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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number sixty. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break Life nest WBC Mortgage
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Speaker 1: talking Chicago defense versus the Dallas offense. Before we do that, though,
Speaker 1: we got a couple of topics we need to hit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start, as we normally do, on some injury updates.
Speaker 1: We got a pretty interesting list of guys who have
Speaker 1: missed practice. Let's get some updates. Let's start with Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: Where are we what are we hearing about him? And
Speaker 1: what he's going to be doing today? Brian, Uh, nothing today,
Speaker 1: and he's dealing with a hyper extended knee brain, Thank you,
Speaker 1: is what he's dealing with. Hyper extended nice brain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what he's dealing with right now. So a lot
Speaker 1: of other reports obviously, but yeah, that's the that's that's
Speaker 1: a good hyper extended knice brain. And I was told
Speaker 1: that everybody else is full of this, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: stick with the hyper extended. So it would be good
Speaker 1: if you stick with the hyper extended knee brain. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you see the injury that you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure it all stems from the one where he was
Speaker 1: on the sideline, he cuts back and he like, that's
Speaker 1: what you would think it would be. Honestly, you would
Speaker 1: think it'd be a hyper extended I thought it was
Speaker 1: a thigh bruise. Initially, I didn't think it was me.
Speaker 1: I thought it was thigh bruise when it first when
Speaker 1: I saw it, and then the more I you know,
Speaker 1: we figure out how to ask people around here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was still pre jumpy. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: still jumping around on people after that. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: zeke zeke. But the thing about when he said yesterday
Speaker 1: we talked about this, when he said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll be playing. We'll see it's only Wednesday, but
Speaker 1: it just didn't look like he would be playing. And
Speaker 1: I get the sense. You get the sense, probably the
Speaker 1: same that UM and the public relations department gets the
Speaker 1: sense because they brought Tony Pollard out to do an
Speaker 1: interview which they had never do right right after Zeke.
Speaker 1: I just get the sense that Zeke won't be playing
Speaker 1: this week, and I think that by week has something
Speaker 1: to do with it. Right afterwards, I think so the
Speaker 1: I don't know is something that you wouldn't listen here.
Speaker 1: No one is gonna go out there and be like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if I will or not.
Speaker 1: They're usually like, yeah, I'll be there or that's the plan.
Speaker 1: The plan is for me to play, So that everything's
Speaker 1: kind of hinting for him to possibly not playing. Obviously
Speaker 1: having the bye week coming up probably huge to give
Speaker 1: him kind of back to back weeks. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that you know this, and you know he
Speaker 1: didn't make him available though. I mean, that's that's not
Speaker 1: like they just said you're not playing your out. I
Speaker 1: mean I don't think anyone knows. Yeah, UM, but just
Speaker 1: just people you talk to and whoever's telling you hyper
Speaker 1: extended and probably saying he's not playing. I just I
Speaker 1: have a feeling he wants the I got. I asked
Speaker 1: this question yesterday late in the day. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: what's your status of twenty one? And you know, a
Speaker 1: couple of different people were saying to me, They're like, listen,
Speaker 1: he didn't practice today. Let's see what happens on Thursday.
Speaker 1: So he's not practicing again on Thursday. So I would
Speaker 1: say that's a pretty good indication, you know, But that's
Speaker 1: with him with Zeke. You know, you talk about Zeke
Speaker 1: going out there and talking to the media yesterday, He's
Speaker 1: probably that's what he's used to going to do, true,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like, Okay, this is my responsibility.
Speaker 1: I walk out, I talk and they're probably, well, bro,
Speaker 1: you don't have to. We've got Tony can go out
Speaker 1: and talk. Well, no, it's my responsibility. I'll go do it. So,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's doing everything like he's getting ready
Speaker 1: to play a football game. He's just not gonna be practicing.
Speaker 1: And I think with all the you know, we'll know
Speaker 1: today later today. I think by the end of the
Speaker 1: day it'll be like this guy can't you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's be smart about it. But we'll go back to
Speaker 1: last year. You know, I kept getting I kept asking
Speaker 1: that question about is he okay? Is he okay? Is
Speaker 1: he you knowing it? He's fine, he's fine. He's fining
Speaker 1: at the end of the year while he was playing
Speaker 1: with this and then you go, okay, so you know
Speaker 1: that's he's a different cat. I think they have a
Speaker 1: hard time telling him you can't play, you know, and
Speaker 1: he and he doesn't want to hear it from you.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to hear it that, you know. And
Speaker 1: then now you have to ask yourself the question is
Speaker 1: is he hurting the team by doing it? You know?
Speaker 1: And I mean, and I mean it's respectfully, I don't mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, is if he's just playing it,
Speaker 1: you know, sixty percent or less, does that helping your
Speaker 1: your team? You know? And he plays hard, he really
Speaker 1: really does. I just want to see him get healed up.
Speaker 1: And because he's off to a great start right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really is. Everything you just said, Brian is the
Speaker 1: reason why I'm I'm pessimistic about him playing, which is
Speaker 1: like he usually, like you said, it's not one it's
Speaker 1: not a situation where they're typically like Zeke, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to sit you down, Like Zeke's like I'm playing,
Speaker 1: I'm hurt, I'm playing. Yeah. And and the fact that
Speaker 1: he said yesterday when he first said and I don't
Speaker 1: really know, we'll see that, to me was like, WHOA, Okay,
Speaker 1: then this is this is maybe a little more of
Speaker 1: a situation where maybe he can't go than in typical
Speaker 1: situations where it's like I'm hurt, but I'm playing, you
Speaker 1: know where you know, That's what I think I would
Speaker 1: expect to hear from him in most situations. You know,
Speaker 1: I was getting pretty annoyed yesterday because we so we
Speaker 1: put out a story and it was about Tony Pohler
Speaker 1: when he talked to the media and all that, and
Speaker 1: He'm basically saying, you know, he's he's ready to go
Speaker 1: whatever he needs to, He's ready. But then I was
Speaker 1: looking at the just kind of reading comments from the
Speaker 1: fans and things like that and people just being like, good,
Speaker 1: this is why we've been asking for like take out Zeke,
Speaker 1: sit him out or whatever. I'm like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm dying to see. I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: running game is gonna go down the drain if Zeke
Speaker 1: is out. But I'm dying to see what exactly this
Speaker 1: looks like, to see if, like, is this gonna please you?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna be okay with like Tony Pollard taking
Speaker 1: all the reps? I mean he wouldn't he wouldn't take
Speaker 1: all of them. We would see who would be behind
Speaker 1: him and all that. But it's just very, very annoying
Speaker 1: to think that you're better off without having Zeke playing
Speaker 1: as well. Well. I actually went back and looked at
Speaker 1: the last time Zeke missed a game and they had
Speaker 1: to roam with Tony Pollard. It was twenty twenty. They
Speaker 1: were playing in San Francisco, forty nine ers I think
Speaker 1: it was Week fourteen. Pollard went twelve carries for sixty
Speaker 1: nine yards two touchdowns. He had a five point seven
Speaker 1: five average. Here was the interesting part. He had six
Speaker 1: catches for sixty three yards. Yeah. The way I look
Speaker 1: at this is if they have to play a game
Speaker 1: without Zeke number one, obviously Malik Davis probably be the
Speaker 1: guy that's going to get a lot of those carries.
Speaker 1: But in addition to that, your running game kind of
Speaker 1: extends and it's not the same kind of running game anymore.
Speaker 1: Now you may actually as opposed to some of those
Speaker 1: runs that you would run with Zeke. Maybe now you're
Speaker 1: throwing a little flare out to to Pollard. Hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: you talked about this couple weeks ago. I remember what
Speaker 1: team we were talking about, but how they use their
Speaker 1: their their short passing game to their running backs as
Speaker 1: kind of an extension of their running game, and even
Speaker 1: the Cooper Cup they use that. It's kind of an
Speaker 1: extension of their running game. It's not a running play,
Speaker 1: but it's the same kind of short, quick passes that
Speaker 1: can kind of get the ball out and let the
Speaker 1: guy make a play from there. I think that's more
Speaker 1: of probably what you're going to see instead of thinking
Speaker 1: that Pollo it's going to be a twenty five carry
Speaker 1: twenty carry guy. I don't think that's necessarily going to
Speaker 1: be in the cards for what the Cowboys thinks the
Speaker 1: best way to win. Yeah, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: what's the thing you have to think about next. And
Speaker 1: by the way, when you look at comments, it does
Speaker 1: nothing but living the mental health. Uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't know if people are troll in there or not.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Nick made a point yesterday about the running game.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the short yardage running game. You know,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Zeke is one of these guys
Speaker 1: that's really good at finishing those runs. In the third
Speaker 1: and one runs. I know last week it was a
Speaker 1: little bit of you know, they were trying to do
Speaker 1: some things a little bit differently and they weren't able
Speaker 1: to convert like they had. This is now when the
Speaker 1: game plan, if it is polar you have to think
Speaker 1: of something different. You think like, okay, how are we
Speaker 1: going to manufacture if we get in third and one,
Speaker 1: third and two, how are we going to have to
Speaker 1: manufacture the ability to run the ball. And so that's
Speaker 1: that's going to be the trick because you can hand
Speaker 1: the ball to Zeke and it's gonna get it to
Speaker 1: be a first down. You're gonna you're gonna get those things.
Speaker 1: So without him in the lineup, if he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that I'm keeping my eye on in
Speaker 1: this football game. You know, when you look at that
Speaker 1: that game that you're talking about with the Niners, I
Speaker 1: mean he was he was catching the ball, he was
Speaker 1: running it. The thing about these games that you have
Speaker 1: you have to remember, I mean twelve catch I mean
Speaker 1: twelve carries sixty nine yards and five point seven yard average.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say throw out the forty
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown run because it was a very good run.
Speaker 1: He was like he got people off of him, and
Speaker 1: you know it wasn't just like out he used to speed,
Speaker 1: but he also was tough on it. But when you
Speaker 1: look at it, you're also think of throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the day, ten carries for twenty two yards. I mean,
Speaker 1: so you gotta get to that point as well. You're
Speaker 1: like ten carries for twenty two yards is very Zeke? Like,
Speaker 1: Now did you keep doing it? You keep doing it
Speaker 1: hoping that your playmaker will bust one and he's got
Speaker 1: the ability to do that. So I never say throw
Speaker 1: it out. But you also remember, can you with this offense,
Speaker 1: let's say that this happens in this game, ten for
Speaker 1: twenty two for the first three quarters? Is that going
Speaker 1: to help you win this game? Like, like that's why
Speaker 1: Zeke gets knocked all the time. But like you know,
Speaker 1: three four or five tough yards moving some chains at times,
Speaker 1: I think sometimes stats could be a little bit misleading. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can I ask you question? Then it's a great man
Speaker 1: it's a great point. There. Is it more and maybe
Speaker 1: the word is mirage, you know, maybe I don't know
Speaker 1: if if that's the right word. Is it more a
Speaker 1: mirage of Cowboys running game or Cowboys run defense? And
Speaker 1: I mean mirage like is it like you're kind of
Speaker 1: fooled that the run defense is okay and then the
Speaker 1: running game is okay? I mean between the two, if
Speaker 1: you had to say which one is more of one?
Speaker 1: You can rely on Cowboys run defense or Cowboys running game.
Speaker 1: I think I think the run defense is not as
Speaker 1: bad as people think it is. I think that they
Speaker 1: give up some yards. I think that they showed up
Speaker 1: pretty good too when you get down to the goal
Speaker 1: line area and short yardage. I think that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I count on them a little bit more than the
Speaker 1: running game. But I mean I'm not Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the running games which one you hang your hat? Which
Speaker 1: one you think you can hang your hat on. It's
Speaker 1: more on the running game, because everything we've seen from
Speaker 1: this team, and you can go back to preseason, has
Speaker 1: been this team is a good running team. They know
Speaker 1: how to run the ball. You know. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: about that though, there McCarthy just said it we're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball. Yeah, that's his goal, that's the And
Speaker 1: then when you go to the defense, what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do. They're trying to get after the quarterback, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna give up some runs, right. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's a style a little bit, but I'm not
Speaker 1: as worried about the run defense as much, and I
Speaker 1: think they do a decent job. Let's also be clear,
Speaker 1: I think part of the issue with the run defense
Speaker 1: is every team comes into the game saying, we got
Speaker 1: to figure out creative ways to run the ball because
Speaker 1: the last thing we can do is in a situation
Speaker 1: that team can come and get our quarterback. Right, So
Speaker 1: you're gonna be facing teams that are gonna and I
Speaker 1: haven't looked at numbers. I would. I'd be interested to
Speaker 1: know where the Cowboys ranked with regards to rush attempts against, Like,
Speaker 1: are they Are they way ahead of the next closest team.
Speaker 1: Are they at the top of the league. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would be interested to know that, But I do
Speaker 1: know a lot of teams probably have come into the
Speaker 1: game with the thought, we gotta run the ball because
Speaker 1: we can't get in situations where quarterbacks and they don't
Speaker 1: get and they don't blow anyone out. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the thing, like this team, this offense isn't stretching the
Speaker 1: lead where you're down seventeen points and you got to
Speaker 1: come back. I mean they're not They're not getting blown out.
Speaker 1: So uh, teams can continue to run the ball to
Speaker 1: try to get back in the game. See that's why
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, because you know, we talk about
Speaker 1: their ability to run the ball, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things, Oh, I can run the ball
Speaker 1: and run ball, and then you're thinking like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: maybe there's sometimes they you know, maybe they can't maybe
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of and then we talk about
Speaker 1: the run defense. No, the run defense is fine, and
Speaker 1: then you think Philadelphia just ran the ball tend straight
Speaker 1: times to end the game on it, right, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of things that you know, in
Speaker 1: my mind, I think that they're I think the run
Speaker 1: defense is better. I agree. I think the run defense
Speaker 1: is better than what people are thinking about I do.
Speaker 1: I think there's times when they just get blocked, you know,
Speaker 1: and that happens in every NFL game. You can watch like, well,
Speaker 1: what happened to that play? Well, you're in got blocked
Speaker 1: your your linebacker was late getting over and the safety
Speaker 1: didn't get down fast enough. You can do that in
Speaker 1: every NFL game, but I don't think the Cowboys do
Speaker 1: it every single play. I don't think it's every single
Speaker 1: run against them is a bad fit. And the fact is,
Speaker 1: even if you look at the numbers, the numbers say
Speaker 1: they give up a lot of yards, as you were saying, Nick,
Speaker 1: the fact is they're not giving up a ton of points,
Speaker 1: not getting a lot of points at all. So so
Speaker 1: it really is somewhat hollow because yes, teams can run
Speaker 1: on them, teams have been able to run on them,
Speaker 1: but it isn't resulting in points. So that's the thing
Speaker 1: I remember with you. I asked Rod Marinelli this one
Speaker 1: time and I said, you know, what do you worry
Speaker 1: about more run deep? Excuse me? Yards or points? He says,
Speaker 1: yards don't matter, it's the points. They can't win without
Speaker 1: the points. You know, that's the he goes, you can
Speaker 1: run on me or throw on me all day. If
Speaker 1: I keep you out of the end zone, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: You're not going to win the game. Yeah, a lot,
Speaker 1: that's you know, it was his A lot of times
Speaker 1: those great Belichick defenses with Brady and then the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and they were one of the top offenses in the league.
Speaker 1: They'd be last and in defense Kansas City for a
Speaker 1: while there too, because you're up, but you're up seventeen points,
Speaker 1: you're playing a pre event and point you know yards
Speaker 1: are coming, and you know you end up giving up
Speaker 1: three eighty and you blew them out. You know that happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. I think most teams, most coaches will
Speaker 1: take that. All right, Let's get a couple other updates.
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele, what's up with him? Neck injury? Um, I
Speaker 1: didn't see. I didn't honestly, I didn't listen to McCarthy today,
Speaker 1: so if he mentioned him, I know he's got neck injury.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was that serious though, Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I did not ask about him at all, and that thing.
Speaker 1: So I'll follow back up. I think I think the
Speaker 1: guys that they're Hooker and Noah Brown are the guys
Speaker 1: that are that's probably going next. What's what's up with
Speaker 1: the hooker and hamstring? For him not practicing two days
Speaker 1: in a row now, so the three headed monster might
Speaker 1: be closer to who plays back. I just thought of
Speaker 1: the I'm just thought of something. Um, who can't play,
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be your center fielder? Yeah? I would think
Speaker 1: that's probably Donovan Wilson more than it would be cursed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because yeah, Donovan Wilson would be bom could cold factor
Speaker 1: into this? Yeah? I think that to me this, if
Speaker 1: you had to play with a deep guy, you're gonna
Speaker 1: play more likely with Smith than you would because we've
Speaker 1: seen Smith in some in some games. I remember Jesus
Speaker 1: was early in the year, might have been Cincinnati. They try,
Speaker 1: they try a vertical nine route on the outside and
Speaker 1: they and they got Brown squats. I mean he stops
Speaker 1: and you see Smith come flying to make up for
Speaker 1: the ground that the ball went down the sideline. So
Speaker 1: I would say that he would be the one that
Speaker 1: would probably played deep for you. Okay, and what are
Speaker 1: we hearing about Noah Brown. He's supposed to work with
Speaker 1: the trainers today, um, and at practice, and so he's
Speaker 1: got a him hamstring for him. I have to look.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry this list was huge, but yeah, got me.
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, the foot is probably way better than
Speaker 1: a hamstring for a receiver in this case. But limited
Speaker 1: yesterday and then he'll he's gonna be limited today. So again,
Speaker 1: a lot of things you can figure out is also
Speaker 1: moves that they make if they're adding people or any
Speaker 1: add to the practice squad or anything like that. So um,
Speaker 1: and I said this yesterday about running back, about they
Speaker 1: got to do something. This practice squad's got eighty seven
Speaker 1: players on it. Uh Quadra Ellison, Allison Quadre Allison. He's
Speaker 1: running back on the practice squad, could probably get elevated
Speaker 1: if Zeke doesn't play. Malik Davis moved up Allison as well,
Speaker 1: that that could happen with him. Is that more for
Speaker 1: special teams or is that just because you want to
Speaker 1: have to have a third back. I mean they bring
Speaker 1: up David once rico' daddall was hurt. They brought up
Speaker 1: Davis every time they might be I mean, this will
Speaker 1: be Davis's third call up, so they got to be
Speaker 1: careful with that. If they want to keep him, they
Speaker 1: can't call him up anymore. So we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with him. But they do have another backup
Speaker 1: running back, Allison. And they got some receivers as well,
Speaker 1: Houston drumming maybe yeah. Yeah. So if they need for
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, they could do that. The thing about that
Speaker 1: with with Noah Brown though, is he's like the stuff
Speaker 1: that he does on special teams. Yeah, he's the personal
Speaker 1: protector on the punt team, you know, and that's a
Speaker 1: that's a big responsibility to count them out, get everybody set.
Speaker 1: The last thing you want to do is give up
Speaker 1: a block punt. And you know who else has been
Speaker 1: that personal protector and not this year, but in previous
Speaker 1: years as Tony Pollard. Yeah, who could be starting this game?
Speaker 1: So fossils, you know, got some that. That's the job
Speaker 1: of a special teams coordinator. You've you've got you know,
Speaker 1: moving parts all the time. Yeah, guys that you rely on.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we get called into a different role and you
Speaker 1: got a doubt. You're a triple A manager, is what
Speaker 1: you are. You get these guys ready to go, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they're like, oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: win a game. Like no, he's moving up to the show.
Speaker 1: You're like, dang, it's and I gotta figure another guy
Speaker 1: Like that's that's what the special teams coordinators do. All right,
Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys, Jonas. We're gonna take our first break
Speaker 1: and we come back. We'll jump into to Chicago defense
Speaker 1: versus the Dallas offense. Then when we come back back
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Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys offense versus Chicago defense. Brian, what's
Speaker 1: the best thing they do, worst thing they do? I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. The thing I think that they do
Speaker 1: the best is they actually have guys that can get
Speaker 1: after the football. And I mean they've they've they're trade
Speaker 1: away the one guy. But you know, he had been
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit though, Yeah he has been, but
Speaker 1: he's playing a lot of snaps for them. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been kind of an up and down player. Robert Quinn,
Speaker 1: we'll see him on Christmas Eve. We'll see Robert Quinn then.
Speaker 1: But they do have Roquan Smith, who I think is
Speaker 1: a really, really good football player. And I know there
Speaker 1: was a lot of people talking about, well the Bears
Speaker 1: trade him. Is a guy on the block and all that,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't play like a guy that wants to leave.
Speaker 1: He's playing as hard as he can. He's an undersized
Speaker 1: linebacker that runs everywhere, and so you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to deal with him and the secondary though, I
Speaker 1: think this is a little bit of the strength of
Speaker 1: their team though. This Chiquon Brisker is a safety that
Speaker 1: they got out of Penn State. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: ball hawk. You know, when you watch him play, he's
Speaker 1: a good tackler. He's around the ball. If you watch
Speaker 1: the Monday night game the other night, he had a
Speaker 1: high point interception. You know, he's that type of guy
Speaker 1: that you really you have to respect for a young guy.
Speaker 1: He sees the field really really well and is not
Speaker 1: afraid to tackle if you're going to attack one of
Speaker 1: their cornerbacks. Jalen Johnson number thirty three is the guy
Speaker 1: I would go after. He's the second year player that
Speaker 1: they had there. He plays a little bit more cautiously
Speaker 1: than I would like my corners to play, so you
Speaker 1: see him play off quite a bit, and then he's
Speaker 1: always driving on the ball, where on the other side,
Speaker 1: like Kyler Gordon, guys like that are just you know,
Speaker 1: they're driving on the ball, they're playing, they're playing aggressively,
Speaker 1: they're playing press coverage. They're not afraid of that. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's where I would keep an eye on
Speaker 1: Johnson also too. If this Lamar Johnson number, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: number twenty three is on the field, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that's had some problems in coverage as well, so there's
Speaker 1: some guys that you can attack in this secondary. Uh
Speaker 1: you know. They their offensive line did a really good
Speaker 1: job of getting after New England. And then I went
Speaker 1: back and watched the Minnesota game, uh you know, and
Speaker 1: did another good job there. So it's the front is
Speaker 1: not as good as what the Cowboys have played. But
Speaker 1: the linebacker, when you talk about Smith, Brisker, Gordon, They've
Speaker 1: got some guys. Eddie Jackson's another one, another safety on
Speaker 1: their team whose places as a free safety that's in
Speaker 1: on a lot of plays. So it's a it's a
Speaker 1: defense they'll give up a little bit, but but they
Speaker 1: do have some quality on the with some of the players.
Speaker 1: They have real quick nick. Before you jump in, I
Speaker 1: wanted to throw out some stats. You remember yesterday I
Speaker 1: was talking about how far Yeah, listen to the defense.
Speaker 1: They are third in passing yards allow per game, giving
Speaker 1: up one hundred and eighty point three, so they don't
Speaker 1: give up much to gear. They are thirtieth in rush
Speaker 1: yards per game, giving up almost one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards per game on the ground, so once again it
Speaker 1: is a feast or famine. They can stop the run,
Speaker 1: I mean they can they can stop the pass but
Speaker 1: the running game, well, and you should be able to
Speaker 1: run against them again based on their numbers of what
Speaker 1: they've Yeah, they are. They are a very soft run defense.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you run the ball so well that you don't
Speaker 1: throw it and it makes to me may better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and so that I do. That's a that's
Speaker 1: not a it's not the case. Yes, the running part
Speaker 1: of it is, like I say, real quin Smith has
Speaker 1: to make nearly every tackle. But the secondary I think
Speaker 1: is legitimate. Yeah, I really really do. I think Brisker's
Speaker 1: a really good young player. Gordon's a rookie. He's a
Speaker 1: really good young player. You know this. Eddie Jackson's a
Speaker 1: good player too. They've got legitimate cover guys. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: only holding I mean they're they're not getting more than
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty yards. And I know that that
Speaker 1: game situations can can dictate that, but that that still
Speaker 1: is a really good number. I they're holding teams one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty yards through the year. That's pretty significant
Speaker 1: through a seven game season. Absolutely. Yeah. The zeke's listening
Speaker 1: to the show right now because he's you know, relaxed,
Speaker 1: and he's like, wait, wait a second. Now, they're given
Speaker 1: up how many yards a game. He's like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: out there. Yeah, pooard. All those guys are in Anbar's
Speaker 1: mentions about me playing this week. I'm all about that.
Speaker 1: And people are gonna come back and be like, see
Speaker 1: that's why Tony Polar should be running the ball all
Speaker 1: the time. And he's like, well, hold off. But that's
Speaker 1: also because the opponent your face in mental health and
Speaker 1: not look at mentions, do not look get the mensions.
Speaker 1: It's it will ruin you every single time. It will
Speaker 1: ruin you. Here's a question I have for you, Brian.
Speaker 1: The only top ten offense passing um top ten passing
Speaker 1: offense that they've played so far as Minnesota. Right. Uh,
Speaker 1: Minnesota let him up for a three hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: passing yards. Minnesota can throw the ball, And my question becomes, yeah,
Speaker 1: have is this? Is? This? Is there number? Are there numbers?
Speaker 1: More a reflection of the fact that they really haven't
Speaker 1: played other than Minnesota a good passing offense. Do you
Speaker 1: think they're really that good? No? No, I think they're good.
Speaker 1: But but Minnesota, that was one of the games I watched,
Speaker 1: and I was and I was interested about that because
Speaker 1: I think Minnesota can throw the ball. We all know
Speaker 1: Minnesota can throw the ball. As long as Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: doesn't play in primetime, they're fine. Kurt Cousins will lose
Speaker 1: you a game in primetime, but you play at noon
Speaker 1: on a Sunday, he's gonna light you up for three
Speaker 1: hundred and whatever yards. But they've got legitimate receivers, they've
Speaker 1: got the offense. I think Minnesota. We'll talk about Minnesota
Speaker 1: here down the road, but I think the thing, yeah,
Speaker 1: three thirty game, Yeah, well he just just oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: if if if he's gonna play, if Kirk Cousins is
Speaker 1: gonna play a big time nationally televised game, you might
Speaker 1: as well just bet the house on whoever they're playing
Speaker 1: that day, Like Mark Cooper home in a way, very
Speaker 1: very similar, very similar, very similar kind of thing. But
Speaker 1: the thing you're onto something. I do feel like that
Speaker 1: those guys. I watched these guys against against New England
Speaker 1: really closely, just because it was the last game, and
Speaker 1: you know, and Bailey's Appy came in, it had some success,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden after that it was
Speaker 1: just bumped. They shut that thing down. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got they were able to get a little pressure, they
Speaker 1: were able to cover a little better on the back end.
Speaker 1: They could have wilted in that game on Monday night
Speaker 1: and they didn't. And I think that's the thing about
Speaker 1: it is, but if you talk to people around the
Speaker 1: league about this team, it's like, Okay, show me you
Speaker 1: could play this way again. Show me you could show
Speaker 1: me you could play offense this way again. Show me
Speaker 1: the quarterback and have success this way. You know. He
Speaker 1: says that usually it's usually not one of those things
Speaker 1: that always travels that well. You know that you can
Speaker 1: be able to like start to put some of these
Speaker 1: things together, especially a team that struggled as much as
Speaker 1: they have on offense, they didn't score any points, but
Speaker 1: their defense. I think their defense is the best part
Speaker 1: of the you know. And Matt Eberflus, You gotta remember
Speaker 1: this about Eberflus. There was a game at a time
Speaker 1: when this team went Dak Prescott went to Indianapolis. It
Speaker 1: was one of the worst games that Dak Prescott had
Speaker 1: ever played. I think was a twenty nine to nothing,
Speaker 1: twenty six to nothing game, and it just yea completely
Speaker 1: shut Dak Prescott and Matt Eberflus was the DC that day.
Speaker 1: So maybe he has some ideas of how you attack
Speaker 1: attack this, attack this play. That's what I'm saying that Smith,
Speaker 1: who was a similar linebacker that could run. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got a couple of sacks, hint. And that game.
Speaker 1: You know, we mentioned that before about a game. Sometimes
Speaker 1: games are just a stinkers. I mean, like they had
Speaker 1: I think they had won six in a row and
Speaker 1: then came back in one four to five. After that
Speaker 1: that was a ten out of eleven stretch and lost
Speaker 1: was a I think it was twenty two to nothing,
Speaker 1: and it was like we didn't think this was possible
Speaker 1: after with a mari the in the offense now, so
Speaker 1: you're right, Eberflus, you know, and he knew the personnel
Speaker 1: probably a little better than that he knows it now.
Speaker 1: But um still, he's got he's got some really good
Speaker 1: defensive players. Maybe not enough, but he's got some good
Speaker 1: one Montgomery, I know, flipping to the other side. But
Speaker 1: but their offense I think helps will help their defense
Speaker 1: if they can run the ball. I mean Montgomery had
Speaker 1: a head about an eight yard run. That's about as
Speaker 1: good as an eight yard run as you can have it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it. I'm sure you did,
Speaker 1: but like you know, if you remember it, you know
Speaker 1: he's just hit in the backfield and it was spinning
Speaker 1: and churning and then you're like where is he and
Speaker 1: then all of its oils I getting two. You know
Speaker 1: that that's what can't happen in this game because that's
Speaker 1: what will keep fields from being in long, third and
Speaker 1: long situations. Because even at third and three, third and four,
Speaker 1: we saw it in third and fifteen he got looked
Speaker 1: like he was gonna get sacked and ended up running
Speaker 1: and getting the first out. He is a big time
Speaker 1: runner now, but he's not faster than Mike, as Micah
Speaker 1: Michael said that, Yeah, he's a not faster than me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: check out some of these numbers. Also on their defense,
Speaker 1: they are tops in the league when it comes to
Speaker 1: a percentage of passes, percentage of drop backs that they
Speaker 1: get pressure on um and but here's the interesting thing.
Speaker 1: They're dead last in the league when it comes to
Speaker 1: percentage of plays that they actually blitz. So they're doing
Speaker 1: with their front four and they're only twentieth and sacks
Speaker 1: so they're not really getting home as might as you
Speaker 1: want them to. But they're certainly getting pressure. My question
Speaker 1: is how much of that changes without Robert Quinn. You
Speaker 1: would think he's a big part. He only has one sack,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to pressures, he is a good
Speaker 1: pressure player. How much of that changes without him? No,
Speaker 1: I think it changes a lot because if you look
Speaker 1: at the players that they have, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and you go through it, they don't have that bell
Speaker 1: cow guy. They just don't have. I mean you know that.
Speaker 1: You look at you know, Gibson and Blackston and Jones
Speaker 1: and Muhammad. I mean it's you know, it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of a group that's just you know, very You watch
Speaker 1: him and you just don't get fired up about you
Speaker 1: You're saying, oh, man, you had to deal with this guy,
Speaker 1: you know, Dominic Robinson and guys like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got some young players. The thing about it is
Speaker 1: Quinn's the one guy I worried about Quinn going over
Speaker 1: and Russian and seeing and having the opportunity over Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith because Quinn is so He's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that gives Tyler Smith a little bit of the problem
Speaker 1: because of how slippery you know, a veteran guy, low shoulder,
Speaker 1: don't you know, if if Smith misses with his hands,
Speaker 1: now it turns into he's out of sorts. And Quinn
Speaker 1: was that kind of guy. Quinn makes you miss. And
Speaker 1: that was the one thing I was worried about. I'm
Speaker 1: like going, I think steel might be okay, but if
Speaker 1: you flip it on the other side, I man, the
Speaker 1: thing about I was worried about Tyler Smith taking on
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn over there. I really really was. You know
Speaker 1: another thing too, when you're looking at the Zeke Polar
Speaker 1: thing on playing in the game, and we mentioned this before.
Speaker 1: You know, just because Zeke gets twelve carries in the
Speaker 1: game doesn't mean that he had twelve collisions. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that picks up the blitz and he's
Speaker 1: out there a lot. And if Pollard has to do
Speaker 1: that more, that's more collisions for him. Is Malik Davis
Speaker 1: going to be out there? And if so, what's his
Speaker 1: awareness look like? So, you know, we say it all
Speaker 1: the time, it's not just about who's making the flashy
Speaker 1: runs you see on Sports Center. It's about all of
Speaker 1: the dirty works that comes with being the top running back.
Speaker 1: And so it's a big challenge for Pollard if he's
Speaker 1: going to do that, and he's willing, but he's going
Speaker 1: to have to do it and do it with success.
Speaker 1: If not, then they might have to put Malik Davis
Speaker 1: out there. And then, you know, we've seen what happens
Speaker 1: when rookies. Maybe you think it's this way and then
Speaker 1: it's this way and your quarterbacks running for his life.
Speaker 1: So that's a big part of it too well. And
Speaker 1: Nick makes a great point because what happens is running
Speaker 1: backs know how offensive lineman block. You do not want
Speaker 1: to get in the way of a tackle when he's
Speaker 1: trying to say, you're trying to chip a guy and
Speaker 1: all seen you hit the tackle in the back and
Speaker 1: now he's thrown off because he's dealing with the guy
Speaker 1: because you don't know where you need to fit. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the things that Posthered and Zeke understand because
Speaker 1: they played games with these offensive linemen. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: there's been some times where Smith has got some work
Speaker 1: in the preseason with some of the guys and stuff,
Speaker 1: but not to the point where he's about to see
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon, right, yea, all right, we gotta like
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Speaker 1: A few more questions on the Cowboys offense. Actually, this
Speaker 1: question comes from one of our listeners, Gee and Jersey.
Speaker 1: He says, what serious adjustments does you do you guys
Speaker 1: suggest the offense coordinator make in order to compete down
Speaker 1: the road against future opponents. If you could look at
Speaker 1: this offense and say, is is one thing that the
Speaker 1: coordinator could do different or one area that they could
Speaker 1: improve in that would make the beast difference. I wish
Speaker 1: he could scheme his receivers open more on specific and
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about third down plays or stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I wish there was some stuff on first
Speaker 1: downs where we see some a little bit more. If
Speaker 1: it's bunch or twins, whatever you want to do. But like,
Speaker 1: you know, routes that like free guys up. I mean,
Speaker 1: the league sometimes will call penalties if you pass interfere
Speaker 1: and then a lot of times they'll just let it go.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see more opportunity where you have combination
Speaker 1: routes where all of a sudden, guys are just wide open.
Speaker 1: It's just because And you know the other the other day, gosh,
Speaker 1: who was it that ran a route? That was? It was?
Speaker 1: It was? It was the Rams game, I believe it was.
Speaker 1: But you know that you have a receiver, Oh, I know,
Speaker 1: it's the Eagles game. You have receivers. It was Smith
Speaker 1: from the Eagles. They run they run a combination route
Speaker 1: where he picks all the way across the field and
Speaker 1: now you've got guys running wide open and you're like going,
Speaker 1: But he made it look like it was a route.
Speaker 1: He went straight up the field and now we have
Speaker 1: a collision with Anthony Brown and George Lewis and all
Speaker 1: those guys. But then you got a guy running Scott
Speaker 1: free and it's an easy throw and now it's a
Speaker 1: big play. But that's to me. I just like to
Speaker 1: see them take these receivers so I know that have
Speaker 1: talent and free them up a little more. Don't don't
Speaker 1: don't just say okay, you have to run this, or
Speaker 1: you have to do things where you can maybe coordinate.
Speaker 1: Whether just get them wide open, not just you know,
Speaker 1: not just a little bit open. Get them wide open
Speaker 1: is what I was looking at. I'd like to see
Speaker 1: him get Turpin involved. I think he's a dynamic player
Speaker 1: that can stretch the field both vertically but all so horizontally.
Speaker 1: I think you got fifty three yards to work with,
Speaker 1: and I think he's a guy that could run crossing royality.
Speaker 1: He can do reverses, fake reverses, whatever. He's just got
Speaker 1: that dynamic ability in the open field that has so
Speaker 1: few opportunities this year, and yet he's still if you
Speaker 1: go to YouTube, he's got a highlight package. He's got
Speaker 1: about eight nine plays that he's got this year, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't get the ball very much. Why do you
Speaker 1: why do you think that is? Why do you think
Speaker 1: that at this point they haven't figured out how to
Speaker 1: get him more involved in the offense. There could be
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. Can I can I throw a
Speaker 1: thought out there on this? Yeah, I think you have
Speaker 1: a wide receiver coach that wants to play with bigger guys.
Speaker 1: I mean I understand and that that don't please, don't
Speaker 1: kill the messenger. No, I know, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the it's the situation where you get
Speaker 1: a guy. It's like and they and they ran a
Speaker 1: preseason they ran a bunch of formation with him scattered
Speaker 1: it and he shot through the middle and he was
Speaker 1: separated and Cooper Rush got hit in the back and
Speaker 1: kind of threw the ball into the line and it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a touchdown. I mean, it was a
Speaker 1: designed throw that was going to be a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: you're thinking, wow, they saw that in the preseason. Why
Speaker 1: is that some Why can't we bring that one back
Speaker 1: for another day? And I believe it. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see. I think you're gonna see what you want
Speaker 1: to see after the bye week. After the bye because
Speaker 1: what happened, Yeah, the self scout stuff. These coaches will
Speaker 1: sit down, you know, because of league rules, you can't practice.
Speaker 1: You gotta give players days off. They're gonna be gone.
Speaker 1: What a coach is gonna do. They're gonna sit around
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go, hey, let's self scout this thing.
Speaker 1: What are the something that we haven't done in the
Speaker 1: first half of the season that we can break out
Speaker 1: now against the Packers, the Vikings, you know, these games
Speaker 1: against the AFC South or Philadelphia. What are these What
Speaker 1: can we do that's into you? Turpin is a great
Speaker 1: example of that. You know, hey, they haven't seen this,
Speaker 1: we haven't shown that. You know. That's where I think
Speaker 1: after the bye you're gonna get your wish because these
Speaker 1: I think you could feel like you could beat Detroit,
Speaker 1: hopefully beat Chicago, and then you're gonna need some big
Speaker 1: plays in some of these other games against Minnesota and
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I think I hope that they actually do that,
Speaker 1: because the very few times that they have put Turpin
Speaker 1: out their own offense, they don't utilize in for anything.
Speaker 1: It's just like literally a waste of an extra body
Speaker 1: out there on the field, because even for blocking situation,
Speaker 1: I mean, he can't be blocking anybody he's so small.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you on just kind of a combination
Speaker 1: of what you two said. One just finding new creative
Speaker 1: ways to do things and utilizing the different types of
Speaker 1: weapons and talent that you do have. And then how
Speaker 1: do you free up the receivers. I mean, last week
Speaker 1: we saw different times where they were double coverage, triple coverage.
Speaker 1: The ball wasn't getting there, and that's a problem. And
Speaker 1: yesterday I was watching James Washington, and I know he's
Speaker 1: working his way back. He was out there practicing, and
Speaker 1: I watch him and I'm just like, even with him
Speaker 1: coming back, I don't think that's the answer for this
Speaker 1: whole wide receiver group. I'm not. And that's not a
Speaker 1: knock on him or anything, but he's just physically not
Speaker 1: the type of receiver I like, or prefer or want
Speaker 1: to have on the team. He's kind of more like
Speaker 1: a bulky guy. I would like someone that's lengthier, longer,
Speaker 1: that feels lighter when they run. He just seems so
Speaker 1: heavy and and he's working hard, and we haven't necessarily
Speaker 1: seen him yet in the offense. So I hope he
Speaker 1: when he is ready to come back, he's able to
Speaker 1: bring something. But right now, it's just nothing unless it
Speaker 1: makes some kind of trade, which could happen because next
Speaker 1: week on Tuesday, next Tuesday on Tuesday, Okay, there's still
Speaker 1: time for some kind of trade. But I just see
Speaker 1: it very unlikely. No, I think he gave a good
Speaker 1: scouting report about him. Also, maybe they're in a situation
Speaker 1: where bones Fossils like, listen, don't hurt my right, And
Speaker 1: by the way he is, he is providing something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? How many times do you guys?
Speaker 1: Did you guys see the flips? Yeah? Yeah, the end
Speaker 1: of the game they go Landry shift and he backflips it.
Speaker 1: Zeke turns around because he knows it's about to happen.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the thing about it is though, that
Speaker 1: you know, maybe that bones Fossil is looking at the
Speaker 1: situation we how many times Nick if we when I
Speaker 1: was with you guys at Dallas Cowboys dot Com that
Speaker 1: we had that discussion about, well, put put CD back
Speaker 1: there and return punts, put Dez back there and return punts.
Speaker 1: Put you in You're like, Okay, the minute that one
Speaker 1: of those guys gets put Digs back there, let him
Speaker 1: return punts, and the minute the breaks his ankle, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna look at me and go, what were you
Speaker 1: thinking when you wanted to put your best player back
Speaker 1: there the return punts? And there might be a thing
Speaker 1: where bones Fossils like, listen, you hurt him. I've got
Speaker 1: nobody else that can do it is dynamically as that
Speaker 1: kid does. Yeah, and he provides a spark, Like there
Speaker 1: are games that Philly game like they needed that in
Speaker 1: the moment. They got a big return from it. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna be games like that this year when you
Speaker 1: play good, good opponents where you might need that spark
Speaker 1: from specialty teams and if you don't have him, you
Speaker 1: don't have it. That Detroit punter hammered the ball and
Speaker 1: he brought it back fifty four yards. He took a
Speaker 1: punt that was hammered and brought it back to where
Speaker 1: it was like, ha, no way, not today, Foxes, You're
Speaker 1: not putting that ball sixty yards because I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: it back fifty four you know. And he's so upset
Speaker 1: by it too, like yeah, he's like he's he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's one thing away from, you know, one guy away
Speaker 1: from doing it. But you keep bringing the ball back.
Speaker 1: You know, there's people in the league, like, you know,
Speaker 1: there's pro guys these teams now they're going, what do
Speaker 1: we not like about this kid? Why? Why or why
Speaker 1: do they have him? And we're sitting here returning the
Speaker 1: ball for three yards a punt You know why. And
Speaker 1: you know that's a that's a good question there, sir.
Speaker 1: And I probably won't have a job tomorrow because I
Speaker 1: can't get a guy like that, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I give the Scotting Department credit for they they looked
Speaker 1: at the u USFL and they said, he's the one
Speaker 1: guy we like the best. Yeah, and you know, we
Speaker 1: think we can we can get him. He's in Texas
Speaker 1: Kid for Worth Kid, you know, and I played at TCU,
Speaker 1: and we think we can get him in. But here's
Speaker 1: another thing about it. A lot of I'd wears jersey
Speaker 1: if I could, Yeah, I would, you'd be a player.
Speaker 1: I'd wear his jersey. I beture there's a few out there.
Speaker 1: You can just rip the back off of a Romo
Speaker 1: and take the name right off. Yeah, yeah, No. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of times when you get a guy
Speaker 1: like that, one of the questions could be he's not
Speaker 1: ready mentally to do all of the things on an offense. However,
Speaker 1: in this case, he came into camp midway through camp
Speaker 1: or early into camp, and he was doing things on
Speaker 1: offense very early. Seven on seven right, he got himself
Speaker 1: involved in the offense. I think he could definitely do it.
Speaker 1: I think there's plays for him out there. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: saving it for something. Yeah, well that's all you can
Speaker 1: hope for. I guess at this point they're gonna do
Speaker 1: it at some point. Go ahead, Amber, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: yeah maybe, but I think you're gonna get your wish
Speaker 1: at some point. You gotta start. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get your wish after after the bottom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's when they sit there, they sit down. Yeah, Lucky
Speaker 1: Whitehead helped you. I told you about that player jet sweep.
Speaker 1: He ran and got your win at Green Bay. All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you, guys. Jonnis. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll wrap
Speaker 1: this thing up. We'll tell you what's going to happen
Speaker 1: this weekend. We'll give our predictions for Nick. Even Brian
Speaker 1: brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been
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