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Speaker 2: As Week two is here. The Dallas Cowboys and the
Speaker 2: New York Jets on tap for Sunday afternoon, three twenty five.
Speaker 2: Kicking today, we preview the Dallas defensive matchup with John Machoda,
Speaker 2: Nick Harris, Isaiah Standback, Chris Beam in the back. Yeoman's gentlemen,
Speaker 2: how we doing today? Who that was good?
Speaker 4: Doing good?
Speaker 5: Bring the energy today?
Speaker 2: Bring oh always?
Speaker 4: Did you usually your Black Rifle coffee this morning?
Speaker 2: I did not. Haven't either, honestly sleep RTG.
Speaker 4: He did.
Speaker 5: I had to rebound from sleep, from coming in off
Speaker 5: two hours on Monday.
Speaker 4: And then still recovering.
Speaker 5: Yeah, recovery yesterday, Like there was a there was.
Speaker 6: A part of me though when that media schedule came out,
Speaker 6: they're moving today's stuff today afternoon because they treat I
Speaker 6: guess the Sunday night game. Uh, Mike McCarthy wants to
Speaker 6: give them like extra time. I guess, I don't know,
Speaker 6: to rest or whatever. But like Wednesday stuff is way later.
Speaker 6: Normally we'll do the show, then we'll go McCarthy locker
Speaker 6: room practice, all that stuff. But now it's Mike McCarthy
Speaker 6: isn't going until like, I don't know, three thirty thirty. Yeah,
Speaker 6: So because of that, I was kind of thrown off
Speaker 6: and thinking, oh, I don't have to be out there
Speaker 6: three thirdy oh yeah, SHOWR you got a podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Uh, we're happy here here, so that's good. But yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit of a break for the guys, and
Speaker 2: I think, I mean, forty to nothing, you kind of
Speaker 2: deserve a little bit of a breather. And it's good
Speaker 2: to get back into the swing of things because these
Speaker 2: first three weeks. I've always said, and honestly I learned
Speaker 2: this from Caden Gates, one of our producers. H my
Speaker 2: first season in this position, it takes about three weeks
Speaker 2: for everyone to fill into a rhythm, to to kind
Speaker 2: of find their own footing, and whether it's from a
Speaker 2: content standpoint or a production standpoint, or of course a
Speaker 2: player standpoint, it takes a little bit of time to
Speaker 2: get back into a full season's worth of rhythm. And
Speaker 2: so I can only imagine the gentleman that travel here
Speaker 2: that that makes things tougher for sure, going back and forth.
Speaker 2: But Isaiah is still waking up. He's getting his black
Speaker 2: rifle coffee.
Speaker 4: It was my sleeping, Yeah, it wasn't. I didn't have
Speaker 4: to wake up till six.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's right.
Speaker 5: I can probably count on my hand how many times
Speaker 5: I'm woken up at six this year. Wow, I'm not.
Speaker 6: And when you do, are you happy about that?
Speaker 5: Heck?
Speaker 4: No, no close.
Speaker 2: With us previewing the defensive side of the football, I
Speaker 2: have a fan quest if you want to tweet.
Speaker 4: It in the Fan Questions today. Okay, let me find.
Speaker 2: The text line and then I'll give you the fan question.
Speaker 2: But I'll send you guys a question first. Have the
Speaker 2: expectations changed on defense? Haveszick completely changed with the forty
Speaker 2: to nothing blanking that they did against the New York
Speaker 2: Giants on Sunday Night? Have the expectations changed at all?
Speaker 2: Are they are they increased or do they stay right
Speaker 2: around the same with what you anticipated.
Speaker 7: That'll be a negative ghostwriter. I believe that the expectations
Speaker 7: are still the same. I think that my question marks
Speaker 7: we're revolving around this defense are still in place in
Speaker 7: terms of where the question marks actually laid, and obviously
Speaker 7: that's going to be in a running game, and obviously
Speaker 7: that would be tested today extreme this week. I would
Speaker 7: assume as long as the Jets are not too far behind, Yeah.
Speaker 6: They haven't changed. For me, I thought that this had
Speaker 6: the potential being the best defense in the NFL, and
Speaker 6: they certainly played like that week one, So yeah, I
Speaker 6: agree with Isaiah the run game. The way the game started,
Speaker 6: I give them a little bit of a pass just
Speaker 6: because you have a bunch of starters that didn't play
Speaker 6: in the preseason and they were getting gashed early on
Speaker 6: for about six yards of carry get warmed up. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and so if that carried down throughout the game, I
Speaker 6: think it would have been a little bit more of
Speaker 6: a concern. But I was impressed without Jonathan Hankins played
Speaker 6: and I know says well in the middle. So the
Speaker 6: other interesting part is just to see how guys like
Speaker 6: Bell and Wayie times. Some of the safety is coming
Speaker 6: up playing lineback. How would they hold up against the run?
Speaker 6: And they did a good job Sunday night. But yeah, no,
Speaker 6: expectations have not changed for me.
Speaker 5: I'm the same. Expectations are still the same for me
Speaker 5: because when we came into the season, we expected them
Speaker 5: to be great and that's what they gave us in
Speaker 5: Week one. I don't think we're going to get the
Speaker 5: level of that greatness week in and week out. But
Speaker 5: it's something I've been kind of thinking about last couple
Speaker 5: of days. You know, what would be a disappointing effort,
Speaker 5: you know, game by game for this defense. And I
Speaker 5: think back to the Houston game last year. I think
Speaker 5: back to the Jacksonville game last year, or even Green
Speaker 5: Bay in the second half, and what were the the
Speaker 5: causes of all those effects? It was lack of death.
Speaker 5: And they had that depth now, whether that be the secondary,
Speaker 5: whether that be on the defensive line, second level, whatever,
Speaker 5: they have those pieces now. So fully my expectation is
Speaker 5: for them not to have a lapse like they had
Speaker 5: like last year on multiple ocasions. Like sure, over a
Speaker 5: seventeen game season, you're gonna have a bad day that
Speaker 5: will happen, But when it happens three four games in
Speaker 5: a row, then you know that that's when it gets
Speaker 5: a little worrisome to me. That's my expectation is that
Speaker 5: that does not happen on a week two week basis,
Speaker 5: and we haven't. We didn't see that week one, so
Speaker 5: we saw the I think we saw the greatest of
Speaker 5: what this product could look in week one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, does that? I feel like that's kind of the
Speaker 2: reasoning behind the question though. If that's the greatest, if
Speaker 2: that's the peak of what this product could look like,
Speaker 2: then is there that much of a gap to where
Speaker 2: the expectations do change a little bit moving forward? Or
Speaker 2: do you expect more? There's like an it's hard, it's
Speaker 2: hard to really push for more, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's like an echelon and like they were up
Speaker 5: here and they still could be here if they wanted
Speaker 5: to be. You know, like it's still like this gap
Speaker 5: of expectation that I have for them personally at least.
Speaker 2: Was there any weak spot on the defense? Was there
Speaker 2: anybody that or any position group that you looked at
Speaker 2: and you said, Okay, they did not play their best game.
Speaker 2: They did not go at least to that upper echelon
Speaker 2: that you're talking about.
Speaker 5: I guess we talked about DeMont Clark yesterday, and then
Speaker 5: that kind of had to do with on the first
Speaker 5: drive the running game kind of being able to pick
Speaker 5: up those five six yards of carry, And you know,
Speaker 5: I'd like to see that second level be a little
Speaker 5: bit more improved from from that from last week. But
Speaker 5: I would still give that grade pretty dang good.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: I feel like the defense overall really executed. But Ffel
Speaker 5: was nitpicking then maybe the second level.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it would be nitpicking to say
Speaker 6: any of those groups this is the NFL. I understand
Speaker 6: it's forded to nothing, and people just think that. You
Speaker 6: can look back at the game and go ooh, I
Speaker 6: don't know about that play that one right there. I
Speaker 6: think Trayvon could have been like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 6: It's forded to nothing? Like sure do that every week?
Speaker 6: Start out, give up six yards a run on that
Speaker 6: first series and play the rest of the game like that,
Speaker 6: and you'll be remembered, like, you know, the eighty five Bears,
Speaker 6: the two thousand Ravens, whatever legion of Boom Seahawks, whatever
Speaker 6: you want to do there, they will be it won't
Speaker 6: be best defense of this season in the NFL, it'll
Speaker 6: be one of the like iconic great defenses. If you
Speaker 6: continue to play like that, it's a lot to ask for.
Speaker 4: We didn't talk about the nickname.
Speaker 7: We had the whole conversation last year involving around the nickname,
Speaker 7: and Micah just squashed everything.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, just Doomsday, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Legion of Doomsday. Yeah, yeah, that's what that's
Speaker 2: what ended up. I think last year our our winner
Speaker 2: was Legion of booms Day.
Speaker 6: For the nickname.
Speaker 4: I think Mike had just ended all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the Legion of Doomsday. That's what its official.
Speaker 2: It's different Legion of doombyna argue with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it you.
Speaker 4: Micah shirt, it's going to.
Speaker 2: Yeah. As soon as he said it was like okay
Speaker 2: in to print, so okay. So then on the opposite
Speaker 2: side of that question, if if we don't want to nitpick,
Speaker 2: let's let's nitpick in a good way. Which which unit
Speaker 2: impressed you the most in that matchup and how can
Speaker 2: they continue that against the Jets in Week two? Was
Speaker 2: it the pass rush, the secondary corner safety, the unit.
Speaker 4: That impressed me? The most we're talking about just defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like giving a player of the game. It's
Speaker 2: hard to do. The smelly stickers were tough this week.
Speaker 4: I honestly seven. This is gonna sound really bad.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 4: I wasn't impressed. It was it was an expectation for me.
Speaker 5: Seven sacks.
Speaker 4: Yes, for any team that gets behind.
Speaker 2: Yes, we talked about the possibility of hitting seventy sacks
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 4: The I mean the number was. I know I probably
Speaker 4: sound dirt, but I.
Speaker 6: Said, but that's they're well on.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's honestly for me.
Speaker 7: That was the expectation for any for a team that
Speaker 7: is offensively built, is built offensively like the Giants are. Okay,
Speaker 7: that's predicated primarily on the run. If you get behind,
Speaker 7: you're unable to run. That's what I expect. That's what
Speaker 7: I expect. Honestly, that's truly what I expect. That's why
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 4: I was unamused. When I was watching the game, it
Speaker 4: was another one. Hope somebody else cool, Right, you watch.
Speaker 2: The Sounds of the Sideline this week?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 2: Oh, you gotta watch it. It's really good.
Speaker 4: It was fun.
Speaker 2: It was fun, Oh, said Diggy's who was on the
Speaker 2: sideline and he's he's pulling the oprah uh saying he's like,
Speaker 2: you get a sack, you get a sack he stole,
Speaker 2: he goes, he goes, look under your seat and everybody
Speaker 2: would receive a sack like it's just like a whole thing.
Speaker 2: Go check it out. And Alex slowly did a great
Speaker 2: job as always seven sacks times seventeen and nineteen.
Speaker 6: Did I just did that?
Speaker 10: Did you?
Speaker 4: I know? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Right, yeah, yeah, I would say for me, it's that
Speaker 6: hybrid linebacker safety group that included Bell, Juan Ye Thomas.
Speaker 10: I get it.
Speaker 6: They look good in training camp, they look good in
Speaker 6: the preseason. It's another for Week one to step in
Speaker 6: the way they did. I mean, there were some plays
Speaker 6: that Bell made that he looked like he'd been playing
Speaker 6: like he is a full time starting NFL linebacker. That
Speaker 6: that's I just impressed me. Like I expected him to
Speaker 6: get in and have a role. I didn't think he
Speaker 6: would make as many plays that he did, And now
Speaker 6: makes me look at their linebacker group a lot different
Speaker 6: than I did when they originally cut it down to
Speaker 6: fifty three. You know, you see overshow and go down
Speaker 6: you think and man, that's probably a weak spot right there,
Speaker 6: but a man, I think get that production for those
Speaker 6: guys going forward, they'll be fine at linebacker.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I would give it to the pass rush group
Speaker 5: just because of the dominance that they had from the
Speaker 5: very gig go and being able to just overwhelm the
Speaker 5: right side of that offensive line. I know we talked
Speaker 5: about it last couple of days, but that was just unreal.
Speaker 2: I liked your Nicked Night, by the way, the column
Speaker 2: that you just put on Dallas Cowboys dot Com kind
Speaker 2: of spoke to what John's talking about about that depth.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how the role players got here, but
Speaker 2: they're here now and you got to take advantage of them.
Speaker 2: Kind of go through your I guess inspiration to write
Speaker 2: that piece in the way that you did, because it
Speaker 2: did it outlined exactly how a game like that happens
Speaker 2: because you need it from all three phases. You need
Speaker 2: it from every guy on the roster. You need it
Speaker 2: from your depth, and I think the depth was just
Speaker 2: as impressive as some of the starting players and some
Speaker 2: of the superstars were in that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was more so thinking back to the offseason,
Speaker 5: whenever you know somebody made the fifty three cut, or
Speaker 5: somebody was traded for in Igbinoghani's case, or you know,
Speaker 5: an acquisition was made and it's you know, Twitter being
Speaker 5: Twitter and it's like, who's this guy? Why does this matter?
Speaker 5: You know, screw that through this and all those guys
Speaker 5: that would be quote unquote forgotten are not cared about
Speaker 5: when they're acquired. Those were the guys that set the
Speaker 5: tone on Sunday. It was you know, it was one
Speaker 5: year Thomas coming and blocking the field goal was no
Speaker 5: eggnogny running it down the sideline. You know, when Deron
Speaker 5: Bland was drafted, you know, probably people didn't give a
Speaker 5: give a damn about that, and then he's the one
Speaker 5: that gets to pick six. So it was a lot
Speaker 5: of those guys setting the tone. And you know it's
Speaker 5: basically like, you know, don't it shouldn't matter how they
Speaker 5: get here. They're here now and they're performing now.
Speaker 6: So the other things like what it was about, I
Speaker 6: think like about that is that I mean, just from
Speaker 6: my perspective of covering the Dallas Cowboys, there's probably too
Speaker 6: much focus on the stars like that is generally, you know,
Speaker 6: you're playing the hits when you when you cover this team,
Speaker 6: you're that and nationally that's what's being talked about all
Speaker 6: the time and stuff. So when you see some of
Speaker 6: these players that aren't talk about as much because even
Speaker 6: like undrafted guys fits around pick stuff like that. I'm
Speaker 6: even gonna include somebody like a Dante follower that you
Speaker 6: kind of sometimes forget, like how many times were you
Speaker 6: sitting there talking about like, oh, Dante followed this. Dante
Speaker 6: followed that during like training camp, and he kind of
Speaker 6: goes under the radar and then you just watch the
Speaker 6: way he plays in that game, you forget like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, I mean that's a really high round pick
Speaker 6: or high pick and it just comes from some areas
Speaker 6: that you don't I mean, you're expecting Mike, you know,
Speaker 6: you're expecting you know, CD and tray Von Diggs and
Speaker 6: Dak and stuff like that. But to see some of
Speaker 6: the guys that you mentioned right there throwing a Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 6: Cavanti Turpin had three carries. He had three carries off
Speaker 6: last season. He had three receptions. I think he only
Speaker 6: had two last season. So the fact of like them
Speaker 6: getting hit him that involved. I don't think there's anybody
Speaker 6: that really expected that Week one from Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 2: So it was quick the way that they were able
Speaker 2: to get him involved. The fact that Turpin was utilized
Speaker 2: the way that he was. I mean, that's that's been
Speaker 2: an emphasis. That's been something that the coaching staff has
Speaker 2: talked about. But like you said, John, I don't think
Speaker 2: you expected it in week one like that.
Speaker 9: I like it.
Speaker 7: I like I mean, listen, coach McCarthy, I believe that
Speaker 7: he not only possesses the knowledge and the wisdom right
Speaker 7: from his past experiences, but I also believe that he
Speaker 7: learns from dan Quinn and I think they learned from
Speaker 7: each other, and I think that's a relationship that they
Speaker 7: have and to say that they don't would be ridiculous.
Speaker 7: Just because you're in the head coach of position doesn't
Speaker 7: mean that you can't pick up insight from others. And
Speaker 7: I think that one thing by being around dan Quinn
Speaker 7: that he's learned is put your players in a position
Speaker 7: to be successful, regardless of how high caliber they are
Speaker 7: or not. Right, So you talk about somebody like Turpin
Speaker 7: who his sole purpose and sole job this training camp
Speaker 7: was to earn the trust of the offense, earn the
Speaker 7: trust of those of coach McCarthy, a Schotenheimer earned their
Speaker 7: trust that they can trust you as an offensive threat.
Speaker 7: And he did that in training camp, not in the preseason.
Speaker 7: He did it in training camp. And because he did
Speaker 7: it in training camp, and they saw it every day
Speaker 7: through and through, saw his ability to take the plays,
Speaker 7: apply the plays, do the assignments, all those things. Now,
Speaker 7: you put yourself in a position to be utilized in
Speaker 7: a game like that outside of your position, simply because
Speaker 7: the fact that these coaches trust you, so it just
Speaker 7: adds another threat. The guys are not this roster this
Speaker 7: team on both all three phases, regardless of what your
Speaker 7: position title is, they are going to put you in
Speaker 7: position to be successful. And I think that's an awesome
Speaker 7: thing about this team.
Speaker 6: And the other thing about the turf and thing going
Speaker 6: tying that in. There's a lot of things that he
Speaker 6: did that you can sit there and go, well, they
Speaker 6: can do some of the stuff with duce Vaughn too.
Speaker 6: You know, they never really had to get to the
Speaker 6: duce Vawn part of anything because they did de late
Speaker 6: in the game, but obviously it was already over. But
Speaker 6: I'm talking about with like the ones mixing him in
Speaker 6: in certain situations teams as they're playing. And that stands
Speaker 6: out to me because of there's just been many times
Speaker 6: over the last couple of years where Mike McCarthy's talked
Speaker 6: about them being like a dome team, even though you know,
Speaker 6: they don't really play in a dome. It's technically indoor
Speaker 6: outdoor type stadium, but they're built like that. They play
Speaker 6: on turf, they're built to, you know, have a fast
Speaker 6: team that you could really take advantage of some of
Speaker 6: those those different things. And so to see that in
Speaker 6: that game, that was that was pretty interesting because I
Speaker 6: was not expecting that type of usage from from from Turpin,
Speaker 6: not in some meaningful roles right away. I thought maybe
Speaker 6: it would grow to that, but yeah, that was that
Speaker 6: was I didn't expect.
Speaker 2: That Interurpin wasn't the only one that shined during training
Speaker 2: camp and the preseason and got their shot in Week one.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've talked about it at nauseum about Janye Thomas.
Speaker 2: I think it's the best example of that. Marquise Bell
Speaker 2: is in there too, but you also look at some
Speaker 2: of the other guys, I mean, Layton Vandersh and Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: We were talking about that that set where Parsons is
Speaker 2: rushing as as the nose tackle he's as a zero technique.
Speaker 2: Then you have Layton van Derresh coming off the edge.
Speaker 2: What happened A pressure happened in that uh in that
Speaker 2: play whenever they pulled it out, And that's probably not
Speaker 2: the only time you're going to see a look like
Speaker 2: that from dan Quinn. He's gonna mix it up a
Speaker 2: little bit.
Speaker 5: I charted it at least three times, and yeah, I
Speaker 5: still need to go back and give it a full,
Speaker 5: full end depth chart. But during the game, I gave
Speaker 5: it three times and I believe they were able to
Speaker 5: generate pressure on the backfield on two of those.
Speaker 2: So we talked about OSA. We talked about and even
Speaker 2: from an offensive standpoint. I know this is the defensive preview,
Speaker 2: but from an offensive standpoint, we also talked about the
Speaker 2: iron sharpens iron a lot when we were in Oxnard,
Speaker 2: about how facing this defense constantly is going to make
Speaker 2: you better. Talk about the offensive line in the way
Speaker 2: that they stood up against a really good defensive front
Speaker 2: from New York. And you have Chiuwa Madoga coming in,
Speaker 2: plugging in not necessarily lighting the world on fire, but
Speaker 2: also doing his job the right way. It's probably because
Speaker 2: he was facing Mike Hah Parsons and Osa Digizua and
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hankins and these guys that just flashed on Sunday
Speaker 2: Night football. He was able to do that in practice
Speaker 2: and face him in practice every single day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I know, that's why I stayed away from now because
Speaker 7: I know we're on defense today, but that was my
Speaker 7: vote for most impressive offensive line.
Speaker 4: Didn't expect that level of performance against them, okay, And.
Speaker 6: There are definitely times in practice in training camp where
Speaker 6: those practices would have looked exactly like the Giants game
Speaker 6: did for the Cowboys offense. Yeah, there's a thing where
Speaker 6: you can't hit Dak Prescott, you have to run by him,
Speaker 6: and so it allows him to do a scramble drill
Speaker 6: and things like that where the play just doesn't stopped.
Speaker 6: There were many times out there where you were like,
Speaker 6: if this was a game, I mean, they would three
Speaker 6: and out, three and out, three and out.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be one of my lasting impressions if this
Speaker 2: defense turns into what you were talking about earlier, where
Speaker 2: they're compared to the two thousand Ravens, they're compared to
Speaker 2: the eighty five Bears and the Steelers of the seventies,
Speaker 2: if they're compared as an all time great defense, one
Speaker 2: of my early lasting impressions is going to be Micah
Speaker 2: Parsons in the backfield, Osa Digizoo in the backfield, DeMarcus
Speaker 2: Lawrence in the backfield. Almost every snap in Ox started,
Speaker 2: and just to the point where it was like, all right, guys,
Speaker 2: we got to just take two steps and slow down,
Speaker 2: just because we got to practice something on offense. We
Speaker 2: got to get a clean pass off. That's got to
Speaker 2: get some kind of read. That's what it'll look like.
Speaker 2: But that's what it looked like again in week one.
Speaker 2: So hopefully that continues going up against the Jets. But
Speaker 2: when we come back here on Talking Cowboys, how much
Speaker 2: of a threat are the Wilsons, Garrett and Zach. How
Speaker 2: much of a threat do they pose to this Dallas defense?
Speaker 2: And how can the Cowboys continue to get after the
Speaker 2: quarterback and try and slow down on the mobile Zach Wilson.
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Speaker 5: One of defense.
Speaker 2: Uh no, it's both sides of the ball. Yeah, both
Speaker 2: sides of the ball. Eight one seven two nine zero
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Speaker 2: to text in. All right, Jets offensive preview No, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: Of course, we're not gonna really harp on that too much.
Speaker 2: He played four snaps for the Jets, goes down with
Speaker 2: an achilles' injuries, out for the season and a significant
Speaker 2: amount of time. Hope the best for his recovery and
Speaker 2: the Jets are in a bind. I mean, it's kind
Speaker 2: of where it is. You expected Zach Wilson as a
Speaker 2: top two pick to come in and at least show
Speaker 2: something now learning under Aaron Rodgers. One game down and
Speaker 2: it looked like the old Zach Wilson and the reason
Speaker 2: why they went and got Aaron Rodgers instead. But Nick,
Speaker 2: when you look at this Jets offense, where are they
Speaker 2: still dangerous? Where can they still hurt?
Speaker 5: The Cowboys run game Breese Hall and Dalvin Cook, that's
Speaker 5: gonna be They probably get thirty carries total between the
Speaker 5: two of them. I believe they had twenty eight of
Speaker 5: rushes on Monday night, so and that was changing the
Speaker 5: game plan up on off a whim. So I think
Speaker 5: they're gonna get a lot of run on Sunday, especially
Speaker 5: wanting to test this Cowboys rush defense. I see how
Speaker 5: improved it is from a year ago. You could expect
Speaker 5: a lot of Bristol on, a lot of Tought and Cook,
Speaker 5: and probably a little bit of Michael Carter thrown in
Speaker 5: there too.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, Garrett Wilson's obviously scary, but I don't
Speaker 6: see how they would be building the game plan around
Speaker 6: throwing to Garrett Wilson over utilizing that run game, averaging
Speaker 6: six yards of carry, the most of any team in
Speaker 6: that first week. You have a quarterback that is not great,
Speaker 6: and he's going to be making, you know, his first
Speaker 6: road start of the season against a defensive line that
Speaker 6: I'm sure he's probably a little nervous about after watching
Speaker 6: or whenever he does watch the film of the Giants game.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you don't watch football and you just
Speaker 6: look at stats, you'd look at and be like, well,
Speaker 6: his numbers aren't bad, they're pretty simp Zach Wilson's numbers
Speaker 6: are pretty smilar what Daks were week one. But if
Speaker 6: you watch the game, you're not thinking that he's going
Speaker 6: to be the one that they're gonna be building anything around.
Speaker 6: It's going to be a we're going to try and
Speaker 6: establish the run. We're gonna hope that that has the
Speaker 6: type of success that it had Monday night, and then
Speaker 6: off of that, maybe we can get some guys open
Speaker 6: and things like that. Just the fact of that defensive
Speaker 6: front and the defensive backs that they can throw at
Speaker 6: Garrett Wilson, I would be very surprised if he had
Speaker 6: a big game the.
Speaker 2: So Garrett Wilson in that game against the against the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills on which, don't.
Speaker 6: Get me wrong, nothing against him. I mean, no, he's
Speaker 6: fantastic potential.
Speaker 2: But then you're you're facing guys that aren't Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 2: and Steffan Gilmour defensively, I mean, you look at his
Speaker 2: numbers receiving wise, five catches, thirty four yards. Alan Lazard
Speaker 2: was the most effective player as a wide receiver. I
Speaker 2: think he's I still think he's an underrated player. But
Speaker 2: also he had the connection with Aaron Rodgers, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: he still had forty six yards with Zach Wilson, but
Speaker 2: they still.
Speaker 6: At the team and you look at those receivers, there's
Speaker 6: just a party. We're like, yeah, this could be real
Speaker 6: good with Aaron Rodgers. Sure, but that's with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6: This is a significant step down. And so because of that,
Speaker 6: you know, it doesn't make it look nearly as daunting
Speaker 6: like with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, Garrett Wilson might get fifteen
Speaker 6: to twentydown catches, you know, if Aaron Rodgers was to
Speaker 6: stay healthy for a full season.
Speaker 4: But why he apologized to him the interview. He said, sorry, Cude, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that was he knew that's tough.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but Garret Wilson was already there. He's a dude,
Speaker 6: so he was already there. No, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 6: but I was just gonna say, but so, yeah, you
Speaker 6: can say sorry to him, But like, what about all
Speaker 6: the guys that joined. That's just because Rodgers is here,
Speaker 6: that's the only one that That's the one I thought,
Speaker 6: because I saw that thing too about him saying he
Speaker 6: was sorry to be there. He was probably pumped when
Speaker 6: he saw that Rogers.
Speaker 2: But that was a chance for him to to really
Speaker 2: take a step up. Where where can Zach Wilson still
Speaker 2: beat you?
Speaker 4: Though? I mean, that's the thing.
Speaker 2: It's an NFL game. I mean we got to give
Speaker 2: him some flowers.
Speaker 6: You watch you watch the draft stuff. What did you
Speaker 6: think about him coming out of b YU, Like did
Speaker 6: you wasn't super high? Okay. The reason I'm asking you
Speaker 6: this is because there were a lot of people pre
Speaker 6: draft that were like this clear early, clearly one of
Speaker 6: the you know, a top two three pick in the draft,
Speaker 6: and I was.
Speaker 4: Never you weren't on that bandwagon.
Speaker 6: Well, I gotta admit, I got admit my biases. So
Speaker 6: if I'm an NFL GM, I'm probably never going to
Speaker 6: end up with Josh Allen, for example, Carson Wentz because
Speaker 6: I am a I lean towards the big schools, like
Speaker 6: the Power five type quarterbacks that I can see what
Speaker 6: they've done against the other top echelon of talent.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't have picked the quarterback out of Jackson State.
Speaker 6: Uh, probably not.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 6: But now when that quarterback shows you, when a different
Speaker 6: Jackson State quarterback shows you what they can do at Colorado, then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, the same dude, It is the same dude.
Speaker 6: I'm just saying that's just the way I'm not saying
Speaker 6: i'd be a good GM with you.
Speaker 5: Context is very important, and I'm with you there.
Speaker 2: So here's what I had in the twenty twenty one draft.
Speaker 2: I had all my nuggas' bags are on Nike. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong.
Speaker 8: Here.
Speaker 2: I had Zach Wilson as the twelfth overall player. He
Speaker 2: was the third quarterback behind Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields.
Speaker 4: I had Lawrence number one.
Speaker 2: I had Justin Fields as the number three overall player
Speaker 2: in the draft, and then it was Wilson twelve Trey
Speaker 2: Lance fourteen. So that was where I had them all ranked.
Speaker 2: I had four first round grades on quarterbacks. Wilson was
Speaker 2: a first round grade, but he was like a low
Speaker 2: end first round grade, and I kind of I gave
Speaker 2: him a little bit of a little bit of a
Speaker 2: bump in terms of overall grade. Here's my scouting report.
Speaker 2: Special arm talent with the ability to improvise when in
Speaker 2: trouble by his times with his legs, and is able
Speaker 2: to make NFL caliber throws to anywhere on the field.
Speaker 2: The con though only allowed a year of high level
Speaker 2: production due to injury history in the past head and shoulder,
Speaker 2: was able to get away with some things against group
Speaker 2: of five competition that he would have no chance to
Speaker 2: get away with against NFL talent. The one year wonder
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty one draft class, Wilson's twenty one
Speaker 2: season was one for the books. Thirty two touchdowns, three interceptions,
Speaker 2: all career numbers, and in fantastic fashion in a group
Speaker 2: of five only schedule. However, his first year in the
Speaker 2: league will be a tough adjustment, but he has the
Speaker 2: intangibles at an NFL quarterback needs and I compared him
Speaker 2: to Baker Mayfield. So and I wasn't super high on
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield either. If I'm being real, I didn't have
Speaker 2: the detailed charts and the scouting reports at that point
Speaker 2: in time that I.
Speaker 6: Didn't mean, Oh, I don't think that you're alone on
Speaker 6: that one. I think that's one of the best things
Speaker 6: that Baker has going for him is that he uses
Speaker 6: that chip on his shoulder because there's so many people
Speaker 6: that are like, this is the guy that went one,
Speaker 6: like they went one and here then again.
Speaker 2: I don't know, mind, you look good in Tampa.
Speaker 6: When I talk about liking quarterbacks, like what they do
Speaker 6: at the power five level, Like one of my favorites
Speaker 6: is Tua. Now he has the injury, so you have
Speaker 6: to factor that, but just what he did at Alabama,
Speaker 6: like big moments like that, to me is that that
Speaker 6: translating what he did there to the NFL is just
Speaker 6: a lot easier for me to do so. And again,
Speaker 6: I'm not a helot evaluator, and I wouldn't. I'm not
Speaker 6: saying i'd be a good one. But with Trevor Lawrence, Tua.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, both of those. The thing with with these teams.
Speaker 6: Ideah, I'm talking about if I have a top fight,
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about finding diamonds in the rough here. Okay,
Speaker 6: I'm talking about I got to talk over here because
Speaker 6: here's here's the thing real quick, and it kind of
Speaker 6: goes back to the Trey Lance thing. Okay, I get
Speaker 6: with the forty nine ers, you know you can. And
Speaker 6: my actually guess it goes with the Eagles too. There's
Speaker 6: just so much on you when you're on the GM
Speaker 6: and they're like, Okay, we need a quarterback. We're gonna
Speaker 6: use a high pick. Better get this thing right. And
Speaker 6: so that's why I'm saying I would lean in that
Speaker 6: direction because I'm feeling if this doesn't hit, it could
Speaker 6: be my job. But I guess the opposite side is
Speaker 6: is it it isn't the job because it's not like
Speaker 6: it effectored in. It didn't hurt John Lynch, it didn't
Speaker 6: hurt Howie Roseman. They're looked at as like two of
Speaker 6: the best. So but for me personally, that's always part
Speaker 6: of it where I'm like, if I swing and miss
Speaker 6: on this, am I am? I done? It's my only
Speaker 6: chance I ever got a chance to run a team.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so question, Yeah, they don't have another quarterback
Speaker 4: on the roster, do they.
Speaker 5: I mean, they do think it's a Brett Rippion.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not anybody significant though. Why why do you ask?
Speaker 7: Because I have a feeling that he's gonna be running
Speaker 7: for his life in this game, and they might want
Speaker 7: to have somebody on standby.
Speaker 2: Is it that offensive line that worries you?
Speaker 7: No, it's just I don't force I'm I know for
Speaker 7: a fact, there's gonna be a huge point of emphasis
Speaker 7: place on stopping the run.
Speaker 4: We all know that load the box, do Una loaded up?
Speaker 7: Because you're not threatened by Wilson beating you over the top,
Speaker 7: especially when you have Trayvon Diggsi Stepan Killo. I'm not thritting.
Speaker 7: I can come up and press you because I still
Speaker 7: got some dogs even behind them. So I'm gonna make
Speaker 7: it hard on you to throw the ball over the top,
Speaker 7: and I'm allowing my boys to get home and I'm
Speaker 7: gonna stop the run. So being that, there's gonna be
Speaker 7: a point emphasis place on stopping the run, I for see. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: I foresee the Jets be in a situation where they
Speaker 7: have to throw themselves back into the game. Okay, whether
Speaker 7: that be down my ten, whether that be down my said,
Speaker 7: whatever that might be here forty.
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 6: Can we pretend that you're Robert Sala right now, and
Speaker 6: what would you be trying to do right now if
Speaker 6: you if if they literally were like, hey, Roberts, this week,
Speaker 6: we need.
Speaker 4: You to wishbone.
Speaker 5: Here's Robert.
Speaker 7: I want ie formation wishbone thirteen personnel like Brian.
Speaker 2: Dabele brought out the wishbones.
Speaker 4: He sure did, We sure did, thirteen person year.
Speaker 7: I am coming downhill, downhill, and I am trying to
Speaker 7: run all the clock off all of it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 7: I want I want nine minute drives. Okay, even if
Speaker 7: we in the field goals, I.
Speaker 6: Wanta drives sustainable against his defense though they're going.
Speaker 4: To find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't find out.
Speaker 7: I mean seriously, I mean if you can find yourself
Speaker 7: in in short down and distance, third and threes, I
Speaker 7: mean anybody can convert those. Yeah, I don't care how
Speaker 7: much of a threat you feel, you know, your defense
Speaker 7: might be. Most teams in the NFL can convert third
Speaker 7: and three. They have enough weapons to do that. I
Speaker 7: don't care if that's Wilson being in a shotgun and
Speaker 7: being able to get out the pocket, step in and out,
Speaker 7: or whatever, catching us in the stunts that Dallas likes
Speaker 7: to run. You can convert some some short down in
Speaker 7: distance which will allow you to move the change, which
Speaker 7: allows for you to get back into your run, all
Speaker 7: those things. But Dallas is going to have to take
Speaker 7: them out of that often in early That's easier said
Speaker 7: than done. Even with their office line question marks. They
Speaker 7: got two dogs at running back, and we know that
Speaker 7: those are two starters on any team.
Speaker 2: The backup quarterback, by the way, for Zach Wilson is
Speaker 2: Tim Boyle, the Eastern Kentucky product, and he was on
Speaker 2: the practice squad last week, so they'll elevate him.
Speaker 4: He'll be elevated.
Speaker 6: He'll make a movie tomorrow. They'll probably get picky whether
Speaker 6: they say most likely, they'll probably sign a free agent.
Speaker 2: Who do you think they'd go and try and look at?
Speaker 5: Matt Ryan?
Speaker 4: Would be fun.
Speaker 6: I know people keep saying that Carson Wentz is out
Speaker 6: there Kobe on a roster, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Think I think Wentz probably is. Maybe, I guess, I
Speaker 6: don't know. I don't want to say that. I don't
Speaker 6: like the options there. I'm trying to make a trade
Speaker 6: for James Winston.
Speaker 2: Hmm, Yeah, that would be interesting. That would now, that
Speaker 2: would be fun. Now would he start against Dallas in
Speaker 2: week two? No? Definitely not no. But if you're gonna
Speaker 2: make a move, it's it's gonna be something that happens
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Speaker 2: eight one to seven two nine zero three two nine eight.
Speaker 2: Time to debate which unit has the best step up
Speaker 2: against the Jets this week. Not necessarily the best, not
Speaker 2: who's going to be the best, but who is the
Speaker 2: best improvement from Week one to Week two Isaiah looks
Speaker 2: like he wants the.
Speaker 4: Tight end group. Boo boom, He's don Michael Michaels, that's
Speaker 4: what That's what really.
Speaker 2: The majority of the text messages have said so far.
Speaker 2: Mario in South Texas said it a second ago. Biggest
Speaker 2: improvement will be the tight ends. They had limited opportunities
Speaker 2: because of the flow of the game, but I believe
Speaker 2: they will be a bigger part in the play Action again,
Speaker 2: play action game this Sunday. Collectively that we're going to
Speaker 2: combine for over one hundred yards and at least one touchdown.
Speaker 2: Get after Mario, I like it.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 6: He had the hender shot. I mean that ball that
Speaker 6: was a touchdown.
Speaker 2: If he makes that grab, Dak Prescott's stat line looks
Speaker 2: exponentially better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tight ends is probably number one. I would say
Speaker 6: production from wide receivers. But at the same time, like
Speaker 6: going against this Jets defense, I don't know how much
Speaker 6: you're gonna see there. I just I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 6: go with Brandon Aubrey doesn't miss a kick, so that'll
Speaker 6: be a step up from the first game. I just
Speaker 6: think I think that was good for him to get
Speaker 6: that out of the way. Yeah, I don't think that.
Speaker 6: He just hasn't had a ton of, you know, opportunities
Speaker 6: because of preseason there weren't as many field goal opportunities
Speaker 6: as I was thinking he was gonna get and things
Speaker 6: like that. So I think he I think he has
Speaker 6: a flawless game in this one, and he wasn't that
Speaker 6: far off. I mean outside of that miss extra point.
Speaker 6: I mean I thought he played well. No, he did
Speaker 6: play well, especially when you, I mean literally are watching
Speaker 6: a game where you're like this, they paid money, like
Speaker 6: decent money for this kicker, and this team really didn't
Speaker 6: invest anything in there, and this kicker definitely outplayed that kicker.
Speaker 4: So double J approved. He said, we got ourselves a kicker.
Speaker 6: I will.
Speaker 2: When he missed the pat, we all collectively in the
Speaker 2: studio we're like, oh yeah, uh oh, here we go.
Speaker 6: I'm sure Jerry was doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's one of their last eight pats that they had
Speaker 5: converted going back to the Washington game last year at
Speaker 5: that point, and then he ruttled off four straight.
Speaker 7: So I have helped I have a visual that like
Speaker 7: will play as soon as that happened, soon as that
Speaker 7: shank happened, will McLay grabbed his phone and Jerry say,
Speaker 7: hold on now, will give him a chance.
Speaker 2: Let him cook.
Speaker 7: If you would have missed one more, pushed the button,
Speaker 7: pushed the dog on button, called him up.
Speaker 2: That's funny, you say that's old. That is funny.
Speaker 6: You say that because I actually think it's a complete
Speaker 6: one eighty.
Speaker 4: You think it's opposite.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's Jerry, go get somebody else ready
Speaker 6: and we'll be like that, just hold on, let's just
Speaker 6: give him, let's just play this thing out. I just
Speaker 6: don't I've never gotten the sense that Jerry has much
Speaker 6: patience for.
Speaker 2: For kickers, especially with p a ts. Yeah, especially with p.
Speaker 6: It's just one of those spots that I think it
Speaker 6: bothers him.
Speaker 5: You know who Jerry's really attributed it to. It's it's Stephen.
Speaker 5: He's like, oh, this kicker, I think said after the
Speaker 5: Tuesday He's like, you know, Steven found him a guy.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: So that's kind of fun that he was able to
Speaker 5: put that together.
Speaker 4: Trying to put the blame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right down the road. Yeah, that's interesting. What do
Speaker 2: you think which which units is the biggest improvement?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I was gonna say tight end group for sure,
Speaker 5: but I'll just say pass catching as a whole statistically
Speaker 5: wasn't the you know, most impressive group from from Sunday night,
Speaker 5: but they didn't have to be. They still were able
Speaker 5: to get open and make plays when they needed it.
Speaker 5: You know, Ceedee Lamb on the very first offensive drive
Speaker 5: being able to haul in that forty nine yard reception
Speaker 5: and you know, go down the sideline in big parts.
Speaker 5: Jake Ferguson as well on that play. But I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna say the passing group as a whole, I think
Speaker 5: they get a you know, one hundred yard receiver. I
Speaker 5: think Brandon Cooks gets a lot more involved. You know,
Speaker 5: you saw him getting involved on third down on some
Speaker 5: quick slants and stuff, and I really loved to see
Speaker 5: that because they didn't really have that safety net last year.
Speaker 5: I think that's going to help their third downplay a
Speaker 5: whole lot, just because he's able to create separations so
Speaker 5: quick off the line. So those third and three, third
Speaker 5: and fours are going to be a lot more you know,
Speaker 5: manageable with Zeke not in the backfield, or if you
Speaker 5: don't want to run Tony Pollard in those situations, you've
Speaker 5: got Brandon Cooks that can come out and do those things.
Speaker 5: So I'm just gonna say past pass catching is I
Speaker 5: think you know everybody steps up and sees an extra
Speaker 5: extra step.
Speaker 6: One thing on the Cooks on the deep ball where
Speaker 6: he drew the pass interference. Watching that over on the
Speaker 6: L twenty two, another one of those one I tell
Speaker 6: you about, Like you know how it just sucks that
Speaker 6: on the TV copy you can't see out all of that.
Speaker 6: But where we are with the press box, I didn't
Speaker 6: notice it either when it happened, But on the L
Speaker 6: twenty two, it's just amazing how much attention Ceedee Lamb draws. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean the fact that you would have he would
Speaker 6: come across and he would have the corner that's on him.
Speaker 6: Both safeties got their eyes on him. I think it
Speaker 6: was a third and twelve and you're putting a six
Speaker 6: round rookie corner. I'm Brandon Cook singled up on the
Speaker 6: outside like that. Man, that's just there's just rough. It's
Speaker 6: hard to believe that that's what they wanted in that situation.
Speaker 6: That is the Giants one.
Speaker 5: Since you brought up that play, there was a pass
Speaker 5: protection kind of wrinkle on that play that is going
Speaker 5: to set up that exact play being able to work
Speaker 5: out for Jake Ferguson down the line. I'm talking like
Speaker 5: a fifteen twenty yard game for Jake Ferguson. He just
Speaker 5: needs a little bit more time in the pocket. But
Speaker 5: if you go back and you watch that play, Tyler
Speaker 5: Battish from the snap, he covers his guy boom and
Speaker 5: then he peels off immediately and he goes and picks
Speaker 5: up Jake Ferguson's guy off the edge, and Jake kind
Speaker 5: of chips his guy off the edge and comes out
Speaker 5: and he's wide open in the flat. But Dak's already like, yeah,
Speaker 5: getting it cooked up to Brandon, but he has a
Speaker 5: little bit Yeah you like that. But if he has
Speaker 5: a little bit more time in the pocket there he's
Speaker 5: checking down to Ferguson, that's a fifteen twenty yard game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I thought that was fun that entire play. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of fun things going on there.
Speaker 2: The a couple of the text messages along the line
Speaker 2: five seven five says, I hope to see improvement in
Speaker 2: the run defense over what we saw in the first drive.
Speaker 2: I think it continuously got better as the game went along,
Speaker 2: but also they went away from the rocket.
Speaker 6: I got one, I got one take on this. Yeah,
Speaker 6: So it's not you know, nineteen seventy five where you're
Speaker 6: working on this stuff in practice. So just think of
Speaker 6: that run defense not playing the preseason. What's the last
Speaker 6: time a lot of those guys made tackles? Like mad tackles.
Speaker 6: I'm not talking about little drills on the side tackling dummies.
Speaker 6: I'm talking actually football tackles. When's last time before that game?
Speaker 2: Uh San Francisco? Yeah, yeah, January sixteenth or whatever that
Speaker 2: was twenty second.
Speaker 6: There's just little things that happen in games where I'm
Speaker 6: always just like, when's the last time that they even
Speaker 6: worked on that? There were just there were certain plays
Speaker 6: where I remember when Cooper Rush stepped in as the
Speaker 6: starting quarterback and just just getting rocked and like hanging
Speaker 6: on the ball, and like I remember asking them after
Speaker 6: the game, like, how would you even practice that? Because
Speaker 6: you're not even getting no one snaps, no one's hitting you.
Speaker 6: You know, like it just it has to happen, you know.
Speaker 6: I think of the Aaron Rodgers play when Jeff Heath
Speaker 6: just smokes him from behind in that playoff game in
Speaker 6: twenty sixteen. Should have knocked the ball loose and somehow
Speaker 6: he hangs on to it. It's like there's no practicing that.
Speaker 6: And so with the defense, where are they working on that?
Speaker 6: The thudding up that they're doing in training camp. I
Speaker 6: mean that helps, but for it to just all of
Speaker 6: a sudden boom week one, going against a team and
Speaker 6: you're just gonna be flawless right from the first snap
Speaker 6: when you haven't really been tackling anybody to the ground
Speaker 6: and playing together as a run defense. In the San
Speaker 6: Francisco game, I mean, I think that they deserve a
Speaker 6: little bit of a pass for the way that game started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you do you think about this one's this
Speaker 2: is from the eight one to three. It says Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: Do you think Dak needs to see an uptick? I
Speaker 2: mean the stat line wasn't pretty, but there were multiple opportunities,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about it already. There were four drops
Speaker 2: in the game, and if those four drops are converted
Speaker 2: into actual catches, it's what is that seventeen of twenty
Speaker 2: four passing for two hundred plus yards and at least
Speaker 2: one touchdown the Peyton Henders shot, I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: different stat line. How did you as a quarterback. When
Speaker 2: you looked at Dak's play in Week one, how did
Speaker 2: you feel like it looked?
Speaker 7: He looked fine for the most part. I mean, there
Speaker 7: wasn't too much to dissect. There was a couple throws
Speaker 7: in there that I know he would have liked to
Speaker 7: had better location of. But for the most part, he
Speaker 7: threw some dog on good bass I did. He threw
Speaker 7: some really good balls. The guys just gotta catch it.
Speaker 7: I mean, conditions were conditions. You know, guys had wrong
Speaker 7: equipment on all that jazz end of the day. You know,
Speaker 7: you gotta find a way to make those plays. But
Speaker 7: they're running back this week.
Speaker 5: I believe it was the first touchdown drive, and I
Speaker 5: thought of you when it happened because we talked about
Speaker 5: ball location so much.
Speaker 4: Daring Truss, wasn't it.
Speaker 5: It was the It was a gallop slant and he
Speaker 5: would have had a twenty yard game, but he put
Speaker 5: it on his back shoulder. He kind of had to
Speaker 5: fall into it. It was still a first down like
Speaker 5: it was. It was a completion four first down, but
Speaker 5: that we've talked about that a lot. Being able to
Speaker 5: put it where he can take it and go that
Speaker 5: it was not executed then, but then he came back
Speaker 5: for three or four plays later on that CD just
Speaker 5: threaded the needle and got it right to CD where
Speaker 5: he needed it. That was the best stow we had
Speaker 5: all night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was interesting. Some of the better throws that
Speaker 2: Dak had ended up being in completions. Some of the
Speaker 2: best throws are the worst throws that he had all
Speaker 2: night ended up being completion It was it was kind
Speaker 2: of backwards that Peyton Hendershot throw was about as good
Speaker 2: as he could kid. I mean, he put it on
Speaker 2: his helmet in the middle of three defenders on the
Speaker 2: goal line, put it up there, and Hindershot saw it
Speaker 2: the whole way elevated, was there to make the play
Speaker 2: and then just couldn't hold on And that one, that
Speaker 2: one was rough. That was a phenomenal throw. But I
Speaker 2: thought one thing that he did say, or that one
Speaker 2: of these text messes said, Bob or excuse me four.
Speaker 2: It's from the four to three four He said, Dak
Speaker 2: got the ball out quicker, and that was significant. I
Speaker 2: mean you could see that from the opening drive he
Speaker 2: was able to get it going and get it out quicker.
Speaker 5: That's the West Coast offense The offense is gonna be
Speaker 5: all season, so get used to that.
Speaker 4: I liked it, YEP, I liked it.
Speaker 2: We'll preview the offense tomorrow because that's probably the more
Speaker 2: intriguing matchup now that Aaron Rodgers is no longer in
Speaker 2: the fold. It's that Cowboys offense against a very very
Speaker 2: good Jets defense. And we'll hit the film tonight. We'll
Speaker 2: continue to get it ready for it in the morning,
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