WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Rodgers Out, Keep the Intensity High 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:04.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:06.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:16.160 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:16.720 Yes? 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:18.560 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.360 Absolutely? 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:21.480 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:21.840 Yeah? 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:23.720 And so much for that. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.160 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:34.880 Were with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:36.080 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.600 It is Tuesday, September twelfth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.760 episode number twenty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:47.120 The Break. We're a lot from s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.559 at the Star. Amber's not joining us today, but we 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.720 got the other three guys, the three of us in studio. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.480 We'll have lots to talk about today. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:56.880 We're going to do a little stroll around the NFL 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.720 and the NFC East particularly. We got some player evaluations 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.760 that we didn't get to yesterday of a few players 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.520 that had some games, some good games, some that we 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.399 probably will talk a little bit about that maybe you 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.760 want to see a little bit more from. We'll talk 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.399 about that in the second segment, and of course in 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.480 the third segment, we got our regular regular mainstay on 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.080 Tuesday's lap Coat with no c We'll get into that 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.600 in the third segment. So let's get this thing rolling. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.720 Let's first talk about the NFL and a story that 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.839 that really has transcended football to some degree. I got 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.280 a notice from I got a little push notification from CNN, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.399 and my wife said at the same time she was 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.400 getting a push notification from TMZ. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.360 Tells you a lot about our worlds, right, But yeah, 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:38.760 that's what. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.600 And they were all talking about Aaron Rodgers being gone. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:47.840 He's gone with an achilles injury. I'll throw up to 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.960 you guys to get your opinions, but I'll just say, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 first of all, last night, I would assume I'm not 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.720 the only one that just felt almost like a gut punch. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.320 Even though you're not a Jets fan. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.200 You kind of wanted to see how this thing was 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:00.640 gonna play out, and certainly didn't want to four plays 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.160 into the season figure out that he's not going to 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:03.760 be there anymore. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:04.480 What were your thoughts. 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.160 Yeah, the I thought that Robert Sala postgame handled it 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.440 very well when you listen to his comments. My experience 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.560 working in this league, and you know, Patrick, you're new 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.320 to being in the NFL, but Derek, you know you've 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.120 been here a long time as well. The thing is, 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.920 nobody feels sorry for you, have no doubt about it, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.359 you know. And nobody feels sorry for you. You know when 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.720 when when injuries like this happened, you know, it's and 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.600 and and I think Robert Sala sent the right message 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.240 to his team, you know, don't feel sorry for me, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.760 don't feel sorry for this team, feel sorry. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.320 For Aaron Rodgers. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.080 Yeah, and we could all feel that way. But in 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.919 the NFL you look at it and you go, well, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.040 that's an injury. You know, we've we've been so conditioned 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:56.360 to Jason Garrett's next man up philosophy. And but that's 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.840 that's how you have to live in the National Football League, 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.720 you know. There there's sure they they moved on, you know, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.360 if you they moved on from Zack Wilson, you know 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.880 they picked Zack Wilson second. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.200 Overall, that's the thing they have to repair. Now. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.400 Yeah, they have to fix Aaron Rodgers, but they have 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.080 to fix Zach Wilson here. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.200 So if you're the Jets, that should be your focus. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.560 But I'm looking at it like, you know what, that's 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.079 it's part of what we want. 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:26.800 That's what we deal with here in the NFL. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.600 That's you know, when you when you sit in those chairs, 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.919 you know there's a potential that you might not walk 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.240 out of this hole with your football team. And now 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.000 the Jets, and they've got a good team. The Jets 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.960 have got some skill guys. We'll talk about that this week. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.720 This will be a difficult game for the Cowboys. But 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.520 this is also the side of me. It's like, you 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.720 know what, now you're really going to see what the 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.880 New York Jets are all about. Can they withstand a 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.760 massive loss. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.640 To their team and be able to and to be 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:59.240 better for it. We'll see. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.720 It's it's one of those situations where you know, I mean, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.800 I've been covering the NFL for about ten years and 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.920 I've been an NFL fan all my life, and you know, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.920 I harken back to my childhood and you see players 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.360 like Joe Montana go to Kansas City. Then you fast 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.719 forward and you see, you know, Brett fav go to 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.800 the Jets, Tom Brady go to Tampa Bay, and now 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.320 Aaron Rodgers go to New York. Whenever you have those 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.240 future first ballot Hall of famers, make those changes, and 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.240 we'll stick to quarterback because you couldalk about mm Smith, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:28.000 but that's PTSD. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:28.680 We don't want to do that. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.120 But when you talk about these future first ballot Hall 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.960 of Fame quarterbacks making these changes and all of the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.400 pomp and circumstance and hype that builds up to it, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.200 this arguably or maybe even without argument, was one of 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.680 the more hyped up off seasons for this type of 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.440 change in the NFL. So then we only get four 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.400 snaps of Aaron Rodgers. He was pressured on two of them. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.760 It was almost two sacks. The one that was a 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.960 sack by Leon Floyd unfortunately ended his season, which then 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.880 brings question marks on did it end his career. We'll see, 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.320 you know what the future holds for Aaron Rodgers. But 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.159 I'm with Brian one hundred percent from inside the locker room. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.520 You can't feel sorry for yourself as a team. You 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.760 can't get down on yourself. So credit to the Jets 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.120 defense for stepping up and continuing to play. Credit to 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.800 Zach Wilson for stepping in and at least not giving 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.880 the game away. He had the touchdown to Garrett Wilson. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.359 But that's all that all goes to the leadership of 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.760 Robert Salad, who's just a magnificent leader of men. But 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.360 you think about it also from the capacity of a fan, 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.080 and you really have to feel like all the air 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:31.960 went out of the room if you were a Jets fan. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:34.599 And granted, the Cowboys are going to go up against 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.159 the Jets and you have that friendly banter competition things 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.719 of that nature. But I find it difficult to not 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.760 feel badly for the Jets fans because they've been waiting 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.279 so long. You're talking about the Cowboys, but the Cowboys 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.440 have five rings, and yeah, we're waiting for the draft end, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.479 but we've at least a lot of us have at 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.360 least felt that the Jets Joe Namath, I mean. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:55.920 How six years old when that happens. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.479 So this you're sixers. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.320 So this as a Jets fan, it's devastating. It's crushing, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.960 bittersweet evening. They were able to finish it on a 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.120 high note, but to get the confirmation this morning and 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.760 to see it happen in real time, I mean, you 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:11.279 had to feel like your chest got I mean your 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:12.320 heart got ripped out of your chest. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.600 For those Jets fans, it's interesting because as someone who 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.080 wants to see the Cowboys do well. When he first 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:19.720 went down, I'm like, high ankle spring I'll take a 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.960 high ankle sprain just so we don't have to play him. 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.440 But I didn't want him to be down. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:25.560 I wanted him to play this season because I mean, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.960 as a football fan, you want to watch the best 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.000 players play, right, And so that's the part that's always 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:33.360 just hardening this time of the year, particularly, is when 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.920 you see really great players on any team go down 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.159 for your own selfish reasons for whatever team you're rooting for. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:40.960 You kind of like, well, we don't have to face them, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:42.040 but the same time as football. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.080 But then also here it comes to asterisks. The Cowboys 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.520 do what we expect him to do on Sunday afternoon. 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.760 Now it's like, oh, it was against Wilson versus Aaron Rodgers. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.760 I go back to the same thing I felt going 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.159 against Tom Brady going into the Wildcard game last year. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.279 I want to play these guys because I want to 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.719 exercise these demons. And that's another gut punch for me 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.279 because I wanted to see Aaron Rodgers. I feel like 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:07.120 this defense and even this offense was primed to finally 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.000 get over that Aaron Rodgers home and we kind of 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:09.680 got robbed of it. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.280 Well, I think that if we could all go back 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.680 and remember how we felt this time last year when 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.880 Dak Prescott true was dealing. We were trying to figure 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.679 out did he break his thumb, did he break his hand? 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.120 What happens here? You know? 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.160 And and now you're thinking, okay, here's Cincinnati and Joe 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:31.560 Burrow coming to town in week two and you're thinking like, okay, ie, yeah, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.400 I guarantee you there were people. There were people, and 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.280 you're right, in my timeline, there were people that were. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.760 This season's over. Yeah, this season's over. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.080 And but you know, look what happened. Look how well 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.520 the defense picked things up? How will Cooper Rush played? 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.760 You know, it's as an NFL fan, you should still 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.840 have hope. You should still if your team is good enough, 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.240 and what we saw last night with the Jets, they're 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.640 good enough. You know that the team you might feel 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.760 sorry for if you're into drafting is the Green Bay 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.440 Packers because the Green Bay Packers were thinking they were 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.640 gonna get a first round pick from Aaron Rodgers and 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.320 now they get a second round pick. So you know, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.320 with him not playing more than seventy percent of the games. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.280 So as a Packer fan in the Packer organization, you're 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.640 probably damn you're doing that. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.480 But as as a whole, I think the Jets. 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.040 I think the Jets could be very similar to what 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.760 the Cowboys were last year. You know, if they'll figure 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.160 out a way to run the football, play within what 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.800 they can do with you know, with their quarterback with 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.760 Zach Wilson, and their defense will find a way to shine. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.040 Yeah. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:39.560 I think the worst thing the Cowboys can do at 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.760 this point is to underestimate the Jets. No, not at all, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.880 a way too talented. You do not want to underestimated 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.240 the defense team that has a great defense, because defense, 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.520 as we know it's it's said all the time, but 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.400 it really is true. Defense does win championships. If you 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.319 have a great defense, you can be in every single 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.280 game and all it takes is to play here, play there, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:08:59.400 and you can win that game. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.720 As we saw that well you saw Buffalo last night 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:02.720 just turned the ball over. 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:05.319 Yeah, you know, and that ultimately led to the end 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.120 of the end of their their opportunity to win the game. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.560 You know, with this, but that's what the Jets do. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.680 The Jets, you know, we'll get into them more this week. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.000 But they they create opportunities and they will continue to 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.000 find ways. And I think maybe the one thing for 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.680 Zach Wilson him working this summer with Aaron Rodgers and 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.640 Aaron Rodgers at one time wasn't. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.560 The most touchy feely guy. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.040 He's not the you know, he wasn't, but he he 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:34.360 really did embrace Zack Wilson. And maybe you Zach Wilson 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.840 learned some things along the way here, you know, and 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.560 maybe his teammates will. But there's there's going to have 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.640 to be some repair in the Jets organization when it 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:43.800 comes to Zach Wilson. 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.320 You know, they they they did. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.880 They basically said, hey, we're going to go get Aaron 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.880 Rodgers and he is going to be our quarterback. So 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.719 now it's a little bit about okay, well, you know, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.440 here we are and Zach Wilson, I'm sure he's better 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.440 prepared now than it was, you know, if he was 0:09:58.520 --> 0:09:59.160 going to be the starter. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:00.960 And I believe that to be the case as well. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.000 And we'll get into more of the Jets this week. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.920 But I was asked this morning on the fan, will 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.760 the Cowboys overlook the Jets now? And I don't believe 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.400 that's going to because that's not the culture in the 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.600 locker room. But I will also say for any fan 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:20.480 that wants to suddenly overlook Zach Wilson and the Jets, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.480 inclusive of their defense, go back and look at last 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.680 night's game, because Buffalo felt like once they knocked Rogers 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.040 out of the game, oh, the game was in the 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.520 bag at that point if you're Buffalo, because your defensive 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.960 front had been dominating their offensive line so forth, and 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.880 so then what happens Josh Allen One take one giveaway, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.640 There's another giveaway. Here's another giveaway, here's another giveaway. Four 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.560 giveaways on the night ends up being in overtime because 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.240 you got stuck at thirteen points, you had the Muster sixteen, 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.840 which was the field goal that got you there, and 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.760 then you lose on the walk off return for the touchdown. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.319 So any fan. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.319 That's overlooking this Jets team needs to look no further 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.520 than the psychology that the Buffalo Bills had when Aaron 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.079 Rodgers won out and what happened after that. So, as 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.280 a fan, think of it from that capacity as someone 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.840 who's walking around this building with these players in these coaches. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.679 One hundred guarantee you they're not overlooking anybody. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.320 Let's slip the conversation to the NFC East Cowboys tied 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.800 with Philadelphia and Washington at one to zero top of 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.520 the division. Both Philly and Washington won this last weekend, 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.160 although Philly did try to give that game. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.280 Away twice twice and Bill Belli just could not come 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.760 from the Patriots, and Bill Belichick allowed it to happen, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.560 which is surprising, you know, to me. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.640 He went for it. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.280 There was three opportunities that the Patriots had to get points, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.720 and to give the Eagles defense a lot of credit 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.199 on the final three, the drive that they stopped him 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.440 on fourth down that turned the ball over New England 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.800 could have kicked the field goal there, could have taken 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.680 the points and then found away with timeouts and time left, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.000 could have found a way to play defense, and ultimately, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.480 you know it, they they got the ball back twice, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.000 you know, Nick Sirianni gave it to him one time. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.480 Could have punted the ball and Mac Jones is not 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.040 going to drive the ball the link to the field 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:05.640 to get points. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.320 That's just not going to happen. So yeah, but give 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:10.120 the Eagles credit. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.800 They made two, well, actually three really good stops to 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.280 win that football game, and. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.839 The Patriots they should have if they capitalized on that 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.800 Jalen Hurts fumble, It's likely a different outcome of that game. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.000 I mean, and dan quinn talks about it all the time, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.080 like McCarthy talks about it all the time. There's one 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:29.920 it's one thing to take the ball away, which is 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.280 a huge plus, but what happens what do. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.800 You do with that takeaway after that? 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.840 Is it a defensive touchdown or does the offense go 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.960 down and make get points off of that? The Patriots 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.960 ended up not getting anything out of that, and ultimately 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:44.680 it came back to buy them in the end. But 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.800 I mean it was Jalen Hurts didn't light up the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.280 scoreboard and he had the fumble that was lost in. 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.000 I mean, you look at gain well fifty four yards rushing, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.959 which was the leader of the team, Anthony Brown and 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.800 DeVante Smith. They had pretty solid games seventy nine and 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.600 forty seven yards received and respectively, but only one receiving 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.760 touchdown between the two of them. So it was a 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.240 game that Patriots could have won. And you look at 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:07.920 the Eagles and this is who you're gonna go up 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.240 against as far as trying to take the NFC East crown. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.160 If you measure the Eagles output or what the Eagles 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.520 put on film against the Patriots versus what the Cowboys 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.160 put on film against the Giants, you could rightfully lean 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.040 right now this scale is good. I mean it's gonna 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.680 tip up and down as the season goes on, but 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.600 right now edge to the Cowboys. Just in comparing film 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:25.319 to film, you. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.120 Look at the Giants, the only team in the division 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.280 to lose, and lose in grand fashion. Might I say, 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.360 at the hands of the Cowboys. That being said, are 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.040 the Giants as bad as what we saw they are 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:34.400 the night? 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:34.600 No? 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.480 No, I don't think so either. Go ahead, Patrick, you 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:37.760 got it. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.520 No, I was gonna say absolutely not. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.679 Hashtag keep that energy is one of my main things 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:47.720 if we're going into this game constantly saying this New 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.920 York Giants team is not a pushover in this dayble era. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.520 They've shown competitiveness, They've shown they can go out there 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.560 and beat anyone you line up against, line them up against. 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:59.880 But then they get basically molly wopped by the Cowboys. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.920 Now suddenly we're going to say, oh, well, they were 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.880 never good in the first place. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.800 That's just not accurate assessment. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.440 What the correct thing to say it will be is 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.160 that the Cowboys were just that dominant, They were just 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.480 that elite. The defense was simply that special on that 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.560 particular evening, and the Giants had no answers for it, 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:17.959 so they shrunk more and. 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:19.240 More as the game went along. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.920 I can guarantee you Da boll is going to get 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.760 in that locker room, getting those meetia rooms, get on 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:24.560 that practice field. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.280 You're not probably not going to see. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.600 The Giants get manhandled like that again at any point 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.760 this year because this serves as their wake up call. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.200 But the Cowboys were the right team to serve that 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:33.840 wake up call. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.760 Yeah, I feel like that if they go and lose 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.320 to Arizona this week, if they continue to have problems 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.320 with their offensive line, you know, then you start to 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:43.520 ask the questions. But yeah, there's some issues they have. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.280 You know, they really do struggle turning people over. They 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.120 got really no pass rush. You know, there were questions 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.400 about the Cowboys offensive line, especially inside with the doga. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.720 He answered that the questions there there were things that 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.360 the Giants just could not take advantage of. You know, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.560 they did protect. They ran the ball initially well enough, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.680 then went completely away from it. So I think the 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.920 Giants are gonna need to go back to trying to 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.960 be and who they are. You know, They've got to 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.840 realize until they get their offensive lines solidified or at 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.320 least going in the better direction, they're gonna need to 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.400 lean on Saquon Barkley running the ball and then sometimes 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.760 Daniel Jones running the ball, you know, because if they're 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.600 going to turn into just a team throwing the ball 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.200 and they do have better skill people, they better find 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.320 a way to protect. That is the biggest issue that 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.440 the Giants have right now is their offensive line isn't 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.240 good enough. But that's not a bad team by any means. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:38.360 Yeah, I agree with you. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.760 I think ultimately, to me, that was a bit of 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.080 a coaching fail in that game because I think. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:45.600 They I don't know if they panicked. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:46.960 I don't know if they just got away from the 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.880 run just because they felt like they needed to throw 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.040 the ball or wanted to throw the ball. But to me, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.880 I think they what they showed in that first series 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.160 and then to have I think it was two or 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.080 three more series, well they didn't throw it. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.920 I mean they didn't run at all. They were just throwing. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.280 Yeah, and a second series, the second series after after 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.640 the block fuel goal, they go three and out and 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.560 what do they do. They had a they had an incomplete, 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.440 they had a PBu by je Ye Thomas, and then 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.040 they had a sack by Michael Parsons and then that 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:15.720 was that was the end of what we knew is 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.520 the Giants offensive. Right, Yeah, they should have just said, okay, fine, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.280 we're down six nothing. Barkley for five, Barkley for six, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.040 Daniel Jones for seven. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.320 You know, I mean that's that's that's what they needed 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.760 to get back to. And they lost. They lost their 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:30.360 path on that. 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.120 And once you go down two touchdowns to the Cowboys, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:34.360 I think it becomes. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.880 A very very you play right into their hands. 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.720 Yeah, if you look at the Minnesota game, I don't 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.600 think Minnesota was a bad Venon was a good team 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.440 last year, but they got into a situation where they 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.000 fell down and they couldn't get back up because the 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.320 defense that's right where they want you. So I think, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.720 you know, teams, if I'm a coach from an opposing 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.160 opposing team, I don't care if I'm down two touchdowns 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.400 I'm still running the ball. I'm gonna keep forcing the 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.680 issue with the run to get myself back into the game, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.440 because if I'm going to get into just passing downs. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:00.000 You're going to lose a game. 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:02.720 You're gonna lose if it turns out to get embarrassed. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.040 Yeah, if it turns into a game where you constantly 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.480 have to drop back and throw the ball against the Cowboys, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.600 you were going to find that you're going to probably 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:10.200 lose that game. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:11.439 You're either maybe lose a quarterback. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.560 You're gonna maybe lose your quarterback, but you're probably and 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.359 you could either you're probably even turn over the ball. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.440 That the way that these guys playing the second. 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.359 This Cowboys defense to a ball constrictor. Okay, once they start, 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.800 they'll wrap themselves around you and then it's you know, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:29.000 three point le, six point le. It gets tighter, You 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.679 start to your breaths get a little bit quicker, not 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.560 panic jet, but you're like, okay, what's going on? This 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.040 is what happened with the Giants. And then all of 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.840 a sudden there's more points and more points, and you 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:38.959 can squeezes more and more. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:39.520 You can't breed. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:43.160 Suddenly it's twenty six to zero with you know, five 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.000 minutes left to play in the first half, and now 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.520 you're fighting for your life. They're choking you out, and 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.720 they're choking you out. And then over the remaining course 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.600 of the course of the remaining two and a half quarters, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.639 it's just constricted, constricted, constricted, and by the time you 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.960 get to the top of the fourth quarter, they're they're dead. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:17:59.560 They're done. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.760 I think that's how the Jets are going to have 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.879 to play the Cowboys. I think they're gonna have to 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:07.200 find a way to when we we get to that 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.119 the running aspect. But on the Cowboys, on the flip side, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.320 you've got to make that quarterback try and score points. 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.040 You know, if you put pressure on him to have 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.359 to score points. To Patrick's point, they're gonna get choked 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.080 out on that because they're they're not going to be 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.320 able to score a lot of points with that quarterback 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.760 right now as is. But uh, but the Cowboys that 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.280 that's gonna be the Really I think one of the 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.680 keys is make the make the Jets have to play 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.000 score for score with you and and I don't know 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:38.760 if they can do that. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.760 All right, We're gonna take our first break we're gonna 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:42.800 come back. We're gonna get to some player evaluations. The 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.760 first time I'm gonna throw at you guys is gonna 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.240 be Tyron Smith. I want to hear what you guys 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.320 have to say about him and how he performed in 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.080 this first game. 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I'm gonna throw 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:27.040 out a name. 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.480 In some instances, I may throw out multiple names because 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.600 they kind of aren't groups of people. Yeah, but I'm 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.119 gonna throw out a name and then I want you 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:34.800 guys to just riff a little bit, tell me what 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:36.760 you saw. I assume you've had a chance to kind 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:39.159 of digest and then watch the film and get an 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:40.000 idea of these guys. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.040 But let's start first with Tyron Smith. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.240 Thoughts felt like the Tyron Smith played well in this game. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:47.879 I was really worried about the potential of him and 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:52.000 Thibodeaux and Ojilari, you know, carrying him up the field. 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.680 Maybe he's not as with the ankle. What's there gonna 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:58.320 be some problems. No, the physicality was good, the set 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.840 was good, the string he plays. A couple of times 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.880 he got into space when they were able to get 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:06.480 the ball to the edge. You know, he worked well 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:10.760 inside with a Doga, you know, a Doga had his 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.560 had moments where I thought he was really really good. 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.560 So the left side, where you thought there might have 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:18.800 been a little liability over there, really played a nice game. 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:23.359 And I was expecting Thibodeaux to try and move Tyron 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:25.639 a little bit, but Tyron wasn't having any of that. 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:29.040 So it felt like a good start to his season. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:30.880 He definitely played some great football. 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.240 And like Brian said, a lot of us were wondering 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:35.040 not if he were he would play, because we were 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.439 confident he would, but you know, was he operating on 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.600 a bad wheel with that ankle sprain and going up 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.800 against o Jaalai and Thibodeaux, how would he fare? 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:43.120 And he fared extremely well. 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.960 Sixty two pass blocking reps, zero pressures allowed for Tyron Smith. 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.440 And that's in the passing game, which is just stellar football. 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:50.960 And then you look at what he was able to 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.040 do as far as effect the run game. Talk about 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:56.000 Cavante Turpin off the left end, talk about Tony Pollard 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.760 being able to operate on that side of the ball. 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.840 So for me, Tyron Smith looked every bit. It prime 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:02.960 Tyron Smith. And as long as he remains healthy, the 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.800 Cowboys should feel fantastic at that left tackle position. 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:08.200 They can get Tyler back, that's even better. Yeah, although 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:09.600 a Doga, as you mentioned. 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.680 No Adoga was you know Adoga. 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.120 What I learned is Adoga is a better guard prospect 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.600 than he is a tackle prospect. And I know there's 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.399 a lot of people saying, well, you guys owe a 0:23:20.440 --> 0:23:23.840 doga an apology, No, we owe a Dooga? What we 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.520 saw and in training camp he was not good on 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.080 that as an offensive tackle, and the Cowboys felt like, Okay, well, wait, 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:31.160 who are we going to put a guard? 0:23:31.200 --> 0:23:32.560 Well, let's put a dogat guard. 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:36.359 Jerry Jones talked about it in the pregame show and 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.159 and Mike McCarthy did it with us at one oh 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.120 five three the fan before the game, about the versatility 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.760 of some of his offensive linemen. The Cowboys always believe 0:23:43.840 --> 0:23:45.600 in to be able to cross train and if a 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:47.639 guy could play tackle, he could play guard, maybe he 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:50.160 can play center. So you know, those are the kinds 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:52.560 of things that you need to see. He obviously, to me, 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.480 is a better guard than he is a tackle. 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:55.960 Prospect. 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:57.720 Le bro say, I mean, at the end of the day, 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.680 you are what you show, And in training camp he 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:01.520 didn't show was much of anything. And then he had 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.919 the injury lating training camp. But we said on the 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.160 same panel and we said that we hope he goes 0:24:06.160 --> 0:24:08.639 out and he shows something different right against the Giants, 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:10.520 and guess what he did in the next morning. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:11.840 We made sure we give him his roses. 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.160 So next name Layton Vandersh. 0:24:14.560 --> 0:24:16.960 I'll tell you what I liked watching Layton Vanderresh play 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.199 in this game because to me, what when the confidence 0:24:20.280 --> 0:24:22.840 that he plays with and you could tell the guys 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:25.560 around him play with the confidence. I felt like that 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.240 Vandersh the way he's able to get to the ball, 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.560 the way he's able to play and help and coverage. 0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:33.040 You know, you watch him and with the with the 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.920 way the pressure was, the drops and things like that. 0:24:36.480 --> 0:24:39.560 Daniel Jones's eye level was down anyway he was looking 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:41.920 at the rush. But with Vandersh, I didn't feel like 0:24:42.040 --> 0:24:44.600 there was any gaps or anything like that. The cross 0:24:44.640 --> 0:24:48.399 and stuff they handled, anything that was dealt in the 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:50.879 middle of the field, anything in the running game. He 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:53.240 stepped up the first series I thought. I felt like 0:24:53.320 --> 0:24:56.479 that that the scheme wise, the Giants had done some 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:58.880 things to them. Came off the ball a little bit better, 0:24:59.200 --> 0:25:01.879 got into those guys a little bit more than probably 0:25:01.920 --> 0:25:02.880 that they were ready for. 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:04.400 But as a game, wore. 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.399 On Layton did a better job of playing with his hands, 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:08.879 getting off blocks and then getting to where he needed 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:09.080 to be. 0:25:09.400 --> 0:25:11.879 I love what I saw from Lve. He was my 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:14.760 marque matchup against Saquon Barkley. Going into this game, I 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:16.560 said that he was going to be paramount, he and 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:20.040 DeMont Clark and playing sideline the sideline and containing Saquon. 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:21.919 Barkley, and he helped do just that. 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:25.000 And he finished the night with, you know, six meaningful tackles, 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:27.280 because not every tackle is meaningful, but all of his 0:25:27.400 --> 0:25:29.959 were third most on the team, behind only jay Ron 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:32.240 Curse and Marquise Bell. The safety unit had themselves a 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:34.800 day as well. But what I also saw from Layton 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:37.560 Vandersch was versatility, because this is something that I pointed 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.040 out over the course of OTA's mini camp and training camp. 0:25:40.240 --> 0:25:43.160 At one point, dan Quinn deployed a scheme that had 0:25:43.280 --> 0:25:46.000 Michael Parsons at zero tech and you had LV rushing 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.800 off the edge. Now that play almost worked if not 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:52.640 for Jones's mobility breaking contained on his left side, which 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:55.040 is the Cowboys right side. But you saw Layton van 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:57.119 Dersh flying all over the field. You saw his versatility. 0:25:57.160 --> 0:25:59.840 I love what he put on film this past Sunday. 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:00.240 Yeah. 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:02.040 One thing to note that you were talking about the 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:04.400 what they did in that first series. Jerry talked about 0:26:04.440 --> 0:26:06.879 it this morning on his radio show and said he 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:09.199 thinks that they actually got taken off guard a little bit. 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:11.399 It is they used some different blockings scheme. 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.320 Maybe that's what they'd showed shown before on tape, and 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:17.800 but they made an adjustments and uh, and I do 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:19.560 think that the Giants went away from the run. I 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:21.920 also think the Cowboys made some adjustments. You can buy 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:24.359 those two things, and it worked out well for the Cowboys. 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:27.320 Right constrictor yeah, all right? 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:27.960 Next name. 0:26:28.440 --> 0:26:31.479 Actually this is a guy that played a little bit 0:26:31.520 --> 0:26:33.320 more than we've been used to seeing him play, particularly 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:34.440 on the offensive side of the ball. 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:35.359 Cavante Turpin. 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:36.840 You know what. 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.840 It goes back to OTAs in mini camps where you 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:44.080 saw him get more opportunity. And I don't know if 0:26:44.080 --> 0:26:46.159 that had to do with some of the injuries or 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.159 some of the what was going on in OTA's with 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:50.880 the wide receivers, or they were just holding guys out, 0:26:51.240 --> 0:26:55.520 but you did actually see him in some of the 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:59.280 scheme packages. And you know, good for the Cowboys the 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:01.880 offensive staff for trying to figure out ways to get 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:04.879 their players on the field and would terping, uh the 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:06.040 you know one of the ones. 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:07.880 Uh, it was a little bit Uh. 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.120 I wouldn't call it shocking, but to have him line 0:27:10.160 --> 0:27:13.280 up as a single back and then hand him the football, Uh, 0:27:13.320 --> 0:27:15.600 and you know, and trying to attack that way. I 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:19.760 think showed some creativity on the offensive staff. But this 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:23.080 is something that when you watch him play, you see 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:24.640 that ability to make people. 0:27:24.440 --> 0:27:26.399 Miss the wiggle. Uh you know. 0:27:26.480 --> 0:27:29.640 Sometimes he'll run to darkness, which is crazy. He'll like 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.200 like he'll like he'll find right into somebody. 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:33.400 But but but. 0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:35.600 Over running faster than you really Yeah, but it's like 0:27:35.640 --> 0:27:38.600 he's going well, that's the thing about it. I always 0:27:38.640 --> 0:27:41.040 get equated to, like, if you've ever seen a dovermin run, 0:27:41.119 --> 0:27:43.280 it's front legs go over here and back legs go 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:45.840 over here. And Turpin's a little bit like that. But 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:49.359 what you saw from him is the creativity to get 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.320 him involved in the game, not only throw him the football, 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:56.800 but hand into football. Just the quick, just initial burst 0:27:57.080 --> 0:27:59.040 to try and get okay, let's get maybe you get 0:27:59.040 --> 0:28:02.400 five six seven yard cards before the defense really has 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:03.200 a chance to react. 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:05.639 I like the versatility. I like how they used him 0:28:05.640 --> 0:28:06.320 in this past game. 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:08.479 Now, if you look at last season, Turpin comes in 0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:11.320 off of an MVP season with the USFL, jumps right 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.199 in the Cowboys training camp, and then on top of that, 0:28:14.240 --> 0:28:17.240 the Cowboys did show the willingness to utilize him on 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:20.399 offense in training camp before saying, you know what, regular season, 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:22.880 you're an ace returner and we're not using Ceedee Lamb 0:28:22.880 --> 0:28:25.840 as a returner anymore rightfully, so we have to protect 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.080 you and workload management again coming off of that USFL season, 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:34.120 now fresh rested, battery, fully recharged, and credit to Cavante 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:37.120 Turpin because I asked Mike McCarthy, you know what would 0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:39.760 be the difference outside of the workload management that could 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.440 help Cavante Turpin be utilized in this offense this year. 0:28:42.480 --> 0:28:44.280 He said he has to dive into the playbook, has 0:28:44.320 --> 0:28:46.680 to dive into the playbook. That's exactly what Cavanta has 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:49.440 done over these past several weeks, several months, and now 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.800 he's he has the coaching staff confident in the fact 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:55.720 that he understands his assignments and his reads and things 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:57.960 like that. So then you see week one, they wasted 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:01.840 no time getting Cavante. We were all wondering, what does 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:04.000 duce Vaughn look like in week one? How many reps 0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:05.920 will he get, how many touches will he get? Well, 0:29:05.960 --> 0:29:08.920 Cavante Turpin has shown that in that head to head 0:29:09.000 --> 0:29:12.840 battle to be that that change of pace back so 0:29:12.960 --> 0:29:16.040 to speak, with duce Vaughan. He has to lead three 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:19.800 carries fourteen yards, four point seven yards per carry, one touchdown. 0:29:19.880 --> 0:29:22.960 That's good stuff. On three targets he caught two of 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:25.560 them eleven yards. That's five and a half per carry 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:28.520 up per catch. Great start. So let's see how the 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:31.040 Cowboys start to mix him in more and how they 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:33.720 bounced that with duce Von. But from a Cavante Turpin standpoint, 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:36.200 and anyone who wanted to see him involved in the offense, 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:37.640 you got to love what that start looked like. 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:39.960 Hold on to that ball, bro, Yeah, hold on to 0:29:40.040 --> 0:29:40.520 that ball, right. 0:29:40.600 --> 0:29:42.720 Yeah, you know I started to think as I was 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:46.440 watching them play and watching Cavanti Turpin be involved in 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:49.000 the offense, I was just thinking to myself, I wonder 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:52.840 what would happen three years ago if Michael McCarthy was 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:56.480 coordinating the offense and you had a zeke that was 0:29:56.520 --> 0:29:58.400 doing the things that he was doing back then, and 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:01.240 you got a guy like Pollard who would be the 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:05.240 consummate gadget player, right, And it made me just because 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:08.160 you know, the joke always was for all of us, like, yeah, 0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:09.760 we'll believe it when we see it that they'll get 0:30:09.800 --> 0:30:13.200 Pollered more involved doing more things than just you know, 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:16.320 kind of being the backup to Zeke. I just wonder 0:30:16.360 --> 0:30:18.360 how much more he would have been involved in how 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:20.680 they could have used him in this offense. Because I'm 0:30:20.680 --> 0:30:22.880 looking at Turpin, I'm like, they found a role for 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.400 a guy that just has immense talent, and that's the key, 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:27.560 Like you find the talent in your guys, you stuff. 0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:30.080 It's what dan Quinn is is so great at R. 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:32.880 He finds what's your talent, and then I'm gonna exploit that. 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:34.560 I'm just gonna do all kinds of stuff to get 0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:37.520 you in your environment to do what you do best, 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:40.000 and we're gonna work it all together to where the defense. 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:40.320 Is just well. 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:43.960 The Cowboys have been looking for a Lance Dunbar since 0:30:44.040 --> 0:30:47.040 Lance Dunbar, and especially being that Lance Dunbar didn't turn 0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:48.880 into what they wanted him to be, but they've been 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:52.480 looking for that shifty, kind of gadgety guy, and maybe 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:55.080 Turpin turns into that, and maybe Vaughan does as well, 0:30:55.120 --> 0:30:57.240 and maybe it's a two headed, you know attack as 0:30:57.240 --> 0:30:59.960 far as that particular role. But yeah, I think they 0:31:00.320 --> 0:31:03.160 do a phenomenal job at saying, let's not try to 0:31:03.200 --> 0:31:06.000 make you into what we want you to be. Let's 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:08.280 acknowledge what you are and make you great at what 0:31:08.360 --> 0:31:08.640 you want. 0:31:08.840 --> 0:31:09.760 So, yeah, they're doing great. 0:31:09.760 --> 0:31:11.520 If you really want to make Jerry Jones, Matt ask 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:13.840 him if he felt like that, did he waste a 0:31:13.920 --> 0:31:15.280 Pollock's career so far? 0:31:15.760 --> 0:31:17.120 Make you mad? I asked him that question. 0:31:18.280 --> 0:31:19.760 He got a little hot, You got a little hot. 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:21.920 It's okay, But that's what you have to do. You 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:24.000 have to figure these things out. Yeah, you know, you 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:27.720 give a great example, dan Quinn. Every guy on defense 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:30.400 had to roll. Everybody had a role in that victory 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:32.960 the other night. The way they played, you know, you 0:31:33.000 --> 0:31:36.400 saw different guys, different opportunities. You know, tell me about 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:39.120 opening day if you would have thought that jan Ye 0:31:39.240 --> 0:31:41.120 Thomas was going to be in the starting lineup, Tell 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:42.520 me if you thought Belle was going to play as 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:45.920 a linebacker. Now, maybe that's because of overshown in his situation. 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:48.160 I was worried that they were going to lose the 0:31:48.240 --> 0:31:51.120 overshown package that they had in mind. But it looks 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:53.360 like they've got a couple of guys that could potentially 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:55.840 do what they want to do with overshown being gone, and. 0:31:55.880 --> 0:31:58.160 Let's not forget like the reason why they're out there 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:00.840 also is because your starter isn't there back he's going 0:32:00.920 --> 0:32:04.080 to do Donovan Wilson type things. So I just love 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:06.960 how band just coordinates this thing. He just knows how 0:32:07.040 --> 0:32:09.520 to put guys in position and have him make plays. 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:12.400 And that's that's so much about creative groove, well just 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:15.040 about the coordinator just understanding his talent. 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:18.240 And scouts really appreciate finding players for a guy like 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:20.120 Dan Quinn. And not to say they don't appreciate finding 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.600 players for offensive coach that's too. But if you know, 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:24.160 if you if you are on the road and all 0:32:24.160 --> 0:32:26.240 of a sudden, you're sitting there at Florida A and M, 0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:28.320 and you see a player and you're thinking, Dan can 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:30.720 use this guy as a linebacker. Dan could use this 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:33.720 guy as as one of those safety linebacker guys. 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:35.640 You know. Now, all of a sudden, like hey Dan. 0:32:35.600 --> 0:32:38.520 I saw a kid you know in Tallahassee that does 0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:41.320 this or does that, and it just makes it as 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:44.080 a scout, it kind of it opens up to other 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:47.800 opportunities to find players because coaches use the players the 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:48.400 way they do. 0:32:48.360 --> 0:32:51.040 The defensive side of the ball is just magnificent at 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:56.720 the primary three phases of winning on a player development standpoint, 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:59.520 So it's scouting slash. That was scouting slast, drafting right, 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:03.080 coaching and development and then scheming, you know, scheming these 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:04.840 guys and where they need to be and helping them 0:33:05.000 --> 0:33:07.160 be in positions to win. And at all three of 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:09.240 those levels, I mean talking about Al Harris and Joe 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:13.240 Witt and just they the scouts have been phenomenal. The 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:16.200 assistant coaching and position coaches have been phenomenal. And of 0:33:16.240 --> 0:33:18.120 course Dan Quinn, he's gonna Dan Quin. 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:20.000 Well, Dan, Yeah, Dan takes an active role in that. 0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:23.240 Dan's out there shoulders shoulder with the scouts and not again, 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:25.800 nothing agets Mike McCarthy and Mike does you know, his 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:28.480 job with personnel stuff. 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Weekly segment where I reach 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.759 into the proverbial lab coat, bring out one or two 0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:26.239 items that the Cowboys should focus on, be it within 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:29.839 themselves or with the upcoming opponent. And now that well, 0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:33.320 once Aaron Rodgers went down, immediately start digging into Zach Wilson, 0:36:33.960 --> 0:36:36.279 and two numbers poke their head out. 0:36:36.320 --> 0:36:37.200 So let's talk about it. 0:36:37.680 --> 0:36:39.919 Play action. So the first number is thirty nine. Second 0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:41.320 number is going to be twenty five. We'll get to 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:44.480 that in a second. Thirty nine. Thirty nine percent of 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:49.080 Zach Wilson's dropbacks are on a play action. But here's 0:36:49.120 --> 0:36:52.920 what makes that more intriguing. Only twenty one percent of 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:56.759 his total career yards are accounted for on successful play 0:36:56.760 --> 0:36:57.400 action plays. 0:36:57.680 --> 0:36:59.680 I say all of that to say I. 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:01.200 Was asked this morning on the fan, am I worried 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:04.600 about Garrett Wilson, not entirely because of the Cowboys secondary 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:08.080 Breeze Hall, Dalvin Cook, Breese Hall, Dalvin Cook. If you 0:37:08.200 --> 0:37:11.160 stop Breese Hall, who was explosive against the Bills, and 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:12.680 Dalvin Cook is still Dalvin Cook. 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:14.080 Yeah, just say the least right. 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:15.560 Tim cares one hundred and twenty seven yards. 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:20.000 Yes, then you will negate the play action period for 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:23.480 Salah and Zach Wilson. And that's taking out forty percent 0:37:24.040 --> 0:37:26.560 of their expected play calls for that young man, which 0:37:26.560 --> 0:37:28.320 then makes it that much easier to tee off on 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:32.040 him as a pass rusher. Next number twenty five. Zach 0:37:32.080 --> 0:37:34.520 Wilson in his career with the Jets and their offensive line, 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:36.960 as we saw last night, is still not great, particularly 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:40.440 at the edges. Twenty five percent of his throws when 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:43.799 under duress are categorized as bad throws. This is a 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:45.799 stat I found on Pro Football Reference. Shout out to 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.480 those guys, they do great work and bad throws are 0:37:48.480 --> 0:37:52.480 excluding spikes and throwaway, So just pure dropback throws, which 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:55.200 includes play action as well. If he's under duress, Zach 0:37:55.239 --> 0:37:59.839 Wilson throws a bad ball once out of every four attempts. 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:02.799 The Cowboys will get opportunities to take the ball away. 0:38:02.880 --> 0:38:05.440 Now some of those this is just kind of an aside. 0:38:05.600 --> 0:38:09.280 Dak Prescott bath throws thirteen point two percent for his career. 0:38:09.280 --> 0:38:11.120 Now this is since twenty eighteen when they started tracking 0:38:11.120 --> 0:38:13.839 the stat Aaron Rodgers seventeen point four eight percent, it's 0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.120 twenty eighteen, so those two are on a different planet. 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:18.279 But when you use that contextually, up against that twenty 0:38:18.320 --> 0:38:20.360 five percent which is technically twenty four point nine for 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:24.040 Zack Wilson, shut down Breese Hall and Dalvin Cook, which 0:38:24.080 --> 0:38:27.160 eliminates the play action, shrinks the playbook for Zack Wilson 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:30.680 quite a bit. And then get him under pressure situations 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:32.359 and he will throw you a bad ball once out 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:34.440 of every four times. And when he does, question is 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.120 are you going to take that ball away? 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:37.680 Yeah? 0:38:37.960 --> 0:38:40.480 I think that to me, And those are all great 0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:45.080 numbers and great ideas. The thing that I'm looking at 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:49.280 with Zach Wilson is legs no different defensive, a different 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:52.040 offensive coordinator from what we've seen last year with him, 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.680 I think, man, this is where maybe there's a little 0:38:54.680 --> 0:38:59.880 advantage for the Cowboys of Mike McCarthy's understanding of Nathaniel Hackett, 0:39:00.280 --> 0:39:02.120 and maybe they you know, and maybe they can have 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:05.919 a little bit clear Mike could help Dan and them 0:39:06.000 --> 0:39:10.160 understand what Nathaniel might be thinking that as a play caller. 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:13.640 Of all the numbers that you just said, that just 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:16.920 tells me right there, I don't need Zach Wilson throwing 0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:19.440 the ball very much. So I'm going to try and 0:39:19.480 --> 0:39:22.520 figure out ways to help him. I'm going to try 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:26.239 and make as simple throws that I can. I'm going 0:39:26.280 --> 0:39:29.239 to try and make the defense look as easy as 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:32.759 I can, because what's gonna happen is if they turn 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:35.359 if this turns into a passing game, everything you just said, 0:39:35.360 --> 0:39:37.880 Patrick is absolutely gonna happen. There's gonna be bad passes, 0:39:38.080 --> 0:39:41.560 there's gonna be turnovers, there's going to be awful football 0:39:41.600 --> 0:39:45.160 for the Jets. I think Nathaniel Hackett now understands. I 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:48.399 think having a training camp with Zach Wilson, he kind 0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:51.319 of understands now what he can and cannot do. And 0:39:51.320 --> 0:39:55.360 there's a lot of cannot do. So how do you 0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:58.400 navigate that? How do you find a way? And to me, 0:39:58.560 --> 0:40:01.440 it's Brice Hall and Dalvin Hook is what it is. 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:03.040 It's and the one. 0:40:02.840 --> 0:40:06.759 Thing the Cowboys showed that first drive that there could 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:09.319 be some problems stopping the run. You know, even if 0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:12.160 you have a compromised offensive line, and this is not 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.520 a very good offensive line. I don't think it's as 0:40:14.640 --> 0:40:16.600 weak as what we saw with the Giants and what 0:40:16.640 --> 0:40:20.040 they did, but there's some issues there. To me, it's 0:40:20.080 --> 0:40:23.400 all about Nathaniel Hackett figuring out things for Zach Wilson 0:40:23.440 --> 0:40:26.920 because all those numbers will play if they sit there 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:28.880 and say, okay, we're just going to turn into a 0:40:28.920 --> 0:40:31.080 team that's going to try and pass the ball here. 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:36.160 So this this team now, to me, turns into run first, 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:39.560 play great defense, run first, play great defense. 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:41.759 And to that point, and I will turn into Brian 0:40:41.800 --> 0:40:46.160 brought us on this one. Mobility for the quarterback, right, 0:40:46.239 --> 0:40:49.200 So the mobility of Daniel Jones was a concern right Philly. 0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:52.000 So and you saw it play out over the you know, 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:55.160 first three quarters of that opening drive against the Giants. 0:40:55.760 --> 0:40:58.920 Zach Wilson is actually slightly more mobile. Yeah, Zach Wilson 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:02.359 has thirty scrambles in his two year career and he's 0:41:02.400 --> 0:41:07.000 averaging nine yards per scramble. Daniel Jones is averaging seven 0:41:07.040 --> 0:41:11.520 point nine. So while the mobility is equivalent, Sam Wilson 0:41:11.600 --> 0:41:15.280 is actually slightly better at his escapability. Might go to athleticism, 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:17.920 might go to youth, whatever the case may be. The 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:20.799 good news is the Cowboys showed, with the assistance of 0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:23.040 the Giants changing up their play going, that they can 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.799 contain that for the course of four quarters. But when 0:41:26.800 --> 0:41:28.920 we're talking about the Jets going run first, which I 0:41:28.960 --> 0:41:31.080 agree on they will, that's going to be a part 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:32.280 of their run first dynamic. 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:37.200 I will throw monkey wrench in that first statue throughout there. 0:41:37.560 --> 0:41:39.440 The one thing that can complicate that a little bit 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:41.520 is that Garrett Wilson is a bad ball catcher. 0:41:41.960 --> 0:41:44.640 As we saw last night in that game. That was 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:47.240 not a great throw, that was great coverage. 0:41:47.760 --> 0:41:50.480 He literally was just like, Eh, give me that, and 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:51.880 he took it and it's a touchdown. 0:41:51.960 --> 0:41:52.200 Right. 0:41:52.520 --> 0:41:54.319 That's the part that I think can be a little 0:41:54.360 --> 0:41:56.040 bit of a challenge. Like again, when I was talking 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:58.040 earlier in the show and we were talking about the 0:41:58.120 --> 0:42:01.280 Jets I'm like, their defense is so good. Their defense 0:42:01.280 --> 0:42:03.319 can keep you in games, and all it takes is 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:06.520 that kind of moment where Garrett Wilson makes a bad 0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:10.040 ball throw look like a great throw and turns it 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:12.319 into a touchdown and now you're in a ball game 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:14.319 that's fair, and now you end up losing to a. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.200 Team that you probably should beat. 0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:18.560 But because their defense is so good and keeps them 0:42:18.600 --> 0:42:20.520 in the game, it just all they need is at 0:42:20.520 --> 0:42:23.040 one moment when he can catch that bad ball. 0:42:22.880 --> 0:42:25.040 And turn it into something great, one accurate. 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:27.280 And I will say this in real time. When Garrett 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:29.560 Wilson made that catch, and I even tweeted, I was like, man, 0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:30.640 what to catch? Respect? 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:32.640 Respect? Because that was ridiculous. 0:42:33.239 --> 0:42:34.760 If you go back and you look at the play, 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:37.360 I wonder if gil if that's a PBu for a 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:40.680 guy like Gilmore who rides the hip effectively, because if 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:42.440 you look at the spa scene in that corner of 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:44.480 that pipeline, I mean, I think that's a play that 0:42:44.719 --> 0:42:46.439 Gilmore has a shot on. I think that's a play 0:42:46.440 --> 0:42:49.399 that Treyvon Diggs has a shot on. So that would 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:54.759 be Garrett Wilson's ability to catch bad throws versus the 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:57.520 ability of Treyvon Diggs and Stefan Gilmore to stay on 0:42:57.560 --> 0:43:00.640 the hip of guys that girl Wilson, particularly short yarded 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:03.120 situations where there's not a lot of space for that 0:43:03.239 --> 0:43:04.160 receiver to operate. 0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:06.560 So I'm looking forward to that. I believe that that's 0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:06.879 the case. 0:43:06.960 --> 0:43:11.880 Yeah, absolutely, But if out of sixteen attempts, if there 0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:14.560 are four bad throws, not all of those throws are 0:43:14.600 --> 0:43:17.480 going to Garrett Wilson. Somebody also is going to get 0:43:17.480 --> 0:43:19.520 targeted and it's going to be a bad throw who 0:43:19.600 --> 0:43:21.800 is not a bad throw catcher like Garrett Wilson is. 0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:23.120 So the opportunities will be there. 0:43:23.480 --> 0:43:25.279 Yeah, But I do think Garrett Wilson will be a 0:43:25.280 --> 0:43:27.400 problem and we'll get into that very well as we 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:28.840 start getting into the shows. 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:30.560 I think, what are we doing tomorrow? 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:31.680 Tomorrow? Defense? 0:43:31.680 --> 0:43:34.160 Little bit of defense, and it was offense on Thursday. 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:36.080 But when we when we start talking about that, I 0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:37.640 think that's going to be a big part of it 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:41.120 is that those running backs will be huge, obviously, but 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:43.000 Garrett Wilson is a guy that's he could be a 0:43:43.000 --> 0:43:45.560 problem for you. And even whether it's a quarterback that 0:43:45.560 --> 0:43:48.919 doesn't he reminds me of of of of I'm trying 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:50.400 to think of my guy that used to be with 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:52.960 the Texans, that Hopkins. 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:53.480 Hopkins. 0:43:54.000 --> 0:43:54.759 Hopkins was the same. 0:43:55.400 --> 0:43:57.879 Yeah he's attendsee now, that same kind of guy. 0:43:58.120 --> 0:44:01.000 Yeah he had bad quarterbacks throughout the vast majority of 0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:02.799 his career, but you know what he did every year 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:04.080 still caught a bunch. 0:44:03.960 --> 0:44:06.400 Of those came for a second because Andre Johnson. 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:11.400 I was like, no, no, I wouldn't make yeah Webster slaughter, right, 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:14.040 But no, I mean that's that's that's what I'm starting 0:44:14.040 --> 0:44:15.960 to get a little vibe of Garrett Wilson. He's that 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:17.719 kind of guy that doesn't matter who you put back 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:19.480 their quarterback, he's gonna make some plays. 0:44:19.440 --> 0:44:21.479 And he's gonna make his share of his fair share 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:22.040 of plays. 0:44:22.440 --> 0:44:24.080 And you got to be concerned. They're going to try 0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:26.640 and protect this quarterback. For sure, They're gonna try and 0:44:26.960 --> 0:44:29.600 ease him in, and they understand if it turns into 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:33.800 a passing game, doubts that that's the that's Dallas's advantage 0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:36.399 right there. If I'm if I'm Robert Salah, I'm going 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.239 to die on the hill of trying to run the ball, 0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:41.400 no doubt. I'm gonna try because I know, if I 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:44.600 drop back and throw the ball, bunch, I'm just like 0:44:44.640 --> 0:44:45.600 the other New York team. 0:44:45.680 --> 0:44:46.799 I'm gonna look just as bad. 0:44:47.160 --> 0:44:48.279 And you got two great running backs. 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:51.040 Why not, Like they're set up for success running the 0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:52.759 ball because they got those two backs they got. 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:56.480 Yeah, and Delvin Cook, although he you know, hasn't been 0:44:56.480 --> 0:44:58.280 successful against the dan Quinn regime. 0:44:59.320 --> 0:45:00.319 I mean, it's a team game. 0:45:00.360 --> 0:45:01.640 If you go back and you look at what Delvin 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.000 Cook was able to do as far statistically, he's put 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:06.120 up solid numbers against the Cowboys. Now, obviously it was 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:08.440 in the Vikings outfit with the Vikings offensive line. Not 0:45:08.480 --> 0:45:10.840 that they're world beaters, but you know they're, you know, 0:45:11.000 --> 0:45:12.320 arguably better than most. 0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:14.200 They got good skill there, Yeah, skills. 0:45:14.239 --> 0:45:17.440 So he's the second, he's the second, he's the second, 0:45:17.480 --> 0:45:18.080 he's the second. 0:45:19.840 --> 0:45:21.640 They can wear you down with that. We'll get into 0:45:21.640 --> 0:45:22.880 that more Thursday. 0:45:23.680 --> 0:45:26.000 Appreciate you guys, join us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll 0:45:26.000 --> 0:45:28.759 get into more talk on Cowboys versus just still that 0:45:28.800 --> 0:45:30.720 for Brian brought us to Patrick Walker and Derek Eaglston. 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:32.600 This has been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:35.080 Com Radio This has been 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:38.880 A production of dallascowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys 0:45:38.880 --> 0:45:40.720 Football Club.