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Speaker 1: versus Buccaneers. We will focus in today on the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: offense versus the Dallas defense. We got some fan questions
Speaker 1: we'll get. We're gonna try to get questions every day
Speaker 1: from from fans this week, getting you guys ready for
Speaker 1: the game. And I actually wanted to start today's conversation
Speaker 1: with a question that I received on Twitter from Clarence Ye.
Speaker 1: The question was are we And I think he's meaning
Speaker 1: by that the fans the media, everybody out in the
Speaker 1: Cowboy universe. Are we overreacting to the Washington loss? It
Speaker 1: was ugly, but recall last year's anticipation for the playoffs
Speaker 1: after the Philly game, it was super Bowl or bust.
Speaker 1: This year it's it can. I don't know what he
Speaker 1: was saying there, but basically the point he was making was,
Speaker 1: are we overreacting to that loss? Because sometimes you can
Speaker 1: lose the last game and still do well. Other times
Speaker 1: you can win and not do so well. What do
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, I think yes and overreacting a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's what we do. And that's that's why you
Speaker 1: talk about football for seven days before each game, I
Speaker 1: mean each each day. I mean that's what you do.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's probably a little bit of overreacting. No
Speaker 1: one will talk about it if they play well, but
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the last game we've got, last
Speaker 1: memory that we've got, and it's not the best, you know,
Speaker 1: game to go into the playoffs. But as I've said before,
Speaker 1: last year's the game did not carry over into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so you can only hope this one doesn't either. No,
Speaker 1: we're not overreacting at all. You know, this was a
Speaker 1: must win game. It really was if you think about it,
Speaker 1: I mean you had to go in there and you
Speaker 1: had to establish that you were going to win the game,
Speaker 1: and then pull the starters once you realize what was
Speaker 1: going on in Philadelphia. So yeah, I mean it's the
Speaker 1: same problems. You don't run, you're throwing interceptions. How many
Speaker 1: picks six? This is this guy thrown this year? You
Speaker 1: know how many Nick talks about it. You know, I
Speaker 1: heard him on the radio this morning talking about I
Speaker 1: want to five three the fan. You know, it's not
Speaker 1: a overreaction at all. You know, you're you're trying to
Speaker 1: you're trying to establish, You're trying to establish things or
Speaker 1: trying clean up things that you've been poor at. You know,
Speaker 1: the last several weeks they haven't run the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: the last several weeks. The quarterbacks thrown interceptions every week.
Speaker 1: You know, these are things. These aren't overreactions. This is like,
Speaker 1: these are these are trends that are going towards you
Speaker 1: getting in the playoffs. And everybody says, you know, you
Speaker 1: got beat by a backup quarterback who completed eleven passes.
Speaker 1: You know you got dominated up front. You're going to
Speaker 1: play better. I don't know if you're gonna play better
Speaker 1: fronts when it comes to you know, the defensive fronts,
Speaker 1: but that's not in a game that you're you're trying
Speaker 1: to win. Initially, No, we're not overreacting at all. These
Speaker 1: are these are legitimate concerns, and we'll all be in
Speaker 1: here Tuesday morning if they show up again, and we
Speaker 1: really won't be overacting then, because you know, I think
Speaker 1: the reality is that this team has faults. It plays
Speaker 1: remarkably well at times, it overcomes mistakes that they make
Speaker 1: along the way, but the trends are going in the
Speaker 1: wrong way for this football team, much like it went
Speaker 1: the wrong way after the Denver game last year. You know,
Speaker 1: there's things you're seeing that are concerning as you get
Speaker 1: ready for a playoff game. Yes, writing well, even though
Speaker 1: I do think that the Cowboys are going to be
Speaker 1: able to play a lot better this weekend when they
Speaker 1: go out to Tampa, I don't think that this is
Speaker 1: an overreaction either, because you're talking about a team that
Speaker 1: was uncapable of doing absolutely anything. They got one touchdown,
Speaker 1: they missed the extra point. Other than that, that was
Speaker 1: it like eleven three and out. That's freaking embarrassing. How
Speaker 1: are you not able to do absolutely anything against the
Speaker 1: team that's not even competing to be in the playoffs anymore.
Speaker 1: So it's not had they lost that game. It would
Speaker 1: have been different if you saw some fight in the game,
Speaker 1: but we didn't see any of that. So that's what
Speaker 1: makes it worse for me. It's not that they lost whatever,
Speaker 1: you're still in the playoffs, but it's how they lost it.
Speaker 1: There was nothing in there that they did well, and
Speaker 1: it gives you worry into the playoffs when you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna face a team that's a lot better a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's the Yeah, probably the best quarterback in the
Speaker 1: NFL ever played, But it just gives you a lot
Speaker 1: more worrying concern. But I do think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: competitive in this game, but it's just it was just
Speaker 1: a crappy way to go out this week. Does not
Speaker 1: feel like we're about to head into the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: not the vibe at least for me, and like in
Speaker 1: our office space, it's just not as exciting as it
Speaker 1: would be had they won that game or probably competed
Speaker 1: in that game. Yeah, I was gonna say I the
Speaker 1: only thing I disagree with you. There is I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tampa Bay is better than Washington. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I know, other than the playoffs
Speaker 1: and they're in and they got a quarterback that everyone
Speaker 1: knows and all that, but I don't think they're a
Speaker 1: better football team than Washington, especially from a matchup standpoint. Now.
Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys have struggled against Tampa. They're not
Speaker 1: the same Tampa team that they've played. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I think, let's not That's what I keep wrestling
Speaker 1: with is that Tampa is not a good football team.
Speaker 1: They're not. I mean, they're below. No, you don't feel
Speaker 1: like they have I mean they don't. They beat Carolina,
Speaker 1: they beat Carolina at home. But I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they are trending up. I think they're I
Speaker 1: think they're trending in. They're eight and eight eight, nine
Speaker 1: whatever they are, you know, because I know they didn't
Speaker 1: play all their guys at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: probably could have won it. But nine and eight eight, now,
Speaker 1: whatever they are, I don't. I think they're an average
Speaker 1: football team. I think Washington's an average team that knows
Speaker 1: the Cowboys better, and I think that's a little tougher matchup.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying the reason why I say that
Speaker 1: I don't overreact is because I think this team has
Speaker 1: proven that they can turn it around. I think that
Speaker 1: they will turn it around. And I do think whatever
Speaker 1: the reason for it, they were not prepared for the game.
Speaker 1: I know they'll be prepared for So let's go down
Speaker 1: that line of thinking. If you say they're an average team,
Speaker 1: does it concern you at all that three of the
Speaker 1: four losses Dallas has this year are two average teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah on grass Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think Dallas is. I think they're an
Speaker 1: average ten. Yeah, I'm not I mean, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to attack you on this. I'm just saying I'm just interested.
Speaker 1: If they're they're a really good football team. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that. I think that to me that you know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to like convince yourself. No, I mean that's
Speaker 1: just the way to face him. They're really good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was laughing at the way he was just like yeah,
Speaker 1: which means hell no, Hell. I lost my will to
Speaker 1: fight right there. I just didn't want to go there.
Speaker 1: I think they're I think they're a really good team.
Speaker 1: This is a seventeen game season. They're they're they're really good,
Speaker 1: and they're they're one of the best. They're one of
Speaker 1: the best teams in the NFL right now. And I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what makes that game so weird to to comprehend.
Speaker 1: But they are a better football team than that. They're
Speaker 1: better football team than than the Bucks. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go prove it or a normal care but they
Speaker 1: have to do. I think they are a better team.
Speaker 1: I think they're a good team. Here's my challenge, and
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with everything everybody says. But the
Speaker 1: reason why I think it's not an overreaction is because
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an overreaction from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: the storyline that continues the same. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is, you still can't run the ball, you
Speaker 1: still can't stop the run, you're still turning the ball
Speaker 1: over like those are things that have been storylines that
Speaker 1: have persisted over the last several weeks. And now, by
Speaker 1: the way, you're gonna face a team that you faced
Speaker 1: earlier this year that did those exact same things to you.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball even though they're not a good
Speaker 1: running team. They ran the ball against you. You couldn't
Speaker 1: stop them, and you couldn't run the ball against their front.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about a good front, you just
Speaker 1: face this might be comparable. When you start talking about
Speaker 1: fronts and how good they are up front, Tampa maybe
Speaker 1: just as good. So I just look at that and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's the part where I'm like, this isn't
Speaker 1: an overreaction. From that standpoint, that doesn't mean Dallas can't
Speaker 1: go and win, because I do think this. I told
Speaker 1: somebody this yesterday. I think Dallas is good enough to
Speaker 1: be any team, and I mean absolutely any team in
Speaker 1: the NFL on any given Sunday. Sure they absolutely can.
Speaker 1: I also think Dallas can lose to almost any team.
Speaker 1: There's probably one or two they wouldn't lose to, but
Speaker 1: almost any team in NFL on any given Sunday, if
Speaker 1: they played like they played last Sunday, they can lose
Speaker 1: that game. Both those teams fighting for that number one pick. Uh,
Speaker 1: we're giving the Cowboys some problems in the second half, right, So,
Speaker 1: so I think the Cowboys are all of the maps.
Speaker 1: So anybody that says they know what Dallas is gonna
Speaker 1: do Monday. Good luck with that, Like, I don't trust that.
Speaker 1: What's the reaction? Then, you said, is this an overaction?
Speaker 1: What is the reaction? It's kind of reaction, say overrated.
Speaker 1: I think the one I'm done, that's that's the that's
Speaker 1: the over that's the I mean, I think I think
Speaker 1: Ambar's right about this. I think people have just just
Speaker 1: have taken on the whatever you want to call it,
Speaker 1: that they've just taken on the burden of this team's
Speaker 1: just not good enough to go even though Tampa is
Speaker 1: probably not better than the Cowboys. The good teams don't
Speaker 1: turn over the ball. Good team And you're gonna argue
Speaker 1: with me, but you're gonna say, good teams are really
Speaker 1: good on offense. Good teams score Brian, good teams do this,
Speaker 1: Good teams lead the league in turn good teams do that.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to think about I'm just sitting there
Speaker 1: thinking about all the things that can make them an
Speaker 1: even better team that they don't do well. You know,
Speaker 1: they haven't rushed the passer as well as they need to.
Speaker 1: I mean, but that is that on them or is
Speaker 1: it on the schemes they're playing. The thing that always
Speaker 1: just bothers me. Now, Nick about this as like every
Speaker 1: week you ask a question at the podium to Dak
Speaker 1: and it's about an interception. You know, you can't even
Speaker 1: get to your questions about the three touchdowns he through
Speaker 1: or the four touchdowns he through that day. You know,
Speaker 1: you know the questions I mean the questions to Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones after the games and stuff, and you know, the
Speaker 1: running and the run defense and all this stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it just it trends in a
Speaker 1: way of like this team isn't isn't good? You know
Speaker 1: when when? But everything else kind of tell I mean,
Speaker 1: there's other things that say that it is good. But
Speaker 1: the things that you really feel like you need to
Speaker 1: win in the playoffs, they're not good at at That's
Speaker 1: the problem. I think that's the problem. On the difference
Speaker 1: there may be, and this is where I would put it.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could say they're not a good
Speaker 1: team a team that gets twelve. I think they're a
Speaker 1: good team. I think what you gotta say is, yeah,
Speaker 1: are they Are they a super Bowl caliber team the
Speaker 1: way they're playing right now. I think that's where where
Speaker 1: the overreaction is. I think most people that watched last week.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying, most people that watched last week
Speaker 1: are saying they are not one of the teams that
Speaker 1: are really in the hunt for a Super Bowl. That's
Speaker 1: the overreaction I think at this point because of what
Speaker 1: you've been seeing the last few weeks. And that's a
Speaker 1: fair I think that is fair for people to have
Speaker 1: that estimation. Now we'll see where it goes. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I thought we were talking about the game. I thought
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Bucks game and like what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do this week. But like, no, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're a super Bowl caliber team. I've never seen a
Speaker 1: super Bowl caliber team. But you know, I've been here
Speaker 1: a while. By to what you said earlier, how you
Speaker 1: think Tampa is not a better team than what Washington
Speaker 1: has whatever. Okay, they made it into their whatever. What
Speaker 1: I'm going back to remembering, for example, when we were
Speaker 1: talking about green Bay. Totally different team, but Cowboys were
Speaker 1: way better than what Green Bay was, and they went
Speaker 1: out there, you thought they could win and then Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers once again slaps you in the face. Over time,
Speaker 1: they end up winning the game. So it's one of
Speaker 1: those things that even though pieces in their team are
Speaker 1: not the best, you're still talking about a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: gonna be Tom Brady, who you haven't been able to
Speaker 1: ever beat. At this point, I'm not saying it can't happen.
Speaker 1: I do think again, I do think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a good game, and the Cowboys will show up
Speaker 1: and play a tough game. But we can't just dismiss
Speaker 1: them and think, oh, well it's not you know. But
Speaker 1: but I do think they're better than Washington was and whatever.
Speaker 1: I just don't agree. I really don't agree. I think
Speaker 1: that we look at the schedules and all that, and
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, you got to remember when
Speaker 1: you get in as an eight and nine team, that
Speaker 1: means you won your division, and that means your division
Speaker 1: is terrible. And and I think when you know, Washington
Speaker 1: missed the playoffs by a half game or whatever, and
Speaker 1: all three of the other teams got in and look
Speaker 1: at who they played six times. Look who the Bucks
Speaker 1: played six times. And the Bucks, you know, I think
Speaker 1: Tom Brady saved them, well, the defense saved them most
Speaker 1: of the time, and then Brady at the end just
Speaker 1: won the game. So I really don't I don't I
Speaker 1: gotta remember that the Cowboys are four four games better,
Speaker 1: four games better than on the record. But I think
Speaker 1: I think really is they're about five or six games better.
Speaker 1: So I get it there's concerns, but I don't believe
Speaker 1: that this is this. I think the body of work
Speaker 1: is too too large. And I think that when they
Speaker 1: are ready to play, when they need to have a
Speaker 1: really big opponent, and if it's if it's um Philadelphia
Speaker 1: with the division on the line, the Giants on Thanksgiving, obviously,
Speaker 1: you know the Vikings gonna came back from Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I think that they respond. I think they will respond
Speaker 1: in this game. All right, we're gonna take our first
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Speaker 1: All right, let's start this conversation on Tampa Bay with
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take you guys back to week one of
Speaker 1: the season. Obviously, we know by the end of the
Speaker 1: game Dak Prescott was hurt in the locker room the
Speaker 1: whole nine before that point. Give me one memory you
Speaker 1: have from that game, one thing that that would that
Speaker 1: happened in that game that you're like, this is one
Speaker 1: thing that kind of concerns me or gives me hope.
Speaker 1: What I remember is that they tried every double reverse
Speaker 1: and trick played the first series of the game. First
Speaker 1: series has gotten like a fifty three yard field goal
Speaker 1: out of and that was it. That was the only point.
Speaker 1: And that took all this kind of I mean, like
Speaker 1: nine months of preparation to do all these things to
Speaker 1: move the ball just enough to get to the thirty
Speaker 1: eight yard line or whatever, thirty six yard line and
Speaker 1: make that kick. So that that wasn't good. That's what
Speaker 1: I remember. It took everything you had and then the
Speaker 1: boats were like, all right, nofe of that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that wasn't good. You know, I remember that game
Speaker 1: and I went back and watched it last night, but
Speaker 1: there were some things about it. I just remember how
Speaker 1: many times they got Julio Jones involved, whether it was
Speaker 1: jet sweeps or throwing him the ball, and Mike Evans
Speaker 1: made some really nice plays down the field, you know.
Speaker 1: But I just the biggest memory that I came away
Speaker 1: from was that they were actually running the ball pretty
Speaker 1: well with Zeke. You know, he was averaging like almost
Speaker 1: five and a half yards to carry, and then they
Speaker 1: just completely stopped. And then all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: turned into Dak trying to force the ball into coverage
Speaker 1: and they were knocking pat I mean, I've never seen
Speaker 1: a team just you know those PBUs you know, passes
Speaker 1: broken up, just bam bam bam it. You know, they
Speaker 1: kept challenging the Buccaneers. They were challenging the Buccaneers in
Speaker 1: the middle field. And then he throws that ball the
Speaker 1: interception that Winfield gets, and I'm like why, And that
Speaker 1: kind of was the snapshot of Okay, if you said
Speaker 1: Dak this year that that interception of Winfield was like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna see. You're gonna see more of
Speaker 1: this but the biggest memory, the biggest memory was they
Speaker 1: were running the ball well and they stopped. They just
Speaker 1: completely stopped running the ball with Zeke and the game
Speaker 1: never really was out of hand. When I just never,
Speaker 1: I mean that Dallas made some really good stops. They
Speaker 1: make them kick field goals. Yeah, I mean, they really did,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's unfortunate that they went away from
Speaker 1: that and it turned into trying to force the football.
Speaker 1: What I remember is the excitement heading into that game,
Speaker 1: thinking this is, uh, this time around, the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: be able to beat Tampa based on how they had
Speaker 1: played the year before and how they repeated pretty good,
Speaker 1: and then thinking Dak is back to being Dak, And
Speaker 1: then the game starts and he was pretty bad. He
Speaker 1: was not Dak, and it was just a game that
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, what are we watching based on the
Speaker 1: initial excitement. Then he gets hurt and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we got to wait a whole another year to
Speaker 1: start this over again. Luckily, things didn't go down that way.
Speaker 1: Went better than that, and Cooper Rush did a really
Speaker 1: good job, but that's pretty much it. And nothing was
Speaker 1: working for the Cowboys in that game as far as
Speaker 1: like you having your starters back, You had Zack Martin
Speaker 1: back in the lineup, and you thought, oh, that was
Speaker 1: the missing piece that you needed to beat Tampa the
Speaker 1: year before, and now you got all your starters in there,
Speaker 1: and it's just it wasn't really what you expected it
Speaker 1: to be. Well, you lose McGovern really early in that
Speaker 1: game too, Oh yeah, yeah, I mean Farniac is in
Speaker 1: there early, and then you got the Now you got
Speaker 1: Farniac and Tyler Smith playing on the left side, and
Speaker 1: you're now you're like, hold your breath, here we go
Speaker 1: kind of a thing. Yea, all right, So let's let's
Speaker 1: now focused in a little bit to the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: offense versus the Dallas defense. Brian talk to me about
Speaker 1: the differences between what we saw from the Tampa offense
Speaker 1: what they were on Week one to what they are now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they can't run the ball and they and they try
Speaker 1: and they really don't go very well. Where Dallas struggled
Speaker 1: in this game. We talked about the jet sweech. We
Speaker 1: could see this again, what they did, they ran counter
Speaker 1: runs and what they put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: Diggs in this game. Having to deal with polling alignment.
Speaker 1: They weren't good at They weren't good at the point
Speaker 1: of attack. Women Like where the ball was running safe
Speaker 1: to the left, the right defensive end, Armstrong gets crushed,
Speaker 1: They get a block on the linebacker. Now linemen are
Speaker 1: up on Diggs who's retreating, and now you got four
Speaker 1: net running downhill. They figured out that, like, listen, we
Speaker 1: can move offensive linemen in this game and Dallas won't
Speaker 1: be able to handle that. So worry about that A
Speaker 1: little bit of them coming back, you know, Tampa, when
Speaker 1: they run the ball, a lot of it is like
Speaker 1: Brady takes the snap and just hands it inside and
Speaker 1: in its fournet to hit the hole. In the game
Speaker 1: against Dallas, it was all those perimeter runs that really
Speaker 1: hurt Dallas in that game, and they figured out running
Speaker 1: at digs was the best way to do it. I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that there maybe go back to
Speaker 1: a little of that kind of running. Now. The problem
Speaker 1: is with their offensive line. They're not really healthy and
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith through their left tackle. I was talking to
Speaker 1: people in Tampa about this last night. I said, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm watching your games, and it doesn't like Donovan Smith's
Speaker 1: playing very well for you. Right now, the left tackle
Speaker 1: and he's like and he's like, honestly, he's not. Circle
Speaker 1: back to the game. If you're the Cowboys, what happened.
Speaker 1: They moved Parsons over to Donovan Smith's side in that game.
Speaker 1: Inside move, outside move. They really put him in some
Speaker 1: bad spots. And my Tampa guys admit it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're a little bit worried about Parsons going over there
Speaker 1: and having to deal with Smith because you do watch
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati game. I watched the San Francisco game. One.
Speaker 1: San Francisco just just mauled them, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: with McCaffrey and those guys, they showed the ability to
Speaker 1: run the football against you know, but you just have
Speaker 1: to it's those combination blocks which Dallas has struggled with,
Speaker 1: the combination blocks of two guys together and just push
Speaker 1: that defensive lineman and now you got a back that
Speaker 1: has the ability to make the cut. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that that that that San Francisco. Cincinnati just got luckier
Speaker 1: than Heck, they threw the ball, Brady had a touchdown
Speaker 1: call back from a holding call because of Donovan Smith.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's the second half. I mean, they Tampa
Speaker 1: played great on offense against Cincinnati. In the first up
Speaker 1: seventeen nothing, You're thinking like, oh, they're gonna roll. Then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, turnovers head, Brady throws an interception,
Speaker 1: Brady fumbles the ball, Brady fumbles the ball again. You know,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now is and since then has
Speaker 1: kicking field goals and then at the end of the
Speaker 1: game they get to go ahead touchdown and end it
Speaker 1: right there. But that's this offense is different, Frint, just
Speaker 1: because they haven't had the health in the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they haven't had the health at receivers. Julio Jones
Speaker 1: has been really really banged up for them too, so
Speaker 1: that's something that they're going to have to deal with him. Evans,
Speaker 1: those guys still, like say Donovan Smith, I think is
Speaker 1: the best thing to do here. And they're having problems
Speaker 1: at center. Nick LaVette Nick Leverett is the guard who's
Speaker 1: the normal starting guard. He's had to play center. So
Speaker 1: they're kind of in some flux right there, and they
Speaker 1: were in flux when they played in Week one. They
Speaker 1: had some problems in Week one, so those things haven't
Speaker 1: changed for them. But this is a team that, like
Speaker 1: I said, I would be worried about the stuff going
Speaker 1: to the perimeter. They had success because they found out
Speaker 1: that Diggs wasn't interested in play playing enforcing the run,
Speaker 1: and they were killing the edge to get that edge.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you to do the flip side like
Speaker 1: for Dallas defense because that first game, even well first
Speaker 1: half of the season. Yeah, we know how the Dallas
Speaker 1: defense was and how good they were and pressuring the
Speaker 1: quarterback and writing turnovers and everything. How different is done now?
Speaker 1: I mean we talk about it every day on the show.
Speaker 1: But as far as like matchup goes, Yeah, which you've
Speaker 1: you've played, I think you've played perimeter runs beat, You've
Speaker 1: got Hankins is gonna take care of the inside stuff
Speaker 1: for you. So now that helps vander esh run to
Speaker 1: get to the perimeter, be on the edge. I think
Speaker 1: you've got guys like I think Armstrong has done a
Speaker 1: better job of holding up blocks. But it depends, like
Speaker 1: you say, you still like Donovan Wilson has got to
Speaker 1: play downhill fast. I mean he but you get so
Speaker 1: much play action with this guy. You know, even though
Speaker 1: they don't run well, it's they still fake it like
Speaker 1: they're gonna run it. And now you're you're moving forward,
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to, like Armstrong is gonna have to
Speaker 1: be great, Hankins has got to hold the middle. You
Speaker 1: just can't let them when they when they take that
Speaker 1: snap and hand the ball inside, you can't let that
Speaker 1: be a four yard run. You can't. You got it.
Speaker 1: You've got to find a way for that to be
Speaker 1: a one or two yard run and then let them
Speaker 1: play from there. But to me, I think you got
Speaker 1: better players on the perimeter. I think your safeties. I
Speaker 1: think Wilson playing safety. Curse he was in a boot
Speaker 1: the first game. He got hurt, got nicked up in
Speaker 1: that game, and you know there was there was a
Speaker 1: lot of things going on, But it's gonna be about
Speaker 1: can your guys get to the outside quick. And I
Speaker 1: can say it's different now with Hankins because Hankins takes
Speaker 1: up blocks which allows Clark and vander esh to run
Speaker 1: and if you could get them out in space quick enough,
Speaker 1: then make Fournette have to stop out there. Now, you
Speaker 1: don't get that long run for ten twelve yards like
Speaker 1: they were getting in that game. The first in Week
Speaker 1: one where a stat where Brady leaves the NFL and
Speaker 1: and getting the ball out quick like two point five seconds.
Speaker 1: So what is he doing like throwing? Is it quick
Speaker 1: quick passes to to Evans and Godwin because they don't
Speaker 1: seem like they're they don't have time to get the
Speaker 1: ball down the field. So what is it? It's all,
Speaker 1: it's all, it's all. It's all like outs, curls, slants.
Speaker 1: It's it's inside stuff. I do a lot of bubble
Speaker 1: screen out just the perimeter, get it out. The first
Speaker 1: play of the game, if you remember Godwin caught it
Speaker 1: was first or second play of the game. Godwin caught
Speaker 1: up and went like at Diggs and went for like
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen yards. I mean it was like quick boom ball.
Speaker 1: They in that game they attack Diggs. They didn't think
Speaker 1: Diggs could handle ball coming at him the whole game.
Speaker 1: So that and in the run that's say in the
Speaker 1: un the screen in the screen, the screen came because
Speaker 1: he's gonna retreat and they couldn't get people out fast enough.
Speaker 1: You know, their their their mode in that game was
Speaker 1: get lineman in space and make the Dallas secondary and
Speaker 1: linebackers have to deal with that. So I would be
Speaker 1: surprised if they try something similar to this. But the
Speaker 1: ball they don't their their protection is not good enough
Speaker 1: for him just to horse the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: He'll make some throws. I mean, you get guys like
Speaker 1: u in the game against Dallas, Mike Evans caught a
Speaker 1: ball for like eighteen yards up on his curl back
Speaker 1: inside and everybody in Brown and everybody there was somewhat
Speaker 1: space but that but as you watch them play, they
Speaker 1: just don't have the time now to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna sit there Cincinnati, like when they made
Speaker 1: since they made him hold the ball, and when he's
Speaker 1: taken hits, he's putting the ball on the turf. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was a couple of times where it was they're
Speaker 1: one of the worst teams in third and long in
Speaker 1: the league. And there's a reason for it because they
Speaker 1: can't hold up long enough to get the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. When you look at these wide receiversh you know,
Speaker 1: we talk a lot about Mike Evans, gage and but
Speaker 1: but you talk about a lot of guys. I think
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin is a guy. I think you hit it
Speaker 1: this one on the radio, Nick I thought I remembered
Speaker 1: you talking about him. But Chris Godwin is is when
Speaker 1: you really think about it. He's the guy that could
Speaker 1: really kill you. He's got one hundred and four catches
Speaker 1: for him this year. Evans has seventy seven. So he
Speaker 1: is a guy that they go to. One hundred and
Speaker 1: four catches ten twenty three is a number of yards,
Speaker 1: and he had that one less game. He didn't play
Speaker 1: one game. So what what's that average? I mean nine
Speaker 1: point eight or something? What's that? What's his average? What's
Speaker 1: the averaging per catch? Oh? I don't, I don't have that.
Speaker 1: I mean looking for ten something like that, Like it's
Speaker 1: almost it's almost ten ten to catch. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: that almost that shows me that he's he's throwing those
Speaker 1: bubble screens a lot to him, not so much down
Speaker 1: the field, so I mean it's still effective. It's still
Speaker 1: almost a first down. But yeah, I didn't really it's
Speaker 1: nine point eight. Yeah, so right there right there at
Speaker 1: ten yards a kitch. So yeah, But I mean the
Speaker 1: point is, and I guess when you think about it,
Speaker 1: you would immediately almost think, hey, if you're gonna take
Speaker 1: digs and you're gonna put him on one guy, you
Speaker 1: obviously it'd be Mike Evans. But thinking about that, if
Speaker 1: you're going to first of all, do you think it's
Speaker 1: the right thing to have have Diggs travel with someone?
Speaker 1: And if so, who should be the receiver that he
Speaker 1: travels with. I would travel with God when myself, I
Speaker 1: would because I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: because I think the thing I think the thing you
Speaker 1: know when you're talking about the other receiver there. I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like though that Evans, he'll drop the
Speaker 1: ball on you every one while. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: about it is, I mean, he'll he may trust me.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a bum receiver. I'm just saying, though,
Speaker 1: if if you're Brady, you're gonna think about in this game,
Speaker 1: go to the guy that I you know, he's done
Speaker 1: the ball to him one hundred time. He's one hundred
Speaker 1: receptions there, you know. And and and Evans. Evans, as
Speaker 1: great as he is, he loses his focus during a game.
Speaker 1: You will see sometimes he'll drop balls and it's like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: what just happened. They're kind of a thing. So if
Speaker 1: I think if he if if you're if you're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: who is Brady, especially on third downs? Who is Brady
Speaker 1: gonna try and get the ball too? He's gonna get
Speaker 1: it to a guy like Godwin, who he knows he
Speaker 1: could trust, is gonna make the third down reception. Evans
Speaker 1: is a downfield player, but like I said, they haven't
Speaker 1: had the ability because the protection doesn't allow him to
Speaker 1: get the ball down the field. Yeah, I think. I
Speaker 1: think if you're gonna follow him with anyone, that would
Speaker 1: be it would be Godwin. But then when you get
Speaker 1: to the red zone, I might, I might flip it
Speaker 1: up a little bit. I might. I might go with
Speaker 1: him a little bit bigger on Evans and then just
Speaker 1: try to brack it you know him. I keep saying, Gauge,
Speaker 1: it's Godwin. Keep trying to brack it him with you know,
Speaker 1: Bland or whatever, because that's what we're He's the bland
Speaker 1: On like Evans in the at the four yard line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just feel like that's just a jump ball. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Bland's not a fighter. He can't. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say he's gone battle. He might give up something,
Speaker 1: he's gone battle. He's gone battle. I mean Aaron Glenn,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he was five nine, He would
Speaker 1: be a battle. You know. I love Daron Glenn's game though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got They've got to figure out quickly in this game.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn's got to figure out quickly. He's got to
Speaker 1: go an attack because, like I say, Micah Parsons over
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith, Donovan Smith is not ready for this. He's
Speaker 1: not playing well enough to be And in the first
Speaker 1: time around, I mean they were twice where he just
Speaker 1: embarrassed He embarrassed Donovan Smith. In this game, I mean,
Speaker 1: they have to be. If you're the Buccaneers, you have
Speaker 1: to be concerned about Micah Parsons lining up. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be some wins on the other end too,
Speaker 1: you know, with Tristan Wirfs and guys like I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't just be all in Micah Parsons this game.
Speaker 1: They've got to find some other spots to win and
Speaker 1: make Brady uncomfortable in this game. If they can't, haven't
Speaker 1: we seen no where teams have taken advantage of the
Speaker 1: aggressive nature of defensive ends, Michael being one of them,
Speaker 1: and really run straight Adam, run towards the off tackle,
Speaker 1: run run out wide because those guys trying to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback sometimes take the easy route to the
Speaker 1: inside and then they get Yeah, rather than trying to
Speaker 1: hold the edge. Do you think that could be a
Speaker 1: thing that maybe works against Dallas is to say, yeah.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is, the whole idea of playing
Speaker 1: Tampa this week is keep the outside shoulder free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't give up, don't run inside, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you jump inside Armstrong and they turn
Speaker 1: on you, and now vander Esh has to fight you
Speaker 1: getting turned and then getting all the way. The whole
Speaker 1: pursuit is now, Yeah, exactly, everybody stays square, keep outside
Speaker 1: shoulder free, Hankins in the middle, grab as many of
Speaker 1: the centers, the guards, and then let these linebackers like
Speaker 1: Clark and those guys run, you know, and get to
Speaker 1: that's the thing you make Burnette stop, you get a chance.
Speaker 1: It's like the old it's like the old days. Who
Speaker 1: was my guy Nick that played for the Giants way
Speaker 1: way back in the day. Yeah, well Hampton? Who was
Speaker 1: the way you know, number twenty seven I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of in the Hampton Robbie, No, no, no, there
Speaker 1: was something. It was another guy who's built like a
Speaker 1: big old tank. I know, I can't even remember name.
Speaker 1: Are you talking about Jacobs? Yeah, exactly, there you go. Yeah, Jacobs,
Speaker 1: that was a little more recent than him. Well that, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly Jacobs. It was when Brandon Jacobs, when you get
Speaker 1: him to the edge and he stopped, then it was
Speaker 1: like it was. But no, when he's playing down hill,
Speaker 1: he's a pain in the you know what, because he
Speaker 1: wasn't slow either, he was big. And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And the same thing with Fournette. You get Fournette kind
Speaker 1: of stopped and then have to restart. That's a different
Speaker 1: thing for him to have. That's your goal this week.
Speaker 1: Don't let him make him stop and then go after him.
Speaker 1: And but when they're running those plays where it's where
Speaker 1: they're pulling guys, everything's flowing, that's a hard play to
Speaker 1: stop because you can't get bodies over there to stop
Speaker 1: the ball from from getting to the edge. Because he's
Speaker 1: not a guy that's gonna just put his foot down
Speaker 1: and just make a huge cut, like like you have
Speaker 1: to beat him to the sideline and then like you
Speaker 1: like you're saying, if he if he stops to try
Speaker 1: to cut back and he's a lane, that's where Van
Speaker 1: dur Es, that's where those guys at the meeting right there,
Speaker 1: but but yeah, Gaina two, you know it's about it's
Speaker 1: about the edge, I mean and Dawrence and Tank that
Speaker 1: they've got to win that spot to the outside and
Speaker 1: also the corner. The corner has got to be fighting
Speaker 1: and making sure he cuts back, he cuts back where
Speaker 1: your friends are. This was a game too that Tank
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job and run defense himself, you know,
Speaker 1: with the ball going away from him, like his ability
Speaker 1: to to work outside, the knife inside or just straight
Speaker 1: shoot the gap, jet the gap, you know, those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. That's where that's where Tank has got to
Speaker 1: you know, the tackles for loss and plays like that,
Speaker 1: that's where he's gonna be. He's gonna have to be big,
Speaker 1: you know. I'll say this though, um, you know with
Speaker 1: they've also got this, you know, the kid White, number
Speaker 1: twenty nine, he's he's a guy you have. They've started
Speaker 1: to use him more in a lot of this offensive stuff,
Speaker 1: handing him the football. So they've got a couple of
Speaker 1: backs that they're working with. Right now. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: our final break. We'll come back. Let's get some fan questions.
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Speaker 1: I really thought he was Romo. Yeah, he thought he's
Speaker 1: going to end up well, it was very similar. It
Speaker 1: was very No, they didn't go out and play, you know.
Speaker 1: Then again, Romo waited four years. I mean he got
Speaker 1: to wait, he got time. Yeah. Yeah, but but the
Speaker 1: way the news he kind of carried himself and all that,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it was very similar to Tony. You
Speaker 1: want to know who's giving me Romo vibes is Brock Party?
Speaker 1: Like do you have you watched him play yet? The
Speaker 1: way he plays reminds me a lot of time, Like
Speaker 1: he's that kind of guy that kind of dips and
Speaker 1: ducks and just throws the ball out like yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a little bit out of in him.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to We've gotta take some fan
Speaker 1: questions here. In the last few minutes of the show,
Speaker 1: we got a question from Gary Matera. He says, which
Speaker 1: linebacker do you take off the field for Layton vander
Speaker 1: Esh seems like Barr and Clark have been equally underwhelming.
Speaker 1: Curious to see what combo they go with. Vanderesh and
Speaker 1: Clark are your players in this game? Yeah? Bar? Why
Speaker 1: why Clark of the bar? Because I don't think Bar
Speaker 1: can really run anymore. I don't, I don't, I don't
Speaker 1: see the burst, I don't see the ability to finish.
Speaker 1: I think plays right at him. Anthony Barr. I think
Speaker 1: it's totally on board with players that go away. Where
Speaker 1: it turns into we got to get to the edge
Speaker 1: and this and we were just talking about this in
Speaker 1: the previous segment. This is going to be a game.
Speaker 1: It might be played on the perimeter, and so you
Speaker 1: need to get to the perimeter. And I think Anthony
Speaker 1: barrs struggled some of this perimeter play this year. Might
Speaker 1: see some goal line for him though, because like you said,
Speaker 1: balls running out of he recognition should be there, a
Speaker 1: little bit more not chasing down for net in the flat.
Speaker 1: That may be more Clark's thing, But I could see
Speaker 1: probably some goal line packages if he's if he's active,
Speaker 1: I mean I hate to think that he's an active No,
Speaker 1: but I'm just I don't know the numbers. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just know one guy's coming. If everybody's healthy, I'm
Speaker 1: saying somebody's coming coming back. Yeah, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I would imagine he would be, but I mean, what
Speaker 1: are you not going to take jabrol Cox would be
Speaker 1: an active that's what that's what Vanderesh coming. Do you
Speaker 1: guys have any concerns of like how he might play
Speaker 1: after the injury. Yeah, you have to have to have
Speaker 1: I think you'll actually be fresh, he'll be I think
Speaker 1: you know what. To me, I the thing is, I
Speaker 1: think Layton Vanderess has played so well for you this
Speaker 1: year and I don't see that stopping. I really really do.
Speaker 1: But I felt like it's gonna be a tough game.
Speaker 1: It worries me mentally because I felt like the last injury,
Speaker 1: he wasn't there mentally, Like you could see the hesitation
Speaker 1: of like just this year was finally when he was
Speaker 1: able to let that go and play without having to
Speaker 1: think about it or or just you know, that mental
Speaker 1: block of just not trying to get hurt again. So
Speaker 1: that's my main concern of me him maybe going back
Speaker 1: to that and just not going full and just kind
Speaker 1: of hesitating a little bit. I would think most of
Speaker 1: the people in the world when they see a wolf
Speaker 1: would run from it. This guy, I mean, this guy
Speaker 1: is the hunter of the wolf. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be that afraid. I really don't. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be funny about it. I think I think he's
Speaker 1: got this a mental like like, yeah, you got to
Speaker 1: be careful with the in kind of neck. But I
Speaker 1: don't think he'd be really afraid to go in there
Speaker 1: and play this is this is a big game. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a game for him to like, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a he's a free agent. The world's gonna be watching.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he has to prove that that he
Speaker 1: can't that he can overcome a neck injury and uh
Speaker 1: and still be the rest of guys. So I think
Speaker 1: he will be. I wonder, you know, how he'll play,
Speaker 1: But I think he's a key player to this game.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think he's a huge player for this game.
Speaker 1: But I do share some of Amber's trepidation, Like I
Speaker 1: I don't know if what is where he will be
Speaker 1: after being out these weeks with a neck injury, like
Speaker 1: neck is just different, like neck, back is different esecially
Speaker 1: when you're playing linebacker, you're a crash just dummy every game, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, he wasn't just just just to be clear,
Speaker 1: he wasn't like he's not like cleared this week to
Speaker 1: go play like he's been ready to go like like this.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was just cleared this. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were letting the thing calm down, that's what they were doing.
Speaker 1: So to me, yeah, and you and I could see
Speaker 1: where everybody's saying what they're saying, because you know, we've
Speaker 1: seen him with Tyron Smith, you know. I mean I
Speaker 1: was over here, is like, hey, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be better at right tackle Tyren Smith. Not they're not
Speaker 1: playing better at right better right tackle, but not better
Speaker 1: at right tackle right now. Yeah, So I think it's
Speaker 1: I think there is reason to have some concern. We'll
Speaker 1: see how he plays if he gets back to what
Speaker 1: he was before the injury. That's what Dallas needs if
Speaker 1: they're going to be successful in the playoffs. To me,
Speaker 1: they need that level. I think we kind of forget
Speaker 1: that part. I thought his injury was a big, big
Speaker 1: blow in that Jacksonville game. I mean because the way
Speaker 1: Travis Etn or whatever his name is said it right, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: doesn't look right? Um, but the way he ran the
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't realize he had so many rushing
Speaker 1: yards and and and I think down the goal line
Speaker 1: some of the passes at bar I thought struggled with there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that that was a big, big
Speaker 1: loss in that game. I'm not sure that Jacksonville wins
Speaker 1: that game if they you know, because they had to
Speaker 1: score a lot of points and I don't think they
Speaker 1: would have looks. Take another question from Sam Grease, and
Speaker 1: he says, do you think they'll have Parsons focus on
Speaker 1: rushing up the middle to disrupt Brady's pocket? Also the
Speaker 1: issues they haven't right now at center center's hurt. Do
Speaker 1: you think that'd be a good absolutely go for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna, if they're gonna if their center situation
Speaker 1: doesn't stabilize, or they don't have their guys in there
Speaker 1: the right you know who they feel like that they
Speaker 1: you know, can play with. But all means that's this
Speaker 1: is a game. You move him around, you just figure
Speaker 1: it out. You say, Okay, this is how we're gonna rush.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Donovan Smith. Donovan Smith has to be terrified
Speaker 1: playing this game that he that he has not played
Speaker 1: well enough this year. And he's got that guy over
Speaker 1: there that lit him up in Week one. So if anything,
Speaker 1: if anything, all that attention on Parsons, somebody else has
Speaker 1: got to win on those other these other side. And
Speaker 1: that guy could be Sam Williams, who, you know, his
Speaker 1: first game of the season didn't really do much contribute.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I don't remember him playing or
Speaker 1: doing anything in that game. He's got to be a
Speaker 1: different player than he was now. So I mean he
Speaker 1: could be one of those guys once he moves inside.
Speaker 1: Parsons moves inside, maybe Sam from the outside. Yeah. One
Speaker 1: thing about the playoffs that seems to happen every year
Speaker 1: is you have players for every successful team that weren't
Speaker 1: necessarily great players in the regular season that step up
Speaker 1: and provide something extra in the off seaton and in
Speaker 1: the in the postseason. I think Sam Williams can be
Speaker 1: that guy for Dallas. I think he is a guy
Speaker 1: that if they really use him, I think this offseason,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, in this postseason. I think he
Speaker 1: can be a big factor for this defense because I
Speaker 1: think he has the talent. I don't think he's always
Speaker 1: gotten the opportunity. In part that's probably because they needed
Speaker 1: to mature him along and get him more ready. But
Speaker 1: I think that's the time to use him. I don't
Speaker 1: know what his play snap is. I mean, it can't
Speaker 1: be anywhere close to what the other guys are. But
Speaker 1: he led the team and tackles for loss. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a limited time, limited, very limited team, very limited time here.
Speaker 1: You know, seven seven tackles for loss, so amazing. And
Speaker 1: also he gets around the football too. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got three fumble recoveries too. Yep. Talk about disruptive players,
Speaker 1: I think outside of Mica, he might be one of
Speaker 1: your most disruptive players, no doubt about it. All right,
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. Jonas back tomorrow, we'll be talking about
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay offense versus I'm sorry to Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: defense versus the Dallas offense. So then for Nickit, Mcbrian
Speaker 1: brough us An Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has
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