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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about storylines. We're gonna talk about the Lions.
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Speaker 1: So all right, are we doing here? Well, Amber's watching
Speaker 1: the show on Paris. Actually clicked on the app. Well
Speaker 1: I didn't accidentally click. I clicked on the app and
Speaker 1: then it automatically plays the podcast. So I had my
Speaker 1: volume all the way up. Sorry for that. I did
Speaker 1: that during Jason Garrett's press conference today. You're fine, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Speaking of the press conference, Yeah, what
Speaker 1: are the storylines coming out of that? Oh man? That
Speaker 1: it was an interesting morning at the old Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: press conference? Are we looking back or forward? Both? Um?
Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, I get you know, if
Speaker 1: Derek was here, he'd want to go through the injuries,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of them. That was a big
Speaker 1: part of it. Um Zach mar and Lyle Collins, Connor
Speaker 1: Williams are not practicing today. We knew about Connor, um
Speaker 1: Zach and Lyle or you know, that's stuff they've been
Speaker 1: dealing with all year. Uh, they're not out there. The
Speaker 1: first team line right now is Tyrant Smith, Zavier Suphilo,
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick, Joe Looney and Brandon Knight. I doubt that'll
Speaker 1: be the first team offensive line on Sunday. But it's
Speaker 1: not fun when you see that. Mary Cooper is not practicing,
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett is absent today, and I don't know why
Speaker 1: Garrett didn't mention that at his pressor or at his
Speaker 1: walk off. I don't know if it's injury related. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's got something personal going on. It
Speaker 1: is his birthday, although typically that's you know, that's not
Speaker 1: usually a reason. Yeah, that's not a thing. Um, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll we'll try to get to the
Speaker 1: bottom of that. Um. I think that's everybody of consequence.
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming is back, Um, but yeah, there there was
Speaker 1: a lot of it was a lot. Wait a second,
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming is back doing what he's back at practice?
Speaker 1: Why isn't he starting it at right tackle over Brandon Knight.
Speaker 1: I guess Brandon Knight did a good job. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Good to know. Um, do you feel bad about what
Speaker 1: you were saying about Connor the other day? It was
Speaker 1: on Monday, like he willed the guy to get hurt. No,
Speaker 1: he didn't. But maybe that was the reason why he
Speaker 1: was playing that way. Oh maybe, I mean, if that's
Speaker 1: if that did, I mean, if that's what the issue is.
Speaker 1: But either way then I don't feel bad because they
Speaker 1: need to upgrade there. This isn't dak to Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: This is Connor Williams to his davers to a Filow,
Speaker 1: a guy that most people would say is equal, maybe
Speaker 1: even better, and if anything, he's stronger. He's a guard
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. There's still a debate whether or not that's
Speaker 1: his natural position. There's never been a debate on to
Speaker 1: a philo, And I think that's what this team needs,
Speaker 1: is some strength. So if he was hurt and not playing, well, okay,
Speaker 1: well you're gonna get back. I figured it out. But
Speaker 1: dampers like, I hope you're proud of yourself, and get
Speaker 1: a lot of people on Twitter, like one guy even
Speaker 1: said to me, and you did you, Tanya? Tanya Harding,
Speaker 1: Jeff Glouley, the guy like that's uncalled for. Why did
Speaker 1: they say that? That's because it's fun and it's Twitter
Speaker 1: and you can say stuff like that. The joke there,
Speaker 1: it's not really a joke. Oh I get it now.
Speaker 1: I'm a decent bit younger than you. I needed a
Speaker 1: minute to you know, I didn't live. I was alive
Speaker 1: when that happened, but I don't remember it. Sorry, So
Speaker 1: what did Jason Garrett talking? I mean, wasn't talking about that.
Speaker 1: We we analyzed the fair punt, the fair catch punt
Speaker 1: thing with Tavon Austin as if it were the Zibbruder film.
Speaker 1: I do get that historical reference. I mean, we broke
Speaker 1: it down from every angle. You know, whose fault was
Speaker 1: it for not communicating? And how far apart was Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett and his special team's coordinator Keith O'Quinn, and just like, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what exactly did you say or not say?
Speaker 1: And like I understand like they could have picked up
Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen extra yards and it would have given
Speaker 1: them a much better chance to win that game. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Garrett on Monday, he was like,
Speaker 1: we miscommunicated, We didn't do a good job with that.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe I think there was some concern that
Speaker 1: he threw Tavon Austin under the bus. I honestly never
Speaker 1: got that impression from what he said. I didn't he said,
Speaker 1: we didn't. We gave him the opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: We didn't to do He get get some yards if
Speaker 1: you want, make sure you can go north and south,
Speaker 1: do not waste any time going east and west. And
Speaker 1: if you have to fair catch it, you can fair
Speaker 1: catch it. And I think there's some people that believe
Speaker 1: that's what he heard yeah, I think there were some
Speaker 1: wires crossed and he you know, you said this, or
Speaker 1: maybe the fair catch stood out to him the most.
Speaker 1: But again, I don't know to still be beating it
Speaker 1: into the ground on a Wednesday afternoon, to me, he's overkill.
Speaker 1: It was it was bad. It was a bad sequence
Speaker 1: from the coaching staff, Tavon, everybody all the way around.
Speaker 1: And I think what the storyline is, what the narrative
Speaker 1: people want to to bring up here, is that there's
Speaker 1: some dissension in the locker room between the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and miscommunication and all that stuff. But you know, I
Speaker 1: think things get miscommunicated all the time. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you have, you know, thirty seconds on between each play
Speaker 1: to figure this out, that's what ye Garrett. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I criticized Garrett a lot, and and he has.
Speaker 1: He's been contentious in the past whenever something like that
Speaker 1: kind of gets harped on. He kind of he owned
Speaker 1: it today. He was like, he's like, I don't really
Speaker 1: want to talk about the Minnesota game, but here we go.
Speaker 1: Let's break this whole thing down. He did it at
Speaker 1: the press conference and then at the walk off, which
Speaker 1: is not televised. He did it all over again, Like
Speaker 1: he went through every angle of it and basically was like,
Speaker 1: if it sounded like I threw Tavon under the bus,
Speaker 1: that wasn't my intention at all. It was on us,
Speaker 1: Like it was you know, it's on Keith, It's on me.
Speaker 1: Everything falls on me. I take responsibility for it. We
Speaker 1: didn't communicate it well enough. He also, you know, not
Speaker 1: to like let him off the hook, but he was like,
Speaker 1: we miscommunicated a dozen things during the Eagles game three
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and we won by twenty seven points. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of the nature of football as these things
Speaker 1: get hyper analyzed in the wake of a loss, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, there's only sixteen of these things, so you know,
Speaker 1: it makes sense to second guess things that lead to
Speaker 1: you losing a game. I get that. I've recently started
Speaker 1: to listen to listen to podcasts, just one of them
Speaker 1: being Oprah. Oh okay, all right, I'm fascinated to see
Speaker 1: where this is going. Yeah. So, no, I was listening
Speaker 1: to one on my drive in today and there's one
Speaker 1: where she just goes on about this quote that really
Speaker 1: stood out to her throughout her life when she first
Speaker 1: heard it. When you know better, you do better. And
Speaker 1: then I started thinking about you know, you start applying
Speaker 1: it to your own life, and I'm like, these Cowboys,
Speaker 1: you should know better by now. You know, you're heading
Speaker 1: into week eleven, and the things, the way that you're
Speaker 1: handling this team, you get and it baffles me because
Speaker 1: you got a whole team of coaches, assistant coaches, assistant
Speaker 1: to the assistant, and you got all these guys that
Speaker 1: this is what they do week after week, day by
Speaker 1: day and study the game, look at other teams, look
Speaker 1: at the opponent. They go in have these meetings and
Speaker 1: talk about it and then go and communicated to the
Speaker 1: players and spend all this time looking at film, And
Speaker 1: it's just like, should you not know better by now?
Speaker 1: But what are you saying? Though? No? Better to do? What? Though?
Speaker 1: What did they not do better? Communicate? Well, one of
Speaker 1: them being in this scenario for example, Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: communication communication factor, but then when you go out and
Speaker 1: go look at a game after game and the struggles
Speaker 1: and the issues that they're currently having that should not
Speaker 1: be happening as far as okay, play calling per se.
Speaker 1: Play calling has been an issue surrounding the Cowboys and
Speaker 1: has been recently started to be talked about because of
Speaker 1: what happened in this previous game and the calls that
Speaker 1: they should have made. It's like, you should know better
Speaker 1: by now, you should know what works for your team.
Speaker 1: You should know what to do rather than keep making
Speaker 1: those same mistakes that we keep seeing week after week.
Speaker 1: In a way, you might not agree, but that's my
Speaker 1: own personal opinion, and that's how I see it, and
Speaker 1: that's what I think. I disagree because of the Zeke part.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, you should know better to give
Speaker 1: the ball to Zeke. The only thing we do know
Speaker 1: is Zeke's one of the best running backs in the
Speaker 1: NFL and he has been, so I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what you should know not to give him the
Speaker 1: ball there now, you should know how to adjust. You
Speaker 1: should know that if you're watching this game and you're
Speaker 1: giving the ball to Zeke and Zeke is not able
Speaker 1: to run the ball, what do you do at that point?
Speaker 1: They did. They adjusted this week. They took out Connor
Speaker 1: Williams and put in Zas. Whether or not he was
Speaker 1: hurt or not, they did. They made that adn't happened
Speaker 1: during the game. Okay, that just due to an injury,
Speaker 1: but I'm picking up what you're putting down. Maybe not
Speaker 1: across the board, but I mean, that is the most
Speaker 1: maddening thing about this team is like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they keep doing the same stuff that leads to where
Speaker 1: we are right now. I mean, which again I don't
Speaker 1: have an answer for how to fix it. I wish
Speaker 1: I did, but like, can you stop falling into these
Speaker 1: holes in the first quarter? Can you come out and
Speaker 1: play better? Can you come out and play better? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't have it in front of me, but they're
Speaker 1: like they're getting outscored by an astronomical margin in the
Speaker 1: first quarter and kicking people's butts from the second to
Speaker 1: the fourth. Shouts out to Bobby Belt for that stat.
Speaker 1: I saw it on your thirty seven first quarter fifty
Speaker 1: five to thirty seven, twenty points. Yeah, seventy one to
Speaker 1: forty eight the Cowboys in the second half, in the
Speaker 1: second half of the second quarter, I mean, third quarter,
Speaker 1: they're up sixty five to forty one, and the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter seventy eight to twenty six. That's they're killing people
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. It's the first quarter. It's
Speaker 1: they're absolutely killing people. In three of the four quarters.
Speaker 1: But when you start behind the eight ball, it affects
Speaker 1: everything else that you do. And I'll say it for
Speaker 1: the eighteenth time and then we can move on from
Speaker 1: the Minnesota game. But I don't begrudge them trying to
Speaker 1: get two yards with Ezekiel Elliott in crunch time. That
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. It's all of the first
Speaker 1: down runs that got us to that point that I
Speaker 1: still can't wrap my mind around. Do you feel, based
Speaker 1: on all the games that we've seen so far, when
Speaker 1: they start out a game, do you feel that, week
Speaker 1: after week, maybe you've seen them trying to do something
Speaker 1: different than what they've been doing in the past. Or
Speaker 1: do they do you think that they just go out
Speaker 1: there and kind of do basically the same thing that
Speaker 1: we've been seeing every week. It looks awfully similar to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing jumps out at me that makes me
Speaker 1: think that they've really tried to get outside of their
Speaker 1: comfort zone in any particular week. So that's my problem.
Speaker 1: It's like you come in watch the film, you see
Speaker 1: what didn't work, so you should know better and go
Speaker 1: next week and try something completely different. I think, which
Speaker 1: you can agree with this or you can't. You don't have.
Speaker 1: You don't have to agree with this, but I'm telling
Speaker 1: you what I think that they think, which the the
Speaker 1: third down call to Zeke that got blown up is
Speaker 1: a perfect example where you know, Connor Williams, he didn't
Speaker 1: stay on his block long enough before he moved to
Speaker 1: the second level d lineman swam, swam moved right past him,
Speaker 1: blows up Zeke in the backfield. I think they watch
Speaker 1: that play and they say, if he just holds his
Speaker 1: block half a second longer, that'll work. Like that that
Speaker 1: would have worked if he had just done that right,
Speaker 1: And so we're just going to practice harder and emphasize
Speaker 1: harder making that work and then it'll work. Instead of
Speaker 1: being like, oh that really didn't work, maybe we should
Speaker 1: try something completely different, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: I think Jason Garrett looks at everything bad from the
Speaker 1: course of a game, all games. He's just like, we're
Speaker 1: just we're a fraction of an inch away from that
Speaker 1: having worked, and then we wouldn't be talking about this,
Speaker 1: Whereas I don't know that that's how everybody would approach
Speaker 1: the situation. And we talk about coaches being adaptable and
Speaker 1: malleable and varying things up from week to week, and
Speaker 1: I think Jason Garrett is more like we're so close
Speaker 1: to just being able to do it our way, the
Speaker 1: right way, you know. Well, And I said this yesterday,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's weird that like, if you get
Speaker 1: beat bad, like twenty eight to seven, then you can
Speaker 1: talk about how all these things are really bad. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what we would be talking about, nothing
Speaker 1: about this if they could get twelve more yards, of course,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I mean it was a great football
Speaker 1: game back and forth. They didn't win the game, but
Speaker 1: we wouldn't have monumental problems if they got twelve yards.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that that is the biggest difference here.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that now we need to
Speaker 1: talk about this guy is following because they didn't win
Speaker 1: this game. If they got beat bad, then that's one thing.
Speaker 1: But I think the issue comes down when you start
Speaker 1: seeing a trend, and this has become a trend. Look starts, yeah,
Speaker 1: and obviously that comes and bites you in the butt
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, Like it's hard to
Speaker 1: kind of keep up when you start out that way
Speaker 1: and the other team, even though they cut up caught
Speaker 1: up before the halftime and they were able to manage,
Speaker 1: you know, balance out the board a little bit. But
Speaker 1: even then, it's just like when you when the issue
Speaker 1: for me is it's a trend. It's not just a
Speaker 1: one game thing. Yeah, and I mean slow starts is
Speaker 1: a big part of it, but just I mean, and
Speaker 1: you can't pinpoint into one person. I think the Vikings game,
Speaker 1: I said this right after the game, It's like it
Speaker 1: was the biggest example of coaching failures this year in
Speaker 1: my opinion, because like you go back to you know,
Speaker 1: go back to the Saints game. You know, Dak missus
Speaker 1: Cobb in the end zone, Cob drops a big pass
Speaker 1: on third down, like more player oriented problems, Green Bay interceptions,
Speaker 1: defense forgot how to defend the run. Regardless, I think
Speaker 1: the trend is not being able to figure out how
Speaker 1: to win games against good teams. And I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point, the Cowboys are out of bad teams to beat,
Speaker 1: with the exception of a game against Washington in Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: So the Lions, you know, I'm not waiting about that.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that. The Lions are not a
Speaker 1: bad football team. They might be forced to be bad
Speaker 1: if Matthew Stafford can't play. I mean that obviously drastically
Speaker 1: changes this matchup. But this is not a This is
Speaker 1: not a bad fire team. We're gonna talk about Detroit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about storylines and their offense when we
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Speaker 1: all right, we're turning the page of the Vikings game.
Speaker 1: Going straight to the Lions should be fun. Up in Detroit.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Detroit? You've been once? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Megatron game Derek's coming back talk about Detroit. Why
Speaker 1: does it look pissed off? Because because he was being
Speaker 1: a manager a director, he's got a deal with stuff.
Speaker 1: You better put a smile on your face now, Derek,
Speaker 1: all right, we're talking about the Lions. Now we were
Speaker 1: the Lions, Detroit Lions. No more talking about fair catching
Speaker 1: and fourth and two or third and two and running
Speaker 1: the ball and trends and Oprah and all this stuff
Speaker 1: we've been talking about. Yeah, don't you missed it. Don't
Speaker 1: let's keep going. She brought that to the table. I
Speaker 1: don't only agree with it. Whatever, Sorry, I don't care
Speaker 1: if you agree or at all. Well, I've opish on
Speaker 1: the show. She does not care what any of us think.
Speaker 1: I just think everyone has their own opinion. That's fine
Speaker 1: as long as we're walking out of this room respecting
Speaker 1: each other at school and we do and we do, yes,
Speaker 1: we do. Okay, we have a loving show starting with
Speaker 1: the Lions. Here the storylines love story the Lions really quick.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford injury. The NFL wants to figure out why
Speaker 1: they didn't tell people earlier, so they're kind of investigating that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't really matter to the fans. What they're talking
Speaker 1: about now, as is he gonna play? Is he week
Speaker 1: to week, day to day? It's got like broken bones
Speaker 1: in his back. That's never really good. But we've seen
Speaker 1: with Romo that sounds a little bit worse than it
Speaker 1: really is. But is it not sure if he's going, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean broken bones in your back and you miss
Speaker 1: one game that seems like it would put you out forever.
Speaker 1: And then I ascribed to the whole Day philosophy on
Speaker 1: this that NFL players are crazy, like, yeah, broken bones
Speaker 1: your back is that is a bad injury. That is sorry,
Speaker 1: keep going all right? And if he doesn't doesn't play,
Speaker 1: then Jeff Driscoll, who's not been very good in his career,
Speaker 1: but he played last week, played Okay, I guess against
Speaker 1: the Bears. They lost. They don't have any running backs.
Speaker 1: It's another storyline. Carry on. Johnson, Trey Carson are out.
Speaker 1: They're gonna go with probably j. D. McKissick, Ty Johnson
Speaker 1: to run the ball. Dave will tell you a little
Speaker 1: bit more about them. Kenney galla Day is leading the
Speaker 1: NFL and touchdown it catches off eight right ahead of
Speaker 1: the Cooper. Very good receiver, big guy. I'd like to
Speaker 1: throw the ball to him in the red zone. Had one.
Speaker 1: He set four in the last three games. And then
Speaker 1: another storyline that doesn't really affect the game, but something
Speaker 1: that the Lions are definitely dealing with is the death
Speaker 1: of a former receiver, Charles Rogers number two overall pick.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest commercials in NFL history when he
Speaker 1: was coming into the league, him and ray Lewis, but
Speaker 1: never really panned out at all. If you're gonna call
Speaker 1: him a bust, he certainly was. He just didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: number two overall pick and just didn't never pan out.
Speaker 1: But you know, a member of the Lions organization, and
Speaker 1: when you look at a lot of things that they're
Speaker 1: dealing with, you'll see a moment of silence, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: and then game it's just sad. You know, off the
Speaker 1: field issues injuries got up to him. But you draft
Speaker 1: a guy number two overall, you expect him to kind
Speaker 1: of change your franchise and they don't always pan out.
Speaker 1: The guy next to him, Andre Johnson, draft the third.
Speaker 1: It's one of the best players in the history of
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. That's what they wanted Charles Rogers to be.
Speaker 1: But that's just a storyline that Lions are dealing with
Speaker 1: that's not going to affect the game. That's it. That's
Speaker 1: what I got. Good stuff. It's a good storylines going
Speaker 1: on this weekend in this game, and most of them,
Speaker 1: most of them that are specific to the game, seem
Speaker 1: like they should work out well for the Cowboys. Dave,
Speaker 1: your turn talk to us about this Lions offense and
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys can expect to call them. It's good.
Speaker 1: You didn't say they're a good football team. You said
Speaker 1: they're not a bad football They're not a bad football team.
Speaker 1: I mean, they start off the season and we thought
Speaker 1: they might be actually a lot better than their records
Speaker 1: as they are now. This is a team that, uh
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers, beat the Eagles, went right to the
Speaker 1: wire with the Kansas City Chiefs back in September were
Speaker 1: robbed by the Packers with the referees to be specific,
Speaker 1: if y'all remember that, I think it was it was that.
Speaker 1: Was that a Monday night game or they were robbed
Speaker 1: in that Green Bay Games beat the Giants fairly comfortably. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'm not they're not They're not great, but they
Speaker 1: were having a sneaky good season. Matthew Stafford probably having
Speaker 1: the best year of his career up until this injury. Uh,
Speaker 1: playing really fantastically. Which I was going to argue with
Speaker 1: you about the broken bones in the back, and then
Speaker 1: I thought back to fourteen, Romo broke his back in
Speaker 1: the you know, fourth quarter of that Redskins game, didn't
Speaker 1: play against the Cardinals, and was back for the Jags
Speaker 1: game the next week after that, So he played there. Great,
Speaker 1: they kicked the Jags butt. I mean, yeah, yeah, football
Speaker 1: players are nuts. Tyler Tyler Lockett was hospitalized for two
Speaker 1: two days after perusings like the other days. Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 1: Which so I'm like, I'm kind of regretting this because
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I'm gonna watch the Driscoll
Speaker 1: game because there's no way Stafford comes back. Maybe he does,
Speaker 1: though I just kind of convinced myself that he might.
Speaker 1: But either way, you should. You know all about Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: Like he's played the Cowboys a dozen times. For my money,
Speaker 1: he's like one A or one B in terms of
Speaker 1: just the most rawly talented quarterbacks in the league, like
Speaker 1: him and Rogers both, Like I'm just talking about talent
Speaker 1: arm talent the mobility and the different the ability to
Speaker 1: throw from all sorts of different angles, Like there's no
Speaker 1: throw he can't make. I actually I was kind of
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this yesterday. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's some similarities to him in Romo.
Speaker 1: Obviously not you know, one was number one overall and
Speaker 1: one was undrafted. Not so much that, but like they
Speaker 1: both wear nine. They were both like the only good
Speaker 1: thing going about their franchise for a number of years.
Speaker 1: Probably didn't get as much credit as they deserved for
Speaker 1: how good they were, not a lot of playoff success
Speaker 1: to show for it. And now the parallel doesn't quite
Speaker 1: line up because the Lions aren't that good. But like
Speaker 1: they were having a good season and he was having
Speaker 1: the best season of his career, and now injuries are
Speaker 1: catching up to him, which is a bummer. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: just thought that was mildly interesting. If Jeff Driscoll plays,
Speaker 1: I think it gives the Cowboys a hell of an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win this game because he's just he's limited.
Speaker 1: The stats say that he played pretty well. I think
Speaker 1: he threw for two sixty and a touchdown. But you
Speaker 1: want to talk about dink and dunk Man like. The
Speaker 1: Lions had to game plan to hide him from the
Speaker 1: Bears basically a lot of rollouts, a lot of one
Speaker 1: read plays like whether it's a bubble screen or a
Speaker 1: bootleg to a guy coming across the field or thrown
Speaker 1: into the flat. The only time I saw him move
Speaker 1: past the first progression was like when the play broke down.
Speaker 1: He was also the Lions leading rusher in that game
Speaker 1: with thirty seven yards, so I believe is he a
Speaker 1: rushing quarterback or is he just they didn't have. He's
Speaker 1: the classic, like more athletic than you want to give
Speaker 1: him credit for, but he is not Daniel Jones kind
Speaker 1: of guy. Yeah, maybe I think Jones is probably a
Speaker 1: little more athletic, but yeah, I mean, he can pick
Speaker 1: up fifteen yards if you leave him on accounted for,
Speaker 1: but you're not game planning for him to run the ball.
Speaker 1: But the Bears didn't respect their run carry on Johnson's out.
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson actually got concussed three plays into that game,
Speaker 1: so odds are if he can't come back, it'll be
Speaker 1: McKissick and then Paul Perkins, who used to be the Giants,
Speaker 1: a guy the Cowboys were interested in a few years ago.
Speaker 1: They have two really good tight ends, TJ. Hockinson, obviously
Speaker 1: big time draft pick, and then Jesse James who they
Speaker 1: got from Pittsburgh, who's a pretty sneaky good player. I
Speaker 1: like that they're both they're both big enough to play
Speaker 1: in line, but they're both athletic enough to flex off
Speaker 1: and they both do it. So like Will Hackinson, it's better.
Speaker 1: I mean Hockinson, he's insane. He's like the best all
Speaker 1: around tight end to come out of college and in
Speaker 1: a decent bit of time he's I love his game.
Speaker 1: I think he's already been concussed like two or three
Speaker 1: times this year, which is yeah, he needs to watch
Speaker 1: out for that. Um he does, He's no, he's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's taken some hard hits this year. But it's scary
Speaker 1: because they both will line up in like bunch formations
Speaker 1: with these receivers who were already big. Marvin Jones is
Speaker 1: six two gala days six four two fifteen, very big dudes. Um,
Speaker 1: But so they'll use these guys in bunches with their
Speaker 1: receivers and it's just a lot of big bodies for
Speaker 1: guys to have to defend. Um. Their right tackle is
Speaker 1: concussed two. Actually, as long as we're talking about old Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Dan Skipper is now a Lion. He might remember him. Arkansas, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Arkansas razor back. He's six ten, won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: with the Pats as a practice squad player. He's bounced
Speaker 1: around the league, so he might have to play in
Speaker 1: this game, depending on the health of their offensive line. Um,
Speaker 1: how many concussions have you mentioned already? Yeah? No, this
Speaker 1: is a banged up team, That's my god. The Lions
Speaker 1: are They would be pretty good if they could keep
Speaker 1: all their guys on the field, but they just they
Speaker 1: just can't. All these guys that you're mentioning, are most
Speaker 1: of them considered to be out for the Cowboys game?
Speaker 1: And we don't know just what you based on how
Speaker 1: much they've been out so far, would you expect it
Speaker 1: or you think it's kind of up in the air
Speaker 1: on all I mean, other than Stafford, we're mainly talking
Speaker 1: about concussions, and I'm always leery about Yeah, it's hard
Speaker 1: to predict that. Um, what did I I think they're
Speaker 1: going to They're gonna they're gonna try to use screen
Speaker 1: passes in this game, assuming Stafford doesn't play, because it's yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys clearly haven't shown that they can
Speaker 1: stop it consistently, and it is a bona fide guaranteed
Speaker 1: way to create an easy throw for your quarterback. So
Speaker 1: I Amondola does him. He's up there now. By the way,
Speaker 1: Amendola does they do them with the running backs. I
Speaker 1: expect to see that. The one thing I will say though,
Speaker 1: in this last game, I think part of the issue
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys stopping those screen passes it was they
Speaker 1: weren't tackling well. And I think part of that is
Speaker 1: because you had such talented guys catch those screen passes.
Speaker 1: They may not have that because they've had so many
Speaker 1: guys out. Maybe the hell because it looks like it
Speaker 1: looks like the Cowboys were in the right spot a
Speaker 1: lot of times. They just as as evidence by the
Speaker 1: fact that they had that there was one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four yards after the catch. I mean, they just
Speaker 1: didn't make the tackle. So hopefully that means this week
Speaker 1: maybe they make after the catch or sorry, after contact okay,
Speaker 1: because I was like they should have after contact, Yeah,
Speaker 1: after contract, after content, which is a huge number. We
Speaker 1: talked about it, Yester. It's a huge numb It is
Speaker 1: funny to me. Um sounds Sounds from the sideline from
Speaker 1: the Vikings game came out last night. Have y'all had
Speaker 1: a chance to watch it. It's not as much fun
Speaker 1: to watch when they lose, but but Marinelli was on there,
Speaker 1: and I mean it was funny to watch because he
Speaker 1: was like on the sideline, like boots and screens, it's
Speaker 1: all they're doing, like, let's tighten it up. And obviously
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. But so then I'm watching the Lions
Speaker 1: game and it's boots and screens because you have a
Speaker 1: deceivingly athletic quarterback who's limited in what he can see.
Speaker 1: I mean, it worked well enough all things considered, Like
Speaker 1: this was not a pretty game to watch. The Lions
Speaker 1: scored thirteen points. Driscoll averaged five point eight yards per attempt.
Speaker 1: I mean, the epitome of dink and dunk. I think
Speaker 1: he maybe had two completions of longer than you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen yards probably. I think I think I actually wrote
Speaker 1: that down in the storylines about McKissick. I think it's
Speaker 1: six catches for nineteen yards. Yeah, so that that didn't
Speaker 1: work as well as the Dalvin Cook you know, no, no,
Speaker 1: it didn't, it didn't work well. But it again it's
Speaker 1: like it's what can you do when your quarterback is
Speaker 1: this limited? Because again I wrote this down, I really
Speaker 1: I don't think he went past his second read in
Speaker 1: the whole game, like I mean, just and you can
Speaker 1: just tell the way some of these routes were drawn up.
Speaker 1: It was like, he's clearly looking for the this guy immediately.
Speaker 1: But let's also say this too, because he'll be better,
Speaker 1: not only at home, will probably be better, but also
Speaker 1: if he does play. He didn't find out that he
Speaker 1: was starting until Sunday morning. Sure you get a whole
Speaker 1: you know, that's a really good point. You get a
Speaker 1: comfortable than he was and that Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: the Bears they're not a great team, but they do
Speaker 1: have they got a nice defense, nice defense, and they
Speaker 1: hit hard. Obviously everyone's can cuss, so you know, but
Speaker 1: but they get up the field and they got arguably
Speaker 1: the best pass rusher in the game. I expect, I mean,
Speaker 1: I expect to see boots and screens. I Galladay and
Speaker 1: Jones are super underrated. But I wonder how much Driscoll
Speaker 1: can take advantage of that, which is, I mean, everything
Speaker 1: changes as stat if Stafford plays, he's got I mean,
Speaker 1: he can put the ball anywhere he wants to, and
Speaker 1: he also, you know, he can find those guys and
Speaker 1: it's more of a three dimensional passing attack when he
Speaker 1: plays um. One thing that I watched that really pissed
Speaker 1: me off, understandably, like the Bears didn't honor their run
Speaker 1: game at all. They used their fullback a lot. I
Speaker 1: got his name right here. I'm sorry, it's Bowden, Nick Bawden.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. He was out there, which eleven snaps. I
Speaker 1: know that's not a lot, but it's fifteen percent of
Speaker 1: the offense. And the reason it pissed me off is
Speaker 1: I was like, every time, every time that it was
Speaker 1: like a short yardage or an obvious run, they put
Speaker 1: him out there and they're not going for chunks, but
Speaker 1: there he's blowing guys up and helping the running back
Speaker 1: pick up the necessary yardage, like they picked up a
Speaker 1: few second, third and shorts in this game. And so
Speaker 1: that made me think, I was like, this guy's on
Speaker 1: the field way more than I can remember Olah Wally
Speaker 1: being on the field. So I actually went and looked
Speaker 1: it up. He played thirteen percent of the snaps, which
Speaker 1: is more than ola Wally has played. Since Week one.
Speaker 1: Olah Wally's snap count this season is sixteen. Against the Giants,
Speaker 1: he had he was pretty active in that game, had
Speaker 1: a pretty big role. Got me really excited. He ran
Speaker 1: a wheel route, YadA YadA. Since then, eight snaps, nine snaps,
Speaker 1: six snaps, two snaps, five snaps, ten snaps, six snaps,
Speaker 1: five snaps. Let me ask you this though, um, which
Speaker 1: I'm going on that has nothing to do with the Lions,
Speaker 1: but I but it's classic Cowboys to insist, insist that
Speaker 1: they need a fullback and never use them. Right, You're
Speaker 1: so what you're upset about is not necessarily they're not
Speaker 1: using him, is that they have him and they're not
Speaker 1: using him, right, Yeah, I mean, which I'm not like,
Speaker 1: I don't want Jamais Olawala to be cut. I have
Speaker 1: nothing against him, but I'm like, it's it's like Garrett's
Speaker 1: thing that they have to have a fullback, but they
Speaker 1: don't do anything with him. I mean, he's that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing. He's not. He's not that guy. He's not
Speaker 1: that guy. But Kellen Moore showed us in Week one
Speaker 1: what he could do with them, Like he was active
Speaker 1: in that game and did stuff and it wasn't anything crazy,
Speaker 1: but they have done nothing to build on that, and
Speaker 1: it's just it kind of encapsulates some of my frustrations
Speaker 1: with the team that they're just like, well, we we can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want us to do? Take
Speaker 1: Zeke off the field? No, he's a fullback. You don't
Speaker 1: have to take Zeek off the field. Just use him
Speaker 1: at the same time, you like, do something with him,
Speaker 1: same same thing as Tony Pollard. It's like they can
Speaker 1: find eleven snaps for their guy, but but you can't
Speaker 1: find ten fifteen percent of the snaps for your other
Speaker 1: guys beside Zeke. I don't believe it. Yeah, he's just aggravating.
Speaker 1: We wanna take our final break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I did have one question more. I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about this wide receiver group and how big they
Speaker 1: are relative to the relative small size of Cowboys defensive backs.
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Speaker 1: that means something crazy can't happen. But I think it's
Speaker 1: really three teams at this point. Kind of think it's
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Speaker 1: I actually would love for Arkansas to just kind of
Speaker 1: slide on over there. I would love for Nebraska to
Speaker 1: slide back. I think just the history of those brands
Speaker 1: I think would add something. I'm down for Nebraska to
Speaker 1: come back, but Arkansas is not given up the SEC bag.
Speaker 1: There's I mean, I know it would be smart of
Speaker 1: them helping them, it's just still too much my help
Speaker 1: walk away from Yeah, I guess that's true. I'm just
Speaker 1: tired of I don't like this Big Twelve title game
Speaker 1: being a rematch every year because everybody plays everybody like,
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Speaker 1: Big Twelve Championship and hopefully, hopefully if you will be there,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about Baylor. We'll see, Okay, we will
Speaker 1: see they win Saturday against Oklahoma and there, yes, they're
Speaker 1: going to them. If they lose, though, Texas just steps
Speaker 1: right on. Let's go baby, all right, let's get back
Speaker 1: to this. You hated them a week ago. You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm over them. Hey, you should know as much as
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Speaker 1: to team. Bring it right back to the Cowboys, because
Speaker 1: if they go up and just kick Detroit's ass on Sunday,
Speaker 1: then everybody will be happy again. You'll ultimately never walk
Speaker 1: away from them, No, but you can hate them while
Speaker 1: you're there, like you'll hate the bad moments it happens.
Speaker 1: It's yeah, and I've said this several times on this show.
Speaker 1: You don't choose who you root for. It chooses you. You
Speaker 1: You don't choose to be a Cowboys fan the cowboy.
Speaker 1: You have become a Cowboys fan because your parents were
Speaker 1: and they passed it down or whatever. It is that Drew.
Speaker 1: But now you're in, You're sucked in and you don't
Speaker 1: get to pick anymore. Well I'm not, I'm burning all
Speaker 1: my stuff. No, you're a Cowboy fan, you know, as
Speaker 1: mad as they make you, as frustrating as it might get.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, there's still next Sunday. Right, there's still
Speaker 1: next Saturday. Right, there's a tweet I think about all
Speaker 1: the time that's like, no, no, no, I'm not a fan.
Speaker 1: I hate them a lot. Actually, I just want them
Speaker 1: to win more than anything. And there's a difference, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that hits home. That hits home with me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's I didn't have a question for you, Dave.
Speaker 1: I was talking. I was you were talking about how
Speaker 1: big the wide receivers are in Detroit and talking about
Speaker 1: you in their tight ends and how they'll they'll slide
Speaker 1: out at times. Are you at all concerned about it?
Speaker 1: And this is kind of to the group watching these
Speaker 1: defensive backs for the Cowboys play when they've played against
Speaker 1: bigger wide receivers. What have you seen and does that
Speaker 1: give you some level of concern going up against a
Speaker 1: receiver group that looks like everybody seems to be big
Speaker 1: other than the A Mondola. Yeah, yeah, of course it's concerning.
Speaker 1: I mean it gives me flashbacks to DeVante Parker, who
Speaker 1: I was down on going into that game, and you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys won that game thirty one to six. But
Speaker 1: he definitely had some success against Cheeto A Woozier. There's
Speaker 1: no way around that. Obviously, Cheeto got picked on in
Speaker 1: this Vikings game big time, and they didn't yeah, the
Speaker 1: tight end, they didn't even have feeling. These are big receivers,
Speaker 1: you know. I feel fine about Byron Jones. I mean
Speaker 1: he's only six one, but he's so long and athletic
Speaker 1: and can jump and all that good stuff. So I
Speaker 1: like that I have seen, you know, I like him
Speaker 1: as a person. I haven't seen anything from Cheeto that
Speaker 1: gives me confidence that he can handle his half of that.
Speaker 1: And then you know, you can say what you want
Speaker 1: about Jordan Lewis, but he is shorter than average and
Speaker 1: these are big receivers with which you know, not so
Speaker 1: much Amndola. I'm saying, you know, for the people that
Speaker 1: want to move him outside, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: you want to do that in this particular matchup. You know,
Speaker 1: we've done talking about those receivers. Moving on, I know
Speaker 1: only said we'd turned the page a little bit. But
Speaker 1: going back to the to the Vikings game, the last
Speaker 1: play of the game, well, I mean, they don't have
Speaker 1: anybody that can really go down there and make a
Speaker 1: play and jump up and des like the ball. So
Speaker 1: the two things that Byron Jones can do. He can
Speaker 1: run and he can jump. That's why he got drafted
Speaker 1: in the first round because he just killed it at
Speaker 1: the combine. He's a good cover guy, but he can
Speaker 1: run and he can jump. So why not maybe put
Speaker 1: him in on offense on the hail Mary's play. Can't
Speaker 1: catch the ball. I don't know if I want you
Speaker 1: to catch the ball. You just wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to bat it. I want you to be I want
Speaker 1: your hands to be up there trying to do something.
Speaker 1: Maybe he can catch it, maybe he bats it down.
Speaker 1: But did you see the guy that got it from
Speaker 1: the Vikings. That dude was huge and he went out
Speaker 1: and made the interception. I'm just saying you don't have
Speaker 1: a guy that can go up there and make it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would make the catch. Are you
Speaker 1: taking out to put him in? I don't know who
Speaker 1: anybody like, was there a tight end? Was Lake Jarwin
Speaker 1: down there? I don't remember, to be honest, I don't
Speaker 1: really remember either, but anybody I mean Cobb, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: question is just Cobb really helping a jump ball kind
Speaker 1: of situation that has caught one for Aaron Rodgers, but
Speaker 1: who hasn't It seems to do that all the time.
Speaker 1: I think he did catch one in the back of
Speaker 1: the kind of snuck behind him. All. Yeah, in that scenario,
Speaker 1: you're sending Byron out there to jump over everybody, he
Speaker 1: won't catch it, so he's tipping it up and just
Speaker 1: giving the play more life for somebody else to come
Speaker 1: down with it. You know he's gonna be down there,
Speaker 1: because that's one thing that I'm surprised that they didn't
Speaker 1: blitz like Sean Payton did against the Saints. They actually
Speaker 1: kind of let that play happen. Yeah, you know he
Speaker 1: would be down there. You know, it's just a scrum
Speaker 1: at that point. But I mean, giving me my best athletes,
Speaker 1: I don't have that guy. I just I know I
Speaker 1: know he can he not catch though. This isn't the
Speaker 1: situation of Scandrid that he makes fun of himself about it.
Speaker 1: Can he not catch? He literally it was the bye
Speaker 1: week Layton vander Esh went to watch his cousin play
Speaker 1: for his old high school team. Kid had four picks
Speaker 1: and Layton was bragging on him on Instagram. Byron commented
Speaker 1: on the photo and was like, can he teach me
Speaker 1: something about that? Like yeah, haha, but he's not dropping balls.
Speaker 1: I thought there's a reason why he plays corners. Somebody
Speaker 1: at somebody at training camp, maybe they were talking to
Speaker 1: you Amber or somebody. Maybe it was Lindsay. They were interviewing.
Speaker 1: I think Xavier woulds and it was sort of like,
Speaker 1: you know, rank ranked the DBS by catching ability, like
Speaker 1: who's going to get the most picks, and you know
Speaker 1: everybody thinks they're the best. So I think Xavier was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: me and Jay lose really good too, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and somebody and were like who's the worst, and like no, hesit,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Byron like, of course it's Byron. He
Speaker 1: can't catch. He can't. I mean just I like the
Speaker 1: thought process because he can get up over everybody. But
Speaker 1: I mean I would rather have a guy who I
Speaker 1: trust to catch the ball. I'll say this, and I
Speaker 1: just think it's to be the one he would catch.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what it would need. It would
Speaker 1: be so innovative, an outside box for Jason Garrett that
Speaker 1: I'd be here for it anyway, Like did you see it?
Speaker 1: Kind of it went many viral on Monday night, the Niners.
Speaker 1: I think it was Mark Marky's goodwin or they had
Speaker 1: a somebody who's super fast lined up even with the
Speaker 1: punter in the backfield on a fourth down and played
Speaker 1: Gunner from twenty yards behind the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: like nobody blocked him because nobody does that. And he
Speaker 1: blew the guy up, like he tackled him right when
Speaker 1: he caught the ball, and it was super cool. And
Speaker 1: I was like, that's the level of creativity exactly because
Speaker 1: he can't get jammed off the right, yeah, exactly, exactly
Speaker 1: fast enough to make up the distance and you got
Speaker 1: all those things. He was sprinter guy, Yeah, yeah, Olympic sprinter.
Speaker 1: So do something fun and outside the box. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, that's where I was going. Even more
Speaker 1: than than seeing maybe putting Byron back there. I'd like
Speaker 1: them to try maybe what Kansas City did to them
Speaker 1: on that At the end of that half where they
Speaker 1: kind of throw the ball underneath and let your guy
Speaker 1: in the open field try to see what he can do.
Speaker 1: All the defenders are back. So if you're telling me,
Speaker 1: you give Tavon same thing happened with the punt. By
Speaker 1: the way, you give Tavon twenty thirty yards of momentum
Speaker 1: before anybody's gonna get to him, and he's got blockers
Speaker 1: in front of him, I think you got a better
Speaker 1: shot of maybe converting that than you just throwing it
Speaker 1: into the air and saying, in this sea of humanity,
Speaker 1: one of the cowboys is gonna come down with it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't see why more teams aren't taking their fastest guy,
Speaker 1: the most elusive guy that they would use to return
Speaker 1: punts and putting them in that kind of situation and
Speaker 1: seeing what happens. I think you got a better shot
Speaker 1: at that than Hail Mary's unless you're in Rodgers. I
Speaker 1: basically refuse to believe that Tavon Austin is not a
Speaker 1: useful football player. I don't know if he's. No. Everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna argue with you on that. I think that's an
Speaker 1: accurate statement. I'm just saying based on his career and like,
Speaker 1: nobody's been able to find us like a consistent use
Speaker 1: for him. And I don't think he's like this great
Speaker 1: well rounded receiver. I don't want him. You know, they
Speaker 1: tried to use him as one of their three primary
Speaker 1: receivers for the first few weeks of twenty eighteen. Don't
Speaker 1: like that. But he he's worth giving some touches to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had the longest run of the night
Speaker 1: the other night, but you don't see that, like, and
Speaker 1: it's just I wish there was more creativity in this
Speaker 1: offense sometimes. All Right, we appreciate you, guys, Joan us.
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