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Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:16.400 Yes? 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.280 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:19.079 Absolutely? 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.040 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.439 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:35.520 with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Nick Harris, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.720 It is Wednesday, November thirteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.040 episode number sixty seven. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.840 Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.000 We are Alive from the WBC Mortgage Studios at the 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.479 Star presented by LGLG is the world's number one O 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.160 led TV brand for eleven years in counting. See why 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.520 at LG dot com Forward slash o led Evil. How's 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:55.360 everybody doing today? 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:56.240 Good? 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:56.880 Really good. 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.720 Let's get the energy up. Let's go, let's do it. 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:00.960 Let's go really good. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.400 Yeah, it's a good it's a good day. 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:03.080 It's a good day. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.720 We all woke up and we're all healthy and it's 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:06.280 a good day. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.120 Right, all right. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:08.800 We got a lot of stuff're gonna talk about today. We're 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.000 gonna talk about it. We're gonna introduce the the Houston Texans. Uh, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.959 we will start with their offense and how they match 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:16.680 up against this Dallas defense. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.000 I want to start first with just kind of. 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.920 A general overview of this team because it's an uncommon 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.240 opponent opponent for. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.200 The Dallas Cowboys. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.280 I was looking at it's just some of the basic 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.160 information around. There's six and four obviously. Uh, they're are 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.920 first place in first place in the AFC South. They're 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.720 coach by Demico Ryans, who is a For those that 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.840 don't know, he is a defensive coach. Came from San Francisco, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.480 was a defensive coordinator there and the last season he 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.600 was with San Francisco at the number one ranked defense 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.560 in the NFL. This year they also have the number 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.480 three ranked defense in the NFL with the Houston Texas 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:52.600 in only his second. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.240 Year with that team. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.040 As I want to go around the table, tell me 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.200 what you think is the thing that you that stands 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.120 out to most to you you as you look at 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:01.440 this team. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:02.639 It can be offense or defense. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.920 Just as you look at this Houston Texans team, what 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.400 do you think stands out the most to you that 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.680 you would character like if you. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.560 Had to describe them, how would you describe. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.359 This Texans team, talented youth. This is gonna be a 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.400 team that's gonna be around a really long time. And 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.160 I guess this is more so a big picture rather 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.399 than this game specifically. But you look on both sides 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.799 of the ball, and they have talented players who are 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.480 young on rookie contracts, who are already taken the league 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.600 by storm. You can start with c. J. Stroud, He's 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.960 developed a weapon in Tank Dell early on. You have 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.680 Will Anderson on the other side of the ball, Jayalen 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.440 pe Tree on the other side of the ball, and 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.760 they've they've paired these guys with veterans and Stefan Diggs 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.040 on the offensive side. Obviously he tours a cl so 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.280 it's a little bit different, but Nico Collins as well, 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.959 Robert Woods is still a veteran presence in that locker room. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.360 You look on the defensive side, you got Danil Hunter 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.079 who's been able to contribute from a pass rush perspective, 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.040 as ciz Al Shaier from the linebacking corps. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.119 There, they did a really good job. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.000 A lot of names. Yeah, that's a lot of talented players. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.080 They did a really good job over the off season 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.359 of pairing veterans with some of these young guys to 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.440 kind of close in that I guess knowledge gap that 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.040 I think at times kind of hindered them last year. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:09.280 I think they're still figuring things out, and we'll talk 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.880 about it today and tomorrow, but overall, you can see 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.000 the veteran presence starting to kind of trickle down throughout 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.679 these young guys. They're trying to maximize the rookie contract 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.280 of c. J. Stroud and Will Anderson. I think they're 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:20.240 doing a great job of it. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.919 They were a bad team at one time this year 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.600 are just no. No. At one time before one time, 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.280 once before Ryan's got there, they were kind of they 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.360 were a bad team, and they took advantage of people 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.320 needing players. They took advantage of being at the right position, 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:43.320 placed perfectly in a draft to be able to get picks. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:47.600 And as you get picks, to Nick's point, you draft 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 and you get young players, and all of a sudden, 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.280 young players too. They've hit on, have done a really, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.840 really nice job, and now their team's better. They've done 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.720 a good job with the free agency. It's puzzling to 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.440 me how they've allowed their offensive line to be what 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.800 it is though, and we'll get into that today. If 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.360 there's going to be something that's going to hold them 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:14.520 back from being maybe really one of those upper echelon teams, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.960 they better figure out their offensive line because they could 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:22.440 be wasting some opportunities. With their young quarterback Joe Mixon, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.799 we'll talk about him. He's been a great addition for them. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.760 But for all the talented stuff that they have on 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.360 defense and all the talent they have at skill position 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.200 at wide receiver, their offensive line could be their downfall 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.400 going forward as they get into the playoffs and or 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.280 try and win the NFC the AFC South. Excuse me, they. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.920 Are a talented team there. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.760 And before we started the show, I was sitting here, 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.200 I'm like, I don't care about this counting report. I 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.280 don't want to hear about it. It's you know, I 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.880 don't care about any other teams at this point. But 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.480 you start looking at them and you got to appreciate 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.840 some of the that they do have in general, and 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.680 also looking at how they've gone through the season. They 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.039 don't tend to score a ton of points, like, they 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.400 don't go into games where they completely dominate uh the 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:18.520 opposing team, and it just leads me again, my silly. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.120 Me where I always. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.400 Think there is a chance not you know, just for 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.440 this weekend two where maybe, just maybe if Cowboys found 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.720 the offense finds a way to start scoring some points. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:30.480 It is a. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.480 Matchup where I think they could potentially put up a 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.640 decent battle and come out with the win this weekend. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.560 Yeah. I have a feeling that we're going to get 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.880 to their defense tomorrow and it's gonna be or it's 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.360 gonna be Brian's gonna be over going. I can't believe 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:49.920 that they drafted as many great players as the defense. Yeah, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.200 and that's that's gonna be the rub. And you know, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:57.640 can Dallas. I think Dallas defensively could do some really 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.600 good things against this offense. I think think they can 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.280 depending on what happens at left corner. But again, we'll 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.839 get into all this stuff. I just feel like, though, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.320 when we sit down and say, okay, well, where where's 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:13.560 their real big advent, their real big advantage, that's their 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.919 defense over Dallas's offense, especially when you don't have your quarterback, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.919 you know, and then you have questions along the offensive 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.080 line and you know, what kind of routes are you 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.920 gonna run in this game? Are even gonna be able 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.080 to get open much, you know, with the way that 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.440 they play, So you know that's that's. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.040 Gonna be the stars aligned correctly. Oh on a seven 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:38.160 fifteen pm game, there's always a chance the moon, you 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:39.159 know perfectly? 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:40.440 Can I go ahead? 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:41.320 Better time? 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.159 You got better chances at nighttime? 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.000 I ask you who you're gonna pick on Friday. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:46.719 But you know that's the interesting part. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.440 I think after the point is, after you listen to 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.640 the show today, you're gonna walk away being like, maybe 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.480 there's a chance, No, there is, And then you're gonna 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.840 listen to Mark, You're gonna be like, no, because that's 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:58.560 the way this team is. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.560 No, it's the way it is. And you to me, 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:06.560 you're you're So it's such a struggle on offense. You know, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.400 if you had your offense kind of humming along, I mean, yeah, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.080 you probably wouldn't be three and six either, you know, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.040 you would be you'd be much better. You might be 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.920 like these guys six and four or something like that. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.400 But you're not. You're you're you know this is going 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.640 to be tough. I know, Nick, and I going to 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.520 tell you today there are ways to take advantage of 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.320 this offensive line if if, if you could keep them 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:32.440 from running the football. And we last week you played 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.160 against I think you played against a better back last week. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.600 You know with Sakuon Barkley. Joe Joe Mixon's good player, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.600 get me wrong, but man, you you find a way 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.240 to control the running, you have a chance on defense 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.360 this week. It's it's you know, it's it's the offense. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.720 It might be the might be your downfall there. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:52.560 Well, I'll tell you this. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.119 As I look at the Houston Texans organization and Brian, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.640 you said it a little earlier where you said they 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.480 once were a bad team. There wasn't even just a 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.600 bad they were a bad organization. They had all kinds 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.240 of problems that went all throughout the organization. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:06.840 Uh. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.680 And that wasn't that long ago, what five years ago? 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.360 It was a bad way. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.080 It was in a bad way. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.680 They had a quarterback in Deshaun Watson who they essentially 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.040 needed to get rid of because of all the off 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.480 work and but but the point is you look at that, 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.160 and you look at what they were able to do 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.800 in again a relatively short period of time to turn 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.800 it around to be where they are now. It just 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.480 tells you the fickle nature of the NFL. Right, things 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.880 can flip pretty quickly in the NFL if you can 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.400 make the right moves at the right time. And so 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.040 that part, I'm like, hats off to them because I 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.800 thought it was gonna take a lot longer than this 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.280 for them to get back into this kind of position 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:45.640 where they they are a contender. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:51.480 Yeah, Nick Sirianni, who's the general manager there. Nick was 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.679 about to get fired, I mean him, Bill O'Brien, all 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.640 those guys, I mean, they love you Smith. They were 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.880 they were really not a very good football team, and 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.360 all of a sudden they changed the coach that worked. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.440 They went out, you know, Nick, all of a sudden 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.000 they hit on a couple of drafts that got them 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.520 back a quarterback. They got a quarterback. They you know, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:13.840 everybody was kind of like Levey Smith. If you remember 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.800 that year, Levey Smith wins the last game of the 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.080 year against the Colts and everybody's like going, what the 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.440 hell are you doing? And then up put the second 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.520 overall pick, and then they end up drafting, you know, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.719 Carolina gets the first pick, and then they you know, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.040 they they take Bryce Young, the Texans take CJ. Stroud, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.840 Somewhere Levey Smith right now is probably laughing sitting on 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.320 a boat, and can you believe I did that? Won 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.439 the last game. Everybody's pissed off at me, and then 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.560 they got Yeah, I mean he actually left him in 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.880 a better place. So they they've been really fortunate with that. 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.520 They do a really good job in free agency too. 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.600 You know, they go out, they have a good blend, 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.160 they have the right coach, they have the right draft, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.120 and they have a blend with some free agents that 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.160 they've gotten and that's made their team much better. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.000 Yeah, this is a lot of credits to their front office, 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.080 Nick Casario and those guys. I think with Demico Ryans 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.920 as an influence as well, you can start to see 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.600 that influence trickle down. I think you saw in his 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.720 very first draft going out and getting Will Anderson and 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.160 then developing Jalen Petrie over these last couple of years, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.679 and hey, I need a linebacker, let's go get sez 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.880 Al Shaire. I just think they've done such a good 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.360 job constructing this team top to bottom. It's going to 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.080 be a team that's gonna be around a really long time. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.160 I do believe that. 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.240 All Right, we're gonna take our first break when we 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.480 come back, We're going to dive into the Houston offense. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.359 Get a little deeper into that conversation. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.200 We'll be back. Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:32.600 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.560 cheetah Savannah. 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Let's start first with Nico Collins. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.880 How much does how is how much is him being 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.040 out because he just got back last week, he'd been 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.520 out for several weeks. How much is him being out 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.640 affected this offense and their ability to be able to 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:47.120 move the ball. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.160 I think there's a couple of things here that I 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.400 think he'll be able to integrate back into and it'll 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.560 help this offense. I'm going to start away from the 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.440 receiving game. They love to run Joe Mixon outside, and 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:00.599 it felt like in the beginning whenever or Nico was 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.120 out that they were having some trouble finding some running 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.920 lanes on the pure outside, trying to find the sideline 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:06.640 and ride the sideline. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:07.640 His Mixon loves to do that. 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.559 Nico's a great blocker and he's able to get out 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.120 in front and pave those ways for mixing. Now that's 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:16.320 the run game, the passing game, specifically, Nico's that downfield 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.720 threat and whenever they lost him, They lost to Von Diggs. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.000 It made life difficult for CJ. 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.440 Stroud because he's having to turn to a guy like 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.720 Tank Dell, who Tank is a good receiver. It was 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.600 somebody I really liked coming out of Houston a couple 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.440 of years ago, but I don't necessarily see him as 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.000 somebody who could fight off coverage get open downfield. I 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.520 like him in the ten to twenty range, so I 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.920 think it gives them that downfield presence a little bit more. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.040 Nico's a little bit more physical. He's a crisprout runner. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.680 I wouldn't say he's the crispist, but he's a crisprout runner. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.920 I think he can make things difficult for this secondary overall. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.280 And we might get into this a little bit more 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.200 here in a bit. But Bobby Slowick, they're off it'sive coordinator. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.280 His route concepts make the life really difficult for the secondary, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.640 specifically in the safeties. I will run double routes right 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:03.320 on top of each other, and they will force that 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.040 safety to make a split decision, and if you make 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.160 the wrong one, Stroud is going to identify it. And 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.720 he's one of the most accurate guys in the entire NFL. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.000 Nico Collins does such a good job of being able 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.960 to get everybody in line, make sure everybody has the 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.080 right assignment, right route, and he does a really good 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.120 job of managing that and exploiting those safeties. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.120 Yeah, you've got it. With Collins, you got a big 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.080 body guy. It's a six four to two hundred and 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.480 twenty pounds guy. So that makes it very difficult because 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.520 some of his best routes, if you go back and 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.600 watch him, the slants, he cannot. I mean, he is 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.120 hard to defend when he's running the run to the 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.840 those to him, you know, his downfield stuff. I mean, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.800 all these guys have the ability to get downfield. The thing, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.840 the funny thing about it is some of the of 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:48.800 Stroud's downfield passes have resulted in interceptions when they've tried 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.640 to kind of attack that. The thing with Tank Dell though, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.560 playing and when you look at Dell, Colin's the bigger guy, Dell, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.440 the smaller guy, Dell the quicker guy. If I kept 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.560 watching him, and it was like polation after completion after 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.400 completion on the crossing routes, you know, the stuff underneath, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.040 and I was, you know, I was sitting there thinking, man, 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.720 that that is a lot of them. And I went 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.920 and checked on there ten for ten on crossing routes 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.840 with Tank Dell. You know, so here you talk about 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.360 putting pressure on what's the one thing we feel like 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.560 the Dallas maybe has gotten a little bit better. You know, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.600 we always worry about the safety play with the crossing 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.600 routes or having to carry guys inside, you know. And 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.120 and here's Dell and and they haven't missed the pass 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.040 yet on the outside. We'll see what Like I say 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.560 with Collins, you know, dealing with the hamstring injury and 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.440 all that. I mean that this this will be a 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.200 this will be a really really good test, uh for 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.520 this secondary. And you mentioned also about mixing running the ball. 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.280 He's clearly better running the ball to one side than 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.680 the other, you know. I I just isolated runs and 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.480 I and I was watching left outside, left outside, left outside, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:52.400 right outside not so good. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.720 So if you're down because of the blocking or is 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:55.720 that because of I think. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.480 I think Nick has a really really good point. You're 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.920 also luaring me Tunsils over there, Yeah, you know kind 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:04.639 of helps. Let me tell you Schultz is Schultz is 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.640 about like what he was here. I mean, the thing 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.120 you want to get Schultz in is pass blocking, because 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.399 neither one of these these these tight ends that they 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.840 stay in and block, they're likely likely to give up 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.040 a pressure or a sack. They're that bad at it 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:19.560 right now. But everything to the left. When you when 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.400 you watch Joe Mixon outside outside, outside, but it's all 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.320 coming to the defense's right side. So how you play 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.359 over there, that's going to Diggs direction too. That ball 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.240 is going to bounce outside, that's Digs. He's going to 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.359 have to play safety's down, linebacker's over. Everybody's going to 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.920 have to rally over there. But you know, how you 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.199 play off the edge off that right side will be 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.960 a big key in this game trying to stop this run. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.359 It's another team too. If you go and look at 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.119 the metrics of it light box as opposed to the 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.399 eight man boxes and stuff like that. They've had some 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.439 problems mixing's had some problems running against stack boxes with 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.680 eight or more down there. You know, maybe Dallas has 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.080 found a little bit of something with their with their 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.240 you know, eight man game, like from last week when 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.000 they're when they were dealing with Barkley. 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.359 Yeah, the Joe Mixon is averaging four point three yards 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.000 per attempt and ninety three point six yards per game. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.399 Obviously really good at what he does. One of the 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.320 things that I've I've noticed about him he is a 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.800 very physical runner. Yeah, do you think this is a 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.840 bad matchup for Dallas from the standpoint that he is 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.720 more in the ilk of a Derrick Henry, a guy 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:27.840 that that that really can be physical. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:28.520 Uh. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.200 But at the same time, Dallas, one of their achilles 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.639 heels has been that they haven't always been able to 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.199 tackle well. And do you think from that standpoint that 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.000 this is just a bad matchup for Dallas. 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.600 I mean, I was watching Joe Mixon run Sunday night, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:42.840 watching back a couple of games. 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.879 I think this is gonna be a tough matchup for them. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.600 It's it's still a team that is trying to figure 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.919 out how to tackle and bring down guys, and this 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:52.280 is a guy you can't do that against it. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.119 He's he's gonna fight on those arm tackles. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.720 You need to get a chest on on Joe Mixon, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.280 And with how much they run him outside, yeahs out 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:01.640 of ten, you're gonna have to be making that play 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.119 one on one And so you're you're really relying on 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.320 guys like Moli Cooker, Donovan Wilson to step up, Eric 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.360 Kendricks to step up and make those one on one tackles. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.639 We saw each of those guys miss some critical tackles 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.440 in that game against Philadelphia throughout the season. 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.439 Where this is going to come down though, with with 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:17.200 mixing is if the ball is going to go to 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.280 the outside. Now we've seen with overshown his ability to 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:21.040 shoot gaps. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:21.440 Yep. 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.760 These guards and we'll get into this offensive line because 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.639 I they have some some of the similar problems that 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.679 Dallas has when it comes to pass blocking, and they 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.160 don't handle twist stunts all that well. And it really 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.879 happens at the guard at the guard spot there. They 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:40.640 they have they have struggled with offensive lines are defensive 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.920 lines that have moved on them. And you watch that. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.159 You go back and watch the Packers game. Double a 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.639 gap look down in and a twist from a double 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.440 A gap. What did Dallas had? What three? They got 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.960 three sacks from the double a gap blitz look where 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.359 they walk those guys up in the A gap and 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:03.280 then drop one or drop two, bring one that Texans 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.680 did not handle that at all against green Bay. Green 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.840 Bay did it several times, a lot of pressure on Stroud. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.000 He wasn't able to kind of navigate that. So if 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.560 you could find a way, like I say, run throughs, 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.760 run throughs against these guards. If they're gonna try and 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.280 it's trying to stretch you, run throughs you knowing that 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.480 that ball is probably going to come to your right side, 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.200 just be ready to come flying downhill on it and 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:28.960 make those plays if you can't get him in the backfield. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.920 He's had some negative runs, you know, if you look 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.520 so they call him stuffed runs. He's had some stuffed runs, 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.240 especially going to that right like I was talking about, 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:40.800 because I kept seeing everything like he's going to left, 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.240 going to the left, going to the left, everything going to 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.520 the right was a little bit more difficult. But that's 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:48.040 teams got after them, like being able to win at 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:49.800 the line of scrimmage. Dallas is gonna have to do 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.159 the same thing if they're gonna want to get this 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:51.760 ky on the ground. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:56.320 Me a ball to be positive here, but so not 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:57.360 me being positive. 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:01.400 But although it's for true what you just said about, 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:05.160 we've seen this defense, the Cowboys defense struggle all year long. 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.320 Against physical players, physical runners. I think what they showed 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.399 last week gives you gives you hope and a little 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.160 more positive positivity going into this game because you did 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:20.719 see a Dallas defense being more aggressive, being you know, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.480 playing in that way. With Micah's return, I think it 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.640 helps a lot what happens there with Mica Now with 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.280 what overshown showed as well, it's a trigger effect where 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:35.239 everybody else around around you starts playing a little bit 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.880 better at higher level. Yeah, it's definitely gonna be a challenge, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.480 but at least we saw a little sign of hope 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.800 there too, where maybe this is a game where starting 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.320 off they can compete a little bit. 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:48.080 They played against the better offensive line last week and 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.320 held their own in the run game, yep, my opinion. 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.720 Ye, when they give sixty six yards to say. 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:55.840 On the running quarterback was a problem. You know, that 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.360 was the ability to you know, they pin guys they've 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:03.080 got when Dallas plays, When Dallas plays out of position, 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.280 Dallas gives up huge place. You can see it, four 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.920 guys covering three. Nett leaves the quarterback a wide open 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:11.600 run for twenty something yards. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.120 He strout is he he can run? 0:22:15.160 --> 0:22:17.280 Yeah? But the thing about is this guy will run 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.160 into some sacks. Yeah, he will like go back and 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:22.640 like his eyes are downfield and he will just start 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.480 to move and it's like he doesn't feel the defender 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:27.000 right there. 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.240 I'll give him credit, though, because he moves around in 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:32.359 the pocket way more than some young quarterbacks, right. And 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.040 I think that that's just coming with the sophomore slump 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:36.760 aspect of it, because I think there's a lot to 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:37.520 talk about with c. J. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:39.840 Stroud. I think it's an interesting case study this year specifically. 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:42.080 But he moves around in that pocket so much, even 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:43.280 sometimes when there's not pressure. 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:43.959 So I'll give you that. 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.520 But he loves to step into a throw right if 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.960 he can step up into basically his center throw a 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.040 past ten fifteen yards down the field, that's what he 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:52.560 wants to do. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:56.119 Shaq Mason, the guard's giving up ten sacks. M I 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.040 mean that's think about that, Yeah, think about that. I mean, 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:02.479 that's that's that's problem. You know, that's they've given up 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.320 twist stunts and you know there's been all kinds of 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:08.080 things going on inside. I think that wasn't a misprint 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.760 on that number. I mean, am I check me on 0:23:10.800 --> 0:23:11.680 that to make sure. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.040 That I got you, PFF has a different number what 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:14.720 I want to. 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:17.320 What do they think it at five? They have five? Well, 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:19.879 in our in our metrics and the next gen stuff, 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:21.480 it was ten, and I was like, going. 0:23:21.280 --> 0:23:23.040 What number ten to be that? 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:26.159 Because the PFF sometimes can be a little different when 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:26.600 it comes to. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.520 A I was going through the sacks and I saw 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:30.040 ten and I thought, man, that is a lot. And 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.439 then you watch there's like thirty eight of them and 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:34.399 he's involved in a lot of them. Yeah, like the 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.080 twist stunt stuff and all that. So yeah, I mean 0:23:37.160 --> 0:23:41.080 it's to me, you know. And last week they tried uh, 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:45.359 Juice Scrugs as the as the the guard as the 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.720 guard at left guard and Jared Patterson played center. So 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:51.000 they've kind of had to move some guys around a 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:53.760 little bit to try and make some things, to make 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:55.720 some things up here. But yeah, when I saw that 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:57.919 number of sacks for Mace, I'm like, Okay. Then I 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:01.000 started watching and I'm like, damn, that's seems like an 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:02.400 awful lot of sacks for a guy. 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:03.840 It looks like it's closer to your number. 0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.600 Yeah, sure, Yeah, And the reason they've had to move 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:08.640 that offensive line around in the in the middle, there 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:11.280 was Kenyon Green going down their left guard, so they 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.720 moved Jewe Scruggs to the left, bring in Jared Patterson 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:15.840 to kind of fill that middle. 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:17.320 I like Patterson. 0:24:17.359 --> 0:24:19.159 I don't necessarily love him in the run game, but 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:20.439 I think he's I think he's a. 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:21.440 Solid pass protector. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:24.880 I think obviously the combination of Juwe Scrugs and Kenyon 0:24:24.920 --> 0:24:27.639 Green a center left guard is better than Jared Patterson 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.320 jew Scruggs, but I think they have a serviceable backup 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:30.800 center there. 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.680 Their tackles. How did you feel about their tackle play? 0:24:33.720 --> 0:24:37.399 Because I saw with with with with with Howard the 0:24:37.480 --> 0:24:40.639 right tackle, like people walking him. Yeah, yeah, you know, 0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:43.520 I mean. And then Laramie Tunsel, who forever has been 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:46.720 this high level player. You know, there's been times where 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:49.920 he's given up some he's given up some some pressures, 0:24:50.119 --> 0:24:55.280 a lot of pressures. So between Tunsall, Shaq, Mason Howard, 0:24:56.400 --> 0:24:59.520 there's your hope that Dallas showed last week that maybe 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.760 the past Russia circling back. And what gave me more 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:05.200 hope is when I watch what Green Bay did to him, 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:08.640 blitzing him with that that that double a gap look 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:11.840 that Zimmer likes to throw with the two rushers and 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:15.000 then or you know, one rusher to drop or to 0:25:15.000 --> 0:25:18.360 go one drop, Twist that thing up, muddy that thing 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:21.000 up a little bit more inside, because like you said, 0:25:21.080 --> 0:25:24.639 Nick quarterback is like a step up and throw guy. 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:27.800 You could you can maybe get him to step right 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:29.800 into a sack because there's been been a few of 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:31.400 them I saw watching the tape. 0:25:31.560 --> 0:25:34.000 Reality, he's taking some big hits as a result of 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:34.760 him doing that too. 0:25:34.800 --> 0:25:37.920 That was all And the real reality is if Dallas 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:39.800 has a shout of shot of winning this game, I 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:41.119 think a lot of that's gonna have to be on 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:45.720 the defense actually getting turnovers maybe even right that's my point. 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:48.600 With the offense having the issues that they're having, really 0:25:48.640 --> 0:25:50.240 they're gonna have to have a short feel or the 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:52.760 defense is gonna have to score in some instances. And 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.920 I think that's where you could start seeing a possibility 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.919 that Dallas could figure out a way to get a win. 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:00.000 It will have to be the defense having he stuff 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.600 day and basically taking the ball away. 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:06.360 This offense to give it credit. It puts pressure on 0:26:07.000 --> 0:26:09.040 all aspects of the defense. I think you look at 0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:11.840 an offense like the Lions. Me personally, I feel like 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:14.919 it really challenges the middle of your offense. Excuse me, 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:16.640 the middle of your defense. They're going to run the ball, 0:26:16.760 --> 0:26:18.960 They're going to bring Laporto over the middle on the 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:20.920 Ross Saint Brown, let's come a Carson middle of the field. 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:24.120 Eagles are a little bit more spread out. But the Texans, 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:26.439 they will challenge your corners, they will challenge your safeties, 0:26:26.440 --> 0:26:28.680 They'll challenge your linebackers. I feel like more than any 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:31.119 other position group. With the way mixing runs, with the 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:33.080 way they like to get Dalton schultzo be and taking 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:34.440 Dell open over the middle of the field in those 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:36.760 crossing routes, it's going to make life really difficult for 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:38.840 your entire defense. But I think the linebackers are the 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:41.239 ones that if they're not playing their assignments right, this 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:42.080 is going to get ugly. 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:44.880 You mentioned Dalton Schultz, how much they use him at 0:26:44.880 --> 0:26:45.320 tight end. 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:48.520 He's getting quite a bit. And when he still with 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:52.639 Dalton Schultz, it's like the routes that you see him catch, 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:55.879 the flat routes, the out routes, things like that that 0:26:55.960 --> 0:26:58.840 he's able to kind of he will get lost and 0:26:58.880 --> 0:27:02.760 then they'll find him. So yeah, he still catches the 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:04.800 ball very very well for you guys. 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:07.240 For the Texans, twenty nine receptions for three hundred and 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:10.160 ten yards hasn't scored so far this ye yeah, all. 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:11.600 Right, let's go ahead and take our final break. We'll 0:27:11.600 --> 0:27:11.920 come back. 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:14.760 I want to zero in on the Dallas defense, particularly 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:17.000 the cornerback position. 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Back to the break. 0:30:01.240 --> 0:30:03.200 At and T connecting changes everything. 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:06.000 It does really good at that. 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:08.200 Yeah, that's good stuff. 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:08.760 Welcome back. 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:11.120 Final segment of the Break livee in thats WBC Mortgage 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:12.080 Studios at the Star. 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:14.480 We're talking Cowboys versus Texans. 0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:17.280 Man, this is gonna be an interesting game and interesting weekend. 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:20.080 There's a bunch of fans from Houston that are going to. 0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:22.920 Be tuned in for this one and probably show up. 0:30:23.080 --> 0:30:24.800 What do you mean, who am I rooting for this weekend? 0:30:25.040 --> 0:30:28.520 I have not been a Houston fan since the Oilers left. 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.160 I that was the last time I was a fan. 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:33.800 I am still I am still a fan of the Rockets, 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:35.600 and I will forever be a fan of the Rockets 0:30:35.640 --> 0:30:37.760 because I'm just a keen fan, so I'll always be 0:30:37.760 --> 0:30:40.200 a fan of the Rockets. But when the Oilers left, Yeah, 0:30:40.240 --> 0:30:42.000 my my allegiance to Houston was gone. 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:42.800 From a football you. 0:30:42.720 --> 0:30:45.280 Got a lot of family and friends that are Texans fans. 0:30:45.440 --> 0:30:46.120 Not as many. 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:49.080 Most of them have transitioned over to to being Cowboys 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:51.520 fans because of me. But I do have some that 0:30:51.560 --> 0:30:53.360 are still Texans fans. I got a few coming up 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:57.000 this week for the game. So yeah, it's it's an interesting, 0:30:57.280 --> 0:31:00.560 interesting time. We'll see how it goes. Let's talk about 0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.280 this Dallas defense right now. With what you've seen from 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.640 Kaylen Carson and looking at how he played in this 0:31:05.720 --> 0:31:08.320 last game. Dallas made the move to take him out 0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:10.840 at one point during that game. Do you think it's 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:12.400 at a point now where they need to just kind 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:14.239 of move on from him for the rest of this 0:31:14.320 --> 0:31:16.160 year as far as having him out there as a 0:31:16.200 --> 0:31:19.000 starter and go with another option just so he can, 0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:21.080 more than anything else, just kind of keep his head 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:22.640 from getting in a bad place. 0:31:22.800 --> 0:31:25.920 Wow, he didn't listen to yesterday show. 0:31:26.600 --> 0:31:29.240 I guess what did you say something about that? 0:31:29.400 --> 0:31:32.320 We kind of talked about it, right, did you all? 0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:32.520 Right? 0:31:32.520 --> 0:31:34.400 Well, for the for the sake of me and those 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:41.000 that may not have listened, I was in meetings. 0:31:41.640 --> 0:31:43.400 If I could listen, I would have been. 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:47.320 Here, but we didn't get to the that far out 0:31:47.360 --> 0:31:50.600 like we've talked about it just for now now necessarily 0:31:50.680 --> 0:31:51.719 for the rest of the season. 0:31:52.120 --> 0:31:52.360 Yeah. 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.640 Well, I mean I'm just thinking, like for a young 0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:56.960 guy like him, I think we all agree the guy 0:31:57.000 --> 0:31:57.680 has some talent. 0:31:57.880 --> 0:31:59.200 He's not a bad player. 0:31:59.840 --> 0:32:02.520 He's put on films some bad moments, and I think 0:32:02.760 --> 0:32:05.240 sometimes for a young guy, it can be a good 0:32:05.280 --> 0:32:07.560 thing to tell him, hey, just sit for a second, 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:11.600 let's just watch learn and for more than anything else, 0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:13.440 just to keep him from getting into such a bad 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:15.520 place to where you ruin him for the future. Do 0:32:15.520 --> 0:32:17.800 you think it's at that point for somebody like Kayln Carson. 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:19.760 I'll answer your question. 0:32:20.240 --> 0:32:22.000 I think one of the things that stunned his growth 0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:24.560 the most was going up against the receiving court training 0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:27.040 camp that is just simply non talented. And he built 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:29.400 a lot of confidence against the receiving corps that has 0:32:29.480 --> 0:32:32.880 not really shown that they are worthy of being, you know, 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:34.680 one of the better ones even in the division, much 0:32:34.800 --> 0:32:37.960 less the entire NFL. And you see the very first 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:41.240 preseason game against the Rams, they start attacking Kayln Carson. 0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:43.000 If you remember, Kayln Carson not have a good day 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:44.520 that day. Yeah, they're just going at him. 0:32:44.440 --> 0:32:44.840 Going at him. 0:32:44.840 --> 0:32:46.560 We're like, oh, you know, Kayln Carson has been great 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.680 in camp. You know these days are going to come. 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:50.720 Little did we know those were the days? You know, 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:54.960 so I think getting Israel mcwuamu starting moving forward. I 0:32:55.000 --> 0:32:57.160 think it's a better move. I think Carson needs to 0:32:57.160 --> 0:32:58.200 build back his confidence. 0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:00.880 I think I would shuffle him. What I would do 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:04.400 is maybe if mcwama would play two series or whatever, 0:33:04.440 --> 0:33:07.000 and you know, you're really this thing's not going anywhere. 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:09.000 I mean, I don't think it is, that's my opinion. 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:12.360 But what I would do is maybe mcwama. You getting 0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:14.959 a point in time of a game. You know, teams 0:33:15.000 --> 0:33:17.880 will game plan knowing that twenty one's out there. So 0:33:17.920 --> 0:33:20.360 all of a sudden, you know, it's twenty four, it's 0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:23.000 twenty four. It's twenty four. Oh wait, twenty one's out there. 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:25.320 You know. Now you're kind of what do we need 0:33:25.360 --> 0:33:27.040 to get to it? Now? You're maybe maybe with the 0:33:27.080 --> 0:33:28.640 flow of the game, things have kind of maybe your 0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:31.000 pass rush is getting home. You know, maybe you're causing 0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:33.880 some you know, some pressures and things like that. I 0:33:33.920 --> 0:33:37.120 don't completely just sit him down. I like, you know, 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:40.280 you know you want to play him twice, you know too, 0:33:40.360 --> 0:33:42.320 and two times in the first half, two times in 0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:45.320 the second half. But just keep him, keep him occupied, 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:47.360 don't don't put him in time out. You know, he 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:51.240 needs reps, you know. Yeah, they're attacking him. Yeah, he's 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:54.280 not real confident. Yeah, his shoulder hurts. Yeah, he's worried 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:56.040 about getting hurt again. You know. I mean there's a 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:58.640 lot of things going on. The double moves, I mean, 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:02.320 the more this season is what it is. You know, 0:34:02.800 --> 0:34:04.920 go out there and just let him get more experience 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:07.640 and let him take his lumps, which he has. But 0:34:07.720 --> 0:34:09.719 you never know, maybe he'll show up one day and 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:13.480 it'll have some success a series to a series, and 0:34:13.560 --> 0:34:15.359 you know, he gets a little bit more confidence about 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:17.600 I just don't sit him down. I mean, if you 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:20.000 want to start MCWAMU, you need to figure out what 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:22.200 to deal with Bland. But that might be too late 0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:24.319 to even you know, think about that. That might be 0:34:24.360 --> 0:34:26.520 something that might be the you know, that might be 0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:28.640 a whole season thing. I don't know. I'm just putting 0:34:28.640 --> 0:34:31.520 it out there right now. But but to me, it's, 0:34:31.880 --> 0:34:35.040 you know, I keep playing the kid, but alternate him 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:38.719 maybe you know once every third series or something. Put 0:34:38.760 --> 0:34:40.520 him out there and let him get a little bit 0:34:40.560 --> 0:34:42.480 more experienced. You know, you don't have to do it 0:34:42.480 --> 0:34:44.520 in the games on the line or anything, or right 0:34:44.560 --> 0:34:46.239 before the half that they're trying to stop a two 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:48.600 minute drive, but you know, coming out of the half 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:51.799 or something like that, just go with him and see, 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:53.120 you know, give him, give him a little bit more 0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:54.000 of an opportunity. 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:58.200 Yeah, I completely agree. I've said this before. I still 0:34:58.360 --> 0:35:00.840 like him, and I think they're a lot more to 0:35:01.080 --> 0:35:05.000 him than what he's currently showing. And I also agree 0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:08.160 with him needing that mental break where he comes out 0:35:08.200 --> 0:35:12.520 and okay it doesn't because it can really damage a player, 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:16.759 the mental aspect of it, when you're constantly getting attacked and. 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:18.280 Beat down, especially corner. 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:21.239 Yeah, and with him being so young too, you know, 0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:26.439 so I do think rotate him, throw him in there 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:30.040 for some reps, because at the same time, we know 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:33.839 NFL experience, like game day experience. 0:35:33.360 --> 0:35:34.719 That's very difficult to come by. 0:35:34.880 --> 0:35:39.000 So with the way the season is going currently, you're 0:35:39.000 --> 0:35:42.400 not gonna lose much the way it's trending, you're not 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:45.560 gonna lose much by actually throwing him out there and 0:35:45.640 --> 0:35:46.680 letting him play some more. 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:49.840 Don't let his don't let his going into twenty twenty 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:53.319 five be that question of well, you man, it was 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.400 really rough for you last year. You know, maybe you 0:35:55.400 --> 0:35:58.439 can find some successful. You're you're three and six team 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.880 right now. You're really you know, you're looking at everybody 0:36:02.200 --> 0:36:05.040 above you. You know, you're to the old thing. You're 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:08.520 as that old box. It says playoff picture in the hunt. 0:36:08.520 --> 0:36:11.000 You're not even in the hunt. You're out of the hunt. 0:36:11.480 --> 0:36:14.959 So don't you know, don't don't sit there and just say, well, 0:36:15.000 --> 0:36:16.880 he just had a lot, No, you're you're not a 0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:19.880 good football team, and just give him an opportunity to 0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:21.239 try and kind of work his way out of it. 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:24.000 That when you know he gets ready for the off season, 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:26.839 it's like maybe he had a couple of plays where 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.120 he had some success. He maybe got an interception, somebody 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:32.239 over threw a ball or they tipped it up and 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:34.359 he got it, or something where he can at least 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:36.359 feel good going in the off season that he did 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:38.600 something the right way, not completely the wrong way. 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:44.080 Duke twenty two on x X asked any word on Bland, 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:46.120 and I'll take that question a little bit further. Do 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:48.120 you think it gets to a point at some point 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.839 this season if he hasn't returned to where maybe they 0:36:50.840 --> 0:36:52.960 look at, hey, we could put him on IR and 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.040 you could bring up someone like a Josh Butler or 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:57.279 a chemen hall where you now get a chance to 0:36:57.320 --> 0:37:00.520 evaluate some of those guys as opposed to just kind 0:37:00.520 --> 0:37:02.359 of holding on to the hope that he comes back. 0:37:02.520 --> 0:37:04.839 Doesn't sound like he's in a better spot this week 0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:07.720 than he was last week. As far as your second 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:11.680 question there, that's a tough one because if you put 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:13.760 him on IRI, it's obviously out for four weeks. 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.920 I think if you did that, you'd be saying probably 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:19.319 just we're gonna sit him for the year, and. 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:21.480 You're also giving and you're also giving up on on 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:24.520 what the what the season has ahead. And while there's 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:25.680 a lot of people on that side of the building 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:28.160 who have not given up on that, what I expect 0:37:28.239 --> 0:37:31.279 him to know exactly, and I think if they want 0:37:31.280 --> 0:37:33.439 to have Bland back in case that they are able 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:34.319 to put together a run. 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:35.839 No, you get it right? 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:37.879 Yeah, right, real quick? 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:41.160 Michael Parson's return last week. Give me an assessment on 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:43.440 what you think he looked like last week, and and 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:45.960 not just obviously we saw the big splash plays, but 0:37:46.280 --> 0:37:49.640 overall looking at everything else, how would you assess his play? 0:37:49.760 --> 0:37:51.880 The defense has some jump when he's in there, you 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:54.520 know what I mean? Like he like they they double 0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:56.920 team him, and it allows somebody else to come around 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.560 and get a pressure unblocked or one on one or 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:02.600 you know, it makes Osa better, It makes everybody in 0:38:02.680 --> 0:38:06.000 that it made you know, it made Carl Lawson better, 0:38:06.040 --> 0:38:08.799 It made it made over shown better. You know. It 0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:12.920 just the defense was did a really nice job. I 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.320 mean they and like I say, they start the second 0:38:15.320 --> 0:38:17.359 half and get a three and out, you know, and 0:38:17.360 --> 0:38:19.200 what do you do on offense? You three and out? 0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:21.480 It just right back to them, you know, I mean 0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:25.800 this defense with him out there, they they they looked 0:38:25.840 --> 0:38:29.239 like an NFL defense, you know, they got after they pressured. 0:38:29.280 --> 0:38:31.880 They they had some mistakes because of what's going on 0:38:31.920 --> 0:38:35.359 at left corner. But he he's a difference maker. There's 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:36.480 just no question about that. 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.720 Yeah, the defense eventually broke. They were bending and bending 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:41.400 and then eventually broke there in the second half. But 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:44.600 I think from rush perspective, when Michael Parsons is on 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:46.360 the field, it is a trickle down effect for everybody. 0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:49.359 I actually asked Mike Zimmer about that on Monday, and 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.080 he feels the same way. He kind of gave me 0:38:51.280 --> 0:38:53.400 was like, well, it's our best, it's our best pass rusher. 0:38:53.400 --> 0:38:54.879 Of course he's gonna help everybody else, So. 0:38:55.640 --> 0:38:56.879 It's it's a dumb ass. 0:38:58.719 --> 0:39:07.239 Yeah, he probably said, yeah, dumb ass. He said that 0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:09.759 to me before. Yeah, dumb ass, And I keep saying that, 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:11.480 but I've heard that before. 0:39:12.200 --> 0:39:14.640 But it was it was still impressive the fact that 0:39:14.880 --> 0:39:17.680 he had been out for that amount of time and 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:22.080 felt like he didn't necessarily miss miss a beat like 0:39:22.120 --> 0:39:26.480 he went in there. And we also talked about in 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.960 your breakdown Brian the prior week heading into the game, 0:39:30.160 --> 0:39:33.840 how the Eagles have some time been able to manage 0:39:33.920 --> 0:39:36.920 him and kind of mentally drive him a little nuts 0:39:37.040 --> 0:39:38.279 at times and. 0:39:38.000 --> 0:39:39.040 And frustrate him. 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:40.719 And we know we've seen it before when he gets 0:39:40.760 --> 0:39:43.080 frustrated and messes up his game and all of that. 0:39:43.200 --> 0:39:45.279 And I think, uh, he was able to go in 0:39:45.320 --> 0:39:48.959 there and handle everything and once again goes to show 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:51.920 and this works in his favor for whatever else is 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:57.120 going to happen for his future. It shows how valuable 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.719 a guy like him is to this defense. 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:02.680 The thing going into this week, and I know about 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:05.960 you guys, I saw the defense try something, you know, 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:09.719 I saw them try to do something that and I 0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:11.960 mean do something by hey, we're not gonna play the 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:14.719 same scheme that we've been playing. We're gonna try and 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:16.400 play the run a little different. We're gonna try and 0:40:16.480 --> 0:40:19.080 rush the passer and be more. Parsons had a lot 0:40:19.120 --> 0:40:20.600 to do with that. They were able to kind of 0:40:20.640 --> 0:40:23.520 do some things. You know, we our show talked about, Hey, 0:40:23.520 --> 0:40:26.400 we'd love to see overshown rush that got him. We 0:40:26.440 --> 0:40:28.279 saw that could have been three sacks in the half 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.600 right there from that rush. That's I'm just asking the 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:33.719 offense to try and do the same thing. If we're 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:38.160 gonna if we're gonna watch losing football, please give me 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:40.919 a reason to say, you know what, they tried this, 0:40:41.480 --> 0:40:43.640 and you know what, for half the game it really 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:47.480 worked out well. They ran out of gas. Offense, Please 0:40:47.680 --> 0:40:52.000 just try something different. Try try if it's if it's 0:40:52.040 --> 0:40:54.640 put Trey Lanson in the second series of the game, 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:57.160 if it's something that you know, if it's something, just 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.600 to give it a spark to where it's not just 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:02.480 Karth even said it on Monday, he goes, what's second 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:06.480 half of football was hard? Now? Some of the hardest football. Okay, sir, 0:41:06.719 --> 0:41:09.439 you're the play caller, you know, I know you don't 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:12.239 have all your guys. But you're the play caller, you know, 0:41:12.400 --> 0:41:15.279 don't tell me how hard it is. Figure it out. 0:41:15.480 --> 0:41:18.560 Figure out something like Zimmer's over there dying with the 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:21.319 left corner that's not ready to play. But so what 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.120 he's having to do double a gap, blitz, he's putting 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:27.200 Leo foul out there, he's making overshown a rusher, he's 0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:30.520 you know, he's doing different things. If you're gonna die 0:41:30.640 --> 0:41:35.960 that way, die fighting, don't just die throwing hitches and 0:41:36.239 --> 0:41:40.040 stick routes. Well, no, that's just yeah, but that's what 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.719 you watch the games and you're we're sitting in the 0:41:43.719 --> 0:41:45.960 press box. What do we do? We die? We watch it, 0:41:46.040 --> 0:41:49.560 we die. We just like football die. We just oh man, 0:41:49.800 --> 0:41:53.320 you know. But when they come out blitzing and sacking, 0:41:53.560 --> 0:41:56.279 hurts and stuff, it gives us football life. You know. 0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:58.560 We're like, yeah, here we go. That's that's what we 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:00.719 need right there. And then the offense, it's. 0:42:01.560 --> 0:42:03.840 Yeah, a good A good example of that, Brian is 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:06.480 you look at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers right now. They 0:42:06.520 --> 0:42:09.239 lost both their top two offensive weapons are two receivers, 0:42:09.520 --> 0:42:14.000 and they are still every week very very competitive against Quarterbacke. Yeah, 0:42:14.040 --> 0:42:16.440 because they keep just figuring out ways to be in 0:42:16.520 --> 0:42:19.080 the game. And by the way they they probably are 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:20.799 not going to go anywhere this year. But the fact 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:24.439 is there's still a team that's very competitive because they're 0:42:24.480 --> 0:42:26.560 just still fighting in that way. And that's what you 0:42:26.600 --> 0:42:28.960 saw in the first half from Dallas. I think last 0:42:28.960 --> 0:42:31.080 week it just fell apart in second half. But that's 0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:32.640 what I want to see. I want to see that fight, 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:34.520 regardless of what the outcome is. I want to see 0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:36.400 that fight. And I want to see you trying something different, 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:37.120 something different. 0:42:37.239 --> 0:42:38.520 You want to see something different. 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:41.200 The different this week will be Jonathan Mingo, and then 0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:43.439 we'll be talking about the very exact same thing next week. 0:42:43.880 --> 0:42:46.120 Oh so you're saying Mingo will be involved. 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.080 It'll be the different, that'll be the different, that they'll 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:48.760 make it different. 0:42:48.800 --> 0:42:53.520 But am I wrong? I mean, and you're like and 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:55.640 you're like looking at the game and you're going, damn 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:57.000 that I've seen this before. 0:42:57.040 --> 0:42:59.239 I've been talking about creativity in this offense, needing it 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:01.759 to happen, since I feel like at times year and 0:43:02.800 --> 0:43:05.040 even when they need it the most, Oh, you can't 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:05.920 throw it out. 0:43:06.200 --> 0:43:08.720 An illustration of what it was like me at the game, 0:43:08.920 --> 0:43:14.040 sitting there, computer, sitting there, my computer, doing other stuff 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:15.600 that I need to do, and then all of a 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:18.040 sudden they get ustacked and I'm like, oh my god, 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:20.160 oh my god, hold on, I can't find the freaking 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:22.600 graphic because I did not have it ready because I 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:26.680 expect that to happen necessarily so and it was exciting 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:28.239 to your point. 0:43:28.520 --> 0:43:31.120 And if we're not, if we're gonna be you know, 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:34.160 out manned, out gunned, all that stuff, come up with 0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:37.359 something that like, man, they they're not they're not good 0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:39.600 at doing this. You know. The other team they can't 0:43:39.640 --> 0:43:42.520 handle this. Like I say, watch that Green Bay game 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:44.440 and you tell me if they can handle the double 0:43:44.480 --> 0:43:47.640 A gap blitz down there an h Town. No, they 0:43:47.680 --> 0:43:50.879 can't watch it. It's gonna happen this this Monday. 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.960 Night, all right, when does Zimmerson micah, so get. 0:43:53.760 --> 0:43:56.400 Ready on that one. That way, Mike is, Mike is 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.319 to the point now where he knows he's got game 0:43:58.480 --> 0:44:01.520 just a few games left. Probably he's going to he's 0:44:01.520 --> 0:44:02.520 going to punish. 0:44:02.160 --> 0:44:05.919 Somebody specifically, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's coming because we saw 0:44:05.960 --> 0:44:09.279 somebody and show get ready send them both through the 0:44:09.280 --> 0:44:11.880 hate gap maybe, well yeah, at the same time, but 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:13.719 alternating each of them. 0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:16.280 Yeah, all right, appreciate you guys, Jones. So we're back tomorrow. 0:44:16.400 --> 0:44:20.480 We will jump into the Dallas offense versus versus this 0:44:20.760 --> 0:44:21.560 Texans defense. 0:44:21.560 --> 0:44:24.680 Will till then for Nick Harris. Brian brought us Ambergarci. 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:25.080 I'm Derek. 0:44:25.400 --> 0:44:27.439 This has been the Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:44:27.480 --> 0:44:28.440 Com Radio. 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:32.560 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:34.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.