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Speaker 7: It is Monday, October twenty third, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 7: Episode number fifty four. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 7: The Break. We'll live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at
Speaker 7: the Star. We're into our mashup week, our mashup shows.
Speaker 7: This is the second of two. We've got Nick Harris,
Speaker 7: We've got Danny McCrae. Danny's from Players Lounge and Nick
Speaker 7: is from Talking Cowboys, And so we're gonna spend a
Speaker 7: little time today continuing our conversation from last week. Last
Speaker 7: week we did do our tat trimester first trimester review,
Speaker 7: and I had a lot of questions for you guys.
Speaker 7: They were going to continue that, but a lot of
Speaker 7: our questions are going to be filling the blank. So
Speaker 7: I'm gonna let you guys just kind of riff a
Speaker 7: little bit. I got some questions for you before we
Speaker 7: get into that, though, I do want to talk a
Speaker 7: little bit about some of the things we saw this
Speaker 7: last weekend. I'm assuming you guys watched a lot of
Speaker 7: NFL football, as we all do. We're all sports fans
Speaker 7: first and foremost so, and I see that little smile.
Speaker 7: We actually we're going on there. We were talking college football.
Speaker 7: Danny still thinks his team has a shot.
Speaker 4: They do not. They are absolutely done.
Speaker 2: Texas, on the other hand, is still in the MIDX.
Speaker 3: Listen, two thousand and seven, LSU lost two games. Okay,
Speaker 3: we were going into we won the SEC championship, and
Speaker 3: I think West Virginia.
Speaker 4: It was three or four.
Speaker 3: Teams that still in today's a BCS.
Speaker 4: But they all lost.
Speaker 3: They all lost, and then that's what got us in
Speaker 3: there as a two loss team. But it was like
Speaker 3: every team that just needed to win to get in,
Speaker 3: they all ended up losing.
Speaker 8: Matt Flynn was like my first college football.
Speaker 4: Herot and we're going there and we win it.
Speaker 2: So tell yourself what you need to.
Speaker 4: I have to. I have to.
Speaker 8: We're the right shirt today though we didn't even bring
Speaker 8: it back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love the burd and Orange. Keep that going.
Speaker 7: And of course, yeahs the night game seven, we playing
Speaker 7: the Rangers. You're Rangers, so this should be fun.
Speaker 8: We'll see how this this plays out.
Speaker 3: Like, I actually watched the baseball game more than I
Speaker 3: watched the Miami versus Philly game too.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I'm at and I'm not a baseball like I
Speaker 7: used to. When I was a kid. I was a
Speaker 7: huge baseball fan and growing up collected baseball cards. I
Speaker 7: was all in and then literally just kind of fell
Speaker 7: off by the time I got to high school and
Speaker 7: haven't really followed it since then. But I've been watching
Speaker 7: this series. I've watched every game of this series start
Speaker 7: to finish. I'm like, you know, Baseball's interesting again.
Speaker 2: I love the clock, the pitch clock, like I.
Speaker 7: Think it moves the game little bit, which has always
Speaker 7: been one of my big pet peeves about baseball.
Speaker 2: But man, I've been into this series.
Speaker 4: No, it's been fun to watch.
Speaker 3: I went to the game here, game four, yeah, and
Speaker 3: that was the first Astros games that I had been to.
Speaker 3: I remember on the show new He's asking me like,
Speaker 3: can you name any players? I'm like, al TV, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know that I don't know anything about baseball,
Speaker 3: and but when it comes on, just like LSU Baseball,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm glued to the seat watching it, like
Speaker 3: I know exactly what's going on, but I just know
Speaker 3: the three strikes. I don't know anything about four, two, six,
Speaker 3: double players all that. I'm just watching to see who
Speaker 3: wins the game.
Speaker 8: So it's been exciting now LSU Baseball, Alex Fox, I've
Speaker 8: had some good time there. That Ridge does it right
Speaker 8: for baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they do it right for a lot of sports.
Speaker 4: They get sports.
Speaker 2: They really do get sports. I don't know about the
Speaker 2: education they get.
Speaker 8: See just what I thought, I gotta take, you got
Speaker 8: to take all?
Speaker 4: Right, here we go.
Speaker 7: So I want to talk about Week seven of the
Speaker 7: NFL season, which is more surprising. Yesterday of these three games,
Speaker 7: New York wins over Washington fourteen to seven, Baltimore kills
Speaker 7: Detroit thirty eight to six, or Miami wins last night
Speaker 7: thirty one to seventeen over Miami Eagles.
Speaker 3: I was like, Eagles, Yeah, mineus Detroit because I watched
Speaker 3: Detroit last year. I have an old teammate who coaches
Speaker 3: for Detroit, Kevin Shepperd, linebacker, coach, and I've been watching
Speaker 3: them more, especially with them on hard knocks, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I can see them getting better. It's Detroit, and then
Speaker 3: now this year you're like, wait, Detroit might be one
Speaker 3: of the best teams in the league. And I've been
Speaker 3: watching Baltimore and you're like, they're still trying to figure
Speaker 3: it out with Monket and this new offense ken Lamar,
Speaker 3: you know, mix it up and be a passion and
Speaker 3: also a runner, but spread it out a little bit
Speaker 3: more with Odell, and it hadn't looked how I expected
Speaker 3: it to look. And then they go out there against Detroit,
Speaker 3: who I think is probably top two in the league,
Speaker 3: and they dismantle them. I'm talking about from start to finish, offensively, defensively, special,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about they just beat the brakes off of them.
Speaker 3: So to me, I wasn't expecting it. And what I
Speaker 3: thought Detroit was, which they probably still are because it
Speaker 3: is the NFL. I just didn't know that it would
Speaker 3: be that domin nating of a performance from Lamar Jackson
Speaker 3: because he looked like the old MVP candidates. So that
Speaker 3: was the most surprising one to me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree with you. It actually I was watching
Speaker 8: that game yesterday and I think it was twenty eight
Speaker 8: to nothing at half, and I was sitting there and
Speaker 8: I was like, Okay, Baltimore is about to run away
Speaker 8: with this, and Detroit's a really good team and Baltimore
Speaker 8: is a really good team. And so it made me
Speaker 8: think back to that San Francisco game. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 8: these games they happened to other teams, right, Yeah, So
Speaker 8: it honestly gave me a little bit more confidence coming
Speaker 8: out of that one. But I also want to touch
Speaker 8: on Philly and Miami. Once Jalen Hurts through that pick six,
Speaker 8: I thought Miami was about to really turn it up
Speaker 8: and run away with it, and it was the complete opposite,
Speaker 8: and Philly just came right back on offense and march
Speaker 8: down the field. Then they did it again and then
Speaker 8: their defense showed up. Philly's defense really surprised me. They
Speaker 8: gave up ten points to that Miami offense and only
Speaker 8: you know, the seven came on the defensive touchdown. So
Speaker 8: I man, they looked really good yesterday. That kind of
Speaker 8: scared me. As the night went on, I'll say that.
Speaker 3: I gave I gave him a little bit of an
Speaker 3: asterisk just because the offensive line issues that Miami had,
Speaker 3: I think the whole left side were back ups, and
Speaker 3: the Philly defensive line is probably top two players, so
Speaker 3: essentially their whole office in line was back ups at
Speaker 3: that point in a show in that game, but Philly
Speaker 3: did It was still surprising what they were able to
Speaker 3: do with the receivers stopping to run.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they played a hell of a game, so I'll
Speaker 4: still work.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Speaking of that Philadelphia team, right now, they are six
Speaker 7: and one, Cowboys at four and two in second place
Speaker 7: in the division.
Speaker 2: How big do you think the gap is between Philadelphia
Speaker 2: and Dallas.
Speaker 8: I think it's sizable. There's definitely a different tier there.
Speaker 8: If it's Tier one to Tier tier or Tier two
Speaker 8: to Tier three, I think it's one to two. But
Speaker 8: I think there is still pretty sizable gap there. Obviously,
Speaker 8: they have a really good opportunity here in two weeks,
Speaker 8: so it's it's crazy that we're already getting getting close
Speaker 8: to that trip out to Philly. I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 8: We'll see how big that gap really is. I don't
Speaker 8: think that game will be as poor as the forty
Speaker 8: nine ers showing. I still think the forty nine Ers
Speaker 8: are a step above Philly just because I feel like
Speaker 8: they're more complete. They've played more complete games to this point.
Speaker 8: Obviously the Browns game is an exception, but you look
Speaker 8: at the Eagles and the loss that they had, So
Speaker 8: right now, I'd have like forty nine Ers Eagles, and
Speaker 8: then in that second tier you got Cowboys, Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I do have forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers and Eagles kind of even at this point,
Speaker 3: just because Philly, I think they have so many different
Speaker 3: ways to beat you. Like, if one way is if
Speaker 3: the defense isn't working, they can get the offense rolling,
Speaker 3: if the passing game isn't rolling, they can get the
Speaker 3: running game rolling with Jalen Hurts, and then also game
Speaker 3: well and swift. So I think their ability to win
Speaker 3: in multiple ways to me, has them even with San Francisco.
Speaker 3: But then that is why we are under them, because
Speaker 3: we always find a way to Like, all right, if
Speaker 3: one part of our team isn't working well, then it
Speaker 3: seems like it just kind of trickles all the way
Speaker 3: down through the rest of it. Right, If our running
Speaker 3: game isn't working, then all of a sudden we have
Speaker 3: to pass the ball a lot, and then Dak is
Speaker 3: under pressure. Dak may be throwing interceptions. If we can't
Speaker 3: stop the run, then that affects us on offense and
Speaker 3: specialty like it. Just if something's not working for us,
Speaker 3: then we watch the game and we're like, wait, why
Speaker 3: isn't the other parts of the team picking up the
Speaker 3: offense or picking up the defense. So I think that's
Speaker 3: why we're behind. But I do think we're getting better
Speaker 3: because we saw the offense kind of come alive a
Speaker 3: little bit. Dak Prescott say I'm gonna put the team
Speaker 3: on my back, and I think if he continues to
Speaker 3: use his legs, we can then get up in that
Speaker 3: upper echelona teams.
Speaker 8: That's a great point because, as always going back, I
Speaker 8: watched a little bit of a film of pass games
Speaker 8: this past weekend, just because there was enough time there.
Speaker 8: When the defense is on, the offense is typically off
Speaker 8: and it's hard to get the defense to carry you
Speaker 8: to a win. And when the offense is playing really well,
Speaker 8: then it's the defense that's there's a little bit of
Speaker 8: we just need a little bit more symmetry, man, And
Speaker 8: that's a great point to what we're talking about as
Speaker 8: far as tiers because those good teams, whenever there's one
Speaker 8: side of the ball that's not quite clicking, they can
Speaker 8: trust that other side of the ball to carry them
Speaker 8: to a victory. I would love to see that out
Speaker 8: of a Cowboys team at some point in the next
Speaker 8: few weeks. You can make a case that something like
Speaker 8: that happened in the Chargers game with the defense, but
Speaker 8: they really stepped up late and they were able to
Speaker 8: capitalize on a couple of poor drives from Los Angeles
Speaker 8: and then on the last drive with the interceptions. So
Speaker 8: maybe see one of those nitty gritty type of wins
Speaker 8: where one side of the ball really helps carry to
Speaker 8: a victory, preferably the offense. But you know, beggars can't
Speaker 8: be choosers.
Speaker 7: If there's one thing that you would want to see
Speaker 7: from this Cowboys team that you think would lessen the gap,
Speaker 7: the most.
Speaker 8: Will to be efficiency on offense top to bottom. I
Speaker 8: just I feel like there's so much left on the
Speaker 8: table with the weapons that they do have. With Pollard
Speaker 8: in the run game. I know we talked about it
Speaker 8: in the last show, just getting more creative with him
Speaker 8: in the run game, getting more of those receivers involved.
Speaker 8: I mean ceedee lamb. Yes, he has great numbers. He's
Speaker 8: leading the team and receiving right now, eleventh in the NFL,
Speaker 8: but his potential is so much higher where he could
Speaker 8: be right now and Brandon Cooks that speaks for itself.
Speaker 8: Still under two hundred yards on the season. Get him involved.
Speaker 8: I just want to see efficiency around the board, you know.
Speaker 8: I want to see things happen downfield, a little bit
Speaker 8: more creativity all across the board. I think if they
Speaker 8: can be more efficient on offense, then they can be
Speaker 8: more of a complimentary team. And obviously, as we were
Speaker 8: just saying that that helps create a better football team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just like, to me, it's just it's on Dak.
Speaker 3: To me, it's how creative can Dak be? Stending plays right,
Speaker 3: Because a lot of those players that you see on
Speaker 3: Sunday when you're not watching the Cowboys, you see the
Speaker 3: quarterback breaking out of the pocket, run right, run left.
Speaker 3: All of a sudden, it's a foty yard pass down
Speaker 3: the field. We saw Dak do it with Tony Poller
Speaker 3: where he throws it back across his body and it's
Speaker 3: just an extended play of you saying, Okay, everything is
Speaker 3: broken down I'm gonna find a way to make a
Speaker 3: big play.
Speaker 4: And I think, just thinking back.
Speaker 3: To Dak in his first couple of years, that was
Speaker 3: that can I just see Dak running and diving over
Speaker 3: guys into the end zone and improvising with his legs
Speaker 3: and that's when he felt more comfortable before the injury.
Speaker 3: But I think we saw it last week to say, okay,
Speaker 3: all right, Dak is going to be that elusive guy
Speaker 3: to where Okay, it's not just oh he's sacked. He's
Speaker 3: gonna find a way to break out of that sack
Speaker 3: and then extend to play. And I think if he
Speaker 3: does that, we can find a way to then win
Speaker 3: because that extends the drive, helps your defense out. You
Speaker 3: don't have to go crazy with you two hundred yard receivers,
Speaker 3: but you're finding a way to move the chains when
Speaker 3: the calls aren't working as they should. And I think
Speaker 3: that one demoralizes a defense, but then it helps your
Speaker 3: defense as well, and it kind of gathering and as
Speaker 3: a team to say, look at our leader. He's out
Speaker 3: there doing putting his body on the line, and you
Speaker 3: saw him do that in his first few years and
Speaker 3: the injury kind of set him back.
Speaker 4: But last week.
Speaker 3: I was happy to see it because I think that's
Speaker 3: a huge part of our success.
Speaker 7: So take the top four teams I think these are
Speaker 7: the top four teams in the NFC, and put them
Speaker 7: in order. You got San Francisco, Philly, Dallas Detroit. Where
Speaker 7: would you rank them right now? Between that as one
Speaker 7: through four?
Speaker 3: Since I have to rank them, I don't want to
Speaker 3: do the recency that like the recency bias, because we
Speaker 3: just saw Philly go out there and beat Miami, who
Speaker 3: put up seventy on Denver. But I'm going with Philly.
Speaker 3: I'm going with Philly as number one because the multiple
Speaker 3: ways that they can win. They got the receivers, they have,
Speaker 3: the D line. Hassan Reddick went crazy last night, Like
Speaker 3: there's so many different ways for them to win and
Speaker 3: so many players that can impact the game. When I
Speaker 3: look at San Francisco, I'm looking at a injury to
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey that could then change the whole outlook of
Speaker 3: like what we think about San Francisco, Like, is McCaffrey play,
Speaker 3: He's not, okay, we can figure out a way to
Speaker 3: then just zone in on party. So I think that's
Speaker 3: why I have them below Philly, and then I have Detroit,
Speaker 3: even though they got blasted yesterday. It has happened to
Speaker 3: almost every team in the league where they go out
Speaker 3: and you're like, wait, that's not the team that I
Speaker 3: thought they were, And I think Detroit is still a
Speaker 3: really good team. And then I will put us at
Speaker 3: number four.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I will go Philly, San Francisco, excuse me, San Francisco, Philly, Dallas, Detroit.
Speaker 8: And just the reason I give that edge to San
Speaker 8: Francisco is just gosh, They're so efficient in so many ways,
Speaker 8: and they have so many weapons on the offensive side
Speaker 8: of the ball. It's a really good point though about McCaffrey.
Speaker 8: If he goes out for an extended amount of time,
Speaker 8: then that's a really young backfield. You're going to have
Speaker 8: all of a sudden, like do they put Jordan Mason
Speaker 8: or Elijah Mitchell in there. They're gonna have to figure
Speaker 8: that one out. But they still have Deebo Samuel and
Speaker 8: George Kittle and Brandon i Uk who's taken anto their
Speaker 8: step this year. On the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 8: I think with Philly and San Francisco both there are
Speaker 8: opportunities in that secondary to take advantage of, especially with CJ.
Speaker 8: Garner Johnson now in Detroit and leaving Philly. But their
Speaker 8: pass rushes are so aggressive that it's hard to really
Speaker 8: take advantage of those secondary lapses. And as far as
Speaker 8: the difference between Dallas and Detroit, I think Dallas is
Speaker 8: just slightly more complete. I think Detroit can be really complete.
Speaker 8: They just need time, they need reps. I think by
Speaker 8: the end of the season, when we get to that
Speaker 8: week seventeen, sixteen or seventeen matchup against Detroit, we're probably
Speaker 8: looking up and saying, Okay, Detroit's probably the better team
Speaker 8: here that's going to be coming into town. But as
Speaker 8: of right now, I have the slide edge to Dallas
Speaker 8: just because I think they've they've shown some more grit
Speaker 8: and games like what Detroit had last night.
Speaker 4: Are you giving it to yesterday? It's a golf or
Speaker 4: deck right now, GoF, for sure, I give it.
Speaker 7: I get to Dak because I look at how and
Speaker 7: I'll put it like this, the way Dak played last week.
Speaker 7: If you give me that DK, I think it's better
Speaker 7: than what GoF can give you. I think he will
Speaker 7: be He's a better quarterback than what GoF can give you.
Speaker 2: Now Dak.
Speaker 7: It's always been in my opinion, with Dak, it's always
Speaker 7: been about consistency.
Speaker 2: Can you give me that same thing every week? Especially
Speaker 2: when you start talking about can you use your legs
Speaker 2: a little bit more?
Speaker 7: Can you force teams to respect the fact that if
Speaker 7: they're going to turn their backs and run and they're
Speaker 7: going to be a man man coverage, you can take
Speaker 7: off and run on them and you can hurt them
Speaker 7: like that. Now, if team, if you forced team to
Speaker 7: respect that, it only makes the Cowboys better. I just
Speaker 7: don't know the Dak's going to do that every week.
Speaker 7: And by the way, I don't know if the coaches
Speaker 7: allowed Dak to do that every week.
Speaker 2: And you know that could be.
Speaker 7: A part of this too, is it's not just Dak's call.
Speaker 7: Could be about how they offense, how they want the
Speaker 7: offense to run. But I think at his best, I
Speaker 7: think Dak's a better quarterback than I think.
Speaker 3: He has the talent and athleticism to be more dynamic
Speaker 3: than Jared Golf. As I watched Jared Golf with the
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions, I didn't go back to Jared Golf went
Speaker 3: to the Super Bowl absolutely with the Rams and they
Speaker 3: got rid of it, and they got rid of it.
Speaker 3: But you're watching them now and you're saying, this guy
Speaker 3: looks like the guy who took him to the super
Speaker 3: Bowl that season to where Saint Brown is all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, like you're looking at this guy and you're saying, wait,
Speaker 3: where is this is Detroit? And Jared Golf was he
Speaker 3: thirteen and four? Well now thirteen to five over the
Speaker 3: last seventeen I keep seeing that stat He's been consistent
Speaker 3: there and we can't forget that Detroit was Detroit. We
Speaker 3: all looked at Detroit at the Stafford left and was like,
Speaker 3: they're sending Jared Golf there to end his career because
Speaker 3: they have no faith in him as a quarterback. And
Speaker 3: he's kind of you know, it's been rejuvenated there in Detroit.
Speaker 3: So I'm just you know, I'm just just watching them.
Speaker 3: I'm happy for Golf because what he went through getting
Speaker 3: traded from the team that he took the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: and then ay man, you go out there and die
Speaker 3: in Detroit and you're saying, look look at me now.
Speaker 8: So I think Detroit's a really interesting case too, because
Speaker 8: just most likely, if you're looking at likelihood, Dallas is
Speaker 8: probably either traveling to Detroit or to the winner of
Speaker 8: the NFC South first round of the playoffs. That's just
Speaker 8: kind of how things look right now because season end
Speaker 8: of today, they'd be going to Detroit. So that'd be
Speaker 8: two games against Detroit in the final three or hopefully
Speaker 8: not final three, you know, hopefully they would win, right
Speaker 8: But I think that's an interesting he's leading the South Atlanta.
Speaker 8: They took four in three.
Speaker 7: Four and three three, and Detroit's record is five and two. Right,
Speaker 7: so Dallas, I thought Dallas would be going if they
Speaker 7: in the first round, they'd be going to the South
Speaker 7: to play the South winner.
Speaker 8: Right I think there's Sex in the wild card right
Speaker 8: now and the third ranked division winners.
Speaker 2: Who's the fifth team right now? Seattle?
Speaker 7: Yes, I thought I thought Dallas right now at the
Speaker 7: top of the wild cards, but maybe not.
Speaker 8: It will take me like five seconds, but I didn't think.
Speaker 7: Anybody had more less than two loss. But it might
Speaker 7: also be when you get in those tie breakers, who knows.
Speaker 8: It's Seattle, yes, Seattle, yes, breaker over Dallas right now?
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, all right, that makes sense, which Dallas will
Speaker 7: have a chance to all these teams. Dallas gonna have
Speaker 7: a chance to all of them. So we will find
Speaker 7: out head to head what we.
Speaker 2: Think of Dallas versus all these teams and how they
Speaker 2: rank up.
Speaker 3: Last month is going a couple of weeks, and that
Speaker 3: last month is yeah, I mean really.
Speaker 4: More than the last month.
Speaker 7: You start thinking Thanksgiving on it's.
Speaker 8: Gonna be wild. I will say that stretch where you
Speaker 8: go Philly, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit yesterday gave me a lot
Speaker 8: more confidence in that stretch with the way Buffalo played
Speaker 8: against New England, with the way Miami played in the
Speaker 8: second half against Philly, and then Detroit obviously against the Raid.
Speaker 8: And so there's a little bit of positivity from you.
Speaker 7: And the interesting thing about it is, as we all know,
Speaker 7: this is a sport of injuries. So by the time
Speaker 7: we get to December, a lot of these teams, including Dallas,
Speaker 7: should look very differently when you start thinking about how
Speaker 7: injuries factor in. So we'll see how that plays out
Speaker 7: as a part of this entire picture. We're going to
Speaker 7: take our first break when we come back. Got these questions,
Speaker 7: We're going to do our first trimester review. Got a
Speaker 7: lot of questions for these guys. Will get in just
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Speaker 7: Let's get into our first trimester review. We started last week.
Speaker 7: We're going to continue it this week. Primarily going to
Speaker 7: be He's filling the blank questions I have for you guys.
Speaker 7: We're going to start with I think probably the biggest
Speaker 7: question that anyone has when they talk about the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 7: It and here is the statement with the fill in
Speaker 7: the blank. Dak's play through the first six games has
Speaker 7: been blank.
Speaker 4: Inconsistent.
Speaker 3: I think we see some games like where we were
Speaker 3: playing New York and we're like, okay, this is very efficient,
Speaker 3: like he's completing a lot of passes, he's protecting the ball,
Speaker 3: and then you go to other games and you're like, wait,
Speaker 3: was that Is that Dak being efficient or is that
Speaker 3: him not taking chances to stretch the field?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: So, I think it's inconsistent for like what we believe
Speaker 3: we should see from Dak.
Speaker 4: And then you go into last week and he said, wait,
Speaker 4: Dak's using his legs. Where's this? Dak been right?
Speaker 3: And I think we expected to see this from the
Speaker 3: beginning of the season.
Speaker 4: So to me, it's been inconsistent.
Speaker 3: It's gotten better, but it's just been you know, we
Speaker 3: don't know what Dak we're going to see when we
Speaker 3: go into a game.
Speaker 8: Running through the sentence again, I want to be madically
Speaker 8: correct if my answer.
Speaker 7: Dak's play through through the first six games has been.
Speaker 8: Blank, leaving me wanting more. So I one word that
Speaker 8: Blake can be a book right left, okay, leaving me
Speaker 8: wanting more. Again, We've seen glimpses of what we really
Speaker 8: want to see in this offense on a consistent basis,
Speaker 8: and it goes right into your inconsistency point. It's, uh,
Speaker 8: you know, Dak using his legs as he did against
Speaker 8: the Chargers a big, a big point for me. That
Speaker 8: points out to me his his leg usage was against
Speaker 8: the Patriots when he escaped in the red zone and
Speaker 8: had that first down and put his shoulder down and
Speaker 8: you know, set up a touchdown in the red zone,
Speaker 8: which was you know unforeseen at that time. But uh,
Speaker 8: and then downfield, we've seen the down ball action with
Speaker 8: Michael Gallup one on one, just trusting him in those
Speaker 8: areas and putting it in a position where only he
Speaker 8: can go grab it. I've loved to see all of that.
Speaker 8: I just want to see it more. I want to
Speaker 8: see everything that he's doing good more. And I would
Speaker 8: say that kind of plays into what the offense is
Speaker 8: kind of schematically built around as well. It seems like
Speaker 8: early in games and especially on opening scripts, they're just
Speaker 8: keeping everything really centered and really mellow. I want to
Speaker 8: see them break out with an opening script. You know,
Speaker 8: have you utilize motion? There was a stat that was
Speaker 8: thrown out in Sunday Night Football last night. The Dolphins
Speaker 8: are utilizing motion on eighty six percent of their offensive snaps.
Speaker 8: It feels like the Cowboys aren't even touching half of that.
Speaker 8: So you know, I want to I want to throw
Speaker 8: that out there, you know. I want to get Dak
Speaker 8: in positions where he can succeed more. But I think
Speaker 8: a lot of it falls on him as well.
Speaker 7: The if you guys and I guess, let's move on
Speaker 7: to the second question. To be better, Dak needs to
Speaker 7: be blank.
Speaker 3: Fearless, more fearless, And it's all to me. It's all
Speaker 3: going to go back to using his legs to extend plays.
Speaker 3: And it's easy for me to say because I didn't
Speaker 3: go through what Dak went through with the like I
Speaker 3: can imagine looking down at my leg and seeing seeing
Speaker 3: it that way, I can imagine that it's some trauma there,
Speaker 3: but for trauma something for him to then, like, if
Speaker 3: he's able to get over that and then get back
Speaker 3: to using his athleticism as he did at Mississippi State
Speaker 3: when he was being lsu, then I'm.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, we're rolling.
Speaker 3: We're cooking with something now, because what we know is
Speaker 3: if Michael Gallup, Ceedee Lamb or Brandon cooks, if they
Speaker 3: aren't able to get open, we still can lean on Dak.
Speaker 3: When you look at the top teams in the league,
Speaker 3: especially the ones that were playing for the Super Bowl
Speaker 3: last year. You look at Jalen Hurts, look at Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 3: you look at Joe Burrow, you look at Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: All these teams have quarterbacks who are dynamic enough to
Speaker 3: extend plays, use their legs to get first downs when
Speaker 3: everything breaks down, and with us not having that, then
Speaker 3: I feel like that puts us behind. But when Dak
Speaker 3: is doing that, that puts us right on level with
Speaker 3: the rest of those teams.
Speaker 8: So you're saying fearless more in the sense of being
Speaker 8: more athletic and trusting your trusting the legs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, put it on the line, whatever it is, because
Speaker 3: that's what we used to see. Oh man, he's gonna
Speaker 3: go out there and do whatever he needs to do.
Speaker 3: That's what makes so that's what makes them great. Now,
Speaker 3: that's what made him that type of leader, because the
Speaker 3: teammates look at him and say, oh, he did that,
Speaker 3: our quarterback.
Speaker 4: I'm about to go do that too.
Speaker 8: I'm one hundred percent with you. I'm going to say
Speaker 8: fearless in the sense of not giving a damn about
Speaker 8: what happens outside of these doors, because I think just
Speaker 8: being the Dallas Cowboys quarterback. He's going to be on
Speaker 8: First Take every morning. You know, he's going to be
Speaker 8: on the talk shows. I feel like at times it
Speaker 8: gets to him a little bit. Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 7: I always thought of Dak and everything I've seen, everything
Speaker 7: I've heard from people who deal with him on a
Speaker 7: day to day basis is the opposite that he is
Speaker 7: the most steady person they've ever seen when it comes
Speaker 7: to managing people's expectations around him and in the outside world.
Speaker 2: So you're saying you don't think that's.
Speaker 8: I think it's starting to get to a point where
Speaker 8: it's starting to affect him. And I think the offseason
Speaker 8: really did that with the interception talk over the entire offseason,
Speaker 8: and that became like a thing in his head, Okay,
Speaker 8: I have to stop interceptions. And you can kind of
Speaker 8: see it. It was the question that was asked at
Speaker 8: the end of the New England game, and you saw
Speaker 8: a little bit of it. He's like, you want to
Speaker 8: piss me off, don't you talking about the the Niners
Speaker 8: that were coming up, And you can just see him
Speaker 8: get annoyed when certain questions come up, the turnover things,
Speaker 8: the and now it's the red zone offense. Now he's
Speaker 8: kind of getting tired of answering those questions. Well, it's like, well,
Speaker 8: why don't you go out on the field and show that, Hey,
Speaker 8: I don't have any fear in these areas. I can,
Speaker 8: I can try to make a play, I can force things,
Speaker 8: and you know, try to try to be that that
Speaker 8: Dak dime guy that he has been in the past. Granted,
Speaker 8: he's made some great throws this season, but I don't
Speaker 8: feel like he's taken as any chances as he can
Speaker 8: because he's he's scared of the turnover situation. That's that's
Speaker 8: the way I feel. I want him to be fearless
Speaker 8: in that situation. Who cares you throw three picks so
Speaker 8: you win the game? You win the game, you know
Speaker 8: So I I would love to see, yeah it is.
Speaker 8: That is if you can, if you can win it,
Speaker 8: if you can force that throw and still in the game,
Speaker 8: that force that throw, you know so, because we saw
Speaker 8: we saw that we saw in San Francisco. He came
Speaker 8: out in the second half and it was almost like
Speaker 8: you were throwing the kitchen sink because you had to.
Speaker 8: You were what twenty eight to ten at that point.
Speaker 8: And that was when we saw kind of fearless Dak,
Speaker 8: but it was in a bad way because obviously it
Speaker 8: was three picks like within five possessions, I believe. So
Speaker 8: I want to see that on a consistent basis, just
Speaker 8: more efficient. Let's let's make a little bit wiser throws.
Speaker 8: And I'm not saying go throw three picks in five possessions.
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, bring that fearlessness on a week two
Speaker 8: week basis, because when you have it, when it's a
Speaker 8: close game seventeen seventeen late in the fourth quarter, then
Speaker 8: you have a drive like you had against the Charters
Speaker 8: on Monday night. Granted it didn't end with a touchdout,
Speaker 8: but it ended with Gay winning points.
Speaker 2: All right, Let's move on.
Speaker 7: McCarthy's offense and play calling through the first six games
Speaker 7: has been blank.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 3: In between the twenties, Like he comes out and we're
Speaker 3: watching the game and I'm like, oh, we're rolling. Especially
Speaker 3: when the run game gets going, You're like, okay, scheming
Speaker 3: him up. Like McCarthy said, he's going to play to
Speaker 3: the defense to make sure he lets them get as
Speaker 3: much rest as possible in each drive with the kick,
Speaker 3: and then you get in between the twenties and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm okay with field goals because I do believe our
Speaker 3: defense is great, but it would be nice to convert
Speaker 3: some of these into touchdowns or just see that we're
Speaker 3: close to scoring a touchdown where okay, it was just
Speaker 3: off by a little bit. We're seeing running plays to
Speaker 3: where it's like, really, really vanilla. We're not seeing any
Speaker 3: as much creativity as we had hoped when we get
Speaker 3: into the route concepts in the red zone. Really enjoyed
Speaker 3: the Brandon Cooks mess route, which we were like, okay,
Speaker 3: using his speed to get them all the way across
Speaker 3: the field. Those are the type of things you want
Speaker 3: to see in the red zone to kind of capitalize
Speaker 3: on the skill sets of your receivers. But yeah, great
Speaker 3: in between the twenties, red zone, not so much. The
Speaker 3: one thing I would say is I'm happy with the
Speaker 3: field goals in the red zone because the one time
Speaker 3: when he decided to okay, I'm hearing all the red
Speaker 3: zone noise, I'm gonna go fun on fourth down.
Speaker 4: It bit us in the button right. We talked about
Speaker 4: it all season.
Speaker 3: We're gonna play to the defense, and then we all
Speaker 3: started talking about it. Everybody on ESPN started talking about it,
Speaker 3: and then I felt like he heard it, and then
Speaker 3: he went forward. But then the next game you see
Speaker 3: him saying, you know what, I put my earplugs in.
Speaker 4: I didn't hear. Let me go and kick the field goal.
Speaker 2: So and by the way, you kicked his ball.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, which is surprised us. Right.
Speaker 8: No, imagine if he wasn't, how bad that might be.
Speaker 8: Looking at three and three. I'm just gonna say, non creative.
Speaker 8: And it goes back to what I've been saying, you
Speaker 8: know the last couple of shows. Just utilize the weapons
Speaker 8: and better situations, get the ball in the playmaker's hands
Speaker 8: in more creative ways.
Speaker 2: So to be better, McCarthy needs to blank.
Speaker 8: No, I'm think of I'll think of a better answer here.
Speaker 3: To be better McCarthy Theeds two, I'm gonna steal yours. Well, Actually,
Speaker 3: it's not that he needs to play to the strengths
Speaker 3: of his the weapons that he now has. All right,
Speaker 3: Brandon Cooks, like I'm always going to say, line him
Speaker 3: up at number three, run him on the deep over
Speaker 3: see who can keep up with him? All right, if
Speaker 3: you find somebody that can keep up with him, then okay,
Speaker 3: then they find playing b But I'm telling you you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a hard time finding a defensive back who
Speaker 3: can keep up with him running down the field like
Speaker 3: that because he has that type of speed. That is
Speaker 3: how you utilize one of your best player skill sets.
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb should be lining up all over the place
Speaker 3: all type of motions. As you said, he missed his
Speaker 3: one motion with turping when he was out of the game.
Speaker 3: Turpy came in and ran into the bunch route. But
Speaker 3: we should see more of that from CD Lamb as
Speaker 3: we do see that from Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, all
Speaker 3: those other receivers who you say, Okay, you know they're
Speaker 3: going to face a lot of double teams. How can
Speaker 3: we still then get these guys open. I think playing
Speaker 3: more into that is what Mike McCarthy can do to
Speaker 3: be better.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say, put more trust in his quarterback. I
Speaker 8: think if there's more trust there to you know, create
Speaker 8: some things downfield cheerpoint on Brandon Cooks, then I think
Speaker 8: there's more big plays and more explosive plays that will
Speaker 8: be generated from that. I haven't loved the downfield passing
Speaker 8: game just in general. I mean, we have seen some
Speaker 8: opportunities where they've been able to capitalize on that. But
Speaker 8: I want a little bit more trust in Dak. I
Speaker 8: want I want that comeback route to be on a
Speaker 8: little bit more on the opposite hash that he's been
Speaker 8: so good at throwing at times in his career. You know,
Speaker 8: I want to see him link up with Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 8: more downfield, Brandon Cook's downfield. That just kind of goes
Speaker 8: across the board though, and that could be in the
Speaker 8: running game as well. You know, I would love to
Speaker 8: see more read option with him and Tony Poller. That'd
Speaker 8: be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: This question. The defense through six games has been blank.
Speaker 4: Not as consistent as I want them to be.
Speaker 3: I think as long as we're in a situation to
Speaker 3: where we're ahead and we're forcing the other team to pass,
Speaker 3: we are outstanding. I do want us to be better
Speaker 3: in the run. I was surprised at how well we
Speaker 3: played the run against San Francisco. I was one surprise,
Speaker 3: but then I look back at Arizona and I say,
Speaker 3: I was surprised at how you know, it was unfortunate
Speaker 3: that we didn't play the run as.
Speaker 2: Well as that's the only game.
Speaker 7: Like when you think about they played well against the
Speaker 7: run against the Chargers, is that the only game where
Speaker 7: they had with that whole that old narrative of them
Speaker 7: not being able to stop the run as popped.
Speaker 4: Up that is that is the only game.
Speaker 3: But for or as great as I want this defense
Speaker 3: to be, that is not a game where you say.
Speaker 4: We're going to give up It was two hundred at Arizona.
Speaker 8: When you give up two hundred and.
Speaker 3: Twenty two yards Russian, that's not just a bad game
Speaker 3: against the run. That is a that is horrible against
Speaker 3: the run. So like against the bad team, against the
Speaker 3: bad team, when you see that, they're not doing much
Speaker 3: now as you continue to watch it throughout the season.
Speaker 3: So I think that is our Achilles hill, and it
Speaker 3: has been for the last couple of years, our physicality,
Speaker 3: and I want to see us continue to get better
Speaker 3: and then have that be something that we stand on
Speaker 3: it as we go into the playoffs. Like, hey man,
Speaker 3: when you play the Dallas Cowboys, they're gonna be physical.
Speaker 3: Every yard you get in the run game is going
Speaker 3: to be earned. Like they should be saying that about us,
Speaker 3: and if they do, knowing that what we have with
Speaker 3: our pass rush. That's when we become that defense to
Speaker 3: where you really fear and we travel wherever we're going.
Speaker 8: Yeah, to a lot of those say points, I'm gonna
Speaker 8: say great, but not elite as far as the defense,
Speaker 8: or we've seen what elite could look like in this
Speaker 8: defense the first two weeks. I mean, we're coming out
Speaker 8: of Week two talking about this could be one of
Speaker 8: the best defenses ever and then humbled really fast. And
Speaker 8: then they turn around and have a really good performance
Speaker 8: against New England and we see what that potential looks like.
Speaker 8: Whenever everything is clicking and the pass rush is getting home,
Speaker 8: they're forcing turnovers, they're playing complimentary football. And then San Francisco,
Speaker 8: and I think San Francisco is more so of a
Speaker 8: cause of the offense putting them on the field the
Speaker 8: entire first half and then eventually they broke. I don't
Speaker 8: think you can have any team in the history of
Speaker 8: the NFL that's going to be on the field that
Speaker 8: long against that offense and not break. So I would
Speaker 8: say great, but not elite. I think there's a couple
Speaker 8: of things that they can do to be elite. It's
Speaker 8: to your save point, stopping the run, being a little
Speaker 8: bit more efficient in covering slot receivers specifically. I feel
Speaker 8: like Jordan Lewis has had a couple of lapses at moments,
Speaker 8: but he's had good moments at other times. Against New
Speaker 8: England really great, but against San Francisco there was some
Speaker 8: lapses against the Chargers man that almost costs us the game.
Speaker 8: I feel like, So I would say.
Speaker 7: A little difference because of the fact that he missed
Speaker 7: training camp and just kind of have sure kind of
Speaker 7: get himself going.
Speaker 2: Now he's going through that period during the season.
Speaker 8: For sure, but at the same time, he's no different
Speaker 8: than the guy lining up across the across the line
Speaker 8: of scrimmage from him. So he'd have to be ready
Speaker 8: to go. And when you're battling a guy like Keenan
Speaker 8: Allen and there's trust there to battle a guy like
Speaker 8: Keenan Allen, then I would expect him to be able
Speaker 8: to play up to his potential in that in that instance. Granted,
Speaker 8: I'm not out on Jordan Lewis by any means. There's
Speaker 8: a lot of people that are on the Twitter sphere
Speaker 8: where they're like, oh, let's get rid of Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 8: Let's figure this out and I'm like, man, he's still
Speaker 8: working himself. A good player, he's a great player, he's
Speaker 8: a dog, he's great for that locker room. I think
Speaker 8: he'll have a bounce back performance whenever he has an opportunity. Well,
Speaker 8: there'll be a really good opportunity. Actually on Sunday. There's
Speaker 8: a guy named Cooper Cup on the other side. But
Speaker 8: I think if I think it's great but not elite.
Speaker 3: Listen and those people who speak that way about Jordan
Speaker 3: Lewis do not have a full understanding of the slot
Speaker 3: corner being one of the most difficult positions to play
Speaker 3: on the entire football field. Like you're talking about top
Speaker 3: top three, Like you got quarterback, you might be slat
Speaker 3: corner right after that, to be honest, because there's so
Speaker 3: much space and the technique that you use on the outside,
Speaker 3: you can't use that same technique on the inside because
Speaker 3: there's a two way go most of the time, and
Speaker 3: if you're not getting the help from a linebacker or safety,
Speaker 3: then you pretty much on the island by yourself with
Speaker 3: more space than any other position on the field, and.
Speaker 7: You're going to see the best receiver every single week.
Speaker 7: Because in today's NFL they figure if you got a
Speaker 7: number one receiver, you figure out a way to get
Speaker 7: him into the slot because you want to be having
Speaker 7: given those opportunities to be able to work both sides.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's a tough position.
Speaker 3: And they're motion in you, so now you can't press.
Speaker 3: You got to come across the four.
Speaker 7: Everything about it makes a challenge, everything about it all right,
Speaker 7: if Dallas could upgrade any position before the trade deadline,
Speaker 7: it would be blank.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go say linebacker, just with the way the
Speaker 8: depth looks at that position. I was close to saying
Speaker 8: running back, and I've been off that running back point
Speaker 8: for a while. But I was watching football yesterday, right,
Speaker 8: and as you do, and the teams that succeed in
Speaker 8: their running game, they're multiple in the running game. It's
Speaker 8: either a quarterback that's really dynamic or it's two running
Speaker 8: backs that can bounce off each other and they feed
Speaker 8: off each other really well. They play two different style,
Speaker 8: you know, a running games. I feel like the Cowboys
Speaker 8: are really gonna have the loan running game with Tony Pollard.
Speaker 8: But I want to speak to my linebacker point. The
Speaker 8: depth there. I feel like even if Layton vander ash
Speaker 8: is able to come back at some point this season.
Speaker 8: You need a reliable option in that second level because
Speaker 8: you know it takes one more injury and then you're
Speaker 8: looking at a playoff game where you're potentially having to
Speaker 8: start either you know, Rashaun Evans or Marquise Bell in
Speaker 8: that second level. And granted, Marky's Bell played phenomenally aguainst
Speaker 8: the Chargers, but you can't expect him to go out
Speaker 8: there and play like that every single week. He's still
Speaker 8: a safety at the end of the day. So I
Speaker 8: would like to see a little bit more depth in
Speaker 8: that second level if you ask me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm upgrading the position and shoot me for
Speaker 3: this one, I'm going to interior defensive lineman. I want
Speaker 3: because what we saw San Francisco do to us is
Speaker 3: they utilize the double team almost every snap and they said,
Speaker 3: we're just going to get you off, get you off
Speaker 3: the ball. And I watched Philly play last night and
Speaker 3: I'm watching those guys like whole point on double teams
Speaker 3: and free up those linebackers, giving them the room to run,
Speaker 3: and if they're a step late, then they're not automatically
Speaker 3: getting hit by the left tackle or the right guard
Speaker 3: or whatever lineman who's not getting held on point. I
Speaker 3: want to see us get I remember, are.
Speaker 2: You saying a one tech or three tech?
Speaker 3: Either one at this point? Either one. I'm thinking of
Speaker 3: Philly last year picked up in dominicansu oh in season
Speaker 3: like lateness latencies last year late and season and to me,
Speaker 3: to me, it was a guy who then changed changed
Speaker 3: some stuff for them on defense when we went and
Speaker 3: got Mizzie Smith. We got Mozzie Smith because we said, okay,
Speaker 3: we were My thought is we getting bullied when we
Speaker 3: get into these physical games. We watched the Denver Broncos game,
Speaker 3: then we ended off with the San Francisco game, and
Speaker 3: you said, okay, we need to get more stout in here.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have to be a pass rusher, but we need
Speaker 3: somebody we say he's gonna whole point and allow everybody
Speaker 3: else to run freely. And I just don't think we
Speaker 3: have that right now. Our defensive line, especially in the
Speaker 3: past game, is next to none. But as far as
Speaker 3: in the run game, if we were going to upgrade,
Speaker 3: I'll take interior defense swamp.
Speaker 8: Let me ask you if if you could get a
Speaker 8: linebacker that's just a dominating run stopper would that would
Speaker 8: that kind of feel what you're looking for at the
Speaker 8: same time, or do you want some guy? You want
Speaker 8: somebody upfront.
Speaker 3: I want somebody upfront, Okay, I want somebody up front
Speaker 3: to take on those double teams, to be a disruptor.
Speaker 3: Moved a line of scrimmage back because with the talent
Speaker 3: that we have with d Law and Michael Parsons, and
Speaker 3: then I think that allows the moont Clark to play
Speaker 3: a little bit more freely. If Layton vanderz come back,
Speaker 3: comes back healthy, I think you see a different Layton
Speaker 3: Vanderesh when he doesn't have those offensive linemen getting pushed
Speaker 3: back into his lap. So I would rather upgrade that
Speaker 3: that position.
Speaker 8: You know, it's so unfortunate. I did a lot of
Speaker 8: draft prep in the in the last week. This is
Speaker 8: a really good defensive tackle class, and I was like,
Speaker 8: did they draft a defensive tackle too early?
Speaker 4: Too early? But you know what's.
Speaker 7: Interesting to me though, I do think they have they
Speaker 7: have a disruptor and Osa. I think Olsa is a
Speaker 7: good three technique from the standpoint. I do think he
Speaker 7: gets in the back. I think he's he makes plays
Speaker 7: for you. I think they got a good one technique
Speaker 7: and Hankins who can caught things up, who can take
Speaker 7: on a double team without getting moved. I think the
Speaker 7: issue is neither one of them can give you much
Speaker 7: in the other way, right, which maybe what you're saying like,
Speaker 7: you got a one technique that can hold up, but
Speaker 7: he ain't.
Speaker 2: Gonna give you much disruption.
Speaker 7: You got a three technique that can get into the
Speaker 7: backfield and penetrate and make plays, but he ain't gonna
Speaker 7: maket necessarily hold up on a double team. And so
Speaker 7: or what is what you're saying that you want a
Speaker 7: defensive tackle that can do both things, that can in
Speaker 7: some instances hold up at the point of attack to
Speaker 7: force or to allow this linebackers to be able to
Speaker 7: run free and at the same time, on a third down,
Speaker 7: be able to get a field and go disrupt.
Speaker 3: And I think that is both right, because if you
Speaker 3: don't hold a double team long enough and you have
Speaker 3: a disrupt up there, he's gonna wreck the play, ye right.
Speaker 3: And if you do have a guy who can hold
Speaker 3: a double team and they have to because he's a disruptor,
Speaker 3: then that allows them linebackers to run freely. So both
Speaker 3: but a player who has that full steal set to say,
Speaker 3: all right, we need to focus on this guy who's
Speaker 3: on the interior defensive line, because we don't handle him,
Speaker 3: then we don't have a player.
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys exist, though, when I think around
Speaker 2: the league.
Speaker 7: Obviously you got your Aaron Donald, you got I think
Speaker 7: Philly's got a few of these kind of.
Speaker 4: Guys right in our division. You know, they got a few.
Speaker 7: Of those guys you look at you look at New York.
Speaker 7: I think you can maybe say that about uh, what's
Speaker 7: the Dexter Lawrence. Yeah, you know, Washington even has a
Speaker 7: couple of those guys. But I just don't think when
Speaker 7: you start looking around the entire league, I don't think
Speaker 7: most teams have guys that do both things.
Speaker 3: Well that's right, that's what you know. It was imaginary,
Speaker 3: you know, right, if I had an idea word, I
Speaker 3: can upgrade the position. I go as you know, man,
Speaker 3: now give me a guy and say you put them right,
Speaker 3: like that's the guy I want there. But yeah, it
Speaker 3: is hard to find those guys. But you know, I
Speaker 3: wish I wish we could because because those other teams
Speaker 3: have been able to find them.
Speaker 8: Maybe they just maybe maybe they just just go get
Speaker 8: them we got an extra room some.
Speaker 4: Of the stuff.
Speaker 7: But I tell you that they got Dallas gott Mosie Smith.
Speaker 7: You get him later in the first round. That may
Speaker 7: be the difference between a defensive tackle you can get
Speaker 7: later in the first round and these guys we're talking about,
Speaker 7: who are you know, Top ten, top twelve, top fifteen
Speaker 7: type players. It's gonna be a much harder They're gonna
Speaker 7: much better players, probably because there's skill set suggested.
Speaker 3: You're looking at corner and you're saying, man like Watchet Philly.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, that's that's what I want.
Speaker 7: There's no way he should have dropped as far as
Speaker 7: he did, but yeah, he's that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: He Mosi Smith could be that. I'm not saying he
Speaker 3: can early is early in his career. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: you know, when you draft a guy in the first round,
Speaker 3: to me, you're like, all right, I want to see
Speaker 3: that guy play now and be that type of disruptive,
Speaker 3: which he hopefully he can. But my upgrade as of
Speaker 3: right now will be there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 7: Go to the next question. The biggest surprise this season
Speaker 7: has been blank.
Speaker 8: Give me Brandon Aubrey. I did not expect him to
Speaker 8: be this efficient, this this being like the safety net
Speaker 8: sixteen for sixteen starting his career. If you had told
Speaker 8: me midway through training camp, but that's what we'd be
Speaker 8: looking up at, I'd be telling you you're crazy. And
Speaker 8: I remember we had that that very last campfire podcast
Speaker 8: at an Auxnard. It was the day before we left,
Speaker 8: and Haley Sutton that proposed a question, what's your confidence
Speaker 8: level on Brandon Aubrey right now? And I think I
Speaker 8: maybe had the highest and it was at like fifteen percent.
Speaker 8: And to be where we're at right now with probably
Speaker 8: a good ninety five percent confidence in Brandon Aubrey every
Speaker 8: time he steps out there, that's a huge surprise to me.
Speaker 8: So I'm just gonna say that leave it positive well.
Speaker 3: Since you went positive opposite, you know, because we brought
Speaker 3: up the kicker early start, and I'm kid you didn't
Speaker 3: steal it's it's the lack of production from Brandon Cooks
Speaker 3: before we go into that last game. He had under
Speaker 3: one hundred yards through five games of the season. And
Speaker 3: you watched Brandon Cooks any other team that he's been on,
Speaker 3: and he's been more than serviceable if he has a
Speaker 3: quarterback and even with Houston last year, I think he
Speaker 3: had six hundred, six hundred and fifty something yards something
Speaker 3: like that and they were in a two quarterbacks with
Speaker 3: some against us, right, So just functional. So no matter
Speaker 3: who he's been around and what team, he's been productive.
Speaker 3: And then to make it five games through the season
Speaker 3: and only have seventy two yards, that is the most
Speaker 3: surprising part, especially from what you were hearing coming out
Speaker 3: of training camp of like, Okay, he's fast. He's bringing
Speaker 3: a different, different type of leadership to our our receiver
Speaker 3: room as well. But the connection with him and Dak,
Speaker 3: you're gonna see it early, and you just you just
Speaker 3: didn't see it, just knowing how fast he is and
Speaker 3: how productive he's been.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting during training camp every day in practice
Speaker 7: you saw them going downfield a lot, and I was
Speaker 7: I was, actually, that's what I've been shocked by is
Speaker 7: in camp. You couldn't have told me that this would
Speaker 7: be a team that is taking its shots down feel
Speaker 7: more regularly, especially with the guys you got, the speed
Speaker 7: you got on the that with guys in your receiving corps,
Speaker 7: they just aren't doing it as much as I thought
Speaker 7: they would based on what I was seeing during training camp.
Speaker 7: I expected them to use that a lot more as
Speaker 7: a part of their offense, and it doesn't seem like
Speaker 7: that's as much a staple.
Speaker 8: And you can see the desire because you see Turpin
Speaker 8: getting integrated in some weird situations, whether it be on
Speaker 8: an end a round or handoffs in the red zone
Speaker 8: or trusting him on that deep ball in San Francisco.
Speaker 8: But where's that with Cooks as well? You know, like,
Speaker 8: let's let's let's divvy up the trust a little bit.
Speaker 8: You can tell if they want to utilize that speed.
Speaker 8: I just feel like there's there's kind of a gap
Speaker 8: there between once again and understanding it.
Speaker 3: Do we still believe that Brandon Cooks is the Brandon
Speaker 3: Cooks that we hoped we would get when he got drafted?
Speaker 3: Absolutely right, because I do as well. I just want
Speaker 3: to make sure that that it's.
Speaker 2: Not that we saw it during training camp.
Speaker 7: And by the way, he was going up against the
Speaker 7: same defense that we think has potential to be really great,
Speaker 7: and that was with Trayvon Diggs and he was making plays.
Speaker 7: So yes, I think he still has the ability. I
Speaker 7: just don't know for whatever reason, whether it's the scheme,
Speaker 7: whether it's the play calling, whether they're just not using
Speaker 7: him that way for whatever reason. It's not showing up
Speaker 7: on Sundays.
Speaker 8: I don't think it's a Brandon Cook's problem.
Speaker 4: No, me neither, because I can't go.
Speaker 3: I can't watch what he's done at every squad and
Speaker 3: be like, Okay, all of a sudden he got here
Speaker 3: and then he he just lost everything.
Speaker 8: I thirty. It's not like he's like late in his career.
Speaker 8: Everyone talks about him being the seasoned veteran. He's just
Speaker 8: turned thirty. He's dack sah.
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