WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: RB Change? 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:15.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys let go. Are 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.200 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.320 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.200 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:32.880 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.680 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, October twenty seventh, 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.879 twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number sixty. Welcome to 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.760 the latest edition of The Break Life nest WBC Mortgage 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.440 Studios at the Star. We are presented by Middle Lte, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.400 the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Today we are 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.120 talking Chicago defense versus the Dallas offense. Before we do that, though, 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:56.600 we got a couple of topics we need to hit. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.480 We're gonna start, as we normally do, on some injury updates. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.280 We got a pretty interesting list of guys who have 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:05.800 missed practice. Let's get some updates. Let's start with Ezekiel Elliott. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:07.679 Where are we what are we hearing about him? And 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.760 what he's going to be doing today? Brian, Uh, nothing today, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.360 and he's dealing with a hyper extended knee brain, Thank you, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.000 is what he's dealing with. Hyper extended nice brain. Yeah, 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:19.880 that's what he's dealing with right now. So a lot 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.960 of other reports obviously, but yeah, that's the that's that's 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.280 a good hyper extended knice brain. And I was told 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.839 that everybody else is full of this, so we're gonna 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.080 stick with the hyper extended. So it would be good 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.640 if you stick with the hyper extended knee brain. Yeah. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.640 When you see the injury that you know, and I'm 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.280 sure it all stems from the one where he was 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.120 on the sideline, he cuts back and he like, that's 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.360 what you would think it would be. Honestly, you would 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:49.520 think it'd be a hyper extended I thought it was 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.480 a thigh bruise. Initially, I didn't think it was me. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.240 I thought it was thigh bruise when it first when 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.520 I saw it, and then the more I you know, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.240 we figure out how to ask people around here. Yeah, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.480 and it was still pre jumpy. I mean, he was 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.360 still jumping around on people after that. So yeah, so 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.040 zeke zeke. But the thing about when he said yesterday 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.280 we talked about this, when he said, I don't know 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.320 if I'll be playing. We'll see it's only Wednesday, but 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.040 it just didn't look like he would be playing. And 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:22.880 I get the sense. You get the sense, probably the 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.720 same that UM and the public relations department gets the 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.280 sense because they brought Tony Pollard out to do an 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.239 interview which they had never do right right after Zeke. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.400 I just get the sense that Zeke won't be playing 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.680 this week, and I think that by week has something 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.560 to do with it. Right afterwards, I think so the 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.240 I don't know is something that you wouldn't listen here. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.840 No one is gonna go out there and be like, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.000 I don't know, I don't know if I will or not. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.320 They're usually like, yeah, I'll be there or that's the plan. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.640 The plan is for me to play, So that everything's 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.800 kind of hinting for him to possibly not playing. Obviously 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.880 having the bye week coming up probably huge to give 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.000 him kind of back to back weeks. Yeah, I agree. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.600 I think that you know this, and you know he 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.640 didn't make him available though. I mean, that's that's not 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.760 like they just said you're not playing your out. I 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.880 mean I don't think anyone knows. Yeah, UM, but just 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.960 just people you talk to and whoever's telling you hyper 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:21.800 extended and probably saying he's not playing. I just I 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.560 have a feeling he wants the I got. I asked 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.240 this question yesterday late in the day. I said, you know, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.040 what's your status of twenty one? And you know, a 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.040 couple of different people were saying to me, They're like, listen, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.160 he didn't practice today. Let's see what happens on Thursday. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.040 So he's not practicing again on Thursday. So I would 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.880 say that's a pretty good indication, you know, But that's 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.760 with him with Zeke. You know, you talk about Zeke 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.600 going out there and talking to the media yesterday, He's 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.840 probably that's what he's used to going to do, true, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.200 you know, and it's like, Okay, this is my responsibility. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.400 I walk out, I talk and they're probably, well, bro, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.160 you don't have to. We've got Tony can go out 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.000 and talk. Well, no, it's my responsibility. I'll go do it. So, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.600 you know, he's he's doing everything like he's getting ready 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.120 to play a football game. He's just not gonna be practicing. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.600 And I think with all the you know, we'll know 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.360 today later today. I think by the end of the 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.160 day it'll be like this guy can't you know, let's 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.720 let's be smart about it. But we'll go back to 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.120 last year. You know, I kept getting I kept asking 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.960 that question about is he okay? Is he okay? Is 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:23.520 he you knowing it? He's fine, he's fine. He's fining 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:24.880 at the end of the year while he was playing 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.880 with this and then you go, okay, so you know 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.680 that's he's a different cat. I think they have a 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.960 hard time telling him you can't play, you know, and 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.680 he and he doesn't want to hear it from you. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.120 He doesn't want to hear it that, you know. And 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.960 then now you have to ask yourself the question is 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.320 is he hurting the team by doing it? You know? 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.760 And I mean, and I mean it's respectfully, I don't mean. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.080 I mean, you know, is if he's just playing it, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.600 you know, sixty percent or less, does that helping your 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.160 your team? You know? And he plays hard, he really 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.800 really does. I just want to see him get healed up. 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.160 And because he's off to a great start right now. Yeah, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.760 he really is. Everything you just said, Brian is the 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.360 reason why I'm I'm pessimistic about him playing, which is 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.479 like he usually, like you said, it's not one it's 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.880 not a situation where they're typically like Zeke, we're gonna 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.480 have to sit you down, Like Zeke's like I'm playing, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.800 I'm hurt, I'm playing. Yeah. And and the fact that 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.400 he said yesterday when he first said and I don't 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.640 really know, we'll see that, to me was like, WHOA, Okay, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.800 then this is this is maybe a little more of 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.960 a situation where maybe he can't go than in typical 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.680 situations where it's like I'm hurt, but I'm playing, you 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.479 know where you know, That's what I think I would 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.719 expect to hear from him in most situations. You know, 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.560 I was getting pretty annoyed yesterday because we so we 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.920 put out a story and it was about Tony Pohler 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.919 when he talked to the media and all that, and 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.479 He'm basically saying, you know, he's he's ready to go 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:53.000 whatever he needs to, He's ready. But then I was 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.800 looking at the just kind of reading comments from the 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:59.080 fans and things like that and people just being like, good, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:02.359 this is why we've been asking for like take out Zeke, 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.320 sit him out or whatever. I'm like, what are you 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.919 talking about. I'm dying to see. I'm not saying the 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.479 running game is gonna go down the drain if Zeke 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.760 is out. But I'm dying to see what exactly this 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.800 looks like, to see if, like, is this gonna please you? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.839 Are you gonna be okay with like Tony Pollard taking 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.600 all the reps? I mean he wouldn't he wouldn't take 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.920 all of them. We would see who would be behind 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.600 him and all that. But it's just very, very annoying 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:34.240 to think that you're better off without having Zeke playing 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.840 as well. Well. I actually went back and looked at 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.760 the last time Zeke missed a game and they had 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.000 to roam with Tony Pollard. It was twenty twenty. They 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.160 were playing in San Francisco, forty nine ers I think 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.080 it was Week fourteen. Pollard went twelve carries for sixty 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.640 nine yards two touchdowns. He had a five point seven 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.159 five average. Here was the interesting part. He had six 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.520 catches for sixty three yards. Yeah. The way I look 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.480 at this is if they have to play a game 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.680 without Zeke number one, obviously Malik Davis probably be the 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.440 guy that's going to get a lot of those carries. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.279 But in addition to that, your running game kind of 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.080 extends and it's not the same kind of running game anymore. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.440 Now you may actually as opposed to some of those 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.960 runs that you would run with Zeke. Maybe now you're 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:16.240 throwing a little flare out to to Pollard. Hey, Brian, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.880 you talked about this couple weeks ago. I remember what 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.040 team we were talking about, but how they use their 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.840 their their short passing game to their running backs as 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.760 kind of an extension of their running game, and even 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.960 the Cooper Cup they use that. It's kind of an 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.440 extension of their running game. It's not a running play, 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.160 but it's the same kind of short, quick passes that 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:36.640 can kind of get the ball out and let the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.760 guy make a play from there. I think that's more 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.680 of probably what you're going to see instead of thinking 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.880 that Pollo it's going to be a twenty five carry 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.520 twenty carry guy. I don't think that's necessarily going to 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.360 be in the cards for what the Cowboys thinks the 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.240 best way to win. Yeah, I think that, you know, 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.080 what's the thing you have to think about next. And 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.200 by the way, when you look at comments, it does 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.920 nothing but living the mental health. Uh, you know, you 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.520 don't know if people are troll in there or not. 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.400 But anyway, Nick made a point yesterday about the running game. 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.120 When it comes to the short yardage running game. You know, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.040 when it comes to Zeke is one of these guys 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.480 that's really good at finishing those runs. In the third 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.680 and one runs. I know last week it was a 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.880 little bit of you know, they were trying to do 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.000 some things a little bit differently and they weren't able 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.920 to convert like they had. This is now when the 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.320 game plan, if it is polar you have to think 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.600 of something different. You think like, okay, how are we 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.800 going to manufacture if we get in third and one, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.840 third and two, how are we going to have to 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.400 manufacture the ability to run the ball. And so that's 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.840 that's going to be the trick because you can hand 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.880 the ball to Zeke and it's gonna get it to 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.320 be a first down. You're gonna you're gonna get those things. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.000 So without him in the lineup, if he doesn't play, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.600 that's the thing that I'm keeping my eye on in 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.720 this football game. You know, when you look at that 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.800 that game that you're talking about with the Niners, I 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.439 mean he was he was catching the ball, he was 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.840 running it. The thing about these games that you have 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.160 you have to remember, I mean twelve catch I mean 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.880 twelve carries sixty nine yards and five point seven yard average. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.280 And I don't want to say throw out the forty 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.680 one yard touchdown run because it was a very good run. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.679 He was like he got people off of him, and 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.559 you know it wasn't just like out he used to speed, 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.640 but he also was tough on it. But when you 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.880 look at it, you're also think of throughout the course 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.559 of the day, ten carries for twenty two yards. I mean, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.960 so you gotta get to that point as well. You're 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.199 like ten carries for twenty two yards is very Zeke? Like, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.480 Now did you keep doing it? You keep doing it 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.000 hoping that your playmaker will bust one and he's got 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.280 the ability to do that. So I never say throw 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.000 it out. But you also remember, can you with this offense, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.120 let's say that this happens in this game, ten for 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.680 twenty two for the first three quarters? Is that going 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.240 to help you win this game? Like, like that's why 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.199 Zeke gets knocked all the time. But like you know, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.160 three four or five tough yards moving some chains at times, 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.400 I think sometimes stats could be a little bit misleading. Yeah, 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.640 can I ask you question? Then it's a great man 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.840 it's a great point. There. Is it more and maybe 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.559 the word is mirage, you know, maybe I don't know 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.440 if if that's the right word. Is it more a 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:16.520 mirage of Cowboys running game or Cowboys run defense? And 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.280 I mean mirage like is it like you're kind of 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.120 fooled that the run defense is okay and then the 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:27.600 running game is okay? I mean between the two, if 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.840 you had to say which one is more of one? 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:35.320 You can rely on Cowboys run defense or Cowboys running game. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.240 I think I think the run defense is not as 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.960 bad as people think it is. I think that they 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.440 give up some yards. I think that they showed up 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.720 pretty good too when you get down to the goal 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.760 line area and short yardage. I think that's pretty good. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.760 I count on them a little bit more than the 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.480 running game. But I mean I'm not Yeah, I think 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.360 the running games which one you hang your hat? Which 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.199 one you think you can hang your hat on. It's 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.240 more on the running game, because everything we've seen from 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.120 this team, and you can go back to preseason, has 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.000 been this team is a good running team. They know 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.000 how to run the ball. You know. Here's the thing 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.640 about that though, there McCarthy just said it we're gonna 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.400 run the ball. Yeah, that's his goal, that's the And 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.840 then when you go to the defense, what they're trying 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.400 to do. They're trying to get after the quarterback, so 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.199 they're gonna give up some runs, right. So yeah, I 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.320 think it's a style a little bit, but I'm not 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.839 as worried about the run defense as much, and I 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.079 think they do a decent job. Let's also be clear, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.720 I think part of the issue with the run defense 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.120 is every team comes into the game saying, we got 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.280 to figure out creative ways to run the ball because 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:41.959 the last thing we can do is in a situation 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.360 that team can come and get our quarterback. Right, So 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.400 you're gonna be facing teams that are gonna and I 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.560 haven't looked at numbers. I would. I'd be interested to 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.600 know where the Cowboys ranked with regards to rush attempts against, Like, 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.280 are they Are they way ahead of the next closest team. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:57.800 Are they at the top of the league. I don't know. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.320 I would be interested to know that, But I do 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.240 know a lot of teams probably have come into the 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.600 game with the thought, we gotta run the ball because 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.079 we can't get in situations where quarterbacks and they don't 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.600 get and they don't blow anyone out. I mean that's 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.800 the thing, like this team, this offense isn't stretching the 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.920 lead where you're down seventeen points and you got to 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.960 come back. I mean they're not They're not getting blown out. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.200 So uh, teams can continue to run the ball to 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.000 try to get back in the game. See that's why 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.680 I was just thinking, because you know, we talk about 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.480 their ability to run the ball, and you know, it's 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:25.640 one of those things, Oh, I can run the ball 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.560 and run ball, and then you're thinking like, Okay, well 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.160 maybe there's sometimes they you know, maybe they can't maybe 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.000 you know, you kind of and then we talk about 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.920 the run defense. No, the run defense is fine, and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.880 then you think Philadelphia just ran the ball tend straight 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.000 times to end the game on it, right, you know, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.599 And that's the kind of things that you know, in 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.800 my mind, I think that they're I think the run 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.360 defense is better. I agree. I think the run defense 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.160 is better than what people are thinking about I do. 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.040 I think there's times when they just get blocked, you know, 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.240 and that happens in every NFL game. You can watch like, well, 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.800 what happened to that play? Well, you're in got blocked 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.880 your your linebacker was late getting over and the safety 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.080 didn't get down fast enough. You can do that in 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.600 every NFL game, but I don't think the Cowboys do 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.200 it every single play. I don't think it's every single 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.840 run against them is a bad fit. And the fact is, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.559 even if you look at the numbers, the numbers say 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.480 they give up a lot of yards, as you were saying, Nick, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.200 the fact is they're not giving up a ton of points, 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.200 not getting a lot of points at all. So so 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.480 it really is somewhat hollow because yes, teams can run 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.520 on them, teams have been able to run on them, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.520 but it isn't resulting in points. So that's the thing 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.760 I remember with you. I asked Rod Marinelli this one 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.800 time and I said, you know, what do you worry 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:40.440 about more run deep? Excuse me? Yards or points? He says, 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.080 yards don't matter, it's the points. They can't win without 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.640 the points. You know, that's the he goes, you can 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.600 run on me or throw on me all day. If 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.920 I keep you out of the end zone, it doesn't matter. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.160 You're not going to win the game. Yeah, a lot, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.520 that's you know, it was his A lot of times 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.960 those great Belichick defenses with Brady and then the Patriots, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.000 and they were one of the top offenses in the league. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.800 They'd be last and in defense Kansas City for a 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.320 while there too, because you're up, but you're up seventeen points, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.800 you're playing a pre event and point you know yards 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.680 are coming, and you know you end up giving up 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.760 three eighty and you blew them out. You know that happens. Yeah, 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.719 and that's okay. I think most teams, most coaches will 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:17.800 take that. All right, Let's get a couple other updates. 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.400 Terrence Steele, what's up with him? Neck injury? Um, I 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.080 didn't see. I didn't honestly, I didn't listen to McCarthy today, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.440 so if he mentioned him, I know he's got neck injury. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.440 I don't think it was that serious though, Yeah, I didn't. 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.680 I did not ask about him at all, and that thing. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.880 So I'll follow back up. I think I think the 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.560 guys that they're Hooker and Noah Brown are the guys 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.440 that are that's probably going next. What's what's up with 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.160 the hooker and hamstring? For him not practicing two days 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.840 in a row now, so the three headed monster might 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.360 be closer to who plays back. I just thought of 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.480 the I'm just thought of something. Um, who can't play, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.080 Who's gonna be your center fielder? Yeah? I would think 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.840 that's probably Donovan Wilson more than it would be cursed. Yeah, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.040 because yeah, Donovan Wilson would be bom could cold factor 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.520 into this? Yeah? I think that to me this, if 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:05.520 you had to play with a deep guy, you're gonna 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.560 play more likely with Smith than you would because we've 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.640 seen Smith in some in some games. I remember Jesus 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.320 was early in the year, might have been Cincinnati. They try, 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.880 they try a vertical nine route on the outside and 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:20.720 they and they got Brown squats. I mean he stops 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.200 and you see Smith come flying to make up for 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.040 the ground that the ball went down the sideline. So 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:28.760 I would say that he would be the one that 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.440 would probably played deep for you. Okay, and what are 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.600 we hearing about Noah Brown. He's supposed to work with 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:39.240 the trainers today, um, and at practice, and so he's 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:43.440 got a him hamstring for him. I have to look. 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:47.800 I'm sorry this list was huge, but yeah, got me. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.840 I don't. Yeah, the foot is probably way better than 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.600 a hamstring for a receiver in this case. But limited 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:58.080 yesterday and then he'll he's gonna be limited today. So again, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.320 a lot of things you can figure out is also 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.960 moves that they make if they're adding people or any 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.120 add to the practice squad or anything like that. So um, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.880 and I said this yesterday about running back, about they 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.440 got to do something. This practice squad's got eighty seven 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.760 players on it. Uh Quadra Ellison, Allison Quadre Allison. He's 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.640 running back on the practice squad, could probably get elevated 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.560 if Zeke doesn't play. Malik Davis moved up Allison as well, 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:25.720 that that could happen with him. Is that more for 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.920 special teams or is that just because you want to 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.360 have to have a third back. I mean they bring 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.640 up David once rico' daddall was hurt. They brought up 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.320 Davis every time they might be I mean, this will 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.400 be Davis's third call up, so they got to be 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.360 careful with that. If they want to keep him, they 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:42.880 can't call him up anymore. So we'll see, we'll see 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:45.200 what happens with him. But they do have another backup 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.600 running back, Allison. And they got some receivers as well, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.960 Houston drumming maybe yeah. Yeah. So if they need for 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.160 Noah Brown, they could do that. The thing about that 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.360 with with Noah Brown though, is he's like the stuff 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.800 that he does on special teams. Yeah, he's the personal 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.840 protector on the punt team, you know, and that's a 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.160 that's a big responsibility to count them out, get everybody set. 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:07.600 The last thing you want to do is give up 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.640 a block punt. And you know who else has been 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.600 that personal protector and not this year, but in previous 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.040 years as Tony Pollard. Yeah, who could be starting this game? 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.840 So fossils, you know, got some that. That's the job 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.320 of a special teams coordinator. You've you've got you know, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.040 moving parts all the time. Yeah, guys that you rely on. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.240 Sometimes we get called into a different role and you 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.440 got a doubt. You're a triple A manager, is what 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.560 you are. You get these guys ready to go, and 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:32.960 then all of a sudden they're like, oh, we're gonna 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.560 win a game. 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