WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Something Has To Give 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.680 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:18.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.600 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:26.920 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:32.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.599 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.559 It is Thursday, September twenty third, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:47.199 Episode number twenty seven. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.760 The Break. We're live from the s WBC Mortgage studios 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.479 at the start, Nick, as we do every day, can 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:55.760 you give me a twenty seven? Oh Ron Fellows, Ron 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.000 Fellows from eighties break Back in the eighties, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.320 where I was a Cowboy fan. But I remember the name, yeah, right, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.840 Ron Fellows on Fellow, don't even he was a defensive back, 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.880 It's all right, yep. Cornerback. Were the Eric Dickerson goggles? 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.520 You know? It was one of those Yeah, I can't 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.920 think of one, Like, what's a what's a what's a recent? 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.840 What's the I was about to say safety, I say 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.160 the safety. I could remember saying the safety. I could 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:26.120 remember saying I should have busted out Eddie George. That's 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.640 what I should have done. You know, you were twenty 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.240 seven year I think he did. Yeah, how he did? Yeah, 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.479 when we said and interviewed him that year at training 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.960 camp on the court knox Nard, Yeah, I think he 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.960 was that year he was here. Yeah, that when that 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:40.600 when we had an earthquake. I don't know if he was. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.920 It was the same year, yes, I think, but I 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.400 don't know if we were interviewing him while the earthquake happened, 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.560 But I do remember we interviewed him him on the 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.600 court and it was the same year from our set. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.080 You know, Hall of Fame list just came out, one 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.920 hundred and something names, and there was we always talked 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.560 about that. Who should we mentioned because there's five or six, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.440 you know, true cowboys, and then there's another four or 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:03.720 five that you're like, oh, oh, yeah he played, you know, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.320 like Randall Cunningham and Eddie George and Zach Thomas and 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.440 guys that kind of just you know, finished it up 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.359 over here. But so he was one of them. Now 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.560 there's some former cowboys not on the list, but we 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.760 can talk about that later. Oh, Romo, do we just 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.080 keep running with this like you came off and like 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.679 that was like breaking news. We know he's not gonna 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.320 make it into the Hall of Fame, right, it's not 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.240 about the making it. It's not about the making it, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.160 and he's always just being on the list. Is that 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:35.040 what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, there's I know. But you 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.000 you mentioned Jake Dilome, and I thought Dave had a 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.720 good point. Jake Delome had about better career. No he didn't. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.919 I looked. I looked it up. He went to Super Bowl, though, 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.400 I don't look at the number. Do look at the 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.600 numbers there. It's not even close. No, it's not even 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.839 Jeff Garcia. I don't think had a better career either. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.919 I just I just think they both played Super Bowl A. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:53.880 Jeff Garcia played a super Bowl I don't think. So 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.480 here's what I don't know. I don't know how the 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.840 process goes with the Hall of Fame and all that. Like, 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.080 because I thought you made a really good point. We 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.840 don't know for sure when Romo ever filed his paperwork, right, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.760 or if he filed it, he might yeah, like that 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.520 would he might be sitting there like, hey, let's see 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.080 if his deck thing works out. He's probably filed it 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.520 by now. It wouldn't shock me at all if he 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.639 waited like a year, just in that snarky Romo fashion. Yeah, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.239 just like, ah, you never know, but that's how you 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.520 would do it. You never know. Yeah, because like several 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.000 times during the season they're like, well, you know, after 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.240 you retired, and he was like on the air, He's 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.200 like did I Jim, Like are you sure? You know? 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.440 So he liked to play route, But I don't even 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.160 know if that even matters. I think it's when you're 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.000 done playing five years removed from that, but from your 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.000 last game. Okay, I'm not gonna sit here and say 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.120 that Tony Romeo deserves to be like in the Hall 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.680 of Fame. Definitely not first ballot, and maybe over time 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.000 he keeps, you know, being a great announcer, maybe you 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.240 have a shot, but I mean just to be on 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.520 the list. To not be on that list this wild yeah, 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.080 which is like I'm I wonder if maybe, I don't know, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.400 maybe the paperwork thing is important. I don't know, but 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.600 like he should be on a list of one hundred 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.600 and twenty two people. I mean, I get. I'm just 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.400 not gonna get too bit out of shape for somebody 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.240 I don't think has a shot at making it. So 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.880 if you didn't get on the list and you're not 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.320 going to get in anyway, then what's the big deal. Well, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.719 DeMarcus Ware got on the list and he will be 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.359 in the Hall of Fame first ballot. Yeah, I don't know. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:27.880 I think so. I think so, I think so. Yeah. 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.040 I mean it's gonna be close, I think for first ballot, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.880 but I think he probably. You know, my thing is 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.560 always was there a period of time when the guy 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:39.920 was considered one of the best in the league, top three, five, whatever, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.240 it is, one of the best in the league. And 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:42.760 I think that was a period where you would say 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.080 he was one of the best pass rushers in the league. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.360 And then he went to Denver and that Super Bowl. 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.360 He had a lot to do with that, and so 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.599 I think that was kind of the icing on the 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.240 cake cake for him. And so I look at that 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:54.840 and I'm like, yeah, it's a Hall of Famer. Yeah. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.160 Just don't just don't use the excuse that he's the 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.520 Cowboys all time leader in sacks because that doesn't anything, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:04.280 because it hasn't didn't mean anything for Harvey Martin. True years. Yeah, so, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.160 but even were they even tracking them back with Harvey 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.400 Mark for all of his career, not for all well, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.400 not for all of his career. We're gonna get really 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.640 into the weeds on this because Pro Football Reference, a 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.839 really great website out there, has a lot of stats. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.799 They're actually they've gone back. They have a huge project 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.560 that they've been doing in the last two years to 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.240 try to go back and get all of these sacks 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.440 and watching all these tape to try to to you know, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.679 in nineteen eighty two is when when the sacks officially 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.120 meant STAP, but they're trying to give it to the 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.640 league to go a lot earlier than that. I remember 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.159 watching interviews with guys like Deacon Jones, who for half 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.640 of our audience they're like, who is that? But watching 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.720 some of those interviews and they're like, Yeah, all these 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.599 sack numbers mean nothing because I had way more than 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.280 that because they weren't counting them back during a lot 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.200 of his career. Uh and he was a beast as 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.640 of a sack guy, but it just wasn't being counted back. There. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.320 A little bit different too, because a lot of times 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.040 they were running it like in the more of a 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.000 kind of a not not like an option, but their 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.120 quarterback was kind of getting the ball and running and 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.280 then maybe throwing it and then was that a tackle? 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.680 Is that a sack? You know, it's a little bit different. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.520 Back then, all right, let's jump in. We got a 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.200 few things we need to hit. We're gonna be joined 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.719 by Bucky Brooks here in the second segment of the show. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.719 Before we get to him, though, we do need to 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.000 talk about Keyan O'Neill. Man. It seems like, now this 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.480 is just and I shouldn't even say now, but this season, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.520 even more so than last year, COVID seems to be 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.479 a weekly thing. I have a basically a list that 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.480 we're talking about from the standpoint of injuries, and then 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.200 I got a COVID list, and this week, here's your 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:35.080 latest addition to that COVID list, Keyan O'Neill. And as 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.360 until further notified that, I just assume this is gonna 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.080 be a thing. I mean, it's been this is third 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.159 third game, third guy. It was Zack Martin, then it 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.680 was Randy Gregory. Now it's Keyan O'Neil. Fortunately, on one hand, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.599 Randy's back, so that's nice. So Zach only missed one game, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.520 Randy only missed one game. Maybe Keanu will only miss 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.719 one game. That's TVD. Yeah, well, well, but they're over two. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.440 I don't I don't want to hear about a guy 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.680 coming back in time until it happens. They're over for two. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.320 It's a different situation though. In the other two instances, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.720 both those guys tested positive. This is not a test 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.200 piece of close contact. It's close contact, which means that, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.440 according to the rules as I understand them, when it's 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.360 close contact, you have a five a minimum five day 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.760 if you're unvaccinated, which would mean that as of the 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.960 time that we learned about it yesterday, that's five days 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.880 to Monday. If he gets negative tests here in succession, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.000 he could possibly play on Monday. Right, That's awesome. I'll 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.360 believe it when it happens. Okay, I mean, I just 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.800 you know, every I'm just over the whole, like Windsy testing. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.680 Have we heard what his test is? Is he coming back? 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.360 And like, you know, Zach and I know you're right, 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.160 Keano didn't test positive. That matters. That's a big difference. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.920 But Zach, you know, he talked to Zach Martin. He's like, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.240 I was never playing in that game, So right, I 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.520 just I'll believe it when I see it. That's just 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.640 the attitude that I prefer to have. Well, let's let's 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.640 really talk about what it means, because there's only only 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.720 it seems like there's one player that we've been talking 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.560 about in the last you know, two weeks, and that's 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.200 Micah Parsons. So everything kind of goes back to Micah Parsons. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:09.480 And here we are. Kean O'Neill Dorin's Armstrong has an 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.360 ankle high ankle sprain, probably not going to play in 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.320 the game. Hasn't been ruled out yet. We haven't seen 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.760 an official injury report yet. We probably will today. Um, 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.560 and so do you rush him on the outside or 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.680 now you've got a guy that may not be playing 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.680 next to him in the nickel? We're both you know, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.679 But there we go. That's the answer. That's what he wants, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.200 that's what he wants. Yeah, he doesn't he if he 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.000 was a hockey player, I don't think he would go 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.200 for like line changes and stuff like that. I mean 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.760 he'd go back. Yeah, he'd just be like, I'm I'm 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.679 out there. I asked him about it on Sunday if 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.040 you go here, he played Oh sorry, what was that? 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.720 I said, I'll play goalie. Sure, Oh yeah, he'd be 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.560 a one of those defensemen though, And I don't think 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.440 defenseman actually don't. They don't rotate the same, and so yeah, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.480 of course he's definitely going to be a defenseman. Yeah, 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.439 because Stephen Jones, I'm sorry, Stephen Jones told me a 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.720 story that he actually played running back is in high 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.640 school and maybe even early in Penn State. Like was 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.440 that was maybe he was gonna do a little bit 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.320 of both, and then somebody got hurt on defense, and 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.720 then he decided to stay on defense. And that's where 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.439 the guys the guy snapped the ball, the guys played linebacker, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.920 the guys played defensive end. Like those are things he's 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:25.079 just done. Here said yeah, like what what can't he do? 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.360 He's gonna get an interception or a fumble, and he's 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.840 he's not gonna go down easy. And then and then 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.520 it's just gonna start off well, you know anything, if 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.800 Zeke can't can't run the ball better than that, I mean, 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.600 how about third and two? You know that's what's happened. Cool, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.240 he's a football player. I love it. Give him put 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.240 it all on his plate. It's fine with me. So 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:46.880 what do you do with his role this week? I mean, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.360 because you're right, you have now guy that presumably could 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.160 be out of defensive end. Now you did get one 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.280 back in Randy Gregory. You now got maybe a linebacker 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.080 that could be out. So what do you do with that? Like, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.600 you got two different positions where you may be in need, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.720 and those are the two positions he plays. What do 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.840 you do with his role? I would rotate him between 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:08.480 edge rusher and spy linebacker depending on the situation. And 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.199 it's not there's not a one way to play it. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.360 It does it doesn't depend on the down. Sorry, it 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.080 does depend on the down and the distance like third 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.560 and long. Love the idea of Micah Parsons being in 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.840 front of Jalen Hurts to clean it up if he 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.640 gets a mirror him. Yeah, absolutely, because that's what kills 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.959 you is when a guy like Jalen Hurts can convert 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.080 these long thir third downs where third and eight and 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.160 Terrell Basham swipes at his ankle, but he gets away 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.360 and converts it. That's when I want Michael Parsons mirroring 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.959 whatever he does. Different situations bring him down and have 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.080 him rushed the passer they're short on the edge. Again, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.880 if Dorrence Armstrong can't play, I think that should absolutely 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.240 be part of what he does. And you can platoon 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.160 that with Layton and Jalen to have them doing you know, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:55.960 if he's down on the edge, then they can be 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.600 playing linebacker. But I want him doing it all. Yeah, 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.560 And I don't want Jalen Hurts getting good to read 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.400 on anything he's doing. You know, he's a young quarterback 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.760 that is still learning, still trying to pick up things, chill, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.480 trying to read different defenses and schemes. And so you know, 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.480 right now, when you've looked at the Cowboys for two weeks, 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.640 you don't have a great feel on where Michael Parsons 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.400 is going to be. The first game was different, second 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.120 game was way different, and then maybe the third game 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.600 will be a combination of both. But you know, one 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.600 thing I will say, Nick on to that point, I 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.839 actually I'm okay in this instance, if Jalen Hurts knows 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.839 going into the game, and as the game transpires, he knows, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.000 I gotta deal with Michael Parsons one on one every play. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.320 Here's why, because I think that's running is his security 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.559 blank You know some quarterbacks the tight ends a security blanket. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.120 There's a particular receiver they love to go to. I 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.199 think for Jalen, the bread and butter of his game 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.760 is if everything doesn't work out, I can run, and 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.640 if I run, I think I can pick up good 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.199 yards if you get. Creates some indecision in those kind 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.680 of moments because he knows I got this linebacker coming 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.360 at me and he's fast and he's not gonna fall 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.960 for the elusive move whatever I might try to put on, 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.160 like he is coming and I don't know how I 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.520 can neutralize him. That creates indecision with him, and it 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.719 might force him to say, in situations where he may 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.640 otherwise run, well, let me see if I can get 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:20.160 this pass out there. And then he throws up and 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.600 he'll advise passed, and here you go turnover. Right, So 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.160 I'm all good with I'm all good with this game. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.320 Michael Parson's them going into the game and saying you're 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.680 gonna go get the quarterback. You stay with the quarterback, 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.160 don't let him do anything. You take that part of 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.679 their game away. I think that offense falls apart not 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.080 to doubt Micah's ability either. But I think it's worth 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.760 repeating this is not as favorable a matchup on the 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.000 edge as it was last week Rashawn Slater. He didn't 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:50.520 give Slater any trouble at all. Jordan Malata young player, 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.840 but seems to be very talented, lot of upside, very 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.000 athletic guy, played rugby. And then you got Lane Johnson, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.000 who's one of the three or four best right tackles 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.520 in football. So I don't see him dominating as a 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.800 pass rusher the way that he did. It ain't storm no, 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.679 it ain't the swing tackle. So there's there's and there's no. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.760 And I've argued with some people about this that are 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.640 ready to just, you know, put him next to the 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.120 LT in d were. I mean, nobody has ever gained 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.439 planned for Michael Parsons to play defensive end. It hasn't 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.280 happened yet. Nobody's ever done it, studied him on tape, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.240 see what he likes to do, and says, all right, cool, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.240 you want to play it that way, We're just gonna not, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:30.920 you know, get him up the field. And well, I mean, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.960 think about it. The Cowboys used they studied Joey Bosa enough, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.400 you know, last week to actually run at him, leave 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.840 him unblocked at times, knowing how he's gonna get up 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.959 the field and do things to kind of go against him. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.360 So it's just the Cowboys. You know, they got him 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.480 on that one. They didn't charge it, didn't know that 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.000 was happening. They got him. They exploited a matchup and 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.040 it worked. But let's just see before we say, oh, 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.319 this is where it needs to be, because because Zach 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.000 Martin never played tackle before, but for some reason when 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.319 he got to the NFL, they were like, he's a guard. 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.400 Based off everything he is, he's a guard. No one, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.400 No one did this with Michael Parsons. No one said 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.319 he's a pass rusher. He's a Linebacker's that's where he's 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.800 always played. That's probably where he's gonna be. But we've 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.480 seen some pass rushing skills that can make it, you know, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.080 pretty dynamic there as well. All right, we're gonna take 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.520 our first break. When we come back. We'll be joined 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.520 by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. We'll talk about the 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.480 Philadelphia defense versus the Dallas offense. We'll do that when 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.440 we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.480 Before there was a draft. 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And again those 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.600 are great shows, but you gotta you gotta lead through 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.679 to talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars to get to the Cowboys, right, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.120 So if you want just all Cowboys in your pregame 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.720 or post game, pull up the app on your television. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.160 You can watch the pregame there. It's a great show. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.840 Same thing pre and post We have an outstanding pregame shows. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.159 I mean really, it really really is. I mean we 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.800 think about just just the guys that the the experience 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.119 that goes into the room there with with Nate and 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.639 Isaiah and Barry Church and then Kyle Kyle's host Kyle hoston. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.359 He puts a lot of work into it, and then 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.280 a lot of guys behind the scene. 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All right. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.800 So here's what I got for y'all. Was looking at 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.040 some of the stats around this Philadelphia defense. They have 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:46.000 only allowed two touchdowns in two games. Uh. Now, obviously 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.720 we think the Dallas's offense is much better than Atlanta 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.399 or San Francisco. So my question for you is what 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:56.320 weaknesses can Dallas Dallas exploit that Atlanta and San Francisco 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.800 could not. Well. I think one you have to go 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.240 in to annoying that it's going to be kind of 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.200 a knockdown, drag out a fair. This is a world 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.960 coach team. Johnathan Gannon has done a really good job 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.320 of taking some of the principles that they learned from 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:12.880 Indianapolis and putting them into play in Philadelphia. And those 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:15.359 who know Indianapolis know that that people fluce who's with 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.720 the Cowboys is Alan Mary Nelly to five point. So 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.639 they do a lot of those things. It's all about hit, run, chase, 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.280 keep the ball in front, makes you take a lot 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:27.800 of plays to be able to score. And what they 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.159 hope is that they can throw you off chilter and 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.880 make you settle for field goals as opposed to touchdowns. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.639 And that's what they've been able to do the first 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.959