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Speaker 1: we're gonna break down this this matchup with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: We had a guy with some nicknames last week in
Speaker 1: the Nuche and Gucci de Nucci and Nucci Man starting
Speaker 1: a quarterback against Philadelphia. We were thought to have Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton back this week. By the time yesterday's showed exactly
Speaker 1: not so fast. He was as of yesterday afternoon, placed
Speaker 1: on the COVID nineteen protocol list. And now it looks
Speaker 1: like there are other options at quarterback and none of
Speaker 1: them involved Ben DiNucci at least at the moment. Starter wise, Rob,
Speaker 1: what are you hearing in turn of the quarterback battle
Speaker 1: that is now ensuing in these walls at the Star.
Speaker 1: Just the reports out there that all options seem to
Speaker 1: be on the table with the healthy quarterbacks that they have.
Speaker 1: First off, best wishes Tod Andy Dalton. That news did
Speaker 1: come out yesterday, as Kyle said, And you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't specify why he's on that list. You know,
Speaker 1: players go on that list either because they tested positive
Speaker 1: for COVID or they came in close contact with somebody
Speaker 1: who did so that you know whether or not it's
Speaker 1: one of those two, or if you're symptomatic or a
Speaker 1: symptomatic it can it can vary on how long you're
Speaker 1: on that list regardless. Hope he's back soon, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, if you're the Cowboys, what else
Speaker 1: can happen this season? Honestly, it's unbelievable. And you know
Speaker 1: there's reports out there that there they may be leaning
Speaker 1: towards Cooper Rush off the practice squad. I asked our
Speaker 1: friend Bobby Belt of NFL Network, if that were to happen,
Speaker 1: has that ever happened in the history of the NFL,
Speaker 1: where your starting quarterback for that Sunday began the week
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. I wonder if that has ever happened.
Speaker 1: He could not find that, So that might be another
Speaker 1: first in Cowboys history if it happens on Sunday. Fellas, Hmmm,
Speaker 1: what if I told you I'm had to do that?
Speaker 1: That's why you sooice, because hey, man, I don't think
Speaker 1: any of us anticipated Cooper Rush starting against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: Are man, this is this is we've we've reached def
Speaker 1: khon Ford. We're there, uh now. And once I got
Speaker 1: once we got the notification, and I be one of
Speaker 1: you guys. It was Isaiah that sent the Texas. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, man, how do we get here? And this is, man,
Speaker 1: this is a whole new level of twenty twenty. I
Speaker 1: know that's cliche, but I mean, if Bobby Belt can't
Speaker 1: find out if a guy's ever gone from the practice
Speaker 1: squad to starting QB and this is the first time,
Speaker 1: and it happens to us, that. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what kind of open this is. Isaiah. You got nothing, Kyle,
Speaker 1: I got nothing, man. It's just, uh, you know, let's
Speaker 1: talk about this offense versus defense. How about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to move you want to move on? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that one yet. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: that one tomorrow. We need an extra day to prepare
Speaker 1: for that. But whenever it comes to Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert, which seemingly that's where the quarterback competition it lies.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I had been hearing throughout
Speaker 1: the building as well. Was it was those two, not
Speaker 1: Ben de Nucci. But I was asked this question on
Speaker 1: the fan a moment ago, and I think it's a
Speaker 1: great question, Isaiah. I want to direct this towards you
Speaker 1: to start. But whenever it comes to Garrett Gilbert and
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, what did they give you that Ben de
Speaker 1: Nucci doesn't give you. I don't know. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I don't answer it matters. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think it really matters. I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care. If Dak was playing this game, it
Speaker 1: was gonna be It's gonna be a tough game. Um man,
Speaker 1: that's just being transparent. Um. Obviously there's no dak um.
Speaker 1: So we were like, okay, Andy Dalton, Well, Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: can't play. Even if any Dalton's playing, it was gonna
Speaker 1: be a very tough game. Um. And now we're like
Speaker 1: Ben to Nucci, all right, here we go, Ben, um
Speaker 1: And now we don't know if it's been so now
Speaker 1: we're like Gilbert uh, um, anybody, but you got it?
Speaker 1: You want to play No No, No No, No seven or
Speaker 1: seven leagues who played you know, Rob to the Pea. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it really matters this this defense,
Speaker 1: this defense is a problem. They are a problem. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if anybody tuned into the film room yesterday.
Speaker 1: We try to highlight it a little bit. Um. These
Speaker 1: guys play hard, man, and I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: they don't care. And they are a great reflection of
Speaker 1: their coach. They're smart, they're they're intentional, they're they're tenacious,
Speaker 1: they they they're relentless, and all the all the words
Speaker 1: that you want to be representative of your team. That's
Speaker 1: what this team is. And it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you put in there. You can
Speaker 1: put all three of them there at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna matter. Isaiah, did you did
Speaker 1: you unbox your cleats? You're the only one on this
Speaker 1: podcast that has actually taken snaps in the NFL at
Speaker 1: any point. Have you unboxed them? Look at here. I
Speaker 1: don't think I would want these problems right now without
Speaker 1: having a little another week of practice. These dudes, these
Speaker 1: dudes are monsters on that side of the ball, and
Speaker 1: you better be strapped up and hopefully they all have
Speaker 1: hard chine straps on this week. He he, Well, we've
Speaker 1: obviously gotten an opportunity. Go ahead, up, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: would go for you. You were going first. Now we've
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to see what Cooper Rush has and
Speaker 1: and some preseason games and um, you know when I
Speaker 1: when I got the news that these guys who are
Speaker 1: if they were going away from being to nut and
Speaker 1: I thought that was just obviously what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give Donuti another opportunity. But obviously when they
Speaker 1: look that the tape he had, you just know that
Speaker 1: he had a rough outing versus Philadelphia, and to serve
Speaker 1: him up to this stealer's defense. This is a mercy
Speaker 1: This is a mercy call for the Nucci not to
Speaker 1: to to send him literally to the Wolves in this situation.
Speaker 1: They're saving his career. They're saving his career. Yes, And
Speaker 1: and I don't know if if Andy saw what happened
Speaker 1: last week and saw Pittsburg coming up, and it's it's
Speaker 1: a tough goal, it's a cup go however you look
Speaker 1: at it, and for both of these quarterbacks. Now, Gilbert
Speaker 1: may be a guy that we know a lot more
Speaker 1: about because he played here at SMU, A big guy,
Speaker 1: big arm. He can you know, I would hope that
Speaker 1: those quick throws is what he's it's specifically going to
Speaker 1: have to make to be successful against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: But we have no idea how this is gonna come out.
Speaker 1: And Cowboy fans, right now, you've got to be just
Speaker 1: in a situation you just like feeling like a lamb
Speaker 1: getting ready to be led to slaughter in a game
Speaker 1: like this where you know you're going into it with
Speaker 1: your fifth and sixth stream quarterback at this point. So look,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Let's just go through the rest
Speaker 1: of the show. Guys, come out, We gotta we hearn
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Speaker 1: five dollars for that. Yeah, you're getting twenty five, you're
Speaker 1: getting twenty five. I mean, wows. Oh, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 1: We can put that out there. Guy, is this a move?
Speaker 1: Go ahead and say what you're gonna say. But is
Speaker 1: this move also an indicative of the turnovers that we
Speaker 1: saw on Sunday as well? No, I just think he
Speaker 1: wasn't ready. I don't think he's ready to play an
Speaker 1: NFL game. And that's not no knock on him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a It's not a knock on him at all.
Speaker 1: I mean this is where the no training camp preseason
Speaker 1: stuff is an excuse. Yeah, it's a good one, because
Speaker 1: he hasn't even gotten in a preseason game to at
Speaker 1: least just kind of get the taste of the NFL speed.
Speaker 1: He didn't have any of that, and he went up
Speaker 1: against a really good front. Like you guys said, he's
Speaker 1: going up against a better front. He would be going
Speaker 1: up against a better front this week, and Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: said it on the fan yesterday. Frankly, it was more
Speaker 1: than he could handle. I think the coaches probably recognize
Speaker 1: that it probably is accurate. I'd be surprised if it
Speaker 1: didn't come down to Cooper Rush or Garrett Gilbert. Those
Speaker 1: two guys each have three career pass attempts, though in
Speaker 1: the regular season, so it's not like they have a
Speaker 1: ton of experience in games. They've been around teams, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Gilbert's been in and out of team camps
Speaker 1: and roster since twenty fourteen. I guess I would go
Speaker 1: with Cooper Rush just because I've actually really seen him play,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's been in some form of Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore's offense the last few years. I guess now in
Speaker 1: terms of this offense, with this terminology Isaiah does that
Speaker 1: would would Gilbert get the edge because he's been here
Speaker 1: a couple more weeks or do you think a Rush
Speaker 1: could come in from your experience, like come in this
Speaker 1: week and have enough familiarity with the past to be
Speaker 1: able to do it. I would think so, But I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean because he just got here technically,
Speaker 1: I mean personally, I would stay with Denucci. That's just me.
Speaker 1: There's no right answer here, So Twitter world, y'all chill out.
Speaker 1: There's no good answer. Here. Okay, um, but Denucci has
Speaker 1: been around the longest. I mean, that's the facts. None
Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks would be in a good position, none
Speaker 1: of them, none of them. Andy Dalton would be in
Speaker 1: a bad position. Dak would be in a bad position.
Speaker 1: This team is freaking good. This defense is they're freaking
Speaker 1: they're bullies there. This defense is they're a bunch of bullies.
Speaker 1: And they bullied Lamar Jackson, they bullied everybody else they face.
Speaker 1: So what makes you think they're not gonna come in
Speaker 1: here and bully whoever we put that quarterback. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough. Whenever you look at the last three
Speaker 1: or actually, I'll say it this way, how about that.
Speaker 1: There are three teams in the NFL that have a
Speaker 1: sack per pass attempts percentage of more than ten percents,
Speaker 1: which means they have a sack on more than ten
Speaker 1: percent of the past attempts against them. One of those
Speaker 1: teams was Washington. We saw what that happened a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago. The other team was Philadelphia. We saw
Speaker 1: them on Sunday night. That's two and three respectively. Now
Speaker 1: you see the number one team, and that's Pittsburgh. They
Speaker 1: have a sack on thirteen percent of their snaps and
Speaker 1: of their past attempts against. And that's by far the
Speaker 1: tops in the league. This is gonna be the best
Speaker 1: front you've seen so far. You might want an experienced
Speaker 1: quarterback back there, but even at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be rough no matter who's out there behind center.
Speaker 1: This is the best defense, not even just the best front,
Speaker 1: is the best defense in general, just all over the place.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got all these guys that we talked
Speaker 1: about TJ, and we talked about what das all other Cats,
Speaker 1: but Dubs, I mean, but they got Joe Hayden. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember Joe Hayden, but Joe
Speaker 1: joeysan just a pro bowler guy, you know, just a
Speaker 1: guy I guess you know, high paid, but they don't.
Speaker 1: His name hasn't even come up. That's how much talent
Speaker 1: is on his defense. Joe Hayden used to be one
Speaker 1: of the best corners, one of the most talked about
Speaker 1: corners in this league. And he's still a pretty dog
Speaker 1: and well respected corner in this league. But you don't
Speaker 1: even bring his name up. But that's because that's that's
Speaker 1: what mean guys they have on his team, It's it's
Speaker 1: kind of sickening, honestly, how much talent, not even not
Speaker 1: only talent they have, but how these guys play up
Speaker 1: to their talent, right, And I think that's I think
Speaker 1: you're you're right on with with that, man. But also
Speaker 1: guys like blood Dupree, uh he And I know T. J.
Speaker 1: Watt is the name that most people recognize from that defense,
Speaker 1: but blud Dupree is motor and he's gonna keep He's
Speaker 1: gonna continue to come. But even with all of that
Speaker 1: being said, last week, when you know, when you guys
Speaker 1: watched the Baltimore game, Baltimore gave them everything that they
Speaker 1: wanted in that game, to a tune of about four
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five yards total offense. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how Baltimore lost that game, and obviously it was
Speaker 1: a it's a turn I know how they lost it.
Speaker 1: They lost it on the turnovers and giving up a
Speaker 1: special teams touchdown as well. But that was an AFC
Speaker 1: North battle that Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh just found a way to
Speaker 1: win a tough game and that's what they do. And Isaiah,
Speaker 1: you said it, man, they are a reflection of their coach,
Speaker 1: coach tomlin is. Man, he's a great guy and they
Speaker 1: all respect him and they play for him, and they're
Speaker 1: just at a point right now. And I know we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about their office, but Big Ben Roethlisberger is
Speaker 1: playing lights out and he has a new toy that
Speaker 1: I'm we're gonna get into his toy. But man, they
Speaker 1: are lighting up the league with some of their formations
Speaker 1: that they have, and it's really hard to compete with.
Speaker 1: So they are the one seven and old team that
Speaker 1: doesn't look like this slowing down anytime soon, not at all,
Speaker 1: and they look like they're actually getting better. Last week
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, I thought that was maybe one of
Speaker 1: their better wins, even though it was a little ugly
Speaker 1: at times. As AFC North football is going to be
Speaker 1: from time to time, I think you're gonna see some
Speaker 1: ugly games, but I thought that was one of their
Speaker 1: more impressive wins. And the Steelers coming up, They've got
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, They've got the Jaguars, and then I forgot
Speaker 1: who the third team was, but it's nobody very good,
Speaker 1: at least at the moment. So they've got some teams
Speaker 1: coming up that they could be very easily be ten
Speaker 1: and oh the Cowboys the one team in there that
Speaker 1: wants to try and or I mean all three teams.
Speaker 1: The other one was Cincinnati by the way, that was
Speaker 1: in the mix there, but they could be very easily
Speaker 1: ten and oh if they take care of business against
Speaker 1: Dallas this week. Keckma alluded to it, We're gonna break
Speaker 1: down the Steelers offense against this Cowboys defense and really
Speaker 1: kind of look into how the Cowboys could have some
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Speaker 1: second segment of this Wednesday morning. Glad you're with us,
Speaker 1: Time to preview some of the matchups for this Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense against this Pittsburgh Steelers offense. And you look at
Speaker 1: the Steelers overall guys and a lot of familiar faces
Speaker 1: for at least the quarterback position, but not so much
Speaker 1: anybody else on this cot or on this Steelers team
Speaker 1: from four years ago. First time these two teams have
Speaker 1: met since twenty sixteen, the two winning as franchises in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era. Whenever you talk about Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 1: he continues to be the consistency guru, or at least
Speaker 1: the consistency mark of any veteran quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: What have you seen from Ben Big Ben over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks and now into what is his
Speaker 1: age thirty eight season, Isaiah, and what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table for the Steelers. I mean you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I mean I think Ben, coming off of last year,
Speaker 1: I'm not being able to really play. I knew he
Speaker 1: was gonna come back and have a solid season. He's
Speaker 1: a competitor man, and nobody's ever questioned that about him.
Speaker 1: Um he's the he's the heartbeat of this team. Um uh.
Speaker 1: And and he's really just a corner of that cornerstone
Speaker 1: man and these guys he has a ton of weapons
Speaker 1: around him. For whatever reason, this organization knows how to
Speaker 1: develop talent, and they know how to develop receivers. That's
Speaker 1: why they were able to let go of the guys
Speaker 1: that they've let go in the past and not miss
Speaker 1: a beat at all. Um. You know, it's it's amazing
Speaker 1: how they're able to build up these young receivers, um
Speaker 1: and and have a plethora of guys all shapes and
Speaker 1: sizes and speeds and and and skill sets and and
Speaker 1: they're all to the benefit of Pittsburgh. I mean, you
Speaker 1: take a you know, you take a guy like Claypool, Like,
Speaker 1: where the heck did he come from? Man, here he
Speaker 1: comes at, you know, at the size of a tight end.
Speaker 1: He's blown by guys, right. You got Washington, who's shifty
Speaker 1: is all get out. You got Eric Ebron who's failed
Speaker 1: at his last couple of locations, and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he shows up in Pittsburgh and he's balling out
Speaker 1: and throwing people at the club. So I mean this,
Speaker 1: this offense, you know, I'm not gonna talking about the
Speaker 1: running game of the offense is nice, man, And Big
Speaker 1: Ben has done great job and it's a testament as
Speaker 1: to his leadership because you know, even regardless of what
Speaker 1: guys have said about him in the past, obviously he's
Speaker 1: doing something right because he keeps continue to build up
Speaker 1: and elevate the play of other guys around him. Agma, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, Big Bend is Big Ben. He's and it
Speaker 1: always have been a model of consistency. Like Isaiah was
Speaker 1: talking about. But I tell you, man, when he got
Speaker 1: the elbow surgery, I thought that that was gonna be
Speaker 1: the end of his career. When they talked about how
Speaker 1: you know, reattaching the tendons back to the elbow and
Speaker 1: all of that. But he's come back this year and
Speaker 1: he's looked better than ever. He's not the same. He
Speaker 1: doesn't gamble the same that he used to, and I
Speaker 1: think that's just has to do with the rehabbing process
Speaker 1: and trusting his arm again and what that's made him do.
Speaker 1: It's just go with his more intermediary routes. And that's
Speaker 1: where Eric Ebroun and Chase Claypool are just feasting on
Speaker 1: defenses in you have to at their offensive coordinator's Dick Deischner.
Speaker 1: I believe he's been with U. He's been with coach
Speaker 1: Thomlin since oh seven, but he was a wide receivers coaching.
Speaker 1: He is the one who they credit for, you know,
Speaker 1: getting these guys, these these these wide receivers and making
Speaker 1: them h so much better. But man, it's all about
Speaker 1: the formations for me. I mean, they use two and
Speaker 1: three tight ends. They go with a jumbo said, and
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool is not. He's not a wide receiver. He
Speaker 1: is a quarter pounder away from being a tight end.
Speaker 1: The spooky thing about him is this guy has exceptionally
Speaker 1: fast and I know, how do we stop it? We're
Speaker 1: just going to have to get a lot of prayer
Speaker 1: and holy water. But no, no, what we gotta do
Speaker 1: is we've gotta get We got our cornerbacks, and hopefully
Speaker 1: Cheeto comes back this week because we're definitely gonna need him.
Speaker 1: M Jay Leu has been playing in the slot a lot,
Speaker 1: and I think put in Jay Lew in the slot,
Speaker 1: that's gonna match him up Man the Man with guys
Speaker 1: like Chase Claypool, which I don't think that's that would be.
Speaker 1: I think that's a mismatching and everybody should agree. Uh then,
Speaker 1: but yeah, getting getting a woozier back, I think that's
Speaker 1: that's better for us. But again, you still have the
Speaker 1: mismatches on the outside with Juju and Rob. I'll just
Speaker 1: leave you a little bit of meat on this bomb.
Speaker 1: Take it away, oh man, Josephrano, Yeah, No. Asaiah brought
Speaker 1: up the point I hadn't thought about that. You know,
Speaker 1: you lose Antonio Brown and you think, you know, for
Speaker 1: some teams, I mean, that's your offense, and they found
Speaker 1: a way to just keep going. And they're an outstanding
Speaker 1: offense this year with a lot of new faces. And
Speaker 1: to Heck's point, like he's he's right up there with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson to me in terms of the top quarterbacks
Speaker 1: you're gonna face this year because of his experience, his savvy,
Speaker 1: his ability to get the offense into the right play,
Speaker 1: and also just how clutchy is. You know, you're never
Speaker 1: out of a game with Ben Roethlisberger and talking about
Speaker 1: those formations. Heck, just watching these last couple of games
Speaker 1: and playing you know, we talk about the Cowboys running game,
Speaker 1: run defense, but I'm turned on how they're just may
Speaker 1: just spread out the Cowboys defensively with all their receivers
Speaker 1: like they did last week where they went five wide
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. In the second half we
Speaker 1: went four wide. They had those bunch formations were receivers
Speaker 1: on the one side of the field just kind of
Speaker 1: scatter and you got to be on point as dbs.
Speaker 1: So this is a big game for Cheeto to hopefully
Speaker 1: come back to try to counteract some of that. But
Speaker 1: what they were able to do in the second half
Speaker 1: of Baltimore was just like, Okay, you know what, We're
Speaker 1: just gonna spread out and we're just gonna run some plays.
Speaker 1: Guy's gonna run around and get open. And that really
Speaker 1: worked because they've got a lot of receivers who can
Speaker 1: get separation, and they've got a quarterback who can find you.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, Ben Roethlisberger and Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: are now in the MVP conversation according to Rob pe
Speaker 1: in the quarterback the quarterback comparison now and Lamar too,
Speaker 1: you'll see him a little later, a little bit later on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to even think about that matchup just yet. Now.
Speaker 1: Whenever it comes to this offense for the Steelers specifically,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting the way that their statistics to
Speaker 1: have worked out. And I know, out of everybody here,
Speaker 1: Isaiah is the one guy who really loves those statistics
Speaker 1: and is only with the statistics and only looks at
Speaker 1: those statistics. So I'm going to look at them. How
Speaker 1: about this total yardage? Twenty fifth in the league in
Speaker 1: total yardage. However, they're fifth in scoring. So they're the
Speaker 1: fourteenth or excuse me, sixteenth rushing offense, twenty fourth passing offense,
Speaker 1: but they're fifth in scoring. How does that work out?
Speaker 1: That make it make sense? How does it work out
Speaker 1: that way? That's called defense? Oh, it's called defense. It's
Speaker 1: called special teams. Okay, defense and special teams absolutely, So
Speaker 1: should we be scared of this offense still or no?
Speaker 1: I mean I know the defense has yes, So all
Speaker 1: that all that stat means is that these guys don't
Speaker 1: have to go as far as to score. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all. That's that means. That's it. That's that's all
Speaker 1: it means. So these guys are getting good field position.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a it's a great uh you know,
Speaker 1: and it's great analytics for for how effective this special
Speaker 1: teams probably is because of the part game and a
Speaker 1: part return game. But you know, it's put set these
Speaker 1: guys up there for a good field position, um, and
Speaker 1: then their offense is having to do less work to
Speaker 1: score points. But it has nothing to do with the
Speaker 1: effectiveness of this offense. These guys are deadly. You can't,
Speaker 1: we can't. We can't sit up here in name one
Speaker 1: position where we feel like the Cowboys have an advantage,
Speaker 1: not one, not one. And the other interesting thing about
Speaker 1: the stealers is they've scored sixty two points on turnovers,
Speaker 1: So turn the ball over, they will score. And that's
Speaker 1: that's a large part of that stat that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Kyle is, like Isaiah said, it's just they're getting a
Speaker 1: short field and then position to score anytime they get
Speaker 1: the ball. From the defense they've got, I think they're
Speaker 1: tied for the second most takeaways in the league through
Speaker 1: what seven games? They played seven games, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, that's why they're a favorite to win this
Speaker 1: whole thing, because they remind me of you know, when
Speaker 1: New Orleans won it with Breeze. They had the best
Speaker 1: offense in the league, but they also had forty takeaways defensively,
Speaker 1: So you're you're taking a great offense and just making
Speaker 1: an easy for him, you know. And so that's that's
Speaker 1: a big prod for a team like the Cowboys, who
Speaker 1: took a step forward last week, but their biggest problem
Speaker 1: is taking care of the football. Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: bad matchup. This is a very bad matchup, all right,
Speaker 1: So I gots we gotta give some positivity. We gotta
Speaker 1: give some positivity here, Kyle. So I know you're gonna
Speaker 1: come through with a question, so we can and check
Speaker 1: some positive. Now that the only thing that I believe
Speaker 1: that Cowboys have to in their advantage here is to
Speaker 1: try and get pressure on being they have. You've got
Speaker 1: to try and manufacture that pressure, whether it be with blessing,
Speaker 1: your linebackers or your guys on the outside, that's the
Speaker 1: only way. And you saw Baltimore, which Isaiah has always said,
Speaker 1: Baltimore's defense is eerily similar to the Cowboys defense, but
Speaker 1: not like that similar because they have they have the
Speaker 1: personnel that matches with it. But I think Baltimore had
Speaker 1: more success when they were coming after being instead of
Speaker 1: just sitting back and so, um, that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to take a page from what Baltimore did last
Speaker 1: last last week and try and bring that pressure up
Speaker 1: the middle in Ben's face so that he can't just
Speaker 1: check down the air. Ebrun and Chase Claypool. Ah. This
Speaker 1: is my concern though, because they did a great job
Speaker 1: against them in the in the first half last week.
Speaker 1: But their offensive line is so good that I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier. They went empty like the whole
Speaker 1: second half, and and Baltimore tried to get pressure with four,
Speaker 1: They tried to blitz and they you know, Ben had time.
Speaker 1: You know, he went down a couple of times. But
Speaker 1: can you get there's the question, because they're really good
Speaker 1: up front, rob their center is just okay. Their Senter
Speaker 1: is just a guy. Huh what was that? Ye? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a guy. Okay, just the guy. All right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for those of you listening right now, I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: the sarcasm that is being played from Isaiah standing back,
Speaker 1: because that is he's trying to start up. He's trying
Speaker 1: to start an argument. That's not that's not true. He's
Speaker 1: only one of the best, only one of the best
Speaker 1: centers in the game. That's all. Maybe ever had been
Speaker 1: around for a while. Yeah, I mean, he's been as
Speaker 1: efficient as anybody in the NFL since he entered the league. Now,
Speaker 1: they've also got Villaneueva on the left tackle spot who's
Speaker 1: pretty stout as well, and so you're gonna see Alden
Speaker 1: Smith and Randy Gregory going up against him. He's been hurt,
Speaker 1: he's been he's been hurt, but he's still he still
Speaker 1: should be there this week. I believe. I think he's
Speaker 1: ready to go this week. I'll double check that here
Speaker 1: in a second. But is this a game where DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence has to even see a step up from what
Speaker 1: we saw last week in order to really get any
Speaker 1: kind of pressure on Big Ben. I mean the answer
Speaker 1: is yes. I mean, not a yes, And I'll take
Speaker 1: it a step further. The defense not only has to
Speaker 1: get a turnover, they have to get some form of
Speaker 1: points because if this think about it, guys, and since
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott was injured, the Cowboys have had thirty two
Speaker 1: drives where we've only manufactured one score. So that tells
Speaker 1: you we need help. And the help has to come
Speaker 1: in the form of a defensive turnover that goes to
Speaker 1: the house. We've got to try and get points any
Speaker 1: which way we possibly can. So yes, does it. Does
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence need to get Not only does he
Speaker 1: need to get a sack, he needs to carry Ben
Speaker 1: to the end zone with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: While he's doing it, Llain the same size. Heck, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Villain Aueva has not been on the injury
Speaker 1: reports since September twenty first, and he's playing in every
Speaker 1: down role right now, so he's should be good to
Speaker 1: go in terms of the left tackle spot for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: But whenever you look at the interior of this office
Speaker 1: or this defensive line rather, you're not gonna get a
Speaker 1: ton of pressure. It's just not gonna happen. That's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Against Palency. It's not gonna happen against this
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh offensive line. How good does this secondary have to
Speaker 1: be against a Juju Smith Schuster, against the Chase Claypool,
Speaker 1: even against eric Keybrown like you said previously, and even
Speaker 1: these linebackers against the run whenever it comes down to
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty on Sunday, in order to have any
Speaker 1: remote kind of success against this offense, I'm taking the
Speaker 1: opposite approach to what I suggested last week. Last week,
Speaker 1: I suggested that you line up man to man and
Speaker 1: you put some hands on them boys, right, because you
Speaker 1: had some guys that were really unproven. There some guys
Speaker 1: that we're kind of on the edge whether are they
Speaker 1: are a real due or are they just kind of
Speaker 1: flashing this week, don't line up man to man, please please, Ryan,
Speaker 1: do please don't do this. Don't do it. Um. Just
Speaker 1: just play zone right, play anything but the cover for
Speaker 1: it that you've been playing. Just play a play a
Speaker 1: soft cover two. And if they're gonna score, they're gonna
Speaker 1: score anyways, but at least slow them down, right, at
Speaker 1: least slow them down. Don't let these guys strike whatever
Speaker 1: they want to, like, just just give your guys a chance.
Speaker 1: And last week it was a great you know, it
Speaker 1: was a great They they took a step forward on defense,
Speaker 1: and we talked about it. We talked about it in
Speaker 1: the film room. How these guys were. They were playing
Speaker 1: a position, playing the roles they were supposed to play
Speaker 1: whenever they play his own defense. Right, they were where
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be. If they can continue to
Speaker 1: do that, they would be in position for success. Right
Speaker 1: because a lot of teams don't have the patients to
Speaker 1: march down the field. Most teams want that big shot.
Speaker 1: A lot of offensive coordinators, especially when they have the
Speaker 1: resources in personnel, like they like the Steelers, due they
Speaker 1: don't really want to march all the way down they
Speaker 1: really go. They'll do it for a little bit and
Speaker 1: then they get a little greedy. They're like, all right,
Speaker 1: let me take the big shot. And that's what you
Speaker 1: wait on when you're playing his own defense. So that's
Speaker 1: my suggestion. Hey, we need to play some Cover two.
Speaker 1: We need to play some Cover six, we need to
Speaker 1: play some Cover five. We need to mix it up,
Speaker 1: play some some out of the ordinary type of coverages
Speaker 1: just to try to throw off Roethlisberger's a little bit
Speaker 1: and give your guys a chance to keep everything in
Speaker 1: front of them, because if you try to step up
Speaker 1: Trayvon Diggs and try to man him up with any
Speaker 1: of these guys, they're gonna run right by him. Rob. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing I would add to that
Speaker 1: is you just gotta be if you're gonna give that cushion,
Speaker 1: you got to be sound in space because you know,
Speaker 1: guy like Deonte Johnson, you know they'll they'll throw him
Speaker 1: a quick screen or flair and he's off to the races.
Speaker 1: So he's you know, he's they have a lot of
Speaker 1: versatility with their receivers and what they can bring to
Speaker 1: the table. So he's a guy you've got to be
Speaker 1: really mindful of um. And you know they'll use those
Speaker 1: jet sweeps to try to set up the run game,
Speaker 1: and you just gotta be really sound, like we've talked
Speaker 1: about all year, sound in your communication, Like as I said,
Speaker 1: sound in your assignments. And they were better at that
Speaker 1: last week. Now this is a much better offense by
Speaker 1: far that they're facing, So it'll be a really good
Speaker 1: test of what their progress really is right now mid season,
Speaker 1: and we still hadn't brought up Juju Smiths Houston and right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's another part of their offense that is
Speaker 1: really dynamic and just insibility to run those intermediate routes
Speaker 1: but also stretch the field as well. So this is
Speaker 1: a matchup for us, and especially with the big bodies
Speaker 1: that they have with Claypool and also run. We just
Speaker 1: know that it's we have a mismatched problem. And I
Speaker 1: agree with you Isaiah zone forms of couple four. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to and for our dvs and our secondary
Speaker 1: the communication is going to be key because when they
Speaker 1: go to those bunch when they go to those bunch formations,
Speaker 1: you know it's just a guy going to out guy
Speaker 1: doing this slant and another one doing a go. We
Speaker 1: have been miserable h in those formations as far as
Speaker 1: this guy's communicating. That's what has got better last week
Speaker 1: and they have to build on that. And what was
Speaker 1: really crazy about that heck was was Ben said after
Speaker 1: the game. They basically just drawn up plays in the dirt.
Speaker 1: They basically got in the huddle and just said, hey,
Speaker 1: you go here, you go here like you do, you know,
Speaker 1: just backyard football what he said. And it worked. I
Speaker 1: mean it worked. They just you know, kind of scrapped
Speaker 1: the game plan and said, spread you out. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try to make some something happen downfield, and they did.
Speaker 1: Whenever it comes to those formations, and I know, heck man,
Speaker 1: you've brought it up a couple different times tonight or
Speaker 1: I guess this morning rather, I'm completely off in terms
Speaker 1: of my time, but you've brought it up a couple
Speaker 1: of times this morning in those formations, and you set communication.
Speaker 1: Is that all you need in order to find a
Speaker 1: way to defend those things, especially whenever there's a lot
Speaker 1: of miscommunication previously in previous weeks from this Cowboys defense. Well,
Speaker 1: you need that and you need playmakers. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you get both of those things together, I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a little bit more success. But that's where
Speaker 1: that's what we haven't been doing, Kylin. And when you
Speaker 1: have offensive what we just see, guys we're outflanked or
Speaker 1: guys running streaking down the field with NOE one chasing,
Speaker 1: that's a problem. And I think Pittsburgh, because of those formations,
Speaker 1: they are going to bring back a bit of the
Speaker 1: problem that we had before. Look, Carson Wentz last week
Speaker 1: was horrible. It was horrible. And this week we get
Speaker 1: the polar opposite of Carson Wentz is horrible. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said that too whenever it comes to playmakers. And
Speaker 1: I've got a question for you guys coming up on
Speaker 1: the others side of the brick about whether or not
Speaker 1: we're ready to Caltrevon Diggs a quote unquote playmaker. And
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Speaker 1: talking Cowboys and Isaiah, I want I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: start this off because prior to the break, I asked
Speaker 1: the question, are we ready to call Trey Von Diggs
Speaker 1: a playmaker? He had his first and second career interceptions
Speaker 1: in that loss against Philadelphia has been close on a
Speaker 1: number of occasions, but he's had his ups and downs,
Speaker 1: to say the least in his rookie season. I want
Speaker 1: to hear what you have to say on him moving forward.
Speaker 1: Is he a playmaker now? And if not, how long
Speaker 1: is it going to take. I'm going to answer your
Speaker 1: first question, and no, he's not a playmaker currently. Okay
Speaker 1: 's a He's a tough, tenacious, competitive, rocky cornerback who
Speaker 1: I think is getting better every week. He's getting better
Speaker 1: every week. Um, he I know, I know we're responsible
Speaker 1: by tostitos and I mentioned this other day, but he
Speaker 1: has to stop getting tostito right. Um, he has to
Speaker 1: find a way. If you're gonna play press man, play
Speaker 1: press man, bro like your presence is not your presence
Speaker 1: isn't doing anything. This is the NFL. Guys, aren't afraid
Speaker 1: of what you may do. If you're gonna step up there,
Speaker 1: put your hands on him, right, You're big enough to
Speaker 1: do so. So I think he has to get better
Speaker 1: at his press coverage. I think he will be more
Speaker 1: successful with his man to man coverage if he starts
Speaker 1: utilizing his hands. Um, and once he recognizes he has
Speaker 1: that power, it's like, uh, you know, he's like, they're
Speaker 1: getting an infinity stone for him. Right. He'll he'll, he'll,
Speaker 1: he'll realize that he has more powers than he currently has. Um.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, he's not a playmaker. In
Speaker 1: the interceptions from last week, we know what those were.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know what those were. One was a
Speaker 1: fantastic player. They were both terrible. They were both terrible throws,
Speaker 1: but they were both really one. One was absolutely two
Speaker 1: great catches by him. Um, but it wasn't his coverage
Speaker 1: that did it. I don't want to take anything away
Speaker 1: from him, but he knows that, he knows. He knows
Speaker 1: that he should he knows that he shouldn't have had
Speaker 1: those opportunities to intersect the ball, but he when they
Speaker 1: came to him, he took him. I'm not mad at him.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to do. That's a good job on that.
Speaker 1: But he didn't earn that. He didn't earn those plays.
Speaker 1: If you guys see what I'm getting that anyways, Um,
Speaker 1: but he will be I think he will be a
Speaker 1: star in this league. I think he will be. You know,
Speaker 1: all all the trash that I give him, Um, he's
Speaker 1: just young, you know, and in professionals take advantage of
Speaker 1: young dudes, right, they're gonna torch him. His job is, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: because Cheeto's been her, his job is to stick the
Speaker 1: number the best guy that that we play against. That's
Speaker 1: not that's not fair for a rookie um and that's
Speaker 1: been his fate. But I think, and probably about you know,
Speaker 1: probably two years from now, he'll probably be a guy
Speaker 1: that everybody in his league will want. Hackman. Do you agree? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Isaiah's is man. He is tough on his
Speaker 1: grading uh grade cheat. Don't want to be in mister
Speaker 1: Stanbacks class at all if you're a rookie corner. But
Speaker 1: you know, I think also when it comes down to digs,
Speaker 1: it's been a trial by fire and he's had number
Speaker 1: one receiver after number one receiver on his plate and
Speaker 1: he's had to deal with it. And yes, you have.
Speaker 1: You can go back to the tape and you can
Speaker 1: see where he got caught with his hand in the
Speaker 1: cookie jar on a few times. But then you can
Speaker 1: also go back to the tape and see where this
Speaker 1: guy is playing really tough and he's getting close to
Speaker 1: stepping in front of a few balls and close, don't
Speaker 1: almost don't matter, right, But he's getting to the point
Speaker 1: where he's confident. His confidence is building. We have to
Speaker 1: continue to groom that, grow that and not destroy it.
Speaker 1: And I think getting guys like Cheeto back will help him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that helps, and that allows him to be able to
Speaker 1: be free. But also understanding the defense. We've been talking
Speaker 1: about this defense at Lynn and whether these guys understand coverages,
Speaker 1: especially with the defensive line or the linebackers. Everything has
Speaker 1: looked out of sorts. But in the middle of that,
Speaker 1: I think that we can look at number twenty seven
Speaker 1: and say we have a future with this. Right. And
Speaker 1: so the Alabama defense that he came to saving had
Speaker 1: a much more intricate scheme. So he understands that. But
Speaker 1: right now, just playing within himself and not listening to
Speaker 1: the nationairs and people calling him tostitos and all of that,
Speaker 1: and just build on what's you got, Bill, what's a guy?
Speaker 1: And just get better. Rook we went to dog, we
Speaker 1: went to Digs. He gonna be he gonna be awesome.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, in time, Isaiah, he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Thanos of the of the dB universe with the stone.
Speaker 1: You know, I do Rob I do, But I think
Speaker 1: he has all the attributes that you want. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: when you think about you know, the short memory, when
Speaker 1: you think about competitiveness, you know, he has a lot
Speaker 1: of contested you know, defensive players where he's right on
Speaker 1: guys backs. He's getting balls batted down and you know
Speaker 1: when guys are trying to run one step slants and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. He's competitive man, and he comes
Speaker 1: right back at you regardless if he gets tortured or not.
Speaker 1: He comes right back. He's like a little pest. And
Speaker 1: that's what you want from a cornerback. Now, he has
Speaker 1: good size, he can run around, he can run a
Speaker 1: little bit. He just has proof upon certain things. Of course,
Speaker 1: he has to improved and he's faced the best that
Speaker 1: this league has to offer. So of course that's not
Speaker 1: that's not a recipe for success. But down the road,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a beast. Now, yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, guys. I think he's you know, he's
Speaker 1: he has struggled for a lot of stretches this year,
Speaker 1: and that's not really surprising, especially given given the way
Speaker 1: the defense has been on their heels the entire year
Speaker 1: or two. I mean, they haven't played with leads and
Speaker 1: so that's that's been It's that's a tough situation to
Speaker 1: be in as a DV, I think. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he has all the physical gifts because like those interceptions
Speaker 1: were gifts, right, But it also shows his his ball
Speaker 1: skills and it shows I think it illustrates how you
Speaker 1: can tell he's been a receiver because heat man, he
Speaker 1: can go up and get the ball. Uh, Like you said,
Speaker 1: he's got great size. Um, And yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: just comes down to technique. You know. You know when
Speaker 1: he got beat by by Terry McLaurin a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, is just get his eyes in the backfield.
Speaker 1: He wasn't he wasn't you know, he wasn't playing his man.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just little things like that that I
Speaker 1: think come with experience and he knows that, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just fine tune in that and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a year from now he's going to be
Speaker 1: a much better player. Now. Heckma mentioned this earlier in
Speaker 1: the show, So if you if you missed it early live,
Speaker 1: go back and listen to us on iTunes or wherever
Speaker 1: you find your shows. But Heckma mentioned it. It was
Speaker 1: a great point of needing playmakers to discount maybe some
Speaker 1: of these these miscommunications, especially in a Steeler's offense, like
Speaker 1: we're seeing right now. But who else is a playmaker?
Speaker 1: We've just established Treyvon Diggs as kind of a borderline playmaker,
Speaker 1: but somebody who's trending that direction may not be there yet.
Speaker 1: But who is a playmaker when you look on this
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football, Because do you have one
Speaker 1: definitive guy right now that could be a playmaker specifically
Speaker 1: and definitively. It's a lot of positive yea, is it?
Speaker 1: Is it? DeMarcus? Urrence? Is that about it? Yeah? That's it?
Speaker 1: And Alden we can go tank Alden. Yeah. Vanderesh's he
Speaker 1: I think is he has more time to settle in
Speaker 1: and he made a big play the other other day.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if he if he can yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if he stays healthy and can continue to
Speaker 1: He really hadn't played any year basically, I mean he played,
Speaker 1: you know, please played a couple of games since coming
Speaker 1: back from the collar bone. I think he has that
Speaker 1: type of We've seen it. I mean we've seen it
Speaker 1: his rookie year. We saw it. So he's just got
Speaker 1: to stay on the field. And I thought you were
Speaker 1: talking about it from a secondary aspect. But yes, obviously
Speaker 1: Tank is that and he's obviously had a better game
Speaker 1: last week. Alden Smith has has substituted for tanking those
Speaker 1: times that he was not as effective. But even those
Speaker 1: role players like Donovan Wilson, guy's like you know the
Speaker 1: safety number thirty seven Woods, I mean, these guys came up.
Speaker 1: He had a great blitz and forced to turn over
Speaker 1: last week. That was great for from a second Darry
Speaker 1: that had. We've been dogging these guys so little things
Speaker 1: like that. The Cowboys have to keep trying to manufacture
Speaker 1: that defensively so that they can get the ball back
Speaker 1: for this offense. It's really about it again. Okay, go
Speaker 1: for it, Isaiah, tell me why so I can't go
Speaker 1: with d Lali. I love his effort. I love his effort.
Speaker 1: I don't think that d law is going to be
Speaker 1: the player that he that he can be until he
Speaker 1: plays on a team that has somebody better than him.
Speaker 1: I think I think he needs a mentor. I think
Speaker 1: he needs like a d Wear or a von Miller
Speaker 1: or somebody like that to show him the way, Like
Speaker 1: the Mandalorian. This is the way. I think he needs
Speaker 1: a knee. He needs one of those guys. I think
Speaker 1: he has an effort. I think he has the fight
Speaker 1: in him, but I think he's still missing the skill
Speaker 1: sets that you know, just like just does just little
Speaker 1: just a little things that they really put him over
Speaker 1: the edge. But he has an intangibles that you really
Speaker 1: can't teach the guys to want to. I honestly think
Speaker 1: Aldon Smith I'm not. I think he's been probably probably
Speaker 1: playing injured the last couple of weeks, honestly, but I
Speaker 1: think Aldis Smith is probably our only playmaker. How it is,
Speaker 1: He's the only guy. He's the only guy that he's
Speaker 1: the only guy that, when you think about, can disrupt offense.
Speaker 1: He's the only guy that you think about, there's nobody,
Speaker 1: there's nobody else on our team that you can say, oh,
Speaker 1: they disrupt what they're trying to do. Aldi Smith is
Speaker 1: probably the only guy that they that they circle whenever
Speaker 1: they're playing this say, have Aldon Smith shows up today,
Speaker 1: This is who we have to worry about now, de
Speaker 1: law you circle him and say he's gonna keep coming, right,
Speaker 1: He's gonna keep coming. He's gonna keep fighting. He's gonna
Speaker 1: keep grinding. But he's not a guy that you let
Speaker 1: you say he's gonna disrupt what we do, not yet
Speaker 1: at least, I don't know if I agree. I think
Speaker 1: I think de Law has a chance to be I
Speaker 1: agree the hasn't played up to the expectations, but I
Speaker 1: think overall that's a guy who you would still consider
Speaker 1: a playmaker and somebody who can disrupt the team because
Speaker 1: he's done it on occasion. I mean, see what he
Speaker 1: did in that Giants game and ended up winning you
Speaker 1: the football game with the strip sack and the fumble
Speaker 1: and the scoop and score in that one. He can
Speaker 1: make those plays, and he has done it throughout his career.
Speaker 1: You just got to do it more consistently on his partner.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a chance to show that coming up
Speaker 1: on Sunday. That's gonna do it here for today, when
Speaker 1: we come back tomorrow, we're gonna talk about the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 1: How did they get things going with Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: or Garrett Gilbert at quarterback against the best defense quite
Speaker 1: possibly in the NFL, especially within you got t J.
Speaker 1: Watt on the other side in a bevy of casting
Speaker 1: characters that are gonna be coming at him hot and
Speaker 1: heavy on Sunday. It's gonna be a it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough matchup, but we'll preview it tomorrow. Thanks for
Speaker 1: sticking with us here over the last forty five minutes
Speaker 1: for Chris Beam in the back, Risais Dan Back, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Hack Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. We'll see you tomorrow. This has
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