WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What To Expect For #DALvsOAK 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:07.640 This he is Talking Cowboys screaming live on Dallas Cowboys 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:15.600 dot Com and the officials Dallas Cowboys accept that by 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:21.320 now your hosts, Mickey's Fagnola, Brian broad Us, Taylor Stern 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:26.600 and Rob Phillips, Welcome inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio from 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.280 the Star in Frisco, and welcome to Talking Cowboys, the 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:34.319 final show of week fifteen. Rob Phillips hosting for Tay 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.000 Stern Today, Kick Garrison producing next door Inside the Garrison 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:43.440 and uh joining me. Are all our December babies? How 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.280 about that? Yeah? Look at all you guys. Hey, happy 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.760 birthday to everybody in here. You're older, You're wiser. We 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.159 hope are we? Are we missing anybody? Just the three 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.880 of us Ambar was the eighth and Derek's still coming 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.920 up later on. But three and one week it's been 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.959 a fit about that. Best week inside the Star for Yeah, 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.480 we're just getting older. Yeah, true, hope that, Dave, We're 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.360 all wiser. Hey, just because I'm younger than you doesn't 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.560 mean I'm not getting older. You're not catching up? O. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.920 Well I got that going for there you go. Dave 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.040 Hellman joining us. Thanks for pulling double due today. We 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.200 appreciate that problem. Well, actually didn't suck yesterday on your 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.400 own show. I made Brian do it yesterday, so it's 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.920 the least I can do. Yeah, good job of hosting yesterday. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.720 Thanks Bud. Appreciate this teamwork. I love it. Brian brought 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.400 us Y Spagnola as well. You guys just ran in 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.760 here from practice. What he did? What he got? It's 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.800 Friday Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Wow, whoa that 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.640 can't mark that? Please? I would like that as a drop. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:46.039 And here we are art the Apollo. Yes, party and party. Yeah, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.280 you're familiar with all the lyrics, gets it, gets everybody 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.680 going during the stretch, gets me hype. Rebecca Black does. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.080 But yeah, in the middle of dancing, did you, uh 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.280 we notice anything else? Yeah? I think the two things 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:08.359 I noticed were that Orlando Scandrick and Bryce Butler took 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.320 part in the stretch all right and whatever they did 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.200 before the stretch and then ran off with the trainers. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.280 So looks like they're not practicing again today. Brian's got 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.320 the fist up. I'd be out. Yeah, oh like an umpire. Yeah, 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.720 you gotta be part of the show. You on the Friday. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.639 We get the when I give that sign that means 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.120 ain't playing seel he hev hope sometimes he does it 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.000 on Tuesday, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean well, 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.040 And you know what's funny is like on our on 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.720 the show you did with me yesterday, I said, I 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.120 thought Irving my practice clearly not. That's three days in 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.200 a row. Yeah, giving him the old Yeah, he's I 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.200 tried to do that for you yesterday. You just didn't. 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.679 You wanted to argue with me. I thought he was safe. Yeah, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.959 I thought he's not. He's I don't think they're no. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.320 I know they're not gonna play. I don't care now. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.519 Jerry and Jason both this morning kind of hinted it. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.320 Maybe I'm not. We're not ruling them out yet thoughball 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.320 teams like to do that. I don't really get why, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.480 Like I don't like, what's the big deal, you know, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.400 if it's like if it's an odd like if it's like, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.400 oh well he could get there, he was limited. Okay, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.639 I get it, but like they're not practicing. Scandricks still 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.280 got broken bones in his back and Irving has not 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.400 yet come back from a concussion. Like it's okay to 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.440 just say they're out neither have practiced at all in 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.120 the last two weeks. Is that correct? I believe you're right. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.560 So you agree with Brian on the AHIVO. I believe 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.120 we got three inactives right there and three more seats 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.880 on the charter. M good point is that where your 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.000 travel suit. Mickey makes sure I got that's right, got 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.480 that memo to day to tie. Yeah, but is that right? Yeah? Yeah? 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.600 Did you look at the itinerary? I haven't yet. Oh. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.040 I was probably doing his job. But you know, to me, 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.360 the one they've they've seemed to have managed without the 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.080 Scandric one, right, seem to have managed with that that 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.160 you know, the plan is to continue to play the 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.280 young kids, and I would keep an eye on Anthony 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:02.680 Brown as a fallback play if something if need be ye, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.600 I mean a fallback player if something happens in the slot. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.200 You know, of course he can play on the outside. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.640 But if things don't work out really well for Xavier Woods. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.640 Now we've seen him a couple of weeks now play 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.720 as that primary slot player. But I think they're kind 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.880 of getting Mickey asked for them to get his confidence 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.560 back a little bit with anthy Brown. I think we're 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.440 starting to see that a little bit more. Just talking 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.039 some folks about the way he's been practicing. That's good. Yeah. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.719 Where did he need to improve the most? Just discipline 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.159 avoiding these penalties. I mean it's technique wise. I thought 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.280 he was terrible technique wise. Yeah, and then you know 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.839 he wasn't looking for the football. He was way too grabby, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.960 you know. Positioning was that we've seen him play so 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.679 much better, you know, and even out of the slot 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.200 last year. I mean that's kind of where we're like, 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.760 my gosh, out this kid. He's covering out of the slot. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.960 That's the hardest thing you can do. Receivers take you 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.600 all over the field. He's not getting you know, he's 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.400 denying the football. He's making plays. A lot of holds 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:58.280 would suggest he's out of position a lot. Yeah. Now 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.760 he's peeking ins peaking too much, doesn't He doesn't have 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.680 a really good feel for the where the receiver is 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.440 in the route and that and that's why Mickey's talking 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.280 about he peaks and he's just got to be more assertive, 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.920 more aggressive. Yeah, I think he got you know, you 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.320 get beat a couple of times that comfortable backing off 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.800 and yeah, yeah, he's gotta he's gotta do it. But 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.039 he'll be in there. They'll they'll they'll probably get into 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.080 some dime package. I believe. Yeah, he's absolutely right. You'll 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.040 see him. David, how do you feel about these youngsters 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:30.839 in the secondary? You've talked to him a few times 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.800 in the locker room lately. I feel really just overall 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.239 really good. Like you know that whole cliche about iron 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.839 sharpening iron, like one way or the other. We're gonna 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.560 have a really good idea about these guys by the 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.400 end of the month, don't you think. And we're already 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.120 we're already formulating that. I'm thinking specifically on the rookies. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.600 Not I mean Anthony Brown. I mean he's a second 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.000 year player. I'm not saying he's like this savvy vet. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.000 But we're seeing Cheeto at outside, we're seeing Jordan Lewis. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.560 You know, I feel like he's he's had his ups 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.240 and downs, but he's far more up right now than down. 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.640 I thought he played great against the Giants. Yeah, Xavier Woods, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.880 maybe maybe he's not a slot corner, Like maybe maybe 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.840 we're learning that, or maybe we're seeing that, or at 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.480 least maybe he needs a little bit more work. On it. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.000 But with three more games to go, all of or 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.520 at least the next two of which against very you know, 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.600 good quarterbacks. I just I like I said, I like 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.480 the thought that we're going to know where we stand 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:28.640 with these guys, like you did this youth movement to 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.240 set yourself up for the future. Right, don't you feel 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.920 pretty good about the future of your secondary just where 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.680 it sits right now? And I'm not right now you do. 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.680 I'm not saying that it doesn't need any work. You know, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.000 we talked yesterday. I think safety is a big need 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.160 for this team in the draft or however you want 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.560 to do it. I think that's a big need. But 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.080 you just look around at the rookies. Anthony Brown's getting 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.680 another year, Cavon Frazier has shown some things like you've 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.160 got five or six guys that you feel really good 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.960 about who are young and inexpensive. So that's something that's 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.520 trending up for me. Can ask a question, Yeah, Mickey, 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.440 you feel good about what they did with the making 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.240 the decision. Does that decision look right now where the 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:09.520 team currently sits. A decision on letting go of those 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.880 veteran safe the veteran safeties the veteran corners. Does it 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.800 look like a decision that was the right decision now? 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.040 And I know there's three games left, we'll see, but 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.920 you are putting your eggs in your basket that these 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.200 kids can play well enough down the stretch that you 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.400 can get into the playoffs. But does it look like 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.760 the right decision now? Well? Right now? You probably would 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.560 like a more experience. But I kind of like what 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.120 these guys are doing. This was the plan all along, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.640 was it right? Which you just wish it would have 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.720 come to fruition earlier. Yeah, like they wouldn't have chanced 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.920 to practice in training camp, right, And be like, with 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.320 that in mind, maybe you don't feel good about it 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.720 in the sense of making the playoffs, because I mean, 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.360 even if they went out, it's a steep climb. But 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.400 I feel and I guess that's really my point is 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.360 I feel good about the big picture. I feel really 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.720 good about the big picture. I think between Cheetoh and Jordan, 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.800 I mean, those are two starting caliber guys and then 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.120 like a, you know, Xavier or whatever the future holds 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.680 for him, Cavon, and you're talking about at the very 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.800 least role players or maybe starters. So I mean, you've 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.400 got a good foundation for the future of your secondary. 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.560 Maybe you add to it in the draft going forward. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.240 So it thumbs up across the board on this, then 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.920 big pictures up. Yeah, I'm okay, but absolutely that's why 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.000 I want to ask. I mean, I'm always interested in 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.160 what everybody because you know I I I applauded the move. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.679 I thought, I thought I liked it, even going back 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.199 into training camp. Maybe thebe go to OTAs once the 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.079 draft was I'm okay with moving on from Car. I 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.599 was okay moving on from Mo Claiborne. You know, I 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.559 I love your Car for lining up every day and 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.559 practicing and playing and being okay. I love you for that. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.160 I seriously do. And I know and I know you. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.400 You know. You know every time that he had an interception, 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.120 you were tweeting about it, and that's okay. You know, hey, good, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.560 good good. He has he has ball skills. He didn't 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.600 showing any time he was here. You know, I agree 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.120 with you. I mean, okay, it's like such a backhanded compliment, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.000 but it's fair. It's totally fair. It's just there's a 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.760 reason why they moved on and they let Wilcox go. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.079 He was a rotational guy. Church, right, the Church the 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.840 only one that I that I had pause about. Wilcox 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.640 didn't do anything different in Cavon Free. That's that's my point. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.520 He's he's filled into that rotation. That's that's a fair 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:28.359 stage hurt, especially the only one that they haven't stayed immediately, 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.880 but which I think you also have to, as you said, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.480 look at the big picture right going forward. This is 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.760 not a one year deal, absolutely, and that's well. I 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.200 think the counter argument to that is these moves they 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.120 made hindered their chances of being a playoff team this year. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:44.480 I think that's fair to say, and I think that 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.439 was the criticism at the time. It's like, well, you 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.720 just went thirteen and three, like strike while the iron 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.240 is hot. But they decided to go big picture, which honestly, 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.480 I think is the smarter move because now you set 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.559 yourself up and I think, I mean, I think that 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.720 was a talking point. I doubt many of us expected 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.520 them to be in this position, but I don't think 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.480 anybody thought the record would be as good this year's last. Right, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.000 That's is that pretty thirteen wins not thirteen wins. But 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.800 you know, having said that, though, who who was playing 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.800 out on at the corner. And you know when they 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.320 lost two games, when they gave up, when they scored 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.079 thirty points. It wasn't all these young pups. Yeah, but 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.280 again yeah right, yeah, all right, well I got I 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.920 guess the point that I'm trying to make is that 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.160 that's right, that's two games. No, absolutely, no, for sure, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.880 that should be nine and four right now? Could be? 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.160 Could be? Should be? Could you scored thirty points? You 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.400 got to go in so the defense Rodgers, the Rams 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.720 are avating thirty some points a game. I don't there's 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.160 no should in this league? Yes there, should you score 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.439 that many points? You ought to win? What was what 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.200 was the disaster for the Chargers? Where was that disaster? Well? 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.720 Offensively too. You couldn't get anything going, No, you couldn't 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.680 get anything going. But what was the configuration of the secondary? 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.920 They had no idea what they were doing playing zone? Yeah, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.079 but no, I who was on the field for the 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.079 five hundred yard Charger game? Yeah, I'm trying to remember. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.559 I mean was that it was? It was? It was 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.880 the Washington game. Is when the switch was made? It 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:10.560 wasn't cheetoh yeah, cheetah, Yeah exactly. He came back for Washington. 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:12.960 That's I'm saying. The Washington game is when they all 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.920 when they made the dramatic switch of Okay, you're playing Nickels, Scandrick, 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:21.480 You're on the outside Scandrick Byron Heath, m Jordan and Brown. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.640 Yeah yeah, yeah that that that that five hundred yards 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.319 goes to Mickey's point, We've had enough. We got to 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.520 do something different. We cannot allow this to happen. And 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.000 just to wrap up the point I was trying to make, 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.439 which is that you take a step back in twenty 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.000 seventeen to hopefully take a step forward. But you know 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.199 what was the point? I don't even idea. Yeah, I 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.280 don't even know. Did you get a step back. I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.360 don't even know if it's take a step turn record 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.520 car and Clayborn. I just mean overall into I mean, 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.320 would you they would have made a difference. I mean, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.920 that group helped the defense to a point where they 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.040 got the thirteen wins last year. I don't even view 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.719 it as a step back their thought process back in 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.480 April when they drafted these guys, because you had known 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.640 Carroll that didn't work out, So you did you did 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.400 sign a veteran stop gap and you weren't expecting a 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:11.080 Woozier to miss every most. I don't know if you're 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.960 expecting him to play corner. Yeah, No, we talked a lot, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.320 were they. Yeah, I don't know because what what part? Yeah, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.920 I know the safety thing came up. But when he 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.960 was healthy in training camp, but he was playing corner. Yeah, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.160 but he was on the field, Mickey in Green Bay 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:32.000 playing safety. They just trying to find a spot at 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.679 that point. Yeah, yeah, I thought it. I thought in 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.480 camp he was gonna be immediate competition for Carroll and 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.280 I thought it didn't happened because of the hand'll win it. 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.160 I thought he was gonna be the dime guy. I 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.000 tell you what, man, they were talking about him being 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.959 They were to mind Jordan Lewis being the guy over him. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:50.520 He was hurt too something. Yeah, camp a lot, a lot. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.280 Camp like you didn't play at all. But to Dave's point, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.760 you know, with young guys, you expect to give up 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.959 some bigger plays, but you hope by this point in 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:01.199 the season they're not rookies anymore and they're playing well, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.600 so and well whatever, even at this point in the season, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.559 by the end of the season, whether they finished ten 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.040 and six or six or seven and nine, whatever the 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.520 final record is like that. I mean, this is three 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.119 invaluable games of experience for all of those guys. Absolutely, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.679 and if they lose this one, those guys play everything 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.559 the last oh yeah two games. Sure, So back to 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.400 the injury report. Yes, you got to challenge this week 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.040 in the secondary, you're facing Derek Carr for the Raiders, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.880 though it looks like Amari Cooper reportedly might be out. Yeah, 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:36.600 it looks like he's done. Yeah, left ankle. Uma hadn't missed, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.880 and he had missed a game previous to that or 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.439 two games before that with concussion. Yeah, it looks like 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.520 he's out. So Brian hadn't practice this. Yeah the fist 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.040 there you go. Yeah, I'm saying out on that one. Now. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:50.720 Now it comes down to, okay, how are you going 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.719 to play this stuff? How do you size up there 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.200 receiving core their offense without him? You know what it's 0:13:55.640 --> 0:14:01.840 Michael Crabtree has been very inconsistent throughout. Patterson is as 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:06.920 a screen reverse kind of guy. They they really don't. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.720 I mean it's one of those things where you look at, Okay, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.480 who is the main weapon on the outside to me, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.079 it's like it's just like playing the Giants. It's the 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.520 tight end. You look at you look at Okay, what 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:19.960 can cook? Do you know? How can how does How 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.120 does Jared Cook? How does he fit in this? You know, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.400 last week against the Giants, you dealt with Evan Ingram 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.520 down the field. You know, you're you're talking about if 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.920 the Cowboys are gonna catch a break having to cover receivers. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.720 They caught another one in this game. Oh, in my opinion, 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.800 unbelievable to not have to face Cooper and you know, 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.560 let's let's be honest. Though this group has had its 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:46.200 share of problems. It's problems Seth Roberts. I mean, I 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.840 mean they just they they've behind these guys they've got 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.720 they're just guys. They're just guys. And that's where you know, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.240 there's no there's no dynamic third player or guy they 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.880 Oh man, you've got you say it about Patterson, but 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.480 again he's just day screen. Yeah, he is a gadget 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.240 players what Mickey likes to describe as a toy. You know, 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.480 that's what he is. Like we are paid to cover 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.080 the NFL, like we I mean, we are we have 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.600 our finger on the pulse. Right. I I could say 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.640 I could list off the receivers in the league, and 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:18.760 even like going down to four and five, I bet 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.040 you'd at least like know the names, you know, like 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.840 you've like you've heard of the Giants guys passed Beckham 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.240 and Marshall, like you know their games. I've never heard 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.600 of any of these guys after crap. I mean, if 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.560 you're not counting Cooper, so Crabtreaser one and then Patterson, Okay, cool, 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.640 never heard of the right Yeah, I don't know, like 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.160 they're no, I don't know. I got an expert on 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.440 Seth Roberts. I got nothing. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.280 I mean, there's nothing there, That's what I'm saying. You 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.760 watch these guys playing, it's like, okay, well, but when 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.120 the main guys are dropping footballs, that's when it's tough 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.240 in a problem, be a problem for them. We've all 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:56.120 heard of Jared Cooke though, yeah, yeah him or one catch, yeah, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.040 pretty big one. He's had good. I know he's good. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.400 I was gonna say he's had about forty nine of 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.160 them this year. So that's the guy to watch. Yeah, 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.320 I think, all right, before we wrap it up, this segment. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.880 What's what else is cooking on the injury report McK 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:15.800 for them. Mario Edwards Junior has not practiced all week. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.920 He's got an ankle. Yeah, they're starting technically, they're starting 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.640 defensive end, right, so it looks like he's probably out. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:29.080 And and that's really a from I think starter standpoint, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.600 that's probably about it. Bruce Irvin, you know, got a 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.840 day off, he was back full. Who by the way, 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:41.600 I noticed the last three games he's got five sacks. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.880 He's got seven and a half for the season, five 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:45.880 of them in the last three games. Yeah. As a 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.840 matter of fact, their pass rush has been better since 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.960 they fired Ken Norton Junior and brought in or moved 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.360 up John Pagano to the defensive coordinator. Right, So they've 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.560 done a better job of pressuring the quarterbacks. Either these 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.960 confusing quarterbacks with coverage or they're turning them loose a 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.520 little bit more. Yeah. I have a feeling though that 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.479 they've they've got into a situation. These guys are very talented. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.960 We know what these defensive ends are or these rushers. 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.280 We get it. We understand that teams that they've played, though, 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.840 Bruce Irving is a guy that there's so much attention 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.440 paid to Mac that Bruce Irving gets a lot of 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.919 one on one stuff and he's capable of winning one 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.000 on one battles. You know, you've got to be just 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.400 as careful with him. But their secondary if they don't 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:37.120 get pressure or they don't get close, they they they're 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.919 secondary stinks, you know. And that's that's been a big 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.199 problem for them all year, is the fact that when 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.040 they don't get pressure, they get exposed back there. You know. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.080 So if you're the Cowboys and it turns into you 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.200 can we always talk about balance running the football, being 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.639 able to do that stay ahead of the change. I 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.840 feel like that if you get in a game where 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.800 you block their I said it last week against the Giants, 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.520 you block this front, you can make some plays in 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.440 the passing game. There's no question about that. So the 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:11.480 way they're playing, and it sounded like they were starting 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.080 to pressure more because of the weakness on the back 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.040 end they've had to do. You think that the cowboys 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.359 big plays from last week won't discourage them from continuing 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.359 to do that or will they just say this is 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.200 why we got to play. I think that they have 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.000 no choice. I think they I think it's one of 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.680 those Bill parcelsisms. You are what you are and you 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.760 better figure that, you know. They've I think they figured 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.040 out that they don't have help in the seconcause if 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.480 you just play them straight up, they've probably can see 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.200 that des can win. And on the outside, there's a 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.320 side of me that believes that Dallas has a plan 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.880 in this game. The twelve and the twelve and thirteen 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.600 personnel package. I'm gonna write about that today. Did I 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.359 feel like that they're gonna say if we could, if 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.480 we have to, if we have to use twelve or 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.600 thirteen personnel, which we've seen him do. This is nothing new. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:57.480 Since the Atlanta game, we've seen them run more of 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.440 those packages. They feel like if they can block Mac 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.200 and Tyron Smith can take Bruce Irving out of this game, 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.680 that they can throw the football with success. And that's 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.680 big players or not. If we can block your front, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.440 we still have that ability. Whether we've made those players 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.600 or not. I still feel like that that the Raiders 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.200 best hope is to try and pin their ears back 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.000 and rush and affect the Cowboys. 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