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Speaker 4: Y'all have a media Christmas part?
Speaker 5: Yeah we do, Yeah, we do. You gotta come up,
Speaker 5: come say what's up? What time it's going to be?
Speaker 5: Right after locker rooms? Right for we're doing with this show.
Speaker 4: I got a presentation, I got things to do.
Speaker 2: Is it like a white elephant? Christmas thing or it's just.
Speaker 5: Like show up, bring whatever, and wear an ugly Christmas sweater.
Speaker 5: Mine's in the studio.
Speaker 2: I got you.
Speaker 5: It's not actually this that I think.
Speaker 4: Want assault, but I'm just like what we talk about.
Speaker 5: When I put it on, I was like, this could qualify.
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Speaker 4: Podcast actually dressed up as Dave exactly. Yes, that works,
Speaker 4: it works, Although I do I do think y'all favorite
Speaker 4: each other a little bit with the beer. Well.
Speaker 5: I had gone to a Dodger game with him over
Speaker 5: during training camp and it was the first time we
Speaker 5: were able to really meet, and it was like third
Speaker 5: inning and we were already like understanding why everyone was
Speaker 5: linking us together. I was like, you know what, I
Speaker 5: see it and.
Speaker 4: It's the first everything like it's it's everything, it really is.
Speaker 4: All right, let's let's jump in. I want to start
Speaker 4: for we were gonna get to the Bucks today and
Speaker 4: talk about their offense versus the Cowboys defense. But before
Speaker 4: we get there, I want to talk about DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 4: I think we all thought that by maybe as early
Speaker 4: as last weekend, maybe at the latest this weekend, he
Speaker 4: would be playing again. And it doesn't seem like that's
Speaker 4: going to happen. What are you guys hearing about him?
Speaker 4: And at this point do you think there's a possibility
Speaker 4: he doesn't return this season?
Speaker 5: This is one of those Derek, I really just don't know.
Speaker 5: But he is running out of time, like you said,
Speaker 5: I mean, after this, he's not gonna go this week.
Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy already said it. He's not gonna even touch
Speaker 5: the practice field this week. So that really only leaves
Speaker 5: two more games where he could potentially return. I mean,
Speaker 5: it was a serious injury that he suffered back in
Speaker 5: Week four as a list frame injury. It wasn't as
Speaker 5: severe as what Jordan Lewis suffered back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: but it is a similar injury and it takes a while.
Speaker 5: For it's basically when you know, i'd like the top
Speaker 5: of your foot where like your bones kind of web out.
Speaker 5: If you break like that, that knuckle bone on that web,
Speaker 5: that's that's the list Frank, And so it makes it
Speaker 5: really difficult to heal because you're basically healing like five
Speaker 5: many bones at once, especially given how like how much
Speaker 5: it spreads. So for in Jordan Lewis's case, it was
Speaker 5: really severe because it spread really really bad on that
Speaker 5: on that fracture, DeMarcus Lawrence isn't as bad, but it's
Speaker 5: still something that's going to take time to heal. But
Speaker 5: as far as timeline goes, I don't really know, because
Speaker 5: we were expecting, you know, out of Thanksgiving for him
Speaker 5: to potentially start getting back onto the practice field. There
Speaker 5: were whispers of that Mike McCarthy had said and Stephen
Speaker 5: Jones had said it, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: he's kind of just trending towards possibly not playing again
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 3: I don't want to speculate, but I mean I've tried
Speaker 3: to reach out and ask and see hopefully we'll get
Speaker 3: an answer on that, because I know, walking to our
Speaker 3: responsibilities here, I've seen him on the field, just walking.
Speaker 2: I mean I just walked.
Speaker 3: I just looked out and I recognize him, and he's
Speaker 3: working with Britt Brown and he's cutting and he's moving
Speaker 3: and he's and I'm kind of in my mind, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is encouraging him and brit are out there working
Speaker 3: really really hard to get back, and you know, you saw, like,
Speaker 3: you know, the explosiveness to get off the plant to
Speaker 3: turn and I'm like, oh, okay, there must have been
Speaker 3: a setback here.
Speaker 2: There must have been something that.
Speaker 3: Happened, because it to me that it just looked so positive,
Speaker 3: you know, And that's just me like my days of
Speaker 3: watching practice and watching guys work out and thinking like, oh,
Speaker 3: that guy doesn't look ready, you know, he's still kind
Speaker 3: of limping around, or but man, it was it was
Speaker 3: really really kind of encouraging, and I just worry that
Speaker 3: maybe something happened that they were going to workout one
Speaker 3: day and then you know.
Speaker 2: And it and it does happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they they work hard, and then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you know, it's that day is not
Speaker 3: very good. And so I'm I'm just trying to find
Speaker 3: that out and hopefully today, by the time we end
Speaker 3: this thing, I'll figure that out for you. Because I
Speaker 3: didn't I I meant to do that. I meant to
Speaker 3: ask and I haven't asked. A couple of people that
Speaker 3: I know can maybe help me on that.
Speaker 5: For everybody, do not google image list frank injuries. These
Speaker 5: are disgusting. Sorry, I just wanted to make sure that
Speaker 5: no one else googles what I'm googling right now. It's terrifying.
Speaker 5: I will not be going.
Speaker 6: But I think it's one of those things that, yeah,
Speaker 6: you can always speculate a timeline.
Speaker 2: In anything that you go through, and.
Speaker 6: Then as you start approaching that timeline, it may not
Speaker 6: look like you're actually ready for it. When you talk
Speaker 6: about things like that, it's it. No one can accelerate
Speaker 6: certain things in your body to fully heal. And like
Speaker 6: you said, Brian, I have watched him training out there
Speaker 6: with Britt Brown and everything. He's doing what he's supposed
Speaker 6: to do. He's showing up to do the rehab necessary
Speaker 6: and everything. So maybe there was something like you mentioned
Speaker 6: that happened and occurred there. But it is very concerning
Speaker 6: because we're not it's trending towards us not being able
Speaker 6: to take another look at him before the season ends.
Speaker 6: I mean, are still three love that's crazy, But he's
Speaker 6: about to become a free agent. And again, when you
Speaker 6: start seeing other guys that have been showing up during
Speaker 6: these games, it makes you wonder, way is he does
Speaker 6: he have a future here with the Cowboys. I don't know,
Speaker 6: And it's crazy to think because I remember when we
Speaker 6: had the press conference announcing his big contract with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: And time just flies by.
Speaker 6: It's insane. But yeah, that's another big name heading to
Speaker 6: free agency.
Speaker 4: Well, you know when you when you mentioned it from
Speaker 4: that perspective, I actually look at it. I'm like, if
Speaker 4: if the Cowboys were in a position where the playoffs
Speaker 4: were more realistic, because obviously they still have a one
Speaker 4: percent chance, so there's still a chance, but if it
Speaker 4: were more realistic, if it were more realistic, I would
Speaker 4: probably be like, Okay, got to get him back. You
Speaker 4: got to get Hi back as quickly as possible, because
Speaker 4: it's not as realistic now people like Kneeland. I kind
Speaker 4: of want to see a little bit more of them.
Speaker 4: I want to have an opportunity to see more of them.
Speaker 4: I know what Marcter.
Speaker 3: Questions, yesterday, here.
Speaker 2: We go, it's yesterday.
Speaker 4: Is you know we've seen all we need to see.
Speaker 4: There's nothing he's going to do in three games that's
Speaker 4: going to change an opinion in this building about who
Speaker 4: he is, what he represents, or whether there should be
Speaker 4: a new deal. Those things have already been at least
Speaker 4: what you've seen, that part has already been decided. They'll
Speaker 4: ultimately have to make a decision on what the money
Speaker 4: looks like. How much they want to have him back,
Speaker 4: what else they think they have at the position. All
Speaker 4: those things will factor in, but none of that will
Speaker 4: be about his play. So at this point, you know,
Speaker 4: whether he comes back or not, I don't know if
Speaker 4: it hurts him, helps him, hurts the Cowboys, helps the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: I just think at this point whatever is best for
Speaker 4: him just is the right thing to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're looking at it from this isn't
Speaker 5: really a bright side just because like a DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 5: loses out in this scenario. But by him not playing
Speaker 5: these final fourteen weeks, his price is going to be
Speaker 5: a little bit lower going into going into free agencies.
Speaker 5: So you know, if you're looking at it from front
Speaker 5: office perspective, maybe that opens the door for the potentiality
Speaker 5: of a return.
Speaker 4: But but you don't think other teams are kind of
Speaker 4: like we know who he is, or do you think
Speaker 4: that they would know who he seared off?
Speaker 2: They would be.
Speaker 4: Geared off by the injury itself and him not coming back.
Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just saying, especially at that age, an injury
Speaker 5: like that, I'm sure it could give some teams some
Speaker 5: pause and potentially could lower his market value, but I
Speaker 5: think still at the end of the day, this is
Speaker 5: going to be a contract that the Cowboys can't afford. See,
Speaker 5: I will think that they knew that, and that's why
Speaker 5: that they drafted Marshawn neland last year in the second round, I.
Speaker 3: Kind of wanted to in my mind, I was putting
Speaker 3: him in the same category as Tyrone Smith.
Speaker 2: But that's not accurate.
Speaker 3: That's not accurate because he's had years where he's played sixteen,
Speaker 3: sixteen of sixteen, sixteen of fifteen of sixteen, sixteen of
Speaker 3: six ten, fifteen of sixteen, Yeah, the one year.
Speaker 6: He's maybe these he also right, Basically he's played a
Speaker 6: lot a lot of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I played a lot of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then you have games where he's played then
Speaker 3: like in twenty twenty one it was seven of seven,
Speaker 3: and then it was seventeen of seventeen, seventeen of seventeen,
Speaker 3: four of four, yeah, you know, and then so it's
Speaker 3: not like if you're thinking of like Tyron Smith, because
Speaker 3: in the past we've always thought about, oh, yeah, it'd
Speaker 3: be great to have Tyron you know, Tyron Smith, but
Speaker 3: he's always hurt and I can't put Tank in that
Speaker 3: category because when he's been healthy, he's been able to
Speaker 3: line up and play. That's that you can't say, well,
Speaker 3: he's he's had a Tyron Smith like career because of injuries.
Speaker 3: He's only had two seasons where well, really twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: was you know, a season he lost, but he's he's
Speaker 3: been relatively healthy for you throughout well.
Speaker 4: I think the other part to that too is specifically
Speaker 4: really you know, talking about Tyron Smith. I think it
Speaker 4: was clear watching him play this year at the made
Speaker 4: the right decision. I still think Tank has a lot
Speaker 4: more football in him. I don't think he's at the
Speaker 4: end of his career just yet. This reminds me more
Speaker 4: of DeMarcus Ware when DeMarcus Ware left and a team
Speaker 4: that knows how to use him. I don't know that
Speaker 4: he should be a guy you bring in to be
Speaker 4: your every down player, but as a rotational guy that
Speaker 4: can get some pass rush, that can help in the
Speaker 4: run against the run, I think he is still a
Speaker 4: very valuable commodity for teams, and so from that standpoint,
Speaker 4: I think he still has more left to tame.
Speaker 3: I agree with I totally agree with Nick. I think
Speaker 3: they drafted Neilan to be the guy. I think that's
Speaker 3: that's where they were going with that.
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Speaker 4: of this, things to think about players you'll have to
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Speaker 4: Second segment of The Break live from SWBC Mortgage Studios
Speaker 4: at the Star. It is time to meet the Bucks.
Speaker 4: So here's what we know about them. They are coached
Speaker 4: by Todd Bowles, who actually, ironically for those that were
Speaker 4: around or remember, he was a former defense back coach
Speaker 4: with the with the Cowboys back and try.
Speaker 2: To get me fired.
Speaker 4: I was actually gonna ask you, do you have any
Speaker 4: you got any interest Todd Bowles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a scout with the Packers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: Todd Bowles was a player at the with the Washington
Speaker 3: Commanders and he had a he had a health club
Speaker 3: in Alexandria, Virginia, which was very, very very successful. I
Speaker 3: mean he that was his first business when he was
Speaker 3: a player. After he was playing, and we had the
Speaker 3: bright idea to hire him as a scout after when
Speaker 3: we were in Green Bay and he was running that
Speaker 3: health club and not really scouting, you know, and Ron Wolf,
Speaker 3: my boss at the time, said, listen, you can't get
Speaker 3: that guy to scout, you're fired and yeah, and I
Speaker 3: and I'm like, uh, you know, I'm just not you know,
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there kind of like okay. So I'm talking
Speaker 3: to him, and I'm honestly I'm pleading with him. I'm like, Todd, seriously,
Speaker 3: you got to turn in reports, you got to go
Speaker 3: to this school.
Speaker 2: They're going to fire you and me both if you
Speaker 2: don't do it.
Speaker 4: It's not just about you.
Speaker 2: And Todd's got the most laid back personality ever.
Speaker 3: Okay, man, all right, I'm like, no, you don't know.
Speaker 3: Stand we're gonna get fired. You and I on the street,
Speaker 3: and you know, he's probably thinking, I'm going back to
Speaker 3: the health club.
Speaker 2: Me, I'm a young guy, Like what am I gonna do?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I made money ball, I got this.
Speaker 2: He hit a couple of schools and you know, and and.
Speaker 3: You know, and he went he he he went from
Speaker 3: scouting to getting into coaching. It literally drove him into
Speaker 3: another avenue of and then he becomes and then he
Speaker 3: becomes a head coach. And I'm like, this guy, what
Speaker 3: the health club?
Speaker 2: But that's that's the Todd ball.
Speaker 3: I mean literally, he went from being like working with
Speaker 3: us as a scout in Green Bay.
Speaker 2: And I mean it was he just his his demeanor
Speaker 2: is just that of it's it's you see him on
Speaker 2: the sideline. Oh, he's very very nothing bothers him. He's
Speaker 2: just very Okay, man, it's cool. We'll get it done.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it, you know. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 2: you don't understand. We have to turn in reports.
Speaker 3: You have to go to Virginia Tech, you have to
Speaker 3: go to Penn State, you have to go to these schools.
Speaker 2: We need those reports. All right, man, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: We'll get it done. I'm like, Okay, then he get done.
Speaker 4: Rock kept his job for another couple of years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like we had to.
Speaker 3: We scrambled, you know, we scrambled. I was pretty close
Speaker 3: to flying to Virginia. And this is really before you
Speaker 3: had like you know, you had the way to communicate
Speaker 3: today with the cell phones and stuff like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: you really couldn't find your scouts all that well. And
Speaker 3: I almost went to some schools that he was supposed
Speaker 3: to be at just to make sure he was there.
Speaker 2: I almost got on a plane and flew to that
Speaker 2: the Atlantic coast area, and.
Speaker 3: Just to see if he was scouting the schools, just
Speaker 3: to walk him to the schools. Hey, man, this is
Speaker 3: North Carolina. Beautiful place, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is Duke. They're really smart here. Hey we
Speaker 2: can go here and watch Tate and write reports, you know.
Speaker 2: And I didn't have to do that, but man, that
Speaker 2: was it was a nightmare.
Speaker 4: Maybe what he figured is gouting aim for me coaching
Speaker 4: I can do.
Speaker 2: He did, and he and Parcells took a liking to him.
Speaker 5: Yeah he did.
Speaker 3: And that's and that's how Todd Bowles got to where
Speaker 3: Todd Bowles is.
Speaker 4: He's a good guy too.
Speaker 2: He's a really good guy. If you just like being like, man,
Speaker 2: don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: He's very chill.
Speaker 2: He's very chill. He's good. We're good here. Why why
Speaker 2: he's so upset? And I'm like, because we're going to
Speaker 2: lose our jobs. That's why I'm upset. I can't afford
Speaker 2: to lose his job. And he goes, Okay, we'll get
Speaker 2: it done.
Speaker 4: Ryan hare on fire. Todd just like if I ran.
Speaker 3: Him right now, he would be he wouldn't remember anything
Speaker 3: I just said. I mean, he would be like you
Speaker 3: I did that? Yeah, you know, but he here, he
Speaker 3: is his coach, man, defensive coordinator, all that stuff. I mean,
Speaker 3: but Bill Parcells. Everybody in life needs a sponsor. Bill
Speaker 3: Parcells was his sponsor. I got him a gig and
Speaker 3: into coaching.
Speaker 4: No doubt, and he has led this team now to
Speaker 4: an eight and six record. They are right now first
Speaker 4: place in the NFC South. After losing some some parts
Speaker 4: as the season is gone along, they've kind of been
Speaker 4: able to keep it together. They are currently on a
Speaker 4: four game win streak. I mean they won at the
Speaker 4: Chargers last week, put up forty points against them, beat
Speaker 4: Las Vegas the week before that, and beat a Carolina
Speaker 4: team the week before that in overtime, and then beat
Speaker 4: the New York Giants the week before that. So they've
Speaker 4: had a similar trek over the last four weeks to
Speaker 4: what the Cowboys were playing, and they came through it
Speaker 4: unscathed and got some wins that they desperately needed in
Speaker 4: order to keep hold of that NFC South. If I
Speaker 4: had to go around the table and tell me, what
Speaker 4: do you think is the thing that most that fans
Speaker 4: need to know most about this team? As the Cowboys
Speaker 4: prepared to face them, what would you say?
Speaker 5: It's a really good team. Yeah, it's better than an
Speaker 5: eight and six record, and I know eight and six
Speaker 5: is a good record, but this is a really good team.
Speaker 5: You look at these first ten opponents that they faced
Speaker 5: in the first ten weeks, only one of them is
Speaker 5: not currently in the playoff picture, and it was a
Speaker 5: win against New Orleans. They won by twenty four. They're
Speaker 5: one of two teams to beat Detroit. They did that
Speaker 5: on the road. They're one of two teams to beat Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: They did that at home, but it was by seventeen points.
Speaker 5: And then since their bye week, you look and you
Speaker 5: see New York Carolina Las Vegas Chargers, and they've handled business.
Speaker 5: They're the only team to put up more than thirty
Speaker 5: points against the Chargers. They put up forty on the
Speaker 5: road defense and they have a phenomenal defense. So they've
Speaker 5: really started to figure it out with their run game,
Speaker 5: with their two headed monster. We'll get to it here
Speaker 5: in a bit, but this is a really good team.
Speaker 5: It's better than eight and six. This is a really
Speaker 5: talented team coming to eighteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got Mike Evans healthy now and he's been
Speaker 3: lighting it up the last four weeks the way he's playing,
Speaker 3: and then you know, also to give the tip of
Speaker 3: the cap to Baker Mayfield. I mean, you could say
Speaker 3: a lot of things about Baker Mayfield, but he finds
Speaker 3: a way to make it happen. The line has done
Speaker 3: a good job with some of the blocking that they've
Speaker 3: had to do. The quarterback gets rid of the ball,
Speaker 3: he's going to make plays, and it's it's really an
Speaker 3: impressive offense to watch just because of the skill that
Speaker 3: they have at the certain positions. Like Bucky Irving has
Speaker 3: been just a fourth round pick and you know, here
Speaker 3: we go him and White the other running back. They
Speaker 3: do a really nice job with the one to two
Speaker 3: punch of it. They got a tight end, it's very capable.
Speaker 3: A lot of targets with Kate Ott and he's gonna
Speaker 3: make plays for you. And they you know, they've got
Speaker 3: a rookie center that when we were doing the draft
Speaker 3: show that you know, I know that Nick and I
Speaker 3: and others were talking about Graham Barton, you know, potentially
Speaker 3: the Cowboys draft Graham Barton and would we would be
Speaker 3: super happy with that with that pick, you know, and
Speaker 3: he went right after Dallas picked matter of fact, to Tampa.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's uh, I think I had that right
Speaker 3: that he went. I think he went right after.
Speaker 5: I think when they traded back back.
Speaker 2: That they lost him when they traded back. Yeah, that's okay,
Speaker 2: that was the story.
Speaker 3: But yeah, overall though, you know, Mike Evans is finally,
Speaker 3: you know, healthy, he's on his pace for another thousand
Speaker 3: yard season, even though he's missing games. But they they're
Speaker 3: they're offensively, they present a lot of problems for you.
Speaker 4: Let's dive a little deeper into this offense. They are
Speaker 4: right now third in total offense in the NFL, the
Speaker 4: fourth and point scored. Uh, they are also fourth pass offense.
Speaker 4: When you look at that. Baker Mayfield obviously as at
Speaker 4: the epicenter of their success. He right now has two
Speaker 4: and fifty eight yard per game through the air, thirty
Speaker 4: two touchdowns, only fourteen interceptions, a one oh four point
Speaker 4: one rating. Really really great season right now for Baker.
Speaker 4: That being said, Kansas City, San Francisco, Denver, Detroit all
Speaker 4: gave their offense, their passing offense, particularly some issues. They
Speaker 4: were not able to put up the kinds of yards
Speaker 4: and points that they were able to put up against
Speaker 4: some of their other opponents. What do you think they
Speaker 4: were able to do or just in general, looking at
Speaker 4: his game, where do you think it's best to be
Speaker 4: able to disrupt him? How do you best disrupt him?
Speaker 5: I think he does make mistakes and you have to
Speaker 5: be able to take advantage of those. You look at
Speaker 5: the turnovers that is a little high whenever you compare
Speaker 5: it to the rest of the league. When he makes
Speaker 5: those stakes, you's got to be able to take advantage
Speaker 5: of it. You're looking at this defense and it has
Speaker 5: improved in the takeaway category in the last few weeks
Speaker 5: on the Cowboys defense, but they got to really be
Speaker 5: able to take advantage of these mistakes whenever he does
Speaker 5: make them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of it has to do
Speaker 3: with Mike Evans not being healthy. I think in some
Speaker 3: of those games you're mentioned, and they're a little bit
Speaker 3: of a different offense that way without him on the
Speaker 3: on the field.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: But to me that when I was watching it, and
Speaker 3: I always like to go back and watch how teams
Speaker 3: pressure them, Denver really got after his ass, and I mean,
Speaker 3: and then they got after him in a way that
Speaker 3: that it would encourage if I was Mike Zimmer and
Speaker 3: I'm watching the game on the tape, which I'm sure
Speaker 3: he did. Denver's got some dynamic rushers and they've got
Speaker 3: the ability they The thing that I've noticed with this
Speaker 3: guy with Baker, is that if you make their running
Speaker 3: backs have to play now, they'll throw the ball.
Speaker 2: These running backs. That's that's going to be an issue.
Speaker 4: Here, the ball going up against Cincinnati. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Irving and White, I think between him they might
Speaker 3: have missed four passes in eighties. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's incredible the number of passes that their backs get.
Speaker 3: The ball is going to go short and it's gonna
Speaker 3: get out quick. But what Denver was able to do
Speaker 3: was I saw a secondary pressure and I saw like
Speaker 3: when teams play wide, and I mean wide, I mean alignment.
Speaker 3: When they play wide against them, you can get these
Speaker 3: offensive linemen to tilt a little bit and kind of
Speaker 3: play over the tops of their feet. You play them
Speaker 3: a little bit tighter. They send to be able to
Speaker 3: sit down on you. But these these defenses that play
Speaker 3: with a little space on the edge and able to attack,
Speaker 3: it makes these linemen go a little forward and that
Speaker 3: kind of gives their.
Speaker 2: Blockers a problem.
Speaker 3: But Bucky, Irving and and White, the running back when
Speaker 3: they've had to play in blitz pickups or they've had
Speaker 3: to block and help.
Speaker 2: It's been a problem. It's been a real, real problem.
Speaker 2: But this quarterback is not going to let you.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's the second fastest in the
Speaker 3: league when it comes to getting the ball out.
Speaker 2: He's not.
Speaker 3: But if you can make them hold secondary pressure, linebacker pressure,
Speaker 3: make the backs have to play, play a little wider
Speaker 3: with your scheme, which Denver did, played a little wider
Speaker 3: with their scheme and they attacked those edges, attacked the shoulders.
Speaker 3: These linemen were playing on their toes a little bit,
Speaker 3: and I think that gave them some problems Philadelphia did.
Speaker 3: I know Philadelphia lost.
Speaker 2: The game, but just watching how teams were.
Speaker 3: Able to generate pressure, those were the ways they were
Speaker 3: able to do it. And I think not having Mike
Speaker 3: Evans and some of those games didn't really help the
Speaker 3: buck situation all that well.
Speaker 5: Kind of build on that point, just talking about the
Speaker 5: last three games, which have been wins for Sampa Bay.
Speaker 5: But looking at these last three games, Baker has thrown
Speaker 5: five interceptions, he's fumbled three times, and it's as a
Speaker 5: result of him being sacked nine times. The pressure has
Speaker 5: been on them.
Speaker 4: So where the weak links is you look at this
Speaker 4: offensive line, where are the weak links on this offensive line?
Speaker 3: It was they were not playing with the right tackle.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at left guard.
Speaker 2: You're looking at left guard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they I think to me with with Reretterson,
Speaker 3: is that who you're thinking is yeah, okay, I Kodeki?
Speaker 2: Is that Luke Kadeki that.
Speaker 3: They he's he when he was out at right tackle
Speaker 3: they were playing with justin school. Justin School is a
Speaker 3: backup that's given up seven and a half sacks, like
Speaker 3: like you watched the Detroit game like it was when
Speaker 3: School was in there.
Speaker 2: He was getting worked by Hutchinson. You know.
Speaker 3: So they they've they've had some they've had some problems there.
Speaker 3: But I kind of feel like though, because but Kadecki
Speaker 3: he's played since he's been back, that hasn't been a
Speaker 3: problem at the right tackle. But when they had a
Speaker 3: backup in there, that was a big problem. But Bretterson
Speaker 3: I think was I think that Bretterson was a little
Speaker 3: bit of a liability. But I was just thinking it's
Speaker 3: a line that it felt like has played better because
Speaker 3: they kind of they they they've not missed a lot
Speaker 3: of time. By the way, this is I think there
Speaker 3: were the when it comes to the number of snaps
Speaker 3: that all these guys that played, I think they're like
Speaker 3: the eighth or ninth best in the league for a
Speaker 3: number of snaps that they've all played together.
Speaker 2: But when their right tackle was out, that.
Speaker 3: Was huge for them. So I like what Nick's talking about.
Speaker 3: I was kind of thinking that the right guard was
Speaker 3: a problem, uh with this this group, and then also
Speaker 3: it's going to happen, it would be at the guards.
Speaker 3: Tristan Wurf's has had some problems too with with some
Speaker 3: of the snaps that he's had that I was watching
Speaker 3: some of the pressure coming off him, people kind of
Speaker 3: getting around him as well. But still a maller, he
Speaker 3: is a maller, but but there were a couple of
Speaker 3: times where like he like he When I was talking
Speaker 3: about these guys leaning and getting he was one of
Speaker 3: the one of the.
Speaker 2: Guys that was involved in that.
Speaker 5: Him and Jordan my lot of are my favorite left
Speaker 5: tackles to watch in the entire NFL, just because of
Speaker 5: how athletic they are. They can get after it and
Speaker 5: they push guys through, They get out and get out
Speaker 5: in space game. He's fun. He's a fun left tackle.
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Speaker 4: star Let's Jump Backy in Tampa Bay office versus Dallas defense.
Speaker 4: Mike Evans, you mentioned him. He leads Tampa Bay and
Speaker 4: receiving yards with seven hundred and forty nine k DOT
Speaker 4: and he leads the Tampa band receptions of fifty nine.
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Speaker 4: dot Com, Chris. And so, how does Dallas matchup specifically
Speaker 4: with those two players, Mike Evans and Ka Doot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's gonna be fascinating cover just because you have
Speaker 5: to account for what's coming out of the backfield too.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have a lot of resources spread across the
Speaker 5: field and a lot of one on one matchups. They
Speaker 5: try to isolate guys in one on one coverage and
Speaker 5: that's how Mike Evans is able to take advantage of it,
Speaker 5: and that's how he was able to take advantage of
Speaker 5: it last week. Huge game for him. From a Cowboys perspective,
Speaker 5: you would like to have LinkedIn size on a guy
Speaker 5: like Mike Evans, but you also look at a guy
Speaker 5: like Deron Bland and see how he's been playing over
Speaker 5: the last three to four weeks since his return, and
Speaker 5: you might just try to trust him to cover Evans
Speaker 5: and the opportunities that he has but yeah, travel with
Speaker 5: him would I wouldn't mind it. I mean, you have
Speaker 5: one healthy corner to play on the outside right now,
Speaker 5: Manti ro Warrier. How confident are you that he doesn't
Speaker 5: give up, you know, a big play? I think with
Speaker 5: the way the cornerback health is right now, and I
Speaker 5: am team pro Travel. I think we've determined that over
Speaker 5: the over the course of the season. I am team
Speaker 5: Pro Travel in this game specifically, just because you only
Speaker 5: got one healthy corner on the outside.
Speaker 3: In my eyes, yeah, this to me is I don't
Speaker 3: know about starting AO in this game, and I know
Speaker 3: they're there.
Speaker 2: I'm here kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Who are you starting?
Speaker 3: I'm playing mcwama when the outside and playing Lewis and
Speaker 3: talk about length and you know what I'm doing, and
Speaker 3: you know what I'm doing, And if I have to,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna mix it up. I'm gonna put Lewis on
Speaker 3: the outside and I'm put MCWAMU. Evans plays on the
Speaker 3: outside almost seventy percent of the time if you look
Speaker 3: at the metrics on that, He's only goes in the
Speaker 3: slot roughly thirty percent of the time. If you tell
Speaker 3: me I could put Bland and Lewis on Evans. I'll
Speaker 3: take my chances. I don't know if I want to
Speaker 3: take my chances with Ao playing over there. I'll take
Speaker 3: my chances maybe with mcwalmu playing. Because of the length
Speaker 3: this guy plays. When you're talking about Evans, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of his stuff is kind of a vertical
Speaker 3: game down the field.
Speaker 2: He's going to go high point the ball.
Speaker 3: You've got to be able to match his physicality, and
Speaker 3: you've got to match his length. And so I know
Speaker 3: putting Lewis on him might be a little bit of
Speaker 3: a nightmare. Traveling, I totally I don't have a problem
Speaker 3: with the traveling. They'll always tell you that if you travel,
Speaker 3: it messes up everybody else. You know, it messes everybody
Speaker 3: else then has to adjust if you're traveling guys. And
Speaker 3: so I personally said, you know what, after seeing what
Speaker 3: happened in the Carolina game the other day, we give
Speaker 3: up an eighty something yard pass because you don't communicate things.
Speaker 3: What traveling makes sense, and you don't communicate and now
Speaker 3: somebody else catches the ball and goes, you know, McMillan
Speaker 3: for them, or Shepherd or one of these other guys goes,
Speaker 3: you know, Palmer, one of these other guys goes eighty
Speaker 3: something yards because you didn't communicate, you know, what you
Speaker 3: needed to do. That scares me a little bit, But
Speaker 3: I would consider, I would consider just switching Ao.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be switching Lewis and Mkuamu.
Speaker 3: One play slot, one play out, one play the slot,
Speaker 3: one play out, you know, just kind of mix it
Speaker 3: up in there. Don't don't let him get an idea
Speaker 3: of how you're playing. I think you almost have to
Speaker 3: treat Kate Otten too to tie it in like a
Speaker 3: wide receiver because of his ability to make plays down
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 5: You mentioned Jalen McMillan. This is a guy that I
Speaker 5: think fans should definitely be aware of whenever he's on
Speaker 5: the field. Whenever Mike Evans and Chris Godwin went down
Speaker 5: midway through the season in October, so they tried to
Speaker 5: throw that wide receiver one responsibility on him. He didn't
Speaker 5: really answer to it. He's a rookie out of Washington.
Speaker 5: When we talked about him a lot in the draft
Speaker 5: show last year, he was one of those three receivers
Speaker 5: I got drafted out of Washington last year. But he
Speaker 5: didn't really answer to that call. He had in those
Speaker 5: two games right after Evans and Godwin went down, he
Speaker 5: had fifteen targets, he only had seven receptions for fifty
Speaker 5: yards and wasn't really able to build They tried to
Speaker 5: get him involved in the run game just out in space.
Speaker 5: Didn't really quite work. But over these last two games
Speaker 5: since Evans has come back and he's been able to
Speaker 5: kind of take a step back and really try to
Speaker 5: find his own role. He's been great these just these
Speaker 5: last two games, he has nine of his twenty two
Speaker 5: receptions on the season, one hundred and thirty four of
Speaker 5: his two hundred and seventy nine yards, and three of
Speaker 5: his four touchdowns. He's he's come alive in this offense.
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield has really started to build a connection with him.
Speaker 5: This is the guy you definitely have to keep track
Speaker 5: of too, and he's gonna be a guy out of
Speaker 5: the slot that Jordan Lewis is gonna have problems with,
Speaker 5: or maybe not problems with, but he's gonna be He's
Speaker 5: gonna be a legitimate challenge for Jordan Lewis having the slot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty good balance between the passing game and the
Speaker 6: running game, Like they have good players from both where
Speaker 6: they can if something's not working, they can just go
Speaker 6: and use the other one. So it's gonna be And
Speaker 6: like you mentioned that game Derek against Cincinnati, I mean,
Speaker 6: we saw what a running back can do there touch.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's one area that you definitely have to
Speaker 6: be concerned. But also on the positive side, you have
Speaker 6: seen the Cowboys being able to kind of control that
Speaker 6: area and improve in the running defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely, And if I can circle back on McMillan,
Speaker 3: five of you know, he's had forty targets this year,
Speaker 3: five of them have been the resulted in interceptions.
Speaker 2: He is the one.
Speaker 3: He's Baker Mayfield has thrown him the ball. He's the
Speaker 3: one receiver that has given up like or what given
Speaker 3: up or been a part of targets to him. Five
Speaker 3: of them have been interceptions out of forty targets. So
Speaker 3: it's been a little bit of struggle, but a little
Speaker 3: bit of improvement here.
Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks. But to your point, though, if.
Speaker 3: Dallas doesn't deal with if Dallas doesn't deal with Irvin
Speaker 3: and White catching the football, this could be a long
Speaker 3: day for them because that that that that they're going
Speaker 3: to throw the ball to these dudes They're one of
Speaker 3: those teams that they like to throw the Baker mayfield
Speaker 3: he throws. He throws a lot of short passes. I
Speaker 3: mean it's a lot of short passes and then run
Speaker 3: a lot of rack for these guys, and they like
Speaker 3: to throw the ball to the flat. If Dallas doesn't
Speaker 3: play in space and play the flats well enough, they're
Speaker 3: gonna get killed. They to get it against Cincinnati with
Speaker 3: the receivers catch or it's gonna be the Backs catching
Speaker 3: the ball. This is going to This is going to
Speaker 3: make their defense. It's not going to be so much vertically,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be horizontally how they're gonna have to play
Speaker 3: this game because of the way the ball goes short.
Speaker 5: You know, I love me some Bucky Irvin.
Speaker 2: Brian, I know you do. You're right about him, man.
Speaker 5: He's been so much fun to watch. He's a physical
Speaker 5: runner despite his stature. He's only five foot nine, but
Speaker 5: his field vision. I think walking into the league year
Speaker 5: one and seeing what he's been able to do, I
Speaker 5: put his field vision top three in the league. It's
Speaker 5: it's that good. He just his eyes on the back
Speaker 5: of his head. He's really talented, really talented.
Speaker 4: All right, Let's tell a couple of player evaluations. There
Speaker 4: were some players on the Cowboys defense and we didn't
Speaker 4: get a chance to talk much about in the post
Speaker 4: game of their last game, but I want to throw
Speaker 4: their names out and you guys tell me what you think,
Speaker 4: what you saw from them last week and then obviously
Speaker 4: projecting into this. So let's start with Israel mcuama, who
Speaker 4: you mentioned that Brian, you said you'd probably play him
Speaker 4: more this week at cornerback. What did you see from
Speaker 4: him last week?
Speaker 3: I think that with with is He, you're gonna you're
Speaker 3: going to get there's some flexibility because he played some
Speaker 3: safety too. If you remember Hooker, Hooker had a foot problem.
Speaker 3: I thought Hooker got stepped on. When you watch the tape,
Speaker 3: you're like, did he gets stepped on? And then they
Speaker 3: came back and he had tape on his over his shoes.
Speaker 3: So I mean, obviously it's an ankle problem or foot problem,
Speaker 3: something that he was dealing with.
Speaker 2: But the thing.
Speaker 3: About is he is I think is he is going
Speaker 3: to always be super competitive.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be He's going to.
Speaker 3: Be aware of what's happening around him and to me,
Speaker 3: when I watch him play. There was a time where
Speaker 3: I was kind of nervous about putting him out there,
Speaker 3: but I'm not anymore. I'm not I used to think, like, gosh,
Speaker 3: he's going to do something's crazy and he's not gonna
Speaker 3: he's gonna buy, but he's usually generally locked into what's
Speaker 3: going on. The link is impressive. The ability to carry
Speaker 3: guys is impressive. The ability to go get the football,
Speaker 3: and we saw it with the interceptions and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: He's had his ability to kind of be at the
Speaker 3: right place at the right time. I'm totally okay with him,
Speaker 3: you know, being out there and being a part of
Speaker 3: this this week because of the weapons that they have,
Speaker 3: you know, with Evans and Aughton, and they're going to
Speaker 3: have to I would rather have him out there than Ao.
Speaker 3: Like I said, start him, let him play, match that
Speaker 3: thing up, and then let him go.
Speaker 5: He's played one hundred and twenty three covered snaps. He's
Speaker 5: only allowed eight receptions for eighty nine yards on the year. Granted,
Speaker 5: he's been he's been kind of managed a lot in
Speaker 5: different areas as well, and so those numbers might be
Speaker 5: a little bit skewed, but he has been good in
Speaker 5: coverage from what I've seen, the link is there. The
Speaker 5: strides really make up ground in a in a fast manner.
Speaker 5: I like his role mcwamo to start playing a little
Speaker 5: bit more as in these next three games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, talk to me about Donovan Lewis.
Speaker 5: Donovan Lewis, I was just curious which one you wanted there.
Speaker 5: Donovan Wilson, Hey, I'll take a combination. Yeah, combination. I
Speaker 5: think I think with Donovan Wilson you started to see
Speaker 5: him kind of find his stride again in the last
Speaker 5: few weeks. I will say that because in the beginning
Speaker 5: of the season, I'll be honest with you guys, and
Speaker 5: I think I even mentioned on the show. I was like,
Speaker 5: all right, you might need to look somewhere else and
Speaker 5: twenty five and I'm not completely throwing that equation out
Speaker 5: of the window either, but I think you're starting to
Speaker 5: see Donovan Wilson returned to for him a little bit.
Speaker 5: I don't think he ever found his stride last year,
Speaker 5: coming off with that calf injury that he suffered in
Speaker 5: training camp and it kind of kept him out for
Speaker 5: this first couple of weeks. But I think this year,
Speaker 5: seeing him with the full camp and then now the
Speaker 5: first half of the season, this entire defense was in disarray.
Speaker 5: But now that this defense has really started a rebound,
Speaker 5: you started to see Donovan Wilson rebound. As the linebackers
Speaker 5: in front of him rebound, You're starting to see him rebound.
Speaker 5: So I think he's kind of a product of everything
Speaker 5: around him. You know, how much do you want that
Speaker 5: in your safety department. That's a question you would have
Speaker 5: to answer in the offseason. You know a guy that
Speaker 5: only thrives when everyone around him is thriving. But on
Speaker 5: that same token, you still have to give credit to
Speaker 5: him being able to make plays in the run game.
Speaker 5: I love the situational blitzing that Mike Zimmer's found with
Speaker 5: him as well. But in coverage, I think he's still
Speaker 5: a liability.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the coverage part of it.
Speaker 3: They figured out that we're not going to after that
Speaker 3: San Francisco game. They're like, listen, we can't put him
Speaker 3: in coverage anymore. And so all of a sudden, it's like,
Speaker 3: here we are. We're going to adapt you. We're gonna
Speaker 3: make you this situational blitzer. We're gonna let you play
Speaker 3: around the line of scrimmage a little more. You go
Speaker 3: back and watch the tape with Dan Quinn. What was
Speaker 3: Donovan Wilson doing pretty well? Playing around the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 3: making tackles, being a physical force if the run breaks
Speaker 3: through here there making a play. And that's what they've done.
Speaker 3: They realized that putting him in coverage is a terrible idea,
Speaker 3: and they're playing to his strengths and that's why he's
Speaker 3: playing better.
Speaker 4: Did you guys notice? And I didn't see any final
Speaker 4: stats on play count play snap counts, but it seemed
Speaker 4: to me like they were kind of mixing he and
Speaker 4: mcwonmalall early in the game a lot more like he
Speaker 4: was off the field with mcameal on. Did you guys
Speaker 4: see the same thing or was that just kind of,
Speaker 4: you know, a few plays the.
Speaker 2: Thing with Hooker getting hurt, I mean, was.
Speaker 4: Still on the field. It was Hooker and mcamal and
Speaker 4: then it would be Hooker and Lewis Lewis Wilson. And
Speaker 4: I don't it just I hadn't. I didn't track at
Speaker 4: the whole game, and I didn't see any snap counts
Speaker 4: after the game. They didn't give us that in our
Speaker 4: packet that we got from from from the PR team.
Speaker 4: But but I just wondered if if that was a
Speaker 4: situation where they were playing mcqualma more and that meant
Speaker 4: less snaps for Wilson.
Speaker 5: I mean, Wilson did play his second least snaps of
Speaker 5: the season against Carolina, so and technically Isral mcquama played
Speaker 5: fifteen snaps at safety, so I had something to look
Speaker 5: at for sure. I did notice mcwuama on the field though,
Speaker 5: in the first first uh, in the first quarter, and
Speaker 5: then you look around you see Ore and you see
Speaker 5: Lewis and you're like, okay.
Speaker 4: We're soius.
Speaker 5: So I didn't notice that as well. I guess I
Speaker 5: just kind of forgot to circle back on it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's an interesting point, I think. I think in that sense,
Speaker 5: maybe you just put mcuamo on the field in passing
Speaker 5: downs and passing situations unless you're using Wilson as a
Speaker 5: situational blutzer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think that's what it was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Amani or Owaria, what did you see from last week?
Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not. I just don't. I'm not going
Speaker 2: there anymore.
Speaker 4: You're done.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's tough to identify because of the block
Speaker 3: punt thing and all that. I'm just no, I just
Speaker 3: feel like that man I could play with. I could
Speaker 3: play with Izzy, I could play if Jordan Lewis has
Speaker 3: proven to me that he could play on the outside. Again,
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that since Michigan. Yeah, you know, and
Speaker 3: if you you give me a guy that can carry,
Speaker 3: a guy that's gonna be tough guy, it's gonna play
Speaker 3: routes inside guy, it's gonna tackle. Give me that guy.
Speaker 3: You know, there was something that happened in that game
Speaker 3: that that thing didn't get communicated all the way to
Speaker 3: the outside and you had a huge bust.
Speaker 2: You can't have that. You can't have that. I don't
Speaker 2: know him, Hooker, somebody. They did not get that message
Speaker 2: so to me.
Speaker 3: And I know that he's he's had some moments where
Speaker 3: but I just it's it's it's it's not.
Speaker 2: Worth it to me anymore. It's just not.
Speaker 3: When I know that I have other guys that I
Speaker 3: could feel like that, I can think I can lean
Speaker 3: on a little bit harder and then they won't they
Speaker 3: won't have problems out there.
Speaker 5: The amani Or Warrior Brian brought us apology game coming
Speaker 5: on Sunday night.
Speaker 3: You think so, I don't know, Yeah, I'll be happy
Speaker 3: I'm wrong.
Speaker 5: That's the it's still for me to identify what exactly
Speaker 5: happened on that eighty three yarder, and that's that's it's
Speaker 5: something you can't even ask the players either because they're
Speaker 5: not gonna throw another guy under the bus. But it's it's, yeah,
Speaker 5: but they do know, someone knows they didn't communicate side
Speaker 5: that they and that is that was one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2: Situation.
Speaker 5: Was a situation where Hooker was trying to communicate an
Speaker 5: oral Warrea wasn't even looking or was a situation where
Speaker 5: or Warrier was looking over and Hooker didn't communicate anything.
Speaker 5: So it's like it's it's tough to identify what exactly happened,
Speaker 5: but you take that play, let's take that play out
Speaker 5: of out of the equation. I mean, this secondary played
Speaker 5: really well on Sunday, and it's it's if you would
Speaker 5: be trying to harp on anybody, I think it would
Speaker 5: be a little bit of nitpicking from from uh aside
Speaker 5: from that eighty three yarder. Nitpicking aside from the eighty
Speaker 5: three yarder. Yeah, I mean you look at the you
Speaker 5: look at the secondary and how they performed, even or Warrier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, but you're okay, You're you're gonna comfortable in
Speaker 3: this game having Ao cover Evans.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely not, okay.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I wasn't.
Speaker 12: Nick.
Speaker 5: No, no, I think you would be to try to find
Speaker 5: any negatives in the Carolina game aside from the eighty
Speaker 5: three yarder. Like if if we're taking away the eighty
Speaker 5: three yarder, I think it would be.
Speaker 2: I've taken it. I have taken it out.
Speaker 3: I just feel like that I have better better cover
Speaker 3: guys without him being able.
Speaker 4: It's less about him and more about the fact they're
Speaker 4: just guys that are better.
Speaker 2: I think they're guys that are better. That's just I
Speaker 2: agree with you. I agree with all Right, that's a wrapping.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow play.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow we will be back. We will talk about the offense,
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, the defense for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers versus
Speaker 4: the Cowboys offense. It will be our final show of
Speaker 4: the week, so we'll also get some picks tomorrow. Till
Speaker 4: then for Nick Harris, Brian brought us Ambergarci. I'm Derek
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