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Speaker 4: Maybe you? I'm excited. It's week one. The NFL season
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Speaker 4: tomorrow night. I can't wait.
Speaker 8: Crazy another one Friday. That's gonna be goofy, but it's
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. I'm actually heading out to uh
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Speaker 4: But but yeah.
Speaker 6: The commitment for week one, you know, it is not
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Speaker 4: It is. It absolutely is. And when I saw when
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Speaker 4: week one, Cleveland and Arbor and Cleveland aren't that far apart.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'm there. So I'm going up watch my Longhorns.
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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm not gonna let you talk about my brother
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Speaker 2: About two hours. We're never gonna get back in new life.
Speaker 8: That'll be a fun weekend.
Speaker 4: Oh We're gonna have a blast. A lot of our
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and well I've never been. That's the thing big,
Speaker 4: That atmosphere is wild.
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Speaker 4: When you get a chance to go to the Big
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Speaker 4: I got a message from Brian this morning.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he called me out there until a meeting and
Speaker 4: he calls me and he's like, he leaves a message
Speaker 4: and he's like, hey, I got a question that I
Speaker 4: want to open the show with. You'll go you're okay
Speaker 4: with that? And my heart just sank, Like, oh God,
Speaker 4: I don't know what Brian's gonna ask us, but I
Speaker 4: was like, sure, let's go for it.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna live dangerously, so Brian, let's let's delve into
Speaker 4: the let's delve into the mind of Brian brought us
Speaker 4: and uh and what question do you have.
Speaker 2: For Thank you very much, Derek. I appreciate you allowing
Speaker 2: me to do this. Nick Harris Okay of Guidon BB
Speaker 2: Carsonneeland power rank the order that you need the most
Speaker 2: importance to the least importance, and how they're going to
Speaker 2: play are how you're going to need them to play
Speaker 2: going forward in this game.
Speaker 8: Week one specifically, Yes, okay, I'm gonna take I'm gonna
Speaker 8: take giton one. I think he needs to have a
Speaker 8: strong showing against Miles Garrett. There's got to be some
Speaker 8: protection off the edge, not only for past protection, but
Speaker 8: to be able to seal off the edge as well
Speaker 8: in the running game. They're gonna need to find some
Speaker 8: some confidence there. Two. I'm gonna go Kaylan Carson. They
Speaker 8: do have these receiving threats. If Deshaun Watson is playing healthy,
Speaker 8: obviously that's a big question mark, then they are gonna
Speaker 8: go after Kayln Carson early on in this game, and
Speaker 8: they are going to try and attack that rookie. If
Speaker 8: he can show early on, hey I'm no slouch, then
Speaker 8: that that would be huge towards the defensive success. Three
Speaker 8: BB four Kneeland. That's that's how I would rank him.
Speaker 2: Why would why would you would have BB third?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would go BB over Niland running game. Once again,
Speaker 8: there's a lot of experience in that interior defensive line
Speaker 8: for the Browns. I mentioned yesterday, guys with eight, nine,
Speaker 8: ten years of experience, Shelby Harrison, there, Tomlinson. There's some
Speaker 8: guys that he's gonna have to be able to stack
Speaker 8: up against and push forward. We didn't see that a
Speaker 8: whole lot last year from Tyler Battish. So if he
Speaker 8: can get that get after it in the run game,
Speaker 8: then I think they find some success there on the
Speaker 8: run game. But that's a big if. But those three
Speaker 8: very little separation there, and then I probably have Kneeland
Speaker 8: down here. He still needs to perform, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 8: but I think these three guys it's very important that
Speaker 8: those three guys produces man.
Speaker 4: Actually, my order was exactly the same. I started with
Speaker 4: Geyton mainly because I got a quarterback back there I
Speaker 4: need to protect, and you got, in my opinion, the
Speaker 4: best most fearsome pass rusher in the NFL opposite him,
Speaker 4: and so that that becomes that's the first thing they
Speaker 4: gotta do, is they gotta shore that up. Then I
Speaker 4: put Carson mainly because I think that'll be if I'm
Speaker 4: the opposing offense, I'm going to be like the first
Speaker 4: person I want to test and see how good they are.
Speaker 4: Is Carson. I know I've they've probably heard all the
Speaker 4: things we've said about this guy and how good he's
Speaker 4: been in camp, but they want to see and I
Speaker 4: would guess they're going to try to look for opportunities
Speaker 4: to get their veteran Amari Cooper lined up against him
Speaker 4: in situations where you really get to test him. And
Speaker 4: that's going to test him because we know Mari Cooper
Speaker 4: is a guy that runs crisp routes, knows how to
Speaker 4: get to the spot he needs to get to. Going
Speaker 4: up against a rookie, that's going to be a lesson,
Speaker 4: and so that's going to be the second one. And
Speaker 4: then it's b Be for a reason that you talked
Speaker 4: about Brian yesterday. If this running game is going to
Speaker 4: be successful, its success is really going to come from
Speaker 4: the fact that they will have power up the middle right,
Speaker 4: and I think bb is important. He's critical to that.
Speaker 4: So I want to see if he can continue what
Speaker 4: we've seen from him and be able to do that
Speaker 4: in real live games. And then Nilan. The main reason
Speaker 4: why Niland is for is because he didn't have to start.
Speaker 4: He's a rotational guy. These other guys they're starting, and
Speaker 4: quite frankly, before we on there, we talked about this.
Speaker 4: I was talking to one of our PR guys and
Speaker 4: they're trying to get the actual stat for me of
Speaker 4: when was the last time the Cowboys had this many
Speaker 4: rookies starting on week one? Right now, according to the
Speaker 4: unofficial depth chart, there are four rookies that could possibly start.
Speaker 4: Three of these guiding Carson, Bibi, and then Mary sla
Speaker 4: lea foul will see. He's a base defense guy, so
Speaker 4: we'll see if they started Nickel or in Basse. But however,
Speaker 4: it goes three to four rookies starting in week one
Speaker 4: of a season, it seems like a large number to me,
Speaker 4: And so I think Niland is in that mix because
Speaker 4: he's gonna play quite a bit as a rotational guy.
Speaker 4: But you don't need him as a starter. You got
Speaker 4: two very very capable pass rushers ahead of him on
Speaker 4: the depth chart.
Speaker 6: Hey, g I wish I could give you a different answer,
Speaker 6: but I'm on the same page as to you, guys,
Speaker 6: And the thing is the only reason I'm putting Carson
Speaker 6: before BB. So I do think guys in for sure,
Speaker 6: And the only reason Carson is number two is because
Speaker 6: I'm still I still have question marks with Trevon Dick's return.
Speaker 6: And again, he's looked really good. He looks really really
Speaker 6: good in practice and he's moving around really well. But
Speaker 6: we know that one thing is practiced and another thing
Speaker 6: is a real game. So I'm still kinda keeping my
Speaker 6: eye on that. We tend to see when players come
Speaker 6: back from an injury that sometimes it takes them a while,
Speaker 6: sometimes even a whole year for them to get back
Speaker 6: into how they used to be. So I think the
Speaker 6: backfield defensive backs is gonna be an area where they're
Speaker 6: gonna have everybody's gonna have to bring their a game
Speaker 6: this time. And I think Carson is the guy obviously
Speaker 6: being a rookie coming into a game like that, it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a big moment for him. But same thing
Speaker 6: then Bibi and then Nielan, mainly because of the position
Speaker 6: that it is. For Kneelan, I mean, you're not you
Speaker 6: have depth there, you have more guys that you can
Speaker 6: rely on. But Bibe, I mean he's still that's a
Speaker 6: that's a key position for sure. But I would say
Speaker 6: based on Trevon Diggs and what you're missing with their
Speaker 6: own blind Carson is number two.
Speaker 2: It's all starts with BB.
Speaker 4: Guys, all right, BBS number one, one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, BB's number one.
Speaker 6: It's funny because when you you know Brian and if
Speaker 6: for those if you're not watching, Brian's listening to all
Speaker 6: of us giving giving us an answer, He's like smiling, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I got this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. To me though, it all starts with
Speaker 2: BB really up front, you know, and the fact that
Speaker 2: at Kansas State he didn't play any center. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is a total projection for him, but he's done
Speaker 2: a nice job. You think about the snaps, you think
Speaker 2: about the calls, you think about the protections, all that
Speaker 2: stuff with Geiton all that's all that's predicated on communication
Speaker 2: between Dak and Bebee, who they identify the mic backer.
Speaker 2: And then they're gonna slide this thing, chip this thing,
Speaker 2: whatever they're going to do. Carson's number two in this
Speaker 2: thing too, and you're absolutely right there because they're gonna
Speaker 2: try and match you up is what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you this. Knowing Jim Swartz the way
Speaker 2: I do in Cleveland and talking to some people who
Speaker 2: know Jim Swartz, I asked this morning, this guy said,
Speaker 2: how does he attack? He says, watch Swartz. He knows
Speaker 2: that Geyiton's going to get help this game. He's going
Speaker 2: after Steele. He's going to see if Steele with Miles
Speaker 2: Garrett can win one on one. And he feels like
Speaker 2: if you watch Steel play, sometimes there's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a lack of power there. The one thing Steel
Speaker 2: is really good at and he's got better at because
Speaker 2: his health is returned, is his ability to move keep
Speaker 2: somebody wide. But if he has to play with a
Speaker 2: guy that has power, sometimes that guy will dip on
Speaker 2: him and take him to that quarterback and it'll be
Speaker 2: a little bit of a problem. Schwartz knows that Swartz
Speaker 2: knows that Guidon's going to get all the help. They're
Speaker 2: worried about the rookie. I would wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 2: we see Geyiton be okay, now, there'll be some rushes
Speaker 2: over there where. I believe that you'll see Miles Garrett
Speaker 2: because he's a right in player, you know, and when
Speaker 2: we get into them tomorrow we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 2: But he is a right in player, but you see
Speaker 2: him also. I would also anticipate I would also to
Speaker 2: pate uh the two guards getting covered in this one,
Speaker 2: and then also Miles Garrett one on one with BB.
Speaker 2: That where I think that could be a pressure point
Speaker 2: for this team as well.
Speaker 4: Real quick, for those that may not understand, explain what
Speaker 4: you mean when you say to two guards being covered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what they could do is that when when when
Speaker 2: guys are uncovered, you're you can help, You can slide,
Speaker 2: you can do things. If Martin's uncovered, he could slide
Speaker 2: and help if he's covered.
Speaker 4: And when you when you say covered, you mean guy
Speaker 4: on him, on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if they if they, if they cover everybody across
Speaker 2: the front and then eliminate. It's hard to chip on
Speaker 2: a guy when he's in the middle of the defense.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, that might be a pressure
Speaker 2: point for you because then it turns into one on
Speaker 2: one with BB versus Miles Garrett in this game. So
Speaker 2: I think that it's like I say, BB and then
Speaker 2: go down from there. But but Carson in this game
Speaker 2: is going to have to play big. He's really gonna
Speaker 2: have to play big big. But the thing about it,
Speaker 2: and we'll get into and I'll let you now segue
Speaker 2: into Brian tell me about the Browns offense here or
Speaker 2: something like that, they're.
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Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: Actually, actually that's a great question because I really literally
Speaker 4: before this show, I was talking to PR about those
Speaker 4: rookies and I think.
Speaker 2: It's the dirty I think it's a dirty dozen things
Speaker 2: from the seventies. I think the Landry drafty it was
Speaker 2: the Randy White draft that they called the group the
Speaker 2: Dirty dozen, And I want to say, if I just
Speaker 2: had to go off the top of my head, that
Speaker 2: was several of those guys, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: they all started, but it was a very good draft
Speaker 2: class for them.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing. Like we talk a lot on
Speaker 4: this show. We talk a lot on our draft show
Speaker 4: about how well this team drafts and and they've drafted.
Speaker 4: We think they've drafted well. But to get to the
Speaker 4: point where you have that many guys in their first
Speaker 4: season starting game one, I mean, that's that's kind of
Speaker 4: where the Cowboys are in their salary cap as well.
Speaker 4: It's just an indicator over.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they barely did anything in free agency, so you're
Speaker 6: left to having to rely on these young guys.
Speaker 2: What about our bad teams that we had in early
Speaker 2: two thousands, Derek where it was Derek Ross, Antonio Bryant.
Speaker 2: I want to say that we had a we had
Speaker 2: a draft class there where a lot of those cats
Speaker 2: had to play. Yeah, and I'm trying to remember all
Speaker 2: of them mine. I sometimes I can, sometimes I can't,
Speaker 2: But I just remember that class we had where Derrick
Speaker 2: Ross was the starter, Antonio Brien was the starter. I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's at.
Speaker 4: The break was at two thousand, two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and one, Yeah, I think that, but that
Speaker 2: was that was a class where it might have been two,
Speaker 2: but it was. It was a class where that several
Speaker 2: of those guys had to start just because we could
Speaker 2: look at it the break. Yeah, if you want to
Speaker 2: get into some other stuff. So thank you for the question.
Speaker 2: I mean, the answer so overall good answer for the
Speaker 2: most part. Not really nick yours kind of answered, all right, we're.
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Speaker 4: You guys remember from last year we do this every Wednesday.
Speaker 4: We will have Brian break down the opposing team's offense
Speaker 4: versus the Cowboys defense and then on Thursday, we'll have
Speaker 4: Brian break down the opposing team's defense versus the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 4: That's what we do every week here.
Speaker 6: I'm nervous about this one.
Speaker 2: Brian, jump in if you got a question.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I actually did want to start with
Speaker 4: a question I was looking at. I was looking at
Speaker 4: some information on the Browns offense, and obviously it starts
Speaker 4: with their quarterback Sean Watson. Last year, he was fourth
Speaker 4: lowest in completion percentage in the NFL when over one
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty passes. My question for you was that
Speaker 4: more about Watson or was it more about his receiving
Speaker 4: options Watson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy is not an accurate thrower. He's got
Speaker 2: a really strong arm though. I mean I was watching
Speaker 2: the one of the games before he got injured, the
Speaker 2: Tennessee game where they played, and he can make the
Speaker 2: throw standing in the middle of the pocket and throw
Speaker 2: it all the way to the left or right sideline,
Speaker 2: I mean on a deep shot on the outs. So
Speaker 2: he's got the arm strength. The problem with him is
Speaker 2: he's not always accurate, and a lot of it has
Speaker 2: to do with mechanics. His feet don't always get set,
Speaker 2: but they tend to try and play to his strengths
Speaker 2: of moving him. He's very anxious about getting out of
Speaker 2: the pocket and kind of moving and sometimes he'll move
Speaker 2: when he doesn't have to move, and then that'll affect
Speaker 2: the way that he throws the football, and so you'll
Speaker 2: see receivers it's the ball doesn't always go down the
Speaker 2: field with him. It's they try with the waggles and
Speaker 2: the boots. I know that's the phrase and we always
Speaker 2: use where it's send the offensive line one way, let
Speaker 2: him come back the other way, and Joku and Joku
Speaker 2: the tight end is going to catch it in the flat,
Speaker 2: he's going to catch it underneath. They're trying to make
Speaker 2: as many simple throws. You mentioned the thing with a
Speaker 2: Marii Cooper. We all understand who Mary Cooper is, and
Speaker 2: you gave a very good description of how a Mary
Speaker 2: Cooper plays. They play him on the outside. They put
Speaker 2: a Mariy Cooper in the slot. He's very measured with
Speaker 2: the way that he runs his routes and then he's measured.
Speaker 2: It's one of the best if you look at the
Speaker 2: statistics or you look at metrics, he's one of the
Speaker 2: best receivers along the sidelines when there's little or no space.
Speaker 2: He's one of the top receivers. So when you think
Speaker 2: you have him covered and you've got him all the
Speaker 2: way pin to the sidelines, you still got to cover
Speaker 2: him because great body control, great balance and all those things.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens with with with Judy. They
Speaker 2: added him with a trade this year. This is kind
Speaker 2: of a make or break year for him as well,
Speaker 2: you know, coming from Denver. So But the thing that
Speaker 2: you're to your question, it's more about Watson's accuracy or
Speaker 2: lack of that has caused them promise. They threw the
Speaker 2: ball when Joe Flacco was in there, the ball was
Speaker 2: going down the field. I mean, Joe Flacco is like
Speaker 2: under center, play action downfield, play action downfield. They their
Speaker 2: offense was better. Now they lost a key member of
Speaker 2: their offensive coaching staff. We talked about Bill Callahan. I
Speaker 2: gave him the nickname running Game Moses because everywhere he's
Speaker 2: been the offensive line play is great. They run the
Speaker 2: football and all that. You know. Uh, they got to
Speaker 2: coach Dickerson from the Seahawks that had been with them before.
Speaker 2: Seahawks are team that has some physicality with the way
Speaker 2: that they run the ball. We've all played the Seahawks,
Speaker 2: we know how they play, so I'll be interested to
Speaker 2: see and how in fact that it works out for there.
Speaker 2: I think you're gonna have to be ready for some
Speaker 2: screen package stuff. In this they ran a double reverse screen,
Speaker 2: which it was. It was a pretty play, uh with
Speaker 2: the with you know, you get the reverse and then
Speaker 2: the first guy with the ball now ends up being
Speaker 2: the guy that catches the ball with blockers in front.
Speaker 2: But you got tied end delays, you got running back delays,
Speaker 2: and you've got then also the double reverse. But the
Speaker 2: tight the these screen packages are something that they like
Speaker 2: to go with. They'll they'll try and move you around,
Speaker 2: send you one way and then come back the other
Speaker 2: to throw the football. So, uh, you have to be
Speaker 2: you have to be really really ready for that. I
Speaker 2: think in the offensive line, they've got questions with their tackles,
Speaker 2: the health of their tackles right now, so both of
Speaker 2: them coming back from major knee injuries. We'll see if,
Speaker 2: in fact, though that Dallas with some of some speed,
Speaker 2: some quickness there, that maybe these guys aren't up to
Speaker 2: snuff when it comes to their sets. Getting away from
Speaker 2: the line. You know, the Cowboys need to take advantage
Speaker 2: of any of that kind of injury stuff that they
Speaker 2: could deal with, especially very early in guys really not
Speaker 2: having a lot of work in training camp. These tackles
Speaker 2: haven't had a lot of work, so playing out there,
Speaker 2: there's some questions about whether some of these guys are
Speaker 2: going to start so but I feel like though, too,
Speaker 2: you can overpower their inside guys. Postic the center, tell
Speaker 2: her the right guard, and Botonio the left guard. I
Speaker 2: especially feel like that Teller is the guy that gives
Speaker 2: up the most ground, and if you could take him
Speaker 2: back into Watson, that affects Watson because as soon as
Speaker 2: Watson feels it, he's gonna bail. Talk about and maybe
Speaker 2: having to play a little bit of contain around Wats.
Speaker 2: We've seen that when you've played.
Speaker 8: That's the PTSD from early on in his career in Houston. Yeah,
Speaker 8: he was just bailing as soon as he saw.
Speaker 2: Everything everything, Yeah, hit this offensive line. You know, for
Speaker 2: the most part when he was playing, he was every
Speaker 2: time there was a pressure and I watched all the
Speaker 2: pressures and I'm like, how's this guy handling and he
Speaker 2: doesn't handle it particularly well. But I kind of feel
Speaker 2: like though questions that they're tackle spots with health, and
Speaker 2: I think you could bully their center uh posk And
Speaker 2: I think you could bully Teller the right guard and
Speaker 2: that might be that might be a little bit of
Speaker 2: an area that of a sticking point for them to
Speaker 2: try and protect that way. They're tight end and Jokuho,
Speaker 2: I said, is really a good tight end. I have
Speaker 2: to be ready for him in the flat that's where
Speaker 2: he makes a lot of his play. So mixing coverages
Speaker 2: on him, I think will be key. Do you put
Speaker 2: you know, do you walk Lewis over there maybe to
Speaker 2: cover him? Do you walk you know, do you bring
Speaker 2: h mcqualmoo in, maybe a big guy cover him right there?
Speaker 2: You know? I think you just kind of got to
Speaker 2: give him a bunch of different looks and make Watson
Speaker 2: half to read your defense. If Dak Prescott's having struggles
Speaker 2: reading this Mike Zimber defense at practice, my man Watson's
Speaker 2: gonna have some problems as well doing the same.
Speaker 4: Let me let me take you back to Watson, and
Speaker 4: I want to.
Speaker 2: I thought he was good a really he's gonna have
Speaker 2: a great career. When he was with Bill O'Brien, at Houston.
Speaker 4: Right, But and that's kind of where I'm going. I
Speaker 4: want to find out what are the differences if there
Speaker 4: are any talk about his accuracy, accuracy, talk us to
Speaker 4: the differences in how he plays before all the stuff
Speaker 4: happened in Houston, when he was playing at a level
Speaker 4: that we all thought he was going to be an
Speaker 4: All Pro kind of player for many years, to where
Speaker 4: he is now in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it just seems like to me in Cleveland, he
Speaker 2: just hasn't got a grasp of what they're trying to do,
Speaker 2: and they're trying to find ways to take advantage of
Speaker 2: his athletic ability. I mentioned the accuracy. It's hard to
Speaker 2: call offensive plays when your quarterback is throwing the ball.
Speaker 2: We know what Amari Cooper is. Mary Cooper can like
Speaker 2: catch the ball off his shoe, tops Amari Cooper can
Speaker 2: catch the ball over his head. It's a amazing to
Speaker 2: watch these receivers have to work for the football, especially
Speaker 2: when they're open. Now they're running acrossing routes and then
Speaker 2: and the ball is like low and it's it's it's
Speaker 2: almost like watching Trey Lance throw the ball that sometimes
Speaker 2: he's just on target and then other times it's like, well,
Speaker 2: that's behind the guy and now the guy doesn't have
Speaker 2: the opportunity, or or that was just a terrible throw,
Speaker 2: or he didn't really step up in the pocket and
Speaker 2: make it. Throw at Houston seemed like he had a
Speaker 2: better handle on trying to get the ball to his guys.
Speaker 2: They had a better and I'm not saying that had
Speaker 2: a better plan, but it looks like to me that
Speaker 2: this this this Brown's offensive staff. And we'll see with
Speaker 2: Ken Dorsey, he's the new OC, but he's not going
Speaker 2: to call the place Kevin Stephanik's going to call be
Speaker 2: the primary play car. But we saw what Ken Dorsey
Speaker 2: was able to do with Josh Allen at Buffalo, and
Speaker 2: then you know, there was some accuracy problems coming out
Speaker 2: of college and Nick you might remember and watching watching
Speaker 2: Josh Allen play at Wyoming, you know there was some
Speaker 2: Now again he's throwing the ranchers and pharmacists and accountants, niners. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's throwing to like tough guys, you know, but guys
Speaker 2: that probably aren't playing in the NFL, right. But Ken
Speaker 2: Dorsey was able to kind of find something with Josh
Speaker 2: Allen there, and that's probably the hope that maybe that
Speaker 2: his ability to work with quarterbacks that aren't very accurate
Speaker 2: might pay dividends. Yeah.
Speaker 8: The thing for me, when I look at this this
Speaker 8: Browns offense and I'm trying to identify the problems here,
Speaker 8: I see I see a whole obviously at running back,
Speaker 8: but I understand that this is a play caller. This
Speaker 8: is a system, like we mentioned yesterday, that gets running
Speaker 8: backs and gets ball carriers out in space and they
Speaker 8: figure out how to get those four and a half
Speaker 8: yards per carry. So for me, I see that as yes, okay,
Speaker 8: that's going to be what it is. But I'm looking
Speaker 8: at this receiving corps. I mean, you have a Marii
Speaker 8: Cooper who proved last year, especially on the back end
Speaker 8: as he started to pick up some rhythm with Joe Flacco,
Speaker 8: that he can be a danger. If you have a
Speaker 8: healthy Deshaun Watson throwing him the ball, I think there's
Speaker 8: there's problems there. But throw Amari Cooper out of this situation.
Speaker 8: You're bringing in a possession guy and Jerry Judy you
Speaker 8: don't really know what he's going to bring to this
Speaker 8: offense from that possession perspective, And then you have two
Speaker 8: very young guys who could be guys that take off
Speaker 8: for a sixty yard touchdown. I'm looking at David Bell
Speaker 8: and I'm looking at Jamari Thrash. Both of these guys
Speaker 8: are guys that can take a ball out in space
Speaker 8: and make some guys look like fools. So this is
Speaker 8: a dangerous, dangerous receiving core that I think should definitely
Speaker 8: be accounted for because these are guys that can flip
Speaker 8: a game on their head, right, just like that. Jamary Thrash,
Speaker 8: rookie out of Louisville. I really liked him in the
Speaker 8: draft process. And David Bell, he's heading into his third
Speaker 8: year out of Purdue, one of the most electric players
Speaker 8: in Purdue history, and he's had some moments early on
Speaker 8: in his NFL career. But these are two guys that, like,
Speaker 8: I want to know where they are on the field,
Speaker 8: if they take the field.
Speaker 2: If you had to, if you had to take away
Speaker 2: one thing, and we don't know. With Ford, Ford has
Speaker 2: had some cape of the running back there has had.
Speaker 2: I mean, having Chubb out of the lineup is a
Speaker 2: huge help for the cowboy out but he.
Speaker 4: Was pretty Ford's pretty Yeah.
Speaker 2: With Ford, if you could say I'm going to take
Speaker 2: away their running game or I'm gonna take away their path.
Speaker 2: Which one do you want them to do?
Speaker 8: I want them to pass, I want them to especially
Speaker 8: with Deshaun Watson has not played at all in a
Speaker 8: game environment since that shoulder injury last year. I want
Speaker 8: if I'm if I'm the defensive coordinator, if I'm Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 8: I'm saying, I want you to show me that you
Speaker 8: can throw the ball.
Speaker 4: So where do you classify? Where do you classify his
Speaker 4: ability to take off and run.
Speaker 2: That's that's going to be the issue. That's we talked
Speaker 2: about the contain and having to try and keep him.
Speaker 2: Remember when we always talked about playing the Seahawks. Heck,
Speaker 2: it's you play Hurts or you play say and Jack
Speaker 2: Baltimore Jack, And all of a sudden you think, how
Speaker 2: do you play? And remember remember when it was with
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, his threat of attacking the line and running
Speaker 2: and doing all that, it was make him play backwards,
Speaker 2: make him have to keep dropping back, don't give him
Speaker 2: any avenue to be able to escape, because if he
Speaker 2: does escape, and we'll see how much of a threat
Speaker 2: he really wants to be running the ball, especially with
Speaker 2: the bad shoulder or shoulder history. Uh, but yeah, it contain.
Speaker 2: And then find a way to make him have to
Speaker 2: throw this ball from the pocket playing backwards, I think
Speaker 2: will really really.
Speaker 6: Help you also you I mean, I think it is
Speaker 6: important for the defensive line to put that pressure right
Speaker 6: off the bat, because I do think with someone that's
Speaker 6: coming off an injury, and obviously you never want to
Speaker 6: hurt the player or wish anything bad on somebody.
Speaker 2: You know name by the way, interviewed.
Speaker 4: At a supers with somebody's baby, McCaffrey was not too kind,
Speaker 4: learned my lesson.
Speaker 6: My point is, my point is you do if you
Speaker 6: get to him a few times right off the bat
Speaker 6: and and and sack him, you you immediately just start
Speaker 6: putting that in his head and it's gonna maybe prevent
Speaker 6: him from want to run or let him or allow
Speaker 6: him to do that throughout the game. So I think
Speaker 6: you have to set the tone right off the bat.
Speaker 6: And then also with the guys being so good at
Speaker 6: the defensive backs and everybody back there being so good
Speaker 6: at creating turnovers and catching them, I think that's a
Speaker 6: big opportunity to it's not accurate to be able to
Speaker 6: get some of those turnovers in this game as well.
Speaker 8: I know I mentioned those receivers and those are obviously
Speaker 8: a part of the game. But this game, specifically on
Speaker 8: both sides of the ball, is going to be one
Speaker 8: of the trenches. There is no doubt about it. If
Speaker 8: you're looking at it from this perspective, from the Cowboys
Speaker 8: defense versus a Browns offense, I think they're gonna get
Speaker 8: after Deshaun Watson. You look at the advantages that the
Speaker 8: Cowboys defensive line has. I think they can get around
Speaker 8: these sackles. I think that they can steal off those
Speaker 8: edges and not allow Deshaun Watson to escape, and if
Speaker 8: he does, I feel confident in that linebacking court to
Speaker 8: step up and make a playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to say something super positive about
Speaker 2: Dallas's defense this year, it's the linebackers, those cats.
Speaker 4: Which is so interesting after the last year.
Speaker 2: Well you know what it took, not playing with any
Speaker 2: for a whole year, and all of a sudden, when
Speaker 2: we were doing the draft show and interviewing all the
Speaker 2: coaches and stuff and the scouts, they were talking about
Speaker 2: lineback and Clark. I think Clark got has gotten better
Speaker 2: because of the guys now around.
Speaker 8: Yet for sure, I really do.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this, are you guys at all
Speaker 4: surprised that Leah Foule is right now officially on the
Speaker 4: depth chart as a starter ahead of Overshown.
Speaker 8: It surprised me. It did surprise me when I saw
Speaker 8: that in the release yesterday or was that yeah, it
Speaker 8: was yesterday.
Speaker 4: I mean it's been like that most of camp. He's
Speaker 4: been out there with the starters a lot so. But
Speaker 4: but was it? Is it just surprising that when you
Speaker 4: look at their talent, I think, I think this is
Speaker 4: just my perspective.
Speaker 8: Brian might have a different one here. You know, when
Speaker 8: you look at the three different linebackers and the three
Speaker 8: different skill sets that they can bring to the field,
Speaker 8: you would rather rotate Overshown in than rotate Lea foul in.
Speaker 8: That's from Leah Foul's perspective. He's that guy that can
Speaker 8: kind of be a rover I think a little bit
Speaker 8: better rather than Overshown. I know Overshown has this safety background.
Speaker 8: I like him playing up front more. I think he's
Speaker 8: better at playing in front of the ball, whereas Leofhal
Speaker 8: can maybe play behind a little bit and he could
Speaker 8: step back and coverage a little bit more. I think
Speaker 8: he works with those other two guys a little bit
Speaker 8: better as a compliment and overshown getting him on the
Speaker 8: field as a rotation guy for any of those three guys.
Speaker 8: He can play either of those three roles. In my eyes.
Speaker 2: No, that's a good that's good analysis. But I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try and I'm trying to help you here. Okay, I
Speaker 2: got to think about now you're fine. The thing that
Speaker 2: I think, I think it's availability. How much practice did
Speaker 2: we really see from oversho and everything that Remember when
Speaker 2: we were sitting there interviewing and you asked some really
Speaker 2: good questions of you know, McCurley linebacker coach, and all
Speaker 2: the people that were valved and the scouts were all like,
Speaker 2: oh no, this linebacker Leofhoul, he can do this, he
Speaker 2: can do this, he could do this. You know. I
Speaker 2: was I was talking with I was talking with Daniel Jeremiah,
Speaker 2: who's the broadcaster for the color analysts for the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers, and I was thinking, hey, you know, what
Speaker 2: do you what did you think about leofal coming out?
Speaker 2: And he was like, run tackle smart. I mean he
Speaker 2: was going on and on and on about the player
Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, yeah, you were right about that kid,
Speaker 2: And I think that I think that's where Zimmer and
Speaker 2: everybody here fell in love with him. But pre draft,
Speaker 2: they're like, they're watching his tape. He's smart, he's tough,
Speaker 2: he makes plays. You know, you can put him behind
Speaker 2: the line, he can run, he could blitz. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of things. But how much availability did we really
Speaker 2: have with Overshown? Yeah, I kind of felt like that
Speaker 2: every day. I was kind of looking for number thirteen
Speaker 2: to go out bouncing out there. Oh he's got this wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh now he's dealing with a hip pointer. Oh now
Speaker 2: he's And he was missing days, and I was going, well,
Speaker 2: he's not practicing. So it made it pretty simple for
Speaker 2: me that one was practicing and the other wasn't. And
Speaker 2: that's why I think we're in the situation least right
Speaker 2: now that one is ahead of the other.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a fortunate thing for the Cowboys. They don't
Speaker 4: have to rush him back and they can kind of
Speaker 4: let him get acclimated to the game. I guess coming
Speaker 4: off the entry.
Speaker 2: I heard it he's good to go. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 2: I heard that Overshown is good to go. So yeah,
Speaker 2: if that's any concern to anybody.
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Speaker 4: I had a couple more questions on this. Talk to
Speaker 4: me specifically about how you think Trayvon Diggs and Kayln
Speaker 4: Carson matchup against a guy like a Marik Cooper.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 8: I think they're going to attack these two guys early
Speaker 8: and often in this game. I think you might expect
Speaker 8: the running game to get going early. But I if
Speaker 8: I'm if I'm the Cleveland Browns off its coordinator, if
Speaker 8: I'm the play caller, I'm trying to I'm trying to
Speaker 8: go after those two guys trade match up. Yeah, I
Speaker 8: think from a speed and UH movement perspective, Marii Cooper
Speaker 8: is gonna have some advantages against these guys. And I
Speaker 8: think personally, I would rather have Trayvon Digs on Jerry
Speaker 8: Judy and I would put Kaylen Carson on a Maari Cooper.
Speaker 8: And I know that's that. I know that's that sounds
Speaker 8: like are you saying I would travel them? I would
Speaker 8: travel them. I want I want Diggs to be up
Speaker 8: against the possession guy. I don't want him to have
Speaker 8: to change his direction too much during the game. I
Speaker 8: don't trust in Judy's route running ability to be able
Speaker 8: to say that he's gonna get around a Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 8: and the physicality that he brings. You look at Kayln Carson,
Speaker 8: He's got kind of that dog in him. He's gonna
Speaker 8: get you a penalty or two during the game, but
Speaker 8: he's also gonna limit a Mary Cooper, and I think
Speaker 8: he can he can travel with him a little bit
Speaker 8: better in that sense, but you're also gonna see a
Speaker 8: Mary Cooper move inside quite a bit. It's gonna be
Speaker 8: a task for Jordan Lewis as well. At Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 8: I think he's he is ready, he is healthy. He's
Speaker 8: gonna be probably the guy that they lean on a
Speaker 8: little bit in this game, just because Trayvon is coming
Speaker 8: off of that ACL. Kaylan is the rookie that's stepping
Speaker 8: into this situation, so I wouldn't I would expect him
Speaker 8: to lean on Jordan Lewis a little bit more. But
Speaker 8: if I'm looking at just the Amari Cooper problem, I
Speaker 8: would rather have Kaylan Carson on that guy if he's
Speaker 8: on the outside.
Speaker 6: Is Zimmer a guy that tends to like to have
Speaker 6: his corners travel.
Speaker 8: Not in my experience, Brian, Not in my experience watching
Speaker 8: Zimmers defenses. He's a guy that would rather have his
Speaker 8: guys just stay put in right field or stay put
Speaker 8: in left field. Yeah, and get used to seeing things
Speaker 8: come from those perspectives. But I don't know. I think
Speaker 8: this is a unique situation because you have a guy
Speaker 8: coming off of a torn acl, you have a rookie
Speaker 8: stepping in making his very first start. I would rather
Speaker 8: the task this week be, Okay, study this guy, know
Speaker 8: this guy like the back of your hand, and go
Speaker 8: attack this guy. That's just my perspective. But we'll see
Speaker 8: how Zimmer kind of approaches it as the week gets closer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I know, I don't play fantasy football, and
Speaker 2: I try not to give fantasy football advice, but I
Speaker 2: do believe a metric that fantasy football people look at
Speaker 2: or how the matchups are going to be. And this
Speaker 2: comes from Pro Football focus on their fantasy matchups and
Speaker 2: one of the actually on the Dallas end of things,
Speaker 2: they're saying that if you start Ceedee Lamb of wide receivers,
Speaker 2: first corners, all corners at Cleveland, he would be a
Speaker 2: He's just below an excellent fantasy player against their corners.
Speaker 2: On the flip side of that, if you look at
Speaker 2: Judy and Cooper, they're good options against all Dallas defensive backs. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, we'll see how that plays out,
Speaker 2: but I just you know, sometimes you see these and
Speaker 2: a lot of times these fantasy people are right. They
Speaker 2: look at the matchups and they say, hey, this guy
Speaker 2: here can score a lot of points against or you know,
Speaker 2: create opportunities against. You know, the fact that Dallas has
Speaker 2: almost an excellent option against them, I think bodes well
Speaker 2: for Dallas with Lamb, even though he hasn't you know,
Speaker 2: practiced and stuff. I just kind of with I worry
Speaker 2: about with Dallas matching up with those two guys, you know,
Speaker 2: and Judy is a little bit of a wild card
Speaker 2: because he could go off or he could be just
Speaker 2: a big fat zero.
Speaker 8: I think for Judy to go off, it would require
Speaker 8: Deshaun Watson pushing the ball down the field and a
Speaker 8: I don't think that's going to be their game plan
Speaker 8: coming off of that shoulder injury. I think everything's going
Speaker 8: to be within that ten to twenty yard right.
Speaker 2: That's the way he throws the ball.
Speaker 8: Exactly and then be I don't feel like he's going
Speaker 8: to have the opportunities.
Speaker 4: And that's also the key I was gonna mention that, Brian,
Speaker 4: I think with these fantasy sites, I think a lot
Speaker 4: of it also has to do with opportunities and other
Speaker 4: things around them. So, for example, with Cleveland, they are
Speaker 4: a running team with a quarterback coming off a shoulder injury, right,
Speaker 4: So the opportunities that those receivers may have, even if
Speaker 4: they win, I win, in their matchups, they may not
Speaker 4: get as many opportunities as we know with Dallas. Dallas's
Speaker 4: offense is going to run through Ceedee Lamb. If see
Speaker 4: Lamb has a great day, it's a good chance Dallas
Speaker 4: is gonna win. And so I think that's kind of
Speaker 4: much as much a part of it as maybe even
Speaker 4: anything else.
Speaker 2: Well, the matchups. Like I said, you know, they look
Speaker 2: at these matchups, and I was just curious because, like
Speaker 2: I said, I don't play fantasy football myself and I
Speaker 2: never have. But if you're telling me, and a lot
Speaker 2: of these guys and gals are very smart at it,
Speaker 2: they'll tell you, like opportunities here. They might be looking
Speaker 2: at it as hey, Cleveland's got no running game. Without Chubb,
Speaker 2: they might have to throw the football. So but you're
Speaker 2: also thinking, like, oh, good matchups against all of Dallas's cornerbacks.
Speaker 2: So you know, I hope, I hope in this case
Speaker 2: because they got Judy and Cooper were right there as
Speaker 2: good you know with the others, but then they got
Speaker 2: Ceedee Lamb as almost an excellent matchup against against those
Speaker 2: Browns corners, and they've got good corners.
Speaker 8: It would be funny if we talked about these last
Speaker 8: two weeks seeding potentially not being ready and he just
Speaker 8: goes out and has like one hundred and twenty five yards, you.
Speaker 2: Know, you know what I think that you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's interesting because Cleveland's one of the best, was one
Speaker 2: of the best red zone It's been one of the
Speaker 2: best third down teams in the league last year, but
Speaker 2: one of the worst red zone teams in the league
Speaker 2: last year. Hard to believe that you could be really
Speaker 2: good at one area where you know, getting off the field,
Speaker 2: and then you can't keep people, you know, out of
Speaker 2: the red zone area. So yeah, it's it's kind of
Speaker 2: a It's a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 2: that front, and they've got really they've got good corners.
Speaker 2: They just you know, we've seen we've seen Dallas have success.
Speaker 2: I think Dallas is equipped to to throw the football
Speaker 2: in this thing, and they find a way to protect
Speaker 2: that front. They could throw the ball.
Speaker 4: We've gotten forty one minutes into a show where we're
Speaker 4: talking about the Dallas defense and have not one time
Speaker 4: talked about Michael Parsons. What is Michael Parson's going to
Speaker 4: do this week?
Speaker 2: I think that with Micah then you're I think it's
Speaker 2: very similar to what you're going to see with Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: I think that Mike Zimmer is not going to put
Speaker 2: hand down and let him just rush, rush, rush like that.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna move him around. I think he's
Speaker 2: gonna hunt some matchups. We talked about the inside three
Speaker 2: for the UH. For the Browns, there's questions on the
Speaker 2: health of the and the availability of the of the tackles.
Speaker 2: I think Mike's just going to find it whoever looks
Speaker 2: like that they're struggling the most in that game. He's
Speaker 2: going to put people in position, and especially Micah. We
Speaker 2: saw it in practice. He's standing in the a gap
Speaker 2: they've got. They've got Kendricks in front, of him, Mike
Speaker 2: has backed up all of a sudden. Kendricks Blitz is
Speaker 2: the a mikeh ends up in the sea, standing in
Speaker 2: the a untouched. They got everybody, They've got everybody accounted for,
Speaker 2: and nobody for Micah. I could see creativity like that
Speaker 2: happening for Mike Zimmer.
Speaker 4: Matchups look good, as you talked about with tackles, even
Speaker 4: if he's lined up on the outside, it looks like
Speaker 4: he's got some opportunity.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, Well another thing. I mean, he's talked about
Speaker 6: it during this time and mention how he's so excited,
Speaker 6: and please write the way that Mike Zimmer, the way
Speaker 6: he's been positioned in him and he thinks he can
Speaker 6: take make more place in this way, and how Mike
Speaker 6: Zimmer is just kind of handling him and his abilities.
Speaker 6: So I'm excited to see what that actually looks like
Speaker 6: because it sounds like Mike Zimber. I just I'm just
Speaker 6: excited overall, just with what he's doing with the defense
Speaker 6: because I don't know exactly what to expect, and I'm
Speaker 6: excited about that because it's intriguing. It's something different that
Speaker 6: we're than what we're used to. I think he brings
Speaker 6: some more of that creativity part of it, aspect of
Speaker 6: it where he's just kind of something that I heard
Speaker 6: a lot is just going back to that, just allowing
Speaker 6: players to excel a big position better in a way
Speaker 6: that they can actually excel with their own personal talent.
Speaker 2: Be sound. After what happened in that Green Bay thing.
Speaker 2: You do not want to see unsound football on defense
Speaker 2: ever again. That will get you beat badly. And I
Speaker 2: think Mike will bring that buttoned up mentality to his
Speaker 2: group and that's how I think they'll play for him.
Speaker 8: We have a news from I McCarthy andis press conference
Speaker 8: just now. The theme for the Dallas Cabals in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty has been has been revealed. I would love to
Speaker 8: get ambar. It's just one. Last year it was carpe
Speaker 8: omnia if memories at a hotel next door exactly if
Speaker 8: memories could probably be better than mine to call back
Speaker 8: to what twenty twenty, twenty twenty one we were. But twenty
Speaker 8: twenty four is just one word. Rooted, rooted, rooted r
Speaker 8: O T E D rooted like.
Speaker 6: A plant, yep to the ground.
Speaker 8: Get rooted to the ground exactly.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, feet on the ground stay humble.
Speaker 2: I like to fight better.
Speaker 4: We had enough of fight for years. Let's let's get
Speaker 4: away from that rooted all right?
Speaker 6: Never they have finished the VisiC.
Speaker 4: We're trying to fish that quight so many years.
Speaker 6: That's that's not an easy word. I don't like it.
Speaker 8: I think there's multiple interpretation.
Speaker 6: I mean, I like the concept, but rooted want I
Speaker 6: like a word that you can just come out of
Speaker 6: your mouth easily.
Speaker 4: You're saying just the word itself, not necessarily the meaning.
Speaker 6: Come up with a different word that has a similar meaning,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But the concept, you know what.
Speaker 2: I like the concept, And this is where this is.
Speaker 4: Where I think the concept works.
Speaker 6: What's the mural going to be a tree with roots? Yeah,
Speaker 6: the mural that't that.
Speaker 4: But I mean like, be where your feet are, be
Speaker 4: planet where your feet are. And I think in a
Speaker 4: on a team like this, where they got so many
Speaker 4: outside distractions, they got people in the last years of
Speaker 4: their deals and all this kind of stuff going on,
Speaker 4: I think that's a good message of hey, be right
Speaker 4: where you are. We're in twenty twenty four, let's not
Speaker 4: worry about twenty five twenty six. Let's be right where
Speaker 4: our feet are. So I see the message. I see
Speaker 4: the message word, but I like the I see the
Speaker 4: message of the year.
Speaker 2: You hope you're not uprooted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's hope. Okay, all right, as a roun, we
Speaker 4: appreciate you guys doing it actually real quick. We got
Speaker 4: a couple. Mom, I'm gonna do real quick. IM gonna
Speaker 4: go around, say, I want to start.
Speaker 6: It's over.
Speaker 4: I want I want to start. I want to start
Speaker 4: this every Wednesday and Thursday. I want to go around
Speaker 4: and tay what I want you guys to tell me
Speaker 4: advantage Cowboys or advantage their opponent on the position or
Speaker 4: the groups that we're talking about. So we talked about
Speaker 4: Cleveland defense. I'm Cleveland offense versus Dallas defense advantage Home.
Speaker 4: Let's start with you, Nick.
Speaker 8: You said Cleveland offense versus Cowboys defense advantage. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go Cowboys defense here. I love the experience
Speaker 8: that they've added over the over the offseason. I think
Speaker 8: adding those two guys in the middle and Jordan Phillips
Speaker 8: and Linbald Joseph, while they are not starters, these guys
Speaker 8: are going to add so much to the interior of
Speaker 8: that defensive line. The linebackers are improved. I think it's
Speaker 8: a top five unit in the league. I think it's
Speaker 8: going to be proven as early as Week one. The secondary,
Speaker 8: I have questions absolutely, not having a healthy Deron Bland,
Speaker 8: getting Trayvon Diggs from injury in his first game back.
Speaker 8: They are going to test those guys and as they should.
Speaker 8: But I like the Cowboys defense here. Like I said yesterday,
Speaker 8: this is gonna be a rock fight of a game.
Speaker 8: First team to seventeen wins, So I like I like the.
Speaker 6: Defense Cowboys defense as well. I think I can see
Speaker 6: the line just creating a lot of pressure and keeping
Speaker 6: their quarterback just kind of mumbling all over the field.
Speaker 6: So I think that the defense has the possibility to
Speaker 6: get at least one turnover. I do. It's going to
Speaker 6: be a challenge for sure with the receivers and the
Speaker 6: guys that we have in the secondary, But overall, I
Speaker 6: think you'll be a good battle. But with the Cowboys
Speaker 6: defense kind of playing and staying up to.
Speaker 2: Task, Cowboys win it. The biggest position that's a quarterback,
Speaker 2: and I'm saying that because they're going to attack. They're
Speaker 2: going to attack Watson in this game. They're gonna make
Speaker 2: Watson try and win this game. That's an advantage for
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. And you when you say handle pressure very well,
Speaker 2: Dak does so.
Speaker 4: And when you say it, and when you said earlier
Speaker 4: that he is he's a guy, that's not very accurate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: when you talk about a secondary that has cornerbacks who
Speaker 4: are extremely good at attacking the ball and creating turnovers
Speaker 4: in that way, I think that's also something to note.
Speaker 4: I also give advantage Cowboys defense. All Right, we'll be
Speaker 4: back tomorrow. We'll talk about the Cowboys offense versus a
Speaker 4: Cleveland defense. Till then, for Nick Harris, Brian brought us
Speaker 4: an Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break
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