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Speaker 4: It is Monday, September ninth, twenty twenty four, and we
Speaker 4: are here. Man, what a weekend, What a weekend. That
Speaker 4: was awesome. Cowboys kick off the NFL season with a win,
Speaker 4: big win on the road against the Cleveland Browns. I
Speaker 4: think it was probably much more in the way of
Speaker 4: scoring by the out Boys than any of us expected,
Speaker 4: but it was a win, and it was an impressive
Speaker 4: win to get things kicked off for this season. We're
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Speaker 4: get into the meat of this game. Let's start first
Speaker 4: with what we thought was the story of the game.
Speaker 4: As we did last year, We'll go around the table
Speaker 4: and tell what you think was the big story, the
Speaker 4: big picture story of the game. No One, we'll get
Speaker 4: into some of the details. What was the big picture story,
Speaker 4: I'll start.
Speaker 2: With you Nick.
Speaker 6: For me, it has to start with the defensive unit.
Speaker 6: I mean, at all three levels, just executed to perfection.
Speaker 6: I think we expected it with this defensive front. Like
Speaker 6: we talked about last week. You know, they were battling
Speaker 6: some injuries at the tackle positions, ended up being both
Speaker 6: the starting left tackle and starting right tackle did not
Speaker 6: play in this game. So I mean, you look at
Speaker 6: the pressures that were generated on Deshaun Watson, it was
Speaker 6: twenty plus. Micah himself had twelve plus. It was a
Speaker 6: big day for that defensive line. Then you look at
Speaker 6: the linebacking corps, and we talked about during training camp
Speaker 6: and as we've seen these guys get on the field
Speaker 6: and work together, they are so much more improved in
Speaker 6: that position. You saw Eric Kendricks get after it to
Speaker 6: Marvin Overshown got after it. If I had to pick
Speaker 6: my top two defenders from yesterday, it might be those
Speaker 6: two guys. They looked so strong, they were filling running lanes,
Speaker 6: they were getting after the quarterback. Eric Kendricks had two sacks,
Speaker 6: Overshown had one, and then you look at the secondary.
Speaker 6: Trayvon Dix gets an interception on one of the rare
Speaker 6: opportunities that he was even tested. And then you look
Speaker 6: at Kaylin Carson and he did just fine for his
Speaker 6: NFL debut. Safety group was strong. It has to start
Speaker 6: with the defense for me. Sure they gave up a
Speaker 6: garbage time touchdown late, but this defense, it really stood
Speaker 6: tall and made life really difficult for the pass and
Speaker 6: run game for Cleveland.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think the defense is a great storyline for sure.
Speaker 3: But to me, what caught my even more was the
Speaker 3: offense overall. Because we went into a game wondering, Okay,
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb actually gonna be able to step up his
Speaker 3: you know, not miss a beat. Is dok Presca going
Speaker 3: to be able to perform right after getting such a
Speaker 3: big so a lot of questions surrounding that, as well
Speaker 3: as the the o line and the running game. And
Speaker 3: I think for me, and when you see an offense
Speaker 3: or Brandon Aubrey scoring for field goals, obviously you're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: there's a room for improvement for the offense for sure.
Speaker 3: But something that I caught my eye and that was
Speaker 3: very impressive was that they were able to put up
Speaker 3: with the physicality and how tough and physical was the
Speaker 3: Brown's defense sometimes, and not to say that the Cowboys
Speaker 3: are not physical themselves when it comes to offense, but
Speaker 3: you know, you see games where it does wear them
Speaker 3: down and then they start kind of playing not as strong.
Speaker 3: And these guys, man, they were hitting hard and just
Speaker 3: tackling hard. So for me, that's something that when I
Speaker 3: saw some of those hits and it still didn't stop them.
Speaker 3: In general, you saw the players get back up Hunter Lipke,
Speaker 3: another guy Zeke making some of those helping blocking. It's
Speaker 3: just the offense was a lot more physical than I
Speaker 3: expected them to be in week one and to meet
Speaker 3: that caught my eye. Of course, room for improvement, but
Speaker 3: that's something that was good to me.
Speaker 2: I think even if Cleveland was healthy on offense, Dallas
Speaker 2: would have done the same thing. Defensively to them, they
Speaker 2: played that well. They were buttoned up in this one.
Speaker 2: The rotations they had at the defensive line spot, the
Speaker 2: ability of Mike and the staff to be able to
Speaker 2: kind of put guys in position to make plays, the
Speaker 2: guys in the back end or able to hold up
Speaker 2: the safeties played well. You know, you got some guys
Speaker 2: that probably didn't show up on the stat sheet that
Speaker 2: looked really well OsO, Diggy Zoo. Well, I had some
Speaker 2: really some nice plays, some rushes there again, Mike moving around,
Speaker 2: Micah moving around Tank, putting them on the same side.
Speaker 2: They really did a nice job of confusing not only
Speaker 2: the quarterback, but they did a really good job of refuge,
Speaker 2: of confusing the blocking scheme for the Browns. You could
Speaker 2: see there were several times where guys were blocking air
Speaker 2: instead of like maybe being a double on Parsons, maybe
Speaker 2: being a double on Tank, maybe you know, trying to
Speaker 2: help out there. So there were some scheme things that
Speaker 2: they were able to do defensively. This group at linebackers
Speaker 2: completely different. And it's not just overshown, but all these
Speaker 2: guys lea foul got in there for a few plays
Speaker 2: was effective. You know, look at Kendricks the way that
Speaker 2: he plays, He's just always around the ball. They just
Speaker 2: it was really impressive to watch how they played as
Speaker 2: a unit up front and even I mean Lewis playing
Speaker 2: the nickel. They just did not give anything up on
Speaker 2: the back end. And so much of that pressure was
Speaker 2: because of the scheme and the way that guys were
Speaker 2: able to play throughout the scheme, and they were in
Speaker 2: good shape. We remember Green Bay and what a disaster
Speaker 2: that was with guys running open and guys out of
Speaker 2: position all that. No, that was a complete opposite of
Speaker 2: what we saw in that day yesterday. And they took
Speaker 2: advantage of a broken quarterback, and that's good. You take
Speaker 2: advantage of a broken offensive line, that's good. Times we've
Speaker 2: been around here and that hasn't always been the case.
Speaker 2: It's like I remember games where oh the Giants are
Speaker 2: down four offensive linemen and Eli Manning throws for four
Speaker 2: hundred yards. You know they used to not do these things.
Speaker 2: Now you see that, And I think that's really what
Speaker 2: came off to me is that group was buttoned up.
Speaker 2: They were ready to play. The scheme was good, the
Speaker 2: players were good. It was well coached.
Speaker 6: I'll say this is about the defensive unit. They probably
Speaker 6: should have had ten sacks. Yes, sure, yeah, there was
Speaker 6: so the.
Speaker 4: Game you could say, like Michael was like, yeah, we
Speaker 4: had some opportunities we missed.
Speaker 2: We miss well. That's we talked about in the breakdown
Speaker 2: is weak arm tackle. You got to go in there.
Speaker 2: You saw how you need to bring Deshaun Watson to
Speaker 2: the ground. Overshown is that you know in space, you tackle,
Speaker 2: you wrap, you see you know, that's what you got
Speaker 2: to do, and that's that's the lesson you learned. Tank
Speaker 2: had the same thing happened to him. When you watch
Speaker 2: he you know, there was some really good blitz designs.
Speaker 2: The one of the one of the sacks they had
Speaker 2: I thought was a really good design was your two
Speaker 2: best pass rushers dropped in coverage. They brought the They
Speaker 2: brought the slot bliz with Lewis. It's the first time
Speaker 2: he does it the whole game. He drops Mikey, he
Speaker 2: drops Tank, and next you know, it's like they're on
Speaker 2: top of the quarterback. And so Mike had some ideas
Speaker 2: of how he wanted to attack these guys, and his
Speaker 2: players played really hard for him and did an excellent
Speaker 2: job of executing that.
Speaker 6: I just saw.
Speaker 3: And Kendricks he's a freaking beast. I just saw him.
Speaker 3: He's he was running around the field just now before
Speaker 3: the show. I'm like, dude, I'm tired. I will and
Speaker 3: I'm tired. But they're out there. So again, it's just very,
Speaker 3: very impressive to finally see the linebacker group played the
Speaker 3: way they did after what happened last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they it was It's one of those things and
Speaker 2: we talked about it a bunch coming out of Oxnard. Though.
Speaker 2: This linebacker group will be better, and I think they
Speaker 2: got off to a great start yesterday. I really do.
Speaker 4: Let's flip to the offensive side of the ball. I
Speaker 4: want to talk about my man Dak Prescott. Yesterday, he's
Speaker 4: nineteen thirty two, fifty nine percent completion, one hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy nine yards, one touchdown, eighty five point three quarterback grating,
Speaker 4: and sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wealthier.
Speaker 4: And then well I told my wife, I said, baby
Speaker 4: MJ's grandkids just got really yeah rich, Like that's the
Speaker 4: kind of money we're talking This is generational wealth that
Speaker 4: we're talking about for Dak Prescott. But the interesting part
Speaker 4: about it yesterday was I just read off those numbers
Speaker 4: not terribly impressive, but if you look at the first half,
Speaker 4: you thought he was on his way to a monster day.
Speaker 2: He had.
Speaker 4: He was fourteen to twenty one, sixty seven percent completions,
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty six yards through the air, a touchdown,
Speaker 4: and a one oh four point five rating just in
Speaker 4: the first half. So my question for you guys is
Speaker 4: what was the difference in the first and the second half?
Speaker 2: Was it more.
Speaker 4: Hey, they didn't have to do as much, so they
Speaker 4: didn't do as much, did they did? They start running
Speaker 4: in some bigger problems with Cleveland that they didn't experience
Speaker 4: in the first half.
Speaker 6: What was the different Brian might have a different perspective here,
Speaker 6: but for me, it was just a really good defensive
Speaker 6: coordinator making really good defensive adjustments and it stifled this offense.
Speaker 6: And there's definitely some concerns that are not concerns, But
Speaker 6: I think there's a lot of things that they can
Speaker 6: go back and watch today in the passing game. In
Speaker 6: the running game, was just no momentum created after the
Speaker 6: halftime break. And fortunately you have a guy like Brandon
Speaker 6: Aubrey who could bailw you out of a couple of
Speaker 6: situations and get you three points. But didn't love the
Speaker 6: offensive production in the second half. In the passing game specifically,
Speaker 6: I think you started to see a little bit of
Speaker 6: that rhythm between DAK and CD, maybe not being one
Speaker 6: hundred percent, I think you maybe saw it at seventy
Speaker 6: five percent in this game, and you started to see
Speaker 6: why that was the case. In the second half, that
Speaker 6: Brandon Cooks comes out for dehydration, it kind of messes
Speaker 6: up the passing game a little bit, but overall, I mean,
Speaker 6: that's why you build that first half lead. Fortunately for them,
Speaker 6: they built it strongly enough. But I thought it was
Speaker 6: just a really good defensive coach who made really good
Speaker 6: defensive adjustments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're onto something there too, and you
Speaker 2: look the start to talk it to me, if the
Speaker 2: second half for Ezekiel Elliott would have been ten carries
Speaker 2: for forty yards, I would have felt a lot better
Speaker 2: about the offense, you know, and initially though there was
Speaker 2: some really good design. You're get to give Dak credit
Speaker 2: on the touchdown to Cooks because they don't block. The
Speaker 2: front's not blocked, right. You know, they did catchup Blitzer.
Speaker 2: They had enough blockers to take care of the Blitzer.
Speaker 2: Dak just did a great job of getting rid of
Speaker 2: the football and find knowing that Cooks was on Thornhill
Speaker 2: and Thornhill can't cover me. I'm sorry, Thornhill, you can't
Speaker 2: cover me on the rock. But it just you know,
Speaker 2: they run by. It's a great design and yeah, but
Speaker 2: there was some creativity the way. The creativity came with
Speaker 2: them with running the ball early, and that's what I
Speaker 2: think they had some success was the traps, the polls movement.
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, listen, we're going to sit there and
Speaker 2: get go shoe to shoe and try and push these guys.
Speaker 2: We're gonna try and be a little bit more creative
Speaker 2: with it. And there's some things. You're gonna watch this
Speaker 2: game and you're gonna go back and you're gonna go darn,
Speaker 2: you know, come on, daddle. That thing's blocked, right, You
Speaker 2: got to cut that ball. You can't run the darkness there,
Speaker 2: you know. The traps and the things that they were
Speaker 2: able to do to spring Zeke I thought were really good.
Speaker 2: I think at the second half it just came how
Speaker 2: do you run the how do you just try and
Speaker 2: run the clock? Mike comes out. I think got lost
Speaker 2: as a game as a play call on the second
Speaker 2: three straight pass players and you're like going, all right, now,
Speaker 2: where's your where's your running? To me? It would have
Speaker 2: been running game, waggles boots, running game, running game, running game,
Speaker 2: waggle boot, you know, just make they did in the
Speaker 2: first half. They did a great job of making the
Speaker 2: Browns have to defend the whole field that they were playing, sidelines,
Speaker 2: the sideline, and we really weren't getting you know, we
Speaker 2: weren't getting a lot of the vertical shots. You know,
Speaker 2: but it's a shame that you had the deep incut
Speaker 2: that that Turpin dropped. You know, that was that was
Speaker 2: one of the best balls that pressures all around Dak
Speaker 2: and they throw it down the middle and Turpin drops it.
Speaker 2: You're like, damn, you got to catch that ball. You know.
Speaker 2: Those are things in the first half where you were
Speaker 2: kind of like encouraged, and in the second half it
Speaker 2: was like playing watching a preseason game where you're just like, why,
Speaker 2: why is the ball, Why is the ball going into
Speaker 2: the ground, Why is the running game not working? Why?
Speaker 2: You know, it was just like the defense was playing
Speaker 2: so well that McCarthy knew that, and it's like instead
Speaker 2: of saying, Okay, we got to amp this thing up,
Speaker 2: I've got to find a way to get that get
Speaker 2: the running game going a little bit. You know, that's
Speaker 2: where I was hopeful. I was hoping that second half
Speaker 2: they come out and all of a sudden, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's see how well and Guiden much better run blocker
Speaker 2: than pass blocker yesterday, bbe much better pass blocker than
Speaker 2: run blocker yesterday. You know, still outstanding. Was worried about
Speaker 2: him in this game. They had some guys that were
Speaker 2: playing at a high level. They just they missed some opportunities.
Speaker 2: I think in the second half.
Speaker 3: That's the thing that I feel like you saw a
Speaker 3: lot of different elements are very promising there. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I can work with this, you can work with this.
Speaker 3: They can make it happen. But it is concerning and
Speaker 3: I'm not going to kill them this first week because Okay,
Speaker 3: at least he didn't give up the ball, he didn't
Speaker 3: throw an interception, and they were able to manage to
Speaker 3: win the game. But I hope it doesn't become that
Speaker 3: whole thing that is happened in previous year where the
Speaker 3: defense is playing so hard, then you got Brandon Nobrey
Speaker 3: the one scoring points, and then the offense is just
Speaker 3: not really doing enough. Because we've seen that, I know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's been two years in a
Speaker 3: row now where we've seen kind of some of that
Speaker 3: happening at some point in the season where the offense
Speaker 3: is just kind of trailing behind, and then it's happened
Speaker 3: where it just kind of flips and the defense started
Speaker 3: trailing behind and then the offense scoring points. But all
Speaker 3: that to say, I think we saw a lot of
Speaker 3: different elements that are very very makes me feel very
Speaker 3: hopeful in the running game Tyler Guyan, things are very promising.
Speaker 3: You talked about the difference in him and bebe at
Speaker 3: least there's some balance there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, it was Yeah. When you watch, when
Speaker 2: you watch him play, I felt like it was a
Speaker 2: matter of survival for Tyler Guyton out there attack and
Speaker 2: it wasn't always just it was not just dealing with Garrett,
Speaker 2: it was dealing with Smith and everybody. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was fighting to he was bending, he was Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was trying his best not to. The run blocking stuff
Speaker 2: I thought was very encouraging. And we've seen him, you
Speaker 2: know in Oklahoma. We didn't always talk about Tyler Guyton
Speaker 2: is a good run block, but they had some situations
Speaker 2: in that game. Bbe's got to figure out a little
Speaker 2: bit more. But when they pushed that thing second level,
Speaker 2: he's got to locate. And Cormora can play. Corey Mora
Speaker 2: the linebacker for the Browns. He will make every single
Speaker 2: tackle if you don't block him in the running game,
Speaker 2: and there was a couple of times where you know,
Speaker 2: bbe they got hooked up and he couldn't get off,
Speaker 2: he couldn't get to the guy, and then they and
Speaker 2: then when they would block it, well, well, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: daddle runs the darkness, make the cut, you you know,
Speaker 2: keep your eyes open. But that's the kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: I just they lost that in the second half. They
Speaker 2: lost the ability to separate, They lost the ability to
Speaker 2: the quarterback to be accurate throwing the football. The play caller,
Speaker 2: I think got out of a little bit of rhythm too,
Speaker 2: with how he was he was thinking, well, my defense
Speaker 2: is playing great. I'm just gonna just gonna call ball
Speaker 2: plays here. And then you know, but there could have
Speaker 2: been some purpose, There could have been some better purpose
Speaker 2: with him in the second half. You know.
Speaker 4: That's something I think I've noticed about Mike McCarthy, And
Speaker 4: I go back to what he said.
Speaker 2: He had a comment.
Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly when it happened, but it was
Speaker 4: after they had let or they separated with Kellen Moore
Speaker 4: and something. It was something to the effect of, you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you get in these games and Kellen wants to
Speaker 4: get to swing the score up, and we just see
Speaker 4: we want to win the game, and I think he
Speaker 4: calls games like that. I think he's gonna be that
Speaker 4: type where if he's got a league, he may try
Speaker 4: to just protect that lead versus getting more aggressive at
Speaker 4: that point to keep running the score up, which can
Speaker 4: be good or bad. Now, when you got a defense
Speaker 4: that's playing as well as a defense played yesterday, it
Speaker 4: actually could be okay. But it does get you a
Speaker 4: little nervous in the NFL, because we saw three teams
Speaker 4: yesterday in the NFL were down fourteen points that came
Speaker 4: back and won a lead. Is not safe in the NFL.
Speaker 2: No, it's not. And the thing the way they kind
Speaker 2: of went around it to to try and get some
Speaker 2: offense or maybe run the ball a little bit better,
Speaker 2: was they got into that twenty two personnel with the
Speaker 2: two backs, two tight ends. Yeah that, and then twenty
Speaker 2: one personnel with the two backs one tight end, and
Speaker 2: it became Hunter Lipkey. Hunter Lipkey was actually your best
Speaker 2: point of attack. And I know I'm not sure because
Speaker 2: you're sitting there and I know you like should be.
Speaker 2: But the thing with Hunter Lipkey, he was your Ferguson's
Speaker 2: out and now you got to kind of kind of
Speaker 2: cobble this thing together hunter Lipkey figured out he was
Speaker 2: your best point of attack blocker when you watched him.
Speaker 2: He was the one guy that like, Okay, I can
Speaker 2: see why they're running twenty two personnel. I could see
Speaker 2: why they're running twenty one personnel here because he was
Speaker 2: able to do some things. Now, the players weren't always successful,
Speaker 2: but he was successful in in his task. I was
Speaker 2: watching him like, oh, that's a plus block. Well that
Speaker 2: was a plus block. Well that was another plus block.
Speaker 2: You know they didn't have that always across the board
Speaker 2: in the second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's turning into one of those players. I think
Speaker 4: that you could see the vision.
Speaker 2: You can rely on him.
Speaker 4: But over time you're seeing get better and better and better,
Speaker 4: and it is going to come a point when he's
Speaker 4: gonna be a really, really nice piece for this offense.
Speaker 4: All right, let's sick our first break. We're gonna come back.
Speaker 4: We'll talk a little bit about the running game a
Speaker 4: little deeper. I want to ask you guys more specifically
Speaker 4: what you felt about the usage of the two backs
Speaker 4: and even just to pass to run ratio yesterday in
Speaker 4: the game, and we'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 4: let's talk about the running game yesterday. You mentioned earlier
Speaker 4: Brian Zeke had those ten carries for forty yards in
Speaker 4: a touchdown thirty five of those yards came in the
Speaker 4: first half, yes, sir, and just as we were talking
Speaker 4: about with Dak Prescott, it was a tail of two halves.
Speaker 4: The second half not really much. First, talk to me
Speaker 4: about the usage you had. Zeke had ten carries, Dowdle
Speaker 4: had eight carries. How did you guys feel about the
Speaker 4: usage of those two backs and maybe even other backs
Speaker 4: and how they ran the ball. I thought in the
Speaker 4: first half it was interesting because he did a lot
Speaker 4: of you know, had CD had three different runs. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were kind of doing different things in the run game.
Speaker 4: But what were your thoughts on distribution when it comes
Speaker 4: to the running game.
Speaker 6: I feel like they mix it up well. But again,
Speaker 6: the creativity in the run game only came from a
Speaker 6: personnel perspective, and it came from these end rounds from
Speaker 6: Ceedee Lamb and granted three of them for twenty five yards,
Speaker 6: And it felt like every time that he was getting
Speaker 6: that ball in the end round, he had a blocker
Speaker 6: in front of him. Shout out to Jalen Tolbert. He
Speaker 6: laid two good blocks on those end rounds. But as
Speaker 6: far as when it comes to the Ezekiel Elliot and
Speaker 6: Rico doubt Oll case. I just don't feel like there's
Speaker 6: enough creativity in the running game there for them to
Speaker 6: be able to pay some running lanes. You saw the
Speaker 6: hurdle on the first play. That was fun, but aside
Speaker 6: from that, it didn't It was fun. It didn't inspire
Speaker 6: a lot of confidence from me the running game, specifically,
Speaker 6: eighteen carries for sixty six yards between the two of them.
Speaker 6: I did like to split though, because I think it
Speaker 6: kept them both fresh, it kept them both active, and
Speaker 6: it wasn't a situation where we've seen this in the past,
Speaker 6: or at least last season. It wasn't a situation where
Speaker 6: it was, Okay, this is Zeke on this drive, Okay,
Speaker 6: this is Rico on this drive. It was mixing them
Speaker 6: both in as the drive went on, and I think
Speaker 6: that's probably what you have to do. It's the approach
Speaker 6: that you have to take when it comes to this
Speaker 6: running game. But I still don't feel like there's enough creativity.
Speaker 6: But I do feel like these guys can get out
Speaker 6: in the open field. It's just can they be schemed
Speaker 6: out into the open field?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Elliott's best play was really a draw that they ran.
Speaker 2: If you look at it. To play with Geyt and
Speaker 2: he pushes Garret up the field and then Smith pins
Speaker 2: his guy inside and then you get Ferguson's up on
Speaker 2: delpit and you know, that's that's kind of where if
Speaker 2: BB gets the linebacker, that play is going to go
Speaker 2: for even a bigger game. So that's how they tried
Speaker 2: to run the ball. The jet sweeps, the traps, the
Speaker 2: various things were these backs were the best help to
Speaker 2: you yesterday was picking up blitzes and picking up you
Speaker 2: know several times, you know, if you want Toeke. Zeke
Speaker 2: had a good Zeke day for ten carries and forty
Speaker 2: yards and then being able to pick up blitzes. Even
Speaker 2: the first sack that they gave up to Tom Winson,
Speaker 2: Zeke picked up the blitz. I mean it was Martin
Speaker 2: just got broke down, but Zeke saved the play because
Speaker 2: if but you know, Martin gets that block, then maybe
Speaker 2: you have a chance. Because of just what Zeke was
Speaker 2: able to do. But I felt like that he and
Speaker 2: Dawdell when it was asked that they had to when
Speaker 2: they had to pass block, they were up to the task.
Speaker 2: I would not be opposed if they could figure this
Speaker 2: thing out. Zeke just be the third down guy. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be opposed to that. I mean, to me, it's
Speaker 2: maybe you pop him on a draw, maybe you throw
Speaker 2: them a screen, maybe you let him blitz pick up.
Speaker 2: Maybe you know, there's things I think you could do
Speaker 2: with him and not make him the featured guy. But
Speaker 2: you know, they'll they'll hopefully figure all that out. I
Speaker 2: just didn't I liked what they tried to do in
Speaker 2: the first half of the creativity. I don't like the
Speaker 2: execution of it in the second half. And maybe the
Speaker 2: commitment that lacked a little bit of the commitment to
Speaker 2: doing it too. You know, maybe they needed more of that. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to we're gonna try this this series. We're
Speaker 2: gonna come out and see how many times we can
Speaker 2: run the ball, and if we're getting three yards a shot,
Speaker 2: we'll make this thing fourth and one and we'll, you know,
Speaker 2: or maybe we'll pop a run here. But they could
Speaker 2: have they could have done more with it. They could
Speaker 2: have done a lot more with this running game.
Speaker 6: I think in my perspective, you say, you know, Zeke
Speaker 6: probably only used on third down opportunities. However, I look
Speaker 6: at you know, Zeke versus Rico Daubtle and early down opportunities.
Speaker 6: I feel like they are similarly productive. I can't say
Speaker 6: that word. Just if I need five yards on first down,
Speaker 6: it'd be like, Okay, let's set up a manageable second
Speaker 6: and five. Which guy can get me? Give me those
Speaker 6: five yards?
Speaker 2: I thought maybe that Daddell could. I mean, Zeke looked
Speaker 2: good that when they handed him the ball. There was
Speaker 2: a there was a couple of times where you watch
Speaker 2: and you're thinking, okay, and I mentioned BB and and
Speaker 2: if they just get this block or they get this
Speaker 2: you know they can, it's going to be it's going
Speaker 2: to look better. And I'm just to me, I was
Speaker 2: like the I was sitting there thinking Dall's probably got
Speaker 2: more explosive to him, but he didn't play like he
Speaker 2: had more explosiveness to him. Yesterday. You know, the one
Speaker 2: guy that had the Vaughan had the one carry and
Speaker 2: they ran they ran a draw on that one inside
Speaker 2: hand and it was like he had four yards. But
Speaker 2: they've got it. They've got to do a better job
Speaker 2: of with BB and these guards and stuff handling the
Speaker 2: inside linebacker, those inside three. If they're going to want
Speaker 2: to run the ball better, and I think that's something
Speaker 2: they're missed out.
Speaker 6: On one thing I think was interesting about Yes, specifically
Speaker 6: in the Deuce Swawan case, is I think he earned
Speaker 6: a roster spot moving forward for at least the next
Speaker 6: few weeks because of what he did on special teams.
Speaker 6: His block, the block on the he had the first
Speaker 6: block turn touchdown, that was the big one. He sealed
Speaker 6: off and was able to create that big open hole.
Speaker 6: And then you see him as part of that escort
Speaker 6: leading down to charge for turpin on the sideline. That
Speaker 6: was huge, and I think that's going to end up
Speaker 6: at least solidifying his roster spot moving forward for a
Speaker 6: few games. How does that translate into him actually getting
Speaker 6: some carries on offense. I would have liked to see
Speaker 6: him get three touches. Yeah, but he only got the
Speaker 6: one for four yards, like you said, Brian, But I
Speaker 6: hope that manifests a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on that, because you're right. The first
Speaker 2: if the first block that needed to be made on
Speaker 2: the return, and it happened with the shortest guy, the
Speaker 2: smallest guy. He got the block. Jan Ye, Thomas got
Speaker 2: the block, and now we're now we're got an alley
Speaker 2: to run.
Speaker 9: The ball in.
Speaker 2: And I like I said, you worry about him? What
Speaker 2: all can he do? Can he block well enough? On
Speaker 2: specially Yeah, he got the key block that got the
Speaker 2: thing too into the alley, so you're able to score.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but he does need to get more touches.
Speaker 2: He really really does.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, the Cowboys had a Tide record three starters that
Speaker 4: were rookies yesterday with those two offensive linemen, BP Geiton
Speaker 4: and then Kayln Carson as well. Let's start, particularly with
Speaker 4: the offensive lineman and.
Speaker 2: Talk to me.
Speaker 4: I want to talk a little bit about strategically how
Speaker 4: the Cowboys used them, because I think all things being considered,
Speaker 4: I think they played well enough for their first starts
Speaker 4: against the defensive front that was as good.
Speaker 2: As that one.
Speaker 4: I think all the way around, when you look at it,
Speaker 4: I would say that that was a good start for them.
Speaker 4: It's it had its moments where it was kind of rough,
Speaker 4: but it was it was okay. One of the things
Speaker 4: I think they did strategically I thought was really good
Speaker 4: was they did move the pocket quite a bit and
Speaker 4: they would rotate everybody away from Garrett, which bought Dak
Speaker 4: more time to be able to move around and look
Speaker 4: for open guys. What's your assessment of how they used
Speaker 4: them and how they performed under those circumstances.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think from our vantage point in the press box,
Speaker 6: it couldn't quite see the line as much as maybe
Speaker 6: some other places. So I still do need to go
Speaker 6: back and look at it from an all twenty two perspective.
Speaker 6: But when I look at the Cooper BBK specifically, every
Speaker 6: time that he was popping up on my screen or
Speaker 6: in my eyes, he was looking good and he was
Speaker 6: getting after it. I agree with you, Brian as far
Speaker 6: as him being a little bit better in pass pro
Speaker 6: H got and be a little bit better and run protection.
Speaker 6: But I think for guiding he was certainly bending. Garrett
Speaker 6: was given and had given it to him a few
Speaker 6: times exactly.
Speaker 2: But I think he was in a revolving door a
Speaker 2: couple of times. Yeah, Yes, it turks you out, and
Speaker 2: he was caught. He was trying to get out. But
Speaker 2: that's the point. Yes, that's what I've seen Garrett do that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and you know the kids are rookie, and I'll let
Speaker 2: you finish your point there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the kids are rookie, and that's that's exactly that
Speaker 6: you did not need them to be all pros yesterday.
Speaker 6: You just needed them to provide a solid job, and
Speaker 6: I feel like they did that, both of them. I
Speaker 6: give BB the slightly higher grade. I just really love
Speaker 6: again what he did in past protection because I think
Speaker 6: the biggest problem that you saw with Tyler bish last year.
Speaker 6: And I'm a little bit higher on Tyler b be
Speaker 6: Oddis than others, but I do feel like they did
Speaker 6: need to make a change at center. The biggest problem
Speaker 6: that you saw with him is he created zero depth
Speaker 6: in that pocket. And Dak is so strong when he's
Speaker 6: able to step up, identify his second and third reads
Speaker 6: and be able to make that play. And there were
Speaker 6: times last year. There were games last year where he
Speaker 6: just couldn't do that. And I think if Cooper BB
Speaker 6: can give the depth to that pocket on a consistent basis,
Speaker 6: it's gonna allow Dak to be a lot more free.
Speaker 6: I mean, we talked about the experience that they have
Speaker 6: in the interior defensive line with guys like Dalvin Tomlinson,
Speaker 6: and he rocked, he roped to Dak on that very
Speaker 6: first play that was Zach Martin's fault. But Cooper BB,
Speaker 6: he looked like he was matching them bar for bar,
Speaker 6: so it was it was a really strong DA B
Speaker 6: for BB.
Speaker 2: Yeah I think that. Yeah, I would give the higher
Speaker 2: grade to BB. Like I say, but the run block
Speaker 2: and stuff. It if as long as you're run block
Speaker 2: and I'll be okay with that. But the thing too
Speaker 2: about the uh you know when you when you look
Speaker 2: it over, I wish I would have said this when
Speaker 2: we were talking about the going into the game. And
Speaker 2: I'm not taking anything away. The cow always went out
Speaker 2: there and got this victory yesterday. I think he caught
Speaker 2: Miles Garrett at a really good time. He looked like
Speaker 2: he was gassed in this game. There looked like times
Speaker 2: where he wasn't in when you will go back and
Speaker 2: you watch the tape and I got him this morning
Speaker 2: and did where they had him on the sidelines several
Speaker 2: times and you're kind of thinking, like, Okay, he's not
Speaker 2: rushing his heart, He's not, you know, he's the one
Speaker 2: time he got that sack at Yeah, he was. It
Speaker 2: was Miles Garrett, but it looked like to me he
Speaker 2: was kind of picking and choosing, and they've tried to
Speaker 2: move him around. And I thought that him. I thought Steel,
Speaker 2: I thought Geyton, I thought they had a good plan.
Speaker 2: I thought that chipping was helpful. The backs were helpful,
Speaker 2: you know, anytime that they could kind of take a shot,
Speaker 2: even if it was taken a shot to make him
Speaker 2: slow down a little bit. I thought they had a
Speaker 2: really really good plan for this guy and how to
Speaker 2: play him. But I think he also caught him maybe
Speaker 2: with conditioning not be at a peak level for him,
Speaker 2: which and I wish I would have said that like that.
Speaker 2: These guys, this is really their first A lot of
Speaker 2: them don't get to play, you know, in preseason. He
Speaker 2: probably worked against the Eagles and stuff like that. I'm
Speaker 2: sure had preseason games and they worked against somebody. But
Speaker 2: you could tell that he wasn't as you know, he
Speaker 2: wasn't as Miles Garrett as he's normally Miles Garrett. Maybe
Speaker 2: in week four, conditioning will be a lot better for
Speaker 2: him and the way he plays, you know, ironically, that's
Speaker 2: but they did a good job up front. The line
Speaker 2: did a good job. But I'm just saying, yeah, I
Speaker 2: think you might have caught him at the right time
Speaker 2: with some of his like being off.
Speaker 3: Well, we ever got the luck on our side, so
Speaker 3: good thing for us. This is just kind of the
Speaker 3: start that these players needed.
Speaker 4: I don't feel sorry yet.
Speaker 2: Nobody feel sorry. But I'm just saying, if you if
Speaker 2: you want to say, good scheme, good idea, good plan,
Speaker 2: good execution. But maybe you caught him at the right
Speaker 2: time too. That that's always you know, Hey, you said
Speaker 2: Cooks went off the field for an ivy, you know, Kendrick.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, people Dad going off. Yeah, that was tough.
Speaker 6: It wasn't like it was a hot day either. It
Speaker 6: was a beautiful day for football. It was just the
Speaker 6: matter of playing for sixty minutes, right.
Speaker 2: Well, Dallas in the first half might have worn him
Speaker 2: down too, I mean, with the situation, ran a lot
Speaker 2: of plays.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: I was just saying that it worked out perfectly, and
Speaker 3: I give them props because again, we got to remember
Speaker 3: these two guys, the rookies, it's very tough. It's a
Speaker 3: very different level when you're practicing, and even from practice
Speaker 3: to college, all those changes. When you hit a real
Speaker 3: football game, NFL level, it's very very different. The speed
Speaker 3: is so different, and when you're going up against the
Speaker 3: guy like Garrett, I mean, it's another let So these guys, again,
Speaker 3: I thought they did a really really good job. Didn't
Speaker 3: make a whole lot of mistakes, and you can only
Speaker 3: hope it can keep getting better from this point forward.
Speaker 3: So I really don't have any negative thing to say
Speaker 3: about either of them. And we shall see what happens next.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad you know it wasn't Week four like
Speaker 3: you're saying, Bryan.
Speaker 2: You think it's something that I'm just kind of grateful
Speaker 2: after watching the way how many times I was worried
Speaker 2: about him really wearing them out, and he didn't. He
Speaker 2: didn't wear them out, and that was something good. But
Speaker 2: give Steel credit to in this game, I thought, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought, very well.
Speaker 3: Another thing, no penalties, Really, I don't remember any penalty called.
Speaker 2: A lot on special teams.
Speaker 6: It was a lot on special teams. I'm talking about
Speaker 6: the defensive unit.
Speaker 4: Offense as you didn't have.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, really worried about the holding, Yeah, I was worried
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 3: For get the hen placement said, do you get into
Speaker 3: much in your head and not being us disciplined enough?
Speaker 3: So I think that's another how do you call it?
Speaker 6: Check check?
Speaker 3: Are you check marketing?
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Speaker 4: come back. Let's talk about a little bit on the defense.
Speaker 4: But really I want to get to what I thought
Speaker 4: was may have been the best unit for the Cowboys
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Speaker 4: Final segment of the break Lot from the SWBC Mortgage
Speaker 4: studios at the Star. We were rolling along. We're getting
Speaker 4: our win back, getting our voice back. It's been a
Speaker 4: good weekend. Let's finish this thing strong. All right, Let's
Speaker 4: talk about the defense and the special teams. The first
Speaker 4: thing I want to talk about the defense is really
Speaker 4: around them stopping them. And I think coming into this
Speaker 4: year and coming off of last year. There were two
Speaker 4: things I thought the Cowboys had to get better at.
Speaker 4: One stopping them run. One running the ball. We already
Speaker 4: talked about their run offense yesterday, but let's talk about
Speaker 4: the rush defense. The interesting part was, although when you
Speaker 4: look at it as a stat at the end of
Speaker 4: the game they allowed four point nine yards per rush.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a factor in the game. But I wouldn't
Speaker 4: say you necessarily.
Speaker 2: Stopped the run.
Speaker 4: But if you go ahead and look at the first half,
Speaker 4: actually played a lot better. And this is kind of
Speaker 4: the tail of two halves.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 4: In the first half they held them to only six
Speaker 4: carries for an average of three point eight yards per
Speaker 4: carry twenty three total yards. So what did you think
Speaker 4: overall about the run defense yesterday?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think overall, I think it started up front
Speaker 6: with the battle and the trenches, and this was I
Speaker 6: think this was another product of the Cleveland Browns having
Speaker 6: to play musical chairs on their offensive line figure out
Speaker 6: who was playing. I mean, they didn't know who was
Speaker 6: starting at right tackle until ninety minutes before kickoff. I
Speaker 6: think it was more so a product of that. But
Speaker 6: I don't want to take anything away from the defensive unit.
Speaker 6: Because I feel like they really started that game off well,
Speaker 6: especially when you have a quarterback like Deshaun Watson that
Speaker 6: you have to account for coming out of the backfield,
Speaker 6: and he was able to do it a few times
Speaker 6: on some scrambles, and I affected that into the run
Speaker 6: game too, because that's the second level's responsibility at the
Speaker 6: end of the day. But I liked what they did
Speaker 6: in the first half, and I think the bulk of
Speaker 6: these yards I would have to go back and look
Speaker 6: exactly how many came on that final drive where they
Speaker 6: were able to push down the field and then Jerome
Speaker 6: Ford finally pushed in the for the touchdown. But aside
Speaker 6: from that, I thought it was a strong start. It
Speaker 6: could it have been better, probably, but I thought it
Speaker 6: was a strong start. They'll have, excuse me, they'll have
Speaker 6: a couple of weeks here against Alvin Kamara and then
Speaker 6: Derrick Henry where they're gonna be tested. So nevertheless, we'll
Speaker 6: find out here in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think with the front seven, you know, with
Speaker 2: the rotation they had on the defensive line, it you know,
Speaker 2: you didn't have to have Joseph and Phillips play like
Speaker 2: massive amounts of snaps and they were able to rotate
Speaker 2: those guys through. I think Mazzie Smith actually had a
Speaker 2: pretty good game, and you know, we always worry about
Speaker 2: Mozzie initially. There were a couple of times where he
Speaker 2: got off the ball really really well. He was quick,
Speaker 2: was square, played down the line of scrim which was
Speaker 2: part of the play. It was part of clogging things up,
Speaker 2: grabbing guys, holding up guys. So that was a positive
Speaker 2: from that, and he didn't get washed, he didn't get turned.
Speaker 2: When you watch the end zone copy of the game,
Speaker 2: you could see everybody's jersey numbers playing the run game.
Speaker 2: They've got linebackers that can fill and that's a really
Speaker 2: good thing to have happened for you though, Kneelan playing
Speaker 2: the edge. You know, we've seen in the past that
Speaker 2: the right end for the Dallas Cowboys doesn't always play
Speaker 2: the run very well. They put Tank over on that
Speaker 2: side with Mike on the other to kind of say, Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe they're going to try and run a little bit
Speaker 2: at the rookie and see what happens there. But I
Speaker 2: love the rotation, I love the alignment. I love the
Speaker 2: way that these guys tackle, and I think that the
Speaker 2: linebackers will make this a good run defense, and it's
Speaker 2: as long as they're not getting gashed on the run,
Speaker 2: which I never felt like that they were even when
Speaker 2: the ball tried to The Browns are not a great
Speaker 2: outside running team. You know, they're a physical, run at
Speaker 2: you time kind of a team. Amber mentioned the physicality
Speaker 2: that they played with. I think on defense they showed
Speaker 2: that quite a bit with the way that they were
Speaker 2: able to play. The safeties were playing when they needed
Speaker 2: to be, the linebackers, the defensive linemen were square, they
Speaker 2: were playing off blocks. Guys weren't getting driven out of
Speaker 2: the hole or turned or washed. Overall, I thought it
Speaker 2: was really positive in that regard.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think they did a really really good job.
Speaker 3: But I'm kind of with Nick on this one, Like
Speaker 3: it's it's such a small sample to base like really
Speaker 3: give an opinion of how this is gonna look like
Speaker 3: long term. You know, they still I mean, it's crazy
Speaker 3: to me just looking at this again, thinking that both
Speaker 3: teams scores the same scored the same amount of touchdowns,
Speaker 3: one rushing, one passing. Obviously came down to Brandon Aubrey
Speaker 3: and them. The Browns not being able to get those
Speaker 3: other points. But I think with this game specifically, you
Speaker 3: see all the different things that the linebacker are able
Speaker 3: to do and how they're able to help in that
Speaker 3: regards when it comes to stopping the run. But am
Speaker 3: I sold on it? Am I sold on this run defense?
Speaker 3: Not yet, because I need to see it with another team.
Speaker 3: You saw the Browns often have so many different struggles
Speaker 3: even with the offensive line that they were dealing with
Speaker 3: that I just need a bigger simple size. But I mean,
Speaker 3: either way, they did a really nice job. It just
Speaker 3: still too early.
Speaker 2: To Yeah, I think Dallas's defense made them struggle. I
Speaker 2: don't think this was lack of talent. I think this
Speaker 2: was Dallas's front seven played really right right off the bat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: right off the bat. I really do. I think that
Speaker 2: you know, you could look at some of the runs
Speaker 2: that they had that that you know, with the Shawn
Speaker 2: Watson stuff like that. For the most part, Ford Ford
Speaker 2: didn't hurt them in this game. I don't think so,
Speaker 2: And so to me, I was encouraged by the way
Speaker 2: this team tackled. I didn't feel like that there were
Speaker 2: a lot of mistackles or you know, guys at a
Speaker 2: position if you play if you play square and you
Speaker 2: tackle well and you fill and you're you're in position.
Speaker 2: I don't care who's running the ball, You're you're you're
Speaker 2: you're going to make You're gonna have some stops. And
Speaker 2: you know, you mentioned the points that how many times
Speaker 2: did the Browns go for it on fourth down and
Speaker 2: didn't get it? Twice twice Dallas, And it was six
Speaker 2: points out of that, right because they you know, they
Speaker 2: they they didn't take advantage. They could have probably scored
Speaker 2: fourteen points they could have, but they didn't. So yeah,
Speaker 2: defense got you six points right there, just making stops
Speaker 2: on fourth down, you know. So I was I think
Speaker 2: that's all part of it, the run defense, the pass defense,
Speaker 2: just a great, great effort overall for that crew.
Speaker 6: You mentioned a tough, a good job of tackling. I
Speaker 6: will give a quick caveat to that in the sense
Speaker 6: that Deshaun Watson did run the ball five times for
Speaker 6: thirty nine yards. Yeah, you could probably point it probably
Speaker 6: three of those where they should have had them in
Speaker 6: the backfield.
Speaker 2: Negative play yeah, negative plays right yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, real quick, before we end the show,
Speaker 4: we got to talk about who I thought was at
Speaker 4: least in the running for Player of the Game, Brandon
Speaker 4: Aubrey is he is a weapon. He is a weapon.
Speaker 4: I mean you look at offensively, just look around the
Speaker 4: league at just the offensive weapons. This guy is a
Speaker 4: weapon because you can roll him out there, and they're
Speaker 4: getting to the point where they're getting really comfortable, get.
Speaker 2: To the sixty plus yards.
Speaker 4: They're like, hey, run him out there, let's do it.
Speaker 4: Yesterday he kicks. He made kicks a fifty seven, forty fifty,
Speaker 4: and forty six and made a sixty six yarder that
Speaker 4: they obviously end up negating because of the delay penalty.
Speaker 4: But I just look at that and I'm like, this
Speaker 4: guy can do pretty much anything you wanted to do.
Speaker 4: He after the game, they asked him, would you have
Speaker 4: wanted to try that seventy one yarder?
Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, sure, yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean also stopping, It's nothing like oh this is
Speaker 3: so easyest whatever, you know.
Speaker 2: I just I love what he's doing.
Speaker 4: But my question for you guys is are you at
Speaker 4: all concerned about how comfortable they are rolling him out
Speaker 4: there at those long field goals, because you do create
Speaker 4: some some different challenges and some risks for yourself if
Speaker 4: he should miss some of those.
Speaker 2: Rah the kick six is what you worry about. I've
Speaker 2: seen the Auburn Alabama game. We're all sudden now, you know,
Speaker 2: and and and the Browns even put a guy back
Speaker 2: there the second time around. Can I ask you guys
Speaker 2: a question real quick, because you were at the game.
Speaker 2: What happened with the clock management?
Speaker 4: They messed it up?
Speaker 2: Did Dallas mess it up?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: Not the way I understood it. The way I understood
Speaker 4: it was they were expecting to restart the clock, and
Speaker 4: the restart the reset the clock, and they did.
Speaker 6: There was a late substitution by Cleveland. Yeah, and under rule,
Speaker 6: they are supposed to be able to reset the.
Speaker 2: So it was that to put the guy deep. Is
Speaker 2: that what happened?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 6: It was it was a guy like it kind of
Speaker 6: in that second level, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, okay. Then Dallas got worked on that
Speaker 2: because to me, I mean, there was some question if
Speaker 2: you if you really want to, if you really wanted
Speaker 2: to kick that field goal, burn of time out right there,
Speaker 2: even if you feel like just make them have to
Speaker 2: make a call there. So yeah, but the seventy one
Speaker 2: yard er, I was sitting there like, don't do this. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing the only you know, always comes to my
Speaker 2: mind is that stupid Kansas City game. Remember we played
Speaker 2: here and they threw the hill right before half and
Speaker 2: it ran a screen and they just walk that thing in.
Speaker 2: I think that Chargers did the same damn thing one
Speaker 2: time right before half. I'm thinking, please, don't kick a
Speaker 2: seventy one yard field, going to have it a little short,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you've got offensive lineman
Speaker 2: trying to cover that distance to get to a guy
Speaker 2: coming back. Yeah, and so you.
Speaker 6: Know why I wouldn't be worried in that sense.
Speaker 2: Why is that on the field. Well, you know that's
Speaker 2: that's a good point. But the thing about it is,
Speaker 2: I think they're comfortable with him kicking these things because
Speaker 2: you know what, mainly kickers drive the ball. His get
Speaker 2: up quick. It's not he's not a driver. He is
Speaker 2: a it's got some elevation, so you're not worried about
Speaker 2: a block at the line of screen.
Speaker 6: I will say the Vegas sixty six yarder definitely got
Speaker 6: up quick. The one that he had here in Cleveland.
Speaker 6: He wanted to drive it into the wind a little bit,
Speaker 6: and so it.
Speaker 2: Came off, it came, it came a little lower came.
Speaker 6: A little lower. I think I to get a little
Speaker 6: lower for that seventy one yarder. Yeah, but now that's
Speaker 6: a problem.
Speaker 2: I felt like that every time he kicks, his ball's
Speaker 2: got a little elevation to it, so you're not worried
Speaker 2: about since you do try a sixty five yard field
Speaker 2: goal and hands go up and it's a dry ball
Speaker 2: and it's blocked, and now it's all kinds of chaos
Speaker 2: rolling around.
Speaker 3: I thought he said something interesting. Uh. Last night in
Speaker 3: the locker room, someone asked him if he has any
Speaker 3: saying these decisions whether or not to kick in certain situations.
Speaker 2: I would have thought that yes, but no.
Speaker 3: He said, he basically stands off to the side and
Speaker 3: gets himself ready and then anger fossil bones, he's over there,
Speaker 3: and then by McCarthy they kind of make the decisions
Speaker 3: whether yes or no, and then he just goes out
Speaker 3: there and does what he needs to do, which was
Speaker 3: what because you wouldn't mess.
Speaker 4: Well, I think that's a smart way to do it
Speaker 4: that I heard him say the same thing.
Speaker 3: It is, But I mean you would imagine if you're
Speaker 3: the kicker, you would have a saying.
Speaker 6: Like, hey, yes, he gives him the range.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, this is range. This his range. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's like watching that pull vaulter from
Speaker 2: Sweden and it's like every quarter breaks the world record
Speaker 2: by a quarter of an inch every time.
Speaker 4: I want to say he said something like it. He
Speaker 4: was asked this back seventy yards and I want to
Speaker 4: say he said it was around at the most he's
Speaker 4: ever kicked it in, just like in a practice situation,
Speaker 4: was like seventy something yards.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 4: But but again, that's that's without hands up, Like, there's
Speaker 4: a lot that goes into that. That's very different than
Speaker 4: what you would have to do on the field. You
Speaker 4: got a team coming at you.
Speaker 2: I'm just grateful that those three points that before half
Speaker 2: did not cost you. Yeah, you know, you get in
Speaker 2: a game and Alston, you got a weapon that's making
Speaker 2: six sixty seven yard field goals and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, those points are taking off the board, and
Speaker 2: now you're thinking, boy, if we had those three points,
Speaker 2: this might have been a different game, you know kind
Speaker 2: of thing. But hopefully they'll get that squared away, all right.
Speaker 6: Twenty one fantasy points for Brandon Aubrey.
Speaker 4: Look, and I drafted in the other league. I was
Speaker 4: trying to get him in our league because he is
Speaker 4: he's a weapon. I got him in there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, drafted like the seventh round, and everyone in the
Speaker 6: office was like.
Speaker 2: Whoa, I would not like? What did I say?
Speaker 4: I was like, if you wouldn't have got him right there?
Speaker 4: I was getting him when he got back to me
Speaker 4: because he's a weapon like that offensive that's offensive skill player.
Speaker 2: I used to the same thing when I was a
Speaker 2: draft room. I used to call my Yeah, I was
Speaker 2: gonna take that guy. Look what I'm doing now, I'm
Speaker 2: doing radio with you guys. Bad strategy. All right, apprecient
Speaker 2: you guys join us. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll do a big picture look at this team. Maybe
Speaker 4: look around the NFL from the NFC east of the
Speaker 4: game for you tomorrow. Okay, good, that's perfect.
Speaker 2: That's a Tuesday game for everybody. How about that. That
Speaker 2: sounds good.
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