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Speaker 4: episode number fifty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 4: Today, we got a lot we're gonna get into. We'll
Speaker 4: talk about this Atlanta offense.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 4: Uh, Nick, I think he came in. You mentioned you
Speaker 4: kind of started looking at the film and like, whoa,
Speaker 4: it's got some it's got some challenges over there you
Speaker 4: got to deal with, particularly on their offense side of
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk about their offensive side of the well today, correct.
Speaker 2: And that's that's really all I've had chance to look
Speaker 2: at this week. I've been doing a little bit more
Speaker 2: draft stuff on a little behind, but I have a
Speaker 2: chance to Yeah, you know, it's never too it's never
Speaker 2: too early.
Speaker 9: But wow, wow, I looked at their offense.
Speaker 3: This is trying to be the smartest guy in the room, now, right,
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Speaker 4: This is a tough match challenge.
Speaker 3: This is a tough matchup.
Speaker 9: Is a tough matchup.
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Speaker 4: In fact, it's gonna be a tough it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a tough matchup. We'll get into all that here in
Speaker 4: the second segment. I want to start first, though, with
Speaker 4: you still caught on that with injuries.
Speaker 3: Let's get the first.
Speaker 4: I think there are five injuries that this week Cowboys
Speaker 4: fans need to be aware of and keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna run down this list. I want you guys,
Speaker 4: to tell me what you're hearing about them. Let's start
Speaker 4: first with the MANI war It's Warrior. Uh, what are
Speaker 4: we hearing about him? After you got hurt last weekend
Speaker 4: in the game versus the Niners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, saw him in the locker room matter the game
Speaker 2: versus the Niners. He was walking around, kind of gone
Speaker 2: up to him, Hey, how you feeling. He's like, I'm good,
Speaker 2: But you know, that's that's what anybody says right after
Speaker 2: after a game. So able to follow up this week
Speaker 2: with with some folks, and it sounds like that injury
Speaker 2: was a little bit worse than anticipated. He took a
Speaker 2: knee straight to the spine, and so there's, uh, there's
Speaker 2: there's fear that that could be some extensive time this there.
Speaker 2: But the further testing this week and probably furtheraluation will
Speaker 2: probably prove a little bit more. I expect to hear
Speaker 2: more on that front from McCarthy today.
Speaker 4: With all that going on with him, it becomes even
Speaker 4: more important what's happening with the others. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: Deron Bland and Kaylin Carson.
Speaker 2: So today's a deadline for Deron Bland to get activated
Speaker 2: off the.
Speaker 9: Injured reserve.
Speaker 2: List that his twenty one day window is up today,
Speaker 2: so they have to activate him today, but that does
Speaker 2: not necessarily mean he will play on Sunday. However, I'm
Speaker 2: going to go ahead and get jump ahead. I think
Speaker 2: Bland and Carson will both be available when we get
Speaker 2: to Sunday in Atlanta. That's just me theorizing. I don't
Speaker 2: really know anything to that point. I want to make
Speaker 2: sure and clarify that. That's me theorizing. I think both
Speaker 2: those guys will be ready on Sunday, all.
Speaker 3: Right, and yeah, yeah, great job. By the way of
Speaker 3: doing that, I reached out to a couple of different people,
Speaker 3: and man, there are a lot of things they're dealing
Speaker 3: with over there right now, because and you're asking questions
Speaker 3: about like, hey, you know your injured guy is going
Speaker 3: to try and give it a go this week practice
Speaker 3: and all that, and you get answers back like, well,
Speaker 3: that's an in depth question right now. Then we have
Speaker 3: too many to decide on. So yeah, that's you know that.
Speaker 3: It's unfortunately though, that this is you know where we're at,
Speaker 3: and you know you needed those Maybe a couple of
Speaker 3: those guys can come back and help. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: Atlanta's offense here in a bit, there are some challenges
Speaker 3: and it'd be nice if you could somehow Carson Parsons,
Speaker 3: you know, Bland, all these guys. The more guys you
Speaker 3: could possibly get back, it would help you to deal
Speaker 3: with what you're about to have happen ahead.
Speaker 4: It's always amazing to me, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's I don't know what causes this, but it seems
Speaker 4: like in the NFL, and you watch with the Cowboys
Speaker 4: up close, but it seems like injuries just seemed to
Speaker 4: happen all at one position, all at the same time.
Speaker 4: You know, it's like you can't spread them out, like
Speaker 4: can you get an injury at one position and then
Speaker 4: another position. But it's like this year when it comes
Speaker 4: to defensive end, cornerback, it's just the Cowboys have just
Speaker 4: been decimated. And it's just I don't know if there's
Speaker 4: I don't know why that tends to happen, but last
Speaker 4: year was linebacker, right, it just seems like you get
Speaker 4: this position and then all of a sudden, you take
Speaker 4: a bunch of hits at one position. And it could
Speaker 4: be a position that even you think is a string
Speaker 4: because I looked when We're going into the season thinking
Speaker 4: that pretty good depth there at the cornerback position or
Speaker 4: Warrior was not really even a part of that at
Speaker 4: the time and has come in and played admirably for them.
Speaker 4: And now you got to deal with injuries there. Uh,
Speaker 4: let's talk about Rico Dalda. What are we hearing? Is
Speaker 4: it at this point? Is he fine?
Speaker 3: Is what's told?
Speaker 2: He could have played Monday, So yeah, it was just
Speaker 2: something that kind of spurred up over the weekend and
Speaker 2: obviously didn't play Sunday because his fever had reached into
Speaker 2: the hundreds, So just kind of played it on the
Speaker 2: safe end as far as that goes.
Speaker 9: There's some fever.
Speaker 2: There's some conspiracy going around. I want to go ahead
Speaker 2: and Claire, he was.
Speaker 6: Trying to come up with some conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4: Was not me, for the record, was not me to
Speaker 4: address Shaggy, right, he wouldn't.
Speaker 9: Be to address me.
Speaker 2: There has been some conspiracy going around around, like you know,
Speaker 2: somebody pushed re Go out so Zeke and Dalvin would
Speaker 2: have more opportunities.
Speaker 9: That's just not the case. In the fact game of
Speaker 9: the Believer or you can't that's just not the case.
Speaker 2: And what happened I think if there's any blame to
Speaker 2: be put on the team, it's the sense that maybe
Speaker 2: that we didn't know about this sickness a little bit earlier,
Speaker 2: but that that's it. That's I don't I don't think
Speaker 2: there's any other blame that needs to be going around.
Speaker 3: He talked to folks Saturday night to try and get
Speaker 3: a handle on this because there was a lot of
Speaker 3: tweets that were going around, and I know Nick was
Speaker 3: working hard on it, and I think we all were
Speaker 3: working on it. And it never was him being inactive, right,
Speaker 3: It never was. It was always going to be they're
Speaker 3: probably going to go light on defense. They're probably going
Speaker 3: to go a couple of corners here, you know, that's
Speaker 3: what probably what they're going to do. It never was that. No,
Speaker 3: he was going to be you know, he was always
Speaker 3: going to be active. He always was going to be
Speaker 3: active until he got sick. And then once that happened.
Speaker 3: Because I I talked to two three guys in the
Speaker 3: organization that were like, man, and I was trying to guess.
Speaker 3: I was trying to play the game of Okay, well
Speaker 3: how about this, this, this and this, Well, maybe me
Speaker 3: think about this, this, this and this you know, And
Speaker 3: it never was about Rico. It was always Rico was
Speaker 3: always in the mix, right, Zeke was always in the mix.
Speaker 3: It was it was going to Cook was going to
Speaker 3: be in the mix. Cook Cook was going to be
Speaker 3: in the planet Lipky was in the mix. And it
Speaker 3: was like, okay, well what's going to happen. Well, think
Speaker 3: about your injured guys. Okay, take the injured guys off now,
Speaker 3: then take now think about some other positions. Forty nine
Speaker 3: ers a little banged up at wide receiver. Maybe we
Speaker 3: could go a little bit lighter at at at cornerback
Speaker 3: because we don't have to deal with maybe so much
Speaker 3: with all their wide receivers. You know. So there their
Speaker 3: their planned. I don't think they were trying to pull
Speaker 3: a fast one on anybody. I think legitimately the guy
Speaker 3: got sick and they they it looks the optics doesn't
Speaker 3: look great. But I know Saturday night, you know, before
Speaker 3: I went to bed at midnight, that there was a
Speaker 3: plan of him playing in that football.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: There's so many times that because we travel with the team,
Speaker 4: we'll start hearing little whispers and things from time to time.
Speaker 4: And when I tell you, everybody was like what, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, because it was not it was not something
Speaker 4: that was that was out there or that anybody really
Speaker 4: even suspected would happen. I don't even think people on
Speaker 4: the team perspected was happening. It was just it was,
Speaker 4: you know, one of those situations where the next morning
Speaker 4: that the fever spiked and for whatever reason they decided, yeah,
Speaker 4: he can't go, and then they put him down. So
Speaker 4: I think that's just kind of that's the nature. That's no, no,
Speaker 4: not they didn't put him, he just didn't play. But
Speaker 4: you know, that's that's the nature of I guess the
Speaker 4: world we live in now, there's a lot of conspiracy theory.
Speaker 4: Everybody's always wondering what's the conspiracy here. Sometimes there really
Speaker 4: just is no conspiracy. It is what it is. All right,
Speaker 4: let's real quick. I want to I want to kind
Speaker 4: of introduce this Atlanta Falcons team. They are five and
Speaker 4: three right now. They have beaten Philadelphia. They've beaten Tampa
Speaker 4: Bay twice, which Tampa is a really good team. I
Speaker 4: think when they took their injuries last week, I thought
Speaker 4: they might fall off, but they've been playing pretty well
Speaker 4: throughout the season. They've beaten them twice. They have loss
Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and Seattle. Seattle really is the
Speaker 4: only team that beat him up good. Most of their
Speaker 4: games they've lost. If they've lost or if they've won,
Speaker 4: it's been an eight point differential between the winner and
Speaker 4: the loser, except for that Seattle game where they lost
Speaker 4: thirty four to fourteen. They are right now first place
Speaker 4: though in the NFC South. If you have to introduce
Speaker 4: this team to Cowboys fans, what will be the one
Speaker 4: thing you think Cowboys fans need to know going into
Speaker 4: this game about the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 9: Kirk Cousins is not an old man, that is. Yeah,
Speaker 9: he is. He is.
Speaker 2: He's making everybody around him better. He is making that
Speaker 2: offense better, he's making those weapons better. He's making that
Speaker 2: team better. And he's he's he's very much a game manager.
Speaker 2: But he's like the he's like the Lebron James of
Speaker 2: Brock parties. If that makes sense, I don't know, in
Speaker 2: the sense of the scale, just like the Lebron James
Speaker 2: of game managers. He is, he's he can do it.
Speaker 2: He gets but yeah, he gets everybody involved. He he
Speaker 2: doesn't try to do too much. He is, uh, we'll
Speaker 2: get in some more. I believe in the second segment
Speaker 2: just about ways, I think they could attack Cousins in
Speaker 2: that passing attack. But he's not an old man. He's
Speaker 2: he's definitely playing up to his value right now.
Speaker 3: Quality at running back once again. You know, here you
Speaker 3: are with yeah, with b John Robinson and Tyler Algier.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know they they do a really nice job of
Speaker 3: of running the football and a lot of it has
Speaker 3: to do with the scheme. You know, I think that
Speaker 3: when you here's another one of those we seem to
Speaker 3: be dealing with all these young play callers, Zach Robertson
Speaker 3: has done a really nice job of of taking what
Speaker 3: he has with the game manager, but then marrying it
Speaker 3: to the running game. You know, they're going to attack
Speaker 3: the middle of the field, which that's kind of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 3: He's not going to throw the ball outside the pocket much.
Speaker 3: He's going to stand right there in the middle and
Speaker 3: he's going to throw. And they've got you know, they
Speaker 3: finally have somebody that can get the ball to Kyle Pitts. Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, forever it seemed like that they were just
Speaker 3: wasting his talent, the big tight end out of Florida.
Speaker 3: Now they've got a guy that can actually, you know,
Speaker 3: throw that ball up the scene, attack those seams, and
Speaker 3: you know, that's what they've been able to do. And
Speaker 3: he's Kirk Cousin's always playing at a high level. The
Speaker 3: thing that always kind of affects him though, and Dallas
Speaker 3: has played him a couple of times up there in
Speaker 3: Minnesota where where pressure has bothered him. And that's where
Speaker 3: I think that this and I think that's what Nick's
Speaker 3: gonna probably tell us about, is that there's ways to
Speaker 3: attack this guy and maybe force him into some mistakes.
Speaker 6: Which sounds great. But the one thought that pops into
Speaker 6: my head, I'm like, can we can the Cowboys generate
Speaker 6: or create some pressures? So that the question that is
Speaker 6: a big question there and seeing if they can somehow
Speaker 6: try to I don't even know how to change things
Speaker 6: up and be able to start generating some of that
Speaker 6: because we haven't seen it all season.
Speaker 10: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get into that in the in the second
Speaker 4: or third segment as well. Just talk about this Cowboys defense,
Speaker 4: some interesting numbers around that. All right, we're gonna take
Speaker 4: our first break, We're going to come back. We'll dive
Speaker 4: a little deeper into this Atlanta offense. We'll be back
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Speaker 4: blockchain dot Com. All right, let's talk about the Atlanta offense.
Speaker 4: The first thing that popped out to me about this
Speaker 4: offense is that they are sixth in passing yards in
Speaker 4: the NFL. Talk to me about the two sides of
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins. What does he do really well and where
Speaker 4: can you find where can you also challenge him in
Speaker 4: areas where where he might be a little deficient?
Speaker 9: Go ahead, yeah, I'll start.
Speaker 3: Feel free, Yeah, feel free.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He loves the middle of the field, Yes, he does.
Speaker 9: He absolutely loves the middle of the challenge.
Speaker 2: That Week five win against Tampa Bay on the Thursday
Speaker 2: night where he threw for a million yards, he had
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy plus yards over the middle of
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, how much he to have the rest of the
Speaker 4: field there?
Speaker 2: One d and thirty issues Yeah yeah, yeah, So it's
Speaker 2: it was a heavy, heavy difference there. So outside the numbers,
Speaker 2: if they could start pushing some things to the boundary,
Speaker 2: I think in coverage, then you might be able to
Speaker 2: find a little success there. However, he has so many
Speaker 2: weapons that are just getting better by the week.
Speaker 9: Kyle Pitts is on his best four game stretch for
Speaker 9: his career right now.
Speaker 2: He's a guy they've used a high pick on I
Speaker 2: believe what was a seventh overall, eighth overall something like
Speaker 2: that a few years ago, and he has just not
Speaker 2: been able to put it together. They haven't really gotten
Speaker 2: him involved in the passing offense quite quite frequently. But
Speaker 2: now with Kirk Cousins in the mix, he is getting
Speaker 2: Pits involved and this is the best four game stretch
Speaker 2: of his career. But if you're asking what he does
Speaker 2: really well, loves the middle of the field.
Speaker 9: I don't want to take too much.
Speaker 3: Away, but no, I mean I love when you do that.
Speaker 3: That's good. I appreciate you watching that tape. You got
Speaker 3: to press these receivers easier said than done. You get
Speaker 3: these guys free access to kill you in routes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what they do. There's a lot of there's a
Speaker 3: lot of movement. There's movement to movement, and so there's
Speaker 3: a lot of guys kind of you know, Moody, London, McLeod,
Speaker 3: they all kind of they play a lot of eleven personnel,
Speaker 3: you know, with the three wide receivers and then the
Speaker 3: tight end. But there's a lot of movement within that,
Speaker 3: the motions and things. So you kind of deal with
Speaker 3: that but when these guys get pressed, they're a different
Speaker 3: group of receivers and they and it's not they don't
Speaker 3: have as much success. And so when you watch people
Speaker 3: play tight on them and make them have to make
Speaker 3: contested plays, it's a little bit of a problem for them.
Speaker 3: And it's been a little bit of a problem for
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins to fit some balls. When I was watching,
Speaker 3: I mean, he'll we talk about the middle of the field,
Speaker 3: the routes in the middle of the field, the seams,
Speaker 3: all those places that he works. He gets pressure, that
Speaker 3: ball will come flying out of his hand in a
Speaker 3: funny way. And sometimes these receivers, when they're dealing with
Speaker 3: bodies on them, will you know, they will struggle to
Speaker 3: make the reception or you'll see some type of an interception.
Speaker 3: Went back and watched all those interceptions, all seven of them.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of them were attacks to the
Speaker 3: middle of the field Pittsburgh early in the game. Week
Speaker 3: one was pressure in his face and then you know,
Speaker 3: as he's he gets affected by that, ball flies out
Speaker 3: of his hands. So that's what you have to do.
Speaker 3: Amber's right, how do you get pressure? That's gonna be
Speaker 3: some key. I think Dallas has to take a chance
Speaker 3: and hopefully you got guys like Bland and maybe Carson
Speaker 3: and others back take a chance press these guys make
Speaker 3: These guys have to win off the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 3: you know, because if you it might be a problem
Speaker 3: because if you don't get pressure, maybe a Parsons gets back,
Speaker 3: maybe that you could get some pressure there. Because Matthews,
Speaker 3: that left tackle has been giving up some pressures here lately.
Speaker 3: You know, Lynstrom the right guard has been giving up
Speaker 3: some pressures. Yeah, so you know there's ways to do this,
Speaker 3: but you just have to be committed to making it work.
Speaker 3: And if but if you play off coverage against these guys,
Speaker 3: you're playing right into their hands because this quarterback he
Speaker 3: will he'll pick you apart.
Speaker 4: That way, when you mentioned them playing press, that's a
Speaker 4: good way to be able to kind of combat what
Speaker 4: they want to do.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 4: Is that something that you've seen the Dallas defensive backs
Speaker 4: do often and or do well.
Speaker 3: Play a lot of his own, play a lot of
Speaker 3: his own And that's the thing. I mean, it's you're
Speaker 3: trying to think about ways of getting off the field,
Speaker 3: and you're thinking about, Okay, what is Atlanta's weakness in
Speaker 3: my opinion, when you watch their receivers play, they in
Speaker 3: routes and stuff, they're good, they can make plays, but
Speaker 3: when teams get up on them, their catch numbers go
Speaker 3: way down. So I'm just I mean, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 3: working on mysteries. I've got some clues, you know, but
Speaker 3: I don't I might not have the personnel to do
Speaker 3: it either. It's like last week with San Francisco, we
Speaker 3: were like, hey, man, if you could just control the
Speaker 3: middle of the field, well safeties fall apart. You know. Well,
Speaker 3: if you could just well they don't take advantage of that,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, there was That's the problem you're
Speaker 3: running into right now. This is a really good offense
Speaker 3: because the two backs. I think the wide receivers are
Speaker 3: good wide receivers, and the quarterback is capable of making plays.
Speaker 3: But you got to be willing to maybe do something
Speaker 3: you're not comfortable doing, you know, and maybe it allows
Speaker 3: you to do that if you have digs and you
Speaker 3: have Bland, and you have Lewis and just you know,
Speaker 3: you can get up on these guys and affect him
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: A couple of stats to back up the point about
Speaker 2: pressure versus no pressure on Kirk Cousins. He has faced
Speaker 2: pressure on eighty seven passing attempts so far this season.
Speaker 2: He has seven interceptions on the year. Six of those
Speaker 2: have come against pressure. Also, when he is pressured, his
Speaker 2: passer rating has dropped by nearly fifty points. It goes
Speaker 2: from one to eleven point seven all the way down
Speaker 2: to sixty eight point five.
Speaker 3: So I can only talk about it. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 3: help you any other way other than that. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean it's and it's clear on film. Yeah, it's clear
Speaker 3: on film. Because the great thing about this, the next
Speaker 3: gen stuff that we have, you can go and separate
Speaker 3: all the pressures. Yeah, and now watch him. Now Wat's like,
Speaker 3: oh okay, this is how you can watch the normal
Speaker 3: tape and you're like, oh, I was a good throw.
Speaker 3: Oh there's another good throw. You know, he's gonna stand
Speaker 3: right in the middle of that pocket and he's going
Speaker 3: to deliver the football and you know where he is.
Speaker 3: He's not going to run around. You've played against some
Speaker 3: run around dudes. You know that, the dude at the
Speaker 3: Ravens run.
Speaker 4: Around guy he's party last week.
Speaker 3: Well, he's more like the guy that you played in
Speaker 3: week two. When you look at you know, when you
Speaker 3: look at car, I mean, he's going to stand there
Speaker 3: and deliver the baby. And I know it's a bad
Speaker 3: thought about Car, but he but that's kind of where
Speaker 3: this guy is gonna be. He's gonna be standing right
Speaker 3: there in the middle of that.
Speaker 6: Pocket you mentioned pretty last week. I mean, there were
Speaker 6: many instances where you're watching he's having all the time
Speaker 6: in the world just sitting there in the pocket, and
Speaker 6: you're like, oh my god, oh my god. So again,
Speaker 6: it sounds great that that's an area where they could
Speaker 6: but it's like can they can they? I mean maybe
Speaker 6: utilizing some of your linebackers. We've seen overshown he has
Speaker 6: that kind of potential.
Speaker 3: This is where I want to go next. And Nick
Speaker 3: helped me on this one. I meant to ask you
Speaker 3: this question last night. Absolutely what you saw with Overshowing
Speaker 3: on the Blitz, can you turn him into something like
Speaker 3: what Michael Parsons was, like a poor man's Michael Parsons
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 12: I think yeah.
Speaker 4: I think when Michael first went down, I think that's
Speaker 4: something they can do out there. No, no, no, what I'm
Speaker 4: saying is I think it's something we all through out there,
Speaker 4: like maybe that's an option of what they can do.
Speaker 4: But I think you're right. I think, but at this
Speaker 4: point I'm trying anything I can do, especially against a
Speaker 4: team like this. Words so apparent, but hes gonna get
Speaker 4: pressure on it. Yeah, if you can get pressure on him,
Speaker 4: you can actually force And I think last week you
Speaker 4: made the point Nick that you might give up pass
Speaker 4: rush last week in order to keep them from gashing
Speaker 4: you in the run game.
Speaker 3: You played well on the edge against them the tosses
Speaker 3: and stuff.
Speaker 4: The question becomes, this week, do you decide to maybe
Speaker 4: flip that narrative and say, hey, we'll take a few
Speaker 4: more chances and really try to get up field because
Speaker 4: we know the quarterback won't take off running on right,
Speaker 4: so on obvious passing downs, maybe we go after them
Speaker 4: and maybe we really, you know, try to blitz a
Speaker 4: little bit more in order to create the pressure that
Speaker 4: we need.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Overshown's an option as well as lea foul. He's
Speaker 2: probably not as big and probably can't take on those
Speaker 2: one on ones as well as Overshown, but he's a
Speaker 2: guy that has been using situational blissing throughout his career,
Speaker 2: coming down from the second level.
Speaker 9: Get those guys involved, That's what.
Speaker 2: And I understand maybe not wanting to in this game
Speaker 2: specifically because because you need well, yes, but you need
Speaker 2: to cover in the middle of the field, like we're
Speaker 2: talking passing down. You need to cover the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. You need to have all three bodies there.
Speaker 4: Which is important. You got those, those linebackers and safeties.
Speaker 6: Are what's more important here? What are you trying to do?
Speaker 9: You tell me he's not he's not wrong, But you
Speaker 9: got no answer.
Speaker 3: Like how do you want to die slow death or
Speaker 3: a quick death?
Speaker 6: I mean, give me the slow one. Maybe the offense
Speaker 6: can pick.
Speaker 3: It up for talking about yesterday. Then do you make
Speaker 3: safety changes? You know, all of a sudden, do you
Speaker 3: have a different idea like hooker juan Ye Thomas something.
Speaker 3: Do you do something different in the you know, in
Speaker 3: the middle of the field, you know, I mean, hell,
Speaker 3: I would, I would damn even think about this is
Speaker 3: crazy thought. I think about putting Jordan Lewis back there.
Speaker 3: I mean, just something something that like if if.
Speaker 4: Back at safety, well, yeah, something that.
Speaker 3: Some guy that plays with awareness, some guys that sees it,
Speaker 3: some guy that could drive on the ball, you know,
Speaker 3: some guy that that's the problem. These teams are just
Speaker 3: so comfortable running routes in the middle of the field.
Speaker 3: It's just it's amazing. How and that's I don't know,
Speaker 3: because in this game you got two backs at average
Speaker 3: about five and a half yards of carry, you know,
Speaker 3: and that's you know, and here we are once again.
Speaker 3: You want to stop these two backs and bar play
Speaker 3: stack box. Put eight down there. They don't. They average
Speaker 3: less than three yards of carry when they play. When
Speaker 3: teams play stack box against them, you play light box
Speaker 3: six or less or neutral box seven or less, they
Speaker 3: kind of they have some success. You put eight down
Speaker 3: in there, they have problems. Well, here's Dallas play eight
Speaker 3: in the box. Don't play very well with eight in
Speaker 3: the box. You know, maybe that's something different. Maybe if
Speaker 3: it is eight in the box, maybe there isn't more
Speaker 3: about Wilson being down there. Maybe you have to play
Speaker 3: a little bit more single high, but that could be death.
Speaker 3: But how this guy throws the ball against maybe a
Speaker 3: single high look up the seams.
Speaker 2: So for you, Brian Broadus, yeah, if you're putting eight
Speaker 2: in the box, you have a little bit more confidence.
Speaker 2: If Deron Bland is back that you can have success
Speaker 2: on one one matches on the outside.
Speaker 3: I do see.
Speaker 2: I think there could be a little bit more confidence
Speaker 2: there because not only will putting eight in the box
Speaker 2: help against those two runners, but it also helps covering
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. So it's like I
Speaker 2: would almost look at loading up the middle of the field,
Speaker 2: loading up the box on almost every day.
Speaker 3: That's what we talked about last week, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, you if if you could, if you could
Speaker 3: stop the run, you put eight down there. That's that's
Speaker 3: team's answers. That's just how if you get if you're
Speaker 3: getting crushed in the running game, you make it an
Speaker 3: eight man box and you just say, we got more
Speaker 3: than you could block. Problem is you got more, but
Speaker 3: they block you with less blockers than they need. And
Speaker 3: that's that's the issue. And a lot of it has
Speaker 3: to do with the tackling and all. But this is tough.
Speaker 3: A couple of different ways you can go, but none
Speaker 3: of them are easy.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you this, if Kyle Pitts lines up against
Speaker 2: Donovan Wilson on that first possession, we wouldn't go ahead
Speaker 2: and start writing our stories, yeah, because that's that's It's
Speaker 2: going to be very similar to how Kittle had success
Speaker 2: against Wilson last week, except the difference here is that
Speaker 2: Pitts has longer strides. He can get across the middle
Speaker 2: of the field a lot quicker than Kittle can. Kittle
Speaker 2: just had a little bit more physicality at times, but
Speaker 2: he was still able to run away.
Speaker 3: I think I think Kittle can run away from me.
Speaker 3: I think Pitts. I think Pitt's. The thing that makes
Speaker 3: Pitts tough is he's so damn big. He's tall, and
Speaker 3: he's long, and even like some overthrows to him are like, WHOA,
Speaker 3: that's a really bad overthrow, you know, I mean defending
Speaker 3: that guy his reach and all. But the thing with
Speaker 3: Kittle is he's able to scoot. I think Pitts is
Speaker 3: a long strider, like Nick's talking about, covers some ground.
Speaker 3: But man Kittle could get across, Pitts gets vertically. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a damned if you do if damned if
Speaker 3: you don't kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Now, it's almost a situation when I was looking at
Speaker 2: it on film, I was kind of having to posit.
Speaker 9: And go, who do you put on this guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he lines up in the slot, they put
Speaker 2: him on the ball as well. So he's getting a
Speaker 2: quick release off the line. Sometimes he'll be lined up
Speaker 2: against a nickel, which on his first touchdown against Tampa
Speaker 2: this last week, he was lined up against a nickel
Speaker 2: and then at the top of his route, nickel tried
Speaker 2: to give him a little bit of a fight and
Speaker 2: he fell down wide open, down down the middle of
Speaker 2: the field. So if you're putting Jordan Lewis in that situation, okay, Yes,
Speaker 2: Jordan Lewis has a little bit of dog to him.
Speaker 2: He can fight a little bit, but at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, Pitts is so much bigger And if
Speaker 2: you're putting a Donovan Wilson on him, then you're sacrifice.
Speaker 4: For k That's just say, would you he's a he's
Speaker 4: a long guy.
Speaker 9: Tall guy right overshown would be an option as well.
Speaker 3: I might need him rushing.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying I kind of need him to do
Speaker 4: other things, right, How can he do on one play man?
Speaker 4: Just but honestly, I really think that this might be
Speaker 4: a game where you use mcgwuamou in that way. He's
Speaker 4: got a little toughness in him.
Speaker 3: Wait, he'll put him on Kittle, Yeah, he'll put him long.
Speaker 4: I think I'd like to see MCWAMU kind of get
Speaker 4: a little opportunity to maybe match up there. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: not about think of anybody you got on the team.
Speaker 4: I think right now he's say I would feel good
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Speaker 4: our second break. We'll come back. I do one talk
Speaker 4: about these running backs a little bit because they will
Speaker 4: be a challenge and of themselves outside of what we've
Speaker 4: already talked about, of the challenge to trying to stop
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Speaker 4: Welcome back, final segment of The Break live from the
Speaker 4: SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Real quick, Nick, you
Speaker 4: said you had a couple more quick little nuggets for
Speaker 4: us on the passing game before we moved on to
Speaker 4: the running game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of things I just want to point out, and
Speaker 2: if you'll have takes on this, feel free to jump
Speaker 2: in pre snap motion. Obviously we've talked a lot about
Speaker 2: that with this offense throughout the year. So on Atlanta's
Speaker 2: first fourteen plays from scrimmage they.
Speaker 4: Ran pre in a specific game or just over excuse.
Speaker 2: Me last week last week, sorry, they ran pre snap
Speaker 2: motion on ten of those plays. Do you know what
Speaker 2: all ten of those plays had in common?
Speaker 4: Completions?
Speaker 2: They were passing place. So the first ten passing plays
Speaker 2: they used pre snap motion. I think it was four
Speaker 2: of the first seven or eight rushing plays they did not.
Speaker 2: So I think that's just something to kind of keep
Speaker 2: an eye on. And typically it's like it's not a
Speaker 2: guy crossing formation.
Speaker 9: Most of the time.
Speaker 2: It's typically like a guy going from the slot to
Speaker 2: outside the number, or a guy inside the number coming
Speaker 2: outside the number, and more times than not they will
Speaker 2: not throw to that guy. So what they try to
Speaker 2: do is they like to direct attention to the opposite
Speaker 2: side of the field. Hey, you see Drake London moving
Speaker 2: over here, be sure an account for him. All right,
Speaker 2: we're going this way, ye, So yeah, pit's coming across
Speaker 2: the armpit and just bang right there over the middle
Speaker 2: of the field. Second thing I want to hit on
Speaker 2: this is not a heavy play action team at all,
Speaker 2: which is a little surprising given the running attack and
Speaker 2: also given the fact that Kirk Cousins has been so
Speaker 2: good with play action during his career. So this is
Speaker 2: not the only place where there's some question of play
Speaker 2: calling sometimes I think I think Kirk Cousins needs to
Speaker 2: get a little bit more involved in the play action.
Speaker 2: They're only averaging five and a half play action passes
Speaker 2: per game, so I.
Speaker 9: Think that's quite fascinating. Only wait for three.
Speaker 4: That's really interesting, especially a game a team that has
Speaker 4: this good of running backs exactly that they wouldn't use.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, it's a little a little surprising. So I
Speaker 2: just wanted to point those couple of things out. I
Speaker 2: thought both of those were really interesting.
Speaker 3: Do you think it has something to do with being
Speaker 3: new in a scheme that like when he was in
Speaker 3: Minnesota heavy play action, but you're kind of when quarterbacks
Speaker 3: turn their back to the defense and then have to
Speaker 3: find everybody again. Do you think maybe because Minnesota he
Speaker 3: knew where all the routes were going to be in Atlanta?
Speaker 3: I mean, I know we're eight weeks into this, nine
Speaker 3: weeks into this, but do you think that maybe him
Speaker 3: turned in his back and not knowing maybe where all
Speaker 3: the routes are going to be.
Speaker 9: I think that's a good theory.
Speaker 2: I think another good theory would also be maybe there's
Speaker 2: not a lot of trust in what he has in
Speaker 2: front of them protection wise.
Speaker 3: That's that's a fair point too.
Speaker 2: I mean, you look at this right side of the
Speaker 2: offensive line perspective. I mean, we've talked about Chris Linstrom
Speaker 2: over the years being this all world ass beater, and
Speaker 2: he has given up twenty one pressures more than anyone
Speaker 2: on this offensive line this season. His success is really
Speaker 2: come and to run blocking though, but in past protection
Speaker 2: it's not been there. Right tackle Caleb McGary sixteen pressure.
Speaker 2: So I mean these are guys that have had issues.
Speaker 3: Oh they've had Matthews Bergeron Linstrom. Yeah, they've all given
Speaker 3: up three sacks. Yeah, I mean they have guys that
Speaker 3: have given up three sacks in this you know. See.
Speaker 3: So it's not like they're all like, oh, this one
Speaker 3: guy's just they're having great seasons. I mean, they'll give
Speaker 3: up some pressures. You know. It's interesting about On he
Speaker 3: was the guy that was remember to say Draft night, Yeah,
Speaker 3: between him and sim and Mazzi.
Speaker 4: Right's interesting because the thing that that's really jumping out
Speaker 4: to me here is for everything that you guys are
Speaker 4: throwing out there, that's like, this is how you can
Speaker 4: beat this team. I don't know if Dallas has the
Speaker 4: weapons right now with how much they've been compromised by
Speaker 4: Andre to be able to take advantage of it. That's
Speaker 4: the hard part. Now, if you get Michael back, yeah, now,
Speaker 4: maybe working with something there, but it just seems like
Speaker 4: there's there are areas where you literally can't take advantage
Speaker 4: of them, and it's just maybe Dallas doesn't have the
Speaker 4: horses to do it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, might need Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's let's talk about the running game.
Speaker 4: B John Robinson, Longhorn, great us. He's been averaging four
Speaker 4: point seven yards per attempt this year. But here was
Speaker 4: the interesting thing. They are only twenty fifth in the
Speaker 4: league in number of rushing attempts. Yeah, they don't run
Speaker 4: the ball a lot to say they've got really good
Speaker 4: running backs. Why do you think that is? Have you
Speaker 4: seen anything that may suggests why they tend to throw
Speaker 4: more than their running And do you think this is
Speaker 4: a week that where they look at Dallas and say
Speaker 4: we need to run the ball.
Speaker 2: Yes, on that second point, I believe so. I'd be
Speaker 2: surprised if they didn't come out in this game with
Speaker 2: Robinson and Algier and try to hammer it through. Because
Speaker 2: Robinson obviously a fantastic running back. I'll get into him
Speaker 2: a little bit later. But Algier is physical. Yeah, this guy,
Speaker 2: he rarely gets stopped behind the line of scrimmage. He
Speaker 2: is always gaining positive yardage. I mean, it was a
Speaker 2: situation last year was like, all right, we got Bijon
Speaker 2: Robinson involved in this offense. We used a high draft
Speaker 2: pick on him, We're gonna run him into the ground.
Speaker 2: And then they're like, wait, we can really split these
Speaker 2: carries up with this guy because this guy never loses yardage.
Speaker 2: This is a This is a really balanced attack with
Speaker 2: two different style running backs that can both gain positive
Speaker 2: yardage on a consistent basis.
Speaker 9: Why they don't run them more? I don't really have
Speaker 9: an answer.
Speaker 3: They they got this scroup has twenty three yard twenty
Speaker 3: three carries of ten yards or more, and they don't
Speaker 3: And they just don't lean on it as much. I
Speaker 3: know watching tape, I felt like Beijon Robinson was better
Speaker 3: running to his left and and then and Algiers was
Speaker 3: better going to his right. Which I was trying to think, Okay,
Speaker 3: what why is there some rhyme or reason here, But
Speaker 3: it's just kind of the way that the plays kind
Speaker 3: of the broke that broke out. Like I said, I
Speaker 3: went back and I started watching, like, Okay, give me
Speaker 3: the run stuffs, give me the plays. Give me why
Speaker 3: when they didn't have success, why was it? And it
Speaker 3: was it was the eight man box stuff. Count the guys.
Speaker 3: Stop the tape. Count them eight guys there, because when
Speaker 3: they Robinson is only averaging two point six yards of carry, well, well,
Speaker 3: well Algiers is two point seven. So teams are just
Speaker 3: this is against eight man boxes. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: tell me how they stopping these guys, because if they're
Speaker 3: averaging five and a half yards of carry, there's got
Speaker 3: to be some runs where they weren't very good. And
Speaker 3: the common theme and thread was count of Brian. There's
Speaker 3: eight of them up there, and that's where that's kind
Speaker 3: of where I was saying, Well, if Dallas is you know,
Speaker 3: if you're gonna sell out, play the press, play the
Speaker 3: eight man box if you can, and then and then
Speaker 3: hope for the best. And like I say, this quarterback,
Speaker 3: you know and past the Cowboys have played him well
Speaker 3: when he was at Minnesota. They've caused him turnovers, they've
Speaker 3: they've got sacks on him before you know, he'll stand
Speaker 3: there and hold that ball and you know he's not
Speaker 3: going to move around stuff. But to the running back point, man,
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be about it's gonna be about can
Speaker 3: you get enough can you get enough bodies in there
Speaker 3: to defend the run.
Speaker 2: It's even more interesting too that they don't run them
Speaker 2: as often, because with a rushing attack like this, you
Speaker 2: would think that the Falcons would be trying to control
Speaker 2: the clock every single game time in possession battles. They've
Speaker 2: only won the time in possesion battle twice all season.
Speaker 2: So it's it's it's interesting that they have these guys.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 2: It's not they want to find a big play. They
Speaker 2: want to get all of these weapons involved. I think
Speaker 2: with a with a fair share or fair split Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 2: they have really been able to isolate his speed on
Speaker 2: the outside against guys. You saw that on a touchdown
Speaker 2: throw that Cousins overthrew, just a bit of a leve.
Speaker 2: It was in the second quarter last week against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: But Mooney he can get out and if if he
Speaker 2: can get lined up against a guy like Treyvon Diggs
Speaker 2: and where he can really use his speed against Diggs,
Speaker 2: that's a problem. And then London possession opportunities in the
Speaker 2: red zone, that's a problem. I mean, they really do
Speaker 2: a good job of getting these weapons this team.
Speaker 3: They're their best pass plays and this is where drives
Speaker 3: Cowboy fans nuts is the hitch plays. They they go
Speaker 3: up and curl back inside and then and then and
Speaker 3: Cousins just bound those them and you look at Drake London,
Speaker 3: you look at Moody. That's their primary those are the
Speaker 3: plays that they're they're really really big on, you know,
Speaker 3: so they're gonna try and get the ball out, but
Speaker 3: they're like their receivers or they do a really good
Speaker 3: job of running those routes. I just was kind of
Speaker 3: just curious too, London. I was looking at him the outs,
Speaker 3: the hitch, and the slant, with the three top routes
Speaker 3: that he ran. So if you're going into the game,
Speaker 3: you're thinking, Okay, I mean this is the three I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get. I'm gonna get some type of an out route.
Speaker 3: I might get that that curl back in like I
Speaker 3: was taut, the hitch route and then that slant, and
Speaker 3: you know, it makes a lot of sense. Moody's routes
Speaker 3: I looked at were the out the screen is one
Speaker 3: that they're really really big on with him, and then
Speaker 3: the hitch and the crossing route. So he's kind of
Speaker 3: the crossing route guy that they that they used. So
Speaker 3: if if they attacked the middle of the field with
Speaker 3: the crosser, then it might be it might be number
Speaker 3: one doing it.
Speaker 6: Are they pretty good like moving the chains right off
Speaker 6: the bat from beginning like first quarter.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like that they got stopped at the
Speaker 3: first half. Absolutely.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Last week. Yeah, last week they were moving and they
Speaker 2: have been moving the ball. They didn't play well against Seattle.
Speaker 3: No, Seattle got after them.
Speaker 2: I had pretty good, unfortunate error of watching that game
Speaker 2: in the entirety a couple of weeks ago when we
Speaker 2: had the Sunday off and they couldn't get the ball
Speaker 2: moving at all. But aside from that game, they can
Speaker 2: move the ball.
Speaker 4: What did what did? What did you see from Seattle
Speaker 4: that was so effective?
Speaker 2: I need to go back one hundred percent, honest, I
Speaker 2: need to go back and see a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think their interior generated pressure, you know that right
Speaker 2: off the top, and their secondary is physical, and they
Speaker 2: were able to press.
Speaker 3: Like Brian said, yeah, they got beat up in that game,
Speaker 3: you know, and they got beat up on the defensive
Speaker 3: side of the ball too. You know, Atlanta's defense got
Speaker 3: beat up a little bit there. But the thing that
Speaker 3: they that Seattle was able to do was the inside pressure.
Speaker 3: That that was a big They They really struggle when.
Speaker 4: Whether the defensive tackles or were they blitzing up tackles.
Speaker 3: The tackles they were you know, Seattle. Seattle's got long
Speaker 3: ends long, tall ends and they got they got inside
Speaker 3: presence with push and that's what they were able to do.
Speaker 3: They beat up the Atlanta's offensive line pretty good in
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 6: I feel like I was just gonna say, I feel
Speaker 6: like in all of these games, most of the games
Speaker 6: that we've seen from the Cowboys so far this year,
Speaker 6: the defense tends to usually do just enough in the
Speaker 6: first half of the game for your offense to kind
Speaker 6: of pick up the pace. But they that's the problem
Speaker 6: that the offense doesn't do that. But I feel like
Speaker 6: right off the bat, the defense tends to start pretty
Speaker 6: good and just do what they can and to manage
Speaker 6: the game and stop the offense like the opposing offense.
Speaker 6: But if this is an offense that right off the
Speaker 6: bat they're pretty good at like moving everything and getting
Speaker 6: to the end zone, that could potentially be a big
Speaker 6: problem for this Cowboys team.
Speaker 4: Is this the best offense the Cowboys will have seen
Speaker 4: this season so far?
Speaker 9: I don't. I don't believe.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Okay, Detroit, so I think of Detroit, Detroit. Detroit's have
Speaker 3: built Baltimore Detroit.
Speaker 9: I think of when you got New Orleans in Week two,
Speaker 9: when they.
Speaker 3: Were helping you played New Orleans. Now you you probably run.
Speaker 9: That, right, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think i'd put this Atlanta offense over week to
Speaker 2: New Orleans. I think it was just the way the
Speaker 2: Dallas attacked them.
Speaker 3: It's just a team with these two backs.
Speaker 9: Now, it's tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like Detroit, it was hard to deal with.
Speaker 3: And you got a quarterback. You mean like Detroit's got
Speaker 3: a veteran quarterback. Atlanta got a veteran quarterback. You know
Speaker 3: you've got you know, Detroit has a tight end, Atlanta
Speaker 3: has a tight end. There's I don't know, I think
Speaker 3: that I think Detroit's wide receivers are better than this crew. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so I would I would say that. But man, they're
Speaker 3: they're they're very you know. It's like I say, they
Speaker 3: do a good job of getting some explosive plays out
Speaker 3: of this group.
Speaker 2: One interesting point, and I'm curious to get all of
Speaker 2: your takes on this. In that loss against Seattle, Bejon
Speaker 2: Robinson had his best day of the season, and Seattle
Speaker 2: seemed content allowing him to get his but and and
Speaker 2: they were they were trying to just lock down that
Speaker 2: passing attack and not let any of those weapons get
Speaker 2: get free.
Speaker 4: I'm with you that, yeah, like let him run.
Speaker 9: Are you willing to do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean here's the thing, here's the thing, here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Though he might have a great day anyway, So if
Speaker 4: you're going to look at it from that standpoint, and
Speaker 4: I will tell you this, this is what worries me
Speaker 4: the most about stopping this running attack. They've got one
Speaker 4: running back who's extremely elusive, they've got another one's extremely aggressive.
Speaker 4: And what have we said about this Dallas defense in
Speaker 4: a lot of games this season. They have a hard
Speaker 4: time tackling at times, Like I'm not a good tackling
Speaker 4: team at times when you're going up against a guy
Speaker 4: who is very aggressive that takes you more than one
Speaker 4: guy to get him down. And then you got another
Speaker 4: guy who's really elusive that can make you look foolish
Speaker 4: in the open field. That doesn't help your tackling ability.
Speaker 4: Like those are things that directly make your tackling ability
Speaker 4: to go down a bit. So that's the part that
Speaker 4: worries me most about this particular running attack is you're
Speaker 4: facing two backs that are going to be very difficult
Speaker 4: to take down even if you were a good tackling team.
Speaker 4: And Dallas has showing signs this year that at times
Speaker 4: they don't tackle.
Speaker 3: Well, tell me if I'm wrong here. I'm more worried
Speaker 3: about them throwing the ball to their backs, then maybe
Speaker 3: their running game, because they don't miss.
Speaker 9: I see where you're coming from, but they don't.
Speaker 3: Miss I mean the running game. Yeah, it's scary, but
Speaker 3: to me, getting those guys getting if you look at
Speaker 3: separation stuff like that, these backs they don't miss. This
Speaker 3: quarterback does not miss throwing the ball in the flat
Speaker 3: or throwing the ball to these backs. You know, you
Speaker 3: talk about get them in space. How well are they
Speaker 3: going to tackle? I just worry about their passing game
Speaker 3: to these backs that Dallas doesn't handle the screens or
Speaker 3: the flat plays, you know, the balls thrown in the
Speaker 3: screen to Robinson. Here comes Wilson, he misses. Now it's
Speaker 3: a you know, I mean I can't check how many times, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean times it was a It could have been
Speaker 3: a three yard game. Instead it's a thirteen yard game
Speaker 3: because of their inability attack. They this these two, these
Speaker 3: two running backs only run the ball well, but many
Speaker 3: they catch the ball well too. I worry about that
Speaker 3: all right, big time.
Speaker 4: That's a wrap. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll jump into
Speaker 4: the Atlanta versus the Cowboys offense and we'll see how
Speaker 4: that plans out, because, honestly, with all the injuries that
Speaker 4: the Cowboys have sustained as in past weeks, I think
Speaker 4: this game is really going to come down to how
Speaker 4: good can the Cowboys offense be. So we'll get into
Speaker 4: that tomorrow and we'll see how what we think of
Speaker 4: that matchup. Until then, for Nick Harris and Brian brought
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