,
Speaker 10: good plays.
Speaker 8: And they're sending him at least often enough to keep
Speaker 8: the safeties kind of playing honest. Because if you go
Speaker 8: back and you look at his route chart against the
Speaker 8: Patriots up the middle where they haven't been throwing deep
Speaker 8: middle thirty plus yards, he had a route go that way.
Speaker 1: He had a twenty four.
Speaker 8: Ish route deep middle, and then on the right side
Speaker 8: he had an eighteen nineteen yards. So I mean they're
Speaker 8: sending him. It's just a matter of those were non
Speaker 8: targeted though. So those are those types of plays that
Speaker 8: maybe he was the decoy and they wanted to see
Speaker 8: if he get open. But you know, I think those
Speaker 8: who start to kind of play themselves into the Cowboys
Speaker 8: offense as the season rolls along. So I mean, ultimately
Speaker 8: he did finish with four targets, four catches. On those
Speaker 8: four targets, he had the effective block, so you know,
Speaker 8: keeping in mind that he also missed week two, right,
Speaker 8: he didn't play in the preseason, nor did Dak Prescott,
Speaker 8: so give him a moment. I think he's getting his
Speaker 8: wheels in this Cowboys system, and I think it'll start
Speaker 8: to show here soon.
Speaker 9: Well, we're heading into week five and at least.
Speaker 8: That huh No, I was gonna say week five is
Speaker 8: when we really start to find out what it looks like.
Speaker 9: Yes, but he's another weapon that you're just excited to
Speaker 9: keep like that you have but haven't seen all of
Speaker 9: it yet, So that's exciting. I would say it's definitely
Speaker 9: disappointing that he hasn't been super involved right now, and
Speaker 9: in week four, there's only a couple of plays that
Speaker 9: I can vividly remember that he's done in the games
Speaker 9: that he has played so far, and that's disappointing because
Speaker 9: all through training camp, I mean, he was my favorite
Speaker 9: player to watch. One guy that we kept talking about
Speaker 9: on the show, the type of weapon or a deep
Speaker 9: threat speed that he showed and how the chemistry between
Speaker 9: him and Dak it was just so automatic right away,
Speaker 9: right off the bat, they were connecting so well, and
Speaker 9: all of a sudden we haven't had a chance to
Speaker 9: see really see that to fruition during games, but hopefully
Speaker 9: hopefully happens soon.
Speaker 7: All right, real quick, before we end the show, I
Speaker 7: did want to talk a little bit about the tight ends.
Speaker 7: As you mentioned earlier, Ferguson had a nice day. He
Speaker 7: is becoming a real weapon, I think for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 7: But Brian, I think you were one mentioning last week
Speaker 7: as you look at the tight ends, doesn't seem to
Speaker 7: quite have the same I don't know, it just doesn't
Speaker 7: seem to be the same as what it was with
Speaker 7: Dalton Schultz last year. What we did see yesterday was
Speaker 7: Schoolmaker had three different opportunities. He didn't get a single catch.
Speaker 7: I don't think Peyton Hendershott had a single target yesterday.
Speaker 3: Do you think the counboy hit right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Right, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Show me someone was up for him.
Speaker 7: So you're looking at a situation where you're really do
Speaker 7: you think you're not getting enough out of the tight
Speaker 7: end position, even though Ferguson is actually providing something really
Speaker 7: nice for you. Do you really need more from those
Speaker 7: other tight ends, especially considering as much as Dallas likes
Speaker 7: Froun twelve and thirteen personnel.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's it's funny that you say that, But to me,
Speaker 10: I think Schoonmaker had the drop was bad. Yeah, that
Speaker 10: was a bad play. He's got to make that play,
Speaker 10: and he knows he has to make that play. The
Speaker 10: other one he had an opportunity on. The ball is
Speaker 10: tipped at the line of scrimmage, if you remember, they're
Speaker 10: down there in the red zone, and like he's got
Speaker 10: the defender on his back and Dak is gonna throw
Speaker 10: the ball to the outside there and there's probably gonna
Speaker 10: be a catch, and then it's gonna be a die
Speaker 10: for the goal line. Bentley the linebacker is gonna rush,
Speaker 10: and Zach Martin just stones him and it stops Bentley.
Speaker 10: So he doesn't so what does he do? He backs
Speaker 10: up and he just jumps and so instead of the
Speaker 10: ball going to scoon Maker, it's tipped and knocked away.
Speaker 10: There you go, there's another one of your red zone
Speaker 10: You know, what the hell, what the hell just happened?
Speaker 3: Plays?
Speaker 10: You know, it probably would have resulted in either a
Speaker 10: catch at the one or a catch and a touchdown.
Speaker 10: But yeah, I think, you know, I look at also
Speaker 10: the way that these guys blocked in some of the
Speaker 10: running opportunities. Hell, McEwan made a hell of a play
Speaker 10: getting down the field and recovering Turpin's fumble. You know,
Speaker 10: I mean he gets the key block to get Turpin
Speaker 10: around the corner and now he's chasing the play much
Speaker 10: like what we have with Tyler Biattish and you know,
Speaker 10: falls on the ball right there.
Speaker 3: You know, could have been a bad situation.
Speaker 9: When that happened, I was like, thank God a guy
Speaker 9: is running along with the person who has the ball.
Speaker 3: There are some moments where these guys should they've done more. Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Is there some bad luck along the way?
Speaker 10: Absolutely, you know there's some There's some unfortunate things that.
Speaker 3: Happened, uh with these guys.
Speaker 10: I think the thing with Ferguson that I've learned is
Speaker 10: every time you throw him the ball, he's gonna make
Speaker 10: one or two guys miss.
Speaker 3: He is this run after catch guy.
Speaker 10: It's that the slant he caught him third down and
Speaker 10: got it was like a third and five.
Speaker 3: He gets nine yards.
Speaker 10: I mean just carrying guys with him, uh, you know
Speaker 10: for the first down, so getting more from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure. But are you just totally like, oh, it's
Speaker 3: just a bad group. I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 10: I think we're starting to see some things with them
Speaker 10: and how they're using these guys a little bit more,
Speaker 10: and I think it's going to benefit, you know, in
Speaker 10: the in the coming weeks.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and when it comes to Jake Ferguson, and we've
Speaker 8: talked about it, and I said, until further notice, he's
Speaker 8: the tight end one, and as Schoonmaker starts to kind
Speaker 8: of come along, maybe we'll revisit and have this conversation
Speaker 8: later in the year. But Jake Ferguson, you know, he
Speaker 8: overcame the drop in the rain against the Giants, but
Speaker 8: even that, that was a fantastic blocking game for him.
Speaker 8: You can see he's put on some mass, he's getting
Speaker 8: in there, he's getting dirty with the blocking.
Speaker 1: You absolutely love it.
Speaker 8: And then now he's starting to come on as Deck's
Speaker 8: security blanket. Seven targets, seven catches, seventy seven yards in
Speaker 8: that obliteration of the Patriots. So I love what I'm
Speaker 8: seeing from Jake Ferguson and at the moment, after seeing
Speaker 8: what he is doing as both a blocker and as
Speaker 8: a receiver, and you know, in being a receiver the
Speaker 8: yak and also the dirty yards because he's making guys miss,
Speaker 8: but he's also running through guys and running over guys.
Speaker 8: I don't know that I would say I need to
Speaker 8: see more from Jake because I feel like more is
Speaker 8: coming anyway. What you want to see is while Sean
Speaker 8: McEwan being Johnny on the spot, great job with that.
Speaker 8: You want to see more production from a receiving standpoint
Speaker 8: for those Titans not named Jake Ferguson Schoonmaker. I believe
Speaker 8: he'll come in eventually, that'll come on for him. I
Speaker 8: don't think you're going to see him target it three
Speaker 8: times and not catch any of those going forward. We
Speaker 8: talked about it Brian at Michigan. I don't think Michigan
Speaker 8: really used his hands.
Speaker 3: I think he has he's got to make plays. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the bottom line.
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, and he's going to get criticized because
Speaker 10: he was the second round pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's my point.
Speaker 8: You want to see more production from Loop Schoolmaker as
Speaker 8: a receiver. You need to see more of that. You
Speaker 8: want to see more when Peyt Hendershot gets back on
Speaker 8: the field. He missed this pass Onday because of the
Speaker 8: ankle injury, but prior to that, yes, he's upgraded as
Speaker 8: a blocer. Not as good as Jake just yet. But
Speaker 8: where's Peyton Hendershot in the receiving course? So to answer
Speaker 8: your question, Derek, when it comes to Jake Ferguson, love
Speaker 8: what he's got going on. And thankfully for the Cowboys
Speaker 8: they have at least that guy. They have a him
Speaker 8: that's definitive in that room and right now with Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 8: But for the other guys from the receiving component, you
Speaker 8: gotta get more. Schoolmaker's got to make those plays and
Speaker 8: he'll be the first one to say he has to.
Speaker 8: Sean McEwan. You know what you have with Sean McKowen.
Speaker 8: He's never going to really be that guy. But when
Speaker 8: Peyton Hendershott gets back, what do you got there? Especially
Speaker 8: in the season where you were hoping that you'd have
Speaker 8: John Stevens, but you lost him before you could really
Speaker 8: do much with him.
Speaker 7: All right, appreciate you guys, Johnes, We'll be back tomorrow
Speaker 7: we'll start taking a little bit of a bigger picture
Speaker 7: look at the NFL and the NFC East Giants played
Speaker 7: tonight on Monday Night Football. Will see how they end up.
Speaker 1: Till then.
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