WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Defense Regressing? 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:18.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.759 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.079 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.480 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:37.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.200 Who wins the October Night, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.440 number sixty. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.920 are live from the s WBC Brtgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.000 We've got a lot of things to get into today. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.520 We're gonna talk about the storyline set up this game 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.040 for you Cowboys versus Jets. Nick's gonna tell us his 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.000 storylines for both teams heading into the week, and then 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.640 of course we're going to do a little bit of 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.800 the Jets offense. I has a scouting report on the 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.440 Jets offense, and if we have a little bit of time, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.319 I'm gonna have some questions for you guys at the 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.960 end of the show, just to kind of get again 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:14.600 a big picture look at this team. How's everybody doing today? Awesome? Awesome? Great? Good. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.880 Let's jump right in uh, Nicholas start first with I 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.479 always start with the injuries, as I've tried to pull 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.520 it off, all right, I have to print it off, 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.960 and then now I'm trying to find it. I got it. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.520 Can we start with injuries? Sure? Sure? Do you have 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.960 some updates on injuries? But Dave, does I do? All right? 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.960 Give us some updates? Sorry, Actually I don't have an 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.520 update on an injury. I have an update on an absence. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:44.480 Layton Vanderesh is not at practice and everything yet, obviously, 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.200 but I've heard nothing Jason Garrett like usually it's kind 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.280 of like pulling teeth, like you have to specifically ask 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.120 him about stuff. But typically, you know, you kind of 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.120 get all of the game related injury information out of 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:03.880 Jason by Monday evening, and so I hadn't heard anything 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:05.560 about it. I know. You know, anybody that's watched the 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.639 last two games, you've probably seen Layton hobbling around a 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.200 little bit at times. So maybe it's related to that. 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.520 Maybe they're trying to arrest him. I don't know, but 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.680 it's kind of unusual for a starter to be hurt 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.280 and you don't know about it by Wednesday afternoon. So 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.640 this is the first we're hearing of it, and we 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.720 only see twenty minutes of practice, So he might head 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.960 out there at some point. Keep an eye on the 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.000 practice report, and hopefully by three or four o'clock we'll 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.720 have a better idea what that it's all about. But 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.200 he's not at practice. Tyrn Smith and Lyle Collins are 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.640 not practicing today. I saw Tyrn rehabbing with Britt Brown 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:44.120 at practice, moving pretty well for a guy that sprained 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.480 his ankle two weeks ago or a week and a 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:51.800 half ago. Really everybody else Lyle's not practicing. I didn't 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.280 see him rehabbing. I think that's kind of that's going 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.760 to be like a weekend decision. I think, talk to 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.359 me about a Tony Pollo. I don't think we talked 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.040 about him yesterday. He was mentioned by Jason as a 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:02.560 guy that came out of the game with a couple 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.200 couple of things. He's dinged up, like barsitis in his knee. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.120 I think like kind of looks worse than maybe it 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.800 actually is. He's out there today. I'm sure he'll you know, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.119 he'll be limited in some form or fashion, but he's 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.919 out there. Amari Cooper hurt his quad, he's out there, 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:23.079 Randall Cobb is out there. Like I think Layton, Leyton 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.280 Lyle and Tyron are the only like starter starters who 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.880 aren't out there. Antoine Woods back, Antoine Woods is out there. Yeah, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.079 it's pretty much those three that are the big ones. Okay, Good, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.480 that gives you a good understanding kind of where the 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.240 Cowboys are entering the week with regards to injuries. Nicholas 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.080 jumped down into the storylines to walk me through some 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.080 of these storylines. You wrote an article in Dallas Cowboys 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.760 dot Com, as you do every week, walking through the 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.880 five storylines at each for each team heading into the 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:50.800 upcoming game. I'll go with the Jazz, I mean some 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.960 of the Cowboys stuff we just sort of mentioned. I 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.920 mean it was we'll start with the Jets first, but 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.520 basically for them, the biggest one and one of the 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.520 biggest ones in I guess in the league, is Sam 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.080 Darnold being cleared to play. He's been out with mono 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.000 nucleosis for three games. He comes back with third overall 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:10.720 pick two years ago, and so that I'm Dave, I 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:12.440 guess we'll speak to that. I don't know if you 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:13.960 got a chance to watch the Bills to watch that 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.680 all over it because they're a different team obviously than 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.159 with him. Yeah. Um, so that they've been outscored eighty 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.599 four to twenty eight in those in these three games. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.960 Second one would just be Levan Bell obviously being happy 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.200 with with Darnold's return. He's everything for them, and I'm 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.440 sure Dave will talk more about that. He the only 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.240 touchdown he has as a receiving touchdown from Darnold in 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.039 week one, So um, that should be able to help 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.080 their passing game and help him. Another thing for them, 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.440 they're they're tied end. Chris Herndon's coming off of a suspension. 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.760 He's he's a guy caught thirty nine passes last year, 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.720 so that's another weapon that they're having. However, did this 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.080 morning the news just broke new news on him. Yeah, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.440 new news on him, and he has an injury. Um, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.880 just sustained an injury working out by himself last week 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.280 or earlier this week, and it looks like he's not 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.200 going to be able to play. I missed that, huge, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.200 huge thing for them. I would have did say. Adam 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.160 Gay said this morning that C. J. Mosley is doubtful 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.040 at best. Yep, but Herndon now is in coming back 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.520 is now on the injury report right, and then and 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.560 then their defensive injuries, where the next thing I was 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.919 going with, Henry Anderson has been banged up and he 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.720 might not play. He's got a shoulder injury. Quinnin Williams 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.240 has been banged up. CJ. Mosley as well, and then 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.880 the last one. It's just just the play of Jamal 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.480 Adams is their best player. And he even though he 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.240 has been a guy that maybe disgruntled, even though he 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.760 didn't ask for a trade, whatever it was, he's still 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.159 playing balling out. We'll talk about him more tomorrow or 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.240 maybe today, since he's an LSU guy, and I'm sure 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.760 Dave talked about him all week, talking about every day. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.359 He's a press whenever you want. He's a great, great player. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:49.920 So that that's really kind of what they have. And 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.200 they're more than anything. I mean, they're owing four. They 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.400 had they did the old players meeting, you know, players 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.160 one meeting. Yeah, when that happens, um, So you know 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.520 it's a should be a hungry team. I don't know 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.680 if they're a good team, but they don't seem to be. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.680 But they could be hungry. But who knows that the 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 Cowboys are good? Which are those storylines outside of well, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.320 I mean we don't we don't know it. He's got 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.200 such a way with work. We know that they're good 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.560 against winless teams. We know that good. We know that 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.840 they can beat a winless team by three scores because 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.720 they've done it three times, a good point. Outside of 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.400 their quarterback coming back, Which of those storylines is should 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.880 be most concerning for the Cowboys Outside of that one? 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:31.640 I would say the defensive injuries, just because they have 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.200 some guys over there that they've drafted that they expect 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.960 to do, you know, to help them, and they're they're 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.200 banged up. So if you're banged up on and you 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.120 have the you know, test the depth of an O 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.640 and four team, that's probably not not so great. So 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.000 that that's what I would think is, is, you know, 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.159 can they stop the run? Because you know the Cowboys 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.880 are going to be trying to do that and get 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.800 back on track there all right, Um, you know something, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.360 We're gonna take a quick early break here because I 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.880 want to give Dave a full segment or at least 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:59.520 part of that segment to be able to give us 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.520 okay breakdown. I don't want to break up your breakdown. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.960 I guess so we'll take a break. When we come back, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.479 we'll get into the Jets offense. 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I'm not sniffing myself too much? 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.400 Cowboys apparently were all right, Uh, Dave, Yeah, I need 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.640 a scouting report on these Jets. Tell me something about 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:38.079 these this this Jets offense. Um, yeah, it's it's great 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.360 for them that sam Donold's back, but uh, you know, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.600 Tony Romo could probably tell you how much fun it 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.760 is trying to be good at quarterback when nobody in 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.400 front of you can block work worth a lick. And 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:54.360 that's really my only impression from watching two games I watched. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.480 I watched him play, I watched a half versus the Eagles, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:01.200 I watched the whole game against the team before that, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.280 who they I already fought New England best defense in 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.480 the league. And then I watched a little bit of 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.920 Darnold's game against the Bills just to kind of get 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.480 an idea of what he's all about. But I actually 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.840 I just looked this up during the break. They've got 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:20.000 at their left tackle is veteran journeyman seventh round draft 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.040 pick Calvin Beecham collecchi Assamelee, who you're probably familiar with, 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.120 has been a good guard in this league for a 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.280 number of years, but is playing on a bad line. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.719 Ryan Khalil, again has had success in this league. He 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.160 was drafted an OH seven. They literally signed him at 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.040 the tail end of training camp because there was like 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.839 nobody else, kind of like a Brian Waters situation if 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.800 you remember when he came back, which speaking of which, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.360 this really threw me for loop Brian Winters, that's their 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.760 right guard. I thought it was Brian Waters, and I 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.120 was like, there's no way somebody's still saying that guy 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.720 Brandon Shell, fifth round pick in twenty sixteen. Like this 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.120 is what I'm trying to say is this is a 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.680 pretty talent poor offensive line of higher draft picks that 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.480 are on the downside of their career or Day three 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.160 guys that it just doesn't look like it's getting the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.440 job done. The proof is in the pudding. They've allowed 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.760 twenty three sacks and this is a team that has 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.160 had a bye week, by the way, so twenty three 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.880 sacks in four games, fifteen in the last two. Philly 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:22.040 got Luke Falk ten times last week, Yeah, ten sacks 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.920 last week? Oh okay, New England got him five times. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.959 So I mean, even if you're I mean, yeah, forty hits, 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.120 They've let their quarterback be hit forty times in four games. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.400 Welcome back Sam Donald. You know, seriously, I mean checking 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.000 out the spleen and then and you know, I am 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.839 positive or fine going out. I'm positive they wouldn't put 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.599 him out there if he wasn't ready. And it's obviously difficult. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.000 I mean, it's different from you know, an NFL professional 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.959 training staff. But like, what I know about mono is 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.560 that it makes you lose a lot of weight. Yeah, 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.679 so I'm like, you probably weigh fifteen pounds less than 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.200 you did at the end of training camp, and they're 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.400 going to send you out there to get annihilated. Probably, 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.120 I don't know, it sounds dicey. We just Chris Herndon 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.160 could have been a big boost for them. So a 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.760 guy that had four hundred yards and four touchdowns, athletic 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.520 guy out of Miami, He's not gonna play. Actually, Adam 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.720 Gas ruled him out of this game. So that's cool. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.840 Jamison Crowder signed there in the offseason. You remember him 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:22.720 from his time in Washington, really speedy, really dangerous crossing routes. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.600 He used to run deep crossers against this defense all 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.360 the time, and it felt like he was always open. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.559 Robbie Anderson and Josh Bellamy just I don't know, they 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.800 just seem like guys to me. Damarius Thomas is actually 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.720 on this team. I forgot the Patriots traded him. Hasn't 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.720 had a chance to make a huge impact, but then again, 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.960 nobody really has. And then obviously you've got Levon Bell 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.560 and Tie Montgomery as your primary running backs with Bilal 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.440 Powell still kind of kicking around, and it's just hard 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.679 to evaluate him because, like they just there's not a 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.960 whole lot of room for them to do anything. I'm 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.320 Levon Bell, I mean, he's the engine of their offense. 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.920 They try to run everything through him, but it just 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.040 sort of feels like tackle the man with the football, 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.720 Like he gets the ball and there's eight guys swarming 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.160 him because his line camp block. You see a lot 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:16.640 of quick passes to him, swing passes, screen passes, out routes, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.400 stuff like that. They do a fun thing where they 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.880 put Bell and Tie Montgomery in the backfield together readoption 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.800 wildcat type of stuff. Again, I mean, you know, if 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.040 you can't block, you might as well just give the 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.520 running back as much of a running start as possible. 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.680 But not very good now that it's it's I mean, yeah, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.480 I don't think they're very good. I think the world 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.920 of Levy on Bell, but I don't know how much 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:45.840 he can do on his own. I think having Darnold 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.760 darre will probably help. He can probably process a little 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.120 bit faster. He's more talented than Luke Falk. But again, 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.440 I mean this is a second year guy, you know, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.760 Like I'm not ready to say Sam Darnold is a 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.280 difference maker on the level of like an Aaron Rodgers, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.560 where he can just immediately elevate this offense, especially having 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.120 missed a month of the season. So I think it's 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.040 going to be a lot of quick throws. I think, uh, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.920 you know, if I were the Jets, I would try 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.400 to screen the Cowboys to death because they've already shown 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.440 that they don't handle that very well. They're tackling and 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.600 you got an offensive line they can't seem to hold up. Right, 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.320 What you're saying screens and getting the ball to Levon 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:24.000 Bell as quickly as possible seemed like a great bet um. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.600 I like the Cowboys odds of being able to cover 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.440 these receivers. They haven't really gotten killed by a receiver 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:32.520 yet this year, like a wide receiver. I know, you know, 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.880 they gave up yards to Ingram And Michael Thomas was 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.120 kind of good, but not on his own level of five. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:41.680 I mean, he had a good day, but again, like 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.320 I said it, then you know, if that's his stat line, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.640 I think you you did okay with no touchdownes and 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.200 they don't, and then Michael Thomas is so much better 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.200 than it was crowded? Was it the game? Did he 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:54.240 have like fourteen catches? Ye? Actually, I was going to 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.480 mention it. He's he had fourteen catches in the first 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.360 game with Darnel against the Buffalo Bills for ninety nine yards, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.880 but he only caught eight. He's only caught eight passes 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.080 in the other four games, or I guess it would 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:10.720 be three games this season. So I wonder, and I 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.040 caution a little bit how effective he'll be or that 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.360 he will be more I'll make the argument he may 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.760 be way more active and will probably have a much 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.440 better day against the Cowboys with Donald back right, fourteen 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.880 catches for ninety nine yards is seven yards per catch, 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:30.000 by the way. I mean, that's just got it. But 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.440 he's a guy that's very involved in their offense. Was 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:37.120 Donald's there, right, that's going and watching the Jets Bills game, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.040 it felt very similar in the sense that I didn't 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.320 feel like he had a long time to throw. I 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.920 didn't feel like his receivers had time to get very 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 far down field. So again, like you wind up danking 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.480 and dunking. He threw the ball forty one times for 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.120 one hundred and seventy five yards. That's less than five 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.200 yards per tempt ye. Let me ask you this though, 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.320 and follow me on. He got sacked four times in 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.800 that game. Okay, follow me on this though. You look 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.400 at that game, they scored the most that's the most 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:07.800 points that they scored all season. Obviously Donald was in there. Now. Also, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.640 it's the second most points that the Buffalo build defense 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:14.200 is allowed this year. By the way, they're playing phenomenal football. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.360 Their defense very good, playing really well. They allowed the 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.680 Buffalo I mean they allowed the Jet sixteen points. There's 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.560 only one team that scored more seventeen points. New England 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:27.120 was only allowed sixteen points. That being said, do you 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.160 think that New England they're playing against Newengal only scored 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.760 sixteen points against Buffalo offensive against bugs. I'm sorry, I'm 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.000 making it, and that's why I say it followed me 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.080 because I know this is a little convoluted. I'm making 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.640 the argument that Buffalo's defense is really good and they 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.080 put up sixteen points, which is close to the most 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.680 they've given up all seasons. I want to say Buffalo 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.640 or New England got a block punt in that game. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.640 Maybe maybe it was I'm not sure. They did get 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.640 a block punt in some game and scored I think 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.240 it was Buffalo, okay, but so they didn't really score 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.840 much at all. The whole point I'm making is they 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.520 were as good against Buffalo as anybody that's played Buffalo 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:05.280 this season. Against that good defense, the question becomes is 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:10.000 that does that translate against a defense that you some 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.120 people may argues lesser than than than the Cowboys. If 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.119 you believe that, does that translate now into the Cowboys 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.520 having a team that that it may actually be able 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.440 to do a little bit more offensively now that they've 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.400 got Donald back. That does a long question, but it is, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.760 and I mean, I get the essence of what you're saying. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.600 And the Bills are a better defense than the Cowboys 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.040 right now, and that's fair. I'm just looking at it. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.240 One that I mean, sixteen points puts you in the 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.359 bottom like six in terms of offensive output. Like it's 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.000 that's bad, but that's that's better than the average of 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.320 what Buffalo is giving up all season. It is. I 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.960 still I don't, I don't. I don't know that I 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.159 can follow you there, like I mean, because because the 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.680 signs of them struggling are still there. I mean four 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.760 point three yards per instantly, yeah, three point two yards 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.399 per carry um. Sometimes you can throw are out that 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.920 week one stuff just because you know, they Bills maybe 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.679 didn't get a good read on what they're gonna do 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.720 with Levon Bell and and how the you know crowd 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.040 is gonna work and all that, which is kind of 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:11.880 still the same thing for the Cowboys a bit, because 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.800 they've only seen they all have one game of tape 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.439 to see how they're going to use him when they 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.760 have both those guys there. One thing that's I'm sorry, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.239 I'm sorry, Nick, I knew like there was something in 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.240 my head that I was forgetting, and that's that the 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.080 Jets scored a touchdown on a Cole Beasley pick six. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.000 Cole Beasley dropped the ball and C. J. Mosley returned 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.720 it sixteen yards for a touchdown in that game. So 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:40.560 the Jets offense scored eight points. Bell Bell had a touchdown. Yeah, yeah, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.919 so oh oh oh wow. They also got a safety 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.800 in that game. So they scored eight points. Yeah, the offense. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.679 So so the issue still is the offense is not 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.040 their offensive no matter what, and then you can't turn 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:54.760 the ball over to him. Is that the Bills have 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.120 not The Bills have played better defense than the Cowboys. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:18:59.800 That's fair. Like, I don't know if the Jets are 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.520 going to struggle as mightily. I kind of think they will, 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.640 Like I don't, I just I think this is still 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:09.199 a talented defense. I look across the board, like, you know, 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.760 we can quibble all we want to about whether DeMarcus 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.240 Lawrence is getting enough sacks, but like the Cowboys should 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.399 win those matchups. This is the bad offensive line. The 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.679 one I mean, the one thing that should give you 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.960 pause is like, can they tackle Levy on Bell? Because 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.679 they didn't tackle. Well last week, they've shown they're not 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.080 all the way up to snuff there. Layton vander Esch's 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.000 in at practice. Like I can see a world where 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.679 Levon Bell has a disconcertingly good day, where you're like, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.320 the Jets are these guys are terrible, and Levon Bell's 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.840 carried the ball twenty times for one hundred and something yards, 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.440 kind of like what happened against the Giants. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.000 I mean yeah, absolutely, I mean like, okay, these guys 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:46.600 are trash and then on like the third play of 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:48.640 the game, Bell, you know, yeah, I can see that. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:54.119 I just don't think it's enough to overcome the talent 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.679 deficit over the course of sixty minutes. And I'm not 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.440 you know, this game might be frustrating for a while. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.920 The Doll game was um, but I just I can't 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.320 imagine the Jets scoring more than there's some twenty points 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:12.480 more going forum for Leveon Bell when he was with Pittsburgh, 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.720