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Speaker 6: It is Thursday, November second, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number sixty two.
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Speaker 6: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, live from
Speaker 6: the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We appreciate you
Speaker 6: guys joining us. We're gonna start today's show first by
Speaker 6: giving a really, really hearty congratulations to the hometown Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6: How about that World Series Championship when last night they
Speaker 6: wrapped that thing up and huge Rangers over there, huge
Speaker 6: as we said this morning.
Speaker 2: Okay, well for now, yeah.
Speaker 7: Today, I'm wearing there because of because of But yes,
Speaker 7: I've always been a Ranger saw Okay, Dominican, lots of Dominica.
Speaker 7: I've met a lot of Ranger players, people that don't
Speaker 7: even play anymore. But it's when you meet a Dominican
Speaker 7: hearing the DFW area. That's very rare. It's not common.
Speaker 7: So yeah, you tend to connect with your people, you know,
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 7: So yeah, go Rangers.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we're all excided.
Speaker 2: Brian.
Speaker 6: You've been doing radio since like what three o'clock this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was on from three to four thirty.
Speaker 8: Yeah, went to sleep for a couple hours, got up
Speaker 8: and start typing some Eagles notes.
Speaker 3: So I was I got to the.
Speaker 8: Point where I was superstitious where when I was actually
Speaker 8: watching the games, they were losing, and they lost the
Speaker 8: one that one, and I'm like, okay, but I was
Speaker 8: all the games throughout the playoffs, I would listen. So
Speaker 8: last night was watch Eagles defense, listen.
Speaker 3: To the game.
Speaker 8: And so that was a that's the old krusty way
Speaker 8: of doing things, listening to a baseball game. But I
Speaker 8: pulled it off. So yeah, and got a parade tomorrow,
Speaker 8: so looking forward.
Speaker 3: To that too.
Speaker 6: You're born and raised here in Dallas, so I signed. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's just I mean again, I've only been in Dallas.
Speaker 6: I moved to Dallas in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've been.
Speaker 6: Here for a long time. I know, stop. I've been
Speaker 6: here for a long time, but it's just I assume
Speaker 6: when you've been born and raised here, it's nothing like
Speaker 6: seeing a champion in your city.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I my first game that I went to was in
Speaker 8: nineteen seventy two. That's how long ago that was. I
Speaker 8: was born and so yeah, thanks, Wow.
Speaker 6: The only person I can act exactly the rest of
Speaker 6: you guys, y'all do that to me, so I could
Speaker 6: do it to Brunt.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So, but yeah, I remember going to games at the
Speaker 8: old Arlington Stadium. And what's really funny is that there's
Speaker 8: a lot of Ranger baseball fans that where the scars
Speaker 8: of ten, twenty eleven of not having success. And I
Speaker 8: said it on the radio yesterday that I don't wear
Speaker 8: those scars because there was a side of me that
Speaker 8: was so involved with what we were doing here with football,
Speaker 8: you know, and my life has been really since nine
Speaker 8: years old, has been football.
Speaker 3: And so funny when.
Speaker 8: You're you know, you're a fan of I was going
Speaker 8: to games as a kid, and then you go away
Speaker 8: and then you go start your profession and you're like, eh,
Speaker 8: you know, but the Rangers haven't been good for a
Speaker 8: long time. That's the thing about it is you lose.
Speaker 8: But I got so involved in football and teams I
Speaker 8: was with and all that I just didn't have the
Speaker 8: time to really invest in.
Speaker 3: But now being on the radio.
Speaker 8: And having to talk about it every day, you don't
Speaker 8: want to sound like an idiot, so you invest that way.
Speaker 8: And so it's it's nice to see they've done a
Speaker 8: great job. The guy that's been Chris Young, who's the
Speaker 8: general manager, is a DFW guy.
Speaker 3: He's a Highland Park guy. So though it's got to.
Speaker 8: Be super special, the only thing I can equate it
Speaker 8: too is coming to work at the Cowboys in nineteen
Speaker 8: ninety nine and being from Dallas and imagining trying to
Speaker 8: win a championship for the Cowboys with a team that
Speaker 8: I spent twenty years of following, as you know, as
Speaker 8: a teenager and then into an adult. So, you know,
Speaker 8: really happy for Chris, the fact that he's from here.
Speaker 8: He every time we've ever interviewed him, he's been like,
Speaker 8: I just want this for the fans. I just want
Speaker 8: this for the fans. And you know, he those we
Speaker 8: all know this. We all invest in this. I mean,
Speaker 8: your your life, seven days a week, you invest in this,
Speaker 8: and and congratulations of them the investment actually paid off.
Speaker 10: I mean they one hundred deserve it, and that's that's
Speaker 10: saying the least. And like you, I'm a transplant to
Speaker 10: Dallas and I got here about five years ago, transplant
Speaker 10: from Georgia. For everyone that might not know, hints you
Speaker 10: don't follow him, Yeah, I don't know how.
Speaker 8: He will show up in your ballyard with a Braves uniform.
Speaker 8: I mean I saw that with my own crowd.
Speaker 6: Georgia got it.
Speaker 10: But I'm a baseball guy and I just love live
Speaker 10: baseball and I'm a former baseball player and just to
Speaker 10: feel the energy the air. So, you know, being here
Speaker 10: in Dallas not being able to see my Braves live often,
Speaker 10: what do you do? You go to Rangers games, so
Speaker 10: you know effective you know, four or five years ago,
Speaker 10: I started going to Rangers games. Like Brian said, he
Speaker 10: seen me walking through a globe life both parts.
Speaker 2: The older park end the new park.
Speaker 10: And having seen, you know, the struggles that those guys
Speaker 10: had on those on the field as far as trying
Speaker 10: to generate wins and seeing what the fandom went through
Speaker 10: when those hard times and hard times, and then seeing
Speaker 10: them flip and then that switch flip and them being
Speaker 10: able to do the rebuild similar not entirely dissimilar from
Speaker 10: how my Braves did it when the Braves were going
Speaker 10: through some rough times. And then in twenty one, twenty
Speaker 10: twenty one, we get Alex Anthropolis. He comes in, he
Speaker 10: gets aggressive, he makes the moves, the same way that
Speaker 10: Chris Young made the moves. So to see the Rangers
Speaker 10: fans being able to just get the demons off of
Speaker 10: their back and then it just celebrate this. That's why
Speaker 10: I said last night on Twitter, drink this, d like,
Speaker 10: try to absorb as much of this as possible, because
Speaker 10: there's just nothing like being a world champion, especially when
Speaker 10: you do it by overcoming the adversity they had to
Speaker 10: do it with Dallas goals out, what happens, Marcus steps
Speaker 10: up and he heats up.
Speaker 2: Corey was just Corey. You have role players.
Speaker 10: Jankowski step in what Eavaldi did last night, getting himself
Speaker 10: in jams and then hoodnian himself out of Jamesrazy. They
Speaker 10: would getting no hit through almost seven innings, but they
Speaker 10: never said die. So Rangers fans, cheers to you, hats
Speaker 10: off to you. Enjoy this and just know that next
Speaker 10: year we're trying to take that belt off you.
Speaker 8: I will say this though too real quick. You know,
Speaker 8: people say that they bought a championship.
Speaker 2: No, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 3: No, I you know what they did, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you as a fan, bring it to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, The ownership spent over five hundred million dollars on players.
Speaker 8: I'm like, I don't care.
Speaker 3: You know you do it. I don't care.
Speaker 8: I don't don't tell me about it, you know, just
Speaker 8: all I care about is when the hand you the trophy.
Speaker 8: I don't care how much your who spends the money
Speaker 8: or where the money. I just you know, if you're
Speaker 8: if that's if it's about developing players, sure, but if
Speaker 8: it's about going out and buying the best players too,
Speaker 8: I'm all from that also.
Speaker 2: I just and you're not wrong.
Speaker 10: What bothers me about that is when the narrative is inaccurate,
Speaker 10: because when you look at the net spending for the Rangers,
Speaker 10: it's only three three and a half million more than
Speaker 10: the same Astros team.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So I have no problem.
Speaker 10: Then it's yeah, people that always in Keys Dodgers, Okay,
Speaker 10: that's a true story. But for this Rangers team, it's
Speaker 10: not again, it's the the arc of it is similar
Speaker 10: to what the Braves did in twenty one. The Braves
Speaker 10: didn't outspend everyone. It's about positions, right. The Braves do
Speaker 10: a great job whole positions. And then the skipper, the
Speaker 10: skipper Bouchie getting Bochie off of the recliner to come
Speaker 10: in and just do what.
Speaker 3: He spend money on that one too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So there you go. They did it all the
Speaker 2: right way.
Speaker 10: And yes they spent money, they were aggressive, but they
Speaker 10: didn't buy it.
Speaker 2: They earned it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll tell you this. The fact of the matter
Speaker 6: is that that this is this moment, This is what
Speaker 6: being a fan really is all about.
Speaker 11: It.
Speaker 6: You do go through those rough years, and that's the thing,
Speaker 6: Like it makes those rough years all the more sweeter
Speaker 6: when you can get to this moment. And so that's
Speaker 6: part of fandom. Fan Nick Nick and I used to
Speaker 6: always say, you don't choose to.
Speaker 2: Be a fan.
Speaker 6: Fandom chooses you, like you get your team, and then
Speaker 6: getting your team means that sometimes you're gonna have to
Speaker 6: go through those really really rough times and those drafts
Speaker 6: can last a very long time. Talk to Cubs fans
Speaker 6: like it happened. You can last, it can last a
Speaker 6: very long time. But when you get that moment, you
Speaker 6: get that moment when you're at the top, it is
Speaker 6: so worth it and so sweet and you just kind
Speaker 6: of keep going through it.
Speaker 7: You know, it was like a week ago, I would
Speaker 7: constantly hear people Rangers suck.
Speaker 6: Oh we're terrible, all we suck.
Speaker 7: And these are people that are fans, obviously their own fans.
Speaker 7: So to see just how everything just quickly change. And
Speaker 7: I say quickly in quotation because you talk about all
Speaker 7: those years. But it's it's fun and I will wish,
Speaker 7: I freaking wish I could go to the parade.
Speaker 3: I can't you want to go for me?
Speaker 7: Child want to watch?
Speaker 6: Well, there will be children a parade.
Speaker 9: It's a parade.
Speaker 6: A kid loves parade.
Speaker 7: I think en of me and by myself surviving being
Speaker 7: in a crowd of people. I don't want.
Speaker 3: To take care of a kid. That makes it a.
Speaker 7: Freaking which. But just like that, you never know when
Speaker 7: the cowboys can flip that switch.
Speaker 10: To maybe Derek and I were talking about this, maybe
Speaker 10: happened before that in a city, and that energy starts
Speaker 10: kind of just permeating throughout the city and it's just something.
Speaker 2: In the water.
Speaker 10: We say, ranger ranges went it. All Stars of Contenders.
Speaker 10: Cowboys are continued, Maps are playing well right now, there
Speaker 10: you go.
Speaker 7: You my size, my ring size?
Speaker 3: Oh oh you know what you know?
Speaker 2: You know you bring it in.
Speaker 3: You know about rings. It's so funny, real quick story.
Speaker 8: The ladies in Green Bay they had ladies rings for
Speaker 8: the championship, and the lady said, hell no, we want.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, the ladies ladies raised.
Speaker 8: The ladies raised such a stink that my boss goes, Okay,
Speaker 8: well let's yeah, they want big rings.
Speaker 3: Let's go. So the ladies all they didn't want the
Speaker 3: lady style ring. They wanted the big ring.
Speaker 6: I mean, if you gotta do it, if you gotta
Speaker 6: do it, do it, you know. All right, let's get
Speaker 6: back to Cowboys. Let's let's talk about the injury report. Uh, Patrick,
Speaker 6: give me an update on where we are the four guys, particularly,
Speaker 6: I wanted to get an update on Tyron Smith, Tuma Edoga,
Speaker 6: Michael Gallup and jay Ron Curse.
Speaker 10: All right, so too many Dooga was limited yesterday in practice,
Speaker 10: which is definitely promising.
Speaker 2: Again, he's dealing with.
Speaker 10: What is described as a low ankle spring much much
Speaker 10: better as far as working through it than a high
Speaker 10: ankle spring. So he looks very good for going Barney.
Speaker 10: He setbacks this week. He looks good to go against
Speaker 10: Philadelphia Tyron Smith. It was expected that he'd be with
Speaker 10: the rehab group on Wednesday, and he was DNP didn't
Speaker 10: opportun some pay earlier in the week. McCarthy said that
Speaker 10: he tried to ramp up Tyron Smith on today Thursday.
Speaker 10: So today's injury report is key as far as Tyron
Speaker 10: Smith's progress is concerned.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would keep an eye on that one.
Speaker 8: It sounds like to me they're going to keep him
Speaker 8: off the practice field today because they're worried that they
Speaker 8: don't want to get the They dodn't want to bang
Speaker 8: him up, right, they don't want somebody like all Suddeny's
Speaker 8: practicing and then there's a hit and then so I
Speaker 8: would anticipate he is not going to practice today. It's
Speaker 8: always like we've talked about get into Saturday, probably even
Speaker 8: get him to Sunday if they have to, but today
Speaker 8: is probably not going to be a practice.
Speaker 10: That is one hundred percent the vibe I'm getting the
Speaker 10: Cowboys don't want him to take on any unnecessary contact
Speaker 10: this week, so they'll have.
Speaker 2: Him go through walkthroughs.
Speaker 10: But as far as getting down there and lining up
Speaker 10: against guys go full speeding practice for as much as
Speaker 10: they can, probably not going to happen.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 10: There was a lot of rest yesterday Wednesday, is you know,
Speaker 10: now become the Cowboys veteran rest day Cooks rested, Stefan Gilmore, rest,
Speaker 10: Jonathan Hankins, rest of Marcus Lawrence rest with Lewis and
Speaker 10: Zach mar And both rested as well. Jay Ron Curse
Speaker 10: popped up with a toe injury. Spoke with him yesterday. Now,
Speaker 10: the injury report came out after locker room access, but
Speaker 10: in speaking with jay Ron before, I was actually surprised
Speaker 10: this showed up because the way he was talking, he's playing.
Speaker 10: I mean, I don't get any indication from him whatsoever
Speaker 10: that he's concerned about it, that it's going to bother him.
Speaker 10: Asked him about covering Dallas. Goddard just has a strategic
Speaker 10: question and he was like, you know, I'm not in
Speaker 10: the mood to talk. I'm ready to go out there
Speaker 10: and get it on. That's not what you hear from
Speaker 10: a guy who's worried about availability for this coming week.
Speaker 10: So keep an eye on Jaron Curse. We'll see if
Speaker 10: the Cowboys let him do anything today in practice. But
Speaker 10: it sounds like he's going to go.
Speaker 7: I have a question in case something crazy, and it
Speaker 7: could very well happen. But let's say Tyron and Tuma
Speaker 7: are no go or they do start the game and
Speaker 7: then they come out and come off, would you guys
Speaker 7: stick with richers or would you do some shuffling of
Speaker 7: like moving people.
Speaker 8: Man, this is the times that I wish I lived
Speaker 8: in the building still because I could figure out who
Speaker 8: was going to if if in fact that maybe Tyler
Speaker 8: Smith is practicing a little bit, are they maybe of
Speaker 8: the eight reps, is he getting two reps playing tackle?
Speaker 8: I don't think they want to move him.
Speaker 3: I think they would.
Speaker 8: I think it's going to be awesome. Richards would be
Speaker 8: that would be to answer your question. Would I don't
Speaker 8: think that they would They would put Tyler Smith outside?
Speaker 8: But if you knew that he was taking two of
Speaker 8: the eight reps matt tackle, maybe you would think. Okay,
Speaker 8: it's the thought that they have. But if it's all
Speaker 8: reps at guard I don't. I don't think they would
Speaker 8: move him.
Speaker 6: I really don't, you know, I'm starting to get the impression,
Speaker 6: and I could be totally off, but just you know,
Speaker 6: just random conversations with people around the building, I'm starting
Speaker 6: to get the impression that I don't know that they
Speaker 6: would necessarily remove Tyler Smith at whatever point Tyron Smith
Speaker 6: is no longer here. I'm starting to get the impression
Speaker 6: I think they may even they may be looking at
Speaker 6: it and being like, this guy may be one of
Speaker 6: the best guards in the NFL right now. And if
Speaker 6: he's one of the best guards in the NFL, it's
Speaker 6: a Larry Allen type situation, right do you move him
Speaker 6: to tackle to see if he can become the best
Speaker 6: tackle or one of the best tackles in the NFL?
Speaker 6: Or do you keep him at god guard where he's
Speaker 6: already one of the best guards in the NFL. And
Speaker 6: I think it's a it's an interesting question, and it's
Speaker 6: an off season question.
Speaker 7: It's more important to you.
Speaker 6: Honestly, I would say this. I think it's very clear
Speaker 6: left tackle is probably the most important position on the
Speaker 6: offensive line. However, I will also say, if you tell me,
Speaker 6: I can have a pretty good tackle versus having a
Speaker 6: great guard. I'm gonna take the great guard and keep throwing, throwing,
Speaker 6: throwing the dice at tackle and see what I can
Speaker 6: come up with, See if Austin Richards can develop into
Speaker 6: a tackle for the future.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: I just think you may it may be a situation
Speaker 6: where you can't say the same thing about Zach Martin.
Speaker 6: Zach Martin probably if they would have moved in the
Speaker 6: tackle would probably be a really good tackle in the NFL.
Speaker 6: Would he have been as great as he's been A
Speaker 6: guard who knows he never had that opportunity. So it's
Speaker 6: it's I would rather take the guy that I know
Speaker 6: is going to be great than a guy pretty good
Speaker 6: or even pretty or even very good at a position
Speaker 6: at a different position.
Speaker 10: I don't think you're wrong in the thought process that's
Speaker 10: probably happening in the coaching staff and upstairs with the
Speaker 10: front office as it relates to Tyler Smith, Because when
Speaker 10: you look at even recently this past Tuesday, when Jerry
Speaker 10: was asked about the possibility of tumor and Tyer not playing,
Speaker 10: does that mean Tyler pop out? You could have thought
Speaker 10: that he had analogy like he's allergic to that thought
Speaker 10: he was like, oh oh, before we go in talking
Speaker 10: about all that, So that's the vibe. But then also
Speaker 10: you go and you know, you use a fifth round pick.
Speaker 10: I believe when.
Speaker 2: Austin Richards Asstin Richards could be that guy.
Speaker 10: And you make an excellent point because flip it to
Speaker 10: the right side of that offensive line, right you have
Speaker 10: Zach Martin. Until your point, maybe Zach Martin is a
Speaker 10: very good right tackle for the entirety of his career,
Speaker 10: but he's a Hall of Fame guard.
Speaker 2: That's why would you have at right tackle.
Speaker 10: You try Lyle Collins there, and then you put Terrence
Speaker 10: Steele there who came in as an undrafted guy and
Speaker 10: he turns out. So the importance, I'll answer your question,
Speaker 10: My more important is is protecting that blind side. But
Speaker 10: when you look at the totality of the offensive line,
Speaker 10: the interior needs to be the strongest of that offensive
Speaker 10: line on any team, because we talk about it weekend,
Speaker 10: week out. If you can disrupt the pocket from the interior,
Speaker 10: then as a defense, you've already won that belt.
Speaker 6: And don't forget the division you play in. Yeah, the
Speaker 6: strength is the interior of those defensive lines. You're gonna
Speaker 6: be playing, so you could make the argument in this
Speaker 6: division it may be just as important to have really
Speaker 6: great guards as it is to have tackles. Yeah, absolutely right,
Speaker 6: all right, we're gonna go ahead and take our first rek.
Speaker 6: When we come back, we're gonna jump into the Dallas
Speaker 6: offense versus the Philadelphia defense. We'll be back Dallas. Cowboys
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Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 7: No remember when Dave was still here and we talked
Speaker 7: about them for like a long time, and we still
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Speaker 3: To take it.
Speaker 6: I blame you. You were the whole up.
Speaker 8: Probably photos you guys took at the holiday party we
Speaker 8: used to have a Probably.
Speaker 6: I missed the holiday party.
Speaker 3: I missed the holiday party at Texas Stadium.
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: That four before we got so big.
Speaker 10: Yeah, was very like what happens in Vegas stays and
Speaker 10: it was a good time.
Speaker 6: We'll just say it was a good time.
Speaker 2: Was it was a mess, It was a good time.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 6: Let's talk Cowboys offense in a good way? Yes, versus
Speaker 6: Eagles defense? Brian, what do you have?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I think that when you look at this Eagle defense,
Speaker 8: the strength of it is their defensive line, and it's
Speaker 8: gonna come down to a couple of different things you
Speaker 8: really have to be worried about. I think when you
Speaker 8: start to talk about their edges, Hassan Reddick and then
Speaker 8: Josh Sweat, I think of the two that that factor
Speaker 8: into a lot of what you're going to try and
Speaker 8: do here. Maybe protection wise, they're good inside with Fletcher Cox,
Speaker 8: Jordan Davis, and Jalen Carter. Jalen Carter's been a little
Speaker 8: bit banged up of this uh this, uh, this time.
Speaker 8: He's got a back injury, and so the reports are
Speaker 8: that they're gonna, you know, it's gonna give it be
Speaker 8: a close for him to play. If that's the case,
Speaker 8: that's a that's a nice break for the Cowboys because
Speaker 8: as a defensive tackle, he's got three and a half sacks.
Speaker 8: Fletcher Cox is a little bit long in the tooth.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 8: You can see teams are starting to move him a
Speaker 8: little bit when you watch him on tape. It used
Speaker 8: to be he was really a steady, sturdy guy at
Speaker 8: the point of attack, but now people are kind of
Speaker 8: trying to wheel him and then get him off the ball.
Speaker 8: Davis is a massive guy. Just it's my old saying.
Speaker 8: Was always a trash can full of dirt. That's that's
Speaker 8: what Jordan Davis is. He could be a hard guy
Speaker 8: to move. He's just gonna be a straight ahead passer rusher.
Speaker 8: So that kind of takes care of the inside guys.
Speaker 8: But the outside guys I mentioned with Reddick, I mean,
Speaker 8: this guy is he's primarily going to line up on
Speaker 8: the on your right side of the offense, the defensive
Speaker 8: left side of the ball. He's explosive, He's really good
Speaker 8: with his hands. He's going to break you down pretty quickly.
Speaker 8: This is going to be an interesting matchup with him
Speaker 8: and Terrence Steele, and Steele has faced him before, so he.
Speaker 3: Kind of has an idea.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't be surprised if it's if there's some help
Speaker 8: over to that side, some chipping, maybe some line the
Speaker 8: tight ends over there, create a little make him Reddick
Speaker 8: play a little bit wider. If you put a man
Speaker 8: in there, he's got to go a man outside of that.
Speaker 8: So maybe you just take him off the ball a
Speaker 8: little bit more, or make him a little wider from
Speaker 8: the ball, but him and still going to have a
Speaker 8: battle over there. Sweat's gonna be opposite. He's long, he's rangey.
Speaker 8: He doesn't have the quickness I don't think of Reddick,
Speaker 8: but he gets the job done in a different way.
Speaker 3: Tyron Smith.
Speaker 8: I'm penciling Tyron Smith is playing this one, uh and
Speaker 8: with with that, with that in mind, but he's really
Speaker 8: all arms and legs. When he comes off as a
Speaker 8: pass rusher, there's a lot going on with his rush.
Speaker 8: You'll see him sometimes get caught up on blockers, and
Speaker 8: that's that's a good thing because he's like he's trying
Speaker 8: to make a move. Blockers catch him and then it
Speaker 8: stops his charge where Reddick's a little bit more of
Speaker 8: a quicker and then is able to kind of escape
Speaker 8: the thing. That the thing that I would attack of
Speaker 8: those two with sweat. He's super aggressive, and I mean
Speaker 8: when you watch teams play and they run the boots
Speaker 8: or they run the jet sweeps to his side, he
Speaker 8: is so interested in flying down inside and being that
Speaker 8: guy go run to chase the ball backside, make the play,
Speaker 8: make the tackle. I've seen some teams been able to
Speaker 8: take advantage of that with him. So if the Cowboys
Speaker 8: are going to to kind of scheme somebody here, maybe
Speaker 8: it's Reddick, keep him a little wide with the guy
Speaker 8: over there across or next to him, and then also
Speaker 8: then take advantage of sweat as much as the boots
Speaker 8: and the waggles that's coming out the left side there
Speaker 8: for the Cowboys, and that's a comfortable throw for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 8: He can make that throw going to his left, So
Speaker 8: that those are a couple. That's how I look at
Speaker 8: their defensive line right now.
Speaker 6: Real quick, before you move on to the secondary or
Speaker 6: the linebackers. One thing I noticed they are second in
Speaker 6: pressure rate with a four man frust without blitzing at
Speaker 6: forty point seven. Cowboys the only team that's better right
Speaker 6: at that Who do you think of those four down linemen,
Speaker 6: who do you think is the toughest matchup for the
Speaker 6: Cowboys when you look at who they'll be facing primarily,
Speaker 6: who's the toughest mass Redick?
Speaker 3: I think I think it's Reddick.
Speaker 8: And because the one thing that steell is is still
Speaker 8: is a good foot athlete, so still can mirror him.
Speaker 8: Still has to be careful not to be overly aggressive.
Speaker 8: They're gonna get with Reddick, You're gonna get a lot
Speaker 8: of movement, and you have to be patient. That's where
Speaker 8: still sometimes because there's a little bit of some lack
Speaker 8: of power in the way he plays. So what he
Speaker 8: wants to do is he wants to set short and
Speaker 8: then try and jam a guy so that guy doesn't
Speaker 8: get going. So with Reddick and all that movement, be patient,
Speaker 8: be patient, be patient. Let him move all that boy
Speaker 8: he's doing all that movement stuff, he's not getting to
Speaker 8: the quarterback. So but I do think that the one
Speaker 8: I would be the concern the most about is him
Speaker 8: on that side because I think I think that Tyron
Speaker 8: Smith on the other side can handle Josh Sweat in
Speaker 8: this game, I really do.
Speaker 3: I The problem.
Speaker 8: Might be a little bit with Jordan Davis because he
Speaker 8: lines up as like a head up nose at time,
Speaker 8: but it's a it's a four to three front, so
Speaker 8: it's kind of different. Usually you have him where they
Speaker 8: play in shades, but Jordan Davis, when he lines up
Speaker 8: like right over the nose, we'll see if be oddish, snap,
Speaker 8: get the hand up, try and stop a guy, because
Speaker 8: Davis is just going to try and walk it straight
Speaker 8: back and strong and he's and he's really really really strong,
Speaker 8: and you know, and Patrick knows these guys very very well,
Speaker 8: Carter Davis. These guys are all white players that were
Speaker 8: you know, on his national championship teams at Georgia and
Speaker 8: then they're they're they're they're outstanding players. And I think
Speaker 8: the Eagles they can affect the middle of that pocket.
Speaker 8: We talk about the push, and maybe that's one of
Speaker 8: the reasons why again you keep a Tyler Smith there
Speaker 8: at at guard to handle stuff like this.
Speaker 7: Can you talk a little bit more about the running
Speaker 7: game and how that may look like.
Speaker 3: They don't let you run the ball.
Speaker 10: Ye, this is not this is not going to be
Speaker 10: the team to try to get the run game going
Speaker 10: against They've only allowed three rushing touchdowns three point eight
Speaker 10: yards per carry out.
Speaker 7: To release out.
Speaker 10: As Brian is going to get to, this is the
Speaker 10: game where the secondary can be there. You go, this
Speaker 10: is a past first, and then you say right to
Speaker 10: run that way. But you're not going to go in
Speaker 10: there and run down these guys. This is not the
Speaker 10: day for that.
Speaker 8: The team that's run the ball the best against them
Speaker 8: has been the Commanders actually the two games that they played,
Speaker 8: but they've only given up eleven runs of ten plus yards.
Speaker 8: I mean, they just don't.
Speaker 3: They don't.
Speaker 2: They just don't.
Speaker 3: They just don't allow it.
Speaker 6: To hell, what did the Commanders do? Did they do
Speaker 6: anything different than all.
Speaker 3: The teams Commanders?
Speaker 8: Commanders are a funny team because what they do is
Speaker 8: I feel like they got a physical offensive line and
Speaker 8: sometimes you know you're able to match, you're able to
Speaker 8: match bodies on bodies. But the Robinson, the backs that
Speaker 8: they have, guys are a little bit slippery. The kind
Speaker 8: of the guy they see the hole, they get through
Speaker 8: the hole. These guys struggle a little bit I think
Speaker 8: at linebacker, and this is no disrespect to Nikobe Dean,
Speaker 8: and because he's another I think another really good player,
Speaker 8: him and Zach Zach Cunningham both or I think that
Speaker 8: to me though the Commanders took advantage of they were.
Speaker 3: Dean is a shorter guy.
Speaker 8: He's right at six foot tall, and he will gamble
Speaker 8: on where the ball is going to be stuff. He's
Speaker 8: a really good downhill player, but he'll gamble a little bit,
Speaker 8: get caught up on some blocks and you could run
Speaker 8: the ball out him because of his lack of height.
Speaker 8: But if you're going to run the ball wide on
Speaker 8: these guts, no chance Dean's going to run you down
Speaker 8: from behind. That's just that's how he plays. He's really
Speaker 8: really good. These guys really aren't good, Patrick mintioned, they're not.
Speaker 8: The linebackers aren't particularly good in past coverage. That's the
Speaker 8: thing that you get Dean is when you look at
Speaker 8: if you look at metrics numbers and stuff. I just
Speaker 8: wanted to check eleven for eleven and targets and receptions
Speaker 8: on him, and then Cunningham is twenty five of thirty two.
Speaker 8: So a little bit of some struggle with coverage on
Speaker 8: when they're putting those situations, but the secondary here is
Speaker 8: the one that you really really need to go after
Speaker 8: and I and just watch it. Their nickel situation is
Speaker 8: not good right now. And when Maddox is out, Bradley
Speaker 8: Roby's been dealing with a pecs rain. Yeah, so they've
Speaker 8: they've struggled to try and find Sydney Brown has been
Speaker 8: the guy that they're kind of fitting in. Him and
Speaker 8: Josh Job have come in and played as the nickel.
Speaker 8: But I'll say this, when you look at when you
Speaker 8: look at at at, I think that you know Kevin
Speaker 8: Byron has come in. They made a trade for him
Speaker 8: at the safety spot, and he's one of those guys
Speaker 8: that he's been. He's he's a good player. He was
Speaker 8: great at one time. He's still a good player. He's
Speaker 8: a plus player when it comes running pass when you
Speaker 8: watch him play. But James Bradbury is a guy that
Speaker 8: has had some problems.
Speaker 3: Yes, and and and and and.
Speaker 8: That's and Slay Darius Slay is going to play on
Speaker 8: the left side, Bradbury is going to play on the
Speaker 8: right side. And they really don't flop very much. They
Speaker 8: kind of stay stationary in the way they play. But
Speaker 8: the commanders lit these guys up, and Bradbury especially, they've
Speaker 8: they've he's given up five touchdown passes this year. So
Speaker 8: I would challenge him in every way their nickel, and
Speaker 8: then challenge Bradbury. I think Slay is more competitive. I
Speaker 8: think he's more willing to kind of stick his nose
Speaker 8: in there. Bradbury's a little bit more of a cautious guy,
Speaker 8: so I would take advantage of him being cautious that one.
Speaker 6: I'll real quickly throw this in as well. I noticed
Speaker 6: this on our next Gen stats Darius Slay this year,
Speaker 6: he's allowed more receptions fourteen and more yards two hundred
Speaker 6: and eight in man coverage in twenty twenty three than
Speaker 6: all of twenty twenty two, and we're not even halfway
Speaker 6: through the season. In addition to that, he's allowing three
Speaker 6: point one yards of separation this year last year one
Speaker 6: point seven, so almost double the amount of separation he's
Speaker 6: allowing this year then last year. Slay's still a really
Speaker 6: good cornerback, don't get me wrong, but there have been
Speaker 6: some holes in his game this year that's.
Speaker 3: Been last year.
Speaker 8: There's spend holes in this entire secondary, and I think
Speaker 8: the deodor that helps it from stinking is the.
Speaker 3: Fact that their their pass rush is so good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: their front's good. Ye, that's the problem. And without blitzing
Speaker 3: and without.
Speaker 8: Blitzing, yeah, I believe they were like they've had twenty
Speaker 8: five sacks.
Speaker 3: I think it was seventeen. I saw what they've done
Speaker 3: without even blitzing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're number one in actual total number of sacks
Speaker 6: with a four man pressure. Right, But there's pressure percentage,
Speaker 6: it's it's second behind the Cowboy right.
Speaker 3: So you're going to have to deal with that though.
Speaker 2: And here's the segue.
Speaker 10: Wonderful point because the way they because Slay is allowing
Speaker 10: more yardage, and because brad Berry is struggling the way
Speaker 10: he's struggling, what they try to do is protect those
Speaker 10: guys by doing less man and it's more zone. So
Speaker 10: here's the good news for Dak Prescott and the Cowboys
Speaker 10: offense and for Cowboys fans who want to know, again,
Speaker 10: this is not the team you want to try to
Speaker 10: run establish a run against.
Speaker 2: But this is zone.
Speaker 10: Coverage sixty six seven percent, sixty seven percent, six sixty
Speaker 10: seven percent of the time this season they drop back
Speaker 10: and they give you zone. Dak Prescott has been lethal
Speaker 10: against zone coverage. Ceed Lamb has been lethal And if
Speaker 10: you want real life examples of this outside of numbers,
Speaker 10: the Jets ran zone ceedee lamb lit them up. Rams
Speaker 10: ran zone ceedee lamb lit them up. The Chargers ran
Speaker 10: zone Cede Lamb lit them up. Dak Prescott, if you
Speaker 10: present him with his own defense, then more often than not,
Speaker 10: he's going to get going. That office is going to
Speaker 10: start cooking. Only one third of the time they run, man,
Speaker 10: that's because they're trying to protect Slay. They're trying to
Speaker 10: protect bad Bradberry. So yes, Slay is still still a
Speaker 10: big time player. They also like to run a lot
Speaker 10: of single high coverage as far as their safety is concerned.
Speaker 2: Players are going to be there.
Speaker 10: But wherever Bradberry is, you have to circle him and
Speaker 10: attack him and make him career.
Speaker 7: Well. I want to know, based on the way they play,
Speaker 7: does this take away Dak's ability to run? Is this
Speaker 7: a game where you're just now pulling back on that
Speaker 7: aspect of his.
Speaker 6: Lia No, I I was just gonna say, I think
Speaker 6: it depends a little bit on what they do with
Speaker 6: the linebackers. If they say we respect Dak's ability to run,
Speaker 6: So much that in those types of downs and those situations,
Speaker 6: we will have Dean basically I him. Then that could
Speaker 6: change things because Deans a guy that can run sideline
Speaker 6: the sidelines. Brian's saying, yeah, So if they want to
Speaker 6: invest that that person in taking Dac away, they can.
Speaker 6: But that's also part of the whole strategy is sure,
Speaker 6: if you want to give any somebody that you're gonna
Speaker 6: take out of it, and you just took coverage, right,
Speaker 6: if you're gonna take somebody out of coverage, then great,
Speaker 6: I'll sit in the pocket and I'll and again here's
Speaker 6: the big key, I will hope my offensive line can
Speaker 6: hold up without me getting outside the pocket. Like that's
Speaker 6: also the part of it where they've been able to
Speaker 6: get pressure with four. So if they've got that spy there,
Speaker 6: Dak can't really escape. Now it's gonna they're gonna rely
Speaker 6: on the offensive line and really have to hold up
Speaker 6: for the receivers to get open. That's the part that
Speaker 6: gets a little bit dicey. But again Texas Coast offense
Speaker 6: is predicated on quick passing that should be able to
Speaker 6: gate some of that speed that they have in getting
Speaker 6: to the quarterback. If they do it effectively and if
Speaker 6: they can hold up those blocks just long enough for
Speaker 6: them to get the ball.
Speaker 10: And there's also the aspect of using the spy against
Speaker 10: the defense that's doing it, because let's say an example,
Speaker 10: they use Nikobe Dean's a spy on deck Prescott. Okay,
Speaker 10: first benefit takes him out of coverage because he's focused
Speaker 10: in on Dak Prescott. Second positive is if the pocket
Speaker 10: is breaking down, Let's say Dak thinks about running, but
Speaker 10: he doesn't actually go. He just leaks out just enough
Speaker 10: to drag Nakobe out of the middle of that field,
Speaker 10: which exposes the middle for Cooks, Ferguson or a.
Speaker 2: Slanting CD Lamb.
Speaker 10: So you can penalize the other team for spying the
Speaker 10: quarterback as long as you as long as the threat
Speaker 10: is still there, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So don't take the threat away by any means.
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Speaker 6: It is the final segment of the break Life from
Speaker 6: the SWBC Mortgage At the Star, we're talking Cowboys offense
Speaker 6: versus Eagles defense. My next question for you guys is
Speaker 6: in the Washington, Minnesota, and New England games, all three
Speaker 6: of those teams, which only one of them I would
Speaker 6: consider to be among the better offense in the league,
Speaker 6: that being Minnesota. When they've got the quarterback and their
Speaker 6: wide receiver.
Speaker 8: They can be theyn't even try and run the ball, right, Yeah,
Speaker 8: they can. Times I think to stay like, okay, we're
Speaker 8: not going to be able to run it today.
Speaker 6: Those three teams through for over three hundred yards against Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: Did you see anything that was common among those three
Speaker 6: opponents that you're like, they did this to some success.
Speaker 6: Dallas can do this because they have some similar receivers.
Speaker 3: Give these guys problems there we go. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: when you.
Speaker 8: Start to talk about all three of the common things
Speaker 8: you think about Terry McLaren. And I don't think Terry
Speaker 8: McLaren gets enough respect for how well he praised with
Speaker 8: the Commanders. He's a tremendous player. Uh you know, you
Speaker 8: look at uh what's you know with Jefferson and Minnesota
Speaker 8: and all. Yeah it this this team struggles with really
Speaker 8: talented wide receivers, you know, and that's where I the
Speaker 8: you know, the quarterback combination has to be the you know,
Speaker 8: the Commanders. It's not great over there, but man, they
Speaker 8: as well over six hundred yards of passing against them
Speaker 8: at two games, you know. So I my hope is that,
Speaker 8: like listen, now, the Cowboys have a better passing attack
Speaker 8: I think than the teams that you're mentioned. That you're mentioned.
Speaker 8: So this might be this might be very similar. And
Speaker 8: I think people hate me when I say this. This
Speaker 8: might very similar to what the Tampa game was a
Speaker 8: couple of years ago. You realized, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 8: able to run the ball, but I can I could
Speaker 8: take advantage if I could just if I max protect
Speaker 8: a couple of times, if I you know, if I
Speaker 8: just kind of if I focus on throwing the football,
Speaker 8: I can make it very difficult for this Philadelphia team.
Speaker 8: And I think the teams you're talking about have that ability.
Speaker 8: I think Dallas has that ability too, if they just
Speaker 8: wanted to get in. We saw what happened with the Rams.
Speaker 8: They get sacked two three times to start the game.
Speaker 8: To get some hits. What they do They just kept
Speaker 8: throwing the ball. They're like, no, no, no, our best
Speaker 8: path for victory today is throwing the football. And I
Speaker 8: could see I think it's going to take some points
Speaker 8: in this game. I think it's you're going to maybe
Speaker 8: everybody's prediction is going to be, you know, a small,
Speaker 8: you know, twenty seventeen kind of thing. I think it's
Speaker 8: gonna take a lot more points than that. I just
Speaker 8: like I said, I think there's some things on the
Speaker 8: on the defensive side for the Cowboys that the Eagles
Speaker 8: present that could be some problems. This could be this
Speaker 8: could be one of those track meet type games. So
Speaker 8: the best path for me and the teams that you mentioned,
Speaker 8: Derek Beck gover three on ards. It's just they were
Speaker 8: committed to throwing it, yeah, and making sure that they
Speaker 8: got it protected and then got those routes with their
Speaker 8: receivers on up the field.
Speaker 10: If you look at the teams that the Eagles have
Speaker 10: struggled against as far as narrowly getting the victory versus
Speaker 10: it being a loss for them.
Speaker 2: Patriots, for example.
Speaker 3: That was Opening day, Opening Day.
Speaker 10: What they do they took the ball away from Jalen
Speaker 10: Hurts and critical situation exactly. So if you take the
Speaker 10: ball away, if you take advantage of the opportunities he
Speaker 10: will give you because he will give you opportunities. We
Speaker 10: talked about it yesterday. He's on pace for seventeen interceptions
Speaker 10: this season and he'll put the ball on the ground
Speaker 10: if you put your hands on and he yeah, and.
Speaker 8: He's I say, I do him, I do I go
Speaker 8: after him and Josh Allen now quite a bit of buffalo.
Speaker 8: But I will say this as matter of fact, we
Speaker 8: talked about yesterday. I know you weren't here, boss, but
Speaker 8: the knee Jalen hurt saint talking about the knee. He
Speaker 8: was asked the question about it the press converce.
Speaker 3: He got up and left. He's like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 3: not telling you that my knee does hurt.
Speaker 6: But they also last week. If you notice, with that
Speaker 6: knee injury, he did not have a called run.
Speaker 8: They did not have a play called run for last
Speaker 8: seventy six percent drop back pocket passing for this guy.
Speaker 6: And he killed it. And he played a really good
Speaker 6: game standing in the pocket and throwing.
Speaker 3: The ball right, gotta get pressure on him.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but but to that point, you want him to
Speaker 10: play the game in the pocket because for this Cowboys
Speaker 10: defensive line Micah Tank.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Oh, so you want them to have the opportunity to
Speaker 10: tee off on him and not to have to play,
Speaker 10: you know, east to west.
Speaker 2: You want to play north to south against him.
Speaker 10: So but to my point, those guys struggled against teams
Speaker 10: that threw a lot and forced turnovers. The Cowboys can
Speaker 10: throw a lot, like they just did against the Rams.
Speaker 10: They have the weapons and the horses to do it,
Speaker 10: and they can force turnovers. So the thing that those
Speaker 10: teams were lacking, Patriots Vikings Commanders was the defense, the
Speaker 10: caliber of defense that the Cowboys are bringing to the table.
Speaker 2: So that's another plus for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: So allow me to throw a little monkey wrench into
Speaker 6: all of this. The one team that actually beat them, though,
Speaker 6: played a low scoring game twenty to seventeen. Don't have
Speaker 6: but I'm saying don't have a lethal passing game, right,
Speaker 6: why were they able to.
Speaker 8: Be successfully beat them up up front?
Speaker 6: There we go, So there is another These other teams
Speaker 6: that have played them close, somehow Philly has outscored them
Speaker 6: in those situations. Is this a game where Dallas maybe
Speaker 6: has to take the other protests opposed to saying we're
Speaker 6: just gonna go out and just bombs away and we're
Speaker 6: just gonna try to score a lot of points. Should
Speaker 6: this be a game where maybe they try to play
Speaker 6: a little more ball control, play a little more physical
Speaker 6: and try to win it that way.
Speaker 3: I keep pressure.
Speaker 8: I mean, there's nothing wrong with old school football and
Speaker 8: trying to I just don't think they're gonna run.
Speaker 3: That's the problem.
Speaker 6: I don't think that I've done at all season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dallas to me.
Speaker 8: Has yet to prove that they can run the football.
Speaker 8: And so to me, I'm like, does it mean you
Speaker 8: just totally abandon it? I don't think so. I think
Speaker 8: you have to try. I think you have to try
Speaker 8: and run the football.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 8: Me personally, I'm putting as much many points on that
Speaker 8: board as I can to put pressure on Philadelphia because
Speaker 8: the one thing I've learned watching Jalen Hurts play. If
Speaker 8: you can make him hold the football, it's problems for him.
Speaker 8: Usually they say, oh, he's got plenty of time to throw.
Speaker 8: With Hurts, it's almost a detriment because the more time
Speaker 8: he has to think about where he's gonna throw, the
Speaker 8: more problems that he's had. His interceptions and stuff have
Speaker 8: been at a high rate, because when you go back
Speaker 8: and watch him, they've all been because teams have made
Speaker 8: him hold the football, you.
Speaker 3: Know, make him play.
Speaker 8: We talk about, you know, guys like Russell Wilson making
Speaker 8: him play backwards. Don't let him play forward. You know,
Speaker 8: Jalen Hurts is the same way. Make him hold the ball,
Speaker 8: make him move around a little bit, but kind of
Speaker 8: keep him in the pocket and make him throw it.
Speaker 10: And also we talked about this yesterday as far as
Speaker 10: keeping him in the pocket. Stat jumped out in the
Speaker 10: film Support. I went back last night and looked at
Speaker 10: the film of his past several games and we talked
Speaker 10: about this. Very weird. It's an oddity, but it's true.
Speaker 10: Six of hurts His eight interceptions have occurred when he's throwing.
Speaker 2: To his right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is wild for a right handed quarterback that
Speaker 10: drops back and his chest is open to that side
Speaker 10: of the field. That's his strong side. Six of his
Speaker 10: eight interceptions comes on that side. He doesn't have any
Speaker 10: of those interceptions middle to deep on his left side,
Speaker 10: so that is his strong point of attack. That's something
Speaker 10: that the Cowboys can kind of figure out how to
Speaker 10: use in their favor. Eighty six point seven. Force is
Speaker 10: QB rating when thrown to the right side of the
Speaker 10: field one twelve point forty four. It jumps quite a
Speaker 10: bit when he he's targeting to the left. Keep him
Speaker 10: in the pocket and try to delete as much as
Speaker 10: you can, even if it requires a little bit of
Speaker 10: a shady safety shade to that side of the field.
Speaker 2: Force him to stay right.
Speaker 6: Is that you know? I wonder and hearing those numbers,
Speaker 6: I wonder if that's less about lot right versus left
Speaker 6: and more about where are they using Aj Brown? Yeah,
Speaker 6: if Ajo Brown's on the right a lot, then that
Speaker 6: would make sense why he's having those numbers right, It.
Speaker 10: Would it obviously is going to go where they line
Speaker 10: AJ Brown at point being there's a glaring differential between
Speaker 10: wherever he's throwing left versus right. So if AJ Brown
Speaker 10: is let's say on the right, then that's probably going
Speaker 10: to be a situation where okay, well you know you
Speaker 10: have to line the probably Bland. I would put Bland
Speaker 10: there because of the physicality. So that leaves the other
Speaker 10: half of the field is probably going to be the
Speaker 10: week's high. There's a week half of the field. It's
Speaker 10: the point here, and that should give a lot of
Speaker 10: confidence for this Cowboys secondary because you have gil one. Again,
Speaker 10: my only concern with gilmoy is against a guy like
Speaker 10: Devonte Smith who's quick and can drag him across the field.
Speaker 10: But if it's if you're talking about trying to keep
Speaker 10: Hurts in the pocket, it works in your favor, particularly
Speaker 10: if you can get pressure. But even if you don't
Speaker 10: get pressure, again, half of the field isn't his friend,
Speaker 10: and that half of the field is probably the half
Speaker 10: that Aj Brown is not on. So if you need
Speaker 10: to shade Malik a little bit to Aj to force
Speaker 10: him to go back to the opposite AJ, you're gonna
Speaker 10: have opportunities.
Speaker 6: This is the one thing that worries me about this
Speaker 6: before we end the show, DeVante Smith hasn't really gotten
Speaker 6: off this year. Devontae Smith is a really good water
Speaker 6: and that's the part where it's like if they're doing
Speaker 6: all of this with aj Brown and they haven't really
Speaker 6: had the opportunity yet to get Devonte Smith in a
Speaker 6: situations where he's having those he's having those great games.
Speaker 6: You know that worries me a little bit because he
Speaker 6: is a very very accomplished wide receiver.
Speaker 10: And I don't know how you'd work this out because
Speaker 10: Gilmore is your other boundary, but god, I would love
Speaker 10: to see some Jordan Lewis from Devonte Smith, and you
Speaker 10: probably will when Smith takes some snaps in the slot.
Speaker 10: But that's a matchup that the Cowboys can win. Is
Speaker 10: Jordan Lewis versus Davonte Smith. I have my concerns about
Speaker 10: Gilmore and his current age and trying to stay up
Speaker 10: with that quickness, but not if it's Jordan Lewis versus
Speaker 10: DeVante Smith.
Speaker 2: That's Jordan Lewis for me.
Speaker 6: All Right, that's it, go ahead, Brian.
Speaker 3: I was looking at it real quick.
Speaker 8: I was trying to see if I can find the
Speaker 8: target chart real quick on uh on uh Brown on
Speaker 8: Brown here, And it's my computer's being slow. So in
Speaker 8: this in the show, we'll talk, we'll look that up.
Speaker 2: And we'll have it for you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Sounds good, all right, that's wrap guys.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 6: We'll wrap this thing up. Then he'll call in I will,
Speaker 6: I will, and he'll give us He'll give us a
Speaker 6: drunken up date from the parade and tell us about
Speaker 6: A J. Brown and where they're targeting at.
Speaker 8: If you need, if you need me to come on,
Speaker 8: I'll be happy to.
Speaker 3: If you fireballs into we'll get it time.
Speaker 6: That's I love fireballs.
Speaker 3: Fireball Brian.
Speaker 6: That will be awesome. All right until tomorrow from Patrick Walker.
Speaker 6: Brian brought us Ambergarci. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been
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