WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: All in the Middle 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:14.360 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:16.479 Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.400 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:19.160 Absolutely? 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:21.120 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.520 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.920 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:35.600 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.240 It is Wednesday, October thirtieth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.479 episode number fifty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:46.760 The Break Life in SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.920 presented by LG. 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You mentioned you 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.280 kind of started looking at the film and like, whoa, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.959 it's got some it's got some challenges over there you 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.160 got to deal with, particularly on their offense side of 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:28.440 the ball. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.640 Yeah, we'll talk about their offensive side of the well today, correct. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.200 And that's that's really all I've had chance to look 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:34.560 at this week. I've been doing a little bit more 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.760 draft stuff on a little behind, but I have a 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.759 chance to Yeah, you know, it's never too it's never 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:40.240 too early. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.720 But wow, wow, I looked at their offense. 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.120 This is trying to be the smartest guy in the room, now, right, 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:46.640 you see that? 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:46.960 Right? 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:48.760 This is a tough match challenge. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:50.720 This is a tough matchup. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.080 Is a tough matchup. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.680 I don't want to hear that. I don't want to 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.760 hear that. Give me some good news. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.440 In fact, it's gonna be a tough it's gonna be 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:02.720 a tough matchup. We'll get into all that here in 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.640 the second segment. I want to start first, though, with 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.280 you still caught on that with injuries. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:09.480 Let's get the first. 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.919 I think there are five injuries that this week Cowboys 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.560 fans need to be aware of and keep an eye on. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.600 I'm gonna run down this list. I want you guys, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.000 to tell me what you're hearing about them. Let's start 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:28.960 first with the MANI war It's Warrior. Uh, what are 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.840 we hearing about him? After you got hurt last weekend 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.239 in the game versus the Niners. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.240 Yeah, saw him in the locker room matter the game 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.240 versus the Niners. He was walking around, kind of gone 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.880 up to him, Hey, how you feeling. He's like, I'm good, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.639 But you know, that's that's what anybody says right after 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.200 after a game. So able to follow up this week 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.799 with with some folks, and it sounds like that injury 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.960 was a little bit worse than anticipated. He took a 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.760 knee straight to the spine, and so there's, uh, there's 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.400 there's fear that that could be some extensive time this there. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.600 But the further testing this week and probably furtheraluation will 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.799 probably prove a little bit more. I expect to hear 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.919 more on that front from McCarthy today. 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.040 With all that going on with him, it becomes even 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.400 more important what's happening with the others. Let's talk about 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.800 Deron Bland and Kaylin Carson. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.000 So today's a deadline for Deron Bland to get activated 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:15.400 off the. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:17.919 Injured reserve. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:19.880 List that his twenty one day window is up today, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.200 so they have to activate him today, but that does 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.040 not necessarily mean he will play on Sunday. However, I'm 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.639 going to go ahead and get jump ahead. I think 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.840 Bland and Carson will both be available when we get 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.519 to Sunday in Atlanta. That's just me theorizing. I don't 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.800 really know anything to that point. I want to make 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.240 sure and clarify that. That's me theorizing. I think both 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.080 those guys will be ready on Sunday, all. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.960 Right, and yeah, yeah, great job. By the way of 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.440 doing that, I reached out to a couple of different people, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.680 and man, there are a lot of things they're dealing 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.320 with over there right now, because and you're asking questions 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.640 about like, hey, you know your injured guy is going 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.000 to try and give it a go this week practice 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.520 and all that, and you get answers back like, well, 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.320 that's an in depth question right now. Then we have 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.920 too many to decide on. So yeah, that's you know that. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.760 It's unfortunately though, that this is you know where we're at, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.560 and you know you needed those Maybe a couple of 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.920 those guys can come back and help. We'll talk about 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.280 Atlanta's offense here in a bit, there are some challenges 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.640 and it'd be nice if you could somehow Carson Parsons, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.000 you know, Bland, all these guys. The more guys you 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.520 could possibly get back, it would help you to deal 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.680 with what you're about to have happen ahead. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.360 It's always amazing to me, and I don't know if 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.720 it's I don't know what causes this, but it seems 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:35.200 like in the NFL, and you watch with the Cowboys 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.719 up close, but it seems like injuries just seemed to 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.000 happen all at one position, all at the same time. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.160 You know, it's like you can't spread them out, like 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.520 can you get an injury at one position and then 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.920 another position. But it's like this year when it comes 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.320 to defensive end, cornerback, it's just the Cowboys have just 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.520 been decimated. And it's just I don't know if there's 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.360 I don't know why that tends to happen, but last 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.600 year was linebacker, right, it just seems like you get 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.320 this position and then all of a sudden, you take 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.039 a bunch of hits at one position. And it could 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.760 be a position that even you think is a string 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.320 because I looked when We're going into the season thinking 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.360 that pretty good depth there at the cornerback position or 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.440 Warrior was not really even a part of that at 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.159 the time and has come in and played admirably for them. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.719 And now you got to deal with injuries there. Uh, 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.080 let's talk about Rico Dalda. What are we hearing? Is 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:22.360 it at this point? Is he fine? 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.920 Is what's told? 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.400 He could have played Monday, So yeah, it was just 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.400 something that kind of spurred up over the weekend and 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.200 obviously didn't play Sunday because his fever had reached into 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.880 the hundreds, So just kind of played it on the 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.280 safe end as far as that goes. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:38.159 There's some fever. 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.640 There's some conspiracy going around. I want to go ahead 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:42.480 and Claire, he was. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.559 Trying to come up with some conspiracy theory. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:49.160 Was not me, for the record, was not me to 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.080 address Shaggy, right, he wouldn't. 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.480 Be to address me. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.360 There has been some conspiracy going around around, like you know, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.080 somebody pushed re Go out so Zeke and Dalvin would 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:02.920 have more opportunities. 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.640 That's just not the case. In the fact game of 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.599 the Believer or you can't that's just not the case. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.200 And what happened I think if there's any blame to 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.240 be put on the team, it's the sense that maybe 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.279 that we didn't know about this sickness a little bit earlier, 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.200 but that that's it. That's I don't I don't think 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.320 there's any other blame that needs to be going around. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.280 He talked to folks Saturday night to try and get 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:20.960 a handle on this because there was a lot of 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.320 tweets that were going around, and I know Nick was 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.960 working hard on it, and I think we all were 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.440 working on it. And it never was him being inactive, right, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.360 It never was. It was always going to be they're 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.280 probably going to go light on defense. They're probably going 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.760 to go a couple of corners here, you know, that's 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.160 what probably what they're going to do. It never was that. No, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.240 he was going to be you know, he was always 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.560 going to be active. He always was going to be 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.559 active until he got sick. And then once that happened. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.200 Because I I talked to two three guys in the 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:55.200 organization that were like, man, and I was trying to guess. 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:57.240 I was trying to play the game of Okay, well 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.200 how about this, this, this and this, Well, maybe me 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.720 think about this, this, this and this you know, And 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.039 it never was about Rico. It was always Rico was 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.760 always in the mix, right, Zeke was always in the mix. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.760 It was it was going to Cook was going to 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.320 be in the mix. Cook Cook was going to be 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.080 in the planet Lipky was in the mix. And it 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.000 was like, okay, well what's going to happen. Well, think 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.120 about your injured guys. Okay, take the injured guys off now, 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.760 then take now think about some other positions. Forty nine 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.840 ers a little banged up at wide receiver. Maybe we 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.600 could go a little bit lighter at at at cornerback 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.800 because we don't have to deal with maybe so much 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.680 with all their wide receivers. You know. So there their 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.080 their planned. I don't think they were trying to pull 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.240 a fast one on anybody. I think legitimately the guy 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.239 got sick and they they it looks the optics doesn't 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.960 look great. But I know Saturday night, you know, before 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.400 I went to bed at midnight, that there was a 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.560 plan of him playing in that football. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:54.800 Yeah. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.440 There's so many times that because we travel with the team, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.680 we'll start hearing little whispers and things from time to time. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.120 And when I tell you, everybody was like what, Yeah, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.600 you know, because it was not it was not something 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.800 that was that was out there or that anybody really 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.560 even suspected would happen. I don't even think people on 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.640 the team perspected was happening. It was just it was, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.040 you know, one of those situations where the next morning 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.120 that the fever spiked and for whatever reason they decided, yeah, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.320 he can't go, and then they put him down. So 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.680 I think that's just kind of that's the nature. That's no, no, 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.240 not they didn't put him, he just didn't play. But 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:29.840 you know, that's that's the nature of I guess the 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.360 world we live in now, there's a lot of conspiracy theory. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.200 Everybody's always wondering what's the conspiracy here. Sometimes there really 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.600 just is no conspiracy. It is what it is. All right, 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.559 let's real quick. I want to I want to kind 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:44.200 of introduce this Atlanta Falcons team. They are five and 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:48.360 three right now. They have beaten Philadelphia. They've beaten Tampa 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.560 Bay twice, which Tampa is a really good team. I 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.760 think when they took their injuries last week, I thought 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.880 they might fall off, but they've been playing pretty well 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.640 throughout the season. They've beaten them twice. They have loss 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.880 to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Seattle. Seattle really is the 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.280 only team that beat him up good. Most of their 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.800 games they've lost. If they've lost or if they've won, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.600 it's been an eight point differential between the winner and 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.240 the loser, except for that Seattle game where they lost 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.480 thirty four to fourteen. They are right now first place 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.800 though in the NFC South. If you have to introduce 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.200 this team to Cowboys fans, what will be the one 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.880 thing you think Cowboys fans need to know going into 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.360 this game about the Atlanta Falcons. 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.800 Kirk Cousins is not an old man, that is. Yeah, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:27.520 he is. He is. 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.480 He's making everybody around him better. He is making that 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.320 offense better, he's making those weapons better. He's making that 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.559 team better. And he's he's he's very much a game manager. 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.280 But he's like the he's like the Lebron James of 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.440 Brock parties. If that makes sense, I don't know, in 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:50.600 the sense of the scale, just like the Lebron James 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.400 of game managers. He is, he's he can do it. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.480 He gets but yeah, he gets everybody involved. He he 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.679 doesn't try to do too much. He is, uh, we'll 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:02.520 get in some more. I believe in the second segment 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.840 just about ways, I think they could attack Cousins in 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.240 that passing attack. But he's not an old man. He's 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.600 he's definitely playing up to his value right now. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.120 Quality at running back once again. You know, here you 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.320 are with yeah, with b John Robinson and Tyler Algier. 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:17.720 Uh. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.160 You know they they do a really nice job of 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.120 of running the football and a lot of it has 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.960 to do with the scheme. You know, I think that 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.200 when you here's another one of those we seem to 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.200 be dealing with all these young play callers, Zach Robertson 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.080 has done a really nice job of of taking what 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.760 he has with the game manager, but then marrying it 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.680 to the running game. You know, they're going to attack 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.280 the middle of the field, which that's kind of Kirk Cousins. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.440 He's not going to throw the ball outside the pocket much. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.400 He's going to stand right there in the middle and 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.719 he's going to throw. And they've got you know, they 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.880 finally have somebody that can get the ball to Kyle Pitts. Uh. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.160 You know, forever it seemed like that they were just 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.720 wasting his talent, the big tight end out of Florida. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.640 Now they've got a guy that can actually, you know, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.160 throw that ball up the scene, attack those seams, and 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:07.880 you know, that's what they've been able to do. And 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.520 he's Kirk Cousin's always playing at a high level. The 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.520 thing that always kind of affects him though, and Dallas 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.840 has played him a couple of times up there in 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.760 Minnesota where where pressure has bothered him. And that's where 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.720 I think that this and I think that's what Nick's 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.760 gonna probably tell us about, is that there's ways to 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.240 attack this guy and maybe force him into some mistakes. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:31.839 Which sounds great. But the one thought that pops into 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:35.520 my head, I'm like, can we can the Cowboys generate 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.079 or create some pressures? So that the question that is 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:42.160 a big question there and seeing if they can somehow 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.520 try to I don't even know how to change things 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.960 up and be able to start generating some of that 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.400 because we haven't seen it all season. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:49.960 Really. 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:51.960 Yeah, we'll get into that in the in the second 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.640 or third segment as well. 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All right, let's talk about the Atlanta offense. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.320 The first thing that popped out to me about this 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.280 offense is that they are sixth in passing yards in 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.800 the NFL. Talk to me about the two sides of 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.760 Kirk Cousins. What does he do really well and where 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.560 can you find where can you also challenge him in 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.600 areas where where he might be a little deficient? 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.240 Go ahead, yeah, I'll start. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.320 Feel free, Yeah, feel free. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:25.960 Yeah. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.880 He loves the middle of the field, Yes, he does. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.000 He absolutely loves the middle of the challenge. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.000 That Week five win against Tampa Bay on the Thursday 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:33.920 night where he threw for a million yards, he had 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.080 three hundred and seventy plus yards over the middle of 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:36.480 the field. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:37.680 Yeah. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.200 Wait, how much he to have the rest of the 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.040 field there? 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.040 One d and thirty issues Yeah yeah, yeah, So it's 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:47.280 it was a heavy, heavy difference there. So outside the numbers, 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.080 if they could start pushing some things to the boundary, 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.880 I think in coverage, then you might be able to 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.920 find a little success there. However, he has so many 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.240 weapons that are just getting better by the week. 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.440 Kyle Pitts is on his best four game stretch for 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.200 his career right now. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.960 He's a guy they've used a high pick on I 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.600 believe what was a seventh overall, eighth overall something like 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.680 that a few years ago, and he has just not 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.440 been able to put it together. They haven't really gotten 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:12.000 him involved in the passing offense quite quite frequently. But 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.040 now with Kirk Cousins in the mix, he is getting 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:16.440 Pits involved and this is the best four game stretch 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.400 of his career. But if you're asking what he does 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.320 really well, loves the middle of the field. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:22.320 I don't want to take too much. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.000 Away, but no, I mean I love when you do that. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.120 That's good. I appreciate you watching that tape. You got 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.800 to press these receivers easier said than done. You get 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.440 these guys free access to kill you in routes. Yeah, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.440 that's what they do. There's a lot of there's a 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.960 lot of movement. There's movement to movement, and so there's 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.320 a lot of guys kind of you know, Moody, London, McLeod, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.600 they all kind of they play a lot of eleven personnel, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.480 you know, with the three wide receivers and then the 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.200 tight end. But there's a lot of movement within that, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.320 the motions and things. So you kind of deal with 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.120 that but when these guys get pressed, they're a different 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.920 group of receivers and they and it's not they don't 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.920 have as much success. And so when you watch people 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.600 play tight on them and make them have to make 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.600 contested plays, it's a little bit of a problem for them. 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:06.919 And it's been a little bit of a problem for 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.000 Kirk Cousins to fit some balls. When I was watching, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.159 I mean, he'll we talk about the middle of the field, 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.280 the routes in the middle of the field, the seams, 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.560 all those places that he works. He gets pressure, that 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.520 ball will come flying out of his hand in a 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.040 funny way. And sometimes these receivers, when they're dealing with 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.919 bodies on them, will you know, they will struggle to 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.639 make the reception or you'll see some type of an interception. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.600 Went back and watched all those interceptions, all seven of them. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.520 You know, a lot of them were attacks to the 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.280 middle of the field Pittsburgh early in the game. Week 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.919 one was pressure in his face and then you know, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.000 as he's he gets affected by that, ball flies out 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.159 of his hands. So that's what you have to do. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.560 Amber's right, how do you get pressure? That's gonna be 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.240 some key. I think Dallas has to take a chance 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.480 and hopefully you got guys like Bland and maybe Carson 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.840 and others back take a chance press these guys make 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.720 These guys have to win off the line of scrimmage, 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:04.760 you know, because if you it might be a problem 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.600 because if you don't get pressure, maybe a Parsons gets back, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.800 maybe that you could get some pressure there. Because Matthews, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.000 that left tackle has been giving up some pressures here lately. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.040 You know, Lynstrom the right guard has been giving up 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.760 some pressures. Yeah, so you know there's ways to do this, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.399 but you just have to be committed to making it work. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.800 And if but if you play off coverage against these guys, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.280 you're playing right into their hands because this quarterback he 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.800 will he'll pick you apart. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.720 That way, when you mentioned them playing press, that's a 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.919 good way to be able to kind of combat what 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:40.440 they want to do. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:40.679 Right. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.720 Is that something that you've seen the Dallas defensive backs 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.640 do often and or do well. 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.600 Play a lot of his own, play a lot of 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.360 his own And that's the thing. I mean, it's you're 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:53.760 trying to think about ways of getting off the field, 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.080 and you're thinking about, Okay, what is Atlanta's weakness in 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:01.280 my opinion, when you watch their receivers play, they in 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.760 routes and stuff, they're good, they can make plays, but 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.000 when teams get up on them, their catch numbers go 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.840 way down. So I'm just I mean, I'm like, I'm 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.959 working on mysteries. I've got some clues, you know, but 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.520 I don't I might not have the personnel to do 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.040 it either. It's like last week with San Francisco, we 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.040 were like, hey, man, if you could just control the 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:30.320 middle of the field, well safeties fall apart. You know. Well, 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:34.320 if you could just well they don't take advantage of that, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.320 you know, I mean, there was That's the problem you're 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.720 running into right now. This is a really good offense 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.919 because the two backs. I think the wide receivers are 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.760 good wide receivers, and the quarterback is capable of making plays. 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.480 But you got to be willing to maybe do something 0:19:48.480 --> 0:19:51.720 you're not comfortable doing, you know, and maybe it allows 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.960 you to do that if you have digs and you 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.919 have Bland, and you have Lewis and just you know, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.679 you can get up on these guys and affect him 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:01.080 that way. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.119 A couple of stats to back up the point about 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:07.160 pressure versus no pressure on Kirk Cousins. He has faced 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:09.919 pressure on eighty seven passing attempts so far this season. 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.120 He has seven interceptions on the year. Six of those 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.240 have come against pressure. Also, when he is pressured, his 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.680 passer rating has dropped by nearly fifty points. It goes 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.040 from one to eleven point seven all the way down 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:23.320 to sixty eight point five. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.600 So I can only talk about it. Yeah, I can't 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.480 help you any other way other than that. Yeah, I 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.960 mean it's and it's clear on film. Yeah, it's clear 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.080 on film. Because the great thing about this, the next 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:34.359 gen stuff that we have, you can go and separate 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.800 all the pressures. Yeah, and now watch him. Now Wat's like, 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.800 oh okay, this is how you can watch the normal 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.400 tape and you're like, oh, I was a good throw. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.320 Oh there's another good throw. You know, he's gonna stand 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:46.919 right in the middle of that pocket and he's going 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.320 to deliver the football and you know where he is. 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.320 He's not going to run around. You've played against some 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.240 run around dudes. You know that, the dude at the 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:55.280 Ravens run. 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.360 Around guy he's party last week. 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.399 Well, he's more like the guy that you played in 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.639 week two. When you look at you know, when you 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.719 look at car, I mean, he's going to stand there 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:06.000 and deliver the baby. And I know it's a bad 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.800 thought about Car, but he but that's kind of where 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:10.560 this guy is gonna be. He's gonna be standing right 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:11.400 there in the middle of that. 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.600 Pocket you mentioned pretty last week. I mean, there were 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.240 many instances where you're watching he's having all the time 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.119 in the world just sitting there in the pocket, and 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.760 you're like, oh my god, oh my god. So again, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.240 it sounds great that that's an area where they could 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.639 but it's like can they can they? I mean maybe 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.720 utilizing some of your linebackers. We've seen overshown he has 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:34.560 that kind of potential. 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:36.840 This is where I want to go next. And Nick 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:38.480 helped me on this one. I meant to ask you 0:21:38.520 --> 0:21:41.440 this question last night. Absolutely what you saw with Overshowing 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.359 on the Blitz, can you turn him into something like 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.360 what Michael Parsons was, like a poor man's Michael Parsons 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:48.720 for sure. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.280 I think yeah. 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:52.360 I think when Michael first went down, I think that's 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.800 something they can do out there. No, no, no, what I'm 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:56.560 saying is I think it's something we all through out there, 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.639 like maybe that's an option of what they can do. 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.240 But I think you're right. I think, but at this 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:03.240 point I'm trying anything I can do, especially against a 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.639 team like this. Words so apparent, but hes gonna get 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:07.840 pressure on it. Yeah, if you can get pressure on him, 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.040 you can actually force And I think last week you 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:13.000 made the point Nick that you might give up pass 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.600 rush last week in order to keep them from gashing 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:16.320 you in the run game. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.840 You played well on the edge against them the tosses 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:19.200 and stuff. 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:21.960 The question becomes, this week, do you decide to maybe 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.360 flip that narrative and say, hey, we'll take a few 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:27.200 more chances and really try to get up field because 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.280 we know the quarterback won't take off running on right, 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:32.280 so on obvious passing downs, maybe we go after them 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.440 and maybe we really, you know, try to blitz a 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.119 little bit more in order to create the pressure that 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:36.600 we need. 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.360 Yeah, Overshown's an option as well as lea foul. He's 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.880 probably not as big and probably can't take on those 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:45.520 one on ones as well as Overshown, but he's a 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:48.280 guy that has been using situational blissing throughout his career, 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:50.120 coming down from the second level. 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.119 Get those guys involved, That's what. 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:54.400 And I understand maybe not wanting to in this game 0:22:54.440 --> 0:22:57.959 specifically because because you need well, yes, but you need 0:22:57.960 --> 0:22:59.200 to cover in the middle of the field, like we're 0:22:59.200 --> 0:23:01.000 talking passing down. You need to cover the middle of 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.040 the field. You need to have all three bodies there. 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.760 Which is important. You got those, those linebackers and safeties. 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:09.720 Are what's more important here? What are you trying to do? 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:15.920 You tell me he's not he's not wrong, But you 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:16.919 got no answer. 0:23:17.080 --> 0:23:20.280 Like how do you want to die slow death or 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:20.920 a quick death? 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:23.919 I mean, give me the slow one. Maybe the offense 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:24.480 can pick. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.440 It up for talking about yesterday. Then do you make 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.040 safety changes? You know, all of a sudden, do you 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:34.320 have a different idea like hooker juan Ye Thomas something. 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.840 Do you do something different in the you know, in 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:39.800 the middle of the field, you know, I mean, hell, 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:43.560 I would, I would damn even think about this is 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.160 crazy thought. I think about putting Jordan Lewis back there. 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:49.840 I mean, just something something that like if if. 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:51.919 Back at safety, well, yeah, something that. 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:54.879 Some guy that plays with awareness, some guys that sees it, 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:57.239 some guy that could drive on the ball, you know, 0:23:57.320 --> 0:23:59.720 some guy that that's the problem. These teams are just 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:02.520 so comfortable running routes in the middle of the field. 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.240 It's just it's amazing. How and that's I don't know, 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:09.960 because in this game you got two backs at average 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.159 about five and a half yards of carry, you know, 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:15.560 and that's you know, and here we are once again. 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:19.840 You want to stop these two backs and bar play 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.919 stack box. Put eight down there. They don't. They average 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:24.840 less than three yards of carry when they play. When 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:28.359 teams play stack box against them, you play light box 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:32.560 six or less or neutral box seven or less, they 0:24:32.640 --> 0:24:35.400 kind of they have some success. You put eight down 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:39.320 in there, they have problems. Well, here's Dallas play eight 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:41.560 in the box. Don't play very well with eight in 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.640 the box. You know, maybe that's something different. Maybe if 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:46.320 it is eight in the box, maybe there isn't more 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:48.720 about Wilson being down there. Maybe you have to play 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:51.240 a little bit more single high, but that could be death. 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:54.080 But how this guy throws the ball against maybe a 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:55.520 single high look up the seams. 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:59.440 So for you, Brian Broadus, yeah, if you're putting eight 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.680 in the box, you have a little bit more confidence. 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:04.280 If Deron Bland is back that you can have success 0:25:04.280 --> 0:25:05.640 on one one matches on the outside. 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:06.160 I do see. 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.000 I think there could be a little bit more confidence 0:25:08.000 --> 0:25:10.960 there because not only will putting eight in the box 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.240 help against those two runners, but it also helps covering 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:14.520 in the middle of the field. So it's like I 0:25:15.320 --> 0:25:19.400 would almost look at loading up the middle of the field, 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:21.120 loading up the box on almost every day. 0:25:21.200 --> 0:25:23.440 That's what we talked about last week, you know, I mean, 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:26.360 you know, you if if you could, if you could 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:28.840 stop the run, you put eight down there. That's that's 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:31.840 team's answers. That's just how if you get if you're 0:25:31.840 --> 0:25:34.720 getting crushed in the running game, you make it an 0:25:34.760 --> 0:25:37.560 eight man box and you just say, we got more 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:40.520 than you could block. Problem is you got more, but 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:43.920 they block you with less blockers than they need. And 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:46.119 that's that's the issue. And a lot of it has 0:25:46.160 --> 0:25:49.240 to do with the tackling and all. But this is tough. 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:52.160 A couple of different ways you can go, but none 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:52.680 of them are easy. 0:25:52.720 --> 0:25:54.439 I'll tell you this, if Kyle Pitts lines up against 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:58.040 Donovan Wilson on that first possession, we wouldn't go ahead 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:01.000 and start writing our stories, yeah, because that's that's It's 0:26:01.040 --> 0:26:02.960 going to be very similar to how Kittle had success 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:05.560 against Wilson last week, except the difference here is that 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:07.920 Pitts has longer strides. He can get across the middle 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:09.960 of the field a lot quicker than Kittle can. Kittle 0:26:10.040 --> 0:26:11.760 just had a little bit more physicality at times, but 0:26:11.800 --> 0:26:12.800 he was still able to run away. 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:14.560 I think I think Kittle can run away from me. 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.080 I think Pitts. I think Pitt's. The thing that makes 0:26:17.119 --> 0:26:20.439 Pitts tough is he's so damn big. He's tall, and 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:25.240 he's long, and even like some overthrows to him are like, WHOA, 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:28.080 that's a really bad overthrow, you know, I mean defending 0:26:28.119 --> 0:26:31.199 that guy his reach and all. But the thing with 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:34.440 Kittle is he's able to scoot. I think Pitts is 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:37.600 a long strider, like Nick's talking about, covers some ground. 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:41.840 But man Kittle could get across, Pitts gets vertically. It's 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:43.520 kind of a damned if you do if damned if 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:44.560 you don't kind of situation. 0:26:44.680 --> 0:26:47.000 Now, it's almost a situation when I was looking at 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:48.879 it on film, I was kind of having to posit. 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:50.160 And go, who do you put on this guy? 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:52.520 Yeah, because he lines up in the slot, they put 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:54.200 him on the ball as well. So he's getting a 0:26:54.280 --> 0:26:57.199 quick release off the line. Sometimes he'll be lined up 0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:00.119 against a nickel, which on his first touchdown against Tampa 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.000 this last week, he was lined up against a nickel 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:04.360 and then at the top of his route, nickel tried 0:27:04.359 --> 0:27:06.520 to give him a little bit of a fight and 0:27:06.600 --> 0:27:09.200 he fell down wide open, down down the middle of 0:27:09.240 --> 0:27:13.320 the field. So if you're putting Jordan Lewis in that situation, okay, Yes, 0:27:13.400 --> 0:27:14.959 Jordan Lewis has a little bit of dog to him. 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:16.159 He can fight a little bit, but at the end 0:27:16.160 --> 0:27:18.479 of the day, Pitts is so much bigger And if 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:21.920 you're putting a Donovan Wilson on him, then you're sacrifice. 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:25.160 For k That's just say, would you he's a he's 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:26.000 a long guy. 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:28.680 Tall guy right overshown would be an option as well. 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:29.959 I might need him rushing. 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:31.879 I'm not saying I kind of need him to do 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.320 other things, right, How can he do on one play man? 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:39.159 Just but honestly, I really think that this might be 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:41.120 a game where you use mcgwuamou in that way. He's 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:42.239 got a little toughness in him. 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:45.920 Wait, he'll put him on Kittle, Yeah, he'll put him long. 0:27:46.359 --> 0:27:48.720 I think I'd like to see MCWAMU kind of get 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:52.280 a little opportunity to maybe match up there. Yeah, that's 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:54.080 not about think of anybody you got on the team. 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:56.000 I think right now he's say I would feel good 0:27:56.000 --> 0:27:58.120 about Yeah, yeah, all right, let's take our first break, 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:00.200 our second break. We'll come back. I do one talk 0:28:00.200 --> 0:28:02.000 about these running backs a little bit because they will 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:04.480 be a challenge and of themselves outside of what we've 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:06.440 already talked about, of the challenge to trying to stop 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:08.600 their passing game. We'll be back. 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Obviously we've talked a lot about 0:31:06.160 --> 0:31:11.040 that with this offense throughout the year. So on Atlanta's 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:14.600 first fourteen plays from scrimmage they. 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:17.600 Ran pre in a specific game or just over excuse. 0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:20.920 Me last week last week, sorry, they ran pre snap 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:24.239 motion on ten of those plays. Do you know what 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:25.720 all ten of those plays had in common? 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:27.000 Completions? 0:31:27.240 --> 0:31:30.920 They were passing place. So the first ten passing plays 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:33.120 they used pre snap motion. I think it was four 0:31:33.120 --> 0:31:36.160 of the first seven or eight rushing plays they did not. 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:37.719 So I think that's just something to kind of keep 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:40.040 an eye on. And typically it's like it's not a 0:31:40.080 --> 0:31:41.120 guy crossing formation. 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:41.840 Most of the time. 0:31:41.920 --> 0:31:43.760 It's typically like a guy going from the slot to 0:31:43.840 --> 0:31:45.880 outside the number, or a guy inside the number coming 0:31:45.880 --> 0:31:49.240 outside the number, and more times than not they will 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:50.680 not throw to that guy. So what they try to 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:52.680 do is they like to direct attention to the opposite 0:31:52.720 --> 0:31:54.920 side of the field. Hey, you see Drake London moving 0:31:54.960 --> 0:31:57.120 over here, be sure an account for him. All right, 0:31:57.120 --> 0:32:01.240 we're going this way, ye, So yeah, pit's coming across 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.720 the armpit and just bang right there over the middle 0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:05.480 of the field. Second thing I want to hit on 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:09.320 this is not a heavy play action team at all, 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:13.520 which is a little surprising given the running attack and 0:32:13.560 --> 0:32:15.520 also given the fact that Kirk Cousins has been so 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:18.600 good with play action during his career. So this is 0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:20.560 not the only place where there's some question of play 0:32:20.560 --> 0:32:23.920 calling sometimes I think I think Kirk Cousins needs to 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:25.520 get a little bit more involved in the play action. 0:32:25.720 --> 0:32:28.360 They're only averaging five and a half play action passes 0:32:28.400 --> 0:32:29.320 per game, so I. 0:32:29.240 --> 0:32:32.040 Think that's quite fascinating. Only wait for three. 0:32:32.320 --> 0:32:34.640 That's really interesting, especially a game a team that has 0:32:34.680 --> 0:32:37.880 this good of running backs exactly that they wouldn't use. 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:40.720 Yeah, wow, it's a little a little surprising. So I 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:42.160 just wanted to point those couple of things out. I 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:43.480 thought both of those were really interesting. 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:45.800 Do you think it has something to do with being 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:48.240 new in a scheme that like when he was in 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:52.680 Minnesota heavy play action, but you're kind of when quarterbacks 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:55.560 turn their back to the defense and then have to 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:59.720 find everybody again. Do you think maybe because Minnesota he 0:32:59.800 --> 0:33:02.840 knew where all the routes were going to be in Atlanta? 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:05.680 I mean, I know we're eight weeks into this, nine 0:33:05.720 --> 0:33:08.400 weeks into this, but do you think that maybe him 0:33:08.440 --> 0:33:10.400 turned in his back and not knowing maybe where all 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:11.600 the routes are going to be. 0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:12.800 I think that's a good theory. 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:15.120 I think another good theory would also be maybe there's 0:33:15.120 --> 0:33:16.280 not a lot of trust in what he has in 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:17.440 front of them protection wise. 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:19.400 That's that's a fair point too. 0:33:19.560 --> 0:33:21.120 I mean, you look at this right side of the 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:24.280 offensive line perspective. I mean, we've talked about Chris Linstrom 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.600 over the years being this all world ass beater, and 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:28.760 he has given up twenty one pressures more than anyone 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:32.120 on this offensive line this season. His success is really 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:34.200 come and to run blocking though, but in past protection 0:33:34.240 --> 0:33:37.680 it's not been there. Right tackle Caleb McGary sixteen pressure. 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:40.360 So I mean these are guys that have had issues. 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:45.480 Oh they've had Matthews Bergeron Linstrom. Yeah, they've all given 0:33:45.520 --> 0:33:47.840 up three sacks. Yeah, I mean they have guys that 0:33:47.880 --> 0:33:50.800 have given up three sacks in this you know. See. 0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:53.840 So it's not like they're all like, oh, this one 0:33:53.880 --> 0:33:57.440 guy's just they're having great seasons. I mean, they'll give 0:33:57.520 --> 0:34:00.680 up some pressures. You know. It's interesting about On he 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:04.800 was the guy that was remember to say Draft night, Yeah, 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:06.600 between him and sim and Mazzi. 0:34:06.760 --> 0:34:10.879 Right's interesting because the thing that that's really jumping out 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:12.960 to me here is for everything that you guys are 0:34:12.960 --> 0:34:15.480 throwing out there, that's like, this is how you can 0:34:15.520 --> 0:34:18.520 beat this team. I don't know if Dallas has the 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:21.600 weapons right now with how much they've been compromised by 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:23.839 Andre to be able to take advantage of it. That's 0:34:23.840 --> 0:34:27.160 the hard part. Now, if you get Michael back, yeah, now, 0:34:27.760 --> 0:34:30.480 maybe working with something there, but it just seems like 0:34:30.520 --> 0:34:33.560 there's there are areas where you literally can't take advantage 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:35.920 of them, and it's just maybe Dallas doesn't have the 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:36.680 horses to do it. 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:38.720 Yeah, yeah, might need Michael Parsons. 0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:41.759 Yeah, yeah, all right, let's let's talk about the running game. 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:46.319 B John Robinson, Longhorn, great us. He's been averaging four 0:34:46.320 --> 0:34:49.400 point seven yards per attempt this year. But here was 0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:51.759 the interesting thing. They are only twenty fifth in the 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.920 league in number of rushing attempts. Yeah, they don't run 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:57.440 the ball a lot to say they've got really good 0:34:57.560 --> 0:35:00.840 running backs. Why do you think that is? Have you 0:35:00.880 --> 0:35:03.600 seen anything that may suggests why they tend to throw 0:35:03.680 --> 0:35:06.279 more than their running And do you think this is 0:35:06.280 --> 0:35:08.480 a week that where they look at Dallas and say 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:10.120 we need to run the ball. 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:12.880 Yes, on that second point, I believe so. I'd be 0:35:12.920 --> 0:35:14.719 surprised if they didn't come out in this game with 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.160 Robinson and Algier and try to hammer it through. Because 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:19.799 Robinson obviously a fantastic running back. I'll get into him 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:22.759 a little bit later. But Algier is physical. Yeah, this guy, 0:35:23.000 --> 0:35:25.560 he rarely gets stopped behind the line of scrimmage. He 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:27.640 is always gaining positive yardage. I mean, it was a 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:29.600 situation last year was like, all right, we got Bijon 0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:31.839 Robinson involved in this offense. We used a high draft 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:33.960 pick on him, We're gonna run him into the ground. 0:35:33.960 --> 0:35:36.040 And then they're like, wait, we can really split these 0:35:36.080 --> 0:35:39.399 carries up with this guy because this guy never loses yardage. 0:35:39.719 --> 0:35:42.759 This is a This is a really balanced attack with 0:35:42.800 --> 0:35:45.320 two different style running backs that can both gain positive 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.320 yardage on a consistent basis. 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:49.239 Why they don't run them more? I don't really have 0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:49.600 an answer. 0:35:49.719 --> 0:35:52.560 They they got this scroup has twenty three yard twenty 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:55.680 three carries of ten yards or more, and they don't 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.000 And they just don't lean on it as much. I 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.000 know watching tape, I felt like Beijon Robinson was better 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:05.040 running to his left and and then and Algiers was 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:08.320 better going to his right. Which I was trying to think, Okay, 0:36:08.360 --> 0:36:11.400 what why is there some rhyme or reason here, But 0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.719 it's just kind of the way that the plays kind 0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:15.840 of the broke that broke out. Like I said, I 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:19.000 went back and I started watching, like, Okay, give me 0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:21.520 the run stuffs, give me the plays. Give me why 0:36:21.760 --> 0:36:24.239 when they didn't have success, why was it? And it 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:27.360 was it was the eight man box stuff. Count the guys. 0:36:27.400 --> 0:36:30.400 Stop the tape. Count them eight guys there, because when 0:36:30.440 --> 0:36:34.560 they Robinson is only averaging two point six yards of carry, well, well, 0:36:34.680 --> 0:36:37.960 well Algiers is two point seven. So teams are just 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:41.080 this is against eight man boxes. I was like, Okay, 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:43.799 tell me how they stopping these guys, because if they're 0:36:43.840 --> 0:36:46.319 averaging five and a half yards of carry, there's got 0:36:46.440 --> 0:36:49.560 to be some runs where they weren't very good. And 0:36:49.640 --> 0:36:53.600 the common theme and thread was count of Brian. There's 0:36:53.640 --> 0:36:56.239 eight of them up there, and that's where that's kind 0:36:56.239 --> 0:36:59.279 of where I was saying, Well, if Dallas is you know, 0:36:59.280 --> 0:37:01.880 if you're gonna sell out, play the press, play the 0:37:01.880 --> 0:37:03.920 eight man box if you can, and then and then 0:37:04.000 --> 0:37:06.520 hope for the best. And like I say, this quarterback, 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:08.600 you know and past the Cowboys have played him well 0:37:08.600 --> 0:37:10.879 when he was at Minnesota. They've caused him turnovers, they've 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:13.840 they've got sacks on him before you know, he'll stand 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:15.920 there and hold that ball and you know he's not 0:37:15.960 --> 0:37:19.239 going to move around stuff. But to the running back point, man, 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:22.359 it's it's gonna be about it's gonna be about can 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:24.600 you get enough can you get enough bodies in there 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:25.879 to defend the run. 0:37:26.000 --> 0:37:28.080 It's even more interesting too that they don't run them 0:37:28.120 --> 0:37:31.759 as often, because with a rushing attack like this, you 0:37:31.800 --> 0:37:33.720 would think that the Falcons would be trying to control 0:37:33.760 --> 0:37:36.680 the clock every single game time in possession battles. They've 0:37:36.719 --> 0:37:38.760 only won the time in possesion battle twice all season. 0:37:39.000 --> 0:37:41.640 So it's it's it's interesting that they have these guys. 0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:43.040 It's not. 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:45.080 It's not they want to find a big play. They 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:47.640 want to get all of these weapons involved. I think 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:51.200 with a with a fair share or fair split Darnell Mooney, 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:53.360 they have really been able to isolate his speed on 0:37:53.400 --> 0:37:57.360 the outside against guys. You saw that on a touchdown 0:37:57.520 --> 0:38:00.160 throw that Cousins overthrew, just a bit of a leve. 0:38:00.200 --> 0:38:02.319 It was in the second quarter last week against Tampa Bay. 0:38:02.520 --> 0:38:04.319 But Mooney he can get out and if if he 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:07.560 can get lined up against a guy like Treyvon Diggs 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:10.400 and where he can really use his speed against Diggs, 0:38:10.560 --> 0:38:12.960 that's a problem. And then London possession opportunities in the 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.319 red zone, that's a problem. I mean, they really do 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:17.080 a good job of getting these weapons this team. 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:19.520 They're their best pass plays and this is where drives 0:38:19.560 --> 0:38:23.239 Cowboy fans nuts is the hitch plays. They they go 0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:25.560 up and curl back inside and then and then and 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:29.240 Cousins just bound those them and you look at Drake London, 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:32.160 you look at Moody. That's their primary those are the 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.759 plays that they're they're really really big on, you know, 0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:37.160 so they're gonna try and get the ball out, but 0:38:37.560 --> 0:38:39.879 they're like their receivers or they do a really good 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:41.960 job of running those routes. I just was kind of 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:45.200 just curious too, London. I was looking at him the outs, 0:38:45.280 --> 0:38:47.640 the hitch, and the slant, with the three top routes 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:50.000 that he ran. So if you're going into the game, 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:52.160 you're thinking, Okay, I mean this is the three I'm 0:38:52.200 --> 0:38:54.800 gonna get. I'm gonna get some type of an out route. 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:56.799 I might get that that curl back in like I 0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:59.440 was taut, the hitch route and then that slant, and 0:38:59.480 --> 0:39:01.400 you know, it makes a lot of sense. Moody's routes 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:05.040 I looked at were the out the screen is one 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:07.440 that they're really really big on with him, and then 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:09.600 the hitch and the crossing route. So he's kind of 0:39:09.600 --> 0:39:12.680 the crossing route guy that they that they used. So 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:14.960 if if they attacked the middle of the field with 0:39:15.000 --> 0:39:17.360 the crosser, then it might be it might be number 0:39:17.360 --> 0:39:18.040 one doing it. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:22.000 Are they pretty good like moving the chains right off 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:24.640 the bat from beginning like first quarter. 0:39:24.520 --> 0:39:27.200 I didn't feel like that they got stopped at the 0:39:27.200 --> 0:39:28.200 first half. Absolutely. 0:39:28.280 --> 0:39:28.440 Yeah. 0:39:28.520 --> 0:39:30.880 Last week. Yeah, last week they were moving and they 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:33.120 have been moving the ball. They didn't play well against Seattle. 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:34.640 No, Seattle got after them. 0:39:34.680 --> 0:39:37.799 I had pretty good, unfortunate error of watching that game 0:39:37.840 --> 0:39:39.360 in the entirety a couple of weeks ago when we 0:39:39.360 --> 0:39:42.000 had the Sunday off and they couldn't get the ball 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:44.319 moving at all. But aside from that game, they can 0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:44.799 move the ball. 0:39:44.840 --> 0:39:46.760 What did what did? What did you see from Seattle 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:47.800 that was so effective? 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:49.600 I need to go back one hundred percent, honest, I 0:39:49.640 --> 0:39:51.480 need to go back and see a little bit more. 0:39:51.520 --> 0:39:54.279 I think their interior generated pressure, you know that right 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:56.680 off the top, and their secondary is physical, and they 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:57.440 were able to press. 0:39:57.480 --> 0:40:00.200 Like Brian said, yeah, they got beat up in that game, 0:40:00.360 --> 0:40:02.480 you know, and they got beat up on the defensive 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:05.000 side of the ball too. You know, Atlanta's defense got 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:07.239 beat up a little bit there. But the thing that 0:40:07.280 --> 0:40:09.880 they that Seattle was able to do was the inside pressure. 0:40:10.400 --> 0:40:13.080 That that was a big They They really struggle when. 0:40:12.960 --> 0:40:15.400 Whether the defensive tackles or were they blitzing up tackles. 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:19.520 The tackles they were you know, Seattle. Seattle's got long 0:40:20.400 --> 0:40:23.760 ends long, tall ends and they got they got inside 0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:26.799 presence with push and that's what they were able to do. 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:29.839 They beat up the Atlanta's offensive line pretty good in 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:30.160 that game. 0:40:30.440 --> 0:40:33.080 I feel like I was just gonna say, I feel 0:40:33.080 --> 0:40:35.399 like in all of these games, most of the games 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:37.720 that we've seen from the Cowboys so far this year, 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:42.080 the defense tends to usually do just enough in the 0:40:42.120 --> 0:40:45.480 first half of the game for your offense to kind 0:40:45.480 --> 0:40:47.600 of pick up the pace. But they that's the problem 0:40:47.600 --> 0:40:49.799 that the offense doesn't do that. But I feel like 0:40:50.120 --> 0:40:52.600 right off the bat, the defense tends to start pretty 0:40:52.600 --> 0:40:55.400 good and just do what they can and to manage 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:59.320 the game and stop the offense like the opposing offense. 0:40:59.600 --> 0:41:02.440 But if this is an offense that right off the 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:04.960 bat they're pretty good at like moving everything and getting 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:07.640 to the end zone, that could potentially be a big 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:09.000 problem for this Cowboys team. 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:10.960 Is this the best offense the Cowboys will have seen 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:11.960 this season so far? 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:16.240 I don't. I don't believe. 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:16.279 So. 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:19.520 Okay, Detroit, so I think of Detroit, Detroit. Detroit's have 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:20.880 built Baltimore Detroit. 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:23.279 I think of when you got New Orleans in Week two, 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:23.560 when they. 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:26.040 Were helping you played New Orleans. Now you you probably run. 0:41:25.880 --> 0:41:27.400 That, right, But I don't know. 0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:29.279 I think i'd put this Atlanta offense over week to 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:31.680 New Orleans. I think it was just the way the 0:41:31.760 --> 0:41:32.600 Dallas attacked them. 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:34.280 It's just a team with these two backs. 0:41:34.320 --> 0:41:35.240 Now, it's tough. 0:41:35.320 --> 0:41:37.960 Yeah, it's like Detroit, it was hard to deal with. 0:41:38.480 --> 0:41:40.440 And you got a quarterback. You mean like Detroit's got 0:41:40.440 --> 0:41:43.440 a veteran quarterback. Atlanta got a veteran quarterback. You know 0:41:44.200 --> 0:41:48.680 you've got you know, Detroit has a tight end, Atlanta 0:41:48.719 --> 0:41:52.160 has a tight end. There's I don't know, I think 0:41:52.160 --> 0:41:56.719 that I think Detroit's wide receivers are better than this crew. Yeah, yeah, 0:41:56.800 --> 0:41:59.200 so I would I would say that. But man, they're 0:41:59.400 --> 0:42:02.239 they're they're very you know. It's like I say, they 0:42:02.560 --> 0:42:04.879 do a good job of getting some explosive plays out 0:42:04.920 --> 0:42:05.400 of this group. 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:08.319 One interesting point, and I'm curious to get all of 0:42:08.360 --> 0:42:12.200 your takes on this. In that loss against Seattle, Bejon 0:42:12.280 --> 0:42:15.040 Robinson had his best day of the season, and Seattle 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:19.160 seemed content allowing him to get his but and and 0:42:19.239 --> 0:42:21.400 they were they were trying to just lock down that 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.600 passing attack and not let any of those weapons get 0:42:23.840 --> 0:42:24.360 get free. 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:27.759 I'm with you that, yeah, like let him run. 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:29.000 Are you willing to do that? 0:42:29.400 --> 0:42:29.880 Yeah? 0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:32.040 I mean here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing. 0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:34.879 Though he might have a great day anyway, So if 0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.759 you're going to look at it from that standpoint, and 0:42:36.800 --> 0:42:38.400 I will tell you this, this is what worries me 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:41.719 the most about stopping this running attack. They've got one 0:42:41.800 --> 0:42:46.040 running back who's extremely elusive, they've got another one's extremely aggressive. 0:42:46.640 --> 0:42:49.600 And what have we said about this Dallas defense in 0:42:49.680 --> 0:42:52.080 a lot of games this season. They have a hard 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:54.760 time tackling at times, Like I'm not a good tackling 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:57.560 team at times when you're going up against a guy 0:42:57.600 --> 0:43:00.680 who is very aggressive that takes you more than one 0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:02.759 guy to get him down. And then you got another 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:05.040 guy who's really elusive that can make you look foolish 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:08.000 in the open field. That doesn't help your tackling ability. 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:11.040 Like those are things that directly make your tackling ability 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:13.080 to go down a bit. So that's the part that 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.879 worries me most about this particular running attack is you're 0:43:15.880 --> 0:43:18.600 facing two backs that are going to be very difficult 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:20.879 to take down even if you were a good tackling team. 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:23.680 And Dallas has showing signs this year that at times 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:24.480 they don't tackle. 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:27.280 Well, tell me if I'm wrong here. I'm more worried 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:31.319 about them throwing the ball to their backs, then maybe 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:35.799 their running game, because they don't miss. 0:43:35.840 --> 0:43:37.360 I see where you're coming from, but they don't. 0:43:37.200 --> 0:43:41.000 Miss I mean the running game. Yeah, it's scary, but 0:43:41.080 --> 0:43:44.759 to me, getting those guys getting if you look at 0:43:44.800 --> 0:43:48.200 separation stuff like that, these backs they don't miss. This 0:43:48.360 --> 0:43:51.200 quarterback does not miss throwing the ball in the flat 0:43:51.320 --> 0:43:53.600 or throwing the ball to these backs. You know, you 0:43:53.600 --> 0:43:55.279 talk about get them in space. How well are they 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.920 going to tackle? I just worry about their passing game 0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:04.040 to these backs that Dallas doesn't handle the screens or 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:06.320 the flat plays, you know, the balls thrown in the 0:44:06.320 --> 0:44:10.319 screen to Robinson. Here comes Wilson, he misses. Now it's 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:13.200 a you know, I mean I can't check how many times, Yeah, 0:44:13.280 --> 0:44:15.360 I mean times it was a It could have been 0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:17.919 a three yard game. Instead it's a thirteen yard game 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:22.160 because of their inability attack. They this these two, these 0:44:22.160 --> 0:44:24.600 two running backs only run the ball well, but many 0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:27.640 they catch the ball well too. I worry about that 0:44:27.960 --> 0:44:28.960 all right, big time. 0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:31.160 That's a wrap. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll jump into 0:44:31.160 --> 0:44:35.600 the Atlanta versus the Cowboys offense and we'll see how 0:44:35.640 --> 0:44:38.080 that plans out, because, honestly, with all the injuries that 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:41.719 the Cowboys have sustained as in past weeks, I think 0:44:41.760 --> 0:44:43.200 this game is really going to come down to how 0:44:43.239 --> 0:44:45.239 good can the Cowboys offense be. So we'll get into 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:47.480 that tomorrow and we'll see how what we think of 0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:50.080 that matchup. Until then, for Nick Harris and Brian brought 0:44:50.120 --> 0:44:52.160 a Snamburgarcia. I'm Derek. 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