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Speaker 1: It's a hump day edition of Talking Cowboys. As Seahawks
Speaker 1: Week is upon us. The Falcons there in the rearview mirror.
Speaker 1: It was a forty thirty nine win. You're back to
Speaker 1: five hundred. But now it's time to take that next step,
Speaker 1: to take that next benchmark moment and go up against
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Speaker 1: Cowboys defense versus the Seattle offense. How in the world
Speaker 1: are we going to slow down? Russell Wilson heading into Sunday,
Speaker 1: So glad you're with us here on Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 1: Com and the various platforms in which were streamed. Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand Back, our residence, super Bowl Champion, Rob Phillips, heck
Speaker 1: My Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeomans and Isaiah. You know one
Speaker 1: thing I've always respected about you, specifically as a member
Speaker 1: of this show, is because you do have that Washington allegiance.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have that that u W pride. We mentioned
Speaker 1: it a little bit yesterday. You have that pride for
Speaker 1: the great Northwest, and I respect that. But you still,
Speaker 1: as a former cowboy in your own right, you found
Speaker 1: a way to make that background specifically about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And you have a couple of Cowboys helmets up there.
Speaker 1: You've got the helmet up there. Yeah, my first touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I have another whoa, oh, whoa you got
Speaker 1: you got of the kid in me it with you.
Speaker 1: I swear that was a Cowboys helmet yesterday. It was yesterday.
Speaker 1: And now it's a Seattle Seahawks helmet hanging up on
Speaker 1: the wall. For those of you who are listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast and not watching it on video, But there
Speaker 1: is a Cowboys helmet the last it's a beautiful canvas
Speaker 1: in the middle, and then a Seattle Seahawks helmet on
Speaker 1: the right rock. It's just it's just the matchup. It's
Speaker 1: the matchup. If you go to the Star, you go
Speaker 1: the Star right off the atrium. It's got all the
Speaker 1: helmets for the entire NFL. Whoever the Cowboys are playing.
Speaker 1: It lights up Isaiah, Just Isaiah just brought the star
Speaker 1: to the studios. Maybe standbacks that always liked you? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you? Is that he does not have a Cleveland
Speaker 1: browns helmet? So how did all of a sudden miraculously
Speaker 1: does this Seahawks helmet show up on your wall? Now
Speaker 1: tell me this. When you flip that your poster around,
Speaker 1: is the space needle on the backside of him? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, No, didn't get that custom burdens when we played.
Speaker 1: When we played a Giants, okay, I played for the
Speaker 1: Giants organization. We played a Patriots, I played for the
Speaker 1: Patriots organization. Okay, to put the helmet over there to
Speaker 1: my head if I you know, if that's the matchup
Speaker 1: of the week and I have the helmet, why not? Okay?
Speaker 1: Why not? Sattle? He's from Seattle, Suspi, Seattle. Come on,
Speaker 1: I spend my whole life up there. You're pretty suspicious,
Speaker 1: my god. Man, come on, hey, hey, Dallas paid me,
Speaker 1: Seattle raised me. You know what I'm saying. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I like that. Oh that's a that's a pretty good saying,
Speaker 1: but hey, we love you anyways, and we're ready to
Speaker 1: talk about this matchup. No better person than talk about
Speaker 1: this matchup for somebody who played for both teams, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what Isaiah Standback has done. But guys, I
Speaker 1: wanted to start this off by by looking at really
Speaker 1: the offense for Seattle, and of course they're off to
Speaker 1: a fantastic start. Russell Wilson just the fourth player in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era to throw at least nine touchdown
Speaker 1: passes over the first two weeks of the season. Drew
Speaker 1: Brees in two thousand and nine Super Bowl MVP season,
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning in twenty thirteen won MVP that year, and
Speaker 1: then Patrick Mahomes in twenty eighteen. Guess what he did
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. He won the MVP. So you talk
Speaker 1: about a guy who's never had an MVP vote, which
Speaker 1: I think is just a travesty for all MVP voters
Speaker 1: in the world. The fact that Russell Wilson throughout his
Speaker 1: eight year now into his ninth year career, has not
Speaker 1: had a vote, a single vote for the MVP award.
Speaker 1: But he's making a case right now. He's making a
Speaker 1: case to do that. It is really disrespectful. But Rob
Speaker 1: whenever he comes to Russell Wilson and you're looking at
Speaker 1: this offense for Seattle, they're firing all cylinders because three
Speaker 1: is playing extremely well. How do you start even game
Speaker 1: planning to slow that down? Well, you said it. I
Speaker 1: watched back the Pats game last night, and that first
Speaker 1: touchdown drive they had it was a thing of beauty. Man,
Speaker 1: it was. It was thirteen plays, seventy five yards, six runs,
Speaker 1: seven passes, and three times he got out of trouble.
Speaker 1: They weren't even designed runs, just scrambles. One for twenty
Speaker 1: one yards. One was a slow developing play action that
Speaker 1: he got out of trouble for six and the balance
Speaker 1: was there. They use their backs, they use their tight ends,
Speaker 1: they use their receivers and oh, by the way, yeah
Speaker 1: he's he's pretty good. And I don't know how you
Speaker 1: stop him, honestly, other than I know every time they
Speaker 1: played Seattle in the Rod Marinelli era, he talked about
Speaker 1: keeping him in the well. You've got you've got to
Speaker 1: be disciplined in your rushes and don't let him get
Speaker 1: outside the pocket. But then you've got to watch him
Speaker 1: scrambling up the middle two, which is why we talked
Speaker 1: about the spy yesterday. I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: you do other than try to get a pass rush
Speaker 1: on him, try to be more effective than you've been
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of the season, because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will admit it has been up to par so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so as we talk about this defense, right, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense and trying to slow down the disrespected MVP
Speaker 1: caliber quarterback that is Russell Wilson, There's only been one
Speaker 1: thing that I've ever seen that has really slowed down
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, it really caused him issues, and that one
Speaker 1: thing is pressure on an interior line. But only time
Speaker 1: he's ever been disrupted as a quarterbacks when he has
Speaker 1: an interior pressure and the defensive end state discipline you
Speaker 1: guys mentioned and being able to contain him right and
Speaker 1: being able to spy him. The spy doesn't really work.
Speaker 1: There's not many guys in the NFL that can really
Speaker 1: not react to his to his moves right man to man, right,
Speaker 1: if Russell wasn't decides to scramble, one guy's really not
Speaker 1: going to stop him. Not a guy out in space
Speaker 1: right with a two way go with giving Russell wasn't
Speaker 1: a two way goal. So when you provide pressure with
Speaker 1: the interior d lineman. So when we talk about Pole,
Speaker 1: we talk about Gallimore, we talk about Tristan Hill, we
Speaker 1: talk about these guys, and they're a bill of these
Speaker 1: that they have. Right, They're going to have to show
Speaker 1: up if Dallas wants to be successful against Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: because he can get out the pocket. But if you
Speaker 1: provide pressure in the middle and you contain him on
Speaker 1: the outside, now you have him doing running around and
Speaker 1: causing all kinds of serve. So that's how you stop
Speaker 1: this man. That is the only way you stopped this man.
Speaker 1: Our big boys up. Frank got to show up now, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: do you remember when they used to call Russell a
Speaker 1: bus driver in Seattle? He was considered the bus driver.
Speaker 1: Now the bus driver has turned into a Formula one racer.
Speaker 1: He is he is throwing the ball all over the
Speaker 1: place and rob Like you said, that game last week
Speaker 1: versus New England was an instant classic. If you love
Speaker 1: watching the strategy of football, it was all you needed
Speaker 1: was in this one game. And you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just have to take a deep breath and ask
Speaker 1: yourself how are you going to deal with all of
Speaker 1: the things that Russ can do? And Brian Schottenhammer is
Speaker 1: allowing Russ to cook, and Russ is looking unstoppable or
Speaker 1: mister unlimited as he's calling himself these days. Because what
Speaker 1: do you do? Do you do? You play him his
Speaker 1: own like New England did last last week? He just
Speaker 1: throws that ball right over the top of you and
Speaker 1: make it a feast him, all those long balls to
Speaker 1: the Poleon. Do you play him in cover three? He
Speaker 1: just throws it over the top of your linebackers. If
Speaker 1: you go cover two, he'll find the scene with his
Speaker 1: favorite receiver, Tyler Lockett. And so there are a multitude
Speaker 1: of things that I'm sure Mike Nolan has been staying
Speaker 1: up at night wondering how he's going to stop this guy.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna come down to a few factors. And
Speaker 1: that's just making DK Mancalf normal or human, I guess it.
Speaker 1: And how do you do that? Just try and turn
Speaker 1: that guy the big play receiver. You know he wants
Speaker 1: to hit you long, but tourn him in and Michael
Speaker 1: Irvin turn him into a possession receiver. Make it be
Speaker 1: short and he has to go long. But Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: is one of the guys that he really wants to
Speaker 1: catch you with. And man, the Cowboys secondary man, they
Speaker 1: have the we're cut out for him. And this is
Speaker 1: the week man that you figure out where we are.
Speaker 1: Because if you're basing it off of your performance versus
Speaker 1: the Rams in Atlanta, huh yeah, just take a deep breath.
Speaker 1: There's really no way to sugarcoat it. Whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to the deep threat ability of this Seattle offense. And
Speaker 1: you look at the passing chart from Russell Wilson last week,
Speaker 1: go on Next Gen Stats. They do a fantastic job
Speaker 1: of putting out these charts from quarterbacks and where their
Speaker 1: throws were and where they were successful and how far
Speaker 1: their touchdown throws were from the line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 1: somebody tweeted out yesterday it said, when you're throwing chart
Speaker 1: as a quarterback looks more like a home run derby,
Speaker 1: that's when you know you're really bawling. And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it looked like for Russell Wilson. He had four
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. It seemed like that we're over fifteen yards
Speaker 1: of distance from the line of scrimmage last week against
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and he's able to hit those
Speaker 1: guys deep. Whether it's Tyler Lockett, whether it's dcpe, Metcalfe,
Speaker 1: treyvon digs, cheetah Oozia, Jordan Lewis, those guys are gonna
Speaker 1: have a tough matchup regardless. And that's where I kind
Speaker 1: of agree with Isaiah here. Whenever it comes to the
Speaker 1: defensive line, you have to have pressure, especially in the interior,
Speaker 1: which is a place where when you watch the film
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, you're kind of bullied. You really were by
Speaker 1: an offensive line that wasn't necessarily touted coming into the day.
Speaker 1: You had Don Terre Pope pushed around. Even Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: at times didn't look great, and I know he's kind
Speaker 1: of still on the ascending side of his career, but
Speaker 1: you got to be able to get pressure. They weren't
Speaker 1: able to do that. Now, Don Terry Poe has played
Speaker 1: against the Seahawks three times in his career and he's
Speaker 1: registered seven tackles, three tackles for loss, a sack, and
Speaker 1: three pressures. So maybe if history's on his side, Don
Speaker 1: Terry Pope might have a better game and have it
Speaker 1: a little bit of an uptick and you might be
Speaker 1: able to get pressure, but heckma, is that really outside
Speaker 1: of the secondary? I know you just mentioned the secondary.
Speaker 1: If you're able to get pressure, is it really that
Speaker 1: easy to slow down Russell Wilson or is it much
Speaker 1: more than that? Well, I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that's a great question. But the thing about Russ is
Speaker 1: because of his height, he has to find a lunching point.
Speaker 1: He's when he's in his shotgun formation, he's a little
Speaker 1: he's back further than a lot of your taller quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: so he knows I mean his offensive line. These guys
Speaker 1: are averaging six to five, so he has to get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket to create those passing lanes because
Speaker 1: of his height. And so it's gonna be very important
Speaker 1: that even if the Cowboys don't get there, that at
Speaker 1: least they get their hands up so they can knock
Speaker 1: some balls down. But the pass rush is gonna be
Speaker 1: pivotal in this game, and it's gonna come down to
Speaker 1: those guys that you pointed out, Hill Poe, Tying Crawford
Speaker 1: and Alder Smith and Tank. Lawrence's injury. Really it worries me.
Speaker 1: We hadn't heard a lot about where he is right now,
Speaker 1: but We're gonna need our full arsenal of guys to
Speaker 1: get him because we're gonna have to get him on
Speaker 1: the ground, and inspiring him with one of our linebackers
Speaker 1: isn't the answer. You know, the Falcon's got three sacks
Speaker 1: on him, and that gives me a little bit of
Speaker 1: of optimism because you can pressure Russell Wilson because he's
Speaker 1: gonna hold onto the ball man He's gonna wait until
Speaker 1: the last opportunity to get rid of that thing. Can
Speaker 1: you get him on the ground though, is the other question,
Speaker 1: because I think he'll take hits, but but he will,
Speaker 1: He'll buy a time and either get away from you
Speaker 1: or get the ball out eventually. The thing I love
Speaker 1: about him the most is he's like the most calm
Speaker 1: quarterback I've ever seen. Just I mean, it's almost like
Speaker 1: he's in slow motion. He doesn't have the Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: happy feet. You know, things are going crazy around him,
Speaker 1: but he's just very common poise back there. I think
Speaker 1: they can get pressure on him if he's willing to.
Speaker 1: If if the coverage can hold up on the back
Speaker 1: end and make him have to wait, I think he
Speaker 1: might be able to hit him. Some question is how much.
Speaker 1: Can you bring him down now? Yeah, you guys are
Speaker 1: hitting on all really good points, really good, really good points, man.
Speaker 1: And what I believe that is really the key. I
Speaker 1: know we're probably going to another segment here, but running
Speaker 1: of the key things is the only thing that has
Speaker 1: ever worked. And believe me, I'm watching Russell Wilson for
Speaker 1: a long time obviously with my Seattle ties. Whenever you
Speaker 1: can get that interior push right and you can stunt
Speaker 1: your defensive ends. I know we brought up Lawrence, we
Speaker 1: brought up Aldon Smith, right, And being that those guys
Speaker 1: are going to be in the stand up position, I
Speaker 1: really think it puts them at a disadvantage versus their
Speaker 1: hand being in the ground because they don't have the
Speaker 1: then the ability to stunt as as as efficiently as
Speaker 1: they would have with their hand in the ground. And
Speaker 1: when I say stunt, I mean meaning that those guys
Speaker 1: were putting their hands in the ground potentially right or
Speaker 1: they're standing up and they're they're they're then letting the
Speaker 1: interior defensive linement rush outside and they're crossing face. What
Speaker 1: that does is it causes confusion. It causes confusion on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So when these guys are trying to
Speaker 1: pass off somebody from the guard to the tackle, right
Speaker 1: if the guard has somebody lined up over them, right,
Speaker 1: and that person that goes now outside towards the tackle,
Speaker 1: they're following those guys out until they pass them off
Speaker 1: to the tackle. Meanwhile, Alden Smith and and d Law,
Speaker 1: those guys would be crossing face now coming and bringing
Speaker 1: that pressure interiorly while those your guys are now being
Speaker 1: to contain guys. That's how you stop Russell Wilson Um.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing that ever causes him any confusion
Speaker 1: because he does like to spin outside in the pocket,
Speaker 1: and when you have those guys pressure upside, he can't
Speaker 1: step up and you won't allow him to get out.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you provided some problems because
Speaker 1: if as long as you don't allow for him to
Speaker 1: have time, that's what causes people a lot of problems
Speaker 1: with him, because he does buy time, and when he's
Speaker 1: by his time, that's a long time for these dbs.
Speaker 1: And this guy's in the secondary to try to guard
Speaker 1: these four two or four three receivers that that Seattle has,
Speaker 1: it's impossible. It's it's an eternity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of top flip it real quick, and just
Speaker 1: and just mentioned Sorry Kyle, Yeah, I just mentioned because
Speaker 1: we're because we're on the we're on the Russ topic
Speaker 1: right now. And Dak Ruscott, by the way, is your
Speaker 1: is your offensive player of the week for weeks? Yes,
Speaker 1: he is. Dallas calbum about that, which no surprise really,
Speaker 1: but he Hegma brought up a really interesting point about
Speaker 1: bus driver, right, And I think Russ early in his
Speaker 1: career he kind of I mean, they let him kind
Speaker 1: of manage the game and they had such a great
Speaker 1: defense that you know, they tried to rely on on
Speaker 1: that first and and and try to, you know, manage
Speaker 1: the game offensively, and he look, he is slinging it around.
Speaker 1: We know that. I think I think first quarter in
Speaker 1: Week one he had like ten or eleven passes. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're letting him loose. And to me, it's just
Speaker 1: a reminder that I think we try to microwave quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and what they're gonna be. And Tom Brady was the
Speaker 1: same way. And I'm not saying Dak Prescott's gonna end
Speaker 1: up with the career of Tom Brady or I think
Speaker 1: Russ is headed to the Hall of Fame probably, um,
Speaker 1: but you're seeing Dak. You're seeing the evolution of Dak's
Speaker 1: game too. Where where you are where I know where
Speaker 1: you going with this? I like it. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: he can he can go win you a football game.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to rely on everything being perfect around him.
Speaker 1: He lost his tight end last week. The offensive line
Speaker 1: was a mess, and and the pressure was there a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, and he still made it work
Speaker 1: with four hundred fifty yards. I just we had to
Speaker 1: talk to a whole lot of about Doc this week.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw that out there, like, let's
Speaker 1: let's give the man some credit. Like he's he's pretty
Speaker 1: good Rob, no doubt that. Boys, he's bawling right these
Speaker 1: first two guys. He's taking care of business. But let's
Speaker 1: just bring up the fact that you mentioned Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Hall of Fame in the same since
Speaker 1: No Dak, Chris Scott, I'm just I'm just making sure
Speaker 1: that I'm not going there. I'm saying he's in his
Speaker 1: fifth year and we're starting to see him. He fall
Speaker 1: guy that can be that type of guy, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what he doesn't have that long term deal yet,
Speaker 1: will it happen? Yeah, we'll see, Rob But the first time, no, not.
Speaker 1: What the Cowboys are banking on. What the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: banking on is that he's gonna continue to ascend to
Speaker 1: by the time he's thirty, he's gonna be that guy.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a guy. He's gonna be the offense
Speaker 1: starts with Dak Prescott and obviously you know they want
Speaker 1: Zeke here for the long term two. But I think
Speaker 1: that's that's the track they're expecting him to be on.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I'm just I'm just saying, no point, he's
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job, he's elevating, and he's got
Speaker 1: a long way to go to get to Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: territory already. And I saw an interesting conversation, a very
Speaker 1: fascinating one on Twitter yesterday and somebody asked, I can't
Speaker 1: remember exactly what the account was, somebody asked, is there
Speaker 1: a possibility that you can name five or six quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that are better than Russell Wilson all time? And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, sure, it's five or six quarterbacks. That's
Speaker 1: easy stuff. And you start going down the list and
Speaker 1: he kind of gets hard around five or six. It
Speaker 1: gets to the point where you're you're saying he might
Speaker 1: be in that conversation. I don't know. I would still
Speaker 1: probably put him maybe six or seven compared to some
Speaker 1: of the other greats. But you look at you look
Speaker 1: at like a Tom Tom Brady, a Peyton Manning, I mean,
Speaker 1: guys like that Joe Montana up there. But other than that,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's at least kind of in that category already.
Speaker 1: And if he adds another Super Bowl title sometime or
Speaker 1: an MVP sometime, who knows what his possibilities could be
Speaker 1: as his career goes along. And if Dak Prescott could
Speaker 1: even sniff that, then all of a sudden, you're having
Speaker 1: a fantastic career and the Cowboys fans would be quite
Speaker 1: happy with that moving forward. But we're gonna come back
Speaker 1: when we come back. There was a little drama on
Speaker 1: Cowboys Twitter yesterday, including one of our good friends from
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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition. Glad you're with us as we break down
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense versus the Seattle offense and how in
Speaker 1: the world are we slowing down? Russell Wilson heading into
Speaker 1: Sunday trying to get to two and one on the season,
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, the winner of this game is
Speaker 1: completely and utterly vaulted into the conversation of a potential
Speaker 1: NFC favorite conversation because of the Wow, I really think so.
Speaker 1: And that's crazy, crazy, how things can turn around with
Speaker 1: one week. I mean, if the Cowboys lose, no, that's
Speaker 1: not the case. What I'm saying with my chest. If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys beat the Seahawks, all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: at two and one, You've got an easier schedule ahead
Speaker 1: of you, you could potentially be in that conversation. And
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Speaker 1: up to date on all of the regulations. But yesterday
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of drama in Cowboys Twitter, and
Speaker 1: Cowboys Twitter is a fun place. Let's just say it
Speaker 1: that way. It's a fun place at times. It's a
Speaker 1: hostile place at times. It's one of my favorite places
Speaker 1: just because of how fun and passionate it could be.
Speaker 1: And that's what makes our jobs fun is the passion
Speaker 1: that the fans have and the interaction that you have
Speaker 1: with media members and other media members. And one of
Speaker 1: my favorite people in the media is Jeff Cavanaugh over
Speaker 1: a one or five point three the fan. I've learned
Speaker 1: so much from Jeff throughout our time on the Draft
Speaker 1: Show and just from listening to him throughout the early
Speaker 1: parts of my career. Well, he got himself in a
Speaker 1: little drama yesterday on Twitter, and it wasn't necessarily his fault.
Speaker 1: And there's a reason why we're gonna bring this up
Speaker 1: and talk about this, because I think he's right. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he tweeted out and he said Everson Griffin hasn't been
Speaker 1: good for the Cowboys at all. Yet remember that yet
Speaker 1: word right there at the end. Well, normal tweet. He's
Speaker 1: watching the twenty two as he does. He works extremely
Speaker 1: hard at his craft and really gets to breaking down
Speaker 1: these players, and he thought Everson Griffin wasn't the same
Speaker 1: sort of player that he had seen on film prior
Speaker 1: to his addition to the Cowboys. Well, Everson Griffin took
Speaker 1: exception to that, and he comes back and he's pretty
Speaker 1: vulgar in his first tweet. We can't really say that
Speaker 1: one on air. But then he starts talking about, please
Speaker 1: explain what I'm doing wrong in Week two of football,
Speaker 1: and then the responses started flying in. He starts going off,
Speaker 1: going back and forth really with Jeff Cavanaugh. They're talking
Speaker 1: about what he's doing wrong, how he's evolving, and basically
Speaker 1: it ends up in a back and forth conversation that
Speaker 1: was picked up by TMZ plenty of different places, saying
Speaker 1: he went quote unquote nuclear. I don't necessarily think it
Speaker 1: was nuclear on either side. I think it was actually
Speaker 1: a little bit of an exception at first, then morphing
Speaker 1: into what ended up being actually very meaningful conversation between
Speaker 1: the two and a lot of cool insight from Everson
Speaker 1: Griffin side, talking about how his game is evolving, how
Speaker 1: he's got slow hands, and how he's starting to turn
Speaker 1: into the player that he wants to be. But my
Speaker 1: question to you guys about the Twitter beef and about
Speaker 1: what Jeff Kavanaugh initially said on Twitter about Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: not playing well and Isaiah, I'm gonna start with you
Speaker 1: on here. Was he right? And how can Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: continue to progress as a pass rusher heading into Seattle Week? Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: y'all hear that? Echo man? Yeah? Yeah, so no, he's
Speaker 1: he's wrong, He's he's completely wrong. Yeah, Kavanaugh was wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean, Everson Griffin has been a solid force for
Speaker 1: his defensive aligne Now, now we talk about Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: and you know, oh, you know, is he balling out?
Speaker 1: Is he getting sacks left and right? No? But there's
Speaker 1: so much more responsibilities for defensive alignment aside from just
Speaker 1: simply getting sacks and tackles for losses. If you play
Speaker 1: sixty games and if you play sixty snaps in a game,
Speaker 1: you can I mean, if you grade out as a
Speaker 1: B plus or A, you might not have a tackle
Speaker 1: for a loss. You might not have a sack, right
Speaker 1: because you you still carried out your responsibilities, you still
Speaker 1: held your gap, You still got that guy off from
Speaker 1: not allowing him to go up to the next level.
Speaker 1: So there's so many, so many aspects of the game
Speaker 1: that that that the average person doesn't see. Um. And
Speaker 1: when he doesn't, when you don't know their responsibilities, you
Speaker 1: can't sit up here and critique how well they've played. Now,
Speaker 1: if they're getting drug and they're getting pancaked and and
Speaker 1: ran out the club, okay, thrown out the club like
Speaker 1: like like like Jeff from U Le Jazzy, Jeff from
Speaker 1: Frens French, then that's then that's that's something else, right.
Speaker 1: But everything Griffin has been there, he's we've called his name,
Speaker 1: we've seen him be there, and you haven't seen him
Speaker 1: get thrown her out. So I mean I think he's
Speaker 1: he's he's wrong. Rob. I'm gonna let you take you're Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: you you're the writer, man, you're the guy that that
Speaker 1: you know they pay to hear your opinion. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no open locker rooms this year to have these kind
Speaker 1: of conversations in a person um, And I've had a
Speaker 1: couple of those in my day. Um Man, this made
Speaker 1: TMZ really yeah TMZ. Yeah, I mean I don't think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would say this, and I haven't talked
Speaker 1: to players about this personally, but I would imagine that
Speaker 1: this year criticism probably stings more than it would in
Speaker 1: another year, you know, because players haven't had the time
Speaker 1: to get ready. And I'm not I'm not making excuses,
Speaker 1: I'm just stating facts, and that's that's around the league.
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin signed right before the start of training camp,
Speaker 1: didn't even have the virtual offseason program. And I get
Speaker 1: that he's a vet, but um, you know, and I
Speaker 1: respect what Jeff does. Jeff does the work and Jeff
Speaker 1: puts time into his opinions. Um, but I will say
Speaker 1: I got asked by the fan, right is that all
Speaker 1: this was happening? And the thing that I did point
Speaker 1: out was Everson Griffin had two pressures in the game
Speaker 1: to get the Cowboys defense off the field and help
Speaker 1: them win the football game to come back. Now, overall,
Speaker 1: has the past rush been what it needs to be.
Speaker 1: They've admitted no. Overall, it's not that it's we just
Speaker 1: talked about it in the first semi and they've got
Speaker 1: to get getting more pressure. But I would add, you
Speaker 1: know what, in Everson had a bunch of tweets throughout
Speaker 1: the morning. I guess the one that he that really
Speaker 1: jumped out to me was actually something we said on
Speaker 1: the show right before all this happened, and I think
Speaker 1: Heckman brought it up first. He said, it's all about
Speaker 1: the trend line. Right. It's week two. They've had a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries, there's a lot of new concept, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of new players. Let's judge the defense as
Speaker 1: it goes here, because I think it's probably too early
Speaker 1: to say this player or that scheme won't do it now.
Speaker 1: I know Jeff's just talking about what happened so far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think we've got to wait and see how
Speaker 1: this defense evolves. Look, guys, look we family. Man, Guys,
Speaker 1: we we family. We've been doing this together for a while,
Speaker 1: and I can see to us brothers. You know, I
Speaker 1: want to see I want to share something I have too.
Speaker 1: We might. I wish you was in the studio because
Speaker 1: we could whole hands at this point. But guys, I
Speaker 1: have two phobias in life, and those are bears and people.
Speaker 1: Bears is one, and people that don't blink you ask
Speaker 1: me bears. Look, man, I have a feeling that I'm
Speaker 1: a brother from o Cliff that will be eaten by bear.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, that's happening. But that's just me, right.
Speaker 1: People that don't blink, Look, breathing is like blinking. You
Speaker 1: don't have to tell yourself to breathe or blink. I
Speaker 1: watched Everson Griffin d and Instagram video when he first
Speaker 1: got with the Cowboys, and for admitted in thirteen seconds
Speaker 1: he didn't blink. That told me everything I need to
Speaker 1: know about Everson Griffin. I won't tweet anything about Everson Griffin.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, if I see Everson Griffin
Speaker 1: in the hallway, I'm going another way. So Cavanaugh, man,
Speaker 1: you're a brave soul. I salute you and write home
Speaker 1: it just happened here. I don't. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I go in here. I don't know. Man. I won't
Speaker 1: touch it. I won't touch Robbie. I caught bears and
Speaker 1: people who don't blind. What are we talking about? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't touch it. I don't mess with it. It's
Speaker 1: just something. Look when the last time you talk to
Speaker 1: somebody that didn't blink for two minutes, I'm just last
Speaker 1: time I ran into Dragonfly Jones. Okay, I don't blink,
Speaker 1: get I mean, I understand, I understand the criticism, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, Everson Griffin said it correctly. Man,
Speaker 1: He's just like, Look, I had been in long enough,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to judge and tape based off of
Speaker 1: how long I've been here. But I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin for what I didn't know about him prior
Speaker 1: to coming too the Dallas Cowboys. I know he's somebody
Speaker 1: that you don't want to mess with on the football field.
Speaker 1: He may be sweetest pie off of it, and I
Speaker 1: doubt it. But at the same time, I just feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, that was a brave thing. That's a brave
Speaker 1: thing to say about him in the The fact is
Speaker 1: he didn't add him on it. He didn't like Everson
Speaker 1: Griffin isn't play. He just said Everson Griffin, and Everson responded.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure Kavanaugh was like, WHOA, I wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 1: And you know, in terms of keep my name out
Speaker 1: your mouth, I mean, that's that's analogous to keep that
Speaker 1: energy when I see you. So I'm just saying like
Speaker 1: he got out of control fast. Yeah, And you get
Speaker 1: the passion from both sides, and you also look at
Speaker 1: with with Jeff Cavanaugh specifically, I mean, he is confident
Speaker 1: in what he sees, he does the work, he's very
Speaker 1: good at what he does, and I respect the hell
Speaker 1: out of Jeff Cavanaugh. It's just the fact that it
Speaker 1: was surprising that Everson Griffin did respond. It's nothing out
Speaker 1: of the ordinary for Jeff Cavanaugh to to do a
Speaker 1: film study and make an analysis and sometimes just players,
Speaker 1: I guess catch wind of and that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: Now before we head into this final segment and we
Speaker 1: take our second break, Rob on the other side of
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin, still a lot of question marks about DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: I haven't personally heard anything, but do you have any
Speaker 1: sort of update or have you heard anything specifically about
Speaker 1: d law and his status moving into week three? You know,
Speaker 1: just based off what Jerry said on the fan yesterday,
Speaker 1: it didn't sound like he was too concerned about him.
Speaker 1: So what that means for practice this week, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We'll talk to Mike McCarthy at what
Speaker 1: thirty minutes or so and see what he does. But
Speaker 1: I think the fact that he was able to kind
Speaker 1: of get in and out of the lineup in the
Speaker 1: second half, I think is encouraging. The question is you know,
Speaker 1: if he if he's active and he starts is one percent,
Speaker 1: maybe a week between games what will help him out?
Speaker 1: But I think we'll just have to see what he
Speaker 1: does throughout the week of practice and hopefully he's ready
Speaker 1: to go because the Cowboys could absolutely use his help
Speaker 1: in the run game. And then also when it comes
Speaker 1: to trying to keep Russell Wilson in the well and
Speaker 1: keep him in the pocket and allow him to feel
Speaker 1: that pressure who moving into his progressions and hopefully the
Speaker 1: Cowboys game coming up here this Sunday when we come back, linebackers,
Speaker 1: can they have the encore that they did on this
Speaker 1: past Sunday again this Sunday? Can they play well again?
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas and Jalen Smith, we'll talk about it next
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Speaker 1: I was just telling Heckma. I was just telling Hackma,
Speaker 1: you gotta go to a specific place to find a bear. Man.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that. I'm sure they've loved it. Um moving
Speaker 1: into one final segment of this offense for Seattle versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, and I really want some education here
Speaker 1: for those of you who really enjoy watching the linebackers.
Speaker 1: And I'm specifically looking at you three because I'm not
Speaker 1: a big linebacker film study guy. I'm more of an
Speaker 1: offensive defensive lineman wide receiver Dbats was sort of dude.
Speaker 1: But whenever it comes to last week, Joe Thomas was
Speaker 1: fantastic in terms of the way that he stepped up
Speaker 1: and filled the role for Layton vander Esh. Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: played better in week two than he did in Week one,
Speaker 1: but still I still think you're not seeing the best
Speaker 1: from Jalen Smith as of yet. Whenever you're going up
Speaker 1: against the team like Seattle and Rob We're gonna start
Speaker 1: with you on this one. But whenever you're going up
Speaker 1: against the teams like Seattle that likes to air the
Speaker 1: football deep, that likes to throw it long, and likes
Speaker 1: to let right now let Russ Cook, how do these
Speaker 1: linebackers adjust and how do they find a way to
Speaker 1: make an impact both in coverage and in the run
Speaker 1: game against the guy like Chris Carson. Well, you're right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they have the deep threats down the field.
Speaker 1: Metcalf has been dynamic so far. Obviously Lockett's been doing
Speaker 1: this for a lot of years. But just watching them
Speaker 1: so far, I think they get all their guys involved
Speaker 1: in all different levels of the field. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Chris Carson and Carlos Hide they'll use them on
Speaker 1: swing passes, they'll get them involved in the short game,
Speaker 1: and you know they've got a couple of tight ends
Speaker 1: they like as well. This Ley's a good player, obviously,
Speaker 1: Olson has done it for a lot of years. So
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be situations where linebackers are
Speaker 1: gonna be involved in coverage. And you mentioned some of
Speaker 1: the job they did, you know, up front, maybe stopping
Speaker 1: the run. They did a nice job I thought overall
Speaker 1: against Atlanta. That's something to build on. What they did
Speaker 1: in the running game. Like you said, Jalen was effective,
Speaker 1: Thomas as well. There were some angles you watched maybe
Speaker 1: they could have taken a better angle here or there.
Speaker 1: But no, I think they've got to be They're gonna
Speaker 1: have a key role in this game because while Wilson
Speaker 1: likes to go down the field, they also set up
Speaker 1: things down the field with some of that intermediate stuff too,
Speaker 1: So they've got to be on point there. Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead. No, the linebackers have
Speaker 1: the were cutout for him in this game. And that
Speaker 1: they have brought up a point about tight ends in
Speaker 1: twelve personnel and stacking their tight ends. Stacking tight ends
Speaker 1: and Seattle does a really good job of that, and
Speaker 1: it stretches your defense and puts your linebackers in those
Speaker 1: one on one situations. And Jalen Smith first week, I
Speaker 1: think everybody by committee was just kind of down on
Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith and I think PFF, as Kyle pointed out,
Speaker 1: grading him really low. But it was a complete one
Speaker 1: eighty to the next week where he graded out in
Speaker 1: the seventies and coverage and run defense, and so really
Speaker 1: positive about that. But no one grades out perfect, neither
Speaker 1: did Joe Thomas. But where he was was solid in
Speaker 1: the run game. And as you know Seattle, they have
Speaker 1: Carlos High, they have Carson, they have a lot of
Speaker 1: guys and also Russell Wilson on those design runs. And
Speaker 1: so for me, it's just the fact that Jalen Smith
Speaker 1: is going to be in some one on one situations
Speaker 1: with Olsen or maybe one on one situations with Carson,
Speaker 1: and those will routes, and that's where I worry. It's
Speaker 1: not that I don't believe that he's up to it.
Speaker 1: I just feel like recognizing it, maybe taking a false
Speaker 1: step here or there and getting out in coverage, maybe
Speaker 1: his Achilles hill. But these guys are watching plenty of
Speaker 1: tape on it, so they know exactly how Seattle is
Speaker 1: gonna try and attack them. Yeah, just just be as
Speaker 1: as playing as straightforward as possible. Uh straight no ice. Uh.
Speaker 1: These the linebackers have problems this week. Uh. This backfield
Speaker 1: is the most physical backfield that they faced this year. Um.
Speaker 1: It's essentially it's equivalent to facing Brown right in the
Speaker 1: first week against the Rams and how physical he was.
Speaker 1: You have two guys that are just as physical as
Speaker 1: Brown was. Um, but we saw how how how he
Speaker 1: brought that hat right. So you have Carson and you
Speaker 1: have carlos Hi who's running the ball like he like
Speaker 1: he has a point to prove right now. Um. And
Speaker 1: both of those guys are compact, they're thick, they have
Speaker 1: some speed on them, and they're gonna they're gonna bring
Speaker 1: it when they when they come. And that works to
Speaker 1: advantage of our linebackers because the Cowboys linebackers Thomas and
Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith, they they're they're at their best when they're
Speaker 1: able to play downhill and be aggressive. So those two
Speaker 1: powers coming together, we'll see how that turns out. The
Speaker 1: problem is because Seattle runs the ball so efficiently, and
Speaker 1: they will use Jaylen Smith and Joe Thomas's aggression against them. Right,
Speaker 1: So as you start talking about their ability to start
Speaker 1: coming downhill, Seattle's gonna handle about. Seattle will run the
Speaker 1: ball the entire head for an entire series without throwing
Speaker 1: the ball. Jesse get those linebackers to commit, and then
Speaker 1: once Joe Thomas and Jalen Smith getting that instinctive mode
Speaker 1: where they're now just responding and coming downhill, that's when
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen gets behind you and eats. That's when Carson
Speaker 1: runs on a wheel route when you're trying to come
Speaker 1: up and lay a hat and he runs around you.
Speaker 1: So that's what that's what really sets up, and that's
Speaker 1: what makes this offense in Seattle. Seattle has never been
Speaker 1: a lineup and throw the round type offense. Even though
Speaker 1: they're throwing it more consistently now, it's still is off
Speaker 1: of the play action. Seattle is a run first team,
Speaker 1: So Jalen Smith and Joe Thomas are going to have
Speaker 1: to really calm themselves down and be patient and be
Speaker 1: poised because they will get lured into being set up
Speaker 1: for big place. It's kind of like the Giants when
Speaker 1: when Eli was in his prime. You know, they use
Speaker 1: the run game and the Jacobs and the play action
Speaker 1: everything to go deep and and it try to try
Speaker 1: to soften the coverage up and take those deep shots.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what you're seeing a little bit from
Speaker 1: from Russ this year through two games. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: they gotta win second and three. I believe on a
Speaker 1: second and three they threw a deep route. Man on
Speaker 1: a second and three, I mean, that's that's naturally for
Speaker 1: a defense is going to tell you that's a running down.
Speaker 1: And on second and nine they'll run the ball. And
Speaker 1: so what letting Russ cook is bringing a lot of
Speaker 1: variation to their offense. And I think again, Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: hasn't slept since Sunday, so there's a lot to look
Speaker 1: more at this Seattle offense. And before I know, Cole
Speaker 1: hasn't go. But but heck, when you when you allude
Speaker 1: to these short the short distance you know, second down
Speaker 1: and third down place sometimes even fourth down, when you
Speaker 1: when key on an offense running the ball, these long
Speaker 1: passes for Seattle are not low percentage pass plays like
Speaker 1: they are from most quarterbacks in most teams. He throws
Speaker 1: a ball such with such accuracy on deep balls that
Speaker 1: guess what, it's not a risk to throw the ball
Speaker 1: forty yards down the field on a sick and a third.
Speaker 1: That is crazy to even hear you say that, because
Speaker 1: that's not even conventional football, and he just he destroys
Speaker 1: all of that. You're right, his deep ball is like
Speaker 1: a handoffs. It's amazing the touch that Russell Wilson has. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were a couple plays in that Patriots game where
Speaker 1: you couldn't have run down the field and set it
Speaker 1: into a receiver's hands better than what Russell Wilson's throw
Speaker 1: ultimately ended up being the fact that he was able
Speaker 1: to hit those guys in stride so efficiently. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit scary. But is this the scariest offense that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have seen so far? They've seen two really
Speaker 1: good ones. I mean the Rams week one. Sure, they
Speaker 1: were little dink and dunk, it was a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a different look of an offense. You saw
Speaker 1: a completely one eighty version of that with Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley last week. But where do the
Speaker 1: Seattle offense rank in terms of teams that you're most
Speaker 1: scared about? Him? Atma will go with you. First, I
Speaker 1: believe what scares me about Seattle is their efficiency and
Speaker 1: their balance. That's it. I mean, he's not putting up
Speaker 1: those Matt Ryan four hundred yard three hundred whatever it
Speaker 1: was that had him number one in the league last week.
Speaker 1: He's not doing that. I mean he's finishing with two
Speaker 1: eighty nine. But he's so efficient. He's completing eighty six
Speaker 1: percent of his passes in his QBR is out of
Speaker 1: this world. So it's just that they're balanced and Russell
Speaker 1: Russell is just so efficient. Yeah, this is the most
Speaker 1: dangerous offense that that they faced so far. Now, as
Speaker 1: we go forward, um, we'll see what happens, but as
Speaker 1: of right now, this is the most dangerous. I know,
Speaker 1: we would say the Rams were probably the most dangerous
Speaker 1: early on. But you know the fact that Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: just doesn't make mistakes that you know, and that alludes
Speaker 1: to everything Hector said. Russell's not going to lose you
Speaker 1: the game, which is why they used to call him
Speaker 1: the bus driver back in the day, because hey, simply
Speaker 1: manage the game and we win. Right, our defense will
Speaker 1: help us win. Now it's like, hey, he still has
Speaker 1: those same attributes, right, but now he has the ability
Speaker 1: to call everything the way he wants to. And they're patient.
Speaker 1: They are very very patient. They are not gonna feel rushed.
Speaker 1: At no point in time do they feel like they're
Speaker 1: out of the game. It doesn't matter how much you're up.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run it. They're gonna play action, and they
Speaker 1: have weapons all over the field. You alluded to already
Speaker 1: how he's spreading the ball all over the field. This
Speaker 1: is this is what makes the team dangerous is the
Speaker 1: fact that they don't turn the ball over their patient
Speaker 1: on offense. They're gonna run the ball and they go
Speaker 1: with play action. They have to speed to beat you
Speaker 1: over the top. That's a dangerous team. Yeah, they've got
Speaker 1: the best quarterback of the three the Cowboys a face,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it's close right now because of
Speaker 1: what the ways he can beat you in different ways,
Speaker 1: more so than Ryan or Golf not. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: had some changes up front. I think they got three
Speaker 1: new starters. They've got a rookie at I believe right guard.
Speaker 1: But it's Russell Wilson Man. So it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun to see how they match up
Speaker 1: with him because Yes, it's the best challenge they've had
Speaker 1: so far. It's a benchmark game, it really is. For
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. You got to win last week. You got
Speaker 1: lucky on that one. See if you can do it again,
Speaker 1: See if you can replicate and continue to improve. That's
Speaker 1: what I want this coaching staff to show me is
Speaker 1: that you can improve as the season goes along. And
Speaker 1: something that we were really frustrated with in the Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett eras the fact that you were stuck in an identity.
Speaker 1: I think now you can take that identity and evolve
Speaker 1: it as the season goes along. And this is a
Speaker 1: great way to do it up against the best in
Speaker 1: the NFC, and that's what the Seattle Seahawks are now.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow we're going to break down the Cowboys offense against
Speaker 1: the Seattle defense, where I really do think the Seattle
Speaker 1: defense is susceptible. Jamal Adams in his first game in
Speaker 1: a Seahawks uniform against the Cowboys, his hometown team, will
Speaker 1: break all of that down starting at nine thirty am tomorrow.
Speaker 1: If you have questions, send them to us on Twitter.
Speaker 1: We'll answer throughout the show and continue to break down
Speaker 1: this three week three matchup as the Cowboys travel to
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