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Speaker 3: It is Monday. I'm sorry, it's Tuesday, October sixteenth, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, Season twenty, episode number fifty. Welcome to the
Speaker 3: latest edition of The Break. We are alive from the
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Speaker 3: We got a whole different crew in here for the Break.
Speaker 3: I got my longtime associate back with me, mister Nick Eatman,
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Speaker 3: year now, because he's been doing some other show. I
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Speaker 3: It's just crazy, but great, great job on that show.
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Speaker 6: You love what you do. You never have to work, right, exactly.
Speaker 5: I love that quote.
Speaker 3: It's exactly right. Tommy Yarsh, the newest member of the
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys dot Com team. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Thank you man.
Speaker 3: Tell the folks a little bit about your background, like
Speaker 3: where you came from, how you got here. Of course
Speaker 3: you're a long one, which we got a lot of.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, sorry to box you out here, but I'm okay.
Speaker 3: He's okay. Things are going to be okay.
Speaker 4: But uh no.
Speaker 7: I covered Texas for for two years while I was
Speaker 7: in school there and done some play by player work
Speaker 7: at the high school level as well. I'm just super
Speaker 7: excited to be here working for the Cowboys and working
Speaker 7: with Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 6: Awesome.
Speaker 3: We'll welcome to the crew, and of course Annie Joe
Speaker 3: Laughlin comes from Girls Talk, Boys Talk, Yes, sir, tell
Speaker 3: the folks a little bit on the break about you
Speaker 3: and your background and interesting background, but making full circle.
Speaker 8: The cheerleader for the Cowboys back in the nineties with
Speaker 8: Akman Smith and Irvin and we were winning the good
Speaker 8: old days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I like.
Speaker 8: Both reminists about those days.
Speaker 5: And now you know, I'm back in Texas.
Speaker 8: I was covering the Niners for ten years, don't hate me,
Speaker 8: and then now I'm here. I'm happy to be back
Speaker 8: covering the team that I love, America's team and happy
Speaker 8: to be with here at the break.
Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome. We got our crew here today. We'll be
Speaker 3: on for today and tomorrow covering the team. We got
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff we're going to talk about it.
Speaker 3: I like to do big picture kind of things whenever
Speaker 3: we have these mix up shows, just to kind of
Speaker 3: mix in some opinions. So I have a lot of
Speaker 3: questions for you guys that we'll get into, just to
Speaker 3: give people a good idea of where this team is
Speaker 3: right now. I at the break not just so much
Speaker 3: about what happened in the last game, because obviously that
Speaker 3: wasn't very good, But they're just looking at it overall,
Speaker 3: looking at the entire team and then what they'll have
Speaker 3: to do in the next part of the season in
Speaker 3: order to get themselves back on track.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: Nick. First, this morning, Jerry had an interview on the fan.
Speaker 3: It was it was tense, It was for you texted
Speaker 3: You texted me and was like are you listening? Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm listening, and it was it was very intense. What
Speaker 3: was your takeaway?
Speaker 6: I guess from that fireworks for sure.
Speaker 9: But but you know, he's this stemmed from from Sunday too,
Speaker 9: because after after the game, you know, some of the questions.
Speaker 9: He didn't really love those as well. Obviously upset because
Speaker 9: of the the loss and the way the team got
Speaker 9: got manhandled in the game. So it kind of stemmed
Speaker 9: over to some of the questions. Really, the the theme
Speaker 9: that I took from it is there's not going to
Speaker 9: be a lot of huge changes as far as personnel wise, players, coaches. Uh,
Speaker 9: you know, they asked about the coach, which coaching changed that,
Speaker 9: why would I do that? Not not changing that? And
Speaker 9: then as players basically answered was where where do you
Speaker 9: go get players? You know, Bill Parcels used always say
Speaker 9: you can't just go to the gas station down the
Speaker 9: street and pick up players and so, and they have
Speaker 9: already done that, They've gotten those guys. So like that
Speaker 9: was kind of the theme that I took out. I
Speaker 9: don't know what y'all thought, but it was more like, hey,
Speaker 9: it's got to get better with then, but this is
Speaker 9: who we've got for the most part, and we've got
Speaker 9: to fix it right here.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and I think he said he was happy with
Speaker 8: the players he has is he's seen how effective they
Speaker 8: can be, and that it thinks that there's obviously some
Speaker 8: rookies and some growing pains. However, this is the team
Speaker 8: and he knows that this is a team that he
Speaker 8: thinks can eventually, you know, go to playoffs or deep
Speaker 8: in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you know, I think the interesting part for
Speaker 7: me was there's a lot of commonality in terms of
Speaker 7: what Jerry talked about and what mich McCarthy talked about
Speaker 7: yesterday in terms of the offensive line, specifically taking some
Speaker 7: time to marinate. Obviously Tyler Goyiton was unable to start with.
Speaker 7: Jerry said this morning that he is the left tackle
Speaker 7: for the Dallas Cowboys, so Tyler Smith probably expected to
Speaker 7: move back to god. I know, we'll talk about that
Speaker 7: a little bit later, but that's the position that I
Speaker 7: think this team is looking to try and marinate so
Speaker 7: that when they get in rhythm, it's a unit that
Speaker 7: we know and love.
Speaker 6: Like the Cowboys everything over, you know, everything works exactly.
Speaker 7: But when you've got two rookies up front, you know
Speaker 7: it's going to take time, right And something that Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy harped on yesterday was that the youth on this
Speaker 7: team is going to pay off in the long term.
Speaker 7: These are valuable reps that these guys are getting. So,
Speaker 7: you know, patience is something that you know may be
Speaker 7: running a little bit thin, but in the long run,
Speaker 7: it is what's going to pay off.
Speaker 3: You know, when you look at the lines, I guess
Speaker 3: on the offensive end defensive side of the ball, I
Speaker 3: think that's where a lot of the problems are stemming
Speaker 3: at this point. Offensively, I think, as you said, you
Speaker 3: got a lot of inexperience and they're having to figure
Speaker 3: it out. Defensive side, your compromised. You just don't have
Speaker 3: as many bodies, particularly on the edges, as you usually do,
Speaker 3: so I think it doesn't go much farther than the lines.
Speaker 3: You hear this from football people all the time. It's
Speaker 3: about the trenches. What's happening in the trenches, And right
Speaker 3: now the Cowboys just aren't playing their best football in
Speaker 3: the trenches, and that's why you're seeing I think some
Speaker 3: of the results that you're seeing, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're going to fix that by going out and
Speaker 3: picking up whoever's out there, you know, wherever they are
Speaker 3: at this point of the year. That's a hard thing
Speaker 3: to be able to do at this point to try
Speaker 3: to to rectify that with personnel. You just have to
Speaker 3: hope those rookies come along and get better on the
Speaker 3: offensive line, and then pray that you get your defensive
Speaker 3: ends back from injury that you're missing, and hopefully that's enough.
Speaker 3: But man, it's a it's a tough situation to be
Speaker 3: in because that that. I don't think anybody enjoyed what
Speaker 3: happened on Sunday from the Cowboys perspective.
Speaker 9: So, yeah, especially the way you got, you know, bullied
Speaker 9: basically by a team like that has been bullied their
Speaker 9: entire franchise.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's sorry, That's what it is.
Speaker 9: And that's why I thought it was kind of interesting
Speaker 9: when you're like, well, Dan, you know, Dan Campbell, Jared Goff,
Speaker 9: did they run it up the score?
Speaker 6: They did?
Speaker 9: They embarrass some of me. This is our organization that's
Speaker 9: been embarrassed their entire life, you know, the Lions, That's
Speaker 9: what how many times does that happen to them? So
Speaker 9: you can't come back now and be like, look what
Speaker 9: they did. No, they that's what they've done. That they've
Speaker 9: learned because they've been on the other side, and rightfully so,
Speaker 9: and they they took it to the Cowboys. The buy helps,
Speaker 9: but I think the Niners are kind of played the
Speaker 9: same type of way and they've been so fix the
Speaker 9: problems quickly because the Niners coming they really don't carry
Speaker 9: and you've been on that other side of that robbery.
Speaker 9: They don't really seem to care what the Cowboys are
Speaker 9: going through right now anybody feeling sorry for but.
Speaker 8: They have their own issues as well, you know, and
Speaker 8: them coming off the bike, and it's going to help them,
Speaker 8: you know, because they've got CHRISI McCaffrey, who they don't
Speaker 8: even know it's going to come back the season. But
Speaker 8: they've got Mason, a running back that's able to kind
Speaker 8: of fill in, which you look at some teams in
Speaker 8: the NFL, they've got these third string forest ring running
Speaker 8: backs that are able to impact, where the Cowboys seem
Speaker 8: to keep struggling with finding a running back.
Speaker 5: You know, Pollard, I didn't think it was going to
Speaker 5: be a big loss.
Speaker 8: I'm going to say because he wasn't like an every
Speaker 8: down back, but now we're seeing, yeah.
Speaker 5: We kind of need him back, right, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But you know the thing about that, to me,
Speaker 3: it's not so much the running back in San Francisco,
Speaker 3: it's the scheme. I was telling somebody this other day,
Speaker 3: and I don't that's.
Speaker 6: The running back because he's sitting on my fantasy team.
Speaker 3: But Nick, you will appreciate this. I'm not sure if
Speaker 3: Tommy's too young for this. But remember back in the
Speaker 3: day of the Broncos under Shannahan. Yes, it was like
Speaker 3: every year in fantasy you would just say, who's the
Speaker 3: running back for the Denver Broncos this year? Pick him first,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have a great year. I mean that's where
Speaker 3: you got the guy like Ruben Drones, who, by all accounts, yes,
Speaker 3: these are not weren't going to be necessarily great, you know,
Speaker 3: running backs, but in that system, they know how to
Speaker 3: run the ball in that system, and so I think
Speaker 3: it's not surprising to me that Mason is. I think
Speaker 3: he's he's the first, second, third somewhere in there in
Speaker 3: rushing in the NFL this season. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 3: not surprising to me because that system they just know
Speaker 3: how to get the running the most out of the
Speaker 3: running game, and it part of it starts with the
Speaker 3: offensive line, but you can put whoever you want back
Speaker 3: there running back. If they're a one cut guy that
Speaker 3: knows how to get up feel quick, they can run
Speaker 3: in that offense and they can be successful. And I
Speaker 3: think that's that surprise, you know, just.
Speaker 6: This system isn't that isn't that way, No, it's not.
Speaker 9: When I watched the Money Night game, you know, in
Speaker 9: eighty game, it seems like it feels like everybody's got
Speaker 9: a really fast, quick running back, and I'm like, we
Speaker 9: just don't see that type of play, even Rico Donald,
Speaker 9: he's not. He's the fastest of the roop, the quickest,
Speaker 9: but you don't see him in the open field like
Speaker 9: that every time I want. I watched even the backup
Speaker 9: for the Bills last night that came in Davis and
Speaker 9: of course Brees Hall, But I mean, like they're so
Speaker 9: fast and quick. I'm like, you need that kind of
Speaker 9: juice here at the run.
Speaker 3: You don't think Rico has that though, I kind of do,
Speaker 3: and I just don't think he's getting a chance to
Speaker 3: really show it as much with him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you would try to keep my traveling right, it's
Speaker 7: always in a no win situation in this show, he's
Speaker 7: dealing with his boss and his boss and his boss.
Speaker 3: Like that, we put him in a bathroom.
Speaker 9: I mean, y'all see, I just don't see that enough
Speaker 9: out of him, out of Rico.
Speaker 8: But well, Shatanenheimer always says that he's hitting the hole
Speaker 8: too fast. He needs to have patience and then wait
Speaker 8: for the hole to open up. And so there's things
Speaker 8: I think that he's still trying to develop with his
Speaker 8: O line. And that's what I think. Sean Himer said
Speaker 8: that many many times his patients and Virtue.
Speaker 7: So yeah, well, I mean it all starts with the
Speaker 7: offensive line, right. You said earlier you win games in
Speaker 7: the trenches in the NFL really across all levels of football, right,
Speaker 7: If you have a good offensive line, good defensive line,
Speaker 7: you're gonna win games. It's part of the reason why
Speaker 7: San Francisco scheme works so well.
Speaker 5: Not just Kyle.
Speaker 7: Shanahan, you know, being able to run the ball so well,
Speaker 7: but they've got a great offensive line and they make
Speaker 7: gaps for Mason and any running back they've got in there.
Speaker 7: I mean, any of the four of us could suit
Speaker 7: up in that apartment probably run for a good sixty
Speaker 7: to seventy yards. Yeah, Trent Williams to help you out.
Speaker 7: But you know, in terms of the Cowboys, I think
Speaker 7: something interesting that I took away from mich McCarthy yesterday
Speaker 7: was saying that he wants to get Rico Dowdle more touches.
Speaker 7: And it was kind of surprising to me. I don't
Speaker 7: know about you guys, the fact that he only got
Speaker 7: five last week. After he has a career game against
Speaker 7: the Steelers, he still goes for twenty five yards runs
Speaker 7: for five yards of carry. Ezekiel Elliott had more touches
Speaker 7: than he did. I know that the Cowboys had said, hey,
Speaker 7: we're saving Ezekiel Elliott for when we need him, but
Speaker 7: in this game, I didn't see a situation where they
Speaker 7: necessarily needed him to get the run game going. If
Speaker 7: you're going to lean on a guy to get the
Speaker 7: run game going, you go on the guy who just
Speaker 7: had eighty seven yards on the ground for you in
Speaker 7: the best run game he's had in his career. So
Speaker 7: that puzzled me a little bit. I think that Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy maybe leaned away from the run a little bit
Speaker 7: too early. I was telling Nick about this yesterday when
Speaker 7: the Lions went up seventeen to three. After that Sam
Speaker 7: Laporta touchdown, they ran the ball one time for no
Speaker 7: game the rest of the first half. I understand, you're
Speaker 7: in a hole and you've got to try and move
Speaker 7: the ball downfield and score quickly. But your passing game
Speaker 7: is not going to open up. If you're a run game,
Speaker 7: run existent. If you're one dimensional, it's just not going
Speaker 7: to work for you. So you know that that kind
Speaker 7: of raised my eyebrow a little bit. But if Rico
Speaker 7: Dawdle gets more touches and he really can be leaned
Speaker 7: on more to try and establish this run game, I
Speaker 7: think that helps. And with a young offensive line that's
Speaker 7: just trying to get better, getting them those run blocking
Speaker 7: reps is going to help too in the long term
Speaker 7: of their development.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because Nick, this is that's their only choice. Really
Speaker 5: thinking about it.
Speaker 8: It is Rico And if you like what you said, Tommy,
Speaker 8: if you don't have the running game, you don't have
Speaker 8: you can't open up the offense. You can do play action,
Speaker 8: you know, you put pressure on deck that receivers ares
Speaker 8: no separation between receivers and the dvs. I mean, it
Speaker 8: causes so many problems and we didn't we can't stop
Speaker 8: to run, Derek.
Speaker 9: I wish they had like hard knocks going on right
Speaker 9: now so we could.
Speaker 3: I want to know really, like what they're saying behind
Speaker 3: this is what I want to I got a question
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that's that's the big question, Like what is it?
Speaker 9: Because you know, I always say they see and they
Speaker 9: are in the meetings, in their on field, they see
Speaker 9: more than we do and they evaluate it so they
Speaker 9: know the situation. I just want them to share it
Speaker 9: with us because I don't know what's going on, because
Speaker 9: it's not like, you know, I can't get him on
Speaker 9: the field.
Speaker 6: No, they're begging for a running back to get on
Speaker 6: the field.
Speaker 8: He's proven, he's the fact that he's quick, he's verse,
Speaker 8: and he even says he's like yeah, they kept saying
Speaker 8: that he needed the terminology to playbook.
Speaker 5: He goes, I'm ready.
Speaker 8: When I spoke to in the locker room, he said,
Speaker 8: I'm ready to make an impact because I know I
Speaker 8: can help this team.
Speaker 5: Why are we trying that?
Speaker 3: Well? I think that the interesting part for me is
Speaker 3: I wonder if part of This is if you look
Speaker 3: at Zeke and you look at Dalvin Cook, you say, well,
Speaker 3: those are two of the same kind of running back.
Speaker 3: And I don't know if that is the evaluation. I
Speaker 3: don't know if the Cowboys would be in a position
Speaker 3: where they would want to say, Okay, we're going to
Speaker 3: make Zeke Elliott and inactive, like, because do you really
Speaker 3: need two of those guys active? Especially right now you
Speaker 3: got so many injuries that you're dealing with. Do you
Speaker 3: really want to make both? I mean, make both those
Speaker 3: guys active when they kind of play a similar role, right,
Speaker 3: And so that's where I look at it. I just
Speaker 3: don't know if I don't know how the Cowboys evaluate
Speaker 3: Zeke in that whole Dalvin Cook thing. I think they
Speaker 3: believe that Zeke still has a role on this team,
Speaker 3: whether they're using him in that way or not. I
Speaker 3: think they still feel like he has a role on
Speaker 3: this team. And because of that, I don't think that
Speaker 3: they're willing to necessarily make him an active put Dalvin up. Now.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of fans and by myself included,
Speaker 3: want to see We just want to see it. It's
Speaker 3: just like, just let me see what Dalvin Cook they're
Speaker 3: seeing it in practice. I just want to see it
Speaker 3: for myself. Like Ken, Dalvin Cook adds something to this
Speaker 3: offense that's not there right now. I just don't know
Speaker 3: if they're.
Speaker 6: Willing to pull that truck.
Speaker 8: There is a reason they signed to the practice squad,
Speaker 8: right they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that may be an insurance policy, right, they could
Speaker 3: be looking at hey, as we keep going, we know Rico.
Speaker 3: One of the things about Rico is he hasn't been
Speaker 3: able to stay healthy. They may be looking at that
Speaker 3: as estate insurance policy, you know, break glass in case
Speaker 3: of emergency type thing, and that's the way they're looking
Speaker 3: at it. Again, these are all suppositions because they're not
Speaker 3: really saying much on why they're not righting Dalvin Cook
Speaker 3: out there. But those will be the things that I
Speaker 3: would at least I.
Speaker 5: Want to see. I want to see.
Speaker 9: We all want to see, right, Yeah, I mean there's nothing,
Speaker 9: there's nothing in their way that you wouldn't want to
Speaker 9: I mean, you've got to get better. I mean we
Speaker 9: even want to see deuce Van. I mean, I think
Speaker 9: we've seen that enough. But like you just want to
Speaker 9: see something better than this, because Rico Zeke, it's just
Speaker 9: it's not working.
Speaker 6: You know, they're they're either their.
Speaker 9: Last or second to last in the league in rushing.
Speaker 9: They were they were last two weeks ago, probably back
Speaker 9: to last again.
Speaker 6: So it's not good enough.
Speaker 7: We're gonna go, Well, I'll just kind of hypothetical before
Speaker 7: we go to break. Let's say we do bring Dalvin
Speaker 7: Cook up. If he doesn't get the touches, what difference
Speaker 7: is it going to make?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 7: I think that's been part of the problem is that
Speaker 7: the run game hasn't been established. So Cowboys getting a holder,
Speaker 7: they feel like they can't establish the run game.
Speaker 8: They just go back and.
Speaker 3: Throwing the ball.
Speaker 9: It's like chicken and egg theory. I mean that how
Speaker 9: do you start how do you establish the run without
Speaker 9: establishing the run? I mean, how do you know it's
Speaker 9: established if you don't run the ball. So that's that's
Speaker 9: always been kind of the problem here. But I mean,
Speaker 9: this is the time to try some new things, and
Speaker 9: you know, if you're not bringing in other players, go
Speaker 9: with what you have and he's he's still here.
Speaker 3: Well. The other part to that too is if you
Speaker 3: remember back, I think it was during training camp when
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy was talking about the running game. He said,
Speaker 3: we're going to have to be committed to it. And
Speaker 3: to me, when I look at that, I say, they
Speaker 3: aren't showing a commitment to it, because way too many
Speaker 3: times we've heard this year, well, the game got us
Speaker 3: out of it, game got a still position where we
Speaker 3: couldn't do it. My thought is, in that game last week,
Speaker 3: you're getting your butt whooped. Trying to throw the ball
Speaker 3: forty times wasn't necessarily going to get you back in
Speaker 3: that game. You probably would have been better served at
Speaker 3: that point, when maybe you're down seventeen points, twenty one points,
Speaker 3: whatever the case might have been, to say, Okay, let's
Speaker 3: slow this thing down a little bit, let's try to
Speaker 3: run the ball if you're really committed to it, right,
Speaker 3: And that's where I'm like, there could have been opportunities
Speaker 3: I remember Jason used to do. Jason Garrett used to
Speaker 3: do that. There'd be times in games, even when the
Speaker 3: Cowboys were down, when he would just say he would
Speaker 3: go on a drive with literally they just run the ball,
Speaker 3: run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, and
Speaker 3: they did it effectively and that could sometimes slow the
Speaker 3: game down enough for them to get it back into
Speaker 3: a workable situation where now you can try to really
Speaker 3: start working your offense again, and I just don't think
Speaker 3: the Cowboys are doing that this year. I think when
Speaker 3: it comes to the score, I think quickly it can
Speaker 3: get them out of their running game and they just
Speaker 3: won't worry about it. They won't go back to it.
Speaker 3: And that's not really a commitment to the run as
Speaker 3: I think they want to. At least they're saying that
Speaker 3: they want.
Speaker 8: That's a great point and helps our defense. I'll have
Speaker 8: to stay on the field, so right, absolutely.
Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take our first break when we
Speaker 3: come back. I got a lot of questions for you guys.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about this team, where they are,
Speaker 3: where they have to be as they come back off
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Speaker 3: free to chime in as you choose. This first question,
Speaker 3: which has been the bigger problem for the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 3: the rushing offense or the rushing defense.
Speaker 7: Well, uh, go for it, ton, I would say the
Speaker 7: rushing defense. And I understand that it's hard to say
Speaker 7: that because of several things. One you face some of
Speaker 7: the best running teams in the league to start off
Speaker 7: the year, and two you're shorthanded on defense. But the
Speaker 7: simple fact of the matter is that there is there's
Speaker 7: nothing coming out of it. I mean, teams are just
Speaker 7: running all over Dallas and they have no answer. It
Speaker 7: doesn't matter who's on the field, and I think that
Speaker 7: even when you look back at some of the earlier
Speaker 7: games when Michael Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence were out there,
Speaker 7: they were still struggling to defend the run. You think
Speaker 7: about that Baltimore game where they have what wasn't nearly
Speaker 7: three hundred yards on the ground between you know, Derek
Speaker 7: Henry Lamar Jackson. Obviously that's a, like I said, one
Speaker 7: of the harder rushing duos to stop. But it seems
Speaker 7: like there's just no answer regardless of who's on the field.
Speaker 7: We've seen demarve On Overshown have some players you look
Speaker 7: and you say, okay, yeah, we see it, but then
Speaker 7: somewhere you know he's just not there and he's not
Speaker 7: making an impact the interior the defensive line. Milesy Smith
Speaker 7: had a really good game a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 7: but there's still, you know, growing pains that are that
Speaker 7: are set to be there, right with those first and
Speaker 7: second year guys that Mike McCarthy talked about getting those
Speaker 7: valuable reps. So I think the rushing defense for me
Speaker 7: is what has can improve more heading into the Spy
Speaker 7: we can into San Francisco.
Speaker 8: I'm going to go rushing offense, just because it seems
Speaker 8: if you watch these teams, they know we don't have
Speaker 8: a run game, so they kind of sit back and
Speaker 8: attack the passing, you know, over and over and over again.
Speaker 8: And that's why we tend to come have to come
Speaker 8: from behind. And we all know we spoke about this already,
Speaker 8: not to reiterate, but the fact that we the running
Speaker 8: game kind of sets the whole tone, you know, for
Speaker 8: us to be able to have the play action to
Speaker 8: open up the offense, to alleviate some pressure off Dak.
Speaker 8: You know, Dack's now holding on the ball too long
Speaker 8: because he knows he's we can't run the ball. So
Speaker 8: I think for me, it's the definitely the rushing game
Speaker 8: is the struggle and the problem.
Speaker 9: This reminds me of me take in the SAT where
Speaker 9: it was like it was like the English portion and
Speaker 9: the math and I struggle on both sides. You know,
Speaker 9: I don't know which bar wash. It's okay, I still
Speaker 9: got a degree bear, but both, I mean it's both.
Speaker 9: I mean, you guys are both right. I mean I like,
Speaker 9: like you're saying those points, I'm like, yeah, totally agree,
Speaker 9: And then you said that, I'm like, yeah, I think
Speaker 9: it's that too. I would probably lean on the rush
Speaker 9: defense just because because on that the passing game. I mean,
Speaker 9: you got these guys that should should at least help
Speaker 9: the offense a little bit. But if you cannot stop
Speaker 9: the run, you really can't do anything. And uh, they
Speaker 9: because you don't, they don't have to throw and then
Speaker 9: they're not. You know, Baltimore didn't really have to throw
Speaker 9: the Saints through when they wanted to, but they also
Speaker 9: ran it to and so that's probably the most alarming thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when does Micah come back? When does Taint come back? Great?
Speaker 9: But they were part of the problem too. It's kind
Speaker 9: of like that year that that that Wade Phillips got
Speaker 9: fired and Romo got hurt, and it's like, well Romo
Speaker 9: got hurt. They were one in five when Romo got hurt.
Speaker 9: So it's like the problems were there that whole year too.
Speaker 9: Wasn't just that, So problems are there. They're gonna have
Speaker 9: to fix that.
Speaker 3: New Orleans game, they were full, full go and it
Speaker 3: just it was it was bad.
Speaker 6: The problem that I see.
Speaker 9: And I don't know if you can talk to the
Speaker 9: league about this, but you only play the Giants twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you can get more of those.
Speaker 6: That's what you need because you play the Giants more,
Speaker 6: be better.
Speaker 3: You know, that's what everybody heard answer.
Speaker 6: Giants.
Speaker 3: Do you think you know? I think it's I think
Speaker 3: it's run defense. And the reason why it's not so
Speaker 3: much because one is worse than the other. But when
Speaker 3: you're playing football, I've seen teams be successful that had
Speaker 3: no rushing offense. I've never seen a team in the
Speaker 3: NFL be successful that can't stop the run. If you
Speaker 3: can't stop the run, that's like the first thing. If
Speaker 3: you can't stop the run, then everything else is just
Speaker 3: gonna it's just going to be a problem because, yeah,
Speaker 3: because the the opposing offense knows that their whole playbook
Speaker 3: is now open to them because if they're running the
Speaker 3: ball effectively, now play action work, Now they can get
Speaker 3: you deep. There are so many things you can do
Speaker 3: if you got your running game going that that are
Speaker 3: limited if you don't have your running game going. So
Speaker 3: I just I look at that and I say that
Speaker 3: that one thing is probably a acting this entire team
Speaker 3: more than anything else, just their inability to be able
Speaker 3: to stop the run on a consistent basis, no matter
Speaker 3: who they're playing.
Speaker 8: We I think I'm still frustrated because we didn't sign
Speaker 8: Derrick Henry. So that's my that's my bygones.
Speaker 7: I mean, I think you make a good point about
Speaker 7: you know, you don't necessarily have to have a run
Speaker 7: game to be able to win games and throw the
Speaker 7: ball run. Look at this team. They have two wins
Speaker 7: where they don't necessarily run the ball very well, and
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott, who was I think third in the league
Speaker 7: in passing yards coming into this game, just tosses all
Speaker 7: over everybody in it Winsley football game. So you know,
Speaker 7: But at the same time, now that that does become
Speaker 7: I don't want to say the identity of the offense
Speaker 7: because it's too early in the season to really put
Speaker 7: a label on that. And we'll see if they can
Speaker 7: get their run game going. But you know, like she said,
Speaker 7: if you if you know that that's what it is
Speaker 7: coming in, then it's going to get easier to stop
Speaker 7: and you don't need to load up the box as much.
Speaker 3: Yeap you think about it. And obviously I hate sometimes
Speaker 3: making this comparison because I understand before anybody says, I understand,
Speaker 3: you're talking about the best quarterback in the league. But
Speaker 3: The chief are a good example of how you don't
Speaker 3: necessarily have to have a great running game if you can,
Speaker 3: if you can establish a good passing game that scares people,
Speaker 3: it will create more in your running game. Isaiah Pacheco
Speaker 3: is not a great running back, he's very, very, very
Speaker 3: serviceable in that offense. Right. They have a defense that
Speaker 3: they've improved over time, and now their defense is I
Speaker 3: think really really good. And so they have a defense
Speaker 3: that can that can play well. They can play comment
Speaker 3: complimentary style of football and on their offense, because you're
Speaker 3: so afraid of their quarterback and so afraid of their
Speaker 3: tight end, you can actually get away with having a
Speaker 3: an okay running back that looks really good in that offense. Right,
Speaker 3: So I guess that's the point I'm making more is
Speaker 3: you can figure out how to make the run game work.
Speaker 3: You cannot make it work if you can't stop the run.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's true. And also you said that about the Chiefs.
Speaker 9: I think that's so important with I think I think
Speaker 9: having a great tight end is probably the most important
Speaker 9: thing that you can really have in a dynamic offense
Speaker 9: because I think when Kelsey's really on his game doing
Speaker 9: his thing, it's so hard to stop, just how versatile
Speaker 9: they could be.
Speaker 6: You kind of thought Jake Ferguson was.
Speaker 9: Going to take I'm not saying to the Kelsey level,
Speaker 9: but take that next leap.
Speaker 6: And so far he.
Speaker 9: Really hasn't done that yet, but I mean it's early,
Speaker 9: it's slowly in the year, no one really has. But
Speaker 9: I was kind of hoping he would take a little
Speaker 9: bit more of that of that step this year because
Speaker 9: if he can do that, I think that really does
Speaker 9: open so many things, because it's so hard to stop
Speaker 9: when you have multiple tight ends out there that can
Speaker 9: you can play any style you want.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would actually if I were the Cowboys, I'd
Speaker 3: actually target him a little bit more. I would actually
Speaker 3: create plays for him because I agree with you. I
Speaker 3: think when you get a tight end rolling, it does
Speaker 3: something to a defense because a defense can be made
Speaker 3: to to kind of try to take away a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: They have to do a lot of things differently in
Speaker 3: order to take away a tight end who's really killing you.
Speaker 3: And I think that and they have to kind of
Speaker 3: I think Ferguson. What I love about Ferguson is he's
Speaker 3: a good tight end, but really it's the run after
Speaker 3: the catch that makes him I think, yeah, better than
Speaker 3: the average, right, And I think they ought to find
Speaker 3: more opportun needs to to let him get the ball
Speaker 3: in the open film, see what he can do with him.
Speaker 6: He's got to catch it too.
Speaker 8: I mean, they had to play and I've seen him
Speaker 8: make catches like that. We can twist, but I don't
Speaker 8: know what.
Speaker 3: He's made catches. That was just a bad one for him.
Speaker 3: I'll give him that. That was a bad one for
Speaker 3: him because usually catch.
Speaker 9: You needed that because you needed it because the Lions
Speaker 9: were playing backyard football, you know, everything was like you know,
Speaker 9: like even the big guys were like I want the ball.
Speaker 9: They're like, okay, we'll thought to sixty eight. They were
Speaker 9: determined to get sixty eight a touchdown.
Speaker 3: But like that knows where like every play somebody's reporting
Speaker 3: like wow, let's go.
Speaker 6: But that play that.
Speaker 9: I'm talking about, you know, they rolled here and then
Speaker 9: threw it back to Ferguson.
Speaker 6: You're like, what is he? Okay, well I'll catch it.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: So that was that was it.
Speaker 9: But I mean the question that you that you asked,
Speaker 9: that's the problem is is that it is kind of
Speaker 9: a tough question. Yes, you're right, you're right, you're right,
Speaker 9: I'll be right. We're all right on this. The running
Speaker 9: game is terrible and the run defense is terrible. It's
Speaker 9: not a good it's not a good recipe.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's kind of surprising.
Speaker 9: I mean, when you have a really bad running game
Speaker 9: and a really bad run defense in your three and three,
Speaker 9: it's kind of surprising.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, because you want to play those teams.
Speaker 3: Again, those teams that you beat.
Speaker 6: You right, to be just three and three is surprising.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, let's take our final break. We'll come back.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask you guys about this offense in what
Speaker 3: you think is a bigger problem protection lack of a
Speaker 3: running game or turnovers. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 3: I have for you guys. Which do you guys think
Speaker 3: is the bigger problem for the passing offense right now? Protection,
Speaker 3: lack of a running game, or turnovers? And that would
Speaker 3: be dack the wide receivers, because I don't know if
Speaker 3: you can necessarily see in those situations if it's dack
Speaker 3: with the wide receivers, but they're off, they're off, whatever
Speaker 3: is happening with those they're off? What do you think
Speaker 3: is a bigger problem for the passing offense?
Speaker 7: Can I pick two?
Speaker 13: Sure?
Speaker 6: I think?
Speaker 7: Okay, I think protection, protectionant I take it in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, just.
Speaker 7: Because I think they're they kind of obviously all three
Speaker 7: co incide, right, I think the biggest issue, and I
Speaker 7: guess that takes away the two. I would say protection. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, this is a this is a rookie heavy
Speaker 7: offensive line. They've got two of the center and left
Speaker 7: tackle position. Those are two of the most important positions
Speaker 7: on your offensive line. Right You've got to get the
Speaker 7: snap from your center, and you've got to have protection
Speaker 7: on your blind side. And so when you're dealing with
Speaker 7: growing pains there and guys trying to get up to
Speaker 7: the NFL level, get sped up and also play some
Speaker 7: really elite edge rushers here to start. Through these first
Speaker 7: six games in the season, these guys have been thrown
Speaker 7: right in the fire, and obviously there's going to be
Speaker 7: bad reps that come with that, and we've seen that
Speaker 7: from Cooper BB and Tyler Geiton and Dak Prescott then
Speaker 7: forced to be on the move a little bit and
Speaker 7: move outside of the pocket and make some backfoot throws.
Speaker 7: I think, you know, we talked about that pass to
Speaker 7: Jake Ferguson that he dropped earlier in the game. That
Speaker 7: throw was off his back foot across the entire length
Speaker 7: of the field. That should have been intercepted, I think.
Speaker 7: And so, but that also leads to things like turnovers,
Speaker 7: and more specifically, I'm going to expand and make it
Speaker 7: red zone turnovers. Points are being taken off the board.
Speaker 7: You've got at least three points in your back pocket
Speaker 7: with a guy like Brandon Aubrey kicking field goals and
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott has kind of uncharacteristic Chris uncharacteristically turn the
Speaker 7: ball over when the Cowboys get down there. So really,
Speaker 7: I think those two jive very well, and it's something
Speaker 7: that I don't need to say has to be fixed
Speaker 7: it obviously that goes without saying. But you also think
Speaker 7: some of those red zone turnovers have been because that
Speaker 7: pocket collapses for Dak. He's got to go out and
Speaker 7: try to make something happened. And some of it is
Speaker 7: on Dak too. You know that that throw to CD.
Speaker 7: I think he he stared CD down the whole time
Speaker 7: where he had Tolbert in the flat and you kind
Speaker 7: of you're supposed to look there first. That allows Brian
Speaker 7: Branch to come up instead. He makes a heck of
Speaker 7: a play diving in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 7: But uncharacteristic start from Dak. But I think the offensive
Speaker 7: line struggles are part of it too.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's been the fact that that Dak
Speaker 9: and See are just not on the same page is
Speaker 9: a huge problem too. That I mean, and one of
Speaker 9: them was at training camp, one of them wasn't, and
Speaker 9: I think we all know that the situation there, but
Speaker 9: but I mean, CD, I think he was somewhat ready
Speaker 9: to play as far as physically, but but as far
Speaker 9: as understanding what they're trying to do. Timing, the timing
Speaker 9: of things just hasn't been there, and so you know,
Speaker 9: you put that on both of them, really, and so
Speaker 9: I'm tired of hearing Dak say that that they're not
Speaker 9: practicing well. I don't understand that numerous times, you know,
Speaker 9: and so that I put I'm putting that on on
Speaker 9: Dak too, I mean, like like or as a leader,
Speaker 9: I mean, that's part of it. He keeps calling them out,
Speaker 9: but they're calling them out at the wrong you know,
Speaker 9: when are you really calling them out?
Speaker 6: And really who?
Speaker 9: And I don't put it all on that because he
Speaker 9: can practice a certain way, but he's you know, this
Speaker 9: is this is a coaching thing as well. It's like
Speaker 9: that this team isn't practicing well. You're getting beat on Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 9: Wednesday and Thursday of you know, of a week.
Speaker 3: But you know, I think I think there's a lot
Speaker 3: of gray area in that too. Like when you say
Speaker 3: not practicing well, that could be a lot of different
Speaker 3: sures like are you are you unfocused? Are you literally
Speaker 3: just not performing well? Like is it just like everybody's
Speaker 3: out there, everybody's into it, everybody's working hard, but balls
Speaker 3: are on the efforts. Yeah, they're not executing well in practicing.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of different gray areas on what he
Speaker 3: really means why they're not practicing. Well, I'd love to
Speaker 3: know that because I think that helps me understand maybe
Speaker 3: where the problem is. Is it a mental problem or
Speaker 3: is it actually they're just not very good?
Speaker 9: And I have an interesting statue. I want you to finish, Yeah,
Speaker 9: go to your point, but I have a stat afterwards
Speaker 9: that I thought it's interesting about preparation. Right, No, Well,
Speaker 9: I looked at the opening drive to start the game.
Speaker 9: Cowboys first six games, both the opponent and you know,
Speaker 9: their offense. To start the game, they're getting out scored
Speaker 9: thirty one to six. They've only had two field goals
Speaker 9: in their first six first six drives of the six games,
Speaker 9: and the opponents have got thirty one points. Go to
Speaker 9: the third quarter, it's thirty to nine, thirty points. They're
Speaker 9: giving up only nine only only three field goals.
Speaker 3: They're starting and finishing.
Speaker 9: So sixty one to fifteen is the first drive of
Speaker 9: each you know, that's when you're you're supposed to prep
Speaker 9: you know, definitely start the game. And the opponent has
Speaker 9: scored on every single drive to start the game, even
Speaker 9: the Browns, even the Giants Pittsburgh, they've all started at
Speaker 9: least a field goal. But they're driving down and they're
Speaker 9: scoring points, and the other four teams are scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 9: So I mean it's bad, you know, And so that's
Speaker 9: a preparation thing, coaching team, whatever it is. And even
Speaker 9: the third quarter's not getting fixed either, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would want to know that too. Coming out
Speaker 3: of the halftime.
Speaker 6: Is it the same thing? Are yay say?
Speaker 9: I might have flipp the first half I think might
Speaker 9: be thirty to nine and second half of thirty one six.
Speaker 9: Either way, it's one to fifteen. You're getting outscored. So
Speaker 9: preparation has not been good at all.
Speaker 8: Yeah, piggybacking off of Tommy, but definitely protection. I think
Speaker 8: it's you know, if you look at that Brian Branch
Speaker 8: play that literally, I think that was very pivotal in
Speaker 8: the whole game. I think it shifted the whole Yeah,
Speaker 8: everything in that whole game, you know, And the fact
Speaker 8: that you can see that Dak is looking at his
Speaker 8: first read and kind of getting focused on that and
Speaker 8: doesn't now look at the rest of the feel like
Speaker 8: you're you know, saying with Tolbert in the flat. So
Speaker 8: I think that protection and then that causes everything to
Speaker 8: kind of trickle down.
Speaker 5: That's a domino effect.
Speaker 9: And here's another thing that I wonder about too, because
Speaker 9: Dez did this too early on when Dak's career and
Speaker 9: Duck was younger, Dez was the established veteran. And there
Speaker 9: were times where Dez would be chirping a lot, and
Speaker 9: then the next game they'd throw it to him fifteen
Speaker 9: times and he catch like five or six, and it's
Speaker 9: and you're forcing the ball to him. And I kind
Speaker 9: of wonder if we're getting to that point now where
Speaker 9: you know, you're tired of seeing and hearing the jump
Speaker 9: ball deck jump ball stuff like that, where Tolbert I
Speaker 9: have been the better play there, you know. And now
Speaker 9: it was second down, right, I believe second down, second
Speaker 9: or maybe a.
Speaker 6: Third second out. So I don't know if Tilvert scores,
Speaker 6: but it's going to be close.
Speaker 9: He has to make the guy miss, but he's just
Speaker 9: going you know what I mean, are you like, You're
Speaker 9: like you just want to shut the guy up, So
Speaker 9: let's start up, you know CD, But that's not really
Speaker 9: the right play, and the other team knows it too.
Speaker 9: They know that they want to throw the CD. I
Speaker 9: just hope that we're not getting to that point where
Speaker 9: Dak is kind of like you're just sort of forcing
Speaker 9: it there when it's really not the.
Speaker 6: Right place, you know.
Speaker 3: I don't. I wouldn't think so. And the reason why
Speaker 3: I wouldn't think so is because I think there's probably
Speaker 3: twenty eight teams in the NFL where you've got a
Speaker 3: receiver who is chirping a lot, like that's just the
Speaker 3: nature of the position. You can't do your job, and
Speaker 3: I don't think it's a bad thing. You can't do
Speaker 3: your job as a receiver unless you're getting the ball right.
Speaker 3: So I think there's probably all these guys are playing
Speaker 3: in NFL played the wide receiver position like hey man,
Speaker 3: I'm open, I'm open, get me the ball. I'm open.
Speaker 3: Like that's that's just the nature of wide receivers. Probably
Speaker 3: starting at high school, get me the ball, the ball,
Speaker 3: give me the ball. Quarterback grows immune to that, Like
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think the good quarterbacks like it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I got you, bro, I see you over there. We're good.
Speaker 3: I just hope that that's not I wouldn't think that
Speaker 3: that would be something that would change how Dak approaches
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 6: Well also too.
Speaker 9: I'm sorry to cut you off at the time point,
Speaker 9: but I mean it's fifty three yards, that's how wide
Speaker 9: it is. Why we have the guys too close together?
Speaker 9: Why could one guy cover Tolbert and CD and then
Speaker 9: the other play where schoon Maker and well somebody are just.
Speaker 3: That's the difficulty of the red zone, right, that's the
Speaker 3: difficulty of the red zone. It's what you always tell
Speaker 3: me when we're watching the game and it's first and
Speaker 3: goal at the nine or first and goal at to ten,
Speaker 3: you're like field goal because the field is compressed and
Speaker 3: now a guy that's that's covering the flat can also
Speaker 3: cover the back of the end zone. That that's the
Speaker 3: problem is you got a compressed field.
Speaker 9: It's just wondering why see Trayvon Diggs is playing ten
Speaker 9: yards off the ball on the on a play like.
Speaker 3: That was the question. We're going to look to that later.
Speaker 3: Sorry that we're going to get to that. Why are
Speaker 3: you killing all? Sorry? All right? That did everybody get
Speaker 3: chance to answer it?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, good, all right. I don't know if
Speaker 3: we have time, but we're going to dive into this
Speaker 3: question real quick, and this isn't a quick question, but
Speaker 3: we're gonna try anyway. Name the five best offensive linemen
Speaker 3: on this team.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'll start Smith. Okay, you guys got.
Speaker 5: So Zach Martin, but he's just not playing at the
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame level.
Speaker 8: He isn't.
Speaker 5: He's trailing off, but.
Speaker 6: He's got to be You're right, he's not playing well.
Speaker 6: He's still it was.
Speaker 3: Now the rough one's the roughest I've seen you. No,
Speaker 3: absolutely right, No, no, no, you don't have an answer. I
Speaker 3: said that yesterday on our show. I was like, that
Speaker 3: was as rough of a game as it ever seen
Speaker 3: from Zach Martin. And quite frankly, this season has not
Speaker 3: been the traditional Zach Martin. Now, he did pop up
Speaker 3: on the injury report last week, and that to me
Speaker 3: could make some sense. Is this a situation where he's
Speaker 3: he's just he's trying to gut one out on the
Speaker 3: team and that's why we saw what we saw on Sunday,
Speaker 3: But that was not now.
Speaker 8: And he gave up seven pressure I think ten pressures
Speaker 8: all year last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's It's not Cooper Bebe.
Speaker 9: I think it's been I mean I know we're greating
Speaker 9: on a curve a little bit because he's a rookie,
Speaker 9: but I still think he's played pretty much.
Speaker 8: That's on his position.
Speaker 3: The one thing I would say is I think there
Speaker 3: are two things for me. One, I think when it
Speaker 3: comes to like twists and stunts, I think sometimes he's
Speaker 3: a little like trying to figure it out. And the
Speaker 3: second part is he seems to be a tick late
Speaker 3: consistently when he's trying to get to the second level.
Speaker 3: He kind of like gets that first, you know, initial block.
Speaker 3: He doesn't trust I'm going to pass this guy off
Speaker 3: and just go to the second level. He's kind of
Speaker 3: there a little too long, and then doesn't really get
Speaker 3: there in time to be able to make that second
Speaker 3: level block that sometimes could spring a run that's important
Speaker 3: in the run game. That's the area I want to
Speaker 3: see him develop. But I also think that's something you
Speaker 3: can get better at. Over time, he'll get a better
Speaker 3: feel that also works with The more they this line
Speaker 3: works together, the more he'll know I can trust that
Speaker 3: once I get a nice shove on this guy, I'm
Speaker 3: up to the second level and I can trust my
Speaker 3: to do that. I think those are the kind of
Speaker 3: things that are just about time.
Speaker 7: If that is the worst problem you've got with a
Speaker 7: rookie center, right, I think you take that ten ten
Speaker 7: times because that stuff that comes with those reps.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 7: As far as the five best, I think the five
Speaker 7: best guys that are going to give you a chance
Speaker 7: to win long term, Tyler Goeiton, Tyler Smith, Cooper bb
Speaker 7: Zach Martin, and Terrence Steele. I mean, I understand that
Speaker 7: they've had their struggles to start the year. I understand that,
Speaker 7: you know, you look at moving Tyler Smith back to
Speaker 7: tackle and TJ Basson at left guard, you're kind of like, Okay,
Speaker 7: maybe that can work. I think that if you get
Speaker 7: your rookies the snaps they need. And I completely agree
Speaker 7: with Mike McCarthy because it's worked for him in the past.
Speaker 7: It worked for him in Green Bay, it's worked for
Speaker 7: him everywhere he's been where playing a lot of young
Speaker 7: guys eventually is going to look really good. And I
Speaker 7: know you guys have talked about it on the show
Speaker 7: and on the Draft Show, where you know, two years
Speaker 7: from now, we may not look at Tyler Garten and say, Okay,
Speaker 7: this guy was one of the better picks in the
Speaker 7: first round of the draft. But four years and it's
Speaker 7: time for that fifty year contract talk, you're gonna say, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: this is a guy who definitely needs it because he's
Speaker 7: going to be playing really well.
Speaker 9: And that's the problem that this coaching staff has and
Speaker 9: Mike McCarthy has. It's like you just said it twice.
Speaker 9: You said long term and then you said four years
Speaker 9: from now, Well, who's the coach? Then who's the head
Speaker 9: coach for this? So do you just say, hey, this
Speaker 9: will be good, let's you know, I'll deal with the
Speaker 9: growing pains now, and then I'll probably get fired, you know,
Speaker 9: like if that happens, if they don't win games, And
Speaker 9: so it's like that's the problem. Do you play the
Speaker 9: five best that will help you meet the forty nine
Speaker 9: ers for the five best to develop?
Speaker 6: And that's where.
Speaker 9: Ownership and head coach sometimes will have difference of opinion
Speaker 9: because one of them is definitely going to be here
Speaker 9: and one of them has to win to stay here.
Speaker 7: Right, But at the nature coaching right at the same time,
Speaker 7: if you don't have continuity with the five guys that
Speaker 7: you've got up front, it's only going to get worse.
Speaker 7: And you know, the five that they've trotted out on
Speaker 7: Sunday is not a bad unit. But if they haven't
Speaker 7: practiced together, if they haven't played together for long, yeah,
Speaker 7: then you're still kind of dealing with the same time.
Speaker 9: I'm with you, though, I I agree with you about
Speaker 9: Guidon long term, but I think Goton can win with
Speaker 9: I think you win with Guyton now too. I really
Speaker 9: do his his things is technique, his hands, Like he's
Speaker 9: got to figure out how to hold properly.
Speaker 6: Everybody holds, just do it in a way where you
Speaker 6: don't get called. You have to figure out a way
Speaker 6: to hold the right way. You know, you got to.
Speaker 6: You got to learn how to cheat better. And then
Speaker 6: he'll do that and then and he's.
Speaker 8: Going to get stronger. So you can tell, like his
Speaker 8: core is balance, he's off, he's not under speaking times.
Speaker 5: You know, his balance is off, and that's all going
Speaker 5: to come.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think he has to play.
Speaker 9: I mean, I still think, I still think those five
Speaker 9: would would be better for for for multiple reasons. You're
Speaker 9: trying to win, but you're also trying to build them.
Speaker 9: You got to build his confidence.
Speaker 6: He can't go. I think he has to play.
Speaker 3: But the one thing I will say is on Sunday,
Speaker 3: at least most of the problems from a protection standpoint
Speaker 3: appear to come from the right hand side of the ker,
Speaker 3: And so that's where I'm like, are you Are you
Speaker 3: better off in a situation where right now, I would say,
Speaker 3: right now TJ. Bass is a better guard than guiding
Speaker 3: is a tackle, And because of that, it might be
Speaker 3: something where if you have to if you're trying to
Speaker 3: win right now and trying to just get some get
Speaker 3: some steadiness coming from this offensive line, that should be
Speaker 3: worth the consideration. Now I think it does stunt you.
Speaker 3: Long term, I think it does, and so that's where
Speaker 3: you have to, Like you're saying, Nick, what happens that
Speaker 3: becomes an interesting question, are you interested in possibly We
Speaker 3: talked about this on the break yesterday. Are you interested
Speaker 3: in possibly taking Guidon who played right tackle in college
Speaker 3: and now flipping him over to the other side With
Speaker 3: Terrence still struggled quite a bit.
Speaker 9: Romo used to say it all the time to th
Speaker 9: right tackle, don't hold I'll see I see him. I'll
Speaker 9: see him. You can don't hold him because I'll make
Speaker 9: him miss. He could also see the backside too, which
Speaker 9: is kind of weird.
Speaker 3: To everything.
Speaker 9: But what I saying, that might be a better situation
Speaker 9: there too. Steal Steele's got probably some issues too, But
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know. I mean, maybe this is
Speaker 9: the week to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think it's an interest. I think
Speaker 3: it's something interesting to think about. I don't think that's
Speaker 3: what the Cowboys will do. I think ultimately they're gonna
Speaker 3: put guiding back in there. I don't think he was
Speaker 3: ready to play last week. I think that's why he
Speaker 3: was out. I think coming out of the buy, I
Speaker 3: expect him to go back to the line that they
Speaker 3: had to start the season. And I think they're gonna
Speaker 3: roll with that and they're gonna watch those guys development.
Speaker 3: By the way, it might all work, question is does
Speaker 3: it work fast enough you need it to be working now?
Speaker 3: The problem is it gonna work fast enough to where
Speaker 3: you get those rookies really integrated to where they're playing
Speaker 3: at their best level. And Steal can get back to
Speaker 3: some consistency because he's had it at certain points in
Speaker 3: his careers where he's been a consistently good player. Can
Speaker 3: he get back to that? And then you know, obviously
Speaker 3: things settle in a little bit for everybody else in
Speaker 3: the offensive line starts working all right. Appreciate you guys
Speaker 3: joing us. We'll be back on tomorrow. We got so
Speaker 3: many more questions to get through. We'll see how fast
Speaker 3: we get through them tomorrow. For Nick Keaman uh and
Speaker 3: for Tom Yars, Bonnie Joe Laughlin. Thank you guys for
Speaker 3: joining us. We'll be back tomorrow on the break.
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