WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Pointing at the Patriots' Glaring Weakness 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:17.400 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:22.040 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.439 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.880 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:34.839 Were on with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.760 and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.720 It is Thursday, September twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, season nineteen, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.000 episode number forty one. Welcome to latest edition of The 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.360 Break live from the s WBC Mortgan Studios at the Star. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.599 Got Brian, Patrick and Amber here with me. We're going 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.240 to talk about the Cowboys defense versus the New England 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.720 offense for bulk of the show today. I do also 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:58.640 want to talk a little bit about Tony Pollard. We 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.480 haven't spent a lot of time on Tony poll but 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.120 I thought I saw some interesting statistics about his performance 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.440 so far the season. We'll get into that here early 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.119 in the show. Before we do that, though, we'll get 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.560 a little bit of updates on our injury situations. We 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.640 got plenty of injury situations. 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.800 To talk about. Patrick, talk to us about. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.640 Who's on the injury part and what we should know 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.720 and expect to happen as the week ends. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.800 Well, as it stands, Tyler Baddish and Zach Martin are 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.679 expected to ramp up a bit in Thursday's practice. They 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.360 were both D and P did not participate on Wednesday. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.720 Mike mcarthy says they're both expected to be limited, so 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.160 progress there. Tyron Smith is expected to be with the 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.279 rehab group. Don't know that he'll see any limited work today, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.679 but they'll see how he feels after the rehab group 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.880 ends and they'll go from there. But I expect him 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.720 to be D and P again this today as he 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.040 was on yesterday. Tom Idoka was limited because he's still 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.360 working through that elbow that he hyper extended against the Jets, 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:57.880 but no expectation that he'll miss this week as long 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.400 as he doesn't have a setback anything like that. DeMarcus 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.160 Lawrence ced Lamb were both absent from Wednesday practice, but 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.480 it was a veteran rest day that I'm told for 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:06.080 both of them. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.520 How can I sign up for one of those? 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.360 I would like to have one as well. I should 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.480 talk to my immediate supervisor. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.680 Yea, you who needs to approve it. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:17.880 Fair enough. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:22.080 So I don't know my immediate supervisors watching. My immediate 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.600 supervisor's immediate supervisor is sitting right here. So but yeah, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.560 so veteran rest days for DeMarcus Lawrence and Cede Lamb. 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.800 So no concerns on either one of those guys. But 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.440 offensive line, there are at least there's at least some 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.560 progress being made towards them possibly returning on Sunday. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.680 If you had to pick one guy that you probably 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.399 don't want to play without this week, who is that guy. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:44.320 On the offensive line? 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.560 I don't know to me, and I appreciate what Adoga 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.480 has tried to do, But if you told me I 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.079 could have Tyron Smith back this week and play and now, 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.680 I mean the way that Patrick's talking about him missing 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.679 another day, will see how the week goes. I don't 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.960 know if I want to go through another of Matthew 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:06.200 Jordon versus a doga on the outside. You know, I 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.280 just I feel like that, you know, with what brock 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.600 Hoffman did inside at guard, I'm okay with, you know, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.960 not that TJ. Bass was great, but he wasn't, you know, 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.280 terrible either. Having Zach Martin back would be huge, but 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.320 to me that left tackle spot, especially because they're committed 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:27.839 to going ahead and playing. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.000 Tyler Smith at left guard. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.920 You know, there doesn't seem like much of an interest 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.880 in saying, well, I know, Tyler, hey, by the way 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.360 you were, you know, all rookie basically as a left tackle. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:42.200 You probably you know we're flirting with Pro Bowl thoughts 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.840 as well by the way you played. But no, we're 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.360 just going to keep you at guard and let Adoga 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.800 handle that tackle spot, even though Adoga looked probably better 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.120 at guard than he has looked at tackle. Sometimes the 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.720 decisions baffle me a little bit. And I understand when 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.200 you start to talk about, well he worked here all week. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.120 What we've learned about the NFL in this day and age. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.800 This isn't nineteen seventy eight where the same five guys 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.280 played all fourteen games. You know, back in the day, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.360 you have to be able to adapt and move and 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.560 not get caught in a bad spot. You know, playing 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.720 Tyler Smith at left tackle last week might have helped 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:25.960 you in that football game, might have helped you in 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.800 that double move that you got sacked on. You know, 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.640 I just there's things, there's discussions, and in my mind, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.760 I'm like just let me have Tyron Smith back the 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.520 way he played the first couple of weeks. 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.480 Let me have him back there at left tackle. 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.080 I'm willing to give them the benefit of doubt last 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.760 week because again, you got Tyler coming back from injury, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.359 You got the whole week where you maybe thought Tyron 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.600 was going to play, and then you get to last minute. 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.279 I agree with you, though you get to this weekend. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.920 You had a full week now to play with the 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.800 prospects of Tyron Smith not playing, and it will be 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.240 in interesting to me if Tyron doesn't play this weekend 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.200 and they still opt to keep Tyler Smith at guard, right, 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:07.919 Because I do agree with you. I think when you 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.479 look at that defensive line, Judo is a problem. He 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.440 is a problem, and if you don't pay attention to him, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.640 then then you're going to have a problem. And I 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.880 think that you're he is I mean Tyler Smith is. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.839 I mean Tyler Smith is one of your best offensive linemen. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.480 If you're not going to put your best on the best, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.320 then it just it makes me wonder a little bit. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.000 Yeah, no, I agree, And I like you said, we'll 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.200 give them grace for last week because they didn't know 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.040 what was going on with Tyron Smith. I mean the 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.880 knee injury pops up on Saturday, and then they really 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.000 tried to give him a goal on Sunday. Then things 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.760 just got weird as far as posting actives. He's team captain, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.080 but he's not going through warm ups and then he's 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.440 not playing. And all last week they had too many dope. Sorry, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.440 they had Tyler Smith taking left guard reps, so they 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.799 didn't want to disrupt the scheme at the last possible second. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:52.720 But to your point, Derek, you don't have that going 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.800 into this week. I mean you have a very real 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.960 concern about Tyron Smith being able to go. So is 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.840 Tyler Smith getting reps at left tackle? And to Brian's point, 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:04.080 if you are without Tyron Smith, then for me, I've 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.680 got to see Tyler Smith at left tackle and then 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.960 you put you know, Eatoga at left guard. 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.279 Yeah. I just man it just right the grace period. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.960 But this day and age, you have to be super 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.960 flexible in how you play because with your lineup, with 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.599 your current group of offensive linemen, you have one guy 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.919 that it seems to something always happens to him, and 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.600 it might not always be in practice or something. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.440 When you look at You know, with Tyron Smith. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.479 He could wake up in a bad with a bad back, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.000 he could wake up with a bat anybody can. But 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.719 he seems like the one that like crazy, what what 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.160 what happened? Kind of injuries, you know. And I just 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.040 think that, you know, with McCarthy, the couple of things 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.440 that he identified with getting the backups more work, but 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.320 also trying to be a little bit more flexible with 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:57.440 what they're going to do with the line. 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:58.880 I hope that's the case this week. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.960 And this is where you have a backup plan, then 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:03.280 a backup, backup plan. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:04.880 And I'm talking. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:09.760 Specifical about situation because Okay, to be fair, you never 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.720 expect three of your starters to be out. So when 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:19.880 you add him uh Sech Martin, Tyler bed Ish, that's. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.280 Something very unexpected that you did it. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.360 You could plan for Tyrone exactly. 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.440 But then that goes into the question that maybe the 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.480 guy that you had for to be Tyron's backup, now 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.560 you've got to move around because of the other guys 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:32.000 being out. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.280 But I think to me, there was always the side 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.280 of me that once that Tyler Smith played the whole 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:41.240 season at left tackle last year, I'm like leave him there. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.760 That kid can play. Just let him. You know, if 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.600 you have to move on from Tyron Smith, I get it. 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.840 You had a great career. Sorry that injuries limited a 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.679 lot of your work, but I was in my mind 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.600 I was moved on. I said, okay, now, if you 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.160 want to try and a dress the guard spot, we'll 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.320 do that. But Tyler Smith to me was my left 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:04.280 tackle going forward. 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.040 I'm gonna throw the text out here. Actually it was 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.160 a really interesting text. You guys can also hit us 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.320 on our text line anytime during the show eight one seven, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.120 two nine zero three two nine eight. This one comes 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.200 from Brian in North Carolina. He said, at this stage 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.160 of his career, why hasn't Tyron Smith been considered as 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.720 a swing tackle? Considering his history with injuries, It would 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.640 seem to extend his career and solve one issue. Tyler 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.440 Smith can move to left tackle, he dog at to 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:27.800 left guards. What are your thoughts. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.400 I actually floated that idea a few times last year 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.760 on Talking Cowboys, and I'm right there. I think at 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.800 this point in his career, you're asking a lot of 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.120 Tyron Smith to take on the bulk of the workload 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.160 that comes with being your starting left tackle, and then 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.000 that leads to durability issues once you get to October, November, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.080 most certainly December. So I think you should shrink his 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.240 workload and you put Tyler Smith because and I'm right 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.280 there with Brian in the aspect of I hadn't mentally 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:01.640 completely moved on from Tyron being well, from Tyler being 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.640 the possible left guard, whatever the case may be. But 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.640 I do feel in my heart of heart that Tyler 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.400 Smith is your future at left tackle period, regardless of 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.640 him playing left guard this season. Tyler Smith is your 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.640 future at left tackle. So with that being my belief, 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.439 I'm one hundred percent on board with shrinking the workload 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.920 for Tyron Smith, because you know, he is one. He's 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.880 still one of the best left tackles in the game 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.600 when he's on the field, But if you keep exposing 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.520 him to additional snaps, then you're possibly shrinking the amount 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.400 of playing time you're going to get from him anyway, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.920 which then at the end of the season might not 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.200 be any more reps than he would have gotten at 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.120 swing tackle. But now maybe you've missed him for a 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.320 particular critical game or something like that. So yeah, I 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:41.920 love that. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.200 He wasn't particularly great at right tackle. Yeah, that's the 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:45.920 problem you'll. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.640 Run into last year when you start to talk about 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.959 the swing tackle position. You know, Tyrann Smith is a 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.200 left tackle, even though he came into his you know, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.640 into the Dallas Cowboys, he started as a right tackle. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.240 But the combination of him and Zach Martin together, which 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.400 I thought was going to be outstanding, wasn't that outstanding? 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.640 You know, there was there were problems in the running game, 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.840 there were there were some things with combination blocks that 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.000 they had problems with. You know, he talked to Zach 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.320 Martin about Steele. He'll tell you the first thing he 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.920 loves about Steele. He knows exactly where he's going to be. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.440 He knows exactly how he's going to fit. You know, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.439 there was so much of that uncertainty when you watched 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.439 Tyron Smith and Zach Martin played next to each other. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.720 Now as a swing tackle, yeah, he might have to 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.040 play some right tackle in the game. If you know that, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.280 you're probably not going to get the best at right tackle, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.200 but you're going to get an outstanding left tackle. Yeah, 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.679 it's worth it's worth the thought to try and do that. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.880 But I know in my mind I had moved on. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.240 I just felt like, hey, this is this is We've 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.839 seen it now. Tyler Smith has proved to me he's 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.520 more than capable of handling the right left tackle spot. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.920 Let's move on, Let's kind of try and develop some 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.440 others at some other spots. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.760 I just don't understand how he himself as a human, yes, 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.640 can just keep going. I mean, at some point, your body, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.720 I'm I'm sure it's gonna hurt every time you wake 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:10.560 up and get up. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.600 I mean we see him on game day looking like 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:16.800 a machine. Well yeah, clearly, but but. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.800 Just him for his own personal health and what's in 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.840 his rest of his life as a civilian, moving past 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.480 whenever that time comes from football. It's just it's just 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.960 tough on his body. So it's just it amazes me 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:37.400 because me being a lot more naive to the game, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.160 when I first started working here and learning all that, 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.680 I was ready to move on from him long time ago. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.679 Little did I know how great he was when he 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.679 was healthy. And he's been here for like five years, 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:56.359 seven years since I made those comments initially, So it's impressive. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.560 But at some point you gotta move on from like 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.920 being always have that thought in the back of your mind, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.680 in the back of your head, can he get hurt? 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.880 Is he going to be available this week or next week? 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.480 So it's just for the whole coaching staff. But I agree, 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:17.960 I definitely that idea sounds really good ideally, But then 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:22.400 I wonder, I mean, I would assume they've thought of that, sure, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.760 so I would I wonder why it has held them 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.320 to more decisions that they've. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.839 What's what's really interesting is you're not going to see 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:33.080 a prettier football player built wise than Tyron Smith. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.160 He's one of those guys gets off the bus first, right. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:39.360 There are guys that are sloppy and you know, don't 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.280 look great and they don't miss a beat. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.720 And then you have a guy that looks like he 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.160 hung out with the Romans. You know that he was gladiator. Yeah, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.640 that he was like beating. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.560 You know, he was in the arena, you know, and 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.360 just mauling people with that body. 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.439 Even the way he walks like he just walked. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.160 The way he moves, You're thinking, can sloppy guy doesn't 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.960 miss a game and this guy has injury history problems. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.679 That's the thing that blows scouts away. You could sit 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.120 there like, oh, great body, great physique. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.720 He's always hurt though, Brian, He's always hurt, you know. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:17.880 And now you're going, oh no. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.560 You're right, availability lack of You can look great, but 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.240 if you're not always available, it doesn't matter how damn 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.079 good you look. 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.160 I think, And to talk to your point Amber about 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.240 why from a Tyron Smith perspective, where is the event 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.200 horizon and him looking in the mirror and saying, you 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.040 know what, I still got a lot left in the tank, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.280 but I might need to change, I might need to 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.560 be willing to go back up. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:43.719 Bro. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.520 I don't think that's entirely dissimilar from. 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.360 He played really well though, has he the first couple 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.680 he was. I mean, he's kind of turned back the 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:51.640 clock a little bit. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.960 But you also, in the back of your mind kept thinking. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.160 You're ready, You're ready for the other shoot. Yeah, you're mad. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:00.760 You have to think like you don't even want to 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:01.360 talk about it. 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.240 You know, You're like Tyron Smith, it's good, but just 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.520 nod your head like, yeah, you don't even want to 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.319 talk about him because you just wanted to keep going 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:11.080 to your point. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.920 I mean, that's That's where I'm at with him. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.839 I'm like, he actually did turn back the clock playing 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.120 left tackle to the point where I'm like, Okay, I 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.680 can see why he came back. I see why they 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.400 did what they did. But then now this thing hits 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.000 you where now it's been any problems since his days 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.840 at USC, Well draft him when he's like twenty twenty 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.080 one years old, right, it's been a long time. You know, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.280 we're dealing with that thing again. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:34.680 I just think it's mean. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.680 If Tyron Smith was willing and the coaches were willing 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.480 to put him in a backup capacity, you instantly have 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.440 the best backup tackle in the league instantly, and you're 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.200 also helping his durability. But I think from an athlete's perspective, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.560 and I'll speak from an athlete's perspective and a competitive mindset, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.120 it's it's not entirely different from you look at a 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.680 shutdown corner like a Darrell Reeves or Woodson, and at 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.600 a certain point in their career, they really did look 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.000 in the mirror and say, you know what, my body's changed. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.840 I can't run the same that I was running. I 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.400 can't cut the same that I was cutting. In what 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.920 they do, they drop back to safety and tried their 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.400 hand in safety so you have to be willing to 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.160 look in the mirror and just be honest with yourself. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.360 We talked about self awareness this week. It's just honesty. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.880 So can Tyron Smith be still play at high level 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.320 when he's on the field apps of freakolutely? He can, 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.480 but the time has come for maybe him to just 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.280 admit that his body can't take the. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:27.720 Workload as of a starter. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.080 So you can still contribute to this team and help 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.440 this team possibly win the super Bowl, but maybe not 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.720 in the capacity that you will want to. So then 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.680 you got to think about what needs to be done, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.080 and maybe that's what needs to be done. 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:40.760 All right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.400 come back. Brian's gonna give us his breakdown. Dallas defense 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.640 versus New England offense. 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I want to 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.359 talk about this Dallas defense versus the New England offense. 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:34.680 Brian. 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.280 One thing I noticed and looking at this team is 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.720 right now, they are ranked ninth in total offense with 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:41.960 seven hundred and forty eight yards. It's about two hundred 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.760 and fifty little hundred hundred fifty yards per game. Here's 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:48.439 the interesting thing. They're only twenty six though in points scored, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.960 averaging about seventeen points per game. Talk to me about 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.480 this defense, I mean, this offense and why it's having 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:55.120 problems scoring. 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:56.840 It is having problems, and a lot of it has 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.320 to do with the offensive line. They have some issues 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.800 up front. But I'll get to that point as we go. 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.800 You know me, I gotta ramble on here. So Bill 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.040 O'Brien's your offensive coordinator. He's the guy used to be 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.880 at the Houston Texans. He was at University Alabama and 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.080 as matter of fact, he was Mac jones coach at Alabama, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.040 and so they're back together here. There is with this 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.800 offensive group, there's going to be some movement with the 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.520 way they play, but it's not anything that's alarming. We've 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.439 seen those like Arizonas and stuff. All the movement that 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.280 they play with the motions and stuff. It's just they're 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.000 pretty stationary the way they play. The majority of their 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.760 snaps are playing the shotgun rather than under center. The 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.080 line will really struggle to protect this guy. They get 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.200 pressured quite a bit. They break down, They have some problems. 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.400 Their best when they can run the football and try 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.600 and help Mac Jones. Where they run the ball, the 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.200 best is when you watch them is off the left side. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.680 So that'd be once again the Cowboys, right. You need 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:55.439 to kind of shore up some of the problems that 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.520 you dealt with in the Arizona game. I mean, they're 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.920 probably looking at that like, Okay, let's run it, Sam Williams, 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.680 Let's run at Armstrong. Let's run who's ever playing right 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:06.480 in for the Cowboys over there? You know, Let's see 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.280 if their linebackers can flow. Let's see if the safeties 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.159 will take a good angle. So if they're looking at 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:14.560 the Cowboys, their their strength of their ability to run 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:16.880 the football would be to your right side. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:18.600 That's inside and out. 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:21.840 They're they're they're a lot better too, in just a 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.720 little bit of study when they when they face teams 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.320 that play that light box. So if you're a six, 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.120 you know, defenders or fewer, that's when they really they 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.760 thrive running the ball, and that's when Ezekiel Elliott is 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:37.480 actually at his best. But this group has not been 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.720 very good. When you play with seven or eight in 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.120 the box or more, that's been a problem for them 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:43.200 running the football. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:45.200 Uh I mentioned mac Jones. 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.280 I think the growth of mac Jones as a quarterback 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.840 has been slowed by the issues the club's gone through 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.080 with their coordinators. You know, they've tried different coordinators. I 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.800 don't think he's been able to grow and really flourished. 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.480 You know, we'll see what with Bill op Ryan could 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:00.920 do with him. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:01.120 Now. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.639 He doesn't have the strongest arm and he doesn't have 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.920 the best mobility, but he is capable when it comes 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:10.240 to navigating the pocket and then order to deliver the ball. 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.600 He's his biggest trade is his toughness because he gets 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.800 hit quite a bit when he goes back to throw 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.520 the football. Uh, he'll deliver the ball in the face 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:22.159 of pressure. There's snaps where it take. He takes some 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:25.520 big hits as he's you know, throwing the ball. These 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.399 receivers really struggle to get open. That goes back to 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:31.480 the biggest problem. While there's not scoring points, he doesn't 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.520 throw to a lot of open receivers, and he doesn't 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:35.879 throw to a lot of wide open receivers. That's another 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:39.720 thing that's been an issue for them. He's constantly under pressure. 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.040 He you know, he just doesn't play the game with 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.720 a lot of rhythm. You know, sometimes these quarterbacks get 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.920 back there and it's pass pass pass. You can watch 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.080 two of play in Miami, and it just seems to 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:51.400 be a rhythm the way that he plays, the way 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.200 the ball's out. You know, there's some continuity to their 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:59.040 offense and stuff like that. I mentioned there the running backs, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.560 it's Ezekiel elliet It and then it's also with Stevenson 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.840 are the two primary backs that they play with Zeke. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:06.359 We know him. 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.600 He's still gonna run with toughness. He's still gonna run 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.320 with power. He's still but he doesn't have that elusiveness 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.040 that he you know, I mean, he's lost that ability. 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:17.399 The ball is going to come down hill. He's not 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.360 going to make many miss but you know, his best 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.760 attempts were the ones when they tossed him the ball 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:24.800 when they said, okay, we're going to get you out 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:26.920 on the edge and let you try and run down hill. 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.240 You know, the TOAs sweeps and stuff like I said, 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.720 go into the offense's left defense is right, We're some 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:37.600 good plays for him. He splits time with Stevenson to it. 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.240 He's not These guys aren't the most nifty types of backs, 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.080 but they're really steady in the way that they play. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.000 They're going to run with toughness, they're going to run 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:50.480 with determination. The numbers that now he is where Zeke 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:53.920 might struggle with the stack boxes, Stevenson is better versus 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.120 the stack boxes, so. 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:56.399 Keep an eye on that. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:58.919 He's also really a good receiver catching the ball out 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.560 of the backfield. Quarter back as of ninety point nine 0:23:01.680 --> 0:23:04.159 rating throwing him the football and you can see it 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:06.360 on tape when it's the swings and screens and. 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:07.120 Stuff like that. 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:09.399 And by the way, he's the only running back with 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:14.000 a rushing touchdown to their credits. So the wide receivers, 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:18.760 it's a veteran group. Kendrick Born, Juju Smith, Schuster, and 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:23.160 Devonte Parker. There's nothing really wow about this group. There's 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.639 nothing that you know. It's there's some inconsistency in the 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.400 way they receive. I mentioned they don't create a lot 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.440 of separation. They don't get open a lot. The offense 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.119 makes some kind of stationary target targets. You're going to 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:39.040 see them run picks, rubs, they're going to run combination 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.879 routes to try and get that separation. But there's been problems. 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:46.240 When they get the separation, the protection falls apart, and 0:23:46.280 --> 0:23:48.280 now they're in a little bit of some trouble that way. 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:52.720 So their best most explosive player is a rookie named 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.240 Demario Douglas out of Liberty, and he's the one guy 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:59.119 that when they want to when they want to play 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.080 like an explode, those that play, he's the guy they 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.600 throw the ball. He's got seven receptions this year form 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:07.760 are for first downs, so rookie kind of getting involved. 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:08.440 He's kind of a. 0:24:08.359 --> 0:24:12.399 Speedy, twitchy kind of player with the ball in his hands. 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:15.360 At tight end, this is the best group that they 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:19.200 have as far as how they're going to try and 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:23.240 and get offense. Hunter Henry and Mike Gisiki are the 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.640 two tight ends. They're both super reliable. They both they 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:29.919 run these routes where they find they do combinations like 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:32.520 we were talking about, where they they work off each other. 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.160 They run the spot route just easy throw, they run 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.560 the out easy throw, they'll curl back inside easy throw. 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:39.600 That's kind of how. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.399 They play with with with Daniel Jones, They're trying to 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.239 make it as easy as possible for him even when 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.200 they're covered. These guys are ultra reliable when it comes 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.960 to their hands and the ability to get in situations 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.040 where they can make plays. When things get a little 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.240 harry in the pocket, that's kind of where. 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:57.800 The ball is going to go. 0:24:57.880 --> 0:24:59.800 It's going to go to one of those those tight 0:24:59.880 --> 0:25:02.440 end decent blockers. Nothing really great, they're not going to 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:05.480 blow you away, but this is the most productive group 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:07.960 that they have on their offense. Now we'll get to 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:12.240 the offensive line. This is the weakness of their deal 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:15.080 here right now. They're not a physical run group. They 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:18.880 struggle with pass protection. They've tried to use draft picks 0:25:19.160 --> 0:25:21.800 in order to kind of supplement their line. But these 0:25:21.840 --> 0:25:23.960 young guys aren't ready to play, and I mean they're 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.520 not ready to play because they're not playing, they're going 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:28.159 with the group. The majority of their group has been 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:31.560 made up of trades or free agent signings. The biggest 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:34.000 struggles this year have been at the tackle spot, where 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:40.000 they've rotated. Trent Brown, Anderson, and Verderian Lowe are the 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:43.439 guys that they kind of rotate. Low has been the 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:45.600 one that struggled the most. He lines up at left 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:48.479 tackle against the Dolphins. He plays right tackle against the Jets. 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.320 He doesn't have power, he doesn't have strength. He physically 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:54.199 can't hold up when you hit him. He tends to 0:25:54.240 --> 0:25:57.359 become a one legged football player. He gets noted back 0:25:57.440 --> 0:26:00.920 quite a bit. You'll observe him getting pushed giving ground 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.840 playing on one leg. You have to take advantage of 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.080 him in the game. If he's in that he works 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.120 number fifty nine. They might not play him. If Trent 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:11.600 Brown's healthy and Anderson are healthy, those could be your 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.639 two starters. But if Low gets in the game, that's 0:26:14.720 --> 0:26:16.920 the guy you need to go after because he can't 0:26:16.960 --> 0:26:17.439 handle it. 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:18.360 He really just can't. 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:23.280 And that's been a big, big problem the guard inside. 0:26:23.600 --> 0:26:26.719 Cole Strange was a first round pick for them. He 0:26:26.720 --> 0:26:28.640 could be a little bit of a liability right now. 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:30.800 Like Low, he really doesn't deal with power. 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:31.160 All that well. 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:32.120 You need you need. 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:34.159 He needs to develop a little bit. He's just a 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:37.480 young guy, that's the biggest problem. He's a fighter, a battler, 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:39.760 but he's limited in the way he's blocking right now. 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:43.639 He's just not a very strong guy, and so what 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.440 happens is he's going to get challenged throughout the game. 0:26:46.520 --> 0:26:49.720 I would not be surprised, like I say, if Low 0:26:49.800 --> 0:26:51.920 is at one of the tackle spots, you work off him. 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.640 But maybe you see Micah play a little bit more. 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:58.240 Inside and dealing with with Cole Strange the guard. 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:00.920 He's the left guard. You need to go after him. 0:27:01.320 --> 0:27:03.800 He's been limited a little bit with a knee injury 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:06.000 this week in practice, so that might be you know, 0:27:06.040 --> 0:27:08.000 he's not getting the reps, he's not getting the work, 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:11.000 and he might be a little bit compromised as a blocker. 0:27:10.720 --> 0:27:12.520 So we take advantage of this. 0:27:12.800 --> 0:27:15.240 New England offense is on the offensive line, and that's 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:16.879 one of the reasons why they're struggling. They don't have 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:19.800 explosive players, so they don't score points. They got steady 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:22.040 tight end players, they got a quarterback that takes a beating, 0:27:22.320 --> 0:27:24.159 and their offensive line is a little bit of a 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:24.880 mess right now. 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:27.360 Sounds like offense is not what they do well. 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:29.360 Nope, they play really good defense and they're really good 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.160 on special teams. They figure out special teams for you too. 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:34.679 One of the things I did notice though, is against 0:27:34.680 --> 0:27:36.840 the Jets last week, they rushed for one hundred and 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:39.520 fifty seven yards. Now, in the two weeks previous to that, 0:27:39.520 --> 0:27:42.160 they only had seventy six rushing yards against Philly eighty 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:45.439 eight against Miami. What did they do different against the 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:47.879 Jets or did they do better against the Jets? 0:27:47.960 --> 0:27:50.080 I think you d better for a better rushing day. 0:27:50.160 --> 0:27:52.440 I think that we might be overrating the Jets run 0:27:52.480 --> 0:27:54.640 defense a little bit here, you know, with the way 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:56.879 we've thought that they played with that wide nine we 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:59.040 were talking about, people are finding ways to kind of 0:27:59.240 --> 0:28:01.639 gap them little bit and it hit them like I 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:05.360 said the ball, the ball was the ball was out 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.399 on the edge quite a bit. That's where I noticed, 0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:09.439 like the tos sweeps and the stuff where they were 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:12.399 trying to get the ball to the outside. And you know, 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:15.080 but I think the Jets are a little suptible to 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:18.119 what's going on with their run defense right now. The 0:28:18.560 --> 0:28:21.159 New England did a good job. They stuck with the 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:23.720 running game too. I think they put they I think 0:28:23.720 --> 0:28:26.720 Bill O'Brien puts this quarterback in some bad situations. 0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:28.159 Now he might they might. 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:30.480 Try the plan of saying, Okay, Dallas is struggling with 0:28:30.480 --> 0:28:32.000 the run a little bit in the first half. They 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:34.840 struggle with the run. Let's test them. Let's see if 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:38.080 they've fixed any kind of issues that they have, because 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.080 if they don't, I could see them continually. 0:28:40.520 --> 0:28:42.200 I didn't see a lot of pin and pull. 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.520 I did see some counter movement and stuff like that, 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:47.480 but it wasn't something like Arizona where you're just every 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:50.560 time it's down, down, around, down around, you know. 0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:52.760 You know, I didn't see a lot of that with 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.040 New England. But that's not me. 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:58.520 That's not to say that they won't try something like that. 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.440 They won't try counters I do think they're going to 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:03.360 try and make you play in space a little bit 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:05.880 and see if you're able to. You know, are you 0:29:05.920 --> 0:29:07.520 going to rush up the field? Are you going to 0:29:07.520 --> 0:29:11.480 create gaps? Are you going to you know, not play 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:13.520 the scheme like it needs to play. Are you gonna 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:16.440 play like play hero Ball where you're overrunning plays and stuff. 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:18.960 It'll be a test in that regard, and. 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:21.040 Probably more than any team in the league. I think 0:29:21.080 --> 0:29:23.920 Bill Belichick is shown over the years he wants a 0:29:23.920 --> 0:29:27.560 team that's extremely versatile, that can do different things every week. 0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:30.080 So just the fact that we haven't seen those penn 0:29:30.120 --> 0:29:32.000 and pulls and those kinds of things that Arizona did 0:29:32.040 --> 0:29:34.320 doesn't mean when you're playing a Bill Belichick ring that 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:36.720 all of a sudden they see an opportunity and they 0:29:36.760 --> 0:29:39.080 won't exploit it and do some things that maybe they 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:41.600 haven't done all season, because that's just the way he coaches. 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.800 Offensively and defensively. They try to create, they try to 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.960 take advantage of what you cannot do, and they'll change 0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:49.080 every week to try to do that. 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.880 They morph into different things defensively. I know the one 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:54.960 thing one of my dear friends is Mike Lombardi who 0:29:55.040 --> 0:29:57.360 works who worked with New England the Patriots, a former 0:29:57.400 --> 0:29:58.040 general manager. 0:29:58.320 --> 0:29:59.120 The one thing Mike. 0:29:59.000 --> 0:30:01.480 Always told me about Bell is though he will save 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:04.720 something that you haven't seen, he will save something too. 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:07.000 And the great example is that is in that Super 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:09.080 Bowl game when they played coverage, you know, on the 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:10.800 gold line against Seattle, and all of a sudden, it's 0:30:10.840 --> 0:30:13.280 something they hadn't shown. They knew to practice it, but 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:15.719 they didn't, you know, they didn't show it, and then 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:17.880 all of a sudden you play it. But he's there's 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:20.160 something that you know, there's a first half game plan, 0:30:20.240 --> 0:30:23.040 and there's a second half game plan for Belichick, and 0:30:23.120 --> 0:30:25.920 he's going to try and find something that you're not 0:30:26.160 --> 0:30:28.400 very good at and take advantage of that, like the 0:30:28.800 --> 0:30:31.040 But we'll see if the offensive line can execute penn 0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:33.280 and pulls well. That that will be the big test 0:30:33.320 --> 0:30:35.479 for these guys because they may not they might not 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:37.240 be able to upfront, but if you get them into 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:41.400 a passing game, that's that's church for them. They that 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.200 that is a struggle for them to have to deal 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:45.760 with that kind of constant pressure. 0:30:45.840 --> 0:30:48.640 They just don't hold up as a unit very well. 0:30:49.280 --> 0:30:51.000 And I was going to say, what makes their their 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:53.920 weak spot that much weaker is Cold Strange is dealing 0:30:53.920 --> 0:30:56.000 with a knee injury. He's dealing with the knee injury 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:58.560 last week. He was limited yesterday in practice. So you 0:30:58.600 --> 0:31:01.360 talk about Cold Strange having issue with strength and keeping 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:03.440 his feet and keeping his anchor, Well, he's on a 0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:05.880 bad wheel right now. So this is a matchup where 0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:09.360 it's their weakness, their biggest weakness against the Cowboys biggest 0:31:09.360 --> 0:31:12.240 strength their offensive line versus the Cowboys defensive line. And 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:14.720 then what they'll do is they'll try to use Ramondre 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:17.800 Stevenson because he's also effective as a pass catcher out 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:19.440 of the backfield. They'll try to use him to try 0:31:19.480 --> 0:31:22.120 to alleviate some of that pressure keep the defensive line 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:25.760 playing honest. So linebacker speed Cowboys and the linebackers are 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.640 going to have to make sure they keep Stevenson bottled up. 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.560 Ezekiel Elliott, you know what you get from Ezekiel Elliott. 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:34.160 He was in this organization. Mike McCarthy coached him. You 0:31:34.200 --> 0:31:35.760 know what you're getting there. He's not the home run 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:38.440 hitter that he once was. He's the downhill guy. He's 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:40.480 not going to do too much in space, but keep 0:31:40.520 --> 0:31:42.480 an eye on Stevenson and how they try to use 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:45.040 him in those bubbles and flats and screens to try 0:31:45.040 --> 0:31:46.680 to help the offensive line. 0:31:46.800 --> 0:31:47.440 But you can't. 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:50.080 They're not going to screen themselves all the way to 0:31:50.120 --> 0:31:52.080 a win. So you bottle up a couple of those. 0:31:52.360 --> 0:31:55.360 Make the offense play that much more, honestly, make their 0:31:55.440 --> 0:31:58.320 run plays go through the A and B gaps and then. 0:31:58.600 --> 0:31:59.400 Need tee off. 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:01.080 At that point we're going to. 0:32:01.120 --> 0:32:01.960 Take our final break. 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:03.720 We will come back. I have a couple questions for 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.080 you guys about this Cowboys defense. 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Amber? 0:35:14.840 --> 0:35:18.120 I mean, you've had hints of their and we've talked 0:35:18.160 --> 0:35:21.000 to this about this over and over as far as 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:26.600 like the run defense and the issues that they had. 0:35:26.920 --> 0:35:30.320 That's exactly why they went out and drafted Mossy Smith 0:35:30.400 --> 0:35:34.759 in the first round and why you resigned Jonathan Hankins 0:35:34.800 --> 0:35:35.880 back on the team. 0:35:36.080 --> 0:35:38.960 So they know they're well aware of that. 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:45.719 I think, yes, they were exposed in Yeah, if we 0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:49.000 do this, just watch this game against the Cardinals. 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:50.160 If we do this to. 0:35:50.160 --> 0:35:53.840 You, you'll react this way. But at the same time, 0:35:54.000 --> 0:36:00.000 I think that the drive, the passion, the commitment from 0:36:00.400 --> 0:36:06.360 the defensive players. Dan Quinn is there, So it's like, 0:36:07.480 --> 0:36:11.400 I don't expect them to make this a trend. I 0:36:11.520 --> 0:36:13.680 expect them to get better. They got better in the 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:20.160 second half after halftime. They came back and those yards 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:25.680 went down tremendously. It went down to like forty forty something, 0:36:26.239 --> 0:36:29.000 so very different than the first half. So at least 0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:31.840 that gives me hope that, Okay, they're still able to 0:36:33.200 --> 0:36:36.520 make changes, adapt and figure out, okay, let's change the 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:39.719 game plan lest readjust so, I don't think it'll be 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:44.480 something that now teams are just gonna expose them every week. 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:48.880 I think they'll come back here, like they've said, reassess 0:36:49.320 --> 0:36:52.600 and rework and according to Micah Parsons, they figure out 0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:55.640 exactly what they need to do according. 0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:56.920 To what he said this week. 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:01.200 So yes, I don't think the run defense is going 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:02.520 to be fixed overnight. 0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:04.440 There'll be instances where. 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:07.960 You get a good running back or a good quarterback 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:11.000 that can run with the ball, because that's the times 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:14.560 that they seem to kind of struggle with those mobile quarterbacks, 0:37:14.880 --> 0:37:17.720 and they'll have those games where they do give up yards. 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:21.240 But I think they'll be able to figure something out 0:37:21.280 --> 0:37:24.000 and adapt and adjust to where now they're not being 0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:25.080 completely killed by that. 0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:27.480 I think they bounced back. I don't think this run 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.359 defense is broken. I've seen them excel in the first 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.480 two weeks, and I think because going into last week's game, 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:36.200 I thought that they would be emotionally charged after losing 0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:39.439 Treyvon Diggs, but you add Digs to the late week 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:42.640 injuries to Beadish and Tyron Smith and Zach Martin's now 0:37:42.680 --> 0:37:45.000 playing now, And then we talked about how with seventy 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:47.880 seven the game started kind of on a weird note. 0:37:47.960 --> 0:37:51.239 It felt like they were emotionally exhausted as opposed to 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:54.160 being emotionally charged, and Michael Parson spoke to that. Jaron 0:37:54.239 --> 0:37:56.480 Kurr spoke to that and basically said that they were 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:58.680 disappointed with the effort. And it sounds like, if you 0:37:58.719 --> 0:38:01.440 read between the lines, last week took a lot out 0:38:01.480 --> 0:38:05.120 of them emotionally, so coming into this game having been 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:07.320 beaten in the fashion that they were beating in Arizona 0:38:07.320 --> 0:38:09.400 because they were bullied in Arizona. But this is a 0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:12.239 locker room that takes pride in being the bully, right. 0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:14.399 I think they look at the Patriots team as they're 0:38:14.560 --> 0:38:17.440 a very real opportunity to remind everyone that hey we 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:20.200 can stop the run, Hey we can get after this quarterback. 0:38:20.239 --> 0:38:22.640 We can still take the ball away without Treyvon Diggs 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:24.839 on the field. So I get the sense that they're 0:38:24.840 --> 0:38:27.560 gonna you know, there's a great likelihood that they bounce 0:38:27.640 --> 0:38:30.480 back in the run defense. Give the Cardinals credit, they 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:32.719 put some good stuff on film as far as any 0:38:32.719 --> 0:38:35.720 opposition that's looking to attack the Dallas Cowboys run defense. 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:37.600 But if you go back and look at that film, 0:38:37.640 --> 0:38:41.080 what you see is a lessened effort. What you see 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:44.680 is miscues and you know, lack of communication. You talked 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:47.040 about Michael Parsons looking back at the Green Dot Lve 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:48.600 and being like, where am I supposed to go? 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:49.200 Where am I here? 0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:51.120 I don't think you see those things coming into this 0:38:51.160 --> 0:38:51.759 Patriots game. 0:38:51.800 --> 0:38:52.640 They got exposed. 0:38:53.280 --> 0:38:56.880 They got exposed, and you got exposed to the point 0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:59.560 that they don't play very good run defense on the edge. 0:39:00.080 --> 0:39:02.720 And that's a problem. You know. That to me, that's 0:39:02.800 --> 0:39:05.560 you know, when when you when things when. 0:39:05.400 --> 0:39:08.200 You watch the Cowboys and there's misdirection and there's they 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.480 play with your eye level and they send you one 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:12.560 way and bring the ball back the other and they 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:15.760 you know, to me, running the running the ball inside 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:17.960 on this group is not a good way to travel 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:20.520 if you're an offense. But if you're going to be 0:39:20.760 --> 0:39:23.719 willing to get up the field and take yourself out 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:27.600 of position and that you're able to like get guys 0:39:27.719 --> 0:39:31.040 up on the second level, uh, because of you know, 0:39:31.080 --> 0:39:33.399 some of the things that the Cardinals were. 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:33.799 Able to do. 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.480 That The problem to me is, I worry. I worry 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.360 about the linebacker. We talked about the linebacker group. We 0:39:40.440 --> 0:39:43.360 talked about Clark, we talked about Van der Esch, you know, 0:39:43.400 --> 0:39:46.040 we talked about Wilson coming back. You know, we talked 0:39:46.040 --> 0:39:49.200 about Curse. You know, these guys are you know, these 0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:52.200 these guys have to play better. And if I'm a 0:39:52.280 --> 0:39:54.880 football team that's playing the Cowboys, and I'm going to 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:57.360 find a way to see if i can run the 0:39:57.360 --> 0:39:59.400 ball in the edges with you, I'm not messing with 0:39:59.440 --> 0:40:02.120 that inside stuff. I can't run the ball there. I'm 0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:04.359 not going to make a living doing that. But I'm 0:40:04.360 --> 0:40:07.239 gonna infect your eye level. I'm gonna move lineman, and 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:08.799 I'm gonna see if you could play the ball on 0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:11.880 the edge, and if you can then I will find 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:14.520 something else to do. I'll probably lose the game. But 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:19.000 you've shown me that I have an opportunity to have 0:40:19.120 --> 0:40:22.319 success doing it, and so that's that's what I'm going 0:40:22.400 --> 0:40:23.319 to take advantage of. 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:26.080 But hasn't didn't the fact that they were able to 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:29.200 make the stops in the second half, as you mentioned, Danber, 0:40:29.600 --> 0:40:32.319 doesn't that suggest that they're capable of doing it. They 0:40:32.360 --> 0:40:34.319 have the players to do it, they have the right 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:36.520 scheme to do it. It's just whether they're committed to 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:39.400 doing it, which would make it feel less like they 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:41.680 were exposed and more like they had a bad first 0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:44.359 half they cinched it all up and by the second 0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:45.200 half they way they. 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:49.000 Tried if they should Arizona, if Arizona would have come 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:52.279 back and ran the ball off the edge, I think 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:54.160 the more majority of they were trying to get the 0:40:54.160 --> 0:40:56.000 ball with Connor. They were trying to kind of find 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.239 some ways to work inside because they hadn't had some 0:40:59.360 --> 0:41:01.480 success to it that. So I think the way that 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.120 the game flowed that was more inside run. 0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:06.480 So you think it was less about the Cowboys adjustments. 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:07.799 And if I. 0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:09.879 Was if I was Arizona, I would have I would 0:41:09.880 --> 0:41:12.799 have I would have kept read optioning you until you 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:16.160 figured something out. I think there were some times where 0:41:16.719 --> 0:41:20.960 that when you know that when Dobbs he handed it inside, 0:41:21.000 --> 0:41:22.719 where if he'd just taken it, maybe it's a. 0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:23.520 Little bit better game. 0:41:23.800 --> 0:41:25.440 I'm not saying it would have broke a run like 0:41:25.480 --> 0:41:27.879 he broke the forty four yard run, but it might 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.200 have been a six seven yard run instead of gaining 0:41:30.239 --> 0:41:33.600 one or two handing the ball inside. I'm gonna I'm 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:36.880 going to I'm going to challenge you. If I'm an offense, 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:40.360 I'm going to challenge the Cowboys defense, you know, to 0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:43.240 play with better discipline, you know, to play with better 0:41:43.280 --> 0:41:45.359 eye level, to play not to get fool. I'm gonna 0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:48.640 play with you, to play your gaps. You know, there's 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.000 there's there's a lot of really good things about this defense, 0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:54.200 how aggressive it is. But when you start to overrun 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:57.680 plays and you take yourself out of opportunities to make 0:41:57.719 --> 0:42:01.279 plays because your angles and things like that, I'm going 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:03.400 to see if I'm going to see if you've really fixed. 0:42:03.080 --> 0:42:04.640 That one thing I said. 0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:07.200 There was something that Michael Parson said yesterday that yesterday 0:42:07.200 --> 0:42:09.200 that really jumped out at me. Go back to the 0:42:09.320 --> 0:42:13.360 Josh Dobbs play option and Josh goes up to the 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.080 left side for forty four yards. Well, Michael Parson has 0:42:16.120 --> 0:42:18.480 made a note to bring that out in the interview yesterday, 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:22.240 and he said on that particular play, he was basing 0:42:22.280 --> 0:42:26.680 what he thought Dobbs would do on the propensity of 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:30.719 what NFL quarterbacks typically do and the ball, so he 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:32.840 was playing what he thought Dobbs would do as opposed 0:42:32.880 --> 0:42:35.879 to playing what Dobbs was actually doing. So he said 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:37.880 he owned that, and he said going forward, I just 0:42:37.920 --> 0:42:39.960 need to play football, play what's right in front of 0:42:39.960 --> 0:42:41.719 me instead of playing what I think is going down. 0:42:41.719 --> 0:42:44.399 And the interesting part is they did try the read 0:42:44.400 --> 0:42:47.239 option multiple times later in the game. The difference was 0:42:47.280 --> 0:42:49.799 and I remember one specifically I'm thinking of right now. 0:42:50.200 --> 0:42:52.319 Micah did exactly what he was supposed to do. He 0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:55.000 read it perfectly. He got he was the open guy, 0:42:55.320 --> 0:42:58.279 and he just stopped. He waited to see where are 0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:00.200 we going to go? And then as he saw to 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:03.880 play go job Dobbs read that. Dob said, I won't 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:05.960 have the free release to the outside. He hands the 0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:09.080 ball off the rest of the defense then makes the tackle, 0:43:09.280 --> 0:43:11.600 and I think that's the point that makes me think 0:43:11.719 --> 0:43:14.040 that again, I think they got taken advantage of in 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:17.799 this last game because they didn't come in and whether 0:43:17.840 --> 0:43:19.560 you want to call it, they weren't prepared, or they 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:21.799 didn't play with a certain level of intensity they may 0:43:21.800 --> 0:43:24.680 played with before, or maybe they were overly aggressive because 0:43:24.680 --> 0:43:26.759 they were trying to go get the quarterback versus really 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:29.480 playing the run. Whatever it was in the first half, 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:31.000 I think a lot of that was the fact. I 0:43:31.040 --> 0:43:33.759 mean a lot of that ended up resulting in a 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:35.840 half way. They just couldn't stop the run. And I 0:43:35.880 --> 0:43:38.160 think that's the part where I look at it and 0:43:38.200 --> 0:43:40.279 I want to see what happens this week. Now it'll 0:43:40.320 --> 0:43:43.920 be different because right they run more of a traditional 0:43:44.120 --> 0:43:46.560 run right at you kind of running style, and that 0:43:46.719 --> 0:43:48.600 the Cowboys have done really good at so far. 0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:49.799 Absolutely stop. 0:43:49.880 --> 0:43:52.320 So we may not actually see what you want. 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:53.759 To see until you get to a better game. You 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:54.839 don't have better team. 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:58.839 Too long for a big challenge. 0:43:59.040 --> 0:44:01.839 Here we go after this game. I mean, you got 0:44:01.840 --> 0:44:02.880 one coming up. 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:07.720 And then Eagles are not far behind. 0:44:07.320 --> 0:44:10.080 We'll find out, all right, Appreciate you guys, Johnes. We'll 0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:12.440 be back next tomorrow. Actually, we'll be back tomorrow and 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:14.200 we'll wrap this thing up. Let you know what we 0:44:14.200 --> 0:44:16.920 think is gonna happen this weekend Cowboys versus Patriots. Till then, 0:44:17.080 --> 0:44:19.480 for Patrick Walker, Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek 0:44:19.520 --> 0:44:21.160 Eagles and this has been The Break live on Dallas 0:44:21.200 --> 0:44:23.000 Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:44:24.200 --> 0:44:27.160 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:30.280 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.