WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The Mahomes Factor 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.160 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:14.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.479 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:27.280 Star in Frisco. Elliot to the Scot Tay and now 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:32.360 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:38.280 Kyle Yeomans. It is a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:43.920 Cowboys presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in the game. 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:49.440 Welcome back into the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.640 and boy, do we have a show for you. One 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.840 of the best matchups of the season. Are you Hike 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.360 oh man? I'm ready to talk about this one man. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.720 Chiefs Offense, Cowboys defense who This is gonna be a 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.160 fun one and we've got plenty to talk about on 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.720 this one. As always. Heck Ma Harris and Isaiah stand back, 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.120 Rob Phillips, We've got Chris Beam in the back. Everybody good, 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.080 Everybody buckled up, ready to go for this one. Strapped in, sir, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.120 That's that's more like yes, it's not really buckled in, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.040 it's more of like strapped down. Make sure the roller coasters. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.280 Sorry sorry Rob, No, right, yeah, baby, seat around both 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.920 bull shoulders. Yes, yeah, it's going. I'm ready, put the 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 head rest and the helmet on. You're about to buckle 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.440 up and get ready to go. Heck mo, you're ready 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.640 of course already. Are you talking about? Let's go around 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.160 your neck pillow just in case it rubs and knicks 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.880 if I ever good on one. That is the most 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.600 bougie thing I think I've ever heard say. The kids 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.880 have to have it, really though, Yeah, the kause the 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.400 kids always fall asleep and throw up with one. He No, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.600 yeah I didn't either, So I think I think you 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.200 and I turned out for I'm like mc light. I'm 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:03.160 a rough nick, you know. But but the kids nowadays, 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:11.080 they're not do it to say truth true? Huh yeah, okay, okay, evolution. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.440 I'll get back to you in a couple of years. Yeah, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.120 I'll let you know a couple of years. Oh, I 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.120 mean putting it? I mean you said it. I'm not 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.840 coming with two? No, because the couple two isn't that 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.239 the reference a few a few let's say a few years. No, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:35.840 don know what I'm saying to stop watch Chase put 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.200 that place number seventeen twenty three, Stop nine two am 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.639 you s got this? I'm gonna get like a message 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.600 from Rob that day and he's gonna be like, so 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:51.560 calendar and be like, what are you talking about? You're crazy? Oh. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.480 So we are going to preview the Cowboys defense versus 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.560 that Chiefs offense and the Chiefs offense finding the rhythm 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.600 against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday night. Foot football 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.720 put up forty one points, the majority of those coming 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.359 in the second half of Before we get into that, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.959 anything come out of yesterday. It was a day off 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.200 for the Cowboys, so kind of a slow Tuesday, right Rob, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.320 It was slow. News wise was awesome. We touched on 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.919 Jerry Jones on the fan yesterday and what the right 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.120 tackle situation might look like if Tyrant Smith comes back 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.280 as early as this week. Other than that, I mean, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.800 hadn't been a whole lot of news in the in 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.160 the old been there. One thing I did want to 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.080 ask was is there any significance of having Debarcus Lawrence 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.840 back on the sideline again? The fact that he was 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.680 on the sideline. He hasn't activated that practice window yet, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.600 we haven't gotten to that point, but he was around right. Yeah, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.839 he was, and I think he's all I think that'd 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.920 give some juice on the sideline when we talked about 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.000 kind he kind of sets the tone for this defense 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.400 when he's been out there, and he's also ramping up 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.080 his rehab. I mean, he's doing more deering practice off 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.360 to the side with Britt Brown than we've seen, so 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.720 I think he is getting closer. I'm trying to think 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.240 if there's any injuries. Ceedee Lamb had the arm contusion 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.520 that kept him out of the second half, but I 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.200 think if they weren't up by forty points, he probably 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.280 would have been back in there. I think he's supposed 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.359 to practice today most likely. That's good. And heck, I 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.200 know you've been on a sideline like that before and 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.560 you like the sounds of the sideline too. Love In 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.440 terms of the video and that was released yesterday, but 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.560 did you like seeing DeMarcus Lawrence back out there instead 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.120 of being in like a field level suite and dapping 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.000 up the guys when they come by, at least actually 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.400 having a presence on the sideline. I mean, tak is 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.800 one of the unquestioned leaders of your team and it's 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.080 got to be killing him. To be sideline and not 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.400 be a part of what's going on. Just gotta imagine 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.440 all of the work that goes into this for these 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.920 guys as as brothers, and an injury kind of ostracizes 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.359 you from the group and you finally can you know, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.440 you're getting back to yourself and you feel healthy and 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.640 obviously you can walk on your foot again. You want 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.480 to be down on the sideline in any capacity. I 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.520 wouldn't want to be away, you know, I'd be back 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.400 there with Chris, you know something like you know, like 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.839 something like that, because you just it's something that you 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.719 do every day. Football is a part of him. And 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.200 not only that, Like I said, he's one of the 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.480 unquestioned leaders of this team. Heck but loses his voice 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.680 and he's in the back with like cough drops and things. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.560 Boy like we're sitting there with Chris. I'll be all here, Horsey. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.000 Don't you worry about it? What is it like getting 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.200 a leader like that back? I saiah um, you know 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.960 to what your Hecken's point. I mean, he's one of 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.479 the leaders, the leaders that are definitely known on this team. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.000 They think they miss his presence and anytime you can 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.919 have a guy like that present in whatever capacity he 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.280 can be. I'm glad that the team's allowing him to 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.479 be on the sideline. Sometimes they throw guys up in 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.480 the up and up the suite or in the stands uh, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.839 typically a suite here, especially here in Dallas. Uh. But 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.760 you know it's it's also when they allow those guys 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:50.360 to be a part of it, because I mean, he's 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:51.960 a hype man. He's a hype man when he's when 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.599 he's playing. He's a hype man when he's not playing. 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.760 And you know, it's always good to have your boys there. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.479 I'm giving you that extra juice. But yeah, in terms 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.880 of when you're when you're not playing, it's sucks. It 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.240 sucks when you're when you're used to being one of 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.880 the guys. And um, even if you're just a special teamer, right, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.760 I mean, you don't want to be on the outside 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.440 looking in, but especially when you're one of the leaders 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:12.919 on this team, the last thing you want to be 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.640 is feeling like you're just isolated to just being with 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.000 Britt Brown, which is not a bad thing. Britt's awesome, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:19.600 but it's not where you want to be. It's not 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:24.160 funny either, It's not funny this is this is usually 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.440 a great tank week for the media, this kind of game. Yeah, 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.200 and obviously he's still in ir but you know, there's 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.599 been games where the Cowboys have matched up against a 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.560 great offense and how they gonna stop him? And I'm 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.560 trying to I'm thinking of like twenty eighteen against the Saints. Yeah, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.960 where and he he will stand up in front of 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.599 the media and kind of send a message through the 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.240 media about the confidence level of the defense. He's coming 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.400 after you. He's always had that and that and I 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.679 remember that game is particularly that was the best defensive 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.800 performance in a while for the Cowboys. So, uh, it's 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.440 that kind of matchup again. How do they how do 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.360 they stop this Chief's offense? Man, it's it's it's it's 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.720 it's a tasty one. They're going need every ounce of 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.720 that confidence going into this game. Cowboys in the Chiefs 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.720 have combined for eight hundred and thirty five total yards 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.600 per game entering the matchup, and that's the sixth most 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:19.200 all time in the NFL, sixth most since nineteen fifty 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.440 in a matchup later than Week eleven, So I mean 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.120 up there with Rams and Chiefs in twenty eighteen, which 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.840 we saw what that kind of game turned into, drunk 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.480 Bronco's Charger, Saints and Panthers, Eagles, Patriots, all of those 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.840 in twenty thirty, eleven, twenty eleven. And then it's the 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.440 Chiefs and the Cowboys coming up this week, and this 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.559 is going to be a fun one. And like I mentioned, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.040 the Chiefs are getting back on track, and first off, 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.000 I want to kind of dial it back a little 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.120 bit for the Chiefs standpoint and sort of deal with 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.640 what the I guess the slow start. Dealt with what 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.800 made them get off to such a slow start, What 0:07:56.880 --> 0:08:00.720 were they doing wrong? And how have they since fixed that? Heckpone. Yeah, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:05.120 I think initially teams were getting pressure. It's all derived 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.040 from the Super Bowl. I'm gonna I'm gonna say a word. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:14.440 It's triggering for you, el ravo. And that's blueprint. I think. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.080 I think teams saw in the Super Bowl that what 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.680 Patrick Mahomes does when he gets under pressure. He you know, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.720 some of the cardinal rules of sports apply. You can't 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.880 throw Layton, can't throw across your body. Obviously, Patrick Mahomes 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.640 has an IQ and he's a great decision maker. But 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.560 you saw at the beginning of the season, he was 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.000 starting to have some location problems, and I think the 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.160 pressure was starting to get to him a bit as well. 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.760 I don't know, per se if there's anything that he 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.440 hasn't seen defensively, so it's hard for me to imagine 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.240 that he's confused by anything. I just think that some 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.120 of the decisions that he made clearly pointed out. That's 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.640 how you started to have those turnovers. And look, just 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.920 like with any other sport, whether we always use those 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.880 boxing analogies, there's a guy has not seen him admit 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.160 he was a boxer back and they may not remember 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.120 Ben Away. God, he would hit you anywhere except for 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.640 under your feet. I mean, he was that good. But 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.160 the cardinal rule of boxing is if you can't not 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.559 escape a left hook, you shouldn't be boxing. Box you 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.800 shouldn't be boxing. And finally somebody cracked the code. I 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.720 think Tampa may have cracked the code and some of 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.520 those cardinal rules of football. Can't throw late across your body. 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.079 Some of the things that he's been able to get 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.120 away with because of his superior athleticism. I'm not saying 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.240 he's in decline, but some of those things are starting 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.319 to catch up with him. It certainly seemed that way 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.079 early on, because Patrick Mahomes had never been stood up. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.120 I mean, it had been to a point where he 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.160 had never really just laid in that. I mean, there 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.720 were statistics about it all the way through the early 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.560 parts of his career where he hadn't thrown under a 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.839 certain amount of yards, or hadn't thrown a pick here, 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.760 having thrown a pick there. I mean, he was as 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.640 good as anybody to start a career in the history 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.520 of the NFL. But then he pitter pattered through the 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.960 middle of this season. And I think you're right. I 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:04.280 think it came from that Super Bowl and I carried over. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.320 But it's also that offensive line, right, that offensive line 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.040 is not as good as what it used to be. Yeah, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.679 that's and so I have to, honestly, I have to. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.720 I'm blessed to be able to be an insider for 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.120 probably another podcast platform. And we had addressed this a 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.560 couple of weeks back back when they were three and 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.040 four and it and I pointed directly to the office 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.199 of line and officer. Line is totally brand new, totally 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.800 brand new. These guys have five new guys up front. Wow, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.079 they I mean from the starting from the left side. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.079 These guys drafted Creed Humphrey. Their center drafted him this year, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.280 trace me after the right guard drafted him this year. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.360 They had a guy their last year's drafty, the right tackle, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.800 Lucas nng Uh. He was a twenty twenty draft he 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.400 but he opted out of the season because of the 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 covid Um. You got Joe Thuney that they picked up 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.480 from the from the Patriots, and the Orlando Brown they 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.920 picked up from the Ravens. These guys, literally all five 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.640 guys are brand new. So you're expecting Patrick Mahomes to 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.800 still be Patrick Mahomes with five new guys that don't 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.880 have any continuity the things that we've been talking about 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.640 in terms of Collins and and Terrence Steell, And we 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.600 don't want to move these guys around because of those 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.240 the commisit it might mess with the continuity. Imagine moving 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.280 all five pieces. So that's what these guys have sustained. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.200 And I was one of the ones to stand up 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.000 on the table and say it's only a matter of time. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.840 The lightships, the light switches, it's only a matter of time. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.680 Because you're putting representing teams recognize that this was a 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.280 whole new front. So what are you gonna do if 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.440 you're a defensive coordinator. We're lighting them up, light them up, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.400 let's bring pressure because these guys can't figure it out. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.040 They don't know how to pass up off yet they 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.040 don't know how to communicate. They don't know exactly what 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.320 to do. So that was the issue early on. And 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.800 then Patrick Mahomes, I'm still Patrick Mahomes, So I'm still 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.120 gonna get out the pocket and do the things that 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.760 I do. And what does that force you to do? 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.800 Start making inherrent throws, start making throws that you used 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.520 to be able to make. That you just say, my 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.560 guys are better than your guys, and we're just gonna 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.400 make plays regardless. And guess what, sometimes there's fifty fifty 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.280 balls and those fifty fifty balls went the other way. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.839 So that's what happened early on with the kanc Chiefs, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.120 And that's why these guys are so dangerous because everybody 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.840 in the whole country who watches football and understands how 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.440 as these guys are offensively, the weapons that they have 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.960 offers a coordinator that they have the hey coach that 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.240 they have and the knowledge that he has a he's 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.280 a Jedi. I don't think there's any questions in regards 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.600 of that. And these guys are dangerous as they continue 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.520 to get better. Okay, that's all they're going to continue 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.440 to do is get better every single game. As these 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.040 guys continue to get familiarized with each other. Yeah, it's 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.040 kind of you know, the Sunday night game against Las 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.120 Vegas and obviously they went off in that game forty 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.440 one points. Got back to doing what they do. There 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.280 was a graphic up there about how much less Pat 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.080 Mahomes is being blitzed this year compared to the past. 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.880 It's like ten percent drop. The teams are playing more 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.240 coverage and honestly, like that's what you're seeing with Dak 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.480 to some degree, teams and we're like, look, we can't 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.600 do this. He's burning us every time. And so that's 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:45.480 that's the challenge with the great quarterbacks. So they're they're 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.160 doing more of that, and they haven't gotten a lot 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.760 of variants in their offense in terms of targets. You 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.000 look at the targets in there. I mean, we all 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.800 know about Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey. They're amazing players. But 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.720 beyond that they Okay, Tyreek's got one hundred and eleven 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.599 targets this year, Kelsey eighty nine. The next guy is 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:10.079 Hardman with fifty six, a huge drop off. So you know, satically, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.800 the Cowboys are the best offense in the league. But 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.720 I think I think you can make the argument that 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.600 although maybe there's a similar approach to trying to play 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.400 the Cowboys offense, Cowboys have a little more balance in 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.760 terms of what they can do to counteract that. And 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.040 the Chiefs don't like to run that much anyway, So 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.079 I think that's part of it, and I think Isaiah 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.200 just spoke to it too. I mean, Pat, there's probably 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.400 some frustration there when you get played like that, you 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.040 want to hit the big plays, and maybe he was 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.000 forcing some things and that's where the turnovers came, and 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.280 also not to mention, and added an element to their offense. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.520 Will be back this week or is expected to be back, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.000 and that's Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He had been out for 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.320 a couple of weeks. Miss since we saw like another week, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 what was that, he just sit out one more. Now 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.440 it's not a foregone conclusion, but his practice window has 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.760 started in there is a great chance quote unquote from 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.520 Andy Reid that he does find the way. The reports 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.760 last week that he was practicing and practicing very well. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.880 Kids ready, But basically last week they said no, not 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.160 so fast this week for the care We're gonna get 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.480 ready for this one. By the way, he's kind of 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:15.040 going along the same lines of career in season success 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.400 Dak Prescott having a better season at the moment than 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.640 Patrick Mahomes, but Mahomes is the career leader in passer 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.840 rating at least during his time. This is the fourth 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.880 time that the season leader and the career leader in 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.960 passer rating have met in the same game past week 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.440 eleven or entering the week since nineteen ninety. The other 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.640 matchups this is a fun one Jim Harball versus Steve 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.040 Young in ninety five, John Elway versus Joe Montana another 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.359 Kansas City Joe Montana, uh nineteen ninety three, San Francisco 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.160 Joe Montana and Phil Simms. So that was in nineteen 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.600 ninety So, man, there's this is This has got the 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.440 feelings of an historic matchup. But instant classic, yeah, instant, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.040 and it's guys, I mean, Pat Mahomes has done so 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.440 much already. But he he's ascending and we know Dak 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.840 Prescott's sending. That's what's that's what's fun about it. Him. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.560 Like the opener was great because it's Brady, and Brady's 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.080 a legend and all that, but these are two guys 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.120 that are I mean, gonna be going at it. I mean, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.640 they don't play that often, but they're going to be 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.320 right at the top for years to come. That's what's 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.000 cool about it. But I just want to go back 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.240 to what you were saying about defenses playing coverage. I 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.920 think all around the league, that's what defenses have started 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.200 to do. You see more big nickel all over because 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.960 teams are willing to say I'm gonna rush three, rush four, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.000 and drop everybody else back into coverage because you're you're 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.640 giving up so much in the passing league by staying 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.440 with conventional linebackers and not hybrid safeties that can cover 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:42.840 out in space. And I just look, they never have, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.200 like you pointed out, they never have really have been 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.320 balanced with a running game. I think Edwards a layer. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:53.320 I mean, him coming back doesn't doesn't unnerve me simply 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.400 because I feel like our defense is playing well enough 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.800 to this point that they can nullify whatever impact that 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:03.080 he'll have on this game. For me, I just want 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.320 to know how Dan Quinn schemes this up from a 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.000 coverage standpoint, because if you go back to the games 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.960 where the Tennessee Titans play, them just saying when they 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.280 came up against some pretty good defenses that often struggle, 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.440 they went into a shell of themselves. Right that Titans 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.880 game specifically, I went back and watched the first half 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.880 and the Titans just flat out dominated them. Not only that, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.640 go back to the Bills game and you see those 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.600 games where defenses that they don't have to sacrifice by 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.080 coming after him. You talk about teams blitzing Patrick Mahomes, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.080 and that was I saw a stat against Dak about 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.240 how he is rated when teams try to bliss. He's 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.320 picking guys apart and stop blitz pass the NFL right now, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.520 and I think Mahomes has been since whenever going back 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.240 a couple of years. But that just says talks to 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.760 his IQ. Now, if you're a team that's gonna put 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.920 come after him with two or three down line, and 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:57.600 of course he's just gonna turn around and hand the 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.320 ball the clods. That was Hilaire. You know, so you'll 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.880 have to stay in a base to some degree. I 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:06.320 think I just think that for our dbs, for our 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.840 second there our safeties. This game is gonna be a 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.320 get a big game for them because they're gonna have 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:15.080 to play sound without question. Yeah. Yeah, these guys don't 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.040 run the ball much. They don't. They're not they're not 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.640 traditional in that in that way. They don't. They understand 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.679 that that's not where their strength of their team is. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.480 The strength of their team is getting the ball in 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.959 their playmaker's hands by any means necessary, and that's not 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.600 necessarily coming back and handing the ball off. These guys 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.520 run more screens than probably any team in the NFL, 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.040 and that's how they get their running plays exactly, that's 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.680 their running place. So I know people are all, these guys, 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.280 we get shut down their run. Yeah, you might better 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.200 shut down to run, but these guys are gonna run 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.640 screens all day long. And that's like a long handoff 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.000 exactly what it is, exactly what it is. It's it's 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.360 almost like, how do you define a run these days? 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.840 Because the analytics, yeah, behind the screen is like yeah, 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.520 I almost said geeks. Because some people don't think like 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.520 you should even run the ball anymore. And I and 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.240 that's I think there's value in running the ball, but 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.920 I think there is value also. And if they're loading 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.639 the box, it's kind of what the Cowboys did against 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.320 the Bucks. It's just yeah, spread it out to the outside. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.800 They do with Tyreek Hill. I think Darryl Williams had 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.800 nine catches for one hundred and one yards, so you 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.760 can kind of stuff that into his run productions. That's 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.080 what it is. Yeah, I mean he's not even I 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.120 mean I guess attribute wise, they're him and Clyde Edwards 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.480 there night and day. They're night and day skill wise. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.920 So if Clyde Edwards decides to make his comeback this week, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.120 which I'm pretty sure that's why he held him out 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.640 last week, we can expect him to have at least 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.080 five or six screens in the game, and then you 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.560 have to watch him on the screens. You have to 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.560 watch Tyreek Hill on the screens to Keilsy on the screens, 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:41.720 so that again, you know, to that point, it's a 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.600 long handoff. And that's what they are, perfectly or they're 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.399 perfectly fine. People talking about how they don't have a 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:49.000 run game, and that's how they get their yardage inside 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.639 the box. Well, even in a blowout win against the Raiders, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.280 forty one to fourteen was the score, and Patrick Mahomes 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.560 still hit fifty pass attempts. He still went thirty five 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.480 or fifty for four hundred plus and five touchdown. They're 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.440 gonna throw the ball around no matter if it's a 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.560 big lead. Not so much. They don't really have that 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:08.920 salt to way tough back like a Zeke who can 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:10.800 really kind of put it on the ground and just 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.800 keep rolling all the way down the field. Now. I 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.680 know Tony Pollard did that against that land of quite 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:16.400 a bit in that second half, which is great too, 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:18.760 But I don't know if Williams is that guy. I 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.879 don't know if Clyde Edwards, a layer, especially coming off 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:24.520 an injury, is that guy. However, they're gonna spread it out. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.440 I mean, they're gonna spread that thing out and they're 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.120 gonna get it to their weapons, and they are all 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.959