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Speaker 4: It is Tuesday, September nineteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 4: episode number thirty four. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 4: The Break. We're a live from the WBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 4: at the Star. Got the crew with me today. It's
Speaker 4: our Gumbo show on Tuesday. We got a lot of
Speaker 4: things we're gonna throw into this. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 4: the NFC East, We got a little news. We'll get
Speaker 4: to talk a little bit about Michael Gallup and what
Speaker 4: he's shown so far this season and where we are
Speaker 4: with that. Also, we're going to try to get into
Speaker 4: the run offense and what the Cowboys have been able
Speaker 4: to do on the ground and if we think that's
Speaker 4: enough or will they need more from their running backs
Speaker 4: and their running game as the season wears on. We
Speaker 4: got a segment of lab Coat with No C. So
Speaker 4: we got a lot of stuff. We're going to hit
Speaker 4: a lot of different things, a lot of different topics
Speaker 4: in this show. So let's get it going. Let's start
Speaker 4: first with little news. Yesterday Cowboys announced that they have
Speaker 4: released Ronald Jones. Any surprise with that move or was
Speaker 4: that kind of expected that after he came off the
Speaker 4: suspension that the Cowboys would move on.
Speaker 7: I was expecting it actually prior to them just moving
Speaker 7: him to the reserve suspended list. We talked about it
Speaker 7: at training camp, and you know, the more training camp
Speaker 7: went on in preseason and then Ronald Jones gets the
Speaker 7: two game suspension and then he suffers the growing injury
Speaker 7: that basically deletes his entire preseason participation. In the meantime,
Speaker 7: you had guys like Hunter Lipke, Deucevon, these younger guys
Speaker 7: stepping up, Malite Davis who earned a spot on the
Speaker 7: practice squad, Rico Dowdo stepping into the RB two row.
Speaker 7: Question was where do Rojo fit? And I could not
Speaker 7: figure out where he fit. I figured they would just
Speaker 7: go ahead and let it go. Maybe they held onto
Speaker 7: him for that two week period as insurance against injury
Speaker 7: or whatever the.
Speaker 3: Case may be. But here we are. Two weeks has passed.
Speaker 3: He's now eligible to be activated.
Speaker 7: But instead of doing that, which would have cost him
Speaker 7: a roster spot, they would have had to release or
Speaker 7: waive someone. They just want to hit him parted ways. Now,
Speaker 7: I will say that doesn't you know, preclude him from
Speaker 7: possibly circling back and being a practice squad guy alongside
Speaker 7: Malik Davis. Because he's vested, he's not subject to waivers.
Speaker 7: He can sign with whomever he want effective today. So
Speaker 7: I don't know that the options off the table, but
Speaker 7: as it stands, yeah, Rojo is a free agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I felt like that he was going to be
Speaker 2: a guy. That he was going to be a bridge
Speaker 2: player is what he was going to be. And he
Speaker 2: was going to be much like what a dooga was.
Speaker 2: And so you know, I was thinking, Okay, veteran guys
Speaker 2: kind of this is Will's way of protecting himself. I
Speaker 2: like the way he does this. I wish I would
Speaker 2: have done it along time ago myself. But you know,
Speaker 2: you find ways to say, Okay, we got young players
Speaker 2: we want to look at, but I got to keep
Speaker 2: a veteran player over here, and he keeps him for
Speaker 2: a low salary and all that. In case something happens
Speaker 2: where it doesn't work out that way, you're kind of
Speaker 2: the coaches can go to their guy if they feel
Speaker 2: like you'ren't forcing a young guy on them. You're saying, hey,
Speaker 2: I got a veteran guy here. It's played a lot
Speaker 2: of snaps. If things don't work out with our young guys,
Speaker 2: we can do it. I've been told he's not going
Speaker 2: to be on the practice squad, so that that you know.
Speaker 2: I know, so he's going to be out there for
Speaker 2: anybody else. Maybe he appears on the Cowboys emergency board
Speaker 2: down the road if something happens, he knows the scheme
Speaker 2: and all that stuff like that. But you know, it
Speaker 2: was just like I say, it was a veteran move
Speaker 2: to protect the young players. They found out the young
Speaker 2: players can play a little bit, so they don't need
Speaker 2: Ronald Jones anymore.
Speaker 8: It's unfortunate, especially if what he said at training camp
Speaker 8: was true, and just a reminder he violated the what
Speaker 8: do you call that.
Speaker 3: Enhancement policy on performance enhancement.
Speaker 8: Performance enhancement, and what he said at training camp was
Speaker 8: basically he was taking some medication that was prescribed by
Speaker 8: his doctor for his heart and it pop up in
Speaker 8: the test. So he wasn't aware that whatever chemical was
Speaker 8: in there was going to show up as that. So
Speaker 8: in those instances and he was pretty upset, and he
Speaker 8: said he tried to fight it. So when you hear
Speaker 8: something like that, obviously you feel bad. If that's the
Speaker 8: true story, it sucks. But it's just the nature of
Speaker 8: this business and how things go down. And these younger
Speaker 8: guys were able to take advantage of every single snap
Speaker 8: and opportunity. And here there are there, everybody is at
Speaker 8: a good spot for the backs that they currently have.
Speaker 8: So it is what it is. I wish him well
Speaker 8: and we'll see if he ever, I mean, if he
Speaker 8: lands back on here or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Tough thing for him is that coming off a year
Speaker 4: last year where the Chiefs brought him in and hopes
Speaker 4: that he could be a player for them, and he
Speaker 4: ends up near the bottom of their depth chart, and
Speaker 4: then he comes to the Cowboys and two weeks in
Speaker 4: the season he's no longer on the team.
Speaker 9: That doesn't bode well for him.
Speaker 4: But right now there are two teams, particularly the Giants
Speaker 4: in the Browns, who've lost their running backs at least
Speaker 4: for a short period of time in the case of
Speaker 4: the Giants. For the Browns, probably for the season, and
Speaker 4: so it could create some opportunity for him if they
Speaker 4: see him as a guy that, as you said before, Brian,
Speaker 4: that bridge type veteran player, maybe he could be that
Speaker 4: for them and maybe get some burned there.
Speaker 2: You know. The one lesson you should learn if you're
Speaker 2: a player is that if you're taking any kind of medication,
Speaker 2: these trainers know, and maybe if you get something new,
Speaker 2: you walk into the training room and you go to
Speaker 2: your trainer and say, they prescribed this for my medicine,
Speaker 2: and then the trainer then has the knowledge to be
Speaker 2: able to say, well, let's look up what's in this medication.
Speaker 2: You know, there's really it always is confounding to me
Speaker 2: when these players say, well, I was taking this, and
Speaker 2: these players know exactly, they know what they're eating, they
Speaker 2: know what they're you know, they know what they're there's
Speaker 2: how their workouts go, everything about what's going into their body.
Speaker 2: The most of them do. And it's just unfortunate because
Speaker 2: it's very simple. These trainers and doctors will help you
Speaker 2: like you can't take that because it has the Senate
Speaker 2: and then it just eliminates any problems that you might
Speaker 2: have going forward. I mean, he lost an opportunity potentially,
Speaker 2: you know, for two weeks, you know, to compete and
Speaker 2: have an opportunity. We'll see, but it's unfortunate that you
Speaker 2: just it's very simple, walk in there, hand the prescriptions
Speaker 2: to your trainers, your doctors and say hey, can I
Speaker 2: take this? Is this going to be a problem.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And what Ronald was saying was in his explanation
Speaker 7: after the suspension landed and after the appeal failed, was
Speaker 7: that this was whatever it was that he was taking
Speaker 7: for his heart because of a congenital you know, family is.
Speaker 3: Sure with heart issues.
Speaker 7: He said that he had been taking it for years
Speaker 7: for the totality of his career, So could have been
Speaker 7: a situation, again we don't know all the details, but
Speaker 7: could have been a situation where he felt like if
Speaker 7: it wasn't a problem with his previous teams before now,
Speaker 7: it wasn't a problem with the league before now, he
Speaker 7: wasn't expecting that it will pop up and be a
Speaker 7: problem now. So, like you said, Ambar, I mean, we
Speaker 7: have both sides of the story. We don't know which
Speaker 7: side of that story is actually the truth. But if
Speaker 7: it is as he says it is, then you know,
Speaker 7: Brian's not wrong in that you still need to present
Speaker 7: this information to the trainers for your new team so
Speaker 7: that you guys can be on the same accord so
Speaker 7: they're not blindsided.
Speaker 3: You're not blindsided. They can double check with the league.
Speaker 7: But from his standpoint, I could see how he assumed
Speaker 7: probably should not have if he did. I could see
Speaker 7: how he would have assumed because he's not a first, second,
Speaker 7: third year guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's not a thirty year old. He's twenty six.
Speaker 7: But I mean if he's been taking it since he
Speaker 7: joined been in since he's been in the league and
Speaker 7: there's not been a problem, it's not popular test.
Speaker 3: I could see his frustration in surprise to it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Tough thing is these guys can't approach healthcare the way
Speaker 4: the rest of us do. Now get them Scott from
Speaker 4: your doc just to assume you're good. Yeah, but they
Speaker 4: live in a world where there's there's this kind of
Speaker 4: testing and you have to be aware of it because
Speaker 4: you're putting millions of dollars at risk if you don't
Speaker 4: pass the test that the NFL puts out there.
Speaker 2: You know, what they're in a situation too where they're
Speaker 2: you know, they give these guys physicals. Hell, they gave
Speaker 2: the scouts physicals. I mean the doctors know, they ask
Speaker 2: you what medications that we've all gone to the doctor,
Speaker 2: what medications you take? You know, they want to know
Speaker 2: if you're going in for surgery, they want to know
Speaker 2: what medications you take. So that's the unfortunate side of it,
Speaker 2: if you know, if it's a fact, it's a veteran
Speaker 2: thing and he's been taking it all along. And you know,
Speaker 2: with the league, I think they're very specific about what
Speaker 2: you can and cannot take. You know. That's that's something
Speaker 2: that I mean, I've seen documentation of just thousands of
Speaker 2: these prescriptions that appeared that just were like, okay, you
Speaker 2: can't this that you know, And I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: just it's unfortunate for him that you know, but maybe,
Speaker 2: like I say, he knows better now that maybe with
Speaker 2: the next team. And you mentioned there are a couple
Speaker 2: of teams that are looking for running.
Speaker 4: All right, let's jump into a little conversation on the
Speaker 4: NFC East interesting division as it was last year. Right now,
Speaker 4: there are three teams that are two and oh Cowboys,
Speaker 4: Philadelphia and Washington all two and oh New York is
Speaker 4: one and one. Only lost in the division is to
Speaker 4: a division opponent. So obviously, in early parts of the season,
Speaker 4: looking like this will be just as tough of a
Speaker 4: division as it was last year. All that being said,
Speaker 4: what stands out to you most about this division at
Speaker 4: this point through.
Speaker 7: Two weeks in Jalen Hurts the struggles. I feel like
Speaker 7: you went straight for the throat. I'm going straight for
Speaker 7: the throat. We're not wasting any time.
Speaker 8: Not the title of the podcast. Yeah, we'll get a
Speaker 8: guess engagement on.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm ninety percent confident that Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 7: going to continue to struggle. But it really is a
Speaker 7: situation where you look back at RG three's breakout year
Speaker 7: as a rookie and what he was able to do,
Speaker 7: and a lot of times when you have these particularly
Speaker 7: these running quarterbacks who dominate in any particular year, Jalen
Speaker 7: Hurts had a breakout season which was largely predicated on
Speaker 7: his ability to run. And the offseason to follow the
Speaker 7: film is out right, So now teams have an entire
Speaker 7: off season of your film to dictate and pick it apart.
Speaker 3: So then when you come into the.
Speaker 7: Next season, the expectation within your organization it's probably that
Speaker 7: you'll be able to replicate that. But that's not often
Speaker 7: the case, especially in a league that's dominated by parody.
Speaker 3: So when you see Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 7: Who rarely turn the ball over over the entirety of
Speaker 7: twenty twenty two, struggle to not turn the ball over
Speaker 7: over the first two games, you start to wonder to yourself, well,
Speaker 7: have teams figured him out? And then you start looking
Speaker 7: at the personnel around the NFC East, and you land
Speaker 7: squarely on the Cowboys defense, and you say, well, it's
Speaker 7: one thing to have a blueprint, but it's another thing
Speaker 7: to have the blueprint and the personnel. Okay, well, it's
Speaker 7: another thing to have the blueprint, the personnel, and the maestro.
Speaker 3: To be able to put all of that together.
Speaker 7: Could this be a situation where when the Cowboys go
Speaker 7: up against Jalen Hurts, they end up getting a multiple
Speaker 7: takeaway game. I think that could be the case. And
Speaker 7: I think the Cowboys the speed at linebacker Lv's playing
Speaker 7: here on fire de Mont Clark, that speed Marquise Bell
Speaker 7: is helping there. Donovan Wilson is ready to come back.
Speaker 7: So for me, it's the Eagles. I mean, I don't
Speaker 7: they should not apologize for the victory over the Vikings,
Speaker 7: but let's be honest, the Vikings gave that game away.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen the Eagles play yet between those two
Speaker 7: games in a way that impresses me to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 7: that's a Super Bowl contender. I'm not saying they're not.
Speaker 7: But nothing floors me about the Eagles just year.
Speaker 4: The one thing I will say real quick, I don't
Speaker 4: think I don't think it's I think it's too early
Speaker 4: in the season for me to make any declarations about
Speaker 4: really any offense in the league, because I think right
Speaker 4: now what you're seeing is a lot of subpar football.
Speaker 4: When it comes to the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: I think the defense is are far ahead of the offense.
Speaker 4: I think it's a reflection of the fact that a
Speaker 4: lot of teams aren't playing their starters a lot during
Speaker 4: the preseason, and I think that's the workthrough of this,
Speaker 4: and you go back and look at the numbers, I
Speaker 4: think it would probably bear out that in the first three,
Speaker 4: four five weeks of the season of these usually aren't
Speaker 4: just kind of clicking in the way that they normally
Speaker 4: do like people making all these same declarations, similar declarations
Speaker 4: about the Kansas City Chiefs. It's just it's early, I think,
Speaker 4: I think, right, I think that's just I think that's
Speaker 4: just the nature of NFL football.
Speaker 9: Takes a litle while for him to get going. But
Speaker 9: they're going to get going.
Speaker 4: And I have no doubts Jalen Hurts and the Eagles
Speaker 4: are going to be formidable when it comes it off
Speaker 4: inside of the ball, because that's just what they do.
Speaker 2: Boy, Brian, Yeah, the Commanders might have found a quarterback
Speaker 2: in Sam how and they've got there two and oh
Speaker 2: right now, and both their victories, Yeah, they're against Arizona
Speaker 2: and Denver. Both games they had to come back in
Speaker 2: and you got it as your team. We saw what
Speaker 2: happened last year with the Giants and with Brian Dayball
Speaker 2: and what they came in. They had a Week one
Speaker 2: victory and where he went for a two point play
Speaker 2: with for the to go for the victory and it
Speaker 2: kind of set the tone for their season. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: sputtered a little bit, you know, down the stretch, but
Speaker 2: they got into the playoffs. The thing with the Commanders,
Speaker 2: I've always felt like that they've got really good skilled
Speaker 2: players with Terry McLaurin and others, you know, with Robinson
Speaker 2: running the ball and stuff like that. They've got some
Speaker 2: legitimate weapons, Logan Thomas at tight end. They've got a
Speaker 2: really good defense. We saw first hand with the Cowboys
Speaker 2: in that final game what that front can do to you,
Speaker 2: how they can control the game. So the Commanders at
Speaker 2: to and zero it is, it's they're off to a
Speaker 2: grade start. Both victories coming back, both come back victories.
Speaker 2: The one in Denver I think was pretty impressive. I
Speaker 2: know Sean Payton's trying to do a lot of things
Speaker 2: get that thing going. But the Commanders might have found
Speaker 2: them a quarterback in sam.
Speaker 3: How, which is what they really need.
Speaker 4: They get a quarterback how it gets really interesting watch
Speaker 4: because they got the defense.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 8: I think we're already used to the NFCS having this
Speaker 8: type of competition a year after year and coming down
Speaker 8: to the last month of the year in December and
Speaker 8: what happens there and maybe but maybe I'm biased, Sorry
Speaker 8: sue me, but I just feel like the Cowboys they're
Speaker 8: different this year.
Speaker 9: Like if we were.
Speaker 8: Talking about it the other day or yesterday, it's just
Speaker 8: something about it completely feels completely different. Granted we're not
Speaker 8: in Philadelphia around the players, we're not in Washington around
Speaker 8: them either, but it's just even just watching them play.
Speaker 8: So like, look at the defense, the Cowboys defense, the
Speaker 8: energy that they have. I think whenever they face the
Speaker 8: Commanders or the Eagles, they're gonna they're gonna win. They're
Speaker 8: gonna win, They're gonna it's always a struggle. I get
Speaker 8: it when they face an division opponent and all that,
Speaker 8: but just the whole energy, they're themeanor everything is just
Speaker 8: working right and unless some type of crazy and yeah,
Speaker 8: knock on everything you can, but some crazy type of
Speaker 8: injury that would ruin your whole season basically, then you're screwed.
Speaker 8: And it happens to other teams. But otherwise, everything about
Speaker 8: the Cowboys right now just seems right, feels right, and
Speaker 8: feels completely different than the year before, and the year
Speaker 8: prior and the year since I started working here.
Speaker 2: It's just it.
Speaker 8: Feels and I don't want to get there. I don't
Speaker 8: want to say it this early on Week two, but
Speaker 8: it just feels like they have everything they need to compete.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 7: My main declaration is that the Eagles remain the top
Speaker 7: contender against the Cowboys. As far as taking the NFC East,
Speaker 7: I like the strides that the Commanders are taken with
Speaker 7: Sam Howe. I don't have much to say about the
Speaker 7: Giants right now because you know forty ZI. Congratulations to
Speaker 7: them for coming mount and that comeback against the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 7: But then you lose Saquon Barkley. What does that offense
Speaker 7: look like without Saquon Barkley going forward? So for me,
Speaker 7: it is going to go down to the Cowboys versus
Speaker 7: the Eagles. But there were questions going into this season, well,
Speaker 7: where do the Cowboys stack up against the Eagles and
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers. Well, we'll find out in a
Speaker 7: few weeks where they stack up against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 7: Forty nine ers still look fantastic, okay, but the forty
Speaker 7: nine ers feel like it feels like there is a
Speaker 7: bigger gap between the forty nine ers and the Eagles.
Speaker 7: Then there is the forty nine Ers and the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: which to me means the Cowboys are ahead of the
Speaker 7: Eagles right now, even if you say it's because the
Speaker 7: Cowboys have the best defense, definitely in the NFC East,
Speaker 7: likely in the NFC.
Speaker 3: Arguably in the entire league.
Speaker 7: So right now my declaration is going into Week three,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys have the lead on the Eagles, but those
Speaker 7: are still the two teams to watch to take the
Speaker 7: thrown in the NFCS.
Speaker 2: Would you pick the Cowboys over the forty nine Ers
Speaker 2: right now in a game.
Speaker 8: When they face each other, I'm definitely picking the Cowboys
Speaker 8: for sure. But and because going back to those games,
Speaker 8: you saw the Cowboys being competitive like they even though
Speaker 8: they on offense there were struggles there, but it was
Speaker 8: still it wasn't a game where they weren't doing absolutely anything.
Speaker 7: Because you said injury right why they struggle to get
Speaker 7: going against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 8: Tony Pollard he came up, going out and all that.
Speaker 8: So I think they have the tools and law of
Speaker 8: probability it will be the Cowboys turn to beat them
Speaker 8: atty soon. So we'll we'll find out.
Speaker 3: That'd be Cowboys team beats the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4: Brian, you asked that question, and I know you usually
Speaker 4: when you asked that question you got a thought in
Speaker 4: your head.
Speaker 2: Well, I still, I know we talked about the bully factor,
Speaker 2: and I think the Cowboys are starting to become a
Speaker 2: bully in this conference. I think the forty nine ers
Speaker 2: are a real bully though too. And I think that
Speaker 2: you know, what is it you're you know, to beat
Speaker 2: the man, you know, or to be the man. You
Speaker 2: got to beat the man. I guess that's the saying.
Speaker 2: They they come with. You know you talked about Pollard
Speaker 2: being out. They they were there. McCaffrey was out for
Speaker 2: San Francisco in that game too, he was he was hurt.
Speaker 2: So to me, they're they're you're gonna have to prove
Speaker 2: to me as as you're gonna have to prove to
Speaker 2: me that you can go Santa Clara on a Sunday
Speaker 2: night and win a football game.
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: Is it lining up to wear the right way with
Speaker 2: the feel and the talent and the coaching and all that. Sure,
Speaker 2: it really does. I have a lot of respect for
Speaker 2: that group though out in Santa Clara. I really really do.
Speaker 2: And I feel like though my attitude about it is,
Speaker 2: I think you can handle the Philadelphia Eagles that you
Speaker 2: handle the Philadelphi Eagles on a yearly basis, you know,
Speaker 2: you're either two zero or you split or you know,
Speaker 2: it's usually very you know a lot of times one
Speaker 2: of the games yeah, one of the games is an
Speaker 2: absolute blowout. You know, usually you'll play me then they
Speaker 2: just completely fall apart.
Speaker 3: But this is this.
Speaker 2: I think this team at San Francisco is built a
Speaker 2: lot like you, And I think that's the thing that
Speaker 2: that me that when I watch that win they had
Speaker 2: going to Pittsburgh caught my attention. And maybe Pittsburgh's not
Speaker 2: any good, but I know Mike Tomlins damn good as
Speaker 2: a coach. I think they got a tough team over there,
Speaker 2: and the way that forty nine Ers handled them, you know,
Speaker 2: and the forty nine Ers were down in the rams,
Speaker 2: which is a division opponent, but what they do in
Speaker 2: the second half, they found a way to kind of
Speaker 2: take over the game. I like their quarterback, I like
Speaker 2: their roster, but your roster is closer to their roster.
Speaker 2: So that that's where I was trying to get a gauge.
Speaker 2: She's bullish, not more. I'm more of let's see, let's
Speaker 2: see you go be a bully and go beat another bully. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's kind of where I'm at with San Francisco going down.
Speaker 8: And there are times that i think I'm like, are
Speaker 8: we becoming what the Giants are to us? But now
Speaker 8: we're the giants to the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it would get
Speaker 4: that far because the Cowboys have dominated the Giants for you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a short short But what.
Speaker 4: I will say is I do think mentally there is
Speaker 4: something there. You listen to the players talk. They talk
Speaker 4: abouts the Cowboys players really think of San Francisco as
Speaker 4: a measuring and they should and should you when a
Speaker 4: team has beaten you, the put you out of the
Speaker 4: playoffs the last two years in a row. If you're
Speaker 4: not to me, I don't think you're thinking about it right.
Speaker 4: You should be saying that's a target. We want to
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to beat them because that shows our progress,
Speaker 4: That shows how much better we are. But going to
Speaker 4: your point, Brian, like, I look at them too, and
Speaker 4: I agree. I think those defenses are equal. And that's
Speaker 4: the thing about the Cowboys this year. I think there's
Speaker 4: a certain amount of fear that they put into opposing
Speaker 4: offenses when they know they have to play the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I think that's one team in San Francisco that won't work.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's any amount of fear that the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers will have going up against this defense
Speaker 4: because by the way, they face the same defense every
Speaker 4: day in practice.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 9: I think it's part of the reasons why you see
Speaker 9: this offense, right. I think it's part of the reason
Speaker 9: why you saw this offense.
Speaker 4: Play the way they did last week is because they
Speaker 4: don't go into a game fearing any defense because they
Speaker 4: face this defense every day.
Speaker 9: So that's where I think those two things, like you said.
Speaker 4: Similarly built. And that's going to mean both teams are
Speaker 4: going to come in with supreme amounts of confidence. Their
Speaker 4: defense have extreme amounts of confidence and their offenses no,
Speaker 4: we can do things against really good defenses because we
Speaker 4: practice against one every single day.
Speaker 2: I think that when we went from ox SNAr to
Speaker 2: the start of the season, I know myself, I don't
Speaker 2: want to speak for you guys, I had San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Well,
Speaker 2: now I would say I would have San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: You know, the ranking of how just if you want
Speaker 2: the two game sample size and what the teams have done,
Speaker 2: you know. I feel like though that it's you're getting
Speaker 2: closer to what my thoughts of San Francisco were tremendously high.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking like San Francisco is gonna find And you know,
Speaker 2: I was in a situation too. You might be thought
Speaker 2: that Philadelphia had a little bit more talent, and maybe
Speaker 2: because they were division champs that maybe you have to
Speaker 2: give them the nod. But Dallas's Dallas's talent, I think
Speaker 2: is surpassing what Philadelphia's talent is. But that game in
Speaker 2: Santa Clair will tell you how far they really.
Speaker 3: Are the Cowboys are.
Speaker 7: In my opinion, they're one tick behind the San Francisco
Speaker 7: forty nine ers. Like I said earlier, there I have
Speaker 7: them above the Eagles now, but one tick. But here's
Speaker 7: the tick. What is the unleashed Texas Coast offense look like?
Speaker 7: I mean, when it's Brandon Cooks is on the field
Speaker 7: and he's cooking, and Ceedee Lamb is cooking, and Jake
Speaker 7: and schooling Tyler and the offensive line, you have your
Speaker 7: starting offensive line, Like, what does that look like on
Speaker 7: all cylinders? And if it looks like what we think
Speaker 7: it can look like, now it's your right there.
Speaker 3: Now we're equal.
Speaker 7: So then in a few weeks when you go to
Speaker 7: have that game in Santa Clara, Okay, now this is
Speaker 7: the real test of who's the best team in the
Speaker 7: NFC at that point in the season. Obviously there's still
Speaker 7: lots of football that we played after that, but yeah,
Speaker 7: I have them just a small tick. But it's because
Speaker 7: I don't know yet what the best version of the
Speaker 7: Texas Coast offense looks like.
Speaker 4: Obviously the team will not be looking ahead, but man,
Speaker 4: I'm looking ahead. I cannot wait until Week five. That's
Speaker 4: going to be a phenomenal game in Santa.
Speaker 8: Clara, what I loved. And we were all standing there
Speaker 8: right after the game outside the locker room and talk
Speaker 8: about the focus and their mentality right now compared to
Speaker 8: last year, where we know at one point they started
Speaker 8: getting too bakeheads over here smelling themselves what my grandma, Yeah,
Speaker 8: smelling themselves. But you if you just without knowing what
Speaker 8: happened in the game, if you were standing there where
Speaker 8: we were and watch them going to the locker room,
Speaker 8: you would have thought they lost that game. That was
Speaker 8: a loss, that was a beat down.
Speaker 3: Michael walking into the locker room.
Speaker 8: I'm telling you, it's so different. So that tells you,
Speaker 8: and that's a good thing. That just tells you how
Speaker 8: locked focused they are right now. They're not granted, I mean,
Speaker 8: for week one. That was a fun game for everybody.
Speaker 8: There was a little energy in there, but it's just
Speaker 8: they're staying level, they're staying grounded, and they're really really
Speaker 8: aware of what they're going after this year.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's talk about Michael Gallup. I want to
Speaker 4: find out what your level of concern is with him,
Speaker 4: because I think in this last game there was an
Speaker 4: expectation that you didn't have Brandon Cooks, and so this
Speaker 4: was gonna be the game where we were going to
Speaker 4: be able to see I don't know how many times
Speaker 4: I heard media people as week sand, this is gonna
Speaker 4: be the.
Speaker 9: Game we get to see Michael.
Speaker 4: We get to see Michael Gallup kind of breakout and
Speaker 4: kind of reassume that position as the number two. And
Speaker 4: he ended up with a catch for three yards. And
Speaker 4: I don't know that the numbers necessarily always say he
Speaker 4: did a great had a great game or not, because
Speaker 4: quite frankly, he could have been opened a lot more
Speaker 4: frequently than he got the ball. But I wanted to
Speaker 4: get your level of, well, what your thoughts are right
Speaker 4: now on where Michael Gallup is and what you've seen
Speaker 4: from him in the first two games this season.
Speaker 9: I'll start with you.
Speaker 2: Brian Patrick was asked a question this morning from Bobby
Speaker 2: Belt that Bobby and I talked about on Love of
Speaker 2: the Star podcast yesterday. Is Michael Gallop a round peg
Speaker 2: in a square hole because of scheme fit? Now? Is
Speaker 2: he a guy that is the precise route runner? Is
Speaker 2: he a timing based type of a route runner. Is
Speaker 2: he a guy that can does the route tree limit
Speaker 2: with what the West Coast offense requires? I think he
Speaker 2: could run the slants, some of the end stuff, the
Speaker 2: outs that they have. Michael Gallup is kind of a
Speaker 2: vertical player to me. You know, he's a guy that
Speaker 2: his routes are a little bit deeperilt. It's built more
Speaker 2: on protection, a little bit deeper drop. Maybe not the
Speaker 2: ball getting out as quick. You know, there's times where
Speaker 2: he doesn't catch the ball completely cleanly. You know, So
Speaker 2: maybe that that kind of limits. But this might be
Speaker 2: a situation where he is a guy that it's going
Speaker 2: to be a little bit of a struggle for him.
Speaker 2: The more you really really dive into how this game
Speaker 2: is going to be played, and especially with this offense,
Speaker 2: and so I would love for Michael Gallup to have
Speaker 2: a day this week against Arizona where it's six catches
Speaker 2: for ninety yards and a touchdown something like that, just
Speaker 2: to just to give him a little confidence, but I
Speaker 2: believe he might be a guy that's in a it's
Speaker 2: a it's not the cleanest scheme fit for him with
Speaker 2: the way that West Coast offense operate, especially when you
Speaker 2: watch him with how they run routes and then how
Speaker 2: quickly the ball gets out.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's become and I hate it for him because
Speaker 8: I really do like Michael Gallup and I love him
Speaker 8: as a player and as a person, but he he's
Speaker 8: just become so unforgettable, like forgetful, like forgettable, and even
Speaker 8: at training camp there are times that I would completely
Speaker 8: forget get about him. I'm like, oh, yeah that, oh okay,
Speaker 8: there's Gallup. He's moving around, okay, and then I forget
Speaker 8: about him again. So it happened again, like I barely
Speaker 8: even noticed him in this game, and it's just it's
Speaker 8: been that way, and now he just feels, just like
Speaker 8: Brian said, like he just doesn't feel like he fits
Speaker 8: in anymore. And I'm at a point where I personally
Speaker 8: want to start seeing even more of a guy like
Speaker 8: Jalen Tolbert as part of the offense, and obviously together
Speaker 8: with CD and Brandan Cooks, and I want to see
Speaker 8: them three and what they can do. But it's just
Speaker 8: one of those things that maybe the change in offense
Speaker 8: and all that, like everything, Like Brian said, that's what's
Speaker 8: kind of making him be left out because right now
Speaker 8: he just he hasn't done anything this year or the
Speaker 8: off season other than me seeing him being able to
Speaker 8: move around pretty well health wise, but other than that
Speaker 8: as being part of the he's just faded away slowly.
Speaker 7: For me, Well, I'm going to break out a concern meter,
Speaker 7: since my meters are provocative and they get the people going.
Speaker 7: I was zero percent concerned with Michael Gallup before the
Speaker 7: first two games of the season. I put my concern
Speaker 7: left with about twenty five percent and good great conversation
Speaker 7: with Bobby Sean RJ this morning with that particular question
Speaker 7: square peg.
Speaker 3: Round hole.
Speaker 7: Possibly that's possibly true, but it's too soon to know
Speaker 7: if that's the case. We're only two weeks in and
Speaker 7: we just talked about how we don't know yet what
Speaker 7: the unbridled Texas Coast offense looks like just yet.
Speaker 3: Cowboys are still kind of figuring that out.
Speaker 7: Didn't have Brandon Cooks on the field last week, so
Speaker 7: you know, once Cooks is back on the field, and
Speaker 7: let's really start to see two three games in what
Speaker 7: it really looks like and how that impacts Michael Gallup. Yes,
Speaker 7: he's not going to be He can run the slam,
Speaker 7: but he's not the quick separating guy like you would
Speaker 7: see Cooks and Turpin and Ceedee Lamb and Duce Vaughan
Speaker 7: if you line Duce up in the slot. So he's
Speaker 7: not going to be that. But there will come a
Speaker 7: time where you will need the downfield threat that matches
Speaker 7: the physicality and the violence in which Michael Gallup attacks
Speaker 7: that ball when he high points it. You will need
Speaker 7: the physicality of Michael Gallup to be able to run
Speaker 7: through one or two would be tacklers to get you
Speaker 7: that first down. And that's a skill set that really
Speaker 7: will come into handy. The question is how many more
Speaker 7: games will we see before that happens. And hopefully he
Speaker 7: goes out to Arizona and that's his day. It was
Speaker 7: Ceedee Lamb's day on Sunday, Maybe this is Gallup's day.
Speaker 7: Maybe the next week is Cook's his day, and then
Speaker 7: it's Ferguson's day. And that's what Mike McCarthy was talking
Speaker 7: about in Every Day Every Week might be another guy's week.
Speaker 7: So hopefully Michael Gallups week is coming up soon. But
Speaker 7: I think there is reason to have some concern. But
Speaker 7: I wouldn't write him off two weeks in. Let's play
Speaker 7: some more football. Let's talk about it midway through the season.
Speaker 7: See where his impact is versus a Jalen Tobert impact.
Speaker 7: Because we talked about in the absence of Cook last
Speaker 7: this past Sunday, we wanted to see Michael Gallup step up,
Speaker 7: and Turp.
Speaker 3: Step up, and Jaylen Tolbert step up.
Speaker 7: Well, none of them really had to. Kassini Lamb took
Speaker 7: over the game, but Tolbert impacted the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's where that's where I would go
Speaker 2: because if you need Gallup to you know, if I
Speaker 2: think I would feel better if Gallup had five targets
Speaker 2: and four catches in that game, much like you know
Speaker 2: what Tolbert had. You know, I know on the pregame show,
Speaker 2: we were talking about, you know, Week two last year, Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: Noah Brown five catches, five targets, first downs, fourth downs,
Speaker 2: you know, everything that he did. He was a big
Speaker 2: part of winning that football game. You know, Lamb had
Speaker 2: a great game the other day, you know, but I
Speaker 2: felt like, you know, I thought, I know I said
Speaker 2: this earlier, well yesterday was I thought the Jets were
Speaker 2: really arrogant with the way they played Lamb. They absolutely
Speaker 2: were arrogant that they felt like their rush could completely
Speaker 2: get home and that they could just play him one
Speaker 2: on one in his own coverage and they would be fine.
Speaker 2: You know, if teams are going to do that, then yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd throw the ball eleven times twelve times to Lamb.
Speaker 2: But I mean, some of these other guys are going
Speaker 2: to have to step And I understand what Patrick's saying
Speaker 2: about the vertical games and stuff like that, but there's
Speaker 2: going to be a time when if if Tolbert continues
Speaker 2: to have five targets, four catches, six targets, five catches,
Speaker 2: seven targets, seven catches, we're not going to be talking
Speaker 2: about Michael Gallup unless he can come along and play
Speaker 2: at the same level. Is what Jalen Tolbert's playing in the.
Speaker 8: Things like you'll see him at times have like that
Speaker 8: one great catch and that one great moment that's exactly
Speaker 8: exactly and then you're like, Okay, yeah, that's exactly why
Speaker 8: he's here. Yes, so he has that, But I think
Speaker 8: it's the fact that we saw what happened last year
Speaker 8: and it was kind of okay, well you blame it
Speaker 8: on the injury, which is fair. He's still recovering and
Speaker 8: all that. So now it's prolonged game. So again, still
Speaker 8: early in the year, but hopefully it's not a copy
Speaker 8: paste of what last year was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I personally think that that's coming for him
Speaker 4: if he can keep his head in the right place
Speaker 4: and not get discouraged, because I think at the early
Speaker 4: part of this year, I think what you're gonna see
Speaker 4: from the offense is a lot of the quick, short stuff.
Speaker 4: There's going to come a time when defenses are gonna say, Okay,
Speaker 4: we see how you're trying to move the ball there.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna we're gonna bite on those a little
Speaker 4: bit more. That's when the opportunities will come more down
Speaker 4: the field and the Cowboys will take those shots. And
Speaker 4: that's when he'll get those opportunities. That's the thing about
Speaker 4: a long season. He got seventeen games. Then well, as
Speaker 4: the season goes on, teams will say, Okay, we'll see
Speaker 4: you being really successful with this, so we're gonna take
Speaker 4: that away.
Speaker 9: What can you do next? That's when I think Michael
Speaker 9: got But this.
Speaker 2: Is us trying to answer your question, right, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean you know you're trying to say, well, you know, well, heck,
Speaker 2: everything's gonna be okay, it's all good here in Cowboys.
Speaker 2: You know, you're trying to kind of come up with
Speaker 2: reasons why, you know, why would you think that this
Speaker 2: guy is struggling, you know, why are they not getting
Speaker 2: why is he not have five catches? I'll say one
Speaker 2: thing though. The other day, he's lucky he didn't get decapitated.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry it's a terrible word to say. Goes
Speaker 2: in the middle of field, goes up, Guys collide and
Speaker 2: all around you trying to get a ball. Give him
Speaker 2: a clean ball to catch, you know, I mean, every
Speaker 2: it seems like every time he he gets put more
Speaker 2: situations where he gets whacked trying to catch a foot.
Speaker 9: Usually high in the air.
Speaker 2: He doesn't and I'm like, okay, well give him a chance.
Speaker 4: It happened in week one, like down sideline, he thought
Speaker 4: he had the ball, but he comes out out of
Speaker 4: bound right, So exactly, I.
Speaker 7: Think he goes to what I was saying about, that's
Speaker 7: I mean, that's a large part of his skill set
Speaker 7: is being able to high point the ball and play
Speaker 7: violent and because the Cowboys coaching staff and Deck knows that,
Speaker 7: unfortunately that will have them put him in more of
Speaker 7: those precarious situations than Ceedey.
Speaker 3: Lamb gets put in those situations.
Speaker 7: Every once in a while he got decked as well,
Speaker 7: but more often than not it is going to be
Speaker 7: Michael Gallup who is asked to take on those hits.
Speaker 2: What I'm learning about this offense is if you're not
Speaker 2: a good route runner, you're probably going to struggle. And
Speaker 2: I'm saying or if you're not a clean route runner,
Speaker 2: if there's a little bit of if you're not, because
Speaker 2: we've seen with Lamb, with Tolbert, with some other with Cooks,
Speaker 2: you know, you run routes clean boom where you need
Speaker 2: to be ball there.
Speaker 8: So how do you classify him as a route runner?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's great. I think that I think
Speaker 2: the athletic ability, the high point in the football I packed.
Speaker 2: I think making himself small in areas and getting feet
Speaker 2: down and making spectac their catches. I think it's I
Speaker 2: think he's one of the best I've ever seen it
Speaker 2: that just you know, like there's no way he's going
Speaker 2: to get this ball, and he gets it. But in
Speaker 2: this offense, that's not a requirement being precise timing. You know,
Speaker 2: Dack at training camp yelling at somebody it's twelve steps.
Speaker 2: It's not fourteen, it's twelve. You know. That's that's how
Speaker 2: precise you have to be running this offense with the
Speaker 2: timing of it. And so that could be a problem.
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Speaker 9: Bryan, I'm sorry, not Brian Patrick. We look just lab coat.
Speaker 3: Go all right, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 7: In this week's lab Coat Well, the previous two weeks
Speaker 7: we focused on the opposing quarterback.
Speaker 2: Man, don't you have a sounder for this thing?
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Speaker 7: Superstitious, very superstitious. Last two weeks we focused in on
Speaker 7: the opposing quarterback. Now the Cowboys are going up against
Speaker 7: Joshua Dobbs. Not a ton of film on him, and
Speaker 7: not a lot that stands out as far as what
Speaker 7: the Cowboys need to account for. Averages less than six
Speaker 7: yards when he takes off a run, and he can
Speaker 7: be had in the air as well. So we're going
Speaker 7: to turn inward on the Cowboys and I have two
Speaker 7: numbers that we're going to pull out of today's lap coat.
Speaker 7: Twenty one and twenty nine. Folks, twenty one and twenty
Speaker 7: nine went back and did the tally of the Cowboys
Speaker 7: defensive snaps since Dan Quinn has joined the team. Went
Speaker 7: back and did a tally of how many sacks and
Speaker 7: pressures they've had in that same time frame. How many
Speaker 7: takeaways the Cowboys are sacking opposing quarterbacks one sack every
Speaker 7: twenty one defensive snaps. That is insane. That is ridiculously insane.
Speaker 7: But here's why that, here's what makes that important. Especially
Speaker 7: when you go into the context of pressures and disruptions
Speaker 7: in the backfield, it allows them to take the ball
Speaker 7: away once roughly every twenty nine defensive snaps. That is
Speaker 7: far and beyond every other team in the league. So
Speaker 7: when you mix in the fact that the Cowboys to
Speaker 7: this point now Colnwood hopefully it continues, have not given
Speaker 7: the ball away a single time. Now you're talking about
Speaker 7: why it was forty zero, why it was thirty to ten,
Speaker 7: and it really should have been thirty to three. If
Speaker 7: Malie Hooker goes and takes the outside shoulder as far
Speaker 7: as the inside on the angle Malik. You know he
Speaker 7: made good on that by getting the interception over the game,
Speaker 7: but it should have been thirty to three, and we're
Speaker 7: talking to seventy to three point differential. It's because the
Speaker 7: Cowboys applied that much pressure to opposing teams. If they
Speaker 7: can continue to do that going forward, and the oppo
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys offense can eat if they can be
Speaker 7: par or better, let alone electric, If they can be
Speaker 7: par or better, and you're sacking the opposing quarterback once
Speaker 7: every twenty one snaps, you're taking the ball away once
Speaker 7: every twenty nine snaps. Yes, this is a February team.
Speaker 7: If that continues, Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love what he's talking about there. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: one thing I'm going to do. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: back and watch Josh Dobbs play against the Cowboys though
Speaker 2: in Week sixteen when he made the start for the
Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans and he didn't have his running back in
Speaker 2: that game.
Speaker 3: If I remember COVID, I remember it was.
Speaker 2: Like this guy nine they played down Yeah.
Speaker 3: Fair.
Speaker 7: My point being this year they've shown that they're not
Speaker 7: willing to do that. I think, yeah, lessons like Green Bay, Tennessee, Jacksonville.
Speaker 7: It burned in their mind and this tattoo on them
Speaker 7: and to say, remember that we went into Nashville and
Speaker 7: we were in a dogfight with Josh Dobbs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So, well, they were fighting for a playoff spot too.
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody was, everything was on the line, and
Speaker 2: unfortunately for well for Tennessee, they didn't have their quarterback
Speaker 2: where they're running back in that game. I will say
Speaker 2: this though about it though. I love the fact that
Speaker 2: the numbers with the pressures and the number of plays,
Speaker 2: and I think it just goes to the creativity of
Speaker 2: the coaching staff. Here, the willingness to take players find
Speaker 2: roles for them. Hey, we're going to play Jordan Lewis
Speaker 2: only ten plays. Well, guess what Jordan Lewis is in
Speaker 2: the nickel on a third down and undercutting a route
Speaker 2: and knocking the ball away or being in position to
Speaker 2: knock the ball away. You know this with the staff
Speaker 2: does it's to a credit to them, it's a credit
Speaker 2: to the players. It's a credit for the buy in,
Speaker 2: the overall buy in on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a tough day for Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 2: There's no question about it. But about it is and
Speaker 2: I'm happy about this. At least dan Quinn has an idea.
Speaker 2: Now he can go back and say, Okay, this is
Speaker 2: how I try to affect this kid's eye level a
Speaker 2: little bit. You know, this is how I kind of
Speaker 2: moved him around. This is how I maybe got him
Speaker 2: off platform a little bit. And too Patrick's numbers. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe maybe those numbers are even better on some dropbacks
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, if they can get him to
Speaker 2: kind of maybe see some ghosts.
Speaker 7: And definitely can be and well if you look at
Speaker 7: those numbers and you flip it into what does that
Speaker 7: mean potential wise going into each game for this Cowboys defense,
Speaker 7: If you're the opposing offense trying to figure out what
Speaker 7: you're actually up against, it is a horror movie. This
Speaker 7: Cowboys defense has the potential with these numbers to take
Speaker 7: the ball away six times per game on any given Sunday.
Speaker 7: They have the potential for eight and a half sex
Speaker 7: per game on any given Sunday. That's what opposing offenses
Speaker 7: are up against. So yes, it is Freddy Krueger, it's Chucky,
Speaker 7: it's Michael Myers, it's everybody.
Speaker 3: It is the scary movie that we would want.
Speaker 8: We're in September.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, the defense, but this is the same.
Speaker 8: That's an office joke because we know some people like
Speaker 8: getting ahead of some holidays around here.
Speaker 3: This is the defense.
Speaker 7: Are these defensive numbers from twenty to twenty one all
Speaker 7: the way through week two. So we're not talking about
Speaker 7: the office when we talk about the offense. The question
Speaker 7: is can they continue to not give the ball away
Speaker 7: and or minimize how and when they give the ball away?
Speaker 7: The defense is the defense that is scary hours exclamation point.
Speaker 4: I will say this and I want to talk about
Speaker 4: this a little bit more Thursday when when we dive
Speaker 4: into the matchup, and this isn't so much about the
Speaker 4: matchup with the Cardinals, but really, when you think about
Speaker 4: this defense overall, I've started now kind of wondering, Okay,
Speaker 4: what is their kryptonite? Because every unit on every team
Speaker 4: has some kryptonite and it hasn't become apparent just yet
Speaker 4: what that kryptonite is, but it's gonna come at some
Speaker 4: point this season. We're gonna find out what their kryptonite is,
Speaker 4: and then teams are going to try to exploit that.
Speaker 2: The one thing that we saw with what the Eagles did,
Speaker 2: and I know that's down the road, is the ability
Speaker 2: to play that Reid option football on how much is
Speaker 2: that quarterback willing to run. He looks like he's not
Speaker 2: willing to run very much. But the one time we
Speaker 2: saw defense freeze Micah Parsons was running at him and
Speaker 2: making him have to make a decision on quarterback or
Speaker 2: pitch that that looked like the one time where it
Speaker 2: kind of you could you could put two three guys
Speaker 2: on and blocking he doesn't bother him. But that was
Speaker 2: the one thing that paralyzed him as a player of
Speaker 2: having to make a decision on how to play. The
Speaker 2: Cowboys probably have an idea what they need to do
Speaker 2: to avoid that.
Speaker 7: Again, Micro speed, damone and lv' that's the situation when
Speaker 7: he's one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3: The RPO was just it had Michael Parsons paralyzed. It
Speaker 3: had him running the mud.
Speaker 7: So this needs to be a situation where you have
Speaker 7: so much confidence in the speed of LVE and UH
Speaker 7: and Demon and then obviously hopefully Donald is in the
Speaker 7: game with Mark Monkey's bill. You trust those guys to
Speaker 7: be able to cover if you let Mark Michael go
Speaker 7: back there as or Michael as some analysts will call him,
Speaker 7: and you trust that if Michael doesn't blow up that play,
Speaker 7: that you have speed on the batkend to contain that
Speaker 7: at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 9: All right, that's a wrap.
Speaker 4: We're back tomorrow. We start diving into Cowboys versus Cardinals.
Speaker 4: Will do the Cardinals defense versus the Cowboys offense tomorrow
Speaker 4: until then for Patrick Walker.
Speaker 9: Brian brought us Ambergarcia. I'm Derek Eilton.
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