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Speaker 5: And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez
Speaker 5: and Kyle Yeomans.
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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody.
Speaker 6: We've got Patrick Noci Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Tommy Aresh, Chris
Speaker 6: Beam in the backup.
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's glad you were with us, and uh.
Speaker 6: Of course today being a Wednesday, which means the Cowboys
Speaker 6: defense versus the Houston Texans offense preview is upon us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break it down for you.
Speaker 6: See j Stroud and company still playing really high quality
Speaker 6: football in the month of November. No doubt, Cowboys defense
Speaker 6: trying to build off of a couple of things that
Speaker 6: they've done well over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But glad to have Tommy back to the building three
Speaker 1: straight days. You're you've already beaten Isaiah's record in that chair. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, like I told you guys before, if I do
Speaker 7: half as good as a job as Isaiah does, I'll
Speaker 7: be happy.
Speaker 6: So I'm sure. I'm sure you'll do at least fifty
Speaker 6: five percent.
Speaker 8: I'll take it.
Speaker 9: I'll take it on.
Speaker 1: Such a hater.
Speaker 6: I do like your shirt A Little Little Stranger absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 6: eighty Forever a Stranger teams like to come next year, right, yes, yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they're all thirty years old, still in elementary school.
Speaker 5: Be great, Okay, yeah, sure, they're going to the most
Speaker 5: recent season. And of course, you know who has his
Speaker 5: hand in that mix, right, mister Krueger himself. You know
Speaker 5: what I mean, Robert and Robert England has his hand
Speaker 5: in helping orchestrate that storyline.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that that's cool? Did you?
Speaker 5: Did you watch the most recent sy Okay, I'm cap.
Speaker 5: You know he's the one that's in that that dark
Speaker 5: jail cell. You could kind of halfway see his face
Speaker 5: halfway not and he's tapping his hand like this, which
Speaker 5: is a reference to Freddy's clothe and you it gives
Speaker 5: there's a reason it gives nightmare on Elm Street vibes.
Speaker 5: It's because Freddy Krueger is involved the goat, so I
Speaker 5: love that. But I wore this today because I mean,
Speaker 5: we're talking about the Cowboys obviously, and more and more.
Speaker 1: I'm just starting to feel like we're trapped in the
Speaker 1: upside down. So that's fair, you know. There you go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are third place in the division. You kind of
Speaker 1: hit that. I have told you.
Speaker 10: Guys on occasions, I'm an excellent singer. Don't give me
Speaker 10: any credit at all.
Speaker 1: Because I'll give you the credit. I want to see
Speaker 1: more of it.
Speaker 10: Well, this is talking, not singing cowboys. That's another show
Speaker 10: I'll start with.
Speaker 5: It is talking cowboys and is singing cowboys and his
Speaker 5: dancing coupboys and.
Speaker 1: Whatever we want it to be, crumping cowboys.
Speaker 6: I want to Josh needs to come up with a
Speaker 6: song like right as.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a song writer as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I need you to write a song over the
Speaker 6: despair of the Cowboys season, like a sad cowboys song.
Speaker 10: It's not gonna be said. It's gonna be more like
Speaker 10: like Patrick Shirt. It's going to be like a heavy
Speaker 10: metal banger.
Speaker 1: I'm down for that, you can, you can turn those
Speaker 1: into sad songs.
Speaker 7: I should Patrick a really good Cowboys song on the
Speaker 7: other day on TikTok oh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you remember that one I do?
Speaker 1: Is it the guy the fan that it's a rap?
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's like slowly but surely making an album out
Speaker 7: of it every week that was and he's kind of
Speaker 7: put him together some bangers just in terms of like
Speaker 7: the beat.
Speaker 8: So I'll leave it up.
Speaker 6: We don't have a music license. I wonder if he
Speaker 6: would let us play it.
Speaker 8: On the shot.
Speaker 1: Probably not, I don't think so. Even if he probably.
Speaker 9: We'd probably get the hook from upstairs.
Speaker 1: So you call the principal's office for that one, might
Speaker 1: as well do it.
Speaker 6: We're not getting the red absolutely get called into the
Speaker 6: go for Patrick.
Speaker 5: So first and foremost, yesterday we did speak about the
Speaker 5: breaking news. Dak Prescott said to get his surgery this
Speaker 5: morning or at some point today in New York. That'll
Speaker 5: end his season and to help as much as he
Speaker 5: can with the quarterback situation. Will Greer was officially yesterday
Speaker 5: afternoon officially signed to the Cowboys practice squad. Corresponding move
Speaker 5: is the release of rookie defensive back of Money Johnson.
Speaker 5: So Monny Johnson was cut loose to make space for
Speaker 5: Will Grear. Now here's something that's key, And this is
Speaker 5: why I thought the Cowboys when Dak Prescott was initially
Speaker 5: hit to IR, I thought last week that they would
Speaker 5: add a QB three, but they would do it to
Speaker 5: the active roster. And that's because the QB three has
Speaker 5: to be on the active roster in order to be
Speaker 5: carried as an emergency quarterback on game days. By having
Speaker 5: him on the practice squad, he is then treated as
Speaker 5: an elevation and you can't elevate and have.
Speaker 9: That player as an emergency quarterback.
Speaker 5: So interesting decision for the Cowboys as far as housekeeping
Speaker 5: is concerned, to choose to put Wilgear on the practice
Speaker 5: squad as opposed to the active roster, especially considering you're
Speaker 5: about to ir Dak Prescott, so you will have that seat.
Speaker 1: But that does create the question mark.
Speaker 5: And I was telling Tommy and Nick Eatman, I think
Speaker 5: that is kind of dog geared for Brandon Cooks. I
Speaker 5: think Brandon Cooks is just about ready to come back.
Speaker 5: I don't know if that means it's twenty one day
Speaker 5: practice window will be opened this week Today I'll check
Speaker 5: with Mike McCarthy during the press conference to see if
Speaker 5: that's the case. But he's not the only one who
Speaker 5: is eligible for their window to be open. DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 5: is also eligible, as is Marshawn Kneeling. So you have
Speaker 5: three will two definite heavy hitters and a potential impact
Speaker 5: rookie who qualify to have their practice windows started on today.
Speaker 9: We'll see if that's the case.
Speaker 5: Deron Bland, we don't know where he is right now
Speaker 5: with his I just if I'm a betty Man and
Speaker 5: I'm not Rogers, so just relax if I'm a Betty
Speaker 5: Man Roger. Yeah, I don't see Deron Bland going this
Speaker 5: week because the tone just doesn't sound well when you
Speaker 5: have the conversation around the building. But we will see
Speaker 5: what happens with Kawanya Thomas. He missed last week in
Speaker 5: concussion protocol. But keep an eye on these potential IR activations.
Speaker 5: Marshaw Kneeling, the Marcus Lawrence, Brandon Cooks. Of those three
Speaker 5: sounds like kneeling and Cooks are I hesitate to say
Speaker 5: far but always ahead of DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 6: I saw Marshawn yesterday in the training table just walking past,
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 1: Was like, Hey, what's up going, what's going on? I
Speaker 1: haven't seen you in a while. Like, we're definitely going
Speaker 1: to say what's check? Yeah, what's up? Coat? Uh not
Speaker 1: yet hopefully that would be awesome. It would be but
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 6: Like, hey, what's up, haven't seen you in a little bit.
Speaker 6: And we kind of talked for a minute. I was like,
Speaker 6: so you're feeling You're feeling good. He's like, bro, I'm close.
Speaker 1: I'm there. I'm right there.
Speaker 6: So we're getting there with Marshawn Neil and he didn't
Speaker 6: give me anything breaking news wise, but he feels like
Speaker 6: is moving in the right direction and.
Speaker 1: Absolutely in good spirits. So good news there.
Speaker 6: I think Brandon Cook's getting back helps this offense significantly.
Speaker 6: Then it forces kind of the trade that you made
Speaker 6: with Jonathan Mingo. It forces him to be a wide
Speaker 6: receiver three as opposed to an automatic wide receiver two
Speaker 6: and need him to get into that role. Whether he's
Speaker 6: ready for that or not, we haven't seen it yet
Speaker 6: in a Cowboys offense. Cowboys offense had forty six yards
Speaker 6: passing this past week, so it's not like I'm expecting
Speaker 6: Mingo to come in and light it up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just really quickly shouts to Patrick for figuring out
Speaker 10: the Willgreer emergency QB situations. I think, like a lot
Speaker 10: of people, I just assumed that, Okay, he'll be the
Speaker 10: emergency well in.
Speaker 5: This that's something I had tracked, so initially I thought
Speaker 5: it might be like a Max Dugan situation as far
Speaker 5: as because they worked him out, so I was thinking
Speaker 5: maybe that was going to be the QB three. So
Speaker 5: that that article I wrote that week, as far as
Speaker 5: the impact of that going down, I said, my expectation
Speaker 5: was that they will add him to the active roster,
Speaker 5: whomever that quarterback might be. So when it turns out
Speaker 5: that they're adding will Grid to the practice squad, I
Speaker 5: was like kind of a raised eyebrow there, because now
Speaker 5: you cannot treat him as an emergency quarterback, right right,
Speaker 5: So if you and to be clear, if you elevate him,
Speaker 5: then you know you have to then make the decision
Speaker 5: because there's no one in elevating than making inactive. Not
Speaker 5: that that's impossible, isn't that right to chorus McKinley.
Speaker 1: But if you.
Speaker 5: Elevate him and put him on the active game day roster,
Speaker 5: then you more or less have to figure out how
Speaker 5: to play him. Otherwise you just wasted the game day
Speaker 5: roster spot because there's not that emergency exemption.
Speaker 6: Well, you could put him on the active roster and
Speaker 6: just make him inactive on game day.
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't.
Speaker 5: Part you can if you elevate him and make him
Speaker 5: active for the game day roster and you don't play him,
Speaker 5: then wasted the game days. Absolutely, that's what I mean,
Speaker 5: because you can because you don't get the emergency QB.
Speaker 5: She exactly, because keep in mind, Trey Lance was consistently inactive,
Speaker 5: but he was available to play in the event of
Speaker 5: an emergency injury today.
Speaker 1: Because he's inactive. But now it will if you act.
Speaker 1: If you elevate him and then put him on the
Speaker 1: game day roster, he's taking up a spot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you can't elevate him and keep him an
Speaker 6: act correct, That.
Speaker 5: Is correct, that's the distinction. So interesting that they chose
Speaker 5: this route. But you know, I wonder if stranger things
Speaker 5: have happened.
Speaker 1: A banger the I wonder if there's more moving.
Speaker 6: And shaking that's going to happen that allows him to
Speaker 6: be on that fifty three man roster with him now
Speaker 6: and Sunday or Monday. But because I mean you talked
Speaker 6: about dak in that move. If Brandon Cooks isn't ready
Speaker 6: and they aren't going to move him in the active roster,
Speaker 6: it might be dog eared for Brandon Cooks, but they
Speaker 6: could move Will Greed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's true if he's not ready. I mean,
Speaker 1: do you expect Brandon cook.
Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks sounded like he was ready to play last week. Now,
Speaker 5: of course this is the player talking, and he hasn't
Speaker 5: started a prize.
Speaker 9: This isn't the medical team talking. This is the player talking.
Speaker 5: But as far as the player goes and speaking with
Speaker 5: the Brandon Cooks, he was of the belief and was
Speaker 5: operating of the belief that he was on the right
Speaker 5: track for Monday night football. He quite literally said or
Speaker 5: intimated that when we were talking to him at the
Speaker 5: locker at his locker last week and the week prior,
Speaker 5: and he was like, yeah, man, I'm trying to see
Speaker 5: all on Monday Night football. So but then you have
Speaker 5: the conversations around the building and it's kind of tempered
Speaker 5: a bit. So all I can say is, we'll see
Speaker 5: if they activate his practice window today on Wednesday. But
Speaker 5: as far as player goes, he sounds like he's ready
Speaker 5: to unleash.
Speaker 10: And I assume you'd want to not rush him back.
Speaker 10: But it's like, if he's ready, use him, of course.
Speaker 5: And if there's any player that you would be comfortable
Speaker 5: with saying, you know what, this get him practicing on Wednesday,
Speaker 5: playing him him on Sunday or Monday, it would be
Speaker 5: a Brandon Cook who's been in this league, who is
Speaker 5: one of the best players around as far as taking
Speaker 5: care of his body, knowing his body, being in tune
Speaker 5: with his body. So if there was anyone you'd be
Speaker 5: comfortable with that, I said.
Speaker 6: People also not to mention what he suffered wasn't an
Speaker 6: actual injury, correct with an infection that has healed on
Speaker 6: long Yeah, And I guess a lot of it has
Speaker 6: to do with maybe the infection around the rehab that
Speaker 6: he needed from the knee and from the scope that
Speaker 6: he he had.
Speaker 1: But usually there's not a ton of rehab there period, right,
Speaker 1: And that's a point. It's not like it's a lingering insurance.
Speaker 5: Once an infection is gone, it's you should be good.
Speaker 6: So we'll see, Yeah, we will, Uh Tommy out of
Speaker 6: those guys. DeMarcus Lawrence, Dron Bland, Brandon Cooks, Marshawn.
Speaker 1: Neel and who do the Cowboys need back the most,
Speaker 1: specifically for Monday or ye for Monday.
Speaker 8: For Monday.
Speaker 7: I mean, you look at last week and how even
Speaker 7: in the week's past two at how teams just kind
Speaker 7: of have picked on Kaln Carson and it's just march
Speaker 7: downfield for offense. Like we were talking about AJ Brown yesterday,
Speaker 7: he had three out of his receptions were on Carson
Speaker 7: for seventy four yards, and it could have been worse.
Speaker 7: I mean, I still think back to that wheel route
Speaker 7: to DeVante Smith where if Jalen Hurts puts it a
Speaker 7: little bit better, that's a touchdown.
Speaker 8: And you know it is.
Speaker 7: Rough for a rookie like that, who has his confidence
Speaker 7: kind of taken away, I think.
Speaker 8: But Keitlin Carson is still a really good player. But
Speaker 8: Deron Bland is a really good player.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and he's your exactly and you need that back,
Speaker 7: especially when you look at this Texans offense. I know
Speaker 7: we'll talk about them a little bit more in a bit,
Speaker 7: but they've got speed at their skill positions. They've got
Speaker 7: a great trio of wide receivers, even With Stefan Diggs out,
Speaker 7: it looks like Nico Collins is on track to be
Speaker 7: back for Monday Night football. So all the help that
Speaker 7: you can get in the secondary, I think is going
Speaker 7: to be what you want in this game.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he just may.
Speaker 6: I was just about to talk about Diggs is not
Speaker 6: going to be in the fold and that makes me
Speaker 6: one sad that we don't get traymar versus Stephan.
Speaker 1: I was kind of hoping for, ye finally Digs Bowl football.
Speaker 6: God, you're playing nice with them now, not that one specifically,
Speaker 6: but then you turn around and you've got You've got
Speaker 6: Nico Collins you had to deal with as well.
Speaker 1: Everyone's gotta be tough. Any other news and notes before
Speaker 1: we take our first break, No, we're good on that.
Speaker 5: Yesterday was a nonpractice day, so yeah, we're we should
Speaker 5: have a lot more information and will tomorrow morning news
Speaker 5: and notes.
Speaker 1: Demo feel pretty good about it. He said he was good.
Speaker 5: He's good, and there's no concern as far as any
Speaker 5: major injury. What I'm tellingday, what I'm told is it's
Speaker 5: Breseidas that he's dealing with, So it could just be
Speaker 5: a rest and rehab situation this week.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's d and P.
Speaker 5: Did not participate on Wednesday, Maybe Thursday, kind of work
Speaker 5: him back in to walk throughs on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's the plan. I wouldn't be too concerned by
Speaker 5: seeing him d and P. But as we'll talk about
Speaker 5: it tomorrow today with the Cowboys defense and the Houston
Speaker 5: Texans offense, that's a concern for me simply because he's
Speaker 5: not one hundred percent. Yeah so, but we'll get to that.
Speaker 5: But as it stands, as far as news and Notes
Speaker 5: are concerned, he's seventy percent chance.
Speaker 9: He should go gone against Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: Pretty strong chance. There's a good, good spot, good percentage.
Speaker 6: All right, when we come back, we're going to take
Speaker 6: our attention and look at some of the matchups for
Speaker 6: this Houston Texas team. Tommy alluded to it speed on
Speaker 6: the outside. Which level of the Cowboys defense is going
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Speaker 1: I three you guys for a lot. Yeah, you thought
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 6: Gonna say through you a nice little curve ball here.
Speaker 6: We've got a lab coat coming up in the next segment,
Speaker 6: so we don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: Patrick's gonna let the Cowboys have it. I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly what you're going to talk about.
Speaker 6: We'll tease it at the end of this segment, but
Speaker 6: I figure you're probably gonna.
Speaker 5: Let the Cowboys have it, probably, so yeah, that's probably
Speaker 5: about right, all right.
Speaker 6: It is the seventh all time meeting between the Cowboys
Speaker 6: and the Texans. The Cowboys have won four, the Texans
Speaker 6: have won two, and the Cowboys have won four of
Speaker 6: the last five, including back in twenty twenty two. That
Speaker 6: was a weird game, and a Texans team that was
Speaker 6: just kind of starting to turn things around had some
Speaker 6: guys on defense that they were confident in, Jalen Peatree
Speaker 6: being one of them, the former Baywood prospect playing safety,
Speaker 6: still playing at a high level as well. You don't
Speaker 6: really have the same offensive output in those.
Speaker 1: Games as you do now.
Speaker 6: They've got weapons on offense, and it starts with CJ.
Speaker 6: Stroud as well.
Speaker 1: Josh, when you look at the three levels.
Speaker 6: Of this Texans team, the pass catchers, the running game,
Speaker 6: and the offensive line in the trenches. So passing game,
Speaker 6: running game, trenches, which one do you feel like they're
Speaker 6: at their highest with?
Speaker 10: Ooh, I think they're highest with the passing. I think CJ. Stroud,
Speaker 10: once he is able, once he's afforded time, is going
Speaker 10: to be able to pick you apart. I think, well,
Speaker 10: we've talked about it before. Anytime the Cowboys are going
Speaker 10: up against a team and their weaknesses, they find a
Speaker 10: way to strengthen those weaknesses against the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 10: the dast Cowboys defense. So I'm a little worried about that.
Speaker 10: I'm worried about their receiving corps. Granted, you have Nico
Speaker 10: Collins coming back, who is currently still ranked the number
Speaker 10: one overall wide receiver according to Pro Football Focus, who
Speaker 10: has missed four games with a hamstring. Those darn hamstrings.
Speaker 10: But Tank Dell, who is on the outside, is having
Speaker 10: a nice season. He's contributing on the outside even with
Speaker 10: injuries to of course Nico Collins and now Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 10: To me, the receiving corps and passing like that. That's
Speaker 10: going to be really tough, But I think you have
Speaker 10: opportunities in the trenches.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Nico Collins thirty two receptions, which is third on the team,
Speaker 6: but he leads the team in receiving yards, right, I
Speaker 6: mean seventeen point seven yards.
Speaker 10: Per catch and has missed four games and.
Speaker 6: Has missed four chance in doing so three touchdowns, including
Speaker 6: a sixty seven yard or earlier in the campaign.
Speaker 1: Here there big play threat. Yeah, I don't like what
Speaker 1: you don't like their big play threat.
Speaker 6: And if you're gonna see Nico Collins on one side,
Speaker 6: you're going to see Tank Dell on the opposite side,
Speaker 6: who's having a nice who's having a great season. Thirty
Speaker 6: five srabs four hundred yards. Yeah, he's legit. The only
Speaker 6: I guess good side of it. And it's unfortunate, like
Speaker 6: we talked about earlier, But the only good thing that
Speaker 6: the Cowboys don't have.
Speaker 1: To deal with is Stefan Dicks.
Speaker 6: It's the fact that he's not in the fold and
Speaker 6: they don't have that three headed monster at the wide
Speaker 6: receiver spot.
Speaker 7: But they've got a guy named John Metchi, Yeah, who
Speaker 7: just caught his first touchdown pass, his first career touchdown pass,
Speaker 7: former Alabama, former Alabama guy, and unfortunately he had to
Speaker 7: deal with I think it was cancer. Yeah, his rookie
Speaker 7: season that kept him out. But now he's he's here,
Speaker 7: he's a viable threat. I mean, he had a great
Speaker 7: game last on Sunday night against the Detroit Lions. And
Speaker 7: you know, you add in Dolton Schultz, a guy that
Speaker 7: Cowboys fans are very familiar with. That I'm just saying he's.
Speaker 8: There, but I wouldn't know.
Speaker 1: We're talking about here.
Speaker 7: To kind of to kind of build off of what
Speaker 7: Josh was saying, You've got an opportunity here. The Cowboys
Speaker 7: do defensively at the line of scrimmage this This Texans
Speaker 7: offensive line has not played well at all this year.
Speaker 8: CJ.
Speaker 7: Stroud is one of the most pressured quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 8: But the flip side of that, CJ.
Speaker 7: Stroud is one of the most successful quarterbacks when throwing
Speaker 7: under pressure this year. So you've got to find a
Speaker 7: balance on that. I think that you've seen some positives
Speaker 7: come along in these past couple of weeks. In the
Speaker 7: past rush for the for the Dallas Cowboys and Michael
Speaker 7: Parsons being back in the mix is certainly going to
Speaker 7: help that.
Speaker 8: So it all goes back to what we talked about yesterday.
Speaker 7: Football is a line of scrimmage game, and if the
Speaker 7: Cowboys can get a good pass rush against CJ. Stroud
Speaker 7: of the ground, they can they can take an advance
Speaker 7: and a chair.
Speaker 6: Twelve twelve touchdown, six interceptions, So I mean at two
Speaker 6: to one touchdown interception ratio, it's not like he's lighting
Speaker 6: it up until it taking care of the football and no,
Speaker 6: it's not bad, but it's not it's not like tops.
Speaker 1: Of the league or anything.
Speaker 10: Speaking of most pressure though, he's been sacked thirty four times.
Speaker 10: Do you know the only other quarterback that has been sacked.
Speaker 8: More than he did Williams?
Speaker 10: Williams thirty eight times.
Speaker 5: Why did you do that to Tom? I just we're
Speaker 5: going to blow past that because that was that was
Speaker 5: a knife.
Speaker 8: Get the kids some help, man.
Speaker 1: I was going to try.
Speaker 6: I was going to try and say, I was going
Speaker 6: I thought you were alluding to Dak.
Speaker 1: I thought, oh no, what is he at? Probably twenty
Speaker 1: something right to be, he's up there.
Speaker 5: He almost took the sack last week on the side.
Speaker 1: We're talking about yes one one pressure.
Speaker 6: I went back and looked at that and it was
Speaker 6: it was pretty agreed.
Speaker 1: It has potential to be pretty scary for me. I'm
Speaker 1: going with the ground game.
Speaker 5: I think that the ground game is what's going to
Speaker 5: decide this game for the Houston Texans, all the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And mixing up what nice thanks.
Speaker 5: Joe Mixon is in fact quite resurgent in a Texans uniform.
Speaker 5: He was always very solid, a very good player for
Speaker 5: the Cincinnati Bengals, but seems like he's refound that top
Speaker 5: gear with the with the Houston Texans. But it's not
Speaker 5: just him, it's it's just the totality of it. So
Speaker 5: when you talk about the Cowboys consistently struggling against the run,
Speaker 5: here are the top five rushing game outings for the
Speaker 5: Houston Texans. Two hundred and thirteen yards, one hundred eighty seven.
Speaker 5: And now you're thinking, well, yeah, okay, one of the
Speaker 5: others look like well, ninety six ninety four point being
Speaker 5: they get after you on the ground, and Joe Mixon
Speaker 5: is the straw that stirs that drink.
Speaker 9: But talk about C. J. Stroud, Yes, the Lions got
Speaker 9: after him.
Speaker 5: They sacked him four times to kind of secure that
Speaker 5: comeback victory.
Speaker 1: But he has ten first downs on the ground.
Speaker 5: And as Tommy said, he excels at throwing the ball
Speaker 5: under pressure.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a problem for you.
Speaker 5: So if you can't bottle up Joe Mixon and that
Speaker 5: rushing attack, and if you can't keep containing on CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud to allow the pressure that.
Speaker 5: You're inevitably, inevitably going to get against him because the
Speaker 5: offensive line is struggling, then you're you're just in for
Speaker 5: a very long day. So for me, it goes in
Speaker 5: that that order stop the run game for c J.
Speaker 5: Stroud to then throw, but then keep him in the
Speaker 5: pocket while he's throwing so your pressure can get home.
Speaker 9: Otherwise it's you're you're just in.
Speaker 10: For it or spy him.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's here's my problem with that this week. Problem
Speaker 1: with that. Here's no high five. Because I love the idea.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I love it. Everybody
Speaker 1: who follows.
Speaker 5: This show knows I made it huge advocate of Marveon
Speaker 5: overshown spying mobile quarterbacks. It is no secret. But we
Speaker 5: just talked about he's dealing with birth sights in his knee.
Speaker 5: We are dealing with a less than one overshown and
Speaker 5: we don't know how much how much that's going to
Speaker 5: affect him because we don't know if if this is
Speaker 5: an eighty.
Speaker 1: Percent demo, is this a seventy percent demo? We don't know.
Speaker 5: But being that he is outside of Micah, he's the
Speaker 5: most explosive player on defense outside of Micah, So some
Speaker 5: of his explosiveness might be siphoned away from him because
Speaker 5: of that. Bresid is in his knee and that's advantage
Speaker 5: c J. Stroud in the Houston Texans offense. So that's
Speaker 5: my concern there because they're going to put a lot
Speaker 5: of pressure on the defensive front, which includes.
Speaker 1: The linebacker corps. Demo has shown.
Speaker 5: He can go into demon time demon moe like he
Speaker 5: did last week against the Eagles, but if he's not
Speaker 5: completely healthy, what does that look like? And that that's
Speaker 5: why it's a concern for me there.
Speaker 10: I think at least you're doing something about his mobility,
Speaker 10: the dual threat that he has. I think as long
Speaker 10: as you have a player there, it doesn't just leave
Speaker 10: him open.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I agree with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, question being I haven't seen it yet, but I
Speaker 5: will say I'm willing to start wondering, at least for
Speaker 5: this week, if Demo is less than one hundred percent, which.
Speaker 1: Clearly he is.
Speaker 9: What is because marrist as fast as hell as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe you spy with Maris this this particular week,
Speaker 5: But I'm with you, just put a spy on him
Speaker 5: of some sort.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's Lea Fouen.
Speaker 10: Because you didn't against Lamar Jackson and you saw what happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I see, But I c J. Stroud and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson are not cut from the same about to
Speaker 1: say that's fair.
Speaker 8: I mean, and c J.
Speaker 6: Stroud is running the ball decently, like, let's not get
Speaker 6: it twisted. I mean, he has one hundred and forty
Speaker 6: eight yards. He's second on the team in rushing. But
Speaker 6: one hundred and forty eight yards over the course of
Speaker 6: ten games or however many they've played, is it nine games.
Speaker 1: He's not rittling up a lot of yards. It's not
Speaker 1: like he's wrapping.
Speaker 10: It's the escapability, it's the extra he will move the change.
Speaker 5: And I will say this second half because Marion Overshown
Speaker 5: got injured at some point in the first half and
Speaker 5: he was on demon time right, kind of went quite
Speaker 5: in the second half before they ultimately said, you know what,
Speaker 5: let's shut this down to not make this worse.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're talking about demo demo.
Speaker 5: So he said he was he'd suffered the injury in
Speaker 5: the first half against the Eagles. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 5: sat down and that was And then what happened in
Speaker 5: the second half with Jalen Hurts there was started running
Speaker 5: right because no spy was there.
Speaker 6: More dangerous than Stroud is, Like Hurts is a more
Speaker 6: dangerous runner than Stroud is. I don't know if our defense,
Speaker 6: the Dallas defense is strong enough on the back end
Speaker 6: to take a defender and say we're going to try
Speaker 6: and limit c. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud's mobility moving forward.
Speaker 6: I would rather have that guy available to do fun
Speaker 6: of different things because I'm not sitting here thinking, oh,
Speaker 6: c J. Stroud's going to run for one fifty on
Speaker 6: us when he hasn't run for one fifty all year long.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 6: Sure, if he goes if he starts running like that
Speaker 6: crazy in the first quarter, you just adjust it. Make
Speaker 6: an adjustment. That make adjustments. I know it's a novel concept.
Speaker 6: Make an adjustment when need be if he does it early,
Speaker 6: But I don't know, if I'm going into this game saying,
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, circle the elusiveness and running ability.
Speaker 8: Of c J.
Speaker 1: Strouds. He does good things, but it's not a game changer.
Speaker 6: Account for it, yeah, but accounting for it is different
Speaker 6: than game planning for it.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, and game planning for it means put a
Speaker 1: spy there.
Speaker 6: Let's let's keep a defender severely assigned on CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud.
Speaker 8: I don't know if no, I'm with you, Kyle.
Speaker 7: I think that it's more important to get that extra
Speaker 7: defender on the back end and they throw the ball.
Speaker 8: So well, this is but I hope versus I mean,
Speaker 8: here's the thing. C J.
Speaker 7: Stroud's legs are something that can I don't even know what.
Speaker 8: That was like like us. Well. J.
Speaker 7: Stroud's legs are something that can get the Texans first downs.
Speaker 7: But I think that the amount of space that's going
Speaker 7: to have to be there for Stroud to pick you
Speaker 7: up a first down is going to have to be
Speaker 7: I think enough to where if he gets it, you
Speaker 7: just throw your hands and say, you know, good play,
Speaker 7: good play, and.
Speaker 8: You just take it. If c J.
Speaker 7: Stroud beats you with his legs in this game, that's
Speaker 7: one where you just throw your hands up and say,
Speaker 7: you know, we respect that. I don't see it as
Speaker 7: as big of a threat as some of the other
Speaker 7: quarterbacks they've played this year, Like even brock Perdy I
Speaker 7: think was more of a like, you know, you just
Speaker 7: throw your hands up and say you know you got it.
Speaker 7: So you know in this game specifically, and the reason
Speaker 7: I say that extra defender is going to be so
Speaker 7: crucial when you think about the middle of the field.
Speaker 8: If you get Nico.
Speaker 7: Collins back, that's his bread and butter. That's where he's
Speaker 7: been his best in those inbreaking routes, and the Cowboys
Speaker 7: have struggled in the middle of the field to defend
Speaker 7: those crossing patterns and things like that all season long.
Speaker 7: So if Nico Collins gets into that area of the field,
Speaker 7: you need to have a guy on it because if
Speaker 7: you're spying Emarus Lee Fauer to marve on overshown and
Speaker 7: he's looking at the quarterback, well, then Nico Collins is
Speaker 7: going to slide right behind him and find that open
Speaker 7: gap in the middle of It'll take it exactly, He'll
Speaker 7: take it an extra fifteen twenty yards down the field,
Speaker 7: and now you're really in trouble. So if you if
Speaker 7: you put on the table for me, okay, cee J.
Speaker 7: Stroud up seventy yards on first and ten because the
Speaker 7: middle of the field was open there and they're covering
Speaker 7: Nico Collins. I'll take that over a twenty yard catch
Speaker 7: and run for Collins. That sets them up in Cowboys territory.
Speaker 8: So I don't.
Speaker 7: Disagree with you guys in the sense that c. J.
Speaker 7: Stroud's legs aren't respectable enough to where you would want
Speaker 7: to consider putting a spy on him. I just don't
Speaker 7: think it is that viable of a threat to where
Speaker 7: you take a guy like Leah Owler take a guy
Speaker 7: like Overshown out of the equation in coverage.
Speaker 6: I'm looking at the QB rushing leaders over the course
Speaker 6: of the twenty twenty four season. I'm a little shocked
Speaker 6: at how far down he is.
Speaker 1: He is eighteenth out of the quarterbacks in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four and rushing y just below the middle of the pack.
Speaker 6: Yeah, here's some names that are in front of him,
Speaker 6: Sam Darnold, Gino Smith, Brock Purty, Justin Fields, Drake May,
Speaker 6: Caleb Williams, Anthony Richards and Josh Allen.
Speaker 7: Daniel Jones Nicks Williams.
Speaker 6: But but that's the point, is I agree with you
Speaker 6: in the fact that there there is an element there
Speaker 6: that the Cowboys have struggled with, and that's mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Period.
Speaker 6: They have not been good against them outside of what
Speaker 6: they did really against justin fields, and I don't think
Speaker 6: that was really their fault. I think it was justin
Speaker 6: fields not running the ball, and against the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: Mobile quarterbacks in that like they're willing to escape the
Speaker 10: pocket and not just a Lamar Jackson type.
Speaker 1: Correct as willing to get out of the pocket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're having running.
Speaker 10: We're having troubles that players in the pocket. We're having
Speaker 10: trouble with players I mean.
Speaker 1: Across the board. It's true, It's true.
Speaker 6: Josh all right, So running game check, we've talked about
Speaker 6: the passing game and their attack, their offensive line wise,
Speaker 6: you mentioned that there's a spot there for pressure. Is
Speaker 6: that Does that mean that they're playing poorly upfront or
Speaker 6: is that just a plain and simple c J. Strouds
Speaker 6: may be taking too much time in the backfield.
Speaker 8: No, there, they're playing poorly up front.
Speaker 7: You know, early in the season, Kenyon Green at left
Speaker 7: guard was just getting.
Speaker 1: He's a name Cowboys fans might remember from the Draft show.
Speaker 1: He was being on the Draft show. Cowboys fans wanted him.
Speaker 1: He's been man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he was getting old, and I believe he's injured,
Speaker 7: so I don't think he's okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so he's not playing in this game.
Speaker 7: But even when he was, even when he was earlier,
Speaker 7: like he really and he got pushed back.
Speaker 8: It seems like on every rep.
Speaker 7: And you know, I think that when we talk about
Speaker 7: the run game too, you look at this as an
Speaker 7: opportunity as well for the Cowboys, especially on the interior
Speaker 7: of the defensive line, to have an opportunity to limit
Speaker 7: Joe Mixon. Look at what Detroit did to him last
Speaker 7: week on Sunday, twenty five carries for forty six yards
Speaker 7: one point.
Speaker 8: Eight yards carry.
Speaker 7: And when you look at what the Cowboys have done
Speaker 7: the last two weeks, they've held Bjeon Robinson and Saquon
Speaker 7: Barkley tow a combined one and fifty two rushing yards.
Speaker 7: You take that all day, any day of the week,
Speaker 7: considering what those two guys can do. So if they
Speaker 7: can put up something similar against Joe Mixon, you take
Speaker 7: that and you just you've got to find a way
Speaker 7: to stop cej strouding this offense in the back end.
Speaker 5: My concern there is and you're right one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: You also have to make sure that you're accounting and
Speaker 5: for the fact that look at Atlanta, right, Bijon, you
Speaker 5: bottled him up on the ground, but they used him
Speaker 5: as a rever backfield. That's the right point, Sakwan. You
Speaker 5: bottle him up on the ground, but in critical situations
Speaker 5: use the receiver out of the backfield. So just keeping
Speaker 5: eye everything, Tommy say, that's one hundred percent correct. But
Speaker 5: in addition to what Tommy you're saying, you cannot dismiss
Speaker 5: what Joe Mixon can be as a receiver out of
Speaker 5: the backfield, no doubt.
Speaker 6: And I think part of it is the front seven
Speaker 6: and the defensive line doing their job at a better
Speaker 6: rate on the ground. I get that these receivers are elusive.
Speaker 6: That's the modern day NFL, and the way these running
Speaker 6: backs are utilized is as a receiver as well. But
Speaker 6: if you can hold those guys accountable in between the
Speaker 6: tackles or right there at the line of scrimmage, I'm.
Speaker 1: Cool with it.
Speaker 6: I'm cool with the occasional leak out and the way
Speaker 6: that they kind of you use those guys in the flats.
Speaker 6: I've liked what I've seen the last two weeks, and
Speaker 6: I want to see it again against Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: And Joe Mixon doesn't scare me nearly as much as
Speaker 1: B Jean Robinson.
Speaker 7: And uh and no disrespect, but no disrespect.
Speaker 1: Joe Maxon is a very capable running well. He's consistent.
Speaker 10: Yes, he's very very extent, and he's had the best
Speaker 10: yards per carry this season since twenty eighteen. He's at
Speaker 10: four point three, which is respectable, I think, especially when
Speaker 10: you have an offensive line with as many issues as
Speaker 10: you see now. I also think that the tackles on
Speaker 10: the outside there, they're having a solid year there, they
Speaker 10: have solid grades and everything, but you're seeing some mental
Speaker 10: lapses with the offensive line, and that could be attributed
Speaker 10: to scheme as well.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: One thing gets attributed to is that the offensive line
Speaker 5: of the Houston Texans they can be had on the interior. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's what that's that's applying that much more pressure to
Speaker 5: the tackles because now they can't simply operate as edge guys.
Speaker 5: They're sitting there wondering what the guy to my if
Speaker 5: you're the left tackle, what's happening to my right? If
Speaker 5: you're the right tackle on my left Seventeen sacks allowed
Speaker 5: between Kenyan Green and Shaq Mason at this point in
Speaker 5: the season. So if you're talking about getting some interior pressure,
Speaker 5: this is a game where maybe we talk about Mozzie
Speaker 5: Smith needing to take that next step. This could be
Speaker 5: a game where Mossi Smith really does.
Speaker 1: He needs to take another let's go now. In addition to.
Speaker 10: That Giants performance, baby dude, he's.
Speaker 1: Been bad since then.
Speaker 5: On a bigger note, on a bigger note, I'm going
Speaker 5: to draw a nice gold circle around osa odiggy Zula.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think this is a game where.
Speaker 9: Eat against the Houston Texans. From that three text.
Speaker 5: Spot, Yeah, so attack those guards, those offensive guards for
Speaker 5: the Houston Texans, and the rest of the line just
Speaker 5: falls apart at that point.
Speaker 7: I I kind of would welcome the prospect of trying
Speaker 7: to stunt Michael Parsons to the interior that offensive line,
Speaker 7: because I would you're.
Speaker 9: Talking from Dan Quinstill, I would just that is quite literally.
Speaker 7: I would line him up against that and have him
Speaker 7: rushed against that Laramie. Yeah, because you know the Texans
Speaker 7: offensive line has been great, but you've.
Speaker 1: Still got still playing well.
Speaker 7: So either that or keep him on the right side
Speaker 7: and let him meet there. Carl Lawson against Laramie Tunsell.
Speaker 7: I'm down right, and Carl Lawson's played well. He has
Speaker 7: played really well, and I feel like.
Speaker 8: We haven't talked about.
Speaker 1: That come a long way since the practice squad.
Speaker 6: Yeah, him being a third rotation of Ed Rusher is
Speaker 6: absolutely in.
Speaker 1: His firsture year. Yeah, I think that would be fantastic.
Speaker 1: He would be a great third edg rusher.
Speaker 6: Then the unfortunate side of things is that he's the
Speaker 6: second edge rusher on the roster, not even in the
Speaker 6: third string, right, He's the second on the roster.
Speaker 10: Similar to what last year what was his name.
Speaker 1: Fowler, Dante Jr. Similar to what domer Dante Fowler. It's
Speaker 1: what he brought you last year.
Speaker 10: I think that's what you can expect when you have
Speaker 10: a healthy defensive line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hopefully some of those guys back flick we talked
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Speaker 5: the defenses father they're allowing so many points per game?
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Speaker 5: as far as the points that are being scored, No,
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Speaker 5: this team needs to turn around, and that's what's scary
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Speaker 5: All right, So let's talk about this Dallas Cowboys. Look
Speaker 5: me in my eyes when I tell you this. This
Speaker 5: is horrid football that is being played in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: This is so far below expectation that the expectation is
Speaker 5: back on the horizon where fifty miles past.
Speaker 1: The expectation in the wrong direction.
Speaker 5: GPS is let you be wrong, recalculated please yeah, wance God.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys defense right now, they're allowing just under twenty
Speaker 5: nine points per game, which is second to worst in
Speaker 5: the entire league.
Speaker 1: Bo can I guess who's last go for it? Uh? Carolina?
Speaker 1: That is correct?
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, so good company.
Speaker 5: But this is what I will say to you if
Speaker 5: that's had the number over. This is what I will
Speaker 5: say last forty the defense.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the defense.
Speaker 5: Improvement is being shown and we're seeing progress. We saw
Speaker 5: the first half against the Philadelphia Eagles that was a
Speaker 5: different defense than what we've seen over the previous eight
Speaker 5: games period. Unfortunately, and we talked about it earlier in
Speaker 5: the week. Things got out of hand again in the
Speaker 5: third quarter. But that's also attributable to the fact that
Speaker 5: time of possession started to get into the eagles favor.
Speaker 5: Defense started to get gassed for the Cowboys. Now that
Speaker 5: leads me to the offense. You've got to help your
Speaker 5: defense out. You needed them to take the ball away.
Speaker 5: You needed them to get three in ounce. They got it.
Speaker 5: What did you do? You gave the ball away. You
Speaker 5: then had three and ounces and that those things were
Speaker 5: happening when Dak Prescott was on the field. You struggled
Speaker 5: to get into the end zone. From the red zone,
Speaker 5: you could move the ball. Now without Dak Prescott, you're
Speaker 5: struggling to even move the ball. Right, You're averaging nineteen
Speaker 5: and a half ish points per game right now, nineteen
Speaker 5: and a half ish points per game?
Speaker 1: What does that rain, Pat?
Speaker 5: That's nineteenume, that's two third worse than the league. So
Speaker 5: you're almost bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 1: But kind of shocked. It's not lower.
Speaker 5: You know it is lower, and here's why. In actuality
Speaker 5: it's lower. Don't let that number confuse you. Brandon Aubrey
Speaker 5: is averaging more than a touchdown a game.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so it's more like twelve points per game.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys offenses is averaging less than thirteen points per
Speaker 5: game through its first nine games. It pick an adjective horrid, abysmo, horrendous,
Speaker 5: just go down the line, GB not great, Bob Right,
Speaker 5: I said earlier this week, he said together. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: said earlier this week that you lost to the Eagles.
Speaker 5: It's a lost season. Now it's evaluation time. Okay, I
Speaker 5: want the unleashing of Trey Lance. And now that Will
Speaker 5: Greer is back in the building, baby, let's let's do
Speaker 5: a little bit of Trey Lance and Will Grier. You
Speaker 5: have two mobile quarterbacks that you can put behind an
Speaker 5: offensive line that's struggling to protect right Cooper Rush. He's
Speaker 5: dealing with possibly a next strain. And that was before
Speaker 5: he fumbled that snap, and he wasn't off to a
Speaker 5: great start.
Speaker 1: Now if he has.
Speaker 5: The next strain, that's another added variable behind an offensive
Speaker 5: line struggling to protect. Get some mobile guys out there.
Speaker 5: Evaluate Trey Lance, see if Will grig can possibly even
Speaker 5: challenge Tredy Lance for the right to b QB two
Speaker 5: next year. You have all of these reasons to evaluate
Speaker 5: whatever you need to do on offense.
Speaker 1: You need to do it.
Speaker 5: Empty the playbook, okay, anything, any sections of the playbook
Speaker 5: that you had entered the season saying okay, I'm going
Speaker 5: to save this quarter of the playbook for November, this
Speaker 5: quarter of the playbook for December. That was all with
Speaker 5: the expectation that you would be far above five hundred.
Speaker 1: You're not. Dump it far above thirteen points again, right,
Speaker 1: dump it far book thirteen points per game.
Speaker 5: I cannot stress this enough, Brandon, You're only scoring on
Speaker 5: average twice as much as your kicker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not going to cut it.
Speaker 6: I've got some more synonyms if we want to rattle
Speaker 6: those office abominabal frightful, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, hopeless, worthless, laughable, lamentable, miserable.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 6: Cowboys talking to soaurus and so, I would say, an expert,
Speaker 6: I say, I'll have that to say this.
Speaker 5: When you look at the Cowboys defense and what they're
Speaker 5: allowing per game for the majority of the season, you
Speaker 5: could absolutely, you know, put accountability on them. As far
Speaker 5: as being a key reason the Cowboys were spiraling. They've
Speaker 5: seemingly now got it together. Talk about improving in the
Speaker 5: run defense, talk about the pass rush that improve Now
Speaker 5: that you put d Moo and Michael Parsons is back, great,
Speaker 5: but there's there are no signs of life on the offense.
Speaker 5: Unleash Hell, unleashed Trey Lance for evaluation purposes. Let's have
Speaker 5: let's have some fun. Unleash Will Greer alongside Trey Lance.
Speaker 1: Let's have some fun.
Speaker 5: Right saying this is going to put you in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: Let's evaluate, Let's have some fun.
Speaker 9: Let's at least go out guns blazing, empty the playbook.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm.
Speaker 7: Saying to add to the to the lab here, and
Speaker 7: they'll give you another sample size.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm not a science I see that. I
Speaker 1: see that, so listen.
Speaker 7: I will tell you why the second half didn't go
Speaker 7: the defense's way after they look in the first half.
Speaker 8: It goes back to what we were talking about on Monday.
Speaker 7: We're going to go back to this stretch of this
Speaker 7: Cowboys offensive drives ready, three and out, three and out,
Speaker 7: three and out, fumble, fumble interception. These guys don't have
Speaker 7: time to breathe on the sideline, so you're being asked
Speaker 7: to just go back out there and play with your
Speaker 7: hair on fire again and again and again.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't sound better the second time around.
Speaker 8: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: And I thought it would maybe feel a little bit better.
Speaker 1: It doesn't.
Speaker 8: It shouldn't either, So you can't.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying you can't expect a defense to play
Speaker 7: at the same level that the Cowboys did in the
Speaker 7: first half throughout the course of an entire game when
Speaker 7: I think the longest period of rest they had in
Speaker 7: that stretch and even towards the end of the game
Speaker 7: was three minutes in four seconds of game time and
Speaker 7: that was the last drive of the game that the Cowboys. No,
Speaker 7: so you were averaging kind of around two minutes of
Speaker 7: game time to where this defense was catching their breath
Speaker 7: on the sidelines and trying to regroup. When you're playing
Speaker 7: Jalen Hurds, Saquon Barkley, A J. Brown, Davante Smith and
Speaker 7: that Eagles offensive line, it's not going to cut it.
Speaker 1: And you know what it is.
Speaker 5: Not only were they tired, they were exhausted, weary, drained, knackered, bleary,
Speaker 5: burnt out, pop weakend prostrate, all of those things.
Speaker 7: Like what's the official thesaurus of the Dallas Cowboys, you're
Speaker 7: making their.
Speaker 6: Money, It's usaurus of the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not not ideal. I like Necker, I can't say that, Necker,
Speaker 1: what did you think us? I don't know. Keep so
Speaker 1: wow where.
Speaker 6: When you're looking at the Cowboys often it's there you're
Speaker 6: taking a look at that, at those numbers, and that's
Speaker 6: the pressure that's put on the defense. I know there
Speaker 6: are fans out there that think the defense need to
Speaker 6: take it to another level and continue the consistency. Like
Speaker 6: Tommy just said, it's almost impossible to do so, correct,
Speaker 6: But is it which one's more likely that element of hey,
Speaker 6: the defense just has to play lights out for four quarters,
Speaker 6: or that the offense has some level of life, because
Speaker 6: I think both.
Speaker 1: Right now are a little unlikely.
Speaker 5: The only way the offense has some level of life
Speaker 5: is if you if you unleash, if you empty the
Speaker 5: playbook and you unleash Trey Lance and maybe sprinkling some
Speaker 5: Will Greer two mobile quarterbacks, and I know will will tell.
Speaker 1: You are you completely done with Cooper Rush? Yes? And
Speaker 1: I don't say it with that chesse yet. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: am done with Cooper Rush.
Speaker 5: But I want to qualify this through right way because
Speaker 5: people will hear me say that and say, oh, well
Speaker 5: why is why is he, you know, crapping over Cooper. Listen,
Speaker 5: I am the same guy who dedicated an entire science
Speaker 5: lab as a think you letter to Cooper.
Speaker 1: Cooper.
Speaker 5: Rush is one of the best, one of the best
Speaker 5: backup quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: He is your cool hand, Luke.
Speaker 5: He has all the veteran ability and I'm going to
Speaker 5: go as far as saying, and the numbers prove this,
Speaker 5: the film proved this.
Speaker 9: That was an aberration against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The problem is is that aberration is going to continue
Speaker 5: because this is not the same situation he stepped into
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two. I said that before this game, right,
Speaker 5: this is not the same offensive line that was protecting right.
Speaker 5: This is not the same group of wide receivers that
Speaker 5: can separate and do what they needed to do. And
Speaker 5: this is not the same defense as a couple of
Speaker 5: seasons ago, who were constantly taking the ball away. And
Speaker 5: now it's even more concerning because your first start in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four, they actually took the ball away. They
Speaker 5: weren't doing that for Dak Prescott. Now they took the
Speaker 5: ball away for you. They got three outs for you,
Speaker 5: and you still couldn't get it done. So I still
Speaker 5: believe Cooper Rush is a very high caliber backup quarterback,
Speaker 5: but this situation, these variables contextually do not work in
Speaker 5: his favor, But they might be able to work in
Speaker 5: the favor of a guy like a Trailer who can
Speaker 5: get out on designed runs and read options and maybe
Speaker 5: just use his legs when he's under pressure. Will Gear
Speaker 5: can get out and use his legs when he's under pressure,
Speaker 5: and Will Grear is better of downfield thrower than Trey
Speaker 5: Lancey is right now. So my point being, when you
Speaker 5: ask him if I'm done with Cooper Rush, I'm done
Speaker 5: with him in this setup because this setup is going
Speaker 5: to get him killed.
Speaker 7: I want to see Trey lance too, but I'm not
Speaker 7: done with Cooper Rushing. I don't think Yeah, I think
Speaker 7: you know you made a good point where this one
Speaker 7: game I think is.
Speaker 8: It's like, yeah, I don't know how to pronounce.
Speaker 1: That, but yeah.
Speaker 6: That one but yes, science sound it out or.
Speaker 7: I'm sure this can't be a spelling be either because
Speaker 7: it's going to be even worse. But I'm willing to
Speaker 7: give him time because he has one new games. Granted,
Speaker 7: you're right, this is a completely different situation, but there
Speaker 7: were some similarities in the sense that the defense took
Speaker 7: the ball away, and the defense took the ball away
Speaker 7: gave them opportunities. They just didn't convert on those opportunities
Speaker 7: this time around because the line, because the offensive line
Speaker 7: isn't fair.
Speaker 5: Like he's seen some ghosts too well, when he has,
Speaker 5: you know, less seconds.
Speaker 7: To throw then yeah, but I think that you still
Speaker 7: trust what he can do for you, and I still
Speaker 7: think that you need to give it time. You need
Speaker 7: to give it time, and I know time is not
Speaker 7: necessarily of the essence it. But let's let's see how
Speaker 7: this week goes.
Speaker 8: Is my is my thing.
Speaker 7: Let's see how this week goes and kind of go
Speaker 7: from there. But I'm with you in the sense that
Speaker 7: you know, letting Trey Lance go is not necessarily.
Speaker 8: A bad thing for this offense.
Speaker 7: But I think that there is a good point to
Speaker 7: be made that Cooper Rush gives you the best chance
Speaker 7: to win well.
Speaker 6: And I also think he's earned that right too. Absolutely,
Speaker 6: he's earned that respect to to say, hey, let's let's
Speaker 6: give it some time. I mean earn the time to
Speaker 6: be the starter and to go from one aberration to another.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's likely we see under one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty passing yards again from Cooper.
Speaker 6: I don't think that happens, do I agree with you
Speaker 6: that it's evaluation time, and then this is a chance
Speaker 6: for you to see what the future of your football
Speaker 6: team looks like. Sure, absolutely, but you talked about like
Speaker 6: time of the essence, we got eight weeks left or
Speaker 6: eight weeks where you can try things like that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you do it after another two or three weeks that.
Speaker 6: Don't go right and look similar or at least close
Speaker 6: to what happened against Philadelphia. That's where I'm at. Before
Speaker 6: you make a permanent switch. I don't think it's out
Speaker 6: of the question, and I think actually by the end
Speaker 6: of the year we will see either Trey Lance or
Speaker 6: Will Greer with significant snaps in the offense. I just
Speaker 6: don't think it happens this week and the only national
Speaker 6: television right now.
Speaker 1: I said time.
Speaker 5: And it's funny that you say that as you're out there,
Speaker 5: because the only way that I would be I can
Speaker 5: be on board with Coop starting. And again, this is
Speaker 5: not a knock to Coop. The situation just does not
Speaker 5: suit him. It's not really his fly way. I can
Speaker 5: be okay with it is if you're basically giving him
Speaker 5: a chance so that the last game is not how
Speaker 5: he goes out, right, don't don't let him because he's
Speaker 5: earned the right to not go out on a forty
Speaker 5: six yard game. So if you're thinking of it in
Speaker 5: that capacity, okay, maybe I can acquay us to that.
Speaker 5: But outside of that one singular point, this the outfit
Speaker 5: that it looks that he's stepping into right now, This
Speaker 5: is that this is not conducive to what he can do.
Speaker 7: Let me ask you, this is this situation good for
Speaker 7: any quarterback the players around Hyeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not so in terms of that.
Speaker 7: And I'm not disagreeing with your guess, but I mean,
Speaker 7: Trey Lance, you're gonna be dealing with the same thing. Sure,
Speaker 7: his legs given him the opportunity to change something, but
Speaker 7: that's it.
Speaker 8: That's a biga.
Speaker 7: You can't There's only so much you can do with
Speaker 7: your legs. If the pocket collapses on you in two seconds,
Speaker 7: you can't. You can't go anywhere.
Speaker 8: Then it's not gonna matter either way.
Speaker 1: The offense isn't fixed, but not exactly.
Speaker 5: It's not collapsing every time until it's not so in
Speaker 5: those instances is where it's not, those legs will come
Speaker 5: into play and you'll get more design roun. You're not
Speaker 5: running a read option with Cooper rush No, but no
Speaker 5: linebackers buying that. So what you're taking the they're taking
Speaker 5: the running back every single time.
Speaker 6: So what you're saying is that no matter how hard
Speaker 6: we try and climb out of this thing, we're.
Speaker 1: Still stuck in the upside down. We are still trapped
Speaker 1: in the upset and we are still stuck. Eddie did
Speaker 1: not die for this. Eddie did not die for this.
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