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Speaker 5: and the SWBC Studios. Welcome In, Everybody is the first
Speaker 5: post bye week episode as we lead you into the
Speaker 5: rivalry renewed the Dallas Cowboys and the Sam Francisco forty
Speaker 5: nine ers in week eight of the NFL season.
Speaker 3: Welcome in, Everybody. We've got the full as crew ready
Speaker 3: to rock.
Speaker 5: We've got Patrick Noc Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah stand back
Speaker 5: with Chris Beam in the back. Kyle Yellman's, gentlemen, how
Speaker 5: was the bye week? I know Patrick, you're feeling a
Speaker 5: little extra.
Speaker 1: Dog Ye today invigorated.
Speaker 6: Yeah, these are not a part of the dress code, sir.
Speaker 6: We're already to change.
Speaker 1: Are you sure hoodies.
Speaker 4: Neither are violations, by the way, I thought hoodies were hoodies.
Speaker 4: Really definitely, okay, try let's pay with pay go dogs. No,
Speaker 4: it was a it was a RESTful bye week, you know.
Speaker 4: We we were able to reset, got time with the family,
Speaker 4: which is always nice. Got the dub on Saturday, which
Speaker 4: is always nice against those Longhorns. Watched the New York
Speaker 4: Mets lose on Sunday, which.
Speaker 7: Is always nice. So pretty pretty fulfilled weekend. How about you, guys.
Speaker 6: Well, the Cowboys didn't lose, so I'm really happy about that.
Speaker 3: That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, either they couldn't hurt me this weekend, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: That true?
Speaker 3: Yeah, not this weekend. Maybe next maybe next weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah but no, yeah, all good.
Speaker 1: What did you do? Kids?
Speaker 3: Games? Man? That's it. Yeah, it's just kids, games and work,
Speaker 3: that's all.
Speaker 6: By week it was quick, right, Oh yeah, I didn't
Speaker 6: have any rest at all. We moved into a house.
Speaker 3: Hey, let's go. I saw your picture. You're pointing out
Speaker 3: the bricks and this is what here is.
Speaker 6: Love it when you go out and look at a
Speaker 6: house that you bought with your own money. You know,
Speaker 6: you're Wow, that's mine right there.
Speaker 5: Brick, don't Yeah, do you know how much like you
Speaker 5: paid for it? Down to the scent, because whenever we
Speaker 5: bought ours, I know I could rattle it off right now,
Speaker 5: I'm not going through yeah, but like I know the
Speaker 5: exact scent of what I paid for the house, like yeah, currently.
Speaker 3: Remember Remember the house is paid for. It's the loan
Speaker 3: that I'm trying to pay back currently.
Speaker 7: So I was gonna never never assumed though, I mean,
Speaker 7: he might have just dropped cash on the tape.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 4: We are dealing with We are dealing with the guy
Speaker 4: who had who had the Batman mobiles and all that
Speaker 4: stuff as a child. So I don't know's true, true,
Speaker 4: it's true, it's quite, it's fluid.
Speaker 3: I don't privilege. I don't think that house is built
Speaker 3: out of legos. No, it's not.
Speaker 6: No, it's real bricks. So it feels great, man.
Speaker 1: Congrats, that's all much.
Speaker 5: That's a great step in the direction of adulthood.
Speaker 3: Grona love it all right, let's get into some news
Speaker 3: and notes.
Speaker 5: We've got a fun show for you today, by the way.
Speaker 5: Good to be back with you, guys. I thought it
Speaker 5: was a lot of fun splitting up last week.
Speaker 1: But it's just a brotherhood. That's all it is with
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 5: Back in here, we had Burry Church and Brian brought
Speaker 5: us on here. Last week we went through grades. We
Speaker 5: did like a six week report card.
Speaker 1: You remember when you were a kid. You get your six.
Speaker 5: Week grades, and your mom's either really happy or not
Speaker 5: very happy at all.
Speaker 3: You gotta go up and hide one. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 3: always look back to mom. Don't worry. I played outside
Speaker 3: for a reason. I tried Man's Coming.
Speaker 6: The real struggle was trying to change a C to
Speaker 6: A trying to color.
Speaker 1: I didn't do any Are these.
Speaker 6: Letters so much bigger than all the other one?
Speaker 3: I had a better chance of intercepting the letter?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, First of all, typewriter, So I
Speaker 4: know you know why out and typewriter?
Speaker 3: How do you have you ever use a typewriter? Never
Speaker 3: in my life?
Speaker 5: No goodness, you're not that much like typewriters and computers.
Speaker 3: Computers were just coming around.
Speaker 6: That's true, Hanks, typewriter the time.
Speaker 4: That's why you type with your fingers. I still have
Speaker 4: a typewriter. It's just for a nostalgia, though I don't
Speaker 4: use I don't know one person that typed on a typewriter,
Speaker 4: not using just one.
Speaker 5: Patrick's writing his science lab every week typewriter And.
Speaker 3: You did you?
Speaker 4: Did you use multiple fingers to do typewriter to write
Speaker 4: your papers?
Speaker 5: Do you think my first computer class was in eighth grade?
Speaker 3: Oh wow? So yes, we used typewriters back in the day.
Speaker 1: But did you use your did you hand pack it?
Speaker 1: Were you full?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm doing two things right now.
Speaker 4: Beamer's got those those press he's on the typewriter stood
Speaker 4: too tall for the for you to be slapping.
Speaker 7: Yes, actually I feel like somebody had to be a
Speaker 7: Jedi with that thing, like the the old office assistants. Ye,
Speaker 7: office assistant right, Oh, oh my god?
Speaker 1: That theographersographers.
Speaker 6: I wanted to do that forever.
Speaker 1: But there are those are different.
Speaker 3: Those don't even know they're different.
Speaker 6: They're like it's like minority report, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: where it's like a screen.
Speaker 7: And there's like vibing that is it actual like words
Speaker 7: or is it kind of like a I don't know phrase.
Speaker 3: You could get one spelling era you'd be furious type.
Speaker 6: No, it's not key key, it's phrase by phrase. How
Speaker 6: you can do it with this?
Speaker 1: So that's why we're is different.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry we let down this path.
Speaker 5: We did apologiz, but yeah we did grades on last
Speaker 5: week with Brian and Barry.
Speaker 3: I want to get into news and notes, and later
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 5: We're to go through one of the articles, the biology
Speaker 5: report is what them was on at Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a really cool article science. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go through it is. It's more science, that's what
Speaker 3: it is. But let's go to news notes first.
Speaker 1: From the brain of Nick Eatman though that's true.
Speaker 7: So you know sciences, right, sciences infectious?
Speaker 6: Who is playing to definitely have flung to science when
Speaker 6: he was a.
Speaker 3: Kid, Nick did.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Interesting, he was just.
Speaker 6: Saying that he didn't care about anything in school other
Speaker 6: than you know, what the Cowboys were doing football? Yeah,
Speaker 6: a true gamer.
Speaker 1: It's something else he cared about, because we all did that.
Speaker 7: Being said, so, news and notes are going to be
Speaker 7: fairly thin today because the reason, ladies and gentlemen you
Speaker 7: heard Beamer say he's doing two things at once is
Speaker 7: because literally, as we speak simultaneously, Micha McCarthy is holding
Speaker 7: his first post by week press conference. So not sure
Speaker 7: what updates are going to come from that. I'm monitoring
Speaker 7: for injury updates and things like that, So we won't
Speaker 7: know quite yet what the injury update is going to
Speaker 7: be on guys like Dron Blam Michael Parsons. So we'll
Speaker 7: know hopefully by the end of the show something there.
Speaker 7: But we did have a signing. Don't go, you know,
Speaker 7: sizing up your super Bowl ring for it, but it
Speaker 7: was a signing on the list.
Speaker 4: That's what I did over the bie way. Did you
Speaker 4: size up your Super Bowl ringe? Might as well you
Speaker 4: kept it received? Yeah, okay, Yes.
Speaker 7: Cowboys added player to the practice squad by the name
Speaker 7: of Jalen Dalton. Jayleen Dalton is a defensive ind and
Speaker 7: he's being added because of the they're basically wrecked at
Speaker 7: defensive end. We talked about it last week, uh kidd.
Speaker 7: Injury wise, we will see if Micah comes back this week.
Speaker 7: I don't have any insight one where another on that
Speaker 7: quite yet, hopefully by the end of the show, most
Speaker 7: definitely by Wednesday when I get some more information there.
Speaker 7: Defensive end Jalen Dalton he was an undrafted free agent
Speaker 7: signed to the Chicago Bears in twenty nineteen. Spent some
Speaker 7: time with the New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 7: as well as the Carolina Panthers. A little bit of
Speaker 7: a journeyman although he's twenty seven, he's been around the league.
Speaker 7: Also played for and Isaiah Wall like this one the
Speaker 7: Seattle Sea Dragons in the spring. Spent some time with
Speaker 7: the Seattle Sea Dragons and most recently the San Antonio Brahmas.
Speaker 1: So xfil Yeah.
Speaker 7: Another XFL experiment for the Cowboys on the practice squad.
Speaker 7: Not a ton of experience NFL wise, because even though
Speaker 7: he was a bit of a journeyman in this league,
Speaker 7: he only has I believe two games activated, thirteen combined tackles.
Speaker 1: So still Green Still's.
Speaker 3: Coming straight from the Bromos.
Speaker 1: He's coming straight from the bromsh Well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta love how much respect our scouting department
Speaker 6: has for the UFL.
Speaker 1: The XFL.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, you know, absolutely, that is one of their things.
Speaker 7: And I mean when you talk about Cavante turfing, talk
Speaker 7: about Brandon Aubrey, I mean they hit big on those
Speaker 7: two guys, and to this point they're just trying to
Speaker 7: see how many more times they can hit deject but so.
Speaker 5: And it's an all encompassing thing too, because of course
Speaker 5: the draft is such a huge thing in this building,
Speaker 5: and it has to be with the contract situations and
Speaker 5: the salary cap. And I of course I have an
Speaker 5: utmost love for the draft because I love college football
Speaker 5: and I love the way that players elevate. But a
Speaker 5: lot of these guys were stars in college football and
Speaker 5: either fizzled out within ANFL team and then got another opportunity,
Speaker 5: or their late bloomers like you had with Brandon Aubrey,
Speaker 5: where he just didn't play football, he was in another
Speaker 5: sport and he has given a different chance to compete
Speaker 5: at a high level, does well, and then you get
Speaker 5: picked up like that. I think it's really cool how
Speaker 5: it does all encompass what the UFL is doing college
Speaker 5: football and then even some of the lower end pro stuff.
Speaker 7: Serving is And what everyone was hoping for is that
Speaker 7: it will serve kind of as a developmental league, kind
Speaker 7: of like a G league exactly if you will.
Speaker 3: And big fan of it is serving.
Speaker 7: Especially for the Cowboys. So well, we'll see what Jaalen
Speaker 7: Don'ton can bring to the table. But that's the loan transaction,
Speaker 7: and now we look forward to San Francisco and seeing
Speaker 7: what we can do.
Speaker 3: And of course, like you said, don't size up a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, right, picked up a guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially a practice squad.
Speaker 7: It's it's you know, they want to see what he
Speaker 7: has and if he doesn't have anything, you know, no harm,
Speaker 7: no foul. And if he has something, then he's insurance
Speaker 7: against another injury.
Speaker 3: At the position this missing four defensive ends.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, like the only guy. Yeah, you're missing your
Speaker 1: too deep.
Speaker 5: Since we're talking about depth and practice squad, I'm going
Speaker 5: to ask a question that wasn't on the rundown, but
Speaker 5: I am going to ask it anyways. Going on script, Buddy,
Speaker 5: Dalvin Cook, is there any chance you see him now.
Speaker 1: That it's post bye week?
Speaker 3: Pat, Just on your own intuition.
Speaker 4: On my intuition, I don't see what's changed in the
Speaker 4: mind of Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy over the path Well,
Speaker 4: since you lost to the Lions, like the run game,
Speaker 4: you want to see that going. But I don't think
Speaker 4: Rico Dwell coming off of a career game against the
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers right, That, to me was enough for Jerry
Speaker 4: Jones to and Mike McCarthy to sit back on Dalvin
Speaker 4: Cook and say Okay, well we can we can hold
Speaker 4: this up. So then you go against the Lions and
Speaker 4: it wasn't personnel that was the issue that you got
Speaker 4: your book kicked and you weren't handing off the ball
Speaker 4: in the first place.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So like ric o'dowdell, I just said he had a
Speaker 4: career game in Pittsburgh when he had one carry at
Speaker 4: by the end of the first quarter for one yard, right.
Speaker 4: So I just think the course of the game it
Speaker 4: became so one dimensional, so fast, it went off the rails.
Speaker 7: You try to throw your way out of it. So
Speaker 7: put it on my GM and my head coaching cap.
Speaker 7: I don't see the G on your cap. Yeah, put
Speaker 7: it on my G. Let's put it m right next
Speaker 7: to it.
Speaker 1: I just I don't see it. Now. From a fan standpoint,
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it.
Speaker 7: You want to see some some invigoration in the run game,
Speaker 7: and I'm not against it. That still poses the question
Speaker 7: of how you mix that up. But douce Vaughan, he's
Speaker 7: been made in active now for two consecutive games, so
Speaker 7: it looks like that will continue. Hunter lip Key is
Speaker 7: seeing the uptick. I do like that, right, But the
Speaker 7: question then is what does Dalvin Cook fit in and
Speaker 7: as far as the active roster right now, I think
Speaker 7: he gets played before the season is all said and done.
Speaker 1: Question is win.
Speaker 7: But to answer your question based on conversations I'm having
Speaker 7: vibe in the building as.
Speaker 4: We talk right now. I don't see it as a
Speaker 4: San Francisco thing though. No, you don't like Deuce Vaughan
Speaker 4: being inactive.
Speaker 3: But I get it. Yeah, yeah, I don't like it,
Speaker 3: but I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean, he has to mentioned this earlier in the
Speaker 4: year that he has to be able to provide more
Speaker 4: on special teams. If you're gonna be a depth chart guy,
Speaker 4: true store is gonna be a splash player offensively, you
Speaker 4: have to be somebody who's undeniable on every special teams unit.
Speaker 4: And if you can't find your way on the field
Speaker 4: outside of just a cake return, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 6: To me, that kind of speaks to coaching as well,
Speaker 6: because they weren't necessarily using him in packages that fit
Speaker 6: his strengths, that fit what he was great at and
Speaker 6: his shiftiness, you know what I mean, they were just
Speaker 6: kind of running him down the middle. And yeah, if
Speaker 6: that's the plan, I obviously understand why Deuce is inactive.
Speaker 5: Yeah, since the Cowboys were into a bye week, I
Speaker 5: wanted to kind of get your thoughts on the NFC
Speaker 5: East around the league. Right now, it is the Washington
Speaker 5: Commanders setting the tone currently, dan Quinning Company putting up
Speaker 5: a forty burger on the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: Now it is the Carolina Panthers. Keep it in mind,
Speaker 3: and a lot of that was not Jaden Daniels.
Speaker 5: A lot of it was Marcus Mariota. Jade Daniels goes
Speaker 5: down early. We don't really know the extensive of his injury.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's super serious from what I.
Speaker 1: Were known till today, until they talked about.
Speaker 7: The tone yesterday was that they're not believing that it's
Speaker 7: super serious, which is why he came back out to
Speaker 7: the island. He was kind of doing his DC wave
Speaker 7: to the fans and everything. But Dan Quinn also said
Speaker 7: that they'll have more information today.
Speaker 3: So I get a DC wave because he's in DC.
Speaker 5: That makes sense, or landover Maryland, but whatever, Yeah, same thing,
Speaker 5: same different. But then you've got the Commanders, followed by
Speaker 5: the Eagles who are a half game out at four
Speaker 5: and two, and then you've got the Giants or the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: then the Giants, the Eagles defeating the Giants twenty eight
Speaker 5: to three. Thoughts from the weekend, Isaiah, I know you
Speaker 5: had your eyes on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Washington, I think they're a good team.
Speaker 4: I don't think they've played too much competition to date.
Speaker 4: I think Baltimore Raveis is pretty much the only team
Speaker 4: that they've played that I think is Tampa. They lost
Speaker 4: New York, they won Struggling since they won so Arizona,
Speaker 4: they won Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they haven't necessarily more.
Speaker 4: They lost those games, right, those are the two games
Speaker 4: that you would circle and say, Okay, these are the
Speaker 4: real teams either playoff teams.
Speaker 3: They lost both of those. Dallas has lost to nothing
Speaker 3: but playoff team. So they got the Bears and the
Speaker 3: Giants next. Yeah. So, I mean they have their their
Speaker 3: schedules relatively easy to date.
Speaker 4: But that's the way you want to draw it up
Speaker 4: if you're to Washington commanders, in terms of trying to
Speaker 4: get that thing on the road and get some confidence. Obviously,
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles took care of business with Saquon going
Speaker 4: completely off, which I think we all kind of could
Speaker 4: have would have predicted.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, So that is that and the Giants.
Speaker 4: Obviously we're on the receiving end of Saquon going off,
Speaker 4: So that is the NFC East.
Speaker 3: I didn't even look at his numbers. I watched the
Speaker 3: game sevent team for one seventy six.
Speaker 1: Ye nasty nasty words. That's nuts.
Speaker 6: Is he going to be a replication?
Speaker 5: He was?
Speaker 3: Didn't k back at all. He was like that, not
Speaker 3: personal at all.
Speaker 1: Personal. There was nothing personal about this. Did they when
Speaker 1: he went on the field, Yeah, they did it, but
Speaker 1: he was a stupid.
Speaker 3: I mean, he can do for them.
Speaker 6: I know he took it right, but he also he
Speaker 6: took it astride.
Speaker 4: But he played for the instrude all the way to
Speaker 4: one hundred and seventy six.
Speaker 3: Per carry exactly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just.
Speaker 3: Kind of wanted to get your thoughts around it, Josh.
Speaker 5: Any any thoughts on Commanders, Eagles, Giants.
Speaker 6: Commanders, Uh, They're they're doing their best twenty sixteen Cowboys impression, right.
Speaker 6: They're led by the youth. They're going out there, led
Speaker 6: by their brand new coach Cliff Kingsbury doing a great job.
Speaker 6: I think, at least for me, the the odds on
Speaker 6: favorite to win the division, I think that's I think
Speaker 6: that's it's still over Philly, And absolutely I think it's
Speaker 6: fair because of the schedule that they have.
Speaker 4: Okay that on top of it, I mean Dante Fowler
Speaker 4: is going off, by the way.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, but you look at their their WS, Giants, Bengals, Cardinals, Browns, Panthers.
Speaker 6: I mean, you gotta wait and see what this team
Speaker 6: would do in the off, in the playoffs. But part
Speaker 6: of me is like, Okay, if I'm the Commanders and
Speaker 6: you're looking at the Cowboys right now, do you really
Speaker 6: want to win the division? Do you really want to
Speaker 6: win the division and have that first play schedule next year?
Speaker 6: When you're a team building towards something, you know, it's like,
Speaker 6: maybe we'll just take these last few games on I
Speaker 6: don't know, of course not. But on the alternative is
Speaker 6: the Philadelphia Eagles, who I think are still fraudulent. I
Speaker 6: just don't granted that they handed ANELT to the Giants
Speaker 6: pretty hand, you know, handily.
Speaker 4: Right, it was easy exactly, But I just I don't
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 5: Are the Packers, the Saints, the Browns, and the Giants.
Speaker 5: Now they've got Bengals Jags next.
Speaker 6: And it's just Sirianni for me.
Speaker 3: They should be six and two by the time you've
Speaker 3: played Dallas.
Speaker 6: Just looking at Sirianni, I'm not a fan, not a fan.
Speaker 6: He's going off with his fans, fans, his fans aren't fans,
Speaker 6: going off against the fans last week, and then he
Speaker 6: has his kid as a shield to like block off
Speaker 6: soften the press conference that he's about to have. I mean,
Speaker 6: come on, man, guy's a clown. Sorry, but it's facts.
Speaker 6: It's frustrating to watch them inexplicably win games. They're four
Speaker 6: and two, yeah, and they're.
Speaker 5: Just like why why, Well, they beat the Browns by four,
Speaker 5: It's not like they blew out the Browns. They beat
Speaker 5: the Saints. At the time, it looked like a good
Speaker 5: win fifteen twelve. Right now, it just looks like the
Speaker 5: Cowboys had a bad loss against a Saints team that's
Speaker 5: really struggling Arizona team that they beat that you did
Speaker 5: expect them to.
Speaker 3: Be, Yeah, thirty four to twenty nine. It was in
Speaker 3: Brazil at that time.
Speaker 1: The Saints were they knocked out Jordan Love to not
Speaker 1: let me word it right.
Speaker 4: They didn't knock out Jordan Love to secure the win,
Speaker 4: but in knocking out Jordan Love, they.
Speaker 1: Helped secure the win. Yeah, they put it that way.
Speaker 6: That's fair.
Speaker 4: I think NFC eas to still wide open, super wide,
Speaker 4: it's still wide open. I do agree with josh Is
Speaker 4: saying as far as I'm looking at the Commander schedule
Speaker 4: and uh, it's it's an easier road than what the
Speaker 4: Cowboys have.
Speaker 7: What the Cowboys are up against is and just the gauntlet,
Speaker 7: it's just a full gaunlet. But there will be some
Speaker 7: interesting matchups Fultimate Bounce House. Yeah, man, there are some
Speaker 7: interesting matchups. The Commanders have to keep the eye on right.
Speaker 7: So for example, next week they host the Bears. Which
Speaker 7: version of the Bears are they hosting? So keep that
Speaker 7: in mind. Just push right past the New York Giants
Speaker 7: to just give me for anyone right now. Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 7: Which version of the Steelers is that? The one that
Speaker 7: just dropped thirty seven on what's supposed to be the
Speaker 7: Jets Defense Defense High Eagles? They have the Eagles, So
Speaker 7: again that's going to be a huge one for them.
Speaker 7: November fourteenth, and then November twenty fourth, gets who they got,
Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys. After that they got the Tennessee Titans. You
Speaker 7: don't know which Titans team you're going to get that
Speaker 7: Titans team can can get themselves a win.
Speaker 1: Saints, we don't know yet.
Speaker 7: But then they got the Eagles again, then they have
Speaker 7: the Falcons, and then they finish up with the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: So although they're remaining schedule the Commanders I'm speaking of,
Speaker 7: although the remaining schedule on paper is easier than the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: looking at it, it's not as easy as some would suspect, right,
Speaker 7: So they still have several challenges and Eagles foreign too.
Speaker 7: They escape with some wins, and to be fair, Cowboys
Speaker 7: have escaped with some wins too. But four and two
Speaker 7: versus you know, three and three versus five and two.
Speaker 7: Looking at the Commander schedule going forward, it's just it's
Speaker 7: still wide open. Man, It's still wide open.
Speaker 6: Are you guys surprised at all where the Cowboys are
Speaker 6: in the NFC East right now?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Not really, No, it's kind of right where I expected them.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 7: Well, I didn't expect I'm not going to say I
Speaker 7: expected them at three or three. I did not expect
Speaker 7: them three. But I in the context of did I
Speaker 7: expect it would be a two or three team horse
Speaker 7: race going into the BI yoh, And that's kind of
Speaker 7: exactly what we have. I expected the Cowboys to be
Speaker 7: above five hundred, but the fact that they're within striking
Speaker 7: distance of Philly and Washington, Washington drops this game against
Speaker 7: the Bars and they're right there. See it's just three teams,
Speaker 7: So from that context, the right where I thought they
Speaker 7: would be. But I didn't think they'd be a five hundred. No,
Speaker 7: I thought they were better than that.
Speaker 3: Three and three. I was kind of right around it.
Speaker 3: If it would have been four.
Speaker 5: And two, I don't think I would have batted an eye.
Speaker 5: But there was like, no way this team's going five
Speaker 5: and one, not with this current schedule.
Speaker 3: So it's either four and two or three and three.
Speaker 5: They're at three and three, so it's kind of exactly
Speaker 5: what I've ex and they're not out of it yet.
Speaker 3: Like you said, it's wide open.
Speaker 5: There's still a long way to go, but there is
Speaker 5: a tougher schedule ahead and that's where things are going to.
Speaker 1: Really meet the road.
Speaker 3: When we come back here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 5: There was an article released by the staff writers at
Speaker 5: Dallascowboys dot Com, the Biology Report.
Speaker 3: If you haven't checked it out yet, go ahead and
Speaker 3: pull it up now, because.
Speaker 5: We'll use it as kind of a guide on our
Speaker 5: way down the list of some of the top questions
Speaker 5: that the cowboys need to answer in the bye week
Speaker 5: and how it's going to fare moving forwards. Some really
Speaker 5: interesting ones coming up right after this with board Talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 5: Patrick Mike McCarthy just figured things out, he did, or
Speaker 5: not figure things out, but just walk off well, hopefull
Speaker 5: we are gonna try and figure things out, is what
Speaker 5: I was going to say.
Speaker 4: Well, ly, hopefully he figured some things out. Though I'm
Speaker 4: sleep deprived. I'm sleep deprived.
Speaker 5: It's all right, like you sure, Kyle, thanks man, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: When it comes to what he said in the press conference,
Speaker 5: what's stuck out?
Speaker 7: The injury update show what stuck out the most, So
Speaker 7: Michael Parsons, this is what Cowboys fans are going to
Speaker 7: love to hear. He is improving per Mike McCarthy, and
Speaker 7: he spent his by a week here in the building
Speaker 7: with Jim RR and Britt Brown getting rehab on that
Speaker 7: high ankle sprain. So hopefully we will see more progress
Speaker 7: from Michael Parsons as the week goes on. First practice
Speaker 7: is going to be Wednesday, uh, and on Wednesday will
Speaker 7: be when we get our first real look at the
Speaker 7: trajectory of possibly Deron Bland returned. Deron was close to
Speaker 7: turn it against the Lions, and barring any setback over
Speaker 7: the BI week, which I don't see how you would
Speaker 7: have had one, but you know, knock on the wood,
Speaker 7: he should be on track to return from IR against
Speaker 7: the San Francisco forty nine ers. Eric Kendricks will know
Speaker 7: more about him and that shoulder injury on Wednesday as well.
Speaker 7: Too early to tell per well right now, Per McCarthy
Speaker 7: and had tip to Todd Archer who was monitoring that
Speaker 7: as well. So yeah, those are the injury updates. Michael
Speaker 7: Parsons training in the right direction, de Ron Bland trending
Speaker 7: in the right direction. We will know more on both
Speaker 7: of those guys on Wednesday, as well as Eric Kendricks,
Speaker 7: which is still a TBD with a calf and his shoulder.
Speaker 5: So a lot of that transitions nicely into the Biology
Speaker 5: Just Sport Biology Report Full Assessment at the break for
Speaker 5: the Dallas Cowboys. This was written by Patrick Walker, Tommy Yarsh,
Speaker 5: Nick Eatman are the three staff riders that gave their input.
Speaker 5: They didn't ask me to do it. It's unfortunately I
Speaker 5: did not coordinate, I didn't get did not coordinate, I
Speaker 5: was not the offense feeling.
Speaker 3: I didn't call the plays all right, But we're gonna.
Speaker 5: Give our input anyways, and it's gonna start things off.
Speaker 5: Desperately need this guy back? Which guy on the Cowboys
Speaker 5: roster do you need back?
Speaker 1: Most?
Speaker 3: I'll start with you, Isaiah.
Speaker 5: D.
Speaker 3: Law Okay, why is that?
Speaker 4: Because I think the Law is the leader on defense.
Speaker 4: I think I just think that he is. I think
Speaker 4: he's the voice of reason. I think he's the them.
Speaker 4: He's not a guy that you ever have to be
Speaker 4: concerned about effort at any point.
Speaker 3: In fact, I think that he is.
Speaker 6: Look at that Kamara screen touchdown. He was the only
Speaker 6: one I was chasing him down the entire way down
Speaker 6: the field.
Speaker 4: I truly think he's underappreciated fact, and he has a
Speaker 4: tremendous impact in the running game. So I think that's
Speaker 4: the guy that you're that you miss most right now.
Speaker 4: Is he necessarily feared like a Michael Parson would be feared. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: not feared in that sense, But in terms of impact,
Speaker 4: I think he makes a tremendous impact play in and
Speaker 4: play out.
Speaker 1: He's definitely respected by offense. Correct. Absolutely, I'm going with
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons.
Speaker 6: I feel like, to piggyback off your point, Obviously, de
Speaker 6: Law helps in the run game, he helps in the
Speaker 6: leadership game. But I also feel like nobody's as afraid
Speaker 6: of anybody on this team as they are Michael Parsons.
Speaker 6: You need an actual threat on the defensive line. They
Speaker 6: offenses have to scheme for Micah Parsons, which currently any
Speaker 6: team in the league can go one v one against
Speaker 6: your guys and feel really good about it. They can
Speaker 6: run down your throat no problem. I think with Michael
Speaker 6: Parsons in there, at least you have a threat of
Speaker 6: a pass rush and you have the threat of somebody
Speaker 6: that is rangy enough to get down the field and
Speaker 6: tackle would be runner. So for me, it's Michael Parsons
Speaker 6: hands down.
Speaker 4: I'm going And those are both great answers, and I
Speaker 4: think all three of these are truthful, including probably what
Speaker 4: Cal was going to say.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Ron.
Speaker 7: And the reason I'm going to Ron Bland is number one,
Speaker 7: it's a depth issue at cornerback, but also it's it's
Speaker 7: a it's a talent issue as far as to drop
Speaker 7: off his concern. So when Deron Bland went down before
Speaker 7: the season started with the foot injury, you looked at
Speaker 7: Kaylyn Carson, you said, okay, young seat belt right into
Speaker 7: the fire. He acquitted himself well against the Browns, and
Speaker 7: then he kind of started the struggle kind of a
Speaker 7: mixed bag. Then he got injured shoulder injury, right, so
Speaker 7: that put him down at least the last two games.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? You go and get Ao, right,
Speaker 1: so Amani over Waiyan.
Speaker 7: So you go and get Ao and Ao, pleasant surprise
Speaker 7: for a couple of games.
Speaker 1: Pleasant surprise.
Speaker 7: And then Jared Goff kind of had his way, Yeah,
Speaker 7: toy with him a little bit right, talk about that
Speaker 7: deep pass right so he couldn't locate the ball and
Speaker 7: big chunk play right off the bat target.
Speaker 1: Exactly.
Speaker 7: So that's going to continue to happen with a young
Speaker 7: guy like Ao. And now you're going up against Brock
Speaker 7: Purdy and Brought Purty. A struggling and what do you do.
Speaker 7: You're a struggling quarterback. Find the weakest link, find the
Speaker 7: one you can target. Right now, it's Ao with Deron
Speaker 7: Bland comes back against the forty nine ers who you targeted.
Speaker 7: You can't target Deron, you can't target Trayvon. You don't
Speaker 7: want to target Jordan. See that puts him in the
Speaker 7: best situation, and they'll likely be without Brandon Ayuk as well.
Speaker 7: But you still have to worry about Juwan Jennings assuming.
Speaker 1: That he plays.
Speaker 7: So for me, I think this is there's no better
Speaker 7: time for Deron Bland to get back into the secondary.
Speaker 1: So for me, I'm going dB, I'm.
Speaker 5: Gonna go Eric Kendricks here, and it's mostly because of
Speaker 5: what's around him, and you saw it a little bit
Speaker 5: in the Detroit game.
Speaker 3: But it goes back to what happened.
Speaker 5: In twenty twenty four, right, I mean in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: whenever you didn't necessarily have the experience there. You've got
Speaker 5: guys like de Marvin Overshon, first year player in terms
Speaker 5: of actually being on the field, Mark marris lea foul rookie,
Speaker 5: actual rookie out there, Damon Clark who stepped in and
Speaker 5: tried to play a little out of position last year,
Speaker 5: but it's not really been a non factor here in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. And then you've got a couple of
Speaker 5: newcomers like a Buddy Johnson or a Nick Vigil who
Speaker 5: I've only been around the system for a year, year
Speaker 5: and a half. And then you've got to transfer over
Speaker 5: to the coordinators too. Eric Kendricks knows Mike Zimmer, Mike
Speaker 5: Zimmer knows Eric Kendricks, and there's a lot of trust
Speaker 5: there between the two. Without Eric Kendricks in the fold,
Speaker 5: I don't know if there's still that same level of
Speaker 5: trust from the linebackers. Specifically, I want my defensive tackles
Speaker 5: to play better. I've been very, very vocal about that
Speaker 5: upfront for the last seven months.
Speaker 3: Maybe more than that, maybe seventeen months.
Speaker 5: But I want them to play better to give this
Speaker 5: linebacking corps, which I think is really talented, an opportunity.
Speaker 3: But Eric Kendricks is the straw that.
Speaker 5: Starts to drink in terms of that linebacker room, and
Speaker 5: I think you need him back. Outside of the answers
Speaker 5: that you guys had, that's certainly one that I want
Speaker 5: to see.
Speaker 7: So you know what, the fact that every single answer
Speaker 7: was different in every single answer is the correct answer.
Speaker 7: That tells you how much trouble the Cowboys have been
Speaker 7: in to this point. As far as the depth trolie.
Speaker 6: Also, every answer was defense, and this offense is struggling.
Speaker 3: Much Ooh that's a good, good point.
Speaker 6: I mean like that to me, that shows like there
Speaker 6: isn't a lot of missing pieces on offense. Yet we're brand.
Speaker 4: It's just just connections miscommunication on a roll.
Speaker 6: It's unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Next one up, an alarming stat or trend.
Speaker 5: Alarming stat or trend. Patrick, I'll let you start, since
Speaker 5: you had the answer already.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is an article four alarm fire type stuff.
Speaker 7: Cowboys have allowed one hundred and sixty seven combined points
Speaker 7: in their last four home games. That is poor enough
Speaker 7: for third most in NFL history over a four game span,
Speaker 7: and they've only scored eighty five points themselves during that
Speaker 7: same four game Spanikes, So you're giving up all the
Speaker 7: churches money and you're you're not getting anything on a Sunday, Yeah,
Speaker 7: on a Sunday, and you're not getting any money yourself.
Speaker 6: So there's that passing the basket around, passing, Yeah, passing
Speaker 6: the hat. Nothing to offer, nothing.
Speaker 1: Nothing to offer that. You're just letting them take everything.
Speaker 1: And that's that.
Speaker 6: I got one for you guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, ready for this. Ready.
Speaker 6: The Cowboys have own only come back from a ten
Speaker 6: point deficit in four games since Mike McCarthy has been
Speaker 6: your head coach, three of which were in the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty NFL season one. The last time we've come back
Speaker 6: from a ten plus point deficit was in December twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Two, saying don't go down eleven points.
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: We've talked about how much he's built this team to
Speaker 5: play from ahead, but I think that is an underrated
Speaker 5: storyline of how bad this team is at playing from
Speaker 5: behind ten points?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just ten. It's not a lot.
Speaker 6: That's not a lot.
Speaker 3: Man. What was that twenty twenty two.
Speaker 6: Game Philadelphia Eagles December twenty four? Say, I was thinking Philly, Philly,
Speaker 6: at least we won forty thirty four?
Speaker 3: Is that when Gardner Minshew was the quarterback?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I believe that at home against Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 1: I think so it was. It was it was the
Speaker 1: last ten point deficit. That's that's bad. That's it's pretty bad.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Isaiah? What's your alarming stat trend?
Speaker 1: Rdner mine?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, there's only one.
Speaker 4: Team worse than the Dallas Cowboys in this particular category.
Speaker 3: Can you get the team without even knowing the category?
Speaker 3: Red zone? New York red Zone?
Speaker 5: And it's uh, I'm not even talking about category.
Speaker 6: Just just Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4: Okay, Carona Panthers are worse than Dallas Cowboys when it
Speaker 4: comes to Russian touchdowns giving up Oh, Dallas Cowboys have
Speaker 4: given up. Dallas Cowboys have given up ten rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It seems a bit.
Speaker 3: Ten rushing touch That doesn't sound good, Isaiah, it's not good.
Speaker 3: You know why is not good?
Speaker 4: Why isn't it Because if you're giving up ten rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 4: if you give it up the second most rushing touchdowns
Speaker 4: in the league, then that means that you're not controlling
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. Were at the bottom of the
Speaker 4: league in terms of rushing yards giving up, I said,
Speaker 4: bottom of the league in terms of rushing touchdowns giving up.
Speaker 3: Now you've faced some good rushing attacks. I'll give a
Speaker 3: dog on Saints, Ravens, Steelers, Lions. Youah the same cap
Speaker 3: spaces of the thirty one teams. I know, I know
Speaker 3: that's bad. That's rough alarming for sure.
Speaker 6: Mine doesn't sound like winning football.
Speaker 3: You're better than Carolina though, Yes, you think.
Speaker 4: They were the worst team in football, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: they are currently.
Speaker 1: You're the next door neighbor.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, well, they just got property.
Speaker 3: They're not good folks, exactly what. That's my most alarming.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's a whole lot of other stats we
Speaker 4: can get into, but we only had time for one.
Speaker 3: I've got one right here.
Speaker 5: The Cowboys had five giveaways in Week six, their game
Speaker 5: before the bye.
Speaker 3: That's the most of any team in a game in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Again most of any way, the Church's money five turnovers.
Speaker 3: Here you go.
Speaker 5: They also had their fourth and fifth red zone giveaways
Speaker 5: of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Most in the NFL.
Speaker 5: That's those are two they're responding stats because they're turnovers,
Speaker 5: but they're really two separate stats that are their own
Speaker 5: separate problems.
Speaker 3: How many turnovers are in the last two games quite
Speaker 3: a bit.
Speaker 5: Through seven seven turnovers, three of which have come in
Speaker 5: the red zone.
Speaker 1: I know that one in eight quarters.
Speaker 6: When you say it like that, three and three zunds
Speaker 6: pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: Gotta say if knuck out a couple of winks, got
Speaker 3: a couple of them done.
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Speaker 5: Kyle Yeoman's all right, this is this is the positive one.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna save that one for the last question.
Speaker 5: Then we're gonna we're gonna end on because we've been
Speaker 5: pretty negative already, but we're gonna continue being negative.
Speaker 3: This guy.
Speaker 5: You need more from so far in the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: four season.
Speaker 1: Josh, I'll start, I.
Speaker 6: Got you guys all right, who do you need to get?
Speaker 1: What you get?
Speaker 6: I'll take over from here.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mar really really all right? Oh, this segment is
Speaker 1: going to get.
Speaker 6: Interest, believe me, and we've talked about it since camp.
Speaker 6: I really like Mars lea foul however, the speed is there,
Speaker 6: but you need to see him be a little more
Speaker 6: gap discipline. You need to see him better tackling. Tackling
Speaker 6: for him. Uh, the ceiling is obviously very high for him.
Speaker 6: But Scott McCurley even said, you know, if the ceiling
Speaker 6: is high. We have high expectations for him. Got to
Speaker 6: wrap up, gotta wrap up, gotta be gap discipline, and that,
Speaker 6: to me, that's not even necessarily one of the worst
Speaker 6: negative things you can really say about him. He's still
Speaker 6: a rookie, he's still learning.
Speaker 3: You just want more out of it.
Speaker 6: Just more out of him, man, more out of him,
Speaker 6: especially when you have a guy like Eric Kendricks out.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's just that's me.
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm going to go to offense on this one
Speaker 7: and I'm going to go to ceed Lamb. I need
Speaker 7: more from Ceedee Lamb. This Cowboys offense needs more from
Speaker 7: Ceedee Lamb. We all know what Ceede Lamb is capable
Speaker 7: of top two receiver in the league.
Speaker 1: And on any given week when.
Speaker 4: He's in that top two air sometimes he's one, sometimes
Speaker 4: he's two. Right there with Justin Jefferson Seed, the Lamb
Speaker 4: can take the top off, he can be a playmaker underneath.
Speaker 4: He can do it from the slot, he can do
Speaker 4: it from the X, he can do it from the Z. Now,
Speaker 4: question is why the disconnect continually with d Prescott.
Speaker 7: Kyle made a great point last week. We're no longer
Speaker 7: talking about training camp. Now, we should not be talking
Speaker 7: about training camp, right because training camp was only thirty
Speaker 7: thirty one days long. So if you use that math,
Speaker 7: then that means that September was his training camp. Okay,
Speaker 7: but here we are in late October now and still
Speaker 7: haven't seen four quarters of dominant ceed Lamb. So when
Speaker 7: you talk about what the potential and the expectation is
Speaker 7: and he has these same expectations of himself, that Prescott
Speaker 7: has the same expectations of himself, and those two need
Speaker 7: to continue to hold each other accountable as they have been.
Speaker 7: But those two need to get on the same page,
Speaker 7: and they need to get on the same page time
Speaker 7: and again if this offense is to get going. We
Speaker 7: keep talking about Brandon Cooks has been missing, jay O
Speaker 7: lon Toober had stepped up, and Jake Ferguson. But are
Speaker 7: we having these weekly conversations about who needs to step
Speaker 7: up at WR two and WR three. If CD Lamb
Speaker 7: is his torching defense is full one point fifty, No,
Speaker 7: we're not having that conversation. So CD is him, We
Speaker 7: need to see more him in twenty twenty four because
Speaker 7: we haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was funny.
Speaker 5: I read the article from Nick Eatman over the weekend
Speaker 5: where he was talking about Ceede Lamb's production is similar
Speaker 5: than what it was last year. And I've actually brought
Speaker 5: this point up on Tuesday or Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 6: And he stole the idea.
Speaker 5: He may have, I don't know. He didn't really elaborate
Speaker 5: on him the same way though. He talked about how
Speaker 5: the storyline theft the yardage. The yardage for Cede Lamb
Speaker 5: last year going into the bye week, which was also
Speaker 5: a Week seven by the way, it was four hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy five yards and a touchdown on thirty four receptions.
Speaker 5: He has thirty two receptions for sixty seven and two touchdowns.
Speaker 5: So the production wise, you look, you look at it
Speaker 5: just baseline level.
Speaker 3: Sweet great.
Speaker 5: It looks almost exactly the same as his record breaking
Speaker 5: season last year. So yes, things can turn around. The
Speaker 5: only thing that's different, actually, there are a couple things
Speaker 5: that there are different. Thirty four receptions on forty two
Speaker 5: targets last year, so he only had eight targets that
Speaker 5: went outside of being caught. This year he has fifty
Speaker 5: five targets and thirty two receptions.
Speaker 1: The catch percentage is dow.
Speaker 5: It goes from a eight yards per target this year.
Speaker 3: It was eleven point three yards per target last year.
Speaker 5: Eighty one percent catch percentage last year as opposed to
Speaker 5: fifty eight percent catch rating this year. So the production
Speaker 5: is there, it's still the same. However, the efficiency efficiency
Speaker 5: of how you get to that number, it's definitely a
Speaker 5: huge drop off.
Speaker 4: Huge gets going again, and this offense looks like a
Speaker 4: completely different.
Speaker 5: Animal completely, And it's it's not to say that he
Speaker 5: can't get there.
Speaker 7: Certainly, I believe he will get Yeah, it's just a
Speaker 7: question of win how soon, And.
Speaker 3: A lot of times you might need a run game
Speaker 3: to get him there too.
Speaker 6: But last year, I feel like the running game wasn't
Speaker 6: even necessarily that much of it. That's much more of
Speaker 6: a threat than it is this year, right.
Speaker 5: Right, But also if you think about down the stretch,
Speaker 5: there were other guys that stepped up after the bye
Speaker 5: week that took some of that pressure off, whether it
Speaker 5: was Ferguson or Cooks in the red zone down the stretch, yes,
Speaker 5: Cooks being a problem, especially in the red zone where
Speaker 5: he was catching all those touchdown passes. That was something
Speaker 5: that took the pressure off of CD Lamb. You need
Speaker 5: somebody else to emerge in order for CD to step up.
Speaker 3: But I'm with you. CD's got to step up, He's
Speaker 3: got to be better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, I don't disagree. I want to say
Speaker 4: a position group. I know I can't do that.
Speaker 3: Yes you can. I can absolutely.
Speaker 6: Do whatever the heck you want.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to just point out one
Speaker 4: guy because I feel like by pointing out one.
Speaker 3: Guy, somebody's gonna say, well what about so and so?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: The offensive line and it's in its totality is not
Speaker 4: playing very well. Dak Prescott and company has been on
Speaker 4: their back sixteen times this year.
Speaker 3: They've been on their.
Speaker 4: Back sixteen times this year while only being pressured the
Speaker 4: fourth least amount in the league in terms of SAT
Speaker 4: in terms terms in terms of blitz rate. Right, they
Speaker 4: are getting blitzed the fourth least amount in the in
Speaker 4: the league, and they have put our quarterbacks on his
Speaker 4: back sixteen times. You talk about the efficiency of Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 4: you talk about Dak Prescott's ability to be able to
Speaker 4: do this thing out there, you talk about their running game.
Speaker 4: All these things go back, nothing happens, which is why
Speaker 4: I'm such an advocate of investing in your officeive line.
Speaker 3: Which did Dallas Cowboys organization has done right.
Speaker 4: They have three first round picks on an old line, correct,
Speaker 4: That's what I checked, So they haven't there. They've also
Speaker 4: dropped some you know, kind of swung and miss on
Speaker 4: some picks that are higher up as well on that front,
Speaker 4: so they tried. This unit has to play better this
Speaker 4: this team offensively goes as office line goes.
Speaker 3: That can't sit back and.
Speaker 4: Throw the ball confidently and comfortably and accurately without office protection.
Speaker 4: This running game, I don't care what running back you
Speaker 4: put back there, can't find a hole because there is
Speaker 4: no hole. This offensive line has to play better as
Speaker 4: a union, and I know they are saying that to themselves.
Speaker 4: I know their coach, coach Solari, is telling them that,
Speaker 4: I'm hoping to see a better product on the field.
Speaker 6: I think overall, everyone had a higher expectations for the
Speaker 6: offensive line this year, especially when you have a new,
Speaker 6: brand new group coming in some youth behind it, and
Speaker 6: then too, you know, the idea was like you could
Speaker 6: almost put any running back behind there and do relatively well,
Speaker 6: and it just has not happened.
Speaker 4: But I to that point right, just to kind of
Speaker 4: double down on what you just said. It doesn't matter
Speaker 4: who's that running back. So you gotta ask about Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 4: you got asking, you talk about about is La, you
Speaker 4: can talk about Rico Dow or you can talk about
Speaker 4: Deuce being inactive. It doesn't matter who's in the backfield,
Speaker 4: if defensive linemen are getting in the backfield or they're
Speaker 4: closing up holes.
Speaker 3: Fact, it just doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I think that was on top of that. That might
Speaker 1: have been.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that was left coat last last week, no week before,
Speaker 7: because last week was mixed back, so week before it
Speaker 7: was that exact thing. And I'm not going to get
Speaker 7: back into the numbers, but just know that Dak Prescott
Speaker 7: is seeing a lot more pressure and he needs to
Speaker 7: perform better under the pressure. But also when he's not
Speaker 7: being pressured. But when you're talking about the offensive line,
Speaker 7: a lot of teams are getting this pressure on Dak Prescott,
Speaker 7: like Isaiah saying, without sending that extra man. So you're
Speaker 7: not even forcing teams to get home with a with
Speaker 7: a base package.
Speaker 4: That's and that's what's alarming. That's that's why I bring
Speaker 4: up that status. You know the fact that you know,
Speaker 4: the pressure rates not crazy, but the sacks are. You know,
Speaker 4: he's sacked. He's been on his back sixteen times. Now,
Speaker 4: that's not the Cleveland Browns have been sacked thirty five times.
Speaker 3: It's not that bad.
Speaker 4: But sixteen is a lot. Sixteenms a lot. You start
Speaker 4: talking about six games and it ain't sweet, No, it's not.
Speaker 4: And you know you started talking about Dak stats. You know,
Speaker 4: I was just we're just mentioning it here and even
Speaker 4: just Dax's offensive passing stats, we have eight touchdowns and
Speaker 4: seven interceptions.
Speaker 3: The protection matters. Yeah, you're talking about a quarterback.
Speaker 4: You're talking about an offense that used to lighting up
Speaker 4: the scoreboard in the passing game.
Speaker 3: This is not that right.
Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not the same team, not the same offense, not
Speaker 5: the same everything. And it's probably starting up front in
Speaker 5: the trenches. But before we sign off on talking Colo,
Speaker 5: let's end, I know, let's end on.
Speaker 3: A high note.
Speaker 5: Who is one guy that has stepped up and been
Speaker 5: better than you anticipated going into the year.
Speaker 4: Patrick mirrors leaphil Oh. That's why I say this is
Speaker 4: going to be a fun stay.
Speaker 6: So look at the stats, Buddy, and I liked it.
Speaker 7: Look at the look at the film, Buddy so lea fhile.
Speaker 7: So this this is the good thing about this question.
Speaker 7: And here's why everything you said has has. I appreciate you,
Speaker 7: thanks credence, even though you you know, have the science.
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm not going to go to Josh Route
Speaker 1: because I am not a hater.
Speaker 4: Everything you said, everything creator, But this is a perspective question,
Speaker 4: right And the reason I say marysla foul is because
Speaker 4: this is a rookie who came in and when he
Speaker 4: came in, we knew all the hype rightfully, so was
Speaker 4: for Eric Kendricks, de Marveon overshow those two guys, and
Speaker 4: you figured Demon Clark would factor much more into it
Speaker 4: because Mary slea Foule, he's a.
Speaker 1: He's a rookie. Mostly special team, that's what we're thinking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, Well, through the first six games, outside of
Speaker 4: Eric Kendricks getting hurt, maryor Sleefoule has pushed the mone
Speaker 4: Clark into a closet.
Speaker 7: As far as snap count is concerned. Mayor slea Foule
Speaker 7: in only six games became the green.
Speaker 1: Dot for Mike Zimmer. Yeah are you serious?
Speaker 7: Nick Vigil was available against the Lions, and it was
Speaker 7: still maryor clea foul, huge nod to his football at
Speaker 7: been in football like you so, and then you look
Speaker 7: at just he's imperfect because he's a rookie. That's why
Speaker 7: say everything you said is correct. He still has a
Speaker 7: ways to go as far as learning and being the
Speaker 7: next era well being.
Speaker 3: Eric being more productive too. He only has ten tames.
Speaker 7: That being said, the question is one who's shown me
Speaker 7: a lot already. Yes, contextually speaking, I thought that he
Speaker 7: would be a special teamer and we would see more
Speaker 7: of merit in twenty twenty five post Kendricks, Like I said,
Speaker 7: he pushed a mon Clark in the closet, he pushed
Speaker 7: Nick Vigils in the closet as the green dot rookie
Speaker 7: through six games.
Speaker 6: I think that's fair. But I think since training camp
Speaker 6: it's been it's we've should We've seen that he got
Speaker 6: on the depth chart starting linebacker.
Speaker 1: And overshown started, granted, but like since then we.
Speaker 6: Were like, oh, this guy's a guy, this is a dude.
Speaker 6: My I think we have the same answer in a
Speaker 6: way because it's like I've seen it.
Speaker 1: Perspective question, it's perspective perspective.
Speaker 6: I see what he can do, and I know that
Speaker 6: he can be better.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And and both the answers are correct. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: think they can be once he needs to improve, wondrous
Speaker 7: ones he needs to improve. It's also true in my
Speaker 7: perspective that he's playing above his grade right now.
Speaker 1: That is where I'm saying.
Speaker 3: All right, Isaiah, Who's one guy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say to marviy On Oversham.
Speaker 4: I mean I'm not I mean not Dmo. Sorry, I
Speaker 4: like him too, but I'm gonna say sorry, Da Moon Clark. Oh, interesting,
Speaker 4: we're staying with here, you know what.
Speaker 3: I'm saying Damon Clark.
Speaker 4: The reason being because he's had he's been in and out.
Speaker 4: Obviously he had the one game where he played a
Speaker 4: substantial amount just because Eric Hendricks was gone. But Damon
Speaker 4: Clark has one hundred and thirty five snaps and he
Speaker 4: has twenty three tackles. Eric Hendricks has more than double
Speaker 4: those snaps and has just double the tackles. So as
Speaker 4: we talk about how impactful Eric Kendricks has, efficiency efficiency
Speaker 4: is exactly the same.
Speaker 3: So shout out to him, just to clear up those stats.
Speaker 4: Eight you want snaps for Eric Hendricks and fifty two
Speaker 4: tackles and demonk Clark hundred and thirty five snaps in
Speaker 4: twenty three tackles. Okay, Eric Hendricks has an eighteen and
Speaker 4: a half percent tackle percentage, DeMont Clark has a seventeen
Speaker 4: percent tackle percentage. Damon Clark is the second best tackler
Speaker 4: on your team right now statistically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, stepping up it's a good thing.
Speaker 4: Kind of good. Yeah, good thing, kind of good. I
Speaker 4: like it to making age opportunities that were given to him.
Speaker 6: What you got, Josh uh Cooper BB Okay, I would
Speaker 6: say Cooper b B, I think.
Speaker 3: May give me the BB exactly that.
Speaker 6: No, and especially with how he started a camp, the
Speaker 6: snaps were not there. He was losing out to uh Rockffin.
Speaker 6: Brock Coffin, thank you very much. And we were at
Speaker 6: that point we were like, oh well, it's brock Coffin's job,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. At the very first week
Speaker 6: of camp.
Speaker 3: We're like, oh, well, it was gonna have the hill
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 1: The yeah, he climbed it.
Speaker 6: This is gonna be rough. He wasn't stamping snapping the
Speaker 6: ball very well, and he corrected that in a matter
Speaker 6: of week.
Speaker 3: It was crazy.
Speaker 6: It's pretty impressive, and he has not missed a step
Speaker 6: on the field this week this year. It's pretty incredible
Speaker 6: how vigilant he was in getting that spot and not
Speaker 6: giving it up.
Speaker 3: How Nick vigil and.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, and linebackers as well.
Speaker 5: Now, it would really be like a cold transition if
Speaker 5: I would have said Nick Vigual was my guy who
Speaker 5: I liked what I saw from, But that's not what
Speaker 5: it was. Pretty now, it's Tyrus Wheat for me, a
Speaker 5: guy who is basically a perennial practice squad guy. He
Speaker 5: was a practice squad player. He really wasn't thought of
Speaker 5: out of anything outside of special teams. Kind of like
Speaker 5: the same thing you talked about with marys lea foul earlier.
Speaker 5: He was a special teamer or a practice squad deactivation,
Speaker 5: whatever it may be.
Speaker 3: He was just tinkering on being even active on game day. Well,
Speaker 3: he stepped up.
Speaker 5: With your top four edge rushers out, you needed somebody
Speaker 5: to be good. He hasn't necessarily been great, but he's
Speaker 5: been serviceable, and that's all I can ask for from
Speaker 5: Tyrus Wheat went round right now. He pressures six tackles
Speaker 5: over the last two games. He's had thirty five snaps
Speaker 5: defensively and forty one snaps defensively. He's done a decent
Speaker 5: job in terms of tackling. He's done a decent job
Speaker 5: in terms of run defense and trying to set the
Speaker 5: edge as much as possible. It's not perfect, nor is
Speaker 5: he expected to be the starter whenever something else happens
Speaker 5: from an injury perspective and these guys start coming back. No,
Speaker 5: but I do like what I've seen from Tyrus Wheat,
Speaker 5: and it's a lot more than what I expected going
Speaker 5: into it.
Speaker 3: Like Tyras, I'm gonna go with Wheat. Also think he's
Speaker 3: been good on.
Speaker 1: Film and respected the game against the Steelers.
Speaker 4: Will every time Tyros Whet touches and touches the field,
Speaker 4: he catches your attention. He does something from the preseason
Speaker 4: to the regular season. Yeah, that's more you can say
Speaker 4: about a lot of people.
Speaker 3: He's aggressive, dude, he is all right.
Speaker 1: Love to see it.
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