WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Micah Plays Where? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:13.640 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:25.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let go. Are you 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.520 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.839 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:38.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:45.519 with Nick Eatman, David Helvin and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.600 It is Wednesday, September twenty second, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.840 Episode number twenty six. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.360 The Break. Nick, It's time twenty six, which getting Hamlin 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.720 my boy shout out to the bras. Arkansas is the Arkansas. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:07.240 I thought you're about to say, RQQ, No Arkansas. He 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.800 played at Arkansas. He was a really good player. Why 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.840 would you because he said r I heard the rye 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.520 am I not allowed to say you're allowed? Oh okay, 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.200 I don't you just don't. You shouldn't like run into 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.520 a crowd of Omega's and just say RQQ. I never 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.280 had a good idea. Would never do that, you know, Yeah, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.440 I don't think that's what a start to the show. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.800 Ken Hamlin maybe the last Pro Bowl safety no Roy 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.000 Williams would made it well, no, I think he was 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.440 like two thousand and seven, right, Oh my gosh, which 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.200 is not long since they've had a Pro Bowl Pro 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.480 Bowl safe before. I before I made my snaffoo about 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.680 Derek s Fratt, I was gonna say, like, oh, that's 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:46.720 fitting because he was one of the last Cowboys dbs 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.800 to have like a really good season in terms of interceptions. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.400 Because Trayvon Dix has two after two weeks, I think 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.720 he had seven and oh seven right or maybe eight 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.160 that it hasn't happened in a long time. Yeah, that 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.240 was the last time they had a safety that was 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.680 that good. Yeah, spent a minute dB period, good point, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.120 which I looked this up. I looked this up yesterday, 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.640 so it's on my mind. Last decade, they had a 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.000 good season. In twenty fourteen, they had eighteen interceptions as 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.840 a team, fifteen and twenty thirteen decent. Every other year 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.639 the last decade has been awful. But the guys who 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.160 were doing all the intercepting in thirteen and fourteen were 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.800 linebackers like Bruce Carter had five, Shawly have four. So 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.240 to see them off to such a great start and 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.560 it's DB's doing all of it, very impressive. And the 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.200 very namemaking plays. Yeah, these aren't deflected balls that go 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.959 up in the air. And you get it, which is great, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.360 Johnny on the spot, you love that. But this guy's 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.720 going to make the play, you know. And and and 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.359 that one interception against and I guess Tampa that wasn't deflected, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.200 That wasn't deflected. But I mean that one of them 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.680 was a was a hail Mary. So that one counts 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.720 because no count because they caught the ball. Yeah, I 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.680 get it, I get it. But there are so many 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.880 cornerbacks that have played for this team over the last deck. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.040 I said this on a show like Monday, like the 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.360 Tampa the Fournette bobbled screen dropped. No way, No nobody 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.000 that's played for this team of the last ten years 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.519 is making that play. I don't care what you say. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.800 So I'm going to derail us a little bit because 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.200 I already This actually brings up an interesting point because 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.880 I heard somebody talking about this the other day and 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.040 they were they were making the point, actually was on Twitter. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.640 They were making the point. You know, it would have 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.960 been nice if you still had Byron Jones around here. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.440 And my thought was, even looking back in retrospect, I 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.920 think the Cowboys did the right thing in that instance 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.400 to make him the highest paid cornerback, which they did 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.560 at the time, made him the highest paid cornerback in 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.640 the history of the league. And I don't know, I 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.680 don't know how many interceptions he's gotten since he's been there, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.240 but the number of interceptions probably isn't high enough to 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.840 justify that amount of money. It would have been nice 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.040 to have him if you could have gotten him for 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.520 a good price. But I actually think the Cowboys still 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.360 made the right decision there. What you guys think they 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.440 didn't because they're paying thirteen million a year for a 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.680 guy that's like a afterthought spot player, sub package guy. 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.240 Jalen Smith's who I'm talking about. What does that have 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.960 to do with thee They could have spent the money 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:10.480 on Byron. They didn't have to be, but you still 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.400 got to pay more, and you you were gonna have 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.600 a ton more though, right, I mean Byron's on an 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.960 eighty million dollar deal. Jalon's on a sixty nine million 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.520 dollar deal. I mean you can make that work. Now 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.560 you're going back a couple of years like well, like 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.440 I mean, they paid Jalen before that season and let 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.960 Byron go after it was over. Yeah, I mean and 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.960 Hindsights twenty twenty. I liked the Jaalen deal when it happened. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.480 I get it, but they right now I'd rather have 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.120 Byron Jones and Treyvon Diggs than what they have right now. Well, yes, 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.880 but I think when you factor in all the things 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.920 right well, I mean you factor in DAK too. I mean, 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.200 they could have done the DAK deal. I think they 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.160 could have done it. They just they finally, they just 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.160 waited for deadlines and then they got it done. They said, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.440 deadlines make deals. Well, which deadline are you talking about? 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.560 Are you talking about the Dak's deadline or are you 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.160 talking about other players deadlines? Because if they would have 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.640 gotten that deal done, then they could have franchised Byron 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:01.120 Jones and he could have had the year he was 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.159 gonna have and then we you know, you make this 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.960 decision in the offseason. So I agree deadlines make deals, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.119 but I think that you know, it's it's other players stuff. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.000 They could have maybe done that had they gotten that 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.440 DAK deal out of the way, but they didn't. It 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.800 is what it is. Do they do they you know, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.200 do they miss them? Sure? But you know, I mean 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.719 is what it is. I just think it's kind of 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.120 hypocritical when you look at how many people out there 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.479 say Tank Lawrence doesn't earn his money because he doesn't 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.760 have gaudie sack statistics, But then they turn around and 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.800 they say, hey, give me Byron Jones and making the 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.440 highest paid cornerback but he doesn't get interceptions. I just 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.320 think it's it's one or the other. Like I think 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.440 Byron is a good cornerback, I don't think Byron is 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.080 a great corner I think those things are both wrong though, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.920 Like tanks sack numbers don't fully show how good of 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.719 a player he is, and Byron's interception numbers don't either. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.359 Coverage is important great, I get that. I'm glad that 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.440 you don't. You're not falling in that category because the 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.599 reason I say that because the person who was saying it, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.320 I was like, I'm pretty sure I remember were you 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.919 saying that Tank wasn't earning his money. But I just 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.160 wonder right now, if they would have done that deal 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.920 and they would have paid Byron he became the highest 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:11.800 paid cornerback in the NFL history at this point, how 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.719 many fans would be like he ain't earning that money. Oh, 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.080 probably all of them unless well. But the other thing 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.599 that you have to remember too, And to be fair 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.120 to Zavian Howard, he was getting picked before Byron ever 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.360 got there was he set a career high last year 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.600 with ten and I have to assume at least some 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.240 of that is in part to people like you don't 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.839 have somewhere to throw. It's either this Byron's blanketing this guy, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.560 so I have to throw it Howard, and that could 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.159 have worked here as well. Trayvon Diggs clearly has ball 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.640 skills that Byron doesn't have. So you're taking You're either 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.520 risking it being incomplete or getting picked off. Either way. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.600 I must take the incompletion if I'm the quarterback, but 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.560 going that's either way, it's gonna be good for your 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.680 past too, and it's totally fair to say it. Like 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.560 I said Hindsight's twenty twenty, I liked the Jail and 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.640 Smith deal when it happened, But sitting here right now, 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.240 I would you could. We would be sitting here talking 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.080 about the Cowboys having one of the two or three 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.440 best corner tandems in the league if they had Byron 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.240 and Diggs right now, I don't think they would have 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:10.600 drafted Diggs if they did, because, um, they had Gallimore 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.800 rated as a higher player on the board, and you know, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.400 but that they might need it, you know, I had 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.800 more of a need for for Diggs. We've seen that 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.720 now here they have even though they have higher guys 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.000 on the board. You know what they what they feel 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.560 about the cornerback position, and so I'm not sure they 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.960 would have taken Diggs. That's a good point. You know, 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.080 you never know, you don't. I do know that. Well. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.880 I was gonna say next year, look forward to a cornerback. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.200 But I mean they drafted, they got the second and 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.640 third round, I know, and they gotta play him though, Yeah, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.280 and we do. Actually, that's one thing I want to 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.240 talk to you guys about. We'll get into that a 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.000 little bit later in the show of what's happening with 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.160 Kelvin Joseph. Where is he right now in his and 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.040 I know he's on IR but where is he in 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.840 his timeline on coming back and what he expect to 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.680 happen when that happens. Let's talk though, now about some 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.600 jeffs on you on the okay, some injuries and and 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.520 COVID updates. Let's start with the COVID update. Rain to Gregory, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.920 he missed last week's game. He was on the COVID list. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.480 What's the expectation for him? Is he coming off that list? 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.880 Is he already off that list? And is he expected 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.400 to play this week? The expectation, according to Jerry Jones, 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.680 is that well, and Mike McCarthy for that matter, is 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.840 that he'll be here, Oh today, Today's Wednesday. I'm way 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.800 off so I have. I mean, I don't know if 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:23.640 he's here right now, but they said he should be 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.600 here today, and the expectation he will play Monday night, okay, 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:31.720 which great, which they definitely need because the next guys 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.000 you're talking about, well, let's let's go down this list. Here. 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.719 We got a few guys that are injured. You got 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.560 Amari Cooper, they got hurt during the game. You got 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.800 Carlos Watkins, you got Donovan Wilson who missed last week's game. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 You got Dorrin's Armstrong. Talk to me about where those 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.680 guys are and what the expectations are for them this week. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.120 I think Cooper has the best chance to play of 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.520 the three those four. Um Wilson was another one. I 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.640 don Wilson. Yeah, I think I think Donovan Wilson. Well, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.240 I don't Actually, I don't know about Donovan Wilson. Grons 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.319 make me uneasy. Yeah, it's something I mean, well, well, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.840 not touching that, but just please don't think about what 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.720 goes Jesus Christ, think about what goes into running, Like 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.240 those muscles are I'm done with you. I'm done with that. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.240 That's like eating one on one right out there. Uh. 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.000 You need those muscles to move your legs. It's important. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:26.000 And and covering ground is Yeah, I don't want to 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:34.920 talk about the same one. Won Um Amari, I'm pretty sure, Amari. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.480 If you remember, he kind of scared everybody in the 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.679 Tampa game after his second touchdown, he fell on the 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.720 ball and hurt his ribs. And I think he took 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.559 a shot right to a spot that was already sore 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.800 when that happened. Um, so I think so maybe he 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.840 went into week two with bruise ribs. Yeah, I don't 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.960 know he was already out. I mean he would if 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.360 you remember, Like, he scared the crap out of everybody 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.160 because he was down for a minute. So I think 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.480 that was already something he was dealing with and I'm 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.560 saying that because Bruise Ribbs going out and playing the game, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.880 going into the game with bruised Ribs, that's pretty I 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.920 mean you people want to talk about him like that 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.880 is a tough person that can that can go and 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.400 play a football game with Bruce Ribbs. One of the 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.840 biggest misconceptions I wish I could educate people on one 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.800 is that not every player in the league like views 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.959 football as passionately as fans do. Like for some guys, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.560 it's just a job. The other one is that just 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.440 because you're not on the injury report doesn't mean you're 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.120 not dealing with a lot of stuff. Like you know, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.120 people just like, oh, well, he's healthy, because because he's 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.800 not enlisted as limited or anything. No, nobody's healthy even 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.160 and it's only week It's only week three, and I 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.400 promise you everybody on this team is already dealing with something. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:47.280 Both those things apply to Maria Cooper, It's true. I mean, well, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.840 I as soon as I said that, I kind of 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.000 like I regretted the timing because I really I don't 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.040 question a Mari's passionate no, no, But what you're saying 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.800 that that fans shouldn't either or media members shouldn't either. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.840 It's just because the guy walks off the field and 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.760 he's quiet. Now that doesn't mean that he doesn't care 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.920 like he's just he's got a different demeanor than other people. Well, 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.480 and not only that, but somebody who might piss and 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.800 yell and scream and just be the most passionate person 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.720 in the world might not watch as much tape as 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.320 a Mary Cooper does, just like, yeah, whatever, it's Wednesday night. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.720 I don't want to do that. So, just in general, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.319 these are all people with different attitudes about their jobs 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.040 the same way that you are, and that's I think 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.160 that gets lost a lot. I think the most concerning 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.400 one in there is Doreen's Armstrong. I've sounds like he's 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.280 got a high ankle sprain. Those those typically Now, I 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.000 don't think he's gonna be ruled out or anything like that, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.599 but I mean, I think that one's going to be 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.600 the toughest one to come back. And then let's don't 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.920 let's don't overlook Carlos Watkins because the dropping like flies 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.520 a defensive tackle. I mean, you don't have you already 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.800 don't have Um Gallimore and Christin Hill. You don't have 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.400 those two guys. So you know, I mean who you 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:04.960 have Osa, you have Bohannah Urban Urban, I mean Hamilton 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.720 from the practice squad. Put Mica at three tech. Let's go, Hey, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:15.120 he might be playing against him, you know, I don't. 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.040 I don't know. I don't. I don't know what's what's 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.960 going on there, like like Basham. You know you signed 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.760 Basham for for reasons like this, and then you know, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.160 but and I think that they're okay playing him. There's 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.760 like they're okay playing you know, Bradley and I if 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.439 they have to. But I mean, they're gonna try to 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.920 be as dynamic as possible. So, um, I would imagine 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.480 they're not going to rule out those guys. They're definitely 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.880 not going to rule out door it's Armstrong because until 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.920 they have to, because they don't want people thinking that 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:45.600 Michael is going to rush the passer. Yeah, the only 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.719 probably will. Yeah, I don't know. I'm hopeful that they 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.680 can get these defensive get all these defensive linemen back, 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.079 because I do think what we saw with with Michael Parsons, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.560 if you've got the right grouping of guys on the 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.400 rest of that defensive line, you can do some really 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.839 interesting things. I heard Michael Irvin this morning. He was 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.200 on the fan and he was talking about he was 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.959 talking about the Giants back end. I guess it was 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.480 two thousand and eight, seven somewhere in there when they 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.880 had all those defensive linemen and what they do is 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:19.679 on passing downs, they just put them all out there 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.840 and they literally had basically defensive ends playing all four 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.199 defensive line positions on those passing downs, and they were 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.040 bringing it and it was and that was how they 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:30.760 won that Super Bowl. In my opinion, that was all 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.200 about their v defensive front putting pressure on every team 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:35.679 they played, and that's how it got him to the 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.840 Super Bowl. And you're seeing you have some ability maybe 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.320 to do that with Micah Yeah, and line him up 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.040 and now have those other guys out there too, they 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.360 can get all the guys. I don't want Michael playing 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.040 defensive end. I want him rushing at times when no 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.480 one knows he's going to do it, because I think 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.640 he can. He can rush from all different areas and 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.400 be creative with that. But he needs to play more 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.600 snaps in my opinion, and so getting him a defensive end, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.280 he's not going to play as many snaps. He's gonna 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.560 if you play him a linebacker, he'll probably be in 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.880 the fifty sixty range, and ten or twelve of those 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.200 could be spot rushes at the at the ten or 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.320 twelve moments you really need to and and he's it's 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.120 one of those guys like, well they know he's Russian. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.959 Good luck. Okay, they knew, they knew Lawrence Taylor was Russian. Yeah, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.800 you know, good luck. But but they don't know exactly where. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.120 And so I think that's where you can be really dynamic. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.240 They didn't had that luxury last week, though. They had 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.640 to just run him out there. Music to my ears. Yeah, 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.640 I hope you're right. Yeah. I mean these coordinators, this 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.120 is the probably the most creative group of coordinators that 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.480 the Cowboys have had together in a long time. Good 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.520 and bad? What good and bad? What do you mean 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.080 talking about Fossil? Yeah, well he's creative. But sometimes you're 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.880 like to stop, you're not creative. I mean they he's 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.000 a special chief's coach. I don't always throw that in 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:55.360 the corner you're talking about. I'm talking about offense, you know. Yeah, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.920 he is creative, he's creat Fossil is creative. We've seen 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.160 creative plays. And I said this earlier on the radio, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.720 and I'll say it again here. Sometimes you're gonna see 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.480 things like this that are gonna lead to a domino 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.960 effect later on. And if ceedee Lamb gets a fifty 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.800 two yard punt return in next week's game because they 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.480 kind of backed off thinking, well, cowboys are gonna chow 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.920 some pressure here, and so they did like a safe mode, 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.520 which means no one's down there to recover the punt 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.880 and he goes. You know, all that is set up 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.040 by showing aggressiveness early on. That's why you run fake 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.720 punts early in the season to see you know, okay, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.080 we're not gonna run another one in the rest of 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.360 the year. And guess what, Nobody ever returned to punt 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.480 on this because everyone is so afraid of a fake punt. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.600 So there's reasons for it. But that was a bad call. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.040 I'm not I'm not justice. I'm just saying it was 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.840 a bad timing. But there's reasons why they throw stuff 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:49.200 out there. They want to get it out there on 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.400 tape so they could maybe, you know, play off of 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.160 it later. All right, we're gonna take our first break 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.600 when we come back We're gonna be joined by Bucky 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.680 Brooks of NFL Network. He's going to break down the 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.480 Philadelphia offense versus the Dallas defense. Will that we come back. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.440 This is Allas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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Good, Let's start where we typically start. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.160 Tell me what is the thing that that that if 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.080 you're a defense playing Philadelphia, you want to force them 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.000 to do because that's the area where they're they're most uncomfortable, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.879 in the area they're they're released efficient. You want to 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.440 make the Philadelphia Eagles forced Jail and her to throw 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.440 from the pocket. They're running collegiate style offense that is 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:06.560 very similar to the one that he ran at Oklahoma. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.240 A lot of quick screens, a lot of bubble screens, 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.240 a lot of RPOs and quarterback design runs. You want 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.080 to take Jayla hursts out of his comfort zone and 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.240 make him play traditional quarterback. If you can make him 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.960 play traditional quarterback, then the game chips into your favor 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.239 and you can begin to dictate the terms. But if 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.000 you allow Jayala Hurts to play the way that he's 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.400 very comfortable, he's still very dangerous as a playmaker. What's 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:35.639 the best way to do that. I think one you 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.640 got to make a concerted effort that you treat him 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.000 almost like a running back in the pocket. You're forced 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.159 to play eleven on eleven football, so you have to 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.879 assign someone to him at all times. I know that 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.639 that that sounds kind of like defending option football, but 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.080 when the quarterback runs, it makes him an eleven on 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.440 eleven game, And so you have to treat him as 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.040 a runner. And then when you treat him as a runner, 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.440 you also have to pressure him in a way where 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.240 he has to stay in the pocket, meaning bring the 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.639 pressure off the edges, particularly from the defensive left or 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.919 the offensive right. If you go and look at his 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.399 heat map where he likes to throw, most of his 0:20:09.520 --> 0:20:12.639