WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Don't Putt Against Goff 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:08.399 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:18.160 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:18.680 Yes? 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:20.560 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:23.520 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:24.000 Yeah? 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.920 And so much for that. It's time for the Break 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.160 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.880 Were on with Mbar. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:38.080 Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.040 It is Wednesday, September. Ma'm sorry. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.000 December twenty seventh, twenty twenty, third season nineteen, episode number 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:46.400 ninety six. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.000 Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:50.599 We're a lot from the s WBC Mortgage studios at 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:51.839 the Star and as you can see, I'm trying to 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.480 take us back to September because I want to start 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.600 this thing all over again and do it again college football, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.360 pro football. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.520 I'd sign up for that if we can start it 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.000 all over again, but we're not. We're toward the end 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.720 of the season and we're. 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.440 Going to get kids to the Super Bowl first. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.679 No, I just want to start over like that scares me. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:10.760 I just want to start back over in September. One's 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.560 just fun and just free flowing, and you got all 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.640 the optimism and don't have all the problems that you 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.880 discovered during the season, but. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:20.560 Aubrey's kicking the ball and it. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.959 Yeah, right, that was the worst problem we had back then, 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:25.959 was like are you gonna have a kicker? And now 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.160 that all resolved itself, we got so many other issues 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:28.600 to talk about. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.080 We know so much about kickers, don't we? 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.080 Yeah, we do, all right, So we're going to today 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.399 We're going to talk about the Cowboys versus the Lions. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.720 We're going to get into the Lions offense versus the 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.880 Cowboys defense. Uh, let's start first though, with some injury updates. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.399 What are we hearing right now about Tyron Smith? 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.680 Well, Tyron Smith he said on yesterday and with locker 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.320 room availability that he had, he's not calling it the stinger. 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.240 He's like, it's not a stinger. He's saying it his 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.440 back tightened up. He said, quote unquote, it feels better. 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.120 He said that they set him so that it would 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.960 quote unquote call down. Apparently, based upon what Tyron said 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.960 on yesterday, it has calmed down. That does provide some 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:09.080 optimism that he could possibly take the field against the 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.720 Detroit Lions. If you ask McCarthy and owner and general 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.760 manager Jerry Jones. They're kind of fifty to fifty on 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.000 it right now. Of course, there's still half today's practice, 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.480 you know, have a walk through tomorrow so we'll know 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.600 the final determination. But when it comes to Tyron, progress 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.639 has been made, so that's the good news there. Jonathan 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.760 Hankins still fifty to fifty based on what Jerry said 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.320 to One on five through the Fan on yesterday, what 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:35.799 McCarthy is saying, but McCarthy said he does have a chance. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.560 Hankins does to take the field as well. He also 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.560 said Tyron has a chance as well, so that goes 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.920 to the progress that Tyron has made. Those are your 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.760 two headliners as it stands, they both have an opportunity. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.560 We'll see how the rest of the week goes. The 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.840 rest of everyone else is just limited. Stefan Gilmore, he 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.760 said that he was dealing with a rib injury that 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.720 he suffered against the Miami Dolphins, but he said that 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.160 he's in, He's going to play. That's basically that's what 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.720 was echoed by Mike McCarthy. Stefan was limited on yesterday, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.200 but they expect that Stefan Gilmore will be on the 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.959 field against the Detroit Lions and they're gonna need him because, 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.120 as Brian is going. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.400 To tell you, guys, they've got some firepower in Detroit. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.760 The rest is basically some rest days, veteran rest days, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.119 guys limited. We had two transactions this morning that came 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.519 in a few minutes before the show kicked off. Rashaan 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.680 Evans has been waived by the Cowboys to make room 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.080 for the activation of Matt will Let's go. So, well, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.600 let's go is now back from ir with hit that 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.440 shoulder injury there. I know he's going to get into 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:39.880 it in a moment, but yeah, so linebacker depth is 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.560 now much more of a concern with Rashaan Evans being 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.400 sent to waivers. And for those that don't know now, 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.120 at this point of the season, every single person that's 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.360 waived goes to the waiver wire and can't be claimed. 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.440 And if he's not claimed, then he'll be a free agent. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.200 He can sound whatever he wants. But well, let's go 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.920 is back and we'll see if his shoulders can allow 0:03:58.000 --> 0:03:59.400 him to stay on the field this time. But I 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.280 think it's one of the things with the Cowboys saw 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.240 the pressure put on Dak Prescott in the absence of 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.400 Tyrone Smith and said, Okay, yeah, Matt, come on up 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:08.080 and let's see what you. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:12.240 Got a little confused on the Rashawn Evans move. I mean, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:13.360 here's my thing. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.600 When when you're starving, do you like turn down saltine crackers? 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:18.160 Like is it? 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:18.279 Like? 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.960 No, They're delicious everything, everything's delicious, right, And I'm like, okay, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.600 so linebackers the position very good? 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:25.120 Right? 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.440 Literally? 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.039 Like you like like it's like, you know, I mean, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.080 I just I don't understand that, Brian, what have you 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.640 seen in Rashon Evans? I guess what have you seen 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.919 from Rashaan Evans that may suggest that maybe he's just 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.080 not the answer for them? And they're like, he's a part, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.960 he's too much a part of the problem, you know. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.920 I the times he did play, I think that they 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.520 were a little bit worried about. And it's been a 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.920 struggle for the linebackers or the guys that have played. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.039 It's been about awareness. It's about when you when you play, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.960 are you seeing everything? Are you reacting the right way? 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.760 Are you Can we trust you to play coverages? Can 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.320 we trust you to play downhill? Can we trust you 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.960 to fill when you have to fill? I think they're 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.240 having some really struggles with that right now, and you know, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.200 then they really don't have an answer. They tried their answer. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.599 Their best shot at this was trying to get Shack Lennard. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.320 That was their best shot at it and to try 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.200 and maybe help the situation. But I think the thing 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.760 with Evans is that when they put him in there, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.120 they they obviously did not like what they saw the 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.479 way that he played at all the things I mentioned, 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.240 you know, I mean, he didn't get a whole lot 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.760 of chances to play, but the ones that he did play, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.360 you know, you kind of felt like though that here's 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.679 a guy that in his career had been a difference 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.919 maker in some teams. For this one though, wasn't nearly 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.039 around the ball near enough, wasn't nearly finishing blocks like 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.400 he needed or it's going to be finishing plays like 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.640 he needed to finish. And they deemed him as the 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.000 fifty third guy, which is surprising to me, but considering that, 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.320 I didn't think. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:05.920 He was that bad of a player. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.800 But their thoughts and my thoughts are totally different a 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.160 lot of times, and so uh, you know, they they 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:15.720 move on that way, but it does it definitely weakens 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.719 what they're trying to do at least from a depth standpoint, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:20.960 you know, And we need to probably go back and 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.520 look at the special team stuff. Was Evans helping you 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.480 enough on special teams to you know if if if 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.039 he was, I guarantee a bones fossil would have been 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.720 standing at at Will's door saying no, no, you can't 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.039 do this. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.240 I need this guy. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.400 So obviously everything that about that tells him just to 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:40.240 move on from him. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.599 Yeah, I think there are probably That's the thing we 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.279 have to always remember is the amount of time that 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.280 the coaches are spending with these players is substantially more 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:49.400 than what we see. 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.720 Just on the field when we watch games and the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.159 room stuff. Yeah, it's all practice stuff. Does you have 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:56.560 the right practice habits? Yeah? 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.080 Like, there are lots of things about and I'm not 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.520 saying he doesn't. All I'm saying is a lot more. 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.560 It's clues. It's clues. It's clues. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.560 And I've been a part of scouting staffs for thirteen 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 years and exactly everything you just said is exactly true. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:09.760 You know it. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.000 There's things that day's coaches like, would they get to 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.720 a point where they do not want a. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.680 Player regardless of what he's doing regardless. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:17.840 Of what he's doing. 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.920 As a personal guy, you just have to say, Okay, coach, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:23.200 you got it because. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.520 The road right the personnel guys like he can play yeah, 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:26.880 and the coaches like I can't coach him. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:27.960 And that's the thing. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.480 You never want to put a player bring a player 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.320 to a coach that doesn't want to coaching. It's a 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.360 it's a bad mix right there. And you know, obviously 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:38.680 he did not do enough for what they were asking 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.640 him to do on the field. You as a player 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.360 to be part of this fifty three man roster. I 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.880 say something about Hankins real quick if I could. The 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.280 thing they're struggling with right now with Hankins is he's 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.960 a three hundred and thirty pound man with a high 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:52.600 ankle sprain. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.000 That's a problem. That's a problem. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.680 Usually sometimes you get lighter guys. It's a little bit 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.400 more of a quicker fix. And that's what they're working 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.520 through right now. They're hopeful, they're hopeful on Smith, but 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.160 they're hopeful on Hankins as well. But the problem is 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.239 have his size and taking on double teams, the lateral 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.440 agility and all those things, those are all weighing into them. 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.680 Trying to get him ready to practice right now or 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.440 to excuse me to play. You know, are they making 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.320 progress like Patrick said, Yes, are they? But is it 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.480 going to take more time? We'll see, We'll see. But 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.040 right now that's the biggest issue. They're dealing with his 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.320 size and they want to make sure that he has 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.240 he's playing on both both feet. You know, you don't 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.800 want to be a defensive tackle and playing on one leg. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:38.960 That's a problem. 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.240 I want to ask you another question here real quick, guys, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.320 before we get into this, how much you think Mazzie 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:43.920 Smith ways. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:09:00.080 If you had to guess, I would guess three. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.920 Two ninety three. See, this is the problem now, and 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.320 I'm bringing up during the season. He's lost forty pounds. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:03.160 During the season. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.520 He's three hundred and thirty. 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.080 Pounds coming out of at A Michigan and we wonder, 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.160 you know, we wonder I was visiting. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.560 With he has a lot of weight to lose. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.160 He's lost weight along the way. Because we've seen other 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.280 guys in this. You know, Tank is a guy you 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.760 talk to Tank, what he eats is very very regimented. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.720 You know, you got guys, uh oh, so Diggy's what up? 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.320 Very regimented the way he eats, you know, not with me. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.680 Oh they're standing there waiting for the burgers, you know, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.600 with the fries that are excellent at this facility, you know, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.280 kind of going to the salad bar, tater tots, Yeah that's. 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:41.720 Here, you know, and I'm not. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.120 I was just talking to some folks about it, and 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.400 I said, why does Mazzi look smaller on tape? He 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.920 doesn't have the big rear anymore and stuff like that. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.440 He goes, No, he's down, he's down. He's lost about 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.720 forty pounds. So you wonder they're asking him to play 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.480 a role for Hankins, in a role where he's we're like, 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:06.040 really a three technique. And so that's that's part of 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.360 what we're dealing with right now. We're dealing with being 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.560 laid off the ball. But we're not the player we 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.240 drafted coming out of Michigan that was three hundred and 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.559 thirty pounds. You know, you get a better dietitian program 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.680 or whatever, but you lose forty pounds when you're a 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.520 one technique. That's you're not a one technique playing at 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:25.760 two hundred and ninety three pounds. 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.400 But also, just to be clear. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:28.959 And I'm not making excuses for it. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.000 Yeah, but this is a coach decision. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.720 This is like the coach player decision. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.079 Well, what I've been told, and I'm not talking about 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.720 Mazi specifically, I'm talking about different players what I've been told. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.040 I mean, there is a certain weight that you're required 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.000 to be, depending on what they're asking you to be. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.120 If you're over under that weight when they have to 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.920 weigh every week, they get fine, Yeah, oh no, it 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.720 has to be exactly the weight that you're supposed to be. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.320 So that just leads me to think this is the 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.679 weight that they're asking to be and is not otherwise. Yeah, 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.040 they wouldn't have him played. I mean, that's a lot 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:07.000 of weight to lose. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.400 Well, you think about what his responsibility is. 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.400 And we talked about him on the draft show for 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.400 an up and you know, as we've gone through the 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.080 year here and I'm not trying to make excuses for 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:19.680 the guy again, I really am not. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.520 He's a different player. Yeah, he's a different player at 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.280 two ninety three as he is the three thirty. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:27.000 Let me ask you this. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.720 Would they have thought that maybe getting him at a 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.120 smaller weight would help. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.320 With his get Yeah. 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.800 Right now, he's not getting up as fast as you 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:36.160 wanted to. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.120 But I would think that's more of a just reaction 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:39.760 than it is. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.720 Three twelve yeah, right, three twelve, three fifteen. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.160 I mean if you maybe kick out, you know, kick 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.920 off eight to ten pounds and he's already quick. But 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.400 you know it's just that reaction, right, you know, it's 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.640 the snap of the ball and his hands are still 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.280 on the ground and everybody's moving. That's the thing that 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.679 is correct that with lower weight. Yeah, no, it's but 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.640 maybe he's thinking like, oh I for movement, how I 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.000 get up the field, be quicker and all that when 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.839 he when he gets off the ball, he can play 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.480 football well for you. But I think our vision of 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.120 the player is and I'm watching him on tape and 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:17.360 I'm wondering. I'm like, does he looks smaller? 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:18.320 You know? 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.760 And I ask, and this is what I hear. And 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.880 so now all of a sudden you're thinking this is 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.960 a different football player. I'm not looking at it. I'm 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.320 not looking at Hankins. I'm looking at oh so Dighy's 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:32.800 is what I'm looking at. Or I'm looking at you know, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.280 I'm looking at a smaller player. That's asked to play 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:41.079 as a run stopper. So when you talk about Hankins 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.880 and how important he is, and there's a lot of 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.520 things that go into this defense and a lot of 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.240 questions about it right now, to be honest with you. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.760 It makes me wonder thinking about or having this conversation. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.920 First person that pops in my head is Tyrone Crawford. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.120 Now where you know the Cowboys, That coaching staff had him, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.560 They pop him inside, they asked him to put on weight, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.640 move him outside, he have to ship away. That was 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.720 kind of a yo yo situation regularly regularly. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:06.359 Yeah. 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.240 So and that then takes me back to training camp 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.240 this h this past summer wherein we saw a lot 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.960 of Mazzie Smith packages side by side with Jonathan Hankins, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.680 which kind of makes me wonder if their plan, at 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.520 least this year was to say, Okay, well, we're going 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.760 to see how much we can play you alongside Hankins. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.120 Maybe drop some of that weight. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.880 But that's a lot of package to drop forty, So 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.160 that that does kind of pigeonhole him at the three 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.400 because you're not playing zero in one, you know, unless 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.320 your Michael, Yeah, your Michael, you can do zero and 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.800 one you can move on past. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.360 But when you're trying to stop running, when when you're 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.040 ready to have an issue, you're not going to hold 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.480 up pounds on you. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.120 You're already small. You're already kind of small up front. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.160 And one of the things, and maybe one of these 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.240 things too, like Ambar says, is like, Okay, maybe we 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.760 want to get him on the field more with Hankings, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.720 And so how do you get him on the field 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:56.280 more with Hanks? 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.120 You play him as a traditional three. They turn him 0:13:59.120 --> 0:13:59.800 into a three. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.480 But I haven't heard anybody come out and say we're 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.640 going to start working Mozzie Moore as a three technique. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.840 All of a sudden, he's got this year's come up. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.800 Sometimes these players they lose weight through the year because 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.920 they're not used to playing seventeen games and having a 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.200 whole training camp, and naturally they just get beat down 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.400 and they can't. But that's a lot yeahs. 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:23.680 And they added. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.600 You have to purposely run of those those because. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.360 The added problem is if I was a bitten man, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.120 and but if I'm a bitting man, I don't think 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.480 Jonathan Hankins plays in this game. It's obviously possible, but 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.360 I just don't feel like he plays in this game. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.040 I feel like he's too valuable for what they need 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.600 to do in the playoffs. So they're kind of at 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.040 a situation where, yeah, they want it, Yeah, they don't 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.680 want to back into the playoffs, so they want to 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.560 win these games, but they don't want to win these 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.560 games at the risk of hurting the possible playoff run. 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.040 And Carl Davis, bless his heart, did not look great. 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.640 Did not look great. So if we got a forty 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.680 pounds lighter Mazzi plus Carl Davis not looking great, Jonathan 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.880 Hankins likely not playing this particular week, that you have 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:03.720 an issue at nose tackle, and now you just sent 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:05.960 the linebacker packing. So now you have depth issue at 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.160 linebacker unless you're one, and I'm not one. Unless you're 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.720 one who thinks Buddy Johnson's going to come off the 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.600 practice squad and and be you know, Bobby Wagner, you 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.200 got some issues there as well. So some things to 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.440 figure out for the Cowboys. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:27.960 A name out there maybe they're looking at possibly to 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:28.960 bring in because. 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.160 This, you know, not this not this late in the year. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.920 I wish that they would. I wish you've got the 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.320 playoffs they'd let you take somebody off somebody's team, right, 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.920 not the playoffs like travel baseball, Like you beat somebody 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.360 in a tournament, you get we can to take one. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.160 Of their pot allow that that would be not I 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.000 really think it's rightful. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.520 I think it's something that they should consider. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:49.160 Absolutely. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.640 It doesn't hurt anything, but it helps the competitive competitiveness 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:53.240 of the playoffs. 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:57.160 Although knowing how the Eagles are, everybody you know they are, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.440 they going they don't mind if you get anybody and 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:00.760 everybody you if. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.960 You get the if you get the buye, you don't 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:03.720 get to take a guy. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.080 Okay, good, I like that. 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It is. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.280 I mean, I've we've done a like we do our 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:10.240 shows here and you just you've spent fifteen hours in 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:12.520 this room and you just want to go have a 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.119 beer and a burger, and it's a good place to go. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:16.119 I just figure about it. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.320 But I've never never, never got up on the table. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.560 Now, I figure after a couple of vodka waters. 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.800 Maybe you kind of get out where. 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.120 Let's let's lose. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.880 Let Texas beat Washington in this playoff and we'll see 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:29.719 you up on the tables. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.520 Yes you will in your hometown. 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.080 Yes you will, Yes you will. All right, let's jump in. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:37.000 This is the second segment of the break. We'll live 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:38.960 from that WBC Mortgage studios at the Star In. This 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.119 segment's brought to you by blockchain dot Com. All right, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.800 let's go. Uh, let's start going to see you right. Offense, 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.560 and I guess I'm gonna ask you a big picture question. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.479 You take it where you want to take it. What 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.360 does this offense do best? And where are they most challenged? 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.400 I think actually where they're the best? 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.240 Is there a built hand It's hard to say because 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.000 I'm on, I'm on, Rod Saint Brown is a really 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.199 talented player and so he could put a lot of 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.439 pressure on you catching the football. I'm gonna start with 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.879 these backs because I kind of feel like though that 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.840 there's a lot of people that gave the Lions a 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:16.119 lot of. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:17.720 Grief for drafting Jamar. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:20.920 Gibbs where they got him, and then you look at him, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.960 Gibbs and David Montgomery. These are quality backs, I mean 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.520 quality backs, and you look like last week what you 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.720 had to deal with with the Dolphins, you're kind of 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.280 dealing with the same kind of thing this week with 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.280 But the thing with Gibbs, he is an amazing kid. 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:41.520 Started his career at Georgia Tech and then went to Alabama. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.560 He can wore multiple hats as a player. You can 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.240 hand it to them, you can throw it to him. 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.359 I will give you a little key though. When they're 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.160 under center, they're going to run the football. That's their 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:56.320 thing they do. They're one of the they're one of 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.320 the they're one of the when you look at the metrics, 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.480 and the metrics tell you when you watch the tape 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.760 that when Golf gets in gets under center, they're probably 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:07.520 going to hand the ball to one of these backs. 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.080 So Cowboys, if you're in that mode, you know there's 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:13.080 your key right there. Check it out. I'm sure they 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:15.040 know that just as well as I do. But yeah, 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:16.760 this team does not run the ball all that much 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.119 out of shotgun. But when they do hand it to 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:20.800 these guys, and I think one they want to do 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.280 is they want to play under centers because they want 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.280 to put Gibbs as far back. 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.360 As they can and then hand it to him. 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:28.840 And then let it already running. 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.960 When he's already running and so I mean he's when 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:34.800 he runs, it's like he's on ice skates. I mean 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.960 I watch a lot of Dallas Stars hockey, and he 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:38.959 just kind of like he's one of these guys just 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.000 going up the ice the way he plays. But he's 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.400 got home run speed. He's the feel for the crease, 0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:47.960 he can hit it. He could set up the blockers, 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.919 he gain an angle and then man, he could just 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.480 hit it and go his hands. He's got receiver like hands. 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:57.320 So he's really a weapon in all areas right here. 0:21:57.400 --> 0:21:59.520 And he's a you know, he's just that kind of 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:02.560 that qual you have a player. Montgomery doesn't have the 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:06.240 flash of Gibbs, but he's a chain mover, you know, 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.280 is that you hand him the ball and it's next thing. 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:09.600 You know, it's it's. 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:12.639 Second and six and he's getting seven. It's second in five, 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.760 he's getting six. He's he's just that kind of player. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:20.080 He's really good after contact too. Actually, both these guys 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.720 are really really good after contact, Like you hit them 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:25.560 and then they find a way to gain extra yards. 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:29.880 But the balance, the vision, you know, both of these 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:33.080 guys have really are impressive players, and their line does 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:37.439 a really good job where they do struggle is I 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.480 think with some of their past protection stuff. I don't 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:41.640 think the right side of actually be the left side 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:46.399 of their offensive line is particularly a strength of theirs. 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.080 But as run blockers, man, they do a good job. 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:53.640 Frank Ragnow the center man, I had problems with him 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.000 coming out of Arkansas, and I was it's kind of 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.120 like it reminded me of Travis Frederick. I'm like, Wow, 0:22:58.200 --> 0:22:59.440 you took a guy in the first round. 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:02.840 Prove me wrong. He proved me way wrong. 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:06.399 The way this guy the movement, skills, agility, all that stuff. 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.600 But if they've got a problem, it's going to be 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.719 on there on that left side with Jonah Jackson and 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:16.320 Taylor Decker, I think are the areas that you might 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:19.479 need to focus on if you're going after pass rushing. 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:24.119 Right, I was looking at the metrics for this team. 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:27.600 They are right now fifth in passing. Yeah, they are 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:31.000 also third in rushing, So across the board, whether they're 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.480 throwing or run the ball, they are very potent and 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:35.199 they can put up a lot of yards on you. 0:23:35.480 --> 0:23:37.760 Let's focus in on the passing for a second. First, 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:39.520 there are two guys that I want you to give 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:42.119 us a scouting report on huh Aman Ross Saint Brown 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:45.359 you already mentioned, and then Sam Laporta, the rookie tight end. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:50.399 Okay, well, okay, Saint Brown is This is how I 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:53.080 would describe him. He's the kind of receiver who doesn't 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:55.240 let the ball hit the turf when it comes to is, 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:57.520 when it comes to him and it hits his hands, 0:23:57.680 --> 0:23:59.439 it's not gonna hit the ground. I mean, he is 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.120 one of the most consistent when you start to talk 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.280 about ball skills of receivers that I've seen. The attention 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:09.000 to detail that he plays with or outstanding. He's super 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.560 competitive and you could tell with the way he plays 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:14.240 he really loves the game. It's important to him the 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:17.600 way he plays and his detail is like when you 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:20.760 when he runs routes, it's very heavy of just that. 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.080 Like I was talking about the detail foot points where 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:24.760 he needs to be. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:26.920 There's just no wasted motion. 0:24:26.840 --> 0:24:29.720 When he plays, and he can put a defensive back 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:32.280 in an area where he wants and take advantage of that. 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:34.840 So'll run at you, he'll move you, and now you're 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:36.800 in trouble. And then he goes off his way and 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:40.320 he'll go catch the football. So he's got strength in 0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:43.919 his hands, he's got quickness, he's he's a he's a 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:47.480 quality player for for them. 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:50.480 And Laporta the question, and this is a this came 0:24:50.560 --> 0:24:51.320 up on draft day. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.440 So if you're listening to the Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:56.920 the Draft show, we were talking about this because late 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:00.480 in the process, late in the process, we were hearing 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:04.280 about Sam Laporta tight end from Iowa, that maybe the 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.239 Cowboys would select him in the first round. We were 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:11.920 all like, oh wow, okay, that's interesting. So and just 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:14.480 kind of visit with people post draft about him. I 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:16.360 was like, man, I was hearing whispers. 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:17.520 About this tight end. 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.480 Coach and head coach really liked Sam Laporta a lot. 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.720 I mean, they were on that. That was something that 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.760 give my credit, you know, give under Wells a lot 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:30.240 of credit. They had a vision for what this player 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:34.560 potentially could be. And as crazy as that might have 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:38.160 sounded back then, it might have been a really wise 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:41.120 choice to take to take this guy in the first 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.639 round because he's a thick, compact kind of guy, but 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:47.879 his lower body power is excellent. He's got to burst 0:25:47.960 --> 0:25:50.000 off the ball, he creates separation. 0:25:50.480 --> 0:25:51.920 He's got foot. 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:58.800 Speed, physicality, toughness, in the routes, mismatch player, he's got strength, 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:02.480 he's got speeds off handed, he's got the catch radius. 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.280 He wins on contested balls. He has had some drops 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:07.679 this year. There were a couple that I saw in 0:26:07.720 --> 0:26:09.920 the games I watched. Matter of fact, the Bears game 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:11.479 is a kind of a fun game to watch. They 0:26:11.520 --> 0:26:13.840 really didn't. I think it has something to do again 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:17.520 with with golf, playing outside and cold. It's kind of 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:19.960 his kryptonite. And the Bears caught him in one of 0:26:19.960 --> 0:26:22.160 those games and he wasn't as good as he needed 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:22.359 to be. 0:26:23.000 --> 0:26:24.120 But they've had. 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:28.720 Some drops with Laporta, but most of everything nine touchdowns 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:32.159 and he's kind of got solid effort desires or run blocker. 0:26:32.160 --> 0:26:34.040 I think he's going to need to improve his sustain 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:35.679 a little bit. But this is a guy's a weapon. 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:37.640 I mean, he really is a weapon when you watch 0:26:37.720 --> 0:26:39.840 him when you run the routes and they throw him 0:26:39.880 --> 0:26:40.200 the ball. 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:43.040 So looking at the rushing attack. As I said before, 0:26:43.040 --> 0:26:44.720 they're third in rushing in the NFL. 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:45.840 Check this out. 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:48.800 In seven of the last eight games they've played this season, 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:52.240 they have one hundred and forty plus rushing yards. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:54.680 This is a potent running offense. 0:26:54.760 --> 0:26:54.960 Yeah. 0:26:55.400 --> 0:26:57.240 So here's a question that I have for you, guys, 0:26:57.240 --> 0:27:00.280 because in this last game with the Cowboys played, they 0:27:00.359 --> 0:27:03.560 held they held moster to forty six yards, they held 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:05.320 a change to twenty four yards. 0:27:05.680 --> 0:27:08.560 My question for you is what does. 0:27:08.400 --> 0:27:11.680 That tell you about the Cowboys rush defense if anything? 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:13.000 And I want to hear from everybody on this, but 0:27:13.000 --> 0:27:13.359 go ahead. 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:14.880 I've talked too much, Patrick, go ahead. 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:15.800 No. I was going to say. 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:18.200 It kind of goes back to a couple of weeks 0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:20.560 ago when I said, this Cowboys team has shown me 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:23.600 that they can stop the opponent's run. It's just a 0:27:23.640 --> 0:27:26.360 matter of like Brian said yesterday, it's the details. It's 0:27:26.359 --> 0:27:28.480 it's execution. It's first of all, going in with the 0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:31.960 correct mindset and then not allowing one big game or 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:34.480 something like that to demoralize you and just keep these 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:37.080 guys in front of you, play sideline the sideline. And 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:38.680 as long as you can do that, then you can 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:41.080 keep guys like most It contained. You can keep guys 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:44.399 like a prime in that moment Austin Eckler contained. And 0:27:44.480 --> 0:27:46.520 I mean talk about a chain for example, that's one 0:27:46.520 --> 0:27:49.679 of the shiftier, speedier running backs. And for the at 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:51.359 least the first half of the season. He was a 0:27:51.440 --> 0:27:54.280 hit one of the headliners for the Dolphins offense. He 0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:58.359 was an afterthought against the Cowboys run rushing defense on 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:00.920 a couple of days ago on Sunday. So, I mean 0:28:00.920 --> 0:28:02.719 that tells me they have the ability to do it 0:28:02.800 --> 0:28:05.720 even with a guy like Jonathan Hankins injured. It's just 0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:08.960 it's commitment to it. It's you know, staying focused on 0:28:09.000 --> 0:28:11.679 the details and just making sure that everybody plays their 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:13.600 role in a Texas that way. And you can do that. 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:17.000 So I'm not of the mindset that, oh, well Hankins 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.200 is out and oh who is the world? No, I've 0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:21.800 seen this team be able to stop with Hankins and 0:28:21.880 --> 0:28:25.640 without Hankins. It's just mindset, mindset, stay committed, play your 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:27.960 play your lanes, and focus on the details. 0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:30.879 They handle the perimeter run really well in the Miami game. Yeah, 0:28:30.920 --> 0:28:32.840 and so but what you have to worry about with 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:35.200 this group, it's a little bit more inside and outside. 0:28:35.280 --> 0:28:37.760 You know, they're they're gonna if they they're going this 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:39.720 line is gonna come off. They're gonna come off and 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:42.000 zone and they're gonna double and then they're gonna push 0:28:42.040 --> 0:28:45.040 and they're gonna get second level. And like Patrick's talking 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:47.320 about though, the reason the Cowboys play, they play with 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.440 great discipline. The other day when you watch the Ravens play. 0:28:50.520 --> 0:28:53.040 Somebody we're talking to is Aisham Wurson and I were 0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:55.600 talking about this and she goes, why, I really admire 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:56.800 the way the Ravens play. 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:58.640 And I don't think the Ravens get enough credit for 0:28:58.720 --> 0:28:59.360 how physical. 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:01.920 They give them credit for about physical and the players 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:05.080 they have give credit for how discipline they play and 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:07.000 they don't get out of place, and that, you know, 0:29:07.080 --> 0:29:09.520 to be really good in run defense, like Patrick saying, 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:11.680 you have to have fits. You have to have you 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:13.920 have to have your your nickel coming down. You have 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:15.719 to have your safety coming down. You have to have 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:19.320 your your edges like Tank and those guys holding up, pushing, 0:29:19.600 --> 0:29:21.880 you know, getting guys up the field, not letting them 0:29:21.920 --> 0:29:24.880 get around the corner. You know that that's the challenge 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:27.880 again this week. I mean, these guys are gonna they're 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:30.520 going to test the edges on you. And but these 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:34.720 guys I think are better running the ball inside than 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:35.680 what the Dolphins were. 0:29:35.800 --> 0:29:37.160 That's gonna be the challenge for you. 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:41.240 Right there, we've seen improvement for sure, but to me, 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:42.640 it's always like kind of like. 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:45.200 A slippery slope where. 0:29:45.000 --> 0:29:48.880 You can't have those games and they've come out with wins. 0:29:49.000 --> 0:29:52.840 Even though teams have ran the ball very well, there 0:29:52.840 --> 0:29:54.920 have been games where the Colways end up winning the 0:29:54.920 --> 0:30:00.400 game regardless, but we've seen those games where they the 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.880 running back can escape and then there it goes. And 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:04.960 then now that kind of becomes the trend of the 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:07.760 game and it's hard to stop it. So that's why 0:30:07.800 --> 0:30:10.680 I call it a slippery slope because as well as 0:30:10.720 --> 0:30:13.840 soon as sometimes they allow one big play, two big play, 0:30:14.320 --> 0:30:17.080 then it just carries on throughout the whole game and 0:30:17.120 --> 0:30:20.440 it happens like that, and then mistakes start happening. Also, 0:30:20.800 --> 0:30:24.000 you talked about playing a clean game, penalties and those 0:30:24.080 --> 0:30:27.800 things where you know at key moments, and that goes 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.280 on both sides of the ball. Honestly, it's not just 0:30:30.320 --> 0:30:33.040 on the defense offense as well. But I think the 0:30:33.080 --> 0:30:37.160 advantage here and I know you'll do the scouting report 0:30:37.240 --> 0:30:41.080 tomorrow for the defense, but I think the advantage here 0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:44.280 is one they're playing at home and to. 0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:48.640 The offense. Cowboys offense, I. 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:53.240 Think they should be able to play better and score 0:30:53.280 --> 0:30:56.360 more points than they have the last two weeks, which 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.800 will then help the defense as well. That's one of 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:03.880 the things you can This defense has been getting tired, 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:07.520 and they've been holding on there for dear life and 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:09.680 making it happen. But then at the end of the day, 0:31:09.720 --> 0:31:11.920 the offense hasn't pulled their part of the game. 0:31:12.080 --> 0:31:14.240 When it comes to a guy like Jamior Gibbs especially, 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.160 and I'm looking at the linebackers for this one, you 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:18.840 got to try to get him at the line of 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:21.640 scrimmage as often as passe quick like, yes, quickly, because 0:31:21.640 --> 0:31:23.840 if he if he already gets past the first level 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:25.920 and he has a lane to the second level and 0:31:25.920 --> 0:31:28.840 it's him versus your linebacker, your linebacker is in dire 0:31:28.880 --> 0:31:33.280 straits immediately because he's one plant direction change and it's 0:31:33.440 --> 0:31:37.440 so difficult to square him up. So you gotta at least, 0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:39.960 you know, for the defensive line. Obviously you want that 0:31:40.040 --> 0:31:42.600 tackle at or behind the line of scrimmage, but worst case, 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:45.240 just disrupt him and give your linebacker a chance, because 0:31:45.280 --> 0:31:47.080 if it is, if it's a clean lane and he's 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:49.720 staring at at your linebacker coming full speed, if you 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:52.960 try to score up, where do you go because fake left, 0:31:53.000 --> 0:31:54.840 go right, and you're done. We just saw the highlight 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:57.959 yesterday on Twitter. Oh my god, that man has a family. 0:31:58.600 --> 0:32:02.680 He laid a grown man down with one move. So careful. 0:32:02.720 --> 0:32:04.760 That's Jamiir Gibbs's game. If you let him at the 0:32:04.760 --> 0:32:06.320 second level, your linebackers are in trump. 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:06.760 Yeah. 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:08.960 One of the things I do take from that game 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:12.920 against the Dolphins is Mostert and Hn are both speed guys. 0:32:13.040 --> 0:32:15.240 There are Jamir Gibbs is also a speed guy. 0:32:15.320 --> 0:32:17.480 Yes, And so the hope is that what they did 0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:19.320 in that game, maybe they can bottle him up in 0:32:19.360 --> 0:32:21.560 the same way and the speed won't affect him in 0:32:21.600 --> 0:32:23.680 the same way. I will say that Gibbs, in my opinion, 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:25.800 is a little shiftier than I of those other two backs. 0:32:26.000 --> 0:32:27.640 But that all being said, like, this is going to 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:29.239 be a challenge, and I don't care how you how 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:30.080 you dice it up. 0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:31.720 This is going to be a challenge trying to stop 0:32:31.760 --> 0:32:33.240 Gibbs and Montgomery. 0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:34.200 Score forty and they don't run the ball. 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:35.080 It's a good point. 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:37.520 You can't do that. Bar's playing score forty and they 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:38.360 won't run the ball. 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:39.560 All right, let's take our final break. 0:32:39.600 --> 0:32:42.040 Will we come back we come back, will jump into 0:32:42.040 --> 0:32:44.200 the Dallas defense. 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I noticed something as I 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:36.200 was going through and looking at some well, something triggered. 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:37.520 I don't even remember what it was, but. 0:35:37.520 --> 0:35:40.719 I started thinking, I wonder if the Cowboys made any 0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:43.239 changes to who was playing and how much they were 0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:47.279 playing between the Baltimore mean Sorry, the Bills game and 0:35:47.320 --> 0:35:49.000 then looking at the Miami game. 0:35:48.960 --> 0:35:50.719 Say that once more time, I got a text that 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:53.480 it confused me quick, So player participation. 0:35:53.560 --> 0:35:56.040 I wanted to look at player participation in the Bills 0:35:56.120 --> 0:35:59.400 game versus the Miami Dolphins game, particularly at the safety 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:02.759 and linebacker position, because seeing how much better they played 0:36:02.800 --> 0:36:03.960 in Miami, my thought was. 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.600 Did they use people less or more? And I saw 0:36:07.600 --> 0:36:08.840 something very very interesting. 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:12.879 Dmoon Clark the Buffalo game played ninety two point three 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:16.080 percent of the snaps in the Miami game, however, he 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:18.640 only played sixty seven point two percent of the snaps. 0:36:19.080 --> 0:36:24.040 You look at Marquise Bell in the Buffalo game seventy 0:36:24.040 --> 0:36:27.120 five point four percent of the snaps in the Dolphins 0:36:27.160 --> 0:36:29.560 game forty six point nine percent of the snap So 0:36:29.600 --> 0:36:33.040 both of them dropped off a significant amount. On the 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:36.319 flip side of that, Donovan Wilson in the Bills game 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:39.399 sixty nine point two percent of the plays in the 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:42.920 Miami game ninety eight point four percent, so almost a 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:43.920 complete game for him. 0:36:44.000 --> 0:36:44.200 Yep. 0:36:44.280 --> 0:36:46.480 And by the way, I don't know that Donovan had 0:36:46.480 --> 0:36:49.359 a great game, but the run defense was better. 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:51.600 My question is, do you think that this was just 0:36:51.640 --> 0:36:53.960 by a chance or do you think they actively were 0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:56.440 like those two linebackers have to be on the field 0:36:56.520 --> 0:36:58.560 less for us to be better at run defense. 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:02.000 You're gonna go after one of the You're gonna go 0:37:02.040 --> 0:37:03.319 after these guys a little bit. 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:05.759 Well, I know it's a hard question. 0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:09.719 It's it's it's a fair question. Yeah, I think this 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:13.000 is weird. I think Donovan Wilson is a good run player. 0:37:13.840 --> 0:37:16.879 I think he struggles seeing in the pass, but he's 0:37:16.920 --> 0:37:19.960 so physical and when you play him close to the 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.600 line of scrimmage and ask, now, okay, we've seen some 0:37:23.000 --> 0:37:25.560 Arizona game was a crazy angle next thing, you know, 0:37:25.600 --> 0:37:28.320 it's out the gate kind of thing. But I think overall, 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:30.480 you put him near the ball or around the ball, 0:37:30.520 --> 0:37:32.239 or let him see the ball, he is going to 0:37:32.280 --> 0:37:35.719 go get the ball. And I do feel like there's 0:37:35.719 --> 0:37:38.600 some things I think Bell is trying his best. I 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:42.160 think they're asking Bell to play at a superhuman level, 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:44.520 and I think he's played his best. I mean that's 0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:46.920 it's not like a compliment Sandwich there, but it's really not. 0:37:47.440 --> 0:37:50.200 I do really feel like that he's you know, when 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:51.960 he's down there in the box, he could play the 0:37:52.040 --> 0:37:55.160 run as well. But then again, his size limits when 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:58.040 people get up on him. And I think with with 0:37:58.040 --> 0:38:01.840 with Clark, just to see the instincts, I just don't 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:04.440 and I don't. And we talk about the linebackers that 0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:07.520 have been able to the great ones around here. You 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:11.439 know that that wins the Dexter coke Les, the just. 0:38:11.719 --> 0:38:14.719 Name them all, Sean Lee's. I mean, they see. 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:17.000 The formation and they know where the ball's going and 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:20.120 they and they just go and they don't. They have 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:23.160 trouble getting off blocks. And that's the thing about it. 0:38:23.200 --> 0:38:25.839 You when you don't get off blocks where Wilson will 0:38:25.920 --> 0:38:29.120 run and get away from blocks, you know they'll run. 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:31.279 And that's where Belle needs to take more of it. 0:38:31.400 --> 0:38:35.000 He needs to run away, get away from those blocks, don't. 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:37.839 Take them on. So I think they said, hey. 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:40.040 We're going to have to do something different because when 0:38:40.080 --> 0:38:44.040 they do get hooked up on these blocks, we're having 0:38:44.080 --> 0:38:46.600 problems stop in the run. And they're trying to limit 0:38:46.640 --> 0:38:49.080 the number of times they have to face a three 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:51.080 hundred and eighteen pound man being in their face the 0:38:51.120 --> 0:38:51.480 whole day. 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:51.840 Yeah. 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:54.600 Well, I mean, let's be honest here, no one's ever 0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:57.319 picked Donathan Wilson as your best cover guy. As far 0:38:57.360 --> 0:39:01.000 as your safety United, that's not history history. Yeah, his 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:04.480 strength is playing forward and that could be in blitz packages, 0:39:04.520 --> 0:39:06.399 it could be in run defense things like that. That's 0:39:06.440 --> 0:39:08.919 what he's the heat seeking missile. Like Brian said, see ball, 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:13.400 get ball, and that ramping him up likely helped you 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:15.440 on the run defense. And of course like that we 0:39:15.480 --> 0:39:18.439 talked about when it comes to Marquise Bell for its 0:39:18.520 --> 0:39:21.600 as exceptional as he's played, particularly in the context of 0:39:21.640 --> 0:39:23.960 what he's been asked to do, you give up size 0:39:24.000 --> 0:39:26.480 for that speed. But Donovan Wilson, you're not giving up 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.239 that size. Donald is a unit, right, So you have 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:32.480 a guy who can not only disengage blocks, but he 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:34.800 rarely is locked up on the block in the first place, 0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:37.440 he's moving around it, he's going through it. And then 0:39:37.440 --> 0:39:39.640 when it comes to the Moon Clark, we've seen flashes 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:42.279 and we've seen games where he's played well, but you've 0:39:42.280 --> 0:39:44.600 seen games where he's kind of dipped as well. So 0:39:44.920 --> 0:39:47.960 for me and Demon, it's the lack of consistency that's 0:39:48.080 --> 0:39:50.399 kind of plaguing him at the moment. And I think 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:54.759 that his development is kind of being stared just a 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:57.520 bit by LV not being on the field because when 0:39:57.760 --> 0:39:59.799 he and LV we on the field together, you saw 0:39:59.880 --> 0:40:02.160 him playing off of LV a lot. You saw those 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:04.160 having those who having a lot of conversations, and they 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:07.160 still do because LV is his biggest mentor here outside 0:40:07.160 --> 0:40:10.080 of Dan Quinn and the coaching staff. But the absence 0:40:10.080 --> 0:40:13.120 of LVE it has layers to it. So you missed 0:40:13.120 --> 0:40:15.600 that player on the field, but you also miss what 0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:17.960 his impact is to a younger guy like Demon Clark. 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:20.960 So with Clark not being consistent enough and then the 0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:23.000 size that you're giving up on Bail and Bell gets 0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:25.279 locked up in blocks, sometimes it just makes sense that 0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:27.480 you look at Donovan and say, hey, well we're you know, 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:29.239 the more we play you forward, it's not that we're 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.680 losing anything in coverage because you're not the coverage guy 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:33.080 as far as the safety's un concerned. 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:34.720 So it's not an accident. 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:37.279 It's not a crapshoot that was obviously planned and it 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:39.400 worked in their favor. So we probably see it again 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:41.640 against the running back you andit like what Detroit has. 0:40:41.719 --> 0:40:45.400 Yeah, you're absolutely right because Patrick's wright because what's gonna happen. 0:40:45.400 --> 0:40:48.680 Wilson's gonna fly downhill and you know, and you can't. 0:40:48.880 --> 0:40:51.399 If you're gonna deal with speed, you got to get 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:54.279 to speed before speed gets to you. Yeah, and that's 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:54.920 what Wilson. 0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:55.640 He will. 0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:58.440 He will throw his body in there, good and bad. 0:40:58.960 --> 0:41:01.480 But what you have to do is, especially in those 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:05.080 edge perimeter runs, is you have to disrupt blocking and 0:41:05.160 --> 0:41:08.120 you have to disrupt the back, make the back stop, 0:41:08.480 --> 0:41:11.080 and once the back stops, now you got bodies that 0:41:11.160 --> 0:41:13.719 can get there and limit the gain and what you're 0:41:13.719 --> 0:41:14.160 going to have. 0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:18.640 And he's a guy, and I know he hasn't He's 0:41:18.800 --> 0:41:21.960 had his fair share of problems as you're Donovan Wilson 0:41:22.280 --> 0:41:27.239 as far as how he's played. But when he is good, 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:30.080 he's a great tackler. He can really really tackle. And 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:33.000 that's another thing that the Cowboys defense has been struggling 0:41:33.040 --> 0:41:37.040 with the past couple of weeks, has been tackling. And 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:40.120 I think it just it's as simple as who's giving 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:42.719 you more currently. And that's not to say not to 0:41:42.760 --> 0:41:45.279 give credit to those guys, because I think they've done 0:41:45.320 --> 0:41:49.040 a nice job given the situation. It's not what we 0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:51.560 need it to be or what we wish it was, 0:41:52.200 --> 0:41:57.840 but given the current situation, I think they think I 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:00.719 give them credit to what they've done, because it is 0:42:00.760 --> 0:42:03.400 a hard job. It is something hard. The moon Clark 0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:07.680 we he came back way faster from that injury. Yeah, 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:11.000 and we got to take that into account. Everybody's human. 0:42:11.480 --> 0:42:14.680 He's a human being, and we know that it takes time. 0:42:14.760 --> 0:42:17.120 Even though he was I'm not saying that the staff 0:42:17.200 --> 0:42:20.280 rushed him or anything at all. They they they're great 0:42:20.480 --> 0:42:23.680 at rehab and everything. But I still think that after 0:42:23.800 --> 0:42:26.799 you get from come back from an injury, it does 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:29.320 take time. Even though you're healthy, it takes your body 0:42:29.360 --> 0:42:31.440 time to get adjusted and all of that. 0:42:31.560 --> 0:42:33.880 But I think that right now. 0:42:34.480 --> 0:42:39.200 Donovan Wilson, he's been improving his game and because of that, I. 0:42:40.120 --> 0:42:41.680 See it as okay, if you're the. 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:44.239 One playing better right now, hey, we need you go 0:42:44.320 --> 0:42:46.080 out there and here are more plays for you. 0:42:46.200 --> 0:42:49.680 They miss vander USh and Patrick because because van der 0:42:49.719 --> 0:42:52.279 USh will say, watch the watch his own watch his 0:42:52.320 --> 0:42:55.400 zone watching and he's telling you know, they're communicating like 0:42:55.520 --> 0:42:59.000 he's talking about what's about to happen, and and that 0:42:59.239 --> 0:43:01.319 was that was It was like it was like Darren 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:05.720 Woodson playing with Roy Williams. Yeah, when wood he went away, Roy. 0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:07.920 Williams all of a sudden, Well, yeah, what am I 0:43:07.960 --> 0:43:08.719 supposed to do here? 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:08.920 Now? 0:43:09.200 --> 0:43:11.640 You know, run pass, runner pass and that Woodies like 0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:13.960 watch it, they're gonna do this and and so you 0:43:14.040 --> 0:43:17.200 know that that clicked Roy Williams and then Roy Wiams 0:43:17.280 --> 0:43:17.880 could go attack. 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:21.080 So yes, I guess from that standpoint, and jay Ron Curse, 0:43:21.320 --> 0:43:23.360 he's playing one hundred percent of the snaps. Yeah, it 0:43:23.440 --> 0:43:25.520 almost feels to me like they've just said, we're going 0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:27.320 to go back to those safeties that we had in 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:28.920 there last year, and we're just gonna have all three 0:43:28.960 --> 0:43:31.200 of them out and that's going to act. As I 0:43:31.520 --> 0:43:32.759 saw the first I think it was the first play 0:43:32.800 --> 0:43:34.920 the game, jay Ron was lined up at lineback like 0:43:35.200 --> 0:43:37.480 it's I think they've just made a decision that that's 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:40.400 probably a better option for them. Theyre going with the 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:43.439 inexperience is as good as he's played for what they've 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:47.239 as to do of Marque's bell, there's still some inexperience there, right, 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:48.880 and so I think they just decided to give me 0:43:48.960 --> 0:43:50.759 some experience and we'll see what we can do with that. 0:43:50.800 --> 0:43:53.000 You're still gonna give up size with those offensive linemen, 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:54.759 but at least you'll have more experience out there with 0:43:54.880 --> 0:43:56.520 Donovan and with Dayron Kurrs. 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:58.319 As long as the team doesn't pound the ball at 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:01.000 him straight ahead, they're all right. Yeah, when teams play 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:04.319 on the sideline, sideline, the sideline, it's a little bit 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:05.760 easier for them to run and go make. 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.440 Plays, which does concern me a bit with Montgomery. Montgomery, 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:11.520 he's coming at you. That's the kind of running back 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:12.640 he is. So that's going to be a bit of 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:15.160 a challenge for them this week. All right, appreciate Jeffs. 0:44:15.200 --> 0:44:16.919 I was going to say out on a closing point, 0:44:16.960 --> 0:44:18.839 and when it comes to stopping the Lions offense, I'll 0:44:18.880 --> 0:44:21.680 say two fold. When it comes to rushing again, it's 0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:23.640 about stopping at the line of scrimmage because they're rushing 0:44:23.719 --> 0:44:26.480 yards over expectation, almost two hundred yards over expectation, So 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:28.200 do not let them get to the second level. The 0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:30.759 biggest crux of what you want to stop for them 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:33.399 is is yards after the catch. Almost fifty percent from 0:44:33.440 --> 0:44:36.520 a receiving standpoint, almost fifty percent of the passing yards 0:44:36.600 --> 0:44:38.839 last receiving yards for that offense golf and those guys 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:41.759 are off of yak. So you know, a couple weeks ago, 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:45.040 Cowboys did a great job of stopping guys up front 0:44:45.040 --> 0:44:46.799 as once they caught the ball. That's what you need 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:48.680 in this game. If you allow them to get free 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:51.120 laporting and I'm on Ross Saint Brown, and you let 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:53.319 those guys get that ball and start making moves, you're 0:44:53.600 --> 0:44:55.600 in for a long day. So once they make the catch, 0:44:55.719 --> 0:44:57.520 just bring them down right there and you will get 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.200 more third down stops than not. 0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:00.920 Who just came all right there? 0:45:00.960 --> 0:45:04.319 You see it right right there, right oh, right there, 0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:07.160 Georgia came out that George is coming. 0:45:07.040 --> 0:45:09.719 Outright because we went past eleven forty five. You go 0:45:09.719 --> 0:45:12.279 past eleven forty five, Georgia sneaks up. 0:45:12.320 --> 0:45:13.800 As a route man. We'll be back tomorrow. 0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:16.960 We're gonna talk about this Lion's defense versus the Cowboys offense. 0:45:17.280 --> 0:45:19.560 Till then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought us Amber Garcia. 0:45:19.560 --> 0:45:21.200 I'm Derek Eiltson. 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