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Speaker 6: First of all and last of all, Cowboys injury report
Speaker 6: came out yesterday. It's the first one of the week
Speaker 6: versus the Bears. As expected to Ron Bland did not
Speaker 6: participate with the foot injury. No, he is not trending
Speaker 6: in a the he's not trending toward plane before the
Speaker 6: against the Bears.
Speaker 1: So that stock. They have a lot of weapons though
Speaker 1: the Bears. Yes, no, they have. They have a couple.
Speaker 6: We talked about it yesterday and QB Vision is going
Speaker 6: to talk about it today. They do have a couple.
Speaker 6: They don't have what the Eagles had. But nonetheless, if
Speaker 6: oh darn Bland didn't practice with the foot injury, I
Speaker 6: would I would pencil him out of this week. We'll
Speaker 6: see how he goes. Trevon Diggs mispracticed with an illness.
Speaker 6: H Tyler guy in he was limited with a shoulder
Speaker 6: Yesterday was a walkthrough, by the way, so simulated practice.
Speaker 6: It's key to note that. And Cavante Turpin was limited
Speaker 6: with his neck injury. So here's what's key about Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 6: So I spoke with Turpin immediately after the game with
Speaker 6: versus the Giants. He had the neck brace on. I said, hey, Turp,
Speaker 6: are you okay? He said, I'm good, I'm good, okay.
Speaker 6: Day before yesterday I saw him walking around the building
Speaker 6: without the neck brace. On yesterday again without the neck brace,
Speaker 6: and now he's limited participant in the walkthrough.
Speaker 1: Take that.
Speaker 6: Combine it with what Jerry Jones is told one to
Speaker 6: five three the Fan, which Steven Jones is told on
Speaker 6: a five three the Fan, and what Brian Schottenheimer has
Speaker 6: told the media as a whole, and it Turpin is
Speaker 6: in a great position to potentially play this week and
Speaker 6: not miss any time. Is it guaranteed? No has to
Speaker 6: go through the week, has a couple of actuals. So
Speaker 6: today will be shells and then tomorrow will be full padded.
Speaker 6: He has to get through those two practices before the
Speaker 6: Cowboys can clear him. But he's at least on a
Speaker 6: positive track towards Chicago.
Speaker 5: If you guys are coaching the team and you see
Speaker 5: this opportunity here for Kvante Terpin, if he's not one
Speaker 5: hundred percent, do you put him out there against the
Speaker 5: Bears and risk possibly the future for Kvante Terpin possibly
Speaker 5: missing more if he gets if he reaggravates that injury
Speaker 5: in his neck.
Speaker 1: For me, it depends on what the injury is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know, right so, yes, when you see
Speaker 6: it hasn't so when you see that it's a Nick injury,
Speaker 6: right fully, so you get a little anxious.
Speaker 1: It'sfully so it is scary, especially in this league.
Speaker 6: Right But if it's if it's muscular as opposed to
Speaker 6: you know, structural structural. If it's simply muscular and you know,
Speaker 6: a spasm muscle or something that needs to be massaged
Speaker 6: out or worked out, then I'm fine with that. If
Speaker 6: it's structural, I don't think that they would risk it
Speaker 6: at all because they know of all teams, they know
Speaker 6: what it means.
Speaker 5: Of course, in the all the precautions for it. I'm
Speaker 5: just saying, like just surface level. If it's anything really,
Speaker 5: I don't want them out against the past now.
Speaker 6: If it's anything related to structural, I'm a hard no
Speaker 6: on that.
Speaker 3: Josh is asking the question that pops up on Madden.
Speaker 6: And yeah, substitute press X.
Speaker 3: He stays in, but he's got a high risk of injury,
Speaker 3: like reinjury. That's what That's what Josh is asking. I'm
Speaker 3: letting them if that were MEWS.
Speaker 6: This is a team that knows plenty of dirt on it,
Speaker 6: and I'm sure pour some testing on that thing. This
Speaker 6: is a Cowboy's medical staff. Then you talk about doctor Cooper,
Speaker 6: I mean they are extremely proficient with diagnosing and working
Speaker 6: through neckish. I mean they're not going to take it
Speaker 6: at the Clark for example, who did the moon, who
Speaker 6: found the moon? Clark's injury pre draft, who did the procedure? Cowboys,
Speaker 6: they're kind of proficient with. Next late Van Dersh and
Speaker 6: the issues that he had, and you saw how precautious
Speaker 6: they were with him.
Speaker 1: The fact that.
Speaker 6: Cavante I don't like, Hey looking at me, I get
Speaker 6: what you're saying. The fact that Cavante is even allowed
Speaker 6: to participate in a walk through right now with no
Speaker 6: neck breaks. That tells me that hopefully it's not structural.
Speaker 6: It's probably just muscular. They're trying to work some things out.
Speaker 3: Tyler dyiton concern you at all with the shoulder, No, not,
Speaker 3: as we have this conversation, I've not heard any concern
Speaker 3: around the building about that. Of course, it pops up
Speaker 3: at three o'clock. It was after locker room, so we
Speaker 3: weren't able to ask anything about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 6: But just typically though, if there's a major concern of
Speaker 6: some sort about a will hear about it usually, you know,
Speaker 6: whether we're asking about it directly to certain people inside
Speaker 6: the building or the.
Speaker 1: News kind of wafts toward our desks.
Speaker 6: Right, So I'm not hearing anything about childick go. And
Speaker 6: also saw Tyler Guit in the locker room yesterday after practice,
Speaker 6: and he was in good spirits.
Speaker 1: He was fine, you know, he was slapping five.
Speaker 5: He was And to be fair, Wednesday practice participation is
Speaker 5: more of an estimation because it was over.
Speaker 6: Because it was a walkthrough. So as we have this conversation,
Speaker 6: I don't have a concern in the course. Again, this
Speaker 6: is also combined with the fact that Tyler Gotton looked
Speaker 6: perfectly fine as far as his spirits and everything in
Speaker 6: the locker room. And yeah, so I don't think there's
Speaker 6: any concern there, and hopefully that stays the case.
Speaker 3: Moving into the latter parts of the injury report.
Speaker 1: You talked about digs. That's just an injury, correct.
Speaker 6: That's yeah, it's not even an injury per se, it's
Speaker 6: an illness.
Speaker 1: It's an illness.
Speaker 6: So as long as it doesn't linger, there should be
Speaker 6: no availability, no jeopardy for his availability in Chicago. Now,
Speaker 6: if you flip to the Bear side of the equation.
Speaker 3: Hamstring, hamstring, hamstring, every d.
Speaker 6: M P d m P, d m P d n
Speaker 6: P and of course you know one of the Jalen's
Speaker 6: starting cornerback, he is gonna miss indefinite amount of time
Speaker 6: for the for the Bears, that per multiple reports earlier
Speaker 6: this week. So that is definitely going to impact their
Speaker 6: ability to try to stop an offense in a passing
Speaker 6: attack that seems to be finding its groove right now.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Bears are really banged up.
Speaker 6: But on the Cowboys side of the ball, you're just
Speaker 6: looking at Fante Turpin trending in the right direction to
Speaker 6: Ron Bland. Doesn't look like he'll take the field this week.
Speaker 6: Trevon Diggs illness should work itself out over the next
Speaker 6: couple of days. In Tyler, Guyton, I don't have a
Speaker 6: concern about that right now Thursday morning, ask me again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yesterday we did have the opportunity to talk with brock
Speaker 3: Hoffman for a little Yeah, we did, of course, he's
Speaker 3: with who brock Hoffman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mister gla theater himself because he he's gonna fill
Speaker 2: in for Cooper BB. We asked him about the confidence level.
Speaker 2: Of course, he's exceptionally confident, and he talked about preparing
Speaker 2: like a starter.
Speaker 1: Every single week.
Speaker 2: That way you have to you don't stay read ready.
Speaker 2: You got to stay ready all the way through. Stay
Speaker 2: ready so you don't have.
Speaker 3: To get ready.
Speaker 1: That's that's the quote.
Speaker 2: He was like, you know, it's like I always say,
Speaker 2: it's like, I don't think you came up with that, Brock.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't. I don't think that's your.
Speaker 3: Quote, but I still love it. Yeah, but uh but no,
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was impressed with what they had to say yesterday.
Speaker 2: And it's not like I mean, we talked.
Speaker 3: About this Monday when BB went down or Tuesday when
Speaker 3: when the news came out.
Speaker 2: We talked about the confidence level in brock k Hoffman,
Speaker 2: how how high is your confidence whenever he's the one
Speaker 2: filling in for BB.
Speaker 6: Up from Yeah, no disrespect to BB, but I look
Speaker 6: at them like one A one B. In my eyes,
Speaker 6: there's there's neither one of them are extremely dominant. So
Speaker 6: I think they both do a good job when they're
Speaker 6: in there. I like the aggressiveness of Hoffmann. I think
Speaker 6: that's going to be needed versus this aggressive front for
Speaker 6: the Bear. So yeah, I have confidence in Hoffman. I've
Speaker 6: never I've never had any issues with Hoffting. I just
Speaker 6: don't want him to get outside of himself emotionally.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And one thing that I think fans forget because he
Speaker 2: has played a lot of both guard and center throughout
Speaker 2: his career here, but he said it yesterday that the
Speaker 2: comfort or his main position growing up, his number one
Speaker 2: position growing up was center. Yes, it was, and he
Speaker 2: said he only recently started playing some guard, which people
Speaker 2: forget at times, but he has the natural ability to
Speaker 2: make that move to center.
Speaker 5: And I don't want anyone to get concerned because TJ.
Speaker 5: Bass was taking reps at center in the preseason. I
Speaker 5: mean that was one of those things where I think
Speaker 5: it was more so for TJ.
Speaker 1: Bass rep steps.
Speaker 5: In and not necessarily indicative of what brock Hoffin was
Speaker 5: bringing to the table at center. He's proven that he
Speaker 5: can be a solid center, a backup center, especially on
Speaker 5: this offensive line, and he has the mystery already with
Speaker 5: the guys that are on there. So it's it's definitely
Speaker 5: not concerning to me, I'm very confident in what Brock
Speaker 5: k Hoffman is able to do. If you if you
Speaker 5: don't want anybody out, but that is a spot where
Speaker 5: you feel the most comfortable, I'd say.
Speaker 6: I could agree with that, especially when all things considered.
Speaker 6: It's it's what Josh is saying, it's what Kyle is saying,
Speaker 6: referring to Brock yesterday, reminding everyone that may not have
Speaker 6: that may have forgotten, and those that may have not known.
Speaker 6: He played center primarily in high school in North Carolina.
Speaker 6: He played center for Coastal Carolina. Primarily there. He played
Speaker 6: center ed Virginia Tech mostly when he was there. It
Speaker 6: wasn't until he got to the NFL with the Cowboys
Speaker 6: that he didn't played primarily guard. So now it's really
Speaker 6: just knocking some rust off as far as you know,
Speaker 6: pre snap as Simons reads IDs and things like that,
Speaker 6: and really the snap, which is what we were kind
Speaker 6: of concerned with, there was kind of a bot snap.
Speaker 6: But then if you go back and look at it,
Speaker 6: it's like, was that on Brock?
Speaker 1: Was that on deck?
Speaker 6: Nonetheless, that that operationation needs to be clean every single time,
Speaker 6: So that's what we have to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: But as far as knowing the position.
Speaker 6: This is not a situation where like Cooper Beebe was
Speaker 6: trans transferring from guard at Kansas State to center, Brock
Speaker 6: was a center moved to guard, moving back to center.
Speaker 1: That's a different dynamic entirely.
Speaker 6: And I love we already know about his demeanor glass eater, lunch,
Speaker 6: pale guy, blue collar.
Speaker 1: I asked him yesterday in the locker room.
Speaker 6: I said, you know, how exciting is it to have
Speaker 6: your type of demeanor And then look to the right
Speaker 6: and see Tyler Booker, and look to the left and
Speaker 6: see Tyler smith That's three mallers. And for one of
Speaker 6: the first times ever brock Kaufman showed his teeth.
Speaker 1: He smiled. He smiled.
Speaker 6: He's like, I'm excited just thinking about the fact that
Speaker 6: the cowboys can have three mallers in the middle of
Speaker 6: that line.
Speaker 5: He's gonna bite somebody out there hands.
Speaker 6: I feel like he should be like in the opening
Speaker 6: scene for like every war movie. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: war paint just coming out.
Speaker 5: The mudgets shields.
Speaker 1: A se ard or something, and in honor of the Marvel,
Speaker 1: should I have one.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna calm brock Kaufman Juggernaut
Speaker 6: from now he's Juggernaut, he's Juggernut. It's the same demeanor.
Speaker 6: Once he gets going, nobody can.
Speaker 1: Get in his way. It's over it. So brock Kaufman,
Speaker 1: he jug.
Speaker 3: If he gets absolutely mauled on Sunday, we're gonna come
Speaker 3: back Monday looking like.
Speaker 6: No, you know what because because believe it or not, Oops, Juggernaut,
Speaker 6: He's he's taking some als, but he's still Juggernut. He's
Speaker 6: gonna do an interview with Colin next week's be like
Speaker 6: you know what? Like I always say, I'm a Juggernauts.
Speaker 1: What's the whole phrase? Though? Say it?
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Speaker 5: Brock has a good game. Oh man, I'm telling you
Speaker 5: right now, I'm the jugging. If he allows zero sacks.
Speaker 5: I will come in with his EyeBlack.
Speaker 1: No, you won't.
Speaker 3: I'll do it allows zero Will you say zero sacks?
Speaker 3: I feel like you're gonna be here Monday with the
Speaker 3: eye knowing. Yeah, how many pancakes. That's tougher, Yeah, that's tough.
Speaker 3: What about zero zero sacks?
Speaker 1: Zero pressures? One pressure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, give them one, give them one pressure, give them one. Sure,
Speaker 3: so I'll do it less than two pressure, zero sacks. Yes,
Speaker 3: and you'll be here Monday with the EyeBlack.
Speaker 1: All right, no pressure.
Speaker 6: We need that brock. No pressure for only to see
Speaker 6: Josh in the eye.
Speaker 1: No pressures. You have to go get up with Jody
Speaker 1: and have him three D print you a juggernaut hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joy can do it.
Speaker 5: And and then we have to not address it the
Speaker 5: entire episode. I'm just wearing the EyeBlack.
Speaker 1: You just have to be oblivious to it.
Speaker 3: Everybody's gonna be like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: The lights?
Speaker 5: Get my eyes a little bit?
Speaker 3: Why pull the Amber Garcia?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she needs to do it for an episode.
Speaker 2: I don't know she's she was, she's never ever ever
Speaker 2: ever you know what we are going to do though.
Speaker 3: She's a lets funner than you guys think that's maybe
Speaker 3: all right, It's time for a little.
Speaker 1: Why Eddie, why Eddie put?
Speaker 6: It's time for QB Vision with Isaiah's stands back.
Speaker 1: Kay, we're back for another episode of QB Vision. Let
Speaker 1: that one go. Yeah you should great. I said nothing.
Speaker 6: I'm just reading some analytics here QB Vision, the Cuby Vision.
Speaker 6: So let's talk about these Chicago Bears Bear Bears.
Speaker 3: How are we on Wednesday or Thursday? And haven't even
Speaker 3: made that reference?
Speaker 1: I said it yesterday? Did you do?
Speaker 7: Did?
Speaker 1: I wanted to see if Tommy was going to jump
Speaker 1: on it. He bears.
Speaker 6: When you guys think about the Chicago Bears defense, who
Speaker 6: are some of the star players that you that you
Speaker 6: should be aware.
Speaker 1: Of from your opinion, the one they will be without
Speaker 1: mm hmm okay.
Speaker 5: And and but a lot of guys that are already
Speaker 5: listed on the So I'll highlight a couple of guys
Speaker 5: that pop off the film for me.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 6: There's one guy, number ninety eight. His name is Montes,
Speaker 6: Montes Sweat. You guys are very familiar with him. Yes,
Speaker 6: he's a dude when he wants to be when he
Speaker 6: wants to be. There's another gentleman that's over there that
Speaker 6: hasn't necessarily showed off on film yet, but I think
Speaker 6: you still got to respect him.
Speaker 1: And that's greedy Jerry.
Speaker 6: But another gentleman that pops off the film for me
Speaker 6: is number fifty five, and Kyle helped me with this pronunciation,
Speaker 6: Dale Adingo. I believe, Okay, so he pops off. He's
Speaker 6: a right, he's a defensive end for them. He pops
Speaker 6: off the film for me. And then the last gentleman
Speaker 6: that really jumps off the film for me is number
Speaker 6: forty nine. Tremaine Edmonds. I've always liked his game. He
Speaker 6: used to play for Buffalo. He plays middle linebacker for them,
Speaker 6: tall dude with long dreads, sitting in the middle of
Speaker 6: the defense. He is very aggreat yes, absolutely dreadified, dread
Speaker 6: lock it up, very aggressive, very physical. He is really,
Speaker 6: in my eyes, the heartbeat of their defense. I believe
Speaker 6: that everything starts and stops with him. Dangbo danboo. It's
Speaker 6: three syllables.
Speaker 1: That's interesting.
Speaker 3: It actually helps you out a little bit. Absolutely it does, Daniel.
Speaker 6: But I believe that Tremaine Edmonds, in my opinion, is
Speaker 6: there is their dude. Obviously they brought in Monto a
Speaker 6: sweat paid them a bunch of money to go get good,
Speaker 6: get after quarterbacks. But in terms of being the heartbeat
Speaker 6: of the defense, I truly believe that it's forty nine.
Speaker 6: So what do they do well? I think that they
Speaker 6: get off the ball very well. On the defensive line,
Speaker 6: I think they're very aggressive. Everybody on their defense is
Speaker 6: very active with their hands. So in terms of Dallas,
Speaker 6: I believe this will be the most physical game that
Speaker 6: Dallas has had collectively.
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about just the trenches.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about everybody defensive line does a good job
Speaker 6: of getting out the ball on time, physical with their hands.
Speaker 1: They're relentless up front. They're not going to stop.
Speaker 6: It's not going to be a first contact and then
Speaker 6: I'm stopping and try to put my hands up and
Speaker 6: knock a pass down. These guys are going to keep
Speaker 6: working their hands and keep working their second and third
Speaker 6: moves to try to get to Dak at the secondary.
Speaker 6: These guys are going to come up and they're going
Speaker 6: to put hands on you. Right when these guys decide
Speaker 6: to step to the line of scrimmage, they are going
Speaker 6: to put hands on you for not just five yards
Speaker 6: they're putting their hands on you really at the five
Speaker 6: yard mark. They're going to let you get off the
Speaker 6: ball the first five yards and then they are literally
Speaker 6: putting hands on you for the remainder of your route.
Speaker 6: So ceedee Lamb, George Pickens, Jalen Tobert even almost said
Speaker 6: Schultz Ferguson, Hey for you, guys are going to have
Speaker 6: to be physical throughout your route. So this is not
Speaker 6: ah Man, he's touching me after five yards. These guys
Speaker 6: are going to do it every single play. It's like
Speaker 6: Dennis Rodman fouling you every play and knowing that the
Speaker 6: refs aren't going to call every single one, they'll take
Speaker 6: one or two just to note that they can play
Speaker 6: that way the whole game. So this is going to
Speaker 6: be physical for everybody across the board. Coverage wise, what
Speaker 6: do they do, Well, they've had two games, two completely
Speaker 6: different opponents, with two completely different skill sets. They've shown
Speaker 6: two completely different game plans. The week one they played
Speaker 6: against Minnesota Vikings. Minnesota Vikings, well, they kind of have
Speaker 6: a rookie quarterback. So what do they say, Oh, you're
Speaker 6: a ricky, all right, We're gonna come up play a
Speaker 6: man and man and make you find a way to
Speaker 6: get the ball in the hands of these guys. We're
Speaker 6: gonna get after you. We're gonna put a little bit
Speaker 6: of pressure on you and see if you could deliver
Speaker 6: the rock.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're getting home.
Speaker 6: They were getting They were getting home quite a bit.
Speaker 6: So that was their game plan. Versus JJ McCarthy versus
Speaker 6: Ben Johnson. They're old I'm not versus Ben Johnson, versus
Speaker 6: versus the Detroit Lions are old Ben Johnson's old team.
Speaker 6: They've had to play things a little bit different. The
Speaker 6: Detroit Lions have more weapons. Okay, obviously Minnesota has Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 6: but JJ McCarthy had to get him the ball. Now
Speaker 6: you're playing against Jared Goff and he has all the resources, right,
Speaker 6: he has Williams, he has helped me out with the receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm Brown Laporta. They had all the guys right, So
Speaker 6: you can't play them the same way that you played Minnesota.
Speaker 6: You can't be as aggressive. So what did they do?
Speaker 6: They played a lot of too high. So when you
Speaker 6: try to find the identity of this Dennis Allen defense,
Speaker 6: it's really hard to say who are they At their core?
Speaker 6: It seems like they've had a completely different game plan,
Speaker 6: just like ebra Flus had a completely different game plan
Speaker 6: from week one to week two.
Speaker 5: So it seems like they're trying to play multiple.
Speaker 1: They're trying to play multiple.
Speaker 6: But I think at their core, versus a team that
Speaker 6: has multiple weapons and a quarterback who's capable, we can
Speaker 6: clearly we can. It's safe to say that we can.
Speaker 6: We can expect a similar game plan that what we
Speaker 6: saw versus Detroit. Okay, and versus Detroit too high safty.
Speaker 5: Even though you'd think they want to throw the tape
Speaker 5: out on that on that yeah, right there, you would
Speaker 5: think so. But it's surprising that the score was what
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the.
Speaker 5: First quarter, in the second quarter, it didn't. It didn't
Speaker 5: start off that way.
Speaker 1: No, it didn't.
Speaker 5: It didn't start off like a snowball effect. I mean
Speaker 5: that happens more so in the second half. But like
Speaker 5: you're saying, the too high was working for them early.
Speaker 6: Too high was working early because they are running and
Speaker 6: I look at the next gen and next gen and
Speaker 6: I are just not connecting this year in terms of
Speaker 6: what they're saying coverage is versus what I'm seeing on film,
Speaker 6: So I have to disregard the analytics that I'm seeing
Speaker 6: there and go with my eye.
Speaker 1: Task because this is what I do.
Speaker 6: But too high QB vision after all, and if you
Speaker 6: guys check my socials iron the sky. So these guys
Speaker 6: run too high, but they run. They want to run
Speaker 6: different variations of cover two. And what I'm seeing is
Speaker 6: when I look at next Gen, it says they didn't
Speaker 6: play any man.
Speaker 1: That's a lie. They played.
Speaker 6: They played, they played, they played two man. But typically
Speaker 6: when you play two man, you have two high safeties.
Speaker 6: Your your cornerbacks usually sit on the inside of the
Speaker 6: receiver's leverage so that they can force the receiver towards
Speaker 6: the sideline. So they have the sideline and the safeties
Speaker 6: to be their extra defenders. These guys play two man
Speaker 6: from outside leverage and they try to force the receivers inside,
Speaker 6: so they're kind of trying to bottle them up. What
Speaker 6: that how does that put stress on their defense? Well,
Speaker 6: when you play two man from an outside technique and
Speaker 6: you allow receivers to have an inside release, yes you're
Speaker 6: funneling them all in kind of towards the middle of
Speaker 6: the field. But now as the receivers climb to the
Speaker 6: second level. As you can see if you go back
Speaker 6: and watch the Detroit Lions film, if they get to
Speaker 6: the second level and inspect down to the third level
Speaker 6: where the safeties are at. Now, these safeties, instead of
Speaker 6: just playing in their half zones, these guys are trying
Speaker 6: to cut receivers. And what that means is if a
Speaker 6: receiver comes across to my zone, I am going to take.
Speaker 1: Him as if it's man to man, right. And what
Speaker 1: happens is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Have a huge opportunity if they can can give Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott time, George Pickens, Jalen Tolbert, Ceedee Lamb can run
Speaker 6: crossing routes all day long at the third level because
Speaker 6: these safeties are having to try to communicate at that
Speaker 6: level of who's taking who. If a tight end comes
Speaker 6: in my area, I have to take him because that's
Speaker 6: my responsibility. But if somebody else comes across, there's nobody
Speaker 6: there for him. The only person that can guard him
Speaker 6: is the person that was following him from the line
Speaker 6: of scrimmage, which is a cornerback. So safeties getting up
Speaker 6: to the safeties can cause the Bears a ton of issues. However,
Speaker 6: when you're running across from the first level to the
Speaker 6: second level. And I really mentioned the number one player
Speaker 6: from on their defense. My perspective is who Tremaine Edmonds
Speaker 6: number forty nine, the big long, the big tall dude
Speaker 6: with the long dreads. He is turning literally turning his
Speaker 6: back in a variation of Cover two and looking for color.
Speaker 6: He's looking for who's coming across the middle. I Am
Speaker 6: going to go to that individual. So you have to
Speaker 6: get over that that individual, and he's gonna follow you.
Speaker 6: So now you have the person that you started with
Speaker 6: the line of scream is following you. You have the
Speaker 6: middle linebacker that's taking the first man that crosses his face,
Speaker 6: and you have that far safety that's jumping. So now
Speaker 6: how many people is that. That's three guys taking one guy.
Speaker 6: So if you have the time up front, if you
Speaker 6: have somebody else going to opposite direction, huge opportunities for
Speaker 6: big plays.
Speaker 1: But you have to have the time upfront.
Speaker 5: You have to have the time upfront. And like you're saying,
Speaker 5: if they have guys up front that you are you're
Speaker 5: marking out. You're saying, these two guys at least on
Speaker 5: their defensive line can give you some problem they can.
Speaker 5: Your offensive line has to be at their best against
Speaker 5: these guys to give Dak the time to get downfield
Speaker 5: and get to the third level, like you're saying. But
Speaker 5: I think a big part of that also is run game. Yes,
Speaker 5: you have to establish that early and often, and you.
Speaker 6: Can do that versus them because they are twenty seventh
Speaker 6: in the league and rushing defense, they are giving up
Speaker 6: an average of one hundred and forty eight yards on
Speaker 6: the ground per game.
Speaker 1: You can run the ball on these guys.
Speaker 6: Now you're gonna have to get move them out the
Speaker 6: way because they're going to get off the ball aggressively
Speaker 6: and you got to deal with that dude forty nine
Speaker 6: who's coming downhill physically. But I think that their over
Speaker 6: aggressiveness can be utilized against them, and the type of
Speaker 6: running scheme that Dallas has shown through the first two
Speaker 6: weeks works very well against over aggressive defensive fronts because
Speaker 6: we have your encounters were run encounters, we have backside cutoffs,
Speaker 6: we have wham blocks. So these guys as they come
Speaker 6: off the ball, they're coming off looking for physicality and
Speaker 6: we're leaving the defense the inn man on the line
Speaker 6: of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: And then as soon as he thinks that he's free,
Speaker 1: he goes to.
Speaker 6: Try to go and make a play, and all of
Speaker 6: a sudden, the tight end is chopping his knees down
Speaker 6: or an ear holding them right. So there's a huge
Speaker 6: opportunity for big time plays, which leads me to believe
Speaker 6: that there might be an opportunity for some young running
Speaker 6: backs that can have big plays that I think that
Speaker 6: you might see because of their style of defense. So
Speaker 6: to your point, and to Josh's point, I'm glad, Ellie,
Speaker 6: because I was. I was about to go to the
Speaker 6: rushing attack first and foremost, the Cowboys ground attack led
Speaker 6: by Javonte Williams.
Speaker 1: I tweeted this out yesterday.
Speaker 6: Their averaging five point one yards per carry through the
Speaker 6: first two weeks. That's toded for third highest in the NFL. Okay,
Speaker 6: so the top three in that category. There are four
Speaker 6: rushing touchdowns, three of which belonged to Javonte Williams, also
Speaker 6: third most in the league. This is a top three
Speaker 6: rushing attack that the Cowboys are taking to Chicago. Now
Speaker 6: I'm sorry one more time. Top three who the Dallas Cowboys?
Speaker 6: Oh about the team that everybody was worried about. The
Speaker 6: running game because they didn't they didn't sign a big
Speaker 6: time run just making.
Speaker 1: Sure we're out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was worried about it.
Speaker 1: I was fair for good reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for good reason.
Speaker 1: Over the past two seasons.
Speaker 2: I've been very worried about it since Tony Pollard is
Speaker 2: no longer a part of this.
Speaker 3: Figuring it out.
Speaker 1: I told you, I said, running game is going to
Speaker 1: be solid as.
Speaker 3: Long as they can block for them up front.
Speaker 1: You said it, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: That was the head, that was the wreck he had
Speaker 6: on And now top three rushing defense.
Speaker 3: We got a long year we do.
Speaker 1: We can only talk about what we knowing from So
Speaker 1: I just wanted the people that I just want to
Speaker 1: hear it again.
Speaker 6: So through two weeks, the Football Cowboys have the top
Speaker 6: three rushing attack. They're going against a Bears defense. Rushing
Speaker 6: defense that allows the following two hundred and thirty three
Speaker 6: rushing yards over expectation.
Speaker 1: That's in the red.
Speaker 6: Let's see first downs over expectation, ten first downs over expectation.
Speaker 6: Their success rate also one of the worst in the league.
Speaker 6: All goes to what Isaiah is saying. This is the
Speaker 6: reason why they're the fifth worst rushing defense in the league.
Speaker 6: Now here's where it gets that much more enticing for
Speaker 6: the Cowboys. Not only can you run against this team,
Speaker 6: but it then sets you up for the play action
Speaker 6: And there's a play action stat coming in next segment
Speaker 6: with lab Coat.
Speaker 1: It's going to help support this.
Speaker 6: But now we look at the secondary that Isaiah so
Speaker 6: skilled will fully dissected in his QB vision segment. This
Speaker 6: is we keep saying it. This is a defense that
Speaker 6: is without Jalen Johnson with the growing injury.
Speaker 1: You know who they have.
Speaker 6: They You better not say who I think you about
Speaker 6: to say their starter?
Speaker 1: Is this you played opposite? Is it the right revenge game?
Speaker 1: I knew that's where you could go even though they
Speaker 1: lost their all corner.
Speaker 6: You know you know who was playing across from that
Speaker 6: all Prony Shawn Right.
Speaker 3: Former top one hundred pick for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Something I want to throw in, something I don't want
Speaker 6: to pick, something I do want to throw in though
Speaker 6: that that that people will look by and you probably
Speaker 6: it's probably will You'll be able to help with this.
Speaker 6: One of the greatest coaches that Dallas lost this year
Speaker 6: is where Al Harris and Chicago Chicago listen respect on
Speaker 6: our hairs we all respect the crap out of our Harris.
Speaker 6: If there is anybody in this league, I just want
Speaker 6: to throw this out there, right. They have not shown
Speaker 6: that they have been great in coverage.
Speaker 1: But if there is.
Speaker 6: Anybody who knows the weaknesses of the receivers that Dallas
Speaker 6: has at least.
Speaker 3: One of them, CD and Tolbert. But what about Pickens?
Speaker 1: Doesn't pick doesn't no picks, but he knows ball.
Speaker 3: You just talked about that.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talked about.
Speaker 6: Big player for sure, But Pickens has not necessarily shown
Speaker 6: the aggressiveness of the line of scream is to date, right,
Speaker 6: So I'm just saying, I'm just putting this out there,
Speaker 6: just just to put some respect on Al Harris's name,
Speaker 6: even though the personnel doesn't seem to be there. Al
Speaker 6: Harris knows everything about the receivers that the Dallas Cowboys have.
Speaker 6: So if there was an area of opportunity for him
Speaker 6: to go to Dennis Allen and be like, hey, I
Speaker 6: notice is what we've been running. However, this is what
Speaker 6: you should do versus these guys this you might see
Speaker 6: some different things.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. You said this respect on Al's name?
Speaker 2: Really interesting yesterday, Brian Schottenheimer was asked about that like
Speaker 2: coaches versus players who are playing against teams that they're
Speaker 2: either formerly of or have played a ton of in
Speaker 2: their careers, and he said, I don't really rely on
Speaker 2: the players a whole lot, so like, let's throw Na
Speaker 2: Sean right in there as a thing. But he said coaches,
Speaker 2: I take a lot of stock in that. So Al Harris,
Speaker 2: if he's talking to Dennis Allen and he's going to
Speaker 2: his defensive coordinator and he's saying, hey, there's this, this, this,
Speaker 2: and this, then boom that there's one way.
Speaker 1: To play these guys. This frustrates him, something.
Speaker 2: That Matt eberflu said said about and when he was
Speaker 2: in the offensive meetings talking about the Chicago defense.
Speaker 1: So it does. It goes back and forth.
Speaker 2: It is just kind of an interesting chess game that
Speaker 2: happens throughout the week when.
Speaker 6: It comes to there's so much intrigue on that topic.
Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought it up because we mentioned it
Speaker 6: yesterday because one of the topics that kylpers in it
Speaker 6: to us yesterday was the emotional component Matt Eberflus going
Speaker 6: back to Chicago. But then again, you have Al Harris,
Speaker 6: and you have Kennan Matthews' former Cowboys coaches. They are
Speaker 6: now on the second Jack Sanborne, Jack Samborne. I mean
Speaker 6: there's a lot going on here. Ben Johnson versus Matt
Speaker 6: Eberflus from their time, you know, Lions versus Bears. There's
Speaker 6: a lot of cross pollinationists. Far is Shaun Wright who's
Speaker 6: going to look for the revenge game?
Speaker 1: Who's not?
Speaker 6: Now I say that, and I say this one unequivocally
Speaker 6: put respect on Al Harris's name. You have to do
Speaker 6: so we've seen what he's able to do. Most of
Speaker 6: our listeners hyeah, yeah, they do. Everybody kind of knows.
Speaker 6: And you saw Sean get get the pick six and
Speaker 6: toasted first, and he came back and got the p
Speaker 6: What was that first thing you said?
Speaker 1: Toasted?
Speaker 6: Okay, this is this is where, this is where it
Speaker 6: brings me. This is the point it brings me to
Speaker 6: without Jalen Johnson and Shaun Wright becomes one of your
Speaker 6: premier guys, one of your premiere corners in Chicago going
Speaker 6: against George Pickens and ceedee lamb. I'm taking that bet
Speaker 6: one hundred times out of one hundred times, and if
Speaker 6: I lose one of those bets. I'm still up ninety
Speaker 6: nine right. It happened, right, So, yes, Al Harris will
Speaker 6: have these guys ready, he will coach them up.
Speaker 1: Yes, but there are levels to this.
Speaker 6: If you're telling me that NA Shaun Wright can lock
Speaker 6: up CD, lamb, I'm laughing in your face. No disrespect
Speaker 6: to Sean. But again, there are levels to this. If
Speaker 6: you're telling s Wright can lock up George Pickens, I'm
Speaker 6: laughing in your face, disrespecting.
Speaker 1: He's a nephew.
Speaker 3: If he's going man to man with CD, I don't
Speaker 3: see that happening.
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening, I'm saying. But I do
Speaker 1: believe this is just me throwing it out there.
Speaker 6: I know we got get out so we can get
Speaker 6: back to I think that this might be the most
Speaker 6: emotionally challenging game for CD. The reason why I say
Speaker 6: that is because he's facing two people player that he
Speaker 6: faced every day in practice, and he's facing a coach
Speaker 6: that literally coached against him for numerous years. You know,
Speaker 6: on his team, but his guys were practicing against him
Speaker 6: every single day for the number of years they know him.
Speaker 6: And it's exactly so I listen, I can't physically beat you.
Speaker 1: So how do I get to you mentally?
Speaker 2: I'm going to be a chess patch already has been
Speaker 2: between those two.
Speaker 3: All right. When we come back here on talking cowboys.
Speaker 2: A little bit of lab cotal bit of Patrick no
Speaker 2: Cy Walker takes center stage, talks.
Speaker 3: About a little bit more of CD lamb.
Speaker 6: Huh, and then we're gonna talk about the passing attack.
Speaker 6: Passing attack based a bunch of running.
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Speaker 6: Yes, This Science Lab is an extremely deep dive into
Speaker 6: just how hot of a start the Cowboys offense is
Speaker 6: going into Week three. Now, let's circle in on play action,
Speaker 6: because we talked about the Cowboys entering Chicago with a
Speaker 6: top three rushing defense in the league. Both and rushing
Speaker 6: touchdowns and in average yards per carry at five point
Speaker 6: one carry, primarily by Javonte Williams. He looks every bit
Speaker 6: refreshed like he is that all rookie guy for the.
Speaker 1: Denver that's without a change of pace back that's without
Speaker 1: a change of pace backing.
Speaker 6: This is going to be key because not only shoot,
Speaker 6: not only can you established a run against Chicago, but
Speaker 6: you should so. And here's why. Play action totals the
Speaker 6: Cowboys are. Completion percentage above expected is twenty four point
Speaker 6: eight roughly twenty five percent, second in the league. When
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott throws a ball off of the play action, okay,
Speaker 6: twenty five percent of that goes above the expected yardage,
Speaker 6: second best in the league. Okay, his tight window percentage,
Speaker 6: it's sixteen point eight percent, seventeen percent on non play
Speaker 6: action dropbacks.
Speaker 1: It drops to eleven percent on play action.
Speaker 6: Why is that, Isaiah, Because defensive backs and linebackers and
Speaker 6: even the adrushers have to pause. They have to give
Speaker 6: pause and respect it, Paul, they have to and respect it.
Speaker 6: So that's that's more than a five percent decrease in
Speaker 6: the tight window percentage that Dak Prescott faces when he's
Speaker 6: doing a play action passer rating. Passer rating is one
Speaker 6: oh five point six for Dak Prescott in a play
Speaker 6: action situation. That is a twenty four point increase over
Speaker 6: non play action plays.
Speaker 3: That sounds good.
Speaker 1: That is damn good. I say all of this to
Speaker 1: say good, it's damn good.
Speaker 6: Establish the run in Chicago, especially being that they have
Speaker 6: a defense that will allow you to do so. That
Speaker 6: will then strain the secondary that is already strained without
Speaker 6: Jalen Johnson on the field. And you can walk away
Speaker 6: with a convincing win in this game and do it.
Speaker 5: Any hesitation that you could generate from play action is
Speaker 5: going to give your receivers time to get to that
Speaker 5: third Levelise was talking about. So guess what, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 5: you are up?
Speaker 1: It is time?
Speaker 3: Can I uh, can I rain a little bit on
Speaker 3: the parade?
Speaker 1: Can I kick it rained?
Speaker 3: Dakota rain Dakotasy.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little bit? All right?
Speaker 3: Uh, Dak has not had a ton of success against
Speaker 3: Dennis Allen before. Hey, he has not. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like that factual.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Uh, they've they have faced off four times in their career,
Speaker 3: Dak and Dennis Allen. Last year, you remember what happened
Speaker 3: when Dennis Allen played against Dak Prescott in Week two
Speaker 3: of the season. It was a forty four to nineteen
Speaker 3: Saints win, right, bo, I'm just saying they're a good
Speaker 3: game of the year unpassing touchdown too. It orsceptions three
Speaker 3: sacks taken for Dak in that matchup out of the
Speaker 3: four different starts QB raiding passer rating eighty six point one.
Speaker 3: That's twenty eighth out of forty quarterbacks that have ever
Speaker 3: played against Dennis Allen.
Speaker 1: More than twice.
Speaker 3: Okay, twenty eighth out of forty.
Speaker 1: That's that's not great. It's not great.
Speaker 3: I have great I see, and I was hoping you
Speaker 3: would because I think I agree with everything, and I
Speaker 3: think the personnel is different. I think it's a different
Speaker 3: situation When you look at the stats, it's been over
Speaker 3: four straight games, so there's something to that. Give credit
Speaker 3: to Dennis Allen where they need be. But when I
Speaker 3: look at the horses, he doesn't have the same ones
Speaker 3: no going up against, and Dak has a lot very
Speaker 3: much arguably has the better horses that he's ever had
Speaker 3: in his career to work with.
Speaker 6: So what counter point you you kind of added to
Speaker 6: some of that. It's different personnel on both sides of
Speaker 6: the of the setline.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: I will also add that going into week one, there
Speaker 6: was a lot rightfully in justify, fibly and accurately said
Speaker 6: about Dak Prescott's struggles against guess who Vic Fangio big find.
Speaker 6: If not for the drops, Dak Prescott and the offense
Speaker 6: might have hung close to forty on Vic Fangio, things
Speaker 6: might just be different.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 6: This is also a Dak Prescott this year who thus
Speaker 6: far leads the league with a seventy five percent completion
Speaker 6: percentage on third down, with eleven of those resulting in
Speaker 6: a first down. Dak Prescott is on an absolute heater.
Speaker 6: All he needs is for his receivers to catch the ball.
Speaker 6: Dennis Allen historically he's had the success, he has had
Speaker 6: some success. He's down his best corner, and he has
Speaker 6: a defensive line that will allow you to run the
Speaker 6: ball in Chicago. Combine that with what Dak is doing
Speaker 6: right now going into week three, you like it. I
Speaker 6: like it. I like Dak in this one.
Speaker 5: But the big crux to it for me is the
Speaker 5: offensive line has to be physical.
Speaker 6: They have to Hoffman has to be physical. Yes, it
Speaker 6: has to be physical TALLI Booker has to be physical. Yes,
Speaker 6: I like my eyes, like.
Speaker 1: All the above.
Speaker 5: I like above, but they got to keep that clean
Speaker 5: if they start getting to him early and Dak is,
Speaker 5: you know, scrambling in the pocket seeing ghosts. I don't
Speaker 5: like that idea of a panic deck Prescott in the
Speaker 5: pocket against the Bears. And then also you tie that
Speaker 5: into what Chicago potentially could be doing against this secondary
Speaker 5: I don't like.
Speaker 3: I don't like it.
Speaker 5: Man, you get behind like you did with the Giants,
Speaker 5: and that's when I don't want to do that.
Speaker 6: Pulling from the Giants game. It's just it's critical that
Speaker 6: in our city yesterday. It's critical that the Cowboys take
Speaker 6: several lessons from that, But the major lesson is remind
Speaker 6: yourself this is a week to week league. Yes, the
Speaker 6: Bears are going too, but that also means they're desperate
Speaker 6: for Ben Johnson's first win.
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson desperate animal is.
Speaker 6: An unpredictable animal going there and play them as if
Speaker 6: you're playing the Green Bay Packers, as if you're playing
Speaker 6: the Eagles again, as if you're playing the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: You don't have to, don't play down.
Speaker 6: Do not feel that you will find yourself in a
Speaker 6: spot where you're in a I was gonna say, a
Speaker 6: dog fight, a fight with a bear. DiCaprio in the rivet,
Speaker 6: and you just don't want that fight in the woods.
Speaker 3: His final Oscar, his first Oscar, he got it done.
Speaker 1: You don't want it. You don't want a revenant situation.
Speaker 6: So go in there, get off to a fast start,
Speaker 6: quiet the crowd, demoralize the secondary, and walk out of
Speaker 6: there with hopefully a convincing win.
Speaker 2: They have a hope in Chicago that they'll win these
Speaker 2: next two games. Dallas and Las Vegas are their next two,
Speaker 2: and they go into their.
Speaker 3: Early bye week. They get a week five by that's terrible,
Speaker 3: but they would they need to win and they in
Speaker 3: their eyes, they need to be five hundred going into that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like you said, desperation certainly playing a factor
Speaker 3: some predictions.
Speaker 5: Carol, Ben Johnson. In this press conference yesterday, we was
Speaker 5: talking about how they're practicing.
Speaker 1: He's like, this is not how a championship team practice.
Speaker 5: He's so frush straight man, and and you gotta feel
Speaker 5: for him.
Speaker 1: I do. I thought he was a really good coach.
Speaker 5: And there's a reason. I think we were all saying
Speaker 5: his name when we were doing the head coaching search.
Speaker 3: You know, he was a hot commodity.
Speaker 5: Hot commodity, and he's having a tough go so far, and.
Speaker 3: I think I think the he'll fear.
Speaker 1: Things will settled in for Ben Johnson. But not this week.
Speaker 1: Not this week.
Speaker 2: All right, that's gonna do it for us here on
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Speaker 2: a say it with your Chest Friday. Say it with
Speaker 2: your chest. You're gonna say it.
Speaker 1: With your chest. I'm gonna say with my chest. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna save these stats that I just found.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
Speaker 1: Not good. Like he doesn't like to say Eber Flews
Speaker 1: versus Ben Johnson for the last few years. It's not great.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll talk about it.
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