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Speaker 1: let's thanks start popping like scanners. Let's see what happens zero.
Speaker 1: But the next already kind of late, little jittery to
Speaker 1: me a little bit, Yeah, a little bit. It's probably
Speaker 1: going over the rail here, buddy. It's probably because I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about what I just got into my lley. He's
Speaker 1: gonna start growling at me. Isaiah's up, run to the bathroom.
Speaker 1: We know why. It's time to play the game. Yes, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Doing fantastic? You gotta keep it
Speaker 1: hot with you, but we're doing well. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I'm not gonna lie to you. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see how it's going. Because Isaiah can handle that stuff.
Speaker 1: He's got the body mask to do it. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm over here in the corner. You really did go
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Speaker 1: like a man? Are you tired? No? I feel I
Speaker 1: actually feel fine. You didn't need a jolt. I've been
Speaker 1: up for a little bit. I've got my coffee in
Speaker 1: this morning, early, I don't even have it with me,
Speaker 1: my black rifle. I had it at home this morning. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's get stuff. Pooky from New Jake City just be
Speaker 1: calling me so. Cowboys Eagles one of the biggest divisional
Speaker 1: matchups that we've seen in quite some time. And we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that coming up in a minute. But Rob
Speaker 1: Phillips hit us with some news and notes early on
Speaker 1: Cowboys back on the practice field, Yes, back to practice.
Speaker 1: A couple news and notes. Micah Parsons Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Week for the NFC. He's only been the best
Speaker 1: player in the NFL defensively league. Yeah, say that again,
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons. What was the part after that? He's only
Speaker 1: been the best defensive player in the in the NFL season,
Speaker 1: maybe the pound for pound player period. He really deserved
Speaker 1: this one because he did play three plus quarters with
Speaker 1: a growing injury, and we'll see what his status is today,
Speaker 1: how much work he gets done. I think they feel
Speaker 1: pretty good about him playing this week. One roster move
Speaker 1: practice squad addition at the tight end position Seth Green,
Speaker 1: former Houston Texan former. I think he's from Allen, just
Speaker 1: up the road here. Yeah, went to Houston for college.
Speaker 1: He takes the spot of Tucker Addington the second long
Speaker 1: snap that they had on the practice squad last week.
Speaker 1: They're pretty banged up at tight end. We know that
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz only played ten snaps that pc el injury
Speaker 1: flared up on him in the game. UM Jake Ferguson
Speaker 1: was on the injury report last week. Sean mcun's been
Speaker 1: banged up at times. Uh. They need depth at tight end,
Speaker 1: so that's something to watch. I can eat some peanut
Speaker 1: butter and make weight, you'll be right back at it. Minimum.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, get minimum one point two. Who oh
Speaker 1: your boy, God me. Now, if you end up getting
Speaker 1: the VET minimum and you sign as a tight end
Speaker 1: over there, I think we need a portion of that.
Speaker 1: We need to cut a chat. So I was talking
Speaker 1: with some of the staff last week prior to the game,
Speaker 1: and they were saying, we maybe shouldn't have played Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz as much as we did in the in the
Speaker 1: Washington game, maybe we shouldn't have played him as much.
Speaker 1: But he's good to go. This is gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: He's he's back to back to being healthy, back to
Speaker 1: be and ready to go. And then like Rob just said,
Speaker 1: ten snaps pcl flares up and they had had some
Speaker 1: some things drawn up at a couple of times for
Speaker 1: Peyton Hindershot, for Jake Ferguson as guys in the receiving game.
Speaker 1: It didn't really work out because, like we talked about,
Speaker 1: nobody outside a Ceedee Lamb and Noah Brown had a reception.
Speaker 1: But it's interesting to me to think, now that Dalton
Speaker 1: Scholtz is out, do they really have a struggle for
Speaker 1: a wide receiver or at least a pass catcher. I
Speaker 1: should say at tight end because Ferguson hasn't necessarily shown
Speaker 1: it yet as a pass catcher. Hindershot has the ability,
Speaker 1: but he's been limited to this point. I'm going with
Speaker 1: Peyton himnder Shot. I'm gonna call him hymnder Shot. You know, Sholtz.
Speaker 1: We talked about this wind Shots initially got injured pcls.
Speaker 1: They need Risks to heal. He missed only one game.
Speaker 1: We also discussed why he would try to manage through
Speaker 1: the pain and get back. Obviously he's under a franchise tag.
Speaker 1: He's got the two young gunners behind him, Ferguson and
Speaker 1: pick Hindershot. You know, okay, But that said, he reaggravates
Speaker 1: Fergie's dealing with a little something. Although Fergie did playing
Speaker 1: sixty four percent of the snaps, but he missed a
Speaker 1: practice because of a knee injury. Hindershot right now, outside
Speaker 1: of the new addition to seth Green is your only
Speaker 1: fully healthy tight end and he's proven that he can
Speaker 1: make plays down the field. So does he need to
Speaker 1: improve in his run blocking, Yes he does. But as
Speaker 1: far as being able to separate, and I said this
Speaker 1: before when it comes to Hindershot, there is not a
Speaker 1: tight end on this roster. There's not a tight end
Speaker 1: on several rosters that can separate the way that young
Speaker 1: man can separate like his way he breaks out of
Speaker 1: routes and his feet, his quickness, he separates like a receiver.
Speaker 1: If he ever truly adds run blocking and pass blocking
Speaker 1: to his to his Arsenal. He's going to be dangerous,
Speaker 1: but in the immediate it has to be hindershot if
Speaker 1: you're trying to find another receiving weapon for Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and then eventually Dak Prescott. I don't disagree with you,
Speaker 1: just think that, you know, as you mentioned by the way, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably do that. Cooper Rush. I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: I actually agree with you. The only problem is, as
Speaker 1: I mentioned that yesterday, Kellen Moore is going to have
Speaker 1: to open up this playbook. The number one priority has
Speaker 1: been keeping Cooper Rush safe and protecting him, which is
Speaker 1: why you haven't seen a whole lot of successful passes
Speaker 1: going on, because these guys have been staying in to block.
Speaker 1: A lot of the passes that are going down the
Speaker 1: field aren't high precision passes or just some drops too
Speaker 1: on some of the balls that he has delivered. But
Speaker 1: there are not a lot of high precision passes because
Speaker 1: you're having to try to push things down the field
Speaker 1: for when you do take your shots, you're blocking it
Speaker 1: up and trying to ensure that he has the time
Speaker 1: to deliver the ball with high accuracy to get back
Speaker 1: to Dallas's office. Yes, they check one box last week
Speaker 1: by rushing the ball over thirty times. That's freaking awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: now we know what comes off of that. Play action
Speaker 1: comes off of that. Are you willing to let these
Speaker 1: tight ends now that are banged up right and let
Speaker 1: Hindershot get out in routes at the exposure their possible
Speaker 1: risk of Cooper Rush being under pressure. That's the question
Speaker 1: that they're going to be posed with because that is
Speaker 1: the response that they they need in order to generate
Speaker 1: some offense here. You can't just run the ball and
Speaker 1: run two main concepts. It's it's not a thing. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not a thing unless you just simply just
Speaker 1: wipe everybody off the planet with your running game, which
Speaker 1: I don't think we're there yet. I think they were
Speaker 1: persistent last week, but they're not too old Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We just hand the ball off and just and just
Speaker 1: beat them down to an entire game. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to get out and run some routes, and to do that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to risk Uber Rush being under pressure
Speaker 1: against this front, which is maybe the best total front
Speaker 1: they will have faced this this whole year. Tom Pellaceo
Speaker 1: from the NFL Network who's also plugged in around here,
Speaker 1: said Schultz didn't have a new injury or damage. As
Speaker 1: long as he gets through the week, he should be good,
Speaker 1: good to go on Sunday. That's something to watch though, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's as severe as the PCL
Speaker 1: that Zeke had last year, but think about how limited
Speaker 1: Zeke was the whole year. Like No, C just said
Speaker 1: it requires rest, and there's no rest. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get a bye week here in about three weeks, but
Speaker 1: other than that, you gotta keep going. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: try to play through it, I'm sure, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: could be Hendershot Ferguson and you know you're probably looking
Speaker 1: at potentially calling up Seth Greener mcun if he's good
Speaker 1: to go to. I just I don't I don't like.
Speaker 1: It's never a good thing for somebody who's been injured
Speaker 1: a lot. Okay, it's never a good thing when somebody
Speaker 1: does something in football and then stops and looks at
Speaker 1: the body part that's actually bothering them. Like you try
Speaker 1: to shake it off and he's like, ah, man, that
Speaker 1: something is right, you know, saying you go to the
Speaker 1: sideline and talk to the trainer, talk to the doctor's language. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you stop and you start like messing with
Speaker 1: your knee, looking at it, like, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: What's going on in here? You wish you had X
Speaker 1: ray vision because you're doing talking to it. That's airby.
Speaker 1: I mean, we were in the studio watching it. He
Speaker 1: stopped his route and he's just like looking at it.
Speaker 1: He's messing with his knee, and I'm like, ooh, it's
Speaker 1: not good. It's not good, and I'm I'm hoping that
Speaker 1: the reporters are true, but it's it's It doesn't give
Speaker 1: you a sense of hope, and I hate that for him,
Speaker 1: especially this year. This is a huge year for him.
Speaker 1: Not only was it a big hit for Dak to
Speaker 1: go out because he is Dak's guy and he's his
Speaker 1: DA you know, security blanket. We thought that he would
Speaker 1: be Cooper Russians security blanket. Found out that Norah Brown
Speaker 1: is his security blanket. So not only did he have
Speaker 1: that big hit in terms of Dak not feeding him
Speaker 1: the ball for this long duration at the time, now
Speaker 1: he's hit with an injury. It's a double whammy for
Speaker 1: kind of going back to what you said a few
Speaker 1: episodes ago, Dalton is definitively Dak Prescott's guy. But now
Speaker 1: when Dak comes back, you were asking if Dalton's gonna
Speaker 1: get his targets not healthy enough? Logically yes, but he's
Speaker 1: not healthy so maybe not. So you know, it's not
Speaker 1: looking too promising for Shot unless he can kind of
Speaker 1: heal up on the job. But we've seen as recently
Speaker 1: is Ezekie Elliot in twenty twenty one healing up on
Speaker 1: the job when it's a spring pcl. It's just those
Speaker 1: two things don't marry well. And this is why guys
Speaker 1: hate the franchise tag. Oh no doubt, no, it's true.
Speaker 1: This is why when you when the fans out there like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll just go out there and sign the contract your
Speaker 1: makeup to make all this money this one year. This
Speaker 1: is why people. I mean it's guaranteed and contracts year
Speaker 1: to year or not guaranteed, but you get that lump
Speaker 1: sum of guaranteed money that is a lot more than
Speaker 1: ten point nine million or whatever he got. So if
Speaker 1: you don't think that he's losing money right now, well
Speaker 1: he at the moment, he's losing future revenue at the moment. Well,
Speaker 1: because you think about it, if you come back next year.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys could tag him, but with his production this year,
Speaker 1: or at least the injuries, they probably won't. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna go and he can't come last year. Yeah, unless
Speaker 1: he just goes on. He's still never had a one
Speaker 1: hundred yard receiving game in his career. He's never had one,
Speaker 1: so to this point point, even if he were to
Speaker 1: come in and explode, it would be for like eight
Speaker 1: catches eighty yards and maybe a touchdown, maybe two if
Speaker 1: he gets lucky. So that's not even ms. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: terms of the ceiling that we've seen from Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: he would have to really go off to even get
Speaker 1: close to the numbers he had last year, which is
Speaker 1: what he was pushing for contract wise. Anyways, you brought
Speaker 1: something up barely. This is a league wide conversation, but
Speaker 1: scoring is down in the NFL at the moment. You're
Speaker 1: at forty two points per game, which is about five
Speaker 1: or six points less than it is normally on average,
Speaker 1: and that's combined points per game, not just per team.
Speaker 1: So scoring is down across the board in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and a big reason for that has been the lack
Speaker 1: of play or the lack of effectiveness in offensive line play.
Speaker 1: Throughout the season, offensive lines, not only Withoud the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but across the league have not been good. And that's
Speaker 1: a byproduct of college football in the way that the
Speaker 1: spread offense is gone for the last ten two or
Speaker 1: five to ten years or so in college ball, and
Speaker 1: now all those guys are making it into the NFL
Speaker 1: and they're having to relearn the position and doing it
Speaker 1: do it a different way. Good point. So with that
Speaker 1: being said, we're seeing a lot of tight ends around
Speaker 1: the league having to max protect, having to come in
Speaker 1: and block more than being a receiver. Where it seemed
Speaker 1: like with the Kelsey's and the Kittles and the Wallers
Speaker 1: of the world, we're moving the tight end position into
Speaker 1: a past catching heavy situation. Feels like this year that's
Speaker 1: reverted backwards and you haven't seen those high end tight ends.
Speaker 1: Even Kelsey the other day he had four touchdown grabs.
Speaker 1: He had like five catches, like that was it. It
Speaker 1: was all in the red zone. That was the only
Speaker 1: time he was targeted. Is this a change in the
Speaker 1: NFL this year that we're seeing that's going to continue
Speaker 1: forward because of the lack of offensive line depth in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and tight ends are having to make up
Speaker 1: for that. That's probably part of it. I think we're
Speaker 1: seeing it magnified here, and Isaiah spoke about it just
Speaker 1: because of the situation the Cowboys are specifically and without
Speaker 1: Dak and without Tyrann Smith, and they have a young
Speaker 1: player at left tackle and Tyler Smith. I also think
Speaker 1: I think defensers are just adjusting in general to what
Speaker 1: this style of offense, the more spread out stuff. They're saying, Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I mean we saw what the what defenses did to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last year. What defensives are doing to the
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the league at the Pat Mahomes, the
Speaker 1: Justin Herberts, it's like, fine, we're gonna we're gonna zone
Speaker 1: it up, We're gonna keep everything in front of us.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna give you great stuff down the field.
Speaker 1: And it's forcing offenses to be more plotting and methodical,
Speaker 1: and it's not as fun. It's not as fun. But
Speaker 1: that's been the defensive adjustment I think in general that
Speaker 1: we've seen from defenses around the league, and that's to me,
Speaker 1: that's one reason why scoring is down, and and that
Speaker 1: does put more emphasis on your running game and having
Speaker 1: to be more effective that way to get yardage because
Speaker 1: this stuff over the top, it's kind of boring, but
Speaker 1: I mean it's in a league that that is tilted
Speaker 1: more towards the past. Defense has got to do something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I have two things to say to that. One,
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Speaker 1: But to that point, I think it's everything in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and and all you guys can agree, particularly as said
Speaker 1: here having played in the league. Everything is cyclical, right,
Speaker 1: So it went through a phase where offense was just shreddened,
Speaker 1: defenses just all over the place. You know, the rules
Speaker 1: helped legislate that into place as well. You can't really
Speaker 1: touch a quarterback list not that's a whole different conversation, Christian.
Speaker 1: You can't, you can't put hands or receivers, etcetera. So
Speaker 1: eventually what was going to happen is what we're seeing
Speaker 1: happening now is to Rob's point, defenses and defensive coordators.
Speaker 1: They started to adjust for an offenses and started to
Speaker 1: adjust and whom they bring in personnel wise via of
Speaker 1: the draft and free agency to account for these high
Speaker 1: powered offenses. The Patrick mahomes is of the world and
Speaker 1: and you know Green Bay when Davante Adams was there,
Speaker 1: those types of offenses. But so yes, to answer your question,
Speaker 1: it's going to, I believe, continue for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: But again it's cyclical. Eventually offenses will then adapt and
Speaker 1: then it will again become an offensive driven league. But
Speaker 1: for right now, is that happens this year? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know that it will happen as soon as this year,
Speaker 1: because you're talking about defenses like the Cowboys, the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers, I mean the Eagles for example. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are several teams in the NFC alone that can
Speaker 1: shut down some of these high powered offenses. So I
Speaker 1: think it's going to take a couple more seasons or
Speaker 1: so before we see that the needles start to move
Speaker 1: back in the opposite direction. Agree, look at the Chargers,
Speaker 1: even like their defense, there's guys on every level of
Speaker 1: that defense. The Chargers are real effects defensively and they're
Speaker 1: like the twentieth ranked defense in the league right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it happens, and it's not because it's their fault.
Speaker 1: They actually have decent numbers, but just defenses are starting
Speaker 1: the shift and they're they're covering these tight ends. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week with j Ron Curse eliminating
Speaker 1: tight ends, eliminating good good time guys to deal with.
Speaker 1: The Eagles got a tight end of their own they
Speaker 1: got to look out for. We've got an Ope cursing
Speaker 1: tight end. Yeah, he's just trying to cancel some people out.
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Speaker 1: boy all right. Eagles offense thirty eight points in week one,
Speaker 1: twenty four points in the next two weeks. They put
Speaker 1: up twenty nine against Jacksonville, and then last week they
Speaker 1: held on late against the Arizona Cardinals twenty to seven.
Speaker 1: Team is the final score? They are five and zero.
Speaker 1: Jalen hurtson Company look legitimate, but so does this Dallas defense. Right,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun. This is the matchup. I think
Speaker 1: everybody will have circled the Dallas defense versus the Philadelphia offense. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: your initial thoughts on what you're seeing from Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: how dangerous are they really even based off of some
Speaker 1: of the schedule they've played so far, I feel like
Speaker 1: Bart Scott right now, Okay, can't wait. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to it. These guys there, everybody talks about their defensive lining. Yes,
Speaker 1: their defensive line will not allow you to run the ball.
Speaker 1: That's concerning because they have the big boys in the middle. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with big I call them baby Davies, Big baby Davies.
Speaker 1: I know that was a basketball player. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call them big Baby Davies and in big Fletcher Cox.
Speaker 1: They got hardgrow over there. They got me, they got
Speaker 1: they got some dudes right in the middle that won't
Speaker 1: allow you to really be as successful as you like
Speaker 1: to be on the ground game. We know that is
Speaker 1: very important for Dallas' success to be able to establish
Speaker 1: the ground game because they haven't been throwing the ball
Speaker 1: the way they've wanted to. So that's a little bit
Speaker 1: concerning Their defense doesn't scare me. The Dallas Is defense. Dallas'
Speaker 1: defense scares everybody, and they should. Philly's defense does not
Speaker 1: scare me. But they almost like their patient. They're very patient.
Speaker 1: They just chill. They do what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: They don't necessarily make a big bunch of big splash
Speaker 1: plays unless you throw it up to them. If you
Speaker 1: throw it up Slay Gardner, Johnson and all them guys,
Speaker 1: they're gonna make you pay for it if you put
Speaker 1: it up in the air, if you try to run
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground. Fletcher Cox, big Baby, They're
Speaker 1: gonna remind you that they're in there. We're previewing Dallas
Speaker 1: defense versus Philly off I'm sorry, man, I pulled a piece,
Speaker 1: all right, So all right, let's flip it to the outside.
Speaker 1: Das defensive No, no, no no, no, exactly the whole thing.
Speaker 1: So Dallas Dallas's defense is very is very explosive in
Speaker 1: the sense that these guys will try to get after
Speaker 1: obviously the offense of Philadelphia, but Philadelphia has a lot
Speaker 1: of options that they provide in a lot of leverage problems.
Speaker 1: Dallas's advantage is that they're so explosive and they make
Speaker 1: big plays, and that the personnel groupings can obviously take
Speaker 1: advantage of that of Philly, even though they have some dudes,
Speaker 1: Dallas Dallas has better personnel matchups overall. The thing that
Speaker 1: concerns me is that they're so overly aggressive, not from
Speaker 1: the sense of dan Quinn putting them out of position
Speaker 1: in terms of blitzing and things of that nature, but
Speaker 1: from the sense that these guys like to make plays.
Speaker 1: And that's an amazing thing, as we've seen this year,
Speaker 1: until you start having leverage problems, until you're slowed down
Speaker 1: by the options that Philadelphia provides in terms of the RPO,
Speaker 1: and most people think RPO are either going to run
Speaker 1: the ball or gona passes in one place. No no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia's rpo is I can run the ball right here
Speaker 1: because we have the numbers in the box and we
Speaker 1: have bigger guys on your smaller guys, and we have
Speaker 1: six five for six, whatever it might be, right, they
Speaker 1: feel good about there in the box running schemes, so
Speaker 1: they can do that. That's a run option. Or I
Speaker 1: think can running with Jalen Hurts. That's another option. Or
Speaker 1: we have three guys out to the bunch up top
Speaker 1: and we could run a screenplay because we have three
Speaker 1: guys blocking your two guys. Or we have Dallas Goddard
Speaker 1: down here and he's matched up, you know, him and A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown have one on one match up when we can
Speaker 1: run a screen down here as well. They put your
Speaker 1: defensive ends, your outside linebackers, at a disadvantage because they
Speaker 1: put you in no man's land. Whatever decision that you
Speaker 1: would like to make from your defensive position, they can
Speaker 1: make you wrong even though you're doing your assignment. You're
Speaker 1: doing what dan Quinn told you to do, but they
Speaker 1: still can make you wrong because they have three or
Speaker 1: four options that they can go with based upon the
Speaker 1: look that you give So that's the problem, and that's
Speaker 1: the thing that's concerning to me, because like even if
Speaker 1: Dallas does what they're supposed to do defensively, you still
Speaker 1: could be in a bad predicament. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let up ticket Nix because I did some homework on
Speaker 1: the Eagles, specifically Monday night and then again last night,
Speaker 1: and I got some some numbers here that I want
Speaker 1: to tell us out. Okay, Yeah, just real quick to
Speaker 1: piggyback on what Isaiah said, if you go back and
Speaker 1: watch this Cardinals game, they didn't they didn't blow you
Speaker 1: away offensively. They at twenty points in the game. But
Speaker 1: like you said about options like if you want to
Speaker 1: load up up front against them, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of screen actions at a lot of stuff that got
Speaker 1: here quick outside and he can get yack for you.
Speaker 1: We know about DeVante Smith, we know about A. J. Brown.
Speaker 1: I just think we asked the question, I think on
Speaker 1: Fan Tuesday by a fan, like, can can the RPO
Speaker 1: stuff and the run games slow down? The Cowboys rushed
Speaker 1: and in some since, yes, it can. That's what That's
Speaker 1: what RPOs are designed to do. They're designed to make
Speaker 1: you freeze first A second, figure out what you're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. So I do think that is a concern
Speaker 1: because they're so good at it, and Hurts is so
Speaker 1: good at it, and Hurts has also become just a
Speaker 1: better overall passer too as part of that threat too,
Speaker 1: he is, he has really developed. I've been a fan
Speaker 1: of his since it came in the league. I know
Speaker 1: some people haven't. I'm one of those people. I'm not
Speaker 1: a crazy Hurts well they I think he can win,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's a great quarterback lead put
Speaker 1: it out. They've done a hell of a job designing
Speaker 1: an offense around his strength. But he's also he's just
Speaker 1: impressed me since Alabama just he constantly gets better. He's
Speaker 1: such a pro. But they have such and they've done
Speaker 1: such a good job of adding players. I mean a J.
Speaker 1: Brown is a great addition to this defense or offense.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the RPO stuff. I'm curious where Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: goes because both these games last year were blowouts. Not
Speaker 1: everybody played in the final game. In Week three, it
Speaker 1: was a Cowboys blowout and they barely Eagles barely ran
Speaker 1: ball because it was such a lopsided game. Is it
Speaker 1: better for Mica to play on the edge or play
Speaker 1: off the ball and be able to survey survey things
Speaker 1: a little bit more. To me, that's part of the
Speaker 1: chess match too that I want to see. Okay, so
Speaker 1: here's some science on on the Eagles. Yes. Yes, the
Speaker 1: more I dug into this this team, the less impressive
Speaker 1: they became in one particular aspect, and that's the passing game.
Speaker 1: You have to love how they've designed their offense as
Speaker 1: far as personnel wise. You know, they went and got
Speaker 1: a J. Brown. It's crazy because their offense is irreally
Speaker 1: similar to Dallas is when Dak is a mix right,
Speaker 1: because a J. Brown is the same building type of
Speaker 1: player as Michael Gallup. For the most part, I did it. Um,
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, Cite Lamb have the same skill set. You know,
Speaker 1: shifty guys can make plays, Um, But the word explosive
Speaker 1: keeps getting thrown around, right, And I was guilty of
Speaker 1: it as well until I started really digging into them.
Speaker 1: On Monday. Hurts has only four touchdowns, four passing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and he has two interceptions. Cooper Rush has four touchdowns
Speaker 1: with no interceptions. That means Hurts is on pace for
Speaker 1: less than fourteen touchdowns this season to seven interceptions like that,
Speaker 1: those are bad numbers. That's not even par like that's
Speaker 1: so par. In passing zero passing touchdowns in three of
Speaker 1: their five games three of their five games, Hurts has
Speaker 1: not been able to find a receiver in the end zone,
Speaker 1: be a Goddard or Brown or Vantae Smith or whomever.
Speaker 1: It's so lopsided. This is what I was referring to
Speaker 1: during the breaks. It's so lopsided. They are explosive as
Speaker 1: a run offense, explosive, you gotta contain that. But as
Speaker 1: a passing offense, they are so not great as far
Speaker 1: as pay dirt. What they do well, it's what It's
Speaker 1: kind of matches what the Cowboys allowed to be done.
Speaker 1: How boys like Ben don't break. They rack up. They
Speaker 1: being the Eagles, they rack up a lot of yards
Speaker 1: in between the red zones. And yet Godard, for example,
Speaker 1: two hundred Goddard has two hundred and eighty yards after
Speaker 1: the catch, he leads all NFL players in there that
Speaker 1: this is going to segue too. We'll get the key
Speaker 1: matchups later in the week, but a one of my
Speaker 1: matchups to watch, it's going to be Curse versus Goddard
Speaker 1: and you know we set on media match. They were asking, well,
Speaker 1: will you know how do you stop hurts in the
Speaker 1: run game. Well, what you do is for me, you
Speaker 1: don't blitz. You. You assign your three or four man
Speaker 1: front to win their their matchups as they have been
Speaker 1: and then you keep a particular spy. But I don't
Speaker 1: think to answer your question, I wouldn't use Mica as
Speaker 1: the spy coming off of a growing injury, because first
Speaker 1: of all, I wouldn't even love him practice this week.
Speaker 1: I said that in media match yesterday's DNP, DNP, DMP
Speaker 1: or limited Limited Limited rehab, Rehab rehab, and then hey
Speaker 1: see you on Sunday. But I still wouldn't use Mica there.
Speaker 1: I would use anth Ny bar because I love what
Speaker 1: I saw from Anthony Barr against the Rams. As far
Speaker 1: as his sideline to sideline, I saw two separate occurrences
Speaker 1: where he knifed in on what do we just talked
Speaker 1: about with theys do well screen passes? Okay, On two
Speaker 1: separate occasions, Anthony Barr red recognized, closed, knifed in and
Speaker 1: blew up two screen passes. One would have been a
Speaker 1: huge played by Tyler Higbee. This is what you need
Speaker 1: from bar in this particular game, and I think that's
Speaker 1: how you help contain a Jalen Hurts. If Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: beat you in this game by throwing forty times but
Speaker 1: only rushing for twenty yards, then so be it c AT,
Speaker 1: AT and T in a few weeks. However, I don't
Speaker 1: believe Jalen Hurts can beat you by throwing forty times
Speaker 1: and only rushing for twenty yards. So it's a very
Speaker 1: one dimensional offense. It's just that that one dimension is explosive,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys have the personnel to limit that really quickly.
Speaker 1: I wanted to add to a couple of points that
Speaker 1: you had there from your science lab. But Philadelphia fourth
Speaker 1: in the NFL and rushing yards per game for one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards per pop. Then you've got their
Speaker 1: seventh in the NFL and passing yardage, so they're still
Speaker 1: pretty high up there in terms of throwing the football
Speaker 1: as well. If you wanted a comparison, Dallas is fifteenth
Speaker 1: in the NFL and rushing and their twenty seventh and passing,
Speaker 1: so they get a lot of it's it's your yardage
Speaker 1: is different. You're right, And then you said Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: and A. J. Brown. I just wanted to debunk that
Speaker 1: one me too. Michael Gallups two hundred pounds, two different
Speaker 1: room classes and A J. Brown's two twenty five on
Speaker 1: a bad game. The way they played, they played violent.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. That's what I was going to
Speaker 1: add that to it. They're both guys that go and
Speaker 1: have that contested ball downfield. They can go up and
Speaker 1: make a grab different way. Class didn't say they have
Speaker 1: the same momay the same way, and he wanted to
Speaker 1: get that out there before Twitter got out there. That's
Speaker 1: a good point about Micah because dan Quinn even told
Speaker 1: us on Monday they put him on the edge in
Speaker 1: part as a situational pass rusher in the second half
Speaker 1: because he was limited physically. So we'll see how he
Speaker 1: does this week. Hurts does average eight point five yards attempt.
Speaker 1: That helps when you've got a Davante Smith on your team, Yes,
Speaker 1: and you can you can press the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: He has six rushing touchdowns and there you go. Leads
Speaker 1: his team in it, leaves his team in it. He's
Speaker 1: right up there in terms of the NFL rankings, and
Speaker 1: he averages over thirteen yards of Carr, he's their best
Speaker 1: ball carrier effect and in a good offensive good ball carrier,
Speaker 1: he's averaging almost four and a half first downs per
Speaker 1: game on the ground hurt his Why what do you mean? Why? Because? Why? Why?
Speaker 1: Why does this happen? What's it's always it's always going
Speaker 1: to be a myriad, But go ahead. It's because of
Speaker 1: the fact that the defenders are left in no man's
Speaker 1: they are laying and it's that's what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Like it's no matter if you're doing your assignment. They
Speaker 1: make you wrong. They don't give a dog on how
Speaker 1: they get to the to the red zone. They don't
Speaker 1: give a dog on how they get to the end zone.
Speaker 1: They want to just they are patient, Like there's not
Speaker 1: many teams in this league that are patient. These guys
Speaker 1: will jump, They'll run five screenplays in a row, different looks,
Speaker 1: totally from the looks. They'll give it dout the Goddard,
Speaker 1: they give it out to j. Brown, to give it
Speaker 1: out the Smith, they give the mouse Sanders. They don't
Speaker 1: give a dog on long as they're beating you down,
Speaker 1: keeping your offense off the field. My fear. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think Dallas defense is the best in the league, hands down,
Speaker 1: most explosive, most best personnel, all that jazz. However, these
Speaker 1: guys will test the run defense. We keep talking about
Speaker 1: the run defense, and have we've been tested? This team
Speaker 1: not the most traditional run defenses run offenses, okay. And
Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is because they will
Speaker 1: rush the ball with Miles Sanders, they will run option
Speaker 1: with dog on Jalen Hurts, or they'll use the screens
Speaker 1: as rushes. Look at the film and how many one
Speaker 1: on one matchups these cornerbacks of the Dallas Cowboys are
Speaker 1: gonna have to come up, be physical and win. Not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to come up and hit. Look at
Speaker 1: me and break how many tackles they break out of
Speaker 1: screen place? They take hits all day long. Freaking Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker was coming up laying hat and guess what, not
Speaker 1: making a tackle? Right? Those are those well as players
Speaker 1: were there one on one A J. Brown swallow, A J.
Speaker 1: Brown is out there lined up, okay, and he's out
Speaker 1: there one on one. You got a cornerback pain seven
Speaker 1: or eight yards off and you throw it out to him.
Speaker 1: They are perfectly fine taking four yards from that and
Speaker 1: using that as a run play. They don't need Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurst thrown the ball down the field. They don't care
Speaker 1: if Jaleen Hurst throws the ball down the field. Their
Speaker 1: plan is to wear you down and have you so
Speaker 1: concerned and honed the end on your assignments in terms
Speaker 1: of run defense that all of a sudden you start
Speaker 1: creeping up and then what, oh crap, I forgot they
Speaker 1: had to MOUNTE Smith and A J. Brown. That past everybody.
Speaker 1: They're looking for that one or two plays. That's all
Speaker 1: they care about, because in reality, everybody thinks that you
Speaker 1: have to have this amazingly explosive offense, you need two
Speaker 1: plays a game. But I just don't to that point,
Speaker 1: they've addressed that point. I don't think dan Quinn is
Speaker 1: going to creep up because dan Quinn's offense is totally
Speaker 1: fine giving you the underneath, and then when you get
Speaker 1: towards the red zone, then he says, figure it out.
Speaker 1: I dare you to get into this end zone and
Speaker 1: team's time and again cannot get into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Teams that can't run the ball. That's fair. So that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. That's that's where's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So trust me, I'm saying that I wholeheartedly. Some good
Speaker 1: run games that haven't been good against you. I mean
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon was tearing people up this year. Yes, he has.
Speaker 1: He's been good this year. Joe Mixon's been running the ball.
Speaker 1: He's on my fantasy team. He hasn't done crab He's
Speaker 1: still find most of the league. I hear you, But
Speaker 1: I'm saying these and again I'm gonna keep saying I'm
Speaker 1: gonna yeah, I'm sorry. There has not been a team
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson hasn't been Gibson this year. They're running there
Speaker 1: in the Officie fifty against das So. To your point,
Speaker 1: but these these are very traditional running teams, and I
Speaker 1: need people to understand that it's different. It's not just
Speaker 1: line up, come down. Hell, I'm gonna I'm also a
Speaker 1: Digi Zula, I'm Nevil Gallimore. I'm gonna come up here
Speaker 1: and just run you off the ball. These guys will
Speaker 1: use leverage and if you choose one side, they're going
Speaker 1: the other way. Michael Parson needs to play defensive, and
Speaker 1: why because he needs to be able to take away
Speaker 1: the running game and be able to get out to
Speaker 1: the screen to stop that from you're coming from the
Speaker 1: inside out. That's where he needs to play this game.
Speaker 1: I have never said that in life, but this is
Speaker 1: the game that Micah needs to be on the edge.
Speaker 1: This is the game that Sam Williams needs to be
Speaker 1: on the opposite edge, because these guys need to be
Speaker 1: able to build up. You condense the dog one running game,
Speaker 1: running lanes, and get out to the dog on screens
Speaker 1: because this team is going to scream Dallas to death.
Speaker 1: And I hope that these guys come up and hit
Speaker 1: and tackle because that is how they're going to be tested.
Speaker 1: I'll say this and I'll accentuate your point. It's not
Speaker 1: specifically just that the Cowboys have struggle because, like like
Speaker 1: Cal said, they've going against some good run running teams.
Speaker 1: Not the Rams put some good running teams in Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon for example, in the bengalsum. But it's and I've
Speaker 1: said this two weeks or so ago going into the
Speaker 1: game at MetLife, mobile quarterbacks, more specifically than the run attack.
Speaker 1: It's mobile quarterbacks that tends to give this team hell.
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was and he proved me right, he was
Speaker 1: giving them some hell hurts is infinitely more mobile and
Speaker 1: Danny Danny Diames heard him on Broken Place, right, these
Speaker 1: are going to be behind So to to incituate your point, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not simply the run offense. It's the fact
Speaker 1: that it's an extremely mobile quarterback, and it's a quarterback
Speaker 1: that depends on his mobility to defeat you. But then
Speaker 1: the brig gets sliced both ways, right, Because while that's true,
Speaker 1: it's also true that it makes them infinitely more one dimensional.
Speaker 1: So in that one dimension, there's there's levels to this, right,
Speaker 1: So in that one dimension, are you talking about like
Speaker 1: like doctor Strange dimensions or are we talking about lights
Speaker 1: like dimension? Because my biggest people, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: this in film, I know, we gotta go to break
Speaker 1: go back to go back on film again for Dallas
Speaker 1: and look at the cutback lanes. Oh there's a lot
Speaker 1: of it against everybody against not even just the Rams.
Speaker 1: Go back to New York. How did it break run?
Speaker 1: So there has only been one running back who's been
Speaker 1: capable of making that cut? Is that a product that
Speaker 1: should have been? That was a broken I mean that
Speaker 1: was a mistacle too. So for a reason, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean for a reason. He markly you had hands on him.
Speaker 1: He's so now you're talking about you know how you're
Speaker 1: talking about h Jalen Hurts, who squat six hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So like I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: there are some things that have shown up on film
Speaker 1: that you're going to have to show up otherwise this
Speaker 1: team will make you freaking pay. Is that a product
Speaker 1: of a defensive line that is so aggressive? And that's
Speaker 1: what I want to get to that. I want to
Speaker 1: talk to that when we come back, because that's how
Speaker 1: the Giants had their highest rushing attack so far. It
Speaker 1: was the edge. It was the edge outside the tackles.
Speaker 1: That's how teams have rushed against the Cowboys. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: it about the outside of the Cowboys defense. Outside the tackles.
Speaker 1: That's where they've been hurt. That's where New York hurt you.
Speaker 1: Whenever Washington had success, where do they hurt them on
Speaker 1: the outside? It was outside the tackles? J Or what
Speaker 1: was it JD. McKissick. And then they had Gibson who
Speaker 1: was the third running back, number forty one Robinson er
Speaker 1: I can't even remember his name is yeah, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: He had a big reception on the outside forty one Williams.
Speaker 1: So how does Dallas take that aggressiveness that this whole
Speaker 1: defense is just intertwined with and then dial it back
Speaker 1: a little bit to make sure that they have the
Speaker 1: gap assignment and they're able to read these options. Well,
Speaker 1: they have to not be what they've been to date. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: they have to slow down. You have to slow down
Speaker 1: because if you're flying around the way that you've been
Speaker 1: flying around, you're not concerned about the what ifs. If
Speaker 1: you're not concerned about the what ifs, that's when you
Speaker 1: get bit. That's what this whole offense is structured around,
Speaker 1: slowing you down. Their offense that they have, it's been
Speaker 1: successful against some not so successful against others. But I
Speaker 1: honestly think like this offense is made for the dan
Speaker 1: Quinn type of defense, with the type of the dan
Speaker 1: Quinn personnel. Like you want to you want to play fast,
Speaker 1: you want to get up here cool? Right, come on,
Speaker 1: come on, Dan wants to get it on. Yeah, Dante Dan,
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, this is freaking Frasier, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like patient versus not patient. Like So, I think that
Speaker 1: the defense end positions specifically or outside linebackers, however you
Speaker 1: want to look at it, these guys an have to
Speaker 1: slow their role. You're going to have to slow your role,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to read not saying that these
Speaker 1: guys can't be themselves, but you can't play as fast
Speaker 1: as you've been playing from that position, because you think
Speaker 1: about it, these guys either been running to the sideline
Speaker 1: or they've been running down here at the quarterbacks. Okay,
Speaker 1: they haven't had to be Oh do I do I
Speaker 1: come down here and take away the run? But if
Speaker 1: if I go down too much down the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: then Jalen Hurts is gonna pull it, and then I'll
Speaker 1: also have to be concerned where if he might fake it,
Speaker 1: might pull it and throw it out to the tight
Speaker 1: end or to run the receiver out on the outside.
Speaker 1: So these guys got to make not only just one decision,
Speaker 1: they gotta make it between choose between one to three
Speaker 1: decisions on what do I do? On any given play.
Speaker 1: The challenging spot for this defense is going to be
Speaker 1: the second level, the linebackers, because the guards of the
Speaker 1: offensive line for Philadelphia get up to the linebackers, and
Speaker 1: how do they do that because of the boxes that
Speaker 1: are formed right, the linements that are there, a lot
Speaker 1: of times if their guards or not, if they don't
Speaker 1: have anybody standing over them, they have an easy track
Speaker 1: straight up to the linebacker. Bar vander Ash, You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a game of your life because you're
Speaker 1: gonna be stuck there trying to figure out what direction
Speaker 1: do I go? And you talked about it earlier, Robbie,
Speaker 1: that one little pause, that one second pause allows these
Speaker 1: guards to get up to the next level. And if
Speaker 1: they're able to do that and get their hands on you,
Speaker 1: it's trouble. So bar vander Ash, hit go, hit your
Speaker 1: bench press, get your narrow grip on because you're gonna
Speaker 1: be punching people in the chests all day long. I
Speaker 1: loved this part of the conversation because I think all
Speaker 1: of us, in some way, shape or form, Kyl and
Speaker 1: the mail Bag yesterday and us on social media have
Speaker 1: tried to clarify this for fans. The issue with the
Speaker 1: run defense for the Cowboys, it's not the interior. It's
Speaker 1: not the interior. It's not the interior. Those that are
Speaker 1: having success against this defense on the ground, they're doing
Speaker 1: it on the edges. Be it one game, it might
Speaker 1: be the left edge, one game, it might be the
Speaker 1: right edge. An example would be what Mixon was able
Speaker 1: to do and his successful runs, the one that he
Speaker 1: got five or more yards on were towards the Cowboys
Speaker 1: right side of their defensive line. I just pulled up,
Speaker 1: say kuon Barkley. All four of his five or more
Speaker 1: yard runs were to the right side of the offensive line.
Speaker 1: He got stone wall in the middle, stone wall on
Speaker 1: the left. It seems like it's one or the other.
Speaker 1: So it's not the interior, it's the outside on any
Speaker 1: given week. But it goes to your point. Linebackers have
Speaker 1: to remain disciplined and be ready to step up and support,
Speaker 1: and we can't stress it enough. That's what's going to
Speaker 1: help contain a guy like Jalen Hurts and Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have to maintain your your mental discipline.
Speaker 1: More than anything. Their whole goal, their entire goal is
Speaker 1: to make you think. For that split second, and that
Speaker 1: split second makes you react in the wrong way or
Speaker 1: not react at all. And now you're chasing your breath
Speaker 1: as far as chasing hurts this direction or that direction.
Speaker 1: So this is going to be a big test for
Speaker 1: the linebacker coors as far as can they support the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive line on the edges to stop the run
Speaker 1: before you throw over the rod p one thing I
Speaker 1: know we're saying, not interior defensive linement. I'm going to disagree.
Speaker 1: In this game, the interior defensive linement got to have
Speaker 1: the game of their life because their centers do so much.
Speaker 1: Their center pulls, their center reach block by the way, understood, understood,
Speaker 1: But they're not going to change their scheme because of right.
Speaker 1: So it might be a level versus hear you personal
Speaker 1: this center, but the interior desa no Gallimore Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: You have to get vertical because this center is either
Speaker 1: going to try to reach block you, and if he
Speaker 1: can reach block you and cut you off, it's easy
Speaker 1: to kick a defense in in out. Okay, So if
Speaker 1: the center can cut off the front side defensive tackle
Speaker 1: and their right tackle, left tackle whatever it is, can
Speaker 1: kick out the defensive end, that's usually lined up outside.
Speaker 1: That's why they're to end. Then you're have your guard
Speaker 1: working up to that linebacker and now you have holes.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm saying, these guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: to be sure ups up front in the middle. Those
Speaker 1: guys have to dominate this game. And yeah, real quick
Speaker 1: before we live it over there, Quentin Bohanna. Keeping on
Speaker 1: on Quentin Bohanna as far as to injury report this
Speaker 1: week because if he can play, that'll be huge. Ye
Speaker 1: one thing real quick to add to no. See, in
Speaker 1: the Commanders game, they attack the edges, they burn the edges,
Speaker 1: and they went at Michael Parsons too, and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's something to watch too if he's on the edge,
Speaker 1: because they're trying to wear him down. You're trying to
Speaker 1: wear him down over the course of the game. Uh.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Quentin Bohanna on the eagle side. You mentioned Kelsey.
Speaker 1: He's playing. He started one hundred and twenty seven straight games.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play that he's gonna play. But they are
Speaker 1: banged up. I don't know if we mentioned that Malata
Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson, Kelsey, there might be an other injury on
Speaker 1: this offensive line. It seems like it's a theme against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense. But that's something to watch for Philly.
Speaker 1: They are not healthy upfront. Yeah, so that's one thing
Speaker 1: that may be in Achilles Hill, But even then, there's
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of it. Jaw jaw dropping stat
Speaker 1: to end us out here on talking Cowboys today. The
Speaker 1: Eagles are one of two teams since nineteen forty with
Speaker 1: twelve rushing touchdowns or more or two fewer giveaways in
Speaker 1: their first five games of the season. The only other
Speaker 1: team to ever do that was the nineteen sixty Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: The Browns that year were led by quarterback Milt Plum.
Speaker 1: That's not a name you're gonna remember. But then you've
Speaker 1: got two Hall of famers that ran the football that year,
Speaker 1: Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell. That was the last team
Speaker 1: to ever do what the Eagles have done through their
Speaker 1: first five teams of the first five games of the season,
Speaker 1: one of two. He's only one of the best ever,
Speaker 1: if not the best. They're also the only team in
Speaker 1: the NFL this season with two players with over two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards rushing and two rushing touchdowns this year,
Speaker 1: and that's Hurts and of course in the backfield it's
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders. So this offense is dangerous, but goodness gracious,
Speaker 1: so is this defense is also dangerous. So keep that
Speaker 1: in Mark Scott, all right, that does it for us.
Speaker 1: You're all talking to Cowboys. Tomorrow, we'll flip it to
Speaker 1: Isaiah's other favorite matchup, the Cowboys offense versus the Philly defense,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what's gonna happen this this week here
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Stanback, Patrick nose Walker und Kyle Yelmans. We'll see
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