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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number seventy six. Welcome
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Speaker 1: minutes to get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Giants.
Speaker 1: We are as we normally on a Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 1: We usually spit split up offense and defense. Today we're
Speaker 1: gonna do the whole thing. So we'll get a scouting
Speaker 1: report here on both sides of the ball for the
Speaker 1: Giants matchup against the Cowboys. Maybe some things that are
Speaker 1: a little different than when we saw this team the
Speaker 1: last time. Let's start first, though, Jerry had a few
Speaker 1: comments this morning. I wanted to get some opinions on.
Speaker 1: He did say that Micah and Mike McCarthy followed it
Speaker 1: up as well, saying that Micah Parsons seems to be fine.
Speaker 1: They expect him to play this week. What are we
Speaker 1: here as far as other injuries of Note and DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence and this whole rash of guys will seem to
Speaker 1: be sick ill with I would assume flu or flu
Speaker 1: like I think that's their biggest problem. I don't think
Speaker 1: there anything else is really pressing them hard right now
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, it's a short week. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. McCarthy talked about that that's the thing you
Speaker 1: have to manage, is the injuries. The Giants are kind
Speaker 1: of in the same boat with their offensive line when
Speaker 1: we get to that. But this this stuff with the
Speaker 1: flu or whatever's going around in the building right now,
Speaker 1: is that that's the thing I think you have to
Speaker 1: worry about. You know, guys playing through it. Obviously last
Speaker 1: you know week against Minnesota they had guys that were
Speaker 1: playing through. Because then you turn around and looked at
Speaker 1: the injury report the next day and guys like Fowler
Speaker 1: and others were on that thing, so obviously they were
Speaker 1: playing that game sick, and so yeah, it's just to manage.
Speaker 1: It's about managing to keep the guys away who are sick,
Speaker 1: and then you know, go with the guys that you
Speaker 1: have right now and do the best you can. Well
Speaker 1: after the game, because Kelvin Joseph he left the game.
Speaker 1: He never returned, did he No, he left, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. Yeah, he got out of the game and
Speaker 1: they announced he was an illness. And I remember with
Speaker 1: the media after the game, while we waited for Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy to show up and do the press conference, we're
Speaker 1: kind of just talking about it. Oh man, what's up
Speaker 1: with Kelvin Josel. You need to put him in the
Speaker 1: back of the plane and put a mask on, keep
Speaker 1: him away, you know. And then we get backing out
Speaker 1: we see the injury report that it's like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm sorry, I don't mean to see
Speaker 1: what I mean. Shoot, yeah, no, it's just my accent,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not really what I said is just
Speaker 1: the accent. But um, yeah, that's that's concerning. But because
Speaker 1: to think back that he didn't even return. It makes
Speaker 1: you think, Okay, well, how how serious is this? Is
Speaker 1: this something that they can because sometimes we've seen it.
Speaker 1: They just shoot something up. We gave them some type
Speaker 1: of or whatever, and then they just get back out there.
Speaker 1: But definitely something to keep an eye on. I saw that.
Speaker 1: I guess Mike McCarthy said, some guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: wearing masks around the building. I assume guys that are
Speaker 1: healthy are They're probably like, hey, let's just try to
Speaker 1: see if we can be a little safer if you're
Speaker 1: going to be in rooms with other guys that may
Speaker 1: have been sick, or if you just don't know if
Speaker 1: they're sick, and maybe it's the beginning of it. The
Speaker 1: one thing that we learned through the pandemic is you
Speaker 1: could play football when there's problems with illness. You know,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean that in a way of I
Speaker 1: mean that that you can have meetings, you can tap
Speaker 1: guys in, you can and you know, it's not that
Speaker 1: you're putting guys out there that had COVID, but you're
Speaker 1: you've learned to adapt and have meetings and have players
Speaker 1: be included in some of the most important things. The
Speaker 1: meeting time because they're really not practicing. This is just
Speaker 1: like walk through stuff. It's hey, this is going to
Speaker 1: be the game plan this week. Maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: of a scale down offense. You know, it's a common opponent.
Speaker 1: You you know, it's a lot different team looking than
Speaker 1: what you saw early in the year. I think they've
Speaker 1: approved along the way, so you know, but it's the
Speaker 1: case for both teams right now. It really really is
Speaker 1: that you just you're trying to get enough meeting time,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the practice time, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to formulate a game plan that gives you the best
Speaker 1: chance to have some success to win the game. So
Speaker 1: this is not easy, especially now. But like I say,
Speaker 1: COVID in the way that that kind of taught us
Speaker 1: with the zooms and things like that, you can kind
Speaker 1: of get people still involved with if they don't aren't
Speaker 1: physically here. You can literally have guys who might be
Speaker 1: at home right now not feeling well still be able
Speaker 1: to tend to meet exa that matters exactly. Another thing
Speaker 1: that Jerry saith I thought was interesting, We've had this
Speaker 1: debate throughout the year about what happens when Tyron Smith returns.
Speaker 1: He says this morning, Tyler Smith will move to guard.
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith will be at tackle whenever he's available. Guys
Speaker 1: think that's the right decision. Yep, absolutely, especially if it's easily.
Speaker 1: You know, he said easily, he will will move to
Speaker 1: left guard. The question and then then just becomes is
Speaker 1: is he better than McGovern Yeah? Yeah, So if he's not,
Speaker 1: then put McGovern in. I mean that's and if and
Speaker 1: if Tyler Smith, If Tyron Smith is not better than
Speaker 1: what you've had from Tyler Tyler Smith, then I mean
Speaker 1: change I go back. I think so. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's done it. I mean, this guy's been doing
Speaker 1: it since Tyler Smith was in sixth grade. So I
Speaker 1: mean if he can't do it anymore, he can't do it.
Speaker 1: But I mean he's out there working and busting his
Speaker 1: butt to get back and get into this shape when
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought there's no way this was
Speaker 1: going to happen, and always he's gonna play again. So
Speaker 1: if he comes back, he plays, Yeah, he deserves that.
Speaker 1: He I think he will be better than I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith has been a good rookie. I don't think
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith has been great. I think Tyler Smith has
Speaker 1: been really really good for a rookie out of Tulsa
Speaker 1: who was a projection and a guy that didn't play
Speaker 1: at left tackle. That's what's been amazing. But if you
Speaker 1: just look at it and forget all the other stuff,
Speaker 1: I think he's been he's been good. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's been great. Let's see if Tyler I let's see
Speaker 1: if Tyrn Smith can be great. I don't agree with
Speaker 1: any of them, I mean with some of that, just
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's such an easy, an easy
Speaker 1: quick decision to say, okay, you plug Tyren Smith right
Speaker 1: back in. Yes, he's like a beast and we know
Speaker 1: what he can do. But if he go back to
Speaker 1: even before he got injured, the way he was playing,
Speaker 1: it wasn't his old self. You could still see him
Speaker 1: make some mistakes that are very unlike him. And if
Speaker 1: you're looking at the future and what's going to happen here,
Speaker 1: I would assume this is for him, like this is
Speaker 1: maybe his last year here. That's me just assuming. So
Speaker 1: why mess something up that that's kind of working for
Speaker 1: you right now? And I feel that the old line
Speaker 1: just week after week, even Tyler Smith and Connor McGovern,
Speaker 1: they keep getting better and it's just it's clicking even
Speaker 1: more every time. So to think that you take that
Speaker 1: out and put and that's difficult because you know, but
Speaker 1: the thing is that you don't know what level he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back, and we've seen him done it before
Speaker 1: where he's not even playing, practicing or anything, and he
Speaker 1: still plays amazing. But I just right now, this is
Speaker 1: the one year that I don't think it's just a
Speaker 1: quick simple decision to say, yes, put him back in
Speaker 1: and sit Tyler Smith'll move Tyler Smith and take Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern out because McGovern he's impressed me. I didn't expect
Speaker 1: him to be doing as well as he's doing, and
Speaker 1: he's doing such a good job, So I don't think
Speaker 1: I would like to kind of mess that chemistry. That's
Speaker 1: right now, the question might be did did Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: beat out Tyler Smith at left guard? That's the question
Speaker 1: you got to kind of ask yourself right now, because
Speaker 1: the way it looked like up until it looked like that,
Speaker 1: it was kind of a neck and neck situation. But
Speaker 1: you know, it also appeared that until Tyron Smith got hurt,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be Connor McGovern's job. So I me personally,
Speaker 1: I'm putting I'm putting Tyron Smith at left tackle, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put Tyler Smith at guard. He's a young guy,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. He worked there the whole training camp.
Speaker 1: You know, whether you liked him or not playing the
Speaker 1: training camp, you know, that's a whole another story. I
Speaker 1: just feel like though that this team if to you know,
Speaker 1: you say, I don't want to move. I don't want
Speaker 1: to adjust. They've adjusted all year. They brought in Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: He's played, They've moved guys around. You know, in this
Speaker 1: last game Matt Farniac against the Giants, he was the
Speaker 1: starter at left guard. I mean they've used a lot
Speaker 1: of different combinations. There's teams. I ask Stephen Jones this question.
Speaker 1: I want to fight through the fan. I said, you know,
Speaker 1: do you just look for continuity and you just want
Speaker 1: to play the bit you know, the five guys you
Speaker 1: got And he's like, you can't say that anymore because guys,
Speaker 1: you know, you might want that. But he goes, we're
Speaker 1: in an era now where guys are having to plug
Speaker 1: in and play and stuff like that. And they've proven
Speaker 1: to me that every move that they've made with the
Speaker 1: offensive line has worked, you know, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: trust them that putting Tyrann Smith back in there's going
Speaker 1: to make this offensive line better. And Tyler Smith playing
Speaker 1: left guard is going to make that left side even better.
Speaker 1: So that's that's how I'm looking at it myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I would prefer the continuity and a set,
Speaker 1: specially in a situation where now we're talking about moving
Speaker 1: two positions that you don't necessarily have to. Here's the
Speaker 1: one caveat to that. If you think that having Tyran
Speaker 1: Smith and Tyler Smith by each other on the left
Speaker 1: side makes you stronger in the run game, then maybe
Speaker 1: it's worth it. Even if you're passing game section stays
Speaker 1: about the same. If you are a more stout, power
Speaker 1: running team on the left side because of this move,
Speaker 1: that's worth it. And there's another element to that too,
Speaker 1: because you get all three of them, because right, nobody
Speaker 1: can do what McGovern does a fullback. Yeah, like McGovern does.
Speaker 1: Farniak he's hurt now, but he doesn't do it the same.
Speaker 1: It's not the same. He does a good job with that.
Speaker 1: And so and I think you know, to what you said,
Speaker 1: I think you're still kind of grading on a curve
Speaker 1: on that Tyrn wasn't what he was and I get that,
Speaker 1: but he had a lot of grow, a lot of
Speaker 1: room to grow, and I mean a lot of room
Speaker 1: to go down and still be excellent. So yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not what he is, you know, what he has been,
Speaker 1: But I still think he will be better than Tyler Smith.
Speaker 1: And if he's not, then they've already shown that they'll
Speaker 1: they'll sit a Hall of Famer for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jason Peters hasn't done anything. Yeah, if Peters was better,
Speaker 1: he'd play, and he hasn't proven to be better. And
Speaker 1: if Tyron Smith isn't better than same thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tyler Rens might be a yo yo there like left guard,
Speaker 1: left tackle or whatever. But I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: Tyler Tyron Smith. I think he's going to be healthy
Speaker 1: with the neck and the back and shoulder hill but
Speaker 1: all that stuff, I think it'll be healthy and we'll see,
Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. It could be good. It
Speaker 1: could be a situation too where you know, Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: has played in games and got hurt too, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean he's you know, that's and I hate to
Speaker 1: say that, but it's reality. It's why you drafted Tyler Smith.
Speaker 1: And they never told you he was a left tackle
Speaker 1: or a left guard. They said he's a left side player.
Speaker 1: They really didn't know, and they did everything they said.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody's saying, well, this is the future replacement
Speaker 1: for Tyron Smith, and you say future replacement for Tyron
Speaker 1: Smith because he gets hurt every year. You know, that's
Speaker 1: the thing. He got hurt again, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's missed the majority of the season and you know,
Speaker 1: to me, I like, if this is the last one,
Speaker 1: let's go one more time. Let's just go this month
Speaker 1: of December into the playoffs, see what happens, and then
Speaker 1: make your decision from there. But you know, his reliability
Speaker 1: is the reason why you got Tyler Smith here, because
Speaker 1: there's no reliability there. And you know, I'm sitting there saying,
Speaker 1: say play and play and playing. But I'm also in
Speaker 1: the back of my mind thinking, Okay, well he's gonna
Speaker 1: be blocking and he's gonna somebody's gonna roll into the
Speaker 1: back of his ankle, and you know, and then he'll
Speaker 1: be gone for the rest of the season. Kind of
Speaker 1: a thing. And you need to find I think when
Speaker 1: that happens to find the perfect game, Like, look what
Speaker 1: opponent you're playing and see, okay, this is a game
Speaker 1: where we can definitely just to see how Houston, Houston's
Speaker 1: the game, Houston's game. And I'm just gonna give you
Speaker 1: a timeline just talking to folks in the organization. They're
Speaker 1: gonna start the clock after the Indianapolis Colts game. That's
Speaker 1: when it's gonna start. So you're gonna have this game,
Speaker 1: that little mini bye, you know, the little weekend by,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna play You're gonna play the Colts
Speaker 1: and then I think that's I think after that, that's
Speaker 1: when you're gonna start the clock on Tyrant Smith. I
Speaker 1: think that's what they're they're looking at right now, to
Speaker 1: get him back on the field where he's ready for
Speaker 1: that potential, ready for that Texans game. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: here's here's how I look at at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, this guy, because of everything he's done for
Speaker 1: this organization, how good he's been throughout his career. If
Speaker 1: you can tell him, hey, man, give me the best
Speaker 1: six games you got in yeah, right, and you get
Speaker 1: him in seven, whatever the number is, that can get
Speaker 1: you as long as you're gonna be in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and if he can get you that, like, if you
Speaker 1: can just get his body to get through that, you
Speaker 1: might be able to get something really good out of
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith, especially if he may even be thinking I'm
Speaker 1: not talking from any level of knowledge here, but if
Speaker 1: if he's even thinking, you know, maybe after this year,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ready to step away. He might be
Speaker 1: in that mode where it's like, oh, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: put it all in the line. I'll give you seven
Speaker 1: games the best I can give you, and that might
Speaker 1: be enough to give you some really really great play
Speaker 1: at left tackle. Because that's what he's been. You said,
Speaker 1: you said okay, you just said great, okay, because you
Speaker 1: said good twice in that and he he hasn't been
Speaker 1: good since he was a fresh at USC, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. And he's been excellent. Right, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm right. And that's that's why I think that when
Speaker 1: when he ever gave up a pressure, it would be like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Okay? You sick? You know? So? Um
Speaker 1: And he's done that more and so. But I think
Speaker 1: he deserves the right to see if he's still if
Speaker 1: he still has it. But you know, Tyler, and Tyler
Speaker 1: has been good and he keeps getting better. I think
Speaker 1: the penalties are going down with him. I mean they
Speaker 1: were there early, but I mean they're kind of going
Speaker 1: down here in the last few few games. The thing
Speaker 1: about the thing you have to understand about Tyrant Smith
Speaker 1: is that he was at one time the best player
Speaker 1: on the team, and then Martin came along, and then
Speaker 1: now others have come along and he's no longer the
Speaker 1: best player. But there's a lot of teams out there
Speaker 1: that love to have him at left tackle right now,
Speaker 1: and this team you're about to play would love to
Speaker 1: have him at offensive tackle. It just but you know,
Speaker 1: that's the thing. I mean, if you can get the
Speaker 1: best six, seven, eight, how many games this seeing goes
Speaker 1: on through, go for it. And if he and if
Speaker 1: it works out, great, If it doesn't, Now everybody knows,
Speaker 1: he knows, the front office knows, you know. And I've
Speaker 1: had people tell me that, well, you could trade him,
Speaker 1: you could do this, you could do that, and he goes.
Speaker 1: Guy told me, he says, listen, you try and trade
Speaker 1: this guy. He's gonna retire. He didn't want it. He's
Speaker 1: not interested in going on and doing something else. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got he's gonna play and then when it's over,
Speaker 1: it's over. Over. Here's what's not gonna happen. And this
Speaker 1: is the luxury the Cowboys have. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: an eight and one Vikings team that lost their left
Speaker 1: tackle in the middle of the game and then it
Speaker 1: was over. Michael Parsons was dealing with a knee injury
Speaker 1: and he still was going to come back because he
Speaker 1: had to rush. There's like a turnstyle there at left
Speaker 1: tackle that won't happen here. If Tyre Tyren Smith gets
Speaker 1: her backup is Peters or the backup is Tyler's, they
Speaker 1: have they have way more depth in which they're gonna
Speaker 1: need and that's the best part of the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: talk on the Giants versus the Cowboys. We'll do that
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Speaker 1: here we go, let's talk Cowboys versus Giants. What do
Speaker 1: you want to know this last they've lost two of
Speaker 1: the last three, um, and they're starting to suck like
Speaker 1: I thought they were. Well seriously, because they're really not
Speaker 1: that good. The Giants are not that good. They're not
Speaker 1: as good as their records, good as their record, their records,
Speaker 1: their record. You know, they figured we'll see until it's not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's fine. But then but then they will then
Speaker 1: they will prove that they're not good. Right now, the
Speaker 1: record says that they're good. If you're winning game, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how yeah, you're still okay. That's That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Anybody in any marathon could start branding and getting out
Speaker 1: there and going, man, he's in first until they just
Speaker 1: don't have it anymore, and then they're not in first anymore.
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Speaker 1: in first place. You never run a race with the
Speaker 1: Kenyan head, No, No, I have five of them and
Speaker 1: they start fast and they finished that Kenyan finished like
Speaker 1: fourteen miles ahead of me. That's the Chiefs, all right,
Speaker 1: that's there. I'm there. I'm waiting for them to slow down.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like I am hitting the halfway point and
Speaker 1: they're heading home and they they've stopped. I mean they've
Speaker 1: they've stopped. Literally we start six minutes apart and they
Speaker 1: finished fourteen miles ahead of me. That's that's what they
Speaker 1: That's what's no. But I'm you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I mean they this isn't you are not fun. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're that good. And I watched them play
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and I saw them leading the Cowboys thirteen
Speaker 1: to six, and I'm like, how is this not twenty
Speaker 1: one to three? They are way better than the Giants,
Speaker 1: even with Cooper Rush and and then the offensive line
Speaker 1: was banged up. They're better than them, and they eventually
Speaker 1: showed that they were. And I think the Aliants are
Speaker 1: kind of showing what they are right now too. But hey,
Speaker 1: it's not like it's gonna be a tough game. You
Speaker 1: lose the Lions at home, you should be embarrassed, and
Speaker 1: they probably are, and they're gonna come to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: worre week exactly. Yeah, maybe at Green Bay, So that's
Speaker 1: going for him, I guess, you know, in London, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I mean that's what I'm saying. It's the that's
Speaker 1: the thing about this league. It's so hard from week
Speaker 1: to week. I mean, I went back and watched some
Speaker 1: of the things from the Giants Cowboys game when they played,
Speaker 1: and honestly felt like the Giants had a pretty damn
Speaker 1: good plan, you know, with how they played in that game,
Speaker 1: and you know, and they they they're not going to
Speaker 1: have some of the guys that were playing in that game,
Speaker 1: especially like a Dory Jackson and stuff playing core because
Speaker 1: he's knocking down balls and stuff like that, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's but they also didn't have a Litard
Speaker 1: Williams playing in that game, you know, and Thibodeau played
Speaker 1: in the game. Yeah, but let's saying that they you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about how, you know, playing run defense,
Speaker 1: and the Giants at the time were really good. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a small sample sized Week three kind of thing,
Speaker 1: but the Giants were playing like really good run defense
Speaker 1: and you know, Leonard Williams gets out of the game
Speaker 1: and now the Cowboys have some success running the ball,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, the problem that the Giants are
Speaker 1: struggling to have right now is their offensive line because
Speaker 1: they're not healthy. Evan Neil's not healthy. The backup Tyree
Speaker 1: Phillips is not healthy either, and so they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do some shuff went around here on a
Speaker 1: short week and kind of figure some things out. The
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna make him ad watching this game this
Speaker 1: week is damn Daniel Jones running around right. That's the
Speaker 1: and and there were times where there were times. Hell,
Speaker 1: they throw a screen pass. It's like third and nineteen
Speaker 1: and they throw a screen pass that gains eighteen yards.
Speaker 1: You know, it's that crap that they they That's how
Speaker 1: they're winning games, are staying in games, is that Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is not doing anything to kill them in these games.
Speaker 1: It used to be pocket hit in fumball. You know.
Speaker 1: Now they've kind of played a little bit to his strengths,
Speaker 1: the RPO stuff, the him just him just power running
Speaker 1: the football. They get on the goal line into game
Speaker 1: last week against the Lions and they just start pulling
Speaker 1: everybody and and the you know, Barklay and all those
Speaker 1: guys are just running downhill and here's Daniel Jones with
Speaker 1: the ball running around the end. Nobody touches him. You know.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that that you worry about
Speaker 1: in this game, the running quarterback because his ability to
Speaker 1: maybe convert a third down, where in times in the
Speaker 1: past he would throw an incomplete pass or something, hey
Speaker 1: get tipped at the line, or he would be really bad.
Speaker 1: But he's not doing things to screw the game up anymore.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. You know. When you watch the Giants play,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, okay, well he's he's actually pretty decent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to that point, all three games that they've lost this season,
Speaker 1: they lost the turnover battle. There was only one game
Speaker 1: where they lost the turnover battle only end up winning.
Speaker 1: That was the first game of the season, so Tennessee, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very quickly too, very clear. When he takes care
Speaker 1: of the ball, they have a great chance of being successful.
Speaker 1: When he doesn't, they don't. Let's talk about it. You
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the offensive line. They also
Speaker 1: lost Swandale Robinson, one of the wide receivers. He's i
Speaker 1: think third on their team in receiving yards. Talking about
Speaker 1: what that means for their offense. They don't really get
Speaker 1: much out of their passing game. But what do they
Speaker 1: mean for their offense? They don't And you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna now you the thing that they've they've struggled with
Speaker 1: a little bit is really getting Kenny Galladay going. And
Speaker 1: he and he's a lot of self inflicted stuff too.
Speaker 1: He's a catch, run, fumble guy. You know. That's that's
Speaker 1: where you get turnovers from him. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 1: had his moments where he hasn't been very good, you know,
Speaker 1: losing Robinson. That's that. That's the quick that's the quick
Speaker 1: part of their game. That's the ball underneath and you know,
Speaker 1: run after catch, the quick screen, the RPO where they're
Speaker 1: they fake it and now they're running the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: running the ball to the edge and then he's standing
Speaker 1: there and they throw it to him. You know they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna struggle with that. Earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: it was Richie James who was kind of the guy
Speaker 1: that was making all those plays, and then Robertson was
Speaker 1: the guy that kind of took that over. I have
Speaker 1: a feeling you're gonna go back to see them start
Speaker 1: aren't to do more stuff with Richie James. This. David
Speaker 1: still Sills is another guy that that can make plays,
Speaker 1: but he's not as shifty or quick as Richie James is.
Speaker 1: And I think that's who's going to take over Darius Slayton.
Speaker 1: He can make some pretty damn good catches for you,
Speaker 1: He really really can. I mean, he's a very ease of,
Speaker 1: kind of a steady, you know, guy that wins on
Speaker 1: the outside a little bit. But you know, he's not
Speaker 1: going to do anything to just totally scare you with
Speaker 1: any kind of you know, big, huge plays. It's a
Speaker 1: lot of underneath stuff. It's a lot of stuff along
Speaker 1: the sidelines. I think he's a pretty tough guy when
Speaker 1: you watch him play. So you know, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a receiving chord that Dallas secondary should feel comfortable with.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, there's that that whole deal with
Speaker 1: the quarterback running around and scrambling and throwing the ball
Speaker 1: on the on the run. That's that could be a problem.
Speaker 1: Where about twenty four hours from making a pick here
Speaker 1: because it is Tuesday, but it's still early. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean it's this week's coming quick. Uh My pick
Speaker 1: for the game. I haven't figured it out, but I
Speaker 1: think I just went up about ten points for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just by listening to Brian talk about the offense.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not trying to to to overlook them.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are way better. And so even
Speaker 1: though you haven't mentioned Barkley yet, I know he's He's
Speaker 1: a big part of it. I just I don't know how.
Speaker 1: I mean, what is whose dig's gonna cover like Galla Day.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I don't think you travel anybody in
Speaker 1: the well. If you, to me, the guy that I
Speaker 1: would worry about would be would be Slaton. That would
Speaker 1: be the guy that on third down if you want
Speaker 1: to just say, okay, we're gonna go walk with him
Speaker 1: on third down and not you know, he's the guy
Speaker 1: to me that that can make plays like I say,
Speaker 1: on the outside, intermediate and places like that. Would you
Speaker 1: think this would be a game and I know that
Speaker 1: he's not. This isn't Lamar Jackson, Daniel Jones, But because
Speaker 1: of the receivers are not gonna probably hurt the Cowboys
Speaker 1: that much. Would you even spy Barkley or spy Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones I would make I don't know about the spy
Speaker 1: aspect of it. I think pressure, pressure is going to
Speaker 1: be more important on on Daniel Jones than spying him.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I do think that the Giants are
Speaker 1: going to be committed to trying to run the football,
Speaker 1: especially if their offensive line is all banged up the
Speaker 1: way it is, and they and they don't have all
Speaker 1: the starters. Because you watched in that game, the games
Speaker 1: that they played, and I watched you know, four of them,
Speaker 1: and every time that that there was pressure, Jones was
Speaker 1: able to escape it. He'll throw it away. The thing
Speaker 1: about it, it's not the spying aspect that causes him
Speaker 1: the problem or somebody being right there. It's the just
Speaker 1: getting somebody to him. You know. They they really and
Speaker 1: you know, Tank had a great game against these guys
Speaker 1: because he figured out how to play Evan Neil. Evan
Speaker 1: Neil the rookie, you know, and we'll see if Evan
Speaker 1: Neil plays this week. But I Tank figured him out
Speaker 1: and it made it made Daniel Jones a little skittish
Speaker 1: in the pocket. So I kind of feel like, more
Speaker 1: than buying, it's the pressure. And how can you want
Speaker 1: to watch the Vikings game if you're the Giants and
Speaker 1: go well, damn. I mean, you know, we backup linemen
Speaker 1: are getting just destroyed by twist stunts and things like that.
Speaker 1: That's why I feel like that this is going to
Speaker 1: be a se Quon Barkley Matt Breed. Matt Breed of
Speaker 1: the number thirty one, he's like their jet sweep guy.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, they ran a jet sweep against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for a first down, uh you know in
Speaker 1: week three on that as well, So you know they're
Speaker 1: gonna I think they're gonna try and run the ball
Speaker 1: because if they know, if they dropped back a lot
Speaker 1: in this game, they're gonna meet the same faith that
Speaker 1: the Vikings did last week. Yeah, gham, no, okay, Actually
Speaker 1: I was thinking trying to look up um kind of
Speaker 1: the data, no data, the rerecord of like Cowboys versus Giants,
Speaker 1: and because in general, I feel like the Cowboys always
Speaker 1: beat them for the most part, or at least in
Speaker 1: recent years. From what I can Dack's done very well
Speaker 1: against yeahs, Dack's done a great job a plane that
Speaker 1: just the NFC East in general, he hasn't lost since
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Yeah, he lost. They lost twice to
Speaker 1: the Giants. Rookie year. The three losses they had, two
Speaker 1: of them were to the Giants, but but he hasn't
Speaker 1: lost to the Giants since then, and they they've only
Speaker 1: lost once as a team, and that was twenty twenty
Speaker 1: into the season. Andy Dalton was playing after the game,
Speaker 1: where was it a player that you were talking about? You?
Speaker 1: I know, you were telling a story of like, oh,
Speaker 1: you told somebody that the Giants lost, and they're like,
Speaker 1: Zach Martins. Yeah, I walked out, was Zack Martin, and uh,
Speaker 1: we we were. He was just talking about how it's
Speaker 1: not a twenty four hour rule anymore after a game
Speaker 1: like this is twenty four minutes, Like cool, get on
Speaker 1: the plane. But there's all Giants, Giants, giants, and he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even know did they win. I
Speaker 1: was like, they played. They lost to the Lions, and
Speaker 1: he was like he was kind of surprised, and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, in Detroit, you know, that's tough place
Speaker 1: to play, as I knows New York and he was
Speaker 1: like oh, and he even said, well they're gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they'll be they'll be ready to go. They'll be ready.
Speaker 1: And that's and then as I walked out I saw
Speaker 1: this huge board for the Vikings next game against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking, you know, the Patriots are going
Speaker 1: to be in for something, because I guarantee this Viking
Speaker 1: team's not gonna play like that angry. Yeah. Now, you know,
Speaker 1: Belichick's a decent coach, so I mean he might if
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. But I mean, but yeah, you
Speaker 1: do wonder about mindset sometimes because sometimes it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be ready. And that's why I credit the
Speaker 1: Cowboys for that. They they were embarrassed by the way
Speaker 1: they finished that game against Green Bay and they did
Speaker 1: something about it. Some teams we've seen games were a
Speaker 1: game like that tanks your team for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, and so it's all about how you respond.
Speaker 1: And we say it all the time. Games are won
Speaker 1: in loss on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of the week, like
Speaker 1: what you do in preparation. That's what happened. Everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: play hard on Sunday, usually at number thirty this Thursday,
Speaker 1: because I mean, yeah, look at the division. You're playing
Speaker 1: a huge game this Thursday. So both teams and I'm
Speaker 1: keeping my eye on it because the thing is when
Speaker 1: you when you talk about the illness that's going around,
Speaker 1: whatever that is, it's all on defense basically as of
Speaker 1: right now. So that's something to definitely. I mean, who
Speaker 1: who else is gonna get sick in a couple of days,
Speaker 1: You don't know. And then another big question. And I
Speaker 1: know Micah went back into the game, but I saw
Speaker 1: the player. I know some people saw it on TV
Speaker 1: as well. That looks like you hurt. So I don't
Speaker 1: even know how he got back game. Maybe the adrenaline,
Speaker 1: the competitor in him, No, the fact that he wants
Speaker 1: to get fifteen sixteen sacks this year. Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: get beat up. They get beat up playing the run.
Speaker 1: You do you get beat up playing the run, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know a team you've made
Speaker 1: him now just completely one dimensional and running the football
Speaker 1: and you know, are passing the football that plays right
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys strength. There would be guys you would
Speaker 1: have to again, you would have to take guys helmets
Speaker 1: away when you get to that point where they know
Speaker 1: that somebody's compromised on offense and the line and the
Speaker 1: receivers aren't getting open and the quarter back is scared
Speaker 1: to death. You know, you those defenders are like it's
Speaker 1: like sharks the blood. You know, they sense that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, ah, we got one here, and uh and yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike is that way. He's like, I don't Hey, I've
Speaker 1: been getting chopped, cut, double teamed last three weeks. Wait,
Speaker 1: you're gonna let me rush the passer full time? Wait,
Speaker 1: give me my helmet. I'm going back out there because
Speaker 1: he probably got pissed off last night when yeah, Botha
Speaker 1: got ten and a half sacks, you know, and Matt
Speaker 1: Judon or to say his name for Judon from the
Speaker 1: Patriot's good too. He's about to go up against number
Speaker 1: sixty four for the Vikings this week too, so but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's who he's competing against. He wants
Speaker 1: to lead the league in sacks and so and definitely
Speaker 1: lead the team, but wants to lead the league. And
Speaker 1: and I think that that is a fine line of
Speaker 1: I want this guy to play, play and be a warrior.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you gotta be smart. Someone's
Speaker 1: gotten someone above him's got to take his helmet and say, man, no,
Speaker 1: we you you play in four days and we're winning
Speaker 1: by thirty four points or whatever the score was at
Speaker 1: the time. You have to sit. Sorry, I know you
Speaker 1: don't like it jet to sit. Let's say he's right healthy,
Speaker 1: ready to go place this Thursday. Given everything that you
Speaker 1: talked about the old line from the Giants and their struggle,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you guys pick two just let him
Speaker 1: go out of rush rush, rush, or do you move
Speaker 1: him to linebacker play when we're there. I've seen enough
Speaker 1: of him at linebacker. That doesn't mean that I don't
Speaker 1: want to like I think that we saw this week.
Speaker 1: He actually lined up at linebacker, but he was rushing
Speaker 1: from the middle of the field. Ye, So to me,
Speaker 1: he is a pass rusher. That's where I want to
Speaker 1: see him. So you figure out where you want to
Speaker 1: put him, but he should be going after quarterback Clark
Speaker 1: vander Esh you're responsible for the run game I'm putting
Speaker 1: I'm putting Parsons down on the edge. I'll put him
Speaker 1: on the edge next to up whoever you feel like
Speaker 1: doesn't have the best opportunity, because if they're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball at Armstrong and whoever else is playing right
Speaker 1: defensive end, I'm thinking about putting Michael Parsons over there too,
Speaker 1: Like you want to run at our weakness, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put our best player over there, and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: you have to block him in this game, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to run at Tank. And I thought in
Speaker 1: the press conference McCarthy talked about him, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna make Pro Bowl because he doesn't
Speaker 1: have the number of sacks this year, because that's that's
Speaker 1: what you got to have if you're playing defensive and
Speaker 1: all that. But um, he's had an excellent year and
Speaker 1: that's what McCarthy talked about too, because he's he's a
Speaker 1: run stopper that's getting after the quarterback. Yeah, team where
Speaker 1: you need run stoppers. Yea. His sack that he had
Speaker 1: where he beat the tackle the outside and then tried
Speaker 1: to come over and take him and he went inside.
Speaker 1: It was like the bag drill that we see at
Speaker 1: training camp, but they're weaving in and out of bags
Speaker 1: and then they're slapping. You know. That's what it looked
Speaker 1: like to me. And that's that's what Tank does. He's
Speaker 1: got that feel for not letting people hook him in
Speaker 1: the running game or angle block him or anything like that.
Speaker 1: There's like four or five teams in the league that
Speaker 1: don't have Actually I think more than that, maybe seven
Speaker 1: or eight. I didn't see the other AFC. There's like
Speaker 1: seven or eight teams that don't have a guy with
Speaker 1: five sacks this year, and and and Dante Fowler has
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, and he ranks fourth on the team
Speaker 1: behind Tank Seat. I mean, that's the problem. Teams that
Speaker 1: don't even have five sacks and then you're fourth on
Speaker 1: this that's the problem with the Giants. That's the problem
Speaker 1: with the Giants right now. They're Dexter Lawrence is their
Speaker 1: best sack guy, and that's their defensive tackle because Tibodeau
Speaker 1: only has one. And Thibodeau Thibodeau is I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be an outstanding player one day. He has
Speaker 1: no feel for how to rush the passer. Right now,
Speaker 1: they've got him kind of tied up as far as now.
Speaker 1: We'll see rookie on rookie this week. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: see how that all plays out. But to me, I man,
Speaker 1: the pass rush, that's where the Cowboys have got to
Speaker 1: feast a little bit in this game. There's not that
Speaker 1: guy that you would say, Okay, well, yeah, Tibodeau could
Speaker 1: be a good player, but man, I worry more about
Speaker 1: the inside guys. I worry about Dexter Lawrence. I worry
Speaker 1: about Leonard Williams. Those are the guys I think you
Speaker 1: have to worry about in this football game. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our final break. Will come back, talk
Speaker 1: about This defense is run defense, and this week they'll
Speaker 1: have a challenge. We'll see if you guys think they
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Speaker 1: at the Star. Let's talk real quick about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: run defense the Giants. They've been running the ball really well,
Speaker 1: but in the two of the last three games that
Speaker 1: they've lost, they were held in the rushing game to
Speaker 1: under one hundred yards seventy eight against Seattle eighty nine
Speaker 1: against Detroit. Do you think Dallas is ready to stop
Speaker 1: the run because I think last week you can say
Speaker 1: they did, But if you look at the raw numbers
Speaker 1: of how much they were getting per carry, Minnesota was
Speaker 1: doing pretty good on the ground. What do you think
Speaker 1: happens here? This team will be to running. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna let Daniel Jones, and especially with a beat
Speaker 1: up offensive line, They're just not gonna do it. I
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna We've kind of figured out in the
Speaker 1: league that you could be a kind of a mediocre
Speaker 1: offensive line and still have offense if you run the ball,
Speaker 1: because guys are much better run blockers than they are
Speaker 1: pass blockers. You saw what happened in Minnesota. You know good,
Speaker 1: you know, I think Minnesota has a good offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think they gat really compromised in that game. And
Speaker 1: I just don't know how if you when you watch
Speaker 1: the tape at the Cowboys, I could give you every
Speaker 1: Cowboys game this year on defense, all twenty two, and
Speaker 1: you would come away with saying, why would you ever
Speaker 1: throw the ball against these guys? It looks like when
Speaker 1: you run it, teams have a little bit more success
Speaker 1: to it. And now they might not win the game,
Speaker 1: but it keeps it keeps your quarterback from getting killed.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Giants do. The Giants want to
Speaker 1: keep the game close. They're not interested in, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not interested in trying to build a lead and
Speaker 1: and and you know, and hang on that way they're like, well,
Speaker 1: we could keep it closed because they've won games in
Speaker 1: the fourth Tennessee again where they steal it and the
Speaker 1: Green Bay they've won games in the fourth. They had
Speaker 1: like a like they're like four or five games they've
Speaker 1: won in the last, you know, the last quarter of
Speaker 1: a game. So this team is going to come in
Speaker 1: and say, you know, they're going to try and get
Speaker 1: se Quon Barkley one hundred and eighty five yards rushing
Speaker 1: is what they're going to try and do. Just be
Speaker 1: ready for that. Yep. And when they get when they
Speaker 1: get to second and three from the Cowboys seven yard line,
Speaker 1: they're not going to throw it twice to the tight end.
Speaker 1: And that's what Cousins did. That's what the Vikings did.
Speaker 1: And I thought they were arrogant and stubborn at going
Speaker 1: out and saying we're the best in the league, we
Speaker 1: got the best offense, we do what we do, We're
Speaker 1: not worried about you, and that that was a mistake
Speaker 1: because they should have kept doing that. I don't think
Speaker 1: they would have run it at six point you know,
Speaker 1: six point four yards a clip or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: But they were having some success. But I think sometimes
Speaker 1: and coaches do it all the time. Coaches are arrogant
Speaker 1: and they're stubborn, and they think because they spent all
Speaker 1: week doing this that nobody's going to stop it. And
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys do it. There was a play
Speaker 1: you talked about the other day, Schultz, the interception against
Speaker 1: Green Bay. You said in practice, they did it all weekend.
Speaker 1: It was working well. Marquis Bell is not playing for
Speaker 1: the Packers or juan Ya Thomas the practice squad safety.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes that's what happens when you do ones
Speaker 1: versus the scout team. I get, but it built your conference.
Speaker 1: And also it's not giving you a great look because
Speaker 1: you're playing some corner out there that's not very good.
Speaker 1: It's not as good as you're going to see on
Speaker 1: this game. So and I think the Vikings did that
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do what we do and they got
Speaker 1: shut down. Yeah, I don't think. And it's hard to
Speaker 1: tell how much they actually improve. Going back to your
Speaker 1: point of what the Vikings decided not to do and
Speaker 1: like keep running the ball, but this is a game
Speaker 1: where I see them kind of possibly struggling at times
Speaker 1: with the running game, the running defense. But they'll do
Speaker 1: enough going back to those earlier games, don't do enough
Speaker 1: for you to stay in the game and your offense
Speaker 1: to be able to score points for you, and you
Speaker 1: just end up winning overall. So I just think that
Speaker 1: it's not going to kill them. But they'll have those games,
Speaker 1: those plays where it looks bad and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: here they are again. Yeah, which Cowboy offense is going
Speaker 1: to show up in this game because it could put
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on the Giants. They put a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on Minnesota to have to keep trying
Speaker 1: to score, you know, or they didn't put enough pressure
Speaker 1: on green Bay even though they got up fourteen. Green
Speaker 1: Bay was like, Okay, we're fine, but you know, you
Speaker 1: can't have a seventeen play drive and then the next
Speaker 1: three drives go three and out and then oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, the game's now tight. Oh going another twelve
Speaker 1: play drive and score okay, and then go three and
Speaker 1: out the next two series again. If the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: consistent and not, you're not going to have the type
Speaker 1: of offense that you had against Minnesota, but you're capable.
Speaker 1: You're capable of putting a world a hurt on a
Speaker 1: defense with your receivers. You're running game in your quarterback
Speaker 1: if he's willing to throw the ball and run the
Speaker 1: ball when he has to. Yeah, you look at the
Speaker 1: scores of what they've the points they've put up since
Speaker 1: Dak has been back twenty four, twenty eight, forty. They're
Speaker 1: putting up points and certainly putting up points at a
Speaker 1: large clip, a large enough clip where they can put
Speaker 1: pressure on opponents and force them to have to keep scoring.
Speaker 1: The only thing we've seen that really has nullified that,
Speaker 1: and you would talk about the Green Bay game, is
Speaker 1: a team that can slow them down enough because they
Speaker 1: keep the ball long enough because they have long, extended
Speaker 1: drives without running the ball to keep the offensive the
Speaker 1: offense on the sideline. Cowboys off on Giants. Giants are
Speaker 1: gonna want to give you eight possessions in this game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna give you eight or n I mean that
Speaker 1: that's what they don't They don't want you to have
Speaker 1: eleven or twelve. They want you to have eight or
Speaker 1: nine possessions. And that's what they're gonna do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they're committed to saying that, you know what,
Speaker 1: we can't pass block against this group, but we sure
Speaker 1: can give running the football an opportunity here. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I just did the math here. Twenty one points
Speaker 1: a game is what the Cowboys had when with Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush as the starter, and twenty eight points a game
Speaker 1: for the for when Dak is to start. Now he's
Speaker 1: had that, He had that three three points against the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Can't take it out. But I do think this is
Speaker 1: a completely different team since then, since Dak's come back.
Speaker 1: Their average in thirty five points a game, and they
Speaker 1: figured things out with um with the running game. And
Speaker 1: one more quick point we talked about just now in
Speaker 1: the break when they played the Giants before. This will
Speaker 1: be the first time the Giants have faced someone again
Speaker 1: for the second time, so their second division game. But
Speaker 1: Dak played in that game. I didn't play in the game.
Speaker 1: Dak returns, Michael Gallup returns, Connor McGovern returns, Curse returns.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just completely in Dalton Schultz. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that didn't play in that first game. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Giants might be a better team. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are better team too. And they're they're rolling now
Speaker 1: like they are rolling in a way. I think that's
Speaker 1: a little bit different than maybe what they were in
Speaker 1: week three. All right, appreciate you guys joining for Nick.
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