WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: GB’s Weapons? 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.480 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:18.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let go. Are you 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.360 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.720 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.040 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:37.199 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.560 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October second, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.520 episode number fifty six. Welcome to another edition Up the Break, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.760 Real Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.720 We're gonna talk Cowboys football about forty five minutes. We 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.279 got some injury updates for you guys. Nick's gonna walk 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.240 us through some of the storylines of the week, both 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:57.960 on the Cowboys side and on the Green Bay Packer side. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.640 And Dave's gonna get to his scouting report on the 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.920 Green Bay offense. How's everybody feeling this? Moore? Good? Good, great, awesome? 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.760 So good. Let's get this thing rolling. Let's start first 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.880 with some injury updates. So it was some interesting things 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.680 we hurt this morning with in Coach Carrett's press conference. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.840 Why we through some of the injury issues with this 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.440 team right now. I'm gonna Dave do that all right, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.920 And there's a lot of it was there. Why don't 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.800 you start with Lyle Collins? That was the one that 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.160 popped off the page for me. Lyle Collins is not 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.200 practicing today. He's dealing with a back to quote Jason Garrett, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.040 which really aren't we all dealing? I mean we all 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.560 have a back, so, I mean that's really all I got. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.000 He's he's got it back. I guess, thanks, Kayden. He's 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.200 not practicing. If I had to guess, it's more maintenance 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.240 than anything else. But it's never good when you're not 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.160 out there. Connor Williams is playing some right tackle to 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:52.400 That's the part that piqued my curiosity because this team 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.920 has notoriously held to the belief that when you're talking 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.640 about offensive lineman, if you get one hurt having to 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.240 move another one that's already a starter to that position, 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.720 you've now created two problems. Jerry just said earlier this week, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.840 they don't have it. The problem is that their left 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.760 tackle is not out there either. Tyrant Smith is not practicing. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.359 He has an ankle injury. Cam Fleming is your left tackle, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.720 and I had no offense to him. But I just 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.959 don't think the Cowboys would want to throw Brandon Knight 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.520 into a game at right tackle. Um, so you gotta 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.880 do what you gotta do now keeping him on the 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.880 active roster um is I mean, if he's not ready 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.680 to play, then what's the point of keeping it? All? 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.480 They is this because in the future they think he 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:32.960 will be ready to play, and right now they just 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.760 don't think he is. Cowboys had a quarterback for about 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.400 ten years that they that they had that was kept 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.400 on the roster for a few years because he wasn't ready. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.040 Not saying Brandon Knight was Romo, but I'm just saying, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.600 you know, there's a difference between saying, yeah, he's going 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.160 to develop into something with Colombo will help him, but 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.600 right now, we don't feel like we're gonna We're gonna 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.799 let him block in front of Dak Prescott right now. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.840 He's also probably too good to be on the practice 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:01.080 squad and and and but not enough to block Preston 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.520 Smith on Sunday. So but that's also I guess that 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.400 gets back to my question. When I first heard that, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.440 it made me say if if this was something where 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.919 it was kind of for maintenance, as you mentioned, then 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.920 wouldn't they just throw Brandon Nite out there because they 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.080 expect Lyle is going to play the fact that they're 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.120 giving Connor those reps suggest to me at least that 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:23.560 maybe there's a chance that Lyle doesn't play. Well, maybe 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.160 he plays and gets banged up. Brandon Knight will be inactive, 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.000 so having him practice doesn't really do a lot. At 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.960 least Connor was able to practice some i'd write tackle, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:34.720 and then if he has to get forced into a 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.400 game because of the numbers crunch that they're going to 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.200 be in, then at least he's been able to practice something. 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.840 And it hasn't done it since his days at UT Well, 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.120 maybe did he do it in off season? Well, Garrett's 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:46.720 I was asked about that this morning. Did it for 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.840 a day in the spring, Yeah, not very much. It's 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.640 not no, not a lot um. We'll see. It's like 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.520 I said, it's not. It's never good when you're when 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.960 a guy's not out there. So that's okay, Okay, how 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.080 is this line looking like? Let's say if they were 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.400 having to lay tomorrow and I, for example, you'd have 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:08.600 Cam Fleming, Xavier Suaphilo, Travis Frederick, Zach Martin, and Connor 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.200 Williams and by the way, worse in the league than that. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.520 Probably it definitely is there, definitely is. But I think Nick, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.120 I think Craig if I'm wrong, I think you were 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.360 talking about how you're a little bit concerned about Zach 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.720 and just kind of is there something? Is everything? Well, 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.440 just the fact that he's you know, not practice and 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.040 as as much now he is practicing today, which is big, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:29.880 and it might be one of those things like you 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:31.720 know that veteran day off we're gonna give you, but 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.360 not today. He is going to be limited and that's 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:39.000 normal for this season. Um, but yeah, I mean, geez, 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.360 how many more guys can we expect to sit? That's 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.320 I was thinking about that. I was watching practice. Xavier's 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.479 playing left guard for Connor today, and Zach's like, well, shoot, 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.599 who's gonna take my reps if I don't do this 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:54.279 whole thing? Yeah? Probably. It's crazy how quickly things can 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.080 change in the NFL. I mean, we were talking about 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.919 this offensive line looking so good, having a pretty dis 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.040 in depth in there, and now listen to what we're 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.599 talking about at this moment. I mean, yes, nothing's stirring 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:11.640 for this weekend though, or we don't know the the 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.400 amount of time that this might be a problem for 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.560 the Cowboys. But still, things can change very quick. They 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.520 changed very quickly going into the Saints game. You thought, 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.200 you know, it's one of the best lines in football. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.800 Everything's good. Then they get their ass kicked on the field. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.719 They didn't play well. All the Saints handled them up front, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.279 then they lost their left tackle. And now that they're 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.200 sitting here, and you know, maybe they're such good friends, 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.800 I mean Lyell and Tyrone or if you didn't practice, 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:40.719 I ain't practicing. I mean, maybe possible. I don't think that's. No, 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:42.960 I don't think that's I don't think that's true at all. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.640 But I do think now that I've kind of understood 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.599 a little bit of that relationship, I think there's a 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.720 good reason why it makes more sense why Lyell signed 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.880 the contract that he did. I think I think they 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.440 are really good friends. They want to Lyell and Tyranne 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.080 and Lyell in this group. I mean, yeah, I think 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.360 the Cowboys got to Acount because Lyelle just wants to 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.320 be here. Oh, there's no doubt in my mind. And yeah, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.720 we you know we mentioned that when he did it. Yeah, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.720 if there's anybody that's just kind of like, I like 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.159 my situation here, I like my friends on the line. 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.799 I'm close to home. Yeah, that speaks to his years. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.440 Good for me. Yeah, right, it's not like he took 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.039 a real like he could. Right, you can get a 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.680 good fishing pole for the I just think as good 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.719 as he has been and as important as he is, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.200 especially with the other members of the line banged up, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.080 I think we would have heard something by now if 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.400 it was really serious, you know. And that's so I'll 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.480 be a little more alarmed if he's not out there tomorrow. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.360 But right now, I think they're probably just giving a 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.279 day off. And I think I mean no offense. But 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.080 I think this is sort of bearing the lead of 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.720 it because I think the biggest thing is Gallop. Yeah 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.040 about gall If you ain't got no giddy up, then 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.359 giddy out my way. No no old town road fans 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:56.479 in here. Okay, Well he's galloping back onto the practice field, folks, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.680 All right, he's back. Why isn't anybody else is excited 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.799 that song? I did? Whatever? Wasn't galloping on my seat? 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.640 Right now? Michael Gallop is back, and I'm excited about it. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.680 I'm interested to see how that goes because it's been 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.720 fifteen days since he had somebody slice his knee open. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.640 So that's amazing, you know, that's I mean, it's surgery, right, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.760 that's amazing to me. Medical the things you can do 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.960 with medicine these days is crazy. And here's the thing. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.080 It was two to four week injuries what they said. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.400 It's right in the middle of that. When you think 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.560 about it. He had surgery right after the game on 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.200 that Sunday hit surgery on Monday. You go all the 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.280 way up to the Sunday of the Packers game, it's 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.240 gonna be right there underneath three three weeks. So I 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.560 mean that week counts. I mean that week because he 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.240 was bouncing around on it a couple of days after 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 the surgery, and then he's got two full weeks that 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.640 he's been out, and then you now he's working back 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.120 into this third week. I mean, this is exactly what 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.600 you know. I guess you're right. I'm always the one 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.200 that's like lean lean on the side of caution. I mean, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.120 he had surgery. I was thinking jets at the earliest. 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.480 So if he's you keep using the word slice and 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.480 so that keeps like that keeps bothering you. It's true. 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.320 I mean it was. It's a scope. It's sure, it's 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.280 whatever you want to call it. Somebody inserted for an 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:23.760 object into his body, liked to surgery. It's a little 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.560 more than that. It's impressive and it is. So he's 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.360 out there on Wednesday. That's a good sign for his availability. Uh. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.000 You know, I went back and watched the game, the 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.520 Saints game yesterday, and like not to throw shots, but 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.600 like there weren't a lot of There weren't a ton 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.880 of open receivers outside of what we you know, the 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.560 completed passes and the misses to Cob, Like Dak wasn't 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.079 missing all these guys that were just running around the 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.000 field open. So I think Gallup could be huge to 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.320 have back, especially in a week where you probably wouldn't 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:54.960 get rid of the ball quick because your left tackle's 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.120 not playing. Yeah. One more I wanted to hit was 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.439 Antoine Woods. We talked a little bit before the show began. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.720 What's hist us at this point? You know, I was 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.080 surprised because I did talk to him yesterday and he 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.400 kind of just hinted that in looks like it's going 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.839 to be another week. But he he is practicing, and 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.000 you know, Garrett's phrasing was he's going to try to 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.520 do something, which doesn't imply he's going to get a 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.640 huge workload. So he could be out there practicing today 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.400 with an eye on next week. Yeah may for you know, 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.200 we'll talk about this more. But for a team that 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:28.640 chose not to run the ball on first and goal 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.880 from the one four straight times doesn't mean that the 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.640 things are going to be the same this week. But still, 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.480 you know, they can probably get by, you know, with 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.600 what they've got it in the nose with Tristan Hill 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.600 and Covington another week. Let's go and take our first break. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.520 When we come back, Nick's going to dive into the 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.560 storylines of the week. That's going to help us be 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.640 able to kind of put all this in perspective of 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.680 what's going what's happening with both these teams. Then in 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.080 the final segment, we'll get to Dave's scouting report on 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.920 this Green Bay offense? What did that one? Come right back? 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.960 This Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 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This is 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.400 just kind of reiterating some of that, but um, just 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.560 looking at some of the things that you know, what's 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.520 up with the packerck, what's going on with them? Their 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.120 biggest thing they've got, as Davante Adams within a toe injury. Um, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.439 that was a huge injury for them. They needed him 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.400 to finish that game. He was having a career game. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.000 Uh ten catches, one eighty he got hurt, turf toe 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.520 twenty fantasy points. Yeah, it was. It was a lot. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.360 Um And if anyone's had any toe injury, they'll tell 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.440 you that it is a very tough injury. I mean, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.800 it doesn't sound like much. They need to rename turf 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.600 toe wimpy and it's not. It's not, it's not. I 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.360 think that the talk right now is that he probably 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.360 won't play, but we'll see. You never know. And then 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.439 and Dave, we'll get into more in the second about 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:56.959 some of those guys that they do have. But that's 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.559 the biggest thing they've got for that side of the ball. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.679 Brian Blaga, their right tackle, he was hurt, came, did 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.880 not finish the games the shoulder injury. He's working back 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.480 into practice and I would imagine that he returns. That 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.560 would be big there because they have two of the 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.600 best tackles in the league with Bucktari and him. They're 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.360 not running the ball well. We just talked about it 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:18.760 for I mean first and goal in the one, they 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.160 didn't run it in four straight times. Jamal Williams was hurt. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.040 We'll see what he's in the concosion protocol. Will see 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.520 what his injury is like this week. Aaron Jones, though thirteen, 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.920 carries twenty one yards. He's more of a guy out 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.880 of the backfield. So we'll see what kind of status 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.360 is for them. They don't They don't stop the run 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.720 very well either. They they're avaging one hundred and forty 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.360 three yards against them on the ground. That's twenty six 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.040 They stopped the Bears in Week one and since then 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.480 it's been train wrecked for them on defense. And then 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.920 the fifth one they're hoping they get a linebacker or 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.160 in Burkes, he was a second year guy, I guess 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.440 out of Vanderbilt, right or in Burks, So you haven't 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.120 got to defense yet. Nope. Usually are all of those 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.720 SEC guys I think that's I mean, typically I remember 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.080 guys from the draft show, but name doesn't jump out 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.280 at they're really excited about him. He got hurt pectorial muscle, 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.880 which is the same as what Cavan Frasier did. He's 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.960 missed a lot of time and now he's coming back 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.840 for this game, so or they're expecting him to come back. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.280 It sounds like a lot of theirs are about injury. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.240 Injury and Davante items being there is one of the 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.120 big injury and the two biggest things that all teams 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.480 want to do in football stop the run and run 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.000 the ball, and they're haven't. They had a problem doing 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.680 that against Philly. As we get into the scattering report, Dave, 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:29.680 and you don't have to answer this right off, but 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.280 one of the things we talked about before the show, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:35.240 talking about what Nicks has just mentioned, this running game. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.680 I'd be interested to know, is this a situation where 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.960 as we've seen with some teams, they don't choose to 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:45.320 run or they legitimately cannot run the ball. And we 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.640 talked about that this morning. I went and looked like, okay, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:50.880 so in three of the four games, like they can't 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.160 run the ball, Like it's not like they won't do it, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.880 like you know, they're you know, putting up anywhere between 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:59.359 eighteen and thirty carries on their running backs and averaging 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.400 you know, two two and a half three three and 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.400 a half yards. But then Week two against Minnesota, who 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.520 most of us would agree is a pretty good defense. 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.640 I mean, you know, I haven't I'm watched a ton 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:11.040 of them, but I know they have good players on 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.480 that defense. They gashed them. They ran for like one 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.520 thirty Aaron Jones average four yards of carry see and 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.840 was doing it outside inside like looked good falling forward. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.720 So I don't want to go as far as to 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.480 say they can't do it. I guess because they have, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.280 but only in one out of four games, and I 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:36.640 mean in against Philly Chicago. Okay, I'll give them that, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.080 Like who's really going to run the ball well against Shoebidy, 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.240 against Philly, against Denver like they tried and just didn't 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:47.080 have a ton of success doing it, which is puzzling. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.520 They do have two of the best tackles in football. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:54.000 Their new guard Elton Jenkins. I believe he's a Mississippi 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.800 State guy. He's getting rave reviews as one of the 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:02.160 best young rookies playing in the NFL right now. They're 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.960 really good in pass protection. Rogers has been sacked eight times, 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.560 five of those happened against Chicago, which again, okay, that's 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.640 gonna happen, right, But in the other three games, so 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.920 that the other three teams he's played have gotten to 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:19.080 him three times. The Eagles only got him once, so 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.880 really good against pass. Pro don't seem very strong running 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:27.200 the ball. M Corey Lindsay's there, Lenz, excuse me, Lindsley. 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.640 It's their center. Um, they just don't look strong up 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.800 the middle. So I would say, obviously they prefer to 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.880 pass anyway because they have Aaron Rodgers, but like they 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.600 haven't had a ton of success running even when they 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.560 want to, and some of their running yards are from 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:42.840 from Rodgers, you know, I mean in that last game, 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:44.960 I mean he was getting big chunks. Yeah, he had 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.440 forty fifty yards against the Eagles, So some of the 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.320 rushing numbers would probably are skewed by the fact that 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:55.400 he's getting some of those surprises me, Like, I'm when 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.680 I look at him and what he does, it's I 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.920 don't know why. It's surprises me that he's able to 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.360 run and when he does it, he does it well. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.439 But he's always been that guy since he got in 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.159 the league. He's a guy that'll chop you up on 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.400 the run game if you're not paying attention, if you're 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.720 if he gets you in man coverage and he gets 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.080 a seam to be able to run in, he's gonna run. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.440 And when he runs, he can make some yards for sure. 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.600 And he's really smart. It's rarely he takes big hits 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.040 to thirty it's really smart with thirty five. Yeah, he's 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.680 getting He's getting to a point where he probably doesn't 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.479 want to do that as often as he used to. Yes, 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.439 but he still can. And he does it in the 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.399 right moments right doesn't have to do it all the time. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.399 He doesn't right moments, so he doesn't look like an 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.760 athletic quarterback. I mean, that's the that's it. That's what 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.520 it is. Probably So it's just thirty four year old 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.200 white guy you don't expect to be running the ball 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.320 down the field. But he does it and doesn't do 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.080 it effectively anybody, that's I get. I feel I've gotten 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.719 more like hate mail or hate tweets about how much 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:52.560 I love Aaron Rodgers than like any other topic about 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.440 covering the Cowboys. So everybody knows how I feel about that, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.080 and it's the same. It's the same thing. It's like 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.000 it's all about him, like I said, like they pretend 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.280 pecked him well, and he buys time amazingly. Like his 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.440 pocket presence is incredible. He's got the athleticism to break, 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:09.800 contain and extend the play. You got you gotta watch 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.600 out for that. Rod Marinelli's famous line, keep him in 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.119 the well, like you can't let him extend the play 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.520 or kind of play backyard ball Easier said than done. 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:22.000 What makes this matchup interesting to me is who does 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.239 Aaron Rodgers trust because he's probably not going to have 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.960 Davante Adams and that is his guy more so than like, like, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.800 go back to any iteration of this Packers offense, and 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.840 there's always been guys with an S you have to 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.280 worry about, whether that's Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb or 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.560 you know, going way back to like Greg Jennings and 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.280 Donald Driver or even recently you know Adams was there 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:53.120 with Cobb for a time. He's had guys he depends on. 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.399 This year, he's targeting Davante Adams twenty five percent of 0:18:56.440 --> 0:19:00.000 the time. He's got thirty six targets. He targeted him 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.960 fifteen times against the Eagles, the other night, and I 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.160 mean he bawled, but he's probably not going to be there. 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:07.240 So who steps up in his place? In second place? 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.840 Is Marquez Valdez Scantling at nineteen percent? It is a 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.399 lot of names. H Law Firm. Yeah, I can I 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.240 can see that. Um, we'll call him MBS for short. Great, 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:23.680 let's do it MVS. And then there's Geronimo Allison, who 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:30.040 is impressive, big body guy. But again, like these guys, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.920 I always hate to say this about pro football players, 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:34.560 like I don't think I don't see anything that makes 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:38.680 them special, like more so than the second, third, fourth 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:40.760 receiver on any other team in the NFL. Well, you 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.600 know who he targets because we saw it into the game, 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.920 Jimmy Yeah, yeah, in the red zone. Here's the thing 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.359 which Jimmy Graham's a shell of himself. I mean, I 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.240 think everybody knows that at this point. He's been in 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.800 the league since twenty eleven, and that's the I mean, 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.199 you're you're right. And he scored. I believe he's order 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.600 in the red zone against the Bears, and obviously he 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.320