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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, October eighth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number forty. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Got Nick, Dave and Amber here ready to talk some
Speaker 1: Cowboys football For the next forty five minutes. We will
Speaker 1: be joined momentarily by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network, as
Speaker 1: he does every windy and Thursday. Today, he will be
Speaker 1: talking to us about the New York Giant defense versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense. Before we get to Bucky, though, there
Speaker 1: was some injury updates that we got, some interesting injury
Speaker 1: updates that we got from coach McCarthy during his press
Speaker 1: conference this morning. Let's start first by talking about Layton Vanderish. Nick,
Speaker 1: give me an update on what coach McCarthy had to say.
Speaker 1: About where it Laton Vanderish in his return from an
Speaker 1: I mean from a collar boy collarbone injury. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: he basically didn't rule out that he could play this week,
Speaker 1: which I think is surprising to some. Now, that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean he said he would play. He just said
Speaker 1: they're going to work him into practice today. They're gonna
Speaker 1: see what he can do. We got to see him
Speaker 1: kind of run out there a little bit in the pads.
Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe. I know, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave and we've talked about this. I think you know,
Speaker 1: we find it hard to believe that he could be
Speaker 1: ready to play, especially come back with one practice. But
Speaker 1: at least it's an encouraging sign that he's out there today.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you didn't play this week, it
Speaker 1: seems like it's it's sooner than later. Yeah, it does
Speaker 1: seem a bit strange. I mean, we talked about this
Speaker 1: yesterday on the show. When you talk about a collar
Speaker 1: bone injury, you talk about any broken bone. It's not
Speaker 1: like what you would have if you had to say,
Speaker 1: a bumb hamstring, soft tissue injury. A lot of that
Speaker 1: has to do with how you feel and whether you
Speaker 1: think you can go or not. It's a whole different
Speaker 1: thing when you're talking about a bone because it's all
Speaker 1: about the bone healing. So it seems a little bit
Speaker 1: a little bit weird to he come back early from
Speaker 1: a bone healing unless his body's just made in a
Speaker 1: way where it healed the bones heal faster than opical. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so, but but again, you just never know.
Speaker 1: And the good news, I think the good news about
Speaker 1: all of this with regards to Layton is he's at
Speaker 1: least progressing right, and he's progressing in the right way,
Speaker 1: and so the hope is maybe in the next two weeks,
Speaker 1: maybe in the next three weeks, you get him back
Speaker 1: and he's fully healthy, hopefully and able to finish the
Speaker 1: season for the Cowboys. Let's also catch up on a
Speaker 1: couple of other injury updates. Let's talk about Tyren Smith.
Speaker 1: I think, Dave, do you have an update on on
Speaker 1: what coach McCarthy had to say about all right, let's nick,
Speaker 1: I think he's having some technical difficulties. Let's talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about Tyren Smith um and I think I
Speaker 1: think Amber is there as well. But let's tough a
Speaker 1: little bit about it. Down here. Good, Okay, there you
Speaker 1: are Aber. Did you hear with coach coach McCarthy I
Speaker 1: can tell you about Tyren Smith. I do not. It
Speaker 1: did not sound that great. I mean, Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 1: today that he's basically further back than at this time
Speaker 1: this week than he was last week. So that's not
Speaker 1: always good to hear. I mean, you would expect him
Speaker 1: to be further along, but you also have to take
Speaker 1: into consideration that this last weekend he did play a
Speaker 1: football game, as opposed to last week where he didn't
Speaker 1: participate in a game. So I guess it's gonna depend
Speaker 1: on a day to day basis, I would assume, But
Speaker 1: I mean, as of right now, I think you just
Speaker 1: never know what's what can happen with Tyrn Smith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's really troubling, I think because as we've
Speaker 1: talked about, and this is not the first season, as
Speaker 1: we've talked about for the last several seasons, this is neck,
Speaker 1: this is back. When he's having these kinds of things
Speaker 1: and the recurring injuries that are keeping him out of games. Um,
Speaker 1: it gets to a point where it's hard to really
Speaker 1: rely on the fact that he's going to be available
Speaker 1: to you. And now, Nick, we were talking about this upstairs,
Speaker 1: and you made a really great point. When you stop
Speaker 1: making Pro Bowls is when I stop worrying about having
Speaker 1: you on the team. But it's only just still making
Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, then all pros even maybe maybe you keep
Speaker 1: him around. But I just I wonder, I wonder it's
Speaker 1: at what point the Cowboys get to a point where
Speaker 1: they're like, I'm I'm just we can't rely on him
Speaker 1: enough because this neck and back just doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: get right. Yeah, I mean I think it's I think
Speaker 1: this is where they are right now. And then, yes,
Speaker 1: you got to go through the draft next year and
Speaker 1: probably get a lot of defensive help, but you better
Speaker 1: look at that offensive tackle position. Yeah, you know at
Speaker 1: some point because you've got two guys now that are
Speaker 1: banged up. You know, you've paid these guys l l
Speaker 1: N TYRN, but neither one of them are consistently in
Speaker 1: the lineup this year. Obviously Lyle's out for the whole season,
Speaker 1: so you know, it's it's you need to start addressing it.
Speaker 1: I think it's sooner than later with the fact that
Speaker 1: he's regressed at this point. How concerned are you about
Speaker 1: come this upcoming game if Tyrn can't play? And I
Speaker 1: think we got Dave back, I'll pose that question him.
Speaker 1: How concerned to you if he can't play this week
Speaker 1: against a John's team That we'll get into a little
Speaker 1: bit later. I think this if it's a little better
Speaker 1: than people given him credit for. But how much do
Speaker 1: you are you concerned this weekend? Yeah? I'm always concerned
Speaker 1: when Tyrn can't play. I mean, I'm the guy that says,
Speaker 1: you know, people overreact because of the Chad screen game,
Speaker 1: but there's obviously still a difference between Tyron Smith and
Speaker 1: the undrafted free agents behind him, And you know, we've
Speaker 1: got a pretty large sample size that says Terrence Steals
Speaker 1: not ready. So as good as I feel about Brandon Night,
Speaker 1: if Tyrant can't go, now you're talking about needing two tackles,
Speaker 1: And so now the conversation goes back to, like, is
Speaker 1: Zach Martin your best bet at right tackle if you
Speaker 1: need him to be there? Because I hate to say
Speaker 1: this because like, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but
Speaker 1: like I hate the thought of having to see Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele out there again. So yes, it's very concerning if
Speaker 1: Tyrant can't play. Yeah, I think we all are a
Speaker 1: bit a bit worried. I would I would suggest at
Speaker 1: the idea that you have to throw Terrence Steele back
Speaker 1: out there. Maybe this weekend you can get by. But
Speaker 1: as you move throughout the season and you start seeing
Speaker 1: pass rushers, you know, like Myles Garrett, which I'm sure
Speaker 1: there will be some more of those that will be
Speaker 1: on the schedule as we keep going through the season,
Speaker 1: you do get a little bit worried. And the hope
Speaker 1: is that the hope is that he's maybe a little
Speaker 1: bit worse off this week, but if they don't let
Speaker 1: him play this weekend, and maybe he's better prepared to
Speaker 1: maybe string some games together after that. But who knows
Speaker 1: at this point. Let's let's also get an update on
Speaker 1: a few other guys. We've got Anthony Brown, Dorn's Armstrong,
Speaker 1: and tower On Crawford. Uh, tell me where where they
Speaker 1: are as far as they're them coming back from from
Speaker 1: injuries or now being added to the injury report. Nick, Well,
Speaker 1: I'll start with Anthony Brown. I mean, you know, we
Speaker 1: were surprised that he had a rib injury that he
Speaker 1: suffered in practice a few weeks ago. Three weeks now
Speaker 1: on the injury report. Um, he's he's he should be back.
Speaker 1: He's eligible to practice this week and that that twenty
Speaker 1: one day window. I would imagine just by the them
Speaker 1: releasing Brandon carr Um that they need a spot, they
Speaker 1: have spots open on the roster, and they need cornerback
Speaker 1: help and I would imagine that he will slide into
Speaker 1: that role this week. And it sounds like from what
Speaker 1: coach McCarthy said that everything went according to plan yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was able to take part in some part portions
Speaker 1: of practice and and so the I guess he's progressing
Speaker 1: in a way to where they feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he has the ability to maybe play this weekend.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about Dorn's arm strong. What a coach
Speaker 1: McCart they have to say about him, Dave, He actually
Speaker 1: that was like as encouraging as he's ever been about
Speaker 1: an injury guy. He bab. I mean, he just he
Speaker 1: came out of the game with the injury. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's very optimistic he'll be able to work
Speaker 1: his way up. So you know, it sounds good on
Speaker 1: that front. Tyrone Crawford maybe limited today, as what he said,
Speaker 1: They'll see how he responds to the early part. It's
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I think I've said this a few times,
Speaker 1: but we're definitely still adjusting to the difference in the
Speaker 1: schedules with practice. Like under Jason Garrett, you would like
Speaker 1: start on Wednesday and slowly ramp your way up to Friday,
Speaker 1: whereas here it almost I don't want to get they're afterthoughts,
Speaker 1: but like Thursday is the important day, Thursday is the
Speaker 1: long padded practice. Obviously, Friday is basically a walkthrough, and
Speaker 1: Wednesday like it. You know, if it even seems like
Speaker 1: it's in doubt, they're not going to make you go.
Speaker 1: So it's just interesting to see a different coaching staffs
Speaker 1: active on you know, what days of the week are
Speaker 1: the most important, and for sure Thursday is that day
Speaker 1: for Mike McCarthy. That much is very obvious. You know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Tyrone Crawford and I want to go around
Speaker 1: the table here and get your opinions on what you
Speaker 1: think of Tyrone Crawford's play so far through the early
Speaker 1: part of the season, because he's part of that defense
Speaker 1: is to add a lot of problems. He is one
Speaker 1: of the veterans, and some call them one of the
Speaker 1: leaders of that defense. How have you how do you
Speaker 1: assess his play over these first few first four games,
Speaker 1: and but let's start with you, I would say, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been okay, okay, and he's the type of guy
Speaker 1: that we see every year. He's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: guy that necessarily stands out on the defensive line. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that that's very flexible and you can kind
Speaker 1: of plug him in there wherever you need him. But
Speaker 1: he's never gonna be the standout player, that aggressive player
Speaker 1: that gets all the time to the quarterback. I think
Speaker 1: so far this season, he the times that I've watched
Speaker 1: him specifically, I think he's been just okay. Obviously nothing impressive,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, nothing horrible to where I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: you need to absolutely get Tyrone Crawford out of the lineup.
Speaker 1: So to me, he's just been okay. Nick, what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Tyrone Crawford? What have you seen from
Speaker 1: him through fourhand? I haven't seen much of anything good
Speaker 1: or bad, you know, I mean I really can't remember, like, oh,
Speaker 1: great play by Crawford or what's Crawford doing? Like I
Speaker 1: haven't I haven't noticed it. And on this defense. That's
Speaker 1: not necessarily a bad thing. So I just haven't I
Speaker 1: can't say he's really stood out much. And but he,
Speaker 1: you know, he needs to. I mean, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: one of the you know, he's one of the higher
Speaker 1: paid players on the team, and he's and he's also
Speaker 1: one of the leaders, you know, captain. He's been a
Speaker 1: captain before, so you know, he like everyone else, you know,
Speaker 1: and then it needs to step up and and play better.
Speaker 1: And I think they're having a tough time. We all
Speaker 1: know that they're having a tough time with this scheme.
Speaker 1: They're not used to it, they haven't practiced it enough,
Speaker 1: and it's probably, in hindsight, wasn't the best idea to
Speaker 1: change it. But then again, think about when they when
Speaker 1: they come in here and changing the scheme. No one
Speaker 1: thought this was going to happen. But I think it's
Speaker 1: just been a circumstance that they probably need to play
Speaker 1: a different scheme, one that they're similar in playing. Dave,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean other than Alden Smith, like, do
Speaker 1: you feel great about the way that any defender on
Speaker 1: this team has played? Not great? And Aldon Smith like,
Speaker 1: I mean no, I mean the answers no, in my opinion, Um,
Speaker 1: I haven't. I'll be very honest with like, I haven't
Speaker 1: noticed Tyrone Crawford at all. And I mean that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean he's been bad, but you know, it's easy
Speaker 1: to forget because it's ancient history. But he's still at
Speaker 1: nine million dollars or your player. And I always like
Speaker 1: he was. He's always good. He's the hustle play a
Speaker 1: guy like he's the guy who gets the sack when
Speaker 1: the quarterback is indecisive and the play draws out for
Speaker 1: like five or six seconds. Like he's always the guy
Speaker 1: who is making the long, extended hustle play. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen it so far this year. I mean, which, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's everybody on the defense, Like literally nobody on
Speaker 1: the defense is playing up to what you would want.
Speaker 1: So throw him in there with everybody else. I guess,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna take an early first break here,
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes early. We're gonna go ahead, get
Speaker 1: that out of the way, and then we're gonna come back.
Speaker 1: We got Bucky Brooks ready and he's gonna break down
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense versus the Giants defense. We'll do that
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Speaker 1: The Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At
Speaker 1: the start, got the normal guys here with us, Nick Dave, Amber,
Speaker 1: and we're joined right now by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. Bucky,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show Man, Hey, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: having me on. Yep. We're gonna get into this Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense versus the New York Giant defense, and we'll start
Speaker 1: with I want to change the question a little bit.
Speaker 1: Usually we start the strongest and weak weakest assets of
Speaker 1: the team or the weakest parts of the team. I
Speaker 1: want to really focus in a little bit more on
Speaker 1: position groups or player. If you had to identify a
Speaker 1: position group or player on the defense that is the
Speaker 1: greatest and the weakest, what would that be. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it starts with them upfront. Leonard Williams is
Speaker 1: probably the best player that they have. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that was a top six selection, a guy who's super talented.
Speaker 1: He hasn't necessarily put up to kind of production that
Speaker 1: you respect from a guy that was to dead highly,
Speaker 1: but he certainly has the ability to flash some disruptive
Speaker 1: skills at the point of attack. I would say Factral
Speaker 1: is a guy that you also have to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, twenty eighteen, he had ten and a
Speaker 1: half sacks, so he has the ability to get off
Speaker 1: the edge and make some things happen. And then in
Speaker 1: the abild of their defense, Blake Martinez who they signed
Speaker 1: from the Green Bay Packers, is a guy that can
Speaker 1: control the tackle tackle box. He's attacking machine. And when
Speaker 1: you look at this defense in general, I will say
Speaker 1: they may not be the most talented unit, but they
Speaker 1: play hard. And because they're able to play hard, they
Speaker 1: can keep their offense in games. And that's what we
Speaker 1: saw a wee could go against the La Rams. But
Speaker 1: my question is about the Cowboys offense. We've seen that
Speaker 1: so far they've been able to score thirty plus point
Speaker 1: with exception of that first game against the Rams. Is
Speaker 1: that something that the Cowboys offense is able to kind
Speaker 1: of keep doing week by week. Oh yeah, the offense is.
Speaker 1: I mean, the offense is the biggest part, the best
Speaker 1: part of the Boys team. Like they are the ones
Speaker 1: that they can never have a bad game because offensively
Speaker 1: they can overwhelm people even with the issues that may
Speaker 1: exist on the offensive lineed offensive tackle. The scale positions
Speaker 1: are a plus. Zekiel Elliott is an a plus two
Speaker 1: quarterback is playing at a plus level, and so they
Speaker 1: have the weaponry to put points up on the board.
Speaker 1: Now the key is can you put points up and
Speaker 1: eventually learn how to control the game? Can kill him
Speaker 1: Moore begin to manage the game knowing that I can
Speaker 1: score at any point, but I'm gonna take a little
Speaker 1: air out of it to protect my defense. And so
Speaker 1: we'll see if they can kind of advance to that point.
Speaker 1: But offensively, yeah, they can score in anybody, Bucky, I'm
Speaker 1: hoping you can tell me about what I thought was
Speaker 1: one of the more interesting free agent signings in the offseason,
Speaker 1: which was James Bradberry. I mean, he's a pretty good
Speaker 1: corner in Carolina. Like I always viewed him as like
Speaker 1: a third cornerbacks up package guy, but they gave him
Speaker 1: like pretty good money for a cornerback, and I'm just curious,
Speaker 1: how's he doing. Is he living up to that expectation
Speaker 1: and what does his role look like for this defense?
Speaker 1: I mean, he's certainly not living up today altation because
Speaker 1: the money that he's making, he should be a number
Speaker 1: one corner that it's a classic case and we see
Speaker 1: it and we'll see it in Washington, Like guys have
Speaker 1: a tendency to fall in love with the players that
Speaker 1: they picked. David Gettiman picked James Barbery in Carolina. They
Speaker 1: used a pretty high pick on him. He certainly has size,
Speaker 1: he has length, he has speed, but he by no
Speaker 1: means is a lockdown corner. He can play in zone
Speaker 1: and do some of those things, and he's fine when
Speaker 1: you kind of cover him up and let him play
Speaker 1: off and do that. But to think that he is
Speaker 1: going to shadow and chase and track one to top receivers, no,
Speaker 1: I think this could be a week for him. That
Speaker 1: could be very challenging because each of the Cowboys receivers
Speaker 1: brings about a different set of challenges, and if you
Speaker 1: don't have a complete toolbox, you can find yourself twisted
Speaker 1: around like a top. Bucky helped me on the grade
Speaker 1: A plus because I didn't get a lot of these
Speaker 1: when I was in school, maybe like six ever, Oh
Speaker 1: you didn't, Yeah, like from like kindergartens. Okay, A plus
Speaker 1: to me, A plus means the best you can do.
Speaker 1: Can't get really any better than that? Can that man
Speaker 1: get better than this? Yeah? I mean, like I mean
Speaker 1: you said a plus level, I don't think. I just
Speaker 1: don't think a quarterback with a one in three record,
Speaker 1: who if the Browns could catch the football he'd have
Speaker 1: four interceptions last week. Is he Yeah, he's putting up
Speaker 1: a lot of yarts, But is he playing the best
Speaker 1: that he could play? I mean, I think given the circumstances,
Speaker 1: I am surprised at how effective he's been able to play.
Speaker 1: Because remember Nick, when when you watch him, he draws
Speaker 1: back every time knowing that the edges are unprotected, and
Speaker 1: so as a quarterback, he never he never can get
Speaker 1: fully he never can get fully comfortable knowing that I
Speaker 1: can keep my eyes down the field, that I can
Speaker 1: hang on my number one option a little longer because
Speaker 1: I know that I have that comfort zone. If we
Speaker 1: look at where he is being basically how he came
Speaker 1: in the twenty sixteen where he was the game manager,
Speaker 1: to what he is now, I would say this, and
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna get a lot of pushback, but
Speaker 1: he is on the maturation in the track that Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson was on. Russell Wilson came in the league as
Speaker 1: a game manager, and he has eventually become the playmaker.
Speaker 1: At some point, this Dallas Cowboys offense will eventually the
Speaker 1: ball to Dak Prescott and they will say, go win it.
Speaker 1: He's almost to that point he needs some other stuff
Speaker 1: around him in terms of the defense or whatever. But
Speaker 1: what he has been able to do to keep this
Speaker 1: team in game with a defense that can't stop anyone
Speaker 1: is nothing short of remarkable. So I believe he is
Speaker 1: playing at a high level. And the yards of the yards,
Speaker 1: they are empty calories. But man, to put up something
Speaker 1: that's on pace for sixty seven hundred yards like that
Speaker 1: is ridiculous production from a quarterback. And even though the
Speaker 1: turnovers are not what I like, when you're throwing sixty
Speaker 1: times a game, you're going to have some of those
Speaker 1: turnovers kind of pop up. I think Dave and I
Speaker 1: are both just screaming preach in our minds right now
Speaker 1: because we just love stop. Well, but what are sixty
Speaker 1: seven hundred yards? Like? What? What is that? Well, honestly, again,
Speaker 1: is that an NFL record? No? No, is that a pace?
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's he's he's on pace to tell you,
Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. So you got say he's face out
Speaker 1: four wins, four and twelve. Yeah. But but that's why
Speaker 1: I think the point is, and I think this is
Speaker 1: what Bucky's saying. I think the point is that no
Speaker 1: matter what you say about the record what he is doing,
Speaker 1: and people can talk about these these yards that don't
Speaker 1: matter because it's in games when they're way behind. Not
Speaker 1: every quarterback that gets behind can do what he's done
Speaker 1: to get his team back in position to possibly win
Speaker 1: those games. So I think you have to put it
Speaker 1: all in context. And when you put it all in context,
Speaker 1: I think he's playing at a phenomenal level like that.
Speaker 1: You guys are just giving the extra the slash. I'm
Speaker 1: saying a minus. I I'm not saying. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: like he's a C. He's played. He's played even he
Speaker 1: can't even get to an A for you you like minus.
Speaker 1: They're one in three right now, they're one in three,
Speaker 1: and and if he could play a little bit better
Speaker 1: than the first half as well, he's they're one of
Speaker 1: the reasons they're down. I don't think that's true. I
Speaker 1: don't think of that last game he was the problem.
Speaker 1: Even in the first half. He was playing really well
Speaker 1: in the first half. I think I think the turnovers
Speaker 1: and what killed them, and particularly the turnover that you
Speaker 1: got from your running back who's not supposed to do that.
Speaker 1: He's not. Yeah, he's he doesn't think he's not in
Speaker 1: the A level. Becau Zeke is not in. We'll take
Speaker 1: this conversation off. I don't want to take I don't
Speaker 1: want to take you. I don't want to take any
Speaker 1: of your classes. I know that I don't want to
Speaker 1: take any I don't know if you like. We may
Speaker 1: have given a couple of grades away, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to take any of those. Professor, all right, that
Speaker 1: was good. That was a good gig at his own school.
Speaker 1: If you caught right, you know, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it. I got a question for you here. I
Speaker 1: was looking at this defense and the numbers are pretty
Speaker 1: interesting because I think everybody's looking at the New York
Speaker 1: Giants and saying, and this team is horrible, But when
Speaker 1: you start really diving in and looking at how their
Speaker 1: defense is played. Right now, they have the sixth best
Speaker 1: PAC defense, only giving up two hundred twenty three yards
Speaker 1: per game. They have the tenth best rush defense on
Speaker 1: giving up one hundred and seven yards per game. So
Speaker 1: I have a two part question for you. First, is
Speaker 1: their past defense good enough to slow down what is
Speaker 1: a very potent Dallas offense or at least passing game?
Speaker 1: And then number two, which would be easier to exploit
Speaker 1: this week for the Dallas offense, going against that run
Speaker 1: defense or going against that pass defense. You know, they've
Speaker 1: done a really good job of just kind of playing sound.
Speaker 1: They know they have some talent deficiencies, and so what
Speaker 1: they've done is they've kind of covered themselves up. They
Speaker 1: played I want to say, ben but don't break, but
Speaker 1: they just played very solid defense. Not a lot of risks,
Speaker 1: not a lot of crazy things that you'll see from
Speaker 1: this team. They wait for you to beat yourself. That's
Speaker 1: how they play defense. They want you to you're not
Speaker 1: going to have a ten or eleven play drive without
Speaker 1: a mistake, and they capitalize on those things. I think
Speaker 1: when you look at them personnel wise, they don't have
Speaker 1: anyone that can consistently put pressure on the passer. They
Speaker 1: don't have an a level pass rusher on the front.
Speaker 1: And so if I'm the Dallas Cowboys, I'm thinking this
Speaker 1: is a game to really put the game plan in place,
Speaker 1: meaning jump out on them fourteen quick points. So I
Speaker 1: think you probably see them more aggressive the first quarter
Speaker 1: with the pass because if they can get points up
Speaker 1: on them offensively, the Giants haven't been able to score points,
Speaker 1: so I think you may see a more aggressive passing
Speaker 1: game early and then get to Zeke and run the
Speaker 1: game out. But now I think they come out passing.
Speaker 1: I think they have shown that when they go up tempo,
Speaker 1: nohaddle play at a quick rate, Dak Prescott can deal,
Speaker 1: and he's been dealing at a high rate. So I
Speaker 1: think they come out passing with the mindset that we
Speaker 1: still have to get to the run at some point
Speaker 1: to slow and control the game down bucking. The word
Speaker 1: effort has been used to watch this week and regards
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys, But let me put that on the
Speaker 1: Giants side. When you look at a Giants team that
Speaker 1: has lost all games so far this season, when they're
Speaker 1: going to Week five, does the defense would you expect
Speaker 1: the defense to have just a better effort to just
Speaker 1: be more competitive at this point or maybe the other
Speaker 1: way around, where maybe they're not trying to ass hard
Speaker 1: because of you know, mentally it weighs on you when
Speaker 1: you have so many losses and not able to get
Speaker 1: a win for your team. Yeah, that's certainly. Guys do
Speaker 1: get discouraged when you have a series of losses. But
Speaker 1: let's flipping around and let's talk about the Giants. And
Speaker 1: how they look at the Cowboys. They're looking at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as a one in three team. They're looking at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys where this team gave up three hundred rushing yards,
Speaker 1: so the offense has a little more energy because they
Speaker 1: feel like, hey man, maybe we can just run the ball.
Speaker 1: Devantae Freeman is thinking I could have a hundred yard
Speaker 1: game against this front because they had a tough time
Speaker 1: with a bunch of non notable guys picking up yards.
Speaker 1: So then the defense will have energy, saying this may
Speaker 1: be the game for us to get back on track,
Speaker 1: even though they're talented. What Joe Judge is gonna stand
Speaker 1: in front of the team and say is this is
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't play horde. If we play harder
Speaker 1: than them, they may co left. They may fall prey
Speaker 1: to the number of turnovers and mistakes that they've had
Speaker 1: that have undermined their opportunity to win games. So they're
Speaker 1: going to play hard and they're going to try and
Speaker 1: put the pressure on the Cowboys to play a clean
Speaker 1: game because the Cowboys haven't done that. They're saying that
Speaker 1: if we play hord over sustained period of time, that
Speaker 1: Cowboys would gift wrapped us a couple of opportunities. This
Speaker 1: kind of goes back to what the point Derek was making,
Speaker 1: which is that their statistics are pretty impressive for an
Speaker 1: own four team. I can't help but notice two of
Speaker 1: those games or against Mitch Drubisky and Nick Mullins. So
Speaker 1: forgive me if I'm not impressed. But but having said that,
Speaker 1: you know, they held Jared Goff pretty well in check
Speaker 1: last week, and I'm just curious what they did to
Speaker 1: keep his numbers down. I think, you know, he was
Speaker 1: only averaging like six yards per attempt, finished with two
Speaker 1: hundred yards, so clearly whatever they were doing seemed to work. Look,
Speaker 1: they're committed to taking the deep ball away. Look, winning
Speaker 1: international football is pretty simple. It's take the ball away,
Speaker 1: eliminate the big plays, don't let the ball fly over
Speaker 1: the top of the defense, make people drive the length
Speaker 1: of the field because the odds suggest that you can't
Speaker 1: do it. You can't stream together that mini plays, control
Speaker 1: the running game, make people one dimensional, and then you
Speaker 1: can dictate the terms. What the Giants do is they
Speaker 1: really follow to that. They don't allow you to really
Speaker 1: have the big plays over top, so they don't play
Speaker 1: a little soft. They'll give you all those nickel and dons.
Speaker 1: They'll let the quarterback take the check down because they're
Speaker 1: betting that the quarterback will not consistently take the checkdown
Speaker 1: because all of these twenty to thirty million dollars quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: they want to show off their big arm. They want
Speaker 1: to get the big play. That's kind of how their
Speaker 1: wire and that's what the Giants are doing. So they're
Speaker 1: going to challenge Dak Prescott in a different way. They're
Speaker 1: going to challenge him, can you are you content taking
Speaker 1: these five and six yard passes down the field if
Speaker 1: we take away the big play and make you nickeling
Speaker 1: Dammond down the field and throw ten passes to Zeke
Speaker 1: or ten passes the dam shows. Are you willing to
Speaker 1: be that patient and discipline? And if you are, they'll say, okay,
Speaker 1: you can score points, but if not, you're going to
Speaker 1: force it up to feel and they're banking that they
Speaker 1: can get a turnover all for that, Bucky. If the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive line looks like Brandon KNIGHTE Connor Williams, be honest,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin, Terrence Steele, do they do? The Giants have
Speaker 1: a big advantage there. I mean, I think they feel
Speaker 1: good about that because the edges. The edges are always
Speaker 1: the thing when you put bad things on tape. When
Speaker 1: Terrence Steal is having problem with speed, when Brandon Knite
Speaker 1: has had some issues, when Connor Williams is being isolated
Speaker 1: in one on one situations and been pressured, they feel hopeful.
Speaker 1: So as a defense coordinated what you want to do
Speaker 1: is you want to maybe kick those guys out a
Speaker 1: little wide, put them on speed tracks so they can
Speaker 1: kind of run around the edge, and see if Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele and Brandon the night if they can kick, slide
Speaker 1: and stay in front of those guys, because that's been
Speaker 1: the biggest issue, So it's not necessary. The personnel is.
Speaker 1: Can you test the weak points of the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 1: line and see if those guys can hold up over
Speaker 1: seventy five plays. That's really what's about. It's not about
Speaker 1: the advantage. Is let's get those guys isolated. Let's see
Speaker 1: if they can hold up even against c B level players.
Speaker 1: Are they good enough just to hold up if we
Speaker 1: can isolate them and work one on one against those guys,
Speaker 1: but we let you go. I think the Cowboys wins,
Speaker 1: but I think this game is gonna be tougher than
Speaker 1: most people realize because the Giants are playing harder than
Speaker 1: the Giants will walk into the game knowing that they
Speaker 1: have a chance. And oh, by the way, Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: is going to make this a very personal thing for him,
Speaker 1: even though they not score double dishes in the past
Speaker 1: two games, he is going to empty the buckets to
Speaker 1: try and go after that. And also because he knows
Speaker 1: the personnel, he is going to try and find ways
Speaker 1: to isolate guys that he knows. So he may try
Speaker 1: and find a way to get Jordan Lewis one oh one.
Speaker 1: He may try and find a way to get some
Speaker 1: of the other guys in bad predicaments to see if
Speaker 1: they can score points. I think the Cowboys win, but
Speaker 1: I do think this game will be a closer game
Speaker 1: than most with imagine. All right, great, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: joining us, Bucky. We'll be back with you next week
Speaker 1: when we start getting ready for the next game. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take our final break when we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about Cowboys versus Giants that
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Speaker 1: let's let's get back in. You know. Actually I had
Speaker 1: a whole list of things I was going to ask
Speaker 1: you guys, but I actually want to go back a
Speaker 1: little bit because we did get into an interesting conversation
Speaker 1: as Nick decided that um he needed to question the
Speaker 1: grading scale of one bucket for the Twitter time. Prescott
Speaker 1: and I thought it was interesting though, Nick, I saw
Speaker 1: your will starting when he first said A plus, and
Speaker 1: I knew where you were going with it. But and
Speaker 1: I get your point. Obviously, saying he's an A plus
Speaker 1: means that he is playing the absolute best he can
Speaker 1: possibly play, And so I get you. I understand it.
Speaker 1: There are probably some areas, not probably, there are definitely
Speaker 1: some areas where he could improve. But I think when
Speaker 1: the point that Bucky made not agree with and I
Speaker 1: want to get the thoughts from from Dave and Amber
Speaker 1: on this, But you know, I think at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, you look at how he's performed, and
Speaker 1: I think bass step on all those things, all those
Speaker 1: things that he's having to deal with right now. I
Speaker 1: just have a hard time thinking anybody would have done
Speaker 1: a much better job than what he has done through
Speaker 1: these games. Now, at the end of the game, there
Speaker 1: have been a couple of times when the offense just
Speaker 1: couldn't get there to be able to tie the game
Speaker 1: or take a lead, and so some of that you
Speaker 1: you kind of put back on him. But all that
Speaker 1: being said, I think he is right up there at
Speaker 1: least an A, if not an A plus. Amber, what
Speaker 1: do you think I do give him an A if
Speaker 1: we have to grade him. I think he's had a
Speaker 1: really good year so far. I mean, when you when
Speaker 1: you look at the development compared to year by year
Speaker 1: and the growth, I think this year he really made
Speaker 1: a big growth compared to previous years. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, when you start comparing him to
Speaker 1: or not comparing him, but saying that maybe he's on
Speaker 1: the same path as a guy like Russell Wilson. He's
Speaker 1: not necessarily quite there for me just yet. Maybe he
Speaker 1: will be. But when you look at those key plays,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to put it all on Dak,
Speaker 1: but two of the last plays of the past two games,
Speaker 1: I believe it was where he threw what was it
Speaker 1: an interception trying to get into the end zone to
Speaker 1: possibly tie the game. I mean, those are the key
Speaker 1: moments when you do want your quarterback to be able
Speaker 1: to make those plays. And again, I'm not putting it
Speaker 1: all on him. Obviously there are other components and elements
Speaker 1: that go into play here. But just overall, I think
Speaker 1: he's a name guy, but I'm still missing that plus
Speaker 1: sign there, which hopefully he's on the right path. I
Speaker 1: just that's all I'm gonna say. Dave saying Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: like picking apart Dak Prescott's grade. It's like he's like
Speaker 1: the kid in class where he busted the curve, like
Speaker 1: everybody else in the class got like a C, A
Speaker 1: D or in F and Dak is over here with
Speaker 1: like a low A. He's got like he's got like
Speaker 1: a ninety one out of a hundred, and the teachers like, well,
Speaker 1: I know you can do better. And meanwhile, like everybody
Speaker 1: else in the class is posting like sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing? Why are we nitpicking this guy?
Speaker 1: And I mean, no, he hasn't been perfect, but I
Speaker 1: feel very comfortable saying they're only There are only probably
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks in the league playing better football than him
Speaker 1: right now, and that would be Mahomes, Russell and Rogers.
Speaker 1: And you're taught. I mean, you're talking about two guys
Speaker 1: that are definitely going on the Hall of Fame and
Speaker 1: one that most likely will unless he retires tomorrow. Josh
Speaker 1: Allen deserves a mention, but that's a very small sample size.
Speaker 1: Dak's balling, and honestly, he's the only reason why you're
Speaker 1: even in the position that you're in, which is that
Speaker 1: you've had a chance to win all of these games.
Speaker 1: It would be ugly if he was playing on the
Speaker 1: level of like twenty sixteen or seventeen. It would be
Speaker 1: gross how bad this team would look. And know, people say,
Speaker 1: you get like, oh, Dak needs a ton of talent
Speaker 1: around him to succeed. He does have great receivers, you
Speaker 1: know what, he doesn't have the offensive line that he's
Speaker 1: been used to having. He's I mean, it's just isn't
Speaker 1: what it what it was that his tackle protection isn't great.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is fine, but hasn't lived up to the hype.
Speaker 1: He's got a rookie center at this point to make
Speaker 1: all of that work. With the issues in protection that
Speaker 1: he's had. I think he's been outstanding ball. Really. The
Speaker 1: main thing that I would nitpick, it's not even the interceptions,
Speaker 1: because the one at the end of the Cleveland game
Speaker 1: you are gonna win anyway. That went out the window.
Speaker 1: With the Odell play, and then the Seattle one, you're
Speaker 1: just trying to make a play out of a broken situation.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I would really nitpick Dak for
Speaker 1: is he's got he's got to cut out the fumbles,
Speaker 1: and some of that's on his protection, but some of
Speaker 1: that's on him if he can clean that up. I
Speaker 1: think the sky's the limit. Nick, you choose to uh, well, no,
Speaker 1: I think both of them were right. I mean they
Speaker 1: are right, and he's definitely right about the ninety you
Speaker 1: know one and everyone else is in the sixties. Um.
Speaker 1: But but you know what I thought Amber was going
Speaker 1: when she said the last two games I don't know
Speaker 1: about that last interception because it took like a Hercules
Speaker 1: type play just to get get there. Um the interception
Speaker 1: before the half though, was was that was a game
Speaker 1: changing moment there for the Cowboys and that one, and
Speaker 1: Dave said the fumble another game changing play. But that's
Speaker 1: what happens when the ball's in your hand every time,
Speaker 1: and the fumble wasn't. I just still don't put the
Speaker 1: fumble on him. Okay, no, I mean you're right, the
Speaker 1: interception absolutely, but the fumble, I don't put it in
Speaker 1: the last interception against Cleveland if you go back and
Speaker 1: look at it, nineteen didn't help him there at Nineteen
Speaker 1: said after the game that he thought that he put
Speaker 1: that quit. He quit the route on that one. So uh,
Speaker 1: he's playing out of his mind. The part that's that's
Speaker 1: the real issue here. Is he an A plus? No,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's an A minus. He has to be
Speaker 1: an A plus to get by with the defense and
Speaker 1: special teams. That's what I wrote after the game. Dave,
Speaker 1: rob both we all talked about it in the press box.
Speaker 1: Their offense isn't perfect and they have to be because
Speaker 1: of what's around him. I can get give it that
Speaker 1: all right, Let's want one other topic. I want hit
Speaker 1: before we end the show. That was a quote yesterday
Speaker 1: from Xavier Woods. He had some time with the media
Speaker 1: yesterday and it's getting a lot of play. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: read the quote to you and I want to get
Speaker 1: your response on how you take it and what your
Speaker 1: thoughts are. He said, And this was about effort. He said.
Speaker 1: The effort has been good on certain plays some guys,
Speaker 1: I mean me included, there may be a lack, but overall,
Speaker 1: the effort is there. We're in the NFL. You don't
Speaker 1: expect guys to go full speed for seventy plays. That's
Speaker 1: not possible. But we're going to push as hard as
Speaker 1: we can. I mean, you know, you don't expect the
Speaker 1: backside corner to go make a play on the opposite
Speaker 1: side the whole time. That's just not possible. To be honest,
Speaker 1: you guys agree with that, that comment from Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with you, Dave. Yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: is tricky. I mean, as Xavier was saying it, I
Speaker 1: was like, this isn't gonna go well for him, Like
Speaker 1: this isn't it's it's just not And it's one of
Speaker 1: those perception things because I I know what he meant,
Speaker 1: and Joe Thomas actually said something similar, which is basically like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: if you cut on the tape, you can see the loafs.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about Rod Marinelli and the loafs.
Speaker 1: He's like, there, there are occasions where you might see loaves,
Speaker 1: but overall, as a defense, the effort is there. And
Speaker 1: then Xavier compounds it by saying, you know you're not
Speaker 1: You're not going to give one hundred percent. And I
Speaker 1: think what he meant by that was simply like nobody
Speaker 1: is gunning all out in every moment of every play
Speaker 1: during a game. I mean, like you all over the
Speaker 1: league you can see that. That's true and all. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's realistic. When you talk about the
Speaker 1: amount of energy you have to exert. The only way
Speaker 1: you could do that is if it was like hockey
Speaker 1: and you rotated these guys and shifts, but nobody does that.
Speaker 1: All of this is to say, you still can't say that, man,
Speaker 1: You just can't after that game, even if you're right,
Speaker 1: and even if I appreciate your honesty, it's just a
Speaker 1: really bad look after a game like that to try
Speaker 1: to justify it. You just kind of have to keep
Speaker 1: it to yourself. So I know what he was trying
Speaker 1: to say, but that's just not the moment to say it.
Speaker 1: Amber what are your thoughts. I agree with everything that
Speaker 1: they've said, and I get perfectly what he was trying
Speaker 1: to say with that common but it's just I guess
Speaker 1: it's the choice of words. You know, after that game,
Speaker 1: you don't go out and say it and say and
Speaker 1: phrase it that way. There are better ways to say,
Speaker 1: like you, look, man, yes, we need to try harder
Speaker 1: and just say something different. And we all understand that
Speaker 1: these are NFL players. We all understand that it's not
Speaker 1: an easy job. It is tiring, and it's a lot
Speaker 1: harder than he looks from us watching from the stands
Speaker 1: or at home or anything like that. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I think it's the lack of maybe fully
Speaker 1: taking accountability of it and rather trying to use it
Speaker 1: excuse It's like, yes, we get it. Realistically, there is
Speaker 1: absolutely no way you give an hundred percent effort on
Speaker 1: every single play of a three hour game. So to me,
Speaker 1: I get the way he meant it. I don't think
Speaker 1: he was trying to say it in a bad way
Speaker 1: to like justify things. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think he could have used a better choice of words
Speaker 1: and rephrase that better and just take a little bit
Speaker 1: more of accountability. Yeah, I think they're they're exactly right.
Speaker 1: And uh, I agree with Xavier Woods. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't give one hundred percent effort at the end
Speaker 1: of the game because you don't have one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I mean, Derek, you're a runner. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the first the first mile is probably you could go
Speaker 1: more than you could at the very end. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just don't have it in your tank? Is it
Speaker 1: tonight tomorrow? Whenever the Lakers play, watch watch the Lebron
Speaker 1: James at the end of the game. There's there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a possession or two where he sits over in
Speaker 1: the corner on an offense. It's just I don't have
Speaker 1: it right now. Somebody else dribble. Shoot, I don't have
Speaker 1: it right here to going and give that. So that's
Speaker 1: what he's saying. Um, you know, and we we kill
Speaker 1: these guys for not being boring sometimes and all that,
Speaker 1: and then when they say and they're being on this,
Speaker 1: then they get crucified for it. As well, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I wish Jalen Smith wouldn't have jumped on the pole
Speaker 1: and grabbed the guy's face mask when he didn't have to,
Speaker 1: when the guy was already tackled. That changed the entire game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that would have been a nice you've got
Speaker 1: him tackled. That's good second fifteen instead of first down.
Speaker 1: Let's change the whole game. Yeah, you know what it
Speaker 1: reminded me of. And Nick, you'll remember this. You were
Speaker 1: sitting there in that press conference. It was Tony Romo
Speaker 1: after that I think it was the Eagles game. Yes,
Speaker 1: and and he says, you know, if this is the
Speaker 1: worst after they lost, if this is the worst thing
Speaker 1: that ever happens to me, I will still have had
Speaker 1: a good life. And yes, okay, you're right, there are
Speaker 1: a lot of things that could be much worse about
Speaker 1: your life, but it's probably not the right time to
Speaker 1: say it, like yeah, you just don't have to say
Speaker 1: that in those words. In that moment. Everybody knows this.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone that's up here. They go on the
Speaker 1: games and the trips, and maybe not this year, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to that. And if the fans
Speaker 1: knew just that the players don't carry their emotions like
Speaker 1: they do all week long. They're pissed off. Trust me,
Speaker 1: it ends in about an hour, maybe two. I don't
Speaker 1: know by the time we get on the I mean
Speaker 1: there's some guys that depend It depends, it depends on
Speaker 1: the game. But yes, you're right, generally speaking, generally speaking,
Speaker 1: though you know, sometimes you do wonder you do check
Speaker 1: your stats when you're writing your story on the plane,
Speaker 1: You're like, they did lose this game, right, Like maybe,
Speaker 1: And I say that, I'm not saying that they're wrong.
Speaker 1: They've got it in perspective. I thought Dave made a
Speaker 1: fantastic point two days ago when you said every single
Speaker 1: play they could not walk. Again, think about that's a
Speaker 1: job for them. You might get paralyzed on this. I
Speaker 1: mean hate if that happens, but it happens. So after
Speaker 1: the end of the game and they're healthy and they're
Speaker 1: feeling good and you know, not feeling so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but walking, Yeah, maybe they have a different perspective
Speaker 1: than some fans do. Would be like, you should be
Speaker 1: doing this. You shouldn't be trying to do your own brand.
Speaker 1: You should be trying to do this. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: playing golf on and off that you shouldn't do all this,
Speaker 1: you should be you know, it's not realistic. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the other part to it too, and this is something
Speaker 1: I kind of came around for myself with is I
Speaker 1: think sometimes when you when you're competing, you kind of
Speaker 1: want to take yourself out of the moment because if
Speaker 1: you lost, it can be all consuming. And what we
Speaker 1: don't see is, yeah, we might see after the game
Speaker 1: and the lock, where we might see on the plane whatever.
Speaker 1: What we don't see is when they get home that
Speaker 1: night and then they have to sit with themselves and
Speaker 1: they're like man lo that you know, and then it
Speaker 1: really eats at you. When you with your your teammates,
Speaker 1: you can kind of deflect and you can kind of
Speaker 1: have a little fun and kind of for a moment
Speaker 1: almost forget about it because you know it's coming back,
Speaker 1: and you know when they get home and by themselves,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be there. Because they're competitors. You don't make
Speaker 1: it to the NFL if you aren't a hyper competitive person.
Speaker 1: You can't make it in the NFL if you're not
Speaker 1: a hyper competitive person. So I just think I think
Speaker 1: we got to put all of that into perspective. All right,
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