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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentleman, it's Thursday, which means we're
Speaker 1: a day away from saying saying it with our chest
Speaker 1: on say it with your chest Friday. But I have
Speaker 1: an interesting hypothetical for you guys, and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: the show with this, which is a little bit different. Normally,
Speaker 1: we go into injury reports and we kind of update
Speaker 1: the team and update what's going on. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that coming up in a second, but I sent out
Speaker 1: this hypothetical on Twitter yesterday based off of events in
Speaker 1: New York. And I know, Heck, you're you're a big
Speaker 1: fighting guy. You're a big boxing fan. Rob you you
Speaker 1: like that as well. Isaiah. I haven't really had that
Speaker 1: conversation with you, but I think you're pretty good. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to the tight. Okay, so we're three for
Speaker 1: three here based on events that happened in New York.
Speaker 1: Of course, for those that don't know, the facts are
Speaker 1: is that Mark Colombo, former coach here at the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys and offensive line coach with the Giants, was fired yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's the facts. But now there's some rumors that circled
Speaker 1: yesterday at least, and some of them have been debunked,
Speaker 1: but it raised this question, but that he had gotten
Speaker 1: into an altercation with the head coach, Joe Judge. Now
Speaker 1: my question is is if this coaching staff that the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have right now had gotten into let's say
Speaker 1: a UFC style boxing battle royale type thing, who would
Speaker 1: come out on top. That's my question to start talking
Speaker 1: cowboys on a Thursday. Yeah, we're starting the show act. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is how we're starting at hack and if you
Speaker 1: want to go first, you can. But Rob had a
Speaker 1: little heads up because we talked about it yesterday. But
Speaker 1: Rob could probably start us off with who he things
Speaker 1: could come out on top. Uh. Can I just say,
Speaker 1: first of all, I wouldn't fight Mark Colombo if you
Speaker 1: paid me. I don't know. Six g seven geez, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: He's a lot lighter than he used to be, though, Rob,
Speaker 1: I think I got you know, you got a chance.
Speaker 1: He's still six eight and you can't teach that. So
Speaker 1: I don't teach that. I can't. I can't go there.
Speaker 1: But okay, I'll play along with you. Kyle. I'm going
Speaker 1: to Jim tom Sula, Baby, Jim tom Sula. I know
Speaker 1: he's not the tallest guy on the coaching staff. And
Speaker 1: this is kind of a tough question because we haven't
Speaker 1: been around the coaches really at all this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: but d line coaches, to me are among the most
Speaker 1: intimidating people on the planet. And uh, he's a great guy,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't want to make him angry, just like
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to make Rod Marinelli angry back in
Speaker 1: the day. So I'll go with mister Tom Sulam say,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good pick. He took that one
Speaker 1: away from me. Robbins. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: I'm hey, I'm gonna stand that same vein. Now I
Speaker 1: know that big Cat leon letstill on staff, So I'm
Speaker 1: going with big Cat. Like you said, you k teach height.
Speaker 1: I think cat six seven, So there you go, and
Speaker 1: he'll have to reach on most of us, So that
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna cat. Yeah, I think you went there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty Are we going? Are we going like any
Speaker 1: coach on the staff? On the staff, any coach? I
Speaker 1: am going to go with coach McCarthy. WHOA, I'm going
Speaker 1: to coach McCarthy. Coach McCarthy looks like he will wrestle
Speaker 1: the crap out of you. And he literally he put
Speaker 1: like a big thing of true and cook that being
Speaker 1: in his lip and like huge, like let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can just see that, right. He probably got cauliflower
Speaker 1: ere he's been hiding with the masks and stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm going with coach McCarthy. He's got califlower. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: then you also got McCarthy. I mean his backgrounds from
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and they know how to they know how to
Speaker 1: fight up in Pittsburgh. They'll come tough out of that
Speaker 1: region of the country. So you know what, Yeah, never
Speaker 1: my good. Oh, I don't know. I don't even want
Speaker 1: to know where you're going with that. But coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: doesn't have a neck, man, you don't want to wrestle
Speaker 1: nobody who doesn't have a neck. That's like a Brahma
Speaker 1: bull man. You have a chance. I like, listen, hear
Speaker 1: me out here, though, John Fossil and I somebody threw
Speaker 1: this out yesterday and Chris even talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: But the trickery that's involved there, he would pull something
Speaker 1: out of the hat. He'd pull something out of the
Speaker 1: hat to win that fight and come out on top.
Speaker 1: So I would say, how about John Fossil there for
Speaker 1: a little bit of a sneaky pick an underdog. I
Speaker 1: also think Doug nuss Meyer would do well in a
Speaker 1: in a ring like that. I think he's quick, he's agile,
Speaker 1: he's still in shape, and if quarterbacks coach, he's got
Speaker 1: the headspace to come through. So I think nuss Meyer
Speaker 1: would have a pretty good look at it. But O
Speaker 1: fun Wester backup. Okay, I'm gonna skip people would be
Speaker 1: my backup because that's that's my guy and I know
Speaker 1: him personally, and Skip Peep got some hood in him.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to mess with a hood cat.
Speaker 1: You don't want it. You don't mess with a Brahma
Speaker 1: bull like coach McCarthy. You don't want to mess with
Speaker 1: a hood cat like Coach Pete. I'm just saying those
Speaker 1: are those are my two ringers right there. Who's the
Speaker 1: first one out of the ring? Who's the first out?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't know. Man, We got coach,
Speaker 1: we playing coaches against each other right now? What that's like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're leading me down to the principal's office hallway right now.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go there. I'm not going. Do
Speaker 1: you guys know that I'm the most glucking person to
Speaker 1: go through the principal see that already, thank you? Uh so, Kyle,
Speaker 1: Kyle is trying to set up scenario where we set
Speaker 1: up two coaches and we put them on rock Pee Island, right,
Speaker 1: and then they got they got at a Risto to
Speaker 1: get off the island. Fight Island. Yes, p fight Island.
Speaker 1: I love that, okay, But I would say Callen Moore
Speaker 1: is the first one out just in my personal and
Speaker 1: my personal thought process. Anyway, I just go for it.
Speaker 1: Can I just say real quick, that's for Colombo, for
Speaker 1: for Mark, I mean Isaiah played with him, We've been
Speaker 1: around him. That's it's that's tough news, you know, And
Speaker 1: it's kind of it was strange to hear coming out
Speaker 1: of New York, just because you know, they've got some
Speaker 1: young guys on their offensive line. But they were they're
Speaker 1: playing better. I mean, they've got three wins this year.
Speaker 1: They're doing pretty well. So that was kind of odd
Speaker 1: to see. Um. But I like the way you're thinking, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it, but Rob it is
Speaker 1: not surprising. It's not surprising because I know I know
Speaker 1: Colombo's character and Colombo's he's not no punk, right, And
Speaker 1: unfortunately in this league, you deal with a lot of
Speaker 1: grown men, right that are carrying a lot of little
Speaker 1: boy characteristics when it comes to the coaches in this league.
Speaker 1: And I'm not speaking to any to one particular coach,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about this. It's a reoccurring trait word. You know,
Speaker 1: things that people had whenever when they were younger. If
Speaker 1: they haven't dealt with those things by the time they're adults,
Speaker 1: just because they're adults and something that they're gonna handle
Speaker 1: situations any better. So and you know it, terms of
Speaker 1: people trying to be bullies, in terms of people trying
Speaker 1: to use their authoritative power over people and speak down
Speaker 1: to people and things of that nature, it happens a
Speaker 1: lot in this league. It happens a lot. And sometimes
Speaker 1: when you stay in your ground and you don't put
Speaker 1: up with it and you don't allow somebody to punk you,
Speaker 1: a lot of times they just try to get rid
Speaker 1: of you because now you've challenged your authority in a
Speaker 1: in a sort right. So knowing Colombo, when I read
Speaker 1: when I read the article, I can imagine that coach
Speaker 1: probably trying to say something crazy out of sort to Colombo,
Speaker 1: Colombo being like, who the heck are you? You know,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense anything Columbus, no Columbus, no part.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that. Right now we're talking about football, man.
Speaker 1: People are getting into it facilities all over America right now.
Speaker 1: So I know Colombo is a tough guy. And whatever happened,
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody said to put their words together the
Speaker 1: wrong way or the right way, and Colombo responded to it.
Speaker 1: So this is this is this is the game of football.
Speaker 1: This is where it happens regard I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know about the psychology of bullying and all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: but you know you'll get hitting the mouth of what
Speaker 1: you say no matter where you are. So kudos to Colombo.
Speaker 1: There are some punks in the league, but Colombo by
Speaker 1: far is not one of those guys. And this is
Speaker 1: not all that and he's going to stand up for himself. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, not surprising, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: it is tough news and we wish him the best
Speaker 1: moving forward. He's going to find a job somewhere. He'll
Speaker 1: be just fine. He'll be in the league for a
Speaker 1: good amount of time because he's Colombo hit him with them. Now,
Speaker 1: with that being said, we did have some offensive line
Speaker 1: news of our own yesterday, Rob for Mike McCarthy. He
Speaker 1: mentioned it in his press conference that cut our cut
Speaker 1: our show short yesterday, but also uh led into practice.
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight was back and practicing yesterday. Is what is
Speaker 1: going on with Brandon Knight and then some of these
Speaker 1: other injury updates from yesterday's practice. Yeah, they started the
Speaker 1: twenty one day practice window for night. He was on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. I want to say after the Monday night game.
Speaker 1: Was that the Arizona game. I think he got a
Speaker 1: niscope right after that, so he's back. He was on
Speaker 1: the fe field. That's encouraging. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: this week where he could be potentially active, but that's
Speaker 1: good progress. Give you some depth at offensive tackle because
Speaker 1: we've talked about that position a lot. Only two guys
Speaker 1: didn't practice yesterday, Tyler Biadesh, of course, with the hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: that's going to keep him out a little bit. And
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory was sick yesterday, so that's about it. Zack
Speaker 1: Martin was limited, So that's something to kind of keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. But I'm sure I would imagine they're
Speaker 1: trying to manage him and get him to Sunday. He
Speaker 1: was doing some some core to work with the athletic
Speaker 1: training staff and just trying to get himself loosened out
Speaker 1: before he practiced. So the best thing I saw in
Speaker 1: there was Zeke had a full practice and said told
Speaker 1: us after practice that he felt better this week than
Speaker 1: he did the week at the Steelers game. So for
Speaker 1: a matchup that we're going to get into this today,
Speaker 1: for this week with Minnesota, that's huge. That's huge if
Speaker 1: you've got a closer to healthy Zeke. And whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to Zack Martin and kind of a lingering issue there,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's not necessarily anything to be really
Speaker 1: upset about. I mean, you're coming off of a bye week,
Speaker 1: so it might have been something that it was a
Speaker 1: right right place, right time, and just not as big
Speaker 1: of an issue as normally it would be. But whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to him being on cords, Isaiah, does that
Speaker 1: worry you at all? From Zach Martin just being the
Speaker 1: cornerstone of that offensive line, it was a corner storm. Okay,
Speaker 1: we brought that back out. No, I'm not at all, man,
Speaker 1: I mean he's gonna be good. I mean it's the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. It's the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: Guys are banged up. Nobody's healthy. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that right now, nobody on this roster is healthy except
Speaker 1: for Razzie Robinson and Bradley and I those are only
Speaker 1: two guys that are probably healthy guys because they haven't
Speaker 1: had touch the field. Other than that, many everybody's dealing
Speaker 1: with something and that's just that's just being real. Um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it gets out, you know, to the public, and
Speaker 1: things end up on an injury report. Sometimes they don't
Speaker 1: end up on an injury report. But you know, guys
Speaker 1: are gonna be They're gonna overcome things every single day.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried at all. I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: these guys continue to get healthier as the season progresses,
Speaker 1: because I think I think they are going to can
Speaker 1: just continue to get stronger. Ema. No, you know he
Speaker 1: what Isaiah said, It makes sense. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: a veteran guy just you can't give him the day off,
Speaker 1: but still, you know, to give him an opportunity to
Speaker 1: stay in rhythm. These guys have had a bye weekend.
Speaker 1: Like like Isaiah said, no one's healthy at this point
Speaker 1: in the season, So it doesn't concern me about Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: What I want to know is, you know, it is
Speaker 1: night ready to go. If there's a situation that happens
Speaker 1: in this game where we have to maybe plug and
Speaker 1: play him on the right side or on the left side,
Speaker 1: can't he go? So that's important with this offensive line
Speaker 1: because we've again we've this has become cliche, the musical chairs,
Speaker 1: and this would be the eleventh combination of guys on
Speaker 1: that offensive line. So you know, the getting guy's healthy,
Speaker 1: it's very important. Don't like to hear be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: really curious about the sickness of Randy Gregory. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm glad that it's not like a hopefu lea not
Speaker 1: COVID related cousin when anytime you see sick, the first
Speaker 1: thing you think is, oh my god, does he have COVID? So,
Speaker 1: knowing how how bad we need him this week, as
Speaker 1: far as applying pressure to Kirk Cousins, is that was
Speaker 1: the one thing that raised our brow exactly. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if he if it was something like that, he'd be
Speaker 1: on the list, he'd be on the reserve list. So
Speaker 1: that's yeah, But that's a good You brought up a
Speaker 1: good point about night. Like we've talked about this old
Speaker 1: line combination over and over again. Like if he was
Speaker 1: if he were to be healthy and ready to go
Speaker 1: this week and have a good week of practice or
Speaker 1: maybe next week, would you guys like to plug him
Speaker 1: in at one of those tackle spots or are we
Speaker 1: at a point where it's like, let's just keep the
Speaker 1: same five if we possibly can for like two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. Can we can we just do that?
Speaker 1: Just go back and do it? Is important and this
Speaker 1: offensive line, this offensive line needs that, right. But I
Speaker 1: think that Brandon Knight before he was injured was man,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to say a bright spot, but
Speaker 1: he was giving you. He was giving you a lot
Speaker 1: more than say some other names. Right now with Irving,
Speaker 1: you see that. I think he's a lot better in
Speaker 1: the run than he is versus the pass, and just comparable.
Speaker 1: I would like to see, you know, these guys kind
Speaker 1: of figure out what we're gonna do with the left tackle,
Speaker 1: but we know that we're having big time issues at
Speaker 1: the right side, So just being able to have him
Speaker 1: for that, I think it's more important. Man, well. And
Speaker 1: one of the things in terms of the left side,
Speaker 1: go for it, Isaiah. Now I was gonna say the
Speaker 1: left side. I mean some of the films that I've
Speaker 1: been watching, going back to the last few games, Urban's
Speaker 1: been doing good. He's been playing physical, He's been he's
Speaker 1: been popping dues and knocking dues off. I know in
Speaker 1: a film Roo Another Day, Kyle, show the play where
Speaker 1: Scholtzmith's the block. But if you watch that same play
Speaker 1: where Schultsmith that block, freaking Irvan freaking just destroyed the
Speaker 1: guy right when you it didn't even look like he
Speaker 1: had opportunity to get back into playing. He just knocked
Speaker 1: the do it all the way to the ground. So
Speaker 1: I think he's bringing some physicality to it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there last you mentioned, Kyle, that right side we need
Speaker 1: some hell well. And what Mike McCarthy said whenever he
Speaker 1: was asked about best five, which is kind of something
Speaker 1: we've talked about over the course of the season, but
Speaker 1: whenever he was asked about it, he said, it's not
Speaker 1: fantasy football. You can't just mix and match and just
Speaker 1: throw guys out there and into certain positions. But the
Speaker 1: thing is is when Brandon Knight comes back. You've got
Speaker 1: two swing tackles available. You got Cam Irving and you've
Speaker 1: got Brandon Knight. And Brandon Knight and Cam Irving I've
Speaker 1: each played better than what Terren steel has done on
Speaker 1: the right tackle spot. So my question to you guys is,
Speaker 1: and heck, he'll start us off here Cam Irving at
Speaker 1: left tackle or right tackle, and then of course Brandon
Speaker 1: Knight would fill in that other hole. Are you more
Speaker 1: comfortable with that than what you're working with right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more comfortable with Tyrn Smith, but I want well,
Speaker 1: that's not unfortunately, I think Night right, right, I know right,
Speaker 1: I'm just swishing here. I would say Night at the left.
Speaker 1: I just felt like Knight gave us a lot more
Speaker 1: before his injury. But in this situation, the continuity, if
Speaker 1: these guys are starting to play together, I think the
Speaker 1: Steelers game they played a lot better together. But my
Speaker 1: question is who's gonna be the quarterback? Because who's the
Speaker 1: quarterback is really gonna help you say, you know, look,
Speaker 1: this guy is gonna be a better fit in this
Speaker 1: situation because offensively, the last game that we saw against
Speaker 1: the Steelers, we had a lot more movement in our offense.
Speaker 1: So look, keeping these same guys together it's very important.
Speaker 1: But I want to know who's gonna be the quarterback? Kyle,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Andy Dalton. Oh God, I mean please,
Speaker 1: that's that's Please know what that's That's what the decision is.
Speaker 1: It's Andy Dalton, that's the quarterback. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a proven thing. But why why are you saying?
Speaker 1: Please know with Andy Dalton. We've had this conversation I
Speaker 1: feel like six times about Garrett Gilbert or Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: but you're that adamant against Andy Dalton. Hex Ready, Look man, Okay,
Speaker 1: so we this is gonna be the This is gonna
Speaker 1: be the seventh time that we argued it. Right, So yes,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna go with based off of percentage and
Speaker 1: just look looking at the performance we've already said the
Speaker 1: energy and the offense efficiency seemed to be moving a
Speaker 1: lot better with Garret Gilbert. The last time I saw
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton against a defense that was bringing any pressure,
Speaker 1: I say, Arizona or Washington football team, it didn't look
Speaker 1: good for him. And Pittsburgh and the defense that they had,
Speaker 1: I mean they were applying pressure for sure, and Garret
Speaker 1: Gilbert did a very nice job of getting out of
Speaker 1: the pocket. I mean, we've been on killing Moore about
Speaker 1: his offensive strategy over the last just play calling over
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. I thought he did a
Speaker 1: better job even though the offense has you know, the
Speaker 1: motions and shifts and things like that he hadn't been
Speaker 1: able to do obviously, because he's had a rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: and a guy that hadn't played in a while. But
Speaker 1: I think you see a guy that's getting better if
Speaker 1: the offense is gonna move more efficiently with Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: and you're just gonna have to show me because I don't.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. He hadn't been able to do it.
Speaker 1: And I think g Wagon gave you the best shot.
Speaker 1: Oh oh that's me. Um, I like I like, I
Speaker 1: like g Wagon, right, I like double G all right,
Speaker 1: G two whatever you want to call him, right, Uh.
Speaker 1: He he did have the energy who was successful. And
Speaker 1: I already mentioned that you know this week that I
Speaker 1: think that that would be the decision if I was
Speaker 1: making it, to go with him, because just simply off
Speaker 1: a momentum. However, Um, I encourage you, and I encourage
Speaker 1: some other people and everybody else that has questions regarding
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to go back and watch the film room
Speaker 1: session from this week, because we addressed at least two
Speaker 1: of the six sacks that he experienced in one of
Speaker 1: his most recent games, and a lot of that stuff
Speaker 1: was not just falling on him. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff. He still has to do
Speaker 1: a lot better. But when it came down to protections,
Speaker 1: guys just weren't doing their jobs. They were not doing
Speaker 1: their assignments and and unfortunately, it looks bad upon just
Speaker 1: a quarterback that when those things happen, because it looks
Speaker 1: like he's holding the ball, looks like he's not getting
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands. You know, he's not
Speaker 1: making good throws all that kind of stuff. So I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not taking I'm not taking it shoulders and
Speaker 1: saying that he didn't he needed that. He doesn't need
Speaker 1: to play better. He definitely does, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of other elements that were going into that. He did
Speaker 1: not have the same offensive line. So we're gonna see,
Speaker 1: We're gonna see. I don't I don't disagree with you wholeheartedly,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're gonna see what it looks like
Speaker 1: this weekend. Um, yeah, let's see what it looks like.
Speaker 1: Let's let's say this, all right. So Mike Zimmer was
Speaker 1: on the staff at Cincinnati, I believe for twenty eleven
Speaker 1: to twenty fourteen. Right, he knows Andy Dalton like the
Speaker 1: back of his hand. The last time Mike Zimmer saw
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, he beat him like thirty nine to six
Speaker 1: or something like that, where Andy Dalton had a twenty
Speaker 1: six percent QBR. All right, Mike Zimmer, that's the He
Speaker 1: is going to love seeing Andy Dalton at quarterback because
Speaker 1: he knows the kind of pressure that he can put
Speaker 1: on Andy. I think the one thing that we have
Speaker 1: at our disposal is the unknown with Garrey Gilberto that
Speaker 1: one game that we've seen him uh be successful in
Speaker 1: this offense. Man. That's all I'm I'm weighing this on.
Speaker 1: This is the fact that we have history with Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer and Andy Dalton. So do with it. What's your
Speaker 1: mother points? Llot point, ballot point, looking forward to the game.
Speaker 1: That's a very good point. Two thousand, two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight to twenty thirteen was when Zimmer was the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator with Cincinnati, And like you said, the last time
Speaker 1: that they had played was back in twenty seventeen. That's
Speaker 1: actually the only time that those two had played where
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer was the head coach, Andy Dalton was the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Zimmer won that battle thirty four to seven. Was that
Speaker 1: final score. Andy Dalton in that game went eleven of
Speaker 1: twenty two for one hundred and thirteen yards, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and an interception. In that game, his QB rating was
Speaker 1: twenty three seven point three and he was sacked three
Speaker 1: times from seven? Did he have aj Green? Man? Now,
Speaker 1: you can't roll out so all the numbers you got,
Speaker 1: Aj Green was on the field. Yes, he had cj Uzma, Giovanni, Bernard,
Speaker 1: AJ Green, Tyler Croft, Brandon LaFell had had his full
Speaker 1: arsenal of guys and he got blanked for seven points
Speaker 1: in a couple of picks. Yeah, So I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I know Double G played good. I know he did,
Speaker 1: and I know he looked like Joe Montana compared to
Speaker 1: what we saw with the Nucci trying to play his
Speaker 1: first start. But are we really just wiping away one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four's career starts for a guy I mean,
Speaker 1: do we just feel it just feel like he can't
Speaker 1: play anymore. Like I just I know it didn't look
Speaker 1: it against Arizona. But I'm kind of with Isaiah on
Speaker 1: this one, Like I'm willing to wipe away that disaster
Speaker 1: offensively against Arizona with the turnovers and the fumbles and
Speaker 1: the lack of protection. And then you played Washington without
Speaker 1: Zack Martin against five first round picks on the Washington front,
Speaker 1: and if they don't clean it up on Thanksgiving, it'll
Speaker 1: be the same story. But I just think it just
Speaker 1: wasn't a good situation for Andy. Not that it's all
Speaker 1: on everybody else, but you know, if I've got to
Speaker 1: pick one guy to go win a game, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the more experienced guy. But like Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: we'll see, I mean, we'll see how it goes. At
Speaker 1: least they feel like they've got a solid number two
Speaker 1: at this point filling in behind him. That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good problem to have because, like
Speaker 1: we talked about previously, we didn't know what was going
Speaker 1: on going into the game against Pittsburgh. Now we know
Speaker 1: what we have from all three even maybe four perspectives
Speaker 1: of a quarterback if we really needed to come down
Speaker 1: to that, we know what we're dealing with, but it's
Speaker 1: a debate that'll ray John until after the Vikings game
Speaker 1: this week. We'll have the short week to talk about
Speaker 1: it next week, So maybe not as much Garrett Gilbert v.
Speaker 1: Dandy Dalton talk as we had this week in last week,
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Speaker 1: we come back though. Here on talking Cowboys, we got
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Speaker 1: Like that, it's got that catchy ring to it. The
Speaker 1: Seymour Do More or I like it every week and
Speaker 1: Isaiah likes it too because he echoes it every single
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Speaker 1: Harrison and Rob Phillips I stand back up Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: and today, of course, being Thursday, we're breaking down the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense versus the opponent defense, and of course the
Speaker 1: opponent this week is the Minnesota Vikings. And guys, I
Speaker 1: want to ask this question because last Sweet Minnesota on
Speaker 1: Monday Night football held Chicago to forty six yards total rushing,
Speaker 1: really kind of blank them all together. I mean, Chicago
Speaker 1: didn't actually hit two hundred yards in that football game
Speaker 1: and only had a couple of field goals to show
Speaker 1: for it. However, this is a defense that doesn't scare
Speaker 1: me as much watching it on film. Looking at the stats,
Speaker 1: this defense doesn't scared me nearly as much as what Washington,
Speaker 1: Philly and even Pittsburgh. Of course, Pittsburgh ad showed you defensively,
Speaker 1: just based off of the front seven. But am I
Speaker 1: wrong in thinking that this might be the weakest front
Speaker 1: seven the Cowboys have seen, maybe since Week five of
Speaker 1: the season when we played the Giants. Isaiah No, I
Speaker 1: think you're right in saying that. The thing about Minnesota
Speaker 1: and Minnesota's being consistent for a very long time, all
Speaker 1: the way back to when I play this is a
Speaker 1: too high team. They want to play too high, and
Speaker 1: they've always entrusted in their front seven. They've always had
Speaker 1: solid linebackers and they still do now. They've always had
Speaker 1: sign of linebackers, but they always relied heavily under defensive
Speaker 1: alignment to apply pressure because they don't want to go
Speaker 1: single high. They don't want to come up and play
Speaker 1: you man to man. They want to sit back, have
Speaker 1: a two shell over the top and make you work
Speaker 1: your way down the field and let them apply pressure
Speaker 1: with their front four and the Unfortunately, this front four
Speaker 1: is just not applying that pressure. Like I said, if
Speaker 1: you get up to the second level, you got to
Speaker 1: do a big Kendricks and company. But you're absolutely correct
Speaker 1: in saying that this D line does not have the
Speaker 1: same presence, nor are they as much of a threat
Speaker 1: as the D lines we faced so far this year. Rob. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. I think when you watch them
Speaker 1: play against Chicago, as they mentioned, the too high, they
Speaker 1: did play too deep, and a lot of that is
Speaker 1: because they're they're young. They're young, they're they're missing some
Speaker 1: key eyes on defense this year. They don't have the
Speaker 1: Kneil Hunter up front. No, I don't think they have
Speaker 1: a bar and so, and they've got a couple of
Speaker 1: rookie corners back there. And I think Dancer didn't play
Speaker 1: in that game, so he was back to practice this week.
Speaker 1: So with young corners, you're trying to protect them and
Speaker 1: like Asaiah said, you know, you know, don't give anything
Speaker 1: away deep make them drive the field. That does you
Speaker 1: would think open up some running opportunities for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're not if Zeke's not facing those
Speaker 1: those boxes with seven eight man fronts all the time,
Speaker 1: maybe there's an opportunity to do that. Now, Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: Zim changes it up because he knows, with you know,
Speaker 1: compromised up front, they've got to be able to run
Speaker 1: the football. Dallas does to have success. But I think
Speaker 1: matchup wise, there could be some opportunities. And hey, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have struggled offensively, but I think they've topped you know,
Speaker 1: I think like one hundred and thirty yards the last
Speaker 1: couple of games. Maybe they can build on that. I
Speaker 1: think for me, it's it's gonna be the Mike Zimmer,
Speaker 1: I mean, Cowboy great defensive coordinator. He does a really
Speaker 1: good job of dalling it up for his defense, and
Speaker 1: these guys play really well together. I mean, when Kyle
Speaker 1: you say you look at the tape and nothing about
Speaker 1: them scares you, then I'll go with that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, they still have Harrison Smith and guys
Speaker 1: like Hendricks and Wilson. They look, they're going to present
Speaker 1: a problem defensively as far as the way that they
Speaker 1: pressure the line of scrimmage. They know that their best
Speaker 1: shot is stopping the Cowboys is obviously making sure that
Speaker 1: Zeke doesn't get going early, so that whole loading up
Speaker 1: the box that is what Zimmer is definitely gonna do
Speaker 1: to alleviate any of that. So, look, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this scheme and just realizing that for the Dallas Cowboys offense,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get some of your playmakers involved.
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to see Amari Cooper actually make
Speaker 1: a play, stretch the field, do something with the secondary
Speaker 1: that is decimated well by injuries, and they have rookie guys.
Speaker 1: So the only way that we have any success is
Speaker 1: that you know, one Zeke brings his hard hat and
Speaker 1: collects those really tough yards that you know the Vikings
Speaker 1: are going to be against him on but also if
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is the quarterback, well he is the quarterback
Speaker 1: that he gets the ball out of it his hand
Speaker 1: quickly and get it to a playmakers so that they
Speaker 1: could do something. I mean, this offense, our receiver has
Speaker 1: just hadn't been given us much and it's been because
Speaker 1: they hadn't had the quarterback there to supply it or
Speaker 1: get those yards helped them get that yard yards. So
Speaker 1: we have to get this offense going. We hadn't seen
Speaker 1: the last couple of games, so that change is going
Speaker 1: to be welcome. And whenever it comes to the decimated secondary,
Speaker 1: and you guys are mentioning these rookies, Jeff Gladdene, a
Speaker 1: TCU product, actually is one of the starting corners. The
Speaker 1: other one who's been dealing with a concussion is Cameron Danceler,
Speaker 1: the Mississippi State corner that we saw at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl last year. Pretty good little corner, but still not
Speaker 1: anybody that should be starting as a rookie. I was
Speaker 1: high on I did like Cameron Danceler, but I still
Speaker 1: didn't think he would be a starter as a rookie. Well,
Speaker 1: he's adding to step in and do that because they've
Speaker 1: been just absolutely torn apart by injuries whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to the secondary. Holton Hill, Mark Fields, Mike Hughes, Miles Dorn,
Speaker 1: all of those guys have been out and missed significant
Speaker 1: time for this secondary. It's kind of like what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are dealing with on the offensive line where the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings are dealing with in the secondary. They're having
Speaker 1: to do a musical chairs sort of thing back there
Speaker 1: to deal with it. But that brings this question to me,
Speaker 1: is this the chance that we finally get to see
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton with minimal pressure coming up against an offensive
Speaker 1: line that has a wee bit of continuity to attack
Speaker 1: a week secondary with the receivers that we've been waiting for.
Speaker 1: Is this finally the opportunity we get to see Dalton
Speaker 1: kind of blossom into the quarterback that we had originally
Speaker 1: thought he could be as a backup. Well, it's gonna
Speaker 1: say yes. I don't think it's gonna be that type
Speaker 1: of game. I think Andy Dalton's going to be in
Speaker 1: a game management type of scenario. I'm kind of like
Speaker 1: a like a old school Russell Wilson just don't mess
Speaker 1: up type of scenario. I really think this is the
Speaker 1: game that Zeke comes out and he's into Zeke. I
Speaker 1: think everyth think he probably gets around one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards on the ground this game. And you know,
Speaker 1: and Anye Dalton's gonna be facing too high, probably the
Speaker 1: second half of face single high. He might be able
Speaker 1: to start getting some things down to field a little bit,
Speaker 1: but this is gonna be a mid short, short, the
Speaker 1: mid range game for Anye Daldon. He's just gonna have
Speaker 1: to be precise, and I think he'll have the time
Speaker 1: he needs to throw the ball. So yes, to answer
Speaker 1: your question, we should see the original Any Dalton this game,
Speaker 1: but we won't. But he should not be throwing a
Speaker 1: ball forty times. Yeah, I think the hope is, you know,
Speaker 1: you can establish the run and then if you can
Speaker 1: get them out of some of that that looks where
Speaker 1: they're they're playing their safeties, deep move with guys up,
Speaker 1: because there are to your point, Kyle, there are some
Speaker 1: matchups on the outside that you've got to feel good about.
Speaker 1: I think if you can get him the ball, but
Speaker 1: you mentioned protection. Look, the Viking sin still get pressure.
Speaker 1: I think they rely a lot on their front floor
Speaker 1: to just go get the quarterback. But they'll blitz their linebackers.
Speaker 1: You know, Eric Wilson is really doing damage for them
Speaker 1: as a blitzer with pressure in Saxon affecting the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: So you know, I you know they're they're lying and
Speaker 1: maybe isn't what it's been, but I think they're still
Speaker 1: capable of getting pressure on Andy Dalton. And I just
Speaker 1: think that's the scheme going into every week, that you
Speaker 1: try and establish the run and set up everything after that,
Speaker 1: and yes, be a game manager, Andy Dalton, but that's
Speaker 1: all good until you're down about three, you know, three
Speaker 1: touchdowns and then you have to throw the ball. So
Speaker 1: that's I guess I'm basing this off of our past
Speaker 1: history as a team with us always being playing from behind.
Speaker 1: So obviously a lot of things have to go good
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys to actually play the kind of
Speaker 1: football that we know is run the ball, then throw
Speaker 1: and he can facilitate and not put this defense or
Speaker 1: put himself in a situation where he's throwing the ball
Speaker 1: forty times this game. But that's been what we do.
Speaker 1: We throw the ball forty times a game. They just
Speaker 1: need to hit some big plays here and there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just haven't had that and Gilbert finally gave him
Speaker 1: a little bit of that the touchdown to CD, And
Speaker 1: that's I think that's why I guess I just feel
Speaker 1: better about Andy, just because if he's got the protection,
Speaker 1: I feel better about him. His rapport with the receivers,
Speaker 1: getting a couple of plays, you know, thirty forty yards
Speaker 1: down the field where now you're in scoring position. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Yeah, let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: So how short of a lease do you have on
Speaker 1: Andy Thalton? Right? So if this first half is just abysmal,
Speaker 1: is no good? Do you then put Gilbert in the game?
Speaker 1: Are you saying, no, matter what, we ride to die
Speaker 1: all the way through Islam? Is Andy's healthy? Yeah? I would?
Speaker 1: I would. I mean, look, if it's not going good,
Speaker 1: I think based on what you've seen from Gilbert, you could,
Speaker 1: you know, you could take a look at him again.
Speaker 1: Uh what I think they would do? It just sounds
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Speaker 1: mentioned a moment ago, heading into the commercial break, we
Speaker 1: do have some unfinished business in terms of talking about
Speaker 1: the matchups that are on the table. And yesterday I
Speaker 1: got a nice little scary from Isaiah and a scary
Speaker 1: scary from mister rob Pe whenever it came to Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Adam Feeling and the weapons outside. But I
Speaker 1: want to I want to ask you this question, who
Speaker 1: is going to cover who in this regard? Because Cheeto's back,
Speaker 1: You've got Anthony Brown, of course, you've got Cheeto Woozier
Speaker 1: in the slot. Or excuse me Jordan Lewis in the slot,
Speaker 1: but ultimately there's not going to be enough to cover
Speaker 1: either one of these guys efficiently. Isaiah, how did the
Speaker 1: Cowboys come back this duo like we've seen already this
Speaker 1: season that could potentially have a lot of success zone
Speaker 1: coverage and communication. Don't try to play these guys, man.
Speaker 1: We've tried that too many times this year by facing
Speaker 1: Um some of some of the best receivers that this
Speaker 1: league has to offer, and it didn't work in our favor.
Speaker 1: I don't think hardly at all. And maybe a sept
Speaker 1: For Atlanta game because Julio was hurt and he wasn't himself,
Speaker 1: but UM play zone defense. Hopefully coach calls Coach Ryan
Speaker 1: calls that, and uh and yeah, yeah, that's it. Just
Speaker 1: just just don't put these guys on the island, true, Please,
Speaker 1: don't put these guys on the island. It's just not
Speaker 1: a smart move. How quickly to you think we see
Speaker 1: these guys on an island. It's gonna happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't go a whole game just playing his own
Speaker 1: so it's gonna I mean, you're gonna see these guys
Speaker 1: on the island at some point in time. You just
Speaker 1: hope that you know, again your communications on point. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they played with good technique. Hopefully they get their hands
Speaker 1: on somebody. It's one thing to play man coverage and
Speaker 1: you try to shadow somebody at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: That where that's where we've really failed this year is
Speaker 1: in man coverage, playing at the line, trying to shadow somebody.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, they finally make a decision, they
Speaker 1: go a certain direction, and then they just gas on
Speaker 1: us and run by us for a big play. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get up there and play man play
Speaker 1: some old school man, put your hands on somebody, and
Speaker 1: and you know it's if you're gonna get burnt, get
Speaker 1: burnt that way. Don't get burnt by just trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, try to keep up with somebody's feet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be ready because, um, you know, they moved
Speaker 1: some guys around. They moved Jefferson in the slot some
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, to y'all's point, like if they
Speaker 1: when they play off at some time off man or zone,
Speaker 1: they can find those holes and they can beat you.
Speaker 1: I thought the biggest play in the game against Chicago
Speaker 1: was fifty four yards by justin Jefferson just finding a hole.
Speaker 1: It was kind of seedee lamb, like where catch him
Speaker 1: on the run and go and he can do that.
Speaker 1: So uh. And the other thing too about communication that
Speaker 1: Isaiah mentioned, they'll do those bunch sets. They'll line guys
Speaker 1: up together on one side and and and make you
Speaker 1: communicate and decide who's taking who basically so um and
Speaker 1: kind of those kind of pick type thing. So they
Speaker 1: do it. They do a lot of short, short, short splits.
Speaker 1: With Jefferson especially, he runs a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of corner routes, a lot of corner routes, a lot
Speaker 1: of speed outs, and those present problems because when you're
Speaker 1: when you're when he's so tight down to towards towards
Speaker 1: the lineman. And as a as a secondary guy, as
Speaker 1: a defensive back, you're gonna sit outside a little bit
Speaker 1: typically right because you're protecting the majority of the field.
Speaker 1: But what ends up happening is he runs a stem
Speaker 1: towards your outside shoulder, and by the time he comes
Speaker 1: out of that break, if the balls on time, it's
Speaker 1: literally a player that you really can't defend. You could
Speaker 1: take your shot at it by trying to undercut it
Speaker 1: and try to get an interception. But if you don't,
Speaker 1: if you miss, then all of a sudden he's catching
Speaker 1: the ball and he has the whole sideline. So he runs.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to that those short splits, and pay attention
Speaker 1: to him running those corner routes and those speed outs.
Speaker 1: It's it's a problem. He does a good job of
Speaker 1: finding his own and he's lanky. He gets upon you quick.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like he's running fast. He has the
Speaker 1: long freaking Dawsome legs from Street Fighter, and he just,
Speaker 1: you know, just runs and he just gets upart you
Speaker 1: really quick. That It's just it's kind of creepy. The
Speaker 1: second Street Fight the reference of the season. I love it.
Speaker 1: There it is. Yes, I haven't m I could just say, man,
Speaker 1: I haven't been afraid of a Minnesota Vikings rookie receiver
Speaker 1: since Brandy Moss and Jefferson, since that Jefferson presents a problem.
Speaker 1: But also I would like to think that the veterans
Speaker 1: that we have on our team and the secondary will
Speaker 1: be able to mitigate a lot of that worry and
Speaker 1: play to their strength. Cheeto, for me, is a guy
Speaker 1: that always does a really good job of using the
Speaker 1: boundary as an extra defender. So that play that you're
Speaker 1: talking about undercutting that that I believe it's that the
Speaker 1: fade that they like Kirk Cousins like to throw to Jefferson,
Speaker 1: that he uses that to his advantage. These guys can't
Speaker 1: tip their hand and goes on the whole game. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to play some man, this is a part
Speaker 1: of the part of defense, and if you play zone
Speaker 1: that they will eat that apart. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: like Kirk Cousins, but man, you know you that would
Speaker 1: be checkers to his chest as an offense. So, you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, I believe Anthony ab is a guy
Speaker 1: that I feel comfortable being by himself on Feeling or
Speaker 1: on Jefferson. I just feel like that part of their
Speaker 1: what they do and just have to, you know, play
Speaker 1: to their strengths as defenders. But it's all going to
Speaker 1: be surrounding around the kind of pressure that we get.
Speaker 1: You know, the interview yesterday with Tank Lawrence and they
Speaker 1: asked him about the difference between the comparison between the
Speaker 1: Kevin Safanski Cleveland Brown's offense and this offense. He's like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we realize that these guys are very similar, but we
Speaker 1: are a different defense than where we were when we
Speaker 1: played these guys. We were not being able. We weren't
Speaker 1: able to play fast and free because we didn't realize
Speaker 1: what the defense, what defensive coordinator was asking for us
Speaker 1: and from us. And these guys feel a lot comfortable
Speaker 1: going into this week. So look, man, I just feel
Speaker 1: as though the defense plays together just the same as
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense has been doing. We should have some
Speaker 1: success on Sunday. How much of a role is Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph gonna play in this game? They called him all
Speaker 1: reliable on the on the Monday night football broadcast, and
Speaker 1: I thought that was the best way to put it,
Speaker 1: because he's been around for ten years and he continues
Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Plus Isaiah, we looked at
Speaker 1: it in the film room. I mean, he's a fantastic
Speaker 1: blocker still even at this point in his career, but
Speaker 1: he's also a receiving threat. How big of an impact
Speaker 1: does he play? Real quickly here before we wrap things up.
Speaker 1: He plays he's a huge man. I mean he looks
Speaker 1: like it looks like Christoph from Frozen on there. He's
Speaker 1: a big bike and if anybody, if anybody, if anybody
Speaker 1: remember what a bike you should look like. It's him.
Speaker 1: He's a large human and he's gonna block. He's gonna
Speaker 1: consume you in the Rand game, he's gonna he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna box you out if he runs a route.
Speaker 1: So he's he's a problem man, and they're definitely gonna
Speaker 1: use him. Street Fighter Frozen all in the span of
Speaker 1: two minutes. I love it. It's accurate and it's accurate.
Speaker 1: It is accurate. That's the best part about it. It's
Speaker 1: completely accurate. Got Christoph Rudolph over here. I mean his
Speaker 1: name is literally Rudolf and Christoph d a reindeer, So
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it works. It completely works. That's
Speaker 1: that's impressive. Isaiah rob Big big Impactrol Cook from Kyle
Speaker 1: Rudolph Christolf is good as a blocker, man. You guys
Speaker 1: showed it in the film room on those Zone runs.
Speaker 1: He can, he can, he can move guys out of
Speaker 1: the way. So watch out for Christolf. I'm no good
Speaker 1: right now, Kyle, Where do you come up with this stuff? Man?
Speaker 1: Do you have a no card in front of you?
Speaker 1: With this? What is that? Man? That's that's crazy. He
Speaker 1: goes through and he looks he goes through and looks
Speaker 1: at the headshots of all these players. He goes, that's Christoffs.
Speaker 1: That's that's what that one is. Oh Man, that just
Speaker 1: comes to me. Man, that's That's the best way I
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