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Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's how's it going, everybody, It's
Speaker 1: a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys once again, a little
Speaker 1: bit early on this Thursday. As Thursday and Fridays from
Speaker 1: now on, we will be going at nine fifteen thanks
Speaker 1: to Mike McCarthy's press conference coming up a little bit
Speaker 1: later on in the morning. But we are Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Happy October. October everybody. It's now September is ended. We've
Speaker 1: moved into October. It's officially football season, at least for
Speaker 1: those of you who are up here with us in
Speaker 1: North Texas. It's not football weather yet, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1: But we're into October. And if you want to have
Speaker 1: some encouragement today, Mike McCarthy has had a fantastic record
Speaker 1: in the month of October thirty two and fifteen in
Speaker 1: his career. In October, So hopefully that's some good juju
Speaker 1: heading in the way of the Dallas Cowboys as we
Speaker 1: head into this next couple of games. I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: alongside as well, Rob Phillips, heck Ma Harrison, and our
Speaker 1: residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah stand Back and guys, it's
Speaker 1: nice that it is October. I'm waiting for the cool
Speaker 1: air to kind of finally make its way to North Texas.
Speaker 1: But we haven't had that opportunity yet, unfortunately. But one
Speaker 1: thing we have had the opportunity of is seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit of an injury report from yesterday's game. We
Speaker 1: mentioned how or yesterday's practice. Rather, we mentioned how we
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily going to get that for the Wednesday show.
Speaker 1: But now as we're in the Thursday show, Rob, what
Speaker 1: have you seen from the injury report and what stuck
Speaker 1: out to you from yesterday's practice the fact that they
Speaker 1: don't have injured reserve guys on the injury report. You
Speaker 1: look at it and you're like, man, the Cowboys look
Speaker 1: pretty healthy. They look good. They only got three guys
Speaker 1: on there. They got more problems than just that. However,
Speaker 1: some progress with Tyrn Smith with the neck injury he
Speaker 1: didn't officially practice, but he did get some individual work done.
Speaker 1: As of Wednesday, Mike McCarthy said he's not cleared for
Speaker 1: full contact yet. So I would imagine today, although he's
Speaker 1: a VET and he can play on short notice, I
Speaker 1: would imagine today is very important to see what he
Speaker 1: can do, just because it's their last big work day
Speaker 1: of the week, and so that's the one to really
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Also to Marcus Lawrence, did not
Speaker 1: practice with the knee that he's been managing and probably
Speaker 1: just trying to manage him to get to the game,
Speaker 1: I would imagine. And Trayvon Diggs also on that injury report,
Speaker 1: although he was a full participant. You find it and
Speaker 1: like that DMP next too. I did not like that
Speaker 1: DMP next to Tank Lawrence's name. Man, that took all
Speaker 1: the pumpkin spice out of the air for me. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you don't find that anything. That is what my
Speaker 1: question was gonna be. Is that not an encouraging thing
Speaker 1: with it? Did not practice because of the fact that
Speaker 1: he may just be looking for the game. But once again,
Speaker 1: and kind of goes back to last week, we thought
Speaker 1: the same thing and he didn't really have a really
Speaker 1: a huge impact in Week three. Well, I think it's
Speaker 1: impactful that he's obviously not practicing, but look at the
Speaker 1: game man, Tank is. As much as people are down
Speaker 1: on him about not getting to the quarterback, he's doing
Speaker 1: a lot of other things at the defensive line. In all,
Speaker 1: twenty two has blessed us with the ability to go
Speaker 1: back and slow mow a lot of these things to
Speaker 1: show the effectiveness to up Tank in the run. And
Speaker 1: so I'm just looking for a guy like Tank to
Speaker 1: get healthy because we know we need him going down
Speaker 1: the stretch. But right now, just these early injury bugs
Speaker 1: that's hitting the Cowboys. Man, it's not a good sign
Speaker 1: for us, Isaiah. Whenever it comes to having guys that
Speaker 1: are trying to get back and trying to rehab and
Speaker 1: trying to work on specifically a knee injury, and we're
Speaker 1: talking in the case of DeMarcus Lawrence here, is that
Speaker 1: one of the tougher parts of the body, at least
Speaker 1: to rehab. I know, really, any NFL injury is going
Speaker 1: to be a significant NFL injury. There's no such thing
Speaker 1: as a small one. But whenever you talk about the
Speaker 1: knee specifically, is that a tougher region of the body
Speaker 1: to heal and to rehab more efficiently moving into the week,
Speaker 1: I believe, So, I guess in its totality, I mean,
Speaker 1: it really depends on what he's dealing with. Right, Obviously
Speaker 1: we're not going to get through the real scoop. They're
Speaker 1: going to keep that close to their chest. But you know,
Speaker 1: it really depends on what, how how how traumatic it
Speaker 1: really is whatever he's dealing with. So, I mean, they
Speaker 1: can be ailing. I can mention that obviously, being that
Speaker 1: you need your legs for every position in this sport,
Speaker 1: and especially at the position that he plays because it
Speaker 1: is so much more demanding of a position. Right, He's
Speaker 1: pushing against people who weigh more than him every single play,
Speaker 1: which caused obviously you know, causes stress on the knee.
Speaker 1: He's also coming out as explosively as he can, which
Speaker 1: obviously push the most amount of stress on the knee.
Speaker 1: And then he's going to be facing offenses where guess what,
Speaker 1: everybody knows he has knee issues. People are in the
Speaker 1: game to necessarily try to hurt you, but if they
Speaker 1: have an advantage, guys will definitely as a running back,
Speaker 1: they'll try to take your knees out to guess what
Speaker 1: to make you think twice about rushing at the speed
Speaker 1: in which you're capable of. So it's definitely a concern.
Speaker 1: It's not something that you want to see. They are
Speaker 1: going to do everything they can. Like I said, at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, they probably have the best training staff that
Speaker 1: I encounter, and they probably have the best to training
Speaker 1: staff in the league with all the guys they have there.
Speaker 1: So he's in more than more than good care. But
Speaker 1: it's definitely something that that's concerning, especially when you're one
Speaker 1: and two when you need this. W Isaiah, you sound
Speaker 1: like a doctor man. Unfortunately I know too much about
Speaker 1: the body. Unfortunately, when we were when we were up
Speaker 1: here filming the film study session for Academy earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, one of the biggest things that Isaiah was
Speaker 1: saying is like, Man, I wish this was not COVID
Speaker 1: times I would walk over and say hi to all
Speaker 1: the training staff. He's like, I'd go and say hi
Speaker 1: to Brett Brown and say hi to these guys because
Speaker 1: you knew them well enough. And I guess that's something
Speaker 1: that a lot of players have the opportunity to to
Speaker 1: know those guys and be able to get to have
Speaker 1: those those relationships, and Isaiah's one of those. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: whenever we're talking about the injuries, and Rob mentioned this
Speaker 1: a minute ago, when you look at the injury report,
Speaker 1: Cleveland puts all of their guys on there. So really
Speaker 1: the injury report, it's a couple names of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and then it's just a hefty list of Cleveland Brown's
Speaker 1: following it, and it makes it look like, oh wow,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are relatively healthy. As we all know, that's
Speaker 1: not necessarily the New England approach. It is the New
Speaker 1: Land approach. Newland approach. Man. It's also not the case
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys perspective because of all the players on
Speaker 1: injury reserve, which there are quite a few, close to
Speaker 1: close to a dozen players on injured reserve right now.
Speaker 1: But of course the offensive line is banged up as
Speaker 1: we preview today the Cowboys offense versus the Cleveland defense,
Speaker 1: and I want to start in the trenches. I want
Speaker 1: to start there because I really think that's where this
Speaker 1: game can be won for the Dallas Cowboys is the
Speaker 1: fact that your offensive line, yes it's banged up. You
Speaker 1: have both tackles out, potentially Lyle Collins as seemingly as
Speaker 1: not making his return this week. He hasn't returned the
Speaker 1: practice or been taken off of ir Tyrann Smith trying
Speaker 1: to get back into the group, but still questionable as
Speaker 1: we head into week four. But whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: Brandon knighte whenever it comes to Terrence Steel, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have those matchups that they dread really from an office
Speaker 1: into tackle standpoint. Miles Garrett looking on the other side
Speaker 1: and heck, b I know you've done the film work
Speaker 1: throughout the first couple of days. Tell me what you've
Speaker 1: seen from Miles Garrett. And is there a way that
Speaker 1: we have Brandon Knight or Terrence Steel in a position
Speaker 1: where they could stop him at any point this week?
Speaker 1: Oh God, another week, another dog. And that is what
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is. Miles Garrett in high school, man, he
Speaker 1: played like one of those guys from your neighborhood that
Speaker 1: didn't get to come outside a lot. He plays with
Speaker 1: a lot of energy and he is running hard all
Speaker 1: the time. And now he's just transition from Texas A
Speaker 1: and m all the way now to the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: and his ability to get around, to get around that
Speaker 1: curve and bend and his power at the point of
Speaker 1: attack is amazing. And I what I really worry about,
Speaker 1: it's him stunting towards some guys that may need some
Speaker 1: help at the guard position. But he doesn't just want
Speaker 1: to get your sack your quarterback. He wants to sack him,
Speaker 1: he wants to strip the ball, he wants to create
Speaker 1: that bumble and he's better than a lot of people
Speaker 1: in the league at doing that. But another name on
Speaker 1: this defensive front that really worries me is Adrian Clayborne.
Speaker 1: And uh, Rob, you know about our history with this guy,
Speaker 1: and so, uh no, a little bit, yeah no, no,
Speaker 1: a little bit about him. So I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we got him some some dollars in the bank one
Speaker 1: game that he played against us. But this is just
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those matchups. And I know, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the Sheldon Richardsons of the world
Speaker 1: and all the guys that we have in the interior
Speaker 1: line for the Browns. But the Browns have they're pretty
Speaker 1: styled up front, and so again offensive line is going
Speaker 1: to have to take the battle to another defensive front. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we touch on it. We touch on it in the
Speaker 1: film room the other day, right, um, and talking about
Speaker 1: this defensive line in their defensive ends and how they
Speaker 1: play these guys, I mean this defense. They want to
Speaker 1: play a bass defense. They want to go four three
Speaker 1: on you all day long. They are gonna sit in
Speaker 1: that box and they're gonna say, hey, could come at me, Bro,
Speaker 1: you know, as we've been saying. So, I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys are stout. Uh, they're strong up front. We mentioned
Speaker 1: yesterday on the show how they're strong right now where
Speaker 1: we're weak right now. So this office aligne and the trenches,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Kyed, is gonna be tough because they
Speaker 1: do have some dogs and they you know, they have
Speaker 1: guys like you know, Garrett, they have guys like Richardson,
Speaker 1: you know, they have Clay where they have these guys
Speaker 1: that are high motor guys. It's not even so much
Speaker 1: that they're necessarily just all out dogs. It's just that
Speaker 1: it's more dangerous sometimes to play just high motor guys
Speaker 1: because they don't stop right and it's coming in a wave.
Speaker 1: Like all of them, whoever's in the game for them
Speaker 1: right now is just going right. And I mean they
Speaker 1: have I think they have eight sacks on the year, right,
Speaker 1: which is they're they're they're coming. So they're dangerous, man,
Speaker 1: They're dangerous, and like I said, I think the biggest challenge.
Speaker 1: I know we've talked a lot about our interior alignement
Speaker 1: as of late because they just haven't been that great.
Speaker 1: But these tackles, man, they're gonna be on an eye
Speaker 1: land and it ain't Rivers's island. These boys are gonna
Speaker 1: be out there by themselves, and you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: really see what these guys can and can't do. They've
Speaker 1: been helped out a lot over these first few games.
Speaker 1: This game, they're gonna be one on one by themselves,
Speaker 1: and not only them, but the guards as well, because
Speaker 1: of how why these guys play on a defensive line.
Speaker 1: They play four eyes so that the defensive tackles on
Speaker 1: third down like the lineup on an outside shoulder of
Speaker 1: the guards. Well not only that, then the defensive end
Speaker 1: likes line up two to you know, one of two,
Speaker 1: one of three yards outside of your outside of your
Speaker 1: your your tack or you're tight end. So everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: be on an island. They're gonna be by themselves. This
Speaker 1: is one on one drills in practice. This is not
Speaker 1: gonna be a collaborative effort out offensive line. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been talking the last couple of days about Zack
Speaker 1: Martin and where he should play to give the line
Speaker 1: the best chance, and he said on conference call yesterday
Speaker 1: he said he expects to play guard, go back to
Speaker 1: his normal spot. And the more to y'all's point, the
Speaker 1: more you watch the Cleveland Browns on tape, you could
Speaker 1: put him anywhere, and there's gonna be a matchup problem
Speaker 1: somewhere else potentially because of their stout front four, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those front fours where they don't really
Speaker 1: have to blitz much. They've got they've got four guys
Speaker 1: up front, they can get to the quarterback. And you
Speaker 1: guys mentioned Garrett. Obviously, we'll see what happens with Olivier Vernon,
Speaker 1: he's been banged up. And then like heck said, we
Speaker 1: might see Adrian Clayborne, which will you know, cause some
Speaker 1: goosebumps for Cowboys fans based on twenty seventeen, But the
Speaker 1: interior defensive line Ojanobia I hope I pronounced his name correctly,
Speaker 1: is really stout against the run, and that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's a matchup I'm looking forward to seeing can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys establish their run against this interior Brown's defensive front
Speaker 1: because they do get up the field, they do have
Speaker 1: high motor guys, and they're able to affect teams that way.
Speaker 1: And we've talked about it for a few days now.
Speaker 1: Cowboys need more balance than they had on Sunday in Seattle.
Speaker 1: It's just, you know, they've got to get Zeke more involved.
Speaker 1: Some of it was Okay, they're going to load up
Speaker 1: to stop us, They're gonna blitz safeties and linebackers. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna try to expose things in the
Speaker 1: passing game. But you'd like to think ze can get
Speaker 1: more involved than he was in Week three. Well in
Speaker 1: this defensive line, do you guys truly do you guys
Speaker 1: think that he can? I'm sorry, now go for it, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna ask if you guys think that
Speaker 1: he really can, because i mean, we all know in
Speaker 1: this league, once you put something on tape like it's
Speaker 1: gonna like that next team is like, oh, let's get
Speaker 1: or done right. So the Seattle Show, we talked about
Speaker 1: it prior to the game, and then Seattle went out
Speaker 1: there and showed it that they weren't gonna let Zeke
Speaker 1: get off, Right, they weren't gonna let Zeke get off. Hey, Dak,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to throw your way to a victory.
Speaker 1: And he almost did, right, he almost did. But I
Speaker 1: think teams feel more secure forcing Dak to throw the
Speaker 1: ball versus letting Zeke eat on the ground, because there's
Speaker 1: there's less. It's it's a high it's a higher percentage play. Right,
Speaker 1: handing the ball off and letting him run is a
Speaker 1: higher percentage play, So it's probably gonna be more effective.
Speaker 1: So how about we just put a stop to that
Speaker 1: and let this guy see if he gets thrown around.
Speaker 1: I honestly think they're gonna get a heavy dose of
Speaker 1: what they saw last week against Seattle. Except for what
Speaker 1: Rob mentioned, this team doesn't have to blitz to get pressure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll probably agree with you. I think you pointed that out.
Speaker 1: You pointed that out last week against Seattle, saying that
Speaker 1: they were going to sell out to stop Zeke. And
Speaker 1: what did they do? They sold out to stop Zeke.
Speaker 1: And the film is out there and Ogen Jovi, Rob
Speaker 1: is he's a run stuffer for real, and he's a
Speaker 1: kind and he's a kind of guy that will move
Speaker 1: around a lot on that Cleveland Browns line. But one
Speaker 1: thing that I'm noticing is teams every time the Cowboys
Speaker 1: spread them out or gold trips formations, they automatically are
Speaker 1: blitzed the Cowboys. I mean, it's like they abandoned everything
Speaker 1: once we go into trips, because our trips formations are
Speaker 1: really dangerous once we set a tight end or all
Speaker 1: three of our great receivers together and so the teams
Speaker 1: understand what we're trying to do and just getting that
Speaker 1: balance back into the fold for the running game, This
Speaker 1: heink is something that it is going to be necessary
Speaker 1: for us, because once we become predictable, I think that's
Speaker 1: when that's what things kind of go out of whack
Speaker 1: for all offense. But you know, it does bring up
Speaker 1: the question, you know, when this offensive line has been
Speaker 1: at their absolute best and dominant, it doesn't it didn't
Speaker 1: really matter how many guys are in the box seven eight.
Speaker 1: You know, they could still run Zeke and Zeke could
Speaker 1: still eat and I think I think he's such a
Speaker 1: great running back. I think he still can. But they've
Speaker 1: been so compromised with their with their front you know,
Speaker 1: that push has got to be there, and I think
Speaker 1: at times, at times it hasn't been to Isaiah's point,
Speaker 1: and that takes away from, you know, really what their
Speaker 1: identity has been the last few years. I mean, Da
Speaker 1: Dak has progressed as a passer, we know that, but
Speaker 1: when he's throwing thirty times as opposed to forty five,
Speaker 1: they're they're just in better shape. He's in better shape.
Speaker 1: It helps him out. They get the play action going,
Speaker 1: they're able to to move safeties off spots and things
Speaker 1: like that, so they've got to try to get back
Speaker 1: to that. It is a tough matchup upfront, though this
Speaker 1: week it's a matchup against a defensive line that you
Speaker 1: want your defensive line to look like, where you've got
Speaker 1: two guys in the middle of Oceanobi and also Sheldon
Speaker 1: Richards Richardson right there in the middle that are pushing
Speaker 1: three hundred pounds, that are run stuffers, that are still
Speaker 1: going to be able to provide you a little bit
Speaker 1: of pass rush. But then you have those athletic ends,
Speaker 1: the Miles Garrett's, the Olivier Vernon, and if not Olivia Vernon,
Speaker 1: then you've got Adrian Clayborne on the edge that are
Speaker 1: very athletic, they're slim, they're they're fast, and they get
Speaker 1: home very quickly. Those are the type of pass rushers
Speaker 1: you're going up against. By the way, Miles Garrett thirty
Speaker 1: three and a half sacks throughout his career. That's the
Speaker 1: second most by an active player in their first forty
Speaker 1: games or less in their career. I believe I haven't
Speaker 1: double checked this yet, but I believe that other players
Speaker 1: Alden Smith because of what he did early in his
Speaker 1: career in his first forty games. I believe it's Alden Smith.
Speaker 1: I'll double check that and come back tomorrow with a
Speaker 1: handsolute answer. Yeah, there you go. But even and if
Speaker 1: you don't see Olivier Vernon, you're gonna see an Adrian Clayborne.
Speaker 1: You're gonna see maybe even a Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson,
Speaker 1: of course, who was with the Cowboys throughout training camp
Speaker 1: and was plucked up off of waivers on September sixth.
Speaker 1: He's played a multitude of snaps through the first three
Speaker 1: weeks of the season and has actually played well and
Speaker 1: has had a couple key plays in both the wins
Speaker 1: against the Bengals and a win against Washington as well,
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be a key matchup before we take
Speaker 1: our first break. Really quickly though, in that interior of
Speaker 1: the offensive line, we've heard some rumblings, we've heard the rumors.
Speaker 1: We saw what we saw in terms of fifty two
Speaker 1: offensive snaps in Week three. But as Tyler beotis, the
Speaker 1: rookie center out of Wisconsin potentially going to see a
Speaker 1: start this week whenever it comes to this offensive line
Speaker 1: trying to shake things up and move into Week four
Speaker 1: against the Browns here, I hope, so, I hope. So
Speaker 1: at least Savan he's one of those. He's another one
Speaker 1: of those great Wisconsin offensive lineman and we've we've had
Speaker 1: a few one of those, and he looked, be honest,
Speaker 1: did not play bad at all. I mean, he showed
Speaker 1: a lot of power also at the center position. So
Speaker 1: we know that we're just the time clock for him
Speaker 1: to actually take over that position has has started. So
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if if Tyler started the game
Speaker 1: this Sunday at and T Statium against Shelton Richardson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise. You. Gotta put him in there sometime.
Speaker 1: We cannot hide him. You know it. Come on now, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: that you don't get a red shirt gear in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So we gotta see what you got. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: Can you get a can you get a red shirt game? No? No,
Speaker 1: he can't get the job. You want to put him
Speaker 1: in there. You want to find the perfect time, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: There are no perfect time. He didn't have a preseason.
Speaker 1: You gotta feed him, you gotta put in there. We
Speaker 1: have all I'm gonna say, I think he played well
Speaker 1: last week. To throw him in there against this interior
Speaker 1: defensive line is very similar to throwing trip on digs
Speaker 1: against Julio Jones and DK Metcam. I'm just saying. You
Speaker 1: gotta say, any time trial by fire or trialed by
Speaker 1: death and such sees a rookie at center, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's and that's what we're gonna have to deal with.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys can't hide any of these guys. Whatever the
Speaker 1: witches are, it's already on tape, you see it. And
Speaker 1: so we have got to get this rookie. We gotta
Speaker 1: get him the reps. We weren't able to get it
Speaker 1: to him in preseason. And if Looney is giving up
Speaker 1: space are not able to hold ground or anchor himself
Speaker 1: in that offensive lining. The tape is there on that.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you have a rookie in there
Speaker 1: or a Looney, the results are still the same. So
Speaker 1: we can't just continue to wait. You can't continue to
Speaker 1: wait to see who's gonna take the helm and be
Speaker 1: the lead dog. We gotta say, hey, man, this is
Speaker 1: your chance. We'll see if you got it or else. Man,
Speaker 1: We're just gonna start looking on the street for one. Hey,
Speaker 1: looking on the street this offseason obviously did some dog
Speaker 1: on whale because it's the best player of the defense
Speaker 1: right now, so that might not be a bad option. Hello,
Speaker 1: that's true, that's fair. Yeah, No, I kind of tend
Speaker 1: to lean on the side of hect my here. I
Speaker 1: tend to lean on Hey, let's give the rookie a shot.
Speaker 1: We've seen on film that really it hasn't been in
Speaker 1: with Joe Looney in the middle, and maybe you even
Speaker 1: slide him out to guard, and you slide Martin out
Speaker 1: the tackle like we talked about last week, and like
Speaker 1: we saw last week, you don't even have to do that.
Speaker 1: I'd be okay with Tyler Ben. Y'all are ruthless Hey,
Speaker 1: you want to he won he won the Rimington Trophy
Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, So you know, but Isaiah, you want
Speaker 1: to swaddle these guys, you would have put him in swaddle.
Speaker 1: I'm not just talking about them. Let me help you understand.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna swaddw I know, Rob got the swadow
Speaker 1: all the way down right now. I love that word. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good word there. I am not only just concerned about
Speaker 1: these guys and their feelings and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about what happens who you're trying to protect.
Speaker 1: Right If you put a rookie out there against Schulder,
Speaker 1: against Schulder Richardson, he is going to have a field day,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you. And if he has a field day,
Speaker 1: then guess who's not going to be very happy and
Speaker 1: physically and mentally. It's going to be the dude that
Speaker 1: you guys are trying to pay that right, So you
Speaker 1: it's not just a matter of these guys getting out
Speaker 1: there and oh they got to learn at sometime, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: be very careful about who you put them out there
Speaker 1: to learn against, because you can't help them this week.
Speaker 1: The way that this defensive line plays, they literally put
Speaker 1: all the offensive alignment on an island. It's not your
Speaker 1: typical defensive line. They run all kinds of different form.
Speaker 1: They line up all kind of different different ways to
Speaker 1: create this separation. I mean, these guys are spreading fifteen
Speaker 1: yards across the field now with the defensive alignment. So
Speaker 1: these guys are going to have the interior help beyondat
Speaker 1: wouldn't have Looney or Martin. They wouldn't have those guys
Speaker 1: next to them to help and you know, assistant. Some
Speaker 1: of these blocks, it's gonna be man to man. So
Speaker 1: if they get beat the interior line, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a straight line shot straight to deck. I would lean
Speaker 1: towards experience here too. Yeah, but hey, Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 1: they're gonna work multiple combinations. In practice, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: as vague as possible. And I guess we'll find out
Speaker 1: at noon on Sunday. No, and I wish this might
Speaker 1: have been a debate I would have started with. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize we were so split, who's gonna play the
Speaker 1: center position come Sunday. I didn't realize the honest versus
Speaker 1: Looney was gonna really divide us as much. But when
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk about the wide receivers
Speaker 1: and of course the Cowboys having some success at that
Speaker 1: spot no surprise to anybody in the NFL with the
Speaker 1: personnel that they have there. But we're also going to
Speaker 1: talk about how susceptible is this brown secondary. I think
Speaker 1: very susceptible, and we're gonna talk about that next when
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Speaker 1: of Talking Cowboys, Week four, Episode four, Happy October, Everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm live from inside the SWBC Mortgage Studios, staying socially
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Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back and guys, if you're going to the
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Speaker 1: it comes to the Dallas Cowboys taking on these Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns this week, they're gonna have to have to get
Speaker 1: a win to get back to two and two. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, if they don't get a
Speaker 1: w this weekend, and we'll talk about this more tomorrow,
Speaker 1: it may start to be the panic time. But with
Speaker 1: this division being as bad as it is, I still
Speaker 1: don't think that's the case. I don't think that's the
Speaker 1: case just yet. I really don't. But I think you
Speaker 1: can get a win this weekend, and the reasons why
Speaker 1: is because of just how susceptible this secondary is against
Speaker 1: what is still, in my opinion, the best wide receiving
Speaker 1: corps in the NFL. The first time in Cowboys franchise
Speaker 1: history they've had four one hundred yard game receivers in
Speaker 1: one season, which is crazy because they've done it over
Speaker 1: the span of two weeks. They had Michael gallup In,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson this past weekend against Seattle. The week prior
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, it was Amara Cooper and Cedee Lamb. That's
Speaker 1: the only time in Cowboys history that they've had four
Speaker 1: different one hundred yard receivers in a single season at
Speaker 1: any point, which is crazy to me. But they're going
Speaker 1: to continue that success against what is Denzel Ward, Terrence Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Greedy Williams, who's been banged up a little bit on
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Brown's side of things. But Isaiah, when you
Speaker 1: look at this matchup between the receivers and this Cleveland secondary,
Speaker 1: is there anything that catches your eye in terms of
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys can take advantage. Um, it's this. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be real short. These these guys are
Speaker 1: not impressive in the secondary. And I think it's not
Speaker 1: even because of the personnel. I think it's more so
Speaker 1: because of the scheme that the defensive coordinator is playing
Speaker 1: with him. He is so confident in their front seven
Speaker 1: that he believes that he can get home at any time.
Speaker 1: So I think, I mean, even when you look at
Speaker 1: some of their base defenses versus eleven personnel, they don't
Speaker 1: always adjust. They don't always adjust a nickel. They'll leave
Speaker 1: their base defense in there a lot of times, and
Speaker 1: their linebackers are expected to go out there and cover
Speaker 1: slot receivers. So this should be a dog on field
Speaker 1: day for our for our offense, and the receivers they
Speaker 1: should eat more than they've eating any other week. Um.
Speaker 1: The only downside of that is you know, you have
Speaker 1: to really abandon the run in order to do so. So, Um,
Speaker 1: these guys, they they should kill this secondary all day long. Rob,
Speaker 1: do you agree? Please? Yeah? I think, I mean there's
Speaker 1: no question the strength of the Cleveland's defenses up front
Speaker 1: and part of the two with Cleveland in the back end.
Speaker 1: Is is the injuries they've had. You know, Grant Delpitt
Speaker 1: was a guy I just you know, I loved coming
Speaker 1: out of LSU. He's out for the season. Greedy Williams
Speaker 1: has yet to play I think this year, but he's
Speaker 1: getting healthier. And Denzel Ward, who did a nice job,
Speaker 1: was effective against AJ Green in the Cincinnati game, has
Speaker 1: been banged up too, So they've they've got some injuries. Isaiahs,
Speaker 1: you got me nervous on the Oh, well, we gotta
Speaker 1: have been in the run maybe to do it. But
Speaker 1: you know that I didn't. I didn't have a huge
Speaker 1: problem with part of that game plan against Seattle, because
Speaker 1: if you love your matchups on the outside, go for it.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just the volume of times you're having
Speaker 1: to pass protech with a banged up offensive line. And
Speaker 1: for me, it goes back to, you know, taking care
Speaker 1: of the football and making sure that you're not putting
Speaker 1: your defense already in a tougher position than they already are.
Speaker 1: How do you do that? Run the ball, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the that's the elixir for all that. So when
Speaker 1: Isaiah says abandon the run, that I get that mystery
Speaker 1: me feeling again, Fellas, I don't like it, but I
Speaker 1: mean because I don't, I don't want to see I
Speaker 1: don't look. Man. For the last three weeks, this has
Speaker 1: been a wild ride as a Cowboy fans, just watching
Speaker 1: these games, it's like, man, I need a pacemaker. And
Speaker 1: it's the back and forth and just the continuity of
Speaker 1: our offense and the rhythm of it just doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to be there. And I hate going back to the
Speaker 1: Seattle game, but I have to. At the end of
Speaker 1: the second end of the second half of the turnover
Speaker 1: for Dak the to Amari Cooper, it was a play
Speaker 1: where where Amara Cooper didn't come off the line for
Speaker 1: a whole second. Now, I watched a lot of football.
Speaker 1: I don't know of any routes that start there where,
Speaker 1: especially a post route, which Isaiah you know as a
Speaker 1: former quarterback, is a timing rote. It's all about timing,
Speaker 1: and so it's just those little things that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are doing to beat themselves. When you bring in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: we ought to feasts on this team because if they're
Speaker 1: going to load the box up against us and these receivers,
Speaker 1: Dak should throw for let's say three hundred yards. So
Speaker 1: if we say three hundred yards, that means he's to
Speaker 1: throw the ball fifty seven times. But at least that's
Speaker 1: loosening that defense up and making them do something that
Speaker 1: they don't want to do. Last week, man, they had
Speaker 1: the gift that keeps on giving, and that's Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: for the Washington football team. He was a turnover machine.
Speaker 1: Once they went from two safeties high to one safety high,
Speaker 1: he could not figure out what they were doing, and
Speaker 1: he was just throwing into coverage. Dak isn't going to
Speaker 1: do that. And how you don't do that is when
Speaker 1: they are loading up, man, you still continue to give
Speaker 1: Zeke the ball and feed him and let everything after
Speaker 1: that be predicated off of the success of the run game.
Speaker 1: So my next question was going to be, is this
Speaker 1: gonna be another forty five parts passage the game in
Speaker 1: terms of Dak Prescott, And I guess that answer was
Speaker 1: just given to me by heck My Harrison. It's this
Speaker 1: is not gonna be another one where you just air
Speaker 1: it out over and over and over again, which brings
Speaker 1: me to another question. Yes it is Kyle, you think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I know, we don't have a lot. I know,
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of time, becauld, we have
Speaker 1: a couple of seconds to get through. But is he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball forty times this game? Man? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw the ball forty times this game. Because
Speaker 1: one understand this, Cleveland's gonna run the ball on offense. Right,
Speaker 1: there's so many different things. We can't just look at
Speaker 1: one side of the ball. Cleveland's going to run the ball.
Speaker 1: Cleveland is going to run six minutes off the clock
Speaker 1: every time, not every time, but for a good amount
Speaker 1: of every time they get the ball. I say every time.
Speaker 1: If it's not really that, but they're gonna they're gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, I say they have twelve possessions. You know
Speaker 1: at least some of these half of those possessions gonna
Speaker 1: go for four to six minutes. Okay, so there's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of time left when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: get the ball. So say Cleveland does score, right, Say
Speaker 1: Cleveland tolts this thing all the way down here. It
Speaker 1: takes time out of the clock. Now Dallas is being
Speaker 1: left with half a quarter. They have to they have
Speaker 1: to throw the ball like that. They like that because
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna be loading the box up. They're
Speaker 1: not going to allow them to run, just like last week.
Speaker 1: This is the this is the pride and joy of
Speaker 1: their defense, the front seven. So you think they're gonna
Speaker 1: let the pride and enjoy get disrespected. No, they're gonna
Speaker 1: force you to throw somewhere else. And guess what, that's okay,
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna be able to run the ball
Speaker 1: like you want to. And if you shoot, if you
Speaker 1: do try to run the ball, now you're forced You're
Speaker 1: now you're trying to force it, and you're leaving yourself
Speaker 1: susceptible to long down. And this is this that is Isaiah.
Speaker 1: What you just said was absolutely correct. But just take
Speaker 1: Cleveland's name off of that statement that you just said
Speaker 1: and put Cowboys on that and then they have to
Speaker 1: deal with all of the things that you just said,
Speaker 1: Well they don't have, you know, their their clock management
Speaker 1: is and they're trying to play from behind as well,
Speaker 1: because we've milked a lot of that clock. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's that's the game play, very very very very true.
Speaker 1: But also this head there's a higher percentage, there's a
Speaker 1: higher chance and a higher probability that you're gonna turn
Speaker 1: the ball over throwing the ball, would you agree? Absolutely? Okay,
Speaker 1: So they're just gonna bank on the fact that I
Speaker 1: know you said Dax is not going to throw it up.
Speaker 1: Dak has more turnovers in Baker Mayfield this year, just
Speaker 1: in case there is any question, right so, whether it's
Speaker 1: fumbling or whether they think they had the same at
Speaker 1: the same amount of interceptions. But Dad has multiple fumbles, right, So,
Speaker 1: so he has more turnovers than Baker Mayfield right now,
Speaker 1: So they're gonna bank on the fact that, hey, he'll
Speaker 1: throw it around forty times, and yes, we'll give us
Speaker 1: some plays here and there. They might just try to
Speaker 1: keep everything in front of them, right. If they keep
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna I feel that's gonna be that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the game play. I think they're gonna play off
Speaker 1: and let these guys throw underneath routes all day long
Speaker 1: that they're not going to allow them to run the ball,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna bank that they go they can hold
Speaker 1: them in a red zone and make them kick field goals.
Speaker 1: I think that's their game plan. Man, Cowboys just needed
Speaker 1: like a ten point lead. They need a ten point
Speaker 1: in a football game to be able to try to
Speaker 1: try to get the run going. You know, um and
Speaker 1: you mentioned turnovers, and that's Mike McCarthy continues to hammer
Speaker 1: the turnover battle. And the reason why is Cleveland's tied.
Speaker 1: I think for the most takeaways in the league was seven.
Speaker 1: I looked it up. They've got They've scored thirty four
Speaker 1: points this year or I think thirty one off of
Speaker 1: turnovers so far from their defense. Cowboys have three Cowboys
Speaker 1: have scored three points I believe off takeaways from their defense.
Speaker 1: And you and you, yeah, and you look at their
Speaker 1: average start drive so far, like against Seattle was their
Speaker 1: own nineteen. They're just they're having to drive a long fields.
Speaker 1: They're having to throw the ball too much. And it's
Speaker 1: all complimentary. You know, they need they need help from
Speaker 1: their defense to get some shorter drives and to try
Speaker 1: to build a lead because playing from behind, you're, like
Speaker 1: like Isaiah said, man, you're just asking, you're putting yourself
Speaker 1: in higher risk situations where you're gonna have to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over and and they just they can't do
Speaker 1: it because Cleveland will feast off that. That's how they're
Speaker 1: two and one more than anything. Absolutely. Yeah, they why
Speaker 1: Baker only has eighty some throws eighty times? It's really easy.
Speaker 1: Also whatever you have that yeah efficient and Kyle, Yeah
Speaker 1: I did. I just wanted to point out the fact
Speaker 1: that you know, Dak Prescott has forty three more completions
Speaker 1: and fifty eight more past attempts than Baker. Mayfield is
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty four more yards, five touchdowns, two interceptions,
Speaker 1: the same. But look at the records, and so that
Speaker 1: is indicative of the game plan. And that's what I'm saying, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: If you if we're saying that we're gonna go into
Speaker 1: a game like this and our number one thing that
Speaker 1: we're gonna underline and circle is abandoning the run, We're
Speaker 1: not gonna have any success doing that. I'm saying it's
Speaker 1: it's it's an area of concern because because you have
Speaker 1: a like I said, you're right now, we're weak upfront.
Speaker 1: Call it how it is in comparison and comparison to
Speaker 1: where we want to be and where we've been in
Speaker 1: the past. Where you're weak up front, guess what they're not.
Speaker 1: They're strong upfront. They're front seven is strong. So where
Speaker 1: we're weak, they're strong, So even if you try to
Speaker 1: go into you try to force it, force it, force it.
Speaker 1: Guess what, Now you're in third and long, right, you
Speaker 1: pump the ball and you're giving it back to a
Speaker 1: team that's going to run the ball efficiently where you're weak,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna run time off the clock, which which
Speaker 1: all adds up to them, guess what, having a lead.
Speaker 1: And then at some point in time in the game,
Speaker 1: probably around the second quarter, you gotta say the heck
Speaker 1: with it with this run thing. We gotta we gotta,
Speaker 1: we gotta score some points. So what do you start doing.
Speaker 1: You start throwing and they're gonna let you throw it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna let you throw. They're gonna let you throw it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to buckle down into red zone and
Speaker 1: guess what, give you three points and guess what three
Speaker 1: points is and beat seven points. So that's where this
Speaker 1: game is gonna have. It's gonna go I think if
Speaker 1: the game is gonna go by really quickly, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be This game is gonna fly by because
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of catches for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and gonna be a lot of running for Cleveland and
Speaker 1: it's a tough matchup. They have to be efficient. They
Speaker 1: have to be efficient. Well, we're up on the other
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Speaker 1: but I've actually got two questions for you. The first
Speaker 1: one is, out of the first three games, now entering
Speaker 1: week four, is this the best front seven that we've
Speaker 1: seen as the Dallas Cowboys Looking on the Cleveland defensive
Speaker 1: side to the football, is this the best front seven
Speaker 1: we've seen? And is it the worst secondary we've seen it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to say yes or no to both.
Speaker 1: It's not one question. There are two separate questions. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see what you guys think because this
Speaker 1: has been a debate throughout the office up here, at
Speaker 1: least over the last couple of days in terms of
Speaker 1: what we're actually seeing on this defensive side of the football. Heckma,
Speaker 1: And that's a tough one. I mean because Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: is like five guys and one, so what do you
Speaker 1: I just have a hard time saying that after the
Speaker 1: job that ninety nine did to offensive line. But I
Speaker 1: guess if we're just basing it off of names and
Speaker 1: studs and dudes that have done it for a while
Speaker 1: in the league, Yeah, that's that's that's a fair assessment. Secondary.
Speaker 1: Oh yea go yeah that second part, Go ahead, Yeah,
Speaker 1: secondaries it's bad. So, I mean, I think offensive front
Speaker 1: line wise, yes, they're really good for line wise, but
Speaker 1: as far as the back half of the defense, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty bad. Okay isah uh? Defensive front? I
Speaker 1: think the best defensive front we faced was Atlanta prior
Speaker 1: to Tach getting getting hurt um, that was gonna be
Speaker 1: absolute problem. In that first quarter of a prior to
Speaker 1: him getting hurt. So I think they had the best
Speaker 1: front seven. I think this is probably the second best
Speaker 1: front seven. Um, they don't have necessarily one dominant player,
Speaker 1: but again, collectively, I think they do a good job secondary.
Speaker 1: The secondary is gonna get torched. M I just don't
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna allow big plays to happen. They
Speaker 1: were gonna give up a lot of underneath classes, a
Speaker 1: lot of out routes, a lot of curls and anything
Speaker 1: underneath that they want to think calb was to have
Speaker 1: their way there. But I think they're just gonna be told,
Speaker 1: don't let anybody beat you over the top, because that's
Speaker 1: honestly where Dallas is one. Yeah, I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: their second there. I guess it might depend on how
Speaker 1: healthy they are. Um, but yeah, i'd say there it's
Speaker 1: probably the second best front seven. I mean, like I'm
Speaker 1: with hack On on Aaron Donald, Like, if you got
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, you're the best front seven. But but but
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is basically the same type in terms of
Speaker 1: a guy that can wreck a game. He could do that,
Speaker 1: you know, basically any chance Washington had to come back
Speaker 1: in that game last week. He ruined that with a
Speaker 1: sack strip fumble, So he can turn a game on
Speaker 1: a dime with a big play and take the ball
Speaker 1: away from your offense. I think whatever, you look at
Speaker 1: the front seven, and I would probably say Atlanta up
Speaker 1: there as well with Tat McKinley, even though I know
Speaker 1: Tat McKinley doesn't scare you as much as Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: or Miles Garrett. But I think that whole front that
Speaker 1: Atlanta had was probably the best collective unit in terms
Speaker 1: of what they were bringing to the table. And we
Speaker 1: saw that in terms of the fumbles and the turnovers
Speaker 1: in the run game that we saw in that first
Speaker 1: quarter against the Falcons that just didn't look good. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't expect that same thing to happen, hopefully not
Speaker 1: the same thing to happen against Cleveland because that would
Speaker 1: be a disaster again. But I really do like what
Speaker 1: Cleveland does from a scheme perspective, And Isaiah sold me
Speaker 1: the other day on the film session. By the way,
Speaker 1: if you haven't checked it out, go look at it
Speaker 1: on Cowboys dot Com because it's extremely insightful. But the
Speaker 1: way that Miles Gary gets so out wide and the
Speaker 1: way that Clayborne and Vernon whenever they need to and
Speaker 1: whenever they're healthy, can get out wide. I think these
Speaker 1: tackles are going to have a rough time against this
Speaker 1: defensive line. I still think the secondary susceptible. I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance that you can have those big plays,
Speaker 1: even though I know Isaiah you said they're mostly gonna
Speaker 1: give up the underneath stuff. Either way, you're going to
Speaker 1: have success throwing the football and finding it, finding the
Speaker 1: way to get it into the weapons hands. In terms
Speaker 1: of Ceedee Lamb and Mary Cooper, Michael Gallup, Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: I think they have a big game moving into this weekend.
Speaker 1: Is this a chance that we go into it though
Speaker 1: looking at it as maybe another slow game for Zeke.
Speaker 1: I know we've talked about the run game and getting
Speaker 1: it going, but real quick, we real quickly before we
Speaker 1: wrap up Zeke hundred yards all purpose or no heading
Speaker 1: into this weekend. No? Oh okay, so no, just like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. Hey, And I gotta say, also, man,
Speaker 1: that Philip Studdy that you and Isaiah did was quality,
Speaker 1: because when Isaiah was showing how that wide nine split
Speaker 1: from Miles Garrett, it's it's a nightmare for a lot
Speaker 1: of left tackles to see that guy that far away.
Speaker 1: It's like that whole split second that he gets to
Speaker 1: use it lasted eternity. And with a guy like Brandon Knight,
Speaker 1: who Zeke called the war Daddy Dadda, I want to
Speaker 1: see him take the barroom brawl if he has that
Speaker 1: in him two miles Garrett, because he's gonna have that time,
Speaker 1: I mean, because he's spread out so wide. But our
Speaker 1: offensive line has got to take pride, has to take
Speaker 1: some pride in themselves. And they hear all the chirping
Speaker 1: and people like Isaiah staring it up and saying that, hey,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on an island by yourself. This guy's
Speaker 1: gonna be a friendly gonna beat you down. So you know,
Speaker 1: these guys are these guys are professionals too, and so
Speaker 1: they've got to take some pride in the fact that
Speaker 1: they have the number one running back in the whole league.
Speaker 1: So you gotta get that guy off, and you know
Speaker 1: that makes a game so much easier for your quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'll say yes, just because I don't I don't love
Speaker 1: the matchup up front either, but I think they're due
Speaker 1: to have a lead in the second half where he
Speaker 1: can eat a little bit, and maybe Tony Pollard can
Speaker 1: eat a little bit. So I think I'll go, Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll just be a little I'll be different here. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm with you. Rob. I think he'll get
Speaker 1: a hundred yards here. And I think it's because of
Speaker 1: the fact that the Cowboys should hopefully have a second
Speaker 1: half lead against Cleveland. But it'll be a fun one.
Speaker 1: We'll predict the game tomorrow. We'll give you the final
Speaker 1: keys as we head into the weekend and get you
Speaker 1: set up for Sunday's matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns when we come back nine fifteen tomorrow,
Speaker 1: once again a little bit early because of the Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy press conference. Nine and fifteen tomorrow. Bring it, Say
Speaker 1: it with your chest Friday. We're gonna lay it all
Speaker 1: out on the table, bring us your fan questions. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about say with your chests. We're leading into the weekend.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to five hundred. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a party at the Star. It's gonna be a whole
Speaker 1: ordeal throughout the next couple days. But that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it here for this Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys. For
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, Fort Harrison, and Isaiah Standback. I'm Kyle Yeoman
Speaker 1: saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. I'm Talking Cowboys. This has been a production
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