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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, Episode number one, O nine.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're live
Speaker 1: from this s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, presenter
Speaker 1: by Bill Like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: a day. Our job is get you guys ready for
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus forty nine Ers. It is the divisional rounds
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, down to the final four teams in
Speaker 1: the NFC. It's getting real and so we got a
Speaker 1: lot we're gonna talk about today. We'll jump into the
Speaker 1: San Francisco offense versus the Dallas defense. Before we do that, though,
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you guys a bigger picture question.
Speaker 1: This actually came from one of our listeners, Jose Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: He says I've been a Cowboys fan since the seventies
Speaker 1: and will continue to be. But I have to ask,
Speaker 1: can you really expect to have the same performance from
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball against the forty nine ers?
Speaker 1: Is what we saw versus Tampa Bay? How do you
Speaker 1: put that all in context? What we saw last week
Speaker 1: and now going up against or you can play as
Speaker 1: bad as you did against the Commanders, Yeah, I'll say,
Speaker 1: I mean like it's it's everything's different. I mean, you
Speaker 1: went up against a team that doesn't want to run
Speaker 1: the football versus a team that runs the football, and
Speaker 1: so you know it's it's going to be a different
Speaker 1: game plans. They're a different personnel. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna put Galimore and Bohanna inactive for
Speaker 1: this game or both of them. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you have to play it a little bit differently, knowing
Speaker 1: you know they say at all time, style styles make fights,
Speaker 1: and thinking in this case it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be different, So I expect a completely different game plan.
Speaker 1: I can I ask you guys a question. I know
Speaker 1: you just asked me one. Can I ask you guys
Speaker 1: a question? And then I'll circle back with your question, UM,
Speaker 1: do you feel like that dan Quinn played the last
Speaker 1: couple of games not showing Israel? Kuam wu to you
Speaker 1: said that on the radio this morning. I thought we
Speaker 1: talked about that, Bobby, Bobby Belt and I do a podcast,
Speaker 1: Love with the Star, and Bobby brought that up last
Speaker 1: night in the podcast. I didn't think of it that way,
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry I missed you this morning driving in
Speaker 1: and I appreciate all you've done all season for us
Speaker 1: at one O five three the UM, I just wonder
Speaker 1: if you know what else? Is there something else that
Speaker 1: dan Quinn's not showing us right now that he's got
Speaker 1: up his sleeve. And the thing about it is he
Speaker 1: understands this play caller. He's been with this play caller,
Speaker 1: but the play caller has been with him. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that that you know that that
Speaker 1: game that you can play. Let me ask that though,
Speaker 1: to how much difference does that make when you say
Speaker 1: the play call has also been with him. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: wasn't a defensive coordinate at that time, he was the
Speaker 1: head coach. How much does he really know how Dan
Speaker 1: wants to call the defense? Yeah? If he didn't, if
Speaker 1: he experienced it more as a head coach than a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I think that. I think there's things those
Speaker 1: those days where Dan probably sat in on a lot
Speaker 1: of meetings, and you know when you practice against somebody
Speaker 1: every day and it's their d it's let's be honest.
Speaker 1: You know who was the coach? It was Morse right
Speaker 1: that used it was Dan's defensive coordinator, Raheem Morris. Ya,
Speaker 1: Raheem Morrise was his defensive coordinator when he was the
Speaker 1: head coach. So how about those practice times where he
Speaker 1: knew it was Dan influence and Raheem Morris And so
Speaker 1: Kyle working against that kind of thinking, or maybe you
Speaker 1: have a question. These coaches do interact with each other,
Speaker 1: and so the thing I think that Nick's right about
Speaker 1: this is can it be the same? Sure, you know
Speaker 1: they're they're capable. We've seen Dak Prescott play at a
Speaker 1: very high level. He played at an extremely high level
Speaker 1: in that game the other day. So and if you
Speaker 1: and scouts are taught, if you've seen it one time,
Speaker 1: you can see it again. So Dallas is capable of
Speaker 1: playing like that. I do wonder is there something else
Speaker 1: that Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn. And maybe you could
Speaker 1: say the same thing for what's going on in San
Speaker 1: Francisco right now, because I went back and watched their
Speaker 1: game against Atlanta where they got beat and it looks
Speaker 1: like a completely different team than what you're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: So you're wondering what both sides. And yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: problem that Dallas is running into is they had extra
Speaker 1: days to help and prepare for the Tampa game. They
Speaker 1: don't have a whole heck of a lot of extra
Speaker 1: days to Okay, let's implement. And McCarthy's very much like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't like to just show new stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: like he said that the other day to Brad Sham
Speaker 1: on the pregame show, or I'm not interested in trying.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe he just said it to Brad
Speaker 1: does make people think something else, because I do believe
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is going to come. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: show something different. I know in the pregame show I
Speaker 1: even talked about this with Brady. You have two different
Speaker 1: game plans. You have a first half game plan in
Speaker 1: a second half game plan, whether it's playing Man, whether
Speaker 1: it's playing Zone, you know you're mixing it up. However
Speaker 1: you do it, you have different plans. You're just not
Speaker 1: gonna sit there and let them get a beat on
Speaker 1: you of how you're gonna play this game. And I
Speaker 1: think the same thing goes with Kyle Shanahan. I don't
Speaker 1: think that Dan Quinn is going to give him a
Speaker 1: similar game plan. So, yeah, you're capable of doing it,
Speaker 1: absolutely you are. It might look different though, of how
Speaker 1: you did it from how you played that Tampa game.
Speaker 1: One other thing I'll throw out to you guys, as
Speaker 1: you look at the San Francisco team on defense, they
Speaker 1: have I mean also this overall team, they're on an
Speaker 1: eleven game win streak. They're starting quarterback now, Brock Purdy
Speaker 1: is on a six game win streak. I think it
Speaker 1: is when you look at this team, you start thinking, man,
Speaker 1: how do you beat them? But then when you dive
Speaker 1: in a little deeper, the thing that stuck out to
Speaker 1: me is they have played this so far this year.
Speaker 1: They have played five teams that have winning records. Only
Speaker 1: one of them you would think of as a really
Speaker 1: good team. That's Kansas City and they got destroyed forty
Speaker 1: four twenty five. They beat the Chargers twenty two sixteen.
Speaker 1: They beat their ten and seven, They beat the nine
Speaker 1: and eight Seattle Seahawks twice, beat them twenty seven to
Speaker 1: seven during the regular season, and then beat him last
Speaker 1: week forty one twenty three. And then they beat the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, who are also a nine and eight team,
Speaker 1: thirty three to seventeen. My question seventeen, My question becomes
Speaker 1: to you, guys, is this team really as good as
Speaker 1: we think or is it a lot about the fact
Speaker 1: that they haven't played the upper echelon teams in the NFL,
Speaker 1: which makes you think Dallas has a much better chance
Speaker 1: than you would think otherwise. Yeah, but they are beating
Speaker 1: them pretty handily, though I would say that. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not been a lot of close games. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: Raiders was one of them. Yeah, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: they're winning these games pretty handily. So I saw that too,
Speaker 1: and I thought, well, yeah, you're right, they're not playing
Speaker 1: a lot of these great teams, but they're playing well
Speaker 1: in those games. So I think that should give them confidence.
Speaker 1: And I don't care who you are. Eleven in the rows, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Well, even then, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where I've learned to sometimes look at it like in
Speaker 1: this perspective that it doesn't necessarily matter who the opponent
Speaker 1: is because the Cowboys have We've seen they can play
Speaker 1: whichever way. They can play really good or really bad.
Speaker 1: They tend to kind of either level up or level
Speaker 1: down according to who their opponent is. So I think
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have a chance to win any game
Speaker 1: against any opponent. It just depends on what team decides
Speaker 1: to show up for the Cowboys that day. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: it's I don't look at the opponent because I think
Speaker 1: Nick said it right. You win eleven straight games. You
Speaker 1: know that that in itself is that they didn't have
Speaker 1: a bad week. You know that the Raider game was
Speaker 1: really interesting of how they played that and gave me
Speaker 1: some clues how I would attack them. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: watching the Seattle game at first half, at least she
Speaker 1: gets some ideas how you would attack. I think Atlanta
Speaker 1: had a good plan for how to attack. That was
Speaker 1: a Jimmy garoppolo game. But I wanted to see, you know,
Speaker 1: what did they do? And so yeah, there's there's there's
Speaker 1: some keys to this thing, this matchup that you could
Speaker 1: take from it. And I'm not looking at who they played.
Speaker 1: I'm looking Okay, what did what those teams that they
Speaker 1: played what gave the forty nine ers trouble? And there's
Speaker 1: some clues for that, you know. I also think the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers are not going to do what the
Speaker 1: Bucks did obviously that they want to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But the games where we've seen Parsons just be neutralized somewhat.
Speaker 1: It's those teams that like to run the ball and
Speaker 1: can run it in different, unique, creative ways. That's the
Speaker 1: ones that I think give him some problems. Tampa. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to go back and you saw it on
Speaker 1: the first drive of the game. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: able to just get back there and go up against
Speaker 1: the left tackle and you know, they called holding and
Speaker 1: it was just like, oh so it's gonna be like that,
Speaker 1: and and Parsons was destructive of the whole game. Offensive
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, offensively, who do you think
Speaker 1: this San Francisco team compares to the most as far
Speaker 1: as the opponents that the Cowboys have already faced Philadelphilly, Philly, Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: And even at that, as you watch them, it's very,
Speaker 1: very different. I don't know that I've seen a team
Speaker 1: this season in the NFL that does some of the
Speaker 1: things that they do offensively, justin how they move their
Speaker 1: personnel around. Well, the way it compares to me is
Speaker 1: not the running quarterback, because this quarterback's not going to run.
Speaker 1: I mean he'll run to escape. He won't run to
Speaker 1: run a play where they where Derek is right though,
Speaker 1: is it is uniquely different. But the use of personnel,
Speaker 1: the use of the tight end. This team plays with
Speaker 1: a full back. Not many teams do that. I mean
Speaker 1: a lot of teams and they play and this team
Speaker 1: will run back to back screens. Philly will do that.
Speaker 1: Philly will get a bunch formation, they'll bring guys by
Speaker 1: jet sweet this team will do that. The way that
Speaker 1: they use their personnel is similar to Philly. But the
Speaker 1: biggest difference to me is Philly's quarterback can run as
Speaker 1: a weapon. This guy, I think that he's not going
Speaker 1: to be willing to run the football like we saw
Speaker 1: him Phil. But the way they use their personnel in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways is very similar to me.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. You saw. You'll see primarily
Speaker 1: the same guys on the field most of the time.
Speaker 1: The difference will be they'll line these guys up everywhere.
Speaker 1: I saw one play where they had Yuschek, who is
Speaker 1: the fullback, they had him out wide, they had they
Speaker 1: had um McCaffrey's running back kind of as a flanker
Speaker 1: off of him out wide. They had the receiver Debo
Speaker 1: in the backfield at the running back position, and then
Speaker 1: you got killed all that tight end. And it's just
Speaker 1: like in every play you can see a different guy
Speaker 1: at a different place. So when you start thinking about
Speaker 1: it from a matchup standpoint, if you really let's say,
Speaker 1: for example, Dallas says, who's the best wide receiver? Okay,
Speaker 1: obviously is Diebo Samuel? Okay, we're gonna put digs on him? Okay,
Speaker 1: where are you going digs? If he's in the backfield?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Like, it's hard to really match
Speaker 1: up because every play, different guys are doing different things
Speaker 1: and all of them can do it well. They're running
Speaker 1: back and catch out of the backfield and can catch
Speaker 1: from a wide receiver position very very well. So it's
Speaker 1: a very very tough matchup. How do you how do
Speaker 1: you what do you do to try to prepare for
Speaker 1: something like that? Or how do you what are you going?
Speaker 1: A job interview that could help you try and get
Speaker 1: the cold shot real quick. Yeah, I mean honestly, but
Speaker 1: that's that's what he did. Honestly. What makes me feel
Speaker 1: good about this game defensively is what he did last week.
Speaker 1: Not the result, but how he changed things up. We
Speaker 1: just finished talking about it. The fact that he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna take Nashan Wright. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: him down. I'm gonna take Bohan, I'm gonna put him down.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna actually use this other guy that
Speaker 1: I haven't really used in this way as a as
Speaker 1: a slot corner, who has actually been a safety for us.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use him in this game because I think
Speaker 1: it's a good matchup situation. That makes me feel good
Speaker 1: that he knows he's at least thinking about this, Like,
Speaker 1: I know this team is going to do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things. I have some tricks in my back
Speaker 1: too that I can trick things up and I could
Speaker 1: show them something maybe they haven't seen and that may help. Right,
Speaker 1: I would do it with a Sean right too. I
Speaker 1: mean not this game, but next season. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: using these two guys like that. I've said it all
Speaker 1: year long. I don't think he's a good outside corner.
Speaker 1: It's hard for that guy's that tall to be that
Speaker 1: good against NFL receivers. But they can play in the
Speaker 1: middle if they're smart and they're aware and they got
Speaker 1: these you know, I mean, they could just touch both sidelines.
Speaker 1: I mean with their arms. I mean, it doesn't it
Speaker 1: doesn't pass the eye test. When it comes to tall
Speaker 1: corners playing in this league, there's not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of them because of how leggy and how it hard
Speaker 1: it is to turn. But that kid who's he sees
Speaker 1: himself as a corner. He didn't see himself as the safety.
Speaker 1: And so you know, he's adapted. And I'm talking about Izzy,
Speaker 1: he's adapted himself to say, listen, I could play this
Speaker 1: position and I could show quickness and I you know,
Speaker 1: when the ball goes in side, he's got the length
Speaker 1: where he doesn't have to drape his arm over to
Speaker 1: make a play. He's got the ability to play off hand.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I think that to me, they're gonna need,
Speaker 1: they're gonna need. It's such a matchup dependent game this week,
Speaker 1: and tackling is top of the list, but matchup depending
Speaker 1: because to me, you know, you talk about their receivers
Speaker 1: and and what you know and how they and how
Speaker 1: they operate. Deebo Samuel has missed several games. But to me,
Speaker 1: Brandy and Ayuk is a problem. Yeah, you know they're
Speaker 1: other receiver number eleven. He's a problem, and Kittles a
Speaker 1: problem and us checks a problem. But you got, okay,
Speaker 1: when they start spreading you out and they put the
Speaker 1: McCaffrey trade has put them over the top. The McCaffrey
Speaker 1: trade went mate. If you watch the Atlanta game, no McCaffrey. Okay,
Speaker 1: good offense. They get McCaffrey. Now they got this ability
Speaker 1: to toss the ball, throw the ball, they do all
Speaker 1: this stuff with him, and it's like it's just set
Speaker 1: their offense into a completely different direction. And so now
Speaker 1: you know Brandon Aiyuk. They get on the goal line,
Speaker 1: where they do they put the fullback out there, They
Speaker 1: put Ayuk out there, and they thought a screen and
Speaker 1: then they just blow it into the end zone and
Speaker 1: you're like going, all right, So you have to figure
Speaker 1: out when all of a sudden, when they put Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel in the backfield, you're taking a corner if you're
Speaker 1: traveling Diggs and he's now playing in the middle, in
Speaker 1: the box, and all of a sudden they run the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: Diggs is in the box, is he gonna make a play?
Speaker 1: Is he going to come up and tackle. That's what
Speaker 1: they're banking on. They're banking on that your corner as
Speaker 1: you drag him into the box, is not going to
Speaker 1: make that tackle or not gonna be able to help
Speaker 1: make the play. So they create mismatches. They make you
Speaker 1: move guys who can tackle in the box against the
Speaker 1: running game to the outside to cover a fullback and
Speaker 1: a running back that's standing out there. It's just it's
Speaker 1: they mess with you. They really do mess with you,
Speaker 1: and they mess with your alignment and how you play.
Speaker 1: Like you said, well, we've got to keep this box.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep it tight. We gotta keep all our guy,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta keep All of a sudden, vander
Speaker 1: esh just walking out there and covering somebody, and now
Speaker 1: that takes him out of the box to make a
Speaker 1: play and they run the ball. That's that's pretty creative
Speaker 1: stuff if you ask man, Yeah, I'll throw this in
Speaker 1: real quick before we go to the break. I was
Speaker 1: looking at that New Orleans game where they held him
Speaker 1: the thirteen points. One of the things you notice in
Speaker 1: that game is they didn't allow them to kind of
Speaker 1: take them out of what they did. They tried to
Speaker 1: kind of stay where they were. They played some zones.
Speaker 1: And so what it does it forces because because you're right,
Speaker 1: Shanahan's gonna look to kind of mess with you. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get you to do all the things. Look
Speaker 1: at the I can he say, I got this fullback
Speaker 1: out here, so maybe I gotta take a lineback out
Speaker 1: the linebacker out there with him. And and what New
Speaker 1: Orleans did was we're gonna stay where we are right,
Speaker 1: to stay in our base and and we're just gonna
Speaker 1: basically play four down line and three linebackers and we're
Speaker 1: just gonna kind of move and play zone and figure
Speaker 1: it out. And it takes the way that superpower that
Speaker 1: that San Francisco creates with Shanahan. I actually think that
Speaker 1: might be a smart way to handle. See. The thing
Speaker 1: about it is like, and I think you're exactly right
Speaker 1: about this. And you know, if you can get Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn in the building at lunch or wherever you guys
Speaker 1: can see him, it's a good question what Derek just
Speaker 1: talked about, because what happens is you become so matchup
Speaker 1: conscious a play in these guys. Okay, this is who
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have takeaway, ayook, this is who I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play against, Deebo Samuel, this is who I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: against Kittle. And now it turns into they've got you
Speaker 1: so spread out, and now they've got your bad players on.
Speaker 1: They're good players, you know, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you're in. You're in a little bit of a bind
Speaker 1: that way because of all the adjustments you're having to make.
Speaker 1: And to Derek's point, it's a great question for dan
Speaker 1: Quinn if you could get him off on the side.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna say in front of the meta or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but how do you play? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to some coaches today around the
Speaker 1: league that I know that played against the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers and say, you know, okay, how do you how
Speaker 1: do you play against this this front, how do you
Speaker 1: play against this how do you move the ball or
Speaker 1: how do you attack this and that? And so I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that because they are a fascinating team
Speaker 1: to watch on tape, just because of all the things
Speaker 1: that they do to fun team to watch. Yeah, all,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. We're gonna come back
Speaker 1: dive in light. Right, We're gonna dive in a little
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Speaker 1: All right, let us jump into the San Francisco offense
Speaker 1: versus the Dallas defense even more than we have already.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'd like to do, Brian. There are four
Speaker 1: players on that offense that are unique talents, unique guys
Speaker 1: that Cowboys are going to have to know about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like you to walk us through. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you the name, and I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me what is the thing that they do well and
Speaker 1: how would you if you're the Cowboys, combat that. So
Speaker 1: let's start first with there can I say, one guy
Speaker 1: real quick or Trent Williams, the deef, the left tackle
Speaker 1: might tip plays runner pass. Oh okay, look at look
Speaker 1: at his feet. When he plays narrow bass, it's a
Speaker 1: run play. When he plays wide bass, it's a pass.
Speaker 1: You get Dan Quinn off to the side. Get that
Speaker 1: message over there to the locker. I believe. I believe
Speaker 1: they know these things. Yeah, I believe. If I believe,
Speaker 1: because you could watch Trent Williams. Trent Williams is a
Speaker 1: very out We all understand Trent Williams from the Commander's
Speaker 1: stays way back in the day. He is always mean, nasty,
Speaker 1: s ob As a player, he's one of the best
Speaker 1: left tackles in the league. When I don't think he
Speaker 1: gets nearly enough credit for how mean and nasty he is.
Speaker 1: That's a tough matchup. But you watch him play narrow bass,
Speaker 1: they run wide bass, they throw. Keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're a Cowboy fan, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: And I don't think I think cowboys. I think people
Speaker 1: around the league have an idea of that. I hope
Speaker 1: they do. I just know that's from my days of
Speaker 1: pro scouting. I was watching him play and it kind
Speaker 1: of that's the way he plays upright. He doesn't get
Speaker 1: down in a stance, so you could tell by the
Speaker 1: way he puts his feet like when he's when he's
Speaker 1: real close, he's going to fire off and get into you.
Speaker 1: When he's a little bit wider, he's kicking out of there.
Speaker 1: So something to keep an eye him. Okay, you're gonna
Speaker 1: ask me about Samuel? Is what you're gonna ask me? Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel. And when you watch Diebo Samuel play when
Speaker 1: he was at South Carolina as a player, though he
Speaker 1: was a guy that he's got a running back body,
Speaker 1: you would probably you would probably say, I don't like
Speaker 1: the way this guy, but he's got a running back body.
Speaker 1: He's a big guy that plays wide receiver. The thing
Speaker 1: about him is he's a really powerful guy, and so
Speaker 1: what you have to deal with with him is when
Speaker 1: the ball gets to him, he's a hard guy to
Speaker 1: tackle because he's a thick, lower body guy. He runs
Speaker 1: through people. He's powerful. He's not afraid of making those
Speaker 1: types of the contact and just taking on people. They
Speaker 1: use him a lot of different ways. They use him tight,
Speaker 1: they use him in the backfield like there was a
Speaker 1: time where they were talking about him just handing him
Speaker 1: the football and they just you know, as a running
Speaker 1: back when they really didn't have one. And he's like, ah,
Speaker 1: not too interested in doing that. But here we are.
Speaker 1: Every time they throw him the ball, it's like dealing
Speaker 1: with a running back that catches the ball really well.
Speaker 1: So very powerful guy in that regard. Christian McCaffrey. Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is when he came out of Stanford, I thought,
Speaker 1: I go, I've never seen it back like this. His
Speaker 1: dad was Ed McCaffrey, played for the old Denver Broncos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his mom was a soccer player at Stanford. She might
Speaker 1: be the best athlete of the family right there when
Speaker 1: you're talking about him. But you could tell the athletic
Speaker 1: ability that he has that Christian McCaffrey has never been
Speaker 1: able to stay healthy at Carolina when he's done, when
Speaker 1: he has stayed healthy, he's had huge games. But here
Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers, he's playing well. They toss
Speaker 1: him the ball. They throw him the ball in the screens,
Speaker 1: they put him wide outside, they throw him the ball there.
Speaker 1: They think a ways, creative ways to try and get
Speaker 1: him the ball. A lot of the stuff is they
Speaker 1: try and toss it to him and let him run
Speaker 1: down hill. That's a big thing. Take the snap, pitch
Speaker 1: it to him, let him run down hill. Get blockers
Speaker 1: out in front. He's an exceptional pass catcher out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. You gotta worry about the screens, but you
Speaker 1: just gotta worry about the downhill running style. He broke
Speaker 1: the Seattle game open last week with a sixty five
Speaker 1: yard run and it was blocked perfectly. Nobody on the
Speaker 1: edge and he just hit the gap. And when he's
Speaker 1: got speed to finish as well. George Kittle. George Kittle
Speaker 1: is a tight end that plays in line for you
Speaker 1: figure for a superstar. When I mean in line, I
Speaker 1: mean a guy that plays right next to the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle that you see him sometimes the flex and the
Speaker 1: slots and stuff. A lot of these really good tight
Speaker 1: ends now play detached away. He's one of these guys
Speaker 1: that plays in line. Okay, there's your problem. When he
Speaker 1: plays in line, you lose track where he is on
Speaker 1: the field. He runs routes from in line, So all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now you're in a situation where you're going, oh,
Speaker 1: where'd he go? You know, you lose him because there's
Speaker 1: all kinds of crossing and stuff, and here's Kittle. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a Terminator movie, you know, with
Speaker 1: all the smoke and all that, and Arnold Schwartzener comes
Speaker 1: walking out of the smoke. Well that's what this guy does.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, but the fact that he plays in line,
Speaker 1: people lose him, and they also throw him the ball
Speaker 1: on the screens, the delays, the stuff we were talking
Speaker 1: about with Philadelphia. Just a really accomplished player. He's one
Speaker 1: of those guys to in the Seattle game, he's got
Speaker 1: a first down, he's running parallel to the marker and
Speaker 1: instead of just turning up, he out runs the defense
Speaker 1: and then turns up the field for like another twelve yards.
Speaker 1: Instead of just trying to get it and get tackled,
Speaker 1: he's running, run and run it and then he turns
Speaker 1: up the field and goes So accomplished player that way,
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk, this might be their best Yeah, this might
Speaker 1: this might be there in my opinion, this might be
Speaker 1: their best receiver. And I know he's played four more
Speaker 1: games than when Deebo Samuel's played, but this guy is
Speaker 1: a is a threat down the field. Red zone threat,
Speaker 1: catches the ball really really well. He's a very he's
Speaker 1: a north south guy. He gets the ball and he
Speaker 1: gets up the field in the hurry. These guys are
Speaker 1: all really difficult to tackle. That's they They put so
Speaker 1: much pressure on you run after catch, and this guy's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that can catch in traffic. He's
Speaker 1: not afraid to take the routes in the middle. You
Speaker 1: got to watch him in the red zone because he'll
Speaker 1: work the back of the end zone and they'll throw
Speaker 1: him the football. They'll throw him the screen real quick
Speaker 1: in the red zone and then let him run into
Speaker 1: the end zone as well. Like that. They're all really
Speaker 1: really good players. I'm surprised that because you said I
Speaker 1: got four unique players. I think the most unique guy
Speaker 1: they have on that offense is you check. You check. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Because there's teams Accolays a face with good receivers, explosive backs.
Speaker 1: Maybe not a debo type of guy, uh good tight ends,
Speaker 1: really good tight ends like that. But but I think
Speaker 1: what sets them apart, and this is just me, is
Speaker 1: that they have a fullback tight end guy that wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You never know you can do everything because when he's
Speaker 1: on the field. You don't know what personnel that really means.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they can they don't throw, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they don't run. You know that they can play power,
Speaker 1: they can play. I think he's one of the most
Speaker 1: versatile guys they've got there is that. There's no question
Speaker 1: they had a vision for this player. They got him
Speaker 1: from Baltimore, and Baltimore has always done a good job.
Speaker 1: But in my opinion, Pozzy Newson and that crew with
Speaker 1: their personnel and they got Kyle's us check, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: They you know, they put him wide and they pair
Speaker 1: him with somebody wide, and all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: have a blocker the fullback's blocking for a guy out
Speaker 1: on the screen. They did it with Brandon and Ayuk
Speaker 1: in the Atlanta game. They put them both right there
Speaker 1: and then they just hammered. They hammered us check on
Speaker 1: the corner and the and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Auk comes inside. They throw him the ball and now
Speaker 1: they've just got it going up the field. So yeah,
Speaker 1: usually where my watching him play, wherever he lines up
Speaker 1: generally is where the ball's going, So keep an eye
Speaker 1: on that. So if you see him kind of offset,
Speaker 1: then the ball is likely going to go to that side.
Speaker 1: They like to follow him with the block. He's just
Speaker 1: so hard to deal with because he's coming down hill
Speaker 1: at you and he's this big number forty four and
Speaker 1: you're trying to fight him to get off the block
Speaker 1: to make the play. Because you got this shifty guy
Speaker 1: behind him. They can also break tackles. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the usually where the ball is going is behind that
Speaker 1: number forty four. When you when you're watching him play
Speaker 1: well against Tampa, we saw the Cowboys defense be so
Speaker 1: close many many, many times, I'd like intercepting the ball
Speaker 1: or getting their hands on the ball. Is this team
Speaker 1: that you can can be very close and actually create
Speaker 1: some turn Yeah, you can this guy, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean the numbers say, but there's there were times when
Speaker 1: I was watching him throw and teams he's been extremely
Speaker 1: fortunate that teams have not picked him off. And so
Speaker 1: to me, that's where I think that the Cowboys probably
Speaker 1: left what three turnovers on the field last week in
Speaker 1: this game against the Buccaneers that they could have had.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got to make this guy pay if
Speaker 1: he's going to I was watching some clips in the
Speaker 1: Arizona game of him, and Arizona did a good job
Speaker 1: at him. Like when he gets Seattle, he was much
Speaker 1: better stepping up in the pocket and making throws. See,
Speaker 1: Arizona made him kind of play back door and he
Speaker 1: was trying to roll and get out of stuff. And
Speaker 1: then that's where he got a little crazy throwing the football.
Speaker 1: So if you can make him not have to deal,
Speaker 1: let him step up but go back around like what
Speaker 1: Arizona did, you can get him to make some numbers
Speaker 1: say he hasn't turned over the ball a ton, but
Speaker 1: there's been some opportunities that teams have not taken advantage
Speaker 1: of as a guy that was drafted the little, very
Speaker 1: last pick in the NFL draft, mister irrelevant, is this
Speaker 1: a situation where everybody in the league just misevaluated him
Speaker 1: or is this a situation where that system just works
Speaker 1: for him? And by the way, it is a very
Speaker 1: good and I mean we've seen Garoppolo, who a lot
Speaker 1: of people think this is good quarterback, not a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: have really good games and lead his team deep into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Do you think this is more about the system.
Speaker 1: I think it's both. I really do. I know that's
Speaker 1: not the answer. Everyone loves, But I mean, I think
Speaker 1: people misevaluated Kurt Warner, and I also think Kurt Warner
Speaker 1: got got into a system that actually worked for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's different stories like that Romo,
Speaker 1: same thing. Anytime you get a guy that's undrafted or
Speaker 1: drafted very late. It's a combination of Yeah, they didn't
Speaker 1: not necessarily see everything, but it's also the system. You
Speaker 1: can say the same from Micah Parsons. You know, they
Speaker 1: misevaluated him. Ten teams did not think he was a
Speaker 1: pass rusher like that. The Cowboys say that they did.
Speaker 1: But whatever, they got him and and they bared him
Speaker 1: with Dan Quinn. Yeah, it's a system. It's also a badass.
Speaker 1: And I think for Purdy is you know he's he's
Speaker 1: he's in a and you watched him play, and Derek,
Speaker 1: you know this because you your your alma mater is
Speaker 1: a big twelve team, so you've played games against Iowa State.
Speaker 1: He was a four year starter at Iowa State. Iowa
Speaker 1: State was in the top twenty five basically every year
Speaker 1: he was there. What happened Iwa State this year when
Speaker 1: he left Iowa State went in to be Iowa State.
Speaker 1: From the early nineties when they were absolutely no good there.
Speaker 1: Iowa stayed again where everybody went to, you know, Ames
Speaker 1: Iowa and then smashed them and got a victory and
Speaker 1: went home. You know, they were the homecoming team for
Speaker 1: everybody before Brock Purdy got there. This guy throws. He's
Speaker 1: in a perfect system because what the forty nine ers do.
Speaker 1: The ball is not flying down the field. The ball
Speaker 1: is intermediate and short. And that's what he did it.
Speaker 1: I was date now he you know, he had a
Speaker 1: really you know he's had he's had the Breust Hall,
Speaker 1: the running back who was with the Jets, who before
Speaker 1: he ripped up his knee, was having a could have
Speaker 1: been Bookie of the year. This Iowa State, Alan Lazar,
Speaker 1: they don't have a hell of a lot of players.
Speaker 1: You know. It's very similar too. It's very similar to
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Mississippi State was number one in the country
Speaker 1: for several weeks and then when every when Dak left,
Speaker 1: everybody went, we're all the good players. Yeah, well fourth round, Dallas,
Speaker 1: pick one, thirty five, you know, that's where that's where
Speaker 1: this guy. I don't think it was. I think people
Speaker 1: kind of saw this guy as like he doesn't have
Speaker 1: that ability to really smash the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: What he does is he's really accurate, he's really smart,
Speaker 1: and it's short intermediate and that's how the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers play, short intermediate, run after catch. It's a perfect
Speaker 1: offense for a guy to play. And I could see
Speaker 1: why they drafted him because of the trades. It's the
Speaker 1: trade we're gonna pick a quarterback here with mister irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we'll take the guy that's got these traits,
Speaker 1: that throws the ball like seventy one percent of the
Speaker 1: time to underneath or intermediate. And when you and Brian
Speaker 1: you know this more than anybody. When you take a
Speaker 1: quarterback in the seventh round, especially the last pick of
Speaker 1: the draft, that tells me that he's got a ton
Speaker 1: of teams that were looking at him, that we're probably
Speaker 1: going to try to get him as a priority free agent,
Speaker 1: which means you don't want to have to You don't
Speaker 1: want to fight that fight for them, or pay for
Speaker 1: it all that stuff, so might as well draft him.
Speaker 1: What's really funny is in this playoffs, you're you played
Speaker 1: a quarterback that was drafted six in the sixth round.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady Grays ever to play, and now you're taking
Speaker 1: to play in a chance against mister irrelevant seventh round guy.
Speaker 1: So usually talk about and you know, and depending on
Speaker 1: if Daniel Jones somehow wins and you win, that that
Speaker 1: would be the first round quarterback you play against. But
Speaker 1: if you're a crazy, Daniel Jones is the highest drafted
Speaker 1: quarterback left in the NFC. Left, yeah, and he's the
Speaker 1: one that everybody hates the most. One two, four seven,
Speaker 1: right yeah, right out the other side, one one, one one.
Speaker 1: They all first round, yeah, yeah, and wait, some of
Speaker 1: them are the first pick of the draft, right, Burrow
Speaker 1: Burrow number one, Lawrence Laws number one. Yeah, the eleventh
Speaker 1: pick was my home maybe not eleven. He's at ten
Speaker 1: ten yeah, and then uh Josh Allen like seven, right,
Speaker 1: all four of them are top ten picks NC. It's
Speaker 1: just Daniel j It's the it's the it's the Westminister
Speaker 1: dog Show versus the Mutts, you know, and you hope
Speaker 1: that your MutS MutS are good enough to be Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's where you know. But they took San Francisco.
Speaker 1: They had of it, and you could call it luck.
Speaker 1: You could call it luck, but you're if you're looking
Speaker 1: at it you're thinking, who's the most accurate quarterback for
Speaker 1: the offense that we would you know the way that
Speaker 1: we play, and Brock Purties looks like a pretty good guided.
Speaker 1: You know, he's you say, he's seventy one percent in
Speaker 1: college throwing the ball underneath. You know, that's what he
Speaker 1: does mentally, like if you got, if you managed to get.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him lose yet. I have seen him lose,
Speaker 1: but it is were there are times that you can
Speaker 1: I mean did yeah, regardless of them winning, or there
Speaker 1: are times how you can see I can't. I don't
Speaker 1: see him rattled. There are games where he played at
Speaker 1: Iowa stay those big games where they just didn't have
Speaker 1: enough players. They were getting these games that they won.
Speaker 1: I believe they beat uh they won a game, well,
Speaker 1: the Fiesta Bowl game that they won. They went and
Speaker 1: he was a part of that, and he's he's a
Speaker 1: good player. Yes, to Nick's point, a lot of teams
Speaker 1: missed and it's a hard position. It's a hard position
Speaker 1: to evaluate, and yeah, a lot, but I haven't seen
Speaker 1: this guy get rattled. I've seen where he's He's made
Speaker 1: some questionable throws, but he's perfect for offense. Great comparison
Speaker 1: to dak at Mississippi State. Yeah, when you're recruiting, I
Speaker 1: mean when you're when you're scouting players and you think,
Speaker 1: you know, here's here's the list of Iowa State greats,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's like worth the other page. I
Speaker 1: noticed that the same with Mississippi State. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot. So he probably was a big reason
Speaker 1: for that. And so when you're evaluating him, we're like, well,
Speaker 1: is he really good or was he just playing in
Speaker 1: a system that, you know, a school that does Iowa State.
Speaker 1: Iowa State was always in the top twenty five because
Speaker 1: of him and the running back and Alan Lazar. That's
Speaker 1: other than that. I mean, I'm sure there's a defensive
Speaker 1: guy that I'm missing, a rush end or something like that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's it. I mean you're talking about they
Speaker 1: went from like they went from having four or five
Speaker 1: players and being were like, wow, this team is in
Speaker 1: the top twenty five. Yeah, been in the top twenty
Speaker 1: five because Brock Purty, you know, and when Brock Purty leaves,
Speaker 1: they become a three, three and eight team. You know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of wallass. Yeah, like the last player there
Speaker 1: been a long time. Wow, that's been a long time.
Speaker 1: All right, we gonna take our final break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: come back. Let's talk more about this Dallas defense and
Speaker 1: how they match up. We'll do that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: you play on Monday? You know, uh, real quick talking
Speaker 1: about do you think that this Mike? Do you think
Speaker 1: McCarthy superstitious? Yeah? Do you think we're gonna see the
Speaker 1: big Cowboy Joe logo outfit this week? On the on
Speaker 1: the sidelines in San Francisco. Good point in Santa Clair
Speaker 1: that what he had he had on the Big Cowboy Joe.
Speaker 1: I was kind of like, I love the logo. I
Speaker 1: love the nineteen sixty logo myself. I change it up
Speaker 1: because you your players are changing it up. I mean,
Speaker 1: like they came back to cow Jersey this week. How
Speaker 1: about it. How about if he wore the Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 1: Apex jacket with a white turtleneck like Jimmy Warren back
Speaker 1: in the back in the day when they're playing at
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Only if he stands on the table and says,
Speaker 1: how about them Cowboys? If they I want to see him?
Speaker 1: Were the big Apex? That was Jackie? Yeah. So it
Speaker 1: was just thirty year anniversary of the right yesterday I think,
Speaker 1: which still had that jacker that was the last road win.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and Cowboys history and the playoffs. So got
Speaker 1: that out of the way. Yeah, go with the white
Speaker 1: turtleneck with the Apex jacket. I think I think we
Speaker 1: gotta look. I think we're good. Let's talk about this
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense. Huh, that'd be nice. Oh yeah, does he
Speaker 1: is a guy? It looks like meat? It was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, it was that. But um, seeing things
Speaker 1: like that just make me makes me like him eybe
Speaker 1: more just him doing like I can't even picture Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett doing that. I don't know what the team so
Speaker 1: it's just one of those little other elements that do
Speaker 1: you just know he can relate to the players in
Speaker 1: a different level. Ye. All right, So let's talk about
Speaker 1: this run defense. Um that it's been a question all year.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it all year. This last game they
Speaker 1: didn't really have a problem stop in the run. But
Speaker 1: then again, Tampa Bay, as you said, Nick, they don't
Speaker 1: really want to run. Nope, they'd never committed to it
Speaker 1: and uh, and so you really don't know whether it
Speaker 1: was a factor of they got away from it or
Speaker 1: they really couldn't do it so they got away from it.
Speaker 1: What do you think of this rush defense now having
Speaker 1: to face a team that runs the ball, not only
Speaker 1: runs the ball, runs the ball stream. Well, I think
Speaker 1: their lowest output over the last six games that Rock
Speaker 1: Purdy has been starting has been a They've been over
Speaker 1: one hundred fifty rush yards and every one of those
Speaker 1: had a chunk play last week. Yeah, they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: put up yards on the ground. What do you think
Speaker 1: of this rush defense. I'm a little worried about it, honestly,
Speaker 1: because this is the best running team I think that
Speaker 1: they'll face even a couple of years ago when they
Speaker 1: weren't very good and they beat him with Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Even that game, you could tell that
Speaker 1: they ran the ball well. They had uh most or
Speaker 1: I forgot how to say his names. I mean they
Speaker 1: had they you know whoever it is a running back.
Speaker 1: Now they've got McCaffrey. I think. I think what the
Speaker 1: issue is is the Cowboys are going to have to
Speaker 1: be very disciplined in their in their defense, and that's
Speaker 1: something that we just haven't seen from the run defense,
Speaker 1: you know, standing in your lanes all that, even Micah
Speaker 1: Parsons included. I mean, like these guys are trying to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback and sometimes you sacrifice being out
Speaker 1: of the lane. They haven't seen a fullback like this.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a challenge. Yeah, this is gonna come
Speaker 1: down to how quickly can you get off blocks because
Speaker 1: what's going to happen is the running game is going
Speaker 1: to be because of movement of the offensive line. They
Speaker 1: I don't think They particularly want to run the ball
Speaker 1: between the tackles with Christian McCaffrey. But he can he can't.
Speaker 1: Now you got to get ready, get ready for tackle movement,
Speaker 1: guard movement, center movement, tight end movement. I mean fullback movement.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's where this game is gonna hinge
Speaker 1: because what happens is they want to get the ball
Speaker 1: in the outside. They're gonna toss it and they're gonna
Speaker 1: play everybody downhill. And if you're if you're running sideways
Speaker 1: fighting blocks, that's what and then the ball's gonna cut
Speaker 1: behind that. So to me, this is I don't think
Speaker 1: that they want to run the ball inside on Hankins
Speaker 1: and those guys. I don't think they do. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, guys like Osa Gholston, you know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see. To me, I still might not dress those guys.
Speaker 1: And I say this in a way. Up I need
Speaker 1: upfield guys. I need Gholsten up the field. I needs
Speaker 1: up the field. I need I need everybody. Get them
Speaker 1: to stop. I mean the problem with the with the
Speaker 1: fourty nine ring game, it's all about momentum. It's just
Speaker 1: a big wave of bodies and what kills those types
Speaker 1: of plays penetration, you know, getting blockers, getting knocked off, backs,
Speaker 1: having some indecision there. To me, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: as many guys up the field and and and rally
Speaker 1: to that point to where you can like trap them.
Speaker 1: I know, negative plays. I think it's gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: but to me, a gain of two or three is
Speaker 1: a big, big, big win in this because this team
Speaker 1: is capable if they capture that corner and slam you
Speaker 1: and get everybody blocked. We've seen big plays from this team.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be about how many guys can you get
Speaker 1: up the field and disrupt them wanting to run the
Speaker 1: ball on the outside of the perimeter. So last week,
Speaker 1: um it was it was known all week that the
Speaker 1: biggest issue I think McCarthy was having was ten dvs
Speaker 1: or ten d lineman that keeping them active, that was
Speaker 1: the biggest one. And I think when you look at it,
Speaker 1: Marquise Bell was active and they went with the ten dbs.
Speaker 1: I wonder in a game like this, you know, with
Speaker 1: a team that throws a ball more ay, because that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to you at nine and nine
Speaker 1: as well, it's just the one guy that's where I
Speaker 1: could see a Gallimore maybe over a Marquise Belle. But
Speaker 1: you know, it could be something completely different. It may
Speaker 1: not be them, but I could just see where maybe
Speaker 1: they go one more one more guy on the defensive line.
Speaker 1: But to me, one big thing, and it hasn't been
Speaker 1: a tendency for them, but just keeping their cool, like
Speaker 1: not allowing themselves to get frustrated. You get you talk
Speaker 1: about all the talent that the offense has and as
Speaker 1: soon as they start making plays on them, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, it's gonna happen. They're gonna make some big
Speaker 1: plays and all that, but making sure that your defensive
Speaker 1: players just stay focused and not allow that frustrtiontion and
Speaker 1: to start kicking in because we have seen I forget
Speaker 1: which one was the most evident game. I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but I remember there was one specific game where they
Speaker 1: started doing the finger pointing And do you guys remember
Speaker 1: what game that was? Remember I can't remember what the
Speaker 1: green Bay Green Bay that was the one green Bay
Speaker 1: was running the ball? Well, yeah, they were, they were,
Speaker 1: they were. That's a big problem. When he starts getting
Speaker 1: to you mentally, it just it messes you up and
Speaker 1: completely messages you up. So just making sure that everyone
Speaker 1: sticks to doing their own job, taking care of their
Speaker 1: own business, and allowing themselves to not get frustrated. They
Speaker 1: can't get mad, but just don't let that frustration kick in.
Speaker 1: I would say to me, I'm gonna I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and make it where brock Purty beats me throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. I'm trying. I mean, infact,
Speaker 1: if if brock Purty is good enough to line up
Speaker 1: and just keep throwing the ball underneath and all that,
Speaker 1: this game is going to if you do not tackle, well,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say because I think San Francisco we'll
Speaker 1: talk about this tomorrow. I think San Francisco's got some
Speaker 1: issues on defense in the secondary. I think there's I
Speaker 1: think there's some throws to be made. Now can you
Speaker 1: can you control what's going on up front, But I
Speaker 1: think there's some corners on this defense you can attack.
Speaker 1: And teams have attacked him, and I'm like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to my coach buddies and get the
Speaker 1: scoop of how they attack these guys, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that tomorrow. The touchdown last year the Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: had in the playoff game. He remember it was like
Speaker 1: a reverse. Yeah, yeah, they had it kind of bottled
Speaker 1: up and the next thing, you know, he kind of
Speaker 1: sneaks out and like like you said, like the terminator,
Speaker 1: he sneaks out of the pack and he scores a touchdown.
Speaker 1: And that was That was a play that stands out
Speaker 1: to me. I think something at the end happened that
Speaker 1: was weird, you know, like a played bad for half
Speaker 1: the breast came in and and just like ran over.
Speaker 1: If anything, Bill Vinovich is your official this weekend, and
Speaker 1: of the four referees that are, he's the one that
Speaker 1: calls the least penalty. So I have a feeling they're
Speaker 1: gonna let the players decide this one. You know, you
Speaker 1: talk about that a lot, and I saw him. I
Speaker 1: believe it that something I believe in my heart. That's
Speaker 1: and that's fine. But but I'm thinking this, A lot
Speaker 1: of people are like, man, I hope they you know,
Speaker 1: let him play. Yeah, they don't call a lot of penalties.
Speaker 1: Is that a good thing? Because Micah Parsons gets like
Speaker 1: got a holding call the other day, right, Like he
Speaker 1: gets like man handled every single game you know, and
Speaker 1: and and you know they choke him in the throat
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. And I'm saying, maybe I want
Speaker 1: them to call it a little bit, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I kind of I kind of look at
Speaker 1: it this way. If they're not going to call it
Speaker 1: on you against Mica, then Tyler Smith and McGovern and
Speaker 1: Schultz Schultz could get away with that holding at the
Speaker 1: point of attack that we need to happen so the
Speaker 1: ball can get outside and get a first down. If
Speaker 1: you're not calling it on us, by all means, let
Speaker 1: let Dalton Schultz hold all he can at the point
Speaker 1: of attack. That's true, that's a good point. They have
Speaker 1: a badass too. And let's not forget he got hurt
Speaker 1: in the game last year in the playoffs. He got
Speaker 1: hurt in second quarter. Yeah, and I was like, oh good.
Speaker 1: You know, bad problems with these tight ends. Talking about
Speaker 1: that tomorrow real quick before we leave. Well, what would
Speaker 1: you do you know the percentage between passing and rushing
Speaker 1: that they do? No, No, I can get that for
Speaker 1: you though. Yeah. I'm curious to see how often they
Speaker 1: run the ball versus just passing. It seems like they
Speaker 1: read it seems like they run the ball. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I didn't know the percent say this too.
Speaker 1: The crazy part by a lot of their passing game
Speaker 1: of their run. Yeah, they a lot of what they
Speaker 1: do is quick passes and and you you, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many times I've seen this year Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: short crossing route, get the ball, He's off to the
Speaker 1: races like this happens all the time because if you
Speaker 1: can't tackle, well, Brian, you hit on the the nail
Speaker 1: on the head. If you can't tackle all against this
Speaker 1: seemed good luck because it's really about being able to
Speaker 1: you know, rally to the ball and tackle and get them.
Speaker 1: If it's a three yard catch, make it be a
Speaker 1: three yard game. If it's not, like if you ever,
Speaker 1: if you're letting them kind of keep going, they're gonna
Speaker 1: eat you up all day. It's a lot of short passes,
Speaker 1: a ton of them. All right, Appreciate you guys, John Us.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into the Cowboys often
Speaker 1: versus San Francisco, Diana. Shot in for Nick Eatman, Brian Broadness, Ambergarcia.
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