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Speaker 1: Thursday September twenty seventh, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, Episode number
Speaker 1: forty s seven. Welcome to another very special edition of
Speaker 1: Mess Up dot Number live from the s WBC Mortgage
Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. We've got a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of really good information to get into today. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys taking some time to talk to us,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk some Cowboys football. How's probably doing
Speaker 1: this morning? Hi? Hey? What the heck? Alright, it's very creepy.
Speaker 1: What's going on on? How are we doing? Guys? Hey? Jason?
Speaker 1: All right, let's get right into it. We gotta get
Speaker 1: to this Detroit Lion defense. Yesterday you guys talked about
Speaker 1: the Lions offense versus the Cowboys defense. Today we talk
Speaker 1: about the Lions defense versus the Cowboys offense. But before
Speaker 1: we do we do need to catch up on some
Speaker 1: injury information. Yesterday there were three players that did not
Speaker 1: practice Malik Collins, Travis Frederick, Shawn Lee. Nothing surprising about that,
Speaker 1: but there were a few guys that were limited. Cole
Speaker 1: Beasy with an ankle injury, Jeff Heath with another ankle
Speaker 1: with an ankle injury, and Antoine Woods with a groin injury.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about those three guys and what you're
Speaker 1: expecting this week as far as their health. Well, I'll
Speaker 1: start with Sean Lee. I have the chance to talk
Speaker 1: to Steven Jones every week for a special edition and
Speaker 1: it's going to air on Saturday, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know when, Saturday night, ten thirty in Dallas,
Speaker 1: but all over the place, and if you're in that,
Speaker 1: we'll have it on the website too. The website, and
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that he's going to have an interview.
Speaker 1: We haven't done the interview yet, but I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that during the interview that he will say something
Speaker 1: like two to four weeks for Sean Lee. Yeah, feeling.
Speaker 1: I've a feeling that that's going to come out in
Speaker 1: the interview. We'll see it sounds about right. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: that's not really what the head coach I don't think
Speaker 1: is saying. No, he's saying day to day, but I
Speaker 1: think he really means like fourteen to twenty eight days
Speaker 1: sounds about right. What nothing. I'm just and you guys
Speaker 1: already talked about it yesterday. It's just it doesn't surprise
Speaker 1: you anymore when this pops up. But at some point
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I guess they're gonna see this
Speaker 1: year what happens in his absence. Last year, in his absence,
Speaker 1: they realized they couldn't do without him. This year in
Speaker 1: his absence, I wonder if that maybe starts to change
Speaker 1: a little bit. If what we've seen so far from
Speaker 1: these linebackers is accurate in the fact that they've played
Speaker 1: pretty well. I wonder if we will get through this
Speaker 1: period and say, you know, these linebackers pretty much can
Speaker 1: handle it, maybe need it. Maybe them said sitting Sean
Speaker 1: Lee for most of training camp or a lot of
Speaker 1: training camp wasn't really about Sean Lee. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: about point getting Joe Thomas and these other guys acclimated
Speaker 1: to the system. So when it happens, not so much if,
Speaker 1: but when it happens, they'll be ready for it. And
Speaker 1: I talked to Joe yesterday and he kind of said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's anxious to prove that that's not going
Speaker 1: to be the mantra here when when Shawn's out, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I want to see what it looks like. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: drafted a guy nineteenth overall, he looks he looks good
Speaker 1: so far apart he looks like a freak. Actually, I
Speaker 1: saw Matt Patricia was talking about you know, they the
Speaker 1: Lions spent some time on him too. They've been trying
Speaker 1: to revamp their linebacker corps. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: miss quote him, but he said something like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's insane that a guy who's that big can
Speaker 1: take up that much space that quickly. Which and so
Speaker 1: Laye Vanderesh is going to make his first start on Sunday,
Speaker 1: there's very little doubt, and it will only be his
Speaker 1: fifteenth start in eleven on eleven football. Ever, he made
Speaker 1: his first start in eleven on eleven football September second
Speaker 1: of last year. All right, Jack Black, like alone, I'm
Speaker 1: scratching my arm for a while, though I know it
Speaker 1: was like absent mind that ever gonna go away. It
Speaker 1: was an absent mind. Like you guys throw me off,
Speaker 1: appreciate that you're a distractable player. Day I'm distracted. I'm
Speaker 1: just you know, I just wanted to throw in some
Speaker 1: product of Jack Black. I can help that. I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: to see what it looks like. And I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of potential there between him and Jalen Smith.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean I love Shaun Lee. I respect
Speaker 1: the hell out of him, but the writing is always
Speaker 1: on the wall when you draft the guy in the
Speaker 1: first round that you're thinking about the future, and Sean
Speaker 1: Lee's thirty two. He might be here next year. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's hard to predict that type
Speaker 1: of stuff. Where contract, Where are we in this contract?
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you how many years he's got left,
Speaker 1: but I believe you could save seven million dollars on
Speaker 1: the cap if you wanted too next year, which I
Speaker 1: think it's too soon to say that, but um, but
Speaker 1: that's the nature of the NFL. So I just feel
Speaker 1: great about the fact that the Cowboys actually are going
Speaker 1: into because this does not through nineteen, so he's got
Speaker 1: one year left on him, and usually that one year
Speaker 1: left on his deal is usually one where you can
Speaker 1: actually yeah, I just like the Cowboys. I know. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I do think that that the conversation
Speaker 1: I do think that the conversation said, what's this contract?
Speaker 1: Look like that? That's what that means. It doesn't mean yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I mean. It does. The fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is, I think that if these young linebackers,
Speaker 1: if these young young linebackers play well during during Sean
Speaker 1: Lee's absence, then it does beg the question, especially if
Speaker 1: you're talking about, like you said, you can save that
Speaker 1: much money, it does beg the question, at what point
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys say we no longer can rely on him.
Speaker 1: It's happened with a lot. Look, yes, every player that
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys organization. I don't care how great they are.
Speaker 1: At some point it's going to come to an end.
Speaker 1: We have seen it with every single player that comes
Speaker 1: through here. Don't lose. Okay. Here's the thing though, And
Speaker 1: when you talk about like possibly cutting him or maybe
Speaker 1: thinking of that or going there, that's dumb because Sean
Speaker 1: Lee is not like any other player. He acts more
Speaker 1: of a coach as anyone else. I've even seen here
Speaker 1: and now that I know much about the history, and
Speaker 1: I can't go that far back, but in the time
Speaker 1: that I've been here, he's the one player that has
Speaker 1: the right attitude and is absolutely fully invested. And not
Speaker 1: only that, he shares that with his teammates and acts
Speaker 1: as a coach and teacher, so he has a lot
Speaker 1: more value than just being on the field. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: Aaron Woodson was the same guy. I mean, there have
Speaker 1: been other guys like that to come through the Cowboys organization.
Speaker 1: The problem is, at some point you no longer can
Speaker 1: rely on them because their bodies get to a point
Speaker 1: where the bodies just can't take it anymore. And that's
Speaker 1: my whole point is are they at the point? At
Speaker 1: what point will the Cowboys get to a point where
Speaker 1: they say, you know, we really can't rely on the
Speaker 1: fact that Sean's going to be able to be helped
Speaker 1: four years left on his con and on top of that,
Speaker 1: we actually have options because last year they had no options. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they had to have Sean Lee because that's all
Speaker 1: they I mean, that's what they had. Right now, everything
Speaker 1: we've seen in training camp suggested maybe they've got other
Speaker 1: options and maybe their defense doesn't fall off a cliff
Speaker 1: when Sean isn't there. Well, just to be just to
Speaker 1: clarify on the contract, it is through next year. If
Speaker 1: they decided at the end of the season to release him,
Speaker 1: next year's cap hit is ten point there's ten million,
Speaker 1: and he if they released him, they would save seven
Speaker 1: million on the cap, which they would also save seven
Speaker 1: million on this year's cap as well. So if they
Speaker 1: would have they would have done that. It is it's
Speaker 1: far too early to speculate on that, but it's something
Speaker 1: that from the minute they again from the minute they
Speaker 1: drafted Late and vander Esh, that's something you should have
Speaker 1: been keeping an eye on and it's something to watch
Speaker 1: see how they do. Like I said, I mean between
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith and Layton vander Esh. I actually wrote about
Speaker 1: this in my column today Shameless plugged. But you've got
Speaker 1: arguably two of your most athletic players playing linebacker now.
Speaker 1: They're both under contract for multiple years, and they're both
Speaker 1: younger than twenty five. So the writings on the wall,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that Sean Lee will be cut you know,
Speaker 1: this offseason. It's way too soon to say that. But
Speaker 1: he is not the future of this defense, and don't
Speaker 1: don't be mistaken if you have, if you don't think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will move on and make tough decisions from
Speaker 1: guys that are franchise type players you haven't been paying
Speaker 1: attention to say, are a franchise now that a rock.
Speaker 1: At times, they get kind of cutthroat, like I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: they did that. I mean, they are doing what they
Speaker 1: feel like is in the best insies of the organization first,
Speaker 1: and whether those are the right decisions or not, you
Speaker 1: can debate that all day. But they I don't think
Speaker 1: they get caught up on well, this guy's been with
Speaker 1: us for a long time and we really love him
Speaker 1: and respect him. Like the end of the day, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make whatever decision they think is best for those organizations.
Speaker 1: Those guys that were way more you know, productive than
Speaker 1: Shaun Lee has been, and Sean's productive, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: been consistently productive because he gets hurt. Yeah, and he's
Speaker 1: hurt again. All right, So let's talk to me now
Speaker 1: about those guys that are limited because I know, we know,
Speaker 1: as Nick just said, he's not playing this week, probably
Speaker 1: not playing for a few weeks. But Cole Beasley, Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath Antoine Woods. Those are three guys that were limited yesterday.
Speaker 1: Are we thinking that these are injuries that we really
Speaker 1: need to be concerned about? Are these precautionary type limited
Speaker 1: practice type players? All three guys got hurt and well
Speaker 1: Beasley had the ankle last week but played with it right,
Speaker 1: Woods and Heath got hurt and came back, and they
Speaker 1: are limited on Wednesday. Again, I just I look at
Speaker 1: what's the word and what's the day of the week.
Speaker 1: If you're limited on the first day of practice, you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna play. If you're limited on Thursday, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna play unless they take a back step back on third,
Speaker 1: which is rare. Backsteps in the course of practice are
Speaker 1: rare more often than for last year. Remember last year
Speaker 1: on Thursdays for the most Yes, if I really I
Speaker 1: don't want to say I don't care, but I'm really
Speaker 1: only studying that if it's getting to Friday and you
Speaker 1: haven't practiced yet, which all three of those guys were
Speaker 1: there again today, so they're going to do at least something.
Speaker 1: So again it's trending toward being good for Friday slash Sunday. Travis,
Speaker 1: Travis Lee and Malik we're all still not there today,
Speaker 1: which I mean, I think obviously Travis no, obviously Lee no.
Speaker 1: And I think I would lean toward thinking Malik can't
Speaker 1: go this week either. But we'll see. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and take our first break. We'll take
Speaker 1: it a little bit early. When we come back, Day's
Speaker 1: going to jump into this dissection of the Lions defense.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Lions defense how it matches
Speaker 1: up with the Cowboys offense that when we come right back.
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome back. It's the second segment
Speaker 1: of The Break Life in the SWBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star talking Cowboys versus Lions. Cowboys take on the
Speaker 1: Lions this Sunday at noon at and T Stadium, and
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna get you ready. We've already talked about the offense,
Speaker 1: the Lions offense, and now it's time to talk about
Speaker 1: the Lions defense. Dave, what do we have to be
Speaker 1: afraid of? Uh? Well, you know I tweeted this last night.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel good about this game, and I still
Speaker 1: don't feel great, I guess, but I fired up the
Speaker 1: tape and I watched a couple games, and I feel
Speaker 1: better after watching their defense. I do. I do feel better,
Speaker 1: which is funny. Because the Cowboys can't throw the ball
Speaker 1: to save their lives and the Lions have the best
Speaker 1: passing defense in the NFL one hundred and fifty two
Speaker 1: yards a game. That's not great, But what is great
Speaker 1: is they are absolutely dead last in the league and
Speaker 1: defending the run so money. That's nice. They're surrendering. When
Speaker 1: you read that last night, you got so excited. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're looking for ways for this all
Speaker 1: year to win, it's funny. I wait, let me read
Speaker 1: your mind. Yeah, they ran the ball really well in Seattle.
Speaker 1: And still that wasn't what I was gonna say. What
Speaker 1: I was gonna say is I was going to harken
Speaker 1: back to what you said. I think it was last
Speaker 1: week that this NFL as soon as you see something
Speaker 1: that is so drastically the points to one thing that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. True, we'll see how
Speaker 1: you're right. But you know I've all week I've been saying,
Speaker 1: shut up about Zeke's carries, like it's not Zeke only
Speaker 1: getting sixteen carries is not why they lost. You can't expect.
Speaker 1: You can't expect anything more like you got to throw
Speaker 1: the ball at some point. But a guess the defense
Speaker 1: like this, maybe you really can just load up and
Speaker 1: try to run forty times because it has worked. It
Speaker 1: has worked for two of the three opponents that have
Speaker 1: played the Lions. They gave maybe keeps their offense off
Speaker 1: the Yeah, they gave up one hundred O. No, that's
Speaker 1: the biggest part of this for me is keep Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford off the field. So they're giving up one hundred
Speaker 1: forty nine rushing yards per game, twenty nine point three
Speaker 1: points per game. Forty nine Ers hit him for thirty
Speaker 1: the Jets hit him for forty eight, which those aren't
Speaker 1: great offenses. No, well, that well that's go. You know,
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Speaker 1: You're right, Like, I know, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo was
Speaker 1: playing well, and they gave him that extension before he
Speaker 1: got hurt. But like, that's not this Gangbusters offense. You know,
Speaker 1: they're throwing Pierre Garson and rookie Dante Pettis out there,
Speaker 1: Matt Brada and Alfred Morris or their running backs. They
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and ninety eight yards on these
Speaker 1: guys and scored thirty points. Jimmy Garoppolo I charted it.
Speaker 1: He threw five passes that went more than twelve yards downfield.
Speaker 1: He connected on two of them, and he drew a
Speaker 1: flag on third. So there's something to be you need.
Speaker 1: You need to hit on some of those longer plays.
Speaker 1: I think we would all agree with that. But the
Speaker 1: vast majority of what he was doing was out's curls,
Speaker 1: smoke routes, short quick stuff, and they did just enough
Speaker 1: and they let the running game take over. So there's
Speaker 1: a blueprint for success here. So you look at it.
Speaker 1: A lot of big bodies on their front y'all were
Speaker 1: talking about it in the break a. Sean Robinson, Sylvester Williams,
Speaker 1: DeShawn hand Ricky, Jean Francois Romeo, Aquara, Carrie Hider. They
Speaker 1: all basically comprise your down linemen. It's it's listed as
Speaker 1: a four to three, but it's very multiple. It's a
Speaker 1: lot like the Patriots, not surprisingly with Matt Patricia being there,
Speaker 1: they kind of mix and match. Your main pass rushers
Speaker 1: are Ziggy Ansa and Eli Harold, who they got from
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Actually, Ziggy hasn't played a full
Speaker 1: game yet this year. He's got a shoulder that knocked
Speaker 1: him out of the Jets game. He missed the Week two.
Speaker 1: In Week three, he has not practiced yet as of Thursday,
Speaker 1: which I don't think their report is out, but that
Speaker 1: is something to watch because that would be big. Your linebackers,
Speaker 1: Devon Kannard, Gerard Davis, Christian Jones. It's Gerard Davis is
Speaker 1: a first round pick, but it's it's so so. I
Speaker 1: don't don't see anything that scares the daylights out of
Speaker 1: me the way that Bobby Wagner and Luke Keikley do.
Speaker 1: And then obviously, you know the prime guys or your
Speaker 1: secondary Darius Slay at one, cornerback Nevin Lawson, and then
Speaker 1: your safeties Glover Quinn and Quandre Diggs, who just signed
Speaker 1: a contract extension before the season started. They're very aggressive.
Speaker 1: They make a lot of plays on the ball. They
Speaker 1: are confident, you know if I mean if you if
Speaker 1: you throw at them, they're going to try to jump
Speaker 1: in front of it or swatt it down. You see
Speaker 1: a lot of contested balls, which you know, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: They don't. Um, they don't give up a lot of
Speaker 1: passing yards. Um, you don't see a lot of bad coverage,
Speaker 1: like even you know, Tom Brady couldn't throw his guys
Speaker 1: open in their game and the Patriots always scored ten
Speaker 1: points as a result, which the Patriots only ran the
Speaker 1: ball nineteen times, which I don't understand because the Jets
Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers both did whatever they wanted
Speaker 1: to them. Um. They also didn't have one of their
Speaker 1: running backs though, but go ahead, which which x Burkhead
Speaker 1: was get hurt. That's they are. They are typically a
Speaker 1: team that that splits the carry, so you got one
Speaker 1: less guy. But they had White and they had Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: who's their second round pick. Yeah, they should have done better.
Speaker 1: Forty nine ers twenty eight carries one hundred and ninety yards.
Speaker 1: That's six point eight yards per carry. Jets thirty six
Speaker 1: carries one hundred and sixty nine yards, which again, that's
Speaker 1: what gives me confidence, is like, you can't do that
Speaker 1: against most teams, but I feel like you might just
Speaker 1: be able to run against these guys all day. You
Speaker 1: gotta get a lead on them, though, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Start fast, please, That's that's the really thing with anybody.
Speaker 1: But if you get a lead and you could run
Speaker 1: on them, that's probably where where it's easier to beat
Speaker 1: the Lions. If you're down and you have it to pass,
Speaker 1: pass pass, that's what they want you to. But the
Speaker 1: one thing I would say is I wouldn't panic if
Speaker 1: I got down, because I would still keep running. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing about an offense like I mean, a
Speaker 1: defense like this, If they really are as bad against
Speaker 1: the run as we think they are, then you can
Speaker 1: still eat. Taking time and going down the film methodically,
Speaker 1: going down and field and scoring still is just as
Speaker 1: valuable as feel like you got to throw to get
Speaker 1: back in a game you can't get back down by
Speaker 1: too much. But you can't wind yourself in a track meet.
Speaker 1: And we talked about yesterday with with Stafford and those guys,
Speaker 1: and they could put up some points, so you know,
Speaker 1: you hope. But if you watch these last few games,
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys have gotten down early third quarter
Speaker 1: of they kind of buckled, you know, buckled down, and
Speaker 1: they get themselves back in the game if their offense
Speaker 1: could score at all. Yeah, one thing, like you really
Speaker 1: you can't substitute actually sitting down and watching tape. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't have a hundred dollars, I
Speaker 1: get it. That's what we're here for. But Lions are
Speaker 1: fourth in the league in sacks with ten, which says
Speaker 1: to you, oh man, this stallus offensive line better buckled down.
Speaker 1: I wasn't that impressed. Like again, ziggy Onza is not here,
Speaker 1: he's not playing right now, so maybe that could take
Speaker 1: him to another level. But this looks like a lot
Speaker 1: of coverage sacks to me, like they use their linebackers.
Speaker 1: They blitz their linebackers to make up for the fact
Speaker 1: that they don't have Anza. They bring Devon Kaannard off
Speaker 1: the edge. Gerard Davis will have delayed blitzes or he'll
Speaker 1: run stunts where he loops around the line. But again
Speaker 1: I counted, Jimmy Garoppolo was sacked six times. More than
Speaker 1: half of those he held the ball for four or
Speaker 1: five six seconds before he was eventually sacked. Which that's
Speaker 1: a testament to the secondary, Like they're covering their guys,
Speaker 1: but they don't have this Von Miller or this Frank
Speaker 1: Clark who's just ripping around the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 1: they just can't account for him. I didn't see that once.
Speaker 1: Like these are delayed sacks that as a result of
Speaker 1: the quarterback not getting rid of the ball. So again,
Speaker 1: run the ball again, get it out quickly, curls, slants,
Speaker 1: all that little stuff, stuff that Dak has actually shown
Speaker 1: that he can be good at. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many long developing plays you really want to try against
Speaker 1: these guys, knock on Wood, Scotlanahan. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you listen to this, but maybe some RPO would be
Speaker 1: good here because I think you can misdirect these linebackers.
Speaker 1: I think like they get washed out of plays. This
Speaker 1: is I don't think this is like an elite unit,
Speaker 1: and I think you could probably confuse them, create some
Speaker 1: easy throwing lanes with some run pass stuff. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if they'll actually do that, but I think
Speaker 1: I would. If you had to identify one guy that
Speaker 1: you thought was the best player on this defense, who
Speaker 1: would it be. It's hard to say because let's let's
Speaker 1: assume if Once is there at I think your answer
Speaker 1: is gonna be Once. But if he's not there, who
Speaker 1: is the best player on this defense? Probably Slay Um.
Speaker 1: I think Gerard Davis will and at times is a
Speaker 1: really good player. He's I mean, he's their centerpiece linebacker.
Speaker 1: He's a first round pick out of Florida. I think
Speaker 1: he will be good, but he's he's just looks like
Speaker 1: a young player who's not consistent. Second year yes, yes,
Speaker 1: second year Um Slay is really good. And then obviously
Speaker 1: you know they love Quinn and they obviously love Digs.
Speaker 1: They gave him a twenty million dollar extension. But I
Speaker 1: would I would probably say Slay, which again I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to use this game to
Speaker 1: try to try to prove a point that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can pass like you don't need to, or at least
Speaker 1: you would hope you don't need to just pound the ball.
Speaker 1: And take what you get in the passing game. Don't
Speaker 1: make Dak try to sit in the pocket and read
Speaker 1: the defense this week. I mean he needs to do
Speaker 1: that at some point, but I don't think he needs
Speaker 1: to do it this week. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: think about them having a really good corner and sleigh,
Speaker 1: and you know, usually it's like, well, he's gonna match
Speaker 1: up against somebody, But I mean who in this in
Speaker 1: this situation? And the question is does he really in
Speaker 1: a game like this, does a team say we're gonna
Speaker 1: match up with anybody wherever you bring out there, the
Speaker 1: Lions or any opponent really will ever do that. For years,
Speaker 1: it's been like, Okay, well who's getting DEAs? Who is
Speaker 1: he gonna follow Dez? And now we're just like, literally,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, Like, I don't think that
Speaker 1: the Lions aren't gonna bother traveling a guy with any
Speaker 1: of these receivers, and unless they decide that on certain
Speaker 1: situations they want to do that. So for example, if
Speaker 1: they know on third downs, we'd feel better if we
Speaker 1: pay a little more attention to Cole Beasley because he
Speaker 1: could be a third down guy. That always I always
Speaker 1: liked what the forty nine Ers did way back in
Speaker 1: the nineties. I think that's a better approach. If you've
Speaker 1: got a stud corner like that, put him on the
Speaker 1: number two receiver and him up and he's done, and
Speaker 1: then you double the number one and now you're pretty
Speaker 1: much shutting them all down because Alvin Harper could not
Speaker 1: do anything on Don and then you kind of would
Speaker 1: try to shut you try to double Michael that that
Speaker 1: seemed to work better, But you know you can't do
Speaker 1: it the same thing in the whole game. But I mean,
Speaker 1: in the situation like this, when you know, if you said, hey,
Speaker 1: give me one to seven the best receivers on the team,
Speaker 1: we would have all kinds of different answers if we
Speaker 1: tried to rate them. Yeah, I mean, it's not hard
Speaker 1: to rate the Giants in Atlanta's and the Steelers receivers.
Speaker 1: But for the Cowboys, I mean, I don't know who
Speaker 1: the number one receiver on this team is. I don't
Speaker 1: have the first idea but that and to that point,
Speaker 1: I think I'm not worried about it because I don't
Speaker 1: think you need to worry about paying extra attention to anybody.
Speaker 1: If this secondary is as good as it looks, you
Speaker 1: just put a guy on everybody and clog the box.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's gonna that is. That's been the blueprint,
Speaker 1: and it will continue to be the blueprint. But I
Speaker 1: think against this team it might not matter. You talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that you thought a lot of their
Speaker 1: sacks came as coverage sacks, that came as linebackers blitzing,
Speaker 1: blitzing off the edge. It seemed to me, and I
Speaker 1: know they had Frank Clark. He's a much better pass
Speaker 1: rusher than it sounds like most of these guys, except
Speaker 1: for you know, maybe if you want to throw Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Asa in there. But it seemed like the Seahawks had
Speaker 1: a similar kind of game plan. They were sending linebackers
Speaker 1: at times, they were sending extra guys. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: always a four man rush because of that. Do you
Speaker 1: think that does that worry you at all? That they
Speaker 1: had some success with sending linebackers in that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: and that this team that the Lions seemed to have
Speaker 1: done pretty well doing that these first couple of games.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely worried about it, just because the past protection
Speaker 1: hasn't been good enough. In two of the three games.
Speaker 1: But I just and you're right. I mean what they
Speaker 1: got five sacks in that game, and it came from
Speaker 1: a variety of different places, but it just seemed like
Speaker 1: the most obvious culprits there were. I mean, Frank Clark
Speaker 1: beat tyran in ways that I'm not used to seeing,
Speaker 1: and Lyle Collins as well. I mean he was moving
Speaker 1: all around. Unless Onsa plays, I don't think they have
Speaker 1: that guy. And I you know, Connor Williams will probably
Speaker 1: get taken advantage of, you know, like a delayed blitz
Speaker 1: type of situation. It'll probably happen. That's football. He's a rookie,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he'll not to a degree that
Speaker 1: it recks the game, which is what I'm always worried about.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they have that guy that can
Speaker 1: win these tackle matchups consistently enough for it to be
Speaker 1: a big problem. What are we hearing about Ansa? Have
Speaker 1: we heard anything about what his status is at this point?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if you're gonna make him a
Speaker 1: focal point of your video, he's probably gonna play. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about this run right here. He did a video
Speaker 1: right of breaking down. I mean, well, each week I
Speaker 1: break down one guy from the offense and defense from
Speaker 1: whoever team we're playing, And that was the guy I
Speaker 1: broke down. Why. I don't know. Brian suggested that guy.
Speaker 1: So I better hope. I'm hoping well, but he's getting
Speaker 1: the sense that he's gonna play, is yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just by the maybe they're talking to some people
Speaker 1: over there and we'll say, hey, he's way more plugged
Speaker 1: in across the NFL than I am. But again, we
Speaker 1: talk about our own practice report. He didn't he's DNP
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We'll see Thursday's, Thursday's not out day. I mean,
Speaker 1: where if he's still a DNP today, then you're feeling
Speaker 1: more like he's not gonna play. Yeah, yeah, especially coming
Speaker 1: off a week when he didn't play last week. I
Speaker 1: don't even know. I mean, I know he's a great player.
Speaker 1: I know that, but I don't know what to expect
Speaker 1: from him. He hasn't played. I didn't spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time on the Jets game because it was forever ago,
Speaker 1: and I think the sheer amount of turnovers kind of
Speaker 1: skews that. But he hasn't played since then. What was
Speaker 1: his injury? Shoulder? Shoulder? So all right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our final Do you have some nick Nope,
Speaker 1: I'm saving it for an article, all right, actually, so
Speaker 1: free to preview here. I just thought of an idea,
Speaker 1: actually for an article. There you go. Yep, all right,
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Speaker 1: this thing. We got a phone call from Sean and Maryland. Sean,
Speaker 1: what up? Hi, Hey guys, first time caller, a long
Speaker 1: time listener, too quick opinions and done a question? Um first,
Speaker 1: as I truly believe that if we still had Ron
Speaker 1: Larry and Tony Loma, we'd be making a Trooper Bowl
Speaker 1: run right now, Um, Tony, because if Tony was here,
Speaker 1: I believe would still be here and that Brian would
Speaker 1: still be here. And Ron Larry I believe when two
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen he was the biggest bulldown on that
Speaker 1: offensive line. And my question is, um, I heard Tony
Speaker 1: Romo on the fan yesterday and he sounded like she
Speaker 1: could still play. I was wondering, he's such a chance
Speaker 1: that Jerry will go after him and make all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. What does it sounds like? Hey,
Speaker 1: I wrote down the exact same thing that. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it means. Guys. I'm feeling good, Like my
Speaker 1: back is great, I've been throwing the ball really well.
Speaker 1: My feet are good. I see the field better than ever.
Speaker 1: I have that hunger to win. I think we could
Speaker 1: go out and rally this team around and and I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about the opportunity. What it takes something? What
Speaker 1: does that mean? I mean, what does I don't even
Speaker 1: know what he said, but I mean I think that
Speaker 1: sounds like I'm ready to play. When was the last
Speaker 1: time you think Tony threw a football, like really through
Speaker 1: a football, not like not just playing with his kids. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Hawkins was going deep in then yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah that Instagram video when he heard his kid in
Speaker 1: the stomach. Yeah. But you know, here's the deal, here's
Speaker 1: why did you did you listen to the interview? Okay?
Speaker 1: Just I just wonder it was there something that you
Speaker 1: no pointed out? I thought it was classic Tony Romo,
Speaker 1: Like he's I mean, he is a confident, funny guy.
Speaker 1: He wants you to know that he's a confident, funny guy.
Speaker 1: He I mean he was. It was it sounded tongue
Speaker 1: in cheek, you know, he Tony rum. He never even
Speaker 1: officially filed his retirement paperwork. As far as I know,
Speaker 1: he still hasn't. Wait, he's still an active player. He's
Speaker 1: not active, but he wants you to know that he
Speaker 1: could still do it, which you know, wouldn't the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to really quish his rights or something though? No, no,
Speaker 1: for sure, yeah no, which if he was going to
Speaker 1: come back, would come back to a team that needs
Speaker 1: a quarterback he ain't doing. But here's the problem. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem with with the first thing is Sean talked
Speaker 1: about when he said, if Tony and Ron Levery were here,
Speaker 1: they'd be making our Super Bowl run. The problem with
Speaker 1: that is you'd still be in the same problem you
Speaker 1: were in for the last several years of Tony's career,
Speaker 1: which is you'd have him for some games and then
Speaker 1: same thing we're talking about Sean at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the game, then you'd be without him because it had
Speaker 1: gotten to a point where Tony just couldn't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, he just couldn't stay healthy. And I
Speaker 1: don't think backs and those kinds of things get better
Speaker 1: as you get older. I think you're gonna if you're
Speaker 1: having those kind of problems, you're probably going to continue
Speaker 1: to have those kind of problems. It became a chronic
Speaker 1: thing for him, So I kind of agree with him
Speaker 1: on Ron Leary. I think if they would have kept
Speaker 1: Ron Learry. Now, the money, that's a whole different thing,
Speaker 1: and making that fit with all the other high priced
Speaker 1: offensive lineman you got around here at some point. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can pay five offensive linemen at
Speaker 1: one time. So I kind of understand the business reasons
Speaker 1: why he's not here. But if you were here, I
Speaker 1: do think this offensive line would be appreciably better. But
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that Tony necessarily would would
Speaker 1: have you in that kind of position consistently throughout an
Speaker 1: entire year, because I don't think he'd make it through
Speaker 1: a year. Well, he's right about the dezen Witten part, though,
Speaker 1: that's true, and they would be here, that's true, and
Speaker 1: they would be better with him, you know, But when
Speaker 1: he were out, would it still be the same thing
Speaker 1: as what we saw last year? Because I think that's
Speaker 1: really the issue. Both Dezen Witton were here last year
Speaker 1: when they were having the same kind of struggles offensively,
Speaker 1: and you didn't have Tony, who's the backup Dak. Probably
Speaker 1: like the chances with Dak as a backup quarterback that
Speaker 1: comes in there because you know, and we don't get
Speaker 1: a good read on him. Go back, go back and
Speaker 1: watch the games where you know, Vince Young came in
Speaker 1: for teams when he was playing, I guess for the
Speaker 1: Giants or the Eagles or something. I mean like not bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: went in there and won a game one time on
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football. I mean, nobody knows what to
Speaker 1: expect a guy like that. You can come in and
Speaker 1: do some things. I think he would be a pretty
Speaker 1: good backup there. But that doesn't matter that that's not
Speaker 1: that's not the situation, that's not what it is. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's coming back. I firmly believe that if
Speaker 1: I was six four instead of five six, I'd be
Speaker 1: playing football instead of talking about it for a living.
Speaker 1: I mean, so what you know, Dan, I'm almost six four,
Speaker 1: I'm not really close to playing almost smart ass analogy no,
Speaker 1: I mean, let me have it, and I agree with that,
Speaker 1: But I was looking at it more like I just
Speaker 1: I believe that. I actually believe that. But I'm thinking
Speaker 1: to myself, like, man, I just I'm not saying there's
Speaker 1: no validity to that. I take issue with the everything
Speaker 1: more than the romo things. Really well, No, I love
Speaker 1: the hell out of Ron Learry. He was severely underrated.
Speaker 1: It's the salary cap era. What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna pay I mean what he got like
Speaker 1: fifty million to go to Denver or so, I mean
Speaker 1: what you can't pay all five? What are you supposed
Speaker 1: to do? And maybe his cap hit though, is something
Speaker 1: that they could absorb right now because they're just sitting
Speaker 1: on it. Probably it's so it's so far under the
Speaker 1: bridge at this point, and they've drafted a talented kid
Speaker 1: to replace him, Like I can't dog them for that,
Speaker 1: Like you can't you get the way the NFL is built,
Speaker 1: You gotta let guys go. There is no team sometimes
Speaker 1: there is no team that can keep everybody. And that's
Speaker 1: that's a whole other conversation. Next year, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more aggressive in free agency.
Speaker 1: I think I think the cycle money, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: some money they're not spending it as much here. We
Speaker 1: keep thinking that all they got to spend it on
Speaker 1: a quarterback. I don't know if you necessarily have to
Speaker 1: not at least next year. And you can just go
Speaker 1: into that if you. Um. I don't think they necessarily
Speaker 1: have to sign Zeke. They I wouldn't a question for
Speaker 1: you guys. And I had a point, but go ahead
Speaker 1: finish it that it was just second too long, Okay, boom, Wow,
Speaker 1: it'll be better, Ezekiel Elliott, it'll be better. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is that's that's a question that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to figure out about Zeke, because yeah, you
Speaker 1: can wait till five years and just say, well, let's
Speaker 1: see what happens. But or you can start that clock
Speaker 1: early and say all right, let's put five more on
Speaker 1: and you know, like the Rams did with Gurley. I
Speaker 1: think it want to be your running bank. I think
Speaker 1: it would be smart to try to extend Zeke. This awesound.
Speaker 1: But is he going to play ball with that because
Speaker 1: he having guarantees anymore? He probably should maybe, But that
Speaker 1: is a good point. At Levion Bell has proven that
Speaker 1: you can bet on yourself and have it potent. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's proven. I think he's I think he's
Speaker 1: on the way proven. He has proven that players have
Speaker 1: the capacity to do that. Like, if Zeke wants to
Speaker 1: bet on himself, nobody can stop him. And that's so
Speaker 1: I mean, is he willing to sign for less than
Speaker 1: what he thinks he's worth right now just to get
Speaker 1: it out of the way if he thinks he can
Speaker 1: double that in two more years. I don't know, right
Speaker 1: But the problem with that is we still don't know
Speaker 1: how this is going to play out with Levon Bell. No,
Speaker 1: we don't. But it could be a situation where if
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted to forget, like franchise him again
Speaker 1: next year or get Levon Bell, then what I mean,
Speaker 1: He's like, I want girly money and they're like no,
Speaker 1: and he's like, okay, cool, then we're gonna play this
Speaker 1: thing out. He could do that. But here's the reality
Speaker 1: right now. I would actually with Zeke. I would be
Speaker 1: willing to pay Zeke a fact contract because he's that
Speaker 1: kind of running back. The problem with the second contract
Speaker 1: for most running backs is that they get to an
Speaker 1: age where when you're giving him a second contract, part
Speaker 1: of that's going to be after they get past that
Speaker 1: magical number where running backs seem to fall off. And
Speaker 1: so for me, if I'm doing it a little bit earlier,
Speaker 1: I can still bet on the fact that if he's
Speaker 1: a great running back, I will get great production throughout
Speaker 1: his contract, and then I won't do a third contract.
Speaker 1: I reserve the right to change my mind because it's
Speaker 1: only September. But as we sit right now, I would
Speaker 1: like to try to get something done with Zeke this offseason,
Speaker 1: and I would very much like to get DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: locked up this offseason. Then that's how money. It's a
Speaker 1: healthy chunk of your cap right there, but it's on
Speaker 1: worthwhile pieces in my opinion. And don't forget what you're
Speaker 1: paying right now for just one year with Tank, you
Speaker 1: would cut that because he would only make a small
Speaker 1: fraction of that against your cap every year. So I
Speaker 1: would still would have some money. You could still have
Speaker 1: room to do some shopping even after those two deals.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it, No doubt about it. Speaking of Zeke,
Speaker 1: I did oh, actually, let's go to your pain. What
Speaker 1: got It's not a point, it's a question, Okay, give
Speaker 1: me a question. Well, I didn't get to watch Tony
Speaker 1: Romo since the beginning of his career. I got to
Speaker 1: start watching him towards the end, and I was just wondering,
Speaker 1: I mean, what was the main problem with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: of them not being able to get to that next
Speaker 1: level as far as the offense goes. Honestly, and Nick
Speaker 1: can give his opinion, but I think it was just
Speaker 1: they were circumstances. I don't think that Tony necessarily was
Speaker 1: the problem. I'll get I'll take you back to that
Speaker 1: Giant game, and it was a playoff game against the
Speaker 1: Giant c year that they were in that they got
Speaker 1: it was seven. Um. I don't I don't think that
Speaker 1: game was his fault. I think the offensive line failed
Speaker 1: him that game. That defensive front for the Giants was
Speaker 1: all over him, and they they made it very tough.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, that defensive front they went
Speaker 1: on to win the Super Bowl, but they went through him.
Speaker 1: I think they played the Packers and Aaron Rodgers that year.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was Aaron Rodgers at that point,
Speaker 1: but they went through the Packers um and then beat
Speaker 1: them up and then beat Tom Brady and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: That that front was just really good and that was
Speaker 1: the reason why the Cowboys was I don't think it
Speaker 1: was was Tony's fault, yeah, So I think it was
Speaker 1: just circumstances. It was just bad circumstances in particular games.
Speaker 1: That was the reason the Cowboys didn't go farther. Because
Speaker 1: I've I've seen several quarterbacks coming here. I've seen changes
Speaker 1: on the team, and obviously as far as quarterback goes,
Speaker 1: no one great, no one like big name or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But the changes that I've seen, at the
Speaker 1: end of the at the end of the day, the
Speaker 1: results are still the same. So I'm wondering, it's this
Speaker 1: a player thing or now we start talking and I
Speaker 1: know people all over Twitter start talking about Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: and all that, But I was just trying to get
Speaker 1: to that were how much can your talent do for
Speaker 1: you if on the other hand, it's not really working out.
Speaker 1: So I was wondering as far as when Tony was here,
Speaker 1: how was the play calling, I mean, was that a
Speaker 1: theme happening back then? I'm well, the joke is always
Speaker 1: that which I was only here for the end of
Speaker 1: Romo's career too, in I mean, considering his ten year career,
Speaker 1: I was here for three of his seasons as a starter.
Speaker 1: The joke was that Romo audible, that of everything they
Speaker 1: called for him anyway, right, I mean her play he
Speaker 1: was your play caller in your car. I mean Tony
Speaker 1: Romo especially was pretty good at it. Actually, from like
Speaker 1: from twenty at least, I would say from twenty ten
Speaker 1: until he retired, Romo was that type of quarterback who
Speaker 1: could mask a lot of your deficiencies, which is what
Speaker 1: Dak is not right now. I mean, there's no way
Speaker 1: around that there was this, you know, I'll full disclosure.
Speaker 1: I think Cowboys fans, they're fiercely defensive of Tony Romo
Speaker 1: to a point that I can't go that far like
Speaker 1: he did. He made a lot of mistakes in his career,
Speaker 1: but in a in that one stretch, there was not
Speaker 1: a lot of talent on this team. And I do
Speaker 1: agree with the assessment that some of those teams from
Speaker 1: twenty ten to thirteen or probably more like four or
Speaker 1: five win teams as opposed to eight win teams. I
Speaker 1: do think that's true. So you're talking about a quarterback
Speaker 1: who can single handedly account for four or five extra wins,
Speaker 1: you know. So funny to me and Nick might remember
Speaker 1: this though that was It's so funny to me now
Speaker 1: that there's so many fans out there that are fiercely
Speaker 1: loyal of loyal to Tony Romo. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you were, because back in the day, I swear every Monday,
Speaker 1: it was always somebody man Tony Romo just he just
Speaker 1: can't do it. I don't think Tony Romo can do it.
Speaker 1: He can't get them where they need to go. I
Speaker 1: don't think Tony. And now it's like everybody's just like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish we had Tony back. I wish. It's so
Speaker 1: funny how fans just kind of jumped from one to
Speaker 1: the other, which and maybe it's different fans. Maybe everybody
Speaker 1: just vocalizes whatever they're feeling at the moment, where every
Speaker 1: million fans that said that though, there's a million people
Speaker 1: screaming into their whatever they're listening on right now, they're
Speaker 1: just like, I loved him from the beginning. Like it's
Speaker 1: whether they did or didn't. But a lot of them
Speaker 1: did though too that they did, Stafford, Philip Rivers and
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. That's why I don't ever really give them
Speaker 1: the respect that they deserve. For that reason, probably because
Speaker 1: those guys did everything that Tony did and they were
Speaker 1: drafted number one, number three, number two, whatever overall and
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford, all these guys, and I don't I was
Speaker 1: never in that in that city. But there's no way
Speaker 1: they took the grief that Romo took. And it's fine.
Speaker 1: Once you get to a starting quarterback, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: You're you're there and it's your job to be, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy that takes you to the playoffs. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is is that for some reason, you know,
Speaker 1: Romos has an unbelievable story to get where he is,
Speaker 1: and yet it's always it was never good enough. It
Speaker 1: was absolutely never good enough. And that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: that always bothered me. I don't think Stafford gets that
Speaker 1: he's the number one pick in the draft. What's he done?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he gets that he's not
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a running record in the end of Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he takes I don't know. If
Speaker 1: you went just if you went to Detroit, I think
Speaker 1: you would. Is Matt Stafford a bust? No? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. No, he's not a bust? What is he
Speaker 1: he is a He's a good quarterback. I do think
Speaker 1: he's a good quarterback. He is a good quarterback who
Speaker 1: has not lived up to the expectation of a number one.
Speaker 1: And I'm okay, I understand that he's ill. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you like this right now, if he was a free agent,
Speaker 1: how many teams are jumping in to say I will
Speaker 1: take him and pay him big money? Matts that are
Speaker 1: putting the Cowboys? Probably Sam Bradford is or should uh
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford's Yes, he's on a different he's on his
Speaker 1: fourth team. How many full seasons as he played? But luck,
Speaker 1: it's too soon to say, it's too I mean those
Speaker 1: first years he gotten he was playing, but the first
Speaker 1: few years in the league he was playing of his
Speaker 1: it's too. It's too soon to say because Albert Griffin
Speaker 1: a bust. Yes, yeah, it was out of his mind first. No,
Speaker 1: not like not like Luck. Not like Luck. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can compare the all the beginning of cad
Speaker 1: like three great years and took his team to an AFC. No,
Speaker 1: he was a he was a quarterback that we were
Speaker 1: all saying, he's gonna be one of those guys going
Speaker 1: to Hall of Fame one day, Like that's how good
Speaker 1: his start was, I guarantee. I mean, in an alternate
Speaker 1: universe where Stafford's available, people would jump to put him
Speaker 1: on this team, which he can't be a bust if
Speaker 1: that's true, I know. But the point was about was
Speaker 1: about Tony's Tony. It's always been been you out question
Speaker 1: has always been, in my opinion, treated unfairly for that.
Speaker 1: Maybe so maybe so. All Right, we're gonna sad you guys.
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