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Speaker 1: It's a wild Card Wednesday, Tampa Bay Dallas coming up
Speaker 1: on Monday, a night football ww it is When or
Speaker 1: Go Home time. And today we are going to preview
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense versus the Tampa Bay offense. And one
Speaker 1: of those guys that plays quarterback you never forget the
Speaker 1: name of what was it again to Tom Thomas Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Thomas H. Brady? Yeah, that guy, that guy Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and company going up against Michael Parsons in that Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: Will preview that throughout the show. I say a stand back,
Speaker 1: Patrick Nose Walker. We've got Chris Beam how's everybody doing? Tablo? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Why is that time? Let's go? Time? You feel you
Speaker 1: feel like this has the energy of a winner, go
Speaker 1: home game just yet from a fan base standpoint, man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's what it is. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I feel I felt it on my way
Speaker 1: in here today kind of. I know, I'm retired, super retired,
Speaker 1: but like I started getting those those little playoff jitters again,
Speaker 1: a little tings like today's like you're first real practice day,
Speaker 1: Like today's jel, it's goal, It's time to roll, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like the preparation. Hopefully these guys
Speaker 1: have been studying like like crazy. I wholeheartedly believe that
Speaker 1: this coaching staff has instilled in them that what is
Speaker 1: required preparation wise for a game of this caliber. I mean,
Speaker 1: I totally agree. I hope that that's the case. But
Speaker 1: I just hope that the players have received that. I
Speaker 1: hope that the players have received that, because that is
Speaker 1: going to be what is the difference maker. I agree,
Speaker 1: And we were kind of talking about it right before
Speaker 1: we came on, Colin. We were saying, when you were
Speaker 1: saying that the energy around the building, it seems a
Speaker 1: bit quiet. I wouldn't even say around the building. That's
Speaker 1: not necessarily what I was implying. I'm mostly saying amongst
Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation right now. I think it's just subdued. And
Speaker 1: it may be because it's Monday and it's not a
Speaker 1: Sunday game. We've got an extra day to kind of
Speaker 1: buffer calm before the storm. Yeah, and listened sometimes, and
Speaker 1: we talked about it yesterday when we were talking about
Speaker 1: just over the course of your life, when you've taken
Speaker 1: some of your worst whoopings, would rather be on the
Speaker 1: athletic field or in, you know, the career field, whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, how did you respond? And just
Speaker 1: speaking solely for myself, that was always the calm before
Speaker 1: the storm. So like after I got my teeth knocked
Speaker 1: out in whatever fashion, and it might have been, I
Speaker 1: locked in and I didn't want to talk to anybody.
Speaker 1: I didn't want anybody talking to me. Just just leave
Speaker 1: me in my space so I can stay where I'm
Speaker 1: at in this anger, in this fury and this frustration,
Speaker 1: so that it can remain as as concentrated as possible,
Speaker 1: so that when I get back the next day or
Speaker 1: the next round of the next matchup full explosion, So
Speaker 1: that that's kind of what it feels like. It's bubbling
Speaker 1: right now. And honestly, let again, we will say it
Speaker 1: a million times, we did not want to see what
Speaker 1: we had to witness on Sunday. But I tell you what,
Speaker 1: if that's what had to happen to keep you know,
Speaker 1: the I'll say it this way. I love what Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones said on yesterday one or five point three of
Speaker 1: From the Fan. He said they were sobered up on
Speaker 1: Sunday in Washington. Cool. I like it. That's the energy
Speaker 1: I'm feeling. I'm feeling a lot of sobered you know, sobriety.
Speaker 1: As far as you're not going into this game against
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay high off of fifty point bomb that's dropped
Speaker 1: on the Eagles Week eighteen of last season. You're going
Speaker 1: in with embarrassment and humiliation and you can't possibly feel cocky. Now.
Speaker 1: The energy has to be, hey man, we got to
Speaker 1: get this done. What happened last week could happen this
Speaker 1: week if we don't get it together. So I'm here
Speaker 1: for that. It needs to be that type of energy
Speaker 1: because you need to look at that game that way.
Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons why it is subdued
Speaker 1: around Cowboys Nation right now is because it goes back
Speaker 1: to what you were talking about, where you're hoping that
Speaker 1: they show up and that it will be that up
Speaker 1: until that point. Absolutely. Yeah, there's like Patrick saying, to
Speaker 1: Patrick's point, earlier in the year, I mean earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, the signs have been there before that you
Speaker 1: can do it. You're just hoping that it does happen
Speaker 1: after what happened in Washington. So there's there's a frustration
Speaker 1: aspect to it. But I tend to agree with you
Speaker 1: because come Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you're gonna hear it ramp up,
Speaker 1: ramp up, ramp up, ramp up. Sunday you're gonna watch
Speaker 1: all these games and everybody's gonna be talking about, oh man,
Speaker 1: Monday night's coming around. That's gonna be a big game
Speaker 1: coming up. Anytime Tom Brady faces the Cowboys, it's a massive,
Speaker 1: massive deal. And with it being said that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: seven and oh against the Cowboys, Cowboys have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a chip on your shoulder. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: really go to that stuff. I mean, that's the reality. Right.
Speaker 1: You look at the analytics and you looked at the
Speaker 1: stat line, all those kind of things that are gonna
Speaker 1: favor TV twelve. I really look at the preparation stand point.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep coming back to a preparation No h,
Speaker 1: I'm just that this is you're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: mentally tough, and the mental aspect of the game is
Speaker 1: what really separates teams in the playoffs. Yeah, Like, like
Speaker 1: the preparation is like I can't even I can't even
Speaker 1: depict and explain to everybody, like how high it is.
Speaker 1: Like you're spending every moment trying to gain an edge, right.
Speaker 1: You remember last year when I was when I was
Speaker 1: watching film and trying to I was trying to find
Speaker 1: anything that's a tail, right, any little thing, right, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, maybe a little bit. Wow, you're
Speaker 1: not going to share with the class. I can't share
Speaker 1: it publicly, Yes, you share it publicly. Last year I
Speaker 1: did kind of. Um. Yeah, then we got the carpet pool.
Speaker 1: That's fair. Oh so there's there's always something that a
Speaker 1: team has done all year, all year long that's a tail.
Speaker 1: The mental aspect, the preparation aspect, is what's going to
Speaker 1: give you that advantage. You have to go identify those things.
Speaker 1: This is when your scouting department goes to work. This
Speaker 1: is when your coaches go to work. This is when
Speaker 1: you're able to communicate that over to your players to
Speaker 1: give them that extra edge, that half a step game.
Speaker 1: And then you have to also be mentally tough because
Speaker 1: of the standpoint. Teams are gonna come out doing something different.
Speaker 1: First quarter. Teams are gonna do something different. They're gonna
Speaker 1: yeah the first fifteen plus right, that first quarter is
Speaker 1: really when they're gonna try to hit you upside. Set
Speaker 1: the tone. That's where you set the tone, but also
Speaker 1: where you're also that's where all your curveballs come. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then what happens in the second quarter, mid second quarters?
Speaker 1: Now you start going back to what they've been doing
Speaker 1: all year long? What did they do for seventeen games?
Speaker 1: What did they do for seventeen games? Now ask me,
Speaker 1: y'all starts looking okay, Yeah, I was ready to weather
Speaker 1: the storm because I might get punched in the mouth early. Okay,
Speaker 1: eat on both sides, right, Cowboys Tampa Bay, They're both
Speaker 1: ready to get get those jabs. Right. But that's when
Speaker 1: you start looking at TV twelve and start saying, okay,
Speaker 1: This guy is dangerous because he knows how to weather
Speaker 1: those storms. This guy's dangerous because he knows that those
Speaker 1: things are gonna happen. And Okay, once the game settles in,
Speaker 1: now all my preparation, if DQ had anything that he's
Speaker 1: been doing all year long, then I could pick up on.
Speaker 1: Now I get to expose that. And on the flip side, right,
Speaker 1: killing Moore and same thing you know, going against going
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay. Okay, uh, they're gonna be They're gonna
Speaker 1: start really relying on. There are the things that they've
Speaker 1: been working on in practice, the film that the scouts
Speaker 1: have been picking up all those things. And this is
Speaker 1: what I love that aspect that it's a chess game.
Speaker 1: It's really a chess game. And that's why the turnovers
Speaker 1: it can't happen, period, happened period because especially when you're
Speaker 1: playing a quarterback of this caliber, most of the time
Speaker 1: he's not going to give you that opportunity to get
Speaker 1: that one up. So you just have to tighten things
Speaker 1: down and and really it all boils down to what
Speaker 1: you just said, and then wrap a big glaring lanyard
Speaker 1: around it, and it's Tom Brady. It's Tom Brady. It's
Speaker 1: Tom Brady a lanyard. You went with the lanyards? Do
Speaker 1: you tie things with lanyards? I can such just the thing.
Speaker 1: I thought it would just be a bow work roll
Speaker 1: everything with, you know, a bunge of code string, shoe string. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's your time? Time up? Hog time? And time up?
Speaker 1: Hog time and leave him there. It all boils down
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady. The Tampa Bay offense and team as
Speaker 1: a whole goals as Tom Brady goes. They're not even
Speaker 1: as as lowly as the NFC South has been this season.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers don't even win this division and get themselves
Speaker 1: in the playoffs if not for a couple of game
Speaker 1: winning drives from Tom Brady. All you ever have to
Speaker 1: do to to almost guarantee you lose the game is
Speaker 1: be close late in the game with Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: leave enough time for him to have the final possession.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about what makes playoff tom Brady
Speaker 1: different when we come back on the other side of
Speaker 1: the break. We're not taking the break right now, but
Speaker 1: in the second segment we will talk about it. I
Speaker 1: do want to get into news and notes, though, because
Speaker 1: a couple of guys, of course, coming back from injury
Speaker 1: this week. We mentioned it yesterday. Late and Vanderesh, Tyler Biadas,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins. Are they all going to be back out
Speaker 1: on the field today? Is that? What's the expectations? They'll
Speaker 1: all be on the field today, awesome, as well as
Speaker 1: Matt Farniac as well as the Ron Bland. We'll see
Speaker 1: in what capacity. Late Vanderesh has been a limited practice participant,
Speaker 1: he was all last week, so I would exp that
Speaker 1: he's going to ramp up the full on effective today
Speaker 1: and we'll see what the others look like. If Tyler
Speaker 1: Beadish is back on the field, I expect that he'd
Speaker 1: be in a limited capacity. I don't see him them
Speaker 1: throwing him back out in a full but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins. They have to activate him or I should say,
Speaker 1: designate him to return from i R first before he
Speaker 1: can return to the official practice field. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if that takes place today. That is the expectation. And
Speaker 1: McCarthy will speak here at eleven o'clock, so we'll see
Speaker 1: if he drops a tidbit on you know, kind of
Speaker 1: a new news item there saying that Hankins is going
Speaker 1: to be activated. I expect it to happen, and dron Bland.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said yesterday, no indications at any
Speaker 1: turn that the Cowboys are concerned with that chest injury.
Speaker 1: So he should be a full goal if I mean
Speaker 1: at best. At worst, I could see them making him
Speaker 1: limited just as a precautionary attandpoint because you still have
Speaker 1: several more days of practice and then Xavier Rhodes still
Speaker 1: looking like Xavier Rhodes is going to take the field
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. I don't see why they wouldn't put
Speaker 1: him on the field, elevate him. Yeah, yeah, make it happen.
Speaker 1: Make it happen, because if you think about it, this
Speaker 1: is the playoffs. You don't win this game. There is
Speaker 1: no next game. So if Xavier Rhodes doesn't participate in
Speaker 1: this matchup against the Buccaneers and you knuckle would lose
Speaker 1: this game, would you bring him in for Yeah? What
Speaker 1: is he even doing? I mean, is it would? It
Speaker 1: would be the conversation we had with t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: where having a veteran in that room is great because
Speaker 1: right now Trayvon Diggs in that room and he's in
Speaker 1: year three in the NFL. Sure if anybody in year
Speaker 1: three is qualified enough to be considered a veteran. It
Speaker 1: would probably be Traybon Diggs, but Xavier Rhodes has seen
Speaker 1: a lot, He's done a lot, so having him in
Speaker 1: the room helps. But yeah, you would like to have
Speaker 1: him as that piece, right. You didn't bring him in
Speaker 1: as a consultant only, and which is what if he
Speaker 1: was signed and then did not play in the playoff
Speaker 1: game that you know happened immediately after he was signed,
Speaker 1: then again, what would you bring him in for as
Speaker 1: a player? I mean you could have asked his advice
Speaker 1: and and paypaled him somewhere a payment for all that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, get him on the field, especially against TB twill.
Speaker 1: What do you think about what Rhodes could bring? Is
Speaker 1: he is he kind of a hidden piece right now
Speaker 1: for this Cowboys defense? Or is that just hoping? I
Speaker 1: don't think it's hidden. I think that he definitely asked
Speaker 1: him depth to you now, you know you go again
Speaker 1: to the Mike shot, you know and saying, you know,
Speaker 1: why was he out there type of deal all the
Speaker 1: way through the whole season. I mean, well he was.
Speaker 1: He was only out there like a week's right. I
Speaker 1: might know, no disrespect, but he adds value in the
Speaker 1: sense that he's seen a lot, and you do not,
Speaker 1: I repeat, you do not want to go into playoffs,
Speaker 1: especially against the Tampa that is fully loaded offensively aside
Speaker 1: from their center, right, they're fully loaded offensively, all their
Speaker 1: weapons on the outside with young corners is just in
Speaker 1: the most veteran of veteran quarterbacks dangerous. It's just not
Speaker 1: something that you want to do because you need somebody
Speaker 1: out there that's savvy enough, that's seen enough, that knows
Speaker 1: how to watch film, that knows how to pick up
Speaker 1: on indicators to communicate those, that knows how to bait him,
Speaker 1: that knows all the little intricacies in terms of coverages
Speaker 1: and leverage. And I'm i'm a I'm a I'm an
Speaker 1: outside shade him, but I really gonna work my way
Speaker 1: to the inside shade. Right, there's a lot of little
Speaker 1: different savvy things that that veteran corners do and know
Speaker 1: and know how to do. And he's had reps against
Speaker 1: dB twelve as well, So this is like, this is
Speaker 1: somebody hopefully that is in shape enough to be able
Speaker 1: to come in and make a contribution asap, because if
Speaker 1: he can, now you're you're ensuring that at least you're
Speaker 1: outsides or solid right, and then you throw dB and
Speaker 1: you throw you know, darn Bland in there. Now you
Speaker 1: have a solid three, right, you have a solid three.
Speaker 1: And then nay Sean walks up in there. I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope that he uses his physicality to his Evana.
Speaker 1: Have you seen them doing that a little bit more lately?
Speaker 1: Who na just in general pressing, no getting hands on it? No? Why?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Are they saved? It is just a
Speaker 1: a process, yes, an al Harris question. Because Al Harris
Speaker 1: was really good at it. Now, he played a lot
Speaker 1: off coverage. He was really good at shadowing himself. But
Speaker 1: he was quick enough to come out the breaks and
Speaker 1: he was it was knowledgeable enough to be able to
Speaker 1: break early based upon what he was seeing from the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks drop and what the receiver's depth in the situation
Speaker 1: or you know, a situation based upon down a distance.
Speaker 1: He was savvy enough to be able to break and
Speaker 1: make plays on things. These guys aren't there yet, right,
Speaker 1: let sever Trayvon. These guys were not there yet. Darron
Speaker 1: Blad is doing a great job of it. Based upon
Speaker 1: film study, He's able to acknowledge what the downer distance
Speaker 1: is what the situation is based upon. The formation, the
Speaker 1: splits right, the quarterbacks drop given his eyes. There's a
Speaker 1: whole lot that goes into being able to make a
Speaker 1: really good reactive play at the cornerback position, which is
Speaker 1: why it's good to have an xavier roads in there.
Speaker 1: But I think, and we mentioned it a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: as far as spacing goes, I think it just goes
Speaker 1: to trust that that that trust has to be built
Speaker 1: with Al Harris, that trust has to be built with
Speaker 1: Joe Witten, built with Dan Quinn, with these young guys
Speaker 1: such as right that say, hey, I have enough trust
Speaker 1: in you that I can have you press man and
Speaker 1: know that you can recover and not get smoked on
Speaker 1: a goal. It's worst case scenario, right, You're you're protecting
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario exactly, the worst exactly. The last
Speaker 1: thing that you want to do, right is simply come
Speaker 1: up there, so the press. Right. You're confident in the
Speaker 1: stature of your of your young bulls. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, if you swing and miss, oh two piece
Speaker 1: of a biscuit, and you know you and it is
Speaker 1: hard to recover from a two piece in the biscuit, right.
Speaker 1: So the goal is, I was wondering where you were
Speaker 1: going with that piece two piece in the busy. If
Speaker 1: you swing right, you have the last scammage. You swing
Speaker 1: and Mike Evan sent you with the UIE or Julio
Speaker 1: Jones hit you with the UIE, or God would hit
Speaker 1: you with the OUI. They're probably gonna be, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot engage, gonna hit you with the ouie. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be chasing those guys, right, So it's
Speaker 1: keeping keeping, keeping keeping. It's been, but don't break this.
Speaker 1: Keep this guy. These guys have done a great job
Speaker 1: defensively in terms of red zone defense for the most
Speaker 1: part this year. They've given up some yards as of late,
Speaker 1: but in terms of red zone defense, they do a
Speaker 1: good job. So you would much rather have them have
Speaker 1: a ten twelve, fourteen play drive that ends in the
Speaker 1: field goal. Versus come up there, press them and then
Speaker 1: they get one big shot over the top. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing when it comes to the Cowboys, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will have the ability to walk into this game
Speaker 1: feeling like this is mostly a one dimensional matchup. Now,
Speaker 1: typically that is fantastic because your goal going into a
Speaker 1: game is to make any offense one dimensional. What makes
Speaker 1: it a little bit dangerous is that it's Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: so nothing he hasn't seen or done before. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: but it still works in the Cowboys favorite they don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to no disrespect to Leonard Fournette, but they
Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to worry about the prowess of the
Speaker 1: Russian attack. When it comes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: they're not good at running the ball, and they know
Speaker 1: they're not, which is why they don't run the ball
Speaker 1: that often. I think they run the ball twenty two
Speaker 1: less than twenty three percent of the time on first
Speaker 1: What do they do in place of running? Holdo, I
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. My point is it this schematically
Speaker 1: speaking from a Dan Quinn aspect, and this is why
Speaker 1: I said it's all about hog time tom Brady, because
Speaker 1: if you hog tied Tom Brady, you just hog tied
Speaker 1: more than three quarters of the offensive production for that team.
Speaker 1: And now you're moving. You're demanding that Leonard Fournette and
Speaker 1: that rushing attack be effective and efficient. But they've not
Speaker 1: been able to do that over the course of eighteen
Speaker 1: seventeen games. I'm sorry they're thirty second in the league,
Speaker 1: and efficiency on yards per carry, thirty second in the league,
Speaker 1: in average yards rushing per game, the list goes on
Speaker 1: and on. They quite literally have the worst rushing attack
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL. And that's what should make Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans feel a little bit better because what's one of
Speaker 1: the what's been one of the achilles heels for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense this season more often than not, run defense. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: your run defense. Not only is it getting Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 1: back in all likelihood and getting the LV back in
Speaker 1: the middle of your play caller, one of the best
Speaker 1: players that you have on your defense to help upgrade
Speaker 1: or run defense, but you're getting that at a time
Speaker 1: where you're playing against an offense that doesn't run the
Speaker 1: ball well at all. So if these corners, to your
Speaker 1: point and took How's point, if these corners can figure
Speaker 1: it out against Tom Brady, and for me, figuring it
Speaker 1: out against Tom Brady doesn't mean trying to outsmarter because
Speaker 1: you won't. You can't not going to happen. But you
Speaker 1: can outsmart Mike Evans, you can outsmart Godwin, you can
Speaker 1: out smart Russell Gage. You can't a little less Julio
Speaker 1: Jones because he's been there so long. But my point is,
Speaker 1: if you can get these guys to decide wrong on
Speaker 1: smart routes, if you can knock them off of their
Speaker 1: time and at the line of scrimmage, if you can
Speaker 1: make them have a split second later on their breaks,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, then the ball that would
Speaker 1: have been a great ball from Tom Brady now becomes
Speaker 1: a questionable, questionable ball, not because of Brady, but because
Speaker 1: of what happened on the receiving end of that that
Speaker 1: might become an interception, that might become a pass break up.
Speaker 1: Get in the face of these these receivers, disrupt the
Speaker 1: passing game, force the game. Aim on the run. For
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Hankins lvee that run defense against the worst
Speaker 1: rushing attack in the league ball game. I like to
Speaker 1: agree with you. It sounds easy. I like to agree
Speaker 1: with you. Let me, let me the blueprint. But you
Speaker 1: got you gotta execute the blue blueprint, Jay z Oh, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so yes, I like what you did there. Okay, But
Speaker 1: the reality is Tampa Bay doesn't care about running the
Speaker 1: ball effectively. Right. If you're gonna give up the run,
Speaker 1: they'll give they'll they'll take it seventy seven yards per
Speaker 1: game to go to patrick two or thirty second in
Speaker 1: the country. Absolutely, But what are they leading last What
Speaker 1: are they leading the league than number two in the league?
Speaker 1: What are they leading the league? Passing yards? Passing seventy
Speaker 1: passing play percentage? They're leading and passing? They don't They
Speaker 1: don't want to run. They know they can't and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what they got. So how do they run
Speaker 1: up them to run? But how do they run the
Speaker 1: ball physically? No, they run screens. That's their running game.
Speaker 1: It's about some people. They're running game is and that's
Speaker 1: why stats don't tell the whole story. Right, So they're
Speaker 1: not doing traditional run. They have quasite runs. But to
Speaker 1: our point, what do our corners not do? For the
Speaker 1: most part, they don't what right? No? Or not even
Speaker 1: that they don't impress down, They don't press. Okay, so
Speaker 1: being at they don't press, we can go back to
Speaker 1: to Mulin last week. He's playing nine yards off and
Speaker 1: still gets gas on a goal route. Right, So we're
Speaker 1: talking about these guys are having six, seven, eight, nine
Speaker 1: yards of separation at the line at the snap of
Speaker 1: the ball. These guys hold on. I know that's the
Speaker 1: reality our deep and this is what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: I hope that Al Harris changes up what he's been
Speaker 1: doing against these guys. Because it's one thing to come
Speaker 1: up and simply just press and play man to man
Speaker 1: or press some play cover three or press some bail
Speaker 1: on four, whatever it might be right and get to
Speaker 1: your coverage. It's another thing when I'm lining up six
Speaker 1: yards away from you and I have a quarterback who
Speaker 1: literally will make eye contact with you and change the
Speaker 1: whole play. There's not gonna be any over over. There's
Speaker 1: not gonna be no alert alert trust me, I've I've
Speaker 1: been in those huddles with him. They will take a
Speaker 1: screenplay all day long. When I say a screen I'm
Speaker 1: talking about looking at Kyle giving him a little head nod,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, the two inside receivers are
Speaker 1: now going out and blocking somebody who's playing six yards
Speaker 1: off and I'll throw an easy, high percentage plass, super
Speaker 1: high ninety plus percent pass to somebody who can now
Speaker 1: catch it and run five yards. That's hold on. That's
Speaker 1: their running play. That's how they run the ball. And
Speaker 1: if you do press, what do they do, he's gonna
Speaker 1: toss it up, and he is because he's Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, they're gonna give him the PI
Speaker 1: call if you don't do everything right as a defender.
Speaker 1: So it puts you in a predicamenting Even on the
Speaker 1: traditional screenplays, they will faint right and I'll show this
Speaker 1: on film room. They will think. They will literally have
Speaker 1: the guy on the outside run him on the screen pattern.
Speaker 1: If it's open, he's taking it. If it's not open,
Speaker 1: the inside receivers that normally go out and block. If
Speaker 1: you're coming downhill aggressively as a corner, right, you want
Speaker 1: to come down running the screen. I'm coming down hill
Speaker 1: now they're taking in. They're running goals of the sideline.
Speaker 1: So it really puts you in a tough place. And
Speaker 1: that's why the veterans really come into it. Any decision
Speaker 1: that you make, you're really caught in between real quick,
Speaker 1: I want to go to break, real fast. I want
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Speaker 1: all right, Uh, Isaiah was talking about pressing corners, kind
Speaker 1: of bringing some pressure on the outside, disrupting the passing
Speaker 1: lanes for Tom Brady. I'm gonna throw a couple of
Speaker 1: stats out there to kind of back your point up here.
Speaker 1: Right now, the number one team in the NFL in
Speaker 1: terms of sex allowed per attempt, Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They get the ball out quick. They're
Speaker 1: only sacked two point nine percent of the time. Two
Speaker 1: point nine. Just for comparative purposes, I'm trying to find Dallas.
Speaker 1: You thought I was going to say something else, but
Speaker 1: that's not what it was. Dallas is fifth in the NFL,
Speaker 1: so pretty good, right. They don't get sacked a whole lot.
Speaker 1: That's kind of been the thing. I mean, recently that
Speaker 1: number's gone up a little bit, but four point nine,
Speaker 1: four point nine, so Tampa Bay is nearly half that,
Speaker 1: nearly half of the amount of time that even Dallas
Speaker 1: gets sacked. That's when Tampa Bay gets sacked. And also,
Speaker 1: not to mention, their interception rate is third in the
Speaker 1: NFL because it's only one point three percent of passes
Speaker 1: percent of dropbacks. They get out the ball quick and
Speaker 1: they do it efficiently. I'm pleading. I'm pleading with Al
Speaker 1: Harris because it trust me. I know this guy. I
Speaker 1: know TP twelve right, I've been in those hitles. I
Speaker 1: know the altar, I know the changes, the things that
Speaker 1: he's not even gonna say. But you better just know
Speaker 1: to make the change whenever, just the same, yeah, whenever,
Speaker 1: whenever there's a particular coverage out there, Please press. I
Speaker 1: will take I will take our chances at him throwing it.
Speaker 1: He throws a great deep ball, he throws a great
Speaker 1: back shoulder, all that kind of stuff. Please, man like,
Speaker 1: please press, because if you don't these twelve yard out routes,
Speaker 1: these five yard out routes, right, if you're playing off
Speaker 1: and inside or even out and off and outside, these
Speaker 1: are easy pass and catch like routes on air. If
Speaker 1: anybody gets to the stadium early and watches warm up
Speaker 1: and they see these guys throwing routes without any defenders,
Speaker 1: that's what it is to him. And that's a that's
Speaker 1: a run play. That's an effective run play to him.
Speaker 1: That's how he that's why he's played so long, that's
Speaker 1: how he conceptualizes this. If they're not gonna take it away,
Speaker 1: we throw this all day long. That's a first down.
Speaker 1: That's a first down. That's six yards. Now we're second
Speaker 1: in short, that's how he looks at it. So don't
Speaker 1: get caught up in the in the rushing stats. Do
Speaker 1: not get caught up in the rushing stats, because those
Speaker 1: to them are run plays. Right, So please get up
Speaker 1: and press it because when you get up and pressed,
Speaker 1: now you disrupt all that. Now you have to start
Speaker 1: going to to fade routes, right back shoulders. The boss
Speaker 1: gives you. You have just as much of an opportunity
Speaker 1: to make a play than the receiver does. And that
Speaker 1: requires that's gonna ask a lot, because I guess why.
Speaker 1: You're gonna give up someplace. Yeah, you're going to give
Speaker 1: up some place, but you take away their running game. Right,
Speaker 1: you have to pick your poison here. I said it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is going to have some big plays. He
Speaker 1: just is. Doesn't matter how you play it. You could
Speaker 1: press it, you could play it in his own it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. He's going to have some big plays. The
Speaker 1: question is can you minimize them and can you pick
Speaker 1: and choose where you want where and when you want
Speaker 1: the big play to occur. That's how you win the
Speaker 1: game against Tom Brady. But going back to what you
Speaker 1: were saying about the screen game, right for those that
Speaker 1: want to go back and watch film on the temporary Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: I started really diving into it yesterday as a means
Speaker 1: of setting up for this week's edition of Science Lab
Speaker 1: that drops in the morning. Shape my plug. That is
Speaker 1: an excellent point, and that's why it's that much more
Speaker 1: important that LV is back on the field. The large
Speaker 1: majority of the screen passes. As far as the running
Speaker 1: backs that are getting them out of the backfield, it's
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette. He has more than fifty receptions on the season.
Speaker 1: I like the matchup of a Leonard Fournette versus LV
Speaker 1: because Fournette, while he's a big body guy and he's strong,
Speaker 1: so as Lve. So it's not it's strength on strength.
Speaker 1: It's not speed versus strength. So if it was a
Speaker 1: speed guy getting those out of the backfield, such as
Speaker 1: a Dalvin Cook whom the Cowboys did well against, or
Speaker 1: someone like that Jonathan Taylor who has that speed, Fournette
Speaker 1: he's not slow, but he's not fast. So by the
Speaker 1: time he is able to get the balls. That's a
Speaker 1: perfect matchup. If you're talking LV being able to play
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline, a healthy LV might just be the
Speaker 1: reason you can walk away with the win in this game.
Speaker 1: Because an excellent point, and you're right, You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: I would be much more concerned though, if Laton vander
Speaker 1: esh wasn't going to be back on this field. So
Speaker 1: the fact that he is and he's not going against
Speaker 1: a speed back and Learnard Fournidde and go screens, then
Speaker 1: the thing is can he and I believe he can,
Speaker 1: he can beat Leonard Fournette to the spot? Can those
Speaker 1: dbs get off of those blocks? So so that's that's
Speaker 1: my thing because I obviously want LB's presence right, But
Speaker 1: the reality is, when I speak on screen game with
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, it doesn't come in the form
Speaker 1: of what most people think go to. It's not a
Speaker 1: true run, it's not a true running back screen. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about wide receiver screen. So when you think about
Speaker 1: the defensive backs that you guys want active for this game,
Speaker 1: guys that have kind of been swing guys up and down,
Speaker 1: who are the dbs that you absolutely just say, must
Speaker 1: be a part of this game. Treyvon and okay, who else?
Speaker 1: Probably Nasan Okay, So that's three. I'm just gonna throw
Speaker 1: Roads in there. I gotta see. That's who have it.
Speaker 1: I gotta have it. That's four. That's four dbs. That
Speaker 1: mean you need more? I mean, I don't. You're talking
Speaker 1: about guys that are about confidence about oh d b
Speaker 1: dB Yeah, even Curse, Wilson Hooker, Hooker, Yeah, Donald Donald's
Speaker 1: going to be I would love for his room. I
Speaker 1: will I would love for Israel mccuama to be in there.
Speaker 1: Done will have to be huge if you press. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Donald will have to be huge if you press. And
Speaker 1: that's what I was kind of getting at. There's some
Speaker 1: guys that have been swing guys up to this point
Speaker 1: that I need present for this game. But because of
Speaker 1: what their skill sets present and the diffic the complications
Speaker 1: that their skill sets present for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: do you think like a Marquise Bell could maybe play
Speaker 1: into that too. He's kind of a bigger guy. He's
Speaker 1: a bigger guy. He's a similar skill set as jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse. He's not as strong, but he might be
Speaker 1: quicker than jay Ron. I'm not sure this is the game.
Speaker 1: I want him in there. I want Okay, yeah, I want,
Speaker 1: I want Israel, I want um Uh Nashan, Duran Blan.
Speaker 1: Obviously I need him on God. When I need him
Speaker 1: on God, when I need him on Gauge, I need
Speaker 1: I need on both of those guys. I like Bill's potential,
Speaker 1: but because we haven't seen him get enough reps A
Speaker 1: green season, Yeah, Tom Brady, I just wanted. Yeah, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's just going to stare him down. But but you
Speaker 1: know what, I know what I do like about him.
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit you, Yes, And this is a team
Speaker 1: that you have to hit because you think about it.
Speaker 1: Veteran receivers, okay, veteran quarterback. You start hitting these guys,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, their mechanics go to crap. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: TV twelve, we know TB twelve. I can go all
Speaker 1: the way back to my playoff game with him, when
Speaker 1: I was there in New England. We got our bus
Speaker 1: keep because they freaking Baltimore Ravens were hitting the crap
Speaker 1: out of us. They were hitting the crap out of us.
Speaker 1: And when TB two, I've had three interceptions, couldn't recover
Speaker 1: three interceptions in Baltimore. Just ran the crap out of
Speaker 1: the ball with ray Rice, just just ran it right.
Speaker 1: So hit them right. And then when they do want
Speaker 1: to do the screenplays, guess what, come downhill and hit
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, come downhill, hit Julio. Hit these cats at
Speaker 1: the point where they're like, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run to play, but I don't want any part of
Speaker 1: the smoke for terms of crossing a lot of scrimmin
Speaker 1: But here was my point against as far as the
Speaker 1: screen is concerned, and I knew it was more than fifty,
Speaker 1: but I couldn't get the actual number. Now I have
Speaker 1: the actual number and as much higher than fifty. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette seventy three receptions targeted eighty three times. He is third.
Speaker 1: He has seventy three three receptions. Wow, so we're talking
Speaker 1: about screens receive number like two or three. Screen is
Speaker 1: primarily Leonard Fournette seventy three receptions, third most on the team,
Speaker 1: five hundred twenty three receiving yards, also third most on
Speaker 1: the team, averaging seven point two yards per reception. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette is the screenplay for Tom Brady that matchup of
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette versus LVEE. That's me all day long. That's
Speaker 1: where I'm at. Are you? But I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you two follow ups on that one. Leonard Fournette twenty
Speaker 1: one carries one twenty seven against the Cowboys on the ground,
Speaker 1: and that was without the screen game. Now you add
Speaker 1: the screen game into it. I feel like it makes
Speaker 1: him even more lethal in that regard. But one, you said,
Speaker 1: you're confident in Lvee, which I agree. On the screen
Speaker 1: LVEE has been there. Are you really that confident in
Speaker 1: his health because he's been out these last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna want to come up and hit somebody? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't see him have any hesitations there,
Speaker 1: But I would switch see I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's lacking the ability to take care of Fournette. But
Speaker 1: I would much rather if we had to play man, right,
Speaker 1: and they we're talking about assignments, I would much rather
Speaker 1: see Demon clark on on on Fournette. And as much
Speaker 1: as I am Demon, have a day one for Demon.
Speaker 1: He struggled these past couple of the last four. So
Speaker 1: it's it's LVEE or bust for me, And that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it has to be one hundred percent. L
Speaker 1: obviously rotate demaning there because he has a lot of value.
Speaker 1: He has to speed. But as far as NFL IQ
Speaker 1: and readiness goes, Lvee has it in spades. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then when you talk about what Fournette was able to
Speaker 1: do on the ground taking handoffs against the Cowboys, well,
Speaker 1: guess who wasn't here in Week one but is likely
Speaker 1: going to be back on Sunday, Jonathan Hankins. So it's
Speaker 1: it's not it's not the same defensive front that Fournette
Speaker 1: is going to face bid you know in the screenplay.
Speaker 1: I mean lv was here in week one, true enough,
Speaker 1: but if Lvee having now played the season he's played
Speaker 1: because coming into Week one everyone was hoping that Lvie
Speaker 1: could but based in the past couple of seasons, they're like, man,
Speaker 1: we don't know, and maybe there is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a question mark in his own mind. But now
Speaker 1: this version of lv is pro Bowl minded. This is
Speaker 1: I know what I can do. I'm going out here
Speaker 1: and I'm eating and talking to him in the locker room.
Speaker 1: This this the what what he has in his eyes.
Speaker 1: He is that guy looks dangerous. I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: That really is dangerous, because talking in the locker room
Speaker 1: are two different things. That dude, I hope you're right.
Speaker 1: I really I'm excited about both Jonathan Hankins and LV.
Speaker 1: But to what I'm trying to present to you, guys,
Speaker 1: this is going to be a sideline the sideline game.
Speaker 1: You don't think the wind comes in between the hash marks?
Speaker 1: I don't, which I think is a good thing because
Speaker 1: who's not been winning in the hash marks recently? If
Speaker 1: it's reduced to that, that's great that I'm saying, cause
Speaker 1: I'm saying that. Then Evans on a goal. Yeah, I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they're not going to get to those.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that their strategy, and from what I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe that their strategy is going to be sideline sideline.
Speaker 1: Get everybody running sideways, because what that you can't have
Speaker 1: a pass rush doing that. Every team that's done that
Speaker 1: against Dallas has been successful for the most part. Ye,
Speaker 1: So get them running sideways and then what then I'm
Speaker 1: coming up the middle, right, Well, they John Hankins right,
Speaker 1: most of the time, you kind of they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to eliminate him out the game. So now you're relying
Speaker 1: on your other defense alignment to have an impact, which
Speaker 1: they can, right, But this is not this especially primarily
Speaker 1: is not a Jonathan Hankins game. Well, it goes back
Speaker 1: to what they did against Dallas in Week one. It
Speaker 1: makes laws, Mica Lawrence. All those guys on the edge
Speaker 1: have to have a great game. But it's what they
Speaker 1: did in week one, nineteen to three. They did it
Speaker 1: by getting out to the edge. They did it by
Speaker 1: working down the field. Now that kind of gets neutralized
Speaker 1: when you get into the red zones. So what happened
Speaker 1: They stalled out in the red zone. They kicked four
Speaker 1: field goals. That's gonna be very similar. I think that's
Speaker 1: the one they're gonna do. So that's where you you
Speaker 1: have to run in between the tackles. That is when
Speaker 1: you get down inside the twenties and you're trying to
Speaker 1: work downfield. That's how they didn't have a ton of success,
Speaker 1: only had the one touchdown against Cowboys in week one.
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Speaker 1: let's talk about Tom Brady Thomas. You were teammates with
Speaker 1: him in New England and got to got to go
Speaker 1: through the playoffs with him. You also want to ring
Speaker 1: by going through tom Brady in the playoffs, by winning
Speaker 1: it with New York. What makes him different? Preparation, preparation,
Speaker 1: and it really just all boils on a preparation. I mean,
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Speaker 1: dude watches an fathomable amount of film. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: give us an idea. What would it look like he watches.
Speaker 1: He's gonna watch every game. Yeah, he's gonna watch every game,
Speaker 1: every Cowboys game, every Cowboys game, and he's gonna look
Speaker 1: for any kind of keys. He's gonna take all the analysts, work,
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Speaker 1: game plan for the Cowboys. Okay, whether it be things
Speaker 1: that dan Quinn likes to do in certain situations and
Speaker 1: down to distances, whether it be things that they can
Speaker 1: force Dallas into based upon formation or based upon motions.
Speaker 1: He's gonna break down and put all that film until
Speaker 1: one little, one little folder, and he's gonna call in
Speaker 1: his whole offense and he's gonna watch every single one
Speaker 1: of those plays with his offense, and he's gonna tell
Speaker 1: these guys when we do this, they're gonna do this,
Speaker 1: and this is what I expect you to do. This
Speaker 1: is where I want you to be. I don't care
Speaker 1: what our normal concept is. This is where how, this
Speaker 1: is how I want you to change the route. If
Speaker 1: they line up like this, I'm not even gonna look
Speaker 1: at you. If they line up like this, you change
Speaker 1: whatever we're doing to this, because this they're giving us,
Speaker 1: that play is every The communication and the preparation on
Speaker 1: that regard is is second to none. The second best
Speaker 1: player that I've been with to do that is Eli,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't even close in terms of how they were.
Speaker 1: And I mean, obviously Eli's won two super Bowls, right,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean just Tom Brady's just it's so
Speaker 1: he's so detail oriented and again, if there is a tell,
Speaker 1: he will find it. Wow. Yeah, it's he's kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he doesn't. I mean he He's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for him to walk away from the
Speaker 1: game because he's so passionate about it. It's like everything
Speaker 1: about it is competition. He doesn't want to walk away
Speaker 1: from a practice with incompletion. He doesn't want to walk
Speaker 1: away from a practice with with a bad rep, you know,
Speaker 1: or everybody at any kind of mental lapse. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, like you, everybody's gonna be so honed in
Speaker 1: and keyed in. Dan Quinn's gonna have to have some curveballs.
Speaker 1: He's obviously he's faced them before at a high level,
Speaker 1: obviously the Super Bowl. So these two are gonna be
Speaker 1: going head to head. This is not Byron Leftwich versus
Speaker 1: dan Quinn. This is dan Quinn versus Tom Brady. And
Speaker 1: dan Quinn needs his guys to execute his game plan.
Speaker 1: And Tom Brady is going to go back and look
Speaker 1: at that film against Atlanta, look at all the past
Speaker 1: few games that they've played Dallas, and he's gonna look
Speaker 1: and see what is what is the common denominator between
Speaker 1: all these things. We come out into three by one,
Speaker 1: what is dan Quinn like to do against me? We
Speaker 1: come into two by two? What does he like to
Speaker 1: do against me? This is a battle between Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and dan Quinn. Is he the best film watcher in
Speaker 1: the history of Absolutely you have it. Not even close
Speaker 1: in terms of guys that I played with, and I
Speaker 1: played with a lot of Hall of famers. I've been
Speaker 1: blessed to play with some really good guys. Not even close. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of scary. It's kind of scary.
Speaker 1: That's why you have to be on top of everything? Where? Okay,
Speaker 1: question film start one. I wonder if how would he's
Speaker 1: you know, fair against the damn Marinos Troy Aikmans. I
Speaker 1: can't speak to those guys. No, Yeah, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that's making me wonder, like, that's a really good question. Well,
Speaker 1: where does he stack up against the guy that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be going against on Monday watching film? As far
Speaker 1: as watching film, I mean Dak Prescott watch as I
Speaker 1: can't speak to Yeah, you've never been seat his preparation.
Speaker 1: I can look at the decision making and I can
Speaker 1: make the assumption that they're on two different you know today.
Speaker 1: It's a great question. Just makes me wonder in the
Speaker 1: annals of great tape grinders, who who's on the mount
Speaker 1: Rushmore Lewis and answer, we will probably ray Lewis, for sure.
Speaker 1: I can agree with it, ray Lewis, for sure. I
Speaker 1: mean you talk about somebody. I mean, that's why that
Speaker 1: battle was lost that game against them and Read and
Speaker 1: those guys just happened to play on the same dog team.
Speaker 1: I mean, when let me help you understand the details, Kay,
Speaker 1: ray Lewis, during the time that I was playing game
Speaker 1: they kicked our butts. Right, you talk about Ray Lewis
Speaker 1: versus Tom Brady. That's and read in the second rade
Speaker 1: awesome right, right, Sarah Goose Autumn casts. Right. These guys
Speaker 1: were paid, they were bray Lewis would have film sessions
Speaker 1: at his house. He would call the whole defense, order pizza,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Everybody, whole defense come over,
Speaker 1: were watching film in my theater, and they would look
Speaker 1: for anybody's foot being being cocked differently, pressure on the fingertips. Right,
Speaker 1: we're talking about any little tail. That's how detailed the
Speaker 1: playoff football is. R I'm looking at if I come
Speaker 1: up to the last scrimmage, I'm de Lawrence right, and
Speaker 1: your offensive tackle. I'm coming up to the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and you have and I can see the white
Speaker 1: on your fingers. I know that, I know that you're
Speaker 1: gonna that you're dropping back. I know that you're going
Speaker 1: into a pass set or if I can see there,
Speaker 1: I can see the blood sitting at your fingertips. I
Speaker 1: know you're coming downhill. Like That's how minu of details
Speaker 1: that you're paying attention to on every single play. You
Speaker 1: think we're allowed to ask that question? In locker room today.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have any outside of outside of what's
Speaker 1: in this building? Do you have any extra film study?
Speaker 1: Do you think we could ask that question? Go for it,
Speaker 1: we should. I don't know if there's any restriction on
Speaker 1: talking about you know what I asked, I would ask
Speaker 1: do you watch more film in the building? Our outside?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I'll ask that to a couple
Speaker 1: of guys today. I'll come back with you tomorrow on it.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know. But that's gonna do it here
Speaker 1: for us fair, but I want to I want to know,
Speaker 1: and the fans deserve to know as well. For Chris
Speaker 1: being Isaiah standback, Patrick No see walk around. Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: will preview the Cowboys offense versus that Tampa Bay defense
Speaker 1: tomorrow and give you more of the breakdown for the
Speaker 1: wild card matchup between the Cowboys and the Buccaneers. That's
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