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Speaker 1: writing a story at this very moment that'll be up
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Speaker 1: the story is. We'll have to ask him whenever he
Speaker 1: comes in, but We've got plenty to react to. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones just hanging up with the fan a couple of
Speaker 1: moments ago, and he did drop some nuggets. Yeah he did,
Speaker 1: And he dropped a couple of nuggets for Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: out there, including one that we sort of tossed around
Speaker 1: yesterday was what is the option to replace Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: at right tackle? And we now know the current option now.
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, according to Jerry Jones, is now in the
Speaker 1: appeal process of his five game suspension that was handed
Speaker 1: down by the NFL. He is still not able to
Speaker 1: play this Sunday against the Los Angeles Chargers, so still
Speaker 1: no hope for him this week. However, the appeal process
Speaker 1: is underway and maybe that five games gets trimmed down
Speaker 1: a little bit, or even better than that, it's erased completely.
Speaker 1: So there's things here to think about, including who is
Speaker 1: going to be the backup well starting at right tackle
Speaker 1: on Sunday. It'll be second year undrafted free agent out
Speaker 1: of Texas Tech Terrence Steele. He will be your right
Speaker 1: tackle on Sunday. Reaction reaction, Okay, well, I mean you
Speaker 1: know there's a reaction, and I think this team desperately
Speaker 1: needed to find a swing tackle solution during training camp.
Speaker 1: That came away with saying that Niseki and Steele were
Speaker 1: your answer, and that's what we have to go to
Speaker 1: war with, guys. I mean, look rarely the freaking troops. Huh,
Speaker 1: it's just what you gotta do. If you have to
Speaker 1: learn the serenity prayers, God given serenities, something things I
Speaker 1: cannot change, courage to change the things I can incourage
Speaker 1: to know the difference. How this is the courage to
Speaker 1: know the difference? Well, hey, whatever, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you have to accept the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, we're in a situation with Leo Collins where
Speaker 1: he's not going to be in the game. He can't
Speaker 1: play through an appeal. They're going to make it. It's
Speaker 1: uncomfortable for I mean, we're not gonna get much information
Speaker 1: on this whole thing. It's a five game suspension. We
Speaker 1: have to go forward. There's nothing else to it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Got roll with what you have, right, That's where we
Speaker 1: got Terrence still coming in here, still got to find
Speaker 1: a way to stop that bossa boy and the rest
Speaker 1: of his crew. And this is what we got. They'll
Speaker 1: put up together a game plan. Now, again, I want
Speaker 1: to remind everybody that even if we had Lyole Collins,
Speaker 1: they we were going to have our hands full with
Speaker 1: this guy on the defensive end, so um well, that
Speaker 1: we were going to give help regardless. He was going
Speaker 1: to have assistance, whether it's Collins, whether it's Still, whether
Speaker 1: it's n Sag. Oh my goodness, everybody, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we Rob Phillips, Rob, Hello, continue with your point though,
Speaker 1: before we get to Yeah, I mean, I mean, I
Speaker 1: was just I was just amazed by how swollen he is.
Speaker 1: He has a zip down because pretty impressive Jesus medium.
Speaker 1: Um no, But regardless of who was going to be
Speaker 1: playing our right tackle position, we were going to have
Speaker 1: to assist them. Right now. You might have to assist
Speaker 1: them more now because he's not a pro bowler out there. However,
Speaker 1: they were going to need some help. It's not just
Speaker 1: gonna sit that person on an island out there and
Speaker 1: just say hey, block bosall game. No, that's not gonna
Speaker 1: help you sleep at all at night when you say
Speaker 1: island and Bosa and tackle. So we are Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are you guys talking about talking about? Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm late. Actually is yeah, update us, well,
Speaker 1: you guys know what I know. I was a little surprised.
Speaker 1: It just came right out there, but he said, I mean,
Speaker 1: was it tongue? He said it so quickly that was yeah,
Speaker 1: there was no secret. And then most coaches don't play
Speaker 1: their hands. It's on a Tuesday, I think Jerry, I mean,
Speaker 1: you heard what he said about Terrence Steele. I think
Speaker 1: he wanted to come out and say, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence in this young guy. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: that's I think that was the message behind it, probably
Speaker 1: you know, and he gave us some insight you probably
Speaker 1: guys just talked about it, but why they're not moving
Speaker 1: Zach out there? So that's that was interesting. Kind of
Speaker 1: reiterate from the people that did well. They don't want
Speaker 1: to say it's kind of what Mike said all last year.
Speaker 1: A car don't want to have to switch two spots
Speaker 1: out of five. So I don't know, I guess the
Speaker 1: best five they like best. I know for a fact,
Speaker 1: best five is something they think holds water. But in
Speaker 1: this particular situation, they're willing to say, hey, we've got
Speaker 1: a young guy who started fourteen games last year. Titus
Speaker 1: Seki was on the injury report last week, but I
Speaker 1: think he was full by the end of the week,
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's that. I think maybe
Speaker 1: they just they liked this young guy, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens, you know. And that's that's kind of confusing
Speaker 1: to me because I guess if you're looking forward and
Speaker 1: you're you're saying, after Collins returns, the best five scenario
Speaker 1: of moving one position or two positions out to the
Speaker 1: right side, Sure that makes sense, because then you would
Speaker 1: have Martinet right garden. Then you have Collins at right tackle.
Speaker 1: But going if you look backwards to one week, the
Speaker 1: only thing you're switching is your right tackle because if
Speaker 1: you put Connor McGovern at the right guard spot, he
Speaker 1: played there a ton last year six six starts last year.
Speaker 1: Of course he started their week one. You would only
Speaker 1: switch out the right tackle and you would replace Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins with Zack Martin. So I don't know if the
Speaker 1: shuffling of the cards holds as much weight at this
Speaker 1: very moment as it did a year ago when it
Speaker 1: was a revolving door. Yeah, I don't disagree with you, However,
Speaker 1: you know you want you want your all prole that
Speaker 1: you have there. You know, you want to protect in
Speaker 1: your backside and you want to protect an inside you know.
Speaker 1: I if worst case scenarios say this Bolsa boy goes
Speaker 1: off right, he gets up the field, what can Dak
Speaker 1: always do step up? Right? However, if we're a little
Speaker 1: bit a little bit weaker on the inside than we
Speaker 1: are on the outside, you don't want pressure up up
Speaker 1: the middle, all right, So you prefer to have pressure
Speaker 1: on the outside. So I think that plays a part
Speaker 1: of it as well. If at least at least Dak
Speaker 1: has an escape in terms of stepping up, I don't
Speaker 1: think he wants to escape by getting out the pocket
Speaker 1: and running. He's gonna escape by stepping up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you guys that yesterday. What what's worse?
Speaker 1: Middle pressure or edge pressure? All day long, all day long,
Speaker 1: all day long. Because because I can say as a quart,
Speaker 1: as a quote unquote running quarterback, I would have outside
Speaker 1: pressure all the time. Teams would blitz me all the
Speaker 1: time thinking contain, contain, contain, when in reality I can
Speaker 1: make one move, get outside of them and be gone
Speaker 1: right and get to get to whatever kind of space
Speaker 1: I needed internal pressure. Ooh, that's rough because I can't
Speaker 1: step up. Your natural instinct as a quarterback is to
Speaker 1: step up in the pocket, right, So if you can't
Speaker 1: step up, now I'm trying to step away. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to step sideways and trying to find a gap between
Speaker 1: the de tackle and the defensive end. And a lot
Speaker 1: of times those guys can retract their steps and come
Speaker 1: back and get you right. So they can always go
Speaker 1: upfield and come back inside. Right, But when you when
Speaker 1: you have pressure coming from the inside, there's nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: Plus on the outside, you can chip, you can do
Speaker 1: all these other exact things and add basically sturrogate lineman
Speaker 1: on the outside to help twelve personnel, just like last week. Right,
Speaker 1: That's why I was so surprised by our twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys. I don't know how many players
Speaker 1: we have with those guys, but they showed up a ton, right,
Speaker 1: and Shoultz and Jarwin, those guys are in there a
Speaker 1: lot together. Yeah, I'll try and find that number for
Speaker 1: your chair in a second. But you're right, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to protect steel on the right side.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see a lot of twelve personnel, which is
Speaker 1: not the most entertaining form of offense whenever you have
Speaker 1: guys like this. But you're also missing Michael Gallop too,
Speaker 1: so it's not like you're taking a big time playmaker
Speaker 1: off the field this week specifically or in the weeks
Speaker 1: moving forward. So you have a little bit to play
Speaker 1: around with, and Callamore is going to have to certainly
Speaker 1: do that. Another thing that was addressed during the Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones interview on one oh five three the Fan was
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and his status as yesterday, as Zack Martin
Speaker 1: and Brandon Knight came off of the COVID nineteen list,
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory went on to it, and so Jerry, much
Speaker 1: like he was with Zach Martin last week, still very hopeful.
Speaker 1: Luckily they don't play Thursday, they play Sunday, and who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe if that were the case last week, Zack Martin
Speaker 1: might have played. But now he has the confidence that
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory could potentially go through that. What is the
Speaker 1: idea of getting him back like right now, rob and
Speaker 1: what would have to go right? The same thing as
Speaker 1: Zach last week, because he's vaccinated. It's those two negative
Speaker 1: tests twenty four hours apart, and then it depends on
Speaker 1: whether he's got symptoms. The reports yesterday were that he
Speaker 1: was asymptomatic. Jerry said, not severe symptoms or something. So
Speaker 1: it just depends. If he does have some symptoms, then
Speaker 1: he's got to be forty eight hours free of those.
Speaker 1: So this happening on Sunday or Monday, whenever it popped up.
Speaker 1: I think he's got a chance to get back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Zach, that was a pretty accelerated
Speaker 1: timeline last week. It was pretty quick, and he still
Speaker 1: wasn't able to get back. Unfortunately. However, he's back this week,
Speaker 1: which shows that he really didn't have a whole ton
Speaker 1: of struggle last week either outside of Randy Gregory. How
Speaker 1: do we feel about the edge rusher spot after last week?
Speaker 1: I mean, Doren's Armstrong made a play, Randy gregor excuse me,
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence of course forced to fumble. I mean
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of things there that were pretty
Speaker 1: good about the edge Rusher spots. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about it last weekend? Well, I mean I think that
Speaker 1: we've seen Doran's Armstrong take those strides through training camp
Speaker 1: in OTAs and he just seems to be a bigger,
Speaker 1: faster version of himself in and twenty one. I feel confident,
Speaker 1: and again back to the serenity prayer, there's nothing we
Speaker 1: can do about this. Everybody in the league is going
Speaker 1: to be dealing with this, and you hate to see
Speaker 1: I won't call it a healthy scratch, but just a
Speaker 1: guy that's due to a test asymptomatic. He could possibly
Speaker 1: play if he passes these two tests twenty four hours apart.
Speaker 1: I think as a franchise, we just have to have
Speaker 1: the mentality that we're just gonna go forward with what
Speaker 1: we have. And I think guys like Armstrong, I think
Speaker 1: Basham have shown you that they can be those rotational
Speaker 1: guys and Bradley and I He's so give these all
Speaker 1: of these guys an opportunity. And it's also Chauncey Gholston
Speaker 1: coming back as well. I think that if he's obviously
Speaker 1: active on game day, I think it gives you a
Speaker 1: little bit more confident with replacing the player in Gregory
Speaker 1: Armstrong during twenty seven snaps, which by the way, it
Speaker 1: was only ten snaps less than what Randy Gregory had.
Speaker 1: I mean Gregory had thirty seve Armstrong had twenty seven
Speaker 1: and they had the same amount of pressures. They had
Speaker 1: three hurries. Nobody got really close in terms of those
Speaker 1: two guys of a sack or anybody on a good
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay offensive line. But the fact that Armstrong had
Speaker 1: the equal amount of pressure, it's pretty impressive to see
Speaker 1: how he, like you said, has come into himself and
Speaker 1: kind of blossomed as an addresser. Rob Yeah, he has.
Speaker 1: And he was this close to a strip sack on
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, which how he held on to that ball
Speaker 1: is really beyond me. Yeah, I mean you could almost
Speaker 1: hear him hit that arm and the ball not come out.
Speaker 1: That's man, That's yeah, that's something. It was Jeff Heath
Speaker 1: against Aaron Rodgers in twenty six, Like, how in the
Speaker 1: hell did that not happen? But that would have been
Speaker 1: a nice feather in his cap. You're right, he had
Speaker 1: a great training camp dor instead, they just they need
Speaker 1: more pressure. Though, they need more pressure, and Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday. Some of that is Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what he does, Isaiah. He gets the
Speaker 1: ball out quick. But they were around him some, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they had some good rushes and I thought
Speaker 1: they used a lot of use everybody because of the
Speaker 1: humidity and the weather on Thursday night, But there were
Speaker 1: times where they just they didn't they didn't get there,
Speaker 1: you know. And then you're right, Kyle, that's a good
Speaker 1: offensive line in Tampa. They gotta they gotta affect Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert more than they did against Tampa. So and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to think of the way that people would line
Speaker 1: up against the Chargers. But guess who you would be
Speaker 1: going against if you're Dorn's Armstrong and later Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I like that matchup like that Later, I
Speaker 1: like that matchup. I definitely like it for Don's Armstrong.
Speaker 1: You did you see Rashawns later? Lest He's getting Ravens,
Speaker 1: isn't he? Dude? He shut down Chase Young, like shut
Speaker 1: him down. It was the first time Chase Young's been
Speaker 1: shut down since he was Okay, oh, guess what in
Speaker 1: college at Ohio State playing Northwestern against I know you,
Speaker 1: I know what you're doing. I'm telling you, I know
Speaker 1: what you're doing. And I don't want to be a part.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a part of the gotcha question?
Speaker 1: And I told you so, I'm not doing that yet.
Speaker 1: Want to want to do over on the draft. I'm
Speaker 1: not see what he's doing, and I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let you do that to me. So what do
Speaker 1: you want? What do you want? What you got? I'm
Speaker 1: very impressed with restaurans later and I always have been,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to do that yet. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll save that for later on if that needs to be. However,
Speaker 1: he looks really good, and whoever's going up against him,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough task. Now. The rest of
Speaker 1: that offensive line, which has been completely redone from the
Speaker 1: charger standpoint, is vulnerable. So I think it allows a
Speaker 1: guy like DeMarcus Lawrence to maybe have a big game
Speaker 1: coming up Sunday. He's gonna need he's gonna need it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna have to get some pressure. I
Speaker 1: mean the thing is get home. If we're going on
Speaker 1: the blitz, get home, And that's gonna be have to
Speaker 1: be the going thing for this defense because of our
Speaker 1: weaknesses on the back and as we strengthen it. I'll
Speaker 1: just say that as we strengthen the back end of
Speaker 1: our defense, getting home is gonna have to be the
Speaker 1: idea this week because we can't just allow a quarterback
Speaker 1: like Justin Herbert to sit back and pick his spots.
Speaker 1: And I said, you know, Brady had time in that game.
Speaker 1: But I thought DeMarcus played really well. Yeah he was.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a tough matchup against worse and he was.
Speaker 1: He was around the ball. Um it obviously had the
Speaker 1: ad the forced fumble, was in the backfield some. So
Speaker 1: that was a good start for him, considering all the
Speaker 1: time he missed. Um. But do you want to stand
Speaker 1: on the table for Michael Parsons after an April full
Speaker 1: of saying we need to draft this guy, you want
Speaker 1: to tell Kyle that, uh what we're like? I said,
Speaker 1: we're not doing that yet. We're not doing that yet,
Speaker 1: not yet yet. I'm gonna let it play out a
Speaker 1: little bit. My man over here was very quiet. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about backup players, right, or you know,
Speaker 1: the guys that have come in and fill in for
Speaker 1: our starters, right, So we're talking about um. You know obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele coming in fitting in that change is drastically
Speaker 1: different than what we have on the defense side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Gregory to Armstrong is not as far of
Speaker 1: a fall off as it is from from Collins to
Speaker 1: freaking Steel. So as we look at those comparisons, I'm
Speaker 1: not worried in that regard. Uh. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get pressure somewhere else. Anyways, it's not going
Speaker 1: to be an old man. This is our this is
Speaker 1: our freaking you know, von Miller or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's like they're getting shut down. So I'm not concerned
Speaker 1: about um Gregor. Obviously, we wish we had and we
Speaker 1: hope that we have him in it's not out picture yet,
Speaker 1: so we hope that we have him, obviously, But it's
Speaker 1: not as dire a situation as it is on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, no doubt about it. And
Speaker 1: I think if you're a Cowboys fan, you're looking at
Speaker 1: the defensive side and thinking, we're still gonna have a
Speaker 1: pretty decent day at least hopefully we'll have a decent
Speaker 1: day up against Tom Brady. But you are right. I
Speaker 1: mean that that Washington football team defense they had their
Speaker 1: hands full with the Chargers offense, and you would think
Speaker 1: that they would have been able to generate a lot
Speaker 1: more pressure and they didn't. I mean, the charges went
Speaker 1: max protect. They knew what they were up against and
Speaker 1: so they protected their quarterback, and so they're just knowing
Speaker 1: the things that happened within the game where you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna be under fired. Get the ball
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Speaker 1: you know, if the Cowboys at all times, Yes, Cowboys
Speaker 1: did that as well on Thursday. I'm Max protect, get
Speaker 1: up side of the hands. And they threw at fifty
Speaker 1: eight times. How about twelve of them called at the
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Speaker 1: uh one thing that came out of the coordinators yesterday.
Speaker 1: But all three coordinators talked with the media and Kelly
Speaker 1: Moore got a chance to go up there and kind
Speaker 1: of talk about the imbalance of pass and run and
Speaker 1: it was also a topic of conversation that we had yesterday.
Speaker 1: And he said, he said, we called twenty eight run
Speaker 1: plays right, twenty eight, which is kind of decent. Whenever
Speaker 1: you still look at for what would that be for
Speaker 1: even numbers. I'm terrible at mass, so that would be
Speaker 1: twenty eight thirty. So yeah, it'd be twenty eight and thirty,
Speaker 1: so pretty even in terms of calling. Twelve plays, however,
Speaker 1: were checked at the line of scrimmage from Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: So I want to ask, from a former quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 1: how easy is it to check out and how much
Speaker 1: do coaches hate it when you check out that often?
Speaker 1: I mean you check out based upon your look. So
Speaker 1: typically you come up to the line of scrimmage with
Speaker 1: two plays. Now, that's pretty much how this league is going.
Speaker 1: So if they call it, if Keller Moore called a
Speaker 1: run play, dat comes up to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: If the leverage isn't to your advantage if your office,
Speaker 1: a lineman don't have the advantage in terms of leverage,
Speaker 1: if the numbers don't add up. If you have, you know,
Speaker 1: six blockers and they have seven or eight guys in
Speaker 1: a box, you're checking out. So Dak Prescott always has
Speaker 1: the power to get the team in a better play call.
Speaker 1: So he's not going to run the run play just
Speaker 1: be coach. Coach called the run play is his job
Speaker 1: to make sure that it's a good look rather it's
Speaker 1: run or pass. So regardless of what Keller Moore calls,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't look good, once once Dad gets up
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, he's gonna check out of it.
Speaker 1: So that sounds like that's exactly what he did. My
Speaker 1: question is what percentage of NFL quarterbacks have the authority
Speaker 1: to check out a place of them? All of them,
Speaker 1: So we're not talking about something and that's four and
Speaker 1: guys have they I mean basically they called to plays
Speaker 1: in the huddle anyway, and so it's your job to
Speaker 1: make sure that we run a good place. So and
Speaker 1: going in watching the game, obviously Tampa was showing a
Speaker 1: lot of seven in the box looks and then you know,
Speaker 1: checking out of them at the line of scrimmage as well,
Speaker 1: but they were bringing the pressure. You know. I love
Speaker 1: it and I hate it. I love it because you
Speaker 1: pay your quarterback what you're given, what you're given, and
Speaker 1: you want him to have that control. Again, all quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league have it. I also think that for
Speaker 1: a for defense that needs as much help as they
Speaker 1: can get, I think that part of it the rhythm
Speaker 1: of football. I think that throws your game plan off
Speaker 1: because you're putting your defense out there a lot more
Speaker 1: than you want to with three announced and what it
Speaker 1: takes when you just throw the ball three times or
Speaker 1: what have you. So look, all of this works handing glove,
Speaker 1: and I don't know throughout the course of a football season.
Speaker 1: Will this come back to bite us if we're gonna
Speaker 1: do this, if this is who we are, you know,
Speaker 1: or if we're just gonna say, look, Tampa was Tampa
Speaker 1: and we won't have to go up against those type
Speaker 1: of three or four looks because look, the charges are
Speaker 1: the same way as far as their look and they
Speaker 1: have a lot of dogs in their secondary and obviously Bosa,
Speaker 1: so they will show those same kinds of looks. Will
Speaker 1: Dad do the same thing in the game versus charges.
Speaker 1: People need to also understand that as a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: you can declare what the offense is allowed to do.
Speaker 1: If you come up and you put seven or eight
Speaker 1: guys in a box and you kind of have an
Speaker 1: idea of where they're where they typically do out of
Speaker 1: certain formations and different personnail groups. Maybe they wanted to
Speaker 1: take Zeke out the game. Maybe that was Tampa's approach.
Speaker 1: Maybe Tampa was like, yeah, you guys just aren't going
Speaker 1: to run a ball against us, and we've seen that
Speaker 1: over the years against Zeek. Yeah, so yes, So maybe
Speaker 1: they felt better about their chances in the board with
Speaker 1: the ball would dame off ankle with Dak you know,
Speaker 1: all the shoulder issues through camp. They were like, we'll
Speaker 1: roll the dice, and what does make Dack throw the
Speaker 1: ball because there's a greater percentage there's a greater chance
Speaker 1: that we'll get an interception through the air than we
Speaker 1: would get a fumble with Zeke running the ball. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's what their approach was and they took it away
Speaker 1: from us. You know, I go back to what I
Speaker 1: said Monday, like those loaded boxes, Like like you said,
Speaker 1: we've seen those over the years, and they had a
Speaker 1: different guys up front blocking for Zeke in the middle.
Speaker 1: You know, they had Travis Frederick, Zach Martin usually is
Speaker 1: in there and they don't care. They'd run it anyway,
Speaker 1: and they didn't do that in this game. And I
Speaker 1: think they I think they saw the matchups. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's as good a Rundy, that's the best run defense
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, and when there's eight in the
Speaker 1: box and you like your chances on the outside, especially
Speaker 1: when Murphy Bunting goes out on the outside for them
Speaker 1: at corner and you have the receivers you have, I mean,
Speaker 1: I understand why they did what they did. What I
Speaker 1: was a little surprised was we heard all offseason how
Speaker 1: great Zeke looked, and we and he did look good.
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't get that touchdown where Jarwin misses
Speaker 1: the block and maybe he could have shook him, but
Speaker 1: I think, you know, it was mainly the block there.
Speaker 1: He looked really good. Could you got him involved some
Speaker 1: other way? Could? I mean we talked about how some
Speaker 1: of the short passing game functioned as a sort of
Speaker 1: the running game. Could you know this. Zeke's had seventy
Speaker 1: seven catches in a season in his career. Could you
Speaker 1: kind of get him going a little bit that way?
Speaker 1: That was my only thing, and that's that's my tiff
Speaker 1: with it as well, because the reason, let's be real,
Speaker 1: let's be real. I hope, I hope people don't really
Speaker 1: have an expectation that Tyler Biads and that freaking Connor
Speaker 1: Williams we're gonna move Vita Vea and a Dominican sue
Speaker 1: off the ball. It's not gonna happen. If that's what
Speaker 1: you guys were expecting, then then you have false hope
Speaker 1: because that's not that's not reality. You're living in rainbow
Speaker 1: land right now. Okay, that's fiction land. So let's not
Speaker 1: think that that was gonna be the case. So the
Speaker 1: reality is anything that happens behind those guys easily takes
Speaker 1: us out of a run play. Right. If those guys
Speaker 1: shift the linebackers over one direction, we gotta check out
Speaker 1: of this running because we don't have the leverage. Right,
Speaker 1: we know we can't move those two jokers off the ball,
Speaker 1: so we can't get up to the second level. If
Speaker 1: we can't get up to the second level, then these
Speaker 1: linebackers that they had in Tampaka roam free, and we
Speaker 1: know them boys could run and hit two. So that's
Speaker 1: the reality. It sounds like starting to really look like
Speaker 1: they didn't they wanted to take Zeke out the game.
Speaker 1: But now that falls on whose shoulders Kellen Moore. We
Speaker 1: can't run the ball kill The more you knew that
Speaker 1: coming into the game. It's not like you just found
Speaker 1: that out when you got there. They had them two
Speaker 1: dogs on the roster before you showed up to the field.
Speaker 1: So now how do you get Zeke and ball? That's
Speaker 1: when you started having to say, we paid you a
Speaker 1: lot of money killing more right, we believe in you,
Speaker 1: We re upped you. Be creative and get our one
Speaker 1: of our best playmakers on his team the ball. I
Speaker 1: think that's a great point because if you're one dimensional
Speaker 1: in week one, you can get away with it. You
Speaker 1: can be okay, you can throw at fifty eight times
Speaker 1: and run at fourteen times or whatever the total ended
Speaker 1: up being and be fine. However, going through the rest
Speaker 1: of the sixteen games this year, you can't be one dimensional.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to figure out how to run the
Speaker 1: football even against stuff competition, much like you saw with
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Now, I don't think we're gonna see a
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay talented front the rest of the year. Washington, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fair, but that's after Thanksgiving. Well, I mean you've
Speaker 1: got a little bit of time to look at that once. Yeah,
Speaker 1: four weeks, so, yeah, you're right, we will see that front.
Speaker 1: But outside of them, it's probably nowhere close to what
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay brought to the table. You got to find
Speaker 1: a way to run the football. As we continue this conversation, though,
Speaker 1: I wanted to open up the phone lines. Let's get
Speaker 1: some fan calls in here. Eight eight eight eight five
Speaker 1: five two to nine seven. Once again, it's eight eight
Speaker 1: eight five five two two nine seven. Give us a
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Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. And as we continue this going up
Speaker 1: against the Chargers, we're gonna preview the Chargers defense on Thursday.
Speaker 1: We've got some time to kind of dive in on
Speaker 1: them a little bit later on. But in your early studies,
Speaker 1: what are you looking at to take advantage of this week?
Speaker 1: What are you looking Is it their secondary that's susceptible,
Speaker 1: is it their front seven? What are we looking at
Speaker 1: from an offensive standpoint to take advantage of? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna sound old school after we just talked
Speaker 1: about how Kelly Moore is not, you know, wants to
Speaker 1: throw the ball and not run his you know, Zeke's
Speaker 1: head up against the wall, trying to get the running
Speaker 1: game established. I just feel as though you have to
Speaker 1: at a certain point. I think it helps your young defense,
Speaker 1: uh to get in rhythm when you have a running
Speaker 1: game that can continuously take that take time off of
Speaker 1: the clock. It's field position and ball control. Those are
Speaker 1: the certain things that win you games, uh in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And obviously, if we're going to be committed to throwing
Speaker 1: the ball that we we are or are shown in
Speaker 1: the first game, then we're gonna have some lopsided games
Speaker 1: like this like we saw last year, where you're you're
Speaker 1: throwing for a lot of yards, but you're still losing
Speaker 1: the game. And that's just because you're not even with
Speaker 1: time of possession, it's just not allowing you. It's just
Speaker 1: not going to allow you the room for error that
Speaker 1: you would have if you still ran the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just that's just football, one on one. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think we need to approach this game with that mentality.
Speaker 1: We need to get this thing going on the ground,
Speaker 1: and I think that we can. I think Washington average
Speaker 1: about five yards per carry against those guys, so obviously
Speaker 1: they have they have a dog running back. But guess
Speaker 1: what we do too, So we need to get him going.
Speaker 1: I think I think it's very important to get Zeke's
Speaker 1: confidence back coming off of last year. Not to say
Speaker 1: that he lost a lot of it, right, but when
Speaker 1: you have a guy of that caliber, you need him
Speaker 1: to know that I'm supported. You need him to know that, Hey,
Speaker 1: coming off of a year that's not up to my standards,
Speaker 1: I need to know that you guys still are riding
Speaker 1: with me, right, And I did my part last week
Speaker 1: and blocking, and you know, and when I had opportunity
Speaker 1: to run, I did what I could with what I had.
Speaker 1: I need y'all to feed me this week because I
Speaker 1: need I need that confidence going into this season. And
Speaker 1: you guys, the rest of my teammates need that confidence
Speaker 1: so that my office a line blocks a little bit harder,
Speaker 1: so that my receivers put their head in there and
Speaker 1: go finish blocks a jar win. Right. Guys like that
Speaker 1: plays like that, they need to know that this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna bust his butt they need to know that he's
Speaker 1: capable of breaking loose again. They need to be reminded
Speaker 1: of the o Zeke. He needs to be reminded of
Speaker 1: o Zeke. And if they do that, then I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a heck of a year on the ground.
Speaker 1: I agree. That was my only thing going back to
Speaker 1: this game, because Kellen More could argue like we were
Speaker 1: one dimensional and we had to lead with a minute
Speaker 1: and a half the great point, you know, So that's
Speaker 1: that's the argument. Even though he did say I mean
Speaker 1: he was ready for that question. I mean he called
Speaker 1: more runs than we thought he did, you know. But
Speaker 1: that being said, I agree. I think you've got to
Speaker 1: give get Zeke going a little bit and he'll do
Speaker 1: whatever the team needs him to do. That's proven over
Speaker 1: the last few years. But I think coming off of
Speaker 1: last year, how he's looked in preseason, give him some opportunities.
Speaker 1: But I do wonder and with Zack Martin being back
Speaker 1: over I think there was an ESPN stat over the
Speaker 1: course of Zach's career they're average in like five yards
Speaker 1: to carry with him in the lineup, So having him
Speaker 1: back at right guard will certainly help. But you know,
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, but I think they they need
Speaker 1: to get a little bit more balance going over the
Speaker 1: course of the Yeah, but I wonder Tony Pollard. They
Speaker 1: want to use Tony Pollard this season. You know, they've
Speaker 1: talked about how zeke you want him fresh for December
Speaker 1: and hopefully January. Mike said that during training camp, So
Speaker 1: we're going to see more Tony too. No. I love
Speaker 1: what you said. And we talked about Tony Pollard at
Speaker 1: LINT about what his impact can be for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and I think with Michael Gallup being out, I think
Speaker 1: that also gives you an opportunity to see Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: in that position because we saw it all throughout Old
Speaker 1: Ta's We saw it through training camp, and so he's
Speaker 1: he you know, look man, he moonlights at receiver as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to see what the game plan
Speaker 1: is gonna be for twenty. I like that because if
Speaker 1: you can throw him out wide and then have that
Speaker 1: extra element of maybe having him in motion and doing
Speaker 1: a bunch of different things, it really opens up your
Speaker 1: offense and the Cowboys could take advantage. Let me say
Speaker 1: this also for our offensive line, aven you've seen that
Speaker 1: any offensive line. When your big guys are firing off
Speaker 1: and that running game is going, it just builds that
Speaker 1: confidence for them. And I think our offensive I need
Speaker 1: that because all of the talk and whistmas, well, you
Speaker 1: just can't do that Get versus Tampa. If you want
Speaker 1: to win a championship, you're going to have to be
Speaker 1: able to do it. Seriot, that's fair. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: You gotta have that blocking up front. You gotta have
Speaker 1: some confidence and build it there. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: knew it was. No, it wasn't like that, Yeah, Harrison
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips. I'm Kyle Yeomans And now
Speaker 1: we're joined by Johnny in El Paso. Johnny, how's it going?
Speaker 1: Doing good in yourself? Guys? Doing all right? What's going on?
Speaker 1: What's on your mind? One morning? So I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask this past game with Anthony Brown being beat by
Speaker 1: by Antonio Brown, this receiving core for the LA Charters
Speaker 1: is another good receiving core. Do we see them throwing
Speaker 1: in Kennedy or is Brown's lease a little shorter? I
Speaker 1: saw Brown, I mean, I saw Quinn's comment about the
Speaker 1: deep ball, how they were supposed to have safety health.
Speaker 1: But I mean, let's be honest. Is his lease gonna
Speaker 1: leash gonna be a little shorter this week? Especially coming
Speaker 1: up against that receiving corps. Fantastic question, Johnny, Heck, I'll
Speaker 1: let you take first crapech Don't don't make no, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. You know you guys are expecting. Look,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn said yesterday that abe Anthony Brown was supposed
Speaker 1: to have safety help over the top. Yes, yep, and
Speaker 1: that may have mitigated your fifty five yard touchdown. So
Speaker 1: I mean it's just coverage error. So not on him
Speaker 1: on the safety, but that But what about going into
Speaker 1: this week? Does that change your mind about Anthony Brown? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do? You go with Trey
Speaker 1: Von Diggs versus Keenan Alan and you leave him Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown with Mike Williams? Is that gonna put you? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna go zone in this situation? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: stay man like you did last week? I mean, these
Speaker 1: are phenomenal things that you have to ask yourself going
Speaker 1: into this game, Kyle. But number thirty is your cornerback,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna go with him, and look, we're gonna
Speaker 1: trust him. And hey, I said, what what? What? What
Speaker 1: else can can I say? If? If? If it is
Speaker 1: absurd to think that Nation Wright could could wouldn't beat
Speaker 1: wait a minute, worser, it's not a word, but you would,
Speaker 1: you would definitely. I mean, look, I'm of the that
Speaker 1: absurd thinking that you know, you put a guy out
Speaker 1: there and let him prove his worth to you. Um,
Speaker 1: I have other proof that rookies can do it. Cameron Danceler,
Speaker 1: third round pick, Mississippi State. But yeah, I mean there
Speaker 1: there are there are things that can prove that if
Speaker 1: you put your rookie out there. Not to say that
Speaker 1: Danceler is a none of that, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: you know where this guy is gonna be. You have
Speaker 1: a future with your cornerback. Two interceptions that would be
Speaker 1: more than what you got right now in your cornerback group.
Speaker 1: Let's go, I'm throwing the rickie into the fire. I
Speaker 1: why what Wait a minute? What? Yeah? What you all sweet? No?
Speaker 1: You know no, No, listen, listen to my point. Heck,
Speaker 1: listen to my point. You convinced him. Listen to my point.
Speaker 1: You know why? You know why because I watched the game. Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched the Charges game, and I watched this their
Speaker 1: number two Mike Mike william Mike Williams six four twenty
Speaker 1: two twenty m m what's what's na Sean six four? So?
Speaker 1: I mean it's big on big, big on, big, big big, Hey,
Speaker 1: So I feel better about big on big right, Nan
Speaker 1: can run right? Nashan got ehanda hands Nahan is the
Speaker 1: same height. Yeah, so put him up there, put them
Speaker 1: up there, and put the safety help over the top. Huhne.
Speaker 1: Let me even if you think about this, because even
Speaker 1: if a Brown stays in his hip pocket, still a
Speaker 1: completion with with with the accuracy of Herbert, still a completion.
Speaker 1: You know why he's throwing it up top. He's throwing
Speaker 1: it up high. Mike William's gonna go up there and
Speaker 1: go go gadget. He's gonna catch that thing. So even
Speaker 1: if a Brown sticks great, defense is still a mismatch,
Speaker 1: just like the back shoulder throw the god Win. You
Speaker 1: can't start, you can't you can't stop that, right we
Speaker 1: talked about talk about that a couple weeks ago. Back shoulders.
Speaker 1: You can't stop that play. Guess what else you can't
Speaker 1: stop If you're the same size as a Brown and
Speaker 1: you got you're gonna get somebody six four it. Even
Speaker 1: if you're in this hit pocket, if he throws it
Speaker 1: up high, I guess what, he's seven feet can't stop it.
Speaker 1: So you have to match big. What we just talk
Speaker 1: about the other day yesterday, he gonna match your personnel right,
Speaker 1: based upon the skill sets of what he's going against. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have Nash right, who's six four in two or
Speaker 1: two hundred plus pounds. You're going against the six four
Speaker 1: number two. Put him out there. Diggs would handle handle
Speaker 1: uh handle keenan Allen clip, clippit, shake it before your bag,
Speaker 1: shake it before you bake it. But we just talked
Speaker 1: about yesterday putting guys in position to be successful. Putting
Speaker 1: a Brown against Williams is not putting him in a
Speaker 1: position to be successful. I'm sorry now if it happens
Speaker 1: or he's in the game and he goes against something cool,
Speaker 1: but matching him up against him not a good idea
Speaker 1: because even if you play amazing defense, he still has
Speaker 1: an advantage. Just like Calvin Johnson back in the day,
Speaker 1: you guys played really good defense agains Calvin Johnson MC.
Speaker 1: That's what that boy got a gold jacket because I'm
Speaker 1: bigger than you. Right, we don't need that to happen.
Speaker 1: So let's put our dog on Ricky out there, who
Speaker 1: matches up against him attribute wise, and say let's see
Speaker 1: what you got. Only four corners saw snaps against Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Trayvon Dicks, Jordan Lewis, Murice Kennedy, Anthony Brown, Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: had sixty five snaps. That was tied with Trayvon Digs,
Speaker 1: which is all sixty five snaps on defense. Maurice Kennedy
Speaker 1: saw two snaps, and Johnny specifically asked about Kennedy, Rob
Speaker 1: do you see him mixing in a little bit more?
Speaker 1: This is a slot wide receiver kind of revolving door
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. They've got Jalen Guyton Allen product linked
Speaker 1: to North Texas, go mean Green Baby, and then you
Speaker 1: have kJ Hill out of Ohio State who was one
Speaker 1: of the one of my favorites later in the draft
Speaker 1: last year, Speedster. So you've got two guys in the
Speaker 1: slot that they'll kind of rotate back and forth. Do
Speaker 1: you see the Cowboys doing the same thing defensively and
Speaker 1: maybe evening out the snap counts a little bit with
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis and Maurice Kennedy. That's a great question. I
Speaker 1: could see it if things go the way they went
Speaker 1: early in the game week one. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're just gonna sit there and let the same
Speaker 1: issues happen. I could see the game starting the way
Speaker 1: it did in Week one and then adjust if you
Speaker 1: need to. And I mean I love Isaiah's point on
Speaker 1: size and matching up. I do think if they made
Speaker 1: a change, it would probably be Maurice Kennedy first. But
Speaker 1: I get your point about the size issue. So see
Speaker 1: what they do. They're gonna be tested because Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: I think he threw twenty seven passes in the first
Speaker 1: half right against Washington. They have a great young quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's their strength. They're gonna go after it. So how
Speaker 1: do the Cowboys respond? And I think it's a great question.
Speaker 1: I think you know, you've got to be prepared to
Speaker 1: adjust if things don't go your way. And you also
Speaker 1: have to have a defensive front that gets pressure on Herbert.
Speaker 1: And that's gonna make guys like Anthony Brown look that
Speaker 1: much better if you're able to rush those throws from Herbert.
Speaker 1: And so all of this again, I want to see
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. If Michael Parsons can have more of an
Speaker 1: impact from a rushing standpoint, I think that changes the
Speaker 1: dynamic of the way that we're being just pretty much
Speaker 1: taken advantage of in secondary. Justin Herbert, is he the
Speaker 1: best quarterback the Cowboys are gonna face from here until
Speaker 1: almost Halloween. No, who's on Halloween. Yeah, Halloween is Kirk Cousins, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I would even throw probably justin Herbert above that.
Speaker 1: It's just the youth thing for me. I mean, Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts next week. Then you've got Sam Darnold week four,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones week five, Matt Jones week six, and then
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is on our I answered your question before
Speaker 1: you actually said Halloween. So am I bad? So is it? Yes? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, And then it's Drew Locke, Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: I mean Matt Ryan, and then Patrick Mahomes those two
Speaker 1: in November. I know Matt Ryan's not what he used
Speaker 1: to be, but I mean this is the best quarterback
Speaker 1: you're gonna see for good a good amount of times,
Speaker 1: no doubt. So watch out for Jalen Hurts in week four.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what did you think about him? By the way,
Speaker 1: and the NFC's the only team to get a win
Speaker 1: this past week was Philadelphia. What did you think about that?
Speaker 1: I thought he looked I thought he looked great as
Speaker 1: a rookie. I know he had some tough moments, you know,
Speaker 1: when he would be forced to kind of throw from
Speaker 1: the pocket, but he's a young player. And like what
Speaker 1: he can do to extend drives. He just gets more
Speaker 1: time in the system. I think he's gonna wind up
Speaker 1: being their franchise quarterback. I really do think they put
Speaker 1: their chips in the right boat. Yeah, right side of
Speaker 1: the table. I do. That's a tough decision, but I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you just never know, and you've
Speaker 1: got to have it's it's a delicate thing. You gotta
Speaker 1: have the right guys around your young quarterback. But I
Speaker 1: think he's on the right track for sure. Both Jalen
Speaker 1: Rager and DeVante Smith had a touchdown catch as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really makes my stomach turn just seeing him get
Speaker 1: that confidence that he got versus in Atlanta squad that
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's gonna think is any good. But again,
Speaker 1: it's young quarterbacks getting confidential and that's just gonna premiate.
Speaker 1: It's gonna go throughout the rest of the season for him.
Speaker 1: I loved him in Alabama, I love him in ou
Speaker 1: and I hated that he got drafted by the buoy Eagles.
Speaker 1: I don't like him anymore now, so you know, I
Speaker 1: don't wish him well, but it's gonna be a challenge.
Speaker 1: He's the second best starting quarterback in the division right now,
Speaker 1: I would agree right now because rains Patrick got hurt,
Speaker 1: Daniel Danny Dimes, Gombell had another fumble. Yeah, can't hold
Speaker 1: on the ball? Can And now with the with the
Speaker 1: injury in Washington, that sets them back for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: With Heineken, I just don't think he can get it done. So,
Speaker 1: I mean the NFC's is still ours. Did you see
Speaker 1: RG three tweeting or tweeting the picture or he posted
Speaker 1: the Instagram picture? Was RG three and it said make
Speaker 1: the call and it was him running out of the
Speaker 1: tunnel in Washington. Stop it really that? Now another sewers
Speaker 1: league just happening at this stadium? You see that too?
Speaker 1: That was so nasty. Can I run out one piece
Speaker 1: of more news before we get out? Yeah? Did you
Speaker 1: guys talk about kicker at all? Oh? No, we did not.
Speaker 1: Just real quick, Jerry on the fan talked about how
Speaker 1: you know the reports that they're bringing in Lirium Hi
Speaker 1: lah who to the practice squad for depth? But Jerry
Speaker 1: mentioned something new. He said that not only was Zerline
Speaker 1: coming back from the back surgery in preseason, he had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a quad issue um leading up
Speaker 1: to the to the season Hua when he first got here,
Speaker 1: and then and then the back and now what did
Speaker 1: you just quad? Father time, there's something to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on going forward. Lerium Hira Lah who on the
Speaker 1: practice squad and all the time has never failed, gets
Speaker 1: us all, gets everybody, got everybody self with Tom Brady, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about him anymore than theer.
Speaker 1: We'll see him in the end game, little figure. We'll
Speaker 1: figure him out later. Nobody's ever figured Tom Brady out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was about to say, good look at that one.
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Speaker 1: talked a lot about Justin Herbert and those receivers today,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about it tomorrow and that offensive line.
Speaker 1: What did the Cowboys do to match up with this
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