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Speaker 6: It is Monday, September sixteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
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Speaker 6: gotta talk about this Cowboys get a lost yesterday. Really,
Speaker 6: it wasn't much of a game most of the game
Speaker 6: from the opening kick. I think the Saints really had
Speaker 6: their way, especially offensively with the Dallas defense. I don't
Speaker 6: think I think it was all the way until the
Speaker 6: fourth quarter before Dallas even got a stop. And what
Speaker 6: I mean by a stop is didn't allow them in
Speaker 6: the end zone, not even field goals. It was a beating,
Speaker 6: and so we'll talk about that. Let's start first, as
Speaker 6: we do every Monday, I want you to go big picture.
Speaker 6: We'll dive into the nuances of the game, but big picture,
Speaker 6: tell me what you think was the storyline of yesterday's game.
Speaker 7: We'll start with you, Nicka.
Speaker 3: Yeah, defense just getting overwhelmed, both in the past game
Speaker 3: and the run game. But I think it started in
Speaker 3: the run game. You see these guys getting absolutely assaulted
Speaker 3: at the point of attack.
Speaker 7: I mean it was it was bad.
Speaker 3: I look at the defensive interior line and I know
Speaker 3: there's a lot of still new faces there, but you
Speaker 3: bring in these two veteran guys that you would hope
Speaker 3: would have some sort of impact at least in the
Speaker 3: run game, and you just did not see that. I
Speaker 3: know we talked back at camp whenever George and Phillips
Speaker 3: was traded for from the Giants, and I was a
Speaker 3: little bit bullish on how I didn't feel like he
Speaker 3: was an effective run stopper.
Speaker 7: And I think that really.
Speaker 3: Started to rear its head yesterday, especially as that game
Speaker 3: started to wear on and and those reps started to
Speaker 3: get a little bit more taxing physically. Lin Val Joseph.
Speaker 3: He wasn't getting after it either. He was reaching at
Speaker 3: times and was just getting pulled around, and it made
Speaker 3: life really.
Speaker 7: Difficult for that second level.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's multiple snaps where you see Mary
Speaker 3: cleafel De, Marvin Overshown, Eric Kendricks trying to play two
Speaker 3: gaps while they have another guy coming on top of
Speaker 3: them to block, so they're trying to fit around the
Speaker 3: block and cover two gaps at the same time. And
Speaker 3: it just it allowed Alvin Kamara to have the day
Speaker 3: that he had four touchdowns and over one hundred and
Speaker 3: what am I looking at? One hundred and eighty all
Speaker 3: purpose yards? He had a day and I think offensively.
Speaker 3: You know I've mentioned it time and time again, but
Speaker 3: this running game needs a hard look in the mirror.
Speaker 3: It's getting to a point now to where do you
Speaker 3: feel comfortable with this running game being the statfablished product
Speaker 3: for the rest of the season. And I know it's
Speaker 3: only two games in and I know we have a
Speaker 3: limited sample size, but this is gonna be a situation
Speaker 3: where we look up in five six weeks and it's
Speaker 3: if they haven't made any changes at that point, they
Speaker 3: will have to make a change. Before it's too late,
Speaker 3: and then they're probably running up against time with the
Speaker 3: trade deadline at that point. But nevertheless, I think whenever
Speaker 3: you look at the biggest problems that this team had yesterday,
Speaker 3: I feel like it starts with stopping the run and
Speaker 3: running the ball. And it's kind of funny because I
Speaker 3: go back to mobile at the very beginning of the
Speaker 3: offseason and Jerry Jones said the two things he wants
Speaker 3: to get better at this offseason is stopping the ball
Speaker 3: and running the ball better. And those are the two
Speaker 3: things that were the biggest catalysts to the loss yesterday.
Speaker 8: What can I say? I say in this year, I
Speaker 8: was like, you know what, I'm not gonna care. I
Speaker 8: don't care.
Speaker 7: I do not care.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna handle this as a job. I'm gonna come
Speaker 8: in and do what Derek requires me to do in
Speaker 8: this job. But the reality is that I do freaking
Speaker 8: care and every time, like, I'm still finding myself getting
Speaker 8: upset because and I'm gonna divide it into two parts.
Speaker 8: Let's start with the offense. The offense, I know what
Speaker 8: I saw last week, so what they did this week
Speaker 8: didn't necessarily surprise me. I did expect them to be
Speaker 8: a lot better, especially playing at home second week. I
Speaker 8: expected the offense to be more in sync and just
Speaker 8: get into the end zone more times. But it was
Speaker 8: very similar to what happened in Cleveland, where they just
Speaker 8: could not produce offensively. They got two places where they
Speaker 8: were moving the ball, but they just cannot get into
Speaker 8: the end zone. And then you got Brandon Aubrey again
Speaker 8: being the one scoring the most points for the offense.
Speaker 8: Now on the defensive side of the ball, it is
Speaker 8: extremely disappointed. Disappointing because what I saw week one was
Speaker 8: extremely exciting from the get go, from beginning to end.
Speaker 8: You saw such an aggressive defense, and then it was
Speaker 8: letely the opposite happening what we saw yesterday, just a
Speaker 8: defense that they just could not catch.
Speaker 7: A break and.
Speaker 8: There were a lot of mistackles. You saw it, people
Speaker 8: just not being on time where they needed to be.
Speaker 8: It's just like the New Orleans offense were just so
Speaker 8: much more ahead. They just had so much more juice
Speaker 8: to them, and we're playing such a much faster football,
Speaker 8: such a much faster game, and so that's that's the
Speaker 8: most disappointing part. That, at least the side of the
Speaker 8: ball that I expected to be a lot better once again.
Speaker 8: They just cannot handle the running game. It's just it's
Speaker 8: gonna be a problem again. And what's troubling is like,
Speaker 8: I don't know how you fix that right now. You know,
Speaker 8: you brought in size. We talked about it last week.
Speaker 8: You bringing guys that have the size, and you expect
Speaker 8: it to be better. And it's just a very disappointing
Speaker 8: performance of a Mike Zimmer defense that I expected to
Speaker 8: be so much better.
Speaker 2: They didn't respect the right side of your defense in
Speaker 2: this game at all. And the way they formationed you,
Speaker 2: and then the way they ran the ball and the
Speaker 2: success that they were able to have very simple with
Speaker 2: the toss sweeps and things like that to able to
Speaker 2: get to the perimeter. You know, the right side of
Speaker 2: the defense has been a little bit of a problem.
Speaker 2: You know, we've seen We've seen Lords play over there.
Speaker 2: He got blocked a couple different times on the crack
Speaker 2: on the crack toss. They got Parsons blocked over there.
Speaker 2: Everybody that played off that right edge had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a problem. If you're going to stop the
Speaker 2: run for the Dallas Cowboys, your linebackers are going to
Speaker 2: have to do it, no one else is going to
Speaker 2: be able to do it. And the Saints did a
Speaker 2: really nice job of getting blockers up onto your linebackers,
Speaker 2: and so really kind of starts with the defensive tackles,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned. So if they secure the defensive tackles quickly,
Speaker 2: and now that allows the guards to get up on
Speaker 2: the linebackers. Every one of these cowboy linebackers were having
Speaker 2: to fight blocks the whole and they over ransom plays.
Speaker 2: You ask, well, where was overshown in this game? Overshown
Speaker 2: is not a nickel player. Well's that's I mean, he's
Speaker 2: not He's not a bass player. Leah Fallo is your
Speaker 2: base linebacker. And so if you get into if Dallas
Speaker 2: plays nickel, and this is what the Saints do to you.
Speaker 2: They get in twenty one personnel, two backs, one tight end,
Speaker 2: they get in twenty two personnel, two backs, two tight ends,
Speaker 2: and they make you play base defense the whole game.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, you know a lot
Speaker 2: of teams are so used to playing nickel and having
Speaker 2: nickel fits, so all of a sudden, now you're playing
Speaker 2: with rookie like Lea Foul and he's fighting blocks. Kendricks
Speaker 2: who makes a million tackles in week one, has to
Speaker 2: make a ton of tackles. They can't get him to
Speaker 2: the ball. The screenplay fifty seven yard screen great call,
Speaker 2: blitz coming from the right. All of a sudden they
Speaker 2: slipped the screen to the left. You're thinking, well, wait,
Speaker 2: brought us Wait, why isn't why isn't Micah on Kamara there? Well,
Speaker 2: it's Kendrick's on Kamara. I'll take that in space. That's
Speaker 2: a linebacker on a legitimate big time back. I think
Speaker 2: I'd be okay. Carbridge, boll overrun the play. You know,
Speaker 2: these are the kinds of things. Run the ball, the
Speaker 2: outside tanks, the right end tank. Seeing this a million times,
Speaker 2: crack crack, crack. You know, he jumps outside and he's
Speaker 2: able to kind of maybe make the ball come back
Speaker 2: inside or they get bodies over there. He gets cracked.
Speaker 2: Now the corner gets gets blocked out. They did a
Speaker 2: great job of getting blockers on defenders and then Kamara
Speaker 2: making somebody miss, and that was that was a big
Speaker 2: part of your game for them. It's pretty simple. The
Speaker 2: toss plays. They did not respect your perimeter of your defense,
Speaker 2: and they felt like that they could control the edge
Speaker 2: and then seal everybody to the inside, and they were
Speaker 2: very successful doing that. I mean again, I mentioned Kamara
Speaker 2: eleven attempts on the outside left for seventy seven yards
Speaker 2: and two touchdowns. That's that's digside over there, and we're
Speaker 2: talking to We've talked about that before, even when Dallas
Speaker 2: didn't play the run very well. What was it? We've
Speaker 2: mentioned this. They take care of the end, and this
Speaker 2: is when they were played a ton of dime. They
Speaker 2: take care of the end. They can't get the safety
Speaker 2: in the fill in the alley and they kicked digs,
Speaker 2: you know. I mean, that's that's that's where they're at.
Speaker 2: They're like, hey, they're still not good enough. We're going
Speaker 2: to take a chance that they're going to not be
Speaker 2: good enough on their right side.
Speaker 6: So let me ask you, I should we be at
Speaker 6: this point having more conversations about the safeties even and
Speaker 6: not maybe fix on those gaps. I know yesterday that
Speaker 6: big long touchdown. Yeah, both your safeties are back there.
Speaker 6: You gotta be able to run with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. You know what happens to you, though,
Speaker 2: is the Saints create windows when they throw the ball
Speaker 2: the early, the very early down when they threw the
Speaker 2: ball to Shaheed for nine yards. Okay, what did we
Speaker 2: talk about in Carolina? They did in week one They
Speaker 2: motioned Kamara to get the space and then sit the
Speaker 2: guy right in the middle. Well, what did they do
Speaker 2: in this game? They faked the screen going left, They
Speaker 2: took the they took Taysom Hill and a blocker and
Speaker 2: moved it and that created space. Now your guys are
Speaker 2: reading flowing boom. That thing opens up there. Now the
Speaker 2: ball that goes down the field, the deep pass, Okay,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a cover. It's a cover too. Look,
Speaker 2: Carson has got to jam that guy. Carson cannot let
Speaker 2: Shahid just run duck him and run vertical on the
Speaker 2: safeties like that. Yeah, So you know there's things that
Speaker 2: you have to do in order to play good defense.
Speaker 2: If your technique says, jam that guy, what happens if
Speaker 2: you jam him, well you get you get a rusher
Speaker 2: that almost gets home. You know, cars standing there in
Speaker 2: the middle of the pocket. And if he has if
Speaker 2: he has to wait on Shahee to clear, then they're
Speaker 2: going to maybe that's going to be a sack, a
Speaker 2: hit ball in the air. Just just that, just that
Speaker 2: not getting a jam off the line of scrimmage, allow
Speaker 2: the guy who could really run to get on your safeties.
Speaker 2: That's that's just the kind of the things that happens
Speaker 2: to this team when they're there's some physical problems, don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong, but there's also problems that they have
Speaker 2: when it comes to playing the scheme.
Speaker 7: Yeah, o diggi'szel almost got home on that play. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it was. But it was a beautiful ball, hell of
Speaker 7: the ball.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And it was so interesting I saw. I noticed
Speaker 6: early in the first drive. What they did was they
Speaker 6: were running those crossing routes and they hit Dallas twice
Speaker 6: on those crossing routes.
Speaker 2: Dallas was in man.
Speaker 6: My guess is at that point they were like, okay,
Speaker 6: let's let's back away maybe from trying to try to
Speaker 6: do as much man, because they're beating us on these
Speaker 6: crossing routs. You go to cover two, as you said,
Speaker 6: and then here we go right up the right. You
Speaker 6: get a flit the safety.
Speaker 2: You get a situation too, where you're playing single high
Speaker 2: and you're playing a single high. Look, so you got
Speaker 2: Wilson in the middle of the field, you got hookers
Speaker 2: down taking taking the tight end, and so now you
Speaker 2: got the single high. Look, well, what happens in Hooker
Speaker 2: gets hookers out and then the cross I mean the
Speaker 2: route comes behind behind that. So they carry, they carry
Speaker 2: Wilson deep and they run the route. And what happened
Speaker 2: is Dix is playing at depth right, and there's not
Speaker 2: just a way for him. If there's no way, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's a free run inside. And so you're like going,
Speaker 2: whoa look out? You know?
Speaker 6: Is that is that a skime problem? That's I mean,
Speaker 6: now when you're gonna play I gotta play man, you're
Speaker 6: gonna give him that much of a cushion.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be accused of being a coach guy,
Speaker 2: because I'm just telling you to me, you're asking Digs
Speaker 2: to do a lot to have to If you're going
Speaker 2: to say that's good, route has to be carried, and
Speaker 2: you're playing that thing at depth and that route is
Speaker 2: coming inside hard, that's that's that's a pretty That's a
Speaker 2: pretty tough one to play if you're playing man and
Speaker 2: you gotta trail it again, I'm not a coach. Not
Speaker 2: a coach. I'm sure there's somebody over there is gonna
Speaker 2: watch this and they're gonna go brought it to your dumbass,
Speaker 2: and that's that's fine. But to me, it seems like
Speaker 2: that that's a hard route to carry playing from depth,
Speaker 2: and it happened to like you say, it happened a
Speaker 2: couple of different times. But the Saints do a really
Speaker 2: good job of creating windows for their receivers to run into,
Speaker 2: and it gives the quarterback the opportunity to make some throws.
Speaker 7: Not only the route, but the speed of Shahed too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was a lot of times we
Speaker 3: looked up at the secondary last year and understood that
Speaker 3: they had some problems with speed guys. And no matter where,
Speaker 3: you kind of see some guys come out, see some
Speaker 3: guys come in. I mean, compared to what that season
Speaker 3: looked like last year, you don't have Gilmour Bland on
Speaker 3: the field, but you have Digs and Carson. So where
Speaker 3: where does this kind of come into play? Are just
Speaker 3: all these guys bad at covering speed? And I think
Speaker 3: I think we're getting to a point to where we
Speaker 3: probably need to identify that just because I mean, you
Speaker 3: look at Rashid Shahed in this game, you call back
Speaker 3: to oh, I'm forgetting his name from the Arizona game
Speaker 3: last year that had a huge, huge day.
Speaker 7: Greg Dortch, I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's Brown also too, right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And so I just think I think whenever you
Speaker 3: look at these speed type weapons, it's it's going to
Speaker 3: be a problem for the Dallas evens.
Speaker 8: Well looking at I was gonna say, looking some of
Speaker 8: the secondary guys and in a cornerback when you're watching
Speaker 8: this of the film and they're having depending on the
Speaker 8: routes that was being run and they're having to make
Speaker 8: the cut to adjust and follow that cut right there,
Speaker 8: slows them down so much to like the adjustment, and
Speaker 8: it creates so much separation. And you see some of
Speaker 8: these receivers and you talk about speed, I mean, that's
Speaker 8: the main thing that stood out from the offense that
Speaker 8: the Dallas defense just could not catch up. They were
Speaker 8: so much faster in every single play, whether it was
Speaker 8: running the ball or throw in in the passing game,
Speaker 8: and even then, like I said, just making those adjustments,
Speaker 8: they just could not could not follow there exactly and
Speaker 8: so much separation.
Speaker 3: To that exact point, there was a there was a
Speaker 3: play where Diggs was giving Shaheed quite a bit of
Speaker 3: depth and she he broke and Digs anticipated that he
Speaker 3: was going to come at him. Oh yeah, by the
Speaker 3: time he broke, there was probably seven yards in the
Speaker 3: tow so much I'm trying to find the exact play,
Speaker 3: but she ended up getting like twenty yards on that play.
Speaker 7: So it's it's just it's tough.
Speaker 2: You know, I know every but he made some offensive
Speaker 2: comments as well about it the running game. The game
Speaker 2: was out of hand. Their running game wasn't gonna help you.
Speaker 2: I think the red zone offense needs to be examined.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: And that's where that's to me. If you're gonna say,
Speaker 2: as Ambar in her assessment was talking about moving the
Speaker 2: ball and getting it. Now it turns into Aubrey kicking
Speaker 2: field goals, you need to look at where you are
Speaker 2: offensively in the red zone. The running game, I think
Speaker 2: it is what it is right now. But the red
Speaker 2: zone offense, to me, is a bigger issue than what
Speaker 2: their running game is.
Speaker 6: And we're gonna get to that that there are some
Speaker 6: when we start digging into the offense, that team seems
Speaker 6: to be the stark difference there because the game would
Speaker 6: have obviously much closer. I'm not sure Dallas would have
Speaker 6: known with the defensive effort they had yesterday, but certainly
Speaker 6: would have been much more of a ball game if
Speaker 6: your offense could have scored more touchdowns in the inn
Speaker 6: than that.
Speaker 2: You needed to stay with them in that game and
Speaker 2: pray you were going to get a stop. And you
Speaker 2: didn't get a stop, so that that was the problem.
Speaker 2: You're going to need stops. You didn't get him. But
Speaker 2: they also left some plays on the field. The wheel
Speaker 2: route could have been a touchdown if the balls thrown
Speaker 2: out there. We saw the one where Lamb had an
Speaker 2: inside route that was a misconnection that could have been
Speaker 2: a touchdown. They left some They left some big plays
Speaker 2: out on that field.
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Speaker 6: we come back. I do real quick before we move
Speaker 6: to our attention to the offense. I do want to
Speaker 6: talk about the pass rush for the Cowboys and maybe
Speaker 6: the non existence of the pass rush. We'll do that
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Speaker 6: talk about the pass rush yesterday. And I know that
Speaker 6: a lot of this has to be prefaced with the
Speaker 6: fact that New Orleans had a good game plan for
Speaker 6: getting rid of the ball quick and when they didn't,
Speaker 6: they would max protect to be able to give themselves time.
Speaker 6: They have two guys out in a route and they
Speaker 6: would try to do it that way. So they had
Speaker 6: a good game plan going in, but didn't seem like
Speaker 6: the Cowboys put much pressure on them at all, even
Speaker 6: in situations where maybe there were plays where there wasn't
Speaker 6: there wasn't you know, Max protect or plays where they
Speaker 6: didn't get rid of the ball quick and Dallas still
Speaker 6: wasn't able to manufacture the kind of pressure that we've
Speaker 6: seen them put on other teams. What did you guys
Speaker 6: see from the standpoint in the pass rushing their ability
Speaker 6: to affect the passer?
Speaker 3: For me, I think the Saints were really creative in
Speaker 3: attacking the cowboys best pass rushers, and for me, I
Speaker 3: was I was seeing it in the first half and
Speaker 3: them specifically going after number eleven, understanding where he was
Speaker 3: pre snap and motioning over a tight end to go
Speaker 3: give a tackle help And on a couple of occasions
Speaker 3: which I thought this was this was pretty interesting.
Speaker 7: They would have a guy in the slot.
Speaker 3: It could be it could be Shaheed, it could be
Speaker 3: a Lave or it could be Kamara as well. They
Speaker 3: would motion him over snap the ball right as he
Speaker 3: was crossing the right guard. Let's say, if Mike is
Speaker 3: coming off the left side and as he's running his route,
Speaker 3: he's gonna chip him on the way out and it
Speaker 3: would just crumble Micah and so like he would be
Speaker 3: crumbled at the top of the at the beginning of
Speaker 3: the play, at the at the point of the snap,
Speaker 3: and he's trying to attack the left tackle, and even
Speaker 3: if he does get around him, by that point, it's
Speaker 3: already three and a half seconds into the play in
Speaker 3: Shaheed's eighty yards downfield.
Speaker 7: So it's it's it was.
Speaker 3: It was an interesting attack of how they went after Micah,
Speaker 3: but it was a very intentional effort that they did
Speaker 3: pre snap, and you see them calling out things pre
Speaker 3: snap and pointing out eleven pre snap almost every single play.
Speaker 7: I think they did a good job just washing him out.
Speaker 3: And I think whenever you look at the run game,
Speaker 3: I mean, I talked about it a little bit previous
Speaker 3: in the previous segment, there was just no push generated
Speaker 3: at all. But I think when you look at the
Speaker 3: demarkets Lawrence case in particular, they're putting two guys on
Speaker 3: him in the run game almost every single snap, And
Speaker 3: so it was they did a really good job understanding
Speaker 3: where eleven was on pass downs and where ninety was
Speaker 3: on rundowns, and they attacked both of those guys and
Speaker 3: their plan was perfectly executed.
Speaker 7: I mean, neither of those guys got any sort of push.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really when you start to talk about,
Speaker 2: you know, playing with the tight ends and the full
Speaker 2: backs and stuff like that, and it was clear that
Speaker 2: there were probably some times where Micah lined up thinking
Speaker 2: he was going to get one on one and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden. You mentioned about the chips, but
Speaker 2: to me, having a wing or a tight end, a
Speaker 2: Taysom Hill or a Foster Morow lined up on the
Speaker 2: right side. So here's Parsons going to rush the opposite side.
Speaker 2: He's probably thinking, you know, okay, I'm gonna get a
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get a tackle here. But then it
Speaker 2: turns into it the snap. Here's that guy comes all
Speaker 2: the way across and and not even a motion just
Speaker 2: he immediately it's like a running back checking like inside outside,
Speaker 2: and they were able to so then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh wait a minute, this is a double now.
Speaker 2: And so they they felt comfortable, and there were a
Speaker 2: couple of times where they put a tight end over there,
Speaker 2: like Moreau, they put him in line over over Parsons
Speaker 2: and then motion and then now it's two tight ends
Speaker 2: blocking on Parsons and then it allowed Fawaka the tackle
Speaker 2: to go help elsewhere. So they they were they were
Speaker 2: kind of thinking like keep two guys on him and
Speaker 2: then and then, but don't let him, don't let him
Speaker 2: have an understanding of what was going to happen to
Speaker 2: him pre snap. Sometimes he's like, okay, there gonna double
Speaker 2: me here. And now it's like okay, I got single ball.
Speaker 2: No wait, they're gonna double me now. So they really
Speaker 2: kept him off off balance with the way that they
Speaker 2: blocked up their front.
Speaker 8: And every play. I thought it was so well designed
Speaker 8: by them. Everyone was completely in sync. And I'm talking
Speaker 8: about the Saints' offense. They and again I go back
Speaker 8: to just playing a faster game, because if you look
Speaker 8: at the at some of the film, Micah would get
Speaker 8: there where he needed to, whether it was to make
Speaker 8: the tackle, tackle the running back, or get to car,
Speaker 8: but it was just a few seconds too late. Car
Speaker 8: was just so much faster. He wouldn't hang to the
Speaker 8: ball too long. He would get rid of the ball quickly,
Speaker 8: whether it was a pass. And I thought there was
Speaker 8: along with the motion a lot of some misdirection being
Speaker 8: created when he was going to hand off the ball
Speaker 8: to the running back where it just drove everybody to
Speaker 8: the right side or the left, and then while the
Speaker 8: play was just getting created the opposite way. So I thought,
Speaker 8: I mean, credit to the Giant Giants, to the Saints offense,
Speaker 8: but I think they just they played so much faster.
Speaker 3: Quick draft show plug for Wag is so good, isn't he? Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's so good. Forty four pass snaps that he's had
Speaker 3: in his first two weeks, zero pressures allowed.
Speaker 7: He was getting affur in the run game too. That
Speaker 7: guy's a marler.
Speaker 2: What was he drafted again?
Speaker 7: First round?
Speaker 6: I know, first round?
Speaker 7: Yeah, what were they That would have been fourteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were right in the middle fourteen Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, all right, real quick, I do want to,
Speaker 6: real quick go back to the defensive tackles, and I'm
Speaker 6: looking at the guys that the Cowboys brought in. Phillips
Speaker 6: and Joseph neither really got a training camp. Is there
Speaker 6: any chance, like, as you're looking at this, is there
Speaker 6: any chance that fans should believe that this is about time.
Speaker 6: Those guys have to work up, work in and they'll
Speaker 6: get better as the season go on goes on, Or
Speaker 6: do you think that this is just one of those
Speaker 6: where they just got to fair how to play better,
Speaker 6: because that doesn't necessarily factor in when you're talking about
Speaker 6: this position. This the skill set necessary to play that position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that could be said for anybody, you know,
Speaker 3: two weeks into the season. That's why, like I kind
Speaker 3: of mentioned earlier when I was talking about the offensive
Speaker 3: running game, like I understand it's only two weeks in
Speaker 3: the season. I think with this specific case, they'll looking
Speaker 3: at the defensive interior line. Yes, those two guys they
Speaker 3: got a late start, a much later start than everybody else. Granted,
Speaker 3: Linnval Joseph knows the scheme, he's been around it, and
Speaker 3: he's started he didn't start his career in the scheme,
Speaker 3: but he understands where he is in that scheme. And
Speaker 3: as far as Jordan Phillips goes, he's not really asked
Speaker 3: to do a whole lot, you know. And I think
Speaker 3: when you look at a defensive interior lineman, from my standpoint, yes,
Speaker 3: scheme matters, and yes you need to know what your
Speaker 3: responsibilities are under a certain.
Speaker 7: Scheme any given play.
Speaker 3: But I think you can look at all thirty two
Speaker 3: teams and you understand like where defensive interior lineman's responsibilities hang,
Speaker 3: and they're pretty consistent, and I don't feel like either
Speaker 3: of those two guys really matched those responsibilities yesterday. For me,
Speaker 3: it was just those guys were getting pushed at the
Speaker 3: point of attack.
Speaker 7: I mean, and that doesn't get on the ground.
Speaker 3: I mean there was one play I believe it was
Speaker 3: Kamara's first touchdown and Jordan Phillips was pushed all the
Speaker 3: way into the back of the end zone and that
Speaker 3: play started at.
Speaker 7: Like the six yard line. Yeah, I mean, it was,
Speaker 7: it was. It was.
Speaker 3: It was a rough day for Jordan Phillips in the
Speaker 3: run game. I don't want to see Jordan Phillips on
Speaker 3: rundowns anymore. That's that's how I feel.
Speaker 2: About I feel like I let folks down here a
Speaker 2: little bit because we talked about this in training camp.
Speaker 2: Because if you do watch him play at Buffalo that
Speaker 2: there were you know, the Dallas game, he was effective
Speaker 2: player there. Philadelphia played a lot better, uh Kansas City.
Speaker 2: You watch those games and you could actually see a
Speaker 2: guy that you know that that is active, plays outside
Speaker 2: the tackle box, gets up the field as a pass rusher.
Speaker 2: This doesn't even look the same player. I mean, and
Speaker 2: I wonder you know if you talk to some people
Speaker 2: in the pro personnel department with the Cowboys that they
Speaker 2: would probably feel the same way. But yeah, they really
Speaker 2: really struggled. You know, all their defensive tackles struggled yesterday
Speaker 2: in this football game, and and Phillips and Joseph and
Speaker 2: you know you're not gonna I mean, I understand the question.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to make an excuse for him because
Speaker 2: they were bad yesterday. And whether they've been in training
Speaker 2: camp or not, you know that it you have to
Speaker 2: play off blocks. You have to be able to hold up,
Speaker 2: you have to be able to turn your guy, hold
Speaker 2: him in place, allow the linebackers. Like I said, Dallas's
Speaker 2: run defense will only be as good as their linebackers are.
Speaker 2: And if their linebackers are getting blocked every single play
Speaker 2: and having to fight those blocks, Dallas will give up.
Speaker 2: They'll have more days like they did.
Speaker 3: Yesterday, not only fighting blocks, but having to play two
Speaker 3: gaps at the same time on multiple occasions. That's that's
Speaker 3: where I think I saw the biggest lack of accountability
Speaker 3: up front for the defensive line was these guys were
Speaker 3: just getting isolated and they were trying to reach around,
Speaker 3: and it was it allowed the left guard Lucas Patrick
Speaker 3: to get into the second level and just get after
Speaker 3: Marrisloulfout or get after Eric Hendricks, and those guys are
Speaker 3: trying to take on Patrick while trying to identify, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's Camerica going to come over here. It's Camerica going
Speaker 3: to come over here. And somehow he just does both
Speaker 3: at the same time because he's a really good running back.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, he just splits in half, it goes around
Speaker 3: and then comes back together. He had a hell of
Speaker 3: a day too.
Speaker 8: And again it is week two. It is week two,
Speaker 8: and now my huge believer that the more you do something,
Speaker 8: the better you're gonna get at. Obviously given no injuries
Speaker 8: or anything like that come into play, but at the
Speaker 8: same time, it is to a point where you know,
Speaker 8: I believe it when I see it, and I think
Speaker 8: that's where a lot of us are. That we expect
Speaker 8: something and then something doesn't happen, and now you're just like,
Speaker 8: there's no other there's no other thing that you can
Speaker 8: do other than sit here, hope for the best, and
Speaker 8: then take it one week at a time, one ponent
Speaker 8: at a time, because every opponent is going to be
Speaker 8: completely different.
Speaker 7: Than the prior.
Speaker 3: This should be an exciting week for this defense. It
Speaker 3: should be a very exciting week for them because all
Speaker 3: last year they were told, hey, they don't know how
Speaker 3: to respond whenever they get run down their throat, and
Speaker 3: it would happen week and week and week again. Now
Speaker 3: you have a different scheme, you have a lot of
Speaker 3: different personnel, especially on the first two levels, and you
Speaker 3: have the best running team in the NL.
Speaker 6: You're going to get challenges.
Speaker 3: Yes, Since since two thousand, if you look at any
Speaker 3: point since the year two thousand, the Ravens have the
Speaker 3: most rushing was in the NFL, like twenty thirteen to
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four Ravens, twenty ten to twenty twenty four, Rape,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four Ravens. So you're
Speaker 3: gonna get the best running team in the NFL weekend,
Speaker 3: week out, and it's an opportunity to respond. And I
Speaker 3: think you wouldn't want a bigger opportunity than this one.
Speaker 3: And it's week three. Like you said, there's still a
Speaker 3: lot of learning that can go into place. How does
Speaker 3: Mike Zimmer approach this with that team this week. They
Speaker 3: should be really excited about the opportunity.
Speaker 2: In fart, this's the more desperate team because one team
Speaker 2: is zero and two to the other didn't stop the
Speaker 2: run worth the day. They're both they're both ye And
Speaker 2: you know me, I'm the big guy of the desperate
Speaker 2: team theory, and I just kind of feel like that
Speaker 2: that both teams are desperate.
Speaker 3: They I think they really are more a little bit
Speaker 3: because they're going on the road. It would be a
Speaker 3: big win for them to carry confidence back home. I
Speaker 3: think personally the Ravens. But yes, I agree with you.
Speaker 3: Both teams are really desperate coming into this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's going to be one of those games where
Speaker 6: whoever leaves his game is not going to be in
Speaker 6: a good position moving forward. I don't think just from
Speaker 6: a psychological standpoint, it's going to be a hard, hard
Speaker 6: road at that point. All Right, we're going to take
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Speaker 2: We'll come back.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about the offensive side of the ball. There
Speaker 6: were definitely some things that they could have done better yesterday.
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Speaker 6: Final segment of the Break live from the SWBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 6: At the start, it's presented by LG. All right, let's
Speaker 6: talk about the offense side of the ball. And I
Speaker 6: don't remember the last time we've gone into the break
Speaker 6: on a Monday morning and we got to the third
Speaker 6: segment and still hadn't talked off. But we did it
Speaker 6: today because I think it was warranted. But let's talk
Speaker 6: about the offense. Dak Prescott yesterday is twenty seven thirty nine,
Speaker 6: sixty nine percent completion rate, two hundred ninety three passing yards,
Speaker 6: one touchdown, two interceptions, and a seventy eight point three rating.
Speaker 6: How would you evaluate his performance.
Speaker 3: I might be on the island here, and I'm completely
Speaker 3: okay with that. Dak was the only one that showed
Speaker 3: up yesterday. Offensively, I thought he played a fine game.
Speaker 3: He had one bad throw in my opinion, I think
Speaker 3: which one would say that was the Tyron Matthew interception.
Speaker 3: What was that third quarter? Yeah, But aside from that,
Speaker 3: I think Dak was he felt pressure. He did a
Speaker 3: good job getting away from it at times. Granted he
Speaker 3: was sacked three times. One of those obviously the fumble
Speaker 3: happened in the red zone that should have been a turnover,
Speaker 3: but Tolbert was able to fall back on top of it.
Speaker 3: But aside from that, I thought Dak did a good
Speaker 3: job of, you know, distributing the ball all the different
Speaker 3: receivers and he was able to get involved. I'll give
Speaker 3: another bad decision that I didn't love. It was the
Speaker 3: fourth down and he forced it to Brevin span Ford
Speaker 3: there in the red zone, and I don't know why
Speaker 3: you trust an unsigned or undrafted free agent in that.
Speaker 7: And then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was the first target he's had in
Speaker 3: his NFL career. So it's like, I don't know if
Speaker 3: I would have done that, But personally, I think aside
Speaker 3: from that, I think I look if I look at
Speaker 3: the connection problems that he had with CD, which it
Speaker 3: showed up on a pair of occasions, in my opinion.
Speaker 3: There was one, obviously, the touchdown ball that he would
Speaker 3: have had in the first quarter, where he anticipated Lamb
Speaker 3: to break to the pylon, and it said he broke
Speaker 3: to the goalpost, and so the ball ended up following
Speaker 3: you about seven yards away from liter.
Speaker 6: Either one of them ever clarify which was right.
Speaker 3: None of them ever clarified which was right, And I
Speaker 3: don't believe they're going to just basically.
Speaker 6: I would just assuming one of them would take credit, like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I probably should have done this. I'm not saying they
Speaker 6: would have point out the other person was wrong as
Speaker 6: much as they would have said I'm wrong, But I
Speaker 6: hadn't heard that.
Speaker 3: Dak was asked about it, he just credited to a
Speaker 3: miscommunication and trying to get on the same page problem.
Speaker 3: And then it happened on a separate occasion as well,
Speaker 3: where it was a play down the left sideline. Dak
Speaker 3: was trying to throw it up to CD. He anticipated
Speaker 3: him falling back to his left or to his right,
Speaker 3: Showld and he fell into his left shoulder, and so
Speaker 3: there was a kind of a miscommunication there and it
Speaker 3: ended up falling to the turf.
Speaker 7: Fortunately for the Cowboys, both of those fell to the turf.
Speaker 3: But I think aside from that, I didn't hate the
Speaker 3: game from Dak Prescott yesterday. He has no running game
Speaker 3: and he has a wide receiver one that he's still
Speaker 3: getting on the same page with, and I don't think
Speaker 3: that's a fault towards Dak. So I think from the
Speaker 3: offensive standpoint, whenever you look at stalling in the red zone,
Speaker 3: not having Jake Ferguson obviously is a really big factor
Speaker 3: of that, because whenever you look at where Jake Ferguson
Speaker 3: is getting the most of his money, it's inside the
Speaker 3: thirty five in my opinion, and they didn't have him
Speaker 3: in that opportunity. Luke Schoonmaker he did fine in his opportunities,
Speaker 3: but he wasn't going to be that guy. And so
Speaker 3: I think all in all, I didn't hate the day
Speaker 3: from Dak, but the offense as a whole, I don't
Speaker 3: feel like was ready to be ready to show out.
Speaker 8: I mean, I wasn't a fan of being honest of
Speaker 8: like some of the things that I've watched yesterday, and
Speaker 8: mainly one thing that I will criticize, and we'll get
Speaker 8: into the red zone and all the issues there. But
Speaker 8: as far as Dak's game, I expected him to be
Speaker 8: a lot more mobile, And I'm not trying to put
Speaker 8: everything on his back for sure, because you need everybody
Speaker 8: like you need to catch the ball. You need to
Speaker 8: be able to hopefully create some balance in the running
Speaker 8: game and get help there. Also, the O line needs
Speaker 8: to be able to protect you more and create a
Speaker 8: better pocket for you to be in it. But at
Speaker 8: the same time, given the pressures that happened, I did
Speaker 8: expect Dak to be a lot more mobile get out
Speaker 8: of the pocket, and because we've seen it happen, we've
Speaker 8: seen him be good at throwing. We've seen him be
Speaker 8: good at running with the ball, finding somebody open, and
Speaker 8: throwing it. So I think that as far as his game,
Speaker 8: that's something that lacked and I was disappointed in that,
Speaker 8: But overall, I don't know where to pinpoint the issues
Speaker 8: in the red zone.
Speaker 7: To that point.
Speaker 3: Dak was asked yesterday just about how he felt he
Speaker 3: could have been a little bit better, and he's always
Speaker 3: a guy that would just resort to, hey, I need
Speaker 3: to get to the film and see you know, ask
Speaker 3: me on Thursday. But he did say, like a thing
Speaker 3: that really stood out to him initially was the fact
Speaker 3: that he needs to use his feet more so that
Speaker 3: that's that was used in his u his press availability
Speaker 3: after he says he needs to work that.
Speaker 8: Because sometimes he was standing there like just go take
Speaker 8: off you have you have like use them you have,
Speaker 8: Like I honestly.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he got the ball to to
Speaker 2: Zeke on that one play where flips and I'm not going,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, she made chicken, you know. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: so it was you know that part of meal. Yeah,
Speaker 2: But the to me that you know there was there
Speaker 2: was a couple of times. I think the red zone offense.
Speaker 2: We're going to examine that of course, and uh, you know,
Speaker 2: and you mentioned the throat to span Ford, they double inside.
Speaker 2: There's really no word for him to go to the
Speaker 2: ball and then everybody they got it covered across the board.
Speaker 2: If I could have a couple of plays back for him,
Speaker 2: I think the Lamb one. When you talk about the miscommunication,
Speaker 2: how many times have we seen Zach zach Dak touched
Speaker 2: past the ball to the flat to Elliott and allow
Speaker 2: him to turn up. I mean there was that play
Speaker 2: the goal line. He faces pressure and it you know,
Speaker 2: usually Dak is the the king of getting it over
Speaker 2: and getting it up the field to allow his guy
Speaker 2: to get into the end zone. The ball ends up
Speaker 2: on the ground. The Saints really don't have anybody in
Speaker 2: that area. That thing might have been a walk in
Speaker 2: touchdown right there if they get the ball, if he
Speaker 2: can get the ball to Elliott the past to Rico Daddle.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that one the wheel route. They didn't get
Speaker 2: the pick, but they got enough where if the ball's
Speaker 2: up the field, he.
Speaker 6: Had a couple of steps on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Daddell could run under that. Now, again that's a
Speaker 2: back that's not Alvin Kamara running routes and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But what if I could on that place specifically, What
Speaker 3: really frustrated me about that play was Cooks is wide
Speaker 3: open over the middle for about a twenty yard game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but and I understand that that's the reach and they're
Speaker 3: trying to created had the room, right, but go to
Speaker 3: the guy who's got twenty yards of space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's there was no you're you're right, And
Speaker 2: I felt like, just looking at it some time, if
Speaker 2: you're gonna nippick some of his throws, I was thinking, bro,
Speaker 2: just hit that one in the hit that one in
Speaker 2: the gap to to the CD, hit the wheel, hit
Speaker 2: the little touch pass to Zeke, and now you're kind
Speaker 2: of like you're feeling a little bit better about Okay.
Speaker 2: Those are big time plays. Those are plays you know,
Speaker 2: if you get the ball up the field and Doddle
Speaker 2: makes the catch, I think could have been a touchdown
Speaker 2: right there, you know, and instead it's not, and and
Speaker 2: you know the interception. You know, the the second one
Speaker 2: was a complete force. The first one was you know, Brooks,
Speaker 2: he's running that route and it's gonna be a big game.
Speaker 2: I mean, Deebo, the Paulson debo is not even in
Speaker 2: the debo, is not even in the picture. But by
Speaker 2: falling down now he's in the picture.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: There were some throws that he that he made and
Speaker 2: that that were there were quality throws and then there
Speaker 2: was some just unfortunate ones that he made as well.
Speaker 6: So we're talking about the red zone yesterday, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: had five different times, sorry, five different times when they
Speaker 6: were within the New Orleans thirty four. They end up
Speaker 6: with four field goals and one turnover on downs. Three
Speaker 6: of those times they were in the red zone in
Speaker 6: those drives and still ended up with field goals. One
Speaker 6: of them they ended up with the turnover on downs.
Speaker 6: That being said, what do you think is the biggest
Speaker 6: challenge or the biggest problem for the Cowboys right now
Speaker 6: when it comes to their red zone offense?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, I don't think I have an answer for you.
Speaker 3: I could, I could look at a couple of things
Speaker 3: that have but I think it's been two different issues
Speaker 3: in both different games. I think in the Cleveland game,
Speaker 3: you had an instance where guys were on different pages
Speaker 3: as far as who okay, when you look at last season,
Speaker 3: when you look at last season, I was thinking about
Speaker 3: how exactly I want to break this down. When you
Speaker 3: look at last season and you look at the red
Speaker 3: zone threats that they had on offense, you got CD,
Speaker 3: you got Cooks, and you got Ferguson. Just talking passing wise, right,
Speaker 3: Ferguson obviously leaves late last week in the second half,
Speaker 3: Blam and Dak are still not on the same page,
Speaker 3: and then Cooks was Cooks was able to get open.
Speaker 3: He had a he had that red zone touchdown last week,
Speaker 3: so I would prove him as the exception last week specifically. Uh,
Speaker 3: but then you look into this week, you don't have Ferguson.
Speaker 3: That misconnection is still off with Lamb. Pressure was getting
Speaker 3: to Dack inside the twenty as well. They really dialed
Speaker 3: the pressure up inside the red zone, the Saints did,
Speaker 3: and I think that's what really kind of affected this
Speaker 3: game specifically. But they also didn't have the running game
Speaker 3: this week in the red zone whereas they did last week.
Speaker 3: And so it was all the same problems that you
Speaker 3: had last week in Cleveland amplified with more pressure and
Speaker 3: a lack of a running game this week against the Saints,
Speaker 3: and that's that's what created and no touchdowns.
Speaker 8: In my opinion, if this website would work, I could
Speaker 8: look at all the plays.
Speaker 12: And the.
Speaker 7: Yeah, same thing watching him watching the live game exame
Speaker 7: thing I'm like, is that thirty one.
Speaker 8: No. I don't have an answer for it just yet
Speaker 8: because I haven't been able to actually pecked all of
Speaker 8: this properly. But it is one of those things that
Speaker 8: if I'm being honest, I'm over here on my computer
Speaker 8: working and the next thing. You look up and like, oh,
Speaker 8: they're about to come off the field, defense is going
Speaker 8: back in and you're like, what the heck? How did
Speaker 8: it get that fast? Like how did that happen very fast?
Speaker 8: But to your point, it's just like I think it's
Speaker 8: the inability to run the football, an area where I
Speaker 8: think they've been very, very good in past years when
Speaker 8: they're able to get into the end zone. Is the
Speaker 8: help that comes from that running game, and we're not
Speaker 8: seeing that right now. And you talk about the misconnection
Speaker 8: with Cee Lamb, that's something that is important to know.
Speaker 8: I think they're gonna get better for sure, but Ferguson
Speaker 8: not being in the game, that's another weapon that has
Speaker 8: been very, very good for Dak in the red zone.
Speaker 8: In the red zone as well. I wonder how many
Speaker 8: touchdowns his guying from the red zone. I'm talking about
Speaker 8: Ferguson specifically, but it's just the tight end position that
Speaker 8: has come into him and to play years before that
Speaker 8: I can't imagine. But if you ask me a question
Speaker 8: and tell you exactly what's wrong, I don't know what
Speaker 8: to tell you.
Speaker 2: Tell you what execution is a big problem because how
Speaker 2: many times did they try and do something creative. They
Speaker 2: did the reverse, the flip that that they didn't block, right,
Speaker 2: they tried a they tried another flip that that Stele
Speaker 2: didn't get out and block. The sack. That the sack
Speaker 2: that that Dak took down there was when they ran
Speaker 2: five vertical. You see Cooks kind of remove himself like
Speaker 2: he he kind of goes like gets a little wider,
Speaker 2: and Dak is looking inside and he's looking at Tolbert inside,
Speaker 2: and Tolbert gets doubled and by the time he's going
Speaker 2: to maybe come back to Cooks, they already they're sacked
Speaker 2: like that. Steele has given up the inside to Granderson
Speaker 2: and then it's ball game from there. So there are
Speaker 2: things where they have it blocked. Well, the quarterback they miss.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that the little little touch pass that they
Speaker 2: didn't get to Zeke was a miss. They ran the
Speaker 2: reverse and didn't block. You know, there's things that there's
Speaker 2: uh what other things. I mean, It's just it seems
Speaker 2: like to me that they get down there and when
Speaker 2: you don't need to have a bust or something happened,
Speaker 2: it happens, and it's caused them not to have the
Speaker 2: success that that they need down there.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you, what if you're Dak Prescott going
Speaker 3: into that game yesterday, who are you relying on in
Speaker 3: the red zone you need to make a play, it's
Speaker 3: third down. Who are you relying on critically exactly? It's
Speaker 3: Cooks And he was getting he was he was getting doubled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah zone and Lamb Lamb got doubled down there too,
Speaker 2: and Lamb got whacked. I mean they they here, I
Speaker 2: mean he got whacked.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6: For me, I always look at any team that's struggling
Speaker 6: in the red zone, My first question is run. What
Speaker 6: is your running game? Yeah, because if a team is
Speaker 6: not worried about your runners, if they're not worried about
Speaker 6: you running the ball, that gives them a decided advantage
Speaker 6: because now the field is calm, and they can do
Speaker 6: a lot of different things with blitzing, they can do
Speaker 6: a lot of different things with playing coverage and muddying
Speaker 6: things up, like they can make it really tough on
Speaker 6: you when you have a compact field. And so I
Speaker 6: think this still goes back and it may not always
Speaker 6: manifest itself in that way to where you're like on
Speaker 6: the running games. Okay, but the fact is if the
Speaker 6: other team is not worried about the running game, that
Speaker 6: changes how they play you in the red zone. And
Speaker 6: that's what I start with, is I just wonder if
Speaker 6: this running game is potent enough to where it forces
Speaker 6: defenses to play them honest rather than being able to
Speaker 6: do the things they're able to do.
Speaker 2: They Yeah, you're right, And sometimes it has to do
Speaker 2: with the back too. I mean, they run the ball
Speaker 2: with Vawn for three yards on a little toss and
Speaker 2: you're like, going, oh, they didn't block it very well there,
Speaker 2: and you wonder, I mean Saints are down there running
Speaker 2: and it's seven yards a clip, you know, I mean
Speaker 2: they're scoring from twelve yards out seven yards out, and
Speaker 2: you're thinking, like, and Dallas is trying to do things
Speaker 2: kind of like smoking mirrors instead of being what you're
Speaker 2: talking about some you know, going on and running the
Speaker 2: ball and getting pushed in that.
Speaker 7: In that regard, Baltimore would never do this.
Speaker 3: But if I was Baltimore, I'm I'm coming out next
Speaker 3: week and I'm running dime until they can show it
Speaker 3: that they can run the ball.
Speaker 7: I'm running die the whole game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna force them, Please, you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 2: dare them to run the ball.
Speaker 7: Daring them to run the ball. Absolutely.
Speaker 6: I think that that would be the game plan for
Speaker 6: a lot of teams as they played Dabllas, because the
Speaker 6: last thing you want to do is just give us
Speaker 6: double lamb lamb like he can go all the way
Speaker 6: in one place. So yeah, you have to almost think
Speaker 6: about it like that. I mean, I think that that's
Speaker 6: what most teams probably have.
Speaker 3: I can hear Jerry Maddalon in the back of my voice,
Speaker 3: dime being five guys in the Boss sixteen.
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