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Speaker 7: It is Thursday October twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 7: Episode number fifty seven. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 7: The Breakwheel, Live from the SWBC Mortgane Studios at the Star.
Speaker 7: Got Brian, Patrick and Amber all here with me. We
Speaker 7: got an hour forty five minutes or so of Cowboys
Speaker 7: talk for you guys. Today we're talking Dallas defense versus
Speaker 7: the Rams offense. Brian's going to break that down for
Speaker 7: us in the second segment. We'll have a lot to
Speaker 7: talk about talking about the Cowboys defense and how they
Speaker 7: will match up against this Rams offense. Let's start first
Speaker 7: with a topic though they came up yesterday for Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 7: During his press conference, he was asked about his key
Speaker 7: to post by success. If you don't have you hadn't
Speaker 7: heard the statistic Mike McCarthy coming out by question, I know,
Speaker 7: right coming off the buy and go figure you're on
Speaker 7: this show. He has a record coming off by of
Speaker 7: eleven and five, so pretty successful doing it. The key
Speaker 7: for him and this was the quote. I think the
Speaker 7: first thing is rest in recovery. Their ability to step
Speaker 7: away mentally and emotionally is probably the most important and
Speaker 7: physically it's good for all of them. My question for
Speaker 7: you guys, because I think there are two schools of
Speaker 7: thought here. There's the rest, there's also the rust factor.
Speaker 7: Where do you guys fall rest or rust?
Speaker 5: I think rest.
Speaker 8: I think it's a situation where in mcayink makes a
Speaker 8: good point, this is a long season and I mean
Speaker 8: if you look at the injury report going into week six,
Speaker 8: I mean it was a laundry list of guys dealing
Speaker 8: with things and that the rest goes to the recovery
Speaker 8: portion of it. And now we're talking about an injury
Speaker 8: report that technically didn't exist yesterday. The only reason why
Speaker 8: your Thomas was on there was, you know, the NFL protocol.
Speaker 8: He missed the previous game, so he had to be
Speaker 8: listed but for participants. So Cowboys active roster is fantastically healthy.
Speaker 8: Knock on wood that that continues as we talk on Thursday,
Speaker 8: which is the dark day for the Cowboys, but also
Speaker 8: to the mental aspect of it. And I love that
Speaker 8: coming from McCarthy because it shows that this coaching staff
Speaker 8: and this culture just that the Cowboys organization have fostered it.
Speaker 8: Mental health matters, and sometimes you really just need that
Speaker 8: break from the grind of pushing and pushing and pushing
Speaker 8: and trying to improve yourself, and it helps in the
Speaker 8: long run to be able to have that pit stop,
Speaker 8: and that's basically what it is. It's a mental and
Speaker 8: a physical pit stop.
Speaker 5: You go in, you know.
Speaker 8: And Brian loved this because he's a racing guy as well.
Speaker 8: You go in and you refuel and you change your tires,
Speaker 8: and then you get back out there and you get
Speaker 8: running at full speed. So it worked out favorably for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys. And he clearly has the right tone for it,
Speaker 8: because he's eleven and five coming out of the by
Speaker 8: could have been twelve and four if not for the
Speaker 8: over the loss in Green Bay. But I mean, Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 8: he if his record did not indicate that he knew
Speaker 8: what he was doing then I'd have bigger questions.
Speaker 5: But yeah, like what he's doing doing with it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, I think.
Speaker 10: He knows exactly how to handle it, clearly based on
Speaker 10: that stat But at the same time, to me, and
Speaker 10: we came off of bye two, we were at home
Speaker 10: or doing whatever, and means taking me multiple days to
Speaker 10: get back in the groove, like I would not be
Speaker 10: ready to play a football game this week. And I'll
Speaker 10: be honest, but then again, I don't get paid that money.
Speaker 10: I am not an athlete or a pro football player,
Speaker 10: So very different and bad maybe bad comparison, but we
Speaker 10: go through the same type of rhythm, and we know
Speaker 10: when we get away for a little bit, yes we
Speaker 10: come back mentally better and refresh, but it does take
Speaker 10: you a little bit to get back into it. Also,
Speaker 10: I guess I wasn't fully fully aware of the whole
Speaker 10: bargaining player what is it called the agreement of it?
Speaker 10: You have to be completely away, like you'ren not be
Speaker 10: having meetings and sitting down watching film together and breaking
Speaker 10: down things and looking what you can improve on.
Speaker 9: So I don't know how I didn't fully know that.
Speaker 10: I thought in my mind that you could still at
Speaker 10: least meet and talk and conversate, so that kind of
Speaker 10: takes away that aspect of the game of me thinking, okay, well,
Speaker 10: at least I can work on this and that. Well
Speaker 10: that's a way because you actually need to fully rest
Speaker 10: and give your player time. But at least on the
Speaker 10: injury report, everybody seems to be healthy. So that's wonderful
Speaker 10: news for the Cowboys and for the O line that
Speaker 10: hopefully they start clicking this week. But yeah, he shows
Speaker 10: to know what he's doing, so we'll see and hopefully
Speaker 10: it translates once again and adds to his record.
Speaker 3: If they're six and zero, we keep playing. You know,
Speaker 3: I believe in momentum. I believe in every week you
Speaker 3: talk about routine, you talk about you know, the fact
Speaker 3: that they've lost a couple of games for being foreign
Speaker 3: to there are a reasonably healthy team. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of teams around the league that are kind of struggling
Speaker 3: with that right now, and I think that leads to
Speaker 3: Mike is a really good understanding of how to do
Speaker 3: it during the week. I know we've had some injuries
Speaker 3: unfortunately that have happened on some days that we've lost
Speaker 3: some guys, but overall, I think he knows how to
Speaker 3: manage his team to keep him healthy throughout the season.
Speaker 3: But I've always believed if you're winning, just keep playing.
Speaker 3: Just you're in that routine, you're in the grind of it.
Speaker 3: You're just But with the team being foreign too. And
Speaker 3: then now once you talk about ambar with a collective
Speaker 3: bargain agreement, they're not going to let you price. You know,
Speaker 3: they're not going to let you it's four days y, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's they're not going to let you get any better.
Speaker 3: You know, there was a time in the NFL where
Speaker 3: a coach like a Bill Parcells would keep them all
Speaker 3: the way to a Thursday. You know, they would have
Speaker 3: they'd come in, they would work on stuff, they would
Speaker 3: work on self scouting stuff, they might practice, they might
Speaker 3: have a walked through, they might and then on a
Speaker 3: Thursday or Friday he would let them go and then
Speaker 3: they have to come back the following Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, but I just kind of feel like though
Speaker 3: with the collective bargaining, it's good to get away from
Speaker 3: it now. But man, if you were if you were
Speaker 3: six and oher right now, you want to keep playing
Speaker 3: because you just you've built that that momentum that.
Speaker 8: Routine, I think what would also help fight against rust
Speaker 8: because even though with the CBA you have to sit
Speaker 8: out X number of days, but when you look at
Speaker 8: the individual players and what they choose to do, Like oh,
Speaker 8: so Dickie Zuol, for example, he had defensive line coach eight,
Speaker 8: and there they make him a tape of his first
Speaker 8: six games so that he could dive in and dissect
Speaker 8: and do film watching. And then you have players meeting
Speaker 8: with other players and doing like some backyard work. Maybe
Speaker 8: they're sitting down dissecting film together. So these guys are
Speaker 8: still working as individuals, they just can't come together in
Speaker 8: the facility and work over those days.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it is interesting to me because Ambro, I
Speaker 7: kind of agree with you from the standpoint of I think,
Speaker 7: even though I think the mental break is a good thing,
Speaker 7: I do believe this week is probably a little harder
Speaker 7: because it with anything. And I'm like you guys know,
Speaker 7: I'm an amateur runner. I love to run. I trained
Speaker 7: for races, and for me, I've noticed that if I'm
Speaker 7: in a groove, no matter how I'm feeling, even if
Speaker 7: my body is beat up, staying in that groove keeps
Speaker 7: me going. The moment I break my routine is the
Speaker 7: moment it's yeah, at the moment it gets harder, it's
Speaker 7: done harder, You're.
Speaker 9: Done the moment you buy it a piece of cake or.
Speaker 8: That.
Speaker 7: But it's that, like I really believe mentally, when you
Speaker 7: get out of the routine, it takes a little bit
Speaker 7: more to get yourself back into it. And that's the
Speaker 7: part where you know, I wonder, again you have to
Speaker 7: be disciplined to be able to do that, and I
Speaker 7: do wonder. You know how well they adapt to that.
Speaker 7: It looks like in past years we've seen them do
Speaker 7: pretty well with it. So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 10: But dude's a study that I forgot the exact amount
Speaker 10: of time. But let's say you're focused working right now,
Speaker 10: and then you walk up to me and distract me
Speaker 10: and I become distracted. It can take you like twenty
Speaker 10: seven minutes for you to actually get back into actually
Speaker 10: focusing and getting back into that group again. This is
Speaker 10: a very small scale compared to what your body's doing,
Speaker 10: but just something as small as a little period moment
Speaker 10: right there, it does take your body and your mental
Speaker 10: focus an x amount of time for you to get
Speaker 10: back into physically and mentally in a groove.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a you know, if you follow just professional
Speaker 3: sports in general, you look at what's happening in baseball
Speaker 3: right now. The teams like the Braves, the Dodgers, the Orioles,
Speaker 3: all teams that want and well over one hundred games
Speaker 3: they have time off. It's teams that were fighting to
Speaker 3: get into the playoffs, and all of a sudden, these
Speaker 3: teams get knocked off, you know. And you know, and
Speaker 3: clearly those teams I talked about have better. You know,
Speaker 3: look at the teams that have, like the Giants and
Speaker 3: the way they've won super Bowls in the playoffs and
Speaker 3: they just had to play four games on the road.
Speaker 3: They just kept playing, you know. And I think there's
Speaker 3: something too that I think players they they want the routine.
Speaker 3: They want to know every day what they're going to do,
Speaker 3: and they want it mapped out for him. And sometimes
Speaker 3: taking a step back. We've seen like with with with
Speaker 3: Romo and Whitten and the Cabo thing and how that
Speaker 3: kind of that became a huge story, get a huge
Speaker 3: story for a team that was thirteen and three and
Speaker 3: had the number one seed in football that year and
Speaker 3: in the NFC. So there's something to it, there's something
Speaker 3: to getting away from it, but there is that struggle
Speaker 3: of can you regain what you had before you took
Speaker 3: that break.
Speaker 8: It's like, in a while, I'm going to sound like
Speaker 8: McArthur and this one's just like anything. It's just like anything, right,
Speaker 8: It's balance. It's about balance because I hate when people say,
Speaker 8: you know, there's no such thing as momentum.
Speaker 5: Momentum is a very real it is a very real,
Speaker 5: freaking thing.
Speaker 8: But while that's true, it's also true you have to
Speaker 8: have the self discipline and understand that. For example, you
Speaker 8: as a runner, you're in your momentum, you're in mile
Speaker 8: three and you're going, and you're going, and you're going,
Speaker 8: and you don't want to break stride because it becomes
Speaker 8: harder to regain stride when you break it. That's true,
Speaker 8: but you also know that eventually, either you're going to
Speaker 8: choose to break the stride at this particular state, strategic
Speaker 8: point in your run so that the back half of
Speaker 8: the run can be strong, or your body's going to
Speaker 8: force you to.
Speaker 2: Actually that's the opposite for me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, from the moment I started training to run long distances,
Speaker 7: what I always told myself is if I start a run,
Speaker 7: I don't stop until the run is done.
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't stop until the run is here.
Speaker 7: So and so from that standpoint, if I wake up
Speaker 7: that morning and that's a morning where I gotta do
Speaker 7: thirteen miles, guess what. From the beginning until thirteen point
Speaker 7: one one miles are done, I am running. I don't
Speaker 7: stop because of what you just said, because it is
Speaker 7: so much harder if you get to about eight and
Speaker 7: you stop and walk for a little bit, it's much
Speaker 7: harder to get your body back going to finish those
Speaker 7: last five.
Speaker 8: So fair, So let's qualify the stop define stop, right,
Speaker 8: Because if you look at it from the aspect of
Speaker 8: let's say a marathon, the marathon runner, right, the marathons,
Speaker 8: marathon runners don't typically stop as much as they keep
Speaker 8: going and then they might slow so they are going
Speaker 8: the moment, right, So it's not necessarily a stop as
Speaker 8: much as it is a slow down.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 8: So in that capacity, I understand what you're saying. So
Speaker 8: if you qualify that or equate that to a guy
Speaker 8: like oh, so, for example, he knows he can't come
Speaker 8: in the building these four days, but instead of stopping
Speaker 8: and being at home and saying, yeah, well, I'm just
Speaker 8: going to completely detach. He says, give me film, let
Speaker 8: me do this. Maybe he calls Tank and says, hey,
Speaker 8: let's meet up and talk about some things. So physically
Speaker 8: they were forced to stop. Mentally, you're still going.
Speaker 2: I can rest my body, corn keeps going.
Speaker 5: So maybe it's not a hard stop. Maybe it's a yield. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The one thing I learned, and I've been very fortunate,
Speaker 3: I've run five marathons in my life, completed five marathon.
Speaker 5: How do you guys do it? I'm a sprinter. I
Speaker 5: can't do all of it.
Speaker 2: But the way I got to plan.
Speaker 3: So the one thing I learned about marathon running is
Speaker 3: you manage problems the whole time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: There's problems at mile eight there's problems at mile twelve,
Speaker 3: there's problems at mile sixteen, there's big problems at mile eighteen,
Speaker 3: and now you're getting to twenty one and there's even
Speaker 3: huge problems because you look, there's a problem. There's blood
Speaker 3: all in your shoe, right, you know, and and your
Speaker 3: side feels like it's ripped off because your wet clothes
Speaker 3: are rubbing on you, you know, you manage problems the whole way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that's and that's that's really what a season is
Speaker 3: out here. Basically you've managed problems the whole way, you know.
Speaker 7: And so yeah, honestly, it's the reason why I like
Speaker 7: the do Long diestn't running.
Speaker 3: It because it is.
Speaker 7: It is a cosmic football from the standpoint of it
Speaker 7: is a challenge to physically and mentally push yourself beyond.
Speaker 3: You have to trick yourself to run, you do. You
Speaker 3: have to trick yourself.
Speaker 8: I give you guys a lot of credit because I
Speaker 8: was a sprinter coming up through high school and into college,
Speaker 8: and my whole mindset is you it's one hundred you
Speaker 8: one hundred miles an hour, right, and then you got
Speaker 8: to stop because you just burned all of that, and
Speaker 8: then you gotta stop and you recover, and then you
Speaker 8: go and do it again, and you go and do
Speaker 8: it again, and that's how you do track me.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, just two different trains of thought.
Speaker 10: I heard that there's such thing as certain parts of
Speaker 10: your chest area bleeding. Yeah, that I've never experienced that
Speaker 10: because I don't run like that, no, thank you.
Speaker 9: I would die on the frow. But Once I heard that,
Speaker 9: I said.
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Speaker 7: Let's talk about the Dallas defense versus the Rams offense.
Speaker 3: Briant, we did that yesterday. Let's talk about the Rams defense.
Speaker 7: I say it wrong. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry I said
Speaker 7: it wrong. Yes, their defense versus did a.
Speaker 3: Great job of breaking it wrong to rush.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we did it. We did it in blocks so
Speaker 9: we can.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and we did so why don't you tell
Speaker 2: me how we're doing it?
Speaker 3: Amber go for it.
Speaker 2: Let's go for it.
Speaker 9: Start started for group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna play a three three four
Speaker 3: front here, and that their base defenses is really that.
Speaker 3: But that's something that they're They played quite a bit
Speaker 3: of nickel too. That's really big for them because but
Speaker 3: the way the Cowboys play their eleven personnel stuff, the
Speaker 3: Rams are gonna match you that way. So get ready
Speaker 3: for a lot of nickel in this game. I will
Speaker 3: say this about this team, about the Rams they've got
Speaker 3: we all talk about and focus on Aaron Donell. This
Speaker 3: team has a good group of secondary. They've got some
Speaker 3: guys in the secondary that can cover. And then Aquila
Speaker 3: Witherspoon and is you know, he is really really really
Speaker 3: good at his job. And then Darren Kendrick the other one,
Speaker 3: the other corner that plays, and I'll start with them
Speaker 3: just because I think like the Dallas will want to
Speaker 3: try and throw the ball in this game. I think
Speaker 3: they will. But the matchup might not be as favorable
Speaker 3: against the two corners as it is attacking their nickel.
Speaker 3: Kobe Durant is their nickel. But when you look at
Speaker 3: Witherspoon and the way that the way and him and
Speaker 3: Kendrick in the way they play, they teams are completing
Speaker 3: like fifty of their passes against. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: really a coin flip whether you're going to get a
Speaker 3: completion against these guys. The Cowboys have played against some
Speaker 3: corners that have given them space, have given them opportunity.
Speaker 3: These guys are two of the top in the league
Speaker 3: when it comes to not allowing you to catch the
Speaker 3: football on them, but their nickels a little bit different
Speaker 3: in that way. So if the Cowboys matchup, maybe this
Speaker 3: is one of those things where if you want to
Speaker 3: put Lamb in the slot, try and run him off
Speaker 3: Durant a little bit because his ability to give up plays.
Speaker 3: You could see the others the corners, it's not this
Speaker 3: team's only given up four touchdown passes and you know,
Speaker 3: and they've got a couple of interceptions to their credit.
Speaker 3: Quarterback rating is not very good against either one of
Speaker 3: these guys. So you've got to be ready for And
Speaker 3: I think the problem until like a guy like Witherspoon
Speaker 3: is that he is extremely long. He's a long, tall guy.
Speaker 3: He a veteran guy. He's gonna line up on the
Speaker 3: left side, so that'll be your that'll be your offensive
Speaker 3: right side, but he primarily plays the left. Cornerback Kendrick
Speaker 3: is on the other side. Now, they'll flop, but they'll
Speaker 3: flop in a way, not because they're caring or traveling.
Speaker 3: They just for some reason they just try and give
Speaker 3: you a little bit of a different look. But for
Speaker 3: the majority of time, it's gonna be left and right
Speaker 3: in this game. And I just kind of feel like,
Speaker 3: though you have to this will be a tough matchup
Speaker 3: on the outside for these for these Cowboys wide receivers.
Speaker 3: You know, with Dak, you gotta be careful about you
Speaker 3: know where you're gonna throw the ball. If you're gonna
Speaker 3: be late, don't do that because these guys will find
Speaker 3: a way to drive on the football and make it
Speaker 3: and make it happen. So I'm I'm giving they a
Speaker 3: strong keep an eye on to the cornerbacks for the
Speaker 3: Rams in this game. Now got to keep an eye
Speaker 3: on Aaron Donald. We all know Aaron Aaron Donald. I
Speaker 3: don't know what I could say about Aaron Donald that
Speaker 3: already hasn't been saying.
Speaker 10: Said before you move into him with the defensive bags,
Speaker 10: do you happen to know how well they cover in
Speaker 10: the red zone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that's the they They'll only give it
Speaker 3: up four touchdown passes overall. So yeah, I mean you
Speaker 3: teams are struggling to throw the ball whether they're infield
Speaker 3: or in the red zone, no matter where they're at.
Speaker 3: These corners, I I the Cowboys have played some good corners.
Speaker 3: I think these two might be the best ones that
Speaker 3: they've played against, right, And I know what we went
Speaker 3: through San Francisco and what they were able to do.
Speaker 3: We felt like that San Francisco would give up some
Speaker 3: San Francisco's corners played great against you. But these guys
Speaker 3: I think offer a different challenge. And and so you know,
Speaker 3: I just like I say, be mindful if you're throwing
Speaker 3: the ball on the outside there.
Speaker 7: With regard to that, are they are they the kind
Speaker 7: of corners that are going to come up press you.
Speaker 3: Are They play a ton of zone, play a ton
Speaker 3: of zone. This is zone. Yeah, this is a zone team.
Speaker 3: And what they do is they try and funnel things
Speaker 3: to the inside. But if they feel like they can,
Speaker 3: you know, when you come up on them, they're good
Speaker 3: at turning and then going with you, or driving or
Speaker 3: going downhill where you try and take them on the
Speaker 3: out undercut underneath. The movement of both these guys are
Speaker 3: are is really good. You know, It's not like, okay,
Speaker 3: you're having the like labor. As they're coming out of
Speaker 3: the break, they're gonna be a little late. They're going
Speaker 3: to drive on the football and try and defend it.
Speaker 3: Or they can stay with you when stay once you
Speaker 3: get into their area and they carry you in the zone,
Speaker 3: they're able to stay with you. So that's again, keep
Speaker 3: your eye on, you know, how the Cowboys match up.
Speaker 3: I think going against the slot might be the best
Speaker 3: avenue if you're going to throw the football on that
Speaker 3: moves CD inside and we all kind of like where
Speaker 3: that goes with CD. We know all know, like I say,
Speaker 3: we all know about Aaron Donald and his ability what okay,
Speaker 3: Donald plays what we call that under tackle, the three technique,
Speaker 3: the outside shoulder, but he plays it really wide. He's
Speaker 3: he's almost like he's playing, you know, a gap over.
Speaker 3: We talk about a three technique as being on the
Speaker 3: outside shoulder. He's almost a four where it's a little
Speaker 3: bit further out. So all of a sudden you're thinking, like, well,
Speaker 3: he's tight right there. You can maybe double team. No,
Speaker 3: they keep him a little wider so he doesn't get
Speaker 3: double team, but teams try. He gets your watch games
Speaker 3: where he gets double team, triple team, and then everybody
Speaker 3: else around him is you know, having to try and
Speaker 3: and and make plays. But they've they've got the ability
Speaker 3: with with some of their guys, uh to make that happen.
Speaker 3: They he's only got two and a half sacks. But
Speaker 3: what they they're still doing with him is they like
Speaker 3: to move him around as far as the left, the right.
Speaker 3: They like to play him in the twist games.
Speaker 2: They put him an end to Yeah, they play.
Speaker 3: Him yeah with the that they absolutely do. So they've
Speaker 3: they've got they've got plans to how to to use
Speaker 3: him in a way that you don't just get a
Speaker 3: complete bead on how he's gonna play uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean you gotta you gotta know they're gonna say, well, hey,
Speaker 3: you know you're going to slide your line this way
Speaker 3: and this that they try and move him around so
Speaker 3: that it kind of messes with with your protection in
Speaker 3: that way. Byron Young is a rookie that they have
Speaker 3: and he wears numbered zero, so he's easy to find
Speaker 3: on the field. But he's a rookie from Tennessee and
Speaker 3: when he was at He's he's listed like as an
Speaker 3: outside linebacker, but he's really an edge rusher, and and
Speaker 3: the way he plays at Tennessee, he was a stand
Speaker 3: up guy, put his hand down, So he's really really
Speaker 3: kind of comfortable for this position that they play him in,
Speaker 3: that edge rusher. He is one of those guys that's
Speaker 3: got excellent lateral legility. He can flatten the corner quickly.
Speaker 3: He leads the team in sacks. He's got a burst
Speaker 3: in space, he get quarterback, hits her big. He's always
Speaker 3: in that pocket area. So now you're dealing with Aaron
Speaker 3: Donell on the inside and then you got Byron Young
Speaker 3: on the outside. So he's the guy that kind of
Speaker 3: when they when when there's disruption inside, well, here comes
Speaker 3: that guy off the edge. They also have another linebacker
Speaker 3: named Michael Hoyt that plays and he's kind of he's
Speaker 3: the opposite of Young in the scheme, and he's a
Speaker 3: guy that is kind of a relentless pass rush guy
Speaker 3: that he will bring pressure. He's not as athletic as Young,
Speaker 3: but it's one of those and you hate to say
Speaker 3: he's like this, the guy that's the relentless, tryhard but
Speaker 3: has some game to him. It's just not just run
Speaker 3: up the field and he you know, he makes plays.
Speaker 3: He's got some movement to him. So they've got legitimate
Speaker 3: rushers in on their on their on their defensive line,
Speaker 3: and they've got when you look at their linebackers, it's
Speaker 3: really not a dynamic group. But Ernest Jones, the linebacker
Speaker 3: is there. He's the best one of the two. Christian
Speaker 3: Rosenboom is the other one, and he's a I think
Speaker 3: with Jones, he is a downhill player. He's kind of
Speaker 3: a sidelined the sideline. He's physical with his hands. You
Speaker 3: could target him though, and there's some people that have
Speaker 3: thrown the ball when his guy when he's had to
Speaker 3: be in coverage. It's kind of a fifty to fifty
Speaker 3: thing with him. But he's but he's he's he's given
Speaker 3: up some plays when you're targeting. Rosenboom is the guy
Speaker 3: on the other side that they that they put in
Speaker 3: coverage more and they allow Ernest Jones to kind of
Speaker 3: play in the box a little bit. Rosen Boom is
Speaker 3: the guy that covers. He's got an interception and a
Speaker 3: couple of pass breakups. So it's a defense that has
Speaker 3: good couple of good corners attack the nickel, a good
Speaker 3: inside linebacker in Jones, and then you have to deal
Speaker 3: with with the pass rush that they're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 3: give you from three different guys, with Aaron Donald being
Speaker 3: the best of the three, and Young as the rookie guy,
Speaker 3: has shown some promise for them.
Speaker 5: As it goes protect up front. It starts there.
Speaker 8: But what's promising for the Cowboys is as as solid
Speaker 8: or better than solid as the cornerbacks are for the
Speaker 8: Los Angeles Rams. We kind of touched on it a
Speaker 8: few minutes ago. The fact that they lean so heavily
Speaker 8: on zone coverage versus press man. They're not trying to
Speaker 8: get up and disrupt the time in and get physical
Speaker 8: with your wide receivers.
Speaker 5: They're gonna they're putting it on you to.
Speaker 8: Find the holes in that defense, and the Jets weren't.
Speaker 8: For contrast, the Jets ran zone or run zone seventy
Speaker 8: one seventy two percent of the time. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 8: Ceedee Lamb racked up over one hundred and forty yards
Speaker 8: against that defense. The Rams run it seventy seven percent
Speaker 8: of the time. The opportunities will be there for Dak
Speaker 8: Prescott to hit these receivers, particularly guys like maybe get
Speaker 8: Brandon Cooks going, get him sitting down in some of
Speaker 8: those holes, get him in space so he can get
Speaker 8: some Yak as well. It's going to be a good
Speaker 8: opportunity to get Jake Ferguson involved, get him sitting down
Speaker 8: in some of those zone holes. So the opportunities will
Speaker 8: be there. Cowboys just need to make sure that they
Speaker 8: exploit them when they happen, and that'll start to soften
Speaker 8: those guys up that much more. And to Brian's point,
Speaker 8: Ernest Jones, You're gonna hear that name a lot. He's
Speaker 8: just he's a tackling machine. He really is a tackling machine.
Speaker 8: This guy has sixty seven tackles in through seven games,
Speaker 8: averaging almost ten tackles a game. That's somebody that gets
Speaker 8: the job done. He doesn't miss tackles. When he gets
Speaker 8: his hands on you, more often than not, you're going
Speaker 8: to the ground. So that's something to keep in mind
Speaker 8: on as well. The playmakers are going to have to
Speaker 8: make plays for the Cowboys. Be slippery when you get
Speaker 8: the ball in your hands.
Speaker 9: All right, we're going to Well I wanted to ask.
Speaker 10: I don't know if you said this, Brian, and I
Speaker 10: just missed it, but how well do they defend the run?
Speaker 10: Is this a game where maybe the running game for
Speaker 10: the Cowboys can be a little bit more.
Speaker 3: What you're gonna get with with these guys is they
Speaker 3: play with a slant front. And when I say slant front,
Speaker 3: it's where they'll take their guys and they really it's
Speaker 3: kind of predicated off trying to keep you know, keep
Speaker 3: their defensive lineman moving. They're gonna attack gaps is what
Speaker 3: they're going to So you'll see him slant and then
Speaker 3: bring somebody maybe the safety or a linebacker down on
Speaker 3: the other side. So they're trying they're trying to cover
Speaker 3: all their gaps and with Jones the linebacker, He's gonna
Speaker 3: scrape that and then find way to get in on
Speaker 3: the play. I feel like that though, the thing that
Speaker 3: the real problem for the Cowboys in this game could
Speaker 3: be the movement of that front, you know, because we've
Speaker 3: seen where when teams twist on Dallas, they tend to
Speaker 3: lose guys in passing. But if you move in there
Speaker 3: and and say they're trying to you know there there
Speaker 3: there are a lot of combo blocks that they're trying
Speaker 3: to do. So all of a sudden, either they're gonna
Speaker 3: run themselves into into the into making a play, or
Speaker 3: they're gonna run themselves out of making a play. So
Speaker 3: the Cowboy just if they if you see a couple
Speaker 3: of runs that hit, it's probably because the Rams ran
Speaker 3: themselves out of you know, the Cowboys got it okay
Speaker 3: down in distance tendency. Do they slant the front to
Speaker 3: the strong side where the you know, the strength of
Speaker 3: the Cowboy offenses, or are they going to try and
Speaker 3: say do the Cowboys say well, we'll run the ball
Speaker 3: back the opposite way of our strength and take advantage
Speaker 3: of maybe them running themselves out of play. But I
Speaker 3: feel like with their their their down linemen that that
Speaker 3: linebackers can make plays as far as the Jones I
Speaker 3: mentioned him. But you got guys, like I say, up
Speaker 3: front that playoff blocks well on the move and then
Speaker 3: can play those gaps. It's a matter of them just
Speaker 3: kind of seeing if they could widen. These guys and
Speaker 3: the teams have had not a whole heck of a
Speaker 3: lot of success when it comes to run I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a time when the Rams were really really bad
Speaker 3: playing run defense. I don't think this is one of
Speaker 3: those times.
Speaker 8: They're definitely solid, But it's kind of a wash when
Speaker 8: you look at it from how the Cowboys are trained
Speaker 8: in the run game versus how the Rams are treating
Speaker 8: to run defense. Because right now the Rams are training,
Speaker 8: I think they're allowing like just over four yards per carry,
Speaker 8: where the Cowboys are getting just under four yards per carry.
Speaker 8: So I mean, it's not a situation where I expect
Speaker 8: that suddenly the Rams are going to shut down what
Speaker 8: the Cowboys have been doing. I think that's kind of
Speaker 8: a wash. And then the only thing that comes to
Speaker 8: question is, yeah, how does it balance out? And then
Speaker 8: you look at the return of Jeff Blasco as the
Speaker 8: run game coordinator like, maybe that's the edge that turns
Speaker 8: that four yards per game to four and a half
Speaker 8: or four point seven something like that. But I mean
Speaker 8: the Rams are pretty solid. They've only allowed nine rushing
Speaker 8: touchdowns through their seven games.
Speaker 5: Is that's a.
Speaker 8: Strong number, But so theyve been don't break because they're
Speaker 8: also averaging as far as allowing yards on the ground
Speaker 8: one hundred and seventeen per game. So there are opportunities there.
Speaker 8: Cowboys are going to have to turn those opportunities maybe
Speaker 8: into one or two home run balls.
Speaker 7: We're going to take our final break when we come back.
Speaker 7: We've heard all the things that they do really well.
Speaker 7: My question will be what is their vulnerability. Where is
Speaker 7: the area that Dallas has to attack and has to
Speaker 7: attack effectively in order to get this win. We'll do
Speaker 7: that when we come back, Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.
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Speaker 7: Welcome back n final segment of the break here and
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Speaker 7: Wrote, welcome back the final segment.
Speaker 2: We are going to finish this thing off strong.
Speaker 7: We're talking the Cowboys offense versus the Rams defense. We've
Speaker 7: talked about a lot of things that the Rams do
Speaker 7: well offensively, but this is a team that still is
Speaker 7: a five hundred is team that being said, where are
Speaker 7: they vulnerable?
Speaker 2: Where is the vulnerable?
Speaker 3: Oh, where's the defense? Or there?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, where's the now? Where's the Rams defense vulnerable?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll get this straight one of these days, Derek,
Speaker 3: I promise you I will. You know, to me, I
Speaker 3: talked about the nickel in the corner of the nickel
Speaker 3: corner there with throwing the football, and Patrick's right about
Speaker 3: the zone coverage. We'll see if Dak kid, Dak usually
Speaker 3: is pretty good against teams that will play zone coverage.
Speaker 3: You know, teams that the thing that the thing I
Speaker 3: can say, I worry about the twisting of the front
Speaker 3: and pass rush stuff and trying to get Aaron Donald free.
Speaker 3: You pick that up and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: now are the opportunities down the field? Are there opportunities
Speaker 3: in the zone coverage. I just feel like that that
Speaker 3: Nickel spot, that's the one area that that to me,
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, if we could go for something, sure,
Speaker 3: you know the on the you know, we'll you kind
Speaker 3: of kind of navigate that a little bit. You put
Speaker 3: your best player on a player that's not their best player.
Speaker 3: That's just the matchups that that that I look at
Speaker 3: right there, I think running the football, like Ambar asked earlier, though,
Speaker 3: can you can you determine Uh, okay, they're gonna you
Speaker 3: feel like they're gonna slant. Can we run the play
Speaker 3: this way? Or are you're gonna be able to pop
Speaker 3: some runs if they just slant them slant themselves out
Speaker 3: of a play or out of a front. Now there's
Speaker 3: gonna probably be a run or two where they're gonna
Speaker 3: guess right with you and then they're gonna make a play.
Speaker 3: That's you know, they're as Stephen Jones like to say,
Speaker 3: they're getting paid to to do this stuff. But I
Speaker 3: feel like that if you catch them on the slant,
Speaker 3: that could be a problem for him. If you catch
Speaker 3: them in the nickel, which we're gonna which they're gonna
Speaker 3: see a lot in this game, that'll be a problem
Speaker 3: for him as well as two are as I would
Speaker 3: kind of look at.
Speaker 8: For me, it's they don't do well at turning the
Speaker 8: ball over and they don't do well at taking the
Speaker 8: ball away. They only have three interceptions, of two of
Speaker 8: which to a dB one is Christian Rosenboom linebacker. The
Speaker 8: other cornerbacks other defensive backs haven't gotten a takeaway. They
Speaker 8: have only four forced fumbles on defense and they've only
Speaker 8: recovered two of those. So maybe this is a game
Speaker 8: where the Cowboys get a little bit more frisky as
Speaker 8: far as the risk mitigation is concerned on offense, because
Speaker 8: bottom line is the Rams for a solid as a
Speaker 8: defense as they are, they just don't do well at
Speaker 8: taking the ball away and giving Matthew Stafford in an
Speaker 8: offense additional opportunity. So that's something to consider a few
Speaker 8: the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I was looking at the We were talking earlier about
Speaker 7: the slot and what you can do against their nickel corner.
Speaker 7: How much does Dallas use Brandon Cooks in the slot,
Speaker 7: and should they be doing that even more, it is
Speaker 7: something that he has in his repertoire, right, do you
Speaker 7: think that could help this offense and help them get
Speaker 7: him more involved in the offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think there's an I think that you
Speaker 3: could play you play Cooks at any spot you really
Speaker 3: want to me that. You know, when he with his quickness,
Speaker 3: I think he's the best route runer in my opinion,
Speaker 3: I think he's the best route runner you have. He
Speaker 3: is on this team. So if you put him in
Speaker 3: the slot, and we always say this about slot players,
Speaker 3: they have the whole field to at their disposal to
Speaker 3: run routes. And so if you put somebody like that
Speaker 3: who is a great route runner, you put him in there,
Speaker 3: let him use the whole field. You're probably gonna be
Speaker 3: able to take advantage of that. You know, I'll say
Speaker 3: this about Durant. He does have quickness. He is you know,
Speaker 3: he is a quick footed guy. So but the problem
Speaker 3: is though he he's a slightly built guy, so he
Speaker 3: when you put somebody on him that's got a little
Speaker 3: size to him, that's a problem to him. So that's
Speaker 3: why I kind of felt like with Lamb and not
Speaker 3: that Lamb is you know, makes you feel like he's
Speaker 3: one of those Eagles receivers or something like that. But
Speaker 3: he's one of those guys that Lamb as at least
Speaker 3: got some you know, length to him and then his
Speaker 3: ability to to to kind of to make those quick catch.
Speaker 3: We've seen Lamb plenty of times running those crossing routes
Speaker 3: and stuff, catching the ball on the move and work
Speaker 3: in the middle of the field. So I just kind
Speaker 3: of feel like if you use either one of those
Speaker 3: Cooks or Lamb and you're gonna have an opportunity to
Speaker 3: make some plays one.
Speaker 5: Hundred and anything. To your point, Derek, or to your.
Speaker 8: Question, anything that helps get additional touches to Brandon Cook's
Speaker 8: can only help the Cowboys offense finally get a rhythm.
Speaker 8: That can only be a positive thing. So whether you're
Speaker 8: doing it at X y Z, wherever you put him at,
Speaker 8: just make sure you make it effective. But yeah, I
Speaker 8: would like to see more of that work on the
Speaker 8: inside at slot. And that's not to take away from
Speaker 8: what I would like to see as far as them
Speaker 8: continuing to use Cavante Turpin in that role as well.
Speaker 8: But if we're talking, I mean there are levels to
Speaker 8: this right, you need to get Brandon Cooks absolutely going,
Speaker 8: not only for this week, but for the long run
Speaker 8: and the remainder of the season. Turpin's going to get
Speaker 8: his touches, and he's shown that he can be efficient
Speaker 8: and producing when he does. But let last week or
Speaker 8: a couple of weeks ago against the Chargers be kind
Speaker 8: of the flare that goes up and says, hey, Brandon
Speaker 8: Cooks has arrived in this offense, and build on that
Speaker 8: as far as consistency is concerned, so that you know,
Speaker 8: opposing teams really have to try to q in on
Speaker 8: him as well, because as it stands, they just know
Speaker 8: that they can q in on Cdland because Cooks hasn't
Speaker 8: been involved as much as we would all have liked
Speaker 8: to see it. Let that be, you know, the start
Speaker 8: of that change having been in Los Angeles. Let's continue that.
Speaker 8: Let's ramp that up against the Rams.
Speaker 9: Think I mean, sorry, I'm completely distracted.
Speaker 10: I went because I went to look just kind of
Speaker 10: all the games they've played so far in the final
Speaker 10: score and the stats in each of those. And you know,
Speaker 10: when you look up certain stats, how they have it
Speaker 10: is in group by division. So of course NFC West.
Speaker 10: The Cardinals are in there too, and I just happened
Speaker 10: to see there's the record right now.
Speaker 9: One in six. I'm like, that is so freaking.
Speaker 10: Annoying that the one law, that, the one law, the
Speaker 10: one win for them had to come football the Cowboys
Speaker 10: freaking annoyance.
Speaker 9: But yeah, that strikes and pissed me off.
Speaker 7: That's the thing about early NFL season, man, It's it's
Speaker 7: like you can catch teams with some stuff and get
Speaker 7: them Like they had a game plan for the Cowboys
Speaker 7: that was very, very effective, and I would I would
Speaker 7: venture to say, I don't know this for a fact,
Speaker 7: but I would venture to say if the Cowboys played
Speaker 7: them in Week twelve, that same outcome probably doesn't happen.
Speaker 7: Because Dallas has seen more. Dallas seen more of what
Speaker 7: they do. They wouldn't have hit it all that seat
Speaker 7: all that, you know what I'm saying. There are ways
Speaker 7: that that all this stuff kind of washes itself out,
Speaker 7: and I think that's why in the NFL you see
Speaker 7: a lot of upsets.
Speaker 2: That's why it's not just the.
Speaker 7: Cowboys, a lot of teams around here around the NFL
Speaker 7: that have been upset here earlier in the season because
Speaker 7: It's just it's harder because you don't know exactly what
Speaker 7: teams are gonna do. Too.
Speaker 3: There are teams that play poor in certain cities. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there are teams that that don't match it. Well, they
Speaker 3: might match us in the desert, yeah, but there. I
Speaker 3: mean that the history of the Cowboys playing in Arizona
Speaker 3: is not a great one.
Speaker 2: Talk about spooky season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, trust me, it's in the desert. It's been. It's been.
Speaker 9: Playing at AT and T that used to it used.
Speaker 3: To not be a home field advantage for Dallas, and
Speaker 3: now they were.
Speaker 5: They flipped it.
Speaker 3: It's like I think they won ten straight games. There
Speaker 3: was a time early where playing at AT and T
Speaker 3: Stadium was not a home field advantage for Dallas when
Speaker 3: it first opened.
Speaker 5: Derek, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It wasn't.
Speaker 7: It wasn't nearly as loud as you would want your
Speaker 7: stadium to be when they first opened it. I think
Speaker 7: now fans have done a really good job here of
Speaker 7: the last few years of really creating that kind of environment.
Speaker 7: From credit to Corey Miller and his team as well.
Speaker 7: They do a lot of things to incite the crowd
Speaker 7: and get them going. But but yeah, I remember that
Speaker 7: Brian was. There was a lot of talk about that earlier,
Speaker 7: like a.
Speaker 3: Five hundred team. You were like a five hundred team
Speaker 3: playing at AT and T. And now, like I say,
Speaker 3: I think you won ten straight games.
Speaker 8: And I actually mentioned that in shameless plug for the
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Speaker 8: the Cowboys are fifteen science at home, nice fifteen and
Speaker 8: four at home since twenty twenty one, inclusive of that
Speaker 8: ten straight at AT and T Stadium. But you factor that
Speaker 8: into the fact that they've had a rough stretch as
Speaker 8: far as road.
Speaker 5: Games over the first six.
Speaker 8: Four of the first six we're at home or on
Speaker 8: the road, two of which were CALLI trips back to back.
Speaker 8: They only have one three game homestand that's to come
Speaker 8: in November. So when you look at how the second
Speaker 8: trimester shapes out its trimesters now based on like McCarthy's divisions,
Speaker 8: the second trimester includes a lot of home cooking for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys and they desperately needed. And you look at
Speaker 8: the record and how good they've been doing at home,
Speaker 8: that bodes well.
Speaker 7: Let's real quick, I want to hit one more topic.
Speaker 7: I think This will be the third game now that
Speaker 7: this starting offensive line will be playing together. I don't
Speaker 7: think any of us believe that they've hit their stride
Speaker 7: and are at a point where they've jailed. How much
Speaker 7: time do you think, legitimately it should take for this
Speaker 7: offensive line, because I think we all agree, man to
Speaker 7: if you go down the line, you go.
Speaker 2: Man for man. They're good players.
Speaker 7: How long do you think it takes in the jail
Speaker 7: as a unit to get the production that we'd like
Speaker 7: to see out of them?
Speaker 8: I expect four games, four actual regular season games against
Speaker 8: good fronts, and they've had that forty nine Ers Chargers front.
Speaker 8: Aaron Donald is about to come to town. So four
Speaker 8: consecutive games, and now that you're healthy, there's no excuse
Speaker 8: after this particular game. There's no excuse for you to
Speaker 8: go into Philadelphia and still be working on continuity as
Speaker 8: far as this front five is concerned. So for me,
Speaker 8: that's a safe mark. Four games. I think anything shorter
Speaker 8: than that it's kind of premature, you know, inclusive of
Speaker 8: what were the injuries, who was in, who was out,
Speaker 8: four games in a row, continuity against strong fronts, they
Speaker 8: should be ready to go for Philadelphia this is not
Speaker 8: overlooking the Rams. I'm saying, including the rams going up
Speaker 8: against Aaron Donald. This is going to be game This
Speaker 8: is game three, So as you approach Game four with Philadelphia,
Speaker 8: you should be you should be right there ready to Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think that's the same time frame that I've heard
Speaker 10: Nate Newton talk.
Speaker 5: About big Nate Great, let's go big.
Speaker 10: Think that's the same time frame. I will say this. Yesterday,
Speaker 10: as I was walking to the locker room, I did
Speaker 10: notice that the line the offensive linemen were the last
Speaker 10: one I practiced, just working out hand movement, hand placement,
Speaker 10: all of that. As I'm walking and watching it, I'm like,
Speaker 10: you go get it, good job. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 10: That's the way to do it. No, but I was
Speaker 10: sending the good vibes and my signals.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I like it. That's why y'all need to do.
Speaker 9: So they are working together and working on it. So
Speaker 9: that's that's the most you can hope for, is for
Speaker 9: you to put the effort and work at it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this will be a good challenge for
Speaker 3: him this week with Aaron Donald and the and the
Speaker 3: way that with Young and the other guys and Hoyt
Speaker 3: the guys we mentioned that could potentially rest the passer.
Speaker 3: We won't see the twist games and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a whole different animal when they
Speaker 3: play against Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: And if they go out there and flop around and
Speaker 3: struggle running the ball and don't pick up blitzes and
Speaker 3: you know, miss some assignments and the combination blocks aren't
Speaker 3: good enough, I'm gonna be really concerned going to Philadelphia
Speaker 3: because I feel like that will be the best front
Speaker 3: that you have played the NFL. I know that I
Speaker 3: know San Francisco, will you know, they'll tell you that
Speaker 3: their front is really good, and it is. It's it's outstanding,
Speaker 3: and but Philadelphia, I think offers a whole different package
Speaker 3: for you to have to deal with. So I need
Speaker 3: to see. I don't know if when you when you
Speaker 3: grade sixty five plays, you know you might see three
Speaker 3: bad plays. I don't need to see eight bad plays.
Speaker 3: I need to see two or three bad plays. That's
Speaker 3: all I need to see. If they haven't approved by then,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a I'm gonna I'm gonna really sound
Speaker 3: the alarm when by the time we get to that
Speaker 3: Philadelphia game, the following week because that that that is
Speaker 3: going to be so important for them to be able
Speaker 3: to win that football game, is to be able to
Speaker 3: control that front the best I can.
Speaker 2: That's a WROP. We appreciate you, guys, Jonius.
Speaker 5: We'll be back tomorrow.
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