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Speaker 1: mister Rob Phillips and boys, It's it is. It does
Speaker 1: feels like Christmas. That's exactly what it is. I feel
Speaker 1: like we've said that a lot. To say it with
Speaker 1: your chest lately. Yesterday I was doing the wide receivers
Speaker 1: to pay and today it's just because we're excited about
Speaker 1: football and it's here. It had a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks throughout the offseason, but but Rob, it's finally here
Speaker 1: and we get to actually see the NFL season play out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we get to see we get to see the
Speaker 1: defending champs tonight Sunday night. We get to see what's
Speaker 1: developing into a pretty good rivalry in the NFC. And
Speaker 1: I think these teams are similar in some in some
Speaker 1: ways they've made changes in the offseason, the Rams and Cowboys,
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get into that over the next what
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. There's plenty to discuss, gentlemen. Heckma, it
Speaker 1: is football Day in America. Thank you, lord. Thank It
Speaker 1: gets at this point, man, and it's just it just
Speaker 1: feels good. I'm man, I got my popcorn ready, all
Speaker 1: of those things, and it just feels so good to
Speaker 1: just be talking about real, actual football player. So your way,
Speaker 1: you hold up. You're a popcorn guy. You're not like
Speaker 1: a chips and dip kind of guy. You actually go
Speaker 1: with the popcorn. Do you throw M and m's in
Speaker 1: there or there is there butter? Mmm mmm yeah, I
Speaker 1: do all of that, man, pretzels. This is whatell I
Speaker 1: have to do. Man, Isaiah, I feel like you're a guy.
Speaker 1: You just want to be You just want to be
Speaker 1: different from everybody. Right. You know what all I do
Speaker 1: is drink water because my body is my temple. Get
Speaker 1: ready for the days, No, man, I'm ready. I'm ready
Speaker 1: for some football. Man. I've been waiting to see some
Speaker 1: guys run around and hit each other for a long time.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty has been a heck of a year for
Speaker 1: absolutely everybody on this podcast, everybody that's listening right now.
Speaker 1: So I think that we are all ready to free
Speaker 1: our minds of some of the stress and all the
Speaker 1: you know, all the division that we've had in this country.
Speaker 1: We really want to just see Arthur and just be
Speaker 1: able to cheer for opposing teams and just watch some
Speaker 1: guys go out there and have some fun. Man. So
Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to the kickoff tonight and obviously
Speaker 1: looking forward to the NFC battle that we're about to
Speaker 1: talk about for the next forty three minutes. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're darn right. We're we are going to talk about
Speaker 1: that battle. But before we get into some of the
Speaker 1: matchups today, we are previewing the Cowboys offense versus the
Speaker 1: Rams defense, which I really do think could be the
Speaker 1: deciding factor in this game on Sunday. But uh, don't
Speaker 1: looking through this injury report and Rob, you were a
Speaker 1: part of practice yesterday, you get got to see actually
Speaker 1: a real life injury report that was sent out by
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. How about that about some real clarity, actually
Speaker 1: finally clarity, especially in Amari Cooper's case. Rob, where he
Speaker 1: was now or it's now revealed that he will be
Speaker 1: dealing with a little bit of a hamstring injury. Is
Speaker 1: it something you're worried about? And what was the rest
Speaker 1: of that injury report? Rest of the injury report was
Speaker 1: pretty clean. I think there were three other guys on it.
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford was limited, Cheeto Luz had a full practice,
Speaker 1: and I'm blanking on the other one, but it was not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, he was the only player on the fifty
Speaker 1: three active roster to miss practice yesterday with the ankle.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think Amari's probably good to go. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good sign that he had a full practice.
Speaker 1: What we saw in the opening session. He did some
Speaker 1: some chord work, some conditioning work with the athletic training staff,
Speaker 1: but I think they were the reduced workload at the
Speaker 1: end of camp makes sense if it's a hamstring, because
Speaker 1: Isaiah's talked about it. For those soft tissue injuries, man,
Speaker 1: if there's any hint of it, you gotta be real careful.
Speaker 1: So I think they're just trying to get them ready
Speaker 1: for Sunday night. I think it'll be fine. Isaiah wasn't
Speaker 1: like trying to work through a hamstring injury at that
Speaker 1: point in the season. I mean it's so early, of course,
Speaker 1: no preseason. You've mentioned it already. Soft tissue injuries are
Speaker 1: going to be prevalent, especially early in the season. But
Speaker 1: whenever you're going through a training camp and you're already
Speaker 1: limited in what you're doing anyways, how does that affect
Speaker 1: you as a player. It kills you. It kills you physically,
Speaker 1: you know, the soft tissue injuries, and we're seeing it
Speaker 1: all over the league, right you see they're talking about
Speaker 1: Mike Evans. Obviously that's a big one. There's a bunch
Speaker 1: of I think there's a few other guys that are
Speaker 1: dealing with some growings. And when you when you hear
Speaker 1: these injuries, man, these growings and hamstrings suckum. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're deep tissue. They're deep soft tissue. You hear
Speaker 1: the with the term soft tissue, but these are deep
Speaker 1: embedded mustard groups that involve a lot of power output. Right.
Speaker 1: You guys are are agile. You have to be able
Speaker 1: to be um to not only expelled a bunch of power,
Speaker 1: but you be able to have to be able to
Speaker 1: change directions. So that's the thing that you really can't
Speaker 1: duplicate when you're talking about the offseason program. Obviously, these
Speaker 1: guys have went through camp, but even by going through
Speaker 1: to camp is still not game speed. So you're going
Speaker 1: to see even more injuries this week. Hopefully it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen to the Cowboys, but you know, unfortunately you're going
Speaker 1: to see a league Why because you know, these are
Speaker 1: things that you can't that you can't predict, these things
Speaker 1: that you can't really prepare for. And as you kind
Speaker 1: of happened, because the competition comes, you're no longer thinking
Speaker 1: about toning it down. You're only thinking about turning it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's something that thinking about the the well,
Speaker 1: I just forgot. You know, Xavier Woods is not even
Speaker 1: on the injury report because rack my brain there with
Speaker 1: the reminding me with the growing injury. He's not even
Speaker 1: on it. So that's a good sign for Sunday. And
Speaker 1: I mean that's I mean, that's a pretty clean injury
Speaker 1: report so far. That's pretty good for for three weeks
Speaker 1: of camp, coming off of no work in the off season,
Speaker 1: and kind of going along with that secondary. The one
Speaker 1: player that we did mention that in the secondary and
Speaker 1: was on the injury report, actually the two of them,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis and Cheeto a woozier heck whenever I know,
Speaker 1: we talked about the defense and the matchup that they've
Speaker 1: got with this Los Angeles Rams receiving court with Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup Robert Woods. I went back and watched the game
Speaker 1: from last year a little bit, and in the All
Speaker 1: twenty two film, two guys that stuck out to me
Speaker 1: were Jordan Lewis and Cheeto because of the way that
Speaker 1: they were able to cover those guys in the slot outside.
Speaker 1: They did a lot of that in the game last year.
Speaker 1: Does it worry you that both of those guys are
Speaker 1: a little bit banged up moving into Sunday. Not at all.
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, with Diggs with him, you know,
Speaker 1: everything we heard about him in camp has been really positive.
Speaker 1: But also with the veteran leadership of Worley as well.
Speaker 1: So I just don't right now. I got so many
Speaker 1: of the question marks in my head when it comes
Speaker 1: down to what's gonna happen on Sunday, Not really that
Speaker 1: concerned about it. I think Cheetos had a solid camp,
Speaker 1: but all so, you know, Jordan Lewis is a guy
Speaker 1: I'm hoping game time ready because we're expecting big things
Speaker 1: out of him. But I wanted to go back to
Speaker 1: what you were asking about Amara Cooper, and my question
Speaker 1: has always been with Amari. Which Amari is going to
Speaker 1: show up to the party? Right? And so it's been
Speaker 1: the home of MARII and be away of Maari. Which
Speaker 1: one are we're gonna get? And just to hear that, look, man,
Speaker 1: he may have a blown tire is not a good
Speaker 1: way to start the season. That's not what you want.
Speaker 1: That's not diffinitely not what you want to hear in Kyle,
Speaker 1: Like like the post's point too, what happens if the
Speaker 1: report is true and Cooper does have a little bit
Speaker 1: of a tweeked hamstring. Number one, Whenever you're dealing with
Speaker 1: a hamstring a soft tissue injury, you have to tone
Speaker 1: it down right. So if you have one hundred percent
Speaker 1: to give, you're really only given about seventy, Right, You're
Speaker 1: really only given about seventy because you're now trying to
Speaker 1: play and prevent making that injury worse right, not only
Speaker 1: mentally but physically right, So you're not giving it everything
Speaker 1: that you have, which means that you're not being as
Speaker 1: productive as you could be. And now what happens you
Speaker 1: can't do it right? And know what happens if Marie
Speaker 1: actually goes out through anybody else that's that's dealing with
Speaker 1: a soft tissue throughout the game and they actually tweak it.
Speaker 1: Right now, what do you do? It's week one of
Speaker 1: sixteen and potentially hopefully twenty plus, right, Uh, it's week one.
Speaker 1: When do you sit him down immediately and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're sitting you down for a couple of weeks, or
Speaker 1: do you try to have him try to push through
Speaker 1: because it's your season opener. A lot of questions that
Speaker 1: you know they have to be posed. But hopefully, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about those. You got me
Speaker 1: worried now. I wasn't too worried about it till now.
Speaker 1: I saw I saw a full practice and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: he's good. But you're right. I mean, it's something that
Speaker 1: can if there is a tweak it sometimes it doesn't
Speaker 1: take much, you know, especially there's there's been situated. I
Speaker 1: think there's a game last year where he played three
Speaker 1: plays and he felt something. It might have been his
Speaker 1: squad or something, and he was they shut him down
Speaker 1: for the game. So yeah, and to your point where
Speaker 1: you try to push through. I can remember distinctively when
Speaker 1: I was playing for New England and I was I
Speaker 1: was a personal protector for the for the punter, and
Speaker 1: I remember going out and I went to go make
Speaker 1: one move when I went to go try to take off,
Speaker 1: and I literally tweaked my grown and if you could
Speaker 1: feel the pool, and I was like, oh crap. So
Speaker 1: I literally ran down there and I came to the
Speaker 1: sideline and guess what, I didn't say anything, right, I
Speaker 1: didn't say anything. Why because you don't want to come
Speaker 1: out the game right, right, you don't want to come
Speaker 1: out the game. So what do you end up doing?
Speaker 1: You end up staying in the game. He's like, all,
Speaker 1: I'm a man, up, you know what I'm saying. I'm
Speaker 1: in the league. I'm a man. I'm gonna deal with it.
Speaker 1: And guess what. I go out there again to the
Speaker 1: next play and I try to make a move and
Speaker 1: I feel that I'm nowhere near one hundred percent right,
Speaker 1: So what I end up doing. I end up giving
Speaker 1: everything that I have without trying to make it worse. Right,
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, now I'm a sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the player that I should be, right when
Speaker 1: they said of me going out and telling somebody else, Hey,
Speaker 1: come in and take my spot. So there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of those mind games as well that you might
Speaker 1: deal with this first week. Because guy's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: I can't get hurt this first game, No way in
Speaker 1: the world. I'm gonna go sit down. Yeah, but you're
Speaker 1: not doing what you need to do, and you're making
Speaker 1: yourself worse. Hey, I said, no dangerous, more dangerous place
Speaker 1: to be is on a football field and giving around.
Speaker 1: Yeah that against grown man. Now you don't want that.
Speaker 1: And the one game that really stuck out to me.
Speaker 1: Last year with Amari Cooper might have been that Jets
Speaker 1: game where he did go a couple plays into it
Speaker 1: and then ultimately it was shelved for the majority of
Speaker 1: the game. But Rob, you were saying that here a
Speaker 1: little bit, you're a little bit worried by what Isaiah
Speaker 1: was saying whenever it comes to the really what it
Speaker 1: takes to go through a hamstring injury. I've got a
Speaker 1: stat that might worry you what it takes hamstring injury wise.
Speaker 1: And also against the Rams. In just two career games
Speaker 1: against the Los Angeles Rams, Amari Cooper has a total
Speaker 1: of two receptions for twenty eight yards, and one of
Speaker 1: those receptions was a nineteen yarder in last year's Week
Speaker 1: fifteen games. So basically he's had two receptions and one
Speaker 1: really good one throughout his entire career against this franchise. Now,
Speaker 1: I know it's a little bit different. He was in
Speaker 1: the AFC for a little bit and he didn't play
Speaker 1: the Rams a whole lot. But now that he's been
Speaker 1: in the NFC and he's been with the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: what will now be his third season, hasn't had a
Speaker 1: ton of success at least in the regular season against
Speaker 1: the Rams. He had a pretty good gig game again
Speaker 1: in that Divisional round a couple of years ago. But
Speaker 1: is this something that would worry you rob about Maybe
Speaker 1: the fact that this is a stout secondary. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the guys on this secondary, Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: You've gotten a lot of a lot of those players
Speaker 1: back there, even a draft pick in Terrell Burgess, who
Speaker 1: I think is gonna play some significant amount of time.
Speaker 1: Does it worry you the fact that Amari Cooper is
Speaker 1: dealing with this and going up against one of the
Speaker 1: better secondaries he'll see all year. Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: a hell of a matchup. There's no doubt about it. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he didn't have big production the last
Speaker 1: time they played the Rams, But I don't know if
Speaker 1: necessarily he played poorly in that game. The Cowboys just
Speaker 1: dominated up front. You know, they didn't really have to
Speaker 1: get a ton going in the past game. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is probably the toughest matchup he may
Speaker 1: draw the entire season. And Jalen Ramsey and I believe Ramsey,
Speaker 1: I think he followed him a decent amount in that
Speaker 1: last game that they played, and I wonder I wonder
Speaker 1: how the Rams will will treat that this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: they do have Troy Hill on the other side, but
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys have potentially upgraded their receiving cord
Speaker 1: if ceedee Lamb is what Camp suggested he could be
Speaker 1: early on. So do they play sides or do they
Speaker 1: try to focus on a Mari? Like you said, I mean,
Speaker 1: Ramsey's a tough matchup. You guys know that because he's
Speaker 1: a big, physical cornerback and that that matches up well
Speaker 1: with what what what a Mari brings to the table? Hey, Rob,
Speaker 1: to your point again, I know we're spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time on Cooper, and in my thought process, I
Speaker 1: feel like Cooper is going to be eliminated for the
Speaker 1: most part out of this game. Because it's one hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars vers one hundred million dollars. That's what the
Speaker 1: headline should be. It should be a hundred vers one
Speaker 1: hundred because you literally got one hundred million dollars Cooper
Speaker 1: vers one hundred million dollars Ramsey and Ramsey's one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: It's his smells a little bit fresher, right, I said,
Speaker 1: Attle got a little got a little distinct smell to it, right, so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and when you when you hear a report like,
Speaker 1: oh man, somebody has a hamstring. If you're a hyena, right,
Speaker 1: and in the Safari and you see a water beast
Speaker 1: out there, a little wounded, what are you gonna do? Right?
Speaker 1: The whole you coming, You're coming after it, right, And
Speaker 1: we already know Ramsey's already he's already mouth. He's very
Speaker 1: confident player on him, walking on the borderline of cocky,
Speaker 1: which is perfectly fine. At that position, you expect it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna come up and put hands on Coop. So
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing how Coop responds to another
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars man lining up against him, and
Speaker 1: he knows that this thing just happened this week. Ramsey's hype.
Speaker 1: He wants to prove that he's worth all this money.
Speaker 1: If I say that we washed that side out, pretty
Speaker 1: much washed Coop out. Now we're talking about CD and
Speaker 1: Gallup and how these guys match up against the rest
Speaker 1: of their secondary You know what, Isaiah, I don't agree
Speaker 1: with that. And the reason why why because you played
Speaker 1: with a guy by the name of Terrell El Dorado Owens,
Speaker 1: who even if he was going against a guy the
Speaker 1: Rievas Island. Right, Hold on, hold, don't have to you
Speaker 1: have to throw the ball. You had to throw the
Speaker 1: ball to t O. There was no way that you
Speaker 1: washed him. And so what I'm talking about is the
Speaker 1: upper echelon of wide receivers in the league. And if
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is paid like one and he's going across
Speaker 1: from Ramsey, we gotta see what's under that hood. Also,
Speaker 1: we can't go away from my game plan because of
Speaker 1: Jaylor Ramsey. Now I understand Haylan Ramsey is a dog,
Speaker 1: He's one of the best colbacks in the league. But
Speaker 1: still we have one of the best wide receivers. Quote unquote,
Speaker 1: when you make a hundred million dollars, you gotta prove
Speaker 1: you gotta show it. There are no hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: decoys in the league. Man, No way. Heck, did you
Speaker 1: really just compare Cooper to TiO? I was thinking that
Speaker 1: same thing. The comparison No, no, wait a minute, wait
Speaker 1: a minute. The comparison is the money that you're being paid. Okay,
Speaker 1: that you are looked at as a player, not calling
Speaker 1: him to Larado Owens. There's a big difference between the
Speaker 1: two players. All I'm saying is, if we're paying guys
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars to be a decoy, can I
Speaker 1: raise my hand for that. I can tell you this.
Speaker 1: I have ran routes against mister Darrell Reeves himself right,
Speaker 1: and we have had our battles, and I guarantee Darrell
Speaker 1: Revers shut down the entire side of the field. Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey not only can shut down the entire side of
Speaker 1: the field, but he is going to be following Cooper
Speaker 1: wherever he goes. He's gonna be on him like White
Speaker 1: on Rice in the playing in the snowstorm. He is
Speaker 1: not gonna let him go away. So he's got to
Speaker 1: deal with him in his hip pocket all day. I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. That still doesn't that still
Speaker 1: doesn't say that true. I know that Almark Cooper is
Speaker 1: a weapon that we have to use. Now here's the
Speaker 1: other thing. We're spending this time on Ramsey. But let's
Speaker 1: go side on the other side of the field for
Speaker 1: Troy Hill. In my opinion, it's Roy Hills. His birthday
Speaker 1: is Sunday. It's your birthday. Yeah, and we blow and
Speaker 1: we're blowing out Candles is some fi stadium because you're
Speaker 1: the other guy. So I mean, I understand the strategy
Speaker 1: and the scheme to say, oh, we're going over to
Speaker 1: the other side. That's cool, but we're going over to
Speaker 1: the other side with whom Mike get. We're going absolute
Speaker 1: as that's that's where it's at. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna change our office because Ramsey just got
Speaker 1: paid one hundred million dollars and oh cool, just go
Speaker 1: out there and play chess with him. No, man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna show him. Heck, that's what we Heck,
Speaker 1: I know, we gotta end this. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is just to back it up. We're
Speaker 1: comparing somebody that you don't know which version is gonna
Speaker 1: show up, right, versus somebody who shows up every time.
Speaker 1: So that's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. They
Speaker 1: both get paid a hundred million bit, but one person
Speaker 1: you refer to as not knowing which version you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: So that's that's all I'm saying. And you got to
Speaker 1: talk about the money also coming from Jalen Ramsey. It's
Speaker 1: right off the brinks truck truck this week because he
Speaker 1: signed the deal yesterday just before we get done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brinks truck. And also the fact that you've got the
Speaker 1: richest cornerback contract in NFL history and that's what he
Speaker 1: was signing with the year one oh five. Well, we
Speaker 1: keep talking about these these other wide receivers that are
Speaker 1: gonna show up, and you talk about Michael Gallup ceedee lamb.
Speaker 1: I want to throw Cedric Wilson into the mix as well.
Speaker 1: I think he had a fantastic camp. I think he
Speaker 1: could make a difference. Is this secondary deep enough? I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about Jalen Ramsey, Troy Hill, but I want
Speaker 1: to know about maybe the safeties, John Johnson, Taylor Rap,
Speaker 1: Taylor Raps, a fantastic safety, led the team in tackles
Speaker 1: last year. Is there is there any worry that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and wide receivers have the have that connection and
Speaker 1: have that kind of taken away from you or at
Speaker 1: least neutralized in this game. Um No, the Rams do
Speaker 1: not have the secondary to match up man to man
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys receiving corps. Not even we talked about
Speaker 1: this yesterday, that Cowboys have a have a have a
Speaker 1: solid receiving corps and when you factor it in with
Speaker 1: the abilities that they have to run the ball as
Speaker 1: well this offense as a whole, they won't. They don't
Speaker 1: have enough depth to handle that. And I'm curious though
Speaker 1: to see even though they don't have it man to
Speaker 1: man to be able to handle these guys at one
Speaker 1: on one, I'm curious as to what their new defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is going to bring to the table. So that's
Speaker 1: that's what I'm interested in seeing. The matchups are one thing,
Speaker 1: but the defensive coordinator could be the game changer in
Speaker 1: terms of how these guys are played. And when I'm
Speaker 1: hearing out of the out of the rams as this
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator stately is very as a lot more
Speaker 1: aggressive than coach Phillips used to be. So, um, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be very intriguing. Do you blitz Dallas? I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a good idea because now you're going one
Speaker 1: on one with these guys and you don't have the depth.
Speaker 1: So what is he going to do in order to
Speaker 1: come back this this this this dual threat offense that
Speaker 1: we have. If you've got aeron Donald, I hope you
Speaker 1: don't have the blitz if you've got number ninety nine there.
Speaker 1: But I mean you're right on Staley because not only
Speaker 1: could they be more aggressive, it sounds a lot like
Speaker 1: this Dallas defense in terms of we're gonna play a
Speaker 1: lot of different guys. We're gonna give you a lot
Speaker 1: of different looks where we want guys to be versatile
Speaker 1: position wise, and you might see guys in different spots
Speaker 1: pre snap. So, uh, it's interesting. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: chess game because I don't I don't think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: really know exactly what the Rams want to do defensively,
Speaker 1: and then the same for the Dallas side with you know,
Speaker 1: I to me, it comes down to how well the
Speaker 1: Cowboys managed Aaron Donald up front. I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to that a little bit. Yeah, that's a huge
Speaker 1: point of this game. As a can Aaron Donald provide
Speaker 1: enough pressure to give that secondary even more time in
Speaker 1: coverage or at least less time in coverage to have
Speaker 1: to keep up with these wide receivers, I think that
Speaker 1: will pay dividends. And we'll talk about that front seven
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Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. Kyle Yeoman's Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and the great Heckma Harrison here for you again here
Speaker 1: on this Thursday, every weekday at nine thirty. It's great,
Speaker 1: just kind of getting into a groove with you guys
Speaker 1: assuming football season every single day. Along the way, we
Speaker 1: get to make fun of Heckma for comparing Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: and tarall Owens, get to make fun of Isaiah it
Speaker 1: was fun during the break, and then we get to
Speaker 1: make fun of Isaiah for three receivers better than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys wide receivers. We haven't made fun of Rob yet
Speaker 1: because Rob doesn't make any bad points really honestly, So
Speaker 1: we'll find one along the way that way we can
Speaker 1: get Rob in the mix as well. We'll get there.
Speaker 1: We'll get there. At some point. I wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of bring up the front seven. We just spent that
Speaker 1: last segment talking about the wide receiver and how they
Speaker 1: matched up with the secondary of the Rams, which I
Speaker 1: think is going to be a game changer of just
Speaker 1: how much this passing game is going to have success.
Speaker 1: Dak only had two hundred and twelve yards in that
Speaker 1: Week fifteen win last year, and the reason why because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys just dominated up front. Rob mentioned it earlier,
Speaker 1: talked about how Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard each had
Speaker 1: one hundred plus yards. They were dominant on the ground
Speaker 1: all game long, and I really think we could see
Speaker 1: that again now. I know the question marks are still
Speaker 1: on the offensive line for the Dallas Cowboys. You got
Speaker 1: Lyl Collins on ir Tyren Smith has dealed with has
Speaker 1: been dealing with a couple of ailments, same thing with
Speaker 1: Connor Williams. And you're replacing Travis Frederick. No more Travis Frederick.
Speaker 1: Instead you have Joe Looney. But Rob, this is a
Speaker 1: matchup that seems favorable for the Cowboys heading into Sunday,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. I would have said. I would have said
Speaker 1: that until I saw that ESPN story that said that
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald was just an average, just an average run defender. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a fact. Why the guy, the guy who wrote that story,
Speaker 1: is he an Eagles fan or something else? Is he
Speaker 1: just trying to Is he just trying to hype up
Speaker 1: number ninety nine on the other team, because I don't
Speaker 1: I don't see that. I know you guys don't see that.
Speaker 1: Zack Martin doesn't see that. He talked about Donald yesterday
Speaker 1: on a call. And he is as complete a defensive
Speaker 1: player as I don't know, as I've ever ever seen,
Speaker 1: and I think, uh he anchors them both in the
Speaker 1: in the past rush against the run as well. I
Speaker 1: think the difference Kyle last year was the Rams. They
Speaker 1: just didn't tackle well. They were They were sloppy in
Speaker 1: that game and and missed some opportunities. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's gotten away from the team that went to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl two years ago. That usually is a
Speaker 1: very fundamental team with Wade Phillips, and they've just got
Speaker 1: to get back to that. But they do have some
Speaker 1: changes in their front seven. Yeah, nineteenth, nineteenth ranked rushing
Speaker 1: defense last year and I think that's probably what costs
Speaker 1: Weighed his job as well. But let's get down to it.
Speaker 1: The fact that they lost Dante Fowler and also Corey Littleton,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be quite significant for this team. Those are
Speaker 1: guys where Littleton was a dog last year. A lot
Speaker 1: of tackles for him, and also Dante Fowler off the edge.
Speaker 1: But Brockers has from LSU mountain of a man, has
Speaker 1: been great with number ninety nine and I didn't when
Speaker 1: I read that article about ninety nine being bad against
Speaker 1: the run, I was like, they're just trying to hype
Speaker 1: this guy up, to send him out there and make
Speaker 1: him crazy, because we know he is a double team
Speaker 1: defeater all the time. And if you've watched any of
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks, this guy, Aaron Donald was made by God.
Speaker 1: I know we all are, but he was just made
Speaker 1: a little bit different. And I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what we do against them. But basing it off of
Speaker 1: last year, I am looking for Ezekiel Elliott to have
Speaker 1: a huge day versus the Rams because I don't think
Speaker 1: they have an answer for what we're gonna do in
Speaker 1: the running game at all. Now, kind going off, you
Speaker 1: might want to be I was gonna hear gonna, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pitch this to you, Isaiah, I got you here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So whenever you have the linebackers, and of course, really
Speaker 1: that's been the weak spot of this this Rams defense
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons has been the linebacking corps.
Speaker 1: They didn't really address it a whole lot in the offseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, you still have Kenny Young, Michael Kaiser, Leonard Floyd.
Speaker 1: Those are your main guys in the linebacking corps for
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Now if if if that's a weak spot,
Speaker 1: is it the running backs or the tight ends Isaiah
Speaker 1: that have the or that are really the most dangerous
Speaker 1: at this point, that's a good question. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: our running game is going to be solid, So I
Speaker 1: guess let me clear that up. First of all, we're
Speaker 1: still gonna be able to run the rock. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm very curious after and it sucks that we didn't
Speaker 1: have a preseason obviously to get an idea of what
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna do. UM on defense with Stateley
Speaker 1: as a new coordinator, But if they're as as a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, if you do have questions with your front
Speaker 1: set as the Rams do at this point, right versus
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, it's not even a matchup. Uh. You what,
Speaker 1: you have to get creative in your schemes, right, So
Speaker 1: you have to be able to slant your ded You
Speaker 1: have to be able to run stunts with your defensive line,
Speaker 1: meaning that you're you know, you're you're crossing guys or
Speaker 1: you're running guys. You're not you're not lining up directly
Speaker 1: against somebody and going forward. You're running across their body
Speaker 1: trying to create uneven matchups. You're running linebackers in the
Speaker 1: opposite direction. You're you're trying to do misdirection, all this
Speaker 1: illusional type stuff right to create um leverage in a sense. Um,
Speaker 1: that's what I foresee them having to do. Because for
Speaker 1: them to think that there is gonna be able to
Speaker 1: line up, um snap the ball on them, comes straight
Speaker 1: ahead and be able to stop us, even with our
Speaker 1: offensive line not being at one hundred percent, is still
Speaker 1: not a good matchup for them. Um. Aeron Donald is
Speaker 1: an absolute specimen. We all know that. But he's one guy, right,
Speaker 1: He's one guy, um, and you know he from my understanding,
Speaker 1: he's lost a little bit of weight as well. He's
Speaker 1: slimmed up a little bit, which makes him more explosive,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily help him in the run game.
Speaker 1: Right when we talk about we got three hundred plus
Speaker 1: pound men that are gonna be moving him, So you
Speaker 1: got one two hundred eighty two hundred ninety pound man
Speaker 1: versus two three hundred guys pound guys. He's going to
Speaker 1: do so much. So I think that you will be
Speaker 1: able to neutralize him in the run game. UM. I
Speaker 1: know they definitely poked the bear and try to try
Speaker 1: to piss him off and get him routed over this game,
Speaker 1: but I think we can neutralize him internally on that
Speaker 1: Um where we're gonna have to worry about him is
Speaker 1: on the on the passing game. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that we that we let Jarwin even has to even
Speaker 1: worry about facing facing him at any point in time.
Speaker 1: Bill won't have to worry about him too much. But
Speaker 1: our interior alignement are definitely going to have their hands
Speaker 1: full on trying to block him one on one unless
Speaker 1: they're unless they start stunning. Heck, when do you think
Speaker 1: that it could be a repeat of last year? Whenever
Speaker 1: both Zeke and Pollard had one hundred plus yards or
Speaker 1: is that a little bit too much to ask, even
Speaker 1: with the firepower that the Cowboys have on that side
Speaker 1: of the football. You know, Kyle, I think that's what
Speaker 1: you have to do. And reason why I say that
Speaker 1: is because of not having an off season, not having
Speaker 1: a preseason, without having these games. Man, the one thing
Speaker 1: you want to get your offensive line and rhythm of
Speaker 1: is hitting people, not catching right. They want to come
Speaker 1: out there and hit people in the mouth and get
Speaker 1: in the rhythm and get zeke and tp off, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's that's gonna be the thing, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the first time that these guys have even hit
Speaker 1: someone with a different color, and the adrenaline is gonna
Speaker 1: be pumping. Somebody's gonna hyper ventilate. I know I might.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you've gotta get you gotta
Speaker 1: get the running game going. And the best way to
Speaker 1: do that and get this get this team in the
Speaker 1: rhythm is to start with the running game. Look, no
Speaker 1: one knows what the Cowboys are gonna bring to the table.
Speaker 1: They think, you know, it's gonna be the deal with
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and the continuity there. But I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy and what he's done historically over his
Speaker 1: career with his tight ends. And so I see Jarwin
Speaker 1: having a really big game against this Rams team that's
Speaker 1: gonna be gearing up to try to stop the run
Speaker 1: and stop some of our other weapons. Rob is that
Speaker 1: is that the game plan is to get both Zeke
Speaker 1: and Pollard involved immediately or I know nobody really knows
Speaker 1: what the game plan is right now, but what has
Speaker 1: perceived to be a key to this game is getting
Speaker 1: those two guys involved early. That was what happened in
Speaker 1: Week fifteen last year. But I know that's also not
Speaker 1: exactly what Cowboys fans would want to hear. With the
Speaker 1: new wide receiving Corps. Yeah, you know, it's it's been interesting.
Speaker 1: One of the narratives coming out of training camp is
Speaker 1: how much Zeke's going to be potentially used as a
Speaker 1: as a receiver, And to me, I think it's it's
Speaker 1: it's sliding a little too far in that direction. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's still this offense is still going to
Speaker 1: be successful when he is setting the tone and setting
Speaker 1: a physical tone up front and starting to wear guys down,
Speaker 1: and then I think you Pollard's going to get his chances.
Speaker 1: But then the second half to me is when hopefully
Speaker 1: you've got a lead, and that's when you can really
Speaker 1: start to wear down with both those guys, that's where
Speaker 1: they got most of their That's when they were both
Speaker 1: eated at the end of the end of the game
Speaker 1: in December last year. So I think that's what you're
Speaker 1: trying to do. McCarthy. To me, that's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a false narrative that he won't use a running
Speaker 1: back and won't pound down in the ground game, because
Speaker 1: he's done it. He's done it as an offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Yep. He's done it in Green Bay
Speaker 1: when he's had a good tanem of backs. So I
Speaker 1: still think that's got to be the formula, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna make things easier for the receivers, like we talked
Speaker 1: about in the first segment. Hopefully it does. I hope
Speaker 1: it does make it easier for the receivers because that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a tough matchup whenever the secondary comes around,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll need both Zeke and Polar to
Speaker 1: make an impact early on in order to really get
Speaker 1: out in front in that game. But when we come
Speaker 1: back we'll finish up our preview of the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and we'll actually hear Isaiah's prediction on the game.
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Speaker 1: as NFL football is officially back to night. HECKM. Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and the great Isaiah stand back joining us
Speaker 1: today as always, and guys who before we get into
Speaker 1: talking special teams, I want to kind of hear what's
Speaker 1: your prediction on tonight's game is going to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've got two really good teams. I mean you talk
Speaker 1: about the Kansas City Chiefs, of course, Super Bowl defending
Speaker 1: champions with Patrick Mahomes and company returning pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: from that team a year ago that was that was
Speaker 1: good enough to win a championship, and they're gonna look
Speaker 1: to try and make it back to back. But they
Speaker 1: start things off against the Shaun Watson and a DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins list Texans team. Rob will start with you who
Speaker 1: you got tonight's game and why it's simple for me.
Speaker 1: Isaiah played with Tom Brady and Pat Mahomes is in
Speaker 1: tom Brady mode for me now, I always if Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's playing in the game, I got Tom Brady. If
Speaker 1: they lose, they lose. But I'm going with Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Pat Mahomes tonight. Heckma, man, I'm going
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys South. And that's a dig at
Speaker 1: my cousins in Houston, but I'm going I'm going with
Speaker 1: the Texas. They beat him in the regular season, and
Speaker 1: they had him in the playoffs, and I just feel like,
Speaker 1: with the Super Bowl hangover, the prime be ready for
Speaker 1: beating at home. Isaiah. Heckma, geez, it's me, It's it's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm here for you. Okay, I'm here for you.
Speaker 1: I love Htown. I played for Billy Oh. I think
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be ready to roll. I think
Speaker 1: they are. Their receivers are being undervalued and underrated right now.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a shootout. But I think
Speaker 1: Kansas City is still hungry. I don't I don't feel
Speaker 1: I don't feel as if Kansas City is like other
Speaker 1: teams that have won a Super Bowl where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I hit this high and now I could chill out.
Speaker 1: I think these guys are still hungry. I think they
Speaker 1: want more. I think that there's they're still improving, they're
Speaker 1: getting better. They got all their guys back and even
Speaker 1: added more. So I gotta go with Casey with the
Speaker 1: good old Chiefs, baby, and they've got young sprowls. Heck,
Speaker 1: they got young sprowls. Football. Football is a year by
Speaker 1: year business man. You can't live off of what you
Speaker 1: did last year. And it's Lois today, and I just
Speaker 1: feel and I feel like the hype train is already
Speaker 1: on the tracks and everybody's gonna get on board. Look, man,
Speaker 1: we got a long time together, guys, we're just getting started.
Speaker 1: It was since we already have one hundred million verse
Speaker 1: hundred million. We got the forty million a year versus
Speaker 1: forty million a year tonight, right, isn't it? Isn't that
Speaker 1: the match up actually and forty million a year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think he was a great point on the
Speaker 1: fact that the Texans beat him in the regular season
Speaker 1: and had them on the ropes in the postseason and
Speaker 1: just basically straight up blew it is ultimate only what
Speaker 1: ended up happening. They blew that one. So because they're
Speaker 1: playing they're playing the Golden State Warriors of the NFL area,
Speaker 1: the leader safe. There are no Golden State Warriors that Rob.
Speaker 1: Rob compared the Chiefs to Tom Brady and the Golden
Speaker 1: State Warriors, and in one segment, how do you beat that? What?
Speaker 1: What argument? What argument can you put together with? Rob
Speaker 1: says that the hype train is real, The hype train
Speaker 1: is real. I guess, I guess. I gotta go. I
Speaker 1: gotta sixteen. Yeah, there you go, there you go. I've
Speaker 1: got Kansas City winning tonight. But I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a good game. I really do. I'm gonna I'm stopping down.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the whole all, all of y'all with Kansas City. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they yes, yes, yes, and we're not changing it either. Um.
Speaker 1: Before before we're done with with today's episode, I want
Speaker 1: to kind of go into special Teams. We haven't talked
Speaker 1: to any special teams yet, but it is significant in
Speaker 1: this game because one, we don't really know what's going
Speaker 1: on with special teams in terms of the personnel. We
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what John Fossil's gonna do. And also
Speaker 1: John Fossil's returning to where he was the head or
Speaker 1: not head coach but a special team's coordinator in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and making his return to the Rams if you
Speaker 1: remember back to that Week fifteen matchup last year, he
Speaker 1: actually ran a fake punt against the Cowboys. It did
Speaker 1: not work out for the Rams. Let's just say it
Speaker 1: that way. But heck, Mazara a potential that we might
Speaker 1: see something crazy from John Fossil this week. This Fossil,
Speaker 1: So you have no idea what he's gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: just hoping that there's a market improvement from what we
Speaker 1: had last year. Greg the leg is our kicker now
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited to see him what he does,
Speaker 1: you know, from from a special team's perspective, Man, I
Speaker 1: just want to see number eighty eight return and punts
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. That's what I'm hoping to see opening,
Speaker 1: you know, Sunday night, and I think that's gonna set
Speaker 1: the tempo for the rest of the season once Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb gets out there and return him one. Don't do it?
Speaker 1: Reconsider recent little Why you say that, you say that
Speaker 1: I can Why Why risk it? Man? Why risk it?
Speaker 1: I know you're not supposed to play scared, you know,
Speaker 1: but you mean you gassed this guy up so much,
Speaker 1: and you know he's supposed to be your pride and joy, um,
Speaker 1: your new addition, he already has enough stuff to worry
Speaker 1: about on the offensive side of the ball. Don't throw
Speaker 1: him out there and on punt return for somebody to
Speaker 1: be up there to go out there and take a cheap,
Speaker 1: cheap hit on him. You know. Um, that's the thing
Speaker 1: that could happen if he was a kick return. I'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can put him a kick return, But part return,
Speaker 1: that's a whole beast of his own. Man, you got
Speaker 1: you got one dude that can go down there and
Speaker 1: just go crazy, not pay attention to you know, to
Speaker 1: him waving the hand, and somebody can just take him
Speaker 1: out right. It's just not worth the risk. Um. I
Speaker 1: hate to say that, you know, use one of your
Speaker 1: other guys, But use one of your other guys. I
Speaker 1: think you can get the same type of prediction. I
Speaker 1: can't play scared, I said, you know, I hear you.
Speaker 1: I hear you. What about what if I if he's
Speaker 1: if they're if the rams are backed up and there's
Speaker 1: a chance for a return. Otherwise, if it's more of
Speaker 1: a safer term, maybe go with somebody else. Maybe go
Speaker 1: with I don't know, Cedric Wilson. I think you got
Speaker 1: other guys that that can be just as productive. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't, I haven't. I need to see CD Lamb
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I'll put it that way. I need
Speaker 1: to see him in the NFL. College is one thing.
Speaker 1: You got grown man out here that that are on
Speaker 1: rosters just for special teams. Now, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's just different. It's it's completely different. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing how he reacts in the league, how
Speaker 1: his speed is in the league, how he adjusts to
Speaker 1: the to the influx of speed and power and size
Speaker 1: of this new game. It's a new game, and you're
Speaker 1: in it. It's real because I made the switch from
Speaker 1: college to the NFL and it's not even in the
Speaker 1: same ballpark. You got some guys that say, oh, it's
Speaker 1: not that bad. The heck it ain't. Especially when you're
Speaker 1: on a part return. You got dudes that are going
Speaker 1: down or straight showing as fast as you, running as
Speaker 1: fast as they can, and their sole purpose is to
Speaker 1: put their helmet through your chest cavity. So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: risk getting in these first couple of games. Let's get
Speaker 1: let him get his feet wet a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then we can talk about it. Maybe you know in
Speaker 1: the second quarter of the season. Well, when you think
Speaker 1: about the guys, I want to see it, but I'm
Speaker 1: just being selfish. I want to see it as well.
Speaker 1: From a fan standpoint, I would love to see it.
Speaker 1: But you think about the guys that in college Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb was making look like they were running in slow motion.
Speaker 1: Those are guys that are fighting to stay on the roster,
Speaker 1: fighting to keep their scholarships, whereas in the NFL it's upped.
Speaker 1: I mean it's completely raised. You're you're fighting for a paycheck,
Speaker 1: you're fighting for a roster spot. This is this is
Speaker 1: your livelihood that you're actually on special teams to do.
Speaker 1: Like you said, that's your sole job description, go hit somebody.
Speaker 1: And I played the game of Matthew Slater. Matthew Slater
Speaker 1: in New England and New England. He's like five team
Speaker 1: pro bowler and I love playing with them special teams
Speaker 1: that we would get together and go crazy just to
Speaker 1: see him running the fastest. He is on the New
Speaker 1: England roster and keeps getting paid millions of dollars every
Speaker 1: year to simply run down there and make guys fair catch.
Speaker 1: And if they don't fair catch, guess what he gets
Speaker 1: paid to run down there and take their head off.
Speaker 1: So that is all that there's there's there's two or
Speaker 1: three guys on every roster day, that's all they're paid
Speaker 1: to do. And you don't want to expose CD to that,
Speaker 1: especially when there hasn't been a preseason for guys to
Speaker 1: get their feet underneath them. The risk injuries just too
Speaker 1: high this week. Hey, John Fossil was asked a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago what what makes a good special teams
Speaker 1: player and he said, I don't know, crazy, that's that's
Speaker 1: the first thing, like exactly though. You gotta be willing
Speaker 1: to do whatever it takes at high speeds, Like Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: you gotta have a little bit of that that little
Speaker 1: tick in you to go down and get the job done.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I agree. I think Ceedee Lamb would
Speaker 1: be kind of scary to watch. It would be fun
Speaker 1: to watch, but I would be so nervous the whole time.
Speaker 1: It's like watching a quarterback, like a mobile quarterback run.
Speaker 1: You want to see it happen, but you don't want
Speaker 1: them to get hurt at the same time, So I
Speaker 1: get both sides of it. Money don't make money. Let's
Speaker 1: go hey, there you go, there you go. Um, I
Speaker 1: mean that's the that's the theme of the week. I
Speaker 1: guess is Earl Thomas is still out there anyways, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: what do you got for the game on Sunday night? Man?
Speaker 1: What Dallas Cowboys with the victory into New Sofi Stadium?
Speaker 1: All right? Thirty one twenty four. We go down there
Speaker 1: and we tee off on these boys. So Cowboys, all right,
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty four. That's one way to get it done.
Speaker 1: We'll get it. Put it in. Yeah, I just did. So.
Speaker 1: We're keeping track of it all year long. By the way, boys,
Speaker 1: we'll do some more predictions tomorrow our final show of
Speaker 1: the week, nine thirty tomorrow morning, we'll predict the game
Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday, we'll review what we talked about
Speaker 1: all week long, and then we'll get you ready heading
Speaker 1: into the weekend. But it's been a ton of fun.
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