WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: It Starts Up Front 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:06.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:17.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.599 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headhours at the 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:27.200 Star in Preschool, flowing to the gold Line, Shallow's Got 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:33.960 Taydays and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.720 Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's how's it going, everybody, It's 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.960 a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys once again, a little 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.920 bit early on this Thursday. As Thursday and Fridays from 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.200 now on, we will be going at nine fifteen thanks 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.360 to Mike McCarthy's press conference coming up a little bit 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.840 later on in the morning. But we are Talking Cowboys. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:03.240 Happy October. October everybody. It's now September is ended. We've 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.039 moved into October. It's officially football season, at least for 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.000 those of you who are up here with us in 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:12.160 North Texas. It's not football weather yet, but we're getting there. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.480 But we're into October. And if you want to have 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.160 some encouragement today, Mike McCarthy has had a fantastic record 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.880 in the month of October thirty two and fifteen in 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.120 his career. In October, So hopefully that's some good juju 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.560 heading in the way of the Dallas Cowboys as we 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.920 head into this next couple of games. I'm Kyle Yeoman's 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:38.480 alongside as well, Rob Phillips, heck Ma Harrison, and our 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.280 residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah stand Back and guys, it's 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.160 nice that it is October. I'm waiting for the cool 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.880 air to kind of finally make its way to North Texas. 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.680 But we haven't had that opportunity yet, unfortunately. But one 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.480 thing we have had the opportunity of is seeing a 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.320 little bit of an injury report from yesterday's game. We 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.080 mentioned how or yesterday's practice. Rather, we mentioned how we 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.160 weren't necessarily going to get that for the Wednesday show. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.080 But now as we're in the Thursday show, Rob, what 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.680 have you seen from the injury report and what stuck 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:16.280 out to you from yesterday's practice the fact that they 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.799 don't have injured reserve guys on the injury report. You 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:20.400 look at it and you're like, man, the Cowboys look 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.919 pretty healthy. They look good. They only got three guys 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.640 on there. They got more problems than just that. However, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.320 some progress with Tyrn Smith with the neck injury he 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.280 didn't officially practice, but he did get some individual work done. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.160 As of Wednesday, Mike McCarthy said he's not cleared for 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:43.119 full contact yet. So I would imagine today, although he's 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.720 a VET and he can play on short notice, I 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.160 would imagine today is very important to see what he 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.240 can do, just because it's their last big work day 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.079 of the week, and so that's the one to really 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.880 keep an eye on. Also to Marcus Lawrence, did not 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.360 practice with the knee that he's been managing and probably 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.040 just trying to manage him to get to the game, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.400 I would imagine. And Trayvon Diggs also on that injury report, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.679 although he was a full participant. You find it and 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.440 like that DMP next too. I did not like that 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:17.560 DMP next to Tank Lawrence's name. Man, that took all 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.840 the pumpkin spice out of the air for me. Okay, 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:21.840 So you don't find that anything. That is what my 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.359 question was gonna be. Is that not an encouraging thing 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.919 with it? Did not practice because of the fact that 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.959 he may just be looking for the game. But once again, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.720 and kind of goes back to last week, we thought 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.920 the same thing and he didn't really have a really 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:42.800 a huge impact in Week three. Well, I think it's 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.680 impactful that he's obviously not practicing, but look at the 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.400 game man, Tank is. As much as people are down 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.960 on him about not getting to the quarterback, he's doing 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.440 a lot of other things at the defensive line. In all, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.800 twenty two has blessed us with the ability to go 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.160 back and slow mow a lot of these things to 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.760 show the effectiveness to up Tank in the run. And 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.800 so I'm just looking for a guy like Tank to 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.320 get healthy because we know we need him going down 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.080 the stretch. But right now, just these early injury bugs 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.320 that's hitting the Cowboys. Man, it's not a good sign 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:19.360 for us, Isaiah. Whenever it comes to having guys that 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.040 are trying to get back and trying to rehab and 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.480 trying to work on specifically a knee injury, and we're 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.320 talking in the case of DeMarcus Lawrence here, is that 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.880 one of the tougher parts of the body, at least 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.560 to rehab. I know, really, any NFL injury is going 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.160 to be a significant NFL injury. There's no such thing 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.680 as a small one. But whenever you talk about the 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.800 knee specifically, is that a tougher region of the body 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.279 to heal and to rehab more efficiently moving into the week, 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.040 I believe, So, I guess in its totality, I mean, 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.440 it really depends on what he's dealing with. Right, Obviously 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.080 we're not going to get through the real scoop. They're 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.640 going to keep that close to their chest. But you know, 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.240 it really depends on what, how how how traumatic it 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.960 really is whatever he's dealing with. So, I mean, they 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.440 can be ailing. I can mention that obviously, being that 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.640 you need your legs for every position in this sport, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.159 and especially at the position that he plays because it 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.080 is so much more demanding of a position. Right, He's 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.400 pushing against people who weigh more than him every single play, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.719 which caused obviously you know, causes stress on the knee. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.200 He's also coming out as explosively as he can, which 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.760 obviously push the most amount of stress on the knee. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.919 And then he's going to be facing offenses where guess what, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.880 everybody knows he has knee issues. People are in the 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.320 game to necessarily try to hurt you, but if they 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.920 have an advantage, guys will definitely as a running back, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.560 they'll try to take your knees out to guess what 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.039 to make you think twice about rushing at the speed 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.240 in which you're capable of. So it's definitely a concern. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:49.800 It's not something that you want to see. They are 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.280 going to do everything they can. Like I said, at 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.159 the Cowboys, they probably have the best training staff that 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.840 I encounter, and they probably have the best to training 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.520 staff in the league with all the guys they have there. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.520 So he's in more than more than good care. But 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.520 it's definitely something that that's concerning, especially when you're one 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.440 and two when you need this. W Isaiah, you sound 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.760 like a doctor man. Unfortunately I know too much about 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.840 the body. Unfortunately, when we were when we were up 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.440 here filming the film study session for Academy earlier in 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.400 the week, one of the biggest things that Isaiah was 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.800 saying is like, Man, I wish this was not COVID 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.080 times I would walk over and say hi to all 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.480 the training staff. He's like, I'd go and say hi 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.920 to Brett Brown and say hi to these guys because 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.880 you knew them well enough. And I guess that's something 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.880 that a lot of players have the opportunity to to 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.800 know those guys and be able to get to have 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.800 those those relationships, and Isaiah's one of those. But uh yeah, 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.320 whenever we're talking about the injuries, and Rob mentioned this 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.320 a minute ago, when you look at the injury report, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.320 Cleveland puts all of their guys on there. So really 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.080 the injury report, it's a couple names of the Cowboys 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.520 and then it's just a hefty list of Cleveland Brown's 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.960 following it, and it makes it look like, oh wow, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.960 the Cowboys are relatively healthy. As we all know, that's 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.320 not necessarily the New England approach. It is the New 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.120 Land approach. Newland approach. Man. It's also not the case 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.920 from the Cowboys perspective because of all the players on 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.040 injury reserve, which there are quite a few, close to 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.040 close to a dozen players on injured reserve right now. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.120 But of course the offensive line is banged up as 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.480 we preview today the Cowboys offense versus the Cleveland defense, 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.400 and I want to start in the trenches. I want 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.080 to start there because I really think that's where this 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.120 game can be won for the Dallas Cowboys is the 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.960 fact that your offensive line, yes it's banged up. You 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.040 have both tackles out, potentially Lyle Collins as seemingly as 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.240 not making his return this week. He hasn't returned the 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.400 practice or been taken off of ir Tyrann Smith trying 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.320 to get back into the group, but still questionable as 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.960 we head into week four. But whenever it comes to 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.600 Brandon knighte whenever it comes to Terrence Steel, they're gonna 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.000 have those matchups that they dread really from an office 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.440 into tackle standpoint. Miles Garrett looking on the other side 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.200 and heck, b I know you've done the film work 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.680 throughout the first couple of days. Tell me what you've 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.880 seen from Miles Garrett. And is there a way that 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.840 we have Brandon Knight or Terrence Steel in a position 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.240 where they could stop him at any point this week? 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.720 Oh God, another week, another dog. And that is what 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.920 Miles Garrett is. Miles Garrett in high school, man, he 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.880 played like one of those guys from your neighborhood that 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.000 didn't get to come outside a lot. He plays with 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.079 a lot of energy and he is running hard all 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.640 the time. And now he's just transition from Texas A 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.640 and m all the way now to the Cleveland Browns 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.920 and his ability to get around, to get around that 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.719 curve and bend and his power at the point of 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.400 attack is amazing. And I what I really worry about, 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:55.520 it's him stunting towards some guys that may need some 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.840 help at the guard position. But he doesn't just want 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.120 to get your sack your quarterback. He wants to sack him, 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.840 he wants to strip the ball, he wants to create 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.760 that bumble and he's better than a lot of people 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.640 in the league at doing that. But another name on 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.000 this defensive front that really worries me is Adrian Clayborne. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.280 And uh, Rob, you know about our history with this guy, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.240 and so, uh no, a little bit, yeah no, no, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.480 a little bit about him. So I mean, I think 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.120 we got him some some dollars in the bank one 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.520 game that he played against us. But this is just 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.959 gonna be one of those matchups. And I know, Isaiah, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.000 we're gonna talk about the Sheldon Richardsons of the world 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.199 and all the guys that we have in the interior 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.920 line for the Browns. But the Browns have they're pretty 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.720 styled up front, and so again offensive line is going 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:48.600 to have to take the battle to another defensive front. Yeah, man, 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:50.040 we touch on it. We touch on it in the 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.120 film room the other day, right, um, and talking about 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.839 this defensive line in their defensive ends and how they 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:58.800 play these guys, I mean this defense. They want to 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.839 play a bass defense. They want to go four three 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.160 on you all day long. They are gonna sit in 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.839 that box and they're gonna say, hey, could come at me, Bro, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.520 you know, as we've been saying. So, I mean, these 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.199 guys are stout. Uh, they're strong up front. We mentioned 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.280 yesterday on the show how they're strong right now where 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.160 we're weak right now. So this office aligne and the trenches, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.400 as you mentioned, Kyed, is gonna be tough because they 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.600 do have some dogs and they you know, they have 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.560 guys like you know, Garrett, they have guys like Richardson, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.199 you know, they have Clay where they have these guys 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.199 that are high motor guys. It's not even so much 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.800 that they're necessarily just all out dogs. It's just that 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.600 it's more dangerous sometimes to play just high motor guys 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.679 because they don't stop right and it's coming in a wave. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.559 Like all of them, whoever's in the game for them 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.920 right now is just going right. And I mean they 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.040 have I think they have eight sacks on the year, right, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.520 which is they're they're they're coming. So they're dangerous, man, 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.240 They're dangerous, and like I said, I think the biggest challenge. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.480 I know we've talked a lot about our interior alignement 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.920 as of late because they just haven't been that great. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.640 But these tackles, man, they're gonna be on an eye 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.200 land and it ain't Rivers's island. These boys are gonna 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.040 be out there by themselves, and you know, we're gonna 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.320 really see what these guys can and can't do. They've 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.720 been helped out a lot over these first few games. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.160 This game, they're gonna be one on one by themselves, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.400 and not only them, but the guards as well, because 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.920 of how why these guys play on a defensive line. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.560 They play four eyes so that the defensive tackles on 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.480 third down like the lineup on an outside shoulder of 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.240 the guards. Well not only that, then the defensive end 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.160 likes line up two to you know, one of two, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.600 one of three yards outside of your outside of your 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.040 your your tack or you're tight end. So everybody's gonna 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.720 be on an island. They're gonna be by themselves. This 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.559 is one on one drills in practice. This is not 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.840 gonna be a collaborative effort out offensive line. You know, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.720 we've been talking the last couple of days about Zack 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.120 Martin and where he should play to give the line 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.800 the best chance, and he said on conference call yesterday 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.160 he said he expects to play guard, go back to 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:52.040 his normal spot. And the more to y'all's point, the 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:56.240 more you watch the Cleveland Browns on tape, you could 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.559 put him anywhere, and there's gonna be a matchup problem 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:03.040 somewhere else potentially because of their stout front four, and 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.360 it's one of those front fours where they don't really 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.480 have to blitz much. They've got they've got four guys 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.120 up front, they can get to the quarterback. And you 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.600 guys mentioned Garrett. Obviously, we'll see what happens with Olivier Vernon, 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.000 he's been banged up. And then like heck said, we 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.520 might see Adrian Clayborne, which will you know, cause some 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.440 goosebumps for Cowboys fans based on twenty seventeen, But the 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.720 interior defensive line Ojanobia I hope I pronounced his name correctly, 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.960 is really stout against the run, and that's that's a 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.440 that's a matchup I'm looking forward to seeing can the 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.880 Cowboys establish their run against this interior Brown's defensive front 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.000 because they do get up the field, they do have 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.880 high motor guys, and they're able to affect teams that way. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.600 And we've talked about it for a few days now. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.640 Cowboys need more balance than they had on Sunday in Seattle. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.040 It's just, you know, they've got to get Zeke more involved. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.760 Some of it was Okay, they're going to load up 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.400 to stop us, They're gonna blitz safeties and linebackers. Okay, 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.200 we're gonna we're gonna try to expose things in the 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.120 passing game. But you'd like to think ze can get 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.480 more involved than he was in Week three. Well in 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.800 this defensive line, do you guys truly do you guys 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.640 think that he can? I'm sorry, now go for it, Isaiah. 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.040 I was just gonna ask if you guys think that 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.200 he really can, because i mean, we all know in 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.199 this league, once you put something on tape like it's 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.600 gonna like that next team is like, oh, let's get 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:28.080 or done right. So the Seattle Show, we talked about 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.640 it prior to the game, and then Seattle went out 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.560 there and showed it that they weren't gonna let Zeke 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.800 get off, Right, they weren't gonna let Zeke get off. Hey, Dak, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.000 you're gonna have to throw your way to a victory. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.840 And he almost did, right, he almost did. But I 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.599 think teams feel more secure forcing Dak to throw the 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.200 ball versus letting Zeke eat on the ground, because there's 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.120 there's less. It's it's a high it's a higher percentage play. Right, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.120 handing the ball off and letting him run is a 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.600 higher percentage play, So it's probably gonna be more effective. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.319 So how about we just put a stop to that 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.200 and let this guy see if he gets thrown around. 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.800 I honestly think they're gonna get a heavy dose of 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.160 what they saw last week against Seattle. Except for what 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.600 Rob mentioned, this team doesn't have to blitz to get pressure. Yeah, 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:10.240 we'll probably agree with you. I think you pointed that out. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.320 You pointed that out last week against Seattle, saying that 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.720 they were going to sell out to stop Zeke. And 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.120 what did they do? They sold out to stop Zeke. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:23.480 And the film is out there and Ogen Jovi, Rob 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.400 is he's a run stuffer for real, and he's a 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.800 kind and he's a kind of guy that will move 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.800 around a lot on that Cleveland Browns line. But one 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.720 thing that I'm noticing is teams every time the Cowboys 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.600 spread them out or gold trips formations, they automatically are 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.800 blitzed the Cowboys. I mean, it's like they abandoned everything 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.720 once we go into trips, because our trips formations are 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.320 really dangerous once we set a tight end or all 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.480 three of our great receivers together and so the teams 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.720 understand what we're trying to do and just getting that 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.040 balance back into the fold for the running game, This 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.960 heink is something that it is going to be necessary 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.280 for us, because once we become predictable, I think that's 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.720 when that's what things kind of go out of whack 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.440 for all offense. But you know, it does bring up 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.120 the question, you know, when this offensive line has been 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.200 at their absolute best and dominant, it doesn't it didn't 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.800 really matter how many guys are in the box seven eight. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.840 You know, they could still run Zeke and Zeke could 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.240 still eat and I think I think he's such a 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.760 great running back. I think he still can. But they've 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.160 been so compromised with their with their front you know, 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:32.920 that push has got to be there, and I think 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.680 at times, at times it hasn't been to Isaiah's point, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.400 and that takes away from, you know, really what their 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.120 identity has been the last few years. I mean, Da 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.040 Dak has progressed as a passer, we know that, but 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.480 when he's throwing thirty times as opposed to forty five, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.360 they're they're just in better shape. He's in better shape. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.160 It helps him out. They get the play action going, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.240 they're able to to move safeties off spots and things 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.200 like that, so they've got to try to get back 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.440 to that. It is a tough matchup upfront, though this 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.200 week it's a matchup against a defensive line that you 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.880 want your defensive line to look like, where you've got 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.080 two guys in the middle of Oceanobi and also Sheldon 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.520 Richards Richardson right there in the middle that are pushing 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.680 three hundred pounds, that are run stuffers, that are still 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.200 going to be able to provide you a little bit 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.680 of pass rush. But then you have those athletic ends, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.000 the Miles Garrett's, the Olivier Vernon, and if not Olivia Vernon, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.520 then you've got Adrian Clayborne on the edge that are 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.320 very athletic, they're slim, they're they're fast, and they get 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.600 home very quickly. Those are the type of pass rushers 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.840 you're going up against. By the way, Miles Garrett thirty 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.960 three and a half sacks throughout his career. That's the 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.280 second most by an active player in their first forty 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.360 games or less in their career. I believe I haven't 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.480 double checked this yet, but I believe that other players 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.640 Alden Smith because of what he did early in his 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.360 career in his first forty games. I believe it's Alden Smith. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.240 I'll double check that and come back tomorrow with a 0:16:55.240 --> 0:17:00.280 handsolute answer. Yeah, there you go. But even and if 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:03.880 you don't see Olivier Vernon, you're gonna see an Adrian Clayborne. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.640 You're gonna see maybe even a Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.080 of course, who was with the Cowboys throughout training camp 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.879 and was plucked up off of waivers on September sixth. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.280 He's played a multitude of snaps through the first three 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.399 weeks of the season and has actually played well and 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.640 has had a couple key plays in both the wins 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:24.200 against the Bengals and a win against Washington as well, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.080 So that's gonna be a key matchup before we take 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.840 our first break. Really quickly though, in that interior of 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.000 the offensive line, we've heard some rumblings, we've heard the rumors. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.560 We saw what we saw in terms of fifty two 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.359 offensive snaps in Week three. But as Tyler beotis, the 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.560 rookie center out of Wisconsin potentially going to see a 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.639 start this week whenever it comes to this offensive line 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.640 trying to shake things up and move into Week four 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:57.600 against the Browns here, I hope, so, I hope. So 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.840 at least Savan he's one of those. He's another one 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:05.160 of those great Wisconsin offensive lineman and we've we've had 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.840 a few one of those, and he looked, be honest, 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.320 did not play bad at all. I mean, he showed 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.440 a lot of power also at the center position. So 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.680 we know that we're just the time clock for him 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.600 to actually take over that position has has started. So 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.960 it wouldn't surprise me if if Tyler started the game 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:29.520 this Sunday at and T Statium against Shelton Richardson, Yeah, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.719 it wouldn't surprise. You. Gotta put him in there sometime. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.160 We cannot hide him. You know it. Come on now, Isaiah, 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.000 that you don't get a red shirt gear in the NFL. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.119 So we gotta see what you got. That's what it is. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.920 Can you get a can you get a red shirt game? No? No, 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.000 he can't get the job. You want to put him 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:48.160 in there. You want to find the perfect time, Isaiah. 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.600 There are no perfect time. He didn't have a preseason. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.480 You gotta feed him, you gotta put in there. We 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.960 have all I'm gonna say, I think he played well 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:59.320 last week. To throw him in there against this interior 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.600 defensive line is very similar to throwing trip on digs 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.119 against Julio Jones and DK Metcam. I'm just saying. You 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.160 gotta say, any time trial by fire or trialed by 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:17.400 death and such sees a rookie at center, oh my gosh, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:19.240 that's and that's what we're gonna have to deal with. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:22.240 The Cowboys can't hide any of these guys. Whatever the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.520 witches are, it's already on tape, you see it. And 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.120 so we have got to get this rookie. We gotta 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:29.879 get him the reps. We weren't able to get it 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:34.320 to him in preseason. And if Looney is giving up 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:38.320 space are not able to hold ground or anchor himself 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.679 in that offensive lining. The tape is there on that. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.640 It doesn't matter if you have a rookie in there 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.239 or a Looney, the results are still the same. So 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.000 we can't just continue to wait. You can't continue to 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.040 wait to see who's gonna take the helm and be 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.720 the lead dog. We gotta say, hey, man, this is 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.120 your chance. We'll see if you got it or else. Man, 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.520 We're just gonna start looking on the street for one. Hey, 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.160 looking on the street this offseason obviously did some dog 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:03.919 on whale because it's the best player of the defense 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.560 right now, so that might not be a bad option. Hello, 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.359 that's true, that's fair. Yeah, No, I kind of tend 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:12.560 to lean on the side of hect my here. I 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.520 tend to lean on Hey, let's give the rookie a shot. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:19.440 We've seen on film that really it hasn't been in 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.720 with Joe Looney in the middle, and maybe you even 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.360 slide him out to guard, and you slide Martin out 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.359 the tackle like we talked about last week, and like 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.600 we saw last week, you don't even have to do that. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:36.800 I'd be okay with Tyler Ben. Y'all are ruthless Hey, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.840 you want to he won he won the Rimington Trophy 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:45.320 or whatever. Right, So you know, but Isaiah, you want 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.320 to swaddle these guys, you would have put him in swaddle. 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.359 I'm not just talking about them. Let me help you understand. 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.240 I'm not gonna swaddw I know, Rob got the swadow 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.600 all the way down right now. I love that word. Yeah, 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.920 good word there. I am not only just concerned about 0:20:59.920 --> 0:21:02.240 these guys and their feelings and all that kind of stuff. 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:04.960 I'm concerned about what happens who you're trying to protect. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:08.200 Right If you put a rookie out there against Schulder, 0:21:08.960 --> 0:21:12.440 against Schulder Richardson, he is going to have a field day, 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.840 I'm just telling you. And if he has a field day, 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:16.800 then guess who's not going to be very happy and 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.439 physically and mentally. It's going to be the dude that 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.800 you guys are trying to pay that right, So you 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:23.760 it's not just a matter of these guys getting out 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.040 there and oh they got to learn at sometime, it's like, no, 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.679 be very careful about who you put them out there 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.760 to learn against, because you can't help them this week. 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:35.000 The way that this defensive line plays, they literally put 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.880 all the offensive alignment on an island. It's not your 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.160 typical defensive line. They run all kinds of different form. 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.720 They line up all kind of different different ways to 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.119 create this separation. I mean, these guys are spreading fifteen 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.159 yards across the field now with the defensive alignment. So 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:51.520 these guys are going to have the interior help beyondat 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.000 wouldn't have Looney or Martin. They wouldn't have those guys 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.159 next to them to help and you know, assistant. Some 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.600 of these blocks, it's gonna be man to man. So 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.480 if they get beat the interior line, it's gonna be 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:04.720 a straight line shot straight to deck. I would lean 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.120 towards experience here too. Yeah, but hey, Mike McCarthy said 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.879 they're gonna work multiple combinations. In practice, he's gonna be 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.600 as vague as possible. And I guess we'll find out 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.440 at noon on Sunday. No, and I wish this might 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:18.480 have been a debate I would have started with. I 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.960 didn't realize we were so split, who's gonna play the 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.600 center position come Sunday. I didn't realize the honest versus 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.640 Looney was gonna really divide us as much. But when 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.720 we come back, we're gonna talk about the wide receivers 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.040 and of course the Cowboys having some success at that 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:37.000 spot no surprise to anybody in the NFL with the 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:38.840 personnel that they have there. But we're also going to 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:43.520 talk about how susceptible is this brown secondary. I think 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:45.880 very susceptible, and we're gonna talk about that next when 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:47.240 we come back on the other side of the break. 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:52.320 You're on talking Cowboys. 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It's the second segment here 0:24:56.640 --> 0:25:01.919 of Talking Cowboys, Week four, Episode four, Happy October, Everybody. 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:06.320 I'm live from inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios, staying socially 0:25:06.440 --> 0:25:10.320 distant out at the moment with met Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:13.200 Isaiah stand back and guys, if you're going to the 0:25:13.240 --> 0:25:15.080 stadium this weekend, I don't know if any of you 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:17.040 guys are, but make sure you know before you go, 0:25:17.280 --> 0:25:20.639 wear a mask, keep that distance, and be prepared for 0:25:20.680 --> 0:25:23.680 the cash list transactions. Please be aware of all safe 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:27.280 stadium policies prior to arriving at AT and T Stadium. 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:30.720 Be sure to visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash safe 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:34.520 Stadium for details. Stay safe, state distance, stay loud. Whenever 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:38.120 it comes to the Dallas Cowboys taking on these Cleveland 0:25:38.240 --> 0:25:41.000 Browns this week, they're gonna have to have to get 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:43.119 a win to get back to two and two. And 0:25:43.600 --> 0:25:45.240 I don't know, I mean, if they don't get a 0:25:45.359 --> 0:25:47.320 w this weekend, and we'll talk about this more tomorrow, 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:51.320 it may start to be the panic time. But with 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:53.320 this division being as bad as it is, I still 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:55.600 don't think that's the case. I don't think that's the 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.600 case just yet. I really don't. But I think you 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:00.720 can get a win this weekend, and the reasons why 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:06.080 is because of just how susceptible this secondary is against 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:10.000 what is still, in my opinion, the best wide receiving 0:26:10.080 --> 0:26:13.920 corps in the NFL. The first time in Cowboys franchise 0:26:14.040 --> 0:26:19.520 history they've had four one hundred yard game receivers in 0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:22.880 one season, which is crazy because they've done it over 0:26:22.960 --> 0:26:25.840 the span of two weeks. They had Michael gallup In, 0:26:26.119 --> 0:26:29.080 Cedric Wilson this past weekend against Seattle. The week prior 0:26:29.480 --> 0:26:32.240 against Atlanta, it was Amara Cooper and Cedee Lamb. That's 0:26:32.280 --> 0:26:35.160 the only time in Cowboys history that they've had four 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:39.600 different one hundred yard receivers in a single season at 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.239 any point, which is crazy to me. But they're going 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:47.280 to continue that success against what is Denzel Ward, Terrence Mitchell, 0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:49.960 Greedy Williams, who's been banged up a little bit on 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:52.240 the Cleveland Brown's side of things. But Isaiah, when you 0:26:52.280 --> 0:26:56.320 look at this matchup between the receivers and this Cleveland secondary, 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:58.800 is there anything that catches your eye in terms of 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:06.439 how the Cowboys can take advantage. Um, it's this. I mean, 0:27:06.720 --> 0:27:09.040 this is gonna be real short. These these guys are 0:27:09.119 --> 0:27:11.840 not impressive in the secondary. And I think it's not 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:13.760 even because of the personnel. I think it's more so 0:27:13.920 --> 0:27:16.920 because of the scheme that the defensive coordinator is playing 0:27:16.960 --> 0:27:20.080 with him. He is so confident in their front seven 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:23.760 that he believes that he can get home at any time. 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:27.000 So I think, I mean, even when you look at 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:31.440 some of their base defenses versus eleven personnel, they don't 0:27:31.560 --> 0:27:35.040 always adjust. They don't always adjust a nickel. They'll leave 0:27:35.040 --> 0:27:37.000 their base defense in there a lot of times, and 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.120 their linebackers are expected to go out there and cover 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:42.320 slot receivers. So this should be a dog on field 0:27:42.400 --> 0:27:45.439 day for our for our offense, and the receivers they 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:48.240 should eat more than they've eating any other week. Um. 0:27:48.560 --> 0:27:50.280 The only downside of that is you know, you have 0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:53.480 to really abandon the run in order to do so. So, Um, 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:57.919 these guys, they they should kill this secondary all day long. Rob, 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:02.320 do you agree? Please? Yeah? I think, I mean there's 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.880 no question the strength of the Cleveland's defenses up front 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.760 and part of the two with Cleveland in the back end. 0:28:08.920 --> 0:28:11.119 Is is the injuries they've had. You know, Grant Delpitt 0:28:11.240 --> 0:28:13.640 was a guy I just you know, I loved coming 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:16.760 out of LSU. He's out for the season. Greedy Williams 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:19.440 has yet to play I think this year, but he's 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:22.480 getting healthier. And Denzel Ward, who did a nice job, 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:25.400 was effective against AJ Green in the Cincinnati game, has 0:28:25.440 --> 0:28:30.000 been banged up too, So they've they've got some injuries. Isaiahs, 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:33.440 you got me nervous on the Oh, well, we gotta 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:34.840 have been in the run maybe to do it. But 0:28:35.119 --> 0:28:38.640 you know that I didn't. I didn't have a huge 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:41.760 problem with part of that game plan against Seattle, because 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.720 if you love your matchups on the outside, go for it. 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:48.440 You know. It's just the volume of times you're having 0:28:48.480 --> 0:28:51.640 to pass protech with a banged up offensive line. And 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:55.360 for me, it goes back to, you know, taking care 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:58.120 of the football and making sure that you're not putting 0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.959 your defense already in a tougher position than they already are. 0:29:01.440 --> 0:29:04.160 How do you do that? Run the ball, that's the 0:29:04.440 --> 0:29:07.760 that's the that's the elixir for all that. So when 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:10.600 Isaiah says abandon the run, that I get that mystery 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:16.720 me feeling again, Fellas, I don't like it, but I 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:19.320 mean because I don't, I don't want to see I 0:29:19.400 --> 0:29:22.600 don't look. Man. For the last three weeks, this has 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:26.120 been a wild ride as a Cowboy fans, just watching 0:29:26.320 --> 0:29:29.520 these games, it's like, man, I need a pacemaker. And 0:29:30.080 --> 0:29:33.640 it's the back and forth and just the continuity of 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:36.080 our offense and the rhythm of it just doesn't seem 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.600 to be there. And I hate going back to the 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:40.960 Seattle game, but I have to. At the end of 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:44.040 the second end of the second half of the turnover 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:48.160 for Dak the to Amari Cooper, it was a play 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:50.800 where where Amara Cooper didn't come off the line for 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:52.880 a whole second. Now, I watched a lot of football. 0:29:52.960 --> 0:29:55.400 I don't know of any routes that start there where, 0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:58.160 especially a post route, which Isaiah you know as a 0:29:58.200 --> 0:30:02.000 former quarterback, is a timing rote. It's all about timing, 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:04.640 and so it's just those little things that the Cowboys 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:07.920 are doing to beat themselves. When you bring in Cleveland, 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:11.200 we ought to feasts on this team because if they're 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.800 going to load the box up against us and these receivers, 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:18.320 Dak should throw for let's say three hundred yards. So 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:20.040 if we say three hundred yards, that means he's to 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:23.440 throw the ball fifty seven times. But at least that's 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.000 loosening that defense up and making them do something that 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.720 they don't want to do. Last week, man, they had 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:31.680 the gift that keeps on giving, and that's Dwayne Haskins 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:34.760 for the Washington football team. He was a turnover machine. 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:37.800 Once they went from two safeties high to one safety high, 0:30:37.880 --> 0:30:40.120 he could not figure out what they were doing, and 0:30:40.240 --> 0:30:43.040 he was just throwing into coverage. Dak isn't going to 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.959 do that. And how you don't do that is when 0:30:46.000 --> 0:30:49.200 they are loading up, man, you still continue to give 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:52.880 Zeke the ball and feed him and let everything after 0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:55.640 that be predicated off of the success of the run game. 0:30:57.080 --> 0:30:59.120 So my next question was going to be, is this 0:30:59.240 --> 0:31:03.040 gonna be another forty five parts passage the game in 0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:06.440 terms of Dak Prescott, And I guess that answer was 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:09.160 just given to me by heck My Harrison. It's this 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:11.280 is not gonna be another one where you just air 0:31:11.400 --> 0:31:13.720 it out over and over and over again, which brings 0:31:13.760 --> 0:31:18.120 me to another question. Yes it is Kyle, you think, Yeah, 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:22.440 I know, I know, we don't have a lot. I know, 0:31:22.560 --> 0:31:23.800 we don't have a lot of time, becauld, we have 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:25.400 a couple of seconds to get through. But is he's 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:28.280 gonna throw the ball forty times this game? Man? Okay, Okay, 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:30.200 he's gonna throw the ball forty times this game. Because 0:31:31.320 --> 0:31:35.120 one understand this, Cleveland's gonna run the ball on offense. Right, 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:36.640 there's so many different things. We can't just look at 0:31:36.720 --> 0:31:38.560 one side of the ball. Cleveland's going to run the ball. 0:31:38.600 --> 0:31:40.960 Cleveland is going to run six minutes off the clock 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:43.280 every time, not every time, but for a good amount 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:45.320 of every time they get the ball. I say every time. 0:31:45.400 --> 0:31:47.520 If it's not really that, but they're gonna they're gonna, 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:49.600 you know, I say they have twelve possessions. You know 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:52.200 at least some of these half of those possessions gonna 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:54.240 go for four to six minutes. Okay, so there's not 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:56.280 gonna be a lot of time left when the Cowboys 0:31:56.360 --> 0:31:59.320 get the ball. So say Cleveland does score, right, Say 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:01.160 Cleveland tolts this thing all the way down here. It 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:03.200 takes time out of the clock. Now Dallas is being 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:05.920 left with half a quarter. They have to they have 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.840 to throw the ball like that. They like that because 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.240 these guys are gonna be loading the box up. They're 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:14.400 not going to allow them to run, just like last week. 0:32:14.760 --> 0:32:16.840 This is the this is the pride and joy of 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:19.120 their defense, the front seven. So you think they're gonna 0:32:19.160 --> 0:32:21.880 let the pride and enjoy get disrespected. No, they're gonna 0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:24.400 force you to throw somewhere else. And guess what, that's okay, 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:26.960 But you're not gonna be able to run the ball 0:32:27.040 --> 0:32:28.360 like you want to. And if you shoot, if you 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:30.479 do try to run the ball, now you're forced You're 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:32.360 now you're trying to force it, and you're leaving yourself 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:36.080 susceptible to long down. And this is this that is Isaiah. 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.760 What you just said was absolutely correct. But just take 0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:41.160 Cleveland's name off of that statement that you just said 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:43.800 and put Cowboys on that and then they have to 0:32:43.920 --> 0:32:46.320 deal with all of the things that you just said, 0:32:46.600 --> 0:32:49.400 Well they don't have, you know, their their clock management 0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:51.720 is and they're trying to play from behind as well, 0:32:51.800 --> 0:32:54.320 because we've milked a lot of that clock. That's all. 0:32:54.440 --> 0:32:58.160 That's that's the game play, very very very very true. 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:01.960 But also this head there's a higher percentage, there's a 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:04.320 higher chance and a higher probability that you're gonna turn 0:33:04.400 --> 0:33:07.680 the ball over throwing the ball, would you agree? Absolutely? Okay, 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:10.480 So they're just gonna bank on the fact that I 0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:12.239 know you said Dax is not going to throw it up. 0:33:12.560 --> 0:33:15.160 Dak has more turnovers in Baker Mayfield this year, just 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.720 in case there is any question, right so, whether it's 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:20.160 fumbling or whether they think they had the same at 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:23.680 the same amount of interceptions. But Dad has multiple fumbles, right, So, 0:33:24.120 --> 0:33:27.240 so he has more turnovers than Baker Mayfield right now, 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.280 So they're gonna bank on the fact that, hey, he'll 0:33:29.320 --> 0:33:31.080 throw it around forty times, and yes, we'll give us 0:33:31.120 --> 0:33:32.760 some plays here and there. They might just try to 0:33:32.840 --> 0:33:35.080 keep everything in front of them, right. If they keep 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:36.920 that's that's gonna I feel that's gonna be that's gonna 0:33:36.920 --> 0:33:38.280 be the game play. I think they're gonna play off 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:41.000 and let these guys throw underneath routes all day long 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:42.760 that they're not going to allow them to run the ball, 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:44.440 and they're gonna bank that they go they can hold 0:33:44.480 --> 0:33:46.480 them in a red zone and make them kick field goals. 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:49.240 I think that's their game plan. Man, Cowboys just needed 0:33:49.320 --> 0:33:51.040 like a ten point lead. They need a ten point 0:33:51.560 --> 0:33:53.880 in a football game to be able to try to 0:33:54.040 --> 0:33:56.520 try to get the run going. You know, um and 0:33:56.640 --> 0:33:59.920 you mentioned turnovers, and that's Mike McCarthy continues to hammer 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:03.520 the turnover battle. And the reason why is Cleveland's tied. 0:34:03.560 --> 0:34:05.680 I think for the most takeaways in the league was seven. 0:34:06.120 --> 0:34:08.920 I looked it up. They've got They've scored thirty four 0:34:09.040 --> 0:34:12.719 points this year or I think thirty one off of 0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:17.040 turnovers so far from their defense. Cowboys have three Cowboys 0:34:17.040 --> 0:34:21.000 have scored three points I believe off takeaways from their defense. 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:23.000 And you and you, yeah, and you look at their 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:26.880 average start drive so far, like against Seattle was their 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:30.160 own nineteen. They're just they're having to drive a long fields. 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:33.200 They're having to throw the ball too much. And it's 0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:35.759 all complimentary. You know, they need they need help from 0:34:35.760 --> 0:34:38.279 their defense to get some shorter drives and to try 0:34:38.320 --> 0:34:40.960 to build a lead because playing from behind, you're, like 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:45.280 like Isaiah said, man, you're just asking, you're putting yourself 0:34:45.320 --> 0:34:47.319 in higher risk situations where you're gonna have to turn 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:49.440 the ball over and and they just they can't do 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:52.200 it because Cleveland will feast off that. That's how they're 0:34:52.200 --> 0:34:55.200 two and one more than anything. Absolutely. Yeah, they why 0:34:55.239 --> 0:35:00.839 Baker only has eighty some throws eighty times? It's really easy. 0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:10.480 Also whatever you have that yeah efficient and Kyle, Yeah 0:35:10.520 --> 0:35:12.120 I did. I just wanted to point out the fact 0:35:12.160 --> 0:35:15.520 that you know, Dak Prescott has forty three more completions 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:18.800 and fifty eight more past attempts than Baker. Mayfield is 0:35:18.840 --> 0:35:22.759 six hundred and twenty four more yards, five touchdowns, two interceptions, 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:25.640 the same. But look at the records, and so that 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:29.160 is indicative of the game plan. And that's what I'm saying, Isaiah. 0:35:29.200 --> 0:35:31.600 If you if we're saying that we're gonna go into 0:35:31.680 --> 0:35:33.920 a game like this and our number one thing that 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:38.279 we're gonna underline and circle is abandoning the run, We're 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:41.440 not gonna have any success doing that. I'm saying it's 0:35:41.640 --> 0:35:44.759 it's it's an area of concern because because you have 0:35:44.920 --> 0:35:47.440 a like I said, you're right now, we're weak upfront. 0:35:47.640 --> 0:35:49.960 Call it how it is in comparison and comparison to 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:51.320 where we want to be and where we've been in 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:54.080 the past. Where you're weak up front, guess what they're not. 0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:58.480 They're strong upfront. They're front seven is strong. So where 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.360 we're weak, they're strong, So even if you try to 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:03.239 go into you try to force it, force it, force it. 0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:05.200 Guess what, Now you're in third and long, right, you 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:06.759 pump the ball and you're giving it back to a 0:36:06.880 --> 0:36:10.439 team that's going to run the ball efficiently where you're weak, 0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:13.200 and they're gonna run time off the clock, which which 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.480 all adds up to them, guess what, having a lead. 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:17.600 And then at some point in time in the game, 0:36:17.920 --> 0:36:19.839 probably around the second quarter, you gotta say the heck 0:36:19.880 --> 0:36:21.839 with it with this run thing. We gotta we gotta, 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:23.520 we gotta score some points. So what do you start doing. 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:25.560 You start throwing and they're gonna let you throw it. 0:36:25.560 --> 0:36:26.960 They're gonna let you throw. They're gonna let you throw it. 0:36:27.000 --> 0:36:28.719 They're gonna try to buckle down into red zone and 0:36:28.760 --> 0:36:31.040 guess what, give you three points and guess what three 0:36:31.080 --> 0:36:33.279 points is and beat seven points. So that's where this 0:36:33.400 --> 0:36:35.279 game is gonna have. It's gonna go I think if 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:37.200 the game is gonna go by really quickly, I think 0:36:37.200 --> 0:36:39.399 it's gonna be This game is gonna fly by because 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:41.200 there's gonna be a lot of catches for the Cowboys 0:36:41.239 --> 0:36:42.920 and gonna be a lot of running for Cleveland and 0:36:43.040 --> 0:36:46.120 it's a tough matchup. They have to be efficient. They 0:36:46.239 --> 0:36:48.600 have to be efficient. 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I'd use this question going into the break, 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:49.360 but I've actually got two questions for you. The first 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:52.320 one is, out of the first three games, now entering 0:39:52.400 --> 0:39:55.520 week four, is this the best front seven that we've 0:39:55.640 --> 0:39:59.680 seen as the Dallas Cowboys Looking on the Cleveland defensive 0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:02.000 side to the football, is this the best front seven 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:05.800 we've seen? And is it the worst secondary we've seen it. 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:07.680 You don't have to say yes or no to both. 0:40:07.800 --> 0:40:10.360 It's not one question. There are two separate questions. But 0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:12.960 I'm curious to see what you guys think because this 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:16.600 has been a debate throughout the office up here, at 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:18.640 least over the last couple of days in terms of 0:40:18.760 --> 0:40:21.760 what we're actually seeing on this defensive side of the football. Heckma, 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:27.400 And that's a tough one. I mean because Aaron Donald 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:30.200 is like five guys and one, so what do you 0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:33.160 I just have a hard time saying that after the 0:40:33.239 --> 0:40:35.600 job that ninety nine did to offensive line. But I 0:40:35.640 --> 0:40:37.640 guess if we're just basing it off of names and 0:40:37.760 --> 0:40:40.160 studs and dudes that have done it for a while 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:45.480 in the league, Yeah, that's that's that's a fair assessment. Secondary. 0:40:47.520 --> 0:40:49.480 Oh yea go yeah that second part, Go ahead, Yeah, 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:53.960 secondaries it's bad. So, I mean, I think offensive front 0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:57.960 line wise, yes, they're really good for line wise, but 0:40:58.040 --> 0:40:59.800 as far as the back half of the defense, no, 0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:06.960 it's it's pretty bad. Okay isah uh? Defensive front? I 0:41:07.080 --> 0:41:11.040 think the best defensive front we faced was Atlanta prior 0:41:11.120 --> 0:41:14.560 to Tach getting getting hurt um, that was gonna be 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.320 absolute problem. In that first quarter of a prior to 0:41:17.400 --> 0:41:18.920 him getting hurt. So I think they had the best 0:41:19.000 --> 0:41:21.160 front seven. I think this is probably the second best 0:41:21.280 --> 0:41:24.040 front seven. Um, they don't have necessarily one dominant player, 0:41:24.080 --> 0:41:26.920 but again, collectively, I think they do a good job secondary. 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:29.239 The secondary is gonna get torched. M I just don't 0:41:29.280 --> 0:41:30.960 think that they're gonna allow big plays to happen. They 0:41:31.000 --> 0:41:33.279 were gonna give up a lot of underneath classes, a 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:36.200 lot of out routes, a lot of curls and anything 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:37.759 underneath that they want to think calb was to have 0:41:37.880 --> 0:41:39.640 their way there. But I think they're just gonna be told, 0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:41.440 don't let anybody beat you over the top, because that's 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:45.359 honestly where Dallas is one. Yeah, I'm not sure about 0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:47.040 their second there. I guess it might depend on how 0:41:47.120 --> 0:41:50.040 healthy they are. Um, but yeah, i'd say there it's 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:52.960 probably the second best front seven. I mean, like I'm 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.000 with hack On on Aaron Donald, Like, if you got 0:41:55.040 --> 0:41:57.960 Aaron Donald, you're the best front seven. But but but 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:01.600 Miles Garrett is basically the same type in terms of 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.719 a guy that can wreck a game. He could do that, 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:08.000 you know, basically any chance Washington had to come back 0:42:08.040 --> 0:42:10.200 in that game last week. He ruined that with a 0:42:10.280 --> 0:42:14.160 sack strip fumble, So he can turn a game on 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:16.759 a dime with a big play and take the ball 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:20.600 away from your offense. I think whatever, you look at 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:23.480 the front seven, and I would probably say Atlanta up 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.840 there as well with Tat McKinley, even though I know 0:42:26.360 --> 0:42:29.200 Tat McKinley doesn't scare you as much as Aaron Donald 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:31.920 or Miles Garrett. But I think that whole front that 0:42:32.000 --> 0:42:36.399 Atlanta had was probably the best collective unit in terms 0:42:36.440 --> 0:42:37.960 of what they were bringing to the table. And we 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:40.759 saw that in terms of the fumbles and the turnovers 0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:42.959 in the run game that we saw in that first 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:46.080 quarter against the Falcons that just didn't look good. Now, 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.759 I don't expect that same thing to happen, hopefully not 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:51.279 the same thing to happen against Cleveland because that would 0:42:51.280 --> 0:42:54.560 be a disaster again. But I really do like what 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:58.400 Cleveland does from a scheme perspective, And Isaiah sold me 0:42:58.480 --> 0:43:00.200 the other day on the film session. By the way, 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:01.840 if you haven't checked it out, go look at it 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:05.080 on Cowboys dot Com because it's extremely insightful. But the 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:08.120 way that Miles Gary gets so out wide and the 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:10.920 way that Clayborne and Vernon whenever they need to and 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:14.160 whenever they're healthy, can get out wide. I think these 0:43:14.280 --> 0:43:17.000 tackles are going to have a rough time against this 0:43:17.120 --> 0:43:21.600 defensive line. I still think the secondary susceptible. I think 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:24.080 there's a chance that you can have those big plays, 0:43:24.200 --> 0:43:26.239 even though I know Isaiah you said they're mostly gonna 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:29.440 give up the underneath stuff. Either way, you're going to 0:43:29.520 --> 0:43:33.080 have success throwing the football and finding it, finding the 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:35.560 way to get it into the weapons hands. In terms 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:38.280 of Ceedee Lamb and Mary Cooper, Michael Gallup, Cedric Wilson, 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:41.040 I think they have a big game moving into this weekend. 0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:44.200 Is this a chance that we go into it though 0:43:44.640 --> 0:43:48.359 looking at it as maybe another slow game for Zeke. 0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:50.439 I know we've talked about the run game and getting 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:53.360 it going, but real quick, we real quickly before we 0:43:53.480 --> 0:43:57.440 wrap up Zeke hundred yards all purpose or no heading 0:43:57.480 --> 0:44:05.800 into this weekend. No? Oh okay, so no, just like that. Okay, 0:44:05.960 --> 0:44:09.040 there you go. Hey, And I gotta say, also, man, 0:44:09.120 --> 0:44:11.680 that Philip Studdy that you and Isaiah did was quality, 0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:15.800 because when Isaiah was showing how that wide nine split 0:44:16.400 --> 0:44:18.759 from Miles Garrett, it's it's a nightmare for a lot 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:21.280 of left tackles to see that guy that far away. 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.600 It's like that whole split second that he gets to 0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:27.359 use it lasted eternity. And with a guy like Brandon Knight, 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:32.279 who Zeke called the war Daddy Dadda, I want to 0:44:32.320 --> 0:44:35.040 see him take the barroom brawl if he has that 0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:38.680 in him two miles Garrett, because he's gonna have that time, 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:40.960 I mean, because he's spread out so wide. But our 0:44:41.040 --> 0:44:44.000 offensive line has got to take pride, has to take 0:44:44.080 --> 0:44:46.480 some pride in themselves. And they hear all the chirping 0:44:46.560 --> 0:44:50.160 and people like Isaiah staring it up and saying that, hey, 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:52.480 you're gonna be on an island by yourself. This guy's 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:55.080 gonna be a friendly gonna beat you down. So you know, 0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:57.920 these guys are these guys are professionals too, and so 0:44:58.080 --> 0:44:59.800 they've got to take some pride in the fact that 0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.640 they have the number one running back in the whole league. 0:45:02.719 --> 0:45:04.960 So you gotta get that guy off, and you know 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:07.760 that makes a game so much easier for your quarterback. 0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:11.160 I'll say yes, just because I don't I don't love 0:45:11.200 --> 0:45:14.799 the matchup up front either, but I think they're due 0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:16.560 to have a lead in the second half where he 0:45:16.600 --> 0:45:18.880 can eat a little bit, and maybe Tony Pollard can 0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:22.319 eat a little bit. So I think I'll go, Yes, 0:45:22.440 --> 0:45:24.640 I'll just be a little I'll be different here. Yes, 0:45:25.080 --> 0:45:27.960 oh man, I'm with you. Rob. I think he'll get 0:45:27.960 --> 0:45:30.560 a hundred yards here. And I think it's because of 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:33.160 the fact that the Cowboys should hopefully have a second 0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:35.640 half lead against Cleveland. But it'll be a fun one. 0:45:35.680 --> 0:45:38.200 We'll predict the game tomorrow. We'll give you the final 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:40.759 keys as we head into the weekend and get you 0:45:40.840 --> 0:45:43.800 set up for Sunday's matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and 0:45:44.000 --> 0:45:48.080 the Cleveland Browns when we come back nine fifteen tomorrow, 0:45:48.239 --> 0:45:49.960 once again a little bit early because of the Mike 0:45:50.080 --> 0:45:54.279 McCarthy press conference. Nine and fifteen tomorrow. Bring it, Say 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:56.440 it with your chest Friday. We're gonna lay it all 0:45:56.480 --> 0:45:58.680 out on the table, bring us your fan questions. Let's 0:45:58.719 --> 0:46:01.399 talk about say with your chests. We're leading into the weekend. 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:03.600 We're gonna get back to five hundred. It's gonna be 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:05.479 a party at the Star. It's gonna be a whole 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:08.440 ordeal throughout the next couple days. But that's gonna do 0:46:08.480 --> 0:46:11.680 it here for this Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys. For 0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:15.920 Rob Phillips, Fort Harrison, and Isaiah Standback. I'm Kyle Yeoman 0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:17.920 saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see 0:46:17.960 --> 0:46:22.240 you tomorrow. I'm Talking Cowboys. This has been a production 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:26.120 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.