WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Lion at Linebacker? 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:06.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:16.200 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:16.720 Yes? 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:22.040 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:23.759 and so much for that. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.200 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:36.120 with Mbar Garcia. Brian brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.520 It is Thursday, December twenty first, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.120 episode number ninety three. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.080 The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.480 at the Star and today we're going to talk about 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.080 the Miami defense versus a Cowboys offense. We'll catch up 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.920 on some injury updates here to get us going. Brian, 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.720 what do we know about these three players, Tyron Smith, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.840 Zach Martin, and Malie Hooker. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.360 Yeah, the the seem to be getting the positive. I 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.400 didn't get an update on Smith, and I think it's 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.640 one of those things that they I need to circle 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.200 back on that one. I didn't get an update on that. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.440 The other ones were improving. And I say that with 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.760 the with the thought I mean, I'm I'm kind of 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.760 learning my lesson about saying yep, they're gonna play this 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.640 week because I heard yep, they're gonna play this week, 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.360 and then they didn't play. So I don't want to. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.800 I don't want to make people feel go the wrong 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.759 way here. I think that's important that if people want information, 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.200 you give them the right information. But we need to 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.800 circle back about Tyron Smith and what you know. Now 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.920 he naturally doesn't practice during the week and so and 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.600 this is going to be an important one when we 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:49.640 get into the Dolphins defense about having him on the field. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.960 This is going to be an important one for that regard. So, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.760 but the other ones I was told are making improvements 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.680 towards playing. So let's see how that works. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.760 Yeah, the thing that that kind of concerned me is 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.280 you look at the injury report and we've been used 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.600 to Tyron being on the injury report as a rest 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.800 as a rest. Yeah, yesterday it was designated as a back. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.400 And and that's the part that makes me a little 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:16.080 bit worried just because of the history of the player. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.440 Does that concern you guys at this point from the 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.560 standpoint of just his history, it's. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.760 The Yeah, that's that's the the there's always things with 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.360 Tyron Smith that you have to worry about. You have 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.640 to worry about the neck, and you have to worry 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.519 about the back because when his back tightens up, it 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.080 seems like there's always okay. Now, what's it's all about? Rest? 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.880 And does rest mean does it mean practice rest like 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.400 they're trying to or does it mean like he's gonna 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.400 have to miss a game because it's tightened up that bad? 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.240 And I, man, I that's that's what I'm saying. And 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.720 hopefully I need to reach out and see if I 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.639 can get the information before the end of this show. Uh, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.760 and and kind of figure out is it something we 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.000 need to worry about, which we're talking about right now 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.880 because it is a concern because we always worry about 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.040 Tyron Smith when he could get on an airplane and 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.520 sit in the seat for four hours flying and next thing, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.560 you know, always back tightens up for the game and 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.680 now it's not good and they. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.560 Get a step further. He can be on the field 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.600 dressed up in full uniform, not really practicing, but just 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:21.760 standing there together that paycheck, but not play in that game. 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.959 So it happens a lot with him where it's last 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.359 minute or he does miss more than one game back 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.280 to back. So it's definitely an area of concern because 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.440 there are other guys that are on there and you 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.280 see it next to their name, say n ir Rest day. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.480 So that's a tough one. And then add on Zach 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.000 Martin on top of that. I don't even want to 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.480 think of a scenario like that with two of them out, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.200 I don't know what happens. We're dead, I don't know. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:58.480 I started freaking out. But yeah, with Zach Martin, I 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.480 think what I've heard lately, it's just they're still waiting 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.800 to see a day by day type of situation because 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.160 it is a bruise, but then you don't really know 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.720 until you get further along how that's gonna look and 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:12.240 all of that. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.160 Yeah, Like I say, the word was that I asked 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.919 to go how you feeling, and my guys were saying, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.960 it's to the point where he's getting better every day, 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:25.159 so they must be the bruising must be. That's that's 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.760 collection of blood there that Those are the kinds of 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.800 things when you have a bruise that leads to tightness, 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:35.279 can you move? So with the improvement every day, we'll 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.880 see They man, they need all these guys to line up. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:39.599 They really really do in this same. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.680 The reports are from from Zach's standpoint that it was 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.839 because it's a deep bruise. What tends to happen is 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.360 is there's kind of the pain associated with it. There's 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.000 also the muscle, like the the the ability to weakness 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.120 fire right, And it sounded like it wasn't firing. That's 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.520 why he couldn't go back into the game. So if 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.680 it's if it's something like that, then I don't know 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.080 if if anyone knows until it's firing the way it 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.880 should be, how long it's going to take for it 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.919 to start firing again in the way that it needs to. 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.360 So that's the part you just you know, I assume 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.920 you just don't know. Yeah, yeah, What do they do 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.719 if if Tyron can't play? What happens from a standpoint 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.640 of personnel, We've had this conversation at nauseum about Tyler 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.760 Smith and does he slide out or do you just 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.479 throw Austome Richards in there? What do you think they 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.160 would probably do if they if they didn't have Tyron 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:24.920 Smith for a week. 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.080 My gut would be that they would play awesome Richards 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.599 at left tackle, That's what Mike I always talk about 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.400 are we as a group talk about it as like, oh, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.040 it's simple, just kick you know, kick Tyler Smith to 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.880 the outside and then you know, go ahead and kind 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.880 of navigate it that way. But the fact that you've 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.599 also got maybe Zach Martin being you know, at do 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.760 you want to really weaken two spots? You know? I 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.799 mean yes you would. Hey, you're gonna need you're gonna 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.040 need someone to block Bradley Chubb. We'll get into that. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.280 You're gonna need somebody to take care of that. But 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.440 I think that they would put Awesome Richards that left tackle, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.800 let him start and then try and navigate it from there. 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.080 And we've seen this scenario before already this season, so 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.599 it's all really happened. They've seen this happen. Now. I 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:13.040 don't know what you do if both of them are out, 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.560 if Zach and Tyrone are out, what would you guys do? 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:22.479 That's a really tough one, hard long. 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.280 Yeah, you know, I well, they would probably do the 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.640 like I said, I think, but Awesome Richards would be 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:30.919 the adjustment. And then they'll do what they did in 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.520 the Buffalo game. Yeah, you know with the guard and 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.880 so I that's kind of how I think they would 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:37.440 work about it. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.120 How did Tyler Bass look to you and I came. 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.920 You know what, I tell you what, there was only 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.480 really the one time where they gave it, they give 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.719 it a sack. He was beat right off the jump, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.400 and all of a sudden it turned into when he 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.040 got beat, then rico' daddle had to come and pick 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.320 up his guy because it happened so quick. And then 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.760 what that allowed the Buffalo linebacker Dotson, once he saw 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.880 that Dowdell was blocking, he just said, okay, well I'm 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.159 gonna rush. I'm gonna key blitz this thing. And so 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.680 when his key when his key blocked, he immediately rushed, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.480 and that you know, then Russo gets inside Dots and 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.280 gets there, and then they have, you know, they split 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.960 a sack that way. That was the one time that 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.760 I felt like that he was not good. But other 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.280 than that, he comes in and plays pretty well. It's 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.760 not like it's just this huge drop off. Okay, I 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.000 know it's Zach Martin Hall of Fame guard, but when 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.200 you usually you expect like this big massive, just oh 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.320 my gosh, they can't block anybody with this guy. And 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.480 he's he he comes in and he does a good job. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.520 He works well with beattish. You know, he worked well 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.200 with Steel when they had to. So, you know, but 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.440 that one time was when you went, oh, geez, okay, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.800 now I understand why when you don't have Zack Martin 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.040 in a game, this is what you're gonna get. Sometimes 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.120 you're gonna get. But you know that's sometimes these offensive 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.400 lineman do get beat, you know. And and but with Bass, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.600 it's he's he's a he's a pretty dependable guy. 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.040 Yeah, I'm actually I'm glad. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.400 I was just gonna say that with him too. With TJ. Bass, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.320 he's a guy that a lot of people over on 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.080 that football side were talked very highly of. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:14.760 Absolutely, they like him a lot. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.520 I remember going back to preseason game talking to Tyler 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.960 Smith and him asked me asking him the question who 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.280 has impressed you the most in the old lineman group, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.960 and he mentioned TJ. Bass. So they like him for 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.480 a reason. I think he's a guy that it's talented 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.000 and he can do, you know, be a plugging player 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.880 when needed, but of course totally different playing level than 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.840 when you take out a guy like Czeck Martin. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.360 Yeah, that's the thing with with the thing with Basses 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.200 that there was a lot of people and I know 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:49.839 he was one of the guys that we talked about 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.640 on the Draft Show quite a bit and like, Okay, 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.200 who are your best available? Guys? Who are your best 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:56.520 You know, you get to the third day of the 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.080 draft and you're starting to think about guys with trades 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.040 and six haven't rowned. Who's your best available? And Bass's 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.320 name was always coming up on the list, And so 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.440 when Dallas signed him as a free agent, then you 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.920 were kind of like going, Okay, here's a guy that 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.880 probably should have got drafted and didn't get drafted, but 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:15.720 Dallas was able to sign him and make it work, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.040 and he's and he's done a really nice job. He 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:18.520 really has. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.600 Frankly, between Bass and Richards, I'm actually really happy with 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.720 what they've got out of these young offensive linemen and 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.280 excited about what the prospects can be going forward with them, 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.360 because there are areas of this offensive line that are 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.200 getting older and you're gonna have to have some some 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.040 key parts that you may have to replace here in 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.200 the next several years. All Right, we're gonna take our 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.160 first break when we come back, We'll dive into the 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.079 Miami defense. There's a lot to talk about here, particularly 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.720 starting with Vic Vangil. He is a defensive coordinator that's 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.040 given the Cowboys some problems in the past. 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If 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.000 they're gonna play games, you know, they're playing tug of 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:22.960 war and all that's for these games. Yeah, you know, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.240 we figured out they needed to do a four x 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:25.880 four relay. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:26.600 That'd be fun. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.640 Two of the guys have to be big men relay guys. Yeah, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.439 that two big men, two hill guys, two fast guys, 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.720 two big men, and the big man has to anchor, 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:41.040 has to be the end. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.959 That would be outstandy. So yeah, I'm tuning in for that. 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.720 That's what I'm saying. I would dodgeball and then tug 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.520 Award and all that give me the give me the 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.360 four by four relay with two of the guys being 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.160 offensive defensive line. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.920 That's that's where I think it would be so much fun. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.280 But knowing the NFL, they'd be like, oh, there's a 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:01.800 chance they could get hurt, Like, we don't want. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.439 To get hurt in dodgeball. That's my point ahead. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:07.520 But I would bet somebody be like, oh no, they 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.320 could pull something like they run every day, Like it's fine, 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.200 but that would be out. See I would I'd be 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:12.520 in on that. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.280 See I don't I'm not interested in the flag football game, 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.840 but I would be interested in a in a four 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.400 by like, okay, it's it's the only thing we're gonna do. Yeah, 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.760 And the winner there there, the winning group, their charity 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:27.520 gets money to you know, they get money for their charity. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.400 They pick a charity and the winning team gets the 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.560 and you have to pick two fast guys and two 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:33.800 little guys. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.160 That guys and heavy, because you know, there's some big 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.400 guys that can move like there's some big guys NFL 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.240 that can move right. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:40.839 That would be really interesting to. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.960 Watch, But it has to be a relay. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:43.880 That would be good. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.920 I think the stadium would be an electric. 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.079 No, it would, it would. All right, let's jump into 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.560 the Miami offense. I'm sorry, Miami defense. The Cowboys offense. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.319 I mentioned before the break. Vic Vangio was the head 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.800 coach in Denver back in twenty twenty one. Yeah, they 0:13:58.840 --> 0:13:59.959 beat the Cowboys thirty six. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.600 That shut got down pretty good. 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.920 After the game, he talked about how he had a 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.160 blueprint for beating this Cowboys offense. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:07.200 My question for you. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.520 Is number one, does he do the same sort of 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.720 things here in Miami that he was doing back in Denver. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.960 Yeah. The thing that he's going to do, and it's 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.200 really interesting the way that they play. He's he's really 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.680 is a zone concepts guy. He's going to play a 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.720 lot of seventy five percent. If you look at the 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.000 metrics seventy five percent zone twenty five percent man even 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.000 though he's got some he's got a really good man 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.160 player in Ramsey, which he's absolutely going to use in 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.080 this game. I mean, you watch the Jets, and maybe 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:38.480 it had to do a little bit with the Jets 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.320 in their quarterback situation that they felt like that they 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.320 can match up and play a little bit more man, 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.000 you know, against Zach Wilson and maybe make that work. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.560 And they were able to do that. The Jets offensive line, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.400 as we all know, which was just horrific and and 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.520 Mimi took advantage of that. The numbers will tell you 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.520 too that this is this is a team with forty 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.880 eight sacks. Thirty two of those sacks have come with 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.640 man pressure, so they're not really uh you know, thirty 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.800 two of them have come without bringing a blitz, so 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.600 they're there. That's that's the second most in the National 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.560 Football League. By the way, they you know, they bring 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:15.040 a format pressure thirty nine percent of the time, so 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:19.400 that's again that's second best in the league. I mentioned 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.200 this about they play something that when you watch them 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.880 on tape, they play a group or a coverage called 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.760 cloud and cloud coverage is let me give you an example, 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.240 cloud coverage. They play it twenty six percent of the 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.240 time and you're kind of like watching, like, okay, Buffalo 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.640 plays at thirty percent of the time, Buffalo is just 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.680 ahead of them an amount of cloud coverage. And what 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:45.800 cloud coverage does it. It's one of those things you 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.520 usually can recognize it on defense because the depth of 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.040 the cornerbacks, like one cornerback will play up and the 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.960 other one will play back and then so you kind 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:56.920 of got a at the line and you got a 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.160 soft one. And what it's designed to do is pre snap. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.040 It looks like Cover two with the two safeties, but 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.040 it's designed to take away the deep ball and also 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.000 help you in the run, is what it's done. But 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.400 you could attack the middle of the field with it, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:18.520 and the seams you can attack. So that's the Cowboys. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.400 So the Cowboys do have So Vic Fangio plays a 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.680 lot of cloud coverage, and you could tell by the 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.720 like I say, you could see how the corners are 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.120 playing up and back and then with the two deep looks. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.680 So he's gonna make Dak. He's gonna make Dak try 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.000 and read his coverage, is what And every quarterback goes 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.480 into game trying to read the coverage, but he does 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.400 it in a way to help himself not give up 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.480 the deep ball. And we saw that last week with Buffalo. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:50.080 Buffalo was not interested in letting you throw the ball 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.560 over the top, and they play that coverage more than 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:58.280 just slightly more than what the Dolphins play. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.400 Real quick, when you say one one of the corners 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.520 pass up, one plays back right, is that because it morphs? 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.880 Is that because it mors kind of in until cover three? 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.000 The one that's back kind of covers a third of 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:09.399 the field. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:10.080 The back. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.080 What's the point of it? 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.600 The back? The back one does move back. The one 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.000 that plays up is responsible for everything to the outside 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.440 of that, you know, so he's up, it takes away 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.560 that the one that's back again, it kind of gives 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.679 you that that four it gives you, like four across 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.320 look is really what it gives you right there. And 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.760 that's where we saw last week with the Cowboys. What 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.160 were they dealing with. They were dealing with five underneath, 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.320 four underneath, you know, with with two guys behind or 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.520 one guy behind right, and they were trying to kind 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.439 of to make it look appear like there's no seams 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:42.760 there's nothing, there's no way to throw it. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.240 It's hard to find, hard to find. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.600 Yeah, So so let's see if the Cowboys and the 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.479 Buffalo game might have helped him in this regard of 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.760 having to deal with like, Okay, we saw this last week. 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.600 We saw this coverage last week, you know, and we 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.399 had problems with it. Let's figure out ways and like 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.920 I say, the middle of it, the way, the middle 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.840 of the of the of the zone you can attack. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.560 And then it also you can you can deal with 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.520 the seams or another one that you can attack. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.480 If I remember correctly. 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.680 Back in twenty twenty one when they played Denver, there 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.360 was a lot of talk about them running a lot 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.679 of match Man. Explain for the visitors number one, I 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.760 mean for the listeners for number one, what that kind 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.560 of is, and then do they use that in Miami? 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.600 Yeah? Yeah, and match Man is what you wanted with 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.240 what you do is that you find the way too. 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.679 It's exactly what it says, and you just find a 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.480 way to match your guys up with. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.639