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Speaker 2: Hello, guys, welcome to another episode of The Break. I
Speaker 2: am hosting today, but I have Brian and Patrick here
Speaker 2: with me. Derek is busy with important meetings. Uh, we'll
Speaker 2: see what comes out of that. But in the meantime,
Speaker 2: we'll hold like he did yesterday, we'll hold down the
Speaker 2: four with us here. I wanted to start off the
Speaker 2: show by talking about some of the roster moves that
Speaker 2: have happened, nothing creating big splashes of big news. But
Speaker 2: the Cowboys did release they cut tackle Alex Taylor Prilorillo
Speaker 2: and then linebacker Michael Jones on Monday, and then they
Speaker 2: did sign four players into the practice squad. So Patrick,
Speaker 2: I'll let you take a handle of those players who
Speaker 2: they are. If there's much to say there as far
Speaker 2: as like what they're adding to the team.
Speaker 4: Not a lot of digging in to these guys is
Speaker 4: available right now. But we have Eric Salbert tight end.
Speaker 4: He was signed to the practice squad, as was Adam
Speaker 4: Pankey a guard, Buddy Johnson linebacker, and Chris Glazer or
Speaker 4: Glacier a guard. So two offensive linemen joined the Cowboys
Speaker 4: practice squad for insurance purposes, which is just you know,
Speaker 4: smart to do. So Michael Jones is being replaced by
Speaker 4: Buddy Johnson and Brian and I were talking about this
Speaker 4: before we went hot. Interest in the length of time
Speaker 4: that Michael Jones was here, I mean as far as
Speaker 4: it being shortened. The Cowboys obviously got him in, didn't
Speaker 4: necessarily like what they saw from him in practices. He
Speaker 4: never got an elevation, and he was here for all
Speaker 4: of two three weeks, three calendar weeks if you're talking
Speaker 4: about two games and the bye week. So Michael Jones
Speaker 4: came in and never really had a shot. They did
Speaker 4: go out and get Rashaan Evans obviously signed him to
Speaker 4: the practice squad for a first round pick. No stranger
Speaker 4: to the big stage, you know, Alabama product. So yeah,
Speaker 4: Cowboys added a tight end, which also makes me wonder
Speaker 4: and I'll get some more information on this after the show.
Speaker 4: Talk to some folks where Peyton Hindershot is with that
Speaker 4: ankle injury. That makes me wonder where Peyton Hendershot is.
Speaker 4: And Brian's probably thinking the same thing as well, you're
Speaker 4: going to add a tight end is does that mean
Speaker 4: Hendershot is going to be out a longer period of
Speaker 4: time than maybe anticipated? So something to keep an eye
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've had some struggles some of their point of
Speaker 3: attack blocking and and maybe Salbert is a guy he
Speaker 3: went to a tiny school. He went to Drake, you know,
Speaker 3: and nothing against Drake or tiny schools or anything like that,
Speaker 3: but he's one of those guys that's kind of bounced
Speaker 3: around the league. And so when you get a guy
Speaker 3: like that, it's you know, the development is he is
Speaker 3: he is? He a guy that's developing, you know. And
Speaker 3: there's some clips I've seen to him. I haven't done
Speaker 3: a full on report, but there's some people out there
Speaker 3: that have and you could kind of see some clips
Speaker 3: of him as a blocker. Seems like something that's a
Speaker 3: little bit of a strength of his. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's one of those guys too, has career you know,
Speaker 3: in college you caught like one hundred and eighty three passes,
Speaker 3: so he's capable of doing those types of things. But
Speaker 3: to Patrick's point, you know, you wonder if you know,
Speaker 3: with the health of hindershot or you know, you need
Speaker 3: guys to practice, you need those bodies to practice and stuff.
Speaker 3: But they also might be looking at their situation with
Speaker 3: blocking it when you go back and as you study
Speaker 3: the all twenty two from the Chargers game, they tried
Speaker 3: really hard in that game to use their tight ends
Speaker 3: at the point of attack. They tried to use their
Speaker 3: tight ends on the back side of some polls to
Speaker 3: get to the point of attack bringing in you know,
Speaker 3: they pull a guard or pull a tackle, and they
Speaker 3: were getting compressed and they were getting beat and they
Speaker 3: were you know, it was a really rough game when
Speaker 3: it came to running the football. And you wonder if
Speaker 3: now it's like, do we need to go out and
Speaker 3: see if we can work out some guys to try
Speaker 3: and see if we can get some better blocking at
Speaker 3: the point of attack. And maybe Celbart is a guy
Speaker 3: that they kind of look at that well, let's give
Speaker 3: him a shot and let's see. I mean, you can
Speaker 3: it's hard to do during during these practices to see
Speaker 3: how a guy's gonna be. So it's gonna have to
Speaker 3: be Okay, what are the pro guys seen from him?
Speaker 3: Maybe there's some stops at along the way in the
Speaker 3: training camps where they can see that, well, this guy
Speaker 3: seems like a pretty good blocker. But that's saying a
Speaker 3: lot right now. They just they're just not as consistent
Speaker 3: as they need to be running the football, and somebody
Speaker 3: has to do with what's going on at the point
Speaker 3: of attack with their blocking.
Speaker 4: And with the linebacker. What's interesting about Buddy Johnson is
Speaker 4: this is a homecoming for him. He's only twenty four
Speaker 4: years old, but he's already a bit of an NFL journeyman.
Speaker 4: Only two tackles in his NFL NFL career, but he's
Speaker 4: Dallas born and bred, went to Kimball High School and
Speaker 4: Texas A and m pruct.
Speaker 5: So he's coming back home.
Speaker 4: So this is obviously someone that the scouting department has
Speaker 4: some information on, you know, from when he entered the
Speaker 4: NFL draft, so you know, insurance there because you needed
Speaker 4: at linebacker, and they're just ready to see what Buddy
Speaker 4: Johnson can do over what they saw or didn't see
Speaker 4: from Michael Joe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point. You know, he was a
Speaker 3: guy that was if you look at he was a
Speaker 3: fourth round pick in in twenty twenty one, and he's,
Speaker 3: like Patrick said, he's made a lot of stops. The
Speaker 3: teams he's been with, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Houston, teams that
Speaker 3: plays some pretty good defense and stuff. So somebody saw
Speaker 3: something in him as a player. At six one and
Speaker 3: a half, he's two hundred and forty pounds, so he's
Speaker 3: got the size that maybe that they're looking for right
Speaker 3: now when it comes to, you know, that point of
Speaker 3: attack again, thumper guy that can step up, play the
Speaker 3: run and deal with that a little bit more size
Speaker 3: because the issues that they're running into. We've talked about
Speaker 3: this a bunch. When they play those nickel packages and
Speaker 3: stuff and they bring those safeties down, it's, you know,
Speaker 3: it's guys like Bell and Wilson, those guys, they're tough guys,
Speaker 3: they're just not big, you know, and teams that they're gonna,
Speaker 3: you know, they're gonna say, okay, when you get in
Speaker 3: that nickel, we're gonna run the ball at those guys.
Speaker 3: So just getting some linebackers with some size and some
Speaker 3: thump and some point of attack played to him might
Speaker 3: be something that is on their mind right now.
Speaker 2: Well with Sober and Johnson, are you guys thinking based
Speaker 2: on what you guys are saying, is a real pussibility
Speaker 2: of them seeing the field at some point in the
Speaker 2: near future or is it more just specifically you just
Speaker 2: need bodies.
Speaker 4: I think I think right now to answer that question,
Speaker 4: you need bodies because if you look at and Brian
Speaker 4: makes an excellent point as far as Soburn and how
Speaker 4: he could maybe factor into the blomunication, but you're gonna
Speaker 4: need to get Schoolmaker more involved as well. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: then when you look at it from a linebacker perspective,
Speaker 4: you got to get Rashn Evans on the field. You
Speaker 4: got to get Malik Jefferson continued to ramp up with
Speaker 4: the mont Clark. But you also don't want to take
Speaker 4: away any unnecessary reps from a guy like Marquise Bell
Speaker 4: who is playing at a high level. So if your
Speaker 4: buddy Johnson, your mission is to get in here and
Speaker 4: not suffer the same fate that Michael Jones suffered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's that's it right there, And you know,
Speaker 3: I applaud them. There's so many times where teams just
Speaker 3: sit there in the practice squad and they just it's
Speaker 3: the same guys. You know, you're looking at the same
Speaker 3: bodies every day and and you're thinking, well, this guy's
Speaker 3: not getting any better. I know it's hard to when
Speaker 3: they don't. They have some padded practices, but it's not
Speaker 3: like they're going out there and really just taking a
Speaker 3: run at each other. You can see the movement, you
Speaker 3: can see how they step up, you can see how
Speaker 3: they go through the drills. But I give the front
Speaker 3: office some credit for this one, because to me, it's
Speaker 3: you just kind of keep rotating that you don't know
Speaker 3: if you're going to hit a guy like that. You
Speaker 3: don't know if Buddy Johnson all of a sudden like
Speaker 3: in this scheme. You know, it didn't work in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: it didn't work in San Francisco, but maybe it works here.
Speaker 3: Maybe something clicks for him and then now you got
Speaker 3: a linebacker halfway through. But a lot of times these
Speaker 3: teams will just sit there with the same practice squad
Speaker 3: the whole year and not do anything, and you're not
Speaker 3: getting any better out of that. I'd still love for
Speaker 3: him to make a trade somehow someway. We've talked about
Speaker 3: that a bunch around here, but at least they're trying
Speaker 3: to churn that practice squad and maybe find a guy
Speaker 3: that can fit what they're trying to do offensively and defensively.
Speaker 2: Now, you never know where there is some hidden secret
Speaker 2: talent there, But okay, for now, let's put that aside,
Speaker 2: see what happens with that. As far as injuries, Cowboy's
Speaker 2: coming off the bye week, where are they currently with
Speaker 2: the whole injury.
Speaker 4: List, Well, they're in good standing right now, you know, IR.
Speaker 4: Notwithstanding obviously they lost Leyton Vanderush and CJ. Goodwin to
Speaker 4: IR prior to the bye week. But both of those
Speaker 4: players are, you know, working toward trying to return at
Speaker 4: some point this season. So there's some optimism there. But
Speaker 4: when you look at the laundry list of ailments that
Speaker 4: they were kind of dealing with going into the Los
Speaker 4: Angeles Charges game, it sounds as if most, if not all,
Speaker 4: of those are near one hundred percent. So Mike McCarthy
Speaker 4: said today that je Ya Tomas, for example, he suffered
Speaker 4: a hamstring injury that popped up ahead of that game.
Speaker 5: He was routed out of that game. He's going to be.
Speaker 4: A full participant today in practice on Wednesday, as will
Speaker 4: every other player on the active roster. And I know
Speaker 4: that botes very well for the Cowboys offensive line. When
Speaker 4: you talk about Tyler biadis nursing an ankle, Tyron Smith
Speaker 4: with his knee, Zach Martin with a thigh. If all
Speaker 4: three of those guys are also full participants, that's just
Speaker 4: magnificent news because this is going to be game three
Speaker 4: of that combination being together, and that we keep talking about,
Speaker 4: the more reps they get together, the more to pay
Speaker 4: dividends for them. So, yeah, expect the Cowboys to trend
Speaker 4: upwards as far as health. So the bye week, although
Speaker 4: it was a week earlier than it normally is, it
Speaker 4: couldn't have been at a better time for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now we throw around the word hope that Ryan
Speaker 2: likes to throw around here. So there's one thing what
Speaker 2: we hope for, and there's another thing, like, realistically speaking,
Speaker 2: what are some of the main or biggest changing changes
Speaker 2: sorry that you guys are expecting the Cowboys to make
Speaker 2: or have made during the bye week heading into this weekend.
Speaker 2: And we'll get into the rams offense on the second segment.
Speaker 2: But for right now, realistically speaking, what are some of
Speaker 2: those changes?
Speaker 3: What are you thinking, Ryan, Well, you know, to me,
Speaker 3: it's they've got to figure out some things in the
Speaker 3: running game. And you couldn't practice all week because of
Speaker 3: collective bargaining and players have to have the entire week off,
Speaker 3: so there's really nothing you could do. It was all
Speaker 3: really scheme related. But they've got to figure out a
Speaker 3: way to be more effective running the football, and they
Speaker 3: have to figure out a way to get Tony Pollard.
Speaker 3: They're getting him involved, but they're not getting him or
Speaker 3: creating any space. I mentioned the tight end blocking. They've
Speaker 3: tried to do it a couple of different ways with
Speaker 3: the zone schemes. They're just not very clean at the
Speaker 3: point of attack with the combo blocks, getting second level linebackers.
Speaker 3: They played some good linebackers this year that have been
Speaker 3: able to run. But they've got to figure out in
Speaker 3: this off week, is there a better way to run
Speaker 3: the ball against the chargers. It was more about trying
Speaker 3: to pull guys, and we've talked to pin and pulls
Speaker 3: a word we use down blocks guys coming around. They
Speaker 3: just really weren't very effective at all? I mean, how
Speaker 3: are you not getting movement? Two of the best that
Speaker 3: we've seen in the past have been what Zach Martin
Speaker 3: playing on one leg right now but hopefully better and
Speaker 3: him and Steel they've been able to get that right side,
Speaker 3: get that thing secure where they do get some push
Speaker 3: and then the tight end is able to get a
Speaker 3: little shield block and then they can run the ball.
Speaker 3: But they haven't really had enough space. To me, I'd
Speaker 3: like to see if during that bye week, when the
Speaker 3: coaches had an opportunity to sit down and self scout,
Speaker 3: are we doing everything we need to run the ball effectively.
Speaker 3: They're going to have to be able to do it
Speaker 3: in the second half much better than what they've shown
Speaker 3: here in the first half of the season. And that's
Speaker 3: something that I think might be might look a little different, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: is it the way we're running it, is it the sets?
Speaker 3: Is it the motions? We need to do it better
Speaker 3: out eleven personnel, then we bring tight ends in. Does
Speaker 3: that make us compressed? I think these are all things
Speaker 3: they had to kick around during the during the bye
Speaker 3: week to try and figure out where where.
Speaker 4: They are, and I think what bodes will in that
Speaker 4: capacity is as announced today by Mike McCarthy, Jeff Blasco
Speaker 4: is back at practice. He had a personal leave of
Speaker 4: absence due to some health issues. He missed several games
Speaker 4: and over the first six, but he returned during the
Speaker 4: bye week. He will be back in practice this week
Speaker 4: and I'm interested with his return. And for those that
Speaker 4: don't know, Jeff Blasco is both the run game coordinator
Speaker 4: and the running backs coach. So it goes right to
Speaker 4: the heart of Brian's point as far as being interested
Speaker 4: to see what this Cowboys run attack, rushing attack looks
Speaker 4: like going into week eight and going forward, particularly with
Speaker 4: Blascow now back on the field as opposed to his
Speaker 4: duties with coordinating the run game being kind of split
Speaker 4: between other assistants and position coaches. But for me, it
Speaker 4: goes back to I still want to see the deep
Speaker 4: middle part of the field exploited. I want to see
Speaker 4: those shots being taken a little bit of optimism, and
Speaker 4: you go back and look at the Chargers game. They
Speaker 4: took one or two shots there and it paid off
Speaker 4: for them. So for me, it's bringing that pendulum back
Speaker 4: to center and not being fearful of attacking the middle
Speaker 4: of the field. Make the opposing defense cover three thirds
Speaker 4: of the field as opposed to just the boundaries, because
Speaker 4: that's going to stretch those safeties and that's going to
Speaker 4: open up plays down the field. More explosiveness. We want
Speaker 4: to see explosiveness. We want to see those vertical routes,
Speaker 4: those nine routes on the outside. Well, it's going to
Speaker 4: be harder if safety is in. Opposing defensive coordinators know
Speaker 4: they don't have to worry about the middle chunk of
Speaker 4: the field. So exploit that. Take those shots. And yes,
Speaker 4: sometimes it's not going to work out for you. Sometimes
Speaker 4: that's going to be an interception. But I'm on record
Speaker 4: as saying is I would rather as long as it
Speaker 4: doesn't cost the Cowboys games. I would rather the Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott that throws, you know, for thirty five touchdowns but
Speaker 4: has twelve interceptions and the Cowboys are twelve and five,
Speaker 4: thirteen and four versus the Dak Prescott that throws you know,
Speaker 4: twenty four touchdowns to eight interceptions, but you're nine and
Speaker 4: you know eight and you're in a wild card situation.
Speaker 2: So yeah, for many games, you can care less about
Speaker 2: an interceptions.
Speaker 4: Right, That's what I'm saying. And that's been proving time
Speaker 4: and time again. It's been improven around the league. Ite
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts is being excused for, you know, almost leading
Speaker 4: the league and turnovers interceptions right now. It's because the
Speaker 4: Eagles are winning games. So if you win games, the
Speaker 4: rest becomes forgivable. Winning cures everything, as the saying go,
Speaker 4: So take those shots deep middle and really put pressure
Speaker 4: on the opposing defense.
Speaker 3: On the defensive side of the ball. I think you
Speaker 3: have to look at we now have a game without
Speaker 3: Layton Vanderish playing as a linebacker. So now teams will
Speaker 3: have a look at Damon Clark and Bell and other
Speaker 3: guys like that. And so I think in the office
Speaker 3: and the bye week there, dan Quinn now has they did?
Speaker 2: They did okayly don't know how much that's going to hold.
Speaker 3: Up exactly well. The big question, Yeah, the big question
Speaker 3: was Clark had played really well against New England and
Speaker 3: the other games he hadn't played is to the level
Speaker 3: that I know that I thought I've seen him play
Speaker 3: at such a high level at LSU, and I just
Speaker 3: kind of expect it. I know he's coming off the
Speaker 3: back and all that. The fact that he even played
Speaker 3: last year's just beyond me. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: he did a great job with that. But the thing
Speaker 3: about it is now with him being the primary linebacker
Speaker 3: and then others having to fill in, I think that's
Speaker 3: something that it's all on tape now with what the
Speaker 3: Chargers game was. Will Sean McVay and the Rams, how
Speaker 3: will they attack this script? So it's gonna be up
Speaker 3: to Dan Quinn to kind of figure out what's the
Speaker 3: next move. Am I gonna be able just to sit
Speaker 3: in there with Bell and these others just you know,
Speaker 3: playing that tech, Bell and Clark and those guys playing
Speaker 3: technique or do I have to be a little bit
Speaker 3: more creative and keep them from maybe getting exposed until
Speaker 3: vander esh gets back.
Speaker 4: Wonderful point and what will work in the Cowboys favor
Speaker 4: is that while the Rams and other teams they've now
Speaker 4: seen what the linebacker coy looks like without Leyton Vanderisch,
Speaker 4: they can try to map around that. They haven't seen
Speaker 4: what the Cowboys linebacker coy looks like with Rashawn Evans
Speaker 4: in it. Right, So there is a chance that Rashawn
Speaker 4: Evans makes his debut for the Cowboys against the Rams.
Speaker 4: Of course, that is contingent upon how practice goes this week,
Speaker 4: But that could be a variable that works in favor
Speaker 4: for the Cowboys, is that teams just don't know what
Speaker 4: Rashaun Evans looks like with a with dan Quinn cootinating them.
Speaker 3: They thought they thought something. It was really it was.
Speaker 3: It was kind of strange to me. They thought something
Speaker 3: that they could get a scheme package with that Tyros
Speaker 3: Wheat playing, you know, and I and I didn't in
Speaker 3: his his his first game was was rough, But I didn't,
Speaker 3: you know. It's that's what coaches do. They come up with, Well,
Speaker 3: we think we could take advantage of this, we could
Speaker 3: use this guy, use that guy. So I wonder if
Speaker 3: there's some other move that they're thinking about, because, like
Speaker 3: I said, I didn't really understand while Wheat they bring
Speaker 3: him up here, we go sign him, let's go. It's
Speaker 3: and now he's part of the plan early in that
Speaker 3: football game, and you're like going, was that really what
Speaker 3: they wanted or envisioned for that? So coaches are always
Speaker 3: coming up with ideas and Dan will be no different
Speaker 3: this week.
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Speaker 2: So we did find out some exciting news this morning
Speaker 2: about DeMarcus Ware and his induction to the Ring of
Speaker 2: Honor which will be held this weekend. Uh Patrick tell
Speaker 2: us the details of that well.
Speaker 4: De Marcus Ware immortalized this past August in the Pro
Speaker 4: Football Hall of Fame joins you know greats like Jerry
Speaker 4: Jones and Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman in the long
Speaker 4: list of Dallas Cowboys. They should just build another building
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Speaker 4: is also being inducted, as you said, into the cowboys
Speaker 4: coveted Ring of Honor. That will that ceremony will occur
Speaker 4: this Sunday at halftime when the Cowboys take on the Rams.
Speaker 4: So big news for the Werewolf. The second part of
Speaker 4: his immortalization will will happen this weekend.
Speaker 2: It's fun there too, funk to always see those events
Speaker 2: happen at the stadium during the game. Uh, it's always
Speaker 2: fun stuff and exciting times for him. So super cool.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and start breaking down this offense, Brian.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go through blocks and we're gonna start off
Speaker 2: with the quarterback. And what do they got right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Matthew Stafford is there their guy. And you know,
Speaker 3: Matthew has dealt with some injuries last year where really
Speaker 3: it was a problem for him. They didn't protect him
Speaker 3: very well. He took a lot of shots during the game.
Speaker 3: I mean shots, his hits, not actual physical shots with
Speaker 3: syringes or anything like that. But he he dealt with concussion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he dealt well. When you say shots you can talk
Speaker 3: about fireball too. Is another thing you could have done,
Speaker 3: and Matthew probably would. But you know, with concussions he
Speaker 3: dealt with He had the spinal cord contusion last year.
Speaker 3: That that that's the one thing that knocked him out.
Speaker 3: It happened to him in Week fourteen. So so far,
Speaker 3: so good for him. He's only really dealt with one
Speaker 3: thing in Week four He's he had a hip injury
Speaker 3: that kind of slowed him down a little bit against
Speaker 3: the Colts, but he came back in the game and
Speaker 3: was able to win the game. He wasn't moving around
Speaker 3: too well, but he was able to finish the game
Speaker 3: and grab that victory. So, you know, good for him.
Speaker 3: He's he's always been a super tough guy. When you
Speaker 3: watch him play, he's got a resilient ability to just
Speaker 3: kind of keep fighting throughout a game. He moves well
Speaker 3: enough in the pocket, but he's not one of these
Speaker 3: many these quarterbacks it's going to run away from you.
Speaker 3: He'll hold the ball until the very last possible second
Speaker 3: before letting it fly. You can watch him, he's like
Speaker 3: a baseball pitcher. His his his platform is usually like
Speaker 3: he'll throw it sie arm to get it around a guy,
Speaker 3: he'll loop it over the top. He's got touch, He's
Speaker 3: not afraid to throw the ball. He's one of those
Speaker 3: guys though that's always been a good tight window thrower.
Speaker 3: But if you look at the metrics they talk about,
Speaker 3: he hasn't made as many tight window throws this year,
Speaker 3: so he's kind of choosing more of the guys that
Speaker 3: have some separation or that are completely wide open. But
Speaker 3: he's not afraid because he has the arm talent still
Speaker 3: to get the ball anywhere he wants to put that football.
Speaker 3: The primary routes that he throws are the in cutting routes.
Speaker 3: We worried about that a little bit with with what's
Speaker 3: going on with Gilmore where we see those routes where
Speaker 3: they'll make Gilmour chase. That's something that the Rams like
Speaker 3: to do. They'll get the receivers and then they they'll
Speaker 3: run him on these end routes. They like to try
Speaker 3: and trail each other. So all of a sudden, you
Speaker 3: got a guy that they'll they'll run guys. They'll delay
Speaker 3: a guy behind another guy, run the route, and then
Speaker 3: run another route behind Matt to try and give you
Speaker 3: a little bit more of confused us, right, there, so Stafford,
Speaker 3: but it's going to be to get those routes off,
Speaker 3: you got to have protection, and that's kind of been
Speaker 3: a little bit of a problem for them. The metrics
Speaker 3: will tell you that teams will play more zone coverage
Speaker 3: against him than they will man. It's about a seven
Speaker 3: to thirty split against him, and then he gets blitzed
Speaker 3: about thirty percent of the time. His pressure rate is
Speaker 3: about forty one percent, so you can kind of see
Speaker 3: nearly half the time he's throwing the ball with somebody
Speaker 3: in his face. Primarily he operates out of what we
Speaker 3: call eleven personnel that's one running back, three wide receivers.
Speaker 3: This is ninety three percent of the time. So the
Speaker 3: Cowboys are going to be in nickel. Really the entire
Speaker 3: time in this game is with the Rams being on
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 2: So how well can he keep his composure? The mental
Speaker 2: toughness because you say, with the injury history and all
Speaker 2: that and him maybe not running as much or riding
Speaker 2: around too. Well, if you get a bunch of pressure
Speaker 2: and then you say he throws the ball away, how mental?
Speaker 2: How much mental toughness?
Speaker 3: No, it's the word I used, and it's terrible English,
Speaker 3: but I wrote in terrible English all the time, and
Speaker 3: Dave Hellman always corrected it for me. I said, super
Speaker 3: impressive toughness, super being like, there's quarterbacks in this league
Speaker 3: that are tough. I think Matthew Stafford is on a
Speaker 3: whole other level. If you look throughout his career at Detroit,
Speaker 3: he took a beating in Detroit, they trade him to
Speaker 3: the Rams, he wins a super Bowl there, and then
Speaker 3: the team kind of falls apart around him. The offensive line.
Speaker 3: We'll get into that. There's this is a big problem
Speaker 3: for them. But he's always been able to maintain that toughness.
Speaker 3: You see him get hit time after time after time,
Speaker 3: and then he's back still throwing the football side arm
Speaker 3: under whatever he has to do. That doesn't waver with
Speaker 3: the way you watch him play at all.
Speaker 4: And when it comes to Matthew Stafford, and of course
Speaker 4: I've been watching him since since his college days Georgia
Speaker 4: because that right, so yeah, go don't so to Brian's point,
Speaker 4: I mean, when it comes to mental toughness and physical toughness,
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford has those in spades, But objectively speaking, he's
Speaker 4: also boom or bust when it comes to his style
Speaker 4: of play, he's either going to light you up for
Speaker 4: four or five touchdowns or he's gonna throw four or
Speaker 4: five interceptions of that game trying his best to light
Speaker 4: you up for four or five touchdowns.
Speaker 5: So the opportunities for.
Speaker 4: Takeaways will be there as long as you get the
Speaker 4: pressure on Matthew Stafford, and the Cowboys have the highest
Speaker 4: pressure rate in the NFL. I would love for this
Speaker 4: to be the game where more of those pressures get home.
Speaker 4: But the pressures are disruptive, nonetheless, So if you can
Speaker 4: get in Matthew Stafford's space, I mean, he's mentally tough.
Speaker 4: He's going to stand there and he's gonna make that throw.
Speaker 4: But the throw isn't always going to be the smart throw.
Speaker 4: So if you can get him early on to make
Speaker 4: a mistake, then that'll get him kind of rolling in
Speaker 4: the wrong direction. But if he gets on kind of
Speaker 4: a hot streak early, you might be in for kind
Speaker 4: of a long day there.
Speaker 5: Well, especially with guys like Pooking a cool Yeah.
Speaker 2: We'll get into that later, but right now, what I'm visualizing,
Speaker 2: it looks more positive for the Cowboys and their defensive
Speaker 2: line and the pressure. So let's get into those guys
Speaker 2: are are around him, protecting him and creating that pocket
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think when you look at the when you
Speaker 3: look at the the rams and the offensive line, it's
Speaker 3: it's really short on household names. You know, most teams
Speaker 3: you play, there's two or three guys or two guys
Speaker 3: you kind of know that, Okay, this is an all
Speaker 3: Pro guy, Pro Bowl guy. Oh this is a good
Speaker 3: ascending guy. Uh. The really the only bright spot I
Speaker 3: see right here is Steve Avula and he's you know
Speaker 3: when you look at you know he's a rookie from TCU.
Speaker 3: He's uh, he's from Arlington here, which is kind of
Speaker 3: cool for him to be able to come home and play. Uh.
Speaker 3: In college at TCU, uh, Avula played every offensive line position.
Speaker 3: They've got him playing guard here. He's not the best athlete,
Speaker 3: but this power makes up for these shortcomings that he
Speaker 3: might have. If you try and rush him down the middle,
Speaker 3: he is going to be a hard guy to move.
Speaker 3: You just can't run through this guy. He's got a
Speaker 3: great base. He's physical, he's strong, He's really sturdy if
Speaker 3: you just try and run over the top. Where he
Speaker 3: does have troubles is with movement, and you know there
Speaker 3: were some teams that gave him some problems in these
Speaker 3: games that I watch, he's a rookie. I think this
Speaker 3: is where maybe that OsO Odiggy's Wall can take a
Speaker 3: little bit of an advantage of him because the harder,
Speaker 3: the more quickness that he deals with you see him,
Speaker 3: it kind of affects the way that he sets and
Speaker 3: the way that he moves. You could take him one way,
Speaker 3: taking back the other and then get on his shoulder
Speaker 3: and go. But if you're going to rush him down
Speaker 3: the middle, you're going to lose all day. He's just
Speaker 3: going to sit down. And but he's a good, good
Speaker 3: young lineman for them. He's getting better every game that
Speaker 3: I watched where there really what they struggle is al
Speaker 3: Rick Jackson and Rob Havnstein. Are you know these these
Speaker 3: guys are the tackles and I think you could take
Speaker 3: advantage of them because the Steelers, if you watch the Steelers,
Speaker 3: and I kind of can look at the Steelers the
Speaker 3: same way with the Cowboys with their ability to play
Speaker 3: on the edge and have these pressure players, and these
Speaker 3: two tackles really struggled with movement, and I mean movement
Speaker 3: of not just running, but it was like it was
Speaker 3: it was like you know that quick just that initial shoulder,
Speaker 3: that shoulder shake or that you know press and then
Speaker 3: go back the other way. These guys just don't move
Speaker 3: very well when it comes to dealing with initial bursts
Speaker 3: from from those edge rushers. So you could kind of
Speaker 3: get them off on the wrong foot and that and
Speaker 3: that kills their balance and then you work around them
Speaker 3: or you work inside. I just think this is one
Speaker 3: of those games where you need to pressure both of
Speaker 3: them throughout. Don't give them any easy rushes. Make sure
Speaker 3: you're on the movement. You're trying to get them off
Speaker 3: balance because they will they'll struggle with that. The Steelers
Speaker 3: did a great job of just every attacking rush was
Speaker 3: a movement and it got them off balance and then
Speaker 3: they were able to get to Stafford there. So they
Speaker 3: will do a much you know, they're a group that
Speaker 3: will struggle. Like I mentioned in that, their center I
Speaker 3: want to talk about is Coleman's Shelton, And what's unusual
Speaker 3: about him is he's really good at helping his teammates,
Speaker 3: his linemates. When he's uncovered. I'd cover him, I'd cover him,
Speaker 3: I'd make sure somebody's on him because He's not gonna
Speaker 3: win a lot of battles one on one, but he's
Speaker 3: much better at helping when he can kind of see like, oh, hey,
Speaker 3: my garden needs help here, or you know, or I
Speaker 3: got to kind of keep an eye on the rusher
Speaker 3: over here. He's good at doing that and having that
Speaker 3: kind of awareness. But when he has the one on
Speaker 3: one assignment, it's a little bit of a problem for him.
Speaker 3: It's unusual for him as he's one of these rare
Speaker 3: centers that snaps the ball left handed too, so it's
Speaker 3: a little bit different look when you look down the line.
Speaker 3: You're used to seeing those right handed centers. He's a
Speaker 3: left handed center, so it just kind of be a
Speaker 3: little bit different for your eye when you're looking inside
Speaker 3: and trying to get off on the ball there.
Speaker 2: So, is this a situation where you guys feel that
Speaker 2: the Cowboys d line can start getting more pressures and
Speaker 2: stacking up those sacks, getting back into actually getting a sack.
Speaker 4: I think this is a good This is a good
Speaker 4: matchup for the Cowboys defensive line. The talent that they
Speaker 4: have going across the board. When you look at how
Speaker 4: it matches up against the talent on the cow sorry,
Speaker 4: on the Rams offensive line, I mean advantage Cowboys in
Speaker 4: a big way. I think this is a game where
Speaker 4: they can get pressures, particularly in the interior.
Speaker 5: Like you said, this keep an eye on Osa.
Speaker 4: I think Osa recks this game, which then opens the
Speaker 4: door for guys like Mike and DeMarcus Lawrence. And I
Speaker 4: mean you might even see Jonathan Hankins get back there
Speaker 4: a few times. Sure, the question has been, like you said,
Speaker 4: will they start getting home more often than not? Well,
Speaker 4: you're going against one of the few matchups in which
Speaker 4: the quarterback is not more doesn't have a ton of
Speaker 4: escapability in Matthew Stafford. So if ever, there was a
Speaker 4: game that was kind of set for you to kind
Speaker 4: of tee off on the quarterback like this is it.
Speaker 4: You're not going to have to contend with Joshua Dobbs'
Speaker 4: legs or Daniel Jones's legs or any of that nature.
Speaker 4: It's Matthew Stafford. He's a pocket guy. He's not one
Speaker 4: that likes to leak out of the back back end
Speaker 4: of the protection. And you know, rattle off first down,
Speaker 4: he's going to be back there. The Cowboys are going
Speaker 4: to get back there. Matter is after that put your
Speaker 4: hands on.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take our final break. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we'll start talking about some of those offensive weapons that
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Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Brian, Welcome back to the third segment.
Speaker 2: So far, so good. I like this report, Brian, so
Speaker 2: don't don't change it up. Now that'll change don't. I'll
Speaker 2: start going the other way now that we're about to
Speaker 2: get into wife receivers and they got going on.
Speaker 3: I think this is really the strength of their offense
Speaker 3: when you look at uh, they've done it. They've gotten
Speaker 3: Cooper Cup back. We all kind of understand Cooper Cup
Speaker 3: and what he's done. He's been dealing with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 3: But now he's back, he's played in a couple of games.
Speaker 3: It's for them, it's really good to have him back
Speaker 3: in the mix. What makes him so difficult to deal
Speaker 3: with is he lines up all over the place. He'll
Speaker 3: split time between the slot and the outside. Why it's
Speaker 3: almost fifty to fifty where they line him up. I mean,
Speaker 3: they just don't say, Okay, we're gonna just put you
Speaker 3: in the slot, or we're gonna just go put you outside.
Speaker 3: I mean it's really legitimly split fifty to fifty where
Speaker 3: they're gonna try and put him. The majority of his
Speaker 3: targets have come from the slot, and the majority of
Speaker 3: his receptions, is funny, have come from the outside. So
Speaker 3: they throw the ball to him inside, but they have
Speaker 3: more receptions with him on the outside. So just you know,
Speaker 3: that's kind of a little something crazy to kind of
Speaker 3: keep in mind there though. His separation is interesting too.
Speaker 3: He gets less separation from the slot than he does
Speaker 3: on the outside, which is, you know, you usually think
Speaker 3: like in the slot, you have this, you know, you
Speaker 3: have the ability to use the whole field. You have
Speaker 3: what they call two way go where you can just
Speaker 3: kind of go anywhere you want on the outside. You
Speaker 3: kind of have a prescribed route that you run exactly.
Speaker 3: It's it's a weird thing, but he's really good at
Speaker 3: catching the football. He makes super tough catches. He's tough,
Speaker 3: he'll take a hit. He's one of those guys that
Speaker 3: likes to come across the middle. You give him the
Speaker 3: ball and then he's going to make big plays. It's
Speaker 3: very similar to what you kind of saw on the
Speaker 3: receivers from San Francisco that shallow cross. Hit him with
Speaker 3: the pass, let him go up the field, or you know,
Speaker 3: kind of run him a little bit deeper, intermediate across
Speaker 3: the field throwing the ball, let him run. He's one
Speaker 3: of those, you know, he's a very very talented receiver
Speaker 3: in that way. We talked about Puka Dakua and this
Speaker 3: has been this guy has been a steal for the
Speaker 3: Rams through the first seven games of the season. He
Speaker 3: really burst on the scene because he was filling in
Speaker 3: for Cooper Cup and you know, but they use him
Speaker 3: like Cooper Cup and so now it's it's more of
Speaker 3: a the with cut back. He's kind of gone to
Speaker 3: a more of an outside role. But man, when every
Speaker 3: time Stafford throws in the ball, it just doesn't matter
Speaker 3: where it is, he's gonna catch it. He's just that's
Speaker 3: that's the way he plays. And I just was super
Speaker 3: impressed with, you know, with him and his ability to
Speaker 3: come in and the nuances of the game and running
Speaker 3: routes and all that. You know, it's been really impressive.
Speaker 3: You've got to be aware of both these guys are
Speaker 3: very similar or how they play. They play inside, they
Speaker 3: play outside, They drag routes, they go up the field,
Speaker 3: they turn around, you throw them the ball, they run. Uh.
Speaker 3: It's really really it's been impressive. He I think that
Speaker 3: he has more quickness than what you have from Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup And you know that's something that you're going to
Speaker 3: have to deal with right there because he has the
Speaker 3: ability to create that separation. But the third guy I
Speaker 3: want to point out two is to two out Well
Speaker 3: And like his teammates, the majority they have some great names,
Speaker 3: great names. To two out Well is a majority of
Speaker 3: his work is done on the outside because you've got
Speaker 3: these other two guys that really work on the on
Speaker 3: the inside. Where he presents a problem is they bring
Speaker 3: him into the formation, they'll like he's the guy they're
Speaker 3: always going to put on the move so like the
Speaker 3: guys will be stationary and then they'll bring out well
Speaker 3: in motion. They'll make it a trip's formation, scatter, they'll
Speaker 3: move him across, they'll bring him by himself, but they're
Speaker 3: always He's the one guy that's constantly moving. So if
Speaker 3: in zone coverage, you got to be aware of him
Speaker 3: starting on one spot and then ending up where you're at,
Speaker 3: or if you're a man, you've got to be ready
Speaker 3: to travel across with him and deal with that or
Speaker 3: bump out whatever you have to do. But he's the
Speaker 3: guy that's on the move. He makes a lot of
Speaker 3: big plays in the middle of the field. You know,
Speaker 3: there's there's times where Stafford is wearing defensive linemen and
Speaker 3: he just fires the ball in the middle of the
Speaker 3: field out well, it goes down low, catches the ball
Speaker 3: right off the top of the turf. And so he's
Speaker 3: one of those guys that you know, like I say,
Speaker 3: you got to be aware of him moving around and
Speaker 3: with because of the motions to just kind of create issues.
Speaker 3: And then also with Kupp and Nakua, two very similar
Speaker 3: guys to to how they play, so they've got a
Speaker 3: pretty solid receiving corps with those with those three guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you see the Cowboys defending this? How
Speaker 2: do you see these matchup and how they're lying.
Speaker 5: I mean, the good news for the Cowboys is they
Speaker 5: have the horses.
Speaker 4: I mean, even without travel Diggs, you still have a very,
Speaker 4: very physical and sticky defensive back in both Deron Bland
Speaker 4: and Jordan Lewis. As long as you can try to
Speaker 4: limit the number of times that you see Gilmore getting
Speaker 4: kind of trailed or dragged across on slants, which is
Speaker 4: how the offices are starting to take advantage of Gilmore.
Speaker 4: If you can keep Gilmore playing straight up with his guy,
Speaker 4: then that's a matchup that you win. And Deron Bland
Speaker 4: and Jordan Lewis they have the physicality to disrupt at
Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. So, but I mean, no other
Speaker 4: way to put it other than how Brian put it.
Speaker 4: You're gonna have your hands full with Cooper Cup and
Speaker 4: Pooka Nakula and and to to at well. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of quickness, that's a lot of speed,
Speaker 4: and that's a lot of catch radius. But also keep
Speaker 4: an eye on a guy like Tyler Higbee. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's the that's going to be the pressure release valve
Speaker 4: for Matthew Stafford. So if you're covering well on those receivers,
Speaker 4: and you better make sure if you're jay Ron Curse,
Speaker 4: if you're those linebackers, if you're a those safeties, keep
Speaker 4: an eye on Tyler Higby. He doesn't have any touchdowns
Speaker 4: yet this season, but that doesn't mean that can't change
Speaker 4: at the blink of an eye. So, yeah, they got
Speaker 4: some weapons around Matthew Stafford, but as it goes, if
Speaker 4: you want to neutralize the weapons, you take out the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, with Hickby, what are some of his strength
Speaker 2: and his ability.
Speaker 3: He is a much better receiver than he is a blocker.
Speaker 3: And what they do, unfortunately for him, is they put
Speaker 3: him in a lot of car crashes, is what they do.
Speaker 3: They'll bring him in motion and they'll let him block
Speaker 3: at the point of attack, and he's just not equipped
Speaker 3: to do that. He'll try, but man, he gets worred down.
Speaker 3: You blocking on the back side in the running game,
Speaker 3: blocking front side in the running game. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of things they ask him to do that he's just
Speaker 3: not very It's not his strength at all. His strength
Speaker 3: is getting up the field and then playing in the
Speaker 3: slot he kind of plays. There's a lot of run
Speaker 3: routes that he runs where he's near the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage or on next to the tackle what we call
Speaker 3: in line right next to the tackle, But a lot
Speaker 3: of his work also is done detached in the slot
Speaker 3: where he could kind of work a little bit in space.
Speaker 3: So it just depends on when they get in there.
Speaker 3: When they get in their eleven personnel, he is always
Speaker 3: going to be the tied end and eleven personnel. So
Speaker 3: it's those three wide receivers and then and then Higbee.
Speaker 3: Some teams treat Higbee like he's like he's a wide receiver,
Speaker 3: like you put a guy. When you put a guy
Speaker 3: like a linebacker or safety that's not really comfortable in coverage.
Speaker 3: He has success. But if you kind of treat him
Speaker 3: with a with a with a corner or somebody that
Speaker 3: can run with him, it makes it a little bit
Speaker 3: more difficult for them. So I'm i'm I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: keeping an eye on how do you match the other
Speaker 3: those wide receivers that we talked about. The quarterback, Well,
Speaker 3: that's the advantage you have right there. Your pass rush.
Speaker 3: Your pass rush is an advantage over this offensive line
Speaker 3: and can you get to Stafford before the ball comes
Speaker 3: flying out of there. That's that's where that's where this recipe.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Well, let's go ahead, and since we're running out of time,
Speaker 2: jump into the running game and how well they run
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've struggled a little bit becau because Royce Freeman
Speaker 3: and Darryl Henderson are now the primary backs. Karen Karrien
Speaker 3: Williams is an ankle injury and he's been out. He's
Speaker 3: on IR But they did a really good job. Freeman
Speaker 3: and Henderson ran the ball for over one hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty yards last week against the Steelers. So it's gonna
Speaker 3: be it's gonna be shotgun hand off like from the sidecar,
Speaker 3: you know, handed inside, or it's gonna be the pistol
Speaker 3: straight behind and just turn and hand it when they
Speaker 3: go under center. It's usually like when they get they
Speaker 3: get like the Cowboys run the same thing. You just
Speaker 3: Dak takes a snap, turns and hands the ball to
Speaker 3: Poller and they just attack the middle of the line.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of different ways, but it's gonna be
Speaker 3: like that out that It's gonna be zone block. It's
Speaker 3: gonna be outside and just kind of let the back.
Speaker 3: Freeman is a really big guy stewarding thirty eight pounds,
Speaker 3: so he's kind of a guy that's not really quick.
Speaker 3: He's just downhill and tries to be physical with you.
Speaker 3: Henderson on their side, smaller, quicker.
Speaker 2: Does he usually get extra yards after.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the contact and stuff like that. I was surprised
Speaker 3: at how well they ran the ball against the Steelers.
Speaker 3: That was like, whoa, you know that. That was kind
Speaker 3: of like you don't always expect to, you know, teams
Speaker 3: and you think about the Steelers and run defense, it's usually,
Speaker 3: you know, pretty solid right there, but they got hit
Speaker 3: for about one hundred and buck twenty in this game.
Speaker 3: Freeman had sixty, Henderson had sixty. So that was that
Speaker 3: was pretty eye opening for me. The thing that I
Speaker 3: like about Henderson is that he is smaller, he's quicker,
Speaker 3: and he's more decisive where he's going to go with
Speaker 3: the football. So you know, you got to be ready.
Speaker 3: One guy is just going to try and run over you,
Speaker 3: and one guy is going to be a little bit
Speaker 3: more shifty in the way that he plays with Just.
Speaker 2: A close off today's show is this, Since we talked
Speaker 2: about linebacker at the beginning of the show. Is this
Speaker 2: a game where possibly now we do see the linebackers
Speaker 2: struggle more than what we saw the last game.
Speaker 4: I don't see why this would be a game where
Speaker 4: they'd be expected the struggle any more than a matchup
Speaker 4: like against Austin Eckler. For you, yeah, I think the
Speaker 4: corners are the corners, and I mean that you have
Speaker 4: because of the capability and the ability of the corners
Speaker 4: and the defensive backs, you don't necessarily need linebacker help there, Okay,
Speaker 4: so you get to allow your linebackers to more so
Speaker 4: focus on run support and a guy like Williams who
Speaker 4: can catch the ball out of the backfield as well
Speaker 4: as Eckler can do. So the confidence there is you've
Speaker 4: now seen them shut down guys like Bryce Hall, Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 4: Austin Eckler. That gives you confidence that the linebacker core
Speaker 4: can do that, hopefully against a guy like Williams as well.
Speaker 4: And outside of last week, a rushing attack from the
Speaker 4: Rams that is not their strength, that's not their bread
Speaker 4: and butter, and that's what they've been struggling at. So
Speaker 4: it's a Cowboys run defense that one or two games notwithstanding,
Speaker 4: has looked very good even in the absence of late
Speaker 4: Vanderush last week. Versus a rushing attack from the Rams.
Speaker 4: That a is not their primary goal. That's not the
Speaker 4: bread and butter, and when they go to it, it
Speaker 4: typically more often than not hasn't gone well. So I
Speaker 4: think the linebackers are in a good matchup.
Speaker 3: On I think the Charge had a better offensive line
Speaker 3: than with the Ram. So if you if you can
Speaker 3: take advantage, if you can stop Austin Eckler the way
Speaker 3: that they did and play play run defense to the
Speaker 3: level you played against the Chargers, you should not have
Speaker 3: a problem against these Rams.
Speaker 5: And then your pasts rush needs to just get home,
Speaker 5: all right?
Speaker 2: That is it for today.
Speaker 3: I have got better receivers.
Speaker 5: Get home.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, If you this rup the past and get
Speaker 2: to the quarterback, then you should be good and hopefully
Speaker 2: some interceptions come from that and get their hands on
Speaker 2: the ball again and maybe scoring points too.
Speaker 5: Who knows, that'd be fun.
Speaker 2: That'd be fun. Remember week one? Shall that was fun?
Speaker 5: Shall we?
Speaker 3: All right?
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