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Speaker 6: So today we're talking about the Cowboys big win yesterday
Speaker 6: they beat the Carolina Panthers thirty to fourteen, a team
Speaker 6: that I think going into the game we all had
Speaker 6: a certain amount of respect for despite their record, because
Speaker 6: of how closely they played some really good teams. But
Speaker 6: the Cowboys go in and really in the second half just.
Speaker 2: Lower the boom on them.
Speaker 6: What would you guys say is the storyline coming out
Speaker 6: of this game?
Speaker 2: We'll start with you Nick.
Speaker 8: The Carolina Boys, being that there were a lot of
Speaker 8: Carolina natives that really showed out in this game. We
Speaker 8: could start with Rico Dowdle, who's from Ashville, North Carolina,
Speaker 8: just about ninety five miles west of Bank of America Stadium.
Speaker 8: Another career day for him, one hundred and forty nine yards.
Speaker 8: He didn't get into the end zone. He's actually starting
Speaker 8: to laugh about that in the postgame pressers now. He's like,
Speaker 8: I don't know when these touchdowns are going to come
Speaker 8: along with these yards here are coming along. But you
Speaker 8: start with Rico Dawdle, then you look at brock Hoffman.
Speaker 8: He played seventy two snaps at center yesterday, didn't allow
Speaker 8: a pressure. According to PFF, I don't know what's going
Speaker 8: on over there. Next gin, I see, this is just
Speaker 8: wild kid.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 7: I was like this is wild to me.
Speaker 2: At this point, but.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know I was like, we need to have
Speaker 8: some sort of like synergy at this point.
Speaker 9: We need to kick it one time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we did one time. We did one time.
Speaker 8: But he played a phenomenal game at center and being
Speaker 8: able to help this offense account for four hundred and
Speaker 8: ten yards. Then you look at Israel mccuamu another or
Speaker 8: he went to the University of South Carolina. He had
Speaker 8: an interception there in the second half. And then Jalen
Speaker 8: Brooks he's a native of North Carolina, I believe Hickoryville,
Speaker 8: North Carolina, and he had his first career touchdown in
Speaker 8: the third quarter. So it was the Carolina Boys for me.
Speaker 8: They got it done in a homecoming game for them.
Speaker 9: Ran the ball fifty seven of the time yesterday, Boys
Speaker 9: and girls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that kind of magical when you do
Speaker 3: stuff like that. You know, turnovers were a big part
Speaker 3: of this game too, you know, the pressures, the turnovers.
Speaker 3: Mike Zimmer did a really nice job of disguising some
Speaker 3: coverages and kind of creating some kind of muddy looks
Speaker 3: for the young quarterback who had been playing pretty well
Speaker 3: against pressure. But we knew going in there was gonna
Speaker 3: be some issues with this offensive line. When it came
Speaker 3: to movement, when it came.
Speaker 9: To how they were going to be able to adjust.
Speaker 3: Cowwych did a great job up front, the front seven,
Speaker 3: the way that they played, getting after the Panthers offensively.
Speaker 3: But I like I led off with the ability to
Speaker 3: take Rico Daddle and run him as much as they
Speaker 3: were able to against the defense that just wasn't good
Speaker 3: when it playing the run. Finally, go in there and
Speaker 3: take advantage of somebody say, you know what, hey, if
Speaker 3: you're one of the worst teams in the league or
Speaker 3: worst defenses in the league, play in the run. Well, here,
Speaker 3: have a few more carries, have a few more yards
Speaker 3: added to your total. And you know that's what Dallas
Speaker 3: was able to do. Ran twenty more plays than what
Speaker 3: Carolina did as well, and I think that helped you
Speaker 3: in the win.
Speaker 4: I know we're going to get into both sides of
Speaker 4: the ball and Cooper Rush. He's definitely not the player
Speaker 4: of the game for me in this game, but we've
Speaker 4: criticized him so much throughout weeks for criticism, but I've
Speaker 4: got to give him some props in this game because
Speaker 4: this this pipe, this pie, the mistake him fumbling the
Speaker 4: ball in the second half, right off the bat they
Speaker 4: came back, and I saw him being a more confident guy,
Speaker 4: like being able to move around a little bit. He
Speaker 4: ran a little bit, nothing crazy, but he's like, oh
Speaker 4: he moves okay. So he was able to keep.
Speaker 7: His three touchdown game for career.
Speaker 10: Gimy Cooper, but I mean, no, you're right, am I wrong?
Speaker 4: Credit for him for what he did and just being
Speaker 4: able to build that connection even with Ceedee Lamb another
Speaker 4: guy that showed out yesterday, being able to get more
Speaker 4: clean in his game and having I saw him have
Speaker 4: more awareness of the field and while was currently happening,
Speaker 4: which is something that he has struggled with throwing the
Speaker 4: ball at times where you're like, what are you looking at?
Speaker 4: Who are you throwing it to? What are you thinking?
Speaker 4: And he was just he showed to be more decisive
Speaker 4: in his game.
Speaker 3: Ball went down the field more, and I think the
Speaker 3: ball went down the field more yesterday because Carolina plays
Speaker 3: off coverage. They don't play up on top of you.
Speaker 3: And as matter of fact, if you look in this game,
Speaker 3: and I was curious about Lamb and how they played,
Speaker 3: Lamb Horn played in press coverage fifty percent of the
Speaker 3: time on the other side of the field, not one snap.
Speaker 3: And if they're gonna give you free access and routes, yeah,
Speaker 3: ball needs to go down the field, you know, if
Speaker 3: they're gonna let you run and mesh and cross and
Speaker 3: deep cross. And you talk about Cooper rush moving. You know,
Speaker 3: the touchdown past that he threw to Tolbert was they
Speaker 3: were trying to throw the ball to Cooks.
Speaker 9: They were going to Cooks on.
Speaker 3: The wheel and it got covered and he moved still
Speaker 3: did a great job of pinning his guy inside, but
Speaker 3: that allowed Tolbert to come all the way across the
Speaker 3: field to get the ball. So that you're talking to
Speaker 3: your point amber about the ball. You know, seeing the field,
Speaker 3: you know he's thinking one spot, but it turns into
Speaker 3: a deep over route and he makes a Tolbert made
Speaker 3: a nice play on the catch. Yeah, Cooper made a
Speaker 3: good throat to get it to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's dive into that offense a little bit more.
Speaker 6: Cooper had yesterday was eighteen of twenty nine, sixty two
Speaker 6: percent completion rate, two hundred and fourteen passing yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 6: zero interceptions, a one.
Speaker 2: To nineteen rating.
Speaker 6: And I'll be honest, I was I was kind of
Speaker 6: Ambert mentioned it.
Speaker 2: By halftime, I was a little bit kind of.
Speaker 6: A little shaky with with Cooper just because of the
Speaker 6: funnel right before halftime.
Speaker 2: You had a clear opportunity.
Speaker 9: Kind of a guiding in the penalties that he gets. Yeah,
Speaker 9: you get mad at him for that, Yeah, and it
Speaker 9: makes you such.
Speaker 2: A good half.
Speaker 6: And then all of a sudden and I quite frankly,
Speaker 6: I don't even know on that play was he supposed
Speaker 6: was out of play?
Speaker 11: Where he can't you can't situation like I think you
Speaker 11: had the ball off.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, in the notes I said, because I couldn't tell
Speaker 3: from the end zone copy what really happened. You see
Speaker 3: him kind of present the ball and then it's kind
Speaker 3: of like at the mesh point they're bumping into each
Speaker 3: other and then the balls on the ground. I'm like,
Speaker 3: just hand him the damn ball. On third and one,
Speaker 3: he's gonna get the first down. And now you keep playing.
Speaker 2: And ran for thirty matter of fact that they were
Speaker 2: gonna throw a league.
Speaker 9: They were gonna throw it to first and he's gonna.
Speaker 4: Cold, his fingers were cold.
Speaker 2: Hand the ball off.
Speaker 6: I think I think what we saw in that game
Speaker 6: as well, they were running the ball in a third
Speaker 6: and one. In that situation with the close to the
Speaker 6: end of the half, run the like why not?
Speaker 2: Why not run the ball? And again I don't know
Speaker 2: the play.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it was a check where he
Speaker 6: decided or a situation where he had the option to
Speaker 6: be able to do it. All I know is in
Speaker 6: that situation, I was surprised that they didn't run the
Speaker 6: right and you end up with a turnover. But that
Speaker 6: all being said, as you guys look at his whole game,
Speaker 6: not just that moment, but his whole game. What do
Speaker 6: you think he was most improved this week over the
Speaker 6: last few weeks that we've seen him play.
Speaker 8: I will say the mobility factor, because you look at
Speaker 8: the Tulbert touchdown. You look at the Brooks touchdown where
Speaker 8: he's rolling out and he's throwing on the run, and
Speaker 8: that Brooks a touchdown wasn't impressive. I was like, Okay, hey,
Speaker 8: he's got a little swagger to him. Might call him
Speaker 8: Cooper shisty going forward, but now looked he looked good.
Speaker 8: He looked good on that throw. I liked him a
Speaker 8: lot on that throw. But that's something that I feel
Speaker 8: like I haven't seen from Cooper Rush and talking to
Speaker 8: him after the game, he said he feels like he's
Speaker 8: playing better football right now than he was in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty two. I wonder what he would attribute that to.
Speaker 8: I probably need to follow up on that this week.
Speaker 8: But he does look confident at times, but then it's
Speaker 8: that fumble stuff that he's just got to be able
Speaker 8: to figure out. But I mean, you look at you
Speaker 8: look at what he's what he's done from a game
Speaker 8: management standpoint, I think he's managed this offense quite well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then then there's that can even you know,
Speaker 3: the goodness, there's good things, and we've talked.
Speaker 9: About the fumble.
Speaker 3: I think enough, but he misses crossing routes, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, guys are open and he throws the ball
Speaker 3: lower behind and you're and you're like, going.
Speaker 9: Bro, just throw it in front.
Speaker 3: And then he has even a better day even that,
Speaker 3: the numbers look even better. You're moving the you're moving
Speaker 3: the ball, you know, you're you're kind of you're getting
Speaker 3: in some offensive rhythm and things. And I when he
Speaker 3: throws the ball behind and low and when he's when
Speaker 3: it's open, that drives me nuts with him. But I
Speaker 3: will say this though, like I say that the touchdowns
Speaker 3: that he had throwing, all of them.
Speaker 9: Were really really good throws.
Speaker 3: They really were, and it was you know, and the
Speaker 3: one the CD was a really even though the ball
Speaker 3: was probably a little short, and and the and the
Speaker 3: safety didn't adjust all that well. CD did he knew
Speaker 3: where the ball was, Safety didn't know. Richardson didn't know
Speaker 3: where the or Fuller excuse me, Fuller didn't know where
Speaker 3: the ball was, and and and CD mad made Cooper
Speaker 3: look good on that one. But the other touchdown passes
Speaker 3: were really really good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I looking at me, they were.
Speaker 2: They were.
Speaker 4: But again, adjustment creditude, like you said, CD and Tolbert
Speaker 4: is the way that he made that.
Speaker 7: Catch as well.
Speaker 4: I think, uh, you're seeing just a better I think
Speaker 4: it comes down to them practicing better and what they're
Speaker 4: doing during the week. You can see that the preparation
Speaker 4: was there, because previous weeks we've seen the lack of
Speaker 4: connection between Cooper and the receivers, and I think this
Speaker 4: week it just showed a more prepared offense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you hope this happens the next three weeks because
Speaker 3: it's not going to be easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get it. It gets appreciably hard.
Speaker 3: There's going to be times where you're gonna wish he
Speaker 3: had an open receiver to throw to.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: You know what's interesting to me is I don't know
Speaker 6: that I believe that maybe what we're seeing, or what
Speaker 6: we saw yesterday, what we've seen the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 6: is really the fact that he is now back to
Speaker 6: the same way.
Speaker 4: Why did I say Tolber Brooks?
Speaker 6: Was it a Brooks?
Speaker 3: They all had at least one catch.
Speaker 2: The other one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shout outs to Brooks too, by the way, that's
Speaker 4: another guy. The to Jalen that just kind of makes
Speaker 4: in my head. But shout outs to him sometimes too,
Speaker 4: I know, make it more confusing. But no, I thought
Speaker 4: he the catch he made it was really good too
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was the thing about Cooper for me this
Speaker 6: this week is I think what we're seeing is more
Speaker 6: that it's back to what he had when we saw
Speaker 6: him last as a starter, which is he's got a
Speaker 6: great defense and he's got a running game that he
Speaker 6: can rely on when you give.
Speaker 2: Him those two things.
Speaker 6: As you said, Brian, He's still not, in my opinion,
Speaker 6: the greatest passer.
Speaker 2: He's still gonna miss ros.
Speaker 6: He has the fumble like, he still has these warts
Speaker 6: in his game that, by the way, is probably the
Speaker 6: reason why he's a backup quarterback versus being a starting quarterback.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, he's good enough that if
Speaker 6: you give him a really good defense and you give
Speaker 6: him a good running game, and by the way, the
Speaker 6: offensive play caller is a stude enough to keep running
Speaker 6: the ball.
Speaker 9: Well this game he was, Yeah, that's Sunday night.
Speaker 11: But if you're willing to do that, if you're willing
Speaker 11: to do that and take some of the pressure, I agree,
Speaker 11: he can be adequate. And now I think that's what
Speaker 11: we saw, and that's what we've seen here, is that
Speaker 11: he can be more than enough to win if the
Speaker 11: defense is playing game and you rely on your run game.
Speaker 3: I totally agree. It pains me to watch them play
Speaker 3: and like sit there and say, you got to take
Speaker 3: advantage of this, you got to do And the fact
Speaker 3: that they had more rushing yards than passing yards made
Speaker 3: my heart feel good.
Speaker 9: About this football team.
Speaker 2: Yep, no doubt.
Speaker 3: And people are now complaining to me, like, well, why
Speaker 3: didn't they do this when Doug was in there? They
Speaker 3: could have run the ball, you know, that's another question
Speaker 3: for another day.
Speaker 8: Jo Rico Dawell said the exact same thing almost yeah,
Speaker 8: yeah in the lock.
Speaker 7: Oh no, let me put the exact quote.
Speaker 3: Because their offensive line I think is better now than
Speaker 3: when it was though the right guard especially.
Speaker 2: I agree. I agree.
Speaker 6: Right now the offensive line is playing at a level
Speaker 6: was not saying it in away the dudes banged up.
Speaker 7: You're right, you're right right.
Speaker 9: Baby needs to play it right. Baby needs to play
Speaker 9: right guard next week.
Speaker 7: Ryan in some respect, just show just kind of see
Speaker 7: what it looks like.
Speaker 2: It looks like, why not.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm pulling up the exact quote from Rico Daudell.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'm trying to stop. Did your job, yes, yeah,
Speaker 7: tell you what.
Speaker 2: Let's do this. Let's go to our first break. When
Speaker 2: we come back.
Speaker 6: Uh, Nick will have that that quote for us, and
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Speaker 2: All right, Nick, you had a quote for us, where's it?
Speaker 8: Rico Daudell talking about not getting carries early in the season.
Speaker 7: He said it was all about the rhythm.
Speaker 8: Talking about the performance he had yesterday, I've been firm
Speaker 8: on that since the beginning. It was all about the
Speaker 8: rhythm and getting the attempts. I think we could have
Speaker 8: always did it, but the timing is working right now
Speaker 8: for us, Spicy.
Speaker 9: I wish you would.
Speaker 3: I wish you had just said it was coaching malpractice
Speaker 3: that I did not get the ball.
Speaker 2: More so fair yea, so true, But you know, I.
Speaker 3: Just wonder, But you do you wonder if if you know,
Speaker 3: they let's let's say Stell wasn't playing really good, Martin
Speaker 3: was hurt. The center was a rookie, ye dude learning
Speaker 3: the left guard at times, you know, sixty five plays,
Speaker 3: three bad plays, you know, and then the left tackle
Speaker 3: holds and gets lines up in the backfield and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. They've they've there's some stability now with the
Speaker 3: way that they're playing with that offensive line. Steele's playing
Speaker 3: a ton better. It really doesn't matter who they put
Speaker 3: it right guard now, but it's helped Steal with it
Speaker 3: because it's a healthy body and those dudes are tough.
Speaker 2: That was gonna be my question.
Speaker 9: Do you think Poffman are tough guys?
Speaker 6: Do you think that the right guard the challenges that
Speaker 6: right guard, it hurts Steel.
Speaker 3: It hurt them, and I think it I think Nick,
Speaker 3: it might have hurt the center to a little bit,
Speaker 3: you know. With with and this is gonna sound terrible
Speaker 3: and I'm not kicking poor Martin White's down. And he
Speaker 3: played he played a level that he played at a
Speaker 3: like a human level, whereas before for all these years
Speaker 3: he's played at this, yes, unbelievably high level. But when
Speaker 3: they tried to do things, his inability to move, his
Speaker 3: inability to show any power, you know, you watch, you
Speaker 3: just go, just go watch the plays that Turpin got,
Speaker 3: those the handoffs to Turpin and watch what they did
Speaker 3: on that right side, and they had not done that.
Speaker 9: All year long. Yeah, you know, and able.
Speaker 3: To get guys fitted up and then get a block
Speaker 3: from Ferguson and then you know, get out and get
Speaker 3: the ball to the corner.
Speaker 9: Did it twice? They like, they did the exact same play.
Speaker 3: Twice to to Carolina with motion and Turpin in and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh my god, they're gonna run the ball here,
Speaker 3: I guess, and they couldn't stop it either time. That
Speaker 3: That just shows you, though, how much better this offensive
Speaker 3: line is playing.
Speaker 4: And I don't fold them for this because even during
Speaker 4: the beginning of the season, you would still take a
Speaker 4: hurt sach Martin over whoever was behind him, Like it
Speaker 4: was no question. You know his history, you know what
Speaker 4: he's done, You're like, yeah, of course, that's a no brainer.
Speaker 4: Just keep him in the game if he can play. Obviously,
Speaker 4: over the course of the season you start seeing the
Speaker 4: decline and then he gets to a point where he
Speaker 4: finally gets taken out. But imagine the story being different
Speaker 4: and the guy behind him is not as good and
Speaker 4: these guys then it would have been like, oh.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, here we go, here we go.
Speaker 4: You gotta find you gotta draft somebody else or finding
Speaker 4: new So it's one of those things that I can't
Speaker 4: blame them, but in hindsight, I mean it turned.
Speaker 9: To blame him. I think this is very reminiscent.
Speaker 3: And I don't remember the year heck, I can't remember
Speaker 3: what I had for breakfast, but I mean the year
Speaker 3: that Ezekiel Elliott played with the bad knee. Remember, he
Speaker 3: just they kept He kept playing and playing and playing
Speaker 3: because he didn't want to come off.
Speaker 9: He didn't want to he didn't want to let his
Speaker 9: teammates down. But in reality it was hurting the team.
Speaker 3: His his his inability to to play at a high
Speaker 3: level hurt the team. And and that then the team
Speaker 3: had so much respect for him that they're like, no,
Speaker 3: we're going to keep him out there, keep him out there,
Speaker 3: keep him out there, until finally it's like, well, wow,
Speaker 3: that whole year went by and he played with Zeke
Speaker 3: Elliott with a bad knee the whole year, and and
Speaker 3: your your offense wasn't any good. So I again, Zach Martin, Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that it happened this way, but by him
Speaker 3: not being in the lineup and putting a healthier body
Speaker 3: in there, just a healthier body has paid off dividends
Speaker 3: for them running the football.
Speaker 7: See we hear. Sorry, I was just gonna mention with
Speaker 7: t J.
Speaker 9: Bass.
Speaker 4: Did we hear anything to have thigh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, a thigh. He was out for the remainder of
Speaker 7: the game.
Speaker 9: Was I thought it was his thumb. I thought for
Speaker 9: some reason they said it was his thumb, but.
Speaker 2: It was thigh. And I'm like, okay, let's let's actually
Speaker 2: talk about that.
Speaker 6: I want to go a little deeper on the offensive line,
Speaker 6: particularly on Hoff and Bass and Geiton, and tell me
Speaker 6: how you thought they played because Chuma went down relatively
Speaker 6: Was it first quarters?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like it was first quarter.
Speaker 2: It seemed like it was relatively early in the game.
Speaker 6: But talk me about those particular three players and how
Speaker 6: well they played having to come in and in situation
Speaker 6: where where injuries forced them into the game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I saw good things from Geydon and I haven't
Speaker 8: really had major issues with what Geyton has done in
Speaker 8: the run game over the course. So I would say
Speaker 8: since the bye week and this this Panther's front. We
Speaker 8: talked about it last week how they don't really generate
Speaker 8: much pass rush, so that wasn't really a huge threat
Speaker 8: at the at the end of the day. But I
Speaker 8: felt like this unit as a whole played pretty well.
Speaker 8: When you talk about Guyton, when you talk about Hoffman
Speaker 8: and Bass, I mean they were paving running lanes. They
Speaker 8: were keeping Cooper Rush clean. I think he only got
Speaker 8: sacked one time. Did So it's you got to give
Speaker 8: credit to this offensive line group. Actually wrote about it
Speaker 8: last night. You got to give credit to Mike Solari too,
Speaker 8: just for being able to play musical chairs with these guys.
Speaker 8: Throw them in, still have production in the run game,
Speaker 8: protect Cooper Rush.
Speaker 7: It's it's paying dividends for this offense.
Speaker 8: You see you see it, you see it coming together
Speaker 8: for Rico Dawdle, and you got to give credits to
Speaker 8: those guys up front for it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they were, they they were.
Speaker 3: They were on the on point yesterday when and Nick's
Speaker 3: absolutely right. We mentioned it during the week. Hey, there's
Speaker 3: going to be some things you could take advantage of,
Speaker 3: and they clearly did. The the Panthers are not the same,
Speaker 3: but the Panthers came into this game. We had a chance, uh.
Speaker 9: You know, to to visit with Jake Lohm, who's there,
Speaker 9: you know, the color analyst there for their.
Speaker 7: Team and in the Ring of Honor too, would you
Speaker 7: how about that Jake.
Speaker 2: Well, he took them to a Super Bowl. I mean
Speaker 2: it's a relatively young franchise.
Speaker 8: And conversation because I have a beef with Ring of
Speaker 8: Honors around the league. There's some guys in the Ring
Speaker 8: of Honors from yes what exactly happened.
Speaker 6: But I will say that at a franchise that, again
Speaker 6: is relatively new, and they went to a super Bowl
Speaker 6: and he was the quarterback of that team that went
Speaker 6: to a Super Bowl, I think that's fair.
Speaker 7: They just better put Cam Newton up there pretty soon then.
Speaker 2: Yes, used to be in there, no doubt, have.
Speaker 9: Like dom Capers in there and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Ran to Don yesterday, I ran chess box.
Speaker 3: Did you see dom Capers, Yes, did you really see him?
Speaker 3: How jet black was his?
Speaker 2: I know, I know that was the first thing to
Speaker 2: point out, like.
Speaker 18: Not like he's got somebody in Charlotte that does a
Speaker 18: great job with his hair because he's he's like very
Speaker 18: very jealous of dom Capers a man, but he's got
Speaker 18: he's got like jet black here.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Domo, Yeah have you seen the pictures?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, he just.
Speaker 7: Looks like.
Speaker 2: All on him like that, right.
Speaker 9: But it was what we dom Caper, you.
Speaker 7: Were talking to Jake somebody, Yes, Jake.
Speaker 3: Delane, we got off. No, that was somebody Jake Colone.
Speaker 3: Jake Delane was talking about. He was talking about and
Speaker 3: and Greg Olsen the same way.
Speaker 9: Greg. You know, we got a chances. Both of them
Speaker 9: were like talking about like Carolina a lot of.
Speaker 3: Positivity, a lot of positivity even though they'd had the
Speaker 3: difficult losses against Tampa and Philly and and and then
Speaker 3: you know, Kansas City, a lot of positivity and yesterday
Speaker 3: was a two steps back for them, and that, you know,
Speaker 3: but Dallas did a great job of taking it to them.
Speaker 9: You know that something you're kind of well, maybe they
Speaker 9: can do this. They didn't run the ball, didn't throw
Speaker 9: the ball.
Speaker 3: Well, they had one big play throwing the ball, and
Speaker 3: that was a mistake that they that you made to
Speaker 3: get them that opportunity. So, you know, tip of the
Speaker 3: cap to Dallas for going in and beating up a
Speaker 3: bad football team.
Speaker 4: Also, Mike Zimmer and I know this was switches the
Speaker 4: conversation a little bit, but you know, for a guy
Speaker 4: that personally headed into training camp super excited about it,
Speaker 4: looking forward to it, then the season starts and then
Speaker 4: you're like, Okay, this is not really what I expected.
Speaker 4: I thought it would be more. But then despite all
Speaker 4: the challenges, all the injuries, week after week, you progressively
Speaker 4: start getting in more fired up defense and positioning players
Speaker 4: where they need to be to make them excel or
Speaker 4: being better at their position, at their job, at their task.
Speaker 4: And again, looking at all the players that have come
Speaker 4: out and have had season ending injuries and all the
Speaker 4: different type of adjustments that you've had to make, I
Speaker 4: think a lot of credit to Mike Zimmer and also
Speaker 4: every single player that is playing out there on the
Speaker 4: field and not giving up all.
Speaker 2: Right, here's the one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just need to continue my apology to os Digizuwa.
Speaker 8: I'm just gonna make sure that that's mentioned every week.
Speaker 2: Well it's not. Let's not get too far.
Speaker 6: We're gonna'm gonna we're gonna take our final break here,
Speaker 6: and I do want to talk about the defense. We're
Speaker 6: gonna dive in because I think, to be quite honest
Speaker 6: with you, I think the story of this game is
Speaker 6: really the defense, and the defense is playing at a
Speaker 6: at a level that we certainly haven't seen for most
Speaker 6: of this year. But I think we've got to give
Speaker 6: a lot of kudos to a lot of guys on
Speaker 6: that side of the ball. We'll come back and we'll
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Speaker 6: Studios at the Star, Let's talk defense. Yesterday, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: put together an outstanding game. They had six sacks, they
Speaker 6: created four turnovers, They had ten quarterback hits, two forced fumbles,
Speaker 6: two fumble recoveries, fourteen points allowed. That defense played I
Speaker 6: think the best they've played all season. And then when
Speaker 6: you look at what they did specifically against the running
Speaker 6: attack of the Carolina Panthers, they held you Hubbard to
Speaker 6: ten carriages for thirty two yards street point two average,
Speaker 6: and then total of sixty yards rushing that they allowed
Speaker 6: to their whole team. First of all, I start with
Speaker 6: that rushing defense. What are your thoughts on the rushing defense,
Speaker 6: particularly not just yesterday, but over the last few games,
Speaker 6: when this has been a continuous story for them all season.
Speaker 6: It seems like over the last few games things have
Speaker 6: gotten a little bit better.
Speaker 8: I had a little concern about the second level going
Speaker 8: into this one, just because maricleaf I just hasn't had
Speaker 8: their reps.
Speaker 7: He was incredible yesterday. He was really really good stepping
Speaker 7: in for to marrow the ball.
Speaker 4: Him punching that ball out, Yeah.
Speaker 7: That scared me a little bit.
Speaker 9: Scared.
Speaker 7: I was like, I just love.
Speaker 4: When players like they're just not making like a random playoff,
Speaker 4: let me tackle your what like they're actually going for
Speaker 4: it and going after the ball for real.
Speaker 8: He had said whenever he saw Bryce shown kind of
Speaker 8: stumbling instead of sliding, he was like, well, I may
Speaker 8: as well try it.
Speaker 2: And he did punt it out.
Speaker 8: He said he was surprised. He didn't even know he
Speaker 8: punched out till he turned around and saw it on
Speaker 8: the ground. And who recovered that.
Speaker 7: I believe it was Neeland.
Speaker 9: Kneelan yeaheel, So it was. There were five guys around
Speaker 9: that ball.
Speaker 3: By the way, Dallas had more players than than what
Speaker 3: Carolina was dealing with. Yeah, thought of hustling getting over there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's really cool just kind of seeing the
Speaker 8: hair come out of the helmet for Leafel and Kendricks
Speaker 8: whenever they're in that second level and they're getting aturate
Speaker 8: in the run game, they play more confidently when that
Speaker 8: front is more confident as well, So it's just kind
Speaker 8: of a trickle down effect and you're starting to see
Speaker 8: the results of that. Also got to give Donovan Wilson
Speaker 8: credit in the run game. In this one as well,
Speaker 8: it was really just all three levels right in the
Speaker 8: middle of that defense. I feel like they just all
Speaker 8: play their assignments really well. That's what's worked over the
Speaker 8: course of these last few games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you're actually guys like Massie Smith getting
Speaker 3: off the ball.
Speaker 9: We've talked about Osa.
Speaker 3: You gave your flowers to him, your apologies to him
Speaker 3: for what he's done. We went into this game kind
Speaker 3: of feeling like they say their movement was going to
Speaker 3: be a problem. Carolina just doesn't handle and Dallas. That's
Speaker 3: one thing Dallas can do is they can move their
Speaker 3: front and they can twist. They could bring linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 3: Zimmer is a master of getting unblocked blitzers home.
Speaker 9: You know he did it.
Speaker 3: He did it yesterday with with with Jordan Lewis. They
Speaker 3: tried to blitz from the right side with Lewis coming
Speaker 3: from the defenses right and Carolina picked it up and
Speaker 3: what did Zimmer do later in the game. He flipped
Speaker 3: the blitz to the other side and ran the same
Speaker 3: blitz and got it home. So he didn't give up
Speaker 3: on it. It's like, damn, we worked on this. He
Speaker 3: knew that he had a chance, So, you know, tip
Speaker 3: of the cap for him, you know, with Micah, you know,
Speaker 3: with Osa. You know, all these guys are playing Goldston,
Speaker 3: they're doing a great job, and you feel like there
Speaker 3: was going to be this huge drop off with marys
Speaker 3: Leah fell in there and everybody, to a man and
Speaker 3: a lady who worked in this building, we're just so
Speaker 3: excited about drafting him, so excited. I mean, it was like, man,
Speaker 3: we got this guy, We got this guy, And I'm thinking.
Speaker 9: Man, you just cost me a running back, you know.
Speaker 3: And that's what I but you know, hey, he's always
Speaker 3: around the ball when there's turnovers, he's always around the ball.
Speaker 3: When somebody knocks it half he gets half sack. And
Speaker 3: since game balls on the ground, I mean he's around it.
Speaker 2: He's in college.
Speaker 9: Right, Yeah, he's always been that kind of guy.
Speaker 3: And and uh, you know it looks like that that
Speaker 3: they're really really paying off this secondary though. It's man
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that's you know, they're doing a great job.
Speaker 3: I mean, Lewis has been great all year. You know,
Speaker 3: it's bland having him back. Hooker got nicked up. You
Speaker 3: mentioned wilsonan, But the cornerback spot now without digs that,
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be the problem in the
Speaker 3: next three weeks, you know, for your football team. And
Speaker 3: I do worry about that. You know, tip of the
Speaker 3: cap for the guys playing against this offense, but they're
Speaker 3: gonna have three offenses coming up. It's going to be
Speaker 3: a real challenge for them to have to deal with
Speaker 3: that cornerback spot.
Speaker 8: So the eighty three yard touchdowns haven't had a chance.
Speaker 8: To go back and look at it from the live view,
Speaker 8: it looked as though either Hooker over committed to the
Speaker 8: underneath or Wilson was slow getting over.
Speaker 7: But where was Warrior's responsibility.
Speaker 3: I think what happened Ao was like he was sinking
Speaker 3: and I asked somebody after the game, I said, hey,
Speaker 3: can you help me here a little bit? Trying to
Speaker 3: get educated what happened? He goes, we missed a check
Speaker 3: all the way across. So they were supposed to be
Speaker 3: a check in the coverages, so only half the defense
Speaker 3: got to check in the secondary, and then it didn't
Speaker 3: get all the way out to Ao.
Speaker 9: So that's why when you watch.
Speaker 3: It, you're gonna it looks like Ao's kind of playing
Speaker 3: as a he's sinking. But I thought it was him
Speaker 3: between him and Hooker. I thought hooker. I thought maybe
Speaker 3: Ao had the flat and Hooker was going to carry deep.
Speaker 3: But you got you got some guys kind of playing
Speaker 3: different on one side. And to me, like I said,
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, cool. So they missed a check like
Speaker 3: they were a mental mistake is what gave that one up,
Speaker 3: is what.
Speaker 9: I was told.
Speaker 8: One of the best cornerback stats is getting on here
Speaker 8: without a tackle sometimes, and Deron Bland did not have
Speaker 8: a tackle in this game. It's because he was only
Speaker 8: targeted one time and did not allow one reception.
Speaker 7: So I got to give credits.
Speaker 9: How about Lewis driving on that ball that got tipped.
Speaker 9: Incredible that Kendricks made a play.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's going and you see these guys they
Speaker 3: hook the guy, then they get called for hooking and
Speaker 3: then the hand being over man. He went around feeling
Speaker 3: and like didn't even touch him, just kind of put
Speaker 3: but you know again, it's a smart player. He's seeing
Speaker 3: he's seeing uh you know, Young's eyes. He's looking right
Speaker 3: at theling the whole time. He's like, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: throw the ball at him, I'm about to drive on
Speaker 3: this thing. He drove on it went around him without
Speaker 3: hitting him and then knocked the ball up. Great job
Speaker 3: by Kendricks just turning and then the ball being right
Speaker 3: on him and then him being able to react and
Speaker 3: make the play.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Lewis thinks he's gonna be good by the way
Speaker 7: with the elbow.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's the interesting about Jordan.
Speaker 6: Jordan's had a very very solid career here with the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: I think this is his best year. I think it
Speaker 6: is by far the best year he's ever had. And
Speaker 6: he's he's been so good in both the run and
Speaker 6: in the past. And in a year when they had
Speaker 6: so much movement because so many.
Speaker 9: They were they were bad on defense, he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. He He's just played so so well for
Speaker 2: them this year.
Speaker 4: His only issue in his career here has been injuries
Speaker 4: that he and nothing. He's had his moments where he
Speaker 4: has to be taken out because he's recovery for whatever
Speaker 4: their injury maybe at the time, but again he always
Speaker 4: comes back, comes back better. And to think that this
Speaker 4: is the year that he's like excelling at everything, it's very,
Speaker 4: very impressive and credit to him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the longevity at his size, I think is
Speaker 6: what's so impressive about him, and that he's still doing this.
Speaker 9: He's out loud.
Speaker 6: Exactly right, and that you got to give credit to
Speaker 6: that man. Because the NFL is a hard game and
Speaker 6: I love it giving them size to a lot of
Speaker 6: these guys, but he's he's one that just keeps getting
Speaker 6: better and I respect it. Let's talk about Mozzie Smith
Speaker 6: because I was talking about the rush defense. How much
Speaker 6: do you think his improved play because I think it
Speaker 6: has been improved play has contributed to their.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's it's hard because you know,
Speaker 3: you're if you if you get to watch the All
Speaker 3: twenty two and you know you people have access to that,
Speaker 3: you could see him now getting off the football and
Speaker 3: you could see like the surge and it's and he's
Speaker 3: he's you know, he's playing on the opponent's side of
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage and not his side of the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. He's getting up field, he's being disruptive,
Speaker 3: he's taken up blocks. You know, uh Os is doing
Speaker 3: a good job of winning with his one on one blocks.
Speaker 3: Heck that one of the sacks, Goldston sack was they
Speaker 3: had they went for a rush. It was a fore
Speaker 3: man rush. Mazzi was part of the fore man rush.
Speaker 3: You know, they usually take him off the field and
Speaker 3: put somebody else in. But then Mazzi and Parsons are
Speaker 3: on a twist stunt to the left, Goldston and Os
Speaker 3: are on a twist stunt going right, and now they
Speaker 3: got Carolina baffled and boom and there there's you know,
Speaker 3: Mozzie's working a stunt. He's you know, coming around with part.
Speaker 3: So you know they're they're showing a little bit more
Speaker 3: confidence in him, much like scoon Maker. You know, Schoonmaker
Speaker 3: was close to being inactive every week and now you
Speaker 3: know Skoonmakers are part of this. And I think there's
Speaker 3: more confidence in Masi in what he's doing. As you know,
Speaker 3: it's not showing up always in the box scores, they say,
Speaker 3: but his the play, the level of play is so
Speaker 3: much better than where it's been in the past.
Speaker 8: One thing about this this defensive line, and I'll speak
Speaker 8: on Mazzi really quick.
Speaker 9: The U.
Speaker 8: He had kind of a funny moment for us in
Speaker 8: the press box when he had that one tackle where
Speaker 8: he just slung down and then he ran to the
Speaker 8: sideline and got oxygen.
Speaker 2: But it showed just how powerful a man he is.
Speaker 7: A little guy exactly.
Speaker 2: He just slung him like it was a child like
Speaker 2: it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 8: He was like, But Michael Parsons, you're starting to see
Speaker 8: the strength for him that he added over the off season.
Speaker 8: You're starting to see that come about.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 8: He's always been the speed rusher that just can kind
Speaker 8: of dip below guys and get around guys. He's maximized
Speaker 8: his athleticism through the first three years of his career, so.
Speaker 4: The sumo workouts helped. But I will say that, hey,
Speaker 4: he did his unique kind.
Speaker 7: Of training during the.
Speaker 8: You're starting to see that power come about. And I
Speaker 8: think that's a that's a scary site for opposing offensive
Speaker 8: lines because if he can add a power bag to
Speaker 8: what he already can do athletically and with his speed rush,
Speaker 8: I think, man, he was a problem for those guys yesterday.
Speaker 7: He was a big problem Yeah.
Speaker 6: Actually I had two other names of guys I wanted
Speaker 6: to throw out to you, guys that we haven't talked about.
Speaker 6: We talked about Maris, We've now talked about Micah. Let's
Speaker 6: talk about Osa. You mentioned him right before that brace
Speaker 6: that break, he had four tackles, one sack, four quarterback hits,
Speaker 6: one force fumble. He seemed like he was all over
Speaker 6: the field, especially in the second half.
Speaker 2: What did you see yesterday from Mosa?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I saw a man deserving of an apology. That's
Speaker 7: what I saw.
Speaker 2: But you.
Speaker 9: I do it every week he had.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 8: He has been one of the more UH pressure generating
Speaker 8: defensive interior alignment over the course of the entire NFL.
Speaker 8: Since the bye week, he's he's done a really good
Speaker 8: job getting after it in the pass rush. And I
Speaker 8: think you have mentioned it, Brian about how late in
Speaker 8: the season Osidgiz was kind.
Speaker 9: Of gone away fourteen the usually say good night, Yeah.
Speaker 7: And that's not happening yet.
Speaker 8: So and he's he's been healthy all year, He's played
Speaker 8: every game, and uh, he's really starting to stack great efforts.
Speaker 8: I think what worked for him in this game is
Speaker 8: that he was just simply he was simply quicker than
Speaker 8: his opposing matchup, and he's he's a quick guy for
Speaker 8: that interior offensive line for to handle, and he was
Speaker 8: just getting around guys.
Speaker 7: He was throwing guys down.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 8: He had a couple of chops where he was able
Speaker 8: to get around as well. He looked like an edge
Speaker 8: rusher maneuvering from the well he was on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 6: He was at least one where they had him lined
Speaker 6: up at defensive end and Mike had defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 3: The thing I think that this just goes back to
Speaker 3: again was Zimmer. I think Mike does a better job
Speaker 3: of what we've seen maybe in the past. And this
Speaker 3: is no disrespect to Dan Quinn. I think he hunts matchups,
Speaker 3: you know, and if you if you've watching tape and
Speaker 3: they've got bad players, you know.
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 3: I was talking to a buddy of mine who's an
Speaker 3: NBA coach, driving over here, and I was talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, like, I go, do you guys?
Speaker 9: Do you guys? Ever, No, no doc rivers about dog ras,
Speaker 9: he goes the uh, the uh.
Speaker 3: But he was telling me, he's like listen, I go,
Speaker 3: I go, hey, let me ask you a question. NBA
Speaker 3: because we were talking about Belichick and I go, in
Speaker 3: the NBA, do you guys hunt like if they're bad
Speaker 3: players on the on the court. He goes, oh, God,
Speaker 3: all the time, you try your best to get your
Speaker 3: best players on their bad players. And I think the
Speaker 3: Zimmer's done that. I think they've done that with the offense,
Speaker 3: with the with the defensive line. It's like, Okay, we
Speaker 3: know we can win a couple of these matchups.
Speaker 9: Let's see if we could put our best guys on there.
Speaker 3: And it's no disrespect to Dan Quinn, but I always
Speaker 3: kind of felt like that Michael Parsons was rushing against
Speaker 3: Trent Williams far too many times than what I thought
Speaker 3: when like mckivtt's on the other side needed some love,
Speaker 3: you know, he needed he needed to have a few
Speaker 3: rushes against him. So I feel like they're they're hunting,
Speaker 3: hunting more matchups.
Speaker 4: You know what's impressive with Osa is for a defensive
Speaker 4: tackle and you look at his body, just how fast
Speaker 4: he actually is and how his body movement the quickness
Speaker 4: is so impressive. And I'm super excited for him because
Speaker 4: you know, when one you get to meet the person
Speaker 4: and you know, just like Jordan Lewis, you love the guy.
Speaker 4: Good people, And also when you see them put in
Speaker 4: the work and go out there and here during the week,
Speaker 4: you're excited for them to be successful. And once again,
Speaker 4: when you have other people in the line also making place,
Speaker 4: it just it spreads, it spreads around. It creates more
Speaker 4: opportunities for everybody else. And now, God, I said this
Speaker 4: before and I'll say it again, and it's not gonna
Speaker 4: happen this year, But how I would have wished to
Speaker 4: see all the starters playing together in this defense and
Speaker 4: that wish is not gonna come true. But man, what
Speaker 4: an unfortunate season in that aspect for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: It's a missed opportunity that they couldn't control.
Speaker 6: But you know, they you look at all the pieces
Speaker 6: of this defense and you look at now how Zimmer
Speaker 6: is making this thing roll even without all the pieces,
Speaker 6: and you're like, man, what if he had all the pieces?
Speaker 2: Very very they have been a very, very different.
Speaker 3: But you know, let's be honest, too, they had they
Speaker 3: had pieces.
Speaker 9: Against the Saints, they went out there and laid a
Speaker 9: big fat egg.
Speaker 6: But isn't part of that though, That's where I say,
Speaker 6: you know, that was the the the adapting period where
Speaker 6: he was trying to get because that I do know this,
Speaker 6: they I do know this. There were people, there were
Speaker 6: there were players that weren't necessarily all boy early and
Speaker 6: and I think now, I bet you'd have a hard
Speaker 6: time finding not one guy that isn't completely bought in.
Speaker 2: So I think that's part of it.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, after the game, Mike Zimmer and
Speaker 3: and and funny, uh, Michael went over and hugged Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 3: they were walking off the field arm in arm there
Speaker 3: and and and Mike and knows what Zimmer can do
Speaker 3: for him, he really does. And no disrespect to Dan
Speaker 3: Quinn again, but Mike and knows Mike and knows what
Speaker 3: this guy could do.
Speaker 9: But they missed an opportunity. They did not get it
Speaker 9: coached up fast enough.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 3: They didn't get a player buy in fast enough. They're
Speaker 3: getting a player buy in now, but they missed the opportunity.
Speaker 3: And that's your job. They have to switch these guys
Speaker 3: around and make them feel like, Okay, we're doing this
Speaker 3: in the best interest of you and the player buy
Speaker 3: in just or was it taught fast enough or quick enough?
Speaker 3: Players didn't adapt until now you're seeing really kind of
Speaker 3: the benefits of that.
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's something very difficult to do when you're
Speaker 4: brand new here obviously not in the NFL, but here
Speaker 4: coming in learning this, getting to know the staff, the player,
Speaker 4: implementing something new, and getting people to buy in. Like
Speaker 4: you said, uh, that's a hard task and sometimes it
Speaker 4: takes weeks.
Speaker 9: Your job, I get it, but it's your job, it
Speaker 9: really is.
Speaker 7: The best player doesn't show up for OTAs.
Speaker 2: That's that's fair. That's fair.
Speaker 9: That's fair. That is fair. Player buy in, yeah, player
Speaker 9: buy in.
Speaker 3: But also you've got to teach this stuff fast. You know,
Speaker 3: you don't have practices anymore.
Speaker 9: You don't get them.
Speaker 3: You don't get the practice like you need to practice.
Speaker 3: And that's unfortunate. But that player buy in, it might
Speaker 3: have cost him a couple of games. I think that
Speaker 3: maybe maybe not the rape well, the Ravens game they rally,
Speaker 3: you know, but there's some games like that Saints game.
Speaker 22: They want back, they absolutely want Saints Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cincinnati,
Speaker 22: there were games with them, they played well in Cincinnati,
Speaker 22: saying overall, when you look at the team, there are
Speaker 22: games that they look back at the season they're.
Speaker 2: Like, if we could have done this on this Let's not.
Speaker 4: Forget about the offense. No defense. I mean, the defense
Speaker 4: was the one holding in and in most of the season,
Speaker 4: So criticize the offense. But I totally agree with what
Speaker 4: you're saying, Brian. I just feel like it's easier said
Speaker 4: than done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, but you're and you're right, but and you're
Speaker 3: fair about You're right, he's fair, you're right fair about that.
Speaker 3: But the thing about it is, you're going to look
Speaker 3: back on the season and it's going to be man, defensively,
Speaker 3: they played so much better, and you're gonna say, well,
Speaker 3: why didn't they play better in Week.
Speaker 9: Two, in Week three, in Week four? You know that's your.
Speaker 6: We're going to do this at the end of the
Speaker 6: show today, but tomorrow we are going to take some
Speaker 6: time to really talk about this defense and uh and
Speaker 6: see if if you guys think Mike Zimmer should be
Speaker 6: back next year, read what happens with the head coach?
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 2: Do you have some real quick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, one quick thing pass rush grades across the entire
Speaker 8: NFL entering Monday Night Football are still two games tonight.
Speaker 8: Number one is to Vandre to Yes, yeah, I just
Speaker 8: want Number one is to Fandre Sweat for the Titans.
Speaker 8: Number two is also Diggi Zua. Yeah. Number three is
Speaker 8: Carl Lawson. So what Yeah at Carl Lawson talk about.
Speaker 9: Get Yes, I can't believe you hate Carl Lawson.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's why we have to show tomorrow us.
Speaker 6: All right, we appreciate you guys. So then for Nick Harris,
Speaker 6: Brian brought us to Amber Garcia. This is Derek Eagleton.
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