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Speaker 1: preview the Cowboys defense against the Los Angeles Rams offense today.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a fun one. Defense has been
Speaker 1: playing lights out this season, has only allowed one touchdown
Speaker 1: in each of the first four games, and they're going
Speaker 1: up against the reigning Super Bowl champions that are trying
Speaker 1: to get back on track offensively. Rob Phillips, Isaiah standback,
Speaker 1: Patrick No C Walker, Kyle Yeoman's with you as always, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: how are we doing today? Doing fantastics? Well, fantastic, Go braves,
Speaker 1: Go braves, Go braves, go braves. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: big baseball guy. But also a quick shout out too,
Speaker 1: because regardless of if I like the team or dislike
Speaker 1: the team. MLBE histories, MLBE history. So it shouts out
Speaker 1: to Aaron Judge for a phenomenal and phenomenal is understand
Speaker 1: there's there were no adjectives to describe what we witness
Speaker 1: this season from Aaron Jof So shouts out to him.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be the first half of
Speaker 1: Billy Dollar player. You say he's gonna double up the
Speaker 1: offer they gave him. Come come up betting on yourself
Speaker 1: blank check and coming through check and even if it
Speaker 1: doesn't come from the pin stripes, wait from somebody. They
Speaker 1: offered him to fifty Yeah, offered him to seven years
Speaker 1: to thirty or something like that. Yeah, that's what it was,
Speaker 1: he said. He said, that's what is that? That's that's
Speaker 1: reaching thirty five million dollars a year. That's not enough,
Speaker 1: he's Yeah, he's only gonna go win the Triple Crown
Speaker 1: and hit the most home runs in the history of
Speaker 1: the going to be getting paid at least sixty a year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now it's even crazier because baseball baseball is didn't get
Speaker 1: spot and I know this is a football podcast, but
Speaker 1: just gotta hit this real quick. Were you thinking should
Speaker 1: play baseball. Nick, thinking about it, you would be he'll
Speaker 1: be playing, he'd be a part of that Mariners postseason righters. Baby,
Speaker 1: we'll talk plenty of about this in the future. But
Speaker 1: I mean you think about Aaron Judge and what he's doing,
Speaker 1: and then shoho tani. I mean he's got two hundred
Speaker 1: strikeouts and thirty four home runs himself. I mean those
Speaker 1: are two guys that baseball has not seen in hundreds
Speaker 1: of years, I mean a long time. At the same time,
Speaker 1: it's really really cool time for baseball. By the way,
Speaker 1: gives me a platform to to go ahead and do this. Beamer,
Speaker 1: if you could take my my single camera here once again.
Speaker 1: I know this is a baseball show or a football show.
Speaker 1: It was not in the Rundown, No it wasn't, but
Speaker 1: this is this is a foot ball show. However, I
Speaker 1: realized last night that I have a family member, a
Speaker 1: long lost brother, Corey. We've had some great times. Corey,
Speaker 1: yeomans who caught the sixty second home run ball for
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. It's been a long time. I just I
Speaker 1: miss you. I think we need to hang out. By
Speaker 1: the way, I know you don't remember this, but you
Speaker 1: owe me fifty thousand from that one time he made
Speaker 1: it bet as a kid time to go. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: one time. But just hit me up if you ever
Speaker 1: need anything, Corey. That's all I'm doing. So you know
Speaker 1: how they always say, like when you make your money,
Speaker 1: your family comes out of the woodworks. So here I am.
Speaker 1: How do he make it home? The security? Did you
Speaker 1: like four cops or he walked about the building but
Speaker 1: they didn't take him home. He's also kind of like
Speaker 1: social media. That's the thing about social media, Like now,
Speaker 1: like for the time he caught it to the time
Speaker 1: he walked out of the stadium, everybody knew what he
Speaker 1: looked like. So how did you go from outside the state?
Speaker 1: How do you go from inside the stadium to your
Speaker 1: car or to an uber or to whatever you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bid you because you see what he
Speaker 1: does for a living. He's well off, at least enough
Speaker 1: to the point where you know, security probably helped him.
Speaker 1: He's a p for an investment firm. Yeah, so security probably.
Speaker 1: He's definitely gonna say that's what I mean. He he's
Speaker 1: not giving that ball back and he was enjoying holding
Speaker 1: his you know, two to five million dollars, baseball and
Speaker 1: the beach by Friday, you know, as the Mets would know.
Speaker 1: We got to move on. But what would you do
Speaker 1: you caught Aaron Judge's ball, he asked for Hey, can
Speaker 1: I get the ball back? Now? You hobously about my
Speaker 1: opinion now that what would I honestly, what would you do? Man?
Speaker 1: That's my ball where I mean my rubles. Life's been
Speaker 1: hard generationally, my paper, right, let's talk, Let's let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's descut. I'm not giving it back, You're not giving
Speaker 1: it back. I love Aaron Judge too. I think he's
Speaker 1: a great player. But I mean, it's it's in my possession,
Speaker 1: you know. Or honest I think I think I would
Speaker 1: agree if I would handed that over, like I truly
Speaker 1: believe that I would probably give the ball back, but
Speaker 1: I would just do it under the condition to say
Speaker 1: I I would hope that the Yankees would would would
Speaker 1: take care of me. I say, I would say, hey,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can hold onto it, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give it back to you. But I just in
Speaker 1: good faith, I will hope that you and the Yankees
Speaker 1: would take care of me. Handshake, I can hand no, no, no,
Speaker 1: interference of opinion. No, absolutely, That's why I asked the question.
Speaker 1: But I just don't see. I'm a good man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't, No, sir, No, sir. I understand my ruber.
Speaker 1: I understand the opportunities, and I think that Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: and everybody else understands kind of the sequence of events
Speaker 1: and how they were prepared for this, right. And that's
Speaker 1: why I say, hey, here you go, Here you go, bro, like,
Speaker 1: just take care of your boy. Let me ask this's
Speaker 1: the price of the ball go up or down the
Speaker 1: more days you get from it the actual hit. I
Speaker 1: bet it goes down a little bit until it kind
Speaker 1: of gets to a spot where it's stagg and I'm
Speaker 1: sure it probably goes down a little bit. So I
Speaker 1: would sell it quick. It's what I would do. But
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. The Yankees never took care
Speaker 1: of him. The Rangers never took care of him. Nobody
Speaker 1: ever took care of him. He had to buy his
Speaker 1: own ticket to get into the building. And he caught
Speaker 1: the ball. I don't care what happens. Give me that's
Speaker 1: my ball. Ball. You can have it back whenever I
Speaker 1: give it back to you. No, not gonna happen's talk.
Speaker 1: Same thing with the tom Brady ball that was given
Speaker 1: to him, the three hundred touchdown, that was like giving
Speaker 1: the fan. Yeah, he didn't take care that. He didn't
Speaker 1: take care of him the same point season tickets for
Speaker 1: like two years. Yeah, that's not it until if he
Speaker 1: lives in text. They gave him what I think he
Speaker 1: Tom Brady ended up giving him like a big coin
Speaker 1: or something like oh congruens, yeah, which is worth and
Speaker 1: it went down. Yeah, and I'm not looking great right now. Scholars, yen, euros, rubles,
Speaker 1: run me all of it. Man's got options. Yeah, good
Speaker 1: for him. All right, enough for this, Let's talk news
Speaker 1: and notes. Dallas Cowboys back on the practice field today
Speaker 1: after an off day yesterday. We got some news about
Speaker 1: a deep snapper. Yeah, there's an injury we did not
Speaker 1: cover yesterday on the show. Actually, we're went upstairs afterwards
Speaker 1: and found out Jake McQuaid long snapper, expected to be
Speaker 1: out for the season with a torn triceps. And if
Speaker 1: you go back and you watch the All twenty two,
Speaker 1: it's the last punt of the game. Uh, Derek Forrest,
Speaker 1: I think for the Commanders is punt rushing trying to
Speaker 1: block the punt and McQuaid kind of wrestles him to
Speaker 1: the ground and when he gets back up, his left
Speaker 1: arm is just limp as he's running down in the
Speaker 1: field on the on the punt coverage. Still, what kind
Speaker 1: of he tried? I think he got about ten yards
Speaker 1: and fell down like this hurts. Yeah, now give him credit.
Speaker 1: So they are having to adjust, and they signed or
Speaker 1: expected to sign too long snappers to the practice squad
Speaker 1: by before practice Matt Overton and Tucker Addington. It's not alp.
Speaker 1: LP was not among the four workouts yesterday. I think
Speaker 1: he's really need to work out. He wasn't signed though
Speaker 1: eighteen years in the league. Maybe not yeah now, but
Speaker 1: I think very sneezing LP gets signed winnings at the
Speaker 1: front door. Go hold on, guys, Yes, there's there's a
Speaker 1: certain there's record out there. You extra. That's a very
Speaker 1: important position, though very very important position outline because most
Speaker 1: people are gonna write it off as oh, it's just
Speaker 1: just a specialist. He's not even a kicker or a punter.
Speaker 1: Listen here, the kicker and the punter don't get the
Speaker 1: ball right unless this dude snaps the ball accurately every
Speaker 1: single time. Much like the holder is important. I know
Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation remembers how important holder is. You don't do that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying the important. It's true, right, the just
Speaker 1: as as much as emphasis is put on the holder,
Speaker 1: the snapper is just as important because you need that
Speaker 1: ball to be in the same place every single time,
Speaker 1: because you are literally operating out of what's the term
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, muscle memory. Yeah, it is. It's muscle memory,
Speaker 1: not only as a snapper, but as the holder too,
Speaker 1: and the kicker and the punter. Everything's timing. It's just routine.
Speaker 1: It's freaking routine. That's what I'm routine like. Everything is routine,
Speaker 1: Like you don't even think about it, like it's just
Speaker 1: it's instinctual. Well, it's exactly to the point that you're making,
Speaker 1: is what I mentioned on media matching, what I mentioned
Speaker 1: on the Heels of the Team parting ways with LP.
Speaker 1: For a lot of people that say, oh, long snappers
Speaker 1: don't don't matter, if they absolutely matter for all of
Speaker 1: those reasons. And you you're also talking about guys bearing
Speaker 1: down on you and gunners coming. It's fractions of a second.
Speaker 1: So if you know the holder or the punter and
Speaker 1: anger have to do this or you know, to the
Speaker 1: left by a fraction or to the right by a fraction,
Speaker 1: up by If it's not then on every single time
Speaker 1: it messes up, the technicals watch close people are they
Speaker 1: blocking field goals and extra points almost every plane in Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just watching how close? I mean you're talking about
Speaker 1: a tenth of a second difference and the most field
Speaker 1: goals are blocked. Yeah, and it's it's the only position
Speaker 1: in the NFL too, where you can't mess up at
Speaker 1: all or you're gone. Like even kicker, you can miss
Speaker 1: a few kicks and they'll kind to stick with you
Speaker 1: if you have like two bad snaps, they're looking for
Speaker 1: somebody else. And that's why what LP did for so
Speaker 1: many years was so impressive. Man like you never and
Speaker 1: it was about it and it was perfect. You know,
Speaker 1: the phantom created penalty in Washington notwithstanding, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: I mean Elpi had a perfect career and to be
Speaker 1: able to do that is inhuman. So you know, long
Speaker 1: snappers matter. And the only thing we can say is
Speaker 1: because Nui asked me yesterday, what's am I concerned? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned until I'm no longer concerned when it comes
Speaker 1: to the long snapper. Now, I'm probably one of those
Speaker 1: people who are typically unreasonably concerned when it comes to
Speaker 1: that particular position. But of course it goes to what
Speaker 1: you know, Isaiah said, fractions of a second routine and
Speaker 1: also trust between the holder and the long snapper, the
Speaker 1: punterer and the long snapper. All of that stuff has
Speaker 1: to be re established now with these new guys. And
Speaker 1: they've signed two, which tells you that they're still trying
Speaker 1: these guys out going into two of the more important
Speaker 1: games as far this season. So I'm not saying hit
Speaker 1: the hanic butting over the long snap of what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is it is most certainly something to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. I don't think it's happening. I know it's not.
Speaker 1: He's trying to chant l I was mad they took
Speaker 1: that that record away. It's not gonna happen. So they
Speaker 1: got two guys on the practice squad, expected to officially
Speaker 1: be for practice and then they'll make a decision. Also
Speaker 1: expect expect McQuaid to go on ir and Will Greer,
Speaker 1: especially assuming Dak will not play this week, which hasn't
Speaker 1: been ruled out, but that's probably the expectation will greer.
Speaker 1: He's out of practice squad elevation, so they'll bump him up,
Speaker 1: sign him to the active roster. A couple more injury things.
Speaker 1: James Washington is eligible to come off IR this week.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen yet. Damon Clark
Speaker 1: can start his practice window about this week. Talk about it,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a possibility. Hit it, Yes, talk
Speaker 1: about it. I excited. Isaiah's more excited about Damon Clark
Speaker 1: coming back than he was Jason Peter. Right, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see long snap. Can Jason Peter's long snap.
Speaker 1: I just want everybody to go home and just google
Speaker 1: theman Clark. Google him, just google him. Don't look at
Speaker 1: his LSU pictures. I want you to look at all
Speaker 1: the head shots that they have of him and a
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys practice uniform and just look at the intensity
Speaker 1: on his face and tell me that's not a man.
Speaker 1: That not that one. It looks pretty intense even smile,
Speaker 1: But looking at him right there, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: On the other one, talk about this one, right that
Speaker 1: one right there, zooming on that one, about that, yeah,
Speaker 1: zooming on that one and doing one shot on that
Speaker 1: one beamer. I don't know if I can do that.
Speaker 1: You gotta make the bigger. That's a um. So this
Speaker 1: guy is intense. I've had conversations with this younger specimen. Jesus,
Speaker 1: that's a specimen. He's a large human. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 1: very large human. That's very athletic, very fast. I know
Speaker 1: I was standing on the table yelling for you know,
Speaker 1: Nakobe Deane before you know when the draft stuff happened.
Speaker 1: Very absolutely right. So he's a basically but the value
Speaker 1: that they got with him, first of all, kudos to
Speaker 1: the training staff for what they discovered. Kudos to the
Speaker 1: obviously the front office for trusting the training staff and
Speaker 1: trusting the process and getting him taken care of, still
Speaker 1: drafting him, still getting him in surgery, all those kind
Speaker 1: of things, and then they're nursing him back to health.
Speaker 1: And now you have a very viable option adding more
Speaker 1: to DQ. You add a DC to a DQ, and
Speaker 1: you're just that much strong lizzard and you're getting somebody. Now,
Speaker 1: obviously he has to come out here improve it. He
Speaker 1: hasn't had any reps, all those kind of things. He
Speaker 1: has to get his legs underneath them. All that. But
Speaker 1: he's been obviously working with the training staff and all
Speaker 1: those things getting back in condition. It's not football conditions,
Speaker 1: so he'll need a ramp up period. But I think
Speaker 1: that he's going to be huge, not only for the
Speaker 1: special teams because that's where he'll have the most impact immediately,
Speaker 1: but in terms of your packaging, what now can you
Speaker 1: do package wise if you add him to the active
Speaker 1: right and you roll him in there. Now you talk
Speaker 1: about speed pack just you talk about being able to
Speaker 1: have guys at the second level that can run and hit.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited about this, and I'm excited for him
Speaker 1: because I remember came of conversations with him. He was
Speaker 1: beyond frustrated and he had never been a mirror. We
Speaker 1: had some conversations and I just told him, I say,
Speaker 1: if you ever need anything, just hold at me, because
Speaker 1: I've been through injuries. Bro like the mental the psychology
Speaker 1: that it takes to overcome that, right, We've talked about
Speaker 1: it in the documentary, but it takes a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and especially when you come in and you're ready to
Speaker 1: have an impact. I came in having had surgery, right
Speaker 1: and had to come in and learn and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, So you feel like you're lesser than
Speaker 1: you feel like you're detached from the team. You feel
Speaker 1: like you're not a part of everything that all the
Speaker 1: success that's going on. So that's what he's coming into.
Speaker 1: And he just wants to go out there and have
Speaker 1: fun and run around and play and remember who he
Speaker 1: used to be. Right and needless to say, I mean
Speaker 1: me being an sec guy, I've seen plenty of Demon Clark,
Speaker 1: just like I saw Pride to him, I saw plenty
Speaker 1: of your real Clark, so forth and so on. Demon
Speaker 1: Clark is different, different, like a human being with that
Speaker 1: size should not have the ability to be that much
Speaker 1: of a quick twitch athlete, Like his quick twitch is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: His ability to read close and react is insane. And
Speaker 1: like you said, kudos to the front office and also
Speaker 1: the medical staff. And it's a it's a fantastic situation
Speaker 1: for Demon because he's coming into an organization that unfortunately
Speaker 1: is well versed in neck issues. You talk about toron Smithy,
Speaker 1: talk about Lvee here recently. Now LV is out there
Speaker 1: playing just fine, knock on wood that he continues to
Speaker 1: do so, but they're not afraid to take a risk
Speaker 1: on a next situation. So now the procedure has been done,
Speaker 1: Demon is clearly ahead of schedule. There was something they
Speaker 1: were wondering if this was going to be a red
Speaker 1: shirt season for him. Obviously not. His window is potentially
Speaker 1: going to open us early as today, and if all
Speaker 1: goes well, then he could in fact be activated. And
Speaker 1: now you're talking about Michael Parsons and Demon card. Oh,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn bar just goes on and on, and they
Speaker 1: look at who's playing in front of that unit, then
Speaker 1: look who's playing behind that unit. The rich get richer
Speaker 1: when it comes to dan Quinnon's defense, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Like he said, if google Demon Clark beyond just the
Speaker 1: intensity of his smile right, go back and look at
Speaker 1: his LSU tape. The kid is not even a kid.
Speaker 1: He's an adult male and he is an absolute monster.
Speaker 1: And if he can hit his stride anytime soon for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I grief, Charlie Brown. I like the optimism,
Speaker 1: I really do, and and honestly, I'm there with you
Speaker 1: in terms of he's a good player. He was the
Speaker 1: top sixty guy from me prior to knowing about the injury.
Speaker 1: He was the number eight linebacker in my list of
Speaker 1: draft prospects prior to knowing about the injury. The injury
Speaker 1: gives me a little bit of pause, but luckily they
Speaker 1: went in and cleaned it up. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to be an immediate impact because even looking at
Speaker 1: your guy, the Kobe d the Kobe Dan, he I mean,
Speaker 1: he was as good as anybody. He was my number
Speaker 1: one linebacker, number fourteen player overall. Guess what he's done
Speaker 1: in four games in the NFL. He said, one tackle.
Speaker 1: That's it. No sacks, no interceptions, no PPUs, no pressures, nothing.
Speaker 1: He's had one solo tackle in his first four games.
Speaker 1: Give it a little bit of time. I know the
Speaker 1: hype train is there. I'm with you. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be a good player, but let's not get
Speaker 1: carried away that he's going to be a game changer.
Speaker 1: If he hits they start the window, they give him
Speaker 1: three weeks to ramp up, and if he gets on
Speaker 1: the roster, like, yeah, I'm kind of with you, Like
Speaker 1: I think like it took Anthony Barr a nice little
Speaker 1: ramp up period, and I think he's probably getting Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's a four time pro bowler and there's been
Speaker 1: no it's a it's a transition to the league plus
Speaker 1: the injury, plus you know, ramping back up. So I
Speaker 1: think it'll take some time. But yeah, he had no
Speaker 1: business being a fifth round draft pick just now. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think long term, you should be really excited if
Speaker 1: you're a Cowboys fan. But really, if he's activated, um
Speaker 1: within his twenty one day window, I could see Damon
Speaker 1: Clark making some sort of impact, not only on special teams.
Speaker 1: I think he will make an impact on special teams
Speaker 1: sooner than he would on defense. But I could see
Speaker 1: him making some sort of impact for dan Quinn on defense,
Speaker 1: you know, come December, when the game's really start to matter. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he had like al you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be hard to have a career game as
Speaker 1: a rookie because you know, you have one. Say, guess what,
Speaker 1: it's a queer game. But I think he'll make an
Speaker 1: impact in some way, shape or form on defense as
Speaker 1: early as December, assuming that he saw that from Jabril
Speaker 1: Cox prior to the injury. He was ramping up and
Speaker 1: getting better last year prior to him. Daniel Jones knows
Speaker 1: that got from season ending. Yeah, he does, Yes, he does.
Speaker 1: So really quickly before we go to our first break.
Speaker 1: So if you are on IR so to Mum Clark,
Speaker 1: James Washington, and you get out, you can be on
Speaker 1: the practice field for how long prior to the twenty
Speaker 1: one days? So three weeks? Yeah, you have to be
Speaker 1: activated within that window, or if you're put on there,
Speaker 1: or you go right back for the season and you're done,
Speaker 1: you can't come back. Okay, So keep that in mind
Speaker 1: when especially with James Washington, He's probably not going to
Speaker 1: start a practice window. He's probably gonna need that practice
Speaker 1: window more than anybody, right, I think from a wide
Speaker 1: receiver standpoint, we saw that when Michael Gallup took him
Speaker 1: almost three weeks to ramp up without actually going on
Speaker 1: to IR. So, all right, when we come back, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at how this Rams offense can challenge
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense. There's a ton of weapons still on
Speaker 1: that Rams offensive side of the football. And is Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson finally going to wake up for them on the
Speaker 1: outside against this cornerback room or are they going to
Speaker 1: shut him down when we come back with more talking
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Speaker 1: back as always, all right, Every Wednesday we preview what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defensive matchups gonna look like wall to wall Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and they go wal to wall so far because they
Speaker 1: have not allowed a whole lot to this point. One
Speaker 1: of the best defenses in the NFL. But you feel
Speaker 1: like you're playing a sleeping giant, right The Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Rams right now coming in just haven't figured it out
Speaker 1: on offensees sound familiar, but their defense is still very,
Speaker 1: very good. We'll talk about the Rams defense tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: when you take a first look at this Rams offense,
Speaker 1: what are your initial thoughts. I don't think it's as
Speaker 1: bad as what the La Times headline was this morning
Speaker 1: that they're a or Monday morning that they're a predictable mess.
Speaker 1: Just getting after Sean McVeigh. No, please don't put in
Speaker 1: the city of Angels, right, because you said it in
Speaker 1: the break like they're gonna figure it out. He's gonna
Speaker 1: figure it out. I think I don't think it's as
Speaker 1: bad as it looked. I mean, I think protection wise,
Speaker 1: it was bad on Sunday night or Monday, but they
Speaker 1: got to the red zone three times. They moved the
Speaker 1: ball and they got nine points out of three red
Speaker 1: zone trips, So you left twelve points on the board,
Speaker 1: and I think they're capable of doing more than that.
Speaker 1: Although they're facing a tough Cowboys defense this week. They've
Speaker 1: got to get some more balance in their offense. And
Speaker 1: it's not just the passing game. We touched on the
Speaker 1: number of targets to two guys in their whole offense.
Speaker 1: They got to get back to running the ball. And
Speaker 1: there were some some moments in the game on Monday
Speaker 1: night where you're like, I think Eli said it on
Speaker 1: the broadcast with Peyton, like it might as well be
Speaker 1: a sack. You're trying to run the ball. They get
Speaker 1: some kind of balance going, and you get a two
Speaker 1: yard loss and they just can't get anything going between
Speaker 1: Henderson and Acres, and that's you got Matt Stafford throwing
Speaker 1: forty eight times that's not conducive for anything in terms
Speaker 1: of balance. See, unfortunately for them. You know, the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: they know very well that they need to improve this
Speaker 1: run defense. And you go back and you listen to
Speaker 1: the sounds of the sideline, and one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things that I took away from that was DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: being upset that the run defense was not what it
Speaker 1: should have been up to expectations. So you have a
Speaker 1: team leader like that, a unit leader like that who's
Speaker 1: just beating the table all week in practice and meetings,
Speaker 1: basically saying, we have to make sure that we don't
Speaker 1: allow the Rams to get Acres and Henderson off, otherwise
Speaker 1: our secondary is going to have a long day. So
Speaker 1: this is the Cowboys defense that also has been doing
Speaker 1: very well in clamping down in the red zone. You
Speaker 1: talk about the Rams only being able to convert those
Speaker 1: three red zone trips for nine points and leaving points
Speaker 1: on the field, Well, they are, like you said, they're
Speaker 1: going against the Cowboys defense that is routine ly stingy
Speaker 1: and that area of the field. So it's not going
Speaker 1: to get any easier for the Rams. And then now
Speaker 1: you talk about the offensive line, which we mentioned on yesterday,
Speaker 1: really briefly, they were down to a backup center who
Speaker 1: is actually a guard moved to center, and Shelton Sheldon
Speaker 1: goes down with injury. Turns out he's going to be
Speaker 1: out for forty six weeks. He's not coming back, so
Speaker 1: it's probably going to be colony. Right, So, now you
Speaker 1: got a third string next to a couple of backups
Speaker 1: at arguably the most important portion of your offense, which
Speaker 1: is the interior offensive line. If the Cowboys can just
Speaker 1: win those personnel matchups like they should and fairly I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that the E word easily, but
Speaker 1: fairly handedly let's put it that way, then the Rams
Speaker 1: are not going to be able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and that's going to force Matthew Stafford into a forty
Speaker 1: five plus yard or forty five plus attempted game, and
Speaker 1: that plays right into the hands of Dan Quinn and
Speaker 1: this defense. So looking at some of the top targets
Speaker 1: that have been against the Cowboys so far, Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: last week, two receptions for fifteen yards, so shut him
Speaker 1: down completely. From a Cowboys side of things, I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna look at the Giants weapons because I don't
Speaker 1: know who you even tab as their number one guy,
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase in Week two against Cincinnati or five receptions
Speaker 1: fifty four yards, so he's still got a decent chunk, right,
Speaker 1: still decent but overall, yeah, very good. And then week
Speaker 1: one Mike Evans had five for seventy one and a touchdown,
Speaker 1: really the touchdown, and there was like one drive in
Speaker 1: there where he had success. For the most part, Dallas
Speaker 1: has had a really good done a really good job
Speaker 1: on the edge of slowing down these top targets. Why
Speaker 1: is this different though? With Cooper Cup most targeted in
Speaker 1: the NFL by like fifty targets since Week one of
Speaker 1: last year over Tyreek Hill, He's had two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven targets since Week one last year. Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: is second in the NFL with two hundred and thirty.
Speaker 1: Cooper Cups still getting his yardage, still getting his receptions
Speaker 1: even though they know the football's going his way. Why
Speaker 1: is that different than some of the other opponents of
Speaker 1: Cowboys have faced, Because you get Cooper Cup can run
Speaker 1: routes from all over the place, and him McVey puts
Speaker 1: him in so many situations to be successful. There's it's
Speaker 1: really hard to scheme him up. If you go back
Speaker 1: and watch any of the film last year, this year,
Speaker 1: or whatever year you want to in regards to Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: This dude's outside, he's inside, he's stacked, he's on the ball,
Speaker 1: he's off the ball, he's out the backfield, he's in motion,
Speaker 1: he's shifted. You don't know where the hector's dude is
Speaker 1: that so you can't scheme him up versus Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: where he's gonna be at outside, jamar Chades, where he's
Speaker 1: gonna be at in the slot or outside, Like, it's
Speaker 1: pretty predictable in terms of game playing. Okay, if he's outside,
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. If he comes at the slot,
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. Cooper Cup. There's so many,
Speaker 1: there's formations you can't even you got to create names for.
Speaker 1: Let these guys come out in and they're doing it
Speaker 1: just because you can't. You can't scheme him. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't in and out him, you can't man and
Speaker 1: man him, you can't zone him. He's gonna get the ball.
Speaker 1: What you want to do is it is simply just
Speaker 1: make sure that he doesn't get behind you. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest name of Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup's gonna get ten catches.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get ten catches. Cut are gonna throw the
Speaker 1: all to him fifteen times, and it's just it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, twenty times and the nineteen times
Speaker 1: last week. So you accept that there's certain guys that
Speaker 1: are just going to get the rock because they're just
Speaker 1: that good. Cooper Cup's the top five receiver, much like
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and March. Those guys are really good. But
Speaker 1: those guys are limited because of how they utilized within
Speaker 1: their offense. They're able to make big plays from those
Speaker 1: particular positions. Versus Cup, he make plays from anywhere. How
Speaker 1: does Dallas combat that though? Keep them in front of you,
Speaker 1: keep them in front of you, and like you said,
Speaker 1: stop the running game. You can't shut I don't know
Speaker 1: at the time anybody's ever shut down Cooper Cup. I mean,
Speaker 1: it hasn't happened since last year, That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like you, just it's hard. It's a hard guy to
Speaker 1: shut down. He's everywhere, and you just accept the fact that, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's just keep them in front of us, let him
Speaker 1: have the ball. Just don't let them get past of
Speaker 1: your hard markers, right, Yeah. Because the great example is
Speaker 1: the last drive in the Super Bowl, Like everybody knew
Speaker 1: where it's going in it didn't matter. And that's why
Speaker 1: part of me's like nineteen targets, will I kind of
Speaker 1: get it, like he is always open, I mean ninety
Speaker 1: five percent of the time. The guys he's he's created space.
Speaker 1: Even when he's not open, he's open. Yeah, But the
Speaker 1: pick six at the end was a product of you
Speaker 1: don't have enough balance in your offense, and they Sanrancisco
Speaker 1: knew where the ball was going, and they a great
Speaker 1: anticipation and they are random play a thousand times that day.
Speaker 1: So that's one of the reasons why that the times
Speaker 1: are probably getting on McVey right now, because not only
Speaker 1: did they not distribute the ball evenly enough throughout all
Speaker 1: the different options they have on offense, but they were
Speaker 1: running a lot of the same type of plays. They
Speaker 1: ran a ton of screens, a ton of outside screens,
Speaker 1: so it was very easy to read. Those indicators were
Speaker 1: easy for the defenders. He's gonna have he's going. Mcvay's
Speaker 1: such a competitor, he's gonna mix it up, right, So
Speaker 1: you just want to limit what they can do. Shut
Speaker 1: down to run, keep cup in front of you. Don't
Speaker 1: let Al Robinson getting no dog on confidence, because that's
Speaker 1: not the guy you want to get confidence this week
Speaker 1: because he can't hurt you. Right, he has shown the
Speaker 1: ability regardless of what he's done this year. He's still quick,
Speaker 1: he's still explosive. I don't care what the reports are
Speaker 1: about that guy. Just don't let him start catching a ball.
Speaker 1: Is this kind of a long time coming sort of
Speaker 1: deal for Sean McVay though, and Matthew Stafford Because you
Speaker 1: look back at the start of last year or all
Speaker 1: of last year, Matthew Stafford was tied with the most
Speaker 1: interceptions in the NFL with Trevor Lawrence. He threw seventeen
Speaker 1: picks last year. Now he threw forty touchdown passes, so
Speaker 1: it makes up for it a little bit. But he
Speaker 1: had seventeen picks last year, tied for the most. Right
Speaker 1: now he has the most with six in four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He hasn't had a season where he's thrown more interceptions
Speaker 1: than more touchdowns since his rookie campaign with the Lions
Speaker 1: back in like oh nine. So is this just finally
Speaker 1: teams are starting to read it. I know last year
Speaker 1: he threw the most amount of interceptions and they still
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. But is this something that's a
Speaker 1: problem for the Rams that's even bigger than what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to show out this week? Well, I
Speaker 1: think you're writing that Stafford will throw it up. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's done it throughout his career. He's gonna take chances.
Speaker 1: I think I think the pick at the end was
Speaker 1: a product that was a safe throw. That's just like
Speaker 1: I think copy at nine times out of ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a lot of those screens. I think you look
Speaker 1: back to the Washington game against the Cowboys, they screened
Speaker 1: a ton and it's because they didn't trust their protection
Speaker 1: and they're trying to get the ball quick out as
Speaker 1: fast as possible. And I think that's some of what
Speaker 1: McVeigh was trying to do in that game. You look
Speaker 1: at the one that he almost got picked in the
Speaker 1: end zone to Higbee. You know, if he missed a
Speaker 1: lot of throws. He did miss some throws, and if
Speaker 1: he on that one though with his progression, he might
Speaker 1: have had Henderson for a touchdown if the protection was
Speaker 1: there just a tick longer. There's probably about three throws
Speaker 1: that I could think of right off the back in
Speaker 1: that game where he just wishes he had that ball back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because guys Higbee was wide open. I think couple was
Speaker 1: opened on a few Like there was a couple of
Speaker 1: balls where just like Dang released the ball wrong, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's like those are yeah, I mean, and they happened, right,
Speaker 1: it happened. But those are plays like they're leaving plays
Speaker 1: on the fields. So I don't want to make it
Speaker 1: seem as if these guys just they're just trash, are terrible.
Speaker 1: They their offense is not clicking there at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the league, and every dog on the category offensively
Speaker 1: right now. That is the total opposite of what we've
Speaker 1: come to know about the Rams and McVeigh and Stafford
Speaker 1: in his time with the as a Ram, he's gonna
Speaker 1: he's missed some throws as a competitor, as a professional,
Speaker 1: you go back and you make those corrections. As a
Speaker 1: defense for the Dallas Cowboys, you want to continue to
Speaker 1: do what you've been doing. It every other team forced
Speaker 1: Stafford to be in the same situation he was in
Speaker 1: last week where he wanted to where they had to
Speaker 1: change offensive scheme because he can't sit back there and
Speaker 1: throw the ball. He has to get it out on
Speaker 1: the edge. Just they have to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of their hand quickly. You shut down the running game.
Speaker 1: You limit them to, you know, to these type of
Speaker 1: quick throws. Now you can start a process of elimination
Speaker 1: in terms of what they can and can't do. I know,
Speaker 1: as a defensive back, I can sit at ten yards
Speaker 1: and come downhill because they're not gonna have the ball
Speaker 1: have time to throw the ball beyond me, right, So
Speaker 1: you want to limit them in that regard so that
Speaker 1: you can start making plays. Dallas does what they've been doing,
Speaker 1: they'll be perfectly fine. But you still have to respect
Speaker 1: the fact that not only are these guys capable, we've
Speaker 1: seen it, and we've seen it last year and they've
Speaker 1: had a lot of change offensively in terms of offensive line.
Speaker 1: You guys just touched on that. They are hurting there.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody's talking about You're wet Worth either, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to retirement and that that's what you need is if
Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys, you need to make sure that you
Speaker 1: understand when it comes to Matthew Stafford, you need to
Speaker 1: shorten his clock. If you shorten his clock, he will
Speaker 1: give you the ball. If you shorten his clock, he
Speaker 1: will give you the ball. That is that is the
Speaker 1: blueprint from Matthew Stafford. And you talk about protection or
Speaker 1: lack thereof the reason they're leaving plays on the field,
Speaker 1: it's it's not by accident. It's because the clock has
Speaker 1: been shortened, so he doesn't have time to go through
Speaker 1: the progressions to see what he's seen later on film.
Speaker 1: All guy, you know, I should have hit Higbee here.
Speaker 1: I should have. You know. The reason he can't in
Speaker 1: real time is because guys are bearing down on him.
Speaker 1: This is also a Cowboys defense that has yet to
Speaker 1: allow twenty points in a game. This plays into the
Speaker 1: Cowboys favor because, first of all, again respect the Rams
Speaker 1: and what they can do, because Matthew Stafford could easily
Speaker 1: come out of being an all pro on any given Sunday.
Speaker 1: But this is how you keep prevent that from happening.
Speaker 1: But also this Rams defense or offense, I should say,
Speaker 1: they've only scored twenty points or they score twenty points fewer,
Speaker 1: and three of their first four games ye ten points
Speaker 1: or fewer. In two of those first four they're simply
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're asleep, or if it's a
Speaker 1: combination of them being asleep trying to jar themselves awake,
Speaker 1: or if it's simply you don't have the horses up
Speaker 1: front to give you the time to find to let
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup get behind you, right, because in order to
Speaker 1: run a goal route, to get behind your safeties, the
Speaker 1: quarterback needs time in the pocket to deliver that ball.
Speaker 1: And when you don't have it, those goal routes, those
Speaker 1: would be goal routes, didn't become hooks and flats and screens,
Speaker 1: and the field starts shrinking vertically and then you can
Speaker 1: tee off. I think you nail that. I think that's
Speaker 1: what's happening with Carson. Carson Wentz has guys that can
Speaker 1: make plays down the field. They just didn't give them
Speaker 1: any time the last couple of weeks, and Marcus Mosher
Speaker 1: put out on Twitter, I think their lowest big play team,
Speaker 1: the Rams are right now. It's sixteen explosive play so far.
Speaker 1: That's that's a product of the protection. Probably and we've
Speaker 1: met I think you teas Alan Robinson and he's a
Speaker 1: new guy in the in the offense, and they just
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a matter of connection nut clicking yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got some really interesting stats about how this RAMS
Speaker 1: team is different than what it has been under Sean
Speaker 1: mcvagh in the past, and I'm gonna hit it on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break. And we're also going
Speaker 1: to talk about how can this pass rush take advantage
Speaker 1: of that RAMS offensive line when we've come back with
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Speaker 1: All right back here, final segment here talking Cowboys. Chris Beam,
Speaker 1: you just heard him, Rob Phillips, Isaiah standing back, Patrick Walker,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's all right. With the Cowboys win this week,
Speaker 1: Sean McVay will be under five hundred for the first
Speaker 1: time after Week two or later. In the entire time
Speaker 1: of his tenure as the head coach of the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams, he's never had a losing record. Actually, the
Speaker 1: worst record he ever had was in Week sixteen of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, he was eight and seven. That's the worst
Speaker 1: record he's had as the Rams head coach after week two.
Speaker 1: So it's been a while since the Cowboy or since
Speaker 1: the Rams have been under five hundred, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: could get him there with that moving into this week now,
Speaker 1: you also talk about the way that their offensive line
Speaker 1: has not been playing well. Rams currently have a minus
Speaker 1: twenty four point deferential in twenty twenty two, after having
Speaker 1: a positive point deferential through four games in each of
Speaker 1: the first five seasons under Sean mcvayh their lowest prior
Speaker 1: to this year was plus thirteen, So that's what like
Speaker 1: a thirty five point difference thirty seven point difference something
Speaker 1: like that. That it's different now with Sean McVay. This
Speaker 1: doesn't look like the same team. Where's the weakness of
Speaker 1: that offensive line? Patrick? Because Dallas is going to get
Speaker 1: after teams. We've already seen that through the first four
Speaker 1: weeks of the year. How are they going to get
Speaker 1: after the rams? Well, WHI should terrify the rams is
Speaker 1: the weakness. The biggest weakness is not simply the interior
Speaker 1: of the offensive line. It's more specifically the center position,
Speaker 1: which is critical, critical to making sure that I mean,
Speaker 1: you talk about time we were talking about the long
Speaker 1: snapper situation. You talk about your quarterback having trust in
Speaker 1: the center and that particularly on shotgun formations, that that
Speaker 1: ball is going to be there timely. The cadence is
Speaker 1: going to be understood. Asaiah spoken a lot about cadence
Speaker 1: this season. All of that stuff matters. And now you're
Speaker 1: you're going to your third string center, and when that
Speaker 1: third string center walks up, he's trying to over He's
Speaker 1: going to over process because he's trying not to make
Speaker 1: a mistake, which is why he's probably going to make
Speaker 1: a mistake. Now that could be a poor snap, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be. But not only does he have
Speaker 1: to make sure that the timing and the rhythm that
Speaker 1: he understands Stafford's cadence correctly, but he also then has
Speaker 1: to understand that once he flips his head up, look
Speaker 1: look who he's staring at. He's staring at Neville Gallimore
Speaker 1: and ohso Diggi Zoua and Quentin Bohanna and Chauncey Ghost
Speaker 1: and and good luck young man. So I don't I
Speaker 1: think that you look at the interior of the offensive
Speaker 1: line for the Rams, you look at the center position,
Speaker 1: third stringer coming in, who's not you know, that's not
Speaker 1: his base position. That's a major major problem in Stafford already.
Speaker 1: You know quite as it's kept maybe loud as it's uh.
Speaker 1: He doesn't trust those guys up front, and you're seeing
Speaker 1: it on film. And now you're gonna throw a third
Speaker 1: string center in front of him against some horses from
Speaker 1: dan Quinn. The trust is going to the trust level
Speaker 1: is gonna go down that much more so in week five.
Speaker 1: And you know the pork chop is tender in the center.
Speaker 1: Cowboys just have to eat a hole through it. Ronnie, Yeah, yeh,
Speaker 1: I got none for you. Okay, why these guys are
Speaker 1: in a bad position and Dallas Cowboys in a good position.
Speaker 1: It's just you had something last week whenever Washington was
Speaker 1: in a bad position. Tell me, tell me about him. No,
Speaker 1: I mean they're just like you said. I think that
Speaker 1: you have to be conscious and cautious about coming in there,
Speaker 1: like like sleepy, Joe, don't be don't be sleepy walking
Speaker 1: in here to play them at home with their backs
Speaker 1: against the wall, with the city against some with a
Speaker 1: super competitive coach, super really with really good players offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. They have their problems, right A lot of
Speaker 1: teams have their problems right now, injuries, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about the defendant champs, so put some
Speaker 1: respect on it. Not only are they defendant champs or
Speaker 1: defendive champs with the same coach, the same superstars, they
Speaker 1: added more superstars and they're playing at the crib where
Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. So you don't be confident,
Speaker 1: don't be cocky. Yeah, you know, be confident, don't be cocky.
Speaker 1: And I heard I think was it King Griffey Junior
Speaker 1: yesterday was on the Pivot and he said, what do
Speaker 1: you say? He said, confident is is knowing that you're
Speaker 1: good at something, and cocky is when you feel that
Speaker 1: you have to tell everybody, Yeah, just just just know
Speaker 1: just going there and know that you're good, know that
Speaker 1: things are clicking, no that things that are on the
Speaker 1: up and up. Go out there and they're they're wounded,
Speaker 1: they're wounded, go out there and expose it. Usually it's
Speaker 1: teams that have a target on the Cowboys back just
Speaker 1: because the brashness of the brand and the visibility that
Speaker 1: they bring. But are they even able to be confident
Speaker 1: and or cocky either one after the three game waiting streak?
Speaker 1: Have they earned that right yet? I don't get the
Speaker 1: sense that anybody on this team is cocky it. That's
Speaker 1: kind of what I'm thinking. I mean, that's kind of
Speaker 1: where I'm leading. I don't think they've earned that right yet,
Speaker 1: especially to go up and be too confident and overly
Speaker 1: confident against the La Rams who just won a Super Bowl, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been times where the Cowboys and Dak
Speaker 1: has even said it, where they've you know, they kind
Speaker 1: of feeling themselves a little bit when they've gone on
Speaker 1: a win streak. It's happened before. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case, because I think it shouldn't be the case
Speaker 1: because clearly offensively, there's things that they are limited at.
Speaker 1: They got they got some continued issue, Like there's things
Speaker 1: you can point to this Washington game where you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: the protection up front, the running game, we couldn't get
Speaker 1: that going defensively leaking a lot of run yards. They
Speaker 1: need to get more takeaways. Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on film that even dan Quinn can point to
Speaker 1: and be like, we can be better at this, better
Speaker 1: at this. There's a ton of room for improvement, even
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the ball. They shouldn't be cocky,
Speaker 1: they should be confident because I think they know they're good.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Isaiah's right, like, you gotta put respect on
Speaker 1: the rams. This is not the first time that people
Speaker 1: have said Sean McVeigh has been figured out. It's not
Speaker 1: the first time, and they'll be back. He's probably one
Speaker 1: of the most I mean, you think about the most creative,
Speaker 1: ingenious minds offensively in the league, you mcveigh's name comes up,
Speaker 1: no doubt. So for him to be at the bottom,
Speaker 1: and you know how competitive he is, he's whether he
Speaker 1: was the youngest coach youngest head coach or whatever is
Speaker 1: at some point in time, this dude is he's confident,
Speaker 1: he's freaking competitive, he's infatuated with the game. This is
Speaker 1: not what you're talking about young coaches. And I guess
Speaker 1: I'll make this comparison. Was a Klingsberg? Was the name
Speaker 1: was Kingsberry? Yeah, King I can't say his name, Kingsberry
Speaker 1: disrespect Okay, in Arizona, both young coaches, both offensive minds.
Speaker 1: One of them you just hold in a high regard, right,
Speaker 1: one of them you just holding a high regard because
Speaker 1: you're like, if this dude gets knocked down, like dang it,
Speaker 1: like watch out, Like he's probably gonna be pissed off.
Speaker 1: And this like if there if there's any coach in
Speaker 1: the league that you feel that way about, is this
Speaker 1: guy right here? Yeah? I mean McVeigh isn't figured out.
Speaker 1: I mean that he continues to prove that time and again.
Speaker 1: But it kind of goes back to a hearking back
Speaker 1: to our conversation about Brian Dable. Right, all right, you
Speaker 1: have one of the better brighter football minds in the
Speaker 1: NFL that you're going against. Respect that respect, that respect
Speaker 1: that at the end of the day, personnel, and it
Speaker 1: matters until it doesn't matter, and it doesn't matter when
Speaker 1: it comes down to personnel and execution. And you you
Speaker 1: saw McVeigh throwing some of his players under the bus
Speaker 1: in the press conference after the loss of the forty
Speaker 1: nine is by basically saying, the guys we expected to
Speaker 1: step up didn't do what we wanted them to do.
Speaker 1: It right, you got to love it. But at the
Speaker 1: same time that tells you that to a large degree,
Speaker 1: it matters the scheme and all of this, it matters,
Speaker 1: it matters, it matters. But if your horses are not
Speaker 1: built to stop these dogs, then your horses are going
Speaker 1: to be sandwich meat. That's just what it comes down to.
Speaker 1: And there's no variation at any given Sunday, caveat any
Speaker 1: given Sunday. But there's nothing that I see personnel to
Speaker 1: personnel wise offensive line of defensive line. And then you
Speaker 1: throw in Michael Parsons in the world's wado for Matt
Speaker 1: where's he at? Where's Hett? And Michael Parsons, by the way,
Speaker 1: hasn't had a technical sack and I'd say technical a
Speaker 1: technical sack in two games. He's not cocky, he wants
Speaker 1: he's out for blood. This defense wants to improve Tank
Speaker 1: they were up. When he was frustrated about not stopping
Speaker 1: the run. He wasn't over there like, oh, well we're up,
Speaker 1: you know, let him have no He was like, we
Speaker 1: have to stop the run. This defense is just monstrous,
Speaker 1: and they're going against an offensive line that is exceedingly porous,
Speaker 1: and there is a quarterback behind that offensive line that
Speaker 1: has shown you when you shrink his clock, he will
Speaker 1: get view the ball. This is a winnable game for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in a stadium that should be heavily populated
Speaker 1: with Cowboys fans, even with the Super Bowl champs in town.
Speaker 1: They're just there, what seven eight weeks ago? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we were. So I'm glad we have this conversation now
Speaker 1: because if you were going to overlook a part of
Speaker 1: the offense or a part of the Rams, it would
Speaker 1: be their offense. And Sean McVay is gonna pick that
Speaker 1: up and it's gonna be there. You're gonna have some challenges.
Speaker 1: You cannot overlook the Rams defense. Though they've been playing
Speaker 1: really well, they're gonna be tough to get past at
Speaker 1: any point throughout the season, especially this week when you're
Speaker 1: still trying to get back on track on your offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. We're gonna preview that matchup tomorrow
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