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Speaker 7: December twenty seventh, twenty twenty, third season nineteen, episode number
Speaker 7: ninety six.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 7: We're a lot from the s WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 7: the Star and as you can see, I'm trying to
Speaker 7: take us back to September because I want to start
Speaker 7: this thing all over again and do it again college football,
Speaker 7: pro football.
Speaker 4: I'd sign up for that if we can start it
Speaker 4: all over again, but we're not. We're toward the end
Speaker 4: of the season and we're.
Speaker 8: Going to get kids to the Super Bowl first.
Speaker 7: No, I just want to start over like that scares me.
Speaker 7: I just want to start back over in September. One's
Speaker 7: just fun and just free flowing, and you got all
Speaker 7: the optimism and don't have all the problems that you
Speaker 7: discovered during the season, but.
Speaker 2: Aubrey's kicking the ball and it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, that was the worst problem we had back then,
Speaker 7: was like are you gonna have a kicker? And now
Speaker 7: that all resolved itself, we got so many other issues
Speaker 7: to talk about.
Speaker 2: We know so much about kickers, don't we?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we do, all right, So we're going to today
Speaker 7: We're going to talk about the Cowboys versus the Lions.
Speaker 7: We're going to get into the Lions offense versus the
Speaker 7: Cowboys defense. Uh, let's start first though, with some injury updates.
Speaker 7: What are we hearing right now about Tyron Smith?
Speaker 3: Well, Tyron Smith he said on yesterday and with locker
Speaker 3: room availability that he had, he's not calling it the stinger.
Speaker 3: He's like, it's not a stinger. He's saying it his
Speaker 3: back tightened up. He said, quote unquote, it feels better.
Speaker 3: He said that they set him so that it would
Speaker 3: quote unquote call down. Apparently, based upon what Tyron said
Speaker 3: on yesterday, it has calmed down. That does provide some
Speaker 3: optimism that he could possibly take the field against the
Speaker 3: Detroit Lions. If you ask McCarthy and owner and general
Speaker 3: manager Jerry Jones. They're kind of fifty to fifty on
Speaker 3: it right now. Of course, there's still half today's practice,
Speaker 3: you know, have a walk through tomorrow so we'll know
Speaker 3: the final determination. But when it comes to Tyron, progress
Speaker 3: has been made, so that's the good news there. Jonathan
Speaker 3: Hankins still fifty to fifty based on what Jerry said
Speaker 3: to One on five through the Fan on yesterday, what
Speaker 3: McCarthy is saying, but McCarthy said he does have a chance.
Speaker 3: Hankins does to take the field as well. He also
Speaker 3: said Tyron has a chance as well, so that goes
Speaker 3: to the progress that Tyron has made. Those are your
Speaker 3: two headliners as it stands, they both have an opportunity.
Speaker 3: We'll see how the rest of the week goes. The
Speaker 3: rest of everyone else is just limited. Stefan Gilmore, he
Speaker 3: said that he was dealing with a rib injury that
Speaker 3: he suffered against the Miami Dolphins, but he said that
Speaker 3: he's in, He's going to play. That's basically that's what
Speaker 3: was echoed by Mike McCarthy. Stefan was limited on yesterday,
Speaker 3: but they expect that Stefan Gilmore will be on the
Speaker 3: field against the Detroit Lions and they're gonna need him because,
Speaker 3: as Brian is going.
Speaker 4: To tell you, guys, they've got some firepower in Detroit.
Speaker 3: The rest is basically some rest days, veteran rest days,
Speaker 3: guys limited. We had two transactions this morning that came
Speaker 3: in a few minutes before the show kicked off. Rashaan
Speaker 3: Evans has been waived by the Cowboys to make room
Speaker 3: for the activation of Matt will Let's go. So, well,
Speaker 3: let's go is now back from ir with hit that
Speaker 3: shoulder injury there. I know he's going to get into
Speaker 3: it in a moment, but yeah, so linebacker depth is
Speaker 3: now much more of a concern with Rashaan Evans being
Speaker 3: sent to waivers. And for those that don't know now,
Speaker 3: at this point of the season, every single person that's
Speaker 3: waived goes to the waiver wire and can't be claimed.
Speaker 3: And if he's not claimed, then he'll be a free agent.
Speaker 3: He can sound whatever he wants. But well, let's go
Speaker 3: is back and we'll see if his shoulders can allow
Speaker 3: him to stay on the field this time. But I
Speaker 3: think it's one of the things with the Cowboys saw
Speaker 3: the pressure put on Dak Prescott in the absence of
Speaker 3: Tyrone Smith and said, Okay, yeah, Matt, come on up
Speaker 3: and let's see what you.
Speaker 4: Got a little confused on the Rashawn Evans move. I mean,
Speaker 4: here's my thing.
Speaker 7: When when you're starving, do you like turn down saltine crackers?
Speaker 4: Like is it?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 3: No, They're delicious everything, everything's delicious, right, And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: so linebackers the position very good?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 8: Literally?
Speaker 7: Like you like like it's like, you know, I mean,
Speaker 7: I just I don't understand that, Brian, what have you
Speaker 7: seen in Rashon Evans? I guess what have you seen
Speaker 7: from Rashaan Evans that may suggest that maybe he's just
Speaker 7: not the answer for them? And they're like, he's a part,
Speaker 7: he's too much a part of the problem, you know.
Speaker 9: I the times he did play, I think that they
Speaker 9: were a little bit worried about. And it's been a
Speaker 9: struggle for the linebackers or the guys that have played.
Speaker 9: It's been about awareness. It's about when you when you play,
Speaker 9: are you seeing everything? Are you reacting the right way?
Speaker 9: Are you Can we trust you to play coverages? Can
Speaker 9: we trust you to play downhill? Can we trust you
Speaker 9: to fill when you have to fill? I think they're
Speaker 9: having some really struggles with that right now, and you know,
Speaker 9: then they really don't have an answer. They tried their answer.
Speaker 9: Their best shot at this was trying to get Shack Lennard.
Speaker 9: That was their best shot at it and to try
Speaker 9: and maybe help the situation. But I think the thing
Speaker 9: with Evans is that when they put him in there,
Speaker 9: they they obviously did not like what they saw the
Speaker 9: way that he played at all the things I mentioned,
Speaker 9: you know, I mean, he didn't get a whole lot
Speaker 9: of chances to play, but the ones that he did play,
Speaker 9: you know, you kind of felt like though that here's
Speaker 9: a guy that in his career had been a difference
Speaker 9: maker in some teams. For this one though, wasn't nearly
Speaker 9: around the ball near enough, wasn't nearly finishing blocks like
Speaker 9: he needed or it's going to be finishing plays like
Speaker 9: he needed to finish. And they deemed him as the
Speaker 9: fifty third guy, which is surprising to me, but considering that,
Speaker 9: I didn't think.
Speaker 2: He was that bad of a player.
Speaker 9: But their thoughts and my thoughts are totally different a
Speaker 9: lot of times, and so uh, you know, they they
Speaker 9: move on that way, but it does it definitely weakens
Speaker 9: what they're trying to do at least from a depth standpoint,
Speaker 9: you know, And we need to probably go back and
Speaker 9: look at the special team stuff. Was Evans helping you
Speaker 9: enough on special teams to you know if if if
Speaker 9: he was, I guarantee a bones fossil would have been
Speaker 9: standing at at Will's door saying no, no, you can't
Speaker 9: do this.
Speaker 2: I need this guy.
Speaker 9: So obviously everything that about that tells him just to
Speaker 9: move on from him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there are probably That's the thing we
Speaker 7: have to always remember is the amount of time that
Speaker 7: the coaches are spending with these players is substantially more
Speaker 7: than what we see.
Speaker 4: Just on the field when we watch games and the
Speaker 4: room stuff. Yeah, it's all practice stuff. Does you have
Speaker 4: the right practice habits? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Like, there are lots of things about and I'm not
Speaker 7: saying he doesn't. All I'm saying is a lot more.
Speaker 2: It's clues. It's clues. It's clues.
Speaker 9: And I've been a part of scouting staffs for thirteen
Speaker 9: years and exactly everything you just said is exactly true.
Speaker 2: You know it.
Speaker 9: There's things that day's coaches like, would they get to
Speaker 9: a point where they do not want a.
Speaker 4: Player regardless of what he's doing regardless.
Speaker 2: Of what he's doing.
Speaker 9: As a personal guy, you just have to say, Okay, coach,
Speaker 9: you got it because.
Speaker 7: The road right the personnel guys like he can play yeah,
Speaker 7: and the coaches like I can't coach him.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing.
Speaker 9: You never want to put a player bring a player
Speaker 9: to a coach that doesn't want to coaching. It's a
Speaker 9: it's a bad mix right there. And you know, obviously
Speaker 9: he did not do enough for what they were asking
Speaker 9: him to do on the field. You as a player
Speaker 9: to be part of this fifty three man roster. I
Speaker 9: say something about Hankins real quick if I could. The
Speaker 9: thing they're struggling with right now with Hankins is he's
Speaker 9: a three hundred and thirty pound man with a high
Speaker 9: ankle sprain.
Speaker 2: That's a problem. That's a problem.
Speaker 9: Usually sometimes you get lighter guys. It's a little bit
Speaker 9: more of a quicker fix. And that's what they're working
Speaker 9: through right now. They're hopeful, they're hopeful on Smith, but
Speaker 9: they're hopeful on Hankins as well. But the problem is
Speaker 9: have his size and taking on double teams, the lateral
Speaker 9: agility and all those things, those are all weighing into them.
Speaker 9: Trying to get him ready to practice right now or
Speaker 9: to excuse me to play. You know, are they making
Speaker 9: progress like Patrick said, Yes, are they? But is it
Speaker 9: going to take more time? We'll see, We'll see. But
Speaker 9: right now that's the biggest issue. They're dealing with his
Speaker 9: size and they want to make sure that he has
Speaker 9: he's playing on both both feet. You know, you don't
Speaker 9: want to be a defensive tackle and playing on one leg.
Speaker 2: That's a problem.
Speaker 9: I want to ask you another question here real quick, guys,
Speaker 9: before we get into this, how much you think Mazzie
Speaker 9: Smith ways.
Speaker 7: If you had to guess, I would guess three.
Speaker 9: Two ninety three. See, this is the problem now, and
Speaker 9: I'm bringing up during the season. He's lost forty pounds.
Speaker 4: During the season.
Speaker 2: He's three hundred and thirty.
Speaker 9: Pounds coming out of at A Michigan and we wonder,
Speaker 9: you know, we wonder I was visiting.
Speaker 4: With he has a lot of weight to lose.
Speaker 9: He's lost weight along the way. Because we've seen other
Speaker 9: guys in this. You know, Tank is a guy you
Speaker 9: talk to Tank, what he eats is very very regimented.
Speaker 9: You know, you got guys, uh oh, so Diggy's what up?
Speaker 9: Very regimented the way he eats, you know, not with me.
Speaker 9: Oh they're standing there waiting for the burgers, you know,
Speaker 9: with the fries that are excellent at this facility, you know,
Speaker 9: kind of going to the salad bar, tater tots, Yeah that's.
Speaker 2: Here, you know, and I'm not.
Speaker 9: I was just talking to some folks about it, and
Speaker 9: I said, why does Mazzi look smaller on tape? He
Speaker 9: doesn't have the big rear anymore and stuff like that.
Speaker 9: He goes, No, he's down, he's down. He's lost about
Speaker 9: forty pounds. So you wonder they're asking him to play
Speaker 9: a role for Hankins, in a role where he's we're like,
Speaker 9: really a three technique. And so that's that's part of
Speaker 9: what we're dealing with right now. We're dealing with being
Speaker 9: laid off the ball. But we're not the player we
Speaker 9: drafted coming out of Michigan that was three hundred and
Speaker 9: thirty pounds. You know, you get a better dietitian program
Speaker 9: or whatever, but you lose forty pounds when you're a
Speaker 9: one technique. That's you're not a one technique playing at
Speaker 9: two hundred and ninety three pounds.
Speaker 8: But also, just to be clear.
Speaker 2: And I'm not making excuses for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but this is a coach decision.
Speaker 2: This is like the coach player decision.
Speaker 10: Well, what I've been told, and I'm not talking about
Speaker 10: Mazi specifically, I'm talking about different players what I've been told.
Speaker 10: I mean, there is a certain weight that you're required
Speaker 10: to be, depending on what they're asking you to be.
Speaker 10: If you're over under that weight when they have to
Speaker 10: weigh every week, they get fine, Yeah, oh no, it
Speaker 10: has to be exactly the weight that you're supposed to be.
Speaker 10: So that just leads me to think this is the
Speaker 10: weight that they're asking to be and is not otherwise. Yeah,
Speaker 10: they wouldn't have him played. I mean, that's a lot
Speaker 10: of weight to lose.
Speaker 2: Well, you think about what his responsibility is.
Speaker 9: And we talked about him on the draft show for
Speaker 9: an up and you know, as we've gone through the
Speaker 9: year here and I'm not trying to make excuses for
Speaker 9: the guy again, I really am not.
Speaker 2: He's a different player. Yeah, he's a different player at
Speaker 2: two ninety three as he is the three thirty.
Speaker 4: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 7: Would they have thought that maybe getting him at a
Speaker 7: smaller weight would help.
Speaker 4: With his get Yeah.
Speaker 7: Right now, he's not getting up as fast as you
Speaker 7: wanted to.
Speaker 4: But I would think that's more of a just reaction
Speaker 4: than it is.
Speaker 2: Three twelve yeah, right, three twelve, three fifteen.
Speaker 9: I mean if you maybe kick out, you know, kick
Speaker 9: off eight to ten pounds and he's already quick. But
Speaker 9: you know it's just that reaction, right, you know, it's
Speaker 9: the snap of the ball and his hands are still
Speaker 9: on the ground and everybody's moving. That's the thing that
Speaker 9: is correct that with lower weight. Yeah, no, it's but
Speaker 9: maybe he's thinking like, oh I for movement, how I
Speaker 9: get up the field, be quicker and all that when
Speaker 9: he when he gets off the ball, he can play
Speaker 9: football well for you. But I think our vision of
Speaker 9: the player is and I'm watching him on tape and
Speaker 9: I'm wondering. I'm like, does he looks smaller?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 9: And I ask, and this is what I hear. And
Speaker 9: so now all of a sudden you're thinking this is
Speaker 9: a different football player. I'm not looking at it. I'm
Speaker 9: not looking at Hankins. I'm looking at oh so Dighy's
Speaker 9: is what I'm looking at. Or I'm looking at you know,
Speaker 9: I'm looking at a smaller player. That's asked to play
Speaker 9: as a run stopper. So when you talk about Hankins
Speaker 9: and how important he is, and there's a lot of
Speaker 9: things that go into this defense and a lot of
Speaker 9: questions about it right now, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: It makes me wonder thinking about or having this conversation.
Speaker 3: First person that pops in my head is Tyrone Crawford.
Speaker 3: Now where you know the Cowboys, That coaching staff had him,
Speaker 3: They pop him inside, they asked him to put on weight,
Speaker 3: move him outside, he have to ship away. That was
Speaker 3: kind of a yo yo situation regularly regularly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So and that then takes me back to training camp
Speaker 3: this h this past summer wherein we saw a lot
Speaker 3: of Mazzie Smith packages side by side with Jonathan Hankins,
Speaker 3: which kind of makes me wonder if their plan, at
Speaker 3: least this year was to say, Okay, well, we're going
Speaker 3: to see how much we can play you alongside Hankins.
Speaker 4: Maybe drop some of that weight.
Speaker 3: But that's a lot of package to drop forty, So
Speaker 3: that that does kind of pigeonhole him at the three
Speaker 3: because you're not playing zero in one, you know, unless
Speaker 3: your Michael, Yeah, your Michael, you can do zero and
Speaker 3: one you can move on past.
Speaker 7: But when you're trying to stop running, when when you're
Speaker 7: ready to have an issue, you're not going to hold
Speaker 7: up pounds on you.
Speaker 2: You're already small. You're already kind of small up front.
Speaker 9: And one of the things, and maybe one of these
Speaker 9: things too, like Ambar says, is like, Okay, maybe we
Speaker 9: want to get him on the field more with Hankings,
Speaker 9: And so how do you get him on the field
Speaker 9: more with Hanks?
Speaker 2: You play him as a traditional three. They turn him
Speaker 2: into a three.
Speaker 9: But I haven't heard anybody come out and say we're
Speaker 9: going to start working Mozzie Moore as a three technique.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he's got this year's come up.
Speaker 9: Sometimes these players they lose weight through the year because
Speaker 9: they're not used to playing seventeen games and having a
Speaker 9: whole training camp, and naturally they just get beat down
Speaker 9: and they can't. But that's a lot yeahs.
Speaker 3: And they added.
Speaker 8: You have to purposely run of those those because.
Speaker 3: The added problem is if I was a bitten man,
Speaker 3: and but if I'm a bitting man, I don't think
Speaker 3: Jonathan Hankins plays in this game. It's obviously possible, but
Speaker 3: I just don't feel like he plays in this game.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's too valuable for what they need
Speaker 3: to do in the playoffs. So they're kind of at
Speaker 3: a situation where, yeah, they want it, Yeah, they don't
Speaker 3: want to back into the playoffs, so they want to
Speaker 3: win these games, but they don't want to win these
Speaker 3: games at the risk of hurting the possible playoff run.
Speaker 3: And Carl Davis, bless his heart, did not look great.
Speaker 3: Did not look great. So if we got a forty
Speaker 3: pounds lighter Mazzi plus Carl Davis not looking great, Jonathan
Speaker 3: Hankins likely not playing this particular week, that you have
Speaker 3: an issue at nose tackle, and now you just sent
Speaker 3: the linebacker packing. So now you have depth issue at
Speaker 3: linebacker unless you're one, and I'm not one. Unless you're
Speaker 3: one who thinks Buddy Johnson's going to come off the
Speaker 3: practice squad and and be you know, Bobby Wagner, you
Speaker 3: got some issues there as well. So some things to
Speaker 3: figure out for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: A name out there maybe they're looking at possibly to
Speaker 10: bring in because.
Speaker 9: This, you know, not this not this late in the year.
Speaker 9: I wish that they would. I wish you've got the
Speaker 9: playoffs they'd let you take somebody off somebody's team, right,
Speaker 9: not the playoffs like travel baseball, Like you beat somebody
Speaker 9: in a tournament, you get we can to take one.
Speaker 3: Of their pot allow that that would be not I
Speaker 3: really think it's rightful.
Speaker 4: I think it's something that they should consider.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: It doesn't hurt anything, but it helps the competitive competitiveness
Speaker 3: of the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Although knowing how the Eagles are, everybody you know they are,
Speaker 7: they going they don't mind if you get anybody and
Speaker 7: everybody you if.
Speaker 9: You get the if you get the buye, you don't
Speaker 9: get to take a guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, I like that. I like that. So they
Speaker 4: would be rooting for the Eagles to get the BUYO.
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Speaker 7: Brian, you ever danced on the table at Concrete Cowboy?
Speaker 2: No, but you know after the draft, it's a good
Speaker 2: place to go have a beer. It is.
Speaker 9: I mean, I've we've done a like we do our
Speaker 9: shows here and you just you've spent fifteen hours in
Speaker 9: this room and you just want to go have a
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Speaker 4: I just figure about it.
Speaker 2: But I've never never, never got up on the table.
Speaker 4: Now, I figure after a couple of vodka waters.
Speaker 7: Maybe you kind of get out where.
Speaker 2: Let's let's lose.
Speaker 9: Let Texas beat Washington in this playoff and we'll see
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Speaker 2: Yes you will in your hometown.
Speaker 7: Yes you will, Yes you will. All right, let's jump in.
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Speaker 7: let's go. Uh, let's start going to see you right. Offense,
Speaker 7: and I guess I'm gonna ask you a big picture question.
Speaker 7: You take it where you want to take it. What
Speaker 7: does this offense do best? And where are they most challenged?
Speaker 2: I think actually where they're the best?
Speaker 9: Is there a built hand It's hard to say because
Speaker 9: I'm on, I'm on, Rod Saint Brown is a really
Speaker 9: talented player and so he could put a lot of
Speaker 9: pressure on you catching the football. I'm gonna start with
Speaker 9: these backs because I kind of feel like though that
Speaker 9: there's a lot of people that gave the Lions a
Speaker 9: lot of.
Speaker 2: Grief for drafting Jamar.
Speaker 9: Gibbs where they got him, and then you look at him,
Speaker 9: Gibbs and David Montgomery. These are quality backs, I mean
Speaker 9: quality backs, and you look like last week what you
Speaker 9: had to deal with with the Dolphins, you're kind of
Speaker 9: dealing with the same kind of thing this week with
Speaker 9: But the thing with Gibbs, he is an amazing kid.
Speaker 9: Started his career at Georgia Tech and then went to Alabama.
Speaker 9: He can wore multiple hats as a player. You can
Speaker 9: hand it to them, you can throw it to him.
Speaker 9: I will give you a little key though. When they're
Speaker 9: under center, they're going to run the football. That's their
Speaker 9: thing they do. They're one of the they're one of
Speaker 9: the they're one of the when you look at the metrics,
Speaker 9: and the metrics tell you when you watch the tape
Speaker 9: that when Golf gets in gets under center, they're probably
Speaker 9: going to hand the ball to one of these backs.
Speaker 9: So Cowboys, if you're in that mode, you know there's
Speaker 9: your key right there. Check it out. I'm sure they
Speaker 9: know that just as well as I do. But yeah,
Speaker 9: this team does not run the ball all that much
Speaker 9: out of shotgun. But when they do hand it to
Speaker 9: these guys, and I think one they want to do
Speaker 9: is they want to play under centers because they want
Speaker 9: to put Gibbs as far back.
Speaker 2: As they can and then hand it to him.
Speaker 4: And then let it already running.
Speaker 9: When he's already running and so I mean he's when
Speaker 9: he runs, it's like he's on ice skates. I mean
Speaker 9: I watch a lot of Dallas Stars hockey, and he
Speaker 9: just kind of like he's one of these guys just
Speaker 9: going up the ice the way he plays. But he's
Speaker 9: got home run speed. He's the feel for the crease,
Speaker 9: he can hit it. He could set up the blockers,
Speaker 9: he gain an angle and then man, he could just
Speaker 9: hit it and go his hands. He's got receiver like hands.
Speaker 9: So he's really a weapon in all areas right here.
Speaker 9: And he's a you know, he's just that kind of
Speaker 9: that qual you have a player. Montgomery doesn't have the
Speaker 9: flash of Gibbs, but he's a chain mover, you know,
Speaker 9: is that you hand him the ball and it's next thing.
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's.
Speaker 9: Second and six and he's getting seven. It's second in five,
Speaker 9: he's getting six. He's he's just that kind of player.
Speaker 9: He's really good after contact too. Actually, both these guys
Speaker 9: are really really good after contact, Like you hit them
Speaker 9: and then they find a way to gain extra yards.
Speaker 9: But the balance, the vision, you know, both of these
Speaker 9: guys have really are impressive players, and their line does
Speaker 9: a really good job where they do struggle is I
Speaker 9: think with some of their past protection stuff. I don't
Speaker 9: think the right side of actually be the left side
Speaker 9: of their offensive line is particularly a strength of theirs.
Speaker 9: But as run blockers, man, they do a good job.
Speaker 9: Frank Ragnow the center man, I had problems with him
Speaker 9: coming out of Arkansas, and I was it's kind of
Speaker 9: like it reminded me of Travis Frederick. I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 9: you took a guy in the first round.
Speaker 2: Prove me wrong. He proved me way wrong.
Speaker 9: The way this guy the movement, skills, agility, all that stuff.
Speaker 9: But if they've got a problem, it's going to be
Speaker 9: on there on that left side with Jonah Jackson and
Speaker 9: Taylor Decker, I think are the areas that you might
Speaker 9: need to focus on if you're going after pass rushing.
Speaker 7: Right, I was looking at the metrics for this team.
Speaker 7: They are right now fifth in passing. Yeah, they are
Speaker 7: also third in rushing, So across the board, whether they're
Speaker 7: throwing or run the ball, they are very potent and
Speaker 7: they can put up a lot of yards on you.
Speaker 7: Let's focus in on the passing for a second. First,
Speaker 7: there are two guys that I want you to give
Speaker 7: us a scouting report on huh Aman Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 7: you already mentioned, and then Sam Laporta, the rookie tight end.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, okay, Saint Brown is This is how I
Speaker 9: would describe him. He's the kind of receiver who doesn't
Speaker 9: let the ball hit the turf when it comes to is,
Speaker 9: when it comes to him and it hits his hands,
Speaker 9: it's not gonna hit the ground. I mean, he is
Speaker 9: one of the most consistent when you start to talk
Speaker 9: about ball skills of receivers that I've seen. The attention
Speaker 9: to detail that he plays with or outstanding. He's super
Speaker 9: competitive and you could tell with the way he plays
Speaker 9: he really loves the game. It's important to him the
Speaker 9: way he plays and his detail is like when you
Speaker 9: when he runs routes, it's very heavy of just that.
Speaker 9: Like I was talking about the detail foot points where
Speaker 9: he needs to be.
Speaker 2: There's just no wasted motion.
Speaker 9: When he plays, and he can put a defensive back
Speaker 9: in an area where he wants and take advantage of that.
Speaker 9: So'll run at you, he'll move you, and now you're
Speaker 9: in trouble. And then he goes off his way and
Speaker 9: he'll go catch the football. So he's got strength in
Speaker 9: his hands, he's got quickness, he's he's a he's a
Speaker 9: quality player for for them.
Speaker 2: And Laporta the question, and this is a this came
Speaker 2: up on draft day.
Speaker 9: So if you're listening to the Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 9: the Draft show, we were talking about this because late
Speaker 9: in the process, late in the process, we were hearing
Speaker 9: about Sam Laporta tight end from Iowa, that maybe the
Speaker 9: Cowboys would select him in the first round. We were
Speaker 9: all like, oh wow, okay, that's interesting. So and just
Speaker 9: kind of visit with people post draft about him. I
Speaker 9: was like, man, I was hearing whispers.
Speaker 2: About this tight end.
Speaker 9: Coach and head coach really liked Sam Laporta a lot.
Speaker 9: I mean, they were on that. That was something that
Speaker 9: give my credit, you know, give under Wells a lot
Speaker 9: of credit. They had a vision for what this player
Speaker 9: potentially could be. And as crazy as that might have
Speaker 9: sounded back then, it might have been a really wise
Speaker 9: choice to take to take this guy in the first
Speaker 9: round because he's a thick, compact kind of guy, but
Speaker 9: his lower body power is excellent. He's got to burst
Speaker 9: off the ball, he creates separation.
Speaker 2: He's got foot.
Speaker 9: Speed, physicality, toughness, in the routes, mismatch player, he's got strength,
Speaker 9: he's got speeds off handed, he's got the catch radius.
Speaker 9: He wins on contested balls. He has had some drops
Speaker 9: this year. There were a couple that I saw in
Speaker 9: the games I watched. Matter of fact, the Bears game
Speaker 9: is a kind of a fun game to watch. They
Speaker 9: really didn't. I think it has something to do again
Speaker 9: with with golf, playing outside and cold. It's kind of
Speaker 9: his kryptonite. And the Bears caught him in one of
Speaker 9: those games and he wasn't as good as he needed
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 2: But they've had.
Speaker 9: Some drops with Laporta, but most of everything nine touchdowns
Speaker 9: and he's kind of got solid effort desires or run blocker.
Speaker 9: I think he's going to need to improve his sustain
Speaker 9: a little bit. But this is a guy's a weapon.
Speaker 9: I mean, he really is a weapon when you watch
Speaker 9: him when you run the routes and they throw him
Speaker 9: the ball.
Speaker 7: So looking at the rushing attack. As I said before,
Speaker 7: they're third in rushing in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Check this out.
Speaker 7: In seven of the last eight games they've played this season,
Speaker 7: they have one hundred and forty plus rushing yards.
Speaker 4: This is a potent running offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So here's a question that I have for you, guys,
Speaker 7: because in this last game with the Cowboys played, they
Speaker 7: held they held moster to forty six yards, they held
Speaker 7: a change to twenty four yards.
Speaker 4: My question for you is what does.
Speaker 7: That tell you about the Cowboys rush defense if anything?
Speaker 4: And I want to hear from everybody on this, but
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I've talked too much, Patrick, go ahead.
Speaker 4: No. I was going to say.
Speaker 3: It kind of goes back to a couple of weeks
Speaker 3: ago when I said, this Cowboys team has shown me
Speaker 3: that they can stop the opponent's run. It's just a
Speaker 3: matter of like Brian said yesterday, it's the details. It's
Speaker 3: it's execution. It's first of all, going in with the
Speaker 3: correct mindset and then not allowing one big game or
Speaker 3: something like that to demoralize you and just keep these
Speaker 3: guys in front of you, play sideline the sideline. And
Speaker 3: as long as you can do that, then you can
Speaker 3: keep guys like most It contained. You can keep guys
Speaker 3: like a prime in that moment Austin Eckler contained. And
Speaker 3: I mean talk about a chain for example, that's one
Speaker 3: of the shiftier, speedier running backs. And for the at
Speaker 3: least the first half of the season. He was a
Speaker 3: hit one of the headliners for the Dolphins offense. He
Speaker 3: was an afterthought against the Cowboys run rushing defense on
Speaker 3: a couple of days ago on Sunday. So, I mean
Speaker 3: that tells me they have the ability to do it
Speaker 3: even with a guy like Jonathan Hankins injured. It's just
Speaker 3: it's commitment to it. It's you know, staying focused on
Speaker 3: the details and just making sure that everybody plays their
Speaker 3: role in a Texas that way. And you can do that.
Speaker 3: So I'm not of the mindset that, oh, well Hankins
Speaker 3: is out and oh who is the world? No, I've
Speaker 3: seen this team be able to stop with Hankins and
Speaker 3: without Hankins. It's just mindset, mindset, stay committed, play your
Speaker 3: play your lanes, and focus on the details.
Speaker 9: They handle the perimeter run really well in the Miami game. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and so but what you have to worry about with
Speaker 9: this group, it's a little bit more inside and outside.
Speaker 9: You know, they're they're gonna if they they're going this
Speaker 9: line is gonna come off. They're gonna come off and
Speaker 9: zone and they're gonna double and then they're gonna push
Speaker 9: and they're gonna get second level. And like Patrick's talking
Speaker 9: about though, the reason the Cowboys play, they play with
Speaker 9: great discipline. The other day when you watch the Ravens play.
Speaker 9: Somebody we're talking to is Aisham Wurson and I were
Speaker 9: talking about this and she goes, why, I really admire
Speaker 9: the way the Ravens play.
Speaker 2: And I don't think the Ravens get enough credit for
Speaker 2: how physical.
Speaker 9: They give them credit for about physical and the players
Speaker 9: they have give credit for how discipline they play and
Speaker 9: they don't get out of place, and that, you know,
Speaker 9: to be really good in run defense, like Patrick saying,
Speaker 9: you have to have fits. You have to have you
Speaker 9: have to have your your nickel coming down. You have
Speaker 9: to have your safety coming down. You have to have
Speaker 9: your your edges like Tank and those guys holding up, pushing,
Speaker 9: you know, getting guys up the field, not letting them
Speaker 9: get around the corner. You know that that's the challenge
Speaker 9: again this week. I mean, these guys are gonna they're
Speaker 9: going to test the edges on you. And but these
Speaker 9: guys I think are better running the ball inside than
Speaker 9: what the Dolphins were.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be the challenge for you.
Speaker 10: Right there, we've seen improvement for sure, but to me,
Speaker 10: it's always like kind of like.
Speaker 8: A slippery slope where.
Speaker 10: You can't have those games and they've come out with wins.
Speaker 10: Even though teams have ran the ball very well, there
Speaker 10: have been games where the Colways end up winning the
Speaker 10: game regardless, but we've seen those games where they the
Speaker 10: running back can escape and then there it goes. And
Speaker 10: then now that kind of becomes the trend of the
Speaker 10: game and it's hard to stop it. So that's why
Speaker 10: I call it a slippery slope because as well as
Speaker 10: soon as sometimes they allow one big play, two big play,
Speaker 10: then it just carries on throughout the whole game and
Speaker 10: it happens like that, and then mistakes start happening. Also,
Speaker 10: you talked about playing a clean game, penalties and those
Speaker 10: things where you know at key moments, and that goes
Speaker 10: on both sides of the ball. Honestly, it's not just
Speaker 10: on the defense offense as well. But I think the
Speaker 10: advantage here and I know you'll do the scouting report
Speaker 10: tomorrow for the defense, but I think the advantage here
Speaker 10: is one they're playing at home and to.
Speaker 8: The offense. Cowboys offense, I.
Speaker 10: Think they should be able to play better and score
Speaker 10: more points than they have the last two weeks, which
Speaker 10: will then help the defense as well. That's one of
Speaker 10: the things you can This defense has been getting tired,
Speaker 10: and they've been holding on there for dear life and
Speaker 10: making it happen. But then at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: the offense hasn't pulled their part of the game.
Speaker 3: When it comes to a guy like Jamior Gibbs especially,
Speaker 3: and I'm looking at the linebackers for this one, you
Speaker 3: got to try to get him at the line of
Speaker 3: scrimmage as often as passe quick like, yes, quickly, because
Speaker 3: if he if he already gets past the first level
Speaker 3: and he has a lane to the second level and
Speaker 3: it's him versus your linebacker, your linebacker is in dire
Speaker 3: straits immediately because he's one plant direction change and it's
Speaker 3: so difficult to square him up. So you gotta at least,
Speaker 3: you know, for the defensive line. Obviously you want that
Speaker 3: tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage, but worst case,
Speaker 3: just disrupt him and give your linebacker a chance, because
Speaker 3: if it is, if it's a clean lane and he's
Speaker 3: staring at at your linebacker coming full speed, if you
Speaker 3: try to score up, where do you go because fake left,
Speaker 3: go right, and you're done. We just saw the highlight
Speaker 3: yesterday on Twitter. Oh my god, that man has a family.
Speaker 3: He laid a grown man down with one move. So careful.
Speaker 3: That's Jamiir Gibbs's game. If you let him at the
Speaker 3: second level, your linebackers are in trump.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: One of the things I do take from that game
Speaker 7: against the Dolphins is Mostert and Hn are both speed guys.
Speaker 4: There are Jamir Gibbs is also a speed guy.
Speaker 7: Yes, And so the hope is that what they did
Speaker 7: in that game, maybe they can bottle him up in
Speaker 7: the same way and the speed won't affect him in
Speaker 7: the same way. I will say that Gibbs, in my opinion,
Speaker 7: is a little shiftier than I of those other two backs.
Speaker 7: But that all being said, like, this is going to
Speaker 7: be a challenge, and I don't care how you how
Speaker 7: you dice it up.
Speaker 4: This is going to be a challenge trying to stop
Speaker 4: Gibbs and Montgomery.
Speaker 2: Score forty and they don't run the ball.
Speaker 4: It's a good point.
Speaker 2: You can't do that. Bar's playing score forty and they
Speaker 2: won't run the ball.
Speaker 4: All right, let's take our final break.
Speaker 7: Will we come back we come back, will jump into
Speaker 7: the Dallas defense. I actually want to talk a little
Speaker 7: bit about some of the some specific players, particularly some
Speaker 7: of the safeties and the linebackers. We'll talk about that
Speaker 7: when we come back to this Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio.
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Speaker 7: Jon Us, it's the final segment of the break Let's
Speaker 7: talk about the Dallas defense. I noticed something as I
Speaker 7: was going through and looking at some well, something triggered.
Speaker 4: I don't even remember what it was, but.
Speaker 7: I started thinking, I wonder if the Cowboys made any
Speaker 7: changes to who was playing and how much they were
Speaker 7: playing between the Baltimore mean Sorry, the Bills game and
Speaker 7: then looking at the Miami game.
Speaker 9: Say that once more time, I got a text that
Speaker 9: it confused me quick, So player participation.
Speaker 7: I wanted to look at player participation in the Bills
Speaker 7: game versus the Miami Dolphins game, particularly at the safety
Speaker 7: and linebacker position, because seeing how much better they played
Speaker 7: in Miami, my thought was.
Speaker 4: Did they use people less or more? And I saw
Speaker 4: something very very interesting.
Speaker 7: Dmoon Clark the Buffalo game played ninety two point three
Speaker 7: percent of the snaps in the Miami game, however, he
Speaker 7: only played sixty seven point two percent of the snaps.
Speaker 7: You look at Marquise Bell in the Buffalo game seventy
Speaker 7: five point four percent of the snaps in the Dolphins
Speaker 7: game forty six point nine percent of the snap So
Speaker 7: both of them dropped off a significant amount. On the
Speaker 7: flip side of that, Donovan Wilson in the Bills game
Speaker 7: sixty nine point two percent of the plays in the
Speaker 7: Miami game ninety eight point four percent, so almost a
Speaker 7: complete game for him.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: And by the way, I don't know that Donovan had
Speaker 4: a great game, but the run defense was better.
Speaker 7: My question is, do you think that this was just
Speaker 7: by a chance or do you think they actively were
Speaker 7: like those two linebackers have to be on the field
Speaker 7: less for us to be better at run defense.
Speaker 2: You're gonna go after one of the You're gonna go
Speaker 2: after these guys a little bit.
Speaker 4: Well, I know it's a hard question.
Speaker 9: It's it's it's a fair question. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 9: is weird. I think Donovan Wilson is a good run player.
Speaker 9: I think he struggles seeing in the pass, but he's
Speaker 9: so physical and when you play him close to the
Speaker 9: line of scrimmage and ask, now, okay, we've seen some
Speaker 9: Arizona game was a crazy angle next thing, you know,
Speaker 9: it's out the gate kind of thing. But I think overall,
Speaker 9: you put him near the ball or around the ball,
Speaker 9: or let him see the ball, he is going to
Speaker 9: go get the ball. And I do feel like there's
Speaker 9: some things I think Bell is trying his best. I
Speaker 9: think they're asking Bell to play at a superhuman level,
Speaker 9: and I think he's played his best. I mean that's
Speaker 9: it's not like a compliment Sandwich there, but it's really not.
Speaker 9: I do really feel like that he's you know, when
Speaker 9: he's down there in the box, he could play the
Speaker 9: run as well. But then again, his size limits when
Speaker 9: people get up on him. And I think with with
Speaker 9: with Clark, just to see the instincts, I just don't
Speaker 9: and I don't. And we talk about the linebackers that
Speaker 9: have been able to the great ones around here. You
Speaker 9: know that that wins the Dexter coke Les, the just.
Speaker 2: Name them all, Sean Lee's. I mean, they see.
Speaker 9: The formation and they know where the ball's going and
Speaker 9: they and they just go and they don't. They have
Speaker 9: trouble getting off blocks. And that's the thing about it.
Speaker 9: You when you don't get off blocks where Wilson will
Speaker 9: run and get away from blocks, you know they'll run.
Speaker 9: And that's where Belle needs to take more of it.
Speaker 9: He needs to run away, get away from those blocks, don't.
Speaker 2: Take them on. So I think they said, hey.
Speaker 9: We're going to have to do something different because when
Speaker 9: they do get hooked up on these blocks, we're having
Speaker 9: problems stop in the run. And they're trying to limit
Speaker 9: the number of times they have to face a three
Speaker 9: hundred and eighteen pound man being in their face the
Speaker 9: whole day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, let's be honest here, no one's ever
Speaker 3: picked Donathan Wilson as your best cover guy. As far
Speaker 3: as your safety United, that's not history history. Yeah, his
Speaker 3: strength is playing forward and that could be in blitz packages,
Speaker 3: it could be in run defense things like that. That's
Speaker 3: what he's the heat seeking missile. Like Brian said, see ball,
Speaker 3: get ball, and that ramping him up likely helped you
Speaker 3: on the run defense. And of course like that we
Speaker 3: talked about when it comes to Marquise Bell for its
Speaker 3: as exceptional as he's played, particularly in the context of
Speaker 3: what he's been asked to do, you give up size
Speaker 3: for that speed. But Donovan Wilson, you're not giving up
Speaker 3: that size. Donald is a unit, right, So you have
Speaker 3: a guy who can not only disengage blocks, but he
Speaker 3: rarely is locked up on the block in the first place,
Speaker 3: he's moving around it, he's going through it. And then
Speaker 3: when it comes to the Moon Clark, we've seen flashes
Speaker 3: and we've seen games where he's played well, but you've
Speaker 3: seen games where he's kind of dipped as well. So
Speaker 3: for me and Demon, it's the lack of consistency that's
Speaker 3: kind of plaguing him at the moment. And I think
Speaker 3: that his development is kind of being stared just a
Speaker 3: bit by LV not being on the field because when
Speaker 3: he and LV we on the field together, you saw
Speaker 3: him playing off of LV a lot. You saw those
Speaker 3: having those who having a lot of conversations, and they
Speaker 3: still do because LV is his biggest mentor here outside
Speaker 3: of Dan Quinn and the coaching staff. But the absence
Speaker 3: of LVE it has layers to it. So you missed
Speaker 3: that player on the field, but you also miss what
Speaker 3: his impact is to a younger guy like Demon Clark.
Speaker 3: So with Clark not being consistent enough and then the
Speaker 3: size that you're giving up on Bail and Bell gets
Speaker 3: locked up in blocks, sometimes it just makes sense that
Speaker 3: you look at Donovan and say, hey, well we're you know,
Speaker 3: the more we play you forward, it's not that we're
Speaker 3: losing anything in coverage because you're not the coverage guy
Speaker 3: as far as the safety's un concerned.
Speaker 4: So it's not an accident.
Speaker 3: It's not a crapshoot that was obviously planned and it
Speaker 3: worked in their favor. So we probably see it again
Speaker 3: against the running back you andit like what Detroit has.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you're absolutely right because Patrick's wright because what's gonna happen.
Speaker 9: Wilson's gonna fly downhill and you know, and you can't.
Speaker 9: If you're gonna deal with speed, you got to get
Speaker 9: to speed before speed gets to you. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 9: what Wilson.
Speaker 2: He will.
Speaker 9: He will throw his body in there, good and bad.
Speaker 9: But what you have to do is, especially in those
Speaker 9: edge perimeter runs, is you have to disrupt blocking and
Speaker 9: you have to disrupt the back, make the back stop,
Speaker 9: and once the back stops, now you got bodies that
Speaker 9: can get there and limit the gain and what you're
Speaker 9: going to have.
Speaker 10: And he's a guy, and I know he hasn't He's
Speaker 10: had his fair share of problems as you're Donovan Wilson
Speaker 10: as far as how he's played. But when he is good,
Speaker 10: he's a great tackler. He can really really tackle. And
Speaker 10: that's another thing that the Cowboys defense has been struggling
Speaker 10: with the past couple of weeks, has been tackling. And
Speaker 10: I think it just it's as simple as who's giving
Speaker 10: you more currently. And that's not to say not to
Speaker 10: give credit to those guys, because I think they've done
Speaker 10: a nice job given the situation. It's not what we
Speaker 10: need it to be or what we wish it was,
Speaker 10: but given the current situation, I think they think I
Speaker 10: give them credit to what they've done, because it is
Speaker 10: a hard job. It is something hard. The moon Clark
Speaker 10: we he came back way faster from that injury. Yeah,
Speaker 10: and we got to take that into account. Everybody's human.
Speaker 10: He's a human being, and we know that it takes time.
Speaker 10: Even though he was I'm not saying that the staff
Speaker 10: rushed him or anything at all. They they they're great
Speaker 10: at rehab and everything. But I still think that after
Speaker 10: you get from come back from an injury, it does
Speaker 10: take time. Even though you're healthy, it takes your body
Speaker 10: time to get adjusted and all of that.
Speaker 8: But I think that right now.
Speaker 10: Donovan Wilson, he's been improving his game and because of that, I.
Speaker 8: See it as okay, if you're the.
Speaker 10: One playing better right now, hey, we need you go
Speaker 10: out there and here are more plays for you.
Speaker 9: They miss vander USh and Patrick because because van der
Speaker 9: USh will say, watch the watch his own watch his
Speaker 9: zone watching and he's telling you know, they're communicating like
Speaker 9: he's talking about what's about to happen, and and that
Speaker 9: was that was It was like it was like Darren
Speaker 9: Woodson playing with Roy Williams. Yeah, when wood he went away, Roy.
Speaker 2: Williams all of a sudden, Well, yeah, what am I
Speaker 2: supposed to do here?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 9: You know, run pass, runner pass and that Woodies like
Speaker 9: watch it, they're gonna do this and and so you
Speaker 9: know that that clicked Roy Williams and then Roy Wiams
Speaker 9: could go attack.
Speaker 7: So yes, I guess from that standpoint, and jay Ron Curse,
Speaker 7: he's playing one hundred percent of the snaps. Yeah, it
Speaker 7: almost feels to me like they've just said, we're going
Speaker 7: to go back to those safeties that we had in
Speaker 7: there last year, and we're just gonna have all three
Speaker 7: of them out and that's going to act. As I
Speaker 7: saw the first I think it was the first play
Speaker 7: the game, jay Ron was lined up at lineback like
Speaker 7: it's I think they've just made a decision that that's
Speaker 7: probably a better option for them. Theyre going with the
Speaker 7: inexperience is as good as he's played for what they've
Speaker 7: as to do of Marque's bell, there's still some inexperience there, right,
Speaker 7: and so I think they just decided to give me
Speaker 7: some experience and we'll see what we can do with that.
Speaker 7: You're still gonna give up size with those offensive linemen,
Speaker 7: but at least you'll have more experience out there with
Speaker 7: Donovan and with Dayron Kurrs.
Speaker 9: As long as the team doesn't pound the ball at
Speaker 9: him straight ahead, they're all right. Yeah, when teams play
Speaker 9: on the sideline, sideline, the sideline, it's a little bit
Speaker 9: easier for them to run and go make.
Speaker 7: Plays, which does concern me a bit with Montgomery. Montgomery,
Speaker 7: he's coming at you. That's the kind of running back
Speaker 7: he is. So that's going to be a bit of
Speaker 7: a challenge for them this week. All right, appreciate Jeffs.
Speaker 3: I was going to say out on a closing point,
Speaker 3: and when it comes to stopping the Lions offense, I'll
Speaker 3: say two fold. When it comes to rushing again, it's
Speaker 3: about stopping at the line of scrimmage because they're rushing
Speaker 3: yards over expectation, almost two hundred yards over expectation, So
Speaker 3: do not let them get to the second level. The
Speaker 3: biggest crux of what you want to stop for them
Speaker 3: is is yards after the catch. Almost fifty percent from
Speaker 3: a receiving standpoint, almost fifty percent of the passing yards
Speaker 3: last receiving yards for that offense golf and those guys
Speaker 3: are off of yak. So you know, a couple weeks ago,
Speaker 3: Cowboys did a great job of stopping guys up front
Speaker 3: as once they caught the ball. That's what you need
Speaker 3: in this game. If you allow them to get free
Speaker 3: laporting and I'm on Ross Saint Brown, and you let
Speaker 3: those guys get that ball and start making moves, you're
Speaker 3: in for a long day. So once they make the catch,
Speaker 3: just bring them down right there and you will get
Speaker 3: more third down stops than not.
Speaker 4: Who just came all right there?
Speaker 7: You see it right right there, right oh, right there,
Speaker 7: Georgia came out that George is coming.
Speaker 3: Outright because we went past eleven forty five. You go
Speaker 3: past eleven forty five, Georgia sneaks up.
Speaker 4: As a route man. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 7: We're gonna talk about this Lion's defense versus the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 7: Till then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought us Amber Garcia.
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