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Speaker 2: I know you're gonna open this sing up. I just
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Speaker 5: That actually makes it really easy. So all have to
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Speaker 5: Right real quick, before we get to the bind of
Speaker 5: Brian brought us, let's let's talk about one injury coming
Speaker 5: out of the game. Jake Ferguson, Uh, there were I mean,
Speaker 5: obviously when it happened during the game, I certainly was
Speaker 5: nervous for him because it didn't look great, didn't look
Speaker 5: like he could put any pressure on his leg at all,
Speaker 5: and it looked like he was in a lot of pain.
Speaker 5: What are we hearing at this point from the standpoint
Speaker 5: of his injury and how long should we expect him
Speaker 5: to maybe be out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll kind of walk it through with some context.
Speaker 6: Talking to some people as they were coming off the field,
Speaker 6: they were fearing the worst with that, with that situation,
Speaker 6: with that injury. I mean, you look at it. It
Speaker 6: looked nasty on first watch, but whenever they got back
Speaker 6: to the locker room, they were able to communicate with Jake,
Speaker 6: and that initial testing showed that the ACL was intact,
Speaker 6: all the major ligaments were intact, and it was just
Speaker 6: then mcl sprain that they were gonna have to work
Speaker 6: towards and then further imaging and further testing on Monday
Speaker 6: confirmed that. So, yeah, dodged a big bullet with this one,
Speaker 6: and Jake Ferguson is gonna be with the rehab group
Speaker 6: starting tomorrow and then throughout the week, and there's still
Speaker 6: an opportunity that he plays on Sunday against the Saints.
Speaker 6: So when you really talk about dodging a bullet, they
Speaker 6: may have dodged everything here. So but nevertheless, they're gonna
Speaker 6: work him in slowly if he can't go on, So
Speaker 6: that'll definitely be a big opportunity for the depth of
Speaker 6: that room.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I asked two questions after that game yesterday or
Speaker 7: the other day, and I said, I asked about eighty seven,
Speaker 7: I asked about eighty one, and the negativity was more
Speaker 7: about eighty one not being Stevens than actually, you know,
Speaker 7: with Ferguson. So that was encouraging. I think Nick has
Speaker 7: got everybody up to speed on that. Yeah, they were
Speaker 7: they were worried about some ligament damage and it didn't happen,
Speaker 7: and they were happy about that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, if you know he's with the rehab group.
Speaker 7: I think this is one of those things where if
Speaker 7: you ask coach McCarthy, he would say, it's probably gonna
Speaker 7: be a little bit about you know, we'll protect him,
Speaker 7: but it's about pain management stuff like that. They always
Speaker 7: like to tell you that when a guy's trying to
Speaker 7: play on something that maybe needs a game or two off.
Speaker 7: But I didn't get the vibe that it was something
Speaker 7: that they were, you know, that's something they're going to
Speaker 7: work through. But it's sounded like to me that Stevens
Speaker 7: with the hamstring was something that was a little bit
Speaker 7: more concerning to them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the question is if they're worried about Stevens, and
Speaker 5: let's assume for a second that it doesn't work where
Speaker 5: Ferguson can play this weekend.
Speaker 3: You said it.
Speaker 5: Challenges that room. My question is, like, does it challenge
Speaker 5: the rest of the whole offense? Because now you're down
Speaker 5: probably the two best makes, certainly the two best making
Speaker 5: tight play making tight ends that you have on the roster,
Speaker 5: at least from what we've seen.
Speaker 3: How does that? How do the Cowboys adjust that?
Speaker 2: All right, Nick's gonna love this end.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, wind me up, go ahead, Yeah, I was,
Speaker 6: I was gonna.
Speaker 7: I'm just gonna say they were gonna post somebody off
Speaker 7: of somebody's practice squad, is what I was.
Speaker 2: No the uh uh no, Jason Witten is available for
Speaker 2: this one game. Uh No, it is.
Speaker 7: It's Hunter Lipkey, it's you know, and you watch when
Speaker 7: they went to the twenty one personnel, the twenty two personnel,
Speaker 7: you know, with the two backs, two tight ends, and
Speaker 7: that are multiple tight ends.
Speaker 2: Hunter Lipkey was. It was a factor in a good way.
Speaker 7: Uh And I feel like, though, as long as you
Speaker 7: don't have to make him the in line why and
Speaker 7: when I saw it say in line, I mean next
Speaker 7: to the tackle, right on the line of scrimmage. You know,
Speaker 7: if you can move him, put him as a wing,
Speaker 7: put him as a fullback, motion him out. There are
Speaker 7: things you can do with Hunter Lipke. Is it Ferguson, No,
Speaker 7: But the way that he catches the ball and the
Speaker 7: way he finds space, that's not a bad option to
Speaker 7: have if you're down. If you're down a couple of
Speaker 7: players there with Ferguson and Stevens both being out.
Speaker 8: I mean, the good thing is that prior to this
Speaker 8: game and to Jake coming out of the field with
Speaker 8: the injury, they were already practicing him at the tight
Speaker 8: end position and getting a good look of him there,
Speaker 8: so at least that we're prepared for something. Obviously, no
Speaker 8: one is expecting an injury like that to happen. But
Speaker 8: that's the good part that he has started gaining the
Speaker 8: experience doing that and he showed to do a very
Speaker 8: very good job in that game, So that is exciting
Speaker 8: and remembering that. Obviously not ideal to have Jake out,
Speaker 8: but whatever the time may be of him missing, you
Speaker 8: still have a lot of other offensive weapons that can
Speaker 8: be utilized and help alleviate the loss of Ferguson.
Speaker 5: It's interesting as I watched the game last night, the
Speaker 5: Monday night game, the forty nine Ers versus the Jets.
Speaker 5: I was watching. I'm sorry, Kyle Uschek, Yeah, and I
Speaker 5: was like, there really is no reason why you couldn't
Speaker 5: see Hunter Lipkey developed man, Yeah, into that that caliber
Speaker 5: of player. He has those skills, like, he has all
Speaker 5: those different skills to see from you say, is blocking
Speaker 5: I think has gotten markedly bad.
Speaker 3: It has this last game.
Speaker 5: I went back and watched the game, and Yeah, I
Speaker 5: just kept noticing him on plays where he's getting his block,
Speaker 5: he's getting in position, he's turning his guys, He's doing
Speaker 5: exactly what he needs to.
Speaker 2: Do, you know.
Speaker 3: And I thought that was the weakest part of his game.
Speaker 5: And and so he's he definitely could be a guy
Speaker 5: that they developed into that type of role.
Speaker 7: He was a half man blocker at one time. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you got to remember him coming out of North Dakota State.
Speaker 2: He was a running back. He really wasn't a full
Speaker 2: back or this.
Speaker 7: You know, he's bulked up, he's gotten bigger, he's I
Speaker 7: think special teams just really helped him with his toughness
Speaker 7: too that he's had, because you watch he could do
Speaker 7: those things pretty well. But he was a half man blocker.
Speaker 7: He would go in there almost side ways hitting guys
Speaker 7: and you have to play square. We always talk about that.
Speaker 7: But he'll go in there and dig guys out. He's
Speaker 7: got an idea of how to run his feet, how
Speaker 7: to get leverage, how to keep pushing on his guy,
Speaker 7: and say the staint'll tell you use that work.
Speaker 2: But he, you know, staying on his block like that.
Speaker 7: And I think that there's some The thing with Yuscheck
Speaker 7: is he plays so well on the move and they
Speaker 7: figure out running the ball when you know, when they
Speaker 7: do have McCaffrey and and they're not just finding some
Speaker 7: guy off the street like they do. You know, that's
Speaker 7: what he's amazing forty nine ers doing that regard. But
Speaker 7: you you watch how they use him Hunter Lipkey playing
Speaker 7: on the move and use Check playing on the move.
Speaker 7: That's that's for those guys to be able to be
Speaker 7: that big and to be athletic enough to run and
Speaker 7: then now all of a sudden, you're on this in
Speaker 7: space and you're dealing with this, you know, two hundred
Speaker 7: and forty pound guy in your face and you're now
Speaker 7: trying to fight that on the edge. Then they got
Speaker 7: wide receivers block and and now the ball's coming downhill.
Speaker 2: And you know that's how that's how you you run
Speaker 2: the football.
Speaker 7: When you have guys like that that have an understanding
Speaker 7: of how to play space or how to dig guys out,
Speaker 7: and they're going to play square and that's what Hunter
Speaker 7: Lipkey is learning how to do.
Speaker 6: This is my favorite segment we've ever done. I mean,
Speaker 6: for me, whenever he was coming out, it was the
Speaker 6: IQ that really popped off the film for me, catches
Speaker 6: a ball. Well, he can get downhill and create some
Speaker 6: running lanes and we've seen him develop and get better
Speaker 6: with that as time has gone on. And I think
Speaker 6: the really important thing about Hunter Lookey's young career so
Speaker 6: far is that fumble in Miami that he had on
Speaker 6: the goal line, because there was immediate trust put back
Speaker 6: in him after that. Yes, he didn't touch the ball
Speaker 6: after that for the rest of the season, but he
Speaker 6: was still on the field. And then going into preseason,
Speaker 6: going into the season this year, it's been Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 6: it's been Jerry Jones, it's been everybody who is important
Speaker 6: when it comes to making those decisions putting confidence in
Speaker 6: him and saying he's going to be a bigger part
Speaker 6: of this offense going forward, And just to remind everybody,
Speaker 6: I might do it every day this week, but Hunter
Speaker 6: Lookey is your third leading receiver on the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 8: So just to give a hey, weird week, weird week,
Speaker 8: three week observation. But you guys know what, I always
Speaker 8: like talking about vibes and all of that jazz. But
Speaker 8: when he's talking to the medium that I've seen him
Speaker 8: up close, he gives me he has this aura of
Speaker 8: like if Jason Witten and Sean Lee were to have
Speaker 8: a baby. Like this is weird, it's a weird analysis,
Speaker 8: but it's just it's something about the focus and like
Speaker 8: being just so in the job and what he does
Speaker 8: and having that talent and that maturity, because I gotta
Speaker 8: remember he's still a very very young player. So he
Speaker 8: just gives me that, which is a good thing. I mean,
Speaker 8: those are two great players.
Speaker 6: Business.
Speaker 3: Yes, wow, that's a mental image.
Speaker 8: Don't have to imagine the process there you talking.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about just the bringing together their genetic makeup.
Speaker 6: I'm like that, that's.
Speaker 8: All, Derek, You know everything.
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Speaker 2: Give me the best trade of Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 8: Jordan Lewis, give me the best trait?
Speaker 2: Okay, I was about I'm just repeating the question for.
Speaker 8: I love how competitive he is despite everything that he's
Speaker 8: had to face since the moment he got here, and
Speaker 8: not necessarily being the ideal corner type of player with
Speaker 8: all the trades that what was his name, Chris Richard
Speaker 8: at the time wanted. Yeah, he still thought through it
Speaker 8: and he's still here on the team. So with him
Speaker 8: despite I mean, he has many abilities on the team,
Speaker 8: but to me, when you talk about him and mention him,
Speaker 8: the one thing that stands out is just his competitiveness
Speaker 8: as the player. Everyone's competitive, but he just brings that
Speaker 8: different fire to it.
Speaker 7: Nick Harris, talk to me best trade about Jordan Lewis Toughness.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going toughness. It was really apparent for me
Speaker 6: coming off of that injury that he had going into
Speaker 6: last season with the List Frank injury and talking to
Speaker 6: the medical people who talked about how severe that really
Speaker 6: was and him being able to bounce back from that,
Speaker 6: and then in the back half of the season last
Speaker 6: year really turning it up and having a strong finish
Speaker 6: of the season. He had a great camp and he
Speaker 6: had a strong start to the year.
Speaker 2: On Sunday, boss Man, I.
Speaker 5: Will say toughness, but I'll get in a little different direction.
Speaker 5: I'll say mental toughness. I've seen players around here, and
Speaker 5: I know we all are aware of one particular tight
Speaker 5: end where the way that he handled the Cowboys bringing
Speaker 5: in other tight ends wasn't the best way to handle it,
Speaker 5: and it it did. I don't think it did him
Speaker 5: any favors as far as his preparation and him him
Speaker 5: taking care of what he could take care of.
Speaker 3: Jordan is just the opposite.
Speaker 5: Every single year the Cowboys go out and draft a cornerback.
Speaker 5: Every single year, it seems like it happens, whether it's
Speaker 5: in a later round, early round, they're gonna draft somebody.
Speaker 5: He never I've never seen him react in a way
Speaker 5: other than all right, let's compete, and so I love
Speaker 5: his physical toughness.
Speaker 3: I love how he even on the field.
Speaker 5: I love how he addresses when he's got to go
Speaker 5: up against whoever that is on the other side. He
Speaker 5: doesn't back down. He's ready to go. And so I
Speaker 5: love his toughness. I love his mental and his physical toughness.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think his his survival, his survival tactics are
Speaker 7: the best. Like you said, they bring in guys all
Speaker 7: the time, and we talk about, well they could bump
Speaker 7: Land in, they could, you know, we get really creative
Speaker 7: and all that.
Speaker 2: Who keeps lining up out there and as an honorable.
Speaker 8: How many years is he know?
Speaker 6: Eight years? Yeah, isn't that crazy off air conversation?
Speaker 7: Yeah, but that that's I think with him, it's it's
Speaker 7: it's survival.
Speaker 2: But in a way that he's you know what, you keep,
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, you keep bringing.
Speaker 7: Guys on and he and you and you find your
Speaker 7: like these talking points we have in June and it's like, man,
Speaker 7: you'll Bland and hey, Carson's gonna play outside, Bland's gonna
Speaker 7: kick inside. Nah at number two keeps lining up, playing inside,
Speaker 7: covering guys, not tackling when he needs to be in
Speaker 7: physical when he needs to. I've thrown a lot of
Speaker 7: dirt on that guy that's been that's been him and
Speaker 7: still had been a big, big mistake for me in
Speaker 7: that way.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this too as an honorable mention. His
Speaker 5: personality is something I think is underrated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh not.
Speaker 5: A lot of fans probably don't know because they don't
Speaker 5: see him enough. He's a funny guy, and he just
Speaker 5: he seems like he just gets life. Married guy, you know,
Speaker 5: he just kind of Yeah, he's humble, he gets life,
Speaker 5: and that to me is like that's not always. By
Speaker 5: the way, this is like just a general thing with
Speaker 5: the population. Everybody in population, not everybody gets life. Yeah,
Speaker 5: a lot of people live their lives in lots of
Speaker 5: different ways. But I think he just kind of gets it,
Speaker 5: and I appreciate that about him. I think he creates
Speaker 5: the right kind of role model for kids out there
Speaker 5: who look up the professional athletes.
Speaker 7: I like what you're saying there, Nick, talk to me,
Speaker 7: which of the defensive rooms were you the most impressed.
Speaker 6: With from Sunday specifically, Yes, I would have to go
Speaker 6: with the linebacker room. With the way those guys played.
Speaker 6: Eric Kendricks bawled out. We're looking up after week one,
Speaker 6: He's leading the team in tackles, interception, sacks, just about
Speaker 6: every defensive stat that you could want, a really strong
Speaker 6: start for him. And then Demarvin overshowing what he was
Speaker 6: able to do flying to the ball, getting after it.
Speaker 6: I that speed was on full display, and even when
Speaker 6: Marrier Slufal came in the game, he was making an
Speaker 6: impact late in that game. Dumont Clark as well, it's
Speaker 6: gotta be the linebackers.
Speaker 2: Fross Man.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say linebacker as well. I think that's
Speaker 5: the answer, but I'll give you an i'll alternative, A
Speaker 5: part of a room, the defensive ends. I look at
Speaker 5: Tank and Micah and what they did in that game.
Speaker 5: They wrecked that game. They absolutely wrecked that game. And
Speaker 5: then you can even throw in Neiland.
Speaker 2: I saw.
Speaker 3: I thought Neiland has some nice plays out there.
Speaker 2: Pressure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for his first game in the NFL. So I'd
Speaker 5: give you that one as a second. But I think
Speaker 5: the linbackers were best. But I think the defensive really.
Speaker 8: He g I'm gonna go with a different one, dbs
Speaker 8: and the cornerbacks because and guess sure, there was a
Speaker 8: touchdown that Kayleen Carson allowed, but overall because of expectations
Speaker 8: and the things that they had going up against them.
Speaker 8: You can talk about the defensive line, we know the
Speaker 8: talent that's there. You can talk about the linebackers. We've
Speaker 8: been seeing what they've done throughout training camp and we
Speaker 8: know or we had an idea of what to expect.
Speaker 8: But with the cornerbacks, darn Bland being out then Trevon
Speaker 8: Diggs coming back from that injury, I think I would
Speaker 8: give that to them because they played well enough. They
Speaker 8: handled a job in Kaalen Carson despite that touchdown. It's
Speaker 8: it was very impressive because he's a rookie, first game,
Speaker 8: having to be thrown out there like that, I think
Speaker 8: he handled it pretty well.
Speaker 3: That's a great point, because made a lot of great points.
Speaker 5: If you if you would have said going into that game,
Speaker 5: any position had the most question marks.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: The cornerback and the fact that they played as well
Speaker 3: as they did. That's a great point.
Speaker 12: Yeac.
Speaker 2: That was when you started dancing down that.
Speaker 8: I think we had started taking the smart pill. Yeah,
Speaker 8: smart via Brian, just for you.
Speaker 3: They saw them.
Speaker 8: I don't know what's pharmacy susponsor here, but they saw
Speaker 8: them something very careful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I was just thinking,
Speaker 2: I don't say.
Speaker 6: Anything, a really quick stat to piggyback off of your point.
Speaker 6: Derek number one in the entire NFL and pressure generated
Speaker 6: in week one, Michael Parsons with nine, number two, DeMarcus
Speaker 6: Lawrence with eight. Yeah, number ten, Marshawn neland.
Speaker 3: Was so amazing.
Speaker 7: So the questions we had about Neil and I know
Speaker 7: I did, and when he was drafted it was can
Speaker 7: he be a pass rusher? And there were a couple
Speaker 7: of times there where he was able to win, get home.
Speaker 7: Maybe the sacks will come. We were thinking, hey, is
Speaker 7: this a four or five sack guy? You know, maybe
Speaker 7: they're maybe he'll get on a little bit of a run.
Speaker 2: You know, playing can I derail you for just a second,
Speaker 2: You can always derail me.
Speaker 5: So if you guys had to handicap this and say
Speaker 5: how much of that was just they were just really
Speaker 5: clicking on all cylinders, or it was that they were
Speaker 5: playing against some tackles that are just not very good.
Speaker 6: They asked me the same question on the fan this morning.
Speaker 6: I think the answer is probably somewhere in the middle,
Speaker 6: just because the pass rush unit, I mean they sunk
Speaker 6: their teeth in like they they saw an opportunity ahead
Speaker 6: of them. But also having those two tackles to replacement tackles,
Speaker 6: you saw the struggles there.
Speaker 7: Well, if you want to, if you want to really
Speaker 7: dive in, thank you for the next gen opportunities here.
Speaker 7: Their three inside guys gave up more pressures than the tackles.
Speaker 7: So if you look at the numbers, it those those
Speaker 7: there were those were three starters. Yeah, so you look
Speaker 7: at yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: So if you want to say their offensive line, yes,
Speaker 7: was it handicapped a little bit? Sure, But those guys
Speaker 7: we talked about it in the in the are when
Speaker 7: we broke down the game, and these are the things
Speaker 7: that when things work out, you're kind of like, oh,
Speaker 7: thank god. You know that we talked about those inside guys, Hey,
Speaker 7: there might be some opportunities to attack because we didn't
Speaker 7: know what the tackle situation was really going to be,
Speaker 7: but we knew what was going to happen inside there.
Speaker 7: And the fact that they gave up some pressures I
Speaker 7: think was I think that's well on the whole defensive line.
Speaker 7: All right, boss man, something you didn't expect in the game,
Speaker 7: but you're now looking forward to in future games.
Speaker 5: Cooper Bebie and it's I didn't expect him to not
Speaker 5: be as good in a certain area and what I
Speaker 5: watched when I when I went back and watched the game,
Speaker 5: one of the things I noticed was he was having
Speaker 5: an issue getting the second level what you mentioned, But
Speaker 5: it didn't seem like he was having an issue from
Speaker 5: the standpoint of it was overpowering him. It seemed like
Speaker 5: he was always a tick late exactly, which for me
Speaker 5: says that's about the speed of the game.
Speaker 3: Figure that part out.
Speaker 5: So I actually feel very optimistic that that will improve
Speaker 5: as time goes on.
Speaker 3: He'll know the timing.
Speaker 5: Of the game to know how quickly do I need
Speaker 5: to get out and into that second level in order
Speaker 5: to get to that spot before that guy can get
Speaker 5: there to actually make the block. And so I feel
Speaker 5: actually very optimistic, evenough I don't think he played well
Speaker 5: when it comes to run blocking from standpoint and getting
Speaker 5: a second level, I think it's it's very fixable.
Speaker 7: How about you ag something you didn't expect, but now
Speaker 7: we're looking forward to in future games.
Speaker 8: Well, not to repeat something that I mentioned, yesterday.
Speaker 2: They do that.
Speaker 8: But I would say the penalties on the offensive line,
Speaker 8: I mean that's something that I didn't expect it to
Speaker 8: be as clean as it was, given what we've seen
Speaker 8: in years prior, given what they were facing up against
Speaker 8: Tyler Gotten, what he had to deal with Miles Garrett.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I would say just playing a clean, cleaner game.
Speaker 6: Nick, I would say to Marvin Overshown, And the reason
Speaker 6: I'm saying him specifically, we did not expect him to
Speaker 6: start on Sunday. Not only did he start, but he
Speaker 6: played the majority of that game. I only expected about
Speaker 6: twenty five to thirty snaps from him, and right now,
Speaker 6: my PFF is just like blowing up in my face.
Speaker 6: But I would anticipate that he had more than twenty
Speaker 6: five to thirty snaps in that game, and not only
Speaker 6: just him being present, but him being active as well,
Speaker 6: getting after the quarterback, getting after the running lanes, accounting
Speaker 6: for the flats. He's going to be really important for
Speaker 6: this defense whenever they go up against mobile quarterbacks. And
Speaker 6: that was on display against a Sean Watson, and he
Speaker 6: was the guy that was spying. He was the guy
Speaker 6: that was attacking Watson whenever he escaped the pocket. That's
Speaker 6: going to be really important when we're looking up here
Speaker 6: in twelve days in Lamar Jackson's in town.
Speaker 3: Such a great Longhorn weekend, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: It was phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Your buddy, your buddy, Bryan's helping you here.
Speaker 6: Thirty nine thirty nine, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: So I was expecting twenty five to thirty yeah, and
Speaker 6: he ended up with thirty nine.
Speaker 7: Five point seven. Playtime yeah on that, so yeah, big time,
Speaker 7: big time. A G.
Speaker 2: How about this one?
Speaker 7: Because I'm looking around for I want to make sure
Speaker 7: you get player you were most happy for in this win,
Speaker 7: and why h player you were most happy for in
Speaker 7: this win?
Speaker 2: And why.
Speaker 8: Player I was most happy for. I mean, there are
Speaker 8: many ask you the question happy for, but I'll give
Speaker 8: you one.
Speaker 6: You're gonna steal mine already, know, No.
Speaker 8: I think I think every answer. I think I would
Speaker 8: say dak okay, because because we know when the contract happened,
Speaker 8: I think that the timing of it, it could have
Speaker 8: gone really badly. You know, the game could have been better,
Speaker 8: for sure, they could have gotten to the end zone
Speaker 8: a lot more times, but just in general, him protecting
Speaker 8: the ball or not giving it up, creating, you know,
Speaker 8: throwing interceptions or things like that. I think that I
Speaker 8: was happy that the game turned out the way it
Speaker 8: did for him, because otherwise the conversation we it would
Speaker 8: have been a show.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So so I'm just I'm happy that he got his contract,
Speaker 8: and I'm happy that we're here. Just not talking about
Speaker 8: that anymore.
Speaker 6: Nick Trayvon Diggs. Whenever he was coming out onto the
Speaker 6: field for pregame warm ups, he had tears in his
Speaker 6: eyes and it was one that was kind of leaking
Speaker 6: down his face. He shared a long embrace with Al
Speaker 6: Harrison pre game. I mean when I say long, it
Speaker 6: was forty five seconds to a minute thick for him.
Speaker 6: Do what, I'm glad you.
Speaker 14: Like this?
Speaker 5: Like this is going pretty long.
Speaker 6: I was like, do they pull off as soon as
Speaker 6: they break contact or the Huggins.
Speaker 2: That's a reporter right there.
Speaker 6: You try, you try, I try sometimes, but yeah, And
Speaker 6: to see him get that interception late in the game,
Speaker 6: it was it was it was cool. I was really
Speaker 6: happy for him and just the journey that he's gone
Speaker 6: through over the last year. And I believe it was
Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy that mentioned it yesterday. Is there's dark days
Speaker 6: that you experience in that training room by yourself while
Speaker 6: your entire teammates are out playing, and you know, try
Speaker 6: to chase the Super Bowl. And he said that, you
Speaker 6: know that's the battle that Sam Williams is facing right now,
Speaker 6: and to see Trayvon Diggs have that type of return
Speaker 6: and not only impacts his own recovery, but he can
Speaker 6: go to Sam Williams and be like, look like, a
Speaker 6: year from now, it's gonna be you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Derek.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw out Zeke Elliott.
Speaker 5: And the reason why I throw him out is because
Speaker 5: I remember back during camp I tweeted one day. I
Speaker 5: tweeted that Zeke looks like he's a little more spry
Speaker 5: this year than he was the last time he's with
Speaker 5: the Cowboys, and I got killed, Like people were just like, oh,
Speaker 5: he's washed up whatever, And I'm not, by no stretch
Speaker 5: am I saying that Zeke Elliott is a Pro Bowl
Speaker 5: type running back. He's not the guy he was when
Speaker 5: he started in the NFL, which I think was in
Speaker 5: a phenomenal running back at that point. My point is
Speaker 5: I think he is. I think he's got some juice
Speaker 5: in his legs that I didn't necessarily see at the
Speaker 5: point when the Cowboys let him go, and we saw
Speaker 5: it on the first play when he just hurdled the
Speaker 5: guy and kept moving. This is one thing to hurdle
Speaker 5: a guy, but when you hurdle a guy and you
Speaker 5: can keep going right, that's really where you see the athleticism, right,
Speaker 5: and I saw it right there and average four yards
Speaker 5: to carry. I think if I as I watched, I
Speaker 5: went back and watched all the runs from the game,
Speaker 5: and one of the things I noticed was there were
Speaker 5: several runs and you mentioned yesterday with the o'dowdell didn't
Speaker 5: really get everything out of the play.
Speaker 3: There was even that.
Speaker 2: Play with Deuce Vaughan.
Speaker 5: I think Deuce could have taken a little different route
Speaker 5: and there would have been more yards there. One thing
Speaker 5: I said about Zeke is on the vast majority of
Speaker 5: the runs I saw where he had the ball, he
Speaker 5: got everything out of the run that was there. Now
Speaker 5: you can say if he was faster, maybe he could
Speaker 5: have turned it into more.
Speaker 2: That's fair.
Speaker 5: The point is he got everything that was there. So
Speaker 5: his vision, yeah, his vision, his ability to move the crowd.
Speaker 3: Which is what they brought him here for.
Speaker 5: Like they brought him here because they wanted him to
Speaker 5: be able to fall forward, get those extra two or
Speaker 5: three yards that happened once you get tackled and get
Speaker 5: everything that's there. And so I think, all things considered,
Speaker 5: what the dirt that people threw on Zeke two years
Speaker 5: ago and were still throwing on him as a training camp,
Speaker 5: I think this game gave at least them room to
Speaker 5: pause to say, maybe Zeke's a little better than he
Speaker 5: was at the last point we saw him here.
Speaker 8: How long was the hug Zeke and Dak after the touchdown?
Speaker 6: Oh? I didn't time that. Oh okay, I can only
Speaker 6: win half of them.
Speaker 7: I got one more question. You want to go to
Speaker 7: break and come back with it? Or let's go to break,
Speaker 7: we'll come back. I got one more you know, Actually,
Speaker 7: let's go and.
Speaker 2: Do the question.
Speaker 7: Let's question right, go ahead, Okay, I know. I'm good
Speaker 7: for you for not dividing this sing up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick better debut, Mike Zimmer, Eric Kendricks.
Speaker 6: Oh man, that's a fun one. I would have to
Speaker 6: just go with Eric Hendricks. He was all over the place.
Speaker 6: When I identify who probably had the biggest impact defensively,
Speaker 6: I look at Michael Parsons, but because of the pressures
Speaker 6: that he generated on But when I look at that
Speaker 6: second level, the Browns were not able to get their
Speaker 6: running game going. And if you do not have Eric
Speaker 6: Hendricks in that game, that might Jerome Ford probably ends
Speaker 6: up instead of forty four yards, probably with about seventy.
Speaker 6: Eric Hendricks was right there filling running lanes, able to
Speaker 6: make an impact there. Like he was always in the
Speaker 6: right place at the right time. Not to take anything
Speaker 6: away from Mike Zimmer, because I think he schemed this
Speaker 6: game up perfectly.
Speaker 5: Boss Man, you said, Zimmer or Kendricks, Zimmer or Kendricks.
Speaker 5: I would go with Zimmer just because I think all
Speaker 5: the way around, Kendricks had a great game. But so
Speaker 5: did it Overshown, So did Micah, so did so did Tank,
Speaker 5: so did Trayvon. You know, so you start looking at
Speaker 5: that and when everybody's having a really good game, I
Speaker 5: think part of that has to be the the what
Speaker 5: they're doing all just as a unit. And I think
Speaker 5: a lot of the problems that they were having that
Speaker 5: Cleveland was having offensively came from the fact that, as
Speaker 5: we talked about, like this defense is one you can't
Speaker 5: get a read on them, like they disguise things really well,
Speaker 5: and they make it really tough on quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 5: think especially in a first game of the season where
Speaker 5: teams don't necessarily know how you're going to play them
Speaker 5: because they don't have the film. They can go back
Speaker 5: and look at other Mike Zimmer defenses, but they don't
Speaker 5: know exactly how he's going to use these players.
Speaker 3: And so you can buy it all those things.
Speaker 5: I think it was a masterfully called game, and I
Speaker 5: would give it to Mike Zimmer a g.
Speaker 8: I don't think it's fair to compare the two because
Speaker 8: very different jobs between the two, and I think they
Speaker 8: both excelled at what they had to do. But I
Speaker 8: will point out Mike Zimmer when this was before the
Speaker 8: game we got there. He starts walking out to the
Speaker 8: field and he had the smile, and the smile wasn't
Speaker 8: like a cocky smile. It wasn't like a clueless la
Speaker 8: la la la Land type of smile. It was just like,
Speaker 8: I'm here, let's do this. And it was very cute.
Speaker 8: And I can use that word because you see this
Speaker 8: guy that's so tough and so rigid and so straight
Speaker 8: that you hear about, but he's over here just walking
Speaker 8: so like it was just such a genuine happy yes.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 8: So it just had that feel again of Jesus, and
Speaker 8: it translated with everything that happened the rest of the
Speaker 8: game from beginning to end. So I'm just I was
Speaker 8: very happy for him and the turnout, and I think
Speaker 8: he's he's doing an excellent job so far.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 5: I love that for him, just because that's the thing. Brian,
Speaker 5: one of those guys you're you're a lifer. You're a
Speaker 5: football lifer. You played college ball, you got into the NFL,
Speaker 5: you worked there for years.
Speaker 3: Now you're covering the NFL like that.
Speaker 5: That's your life, Like it's a part of your life.
Speaker 5: And it's like when that's gone, it just feels, I
Speaker 5: would guess it feels like there's a void there.
Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 7: They had some good moments and we had you know,
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Speaker 7: That's like the the the satisfaction of a job well done.
Speaker 7: And Mike Simber walked off there and Sody Kendricks, you know,
Speaker 7: walked off that field. Job well done by both the tool.
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Speaker 3: Here's what I want to do.
Speaker 5: I'm going to run down a list of guys who
Speaker 5: Some of these guys we've talked about, but I really
Speaker 5: want you guys to focus in on. I'm going to
Speaker 5: give you a name, and I want you to tell
Speaker 5: me what was the best thing you liked about them
Speaker 5: in that game?
Speaker 3: And what thing you think maybe they.
Speaker 5: Need to improve upon in the in future weeks if
Speaker 5: there is that thing.
Speaker 3: Some things we may say. I don't really necessarily know
Speaker 3: what I got, but let's just see, all right, let's
Speaker 3: start off for Eric Kendricks.
Speaker 6: Eric Hendricks, So you're giving me one thing that I
Speaker 6: liked that he didn't, one thing he.
Speaker 3: Loved, and one thing you think he could he can
Speaker 3: improve on going forward.
Speaker 6: Okay, one thing that I loved is his command of
Speaker 6: the defense for sure. I mean just being able to
Speaker 6: be in communication with those guys at all times pre snap.
Speaker 6: I challenge viewers to go and watch Eric Kendricks in
Speaker 6: this game against the Saints, just because I know that
Speaker 6: he's going to take the same approach. Look at how
Speaker 6: much he is communicating the guy's pre snap and trying
Speaker 6: to get guys in the right place, and he takes
Speaker 6: that upon himself. Obviously, is the on field bridge between
Speaker 6: the Mike Zimmer system and the personnel that's in place.
Speaker 6: Eric Kendricks has assumed to be that. But he was
Speaker 6: doing that and then a little bit more. One thing,
Speaker 6: I guess hydration, right, he had to come out in
Speaker 6: the third quarter for a little bit head back to
Speaker 6: the locker room and grab an IV. So maybe they're
Speaker 6: a little bit more hyght.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Sunday, I'm glad what you did there, because I
Speaker 7: was going to do the same thing. They had sixty
Speaker 7: six defensive snaps. He played forty seven of him. I'm like,
Speaker 7: I'd like for him to play.
Speaker 2: All sixty six.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Going forward.
Speaker 7: The thing that you have to like about him, though,
Speaker 7: is it Nick made a great point about the command
Speaker 7: of the defense, the ability to communicate.
Speaker 2: Just how about the ability to get to the ball
Speaker 2: and tackle and make plays.
Speaker 7: You know, he's blitzing on the on his interception, he's
Speaker 7: blitzing on the play. Parsons does a great job of
Speaker 7: blitzing and realize the ball is gonna come out quick,
Speaker 7: and he'll go up and now.
Speaker 2: The ball's tipped. What is what does Kendricks do?
Speaker 7: He runs and then turns back around and then finds
Speaker 7: the ball and gets you know, you're blitzing and now
Speaker 7: locate ball and then get the interception.
Speaker 2: It's just that instinct, the awareness, football intelligence. You saw
Speaker 2: that when everywhere he's been, when you're watching with the Chargers,
Speaker 2: the way he was playing downhill, getting there making tackles
Speaker 2: always sees seems to be in the right spot. That's
Speaker 2: you gotta love that if your linebackers.
Speaker 7: But like I said, yeah, the hydration play every snap
Speaker 7: and that that seems like the one thing he'll have
Speaker 7: to work on going forward.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, aside from his hair, not that he needs
Speaker 8: to work on. I'm saying the good things him. Who
Speaker 8: has better hair Kendricks for sure. You think it looks
Speaker 8: it looks more moisturized. Yeah, more, he has more hydration.
Speaker 4: Hydration.
Speaker 2: These are player guests on Thursday, every Thursday.
Speaker 3: By the way, he was really good last week.
Speaker 7: He's really good last I'll ask him about his hair.
Speaker 3: He has a fun interview.
Speaker 8: But yes, great hair. But I don't have much to
Speaker 8: say him needing to improve other than yes, we'd love
Speaker 8: to have him out there the whole time. But what
Speaker 8: I love about him is that so he's thirty two
Speaker 8: years old despite his age, his speed, I mean he's
Speaker 8: so fast, and his ball awareness everything, he's so aware.
Speaker 8: He doesn't means a bit my accent here.
Speaker 3: We got a beat, yes, a beat, but.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, just his speed despite his age. He just
Speaker 8: he moves around so well.
Speaker 3: All right, Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 2: Jordan Phillips, Okay, this is what can I take this one?
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 7: Okay, when I watch him, he got from the Giants,
Speaker 7: and when we were all together in Oxnard we kind
Speaker 7: of had shows and talking about Jordan Phillips. The addition
Speaker 7: what he means. When I watched Buffalo tape, saw a
Speaker 7: more active player. I know he didn't get a whole
Speaker 7: lot of snaps in this thing. I mean, let me
Speaker 7: look at that up. I got thirteen snaps is what
Speaker 7: it says here on my next Gen stuff. So with
Speaker 7: that being said, though, when he was with Buffalo, you
Speaker 7: saw the wide techniques, you saw the three techniques. You
Speaker 7: saw the up the field guy. You saw the guy
Speaker 7: destroying blockers. You saw the guy taking on Tyler Smith
Speaker 7: and having some success and then taking Beyondish and pushing
Speaker 7: him out of the way.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to see with Jordan Philip. I
Speaker 2: want him to be able to be that guy that
Speaker 2: I was evaluating on.
Speaker 7: Buffalo tape because I think that's the type of player
Speaker 7: he can be.
Speaker 2: So that would be what do you need to work
Speaker 2: on thing.
Speaker 7: I love the size, I love the ability to site
Speaker 7: when him and Linvo Joseph A standing next or playing
Speaker 7: next to each other.
Speaker 2: That's wide.
Speaker 7: You've got some like two win of bagos parked in there,
Speaker 7: you know, taking it, you know, And so I just
Speaker 7: I like that look. But I want to see more
Speaker 7: of that Buffalo Bill guy that was running against Tyron
Speaker 7: Smith and got a sack. Yeah, that's the guy I
Speaker 7: want to see.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I think the thing that probably benefited this defense
Speaker 6: the most, and this is probably something that Jordan Phillips,
Speaker 6: just his presence brought more so than his ability, is
Speaker 6: Deshaun Watson was a little bit hesitant to throw across
Speaker 6: the middle of the field with those big arms in
Speaker 6: front of the ball. Yeah, and so I think that's
Speaker 6: just more so his presence being there. But I agree
Speaker 6: with you, Brian, he needs to get up field. I
Speaker 6: want to see him get up field. You know, in
Speaker 6: a game like this where you say, you know, the
Speaker 6: interior pressure was prevalent and this pass rush unit was
Speaker 6: getting after it. Okay, where's Jordan Phillips Because I want
Speaker 6: to see him be a part of that too, Because
Speaker 6: I think generating interior pressure when you look at the guys,
Speaker 6: when you look at the guys in that room that
Speaker 6: you would identify as someone who needs to come out.
Speaker 6: It's OsO number one, and then Jordan Phillips number two.
Speaker 6: And then we start talking about Mazi and Linval Joseph.
Speaker 6: But I want those guys to just focus on defending
Speaker 6: the run. But I would like to see Jordan Phillips
Speaker 6: get field for me.
Speaker 8: Can I double it and pass it on to the
Speaker 8: next picture. I'm not even gonna lie. I'm not gonna
Speaker 8: make up anything other than that. I haven't gone back
Speaker 8: and seen him specifically point and analyze what he did
Speaker 8: in that game just yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will say this.
Speaker 5: There was a play Nick and I were actually watching
Speaker 5: watching it in real time where Jordan Phillips and Linville
Speaker 5: Joseph were on to fill at the same time.
Speaker 3: As early in the game.
Speaker 5: And it was a run play, and you see I
Speaker 5: want to say it was Kendricks, I'm not sure there
Speaker 5: was a linebacker.
Speaker 3: I think it was Kendricks. He just kind of slices
Speaker 3: around the right corner or a night in right corner.
Speaker 2: It's like right.
Speaker 5: Outside the tackle and just nice in and makes a tackle.
Speaker 5: And the beautiful part about it was the reason why
Speaker 5: he was able to do that is because that middle
Speaker 5: was just locked up. There was nothing the running back,
Speaker 5: he couldn't run forward. They're just weren't any options there.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's why they went and got those
Speaker 5: two guys, the two big bodies in the middle. When
Speaker 5: they get them to the point where they're playing, and again,
Speaker 5: let's remember neither one of them really were here for much.
Speaker 3: Of training camp at all.
Speaker 5: Neither one had really much of a training camp, So
Speaker 5: this is also kind of acclimating them to the Cowboys
Speaker 5: way of playing football, but also acclimating them back to
Speaker 5: football shape. But I think that all the way around,
Speaker 5: that play was what gave me confidence that when you
Speaker 5: get into December and you're playing teams that are trying
Speaker 5: to run.
Speaker 3: The ball against you, that you can have a little
Speaker 3: beef there in the middle.
Speaker 5: It forces them into situation when now you're running back.
Speaker 5: Your linebackers are just running and we know they can run,
Speaker 5: they're just running in filling gaps, running and filling gaps
Speaker 5: getting to the ball.
Speaker 3: I love that about these two players.
Speaker 8: Particularly well, how big he is. That's one of his
Speaker 8: main attributes. And if we go back to what happened
Speaker 8: last year and some of the issues that the Dallas
Speaker 8: defense was having was size. When it came to what
Speaker 8: they had going on on the field, we were often talking, well,
Speaker 8: they just need someone bigger, they need more size, and
Speaker 8: I think that's what they addressed with this guy like him,
Speaker 8: just putting him in there and just his presence makes
Speaker 8: a difference.
Speaker 3: It's really amazing when you think about it.
Speaker 5: We're talking about this off air, the amount of money
Speaker 5: or the amount of resources the Cowboys did not use
Speaker 5: this year in free agency, but for everything you talk
Speaker 5: about what you say, other than running back, arguably every
Speaker 5: position where you're.
Speaker 3: Like, man, cowboy's got to get better here.
Speaker 5: Like run defense, beef in the middle, linebackers that can run,
Speaker 5: get to the ball like they addressed them with basically
Speaker 5: very little if any money and just kind of filled
Speaker 5: it all in.
Speaker 7: It started at the draft when we were when we
Speaker 7: were interviewing coaches and Will McLay others that were you know,
Speaker 7: it started there. The linebacker room had to change. And
Speaker 7: then before our eyes when we were an ox Nart
Speaker 7: the defensive tackle room changed. It went from being wow, okay,
Speaker 7: well you know we're going to try and Mozie and
Speaker 7: you know, and Rogers and that you know, here we
Speaker 7: go and and they're like, no, this ain't this ain't
Speaker 7: gonna work. We need to take opportunities to add and
Speaker 7: they give them credit for this, and a lot of
Speaker 7: times I feel like I don't give them enough credit.
Speaker 7: But their pro department this summer got after it. They're like, well,
Speaker 7: and the coaches and maybe Mike zimmer another said we
Speaker 7: have we've got to get better inside. We're not good
Speaker 7: enough to play this defense the way I want to
Speaker 7: play it in side, and Will and the pro guys
Speaker 7: went to work on that, and they and they were
Speaker 7: they in the last really two weeks of training camp.
Speaker 7: You know, they took a two week evaluation and then
Speaker 7: the last two weeks like, no, we got to fix
Speaker 7: this thing. And they went out and at least for
Speaker 7: week one it looked like a very apparent that they
Speaker 7: did the right thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, to the same point, when we were interviewing the
Speaker 6: scouts on the third day of the draft show, I
Speaker 6: can't remember which one said it, but somebody had identified
Speaker 6: the spine of the defense. And when you look at that,
Speaker 6: you look at the middle, you look at the defensive
Speaker 6: back point, you look at the defensive tackles position, you
Speaker 6: look at linebackers. You look at the safeties. Granted, I
Speaker 6: think they felt comfortable about the safeties, but it was
Speaker 6: more so those first two levels and addressing those two things.
Speaker 6: We look up September tenth. I think they've addressed those
Speaker 6: two things, no doubt.
Speaker 3: All Right, we appreciate you guys, Jonas. We're back tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We'll start getting into our next matchup.
Speaker 5: UH Brank often at the Saints offense and which put
Speaker 5: up a ton of points this last week. In Brian,
Speaker 5: wi'll tell us whether that was an aberration or not
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