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Speaker 1: episode number seventy nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
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Speaker 1: talking Cowboys football with you for the next forty five minutes.
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Speaker 1: you might have to speak. I got the sniffles, but
Speaker 1: other than that, I'm okay. You two. I got that too.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's been coming and going. It makes
Speaker 1: me nervous. So we no. The weather fluctuates, like anytime
Speaker 1: there's a temperature drop of more than like five degrees
Speaker 1: or or raise whatever. I just well, there's been plenty
Speaker 1: of that. It messes with me. Not that anybody caressing
Speaker 1: to everyone listen. Yeah, everyone listening right now is Jay Cutler.
Speaker 1: You don't care, don't don't kill Hey, I'm here. I'm here.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody feels sorry for you. Jason Garrett says,
Speaker 1: I'm here. So here's where it's go about. Here's gonna
Speaker 1: talk about today. We got a few things. I want
Speaker 1: to first talk about where the Cowboys stand in the
Speaker 1: end of the c East. I have a couple questions
Speaker 1: for you around that with regards to your the likelihood
Speaker 1: of certain things happening here over the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: Then I want to get into some statistics. I was
Speaker 1: looking at some different rate rankings where the Cowboys fall
Speaker 1: in particular categories, some individuals, some team. But I want
Speaker 1: to get your feedback on some of these and how
Speaker 1: relevant they are to what we're seeing on the field.
Speaker 1: But let's start first with the division. Right now, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are in second place. Redskins are at six and three,
Speaker 1: leading the division, have beaten the Cowboys head to head.
Speaker 1: Cowboys do get a chance to right that wrong here
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving Day. But the Cowboys are in second place
Speaker 1: at four and five, Phillies at four and five as well,
Speaker 1: and then you have the Giants, who get a win
Speaker 1: last night at two and seven. Over the next few weeks,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot that's gonna happen. Because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some teams playing each other within the division.
Speaker 1: They're also gonna be some really big games or teams
Speaker 1: have to play very good teams outside the division. Washington
Speaker 1: next week plays Houston, Dallas plays at Atlanta, Philadelphia plays
Speaker 1: at New Orleans. All three of those games, in their
Speaker 1: own different ways, will be tough games. But here's what
Speaker 1: I want to do. I'm gonna tell you the next
Speaker 1: three games for each of these teams, and I want
Speaker 1: you to tell me the likelihood first of all, that
Speaker 1: Dallas wins is next three. And we're gonna do this
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to five. Five being the
Speaker 1: most likely that they win two of the next three,
Speaker 1: and one being the least that they'll win the next
Speaker 1: Hate this why because we do a talk show, and
Speaker 1: the talk shows people want to hear your opinions, obviously,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to give my opinion. But like what
Speaker 1: we just we just came off a stretch where they
Speaker 1: lost to a mediocre team at home and then beat
Speaker 1: the reigning champs on the road. So like, whatever I
Speaker 1: say is gonna be wrong, probably, but go ahead, not
Speaker 1: to steal your thunder right. Awesome, My bad, I don't
Speaker 1: really understand it just yet because there was a lot
Speaker 1: and there's like all three teams in the vision next
Speaker 1: three games one to five when I don't know yet,
Speaker 1: but figured out, let's let's here we go, let's prot
Speaker 1: start over. Okay, this sounds crazy. This is awesome, Stuart,
Speaker 1: This is awesome, all right, Dallas. Next three games, they're
Speaker 1: playing at Atlanta, they're playing home against Watching, they're playing
Speaker 1: home against New Orleans. What's the likelihood in your mind
Speaker 1: that they win two of the next three? Um, two, two, five,
Speaker 1: five being the most three three out of four And
Speaker 1: that's and see we've not seen out of this team. Nope. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: two sounds good. Yeah if you wrote them down by games,
Speaker 1: would you change your opinion? Like if you had a
Speaker 1: did a matchup and you said likely that they went
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. See, yeah, I don't put that somewhere between
Speaker 1: thirty and fifty percent. Yeah, still not great. You still
Speaker 1: don't think there's a highly highway and that Like I'm
Speaker 1: obviously look, I you know, you put a lot of
Speaker 1: work into planning these shows, and I admire that. I
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to crap on your idea, but like that
Speaker 1: is the whole. That's what I let off with yesterday
Speaker 1: after the game. It's like I don't know what to
Speaker 1: do with this team, and so like it's a joke,
Speaker 1: but I sort of believe it. It's like going on
Speaker 1: the road and beating Philly impressively to me, suggests that
Speaker 1: they'll probably lose to Atlanta. Like that's just what we've
Speaker 1: come to expect from this team through ten weeks. I
Speaker 1: was telling day this after the show yesterday. A lot
Speaker 1: of tweets to me were like, man, if they just
Speaker 1: would have beaten Washington or beaten the Titans, They've beaten Titans.
Speaker 1: Look look where they would be that's not true because
Speaker 1: I don't think they beat Philly. If you beat the Titans,
Speaker 1: that's not what this team is. And that's why everyone's
Speaker 1: frustrated because this team always stays in that they don't
Speaker 1: really get hot. At one year they did with Dak
Speaker 1: and Zekeez rookies. Most of the time though, they don't.
Speaker 1: So for them to build on that and beat Atlanta,
Speaker 1: that sounds great, But which come back and beat Washington
Speaker 1: in four days if they if they beat Atlanta, they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat Washington. That's just irrational confidence they beat Atlanta
Speaker 1: or if they lose to Atlanta, if they beat Atlanta,
Speaker 1: like if then they're going to beat like if they
Speaker 1: if I will, I will believe at least to a degree,
Speaker 1: Like if they can win back to back road games
Speaker 1: against pretty good teams, and I don't care what the
Speaker 1: records say, Philly and Atlanta both have a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: Like if they can win those two games, even with
Speaker 1: the short turnaround on Thanksgiving, Like you can come home
Speaker 1: and play Washington at home and beat But doesn't that
Speaker 1: fly in the face of what you were just saying
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of consistency. That's I don't think they're
Speaker 1: gonna beat Atlanta like that's anything. But if they do,
Speaker 1: if they prove me wrong again, then you kind of
Speaker 1: have to believe that that's some sort of late season momentum,
Speaker 1: don't you, especially if they play well necessarily, because it
Speaker 1: could just be that same pattern. They did lose two there,
Speaker 1: and then they come back and win two, and then
Speaker 1: they get back to their same pattern, and that's why
Speaker 1: this team and this season is so frustrating. Well, the
Speaker 1: thing about it is, with your question of winning two
Speaker 1: out of three, is can they win the next two?
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone right now would would say that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or really anybody will beat the Saints. I
Speaker 1: mean that, yes, they can win, but we know that
Speaker 1: the Saints, it'll be half a home crowd for them,
Speaker 1: and they're just playing so well, and I don't think
Speaker 1: this defense will hold up against that. The defense is
Speaker 1: pretty good, but I think conventional wisdom says that. I
Speaker 1: do think it's interesting though, to note, and you and
Speaker 1: I talked about this yesterday. We were talking to your
Speaker 1: office about just kind of how NFL seasons play out,
Speaker 1: and we've seen this Cowboys teams in situations like that
Speaker 1: where they go up against the behemoth and nobody expects
Speaker 1: that they can win, and somehow they find a way
Speaker 1: to do it. In this instance, this sets up the
Speaker 1: right kind of paradigm in my opinion, for that. You've
Speaker 1: got a Thanksgiving Day game, you got a short week, Um,
Speaker 1: you've got the Cowboys at home. Maybe that maybe having
Speaker 1: half of a crowd at home that's not their own crowd,
Speaker 1: maybe that inspires them in a way. You know, there
Speaker 1: there are a lot of factors there that could could
Speaker 1: create an upset type environment. That's it's the NFL and
Speaker 1: that's the Cowboys too, And like it's crazy when you
Speaker 1: think about it. Maybe I've just been around this team
Speaker 1: too long. But noon game on the road against an
Speaker 1: Atlanta team that has struggled at times, they just got
Speaker 1: rocked by the Browns, Like they're certainly not world beaters.
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here like how are they gonna win this?
Speaker 1: And then play the Saints at home? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they could win that game. It's prime time you get
Speaker 1: up for the big game. I mean, stuff like that
Speaker 1: happens all the time. And that's unless you're you know,
Speaker 1: unless you're fortunate enough to be covering one of the
Speaker 1: three or four teams that is truly kicking butt this year.
Speaker 1: That's just the reality of the NFL. Okay, So then
Speaker 1: you got I said, the Cowboys have been consistently inconsistent. Yes,
Speaker 1: look at the Washington Redskoon Redskins, who are six and three.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the likelihood that they go
Speaker 1: that they win two of their next three? They've got
Speaker 1: at Houston. I'm sorry, they're playing this week at home
Speaker 1: against Houston, then at Dallas, then at Philadelphia. I think
Speaker 1: this is a huge week and it goes back to
Speaker 1: it just across the league, the Eagles, I mean across
Speaker 1: the division. Excuse me. The Eagles have the Saints in
Speaker 1: the Superdome and the Redskins are playing the Texans, who
Speaker 1: are as hot as anybody in the league right now.
Speaker 1: They won six in a row. So if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can find a way to beat Atlanta, you're talking about
Speaker 1: making some serious Hey, because one of these somebody's losing.
Speaker 1: Either either the Eagles or the Redskins are both are
Speaker 1: probably losing this week. So this is big And I'm
Speaker 1: kind of dismissing the Eagles, are you sort of? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because not ready to do that. I would dismiss Washington
Speaker 1: before I dismissed the Eagles. Their schedule just seems like
Speaker 1: it's like they're four and five right now, and they
Speaker 1: still have tougher games to play. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: The next five Yeah, next five at New Orleans, then
Speaker 1: home against the Giants, home against Washington, at Dallas at
Speaker 1: the Rams. I mean, now, three of those are against
Speaker 1: the division teams, right, and you can usually can come
Speaker 1: back and then Okay, I just I don't think New
Speaker 1: Orleans tough, right, But I can't on that. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not not quite as big as Mike crush on Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but I'm a big believer that Carson Wentz is very good,
Speaker 1: and as long as they have him, I can't rule
Speaker 1: them out as being part of the race. Washington if
Speaker 1: they if they win this game this week, if the
Speaker 1: Redskins win, I mean at home, they're gonna be in
Speaker 1: good shape. Now. I know I've said a couple of times,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna run away with anything. I
Speaker 1: really don't. I don't think they're very I don't think
Speaker 1: they're that good. Um, But if they keep stacking wins
Speaker 1: like that and beaten, you know, a team the Cowboys
Speaker 1: couldn't beat in Houston, and you know, and then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting what happens when Philly plays Washington twice.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I mean, of course, the sounding
Speaker 1: like Jason Garrett, I mean, the Cowboys can only control
Speaker 1: what they control here. They're just trying to have a
Speaker 1: good Tuesday. And but you know, if you've got to
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a must win, but
Speaker 1: it's up there as well because the Saints game is
Speaker 1: sitting right there and you've got to beat Washington, you
Speaker 1: know that. So when you're gonna make when you're gonna
Speaker 1: make up some ground, I think it starts this week
Speaker 1: against like you said, a team that got rocked by Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That's who you need to beat after you saw But
Speaker 1: I'll say this, and we talked about that that game.
Speaker 1: I would and did some research just now. You know
Speaker 1: last year's massacre game that changed the tide for both teams.
Speaker 1: You know how similar things are going into this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, that was played on November eleventh.
Speaker 1: This will be November eighteenth, very similar in the time
Speaker 1: of you know, of during the season they were four
Speaker 1: and they were five or four and four and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were five and three, and so both after that
Speaker 1: game they both went to five and four. I mean,
Speaker 1: so they're kind of like right there in terms of
Speaker 1: where things are. And then we know what happened, and
Speaker 1: then that kind of helped Atlanta go and they went
Speaker 1: two rounds deep, and you know what happened to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it just be poetic justice? To quote Kendrick Lamar,
Speaker 1: if this game got the Cowboys on track, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, like I gotta take them a little more
Speaker 1: seriously if they can go win this game. If they do,
Speaker 1: it would be the polar opposite of what happened last year.
Speaker 1: Although if that happens that week, go Charlton will get
Speaker 1: six sacks. First round pick hasn't really done what we think.
Speaker 1: He comes back this week whatever, going up against suit
Speaker 1: who knows, and then he gets six sacks. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: the thing about it is if that happens last week
Speaker 1: will be the week that we look at to say
Speaker 1: it turned the tie, because that was the game that
Speaker 1: they first would have shown well maybe they are gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do this, and this would only be
Speaker 1: a continuation of that That's what they haven't been able
Speaker 1: to do so so far though this year is get
Speaker 1: on that kind of role where they turn one win
Speaker 1: into two and into three and into four. To go
Speaker 1: back to the start of the segment, I think, if anything,
Speaker 1: what's gonna what's gonna shake this whole thing up? And
Speaker 1: you mentioned it is just the number of division games.
Speaker 1: So the Eagles play everybody in the division in a
Speaker 1: like a three week stretch, right New Washington in Dallas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then and so the Cowboys just played the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and they have Washington and then it's not on the
Speaker 1: immediate horizon, but another Eagles game is coming up pretty
Speaker 1: soon too. And who the Redskins have. Redskins have Dallas,
Speaker 1: and then they have Philly the week after that, and
Speaker 1: then New York after that. So we got three in
Speaker 1: a row as well. We just listed like six division games.
Speaker 1: Divisions are gonna get tout here in the next four weeks.
Speaker 1: How many division games are there in a season three
Speaker 1: times six eighteen, So there's eighteen division games we're gonna
Speaker 1: play like a third of them in a three week stretch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this thing is going to sort itself out, like
Speaker 1: by the by I'm by the time the Cowboys play
Speaker 1: the Eagles again December ninth, I think, yep, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be I think you have a good idea to look
Speaker 1: really clear. Yeah, and the crab, I mean, I know
Speaker 1: that that sounds far away, It's really not. And that's
Speaker 1: the other thing too. It's like these games are gonna
Speaker 1: start coming quick because Cowboys play three and eleven days
Speaker 1: and I like the sun start over twenty. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna get wild here in the next three weeks. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take our first break. When we come back, I
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about some statistics that
Speaker 1: I noticed, especially when Layton Vander is interesting to me
Speaker 1: where he ranks in the NFL right now when it
Speaker 1: comes to tackles and when it comes to solo tackles.
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Speaker 1: back into the second second of the Break life in
Speaker 1: the SWBC Morgat Studios at the Star. Let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about some of the statistics and where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys rank in some areas, both individually and as a team.
Speaker 1: Layton vander Esch, rookie linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys right
Speaker 1: now is ranked tenth in the NFL and tackles. That
Speaker 1: in itself is a huge feat for a rookie linebacker.
Speaker 1: But here was the more important thing and the part
Speaker 1: that was way more startling to me. He's actually ranked second.
Speaker 1: He's tied for second in the league in solo tackles.
Speaker 1: What's sixty one? That to me is amazing that a
Speaker 1: rookie linebacker would have sixty one solo tackles and it
Speaker 1: would rank him second among his peers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You think we're looking at a Pro Bowl year for
Speaker 1: lake vandersh who's first? Just FYI, Oh, if you don't
Speaker 1: have it, it's not a big deal. I just thought
Speaker 1: you might a Pro Bowl year. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean because I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith will probably get some Pro Bowl um consideration
Speaker 1: consideration there, maybe ahead of him. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: if you know, you can both of them and they
Speaker 1: may cancel each other out. I don't know how that
Speaker 1: will go. But um, you know, I was actually thinking
Speaker 1: just the other day about defensive Rookie of the Year,
Speaker 1: you know, for him, possibility there and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really know some of the other rookies that are
Speaker 1: tearing it up. I mean, well, you have the safety
Speaker 1: out there in San Diego. James, the NFL's tackles leader,
Speaker 1: is also a rookie. Oh really, Darius Leonard's killing it.
Speaker 1: But think about this. Think about this for a second.
Speaker 1: Layton wasn't playing a whole tummy. He was not playing
Speaker 1: every down at the beginning of the season. I think
Speaker 1: this applies to his Pro Bowl status and his defensive
Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year status, which I said a month ago,
Speaker 1: I was like, awesome for him. He's playing well. I
Speaker 1: really don't think he's got a shot at Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year because you need a couple things like you
Speaker 1: need eyeballs, and you need stuff like interceptions, big play
Speaker 1: as well. He got the pick and he had his
Speaker 1: best game of the year on Sunday night when the
Speaker 1: whole world was watching, which he had probably the game
Speaker 1: changing play that won the game. I really and again,
Speaker 1: you know those things matter. We saw it with Dexter
Speaker 1: Cokeley if you remember back then. I am not trying
Speaker 1: to slide him. I think the world of how he's playing,
Speaker 1: but the reality of the situation is Pro Bowl and
Speaker 1: oftentimes like end of Year Award things like that are
Speaker 1: their popularity contest. Like you people have to know your
Speaker 1: name because people who are watching all twenty two aren't
Speaker 1: doing the voting. So the thing about linebackers in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, linebackers really get screwed inside linebackers because there's
Speaker 1: really there's one spot for you because to start, because
Speaker 1: they play four to three the outset, you could maybe
Speaker 1: say outside linebackers, but those guys you're going up against
Speaker 1: pass rushers, pass rushers on three the name, and so
Speaker 1: it's really tough. Pro Bowl is going to be really
Speaker 1: tough for any of those guys because they're inside linebackers.
Speaker 1: And Luke Keicklee I think is still sitting over there
Speaker 1: in Carolina and he's the name Keith Lee Wagner. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be forever. You couldn't get in there because er
Speaker 1: Lacker was there and a J. Hawk was good and
Speaker 1: Willis was good, and you couldn't even get in there.
Speaker 1: So now you got keick Lee you're name. And some others.
Speaker 1: Having having said that, though Jalen Smith and Vanderesh both
Speaker 1: will have a shot, they keep the role going, like
Speaker 1: keep playing well and you're gonna have a shot because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys fan base knows who you are and that
Speaker 1: always matters. Um And then you know again, now he
Speaker 1: is now in the consciousness of people who don't follow
Speaker 1: the Cowboys closely, and that matters too. So get another
Speaker 1: pick or two. Keep having these eight, nine, ten, thirteen
Speaker 1: tackle games. He'll at least be in the conversation and
Speaker 1: I won't be surprised at all if him and Jalen
Speaker 1: both make it. Now, maybe that's because somebody backed out
Speaker 1: with an injury or somebody made the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: it smells like alternates to me, which is good because
Speaker 1: that's still a Pro Bowl. That's still a Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: If we really it doesn't count and get as there
Speaker 1: as if you make it, make it. Yeah, I'm saying
Speaker 1: you get in. Oh yeah, Yeah. We're saying the same
Speaker 1: thing in different ways. Because you're saying an altern that
Speaker 1: doesn't get the call. I'm saying an alter that does
Speaker 1: get the call. But yeah, because the Cowboys of all
Speaker 1: you won't even find out if it's at yeah we
Speaker 1: we we somehow found out. A few years ago on
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins was an alternate as a Rickie at guard,
Speaker 1: but he never got the call that he never never
Speaker 1: got the call. So I mean not to change the
Speaker 1: topic drastically, but I mean Zach I would guess as
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl lock. Yes, you can't bet again Tyring
Speaker 1: Iron once you get that name recognition, like I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: He has not played at a Pro Bowl level consistently
Speaker 1: this year. He keeps playing like he's played these last
Speaker 1: two games, and he's right back in the mix of
Speaker 1: the one of the best in the league. I think
Speaker 1: Zach has a lot has Zack's a lock, Tyron has
Speaker 1: a chance. Zeke is probably a lock. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got Zeke and Gurley in the NFC. Who else is
Speaker 1: playing at that level? Kamara, yeahmar is playing and he
Speaker 1: did that for the first half reason he's the first
Speaker 1: four weeks without the other one. Yeah, Zeke's got some
Speaker 1: tough competition, but right now Zeke is second in the
Speaker 1: league and rushing. Yeah, I think he gets in because
Speaker 1: in Kamara, one of them will be in the Super
Speaker 1: I think, so, yeah, he's Zeke's going to the pro. Zeke,
Speaker 1: Zach and Tyron on offense and then on defense. I
Speaker 1: would guess uh d law if he if he has
Speaker 1: a strong if he has a strong second half, he'll
Speaker 1: be in and then vander Esht and Jalen are probably
Speaker 1: your next best. Byron's having an amazing season when he
Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't have to, doesn't have Let me throw this
Speaker 1: out though, and I actually wanted to go to de
Speaker 1: Law next. But when you look at d law stats,
Speaker 1: he has six and a half sacks right now. That
Speaker 1: ranks him seventeenth in the league. And when you're talking
Speaker 1: about defensive ends, oftentimes people look at who's leading in sacks.
Speaker 1: He's all the way down at seventeenth. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: think that matters from that end? How much do you
Speaker 1: think that complicates I know that we don't think it
Speaker 1: changes because he plays He is such a vital role
Speaker 1: when it comes to this defense and what he does
Speaker 1: in the run game and everything else. But do you
Speaker 1: think that that number six and a half and if
Speaker 1: he at the end of the season is still ranks seventeenth,
Speaker 1: does that change the conversation as far as the negotiation
Speaker 1: of his contract is concerned when the offseason gets well, maybe,
Speaker 1: but you know, let's talk about from a Pro Bowl standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's not really that far off from a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: And you think it is, but let's just say I
Speaker 1: don't know what that numbers. Let's just say half or
Speaker 1: in the AFC half or in the NFC. Now you're
Speaker 1: sitting in at now he's seventh or eighth. Some of
Speaker 1: those guys could be defensive tackles so you know this,
Speaker 1: or linebackers, so they're kind of out of it too.
Speaker 1: So he really might not be that far off from
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl to the point now as you're what
Speaker 1: you're talking about from a contract, and I think with him,
Speaker 1: it's kind of an eye test type thing too. Him.
Speaker 1: He's still making plays, He's making significant plays, and he
Speaker 1: has become a leader, which I have so much respect
Speaker 1: for the way he's handled this year. And I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about what's going on in Pittsburgh because I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I just know what's happening here. He's like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm signing this franchise deal, I'm gonna play. And not
Speaker 1: only that, he hasn't acted like a guy that's on
Speaker 1: a one year deal. He's acted like he is the
Speaker 1: leader of this defense. Came up with a nickname for him,
Speaker 1: and all that I can't, I can't I speak volumes
Speaker 1: for what he's done there, and I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have seen it too. I have a couple thoughts there
Speaker 1: one and I haven't looked at the stats. I should.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that he's so far down. Nick makes a
Speaker 1: good point. Maybe it's linebackers or defensive tackles, because what
Speaker 1: he's on pace for, Like if he's got six and
Speaker 1: a half now, he's on pace for twelve. He only
Speaker 1: had only he had fourteen and a half last year
Speaker 1: and was second in the league. So that, I mean,
Speaker 1: so many guys are on a better pace than him.
Speaker 1: That's kind of surprising. Um the other so, I still
Speaker 1: think he'll make the Pro Bowl if he has a
Speaker 1: strong second half. Shame on the Cowboys if the stack tally,
Speaker 1: I mean obvious, like that'll come into play, like because
Speaker 1: because negotiations are negotiation, sure, but shame on them if
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I don't know, he's not good. There's
Speaker 1: many sacks because like, turn on the tape, and nobody
Speaker 1: should be watching the tape more so than the guy's
Speaker 1: charged with signing. I mean, how many Brian writes about
Speaker 1: it every week. The guy's amazing and run defense. He
Speaker 1: takes on double teams and opens things up for other
Speaker 1: guys anytime somebody has a tackle for loss of uh
Speaker 1: case the fourth down stuff. Jordan Lewis and Jalen Smith,
Speaker 1: they had that opening because DeMarcus Lawrence just mauled the
Speaker 1: right half of the line. Uh stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: he's still getting sacks. His shoulders definitely bothering him regardless.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean the character stuff like he is
Speaker 1: the leader of this defense he has. I could go
Speaker 1: on for an hour about how much I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys need to resign him and how much he deserves it.
Speaker 1: So if you want to quibble about sack totals when
Speaker 1: it comes to like the guaranteed language, sure, but if
Speaker 1: he only has nine sacks this year and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: think that's a good reason to try not to resign him,
Speaker 1: shame on them big time. You know, yesterday we talked
Speaker 1: about the five plays. Don't forget about these five and
Speaker 1: I kind of got put on the spot and I
Speaker 1: forgot some of them. I just remembered one because we
Speaker 1: talked about run defense. Eagles had first and ten on
Speaker 1: the eleven yard line, down thirteen to three. They're trying
Speaker 1: to drive get back in this. I'm sorry. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a first and ten on the eleven and we
Speaker 1: always talk about how tough that is to score when
Speaker 1: you get down there, first down, three yard loss because
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence shot in the gap there and made the
Speaker 1: huge play that put them back on the fourteen. They
Speaker 1: tried some hitching pitch and didn't get it and ended
Speaker 1: up kicking a field goal. I mean, that was a
Speaker 1: really big play. But but Lawrence, his run stopping ability
Speaker 1: is so underrated, and just like it was for Dware,
Speaker 1: Dware was a good run stopper. I think the Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence is as well, and that's what makes him such
Speaker 1: a well rounded player. All right, let's take a call
Speaker 1: real quick. We have a call from Travis in California. Travis,
Speaker 1: what up? Oh no, this is Logan. He Logan, okay,
Speaker 1: Logan are you That's okay? And I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say how much I appreciate you guys. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: on the road all day for work, so I listened
Speaker 1: to you guys a lot than I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: But basically what I wanted to say was, I think
Speaker 1: the one thing that this team is missing on, especially
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, is Ronald Leary. I think he
Speaker 1: was like he was just that guy. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: seen him in two thousand and sixteen, two and fourteen,
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, I don't know, he wasn't there
Speaker 1: two thousand and fifteen, Sorry, but I seen him to
Speaker 1: take on blockers with one hand and another block he
Speaker 1: blocked another guy with another hand, and it's like they
Speaker 1: just missed that big body guy. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what Big seventy six did for them in this last game.
Speaker 1: And I think, honestly right now, to win these next games,
Speaker 1: I think they need to leave I don't know how
Speaker 1: to pronounce his name, lou so, Yeah, I think they
Speaker 1: need to leave him in there. And I think that
Speaker 1: would just be really good for the offensive line because
Speaker 1: I think that interior needs to be big and strong,
Speaker 1: and I think it needs to stay that way. And
Speaker 1: I think Connor Williams needs another offseason to to just
Speaker 1: get some some strength training in there. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. I don't think I could disagree with
Speaker 1: anything that he just said. I agree. Let me throw
Speaker 1: out a stat real quick. I noticed this stat when
Speaker 1: I was doing some research this morning this year the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and this was gauging Cowboys level of success on short
Speaker 1: yardage on the left, up the middle, and to the right. Okay,
Speaker 1: and listen to these numbers. Eighty seven percent of the
Speaker 1: time when they run up the middle on second I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: a third or fourth and two or shorter, they have
Speaker 1: converted eighty seven percent of the time. When they run
Speaker 1: up the middle, all right, When they run to the right,
Speaker 1: they've converted seventy one percent of the time. When they
Speaker 1: run to the left, they've only converted fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the time. That's a pretty big indictment on especially knowing
Speaker 1: that you've got and all pro there a tackle, the
Speaker 1: fact that going to your left on short yardage when
Speaker 1: you really just need to power ahead and try to
Speaker 1: pick up yards, they are only fifty percent on short yardage.
Speaker 1: A couple of things about those stats. Now, the middle
Speaker 1: is obviously meddles out because in my opinion, because a
Speaker 1: lot of that is back up the middle. But you
Speaker 1: gotta factor that in from the standpoint of do that
Speaker 1: more often. Yeah, if you know that, that's a gimme true,
Speaker 1: do it more often. But go ahead. Now, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are like most teams, they play right handed. Where they're
Speaker 1: tight end is on the right side. A lot, so
Speaker 1: I think they you know, they try to do that more,
Speaker 1: but you're still talking about percentages, which you know that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of alarming. I don't think they do it
Speaker 1: as much, but even when they do, that's probably why
Speaker 1: it's at fifty percent. And you wouldn't think tyring is
Speaker 1: the weak link there. So that's that's good to know.
Speaker 1: And I and I saw a lot of sweeps there
Speaker 1: with him Suipilo. As strong as he is, he's still
Speaker 1: kind of pretty mobile as well. I agree with what
Speaker 1: the caller said. I think that they will do that,
Speaker 1: and I agree that Ron Leary has been I think
Speaker 1: I was one that was like, I would resign here
Speaker 1: the president of his family. I really will I because
Speaker 1: I like that strength. I think it's as good as
Speaker 1: Lyell Collins has become. I think his rookie year, they
Speaker 1: struggled there just to get that push. When Leary came back,
Speaker 1: it changed as he helped too, But for the most part,
Speaker 1: but I do like Sue a Philo, they don't want
Speaker 1: to hurt Connor Williams's confidence in any way. But I
Speaker 1: guarantee if they run the ball well again in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna be seen to change. Well
Speaker 1: that and I said this yesterday, but I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's huge. Like if Connor Williams was ready
Speaker 1: to go today and you had to make this call,
Speaker 1: that gives me pause. But I really don't think you
Speaker 1: have to be I'll be surprised if Connor is ready
Speaker 1: to come off of a knee procedure in ten days.
Speaker 1: So I say, give Sue a Philo another go, and
Speaker 1: if it looks as great as it did last week,
Speaker 1: then you've got yourself a trend and you're, you know, sorry,
Speaker 1: Connor hand theory, it's you know, he's not a top
Speaker 1: ten pick. He's the second round pick. And I don't
Speaker 1: think you're hurting anybody. Another fun little fact I get
Speaker 1: this shouldn't surprise me. We talked about yesterday. Xavier Suahilo's
Speaker 1: thirty third overall pick very much falls in line with
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys have done over the years. You know,
Speaker 1: bring in a talented guy, see if we can, especially
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. Jonathan Cooper comes to mind. He's
Speaker 1: not a two year deal. So this year and next year,
Speaker 1: if this works out, then you've got yourself some fantastic
Speaker 1: depth going into next season, because obviously Connor Williams is
Speaker 1: going to be a part of this thing going forward.
Speaker 1: But it's a nice problem to have. What do you think,
Speaker 1: Sue of Philo's other position would be. Let's say he
Speaker 1: is a backup, is he just a guard? Is he
Speaker 1: just like or did you think he's got some center?
Speaker 1: I have no idea if he has any flex? But
Speaker 1: what about Connor Williams. It's center, I don't have to
Speaker 1: work on it and needs to eat like nine thousand cheeseburgers.
Speaker 1: Well he's got does he's playing? I think he's like
Speaker 1: for guard, and I think it's center. You kind of
Speaker 1: want to guide us. You gotta be like unmovable to
Speaker 1: play center, don't you. I mean, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's some centers that have been small here particularly that
Speaker 1: have been okay him, it seems like he has his
Speaker 1: center's build. To me, now he's gonna have to work
Speaker 1: on technique and then that changes everything. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing that. Yeah, he's been. He was a tackle the Saints.
Speaker 1: The Saints worked him out at center at his pro day. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I believe. I believe we talked about him possibly
Speaker 1: having the flex to play all five positions. It doesn't
Speaker 1: you know, Zach Martin is the same way. But Zach
Speaker 1: Martin is way way better than everybody. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I like where your head's at because again, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even like talking about it because it's such
Speaker 1: an unfortunate situation. But you gotta have at least a
Speaker 1: thought on what your contingency plans are at center for
Speaker 1: next year. If if Travis Frederick doesn't recover the way
Speaker 1: you want him to, doubt, all right, looks like our
Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, we'll talk a little
Speaker 1: bit more about some of these stats. Also, you guys
Speaker 1: give us a call. The numbers eight eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: call from Adam in Atlanta. Adam, what up? Hey guy?
Speaker 1: That's what you doing? Good? Good? Got your tickets? I do.
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Speaker 1: Q and A was making on Saturday to meet you.
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Speaker 1: out partying, but the rest of us may drop all
Speaker 1: depends what LSU's doing. We're only we're playing Rice, so
Speaker 1: we got that kind of fan though. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: last year, sure, but not as intently. Yeah what toll
Speaker 1: last year's team. So hopefully it'll be a little better
Speaker 1: turnout than that was a massacre. Yeah, fear of not
Speaker 1: letting you forget all right, first thing, Tommy John's best
Speaker 1: thing has ever happened in my wardrobe? Yeah, saying we
Speaker 1: did not pay him to say that you did not.
Speaker 1: And the second thing, I have a question after watching
Speaker 1: that game. Great win on Sunday night, but after watching that,
Speaker 1: one thing I've noticed, and I went back to look
Speaker 1: at the all twenty two, is that I don't see
Speaker 1: receivers coming back for the ball when Dack's in a
Speaker 1: scramble drill. And I'll see other teams around the league
Speaker 1: perfect that especially Green Bay. Is that something that they're
Speaker 1: not coaching in Dallas. I mean, I just you know,
Speaker 1: he's out scrambled, and you just want to see these
Speaker 1: receivers come up for the ball and give him a chance,
Speaker 1: you know, help the quarterback. I don't know, I feel
Speaker 1: like that's all Alan Hearns does. So, I mean, are
Speaker 1: you saying that in a backhand accunt of well? I
Speaker 1: mean I feel like a lot of his catches are
Speaker 1: like that. I mean there's kind of coming back there.
Speaker 1: I haven't really noticed that, but but that Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: is another guy that has been really good at that
Speaker 1: over the years. I mean, I'll be shocked if they're
Speaker 1: not doing it though, right, I mean every team that's
Speaker 1: you learned that when you first start playing football as
Speaker 1: a receiver. I would be shocked if they're not. If
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do in a scrambled drill
Speaker 1: like you work on that. That's a part of just
Speaker 1: being a receiver. I would like to go back and
Speaker 1: look at the I have not watched any all twenty
Speaker 1: two from this game. I'd like to look at it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's probably right, maybe there's a scenario where
Speaker 1: they could have or didn't. I don't know, but just
Speaker 1: as a general as a general theme for the season,
Speaker 1: I think I think they are. Cooper was going on
Speaker 1: the scramble drill. He was going to the house. He
Speaker 1: looked like it might have been successful, but I would
Speaker 1: have liked to see him make that through. That's the
Speaker 1: other thing that you know. There was a scramble play
Speaker 1: in that game. I'm not gonna name names, but somebody
Speaker 1: in the press box with me was like beside himself
Speaker 1: because I think it. I didn't name names, and I'm
Speaker 1: not I will neither confirm nor deny um. I think
Speaker 1: it was. Beasley was scrambling in the middle of the
Speaker 1: field and dak is like five feet from the sideline,
Speaker 1: and somebody was just beside him or herself that he
Speaker 1: didn't throw. I was like, that's not how football works,
Speaker 1: Like just because the guy's alone and the play's broken down,
Speaker 1: like DA would have had to throw that across his body,
Speaker 1: moving against his motion through the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: like odds are. There's also what coaches tell you never
Speaker 1: to do because you can't see that guy. That's kind
Speaker 1: of odds are coming across. That ball's going to the
Speaker 1: house if you throw it, which so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think his name was Adam. I don't know what
Speaker 1: plays talking about. Probably wasn't that one. But a lot
Speaker 1: of times, just because a guy looks like he's got
Speaker 1: some space in a situation like that doesn't mean it's
Speaker 1: a smart throw boy. I wonder who you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not, I got no names. Doesn't this
Speaker 1: you know? No snitches get stitches. Yeah, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to put people on the streets. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: back into some of these stats. He was another one
Speaker 1: I thought was kind of interesting. Cowboys right now are
Speaker 1: ranged twenty ninth in the league. That's a really, really
Speaker 1: big number. They'd give it up thirty two. Do you
Speaker 1: think that maybe that's the cause for the regression and
Speaker 1: that I think you guys thinking that Dak has had
Speaker 1: this year, do you think it's more because of the
Speaker 1: fact that he's getting so much pressure, he's being sacked
Speaker 1: so much that he's not being able to make the
Speaker 1: right reads all the time and get the ball where
Speaker 1: it needs to go. I hope, I hope you're I'm
Speaker 1: not sure your microphone's working, so I'm just going to
Speaker 1: relay it for and he I can't hear you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but Derek's asking us on the off chance that you
Speaker 1: can't hear him, Derek's asking that the Cowboys alone has
Speaker 1: given up twenty nine sacks to this point in the season.
Speaker 1: And do we think that that plays a role in
Speaker 1: his seeming regression, which absolutely I do. Yeah, Um, I
Speaker 1: absolutely think that past protection, especially when this team hasn't
Speaker 1: had a lead, has definitely been an issue. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like NASCAR, It's like a pit crew. It is
Speaker 1: like Kent's the goat, he's the MVP. Um No, you're good.
Speaker 1: Um I I do. I agree with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it has been it's too much. It's way
Speaker 1: too much. Twenty nine. He took thirty two his entire
Speaker 1: rookie year, and I think only it was something it
Speaker 1: was like thirty five for all of last year. Like
Speaker 1: for all we talked about the problems last year, it
Speaker 1: still wasn't that bad. So I do think and it's
Speaker 1: an issue. Love him to death. Lyle Collins has has
Speaker 1: not had an awesome season in pass Pro. I think
Speaker 1: Cotter Williams has been part of that. Tyrant Smith has
Speaker 1: slipped a little bit. I think Jason Witten is a
Speaker 1: big part of that too. I think when you have
Speaker 1: and even Dez Bryant, because what de was was doing
Speaker 1: was was a guy that you kind of trusted on
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls. Now, he didn't have a good season
Speaker 1: last year, but he did the year before. Jason Witten,
Speaker 1: same thing. Who's you the guy that you kind of
Speaker 1: bail out and throw it to and they're not open,
Speaker 1: they're not there, and therefore you're taking more sacks. I
Speaker 1: think it's a combination of a lot of things, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rule out that those those guys that were
Speaker 1: always you know, trustworthy for the quarterbacks aren't there, and
Speaker 1: then he's still trying to figure out who's this tied
Speaker 1: end and he can dump it off to. I will
Speaker 1: also say too, is I don't want to say stats
Speaker 1: lie because getting your quarterback sacked is ever good. But
Speaker 1: what I mean he got sacked four times on Sunday,
Speaker 1: it didn't really disrupt the flow of the offense. So
Speaker 1: you know, as Dak with some of that is you
Speaker 1: know Dak extending plays that he shouldn't or you know,
Speaker 1: fighting when he doesn't need to, or maybe running into pressure.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Michael Bennett murdered him. You could
Speaker 1: call out play calling for that one, just you know,
Speaker 1: a first down bootleg. It's kind of a tendency of
Speaker 1: theirs and it's a thing that can get taken advantage of.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to put it all on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And also I think it's encouraging that they
Speaker 1: took four sacks in that game and we're still able
Speaker 1: to have a really good offensive night, which has not
Speaker 1: been the case in so many games. To talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about, well two things. Number one about the sacks.
Speaker 1: He took a sack after Zeke's hurdle. Then they kind
Speaker 1: of went backwards. He ran a couple of plays and
Speaker 1: then didn't get ended up taking a sack and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can't take a sack there. Well, go back to
Speaker 1: the Tennessee game when he's forcing into Mary Cooper. You
Speaker 1: would love for him to take a sack there and
Speaker 1: you still have a chance to get three points out
Speaker 1: on the board. But that's that play Michael Bennett made
Speaker 1: that almost you know, took his head off. That's a
Speaker 1: big play when you're thinking about big picture, because what
Speaker 1: Philadelphia was saying is we we will let you do
Speaker 1: a play action there. I'm not worried about the defensive
Speaker 1: end going in because I got Fletcher Cox, I got
Speaker 1: a loading note in there and not a They will
Speaker 1: make the plays. Not worried about that. That's fine. So
Speaker 1: when you do a play action, you're there, you make
Speaker 1: the play. But a lot of times when there is
Speaker 1: a run, and then we saw that later in the game,
Speaker 1: they're trusting their tackles and linebackers to go make the
Speaker 1: play and they're not, you know, forcing themselves down into
Speaker 1: the play. That's where they start running the ball. So
Speaker 1: you can do that and sometimes you're gonna win. But
Speaker 1: as we saw later in the game, they didn't win
Speaker 1: when those guys got blocked. They didn't have the extra help.
Speaker 1: All right, real quick, we got a couple seconds here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to a call real fast from Rick and Missouri. Rick.
Speaker 1: What up? Yeah, just real quickly. Happy with the Mary Cooper.
Speaker 1: He's made a huge impact on the game overall. I think,
Speaker 1: not just stats, but it is good to see the
Speaker 1: stats work. But one thing I wanted to ask about
Speaker 1: was on officiating. These downfield blocks before the pass is
Speaker 1: made is driving me nuts. It happened against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I remember a game against with the Steelers on their
Speaker 1: key touchdown drive at the end of the game, particularly
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, the center in a light possession and
Speaker 1: the Eagles scored on the center was like five years
Speaker 1: the yards downfield, engaged in a block on the linebacker
Speaker 1: and then you see the ball pass through the screen
Speaker 1: to the receiver. It's nuts, they're not calling it. I
Speaker 1: do not understand the inconsistency of that rule. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I mean that there's times I've seen it called. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys had one earlier this year where they had a
Speaker 1: guy blocking way down the field already. Don't I don't
Speaker 1: really understand the rule there on when you can do
Speaker 1: that and block before the ball thrown and when you can't.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm a little bit perplexed on
Speaker 1: that one. I mean, you see pick plays every single
Speaker 1: Sunday around the NFL if you watch football, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: happens in every game. It happens on both So you
Speaker 1: just about the picks. I'm talking about those wide receiver
Speaker 1: bubble screens when they're already blocking the guy and the
Speaker 1: I just I don't really know it. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: that's a bank bank play. It's probably tough for the
Speaker 1: and crews call it differently as we saw. There's some
Speaker 1: crew would have come in here and probably called twenty
Speaker 1: penalties in the game. Instead they only called five. And
Speaker 1: is the block egregious enough or noticeable enough? You know
Speaker 1: that in the flow of the game. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's it's it's a tough play, inconsistent across the board.
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Speaker 1: to draw a blank on there. Where they playing this soon.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Atlanta, Atlanta. We'll get into Atlanta. We'll talk
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