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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October second, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifty six. Welcome to another edition Up the Break,
Speaker 1: Real Life from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk Cowboys football about forty five minutes. We
Speaker 1: got some injury updates for you guys. Nick's gonna walk
Speaker 1: us through some of the storylines of the week, both
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys side and on the Green Bay Packer side.
Speaker 1: And Dave's gonna get to his scouting report on the
Speaker 1: Green Bay offense. How's everybody feeling this? Moore? Good? Good, great, awesome?
Speaker 1: So good. Let's get this thing rolling. Let's start first
Speaker 1: with some injury updates. So it was some interesting things
Speaker 1: we hurt this morning with in Coach Carrett's press conference.
Speaker 1: Why we through some of the injury issues with this
Speaker 1: team right now. I'm gonna Dave do that all right,
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of it was there. Why don't
Speaker 1: you start with Lyle Collins? That was the one that
Speaker 1: popped off the page for me. Lyle Collins is not
Speaker 1: practicing today. He's dealing with a back to quote Jason Garrett,
Speaker 1: which really aren't we all dealing? I mean we all
Speaker 1: have a back, so, I mean that's really all I got.
Speaker 1: He's he's got it back. I guess, thanks, Kayden. He's
Speaker 1: not practicing. If I had to guess, it's more maintenance
Speaker 1: than anything else. But it's never good when you're not
Speaker 1: out there. Connor Williams is playing some right tackle to
Speaker 1: That's the part that piqued my curiosity because this team
Speaker 1: has notoriously held to the belief that when you're talking
Speaker 1: about offensive lineman, if you get one hurt having to
Speaker 1: move another one that's already a starter to that position,
Speaker 1: you've now created two problems. Jerry just said earlier this week,
Speaker 1: they don't have it. The problem is that their left
Speaker 1: tackle is not out there either. Tyrant Smith is not practicing.
Speaker 1: He has an ankle injury. Cam Fleming is your left tackle,
Speaker 1: and I had no offense to him. But I just
Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys would want to throw Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: into a game at right tackle. Um, so you gotta
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do now keeping him on the
Speaker 1: active roster um is I mean, if he's not ready
Speaker 1: to play, then what's the point of keeping it? All?
Speaker 1: They is this because in the future they think he
Speaker 1: will be ready to play, and right now they just
Speaker 1: don't think he is. Cowboys had a quarterback for about
Speaker 1: ten years that they that they had that was kept
Speaker 1: on the roster for a few years because he wasn't ready.
Speaker 1: Not saying Brandon Knight was Romo, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a difference between saying, yeah, he's going
Speaker 1: to develop into something with Colombo will help him, but
Speaker 1: right now, we don't feel like we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 1: let him block in front of Dak Prescott right now.
Speaker 1: He's also probably too good to be on the practice
Speaker 1: squad and and and but not enough to block Preston
Speaker 1: Smith on Sunday. So but that's also I guess that
Speaker 1: gets back to my question. When I first heard that,
Speaker 1: it made me say if if this was something where
Speaker 1: it was kind of for maintenance, as you mentioned, then
Speaker 1: wouldn't they just throw Brandon Nite out there because they
Speaker 1: expect Lyle is going to play the fact that they're
Speaker 1: giving Connor those reps suggest to me at least that
Speaker 1: maybe there's a chance that Lyle doesn't play. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: he plays and gets banged up. Brandon Knight will be inactive,
Speaker 1: so having him practice doesn't really do a lot. At
Speaker 1: least Connor was able to practice some i'd write tackle,
Speaker 1: and then if he has to get forced into a
Speaker 1: game because of the numbers crunch that they're going to
Speaker 1: be in, then at least he's been able to practice something.
Speaker 1: And it hasn't done it since his days at UT Well,
Speaker 1: maybe did he do it in off season? Well, Garrett's
Speaker 1: I was asked about that this morning. Did it for
Speaker 1: a day in the spring, Yeah, not very much. It's
Speaker 1: not no, not a lot um. We'll see. It's like
Speaker 1: I said, it's not. It's never good when you're when
Speaker 1: a guy's not out there. So that's okay, Okay, how
Speaker 1: is this line looking like? Let's say if they were
Speaker 1: having to lay tomorrow and I, for example, you'd have
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming, Xavier Suaphilo, Travis Frederick, Zach Martin, and Connor
Speaker 1: Williams and by the way, worse in the league than that.
Speaker 1: Probably it definitely is there, definitely is. But I think Nick,
Speaker 1: I think Craig if I'm wrong, I think you were
Speaker 1: talking about how you're a little bit concerned about Zach
Speaker 1: and just kind of is there something? Is everything? Well,
Speaker 1: just the fact that he's you know, not practice and
Speaker 1: as as much now he is practicing today, which is big,
Speaker 1: and it might be one of those things like you
Speaker 1: know that veteran day off we're gonna give you, but
Speaker 1: not today. He is going to be limited and that's
Speaker 1: normal for this season. Um, but yeah, I mean, geez,
Speaker 1: how many more guys can we expect to sit? That's
Speaker 1: I was thinking about that. I was watching practice. Xavier's
Speaker 1: playing left guard for Connor today, and Zach's like, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: who's gonna take my reps if I don't do this
Speaker 1: whole thing? Yeah? Probably. It's crazy how quickly things can
Speaker 1: change in the NFL. I mean, we were talking about
Speaker 1: this offensive line looking so good, having a pretty dis
Speaker 1: in depth in there, and now listen to what we're
Speaker 1: talking about at this moment. I mean, yes, nothing's stirring
Speaker 1: for this weekend though, or we don't know the the
Speaker 1: amount of time that this might be a problem for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But still, things can change very quick. They
Speaker 1: changed very quickly going into the Saints game. You thought,
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of the best lines in football.
Speaker 1: Everything's good. Then they get their ass kicked on the field.
Speaker 1: They didn't play well. All the Saints handled them up front,
Speaker 1: then they lost their left tackle. And now that they're
Speaker 1: sitting here, and you know, maybe they're such good friends,
Speaker 1: I mean Lyell and Tyrone or if you didn't practice,
Speaker 1: I ain't practicing. I mean, maybe possible. I don't think that's. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's I don't think that's true at all.
Speaker 1: But I do think now that I've kind of understood
Speaker 1: a little bit of that relationship, I think there's a
Speaker 1: good reason why it makes more sense why Lyell signed
Speaker 1: the contract that he did. I think I think they
Speaker 1: are really good friends. They want to Lyell and Tyranne
Speaker 1: and Lyell in this group. I mean, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got to Acount because Lyelle just wants to
Speaker 1: be here. Oh, there's no doubt in my mind. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we you know we mentioned that when he did it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if there's anybody that's just kind of like, I like
Speaker 1: my situation here, I like my friends on the line.
Speaker 1: I'm close to home. Yeah, that speaks to his years.
Speaker 1: Good for me. Yeah, right, it's not like he took
Speaker 1: a real like he could. Right, you can get a
Speaker 1: good fishing pole for the I just think as good
Speaker 1: as he has been and as important as he is,
Speaker 1: especially with the other members of the line banged up,
Speaker 1: I think we would have heard something by now if
Speaker 1: it was really serious, you know. And that's so I'll
Speaker 1: be a little more alarmed if he's not out there tomorrow.
Speaker 1: But right now, I think they're probably just giving a
Speaker 1: day off. And I think I mean no offense. But
Speaker 1: I think this is sort of bearing the lead of
Speaker 1: it because I think the biggest thing is Gallop. Yeah
Speaker 1: about gall If you ain't got no giddy up, then
Speaker 1: giddy out my way. No no old town road fans
Speaker 1: in here. Okay, Well he's galloping back onto the practice field, folks,
Speaker 1: All right, he's back. Why isn't anybody else is excited
Speaker 1: that song? I did? Whatever? Wasn't galloping on my seat?
Speaker 1: Right now? Michael Gallop is back, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how that goes because it's been
Speaker 1: fifteen days since he had somebody slice his knee open.
Speaker 1: So that's amazing, you know, that's I mean, it's surgery, right,
Speaker 1: that's amazing to me. Medical the things you can do
Speaker 1: with medicine these days is crazy. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: It was two to four week injuries what they said.
Speaker 1: It's right in the middle of that. When you think
Speaker 1: about it. He had surgery right after the game on
Speaker 1: that Sunday hit surgery on Monday. You go all the
Speaker 1: way up to the Sunday of the Packers game, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be right there underneath three three weeks. So I
Speaker 1: mean that week counts. I mean that week because he
Speaker 1: was bouncing around on it a couple of days after
Speaker 1: the surgery, and then he's got two full weeks that
Speaker 1: he's been out, and then you now he's working back
Speaker 1: into this third week. I mean, this is exactly what
Speaker 1: you know. I guess you're right. I'm always the one
Speaker 1: that's like lean lean on the side of caution. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had surgery. I was thinking jets at the earliest.
Speaker 1: So if he's you keep using the word slice and
Speaker 1: so that keeps like that keeps bothering you. It's true.
Speaker 1: I mean it was. It's a scope. It's sure, it's
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Somebody inserted for an
Speaker 1: object into his body, liked to surgery. It's a little
Speaker 1: more than that. It's impressive and it is. So he's
Speaker 1: out there on Wednesday. That's a good sign for his availability. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I went back and watched the game, the
Speaker 1: Saints game yesterday, and like not to throw shots, but
Speaker 1: like there weren't a lot of There weren't a ton
Speaker 1: of open receivers outside of what we you know, the
Speaker 1: completed passes and the misses to Cob, Like Dak wasn't
Speaker 1: missing all these guys that were just running around the
Speaker 1: field open. So I think Gallup could be huge to
Speaker 1: have back, especially in a week where you probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball quick because your left tackle's
Speaker 1: not playing. Yeah. One more I wanted to hit was
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. We talked a little bit before the show began.
Speaker 1: What's hist us at this point? You know, I was
Speaker 1: surprised because I did talk to him yesterday and he
Speaker 1: kind of just hinted that in looks like it's going
Speaker 1: to be another week. But he he is practicing, and
Speaker 1: you know, Garrett's phrasing was he's going to try to
Speaker 1: do something, which doesn't imply he's going to get a
Speaker 1: huge workload. So he could be out there practicing today
Speaker 1: with an eye on next week. Yeah may for you know,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this more. But for a team that
Speaker 1: chose not to run the ball on first and goal
Speaker 1: from the one four straight times doesn't mean that the
Speaker 1: things are going to be the same this week. But still,
Speaker 1: you know, they can probably get by, you know, with
Speaker 1: what they've got it in the nose with Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: and Covington another week. Let's go and take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Nick's going to dive into the
Speaker 1: storylines of the week. That's going to help us be
Speaker 1: able to kind of put all this in perspective of
Speaker 1: what's going what's happening with both these teams. Then in
Speaker 1: the final segment, we'll get to Dave's scouting report on
Speaker 1: this Green Bay offense? What did that one? Come right back?
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Speaker 1: is the second segment of the Break clock nest WBC
Speaker 1: Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick I want you to
Speaker 1: walk us through storylines around the Green Bay Packers, but
Speaker 1: you got well if you've read Big Picture. This is
Speaker 1: just kind of reiterating some of that, but um, just
Speaker 1: looking at some of the things that you know, what's
Speaker 1: up with the packerck, what's going on with them? Their
Speaker 1: biggest thing they've got, as Davante Adams within a toe injury. Um,
Speaker 1: that was a huge injury for them. They needed him
Speaker 1: to finish that game. He was having a career game.
Speaker 1: Uh ten catches, one eighty he got hurt, turf toe
Speaker 1: twenty fantasy points. Yeah, it was. It was a lot.
Speaker 1: Um And if anyone's had any toe injury, they'll tell
Speaker 1: you that it is a very tough injury. I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like much. They need to rename turf
Speaker 1: toe wimpy and it's not. It's not, it's not. I
Speaker 1: think that the talk right now is that he probably
Speaker 1: won't play, but we'll see. You never know. And then
Speaker 1: and Dave, we'll get into more in the second about
Speaker 1: some of those guys that they do have. But that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing they've got for that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Brian Blaga, their right tackle, he was hurt, came, did
Speaker 1: not finish the games the shoulder injury. He's working back
Speaker 1: into practice and I would imagine that he returns. That
Speaker 1: would be big there because they have two of the
Speaker 1: best tackles in the league with Bucktari and him. They're
Speaker 1: not running the ball well. We just talked about it
Speaker 1: for I mean first and goal in the one, they
Speaker 1: didn't run it in four straight times. Jamal Williams was hurt.
Speaker 1: We'll see what he's in the concosion protocol. Will see
Speaker 1: what his injury is like this week. Aaron Jones, though thirteen,
Speaker 1: carries twenty one yards. He's more of a guy out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. So we'll see what kind of status
Speaker 1: is for them. They don't They don't stop the run
Speaker 1: very well either. They they're avaging one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: three yards against them on the ground. That's twenty six
Speaker 1: They stopped the Bears in Week one and since then
Speaker 1: it's been train wrecked for them on defense. And then
Speaker 1: the fifth one they're hoping they get a linebacker or
Speaker 1: in Burkes, he was a second year guy, I guess
Speaker 1: out of Vanderbilt, right or in Burks, So you haven't
Speaker 1: got to defense yet. Nope. Usually are all of those
Speaker 1: SEC guys I think that's I mean, typically I remember
Speaker 1: guys from the draft show, but name doesn't jump out
Speaker 1: at they're really excited about him. He got hurt pectorial muscle,
Speaker 1: which is the same as what Cavan Frasier did. He's
Speaker 1: missed a lot of time and now he's coming back
Speaker 1: for this game, so or they're expecting him to come back.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a lot of theirs are about injury.
Speaker 1: Injury and Davante items being there is one of the
Speaker 1: big injury and the two biggest things that all teams
Speaker 1: want to do in football stop the run and run
Speaker 1: the ball, and they're haven't. They had a problem doing
Speaker 1: that against Philly. As we get into the scattering report, Dave,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to answer this right off, but
Speaker 1: one of the things we talked about before the show,
Speaker 1: talking about what Nicks has just mentioned, this running game.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to know, is this a situation where
Speaker 1: as we've seen with some teams, they don't choose to
Speaker 1: run or they legitimately cannot run the ball. And we
Speaker 1: talked about that this morning. I went and looked like, okay,
Speaker 1: so in three of the four games, like they can't
Speaker 1: run the ball, Like it's not like they won't do it,
Speaker 1: like you know, they're you know, putting up anywhere between
Speaker 1: eighteen and thirty carries on their running backs and averaging
Speaker 1: you know, two two and a half three three and
Speaker 1: a half yards. But then Week two against Minnesota, who
Speaker 1: most of us would agree is a pretty good defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I haven't I'm watched a ton
Speaker 1: of them, but I know they have good players on
Speaker 1: that defense. They gashed them. They ran for like one
Speaker 1: thirty Aaron Jones average four yards of carry see and
Speaker 1: was doing it outside inside like looked good falling forward.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to go as far as to
Speaker 1: say they can't do it. I guess because they have,
Speaker 1: but only in one out of four games, and I
Speaker 1: mean in against Philly Chicago. Okay, I'll give them that,
Speaker 1: Like who's really going to run the ball well against Shoebidy,
Speaker 1: against Philly, against Denver like they tried and just didn't
Speaker 1: have a ton of success doing it, which is puzzling.
Speaker 1: They do have two of the best tackles in football.
Speaker 1: Their new guard Elton Jenkins. I believe he's a Mississippi
Speaker 1: State guy. He's getting rave reviews as one of the
Speaker 1: best young rookies playing in the NFL right now. They're
Speaker 1: really good in pass protection. Rogers has been sacked eight times,
Speaker 1: five of those happened against Chicago, which again, okay, that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, right, But in the other three games, so
Speaker 1: that the other three teams he's played have gotten to
Speaker 1: him three times. The Eagles only got him once, so
Speaker 1: really good against pass. Pro don't seem very strong running
Speaker 1: the ball. M Corey Lindsay's there, Lenz, excuse me, Lindsley.
Speaker 1: It's their center. Um, they just don't look strong up
Speaker 1: the middle. So I would say, obviously they prefer to
Speaker 1: pass anyway because they have Aaron Rodgers, but like they
Speaker 1: haven't had a ton of success running even when they
Speaker 1: want to, and some of their running yards are from
Speaker 1: from Rodgers, you know, I mean in that last game,
Speaker 1: I mean he was getting big chunks. Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: forty fifty yards against the Eagles, So some of the
Speaker 1: rushing numbers would probably are skewed by the fact that
Speaker 1: he's getting some of those surprises me, Like, I'm when
Speaker 1: I look at him and what he does, it's I
Speaker 1: don't know why. It's surprises me that he's able to
Speaker 1: run and when he does it, he does it well.
Speaker 1: But he's always been that guy since he got in
Speaker 1: the league. He's a guy that'll chop you up on
Speaker 1: the run game if you're not paying attention, if you're
Speaker 1: if he gets you in man coverage and he gets
Speaker 1: a seam to be able to run in, he's gonna run.
Speaker 1: And when he runs, he can make some yards for sure.
Speaker 1: And he's really smart. It's rarely he takes big hits
Speaker 1: to thirty it's really smart with thirty five. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: getting He's getting to a point where he probably doesn't
Speaker 1: want to do that as often as he used to. Yes,
Speaker 1: but he still can. And he does it in the
Speaker 1: right moments right doesn't have to do it all the time.
Speaker 1: He doesn't right moments, so he doesn't look like an
Speaker 1: athletic quarterback. I mean, that's the that's it. That's what
Speaker 1: it is. Probably So it's just thirty four year old
Speaker 1: white guy you don't expect to be running the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. But he does it and doesn't do
Speaker 1: it effectively anybody, that's I get. I feel I've gotten
Speaker 1: more like hate mail or hate tweets about how much
Speaker 1: I love Aaron Rodgers than like any other topic about
Speaker 1: covering the Cowboys. So everybody knows how I feel about that,
Speaker 1: and it's the same. It's the same thing. It's like
Speaker 1: it's all about him, like I said, like they pretend
Speaker 1: pecked him well, and he buys time amazingly. Like his
Speaker 1: pocket presence is incredible. He's got the athleticism to break,
Speaker 1: contain and extend the play. You got you gotta watch
Speaker 1: out for that. Rod Marinelli's famous line, keep him in
Speaker 1: the well, like you can't let him extend the play
Speaker 1: or kind of play backyard ball Easier said than done.
Speaker 1: What makes this matchup interesting to me is who does
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers trust because he's probably not going to have
Speaker 1: Davante Adams and that is his guy more so than like, like,
Speaker 1: go back to any iteration of this Packers offense, and
Speaker 1: there's always been guys with an S you have to
Speaker 1: worry about, whether that's Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb or
Speaker 1: you know, going way back to like Greg Jennings and
Speaker 1: Donald Driver or even recently you know Adams was there
Speaker 1: with Cobb for a time. He's had guys he depends on.
Speaker 1: This year, he's targeting Davante Adams twenty five percent of
Speaker 1: the time. He's got thirty six targets. He targeted him
Speaker 1: fifteen times against the Eagles, the other night, and I
Speaker 1: mean he bawled, but he's probably not going to be there.
Speaker 1: So who steps up in his place? In second place?
Speaker 1: Is Marquez Valdez Scantling at nineteen percent? It is a
Speaker 1: lot of names. H Law Firm. Yeah, I can I
Speaker 1: can see that. Um, we'll call him MBS for short. Great,
Speaker 1: let's do it MVS. And then there's Geronimo Allison, who
Speaker 1: is impressive, big body guy. But again, like these guys,
Speaker 1: I always hate to say this about pro football players,
Speaker 1: like I don't think I don't see anything that makes
Speaker 1: them special, like more so than the second, third, fourth
Speaker 1: receiver on any other team in the NFL. Well, you
Speaker 1: know who he targets because we saw it into the game,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Yeah, yeah, in the red zone. Here's the thing
Speaker 1: which Jimmy Graham's a shell of himself. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think everybody knows that at this point. He's been in
Speaker 1: the league since twenty eleven, and that's the I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're right. And he scored. I believe he's order
Speaker 1: in the red zone against the Bears, and obviously he
Speaker 1: was targeting him in the Eagles game. Relentlessly recorded the
Speaker 1: Eagles game early. Yeah, yeah, he did. Um, he's been targeted.
Speaker 1: He's been targeted nine times, five times, zero times in
Speaker 1: one time, the nine coming against the Eagles, eleven percent
Speaker 1: of the time. He's also had drop issues. He's never
Speaker 1: been a blocker. UM. Not saying he can't hurt you,
Speaker 1: that's not my point. But this isn't the guy that
Speaker 1: scored like eighteen touchdowns for the Saints six years ago. Um,
Speaker 1: And that that's kind of my point. Like, so Adams
Speaker 1: is at twenty five percent, MVS is at nineteen percent.
Speaker 1: Then you're talking about generatimo. Allison's been targeted seven percent
Speaker 1: of the times. His high for the season is four.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham got targeted nine times, but his high after
Speaker 1: that is five. Like, I don't know who Aaron Rodgers trusts.
Speaker 1: Like about if you go back and read it was
Speaker 1: a great story Bleacher Report did in the offseason about like,
Speaker 1: you know, receivers are messing up routes and Rodgers is
Speaker 1: thrown in the post when he when he you know,
Speaker 1: the guy eyes running a hitch, but Rogers is thrown
Speaker 1: the posts. Stuff like that is like who does he trust?
Speaker 1: Who can he count on? And it's probably MVS. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think the Cowboys cornerbacks can probably handle him.
Speaker 1: And then so it's all about who exploits you other
Speaker 1: than that, Um, Alison's there, Jimmy Graham is there, Um
Speaker 1: Marcedes Lewis is still kicking around up there. And then
Speaker 1: another name I think you should know is Jake Kumaro
Speaker 1: kumar Roo. He's like their fifth receiver, are you um yeah? Lazard,
Speaker 1: Alan Yeah, Alan Lazard, Lazard Yeah. They got they got names.
Speaker 1: Nobody that's really had a chance to stand out. I
Speaker 1: think Kumarro's coming back from injury. Here's my thing about
Speaker 1: those receivers. And when you go back and you just
Speaker 1: named all those guys that were great for him, Like
Speaker 1: even those guys were not high profile guys at first,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean who are they? I mean driver
Speaker 1: or I mean over the years he had drawn a blank. Jennings,
Speaker 1: Cob Nelson, None of those guys were like can't miss
Speaker 1: first round picks, stud players. He's kind of developed all
Speaker 1: of them, similar to Brady, where you take these guys
Speaker 1: and then next thing you know, they are superstars. I
Speaker 1: disagree with Jordy Cobb. We're all pretty high picks. I
Speaker 1: don't and drive honestly, Donald Drivers so old he kind
Speaker 1: of came up with far more so than Rodgers. But um,
Speaker 1: I feel like, no, he helps them. I think i'm
Speaker 1: these great players. I think Aaron Rodgers is obviously the
Speaker 1: type of quarterback that can make a middle tier receiver
Speaker 1: look like a really good one, right, But I also
Speaker 1: think those guys were much more talented than what he's
Speaker 1: working with right now. Like they've kind of they've been
Speaker 1: throwing like day three picks at this receiver situation for
Speaker 1: a few years. Like they drafted Equanimius Saint Brown last year.
Speaker 1: He's not with the team anymore. They spent the seventh
Speaker 1: round pick on my guy, Malachai dupri out of LSU.
Speaker 1: Like they they're throwing picks at it, but not on
Speaker 1: the level of like a Davante Adams or Jordy Elson.
Speaker 1: And I think you're seeing it. So I wouldn't put
Speaker 1: it past Aaron Rodgers to make these guys look like studs,
Speaker 1: because that's what he does. But I think it's telling
Speaker 1: that he doesn't seem to trust any of them, like
Speaker 1: he's not looking for him in these games. So my
Speaker 1: answer to that is watch the running back position as well.
Speaker 1: We saw this. I mean the Saints used screens to
Speaker 1: neutralize the Cowboys pass rush. Aaron Jones is a really
Speaker 1: good player. He killed them two years ago. If you
Speaker 1: remember the game here, I think Rogers let him down
Speaker 1: the field. I think he think he threw it to
Speaker 1: Adams for the game winning touchdown. But Aaron Jones was
Speaker 1: good in that game. Was good in that game. Tell
Speaker 1: us Ben, it was good in that game. They've had
Speaker 1: a rotating cast. Jamal Williams will see what he does.
Speaker 1: He hurt himself pretty early in that game. A name
Speaker 1: to watch there would be Dexter Williams, the rookie had
Speaker 1: a Notre dame. He has not logged a kerry so
Speaker 1: far this season, but if Jamal Williams is hurt, that
Speaker 1: might change. But Aaron Jones specific, I mean he can
Speaker 1: do everything. He can catch, he can run, He's powerful.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they lean on him a little heavy
Speaker 1: and maybe they can't run the ball because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are good. But again, screens flaring him out. They love
Speaker 1: to do that type of stuff. He'll run the toss
Speaker 1: sweep to try to get out on the edge. I
Speaker 1: could see him having a bigger role as a receiver
Speaker 1: because Aaron Rodgers might not trust any of these other guys,
Speaker 1: but the one thing we do know about Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: is he, like you detailed earlier, he has the ability
Speaker 1: to make receivers no matter what their caliber is, he
Speaker 1: has a way making them look better than what they
Speaker 1: really are. And so don't expect that this game, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're passing game is going to come
Speaker 1: to a screeching halt. It will not because no Ian
Speaker 1: Rodgers as a quarterback. I agree with that, and you
Speaker 1: know they'll I don't want to eat my words as
Speaker 1: we watch Geronimo ause and catch his seventh pass for
Speaker 1: ninety yards or whatever. But like I said, I just
Speaker 1: going back like, these are young guys, and other than
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, it doesn't seem like any of them have
Speaker 1: a great rapport with him. So but if anybody can
Speaker 1: do it, it's Aaron Rodgers's I mean, that's what I
Speaker 1: was about to say. You mentioned all these guys and
Speaker 1: it makes it sound like, Okay, this might be a
Speaker 1: good game, a good matchup for the Cowboys, But but
Speaker 1: what you got to mention is Aaron Rodgers. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is this is it's this is the NFL, though,
Speaker 1: it's like readjust your expectations, because like if you can
Speaker 1: hold Aaron Rodgers to three zero five and pick him
Speaker 1: off once because of receiver bobbled it, like, that's a
Speaker 1: great day, Like you played a great game if you
Speaker 1: can do that. So, you know, not saying Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: isn't gonna throw for two hundred yards. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: the Bears can do that, but I don't know. That's hard.
Speaker 1: That's a hard thing to pull off. Basically, you level
Speaker 1: the playing fill a little bit against Rogers. We men
Speaker 1: take away its best receiving option right now. You kind
Speaker 1: of level it out and you got an option. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really can't kind of limit his iss production as
Speaker 1: a passer. That's the hope. All Right, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: our final break, come back. We'll get some questions from
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Speaker 1: have them, but the Cowboys have very limited tickets available
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Speaker 1: You know, all right, Dave, Yeah, you have something else.
Speaker 1: I have one more. Notice. It's just funny, like how
Speaker 1: one game can change a narrative. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can probably relate to that a little bit. This
Speaker 1: week is you know, we all watched the Packers just
Speaker 1: be completely bone headed and not be able to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown from the one yard line four straight passes.
Speaker 1: They blew it from right up against the end zone twice.
Speaker 1: And that loss of the Eagles three of seven in
Speaker 1: the red zone against Philly, and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're terrible. They can't run the ball. Well, they entered
Speaker 1: that game six of seven in the red zone and
Speaker 1: they're so they're still at sixty three percent, which is
Speaker 1: very I mean, they're up there with you know, they're
Speaker 1: not top five, but I think they're top ten in
Speaker 1: the league. Like, they've been very good in the red
Speaker 1: zone and they've been good at running in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Four of their nine red zone touchdowns are runs. U
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams has one, Aaron Jones has three. I believe, like,
Speaker 1: so they can do it. Not you know, Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: is a beast or the Eagles defensive line is very good.
Speaker 1: Maybe they just didn't like their chances of doing that.
Speaker 1: It seems really baffling. Were shots at it at the
Speaker 1: one It's like sneak. I mean, I know, I know
Speaker 1: he's thirty five, but Rogers can sneak? Can I think
Speaker 1: they'll be interested because I consider the Cowboys defense to
Speaker 1: be pretty good. Yeah. No, I'm curious because again, like
Speaker 1: they did it against a decent defense in Minnesota, so
Speaker 1: I think it would be a mistake to go into
Speaker 1: this game. It's like, well, they can't run the ball,
Speaker 1: but they sure didn't want any part of it against Philly.
Speaker 1: But that's also why I think maybe it flips this
Speaker 1: game because they're gonna be that's hearing all week you
Speaker 1: can't run the ball. Yeah, And that's how the NFL
Speaker 1: kind of works sometimes when you think something is so
Speaker 1: far one way, teams have a whip pushing it and
Speaker 1: maybe they don't run for like two hundred as a
Speaker 1: team or something crazy like that. But like, this is
Speaker 1: a team that was playing really well in the red zone,
Speaker 1: Like they were three of three in the red zone
Speaker 1: against Denver, two of two against Minnesota, one of two
Speaker 1: against against the Bears. But again that might be the
Speaker 1: best defense in the league them in New England. Um So,
Speaker 1: I just you know, people tend to exaggerate one bad week,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it was a really bad week against
Speaker 1: the Eagles, but I bet I bet it won't look
Speaker 1: that bad. And by the way, they know now going
Speaker 1: in they don't have their best wide receiver. So knowing
Speaker 1: you don't have your best wide receiver, sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to adapt, which means they may have to build more
Speaker 1: into their running games and use some you know again,
Speaker 1: like we were talking about last week, there are ways
Speaker 1: to to run the ball sometimes that are not conventional
Speaker 1: that you could still get your running game going. So
Speaker 1: they did a fly sweep with Alison last week. Um
Speaker 1: bet you'll see some of that with somebody. Yep, somewhere
Speaker 1: along the line. All right, let's take a phone call.
Speaker 1: We got a call from Mike in California. Mike, what up? Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: first time callers. So it's actually pretty cool to be
Speaker 1: with you guys. Yeah, Dave, you need to get back
Speaker 1: to those snapchat drawing though. Man, I appreciate your feedback.
Speaker 1: I'll do a week one, right. I'm using crayons this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I like it. You can't. You can't do
Speaker 1: the same thing all the time. You got to mix
Speaker 1: it up for a good stale. Yeah, but thank you you.
Speaker 1: Um So, anyways, I want to bring I know, coming
Speaker 1: off a loss, there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: negativity and I think a lot of the fans are
Speaker 1: coming after you guys on social media, as you guys know,
Speaker 1: And I want to bring a little bit more positivity
Speaker 1: into this because I think there is a lot of
Speaker 1: good things that we aren't really focusing on on as stands,
Speaker 1: and one of them really is that our defense really
Speaker 1: seems to be hitting strides. Um I know that there's
Speaker 1: samaria for improvement on maybe some turnovers and things like
Speaker 1: that with interceptions, but realistically, these linebackers are really coming
Speaker 1: on pretty hard. The obviously, I think Quinn's a steel
Speaker 1: for us. That was a huge one for us. The offense. Dak,
Speaker 1: I understand he had a bad game, the receivers had
Speaker 1: a bad game, the line had a bad game. But
Speaker 1: that doesn't seem like this would be the norm for
Speaker 1: our offense. That just seems like it was anomaly. And
Speaker 1: I think that Dak is really good about bouncing back
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of facing adversity pretty well, so
Speaker 1: I think he has a bounce back game. I think
Speaker 1: the offense really is gonna definitely be improved with Gallup
Speaker 1: if if he doesn't back come back this week, but
Speaker 1: even just getting him back, And I know that there's
Speaker 1: been some injuries on the offensive line and there's some
Speaker 1: uncertainty there, but realistically we're not losing anybody so far
Speaker 1: knock on wood for a long period of time. So
Speaker 1: that's another positive thing that I'm happy with. And I
Speaker 1: do actually have a question because it seems like the
Speaker 1: Packers have a week linebacking group or maybe their inside
Speaker 1: linebacker is kind of not as good as as maybe
Speaker 1: with one. But would you rather see Green Bay or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dallas run more twelve personnel against them, or
Speaker 1: would you rather see him go eleven personnel because I
Speaker 1: think Kalas has actually had better luck with eleven personnel.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call. Can I say real
Speaker 1: quick before you guys get into twelve versus eleven? After
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the game, and I'd be
Speaker 1: interested to see what you guys thought. I actually didn't
Speaker 1: come away and I know I said Monday on the show,
Speaker 1: I don't want to completely let Dak off the hook
Speaker 1: because I hadn't seen and maybe guys were getting open,
Speaker 1: he just wasn't finding them. After I went back and
Speaker 1: watch it, I actually thought Dak played a decent game.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak was I don't put Dak in
Speaker 1: the same category as the offensive line from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of having that poor game. The offensive line I think
Speaker 1: had a poor game. I don't think Dak had a
Speaker 1: poor game. I think Dak was okay. Obviously, he missed
Speaker 1: the touchdown throw, and that's huge in a game like that,
Speaker 1: you've got to make that play. But overall, I don't
Speaker 1: know that he had a lot to work with there.
Speaker 1: There weren't guys just running open, like somebody said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show today, And there weren't a lot of
Speaker 1: guys just running wide open and he missed them. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if I put a lot of what
Speaker 1: happened last week on debt. It wasn't like the first
Speaker 1: half against the Dolphins were to me, Dad, he was playing,
Speaker 1: but he just wasn't performing well. But I'm interested to
Speaker 1: hear what you guys think about that. After going back
Speaker 1: and watching the game, I yeah, I think I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I I hesitate to say, like I don't
Speaker 1: think he played well, but like he wasn't just horrendous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they're just there. Weren't these open receivers. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a there was a route. It was early.
Speaker 1: I think it was like the first drive Amari came
Speaker 1: open on a corner route and and Dad didn't see him.
Speaker 1: But he was also spinning out of the pocket and
Speaker 1: running for his life. There was no way he was
Speaker 1: going to make that play. Yeah, yeah, there weren't. There
Speaker 1: weren't a ton of there weren't. It wasn't a ton
Speaker 1: But in a game like that, he missed Cobb in
Speaker 1: the end zone, which is huge. We already debated who's
Speaker 1: at fault on the miss to Cobb in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but either way, it probably could have been a better
Speaker 1: throw going back and rewatching that. I don't buy the
Speaker 1: narrative that Cobb would have gotten like concussed if that
Speaker 1: ball had been out in front of him. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was a guy there, but like, it's not like
Speaker 1: he was lining up for a kill shot. So those
Speaker 1: are two pretty big misses that could have been better.
Speaker 1: So but I don't think he was like horrible by
Speaker 1: any stretch. Yeah, you can't take a sack at the
Speaker 1: end of the game either, especially and you can't fall
Speaker 1: into Tyron's knee. I mean, don't do that. Stay away
Speaker 1: from seventy seven now, I mean I agree. I don't
Speaker 1: think he played a horrible game, but it was just
Speaker 1: when so few opportunities, you can't like let one go
Speaker 1: like he did, I will say, I mean, I really
Speaker 1: liked that call. He made some good points. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can absolutely take some big time positives out of
Speaker 1: the way the defense played, and it's worth pointing out.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think Teddy Bridgewater had any interest
Speaker 1: in stretching the field, so you know who who knows,
Speaker 1: Like maybe maybe they could have had some gains that
Speaker 1: they could have if they tried it. But the linebackers
Speaker 1: played great. Layton's tackle on Kamara on the third and
Speaker 1: short on the first drive of the second half, that's
Speaker 1: what we saw last year, you know, knife through a
Speaker 1: block and made a tackle for loss on a crucial
Speaker 1: third down, Like Jalen had a really impressive sack in
Speaker 1: a do or die moment, Like they played their best
Speaker 1: five sacks speaks for itself. There's plenty to feel good
Speaker 1: about from the defense. Yes, but I mean I don't
Speaker 1: think it's our job to be positive or negative. I
Speaker 1: mean it's our job to just kind of say what
Speaker 1: it is, and what it is is. They haven't been
Speaker 1: tested at quarterback at all. Think about they've played four games.
Speaker 1: Two quarterbacks that they faced have already been benched. The
Speaker 1: third quarterback they faced was coming off being benched, and
Speaker 1: now he made his first start in Rosen. The fourth
Speaker 1: one won't be playing here in a few weeks when
Speaker 1: Breeze comes back. So if they haven't faced anyone yet,
Speaker 1: and that's not anyone's fault, that's just the way it goes.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna If they do face Sam Darnold,
Speaker 1: they'll probably be thirty pounds lighter, you know, if he's
Speaker 1: coming back Fromano this week or whatever. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: gonna face the quarterback there. They're gonna face a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer coming up here. They'll be tested. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they haven't been tested by a quarterback just yet.
Speaker 1: And by the way, they get to face him without
Speaker 1: best wide receiver. So there are a lot of things
Speaker 1: that are that are falling for the Cowboys. I Actually,
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet this morning talking about how well
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods played against the Saints, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he didn't play well, but again, Teddy Bridgewater had next
Speaker 1: to no interest in really stretching the field, and I
Speaker 1: think that was by design. So I'm not ready to
Speaker 1: just say that the Dallas secondary is incredible. I want
Speaker 1: to see how they Yeah, we'll see that. We'll see
Speaker 1: what it looks like against Darreon Rodgers, because even without Adams,
Speaker 1: I think that's a different story. And then on the
Speaker 1: flip side, too, is you know, it can be easy
Speaker 1: to get exhausted by fans and the sky is falling mentality,
Speaker 1: But when you only score ten points and the entire
Speaker 1: offense looks that bad, I think it's kind of justified, honestly, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't begrudge people being freaked out by the way
Speaker 1: the offense look. I'm not freaked out because I know
Speaker 1: it's a long season, but I understand where that comes from.
Speaker 1: Like if they had lost that game twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty four, would the backlash have been as strong. I
Speaker 1: don't so. No, it's when you look that inept at
Speaker 1: every position. Basically, it's kind of freaky fans feel that way.
Speaker 1: And it was surprising based upon what you'd seen the
Speaker 1: first three weeks, because if it would have been twenty
Speaker 1: eight twenty four, then you would have said the defense
Speaker 1: kind of played like they've been playing all year, offense
Speaker 1: played like they were playing all year. It just ended
Speaker 1: up they didn't have enough to beat that team in
Speaker 1: their place, right, But the fact, the fact is it flipped.
Speaker 1: The defense played much better than it's been playing all year,
Speaker 1: and the offense played much worse than it has played
Speaker 1: all year. And that's why I think people are kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit like, whoa, WHOA, what's going on?
Speaker 1: If you lose twenty eight twenty four after those first
Speaker 1: three games, then the calls are going to be, you're right,
Speaker 1: it's Marinelli. Let me okay, let me change all right?
Speaker 1: They lose twenty one seventeen and like, the defense plays
Speaker 1: pretty well, not right, but twenty one points should win
Speaker 1: you a game in the NFL. And then the offense.
Speaker 1: But if the offense had had three hundred and forty
Speaker 1: yards of offense and just didn't get in the end
Speaker 1: zone at like, nobody would be freaking out as bad
Speaker 1: as they are right now. But there is no shame.
Speaker 1: By the way, there is no shame in a team
Speaker 1: losing none twelve to ten on the road against a
Speaker 1: team that's likely going to be in the playoffs and
Speaker 1: maybe going towards the Super Bowl, Like, there is no
Speaker 1: shame in that. And I think the Cowboys just have
Speaker 1: to learn from whatever happened in that game, and it
Speaker 1: got to be better than that shame. AG always thinks
Speaker 1: they're shame field goals and you get beaten, but that's
Speaker 1: field watch football around the NFL. That's thought. I thought
Speaker 1: this was really funny. I try to devour as much
Speaker 1: NFL content as I can one because I'm a fan,
Speaker 1: but all you know, you just want to hear what's
Speaker 1: going on in the league and stay up to date. Um.
Speaker 1: I listened to the Ringers NFL podcast and the Mina
Speaker 1: Kimes Show, and both of them really good for whatever
Speaker 1: it's worth if you're into the NFL, um but both
Speaker 1: of them, like they both talked about the Dallas Saints
Speaker 1: game and on their national level podcasts and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't look good, but it's just a blip,
Speaker 1: like they'll be okay. And I was like, well, that's
Speaker 1: not what it's not what it's sounds like in Dallas,
Speaker 1: So like, it was kind of interesting to hear that
Speaker 1: national perspective that like nobody's September, nobody's really freaking out
Speaker 1: of the September. I don't know if this game is
Speaker 1: the game you lose in December, I think you should
Speaker 1: be a little more freaked out because at that point
Speaker 1: you got to be clicking on all cylinders heading in
Speaker 1: toward the playoffs, and those are the kind of games
Speaker 1: that good teams have to win when you get to December.
Speaker 1: In January obviously. To answer that call, well, we'll get
Speaker 1: into that tomorrow. I haven't looked at the Packers defense,
Speaker 1: but I know that they have really good cornerbacks, so
Speaker 1: I favor I mean, I lean toward eleven personnel, but
Speaker 1: like attacking the middle of the field might be a
Speaker 1: good idea. Okay, but there is reason for concern. We
Speaker 1: talked about it before. They have and faced three good teams,
Speaker 1: yet they're going to face a good one this Sunday
Speaker 1: and they look like crap. So it's reason for concern.
Speaker 1: Let's see if it's a small sample size or they
Speaker 1: can get better. But so far they faced one team
Speaker 1: that's going to compete for the playoffs, and they didn't win,
Speaker 1: and by the way, with a backup quarterback playing for them.
Speaker 1: By the way, even over these next several games, you
Speaker 1: got teams that all have some issues. You get into November,
Speaker 1: you're about to hit a stretch of teams that right
Speaker 1: now don't have a lot of issues. They might when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are coming, but they but they are teams
Speaker 1: that are playing really, really well right now. So you
Speaker 1: will get tested. You'll have some of those quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: will be coming up, specifically that back to back between
Speaker 1: Detroit and the way they're playing right now. No, you
Speaker 1: don't love Stafford, but the way you're playing right now
Speaker 1: between Detroit and New England, you can have some challenges.
Speaker 1: Right now. We just handled the whole season. We didn't
Speaker 1: say this. I love the dynamic that this team has
Speaker 1: and in the spirit, they're very competitive. They you can
Speaker 1: see that they care. And what I'm saying this is
Speaker 1: because when we went into the locker room after that
Speaker 1: game against the saying the mood was so terry, like
Speaker 1: everyone was in a bad mood. I've seen previous games
Speaker 1: where games matter and you go in the locker room
Speaker 1: and the guys are just like walking around cool, normal,
Speaker 1: not saying that they don't care, but the attitude, you know,
Speaker 1: it's different, and it would piss me off. I'm like,
Speaker 1: why do you even have it? Why are listening to
Speaker 1: music right now? Like shut that down like you should be.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't. But this case, I mean, we walked
Speaker 1: in there. Amari Cooper was at his locker, just sitting there,
Speaker 1: just staring in blank space without moving, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, whoa. It hurt him. And you could see
Speaker 1: and hear it. How these guys talked Zeke, how he spoke.
Speaker 1: You can tell that they really really care. And you know,
Speaker 1: listening to music doesn't mean somebody doesn't care, right, I
Speaker 1: get it. I said that. I get it. But if
Speaker 1: you're walking around with a little swing to your walk,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, there's a there's a Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a subtweet in there somewhere like there we're referencing
Speaker 1: specific people that will not be named here. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah? I get you. All right,
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