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Speaker 1: the official Chip and Dip and yeah, yeah, they changed
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Speaker 1: this young lady? Very good? Oh, Harry white boy. But
Speaker 1: I am joined by the pride of Garfield High School,
Speaker 1: mister Isaiah standing back, And you know what, I have
Speaker 1: a problem with playing on Senior high school because they
Speaker 1: need to have you as their most notable alumnus. All right,
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Speaker 1: Rob p Island, My man, Rob p is in the building.
Speaker 1: What's up, fellas, how y'all doing. I can't compete with
Speaker 1: Rex burke head, but I appreciate it. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys have gone to school with some
Speaker 1: notable celebrities, and all this time that I've known you,
Speaker 1: which is what about a year and a half now,
Speaker 1: the one thing I would have would have told me
Speaker 1: if I was you that, hey, my high school, Quincy
Speaker 1: Jones is a notable alumnus. And Jimmy Hendrix. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's something for the people to know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come dog, Jimmy went to your high school. Freaking Jimmy Man,
Speaker 1: whoa I mean, come on, is't that amazing? Yes, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, what's up? Mcaelmore um maclamore, mac Lamore? He
Speaker 1: was Actually we're like in the same great I think
Speaker 1: he was a year ahead of me maybe, But Brandon Roy,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man, this guy's got some celebrities
Speaker 1: that go with this school of Nate Robinson, myself, Nate Robinson,
Speaker 1: and Aaron Brooks us to be the point of Garfie
Speaker 1: Houston Rockets. We were all on the same relay team
Speaker 1: when we're eight years old. We set a record down
Speaker 1: at University of Hoarding. That's a squad. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: were riding. Maybe that's a fast Garfield's fast. You're listening
Speaker 1: being Ohio, you're listening. Yeah, he doesn't want those problems, Danny.
Speaker 1: I've been fascists. I came out to womb okay. So
Speaker 1: that's that's you know, that's how we get it done.
Speaker 1: That's how we go get it done today. So you know,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's our our, our guy. He left us. He
Speaker 1: left us today left. I mean he has he has
Speaker 1: bigger fish to fry is sometimes you know he left,
Speaker 1: but I just know he left us. The phone rings
Speaker 1: and Kyle had to answer it. But he will be
Speaker 1: back on Monday. So I'm here today and tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: you know what we're gonna do. We're gonna rock out today, guys.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna finish that line. Don't finish that thank you,
Speaker 1: So you know it. Just you know, I'm a bright ware.
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I know, and I always go cut
Speaker 1: you off. Right's gonna hit the button for you. But Pete,
Speaker 1: what's in the news, Pete, We're gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: We want to know what's going on. There's been a
Speaker 1: kicking competition. You need to tell us about who our
Speaker 1: new kicker is gonna be. Man Lirium Hira lah who Oh.
Speaker 1: I remember him twice twice, signed him at the end
Speaker 1: of training camp, signed him for Week two right after
Speaker 1: Greg's Airline missed two field goals and an extra point
Speaker 1: against the Bucks, and then zir Line righted things and
Speaker 1: then they release Hira lah Who. And now we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Greg's Airline. I think based on history
Speaker 1: here this season, with guys that have dealt with COVID,
Speaker 1: it's highly unlikely that he'll play. And they've got Hira
Speaker 1: lah Who on the practice squad. Like you said, he
Speaker 1: after a competition with one Brett Maher Cowboys former kickers
Speaker 1: for a year and a half. So my question is
Speaker 1: Haullahu has no NFL experience and he was he beat
Speaker 1: out Maher, who has plenty of NFL experience. How did that?
Speaker 1: I mean, was it even closer? What did Mahur do
Speaker 1: or not do? I heard both guys kicked, well, they
Speaker 1: kicked through their goal polls. They did over the mountains,
Speaker 1: over the mountains. But you know, I think there's more
Speaker 1: history lately with the new special teams coordinator John Fossil
Speaker 1: than there was in eighteen nineteen when Maher was here,
Speaker 1: and mahar made some kicks for this team, had a
Speaker 1: game winner against one team called the Atlanta Falcons years ago,
Speaker 1: but obviously his time here did not end well. And
Speaker 1: look when they signed Maher in twenty eighteen, it was
Speaker 1: kind of a similar situation. CFL guy played a lot
Speaker 1: of football, just not in the NFL, and that's kind
Speaker 1: of high lah whose stories too, So obviously they have
Speaker 1: confidence in him to have signed him now for a
Speaker 1: third time, and I think the odds are pretty good
Speaker 1: that he'll be activated this weekend. But it sucks. It
Speaker 1: sucks simply because of the fact that now you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like any other position where you can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: somebody else, just come in. This guy would be out
Speaker 1: this week possibly now because it's your kicker, somebody most
Speaker 1: likely is gonna have to be let go. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the Secky situation about this. Somebody on your roster is
Speaker 1: going to have to get let go. So now you're
Speaker 1: going down and saying I'm wrong. Now you do a
Speaker 1: straight elevation this time you can just practice squad so
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting the rules change. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: great rule. I mean, especially with COVID. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a this is that situation where a guy is
Speaker 1: most likely going on to COVID, he is on COVID
Speaker 1: reserve zeroline, and you can just elevates the only positive
Speaker 1: thing to come out of COVID. Yea, Because in the
Speaker 1: past you would have to let one of your fifty
Speaker 1: three go or now fifty five whatever it is, okay,
Speaker 1: and let one of your guys go and hope that
Speaker 1: he clears waivers and that you can get him back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now you don't have to. Yeah, it's a good rule.
Speaker 1: Now he's also going to be handling kickoff duties as well. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: Howard la who is going to have to boot that
Speaker 1: thing out of the end zone this week? Well let's see,
Speaker 1: Well he can't shank on one and get it to
Speaker 1: call Darrel Patterson that we know is known to take
Speaker 1: it to the house because he don't play take it
Speaker 1: to the house. Would you would you rather kick it
Speaker 1: out of bounds or kick it to huh kind of
Speaker 1: angle it? Yeah, I mean you're gonna try to stop
Speaker 1: him down in the corner. That's the hardest thing for
Speaker 1: a kick returner. Yeah, I know one um hardest thing
Speaker 1: is coming out of the corner on a Kioff return.
Speaker 1: But if if he had to mess up, would you
Speaker 1: rather him kick it inside, you know, before the goal line, right,
Speaker 1: keep it in play or kick it out of bounds?
Speaker 1: I mean Patterson will he will take it out four
Speaker 1: yards deep. That's yes, I mean he don't it don't
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter, That's what I'm saying. Kick that thing
Speaker 1: to the to the chili to standing up on the
Speaker 1: little thing. If you had to pick though, if you
Speaker 1: if you didn't know, I'm gonna angle it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: angle it, you know, try and get an angle on
Speaker 1: him and hopefully pin him down. I mean that's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a dangerous guy. And you know if
Speaker 1: you you go to sleep on one of those kickoff
Speaker 1: returns kickoff return team, that he will take it to
Speaker 1: the house on you. Any other news injury news, practice news,
Speaker 1: anything coming out from yesterday. There were six guys who
Speaker 1: did not practice yesterday, most notably Tyrant Smith with the
Speaker 1: ankle and I'm blanking on a Cedric Wilson with a
Speaker 1: shoulder injury. Did not practice, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in pads. This is the day where
Speaker 1: you really kind of gauge where guys are at. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup's going to be activated. I'm pretty confident of that
Speaker 1: this week and h and then you had a couple
Speaker 1: of guys who were sick non COVID Corey Clement, I'm
Speaker 1: blanking on CJ. Goodwin, and as a precaution, it's not
Speaker 1: close contact. Otherwise they'd be on reserve COVID, but just
Speaker 1: out of out of precaution with Greg's urline on reserve COVID.
Speaker 1: They held out Brian Anger and Jake McQuaid yesterday long
Speaker 1: snapper and punter. And what's the mindset owned that and
Speaker 1: holding these If there was no close contact, why was
Speaker 1: it just an a total abundance of caution by the
Speaker 1: medical staff and the training staff. That's what I was told,
Speaker 1: Because it's just being just being careful, because I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, when Mike McCarthy spoke to this yesterday, not
Speaker 1: that specifically, but when a guy tests positive, you know
Speaker 1: you're just going to be cautious test everybody, and you
Speaker 1: kind of, I mean, you kind of hold your breath
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. Make sure you know nobody
Speaker 1: else lands on the list. I want to take out
Speaker 1: all of your specialty guys. That would be a nightmare
Speaker 1: heading into this game. But guys, let's get on get
Speaker 1: this on the road. Man. We know that Thursdays are
Speaker 1: always for offense, Cowboys offense versus the defense. And last
Speaker 1: week our offense had a stinker of a game, and
Speaker 1: you talk about it. As far as the numbers are
Speaker 1: concerned with, Dak hadn't seen numbers that low since his
Speaker 1: rookie season QBR completions. However, he still was able to
Speaker 1: throw two touchdowns and right now he's still in a streak.
Speaker 1: I think it's five games so far that he has
Speaker 1: double multiple touchdowns, So he's on a bit of a streak.
Speaker 1: People call that empty calories. But Pee, I'll start with you.
Speaker 1: How do you get back in the rhythm because obviously
Speaker 1: he wasn't last week. I think it starts. I think
Speaker 1: it starts with him because I think he is such
Speaker 1: a motivated guy. It wouldn't shock he got a question
Speaker 1: about it in the post game. It wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: at all. He's heard about this blueprint stuff and I
Speaker 1: know we're gonna get into that later. I just think
Speaker 1: he's such a self motivated guy and he didn't want
Speaker 1: to blame his performance on the calf and all that.
Speaker 1: But you can't convince me that Russ did not factor
Speaker 1: in a little bit into that that performance, along with
Speaker 1: what Denver did, give him credit. Man, they had a
Speaker 1: great game plan, Vic Fangio told us all about it,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they executed it well. But I
Speaker 1: just think his own his own internal clock, like he's
Speaker 1: he's gonna come out ready. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 1: see a repeat of this. Isaiah Monday, when you came in.
Speaker 1: The one thing that that was that I noted, you
Speaker 1: said was Dak played hurt and you could tell on
Speaker 1: some of his throws. Do you still after watching the tape,
Speaker 1: do you still believe that? Do you believe that it
Speaker 1: was Russ? Uh? Like he said, yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if he if he played hurt, I just think that mentally,
Speaker 1: I'm meant to mechanically he was. He was not sound,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's because of the calf.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's because of the rust. But
Speaker 1: either whatever the result where whatever the reason, was. He
Speaker 1: did not come prepared to play physically, And you know,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that is just him being
Speaker 1: intentional about, you know, thinking about the things that as
Speaker 1: a quarter as a veteran quarterback, you don't have to
Speaker 1: normally think about my drop, how I set on my
Speaker 1: back leg, how I transfer my weight, all those things
Speaker 1: that just come naturally because you had a gazillion reps
Speaker 1: at him. Now when you have been out for a
Speaker 1: little bit, now that if you actually had a you know,
Speaker 1: care for a calf that affects your throwing emotion, Now
Speaker 1: those things have to become prominent again in you and
Speaker 1: your thinking. All right, now you have to go back
Speaker 1: through those steps, drop, sit on the back leg, drop
Speaker 1: your hips, transfer the weight, all those things, get my
Speaker 1: elbow up. All those kind of things have to come
Speaker 1: back into the fold until you get back on the
Speaker 1: bandwagon again. And I just think that he probably just
Speaker 1: thought he could just go back out there and just
Speaker 1: go back to throwing again with life bullets coming at you.
Speaker 1: And we saw the result of that. He was inaccurate,
Speaker 1: balls were bad, velocity wasn't there. It just it just
Speaker 1: wasn't a good showing. And on the same on the
Speaker 1: same thing in terms of when receivers are trying to
Speaker 1: catch the ball, no excuse wants the ball touch your hands.
Speaker 1: We know the rule. But when when that velocity is off,
Speaker 1: When that velocity is off, it's a little bit when
Speaker 1: the when the ball location is not where you expected
Speaker 1: to be. Because of how your relationship is that you
Speaker 1: have with your quarterback, those things affect you as well,
Speaker 1: even though they hit your hands, even though it hit
Speaker 1: you in the chest, if the ball's coming out a
Speaker 1: little bit hotter, guess what your timing's off. All that
Speaker 1: stuff is as proprioception. All that stuff is depth, perception.
Speaker 1: All those things play a factor into the past and
Speaker 1: the reception of making completions. It's a great breakdown from
Speaker 1: a former quarterback. I mean, well, how do you come
Speaker 1: behind that? But look true? But absolutely And the one
Speaker 1: thing that I want to point out was the timing.
Speaker 1: You talk about the timing. That's what I thought more
Speaker 1: than anything, that the timing was off. The first time
Speaker 1: that I seen dak hesitate on the throw, not that
Speaker 1: it wasn't there, it just seemed like he was second
Speaker 1: guessing himself. Did you see the same thing? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1: I did, And I think you saw saw that affect
Speaker 1: his delivery as well. And again, these are all things
Speaker 1: that he can shure up. That's all stuff that he'll
Speaker 1: go back and watch the film. They can say blueprint,
Speaker 1: they can say, you know, the d coordinator did a
Speaker 1: great job. He missed opportunities, and there was nothing that
Speaker 1: if he would have hit on those opportunities, you know
Speaker 1: that defensive coordinate wouldn't seen up here talking about how
Speaker 1: about how great of a job he did. The reality
Speaker 1: is we threw the ball bad. We dropped a lot
Speaker 1: of balls, and we missed touchdown throws. That's the facts.
Speaker 1: And you do have to give a little bit of
Speaker 1: credit to Denver, maybe more than a little bit, just
Speaker 1: because of the way they play. I meant there were
Speaker 1: there were opportunities, like Isaiah said, but for a lot
Speaker 1: of that game, that was some tight man covers that
Speaker 1: they're in and guys weren't running as free as we've
Speaker 1: seen in other games where it's that whole pick your
Speaker 1: poison thing and maybe you know, teams playing more zone
Speaker 1: and trying not to give up the big play and
Speaker 1: Dalton Shultz is killing you underneath. There weren't any of
Speaker 1: that in this game. Yeah, so talking about pick you poison,
Speaker 1: and we get a little bit of our poison back
Speaker 1: this week. Talk about a guy that's been dealing with
Speaker 1: a calf injury, Michael Gallop. Michael Gallop is back on
Speaker 1: the field, and I always, you know, I hesitate because
Speaker 1: Cechil Wilson plays so well in his absence. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you think the effect of having Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: back in this offense is going to be for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys this week? Jerry said it on Tuesday. Deep threat.
Speaker 1: He's he's probably their best deep threat on the team.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of reminded of one of his other
Speaker 1: good skills in this last game where there was a
Speaker 1: lot of contested balls. He's a great guy just to
Speaker 1: go up and get it. I mean, he's a great
Speaker 1: contested ball catcher. So I think those two things stand out.
Speaker 1: And you know, Ceedee Lamb talked about yesterday. He's like,
Speaker 1: if if y'all don't know how good he is, you're
Speaker 1: all about to see And I think fans know, but
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a while since he's been out there,
Speaker 1: so he is a difference maker on his offense. And
Speaker 1: I have been I know I've been missing him, and
Speaker 1: I know that the Dallas Cowboys have been missing him
Speaker 1: as well. He's he takes a lot of pressure off
Speaker 1: of Coop. Coop's really good. He's really good. We know
Speaker 1: that he's one of the best in the league. And
Speaker 1: he's a dog. He plays through injury, he plays through
Speaker 1: all that stuff. He has a heart of a lion.
Speaker 1: But he needs it. He needs his comrade, he needs
Speaker 1: his buddy, he needs he needs his parting his right hip.
Speaker 1: And that's what Gallup is as well as Wilson's been playing,
Speaker 1: as well as Noah Brown has been playing. These guys
Speaker 1: have done their job in terms of fulfilling their roles
Speaker 1: and by stepping up the next man up. They've done
Speaker 1: a great job of that and that's why they're on
Speaker 1: this roster. However, they're not Gallup. And Gallup provides you
Speaker 1: not only your deep threat, okay, but he takes Guess
Speaker 1: what happens when he's running down the field. That safety
Speaker 1: can't sit there and key on Coop. Now that safety
Speaker 1: can't sit up there and have his eyes back there
Speaker 1: on Sholts in terms of what he's doing. I gotta
Speaker 1: get out of there, right, I gotta get gone because
Speaker 1: I have to respect this dude. Not only can't he run,
Speaker 1: he can catch. His one thing just to have a
Speaker 1: fast gout on your team. There's a bunch plenty of
Speaker 1: specialists that can run fast, right, This duke can run,
Speaker 1: he can catch, he can catch the short route, he
Speaker 1: can create separation. He's shifty. He's a heck of a
Speaker 1: number two. I mean, we talked about it coming into
Speaker 1: the season. Is he a one B? Right? He's not Coop, right,
Speaker 1: but we talked about his abilities and hey, do we
Speaker 1: are we gonna be able to retain him going into
Speaker 1: next year? All those conversations were taking place, and then ah,
Speaker 1: he got injured. What have you seen from the wide
Speaker 1: receiver group in his absence that you can continue to
Speaker 1: build on. I mean, obviously with a guy going out
Speaker 1: and you talk about his ability to take the top
Speaker 1: off a defense, but also you saw Coop running those
Speaker 1: deep routes. You also saw CD running those deep routes.
Speaker 1: Are those things that you want to continue to keep
Speaker 1: in your offense because obviously you saw a guy step
Speaker 1: up in his absence. I think more than anything you
Speaker 1: show you know there, I don't think there's anything that
Speaker 1: was proven to our coach and staff that these players
Speaker 1: show them. These guys know what these guys are all
Speaker 1: capable of, all the way from Noah Brown all the
Speaker 1: way up to Coop Right, you know what these dudes
Speaker 1: are capable of. The only person we don't know still
Speaker 1: a semi right and he's still around. But in terms
Speaker 1: of of of Gallup, you know, he he What he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bring is the ability to do
Speaker 1: everything and take all those things off those guys played.
Speaker 1: When those guys step on the field, now, the opposing teams,
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinators know exactly that everybody out there is
Speaker 1: a thread. When before you uhould just look at and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I know Coop's a thread, I know Gallup's a threat,
Speaker 1: and Cedric we know he'll come in and do this. Oh,
Speaker 1: when Noah brands in the game, he's blocking. Not the
Speaker 1: case anymore. Now, when those guys step on the field,
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator has to say, we gotta respect all
Speaker 1: these guys because they've shown it. Yeah, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see because you know, with Vic Vangio last
Speaker 1: week kind of pounding his chest about being able to
Speaker 1: stay in man, I wonder, I wonder will Atlanta. Take
Speaker 1: the same approach coming into this game knowing that we've
Speaker 1: got a few of our weapons back this weekend. Look,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some mismatches on that front line, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it coming back after the break.
Speaker 1: But guys, we got a lot to talk about because
Speaker 1: we have may have some mismatches in this game coming
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Speaker 1: breaking down the Dallas offense versus the Atlanta Hawks defense.
Speaker 1: Did I say hawks? I said hawks with my whole chest.
Speaker 1: I meant falcons. It's a bird. It's a bird to hawks,
Speaker 1: Falcon's pigeons. That's a Falcon's defense. Yeah. I wouldn't gonna
Speaker 1: get out of this era free. But when you, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you've already had an opportunity to dissect the tape
Speaker 1: on the game that previously and just some of the
Speaker 1: mismatches coming up versus our offense. What did you see
Speaker 1: that Atlanta has or what threat do they pose to
Speaker 1: our offense. Be honest with you. I feel better. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a bad comparison, Jesus, I feel better about this
Speaker 1: defense and I did about Denver's defense. Uh, personnel wise,
Speaker 1: I know asked that's a bad comparison. I know, cb um,
Speaker 1: but I'm not These guys don't present a problem personnel wise.
Speaker 1: Now what they do as a scheme against us, we
Speaker 1: don't know, Um, person nail wise, we should handle these
Speaker 1: guys um relatively well. I'll say that they do have
Speaker 1: They still have Jared on you know, on a d line. Um,
Speaker 1: He's he's a guy that you definitely have to respect.
Speaker 1: Dion Jones somebody that you have to respect. Um aj Terrell.
Speaker 1: He's he's been actually pretty dug on good in terms
Speaker 1: of defending um and not allowing guys to really get
Speaker 1: completions against him. But we got our We can have
Speaker 1: our freaking guys back on the outside. I mean we
Speaker 1: everybody's back except for a tiring right herhole offense is there,
Speaker 1: So see about tiring this week, didn't practice yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they're preparing to be without him. Maybe he
Speaker 1: can get back in the next week or two. If not,
Speaker 1: you know, if not this week. You are not here.
Speaker 1: When I said versus the Atlanta Hawks defense, I didn't
Speaker 1: say Falcons Wow, well Trey young player, but just talking
Speaker 1: about the maybe the mismatches and one of the ones
Speaker 1: that I see Grady Jared's six foot, three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds and as Kyle always says, that the trash
Speaker 1: can full of dirt. Uh, he's a guy that you're
Speaker 1: probably gonna see in the middle of your of your
Speaker 1: of your your the defense there in the a gap.
Speaker 1: What thread do you think he's gonna pose against Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: And obviously Tyler Beatis he's a problem, he's a problem.
Speaker 1: I mean Isaiah mentioned Jarrett and Dion Jones is a
Speaker 1: good linebacker and a j Terrell is He's done a
Speaker 1: great job in coverage, and so I think those three
Speaker 1: guys you have to key on. And like you said,
Speaker 1: I mean, they've they've run into some guys in the
Speaker 1: interior this season that have been a problem for their
Speaker 1: their young guys in the middle on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: So I think that's something to watch. But they've had
Speaker 1: problems stopping the run and they've had problems generating pressure
Speaker 1: this season. So I'm with Isaiah. I don't think personnel wise,
Speaker 1: this is on paper as tough tough of a matchup
Speaker 1: as Denver was. And I don't you know, maybe we
Speaker 1: didn't given Denver enough credit for what they can do,
Speaker 1: even schematically, even without von Miller last week. They're they're
Speaker 1: a good defense and the Falcons have had a little
Speaker 1: bit of problems there. And I think on the flip
Speaker 1: side too, if the Cowboys defense can stop the run
Speaker 1: better than they did last week, that will help too.
Speaker 1: You know, Atlanta is not a team that runs it
Speaker 1: a lot. They don't run it with a lot of success,
Speaker 1: and that was a big problem for the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: because they didn't get on the field that much on
Speaker 1: top of the fact that they weren't able to save
Speaker 1: their own drives. So I think it kind of all
Speaker 1: this team is very complimentary. They need all two three
Speaker 1: phases to work to be successful, and they didn't get
Speaker 1: that complimentary game last Sunday. Now, Deon Jones, the linebacker.
Speaker 1: Dean Jones is from LSUE. I think is a fifth
Speaker 1: year veteran, is someone that I'll when just keen watching
Speaker 1: his game. I think his matchup with Ezekiel Elliott is
Speaker 1: going to be key. You talk about where they are
Speaker 1: as far as their run defense, I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy that's gonna be key, and on him specifically,
Speaker 1: just talk about him at the linebacker their linebacker play
Speaker 1: versus our running game. Yeah, I mean, hopefully our offensive
Speaker 1: line works up to the second level and we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about these guys running free. That's the
Speaker 1: thing about linebackers. If their defensive line is playing really well,
Speaker 1: then then linebackers are usually going to have a relatively
Speaker 1: good game against us. So I don't even though he's
Speaker 1: a really good player, I foresee Kellen Moore having a
Speaker 1: game plan that allows for us to get our running
Speaker 1: game going so that we can take that pressure off
Speaker 1: of Dax so he doesn't feel like he has to
Speaker 1: throw the ball forty fifty times a game. And I
Speaker 1: think our offensive line would do a great job of
Speaker 1: working up to Dion Jordan really eliminating him out the game. Now,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you bring that up as Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: in the game plan because going into this game or
Speaker 1: even last week, you saw how they were crowding the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, and I think that's so disrespectful for
Speaker 1: a NFL quarterback on Dax level right now to see
Speaker 1: those eight nine man boxes. But we saw it and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were the ones being disrespectful in this game.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just the Cowboys, I agree. I'm with you,
Speaker 1: though I think it's I think it goes both ways,
Speaker 1: but it does. And so you know, if again, if
Speaker 1: they Pete dan Pas, I believe is the defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for the Falcons, obviously a guy that's been in the
Speaker 1: league and called multiple looks. Would would you anticipate he
Speaker 1: has the same look versus the Cowboys this week and
Speaker 1: dare dak to beat him with his own I think so.
Speaker 1: I think so. On the reason why, it's because aj Terrell,
Speaker 1: and I think the fact that he's playing so well
Speaker 1: for them enables them to have maybe even a false
Speaker 1: sense of confidence. But I think that they'll probably try.
Speaker 1: You know, I think this would be the game or say, hey,
Speaker 1: Okay Terrell, you're bawling out, show us that you can
Speaker 1: be a number one, you know, cornerback and take out Coop.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at his stats passes against him
Speaker 1: for his first game, three receptions thirty yards against them.
Speaker 1: Second second game, zero receptions against him. Fourth game, you know,
Speaker 1: third game, one reception for two yards, next game, two
Speaker 1: receptions ten yards, next game, three receptions fourteen yards, and
Speaker 1: it just continues to get better. So he's bawling out
Speaker 1: this year at that position. I think that he might
Speaker 1: give their decordinator a false sense of hope. False sense
Speaker 1: of hope is gonna be if they come in with
Speaker 1: that false sense of hope. Yeah, you guys, do you
Speaker 1: guys buy into the copycat league thing? I mean, do
Speaker 1: you think they'll try it? Try to try it in
Speaker 1: certain spots. I mean, not completely change. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: go all out on it, but they'll definitely sprinkle it
Speaker 1: in there to see what is what we saw on film? Real, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's let's see. Okay, you're not they fixed that, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move on. Or oh oh this is something. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go everybody over here here, you know what
Speaker 1: they calling the boys, So I mean they will Every
Speaker 1: team is going to try if you show a weakness.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no different in boxing, right, you know,
Speaker 1: in boxing, you though you see somebody's weak, they can't
Speaker 1: defend the jab. What are you gonna do? Jab them
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jab them. Okay, Yeah, his defense is whack, right,
Speaker 1: So it's the same thing you find it you find
Speaker 1: a gap in your a little hole in their in
Speaker 1: their defense or offense, then you're gonna come after him.
Speaker 1: That's where I think the past protection has to get better.
Speaker 1: I mean, whether if it's Terrence Steel left tackle again,
Speaker 1: which if it's no Tyrant Smith, I'd be kind of
Speaker 1: surprised if they went away from that, just because Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: even if it's short term continuity, he likes having continuity
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. So we'll see what they do there.
Speaker 1: But that was the that was the X factor in
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio being able to do what he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: They got pressure with four guys, they didn't have to blitz,
Speaker 1: and Bucky Brooks explained it well on Dallas Cowboys dot
Speaker 1: Com and his column that you know it also lets
Speaker 1: you have an extra guy in the box against the run.
Speaker 1: But that was the key to them being able to
Speaker 1: do that Clog and Cuver stuff is because they didn't
Speaker 1: have to have to blitz, and so does the Falcons
Speaker 1: personnel wise, are they able to do that the way
Speaker 1: Denver could do that to play that type of defense,
Speaker 1: that's the question, and I think the Cowboys will probably
Speaker 1: be better prepared in terms of doing what they have
Speaker 1: to do to protect Dac in this game. That was
Speaker 1: a big problem on Sunday. Now, how important is it
Speaker 1: for our offense to come out clicking on all cylinders,
Speaker 1: because over the last couple of weeks, obviously last week,
Speaker 1: the offense is kind of sputtered. I mean, we hadn't
Speaker 1: had I think from the first of the initial drive scores.
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of games since we've been able
Speaker 1: to do that, and you've just seen us struggle obviously
Speaker 1: against the Vikings with Cooper Rush last week. How important
Speaker 1: is it for this offense to come out firing big time?
Speaker 1: I think they got to get the run game going
Speaker 1: more than they did. They only had had fourteen carries
Speaker 1: between Zeke and Pollard in the entire game, and they
Speaker 1: got sixty two yards. They ran it okay, um and
Speaker 1: Zeke was banged up in that game, he says he
Speaker 1: feels better this week. I think they got to get
Speaker 1: that balance back. That's a big part of it, Um,
Speaker 1: But yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Yeah. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's very important and I think they will. I
Speaker 1: think they will again. Last last week was a mental
Speaker 1: letdown which led to a physical meltdown, and I think
Speaker 1: that they want allowed that this week. I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: having more walk throughs and Jason Garrett's offseason right now,
Speaker 1: that's a lot. That's a lot trying to make sure
Speaker 1: they would yeah, I would know, trying to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're dialed in. And I think they'll be more
Speaker 1: amp for this game than maybe even they were for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers game, just because they have so much to
Speaker 1: try to disprove. You guys think they're going to lose
Speaker 1: their aggressiveness on fourth down? You think that changed the
Speaker 1: mentality changes for Mike and Kellen? No, no, no, And
Speaker 1: I think hindsight is twenty twenty. You know, you can
Speaker 1: go back to, you know, not being able to convert
Speaker 1: on fourth downs and criticize coach Mike McCarthy. But obviously,
Speaker 1: if he's fifty percent there, I think you'll please because
Speaker 1: he's con tinuein drives and maybe we get points out
Speaker 1: of him. That makes the difference in the momentum of
Speaker 1: the game. So and I just don't think he'll even
Speaker 1: in spite of all of the naysayers that say, do
Speaker 1: not do that again, or put points on the board
Speaker 1: or play in old school conventional style. That's just not
Speaker 1: what Mike is willing to do. And I think his
Speaker 1: risk taking maybe you know, what leads him to a
Speaker 1: super Bowl. I mean, that's just that's just my thinking.
Speaker 1: But as far as the matchups are concerned and looking
Speaker 1: at this in J. Terrell and you talk about where
Speaker 1: they may have a false sense with him, I think
Speaker 1: on the other side with Fabian Moreau, that's where you
Speaker 1: may have a lot more opportunities. Not that I don't
Speaker 1: think AJ Terrell is that shut down Reeves Island kind
Speaker 1: of cornerback, but I think on the other side, that's
Speaker 1: where you're more favorable favorable. Do you agree with that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean I think he's the lesser
Speaker 1: of the two. Um. You know, obviously a J. Terrell
Speaker 1: with a PFF I don't look get them too often.
Speaker 1: But he has an eighty one eighty one point five
Speaker 1: percent grade. That's good. That's good. So they're talking about
Speaker 1: a lot about how he's not being targeted. But you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm coming where I'm going at everybody, and I
Speaker 1: think my personnel. I think. I think if I'm walking
Speaker 1: into this game, my personnel is better than yours. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you why, especially when you have Gallop back.
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, that guy's better, He's he's aged.
Speaker 1: Terrell's better then Fabian. But in this game, I'm coming
Speaker 1: at you. I'm coming at you, and I'm hitting in
Speaker 1: your mouth and I'm hitting and I'm not gonna continue
Speaker 1: to hit you in your mouth. And I'm taking a
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick approach. If you don't want me to score,
Speaker 1: stop me. Yeah. If they're gonna borrow from the Broncos
Speaker 1: game plan and play that match man stuff, you got
Speaker 1: to be able to cover all over the field. You
Speaker 1: can't just have one corner who's shutting things down on
Speaker 1: one side. The Cowboys still have too many weapons. Even
Speaker 1: if Cedric Wilson doesn't play in this game, like we said,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup's going to be back. So, uh, you know
Speaker 1: that that game plan only works if you're able to
Speaker 1: cover the entire field the way they need to. And
Speaker 1: how much of that uh? And just going back to
Speaker 1: Vic Vangio's scheme versus the receivers and reading Bucky's article
Speaker 1: about how they didn't allow those pick plays to happen
Speaker 1: in the open field and guys were just passing off
Speaker 1: the receivers. Do you believe that they have they can
Speaker 1: use that game playing effectively versus the Cowboys? No, because
Speaker 1: I mean the same way that that we're all sitting
Speaker 1: here talking about how Denver, I mean not Denver, but
Speaker 1: Atlanta is going to try to copy what Denver did.
Speaker 1: What do you think Killamore is doing? Right? So, I
Speaker 1: mean switching it up, Yeah, switching it up. I mean
Speaker 1: you're still gonna sprinkle those things in there. But every play, everyone,
Speaker 1: I want to say, every pass play. Majority of the
Speaker 1: past plays that are called in this league have multiple
Speaker 1: coverage beaters, multiple coverage beaters. You're not just calling it
Speaker 1: simply because you're expecting you cover one. Yeah, the majority
Speaker 1: of the routes might be scheme towards Cover one, but
Speaker 1: they're still gonna be something else out there just because
Speaker 1: we face Cover four or Cover two. Right, So understand
Speaker 1: that even though those guys might have those things dialed
Speaker 1: up in terms of passing off coverages, guess what, instead
Speaker 1: of running my guys all the way across the formation,
Speaker 1: now I'm just gonna sit it down in the hole right,
Speaker 1: So I might not get to play out the backside,
Speaker 1: but guess what you know at the back shoot, But
Speaker 1: now my guys are gonna sit down in those gaps.
Speaker 1: If you're passing things off, then there's gaps in there
Speaker 1: in your defense. And instead of those guys continue to
Speaker 1: run the routes across the formation, I'm gonna tell those
Speaker 1: guys as soon as you find that zone, sit down bone,
Speaker 1: get the ball on the shoulder, and again the ball
Speaker 1: locations everything. If I put it on your left shoulder,
Speaker 1: that means turn left. If I put it in the middle,
Speaker 1: that means you got guys on both sides of you.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of those non verbal communication things that
Speaker 1: go on, and you're allowed to steal. Go out there
Speaker 1: and get these jack yards and get those guys out
Speaker 1: of those zone coverages, which then put them back and
Speaker 1: what man man. Yeah, So you know whether the thing
Speaker 1: about last week's game was Dad couldn't find those holes
Speaker 1: in covers because he had guys on his back like
Speaker 1: a backpack. So how do how do the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: correct correct on offensive line? Coach Philbin coach Calla Moore,
Speaker 1: They got a lot to work on this week, we'll
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Speaker 1: Do more? I feel like the line the last line
Speaker 1: was different. I think it was the same. What was it?
Speaker 1: It was the same. It was just me reading it.
Speaker 1: Did you like the flick? I like, well, the mic
Speaker 1: bump was textbook right there, freaking aim. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: versatility that I didn't see it. I don't go back.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm watching this, I'm having it. I was
Speaker 1: explained yesterday to me that I need to put a
Speaker 1: little bit more into restricted with this word here he
Speaker 1: messed up like it's prince. It's like a prince, Mike,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know it came back right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you weren't ready to put a boomerang. He was ready.
Speaker 1: He was not ready. So, guys, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about tern Still, no turns. I want to talk about turns,
Speaker 1: all right, Terren Still last week's show that or he
Speaker 1: said basically that it was a little bit harder than
Speaker 1: he anticipated moving out from right side to the left side. Yeah, no, duh.
Speaker 1: And so how do you how do you think that
Speaker 1: this week as far as the approach from coach Philbin
Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore, as far as you know, helping him
Speaker 1: on that side, and by doing that, will they compromise
Speaker 1: their play calling? It's a great question. I was looking
Speaker 1: up the snaps from the Broncos game and the backup
Speaker 1: tight ends Sean mcun in his season debut and Jeremy
Speaker 1: Sprinkle combined for like fifteen snaps. So they didn't do
Speaker 1: a lot of twelve personnel in that game. Maybe they
Speaker 1: do more. You know, they were doing more while Gallup
Speaker 1: was out and while Blake Jarwin was healthy. Maybe an
Speaker 1: extra tight in there. Maybe it's more of a Zeke
Speaker 1: role where he's got to help and pass protection and ship.
Speaker 1: But maybe they got to help him a little bit
Speaker 1: more in this game, assuming he's starting at one tackle
Speaker 1: side against the team they're playing, the Falcons. Now you
Speaker 1: are about to say Hawks too, What say you, Asaiah?
Speaker 1: I didn't give him opportuned to prove me wrong. Your
Speaker 1: my opportunity to prove me wrong. Just put him on
Speaker 1: an island. Put him on the island, put him on
Speaker 1: a yeah, yeah, right pe island. Put him out there.
Speaker 1: I mean it was technique, right, it was technique, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it was harder than you expected it to be, and yes,
Speaker 1: the technique is different. Nate Newton has talked about this extensively.
Speaker 1: You could see him wanting to shoot his right hand
Speaker 1: but having to shoot his left hand and it just
Speaker 1: not working for him. I mean it takes one swipe.
Speaker 1: Imagine you're setting to your left side, you're kicking off
Speaker 1: your right leg, setting on your left leg, and you
Speaker 1: want to strike what you're right. Yeah, you want to
Speaker 1: strike what you're right because then you can force him
Speaker 1: out and you can replace what your left. But he
Speaker 1: was shooting with his left, which is naturally your first
Speaker 1: hand on the other side, and all it takes is
Speaker 1: one guy to do what hit that wrist? It hit
Speaker 1: that left wrist, and all of a sudden, your shoulder
Speaker 1: turns and now they have the edge. So just mechanically,
Speaker 1: he was off because it was natural. It had became
Speaker 1: natural for him on that side. So now I can't
Speaker 1: I almost guarantee you coach film is wearing is but
Speaker 1: out this week, including today with all pass and he's
Speaker 1: gonna just drill the crap out of that and just
Speaker 1: reinstilling him. Hey, shoot this hand, shoot his hand, and
Speaker 1: just again go back to the foundation on the mechanics
Speaker 1: and make sure that he's doing things the right way.
Speaker 1: I don't think that his feet were in a bad place.
Speaker 1: I think his hands were in a bad place in
Speaker 1: his most recent game. That's a problem on the left side.
Speaker 1: Absolutely it is. And were you Somebody told me it's
Speaker 1: like it's like driving in Europe or something where you
Speaker 1: drive on the left hand side of the road and
Speaker 1: it's just I mean, it's just it's muscle memory that
Speaker 1: that's with your feet in your hands. Yeah, but for him,
Speaker 1: and you go through the roster for the Falcons and
Speaker 1: Dante Fowler Junior is on injured reserve, and so when
Speaker 1: you look at their other guys in Ogandig is probably
Speaker 1: I would say the best pass Russia if they if
Speaker 1: they have one, do you work? I mean, last week
Speaker 1: we weren't worried about their pass rushers, but hey, they
Speaker 1: came in, they got a couple of sacks. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that you saw on film that says, hey, this
Speaker 1: is something that we need to get here and steal
Speaker 1: some help on No, No, there's nothing that I saw
Speaker 1: on film. I mean, these guys do get pressure. They
Speaker 1: do get pressure. Yeah, they do a good job with that.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm gonna trust him, and I'm gonna trust
Speaker 1: our coaching staff. Coach Philmins is one of the league's best.
Speaker 1: We've seen that all through last year, that he does
Speaker 1: a great job of getting guys prepared, and I don't
Speaker 1: see this as being any different. I have full confidence
Speaker 1: that Steel is going to do a good job. Now
Speaker 1: if they start lighting, you know, obviously scheming that side
Speaker 1: in terms of blitz, okay, then now you would support
Speaker 1: him just like you would support anybody else on that side.
Speaker 1: But in terms of hey do you, hey, do you
Speaker 1: need help over there handling that one guy? Are you okay? No,
Speaker 1: take care of your business. Yeah. And I think people
Speaker 1: want to harken back to twenty eighteen in Atlanta Chaz Green.
Speaker 1: That was horrible. Well, they didn't. The Cowboys did not
Speaker 1: adjust in that game. They did not say, hey, look
Speaker 1: we gotta give Chad some help. And I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will adjust if they have to in this game.
Speaker 1: But I go back to the run game. You know,
Speaker 1: sixteen carries, that's not enough balance to help out your tackles.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was. He was in pass pro a
Speaker 1: lot and Denver knew it was coming. And I think
Speaker 1: that's if you can catch them off balance a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And they have not been great against the run.
Speaker 1: In this game, I think it's a better matchup for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys than it was last Sunday. Now, we hadn't
Speaker 1: talked about Tyron Smith and where he is. I know
Speaker 1: he hadn't. He's been out there working just a little
Speaker 1: bit with Brett Brown. Where is he? Do we have
Speaker 1: a status update on Smith? Just that he was in
Speaker 1: the rehab group on Wednesday. It was a non padded practice.
Speaker 1: This is typically the padded day, and this is this
Speaker 1: is a good indicator on where he is. I think, Um, again,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly. You know, Jerry Jones provided some
Speaker 1: insight on Tuesday that a lot of this is pain tolerance.
Speaker 1: How how much pain Canny handle. Tyren Smith is as
Speaker 1: tough a dude as you'll ever meet in your entire life,
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Um, he's got to have the ability too,
Speaker 1: He's got to be able to laterally move his feet
Speaker 1: and do all those things we just talked about with
Speaker 1: Terren Steele. So I don't know. Again, I go back
Speaker 1: to the fact that they got to play four games
Speaker 1: in eighteen days, so that's a lot of football coming up.
Speaker 1: They don't I don't think they want to put him
Speaker 1: out there if he's not ready to uh plant and
Speaker 1: do all tho he needs to do on his foot. Now, you,
Speaker 1: being a former NFL player, if his pain tolerance is
Speaker 1: where it is, where he can't play, where is that
Speaker 1: on the scale of one to ten, You know, if
Speaker 1: it's it's not just you know, the injury itself, it's
Speaker 1: dealing with the pain of it. You played through a
Speaker 1: lot of pain in the NFL, guys are playing through
Speaker 1: pain even though as fans fans are sitting back watching
Speaker 1: the game. Guys are going out there. They're playing hard
Speaker 1: and they're running around, they're hitting people and they're celebrating. Understanding,
Speaker 1: guys are hurting every play. Guys are out there hurting.
Speaker 1: You just would never know. And I mean I played
Speaker 1: shoot two straight years or my shoulder popping in and
Speaker 1: out here when I was hearing Dallas, I was never
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and it sucked, you know, And obviously
Speaker 1: he got me up out of here too. But you know,
Speaker 1: you play, you play, you play with things and you
Speaker 1: have to find ways, and there's always gonna be an
Speaker 1: opportunity to say, no, I'm not playing this game. I
Speaker 1: there's been very few guys that I've seen take themselves
Speaker 1: out of games and take themselves out of opportunities to
Speaker 1: play games. It's usually the trainers that say, hey, our
Speaker 1: trainers and doctors say you know you can't go with
Speaker 1: you out. So I think that's going to be more
Speaker 1: so the decision going forward with Tying not. I don't
Speaker 1: question his toughness, No, absolutely not. That's why I think
Speaker 1: it's more than just the pain tolerance. It's also functionality.
Speaker 1: Can he do what he needs to do out there
Speaker 1: to protect Dak Prescott's blindside? You know, if he can't
Speaker 1: do it the way he needs to do it, then
Speaker 1: then they'll go another direction. And I give you an
Speaker 1: example when when I was here playing them, I sublexed
Speaker 1: my shoulder, which means my shoulder popped out of socket
Speaker 1: and it popped back in on its own right. Dislocated
Speaker 1: means and he's that's painful, very painful, And how to
Speaker 1: go back to work? Right? How to go back to work?
Speaker 1: I couldn't lift my hands over my head. I mean
Speaker 1: I couldn't even literally could lift my hands over my head.
Speaker 1: So what they did they found pretty much a straight jacket,
Speaker 1: and britt Brown and Jim and those guys did a
Speaker 1: great job of searching the internet and reaching out the
Speaker 1: different companies to get get these all these different sleeves
Speaker 1: and things like that they're supposed to help me, and
Speaker 1: some of them work, some of them didn't. Most of
Speaker 1: them didn't. But they ended up going back to the
Speaker 1: old school, like the old closet and grabbing the old
Speaker 1: straight jacket and literally tying my shoulder down. And it
Speaker 1: was like, okay, because if it gets beyond this is
Speaker 1: going to pop out. And if it pops out again,
Speaker 1: I pretty much have no good the rest of that game.
Speaker 1: But what percentage was my shoulder? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But guess what, There's still things that I could do
Speaker 1: that could help the team. So I'm out there and
Speaker 1: I'm playing with it and it's painful, and no, I'm
Speaker 1: not anywhere near one hundred percent, but guess what, You're
Speaker 1: still things I can do, even in the state, that
Speaker 1: can contribute to the team's victory. So that's what I
Speaker 1: was able to go out there and do. And it's
Speaker 1: no different when any other guy that steps on that field.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of guys out there that are nowhere
Speaker 1: near one hundred percent that you would never know about.
Speaker 1: But they're just playing with the pain because that's what
Speaker 1: you do as a professional athlete. Big difference between injured
Speaker 1: and hurt, and everybody right now is hurt. I gotta
Speaker 1: ask you man, talk about pain tolerance, Ezekiel Elliott. This
Speaker 1: is a game that we need Zeke to be Zeke again.
Speaker 1: I mean not only you talk about the pressure that
Speaker 1: Atlanta will get on your quarterback, and we've seen Zeke
Speaker 1: in a lot of these situations be the filler for
Speaker 1: the offensive line and picking up those rushes, but also
Speaker 1: we're going to need him big time rushing and as
Speaker 1: a receiver out of the backfield. How big is his
Speaker 1: role once you dissected the tape, how big is this
Speaker 1: role gonna have to be in this game? I mean, Zeke,
Speaker 1: I'd brother Zeke. Whether it's Pollard, I don't know who
Speaker 1: else we can really throw out there, but we need
Speaker 1: our rushing game regardless of who it is. We need
Speaker 1: our rushing game to be successful. That's simply because of
Speaker 1: the fact we can't put Dack in a position to
Speaker 1: throwing fifty times a game, you know, And obviously I
Speaker 1: hope that Zeke's healthy enough to come in and contribute
Speaker 1: in that in that regard, and I think that he
Speaker 1: needs that for his confidence as well. Continuing as this
Speaker 1: season continues to go on, as weather continues to get colder,
Speaker 1: as we start facing more and more cold games leading
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, hopefully, you know those we need him,
Speaker 1: We need him, and we need his confidence level up here.
Speaker 1: We don't need him thinking about all the what ifs
Speaker 1: and this is bugging me. So hopefully he can play
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can't get him rolling and be able
Speaker 1: to handle whatever we need to do on that side.
Speaker 1: On the ground game, because the last two games we've
Speaker 1: had seventy seventy eight yards rushing. The last two games
Speaker 1: prior to that, we were running all over the place.
Speaker 1: That's pretty Yeah, it's not what they're normally used to.
Speaker 1: He said yesterday, he feels a lot better. He was
Speaker 1: limited on purpose. They kind of scaled back his reps
Speaker 1: on purpose, just kind of gearing him up for Sunday.
Speaker 1: He'll be good to go, he said. He feels better. Um,
Speaker 1: he actually kind of laughed at us that this, this,
Speaker 1: this knee contusion has been something. He's not laughed but
Speaker 1: this he's been dealing with this for a while and
Speaker 1: we didn't really know about it that much, um, but
Speaker 1: somebody fell on it in the game and just kind
Speaker 1: of made it worse. But he's been playing through it.
Speaker 1: He'll be fine. Well, you know what, guys, that has
Speaker 1: been a great show. Tomorrow, I'm gonna need both of y'all,
Speaker 1: both both both of y'all to say it with your
Speaker 1: chest tomorrow, you know what tomorrow is. And and Friday,
Speaker 1: fat frat boy, say a fat boy Friday. I'm not
Speaker 1: hold on dog, I'll be up in here Friday, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna say it with our chance. And hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a fan pick him, so be
Speaker 1: from Ohio. Do not call uh tomorrow because you you
Speaker 1: messing it all up for the fans and they're record.
Speaker 1: I think I think did you gain some ground on
Speaker 1: Kyle last week? But I have no idea, You have
Speaker 1: no idea. I think I did. And yeah, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: come back but today, Hey, we'll be back here tomorrow,
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