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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number forty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. We're live from
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Speaker 1: and today we're going to talk about the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Rams defense versus the Cowboys offense. Before we get to that, though,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of things I wanted to catch
Speaker 1: up on from the press conference and just some general
Speaker 1: news and notes around the Cowboys. Let's start with some
Speaker 1: injury updates. What's going on with Jordan Lewis Um I
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean I don't think that. I don't
Speaker 1: remember him being asked in the press conference today. Was
Speaker 1: he always miss you speak the injury? What it is
Speaker 1: because I can't say the word growing. Yeah. Yeah, growing,
Speaker 1: I'll never say it right. So I always appreciate when
Speaker 1: people say it for or you say it real fast.
Speaker 1: I've got it run. Everybody's got a word like that,
Speaker 1: they just don't say. I mean, I'm so uncomfortable saying it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It starts with an H and ends
Speaker 1: with an H. It's a Christmas term or a joyous term.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. Hallelujah. Yeah, And I don't say
Speaker 1: that word. I can't say it so hard. I just
Speaker 1: don't say it. Those els don't they don't work together.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. I'm not going it. No, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do it right. I can't hear, but I
Speaker 1: can say growing. And that's what Jordan lewis. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: but I have a hard time thinking anything that's a
Speaker 1: quick turnaround. I don't. I don't see that happening of
Speaker 1: him playing um. I think he did. I think he's
Speaker 1: maybe working into a practice or maybe maybe he's getting
Speaker 1: to work with with um a brit right on the side.
Speaker 1: So that always is is an indication that it could
Speaker 1: be sooner than later on a return. But when you're
Speaker 1: when your backup comes in. You have two backups. One
Speaker 1: of them comes in and gets six tackles, which is Mkuamu,
Speaker 1: and then the other for the nickel backup, U Duran Bland.
Speaker 1: You know has a good game get to pick. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna be rushing Jordan Lewis back
Speaker 1: this week, but I mean it certainly it's certainly gonna
Speaker 1: be a tough matchup because you might rob a veteran
Speaker 1: because who's facing not with a boat groin? Now I
Speaker 1: gotta say it like that. Yeah, goode, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's funny. Um, would you consider you cansider traveling? Do
Speaker 1: you consider traveling this week with Diggs? And I just
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that Cooper Cup is gonna get
Speaker 1: his Yeah? Yeah, I just I mean, do you do
Speaker 1: you just totally because you're not going to take him
Speaker 1: out of the game, But if he gets fourteen catches,
Speaker 1: they still lose games. We've seen that. So do you
Speaker 1: do you say, Okay, we're gonna travel with and just
Speaker 1: let him get fourteen catches and mess everybody up up
Speaker 1: in the secondary. The thing I don't want I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want Alan Robinson to get going. You know, I think
Speaker 1: you have to figure out, like Cup, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: probably fourteen catches. Just get ready for it. You know,
Speaker 1: Higbee the tight end, and I know we're going back
Speaker 1: and talking about their offense, but now I'm thinking about Okay,
Speaker 1: to me, he's the next most important thing that I
Speaker 1: have to take care of in this game. So I
Speaker 1: know the Cooper Cup's gonna make plays, Maybe I could
Speaker 1: take Higbee out of this game. Maybe I could find
Speaker 1: a way to limit him, because they're struggling getting the
Speaker 1: ball to Alan Robinson. So if that's the case, maybe
Speaker 1: just by the way they're scheming, Robinson's struggling in these games,
Speaker 1: I think I traveled Diggs with Robinson. I would just
Speaker 1: take him and let Diggs take Robinson and then try
Speaker 1: to get him out of the game, and then you know,
Speaker 1: then you can double and kind of zone the other.
Speaker 1: You know. But it's hard. It's hard to just play
Speaker 1: it one way because the way they use them, they
Speaker 1: use them almost as a glorified running back. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it was fourteen catches. It's almost like fourteen carries,
Speaker 1: which that's a still a lot of yards, right, one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty something yards. They had nine yards of
Speaker 1: reception on that and you're right, see that's terrible, but
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not great. That's when you watch the
Speaker 1: rams and you're saying, well they don't run the ball,
Speaker 1: well they yeah, they do. They throw the ball or
Speaker 1: a bunch formation and then everybody blocks their ads off
Speaker 1: for a nine yard game. That's how they that's how
Speaker 1: they do it. Set asked, Yeah, I would. I would
Speaker 1: wonder if a week like this, I don't know about
Speaker 1: traveling just because I man, you know how it goes
Speaker 1: when you travel one guy. That means everybody's got to travel. Well,
Speaker 1: everybody gets screwed up. Yeah, especially when you're talking about Cup,
Speaker 1: because if he travels from one, he's always going to move,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna come in motion, he's gonna go in
Speaker 1: short motion, and once he goes across the center, it
Speaker 1: changes everybody in the secondary for what they have to do.
Speaker 1: As good as this defense is playing, I would prefer
Speaker 1: to say, just play what you play, do what you do.
Speaker 1: If cool, like you said, if Cup gets off and
Speaker 1: gets fourteen catches, that's fine, because we've seen this season
Speaker 1: they're two and two and he's getting that number of
Speaker 1: targets every single week and they lost two of those games,
Speaker 1: which makes me think that that doesn't kill you. If
Speaker 1: he gets that number of catches, you just don't want.
Speaker 1: You want to make sure that wherever he gets the ball,
Speaker 1: that's where he goes down. You know, only yards after
Speaker 1: catch he goes down where he catches the ball. And
Speaker 1: if you do that, I think you can still be
Speaker 1: successful against this team. It to me, if they find
Speaker 1: a way to run the football against you and have success,
Speaker 1: I think that's far worse than Cup catching the bagery.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know we've figured out here teams
Speaker 1: get behind the chains against the Cowboys, it turns into
Speaker 1: pass rush, it turns into pressure, and it turns into
Speaker 1: punts for the opponent. So I personally worry about I
Speaker 1: know this just from being in you know and pro
Speaker 1: scouting and going on the road and evaluating. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I know we can't run the ball again. I know
Speaker 1: we can't run the ball against anybody else, but we
Speaker 1: need to try and run it against these guys. We
Speaker 1: need to try and if we have success, it could
Speaker 1: help us win this football. I'm talking from a RAMS
Speaker 1: perspective that you know, as as an advanced scout. I
Speaker 1: would go back to Sean McVay and say, Coach, I
Speaker 1: know it's three yards to carry. These guys will give
Speaker 1: you opportunity to run the ball. We just have to
Speaker 1: be committed to doing it. And that's that's what I
Speaker 1: kind of worry about with this crew right here. Ye,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a few other guys that showed up
Speaker 1: on the injury report yesterday. You got Donovan Wilson, you
Speaker 1: got Jake Ferguson, you got Quentin Bohannah. Do we know
Speaker 1: anything about where they are? Can I'll comment about Ferguson
Speaker 1: because I know that when that one was a knee
Speaker 1: MRI was didn't show anything, so they're going to try
Speaker 1: and practice him and get him ready. I didn't get
Speaker 1: any indication that he wouldn't play. I know that was
Speaker 1: one of those once it popped up on the injury
Speaker 1: report and I said, oh, maybe I need to ask
Speaker 1: about this, but was told the MRI was negative or clean.
Speaker 1: And so we'll see him out here trying to practice
Speaker 1: or maybe miss a day or two and then and
Speaker 1: then try and be ready for the game as other
Speaker 1: guys should be ready. I mean Donovan Wilson, I think
Speaker 1: had a rest day, and I think, you know, Balhanna
Speaker 1: should be working into practice, so we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 1: somebody's got to be inactive. So that doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: he's gonna play, because he could be banged up enough
Speaker 1: where someone you know, takes his spot. But hopefully they
Speaker 1: get j Ron curseback up this week. Right, he said
Speaker 1: he's playing, Yeah, he said. He said he's going to
Speaker 1: join the best safety a group in the league, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, best safety group in the league. So and
Speaker 1: that might mean taking Anthony bar off the field because
Speaker 1: me anthy barrs anburse roller coaster ride. It's the up,
Speaker 1: it's the down and step. Maybe you put a guy
Speaker 1: down in the box. He's a little bit better tackler
Speaker 1: down there. I feel like, you know, we haven't seen
Speaker 1: we haven't seen Anthony Barr Bullitz. You know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: what Anthony Barr can do, but I haven't seen him.
Speaker 1: You know, I think once or twice maybe, But it's
Speaker 1: not like I thought it was gonna be. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I do wonder if that's a little the way they're
Speaker 1: using him as a little out of role for him,
Speaker 1: because that can't cover. Yeah, what we've known about him
Speaker 1: most of his career is that he is He's a
Speaker 1: guy that goes after and so trying to play him
Speaker 1: as an off ball linebacker, it might be just something
Speaker 1: that he's not as good at all. Right, let's uh
Speaker 1: real quick. I had there was a question that came
Speaker 1: up during the press comes I thought was interesting and
Speaker 1: I wanted to dive in a little bit. The question
Speaker 1: was about guys that or specifically about Fowler, but it
Speaker 1: kind of developed into other guys as well. Talking about
Speaker 1: the number of snaps they were getting him, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said he wanted to get him more snaps. There were
Speaker 1: other guys he wanted to get more snaps. He mentioned
Speaker 1: guys like Goalston and Hill and Gallimore. My question for
Speaker 1: you guys is based on that defensive run, he said.
Speaker 1: You know, it really is a great problem to have,
Speaker 1: but you know, because of the depth, it's hard to
Speaker 1: get some of the guys you want to get more
Speaker 1: snaps more snaps. That being said, who would you look
Speaker 1: at on that defensive front where you would say, you know,
Speaker 1: if I had just one guy I wanted to give
Speaker 1: more playing time because I think it would help this team,
Speaker 1: it would be whoever, who would that player be Fowler?
Speaker 1: For me, I kind of feel like that, you know,
Speaker 1: with you know him Armstrong. I think Armstrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know on Wonder five three of the fan that
Speaker 1: was my guy. That was my you know, a couple
Speaker 1: of guys that was Armstrong and Anthony Brown, guys I
Speaker 1: thought that were gonna you know, the game was gonna go.
Speaker 1: You know, Brown has kind of struggled a little bit,
Speaker 1: and Armstrong, I mean, he's had moments where he's been good.
Speaker 1: I think there's something about Fowler's game. Now. The thing
Speaker 1: that bothers me about Fowler is he's so anxious about
Speaker 1: getting up the field. Some those runs off the edge,
Speaker 1: the perimeter runs have been with him in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, So am I asking, Oh, put a guy
Speaker 1: out there and they start running the ball and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it looks bad again. But I
Speaker 1: just think there's something about that veteran, that understanding of
Speaker 1: how to rush the passer. Because if people are gonna
Speaker 1: pay so much attention to Parsons, you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have the others. It's got to be it's
Speaker 1: got to be Tank, it's got to be Fouler, it's
Speaker 1: got to be armstrong. It's got to be hill. Those
Speaker 1: guys they've they've got to step up and make place.
Speaker 1: But i'd like to see Fowler get more more opportunities
Speaker 1: if it was me, you know, a guy that probably
Speaker 1: enough for this year. Like, he's not Sam Williams. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that he has something that I really like
Speaker 1: about him. He's just a little young and reckless, and
Speaker 1: he's a rookie and he just needs to kind of
Speaker 1: come on discipline here and not be so crazy. But
Speaker 1: that crazy is what also what I liked about him,
Speaker 1: and and just I've seen him go after guys with
Speaker 1: so much power and force and an aggressiveness. But he's
Speaker 1: not quite there yet. But he's only gonna get there.
Speaker 1: The more he gets, the more chances he gets, and
Speaker 1: the better his game will be cleaned up by those chances.
Speaker 1: So he's a guy that I would like to see him.
Speaker 1: But then at the same time, I'm like, Okay, don't
Speaker 1: don't get penalties, stay, you know, clean up your game
Speaker 1: and all that. So it's kind of like a weird
Speaker 1: balance there. But he's a guy I'm definitely looking forward
Speaker 1: to as far as his development overall. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: really have an answer there. Honestly, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: one guy um that's that should be playing more. But
Speaker 1: because we're talking about this, I do want to bring
Speaker 1: this up about I was looking at the Cowboys depth chart.
Speaker 1: This is there, this is this is where they were drafted. Okay,
Speaker 1: going to the top to bottom of the depth. Just
Speaker 1: let listen to this second round, third round, second round,
Speaker 1: first round, first round, fourth round, second round, fifth round,
Speaker 1: third round, third round, fifth round, undrafted free agent. That
Speaker 1: is the second team of the defense us right, That
Speaker 1: is that is what they're working with. Those those are
Speaker 1: not the starters. That is not the starters. That is
Speaker 1: that is the second round, the second team. Yeah you
Speaker 1: look at bar you get Tristan Hill, you got you
Speaker 1: got um right right, That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the I mean, And and I kind of did that
Speaker 1: with the offense, and it doesn't look the same at all,
Speaker 1: you know, because they have multiple backups. Well let's go
Speaker 1: in Farniak are all, but still, I mean, like it's
Speaker 1: not the same. My point all along is that is
Speaker 1: that they've got great, great depth right now, and and
Speaker 1: that that they're hard to get those guys on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, and the shout out to
Speaker 1: the to the guys that are starting. If you look
Speaker 1: at the let's do the Sacond thing with the starters.
Speaker 1: Second round, sixth round, third round, fourth round, first, first,
Speaker 1: sixth third, second, undrafted, sixth round first. I think I
Speaker 1: did that right. I don't know, um, I don't remember
Speaker 1: what Tonoman Wilson was. Sixth round, sixth round. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's not super super impressive. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just kind of the way it works out.
Speaker 1: But I think from the young defensive guys like like
Speaker 1: you know, Sam Williams Gallamore and Tristan Hill, Dante Fowler
Speaker 1: he's not that young, but Jill Cod he was the
Speaker 1: first round, high high first round pick. Yeah, Anthony Barr.
Speaker 1: But but it's just this is hard to get on
Speaker 1: the field. They've done a nice job. Would you guys
Speaker 1: say to see more Bland? I would, And it looks
Speaker 1: like we might. I mean, I know it's an injury
Speaker 1: right now, and you're gonna see him out of necessity
Speaker 1: because of what's going on with Jordan Lewis. But here's
Speaker 1: to me that you know, there's I mean him Wilson Bland,
Speaker 1: these guys, I mean we did the backup grades yesterday
Speaker 1: and stuff. I mean it was when it was weird
Speaker 1: because to me, it's like all these guys are playing
Speaker 1: well enough to be starters. When I when you say, boy,
Speaker 1: they might need to take away Higbee a tight end.
Speaker 1: I look at Israel mcquama, a former cornerback who's big
Speaker 1: and he's playing as a safety. I'm sure he's added
Speaker 1: some some muscle and weight for to play that position.
Speaker 1: I see him as a tight end, tight end stopper,
Speaker 1: but a tight end matchup guy um and I think
Speaker 1: I think he would be you know, I see that
Speaker 1: Sean Wright kind of doing that too. Yeah. The thing
Speaker 1: about that is, though both those guys are even depth
Speaker 1: because you got j Ron Curse, who did a really
Speaker 1: good job at that same role last year, so you
Speaker 1: started thinking about that, Yeah, that'd be great. They're also
Speaker 1: behind somebody. It's this defense is really really deep, I
Speaker 1: mean really deep. I think you almost have to treat
Speaker 1: Higbee like a wide receiver. I mean we used to
Speaker 1: see that you put a corner on him. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: where Yeah. The thing about it is, remember the Rod
Speaker 1: Miranilli administration that We used to see Byron Jones every
Speaker 1: once in a a long when when the Eagles were really
Speaker 1: rolling with those tight ends that they had, you would
Speaker 1: see like like Byron Jones would leave corner and then
Speaker 1: he would go and play over. You know. Even Rob
Speaker 1: Ryan he would do it. You know, he would move guy,
Speaker 1: move a corner on. So if you've got a guy
Speaker 1: that's a real real is a true weapon, and you
Speaker 1: put somebody on there that knows how to cover and
Speaker 1: knows how to carry routes and things like that, it's
Speaker 1: you know, you can't just say, oh, we're gonna put
Speaker 1: a linebacker on him, because he runs away from linebacker,
Speaker 1: even though you've got linebackers that can cover a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I would treat Higbee like a like a wide
Speaker 1: receiver if it was me, especially on a team like
Speaker 1: this where you think he's probably the second best receiver,
Speaker 1: second best option right now, Yeah, he sure is. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break, we'll come back. We'll
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Speaker 1: the Rams defense versus the Cowboys offense. Brian, as I
Speaker 1: did yesterday, I kind of qualified my first question of
Speaker 1: what do they do best with by saying outside of
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, I think it's equally apropos to say that
Speaker 1: on the defense, outside of Aaron Donald, what's the best
Speaker 1: thing that they do? Yeah, I think to me, they've
Speaker 1: got a player that can eliminate anybody in your receiving corps.
Speaker 1: They've got the guy now. He struggled at times. If
Speaker 1: you watched the Buffalo game, wasn't one of one of
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey's better games. Digs did a great job of
Speaker 1: in that game. He when you talk about Ramsey's super aggressive,
Speaker 1: He's going to play both sides. He's gonna line up
Speaker 1: on the left corner, he's gonna line up on right corner.
Speaker 1: He's going to play in the slot occasionally, so he
Speaker 1: can walk wherever they feel like down a distance wise,
Speaker 1: they could say, okay, So it's not about a person necessarily,
Speaker 1: it's about situation. It's about a situation like they can
Speaker 1: they could take they could take him, and they can,
Speaker 1: you know, move him around. Raheem Wars the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: has that ability. And they and you mentioned Donald because
Speaker 1: I'll say it with him, they do the same thing
Speaker 1: with him. He's not just going to play the undertackle,
Speaker 1: the three technique on the shoulder of a of a guard.
Speaker 1: He's going to move around. He could play defensive end,
Speaker 1: he could play the one inside, he could play the
Speaker 1: three outside. So they're gonna move him around quite a bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Bobby Wagner will make every single tackle as
Speaker 1: a as a linebacker. He's getting up there in age
Speaker 1: a little bit, but if you leave him unblocked, he's
Speaker 1: capable to finish. Leonard Floyd's a guy that i've kind
Speaker 1: of I kind of watch him rush, I watch him play,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, like, okay, you have to figure out
Speaker 1: a way as much attention as you need to pay
Speaker 1: with Donald. Floyd's a capable pass rusher as well. They're
Speaker 1: they're a little bit they're they're struggling a little bit
Speaker 1: right now because their cornerbacks are banged up, and so
Speaker 1: they're going with a rookie, this Kendrick. They're going with
Speaker 1: him and replace of David Long and you know, and
Speaker 1: they've also Durant. The Nichols had some problems too. It
Speaker 1: seems like that people like Kendrick is one of those
Speaker 1: guys that gives a lot of room, so the slants,
Speaker 1: the end routes, things like that, the quick breaking routes
Speaker 1: and stuff. He's given up some some big plays. He
Speaker 1: went for an interception the other night the game against
Speaker 1: San Francisco, played it with the wrong hand and it
Speaker 1: ended up where Deebo Samuel caught the ball and went
Speaker 1: for a big, big game end up being a touchdown
Speaker 1: right there. So yeah, it's a it's a It's a
Speaker 1: group that has some outstanding players, some of the best
Speaker 1: players in the league, but it also has guys in
Speaker 1: their starting lineup that will give up some plays, and
Speaker 1: so that's where the Cowboys have to take advantage. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's throw away from Jalen Ramsey, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I think there's some things you can
Speaker 1: try and do if you want to double move him
Speaker 1: and stuff like that of how aggressive he is. I'd
Speaker 1: go for it because, like I say, there's film of
Speaker 1: him not you know, him guessing and not coming up
Speaker 1: big on the play. But if you're going to attack,
Speaker 1: if you're going to tackle a cornerback in this game,
Speaker 1: Kendrick number six is the guy you want to go
Speaker 1: at right here. And but be ready of them moving
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald around two as well. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to get a beat on him, like he's not
Speaker 1: going to sit there in one spot, So be ready
Speaker 1: for that. Is there a point of vulnerability in the
Speaker 1: front seven? I know you mentioned the cornerback, the rookie
Speaker 1: cornerback in the secondary. In the front seven is an
Speaker 1: area where you can exploit it either from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of being able to run or just an area where
Speaker 1: you think there's some opportunity to take advantage of a
Speaker 1: guy in front seven. Yeah, I think that. You know,
Speaker 1: with a Sean Robinson is a little bit, you know
Speaker 1: him and Gaines and Donald, and then you know with
Speaker 1: this with Justin Hollands, you know they've got some guys
Speaker 1: that kind of Floyd is another one. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: so long on the edge that they're hard to They're
Speaker 1: hard to kind of reach because they extend on you
Speaker 1: and stuff. So you know, teams have had some success
Speaker 1: just like taking the ball at them because Donal Donald
Speaker 1: will like hell, he'll jump a gap and you can
Speaker 1: maybe get him a little wide and then go in there.
Speaker 1: So the thing that where Donald makes the most of
Speaker 1: his plays are if you run the ball away and
Speaker 1: then he goes back door and then comes down the line.
Speaker 1: So running the ball at him is not a bad
Speaker 1: thing because he's trying like heck to avoid getting the
Speaker 1: gap and then make the play behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: So I would try maybe inside would be a little
Speaker 1: bit better against these guys than trying to get on
Speaker 1: the edge because guys like Wagner he can run and
Speaker 1: get outside and then the length of these defensive ends
Speaker 1: I think is pretty impressive too. Any chance, the NFL
Speaker 1: just suspends Bobby wa this week because of his u
Speaker 1: assault on that fan. No, and I hope every player
Speaker 1: from now on starts destroying stupid fans and decide they
Speaker 1: want to destroy them. Well, it drives me crazy that
Speaker 1: that now that the guy has a there's a police
Speaker 1: report out there, I'm like, come on, man, you ran
Speaker 1: onto an NFL field. What do you expect, Well, the
Speaker 1: NFL has got to do something because of the security
Speaker 1: guards that they got. I mean, they're rather a tear
Speaker 1: in their acls to trying to catch them. So we
Speaker 1: uh on radio. We talked about this the other day,
Speaker 1: and I think there needs to be a different plan
Speaker 1: of attack. If you're a field security person, you have
Speaker 1: to be a former athlete. You have to be somebody
Speaker 1: forayers former player. I would love to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to see that because you don't need
Speaker 1: me in the in the red wind breaker trying to
Speaker 1: chase people around. It just doesn't work. So me and
Speaker 1: the red wind Breaker running around fall you're the supervisor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so on Jesse Holly out there right bad? Did you
Speaker 1: guys see Maybe you did, maybe you didn't, just because
Speaker 1: of my line of work. Did you see the lady
Speaker 1: They were having a problem in Minnesota with people chaining
Speaker 1: themselves In Minnesota, Timberwolves were having problems with people chaining
Speaker 1: themselves to the basket and stuff like that in protest
Speaker 1: for like peta stuff and things like that. Okay, there
Speaker 1: was a lady in the second row at a Timberwolves
Speaker 1: and this one security guard. Lady was looking looking looking,
Speaker 1: and as soon as that lady took off for the court,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she tackled her right there. She's talked about
Speaker 1: destroying her, destroyed. That's what I'm saying. See okay, good
Speaker 1: vision awareness and tackles burst tackle burst, see not brow too. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: she went second row in between people that probably paid
Speaker 1: two grand a piece for these seats. Watson. So yeah,
Speaker 1: she went in there, got on her and got on
Speaker 1: before she got on the court, and then just bull
Speaker 1: took her down right there. That's what you gotta have.
Speaker 1: You can't have like, you know, it's like Laurel and
Speaker 1: Hardy out there, old you know, running around Benny Benny Hill,
Speaker 1: the old be you know, and pay them. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then like you blowing a killing somebody did that guy
Speaker 1: in the black shirt, he was out, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So to me, those guys are okay in the stands,
Speaker 1: But if you're on the field, you have to be
Speaker 1: a former athlete. You can't. We can't have embarrassment of
Speaker 1: people running around forever. I think I think it should
Speaker 1: just be the practice squad for both teams. You just
Speaker 1: if anybody you do yeah, like you're there, you get
Speaker 1: to play a little bit. And they're hungry too, so
Speaker 1: you know they're going to devour anything that gets onto
Speaker 1: the female. Just need a better plan, better plan, Devin
Speaker 1: Harper or he's not on the practice squad, he's he's actual,
Speaker 1: you know, inactive, but the inactives and the practice squad,
Speaker 1: that's your job. Yeah. I love that. I love that,
Speaker 1: But I think it's ridiculous that people are now putting
Speaker 1: in police reports because they're where they're not supposed to
Speaker 1: be and they got hit by somebody, Like, yeah, was
Speaker 1: it targeting or was it a good hit? I mean
Speaker 1: I think like it was a good bow up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he bow him up. But I think he should be
Speaker 1: suspended for week this week. You know that's actually a
Speaker 1: good point. Is he? Is he really? My question? I
Speaker 1: just derailed that whole thing, But I mean, is he
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner? Yeah? He still makes tackles, still makes tackles.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about it is though, I mean
Speaker 1: to me, it's I try and run the ball at
Speaker 1: these guys. I do because I think that they're so
Speaker 1: anxious about getting up the field and getting the past
Speaker 1: rush stuff going that naturally there's some gaps. There's some
Speaker 1: natural gaps with guys trying to work their way backside
Speaker 1: and then work their way down. So you know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't the plan you had this past week against the
Speaker 1: Commanders where you were taking the ball at them might
Speaker 1: not be a bad thing to you know. And one
Speaker 1: thing about you talked about Treyvon moving around, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald moves around too. Michael Parsons moves around. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of times what happens is is the reason
Speaker 1: why Aaron Donald and J. J. Watt was the same
Speaker 1: way when he was at the high level. They're right
Speaker 1: in the middle. They just disrupt everything. But when you
Speaker 1: start getting cute and they put them on the outside
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, that's when you need to run
Speaker 1: the ball right at him. Because some body is a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle is either an end inside or a backup
Speaker 1: tackle or something because they're trying to do all these things.
Speaker 1: And that's what happens too. Like when when Mike is
Speaker 1: moving around, it's the guys that are kind of replacing him.
Speaker 1: Is I think somewhat of a vulnerable spot where that
Speaker 1: was almost another word, um, but but I think that
Speaker 1: you got to just take advantage of when they try
Speaker 1: to move those guys around. I don't think Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: because of matchups. I don't think he's gonna move as much.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna go after McGovern or be oddest
Speaker 1: right there and be like, this is my best spot,
Speaker 1: kind of like Chris Jones did in the Chiefs game
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, you will see him. When they get Nickel,
Speaker 1: they try and move him to the outside and play
Speaker 1: a little end so they match him up on tackles,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a I mean, probably a win
Speaker 1: for them, and that's probably a pretty good matchup for them.
Speaker 1: I would they will search, they will search, they'll search
Speaker 1: the matchups for you. So I don't know about that honestly.
Speaker 1: I mean I think, yeah, he could. I mean, at
Speaker 1: times he's a freak of nature. I mean Aaron Donald is,
Speaker 1: but you know, he's not the tallest guy in the world.
Speaker 1: So when you got a guy with some power and
Speaker 1: leverage like both Smith does and Steal, I think there'll
Speaker 1: be some times that they can win as well. Um,
Speaker 1: I think his best matchup is going to be inside
Speaker 1: on beardist McGovern but you know, we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes. I mean the first time he gets
Speaker 1: around Steel, you're gonna be like seelem because I said,
Speaker 1: because of his length, Um, something that's starting to concern
Speaker 1: me a little bit or worrying me. Um. The more
Speaker 1: we advance is and we know, the more film you
Speaker 1: put on, the more film there is out there of games,
Speaker 1: the better other teams can prepare to attack you and
Speaker 1: go against you. With the way that Kellen Moore has
Speaker 1: kind of simplified the offense to better fit what Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is doing in his abilities. Are you guys concerned
Speaker 1: at all that now we're getting maybe at a point
Speaker 1: where other teams can kind of Okay, we got you
Speaker 1: figure out in the simple things that you kind of do,
Speaker 1: and and we've seen it before when when teams do
Speaker 1: that and got Kellen Moore figured out, they slap you
Speaker 1: in the face and it's just not going to be
Speaker 1: enough for them to score the amount of points that
Speaker 1: they're currently scoring. So I don't know if we're at
Speaker 1: that point just yet. We're a team like the Rams
Speaker 1: can kind of better prepare an attack an offense like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys currently have right now, or if we would
Speaker 1: come and happen like next week in a week against
Speaker 1: the Eagles, yeah, you know, and your point is is
Speaker 1: great because you do you watch where Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: even trying to trying to help his quarterback is even
Speaker 1: when the ball's going down field, the max protect stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, damn, I know I can't block
Speaker 1: this thing straight up, so I've got to keep a
Speaker 1: receiver in, I keep tight ends, and I keep backs in.
Speaker 1: Whatever I have to do. You know, this is going
Speaker 1: to sound just very simplistic like the offense, but this
Speaker 1: is who you are, you know, this is this is
Speaker 1: how you have to function right now because you don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think your quarterback. Your quarterback is steady. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's dynamic enough to to you know, call
Speaker 1: those plays. But I'm okay if they max protect and
Speaker 1: take shots. Because if it's a fifty fifty ball and
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're gonna either catch it or maybe
Speaker 1: you get the PI. You know that. That's that's how
Speaker 1: I'm at if I'm for, however, to manufacture offense because
Speaker 1: I know I'm limited at quarterback. My guy's good, but
Speaker 1: I don't think he can make all the throws. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing that scares me right now, is like
Speaker 1: he's good enough. Can you score enough points to beat
Speaker 1: somebody like the Rams? And this is a different challenge
Speaker 1: than it is against the Commanders or the Giants or something.
Speaker 1: This quarterback to me, and I know there's been some
Speaker 1: struggles here. He's going to put up some points or
Speaker 1: he's capable of putting up points. Can you match him
Speaker 1: in that regard? The one thing is um uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush hasn't had to play at a level where,
Speaker 1: you know, where he's had to put up thirty something
Speaker 1: points because the defense has kept him in a game
Speaker 1: where he doesn't have to do that. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that that's what scares me about the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: The Rams are capable of putting up points, so are
Speaker 1: the Eagles, you know, but through three weeks into this
Speaker 1: whole thing, you're going into week four with Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: I mean at a point where maybe we start seeing
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore incorporate a little bit more dynamic plays some well.
Speaker 1: I think the deep shots. I think the deep shots
Speaker 1: are something that he probably didn't want to do the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. But you know, you also now
Speaker 1: have gallops exactly exactly. Yeah, So I you know that's
Speaker 1: it's a great question. But man, to me, if I'm
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore, I just keep calling that plays I'm calling
Speaker 1: because you're not turning over the ball. You know, you're
Speaker 1: not risking it for you know, for something that might
Speaker 1: not work. Yeah. This is also why I think the
Speaker 1: whole conversation on Dak versus Cooper is kind of shortsighted,
Speaker 1: because as time goes on, it's going to get harder
Speaker 1: on Cooper Rush. The league has been doing right exactly
Speaker 1: didn't run the ball. The league has been trying to
Speaker 1: figure Dak out, and they have in some respect some
Speaker 1: things that they figured out they can create problems for him,
Speaker 1: but that's not a new thing for Dak. As time
Speaker 1: keeps going on, Like people forget Cooper Rush is not
Speaker 1: throwing for a ton of yards every week. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's und his averages under two hundred yards
Speaker 1: a game. Like, he's not throwing for a lot of yards.
Speaker 1: And so right now they're just kind of making it
Speaker 1: work basically by playing great defense and being committed to
Speaker 1: the run, not necessarily being great at the run, being
Speaker 1: committed to the run. And I think that's a good
Speaker 1: formula for them to win, but it also has an
Speaker 1: expiration date. At some point, you're gonna need a little
Speaker 1: more firepower, especially if you start talking about playing teams,
Speaker 1: as Brian says, that have more offensive firepower that might
Speaker 1: be able to put up that extra six to ten
Speaker 1: points on the right. Are how close are we to
Speaker 1: that expiration date? Yeah, and I personally think that Brian.
Speaker 1: I agree with Brian that starts this weekend. Now whether
Speaker 1: the Rams can figure it out this weekend, because they
Speaker 1: didn't look great against a good defense last week in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. But Philly, I think Philly definitely can present
Speaker 1: some problems. And that's why I'm hopeful that maybe Dak
Speaker 1: is backed by that game, and if he's not, we
Speaker 1: will find out a lot about Cooper Rush and how
Speaker 1: much this offense maybe willing to stretch a little bit
Speaker 1: when you play a team that may be able to
Speaker 1: score more than the teams that you've played so far.
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Speaker 1: Here's my next question for you guys. Right now, this
Speaker 1: rushing defense for the Rams is seventh in the league.
Speaker 1: They are twentieth in passing defense, which does make you
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a hard day on the
Speaker 1: ground again like it was last week. My question for
Speaker 1: you is do you think Dallas should stick to the
Speaker 1: strategy of we're going to be committed to the run
Speaker 1: versus we're only going to be committed as long as
Speaker 1: it works. I think they need to be committed to
Speaker 1: the run, but I think they need to be more
Speaker 1: dynamic in what they do. I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at the playoff game the Cowboys lost to the Rams,
Speaker 1: what three years ago, I thought that was kind of
Speaker 1: the start of the end for like Layton vander ash
Speaker 1: and Jalen Smith from what we've thought. They got abused
Speaker 1: in that game, but they got moved laterally, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think the reverse runs and things like that.
Speaker 1: As Sean mcvagh was really good at. I think Kellen
Speaker 1: mornings to implement that. They have a speedster on the outside.
Speaker 1: They really have it unleashed in that role. Turpin, I
Speaker 1: don't think Turpin can be effective without even touching the football.
Speaker 1: You can do those kind of things with them. I
Speaker 1: think they needed to run latterly. You can't just run
Speaker 1: right at the Rams. But if you go side to
Speaker 1: side with the Pollard and Turpin and even Zeke at times,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the way I would attack it,
Speaker 1: but still keeping keeping it safe for Cooper rush. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good plan. I wish this team was
Speaker 1: good at screens. Just not. I mean, it's just everybody.
Speaker 1: I watched tape all week and watch the Rams. The
Speaker 1: Rams are going to screen you to death. They're gonna
Speaker 1: try to They're not gonna let the pass rush affect
Speaker 1: how they're gonna play. And so you know, if they
Speaker 1: if I think they're going to be committed to trying
Speaker 1: to run the football. If they have success, great, they'll
Speaker 1: keep running it. If they don't, then they'll just turn
Speaker 1: into the screen game, is what they'll do. And then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're you know, you're coming up,
Speaker 1: You're coming up, and then the ball goes down the field.
Speaker 1: It's one of those games. You really, Derek, you brought
Speaker 1: it up. You gotta tackle well in this game. You
Speaker 1: mean you can't let Cooper Cup run after catch for
Speaker 1: forty five yards and a touchdown or something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got to find a way to get
Speaker 1: bodies to the ball and make it happen. But for Dallas,
Speaker 1: I mean, I like what you're saying, Nick. I just
Speaker 1: feel like though it's it's they're they're just kind of
Speaker 1: figuring out now about Okay, we've got we've got gallup.
Speaker 1: Let's try and get the ball down the field. Let's
Speaker 1: try and throw some deep shots. I'm I'm all for
Speaker 1: that because again, I feel like that that you're either
Speaker 1: going to get the past interference, you're gonna get a
Speaker 1: catch if you get it intercepted. It's down on that end.
Speaker 1: You know, fine, we'll play defense, let's go. But you know,
Speaker 1: the more shots that they take down the field that
Speaker 1: way and Max protect, I don't think that's a problem.
Speaker 1: But man, I think the Cowboys are just so much
Speaker 1: on a razor's edge when it comes to their offense.
Speaker 1: With Cooper Rush, It's just like it's either man, if
Speaker 1: the run get if the run goes, you got a shot.
Speaker 1: If the run doesn't go, it's like OG's when we're
Speaker 1: throwing off our back foot all day, here we go.
Speaker 1: You know. So those are the things that scare me
Speaker 1: about about these boutcher Cowboys offense. Another thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to point out to you guys. He talked a lot
Speaker 1: about Aaron Donald and how great he is, but I
Speaker 1: was shocked to see this. You know that they are
Speaker 1: the Rams have the worst team in the league when
Speaker 1: it comes to their pressure percentage. Yeah yeah, And that's
Speaker 1: the other part, Like, yeah, they blitz, they're six then
Speaker 1: the number of times they blitz per drop back, but
Speaker 1: they are dead last in the percentage of pressures they
Speaker 1: get per drop back. So the question becomes, first of all,
Speaker 1: how has the Dallas offensive line performed when they've been
Speaker 1: blitzed a lot night Some of the other teams that
Speaker 1: they've played are our heavy blitzing teams. I think the
Speaker 1: Giants are first in the league or second. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the percentage of times they blitz. But that being said,
Speaker 1: how do you think the offensive line for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: which is a relatively inexperienced line, how they done with
Speaker 1: regards to picking up blitzes. Man too, when you when
Speaker 1: you watch The All twenty two. The biggest problem the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have is when people blitz and they bring a
Speaker 1: twist off the blitz, because then you don't have you
Speaker 1: don't have the continuity. You know, go back to twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and when people would blitz Dack, they're thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, blitz him. But then you had guys
Speaker 1: like Ron Leary and Tyron Smith passing off stunts. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's the biggest problem that you have with
Speaker 1: this current. You just got young guys, you got you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're you know, fifth week of
Speaker 1: doing this, but there has been kind of a revolving
Speaker 1: door at guard at left guard, and so when you
Speaker 1: when all of a sudden, it's like, is where's the
Speaker 1: continuity with that? And you know, I always worry about
Speaker 1: the power with the right tackle. I think the right
Speaker 1: guard is fine, but the center and the guard when
Speaker 1: they twist or they bring stunts behind that, that's where
Speaker 1: it has the most the most And that's where I
Speaker 1: would worry if I was a Cowboy fan, is that
Speaker 1: they're going to move you and then bring something behind
Speaker 1: the twist to get at home. And now that makes
Speaker 1: Zeke or Pollard have to search and find and get
Speaker 1: that sorted out. That's that's how Tampa got you a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, early in that in that game.
Speaker 1: You see where Bobby Wagner said on us on Twitter
Speaker 1: on Cooper Rush, he said, just because a guy has
Speaker 1: been good against the Blitz so far, doesn't mean he'll
Speaker 1: be good on Sunday. And the first comment on Twitter was,
Speaker 1: just because the guy was good five years ago doesn't
Speaker 1: make him good now, which I think he is. He's
Speaker 1: still pretty good. He'd like to have Bobby And you know,
Speaker 1: if you remember, I mean that was that was a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean they were talking about that. The Cowboys were
Speaker 1: looking into that uh to signing signing him, and you know,
Speaker 1: ultimately they got bar at a I'm sure a cheaper
Speaker 1: problem about nine million dollars hit. Yeah, but you also
Speaker 1: got a guy that that wasn't ready to play, I
Speaker 1: mean at the time, and it's taken a while to
Speaker 1: learn the system and all that. So I mean there's
Speaker 1: there's good and bad to that. I guarantee you. Jason
Speaker 1: Peters and Anthony Barr's con you know, the deals have
Speaker 1: gone down, but you know you're not ready to to
Speaker 1: play and let me let me jump on that part
Speaker 1: about Jason Peters. We did a mail back question on that, Um,
Speaker 1: you know Jason Peters, Like at this point, like, I
Speaker 1: don't believe that the Cowboys think that Peters is better
Speaker 1: than McGovern. Yeah, I mean, because this is a season.
Speaker 1: What Peter, He's been here a month, he's been here
Speaker 1: a month, he's practiced for a month, and he's played
Speaker 1: sparingly in two games. That is what a preseason is.
Speaker 1: You practice, you have a couple of games here in
Speaker 1: their second and third preseason games, and now you're ready
Speaker 1: to go, and he's not not taking the spot of McGovern.
Speaker 1: So and Tyler Smith hadn't taken the spot of McGovern either.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think it is what it is
Speaker 1: right now. We're kind of waiting for Peters. I think
Speaker 1: it's time. I mean if he would have if he's
Speaker 1: ready to go, he would be ready to go and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be this game though, when you would expect
Speaker 1: that he would be ready to go. Well, that's that's
Speaker 1: my point, because I think they've got a really good
Speaker 1: defensive tackle on the other side, and you would like
Speaker 1: to come back that with power and he should have
Speaker 1: that if Peters does with massive body so if he
Speaker 1: doesn't play this week, to me is like that's what
Speaker 1: they believe. They believe McGovern's a better option. They protected
Speaker 1: their bet by signed Peters because they weren't sure really
Speaker 1: how good Tyler Smith was going to sht or when
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith would come back, and if at all, yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyred Smith, they're thinking, okay, maybe December, right, Okay, So
Speaker 1: they get Peters because they don't know that Tyler Smith.
Speaker 1: They're thinking, man, we kind of liked him at tackle.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna put them out there and see
Speaker 1: how it goes. But they protected themselves on the bet
Speaker 1: is what they did. They protected themselves with Anthony Barr
Speaker 1: for you know, for a linebacker for Parsons and guys
Speaker 1: like that, vander ash and people like that. So it
Speaker 1: was a couple of protections, low money protection deals. But
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if if somehow, some way
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith comes back earlier than we expect that Jason
Speaker 1: Peters is no longer here. I could I could see
Speaker 1: something like that if they needed a roster spot that
Speaker 1: you know, with what and maybe it is maybe they do,
Speaker 1: I don't know. If they want to kick. I've been
Speaker 1: wrong about this before, but to me, if Tyler, if
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith is healthy, I'd play him at left tack
Speaker 1: when I kick the other guy inside, and I think
Speaker 1: you're a ton better. That's what the plan was going
Speaker 1: to be, I think initially, right. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: they might not move Tyler Smith now that he's playing
Speaker 1: well at left tackle. But I know we've seen only
Speaker 1: a small portion of Peters, but currently, based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen, who do you feel is better at guard
Speaker 1: like govern or Peters. I mean I would say Jason
Speaker 1: Peters though, but I mean I would say that because
Speaker 1: because what I with this team has lacked is power
Speaker 1: to run the football, and I think that was Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith and Peters over McGovern because, be honest, is what
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, he's not the strongest guy in
Speaker 1: the world, but I mean there's more to playing center
Speaker 1: than that. So you know, you can't just have this big,
Speaker 1: strong center who snaps the ball all over the place,
Speaker 1: you know, So it is what it is. I would
Speaker 1: go with Peters. Well, I kind of wanted though McGovern
Speaker 1: just because like we saw a little bit of it
Speaker 1: last week. When Peters is in there. He's still an
Speaker 1: older guy and he's not as fleet of foot as
Speaker 1: you might want it to be. And certainly when you
Speaker 1: have situations where you want him get those reach box
Speaker 1: like those are things that he's not going to be
Speaker 1: able to do. And the way they run the ball,
Speaker 1: they don't have just a typical power run game. That's
Speaker 1: not the majority of what they do. They're gonna ask
Speaker 1: their their guards to do a little bit more and
Speaker 1: I just don't know if he can do some of
Speaker 1: those things. So for whatever he gives you more in power,
Speaker 1: I think McGovern gives you a little more flexibility with
Speaker 1: a lot of a variety of different things you'll want
Speaker 1: him to do, and I think he might be a
Speaker 1: better option from that standpoint. I think it right now.
Speaker 1: I think we were all encouraged by what we saw
Speaker 1: initially from Peters and the problem was he was playing
Speaker 1: against a power player last week in those guys and
Speaker 1: the struggled. You know, so if you're playing in because
Speaker 1: you're playing against for power to match power, yeah he didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't match power. But now you're now really max pow.
Speaker 1: You're matching quickness with leverage. When you talk about playing
Speaker 1: you know, with Aaron Donnell and stuff. You know that strength.
Speaker 1: So there's it's honestly, there's no great answer. And I
Speaker 1: always hate riding the fence about that because I the
Speaker 1: whole thing with mc McGovern early and you know, some
Speaker 1: of the stuff in camp and Tampa. Until he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he was looking okay. I'm like, all right, yeah, here
Speaker 1: we go, and you know, and then he came back
Speaker 1: last week and it's like he never played football. You know,
Speaker 1: there was things he was doing. But I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it had to do with those guys playing
Speaker 1: inside for the Commanders. Yeah. I think those guys make
Speaker 1: you look so bad. And you got a few of
Speaker 1: those coming up, like you got that coming up against Philly.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have that this week. Like that's that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the natural thing for these next several games. Right,
Speaker 1: all right, appreciate you guys, Joan Us'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you guys ready for the game. Give
Speaker 1: you our final thoughts on what we think's gonna happen
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