WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Wrapping Up Week 3 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.080 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.000 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.320 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:26.840 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.240 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, September twenty six, twenty seventeen, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.120 season thirteen, episode number forty five. Welcome to another edition 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.159 of The Break. I'm Derrek Eagleton, joined by the normal crew. Here. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.600 We were live at s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:47.400 It's the twenty seventh of September. So I'm so thrown off. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.000 You know. Yesterday a fan tweeted me like, did you 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.880 just say it was Monday? And I did I say 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.760 it was Monday? I'm so thrown off. It is Wednesday, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.360 September twenty seventh to the seventeen. We welcome to a show, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:03.960 and welcome to the show. We appreciate you guys taking 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.640 some time with us today. Talk a little Cowboys football. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:10.399 How's everybody feeling this morning? Doing really well? Erica? But 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.600 are the episodes right? I mean, yes, the episode I 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.559 know is right because I updated that on the plane. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.560 I'm sure. I'm pretty sure. I think I updated that 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.560 on the plane. Good show. Let's have a good show. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:27.120 Let's see did you guys see Donald Trump's tweet this morning? Wow? 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.400 Starting right off of that, No, I did not see Donald. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.240 I just saw Jones. Yeah. I spoke to Jerry Jones 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.039 of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday. Jerry is a winner who 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.800 knows how to get things done. Players will stand for country. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.120 We've got the live audio on that. We're gonna play 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:47.080 it later. No, we do, We absolutely do not. Um. Okay, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.440 so that story is gonna keep keep rolling it. Um, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.960 let's let's get into some football. Um. This is a yeah, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.880 it's a tricky obviously it's a tricky thing. But just 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.040 the fact that, like all these other talk about Jerry 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.280 and Goodell and now you've got Goodell and Trump, it's 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.920 like which side are we taking here? And like which 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:11.360 stands he is he trying to really go after? I 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.799 don't know. I don't know where this whole thing is 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.440 gonna end up, But I don't know. We'll stay tuned, 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.679 but for right now, we're going to spend the next 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.119 hour talking about football and uh and this just kind 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.639 of dag dig into these cowboys. Let's start first with 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.320 DeMarcus Lawrence. Yesterday we find out I guess it was 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.000 this morning, maybe we find out that Lawrence is it 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.760 was named that the NFL's defensive Player of the Week, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.200 and we talked yesterday about about how well he's playing. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.639 But I think for an honor like this, it kind 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.560 of when you look across the league right now, statistically 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.480 it's best defensive end in all football. Bro's. I mean 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.880 the stats show that. I mean, I don't think I 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.040 would call him the best defensive end in football, but 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:57.920 artistically yeah yeah, and statistically yeah. And Golf is one 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.480 of the best quarterbacks in the league statistically. But but 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:07.280 he's he's been better than the stats. And that's what 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.760 I think is the most impressive part he His stats 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.640 are the best in the league, but he's been better 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.440 than that because he's had a half sack taken away, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.280 he's had another sack taken away, he's been around another 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.160 play that looked, you know, that was close to a sack. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.360 He's almost had interceptions, He's had a lot of tackles 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.079 behind the line of scrimmage. He's getting a lot of 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.680 hits on the pressures on the quarterback. I mean, he 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.840 has been the most disruptive player we've seen, you know, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.480 and Irving did it for a half against Tampa. You know, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.000 Irving showed some flashes. He has been the most dominant 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.000 player we've seen since about since Drew Brees was running 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.160 for his life when DeMarcus Ware was going to get 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:48.920 him back at oh nine or two. And you know 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.760 that that area for DeMarcus Ware, it's been this has 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.840 been impressive. But you got to keep it up though. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:55.920 That's the thing that's why he's not you know, the 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.080 JJ Watt and those guys. I mean, they do it 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.400 every single week. You know, he's got to keep doing that. 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.960 But man, it's a great time for Irving to come 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.920 back too fresh. And not this week obviously, but the 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.000 next week, come back fresh. I'm wondering, and I'm very 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.000 interested to see over the next several weeks how much 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.360 one team start doing more things to disrupt him. So, now, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.080 how does he play when he has to live in 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.400 a world of double teams and chips and all that. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.880 I'm talking about DeMarcus Lawrence, Because teams are gonna start 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.839 paying more attention to him. And the flip side of that, 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.520 who else on this defensive line is gonna have opportunities? 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.600 Isn't going to take advantage of those opportunities to step 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.440 up and beat one guy to get to the quarterback? 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.080 Is it gonna be Crawford? Obviously we saw Mollie Collins 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.040 have those two sacks last week, and he's been consistent, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.960 I think since last year. But on the other side, 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.760 are you, Vincent Mayo, are you're gonna see tackle Charlton? 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.479 I mean, the question becomes is tackle even the best guy, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.520 does Tapper get a shot? And it's Tapper have the 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.279 ability to beat that one guy. They're gonna be opportunities 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.000 for other guys across this line because the way that 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.760 DeMarcus Lawrence is right now he's going to do, it's 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.480 going to force other teams to pay more attention to him, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.520 which is going to create opportunities for other guys. Can 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.560 they step up? Well, you know he's he's so good 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.560 at the at the left defensive end spot going up 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:18.320 against you know, those right tackles, and so I don't 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.560 think anyone was gonna would ever change what they do 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.799 to try to block him, you know, the switch switch 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.760 to your left tackle over to your right tackle. But 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.400 it's kind of it is an interesting dynamic that you 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.280 know when you when you have a strong rusher like 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.360 that off the left end, and most teams have their 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.839 best left tackle over there, so you're not really going 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.920 to have that that which is I think an advantage 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.000 for the Cowboys. Yeah, you know, and now that means 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.760 they got it. They got to dedicate a tight end, 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.479 they have to get a running back to Chip, they 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.200 got other things that they'll have to do in their 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.000 offense in order to account for him on that side. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:56.520 And that's where additional opportunities are created for other guys. Yep, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.119 I know he's ready for the Rams part eating the way. Yes, Okay, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.840 he's getting ready. So one more thing before we get 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.080 to that, and we are going to talk about the 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:06.880 Rams and the day. We're going to focus in on 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.040 the Rams offense versus the Cowboys defense, and Dave's gonna 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.479 give us a scouting report that he's feverishly putting together 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.000 right now. But before we get to that, I did 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.400 want to get an update on Sean Lee and Jordan Lewis. 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:23.760 Coach Garrett yesterday said both had hamstring injuries from the game. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.000 What do we know is there a do we have 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.000 a statush report on where they are at this point 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.000 and kind of what's going to be happening throughout this 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.080 week to get them ready to play. Thought me, if 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.320 you've heard this before, day to day, they're gonna take 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.719 him day by day. It's day by day that sounds 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.600 reading between the lines, that sounds like Jordan Lewis's deal 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.080 is not as serious as Sean Lee's. Okay, Jordan, that's 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.760 a good thing. Jordan was feeling tightness in his hamstring 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:49.760 and they decided to pull him out for the last 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.200 couple possessions of the game. Shawn Lee I think might 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:59.120 have actually tweaked it. However, Shawn Lee's what eighth year 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:04.320 All Pro, seventh year All Pro linebackers, So typically, you know, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.040 going back to the Odell Beckham conversation from week one, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.279 I tend to give the nod toward that guy to 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.280 find a way to get himself ready, more so than 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.680 the rookie who's playing his third game. I was convinced 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.840 he went down just to stop the clock. It looked well, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.560 it really couldn't tell, right because he kind of tried 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.480 to get off. He was sitting and he looked like 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.000 he was hurt, and then he looked like he tried 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.600 to jog off the field and then he realized that 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.840 wasn't worth it, so it did. It looked like he 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.360 was hurt to me, but that's because I had my 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.360 eye on him before he got up, So it looks 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.240 I don't know, hamstrings are tricky. Like it doesn't look 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.600 bad because he ultimately wound up kind of jogging off 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.000 the field, but you know how those things go. So 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.040 I bet, well, nobody's going to practice today. Today is 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.520 essentially a walkthrough. I bet she's not going to practice tomorrow, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.920 so it'll be one of those scenarios where you're looking 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.280 at him on Friday to see what he's doing. And 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.640 the same thing probably goes for Jordan, because, like I said, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.720 he's a rookie. He's had hamstring problems for most of 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.840 the time he's been here. He said it is the 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.760 same hamstring as the one that was bothering him in 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.880 training camp. So probably need to keep an eye on 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.880 both of them as the week goes along. Because the 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.440 same thing happened to the Cheeto and then he got 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:16.040 hurt again in the Denver game, and then he obviously 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.840 didn't play last week. And it doesn't sound like he's 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.880 they're gonna him or no, only Carroll are gonna be 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.880 ready to play this week. I mean us don't rule 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.640 him out. But Garrett pretty much said yesterday he said, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.000 doesn't look overly positive for them, were too optimistic or 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.280 something like. It doesn't look like if I were a 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.160 betting man, I wouldn't bet on Cheeto or Carol or Carol. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.040 So let me ask you this question. And I know 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.719 these injuries are different. Obviously, can't say just because it's 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.600 a hamstring injury it's the same thing. And talking about 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.199 Cheeto right now, but I know, Nick, you made the 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.800 point a couple of weeks ago. Is it a smart 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.520 move to just go ahead and sit Cheeto for a 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.040 while because of this hamstring injury is recurring? Well, if 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.440 that's the case, should that be the consideration at least 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.199 to some degree With Jordan Lewis because he says it's 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.839 the same hamstring and maybe maybe it wasn't an injury 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.959 like Dave said, maybe it was more just tightness and 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.120 in which case there wasn't a tweak and so maybe 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:14.480 you don't feel like you need to sit him. But 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.079 if this is going to be an ongoing thing and 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.080 the only thing you can do to help it is rest, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.760 doesn't make more sense just to give him just straight rest. Well, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.680 when I said that about Cheetoh, I was talking about 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.400 maybe doing a roster spot, I mean with a with 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.880 an I R type of move, because they cleared they 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.360 knocked him out so quickly into the game like you're out, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.280 as like this is probably a severe enough thing where 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.520 it's going to take some time. What I would do 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.760 now is whatever they're gonna do for David Irving, I 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.240 would do it this week, whatever move is they're gonna make, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.560 I think I would. I would release that player or 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.080 move him off the roster this week and bring up 0:09:55.160 --> 0:10:00.320 Marquez White to the roster, then probably move Mark White 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.360 off the roster and hoping one of these corners backs 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.560 is ready for the next week and then you've already 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:09.000 got that spot for David Derby. That's that's such a 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.319 that actually doesn't mean that is such a good next 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.480 level idea that I wonder if maybe you had a 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.199 conversation I swear I didn't. You do have to wonder 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.360 that with Nick. I mean, it's a great but there's 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.240 a shower. I thought about that in the shower. I don't. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.400 I don't care if I thought it was a conversation 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.880 in the shower. That doesn't I don't. Who would think 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.720 that sounds weird? If you don't know that you have 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.839 your best ideas in the shower, then no, No, I 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:31.360 thought that you said. I thought he was saying he 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.959 had a conversation in the shower. And that's why I 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:38.440 was like with Jamal Showers's back on the practice squad. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.800 So we all three took something to me different. Jamil 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.560 was like, yeah, they're probably gonna move. They're probably gonna 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.319 move to Mark Quay. I'm here. Nick's like, what are 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.440 you doing in my shower? Yeah? All right, let's um, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.920 let's get into this this talk on the Rams versus 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.560 the Cowboys. Let's talk first about the Rams offense versus 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:00.439 the Cowboys defense. The one thing that that's ends out 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:04.240 I think most about this Rams offense is offensively, they're 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.880 scoring a ton of points right now, they're good. Now, Well, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.280 I don't know that's the and that's really the question, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:13.000 because they've scored a ton of points. But most of 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.640 those points were done in two games against teams that 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.720 you don't really think are among the best in the NFL, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.920 and so and so, I guess my question for you, Davis, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.240 give us a scouting report, and then I want all 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.360 of us to chime in on how much do you 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.720 respect what they've done in these games, knowing that the 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.520 opponents they mainly did it against were not among the 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.000 NFL's best teams, first of all in my opinion. And 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.679 I get that they're two wins or against San Francisco 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.920 and Indy, both of whom I think will be top 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.400 ten draft pick candidates. It's still the NFL. This isn't 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.400 college football. I don't care about that. You beat, you 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.720 score forty points on somebody, it's pretty good. You beat 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.440 somebody as badly as they beat the Colts, that's pretty good. 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.000 They're one losses to the Redskins, which you know that's 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.839 probably a playoff caliber at least gonna be in the 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.760 Hunt type of team. They or twenty points, so that 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.360 kind of gives you a little bit of an indicator 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:07.040 of what we're dealing with here. Having said that, it's 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:11.600 really impressive what they're doing, considering how hapless they looked 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.240 last year to start off this LA era because Jared 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.800 Goff through three games has a quarterback rating of one eighteen. 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.880 He's completing seventy percent of his passes. He's averaging ten 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.720 yards per tempt, so it's it's not like he's dinking 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:30.480 and dunking. Oh, which leads the league? Which does lead? Yeah, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:35.400 nobody's nobody's up that high. He's got three receivers who 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:39.200 are averaging a lot of yards per catch, one of 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:40.880 whom I really want to talk about because he's a 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.320 draft show guy. But Sammy Watkins, who you might remember 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.559 from Buffalo, He's averaging like fifteen yards per catch, had 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:51.079 two touchdowns on this last game. I believe he kind 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.839 of started slow, but I mean thirteen catches for two 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.160 hundred yards and two touchdowns through three games is pretty 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.520 solid start. Robert Woods, who they also got from Buffalo 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.880 and enough, he's averaging seventeen yards per reception, so downfield 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.120 type of and he's a big downfield type of receiver. Actually, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.320 two draft show guys, because remember we talked a lot 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.120 about Evan Ingram in the season opener. Gerald Everett is 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.360 the same type of dude, same type of like why 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.520 tight end who gets off the line, who's an athletic 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.640 guy South Alabama, kind of an under the radar guy. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.679 He's averaging thirty three yards per catch. Doesn't many catches yet, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.280 four but all of I mean four catches. Four catches 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.960 for one hundred and thirty four yards. He's not your 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.920 Jason Witten you know, on the line tight end, but 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.840 he's an athletic mismatch guy. It's goot Byron Jones written 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.520 all over it. It's something they're gonna have to look 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.600 out for. And then my guy, Cooper cup who was 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.960 maybe my favorite receiver in this past draft. Who you know, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.120 he can play outside, he can play inside. People think 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.480 he's like a Wes Welker type because he's white, but 0:13:55.520 --> 0:14:00.480 he's really not. He's just a very versatile, very dynamic receiver. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.240 He scored in the preseason game against the Cowboys. If 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.840 you remember on that play that Anthony Hitchins forced the 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.520 fumble on the goal line, he recovered the ball. Yes, 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.360 he's got nine catches for one hundred and twenty six 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:17.280 yards through and a touchdown. Just like a solid, versatile, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.160 possession guy who can play anywhere they want him to. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:25.600 Basically they are seventh in offense, sixth in passing offense. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.800 I haven't even mentioned Todd Gurley, which is crazy because 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.080 you would think that he's and obviously, you know they 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.600 want to give him a lot of touches. I mean, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.600 he was Zeke the year before Zeke went. He's the 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.120 top ten pick. He's getting twenty one touches a game. 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.840 But just like Zeke, it doesn't look like it's going 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.480 so easily for him. They're passing the ball well, but 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.120 he's averaging three point eight yards per carry. He's got 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.360 two hundred and forty one yards through three games, but 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.600 he's also got sixty four carries, so I kind of 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.280 wonder if they're going to try to get that crank 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.360 in a little bit more. The big thing that' stands 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.960 out to me. He's got thirteen catches for one hundred 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.560 and forty yards and two touchdowns through three games, so 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.240 catching the ball. They're using him in the passing game 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.360 the way that I want the Cowboys to use Zeke. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.800 I know Zeke probably has close to that many receptions 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.560 if I had to guess, he's probably got nine, ten, eleven, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.760 But has he had more than twenty receiving yards in 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.800 a game so far, I don't think so. So he's 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.440 leading their team in receptions right now, he's leading the 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.520 rams up Gurley exactly and rushing definitely in rushing. But 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.600 I'm just saying, like you were talking about those receivers, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.000 he's caught more balls than any of the receivers has. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.200 Like they use him a lot in their passing game. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.560 He is the most integral part of their I think 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.400 of their offense right and so well. I think it 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.560 would probably this is my cliche that I use for 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.280 the Cowboys all the time, which is that Zeke is 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:50.800 kind of the engine that makes it all go. I 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.120 think they probably want to base everything they do around 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.200 Todd Gurley, but the difference between this team being any 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.720 good and not is clearly Jared Goff, which you know, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.320 I don't want to say I'm surprised by him playing 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:04.920 well because he was the number one overall pick in 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.560 the draft, but he looked so bad last year that 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.320 I have no choice but to give a ton of 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.520 credit to Sean McVeigh because that was kind of his 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.640 that was kind of his reputation when they hired him, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.840 is that he's the guy that helped Kirk Cousins become 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.720 a franchise tag caliber guy and all I mean, Goff 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.720 looks great. That's that's the big takeaway that I have. 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.920 And again, I mean, can you can talk to me 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:30.960 about the quality of the opponents all you want, but 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.720 they're two in one and he's playing lights out right now. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:38.600 So what this will probably be? Cowboys saw the Rams. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.000 DeMarco ran all over him in twenty eleven, they beat 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.440 him up in twenty thirteen, they played him in twenty fourteen. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.160 This will be the best Rams team that the Cowboys 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.000 have seen in the last five or six years. I 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.200 would guess, all right, let's take a break. 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It's the second segment of the Breaklock from 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.480 the SWBC Mortgage studios at the Star, and we're talking 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.880 about the Cowboys defense versus the Rams offense. They'll take 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.639 the Cowboys take on the Rams this Sunday. It'll be 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.840 a noon game. It's the only noon game other than 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.520 the final game of the season, which I think they 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.320 probably schedule all teams at next until they decide how 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.960 they're gonna play that out. Cowboys and Eagles have a 0:19:58.000 --> 0:19:59.840 good season, there's a good bet that this will be 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:01.600 the only noon game of the year. And the way 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.240 things look right now, that could be a game of consequence. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.680 It certainly looks that way to get to the playoffs early, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.320 and then you have to play like a ten thirty 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.600 game or something like that for TV ten thirty, something 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.840 like that eleven am. Unless you're not it won't be 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.359 the Dallas Cowboys playing on that time were not played 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.479 at eleven am in the playoffs in Minnesota. We definitely 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.040 did I know that like our first year yep, oh, 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:27.679