WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Rams Defense? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:03.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.719 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:15.040 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:20.400 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:26.720 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.160 It is Winnsday, January ninth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.960 number one Tin. Welcome to another edition one T one Tin. 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.239 We're moving along here, and we got a lot more 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.320 shows to go because next week we'll be doing shows 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.879 heading into the Championship game, and then we'll have two 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.480 weeks shows heading into the super Bowl. So it's just 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.640 there's a lot mans right here. There's a lot to 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.159 do here. I'm I'm the one that says superstitions aren't real, 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.279 and you clearly you clearly believe that too. Yeah, I 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.680 guess a whole bunch of people superstition. You're putting the 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:06.080 mouth on it. That's no stop. Seriously, I'm no turner 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.679 my golf. That's what That's what people say when you 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.240 bring up that, the pitchers saying you're like, oh, he's 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:13.840 throwing a no hitter, You're like, great, you put the 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:15.840 mouth on and he's gonna freaking I've never heard that. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:19.840 You've never heard that to watch baseball, So maybe it's 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.360 just another way of saying you spoke it into existence. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.080 They don't say that with kickers, because I've heard that 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.000 about kickers too. When you like, as soon as they 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.480 say he hasn't missed an extra point all season, it's like, 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.920 there we go here that miss it applies there. But 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.320 I've never heard that term. I guess, yeah, it's a term. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.399 I promise I'm looking at it either not in sports. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.360 It's a term, I promise. It's all right, let's get 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.120 back on the rails. Let's let's talk about why start now? 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:49.000 Why this is a it's it's you know, it's just 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.960 the biggest game of the year, and the game the 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.360 Cowboys having won in twenty years. What could we possibly 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:54.760 want to talk about? All right, Well, what we need 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.240 to start is with injuries, and I don't even want 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.680 to start with the real quick, just real quick. Someone 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.280 gave us a shout out at our show yesterday because 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.800 apparently talking cowboys, what's doing a whole bunch of college 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.960 football talking yeah, I'm talking about this game. Those guys 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.919 did a good job. Those guys just talk about whatever 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:13.959 they want to talk about. Maybe we should follow their lead. 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.720 I don't think people all right serious, like we're being 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.160 like them. Yeah, let's jump back into I don't want 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.000 to start with the guys that had missed. I want 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.480 to start with the guy that did practice, Dak Prescott, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.160 because as soon as you see his name pop on 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.520 an injury report and then you hear reports that he 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:33.000 has a sprain knee, obviously everyone's alert goes up because 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.120 of just how much he means to this team, this offense. 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.839 Talk to me about kind of what you've heard so far, 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.680 and if you're completely buying it, this has this is 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.480 no problem whatsoever. A nice sprain with your quarterback. Yeah, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:48.639 I do. I mean, you're right, you're right to be suspicious. 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.040 Teams like to keep stuff under wraps. But like he's 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.840 out there, he's ten feet away, jogging around looking fine. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.760 He was full, he was full, He definitely was full, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.720 and you're well, go you can go watch. I mean, 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.400 it's a great play, but he took a Seahawks helmet 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.799 to his upper knee when he tried to dive into 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.800 the end zone on that sixteen yards and reminds me 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.480 of what happened to Carson Wentz last year to put 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.600 him out of the playoffs, right, and he put him 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.080 out out for the rest of the season. He practiced. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.720 I mean, I get that, and I'm not saying that 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.160 he's hurt. What I'm saying is real. What I'm really 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.520 looking for is for you guys to reassure fans out there, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.040 because as soon as you hear the quarterback has a 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.359 needs brings fine, here you go. He's thank you fifty 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.520 feet away, like doing running back drills where he's got 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.320 the ball on the crook of his arm, running up 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.520 and down the field. Cart Will, he's fine this morning. Unbelievable, 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.679 the backflip in the cart. He will always catch that 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.440 kind of stuff. There's not to get in which dancing cart. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:41.240 Will's not kidding. But I wouldn't dream of I wouldn't 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.040 dream of making this a Romo Dak debate. But like 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.800 that's a selling point on Dak Prescott. He takes those 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.280 types of hits all the time, and he's builtfully fine. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.080 He is, he is built for it, and he's out there. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.760 He was full yesterday exprapping to be full today. Good. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.840 I don't think this is a problem at all. That's perfect. 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.000 Waiting for Joe Looney to pop into injury report yesterday 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.040 because the way he was dancing at the beginning of practice, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.440 like moving his neck. I'm like, he's gonna hurt his neck. 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:09.480 He was doing some serious dance move out there, just, uh, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.280 what do you call this move? Like idea, you know 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.200 we need to do. We may need to get a 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.440 camera that just goes out to practice and just gets 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.080 footage of guys dancing at practice and put it all 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.200 together in one big Actually, it would be pretty good. 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.120 I tried to take a video of Tavon dancing just 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.800 to show you what it was. And I thought I 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.160 was going to get tackled by the our our pr 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.479 with cell phone videos prohibited, but I didn't say cell phone, 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.880 which you didn't let me finish. He can't do it, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:44.560 can't do it. But yeah, if we sent Kent or 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.000 William out there with a real camera, there's nothing they 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:48.640 could do to stop us. There you go, And I 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.359 think that might be an idea. That is a good idea. Yeah, Like, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.680 and then they lose the game and they're like, why 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.839 did they lose? And it's like he was shot of looney. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.120 Here's a shot out of TV that's happening to Dave. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.240 Just by the way, that's happened at every NFL practice. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.040 That's what they do, all right. So let's talk about 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.880 some of the guys that did not practice. Cole Beasley, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.359 Noah Brown, Malie Collins, Blake Jarwin, David Army Um didn't 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:14.840 practice yesterday. Which of those I guess are are concerning 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.960 or should not be concerning. Malik's back so that's not 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.719 super concerning. It was an ankle and an illness. Yes, yeah, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.840 he's back. Noah Brown is also back. He was sick, 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.120 so you know he's okay. But Beasley and Jarwin are 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:33.440 still missing. Jason Garrett has and going back to skepticism, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.280 he has said multiple times this week that they're optimistic 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:41.160 about those guys, but we'll see. Not practicing on Thursday, 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.839 particularly for Jarwin, who's still a young player, it's not 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.279 a super great sign, which is interesting because Swam's already 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.560 on IR We kind of we sort of prodded at 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.400 Garrett about that in the walk off today. We're like, well, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.400 you only have two tight ends. If Jarwin can't play, 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:01.360 and he just kind of he kind of mildes Garrett smile, like, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.680 you know, you gotta make do at this time of 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.040 your type of deal. Yeah, yeah, I mean it. In 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.360 other words, that's a good question. I mean that's what 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.880 they're asking, like, what's how bad is this? And that's 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.599 that's one of those backdoor questions that you're like trying 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.039 to see, what's what's the situation here? Is there a 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.279 tight end on the practice squad right now? No? No, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.640 So essentially like they have no real back backup options 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.040 that even know the offense to be able to play 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.719 in the event they got in that situation if Jarwin 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.400 couldn't play, like the best the closest thing to a 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.719 backup would probably be Noah Brown, which you know for 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.279 all of the you know, people like move him to 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.920 tight end. He weighs two hundred and twenty pounds. Here 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.200 we go ten personnel. Hey, that's hey, Mad, that's what 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.279 it takes. That might be your best option. Now, of 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.279 course it would help if you had Hearns and Beasley, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.799 but it's something it's something to watch. It's it's always 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.520 concerning when a young guys not practicing on Thursday. I 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.599 know it's Wednesday, but it's really Thursday. Get Beasley all right? 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.159 Talking to me about Beasley, I don't think he's in 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.440 the same categories ears like no, no, no, what no? 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.920 That was I'm saying, hearns it's out and Beasley, we 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.680 don't know. It'd be nice if you're gonna run a 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.880 lot of ten personnel, if you had one or both 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.640 of those guys for sure. Right, what do you say 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:14.280 about Beasley today? He's not practicing, Like he said, they 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.160 feel optimistic that both of those guys are gonna come around. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.480 That's what he said. Okay, it's up to you to 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.760 decide how much you trust that, although I mean, Beasley's 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.880 kind of in the same boat. Like I don't think 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.840 I trust Tavon aust We talked about this yesterday. I 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.200 don't think I trust Tavon Austin to assume that whole role. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.559 And then your next best bet is probably Lance Lenore, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.960 who is now on the fifty three or will be 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.920 by the end of the week if he's not officially yet. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.000 The one thing you can't say about Beasley is he's 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.000 a tough guy and he's had this injury. Like he 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.400 went into the game last week. He wasn't completely healthy. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.120 I mean he's been playing here for the last few 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.480 weeks kind of banged up. So he is a warrior. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.840 He'll get out there to play even when he's not 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.960 one hundred percent. He had the foot spring before he 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.360 had the ankle spring, and Garrett said, it's the ankle 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.720 that's bothering him more so than the foot. Right now, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.520 he's yeah, he's dealing with some stuff. Yeah, that's that's 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.960 probably I don't know, but I mean Jarwin's maybe Jarwin's 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.160 injuries not as severe, but he's a younger, less experienced player, 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.600 whereas Beasley's. You know, Beasley's getting up there. He's like, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.040 this is like his eighth year or seventh year. Been 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.880 around for a minute. Yeah, I think he's played the 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.200 second most games on the team right now. Damn, it's 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.920 either LP behind LP. Sean hasn't played all the games. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.920 Oh yeah, is Sean would be up there, Sean And 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.040 then then I think it's Chris Jones and and Beasley 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.720 and it was Terrence, but you know, Terrence isn't hasn't played. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:45.280 Terence Williams number eighty three, he is still officially on 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:50.000 their roster r I are I forget about that. I 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.840 think he'll be released in the off season and save 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.439 some money for this team. Yeah, one of many. There 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.920 was a list of guys that were limited in practice. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.160 Tell me if any of these are guys that should 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:06.400 be of concern. Tavon Austin, Tyrone Crawford, Zach Martin, Tyrn Smith, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.840 Xavier is still a Philo, and Darien Thompson. Which of 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.400 those is an issue? And where are we sitting with 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.120 specifically with Sue a Philo who didn't play last week. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.280 My rule for a guy that played the last game 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.600 is that if you start the week practicing limited, I 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.439 assume you're good to good, even if it's limited. If 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.720 you played in the game and then you're back practicing 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:33.400 by Wednesday, I assume you're good. Okay. Yeah, Xavier's the 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.720 question mark. We'll see if he ups his participation today. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.000 It's always a good sign when a guy is practicing 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.760 to start the week, even if it's in a limited fashion. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.600 So correct me if I'm wrong. Last week he didn't 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.280 practice at all. No, so this is a step ahead, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.120 This is a step forward. It is a step in 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:52.560 the right direction. Well, so we'll see and that's you know. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.600 I asked him after the game, I'm like, how are 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.079 you feeling? How's your um ankle? He's like, we won 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.640 the game. I'm like, no, I know, how are you feeling? 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.760 How are you doing? He's like, we won the game. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.520 I'm just smiling because we won the game. I'm like, okay, cool, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.840 I guess I'll just wait for later in the week. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.080 Then is that English conversation? Yeah, well I don't remember. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.920 It could be in Spanish. I mean he speaks Spanish, right, Yeah, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.960 he did, like the only guy on the team. But 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.720 he wouldn't give me any inful. He was just that 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.880 might take that might tell you all you need to 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.840 know about that, because if you're great, you're like, man, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.160 I'm great, I'm good. Like crap, Probably it probably ain't 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.880 feeling great. We won the game. Usually when that's the answer, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.440 we won the game, something weird happened, or you know, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.400 it was like we were up twenty eighth to nothing, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.120 we won twenty eight twenty seven, you know, or something 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.360 like that. We won the game. He was happy, though, Yeah, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.240 but yeah, who knows something. And hey, it's we talked 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.720 about the same thing as like gimpies to a Philo 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.320 or one Conor Williams, and these d tackles are better 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:00.960 than last week's. So we'll see all right every week. Yeah, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.200 we're going to take our first break when we come back. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.880 Dave's gonna get us going with his scatter report on 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.440 this Rams defense. 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I think you kind of 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.200 have alluded to it throughout the week, which is true. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.200 Is like this thing and I think the Rams defense 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.200 is better than gets credit for. But it is a 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.440 murderers row in terms of the talent on hand and 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.880 the production statistically says it's not as good as you 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.680 would expect because you got Pro Bowl corners and Marcus 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.360 Peters and a keeb to Leabe. You got a safety 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.640 in LaMarcus Joiner, who I believe. I was trying to 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.800 look this up during the break I forgot to last night. 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.560 He's one of like five players that got put on 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.680 the franchise tag this year, maybe less than Yeah, Joiner 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.640 Ziggyanza Tank obviously Kyle Fuller. I mean they liked him 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.680 enough to pay him top ten percent at his position 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.760 to keep him there. So you got Pro Bowler caliber 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.720 players all over the secondary. Uh, and then the defensive 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.720 line you got that's just embarrassing. It is an Enriches 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.120 embarrassment of riches. You got a top five pick, and 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.080 in domi con sue, you got a top fifteen. Where 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.680 was Donald drafted? Like? Was he fourteen? It doesn't, it 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.080 doesn't matter. He's the best defensive player in the NFL. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:22.920 He might be the best player in the NFL. He's 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.840 certainly the best non quarterback in the NFL. In domi 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.680 con sue, Aaron Donald, Mike Brockers, who was a top 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.320 fifteen pick, he could have been a cowboy in another universe. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.760 Dante Fowler has absolutely not lived up to his draft pedigree, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:41.080 but he's still a top ten pick. Even oddly enough, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.560 Mark Barron, who's playing so he's playing inside linebacker in 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.960 a three four Wade Phillip scheme. He was a top 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.560 ten pick as the safety not too too long ago. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.560 So the talent is is gross. I mean there's a 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.000 lot of it. I think I'm even I'm missing somebody. Um, 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.160 it would have to be an outside linebacker. Don't don't 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.880 worry about it. Remember how good Will Wade Phillips defenses 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.840 were without guys like that. I mean he had where 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:09.840 but I mean that was by it. He's got like 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.840 three of those guys. He had some He had some 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.800 highly picked talent on that team too. I mean he 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.320 had Spears, right, he had some other guys that were 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.920 getting Nick Nick is like sure Spears was top twenty. 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.120 Didn't live up to those ex Okay, that's then. But 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.920 Fouler's the third overall pick, you know. I mean like 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:30.880 I'm just saying that he didn't know he's he's a 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.480 good coordinate, he's a really good question is he hasn't 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.400 had that kind of talent. Yeah, if anyone can get 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.240 Fouler and Brokers to play in Baron to play at 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:43.400 higher levels, he's got um Donald playing at a higher 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.960 level than he was before, right, I mean probably. I 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.000 mean like it's all relative. Yeah, Like I'm not gonna 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.480 is prettier to dat thing yesterday. Okay, Yes, I'm not 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:58.200 all relative, Hallie right, halle Berry, all Haley, I'm not 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.920 gonna get Okay, I'm not letting. I'm not letting y'all 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:06.400 take this in of the ditch. This is important yesterday. Okay, Um, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.480 have you ever seen the memes? Have you ever seen 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.600 like the memes or the posts on the internet where 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.440 it's like, look at this sandwich that the sandwich shop 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.520 tried to sell me, and it looks like amazing on 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.560 the outside, and the bread is all the bread's perfect 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.920 and it's risen up and like the meat is just 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.159 it looks great and yeah, and then you lift up, 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.280 you lift it up and look at it and like 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.240 there it's mostly bread, Like it's all just a show. Yeah. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.680 That's sort of how I feel about this defense and 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.679 not I'm not saying they're not actually good, because they are. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:40.280 My point is is great great in the middle like 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.359 the top and the bottom, or great and is in 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.000 the middle that's really because what I'm saying is the 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.040 line is disgusting, the secondary is really talented. I'm not 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.600 impressed by anything in between. And that I really I 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.600 think that's why you see the rams have the results 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.520 they have. So all right, we went over the personnel 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.320 there cannot throw this in that. Actually it makes a 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.119 lot of sense from the standpoint of I went back 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.240 and watched the game they played against the Seahawks, and 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.160 you saw the Seahawks running game gashing them. And really 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.440 all season they've had some games or they've gotten gashed 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.560 in the running game, and I think it's because of that. 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.680 I think it's because that those linebackers just they don't 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.280 always get off blocks, they don't always feel gaps, and 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.840 so it creates these holes that running backs have been 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.560 able to exploit at times. I did you won better? 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.199 I went back and looked at all of their games 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.040 that they played against run offenses that finished in the 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.000 top half of the league. Okay, they played nine teams 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.359 that finished in the top half of the league. They 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.320 gave up an average of one hundred and forty eight 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.480 rushing yards per game, which is thirty yards more than 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.240 their average five and a half yards per carry, which 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.400 is a half yard more than their average, So they're 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.080 even they're doing even worse as you would expect against 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.159 the top running offenses in the league. Against teams that 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.159 finished in the top ten, which that's only three. They 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.160 played Seattle, the number one rushing offense twice and the Saints, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.359 the number six rushing offense. Once a hundred carries for 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.760 six hundred yards in three games. They gave up an 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.960 average of six yards per carry eight yards per carry 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.480 in four point one yards per carry in those games. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.800 And it's not it's not their front. It's not like 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.919 Aaron Donald I wrote this down to uh, he leads 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.200 the league in like run stuffs, meaning like you know 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.520 a run that that goes for a negative or zero yards, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.480 like he's great, Sue's great. Brockers is really underrated, Like 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.160 they do their job, but it's if you get past them, 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.480 it's real yucky. And that's where I think the Cowboys 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.200 have the chance to have a lot of success. Like 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.920 I mean, Corey Littleton made the Pro Bowl. I don't care, 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.000 Mark Baron's the top ten pick. I don't care. Like 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.280 the Cowboys should be able to bully these guys, and 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.639 if they can't, I don't know what's going on. Because 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.159 they did it against Bobby Wagner and kJ right, So 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.840 I'm not buying it, which obvious. I mean, you know, 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.760 I think Zack Martin said it yesterday. It's a great point, 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.919 is like you look at these stats, He's like, cool, 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.320 it's not just because it's just because the numbers say 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.720