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Speaker 1: Frisco in the SWBC studios. Today we break down the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense against the Vaulted Rams. Defense should be a
Speaker 1: whole lot of fun. What was it? Vaunted? Vaunted? You said,
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Speaker 1: would I ever care if it's by myself. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: not wife, kids. I don't double dip when I'm by myself.
Speaker 1: But I will do the final scrape. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: year we had the Golden Grounds, the Golden Ground. Forgot
Speaker 1: about the Golden Grounds. Those were glorious. Why why would
Speaker 1: you bring that up? Why is that hot? You know
Speaker 1: how my brain works. And you say something like triggers
Speaker 1: off a whole little line of the sequence of movies,
Speaker 1: and you said double dip. That's fair, And I'm right there.
Speaker 1: I call it reference sign food reference. But I don't
Speaker 1: know why we spent the first five minutes of our
Speaker 1: show talking about whether or not we doubled it. I
Speaker 1: was okay with it. And we talked about the Yankees
Speaker 1: for ten minutes yesterday. We don't get talking about it
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Speaker 1: I see you. I'm not even like a big Seinfeld guy.
Speaker 1: Really wasn't big on Yeah. Uh, how we're doing everybody
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Speaker 1: watched Friends and like that seventy show, right, you watch
Speaker 1: some of the other ones. Yeah, I mean that's all.
Speaker 1: That's all. Me and Rob watching the training camp was
Speaker 1: friends much on in the room, you know, Shark Week
Speaker 1: and Friends. It was a little bit of both. Uh,
Speaker 1: Shark Weeks over Yeah, oh, Friends we're not going to
Speaker 1: start that right now. Yeah, I don't know about that one.
Speaker 1: That one's that's a that's a risk that it's almost
Speaker 1: as bad as your catchup take. Hey, I know almost
Speaker 1: as good. I know we're going to the offense today
Speaker 1: versus the Rams defense. But before we do that, before
Speaker 1: we turn the page, you know, I'll turn a page. Um,
Speaker 1: the question came up about jay Ron Curse and when
Speaker 1: he presents himself back into the lineup, how does that
Speaker 1: directly affect Donovan Wilson? Did you were you guys? A
Speaker 1: word of Donovan Wilson is a top ten tackler in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. Yes, leads this team and tackles
Speaker 1: doesn't really surprise me. But that's the number seven in
Speaker 1: the league right now in tackles, number two graded twenty
Speaker 1: seven tackles on the year. The number one player has
Speaker 1: thirty one. So just an interesting conversation about how his
Speaker 1: snaps might be affect number one. Day one Pete Warner
Speaker 1: from New Orleans. So the very interesting part about that
Speaker 1: was we talked about it the other day. I think
Speaker 1: it was Tuesday that we really dove into the jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse and Donovan Wilson's side of things. But it's
Speaker 1: not like the defensive line where you can just rotate
Speaker 1: and you get these guys fresh in there. We were
Speaker 1: talking with Barry Church the other day, and of course,
Speaker 1: somebody who's played safety in the league, I even said that.
Speaker 1: I was like, why don't you just rotate the guys
Speaker 1: in and go back and forth? And Barry was like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that doesn't work like that. There's a rhythm, there's uh,
Speaker 1: there's a chemistry that works from the top of the
Speaker 1: defense down that's different than if you're just going at
Speaker 1: somebody because you have to know where to be and
Speaker 1: when to be there and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: So Barry was like, no, you can't really move those
Speaker 1: guys around enough. So, yeah, it's a question of what
Speaker 1: happens when Kurse comes back and how does that affect
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson in terms of his playing time and the
Speaker 1: ability to put all three of those guys out on
Speaker 1: the field, including hooker well as much as three safety
Speaker 1: as they play. I mean, you can play them all together.
Speaker 1: And one thing that that Kurse said yesterday, and by
Speaker 1: the way, he was full and practiced yesterday for the
Speaker 1: first time since week one and basically was saying he's
Speaker 1: ready to go. That's what it sounds like. And he
Speaker 1: tweeted that picture of a three headed monster, which I
Speaker 1: actually missed that on Tuesday, and he was referring to
Speaker 1: the three guys, Malik Hooker, Dono, and himself, and his
Speaker 1: point was that they all compliment each other very very well.
Speaker 1: Dono is that big time hitter box safety guy, set
Speaker 1: the tone, Curse, can take out tight ends, and he
Speaker 1: can kind of do whatever you need him to do.
Speaker 1: And Malik is that kind of that post safety cover
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field, and so they really
Speaker 1: do compliment each other very well. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: think you have a problem here. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: have a problem, it's a good problem. You play him
Speaker 1: all together. I don't think you have a problem at all,
Speaker 1: even if it's a great problem. Because dan Quin sett himself,
Speaker 1: he said, you know, don't worry about it. It's more
Speaker 1: or less it's figured out. And then you you harken
Speaker 1: back to when they all played together in week one,
Speaker 1: Curse started, Donovan Wilson started. They both got a healthy
Speaker 1: amount of chunks chunk of snaps. Rather with a Malie
Speaker 1: Cooker prior to you know, curse suffering the injury. But
Speaker 1: it's basically just going back to what that was. You
Speaker 1: have hurse like curse, like Rob said, curses the hybrid, right,
Speaker 1: he's more so that linebacker role. He will be able
Speaker 1: to delete tight ends and kind of play a little
Speaker 1: bit more freely lower than safety level. You got Donald
Speaker 1: coming downhill setting the tone, and you know, you got
Speaker 1: Malie Cooker playing the center field role. So you know,
Speaker 1: I love curses, tweet, the three headed monster. It all
Speaker 1: serves one purpose. So for everyone that's wondering, oh what
Speaker 1: about Donald, But also I wanted to add you look
Speaker 1: at and I'm sure Donovan Wilson's GPS is off the
Speaker 1: charts from this season and that's why he got some
Speaker 1: workload management yesterday. So you know, if in fact curses
Speaker 1: back and it sounds like he is going to be
Speaker 1: back this week, if you did see Donovan Wilsons for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, if you saw his REP scale back a
Speaker 1: little bit from one hundred percent to like eighty nine percent,
Speaker 1: it could also go to the Cowboys playing the long
Speaker 1: game when it comes to Donovan Wilson, because we keep
Speaker 1: talking about it, it's a long season, long season. You
Speaker 1: just you don't want to risk injury to somebody that important,
Speaker 1: especially considering just last year he battled a couple of vents. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they're playing it wisely, but I
Speaker 1: think you know, and dan Quinne I trust. So whould
Speaker 1: you guys guess as a second leading tackler in elgue
Speaker 1: in the league, you know, in on donas Cowboys Layton. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. Wow, it's kind of wild. How many tackles
Speaker 1: does he have? Has eighteen? We see Yoush has fifteen.
Speaker 1: That's sneaky because I feel like it would be illvs
Speaker 1: thoughts too interesting, interesting stance. Okay, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah we can previous letter freaking random and all I
Speaker 1: get out. Yeah, that he's in the top ten, How
Speaker 1: are you? I mean, I'm not surprised by the fact,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of what we've talked about. We've mentioned
Speaker 1: him every week he's either flying around and making plays
Speaker 1: but also giving up some plays. And then there last
Speaker 1: week he kind of put it all together and he
Speaker 1: didn't give up anything big either. Yeah, it will to tackle. Well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The other thing Kurs said yesterday was he was asked,
Speaker 1: this is the best safety group in the league. And
Speaker 1: what's he gonna say? But he said hands down, I
Speaker 1: mean he doubled. He was like, I'll put us up
Speaker 1: against anybody's safety to safety. What do you guys think?
Speaker 1: Is there another group? Yeah? I think it's arguable, but
Speaker 1: I could see the argument for them, and especially with
Speaker 1: me being so close to using the E word on
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson. Give me a couple more weeks. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: almost did it. We're almost there. A couple more weeks
Speaker 1: and I'll be ready to drop that word. Donovan Wilson
Speaker 1: and James Money. Yeah, yeah, contract. I think he actually
Speaker 1: has more tackles than Derwin James as I'm looking at it, Well, yeah, James,
Speaker 1: I think missed a game or two. He's been battling
Speaker 1: some injuries back and forth. It's just crazy we're talking
Speaker 1: about the safety position in these terms because every year
Speaker 1: it is like, oh, why didn't they do this, Why
Speaker 1: didn't they draft this guy, why didn't they sign this guy?
Speaker 1: And now they've got three guys they feel great about, yeah,
Speaker 1: and two younger guys that can step up here and
Speaker 1: get the job done while they develop him while quiet
Speaker 1: Bill and um tell me out what's mother guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mcquoma is probably either him or Bell are probably the
Speaker 1: odd man out in that scenario whenever Curse comes back.
Speaker 1: Especially Bell, I think he's probably in that conversation because
Speaker 1: he's jay Ron Curse two point zero, and so putting
Speaker 1: him back into the fold as Curse is concerned, then
Speaker 1: I think Bell would probably be that next second. They
Speaker 1: also have Tyler Coy developing on the practice squad. I mean,
Speaker 1: the safety unit is just yeah, Tete Kenyon d It's
Speaker 1: done a really good job of revamping that group over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Any other news and notes
Speaker 1: robbed from yesterday when the Cowboys were back in the field,
Speaker 1: Just quick glance at the injury report for you guys.
Speaker 1: Did not practice on the active roster. Dak of course,
Speaker 1: who's still in the rehab group, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: Mike did not rule him out, but he's still not
Speaker 1: to the point where he's throwing yet, So take that
Speaker 1: how you want to. As far as this week, Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis did not practice with that growing injury, and Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 1: Jake keep an eye on him. He did not practice
Speaker 1: yesterday with a knee injury. Yeah, not Dalton Schultz is full.
Speaker 1: That's the one. That's the one. Keep an eye on
Speaker 1: that one. No, No, When I say that's the one,
Speaker 1: I mean that as far as the injury report of
Speaker 1: his concerned, I mean, we didn't expect to join Lewis
Speaker 1: Wood practice. We didn't expect that Dak prescott Wood practice.
Speaker 1: But we did not expect to see Jake Ferguson as
Speaker 1: a DNP on the injury report. So I mean it
Speaker 1: works for them that Dalton Scholtz's back. We don't know
Speaker 1: who Dalton is necessarily a hundred percent right now, but
Speaker 1: Peyton him dirt shot, as I like to call him.
Speaker 1: You know, if Ferguson can't go for whatever reason, then
Speaker 1: you know, Peyton gets gets more rips. I get what
Speaker 1: you were saying in terms of the injury or but
Speaker 1: now I want to go back to what you were
Speaker 1: saying in terms of you said Hendershot is the one.
Speaker 1: What did you mean by that? What were you leading
Speaker 1: on there? So your eyes listening? What are you trying
Speaker 1: to stir up in the corner room. I like his upside, okay,
Speaker 1: as with what as a pass catching tight end, Absolutely
Speaker 1: he's a canny block shoot only one tight end in
Speaker 1: the room could block right now? Who is that Sholtz
Speaker 1: a little bit maybe blo okay, okay, okay, you say block.
Speaker 1: I put guys in a category of a George Kittle,
Speaker 1: and you know they're being guys like not all planets
Speaker 1: the same time. I'm just saying when you say blocking
Speaker 1: tight ends the guys like saying somebody's fats okay, fast
Speaker 1: and compared to who. So I like his Marster, I
Speaker 1: like I'll be Jupiter, but most planet there. I like
Speaker 1: his swag. I like his confidence. I like the direction
Speaker 1: he's going. You look at some of the opportunities that
Speaker 1: he's had this year. I think he's taking full advantage
Speaker 1: of them, and I think he's just going to continue
Speaker 1: to grow and get better. You know what I love
Speaker 1: about him to show aside from I think that he's
Speaker 1: a you know, prototypical catching tight end, playmaking tight end
Speaker 1: who just can get separation like a wide receiver. So
Speaker 1: I love him for that, But I also love his
Speaker 1: I love his confidence, but I love that he balances
Speaker 1: it with the humility of knowing what he needs to
Speaker 1: improve upon. So good, great question, Clow as far as
Speaker 1: his run blocking blocking period, because I posed the question
Speaker 1: to him a couple of weeks ago and I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, hey, you're one of the better separating tight
Speaker 1: ends that i've seen. What's your assessment of yourself in
Speaker 1: the blocking game? He said, I can get better, and
Speaker 1: he said I need to put the work in to
Speaker 1: do that. And I was, you know, kind of taking
Speaker 1: it back in a great way. I was like, Okay, No,
Speaker 1: this is a young guy who gets it and he
Speaker 1: knows where he needs to improve and he's putting in
Speaker 1: the work for that. And I saw a couple of
Speaker 1: improved blocks from him over the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: So he's putting in the work and it's slowly starting
Speaker 1: to show. You know, what we say on this show,
Speaker 1: use PF only to either back up your point or
Speaker 1: whenever they're always right, and they're always right in this regard.
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson as an eighty grade in terms of UH.
Speaker 1: In terms of blocking, he's an eighty grade. Ferguson is
Speaker 1: that's eighth in the league in terms of tight ends.
Speaker 1: So PFF's one hundred percent right on that all the
Speaker 1: way through. Peyton hender Shot, on the other hand, he's
Speaker 1: a thirty five grade, which is like bottom five block,
Speaker 1: which is that's just not what he's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: He's not the same thing. He's Jarwin. Yeah, he's Blake Jarwin.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's the younger version of Jarwin, and and
Speaker 1: they're looking at to kind of be more of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: coming out of college. Sulzer is right, by the way,
Speaker 1: let's just say right now, let's just say yeah. I like,
Speaker 1: like I said, PFF's not always right, but I pulled
Speaker 1: it up just to see what they had never shot
Speaker 1: him up there. Jake Ferguson is creditive for delicious. Pressed
Speaker 1: me from what I thought he would be. He's for delicious.
Speaker 1: When he first showed up, I was not a believer.
Speaker 1: But again, you know he's he's a good guy, good guy.
Speaker 1: That tandem as long as that, you know, depending upon
Speaker 1: what happens with Scholtz in the off season to come,
Speaker 1: obviously we'll see. But if the tandem for twenty three
Speaker 1: and beyond is you know, Fergie and hid the shot,
Speaker 1: that's basically what the Cowboys were looking for with Shouts
Speaker 1: Jarwin that they didn't get because of the Darwin injury.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it will be a promising tandem, say the least,
Speaker 1: what what are you trying to start up again? I
Speaker 1: didn't say anything, nothing at all. You're you're so like
Speaker 1: sub dude. But just so, what you're saying is Scholtzi
Speaker 1: needs a Dalty needs he needs a big deal in
Speaker 1: the off season. Salty Salty won't be here so they
Speaker 1: could tranchise him again, say with the chest. They won't
Speaker 1: do it. I'm saying it's an option. They just want
Speaker 1: to keep his right. It's also a possibility, but we'll
Speaker 1: see how that unless that comes back and throws him
Speaker 1: the ball every path and pays like Gigby style exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely that's the one two punch. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: our first break before we go to break though. We
Speaker 1: miss something yesterday that our good friend across the Pond,
Speaker 1: John John Nelson sent us a message on Twitter. I
Speaker 1: had it written down. I didn't have it in the
Speaker 1: rundown yesterday, which is a big problem, so I just
Speaker 1: completely forgot to go to it. But happy belated birthday
Speaker 1: to Abby Abbey across Unday. Yeah we we we all
Speaker 1: responded on Twitter, but I wanted to get it in
Speaker 1: this show and give a shout out. John's a good
Speaker 1: friend of ours. He's a huge supporter. We love him,
Speaker 1: we love Abby and of course, happy birthday. I hope
Speaker 1: it was a good one. And here's a little extra
Speaker 1: gift to keep it going right. Absolutely, she turned thirteen yesterday,
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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys. Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back, Patrick nose Walker,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us? Is this the
Speaker 1: toughest test for Cooper Rush to this point in the season, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: When you look at the film and you see what
Speaker 1: the Rams are gonna bring to the table. I mean, MPa,
Speaker 1: Bay was tough, Cincinnati was good on the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Then you had New York and Washington.
Speaker 1: Washington had hits own challenges. Where where does the Rams
Speaker 1: defensive unit stand in terms of their challenge level? The
Speaker 1: Cooper rush and this Cowboys offense. Good question, Kyle. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I really know. I think last week
Speaker 1: was a pretty good test for him in this offense
Speaker 1: and this attirety. I think in terms of dominant players
Speaker 1: at each level, this is probably the best test that
Speaker 1: he's had yet. I think last week the defensive line
Speaker 1: and that front seven was pretty stout. Obviously the defensive
Speaker 1: line but with the Bama Boys or solid. But now
Speaker 1: you're getting into dominant players at every single level that
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily playing well collectively, but you know that they can.
Speaker 1: You hope that they don't figure it out against you.
Speaker 1: But you have undoubtedly the best defensive linemen in the
Speaker 1: game right now, or arguably one of the best ever.
Speaker 1: I mean Aaron Donald. You go to the next level,
Speaker 1: you have a little bit older Bobby Wagner, but he
Speaker 1: still is smart, savvy, strong, Bobby Wagner and then you
Speaker 1: go obviously to the cornerback to the secondary, and you
Speaker 1: have Jalen Ramsey, who is still Jalen Ramsey. And it's
Speaker 1: not somebody that you want to piss off because he's
Speaker 1: if he's not having a good game defensively in terms
Speaker 1: of in terms of being a defensive back and knocking
Speaker 1: balls down and sticking with the receivers, and he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be tackling well or vice versa. And if you
Speaker 1: get him on the on a good day, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be doing both pretty pretty well. So MS in terms
Speaker 1: of competitors, like peer competitors. Last week we had questions,
Speaker 1: are the Bama bros? Are they friends again? Are they
Speaker 1: playing together? Like? Are they cool today? Are they not?
Speaker 1: You know, this is a defense that plays together. They
Speaker 1: like to play together, like to have fun, and they
Speaker 1: know that they're the best at what they do. So
Speaker 1: we'll see. I don't I don't. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's going to be a collective collectively or defense, but
Speaker 1: they definitely have dudes. You know that he has to
Speaker 1: account for, especially in the box. And then if you
Speaker 1: want to throw it out there, you better know who
Speaker 1: to wear the heck, number five's at I think it.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be the biggest test. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's in, you know, an unpassable test, but it's
Speaker 1: definitely going to be the biggest test first and foremost.
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald Aaron Donald, Aaron Donald. I mean, like, you
Speaker 1: gotta account for him, he can rent games. But walking
Speaker 1: it back from there, like he said, you have to
Speaker 1: account for the other superstars. You got a future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer and Bobby Wagner. He seems a bit miffed
Speaker 1: at the moment. Yeah, right, And then you have Jalen Ramsey. Now,
Speaker 1: what I will say about Jalen Ramsey is he's kind
Speaker 1: of been up and down this season in that I
Speaker 1: still believe he's Jalen Ramsey. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you've seen him get absolutely smoked in coverage for big
Speaker 1: yardage in big games. But then he bounced back. But
Speaker 1: then you saw what happened when he was tasked with
Speaker 1: making the open field tackle on De bos Sambue. He
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, not today, right, so we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 1: he typically bounces back pretty well when he gets smithed,
Speaker 1: so this would be a bounce back game for Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1: But I think the Cowboys can take advantage of in
Speaker 1: Cooper or specifically, he can take advantage of the fact
Speaker 1: that we talked about the offensive line for the Rams
Speaker 1: having some depth issues, Well now they have depth issues
Speaker 1: at safety as well. Jordan Fuller hamstring injury out potentially
Speaker 1: two to four weeks, most certainly out for this game.
Speaker 1: And for those that would look at the depth chart
Speaker 1: and they say, oh, well, Jordan Fuller he's a backup,
Speaker 1: will not necessarily because since they've been having depth issues there.
Speaker 1: I think he played in greater than fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps in Week three, almost eighty percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps in Week four, So those are starter numbers for
Speaker 1: the most part. So for the most part, they've kind
Speaker 1: of lost a starting safety and Jalen Ramsey struggling or
Speaker 1: at least having an up and down season. Now he's
Speaker 1: going to start questioning the guys behind him because a
Speaker 1: large part of Jalen Ramsey's game, a large part of
Speaker 1: a lot of elite cornerbacks game is the guy is
Speaker 1: behind them playing will if I trust as a defensive back,
Speaker 1: if I trust that the guys behind me are going
Speaker 1: to get my back. If I take this risk or
Speaker 1: jump this route, whatever the case, maybe then I'll play
Speaker 1: more aggressively. If I don't trust that, I'm going to
Speaker 1: play more conservatively, and that's going to kind of delete,
Speaker 1: potentially delete the takeaway aspect of my game. So I
Speaker 1: think Cooper Rush can take advantage of that. That's especially
Speaker 1: with Michael Galliban. Yeah for sure, yeah, yeah, before we
Speaker 1: get the receivers, I would look at the answer. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think so because of Aaron Donald, I'm with NOC
Speaker 1: and I'm with Isaiah in terms of every level, They've
Speaker 1: got a guy that is very, very dangerous and complete player.
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner comes to mind. Obviously, j Ramsey comes to mind.
Speaker 1: So I think with Donald, it's not just the obvious,
Speaker 1: it's that he lines up in different spots. You have
Speaker 1: to identify him every player. You don't know where he's
Speaker 1: going to be, and he can absolutely wreck the game.
Speaker 1: He's got the most tackles for loss of any player,
Speaker 1: and it's not even close since he came into the league.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys had six six negative runs last week against
Speaker 1: a really good defensive front. This is a better defensive
Speaker 1: front overall, in large part because he is so special,
Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Famer and Gains frees him up too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, fam I know. But seriously, in all actually
Speaker 1: out of he does a heck up a job for them,
Speaker 1: giving Aaron Donald those one on one opportunities because you
Speaker 1: can't just single Gains up either. No, no, and Les
Speaker 1: von Miller's not back there too, so well that's a positive.
Speaker 1: It helps it. He's in Buffalo. But Robinson's good obviously,
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd is good. And the intangible part of it
Speaker 1: for me is like he is such a leader, Like
Speaker 1: you thought about what he did the last drive of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and what you talked about yesterday Kyle,
Speaker 1: how they've never had what a negative or a never
Speaker 1: had a McVeigh losing record at any point after Week two,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be motivated not to lose this football game,
Speaker 1: especially at home too, right, So, and he's going to
Speaker 1: be at the forefront of that. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it's the toughest test. Yeah, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 1: I mean, the first time I really remember mentioning it
Speaker 1: was the Chargers game in Week two of last year
Speaker 1: where you had guys at every level and that was
Speaker 1: they had like Kenneth Murray and then Derwin James and
Speaker 1: of course Bosa up front. Here, it's guys at every level.
Speaker 1: Outside of that, they've got some sprinkled role guys like
Speaker 1: a Floyd and the the gains that kind of helped those
Speaker 1: big time stars have an opportunity to be successful. I
Speaker 1: think Ramsey's had a good season to this point. He's
Speaker 1: had his ups and his downs, but so does every
Speaker 1: corner in the NFL. Trayvon Diggs has got his ups
Speaker 1: and downs, and yet and he's still got two picks.
Speaker 1: He's playing better than I think fundamentally than he did
Speaker 1: last year when he had eleven picks. So I think
Speaker 1: Ramsey's still Ramsey and he's going to be really good.
Speaker 1: What is the matchup going to look like, though, Rob
Speaker 1: When you look at Michael Gallop and Ceedee Lamb, who
Speaker 1: are they gonna face, where are they gonna be and
Speaker 1: how can they have some success against Ramsey in that
Speaker 1: secondary if they are going to test it over the
Speaker 1: top and try and push that safety depth a little
Speaker 1: bit Like Patrick was just talking about, is that Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup opened things up or is that a Cede Lamb
Speaker 1: under the underneath and then yards after the catch. I'm
Speaker 1: curious how much they can go over the top just
Speaker 1: because I think they're gonna have to get the ball
Speaker 1: off fast. I mean, but but yeah, I think what
Speaker 1: you just said, I mean, I think Gallup creates that
Speaker 1: opportunities for him, especially if they can get some something
Speaker 1: going in the run game. That's what the one thing
Speaker 1: they were able to do was be persistent with the
Speaker 1: run and then create some things over the top against Washington.
Speaker 1: So and I'm curious to see if Gallup kind of
Speaker 1: takes another step like this week. He talked about how
Speaker 1: he felt pretty good after the game, and I wonder
Speaker 1: what that does just internally for his confidence in this
Speaker 1: game as well. I think his confidence is is pretty
Speaker 1: up there after what he was able to do for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. It was high on Sunday, wasn't It was high,
Speaker 1: and he felt much better mentally going in. He's already felt,
Speaker 1: you know, very well physically, but you know, to get
Speaker 1: that touchdown and then to impact the game with those
Speaker 1: two downfield penalties called against the Commanders that helped extend
Speaker 1: Cowboys drives. And I'm I kind of had a one
Speaker 1: off walking conversation with Michael Gallup before the lock of
Speaker 1: opened up yesterday as they were coming off the practice field,
Speaker 1: and just jokingly I was like, you know, hey, you
Speaker 1: feel like a hundred yards on Sunday? He was like, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I would have had on last week if they weren't
Speaker 1: holding me all the time. See, there we go, Michael.
Speaker 1: See that that's the kind of mentality that Gallup is
Speaker 1: walking into. He feels like he's starting to feel again
Speaker 1: like he is Michael Gallup, that they can't stop him,
Speaker 1: that they have to hold him to keep him from
Speaker 1: getting the one hundred yard games, etcetera, etcetera. So the
Speaker 1: swagger is if it's not entirely back, let's say ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent back, and then now you're looking at again,
Speaker 1: Jordan Fuller is gonna miss. So they have some safety issues.
Speaker 1: But you got Ceedee Lamb, and you don't know if
Speaker 1: Jalen's gonna be asked to shadow either one of them.
Speaker 1: But let's say he's asked to shadow Ceedee Lamb. Right,
Speaker 1: Troy Hill, who is a capable corner, but is he
Speaker 1: capable of keeping Michael Gallup from breaking the game open?
Speaker 1: Noah Brown will seemingly will play. He was a full
Speaker 1: participant in practice. We need to make sure that fans
Speaker 1: know that as well, which is key. So that opens
Speaker 1: it up as a third receiver. Do the Rams have
Speaker 1: the personnel because we know Ramsey, you know he can
Speaker 1: be Ramsey. Troy Hill is capable, but the question is
Speaker 1: can he hang with a confident and fully healthy Michael Gallop.
Speaker 1: But then it trickles down to Noah Brown as well.
Speaker 1: This could be a big game for Noah Brown simply
Speaker 1: because the Rams are running out of horses when you
Speaker 1: start matching up personnel for personnel. So again, huge test,
Speaker 1: biggest test of the season thus far for Cooper Rushi
Speaker 1: if you ask me, but you know the Ram secondary
Speaker 1: it can be had. How do they get after him?
Speaker 1: They have to beat him in zone. I don't think
Speaker 1: that the Rams aren't playing much man to man right now.
Speaker 1: They're playing a lot of zone. So you know, to
Speaker 1: the point of rob p you got to get the
Speaker 1: ball out and you're going to be very strategic as
Speaker 1: far as identifying what zone they're in, finding the holes
Speaker 1: in his zone, and making sure that you're not sitting
Speaker 1: on your back leg as Cooper Rush trying to wait
Speaker 1: for guys to get open. You're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: to those spots relatively quickly, because, as you mentioned, Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: correct the game, those guys can't there. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: at home, their backs against the wall. They're dangerous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's just what it is. What it is. You're
Speaker 1: not talking about a team that's that was good a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. These guys are trying to remember
Speaker 1: who the heck they were last year and it wasn't
Speaker 1: that dog so long ago. I mean, these guys were,
Speaker 1: these guys earned the ring with seven eight seven months ago,
Speaker 1: you know, eight months ago. So they're just there. They
Speaker 1: were trying to remember who they were, get that spark back,
Speaker 1: and it takes a couple of plays. It takes a
Speaker 1: couple of plays to get your swag back. That's all
Speaker 1: it takes in the league. And a lot of guys
Speaker 1: are trying to find that right now. You know, Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup found that last week. He was like, Okay, oh
Speaker 1: I got my swack. Cool. You saw a little shake
Speaker 1: the shoulders a little bit. Okay, I'm back. You know
Speaker 1: that's all he needed. He needed that play, He needed
Speaker 1: that touchdown and say okay, I'm back now. He feels confident.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Aaron Donald the rest of these boys.
Speaker 1: These guys go out there and you let them make
Speaker 1: a couple of plays and I'm like, Okay, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna look at each other, but yeah, yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: still got that thing, you know, So you don't you
Speaker 1: try your best not to allow them to get that.
Speaker 1: But I think Dallas is gonna face a ton of
Speaker 1: zone and they're gonna allow Aaron Donald and Employed and
Speaker 1: these boys to try to try to go take advantage
Speaker 1: of some of these guys on the offensive front, and
Speaker 1: the offense line's gonna have to stand up strung too
Speaker 1: to allow Cooper Rush to get the football down the
Speaker 1: field and be able to push it a little bit.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about that on the other side
Speaker 1: of the break. How much confidence do you have in
Speaker 1: this offensive line over the last three weeks. Is it
Speaker 1: different than the first two weeks of the season or
Speaker 1: is it much of the same. But we're just patching
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Speaker 1: attention to it, but I can't help but mention the
Speaker 1: whole first part of that just reminded me of what
Speaker 1: the Smile movie can do with sporting events. Crossed Away
Speaker 1: we talked about. Yeah, that like horror movie or whatever's
Speaker 1: coming out. I don't even want to pup it because
Speaker 1: it's marketing and they're just we're falling into their hands. Mark.
Speaker 1: That's what that reminded me of. It's probably trash, but
Speaker 1: the marketing is fantas fantastic. That's the last time you
Speaker 1: saw a good horror of him, Like like, this is
Speaker 1: no Seas wheelhouse right here. Yeah, so let's don't open that,
Speaker 1: don't open this Pandor's bucks. We don't have enough time.
Speaker 1: I know. I don't like horror movies. So all funny
Speaker 1: they made me laugh. That's exactly why. Because I don't
Speaker 1: take it seriously. I start think it's hilarious. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's a good start. Because Freddy is the goat. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of them that are that are really good.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of them that are like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: actually I felt scared. But the other times it's like
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Are we? Are we sectioning this
Speaker 1: off by generation? Though, because are much more like trash?
Speaker 1: What is this? But when you start talking about the
Speaker 1: legends like the Freddy and I didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to Foorhees and and the original Child's Play not remakes
Speaker 1: where he has bluetooth enabled, Yeah, we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: segment it by generation, but also by movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's a case by case because there's some
Speaker 1: good new ones too. I mean a little bit. I
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Speaker 1: heard of that have you up all night? We're back
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Speaker 1: Are we gonna do it? Are we gonna do it?
Speaker 1: I know he's game. Do you know Robbie's let's freaking
Speaker 1: go Beamer. Let's go Beamer. We didn't get that last year, Beamer.
Speaker 1: Are you in for what a haunted house? Yea go
Speaker 1: let freaking let's go five for five. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: some great Twitter content about last year. I got freaking
Speaker 1: shot down and now I got here freaking run the
Speaker 1: table I'm for all of that horror movies, haunted houses.
Speaker 1: Hecamo was not into it last year at all, and
Speaker 1: you guys went. I was ready to go. I told
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Speaker 1: We're gonna hit it up. We're gonna make it happen.
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Speaker 1: have a haunted house? Yeah there, it better make me
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Speaker 1: the hot house and now I haven't done that. It
Speaker 1: was sared up. I'm squared up. I'm squared touch a
Speaker 1: fair game exactly. Yeah, don't you sneak up like you
Speaker 1: can sneak up all me. Don't touch me. There's there's
Speaker 1: one in particular, that haunted house in New Orleans. UM
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Speaker 1: remember Brandon Merryweather safety. Yeah, somebody reached over and touched him,
Speaker 1: like from the top, but the gate he two pieced
Speaker 1: them in a face and the rest of the time
Speaker 1: we went through the hot house. You're like, don't get us.
Speaker 1: I gave him the two pieces of the biscuits. Man. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's October six about this. We got we got a
Speaker 1: whole money. Let's talk about it all right. Offensive line
Speaker 1: confidence meter right now, Patrick Walker, where is your confidence
Speaker 1: meter for the Cowboys offensive front, especially going up against
Speaker 1: the Ramps. Are we're scaling one to ten? Yeah? Um oh,
Speaker 1: well that's two different things, confidence no no versus confidence
Speaker 1: confidence in them period, confidence in them period. With Jason
Speaker 1: Peters in the mix, um, Tyler Smith playing like he's
Speaker 1: playing questions and Tyler, yeah, I'd say solid, solid eight,
Speaker 1: sound like you wanted to say seven. I was going
Speaker 1: to say seven. I gave him me, I gave him
Speaker 1: extra credit. I gave him because Tyler is a rookie.
Speaker 1: He's playing out of his mind. And when Jason Peters
Speaker 1: looks like he's on to be ramping up to you know,
Speaker 1: start left guard here soon hopefully. Um now we got
Speaker 1: six more snaps right right, second, got one and a
Speaker 1: half times more snaps, seven snaps to perspective. But the now,
Speaker 1: the second part of this is my confidence in them
Speaker 1: going against Aaron Donald and those guys. Okay, well, then
Speaker 1: it drops down to a six, right, and you drop
Speaker 1: down to a six because Aaron Donald is Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: We talked about Leonard Floyd and some of these other guys,
Speaker 1: and and my question mark is not on Tyler Smith.
Speaker 1: He still has some some some things to prove, but
Speaker 1: he's proven enough for me to be confident in him.
Speaker 1: Who's making your scale drop? McGovern? Okay, so you think
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald gonna line up against mcgaun. No, No, I
Speaker 1: think that if McGovern starts, because McGovern was an unexpected
Speaker 1: appearance last week, and he's coming he like McCarthy said
Speaker 1: he is. He did kind of play like he was
Speaker 1: coming off of a high Engle's brain. He didn't have
Speaker 1: his anchor set. And so if the Cowboys are going
Speaker 1: to start a McGovern again this week and we'll find out.
Speaker 1: But if that's the case, then is going to target that.
Speaker 1: So that's you a more specific question. Yeah, what's your
Speaker 1: confidence meter with Aaron Donald versus Zach Martin? Zach Zach.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the unstoppable force versus the immovable object.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the immovable object in Zach Martin. Is that
Speaker 1: a ten? That's in Zach Martin? Nine point eight? Nine
Speaker 1: point because Aaron is still arran, So I'm not gonna Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd probably say an eight because I'm not gonna I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna disrespect everything like that. But Zach is Zach.
Speaker 1: That is quite literally like, so Zach's winning seven out
Speaker 1: of ten, eight out of ten to your Yeah, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say that. I'll stand down that hill because
Speaker 1: if after the game it turns out that's not the case,
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't regret it because it's Zach Martin and
Speaker 1: I know that that's Aaron freaking Donald again, immovable object,
Speaker 1: unstoppable for something has to give. Do you think Zach
Speaker 1: Martin wouldn't win eight up ten back? I think about it.
Speaker 1: When you look at it, we're talking about perspective. Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald greatest defensi alignment ever. He's up there. He's conversation
Speaker 1: that Martin greatest office alignment ever. He's not named Larry.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know that. I'm saying, you look at the best, not
Speaker 1: arguing the best defensive alignment ever. Versus are a really
Speaker 1: good offensive linement. Yeah, two futures good? Okay, But we
Speaker 1: can't let it. But you can't, are you? Okay? Give
Speaker 1: it outside of Larry Allen. I could argue that it
Speaker 1: would be Zach. I just can't give it to him.
Speaker 1: Eight out of twas not confidence. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm that high on it. I can't give me really
Speaker 1: like I mean, I'm gonna give him fifty five. You
Speaker 1: call it. You call it a stalemate. I call it
Speaker 1: a stalemate. That scarce Aaron Donald wins Zac Martin Winson.
Speaker 1: That's the history of their matchups. So to me, anytime
Speaker 1: you play Aaron Donald, it's a coin flip no matter
Speaker 1: who it is. But say five to fifty, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna go higher
Speaker 1: than five because it's Zach. But it's I don't I
Speaker 1: don't have great confidence against anybody against Aaron Donald on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis, because he's too dangerous. How can you
Speaker 1: give Zack Zac is the only one I had said,
Speaker 1: you go higher than five. I don't go five, No, five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Zach is the only one. I have a ton of confidence.
Speaker 1: And I have a ton of confidence in them too.
Speaker 1: But it's still Aaron Donald, right, That's why I didn't
Speaker 1: say a ten, but I give but it's a five again,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald against Zach Martin. Just but that's the problem
Speaker 1: is though that he's not gonna be he's They're gonna
Speaker 1: move him there, gonna put him on that McGovern is
Speaker 1: the starter. Then they're going to target McGovern and be
Speaker 1: at ish. And that's why I'm hoping that Jason Peters
Speaker 1: is ramped up fully enough to the point where he
Speaker 1: can start this game, because now you're talking about a
Speaker 1: Hall of famer there versus a Hall of famer agree
Speaker 1: no matter what side he wants to go too, he
Speaker 1: has to face somebody real, right, no doubt. When we
Speaker 1: talked about that, I don't crazy remember that. Yeah, somebody
Speaker 1: said that early on. So first off, I think that's
Speaker 1: a great question. Who do you think wins more battles,
Speaker 1: give us send it to us on Twitter. I mean
Speaker 1: at I am stand back at Phillips that voice of
Speaker 1: the star at Kyle underscore Yeoman's tap into the conversation
Speaker 1: because I'm really interested in what you guys think there too,
Speaker 1: because we're we have confidence in that Zack Martin. That's
Speaker 1: not the confidence meter, that's not the kicker. It's just
Speaker 1: how good Aaron Donald is. So how do you scheme
Speaker 1: around him? A way to scheme around him. It's almost
Speaker 1: like he decides when he wants to make a play.
Speaker 1: He says like, yeah, okay, this about that, right? You
Speaker 1: know what you get the I get that sense. You know.
Speaker 1: It's not to say somebody's not playing as hard as
Speaker 1: they can. But it's like there's some places where he's
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, I'm gonna do this. That's my responsibility.
Speaker 1: And there's other places he's like, oh, we need to
Speaker 1: play all right here? I am you can't really, it's
Speaker 1: just and what'll we'll see it in film room. And
Speaker 1: it's just like sometimes there's plays that you get him
Speaker 1: to go backside on a play and you wall him
Speaker 1: off and you're like, oh, I did my job as
Speaker 1: office in linement. I made him go backside and he's like,
Speaker 1: not so fast, my friend, swerve on you, and he
Speaker 1: just freaking makes a tackle or he runs down the
Speaker 1: backside of the line. If you think you had him
Speaker 1: on the backside, and he still grabs ankles of your
Speaker 1: of your running back. He just walks back to the huddle. Nobody.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a big hit, wasn't anything like that, but
Speaker 1: he still impacted that play in a tremendous way. And
Speaker 1: then you have the big plays where it's just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, why don't he just do that to
Speaker 1: that guy? He just disrespected him. He always going to
Speaker 1: have those. Yeah, he's dangerous. He's a beast. And I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of people that are homers and
Speaker 1: big time and I get it. Rep your team, wrap
Speaker 1: the Cowboys all that. But I'm saying, but like, come
Speaker 1: on now, yeah, let's let's be realistic about what you're
Speaker 1: what's going what you're about to deal with here, Which
Speaker 1: is what my answer to that is. You can't scheme
Speaker 1: to stop Aaron Donald. It's not a thing a moment.
Speaker 1: You can scheme to slow him down, can you? Yes,
Speaker 1: you can, because if you if you start enacting, if
Speaker 1: you can be effective at burning the edge edges on
Speaker 1: your runs, if you can be effective at some quick
Speaker 1: bubbles and things like that, which you can then treat
Speaker 1: us like quasi you know, run plays and things like that,
Speaker 1: then you're now having him. You're you're kind of giving
Speaker 1: up the middle because you're like, okay, we kind of
Speaker 1: we're letting you in so we can attack these edges.
Speaker 1: And he basically into it. Listen, but eventually in certain
Speaker 1: sets he does, you're right. But then what my point
Speaker 1: is that's going to slow him down from pinning his
Speaker 1: ears back to going after rush. And then that starts
Speaker 1: to impact itself over and over again in the game,
Speaker 1: and it builds. So now Aaron Donald bubble quick out,
Speaker 1: bubble edgeburn, edge burn and run plays wise, sooner or
Speaker 1: later he starts to say, okay, well, they're not just
Speaker 1: gonna let me just tee off on this guy, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a little bit laterally more okay, Well,
Speaker 1: now that he's playing a little bit laterly, he's cheating
Speaker 1: laterally run up the middle. And then now he's like,
Speaker 1: oh okay, I'm ready, they're running up the middle. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get back in here three tech and I'm ready
Speaker 1: to go and then burn it again. You just sounding him,
Speaker 1: but right, of course it sounds good. This is how
Speaker 1: you scheme to do it. You can't scheme to stop him,
Speaker 1: but you can scheme to keep him off balance. And
Speaker 1: then it comes to the execution. Now, once you have
Speaker 1: him off balance, if you can get him off balance,
Speaker 1: now you have to make sure you execute and create
Speaker 1: these lanes and take advantage of it and then set
Speaker 1: up for the downfield playing things. I would agree if
Speaker 1: he stayed in one spot, If you stayed in one spot,
Speaker 1: I would agree with you. But the fact is, every
Speaker 1: time you break the huddle with your scheme to go
Speaker 1: against him, right, you're in your head. This play is
Speaker 1: for him playing at a defensive end. All right, boom,
Speaker 1: break the huddle. Crap, he's at tackle. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Our crap, he's backside. So that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like you can't. That goes to Cooper Rush as far
Speaker 1: as how much freedom does Coop How much freedom does
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush have to recognize pre snap and say, okay,
Speaker 1: well we're going to scheme him going into the game
Speaker 1: as the three or the nose or whatever. But they
Speaker 1: came out of the huddle with him at the five.
Speaker 1: How much freedom does Cooper Rush have to say you okay,
Speaker 1: check out of this. They say that he's got about this.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he has the same amount as Dak,
Speaker 1: but a considerable amount. And that's one thing the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers talked about after the game on Monday night
Speaker 1: was they would change pre snap if they see him better,
Speaker 1: if I him first, and then maybe we're going a
Speaker 1: different direction, so you're not identifying the safe, you're identifying
Speaker 1: Aaron Duddle, which goes back to yes, this is the
Speaker 1: biggest test for Cooper Rushi of the season. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I agree with that. I think it is. And
Speaker 1: to this point, this is the toughest test, maybe the
Speaker 1: toughest test of his starting career. I mean, going even
Speaker 1: more so than that Minnesota defense last year. This is
Speaker 1: the test Rush. I'll worry about him this game. Cooper Cooper,
Speaker 1: especially coming off of the two non interceptions of last week,
Speaker 1: we saw what the interior defensive rush did to him
Speaker 1: and his focus last week and his ability to deliver
Speaker 1: good balls. He delivered some good balls, but he had
Speaker 1: some Aaron throws as well, because he had happy feet.
Speaker 1: He would We talked about it in there. He was sitting,
Speaker 1: he was he was throwing off his back leg. He
Speaker 1: wasn't transferring his right after the pick, absolutely right, both
Speaker 1: off his back foot and absolutely and that's because of
Speaker 1: the internal pressure from the Bamber boys. Okay, so now
Speaker 1: you have Aaron Dons, where's his focus? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be looking at the defensive liners' gonna be looking at
Speaker 1: the secondary of reading coverages. That's what I worry about
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush. I want to dive deeper into that. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I think say it with the chess Friday is gonna
Speaker 1: be a whole lot of fun. You know, I gotta
Speaker 1: do some pushing. We gotta do. Yeah, you gotta gets
Speaker 1: some in there. Man. Uh, we've got predictions tomorrow. You
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