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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September twenty six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen,
Speaker 1: episode number fifty two. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're live from s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to some Cowboys and Saints. We're getting
Speaker 1: you guys ready for the Sunday night football game this week.
Speaker 1: On today, we'll get into the defense. Yesterday we talked
Speaker 1: about the Saints offense. Dave have a breakdown for us
Speaker 1: Before we get into that, though, I do want to
Speaker 1: talk about an injury that popped up yesterday that makes
Speaker 1: me a little bit nervous. Talk to me about a
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper. What's going on with him? Maury Cooper came
Speaker 1: out of the Dolphins game with a dinged up ankle
Speaker 1: foot thing. Is it Jason Garrett? But it is a
Speaker 1: different foot. Okay, so now he's got two feet. He
Speaker 1: got an MRI on it yesterday that was negative, which
Speaker 1: is positive. That's always confusing for people, but negative is good. Uh.
Speaker 1: We saw him yesterday after the MRI and like he
Speaker 1: wasn't limping or anything. Um again, you know they have
Speaker 1: one here. It makes sense to get that type of
Speaker 1: stuff done. But he was at practice today, so you know,
Speaker 1: all these guys are dealing with something, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like something that's going to keep him out of
Speaker 1: the game. So he was a practice. It was a practice,
Speaker 1: so at least some limited workout, I guess. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So now ask me about the other one. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not that's old. That's old news. We got new news.
Speaker 1: When did this one happen today? Okay, so tell me
Speaker 1: what happened. Jack Martin's not at practice. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: So I mean this just happened. I me and Nick
Speaker 1: walked out of practice and walked into the studio. So
Speaker 1: we haven't had a chance to look into it too
Speaker 1: much that Cowboys officials will say, well, he was on
Speaker 1: yesterday's inter report, But the fact that he's not there
Speaker 1: this morning in the morning part that we just saw,
Speaker 1: Now does he come in and do some stuff later? Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah, that's all we need to really find
Speaker 1: out there. That's he wasn't limited yesterday, Right he was.
Speaker 1: He was limited with a back. So here here's the thing. Right, well,
Speaker 1: he they upgraded him to full last week, which is
Speaker 1: the first time that's happened since the season started. But
Speaker 1: as we've talked about a million times, playing offensive line
Speaker 1: probably isn't great for your back, especially if it's already hurt.
Speaker 1: So we set it a training camp like this is
Speaker 1: probably something that Zack Martin is going to be dealing
Speaker 1: with for the entire season. Right. I just took it
Speaker 1: for granted when I saw that yesterday that okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course he's with a back. He's going to be
Speaker 1: limited with a back all year. But it does take
Speaker 1: a whole different level of I guess, significance when he's
Speaker 1: not at practice. We don't know the difference between We
Speaker 1: just haven't had enough time to look into it. We
Speaker 1: don't know the difference between sit down today and let
Speaker 1: that thing cool off a little bit or I can't
Speaker 1: go like those are two different things, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is right now. I always
Speaker 1: lean toward thinking a guy like Zach Martin is going
Speaker 1: to be available. But it's definitely you know, it catches
Speaker 1: like literally today and the you know, we sit in
Speaker 1: the stands in Ford Center for practice, and all the
Speaker 1: beat writers were looking around, like you see seventy where
Speaker 1: seventy's not here. He's not even like just walking around
Speaker 1: in a jersey. He's not here at all. So definitely
Speaker 1: caught some eyebrows. It's something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: Walk me through what happens in the event do you
Speaker 1: have an next that you're trying to well, what are
Speaker 1: we doing? It just answers your question, Well, go ahead, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll get it, okay, walking me through what happens in
Speaker 1: the event that Zack can't play well, the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: turn to a xavirus to a few there we go
Speaker 1: and he would start, who are you a memican? Right there?
Speaker 1: Just out of curiosity, just going to sound in about
Speaker 1: twenty years, ok, just just some old white guy that
Speaker 1: that I am. Okay, I guess I just r or
Speaker 1: will be huh are or will be both turning turning
Speaker 1: point quickly turning yeah. Xavier sue O Philo did take
Speaker 1: the reps at right guard with the first team in
Speaker 1: Zack's absence. So I think I just think Joe Looney
Speaker 1: is just your perfect backup for, you know, just center guard,
Speaker 1: anything that happens on game day. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to when we saw him playing guard, Looney, you know
Speaker 1: when was that maybe previous or training camp or something.
Speaker 1: I know we've seen them put him at that position
Speaker 1: a guard. I don't quite remember how he performed there
Speaker 1: or how that looked like. But do you remember if
Speaker 1: he looked okay, good enough? Yeah? I don't ever remember
Speaker 1: a time when Looney really hasn't looked good or looked okay.
Speaker 1: I guess he doesn't, but it doesn't He's not like
Speaker 1: just gonna blow you away, but he's but he's good enough.
Speaker 1: Do you think better than Sophila. I think Sophila is
Speaker 1: better because I think he's got that old man's strength,
Speaker 1: even though he's not old. I just think he's got
Speaker 1: that strength. That's I think he may be better than Connor, honestly,
Speaker 1: but they didn't draft him in the second round, so
Speaker 1: he was better last year. But of course Connor was
Speaker 1: a rookie. But you know, I think that's a really good.
Speaker 1: He has strength, but he's also dealing He's constantly dealing
Speaker 1: with things on his knees, both knees. That is sophilo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that that is something that he's been battling since
Speaker 1: last year. And I know that waits on him and
Speaker 1: he's been working on it with his training, strength coach
Speaker 1: and stuff. But it's something to look at too. While
Speaker 1: he might be able to play a full game and
Speaker 1: all that, it's not necessarily a long term replacement that
Speaker 1: he could hold maybe two games in a road, three
Speaker 1: games type of stuff. I don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: position in football that beats the hell out of you
Speaker 1: more than anything. On the offensive line, Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: brutal because you're you're constantly catching even running backs like yeah,
Speaker 1: you get hit pretty much every time you touch the ball,
Speaker 1: But you don't touch the ball every snap of the game.
Speaker 1: Offensive lineman like you every play except maybe the victory formation,
Speaker 1: you're getting someone's coming to hit you every play. Like
Speaker 1: they're coming hit you every single play. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: be worried if if he doesn't, if he's listened as
Speaker 1: did not practice today, then I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: a concern. If he's listed as limited, then then I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as concern because we're dealing with the back.
Speaker 1: So if he is, if he's really having a lot
Speaker 1: of pain, it's better to just sit him out, you know,
Speaker 1: because if you have a back, you can hurt that
Speaker 1: picking up, you know, a piece of paper. So I
Speaker 1: just feel like if they really wanted to rest him,
Speaker 1: they would just rest him, he'd be at home. But
Speaker 1: if he's limited, then I think they're just trying to
Speaker 1: man It's I will say though, typically, like when a
Speaker 1: guy takes a scheduled day off it's Wednesday or Friday,
Speaker 1: like because it's either the first day of the week
Speaker 1: and you're like sit this out and then get two
Speaker 1: days of practice, or get two days of practice and
Speaker 1: then rest your legs on Friday. Like they've done that
Speaker 1: with Sean Lee this season, where he just doesn't go
Speaker 1: on Friday. It's not injury related, they just let him
Speaker 1: sit us. It feels weird to me for him to
Speaker 1: sit in between Wednesday and Friday. So we'll see. And
Speaker 1: let's be clear too, we were only out you guys
Speaker 1: were only out there during the opening parts of practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very possible that he was getting some treatment or
Speaker 1: something like that, and then came out and was a
Speaker 1: part of practice, in the part that well that the
Speaker 1: media doesn't see. Keep it, keep it tuned to Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot com media channels because they're well, we'll get
Speaker 1: some info about this later today and tomorrow, and yeah,
Speaker 1: something to watch. You gotta have something today, get work.
Speaker 1: I came back. I don't I saw him in the
Speaker 1: locker room yesterday, and I remember kind of thinking like,
Speaker 1: he looks stiff, like just kind of like he looks
Speaker 1: like he's felt better in his life. Which I say
Speaker 1: that now now that I know he's HERB, but I
Speaker 1: do really remember like he came out of the shower
Speaker 1: area and I was like, you, like, as somebody who's
Speaker 1: experienced back pain, you look like you're feeling kind of
Speaker 1: stiff right now. So I don't know, we'll see, all right.
Speaker 1: A couple other guys, I just want to mention real fast,
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods, Tavon Austin returned to practice yesterday. What are
Speaker 1: we hearing about them and how they performed and look
Speaker 1: after a day of practice, I was at practice for
Speaker 1: a little bit and was I guess just looking around
Speaker 1: at whatever, like oh, I should probably look at some
Speaker 1: injured guys. Here. Who am I looking for? And I
Speaker 1: looked at it right at Xavier Woods, like there he is,
Speaker 1: and he was catching this interception and then he was
Speaker 1: doing some spinning and dancing and it wasn't dancing, but
Speaker 1: he was like doing like a spin like juke move
Speaker 1: like you would do like the R two button. Like.
Speaker 1: He just kept spinning and spinning and spinning. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's playing. He saw that the Marcus Lawrence video. I
Speaker 1: don't know that the Marcus doing the spin, and then
Speaker 1: everybody was talking about it. He got in no, he's
Speaker 1: trying to spin all that. He was doing something like that,
Speaker 1: and I'm just I was just like, okay, hey, Woods
Speaker 1: is playing. Xavier's in He's in Who's the Kiss of Death? Though?
Speaker 1: Because last year you said that about Tavon and what happened.
Speaker 1: Tavon kept sitting out and just dancing every week and
Speaker 1: still couldn't play. Yeah, but I think Xavier, Um, I
Speaker 1: think Xavier's going to play. I think you think you're
Speaker 1: thinking very carefully what you Xavi's going to play. Two
Speaker 1: straight days of practice for Tavan and Xavier. That's always
Speaker 1: a good sign No, uh no, Tyrone Crawford today, No,
Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. I don't think you're gonna see them this weekend.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna see Michael Gallup this weekend. Those are three,
Speaker 1: I guess at this point the injuries that you just say,
Speaker 1: and they're probably pretty likely they're not playing this week.
Speaker 1: Only three, right, Um, there was somebody else that I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring up, Um, maybe TV I got, No,
Speaker 1: I get Yeah, I guess that's it. Those Oh yeah
Speaker 1: Woods in Crawford, that's it. Yeah, because Gifford. Gifford's back
Speaker 1: practicing now, so he wouldn't have be one of them.
Speaker 1: Maybe won't be active, but at least he'll be He
Speaker 1: should be bad. Doesn't look like he was going to
Speaker 1: be act just based off of a special teams unit
Speaker 1: that he would probably be out there for if he was, so,
Speaker 1: I don't think he will be this week. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go and take an early break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to get into the Saints and their defense.
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna give us his breakdown. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: Let's get into this Saints defense days. Saints fans coming
Speaker 1: by on this tour No, those were cowboys Jersey guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it was. It was cowboys. I have the
Speaker 1: same reaction earlier this week. I was saw somebody walking
Speaker 1: in the parking lot, a fan and they had on jersey.
Speaker 1: Was one of those, and I thought Saints really and
Speaker 1: then no, it's cowboys, Steam They'll take your money whatever.
Speaker 1: Here's the Redskins. Oh oh yeah, come on, it happens
Speaker 1: every day. No, there were there were some believe it
Speaker 1: or not, there was some Dolphins fans taking the tour
Speaker 1: last week last Friday, so believe it or not that
Speaker 1: they Dolphin there are friends. Yeah, all right, Dave, what
Speaker 1: you got for us? Let's talk about this Saints defense.
Speaker 1: I got the New Orleans Saints in front of me. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of talent, not a lot
Speaker 1: of production to this point in the season. When you
Speaker 1: say that, people just jump in and say something real quick.
Speaker 1: Do it? They got the best names in all of
Speaker 1: like the whole NFL, do they? Well? Starting with Little Jordan. No, no,
Speaker 1: it's not Little Jordan's offense. I know, but I'm just like, well,
Speaker 1: they're defense though, Ray, Ray Armstrong, right, Huddle, jan Eli
Speaker 1: Apple and then of course Kiko Alonzo. Yeah, it's better
Speaker 1: known as Yeah, been around, been around, all right, a
Speaker 1: little bit, go ahead, all right, Dave give us his defense.
Speaker 1: Thatt's willing. Uh. It's like and I think he's still
Speaker 1: a good player. But like, the thing about the Saints
Speaker 1: is defensive resurgence. I guess it was twenty seventeen when
Speaker 1: they lost the Minnesota Miracle game, was like, how well
Speaker 1: their young dbs were playing, Like Marshawn Lattimore is this
Speaker 1: lockdown corner, Marcus Williams is a revelation at safety. Von
Speaker 1: Bell is another guy that they drafted that they really
Speaker 1: like and they played they were ballers like they were
Speaker 1: really good that year. Marshawn Latimore had the butt interception
Speaker 1: if you remember that where you picked the ball up
Speaker 1: off the guy's butt and it's it's not translating, like
Speaker 1: it's not there. So far this year case in point,
Speaker 1: they gave up five passes of twenty yards or more
Speaker 1: and three of forty yards or more to the Seahawks
Speaker 1: the other week. They're the worst in the league at
Speaker 1: the stat end, by the way, same thing with the
Speaker 1: rushing they gave up twenty plus. They've given up five
Speaker 1: twenty plus rushes and that's the worst in the league.
Speaker 1: I will say, Okay, so they're twenty eighth, and total
Speaker 1: defense their thirtieth against the past three hundred yards a game.
Speaker 1: They're twenty sixth against the run. The six points twenty
Speaker 1: seven points per game every single team they've played. Actually
Speaker 1: they've given up like exactly twenty seven across the board,
Speaker 1: because I think they beat the Texans like twenty thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty eight. I think Rams beat him twenty seven nine,
Speaker 1: and then thirty three twenty seven Seahawks, so like you
Speaker 1: can score on him. Dennis Allen, it seems like he
Speaker 1: asks these guys to play a lot of man defense,
Speaker 1: which is awesome if you can do it. They haven't
Speaker 1: been able to do it, and it's really come everywhere.
Speaker 1: Like Lattimore gave up a couple of explosives, David Moore
Speaker 1: caught a jump ball on him last week. Eli Apple's
Speaker 1: the obvious one that like you want to pick on,
Speaker 1: like he gets torched on a pretty routine basis. And
Speaker 1: one thing that was really intriguing to me is that
Speaker 1: a lot of these plays happened when Russell Wilson, you know,
Speaker 1: Shocker of Shockers, was able to extend the play, which
Speaker 1: you know if you watch the Cowboys, like Dack's not
Speaker 1: as good at that as Russell Wilson is, but he
Speaker 1: can definitely only do it. He did it last week
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins a few times, So that is really encouraging.
Speaker 1: If the Saints are going to try to play man
Speaker 1: up with these guys that, I think you can manufacture
Speaker 1: some plays. And another really exciting thing is they like
Speaker 1: they lose track of guys, like the Seahawks will put
Speaker 1: their receivers in a bunch and Tyler Lockett is just
Speaker 1: running across the formation and there's crossing routes and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, like the corner, you know, Eli Apple's
Speaker 1: five yards behind him, like where was my help? Is
Speaker 1: this my guy? And forty five yard game? That type
Speaker 1: of stuff. So I think Kellen Moore should be able
Speaker 1: to manufacture some games in this thing. I don't think
Speaker 1: they look terrible against the run itself, Like the Seahawks
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred yards, but fifty of that was
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson scrambling or designed runs, which Dad can do
Speaker 1: that too. That maybe there's something to be said. But
Speaker 1: like Chris Carson and CJ. Prosie didn't like kill them
Speaker 1: like they have good They have good players in their seven.
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan, I think I already said I think he's
Speaker 1: one of the most underrated players in the league. He
Speaker 1: reminds me a lot of DeMarcus Lawrence, just in the
Speaker 1: sense of being super well rounded. He can rush the passer,
Speaker 1: he's stout against the run. Marcus Davenport's coming along. These
Speaker 1: are team and sex. Yeah, yeah, I mean which that
Speaker 1: they're not getting The quarterback is, you know again a
Speaker 1: lot like Dallas Um. Your guy Malcolm Brown is playing
Speaker 1: tackle for them right now because Sheldon Rankins is hurt.
Speaker 1: Like they have talent there, demaro O'Davis really good will
Speaker 1: linebacker captain for them. So I don't like, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're soft. I don't. I think they're better than
Speaker 1: the stats indicate they are. Put it that way because
Speaker 1: the stats say is. As I started looking at the stats,
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, this defense is not playing very
Speaker 1: well at all. You gotta you gotta look at the
Speaker 1: other games to the Texans ran the ball really well
Speaker 1: on them, But again they have a supermobile quarterback in
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson who can inflate that. And I dak Can too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got cowboys would have to implement that. Though we've
Speaker 1: seen him do it, we've seen him not do it.
Speaker 1: But in turn, like I would be surprised if Zeke
Speaker 1: just bulldozes this defense all on his own, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know that that's gonna work, but they're very susceptible
Speaker 1: against the pass yep. I had a couple questions for you,
Speaker 1: Eli Apple. He seems to be the weak link I
Speaker 1: keep hearing everybody talk about in their secondary. If you
Speaker 1: agree with that, how does Dallas take advantage of that?
Speaker 1: I think Dallas takes advantage of that by make make
Speaker 1: the Saints change it, because as good as they might
Speaker 1: want Marshawn Lattimore to be, he doesn't travel a lot.
Speaker 1: And I'm starting to think that like every week it's
Speaker 1: like is he gonna travel? It's he gonna like It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it happens that often in the NFL. Honestly,
Speaker 1: like maybe in college if you have that guy and
Speaker 1: you know he can just take away that receiver, do it,
Speaker 1: but you don't see it a lot in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Lattimore hasn't done it. He plays on the right
Speaker 1: side with very little exceptions. Actually against Seattle, they had
Speaker 1: him travel with Lockett on a third down and Seattle
Speaker 1: tried to throw it to him to pick up the
Speaker 1: first and Lattimore came across the formation and tackled him
Speaker 1: in the backfield. I was like, maybe you should be
Speaker 1: doing this more often, but they don't. So put the
Speaker 1: good receivers on. Eli Apple say, all right, Latimore is
Speaker 1: over on the right, Well, Amari, we want you over
Speaker 1: on the left because I don't I mean, I would
Speaker 1: force Dennis Allen to try to make that happen because
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like they want to do it. And
Speaker 1: you know, last week with Xavier and Howard, who is
Speaker 1: probably better than Lattimore or at least you know, right
Speaker 1: up there, and it didn't seem to matter. You know,
Speaker 1: Cooper kind of exposed him as well. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if there's any corners right
Speaker 1: now that are really just checking Amari. We'll see what
Speaker 1: his injury status is. But you know, we always say
Speaker 1: this about guys that travel. It's not just the corner
Speaker 1: It's not just the great cornerback that travels. It's the
Speaker 1: other cornerback that has to travel as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: the star star guy might go. He might be good
Speaker 1: on the right or the left, but the back, your
Speaker 1: your second corner may not be as good playing both sides,
Speaker 1: and he has to travel as well. So I think
Speaker 1: that's something we you know, it helps if you've got
Speaker 1: two that can be versatile. I really wish Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: was healthy for this game because I think the combination
Speaker 1: of Lattimore and the fact that the guys behind Cooper
Speaker 1: aren't as good like it gives me pause. I still
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will be all right, but like
Speaker 1: if Gallop was playing in this game, I would be like,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna eat like because they can do
Speaker 1: whatever they want with Cooper. Gallop will abuse whoever is
Speaker 1: over there. And I'm not as confident in Devin Smith
Speaker 1: and Randall Cobb. I still think I think they'll be okay,
Speaker 1: but like, it would be nice if Gallup was playing.
Speaker 1: Take me back to last year and talk to me
Speaker 1: about what and when the Cowboys played the Saints. What
Speaker 1: did you see in the Cowboys offensive line versus the
Speaker 1: Saints defensive front. It was a struggle. I mean the defense.
Speaker 1: The Saints defense did a really nice job. If I
Speaker 1: remember they bottled up Zeke pretty nicely. I don't remember
Speaker 1: him having like just like thirty yards. I would imagine
Speaker 1: it was like seventy eighty. Maybe he had a hard
Speaker 1: fought I'm pulling it up for you. He had a
Speaker 1: hard fought seventy five yards. He averaged three point three
Speaker 1: yards per carry. Yeah, that's not anywhere near his typical
Speaker 1: no day. But you know, they kept they kept doing it.
Speaker 1: And you know, we always say those games kind of
Speaker 1: take on a life of their own, and both both
Speaker 1: offenses were struggling and it was just that type of game.
Speaker 1: This might be completely opposite of that, but they did.
Speaker 1: They did a nice job. But if I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, he matters, he wasn't in that game, didn't
Speaker 1: play that game, and Travis obviously didn't play, which we
Speaker 1: got to wait and see on Zach, But you would
Speaker 1: think the line will be closer to full strength than
Speaker 1: it was last year. Who was the defensive player that
Speaker 1: seemed to give him the most trouble If you guys
Speaker 1: remember I can't cam Jordan had two sacks and two
Speaker 1: and a half tackles for loss. Actually Brian wrote about
Speaker 1: this for the site Today is again Jordan's like the Law.
Speaker 1: He plays the left side. He doesn't do a lot
Speaker 1: of rotating, but they moved him to the right side
Speaker 1: to play Fleming because Lyle Collins was giving him fits.
Speaker 1: So he had a great day. But I like that
Speaker 1: matchup a lot better this time around. He doesn't move
Speaker 1: this time, probably not. If I had to guess Damario Davis,
Speaker 1: I was going to say that Demario Davis had eleven tackles.
Speaker 1: I don't remember if it was like a good eleven
Speaker 1: tackles or a bat eleven tackles. I mean, the final
Speaker 1: score does suggest that obviously both defenses played extremely well
Speaker 1: last time. I will one thing I noticed, and again,
Speaker 1: you know, mobile quarterback play action. I would like to
Speaker 1: think Dallas can take advantage of this. I was not
Speaker 1: impressed by Kiko. And then they got another linebacker when
Speaker 1: they played bass by the name of A. J. Klein,
Speaker 1: who did not wow me like I found he seemed
Speaker 1: like he was out of position a lot. There are
Speaker 1: a couple I don't know off the top of my head. Sorry,
Speaker 1: actually have it here, AJ Klein. I was I, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: there's Buckeyes all over this matchup. Um no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I was dating. Okay, I was seven years in the league.
Speaker 1: A couple of plays where they bit bad on play fakes. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know which against this team in this
Speaker 1: office is what we've seen so far. Not and I
Speaker 1: don't mean like hesitation, I mean like, you know, taking
Speaker 1: two or three steps in the wrong direction. They did it.
Speaker 1: You know, they lost will Disley the tight end. They
Speaker 1: let them pick up thirty yards on a play action
Speaker 1: fake and again like kind of what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Like they lose their guys because I believe A. J.
Speaker 1: Klein was covering Tyler Lockett. It was incomplete, but not
Speaker 1: because of the coverage. So that's something that intrigues me.
Speaker 1: I think I think Kellen Moore should be able to
Speaker 1: get these guys out of sorts, like the chunk players
Speaker 1: should be there, even if the run game is only Okay,
Speaker 1: giving up twenty seven points in all three games they've
Speaker 1: played so far this year, it seems like they're able
Speaker 1: to win the shootout type games. Do you think Dallas
Speaker 1: has suited to play that kind of game and to
Speaker 1: be able to beat them at that because they're seeing
Speaker 1: they've won two of those three games even giving up
Speaker 1: twenty seven points. You think that that matches or is
Speaker 1: favorable for the Cowboys to get into that kind of
Speaker 1: that kind of game. Yeah. I mean they've scored thirty
Speaker 1: thirty three points a game, so yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I you know one thing that we
Speaker 1: don't know yet. It's still week three. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if the Saints aren't a better football team
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys. I mean, I know that sounds weird,
Speaker 1: but they're two and one. You know, look at their
Speaker 1: schedule and look who they've played so far. They've played
Speaker 1: the Rams, They've played the Saints, I'm sorry, they played
Speaker 1: the Texans. They played the Rams, and then they've played
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and you know, and so we're good teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three three good teams. And when their schedule came out,
Speaker 1: I was like that it's gonna be tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: can you imagine if the Cowboys had played those three
Speaker 1: teams and Cooper Rush had to play a game and
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, that's honestly, it's it's kind of the opposite.
Speaker 1: Is like, if you follow the narratives, it's like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have to they have to make Hay here because
Speaker 1: they're playing these bad teams and then it gets hard. Well,
Speaker 1: once the Saints get through with this game, it kind
Speaker 1: of lets up for him because they after this they
Speaker 1: go Buccaneers, Jags, Bears are tough. But then the Cardinals
Speaker 1: on the other side of that, so like pretty winnable
Speaker 1: games out of four, so that it isn't I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they don't look anywhere near as good as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but their resume it certainly looks better right now.
Speaker 1: And they win this game, then you know, if it
Speaker 1: comes down to tie breakers, then they would obviously have one.
Speaker 1: They'd both be three and one, and they'd have one
Speaker 1: on Dallas if it gets to that point. So you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's again it's it's still early, but but
Speaker 1: we don't really know just yet. I mean, to be
Speaker 1: two and one and that schedule and having Breeze missed
Speaker 1: that game, you know, a game and a half, I
Speaker 1: think that's actually pretty much. I really really interesting interested
Speaker 1: to see why Killen Moore is going to be able
Speaker 1: to do in this game as far as being creative,
Speaker 1: because right now, okay, you have Michael Gallup out and
Speaker 1: we saw how that affected not having him in the offense.
Speaker 1: Then I've seen breaking down plays with Brian, what Lattimore
Speaker 1: can do going up against Amari Cooper, Like that guy
Speaker 1: has really good instincts and he's able to fall although
Speaker 1: the receiver and move like there is no trick in
Speaker 1: him a lot like as soon as you're trying to
Speaker 1: do like a quick turn, he's gonna turn with you.
Speaker 1: So it's I'm interested. I am expecting the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: run the ball a lot more and lean more on
Speaker 1: Zeke this time around, because I just think I just
Speaker 1: don't think we're gonna see the same kind of passing
Speaker 1: game that they've been having as an offense. But see,
Speaker 1: I'd like to go what I'm saying is you know
Speaker 1: what I saw on tape is I think I think
Speaker 1: and I like I said, I wish Gallup was playing,
Speaker 1: but like you think back to the Giants game where
Speaker 1: there were just easy throws for Dak because of the
Speaker 1: way they were confusing the Giants, Like I think that
Speaker 1: we can see that again, Like I would expect Kelly
Speaker 1: Moore can dial up ways to do that because the
Speaker 1: secondary just doesn't. They seem confused and not very good.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I think I think their run
Speaker 1: defense is better than the staff would show and that's
Speaker 1: so I would rather try to pass to open that
Speaker 1: up than vice versa. Hearing all that, it kind of
Speaker 1: makes me think that this defense is, at least the
Speaker 1: way they've played so far is similar to the Redskins defense.
Speaker 1: The Redskins defense has a pretty stout front and they're
Speaker 1: the type of defense that at least this year, their
Speaker 1: secondary has been kind of in shambles and not really
Speaker 1: playing great. Now, obviously they don't have Marshawn Lattimore. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lattimore. But but all that being said, I think
Speaker 1: it's a similar type setup, and the Cowboys were able
Speaker 1: to move the ball pretty effectively against that defense, both
Speaker 1: in the run and the past game. I don't think
Speaker 1: that that it certainly didn't didn't stop them early in
Speaker 1: the game. There was some challenges, but once they got going,
Speaker 1: they got rolling. Yeah, it goes back down to creativity.
Speaker 1: Why Kellen Moore is able to do with all those weapons,
Speaker 1: and maybe if Tavon is back into the mix, how
Speaker 1: is he gonna use him. He's a guy that, yes,
Speaker 1: we he's been injured so much and all that, but
Speaker 1: still having him on the field affects what they're doing
Speaker 1: because they know that this guy I can freaking run
Speaker 1: and he's fast, so that's another guy that they have
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. This is this This is
Speaker 1: going to obviously be a bigger challenge than than the
Speaker 1: first three games even. I mean, but the Saints defense
Speaker 1: isn't as statistically as good as like the Redskins. But
Speaker 1: if they can't at least maybe maybe they don't score
Speaker 1: thirty one, thirty five, but I mean, they should be
Speaker 1: able to hit the mid to high twenties like that
Speaker 1: would be my expectation even on the release. I think
Speaker 1: this is a dak running game. I think this is
Speaker 1: one where he needs to to you know, they need
Speaker 1: to call some plays for him to run the ball.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that'll open up the middle there
Speaker 1: for for Zeke and and even for in the passing game,
Speaker 1: is to get him out there on the edge and
Speaker 1: let him you know, whether it be some bootlegs, naked whatever,
Speaker 1: let him do that, because I really think that that's
Speaker 1: what's going to set this up this up. We didn't
Speaker 1: see it much last week, but I think I think
Speaker 1: Dakud really hurt some teams, especially the aggressive ones, if
Speaker 1: he if they dial up some runs. I think ask
Speaker 1: a point. But I think more than anything else, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be most important is don't have the turnovers and
Speaker 1: the special teams big plays, because I think last week
Speaker 1: without those, I think that's a different ballgame. I think
Speaker 1: Seattle probably wins that game. So minus those two play
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, it's not like the defense gave
Speaker 1: him short fields like literally a punt return touchdown and
Speaker 1: a fumble six. Yeah, so that's fourteen out of thirty three.
Speaker 1: Why can't I do basic math? That's nineteen offensive points? Right?
Speaker 1: And so I think that again, if you talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and their ability to score on teams so far,
Speaker 1: if that offense can get rolling and just don't make
Speaker 1: the critical mistakes on special teams or on defense that
Speaker 1: give up points, I think that's really the key this week.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we still haven't seen Bridgewater in
Speaker 1: a situation where he's got to go out and with
Speaker 1: his arm basically win a game that's a shootout. I
Speaker 1: would think that that's kind of what if I'm the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: what I would like to see. So you expect Dad
Speaker 1: to win that kind of battle in that situation. I do.
Speaker 1: I do what I've seen so far this year suggests
Speaker 1: to me. And the reason why I say that's because
Speaker 1: I think good under pressure, that's where somehow the light
Speaker 1: comes on and he's able to get the job done
Speaker 1: when he's really under pressure, right. And the thing about shootouts,
Speaker 1: when you watch him typically what happens is they sometimes
Speaker 1: can start off a little slow, but once they start
Speaker 1: rolling and team start scoring, then they keep scoring. And
Speaker 1: that's the one thing we've seen about this team all
Speaker 1: season when they get rolling, once they figure it out,
Speaker 1: once they figure out what the defense is doing, they
Speaker 1: seem to just be like touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. So I
Speaker 1: think in that kind of scenario, if Cowboys get into
Speaker 1: a shootout, I think it sets up really nicely for them.
Speaker 1: And I'm not certain. Again, that's not to say Bridgewater
Speaker 1: can't do it. We just haven't seen him do it yet.
Speaker 1: So if I'm the Cowboys, that's kind of the way
Speaker 1: I kind of hope this thing plays out. All Right,
Speaker 1: here's here's a just putting you on the spot. What's
Speaker 1: the best environment where Dak has ever like absolutely balled out?
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a break when we come back.
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Speaker 1: get our stuff, all our stuff, all our stuff. All right, Dave,
Speaker 1: right before the break, you had an interesting question you
Speaker 1: wanted to past the group. I'm just I'm I was,
Speaker 1: I'm just spitball and I'm curious, like, you know, what
Speaker 1: is the best environment where Dak has like gone on
Speaker 1: the road and really, you know, shut up, like what
Speaker 1: you're talking about? You talking about like the best game
Speaker 1: he's had on the road in a really hostile environment. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: he I mean he bawled out against the Giants last year,
Speaker 1: Big whoop. That was a bad team and MetLife was
Speaker 1: full of Cowboys fans. FedEx was full of Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago. Like that ain't hostile, so I
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying he's never done it. I went
Speaker 1: and looked during the break. He played a great game
Speaker 1: at the Link last year against Philly twenty six to
Speaker 1: thirty six to seventy and a touchdown, ran for a
Speaker 1: touchdown to Spike getting sacked four times, so that's awesome.
Speaker 1: And then the obvious one is as a rookie against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: he had a fantastic game at Hinesfield, such a fun
Speaker 1: game that was such a top three that I've ever
Speaker 1: covered for this team, was such fun. He bawled out
Speaker 1: at Lambeau actually as a rookie two. But really, I mean,
Speaker 1: so he's had great games on the road, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, but like when I'm like what we're going
Speaker 1: to see on Sunday night, I think the Philly game
Speaker 1: is the most recently that he's done it. Because Week
Speaker 1: seventeen at MetLife against a really bad Giants team just
Speaker 1: isn't the same as what the superdomes we just break
Speaker 1: you down indoors, or what has he done there? Because
Speaker 1: I I think I could think of all the Colts
Speaker 1: every home game, you mean the road road home, They're
Speaker 1: not like, did not play again? Did not play well
Speaker 1: against the Colts Falcons? Well he well, actually Vikings, he
Speaker 1: was terrible against the Vikings. Kirakie is rookie area, Yeah
Speaker 1: he didn't, I mean, all right, terrible as a stretch,
Speaker 1: but I think he threw for like one sixty eight
Speaker 1: or something like that he was fine against the Falcons
Speaker 1: last year twenty two or thirty two for two o eight,
Speaker 1: don't I mean yeah end up winning. Yeah they I
Speaker 1: mean they won. But I'm again so that I get.
Speaker 1: My point is like, if I expect him to capitalize
Speaker 1: the way I think he can on this defense the secondary,
Speaker 1: it will be a little bit unusual, Like he hasn't
Speaker 1: had that many of those like really amazing games in
Speaker 1: these types of environments. No offense to them, those other
Speaker 1: teams in those day games, but that's not like what
Speaker 1: these gonna face Sunday night against the Saints. The energy
Speaker 1: in the Dome at night, especially with the fact that
Speaker 1: there will be Cowboy fans there, but you know, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are good. The Saints, you know, very protective of
Speaker 1: their home turf. It will be a really awesome atmosphere
Speaker 1: and nothing like a noon game at Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: No offense to them. But my dear, my dear friend
Speaker 1: John Mashoda, he's so good at like just pulling up
Speaker 1: random stuff that everybody forgot about, because you remember all
Speaker 1: or nothing when they filmed it in twenty seventeen when
Speaker 1: they played Denver, they had he had he posted a
Speaker 1: flip of Jason Garrett like, yeah, the crowd's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1: You know how you shut up the crowd, You hand
Speaker 1: the ball to number twenty one right there and blow
Speaker 1: their ass off the line. Which they lost that game
Speaker 1: very badly, like they got annihilated. Bad memories that the story, like,
Speaker 1: the strategy is the same, play well, execute especially early,
Speaker 1: and you can calm that atmosphere down at David. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that the game where Dank had like fifty pass attempts?
Speaker 1: H Denver? I think it was, yeah, no, they I
Speaker 1: mean they were getting they were getting murdered, and Z
Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball. I think, yeah, that couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything eight yards something like it back definitely, I don't
Speaker 1: have the box score in front of me. It was
Speaker 1: like thirty for fifty. Heat threw a lot of passes.
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know if I've seen the Cowboys get
Speaker 1: manhandled in Dak's there are quite like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was a bad game against the Colts last year.
Speaker 1: You can say it was pretty bad. Most of the
Speaker 1: game against the Rams last year. Neither one of them
Speaker 1: they got band handled like they did. It's thirty, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty they could do nothing thirty of fifty or two
Speaker 1: thirty eight, which is less than five yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: and Dak was the team's leading rusher. Like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was that was a brutalizing like we are not used
Speaker 1: to seeing in the recent Jason Garrett era. Maybe the
Speaker 1: other one that comes to mind is in the Superdome
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. That was up there. You know, people
Speaker 1: start talking about the altitude. Yeah, there's a weather delay
Speaker 1: for like an hour. It was like, let's stay focused people,
Speaker 1: all right, So I had a question for you guys
Speaker 1: from Art van delay. He said, hard to pick. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a Seinfeld reference. It's sorry, all right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: but anyway, hard that's the thing about Twitter, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: getting on anyway, hard to knitpick the offense. But thoughts
Speaker 1: on Zeke only having five receptions? You guys think he's
Speaker 1: being underutilized in the passing game. Okay, just when they
Speaker 1: not to sound like Troy Ekman here, but like before
Speaker 1: they get to you know, when they get less than
Speaker 1: thirty one points in a game, let's let's talk about that. No,
Speaker 1: it's to pick your poison. They haven't had to do that.
Speaker 1: They haven't had to. They're running the ball, they're they're
Speaker 1: doing well, they're throwing it down the feel they haven't
Speaker 1: had to really throw screens and stuff like that. They
Speaker 1: haven't done that just yet because they're able to do
Speaker 1: what they want to do. But they will. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a nitpick. I just think it's it's something
Speaker 1: that just hasn't hasn't needed to be there just yet.
Speaker 1: But you know they're they're doing it this way. And
Speaker 1: what I love is we know that works. We know
Speaker 1: that throwing those screen passes to seek works. They've seen it.
Speaker 1: I love that Kellen has given himself the chance to
Speaker 1: try other things first. You know, he keeps talking about, yes,
Speaker 1: I have more things on my game plan and things
Speaker 1: under my sleeve, and he does like, there's no need
Speaker 1: to do all that with Zeke when you have all
Speaker 1: these other elements. Now, maybe this is the one game
Speaker 1: that we do start seeing those kinds of things when
Speaker 1: you start talking about what's happening with not having Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup in the offense, and maybe if they take Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper out a little bit from the game, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as defense goes. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: good thing that we haven't necessarily needed to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: i'd like him to be more involved, but I mean
Speaker 1: it's hard. It's hard to nitpick what they're doing at
Speaker 1: this point. I let even said that it is two years. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm not nick picking, it's I'd like Randall Cobb to
Speaker 1: be more involved, for that matter, and I think without
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, maybe that's something that you could see here. Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you know these linebackers are on discipline,
Speaker 1: maybe z can take advantage of that in a variety
Speaker 1: of different ways. I think, I mean five through three games,
Speaker 1: so he's on pace for less than thirty. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see him be a little more active in
Speaker 1: the passing game. But I'm not losing sleep about it
Speaker 1: right now. And honestly, my hope is that all of
Speaker 1: these kinds of wrinkles that would be, you know, using
Speaker 1: him in the passing game, maybe using Pollard a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the passing game, maybe using more jet
Speaker 1: sleeps with Pollard. I'm hoping some of that stuff is
Speaker 1: stuff that they have saved they haven't had to use. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and because they haven't had to use it, it comes
Speaker 1: up in some of these games where you may need
Speaker 1: a little more variety. You may need to throw something
Speaker 1: at teams that they haven't seen on film just yet. Again,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things. And if you go back
Speaker 1: and you listen carefully to what what was being said
Speaker 1: after that first game, Kellen Moore talked about the fact
Speaker 1: that he even said there were some things that we
Speaker 1: didn't have to go to that we can say for
Speaker 1: a little later, and that, to me, I think that's
Speaker 1: the value of a good offensive coordinator is somebody that
Speaker 1: has so many tricks in their bag that they don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to pull them all out at one time.
Speaker 1: And as the season goes on, which is his long season,
Speaker 1: you'll find opportunities to be able to do some things
Speaker 1: that you haven't put on film before in games, in
Speaker 1: critical moments and games when you really need them real quick.
Speaker 1: Before we end the show, I wanted to get some
Speaker 1: opinions from you guys on the Thursday night game tonight.
Speaker 1: You got Packers versus Philadelphia Eagles. Who do you think
Speaker 1: wins that game? I I don't think that the Eagles
Speaker 1: lose it. I I know that I'm saying Eagles will win,
Speaker 1: but I just don't feel like they're gonna lose and
Speaker 1: go to one and three. I just don't I think
Speaker 1: that would be two beneficial for the Cowboys for that
Speaker 1: technical that right now. I don't know if the Packers, well,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean the three and oh and it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's tough to win there. But I feel
Speaker 1: like this is the type of game as soon as
Speaker 1: you think you kind of know, you know, one of
Speaker 1: those both those two teams, something like this would happen.
Speaker 1: I just think the Eagles are too talented to go
Speaker 1: one in three. I know that they're already one in two,
Speaker 1: but as I said yesterday, they're very easily three and
Speaker 1: oh and oh and three. They're just playing right there.
Speaker 1: I think they win to night. I go back and
Speaker 1: forth because I agree with everything he just said. It's
Speaker 1: it's so silly to try to write the Eagles off
Speaker 1: three weeks into the season. Al Shan Jeffrey is going
Speaker 1: to be back this week. Deshan Jackson might be back. Really,
Speaker 1: I thought he was definitely, Oh oh, he might be. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm too busy to try and keep up with what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Cowboy either. At least one of
Speaker 1: them is going back back, yes, maybe two, but at
Speaker 1: least one. Um At the same time, I said this
Speaker 1: on the break, like it's it's during the break. It's
Speaker 1: hard to go on the road on Thursday night and win.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's tough, You're it's not a lot of
Speaker 1: rest time. You got to travel. It's a hustle environment.
Speaker 1: Pretty good quarterback and defense. On the other side, I
Speaker 1: still think the Eagles are good, but I think the
Speaker 1: Packers are gonna win. I think the Eagles I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with everything exactly that Nick mentioned, and I just
Speaker 1: think that I just don't see it happening to where
Speaker 1: now it creates this good lead within the division, you know,
Speaker 1: between the Eagles and the Cowboys. It always happens where
Speaker 1: it's just kind of right there in that battle. I
Speaker 1: just don't see them falling that far behind from the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The Eagles could fall to one in three and still
Speaker 1: the races and over playing them twice. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the easiest way to jump back in. Quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: actually expect that the Packers win to night, and I
Speaker 1: expect that what's going to happen is Philly's going to
Speaker 1: find a point to season where they can get their
Speaker 1: footing and they're gonna start winning some games, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting that this is not gonna be is
Speaker 1: not gonna be one of those things where the Eagles
Speaker 1: are completely out of it. Even if the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: the division handily, which I still would question whether that
Speaker 1: would happen. I still think Philly's gonna be right there
Speaker 1: in position to be in a wild card. And don't
Speaker 1: think you might not face them in the playoffs, Like
Speaker 1: they're one of those teams that just kind of keep coming.
Speaker 1: They traded away their best quarterback and you know, wow,
Speaker 1: and you know the guy that's really helped them. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if the Eagles lose, okay, what happens with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys win this game? All right tomorrow. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: like I just I do have a thing for statistics
Speaker 1: and how things look on score where I just don't
Speaker 1: see it happening. It's even but every every year we
Speaker 1: do this where we try to write the storylines before Halloween.
Speaker 1: I mean, we fired everybody and said buy to the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year in Week eight, let alone week four.
Speaker 1: So it's I mean, you can only react to what
Speaker 1: you've seen. I get that but if the Eagles could
Speaker 1: fall to one in four, forget one in three, and
Speaker 1: I'd be like, they still have to run and still
Speaker 1: still got run, and we'll see. All right, guys, appreciate you.
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