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Speaker 6: It is Wednesday, October eleventh, twenty twenty three, season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number fifty. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
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Speaker 3: At the start.
Speaker 6: Today we turned the page. We start looking forward Cowboys
Speaker 6: versus Chargers. That happens this Monday night. And Cowboys are
Speaker 6: on Monday Night football this week, so they will start
Speaker 6: their practices today, kind of move everything a little bit
Speaker 6: forward to get ready for that Monday night game. We'll
Speaker 6: start getting you guys ready today. Brian will give us
Speaker 6: a breakdown of the Dallas offense versus the Chargers defense.
Speaker 3: Let's start first though, what setting the table.
Speaker 6: What are we looking like right now as far as
Speaker 6: the as far as the injuries aren't concerned going into
Speaker 6: this week, the things we need to be aware of
Speaker 6: and keep an eye on.
Speaker 4: No changes from yesterday.
Speaker 7: LVE and c J good when they're both still expected
Speaker 7: to be strong candidates for IR. Still looks like it's
Speaker 7: a possibility for return for LVE after the four to
Speaker 7: six week period. Cowboys are still working to make determinations there.
Speaker 7: Calante Turpin still has a chance to practice when they
Speaker 7: officially get it underway on tomorrow, because Thursday is the
Speaker 7: Wednesday this week. Jordan Lewis will see how much he
Speaker 7: does in practice. But like I said, I spoke with
Speaker 7: him and some other folks on Sunday after the game
Speaker 7: and he sounds like he's good to go. Just some soreness,
Speaker 7: but no structural damage or anything, so that's good. Tyler
Speaker 7: Biadish with the ankle injury, He's expected to play on
Speaker 7: Monday night as long as things progress well for him
Speaker 7: this week. Other than that, I mean, they're, you know,
Speaker 7: expected to host some linebacker workouts today. The list is
Speaker 7: not finalized, so we're not gonna address it just yet.
Speaker 7: But there's a chance the Cowboys will add one or
Speaker 7: maybe even two linebackers, and they're gonna need it because
Speaker 7: they needed for defensive rotation and they also needed for
Speaker 7: special teams as far as C. J.
Speaker 4: Goodwill being out as well, So we will.
Speaker 7: Get some real updates tomorrow, particularly when McCarthy is available again.
Speaker 7: And then when practice kind of starts kicking off, it.
Speaker 6: Sounds more and more like, really, when it comes down
Speaker 6: to linebacker position, Mike is gonna be your answer and
Speaker 6: they're looking for depth of this.
Speaker 7: There I go, Yeah, they're gonna They're looking to go
Speaker 7: back to the versatility of Micaeh, mixing him as an
Speaker 7: off ball linebacker and dropping him down at D as needed.
Speaker 7: And that's kind of what dan Quinn was intimating in
Speaker 7: his press conference on Monday when I asked him about
Speaker 7: you know, the what, how do you supplement the loss
Speaker 7: of lv particularly when you consider that LVE has been
Speaker 7: one of your better run defenders. So yeah, that going
Speaker 7: to be the initial plan, and I think the couple
Speaker 7: is going to stick to that and we'll see who
Speaker 7: they can add as far as behind him and Damon Clark,
Speaker 7: and Bones is definitely going to need another strong special
Speaker 7: teams guy.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on Damon Clark right now?
Speaker 6: I know we all had high hopes for him when
Speaker 6: he was drafted, and what we saw from him knowing
Speaker 6: he was coming off the injury, what we saw from
Speaker 6: him the rest of his rookie year certainly made me
Speaker 6: think there was a possibility that he could take a
Speaker 6: big leap having an entire offseason.
Speaker 3: What are you thinking of his play so far?
Speaker 2: Better in the New England game and kind of struggled
Speaker 2: every other game since then. I don't think he's played
Speaker 2: with the awareness or the downhillness that he normally plays.
Speaker 2: I just made up a word there, downhillness. But that's
Speaker 2: what he that's what he does, and you know that's
Speaker 2: he's going to be a physical player. He's going to
Speaker 2: be around the ball, he's going to get off blocks.
Speaker 2: I kind of felt like that he was one of
Speaker 2: those guys that you know, with him and Van der
Speaker 2: Esh paired up, they were so much. They were really
Speaker 2: a good little combination last year when they got the opportunity,
Speaker 2: he wasn't as good a player when Anthony Barr was
Speaker 2: next to him. It was a struggle there. I'm interested
Speaker 2: to see now. You know, with vander Esch being out
Speaker 2: of the lineup and him and Parsons, the group will
Speaker 2: be physical on the back end, There's no question about that.
Speaker 2: But you know, demon I just felt like that he
Speaker 2: was going to be you know, when you look at
Speaker 2: what Overshown was able to do, and I hate to
Speaker 2: keep comparing that, but Overshowing plays six plays, he's got
Speaker 2: three tackles. You know, you kind of expected the same
Speaker 2: thing with the Moon Clark. You expected him to read, react,
Speaker 2: get to the ball, finish, and it really has been
Speaker 2: a struggle. The New England game was his best game
Speaker 2: by far. Other than that, it's been it's been kind
Speaker 2: of just kind of, you know, really playing in neutral
Speaker 2: for this defense.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and with him, I mean, the defense have been
Speaker 8: playing in its majority so well that it's one of
Speaker 8: those that you don't really pay much attention to or
Speaker 8: bring it up to the table because he hasn't necessarily
Speaker 8: been an issue until it does become an issue too
Speaker 8: now where we're sitting here and looking, well, who do
Speaker 8: we have to replace and help here with depth? Oh
Speaker 8: where's he at? And like you said, everything, he's become
Speaker 8: that player that I've kind of obviously I haven't forgotten
Speaker 8: about him because I know he's on the team and
Speaker 8: he said a guy that you you want to keep
Speaker 8: looking to see how he develops. But he kind of
Speaker 8: has become like going under the shadows and become slightly
Speaker 8: unforgettable or forgettable the other way, forgettable just because everybody
Speaker 8: else has been kind of doing so well on defense overall.
Speaker 8: But when you do face those games that you're like, okay,
Speaker 8: you start looking and breaking down those plays and seeing
Speaker 8: like he has not, unfortunately been that player, Derek, that
Speaker 8: you mentioned that we have been waiting on.
Speaker 7: It's a great point that I think he's been kind
Speaker 7: of flying under the radar because of, you know, the
Speaker 7: headliners on defense, My could Tank. The list goes on
Speaker 7: and on, the league, jay Ron, Treyvon before the team
Speaker 7: lost Treyvondron Blan, Jordan Lewis Lve. I mean again, list
Speaker 7: goes on and on. So he's kind of flown onder
Speaker 7: the radar as far are as not being asked to
Speaker 7: step up massively in impact games. He's definitely had some
Speaker 7: flash plays. He had the great game against New England.
Speaker 7: A little bit of inconsistency there. So I think he's
Speaker 7: just trying to string together. He's trying to work it
Speaker 7: out as a year two guy who's coming off his
Speaker 7: first full offseason with the Cowboys. Obviously, last offseason he
Speaker 7: lost that to the next surgery. So it just looks
Speaker 7: like he's working to figure it out. And when he flashes,
Speaker 7: he flashes big. When he has a strong game like
Speaker 7: he had in New England against the New England Patriots
Speaker 7: at and T Stadium, it stands out. It pops right
Speaker 7: off the film. It's just a matter of him needing
Speaker 7: more reps and guess what, he's about to get more
Speaker 7: because with Lve going down, even if you look at
Speaker 7: at you know, going back to the versatility of Michael Parsons,
Speaker 7: you're really looking at Dumont Clarke to say, hey, we
Speaker 7: know that you're trying to strain good games together. We
Speaker 7: really need you to find that next gear and it's
Speaker 7: going to start as early as Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: Now, do you think he'll take that kind those kind
Speaker 6: of snaps, like I mean, obviously Lve was getting the
Speaker 6: most snaps of any of the linebackers. That he's going
Speaker 6: to step up to that role or do you think
Speaker 6: it's still going to kind of be using it. I
Speaker 6: want to say, when I saw before he was like
Speaker 6: roughly fifty percent of the snaps.
Speaker 3: I need to go look it up. But you think
Speaker 3: you'll have more at this point I.
Speaker 2: Think that you really it depends on how you want
Speaker 2: to play Parsons. Yeah, you know, and so it's he
Speaker 2: he's going to have to he's the most if you
Speaker 2: look at it, the most experienced, you know, most experience.
Speaker 2: And now he's only in his second year. But if
Speaker 2: you look at the number of the number of snaps
Speaker 2: that he's played, you mentioned if it's fifty to fifty,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Patrick is going to tell you exactly what
Speaker 2: it is. But yeah, you know, you're you're you know,
Speaker 2: he's out there, he's he's part of it. It's not
Speaker 2: like they use more keys bell and it's just kind
Speaker 2: of a part time thing. He's a guy that's been playing.
Speaker 2: When they go with they like their base where they
Speaker 2: played at the two linebackers him, vander Esh and then
Speaker 2: they bring down the safety. You know, that's kind of
Speaker 2: the look. He's out there on the field. So I
Speaker 2: assume that he is going to take that role of
Speaker 2: what vander Esh does.
Speaker 7: Agree you're talking about you're losing eighty nine percent of
Speaker 7: your defensive snaps if once you lose rander Esh and
Speaker 7: the moon Clark was logging fifty eight percent of the
Speaker 7: defensive snaps. So I don't know that demon Clark jumps
Speaker 7: up to eighty nine almost ninety percent, but I think
Speaker 7: you could see him jump to seventy seventy five percent.
Speaker 7: And then you make up the difference with who.
Speaker 6: Does make up different because Mike is already out there
Speaker 6: a lot, right, Who makes up the difference?
Speaker 5: Is it? Is?
Speaker 4: It? Probably one of those guys.
Speaker 7: I think it's going to be a combination of Marque's
Speaker 7: bell and whomever they end up signing. If they end
Speaker 7: up signing someone from this workout group that they expecting.
Speaker 8: But if they do sign someone from the guys so
Speaker 8: they're working out, are you expecting that person, that player
Speaker 8: to be ready to go for this game.
Speaker 7: My gut would say no, But when you're in dire straits,
Speaker 7: that kind of forces your hand sometimes.
Speaker 2: So I've seen corners playing playoff game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, off the shop, absolutely absolutely right about that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely happens, but not often.
Speaker 4: This is Xavier Roads.
Speaker 7: But I mean again, I don't and ideal circumstances, you
Speaker 7: would like to see more time for the guys to
Speaker 7: come in. We talked about offline. We talked about Michael
Speaker 7: Jones yesterday. He's an option for linebacker on the practice squad.
Speaker 7: But when I talked to Mike McCarthy about him, the
Speaker 7: expression Mike McCarthy had gave me the indication that they
Speaker 7: want him more time to ramp up. Okay, well, if
Speaker 7: that applies there, it probably applies to any one of
Speaker 7: these new guys coming in. But again, the difference would
Speaker 7: be what's the what's the football experience of Michael Jones
Speaker 7: versus one of these newer guys coming in. So if
Speaker 7: it's more of a veteran coming in who's more proven
Speaker 7: and can probably tap in more immediately and be more impactful,
Speaker 7: then that has.
Speaker 4: To go into the conversation as well.
Speaker 2: Well. They also like Malik Jefferson. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 2: that's what we'll see that. That's one of those Malik
Speaker 2: Jefferson is that you talk about a flash player. There's
Speaker 2: times where he's been you know, like, okay, I see
Speaker 2: what you're doing here, first preseason game and then other
Speaker 2: games you're just kind of like, you know, he's kind
Speaker 2: of like everybody else getting blocked and you know those things.
Speaker 2: So they have a lot of faith in him. They do.
Speaker 2: They keep them on the practice squad and you know,
Speaker 2: they elevate him, they bring him up he's been kind
Speaker 2: of playing special teams and stuff like that. But there's
Speaker 2: there's going to be this linebacker group, whether who had
Speaker 2: ever they bring in, the two guys they bring in,
Speaker 2: it is going to be a piece together unit for
Speaker 2: at least four weeks until they figure things completely out.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's not one person that you can plug into
Speaker 7: this LV world and say, Okay, that's the definitive solution.
Speaker 7: It's gonna you're gonna have to attack it by a committee.
Speaker 3: And be nice to have over shown right now?
Speaker 4: Who really wan'd you go there? Right in the gest?
Speaker 4: All right, so here we go.
Speaker 6: Let's let's turn the page. Just talk a little bit
Speaker 6: about the Chargers. This is a two and two team.
Speaker 6: They're an interesting team because they've had some interesting games.
Speaker 6: They've won two games against Minnesota, who's won four, and
Speaker 6: against the Raiders, who are two and three. They had
Speaker 6: two losses, one of them to Miami, who is looking
Speaker 6: really over the area, and they only lost by two points, right,
Speaker 6: and then they lost that Tennessee that was an overtime game.
Speaker 6: Tennessee is also two and three. So you don't really
Speaker 6: know what to think of this team just yet. They
Speaker 6: are coming off of bye and one other thing that's
Speaker 6: gonna be really interesting to keep an eye on this
Speaker 6: week is three of the best players missed the last game.
Speaker 6: See what health looks like for them coming off the buyo.
Speaker 6: You at Derwin James, their safety, Austin Ecle, their running back,
Speaker 6: Joey Bosa, their pass rusher. So three very very good
Speaker 6: players they didn't have the last game that after a bye,
Speaker 6: maybe they get those guys back. It does complicate things
Speaker 6: for them. Let's start first with going around the table
Speaker 6: and let's get some storylines. What do you guys think
Speaker 6: is the storyline heading into this week? What is the
Speaker 6: biggest storyline for this game.
Speaker 7: It's going to be for me, dan Quinn versus Kellen Moore.
Speaker 7: This is a Cowboys defense that was allowing less than
Speaker 7: ten and a half points per game through the first
Speaker 7: four weeks and then forty two point explosion against the
Speaker 7: team that you really needed.
Speaker 4: To send a message against.
Speaker 7: So you talk about needing a bounce back in a
Speaker 7: resilient game, and dan Quinn he's going to have his
Speaker 7: guys ready. To question is are they going to be
Speaker 7: ready when they get on that field and they're going
Speaker 7: against the Kella Moore offense that's you know this, This
Speaker 7: Chargers defense offense is average and almost twenty eight points
Speaker 7: per game. So you know you talked about Mike I
Speaker 7: said last week, something's gotta give. Well, defense gave last
Speaker 7: week for the Cowboys back in the same equation, something's
Speaker 7: got to give. It's either going to be this high
Speaker 7: powered Justin Herbert and Kella Moore led offense to which
Speaker 7: will likely have Austin Eckler back on the field, or
Speaker 7: it's gonna be your world class defense that did not
Speaker 7: perform last week. So for me, it's Dan Quinn versus
Speaker 7: Kellen Moore. And then when you mix in the ton
Speaker 7: of familiarity between those two coaches from Kellen Moore's time here, Yeah,
Speaker 7: let's circle that for me.
Speaker 8: Well, to me, I don't want to come out of
Speaker 8: this game hearing the word humbling again. Do not say
Speaker 8: you need to be humbled. That happened in Arizona, and
Speaker 8: then it happened in San Francisco against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 8: We heard and the there have been a lot of
Speaker 8: comments and it's been talked on social media, a whole
Speaker 8: lot of comments that players made after that loss against
Speaker 8: the forty nine ers and people have an issue with
Speaker 8: some of the words that came out.
Speaker 4: Of there and shirts and yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah. So I'm just I want to see a
Speaker 8: team that really fights, that goes out there. And the
Speaker 8: thing is, we've seen it. They've had a history of
Speaker 8: being able to come back after losses. They come back
Speaker 8: and win and perform well. And that's the frustrating part
Speaker 8: is that here we are what we were saying yesterday,
Speaker 8: we don't really know what this team is. We don't
Speaker 8: know the identity of this team just yet. And that's
Speaker 8: something that was asked too to several players. They couldn't
Speaker 8: even really answer it. Cedie Lamb, he had no answer
Speaker 8: for that, but again he was pissed after that game.
Speaker 8: But we don't know what we currently have with this
Speaker 8: Cowboys team this year, So hopefully we can get some
Speaker 8: clarity of some sorts. Hopefully things can kind of start
Speaker 8: piecing themselves together before the Cowboys have their own bite
Speaker 8: week and that buys them another week of gluing the pieces.
Speaker 8: But I just we that's I don't know what to
Speaker 8: call the specific headline for the storyline of this game,
Speaker 8: but figure the figure it out. Just when figure it out,
Speaker 8: put some heart out there and fight and let's see
Speaker 8: if this thing starts coming in together. Because right now,
Speaker 8: to me, I know, and I was telling you Patrick
Speaker 8: before the show, I know, there's a lot of football
Speaker 8: left to play. There's a lot so much and so
Speaker 8: much can change, But to me, it just felt like
Speaker 8: the season is over. It's not over at all. A
Speaker 8: lot can change, but I need to see I need
Speaker 8: to see progress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is week two of your five offensive linemen together,
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a very good start to the five guys.
Speaker 2: This week will be even more of a challenge. I
Speaker 2: don't think Joey Bosa is gonna play this week. The
Speaker 2: hamstring injury doesn't sound like it's going to allow him
Speaker 2: to do that. But you still have to deal with
Speaker 2: Khalil Mack And I think this is a team that
Speaker 2: sacks the quarterback at the same rate that you sack
Speaker 2: quarterbacks as well. So we all talk about the Cowboys
Speaker 2: pass rush their ability to create pressure. This is another
Speaker 2: one of those teams. It's not gonna blitz a whole
Speaker 2: lot in the way they play. They're going to try
Speaker 2: and get you with four man pressure. They have a
Speaker 2: lot of guys that walk around and attack you in
Speaker 2: different ways. They're going to test your blocking scheme for sure.
Speaker 2: I think the storyline is this week, can those five
Speaker 2: guys that we've all waited years, it seems like, to
Speaker 2: be able to play together, can they pull things together,
Speaker 2: bounce back and perform better than they did at San Francisco.
Speaker 2: That's my big question this week.
Speaker 6: All right, we're going to take our first break. When
Speaker 6: we can come back, Brian's gonna start breaking this down
Speaker 6: for us. Tell us a little bit about this charger
Speaker 6: defense and that that's a menace that they call Khalil
Speaker 6: Mack will.
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Speaker 6: your assessment of this Chargers defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming off the bias you mentioned, Derek. They're
Speaker 2: dealing with injuries throughout their defense. I mentioned Joey Bosa.
Speaker 2: I think he's doubtful. He's got a hamstring and a
Speaker 2: tow it's just not going the right way for him.
Speaker 2: So I think you're going to catch a break right there.
Speaker 2: They've also Derwin James has been dealing with a hamstring
Speaker 2: as well, but they sound like he's gonna play. The
Speaker 2: Chargers are more of a four to three front, but
Speaker 2: they do play some three four there's a combination of
Speaker 2: it there. But because they stand guys up around the line,
Speaker 2: they show blitz and then they back out, So they're
Speaker 2: gonna kind of test you. They're gonna test you with
Speaker 2: their twists and their games that's big for them. They
Speaker 2: like to move and uh, you make the linemen have
Speaker 2: to adjust to them. They're gonna cost They're trying to
Speaker 2: cause confusion with their looks. Their linebackers are key to
Speaker 2: how this thing operates. I mentioned Bosen mac er list
Speaker 2: as linebackers and they're outstanding. They're they're pressure players this unit,
Speaker 2: Like I said, they've come up with sixteen sacks. Twelve
Speaker 2: of those sacks were just off the results of just
Speaker 2: no blitz. That's just them rushing the passer. So they're
Speaker 2: kind of like you in that way. They're they're gonna
Speaker 2: they're gonna get guys home and the secondary they're gonna
Speaker 2: play a lot of man coverage. Uh, you know, right
Speaker 2: around thirty percent of the well, I just say a lot.
Speaker 2: They're gonna play man coverage about thirty percent of the
Speaker 2: time zone or really the other seventy percent of the
Speaker 2: time when you watch them, they like to play cover
Speaker 2: two with those two safeties back in that zone. So
Speaker 2: you know, there's opportunities for some wide open throws, not
Speaker 2: as many tight window throws because of the zone. So
Speaker 2: if somebody's gonna played in a lot of zone, the
Speaker 2: Cowboys have had some pretty good success against teams that
Speaker 2: have played more zone than man. Let's see if they
Speaker 2: turn around after watching the forty nine ers play that
Speaker 2: they play more man. I don't know if that's in there,
Speaker 2: that's in their repertoire as much as their zone. They
Speaker 2: love just to play the zone coverage and then try
Speaker 2: and attack you with that front. I mentioned Bosa Mac.
Speaker 2: They cause problems.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: It's the thing with with with when you look at
Speaker 2: Khalil Mack and we were talking about it while we
Speaker 2: were off air here, it's there's so many different ways
Speaker 2: that he can rush the passer and I'm and when
Speaker 2: you watch him on tape, he covers so much ground
Speaker 2: on his first step. So the alignment or the tap
Speaker 2: are setting, but he's like on them because of just
Speaker 2: how he just is able to launch himself off the
Speaker 2: ball and then get onto the blocker and so he
Speaker 2: just doesn't want the blocker to get his hands on him.
Speaker 2: You know, that's his thing. He's going to is he stepping,
Speaker 2: He's going to swat at you. He's gonna knock your
Speaker 2: hands down. He's going to try and get to your corner.
Speaker 2: And then he's trying to get around he'll take that
Speaker 2: long step and then readirect back in the twist game.
Speaker 2: And so that's a little bit of a problem, you
Speaker 2: know when you're dealing. But he's always working up the field. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's it's really impressive to watch him play.
Speaker 2: You know, he's a veteran guy. Now they've they've done
Speaker 2: a really good job since they've lost Bosa. Here twoy
Speaker 2: tou tou a loup. I'm gonna say this right, tule
Speaker 2: Tui Puloto is the the the guy who's playing opposite
Speaker 2: Khalil Mack right now. He's a rookie out of usc
Speaker 2: and this guy is a powerful player. When you watch
Speaker 2: him play, he's really really good with his hands. He's
Speaker 2: quick to get rid of blockers. He's another one of
Speaker 2: those guys that really really attacks you. Does a really
Speaker 2: good job of setting the edge and the running game.
Speaker 2: But he could also come off the edge and a
Speaker 2: pat in the pass us. He's a spin or just
Speaker 2: flat bull rush. And we saw a little bit of
Speaker 2: some problems with Terrence Steele when he had to deal
Speaker 2: with a little bit of power. You're not gonna always
Speaker 2: bull rush Tyrant Smith, but it seems you could bull
Speaker 2: rush Terrence Steele a little bit more of the two,
Speaker 2: so you have to be alert for that they're running
Speaker 2: the run defense is when they play it. Their teams
Speaker 2: have more success running the ball on the outside than
Speaker 2: they do in the middle. Teams have averaging about five
Speaker 2: yards of carry on the outside only three yards on
Speaker 2: the inside. So Nick Williams, Austin Johnson, and rookie Scott Madlock,
Speaker 2: they've done a pretty good job of kind of playing
Speaker 2: inside and clogging things up. But it also goes back
Speaker 2: to what their linebackers are playing. And I mentioned where
Speaker 2: Mac and Bose are listed, but the inside guys are
Speaker 2: Kenneth Murphy and Keith Eric Kendricks. Excuse me. These are
Speaker 2: two veteran guys that are powerful guys that play down hill.
Speaker 2: There's some violence to their game, especially Murray, and he's
Speaker 2: a really good job. When you watch him changing directions,
Speaker 2: you know, he finds himself out of position and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden he rallies back because of his speed
Speaker 2: when he sees the ball. He does a great job
Speaker 2: of getting there finished in the place.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah he was, Yeah, he really is.
Speaker 2: His past coverage is not is good, but everything in
Speaker 2: the running game with him is like it's a physical
Speaker 2: downhill player. As I mentioned there, uh there, they have
Speaker 2: another a guy named a young guy named Nick Newman
Speaker 2: Nieman excuse me, Nick Neeman, who is the other linebacker.
Speaker 2: And he's more of the guy that will walk up
Speaker 2: and then drop or walk up blitz. Uh. He's you know,
Speaker 2: you got to kind of catch, you know, kind of
Speaker 2: keep an eye on him. He's smart, he's tough, he's
Speaker 2: got really good instinct. He's relentless to the ball, and
Speaker 2: he's really good in the anticipations, the react plays, the
Speaker 2: coverage plays, and stuff like that. So keep an eye
Speaker 2: on those linebackers, especially Murray. In the secondary, I mentioned
Speaker 2: Derwin James, He's really kind of the glue of that secondary.
Speaker 2: He's a gifted athlete. He's versatile. You can line him
Speaker 2: up anywhere at the safeties. You play him up, you
Speaker 2: play him back, you play him deep. It really doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: He's a fluid moving guy. There's no problem with him
Speaker 2: dealing with They put him in coverage with backs, tight ends,
Speaker 2: that's not an issue with him. He fits well defending
Speaker 2: the run. You'll see Number three come flying down hill
Speaker 2: and he's a really good tackler. He could be disruptive.
Speaker 2: He can make plays behind the line of scrimmage when
Speaker 2: he gets up there. So you got to be aware
Speaker 2: when three's hanging around, try and get a hat on him,
Speaker 2: because if you spill the ball one way, you know
Speaker 2: they've had some trouble on the outside. But you know
Speaker 2: they're gonna try and I have a feeling they're going
Speaker 2: to try and run him more into position and make
Speaker 2: some of those outside plays that they can. I think
Speaker 2: is Sante Samuel is their best corner on the squad.
Speaker 2: He's not the biggest guy, but he's not afraid either.
Speaker 2: You'll see him line up on both sides. I didn't
Speaker 2: see a lot of traveling. I just saw they play
Speaker 2: right and left. Some days they're on the right, or
Speaker 2: sometimes they're on the right, sometimes they're on the left.
Speaker 2: I didn't really see him traveling with you know, like
Speaker 2: they had a chance to travel with Adams with the Raiders,
Speaker 2: and you know he was matched up a little with Adams,
Speaker 2: but it was more about just Adams was on that
Speaker 2: side of the field and that's how they kind of
Speaker 2: dealt with it. Though, So a scheme requires him to
Speaker 2: play a lot of off coverage, but man, he could
Speaker 2: play man if he had to. Again, if the coaching
Speaker 2: staff decides Dallas can't get off the press, we need
Speaker 2: to press these guys, we need to attack them at
Speaker 2: the line, then he's got the capability of doing that.
Speaker 2: The guy on the other side is Michael Davis. He's
Speaker 2: a lot longer, a lot taller, but I don't think
Speaker 2: he's as good and that the build. I think his long,
Speaker 2: rangy build hurts him in his ability to move, especially
Speaker 2: in zone when they run up on him and he
Speaker 2: has to turn and then go. There's just not that
Speaker 2: burst that quickness. I mean, he's kind of a little
Speaker 2: bit of a stiff moving player that way. So maybe
Speaker 2: they'll again walk these guys up. But I think that
Speaker 2: if there was a guy to kind of go after
Speaker 2: in this game, Davis would be the guy because I
Speaker 2: look at Samuel. He's a ballhawker and and you know,
Speaker 2: when you throw the ball at stretch, you gotta be careful.
Speaker 2: He'll undercut routes, he'll jump routes, he will you know,
Speaker 2: down the field. He might be a short guy, but
Speaker 2: he does a good job of playing you and putting
Speaker 2: himself in position to make plays that well, so the
Speaker 2: nickel is j Sir Taylor. He's a little bit of
Speaker 2: like Samuel. He's a smaller guy. There's a quickness to
Speaker 2: his game, willingness to come forward and tackle us. So
Speaker 2: of the primary of the three corners that are going
Speaker 2: to play in this game, the one I would go
Speaker 2: after is Michael Davis. That's the guy that lacks the
Speaker 2: top end speed and the quickness that maybe the Cowboys
Speaker 2: could take advantage of a little bit.
Speaker 6: Let's talk a little bit about Khalil Mack. Obviously we
Speaker 6: know how good he is, but if you look back
Speaker 6: at his season so far, he had all the sacks
Speaker 6: in one game, six sacks came against the Raiders. There
Speaker 6: were three other games where he had zero r What
Speaker 6: did the other teams do? How did they keep him?
Speaker 2: The Raiders don't have a very good tackle group. That's
Speaker 2: their problem. I think the Raiders. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 2: Raiders with you know, with Colton Miller and guys like that,
Speaker 2: they're just not very good and I think they've struggled
Speaker 2: with that for a long time. The Raiders got in
Speaker 2: a situation too, where they had a rookie quarterback. We're
Speaker 2: playing in that game, so you know sometimes when you
Speaker 2: get in a situation, these tackles are not used to
Speaker 2: where quarterbacks are going to set. But they did do
Speaker 2: a very good job of handling. The thing about the
Speaker 2: Chargers pass rush is all that movement up front, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, they get guys home on the rush, But
Speaker 2: like I say, Mac to me, once they find somebody
Speaker 2: that they can deal with or somebody they can attack,
Speaker 2: they're just going to do that. I didn't think the
Speaker 2: Raider the Raider tackles were good at all, and as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, the Raider offensive line as a whole,
Speaker 2: I didn't think we're very good in this game with
Speaker 2: the pressure they gave up. Minnesota had problems with these
Speaker 2: guys too with the pass rush as well.
Speaker 6: We saw last week that Terrence Steele, particularly on the
Speaker 6: right side, had some issues trying to stop Nick Bosa.
Speaker 6: How do you compare Bosa's game to Tokli Mac's game?
Speaker 3: Is it is it a similar type rush style or
Speaker 3: is it very very different and that may help or hurt?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, steal both both guys are. I think both
Speaker 2: guys are power players. Like I say, if Bosa I
Speaker 2: said last week, if Bosa reads you setting soft he'll
Speaker 2: just take you straight to the quarterback. He'll lower his head.
Speaker 2: I think Mac is a more of a physical I
Speaker 2: mean physical when is how big he is and his
Speaker 2: ability to just play with power that way. I Bosa
Speaker 2: to me is more of a slippery player, where Mac
Speaker 2: is a guy like I said, that first step he
Speaker 2: gets on you, so now he's now he's on you,
Speaker 2: and now he's swatting hands. The really good pass rushers
Speaker 2: have that ability to kind of break down blockers that way,
Speaker 2: And with Mac, I think he does it with more power.
Speaker 2: I think Bosa does it with more slipperiness, more that
Speaker 2: of trying to like dip underneath. But it's not to
Speaker 2: say both those guys can lower their heads and take
Speaker 2: it to the quarterback if you set soft on them.
Speaker 7: I think the Cowboys, especially being that this is the
Speaker 7: second game that they'll have their full five, I think
Speaker 7: you will see a little bit more chemistry there. And
Speaker 7: this is a Chargers team that you know, while Khalil
Speaker 7: Mack cannot be underestimated and yeah, see what you're saying.
Speaker 7: The Raiders let him tee off to the tune of
Speaker 7: six sacs. But he was zero zero zero before then
Speaker 7: all of that's true, and no one is positioning it.
Speaker 7: As you know, don't worry about Khalil Mack, worry about
Speaker 7: Khalil Ax. But the fact, the fact is the fact.
Speaker 7: One is what you said. Another is that the Chargers
Speaker 7: defensive front, they only get pressure on the quarterback around
Speaker 7: thirty five percent of the time. If you want to
Speaker 7: compare that against against what the Cowboys do, the Cowboys
Speaker 7: get pressure forty five percent of the time. It's so
Speaker 7: it's not that the Chargers are insanely good at getting
Speaker 7: pressure and getting into the defensive offensive backfield. I should
Speaker 7: say it's they've been efficient with it. So they have
Speaker 7: sixteen sacks, and you can extrapolate and say, well, six
Speaker 7: of those belong against the Raiders, and that's completely fair
Speaker 7: and much the same way you could say, well, the
Speaker 7: Cowboys defensive stats got wildly skewed by what happened in
Speaker 7: San Francisco. The fact is it happened, though, right, So
Speaker 7: if it happened, it happened. So the Cowboys offensive front,
Speaker 7: I don't think they'll have as hard of a time
Speaker 7: as they had against San Francisco's front, simply because, and
Speaker 7: particularly if Joey bos is not on the field. But
Speaker 7: even if Boso it was on the field, you're not
Speaker 7: looking at a team that gets into your backfield a ton.
Speaker 4: It's just when they get.
Speaker 7: Back there, they tend to get home far more often
Speaker 7: than the Cowboys would in that same capacity, Because the
Speaker 7: Cowboys have fifteen sacks on forty five percent QB pressures
Speaker 7: sixteen sacks on thirty five percent. So you see what
Speaker 7: I mean. If the Cowboys got more efficient and got
Speaker 7: home more often when they get into the opposing backfield,
Speaker 7: then they would just be unbeatable. But kudos to the Chargers.
Speaker 7: They can get back there. But it's not a situation
Speaker 7: where Cowboys can't handle it.
Speaker 4: Like I don't.
Speaker 7: Look, I don't go into this game feeling that the
Speaker 7: Cowboys can't handle Khalil Mack and company. I feel like
Speaker 7: they can. They just need to make sure that when
Speaker 7: he's back there. Goes back to what we were talking about.
Speaker 7: Is Dak Prescott going to be more decisive and saying, Hey,
Speaker 7: this play is broken down, let me use my legs
Speaker 7: to try to keep this alive, keep this drive alive.
Speaker 8: Well that's the question. We haven't seen that yet, And
Speaker 8: one of that's best qualities is the fact that he's
Speaker 8: So what's where I'm looking for mental like.
Speaker 3: His ability to stay mentally tough.
Speaker 8: Mentally tough and he can stay in and like it
Speaker 8: doesn't really affect them. We've seen games in the past
Speaker 8: that it has. But yeah, but my thing is, how
Speaker 8: is last week's game going to affect him and the
Speaker 8: way they play, like as far as whether good or bad, Like,
Speaker 8: are they going to try to be more let him
Speaker 8: be more free and run with the ball? Is he
Speaker 8: going to take those changes chances with throwing the ball
Speaker 8: given the fact that now in that game, was it
Speaker 8: three interceptions that you got against the forty nine ers
Speaker 8: and yeah, and you can are You're like, you know,
Speaker 8: at that point you have.
Speaker 7: To take put the Cowboys in the same position the
Speaker 7: Cowboys put other teams in and said, now you have
Speaker 7: to throw the ball, and when you do, we're going.
Speaker 8: That creates a chance for sure. But it's just like
Speaker 8: where is the mentally is he adding the mental part
Speaker 8: of like he's gonna go out there and ball out
Speaker 8: and like have one of those games or is he
Speaker 8: in that mental area where it's going to do the opposite.
Speaker 8: And now you're just kind of questioning because the whole thing.
Speaker 8: I don't know the whole thing with like some of
Speaker 8: the vibes I've been getting with the play calling and
Speaker 8: people being a little disgrown tool. It's like, I don't
Speaker 8: know if that's about to become an issue or if
Speaker 8: it's just what happens. You're upset the game went the
Speaker 8: wrong way you expected to go that way, and everybody's pissed,
Speaker 8: and you're just now speaking words because out of the
Speaker 8: emotions you're going through. But I don't have a clear
Speaker 8: understanding of the current situation of where they're at right
Speaker 8: now as far as like, are they bought in to
Speaker 8: this new offense style, the what Mike McCarthy is implemented here.
Speaker 6: I mean, there have to be questions, I would think
Speaker 6: for every player on that offense. You look at the
Speaker 6: offense this year, and you look at the offense last year,
Speaker 6: which I'm sure in their minds they're at least doing,
Speaker 6: and they're saying last year seemed like we were moving
Speaker 6: the ball a little bit easier. It seems like we
Speaker 6: were getting more things to work offensively. So yeah, there
Speaker 6: have to be questions. Now, I don't know that that
Speaker 6: means that they've necessarily like he's lost the offense, and
Speaker 6: now they won't they you know, they want to go
Speaker 6: back to all but.
Speaker 3: They certainly have to have some questions.
Speaker 6: It would be natural for them to have questions at
Speaker 6: this point about what's happening and whether they think it's
Speaker 6: moving in the right direction or not. And certainly, you know,
Speaker 6: whatever level of frustration, I think that's all part of Also,
Speaker 6: when you lose a like you lost the other night,
Speaker 6: there's gonna be a lot of frustration, and you're gonna
Speaker 6: point to a lot of different things as players, and
Speaker 6: you've probably done some of that's probably gonna be like
Speaker 6: I want the ball. I think what we saw from
Speaker 6: CD was I can help us win. I'm not getting
Speaker 6: the opportunity to help us win. Makes me frustrated, right,
Speaker 6: And we heard from McCarthy, we heard Jerry on the
Speaker 6: on the fan earlier in the week.
Speaker 3: They both said the same thing, like, that's what we
Speaker 3: expect from him.
Speaker 6: He is a he's that type of player where he
Speaker 6: wants to be a part of the solution, and that's
Speaker 6: the frustration. So I think that's just the natural part
Speaker 6: of the offense not functioning as everyone expected it should.
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Speaker 6: We were in the final segment of the break. We're
Speaker 6: talking Cowboys versus Chargers. I want to talk a little
Speaker 6: bit about the offensive line. This last game, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: offensive line gave up four sacks, nine quarterback hits. On
Speaker 6: the ground, they only were allowed only able to rush
Speaker 6: nineteen times for fifty seven yards. Although I don't I
Speaker 6: think the numbers are a little misleading. There was a
Speaker 6: decent running game in that last game, But how did
Speaker 6: you guys think the offensive line for the first time
Speaker 6: of having them all together performed as a unit, and
Speaker 6: what can they build on?
Speaker 3: I guess going into this week against.
Speaker 7: The Chargers, I just felt it was a little bit disjointed,
Speaker 7: which makes sense when you consider that when was the
Speaker 7: last time the Cowboys had their whole front five, So
Speaker 7: it makes sense that they're going to need more actual
Speaker 7: game reps. And Tyler Smith before the game, he talked
Speaker 7: about how it feels good to get the rollover the
Speaker 7: training camp reps over to the regular season, and that's
Speaker 7: wonderful in theory, but when your first read season game
Speaker 7: is also against the San Francisco forty nine ers front,
Speaker 7: it's kind of like, good luck with that. So I
Speaker 7: don't They didn't fare poorly, but it was a lot
Speaker 7: of disjointed play as they tried to figure out each
Speaker 7: other's time, and particularly on the left side, as Tyler
Speaker 7: and Tyron try to get together because they've not played
Speaker 7: in that rotation at all. Obviously, Tyler Smith this is
Speaker 7: only his second year. Last year Tyrone's injury, then he
Speaker 7: was on the right tackle and all of that, and
Speaker 7: then Terrence Steele. He struggled. We talked about it. He
Speaker 7: struggled to contain on the right side. So I expect
Speaker 7: a better performance against Los Angeles second game back for
Speaker 7: this particular set up front. And also it's a Joey
Speaker 7: Bosa list team possibly likely, but even if Bosa is
Speaker 7: on the team, I mean, we've seen Terrence Steele farewell
Speaker 7: against Joey Bosa, albeit with some chip help and things
Speaker 7: like that. But I mean Terrence Steele's first start we
Speaker 7: talked about a couple times in Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: He helped negate Joey Bosa. So it can be done.
Speaker 7: Let's see what this front does with another game under
Speaker 7: its belt, because it just wasn't great. And I mean
Speaker 7: saw and it's rare that you will say this, but
Speaker 7: I even saw Zach Martin get beat a couple of times.
Speaker 7: I mean, that forty nine defensive front. They just had
Speaker 7: their way. I don't expect that you're going to continue
Speaker 7: to see Zach Martin get beaten on a week to
Speaker 7: week basis. So I think it'll be a better outing
Speaker 7: this time.
Speaker 8: That's what I was gonna say. Like to me, it
Speaker 8: was really weird coming out of that loss and seeing
Speaker 8: how they performed, because yes, we can talk about they
Speaker 8: haven't played all five together in a long time, and
Speaker 8: you do want to have that continuity and know the
Speaker 8: timing of everybody and what everybody is doing. But we've
Speaker 8: seen each individual play or play and we know what
Speaker 8: they can do. So what was odd to me is
Speaker 8: that there were so many occasions where people were getting
Speaker 8: beat one on one. You mentioned Zach Martin, Terren Steele.
Speaker 8: We saw that continuously too, and different guys, like everybody
Speaker 8: was beat at a certain time. So that was the
Speaker 8: odd part because yes, you can talk about continuity, I
Speaker 8: can't say that way, but at the same time, individual
Speaker 8: we know what that player is and what can do
Speaker 8: and what has done in the past. So how are
Speaker 8: they constantly because everybody at one point or another, just
Speaker 8: like they just didn't look like themselves individually.
Speaker 4: I think not.
Speaker 7: I think this is a fact when it comes to
Speaker 7: the offensive line, and you make a great point. Individually,
Speaker 7: each one of these guys can play at an elite level.
Speaker 7: We've seen it consistently. That's fine, but when you put
Speaker 7: them all in this particular combination, there's also timing in
Speaker 7: chemistry and there's a bit of telepathy that has to
Speaker 7: happen between you and the guy next to you to
Speaker 7: the point where, and it's only established by reps in
Speaker 7: actual game reps, to the point where if you feel
Speaker 7: like you know this guy is coming this way, I'm
Speaker 7: going to block this and hand this off because this
Speaker 7: guy is gonna take this for me because I have
Speaker 7: another blitzer here. If you do that and this guy
Speaker 7: doesn't know that you're going to do that, then that
Speaker 7: guy might end up coming free. And then now this
Speaker 7: guy comes free, and now that pressure is allowed by
Speaker 7: you and or him.
Speaker 4: So there's a whole it has to move as a unit.
Speaker 7: And that's one thing that Zach Martin talks a lot
Speaker 7: about when he talks about combo blocking with Terrence Steele
Speaker 7: and how the page that they operate on that at
Speaker 7: the moment is lacking between Tyler and Tyrone because they
Speaker 7: don't have the same number of reps, so there's not
Speaker 7: the telepathy that exists between Terrence Steele and Zach Martin
Speaker 7: and Zach Martin and Tyler Baddish does not quite exist
Speaker 7: to that level between Tyler Smith and Tyler Baddish, and
Speaker 7: not at all between Tyler Smith and Tyron Smith because
Speaker 7: they simply don't have the reps together. So individually you
Speaker 7: can be stellar, but when you have to operate as
Speaker 7: a unit, as the offensive line has to, there has
Speaker 7: to be some type of telepathy between each player to say, hey,
Speaker 7: I know what your timing is, I know what your
Speaker 7: movement is, I know what your weakness is, and I
Speaker 7: know how to mask that.
Speaker 4: And you know what mine is and you know how
Speaker 4: to mask that.
Speaker 7: So that only comes with reps, though, and the more
Speaker 7: reps they have, and that's why it's key that this
Speaker 7: unit remain healthy, because the more reps they have, the
Speaker 7: better chances they're going to have of being that formidable
Speaker 7: force in front of deck later in the season when
Speaker 7: they really have to happen.
Speaker 8: But the other part is we've seen it, and I
Speaker 8: absolutely get your point and totally agree with it. But
Speaker 8: where it's weird and odd to me, it's like we've
Speaker 8: seen the backups go in and they be okay and manageable.
Speaker 8: So you we've seen it constantly with this line having
Speaker 8: completely different components, different guys that have to go in
Speaker 8: less inexperience, let's experience guys go in and be okay,
Speaker 8: be okay, like handle it, so that That's where I'm
Speaker 8: going with the whole like, it's odd that they performed
Speaker 8: that way because everybody has had their time healthy and
Speaker 8: in there. They have the experience at a certain sorry,
Speaker 8: at a certain level, and we've seen it when backups
Speaker 8: go in and it's not and we've talked about it
Speaker 8: the earlier weeks when a few of those backups went in,
Speaker 8: Oh my god, I'm blaking and sho my doga Arizona
Speaker 8: all of those going in, and that wasn't the reason
Speaker 8: why they lost the game. They were still being able
Speaker 8: to set, would run the football and everything, which.
Speaker 7: I believe is more of a credit to those young
Speaker 7: guys stepping up and stepping stepping in and stepping up
Speaker 7: than it is to discount the point that chemistry across
Speaker 7: the line matter. So, for example, Arizona, Hoffman and TJ.
Speaker 7: Bass those are two backups, and they were playing right
Speaker 7: next to each other. Well, guess what they're doing in
Speaker 7: practice every day playing right next to each other getting
Speaker 7: second team reps. So there was already at least some
Speaker 7: type of chemistry between Hoffmann as a backup center and TJ.
Speaker 7: Basz coming in as a guard. So the chemistry definitely
Speaker 7: is there. But when you have when you have to
Speaker 7: move pieces around and it doesn't fall apart, that's.
Speaker 4: A credit to two entities.
Speaker 7: One those players that have come in and stepped up,
Speaker 7: but also the offensive line coach and his ability to
Speaker 7: put guys in the right places and when they need
Speaker 7: to be putt.
Speaker 2: You're right, Ambar. Individually, they were bad. They were bad
Speaker 2: individually that Terrence Still individually was not good in that game.
Speaker 2: Uh be Ottish wasn't good in that game for you know,
Speaker 2: it's a couple of times he struggled. Tyler Smith individually
Speaker 2: was not very good in that game. A lot I
Speaker 2: could do with that. That individually that when you have breakdowns,
Speaker 2: it's you just you're not good enough on that particular play.
Speaker 2: And I think that happened more times than not in
Speaker 2: that football game, that where they where they were able to,
Speaker 2: uh you know, when it came down to, Okay, hey
Speaker 2: we have to win this block at the point of attack,
Speaker 2: they weren't winning that block, or hey we have to
Speaker 2: be able to you know, we're gonna throw this three
Speaker 2: step drop here, We're going to run a slant or whatever.
Speaker 2: And they weren't individually good enough. I think that was
Speaker 2: a huge problem in this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you, Brian, because typically what I
Speaker 6: what I look at is like, are they are they
Speaker 6: beating them with a lot of finesse? Are they beating
Speaker 6: them with twists? And they're beating them with stunts like?
Speaker 6: That wasn't what I was seeing a lot of times.
Speaker 6: That was one time when I saw I think it
Speaker 6: was hard grading, but it was one of the defensive tackles. Literally, Yeah,
Speaker 6: there were two offensive linemen blocks split them.
Speaker 3: He split them and went and made the tackle in
Speaker 3: the backfield.
Speaker 6: Right, That ain't about anything other than like that is
Speaker 6: not about miscommunication. That to me is about the fact
Speaker 6: that you just got beat. And that's why I think
Speaker 6: in some regards we're kind of burying the lead on
Speaker 6: this on this part of the conversation, which is that
Speaker 6: defensive front.
Speaker 3: I think on that day was just better. I don't
Speaker 3: know that it was so much about You're right.
Speaker 6: I do think chemistry matters, and I think it matters
Speaker 6: a ton for an offensive line, But the fact matter
Speaker 6: is on that day, I think the problem was way
Speaker 6: more they just got out.
Speaker 4: I think the problem was everything.
Speaker 7: The problem was that this was the first time this
Speaker 7: five man Combo has seen the field for the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: In addition to look who they're going up against, arguably
Speaker 7: probably not arguably anymore the best defensive front, and that
Speaker 7: best defensive front could not have been firing on all
Speaker 7: cylinders any better than they were on Sunday.
Speaker 4: So all things that could have gone wrong went wrong.
Speaker 7: I mean, the chemistry wasn't there for the Cowboys offensive
Speaker 7: line because they haven't played this front as this front.
Speaker 7: Then you look at who they were playing, then you
Speaker 7: look at the caliber or the level at which they
Speaker 7: were playing. I mean, yeah, the chemistry wasn't there. Individuals
Speaker 7: got beat, then they got demoralized, and then it just
Speaker 7: got worse.
Speaker 2: They were better equipped to handle forty nine ers offense,
Speaker 2: excuse me, their defensive line. They physically got beat up front.
Speaker 2: That was a big, big issue in that football game.
Speaker 2: You were better at guard to handle those defensive tackles.
Speaker 2: You really didn't handle it all that well. That was
Speaker 2: a problem.
Speaker 3: All right, We appreciate you, guys, Jones. That's a rap
Speaker 3: for us. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 6: We'll dive into the Cowboys defense versus his Chargers offense.
Speaker 6: That will be a challenge and that will be a
Speaker 6: fun matchup to watch until tomorrow for Patrick Walker. Brian
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