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Speaker 1: It is Winnsday, January ninth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode
Speaker 1: number one Tin. Welcome to another edition one T one Tin.
Speaker 1: We're moving along here, and we got a lot more
Speaker 1: shows to go because next week we'll be doing shows
Speaker 1: heading into the Championship game, and then we'll have two
Speaker 1: weeks shows heading into the super Bowl. So it's just
Speaker 1: there's a lot mans right here. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: do here. I'm I'm the one that says superstitions aren't real,
Speaker 1: and you clearly you clearly believe that too. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess a whole bunch of people superstition. You're putting the
Speaker 1: mouth on it. That's no stop. Seriously, I'm no turner
Speaker 1: my golf. That's what That's what people say when you
Speaker 1: bring up that, the pitchers saying you're like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: throwing a no hitter, You're like, great, you put the
Speaker 1: mouth on and he's gonna freaking I've never heard that.
Speaker 1: You've never heard that to watch baseball, So maybe it's
Speaker 1: just another way of saying you spoke it into existence.
Speaker 1: They don't say that with kickers, because I've heard that
Speaker 1: about kickers too. When you like, as soon as they
Speaker 1: say he hasn't missed an extra point all season, it's like,
Speaker 1: there we go here that miss it applies there. But
Speaker 1: I've never heard that term. I guess, yeah, it's a term.
Speaker 1: I promise I'm looking at it either not in sports.
Speaker 1: It's a term, I promise. It's all right, let's get
Speaker 1: back on the rails. Let's let's talk about why start now?
Speaker 1: Why this is a it's it's you know, it's just
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the year, and the game the
Speaker 1: Cowboys having won in twenty years. What could we possibly
Speaker 1: want to talk about? All right, Well, what we need
Speaker 1: to start is with injuries, and I don't even want
Speaker 1: to start with the real quick, just real quick. Someone
Speaker 1: gave us a shout out at our show yesterday because
Speaker 1: apparently talking cowboys, what's doing a whole bunch of college
Speaker 1: football talking yeah, I'm talking about this game. Those guys
Speaker 1: did a good job. Those guys just talk about whatever
Speaker 1: they want to talk about. Maybe we should follow their lead.
Speaker 1: I don't think people all right serious, like we're being
Speaker 1: like them. Yeah, let's jump back into I don't want
Speaker 1: to start with the guys that had missed. I want
Speaker 1: to start with the guy that did practice, Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: because as soon as you see his name pop on
Speaker 1: an injury report and then you hear reports that he
Speaker 1: has a sprain knee, obviously everyone's alert goes up because
Speaker 1: of just how much he means to this team, this offense.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about kind of what you've heard so far,
Speaker 1: and if you're completely buying it, this has this is
Speaker 1: no problem whatsoever. A nice sprain with your quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, you're right, you're right to be suspicious.
Speaker 1: Teams like to keep stuff under wraps. But like he's
Speaker 1: out there, he's ten feet away, jogging around looking fine.
Speaker 1: He was full, he was full, He definitely was full,
Speaker 1: and you're well, go you can go watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a great play, but he took a Seahawks helmet
Speaker 1: to his upper knee when he tried to dive into
Speaker 1: the end zone on that sixteen yards and reminds me
Speaker 1: of what happened to Carson Wentz last year to put
Speaker 1: him out of the playoffs, right, and he put him
Speaker 1: out out for the rest of the season. He practiced.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, and I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: he's hurt. What I'm saying is real. What I'm really
Speaker 1: looking for is for you guys to reassure fans out there,
Speaker 1: because as soon as you hear the quarterback has a
Speaker 1: needs brings fine, here you go. He's thank you fifty
Speaker 1: feet away, like doing running back drills where he's got
Speaker 1: the ball on the crook of his arm, running up
Speaker 1: and down the field. Cart Will, he's fine this morning. Unbelievable,
Speaker 1: the backflip in the cart. He will always catch that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. There's not to get in which dancing cart.
Speaker 1: Will's not kidding. But I wouldn't dream of I wouldn't
Speaker 1: dream of making this a Romo Dak debate. But like
Speaker 1: that's a selling point on Dak Prescott. He takes those
Speaker 1: types of hits all the time, and he's builtfully fine.
Speaker 1: He is, he is built for it, and he's out there.
Speaker 1: He was full yesterday exprapping to be full today. Good.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a problem at all. That's perfect.
Speaker 1: Waiting for Joe Looney to pop into injury report yesterday
Speaker 1: because the way he was dancing at the beginning of practice,
Speaker 1: like moving his neck. I'm like, he's gonna hurt his neck.
Speaker 1: He was doing some serious dance move out there, just, uh,
Speaker 1: what do you call this move? Like idea, you know
Speaker 1: we need to do. We may need to get a
Speaker 1: camera that just goes out to practice and just gets
Speaker 1: footage of guys dancing at practice and put it all
Speaker 1: together in one big Actually, it would be pretty good.
Speaker 1: I tried to take a video of Tavon dancing just
Speaker 1: to show you what it was. And I thought I
Speaker 1: was going to get tackled by the our our pr
Speaker 1: with cell phone videos prohibited, but I didn't say cell phone,
Speaker 1: which you didn't let me finish. He can't do it,
Speaker 1: can't do it. But yeah, if we sent Kent or
Speaker 1: William out there with a real camera, there's nothing they
Speaker 1: could do to stop us. There you go, And I
Speaker 1: think that might be an idea. That is a good idea. Yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: and then they lose the game and they're like, why
Speaker 1: did they lose? And it's like he was shot of looney.
Speaker 1: Here's a shot out of TV that's happening to Dave.
Speaker 1: Just by the way, that's happened at every NFL practice.
Speaker 1: That's what they do, all right. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of the guys that did not practice. Cole Beasley,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, Malie Collins, Blake Jarwin, David Army Um didn't
Speaker 1: practice yesterday. Which of those I guess are are concerning
Speaker 1: or should not be concerning. Malik's back so that's not
Speaker 1: super concerning. It was an ankle and an illness. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's back. Noah Brown is also back. He was sick,
Speaker 1: so you know he's okay. But Beasley and Jarwin are
Speaker 1: still missing. Jason Garrett has and going back to skepticism,
Speaker 1: he has said multiple times this week that they're optimistic
Speaker 1: about those guys, but we'll see. Not practicing on Thursday,
Speaker 1: particularly for Jarwin, who's still a young player, it's not
Speaker 1: a super great sign, which is interesting because Swam's already
Speaker 1: on IR We kind of we sort of prodded at
Speaker 1: Garrett about that in the walk off today. We're like, well,
Speaker 1: you only have two tight ends. If Jarwin can't play,
Speaker 1: and he just kind of he kind of mildes Garrett smile, like,
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta make do at this time of
Speaker 1: your type of deal. Yeah, yeah, I mean it. In
Speaker 1: other words, that's a good question. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: they're asking, like, what's how bad is this? And that's
Speaker 1: that's one of those backdoor questions that you're like trying
Speaker 1: to see, what's what's the situation here? Is there a
Speaker 1: tight end on the practice squad right now? No? No,
Speaker 1: So essentially like they have no real back backup options
Speaker 1: that even know the offense to be able to play
Speaker 1: in the event they got in that situation if Jarwin
Speaker 1: couldn't play, like the best the closest thing to a
Speaker 1: backup would probably be Noah Brown, which you know for
Speaker 1: all of the you know, people like move him to
Speaker 1: tight end. He weighs two hundred and twenty pounds. Here
Speaker 1: we go ten personnel. Hey, that's hey, Mad, that's what
Speaker 1: it takes. That might be your best option. Now, of
Speaker 1: course it would help if you had Hearns and Beasley,
Speaker 1: but it's something it's something to watch. It's it's always
Speaker 1: concerning when a young guys not practicing on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: know it's Wednesday, but it's really Thursday. Get Beasley all right?
Speaker 1: Talking to me about Beasley, I don't think he's in
Speaker 1: the same categories ears like no, no, no, what no?
Speaker 1: That was I'm saying, hearns it's out and Beasley, we
Speaker 1: don't know. It'd be nice if you're gonna run a
Speaker 1: lot of ten personnel, if you had one or both
Speaker 1: of those guys for sure. Right, what do you say
Speaker 1: about Beasley today? He's not practicing, Like he said, they
Speaker 1: feel optimistic that both of those guys are gonna come around.
Speaker 1: That's what he said. Okay, it's up to you to
Speaker 1: decide how much you trust that, although I mean, Beasley's
Speaker 1: kind of in the same boat. Like I don't think
Speaker 1: I trust Tavon aust We talked about this yesterday. I
Speaker 1: don't think I trust Tavon Austin to assume that whole role.
Speaker 1: And then your next best bet is probably Lance Lenore,
Speaker 1: who is now on the fifty three or will be
Speaker 1: by the end of the week if he's not officially yet.
Speaker 1: The one thing you can't say about Beasley is he's
Speaker 1: a tough guy and he's had this injury. Like he
Speaker 1: went into the game last week. He wasn't completely healthy.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been playing here for the last few
Speaker 1: weeks kind of banged up. So he is a warrior.
Speaker 1: He'll get out there to play even when he's not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. He had the foot spring before he
Speaker 1: had the ankle spring, and Garrett said, it's the ankle
Speaker 1: that's bothering him more so than the foot. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's yeah, he's dealing with some stuff. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: probably I don't know, but I mean Jarwin's maybe Jarwin's
Speaker 1: injuries not as severe, but he's a younger, less experienced player,
Speaker 1: whereas Beasley's. You know, Beasley's getting up there. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is like his eighth year or seventh year. Been
Speaker 1: around for a minute. Yeah, I think he's played the
Speaker 1: second most games on the team right now. Damn, it's
Speaker 1: either LP behind LP. Sean hasn't played all the games.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is Sean would be up there, Sean And
Speaker 1: then then I think it's Chris Jones and and Beasley
Speaker 1: and it was Terrence, but you know, Terrence isn't hasn't played.
Speaker 1: Terence Williams number eighty three, he is still officially on
Speaker 1: their roster r I are I forget about that. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be released in the off season and save
Speaker 1: some money for this team. Yeah, one of many. There
Speaker 1: was a list of guys that were limited in practice.
Speaker 1: Tell me if any of these are guys that should
Speaker 1: be of concern. Tavon Austin, Tyrone Crawford, Zach Martin, Tyrn Smith,
Speaker 1: Xavier is still a Philo, and Darien Thompson. Which of
Speaker 1: those is an issue? And where are we sitting with
Speaker 1: specifically with Sue a Philo who didn't play last week.
Speaker 1: My rule for a guy that played the last game
Speaker 1: is that if you start the week practicing limited, I
Speaker 1: assume you're good to good, even if it's limited. If
Speaker 1: you played in the game and then you're back practicing
Speaker 1: by Wednesday, I assume you're good. Okay. Yeah, Xavier's the
Speaker 1: question mark. We'll see if he ups his participation today.
Speaker 1: It's always a good sign when a guy is practicing
Speaker 1: to start the week, even if it's in a limited fashion.
Speaker 1: So correct me if I'm wrong. Last week he didn't
Speaker 1: practice at all. No, so this is a step ahead,
Speaker 1: This is a step forward. It is a step in
Speaker 1: the right direction. Well, so we'll see and that's you know.
Speaker 1: I asked him after the game, I'm like, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling? How's your um ankle? He's like, we won
Speaker 1: the game. I'm like, no, I know, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? He's like, we won the game.
Speaker 1: I'm just smiling because we won the game. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just wait for later in the week.
Speaker 1: Then is that English conversation? Yeah, well I don't remember.
Speaker 1: It could be in Spanish. I mean he speaks Spanish, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did, like the only guy on the team. But
Speaker 1: he wouldn't give me any inful. He was just that
Speaker 1: might take that might tell you all you need to
Speaker 1: know about that, because if you're great, you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm great, I'm good. Like crap, Probably it probably ain't
Speaker 1: feeling great. We won the game. Usually when that's the answer,
Speaker 1: we won the game, something weird happened, or you know,
Speaker 1: it was like we were up twenty eighth to nothing,
Speaker 1: we won twenty eight twenty seven, you know, or something
Speaker 1: like that. We won the game. He was happy, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, who knows something. And hey, it's we talked
Speaker 1: about the same thing as like gimpies to a Philo
Speaker 1: or one Conor Williams, and these d tackles are better
Speaker 1: than last week's. So we'll see all right every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to take our first break when we come back.
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna get us going with his scatter report on
Speaker 1: this Rams defense. Talking about that defensive A line tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about them, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk a lot about that secondary because that's a secondary
Speaker 1: they thought they upgraded coming into the year. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they've always they've played in that way. We'll
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Speaker 1: Back to the break welcome back. It is the second
Speaker 1: second of the Break live from the s WBC Morea
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. We're talking Cowboys versus Rams. That
Speaker 1: would be the big playoff game this Saturday night Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That kickoff will be at seven fIF teen Central Time
Speaker 1: for you guys in our time zone, will be out
Speaker 1: in California, it'll be five fifteen there. So Dave, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: tell us a little bit about a little bit about
Speaker 1: this Rams defense. We talked about the offense yesterday. Talk
Speaker 1: to me about the defense. I think you kind of
Speaker 1: have alluded to it throughout the week, which is true.
Speaker 1: Is like this thing and I think the Rams defense
Speaker 1: is better than gets credit for. But it is a
Speaker 1: murderers row in terms of the talent on hand and
Speaker 1: the production statistically says it's not as good as you
Speaker 1: would expect because you got Pro Bowl corners and Marcus
Speaker 1: Peters and a keeb to Leabe. You got a safety
Speaker 1: in LaMarcus Joiner, who I believe. I was trying to
Speaker 1: look this up during the break I forgot to last night.
Speaker 1: He's one of like five players that got put on
Speaker 1: the franchise tag this year, maybe less than Yeah, Joiner
Speaker 1: Ziggyanza Tank obviously Kyle Fuller. I mean they liked him
Speaker 1: enough to pay him top ten percent at his position
Speaker 1: to keep him there. So you got Pro Bowler caliber
Speaker 1: players all over the secondary. Uh, and then the defensive
Speaker 1: line you got that's just embarrassing. It is an Enriches
Speaker 1: embarrassment of riches. You got a top five pick, and
Speaker 1: in domi con sue, you got a top fifteen. Where
Speaker 1: was Donald drafted? Like? Was he fourteen? It doesn't, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's the best defensive player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He might be the best player in the NFL. He's
Speaker 1: certainly the best non quarterback in the NFL. In domi
Speaker 1: con sue, Aaron Donald, Mike Brockers, who was a top
Speaker 1: fifteen pick, he could have been a cowboy in another universe.
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler has absolutely not lived up to his draft pedigree,
Speaker 1: but he's still a top ten pick. Even oddly enough,
Speaker 1: Mark Barron, who's playing so he's playing inside linebacker in
Speaker 1: a three four Wade Phillip scheme. He was a top
Speaker 1: ten pick as the safety not too too long ago.
Speaker 1: So the talent is is gross. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of it. I think I'm even I'm missing somebody. Um,
Speaker 1: it would have to be an outside linebacker. Don't don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Remember how good Will Wade Phillips defenses
Speaker 1: were without guys like that. I mean he had where
Speaker 1: but I mean that was by it. He's got like
Speaker 1: three of those guys. He had some He had some
Speaker 1: highly picked talent on that team too. I mean he
Speaker 1: had Spears, right, he had some other guys that were
Speaker 1: getting Nick Nick is like sure Spears was top twenty.
Speaker 1: Didn't live up to those ex Okay, that's then. But
Speaker 1: Fouler's the third overall pick, you know. I mean like
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that he didn't know he's he's a
Speaker 1: good coordinate, he's a really good question is he hasn't
Speaker 1: had that kind of talent. Yeah, if anyone can get
Speaker 1: Fouler and Brokers to play in Baron to play at
Speaker 1: higher levels, he's got um Donald playing at a higher
Speaker 1: level than he was before, right, I mean probably. I
Speaker 1: mean like it's all relative. Yeah, Like I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: is prettier to dat thing yesterday. Okay, Yes, I'm not
Speaker 1: all relative, Hallie right, halle Berry, all Haley, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get Okay, I'm not letting. I'm not letting y'all
Speaker 1: take this in of the ditch. This is important yesterday. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: have you ever seen the memes? Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: like the memes or the posts on the internet where
Speaker 1: it's like, look at this sandwich that the sandwich shop
Speaker 1: tried to sell me, and it looks like amazing on
Speaker 1: the outside, and the bread is all the bread's perfect
Speaker 1: and it's risen up and like the meat is just
Speaker 1: it looks great and yeah, and then you lift up,
Speaker 1: you lift it up and look at it and like
Speaker 1: there it's mostly bread, Like it's all just a show. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's sort of how I feel about this defense and
Speaker 1: not I'm not saying they're not actually good, because they are.
Speaker 1: My point is is great great in the middle like
Speaker 1: the top and the bottom, or great and is in
Speaker 1: the middle that's really because what I'm saying is the
Speaker 1: line is disgusting, the secondary is really talented. I'm not
Speaker 1: impressed by anything in between. And that I really I
Speaker 1: think that's why you see the rams have the results
Speaker 1: they have. So all right, we went over the personnel
Speaker 1: there cannot throw this in that. Actually it makes a
Speaker 1: lot of sense from the standpoint of I went back
Speaker 1: and watched the game they played against the Seahawks, and
Speaker 1: you saw the Seahawks running game gashing them. And really
Speaker 1: all season they've had some games or they've gotten gashed
Speaker 1: in the running game, and I think it's because of that.
Speaker 1: I think it's because that those linebackers just they don't
Speaker 1: always get off blocks, they don't always feel gaps, and
Speaker 1: so it creates these holes that running backs have been
Speaker 1: able to exploit at times. I did you won better?
Speaker 1: I went back and looked at all of their games
Speaker 1: that they played against run offenses that finished in the
Speaker 1: top half of the league. Okay, they played nine teams
Speaker 1: that finished in the top half of the league. They
Speaker 1: gave up an average of one hundred and forty eight
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game, which is thirty yards more than
Speaker 1: their average five and a half yards per carry, which
Speaker 1: is a half yard more than their average, So they're
Speaker 1: even they're doing even worse as you would expect against
Speaker 1: the top running offenses in the league. Against teams that
Speaker 1: finished in the top ten, which that's only three. They
Speaker 1: played Seattle, the number one rushing offense twice and the Saints,
Speaker 1: the number six rushing offense. Once a hundred carries for
Speaker 1: six hundred yards in three games. They gave up an
Speaker 1: average of six yards per carry eight yards per carry
Speaker 1: in four point one yards per carry in those games.
Speaker 1: And it's not it's not their front. It's not like
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald I wrote this down to uh, he leads
Speaker 1: the league in like run stuffs, meaning like you know
Speaker 1: a run that that goes for a negative or zero yards,
Speaker 1: like he's great, Sue's great. Brockers is really underrated, Like
Speaker 1: they do their job, but it's if you get past them,
Speaker 1: it's real yucky. And that's where I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have the chance to have a lot of success. Like
Speaker 1: I mean, Corey Littleton made the Pro Bowl. I don't care,
Speaker 1: Mark Baron's the top ten pick. I don't care. Like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys should be able to bully these guys, and
Speaker 1: if they can't, I don't know what's going on. Because
Speaker 1: they did it against Bobby Wagner and kJ right, So
Speaker 1: I'm not buying it, which obvious. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I think Zack Martin said it yesterday. It's a great point,
Speaker 1: is like you look at these stats, He's like, cool,
Speaker 1: it's not just because it's just because the numbers say
Speaker 1: it's that easy. It's not easy, like you got to execute,
Speaker 1: but you trust this running offense to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, I would think. Um, so that's that's really
Speaker 1: where it all starts for me obviously, is running the ball.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question about their third down? Um?
Speaker 1: Do you know about that? Which? Which aspect of it?
Speaker 1: Like third and one? I mean, are like short yardage?
Speaker 1: Are they good there it? Well? Short yardage again, yes,
Speaker 1: like they they can because this line is really good
Speaker 1: at stopping those types of things. Um, it just depends
Speaker 1: on what they want to throw out there. The reason
Speaker 1: why I asked that is that sometimes you know, you say,
Speaker 1: stats can be deceiving. If you've got a team with
Speaker 1: with some you know, beef in the middle there like that,
Speaker 1: it's hard to just third and one to just say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that. Those are the type of players
Speaker 1: that bring an average down anyway, So why is there
Speaker 1: average at five yards? Now that's the worst in the league.
Speaker 1: I get it. But if there's the teams that aren't
Speaker 1: really trying to test them on third and one and
Speaker 1: fourth and one, those are the type of plays that
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I'm gonna we're not even going to
Speaker 1: try it. That's the reason that their average is going
Speaker 1: to be higher than than you would think. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean, I don't know that it's a good point.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they if they're third and you know, short,
Speaker 1: fourth and short, if they're really good or bad. I
Speaker 1: don't have those numbers on hand. I will say this,
Speaker 1: their numbers up the middle are far better than the
Speaker 1: rest of their numbers, meaning and I will give credit
Speaker 1: where it's due. I borrowed these stats directly from John Owning,
Speaker 1: who does he does tape work for the Dallas Morning News.
Speaker 1: He's great at it. If you're not, I mean you
Speaker 1: should definitely go check that out. Um, three point three
Speaker 1: yards per carry going at the right guard. I mean
Speaker 1: this is their defense, so they allowed. So if you
Speaker 1: go at their right guard, if you got your right guard,
Speaker 1: yea three point three three yards yes, four point one
Speaker 1: on left guard. So in the middle, and again that's
Speaker 1: where their best players are. That makes sense. It's when
Speaker 1: you take it outside five point two yards per carry
Speaker 1: at left tackle, five point seven yards per carry at
Speaker 1: right tackle, and if you go off the end it's
Speaker 1: five point six and five point two, which to Met's
Speaker 1: about linebackers. Absolutely, like Jalen and Layton, how good are
Speaker 1: they at pursuing across the field side to side? And yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't have guys that can do that. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if you test the teeth of this line, it'll probably
Speaker 1: go pretty poorly for you. But the rest of their
Speaker 1: personnel allows you to take advantage of that, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and that's that's where it starts with me, because you
Speaker 1: should be able to take advantage of that because again, okay,
Speaker 1: you wanted to talk about their secondary I think that's
Speaker 1: a case where stats can be deceiving because again, you know,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a team that's had big leads for
Speaker 1: most of the season. Teams have to pass against them.
Speaker 1: They're still fourteenth, and it keep has missed a lot
Speaker 1: of the year, and the keep to leave has missed
Speaker 1: a lot of the year. Marcus Peters, you know, you
Speaker 1: could make the argument like when when he was the guy,
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't live up to his billing, but to
Speaker 1: leave his backs, So that's kind of irrelevant in my
Speaker 1: in my eyes anyway, Um, it's classic Wade Phillips, like
Speaker 1: they just do their thing. They play. Those guys play
Speaker 1: head up on guys, they press them fingle safety high
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, absolutely like they I mean they trust
Speaker 1: their personnel, I would hope. So they traded for Talib,
Speaker 1: they traded for Peters like that's that's why they got him.
Speaker 1: And it's a smart move when you have a defensive
Speaker 1: front like they do, to go out and get corners
Speaker 1: that can really just man up on the outside and
Speaker 1: then you can try to get some pressure and in
Speaker 1: hope that you get more pressure before they can get free,
Speaker 1: which I don't have. I don't have this on hand,
Speaker 1: but the the narrative is that which it's It is interesting.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper used to be in the AFC West. He's
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time playing against Talib and Peters
Speaker 1: on other teams right on other and so um. The
Speaker 1: narrative is that he's fared far better against Peters than
Speaker 1: he did against Talib, which I believe a lot of
Speaker 1: people do. The the insane game that he had if
Speaker 1: you remember last year, I think it was a Thursday
Speaker 1: night game Keef's Raiders. Cooper put up like two twenty
Speaker 1: or something on the I mean he had he had
Speaker 1: a dope game and he did a lot of that
Speaker 1: against Marcus Peters, So that's probably where I think they
Speaker 1: were from. You think they do they add all this season?
Speaker 1: Do they travel to leave? I mean, it's it's what
Speaker 1: it always is, is like more often than not, those
Speaker 1: guys handle their side of the defense. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they probably would. And if they feel like
Speaker 1: to Leab is going to be better against Cooper, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that they would make that adjustment. But that
Speaker 1: does go back to the question we got from a
Speaker 1: fan I think it was yesterday, where they were asking,
Speaker 1: you know, would you put Cooper in the slot? My
Speaker 1: thought is, if you got a situation like that, I'd
Speaker 1: move them around a lot and forced them to always
Speaker 1: adjust to wherever I'm going to put him. And if
Speaker 1: they wanted to start traveling a key to leave, then
Speaker 1: that means, as we've talked about before, that means everybody
Speaker 1: else now has to travel because they can't just stay
Speaker 1: on the side that they're accustomed to. But i'd firstly,
Speaker 1: i'd personally test them. If you feel like that's the
Speaker 1: guy that's the clearly the best of what they do,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't let them easily be able to just line
Speaker 1: up against my best if he's able to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, he's a really good receiver, but I
Speaker 1: mean he hasn't been here for a whole offseason and
Speaker 1: all that. Sometimes he get him to do the things
Speaker 1: that he needs to do. Just because he goes inside,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he's, you know, going to be
Speaker 1: effective there. And if Beasley's you know, like we said yesterday,
Speaker 1: if Beasley's on the outside, I don't know if I
Speaker 1: like that. So it's it's like how right I And
Speaker 1: that can lead you. You can take this like down
Speaker 1: a road where you're gonna go, oh, well, the coaches
Speaker 1: are bad, which I mean that's you know, most people
Speaker 1: think that anyway, that's fine, which I guess. My point though,
Speaker 1: is this is not This is not a team that
Speaker 1: seems to just make drastic adjustments based on their opposition.
Speaker 1: I don't you know, Jalen Smith spied Russell Wilson last week,
Speaker 1: and that's a wrinkle that we don't always see, but
Speaker 1: like more often than not, I feel like the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are way more just about like, if we execute the
Speaker 1: way we should, then we don't need to gadget it up.
Speaker 1: But they have done special things when they play special opponents. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they did that with New Orleans. They did some different
Speaker 1: things defensively than they typically And I'm spitballing here, so
Speaker 1: I want you to correct me if I'm wrong, But like,
Speaker 1: have they done a lot of that on offense? No?
Speaker 1: And your example was on defense as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point that they have made more adjustments
Speaker 1: like that typically on defense when they've done it. I
Speaker 1: struggle to think of a game where somebody on offense
Speaker 1: was just doing something way outside. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, Yeah, at that game against the Giants, but
Speaker 1: was he well, I mean, okay, they sent him up
Speaker 1: the scene more off They did some things than that
Speaker 1: game a little different, It's true. But in terms of
Speaker 1: like Amari Cooper just suddenly playing fifteen snaps in the slot, Like,
Speaker 1: have we seen a lot of that this year? We
Speaker 1: do what we do. Yeah? No, And there's an art
Speaker 1: I mean that I don't agree with that. You know,
Speaker 1: I think you need to adjust to suit your opposition,
Speaker 1: but I just don't I don't think the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, and I honestly I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know that they would. I'm just I guess going back
Speaker 1: to that question at the fan ask I think it's
Speaker 1: something worth considering. Again, your point's valid, Nick that if
Speaker 1: if he can't do it, he can't do it. You
Speaker 1: don't just do something just because. But if he can
Speaker 1: do it, if he has that capability, if he knows
Speaker 1: all the positions, I would move him around a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And again, I'm looking for opportunities. If I'm
Speaker 1: making those calls, I'm looking for opportunities to get my
Speaker 1: best players in the best positions possible, which means the
Speaker 1: more I can move them around and force the defense
Speaker 1: to have to identify where he is and try to
Speaker 1: get their guy on him, the better chance that I'm
Speaker 1: going to get a mismatch with my best player. And
Speaker 1: if I can get mismatches with my best player, they
Speaker 1: can make big plays. If you've followed the league at
Speaker 1: all in the last like five years, you don't need
Speaker 1: me to tell you that the secondary gets take of
Speaker 1: I mean these dbs get takeaways. I mean Peters has
Speaker 1: been insane since he got in the league. To leave
Speaker 1: pick six that hundred yards against the Cowboys, to leave
Speaker 1: did that to Dak in Week two last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like these guys, they're good. Neither one of them has
Speaker 1: had like that type of season this year. To Leave
Speaker 1: missed a lot of it. I think they both. I
Speaker 1: think Peters has three and I think to Leave has
Speaker 1: somewhere between one and three. Like not a high number,
Speaker 1: but they obviously both can do it. The thing that
Speaker 1: scares me, and I put this on Twitter last night,
Speaker 1: is they have they have fourteen for yeah, fourteen forced
Speaker 1: fumbles as a team, twelve recovered. It's third in the league.
Speaker 1: Nine of those have come from their defensive lineman, which
Speaker 1: it shouldn't surprise you. They're good at getting pressure, but
Speaker 1: they have shown a knack for getting the ball in
Speaker 1: the pocket getting it from the quarterback. We know Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott has had a problem with that. They have eight
Speaker 1: fumble recoveries just as a line, So like Donald Brockers,
Speaker 1: those guys eight, which is more than half the teams
Speaker 1: in the league have period. So and to his credit,
Speaker 1: Dak has been better. He's been better probably the last
Speaker 1: three games with the ball security. But just don't don't
Speaker 1: let up now, because that's something that worries me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Part of that is that Donald just gets such great
Speaker 1: penetration throughout the game, like he's a guy that can
Speaker 1: wreck a game from the defensive tackle position, and when
Speaker 1: you're getting when you're getting up feels so quick. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the quarterback doesn't have a chance to adjust. He's trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ball and then he grabs
Speaker 1: an arm and bam, balls out. I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times you see him, Kalil Mack, those really
Speaker 1: great defensive players do that, And I think it's because
Speaker 1: they just get back on the quarterback so quickly. The
Speaker 1: quarterback doesn't even really recognize that they are in cloth.
Speaker 1: They're in arms reach to be able to make that
Speaker 1: kind of play. And just in case you were curious,
Speaker 1: Zack Martin actually, which so I think every other week
Speaker 1: I've talked about how somebody can wreck a game. I
Speaker 1: say that all the time. Zack Martin said that about
Speaker 1: Donald Yet he's like, this guy can wreck everything on
Speaker 1: his own, which carries more weight coming from him than me.
Speaker 1: He also, and it's a it's not a Connor Williams thing,
Speaker 1: like he just likes to rush over the left guard.
Speaker 1: He's a three tech. He's gonna line up right off
Speaker 1: the guards outside shoulder, and he just likes the left
Speaker 1: side for whatever reason. So have fun. And honestly, this
Speaker 1: is XAVI. You talk about Aaron Donald and Sue obviously
Speaker 1: hasn't been the greatest player since he's been there with
Speaker 1: them this year. But I'll say one of the best
Speaker 1: games I ever saw a defensive tackle play was in
Speaker 1: college when he was playing for Nebraska and he played
Speaker 1: against Texas and talk about wrecking the goodev won the
Speaker 1: Heisman that year. Talk about wrecking a game from the
Speaker 1: defensive tackle position. I mean, every single play almost he
Speaker 1: was in the backfield. Texas was trying to double him,
Speaker 1: are trying to triple to like they had no answers whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I mean this guy and he's the kind of guy
Speaker 1: that even though he might not have had a great
Speaker 1: season on a given day, he can show up and
Speaker 1: probably turn that on and have that kind of day
Speaker 1: if given the opportunity. This is you know, I always
Speaker 1: hesitate to say these types of things about players, but
Speaker 1: something it's always seemed like with Sue. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not that like relentless motor guy like an Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: or a DeMarcus Lawrence where it's just always on like
Speaker 1: he I think he picks and chooses his spots. But
Speaker 1: if it's third and four and the games on the
Speaker 1: line in the playoffs, Like, you're probably gonna get that too,
Speaker 1: Like people, you know, it's a great play and it's football.
Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. But the famous uh you
Speaker 1: know the Romo to Winton fourth down, you know, the
Speaker 1: one Garrett diagram and went and retired that helped them
Speaker 1: win the Lions game. Ronald Leary had to basically hug
Speaker 1: Sue and bring him to the ground to keep him
Speaker 1: from sacking Romo. Like it was one of the most
Speaker 1: blatant holds I've seen in forever. And that's the type
Speaker 1: of stuff you have to do to beat him. He's
Speaker 1: not He's got talent, There's no doubt, no doubt they
Speaker 1: got talent. It just hasn't always shown up for him
Speaker 1: this year. And so we'll see how that helps. And
Speaker 1: we'll see how much the Cowboys offense can affect that too,
Speaker 1: because this offensive line I think played really well last week.
Speaker 1: We'll see how much they can they can pull some
Speaker 1: more of that against what is a really really good front,
Speaker 1: probably a better front. I mean, I think one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why Aaron Donald is probably getting so many sacks,
Speaker 1: it's just the mindset of the defense to go rush
Speaker 1: the quarterback get there and you know, when you hit home,
Speaker 1: that's great. But when they when they pop up a
Speaker 1: draw right, you know, right in between both of them,
Speaker 1: then that's what's get leading to some of these bigger runs.
Speaker 1: So I think that, you know, just the mindset of
Speaker 1: every all those guys, I gotta get sacked, I get
Speaker 1: up the field. That's fine. But but if you're not
Speaker 1: in the right spot, then that's when you're gonna get
Speaker 1: you know, be vulnerable to a run. Of the of
Speaker 1: the nine games they played against teams in the top
Speaker 1: half of the league in rushing offense, they only held
Speaker 1: two of them below a hundred yards. They held Denver
Speaker 1: to sixty Denverse twelfth. They held Kansas a pretty good
Speaker 1: running game, yeah, no decent, and they held Kansas City
Speaker 1: to ninety eight. Um, Kansas. At what point of the
Speaker 1: season was that? That was the fifty four to fifty one, Okay, whatever, November,
Speaker 1: I don't remember the exact Playing in the game is
Speaker 1: what you're at. Yeah, he was playing game. He was playing. Um.
Speaker 1: But also, I mean, the Chiefs have other things in
Speaker 1: mind than running the ball. Oh yeah, and they were
Speaker 1: doing it well, and that that's their ranked their ranked sixteenth,
Speaker 1: So they are the last possible spot that I considered
Speaker 1: for this. So that you know, Seattle one ninety, Seattle
Speaker 1: two seventy three, New Orleans forty one, Chargers one forty one,
Speaker 1: San Francisco one twenty seven, San Francisco one oh seven,
Speaker 1: Chicago one ninety four. I'd be very surprised if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can't successfully run the ball and at least to
Speaker 1: the one forty range, right, I mean least they did
Speaker 1: one eighty nine on them at AT and T, And
Speaker 1: by I mean obviously this is not a recipe for success. Necessarily,
Speaker 1: Seattle ran for two seventy three and one ninety and
Speaker 1: lost both of those games, but it was a two
Speaker 1: point loss and a five point loss that came in
Speaker 1: the final minutes. So it will give you a chance
Speaker 1: to be successful if you can do it, I think.
Speaker 1: Um and yeah, So they ran. They ran for one
Speaker 1: eighty nine in Week four last year. Alfred Morris had
Speaker 1: the seventy five yard run. Uh did you finally see
Speaker 1: the Alan Herns? Yeah, they're just holding on it. This
Speaker 1: is the actual game broadcast, I think. So Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like looked over and if you're if you're listening
Speaker 1: when you have TV's in the studio, and like Derek
Speaker 1: and Nick just both like jumped out of their seat
Speaker 1: in agony. I haven't really seen that play, and so
Speaker 1: you have now it was happening, all right, I no,
Speaker 1: I mean, this defense is much better than the stats
Speaker 1: say they are, I think, and it's full of guys
Speaker 1: who have been here and done that. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: to leave obviously is the big one. Um. But Sue
Speaker 1: has been in the playoffs. Donald has Donald played a
Speaker 1: playoff game last year. Peters with the Chiefs like they
Speaker 1: they're they're not new to this, at least not all
Speaker 1: of them. So all right, let's go ahead and take
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Speaker 1: all right make the trip up. Man, it'd be good
Speaker 1: to see I probably will, but real quick, I want
Speaker 1: to get you guys tick on this. How do you
Speaker 1: guys still on this game? About comeback routes? So those
Speaker 1: a little quick hitches because as I look at Talib
Speaker 1: and Peters, they sit on these comeback routes, and over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, Dak has been laid on
Speaker 1: those comeback routes. I've seen dbs drop the ball, and
Speaker 1: I don't think this team is going to drop the ball.
Speaker 1: I agree with that, just like Talib took that one
Speaker 1: for a hundred yards. That was a comeback route. And
Speaker 1: it's like every time we get to get to the
Speaker 1: team where these dbs sit on those routes, they got
Speaker 1: a good d line Denver, just like the Rams do
Speaker 1: and these dbs are not They're sitting on it. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking more crossing routes, a little something different this week.
Speaker 1: I just want to get your guys on those routes.
Speaker 1: It's great. I think that's in a stew point when
Speaker 1: I think you talk Hey, all all credit in the
Speaker 1: world to Dak Prescott. He's played great, but like you
Speaker 1: forget about those things when you're when you're winning and
Speaker 1: you know when the dbs are dropping the ball. But
Speaker 1: he's left some out there, and it's been a talking
Speaker 1: point all year, like it's so stupid how often they do.
Speaker 1: It's like third and eight, so they run eight yard
Speaker 1: comebacks to the sticks like it's the most predictable thing
Speaker 1: in the world. So yeah, I think that's a really
Speaker 1: good point. That Redskin game where um Michael Gallup scored
Speaker 1: his first touchdown, it was one of those stop and
Speaker 1: go I mean, you kind of have to do that.
Speaker 1: And it reminds me of the time they played the
Speaker 1: Rams up in Saint Louis because it was twenty fourteen
Speaker 1: where Genorris Jenkins had an interception early in the game
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. You know he was he jumped into
Speaker 1: a slant and then later in the game and they
Speaker 1: did a stop and go. And I don't think Dez
Speaker 1: Bryant's ever been as wide open as he was because
Speaker 1: you have to, you know, make him pay for doing
Speaker 1: those things. So that's what I hope, You're right. I
Speaker 1: hope the Cowboys will make them pay for that. They're
Speaker 1: gonna sit on that, You're gonna have to hopefully block
Speaker 1: them long enough to do a stop and go. I
Speaker 1: just this is totally anecdotal. I have nothing to back
Speaker 1: it up, but I just feel like this team runs
Speaker 1: crossing routes like less than everybody else in the league. Yea,
Speaker 1: deep crossers, shallow crossers. I know. Uh Dak actually threw
Speaker 1: a pick on a route like that. He was looking
Speaker 1: for a Mari in the end zone against um crap.
Speaker 1: I don't know Tennessee. No, was it Tennessee or I
Speaker 1: think it was Philly. It was the first Philly or
Speaker 1: the second Philly? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah through but it well,
Speaker 1: it was there, it was there, and it was just
Speaker 1: a bad it was a misthrow missroute whatever. Anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see more of that, but I'm not optimistic.
Speaker 1: Let's take a call from GEO in Jersey City GEO.
Speaker 1: What g O are you there? Guess not? All right?
Speaker 1: Do you have any questions? Let's get a question. Did
Speaker 1: you guys get a chance to watch back then? Uh?
Speaker 1: The La Rams versus Eagual game? Yeah? Yeah, I watched
Speaker 1: it was a Sunday night football. I well, I watched it.
Speaker 1: That's the main game I watched when I was watching tape.
Speaker 1: So well, someone's asking and wanting to knew what were
Speaker 1: some of the things that the Eagles were able to
Speaker 1: do defensively to beat the Ramsha you remember, Well, I
Speaker 1: was hoping you were going to ask about the Rams
Speaker 1: defense because I'll tell they used a lot of play
Speaker 1: action to beat them in that game. That's what they did.
Speaker 1: And they ran the ball well, which is part of it.
Speaker 1: Girly didn't play the full game, did he? I thinking
Speaker 1: about the right, Yeah, I thought that was it was
Speaker 1: that the game where he came out. They had they
Speaker 1: pulled him out. I believe he didn't have a good
Speaker 1: game in that game, and I want to say he
Speaker 1: did because I think it's because he left his face golf.
Speaker 1: That's what they were doing. They were they were you know,
Speaker 1: they applied the pressure. I know that off the edge
Speaker 1: they were and and I remember correctly, there was at
Speaker 1: least two or three passes deflected. I mean they were
Speaker 1: getting in his face and in those in those throwing lanes. So, uh,
Speaker 1: they were just aggressive. And that defense is starting to
Speaker 1: come on Philadelphia's you know that. I think. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I said that yesterday here or on cover four,
Speaker 1: but that's I'm fascinated. The line on golf is definitely
Speaker 1: that if you get to him, he can't handle it.
Speaker 1: And Garrett said yesterday that that was the thing that
Speaker 1: impressed him the most is that he was so good
Speaker 1: at throwing it under pressure when he was at Cow.
Speaker 1: So both of those things can't be true, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: well he say it at Cal Well, you're right, But
Speaker 1: so he magically got worse. That's such a difficult thing
Speaker 1: to do as he got to the pros. No, I
Speaker 1: think he hang it worse at that. If you're facing
Speaker 1: now three hundred pound grown men as opposed to three
Speaker 1: hundred pound you know, if you if you display, if
Speaker 1: you display that ability in the Pac twelve, I would
Speaker 1: feel like it would carry over. Maybe not, maybe, I know,
Speaker 1: I've just seen I've seen a lot of quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: into the NFL and they get those big guys, Like
Speaker 1: that's just I just feel like, whoever coming at me
Speaker 1: the thumb print, Like you know, you go on Twitter,
Speaker 1: you see it every it's like if you get to golf,
Speaker 1: you just get to golf and it's all over. So
Speaker 1: I want to see if that's true, because I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will get to him at least. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be clean. They might not sack
Speaker 1: him six times. One thing I think I will I
Speaker 1: feel pretty confident is that girly is what makes that
Speaker 1: thing go. And so in that game, particularly when girl's
Speaker 1: not at full blast, when he's not out there, when
Speaker 1: his knee is bothering him, whatever the case is, I
Speaker 1: think that matters because I think that offense really revolves
Speaker 1: and it's no different than the Cowboys offense. I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense, in a lot of respects revolves around
Speaker 1: what Zeke provides. We didn't talk about this yesterday, but
Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning. C. C. J. Anderson's a better fallback
Speaker 1: than Rod Smith is. He played really well these last
Speaker 1: two weeks, murdered Dallas in Denver last year. He I mean,
Speaker 1: so just saying I mean, yet they got they got
Speaker 1: options if Curly's not at okay, So Girly yesterday on
Speaker 1: the practice report with the knee still limited, Yeah, still
Speaker 1: kind of just I don't know, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about this? Like I don't I don't know what to
Speaker 1: feel playing yes, and he's gonna and he's gonna play well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play well. I'm just saying that. I think
Speaker 1: if you want to compare, it's hard to compare that
Speaker 1: Eagles game and say, what did they do the thing
Speaker 1: they didn't have to do with stop Girley, And that's
Speaker 1: the part that is to me the hardest thing to
Speaker 1: do when you're playing that offense, you know, So it's
Speaker 1: just hard to me to get a good comparison comparison
Speaker 1: when you're playing when when it was the Eagles game
Speaker 1: versus any other game that where he was playing. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: I mean clearly that has something to do with the
Speaker 1: fact that they won that game, and it changes the
Speaker 1: whole game when he's in the field and when he's not.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, we'll see this weekend he's playing
Speaker 1: at this time of the year. Yes, of course you're
Speaker 1: gonna play, but how well is he gonna play? That's
Speaker 1: the question. True. All right, we appreciate you guys. John
Speaker 1: Us are back tomorrow. We'll give you guys our picks.
Speaker 1: Friday will be traveling, so tomorrow will be our last
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