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Speaker 4: Cowboys score Cowboys by three? Give me? Give me seventeen fourteen.
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Speaker 8: Seventeen thirteen? Cows seventy thirteen?
Speaker 4: Yeah, actually that's better than seventeen fourteen. Can I change
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Speaker 4: No, But we're not gonnat too far into that. But yes,
Speaker 4: that's my that's my belief. I believe, I believe the
Speaker 4: Cowboys him. But I actually think we're gonna get into
Speaker 4: today This Cleveland defense is ain't no joke, Like this
Speaker 4: is gonna be a game. This is gonna be a
Speaker 4: tough one. But I also think it's strength versus strength,
Speaker 4: and that's what we'll spend a lot of time talking
Speaker 4: about today. As we talk about that matchup between the
Speaker 4: Cowboys offense and the Browns defense. Let's start right now,
Speaker 4: though with a couple of injuries. Cowboys have only one
Speaker 4: on the injury report that didn't.
Speaker 5: Keep scrolling for their practice report.
Speaker 4: It's good's names over there, but let's start with with
Speaker 4: the Cowboys one person, John Stevens. Uh, he did not
Speaker 4: practice with a hamstring injury. I guess my question is
Speaker 4: how serious is this and then we'll talk about maybe
Speaker 4: what the chances are if he doesn't play, What what
Speaker 4: does it look like for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I think this is something to definitely
Speaker 10: keep an eye on going into the week. As it
Speaker 10: sounds right now and talking to some people, this is
Speaker 10: an injury that you know, could keep him out on Sunday.
Speaker 10: They're going to try to ramp him in and try
Speaker 10: to get him involved as Thursday, Friday and then that
Speaker 10: Saturday walkthrough gets going. But John Stevens, that's probably the
Speaker 10: only question mark you have going into the week now.
Speaker 10: If he can't go, you still have guys like Princeton
Speaker 10: Fant on the practice squad that if you want to
Speaker 10: elevate for special teams purposes or to be involved with
Speaker 10: that tight end room. You could you also have Hunter Lipke,
Speaker 10: who's taken a lot more tight end reps during training camp.
Speaker 10: He could step into a role like that, but it
Speaker 10: would definitely take away a receiving option for Dak Prescott
Speaker 10: if John Stevens is not able to go. Did you
Speaker 10: want to touch on the Browns as well.
Speaker 4: We're going to get to that, okay. I wanted to
Speaker 4: first talk a little bit about Stevens and maybe what
Speaker 4: this means. Brian Amber, what do you guys think this
Speaker 4: means for that the team if they can't have him
Speaker 4: out there, because we are I think we all agree
Speaker 4: he really is tight end two on this team, and
Speaker 4: what does this mean for them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. Tight End two is
Speaker 3: where I would put John Stevens. And I think John
Speaker 3: Stevens is a backside tight end if you go twelve personnel,
Speaker 3: there are things he could do on the back end
Speaker 3: athletically to help you in the running game, because sometimes
Speaker 3: he's make where we've seen him go off. Really that
Speaker 3: guards block the center, combination center guard combination block tackle.
Speaker 3: It doesn't really bounce the outside. It kind of starts
Speaker 3: outside and then works to the middle or through the middle,
Speaker 3: that's where they seem to pop some of these runs.
Speaker 3: But on the backside, if you're twelve personnel, you have
Speaker 3: to have a tight end that's athletic enough to be able.
Speaker 3: You're probably gonna play with like the schoon maker maybe
Speaker 3: even I don't know how much you want to put
Speaker 3: ferguson at the point of attack, but there you are.
Speaker 2: And so you you need.
Speaker 3: That backside guy to be able to be an athlete.
Speaker 3: And the link that Stevens has, you know, we haven't
Speaker 3: really seen it, you know much for me either.
Speaker 2: With span Ford, I know we talked about.
Speaker 3: Him and could he be a guy that's inactive, but
Speaker 3: he's clearly into the mix. Now, uh, there's another rookie
Speaker 3: that's going to get an opportunity. You mentioned all the
Speaker 3: rookies that you know are potentially going to start in
Speaker 3: this game. Well here's another one. If if Stevens can't go,
Speaker 3: then you're probably looking at span forward maybe getting some
Speaker 3: opportunities to do some backside block and maybe some point
Speaker 3: of tack blocking. But that also takes a vertical player,
Speaker 3: you know. The one thing that the Browns will do
Speaker 3: and we'll get into this the secondary.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, you want to.
Speaker 3: It's the corners are good, there's quality at the nickel,
Speaker 3: there's quality on both sides.
Speaker 2: The safeties.
Speaker 3: Can you take advantage of some of their safety coverage,
Speaker 3: you know when the linebacker coverage. And that's where I
Speaker 3: think Stevens could be sneaky in this game and you
Speaker 3: might miss him there.
Speaker 5: Typically I wouldn't be too concerned about someone like him missing,
Speaker 5: or someone at the tight end position missing, But this
Speaker 5: game it's key because you're, in my mind, you're having
Speaker 5: to rely on a tight end to help blocked. Just
Speaker 5: like Brian said, in many situations, especially considering that you're
Speaker 5: gonna have potentially these two rookie guys starting in the line.
Speaker 5: You got Cooper BB and the Tyler guy in and
Speaker 5: you want to be able to bring whatever extra help
Speaker 5: you can, at least in these first couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: So that's going to be a challenge in that sense
Speaker 5: that you're I mean, at least me, we were thinking
Speaker 5: that a guy like him, especially in the blocking game,
Speaker 5: because obviously you got other guys that can catch the ball.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, why am I blanking on his name?
Speaker 5: The starter? Uhson Jesus Christ, Uh, here we go. But Jake, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I will stop it. Here we go, here we go.
Speaker 5: Let me. Okay, that's one. That's one for you step back. No,
Speaker 5: But you know, Jake Ferguson, he's great catching the ball
Speaker 5: and all of that. But I do think sometimes in
Speaker 5: the in the blocking game, he he, he wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 5: be the guy that I would relying on blocking. But
Speaker 5: also maybe with Zeke being here, but then you also
Speaker 5: want to take advantage of the running game. But also
Speaker 5: I don't know, like looking at Zeke to potentially be
Speaker 5: a guy that could be utilized a little bit more
Speaker 5: to help block.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you make a great point about that week,
Speaker 3: but also think about Hunter Lipkey. Yeah, you know that's
Speaker 3: if you need a if you need somebody to play
Speaker 3: as that wing or I don't know how much you
Speaker 3: want to put him in line next to the tackle
Speaker 3: that awhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hunter Lipkey.
Speaker 3: For president for sure. But the the thing the thing
Speaker 3: with that they have options. I just want to say though,
Speaker 3: that Stevens was to me was making so much progress.
Speaker 3: Probably not as good as what he was before the injury,
Speaker 3: but man, you could see that the play that I
Speaker 3: know was a fumble, but the ball down the field
Speaker 3: you could see the arc release up the same ball there.
Speaker 3: Now he's running. That's the kind of things you get.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need some guys that some chunk plays in
Speaker 3: this game. If you could pull them off, They're probably
Speaker 3: going to be few and far between, But if you
Speaker 3: get an opportunity.
Speaker 2: You never know who's always talking about the X factor players?
Speaker 2: You know, who's not? Who do you not talking about that?
Speaker 3: You know, Stevens could have been one of those guys
Speaker 3: For me, if you'd asked the question, give me an
Speaker 3: X factor player for.
Speaker 2: This game, I'm gonna say that Stevens.
Speaker 3: Get it tied end you gotta they're going to run,
Speaker 3: move the pocket, boots, waggle stuff like that. Downfield player,
Speaker 3: this guy might make two or three catches that could
Speaker 3: be difference maker catches.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and it's not necessarily that Jake Ferguson cannot do
Speaker 10: those same things right. It's more so just having that
Speaker 10: multiple option.
Speaker 3: If you want to go twelve personnel to maybe handle
Speaker 3: some of the block and stuff that you're going to
Speaker 3: have to deal with.
Speaker 4: You know, it's disappointing for me is that we'd had
Speaker 4: that whole conversation about how they handle the potential of
Speaker 4: him not being in there, and nobody mentioned Schoonmaker, the
Speaker 4: second round pick from last year.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking about him because that's one of
Speaker 5: the things that we talked about him when the Cowboys
Speaker 5: drafted him was his block blocking abilities.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's you know, you'd love to have one of
Speaker 3: these games where we get together on Monday and we
Speaker 3: talk about this and we've all watched the tape and
Speaker 3: you're like, damn that eighty six had a really good
Speaker 3: game block and there's just that it's almost like playing
Speaker 3: these rookies. It's you know, with Schoomaker, it's like you're
Speaker 3: playing a rookie because you don't really know if okay,
Speaker 3: there have been some improvements, then there's sometimes where it
Speaker 3: doesn't even look like the same player. And that's that's
Speaker 3: the that's the problem that you know that the fact
Speaker 3: that losing Stevens could hurt you to the point where well, damn,
Speaker 3: Schoonmaker's got to play more, you.
Speaker 4: Know, And then now instead of it being like, Okay,
Speaker 4: we get this.
Speaker 3: A little more said instead we can Instead we can
Speaker 3: you know, maybe Steven's and then some Schoonmaker. Instead, it's like, no,
Speaker 3: we're gonna need Scoonmaker to play and I I'm the
Speaker 3: president of the Schoonmaker fan club, but there I have
Speaker 3: yet to see those games that I watched when he
Speaker 3: was playing Michigan State and Ohio State and those types
Speaker 3: of games where you just like, man, this guy was
Speaker 3: a dominant player that way, and he made plays in
Speaker 3: the passing game as well, and it's just been a
Speaker 3: little bit of a struggle there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it could be a big opportunity for him.
Speaker 4: So it could right, It could right, And that's what
Speaker 4: you would hope is that in his second year, if
Speaker 4: he gets this opportunity and we think he's gonna play,
Speaker 4: he would play significant because I do think they're going
Speaker 4: to have to use too tight quite a bit. It
Speaker 4: might be an opportunity for him to step up and
Speaker 4: kind of show a little bit of what maybe he
Speaker 4: didn't have as much opportunity to show last year. Let's
Speaker 4: flip to the other side and talk about the Browns.
Speaker 4: There are two names particularly I want to talk about
Speaker 4: their tackles. Jedrick Wills Junior was his left tackle. Jack
Speaker 4: Conklins was the right tackle, both coming off acl injuries
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty three. One of them happened in Week nine,
Speaker 4: so it was a little later in the year. The
Speaker 4: other was in Week one. So my question for you guys,
Speaker 4: are I guess first before we get to them coming
Speaker 4: back from injury. Before the injuries, were these the types
Speaker 4: of tackles that would have given you pause when you
Speaker 4: talk about matching up against the defensive ends for the
Speaker 4: Cowboys and then now coming back, what are your expectations
Speaker 4: for them in their first games back from ACL injuries.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and looking at Jack Conklin coming off of the
Speaker 10: ACL injury that he's suffered in Week one last year,
Speaker 10: it's gonna be a challenge for him. On the right side.
Speaker 10: He's probably gonna have a lot of matchups with DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 10: The thing I'm looking at.
Speaker 8: Is this left side. What are they going to do
Speaker 8: on the left side?
Speaker 10: Jedderrick Wills comes out in the locker room yesterday and
Speaker 10: says he's not starting the game on Sunday.
Speaker 8: So who do they put it left tackle?
Speaker 10: Do they swinge it Jack Conklin over or do they
Speaker 10: bring over a guy in James Hudson who's kind of
Speaker 10: been their swing tackle. He's kind of their version of awesome.
Speaker 10: Richard's a little bit bigger though, and he is a
Speaker 10: true swing team.
Speaker 4: Just to be clear, left this is going to be
Speaker 4: whoever's going to primarily get to see a lot of
Speaker 4: Mikeah Parks.
Speaker 10: Exactly exactly, and this would be who who gets to
Speaker 10: see Michael Parsons. This is why I feel like I
Speaker 10: think this is a three plus SAT game for this
Speaker 10: defensive line. I feel confident in it just because this
Speaker 10: offensive line sitting here. Yeah, probably we're sitting here Thursday
Speaker 10: and they're still playing musical chairs with this offensive line.
Speaker 10: I mean, you could call back to last year when
Speaker 10: Tyler Smith got hurt. I think it was yesterday, last week,
Speaker 10: or last year. Whenever he had that hamstring injury, they
Speaker 10: figured it out by Thursday. Here we are on Thursday.
Speaker 10: They haven't figured it out, or if they have figured
Speaker 10: it out, they're keeping it hushed. So I think this
Speaker 10: is definitely gonna be something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 10: Jedrick Wills might not be ready coming off of that injury.
Speaker 10: They might not want to rush him back onto the field,
Speaker 10: but he says yesterday that he's not starting at left tackle,
Speaker 10: So it's going to be a guy who probably can't
Speaker 10: match up with Michaeh Parsons to the level of a
Speaker 10: healthy Jedrick Wills. So, uh, it's gonna it's gonna be
Speaker 10: an interesting start, I'll say that for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They if you go back and you actually watch
Speaker 3: the Houston playoff game, Uh, James Hudson started at right
Speaker 3: tackle is what he did in this game. So, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, Nick's right. They they're they're trying to kind
Speaker 3: of figure out you know.
Speaker 2: Uh uh.
Speaker 3: Dwan Jones had also played quite a bit last year.
Speaker 3: I mean you start to you start to see him,
Speaker 3: you get into like the you know, the first couple
Speaker 3: of games this season, all of a sudden, they're they're
Speaker 3: using backup offensive linemen, you know, and so, uh the
Speaker 3: questions are there. They they you know that the health
Speaker 3: of the tackles was questions coming in. It's even now
Speaker 3: I think of bigger questions because they're going with potentially
Speaker 3: two backup offensive tackles.
Speaker 2: We know, it doesn't sound like it Wills is gonna play.
Speaker 3: I mean he came out and said, I'm I don't
Speaker 3: think you know, it's just he's just trying to get
Speaker 3: through the practices, is what he's talking about. So if
Speaker 3: that's the case, I still feel like though, like we
Speaker 3: talked about yesterday with posts it and teller of the
Speaker 3: center and the right guard, I just kind of feel
Speaker 3: like that those are two attack points as well.
Speaker 2: Mikeh You know, Mike.
Speaker 3: Even talked about I know you guys had a chance
Speaker 3: to visit with him yesterday and he was talking about
Speaker 3: that Mike Zimmer playing in more two I, three I
Speaker 3: inside stuff instead of playing that six technique which is
Speaker 3: outside the tackle. So that tells me that Mike's got
Speaker 3: a plan that he's going to try and maybe attack
Speaker 3: a little bit more in the middle with Mike and
Speaker 3: maybe not have the hand in the ground as much
Speaker 3: as he's had in the past, where teams have been
Speaker 3: able just to slide to him. When you stand him
Speaker 3: up in the middle, it's hard to chip him, and
Speaker 3: it's hard to it's hard to double him, especially the
Speaker 3: way that way Mike covers those linemen, and he's going
Speaker 3: to make a lot of single blocks there.
Speaker 10: Over under four and a half alignments. We see Michael
Speaker 10: Parsons in on Sunday.
Speaker 2: I'll take the over on take the over on that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I will too. I think that he's
Speaker 10: going to be moved around quite a bit. I think
Speaker 10: he's going to be off ball. I think he's going
Speaker 10: to come inside with two three, I type work six
Speaker 10: tech wide nine. You're going to see him everywhere.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I think that when you I think this is the
Speaker 3: this is the part of football that Micah Parsons really likes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Micah Parsons, I don't think wants to play one position.
Speaker 3: You know, we always see him like messing around. He's
Speaker 3: like running routes, or he's running with the football like
Speaker 3: he's a running but he's always wanting to do something else.
Speaker 3: And I think Zimmer realizes that he has a guy
Speaker 3: that he can move around, and Mike is really good
Speaker 3: at hunting those matchups. You know, all you need is somebody,
Speaker 3: and you know we'll get into you know, we'll get
Speaker 3: into Miles Garrett here when we do this Browns defense,
Speaker 3: because he'll line up in a bunch of different spots too.
Speaker 3: So if you were to watch Brown's tape and say, man,
Speaker 3: this is kind of what I envisioned Michael Parsons being
Speaker 3: like that, that would be the template that I would
Speaker 3: I would think about if.
Speaker 4: You look at Micah's personality, I think it all fits
Speaker 4: like he just seems like the kind of person that's
Speaker 4: an eclectic guy that just want a lot of different things.
Speaker 2: It's not interested in sitting there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. And I think that that probably plays itself
Speaker 4: out on the field as well. I think you get
Speaker 4: the most out of him if you keep him engaged
Speaker 4: and keep him excited about it, about doing a lot
Speaker 4: different things with him and allow him to kind of
Speaker 4: move around and do different things. So I think it's
Speaker 4: a great chess piece for Mike Zimmer to use, and
Speaker 4: we'll see how he is starting this weekend, you know.
Speaker 3: And two to talk kind of finish up on these tackles.
Speaker 3: And if you're if you're one of those guys and
Speaker 3: gals that believe in metrics and all the numbers and
Speaker 3: stuff that pressure rates and things like that, Hudson ten
Speaker 3: percent of his dropbacks are pressures, you know, and then
Speaker 3: Jones on the is at eight percent. So they there's
Speaker 3: a couple of guys right there that you know, you
Speaker 3: can see if you're gonna have opportunity. It's not like
Speaker 3: they're gonna shut anybody out. They're gonna give up some
Speaker 3: pressures with the when they're playing.
Speaker 10: All right, we're gonna take one last thing to point
Speaker 10: out about the brow of Brown's injury report. Three interior
Speaker 10: defensive linemen limited yesterday. Maurice Hurst with a hamstring, Quentin
Speaker 10: Jefferson with an achilles, and Dallan Tomlinson. He starts in
Speaker 10: the middle for them, he was limited with a knee injury.
Speaker 10: So those are three guys to keep an eye on.
Speaker 10: If one or two of those guys missed, that'd be
Speaker 10: huge for Cooper bb in that running game.
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Speaker 4: offense versus Cleveland defense. I think we have to start
Speaker 4: with Miles Garrett because he is that defense. I think
Speaker 4: everything starts with him and kind of rolls. However, he rolls.
Speaker 4: One stat I noticed initially was that he's the set.
Speaker 4: He had the second most quick pressures in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: three in the NFL second and average time to pressure
Speaker 4: with two point three two seconds on average. Michael part right, Yeah, Michael, Actually,
Speaker 4: Michael was number one in quick pressures pressure, but number
Speaker 4: three in time to pressure. But again, dak hast two
Speaker 4: point three seconds in order to get the ball off,
Speaker 4: as do all the other quarterbacks that face. Miles Garrett
Speaker 4: talked to me about Miles Garrett and particularly how you
Speaker 4: see him matching up against this offensive line.
Speaker 3: Must be reading my notes, Yeah, I said the first
Speaker 3: right off the jump, I said, this Brown's defense isn't
Speaker 3: about Miles.
Speaker 2: Garrett on the edge. But that's where we need to start.
Speaker 2: The Browns did.
Speaker 3: They had forty nine sacks in twenty twenty three, which
Speaker 3: was the sixth best, and then National Football League Garrett
Speaker 3: accounted for.
Speaker 2: Fourteen of them.
Speaker 3: And in those fourteen sacks he had he forced four
Speaker 3: fumbles and one of them was watching the Indianapolis game.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Nick, if you got to see that one.
Speaker 3: They get Gardner Mitchew down in the end zone and
Speaker 3: he just just blows by the tackle and balls in
Speaker 3: the air and now it's a touchdown. So you know
Speaker 3: that's what you're going to kind of get, you know,
Speaker 3: the closer you get down in your own red zone
Speaker 3: and you know you're defending or you're trying to get out,
Speaker 3: and you got to just be aware of Miles Garrett
Speaker 3: coming around the corner and blasting you and the ball
Speaker 3: going the air and then you know, resulting in a touchdown.
Speaker 3: That might be a way they need to score some points.
Speaker 3: But of the forty nine sacks, I just kind of
Speaker 3: went through and I looked at every single sack that
Speaker 3: the Browns had because I was curious where he lines
Speaker 3: up in the forty nine of the sacks. Twenty five
Speaker 3: of those snaps he was at right end, ten snaps
Speaker 3: he was at left end, and then three of those
Speaker 3: sacks he was over the center. So you're kind of thinking, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: where do you think it's you know, they're going to
Speaker 3: hunt matchups with them. But and I heard you on
Speaker 3: the radio, and I think he made a really good
Speaker 3: point about maybe even a better matchup with all the
Speaker 3: help that Geyton is going to get, you know, or
Speaker 3: maybe the thought about okay, we've got to slide to
Speaker 3: the rookie, slide that the rookie still will be okay.
Speaker 3: We could see Jim Swartz put him on the other.
Speaker 8: Side of like that was just a point from you.
Speaker 2: I just agree, Well, I'm glad you.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said that because I in talking to
Speaker 3: people who know Jim Swartz. Schwartz is going to hunt
Speaker 3: the matchups, you know, and he realizes where that potentially
Speaker 3: doubt still is looking better, he's looking healthier, he's moving
Speaker 3: around better. There's still some issues that he deals with
Speaker 3: that Miles Garrett gives you problems with his ability to
Speaker 3: play that first step. I've yet to see an edge
Speaker 3: and then we've seen some great ones that that gain
Speaker 3: as much ground as he does. And you mentioned about
Speaker 3: the getoff time and the quick stuff that he's able
Speaker 3: to do. He gained so much ground with that first
Speaker 3: step that it puts the tackle, so the blockers in
Speaker 3: a really bad position, and so you know he's just
Speaker 3: he's like he's on that blocker before they even have
Speaker 3: a chance to get out of their stance. They were
Speaker 3: a couple of times where I'm watching him rush in
Speaker 3: the Jacksonville game and the Jacksonville tackle he's like he's
Speaker 3: off the ball and Jacksonville's tackle didn't even set. It's
Speaker 3: like both feet are together and he can't even move
Speaker 3: because Miles Garrett has passed him already.
Speaker 2: You know that type.
Speaker 3: So you know it's going to be imperative that these
Speaker 3: Cowboys offensive lineman get out of their stance because of
Speaker 3: how quickly he can he could do, how quickly he
Speaker 3: can get on you with that that first step. But
Speaker 3: he's excellent at making himself small for a big tall guy.
Speaker 3: He doesn't give you much hitting surface. And now we're
Speaker 3: talking about chips and double teams and how do you
Speaker 3: handle them, And all of a sudden, here's this big
Speaker 3: tall guy and he's playing sideways, and he's running sideways,
Speaker 3: and now he's around the corner and your chip guy
Speaker 3: is kind of missing, and now it's the tackles trying
Speaker 3: to get his hands to stop.
Speaker 2: Him from from getting up the field.
Speaker 3: And that's the problem. He's just not going to give
Speaker 3: you a lot of hitting surface. That's why he's a
Speaker 3: rare player when you watch him play. And so it's
Speaker 3: going to be tough, I mean, and Nicky made an
Speaker 3: excellent point again about geiton and hands. You know this
Speaker 3: is going to be if Guidon is struggling with his
Speaker 3: hands in this game, and we will all be able
Speaker 3: to tell you. Guys will be in the press box,
Speaker 3: I'll be at the studio and we watch it. If
Speaker 3: they show the replay and all of a sudden, those
Speaker 3: hands are going wide and Miles Garrett is getting into
Speaker 3: his body. That is going to be a problem for him.
Speaker 3: So hands, footwork, all that stuff's going to be key
Speaker 3: to try and stop this guy.
Speaker 4: Ironically, that's going to be a two prong problem for
Speaker 4: him if those hands are bad, because number one, he's
Speaker 4: going to get into his chest, which is not a
Speaker 4: good place to have miles there be. But number two,
Speaker 4: it opens up the holding calls, those kinds of things. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so all the way around, it's going to be bad
Speaker 4: for him. If what we've seen, which is he is
Speaker 4: inconsistent with his hand right, that could be a real
Speaker 4: problem for him this week.
Speaker 10: Yeah, go ahead, And I think it's really important. We've
Speaker 10: talked about it a little bit throughout training camp. Is
Speaker 10: just when do those wide hands come to bite them?
Speaker 10: They haven't really bit them yet. There have been situations
Speaker 10: where DeMarcus Lawrence has gone up against him one on
Speaker 10: one and he throws that power in front and it's like, hey, bruk,
Speaker 10: get those hands in Yeah, and I think this is
Speaker 10: going to be a situation where he learns that, probably
Speaker 10: sooner rather than later. The thing with me and I
Speaker 10: want to bounce off your point about how quick he
Speaker 10: is off the ball to be two hundred and seventy
Speaker 10: two pounds, Yeah, he has some of the quickest first
Speaker 10: steps I've ever seen, and that that's going to make
Speaker 10: it really difficult for a guy like Jake Ferguson or
Speaker 10: Luke scoon Maker who's trying to give Tyler Guiden help
Speaker 10: on the outside, trying to chip. I mean by the
Speaker 10: time that they kind of get over and ship, he's around.
Speaker 10: That's how quick his first step is. And I think
Speaker 10: that's that's what he's been taught from his time at
Speaker 10: A and M. You saw that coming out of the
Speaker 10: draft process. That's why he's a number one overall pick
Speaker 10: is because he's able to get off the ball so
Speaker 10: quick at two hundred and seventy two pounds.
Speaker 4: I have two things I want to throw at you
Speaker 4: that are kind of juxtaposed, and then I want to
Speaker 4: hear from you on how you analyze it, what you
Speaker 4: think actually happened. So the first one is last year,
Speaker 4: Cleveland allowed the lowest completion percentage in the NFL at
Speaker 4: forty eight point forty five point eight percent completion win
Speaker 4: in man coverage. Right, very very good. Obviously, Dak on
Speaker 4: the flip side of that, had the highest completion percentage
Speaker 4: in the NFL at sixty six percent against man. Here's
Speaker 4: the second one, Denzel Ward, Greg Newsom Martin Emerson all
Speaker 4: top five in the NFL and coverage success rate with
Speaker 4: at least forty targets, all three of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: CD. On the flip side, let the NFL's interceptions at
Speaker 4: forty nine and in yards at seven hundred and ninety
Speaker 4: four yards against man's going to give? What's going to give?
Speaker 4: Like we talked about strength against strength, what gives.
Speaker 3: What gives is the fact that on early downs you
Speaker 3: were going to get them to play man coverage. So
Speaker 3: what you have to you have to think about is, Okay,
Speaker 3: if somehow Dallas can find a.
Speaker 2: Way to run the football and be successful.
Speaker 3: And we were talking about one hundred yards, I think
Speaker 3: you said, hey, if you can find a way to
Speaker 3: get one hundred yards out of this game, would that
Speaker 3: be enough to kind of try and balance some things
Speaker 3: you want to do. I think you've got to make
Speaker 3: hay against these guys when it turns into okay, you
Speaker 3: don't want to be in a lot of long yarded situation.
Speaker 3: But Jim schwartzlan later downs will play more zone and
Speaker 3: so that's where if all of a sudden, if if
Speaker 3: you can weather the storm on the early downs when
Speaker 3: they're playing a lot of tight man coverage and say
Speaker 3: you're able to win those times. He's banking on trying
Speaker 3: to get you behind the sticks is what he's banking
Speaker 3: on doing. And then he knows he's got a pass
Speaker 3: rush with Smith and Okawamau and those guys like that
Speaker 3: to be able to maybe make some things happen up front.
Speaker 3: So his whole idea is you have to find a
Speaker 3: way to win early downs, especially when they're playing man coverage,
Speaker 3: and early down wins might be running the football, and
Speaker 3: it also might be you know what kind of screen
Speaker 3: packages can stuff?
Speaker 2: Can you throw?
Speaker 3: What kind of misdirections? If they're corners, they're very talented.
Speaker 3: As you said, you now find a way to take
Speaker 3: advantage of Ferguson and others on and maybe Cooks on
Speaker 3: the boots, the waggles, the misdirection stuff where you're running,
Speaker 3: you're sending them in one direction and now you've got
Speaker 3: open guys to throw. Don't challenge these corners on early downs.
Speaker 3: You might want to challenge them in later downs when
Speaker 3: they're playing more zone.
Speaker 10: The bright side is you have two guys in Ceedee
Speaker 10: Lamb and Brandon Cooks that are man beaters.
Speaker 8: In my eyes. I think quick game is going to
Speaker 8: be the name of the game.
Speaker 10: Try to get the ball in their hands as quick
Speaker 10: as possible, because because that not only benefits the offensive
Speaker 10: line when you have two rookies up front that are
Speaker 10: trying to block this really experienced front, but that also
Speaker 10: benefits it on the back end and the secondary trying
Speaker 10: to play against that secondary. I think you can keep
Speaker 10: everything in front quick game screen action, Like you said,
Speaker 10: I was going to mention that little bubble screen action,
Speaker 10: tunnel screen action slants. You're going to see a lot
Speaker 10: of that with CD Lamb and Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 3: You know, I think something in this game you need
Speaker 3: to think about two guys is going on quick counts.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of there.
Speaker 3: You've got a lot of these guys that are kind
Speaker 3: of big time rushers, and what a big time rushers do.
Speaker 3: You let them get in that track stance and then
Speaker 3: they get going. There's a lot of standing around with
Speaker 3: this crew too. You know, you get Smith and those
Speaker 3: and and they'll kind of kind of look around, Garrett
Speaker 3: look around a little bit, and then they'll get in
Speaker 3: their stance and get ready to go.
Speaker 2: If you're ready, go snap the ball.
Speaker 3: You know, and that's what that's what uh, that's what
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers did against them too. And what
Speaker 3: I'm interested in this game is I'm interested to see
Speaker 3: if Swartz what he did was he played with what
Speaker 3: we call a robber and a robber in and when
Speaker 3: you got a two when you get a two deep
Speaker 3: look you put you could take one of the safeties
Speaker 3: and run him into the middle of the field and
Speaker 3: then overlap the second safety behind him. It took away
Speaker 3: San Francisco's crossing game. You know, if you how many
Speaker 3: times we watch the forty nine Ers, and it's underneath, underneath,
Speaker 3: it's run, catch, run, catch and catch. Some of the
Speaker 3: things we saw with the Cowboys cooks on the inside route.
Speaker 3: I think that you might see some of that from
Speaker 3: Swartz in this game. He might say, Okay, I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna let these inside breaking routes kill me in this game.
Speaker 3: And maybe he'll play you in the same way he
Speaker 3: played San Francisco with that robber in the middle of
Speaker 3: the field, and maybe he'll take away Jake Ferguson's routes too.
Speaker 3: And you know, when all of a sudden, you're thinking
Speaker 3: about maybe he's that up the seam you know. That's
Speaker 3: that's what you know. They got a guy there and
Speaker 3: then a guy there behind him. That might be a
Speaker 3: little bit tight fit for Dak to have to make.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna have to probably win on the outside
Speaker 3: a little bit to say.
Speaker 10: So you're telling me success on the boundary probably spelled
Speaker 10: I think so.
Speaker 15: I think so too, just just because if if if
Speaker 15: Schwartz is worried about your crossing game, and and and
Speaker 15: like I said, the Rams scrimmage, I especially the first
Speaker 15: Ram scrimmage, there were several times where Dak and.
Speaker 2: Cook which just they found space in between.
Speaker 3: It's Cook was up in break and the and the
Speaker 3: corner couldn't stay with you know, we've seen we've seen
Speaker 3: with CD and stuff like that too, some inbreak and
Speaker 3: stuff in the the field. The most in the middle
Speaker 3: of the field stuff though, has been Ferguson, I.
Speaker 2: Believe is what we see.
Speaker 3: So they can try and take away the middle of
Speaker 3: the field and make you try and win on the
Speaker 3: outside and see if you're good enough to beat Ward
Speaker 3: or Emerson in that regard.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully this is not the case. But we got
Speaker 5: to keep in mind to that Dag he is a
Speaker 5: mobile quarterback and he can get out of the pocket
Speaker 5: and run. You don't want him to be under pressure,
Speaker 5: but we also know that he does have that ability.
Speaker 5: And and you talk about all the misdirection and all
Speaker 5: of that, and I hope that Oh my god, I
Speaker 5: am blanking out on names today. Gee no, no, Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know what's going on today. Yeah no,
Speaker 5: But I'm going back to the word of creativity and
Speaker 5: using misdirection and really getting creative and using all these
Speaker 5: different weapons. We haven't mentioned a whole lot about Kavanta Terpin,
Speaker 5: but he's another guy that they can really really utilize
Speaker 5: him and be creative with a guy like him that
Speaker 5: has shown to have the speed and this, like you
Speaker 5: said earlier, and we all watched it at training camp,
Speaker 5: best training camp he's had so far. So again, they
Speaker 5: have the weapons. And with Tyler Guyton when you mentioned
Speaker 5: the penalties, that's another thing that hopefully doesn't become a
Speaker 5: problem because I think when you're a rookie starting your
Speaker 5: first game and you're constantly getting beat let's say, or
Speaker 5: battling like that, I think that discipline can go out
Speaker 5: of the window where you're just trying to keep up
Speaker 5: and survive. So that's another thing that I hope it
Speaker 5: doesn't become an issue with known penalties have been an
Speaker 5: issue for the Cowboys in the past. But we'll see
Speaker 5: they do. I believe they still do have plenty of
Speaker 5: other weapons that they can survive and win this game with.
Speaker 10: I'll say this, I think we've talked about all these
Speaker 10: different passing options Jake fergus In, Cavante Turber, and Brandon Cook,
Speaker 10: Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 8: How do you get these guys involved?
Speaker 10: Which one is the guy that can kind of be
Speaker 10: the game breaker for you, quote unquote if only you
Speaker 10: had a running game, Because I think if you had
Speaker 10: a confident running game going into this game, you'd be like,
Speaker 10: all right, Isekiel Elliott eighteen carries. As long as he
Speaker 10: can get to eighty five ninety yards, you're good. I
Speaker 10: don't think anyone believes that. And so if the coaching
Speaker 10: staff has been super confident in the running game, they've
Speaker 10: praised that throughout the offseason, We're gonna see how confident
Speaker 10: that they actually are depending on how many times they
Speaker 10: put the ball into Ezekiel Elliott's hands in Rico Dowdell's hands.
Speaker 10: Do those guys come out on the other side with
Speaker 10: twenty five plus carries.
Speaker 4: Since I won't be here tomorrow, spoiler, I actually think
Speaker 4: this game's gonna be won on the ground for Dallas.
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna see it has to be. I
Speaker 4: think what we're gonna see them row, what we're gonna
Speaker 4: see Sunday is Rico Dowdell is going to be used
Speaker 4: in a way where he is going to have some
Speaker 4: success in the run game. And it's it's gonna, at
Speaker 4: least for one week, make us all really rethink how
Speaker 4: big of a problem is the running back position, Because,
Speaker 4: as I said, and I'll keep maintaining, the issue at
Speaker 4: ric O'Donell is not his ability, it's his availability. He's
Speaker 4: available right now. I think they're gonna have success in
Speaker 4: the running game, especially as you talked about those interior
Speaker 4: linemen are gone that are not right now on the
Speaker 4: injury list for Cleveland. I think that's gonna be the
Speaker 4: target for Dallas is can we use these power guys
Speaker 4: we got in the middle of our offensive line to
Speaker 4: push this line and to just gut them cut their defense.
Speaker 4: That negates Miles Garrett, It negates those cornerbacks out there.
Speaker 4: It actually, when you start looking at a match from
Speaker 4: a matchup standpoint, it is the best way for Dallas
Speaker 4: to attack them. Question is can they do it? And
Speaker 4: I think if everything lines up, especially if those guys
Speaker 4: are out, I think it becomes a natural fit and
Speaker 4: I think Dallas is gonna have some success running the ball.
Speaker 10: This first drive of the game is going to tell
Speaker 10: us a lot about the confidence that they have in
Speaker 10: that running game. If they come out and they lean
Speaker 10: on that running game, that opening drive, that tells us, Okay,
Speaker 10: they believe in that confidence. But if they come out
Speaker 10: and they're throwing out a shotgun first for out of
Speaker 10: the first six plays, maybe there's not as much confidence
Speaker 10: in that running game as every.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this guy, if if all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, would the the okay, they're confident in the
Speaker 3: running game, If all of a sudden they open, they
Speaker 3: break the huddle and Rico daddles the starter is that
Speaker 3: is that confidence in the running game.
Speaker 2: So I would say so too.
Speaker 3: I'd say they're serious about Okay, we're gonna try and
Speaker 3: run the ball today. This is our best chance to
Speaker 3: run the ball with a guy that we think can
Speaker 3: do it, you know, and nothing again, seek and all.
Speaker 2: But if they use Zeke in.
Speaker 3: Short yardage and blitz pick up stuff and you know
Speaker 3: that awareness catching the football some occasional screen or two whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but if they they they run out there and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, Rico dawdles the starter and they're they're
Speaker 3: serious about running the ball.
Speaker 8: Then I will be happy about it.
Speaker 4: I will tell you this. I'm not so concerned about
Speaker 4: who gets that first snap and is the starter as
Speaker 4: much as I am. By the time we're done with
Speaker 4: the game and we look at the stats sheet, I
Speaker 4: need to see ric O'Donnell as the running back. They
Speaker 4: had the most carries. Yeah, that's what matters more to me.
Speaker 4: And if they want to because Zeke is the veteran
Speaker 4: that he is, they want to have him as the starter,
Speaker 4: if he's the leader of that room and they want
Speaker 4: to have great go for it. At the end of
Speaker 4: the day, I think Rico Dadell is the guy that's
Speaker 4: going to give you the most juice of the guy
Speaker 4: available to you, and I think that that means he
Speaker 4: should have the most careac.
Speaker 3: There's and real quick, if I can finish this up,
Speaker 3: you know, there was talked about if you look at
Speaker 3: the metrics with the Browns, how they played better defense
Speaker 3: at home than they do on the road.
Speaker 2: And I was just curious.
Speaker 3: They played, Okay, San Francisco really good offense. Jacksonville, they
Speaker 3: got skilled people. They played the Bears, the Jets, the Cardinals,
Speaker 3: and Tennessee with their division games. That's four games. There's
Speaker 3: four offenses right there, Chicago, Jets, Arizona and Tennessee that
Speaker 3: are all offensively challenged. You know, So some of those numbers.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you say they're really good at home, and you're like,
Speaker 3: they played crap offenses, you know.
Speaker 2: Sometimes Yeah, like I said, I.
Speaker 3: Was watching the Arizona game, Arizona, Arizona, Los track at
Speaker 3: how many pressures and sacks they gave up.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you play teams that are just awful.
Speaker 8: Even San Francisco didn't have Debo in there.
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Speaker 4: let's get into a little bit. We started this game
Speaker 4: earlier in the week, better worse saying. Let's talk about
Speaker 4: a couple offensive positions that I want to hit here,
Speaker 4: the offensive tackle position they lost Tyler Smith. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: Tyrone Smith, they added Tyler Guidon and then obviously you
Speaker 4: have to consider steal in his second year back from
Speaker 4: the injury. Where do you think they are they better,
Speaker 4: worse or same when it comes to the tackless.
Speaker 8: Just one caveat.
Speaker 10: I think also, I think we're pretty firm now in
Speaker 10: the sense that Austin Richards is at the tackle position.
Speaker 10: I can't say better saying when you lose a guy
Speaker 10: like Tyron Smith, I just can't. We'll see what Tyler
Speaker 10: Gotton breaks to the field. He is a rookie, he's
Speaker 10: a first round pick.
Speaker 4: Well, fact got all the side. Absolutely, and I'm sorry
Speaker 4: to interrupt you, but I want you to factor into that.
Speaker 4: If you're saying that about Tyron Smith, also factor in
Speaker 4: his how much you could rely on availability. Yes, let's
Speaker 4: talk about that as well. Put that in the conversation
Speaker 4: as well. If you're gonna mention.
Speaker 10: That, yeah, I'm gonna put that in the conversation as well,
Speaker 10: and factor that in. I'm still going to say worse,
Speaker 10: just in the sense of when you lose a guy
Speaker 10: like Tyron Smith, even if it is only ten eleven
Speaker 10: games that you get out of him every year, that's tough.
Speaker 8: To match.
Speaker 10: That's a tough presence to be able to match. But
Speaker 10: I do have confidence in Tyler Guidon. I think he's
Speaker 10: going to get better as the season goes on. I
Speaker 10: think there's a lot to like about the guy, but
Speaker 10: I don't feel great about the depth behind him, and
Speaker 10: I think that's probably where my concerns lie the most.
Speaker 10: It would probably be awesome Richards stepping in at left
Speaker 10: tackle if Guyden were to go down with anything, and
Speaker 10: I think there's a lot of concern there now. Austome
Speaker 10: Richards did look pretty solid in the preseason and you
Speaker 10: can tell that he's taking a step forward going in
Speaker 10: a year two. Buddy still hasn't played in an NFL game,
Speaker 10: So the inexperience, the question marks on the depth chart,
Speaker 10: that's why I say worse.
Speaker 3: I'm just hoping that Tyler Geiden has the same kind
Speaker 3: of day and year that Tyler Smith had when he
Speaker 3: had to go play tackle.
Speaker 2: We were all worried about that. Yeah, we were all.
Speaker 3: Terrified of that whole situation, and then it worked out
Speaker 3: to be just fine.
Speaker 2: My hope. Right now, Nick h hit it on the head.
Speaker 3: Right now, there's so much unknown how that's going to
Speaker 3: work out by week four. We could say better, you're better,
Speaker 3: You're better there, or you could say, man, we're treading
Speaker 3: water right now until you know we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 3: eventually get there. I'd say, right now, we're treading water
Speaker 3: until you exactly until you understand you hope you don't sink.
Speaker 3: But I'm saying that I would love to get be
Speaker 3: in this game and have have Tyrone Smith playing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would, I really would. It would make me feel
Speaker 3: better about Okay. Now, you can maybe do some things,
Speaker 3: but nothing against Guiden. He's Guiden is Guiden. Surprised me
Speaker 3: how well he's run blocked. That was something I didn't see.
Speaker 3: I don't know about you, Nick. Watching Oklahoma tape. I
Speaker 3: think I think his run blocking has really been underrated,
Speaker 3: you know, for wh where he's at right now. But
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say right now they're they're probably not as.
Speaker 5: Good same I would say worse in week one, but
Speaker 5: I have the confidence that it will be a lot
Speaker 5: better as he you know, he gets along again. We
Speaker 5: got to give credit and the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 5: always given the Cowboys track record when drafting a first
Speaker 5: round picking an offensive line player in the first round.
Speaker 5: So I have the confidence that he will become that guy.
Speaker 5: But I mean, there's no way you can say that
Speaker 5: ahead of week one it's my game because of the
Speaker 5: you haven't seen it yet in the inexperience, this could go.
Speaker 5: And also by the way, we we got to make
Speaker 5: sure when the game happens, we got to give these
Speaker 5: guys some grace and always keep in mind that we
Speaker 5: cannot just kill them. Like, these are rookies and it's
Speaker 5: gonna it's gonna take some time to grow and develop.
Speaker 5: So it's crazy when you talk about all having three
Speaker 5: or four rookies starting and playing in this game. We
Speaker 5: got to keep in mind that don't let's not be
Speaker 5: too crazy hard on them because they're still rookies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this could go a couple of different ways real quick.
Speaker 3: I know you want to get this mother's thoughts. But
Speaker 3: this could go like all of a sudden that Guidon
Speaker 3: handles him no problem at all, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you're like, Wow, what an amazing deal, And then next
Speaker 3: week we're coming in here going I was clearly or
Speaker 3: it could or it could go like you know, it
Speaker 3: could get really really ugly, and but but then you go.
Speaker 2: But well it was you know, it was Miles Garrett.
Speaker 2: It was Miles Garrett.
Speaker 3: He has a chance to like really like send it
Speaker 3: that way or just like I was talking about tread Wall.
Speaker 3: I just hope he survives it, you know, because it's
Speaker 3: going to be a sixty five play well probably sixty
Speaker 3: play battle where he is going to every time probably
Speaker 3: have to just he sees that ninety five, he's going
Speaker 3: to take a deep breath and here we go, you know,
Speaker 3: and you just hope it's he could have a great game,
Speaker 3: and then it could be that one play at the
Speaker 3: end of the game and you're talking about a three
Speaker 3: point game or something like that, and then it's an
Speaker 3: eight yard sack and now you're at a field goal range.
Speaker 3: You never had a field goal range with our kicker.
Speaker 3: But but you know what I'm saying, Yeah, I mentioned
Speaker 3: fourteen sacks, guys cost four fumbles, you know, and you
Speaker 3: just don't want it to be having a great game,
Speaker 3: great game, great game, and then one play Miles Garrett
Speaker 3: shows you why it was.
Speaker 2: Why is Miles Garrett.
Speaker 4: Look, my thing is I think they're the same. And
Speaker 4: the reason why I say they're the same, I absolutely
Speaker 4: agree Tyron Smith is a better player in healthy than
Speaker 4: any tackle the Cowboys on their team. That's fair.
Speaker 2: The same was that something we could have said.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I say it better word saying oh. And the
Speaker 4: reason why I say sad, I need medicine, well.
Speaker 3: You need you need the smart medicine with hearing medicine.
Speaker 4: Here's why I say saying no. Here's why I say
Speaker 4: same is because I believe.
Speaker 5: Wait on, you told me dumb by the way you
Speaker 5: say you need the smart medicine. Because I'm kind of
Speaker 5: slow today. My brain is processing things slow today. But
Speaker 5: hold on, Brian, I am. I am no dumb. Hold on,
Speaker 5: okay four port o g p A. I speak three
Speaker 5: languages with an accent.
Speaker 4: Though, smart a lot of problem.
Speaker 5: Hey, all about battle anybody in smartness.
Speaker 8: I was surprised you let that slide.
Speaker 4: I was like, no, actually, I was trying to move
Speaker 4: on really.
Speaker 2: Quick.
Speaker 4: Anyway, smart, I mean that's smart.
Speaker 2: That's same. Same.
Speaker 4: The reason why I said same is because there are
Speaker 4: questions about the Availa that you still have the same.
Speaker 4: You have questions, They're just different questions. This year, I
Speaker 4: think we all have seen things that make us believe
Speaker 4: that that Tyler Guyden can be a really good player,
Speaker 4: we just don't haven't seen it in a real game
Speaker 4: against arguably the best or one of the best pass
Speaker 4: rushers in the NFL. So there are questions in the
Speaker 4: same way there were questions about Tyler Tyron Smith even
Speaker 4: in a week one situation, like we don't know if
Speaker 4: he gets through training camp, we don't know if he's
Speaker 4: ready to play by week one. So for me, and
Speaker 4: I've said this, I've been saying this really for the
Speaker 4: last three or four years. I like the consistency of
Speaker 4: knowing my guy is gonna be there. And I was
Speaker 4: willing to tear the band aid off years ago, and
Speaker 4: even though Tyron Smith is still a really great player,
Speaker 4: I just wanted the consistency. And so for me, I
Speaker 4: look at now I have the consistency. Now, the question
Speaker 4: is do I have the player. I think I've seen
Speaker 4: shades of that. I don't know. That'll have to be
Speaker 4: confirmed over this season and maybe even longer, but I
Speaker 4: think right now there's still questions. And that's why I
Speaker 4: would say.
Speaker 3: The Stambert did say something smart about it, said, it's
Speaker 3: on record, plug and play, the plug and Play that
Speaker 3: they draft guys in the first round and they tend
Speaker 3: to do well and if you want to give them.
Speaker 5: The tricky part with this year. The tricky part with
Speaker 5: this year is because it is such a critical year
Speaker 5: for so many people, and the Cowboys and the coaching
Speaker 5: staff and so many other guys, what could be a
Speaker 5: decent year for a guy like him could not be
Speaker 5: good enough for what the team overall needs for this
Speaker 5: specific year. So that's what sucks about it, is that
Speaker 5: a lot of these guys are going to be feeling
Speaker 5: the pressure of trying to really overperform or bring it
Speaker 5: to another level that typically would be fine, but because
Speaker 5: of the intensity of what's needed this year is it
Speaker 5: might not be enough.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll hope that they all stay rooted and they
Speaker 4: do their jobs and we'll see.
Speaker 2: What I learned.
Speaker 3: I've learned something about rooted in Australia and Australian culture.
Speaker 2: We'll tell you after this.
Speaker 8: Having a field day with this. They are having a
Speaker 8: field day with this anyway, all.
Speaker 4: Right, anyway, we're gonna move us free. We appreciate, we
Speaker 4: appreciate you guys doing us well. We be back or
Speaker 4: they will be back tomorrow. I will be off. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna see you guys on Sunday. But hook them. Let's
Speaker 4: get it.
Speaker 8: What's the prediction there, Oh.
Speaker 4: They're gonna they will win by thirteen. Texas beats Michigan
Speaker 4: on the road at their place by thirteen, at least
Speaker 4: by thirteen. Because this is I think Texas is well
Speaker 4: suited to go up there and play this team. I
Speaker 4: think I think are a better team. All right, But
Speaker 4: we'll see, hopefully Monday. I'm not sitting here very very sad, too,
Speaker 4: very very sad. But we'll see how it goes until then.
Speaker 4: For Nick Harris, Brian brought us Ambergarci. I'm Derek Kielton.
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