Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
Speaker 2: Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Are you ready for a break?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Ready for a break?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so much for that.
Speaker 1: It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
Speaker 3: Were on right.
Speaker 6: With Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 2: It is Thursday, October tenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 2: episode number forty six. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 2: The Break. We are alive from the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 2: at the Star. We're presented by LG. LG is the
Speaker 2: world's number one OLED TV brand for eleven years in counting.
Speaker 2: See why at LG dot Com Forward slash O Ledebo.
Speaker 7: Hi, everybody doing doing well? Cannot complain, Yeah, cannot complain.
Speaker 2: So you got on your Duncanville y Soto game.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep, Yeah, but sure it's gonna be fun tomorrow
Speaker 7: night down at De Soto. So I heard they had
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty media requests this week, so the same. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's more than they deal with here sometimes.
Speaker 2: In case you didn't know what high school football is
Speaker 2: like in Texas. That's what high school football is like
Speaker 2: in Texas. It is a.
Speaker 7: Draw two top ten teams in the nation. Yeah, that's
Speaker 7: what that's what it's going to bring.
Speaker 2: I live about ten minutes from the Allen Stadium, where
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray went to high school and a bunch of
Speaker 2: other NFL players have gone to high school. And it's
Speaker 2: like on a Friday night when there's a home game,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be in that area because it's gridlock.
Speaker 2: Trying to get in and out of there is it's madness.
Speaker 7: It makes me wonder about that apartment complex. It's like
Speaker 7: right next to eighteen, right next to the Walmart, Like, I, I,
Speaker 7: how do they live?
Speaker 2: Would you want that? Like some people might be like, hey,
Speaker 2: that's great, I got actors. I can just walk to
Speaker 2: and from the stadium if I want to games.
Speaker 3: And you know what, if you're a single guy and
Speaker 3: you're in the sport, it's fair because you could go
Speaker 3: walk to the baseball park too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got all of that.
Speaker 3: There's some there's some I remember like living in Philly
Speaker 3: when they had like the hockey arena and the basketball arena.
Speaker 3: The vet was the like the vet was the baseball
Speaker 3: and the football. But you could walk across the street
Speaker 3: and if you lived in the area, if you were
Speaker 3: into that, you could go to a you could go
Speaker 3: to an event every night if you wanted to. You
Speaker 3: go watch the seventy six Ers play, Flyers play on
Speaker 3: the weekend, you catch the Eagles. You know. It was
Speaker 3: it was actually it was pretty cool if you were
Speaker 3: a you know, if you were just into that stuff.
Speaker 2: And now they've built up that area. You got all
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff in that area within walking distance if
Speaker 2: you live there, as far as just kind of hanging
Speaker 2: out watching games on even if you're not going to
Speaker 2: the game, you can go down there to to a
Speaker 2: couple of places.
Speaker 7: Right you can watch the game and six Flags.
Speaker 2: So yeah, six Flags right there. So it's not it's
Speaker 2: not a bad one if you're a young, single person.
Speaker 2: But I'm thinking if you got a family, you.
Speaker 3: Might somebody likes football in your life or sports. Maybe
Speaker 3: you never know.
Speaker 7: I just know my luck. I would need to get
Speaker 7: to like downtown Dallas at two pm on a Sunday afternoon,
Speaker 7: and the Cowboys play at noon, and it takes me
Speaker 7: an hour and a half to just get out of
Speaker 7: my apartment complex, and that's that's where I draw away.
Speaker 3: And you just zip right down there, hang it left
Speaker 3: and you're on thirty.
Speaker 7: You hang it left on Randall Mill.
Speaker 3: Yeah, come on, man, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Just hope that the street isn't blocked off. Just hope
Speaker 2: that you could actually get the.
Speaker 8: Opposite way when you head to the stadium and they
Speaker 8: have a blocked street and now you're like, oh great,
Speaker 8: and you got to turn around the.
Speaker 3: Four hours for the game.
Speaker 2: Four hours.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's that's There was one game last year
Speaker 7: I didn't get there in time and I had to
Speaker 7: deal with all that mess. It took me like forty
Speaker 7: five minutes to get in and I was like, I'm
Speaker 7: never doing this again.
Speaker 3: That's way and that's why we get You catch the
Speaker 3: Chatty parking attendant Lot three.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, absolutely, friend or guy? Yeah, yeah, I've see.
Speaker 7: I've known Chatty years because he he also does a
Speaker 7: Texas high school football state championships. But he kind of
Speaker 7: runs in with the media with those guys because he
Speaker 7: tries to tell them where to bart and he's like
Speaker 7: they're like, no, we're not doing that. So they park
Speaker 7: in the front row and he loses his mind. But
Speaker 7: every time he's an interesting fellow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice guy.
Speaker 7: He tells me.
Speaker 8: There doesn't even stop, he just keeps going.
Speaker 7: Well, and then he'll just hurry.
Speaker 2: I'm in a hurry. I'm in a hurry. I gotta
Speaker 2: get apart to get inside things to do. But I
Speaker 2: do wave. I always wave at.
Speaker 3: Him, just say, oh, I remember the way, like I
Speaker 3: don't have time that way.
Speaker 8: Thank you, you know, the classic.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I'm supposed to be here, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some Cowboys football. Let's get into
Speaker 2: some of the injury updates. Actually some positive things coming
Speaker 2: from the Cowboys. We look at the injury report, uh
Speaker 2: Drawn Bland, Kayln Carson, Trayvon Diggs, Tyler Guyden all full
Speaker 2: participants yesterday and practice according to the practice report. That's
Speaker 2: a positive sign obviously for them heading into this game
Speaker 2: where they're about to face a really good offense. Particularly.
Speaker 2: A couple of things did pop up of interest though.
Speaker 2: Eric Kendricks did not practice due to a calf and
Speaker 2: shoulder injury. Marki's Bell also out of practice. What are
Speaker 2: we hearing about those guys?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I think something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 7: As as the week goes on is obviously great news
Speaker 7: on a Darn Bland and Kayln Carson front. You would
Speaker 7: want one or both of those guys back for a
Speaker 7: Detroit game against the skill group. That's that's really talented.
Speaker 7: But I think specifically for Eric Kendricks, he's dealing with
Speaker 7: a calf and a shoulder. Did not practice when he
Speaker 7: went down in week one for a couple of drives
Speaker 7: because he was dealing with dehydration, needed to go to
Speaker 7: the locker room and get an ivy. Nick Vigil was
Speaker 7: the guy who stepped in and filled in his for
Speaker 7: green dot responsibilities. He also did not practice yesterday. So
Speaker 7: if both of those guys potentially cannot go on Sunday,
Speaker 7: then who are you looking at to be the green
Speaker 7: dot to be able to manage the defense. That's gonna
Speaker 7: be a really big task for whoever has to take
Speaker 7: that on. Whether it's Molie Hooker in the third level
Speaker 7: or it's over shown it. But it's still young for him.
Speaker 7: So you wonder, you wonder about.
Speaker 3: You, wonder how much is going to play?
Speaker 7: You wonder how I just wonder if this.
Speaker 2: Would be the opportunity where he would play and you
Speaker 2: will put him maybe in that kind of situation.
Speaker 7: You definitely wonder about DeMont Clark as well. I think
Speaker 7: Buddy Johnson, you wonder about it. It's it could be
Speaker 7: a range of guys. I think there's probably six candidates
Speaker 7: there that could that could feel that responsibility. But you
Speaker 7: don't know who that's gonna be. If one of those
Speaker 7: two or or or both of those guys cannot go.
Speaker 2: How much of a loss would that be if if
Speaker 2: Kendrick couldn't play, that pretty significant, Yeah.
Speaker 7: I would say so, especially against this running game.
Speaker 3: We yeah, we we got into it a little bit
Speaker 3: yesterday about this. This team is going to challenge your linebackers,
Speaker 3: much like the Saints challenged your linebackers. The Ravens challenged
Speaker 3: your linebackers. These guys are the same way with they
Speaker 3: run the ball. Dallas has lost games where their linebackers
Speaker 3: haven't been able to be free. You know, the games
Speaker 3: they've won. Brown's didn't really block them, Giants didn't block them,
Speaker 3: Steelers didn't block them. You know, this is going to
Speaker 3: be a different animal. Like we talked about yesterday, these
Speaker 3: linemen they're not interested in secure and they trust each
Speaker 3: other that they're gonna shove a guy and go to
Speaker 3: the next guy. They're not gonna they're not gonna sit
Speaker 3: around to try and the Steelers were trying double the
Speaker 3: one technique or double the three and then get to
Speaker 3: the second level. These guys are just like what you
Speaker 3: dealt with with the Ravens and the Saints. It's a
Speaker 3: shove and a go. So you know, he his ability.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think every week he leads a team
Speaker 3: in tackles. He's one of the top, you know, one
Speaker 3: or two guys when it comes to tackles every week
Speaker 3: for you. So not having Kendricks in this game would
Speaker 3: be or limited what would be a big, big blow.
Speaker 2: Assuming that that that would be the case. Let's say
Speaker 2: that if that, if that was the case, is Demone
Speaker 2: the guy that now is going to get those those
Speaker 2: extra snaps and you're looking at him with lea file
Speaker 2: and overshown.
Speaker 7: That that's in the case of Vigil and Kendricks not
Speaker 7: that would be my assumption. I mean, that's the guy
Speaker 7: who should fill in that role. I mean, he had
Speaker 7: agreed not responsibilities last year, right, But again, this is
Speaker 7: a different defense. He's kind of seen himself fall out
Speaker 7: of the rotation with the linebackers. I don't think he
Speaker 7: played a defensive snap the entire game against the Steelers
Speaker 7: and was very limited against the Giants. If he had
Speaker 7: any compuiod.
Speaker 2: It is from where he was last year to that.
Speaker 3: Well, we've kind of talked about things that Mike Zimmer
Speaker 3: likes about his defensive players. You better know be knowing
Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do, you know, and you know
Speaker 3: a sigment sound, you know, are you making mistakes? Are
Speaker 3: you picking it out?
Speaker 8: Notice a lot of that when you're looking at the time.
Speaker 3: Are you practicing well, you know all those things. Are
Speaker 3: you picking things up? That's the thing. Are you out
Speaker 3: of position? It's another thing, you know, which.
Speaker 7: This could be an opportunity for him to be able
Speaker 7: to fill in and kind of rectify all those mistakes
Speaker 7: that made early in the season, because against the Ravens
Speaker 7: he stepped in in the fourth quarter he made some
Speaker 7: really nice plays and that was kind of the beginning
Speaker 7: of seeing his snaps taken away because he didn't get
Speaker 7: into the into the game defensively until the fourth quarter
Speaker 7: and then he made some plays. So if he's able
Speaker 7: to get back into the game and maybe find a
Speaker 7: starting role against the Lions, then it's a good opportunity
Speaker 7: for him, But I know there would be some concern
Speaker 7: on the defensive staffs front, just from what they've shown
Speaker 7: us so far in the trust that they put into
Speaker 7: more Clark, because it hasn't really been there.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't him, who would be that guy that
Speaker 2: that you would see maybe stepping into that role of
Speaker 2: both Vigil and Kendricks are out. Is there another option.
Speaker 7: You want to say? At the same time, go ahead?
Speaker 3: Ready?
Speaker 7: One, two, three? Overshown, I think it'd be over I.
Speaker 3: Was, you know what, I was struggling with it because
Speaker 3: I think it'd be Clark. You know, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I don't think it changes.
Speaker 7: But if you said, if Clark's not the.
Speaker 9: One, if the one, you know, are you looking? And
Speaker 9: I still still I still could. I couldn't wrap my
Speaker 9: arms around it not being Clark. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 9: but if he's here, you got to use that it is.
Speaker 3: It has to be. It has to be Clark. But
Speaker 3: if they don't, he's right, Overshown would be the guy.
Speaker 3: I just couldn't wrap my arms around it not being
Speaker 3: anybody other than Clark.
Speaker 7: They did talk about Mully Cooker at training camp picking
Speaker 7: up some green dot responsibilities on days that Kendricks was
Speaker 7: not practicing and things like that, just to get him
Speaker 7: comfortable with it. So don't discount that option either.
Speaker 8: But it's weird being so has about feeling confident in
Speaker 8: how he can perform in there because we've seen him
Speaker 8: you mentioned last year, Derek, we've seen it last year.
Speaker 8: And yes, and even prior to him getting all the
Speaker 8: opportunities that he got last year when he was coming
Speaker 8: back from the injury and all of that, we talked
Speaker 8: about him so much and we've seen the talent his ability,
Speaker 8: and I don't think that's something you just lose so quickly.
Speaker 8: He has it in him and maybe it is those
Speaker 8: things where he's missing, those assignments that he can maybe
Speaker 8: find the new fire in him. And like you were mentioning, Nick,
Speaker 8: this is the game that kind of gets him back
Speaker 8: into the makes and show what he can actually do.
Speaker 8: But we know he has the talent to do the job.
Speaker 3: What happened last year when Van der USh went out
Speaker 3: to him, what happened to Clark.
Speaker 2: Is play suffered that think, Yeah, he.
Speaker 3: Needs somebody other people around him. He needs people.
Speaker 7: Helping Malon absolutely a million.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's and and again, I love the kid, I
Speaker 3: really do. But you know, if there if you're if
Speaker 3: they're not sure about you and your assignments and stuff
Speaker 3: and being where you need to be, which said us
Speaker 3: a bunch when Mike first took the gig. They're not
Speaker 3: gonna play you. They're just not. He has to have
Speaker 3: trust in what you're doing in your assignments in order
Speaker 3: to make that work.
Speaker 2: One other thing of note, and we didn't bring this
Speaker 2: up yesterday, but I had it in my notes. Detroit
Speaker 2: is a team that uses a lot of twelve personnel.
Speaker 2: They are right now fourth in the league. And the
Speaker 2: amount of times they use twelve personnel's one running back,
Speaker 2: two tight ends at twenty eight percent of the time,
Speaker 2: almost twenty nine percent of the time they're in twelve personnel.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty big clip. That being said, you would
Speaker 2: expect Dallas is probably going to match that with their
Speaker 2: base defense. I think they're going to put a nickel
Speaker 2: out there against a twelve offense, especially for a team
Speaker 2: that likes to run a lot. That being said, they're
Speaker 2: gonna need three linebackers at least a lot in that game,
Speaker 2: I would think. And so that's where this becomes a
Speaker 2: little very interesting thing.
Speaker 3: You're about to play a team that runs more base
Speaker 3: defense than you do, which is and this team will play,
Speaker 3: this line's will play bass against eleven personal and twelve personnel.
Speaker 2: They have interesting and.
Speaker 3: They do it because they trust they trust Brian Branch
Speaker 3: their safety. He was also like a corner like he
Speaker 3: could play like you know they have. They have four
Speaker 3: legitimate guys that can cover. It's much like what you're
Speaker 3: about to experience with you know, we'll say with with
Speaker 3: Carson and out with Bland and his health and all that.
Speaker 3: But they can afford to play bass because they got
Speaker 3: four legitimate cover guys, you know, and they can match you.
Speaker 3: And and we'll get into Brian Branch because I have
Speaker 3: a feeling that's where this thing is going to go.
Speaker 3: To try and take lamb Away out of this game,
Speaker 3: but also try and take Ferguson out of this game too,
Speaker 3: with Brian Branch being that guy.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take our first break. We'll come back.
Speaker 2: We're going to dive into that Detroit offense.
Speaker 3: We'll be defense.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Detroit offense. Sorry Detroit offense today, right, it's
Speaker 2: defense defense. Yes, I loo' good.
Speaker 7: You're good.
Speaker 2: Detroit Defense.
Speaker 3: Ready either way.
Speaker 2: Detroit Defense Today. We'll talk about well about when we
Speaker 2: come back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio.
Speaker 10: Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 10: cheetah Savannah. Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought
Speaker 10: online was reliable. And now Todd is trying to be
Speaker 10: faster than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per hour.
Speaker 10: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 10: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 10: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 10: toss her the backpack with the beef stew At and
Speaker 10: T five G. Fast, reliable, Secure.
Speaker 5: Five G requires compatable plan and device five G may
Speaker 5: not be available in your area. See add dot com
Speaker 5: slash five G for you fifty deals.
Speaker 11: It's the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 11: Jack Black, and right now Cowboys fans can get fifteen
Speaker 11: percent off their seventy five dollars order. Plus because every
Speaker 11: deal needs a playmaker, your order will include a free
Speaker 11: five piece skincare set and free shipping. The Jack Black
Speaker 11: Playmaker is four of Jack's favorites and a full sized
Speaker 11: intense therapy lifball make a play for the playmaker at
Speaker 11: Getjack Black dot com slash Cowboys with the code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 11: That's get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys with the
Speaker 11: code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 12: Don't put off getting your oil change.
Speaker 3: Dallas.
Speaker 12: Take five Oil Change, a proud partner of the Cowboys,
Speaker 12: is faster than you think. There's no appointment needed and
Speaker 12: no waiting room.
Speaker 3: Yep, you hurt that correctly.
Speaker 12: Take five is so fast you don't even have to
Speaker 12: get out of your car. You can take advantage of
Speaker 12: Take five's fast, friendly and simple service at any of
Speaker 12: their locations across the Dallas area.
Speaker 3: And remember at Take five.
Speaker 12: You stay in your car because they're faster than you think.
Speaker 12: Take five the official oil change of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7: From the field to the festivities.
Speaker 13: Lu Casey embodies the essence of luxury and tradition. Handcrafted
Speaker 13: with meticulous precision, each pair offers unmatched comfort and style.
Speaker 13: Stand tall while you're tailgating or cheering in the stands
Speaker 13: with the Dallas Cowboys collection by Lucasey. Shop the collection
Speaker 13: today at the Lucasey Store at the Starn Frisco or
Speaker 13: online at Lucasey dot com.
Speaker 7: Lucasey the official boot.
Speaker 14: Of the da Elas Cowboys and Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. Hey y'all,
Speaker 14: Matt Pittman of Meat Church here. With football season kicking off,
Speaker 14: I'm already gear enough to bring the smoker back to
Speaker 14: AT and T Stadium for some epic tailgates. But with
Speaker 14: that Texas heat, it's crucial to keep my beer hand
Speaker 14: cramping cold. That's where Yeti's insulated colster can cooler comes
Speaker 14: in clutch this year. You can even get him with
Speaker 14: the iconic star engraved on the side. Licensed YETI Cowboys
Speaker 14: gear is now available at stadium pro shops, concessions and
Speaker 14: on yetti dot com.
Speaker 2: Check it out today.
Speaker 14: YETI Official cooler and drinkware of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Back to the.
Speaker 8: Break, lgoled evo is the best TV in the game.
Speaker 8: But don't take Derek's word for it because he just
Speaker 8: keeps messing up, So don't trust him. But trust Digital
Speaker 8: Trends because they said the lgoled G four has the
Speaker 8: best picture quality they've ever seen. See for yourself at
Speaker 8: LG dot com slash Oledevo.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the second segment of the break. We
Speaker 2: can turn that microphone off now.
Speaker 3: I was wondering if the same for you for your
Speaker 3: opinion on the corn dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she has a horrible opinion on that. She says
Speaker 2: Texas State Fair food is not impressive.
Speaker 8: It's not that impressive. It is not saying it.
Speaker 2: That is a horrible tap.
Speaker 8: People over hype it. I don't think it's that great.
Speaker 3: I wonder is Craig Leaper's brother still the president of
Speaker 3: the state I think.
Speaker 2: I saw that. I want TV talking about it.
Speaker 3: This talking about Yeah, that would be teammate on teammate.
Speaker 8: Crime, Chrispy all that fried foods, Chrispy and.
Speaker 3: Teammates. Is the president of the State Fair and you're
Speaker 3: trashing the great State Fair is.
Speaker 8: A big statement. I just said it's over hyped.
Speaker 2: And it's not. It's not Fletcher scorn dogs. I'll put
Speaker 2: them up there with any.
Speaker 3: Well worth it. Yeah, we worth it.
Speaker 8: We'll keep enjoying it.
Speaker 2: Then we will.
Speaker 3: We will.
Speaker 2: I'll be out there next week.
Speaker 8: Do all your money on that.
Speaker 2: I will. I absolutely will. Five I will. It'll be great,
Speaker 2: it will be fun. All right, let's jump back in, Brian.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about this Detroit defense. So the first thing
Speaker 2: I noticed was they are twenty seventh in pass defense.
Speaker 2: As much as we talk about all the things they
Speaker 2: do really well, they have given up a lot of
Speaker 2: yards in the air. Where are they most vulnerable in
Speaker 2: their secondary Well.
Speaker 3: If you block Aiden Hutchinson, they don't have a pass rush.
Speaker 3: That's really where they're at there the bottom of the
Speaker 3: league when it comes to pressures. Without him, he's one
Speaker 3: of the best players in the league when it comes
Speaker 3: to pressures. And you watch the game and you watch
Speaker 3: how it progresses in these teams, you know they they
Speaker 3: give him a lot of attention. Is a he's a
Speaker 3: chip and a chip and now block the tackle on him. Guy,
Speaker 3: he's that good of a player. But if you find
Speaker 3: a way to control him in that part of the
Speaker 3: game and he'll move around, he will move around. So
Speaker 3: he will he will take a rush on, he'll take
Speaker 3: a rush on Steele, and then he'll go on the
Speaker 3: other side and take a rush on Guiton. So there's
Speaker 3: really no rule, rhyme or reason why. They just kind
Speaker 3: of hunt some matchups. But you got to be aware
Speaker 3: of him. Where's number ninety seven And they don't really
Speaker 3: have anybody else. I mean, they they've they've they've struggled,
Speaker 3: They've struggled to get a pass rush. They you know,
Speaker 3: they tried to do that through free agency. It you know,
Speaker 3: they lost a couple of guys be due to injury.
Speaker 3: Derek Barnes got hurt in the in the Arizona game
Speaker 3: and he was a he was a good pass rusher
Speaker 3: for him. Marcus Davenport is a guy they signed as
Speaker 3: a free agent. He was going to play opposite he's
Speaker 3: on IR So they really don't have anybody opposite of
Speaker 3: Hutchson to be able to do that. So this is where,
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you you have a little bit
Speaker 3: of an advantage. Don't let one guy kill your passing game,
Speaker 3: because he can kill your passing game if you let
Speaker 3: him to.
Speaker 2: That point real quick. Yeah, Hutchinson, last year I had
Speaker 2: four pressures in two sacks. Yeah, twenty six snaps versus Steel.
Speaker 2: That ain't a good clip for Steel. No, is there
Speaker 2: anything that you've seen as far as Steel, And I
Speaker 2: think we all agree that Steele has a season war
Speaker 2: on Last year he got better and this year I
Speaker 2: think he's better than what he was last year. Do
Speaker 2: you think that there are parts of his game that
Speaker 2: have improved to the point where some of that can
Speaker 2: be cleared up, or do you think this is still
Speaker 2: going to be a challenge for.
Speaker 3: Them good luck? Yeah, yeah, good luck. It's good, but
Speaker 3: it's true. Yeah, because there's there's moments and I think
Speaker 3: both tackles, yeah, or that way. I think there's moments,
Speaker 3: maybe on the left side a little bit more of
Speaker 3: a hold on to your rear kind of a thing.
Speaker 3: But you know, with with Steel, there could be five, six,
Speaker 3: seven great plays in a row, and then the one
Speaker 3: time that he gets off balance, he maybe kicks too wide,
Speaker 3: think he's going to have an edge rusher, and then
Speaker 3: the rusher goes down inside. You know, you just got
Speaker 3: to be He's got to be aware of that. He's
Speaker 3: also got to know that when you watch the lines play,
Speaker 3: Hutchinson will rush inside if they have a blitzer that's outside.
Speaker 3: So if there's somebody standing outside of him, he's got
Speaker 3: to kind of be aware that maybe this guy is
Speaker 3: going to rush inside on me, because you're not gonna
Speaker 3: have two guys rush the same gap. You're going to
Speaker 3: you know, and and Hutchinson plays you thought that Watt
Speaker 3: played wide last week. You'll see how why this guy plays,
Speaker 3: he gets way out there, so he's going to challenge
Speaker 3: you to be able to handle him playing from that
Speaker 3: wide technique. But Stele, Yeah, it's it's you just know
Speaker 3: that every game there's going to be one or two
Speaker 3: snaps where it could probably end up in a sack
Speaker 3: or he's going to give up a pressure and it's
Speaker 3: but it's the nature of playing against guys like that.
Speaker 3: You know, you're dealing with somebody that's an outstanding pass rush,
Speaker 3: one of the best young pass rushers in the league.
Speaker 3: So you got to help these guys a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe this is a game where kind of
Speaker 3: sneak around a little hunter lipkey, you know, kind of
Speaker 3: you know, motion across boom, pick him up, line up
Speaker 3: over their help, you know, everywhere. If I knew going
Speaker 3: into this game, which I know watching the tape, and
Speaker 3: I'm sure these guys across the hall know ninety seven
Speaker 3: is the one is going to kill your game. Everybody
Speaker 3: else we could we can handle everybody else. We can
Speaker 3: handle here. So make sure you take care of that
Speaker 3: guy first.
Speaker 2: Let's assume they get that done. Yeah, where are the
Speaker 2: points of the secondary where they can have best success.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what. You know, there's they've got
Speaker 3: a rookie corner playing right now. That's everybody's kind of
Speaker 3: on Interry and Arnold that people are kind of down on. Actually, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a really Dallas. They've traded up to Dallas's spot
Speaker 3: to draft him. He was on a lot of boards.
Speaker 3: I know on my board he was the first corner
Speaker 3: from that I had the number one corner. He fell
Speaker 3: all the way down into the twenties.
Speaker 7: Why had him too?
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, why do I have no idea?
Speaker 7: I think that. I think that was a nature of
Speaker 7: everybody drafting an offensive guy. The first round was so weird.
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things where Welling just going in.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was ability. I don't think it
Speaker 3: was ability at all. I mean, it was a deep
Speaker 3: draft for corners, and maybe some guys had some guys
Speaker 3: higher than him. I sure didn't. This kid's a really
Speaker 3: good football player. But where people have taken advantage? Now,
Speaker 3: last year when you played this team, they were completely
Speaker 3: different at corner. They had a guy named Cameron Sudden
Speaker 3: that played corner and you lit him up. Yep, he
Speaker 3: had no chance. Every target at him was a big play,
Speaker 3: and they realized that we can't play that way, so
Speaker 3: went and traded for Carlton Davis from Tampa. We're familiar
Speaker 3: with Carlton Davis. He's played against the Cowboys before in
Speaker 3: games in Tampa. Kind of had some mixed bag doing that,
Speaker 3: you know, that kind of the coverage at Tampa. But
Speaker 3: they drafted Arnold, they traded for Davis. It's a completely
Speaker 3: different group now in the secondary and line. I mentioned
Speaker 3: that's kind of where I would go. Carlton Davis if
Speaker 3: you look at the balls that are thrown at him,
Speaker 3: you know, if you look at him, now, this group
Speaker 3: is good with their tight window throws. I mean, I
Speaker 3: was like, man, they're they're close, They're close, They're close.
Speaker 3: You kind of check that number. They're like fifth, sixth
Speaker 3: in the league when it comes to tight window throws.
Speaker 3: That shouldn't bother Dak. He's like, he gets more tight
Speaker 3: window throws than any other quarterback in the league. You know,
Speaker 3: his guys that they just they're tight window guys. So
Speaker 3: where I would go though, is teams quarterbacks have had
Speaker 3: some success throwing the ball at Davis, even on some
Speaker 3: tight window stuff. The rookie, you know, is giving up
Speaker 3: some plays. I think the rookie Arnold has there's some
Speaker 3: separation at times with his games. But both corners have
Speaker 3: kind of get picked on a little bit more. And
Speaker 3: I think Carlton Davis gets picked on the most of
Speaker 3: the two, and he's the veteran guy. The safety are there.
Speaker 3: Nicol Robinson is another player that was added. They got
Speaker 3: him from the Raiders. He's a tight window guy, but
Speaker 3: he'll lose some separation and contact occasionally with you guys.
Speaker 3: I mentioned Brian Branch, he's the safety. He was a
Speaker 3: corner safety at Alabama. He's a I don't think he
Speaker 3: gets nearly enough credit for how good of a football
Speaker 3: player he is. And he could cover you in the slot.
Speaker 3: He can and cover you well. He could cover a
Speaker 3: tight end no problem. So I wonder how they're going
Speaker 3: to play against Lamb in this game, and if they
Speaker 3: find a way to kind of double, if they double
Speaker 3: with like Joseph the safety, and then one of these
Speaker 3: corners and then take Branch and put him on Ferguson
Speaker 3: and then say, Okay, Tolbert and everybody else, you gotta
Speaker 3: beat us today. But they've they if they don't get
Speaker 3: any pass rush and as I mentioned, they play a
Speaker 3: lot of bass that I mean they play primarily. You know,
Speaker 3: they're well over fifty percent base of there the way
Speaker 3: they play. So and Dak Prescott, I look this up
Speaker 3: because I'm like, okay, here's the number. Fifty percent base.
Speaker 3: That's the highest of anybody in the league. Dak sixty
Speaker 3: percent win rate against base defense hasn't been sacked this year,
Speaker 3: and the numbers like can say that league average I
Speaker 3: think is forty eight percent of success. DA's at sixty.
Speaker 3: These guys play base against him. That's a good matchup
Speaker 3: for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Looking at this defensive line. If I could also highlight
Speaker 7: one other guy that I think could be a problem
Speaker 7: if they move this guy up and down the line,
Speaker 7: a piano player. If we came back to draft show
Speaker 7: Aileen McNeil, he's a guy that rotates in. You won't
Speaker 7: see him start the game necessarily of a bully. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you might see him start the game with a couple
Speaker 7: of these injuries that they have up front. But I
Speaker 7: think he's gonna be a guy you definitely see rotate in.
Speaker 7: You'll see him inside, you'll see him outside. They will
Speaker 7: move him up and down and he gets out for
Speaker 7: the quarterback too. Eight pressures so far in three games,
Speaker 7: three hundred and fifteen pounds. He's a guy that is
Speaker 7: big in the middle and he can make some things happen.
Speaker 7: And then also in the run game, they do have
Speaker 7: Derek Barnes on the ir which will help as far
Speaker 7: as the Cowboys trying to get into that second level.
Speaker 7: But don't discount Malcolm Rodriguez out of Oklahoma State. That's
Speaker 7: still a really powerful guy. Also came in that same
Speaker 7: draft class as Aiden hutch and so in factor in
Speaker 7: Hudginson's ability to defend the run, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 7: for this run game still. And I think Brian Branch
Speaker 7: when you factor in safeties that can play the run games,
Speaker 7: he's top five in the league in mind so well
Speaker 7: in coverage, he does well on the run.
Speaker 3: I think they're linebacker To me, throwing the ball against
Speaker 3: these guys is the best chance because again I think
Speaker 3: the pressure you got to find a way. We mentioned
Speaker 3: about Hutchinson, the corners, the possibility these linebackers a Zeloney
Speaker 3: and Campbell are they played real tight to the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, so I mean they're physical upfront, They're going
Speaker 3: to try and beat you up. But these these linebackers
Speaker 3: do a really good job of filling, getting off blocks,
Speaker 3: making tackles. You'll see occasionally every once in a while
Speaker 3: Campbell will miss the tackle. But man, it's just such
Speaker 3: a physical front seven that you're dealing with. But I running,
Speaker 3: I think is going to be difficult. I thought running
Speaker 3: was gonna be difficult against the Steelers. They came out
Speaker 3: and did a pretty damn good job against them, you know,
Speaker 3: last week doing that. So uh but man, I think
Speaker 3: the path the victory in this thing, if you had to,
Speaker 3: is throwing the football because I'm just like I say,
Speaker 3: block the front and and let these let the Cowboys
Speaker 3: uh receivers work against the secondary a little bit.
Speaker 2: One of the things that stood out to me is
Speaker 2: I was looking at this team they are right now.
Speaker 2: Obviously we know they were a good run defense, but
Speaker 2: in their last game before the buye they played when
Speaker 2: they played Seattle, Seattle hit him for one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty three rushouts. What did Seattle do in that game?
Speaker 2: Was there anything specific that they did?
Speaker 3: They were on the edge, they were on the edge.
Speaker 2: Is that something? Did they do things that the Cowboys
Speaker 2: have shown any sort of propensity to be able to replicate.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a lot of the inside hand off, the
Speaker 3: read option stuff. It was, it was snap, it was
Speaker 3: orbit motion, it was spin, turn in hand, it was
Speaker 3: it wasn't like your traditional lineup, but they they took
Speaker 3: the ball and tried to create ways, whether it was
Speaker 3: toss or whether it was motion, and then come back
Speaker 3: and then toss it. But they they knew that going
Speaker 3: out on the edge was their best chance of running this.
Speaker 2: Football and they were successful.
Speaker 3: They were successful doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, so I guess that that could create some
Speaker 2: sort of opportunity for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: These guys are big. When you talk about Reader and
Speaker 3: McNeil inside, they've got big body guys. That's the thing
Speaker 3: that you have to kind of worry about. And we
Speaker 3: saw it a little bit with the you know, with
Speaker 3: the Steelers, I felt like mashing the edges was going
Speaker 3: to be you know, some of the success you had,
Speaker 3: but you did a pretty good job of handling inside
Speaker 3: of the Steelers guys.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: But same challenge again this week. I think I think
Speaker 3: the the linebackers here though, present a little bit of
Speaker 3: a different problem for for you. Running the ball.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, I want to attack the edge that Aiden
Speaker 7: Hudgerson is not on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an equally good run defender as pass.
Speaker 7: Defender Josh Pascal. You want to be able to attack him.
Speaker 7: I think he's easily the worst run defender on that line.
Speaker 7: Not that he's a bad run defender, but I just
Speaker 7: wouldn't call him. I wouldn't call him Mavericke. So somewhere
Speaker 7: below that, below that range.
Speaker 2: One other thing I was going to ask you on
Speaker 2: on the how Cowboys, how the Cowboys should attack them
Speaker 2: knowing that Aiden Hudginson is there and he can create
Speaker 2: that pressure. Would you say this is a game where
Speaker 2: you would lean more heavily on maybe spring them out
Speaker 2: and just quick passes, get the ball out really quick.
Speaker 2: Or would you do would you would you opt for
Speaker 2: more max protect where you keep more guys in with
Speaker 2: the opportunity to give Dak a little more of an
Speaker 2: opportunity to get downfield, maybe make.
Speaker 3: Some big play. Worry about the quick game because of
Speaker 3: how much press coverage they play. Now they're gonna play
Speaker 3: man coverage, right they They went from being a team
Speaker 3: that played a lot of zone last year because those
Speaker 3: corners were not good, right, So they had to They
Speaker 3: have a lot more confidence in Davis and then Arnold
Speaker 3: and then and then Branch and their ability to cover.
Speaker 3: They have a lot more. So they're playing a lot
Speaker 3: more man coverage. If they're up on you, I don't
Speaker 3: know how much quick passing game you're gonna get off.
Speaker 3: You know, if there was a team that played like
Speaker 3: last week, the Steelers played a ton of zone coverage
Speaker 3: against you. If you're getting guys playing off, that's to
Speaker 3: me with a quick passing game. They took advantage of,
Speaker 3: you know, the space because those screens and stuff that
Speaker 3: they threw because the corners were backed off there. So
Speaker 3: I would I would tend to lean towards Max protecting
Speaker 3: this thing and try to throw the ball.
Speaker 7: I think there could be a little bit of succes
Speaker 7: us in the quick game, just because I think back
Speaker 7: to last year against the Lions. Again, there's a couple
Speaker 7: of different faces in the secondary, but it's still the
Speaker 7: same bread and butter at the end of the day.
Speaker 7: And you see CD getting thirteen receptions for two hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty seven yards, and that was more of a
Speaker 7: product of the quick game. And so I think if
Speaker 7: they can line him up in situations where he can
Speaker 7: kind of get some freedom, which that's a little bit
Speaker 7: different this year, especially in motion, that that would be
Speaker 7: a little bit different this year.
Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll believe that when we see it.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: All in all, I think you got to be able
Speaker 7: to find ways to scheme ced Lamb open on one
Speaker 7: on one coverage because we look at these second half stats,
Speaker 7: four receptions for twenty five yards in the entire second
Speaker 7: halves of games this season for ced Lamb. They got
Speaker 7: to be able to get him open. They got to
Speaker 7: be able to identify some some matchups that they can
Speaker 7: key him in on, whether that be one on one
Speaker 7: with Terry and Arnold or shoot one on one with
Speaker 7: Brian Branch. Just put him one on one with somebody
Speaker 7: and let him go make a play. That's why you
Speaker 7: pay him the money you do.
Speaker 3: If I told you that his read his targets, and
Speaker 3: I looked this up because I was curious, If I
Speaker 3: told you his targets in off coverage is half of
Speaker 3: what it was last year, would you believe me?
Speaker 2: Shocking to me?
Speaker 7: I would believe you just from the fact that it is.
Speaker 3: This season, he's had eleven targets in off coverage six catches.
Speaker 3: That's half of what he had. His his targets against
Speaker 3: man are the same as they were last year. Trending
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 7: Are we talking about this point last year?
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, trending up, trending up for the targets against
Speaker 3: man off coverage, half the targets against Tell me why you.
Speaker 7: Think that's a product Are you saying number wise or
Speaker 7: percentage wise?
Speaker 3: Both?
Speaker 7: Okay? You think that's a product more of just more
Speaker 7: man defenses these first few weeks, or.
Speaker 3: It's the same. It's it's it's it's funny because to me,
Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out to me, getting him the
Speaker 3: ball on the move in off coverage and letting him
Speaker 3: run after catch would be that would be my goal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And the fact that they've got half of the targets
Speaker 3: at this point time he had twenty two targets I
Speaker 3: believe twenty two or twenty three targets against off coverage
Speaker 3: at this point and now we're still the point whe
Speaker 3: the offense hasn't done the everybody losing their mind bit,
Speaker 3: you know. But then we get after the San Francisco game.
Speaker 3: But the fact that he does it, that they're not
Speaker 3: throwing him the ball more and off coverage. I have
Speaker 3: no idea why.
Speaker 8: Well, you know the other day when you asked, you
Speaker 8: weren't here, Nick, but when you were asking questions, it
Speaker 8: was on Tuesday and you asked Derrek and I should
Speaker 8: we shoot fans be worried about Ceedee Lamb? And he
Speaker 8: led me to thinking, because of how you answer that
Speaker 8: Derek world, defenses are paying more attention to him, and
Speaker 8: now that creates more opportunities for everybody else on the offense.
Speaker 8: And he led me to think, I'm like, okay, then
Speaker 8: what was the difference then last year during that second
Speaker 8: half of last year, because he was the one still
Speaker 8: catching balls all the time, and you can't tell me
Speaker 8: that defenses weren't trying to take him out of the
Speaker 8: game either, So what's the difference this year versus?
Speaker 3: I think I'm trying to figure out why the off
Speaker 3: coverage numbers are down. To me, that's the best time
Speaker 3: to throw the ball to CD Lamb. Let him get
Speaker 3: the ball with some separation and then magic, you know
Speaker 3: that kind of thing.
Speaker 7: I think there was more respect for the other receivers involved,
Speaker 7: because Brandon Cooks really start to heat up along the
Speaker 7: second half of the season two, and I think that
Speaker 7: opened up a lot of opportunities for CD. I don't
Speaker 7: necessarily have a question for your or answer for your question, Brian,
Speaker 7: I don't know's that's because whenever he does get a
Speaker 7: ball and off coverage, whether it be like a quick hitch, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I love the ability of him to be able to
Speaker 7: catch the ball and then just kind of wiggle and
Speaker 7: be able to kind of like look around his shoulders
Speaker 7: and be able to spin.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 7: Oh it's a half the number move.
Speaker 2: For that doesn't mean and so just to be clear
Speaker 2: on that, Brian, are you saying that the same number
Speaker 2: of opportunities of at with off coverage are this year
Speaker 2: as last year. Yeah, they just have half the number
Speaker 2: of tries when they've taken advantage of it.
Speaker 3: They have if I cause I was I'm trying, I'm
Speaker 3: working on mysteries without any clues. I'm at Bob Singer
Speaker 3: song right now, Yeah, and I'm trying to kind of
Speaker 3: figure out. Let me if we go to if you
Speaker 3: go to break, I'll go to break. I'll come back
Speaker 3: and I'll read you exactly what I learned about this.
Speaker 2: Right, let's do it. Let's take a break. We'll come back,
Speaker 2: we'll hear what Brian has to say on that. We'll
Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about that topic. You'll also
Speaker 2: get into a couple offensive guys, and I want to
Speaker 2: get some player evaluations from will to be back Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys dot com Radio.
Speaker 6: If you can't be at the stadium, there's no better
Speaker 6: way to watch your Cowboys than on an lg O
Speaker 6: lead Evo TV. That's because everything you see is more lifelike,
Speaker 6: every play, every hit. I mean, you might just will
Speaker 6: be on the sidelines, that's how clear it is. It's
Speaker 6: all thanks to LG's legendary technology, perfect black, over eight
Speaker 6: point three million self lit pixels.
Speaker 7: No one comes close. LGO led Evo is the best
Speaker 7: TV in the game.
Speaker 2: For a reason.
Speaker 6: See for yourself at LG dot com slash o Leedevo.
Speaker 1: They say champions are remembered, but legends are never forgotten.
Speaker 1: United Egg and Term offers a winning lineup of John
Speaker 1: Deere equipment built to tackle any challenge on and off
Speaker 1: the field. Legendary John Deere Tractors combines residential mowers, commercial mowers,
Speaker 1: compact construction equipment.
Speaker 3: Cater utility vehicles, and a full line of golf.
Speaker 1: And sports turf equipment. United Agon Turf the official agonturf
Speaker 1: equipment supplier of the Dallas Cowboys. Visit Unitedagonturf dot com
Speaker 1: to find a location near you.
Speaker 7: If you shout how about them Cowboys? You have that
Speaker 7: undeniable passion that's the heart of Cowboys Nation. And if
Speaker 7: you like to drink Doctor Pepper, you love the unique
Speaker 7: blend of its twenty three flavors. Together, you're one of
Speaker 7: a kind fandom paired with the one of a kind
Speaker 7: taste of a delicious ice cold Doctor Pepper is the
Speaker 7: game day lineup that can't be beat better yet, Gather
Speaker 7: your Cowboys and Doctor Pepper fan friends to watch the
Speaker 7: next game and crack open a delicious ice cold Doctor
Speaker 7: Pepper for everyone. The wins will be even taste here.
Speaker 7: It's a pepper thing, and we're going to overtime.
Speaker 6: Erica, how much have I spent on Concessions?
Speaker 4: For questions about their money, Dallas Cowboys fans can turn
Speaker 4: to Erica, the virtual financial Assistant in the Bank of
Speaker 4: America mobile banking app. Learn more at Bankofamerica dot com.
Speaker 4: Slash Erica by your side. Bank of America Official Bank
Speaker 4: of the Dallas Cowboys. Erica respondses me very digital tool
Speaker 4: featured required downloading the mobile banking app and may only
Speaker 4: be available on select mobile devices. Erica is a mobile
Speaker 4: feature only available in the English language. Your chap may
Speaker 4: be recorded and monitored. Qualit Assurance message data rates. Additional
Speaker 4: terms may apply. Bank of America and a member FDIC.
Speaker 10: Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 10: Cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big cat repellent he bought
Speaker 10: online was reliable, and now Todd is trying to be
Speaker 10: faster than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per hour.
Speaker 10: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 10: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 10: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 10: toss her the backpack with the beef stew AT and
Speaker 10: T five G Fast, reliable, Secure.
Speaker 5: Five G requires compatible plan and device. Five G may
Speaker 5: not be available in your areas. See add dot com
Speaker 5: slash five G for you for details.
Speaker 8: Back to the break, AT and T connecting changes everything.
Speaker 7: That's all you gotta, that's it, that's all you need.
Speaker 8: With AT and T. They're so trustworthy and good Yeah, simple, yeah, trust.
Speaker 7: And everything.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, final segment of the Break Laugh in s
Speaker 2: WBC Mortgage Studios at Star. Let's continue our conversation real quick.
Speaker 2: This segment's brought to you by blockchain dot Com. All right, Brian,
Speaker 2: you were you were telling us before you break God
Speaker 2: and clarify. You've looked up some information I did.
Speaker 3: This is where I pulled this from. Okay, and this
Speaker 3: is because it's it was relating to Lamb and I
Speaker 3: was curious and then I saw this note because it
Speaker 3: had to do with the Lions, and the Lions of
Speaker 3: a line. They're outside cornerbacks and press coverage about thirty
Speaker 3: four percent of their snaps this season. That's the fifth
Speaker 3: highest in the NFL. So they're gonna play press corner.
Speaker 3: That's kind of their back the matchup ceedee. Lamb has
Speaker 3: stayed effective against press coverage this season, recording a near
Speaker 3: identical target rate twenty seven percent and yards per route
Speaker 3: two point eight to last year, so that's very similar
Speaker 3: against the press coverage. Lamb's drop off in performance has
Speaker 3: mainly come against off coverage, where he has just caught
Speaker 3: six of eleven targets for fifty eight yards. His target
Speaker 3: rate has been cut in half against off coverage this season.
Speaker 3: That's fourteen percent compared to last season's thirty percent. So
Speaker 3: that's where we're at with that.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like it's not as much of a
Speaker 2: problem this week because it they play a lot of
Speaker 2: press coverage cover that's what he's doing well against.
Speaker 3: But you wonder, how why are they are they are
Speaker 3: they facing off coverage and in the in the second
Speaker 3: half of games fair and he's not getting the opportunity
Speaker 3: in the off coverage that the Daks throwing the ball
Speaker 3: to other guys in off coverage that he feels like
Speaker 3: might be a little bit more open.
Speaker 7: Again, I wonder if this is just me theorizing out loud,
Speaker 7: most of his action last season was in the quick game.
Speaker 7: I think this is just kind of a guestimation, but
Speaker 7: I would say probably sixty percent of his completions last
Speaker 7: year wor quick game. It was slants, hitches, quick curls.
Speaker 7: I mean, it was quick outs. I mean he was
Speaker 7: getting the ball quick. So I wonder if if defenses
Speaker 7: have identified that looked at it and be like, Okay,
Speaker 7: if we play more off coverage and that gives us
Speaker 7: a little bit more leverage to be able to play
Speaker 7: in front or keep Cede Lamb in front of us
Speaker 7: if he were to run those quick game type routes,
Speaker 7: and then you know, if Dak Prescott sees that, then
Speaker 7: he's probably looking elsewhere. So that's just me theorizing out loud, though.
Speaker 7: But I do wonder why the target share is cut
Speaker 7: in half compared to last year because that same problem
Speaker 7: would have still existed last year. So I don't know
Speaker 7: that's interesting.
Speaker 2: That is a baffling stat but you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think at the end of the day, I still
Speaker 2: think that part of what we're seeing at the early
Speaker 2: part of this year isn't it, you know, not really
Speaker 2: an adapt and adaptation because I think Dak and CD
Speaker 2: are on. I think they're on the same page. They've
Speaker 2: played enough together. I do think timing, though, is a
Speaker 2: part of it. When you don't go to train in camp,
Speaker 2: I think timing can be a part of the issue,
Speaker 2: and so I do give a little bit of difference
Speaker 2: to that. I don't know if it would make that
Speaker 2: big of a difference where you know, you're cut in
Speaker 2: half the number of opportunities you're getting in an off coverage,
Speaker 2: but I do think that's a part of it.
Speaker 8: At what point do we stop referencing training camp.
Speaker 2: Well, no, and I'm not saying that it shouldn't be corrected.
Speaker 2: At this point, it should be correct. My point is,
Speaker 2: though the numbers in the first five weeks could have
Speaker 2: been affected by more so even week one, week two,
Speaker 2: week three, and by now it may not be as effective.
Speaker 2: But we're looking at numbers over the entire first five games,
Speaker 2: which means it could be skewed a little bit because
Speaker 2: early on they were having some of those challenges. My
Speaker 2: question would be on a week to week basis, what
Speaker 2: does that look like? And every week has it gotten better?
Speaker 2: My expectations it should if that's the problem, If the
Speaker 2: problem is really about timing, it should get better every week, right, it.
Speaker 8: Should, especially with two veteran guys, two professionals, two guys
Speaker 8: that have been I mean, you look out how they
Speaker 8: were last year during that second half of the season,
Speaker 8: and you would expect it to be a lot better.
Speaker 8: So it's just it's it's interesting in the and yet
Speaker 8: I agree, we all I think we all agree at
Speaker 8: this point that him missing training camp has affected his game. Uh,
Speaker 8: But at the same time, it's like we're week seeks it.
Speaker 7: We are we are, I think even more so, not
Speaker 7: only I think if we are attributing some of this
Speaker 7: to CID not being a training camp, I think there's
Speaker 7: also a little bit of attribution that I think needs
Speaker 7: to go towards the offense not playing in the preseason,
Speaker 7: because we saw this last year where they had a
Speaker 7: slow start and you saw rhythm and things that weren't
Speaker 7: quite developed, and then they didn't integrate motion. They didn't
Speaker 7: integrate a lot of things until after the buye. I
Speaker 7: was like, okay, then was before the buy your preseason?
Speaker 7: Then if only you had three games to work those
Speaker 7: things out.
Speaker 2: But you know, I mean, honestly, you across the league
Speaker 2: we saw first couple of weeks scoring was down, offenses
Speaker 2: weren't going. I really think that's a function of across
Speaker 2: the league teams not playing their starters or in the preseason.
Speaker 2: I think, what's happening now and if they moved eighteen
Speaker 2: games I think will happen even more is the first
Speaker 2: few weeks of the NFL season really is a preseason,
Speaker 2: and so you're going to be kind of just struggling
Speaker 2: to make it work those first few weeks, and then
Speaker 2: you start getting on your role and then you start
Speaker 2: really figuring out what works for you.
Speaker 7: Look at the two teams out are five and zero,
Speaker 7: and see how much their starters played in the preseason.
Speaker 2: That's all I guess were the teams They played a lot, not.
Speaker 7: A lot, but they played you know, like Mahomes played quarters. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he played quarters at a time. Yeah, Donald, those guys
Speaker 7: they played quarters at a time.
Speaker 3: So there was a time where I would have fought
Speaker 3: you on this. Now you're I can't fight you anymore.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean there's a lot of.
Speaker 3: People out there listening right now and like say something
Speaker 3: broad us. You're the one that always says that the games,
Speaker 3: the practices against the Rams were and I do think
Speaker 3: they were beneficial for you because you can control and
Speaker 3: Dak got you know, basically two hundred snaps against a
Speaker 3: first team defense and he didn't get hit in any
Speaker 3: of those times.
Speaker 8: But also a lot of questionable no there no question.
Speaker 7: Now you're like, huh, no question, We're not, you know.
Speaker 3: And there's a side of me that you know, the
Speaker 3: scaredy player personnel guy. That's me. I'm the scary player
Speaker 3: personnel guy, and I don't want anybody to get hurt
Speaker 3: and I.
Speaker 7: Think whenever Tyron Smith had that injury a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago, even though it wasn't in a preseason game.
Speaker 7: But you also called back to Romo having his preseason injury,
Speaker 7: went back when I wonder how much of that is
Speaker 7: just kind of PTSD from preseason injuries. Yeah, I do
Speaker 7: think about that. You mentioned Dak not getting hit, but
Speaker 7: a Ram Stafford did, so, Yeah, there was still physicality.
Speaker 3: It was physicality involved.
Speaker 2: You had to bring that up.
Speaker 7: It was the first thing that it was a crazy
Speaker 7: when it happened, it was hilarious, well not hilarious. Fine,
Speaker 7: he was fine, So it was funny.
Speaker 2: All right, real quick, before we end the show, I
Speaker 2: did want to get an update on what you guys
Speaker 2: saw from Cooper BB in this last game. We hadn't
Speaker 2: talked much about him, but how has his progression worked out?
Speaker 2: I know we talk a lot about Guiden. How much
Speaker 2: has BB progressed now over the first five games of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 7: Well, I will there's a quote from Mike McCarthy directly
Speaker 7: from the pre conference going on. I think right now
Speaker 7: he had said that Cooper BB through the first five
Speaker 7: games quote has done a heck of a job and
Speaker 7: he is quote two and seventy two percent better at
Speaker 7: snapping since the start of training camps.
Speaker 2: Twenty Yeah, I would have said seventy three.
Speaker 7: He's a big analytics guy. He's got a huge analytics team.
Speaker 2: So they put that number, and they do have a
Speaker 2: lot of them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll tell you what, how do you get to
Speaker 7: that number? How analytics?
Speaker 3: I feel like they you're right that the calls it
Speaker 3: just doesn't seem to be you know, the snapping part
Speaker 3: of it. We were kind of worried about the calls
Speaker 3: appear fine. You haven't seen any major busts or anything. Inside,
Speaker 3: you know, it's where they've had problems. It seems like
Speaker 3: it's been more on the edges than inside. So you
Speaker 3: got you got to give a tip of the cap
Speaker 3: to him. The one thing he's got to do. He's
Speaker 3: got to learn this. It's like he has got too
Speaker 3: pro Bowl guys playing next to him. Shove that guy,
Speaker 3: Shove him and go. You can you can help this
Speaker 3: running game being up there blocking Angeloni or blocking one
Speaker 3: of their you know, blocking one of their guys. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're helping get the play going. But we need that
Speaker 3: guy blocked. If we get that guy blocked. Instead of
Speaker 3: a six yard run, it might be a twelve yard run.
Speaker 3: You know, he's got to do a better job of
Speaker 3: like he's thinking so much of got to secure this guy.
Speaker 3: Gotta secure this guy instead of shoving with power. You
Speaker 3: got pro bowl guards that can handle him one on
Speaker 3: one and go get on the second level and when
Speaker 3: that ball cuts right behind you, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a pretty play that we sow on sounds to the
Speaker 3: sidelines now, Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Yeah, make sure, you know,
Speaker 3: make sure you get up on that second level. You
Speaker 3: get those blocks.
Speaker 7: One thing that I think will help Cooper bb in
Speaker 7: these next few weeks as Zach Martin's finally hitting his stride.
Speaker 7: I think he had a slow start to the season
Speaker 7: from my perspective, but that game against the Steelers and
Speaker 7: probably the second half against the Giants, I really like
Speaker 7: the work that he's put together over the last six
Speaker 7: quarters or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a stark reminder, Brian, as you were
Speaker 2: talking about Detroit and how they do that. They don't
Speaker 2: waste time, they and they're off to the second level,
Speaker 2: and it made me think, like that's exactly what I
Speaker 2: want Bab to study and figure out because if he
Speaker 2: gets that part of his game down, I think it's
Speaker 2: going to add a lot to this offense.
Speaker 3: He's just I went through and just look at the
Speaker 3: metrics real quick, and in two hundred and seven pass snaps,
Speaker 3: he's only giving up nine pressures. Yeah, and three of
Speaker 3: those pressures have been one on one.
Speaker 2: Right now, he's second among all rookie offensive linemen and
Speaker 2: the pressure is allowed, Yeah, which tells you something across
Speaker 2: the entire league. That's a pretty impressive stat. So he's
Speaker 2: I think he's doing some good things. Like you said,
Speaker 2: I think it's a matter of how do you go
Speaker 2: from being pretty good to now being a real real
Speaker 2: asset to this offense and this offensive line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate if I could injury news just from
Speaker 7: the press conference. I'll go through it really quick. Deron
Speaker 7: Bland came out of yesterday's practice quote good. Today will
Speaker 7: be a real test for him, according to Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 7: McCarthy also said Eric Kendricks will be limited today with
Speaker 7: his shoulder and calf issue, so that's that's really good,
Speaker 7: but he will start with the rehab group. Kayln Carson
Speaker 7: will be back with the rehab group today after being
Speaker 7: a full participant yesterday, so something to keep an eye
Speaker 7: on moving forward.
Speaker 3: I Ain good. That's that.
Speaker 2: Seems like a little going backwards for him, but going
Speaker 2: forward for the other two. So we'll see where that
Speaker 2: all lands out. Yeah, all right till tomorrow. Tomorrow will
Speaker 2: wrap this whole thing up. Amber Yetty games tomorrow until
Speaker 2: then for Nick Harris, Ryan Brost and Amber Garcia. I'm
Speaker 2: Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys dot Com Radio.
Speaker 3: This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.