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Speaker 4: Glad you're with us as we preview the Cowboys and
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Speaker 4: NFL season. We have John Matchoda, Nick Harris, Isaiah Standback,
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Speaker 3: In the back. I'm Kyle y Omen's gentleman. How are
Speaker 3: we doing today?
Speaker 5: How are you doing? Is the question?
Speaker 4: That's a great question. I'm glad you asked. I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 4: Why because the Texas Rangers are world champions? Oh that
Speaker 4: sounds good to say.
Speaker 5: How about that? Holy cow? How about the Rangers?
Speaker 4: Took a while, took fifty two years in Texas sixty
Speaker 4: four years as a franchise.
Speaker 3: They got it done.
Speaker 6: Though it's unbelievable. It's uh, it doesn't feel real yet,
Speaker 6: doesn't feel real yet.
Speaker 4: No, it feels like a dream. I was telling in
Speaker 4: Isaiah this. Isaiah is a big Seattle Mariners fan. So
Speaker 4: of course we've always gone back and forth. I worked
Speaker 4: in the Mariners organization. But when I was done with
Speaker 4: my games in West Virginia, whenever I was calling minor
Speaker 4: league baseball, I would.
Speaker 3: Go home and on the drive home, drive home.
Speaker 4: I would tune into the Rangers games and listen to
Speaker 4: the end of whatever was happening. Because we were East
Speaker 4: Eastern Standard Time, I would turn it on Eric Madel,
Speaker 4: Matt Hicks, Jared Sandler, and I'd listen to the endo
Speaker 4: the Rangers game. And so I've kind of had my
Speaker 4: toe in both both camps previously.
Speaker 3: But I was always I was born.
Speaker 4: And raised a Rangers fan. I grew up a Rangers fan,
Speaker 4: die hard. I mean, if I had to rank the
Speaker 4: four teams as a child, of course, now and one
Speaker 4: pays the bills, so go Cowboys. But if I had
Speaker 4: to rank the four teams of my fandom, the Rangers
Speaker 4: would have been number one from the junk number one,
Speaker 4: Cowboys number two, and that was kind of it was
Speaker 4: jumbled from there, depending on if the stars or maps
Speaker 4: were good. But to see them finally get it done,
Speaker 4: it was surreal because it always felt like it was
Speaker 4: something you only saw on MLB the show. Yeah, you
Speaker 4: only saw in video games or in your wildest dreams.
Speaker 4: Especially as they lost one hundred and two games last
Speaker 4: or two years ago, lost ninety four games last year,
Speaker 4: you felt like they were moving in the right direction.
Speaker 3: You didn't realize that this was.
Speaker 4: The end result of a twenty twenty three season, and
Speaker 4: it brought up a lot of emotions. Brought up a
Speaker 4: lot of nostalgia of going to the ballpark as a
Speaker 4: kid and really forming the early love for sports with
Speaker 4: my parents and with my sister, and just being around
Speaker 4: the game as it was. Yeah, finally got it done
Speaker 4: last night, and it felt like the culmination of all
Speaker 4: those emotions. Got a little emotional last night. I was
Speaker 4: in Waco actually got to watch the final outs with
Speaker 4: my parents.
Speaker 3: Which was special, and we did it.
Speaker 4: We did it court side at the Feral Center because
Speaker 4: I had to call a volleyball game for Baylor and
Speaker 4: ou so I was court sided. After the game was
Speaker 4: over and we pulled it up on my iPad and
Speaker 4: just kind of went from there and watched the final outs.
Speaker 3: So really, it was a cool moment. It's a special moment.
Speaker 4: And then the whole way home tuned into our flagship
Speaker 4: one oh five to three the fan and just kind
Speaker 4: of listened to the celebration, kind of soaked it all in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think a lot of Razors fans share your
Speaker 6: sentiments and nostalgia for sure, just because of how close
Speaker 6: they came in twenty eleven. It was so bad that
Speaker 6: even when they were up five to nothing last night,
Speaker 6: everyone knew they were about to win. You get down
Speaker 6: to that final strike and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: we can't do this again. So but no, it was
Speaker 6: really cool looking at the Twitter timeline for like, gosh,
Speaker 6: from like ten pm until one am last night, just
Speaker 6: everybody on there just you know, posting pictures of loved
Speaker 6: ones that may have passed. You know, my pops, he's
Speaker 6: passing twenty eleven. So being able to see that happen
Speaker 6: here in twenty twenty three, it was super cool. So yeah,
Speaker 6: it's why sports are special, and it kind of reminds
Speaker 6: you in times like these.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandpa, same thing.
Speaker 4: He's a huge Cowboys fan, or it was a huge
Speaker 4: Cowboys fan, was a huge Rangers fan. He's passed since
Speaker 4: twenty eleven. He watched it with us in twenty eleven,
Speaker 4: so you know, he's smiling. My dad's dad still with us.
Speaker 4: Got to see it, yeah, last night, got to see
Speaker 4: the championship and that it's special both ways because it's
Speaker 4: like that weight's lifted off your shoulders. I know Cowboys
Speaker 4: fans will feel that way when they get back to
Speaker 4: that point, and that's yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, it could happened this year. You never know
Speaker 3: how sports goes.
Speaker 4: It could happen way down the line, who knows, but
Speaker 4: it'll feel very similar because of the weight that it
Speaker 4: has been.
Speaker 3: But it's still not fifty two years. And that's what
Speaker 3: the Rangers got rid of last night.
Speaker 7: It's pretty fascinating though, too, when you say it, when
Speaker 7: you mentioned the Cowboys thing there. I'm not a Rangers fan.
Speaker 7: I grew up in Detroit. I'm a Tigers fan. But
Speaker 7: from watching how this whole season is unfolded for him,
Speaker 7: it's like one of those if it was comparable to
Speaker 7: the Cowboys. It would be like twenty fourteen where you're
Speaker 7: just kind of like, where did this come from? Like
Speaker 7: how did this all of a sudden, Like, I mean,
Speaker 7: you just go to the end of the regular season.
Speaker 7: I don't think anybody was picking the Rangers to win
Speaker 7: the World Series, let alone go win eleven road games.
Speaker 7: I was telling him Beam when I got in here
Speaker 7: this morning about how if you would have told me
Speaker 7: that I couldn't watch any of it, but told me
Speaker 7: this was the result, I would have been like, oh,
Speaker 7: was there some way that like Jacob de Gram and
Speaker 7: Max Schuser both got healthy and they just were lights
Speaker 7: out throughout the playoff?
Speaker 1: None of that.
Speaker 7: And then the part that surprised me the most is
Speaker 7: how much of a spark Evan Carter was this whole thing,
Speaker 7: Just to think, like, what was it a month ago?
Speaker 7: He was playing down the road in Frisco and then
Speaker 7: and he gets put right into it, sound like they're like, yeah,
Speaker 7: go ahead, you're kind of hot right now, hit ninth
Speaker 7: through it. I mean they put him right in the
Speaker 7: middle of that lineup and played like you know, none
Speaker 7: of that phased him. Like there were just so many
Speaker 7: levels to it that it's surprising, like I could see
Speaker 7: it taking a lot of people like a while for
Speaker 7: it to actually set in, Like how everything just came
Speaker 7: together as quickly as it did.
Speaker 6: The Rangers having the parade in Arlington is very fitting
Speaker 6: and I think it's I think it's exactly where it
Speaker 6: needs to be because the ballpark was there, the old
Speaker 6: old ballpark was there, the new park. Of course, if
Speaker 6: the Cowboys win a Super Bowl, they got to do
Speaker 6: it in downtown Dallas, right, Like, this isn't going to
Speaker 6: be a trend where just everyone does it in Arlington.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: We were joking pre show that there would be three
Speaker 4: different stops. It would be Dallas, Arlington, and Frisco, and
Speaker 4: it'd be over the course of three days.
Speaker 3: It'd be like an acl weekend.
Speaker 4: Like you have a wristband and that's that's your way
Speaker 4: to get in, and it's just like a whole it's
Speaker 4: like a weekend festival of lights of Cowboys fans.
Speaker 3: It would be it would be too big to be
Speaker 3: able to put it in Arlington.
Speaker 1: There's no way that it would work out.
Speaker 4: But man, special times, I don't want to take up
Speaker 4: most of the show talking about the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk Texas Rangers. You can find
Speaker 3: me on.
Speaker 4: Twitter because I would love to talk about the World
Speaker 4: champions for the for ever because we can because they're
Speaker 4: World champs.
Speaker 6: Really quick, I think I'm coming down with the cold
Speaker 6: and I will not be here tomorrow. Just want to
Speaker 6: let you guys know because of the parade.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, You're not gonna be here tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Now I'm coming to do the show and then I
Speaker 4: am bouncing the I am. I will be here, but
Speaker 4: then I will be in Arlington. Which, by the way,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna go to the parade, hit us up.
Speaker 4: It'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Isaia, you want to go to the parade.
Speaker 5: I'm good, You're good. Yeah, I've been in the parade before.
Speaker 3: Yeah you have. That was not a slight.
Speaker 6: What's the best part about it other than, you know,
Speaker 6: the certain festivities, but.
Speaker 5: Parade, it's just everybody's sorry for me. It was it
Speaker 5: was the families. Yeah, yeah, like like all the families,
Speaker 5: like at least when we did our parade. When we
Speaker 5: did a parade, I say our, I guess back then
Speaker 5: with the Giants, the families had their own float like,
Speaker 5: they had their own they were on buses. It was
Speaker 5: pretty dope. So they got an opportunity to go through it,
Speaker 5: like they weren't subject to just wait until we got back.
Speaker 5: Like they were in a bus on and going through
Speaker 5: the parade as well. So that was pretty dog on dope.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: The wife was pregnant at the time, so that was
Speaker 5: kind of crazy. Wow. But you know, going through that
Speaker 5: with your teammates and be in on there and seeing
Speaker 5: all the literally millions of people, not thousands, it was
Speaker 5: millions of people on the streets. And for me, like
Speaker 5: the thing that always plays in my head is looking
Speaker 5: up and those those you know, freaking high tower buildings
Speaker 5: down there in New York and looking up and just
Speaker 5: seeing freaking paper people just literally just throwing paper. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't even confetti, it's just people just copy people just crap.
Speaker 5: Cracking their window open because you know, it only goes
Speaker 5: open so far. They're just like chucking pieces of paper
Speaker 5: down as far up as you can see, and you
Speaker 5: just look up and it's just like pouring down. It's
Speaker 5: freaking amazing. I think I have like on my old
Speaker 5: hard drive just in my safe somewhere, but it was
Speaker 5: it was dope, man.
Speaker 9: So y'all are in Manhattan, not New Jersey.
Speaker 3: No, so we're going down the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 5: We did the downtown, but then we once we finished
Speaker 5: the parade downtown, we got we all did the whole
Speaker 5: little presentation the Key to the City, so like I
Speaker 5: have the Key to the city and in my safe
Speaker 5: all that jazz. But then we bust back to the
Speaker 5: stadium and apparently the day before they had opened up
Speaker 5: the stadium and people are not open it up, but
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of people to start lining up.
Speaker 5: So when we got back to the stadium, we walked
Speaker 5: in like literally walked in like it was a game, right,
Speaker 5: smoke everything like that. We're walking out the tunnel in
Speaker 5: the stadium is flooded with people. I mean it is
Speaker 5: packed and Naughty by Nature's up there performing and they
Speaker 5: got the leather jackets on. Oh. It was freaking dope.
Speaker 5: It was freaking dope. It was so you want to
Speaker 5: talk about surreal, that was freaking surreal. You literally walk
Speaker 5: out with the smoke and you can hear the music
Speaker 5: playing and you you walk out of it and you
Speaker 5: come out of it and you just see nothing. But
Speaker 5: people just go, wow, chance, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't believe that just went out over our.
Speaker 5: I would love for Dallas to experience that in my
Speaker 5: in my lifetime, that would be That'd be awesome.
Speaker 3: Same here, same here.
Speaker 4: That's the thing is I mean, I've I grew up
Speaker 4: a Rangers fan, but I've also never seen a Cowboys
Speaker 4: win either.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a Cowboys win a Super Bowl. That's why.
Speaker 4: And I think we've had this conversation previously whenever the
Speaker 4: frustrations of things come up along the way I wanted.
Speaker 3: To happen so bad. It's the same yearning that I
Speaker 3: had for this.
Speaker 4: But even now, since I work inside the building and
Speaker 4: i know these guys personally and I've been around this
Speaker 4: for a long.
Speaker 3: Time, maybe even more so than the yearning that I
Speaker 3: had for the Rangers.
Speaker 4: The Rangers they, like I said, it's more of a
Speaker 4: surprise than it was an expected thing.
Speaker 3: This Cowboys team has been really good.
Speaker 4: And I know a lot of people might dissect what
Speaker 4: I just said and said they've been really good and
Speaker 4: oh they haven't made it this far, that far or
Speaker 4: wherever it's been.
Speaker 3: Their roster has been good enough to make a run.
Speaker 3: They just haven't done it yet, and they may not
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 4: They might do it, who knows, But if that moment
Speaker 4: comes then all of a sudden, I think it would
Speaker 4: be one of the greatest sports moments in this city's history.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6: I looked up last night and this kind of to
Speaker 6: your point, John, When you look at the end of
Speaker 6: the regular season for the Rangers and just kind of
Speaker 6: where they were.
Speaker 9: And then they end up winning the whole thing.
Speaker 6: You know, you kind of look at the Cowboys and
Speaker 6: you're like, Okay, they've had some bumps and bruises along
Speaker 6: this regular season so far, but really good opportunity to
Speaker 6: go into Philadelphia this weekend and come out with a win.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of confidence on the other side, not
Speaker 6: only with the championship celebrations that are happening here after
Speaker 6: a regular season that was I would say it's very
Speaker 6: similar to what the Cowboys have experienced so far. Yeah,
Speaker 6: some really bad stretches that make you look like the
Speaker 6: worst team in baseball.
Speaker 9: That great stretches, exact goals.
Speaker 3: In certain parts of the team that you need to
Speaker 3: fill for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Like the bullpen, red zone exactly, I mean, bottom of
Speaker 6: the order.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 6: So, you know, maybe playoff time, these these guys are
Speaker 6: ready to go on the road and win four games.
Speaker 1: Maybe who's gonna be the fours for them?
Speaker 3: Oh, now that would be interesting.
Speaker 10: I think.
Speaker 7: That would be has to be somebody that, like you,
Speaker 7: I don't know, Yeah, somebody can't even I can't even
Speaker 7: think of a comath hank nasty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that thing was. I don't even know how you
Speaker 5: hit that.
Speaker 6: It'd be like Jonathan Hankins if he got like three
Speaker 6: forced fumbles in the playoffs or something like that and
Speaker 6: like a pick six somehow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like the decent players been around for a little bit, but.
Speaker 3: Not like a game changer and then he comes in.
Speaker 9: Or the Gallary like back to back of one hundred
Speaker 9: yard games.
Speaker 7: The Evan Carter comp is definitely would be Mazzie Smith. Yeah,
Speaker 7: where like the second half of the season, he just
Speaker 7: really takes his game to another level, fills in in
Speaker 7: a spot that they really need help in it at
Speaker 7: defensive tackle, that would be I would think that would
Speaker 7: be the closest.
Speaker 3: I guess defensive tackles are the only comparisons we have
Speaker 3: to the tech.
Speaker 9: We just want them to be hero so bad.
Speaker 3: Let's hit some news and notes.
Speaker 4: We're still running deep into the first segment, but news
Speaker 4: and notes. Outside of the Rangers being world champions, the
Speaker 4: Cowboys were back on the practice field yesterday.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they were, and it was the coldest practice that
Speaker 6: they've had so far in the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 9: And practice report.
Speaker 6: You've got Tyrone Smith who did not practice as he's
Speaker 6: continuing to nurse his neck injury. And again I think
Speaker 6: we mentioned yesterday about how Jerry Jones has a little
Speaker 6: bit of confidence. They're still going into this week, but
Speaker 6: you get confidence last week, So still something to monitor
Speaker 6: as the week it's closer. J Ron Curse did not
Speaker 6: practice with a tow injury. That was something new that
Speaker 6: popped up on the injury report. And then Michael Gallop
Speaker 6: battling in illness, did not practice. And then if you
Speaker 6: guys recall Chumydoga going down in the I believe it
Speaker 6: was late in the third quarter, early in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 6: Chummidoga going down what looked like a scary injury initially
Speaker 6: just an ankle a low sprain, and he was limited yesterday.
Speaker 6: So good news on the Chuma Ydoga front in case
Speaker 6: Tyron Smith cannot go, but definitely both of those guys,
Speaker 6: I think that's going to be the highlight of the
Speaker 6: week and something you need to keep track of.
Speaker 4: Which one of those injuries concerns you the most? John,
Speaker 4: based off of it being on the injury report, does
Speaker 4: it start with Tyron or is it one of the others,
Speaker 4: like a jay Ron Curse another starter out.
Speaker 7: Well, with Tyron it's every week that's a factor. So
Speaker 7: I guess, yeah, that would be number one because of
Speaker 7: his importance. But yeah, jay Ron Curse didn't really expect
Speaker 7: him to be on there, so that was.
Speaker 1: Kind of interesting to see what he does today.
Speaker 7: That would be the one that when I got the email,
Speaker 7: that jumped out to me the most.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I would say, curse. Big toes don't really
Speaker 5: just go away. So if he is experiencing something with
Speaker 5: his big toe that is concerning enough to keep him
Speaker 5: out of practice and it's probably going to be bothering
Speaker 5: him even on game day whether he plays or not.
Speaker 4: I think the number one thing, it's got to be
Speaker 4: Tyrant Chumadoga being back and limited makes me feel better.
Speaker 4: I still want to see what awesome Richards can do
Speaker 4: up with the ones up with the starting offensive line,
Speaker 4: and there was lots of encouragement from him out of camp.
Speaker 4: There were lots of high praise for him out of camp,
Speaker 4: and he never really got a chance to run with
Speaker 4: the ones. It was mostly the twos and threes that
Speaker 4: he would rotate in with. So I'd like to see
Speaker 4: a little bit more awesome Richards. Maybe we'll get to
Speaker 4: see that through practice media won't, but from just a
Speaker 4: general standpoint, I'll see if we can talk to him
Speaker 4: today too, see if he can maybe.
Speaker 3: Find his way into that left tackle spot and just
Speaker 3: kind of fill in should Chuma Adoga not be able
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6: And also you're talking about Austin Richards correctly, right, Yes, Yeah,
Speaker 6: Austin Richards. I've been able to chop it up with
Speaker 6: him in the locker room a couple of times. He's
Speaker 6: a Philly native, so he's going to be going back
Speaker 6: to Philadelphia, hope, looking to get some family out there.
Speaker 6: So if he's able to touch the field, I know
Speaker 6: that'd be a big moment for him. Next news and note,
Speaker 6: Trayvon Diggs was in the locker room yesterday for the
Speaker 6: first time since he suffered his ACL tear last month.
Speaker 6: He also had surgery on that knee last week, and
Speaker 6: he was just able to talk. She talked for about
Speaker 6: six or seven minutes. It gave us some good stuff,
Speaker 6: just Howie's handling it physically, mentally, and he looks like
Speaker 6: he's in a good spot.
Speaker 9: He said.
Speaker 6: He's been able to pick up some new hobbies and
Speaker 6: he's been able to, you know, bond more with his son.
Speaker 6: He's been able to watch a lot of football. He's like,
Speaker 6: I feel like I haven't watched as much football since
Speaker 6: I've been in the league. The quote that really stood out.
Speaker 6: Everything happens for a reason. Just got to roll with
Speaker 6: the punches. It's all on God's plan. Just got to
Speaker 6: get healthy, come back stronger and faster. He said, I'm
Speaker 6: not worried about overcoming this injury. It's twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of new technology that's going to help
Speaker 6: me get back. I'm not worried about it. Courtesy of
Speaker 6: our Jama showed it to my right on the tweet.
Speaker 9: But yeah, it looked like he was in good spirits.
Speaker 6: He also mentioned how Jordan Lewis was one of the
Speaker 6: first people he had reached out to whenever he had
Speaker 6: the injury or reached out to him vice versa. And
Speaker 6: you know Jordan Lewis, it took him thirteen months to
Speaker 6: get back on the field and get ready, and just
Speaker 6: that mental aspect. I think that's a big part of
Speaker 6: the injuries like this, So it looks like he's battling
Speaker 6: that directly so far, and fortunately or unfortunately wiser way
Speaker 6: you want to look at it. There's a lot of
Speaker 6: guys who have had a seal tears on this team,
Speaker 6: so there's gonna be a lot of support on his back.
Speaker 5: Isaya.
Speaker 4: You've always talked about it, just whenever you went through
Speaker 4: your injuries and you were out for a significant amount
Speaker 4: of time, you needed that support to get through it.
Speaker 4: It seems like Diggs is getting that support.
Speaker 5: Yeah, community is everything, as he mentioned, you know, the
Speaker 5: physical aspect that's going to that's going to heal.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: There's a plenty of plenty of doctors, trainers, therapists, technology,
Speaker 5: all that stuff is going to help you get back physically.
Speaker 5: But the mental aspect and feeling like you're not isolated,
Speaker 5: even as high profile of a player as he is,
Speaker 5: you still feel lonely. You know, you still feel like
Speaker 5: nobody's paying attention to you, nobody cares about you, and
Speaker 5: you know you mentioned it, it's his first time back
Speaker 5: in the locker room. That's that's a while not being
Speaker 5: in the locker room, you know, you this time of
Speaker 5: the year, it's like it's like waking up and your
Speaker 5: wife not being in but it's like, hey, what the
Speaker 5: what the heck? Like where where you're at? You know,
Speaker 5: So like going into the locker room, I know that
Speaker 5: meant a lot to him. Having your teammates actually reach
Speaker 5: out to you. If that was the case, that means
Speaker 5: a lot to you because you're not you're not dealing
Speaker 5: with this by yourself anymore, and you're not invisible, so
Speaker 5: you know, shout out to all his teammates are going
Speaker 5: to be out there continue to support him. Unfortunately, there's
Speaker 5: a lot of guys that are in his same boat
Speaker 5: obviously on this roster right now, so he has that community,
Speaker 5: but that community is not the same as you know,
Speaker 5: the guys are on the field. You still want you
Speaker 5: still want to be around your bros.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was surprised to see him in there, and
Speaker 7: I do think that's a good sign because of Jordan
Speaker 7: Lewis dealt with some of that. It feels, or it
Speaker 7: sounds like from what he had said about you know,
Speaker 7: you just kind of go to a dark place when
Speaker 7: all of a sudden you're not around everybody. And it
Speaker 7: really meant a lot to him that coaches and players
Speaker 7: reached out to him, so we wanted to make sure
Speaker 7: he was doing that same thing. It sounds like for
Speaker 7: Trayvon Diggs, and Diggs was that the game. And I
Speaker 7: believe in La he said he's not going to this
Speaker 7: one in Philly. But it just I think it's a
Speaker 7: good thing to have a guy, any guy that's on
Speaker 7: the team, still be around the team after they get hurt.
Speaker 7: So often you see, like I know, especially in the NBA,
Speaker 7: like a guy has a season ending injury, you barely
Speaker 7: never see that guy that much to even sitting on
Speaker 7: the bench and that. So yeah, I think it's good
Speaker 7: for him to be in there. And he brings up
Speaker 7: a good point. I mean, it's twenty twenty three, he's
Speaker 7: at twenty twenty four, but the advancements in medical technology,
Speaker 7: it's not like that this is, oh well, you're never
Speaker 7: going to be back to being a good player in
Speaker 7: the NFL, you know. I mean, he's as long as
Speaker 7: he stays on the right track and that I mean,
Speaker 7: he should still have a very productive you know NFL career.
Speaker 4: It's interesting that added human element that gets added into
Speaker 4: it with these injuries, because a lot of times it's like, oh,
Speaker 4: next man up, up, this guy's out, got to get
Speaker 4: him out of the equation. But there is a human
Speaker 4: element side to it, and there always will be with.
Speaker 3: This game, and with Trayvon specifically, he was trending in
Speaker 3: the right direction. We talked about the injury.
Speaker 9: When it happened, this.
Speaker 3: Defense was elite to it.
Speaker 4: It was off to a historic start. Since then, it's
Speaker 4: been rocky, and missing Diggs was a big part of that.
Speaker 4: So the fact that he is still remaining plugged in,
Speaker 4: and I'm sure the guys in the locker room that
Speaker 4: are still playing probably appreciated just as much as Trevon
Speaker 4: Diggs appreciates guys reaching out.
Speaker 3: I think him being in the locker.
Speaker 4: Room probably helps the mindset of these guys going into
Speaker 4: a game like Philadelphia, where they know that they've still
Speaker 4: got teammates that have their backs, including Trayvon Diggs, who's
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Speaker 4: same sort of production, same sort of emphasis for his
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Speaker 9: Yeah, for sure. And last Knows News and note here
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Speaker 6: Speaking of going back to Philly, Michael Parsons, Harrisburg native,
Speaker 6: going back to Philadelphia, looking forward to the game, He's
Speaker 6: definitely circled this one every year. But this is something
Speaker 6: we kind of talked about yesterday and previewing the Cowboys
Speaker 6: defense against the Philly offense, he said that we got
Speaker 6: to rush our butts off. Most games are one up
Speaker 6: front for us to win this game, we got to
Speaker 6: one up front, and I think there's a lot of
Speaker 6: truth in that.
Speaker 9: I think that's where this game starts.
Speaker 4: Okay, do you agree you got to get after it
Speaker 4: right Fellas, Yeah, I think there's no way you win
Speaker 4: this game if you're not uberly aggressive. And I mean, yes,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have to make the right reads. But you
Speaker 4: can't play this game on your heels. It's not how
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Speaker 2: It's time for QB vision with Isaiah's standback.
Speaker 3: This is a big one. This is uh.
Speaker 4: This is probably the biggest matchup matchup of the year.
Speaker 4: Offensively to this defense, what you got in store for
Speaker 4: us today.
Speaker 5: Well, I can tell you guys some things that you
Speaker 5: guys probably already know, also bring up a couple of
Speaker 5: things that you may need to pay more attention to.
Speaker 3: But so write it down, everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got my notes open on my phone.
Speaker 5: Let's go, all right. The reality is this defense is solid, right,
Speaker 5: there's no secret. Not tell you anything that you don't
Speaker 5: know in regards to they know that. However, they were
Speaker 5: exposed a little bit last week. And shout out to
Speaker 5: Eric Bing and me and the Washington commanders for putting
Speaker 5: some things on tape that really might have opened up
Speaker 5: the window. You know, I'm always using Friday references. You
Speaker 5: just like the window open with d Bow, He's gonna
Speaker 5: he's gonna lift that thing open. So I'm hoping that
Speaker 5: Coach McCarthy saw some things that he can now expose
Speaker 5: with this defense. And some of it's at the blueprint.
Speaker 5: It might have been the blueprint might have been at
Speaker 5: vic Vangil. So I think, I think so, I truly
Speaker 5: do believe so.
Speaker 3: Only the real talking cowboys ogs remember that exactly.
Speaker 5: So let's let's get into it. Coverage wise, what can
Speaker 5: you really expect out of these guys, they're a single
Speaker 5: high team. These guys don't like playing two safeties. It's
Speaker 5: not even two high safeties. It's not their thing. They're
Speaker 5: near the bottom of the league I think the twenty
Speaker 5: first summer around there in terms of being playing split
Speaker 5: safeties all right, meaning that they're they'll start out with
Speaker 5: two safeties up top, and then they do a really
Speaker 5: good job of delaying right before the snap or even
Speaker 5: after the snap in terms of which safety is going
Speaker 5: to roll down into a single high coverage. They want
Speaker 5: to get down a single high. They want to play
Speaker 5: man to man coverage. They want to be in nickel.
Speaker 5: They are in nickel, meaning the five dbs. They're in
Speaker 5: that eighty percent at the time, eighty percent at the time.
Speaker 5: So you think about a team that's playing nickel, you
Speaker 5: have to take Dallas out of it. Dallas doesn't play
Speaker 5: a ton of nickel. Dallas is actually number one in
Speaker 5: the league for dime. I mean that they play six
Speaker 5: because of the safety situation and they have a good
Speaker 5: rushing defensive front. These guys feel confident playing nickel with
Speaker 5: five dbs on the field. That's not necessarily their scheme.
Speaker 5: Their scheme is their front, their front seven though that's
Speaker 5: their scheme. They feel super confident with the guys that
Speaker 5: they have on the front defensive line, much like Dallas does,
Speaker 5: but it's different. Dallas feels confident with their pass rushers
Speaker 5: versus these guys feel confident with their past rushers and
Speaker 5: their rush defense interior defense alignment, and it allows for
Speaker 5: them to play eighty percent Nickel allows for them to
Speaker 5: also play primarily man. These guys want to play man coverage.
Speaker 5: They neared the whole game if they could. But a
Speaker 5: lot of times they'll still almost say the other word.
Speaker 5: They'll still mess around with you in terms of you
Speaker 5: know what's gonna say. They'll still mess around with you
Speaker 5: in terms of needing to identify what the actual coverage is.
Speaker 5: Even though they want to play man, they'll still roll
Speaker 5: in three. They'll still roll in four. They'll still roll
Speaker 5: in When they don't really play a straight two, they'll
Speaker 5: usually play a Cover six, meaning they'll play Cover four
Speaker 5: to one side and roll coverage to Cover two, usually
Speaker 5: down to the boundary. Okay, so they'll roll the corner down,
Speaker 5: roll the safety over the top, usually to the boundary
Speaker 5: to play Cover four off in the on the field side.
Speaker 5: So when you look at it from that perspective, you
Speaker 5: can kind of put them in the category in certain
Speaker 5: downs usually right third down, third and long situations as
Speaker 5: the Rams as the chargers, because the Rams and the
Speaker 5: Charges play played primarily cover four and we've seen how
Speaker 5: productive that was versus those coverages. So I don't see
Speaker 5: that happening a ton. But when you find yourself in
Speaker 5: those down the distances, if you do see road coverage
Speaker 5: on one side, most of the time, if you go
Speaker 5: to the field side, you're going to get that cover
Speaker 5: for your guys should be open the way in which
Speaker 5: they have been the past few games. But man coverage,
Speaker 5: what issues does that present? Well? In the West Coast offense,
Speaker 5: we've seen that provide present some issues in terms of
Speaker 5: getting off the line of scrimmage, in terms of creating space.
Speaker 5: That's when these condensed sets, that's when motions, that's when shifts,
Speaker 5: all these things really come into play. Getting guys off
Speaker 5: of you. As we like to say, like if I
Speaker 5: come up to the line of scrimmage and Jam walks
Speaker 5: up on me right now, okay, I want to go
Speaker 5: put myself even in like a little short, little return
Speaker 5: motion right like I'm going to the center, come right
Speaker 5: back right now. Guess what you've had to back up? Right,
Speaker 5: you have to back up, and that gives me the
Speaker 5: space I need to now run my slants, run my outs,
Speaker 5: my ends, whatever else that they want to run this
Speaker 5: particular type of offense. So that's something that can help them.
Speaker 5: They are a base for three defense, that's what they are.
Speaker 5: They are are four to three at heart, and they
Speaker 5: can be a four to three because they have a
Speaker 5: pluth threa of guys. They have more defensi alignment than
Speaker 5: you can ever imagine. We talked about that this week
Speaker 5: obviously with some of the moves that ever made in
Speaker 5: the NFL. However, I feel as if they are most
Speaker 5: dangerous when they're in a three to four. They run
Speaker 5: a four to three base, meaning four defensive lignment. Three
Speaker 5: linebackers are okay, or if they're running two linebackers and
Speaker 5: running an extra dB in there, however they want to
Speaker 5: facilitate it. But I feel that they're most dangerous when
Speaker 5: they are in their three to four. And the reason
Speaker 5: why I say that is these guys are at the
Speaker 5: top of the league in terms of pressures one hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty five pressures through eight games. That is insane.
Speaker 5: I think that's an average of holmost seventeen pressures per game
Speaker 5: on a quarterback. That's the bad news. The good news
Speaker 5: is Dak Prescott has completed seventy percent of his passes
Speaker 5: versus pressure. Nice, So we'll take that all day long.
Speaker 3: That's a win.
Speaker 5: That's a hell hob boys. Yeah, everybody. Okay, so pressure
Speaker 5: if you want to, but their pressure isn't coming in
Speaker 5: the form of blitzer, so sorry. So they're they're not
Speaker 5: exposing themselves to typical openings in their defense because of
Speaker 5: the pressure that they're listening right, So they're not blitzing
Speaker 5: to create the pressure. They're using their front guys to
Speaker 5: create the pressure. And who are those front guys? I
Speaker 5: don't like that as much either. You know, when they
Speaker 5: go down to their four four down linemen, it's it's
Speaker 5: whoever they want to rotate in there. But when they
Speaker 5: go down to their three, they're three down or three
Speaker 5: down linemen and four linebackers quote unquote, they're putting their
Speaker 5: big fellas in there. And the reason why I don't
Speaker 5: like that is because they're putting their nose tackle. Who
Speaker 5: is big Jordan Davis. They're putting him iold on the center.
Speaker 1: That's fun.
Speaker 5: That's not fun. I don't like that at all. Actually, Okay,
Speaker 5: Jordan Davis on Tyler Biadas one on one. So when
Speaker 5: you see a three to four, freaking hold onto your
Speaker 5: seats because you literally have three hundred and forty five
Speaker 5: pounds lined up over Tyler Biadas, who is typically considered
Speaker 5: to be lighting the butt and he's really strong. Okay,
Speaker 5: now who's next to him? All right? Well now next
Speaker 5: to Big Davis. Okay, not a the one shade, not
Speaker 5: into two or three, right, these guys gonna be in
Speaker 5: the five shade. Mean, they're gonna be just outside the guards. Okay,
Speaker 5: So they're gonna really try to try to force you
Speaker 5: to double team them with your guard and your tackle.
Speaker 5: They're gonna split the guard into the tackle. So Big
Speaker 5: Davis is manned up on the center, they're gonna put
Speaker 5: who are gonna put in there? They're gonna put Yeah,
Speaker 5: they're gonna put Hassan Well no, not Hassan. Reddicks is
Speaker 5: gonna be standing up. They got they have Yeah, they
Speaker 5: got Jalen Carter and Fletcher.
Speaker 3: Cox, Milton Williams, Pride of Louisiana Tech. Also yeah.
Speaker 5: So but you got big Jordan Davis or your center. Okay,
Speaker 5: you got Jalen Carter in between your garden and your tackle,
Speaker 5: and you have Fletcher Cox in between your guard and
Speaker 5: your tackle.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a lot of strength.
Speaker 5: That's a lot of grown man and a lot of
Speaker 5: strength right there. Okay, that's not let me just give
Speaker 5: a quick up there. All right.
Speaker 7: So from the injury porto of today, Jaalen Carter dealing
Speaker 7: with the back issue, but he was full even though
Speaker 7: they did a walk through. This is simulated on what
Speaker 7: he would have been. Jordan Davis was limited hamstring.
Speaker 5: Sorry there go, I appreciate that. Thank you. Uh So, listen,
Speaker 5: this is barring all injuries. Right. If these guys are
Speaker 5: healthy four to three, I think that you can expose
Speaker 5: their four three I think you can run all over them.
Speaker 5: To be honest with you, wow, I think that it
Speaker 5: allows for you to get your double teams. It allows
Speaker 5: for you because their defensive ends like to stay so
Speaker 5: wide in the four to three that you can keep
Speaker 5: them out with your tackles in your in your tight ends.
Speaker 5: Just push those the defensive ends out and then you
Speaker 5: have those combo blocks on the inside with your center
Speaker 5: and your guard and your guard in your uh in
Speaker 5: your tackle. Okay. So you can do combo blocks all
Speaker 5: day long versus their four three, but when they go
Speaker 5: three four, you can't. You can't double team because your
Speaker 5: center can't get off the ball. Big Davis, Big Jordan David,
Speaker 5: he's literally pushing you back. Not only as big, he's
Speaker 5: strong as all get out, so he's going to force
Speaker 5: you into the backfield. If not have a have a
Speaker 5: stalemate at the line of scrimmage, so you can't work
Speaker 5: up to the next level. Now, your guards and your
Speaker 5: tackles have to respect the fact that Jalen Carter and
Speaker 5: Fletcher Cox are split in the difference between them. Oh
Speaker 5: and then by them, by the way, you have Josh
Speaker 5: Wett and Hassan Reddick that are gonna be coming from
Speaker 5: the outside. So if you if you respect their defensive ends,
Speaker 5: which you have to because their defensive ends are doing
Speaker 5: dog on good this year. Kady got what five and
Speaker 5: a half, six and a half sacks, whatever might be,
Speaker 5: then you're isolating your tackles, right, So now your tackles
Speaker 5: will isolate it with the defensive ends. Okay, who are
Speaker 5: standing up? Okay, and this three to four Okay, your
Speaker 5: guards and your your your guards are now working with
Speaker 5: who Jayalen Carter and Fletcher Cocks, and your center is
Speaker 5: isoled up with George Jordan Davis. So your three interior
Speaker 5: linemen are now isoled right, and when they have their
Speaker 5: defensive end standing up, now your tackles or your tight
Speaker 5: ends are isold. I don't like that.
Speaker 4: It's like five on five, and it's five on five
Speaker 4: and I and I five.
Speaker 3: Chances for something to go wrong.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I just don't like that. I really don't
Speaker 5: like it because it doesn't allow for you to have
Speaker 5: ever have the advantage of having your combo blocks. Combo
Speaker 5: blocks meaning that double teams. Okay, we want to block you, Nick,
Speaker 5: So Kyle and I gonna get shoulder to shoulder. We're
Speaker 5: gonna get our pass underneath you. We're gonna move you
Speaker 5: off the ball. Yeah, I figured, Okay, when you're in
Speaker 5: when they're in that three four, which they don't run
Speaker 5: too often, but I can foresee them doing that. You can't.
Speaker 5: It's very difficult to run the ball. I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 7: Can Oh, you don't think the Cowboys un games gonna
Speaker 7: get on track against this team.
Speaker 5: I think I think the Cowboys run game has been effective.
Speaker 5: They're just not doing it enough.
Speaker 1: I would be stunned if they get going against.
Speaker 5: I agree. I don't feel as if they're going to
Speaker 5: get going against. But guess what if they do if
Speaker 5: they come in so that's the three four. If they
Speaker 5: come out in their base four to three like they've
Speaker 5: been showing on film that they that they like, they
Speaker 5: go to I think that you can move these guys
Speaker 5: off the ball.
Speaker 3: So does that turn it into is that blocking schemes?
Speaker 11: Yees?
Speaker 5: Yet?
Speaker 4: So that's when you leave one of those guys on
Speaker 4: the backside, you gotta run away from you.
Speaker 5: You do not let me, let me not do not.
Speaker 5: So low shots, do not run between the guard and
Speaker 5: the center. Don't those three holes are not for you. Okay,
Speaker 5: the holes zero, one and two or not for you.
Speaker 5: Go outside. You have to go outside and run away
Speaker 5: from these guys. That's one thing that Washington commanders put
Speaker 5: on film this past week. They stretch these guys out.
Speaker 5: They made these big fellows get up and move, and
Speaker 5: it got them out of those out of that three four.
Speaker 5: It forced them to get back into a four to
Speaker 5: three because now they need it to be able to
Speaker 5: stretch the line of scrimmage. Right when you're in that
Speaker 5: three four, you can attack the outsides. Okay, you can
Speaker 5: make these guys move, so they go to a four
Speaker 5: to three and they just align there. Okay. But what
Speaker 5: happens when they're in a four to three. It gives
Speaker 5: you the advantage because you can now do what you
Speaker 5: have your double teams. Yeah, okay, and you can work
Speaker 5: your double teams and allows for your receiver. You need
Speaker 5: a receiver. I don't know who it is to come
Speaker 5: in there and hit the dog on safety because their safety.
Speaker 5: They have a new safety.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his name's Kevin Byard.
Speaker 5: Kevin Byard.
Speaker 6: You got a quick question about this new safety being
Speaker 6: his second game with the team. How how quick do
Speaker 6: you think he picks up everything?
Speaker 9: Is it?
Speaker 6: Is it automatic as a safety or is it a
Speaker 6: couple of weeks learn the system, then you'll have it
Speaker 6: down or is it like, man, let's just try to
Speaker 6: be done by week twelve.
Speaker 5: I can't speak to what they're how complicated their system is,
Speaker 5: but what I'm seeing on film, I don't know what
Speaker 5: their responsibilities are as safeties in terms of how much
Speaker 5: they're commanding what's going on up front and all that jazz,
Speaker 5: but they're running base coverages. They're just doing a great
Speaker 5: job at discus. Now, you know, primarily they want to
Speaker 5: get to man coverage. So as you know, as as
Speaker 5: as he wants to get involved, I can see him
Speaker 5: wanting to get involved in the box, right And if
Speaker 5: he wants to get involved in the box, you're going
Speaker 5: to need a receiver who wants to get in there
Speaker 5: and get physical if you want to establish his running game.
Speaker 5: Otherwise he will disrupt everything. Even if you take care
Speaker 5: of all your responsibilities up front with the front, the
Speaker 5: front five, okay, and the second level, if you don't
Speaker 5: have a receiver who is willing to get in there
Speaker 5: and get physical and knock him off. And I'm talking
Speaker 5: about ear hol him. Okay, I'm not talking about trying
Speaker 5: to injure the guy, but I'm talking about old school
Speaker 5: football right here. Okay, we called it ear hole. Okay,
Speaker 5: he's coming downhill. The only thing you see is his
Speaker 5: ear hole. You try to put him on his butt. Okay.
Speaker 5: You have to have a guy that has that intensity
Speaker 5: that wants to do that. Otherwise you cannot have your
Speaker 5: splash plays. Because that's the whole reason why they brought
Speaker 5: him in here was to be a disruptor and shut
Speaker 5: down ability to run. So three four no boino, Okay,
Speaker 5: four to three. You can run the ball, Okay, man coverage,
Speaker 5: you have to get off the ball. You have to
Speaker 5: off the ball. Continue to move these guys around on
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. Continue to move Cavante Turpin. We
Speaker 5: saw that versus man coverage. Okay, when we saw him
Speaker 5: come in motion, we saw Ceedee Lamb. Over the past
Speaker 5: few games, he's been coming in motion and getting free,
Speaker 5: even just coming across the formation. Nothing crazy. It creates
Speaker 5: leverage issues for them. I foresee that. Being all positive,
Speaker 5: I say all this to say this is a team
Speaker 5: that as good as they are personnel wise, defensively, they
Speaker 5: can be exposed. They can really be exposed defensively if
Speaker 5: you get them moving laterally, If you get them moving laterally,
Speaker 5: you can expose these guys because they're not great in coverage,
Speaker 5: even though they have some some good defensive backs. They
Speaker 5: got James Bradberry, they have Darius Slay, they have guys
Speaker 5: that are really good at man and man coverage. But
Speaker 5: if you get the if you get moving out the pocket,
Speaker 5: if you get this line of scrimmage. Moving, then you're
Speaker 5: a threat to everything else that they want to do.
Speaker 5: They want to line up and just come downhill. That's
Speaker 5: their game plan if they in a perfect world. We
Speaker 5: got our big fellaws against your fellas, and we're bigger
Speaker 5: and stronger than you. Straight up bullet, straight bully ball. Right.
Speaker 5: They're not gonna blitz a whole bunch. They'll do it
Speaker 5: every so often. Whenever they do blitz is usually a
Speaker 5: nickel blitz. Okay, they'll bring somebody from the secondary, but
Speaker 5: then that exposes them in terms of getting to you know,
Speaker 5: you can get the ball out and do hot routes.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if they're running hot routes and this
Speaker 5: particular offense, meaning that when a blitz shows you cut
Speaker 5: your route off and you get the ball right now. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if they have that in there, but
Speaker 5: put it in. It's not difficult. And when they do
Speaker 5: decide to blitz, make them pay for it. They can
Speaker 5: go back to their base defense and run the ball.
Speaker 5: I know that sounds crazy. I know that sounds crazy
Speaker 5: against these guys, but you have to stretch these guys
Speaker 5: out and you have to get them running. If you
Speaker 5: get these boys with their hands on their hips and
Speaker 5: they're huffing and puffing.
Speaker 4: You got them. There are a couple questions I have.
Speaker 4: I know y'all probably have some questions as well. When
Speaker 4: we come back, I'm just gonna say these two words.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna see your reaction to.
Speaker 3: It screen game. Not much of a reaction. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about that when we come back here.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back in to a Thursday edition.
Speaker 4: We just got to hear from Isaiah Standback and QB
Speaker 4: Vision here over the last couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Now I mentioned screen game going into the break.
Speaker 4: Correct, You're talking about getting the numbers, getting outside, going
Speaker 4: to the sideline, using the flats and trying to stretch
Speaker 4: these guys out. Is it going to be fruitful for
Speaker 4: this Cowboys offense or would it be fruitful for them
Speaker 4: to maybe try and get that screen game going.
Speaker 3: We talked about it a couple times on this show.
Speaker 3: Is this a week where you can maybe look to
Speaker 3: pull that off?
Speaker 5: I would say no, okay, collective.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: The reason why I say no is because this is
Speaker 5: a press man team, meaning that these guys are going
Speaker 5: to be in the face of your receivers. So it's
Speaker 5: going to be a very long block for your receivers
Speaker 5: depending on a type of screen that you're facilitating, and
Speaker 5: they increases the probability of a them getting off the
Speaker 5: black and be you getting a holding call. The second
Speaker 5: reason why I would say no is because these guys
Speaker 5: are not pass rushers in that sense. They have reddache, right,
Speaker 5: they have sweat. Those guys that are stand up in
Speaker 5: primarily order hit got their hand in the ground in
Speaker 5: four to three those guys will get upfield. But their
Speaker 5: interior guys are two gap guys like Davis Jalen Carter,
Speaker 5: Fletcher Cox are going to put two hands on you,
Speaker 5: grab your chest, your your chest pats, and drive you
Speaker 5: back two to three yards. That's what they want to do.
Speaker 5: And if you're if they're engaged with you in blocking,
Speaker 5: it's very hard to shed a three hundred and thirty
Speaker 5: plus pound man and just chuck them out the way
Speaker 5: as if he's a piece of paper. Right. Usually you
Speaker 5: want to run screen games for teams like Dallas that
Speaker 5: are uberly aggressive. Everybody in front is big fast. I mean,
Speaker 5: if that's fast, they want to get up the field
Speaker 5: really really quickly. So you catch them slipping right, use
Speaker 5: their aggressiveness against them. That isn't this team. They create
Speaker 5: pressures by bull rush, that's how they do it. They
Speaker 5: grab you and they just push you back. We're bigger
Speaker 5: than you were, strong to you. So it's not the
Speaker 5: team because your guys can't get off the black right.
Speaker 5: If they're engaged with a guy, they can't shed them.
Speaker 5: It's very difficult to shed that guy and then get
Speaker 5: your lineman up to the next level to start trying
Speaker 5: to get out and block. So I would say no
Speaker 5: unless you're running receiver screens and you can catch these
Speaker 5: guys in a too high shell pre snap. You know,
Speaker 5: like I said a lot of times, you'd like to rotate,
Speaker 5: but again, you're going to need your receivers to have
Speaker 5: the best blocking game of their life. I mean, you're
Speaker 5: asking a lot of these guys. I don't foresee. I
Speaker 5: don't see anybody on this roster that you would crown
Speaker 5: that's our guy to go out there and block. Like
Speaker 5: when I was in New England, I wasn't the guy
Speaker 5: that was expected to be the conversion guy for the
Speaker 5: big play, right. I wasn't the Michael Gallup to make
Speaker 5: the big catch and get the first time like I was.
Speaker 5: My primary role was I was a big receiver on
Speaker 5: the team and we're gonna run the screen game all
Speaker 5: day along with West rud Walker, and I don't care
Speaker 5: who's out there. I'm bigger and stronger than them. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna pick those guys up and movement out the way.
Speaker 5: That was a confidence that the team had. So that
Speaker 5: was my role, right. I was that guy and I
Speaker 5: was a clear out guy for Randy Wass. Those are
Speaker 5: my two roles, right, So I don't see anybody who
Speaker 5: has that particular role on this offense. Last year you
Speaker 5: had no Brown, the past few years you had no Brown.
Speaker 5: That was the guy that you crown and say, Hey,
Speaker 5: come in this short motion and go knock the heck
Speaker 5: out of that dog on safety. Hey come in short
Speaker 5: motion and block this defensive in We just need you
Speaker 5: to hold him for a couple of seconds. Or Hey,
Speaker 5: we're going in there and lock up on the receiver
Speaker 5: on these defensive backs so we can get this this
Speaker 5: bubble screen going they don't have that guy, the least
Speaker 5: we haven't seen it on film.
Speaker 7: And at what point did you go to Belichick and go, Bill,
Speaker 7: it's my time to.
Speaker 5: Eat Noah never never, Hey know you're wrong, You shut
Speaker 5: your mouth and know you're wrong.
Speaker 7: I was gonna ask you about the Dak thing is
Speaker 7: that you know he had talked after the game the
Speaker 7: other night about how he didn't run as much against
Speaker 7: San Francisco, And after that game he looked back and
Speaker 7: I thought, maybe I need to use when I say,
Speaker 7: run out on me necessarily to get gain yards, but
Speaker 7: to buy time get outside the pocket. And he's done
Speaker 7: that the last two games. How important you think that
Speaker 7: will vary this game?
Speaker 5: Very because these guys don't want to run. If you
Speaker 5: can find a way to get in the way of
Speaker 5: Hassan Reddick and get in the way of Joshuat, you
Speaker 5: have a chance right to get outside the pocket. The
Speaker 5: reason why I don't like the three four to the
Speaker 5: three four bottles everything up. These guys are so wide
Speaker 5: they're standing up and they can see everything. I can
Speaker 5: stand up, I see everything, and I keep everything inside.
Speaker 5: So as I come downhill towards the quarterback, I'm literally
Speaker 5: constricting the quarterback pocket. When they're in that four and
Speaker 5: then you talk about the inside pressure, those guys are
Speaker 5: getting moved backwards or stale mating. There's just nowhere to go, right.
Speaker 5: It's literally like you're getting suffocated when they're in that
Speaker 5: four to three. I think you can get the edge.
Speaker 5: I think you can take Ferguson and bring him in
Speaker 5: motion and seal the edge and now get back out
Speaker 5: on the go. That's what you want to see. You
Speaker 5: start getting some rep routes. You have to be in
Speaker 5: condensed sets. You have to be in bunch sets. We're
Speaker 5: gonna show some things in film room where these guys
Speaker 5: get exposed because because they're playing so much, man, you
Speaker 5: have to make it hard for them to allocate who
Speaker 5: has who. And if you're just lining up like we
Speaker 5: saw in the first four, first five six games of
Speaker 5: the season, if you're just lining up and you're saying, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, we know you're a man, stick me, you're
Speaker 5: not giving yourself the best advantage. Okay, if you put
Speaker 5: some things in motion. Now, guess what, Okay, I got you? No, no, no,
Speaker 5: you got him, you got him? Okay, in and out
Speaker 5: you're confusing them you have to do that, and I
Speaker 5: think if you can get on the edge and bring
Speaker 5: your splits down, bring your motions down, you can cause
Speaker 5: enough confusion you can get some guys out open. I
Speaker 5: do think they can be exposed in that regard, but
Speaker 5: you have to do that on a consistent basis, and
Speaker 5: you still have to be able to run a ball.
Speaker 3: There's a lot that goes into this matchup. There's a lot.
Speaker 4: You honestly made me feel a little bit better about
Speaker 4: this matchup because I'm watching film and I'm seeing a
Speaker 4: lot of things. You're talking about the strength of the interior,
Speaker 4: the way that these guys run to the football. I mean,
Speaker 4: they swarm the ball. There's times when they're six or
Speaker 4: seven jerseys at the ball. And then of course you
Speaker 4: look at the names in the secondary. I saw something
Speaker 4: similar of where they can get separation. Dallas could find
Speaker 4: separation because Washington founded because some of these other teams
Speaker 4: at Philadelphia, despite winning or losing, they found separation. The
Speaker 4: Jets had plenty of it early in the year. This
Speaker 4: secondary has a chance to be exposed, and that's where
Speaker 4: I feel like Dallas has struggled the most through the
Speaker 4: first five weeks.
Speaker 3: But then these last couple of weeks have started to
Speaker 3: figure it out a little bit better.
Speaker 4: So maybe if they can continue moving in the right direction,
Speaker 4: they have a shot on Sunday. Because going into this week,
Speaker 4: I just knowing Philadelphia and knowing the roster that's at hand,
Speaker 4: I didn't see much of a shot.
Speaker 3: Now I'm starting to see there's.
Speaker 5: Some spots here, there's an opportunity.
Speaker 3: There's kinks in the oma there all the way through.
Speaker 5: But you have you need to get out the pocket
Speaker 5: to do them. Got to get it.
Speaker 4: But they've done that the last time very much so.
Speaker 4: Dallas did it against both of the LA team.
Speaker 5: These guys are aggressive so much like Dallas is aggressive
Speaker 5: in the front seven, and teams want to take advantage
Speaker 5: of how aggressive Michael Parsons is and d Law and
Speaker 5: everybody else else a digizua. That aggressiveness is the same
Speaker 5: for for the Eagles, but it's in the secondary. Yeah,
Speaker 5: And these guys want to be the guy to make
Speaker 5: the play. They want to come up. There's plays that
Speaker 5: are on film from last week, specifically where there was
Speaker 5: a whack play action in a backfield, you have a
Speaker 5: safety in a corner that are literally twenty yards away
Speaker 5: from the line of scrimmage and they're still looking at
Speaker 5: the back and feel like can I do something about it?
Speaker 5: And guys are running right by them, you know, so
Speaker 5: like they're nosy, right, They are very nosy, and they
Speaker 5: get their eyes stuck in places that they shouldn't be.
Speaker 5: The only difference is when they make those mistakes, you
Speaker 5: have to make them pay for it. If you miss
Speaker 5: out on those opportunities, you will kick yourself the next
Speaker 5: day because you probably won't have the result that you want.
Speaker 6: Quick question you had mentioned in the last segment about
Speaker 6: how you know, utilizing the motion that they found last week,
Speaker 6: it'll probably be quite a bit of success and to
Speaker 6: the audience. Thirty three times they use motion in the
Speaker 6: first six games, eighteen times in week seven, do you
Speaker 6: look at the game that they had against Miami and
Speaker 6: the success that they had defensively and maybe give a
Speaker 6: little bit of pause to the motion just because Miami
Speaker 6: they're motioning on eighty something percent of plays and they
Speaker 6: only score ten points offensively in that game.
Speaker 9: Do you do have a little bit of pause looking
Speaker 9: at that?
Speaker 5: No, I don't, because Miami missed out a lot of opportunities.
Speaker 5: They really did Miami missed on a ton It was that.
Speaker 9: The biggest catalyst there.
Speaker 5: It's not executing. I think they just didn't execute. I
Speaker 5: think Tyreek Hill dropped at least two touchdowns that I
Speaker 5: remember that on that So it was less how effective
Speaker 5: Philly was and more so on the fact that Miami
Speaker 5: just missed on some big opportunities. That's not to discourage
Speaker 5: anybody that's listening, but I'm just telling the truth, Like
Speaker 5: there was some places in there that would have really
Speaker 5: blown that game open that we're missed. And that's what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. If you miss on those opportunities, you would
Speaker 5: kick yourself because they don't come around a lot. The Uh.
Speaker 4: Of course tomorrow say it with Chest Friday, right, we'll
Speaker 4: be making our picks.
Speaker 3: I want to start doing this. We haven't done this yet,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 4: Want to at least have John pick the Cowboys game
Speaker 4: on the air here on Thursdays.
Speaker 3: So, especially with it being a big week spot, it.
Speaker 1: Is kind of on the spot waivered on this at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who are you picking for for Sunday's matchup?
Speaker 1: And why oh, I'm picking the Eagles.
Speaker 5: I just.
Speaker 1: I just don't see the throw.
Speaker 7: I don't see the Cowboys doing enough in the run
Speaker 7: game to be able to win this game.
Speaker 1: It's gonna I will say.
Speaker 7: I will say that if the Cowboys are to win
Speaker 7: this game and I don't get to watch it, I
Speaker 7: would say that there would be a chance that my
Speaker 7: belief would be that they cause Jalen Hurts to turn
Speaker 7: the ball over, whether it be fumbling, throwing interceptions. I
Speaker 7: do think that that's on the table for them. But
Speaker 7: if he takes care of the football, basically my biggest takeway,
Speaker 7: I'll say this, I think Jalen Hurts just has to
Speaker 7: play solid for the Eagles to win. I think Dak
Speaker 7: Prescott has to be great for the Cowboys to win,
Speaker 7: and so and it's possible. I mean, heck, I mean
Speaker 7: it's a three point spread. It's not like this is
Speaker 7: something like I don't know how they're gonna do it,
Speaker 7: like they obviously ken their rivals like, But since the
Speaker 7: schedule came out and the way the season's unfolded, the
Speaker 7: way the Cowboys play at home, the way the Cowboys
Speaker 7: play on the road, nothing's changed for me.
Speaker 1: I think I think the Eagles win this game.
Speaker 7: I'll say twenty seven to twenty four, But I think
Speaker 7: Cowboys win when they come to AT and D Stadium.
Speaker 5: Just fun factor, real quick. Okay, when Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 5: under pressure, Okay, not like that. Dak throws seventy percent completion,
Speaker 5: throws really good high touchdown probably there. When Jalen Hurts
Speaker 5: is under pressure, he throws fifty three percent completion, has
Speaker 5: six touchdowns, five interceptions.
Speaker 1: There's your key.
Speaker 3: Put pressure on that man.
Speaker 5: He doesn't like it this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly.
Speaker 4: The more this week has gone on, the more confident
Speaker 4: I feel about this matchup, which is dangerous.
Speaker 5: That's what we study, baby, and that's why you hit
Speaker 5: the film.
Speaker 4: The more I mean, on paper, going into Monday, it
Speaker 4: was like, Okay, got a big win and they needed it.
Speaker 3: It got a big time winning against the Rams because man,
Speaker 3: Philadelphia is coming up.
Speaker 4: This is gonna be tough. I'll make my official pick tomorrow.
Speaker 4: But the more this week goes on, the more I
Speaker 4: am confident that the Cowboys are gonna have a chance
Speaker 4: of winning this game. They've got to execute, and honestly,
Speaker 4: I love the way you put that. Jalen Hurts has
Speaker 4: to play well. Dak Prescott has to play out of
Speaker 4: his mind, even if it's not out of his mind
Speaker 4: at least great too.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: I think he just has to stand that.
Speaker 7: I'm where he's at right now, like these last two games,
Speaker 7: so it spend ratcheted up, and he has to go
Speaker 7: another level for them to win this game on the road,
Speaker 7: hostile environment, best team in the NFL, probably the most
Speaker 7: talented roster in the NFL. Yeah, I mean, and he's
Speaker 7: played well against the Eagles in the past. It's not
Speaker 7: like he's going to go into that stadium and be
Speaker 7: nervous like, oh, I don't know what we're getting ourselves into.
Speaker 7: He knows, but he's gonna have to.
Speaker 4: He has to play great, yeah, against this defense that
Speaker 4: Isaiah just explain.
Speaker 7: And also, I really feel like they have to get
Speaker 7: out to a lead early if they're going to win
Speaker 7: this game. I don't think they can fall behind and
Speaker 7: then play catch up. I just I don't think that
Speaker 7: will happen.
Speaker 4: They're ze to two having to play catch up. They
Speaker 4: haven't had to come from behind wins, not the offenses yet, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think they've trailed in a game that they've won. Think.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm thinking, I mean, other than maybe like
Speaker 3: a one s.
Speaker 5: Early.
Speaker 3: Yeah, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, other than that, like a first drive deal, that
Speaker 4: might be the only time they trailed in a win.
Speaker 1: Other factor with me too, is that this will be
Speaker 1: the toughest road environment.
Speaker 6: They playing, Yes with Buffalo all season. Okay, well yeah,
Speaker 6: factor in the rivalry for sure.
Speaker 4: For alredy J on the text line said, good job
Speaker 4: Isaiah explaining the Eagles defense against the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 3: Well done, Appreciate the insight.
Speaker 1: It is always good stuff.
Speaker 7: I'm not just saying that because I'm on the show
Speaker 7: with you, Like it is very very good stuff. Like
Speaker 7: and to be honest with you, I don't think that
Speaker 7: there's enough of that in the league altogether, especially nationally.
Speaker 7: A lot of stuff you get a lot of hot
Speaker 7: take like headline stuff, you don't get allowed that behind
Speaker 7: the scenes. Hey, this is why this team's doing, this
Speaker 7: is why this is working.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it is always great stuff.
Speaker 5: Sure, very nice.
Speaker 3: I just agree we need some kind of debate on
Speaker 3: this show. No debate.
Speaker 4: It's a big time matchup this week Cowboys Philadelphia coming
Speaker 4: up at three PO twenty five on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Also, no debate.
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Speaker 4: You're excited, that's my excited.
Speaker 9: I'm a still drunk on champagne.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just wait until tomorrow. Out of the parade, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be drunk on a lot more things.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go, Chris being in the back,
Speaker 4: Isaiah stand back, John Matchoda, Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeomen
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