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Speaker 7: Let's start first with some injury updates. Got Stephan Gilmour,
Speaker 7: who did not practice was shoulder injury. What are we
Speaker 7: hearing about him at this point.
Speaker 8: Spoke with Stefan Gidmore yesterday in the locker room, and
Speaker 8: he sounds like he's he's definitely going to be a go.
Speaker 8: His comment was whatever it takes, that's his quote. So
Speaker 8: he said that he's played through much worse over the
Speaker 8: course of his illustrious career. He knows exactly what these
Speaker 8: games mean. This is why he's, you know, was looking
Speaker 8: forward to help him put the Cowboys in this position.
Speaker 8: So barring a massive setback, I think you see Stefan
Speaker 8: Gilmore on the field. Same goes for Tyler Smith. Tyler
Speaker 8: Smith returned to practice yesterday, albeit in a limited capacity,
Speaker 8: but good news, he's on schedule to get back Zach Martin.
Speaker 8: He rested yesterday, but the expectation is if he isn't
Speaker 8: back on the field today, it'll be before the end
Speaker 8: of the week he will. They expect that he'll be
Speaker 8: back on the field for the Cowboys as well. Full
Speaker 8: complement of offensive lineman there Jonathan Hankins initially pr scats
Speaker 8: just a little bit by putting did not participate next
Speaker 8: to him, but turns out it was a technical error.
Speaker 8: He actually was a limited participant in practice yesterday as
Speaker 8: he continues to work through his ankle injury, so he's
Speaker 8: expected to play as well. More positive news Malie Hooker.
Speaker 8: The ankle injury that he's been dealing with for weeks
Speaker 8: now cost him the Buffalo game. He's back to full
Speaker 8: participation in practice, so it looks like Malie Hooker is
Speaker 8: back to as close to one hundred percent as you
Speaker 8: can get. Cowboys overall trending in the right direction health wise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to Gilmore's gonna wear a harness on
Speaker 3: his shoulder, and uh, you know my experience with the harnesses,
Speaker 3: you're always worried about the range of motion because it's
Speaker 3: done with straps and you know, laces and stuff like
Speaker 3: that to to sent it down to make sure that
Speaker 3: it's okay. And you know, I was talking to some
Speaker 3: people about it. Have we come you know, have we
Speaker 3: developed a better one? You know? And the comments were, no,
Speaker 3: we've we've kind of we've we've really found one that
Speaker 3: works really well for our players that doesn't limit the
Speaker 3: range of motion that you have, but it's able to
Speaker 3: protect the shoulder, fits under the pads and it's just
Speaker 3: it it works very easily and they're very comfortable with that,
Speaker 3: and so he'll give it a go. And like Patrick
Speaker 3: was saying, you know, talking to him one on one,
Speaker 3: you know, he's you don't get many opportunities to play
Speaker 3: in playoff games, and so you got to got to
Speaker 3: do what you can and that's what he's doing.
Speaker 7: How cancarn of you guys that Tyler Smith, although he
Speaker 7: appears that he's going to be able to play, will
Speaker 7: still be limited by this planner fashion.
Speaker 3: It's it's I think it's I would say this, it
Speaker 3: is it's never good to have an all pro type
Speaker 3: of a player not play and be limited. The thing
Speaker 3: that gives me a little comfort is the fact that
Speaker 3: we've seen TJ. Bass play at a really solid level,
Speaker 3: and you know, it's not like sometimes you throw guys
Speaker 3: in there and they just completely fall apart. And every
Speaker 3: time they've asked him to play, he's been up to
Speaker 3: the task and he continues to get more experience.
Speaker 5: He continues to.
Speaker 3: Work with the oddish and Tyron Smith and others and
Speaker 3: all that. So, yeah, is it do you want to
Speaker 3: you know, Tyler Smith to be out? No, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: But if it came down to he just can't go
Speaker 3: or he just can't play at this level. Having TJ
Speaker 3: Bass is that backup that they could put in there
Speaker 3: in the middle of a game and things not completely
Speaker 3: fall apart. Gives you at least some confidence that you
Speaker 3: can go win a game there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's got to make you feel good knowing that
Speaker 8: there's not this monumental fall off. As far as the
Speaker 8: talent level from Tyler Smith to TJ Bass, are they
Speaker 8: the same player? Absolutely not. Tyler Smith is his Pro
Speaker 8: Bowl caliber all both call pro caliber.
Speaker 9: But TJ. Bass he's a gamer.
Speaker 8: He's been in there more than once this season and
Speaker 8: he's shown each time that he can he can deliver.
Speaker 8: Now that being said, I was watching in the media
Speaker 8: portion of practice yesterday, Tyler Smith was moving quote unquote
Speaker 8: well in his individual drill, So that's promising. Of course,
Speaker 8: that's different from you know, taking snaps and trying to
Speaker 8: anchor down and push up against you know, three hundred
Speaker 8: pound guys and two hundred and seventy found pound guys
Speaker 8: coming at you. But it looks like he was moving
Speaker 8: a little. He was moving well. He wasn't favoring that foot,
Speaker 8: which is kind of what I was looking for, and
Speaker 8: that wasn't that wasn't present yesterday.
Speaker 9: So he looks good, looks on the right track. Again.
Speaker 8: It'll be tested though in the game obviously, but if
Speaker 8: for whatever reason he kind of struggles or he has
Speaker 8: a setback during the game, TJ. Bass has shown, like
Speaker 8: Brian said, he can come in and he can get
Speaker 8: it done. A. J.
Speaker 7: Dillon popped up on the injury report for the Packers.
Speaker 7: He did not practice yesterday. How much would that be
Speaker 7: a blow for them if they can't get a J.
Speaker 2: Dillon ready.
Speaker 3: I'm not a huge AJ Dillon fan, really, I'm not,
Speaker 3: and I'm but I am a fan of Jones and
Speaker 3: I think they're a different football team. You could watch
Speaker 3: the Giants game where Jones wasn't a part of it,
Speaker 3: and Dylan was, and their offense wasn't as good, you know,
Speaker 3: and I I do, I do worry. I think with Dylan,
Speaker 3: I think he's lost that ability. There's no explosiveness to
Speaker 3: his game. It's much like watching and watch him get
Speaker 3: in the game and just completely wreck shot. But it
Speaker 3: was almost like watching Zeke play at the end where
Speaker 3: there wasn't the birth, there wasn't the the you knew
Speaker 3: in that body that there was a time where it
Speaker 3: was that way. But he's not the same player that
Speaker 3: he was. And I the one, like we're talked about yesterday,
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones is the one that scares me, you know
Speaker 3: that how how committed will the Packers be to just
Speaker 3: lining up and seeing if Dallas and Dallas has played
Speaker 3: really well since the Buffalo game on run defense, but
Speaker 3: how committed are they to just lining up and running
Speaker 3: the football. Because Aaron Jones has had some really outstanding
Speaker 3: games against Cowboys.
Speaker 8: And Aaron Jones definitely he's the one you want to
Speaker 8: worry about. AJ Dillon though if he's not available for
Speaker 8: this game, it does impact what they're going to try
Speaker 8: to do because they try to play complimentary football between
Speaker 8: their two running backs, not completely different from what the
Speaker 8: Cowboys try to do with Pollard and Rico and Dylan
Speaker 8: also does give them at least some ability as a receiver.
Speaker 9: Out of the backfield as well.
Speaker 8: So I mean, this is a guy who rushed for
Speaker 8: more than six hundred yards, not far behind Aaron Jones
Speaker 8: in that capacity.
Speaker 9: So I mean, is he Aaron Jones? Absolutely not.
Speaker 8: But if he's not able to go, if he's hobbled
Speaker 8: or slowed, it is going to impact one of the
Speaker 8: bigger parts of their scheme, which is they're hoping to
Speaker 8: run the ball early and often against the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the way I look at it is it's more
Speaker 7: about touches. Obviously, Aaron Jones is not. You're gonna lie
Speaker 7: up and run thirty five times, right, So you kind
Speaker 7: of want that bound.
Speaker 2: They want that balance between the two.
Speaker 7: And if they don't have him, then it becomes like
Speaker 7: who else is going to sure get back that they're
Speaker 7: going to use to spell Jones to still keep their
Speaker 7: running game going. That'll be an interesting development if they
Speaker 7: don't have him. All right, we're going to take an
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Speaker 7: jump into the Green Bay Defense. Brian, A big picture.
Speaker 7: Tell me what this defense does best and where they
Speaker 7: are most challenged.
Speaker 3: I think they're really the best thing they do is
Speaker 3: actually play is rush the passer. I think when you
Speaker 3: look at it's a three four front. It plays a
Speaker 3: mix of nickel and dime. In the secondary, they'll play
Speaker 3: some four to three front is a change up. They're
Speaker 3: very similar to the Cowboys defense and a lot of
Speaker 3: metrics when it comes to you know, with the with
Speaker 3: playing with pass rush and pressures and things like that,
Speaker 3: except Cowboys get far more interceptions. This group doesn't get
Speaker 3: any interceptions at all. It's been they've only got seven,
Speaker 3: which is only one more than Tennessee and that they're
Speaker 3: in last place.
Speaker 5: So but the.
Speaker 3: Packers packers there best when they're rushing the passers and
Speaker 3: they're playing past defense. And I mean that in a
Speaker 3: way of of their you know, the way they get
Speaker 3: after the quarterback here.
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, he perfectly noted there. When it comes
Speaker 8: to this particular defense, they're so dependent upon the success
Speaker 8: of their pass rush, and I mean they almost forty
Speaker 8: percent of the time they pressure the opposing quarterback.
Speaker 9: That's phenomenal.
Speaker 8: But then when you break it down and you look
Speaker 8: at how long it takes, and we've mentioned this a
Speaker 8: couple times, it takes them a little bit longer to
Speaker 8: develop their QB pressure then it takes for Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: to comfortably throw the ball So all things considered, if
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott gets his status quo level of protection, he
Speaker 8: should be able to get that ball out quickly and
Speaker 8: get it to his playmakers. And then that secondary for
Speaker 8: the Packers, they're kind of in trouble in that capacity
Speaker 8: when it gets to the red zone. They really struggle
Speaker 8: in the red zone as far as coverage is concerned,
Speaker 8: but not necessarily their pressure. They have eight sacks in
Speaker 8: the red zone, but most of those sacks come on
Speaker 8: that three or four man They don't like to send
Speaker 8: blitzes in the red zone. They don't like to send
Speaker 8: blitzes on second or third downs either. They're primarily first
Speaker 8: down blitz team. So just some things that the Cowboys
Speaker 8: can keep an eye on. So in the red zone,
Speaker 8: particularly if the Cowboys going right back to them being
Speaker 8: able to protect Dak Prescott, if they can negate that
Speaker 8: pass rush that has eight sacks, then it's primarily going
Speaker 8: to be zone coverage, and you know, Dak Prescott should
Speaker 8: be able to hit his the guy is fairly easily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna hunt matchups is what they're going to
Speaker 3: try and do. And I think Rashawn Gary, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I was talking to an advanced scout for another team
Speaker 3: on the way over here, and I said, hey, listen
Speaker 3: to you guys played. You guys played Green Bay. Tell
Speaker 3: me about what your concerns were, you know, going forward.
Speaker 3: I go, I'm watching the tape and I think Rashawn
Speaker 3: Gary is their best pass rusher.
Speaker 5: And this guy said, absolutely is.
Speaker 3: He says, you got to worry about him and Kenny Clark,
Speaker 3: and those are the two names. But they've got a
Speaker 3: kind of a good little rotation. Preston Smith's a good player,
Speaker 3: Lucas van Ness, who's a rookie, it gets in there.
Speaker 3: And there's another guy, Carl Brooks. But Gary and Clark
Speaker 3: are the two that I worry about the most because
Speaker 3: Gary will line up on both sides of the formation.
Speaker 3: But this week, We've said it in the weeks past,
Speaker 3: I expect this will be the one where Terrence Steele
Speaker 3: will be the majority of the time. We'll probably get
Speaker 3: We'll get Rashawn Gary here. Joe Barry, the coordinator for
Speaker 3: the Packers. He's gonna hunt matchups and he's gonna he's
Speaker 3: gonna move Gary around the thing that you know, he's
Speaker 3: the most productive player they have. He's the type of
Speaker 3: player that gives when you watch Steel play, he's the
Speaker 3: type of guy that gives Steel trouble. Elite speed, quickness,
Speaker 3: and agility. Those are the things that kind of and
Speaker 3: then steal kind of with sometimes with power. But he's
Speaker 3: able to kind of wash some guys, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of match up that way. But Gary wins a variety
Speaker 3: of different ways. That's what makes him hard because you
Speaker 3: watch him break down blockers. And then because I went back,
Speaker 3: they went back and watched all their sacks, and you know,
Speaker 3: he's the guy that's kind of the Him and Clark
Speaker 3: are the ones that are just the ones that are
Speaker 3: constantly providing the pressure for you.
Speaker 8: And because those guys, Clark and Gary are so good
Speaker 8: at what they do, it helps make the other guys better.
Speaker 8: And that presents a defensive front that is good at
Speaker 8: getting pressure at any particular role on the defensive line.
Speaker 8: Because I also look at Preston Smith. We know him
Speaker 8: well from being once being one half of the Smith Bros.
Speaker 8: With him and Zadarius Smith. But you got him, Kenny
Speaker 8: Clark getting the pressure up the middle. Devonte White, He'll
Speaker 8: get his pressures in his sex as well. So it's
Speaker 8: not entirely unlike the Cowboys defense in the aspect of
Speaker 8: they can generate pressure from any one of those spots
Speaker 8: on the defensive line, primarily because you have to worry
Speaker 8: so much about guys like Gary on the outside and
Speaker 8: a guy like Kenny Clark on the inside.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: One of the interesting things about this defense, and you've
Speaker 7: been talking about the passing defense, they've only allowed three
Speaker 7: hundred yards plus twice.
Speaker 2: In seventeen games. They've done it twice.
Speaker 7: Now here's the interesting part though about that they have
Speaker 7: not played a lot of really great teams. I think
Speaker 7: the best, in my opinion, the best of the offense
Speaker 7: is that they've played have been the Rams. You can
Speaker 7: put Detroit in there, but Detroit got over three hundred
Speaker 7: yards passing against them. But the Rams are probably the
Speaker 7: best of the teams that didn't get three hundred yards.
Speaker 7: And I don't know if they were at full capacity
Speaker 7: at that point when they didn't. But that being said,
Speaker 7: my question for you is, is a lot of what
Speaker 7: we're seeing with the Packers, particularly miss it instance, talking
Speaker 7: about their past defense a result of the teams that
Speaker 7: they've played, and they've done really well against lesser offenses.
Speaker 7: When do you think this really translates against a high
Speaker 7: powered offense like the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield tore him up, Yeah, you know, throwing the football.
Speaker 3: He absolutely did. And you go back and watch that game.
Speaker 3: But JayR Alexander was suspended because he went out to
Speaker 3: the previous week against Carolina and decided he was going
Speaker 3: to call heads wow, and and you know they're like, listen.
Speaker 2: That's a bizarre story. Man.
Speaker 5: He's from he's from Charlotte and he thought.
Speaker 3: You know what, he just decided I'm going He thought
Speaker 3: he was in high school again, and you know, because
Speaker 3: it was a local game that he was going to
Speaker 3: be captain that day.
Speaker 5: But he wasn't, and so they suspended him.
Speaker 3: And what happened when you watched, when you watch the
Speaker 3: Tampa game, they tried to they tried to work around
Speaker 3: him not being in the game, and Carrington Valentine was
Speaker 3: the was the guy that took his place. Played a
Speaker 3: lot of zone coverage in that game. I mean a
Speaker 3: lot of zone coverage. And I mean it's like and
Speaker 3: it's third and five and they're nine yards off and
Speaker 3: they're just kind of working underneath and you're just going, Okay,
Speaker 3: you're going to continue to play soft this whole game
Speaker 3: at Baker's just.
Speaker 5: Bump, boom, boom.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of times they sacked him. They knocked
Speaker 3: the ball loose out of his hand one time. I
Speaker 3: mean there's pressure that was there. But when it came
Speaker 3: to throwing and playing pass defense, it was like Joe
Speaker 3: Berry went into this like conservative. You know, Oh, I
Speaker 3: don't have Alexander today. I've got to got to protect
Speaker 3: everybody out here. He's got some issues that he's going
Speaker 3: to deal with in this game. And because Dallas will well,
Speaker 3: Dallas will stress you at tight end, and they'll stress
Speaker 3: you at and I believe they'll stress.
Speaker 5: You at running back.
Speaker 3: I think this is a week where you need to
Speaker 3: take advantage of Walker and then you know, and also
Speaker 3: to Campbell, the two linebackers. You know, Patrick always talks
Speaker 3: about playing underneath and you know kind of working you know,
Speaker 3: combinations and stuff like that. Walker is a is a blitzer.
Speaker 3: He's not a cover guy. When they put him in coverage,
Speaker 3: it's usually bad. And Campbell's the same way they they
Speaker 3: they I would do and these are linebackers, Yeah, these
Speaker 3: are the two inside linebackers. I would do anything like Okay,
Speaker 3: how do I how do I get Walker to have
Speaker 3: to cover? How do I get Campbell to have to cover?
Speaker 3: They might say, you know, we can't we you know,
Speaker 3: And I wonder if Carolina's tight ends had really a
Speaker 3: good day against these guys. You might and watch Carolina
Speaker 3: play and it was because of the linebacker play.
Speaker 5: They just these guys aren't very good cover guys.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: I can say Walker can blitz, that's the one thing.
Speaker 3: He's got a feel for how to do that. But
Speaker 3: if he's in coverage, I think you need to you
Speaker 3: need to find a way to you know. But they're
Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna take Seede Lamb and they're gonna put
Speaker 3: Alexander because Alexander will play both sides and on third
Speaker 3: down and long he'll go down and play in the slot.
Speaker 3: So he's they're comfortable doing that.
Speaker 9: Is this a game against c Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Is this a game where maybe the Calways look at
Speaker 7: it and say, let's do a lot of twelve personnel
Speaker 7: and throw out of it, because then you do create
Speaker 7: scenarios where your linebacker's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: It very well.
Speaker 2: Got two tight ends, absolutely, you're going to have to cover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're you know, and that's that You're absolutely right
Speaker 3: about that, because because if you also another guy that
Speaker 3: I looked at and I'm watching him play this, Jonathan Owens,
Speaker 3: their safety. You know, you look at him in coverage
Speaker 3: like there, and I'm thinking, God, he gives up a
Speaker 3: lot of plays, and then you go look at the
Speaker 3: metrics on him. He's given up the most touchdowns of
Speaker 3: any of the body in the secondary of four. You know,
Speaker 3: he's give up four touchdowns off twenty one receptions.
Speaker 5: You know, he'll struggle with balance. And I'm like, so.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys, like you said, look for the Cowboys to formation,
Speaker 3: maybe Owens into coverage and then maybe these linebackers in
Speaker 3: the coverage as well, and take advantage of that.
Speaker 8: Their personnel doesn't match up will against what the Cowboys present.
Speaker 8: Their scheme secondary was doesn't match up will with what
Speaker 8: the Cowboys present. And this is one reason why a
Speaker 8: couple of days ago, IAD named Jake Ferguson as the
Speaker 8: possible X factor for the same reason Brian's saying their linebackers.
Speaker 9: Do not cover will.
Speaker 8: They don't want cover, they want to go after and
Speaker 8: get the quarterback. Well, the problem with that against an
Speaker 8: offense lad by Dak Prescott. Is Dak Prescott excels against
Speaker 8: the blitz. So you're kind of damned if you do.
Speaker 8: Damned if you don't. If you drop back in coverage
Speaker 8: and you're one of the Packers linebackers, you don't cover, well,
Speaker 8: he's got you. Okay, you blitz him, He's got you.
Speaker 8: And you just took someone out of coverage, which opens
Speaker 8: up the middle of the field for slamp pat inside
Speaker 8: slants and Jake Ferguson and you know, like you said,
Speaker 8: maybe run out of a twelve. But they just it's
Speaker 8: a very very bad matchup for this Packers secondary.
Speaker 9: Very bad.
Speaker 7: Now, let's talk about the flip side of that. We
Speaker 7: talked about what they do well and what they don't
Speaker 7: do so well. Appears to be their rush defense. Yeah,
Speaker 7: right now, they are ranked twenty eighth in the NFL.
Speaker 7: They have allowed a two hundred yard day rushing four
Speaker 7: times this season.
Speaker 2: That is a lot.
Speaker 7: But here's the interesting part. Over the last four games,
Speaker 7: they haven't alloted one hundred yards to a team. That
Speaker 7: would be Tampa Bay at Carolina at Minnesota Chicago.
Speaker 2: We just talked about the fact.
Speaker 5: That same team we worked for here, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's kind of a little bit of both.
Speaker 7: My question is, do you think that these last four
Speaker 7: games indicate that maybe they have solved their rushing defense
Speaker 7: type issues or do you think it was just the
Speaker 7: level of competition that they were playing and maybe that's
Speaker 7: why those numbers weren't think.
Speaker 3: I think they are who they are, and I think
Speaker 3: the Cowboys are who they are as well. I mean
Speaker 3: there's there's they're capable of times playing. They're really similar
Speaker 3: if you look at again, if you go in to
Speaker 3: look at metrics for the two, they're both kind of
Speaker 3: mid pack defenses when are mid pack run defenses. But
Speaker 3: you know they've given up the fifth most yards you
Speaker 3: mentioned all those two hundred yard rushers. You know, you
Speaker 3: watch when people run the ball at them. They don't
Speaker 3: get off blocks. They really really don't. And that's it,
Speaker 3: and it's a common it's a common theme. And they
Speaker 3: don't tackle particularly well in the secondary when they have
Speaker 3: to when they and that happens, so.
Speaker 5: They give up some big plays that way.
Speaker 3: But I think that if I wish I had confidence
Speaker 3: in Dallas's running game, I really do. I wish I
Speaker 3: had the confidence to say, yeah, Dallas is going to
Speaker 3: just line up in the gonna run the football, and
Speaker 3: they're gonna show balance here and they're gonna I think
Speaker 3: Mike's gonna try. I think he's absolutely gonna try. Why not,
Speaker 3: you know, until they prove that you can stop them.
Speaker 3: But a lot of it has to do with I
Speaker 3: just think that that when you look at how they play,
Speaker 3: they they don't tackle particularly well, like I said, in
Speaker 3: the secondary, and they don't and they get they get blocked,
Speaker 3: hats on, hats on that front seven when people run
Speaker 3: the ball at them, and that's a that's a problem
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 8: The funny thing about it is is that the narrative
Speaker 8: is that the Cowboys run defense is poor. And it's
Speaker 8: not poor. You would like it to be more consistent,
Speaker 8: but it's not poor. Packers run defense is poor. And
Speaker 8: I mean, for example, because I was breaking it down
Speaker 8: for Science Lab, which dropped this morning shameless plug. They
Speaker 8: allow They have allowed fifty seven runs of ten plus
Speaker 8: yards this season. They're averaging one hundred twenty eight rushing
Speaker 8: yards per game four point four and the list goes
Speaker 8: on and on. They have a tough percentage of only
Speaker 8: nineteen percent. They do not defend the run well favorable
Speaker 8: matchup for a guy like Tony Pollard and Rico Dowd
Speaker 8: or potentially to get going. And if they can get going,
Speaker 8: then that only helps, you know, potentially open up the
Speaker 8: passing game more.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the question.
Speaker 7: When you have a situation like this where you're facing
Speaker 7: a team that where their weakness is is where you
Speaker 7: would say, of all the things the Cowboys do well
Speaker 7: on offense, it's also matches up with where your weakness.
Speaker 2: Probably is as well.
Speaker 7: Do you force the issue and say this is a
Speaker 7: game where we get right and we get our running
Speaker 7: game going, or do you just say, hey, we're going
Speaker 7: at your strength with our strength and we think we're
Speaker 7: better than you.
Speaker 8: I view it as their secondary is outside of hire Alexander,
Speaker 8: outside of him, that secondary can be torched.
Speaker 9: It can be torched.
Speaker 8: We just finished talking about how the linebackers are pooring
Speaker 8: coverage outside of Alexander, who himself, I know he's missed
Speaker 8: some games so he doesn't have any interceptions.
Speaker 9: They don't take the ball away well.
Speaker 8: In there, I say you are who you are and
Speaker 8: that you are an explosive passing attack, and you are
Speaker 8: more explosive in that aspect. When you're at home home,
Speaker 8: and you're at home, by the way, so take advantage
Speaker 8: of a secondary that will give up chunk yardage and
Speaker 8: then you can play You can use that to play
Speaker 8: into the fact that they can't defend the run either.
Speaker 8: So it's still a game where I say, you attack
Speaker 8: the ball, you attack them in the air, try to
Speaker 8: get up on a fast start, make it a two
Speaker 8: possession game, and then you have the comfort level knowing that, hey,
Speaker 8: Tony Pollin and Rico Dwell could probably sought this game
Speaker 8: away over the course of the next two quarters three quarters.
Speaker 8: However the else it needs to be. But I would
Speaker 8: still attack with the pass first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with Patrick there. The thing that's interesting
Speaker 3: to me is which team is going to be able
Speaker 3: to run the ball the best, you know, because that
Speaker 3: is the thing that both teams have to fear. Is
Speaker 3: though it turns into you're letting the other team rush
Speaker 3: the passer, that that clearly is the Cowboys strength rushing
Speaker 3: the passer, especially at home. The Packers have got to hope, like, hey,
Speaker 3: our best shot of winning this thing is finding a
Speaker 3: way not to let Dak Prescott beat us, because if
Speaker 3: we can't get to him like Patrick talking about he'll
Speaker 3: carve that secondary up.
Speaker 5: So Mike, Mike has done a pretty good job.
Speaker 3: I love you know, the hell if they would have
Speaker 3: run the ball more in the second half of the
Speaker 3: game last year they played, you know, they would have
Speaker 3: won this game. I think that's what I think, that's
Speaker 3: what kind of got Mike soured on m kellen Moore
Speaker 3: a little bit. You know that, you know, dam we're
Speaker 3: up two scorers and we're sitting there throwing the football.
Speaker 3: But to Patrick's point, that's what you do. Get up
Speaker 3: and then don't go into a shell, but find a mix.
Speaker 3: You know, if you're hey, first down throw, second down runs,
Speaker 3: you know, just kind of just kind of go.
Speaker 5: Back and forth with that.
Speaker 3: Don't just sload up on a bunch of like you
Speaker 3: did against Detroit first down runs and all of a
Speaker 3: sudden you're sitting in second in eight all day. Because
Speaker 3: that that could be that could be a problem for
Speaker 3: the for the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Also a great opportunity for the Cowboys. You know, once
Speaker 8: they get into the red zone. Packer's red zone defense,
Speaker 8: as far as the run goos, it's it's not great.
Speaker 8: I mean, they've allowed five more touchdowns than the Cowboys
Speaker 8: have on only five more attempts, so you know they
Speaker 8: don't clamp down. Let the Cowboys do. So the Cowboys
Speaker 8: run defense between the twenties. It can be solid, but
Speaker 8: they'll allow a chunk play here and there. But when
Speaker 8: they get you know, go to go packages, they clamp
Speaker 8: When the Packers getting the gold to go packages, it's
Speaker 8: basically a turnstyle, right. So it's a good opportunity for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys to help build Tony Rico and maybe even
Speaker 8: one hundred Lipkey's confidence when they get down.
Speaker 2: There at the end of the day.
Speaker 7: I don't think the Cowboys have to have a crazy
Speaker 7: great rushing data when what I think they should have though,
Speaker 7: is I want to look at the end of the
Speaker 7: day and see are your yards per carry four and
Speaker 7: a half?
Speaker 2: If you get up to five.
Speaker 7: I think that's what you really care more about is
Speaker 7: when they want to run the ball, are they getting
Speaker 7: success out of it. You don't have to change what
Speaker 7: you do offensively because I think right now you do
Speaker 7: what got to hear, which is throw the ball, put
Speaker 7: the ball in dack' say in and let him work.
Speaker 7: But I do think if your running game can give
Speaker 7: you something, I think that help.
Speaker 3: Is my pro personal friend who I was talking with
Speaker 3: on the way. He's like, listen, Green Bay's got a
Speaker 3: good young team. He goes, But that's the problem.
Speaker 5: They're young.
Speaker 3: He goes, I don't think they're ready for the stage
Speaker 3: about to play on now.
Speaker 5: And we'll see. But that's that's that was his opinion.
Speaker 5: He goes.
Speaker 3: They they've got players that you absolutely have to be
Speaker 3: concerned about. He goes, I think the quarterback is going
Speaker 3: to be fine one day. He says, but there is
Speaker 3: a really really young team, and he goes, you just
Speaker 3: he goes, he goes.
Speaker 5: I watch your team a lot.
Speaker 3: He goes, You guys got veteran players, you got playmakers.
Speaker 3: You make it tough on you people, and so by
Speaker 3: all means, though this is a game you should win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 7: And that's the interesting thing about young teams. You gotta
Speaker 7: put them where got You let them start thinking they
Speaker 7: got a shot. You let them start thinking they got
Speaker 7: a shot, and they're like, we got a shot, And
Speaker 7: young young people.
Speaker 2: Don't know what they don't know?
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 8: I put that exact question to Jordan Lewis in the
Speaker 8: locker room yesterday. I said, you know, Jordans, you guys
Speaker 8: have the advantage of being the veterans coming into this.
Speaker 8: You've got a playoff experience, you know, the magnitude of
Speaker 8: the game, So advantage there as far as football IQ
Speaker 8: is concerned. However, when you're playing a group of young
Speaker 8: guys who don't necessarily grasp how big the stage is,
Speaker 8: they get to play more loosely. Isn't that kind of
Speaker 8: a challenge in and of itself? He was like, absolute,
Speaker 8: those guys are gonna go out there, play fast, play
Speaker 8: loose because they know it's a playoff game, but they
Speaker 8: don't necessarily feel it like a veteran.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're playing house money.
Speaker 9: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 7: And you know the veterans, especially those guys that really
Speaker 7: long too, like how many more chances am I going
Speaker 7: to get this? So it really becomes a lot more
Speaker 7: pressure than when you're in your first, second, third year
Speaker 7: in the NFL and you're just like, hey, we're here already,
Speaker 7: all right, let's see what we can do.
Speaker 3: You know, I think I saw I saw a graphic.
Speaker 3: I think I had this right. Half their team is
Speaker 3: gone from last year when this to these two teams met. Yeah, half,
Speaker 3: well their team is gone. That's crazy, And I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just that's that's the turnover that they've had from
Speaker 3: the time the Cowboys played them last year in the
Speaker 3: Rego season to where we are today.
Speaker 8: And for to that point, there are a lot of
Speaker 8: people asking if there's any familiarity that McCarthy can kind
Speaker 8: of use. Not really, there are only five people on
Speaker 8: that roster. One back Tor he's on ir Yeah, Aaron
Speaker 8: Jones is the only notable guy that's still on that
Speaker 8: roster that has that played under McCarthy. So outside of that,
Speaker 8: there's this is an uncoming opponent.
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Speaker 2: Have you guys looked at the weather report for Sunday?
Speaker 14: Yeah, looks a little interesting there, dune it It's gonna
Speaker 14: be interesting. I might I might be calling on you, Brian,
Speaker 14: because I know you look at those things as a challenge.
Speaker 14: So may be like, hey, Brian, can you come out
Speaker 14: and scoop me? Because I don't want that challenge of driving.
Speaker 14: If there's gonna be ice on the road, it's called
Speaker 14: fetza string.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know I'm gonna be like, Brian, I need
Speaker 2: you to come get me cause I don't want to get.
Speaker 11: Out in that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, but the problem is, though I have to
Speaker 5: be at the game three hours.
Speaker 2: I'll go with you with me. I go three hours
Speaker 2: early too.
Speaker 5: I tried to convince the guys to do the broadcast outside.
Speaker 2: Oh he's just ladies and gentleman.
Speaker 7: Is Brian broad It is like, that's that's how he
Speaker 7: looks at You're playing the past challenge.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's your home field advantage. So you wouldn't have
Speaker 9: to be out.
Speaker 5: Anything to do with features strength all about Well.
Speaker 2: Let's just say this. I'm guessing your your co hosts
Speaker 2: were like, hell.
Speaker 3: No, Sam Radio Booth, Yeah, coming this weekend, I said,
Speaker 3: I said, just give me the give me the wireless mike.
Speaker 5: I'll stand outside.
Speaker 2: And you would too, I absolutely would.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 2: All right, let's jump back in. We got some questions
Speaker 2: from you guys, really good questions we got today.
Speaker 3: So, by the way, real quick, is today the ninth
Speaker 3: anniversary of dead Bryant the catch?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 3: Because I saw clips of that. We were all standing
Speaker 3: on the side slideline.
Speaker 5: We were at lambeau Field and it wasn't a miserable day.
Speaker 2: I was twenty degrees degrees was way.
Speaker 3: I was way over drives and you I watched the
Speaker 3: whole game from the sideline.
Speaker 7: I remember that you were the first one to say, Oh,
Speaker 7: he's not gonna Oh, that's not gonna be a catch.
Speaker 5: Helmet with a helmet helmet. Because we were all standing,
Speaker 5: I choked helman. I grabbed him like and I I heard.
Speaker 7: Someone say, oh, it's not going to be a catch,
Speaker 7: and I was like, well, because at first I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: my god, that was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And then it's like what huh? And then it all
Speaker 2: starts unveiling.
Speaker 3: Only only challenge Mike McCarthy won the whole year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: was that one? The only one? And I remember like
Speaker 3: being bundled up because I watched the whole game from
Speaker 3: the sideline, so I was way too bundled up for
Speaker 3: the game. But like I remember turning the helmet and
Speaker 3: grabbing like his coat like it.
Speaker 5: He goes, oh, that's not going to.
Speaker 15: Be a catch, And I grabbed his lapel and I go,
Speaker 15: what are you saying? He goes, it's not gonna be
Speaker 15: a catch, dude. I'm like, oh, what did I just do?
Speaker 2: That's Helman though.
Speaker 7: Helman always will interject what you don't want anybody to
Speaker 7: say at the moment, and it's like, you know he's right,
Speaker 7: but you're like what you have to say?
Speaker 3: It like went and and it it was that uh,
Speaker 3: it was that official guy. It was it was a
Speaker 3: guy with the index card, the official.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I know you're talking about. That was the Yeah,
Speaker 7: he was the ref that day as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but anyway, so he and like he went back
Speaker 3: to the spot where the ball was I'll never forget
Speaker 3: that is one of the greatest throws and greatest catch
Speaker 3: because the ball was coming right at us and I
Speaker 3: looked down. I looked up and saw because I saw
Speaker 3: Cole Beasley dragging it. I'm thinking, he's gonna hit Beasley,
Speaker 3: and you're just gonna keep going. We're gonna get the
Speaker 3: first down, fourth down, We're gonna keep going, going, going,
Speaker 3: and then try and just.
Speaker 5: Bleed this thing. No, Romo, just take a shot.
Speaker 3: Takes the shot. I remember looking at the ball and
Speaker 3: then looking down at Dez and Sam Shields was in
Speaker 3: such bad shape on the on the route and Dez
Speaker 3: went up and he is over the and Sam shield
Speaker 3: is just crumpled, you know, and it's to this day
Speaker 3: it's one of the greatest catchers I've ever seen in
Speaker 3: my life. But yeah, we were all down there on
Speaker 3: the field for that.
Speaker 7: And I remember it was after that game. Was in
Speaker 7: the locker room. It was the most bar none. It
Speaker 7: was the most dejected locker room I've ever I saw
Speaker 7: in that game. After that game, Yeah, Jason Witten was
Speaker 7: was not happy and he is there was a moment
Speaker 7: when he was trying to get through it, and you
Speaker 7: got to know in locker rooms.
Speaker 2: It's really tight.
Speaker 5: Yeah's locker rooms.
Speaker 7: And I got a lot of media and Jason's trying
Speaker 7: to get through and using. Jason is as nice a
Speaker 7: guy you ever want to meet, and he's just kind
Speaker 7: of like, excuse me, guys. I kind of thing that
Speaker 7: day is like guys out of the way. Like he
Speaker 7: was very like everybody in that locker room was pissed.
Speaker 3: Well, you know why because earlier in the year, we
Speaker 3: went to Seattle, because that game, if you know, you
Speaker 3: win the Green Bay game, you're going to Seattle. We
Speaker 3: went to Seattle and just smashed them, the mark them
Speaker 3: where they couldn't stop. Remember the running game, and it
Speaker 3: was just like it was the Legion of Boom and
Speaker 3: all this that, and and we just went of Seattle
Speaker 3: and just and you're sitting here thinking, like we go
Speaker 3: play at Seattle, We're gonna beat Okay, We're okay with this.
Speaker 5: We could we could beat these guys that that Murray fumbled.
Speaker 2: I'll never ye.
Speaker 8: That's what lost the game, Not not the controversial catch
Speaker 8: versus non case. It's a lot you had nothing but
Speaker 8: green in front of you, and you let Julius Peppers
Speaker 8: reach out and just knock that ball down. And of
Speaker 8: course considering that Murray had already had fumbles as an
Speaker 8: issue that season, So for me, that's the villain of
Speaker 8: that game.
Speaker 5: But had the broken Hanland right then, he had the broken.
Speaker 2: Hand at that point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought that was the broken hand situation.
Speaker 8: That ball away, and he liked that, he liked the
Speaker 8: bread loaf that ball. Tuck that ball away, you go down,
Speaker 8: you get that touchdown, and you're up multiple positions, and
Speaker 8: that's an entirely different game from there on. I think
Speaker 8: that would have been the one that demoralized them completely
Speaker 8: for the rest of the game, the Packers. But yeah, Rogers, Yeah,
Speaker 8: and with the calf injury, Like if that happen right
Speaker 8: in front of us, I just I'll never.
Speaker 2: I have the mental image. I still see it very clearly.
Speaker 3: I see the ball, I see the ball coming right
Speaker 3: at us, and I remember, like I said, looking at
Speaker 3: Dez and I'm thinking, he's going to get this ball.
Speaker 3: He's going to get this ball, you know, Romo through
Speaker 3: a boy through in a beautiful spot. It was, and
Speaker 3: the official, the official to that side marked it as
Speaker 3: a catch.
Speaker 5: Right, that gentleman was right. Everybody else was wrong. He
Speaker 5: was right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the NFL did a job.
Speaker 9: I did a job tough for some revenge.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, let's get some person. We got a
Speaker 7: good No, that's good. We got a question from Jakara Williams.
Speaker 7: He says, do y'all think Fowler needs more playing times?
Speaker 5: Heck, yes, I know.
Speaker 2: It's been your guy put him out there I talked about.
Speaker 3: I think I think he's got this David Irving vibe
Speaker 3: to him. Sixteen plays, three sacks. He's one of those guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know David.
Speaker 3: Irving packer game in Atlambo, he played, he made NFC
Speaker 3: Player of the Week and he had he played like
Speaker 3: eighteen plays and it was one of the greatest stat
Speaker 3: lines ever seen.
Speaker 5: That's what Fowler does.
Speaker 3: You play him and all of a sudden he's he
Speaker 3: knows how to break guys down, he knows how to
Speaker 3: get to the ball, he knows how to work game.
Speaker 5: Yes, more Fouler, please.
Speaker 9: I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 8: And I know that Quinn and the Cowboys want to
Speaker 8: try to work in Sam Williams because he also is
Speaker 8: crazy good, also crazy talented. But what Fowler does is
Speaker 8: it's a super efficient, it's super efficient, limited snaps, but impact,
Speaker 8: impact snaps when he's out there, and then you look
Speaker 8: at what he did against the Commanders is a perfect example.
Speaker 8: You're not going to see him take thirty thirty snaps
Speaker 8: that game, but when he's out there, he is something
Speaker 8: to be reckoned with.
Speaker 3: He plays, he plays eight snaps and you and you
Speaker 3: watching go the silence. His sleeves are ripped because somebody
Speaker 3: is like trying like hell to keep him from Yeah,
Speaker 3: somebody is trying to keep him from sacking literally eight
Speaker 3: snaps and his sleeves are ripped already, and you're like going,
Speaker 3: that guy's getting somewhere because they're having to rip his
Speaker 3: clothes off him to keep him from getting it.
Speaker 7: Is it a possibility that he's one of those guys
Speaker 7: and we know these guys happen exists, He's one of
Speaker 7: those guys that that's where you're gonna get the most
Speaker 7: out of him.
Speaker 2: It's have those limited snaps putting him out there more.
Speaker 7: You may be you may actually that may be more
Speaker 7: than he's really giving great plays with.
Speaker 9: Probably it's possible.
Speaker 8: You'd have to go back and look at his uh,
Speaker 8: his first stint with Coin in Atlanta to see what
Speaker 8: his rep counts are and his production at that point.
Speaker 8: But I mean it's it's always possible that he excels
Speaker 8: because he's in a limited capacity. And if that's the case,
Speaker 8: then yeah, keep him in the capacities and dan Quinn
Speaker 8: has the formula.
Speaker 9: It's working, but he's you still like this staff a
Speaker 9: little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this staff knows how to use it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they needed maybe maybe about just a tad want
Speaker 3: to be about six more players, and that's out there
Speaker 3: the whole game, but.
Speaker 5: Plays might be right.
Speaker 3: They they kind of have these guys that they plug
Speaker 3: him in and we got to get some more questions,
Speaker 3: but they plug him in and they they know for
Speaker 3: four or five plays they've got to do their absolute
Speaker 3: best because somebody else is about to come in. And
Speaker 3: he he fully understands his role and.
Speaker 8: Knock on wood Fowler. He's also gotten better with eliminating
Speaker 8: the penalties the mental area.
Speaker 9: So yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7: Jake Row asked the question, what are the odds we
Speaker 7: see Damian Wilson get some time this week or throughout
Speaker 7: the postseason, barring injury, just him getting worked in. I
Speaker 7: think you're hard pressed to get Damien out there barren injury.
Speaker 9: If these guys are still healthy.
Speaker 8: Uh, and Donald continues to play at his level that
Speaker 8: he's at right now, especially in run support things like that.
Speaker 9: I don't I don't see it.
Speaker 8: It's a different conversation with Lyle Collins because maybe you
Speaker 8: activate Lyle and start working in the Hope package if
Speaker 8: you can get past the Packers like we expect that
Speaker 8: you should maybe against in the divisional round. But Damian Wilson,
Speaker 8: I really think he's just pure insurance at the position.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I agree on anything to kick Clark the same on
Speaker 3: the path that he was from the Commander's game. If
Speaker 3: he can, if he could just keep playing like he
Speaker 3: did in the Commander's game, that would be a huge
Speaker 3: plus for this team.
Speaker 7: Question from Albert, he says, it's hunterd Lifty's still in
Speaker 7: the doghouse as far as carries are concerned, And I'll
Speaker 7: actually send the question too. Should he be or should
Speaker 7: the Cowboys kind of restart that because it seemed like
Speaker 7: in that game they had a plan that they were
Speaker 7: going to use him and we haven't really seen that since.
Speaker 7: Should they look back at that and maybe consider using
Speaker 7: him in the playoffs a little bit more?
Speaker 8: I think he was in the doghouse, and rightfully so,
Speaker 8: I also think that if he's still in the doghouse
Speaker 8: as we have this conversation, it's time to move on.
Speaker 8: It's time to move on because on that particular in
Speaker 8: that particular game, on that particular drive, he helped you
Speaker 8: move the chains on the occasion. And yes, his mental
Speaker 8: error was a big one. Uh and it cost you points.
Speaker 8: It took points off the board. But you have to
Speaker 8: assume that that's not going to be a consistent issue
Speaker 8: with Hunter Lipkey. So I say, going into this game,
Speaker 8: make him, make him another somebody else that the that
Speaker 8: the Packers have to defend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hearr Lipkey has done He's done a nice job
Speaker 3: as a blocker. Oh so keep keep you know, if
Speaker 3: you know he's he's showing he's putting things behind him
Speaker 3: and moving forward. That's unfortunate what happened to him. I
Speaker 3: still hand him the ball. The guy finds a way
Speaker 3: to get he needs one, he gets three. You know,
Speaker 3: he's he's that kind of a.
Speaker 2: It was a really good and productive running back and.
Speaker 3: Catches the ball well too. You know, I mean that
Speaker 3: could be an X factor player against a team that
Speaker 3: struggles at linebacker.
Speaker 7: You know, It's interesting to me, Brian, you were the
Speaker 7: one that was mentioning this about Chuma Idoga when he
Speaker 7: had that game where he had those mental breakdowns, and
Speaker 7: you were like, coaches just don't like, they'll deal with
Speaker 7: you getting overpowered much more than they will deal with
Speaker 7: the mental mistakes. And it makes me wonder if in
Speaker 7: the same way, after the Chuma Agdoga game, like what
Speaker 7: do we find out a little bit later that hey,
Speaker 7: they're going to go.
Speaker 2: Out and look at Liol Collins.
Speaker 7: It makes me wonder if if a similar thing with
Speaker 7: lip Key, where it's just kind of like, hey, the
Speaker 7: mental mistakes is what pulled them back, and I don't
Speaker 7: know that they're going to recover right now at a
Speaker 7: time when the stakes are really really high to be
Speaker 7: able to give that to allow him enough times has
Speaker 7: occurred that allows him now that trust to be rebuilt.
Speaker 8: Well, it's also possible that in going against this Packers
Speaker 8: run defense, you may not need Hunter Lipkey because you
Speaker 8: should be able to get in every strong yard for
Speaker 8: carry from Tony Pollard and Rico Daldo, and that goes
Speaker 8: to short yarded situations as well. So I don't know
Speaker 8: that this is necessarily a situation in this particular matchup
Speaker 8: where they have to hand the ball off the hunter
Speaker 8: lypken try to test that. But that said again, if
Speaker 8: he's steal in the doghouse, let him out. It's all
Speaker 8: hands are on deck at this point to try all
Speaker 8: of your playmakers. Anyone who can positively affect the game
Speaker 8: needs to be given a shot to do so.
Speaker 7: All right, appreciate you guys, Jumps. We're back tomorrow. We're
Speaker 7: gonna wrap this thing up. We'll get you ready for
Speaker 7: that final. Our final thoughts on Cowboys versus Packers first
Speaker 7: round the playoffs until tomorrow. For Patrick Walker and Brian
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