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Speaker 1: We're here for the next forty five minutes breaking down
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons. Is the Broncos game
Speaker 1: Week nine? We're done with it, we talked about at
Speaker 1: the end the show yesterday. Don't even mention it. It's
Speaker 1: it is done. Are we I don't know. We're probably
Speaker 1: gonna bring it. Are the fans done with it? Probably not?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everybody's hurt. Man. That was a different
Speaker 1: That was a different kind of loss, you know, the
Speaker 1: kind that people will not put in the rear view mirror,
Speaker 1: and it just will I mean, look, we just got
Speaker 1: to get to this Sunday to get this feeling behind us.
Speaker 1: You feel like that's going to happen this Sunday. Oh
Speaker 1: hell yeah, we have to, Okay, I mean we have to.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things where the tape isn't
Speaker 1: gonna lie. These guys are seeing the effort and just
Speaker 1: when you go back over and it's just us, it's nasty.
Speaker 1: Uh So I anticipate this Sunday at twelve o'clock and
Speaker 1: those noon games have been a booger for us, man,
Speaker 1: but you know, I expect for these guys to do something,
Speaker 1: to come in more energetic on Sunday at twelve. I
Speaker 1: was pretty proud of Cowboys Nation Twitter on Sunday Monday Tuesday.
Speaker 1: The toxicity level was not what I expected. The venom.
Speaker 1: The venom was not what I expected coming out of
Speaker 1: that game. They I think people had it in perspective.
Speaker 1: I think when you win sixth straight, maybe your due.
Speaker 1: Yeah Sunday, if that happens again, though, it's uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that toxicity is going to be right back at the
Speaker 1: high level. It would go atomic. Yeah, one more time,
Speaker 1: it'd be atomic. H Yeah, you could say that again.
Speaker 1: Welcome Isaiah, sir. How's it going my friend today, mate,
Speaker 1: Well might he had an early morning this morning? I
Speaker 1: saw it on your Instagram store Away. I was actually
Speaker 1: a late morning, was it. Yeah, you got to sleep
Speaker 1: in a little bit. I have to wake up till
Speaker 1: five thirty today. Wow. Yeah, I hate that. I hate
Speaker 1: even thinking about that. Yeah, I was. I was on
Speaker 1: daddy duty. So the kids actually got up with me
Speaker 1: this morning. Oh that's fun. Yeah, they love it. Actually,
Speaker 1: there you go every so often, every so often. So
Speaker 1: we were talking about the toxicity of Cowboys Nation and
Speaker 1: how it wasn't at the atomic level yet, but if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do lose this weekend, it would reach new
Speaker 1: heights ultimately on Twitter and social media. And that's Dallas. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the pressure that runs with That's that's what comes
Speaker 1: with being in Dallas. That's I can tell you from
Speaker 1: somebody who's been on been with some of the larger
Speaker 1: organizations in the in the in the NFL, that's Dallas
Speaker 1: more souther than New York, more even more southern New York. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What about New England? New England is they're just supportive.
Speaker 1: All they do is win. So yeah, every regulation and
Speaker 1: freaking Boston wins seemingly at least when when I was
Speaker 1: playing see But I feel like that would ratchet up
Speaker 1: the pressure even more with though No, I think they
Speaker 1: just have a confidence that everything's gonna be okay. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta remember, Cowboys fans have been waiting for championships
Speaker 1: for a very long time. To point, the city of
Speaker 1: Boston hasn't had to wait that long, so when you
Speaker 1: make those kind of comparisons, and the city of New
Speaker 1: York hasn't had to wait that long, so they have
Speaker 1: more recent memories of things that grasp one to and
Speaker 1: hope to have. Um confidence to have versus versus the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I feel like the Cowboys like hippie pip pipe hype,
Speaker 1: and it's right is hippe hype, And so I think
Speaker 1: people are tired of their roller coaster. Um. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I think they're just they're hopeful, very very hopeful. Cowboy
Speaker 1: fans know what a great team looks like, though it's
Speaker 1: been a long time since they've had a champion, but
Speaker 1: they true. I think that's why. I think that's why
Speaker 1: there's some perspective here. I think people know they're good.
Speaker 1: They just have to show it. They have to come
Speaker 1: out with the energy that they had during that six
Speaker 1: game win streak, and part of it's about themselves, and
Speaker 1: then also the fact that we're always in the in
Speaker 1: the national media and then in everyone's face. So the
Speaker 1: expectation and the disappointment is always front and center as well.
Speaker 1: And you talk about other organizations like Boston, I mean
Speaker 1: they were a grease fire for a number of years,
Speaker 1: and so it wasn't until Belichick and Tom Brady got
Speaker 1: there than any of that even started. So I mean
Speaker 1: you talk about the history of the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 1: winning Super Bowls, I mean, this is an expectation, and
Speaker 1: so you know, even if the fan base sometimes and
Speaker 1: what really trips me out is how people perceive Cowboy fans.
Speaker 1: It's like these brats are you know? These people that
Speaker 1: that feel as though each and every year is our year.
Speaker 1: Name a team that doesn't feel like that. Name a
Speaker 1: fan base that doesn't feel like their team should be
Speaker 1: number one every year, and I'll show you a loser.
Speaker 1: Can I say where it's accurate? Though? Where about the
Speaker 1: judging quarterback play in this town. I think that's the
Speaker 1: one where it's like there's no perspective there because they've
Speaker 1: been so fortunate and there's franchises that don't have anywhere
Speaker 1: close to the fortune they've had finding quarterbacks, whether it's
Speaker 1: mid round picks, undrafted guys, first round picks, you name it.
Speaker 1: I wonder what percentage of Cowboys Nation and I think
Speaker 1: it's probably still pretty high, but how large of a
Speaker 1: percentage it is that realizes how lucky, and I mean
Speaker 1: straight up lucky the Cowboys got with Dak Prescott replacing
Speaker 1: Tony Romo and that seamless transition in twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: how that happened, and then the fact that it is
Speaker 1: carried on all the way through twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: it'll continue through the rest of Dak Prescott's career. I mean,
Speaker 1: that transition could not have worked out any better for
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans. And it does bring up some bad memories
Speaker 1: for a lot of Cowboys fans as well, especially those
Speaker 1: that were really high on Tony Romo. But I mean
Speaker 1: having a franchise quarterback and then immediately replacing him with
Speaker 1: another franchise quarterback. That doesn't happen that often, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had that great fortune over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. Now we keep talking about how this team
Speaker 1: is good or they can still do something special even
Speaker 1: though you did have an embarrassing loss. The first step
Speaker 1: in that is, like I said, putting into the review
Speaker 1: mirror and then taking a step forward, and the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons are that step forward. This week, you also got
Speaker 1: a guy who knows the Atlanta Falcons pretty darn well,
Speaker 1: and that's Dan Quinn, defensive coordinator, former head coach of
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and had you post this question in our
Speaker 1: group message earlier in the week. But do you think
Speaker 1: dan Quinn has that brings a little bit of an
Speaker 1: advantage the fact that he knows that organization inside and out,
Speaker 1: in the fact that he has already left his stamp
Speaker 1: on this defensive or defensive unit. A mean and he
Speaker 1: even said it in his interview that maybe you know
Speaker 1: only on personnel because he drafted most of these guys,
Speaker 1: but their systems and everything that they do now is
Speaker 1: completely different from when he was there, and so studying
Speaker 1: tendencies all that you know, that may be important, but
Speaker 1: still the difference the defenses, offense, everything is completely different
Speaker 1: from when he was there. So, I mean, again, if
Speaker 1: there's any advantage, it's just on personnel alone. What do
Speaker 1: you guys think about having that, Isaiah, did you ever
Speaker 1: play against the former coach like that? Not head coach,
Speaker 1: but I mean did you have a head coach? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was thinking Belichick, but yeah, yeah Belichick, m Garrett, Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: played against Garrett. I mean, but that as a player,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean coaching wise, knowing the personnel, right,
Speaker 1: knowing the personnel and knowing there's obviously guys still on
Speaker 1: the roster that he's familiarized with, then he understands their
Speaker 1: strengths and their weaknesses, and you can play to those things.
Speaker 1: You know, I think teams are. It's no different than
Speaker 1: like Diggs. Diggs ball out the first part of the season, right,
Speaker 1: and now teams know what he's what he's great at,
Speaker 1: but they also know what he's vulnerable to him. Right,
Speaker 1: So when you're a coach and you've coached those guys,
Speaker 1: you also know those things. You know what they're more
Speaker 1: inclined to do. These guys, he's more inclined to jump
Speaker 1: on this type of route, they're more inclined to take
Speaker 1: this type of set when when we line up in
Speaker 1: this in this type of front. So there's there's advantages
Speaker 1: like that that I'm sure that he'll bring to those meetings.
Speaker 1: But other than that, you know, guys just got to
Speaker 1: show up and play. Yeah, I mean he was with
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan for six years, so I think in six
Speaker 1: years you've got a pretty good read on what he likes,
Speaker 1: what tendencies he doesn't like, and so I think that helps.
Speaker 1: But even from a personnel standpoint, some of the guys
Speaker 1: are driving their offense weren't there when he was there,
Speaker 1: you know, Quarduroll, Pattison was not there, Kyle Pitts was
Speaker 1: not there. So I think it helps, maybe especially from
Speaker 1: the quarterback perspective because they had a close relationship and
Speaker 1: they worked together for a long time. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: scheme of the offense is different, and a lot of
Speaker 1: personnel is different. How much crossover is there between a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and a quarterback whenever, or not even a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, but a head coach and a quarterback when
Speaker 1: the head coach is so defensive minded, I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot. You know exactly what Matt Ryan doesn't like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know exactly the looks that he likes.
Speaker 1: So when he used to call him when the plays
Speaker 1: came in and he obviously passed him along or gave
Speaker 1: all gave Matt Ryan. Okay, like he knew exactly what
Speaker 1: plays he wanted, right. I like this type of look.
Speaker 1: I feel confident in this. So I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: Quinn's gonna stay away from those kind of looks. He
Speaker 1: also knows exactly what pisses Matt Ryan off or what
Speaker 1: causes him issues. And you know, he was able to
Speaker 1: fire those things up in practice or not send me,
Speaker 1: you know, to have whatever type of practice they were
Speaker 1: looking for. So he knows advantages and disadvantages, and you know,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see. It'd be very interesting to see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Tennessee's man, I mean, you know your quarterback. If
Speaker 1: you're a head coach, you know you're a quarterback. And
Speaker 1: I love what he had to say about it. He
Speaker 1: says he's an ultimate competitor. And knowing that, you know,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan has been one of those quarterbacks over the
Speaker 1: years that has gone as high as he could possibly
Speaker 1: go to, you know, going to a Super Bowl, it
Speaker 1: going as low as he could possibly go with just
Speaker 1: man team having an awful season, him being injured right now,
Speaker 1: I think even in the evaluation of the Falcons, man,
Speaker 1: it's just really kind of weird to see them without
Speaker 1: Julio and some of the guys that have been a
Speaker 1: part of the team for so many years. They're completely changed.
Speaker 1: And I think the team that we're going to see
Speaker 1: come in here on Sunday, it's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: different from the one that was here last year that
Speaker 1: we you know, obviously, the famed Watermelon kick and all
Speaker 1: of that, and it was a victory that we had
Speaker 1: to pull out. But I want to see what Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith brings to the table. I think Arthur Smith and
Speaker 1: you know, a new head coach of the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: thirty nine years old, one of those offensive minds that
Speaker 1: everyone kind of thrust to the front. You know, he
Speaker 1: had his success in Tennessee. You know that they went
Speaker 1: from Tennessee. They wanted to run the ball, playoff, play action,
Speaker 1: and throw, and I think that's the same thing that
Speaker 1: they're doing here. The way that they're using Cordell Patterson.
Speaker 1: I think it's very interesting. I've watched Cardelle Patterson's career
Speaker 1: and how I didn't know he was that kind of weapon,
Speaker 1: but they obviously saw something in him and what he
Speaker 1: does that they think, you know, is you can lead
Speaker 1: this franchise and right now, if if the season ended
Speaker 1: right now, Atlanta would be in the playoffs. And that's
Speaker 1: that's hard to fathom for a lot of people. And
Speaker 1: that's another thing. You can't overlook this team as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be a problem after
Speaker 1: what the Broncos just did, But you can't overlook this
Speaker 1: squad as well just because they had a poor start
Speaker 1: to the year. They've won some some gritty games four
Speaker 1: and four, and all four of their wins have been
Speaker 1: within a single score. I mean, they've won close games,
Speaker 1: and I guess through the Cowboys side of things, they've
Speaker 1: won close games as well. So if you want to
Speaker 1: kind of look at the two back and forth, you
Speaker 1: gotta make sure you take them seriously. Now, with dan
Speaker 1: Quinn and the game plan that he has and the
Speaker 1: fact that he knows the personnel to a certain extent
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football, what would he
Speaker 1: say the strengths are of this Atlanta squad. Would it
Speaker 1: be Cordarell Patterson, would it be Kyle Pitts is at
Speaker 1: the run game? What exactly is it specifically that dan
Speaker 1: Quinn would try and take away? It's not the run game.
Speaker 1: You know that they don't run it a lot, and
Speaker 1: they haven't run it with a ton of success either.
Speaker 1: I think they're getting three point four yards to carry.
Speaker 1: They're near the bottom of the league and attempts. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's Matt Ryan and you guys watched it. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're kind of the mismatch business. Basically, They've got
Speaker 1: a running back who's not really a running back, and
Speaker 1: they've got a tight end who's not a tight end
Speaker 1: that you know, they try to create mismatches with Cordoroll
Speaker 1: Patterson out of the backfield, line him up everywhere, and
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts lines up everywhere, and sometimes it's getting the
Speaker 1: attention of the number one cornerback on the other team.
Speaker 1: So interested to see how the Cowboys handle both of
Speaker 1: those because it's a pretty unique offense from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: and Rob right on the hit. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: are they create mismatch nightmares. I mean, they create personnel
Speaker 1: nightmares for you. Um, you know it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: kind of incredible. The fact that Cordale right, corda Corridoril Like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Cordoil, Yeah, Um, that's how I'm gonna remember it. Um,
Speaker 1: if you call him that sometime throughout the week, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna laugh so hard it will happen. I'm sure, no disrespect,
Speaker 1: but I mean the fact that he can line up
Speaker 1: in the backfield and you have to treat him as
Speaker 1: a running back. But then he could literally widen out
Speaker 1: and if you don't have the right personnel called on
Speaker 1: the defense side of the ball, you're gonna put a
Speaker 1: lineback around him or a safety on him. Either way,
Speaker 1: you lose, and he'll run a go route too on you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: either way you lose. He's a receiver by trade. Ye,
Speaker 1: he's a returner by trade. Um, So you line up
Speaker 1: anybody but Michael Parsons, you're gonna lose. You line up
Speaker 1: you know, you know JR. Jay Ron Curse and try
Speaker 1: to guard him on a route. It's probably not going
Speaker 1: to end well, even though Curses had a good year.
Speaker 1: You know, sticking tight ends, This is not a tight end.
Speaker 1: This is not a running back. This is this is
Speaker 1: a wide receiver that has set the size to be
Speaker 1: able to lay the hammer down one need to be.
Speaker 1: So that's that's just rosse point. They create those those
Speaker 1: matchup issues for you, and I don't. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see personnel wise what we go out there with on
Speaker 1: defense when they come out of these different packages. Because again,
Speaker 1: if Pitts, White and Whiten's out, who do you put
Speaker 1: on them? If Cordell comes out the backfield, Cordell comes
Speaker 1: out the backfille, then what do you do? It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an interesting thing to see for dan Quinn. I
Speaker 1: think that he has the personnel to match up perfectly
Speaker 1: with these guys. I mean, you know, Kyle Pitts is
Speaker 1: a tight end. We're gonna slash receiver Patterson in his
Speaker 1: career right now. He's looking good. He's done some some
Speaker 1: pretty good things. And like we said last year, and
Speaker 1: we were evaluating the Atlanta Falcons, you know, even though
Speaker 1: christ of the three hundred looks like a Bentley. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure that I stayed with that because
Speaker 1: I feel like this defense has the leg up on
Speaker 1: the Falcons offense. And the reason being is we got
Speaker 1: to get back to getting pressure on the quarterback. We
Speaker 1: hadn't been able to do that. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much has been made of getting turnovers. What's
Speaker 1: good to happen when this defense doesn't get a turnover.
Speaker 1: We had one last game, but obviously a flag negated that.
Speaker 1: But we have to get back to that. That's what
Speaker 1: that's what we do. Create those turnovers, create pressure and
Speaker 1: make quarterbacks make bad decisions. And that's where Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: I believe, is at his best in making those those
Speaker 1: bad decisions. He'll give you an opportunity to get the ball.
Speaker 1: But obviously with the deep crossers and we're seeing those
Speaker 1: be a problems sometimes for Diggs. They're gonna hit us
Speaker 1: with that and they're gonna try and put put those
Speaker 1: mismatches together. But we have to understand, man, they're without
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, and Ridley took his absence because of mental
Speaker 1: health and we wish him all the best. But still
Speaker 1: I think that when you look at Russell Gage and
Speaker 1: our ability to play him with Lewis, I think those
Speaker 1: are those are matchups that our guys should look forward
Speaker 1: to because these are winnable for them. But Isaiah is
Speaker 1: right when he's out of the backfield, when Patterson's coming
Speaker 1: out of the backfield, do you put Micah on him?
Speaker 1: Do you go with Jay run curse on him? I
Speaker 1: think there are things that you can do within your
Speaker 1: defense to make sure that he's not the one guy
Speaker 1: that beats you. Let's let's say that they're in I
Speaker 1: guess what would it be? Eleven personnel, three wide receivers.
Speaker 1: You've got the running back which is Cordorel Patterson in
Speaker 1: the backfield, and then you've got the one tight end
Speaker 1: in Kyle Pitts on the field right, and you spread out.
Speaker 1: Cordorel Patterson comes out of the backfield and he adds
Speaker 1: that that fourth wide receiver looks So now you're in
Speaker 1: one personnel. What's the difference from really any other team
Speaker 1: just putting four wide receivers with a tight end. That's
Speaker 1: what they initially come out in. Okay, So you initially
Speaker 1: come out in you initially come out with three receivers.
Speaker 1: So I guess what you put three dvs out there?
Speaker 1: Or you put three cornerbacks out there right in Nickel. Now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he comes out the backfield. Now
Speaker 1: who bumps out your linebacker? Right? So it's all about
Speaker 1: the personnel that they come out on line up with.
Speaker 1: That's how they create those mismatches. That's how that's how
Speaker 1: they that's how they mess you up because they can
Speaker 1: come out in twelve personnel. Yep, they come out of
Speaker 1: twelve personnel or you know, one running back, two tight
Speaker 1: ends and severs all of a sudden, now you're in
Speaker 1: your base defense and now you got this dude. He
Speaker 1: comes out the backfield and you're like, oh crap. Or
Speaker 1: they have a short split with their receiver and now
Speaker 1: they've run Pits outside and then they motioned Patterson and
Speaker 1: now they're now they're in an empty set and you're
Speaker 1: guarding Pits with a cornerback and you're guarding you know,
Speaker 1: Patterson with a dog on linebacker. Is It's just they
Speaker 1: can create some some bad situations for you. Everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: have to have their and their antenna's up. But how
Speaker 1: do you combat that? Maybe even prior to the snap
Speaker 1: with personnel? Who do you put out there if you
Speaker 1: know that there's a chance that Patterson does split out? Why?
Speaker 1: I mean I think you I think you negated by
Speaker 1: doing exactly what Rob said. Rob said, they're not running
Speaker 1: the ball, Well they're not. They're not running the ball. Well,
Speaker 1: so knowing that they're not running the ball, well you
Speaker 1: might be able to come out in these Nickel type
Speaker 1: sets and and not and just just say, hey, guess what,
Speaker 1: non't matter what you do, we can stop your run
Speaker 1: even in this personnel grouping. And if you decided to
Speaker 1: widen these guys out, we have the personnel out there
Speaker 1: to go ahead and guard you. You're not gonna mess
Speaker 1: this up. And every you call it a big nickel,
Speaker 1: whatever you want, that's we're typically in the nickel anyway.
Speaker 1: So I mean, whether they go empty or they go
Speaker 1: with him and the one you know as the back
Speaker 1: in the backfield, we're usually there. And I and and
Speaker 1: for me again going back to our strong safety, it's
Speaker 1: your run curse, um ja run curse is the is
Speaker 1: the link uh in this game or most of the
Speaker 1: games when they go to an empty set where he's
Speaker 1: having to make plays or he's isolated with the tight end,
Speaker 1: we still have to talk about Hayton Hurst. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're looking at other pieces, but Hayden Hurst is also
Speaker 1: a weapon for them as well. So I mean, and
Speaker 1: Zachie is that dude is coming along strong, so you
Speaker 1: better respect him as well. But do you have two
Speaker 1: or three touchdowns this week? He's balling, Yeah, he's ball
Speaker 1: and he's playing more without Ridley. Yes, they I mean
Speaker 1: they play Cowboys play a lot of big nickel, like
Speaker 1: you said, and if you watch, I mean the Falcons
Speaker 1: will run against that and and hand it off if
Speaker 1: they see, you know, kind of a light front. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't run it that great. And I do think
Speaker 1: to your point, heck, the Cowboys are way better equipped
Speaker 1: this year than they were last year with curses, versatility, parsons,
Speaker 1: speed back there. They've just got more versatility. They just
Speaker 1: they just didn't play well last week. I mean, Quinn said,
Speaker 1: they missed fourteen tackles, they didn't finish runs, didn't finish plays,
Speaker 1: they were trying to strip the ball, trying to get
Speaker 1: that takeaway instead of just wrapping up and finishing the play.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't It just wasn't a good performance. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you go back to the Patriots game,
Speaker 1: I think they tried to test the Cowboys in space
Speaker 1: with their tight ends and their running back. So see
Speaker 1: how responded. It'd be a good chess match. I think
Speaker 1: stopping the run is going to be one of the
Speaker 1: easier assignments, but it's still something that concerns me because
Speaker 1: of the way that the Cowboys defense has given up
Speaker 1: some chunk yardage on a couple of occasions this year.
Speaker 1: If they come out and play like they did against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel pretty good. If they come out and
Speaker 1: play it like they did last week against Denver, you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel like maybe you're missing something. Um. And by
Speaker 1: the way, going back to your takeaway point earlier, I
Speaker 1: meant to mention this yesterday, but now I thought we
Speaker 1: had an answer to the Minnesota game and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense did not have a takeaway. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this defense can still play when they don't have a takeaway.
Speaker 1: This is awesome. This is gonna be really good moving forward.
Speaker 1: And then the next week it is completely went the
Speaker 1: opposite direction. Didn't have a takeaway, Andy didn't play well.
Speaker 1: So we have two opposite ends of the spectrum. If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can't even find a middle ground, I feel
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be fine with it. But there's more
Speaker 1: to talk about with that moving forward. When we come back,
Speaker 1: you're on talking Cowboys. Is Matt Ryan still Matt Ryan?
Speaker 1: What can he do that picks apart this Cowboys defense?
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Speaker 1: a wonderful Wednesday. Heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah standback, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: some Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the back. And I
Speaker 1: posed this question going into the break. Is Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: still Matt Ryan? Can he put up big numbers? Well?
Speaker 1: Over the first four games of the year, the answer
Speaker 1: was probably no. Went one in three averaged under twenty
Speaker 1: points per game. Points per game allowed for the defense
Speaker 1: was thirty two points per game, so it's not like
Speaker 1: the defense really helped him out a whole lot. But
Speaker 1: over the last four games, however, the Falcons are three
Speaker 1: and one. They've averaged over twenty four points per game,
Speaker 1: so seeing an uptick there, and the defense is playing
Speaker 1: much better with five takeaways and averaging just twenty three
Speaker 1: points against. So I ask you the same question, based
Speaker 1: off of the numbers that you heard there, Is Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan still good enough? Is he still elevated his game enough? Heck?
Speaker 1: But to be able to pick a part of defense
Speaker 1: like he did early in his career, Well, he has
Speaker 1: the best nickname in the game, Mattie. I is Mattie
Speaker 1: Ice and he has been. His nickname is so good
Speaker 1: that almost every Matt in the world has probably been
Speaker 1: called Mattie Ice at some point. At some point I
Speaker 1: stole a nickname. Yeah, you called Matt Kent, who does
Speaker 1: great work in the studio, Mattie Ice like every day.
Speaker 1: You know. I grew up in the neighborhood where if
Speaker 1: you a nickname, boy, you bet if you got one stick,
Speaker 1: it's stick and it stays with you. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people give you a bad nickname. It's about to say,
Speaker 1: there's probably not some good ones in it's you know
Speaker 1: what it is. It is some good ones, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling they stayed with you, with Maddie. And look, I
Speaker 1: know you're thinking of something right now. I got something too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's probably well, yeah, yeah, The thing is, you're right.
Speaker 1: I mean, Matt Matt Ryan is a veteran quarterback that
Speaker 1: you know hasn't lost it. He's not one of those
Speaker 1: guys that you know has fell off the deep end.
Speaker 1: He's lost some of his receiver depth, for sure, but
Speaker 1: he's still able to make all the throws. He's still
Speaker 1: competent um and he knows that he can get he
Speaker 1: can get the ball there. I just think that, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as his protection and things like that. Those
Speaker 1: things are breaking down. It doesn't matter, you know, whether
Speaker 1: you're an old quarterback or you see justin fields in Chicago. Man,
Speaker 1: you can't maneuver and do a whole lot when you
Speaker 1: don't have time in the pocket. And that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for him because he needs for these
Speaker 1: plays to develop. I think that their their head coach
Speaker 1: definitely tries to put him in a position to be successful.
Speaker 1: They change his launching point in certain games you've seen
Speaker 1: where they're getting pressure on him. But again, I think
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, they cannot come into this game
Speaker 1: being overconfident. The number one thing has to be is
Speaker 1: getting pressure on Matt Ryan and creating those turnovers. How
Speaker 1: do you do that against this offensive line? Is this
Speaker 1: offensive line better than any of the ones you've seen previously?
Speaker 1: On this office line of struggling and matt and Mattie
Speaker 1: Ice turns loot warm whenever he has some pressure he
Speaker 1: has whenever he has to move his feet, he literally melts. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: he's the dog on snowman. He's but no, he um,
Speaker 1: He's still delivered the ball. He's still he's still You
Speaker 1: have to respect this man. Don't disrespect him. We learned
Speaker 1: our lesson in that already. Um, as a reason why
Speaker 1: I sit up here and talk about how good players
Speaker 1: are every week. Um, you have to respect this dude.
Speaker 1: And but the way that you can throw him off
Speaker 1: his game is, you know, he has some pressure on him.
Speaker 1: And whether that have results in sacks or not, I
Speaker 1: think it's still affects the game just as much. Um.
Speaker 1: He doesn't throw the ball well on the move. Um,
Speaker 1: And he has guys that are able to get to
Speaker 1: the middle of the field right now. A lot of
Speaker 1: times you're worried about guys outside the hashes, You're worri
Speaker 1: about guys ouside the numbers in the NFL. UM, he
Speaker 1: has guys that can work the middle now, and that's
Speaker 1: dangerous if you allow for him to set his feet
Speaker 1: back there and be comfortable. Yeah, Gage does that, Zacarius
Speaker 1: does that obviously, Pitts does that. Yeah. I thought against
Speaker 1: the Saints he did a pretty good job of just
Speaker 1: buying a little extra time moving up in the pocket,
Speaker 1: climbing the pocket because he because you're right, like, the
Speaker 1: pressure was on him and it's not the strength of
Speaker 1: their their offense right now, even though they have some
Speaker 1: good players Jake Matthews obviously so, but he can he
Speaker 1: can buy a little extra time. I think the thing
Speaker 1: you worry about is just he has seen everything in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's seen every coverage you can throw at him,
Speaker 1: and honestly, when we talked about it goes the other way.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been around Quinn for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think one thing you give quin Quinn credit for,
Speaker 1: and he talked about it Monday, is he's changed a
Speaker 1: lot of his philosophy. He's you know, when he came here,
Speaker 1: we said, oh, he's a cover three defense. He plays
Speaker 1: a lot of different coverages and so lately changed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's part of him adapting. After he got
Speaker 1: let go from the Falcons, he said, he went back
Speaker 1: seven years and looked at everything I did Seattle Atlanta
Speaker 1: and tried to kind of change that up and add
Speaker 1: more and that'll be important against the guy that he
Speaker 1: coached for six years. Yeah. And he also with two
Speaker 1: seventy six for four touchdowns last last year versus so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's done. If I gave you one guest to say
Speaker 1: where Matt Ryan ranks in terms of completion percentage efficiency
Speaker 1: in the NFL since Week three, what would your guests be? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know, wouldn't completion percentage, it's almost seventy right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: seventy yeah, sixty nine point five completion percentage since Week three.
Speaker 1: That's second in the NFL only behind Kyler Murray. So
Speaker 1: in that winning streak or the three out of or
Speaker 1: three in one streak that I mentioned coming into the segment,
Speaker 1: he's been dealing. So that's pretty good. It's been dealing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: seventy percent completion rate is pretty good, pretty good. But
Speaker 1: the Scott used to have one of those. But you know,
Speaker 1: these guys are not. They don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: explosive plays, and so those all short yardage things that
Speaker 1: he that he's doing. So, I mean, for our worries
Speaker 1: about our defense has been all the big play, you know,
Speaker 1: the big play. Giving up the big play has been
Speaker 1: our Achilles Hill anything. And you just can't allow for
Speaker 1: Atlanta to get certain things going. We talk about them
Speaker 1: not having a true running back. Well, when they turn
Speaker 1: a hand the ball off to Mike Davis and he's
Speaker 1: grinding up some yards, that kind of opens up everything
Speaker 1: on their offense. You want to keep them in the
Speaker 1: bubble that they came in and they're not used to
Speaker 1: getting those big chunk played. But when they do, that's
Speaker 1: when you see that offense actually clicking. Also, I forgot
Speaker 1: about this whenever we're talking about this offense and the
Speaker 1: potential of linebackers having to cover tight ends and having
Speaker 1: to cover Cordorell Patterson, Kyle Pitts and Michael Parsons played
Speaker 1: against each other in high school. They were high school
Speaker 1: rivals in both on the all state team in high
Speaker 1: school in Pennsylvania. So something interesting to think about is
Speaker 1: they're breaking news over there. You know, I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at some of these stats. My god, you know, g
Speaker 1: Mattson's out emails, hut and the last four games, these
Speaker 1: guys that have a seventy five percent winning percentage, they're
Speaker 1: averaging twenty four points a game. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the defense right now, but they're they're
Speaker 1: scoring more than they than they are allowing right now,
Speaker 1: and these boys are picking it up. So as you
Speaker 1: talk about Matt Ryan and his completion percentage over these
Speaker 1: last you know, three four games, it's it's that's that's why,
Speaker 1: right they're figuring it out. They're figuring out their personnel
Speaker 1: on it's complimentary football too. It's complimentary football for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, but you know, one of your favorite human
Speaker 1: beings in the world in this past draft was was
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitch. There's no secret about that. And in the
Speaker 1: first three or four games, they didn't know how to
Speaker 1: utilize him. They didn't know how to you know, how
Speaker 1: to incorporate him into their offense. Guess what they need?
Speaker 1: They figured it out. Um. So now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they figured that out, and now they're starting him
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan are starting to get that symmetry in
Speaker 1: that chemistry, um, and they're starting to result in w's
Speaker 1: for them. So they have they've had some feel good games.
Speaker 1: I mean, and I love you know the schedule that
Speaker 1: they have wins against the Giants, lost to the Washington
Speaker 1: football team, they beat the Jets, they beat the Dolphins. Um,
Speaker 1: they lost against the Panthers. Are you saying it was
Speaker 1: the same thing last week? Same thing last week against Denver? Denvers.
Speaker 1: Denver's wins were against teams that were not good. But
Speaker 1: but if we played, if we have to play a
Speaker 1: Denver every week, I think I hear and that I
Speaker 1: was just addressing your point in terms of the feel
Speaker 1: good wins. Denver, they're feel good wins were all was
Speaker 1: all their win columns as well, So that right there,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't look at that, and more so I would
Speaker 1: more so look at the aspect that these guys are
Speaker 1: starting to figure out how to utilize their personnel, on
Speaker 1: how to incorporate their offense. Patterson is getting He's everywhere now.
Speaker 1: In the first couple of games they were they had
Speaker 1: an idea what they wanted to do with him. Now
Speaker 1: they know exactly how to utilize him. Saints that two
Speaker 1: lost going into last week as well, and Atlanta came
Speaker 1: out and smacked him in the mouth. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got up early and boy did they almost collapse again late.
Speaker 1: But the fact that they got up so big on
Speaker 1: New Orleans was pretty impressive. Yeah, and this and this
Speaker 1: zac is cat. I know he doesn't his stats aren't
Speaker 1: like jumping off the screen. Watch him, please watch him.
Speaker 1: Robinson put us all on notice. Now, So the guy
Speaker 1: that comes in we're not expected now that the fifth guy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fifth guy on the fifth guy on the roster,
Speaker 1: we better watch out for. I mean, I agree, I
Speaker 1: mean this guy, these guys do some good things, and
Speaker 1: like you said, the respect level has to be there.
Speaker 1: But when I look at their schedule and some of
Speaker 1: their wins, and even going back to that Saints game,
Speaker 1: they tried to give that game, They really tried to
Speaker 1: give that game up. So this is gonna be an
Speaker 1: interesting match up, right, They haven't being a bunch of
Speaker 1: playoff teams. If you go into New Orleans and win, though,
Speaker 1: I'm in that's the Cowboys, whether they add a starting
Speaker 1: quarterback in there or not, that's I think that's an
Speaker 1: impressive win. Division game, division game for sure. How much
Speaker 1: of this do you think, you guys think is just
Speaker 1: about you just getting back to playing the way they
Speaker 1: play defensively? I mean, dan Quinn kept talking over and
Speaker 1: over about that on Monday. He said, I think just
Speaker 1: remembering what that relentless nature of going and finishing can
Speaker 1: feel like and look like, and what you've seen from
Speaker 1: that defense. We've got to capture that every time you go.
Speaker 1: It's got to be that way. I mean, personnel wise, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's mismatches all that, but they were not physical, they
Speaker 1: were not they missed tackles. I think some of this
Speaker 1: stuff is self scout and just get back to playing
Speaker 1: the way you play and they'll be all right in
Speaker 1: that regard. Although like you said, they're still giving up
Speaker 1: big plays. That's been a common theme every week, whether
Speaker 1: it's run game, mostly in the past game, but they
Speaker 1: gave up too many big I think they had six
Speaker 1: explosive runs for like one hundred and thirty yards Broncos
Speaker 1: did last week. I love that, man, and it's a
Speaker 1: term people using football and sports period. Let's let's get
Speaker 1: back to being us. And I think if we get
Speaker 1: back to being us, you feel better about going in
Speaker 1: and smacking the Falcons around because you felt but you
Speaker 1: had to feel horrible about your effort versus Verst the
Speaker 1: Broncos and the tackles, and you talked about it. You're
Speaker 1: going in, you're trying to strip guys and they're getting
Speaker 1: getting away and getting ten fifteen extra yards. Get the
Speaker 1: guy down. This is the first time I think I've
Speaker 1: seen a game where we made contact and the runner
Speaker 1: kept going. And so this is if this is going
Speaker 1: to be a first time, let it be the last time.
Speaker 1: Gotta make it be the last time. Now, for those
Speaker 1: of you who played the game, both of you at
Speaker 1: the end of the table. When there's a loss like
Speaker 1: that and you turn around, you have to get back
Speaker 1: to being yourself. What's the approach from a practice standpoint?
Speaker 1: What kind of practice are you having because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are back on the field today, what kind of practice
Speaker 1: are you having to today and tomorrow in order to
Speaker 1: get back to that point? Oklahoma, drill bulling the ring,
Speaker 1: bulling the ring, It's still different. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: you're just more dialed in. You know, you're just asking
Speaker 1: guys to be more dialed in. You recognize that this
Speaker 1: is such a pr so well, I mean, I mean
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, you're you're asking guys to be
Speaker 1: more dialed and watch more film, you know, be more,
Speaker 1: be more intent on executing your assignments. This was not
Speaker 1: a physical just beating in terms of us just getting
Speaker 1: just thraw like New England did on our first drive.
Speaker 1: That wasn't that was that was just being out physical
Speaker 1: because we just couldn't stop them physically. This was out
Speaker 1: physical because guys just didn't show up and you just
Speaker 1: meant mentally weren't there. So to your point, heck, if
Speaker 1: the guys get back to showing up, get back to
Speaker 1: you know, being approaching the game that proper, the proper
Speaker 1: way and executing then then I think that we're feeling
Speaker 1: pretty dog going good about it. Um. But in terms
Speaker 1: of practice, yeah, it's just dialed in. Hey, get back,
Speaker 1: get back focus. Whatever happened to you last week, get
Speaker 1: that mess about your system, get locked back in. We
Speaker 1: did not just face the dog on you know, mon
Speaker 1: stars and they just came in just no loves. You know,
Speaker 1: you just happened now. And you know, being in this
Speaker 1: building man, and having an opportunity to speak with guys
Speaker 1: like Nate Newton that you know and you talked to Nate,
Speaker 1: and then being coached by Jimmy Johnson, their whole mentality
Speaker 1: on those teams were completely different. Now with the you know,
Speaker 1: players not hitting through through the week, they were having
Speaker 1: live hitting sessions through the week, so when they got
Speaker 1: to the game, there was no such thing as you know,
Speaker 1: guys not putting in the effort, because guys were always
Speaker 1: worried about their job under Jimmy and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's just I love having those conversations with guys that
Speaker 1: have done it at a high level, that's been there,
Speaker 1: that understand the look man, right now, these guys and
Speaker 1: you even say it all the time. Man, this is cupcake.
Speaker 1: I would love to be a part of this training
Speaker 1: regiment of what they're doing during the week and so
Speaker 1: having a letdown game like this and guys knowing that,
Speaker 1: you know, look, they didn't get to this, they didn't
Speaker 1: get to this level by accident. So you know, going
Speaker 1: back to what made them professional athletes gonna be important
Speaker 1: and tackling is just a part of it. Under this schedule, Isa,
Speaker 1: you could have played another eight games. I'm thinking about
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Speaker 1: what did I say that? It will be interesting who
Speaker 1: is under the most pressure on the Cowboys defense to
Speaker 1: have a better performance on something? What? Who would you say,
Speaker 1: would you say it's a specific player or specific unit,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, but who has the biggest pressure on them?
Speaker 1: Moving into Sunday, Rob, I mean this is a cop out.
Speaker 1: I think it's everybody. I don't think any level of
Speaker 1: defense went well Sunday. I mean you could point out
Speaker 1: specific guys and say Mike have played well, especially in
Speaker 1: the past rush game, Layton had a bunch of tackles,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think top to bottom it
Speaker 1: went well for for anybody. And I know you put
Speaker 1: treyvon Diggs on the on the rundown there, and I
Speaker 1: think he's an interesting guy to talk about because he's
Speaker 1: got all these interceptions, but he's got some penalties lately,
Speaker 1: and he's given up some plays. And you know, either
Speaker 1: Quinn or Mike McCarthy said he's probably playing I think
Speaker 1: Mike said he's playing a little too aggressive right now.
Speaker 1: So how do you how does he strike that balance
Speaker 1: because that's what makes him good as a cover guy,
Speaker 1: But how do you not give up as much as
Speaker 1: he's been given up lately as well? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Curse has to have a big game. I think Kurs
Speaker 1: and Parsons and obviously depends on what coach Quinn does
Speaker 1: in terms of personnel matchups. But Curse is going to
Speaker 1: have his handsful obviously with Pitts, and I think Parsons
Speaker 1: will be the guy that's kind of touted to be
Speaker 1: follow around Patterson anywhere he goes. That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: Do you think Curse and his ability to cover Jared
Speaker 1: Cook back in week two and kind of having that
Speaker 1: even remotely translates to what Kyle Pitts can do, because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of big athletic tight ends and Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: is a different animal than Jared Cook. But Jared Cook's
Speaker 1: right up there, at least in terms of the guys
Speaker 1: he's faired. Cook was tripping over himself this, I mean, jok,
Speaker 1: I don't have it. If not watch the film to film.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an older he's players. I don't Jared
Speaker 1: Cook is not a route run? Did he do against
Speaker 1: Jered Cook's not a route runner? Happened? I don't have
Speaker 1: any people who are stronger than me. You can have Itsten,
Speaker 1: I did everything I needed to do. What was the
Speaker 1: comparison you made? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, he's Jered He's I
Speaker 1: mean you go back to jail. I think Jayle Smith
Speaker 1: was trying to cover him right and some other stuff that. Anyways,
Speaker 1: he's not a route runner. Um, Kyle Pitts is a
Speaker 1: route runner. I mean you think about the tight ends
Speaker 1: that we faced this year. Yeah, Gronkowski Week one, he ate,
Speaker 1: he ate a whole plate Thanksgiving, came back for seconds. Actually, uh,
Speaker 1: who else do we face? That was a beast of
Speaker 1: a tight end? Cronk I'm saying aside from Gronk, m m,
Speaker 1: not really. Yeah, we haven't faced one, so I'm saying
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Curses the next challenging guy from
Speaker 1: the Giants. But he's he's kind of office his thing.
Speaker 1: But you know what I think. I agree with you. Patriots, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Patriots and Patriots. Yes, those guys are talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those guys are guys really good. So yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: the next next group that I would say put in
Speaker 1: that in that category. And those guys are kind of
Speaker 1: a dual threat. This is the guy for them. But
Speaker 1: I agree with both of you. I just want to
Speaker 1: say I agree with both of you into that regard
Speaker 1: and not taking the easy way out that everybody has
Speaker 1: to play better on defense. But You're right about curse
Speaker 1: and Curses leading the team right now and tackles. Fact
Speaker 1: checked me on that Chris being, But I believe he is,
Speaker 1: And if he finishes the season leading this team and tackle,
Speaker 1: be the first time that a free safety or safety
Speaker 1: has led the team and tackle since b from Ohio Wow,
Speaker 1: who had one hundred and ten tackles. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy that's an integral part of what
Speaker 1: we do. But you're right, man, he has his hands
Speaker 1: full on defense, especially versus Kyle Pitts. But I believe
Speaker 1: this Randy Gregory, Randy Gregory has to get that motor
Speaker 1: going bash him. Our edge guys have got to continue
Speaker 1: to put pressure on Matt Ryan because, like you said,
Speaker 1: the offensive line is compromised and we know that Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan will give you opportunities. And in the run game too,
Speaker 1: edge containment was a problem. Uh. You know, they they
Speaker 1: bounced a lot of stuff outside. You know they got
Speaker 1: beat in the middle, interior two in the run game too.
Speaker 1: So I'd say just that front four, five, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. For sure, I wonder, I mean,
Speaker 1: is this a matchup for digs though against against Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: do you think that's they need to I'm just watching
Speaker 1: it back. I mean Xavian Howard was covering, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. Kyle Pitts also had to. Yeah that will Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yle pits had nine nine, it was seven for one
Speaker 1: sixty three and then there are some passing inferences there too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons now leads the team in tackles. That's why.
Speaker 1: That's why I said you will fact you know what's coming.
Speaker 1: So curses right there, that's buy one tackles coming up.
Speaker 1: I'll be on my right home. Who were wrong? Ye?
Speaker 1: Get a coffin, Chris, Yeah, yesssed up. Well that's it
Speaker 1: for us here on talking cowboys. What's coming up tomorrow?
Speaker 1: You previ even cowboys offense? Yeah, cowboy we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Dak. I'm getting that calf back. Michael Galla back
Speaker 1: in the fold. Yes, off the chain tomorrow, No chains
Speaker 1: allowed his studio, no ringing, don't bring you one goal
Speaker 1: chain tomorrow. I don't wear any necklaces at Eggmo. Thanks, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so no chain is right upraight all right? For Chris
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