WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Replacing Randy 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.800 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:16.680 and the Dallas Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.400 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:24.720 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:30.120 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:36.400 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.120 It is Thursday, November eleventh, twenty twenty one, season seventeen, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.000 episode number fifty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.880 The Break, Live from s WBC Morgat Studios. At the start, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.720 I'm I'm excited about doing the show, but man, it's 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.920 like every time you think things are kind of pulling 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.800 back together, you're getting your guys back, something just happens 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.600 from an injury standpoint that just has you scratching your head. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.160 We hear this morning that Randy Gregory, who, by the way, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.360 as I was putting together the rundown for the show yesterday, 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.440 I saw the injury report and I noticed Randy Gregory's 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.920 name on their limited. I'm like, Okay, it's probably just 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.320 one of those things, just kind of taking it easy. Then, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.160 Mike McCarthy says today in his press conference stead. This 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:26.520 is a multiple week injury. This is not a just 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.840 a you know, vet day or kind of give a 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.520 guy a little break to rest something that's been bothering him. 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.920 My question for you guys, let's let's just get to 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.320 the brass taxes thing. What does this what does this 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.600 injury look like as far as just timetable? What do 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.600 we think as far as timetable and how the Cowboys 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.560 at chust. The fact that Mike McCarthy didn't rule out 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.840 injured reserve tells you all you need to know. But 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.320 the fact that they don't know yet also means it's 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.000 multiple week but that could be if they if they 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.680 haven't already decided, that means you're at least within the 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.520 possibility of it being a two or three week injury. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.920 I always try to be conservative with injury diagnosis. Now, well, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.560 Gallum were being a perfect example of why these things 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.480 take time. So but I mean, it sounds like they'll 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.799 be without him for multiple games, maybe even as long 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.240 as three to five. I mean, it's it's a calf injury. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.119 He did say, you know, no two are the same. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.800 He said it was a similar part of the calf 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.840 to Dak that's what he's said. Miss what three weeks? 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.400 Dak missed two weeks, two weeks in one game because 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.200 of the bye, he missed so few weeks. Yeah, I 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.840 was thinking three weeks from the time he played to 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.280 the time he played, but it would been Yeah, he 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.520 missed two games, or would have if it were two buy, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.440 so it could be two. Michael Gallup had a calf 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.040 injury and is just now coming back in mid November 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.239 after Week one, so somewhere in between. That's interesting though, 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.600 you know, you're talking about two games. It's usually Sunday 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.440 to Sunday. But as we sit here and he suffered 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.639 it on a Wednesday, we're talking about having some Thursday 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.040 games coming up. So yeah, I mean, I you hope 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.200 it's more like that and less like Gallop, but that 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.280 is And yeah, this is the stretch of time where 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.560 we're about to get into that window where they're gonna 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.800 play four games in twenty days or whatever the math is, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.160 you know. I mean, after this it goes to Kansas 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.799 City Thanksgiving and then another Thursday games. It's just been 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.320 a tech it's just been tag team wrestling the whole time. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.600 It's just been like, all right, I'm back, all right, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.080 I mean, and we've talked about it then, overcoming so 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.880 many different challenges throughout the season. But to me, like, 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.680 am I exaggerating to like by feeling that with this 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.840 kind of news, I feel like, damn with screw on defense, 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.400 That's how I feel with Randy, a player like Randy 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.040 the way he's been playing on that defense, and right now, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.800 just imagine him out of the mix, and then while 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.080 we wait for DeMarcus Lawrence and even with Dlock coming back, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.560 I mean, at what pace is it gonna be? You know, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:01.280 because sometimes it does, say like a game or two 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.880 for players even like him, to kind of get back 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:08.160 into the groove of things. But right now, I feel like, damn, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:15.320 am I exaggerating? Well, Well, he's been the best player 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.599 on defense. He's been better. I mean he I think 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.839 he's been better consistently now than Digs and Parsons who 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.520 have been great at times. But I think for what 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.719 that position gives you, I mean, he he has cleaned 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.960 up a lot of messes and he's been a dynamic player. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.160 And so now I don't know about screwed. I mean, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.719 but because dan Quinn has had less talent and had 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.120 good defenses. So we'll see what he can come up with. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.240 But um, yeah, I mean it's frustrating to have a 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.479 player like that that's you know, goes down to another injury. Yeah, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.479 I don't think you're exaggerating. I also, it's just it's 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.599 it's football, it's the NFL. We're halfway through the season, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.000 and damn there there can't be more than a handful 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.120 of teams that think that they've had good injury luck. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.919 Right now, like every seventy five percent of the teams 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.720 in the league think they can't buy a break. It's 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.279 it's the nature of the game. Well, I mean, it's 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.360 one thing when your quarterback is rolling out in overtime 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.680 and beats the Patriots, a team you hadn't beaten in 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.200 thirty years, and you score a touchdown, and that's the 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.560 good news. The bend news is he suffered a caff injury. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.600 But we'll see if we got to buy we'll see. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.680 It sucks when it's out here at practice and that's 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.280 they're doing out here. I have a memory at some 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.080 point this year, I think it was at the end 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.960 of training camp. I was like, now you don't really 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.000 have to hold your breath about practice anymore, because the 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.400 season practices are different than camp practices, and you don't 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.600 hear a whole hell of a lot about injuries happening 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.479 during game weeks, and Randy's this has got to be 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.680 at least the second guy who's Yeah, because CD rolled 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.360 his ankle last week at practice, But that's also these 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.960 kinds of cans. Yeah, so I knew it was more 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.359 than Yeah. Three guys have gotten hurt at practice, and 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.880 two of them are significant, And I'm not trying to 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.200 say that they're doing something wrong. I just it's it's 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.960 a tough break that you're usually not used to having 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.080 to deal with, and they can be just just like 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.400 use type injuries, these are not like they necessarily were 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.159 trying to, you know, make this incredible block or whatever. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.360 It's just overuse of After a certain amount of time, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.360 sometimes you can freak things happen. I'm not throwing I'm 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.240 not questioning the way Mike McCarthy runs his practices or 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.960 the medical staff. I already see people, this is the 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.839 third calf injury of the year. People we're doing out there? 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.039 Do we need to look at the training staff? No, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.040 the training staff has done a hell of a job 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.440 getting all of these guys back for you. By the way, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.120 it's just again it's football. Yeah, I mean I remember 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.520 eight nine years ago it was it was a hamstring. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.000 It was miles off and just a bunch of that 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.320 was my first year. And then we couldn't We ran 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 out of room to write about all the hamstrings on 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.560 and then about I don't know, five years ago, six 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.520 years ago. I know Dan Bailey was one of them. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:52.200 It was the back. You remember, it was a lot 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.480 of tiring you had Bailey's it was happening Lyle had 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.400 a back a lot. So it's just seems like they 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.320 do kind of sometimes come in bunches, is in a 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.120 particular carry other body. But I don't think. I think 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.839 you get in trouble when you start trying to make 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.880 comparisons between injuries and oh, we got a lot of these, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:09.800 so it must mean something. No, it just means that 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.840 a couple guys got the same injury. It's not not 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.280 to mention. I mean the workload. I mean, you couldn't 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.960 ask for three more different situation or receiver and end 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.720 in a quarterback. I mean, it's not like they're out 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.520 there doing the same drills or Mike McCarthy doesn't have 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.040 these guys doing caf raises in between reps. You know, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.360 it's be pretty interesting. No, I don't think it would. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.960 That might not be a good idea. Oh I liked 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.480 his answer. You know about somebody asked them, does this 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.720 mean Michael Parsons is going to rush the faster? And 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.080 he's like, well, see it noon the game starts and 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.840 don't be late. Well I can ask you got the answers, Yes, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.240 the answers, yes, you think he's now going to be 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.400 rushing the past. But I'm saying, like, do you think 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.400 they like they did in the Charge again, like they're 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.000 gonna line him up he's gonna be your defensive I wouldn't. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.640 I would I would not. Okay, have it out, let's go, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.040 who's gonna do it? What I'm thinking, what are you 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.960 getting from your edge rushers if you don't have Nick 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.480 is thinking Drance? Okay, No, I'm Mica has more career 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.360 sacks than Dorrance already, by the way, from where Dorance 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.720 has been on the team since twenty eighteen, coming from 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.440 where he Dorance has two career sacks playing end and 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.920 Mica got one against the Chargers. That's fine. Like I'm 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.000 not I'm not comparing Dorance Armstrong and Micah Parsons. What 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.000 I'm what I'm saying is that I still feel like 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.760 Mica has been a better player. When he is a 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.800 linebacker and he's rushing from all over the place, I 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.200 don't think he's as good. Just right there, we have 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.640 a guy like Randy Gary out though you don't have 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:44.680 the luxury to use for you, who's playing on Neil 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.360 Lane Van Rush? No? Thanks, okay, nothing, because when you 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.200 did that against the Chargers, laugh if you want. But 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.640 Jalen Smith played and he played pretty well in that 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.800 game against the Chargers. He did a nice job in 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.840 that game, and in you get him? Why do you 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.200 have to do these things? I've heard worse things in 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.400 the world. I'm asking the question, I mean because I 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.439 thought he was about when Ambrass. I thought it's a 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.280 valid question, like, okay, if you move him, Like who's 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.800 going to be your linebackers? I think that's a valid question. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.720 Keyan O'Neill and Layton Vandersch, Like what are we talking 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.160 about here? I know I agree with Nick to a 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.240 degree that Keyan O'Neill hasn't been this revelation. He's been fine, 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.360 He's got thirty tackles, he's started two games. I mean, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.960 Micah Parsons is dynamic in the role that we've seen 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:35.480 the last few weeks. Bash him, okay, Just like you 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:39.600 said that Kean O'Neill and Layton Vandersch would be fine, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.800 I also think bash him and Dorn's Armstrong would probably 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.520 be fine as well. But I got I got this 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.920 dynamic player that they don't know where he's coming from, which, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.480 as I say over and over and over again, it 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.240 doesn't have to be either or. I don't want him 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.160 to do just one thing. He needs to give them 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.560 something from the edge in this game. I just expect 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.960 at this point his number of reps is going to 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.720 go up, but he's going to probably do both. He 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.720 plays sixty snaps, I would like to see at least 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.200 fifteen of them come from the edge, just to give 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.400 them something. And I'm fine with that. The week two 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.560 against the Chargers, he only played like thirty snaps. He 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.559 didn't play a lot, and they were they used him 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.480 as a true like he was part of the edge rotation. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.880 That's not necessarily what I'm asking for. Yeah, he needs 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.960 they need some juice off the edge that I don't 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:33.640 Terrell Basham and Dorin's Armstrong can do their jobs, and 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.400 there's way more to playing defensive end than just rushing 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.640 the passer. We know that, but they don't have any 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.720 juice around the corner without Micah doing that. With Randy 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.040 and demark Slawrence just sitting out, how much of a 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.040 challenge do you think this is when you come to 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.920 this is a relatively a relatively easier schedule, But this 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.560 part of the schedule, I think you're facing some teams 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:57.480 that are probably as good as what you're gonna face 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.559 this season. When you've got not necessarily Atlanta, which you 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.200 can say which you want about Atlanta, but then you 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.600 get to Kansas City, who has a pretty good passing attack. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.320 We did this last week we started talking about Darren 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.040 Waller and I'm not saying it's a superstition thing like 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.160 we can't do that, but well, one thing at a time, man, 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.160 I mean, we don't know the length of Randy's injury. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.760 We do know it's multiple week we do so these 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.960 teams do these But for the next three weeks, you've 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.280 got Atlanta, then you've got Kansas City, then you've got 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.600 Las Vegas. Let's sort through how to do this. Man. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.240 It's not a it's not a matter of like we 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.440 need to focus and only talk about Atlanta. It's like, 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.320 we there's so much we don't know. We don't know 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:41.840 what his timetable is, we don't know what their game 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.360 plan is against Atlanta. They could pick and choose this thing. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.200 I mean, they're probably not going to add talent from 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.040 outside the team. So I think what you do against 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.760 Kansas City and Las Vegas will probably be informed by 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.600 how successful your game plan is this week. If I 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.240 had to guess, maybe Basham or were And or Armstrong 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.400 play the game of their life and you're like, Okay, 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.679 we don't need Mica so much. Maybe Matt Ryan has 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.439 all freaking day on Sunday, and you're like, we gotta 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.079 do something. We don't want to move Mica, but it 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.719 calls for it, you know. And that's all I mean. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.640 It's not like, of course we can talk about other games. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.200 It's just there's so much we don't know. Here on 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.000 Thursday of game week, this is the second time again 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.480 they had to throw their game plan out the window 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.320 against LA and I don't know if they if they're 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.400 going to do that this week, but it's at least possible. 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.360 It's it's worth a thought. Yeah, yeah, this is a 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.200 like Nick said, this is your best defensive player. That's 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.240 a pretty big deal when you lose your pretty your 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.800 best defensive mand. I really wanted to see him rush 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:45.360 the pastor against Mahomes too, I know, okay, also against 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.199 Matt Ryan, but I mean I thought I thought that 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.360 would have That was just a good matchup. I can't 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.960 I couldn't wait to see. And I was hoping DL 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.000 would be back for that one too. But both of them, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.520 but you know, you got it's rare that you're gonna 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.200 face back to back in VP quarterbacks, I mean former 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.760 mvpsy because they're not Neither one of them are playing 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.840 like MVP level right now. Um. I think one of 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.760 them can figure it out though, but it might be 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:14.199 that we'll be against the count. He's not there to 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.160 make them uncomfortable. Don't you just see Tyreek Hill just 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.199 just I've been sayings into the end zone. I've been 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.120 saying all year, like the chief the Chiefs are Michael 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.320 Myers to me, like you got, I know, you got 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.280 to bury them under concrete for me to believe they're 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.520 five and four. They could suck for another month and 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.840 still figure it out in time to make the playoffs, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.640 and then all bets are off. And what are the Falcons? 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.640 Four and four? You know? Right now? The Falcons are 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.040 the last wild the last wild card team right now, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:44.640 they are a playoff team as we sit here today. Well, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.040 last time as four and four team came into the 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.400 stadium didn't go so well. Yeah, who was that the Bronco? 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.640 Oh god, I'm sorry. I thought you were pulling up 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.079 something from years like a couple of years ago. Yeah, no, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:14:00.000 I stick to right here, right here in the press, Briner. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.840 That's the The NFL is wild like that, like Denver 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.520 in Atlanta has been circled for a long time. Is 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.240 kind of like, okay, you get a break before this 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.120 crazy stretch heading into December, and the Broncos aren't a 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.559 wildcard team right now, but that that whole division is 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.560 above five hundred, like mathematically, they are very much in 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.520 the division race, let alone the wildcard race. And that 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.040 and Atlanta is the seventh wildcard team right now. So 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.480 this is why it's not fun. And I get called 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.840 boring and a downer but like, why do we argue 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.640 about this stuff in May? It just doesn't matter. It 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.920 doesn't matter at all because so many is gonna happen. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:41.040 I know the answer part about doing a playoffs? What 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.760 are you gonna argue about? 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Download in the app or Google Play stores. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.240 Welcome back. We're in the second segment of the Break 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.840 Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.280 We're joined right now by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.560 Bucky Less talks some Atlanta defense versus Cowboys offense. As 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:29.760 I look through the statistical rankings of this team, this defense, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:32.639 it doesn't look like there's much to fear here. But 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.920 at coming off a game like we had last week, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.720 I'm just like, Okay, well, maybe there's not much there, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.480 but maybe there is. And so I want to ask 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.960 you what what's the best thing they do? And what's 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:46.880 the thing that you can get them on. What's their weakness. Well, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.679 I mean, statistically they haven't played well this season, but 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.480 they played pretty well against the Saints for the most part. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.159 For about three quarters they had the Saints kind of 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.960 nullified and locked up. That's the unit of plays. Sorry, 0:17:57.960 --> 0:17:59.480 they're still trying to figure out how to play in 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.720 the scheme. Then Dean Piece and the guys are trying 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.880 to put together down there. But I think obviously when 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.760 you have the kind of performance that the Cowboys had 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.399 a week ago, everyone is going to look at what 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.280 the Broncos did and they're gonna try and steal some ideas, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.719 and so I think the Cowboys can expect to see 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.480 some of that man match coverage where they're passing off 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.320 things and playing man demand, trying to take away some 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.360 of the easy thrills and trying to confuse Dak with 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:26.159 the way that they switch and kind of nutty up 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.520 the middle of the field. They can really generate pressure 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.119 because they they just haven't been able to do it. 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.119 I mean, I think Dantefalla may come back, but they 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.840 don't have enough up front to really get after it. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.639 So because they can't get after you with pressure. They 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.080 gotta put a lot more of their eggs in the 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.600 coverage basket and see if they can kind of confuse 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.719 the quarterback by switching up things to make a very 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.639 very cloudy for him when he's trying to read Bucky. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.679 When I think of Falcon's defense, I think of like 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.320 Jesse Tuggle or something. I don't really know a lot 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.960 of guys there on that defense, but I'm gonna kind 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.639 of flip the script because we just found out the 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.440 news on Randy Gregory on a defensive end being out 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.000 for a few weeks for the Cowboys. What what would 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.080 you do there a defensive end if you're Dallas for 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.840 this game, I think you have I think you have 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.600 to play more set packages. I think you have to 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.960 use Mica a little more off the edge. I think 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.479 you have to kind of blend in some of your 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.800 nickel dime packages so you can free Mica up to 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.040 do those things. He's the most explosive player on the 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.399 two deep roster off the edge that's available, so you 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.360 have to use them in that role, and it's one 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.440 where you lose some of his playmaking ability as a sideline. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.720 The sideline player, but in this game. You need the 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.200 pressure because you can't let Matt Ryan sit back there 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:42.280 forty forty five times without the rest. He still is 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.800 good enough to pick apart secondaries, and so I think 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:48.080 Mica has to have a bigger role coming off the edge. Buggy, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.520 you kind of talked about this at the jump, but 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.280 I'm just curious from your experience in the league, like 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:58.159 when somebody's when Denver obviously is who I'm referring to, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:03.200 when somebody's game plan works that well against an opponent, 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.400 like when you're watching and game planning that, how much 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:10.040 do you think the Falcons change what they want to 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.200 do or adopt that based on what they're seeing. I mean, 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.160 I imagine you still have plenty of stuff in your 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:17.920 own scheme that you want to stick with, but you 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:23.119 can't ignore or how successful that is, I'm guessing no. 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:24.840 So early in the game, you want to see if 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.000 they've answered the question, if they've answered the question that 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.720 pops up based on how the Broncos kind of slowed 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.280