Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, SAT. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Browns,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. What's up? Welcome into the
Speaker 1: SWBC Morgan Studio for Talking Cowboys. Challenge accepted. Mickey challenged,
Speaker 1: Matt met answered. Cowboys answered twenty to thirteen over the
Speaker 1: New York Giants in their home opener at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium on Sunday Night Football. Brian brought us joining
Speaker 1: us as well. Rob Phillips, I am hosting for Bill
Speaker 1: Jones today, Big Today, breaking it all down. I know
Speaker 1: it was a late nine for everybody, but we got
Speaker 1: a little bit better football, a lot better football than
Speaker 1: we saw in Week one against Carolina. And let's talk
Speaker 1: about two. Two ninety seven is the number. If y'all
Speaker 1: would like to join us. Kent Garrison is producing as always, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: They bounced back a little bit last night, didn't they, Yes,
Speaker 1: they did. It was better and as I continue to
Speaker 1: tell folks that still aren't satisfied, this team will improve
Speaker 1: as the season goes along. It's not a finished product.
Speaker 1: What you've seen in two games is not what you're
Speaker 1: going to see for the next fourteen games. And I
Speaker 1: thought the offense seemed a little bit more coordinated. The
Speaker 1: offensive line did a heck of a better job. Instead
Speaker 1: of giving up the six sacks they did to Carolina,
Speaker 1: they gave up zero. Instead of the ten hits on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, they gave up only three. And I thought
Speaker 1: dak at a much better job of when things were
Speaker 1: breaking down, just get rid of the football, throw it away.
Speaker 1: And I bet half as in completions were throwaways because
Speaker 1: he couldn't find anybody open. So I thought it was
Speaker 1: a step in the right direction. They got rewarded. The
Speaker 1: Giants were what we thought they were. They can't protect
Speaker 1: their quarterback, they can't run the football, even with se
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley, and they took advantage of that and beat
Speaker 1: the living daylights out of Eli Manning. Brian, you were
Speaker 1: in here early, Yeah, breaking down the tape again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts? Running it back a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think Mickey is absolutely right in what we saw
Speaker 1: last night. I did like how they were able to
Speaker 1: whether they scripted plays or however they got to their
Speaker 1: first couple of sequences of their play calling. I like
Speaker 1: the fact that they weren't running the ball on first
Speaker 1: down to start. You know, usually you'll see him getting
Speaker 1: a twelve personnel and then run the football and it's
Speaker 1: a gain of one. You know. They spread the Giants out,
Speaker 1: They made the Giants defend the perimeter. The receivers, I thought,
Speaker 1: did a nice job of getting open. The challenge was
Speaker 1: on the receivers to have to make some plays down
Speaker 1: the field. They set up the past to Tavon Austin
Speaker 1: with some max protection. They gave Dak the opportunity to
Speaker 1: make some good throws. But overall, I say, you have
Speaker 1: to think about some really positive things. The protection, the
Speaker 1: way that Da Dak had to make a couple throws
Speaker 1: in the pocket. He was able to do that. But
Speaker 1: they played what we were talking about more to his strengths,
Speaker 1: the read option stuff. And you know him, if he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw for one hundred and sixty yards, if he
Speaker 1: can give you another fifty or so on the ground
Speaker 1: every game, that will that will supplement what you're trying
Speaker 1: to do. But Mickey's right, they're not a finished product.
Speaker 1: I think that you're gonna have to find more offense.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to find ways to sustain more offense.
Speaker 1: The drive they had at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: though for the touch down, was well done, well executed,
Speaker 1: but they had too many stretches there where they had
Speaker 1: to make a throw a throwaway or they weren't able
Speaker 1: to appenally set them back. I mean, they had some
Speaker 1: good things set. They had back to back holding calls
Speaker 1: that were on plays where they were able to execute
Speaker 1: to get a first down. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: you know, they run the ball on the outside. Usually
Speaker 1: you'll say, well, let's not run the ball to the
Speaker 1: edge when it's third and one, you know, because then
Speaker 1: you get something like that potentially happened. And then Jeff
Speaker 1: Swaying he got called for holding on that play and
Speaker 1: they complete a pass down the field to Thompson. So
Speaker 1: once again, this offense, when they have problems, it's usually
Speaker 1: self inflicted problems. But they're gonna need to create more offense.
Speaker 1: But I think they got a good start with the
Speaker 1: protection and I felt like the receivers did their part,
Speaker 1: and then the quarterback played his part, and the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator was able to get some things going that we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen in the in the at least for the
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the season. I charted the plays
Speaker 1: early offensively, and I mean, like you said, they come
Speaker 1: out with a pass on first down, right, not a run.
Speaker 1: They were listening to talking Cobb. They go and told
Speaker 1: him what to do. They go deep to Tavon. It's
Speaker 1: probably a bad idea, but I like what you're saying, Mickey,
Speaker 1: for sixty four yards in the touchdown. They use Tavon
Speaker 1: on an end a round right early in the game.
Speaker 1: They start the read option and as you said, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott forty five yards on the ground. I think that's
Speaker 1: a career high for him. It was it's like Christmas
Speaker 1: for all the guys yelling at us in the mail bag. Look,
Speaker 1: they got to be more creative. They gotta do some
Speaker 1: more things to try to open things up, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's but it's also goes back to if you
Speaker 1: listen to what Ezekiel Elliott was saying in pregame and
Speaker 1: when we were doing our pregame show, which I appreciate
Speaker 1: your rob being a part of that. They did a
Speaker 1: great job. The Ezekiel it says, we've got to stay
Speaker 1: ahead of the chains. That was something that even Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett said after the game. Dak Prescott, hey a lot
Speaker 1: on me. We gotta stay ahead of the chains. It's
Speaker 1: going to be easier for Scott Linahan to call a
Speaker 1: game if he can stay in manageable down in distance situation.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened when they get out of whack
Speaker 1: when it is a second and nine or second. They
Speaker 1: converted a few more of those, you know, but still
Speaker 1: overall only thirty percent on third down and and that's
Speaker 1: nearly not good enough to what they need to do.
Speaker 1: But if you can get Zeke to run in near
Speaker 1: eighty yards, we talked about Dak getting near fifty yards,
Speaker 1: You'll take that every single time. Mixon to Tavon Austin
Speaker 1: fifteen yard reverse. That's a great play by Ezekiel. And
Speaker 1: on the play, here's the blitzer coming at him. He's
Speaker 1: going to fire the ball to the outside. He doesn't
Speaker 1: get distracted. Tabon Austin gave him enough room to get him.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get the mesh points are a little crazy there,
Speaker 1: but Tavon Austin saw what was going on. You know that.
Speaker 1: That just shows you This is why they went out
Speaker 1: and got Tavon Austin. Though you know when you can
Speaker 1: get a guy. And I'll tell you what the most
Speaker 1: impressive play to me, it was not the reverse or
Speaker 1: tabon Austin, not the bomb. But you watch the double
Speaker 1: move that he was able to make against Genors Jenkins
Speaker 1: to come back for fifteen yards. He's going to shake Jenkins.
Speaker 1: That shows you that he and guys Cole Beasley are capable.
Speaker 1: Look at the play that Cole Beasley made on third
Speaker 1: down to come back to the football there. That could
Speaker 1: have very well been an interception, but he's able to
Speaker 1: come back. So if you've got shorter guys in the
Speaker 1: outside that are making plays down the field, that will
Speaker 1: open up some things. I think Thompson did a great
Speaker 1: job there. It's unfortunate that Rico Gathers didn't get rewarded
Speaker 1: for getting open on his pass. But people say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: Prescott was getting blitzed there. Ogletree was close. Bad arm angle,
Speaker 1: but he's got to anticipate that throw a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a little bit more of a direct pass
Speaker 1: to the corner and you've got a shot right there
Speaker 1: for Rico Gathers to make a play. Rico Gathers had
Speaker 1: another opportunity as well, where he went as high as
Speaker 1: he can go. I don't think Rico Gathers can get
Speaker 1: any further off the ground or extend any higher to
Speaker 1: make a play. Prescott got flushed to his right tried
Speaker 1: to make a throw to there, so they got Rico involved.
Speaker 1: It was one of those things where they really spread
Speaker 1: everything out around offensively, and that's what this team is
Speaker 1: going to have to do. It's gonna have to manufacture offense.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be pretty all that time, but they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to find a way. I was ready for
Speaker 1: the slant what we call the slugo. You guys laugh
Speaker 1: at me because I always talked to Dez about the slugo. Yes,
Speaker 1: the slant and go, we're gonna start to see that.
Speaker 1: Get ready for when the game plans, if people are
Speaker 1: gonna overplay to play the slant, get ready for the slugo.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be something that they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: hit down the field. But they're gonna have to come
Speaker 1: up with more things offensively. Though. They did enough to
Speaker 1: win this game with the offense they had, but I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have to come up they're gonna play
Speaker 1: some defenses that they're gonna have to come up with
Speaker 1: some more things for you know. One of the things
Speaker 1: though that I think that was also good about this
Speaker 1: is they put some stuff on tape. Now people have
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on, yeah, and that helps they
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be able to uh, you know, landing
Speaker 1: Collins on the deep Pass to Tavan. He bit on
Speaker 1: the run. He came out. They were committed. They were committed. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, big boy, you didn't help your
Speaker 1: cornerback who who bit on the run. And it was
Speaker 1: a kind of a it was kind of a crafty
Speaker 1: deep route by Tavon Austin and kind of took me
Speaker 1: back to Trenny camp when he said, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to learn to how to run the nine route.
Speaker 1: Just don't go out there or to burst the speed
Speaker 1: and think you're gonna out run the guy because he
Speaker 1: kind of slow footed it there, almost like he's stutter stepped,
Speaker 1: and oh, here came Jenkins and then he exploded and
Speaker 1: he's got enough speed that if he's even with you,
Speaker 1: if he's even with you, he's buy it done. And
Speaker 1: the safety can't get over the top end time, they
Speaker 1: flipped a play and did the same thing to the
Speaker 1: other side to Michael Gallop. They kept protection in with
Speaker 1: swaying and then tried to throw it to the other side.
Speaker 1: And I think if Dak throws it a little bit
Speaker 1: more to the inside, the safety didn't get over the top.
Speaker 1: But they were committed. Really the challenge when you guys
Speaker 1: opened the show, the challenge accepted. The challenge for I
Speaker 1: think for Collins wasn't so much at Dak. It was
Speaker 1: can you guys these corners the challenges. We've got to
Speaker 1: cover these guys. And I don't think the Giant corners
Speaker 1: Eli Apple got hurt, but I don't think the Giant
Speaker 1: corners did a well enough job. I'm surprised they didn't
Speaker 1: wear wear a BW web out in this football That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I'm surprised. This wasn't a very you know,
Speaker 1: Thompson I think had six, seven, maybe eight targets. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised. I'm surprised that we didn't see Beasley have
Speaker 1: eight targets in this game that way. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: they flipped, they flipped, they try to hit it on
Speaker 1: a deep route again to Gallop and gallop and actually
Speaker 1: had some separation if the ball was a little bit
Speaker 1: more inside. We saw that play what happened in San
Speaker 1: Francisco in the preseason, remember where he was able to
Speaker 1: separate and Prescott fit the ball into him right there
Speaker 1: and then it was a touchdown. I was thinking that
Speaker 1: was going to kind of be the same thing, but
Speaker 1: the ball kind of went to the outside, and you know, hey,
Speaker 1: at least they're taking shots down the field. That's what
Speaker 1: they've got to do. Yeah, they've got to They've got
Speaker 1: to find ways if they can hit big plays with
Speaker 1: guys that could separate, if Austin could separate, if a
Speaker 1: Gallop can separate, those are the things you need to do.
Speaker 1: And on the one on Gallop too, I went back
Speaker 1: and looked at it. It looked like he didn't keep
Speaker 1: his how do they say it, the red line, Like
Speaker 1: he didn't give him enough space between where he was
Speaker 1: in the side. Always looks like he's getting interfered. He
Speaker 1: and it comes off the route. He's getting knocked around.
Speaker 1: But then but if you get him, if you get
Speaker 1: him tracking the ball, he can get that little two
Speaker 1: or three because you know, Eli Apple look back and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, that's where Michael Gallop keeps going.
Speaker 1: But Mickey's right, the positioning the ball took him wider
Speaker 1: than he needed to be. If he gets a little
Speaker 1: bit more inside, and that's that's that's another another another
Speaker 1: big play there right there. We actually got to cut Kent,
Speaker 1: I believe from Dak talking about how they felt like
Speaker 1: they had to be the aggressors in this game offensively,
Speaker 1: and that's what happened at least early on for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just wanted to be their aggressors. We
Speaker 1: wanted to set the tone, how in the run game,
Speaker 1: in the passing game, and make them make them try
Speaker 1: to defend what we were doing. And it's not us
Speaker 1: going to the game trying to call our fence off
Speaker 1: of what they're doing on defense, rather than us to
Speaker 1: be the aggressives. And we did it. And really that's
Speaker 1: what they did second half at Carolina was they spread
Speaker 1: them out and say we're gonna dictate what we do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna spread you out and and try to loosen
Speaker 1: things up a little bit. And you know, Tavon said
Speaker 1: that was a play the first play touchdown, something they
Speaker 1: worked on in practice absolutely, yes, all week And I
Speaker 1: asked him just about being used in different ways because
Speaker 1: he only got ten snaps I think at Carolina, and
Speaker 1: he said it was like my West Virginia days where
Speaker 1: I'm just they put me all over the field. And
Speaker 1: like you said, that's what you brought him in to do. Yes,
Speaker 1: return punts right, be a mismatch player in space. And
Speaker 1: I don't know his final play count, but obviously he
Speaker 1: was more involved in this game. And it's just like
Speaker 1: Mickey said, it's another thing for defenses to think I
Speaker 1: didn't hear from my Scout friends to last night that
Speaker 1: you know, my Scout friends would always say, up Tavon Austin,
Speaker 1: Davon Austin. Yeah, you guys think you could do this
Speaker 1: with Tavon Austin that told you they got to see it.
Speaker 1: They gotta see it. And that's I think that, and
Speaker 1: I think we all saw with Tavon Austin is capable
Speaker 1: of capably and if you could use him that way.
Speaker 1: If Dak's talking about being aggressive, you know, the read option,
Speaker 1: the RPOs, the reverses, anything to get the ball to
Speaker 1: those types of players in space. You know, if you've
Speaker 1: got some guys that are willing to do dirty work,
Speaker 1: like Thompson's willing to do dirty work. Alan Hearns looks
Speaker 1: like a dirty work player. Okay, if you've got dirty
Speaker 1: work players that are going to make those tough inside
Speaker 1: catches for probably minimal gains, but maybe get your first downs. Now,
Speaker 1: take advantage of Beasley, Now take advantage of Austin. Now
Speaker 1: take advantage of Michael Gallup. Now take advantage of the
Speaker 1: quarterback running the football. That's what they're going to have
Speaker 1: to do. That's what this offense is going to have
Speaker 1: to be. There's gonna be a lot of different guys involved.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be hanging your hat on one
Speaker 1: player or saying, hey, it's just the running game here.
Speaker 1: But they want to run the football. But they found
Speaker 1: ways last night to have different ways of doing whether
Speaker 1: it was the true traditional running back or the quarterback
Speaker 1: carrying the football. And I thought they did a better
Speaker 1: job of getting those offensive linemen on the move too.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of times where you saw Connor
Speaker 1: Williams polly by the way and on the move. He
Speaker 1: is pretty darn good. He's an athlete, yeah, and so
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, is he gonna get overpowered at times. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But I think you can take
Speaker 1: advantage of things he can do. You can take advantage
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit of what Joe Looney can do.
Speaker 1: We know what Zach Martin can do. I just thought
Speaker 1: the offensive the offensive line played a lot more in rhythm,
Speaker 1: like they were coordinated, like they knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: And I think it showed, and it showed in the
Speaker 1: running game, and it certainly showed on that eighty two
Speaker 1: yard drive at the end when they I mean, that
Speaker 1: reminds you of twenty sixteen. Yeah, they didn't just blow
Speaker 1: everybody out, but at the end of games they had
Speaker 1: the ability to down finished, score a touchdown instead of
Speaker 1: a field goal and leave the game still in in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Uh and and and just mix the plays awfully well.
Speaker 1: So again, I'm just and I know people are gonna complain, Oh,
Speaker 1: they only scored twenty points, you know, Okay, fine, but
Speaker 1: it was more than they did the week before. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see if they take the next step, going to say,
Speaker 1: recover an onside kick, they give up what yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean three yeah, exactly. Mean, that's where that's where the
Speaker 1: almost the majority of their the Giants total yards were
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, they had one hundred yards and
Speaker 1: they had to get an extra possession to be able
Speaker 1: to do that. Other than that, after three quarters they
Speaker 1: had gained one hundred and fifty five totally yards. If
Speaker 1: earned fifty five could say one thing quick, Rob, I
Speaker 1: know you're gonna make a really great point. If there's
Speaker 1: one thing though, that is a concern about this offensive line,
Speaker 1: and this happens with Travis Frederick not in the lineup.
Speaker 1: It's the second game where you've had a mic linebacker
Speaker 1: make a lot of play and that's with Ogil Tree.
Speaker 1: You know, he made a lot of tackles in this game,
Speaker 1: and he was involved in tackles in this game. It
Speaker 1: goes back to trying to find ways. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had a lot of hits and so you know, you
Speaker 1: got to keep an eye on That is the Luke
Speaker 1: Keekley's of the world. And you're not always gonna play
Speaker 1: Luke Keekley, but you're probably gonna play a lot of
Speaker 1: Alex ogle Trees. Say Bobby Wagner, Yeah, unless he's still hurt. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you're a Cowboys fan, hit your knees and
Speaker 1: hope you know in that one. But but see that
Speaker 1: to me, this is where you know, okay or is
Speaker 1: it gonna always be pretty? Mickey is absolutely right about
Speaker 1: the line and way they played with with you know,
Speaker 1: they did a really great job. One of the things
Speaker 1: I've noticed last night was Zach Martin veteran move. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime snacks Harrison's ribs are exposed, take your helmet and
Speaker 1: jam him in it as hard as you can, try
Speaker 1: and soften him up, you know, keep beating on him,
Speaker 1: keep beating on him. That's what they were able to
Speaker 1: do last night. They beat on these giant defensive linemen
Speaker 1: last night and it helped him summon the game went
Speaker 1: to the body like a box body. Yes, it's body
Speaker 1: shots there. But keep an eye on these linebackers making plays.
Speaker 1: Now it might be second level plays, but they're there.
Speaker 1: You know, what could be a seven or eight yard
Speaker 1: game is only a three yard game, you know, keep
Speaker 1: an eye on. Okay, how they doing that? Howie? And
Speaker 1: that's that's that's nitpicky on my part, but it's but
Speaker 1: it's two weeks in where they haven't accounted for a
Speaker 1: linebacker inside as well as they need, and that's a
Speaker 1: lot of it has to do because we're so used
Speaker 1: to Travis Frederick and Zack Martin and those guys doing
Speaker 1: what they have to do to kind of control that inside.
Speaker 1: What's the nuance to that in terms of what Frederick
Speaker 1: brings and some of its pre snap communication identifying who
Speaker 1: the mic is right? I saw that last think it's more.
Speaker 1: I think it's really about just the just the overall.
Speaker 1: And it's quite possible that Joe Looney did not play
Speaker 1: bad last night. It's just two weeks in a row
Speaker 1: that Joe Looney has not killed you in a game.
Speaker 1: He's been solid, Yeah, he's been very solid. But you
Speaker 1: just say, okay, if you if you want to say,
Speaker 1: what are you missing from Travis Frederick? That's where you're missing.
Speaker 1: It's there's probably some communication factor, like you're talking, but
Speaker 1: you're missing that ability to really cut the defense in
Speaker 1: half when you get a guy, when you get him
Speaker 1: to secure and then second level that gives Zeke that
Speaker 1: little bit of cutback. You know, the couple of the
Speaker 1: big runs they had last night were when they ran
Speaker 1: traps with the tight end you know they got you know,
Speaker 1: they were able Swaying or Jarwin, neither one of them
Speaker 1: got a block, but they were able to get hats
Speaker 1: on hats and then now Zeke coming off the goal
Speaker 1: line and then going in, they ran a couple of
Speaker 1: those those those plays where they ran traps with the
Speaker 1: tight ends. It worked out pretty well, but they were
Speaker 1: able to get guys up on linebackers. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's what they have to have. They have to have
Speaker 1: more of that where it's a nineteen yard run and
Speaker 1: a seven yard run as opposed to a two yard
Speaker 1: run or a three yard run. Yeah, we saw Zeke
Speaker 1: hitting the edges a little more too in this game.
Speaker 1: He was captured the outside, you know. And if they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have had and I think they were on the
Speaker 1: move there in the third quarter when they got the
Speaker 1: back to back holding calls, Well they two really big plays,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they brought back that were first
Speaker 1: down play times. It was a three and out that
Speaker 1: included two first downs. Next time, swains on the outside
Speaker 1: and he blocks this guy, Just screen him, don't try
Speaker 1: to bury because he had the block. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I still don't understand it's a bulldog move. Well it's
Speaker 1: a bulldog move. I mean, once you block the guy
Speaker 1: and you bury him. Why do they call holding, Well,
Speaker 1: that guy's fault. They called him for the initial arm
Speaker 1: around the neck and then he tried to pull it
Speaker 1: back and by that time all the officials saw the
Speaker 1: umpire made the call. All he saw was the round
Speaker 1: the neck. And you know, it's difficult. That's a difficult
Speaker 1: one because he's just trying to you know, he did
Speaker 1: a nice job in pass protection, trying to help out.
Speaker 1: I mean, he gets overpowered a lot. They do not
Speaker 1: have a blocking tight end on this team. They just don't.
Speaker 1: It's Jarwin was a liability yesterday in this game, Swain,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have enough bricks in his pocket. You know,
Speaker 1: he's trying. They need to get Rico going. Somebody needs
Speaker 1: to get going here to try and help them a
Speaker 1: little been in the running game as far as at
Speaker 1: the point of attack, but also too. There was a
Speaker 1: side of me that was really kind of mad when
Speaker 1: I saw it initially last night. Third and one. I'm
Speaker 1: always thinking, run the ball, attack the line, attack the line,
Speaker 1: get the first down. It reminded me of that Detroit
Speaker 1: game that they lost a few years ago when they
Speaker 1: were up. We were up in Detroit, up by ten,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden Tyrn Smith got the holding
Speaker 1: penalty because they ran the ball outside instead of trying
Speaker 1: to attack and get the first down. I got mad
Speaker 1: last night. I'm like, I'm I damn it. Don't run
Speaker 1: the ball like that, don't go outside. But if you
Speaker 1: go back and watch the tape, it was the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. They had. They had a compressed box.
Speaker 1: They were able to get guys the outside if if
Speaker 1: Colin's hand doesn't go up, it gets on the top
Speaker 1: of the pad instead of inside. And I'm doing bad
Speaker 1: radio right now because I'm if you're listening and not watching,
Speaker 1: I'm putting my hands inside where they grabbed that breastplate
Speaker 1: there and kind of control except is handing it up
Speaker 1: on the pad on the top of the shoulder. And
Speaker 1: once John Harry the officials saw that that's an easy
Speaker 1: call for him to make. It's happened to Travis Frederick before. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's the Rams game. And I believe last year
Speaker 1: it was one of those things, the subtle, you know,
Speaker 1: hand placement deal. They can make the difference in the call, right,
Speaker 1: And they got called and Mickey's right, you get twenty
Speaker 1: yards of Pilli's right there, and then you have to
Speaker 1: throw the screen to just to get out of the down.
Speaker 1: So you know, Dad completed the ball. I mean he
Speaker 1: is a pocket pass that on the holding pen. League
Speaker 1: was swaying. But man, I'll tell you what if it
Speaker 1: third and one, I'm thinking about, oh, just running inside.
Speaker 1: But I give Lynna Handsome credit. He made the right call.
Speaker 1: They had the block and then they had Zeke had
Speaker 1: the first down and had more if he just wouldn't
Speaker 1: have the unfortunate holding. They were efficient enough and dynamic
Speaker 1: enough early offensively to get a lead that they never
Speaker 1: lost in this game. They win twenty to thirteen over
Speaker 1: the Giants. Let's take our first break. Guys, we come back.
Speaker 1: We've barely touched on the defense to do that. A
Speaker 1: little sack party that they had against the Giants last night.
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Speaker 1: The phone call? Depend on this phone call? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go Naton Frisco. Be reasonable, morning, guys. Interesting the call? Yep, Um,
Speaker 1: hopefully I am reasonable. But I wanted to say first
Speaker 1: that was happy and impressed with the game last night,
Speaker 1: really allowing Dak and the guys that they have to
Speaker 1: be utilized for the best ability. I definitely think it's
Speaker 1: something to build upon. My question to you now is
Speaker 1: if they were to add Josh Gordon, do you think
Speaker 1: that this could only be in addition to adding upon
Speaker 1: what they've done and what they have kind of started
Speaker 1: from last night. And I'll go ahead and sit back
Speaker 1: and listen. Thanks for the calling, Nate. I don't see
Speaker 1: them adding Josh Gordon at all. I really, I've got
Speaker 1: the I just I don't know, Mickey. Maybe you guys
Speaker 1: heard a different vibe at the game, but I did
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Speaker 1: several people, and I just did not get the feeling
Speaker 1: that they were very interested in Josh Gordon at all.
Speaker 1: I haven't gotten that vibe either. Yeah, why wouldn't change anything?
Speaker 1: Why no? But why would you want to add another headache?
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Speaker 1: to trust that they have their reasoning of why they
Speaker 1: don't want Josh Gordon. They if you go back, they
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Speaker 1: draft him in the supplemental draft, so they they knew
Speaker 1: at Baylor what was going on there. It goes to
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Speaker 1: now it's there's even more issues there, and you just
Speaker 1: have to trust that Will McClay and the college scouts
Speaker 1: and the pro scouts and those guys, they're giving Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones the best information they can about the player, more
Speaker 1: than more than what. I'm sorry, folks, if you get
Speaker 1: mad at me, and I mean this in no disrespect,
Speaker 1: more than Vic and Ventura and more than Joe and
Speaker 1: Flower Mountain, it's no disrespect. I'm just talking about fans.
Speaker 1: They know more than us. And so when I asked
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Speaker 1: a question and they say no, this is why, then
Speaker 1: you have to say, Okay, I understand. Do we have
Speaker 1: to like it? No, he's a talented football player. He's
Speaker 1: in a great talent. He is a great talent. But
Speaker 1: if you don't want to deal with all the other stuff,
Speaker 1: they know it. We don't, and we're slowly learning things.
Speaker 1: And you know, people say, well, gosh, you're bringing back
Speaker 1: or talking about Bryce Butler. Why why are you talking
Speaker 1: about Bryce but Apparently, Jason Garrett said on the and
Speaker 1: this morning, I didn't have a chance to hear it quickly. Right,
Speaker 1: Apparently they're going to have some street free agents work out, right,
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be among them, right, So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Jerry was lukewarm on that last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm saying. Don't don't always expect
Speaker 1: they is it? The? Is it? The? Is it? The
Speaker 1: best group in the National Football League? That group and
Speaker 1: Giants are better wide receivers than what Dallas is playing
Speaker 1: with right now. But Dallas's receivers did a great job
Speaker 1: of getting open two weeks in a row. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: they've done a nice job of doing what they have
Speaker 1: to do. But let's trust what will McClay, Stephen Jones,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and them are thinking about a player. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones takes chances all the time. He's not afraid everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why yeah, why and they go why why? Why not?
Speaker 1: You know, why not take another chance? Maybe the not
Speaker 1: Maybe things are different with Josh Gordon than there are
Speaker 1: with other people. Trust me on that, Okay, trust me
Speaker 1: by the way, Sorry I say maybe I just said
Speaker 1: that in the first place, And I said he Bryce
Speaker 1: Butler is expected to work out today. Yeah, not just
Speaker 1: who Apparently Browns are cutting ties with him. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: trying to trade him first, you'll see, but he's not
Speaker 1: going to be part of that organization. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're nursing David Irving along, You're nursing Randy Gregory along. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How many of those guys do you think you can
Speaker 1: take care of on one team? And then on top
Speaker 1: of that, to double down on what Brian said, they
Speaker 1: know and if you're trying to trade a guy, you
Speaker 1: gotta be honest when somebody calls. This isn't horse trading here,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to be honest on Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you've had him, now what's the deal? And I guarantee
Speaker 1: you that this team got calls about Dez Bryant. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they wanted to know, and you got to tell the
Speaker 1: truth because next time you call them, if you fool them,
Speaker 1: then shame on you because they'll fool you. That's a
Speaker 1: great point. Yeah, there's almost like honor among thieves. You know,
Speaker 1: that is exactly what it is. And and you got
Speaker 1: to be careful. And they know Cleveland not going to
Speaker 1: just cut the guy because he's so good, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't put up with him anymore. There's reasons. There's
Speaker 1: serious issues there. Serious Let's see how many other teams
Speaker 1: are just chomping at the bit to to bring him in. No,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right now. As for the he'll find a
Speaker 1: job somewhere, that's for the Bryce Butler thing, which I said,
Speaker 1: Jerry was asked and it was kind of off the record,
Speaker 1: and he was like, oh, you know the way he
Speaker 1: answered it, but there wasn't No, there wasn't. Well, if
Speaker 1: they're bringing in other guys, it could be other receivers
Speaker 1: to that be looking at who's who's going? This is
Speaker 1: where we have what spot my question? This is where
Speaker 1: And I hate to speculate, but because it's not a
Speaker 1: drug or an alcohol, well, alcohol. Maybe are we missing
Speaker 1: something with Terrence Williams and what happened this summer? Are
Speaker 1: we missing a game suspension, a two game suspension? Are
Speaker 1: we missing something there? That's the only thing I could
Speaker 1: think of, because Terrence is part of the game plan.
Speaker 1: But if you watched it last night, they could do
Speaker 1: some things with Thompson that they do with Terrence as
Speaker 1: a blocker. They can bring him inside and do and
Speaker 1: run routes and things. The only thing that I could
Speaker 1: think of was that maybe something is coming down there.
Speaker 1: And I don't know this for sure, but they might
Speaker 1: be bracing for Terrence Williams to be having to be
Speaker 1: suspended from the league for what happened with the all
Speaker 1: the DWI, the DUI and then the police and the
Speaker 1: crash and all that stuff. That's the only thing, Mickey,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm just the fact it's not drugs. I mean,
Speaker 1: I could feel like I could talk about it a
Speaker 1: little bit and say, maybe that's what they're bracing for,
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to bring somebody in. But
Speaker 1: then why would they not sign why would they not
Speaker 1: bring Lance Lenora up right or something like that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, If I'm Lance Lenore, and you bring
Speaker 1: in Bryce Butler off the street and now he's on
Speaker 1: the active roster. I'm looking to leave as soon as
Speaker 1: somebody wants me. I'm not staying around if you don't
Speaker 1: want to bring me up when there's an issue. And
Speaker 1: it's still might with Jerry saying they're going to have
Speaker 1: a workout, and he was kind of like, I really
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with Bryce Butler over here.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's one of those things that they see a
Speaker 1: workout and the guys aren't good enough and it is
Speaker 1: bring up Lance Lenore. Yeah, I mean, this is this
Speaker 1: is what teams do on the off day. Absolutely. By
Speaker 1: the way, Terrence didn't get a DUI. I think it
Speaker 1: was public in Okay, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to know.
Speaker 1: I was just say yeah, I was. I feel like
Speaker 1: I was able to talk about it because it wasn't drugs.
Speaker 1: You know, it was something that he was you know,
Speaker 1: it happened to him, you know, the league, the conduct policy,
Speaker 1: all these things, leaving a scene, he came back, you know,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. You don't know. Maybe they're bracing for
Speaker 1: something that we again, we and Joe and Flower Mountain,
Speaker 1: Vic and Ventura don't know about because they do have
Speaker 1: six wide receivers on the right and they and they
Speaker 1: have and they have two on the practice squad, right
Speaker 1: they have they have Anderson, and they have Lenore And
Speaker 1: what's his dimension that helps this team? Bryce? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: another vertical player. Yeah, a bigger vertical player. I mean honestly,
Speaker 1: when they signed Thompson, to me, it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: he he could be the bigger vertical players faster. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bryce can run now, he can run, he can Sear
Speaker 1: takes him away. He's like he's on a zero to
Speaker 1: sixty guys. So Arizona couldn't use him. Well, they didn't
Speaker 1: make the final team. Yeah. The thing with Bryce, coaches
Speaker 1: go back, it's comfort again. It's it's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're missing this piece. But I again, I I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that they're bringing in receivers, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. You know that to me is if you
Speaker 1: wanted to work out a million safeties, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Or defensive lineman, uh well, particularly for this game. Randy Gregor,
Speaker 1: he is not ready to play in this game. Although
Speaker 1: he was medically clear to practice Friday. They had seven
Speaker 1: active defensive lineman and Leek Collins apparently spraining his knee
Speaker 1: in the game. So that's a position we've been talking about,
Speaker 1: defensive tackle where they're not exactly deep at well, might
Speaker 1: they address seven defensive linemen and almost came back and
Speaker 1: got him. Yeah. Yeah, and in a situation too where
Speaker 1: you maybe get Dayton Jones back this week. That's true.
Speaker 1: He is closer. Dayton Jones, I was told did some
Speaker 1: scout team stuff, so they're trying to get him back
Speaker 1: into the mix. I guarantee he'll be part of the rotation.
Speaker 1: You better find a way to make this guy play
Speaker 1: backwards this week. And I'm talking about that Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: This is a different guy they're defending this week. It's
Speaker 1: a lot like it's a smaller version of the guy
Speaker 1: you tried to defend in Week one. That's right, that's right,
Speaker 1: let's get into that a little bit. Not Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks. Yeah, we'll do that tomorrow. That tomorrow
Speaker 1: and throughout the week when Bill's back. But defensively, what
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were able to do it looking like the
Speaker 1: makings of a pretty solid defense from Dallas right now.
Speaker 1: If I can open this up, Tip of the cap
Speaker 1: to Tip of the cap to the two cornerbacks that
Speaker 1: played last night, Byron Jones and a Woozier. Yeah, tip
Speaker 1: of the cap to them, because for them to blitz
Speaker 1: as much as they blitzed last night, you're stuck in
Speaker 1: a lot of man coverage. Now, the last quarter of
Speaker 1: that game, they played a lot of zone. They stayed back,
Speaker 1: They let things happen in front rally, rally rally. But
Speaker 1: every time that number thirteen went down the sidelines or
Speaker 1: thirteen went across to the formation, there was somebody running
Speaker 1: with him, whether it was a safety, a corner. But
Speaker 1: when that ball was going down the field, you got
Speaker 1: to give those guys a lot of credit for the
Speaker 1: way they positioned themselves, the way they defended the pass,
Speaker 1: the only real bust they had. And I need to
Speaker 1: figure it out. We need to ask coach and the
Speaker 1: walk off what happened on the touchdown that they had,
Speaker 1: because it looked like it looked like somebody should have
Speaker 1: gone with it. Did you talk to anybody? No? I cannot,
Speaker 1: but it was the films showed Layton vander esh pointing
Speaker 1: over that way towards towards Jalen Smith, no communication to Heath.
Speaker 1: Heath on film, when you watch it, guys is looking
Speaker 1: dead inside. He's not looking at the soh he's a
Speaker 1: man's he was playing like it wasn't Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: trying when it came. So we need coaches usually pretty
Speaker 1: good in the walk off of saying had a bust here,
Speaker 1: this is what happened, or somebody will explain. But on
Speaker 1: tape you see Vanderash point to Jalen Smith, Jalen communicates back.
Speaker 1: It doesn't get back to it looks like the Heath
Speaker 1: snap all of a sudden, you got the tight end
Speaker 1: running down the middle of the field. That's an easy
Speaker 1: play something that's the only blemish that now the past
Speaker 1: that went down the field to the Lattimer. Uh, I
Speaker 1: would say yeah, yeah, yeah, uh you know lad yeah Latimer.
Speaker 1: He Yeah, that ball, I mean you you're I mean
Speaker 1: Woozier is I mean hand is swiping and his hand
Speaker 1: is just inches from and that's just a pretty ball
Speaker 1: thrown in there. Yeah, but it's a big play. It
Speaker 1: was a big play in the game. But man, he
Speaker 1: was right there and cover it. Wouldn't he busted and
Speaker 1: he was stumbling and falling and grabbing. He was in
Speaker 1: good shape. It was just a give you Manning some
Speaker 1: credit on that throw. Let's take our final break and
Speaker 1: come back and continue talking about this defense and take
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Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I don't know that exactly. Do
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Speaker 1: I think they've got some linebackers who know how to
Speaker 1: get there. Uh. They blitz Cavon Frazier a couple of
Speaker 1: times and he it seems to get there. Yea. And
Speaker 1: so when you're having success and the opposing offensive line
Speaker 1: is totally confused, it wasn't like a lot of times
Speaker 1: that they just physically couldn't hold up. They didn't know
Speaker 1: what they were doing. Yeah, they were playing games inside
Speaker 1: they were blitzing. But yeah, I like it. But I
Speaker 1: think when you trust your corners then you have the
Speaker 1: ability to do that a little bit more. Plus the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks not going to make you look foolish, can't. We've
Speaker 1: got to cut from Jason Garrett correct on on the
Speaker 1: sacks and the pressure that they else defense got last night.
Speaker 1: When you do sack the quarterback six times, it's usually
Speaker 1: a combination of Russian cover and those guys were getting
Speaker 1: up the field and getting after him a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys around the quarterback, but typically the coverage has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with being able to get to
Speaker 1: a quarterback like that consistently throughout the game. So the
Speaker 1: man and man coverage that we ran against some really
Speaker 1: dynamic players, and also how we played our own coverage
Speaker 1: to limit the opportunities for him to throw the ball quickly.
Speaker 1: The other thing that stood out to me se Quon Barkley,
Speaker 1: who is a beast, by the way, he is going
Speaker 1: to be targets. You have sixteen, he had sixteen targets.
Speaker 1: He had fourteen catches for eighty yards. Yeah, and if
Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys, you'll take that all day, as opposed
Speaker 1: to Odell Beckham four catches for fifty one yards. My
Speaker 1: key to the game was you gotta limit the big plays.
Speaker 1: And they got a couple late, including a touchdown. But
Speaker 1: you know, when Cowboys trying, you know, trying to manufacture points,
Speaker 1: a couple of big plays can get the Giants into
Speaker 1: scoring position. And they really didn't allow And a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff from Eli was just bailout throws to
Speaker 1: say Quon to try to save face and and and
Speaker 1: you know, get some semblance of yardage as they ran
Speaker 1: the ball eleven times with him for twenty eight yards
Speaker 1: two and a half yards of carry. So they shut
Speaker 1: down the run, did a nice job of that got pressure.
Speaker 1: By the way, and I know this this is like
Speaker 1: way off base. But nine sacks in two games, yeah,
Speaker 1: that factors out to seventy sacks in a seasons. WHOA, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen, right, How do you know, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know that you get David
Speaker 1: right there. Just think if you had Irving and Gregory
Speaker 1: I field at the same And by the way, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the unsung guys on that team that and
Speaker 1: this is two games in a row now is rent
Speaker 1: Is Taco Charlton. Sure he played well again, which has
Speaker 1: allowed the Cowboys to move Crawford inside. And he's kind
Speaker 1: of a mismatch guy in there. He caused a lot
Speaker 1: of problems. Now I know he got one sack, but
Speaker 1: a lot out of the stunts they were doing involved him,
Speaker 1: uh inside and uh, you know, his motor is really going,
Speaker 1: and you combine that with woods how he's played. They
Speaker 1: even moved to Marcus Lawrence inside a couple of times. Sure, so,
Speaker 1: uh you know, you get Gregory back, you get Irving back.
Speaker 1: They got they got something. You know, you talk about
Speaker 1: Taco and he had the sack, and you know he
Speaker 1: got some help from his teammates. But if you if
Speaker 1: you look at Crawford's sack, Crawford is going to run
Speaker 1: the great polar route. He's gonna come all the way
Speaker 1: from the left, all the way around the right. But
Speaker 1: it was such a nice rush by Taco from his
Speaker 1: right end. He went down so hard inside and he
Speaker 1: picked off her nandez and once once Crawford was able
Speaker 1: to clear her name, really, Manning had nowhere to go.
Speaker 1: Eye leveled down. He's trying to move. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's usually Crawford the one that's kind of helping his
Speaker 1: teammates get home. But you talk about Taco, you know,
Speaker 1: if he if he's and gets knocked around and doesn't
Speaker 1: penetrate as deep as he needs to penetrate, well maybe
Speaker 1: Crawford doesn't get home on the sack. That's just guys
Speaker 1: unselfishly playing for each other right there, not thinking about themselves,
Speaker 1: but thinking about how can I get do my job
Speaker 1: in order to get somebody home on the rush. They've
Speaker 1: had This happened quite a bit in these two games.
Speaker 1: And the sack that Taco got he was unblocked, I
Speaker 1: believe just because Jaalen Smith. Again they had a bust
Speaker 1: inside and I don't know what Nate Solder was doing.
Speaker 1: They should have bumped that thing all the way out.
Speaker 1: It reminded me very much of what happened last week
Speaker 1: in Carolina with Ezeko Elliott. But if, but if, if
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith doesn't attack the A gap the way he
Speaker 1: does with Sean Lee that brings the back, Stewart has
Speaker 1: to step up because you want to pick up the
Speaker 1: first blitzer and let the widest rusher at the quarterback
Speaker 1: handle that guy. But Tacco was on him so quick
Speaker 1: that there was no way they could get the ball off.
Speaker 1: But again, that was Jalen Smith attacking the a Sean
Speaker 1: Lee attack in the bee and making that back have
Speaker 1: to step up and take that. You know. The other
Speaker 1: guy that got a lot of snaps when Lawrence needed
Speaker 1: to go get an IV, Dorence Armstrong was He was
Speaker 1: played really well white a bit yea which helps his development. Right,
Speaker 1: he gets snaps. That's how you get some snaps, and
Speaker 1: and and the same thing with Layton Vanderish when when
Speaker 1: they're up three scores, it's like, okay, Sean, quit running
Speaker 1: up and down the sideline showing everybody that your hamstring's okay,
Speaker 1: go sit down. We're gonna play this guy. We'll save
Speaker 1: you for next week. And then he finally talked his
Speaker 1: way in for that second oddside kick. He did not
Speaker 1: want to have to go out there and play defense again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was like, okay, that's enough, that's enough. I'm right,
Speaker 1: take that guy off the field. We're not. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and Sean said it's uh more of a cramp be
Speaker 1: on with the hamstring. He said it shouldn't affect him
Speaker 1: for next on the post game list, Yeah, that's good news.
Speaker 1: But to get those young guys snaps like that is
Speaker 1: invaluable because if you think about it, even go back,
Speaker 1: how many times does Cowboys have a lead, seventeen point
Speaker 1: lead whatever going into the fourth. There so many tight
Speaker 1: games and they only had seven defensive lineman active, but
Speaker 1: they all had to play, and that those snaps are
Speaker 1: just invaluable. I guarantee you Dorin's armstrong. You know the
Speaker 1: other thing about Taco, We we always talk about sacks,
Speaker 1: but he's done a better job setting the edge, like
Speaker 1: he's gotten stronger, right. Aaronelli told me he did a
Speaker 1: nice job actually in the read option stuff. He kind
Speaker 1: of did his job right with some of the stuff
Speaker 1: Newton was thrown at him that was successful on the ground.
Speaker 1: And he did tell me he wants him not playing
Speaker 1: as many snaps. You know, I think more like thirties
Speaker 1: is necessity. Necessity. He's the starter. He's the starter. He was.
Speaker 1: He was out there almost every possession, and it looked
Speaker 1: like the safeties were out there a lot too. Again,
Speaker 1: I bet they played every play except Hambell had to
Speaker 1: come out. Hambell came out with Kim winning for one
Speaker 1: play for Heath Right, he got the win knocked out.
Speaker 1: He did play. Yes, Um, he was inactive the first week.
Speaker 1: I believe Campbell. They both were acted. They both were acted.
Speaker 1: But and Tyree Robinson and they didn't play a snap
Speaker 1: in a week. Yeah, yeah, they're they're Cavon's not coming
Speaker 1: off the field with that shoulder. And he had a
Speaker 1: nice you know, and he ran into Barkley one time
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, Right shouldered him and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: che's hold up, and he looked okay, no worse for
Speaker 1: wear there. They need him to keep playing the well
Speaker 1: as well as he Campbell. Campbell came in and I
Speaker 1: think I wrote down, Okay, Huff's in the game, Huff
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe you get Xavier Woods closer this week.
Speaker 1: Although with hamstrings, as we know, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: week to week, day to day type deal. He looked
Speaker 1: like he was running pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Anthony Brown's a terrible scout perdue. Oh play
Speaker 1: Missouri played Missouri this week. Yeah, I gotta tell him.
Speaker 1: He told me, oh, he goes, they're alternating quarterbacks. We
Speaker 1: ain't got a quarterback. He if you playing two, you
Speaker 1: don't have one. And then the guy goes out and
Speaker 1: throws for five hundred and seventy yards. What did your
Speaker 1: quarterback throw for four hundred and something? That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Your quarterback might be the first one taken in this draft.
Speaker 1: If I'm pretty can't hit the draft show music please,
Speaker 1: but you give us five hundred and seventy yards I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, Yes, you need a quarterback Missouri. So LSU
Speaker 1: and Missouri were in the same boat walk off game
Speaker 1: winning field goals right time experience. Yeah, but this was
Speaker 1: per due to Auburn. Hey, it wins a win, Mickey, Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I looked at it. My steak tasted really good.
Speaker 1: Saturday night, I think I saw something I've never seen before.
Speaker 1: A guy quit in the middle of the football game.
Speaker 1: That too, how about he just had enough? You know
Speaker 1: you know what that is. That is very much a
Speaker 1: It might be a movie slap shot. Yes, the guys
Speaker 1: skip the andi's skating around all right, taking off the equipment.
Speaker 1: You haven't seen the movie slaps. I go back and
Speaker 1: check it out. He's like, what's he doing? He's like,
Speaker 1: he is that enough? I saw? I saw my first
Speaker 1: header in football. Yeah, pass was broken up and the
Speaker 1: ball went over the guys that broke it up, and
Speaker 1: the linebacker was running underneath and it hit him in
Speaker 1: the head and went right to the tight end for
Speaker 1: like a forty yard game. I said, when that stuff happens,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna get beat Man of the Match, Man
Speaker 1: the match. Yeah, yeah, it's inful trading our lives. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to Rashim in Pennsylvania before we get out
Speaker 1: of here. What's up, Rashim? Good? Lovely shows, love the insight,
Speaker 1: Thank you? Um I just have a question on scheme wise,
Speaker 1: what's that guys thought about the Cowboys playing or wild
Speaker 1: receivers instead of the three wild receivers in the tight end.
Speaker 1: I just felt like maybe the best verses of themselves
Speaker 1: with uh Beasley, it's hav On with the middle and
Speaker 1: you got Thomp, Swains and Gallop on the outside, and
Speaker 1: you still got the threat of Zeke running the boy. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I think I think they went four wide a couple
Speaker 1: of times they did. Yeah, And you know what, I
Speaker 1: I don't have a poor Jeff Swam and he it's
Speaker 1: like he gets caught in a revolving door every game
Speaker 1: you ever watch him, he gets it's like he's blocking
Speaker 1: a bomb bum and he gets knocked around all over
Speaker 1: the place, and I'm sure he wakes up he's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what happened to me? But yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like though that, uh you know, playing the four
Speaker 1: wides with Zeke as a threat, I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a bad idea. I think you'll you'll see some of that,
Speaker 1: I really really do. I mean that's not an That's
Speaker 1: not one of those things where I would go, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: why are you taking him off the field. You know,
Speaker 1: the tight ends haven't really I mean they I don't
Speaker 1: know if you could say they've even been okay. I
Speaker 1: mean Swain helped him with the deep pass and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, but it's just been kind of a kind
Speaker 1: of a group just kind of plodding along here through
Speaker 1: two weeks. So if you want to add another playmaker
Speaker 1: out on the field, if it's Austin and Beasley and
Speaker 1: Thompson and and you know Hearns or whoever develope, yeah
Speaker 1: why not? I'm yeah, yeah, why not? A lot of
Speaker 1: receivers are trying to get to yeah, you know, still
Speaker 1: two games in, they're still kind of working through the rotation.
Speaker 1: I think you'll see this if it happens if somebody
Speaker 1: doesn't have enough defensive backs to play you. If somebody doesn't,
Speaker 1: if you're down to okay, who's the fourth corner we're
Speaker 1: gonna put out there? You know, sometimes in matchups you
Speaker 1: keep the tight end on the field because you feel
Speaker 1: like that Swain is a better guy than the safety
Speaker 1: that's covering him. But if you get a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good group of corners, like I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know why they didn't attack b W Webb
Speaker 1: more last night because he showed he really couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1: But you know, they got to do with what they did.
Speaker 1: What you're looking at, Mick. I wanted to see how
Speaker 1: many tackles b W. Webb made because his guy was
Speaker 1: always catching, but he had to play. When Eli Apple
Speaker 1: went out, they had to shuffle him around. So yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah he got I think he caught a pass. He
Speaker 1: caught a pass being he caught a break last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me personally, if I was a OC, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: your weakest players. Where is he? Yeah, Okay, it's like
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, It's like he's right there, right, He's Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: He's right there. You know, Damian Wilson is right there,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean they're pointing at you. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: pointing at you, and then they're they're figuring out ways
Speaker 1: to attack you. Um. I wish we had a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that. I wish we had a little
Speaker 1: more time because we had so much hours up already.
Speaker 1: You got tomorrow, we got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Bill, we'll
Speaker 1: be back in studio and we'll continue breaking down this game,
Speaker 1: looking ahead to those Seattle Seahawks tough road trip coming
Speaker 1: up for Dallas at the Bears to night. You watch
Speaker 1: him on Monday Night Football if you want to break
Speaker 1: him down and we're gonna scout him tonight, scout him.
Speaker 1: You gotta have notes for you scott him up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Well, we're getting back into that on Tuesday.
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