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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's and guys, it's it's Wednesday, and Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I've got a little bit of a bone to pick
Speaker 1: with you, my friend, because I was told, I was
Speaker 1: told by by you yourself, a former teammate of one
Speaker 1: certain Earl Thomas, that he would be a Dallas Cowboy
Speaker 1: by now, and that there would be movement on that front.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm looking at the clock and I'm
Speaker 1: seeing man, it's September sixteenth, it's a Wednesday. Where is Earl? Isaiah?
Speaker 1: Where is Earl? And I want to know why there's
Speaker 1: no Earl Thomas. Kyle. I have a response for you.
Speaker 1: Kyle's the heck of a question. And I had a
Speaker 1: feeling that it was coming, being that I have my
Speaker 1: crystal ball. At times I feel as if my crystal
Speaker 1: ball got a little murky, Right, he got a little murky,
Speaker 1: did it? And it got murky? It got murky in
Speaker 1: the form of of of of injuries this past week
Speaker 1: that really took really took the helm. It really kind
Speaker 1: of took over, overshadowed what should have been all Pro
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame currently in his prime safety in the
Speaker 1: name of Earl Thomas, that should have been in addition
Speaker 1: to this team yesterday. But because of the injuries at
Speaker 1: right tackle, because of the injuries at linebacker, because of
Speaker 1: our inability to stop the ball being ran up our throat,
Speaker 1: our inability to block the inside, I think that's become
Speaker 1: more of a president to address more than signing this
Speaker 1: current Hall of Fame player. Oh what happened? Was hppened? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It kind of sounds like that a little bit. Uh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the I guess the big no news story
Speaker 1: of the day is that we are into the point
Speaker 1: where veterans contracts are no longer guaranteed for the remainder
Speaker 1: of the season. Unless priorly noted. But Earl Thomas is
Speaker 1: not a part of the Dallas Cowboys. Neither have the
Speaker 1: Cowboys really done a whole lot in terms of starting
Speaker 1: caliber players that have been brought in, but Rob there
Speaker 1: were plenty of moves made yesterday in terms of guys
Speaker 1: being brought in off of other practice squads. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: were very active on waivers. Kind of run through some
Speaker 1: of those moves in what kind of impact they have
Speaker 1: in terms of the Cowboys this week. Yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't make moves to fill starting positions, right,
Speaker 1: but they did because they talked about in house, and
Speaker 1: I guess they aren't doing that, but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: guys already on the roster of taking more snaps. Most likely.
Speaker 1: They did address a couple of spots with some practice
Speaker 1: squad poachings, if you want to call it that, Alex
Speaker 1: Light offensive tackle off the Cardinals practice squad and linebacker
Speaker 1: Rashad Smith off Chicago's practice squad. He's a rookie free
Speaker 1: agent out of FAU and so you know. Also, oh,
Speaker 1: I forgot to mention Brandon Carr as we're talking about
Speaker 1: veteran DBS. He's on the fifty three man roster now
Speaker 1: I assume for the rest of the season unless something happens,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what his workload is going to be
Speaker 1: this week. But hey, three open spots with three guys
Speaker 1: headed at two. I r not only Latent Vanderesh and
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, but Cam Irving as well with a spraying knee.
Speaker 1: So all three out for a minimum of three weeks.
Speaker 1: We know vander Esh is out for about six to eight.
Speaker 1: Jar went out for the season, and we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with Cam Irving. But trying to get some tackle
Speaker 1: depth there as well. And I'm a little surprised they
Speaker 1: didn't go with you know, Francis Bernard maybe as a
Speaker 1: call up from the practice squad. They go with Rashad
Speaker 1: Smith instead. Well, we only heard the last thing you said,
Speaker 1: and that was instead, so I'm sure I'm sure it
Speaker 1: was awesome. Oh man, Yeah, okay, all right, I just
Speaker 1: let me do a quick recap for you. Fellas. Alex
Speaker 1: light Rashad Smith, and Brandon Carr are your call ups,
Speaker 1: two poachings from the practice squad from Arizona and the
Speaker 1: Bears car gets called up three guys the ir Jarwin
Speaker 1: Vanderesh and Cam Irving for a minimum of three weeks
Speaker 1: for Irving, so we'll see what happens. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to fill some things in the house apparently with their
Speaker 1: starting spots, but they add some depth from other teams
Speaker 1: and Smith RASA. Smith is is a guy that I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with, and it sounded like to me rob he
Speaker 1: was someone that our scouts had targeted prior to the
Speaker 1: draft and obviously wanted to get him, but the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears plucked him away from us, and to me, coming
Speaker 1: out of Florida Atlanta, he was a guy that would
Speaker 1: fit perfectly into a three four scheme. So I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to see how he's going to fit into the
Speaker 1: Cowboys scheme. Yeah, I think he is somebody that's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting because you talk about the instead of
Speaker 1: you have excuse me, instead of having Francis Bernard, you
Speaker 1: go with him instead. That's the term that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of pointing at right now. Is the fact that you
Speaker 1: still didn't call up Francis Bernard. I know that's what
Speaker 1: really the media and those who were watching training camp
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind at least relying on or at least
Speaker 1: that was the first thought that popped in our head.
Speaker 1: But Rob, why didn't they go with a guy like
Speaker 1: Francis Bernard? I guess maybe we just overestimated his training camp,
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe maybe we did in a few
Speaker 1: different spots as well, you know, in terms of how
Speaker 1: guys looked in practice, and then it didn't carry over
Speaker 1: the game. I think they like him, but obviously, like
Speaker 1: as Hekma said, Smith's a guy that they liked coming
Speaker 1: out of school. And you look at his production in college.
Speaker 1: He's only about two hundred and twenty pounds, but he
Speaker 1: is a fly around, make plays guy. I think he
Speaker 1: had over three hundred tackles in college. So, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna Kennie plays special teams, and how effective
Speaker 1: is he on special teams? And if he's gonna be active,
Speaker 1: obviously they must feel good about that, Oh Rob, That
Speaker 1: is app sole fact, Old loot Lee the truth when
Speaker 1: it comes down to what they're doing at the linebacker
Speaker 1: because Francis Bernard would have to play a special team.
Speaker 1: So maybe that made the difference between going with him
Speaker 1: over Francis on It might have been the difference. And Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I know you're a guy who's who's played on special
Speaker 1: teams before, and is there really that kind of that battle.
Speaker 1: I know, especially early in the weeks. We talk about
Speaker 1: it in training camp all the time, and we mentioned
Speaker 1: it in training camp, but whenever it comes into that
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks of the season, if you're a
Speaker 1: practice squad guy, you really got to up your special
Speaker 1: teams game, correct, absolutely, I mean special teams is huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we we spent a lot of
Speaker 1: energies talking about offensive defense, but uh, there's the other
Speaker 1: third of the game that's kind of important in terms
Speaker 1: of field, in terms of not only the scoring points,
Speaker 1: but just field it. You know, just just field a
Speaker 1: position right where where we're at on the field. You know,
Speaker 1: a simple play such as a punt. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw it last week, you know where where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were given some great field position because of because of
Speaker 1: their punter freaking boot at the ball doing there at
Speaker 1: the stadium. Um and and that those things matter and
Speaker 1: then being able to cover on those plays matter. So
Speaker 1: if you're a you're a practice squad guy, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you're going out there during your week of practice,
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to show that guess what this starter,
Speaker 1: whoever else I'm facing in practice, you know they're not
Speaker 1: as good as I am in this regard, and you
Speaker 1: guys need to make some room for me. And hey,
Speaker 1: I will say this about Francis Bernard. Guys for the
Speaker 1: second straight week. You know, you get to protect four
Speaker 1: or your practice squad guys from being you know, signed
Speaker 1: from another team. He's been protected two weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: so obviously they like him. But you know, I guess
Speaker 1: Smith really stood out to him as an option. One
Speaker 1: other note on Alex light the offensive tackle. He played
Speaker 1: for Mike McCarthy in twenty eighteen, So there's some familiarity
Speaker 1: there and some insurance there, I guess, depending on what
Speaker 1: they do. Obviously you got Terrence Steele and you got
Speaker 1: Brandon Knight potentially as a tackle option. Two. Now I'm
Speaker 1: glad you mentioned that, Rob because you're talking about offensive
Speaker 1: tackle and you're mentioning the depth and the backup plan
Speaker 1: at least as Alex Light is concerned about this Cowboys
Speaker 1: offensive line, and really they were graded the third worst
Speaker 1: offensive performance from an offensive line by Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: in Week one. I have a couple of questions for you, guys,
Speaker 1: and you might be able to take this one way
Speaker 1: or the other way. You may agree or disagree. But
Speaker 1: I was kind of playing around with a depth chart
Speaker 1: this week, and I was looking at the Cowboys offensive line,
Speaker 1: and of course Connor Williams kind of struggled as a
Speaker 1: left guard this past week. He had the right guard spot.
Speaker 1: Of course, Zack Martin he's going to be he's locked
Speaker 1: in Joe Looney a center. What would you think about
Speaker 1: potentially putting a Connor Williams back out at right tackle,
Speaker 1: which is really what he played throughout his career at
Speaker 1: Texas in college, and then throwing maybe a Joe Looney
Speaker 1: or a Connor McGovern at left guard, and then having
Speaker 1: Tyler Biattish play center or even a Connor McGovern play center.
Speaker 1: Is there any objection to that or what's what's so
Speaker 1: difficult about doing something of that kind of shifting around
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I sensed an objection from Isaiah.
Speaker 1: I want to hear in no disrespect. This is where
Speaker 1: just just our opinions, right, Um, however, you oh, how
Speaker 1: can I address it? Connor Williams, Yes, I'm being um.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he had say so much of Unfortunately Connor Williams
Speaker 1: face arguably the best defensive alignment in the league, which
Speaker 1: he did this past week. Right, So that's that's we're
Speaker 1: gonna give him that benefit of the doubt. He got
Speaker 1: ragged dog. He got disrespected. Zeke got disrespected, exact, Martin
Speaker 1: got disrespected, Looney got disrespected. Everybody got disrespected by this,
Speaker 1: by that gentleman. So we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: act like that didn't even happen. Um, But what what
Speaker 1: you're suggesting? Um, he got disrespected with help on both
Speaker 1: sides of him. Correct, he had a left tackle and
Speaker 1: he had a center. Correct, he had he had right.
Speaker 1: So we had big Smith on the left and we
Speaker 1: had big Looney on his right. He still got ragged dog.
Speaker 1: So you're suggesting that we put him on an island
Speaker 1: in the NFC East conference where there are some dogs
Speaker 1: out there that we're gonna be facing. And I really
Speaker 1: want to kind of speak to the Washington Redskins maybe okay,
Speaker 1: and you want to put him on the island by
Speaker 1: himself to fin for himself where he can get rag
Speaker 1: dog and potentially have a straight line to your franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're suggesting. Well, the Cowboys don't play
Speaker 1: the Redskins until Week eight, and by that point I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that Lyle Collins is back at right tackle because
Speaker 1: I still think come back, I'm mostly talking about Atlanta Seattle. No,
Speaker 1: maybe I get it, Kyle, that was man, Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: that's a great conversation piece. But no, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. I don't think that that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do. And also with stell this, going back
Speaker 1: and watching the tape of steal Man like, he did
Speaker 1: a serviceable job. I know we're gonna talk about later
Speaker 1: possibly getting him some help with with tight ends to
Speaker 1: the right of him as well, but he didn't do
Speaker 1: as bad a job as making Connor Williams your right
Speaker 1: tackle and champ Like you said, Connor Williams won't have
Speaker 1: to go against ninety nine next week and the week thereafter.
Speaker 1: All right, that's a one time deal, hopefully into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But still, but still we understand how that is in
Speaker 1: and also the one thing about it is Looney is
Speaker 1: your veteran center. Hea. You gotta go with that. And
Speaker 1: I think that experience, especially with the abbreviated preseason and
Speaker 1: everything else, you just that that that's definitely gonna keep
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy up at night with a rookie center. So
Speaker 1: I think this out of comfort right now. We just
Speaker 1: got to give it another week For Connor Williams. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna come around. We also have to mention
Speaker 1: that he came off of an ACL surgery also, that's true.
Speaker 1: That's true. But Kyle, I'm gonna throw you a raft here. Okay,
Speaker 1: your raft, you throw it. I kind of like it.
Speaker 1: I don't like it now. I don't think it's gonna happen. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's gonna happen. But
Speaker 1: I threw it out there yesterday as just an emergency option,
Speaker 1: you know, if things aren't going well or if there's
Speaker 1: another injury at tackle. You know, Connor Williams played tackle
Speaker 1: in college basically, and I think his athleticism is a
Speaker 1: good fit out there if they needed to make a change.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will, and like you guys said,
Speaker 1: give him, you know, give him some time coming off
Speaker 1: the injury. Huge tough matchup, tough beyond a tough matchup
Speaker 1: in week one. But I do think they have some
Speaker 1: flexibility there also. I mean, if you had to really dig,
Speaker 1: dig deep in the bag, Zach Martin could go out
Speaker 1: there too, So they have some flexibility there. I just
Speaker 1: don't know how they feel about how, you know, Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern and Tyler Biadaship come along so far in camp,
Speaker 1: if they're ready to step in and play starters snaps
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know about that. But obviously they
Speaker 1: felt like Karen Steele was, which came to surprise and
Speaker 1: everybody pretty much. Hey, Rob, just just because it's a
Speaker 1: life rapp doesn't mean they just inflated. So if you,
Speaker 1: Rob would would float me life and raft oh man,
Speaker 1: that would That'd be the old man savage. But yeah,
Speaker 1: just trying to just grab on, I'll pull. It's got
Speaker 1: a roth attached to it. Uh yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Rob, I don't think it will happen. I
Speaker 1: just I was playing around with the depth chart and
Speaker 1: whenever you look at the past of both Looney and Williams.
Speaker 1: The fact that they've played those positions stuck out to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, Looney played the majority of the beginning of
Speaker 1: his career at guard, whereas you saw, like you said,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams at Texas playing at a tackle role. And
Speaker 1: I think if you have two guys like McGovern, like
Speaker 1: be Oddish that could come in and play center, maybe
Speaker 1: not at the level of Joe Looney, but you sure
Speaker 1: up two other spots and sacrifice maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: of one. I think there's at least something to play
Speaker 1: around with here. I don't think it will happen. I
Speaker 1: don't really believe it it should happen, but it's just
Speaker 1: something to think about with this offensive line. If things
Speaker 1: do go south, things go south. I would keep Looney
Speaker 1: he is at center. But it is interesting that when
Speaker 1: I think Connor Williams shoe fell off and for like
Speaker 1: one play in the game, Yeah, and it was it
Speaker 1: was be Honest that came out at left guard. That
Speaker 1: was interesting. That's interesting. Hey, Rob, you know you know
Speaker 1: what else I saw. I saw that Beyondest was not
Speaker 1: ready to come in a game because by the time,
Speaker 1: by the time that Connor Williams got all the way
Speaker 1: to the sideline Beyondest was just getting his helmet, so
Speaker 1: I saw that as well. Oh man, you gotta stay ready, Yes,
Speaker 1: stay ready. Can't be ready, it's move the Wisconsin's center
Speaker 1: playing a little bit of left guard. That's probably why
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready because he was like, oh, I gotta
Speaker 1: go play left guard. Okay, uh, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break. Because like you guys were just
Speaker 1: talking about, Aaron Donald was a problem on Sunday. Tack
Speaker 1: McKinley could be a problem this upcoming Sunday. We're gonna
Speaker 1: preview the defense tomorrow. We've got the Atlanta offense versus
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Speaker 1: segment of the Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys. Glad you're
Speaker 1: with us. Kyle Yeoman's Heck Maharrison, Rob Phillips, and our
Speaker 1: residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah stand back as we get
Speaker 1: you ready for Falcons Week here at the Star in Frisco,
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys take on the oh and one Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: We're gonna preview the offense of this matchup. And when
Speaker 1: I'm mean offense, it's with a capital O from the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons perspective, because they put up some numbers against
Speaker 1: a pretty stout Seattle defense on Sunday, even with Seattle
Speaker 1: getting the win, thirty eight to twenty five was the
Speaker 1: final score of that one. Atlanta finished with the most
Speaker 1: offense in the NFC last week five hundred and six
Speaker 1: total yards, most in a season opening game by Atlanta
Speaker 1: since twenty fourteen when they had five to sixty eight
Speaker 1: against New Orleans. So the fact that Atlanta is firing
Speaker 1: on all cylinders, it really revolves around the passing game.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan four hundred and fifty yards of passing through
Speaker 1: the air. Three count them, one, two, three, one hundred
Speaker 1: yard receivers Russell Gauge. Then you had Calvin Ridley and
Speaker 1: then last week's NFL leading receiver Julio Jones. So guys,
Speaker 1: I know we had this conversation last week, Isaiah, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you. It's whiteouts versus Whiteouts again. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Atlanta Whiteouts today. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys versus their defense tomorrow. But this is another
Speaker 1: stout passing game, and it's one that even has a
Speaker 1: stout running game with Todd Gurley back there as well.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the offense overall? Isaiah? I
Speaker 1: am nervous for all of Cowboys Nation because, like my
Speaker 1: statement I've made on Monday, which wasn't well received from
Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation, there's a real possibility now that we can
Speaker 1: go Oh and two reason being reason being this offense
Speaker 1: is probably one of the most talented offenses in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL. You have a veteran back in the form
Speaker 1: of some dude named Matt Ryan, a ka Mattie Ice.
Speaker 1: He gets the name Ice for a reason because he's
Speaker 1: ice cold. And then you give him. You give him,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, the best receiver in the NFL, by
Speaker 1: the name of Julio Jones. You give him a secondary
Speaker 1: receiver by the name of Calvin Ridley who can blaze
Speaker 1: all day long. And then you bring in this dude
Speaker 1: named Russell Gage. Oh and by the way, there's a
Speaker 1: tight end that they have that they picked up in
Speaker 1: a trade who was a first round draft pick who
Speaker 1: is now on their team, named by the name of
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst. And then you get a dude who's been disrespected,
Speaker 1: who's probably the most angry running back in the NFL,
Speaker 1: by the name of Todd Gurley. This team is stacked.
Speaker 1: If last week's performance by them against Seattle didn't show
Speaker 1: everybody that these dudes are not to be mess with,
Speaker 1: they just happen to play a better Seattle team. Seattle
Speaker 1: is really good this year, but Matt Ryan still through
Speaker 1: for four hundred plus yards. They had three one hundred
Speaker 1: yard receivers. Like you said, Kyle, these guys didn't just
Speaker 1: have one hundred yard receivers on hundred yard games like
Speaker 1: like it was just like big plays. These guys had
Speaker 1: nine receptions each, nine receptions each for one fifty seven,
Speaker 1: one thirty and two touchdowns and one hundred and fourteen yards. Fellas,
Speaker 1: bootstraps need to be strapped on because we're gonna for
Speaker 1: a ride this week. This secondary in trouble. Oh my god. Well,
Speaker 1: look to let me just say this two tis point
Speaker 1: about the Atlanta Falcons. And look, guys, I don't know
Speaker 1: if no I should say this. Now there's a yes,
Speaker 1: the Christler three hundred looks a lot like a Rose
Speaker 1: Royce from a distance, but when you get right up
Speaker 1: on you realize this. So so they have a Rose
Speaker 1: Royce and they have a little Bentley on the side.
Speaker 1: But the other one man, that's that's the Christler three hundred.
Speaker 1: So you look, this is what I'm saying. The Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons do. They do have a lot of weapons. And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, if you go back to last week's tape,
Speaker 1: if we don't stop the screens those smoke routes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be in trouble all season alone. So that's something
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have to fix anyway. And to mention
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley in that conversation, yeah, man, I mean play action.
Speaker 1: You're going to have to respect that heck out of
Speaker 1: play action this week because of Todd Gurley. Last week,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons in that tall, sweet but girly my god,
Speaker 1: it was devastating to Seattle in the first half, but
Speaker 1: Seattle just started selling out to stop that. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what Dallas's defense is going to have to do again.
Speaker 1: The our rookie tray Von Diggs last week, he looked
Speaker 1: phenomenal and I know he had the catches over him
Speaker 1: and they were in close waters and he was right there.
Speaker 1: But I know that that rookie is going to make
Speaker 1: some adjustments that Cowboys secondary. They do have the word
Speaker 1: cut out for him. But at the same time, man
Speaker 1: Atlanta and all these nicknames, the natural Mattie Iceland, Man,
Speaker 1: he is somebody that will give you the ball. So
Speaker 1: he ain't his ice cold as they say he is.
Speaker 1: Say you call him lukewarm. Huh goodness, man, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'd say this Falcon it's better than it's
Speaker 1: a luxury vehicle. Falcon's offense. Come on, now, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's pretty talented all over the board, right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what they say. That's what they say. I mean
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, he was basically abandoned in la He goes
Speaker 1: to Atlanta, And you want me to believe that we're
Speaker 1: back at square one with Todd Gurley from three years ago.
Speaker 1: He has to show me that's all. Well, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. You guys covered the receivers and Hayden Herscher right,
Speaker 1: asaia athletic tight end. And I'm curious if Brandon Carr
Speaker 1: is active. Is that somebody that maybe that's a matchup,
Speaker 1: Maybe that's a matchup to watch. We saw Daryl World
Speaker 1: come in and cover tight ends in week one. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the running game to piggyback on what Heck said,
Speaker 1: because they established the run early against Seattle. I think
Speaker 1: at halftime Gurley was getting five yards a pop. They
Speaker 1: just felt fell behind and had had to throw. That's
Speaker 1: there's no way that that's as efficient as they wanted.
Speaker 1: They want to be more balanced than having to throw
Speaker 1: fifty four times. Um So, so, how did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: stop that running game as well as the short passing game,
Speaker 1: as Heckma mentioned, And I'm just looking at that matchup
Speaker 1: up front between in the trenches because the Falcons have
Speaker 1: really tried to upgrade that offensive line. I think They've
Speaker 1: got three first round picks on their pro bowler at
Speaker 1: center with Alex Mack and m and another third round pick,
Speaker 1: so you know, I think they're improved there, and they
Speaker 1: needed to be, because I think I think Ryan was
Speaker 1: sacked forty something times last couple of seasons. Can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys stop the run and force them into that one
Speaker 1: dimensional stuff? That's to me. I think they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to be balanced with Gurley and not go away from
Speaker 1: him like the Rams did at times last year. I
Speaker 1: think that's a fantastic point, Rob because when you look
Speaker 1: at matt Ryan and his stats last week, four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty yards jumps off the stat sheet. It always will.
Speaker 1: That's an crazy number to put up, but you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: He threw the ball fifty four times. That's tied for
Speaker 1: the second most attempts in a single game in Mattie
Speaker 1: ICE's career, which, by the way, I think it's crazy
Speaker 1: that he's already been playing since two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: It feels like yesterday he was coming out of Boston College.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, it was the twelfth time
Speaker 1: that he's thrown for fifty or more passing attempts in
Speaker 1: a game. His record in those games three and nine.
Speaker 1: So whenever you force them to abandon the run and
Speaker 1: you forced them to throw the football around, they're going
Speaker 1: to lose. They might lose. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: they're going to lose because they've won three of those games.
Speaker 1: And you look at the receivers, they're probably the best
Speaker 1: receivers Mattie Ice has had throughout his career. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking about Julio Jones, Calvin Ridley, and then Russell Gage.
Speaker 1: Don't sleep on Russell Gauge. That guy's fantastic. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy who's undersung. It's kind of like how
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup was last year. Younger guys just twenty four
Speaker 1: years old out of LSU. This is a kid that
Speaker 1: is going to continue emerging and I think he's on
Speaker 1: that same track of what a Calvin Ridley was, maybe
Speaker 1: without the fan fair I mean, he was a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick. But this is a guy who is going
Speaker 1: to continue to improve. And he looked like a Lamborghini
Speaker 1: last week. He didn't look like no Chrysler three hundred.
Speaker 1: And I think this whole offense holding Seattle was after
Speaker 1: they had gained the league. They were in pretty much
Speaker 1: a prevent defense. And so that's where you got a
Speaker 1: bunch of those yards from guys. I mean, I understand
Speaker 1: you look at the statue and make you go, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this guy's a stun But did you watch
Speaker 1: the film the narrative, absolutely, I know you want That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You should have seen that Russell Gage
Speaker 1: was not just going up against the prevent defense. This
Speaker 1: is so we're talking about when we're talking about Atlanta
Speaker 1: and their threat to Dallas. I realized if they have
Speaker 1: a treo, they have a trio wide receivers that can
Speaker 1: do damage. I see that clearly. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: if you make them abandoned and a great tight end
Speaker 1: and and if they abandoned the run, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to throw. And like you just said, they're three and
Speaker 1: nine in those contests, and I'll take I'll take those
Speaker 1: numbers right now. All I'm saying, look, basically, the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: they do have their work cutout for him. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to undermine who the Atlanta Falcons are, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'm looking at their body of work.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at where they were last year. They started
Speaker 1: the season off two and six and dan Quinn's head
Speaker 1: was on the chopping block. So we have to remember
Speaker 1: that history if we're going to talk about future performance
Speaker 1: and that what's coming up on Sunday at twelve. So
Speaker 1: I'm all things being considered, all things being considered, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it is our responsibility to stop Girly and
Speaker 1: the guy that's only referred to by his first name.
Speaker 1: And I think we'll have this game in the bag. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, Kyle, I really appreciate Let me it's just
Speaker 1: me just my headphones here. Um heckma, heckma, heckma. I
Speaker 1: love you to death, sir. Um. However, you disrespected this
Speaker 1: offense by calling them a Christ's last three hundred. Uh.
Speaker 1: I know we talked about bringing Brandon Carr up, and
Speaker 1: we and we keep saying things that are really common sense. Right,
Speaker 1: if you abandon the run, you have to pass obviously, right. Um.
Speaker 1: I think if anybody knows that Cowboys Nation knows that, right,
Speaker 1: we had to we got we got behind last year
Speaker 1: and what did we do, Oh, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we throw for all these you know, four thousand plus yards.
Speaker 1: Of course, you got to throw the ball around when
Speaker 1: you're playing from behind. So that's why Maddie I s
Speaker 1: threw the ball over fifty times. Um, they don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. They want Matt Ryan to throw the
Speaker 1: ball about thirty to thirty five times a game. Why
Speaker 1: because they have that dude in the backfield that you
Speaker 1: guys seemingly I'm gonna say, you guys, but I know
Speaker 1: Hecka has disrespected him already today on the show. UM,
Speaker 1: by the name of Todd Gurley, and by the way,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, the last twenty seventeen he has played against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, I believe three times, and of those
Speaker 1: three times, he rushed for over one hundred yards two
Speaker 1: of those games. So he is a dog and he
Speaker 1: likes playing against the Cowboys. And I think he's probably
Speaker 1: feeling disrespected not only by mister HECKM Harrison, but also
Speaker 1: by the rest of the NFL because he was disregarded
Speaker 1: and kicked out of LA as a disgruntled employee, and
Speaker 1: now he's here with an opportunity with Atlanta with a
Speaker 1: quarterback at the helm and other weapons, maybe arguably more
Speaker 1: weapons than even the Rams have on this team, and
Speaker 1: he is going to do work. So if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: look anything like they looked last week on this defensive
Speaker 1: line against the run, there's going to be a problem.
Speaker 1: And if they do, if Mike Nolan does decide to
Speaker 1: bring pressure, he's caught in a little twenty twenty right,
Speaker 1: He's caught in between. He can't really blitz the way
Speaker 1: he wants to it he has historically, because you can't
Speaker 1: go man the man outside. You can't guard these guys
Speaker 1: man the man who are gonna who are you gonna
Speaker 1: let guard Julio Jones man to man? So you can't blitz,
Speaker 1: and you can't sit back in the zone and play
Speaker 1: the way you played last week because you got the
Speaker 1: ball ran up your throat. So what do you do?
Speaker 1: So So every time, every week, everybody that we come against,
Speaker 1: are they gonna be king Kong every week? Because at
Speaker 1: the same time we are gonna be out there on
Speaker 1: the field with them as well. You're asking me on
Speaker 1: this question, I gave you an understannswer. I appreciate when
Speaker 1: they come down to Julio. I'm watching out for Julio
Speaker 1: from the school, y'all. That's it now, Todd Gurley, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to show me that he still has it
Speaker 1: because he didn't have it last year. Okay, so everybody
Speaker 1: else a six round draft pick. Calvin Ridley. I already
Speaker 1: told you the baby Bentley sitting next to the Rose Russ.
Speaker 1: I got respect for that. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the same film you guys are looking
Speaker 1: at it. I have hope that our defense will make
Speaker 1: those adjustments. And oh, by the way, we discovered this
Speaker 1: guy by the bay of Alvin Smith who is rocking
Speaker 1: and is one and a half sacks away from having
Speaker 1: fifty sacks, putting him in great company. H Look, Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know if ALDN. Smith will go to Canton,
Speaker 1: but what's the next town over from Canton? He at
Speaker 1: least got to go to that town, right, because I
Speaker 1: don't ever remember a guy playing in the first his
Speaker 1: first game after a five year breaking having twelve tackles. Look,
Speaker 1: I know that this team is gonna show up next
Speaker 1: and look, I'm hoping that we show up next week,
Speaker 1: and we know who we have to stop. But I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna make Todd Gurley bigger than what I have
Speaker 1: to make him and say, oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley's coming to town. He didn't have it. Then,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the Cowboys defense is gonna get stops
Speaker 1: this week. I'm a homer. Call me what you want to.
Speaker 1: I love it, and I love the passion, and I
Speaker 1: love I respect every single point that you've made. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned that every week isn't going to be like
Speaker 1: this where you look on the other side and you say,
Speaker 1: oh oh, that's a matchup problem. But it was a
Speaker 1: matchup problem just past the first three games. That's the
Speaker 1: thing exactly it was. It was a matchup problem. Week one.
Speaker 1: We saw that the offense had their way. It was
Speaker 1: these little seven eight yard dinkin dunk under the secondary,
Speaker 1: really forcing the Cowboys defense to make a play in
Speaker 1: the front seven. They didn't necessarily do that. This might
Speaker 1: be the opposite. This might be, Hey, we're gonna run
Speaker 1: the football and stuff it until we want to go
Speaker 1: along and we want to hit Julio the Lamborghini on
Speaker 1: the side of the field and find a way to
Speaker 1: get him the football deep down the field. But Rob,
Speaker 1: whenever you talk about this Atlanta offense and you look
Speaker 1: at what the Cowboys have defensively, which position group, but
Speaker 1: real quickly before we go to break, which position group
Speaker 1: scares you the most from a Cowboys defensive perspective against
Speaker 1: this offense, this receiver. I mean, that's arguably the talented,
Speaker 1: most talented trio potentially. I mean, we talked about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Rams Bucks. I think you put the Falcons up
Speaker 1: there too, absolutely in that mix, But I do I
Speaker 1: got respect for Gurley, and I do think what we
Speaker 1: saw in week one that got to be able to
Speaker 1: stop the run. They got to be able to create
Speaker 1: some better third down situations for themselves. I went back
Speaker 1: and looked at it. Seventeen third downs for the Rams.
Speaker 1: They were only in third long three times, so they
Speaker 1: got to kind of do whatever they want. They were
Speaker 1: constantly comfortable. So I think it starts with being able
Speaker 1: to control the line of scrimmage and try to get
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, who's not the most mobile quarterback in third
Speaker 1: and lungs. And then Alvin Smith, who you're right, heck
Speaker 1: is a big time bright spot from week one. Then
Speaker 1: he can tee off then take and tee off Everson Griffin,
Speaker 1: and then you can get back to what you're doing,
Speaker 1: what you do well with your D line and rob
Speaker 1: and just because everybody's just forgetting what Gurley did, even
Speaker 1: though they had to abandon the run. He was averaging
Speaker 1: four yards of pop last week against Seattle, better than
Speaker 1: that in the first half as well before Seattle really
Speaker 1: sold out to stop the run in the second half,
Speaker 1: which I was watching and Todd Gurley that I kind
Speaker 1: of expected to see, which is not prime tied Gurley,
Speaker 1: but it's still somebody who's gonna get you four or
Speaker 1: five yards of pop. He were still falls forward much
Speaker 1: like Zeke pairing the two, but they have that same
Speaker 1: kind of running game, more of a side to side
Speaker 1: game for Gurley, and I don't think he's at the
Speaker 1: level of Zeke, but at the same time, he does
Speaker 1: present some of the same challenges to an imposing defense
Speaker 1: and he opens up the play action game, which is
Speaker 1: exactly what dan Quinn wants to do. With The Cowboys
Speaker 1: lead the all time series seventeen to eleven. The last
Speaker 1: meeting went in favor of the Cowboys twenty two to nineteen.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty eighteen. However, Atlanta has had the best
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys in three of the last four meetings,
Speaker 1: so Cowboys looking to make it two in a row.
Speaker 1: On Sunday. We'll preview the defensive side of the football
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Speaker 1: question marks for some more help on that offensive line
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. We'll talk about if the tight
Speaker 1: ends could help out on the offensive tackles side when
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Speaker 1: with the final segment of Talking Cowboys. Glad you're with
Speaker 1: us on Dallas cowboys Com. It's the Wednesday edition as
Speaker 1: we're just a couple days away halfway through the week
Speaker 1: going into Falcon's week Here at the Star, Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Isaiah Standback and Cowboys insider Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, I just saw a tweet. There was a
Speaker 1: article you put up on Dallas Cowboys dot com looking
Speaker 1: at some of the bright spots from that lost a
Speaker 1: not so bright spot from Sunday's loss against the Ram.
Speaker 1: No more Blake Jarwin for the remainder of the season
Speaker 1: as tight end one has gone down, and that's unfortunate
Speaker 1: for him and for the Cowboys because this was supposed
Speaker 1: to be the breakout here. This was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the year he finally got those snaps, finally got that
Speaker 1: opportunity to show what he's made of, got the extension,
Speaker 1: and in Game one he goes down. But now you
Speaker 1: kind of have to make some adjustments. And as we've
Speaker 1: got about seven minutes left in the show, guys, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about maybe having those tight ends play
Speaker 1: to their strength. In terms of Blake Bell and Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: their strengths are blocked. They're not necessarily the best receivers
Speaker 1: in the tight end room. I think I would even
Speaker 1: throw maybe a cole Hiccottini up there in front of
Speaker 1: a couple of those guys, maybe on the off of
Speaker 1: the practice squad. But when you talk about blocking tight ends, Rob,
Speaker 1: these are two guys that could get the job done.
Speaker 1: Can we get these two to help out on the
Speaker 1: offensive tackle side? Should Terrence Steel need some help on
Speaker 1: that offensive line? You know, you kind of sent a
Speaker 1: chill down my spine at the end of the last
Speaker 1: segment when you talked about the Falcons winning a couple
Speaker 1: of these games lately against the Cowboys, and I thought
Speaker 1: about twenty seventeen, Oh boy, twenty seventeen. How many times?
Speaker 1: How many times Dak's acted that game eight eight times
Speaker 1: for fifty yards nightmare game, the Chads Green game, por
Speaker 1: Chaz Green, and the same situation this week. I think
Speaker 1: they've got to be ready to give help to Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: And to your point, I think they did that. You know,
Speaker 1: I think they didn't wait to see how he fared
Speaker 1: one on one. They there were there was tight ends
Speaker 1: like Isaiah predicted it. They had tight ends in his
Speaker 1: hip pocket. They had two tight ends at times chipping away.
Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna see that. To your point, yeah,
Speaker 1: Blake Bell can do that and Blake Jarwin's I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwins Dalton Schultzon can be an all around tight end.
Speaker 1: I think he can help some of that too. Ecma. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that they get some help over there, and
Speaker 1: knowing what we want to do in the running game
Speaker 1: with Ezekiel Elliott is we're gonna have to get still
Speaker 1: some help. But again, when you go back and watch
Speaker 1: the tape, for everything that people are saying about still,
Speaker 1: it wasn't until the last pretty much drive that things
Speaker 1: kind of fell apart for the young undrafted rookie. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I think we were able to go into
Speaker 1: our full you know, all of our all of our
Speaker 1: players that we wanted to call. We were able to
Speaker 1: do that even with the rookie out there. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to go from twelve personnel. Fellas, I
Speaker 1: just think that you can't leave these guys on an
Speaker 1: island by themselves out there at tackle. Um, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think that you're going on what you still need
Speaker 1: to get a tight end out. Um. I don't want
Speaker 1: to get a tight end out at the while while
Speaker 1: leaving that tackle on an island. So I think you
Speaker 1: need to have two tight ends in the game. Let
Speaker 1: one of them get out and in or out let
Speaker 1: one of them sit in and block. You probably won't
Speaker 1: see CD as much as you would like to, obviously
Speaker 1: being in twelve personnel. But I mean you have to
Speaker 1: protect the home right right, which is dak Um, and
Speaker 1: you need to lean on your strength, which is obviously
Speaker 1: freaky Ezeki. So I think that their answer going forward,
Speaker 1: obviously not the entire game, but to establish themselves in
Speaker 1: this office and get the ball moving at these chains
Speaker 1: movement as twelve personnel, So twelve for protection for dak Or.
Speaker 1: You said at least one of the tight ends go,
Speaker 1: So twelve personnel, right, So being that one one one
Speaker 1: one tight end is actually down in a three point stands,
Speaker 1: the other tight end is really in his hit pocket right,
Speaker 1: and one of those tight is being able to get
Speaker 1: off the ball and go round a route while the
Speaker 1: other one sitting there in a hit pocket at a
Speaker 1: tackle protecting deck. So I think that you probably put
Speaker 1: Bail in and let Baill sit in there and be
Speaker 1: attached to that tackle, and you let Shows go out
Speaker 1: and run his little stick routes or whatever else you
Speaker 1: may need while you know, being able to initiate the run,
Speaker 1: initiate play action and get to get Gallop in and
Speaker 1: Cooper out and routes and Rob stuff that stuff that
Speaker 1: you I mean that you may have to do that
Speaker 1: just to compensate for h you know, protection is because
Speaker 1: your best package is eleven, you know, And that's that's
Speaker 1: just the reality of it. I guess, yeah, And I
Speaker 1: kind of want to go off of the twelve personnel
Speaker 1: look and having Zeke in the ball game or Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard if you wanted to flip flop the two of them,
Speaker 1: and having that extra protection even in the passing game,
Speaker 1: you could have a Tony Pollard and Zeke be an
Speaker 1: extra blocker along with that extra tight end on the
Speaker 1: edge of the line. But whenever Rob, whenever we were
Speaker 1: a training camp, and we were looking at the different
Speaker 1: at least scheme looks from the Cowboys. Twelve personnel was
Speaker 1: in the mix and and it was because of Blake
Speaker 1: Jarwin and Dalton Schultz. Do you expect Blake Bell to
Speaker 1: just come in and have some success in twelve personnel? Immediately?
Speaker 1: I'm with Isaiah. I think you're probably are gonna have
Speaker 1: to see more of it. I think, how many snaps
Speaker 1: did Blake Bell have in the game, like eight ything
Speaker 1: like that? I was I was surprised that maybe he
Speaker 1: didn't he didn't be played as few as he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm with Isaiah on that. I think. I
Speaker 1: think ideally what the Cowboys did last year was eleven
Speaker 1: personnel most of the time with Randall Cobb, and I
Speaker 1: think that's still their best package. Obviously with Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: and I think he showed he showed some flashes of
Speaker 1: exactly what he can be. But yeah, I think based
Speaker 1: on what they might have to do in certain situations,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see more Blake Bell, and
Speaker 1: I think that's why they I think that's why they
Speaker 1: signed him. I mean, he was more of that utility
Speaker 1: type tight end for the Chiefs. Last year. A nice
Speaker 1: compliment to Kelsey, who's obviously ann elite pass catching tight end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think situationally, I'm fine with twelve personnel. But it
Speaker 1: all just goes to hell in a hand basket when
Speaker 1: you say take take CD Lamb off the field. Right,
Speaker 1: So I want my weapons, all of my weapons on
Speaker 1: the field. But I understand where you're coming from, especially
Speaker 1: from a protection standpoint, But we're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: the percentages and rob again that you know, situational situational football,
Speaker 1: situational awareness and making sure that we get back the
Speaker 1: protection that he needs. But if you look at the
Speaker 1: drives from last week's game, you realize that the offense
Speaker 1: we had it going. There were a couple drives that
Speaker 1: did sputter. But at the same time, look, we can't
Speaker 1: change what we were doing for especially for defense that
Speaker 1: didn't bring a lot to the table as far as
Speaker 1: sacks and things like that. Tack McKinley will be out there.
Speaker 1: They have a lot also at the front line. I
Speaker 1: can't think of the guy's name, but there they have
Speaker 1: a few defenders that we have to be aware of.
Speaker 1: But I don't I don't see us changing what we
Speaker 1: do and if we're talking twelve, what are the percentages
Speaker 1: of playing twelve personnel? That's that's what I'm saying. As
Speaker 1: long as if it's take a ceede lamb off the field,
Speaker 1: I don't like it. That's fair. Yeah, And heck with
Speaker 1: the guy you were thinking of, Grady Jarrett is also
Speaker 1: in that mix, and when made the Pro Bowl, six
Speaker 1: six year veteran from Clemson j that's him, yep, and
Speaker 1: he's fantastic as well. That's gonna be a stout defensive line.
Speaker 1: They had three sacks of Russell Wilson the other day
Speaker 1: and their loss on Sunday, so I think overall, the
Speaker 1: offensive line is gonna have another tough test, and I
Speaker 1: think if you can give some extra help. I know
Speaker 1: David Hellman is upstairs in the building or he's at
Speaker 1: home somewhere, and I know he's just cringing with the
Speaker 1: thought of twelve personnel because he hates it. But there's
Speaker 1: just definite need for an extra blocker. Should there be
Speaker 1: some struggles on Sunday in terms of slowing down that
Speaker 1: defensive line, and I think there might be a couple
Speaker 1: of struggles, but that's gonna do it. Here for talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys on this Wednesday. Glad you've been with us here
Speaker 1: over the last forty five minutes, join us again tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna flip the script. We're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: Falcons defense versus the Cowboys offense as we preview both
Speaker 1: sides of the football each week here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But for Rob Phillips, for heck Ma Harrison and Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand back, I'm Kyle Yeoman. Special thanks to Chris Beam
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