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Speaker 1: It is Twosay, October first, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number fifty five. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: Caught my crew here. We're talking Cowboys football here for
Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes. UM. It is the quarter
Speaker 1: point of the season, so we're gonna do a little
Speaker 1: quarter point review. We'll talk about I have a lot
Speaker 1: of questions for these guys about what's happened the first
Speaker 1: four games of the season, and hopefully we'll give you
Speaker 1: a good, big pitch perspective of what's happening around this team.
Speaker 1: Let's start first, though, with catching up on a couple
Speaker 1: of injuries. Let's start. I'm gonna give you a name,
Speaker 1: and then you guys tell me what you know about
Speaker 1: them and kind of where they are and they're as
Speaker 1: far as their injuries are concerned and when they'll be
Speaker 1: playing next. Let's start first with Tyron Smith probably not
Speaker 1: going to play this week. No, but it sounds like
Speaker 1: maybe just missing one game is all the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: ready to say right now, and they're not really saying much.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said it this morning that he's unlikely to play,
Speaker 1: but they did receive the best news possible that they
Speaker 1: could get, So I think that there's a chant he
Speaker 1: could maybe play against the Jets. Y'all young enough to
Speaker 1: remember dorky enough to remember Mec Warrior the game, I don't, well, well,
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith is a Mec Warrior. I a giant metal
Speaker 1: suit that you climb inside and blow stuff up. That's
Speaker 1: what sounds that's what Tyron Smith is. Yeah, yeah, sorry, no,
Speaker 1: somebody at home who played video. I'm sure that's a
Speaker 1: great analogy. I'm sure. I can't believe that I thought
Speaker 1: he was done for the year when he went down
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Honestly, just the way he kind of
Speaker 1: buckled and tried to walk and fell to his knees,
Speaker 1: didn't left in a boot. And yeah, actually after the
Speaker 1: game got got better, felt better about it. Not only
Speaker 1: that he walked, you know, in that boot, like one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards was dancing, oh from one end
Speaker 1: zone to the other. And it's like, even though in
Speaker 1: the boot, I just thought, well, I mean, wouldn't they
Speaker 1: get the cart for somebody? If they, I mean they
Speaker 1: probably that's really bothering you, wouldn't it. You brought it
Speaker 1: up yesterday too that they didn't get a cart for him. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean got carted off the field. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guarantee if one of the Saints players had to walk
Speaker 1: that far, I mean, you know you would, you would
Speaker 1: think you could do that. Anyways, that's just the way
Speaker 1: that the superdomes set up. But you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really surprise me that he's coming because he's Tyran Smith,
Speaker 1: because he's the Mecca Warrior. Yeah is it Mecca or
Speaker 1: Mecca mec MC. And it's really fun game, all right,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to look it up. He's unbelievable, He's
Speaker 1: iron Man. Doesn't do it justice, all right, cav On Frasier,
Speaker 1: what's going on with his season? Is his season's over?
Speaker 1: Unfortunately surgery had I think he probably, I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's a noon, so he probably had it this morning.
Speaker 1: Uh peck, I guess he tore it, but he had surgery.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett said he's done for the year. If Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett puts a timetable on it, then it's probably that's
Speaker 1: pretty defeothers. Day to day, it doesn't. It doesn't bother
Speaker 1: me because I get why he does it. Like he
Speaker 1: does it out of an abundance of caution, you know,
Speaker 1: like he doesn't want to say something and have it
Speaker 1: come back on him. And then I'm asking him, like
Speaker 1: you said six weeks and it's been eight weeks, what
Speaker 1: the hell you would? Sure? So I get why he
Speaker 1: does it. But if Jason Garrett is willing to say
Speaker 1: he's done for the year, and then he's probably done
Speaker 1: for the year. Yeah, I mean, you know, glass half full.
Speaker 1: Maybe this was good for him. Oh him, Well, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: he you know, once everybody gets healthy, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a problem with numbers. And you know, maybe he was
Speaker 1: a guy that was with all these safeties. If Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson starts playing better, he might be a guy that
Speaker 1: they ended up releasing. Yeah, because we've been talking about
Speaker 1: for a while, it's possible. And so, yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: playing really well on special teams though, like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was starting to think, like, man, maybe we really underestimated
Speaker 1: this guy. Not because he's like this amazing safety, but
Speaker 1: you know, he almost blocked a punt the other day
Speaker 1: and he's one of their more trusted guys. I do
Speaker 1: agree with you, but you know, I guess he'd played
Speaker 1: above all of our expectations because we all thought he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to make the final roster. And that gets
Speaker 1: to clarify what I'm saying there is it would you
Speaker 1: know now being on injured reserve. I mean, he will
Speaker 1: get paid anyways, so it's not like he's going to
Speaker 1: get released. I believe he would get this whole salary.
Speaker 1: So but this is the last year of key contract. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's totally interestacy what happens when the year ends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, my first thought would be like, wow, he's
Speaker 1: probably not coming back, but you never know. I would
Speaker 1: have never thought Darian Thompson just resigns like that, And
Speaker 1: so he's exactly the type of guy they would bring
Speaker 1: back on like a you know, like a Kyle Wilberg
Speaker 1: deal two years and all these other teams are signing
Speaker 1: players and Cowboys they resigned. But because he was so
Speaker 1: close to maybe being cut before. And that's what we've
Speaker 1: been told that you'd think if Donovan Wilson can progress,
Speaker 1: like sure, expect. Yeah, this is one of the situations
Speaker 1: where it really is about the other guy. Yeah, probably
Speaker 1: as much as it is about Cavan. Is what do
Speaker 1: they think these young guys are ready to do. And
Speaker 1: if they think they're ready to go, you always take
Speaker 1: the younger cheek per option, right, Yeah, I like to thing.
Speaker 1: I like to see Donovan Wilson played too. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he can play on special teams and big chance
Speaker 1: for him. But somebody's gonna probably move up on the roster.
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, maybe they pull someone from
Speaker 1: the practice squad or whatever. Sorry, Garrett. Garrett mentioned that
Speaker 1: they could look at street options too if they need to.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what that Devon Street though, no, not
Speaker 1: Devon streets, but actual safeties who are on the street
Speaker 1: right now, Jamalam following the Cowboys on Instagram. I mean
Speaker 1: we're just get I'm notculating. I'm most in just making
Speaker 1: a joke. That's a decent segue because like a few
Speaker 1: people have asked me about Eric Berry, like you're not
Speaker 1: bringing in an Eric Berry to fill that role on
Speaker 1: the team. Like you're talking, you're talking a gunner who
Speaker 1: you prefer doesn't have to play defense. That doesn't describe
Speaker 1: Eric Berry at all. Good thing for Cavan is, even
Speaker 1: with the injury as well as he's played on special teams,
Speaker 1: even if he's not in the Cowboys future plans, there
Speaker 1: will be teams that will be interested in the services.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we've seen the last of Cavon
Speaker 1: Frazier and that's a good thing for him personally. Let's
Speaker 1: move on, Michael Gallop. Where is he? Jerry Jump said
Speaker 1: on the fan this morning that he's not ruled out
Speaker 1: for this week, and for what it's worth, I'm obviously
Speaker 1: not a doctor, so I this is no real answer here.
Speaker 1: I did see him this morning and lying to get
Speaker 1: our breakfast at the omelet station at the training table
Speaker 1: at the start, and he had no problem walking. For
Speaker 1: what I could see, he had no crutches or anything,
Speaker 1: no limp. So I think that's a good sign. I
Speaker 1: can do you one a little bit better, oh boy,
Speaker 1: because I saw him out on the field running routes,
Speaker 1: oh about thirty minutes. Oh yeah, you beat me. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe he just happened to I actually happened to be
Speaker 1: walking down this hallway to go shoot our TV show
Speaker 1: cover four, and I was like, oh, that looks like,
Speaker 1: oh he just cut Oh he just ran a comeback route. Okay.
Speaker 1: So and and the word sorry, Nick. The word is
Speaker 1: they're taking a look at him today to see how
Speaker 1: he looks, and if he looks good, he will hopefully
Speaker 1: practice tomorrow. I'm I always lean towards caution. I've been
Speaker 1: saying that since he got hurt. I'm I'm not sold
Speaker 1: that that means he's going to play this game. But
Speaker 1: it's certainly a positive sign. That's what I was gonna say. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: good like that? All right? Well good that is I mean,
Speaker 1: all of that sounds other than Kavan, It sounds like
Speaker 1: Cowboys are still in a pretty good position from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of injuries. You look at Tyrn, where you thought
Speaker 1: maybe it was going to be something very, very very serious,
Speaker 1: and then Jerry says, it's probably the best news we
Speaker 1: could have expected or hoped for. And then you got Gallop,
Speaker 1: who at least you would say by next week, maybe
Speaker 1: even if he can't get make this game, maybe by
Speaker 1: next week he's back in the lineup, so again, injury
Speaker 1: is pretty good right now. Cowboys. I say one that
Speaker 1: I think hurd him last week and they need to
Speaker 1: get him back. As Antoine Woods, we're seeing a bit
Speaker 1: of a drop off there between Covington and Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: and not having him in the game. I mean, because
Speaker 1: he is a true like nose tackle type guy one technique.
Speaker 1: I know Covington plays it, but he doesn't play it
Speaker 1: as well as Woods. And I think that when you're
Speaker 1: facing a team like Green Bay who didn't run the
Speaker 1: ball that well, they're probably gonna try to, you know,
Speaker 1: not be as one dimensional. If you can shut that down,
Speaker 1: I think it's be important to get him back and
Speaker 1: Tyron Crawford as well. Don't really have a good update
Speaker 1: on them. I just think that let's not forget the
Speaker 1: fact that those two guys are up there and they're
Speaker 1: hurting your depth on a defensive line. Did I miss anything?
Speaker 1: As for any news on Xavier Woods, I think that's
Speaker 1: really like, you know, they're gonna call it day to day,
Speaker 1: but I'm not under the impression that he's in danger
Speaker 1: of missing another game. Sounded like they didn't think it
Speaker 1: was that serious at least from you get the impressions
Speaker 1: from what a people are saying. It didn't sound like
Speaker 1: it was that serious. He was in the locker room
Speaker 1: yesterday and he seemed to be in pretty good spirits.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's go ahead. Let's get into this first quarter. Actually,
Speaker 1: what we'll do is we'll take our first break, and
Speaker 1: when we come back, I want to get into the
Speaker 1: first quarter recap. I have a series of questions and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you guys, and we'll get a big
Speaker 1: picture look at this team after the first four games
Speaker 1: this season. We'll do when we come right back. This
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a guess it's a game here.
Speaker 1: Got some questions for you guys to wrap up this
Speaker 1: first quarter. I want you guys to think about the
Speaker 1: full picture of the first four games of the season
Speaker 1: when you answer these questions. All right, so let's start
Speaker 1: with the first question, most impressive win? What was the
Speaker 1: most impressive win in the first time? Four oh man
Speaker 1: problem piece, you at the Giants home, yet Washington at
Speaker 1: their place, and then you have Miami at home. Probably
Speaker 1: be Washington because you're in Washington. Yeah, but the Washington
Speaker 1: looks so sorry. And there were so many Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: in that build still have not won a game. It's
Speaker 1: it's probably the Giants just because that, I mean, they
Speaker 1: put it on them. You know, five straight possessions of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: thirty five ten lead Dack through for four hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Not trying to tell anybody that it was that impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean the Giants don't look great either. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: don't look horrible. They don't look like the like there
Speaker 1: help and they don't well. I mean it's the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Washington and Cincinnati. Are you know three Arizona with them?
Speaker 1: They're in a no, because Arizona's shown a tie, but
Speaker 1: they Arizona's shown some fight. They played Baltimore within six points,
Speaker 1: they tied the Lions, like Arizona has shown some fight.
Speaker 1: Those other three teams or Wolf did you say Cincinnati? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What Cincinnati? Anyway? The Giants am I wrong? I mean
Speaker 1: that are all the same. None of those teams are good.
Speaker 1: You guys after you watched I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have seen the Giant play with Daniel Jones, do
Speaker 1: you think there's any difference there? Do you think that
Speaker 1: becomes a more difficult game the second time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: play them with Daniel Jones being the quarterback versus Eli.
Speaker 1: What's up with Barkley? You're gonna play It's gonna be
Speaker 1: right there around that time. From what I understand based
Speaker 1: upon the timetable they gave when he first first got
Speaker 1: the injury, it seems like it's right around the Cowboys
Speaker 1: time as to whether he can come back or not,
Speaker 1: he'll it's gonna be iffy. It's absolutely gonna be different.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know better man probably, I mean
Speaker 1: for them, Yeah, I think you know that. You get
Speaker 1: that surge of excitement when a young guy comes in
Speaker 1: and plays. Well. We saw it with dak here in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, saw with Romo back when he first took
Speaker 1: over for the Cowboy. He's I mean, he's an Eli
Speaker 1: clone in terms of like what they look like and
Speaker 1: like he wears the pleated khakis to the game. But
Speaker 1: like he's he's athletic. That's people. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: He's not Michael Vick, but like he's he's more athletic
Speaker 1: than Eli Manning, at least at this point in his career.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll be different, all right. Second question, who's
Speaker 1: been the best position group so far? God? These are
Speaker 1: hard um, let me throw out a couple of options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you help me? I'm backers, defensive lineman, secondary, wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm just throwing out options. Sorry, linebackers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. I'm gonna say the defensive line. Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: speaks for himself. I'm going to drive this train that
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence is better than what the stats are going
Speaker 1: to tell you he is. I mean the attention that
Speaker 1: that opposing offenses are paying to him, is paying dividends.
Speaker 1: Malie Collins is benefiting from it. Yeah. Probably. I mean,
Speaker 1: every every position, every position group's probably got that one
Speaker 1: game where they're not. I mean, because if you asked
Speaker 1: this before, it would be the offensive line. Then the
Speaker 1: offensive line didn't play as well. The quarterback position has
Speaker 1: been playing pretty well too. I mean even position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even in light of a stinker on Sunday night. I mean,
Speaker 1: Dak is dak is. I mean, if the way, for
Speaker 1: a quarter of the way through the season, Dak has
Speaker 1: been very good. I think the secondary has been pretty
Speaker 1: good though they don't really give up a lot of
Speaker 1: big plays, give up some, but I mean I thought
Speaker 1: they played well the other night. I mean Cheeto. I
Speaker 1: mean he's going up against Michael Thomas. That guy's really good.
Speaker 1: But I mean he didn't like, he didn't like kill him.
Speaker 1: I don't know secondary I would be up there for me.
Speaker 1: Not enough picks, but yeah, enough picks. But I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's really the whole four games, I mean i'd
Speaker 1: say the offensive line. Okay, the next question, we got
Speaker 1: to put this in context because obviously Cowboys had three
Speaker 1: very dominant games, but there was one game that wasn't
Speaker 1: so dominant, at least on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But thinking about the overall and little things, it could
Speaker 1: be even just something you saw in one of the games,
Speaker 1: what would be the position that is most concerning to
Speaker 1: you going forward based upon what you've seen offense of
Speaker 1: any position, Any position is concerning. I'm not wowed by
Speaker 1: what these receivers have looked like without Michael Gallop, and
Speaker 1: it's a big drop off with him and Amari for
Speaker 1: everyone else. Yeah, I would say it sounds bad because
Speaker 1: I just said the offensive line. I would say the
Speaker 1: offensive line because now you know, without tiring at least
Speaker 1: for this game, it's a big drop off there. I
Speaker 1: think with Cam Fleming, even though he's a pro and
Speaker 1: he'll you know, he'll probably be okay, but not dominant.
Speaker 1: And then you don't know about Zack Martin. I don't
Speaker 1: like the fact that he's missing all his time with
Speaker 1: a back injury. They don't seem to magically get better
Speaker 1: back injuries ever. And Travis Frederick didn't have his best game.
Speaker 1: He kind of got dominated up front of times kind
Speaker 1: he struggled. Yeah, they were more than and I saw
Speaker 1: there was that. Yeah, I saw there was one play
Speaker 1: on social media floating around about Travis where he kind
Speaker 1: of got blown up a little bit. And then when
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the game, there were a
Speaker 1: couple of other situations too, where and it was uncharacteristic
Speaker 1: because it wasn't situations where guys were beating him with
Speaker 1: finst I mean, these were situation guy were just blowing
Speaker 1: him backwards and he just had a hard time not
Speaker 1: getting blown over. I'm surprised that hasn't happened more because
Speaker 1: the one thing that goes first for the lineman, you know,
Speaker 1: with having the syndrome that he did, it was strength.
Speaker 1: He wasn't been able to work out for a whole year,
Speaker 1: and so I was kind of surprised. We didn't see
Speaker 1: that a little bit more in training camp, so I
Speaker 1: kind of every want to thought, well, he's kind of
Speaker 1: seems to be all the way back, but it's obviously
Speaker 1: we're gonna finish your game. I'm enjoying it. But it
Speaker 1: really is interesting because it's just a classic case of like,
Speaker 1: how do you weigh three good games against three bad
Speaker 1: teams versus one really bad game against the only good
Speaker 1: team that you've played. I mean, I've actually, you know,
Speaker 1: I've been talking to people back in New Orleans about
Speaker 1: the Saints. I'm like, look, they've already kind of done
Speaker 1: their job without Breeze, Like they've won two games. He'll
Speaker 1: probably be gone for maybe six of them. All you
Speaker 1: gotta do is tread water till he comes back. They've
Speaker 1: already kind of accomplished that, so you would they're not
Speaker 1: going anywhere and have to face them again, and you
Speaker 1: might have to go there to play them if you
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. That's looking way far ahead. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but like the Saints are the only one of the
Speaker 1: four opponents so far that's still going to be relevant
Speaker 1: in December. I'm confident of that. And so it's hard
Speaker 1: to try to figure out how you feel about this
Speaker 1: team when they struggled so much against that one good opponent,
Speaker 1: and the Giants are one game back from you in
Speaker 1: the nfcast. Yeah that matters. Yeah, them in the eels.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just kidding. I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, we'll see. I mean I
Speaker 1: think there'll be a better team with Daniel Jones calling
Speaker 1: the shots based on what they've looked like so far,
Speaker 1: But I'm not ready to say that it's going to
Speaker 1: be this renaissance, right, So sorry, go ahead. Next question, player,
Speaker 1: who you've been most who you're most concerned about their play.
Speaker 1: I'll throw you some options on this one. Cheeto, Travis,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence if you want to take that route. Randall
Speaker 1: Cobbs another name I've heard people kind of throwing around
Speaker 1: all those four. And again, this is all very very nitpicky,
Speaker 1: because this is a team that had that rolled for
Speaker 1: three weeks. But which of those guys would you say
Speaker 1: you were more concerned about them based upon what you've
Speaker 1: seen through these games. I'd take cob out of that
Speaker 1: because I think with Gallup coming back, I think that
Speaker 1: role is going to be a little different and not
Speaker 1: put as much pressure on him to do some things
Speaker 1: he's not as good at. So I wouldn't say him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all have Cobb in that mix,
Speaker 1: but I think we're asking him to do something different
Speaker 1: when Gallup's in there, or at least put more pressure
Speaker 1: on him to make more plays. I agree. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: the issue might be more chemistry what we saw with
Speaker 1: Gallup last year, with Dak just taking time to find
Speaker 1: consistent connection. I don't I don't think I would say concerned.
Speaker 1: I guess of those maybe Cheeto. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: because he's been playing poorly. I mean people in the media,
Speaker 1: you know, people here are just pointing out that he
Speaker 1: just kind of has bad luck. And I don't think
Speaker 1: he necessarily is a poor player, or I'm concerned about
Speaker 1: what he's capable of. I just don't think he has. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: the problem, I mean there's two problem. I think Cheeto's
Speaker 1: been fine people. I mean, his ball awareness is not
Speaker 1: great like that's it always seems like when those plays happen,
Speaker 1: he's he's never trying to play the ball. But I
Speaker 1: think his coverage is good. The problem is just defenses
Speaker 1: are probably going to keep picking on him because Byron
Speaker 1: Jones is I mean, and from all from everything I
Speaker 1: can tell, like, it doesn't look like Byron's missed a step,
Speaker 1: Like he's he played Thomas well in the snaps he
Speaker 1: was on him, he played well, He's played well and
Speaker 1: all the opportunities he's gotten. That probably means defenses are
Speaker 1: going to keep targeting Cheeto because even if he's played well,
Speaker 1: teams are having success against him. So yeah, it's something
Speaker 1: to watch. I don't like the argument people have been
Speaker 1: saying about Tank DeMarcus Lawrence. I think it's stupid. Well,
Speaker 1: he paid him all this money and he's not performing
Speaker 1: as well. He's still performing well, and we were seeing
Speaker 1: before the Saints game he was being double teamed a lot.
Speaker 1: Like I don't like that argument of oh, well we
Speaker 1: paid him now he has to be even more spectacular
Speaker 1: than he was, making him deserving of that contracts. But
Speaker 1: it happens every times. Does absolutely happens, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to track production in any way other
Speaker 1: than sacks, which we've always like, if you get one
Speaker 1: every game out of sixty five snaps, then you're like
Speaker 1: the best in the league. But I mean talk to
Speaker 1: like any defensive coach on the Cowboys about like what
Speaker 1: he does for them, how he affects what opposing offenses.
Speaker 1: Due the fact that even without getting a quarterback on
Speaker 1: the ground, he's been in on like four of their
Speaker 1: sacks this season, and he's got one and a half
Speaker 1: of his own. Yeah, I think that's really stupid and shortsighted.
Speaker 1: I think he's playing just fine. And I also think
Speaker 1: this is probably playing if you would have talked to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys brass about what you expect they expected early
Speaker 1: in the season, this is probably playing exactly how they
Speaker 1: wanted it too, which is he may not be getting sacks,
Speaker 1: but Robert Quinn is, and what that will do as
Speaker 1: a season wears on is will force defenses to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe we can't pay as much special attention to just large.
Speaker 1: We got to count for both these guys, and that's
Speaker 1: going to create more opportunities. Well one of them, one
Speaker 1: of them is gonna have to be by himself and
Speaker 1: get a man. Keep keep doing that to Tank and
Speaker 1: Keith Letting. Quinn have two sack games and Robert Quinn
Speaker 1: will have fourteen sacks and Tank will only have eight.
Speaker 1: He's on pace for ten, right, And so the point is,
Speaker 1: the point is, okay, there is no there is no
Speaker 1: worry here because they're still getting sacks and it's just
Speaker 1: whether they come from him or Robert Quinn, who cares
Speaker 1: the end of day, you're gonna get him. And if
Speaker 1: they're gonna pay all the attention to to Tank, that's fine.
Speaker 1: It seems like Quinn's gonna be able to make them pay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not worried about more fun celebrations from Quinn. Two. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you said you think cheetos. Okay, though you think he's
Speaker 1: playing well or he's what do you think he is
Speaker 1: as far as I played a year Cheetos? Like Felix
Speaker 1: Hernandez with the Seattle Mariners who throws seven innings of
Speaker 1: one hit ball and loses one to nothing like that.
Speaker 1: He's a tough luck loser, honestly. Like his coverage is good,
Speaker 1: it just always, you know, it always seems like you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: bad luck, Like that guy just made a great play.
Speaker 1: Like the one criticism I can come up with is
Speaker 1: it never seems like he's playing the ball, like he's
Speaker 1: always playing the receiver. It doesn't seem like he's aware
Speaker 1: that it's coming, even if his coverage is good, and
Speaker 1: you know, he's playing across from an all pro, which
Speaker 1: means defenses will try him more often and they and
Speaker 1: you know the Dolphins and Saints have both had success
Speaker 1: doing it, so it'll probably keep happening. But I still
Speaker 1: don't think he's playing poorly. Is there anybody on that
Speaker 1: list that you think maybe will lose his starting spot?
Speaker 1: I will say this, and I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: think this will happen, but I think it warrants keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on if if you still if you start
Speaker 1: to see as the season goes on, that track is
Speaker 1: Travis is still in situations where power is an issue
Speaker 1: for him and it starts to affect their ability to
Speaker 1: run the ball. Now, this last game, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, everybody along the offensive line had moments like
Speaker 1: it was. It was a bad performance as far as
Speaker 1: the running game, the pass game, was running game. The
Speaker 1: offensive line didn't perform very well this game. And so
Speaker 1: if you if you look at it and you start
Speaker 1: seeing that Travis is consistently having issues and he's getting
Speaker 1: pushed around, he's not being able to get the kind
Speaker 1: of push that they need him to get in the
Speaker 1: run game, then I think you should consider it because
Speaker 1: you got a guy sitting there. You think it's pretty good, right,
Speaker 1: So that would be the one guy I will point out,
Speaker 1: what would you say, probably left tackle, left guard? I
Speaker 1: mean Connor Williams. Again, I don't think he's better than
Speaker 1: Xavier Suofilo. I think the Cowboys really really want him
Speaker 1: to be better, but I don't think he is. And
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, that's becoming a problem and
Speaker 1: his security blanket of being in wedged in between Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith and Travis Frederick may not be as good anymore
Speaker 1: experially with Tyron is going to be banged up and
Speaker 1: Travis you know, he's got his own issues there as well.
Speaker 1: So I you know, we saw it last year. I
Speaker 1: thought they were It wasn't just because of him. It's
Speaker 1: probably because of Marie Cooper more. But I do think
Speaker 1: when the Suafilo got in the game, they were better.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was just it wasn't just that,
Speaker 1: right he The Cowboys were undefeated in every game the
Speaker 1: field started and finished last year, and because he didn't
Speaker 1: finish the Colts game, he didn't play in the Rams game.
Speaker 1: But you know, I do think he provides some some
Speaker 1: strength and a push up front. That he's not as
Speaker 1: athletic as Connor, But I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: the athleticism is necessarily helping you a ton right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're not seeing any screens and these guys
Speaker 1: rolling out there, so I think they just wanted him
Speaker 1: to be better. I don't. I don't have a strong
Speaker 1: opinion about that. Like, I mean, I think Connor has
Speaker 1: been more good than bad, and he was bad in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But let it in with the rest. Lyle
Speaker 1: played pretty well. I don't Lyle did played pretty well,
Speaker 1: but I will say it was I think I want
Speaker 1: to say it was the first run in the game.
Speaker 1: Lyle couldn't. I mean it was. It was a situation
Speaker 1: where he couldn't keep his block. There was another play
Speaker 1: where he was trying to I think it's called scoop block,
Speaker 1: where he's trying to get over. He couldn't quite get
Speaker 1: over to the guy. He ends up making the tackle.
Speaker 1: I mean there were some situations. Again, nobody was perfect
Speaker 1: in that game. I don't think anybody along the offensive
Speaker 1: line came out of that game saying well, I did
Speaker 1: my job like I think they all had. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the problems when you have a game like that,
Speaker 1: when everybody has two or three mistakes, then the offense
Speaker 1: can never get going because somebody's making a mistake most
Speaker 1: of the time. And I think that was part of
Speaker 1: the problem on the offense that just offensive line wise,
Speaker 1: they just they had a really rough game. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't play a really rough game. All right, UM, tell
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Speaker 1: at the Star. We're doing a first quarter update, first
Speaker 1: quarter review. Um, and we have a couple more questions.
Speaker 1: Here's the next question. Who has been the best player
Speaker 1: through four games? Past player through four games? Again, I
Speaker 1: mean I would say dhak or Amari uh and and
Speaker 1: yeah that's I mean they didn't neither one of them
Speaker 1: played very well on Sunday, but um, nobody on the
Speaker 1: offensive side did. Um. But I mean quarter Yeah, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: the most important position and made a lot of really
Speaker 1: impressive accurate throws. The one to Gallop was at New
Speaker 1: York on the sideline. You remember that one him? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Devin Smith. I think I just think he's he's looked poised,
Speaker 1: he's a little confident. We talked about it yesterday. But
Speaker 1: the throw he made to Cobb, that's set up the
Speaker 1: hail Mary was. I saw it again from the coach's
Speaker 1: angle and it's it's impressive. It was with the jar
Speaker 1: went through, Yeah, right down the scene. Maybe they should
Speaker 1: have done that more off you know them. I mean,
Speaker 1: who who on the team has played you know, great games?
Speaker 1: I mean the only one is Quinn right two for two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's only played a couple of games to find him great.
Speaker 1: I'll throw again Lyle Collins. He is off to a
Speaker 1: phenomenal start. For all the whining about DeMarcus Lawrences and
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's contracts, Lyle got paid in his playing like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good for him. Um good question. I mean you could
Speaker 1: throw Zeke and now I think Zeke's had a pretty
Speaker 1: good start to the season relatively speaking to him. I know,
Speaker 1: but that's something everybody's had, No, yea, that's everybody's had something.
Speaker 1: And so if you're if you're trying to kind of
Speaker 1: figure out whose something wasn't that wasn't as big, well,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe his was pretty big, But I just
Speaker 1: don't think overall, I think he's given him a little
Speaker 1: bit more than maybe I expected to get from him
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, knowing he missed all
Speaker 1: the training camp. Off the top of my head, like
Speaker 1: guys who I can't remember really slipping up, or you know,
Speaker 1: guys that I would say have played really well throughout
Speaker 1: across the board. Quinn gall that's only two games, MALIEK. Collins,
Speaker 1: Colins Virus y Virus, Iron Jones played pretty well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So so we think of the safeties they've had I
Speaker 1: mean they've been fine. They've had I mean, Jeff he
Speaker 1: the interception in Washington comes to mind. That would be interceptions,
Speaker 1: the angle on Barkley, although I mean Heath set up
Speaker 1: the pick in New Orleans. Though like, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: Woods has been good. I don't I don't have any complaints,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if they've been the best players
Speaker 1: on the team. All Right, A final question, who's been
Speaker 1: the bigger surprise? And I actually put in two names.
Speaker 1: I think we should talk about Robert Quinn or Michael Gallop,
Speaker 1: both of them only played two games. Who's been a
Speaker 1: bigger surprise to you? From what they've done so far?
Speaker 1: It's surprising to me that he Quinn didn't have a
Speaker 1: much didn't have much of a camp, broke his hand, suspended,
Speaker 1: miss two games, and like just just gangbusters from the start.
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw signs of Gallops breakout all through camp,
Speaker 1: so I can't say I'm surprised Quinn. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: on top of that, I'm gonna remember this forever. The
Speaker 1: day of the kickoff lunch and I did a radio
Speaker 1: hit with a station in Washington and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, they added they added Quinn to help DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And I was just trying to say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's another pastor. And this guy was like, well, Quinn's
Speaker 1: Quinn's done, so like, don't don't even that's stupid, Like,
Speaker 1: don't even say I was like, well, I didn't say
Speaker 1: he was gonna get you said you're dumb. I was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't say no. I was like, I didn't say
Speaker 1: he was gonna get nineteen sacks, but he's gonna be
Speaker 1: better than what they've had. And he was like disagree,
Speaker 1: but okay, moving on, and I was like, all right, dude,
Speaker 1: well by jokes on you bro. Jokes on you bro,
Speaker 1: because he looks awesome. I mean, I thought he would
Speaker 1: be good, but I'm surprised at how good. For sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, and Quinn really, you guys are surprised. That's surprisally.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on Sunday, like you and I
Speaker 1: got into it in the offseason and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: Quinn's just as good as Lawrence or whatever. I still
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true, because I think maybe not.
Speaker 1: But I think Quinn's success has a lot to do
Speaker 1: with how much attention people are paying to Lawrence. But
Speaker 1: I guess the point I was making is I think
Speaker 1: they're on par with each other. And so if if,
Speaker 1: like you say, if what we're seeing is attention is
Speaker 1: going to be paid to the tank, I think he
Speaker 1: certainly can take advantage of being in situations where he's
Speaker 1: only got one guy to beat, because guess what in Miami,
Speaker 1: he certainly wasn't seeing that. He was probably the guy
Speaker 1: they were double team. In Saint Louis, he was, well,
Speaker 1: I guess they were in Saint Lace Louis at that time. Yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: he probably was the guy that he was seeing the
Speaker 1: double team, So he's looking. Did you got to see
Speaker 1: the film, I mean the video we put up last night, Um,
Speaker 1: from the Soundsman sideline not yet. No, there was one
Speaker 1: of the defensive lineman. I want to say was Malik said, Man,
Speaker 1: you're a beast. He was talking to to Quinn and
Speaker 1: Quinn's like, nah, man, I'm just I'm just a guy.
Speaker 1: I'm just one of the guys. And I think he
Speaker 1: actually it spoke to me more because I'm like, he
Speaker 1: probably really just wants to be one of the guys
Speaker 1: and not be the focal point of the opposing offense.
Speaker 1: Let me just be one of the guys and I
Speaker 1: can go kill it. That's not what he's had to play.
Speaker 1: That's not the role he's had to play for the
Speaker 1: last for most of his career. Probably Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the opposite side, though, is I know we saw improvements
Speaker 1: for Gallup in camp. I didn't think going into the
Speaker 1: season it would be this drastic, this this much better
Speaker 1: than last year. I still think Amari Cooper we've been
Speaker 1: saying one A, one B. I didn't realize how close
Speaker 1: he would be to Cooper. Cooper is still one of
Speaker 1: the best route runners. But Gallup has really improved, I
Speaker 1: think in all areas of his game, and I now
Speaker 1: feel just as confident in having him out there if
Speaker 1: for whatever you know, a Mari, he's not out there
Speaker 1: like I. I trust Gallup and I didn't think I
Speaker 1: would have that much trust in him coming into the season.
Speaker 1: After camp, I don't remember when exactly it was, but
Speaker 1: it was like five or six days into camp and
Speaker 1: he had just done nothing but make plays, and I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm going to hop on this rocket ship
Speaker 1: and just see where it goes. So like I'm I'm
Speaker 1: going to drive that train until the wheels fall off
Speaker 1: and he I mean, yeah, I hope he can play
Speaker 1: against the Packers, assuming he's ready. You mentioned a Mari.
Speaker 1: Do you guys think at all that the injury that
Speaker 1: he suffered last week effect his play this week? Because
Speaker 1: it didn't seem he didn't win as much as I
Speaker 1: would have expected, and win even against a really good
Speaker 1: cornerback Marshawn Lattimore. I expected him to win a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Do you guys think the injury was a factor.
Speaker 1: He said it wasn't, just to be clear in the
Speaker 1: locker room after the game, he said, it wasn't good
Speaker 1: football player's life. Yeah, because nobody wants to hear if
Speaker 1: he did, Like if he said it, that would be
Speaker 1: a story right there. You know, he's blaming an injury
Speaker 1: and all that. So he's gonna say that, and I
Speaker 1: like that about him. But you know, if you go
Speaker 1: if you go to get an MRI on Wensdy and
Speaker 1: miss practice and you know, something happened, you know for
Speaker 1: you to do that, and so it probably affected him.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you. I thought he'd play a
Speaker 1: little bit better. And the two pass interference pelonies were huge.
Speaker 1: I mean they were both of those penalties were very
Speaker 1: influential in the game in my opinion, I think and maybe,
Speaker 1: but like at some point, you know, you got to
Speaker 1: give the other team credit to Like Marshawn Lattimore was
Speaker 1: the eleventh overall pick. I think, like if he didn't
Speaker 1: win Defensive Rookie of the Year, he came close. Like
Speaker 1: he's a really good player. I know that. You know,
Speaker 1: as a whole, the Saints pass defense is not great
Speaker 1: or hasn't been, but like, he's a good player. He
Speaker 1: has proven he's capable of putting in those types of
Speaker 1: performances before. So I think I'm way more willing to
Speaker 1: give credit to a good player for his job. And
Speaker 1: that's where they miss Gallop the most. You know, that's
Speaker 1: the thing because Devin Smith did not really get open
Speaker 1: do anything and Cobb didn't either. Did y'all notice did
Speaker 1: did they move Amar around very much? Or was he
Speaker 1: just basically over there where he so he was doing
Speaker 1: his Amar thing. And so that's my point, Like, so
Speaker 1: he wasn't facing Lattimore all day, Lattimore wasn't traveling with him.
Speaker 1: I don't think Lattimore. Yeah, I mean Lattimore did go
Speaker 1: with him, I mean a lot. Yeah, I haven't honestly,
Speaker 1: which I'm annoyed, Like was the coach's film on Game Pass?
Speaker 1: For Yeah, that's I was watching this this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I looked it an hour ago and it wasn't up.
Speaker 1: It's not this morning. I watched it this morning. I
Speaker 1: sing it. I still haven't had a chance to watch it.
Speaker 1: I love Game Pass. I'll pimp it all day, but like,
Speaker 1: can we get the coaches film? Get it up Sunday?
Speaker 1: Can we get it a little bit faster? Please? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? But no, Lattimore was on him for a
Speaker 1: good chunk of the night. Like you can tell that
Speaker 1: just by his highlights. Um so, I just I mean
Speaker 1: he's a really good player. He is, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All Right, Let's get a question from Rob Out in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Rob, what up? Kay? Guys? A long time
Speaker 1: talking about the best player, it has to be Jack.
Speaker 1: I mean. Strustful quarterbacks the hardest position in sports. And
Speaker 1: not only has he taken a big step to the
Speaker 1: team just in the league, he's now one of the
Speaker 1: top quarterbacks. But talking about the offense, ever since he's
Speaker 1: been the starting quarterback, the one thing I've noticed is
Speaker 1: when he runs the ball, this offense is unstoppable. You
Speaker 1: look at all the games going back last year when
Speaker 1: they destroyed Jacksonville the beginning of these games, when he
Speaker 1: is running that are that you know, run option, it's
Speaker 1: almost unstoppable. And I was so disappointed that they didn't
Speaker 1: run that one time against the Saint and they were
Speaker 1: in such perfect spot thirty two a couple of times.
Speaker 1: It is made for him to do that, and I
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know if that's his call, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is when the balls in his hand,
Speaker 1: but I think that's something they really have to emphasize
Speaker 1: because the defense, you know, they you go a man
Speaker 1: and man or whatever. There's nobody really watching the quarterback.
Speaker 1: And I think now that he's improved so much on
Speaker 1: fully down the field, he can't forget to use his legs.
Speaker 1: And you guys are talking about DeMarcus Laurence, and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he's been a disappointment. And money does factor in who
Speaker 1: we always talked about when Brandon car is getting paid.
Speaker 1: We always said, you know, well, we talked about Brandon
Speaker 1: Car because of how much money he makes, not that
Speaker 1: he was bad, but you've factored in his salary. On
Speaker 1: today's salary cap. When one player is eating up that
Speaker 1: much money, he needs to perform better than the other guys,
Speaker 1: and right now he's not. And maybe it was a
Speaker 1: shoulder coming off the sergy, but he needs to pick
Speaker 1: it up and he has no excuse style because he's
Speaker 1: got a beast on the other end who teams. I
Speaker 1: hope they leave of one on one because that guy
Speaker 1: is a monster right now. All No, it's money matters.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the cap, don't you think that those things
Speaker 1: tie into each other? Like that's kind of what we
Speaker 1: were just talking about. And Brandon Carr, I hear what
Speaker 1: you're saying. And I mean he did get he got
Speaker 1: unnecessarily killed by people in my opinion, But again, like
Speaker 1: even then, it's a much more black and white issue,
Speaker 1: like is the quarterback throwing at you? Are you letting
Speaker 1: it be completed? Are you getting interceptions? Like there's so
Speaker 1: many variables that go into line play, like are you
Speaker 1: double teamed? Are you triple teamed? Are you getting chipped
Speaker 1: by running backs and tight ends? Are you collapsing the pocket?
Speaker 1: Are you drawing attention away from the other side of
Speaker 1: the line and creating favorable matchups? Like all of that
Speaker 1: stuff ties in together and more to look at than
Speaker 1: the sack number. Yeah, And that's that's the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's really there's no way to judge a defensive lineman
Speaker 1: unless you're going back and watching it. And like, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to be smarmie, Like I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: care if you watch the tape or not, but like,
Speaker 1: unless you're doing that, the only the only metric you
Speaker 1: have to go buy is sacks, and that just doesn't
Speaker 1: tell the whole story. I'm sorry. And if you watch him,
Speaker 1: and really, I think this last game, I don't think
Speaker 1: he was as disruptive as he was the first three games.
Speaker 1: But if you watch him in the first three games, DeMarcus,
Speaker 1: they although he didn't have the sax a lot of sex,
Speaker 1: he was still a disruptive player and he was still
Speaker 1: creating opportunities for the deep, for the offense just to
Speaker 1: have to worry about him, which creates opportunities for his
Speaker 1: other defensive linemates. And I think that until Quinn got here,
Speaker 1: the others weren't necessarily taking advantage of that. But we
Speaker 1: see what's happening when Quinn's here, He's actually taking advantage
Speaker 1: of it. So I just think I just think you
Speaker 1: got to look at the whole picture, like Dave says,
Speaker 1: you really have to look at the whole picture. They
Speaker 1: got five sacks on Saturday, right or Sunday? Sorry, So
Speaker 1: that puts him at ten for the year. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: amazing what one game can do to boost that number.
Speaker 1: Which but I mean he's on bunches, as people say,
Speaker 1: tanks on pace for double digits, which I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: allow this, like at what twenty one million dollars a year,
Speaker 1: like ten is like a baseline, Like you obviously want
Speaker 1: him to be higher up than that. But if he's
Speaker 1: also contributing to Maleek having eight and Quinn's on pace
Speaker 1: for freaking whatever, he is twenty one or whatever, like
Speaker 1: I mean, it's getting done. Go ahead, Dak, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about da Are you talking about that? I'm not go ahead. Oh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you want to measure his value,
Speaker 1: take him away from the team. So he's not going
Speaker 1: to be out there and let's see how things go
Speaker 1: with as far as the pass rushings concerned. I think
Speaker 1: everything changes at that point. So I think he's I
Speaker 1: think he's earning his money. I don't think there's an
Speaker 1: issue here. Plenty of things that are worth being concerned about,
Speaker 1: and I think we've touched on most of them over
Speaker 1: the last two days. But I just I just don't
Speaker 1: think he's one of them. Ye, Nick Dak, you know
Speaker 1: another point there. I do agree with the fact that
Speaker 1: he gets you know, he gets involved. They're better. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you would call a good rushing game
Speaker 1: for a quarterback where it's significant. But I just went
Speaker 1: back to twenty five yards or more, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's not a lot you wouldn't, you know, compared
Speaker 1: to a running back. But he's doing something. He's got
Speaker 1: sixteen games of twenty five or more than they're twelve
Speaker 1: and four in those games. And the losses are that
Speaker 1: Packers game a couple years ago where they you know,
Speaker 1: he ran in a touchdown and they scored in the
Speaker 1: final seconds, the Texans and over time last year, the
Speaker 1: Redskins there at the end where they almost won, and
Speaker 1: of course the Falcons and terrible twenty seven to seven game,
Speaker 1: which shocking that he got forty two yards because he
Speaker 1: got hit in the back eleven times, it seemed like,
Speaker 1: but he still ran the ball pretty well. But when
Speaker 1: they when he does run and it's significant, you know,
Speaker 1: and fifty yards or more than they're three. And oh,
Speaker 1: so I agree with that. I like i've involved. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I've been saying that I didn't think we saw enough
Speaker 1: of an attempt at misdirecting the Saints defense. And to
Speaker 1: his you know, Rob said, he's like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's Dak's call or not. It has to be, like,
Speaker 1: that's what makes the play effective is you read the defense,
Speaker 1: see what they're keying on, and decide to give or pull,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure Dak would say the reason I kept
Speaker 1: giving it to Zeke is because that's the look, like
Speaker 1: I didn't have the look to keep the ball. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's true, but I just there just had to
Speaker 1: have been a better way to try to manufacture rushing
Speaker 1: yardage than just going in between the guards, because it
Speaker 1: seemed like damn near every run they tried was through
Speaker 1: those gaps and it just wasn't working. And you had
Speaker 1: more running options, that's the whole point. Whether it's Dac,
Speaker 1: whether it's Pollard, whether it's using some of the receivers
Speaker 1: on jet sweeps, you have other options in order to
Speaker 1: use the running game. But use it, just give it
Speaker 1: some variety, And I think that's where I was a
Speaker 1: little bit. Tavon's run we talked about that got three
Speaker 1: was like a reverse right, Like Yeah, Like I think
Speaker 1: it wouldn't it like a pitch like he came around
Speaker 1: the opposite side and they kind of pitched it back
Speaker 1: to him. Have they tried how many times this season
Speaker 1: have they tried just the good old fashioned fly sweep
Speaker 1: where Tavon Pollard whoever comes across the formation and just
Speaker 1: gets the handoff. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it would work much. Yeah, but they definitely haven't done
Speaker 1: it a lot. Yeah. Yeah, So there's more ways to
Speaker 1: manufacture those types of yards. All right, guys, appreciate you
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