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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one ten. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest edition of The Break. We are alive
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Speaker 1: Got Brian and ever with us. Nick will not be
Speaker 1: in today, but three of us will hold it down
Speaker 1: and our jobs today is to get you guys ready
Speaker 1: for San Francisco defense versus Cowboy his offense. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about all the matchups that matter. Brian actually has some information.
Speaker 1: He's been doing a little reconnaissance on the forty nine.
Speaker 1: Is talking to some people around the league, some contacts,
Speaker 1: and he'll give us a little bit of what they
Speaker 1: said about how you prepare for the San Francisco defense.
Speaker 1: We'll also get some questions for you guys. You can
Speaker 1: hit me up on Twitter at Derek Eagleton to send
Speaker 1: your questions and we will try to answer as mean
Speaker 1: as we can in that third segment of the show.
Speaker 1: Let's start first with a little bit of news. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Cowboys signed a kicker to their practice squad, Justin Visciano Ryan.
Speaker 1: What do we know about him? I visited with a
Speaker 1: team that had him, and it was funny. He's kicked,
Speaker 1: he hasn't missed. I think he was five for five
Speaker 1: when you're talking about field goals and extra points. This
Speaker 1: team told me it's extremely strong, leg very professional in
Speaker 1: his approach. And but this one team was telling me
Speaker 1: that he could be a little erratic. Now, the numbers
Speaker 1: don't tell you that he's erratic, meaning what exactly, meaning
Speaker 1: that when you're erratic, you're kind of all over the place,
Speaker 1: good or bad, And but the numbers say that that
Speaker 1: he was good and so but this team that had him,
Speaker 1: you know, they moved on from him, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's what they were just kind of
Speaker 1: talking about. But to me, this is one of those
Speaker 1: things I don't know if if this is a practice
Speaker 1: squad elevation that you know when you're forty eight. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, do you do you get in that situation?
Speaker 1: I Uh, it's so funny. I talked to John Gruden
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, about having a situation and you know,
Speaker 1: I'll read to you what John told me. You know,
Speaker 1: because I asked, you know, John and I whether you
Speaker 1: hate John or not, John and I go way, way,
Speaker 1: way way back, and so you know, I just from
Speaker 1: a head coaches experience, I just wanted to kind of know,
Speaker 1: how do you handle this? You know, how do you
Speaker 1: handle something? And John told me this, I'll read John
Speaker 1: doesn't mind, he says, not many options at this point
Speaker 1: of the season. Normally you would cut a guy from
Speaker 1: missing five straight extra points, he says, But make sure that,
Speaker 1: he says, I would make sure that people leave him alone.
Speaker 1: Probably bring in his personal guru or the guy that
Speaker 1: helped him along the way. He's a very talented kicker.
Speaker 1: Now he just has a chance to prove it. And
Speaker 1: this is he's you know, he's talking about Mahr. He says,
Speaker 1: keep encouraging him. But obviously, you know, have a few
Speaker 1: contingencies of two point thoughts ready and also be ready
Speaker 1: in four down territory. I never liked feeling like you're
Speaker 1: going to go for two or go for fourth down,
Speaker 1: but you should always have that in mind. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's a former NFL head coach right there talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, how you would maybe handle a situation. I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that. You know, if you feel
Speaker 1: that strongly that there could be an issue, then you
Speaker 1: need to make Tristan one of your forty eight. And
Speaker 1: if you have a miss of field gold or an
Speaker 1: extra point, then you make that adjustment as the case.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you guys this I started hearing yesterday.
Speaker 1: Someone was just kind of telling me something that Christie
Speaker 1: Scales wrote in regards to the balls and some issues
Speaker 1: that they have balls the balls, Yeah, yes, they were
Speaker 1: losing them. Yeah. So I'm just I haven't dug much
Speaker 1: into that because I was like later in the day
Speaker 1: that I heard about it yesterday and I'm meant to
Speaker 1: look it up to see exactly what the whole deal
Speaker 1: and how much that attributed to some of the misses
Speaker 1: that I don't think it did contribute. I think the
Speaker 1: point she was making was they were getting to a
Speaker 1: point where it could have been an issue so essentially caballs,
Speaker 1: they are kicking balls. They are balls that each team
Speaker 1: brings to the game prepared for their kicker to be
Speaker 1: able to use, because they didn't. The way they all
Speaker 1: started was back in the day, kickers would kind of
Speaker 1: doctor the balls a little bit to kind of make
Speaker 1: it better for them to kick the different The problem
Speaker 1: was what's good for one kicker might not be good
Speaker 1: for the others, and so you had these balls they're
Speaker 1: playing with throughout the game that have now been doctored
Speaker 1: by one kicker or the other, and it created this
Speaker 1: unfair advantage. So they basically said, okay, teams, each of
Speaker 1: you bring your own kicking balls. That's what you'll used
Speaker 1: to kick field goals whatever. Right, The issue became that
Speaker 1: as he was kicking these that they were going so
Speaker 1: far wide that they weren't being they didn't hit the net.
Speaker 1: And as you know, when we go down on the field,
Speaker 1: it's a big net there that keeps the balls from
Speaker 1: going into the stands. Well, these were so wide they
Speaker 1: were going into the stands, and nobody retrieved him from
Speaker 1: the stands. And so at some point they got to
Speaker 1: a point where I think she said, I think her
Speaker 1: report was that they were down to one kicking ball. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so it could have become a problem at that point,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. It wasn't a problem to that point,
Speaker 1: Like they still had kicking balls, they were just down
Speaker 1: to maybe just want it. They might have had a
Speaker 1: bum the Buccaneers kicking balls because they weren't using theirs right,
Speaker 1: which again might be a problem because it might be
Speaker 1: a situation where the way they make their balls work
Speaker 1: best for their kicker might not work best for him.
Speaker 1: So it might have made it worse at that point
Speaker 1: because he didn't have balls that he was I think
Speaker 1: I think something that was really said that was interesting
Speaker 1: yesterday and it actually came from Mickey, and and I'm
Speaker 1: not acting surprised. I just you know, Mickey came up
Speaker 1: with it and he was he observed maher on the
Speaker 1: field pre game, and that he was going to all
Speaker 1: the various spots on the field and like pushing down
Speaker 1: with his cleats, and maybe that there was some kind
Speaker 1: of issue because they they had satted the middle between
Speaker 1: the hashes, So where are the ball being placed? Are
Speaker 1: you in a situation where the resorted on half and
Speaker 1: then now you put the ball on a bad area
Speaker 1: and half of a bad air and half of a
Speaker 1: good area. So do you have an elevation maybe, or
Speaker 1: you have something. But Mickey was made a point that
Speaker 1: he was observing Maha and Mickey I used to stand
Speaker 1: on the field with Mickey for the game. So he's
Speaker 1: down there watching. But Brett Maher maybe went down there
Speaker 1: and maybe in his head, I mean, we're again, we're
Speaker 1: all just throwing ideas out there. But maybe as he's
Speaker 1: trying to pat down surfaces and stuff like that, that
Speaker 1: that man, I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know about kicking here and and so you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's why in the pre game I always ask Christie
Speaker 1: Scales about that because I know CHRISTI is going to
Speaker 1: walk the field. I know She's going to find the
Speaker 1: bad spots. She's gonna tell me which way the winds blow,
Speaker 1: and she's gonna tell me, you know, so and so
Speaker 1: missed him going this way. I mean, there was some
Speaker 1: there were some people in pregame. I know Todd Archer
Speaker 1: was charting the kicks before pregame and there was some
Speaker 1: inconsistencies there. Nick mentioned that as well, and Nick did
Speaker 1: too exactly, so you know, There's a lot of things
Speaker 1: going into this, um into this, but the fact that
Speaker 1: they brought a kicker, and it goes back to the
Speaker 1: point that Anbar has made many a time on the show,
Speaker 1: is that you know, they're more willing now to do things.
Speaker 1: They're not just going to let something just go on
Speaker 1: and on. You know, they're not going to let the
Speaker 1: Chad's green things happen where they just oh, it'll be fine,
Speaker 1: let's just keep going, let's keep you know, they they
Speaker 1: least are building in now plans that if something doesn't work,
Speaker 1: be ready to replace. And you know, like I said this,
Speaker 1: you know the kicker here. You know it's got a
Speaker 1: small history. You've been with a lot of teams, but
Speaker 1: that might be your answer to move on in a
Speaker 1: divisional round game if he has to get in there.
Speaker 1: So now the decision has been made. Obviously they have
Speaker 1: a guy on their practice squad, they have another kicker.
Speaker 1: There are two decisions I think that have to be
Speaker 1: made at this point. I want to hear your opinions
Speaker 1: on what you think should happen. One should he be active.
Speaker 1: So now you're going to take an active roster spot
Speaker 1: and use it on a second kicker right there? Or
Speaker 1: two and two. I'm sorry and I want you guys
Speaker 1: to answer both of these two. How long is your
Speaker 1: leash if if you get one miss? Are you at
Speaker 1: that point like, hey, we're gonna just go with the
Speaker 1: other guy, or do you say, hey, I'm gonna ride
Speaker 1: with maher through this game and this guy is more
Speaker 1: of just my insurance. If we have another bad game
Speaker 1: and we still win, then I will continue using what
Speaker 1: do you think happen? Do we secretly have a Jeff
Speaker 1: Heath on the team? I don't know afore yeah, like
Speaker 1: and because that's the with as many as the like
Speaker 1: injuries that have happened, having an extra guy that's a
Speaker 1: huge thing, especially at that position for the kicker. It's
Speaker 1: just a tough one. And I don't know who you
Speaker 1: would take out. I know you can't elevate two guys
Speaker 1: from the practice squad game day, but who are you
Speaker 1: sitting out? Like not even white guy? But what position
Speaker 1: are you taking away from in case of an injury?
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at the old line issues with guys.
Speaker 1: Obviously they made it through Jason Peters came out and
Speaker 1: they did that. But now are you bringing up somebody
Speaker 1: else an extra guy or on the old line. Are
Speaker 1: you bringing somebody else for the secondary with Darren Curse,
Speaker 1: who's supposed to be one hundred percent ready, But things
Speaker 1: like that that you need to account for. I don't
Speaker 1: know who. I don't know. It's it's really really tough
Speaker 1: because you do have those injuries. Yeah, you know you
Speaker 1: do have the injuries. I mean with Curse. Curse will
Speaker 1: tell you he's one hundred percent. Curse is not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, but you know what, he'll play like he's
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And so now do you worry about
Speaker 1: can you afford to you know, you mentioned the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know you mentioned you know they're gonna be They're
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna be short this week because Jason Peters.
Speaker 1: They brought Collins up last week. Collins, Yeah, that's one
Speaker 1: where you might look at it and you might say, hey,
Speaker 1: we already had him active last week, so maybe you
Speaker 1: sit Peters and that becomes a spot that you could use.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: I think the only player on the forty eight that
Speaker 1: doesn't play is Cooper Rush. Everybody else plays, so everybody
Speaker 1: else has a role in the game. So here you
Speaker 1: are in a playoff game and use forty seven to
Speaker 1: or forty eight players in the game. So now who
Speaker 1: you take in? Who the forty seven? Who are you
Speaker 1: going to take away? You know, who do you determine
Speaker 1: is going to be that guy? And there's really not
Speaker 1: any place that you can really really go light you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like it with some of the
Speaker 1: injuries that you're dealing with. Uh, you know that that's
Speaker 1: that's the man. It would be tough to sit there
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna play with forty
Speaker 1: seven guys. We're really forty six guys. If the kicker
Speaker 1: and Cooper Rush both don't play well, now you're going
Speaker 1: into a divisional playoff game one player short. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a problem. I know this. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I don't have a great answer for you. By the way,
Speaker 1: you don't have you don't have to hear not the coach, right,
Speaker 1: we talk about the field and the win and just
Speaker 1: the environment overall. How he changes from you having what
Speaker 1: you're usually accustomed to here in your own practice field,
Speaker 1: but does what you watch him do throughout this week
Speaker 1: at practice changes at all. Like let's say he's perfect
Speaker 1: and he makes everything or whatever. That wouldn't change your mind. Honestly,
Speaker 1: that doesn't change anything for me, because the way I
Speaker 1: look at it is you can simulate as much as
Speaker 1: you want. Now let me let me put it in context.
Speaker 1: If let's say, for example, last week, he had a
Speaker 1: great week of practice and then obviously at the game
Speaker 1: what happened happened, then this week doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: Now it can go bad, Like if he has a
Speaker 1: week of practice where he's missing everything, then I start
Speaker 1: really wondering, like does he have it mentally to be
Speaker 1: able to do this and turn this around. But if
Speaker 1: he's been having good practices these last several weeks and
Speaker 1: he still had the performance like he did, then no
Speaker 1: matter what he does in practice this week, I would
Speaker 1: personally be a little worried about what I'm going to
Speaker 1: see once game day gets here. And that's the reason
Speaker 1: why I think I'm looking for a way. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but I'm looking for a way
Speaker 1: to have this second kicker available. Now, if I get
Speaker 1: into a situation where I look at it and and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I can then I'm spending in an
Speaker 1: nordant amount of time this week on what am I
Speaker 1: doing on fourth down? What kind of plays do I
Speaker 1: love that I can run on fourth down? And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I actually think my herd to work his way out
Speaker 1: of this. It may not beat through kicking extra points.
Speaker 1: It maybe give him a fifty yarder. Is what we
Speaker 1: know about this guy is once he gets out in
Speaker 1: those that deep territory, oh he's money. And so I'm
Speaker 1: almost like, let him work out of it with longer
Speaker 1: kicks than shorter kicks, because right now the shorter kicks
Speaker 1: are the ones that are in his head. Yeah me personally,
Speaker 1: I know, I said, I don't have an answer, but
Speaker 1: I'll try here. I think I carry the extra kicker.
Speaker 1: I just can't take a chance in the game. I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lose a game because you missed the
Speaker 1: thirty eight yard field goal. I mean that if you
Speaker 1: get out there and it's a field goal, maybe not
Speaker 1: even an extra point, but it's a field it's the
Speaker 1: first field goal of the game. You drive, you get stalled,
Speaker 1: it's a forty yard field gold and he misses. Now
Speaker 1: I've now I know where I am, I'm gonna use
Speaker 1: the other kicker, and here we go. And if that
Speaker 1: guy misses two, then now we got planned planned C,
Speaker 1: which is go forward on fourth down, go for two
Speaker 1: point plays, and hope that you know the hope you
Speaker 1: can hang in there long enough that the game doesn't
Speaker 1: get away from me because you're giving away points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be amber. No, I was. I was looking
Speaker 1: back kind of the history of his career for this guy,
Speaker 1: how do you say his last name? I think it's Viscano, Viscano, Yes,
Speaker 1: tristan um, Tristan, let's call him rist Uh. I mean
Speaker 1: he's kind of switch around, jumped around the league for
Speaker 1: a little bit. But looking at just his overall UH career,
Speaker 1: he's made eleven out of twelve field goals, but then
Speaker 1: on extra point fifteen of twenty and That's where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that doesn't make me feel that much better. And he
Speaker 1: has he even been in an environment that it's playoffs environment,
Speaker 1: which kind of you know how the nerves go up
Speaker 1: there and then how everything switches. So what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say is this guy is what he's coming in
Speaker 1: experience wise, doesn't make me feel that much greater. You
Speaker 1: would hate that your season would come down to a
Speaker 1: miskick being that being how Brett maher has been great
Speaker 1: all year, you know, until this last game, he's been great,
Speaker 1: and that if you if if going into the Tampa game,
Speaker 1: we would have said the number one concerned I have
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys is a kicking game. Everybody looked at
Speaker 1: each other, like, what you know, I you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you bring it up after what happened in the Commander's game.
Speaker 1: He misses an extra point, was the only extra point.
Speaker 1: Now what if they score a bunch of points against
Speaker 1: the Commanders and he's missing them, Then now you're going, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, so maybe we do have an issue here
Speaker 1: at kicker. But the fact that it was one miss
Speaker 1: extra point and that's all Dallas did for scoring, you know,
Speaker 1: he never kicked the field goal or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, his miss is on extra points. There were
Speaker 1: three of them before this game. One miss two blocks.
Speaker 1: Wasn't like he was, you know, wasn't like it was him,
Speaker 1: it was you know, one of them was. But other
Speaker 1: than that, man, it's this is tough. This is really
Speaker 1: really tough because you need all your players and you
Speaker 1: really want to give him the benefit of doubt. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has made a ton of big kicks for this
Speaker 1: team this year, and I personally thought he was having
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl type season. Now you look around the league,
Speaker 1: and his percentages as good as he did, there were
Speaker 1: still lots of kickers out there that had that were
Speaker 1: ranked higher than him when you just look at the
Speaker 1: statistics of it. But just looking at when this team
Speaker 1: needed him to make kicks, and even some of those
Speaker 1: kicks being extremely long like that that goes back to
Speaker 1: back to back fifty six yard kicks like that, to
Speaker 1: me was impressive, extremely impressive. And so I look at
Speaker 1: this and I'm like, I want to give him the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt. And that's what the one reason
Speaker 1: why I don't pull the trigger. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on moving on from him. I look
Speaker 1: at that and say, everybody on this team has had
Speaker 1: at least one week this season where they were just off.
Speaker 1: I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that this
Speaker 1: was the week when he was just off. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that I don't want an insurance policy that this
Speaker 1: is more than just an off week, because at this
Speaker 1: point of season, you can't afford that, especially at the
Speaker 1: position kicker. And that's why I loved what CD said.
Speaker 1: And if you guys haven't seen sounds of the sidelines,
Speaker 1: Alex killed it again. Yes, as always make sure to
Speaker 1: check it out on Dallas Holways dot com and on
Speaker 1: social media. But CD just coming to the bench and
Speaker 1: just letting him know, like, hey, you're good, like, don't
Speaker 1: worry about him. You've I don't remember the exact word
Speaker 1: many times, which is one hundred percent, So just kind
Speaker 1: of seeing that support that you know, okay, a guy
Speaker 1: like like that, you need that, you need that after
Speaker 1: you have such a day, such a bad day. But
Speaker 1: it's true, Bred Maher has bailed them out so many
Speaker 1: times this year, so many times that the offense wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to get to the end zone and score
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And now you got him kicking and even
Speaker 1: those fifty yarders making those so me personally, I'm a diver, like,
Speaker 1: let's give him the benefit of the doubt. Now. When
Speaker 1: you said, how long is that leash? If it happens
Speaker 1: and they do have the other kicker, Tristan Active, I
Speaker 1: would say too, I wouldn't just set him out after
Speaker 1: the first miss if he misses the second one, then
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, that's that's it. My leash would be too, missus.
Speaker 1: How about you? That sounds about right, And it also
Speaker 1: to me, it depends on what stage how the game's
Speaker 1: playing out. If it's a really really close game and
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to be able to either you're
Speaker 1: behind and this is an opportunity to catch up, or
Speaker 1: you're in the lead by very narrow margin and this
Speaker 1: was your opportunity to kind of give yourself a little
Speaker 1: bit of a cushion. If it's that kind of game,
Speaker 1: close game, then maybe after one miss, if it's the
Speaker 1: first kick of the game, then I'm may be willing
Speaker 1: to say, hey, let me do something a little different here,
Speaker 1: let me change this up a little bit. Maybe let
Speaker 1: me go for go for it on a fourth down,
Speaker 1: or maybe, you know whatever. I would be thinking of
Speaker 1: other options after a first miss. If it's the first
Speaker 1: kick of the game. Now let's say he gets the
Speaker 1: first kick and then he misses a second. Now I
Speaker 1: might be a little bit more like, Okay, let me
Speaker 1: see if I want to hold. But if he misses
Speaker 1: that first one, I'm really thinking about it. In a
Speaker 1: close game, because as we know, it's a good team,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about here in this segment, it's
Speaker 1: a really good team. You're not gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities at the end zone. You wouldn't think, so
Speaker 1: every point is going to matter for this team. And
Speaker 1: that's where I'm a little bit, you know, I just
Speaker 1: was looking at his numbers and I was trying to
Speaker 1: whether there was a game where he made a bunch
Speaker 1: of fifty yard field goals in the game. It was like, incredible,
Speaker 1: he had like four or fifty yard field goals. I
Speaker 1: think it was we made the Command game because I
Speaker 1: was looking. He was four for four in that game. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, earlier in the year, he was four for
Speaker 1: four and field goals against Minnesota, which was a big win.
Speaker 1: He was four for four and a huge win against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, there's just so many things to say,
Speaker 1: you know, positive and confident about this player and for him,
Speaker 1: and maybe it was just one bad day. Maybe you
Speaker 1: just but with kickers, you don't know, because that's the
Speaker 1: one position that's so hard to evaluate, I mean, other
Speaker 1: than quarterback. Yeah, quarterbacks are hard to evaluate. Two yeah,
Speaker 1: but it is like we we all watched, we all
Speaker 1: watched Dan Bailey. We all watched Dan Bailey here, and
Speaker 1: we saw Dan Bailey and then we saw it was
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey. You know, he started missing a go Was
Speaker 1: he hurt? Is something wrong? You know? We found out Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got he had some issues and stuff. But once
Speaker 1: you have a guy that's just so reliable, then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden goes south, you really don't have any answers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially yeah go south in a big way. And and
Speaker 1: now the games are just so magnified, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: one missed extra point could be the difference of you
Speaker 1: going on or going home. And that's man that I'm
Speaker 1: just I don't know what I'm gonna think. If it's
Speaker 1: a game winning field goal and he's gonna line up,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I usually you would think we're
Speaker 1: going on, we're moving on, And now I'm thinking, I
Speaker 1: don't want to look, you know, I don't want to look.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let the crowd tell me where this thing
Speaker 1: is going. I'll tell you the one thing I would
Speaker 1: do if I was Mike McCarthy. The first opportunity I
Speaker 1: come up on where it's fourth down in field goal range,
Speaker 1: kick it. I don't go for without hesitation. I'm like
Speaker 1: field goal because I want him to know. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: want him to know. If I want him to know,
Speaker 1: I believe in you. I'm confidenting you. We're not going
Speaker 1: to change it. We're gonna do right now because I
Speaker 1: trust you, and go out there and make the kick.
Speaker 1: I would keep things as normal as I normally would,
Speaker 1: and I would send him right out there to kick it.
Speaker 1: And my hope is that mentally that gives him a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a boost of confidence, like my
Speaker 1: team still believes in me. I got this. I've been
Speaker 1: doing this all year. I'll just do what i'd do.
Speaker 1: He makes that first kick, here we go, and now
Speaker 1: we'll roll again, right, And so I just wouldn't hesitate
Speaker 1: at all. I would immediately send him out there and
Speaker 1: let's let's get it done. All right, Let's take our
Speaker 1: first break. We'll come back. We'll jump into San Francisco
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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers defense versus Dallas offense. Brian. I
Speaker 1: know you said you had an opportunity to I did
Speaker 1: some of your contacts around the league. Some coaches I
Speaker 1: think I did around the league who have faced to
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers. What have they told you
Speaker 1: about best ways to match up with this defense? I
Speaker 1: will tell you this I did. I talked to a
Speaker 1: coach and I got another one that I have to
Speaker 1: talk to after the show today that it's going to
Speaker 1: help me. But yeah, this is a guy that played
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers this year and gave me an
Speaker 1: idea of how to attack them. And I was like, cool,
Speaker 1: let's sear it and what the notes. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to read from my notes what this is. I'll try
Speaker 1: to organize it the best I can for you. Here
Speaker 1: he does. This coach told me it was harder preparing
Speaker 1: for Todd Bowles, who the Cowboys played last week, as
Speaker 1: opposed to Damiko Ryans. And he said what he says,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles is always going to come up with something
Speaker 1: you probably haven't seen. He says, Demico trust his guys more,
Speaker 1: and when he plays games against teams that they feel
Speaker 1: like they're better than, they'll play it pretty straight up.
Speaker 1: My guy said, Demico will have something ready for you.
Speaker 1: He'll have some type of blitz package or something that
Speaker 1: you know that they haven't used or you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they made they've have used, but they're gonna bring it
Speaker 1: back out. But this, this coach said, it Bowls, who
Speaker 1: you saw last week, is tougher to prepare for. He says,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of the Seattle principles that we've seen
Speaker 1: when they play with the zone coverages and stuff, and
Speaker 1: then on third down you're going to get the man
Speaker 1: principles out of this. This coach told me. He says,
Speaker 1: I believe they're going to try and take away Shultz
Speaker 1: in this game. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: because you're thinking CD or you know somebody else, like
Speaker 1: coach goes Now, what they're concerned about is the middle
Speaker 1: of their defense. They're concerned that they're not very good
Speaker 1: at safety. That's their biggest concern. So what happens is
Speaker 1: that whoever's the biggest threat to the middle of their
Speaker 1: defense would be the guy that they try and and
Speaker 1: hone in on. So I was like, all right, that
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense because when you look at
Speaker 1: Hafenga and Gibson their two safeties, it makes sense watching
Speaker 1: them on tape. We were talking about that a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, yesterday and then and then on our show
Speaker 1: one three the Fan, we were talking about it because
Speaker 1: the matchups are a problem for them. They don't cover
Speaker 1: the tight ends. If you go back and watch the
Speaker 1: Raiders game, they Darren Waller had a huge game against
Speaker 1: these guys because of stuff that was happening in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. So that's a big, big concern.
Speaker 1: You know, he was saying, listen, give the Raiders a
Speaker 1: lot of credit for the way they were attacking down
Speaker 1: the field. They got the protection that they needed, and
Speaker 1: that's going to be the really the way of the
Speaker 1: key that he goes. What he said is you can't
Speaker 1: let this be a two minute game. And by saying
Speaker 1: that two minute game turns into a Nick Bosa game,
Speaker 1: because when Nick Bosa is just all he knows is
Speaker 1: rushing the passer, that's a two minute game. He's hand down.
Speaker 1: Here we go that kind of thing. He says, the
Speaker 1: minute you turn that into a two minute game, it's
Speaker 1: a problem for you, not for them, because it plays
Speaker 1: right in their strength. He also says, you need to
Speaker 1: run the ball at Nick Bosa. You know, it's similar
Speaker 1: what we see with what teams do with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1: You know, you think, oh jeez, stay away. No, if
Speaker 1: you run the ball away, what does Michael Parsons do chases?
Speaker 1: What does Nick Bosa do chases? So you take it
Speaker 1: at them, make them have to play the point of attack.
Speaker 1: He could take some of the steam out of his
Speaker 1: pass rush or something. He says, Fred warner the linebacker.
Speaker 1: The linebacker is very hard to fool, he says, you can't.
Speaker 1: The problem is the way they play with some of
Speaker 1: their zone coverages. If you just let him read the
Speaker 1: quarterback and react, he's going to make all the plays.
Speaker 1: He's really really good, he's really smart, has a has
Speaker 1: a feel for how to play in those coverage lanes.
Speaker 1: But the guy also said, though he tackles well, but
Speaker 1: he goes, that's another guy you can run at. You
Speaker 1: can run at him because he's because he's Sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: jump around blocks and things like that, so you can
Speaker 1: maybe My coach here said, change the tempo of the game. Okay,
Speaker 1: this plays into the Cowboys. This plays into the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Uh ahnds here because they love to they love to
Speaker 1: play fast. They'll slow it down and they'll you know,
Speaker 1: but they but they if they get into a mode,
Speaker 1: he says, make sure you just keep going. Keep If
Speaker 1: you haven't success, change the tempo, keep playing. Here mentioned
Speaker 1: again too about you have to win the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, especially on third down. That's where that's where
Speaker 1: that's the best spot to attack the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: is on third down. I think that their two corners
Speaker 1: can give up some plays. I think Lenore and I
Speaker 1: think Ward. If you get protection in the way, you're
Speaker 1: going to probably get some protection is what we talk about.
Speaker 1: I do feel like the Cowboys can hold up against
Speaker 1: botha one on one, but they also this coach said,
Speaker 1: if you get in twelve personnel and you make them
Speaker 1: have to play a little bit wider, if you make
Speaker 1: those rushers, if you can secure the edges, get the
Speaker 1: ball out, work the middle of the field, then you
Speaker 1: could have some success doing that way. So that was
Speaker 1: let me see. Oh. He said that the checkdown the
Speaker 1: pollard in these games, in this game is going to
Speaker 1: be huge because they tackle well. But he says, the
Speaker 1: thing about it is if you break tackles on these guys,
Speaker 1: you have a chance for some big, big plays. And
Speaker 1: they think that pollard, the checkdowns the pollard are going
Speaker 1: to be really good to check down the backs. And
Speaker 1: I said, coach, these guys don't run screens very well.
Speaker 1: And he says, if you have a screen, a tight
Speaker 1: end screen, some type of screens, because they're gonna want
Speaker 1: to get up the field, but you have you know,
Speaker 1: when not playing man coverage, they're going to drop into zones.
Speaker 1: You can maybe get the ball to the back and
Speaker 1: then blocks as they're coming forward. So those are some
Speaker 1: of the thoughts of a coach coach that played against
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers this year. A lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff. That's a kind of like yesterday, right,
Speaker 1: It's like, where do you really start with all that? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it starts with Nick Bosa myself. I know,
Speaker 1: I went on my station yesterday and made a lot
Speaker 1: of people mad in San Francisco Land because I said
Speaker 1: I felt like that Smith and Smith could hold up
Speaker 1: with Nick Bosa. I do if they were to go
Speaker 1: in and defend this game with taking out the tight end.
Speaker 1: Let's say, how much does that do you feel like
Speaker 1: it changes the game for Dad? Because, like we saw
Speaker 1: even last week, he relied a lot on Dalton Shoultz
Speaker 1: and we've seen it through his career even this year.
Speaker 1: The guy that he can go in and tends to
Speaker 1: do better with is a tight end. Whoever, it is
Speaker 1: a tight end. So if they kind of take him
Speaker 1: out of the game, how do you think that truly
Speaker 1: affects him? My question would be are we seeing that
Speaker 1: with Dalton? Because teams say we're not that Dalton isn't
Speaker 1: the guy who're gonna double double, right, We're gonna worry
Speaker 1: about Cede Lamb right, And so if CD is the
Speaker 1: guy that they think they're gonna take out, and this
Speaker 1: team says, you know, we're gonna take out Dalton Schultz, okay,
Speaker 1: Like and especially I was sitting there listening to Brian
Speaker 1: talk about the corners and vulnerability at the corners, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're worried about the middle of the field, and
Speaker 1: you're worried about Dalton Schultz, I'm looking at my two
Speaker 1: speedy guys, or my guys I know they can get
Speaker 1: down field, Like Gallup who can go downfield. We know
Speaker 1: he can do that. T Y Hilton, who's a speed guy.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at sending them down the field on the corners.
Speaker 1: And if you're worried about the middle field and that
Speaker 1: safety's gonna stay in the middle to try to take
Speaker 1: out Dalton, I welcome that. I think Dad should have
Speaker 1: a That means DA's gonna have some opportunities for some
Speaker 1: big plays against this offense, I mean against this defense,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what you're gonna need in order
Speaker 1: to be able to win all the teams that have
Speaker 1: beaten this team, they've had big plays in their offense,
Speaker 1: like they have gone downfield and exploited that. So if
Speaker 1: that's the way they played Dallas, I think it plays
Speaker 1: right into their hand. It also create creates more room
Speaker 1: for error as far as like interceptions and how well
Speaker 1: some of their guys could possibly get their hands on
Speaker 1: the ball and create an interception for that. Yeah, their front,
Speaker 1: their front I think masks some of the I think
Speaker 1: I think there's two teams here playing this game that
Speaker 1: they're fronts mask the deficiencies they have in the secondary.
Speaker 1: Dallas's pass rush I think masks the issues that they
Speaker 1: have at corner, and I think the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: are the same team. I think that when you talk
Speaker 1: about kin Law, Armstead, Bosa, green Law, all these guys
Speaker 1: that can a men, who these guys that can attack
Speaker 1: the quarterback, they they they cause problems and it helps
Speaker 1: their secondary because, like I said, this coach was saying,
Speaker 1: if you could block their front, and the tape shows
Speaker 1: that the Raiders block their front, ball was going down
Speaker 1: the field. They it was almost like they didn't respect
Speaker 1: back that stood him the quarterback at the Raiders, It's
Speaker 1: like they they they they they loaded the box thinking
Speaker 1: it's Jacob's run, Jacob's run, Jacob's run, and that was
Speaker 1: and they shut him down pretty much, I think at
Speaker 1: sixty nine yards or something. But the throat, the way
Speaker 1: they threw the ball was incredible, you know. But they
Speaker 1: were able to block so well up front that even
Speaker 1: when Stidham had to move around a little bit, that
Speaker 1: he was able to find guys to pick off. I mean,
Speaker 1: Adams was incredible that game. And not to say that,
Speaker 1: you know, CD's a CD's been playing great, and you
Speaker 1: would hope that he would have the type of game
Speaker 1: that Adams had against him, you know, throwing the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. But it's gonna come down to can
Speaker 1: you block this front. That's where this and it always is.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to block your front and you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to block their front. And I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: other thing that I think will be critical to that
Speaker 1: is how much is Dack willing to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I love that you say on third down they tend
Speaker 1: to go man. Yeah, that means on third down there
Speaker 1: creates opportunities where the defense is the defensive backs their
Speaker 1: back is to the quarterback. He's gonna have some opportunities,
Speaker 1: and especially for an aggressive rushing defense that's coming all forward,
Speaker 1: if Dak finds that seam and gets out of it
Speaker 1: and runs, he's gonna have some daylight moments, right, and
Speaker 1: that's going to force their their pass rush to slow
Speaker 1: down a little bit, which again Negate, it's it's what
Speaker 1: teams have done to the Cowboys and some instances, well
Speaker 1: they've played these running types of quarterbacks. So I look
Speaker 1: at this and I'm thinking, I actually like all this
Speaker 1: stuff you're saying because it to me it kind of
Speaker 1: factors into what you want Dallas to be able to
Speaker 1: do offensively. Yeah, if they're able to that's the thing,
Speaker 1: and that's why both these teams are where they are.
Speaker 1: They're the final you know, they're the final teams because
Speaker 1: they play well on defense and they're capable. I think
Speaker 1: the thing that just the thing for me for Dallas's
Speaker 1: offense is can they just maintain the consistency. I think
Speaker 1: Dallas could beat anybody in the NFL if they don't
Speaker 1: turn over the ball. I really do. I just it's
Speaker 1: when they get it's those turnovers that create doubt. And
Speaker 1: now are we are? We are? We willing to throw it?
Speaker 1: Are you sew it? Doc? When he was the way
Speaker 1: he was just bam bam bam, and there was separation,
Speaker 1: there were balls where they needed to be. You know,
Speaker 1: they were converting, they were you know, it was it's
Speaker 1: this offense is really fun to watch when they're playing
Speaker 1: that way. But that, like I say, can you get
Speaker 1: the consistency? I think that's a word that you used
Speaker 1: the other day to talk about. Can you get that
Speaker 1: consistency to from week to week? And you know we'll
Speaker 1: see this week for sure. Let's take our final break.
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Speaker 1: this matchup talk. We'll do that when we come back.
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Speaker 1: But all right, let's let's jump back in. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the office of line. You mentioned the Smith's at
Speaker 1: the two tackles. It's my personal belief that I think
Speaker 1: they're actually better off with Tyler Smith at left tackle
Speaker 1: than they would have been with Jason Peters. Let's assume
Speaker 1: Jason can't play this weekend. Yeah, what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on that? Yeah, I don't think you're gonna get Jason
Speaker 1: Peters this weekend. I think the hip flexor problem, man,
Speaker 1: You know, as we speak on Let's Day Thursday. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I say that's going to be a problem. Why they
Speaker 1: better off against this matchup? I think so? To me,
Speaker 1: this is it's it's never easy because Bosa is going
Speaker 1: to work both sides. This is never easy. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen Tyron Smith breakdown. I mean last year, you know,
Speaker 1: a game it against the forty nine ers. I think
Speaker 1: Bosa got hurt in this game two last year as well,
Speaker 1: you know, got nicked up a little bit. But he's
Speaker 1: such a dynamic player, you know when you talk about
Speaker 1: a rusher and how he's able to dip and get
Speaker 1: around and stuff. And now you're playing with crowd noise
Speaker 1: and all that stuff like that you're having to deal with.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that having Tyler Smith out of
Speaker 1: left you know, he's he's he's navigated this season very nicely.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to talk about guys to
Speaker 1: deserve the game ball from last week, Tyler Smith deserves
Speaker 1: a game ball just for the fact that he had
Speaker 1: to deal with Vita Veay and that whole thing. You
Speaker 1: know that, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: by the way, now right before the half, you're going
Speaker 1: to shift out to left tackle. Okay, the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: didn't have the dynamic pass rushers, but still you're dealing
Speaker 1: with a game of having to worry about blocking this
Speaker 1: guy who's perennial All Pro type of a noseman power
Speaker 1: guy to like, Okay, now I got to shift all
Speaker 1: the way to the outside and now deal with some
Speaker 1: speed and so yeah, it's it's impressive what he can do. Dallas,
Speaker 1: Like I say, they can make plays. If they if
Speaker 1: the Smith's Law firm of Smith and Smith can can
Speaker 1: block these edges and secure these edges, they they can
Speaker 1: make some plays on the secondary. Yeah, happy about that?
Speaker 1: I mean, because there were times even this past game
Speaker 1: and they did a really nice job with the offensive line,
Speaker 1: especially with Peter's coming out and just kind of regrouping
Speaker 1: and making those changes. But there were times where they
Speaker 1: did get to that, and there were times where Dad
Speaker 1: did have to run and luckily he had a great
Speaker 1: game and he was able to run really really good.
Speaker 1: But it's you keep mentioning Bosa and in going into
Speaker 1: this game, that is one area that still does scare me.
Speaker 1: What happens. Can we get the dak that had that
Speaker 1: focus and mentality as he did last week, Like before
Speaker 1: the break, you mentioned consistency, and that's one of the things.
Speaker 1: It's like, yes, it depends how the previous game goes,
Speaker 1: you know, how Okay, they played really good and then
Speaker 1: they got that very important win in a playoff game.
Speaker 1: How are they right now mentally? Like is it like
Speaker 1: are they kind of feeling themselves a little bit or
Speaker 1: they're still like super humble right now? Is Dad gonna
Speaker 1: and he's really tough and we know he has very
Speaker 1: a lot of mental toughness, but can he be that
Speaker 1: guy that can just if he if they get to
Speaker 1: him and create pressure and sack him, can he play
Speaker 1: after play, snap after snap kind of maintain his school
Speaker 1: and focus or is this a game where they can disrupt,
Speaker 1: you know, and create that kind of what's the word
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, hesitation uneasiness with that? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: here's my thing. What I go back to is I
Speaker 1: think the point in the season when I saw the
Speaker 1: offensive line play its best was when you had Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you had Tyler Smith at left tackle, Connomer
Speaker 1: Governor at left guard, Beyondash at center, Zack Martin at
Speaker 1: right tackle, and I'm sorry right guard and then you
Speaker 1: had Terrence Steele at right tackle. That was the best
Speaker 1: lineup that they had out there. The way I look
Speaker 1: at that is, Okay, take me back to that as
Speaker 1: much as I can, and if I'm subbing out Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele for Tyron Smith, I feel as good about that
Speaker 1: as any combination as Cowboys team can run out there.
Speaker 1: I don't think at this point from what I've seen
Speaker 1: my opinion, and I don't think Jason Peters is somebody
Speaker 1: you can rely on for a full game, not at all.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and by the way, he filled in a
Speaker 1: role that you needed for him to ge in as
Speaker 1: as you know, I told my wife this, like that
Speaker 1: injury reminds me of kind of where I am in
Speaker 1: life right now, where I'm no, not just running, but
Speaker 1: like literally I'm around the house. I see a box
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I probably need to move that box,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, I probably ought to use my back,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, no, I'll power through it, and I
Speaker 1: just lift it. And then as soon as I lifted,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that was a bad idea, and now
Speaker 1: my back's gonna hurt for the next two weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing. It's like he tried to
Speaker 1: do the reach block and then it was kind of like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm forty years old and and so that's
Speaker 1: the nature of it. He filled a role for you.
Speaker 1: He played that role. You got him much as much
Speaker 1: out of him as you could not go back to
Speaker 1: the young guy way. You got so much out of
Speaker 1: him even off the field, like not you get the
Speaker 1: on field stuff when he came in and played, so
Speaker 1: some snaps for you the off field and how much
Speaker 1: he's been able to teach these guys and you see
Speaker 1: it like you watch that do you watch the sidelines
Speaker 1: and you see the relationship and you see how much
Speaker 1: he is there like a coach, just as another coach.
Speaker 1: So I really appreciate like his presence, the type of
Speaker 1: stuff that he was able to bring this year, even
Speaker 1: off the field for these younger guys. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they protected themselves and they got what they
Speaker 1: needed out of him. And you know, the the hip
Speaker 1: flex or for an older guy is not an easy
Speaker 1: thing to come back from, you know. I mean that's
Speaker 1: something that he's gonna you know, any lower body power
Speaker 1: and getting away from the line and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I just keep going back the confidence I have
Speaker 1: in this offense, and I mean this with all sincerity.
Speaker 1: I think they played a better defense against Philadelphia. I
Speaker 1: think they played a better and they had really nice
Speaker 1: success moving the football against Philadelphia. But you're talking about
Speaker 1: pass rushers, talk about sec overall, I think Philadelphia's defense
Speaker 1: is better, and you move the ball against them very well.
Speaker 1: That's that is my hope going into this game, that
Speaker 1: you figure out that, Okay, how do we move the
Speaker 1: ball then against a really good secondary and a pass rush.
Speaker 1: You know, I think they if San Francisco's got a
Speaker 1: really good tackling team, really good tackling team. Their front's good,
Speaker 1: the linebackers good, the secondary is their issue, and if
Speaker 1: you find a way to somehow, some way block this front,
Speaker 1: you know, much like you did Philadelphia. But you made
Speaker 1: plays against Philadelphia. You know, you also created turnovers too,
Speaker 1: and Brett Maher made all those field goals as well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of other things that have to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but I don't think this team is unbeatable. I
Speaker 1: think that's the one thing I've learned is that they
Speaker 1: got a lot of weapons, and there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things on paper you look at and you're like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you beat the team. But when
Speaker 1: you really start diving into it, there are reasons to
Speaker 1: believe this is not an unbeatable team. And I think
Speaker 1: Dallas is gonna have to play their very best game.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to do what they did last week
Speaker 1: against a better opponent in order to win. But it's
Speaker 1: not it's not like this is something that can't be done. No,
Speaker 1: They've got and then and it's I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it. It's gonna hinge on Dallas's defense though too.
Speaker 1: How you play McCaffrey, you know, I mean, he's outstanding
Speaker 1: as a player. How you deal with these wide receivers?
Speaker 1: How do you deal with all the all the things
Speaker 1: that they're gonna show you. They're gonna make you, they're
Speaker 1: gonna stretch the field on you, and they're gonna make
Speaker 1: you probably play a little bit unconventionally. And are you
Speaker 1: willing to fall into that trap or are you going
Speaker 1: to say, no, no, this is what we do. We're
Speaker 1: gonna match it this way. So this is why it's
Speaker 1: a playoff game. I actually think this might be a
Speaker 1: game where this may be a game where defensively, we
Speaker 1: might see a lot of those three safeties. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: this is not a team that threatens you deep down
Speaker 1: the field a lot. This is a game that has
Speaker 1: a lot of short and intermediate throws. And especially if
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, hey, we kind of stick with what
Speaker 1: we do, We're gonna stay in where we are, they
Speaker 1: may opt to say we'll have three safeties on the field,
Speaker 1: so we think we have the bulk to stop your run, right.
Speaker 1: We also think we got the athletes to be able
Speaker 1: to run with you across the field, to be able
Speaker 1: to get into zones that where you're trying to throw
Speaker 1: the all, be able to quickly react rally to the ball,
Speaker 1: make tackles. I could see a game like that where
Speaker 1: they just say we're gonna stick with what we do.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna let you move us out of what
Speaker 1: we do because the personnel that we have can morph
Speaker 1: into whatever you try to do without us having to
Speaker 1: move people around too much. Be a great game, he will,
Speaker 1: It'll be a fun chess match real quick. Going back
Speaker 1: to the old line. Terren Smith, he popped up on
Speaker 1: the injury report, on the practice report, and he was
Speaker 1: a full participant, but it was the knee that popped up.
Speaker 1: So any scenario where something happens in the game and
Speaker 1: he got it, he has to come out. What's your combination,
Speaker 1: what's your line looking like? Ball right? Ball would play tackle? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you can't unless you know you're not gonna
Speaker 1: you're not gonna move. You're gonna you're gonna keep everybody
Speaker 1: the same. You're not gonna move Zach Martin, But Colin,
Speaker 1: would you maybe think Collins because I'm kind of I
Speaker 1: don't know if Collins may be a better answer than Ball.
Speaker 1: I just have no faith in Ball right now. Nobody
Speaker 1: really does. But you're to that point where now you're
Speaker 1: trying to mask, like we're talking about, you're trying to
Speaker 1: mask problems. And so you put him on the you
Speaker 1: put him on that, you know, ball on the outside.
Speaker 1: You put tight end over there, you have wing over there,
Speaker 1: you chip over there. I mean, they're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that anyway. You know, you're probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that to help a little bit with Bosa
Speaker 1: being over there. But if it's if it's Ball over there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make it's almost gonna look like a punt
Speaker 1: return where you're like you're you're doubling the you know,
Speaker 1: you got both guys like on Bosa, like right there,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of what that's going to turn into.
Speaker 1: A ball has to play right tackle, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, no matter who they put in there, if
Speaker 1: that were to happen, they immediately become a target for
Speaker 1: San Francisco's defense. I'm sure they are like Bosa, you're
Speaker 1: not moving around anymore. We know where you're going to be,
Speaker 1: and we're coming and we're coming regularly. And so that's
Speaker 1: just gonna be one of those situations where you really
Speaker 1: don't have a great answer for. Yeah, I hope Dallas
Speaker 1: this ability to can can run the football, though I'd
Speaker 1: like to see them trying to war or this forty
Speaker 1: nine or defense down if they can, because they want
Speaker 1: to rush the passer, they want to get up field.
Speaker 1: They're very physical. But yeah, if you get in a
Speaker 1: situation where one of your offensive linemen are down, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what what Farniac is too. Farniac might now
Speaker 1: take over that role of the full back guy that
Speaker 1: you know now that you have to play kind of
Speaker 1: mcgovernment back there at you know, and you're saying, maybe
Speaker 1: even go in a power running game with right just run,
Speaker 1: just run right at him and see what happens. All right,
Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys, Johns. We'll be back tomorrow. I
Speaker 1: appreciate all the questions that came in. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: to a lot of these tomorrow. We're gonna spend quite
Speaker 1: a bit of the show tomorrow answering questions we received
Speaker 1: from you guys over the last couple of days. Till
Speaker 1: then for Brian brought us and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagelton.
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