WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting The Redskins Offense 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:04.120 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:11.000 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:15.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:25.840 wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:30.160 Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October twenty fifth, twenty seventeen, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.760 Season thirteen, episode number sixty one. Welcome to another edition 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:36.840 of The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.800 at the Star. And today we're gonna be talking about 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.880 Cowboys versus Redskins. It is Redskins Week. Cowboys will travel 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.320 to Washington on Saturday and then on Sunday at three 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:51.800 twenty five they'll kick off against the Redskins. How's everybody 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.720 doing this morning? Well, I'm doing outstanding. I don't know 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.040 about the rest of the group. I'm doing fine. Dave 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.520 good rip, Fats Domino pass away? Yeah he just passed away. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.920 It is said, Yeah, didn't I baby King passed away? 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.759 What it last within the last year or at last 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.800 maybe a year and a half or so. But Blues 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:17.039 Legend New England Zone Fats Domino. Alright, we were kind 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:20.039 of talking about blues a little bit, so well, sorry, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.240 I think Prince is bluesy No, okay, no, just he 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:29.399 passed away too, Michael Jackson, Seleno, how long are we gonna? Yep, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.039 just just keep going, I guess, all right, but how 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.600 are you this? Maybe maybe Elvis, maybe Tupac? All right, 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.600 just glad to be alive right now? Wow, that is 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.640 always an acceptable answer for whatever it's worth. Yeah, it's 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.920 better than the alternative crazy. It makes it sound like 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.280 it was a close call or something. No, every day 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:49.560 could be a close call. You never ever know every day. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.800 I'm cheflin. It's true that also. All right, let's get 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.480 into some football. Let's talk some Cowboys and Redskin before 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.200 we do that, though, I do want to start first 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.920 with the news that came out yesterday evening. Cowboys make 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.080 a decision with the kicker, and I think there are 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.240 two parts of this story. Number one the guy that 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.639 they brought in and number two the guy that they 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.160 sent packing. So let's start first with the guy they 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.359 brought in, Mike Nugent. He is being brought in and 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.240 replaced Dan Bailey. Just to give you, guys, an idea 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.840 of kind of statistically what he was last year. He 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.639 seems to be a pretty steady kicker if you're less 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:28.880 than fifty except and here's the notable exception, extra points. 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.160 For some reason, for some reason, last year he had 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.120 a really tough time with extra points. He was only 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.839 twenty three of twenty nine on extra points. But when 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.280 you look at the rest of his kicking, he was 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.839 he was nine of nine twenty to twenty nine yards. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.200 He was nine of ten thirty to thirty nine yards. 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:46.600 He was five or seven for forty to forty nine yards. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.799 Oh of three beyond fifty. But okay, that's acceptable. That's 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.959 a you know, that's not a gimmey anyway, It's not 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.919 acceptable now when Dan Bailey's the guy, no, no no, no, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.680 for a guy that was on the street, that didn't 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.920 have a job that you need to bring in to 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.959 give you some relief while your starter is out, that's 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.800 acceptable if I'll tell you like this, if he fixes 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.440 the extra points and the only thing you're dealing with 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.120 is a guy that's reliable for fifty for less than fifty, 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.680 I'll take that, would you not? I get your point, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.280 But it's sure is nice. I could have been different there. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:26.720 Just it's not acceptable, but it's more understandable, I guess. 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.560 I mean, no, I think he's succeptable. For me, it's 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.120 acceptable if I know as a coach. If I know 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.399 as a coach that the guy's reliable for forty nine 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.080 anything forty nine in he's reliable, then I can plan 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.040 around that. I know that I'm not gonna throw him 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.960 out there too often unless it's like in the game 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.920 type situation where I have to do it. I'm not 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.480 gonna throw him out there to kick a fifty two 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.320 yard because I don't trust him there. But if I 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.280 know forty nine, unless I can trust him, I can 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.600 plan around that. Right. We know that extra points make 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.360 a difference, But I'm just glad that right now the 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.520 Cowboys are able to score touchdowns and nod to the 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.760 point where we were they were struggling with scoring and 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:07.120 just relying on field goals and all that. Maybe they 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 just let he keep doing the extra points. Yeah, I mean, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.960 maybe he's two with three, right, twenty three of twenty nine, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.240 twenty three, twenty nine. It wasn't great. That's not good. 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.680 I mean, what seriously, what is that average? That's not good. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:26.800 The thanks, Jason. What I'm thinking, what seventy probably seventy nine, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.320 that's awful, Okay, Jeff, he's sixty six bad for extra points. 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.320 That's pretty bad averages like ninety eight point nine or 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.919 see what what I don't like about him already just 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.599 by knowing that is that it seems like it's a 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.400 mental thing, because what is he on twenty of twenty 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.800 nine and all that? That's exactly right. Twenty twenty nine, 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.440 he's nine of nine. He didn't miss anything. Twenty's thirty 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:52.039 and thirty. He's nine of ten. See, so he's only 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.279 missed one. It was the thirty nine. Mental part of 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:59.440 the extra point is now pushed back, and that probably 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.440 helped him get on the street. You know, obviously you 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.640 miss an extra points, yeah, but a mental part of it. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:10.200 So hopefully all that's fixed. I mean, Dan Bailey. Everyone 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.239 appreciates Dan Bailey, and they'll appreciate him even more probably 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.160 in the next few weeks. That's just the way it is. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.039 And to be honest with you, the guy has a 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.480 twelve year career. Last year was a bit of an aberration. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.200 He's been a pretty good kicker throughout his career, and 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.080 he's made a lot of a lot of kicks throughout 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.400 his career, so he has not been he's never been 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.000 great beyond fifty. Yeah, he's kind of been mixed beyond fifth. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.440 There's some years he's been two of three, that kind 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.800 of thing. But he's not never been a great reliable 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.400 kicker beyond fifty. But again, I don't think that most 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.240 kickers are that reliable beyond fifty. I think for a 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.040 few yea, and Bailey is one of them. I don't 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.320 think there are a lot of them. I know that 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.880 going in right, know that first and ten of the 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.560 thirty four yard line, you don't run the football or 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.360 if you if that's what you need, if that if 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.160 you need, if you make sure you need to get 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.520 a field goal, because you can't just go three passes now, okay, 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.800 now were in fifty one two yarder, you can't do 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.760 that with him. It was he the one that pac 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.040 Man called out a few years ago, probably because he's 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.680 been on the bank. Yeah, that's why. I remember there 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.839 was a game between the Bengals and the I think 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.160 it was the Panthers, and they tied. Somebody missed two 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.960 or three field goals, pac Man called him out, which 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.680 is you know any right, I pac Man wouldn't do 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:25.960 that Ted anyways. All right, so let's let's talk about 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:31.159 the flip side of this coin. Um. Now, the guy, Huh, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.240 I thought it would be more. You did think it 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.800 would be more. Actually you brought up both Mores within 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.960 the last two days and uh, and it ended up 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.760 being Demontre More. Um. Do you guys know why? Because 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.040 I think that's the prevailing question out there that everybody 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:49.360 wants to know, is why why Demontre More Dan? Really 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.360 why Demontre More as opposed to a guy like Kellen 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.839 Moore who is for an all intents and purposes. You 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.719 heard Stevens say that he's not going to be the 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.560 backup anymore. So you think you can still get into 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.800 the practice squad. Why wouldn't he have been the guy? Yeah? 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.720 I don't know about that part, but I mean, if 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.480 they need another roster spot, he's probably a good candidate 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.160 Callen Moore. But let's talk about Demontre Bar. I'll start 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.440 with this. I know why he wasn't cut. It wasn't 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:20.840 cut because of the fist in the air and the 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.000 salute and all that. That's not why he was cut, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.000 So I'll let Dave talk about the rest why it 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:30.120 was Ormer. This kind of goes back to um to 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.560 what I was saying about Darren McFadden last week, which 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.880 is that you know, this will be asked about today 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.120 at Jason Garrett's press conference and afterwards off the record, 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.720 and will probably be told one thing, and I won't 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.120 believe it, Like I don't. I don't believe this was 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.240 a one hundred percent football decision. And I'm not I'm 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.720 not trying to say that Demontre Moore's DeMarcus ware Like 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.680 he had five tackles and no sacks. It's not like 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.520 he was lighting the league on fire. I feel like 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.440 kind of like and I was leading that charge like 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.200 with Darius Jackson last year, where you know, you cut 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.640 a guy and he's all of a sudden Herschel Walker 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.560 or Walter Payton because he's not on the team. Like 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:10.320 that's not true. This isn't going to alter their prospects. 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.920 But it's just weird, and I just it just doesn't 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:15.800 add up to me that, based on what he was 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.080 doing on the field and what the makeup of this 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.440 team is, that that this was purely football and I 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.760 think that is backed up by the fact that they're 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.600 working out a defensive end today, so they know that 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.240 they need another like they know that they're not probably 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.480 not one hundred percent set at defensive end. It's not 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.200 like they're like, well, we're good here, we just have 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.760 too many that when the last time they said that, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.240 lets any team ever said we got too many defensive ends. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:47.400 So do I know the specifics of it, No, But 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.760 I just have this feeling like it's it's just it 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.880 wasn't a pure football you know, I'll say this, it's 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.440 it's never only football, but it starts with football, you know, 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.839 that's where it is. I mean, if I Demontre Moore 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.040 obviously had three sacks and you know, was making a 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.080 lot of plays, you change your tune a little bit differently. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.640 But you know, there was some there was sounds like 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.800 there was an incident in a club with him that 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.840 that with I don't know all the details about it, 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.880 but I do know that he was there and he 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.600 was with some people that were there, and I don't 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.160 that might have been why he didn't play. Um, there's 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.320 a lot of sketchy details here. It's a little bit 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.800 similar I guess with a smaller sample size. But of 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.880 Lucky Whitehead, I mean when we talked about this too, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.080 all those things that Lucky did, but he didn't play 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.560 that well, so you didn't really have to put up 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.640 with it. And I'm not saying de Montrey Moore has 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.080 that much, but you know, he's been here just a 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.120 short time. He's been suspended for two games, which they 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.920 knew about when they signed him, but they did know 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.480 about it, and you probably, you know, want a shorter 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.920 leash on him than somebody who, yeah, you didn't have 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.559 to worry abeat. It's probably it's probably realistic, believe, And 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.640 that wasn't his only indiscretion, Like coming in the door. 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.560 He had some past things that had gone on, not 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.560 only in college but also in New York. Right, So 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.120 so I would guess, I would guess. I don't know 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.520 this for a fact, but I would guess that the 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.640 Cowboys brought him in with the understanding, look, we're giving 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.880 you this chance, but if we see signs that things 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.000 aren't changing, we're gonna not have you around our team. 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.640 And and so if there were again I don't know 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.959 the details, but if there were things that happened off 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.800 the field. It could have been a situation where the 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.560 Cowboys are just like, you know, you're not a great player, right, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.160 But the fact of the matter is you're not holding 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.079 up your into the bargain, which is we brought you 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.480 with the expectation that you were trying to be better 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.200 and change or whatever, and doesn't seem to be. Yeah, 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.640 but let's let's make it clear. I mean, it's about 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.640 football as well, because anyone that sits there and go, oh, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.120 but Zeke can do this and David Irving can do it, yeah, 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.880 because because they're better football players and that's just the 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:55.720 name of the game. It's the way it always has been, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.959 the way it always will be. David Irving has three 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.320 sacks in two games, right because Zeke. Yeah. I mean, 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.720 that's just that's the way it is. That nobody's held 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.480 to the same standard. When they start paying players the 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.640 exact same, then it can hold them to the same 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.839 standard when they when they draft them different spots and 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.160 they pay them differently and they perform differently differently exactly 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.560 the way it is. So so I just I think 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.080 right now that that whole question, and I've seen a 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.000 lot of different reports out there. I think everybody needs 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.000 to hold just a bit on that whole thing until 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.800 we learn more, because there has to be more to 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.080 this story. It's you know, it's what I was trying 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.120 to say is a little fishy, and I think there's 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.400 more factors here at work than just pure football. But 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.560 the Cowboys didn't just cut John Randall, you know, like 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.439 it's it's right the day you were right about that. 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.160 I'm not gonna say exactly what, but I just we 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.000 talked about it yesterday. You were exactly right about what 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.560 would happen. Oh yeah, what story would come out? And 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.720 it did. You're also right about another thing on a 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.959 very smaller level. But you said, when I get into 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:58.280 my car and I start driving to the airport on Saturday, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.200 their Cowboys are going to send out Richard ashes on 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.880 the team. And I'm I'm telling you that's exactly. I 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.520 don't know what did I say, write the story now? 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.559 Because we knew it was gonna happen, right, I've been 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.720 around the block a few times, not enough to write 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.080 the story then, but I know that no, the Russian 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.840 write it. Oh Rob wrote it. Yeah, he's been around 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.120 the block a little longer. True. All right, let's jump 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.439 into this thing. We're gonna talk about the Washington offense 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.240 today and the Cowboys defense. Um, so we're gonna do 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.760 this a little differently. We're gonna have Dave give us 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.640 a scouttering report acause he's been doing and then I 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.320 want to hear from Amber and Nick on specific things 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.079 about the Washington offense that should concern Nik. Isn't a 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.959 weird good mood for a morning, It's just not. It's 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:48.360 not normal. You take any medicine this morning feeling a 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.600 little Maybe I didn't take the medicine. I don't know. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.720 Now you are in a good mood for a morning. 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.679 Usually mornings aren't your thing. Well, you know, when you're 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.040 up at five am, it's not morning. You weren't. Well, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.080 maybe you should get him at five am every morning. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.320 Maybe I'll start texting you at five am. That sounds good. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.200 All right, let's jump into this day. Give me a 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.360 scatter report on the Washington offense. Well, I'm gonna start 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.080 this mainly. I mean I would I would guess that 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.400 we all watched at least part of that Monday night 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.200 game against If you watched it, you probably saw, just 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.120 like scores of Washington players being helped off the fields. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.960 It was hard to keep up with after a while. Yeah, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.280 well that's what I'm here for. And the main thing 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:35.000 that I'm watching is one, two, three, Four of the 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.440 starting five offensive linemen on this team are dealing with 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.320 something heading into this game. Trent Williams has a knee 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.840 that I like, the football players are crazy. He's dealing 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.439 with a situation that probably needs surgery, and he's basically 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.640 going to try to make it through ten more games 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:56.559 of the season. I respect. It's unbelievable. I mean, you 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.440 talk about Tyrn Smith managing his back. This guy needs 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.040 probably needs surgery. Jay Gruden said he's probably not going 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.959 to practice again this year. They're just gonna try to 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.079 get him through it. So think about that for a moment. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.599 This is a three hundred plus pound man who is 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.080 putting a lot of torque on his knee. He can't 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.680 feel good, and he's just like, I'll play through it. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.320 I'll be good. I would imagine every day is agony, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.440 and then on game day you get some tour at 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.040 all and go out there and play crazy. Spencer Long 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.000 has tendonitis in his knee. I believe he's their center. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:34.000 He's questionable. Brandon Sheriff sprained his MCL again. That sounds 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.840 like something that would sideline me for a month. They're 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.720 optimistic he can play. We'll see. Also has a bad back, 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.400 and yes, Morgan Moses rolled both of his ankles. That's 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.160 your right tackle, he said after the game. He's playing. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.440 He doesn't care. As long as nothing's broken. He's playing. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.280 But still happened. So at the very least, you're gonna 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.240 be missing several guys, or at the very you could 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.080 be missing several guys are At the very least, they're 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.880 all gonna be playing beat up, like real beat up. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.840 So that's where I start with that. But mainly the 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.680 main thing, you know, last week I talked about how 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.760 the forty nine ers are kind of a throwback in 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.480 the sense that they play under center and they have 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.960 fullbacks and tight ends. This is the Washington Redskins are 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.440 the epitome of the NFL in twenty seventeen because they 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.200 don't do anything like that, like this is a shotgun team. 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.200 This is a three and four wide most of the 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.840 time kind of teams. The Baylor in its in its 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.240 heyday kind of a yeah, apps, I mean they chuck 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.720 the ball around. Their sixth in the league in passing offense. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.680 They average two hundred and fifty four yards a game. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.640 They're tight ends, Jordan Reed and Vernon Davis are both 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:46.440 really receivers. They don't do that inline stuff. There is 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.080 a lot of which I thought was interesting. There's a 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.200 lot of h back stuff that they do, Like they'll 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:55.760 put their tight ends in the backfield Niles Niles Paul, Yeah, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.920 he lines up back there a lot, but really, like 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 I said, a lot of him personnel, a lot of 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.479 bunch formations, a lot of trips, a lot of stacking receivers, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.640 Terroll Prior all line up on the line with Josh 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.720 Doxon right behind him, that type of stuff, and they 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.040 just throw the ball around. Case in point, who do 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:17.920 you think their leading receiver is right now? Chris Thompson 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:22.160 Thompson Bingo. Because running back, their running game is okay, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.960 it's fourteenth in the league, but the vast majority of 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.480 their production at running back comes from Chris Thompson, who 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.320 has two hundred and thirteen rushing yards but three hundred 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.920 and sixty six receiving yards. He's averaging sixteen yards as 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.240 a catch and he is a Whipon. He for comparison, 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.800 he had three hundred and fifty in all of twenty sixteen. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.640 So I think they did some self scouting and realized, like, hey, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.880 we might not be maximizing this guy because he you know, 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.720 I went into this thinking I was like, all right, well, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.040 Jamison Crowder's the guy. That's what like. You know, I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.280 hadn't watched him. I'm like, Jamison Crowder's the guy. He's 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.880 his shifty third round pick, catches the ball near the 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.200 line of scrimmage. He's got nineteen catches for one hundred yards. Bad. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.120 I'm guessing he's on your fantasy Yes he's been bad 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.040 this year. Yeah, Yes, he's been bad this year. Horrible 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.040 Jordan Read. You know, he's seen hurt a lot, He's 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.679 always hurt. He's got two hundred and six yards. Vernon 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.680 Davis pretty having a nice season. He's got three hundred yards, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.399 but only on fifteen catches, which they played six games, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.560 so you're talking less than three catches per game. They 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.600 go down filled him a lot. Josh Doson has You've 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.879 definitely seen him. He's had some real jaw dropping plays. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.720 He made an amazing catch against Oakland. I think he 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.200 had another one against Kansas City. But he has seven 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.119 catches on the year, so he has an amazing drop 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.320 two or two. And so I'm I'm I read or 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.040 listen back to what I just said, and you're like, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.680 where is the production coming from? If they're the six 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:50.119 ranked offense or six ranked passing offense, it's coming from 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.800 Chris Thompson. He's he's having an amazing year. Um, Rob 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.600 Kelly and samaj p Ryan. Are there other running backs? 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.360 Those are guys worth looking at? And they do they 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.040 try to do some power stuff, but I watched two 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:08.000 plus games worth and the amount of times where they 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.480 like lined up in an eye or of one back 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:14.560 formation and just handed the ball off very rare compared 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:20.200 to shotgun even shotgun handoffs or just throwing the ball 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.080 to a running back and having that used as a 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.360 handoff base. Rob has been hurt quite a bit this year. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.080 I think he just came back this last game or 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.399 the game before. But p rn p Ron's a pretty 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.080 good running back. I saw him at I watched most 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.720 of his career at Oklahoma. He's a pretty good running back. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:36.719 He's not a guy that's gonna wow you. He's not 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:40.160 doesn't have crazy speed. He doesn't have, you know, crazy strength, 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.120 but he kind of have a good has a good 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.080 mixture of both. So he's a good running back, a 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:47.159 solid running back. He's the kind of running back that 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.159 if you let him get going, he can have a 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.080 nice day on you. But I don't think he poses 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.879 nearly the threat that Chris Thompson does in terms of 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.960 running the ball. This team doesn't scare me, especially if 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.280 their offensive line is banged up. Ryn's averaging three yards 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:05.440 per carry. Thompson is a scatback. I mean, he's that's 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.640 just not going to be his game. And then Kelly's 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.880 been hurt, he's averaging He's he's doing a little bit better. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.760 I think, all things being equal, if he's completely healthy, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:15.680 I assume he's the guy they'd prefer to have out 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:18.240 there as they're running back. But what they use is 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.239 really a part of their running game is getting Chris 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:25.840 Thompson out. No that will and you know they're fav stuff. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.960 Their favorite thing in the world, like I said, is 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:31.040 like they'll put Terrell prior Crowder. They'll put two or 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.680 three guys over here and send him down the field 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.200 and clear that space out and just dump a little 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.560 swing route off to Chris thomp They'd do it all 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.280 the time and sometimes it busts big. I mean, Chris 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:47.359 Thompson's averaging sixteen yards to catch. That's so and like like, honestly, 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.320 I knew he was on this team, like I knew 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.840 who he was, but he was, Like I said, he 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:54.760 has not been in a focal point for them the 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.320 way that he has. He looked really good in that 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:58.880 game against oak I don't know if you guys saw 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:03.200 that game, but ice game against Oakland, he's everything that 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.879 Jason Garrett and Scott Linahan dreamed Lance Dunbar would be. 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.760 No doubt, Yep, he's just up. Dunbar never could he 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.080 never could be that guy. But but so, I mean, 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.400 everybody knows Kirk Cousins at this point. I think he's 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:22.960 a better player than he gets credit for. But he's not. 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.680 He's not consistently good enough to get that type of credit. 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.440