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Speaker 9: It is Thursday, January fourth, twenty twenty four, Season nineteen,
Speaker 9: episode number one on one. Welcome to the latest edition
Speaker 9: of The Break. We are live from s WBC Morriage Studios.
Speaker 9: At the start of day, we're talking Cowboys versus Commanders.
Speaker 9: We will dive into the commander's defense versus the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 9: Before we get there, though, there are lots of housekeeping
Speaker 9: news and notes that we need to catch up on
Speaker 9: Cowboys and moves on their roster. They have officially signed
Speaker 9: four players and officially cut four players. I'm going to
Speaker 9: roll this out for you, guys, and I want to
Speaker 9: hear from you on what you think sounds interesting about
Speaker 9: this or is this much ado about nothing? Lyell Collins
Speaker 9: offensive lineman signed Damian Wilson, linebacker Sir Roderick Thompson running back,
Speaker 9: big running back, wide receiver Race McMath. All four of
Speaker 9: those players signed to the practice squad who has been
Speaker 9: cut Artabius Bryant, Tyron, Billy Johnson, Willington Prevalon, and Adam Pankney.
Speaker 9: Let's start first with the guys you. It'll start first
Speaker 9: with the guys who have been signed to the practice squad.
Speaker 9: We already talked quite a bit about Lyele Collins and
Speaker 9: what we think he can or cannot do.
Speaker 2: Damian Wilson, how much does he add for you?
Speaker 9: Obviously just from the standpoint of having a body that's
Speaker 9: actually a linebacker now signed as a linebacker.
Speaker 10: Well, it's exactly like you said, because right now, with
Speaker 10: the lease of Rashaun Evans, the only true linebacker you
Speaker 10: have on the active roster is Demon Clark because you know,
Speaker 10: Marquise Bell is a convert from safety and he's a
Speaker 10: flex guy. And then you got Buddy Johnson, but he's
Speaker 10: on the practice squad and not much you know of
Speaker 10: a sample size there. So adding Damian Wilson, which is
Speaker 10: not only a true linebacker and in physical form and
Speaker 10: as far as football, like you, because that's that's his position,
Speaker 10: but it's a familiar face. It's a guy who knows
Speaker 10: the organization, who knows a lot of guys that are
Speaker 10: still here in the building from his time now, you know,
Speaker 10: difference being versus Lyle Collins, where you still Likeola is
Speaker 10: still going to have Tyron Smith and Zach Martin and
Speaker 10: those kind of familiar faces. This linebacker room looks wildly
Speaker 10: different from the last time Damian Wilson took some snaps
Speaker 10: in it, so he's also going to have to be
Speaker 10: looked upon add some mentorship to that locker room young guys,
Speaker 10: Damon Clark and those guys. I'm interested to see what
Speaker 10: his Special Teams contributions are going to be, because even
Speaker 10: if you look at his play last year, he still
Speaker 10: was able to put up a lot of.
Speaker 5: Special Teams reps.
Speaker 10: I'm curious to see how Bones Fossil uses him in
Speaker 10: that aspect as well. But obviously the Cowboys think that
Speaker 10: there's some value there as well with him, and hopefully
Speaker 10: that's going to add to what he can bring.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, that's a veteran guy, You're absolutely right
Speaker 11: about that, and one that you know has experience of
Speaker 11: playing here now, not the experience of playing with this
Speaker 11: coaching staff, so that's a little bit different for him.
Speaker 11: But you know, it's this time of year. It's about
Speaker 11: what players you have available. And Patrick talks about having
Speaker 11: guys on practice squad available and stuff like that, and
Speaker 11: I think that's important because coaches need to have confidence
Speaker 11: that they can put guys out there and get the
Speaker 11: job done. And obviously, you know, there's a great deal
Speaker 11: of trust between Dan quinn and Will McLay and if
Speaker 11: Will saying, hey, listen, we could do this with this guy.
Speaker 11: I can help you with this guy, and Dan's like, okay, man,
Speaker 11: just bring him in. We'll coach him up and we'll
Speaker 11: see what happens. So you know, when you going through
Speaker 11: those litany of names of guys that got released other
Speaker 11: than Bryant, it was like that was a.
Speaker 3: Practice squad player. That was a practice squad guy.
Speaker 12: I know the guys that they signed better than some
Speaker 12: of the names you name.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying, think about that.
Speaker 11: You know, if if you're going through the season and
Speaker 11: you're and now you're having to put guys on the
Speaker 11: bring guys up, elevate guys to play, you're you're you're
Speaker 11: thinking like you're like, oh man, how does this guy.
Speaker 3: Help.
Speaker 11: I'm not familiar with his game. You know, you know
Speaker 11: when you look at the guys that they've added, that's
Speaker 11: now you're you're in that playoff mode. You've had an opportunity.
Speaker 11: The guys they've let go, they've had an opportunity to
Speaker 11: work with them. It doesn't you know, it didn't it
Speaker 11: didn't pan out.
Speaker 3: Like for Brian.
Speaker 11: I know there are a lot of people that are
Speaker 11: asking me, and I'm sure Patrick you were getting the
Speaker 11: same same text, the same tweets, how are they gonna
Speaker 11: get Brian up?
Speaker 3: And when you get rid of.
Speaker 11: Gallops and all that, And I'm like going, guys, he
Speaker 11: ain't coming up unless there's an injury or and now
Speaker 11: you know you've kind of seen it didn't work out.
Speaker 11: You know, they kicked the tires on it.
Speaker 3: It didn't go.
Speaker 11: Maybe you bring it back another time if you have
Speaker 11: a spot. But you know that's where you're at now.
Speaker 11: It's about getting players that you have confidence in that
Speaker 11: if you had to play them and bring them up
Speaker 11: and then play them, that you feel like that they
Speaker 11: could get the job.
Speaker 3: Done on a one or two game basis if you
Speaker 3: had to.
Speaker 12: I think for me, I do really like the signing,
Speaker 12: But I think it's mainly because of the familiarity that
Speaker 12: we know these guys, we've seen them play. They're not
Speaker 12: the best of the best, but they can go out
Speaker 12: there and still play for you and help you out
Speaker 12: in ways that right now you don't have any other choice.
Speaker 12: But so I think it's more of that of just
Speaker 12: knowing and also thinking of like, Okay, they're fresh. But
Speaker 12: at the same time that can be a bad thing too,
Speaker 12: because sometimes it takes you a while to get into
Speaker 12: actual play form and being out there on the field,
Speaker 12: because one thing is practicing saying in shape, and we
Speaker 12: know very well another thing is being out there during
Speaker 12: the game. But it's good to have them. I think
Speaker 12: Damian Wilson, from what I remember, he wasn't terrible. He
Speaker 12: was okay, like a solid guy to have there. He
Speaker 12: wasn't the best. He sometimes would have trouble on the field,
Speaker 12: but it wasn't anything that from what I remember that
Speaker 12: I can think of, Man, we need to get rid
Speaker 12: of this guy, get him out of here, cut him.
Speaker 13: It wasn't like that.
Speaker 10: No, his time with the Cowboys a pretty solid, especially
Speaker 10: in rotation with like Anthony Hitchens and Shown Lee when
Speaker 10: he was healthy, Damian Wilson he stepped in rotationally and
Speaker 10: was he perfect, No, but he was definitely one of
Speaker 10: the better rotational guys at the time. And obviously we're
Speaker 10: talking years removed, because that's twenty eighteen last time he
Speaker 10: was here. Now he's back five years later. But even
Speaker 10: if you look at what he did with Carolina five starts,
Speaker 10: he was available all seventeen games. He was available all
Speaker 10: seven team games in twenty twenty one for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 5: So he's durable.
Speaker 10: He's continued to be durable, and like I said, he's
Speaker 10: bringing added value because forty five percent of the special
Speaker 10: team snaps for the Panthers had Damian Wilson involved. So
Speaker 10: now he's if you're Will McLay, you're talking to dan Quinn,
Speaker 10: like like Brian said, you're saying, okay, well, dan Quinn,
Speaker 10: trust me on this. He can give you some value
Speaker 10: on defense. And then you look over at bones Fosts
Speaker 10: when you say, hey, you want another special teams guy,
Speaker 10: prove a veteran who can give you some snaps as well.
Speaker 10: So hopefully kind of the win win there. I wouldn't
Speaker 10: I wouldn't say it's any kind of a blockbuster situation, right,
Speaker 10: so you know, great, it's a familiar face and he
Speaker 10: can come in an impact. He's a quality addition to
Speaker 10: the practice squad insurance guy if you need him.
Speaker 5: But let's not make it any smaller or bigger than what.
Speaker 13: We expect them to see them, any of them this
Speaker 13: weekend or that's way too fast.
Speaker 5: I think that's too soon.
Speaker 2: I would assume that's way too soon.
Speaker 9: But if I'll put it like this, if it were
Speaker 9: a game, let's say this game gets away from you,
Speaker 9: or this game you were in your leading big if
Speaker 9: any of them are even up, like, that's also the thing,
Speaker 9: like do they get call them up? But you may
Speaker 9: be looking for bodies to put in if you get
Speaker 9: into a situation where the game is out of hand
Speaker 9: one way or the other, and you know, you're just like, okay,
Speaker 9: let's we're looking forward to the playoff at this point,
Speaker 9: and we get our starters out of there, maybe we'll
Speaker 9: get some burn. But I don't even expect any of
Speaker 9: them to necessarily be up, unless, unless, of course, there
Speaker 9: is flare up, say with with knock on Wood with
Speaker 9: Tyrann to where you're like, hey, we probably just ought
Speaker 9: to have a backup available to us.
Speaker 2: But other than that, I don't think.
Speaker 9: I don't think I necessarily expect them to be up.
Speaker 9: I do have a question for you guys about Sir
Speaker 9: Roger Thompson. One thing that stood out to me. He's
Speaker 9: a bigger guy, six foot two fifteen. Knowing that they've
Speaker 9: been looking for a solution for short yardage for you know,
Speaker 9: power type situations, how does that play in do you
Speaker 9: think that maybe he's a guy that they look at
Speaker 9: for that type of role? And number two on that
Speaker 9: same line, do you think that this ends any speculation
Speaker 9: about Dalvin Cooks since they have now signed a running
Speaker 9: back to that.
Speaker 11: He is on waivers today, by the way, so yeah,
Speaker 11: you can put a claim in for him today, let's
Speaker 11: talk about it. Yeah, but again yeah, yeah, I didn't
Speaker 11: want to get money.
Speaker 3: I'm usually the guy to get everybody in trouble here.
Speaker 11: So now yeah, that's uh, he is on waivers three
Speaker 11: o'clock today. Uh, you will know whether if you put
Speaker 11: a claim in for him or not, whether you get
Speaker 11: him awarded to you.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: The thing, you know, it's it's interesting to me just
Speaker 11: for the fact that they they're they are hunting. They
Speaker 11: are hunting of backs obviously here, uh and you know
Speaker 11: when they But what was strange was the fooko move
Speaker 11: for for Vaughan. You know, to me that one maybe
Speaker 11: you hold if you're interested in bringing it back on,
Speaker 11: that you would hold and say, Okay, we need this
Speaker 11: roster move, we need this, we need that spot in
Speaker 11: order to get this guy on.
Speaker 3: And you know I heard it would Douce.
Speaker 11: It's an ankle injury that he's dealing with right now,
Speaker 11: so that's why they were able to do what they
Speaker 11: were able.
Speaker 3: To do with him.
Speaker 11: But it just seemed like it was like they're they're
Speaker 11: they're having a hard time getting guys on the roster
Speaker 11: right now because the to their credit, I mean, I
Speaker 11: didn't want to say it. We all know why they're
Speaker 11: having trouble, you know, because they're fortunately things are going
Speaker 11: the right way with their you know what that I
Speaker 11: don't like to talk about because every time I talk
Speaker 11: about it seems something bad app Yeah, so I don't
Speaker 11: want to talk about it. But anyway, that's that's where
Speaker 11: they're at. I mean, their team is is kind of
Speaker 11: rolling along right now and they don't want to make
Speaker 11: any moves that that might upset the way that those
Speaker 11: things are going. So yeah, this this, uh, but having
Speaker 11: on a bat, I think it's once again, it's just
Speaker 11: kind of a kicking the tire situation. I don't think
Speaker 11: I would read into it anymore than that, Like, you know,
Speaker 11: he is a bigger guy.
Speaker 3: Let's see what he's got and and uh, if it
Speaker 3: you know, if.
Speaker 11: It works out that it's part of an elevation. I
Speaker 11: still think they're going to look at Hunter Lipkey. I
Speaker 11: know that I know that what happened the fumble was
Speaker 11: a bad situation at that time, but man, he is though.
Speaker 11: When you do hand him the ball, he can convert,
Speaker 11: you know, and that and that fumble was just a
Speaker 11: you know, maybe hopefully that's the only thing that ever
Speaker 11: happens bad to him carrying the football for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 10: I think when you look at Thompson and and I
Speaker 10: love I love the human aspect of these guys. And
Speaker 10: I say that to the to the Thompson aspect of
Speaker 10: this is a guy. This is an irving Texas kid.
Speaker 10: He's a former Red Raider with Texas Tech and he's
Speaker 10: coming home, so I mean he'll have a lot of
Speaker 10: motivation because this is literally his hometown team and he.
Speaker 3: Wants to prove Vali Ranchkid.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Vali Ranch Kid. Absolutely, Ranchview went to the same
Speaker 10: high school that my son's graduated, Stomping Grounds shouts out to.
Speaker 5: Ranchfreet High School with the Wolves.
Speaker 10: But yeah, so I think it's it's a situation where Thompson,
Speaker 10: he is kind of a bigger guy. He can give
Speaker 10: you that he had some really good numbers with Texas Tech,
Speaker 10: both from the rushing aspect as far as yard is touchdowns,
Speaker 10: but also he can give you some receiving yards out
Speaker 10: of the backfield as well, so just overall yards from scrimmage,
Speaker 10: he can give that to you. To answer your question,
Speaker 10: does it preclude them from, you know, possibly looking in
Speaker 10: the Dalvin could I'm told no, it does not. The
Speaker 10: angle the Cowboys are taking based on the conversations I
Speaker 10: had yesterday, is that they aren't necessarily interested in claiming
Speaker 10: his contract. So even though it was reworked so that
Speaker 10: he could get the mutual release mutually agreed upon release
Speaker 10: from the Jets, Cowboys aren't interested in the contract, but
Speaker 10: they are with the players. So if he does clear waivers.
Speaker 2: This is not a waiverclaim type situation.
Speaker 10: Correct, it's not a waiverclaim type situation for the Cowboys.
Speaker 10: It's more so if he claims waivers, they'll likely be
Speaker 10: on the phone to try to see what his numbers are.
Speaker 5: So, but you don't know how that goes. So what
Speaker 5: do you do?
Speaker 10: You go and get somebody like Sir Roderick Thompson and say,
Speaker 10: come on, let's kick those tires and let's see what's
Speaker 10: going on there.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go and.
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Speaker 9: the guys that we would be aware of that we
Speaker 9: need to be aware of heading into this weekend's matchup.
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Speaker 9: about this Washington defense. The thing that pops out is
Speaker 9: immediately when you start looking at the numbers around this team,
Speaker 9: they are dead last points allowed.
Speaker 2: They are also dead last in yards allowed.
Speaker 9: Every That is the two statistical measures you probably look
Speaker 9: at to say where teams rank, and offense and defense
Speaker 9: they're dead last.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that being.
Speaker 2: Said, Brian, what do they do well? What do they
Speaker 2: do well?
Speaker 9: And where are they most vulnerable? Obviously vulnerable in a
Speaker 9: lot of spots where they most.
Speaker 11: Of the secondaries, Where the secondary where they're they're having
Speaker 11: problems right now. Uh, but it's gonna start up front
Speaker 11: with those two defensive tackles.
Speaker 3: They actually played the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 11: Pretty well in this football game, and then it kind
Speaker 11: of got away from got away from them. But the
Speaker 11: Cowboys did a really nice job against Aron Payne and
Speaker 11: Jonathan Allen the last time that they played. And so
Speaker 11: the question you have now is what's the situation with
Speaker 11: Tyler Smith?
Speaker 3: You know? And uh t J.
Speaker 11: Bass has done a really fine job when he's been
Speaker 11: asked to play. This is a different animal though, that
Speaker 11: he's having to deal with with Payne and Allan inside.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. I was told that at
Speaker 3: the Tyler Smith's situation is actually.
Speaker 11: Gonna carry over to Sunday. They're gonna they're gonna get there.
Speaker 11: They're gonna try and figure it out. And if he
Speaker 11: can go, he can go. If you can't go, then
Speaker 11: you're gonna get TJ. Bass And they're playing. So but
Speaker 11: it's gonna start up front with the commanders at those
Speaker 11: two spots. It's hard to move these guys one on one,
Speaker 11: it really really is. Opponents have had success on them
Speaker 11: attacking on the outside, not running the ball inside, but
Speaker 11: running the ball to the outside. And so I guess
Speaker 11: say a little my Odyssey group by the way, all
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Speaker 3: So Hi, guys, Great to see you guys. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so the.
Speaker 11: Thing with people have had success running the ball on
Speaker 11: the edges and staying away from running the middle. If
Speaker 11: you look at the forty nine er game, and I
Speaker 11: was curious about this, Allen was doubled thirteen times by
Speaker 11: the forty nine ers and Payne was doubled eight times.
Speaker 11: So they're not going to let teams are not going
Speaker 11: to let those guys control the game. They have a
Speaker 11: weakness at linebacker. Dallas did a great job in the
Speaker 11: game going back and watching and taking advantage of this
Speaker 11: commander linebacker group. Cody Barton I think is the best
Speaker 11: player of the group, but there were a couple of
Speaker 11: times where he was matched up on Jake Ferguson. Ferguson
Speaker 11: took him to the wood.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 11: So you know, we'll see if they I don't expect
Speaker 11: Ron Rivera to make the same mistakes that Jack del
Speaker 11: Rio did in this game with some of his some
Speaker 11: of his matchups right there. The screen works against these guys,
Speaker 11: and misdirection works.
Speaker 3: Against these guys too.
Speaker 11: When you start to talk about how you maybe want
Speaker 11: to attack them, the secondary is really really banged up,
Speaker 11: you know. And I was talking to somebody with the
Speaker 11: commanders about this, and it might be if the situation
Speaker 11: was different, that maybe some of these guys wouldn't be
Speaker 11: on the injury list. But you know, it's it is
Speaker 11: what it is for them right now. And that's a
Speaker 11: whole other thing we need to get into about how
Speaker 11: they might play this game. But Benjamin Saint Jus Kendall Fuller,
Speaker 11: they're dealing with injuries. Castro Fields is also dealing with
Speaker 11: an injury. That got concussions, You've got knees, you've got
Speaker 11: shoulder problems that are starting a rookie now with Emmanuel Forbes,
Speaker 11: he's played quite a bit against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 11: He's probably their best guy of all the guys that
Speaker 11: are playing right now, of the the guys that aren't injured.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: But it's it's a group that really really struggles to
Speaker 11: to stop people.
Speaker 3: From throwing the ball on them.
Speaker 11: And that's and that's something that the forty nine ers
Speaker 11: were able to do pretty well with Samuel au can Kittle.
Speaker 11: That's you know, they had their way throwing the ball
Speaker 11: with them. And that's that's the problem that they're going
Speaker 11: to probably have to deal with again this week.
Speaker 9: You mentioned Jonathan Allen, a defensive tackle. He did not
Speaker 9: practice yesterday also with a knee injury. Yeah, if Allan
Speaker 9: is able to play combined with pain, how does TJ.
Speaker 2: Bass match up there?
Speaker 9: Like that's based on what TJ. Bass does well and
Speaker 9: not so well. How does he match up?
Speaker 11: Yeah, the problem that you're dealing with with with Allan
Speaker 11: at Pain is the power they they are.
Speaker 3: They are so just explosive off the ball.
Speaker 11: So now when you when you make that contact and
Speaker 11: you watch, it's like you hit and then they just
Speaker 11: stop you. You just stopping your tracks and now they're
Speaker 11: they're kind of rocking you back or they're kind of
Speaker 11: now they're working around you their hands or pulling around you.
Speaker 11: You honestly need to when they're not in the game,
Speaker 11: that's when you need to take advantage of them even
Speaker 11: more on defense because they have matthis and John Ridgeway
Speaker 11: who used to play here. When those guys get it tackle,
Speaker 11: that's when you have to kind of find a way
Speaker 11: to make some hay, you know. But when the other
Speaker 11: two guys in there, because like I say, the one
Speaker 11: thing that Bass could do is He is a strong guy,
Speaker 11: and he does a really good job with his past
Speaker 11: set of sitting down, bending his knees, anchoring down on
Speaker 11: those guys. But I'm if I'm the Cowboys, I'm kind
Speaker 11: of taking a page of the forty nine er book.
Speaker 11: If I'm be oddish, I'm kind of keeping an eye
Speaker 11: on what's going on to my left. If Tyler Smith's
Speaker 11: not playing.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin, You're a Hall of Famer over here, man,
Speaker 3: you understand how hard it is to do with those beggings.
Speaker 3: Like we're gonna have a day. We're gonna get to
Speaker 3: talk to Zach today.
Speaker 11: On his weekly show, and he'll tell you that it's like,
Speaker 11: you know, it's these are tough matchups for these guys.
Speaker 11: But bass is you know, he's strong, he's powerful, but
Speaker 11: he doesn't have a whole heck of a lot of
Speaker 11: experience against a guy like this, So we'll see how
Speaker 11: it works out for him.
Speaker 9: It sounds like Alan and Payne obviously the two big names.
Speaker 9: Are there any other players on that defense that you're like,
Speaker 9: this guy can be a problem.
Speaker 11: Not really, No, not really, I mean I like I
Speaker 11: like I like Forbes the corner because what they could
Speaker 11: do is he can match up. You know, we've seen
Speaker 11: last the last couple of weeks teams treat and this
Speaker 11: is if Saint Jus can say fuller, do play, then
Speaker 11: you could use Forbes. We've seen teams attack Jake Ferguson
Speaker 11: like he's a wide receiver. Yeah, we've seen the Lions
Speaker 11: last week they took their their were their best cover
Speaker 11: guy and put him on. You know, there were snaps
Speaker 11: where they took Ferguson where like, Okay, we'll take our
Speaker 11: chances with Lamb on the outside. But we know at
Speaker 11: this situation that maybe Prescott's going to want to throw
Speaker 11: the ball. So that's that's the things that you're now
Speaker 11: starting to see and and that's the one thing that
Speaker 11: that I think that Forbes can do is you know,
Speaker 11: and you look at where he in the game. Just
Speaker 11: I went back, I'm like, okay, I noticed what he's
Speaker 11: doing here. You look at the metrics of the game.
Speaker 11: He took Samuel in the game, he took Ayuk in
Speaker 11: the game, and he took Kittle in the game.
Speaker 3: So they're obviously trying to.
Speaker 11: Get him involved in you know, he was one of
Speaker 11: their better cover guys of trying to at least move
Speaker 11: him around enough to take various reps against the forty nine.
Speaker 3: Ers best weapons.
Speaker 9: If you had to identify one person in the secondary
Speaker 9: that was the target, Like we're going to try to
Speaker 9: attack this guy, who would that be?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's it's the guy. The guy that gave up
Speaker 11: that that's giving up the most to Saint Jews is
Speaker 11: he's he's been.
Speaker 3: It's been a little bit of a struggle for him.
Speaker 11: The Cowboys the first time around went after him pretty good.
Speaker 2: And what does he typically line up?
Speaker 3: They flip, They play both sides. This is what they do.
Speaker 11: So you're not gonna you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 11: get a bead. So I would just I would. I
Speaker 11: would try and find a way to match up. We'll
Speaker 11: see if if if they don't play, then these guys
Speaker 11: in the world have heard even more.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know with what they're going to have to
Speaker 3: deal with.
Speaker 11: But I just feel like that Dallas, the the the
Speaker 11: their ability, they just don't hold up and coverage very well.
Speaker 11: You know, they don't they don't carry routes particularly well. Uh,
Speaker 11: they don't play the ball particularly well. And you know,
Speaker 11: I feel like that you know, Dallas, Dallas had a
Speaker 11: really good plan against him last time, and I I
Speaker 11: expect I say Jack del Rio was the defensive coordinat
Speaker 11: at the time. Uh, you know this is gonna be
Speaker 11: a Ron Rivera game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 11: And you know Ron Rivera is probably coaching his last
Speaker 11: This is probably his last gick. It's probably his last
Speaker 11: time he's going to coach in a coach a game.
Speaker 11: So I have a feeling he's going to try and
Speaker 11: match up the best he can. He's just playing short
Speaker 11: handed right now with this.
Speaker 9: Guys, knowing that they struggled so much to get pressure
Speaker 9: on Dallas in the last game. They only had two pressures,
Speaker 9: zero sacks, and they don't have the defensive ends that
Speaker 9: they once had. They got rid of both their defensive
Speaker 9: ends early this year. In trades, they're good defensive, their
Speaker 9: best defensive.
Speaker 3: Ends sweat and young and young.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So do you think that this could be a game
Speaker 9: where maybe they go in and think, hey, we got
Speaker 9: a blitz. Have you seen me in that over the
Speaker 9: last couple of weeks, where maybe they're doing a little
Speaker 9: bit more of that to try to generate pressure, or
Speaker 9: is this just one of those games where they're just
Speaker 9: not going to generate pressure and as we all know,
Speaker 9: if you don't pressure Dak Prescott and you just let
Speaker 9: him sit back there, he's probably gonna carve you up.
Speaker 11: Yeah, they played a lot of zone last week. I
Speaker 11: mean watching them against the forty nine ers, I think
Speaker 11: that's kind of what they want to do. They're trying
Speaker 11: not to give up the big play if they can.
Speaker 11: You know, that's what That's how teams are really playing
Speaker 11: Dallas now, they're just not letting Dallas, you know, have
Speaker 11: those The problem that the that the Commanders had in
Speaker 11: the Thanksgiving Day game was they gambled on some coverages
Speaker 11: that you know, some of these routes that the Cowboys ran.
Speaker 11: The safety play was really really bad. They got the
Speaker 11: corners turned around, safeties were reading the wrong thing. It
Speaker 11: seems to be that the coverage things that they were doing,
Speaker 11: the combinations of trying to take care of the second
Speaker 11: and be solid the secondary, they really really weren't. So
Speaker 11: I think Dallas can throw the ball on him. Like
Speaker 11: I say, how how do you handle what's going on
Speaker 11: at defensive tackle in this game?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 11: I think they can handle everything else. I think they
Speaker 11: can manage everything else. It's it's if Tyler Smith doesn't play.
Speaker 11: How do you find a way to help TJ basson
Speaker 11: this game so that the middle of this Cowboy offense
Speaker 11: doesn't get affected.
Speaker 10: And when you go back and you look at the
Speaker 10: Thanksgiving game, quite as it's kept Tony Pollard had a
Speaker 10: pretty good day.
Speaker 5: It had that afternoon.
Speaker 10: So not only did you have Dak Prescott kind of
Speaker 10: carving up the secondary, the poor secondary four touchdowns, three
Speaker 10: hundred and thirty one yards, one forty two point one rating,
Speaker 10: here's Tony Pollard seventy nine, Yeah, seventy nine rushing yards,
Speaker 10: six point one yards per carry. So going into that game,
Speaker 10: we said it then that this Washington secondary was launched
Speaker 10: like you could absolutely have a day there. The question
Speaker 10: was how would the Cowboys perform in the running the game,
Speaker 10: especially running interior with Payne and Allen. Well, to answer
Speaker 10: your question, Pollard had a really good that day. And
Speaker 10: now it's a situation where either Allen may not play
Speaker 10: in this game because of injury or he will be
Speaker 10: far less than one hundred percent. So it kind of
Speaker 10: goes to, you know, the logic that maybe this is
Speaker 10: a game with Tony Poler gets a good bounce back.
Speaker 10: And then Rico Dada was expected to return, So you
Speaker 10: definitely want to continue to let your primary form of
Speaker 10: attack against this commander's defense be attack that secondary.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Like I say, a lot of the perimeter runs,
Speaker 11: they ran the ball to the weak side, set formation
Speaker 11: to the left schoon maker for some left side ran the.
Speaker 3: Ball back to the right like a toss just toss week.
Speaker 11: And then they also went with their crack game where
Speaker 11: they brought there, you know, and they the Commanders just
Speaker 11: didn't handle that very well. Linebackers, corners get cracked. And
Speaker 11: now the ball's out.
Speaker 3: On the edge.
Speaker 11: So a lot of the runs were going to be
Speaker 11: on the on that outside. I think if Dallas is
Speaker 11: gonna maybe they'll go back and look at this, maybe
Speaker 11: the Commanders will say, well, we've got to play a
Speaker 11: little bit wider. Forty nine ers had a good day
Speaker 11: running the ball on the edge too. I think anybody
Speaker 11: that plays the Commanders can run the ball on the edge.
Speaker 11: I just think they get the support that they needed
Speaker 11: that spot.
Speaker 10: Also, because the defensive end that those positions are weakened
Speaker 10: by the trade for you know, Chase Young being sent away,
Speaker 10: monch Sweat being sent away. So even if they say
Speaker 10: we're going to play a little bit wider. Well, now
Speaker 10: you're you're basically weakening Allan in pain because they play
Speaker 10: better in that phone booth. But if you're widening the
Speaker 10: phone booth, you're asking them to do more lateral work
Speaker 10: that widens the gaps in the A and B and
Speaker 10: there you go. There, So some interior runs they just
Speaker 10: really don't have an answer as far as their defense
Speaker 10: is concerned.
Speaker 12: I'm trying to not get too confident with your knee
Speaker 12: you did.
Speaker 13: I don't even know where the button.
Speaker 2: It's one of those days.
Speaker 13: Okay, I got long legs. Okay.
Speaker 12: I was saying that I'm trying to not get or
Speaker 12: feel too confident about this game because right now everything
Speaker 12: seems to be so much in favor.
Speaker 13: For the Cowboys.
Speaker 12: Like you talk about an opportunity to have a good
Speaker 12: passing game but also a good running game to end
Speaker 12: the season with kind of being back and establishing the run,
Speaker 12: maybe Tony Poler feeling a little bit more confident comfortable
Speaker 12: with running. Also maybe winning a road game and ending
Speaker 12: the season high on that. But also I'm like, okay,
Speaker 12: take it back and chill, because we've seen this happen
Speaker 12: before Arizona. We've seen it happen even against the Panthers.
Speaker 12: It wasn't a game where the Cowboy was completely dominated.
Speaker 13: You know, they should have, but I mean they won.
Speaker 12: But so it's one of those things where you're trying
Speaker 12: to everything sounds great with the both scouting reports that
Speaker 12: you gave Brian of the update between yesterday and today,
Speaker 12: but also being mindful of how things can easily turn
Speaker 12: bad and how the Washington commanders, how they can all
Speaker 12: the sad and show up and decide to play a
Speaker 12: great game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and talking to people in Washington about this game,
Speaker 11: and because I was asking about the second overall pick
Speaker 11: and protecting it and all that, they do want to
Speaker 11: play some young players, that that's something that's interesting to them.
Speaker 11: They would like to try and play some young guys
Speaker 11: and see how it goes. But they got coaches on
Speaker 11: that staff that are honestly coaching for their jobs. Yeah,
Speaker 11: and so nobody wants to go out you know that way,
Speaker 11: and you never know, it might be a situation where
Speaker 11: you know, ownership says, well, hey listen, we like this
Speaker 11: position coach, or we like that guy. You have holdovers
Speaker 11: some staffs and stuff like that. So that's kind of
Speaker 11: why you know that they're I don't think they're interested
Speaker 11: in tanking this game, but it's one big that they
Speaker 11: would like to have just for the fact that they'd
Speaker 11: like to, you know, for new for the ownership, and
Speaker 11: maybe for the next coach, that there's reasons for us
Speaker 11: to stay around here and help coach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting this.
Speaker 9: I saw a video this morning on social media where
Speaker 9: they were asking the Washington players about the fact that
Speaker 9: that the fans are in the were in the stadium
Speaker 9: cheering for them to lose because they want to keep
Speaker 9: that pick, and you can tell the players are like
Speaker 9: to kind of taking it back by it. But also
Speaker 9: they made it clear our expectations of ourselves this weekend
Speaker 9: is we're going to win this game because we want
Speaker 9: to win this game.
Speaker 13: Sometimes players don't care about draft.
Speaker 2: No no, no, the absolutely don't. But but I also think
Speaker 2: that's also part of it.
Speaker 9: I think that they are focused primarily on winning because
Speaker 9: not only do they just players want to do it,
Speaker 9: but I also think it's because sometimes you have people
Speaker 9: just constantly saying you don't need to win, you don't
Speaker 9: need to win, y'all good enough, y'all good enough to
Speaker 9: sometimes it just becomes a thing where Okay, let's see,
Speaker 9: let's see, and I do think that they're going to
Speaker 9: come in ready to play. Question will be did they
Speaker 9: prepare a during the week like they wanted to play?
Speaker 3: But I think their.
Speaker 9: Effort on Sunday will be every bit as much as
Speaker 9: any team the Cowboys will have played this season.
Speaker 3: This is likely going to be a tough game.
Speaker 2: It will It'll be a tough game. All right, it's
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Speaker 9: Welcome back. It is the final segment of the break.
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Speaker 9: Let's talk about the Cowboys defense. We've seen over the
Speaker 9: last two games now where the offense has gone down
Speaker 9: and scored to put the Cowboys in position to where
Speaker 9: they were in the lead in the final minutes of
Speaker 9: the game, and in both those instances, the defense allowed
Speaker 9: scorers that allowed the other team to get back into
Speaker 9: position to possibly win or win, as it was the
Speaker 9: case in Miami. How cancer you about this defense's.
Speaker 2: Ability to be able to close our games?
Speaker 10: What I said about it this particular game against the
Speaker 10: Lions was that, and I know Brian agreed. You changed
Speaker 10: how you played defense on that final drive, right. You
Speaker 10: played it a certain way that was effective for the
Speaker 10: majority of the game, which helped you keep them down
Speaker 10: to just a touchdown, much like you did against the
Speaker 10: Miami Dolphins. But also like you did against the Miami
Speaker 10: Dolphins when you needed that final stop, you got softer
Speaker 10: as far as how you spaced it. You got different
Speaker 10: in how you played it. And that's my concern. I
Speaker 10: don't believe that the Cowboys have an issue with getting
Speaker 10: the final stop. If they just continued to do on
Speaker 10: that final drive what they did successfully. The only reason
Speaker 10: to change in the final drive is if something wildly
Speaker 10: wasn't working over the course of the game. But when
Speaker 10: you've hold when you've held these two powerful offenses down
Speaker 10: for fifty eight minutes of football, and now you're down
Speaker 10: to two minutes, why change up?
Speaker 5: Why change up? That's why it started to allow chunk plays.
Speaker 9: So to be clear, your concern is more with how
Speaker 9: the defense is being called that right in.
Speaker 10: Those final in those final moments with the game on
Speaker 10: the line. It's why change up. It's the play calling
Speaker 10: in that instance, because you're play calling in your execution.
Speaker 10: It was there for fifty eight minutes, and then here
Speaker 10: come to the final two and then you change up
Speaker 10: and now you're allowing the chunk plays.
Speaker 5: That's a concern for me.
Speaker 11: Give me the Seattle defense that whatever defense they played
Speaker 11: in that final drives against the Seahawks to get those
Speaker 11: games to get off the field, they had three fourth
Speaker 11: down plays and then the pressure. You know that that's
Speaker 11: the thing. When the Cowboys do not get pressure, that's
Speaker 11: a problem for them in those situations.
Speaker 2: Because that's because of the second.
Speaker 3: Well, the secondary, Yeah, the secondary. You know.
Speaker 11: In this last game though, the spacing was not great,
Speaker 11: you know, and to Dan's credit, he went three different
Speaker 11: ways to try and to stop it. It wasn't like
Speaker 11: he just sat there, down after down after down using
Speaker 11: the same defense.
Speaker 3: He tried.
Speaker 11: It just didn't work. The common denominator here is when
Speaker 11: the Cowboys don't get pressure, they could be very mediocre.
Speaker 11: As a pass defense can be very mediocre that way pressure.
Speaker 11: You know, the whole entire game, you were you were
Speaker 11: creating problems for Jared Golf and then all of a
Speaker 11: sudden he gets comfortable on that final drive because there's
Speaker 11: no pressure. I think Dan learned a lesson there. I think,
Speaker 11: you know, you can't if we're gonna The Seattle game
Speaker 11: was a great example of coming after that quarterback and
Speaker 11: affecting the way, and they were able to do it
Speaker 11: with their front.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 11: But that in that in the Miami game, they couldn't
Speaker 11: get home, and they couldn't get home in this last
Speaker 11: game on that final drive. And that was the difference
Speaker 11: really in the game, in the Dolphin game especially. But
Speaker 11: you know, if they they they've Dan's trying. I just
Speaker 11: think if they don't get pressure. Then they they are
Speaker 11: very ordinary on defense, and that's not going to win
Speaker 11: you many games.
Speaker 3: Being ordinary. You have to be almost elite at.
Speaker 11: The very end to win games, and you know being
Speaker 11: ordinary is gonna get you beat.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's somewhat of a tough question, because I I am.
Speaker 12: But at the same time I'm not, Like I'm more
Speaker 12: concerned about the offense and them doing their job, Like
Speaker 12: I can't blame the defense, like by the end of
Speaker 12: the game, Like, bro, I'm tired, I'm drained, I've gave
Speaker 12: you my all. I've given you all I got. I
Speaker 12: catch an interception for you, and you do nothing Like
Speaker 12: I think I can get go sit for a few
Speaker 12: moments on the bench.
Speaker 13: Next thing I know, I'm right back out. So it's just.
Speaker 12: Yes, concerning the whole broad aspect of it, But at
Speaker 12: the same time, I just don't. I can't be mad
Speaker 12: at them, as you know.
Speaker 10: Let me say this to add to your point where
Speaker 10: you're going with this. It also goes to offensive play
Speaker 10: calling and execution as well late in these games. So
Speaker 10: an example would be, if you see that your defense
Speaker 10: has held strong, be it an interception or you know,
Speaker 10: DeMarcus Lawrence gets a critical run stop on third with
Speaker 10: goal to go, and now your offense gets the ball back.
Speaker 10: It's late in the game. How you call that next
Speaker 10: offensive drive? First of all, it needs to be penalty free.
Speaker 5: You don't need anything putting you behind the sticks.
Speaker 10: You don't need anything that awards or keeps extra time
Speaker 10: on the clock for the other team. Are you effective
Speaker 10: with running the ball? Can you start to soft the
Speaker 10: game away or can you not? Because you don't have
Speaker 10: confidence in it, So guess what you're doing. You're dropping
Speaker 10: back and passing in situations where you probably wouldn't otherwise.
Speaker 10: Against the Lions, we were talking about the Cowboys, it
Speaker 10: felt like McCarthy didn't have a lot of confidence in
Speaker 10: the run game late in that particular game. So the offense,
Speaker 10: to your point, also needs to help its defense because
Speaker 10: when your defense is playing and bottling up these high
Speaker 10: powered offenses for the majority of the game, you get
Speaker 10: an interception, you get the ball back in Dak Prescott's hands.
Speaker 10: You would like to get at least a field goal,
Speaker 10: but definitely a touchdown. If they come away with nothing there,
Speaker 10: it's a quick three and out. Defense is back onto
Speaker 10: the field. So complimentary football help those guys out as well,
Speaker 10: and then you will have fewer situations wherein you are
Speaker 10: asking your tired defense who's played well fifty eight minutes
Speaker 10: to go out there and now save the day when
Speaker 10: it shouldn't have to necessarily be that.
Speaker 11: Guys going to lose your mind when we get to
Speaker 11: the end of the game and it's a four minute
Speaker 11: offensive situation, you're trying to run it out and they
Speaker 11: have to.
Speaker 3: Keep throwing the ball because that's where we're going to Guys,
Speaker 3: we know that.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, here's the thing.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna lose my mind regardless.
Speaker 11: See the thing about it is the way for them
Speaker 11: to get first downs is throwing the football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's a way to throw the ball.
Speaker 9: I think that's where most people that had a problem
Speaker 9: with that deep pass there at the late part of
Speaker 9: the game. Sure it was not that it was not
Speaker 9: that they're throwing the ball. In my opinion, I'll speak
Speaker 9: for myself. I wasn't upset at that they were throwing
Speaker 9: the ball. My frustration was, you're taking a lower percentage pass.
Speaker 2: Give me a high percentage pass.
Speaker 9: That is a part of your running game, I guess,
Speaker 9: is the best way to put it. I mean, this
Speaker 9: offense is predicated on quick passing, So give me some
Speaker 9: of those, give me a slant route, give me a
Speaker 9: bubble screen.
Speaker 2: I think there are other things.
Speaker 9: You can do when you got a higher percentage chance
Speaker 9: you're going to complete the pass, so that if nothing else,
Speaker 9: even if you don't get in the yards out of it,
Speaker 9: at least you keep the clock moving.
Speaker 2: I think that's the point that.
Speaker 9: Most people are, at least for myself, that I would
Speaker 9: have a problem with. So no, I won't lose my
Speaker 9: mind if they're throwing the ball, if they're throwing it
Speaker 9: downfield and taking a lower percentage pass, I will lose
Speaker 9: my mind.
Speaker 11: See that's where I'm at right now, because I kind
Speaker 11: of feel like if to maybe kill a game, they're
Speaker 11: gonna have to throw the ball and it plays it.
Speaker 11: I mean, you're trying to get them to use their
Speaker 11: timeouts and stuff, but that might be the only way
Speaker 11: Dallas can kind of keep the clock. I mean, they
Speaker 11: could keep it going running the ball, but it's gonna
Speaker 11: be second and ten, it's gonna be third and eight,
Speaker 11: it's gonna be yeah, it's gonna be fourth and seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, that's kind of where you're at I mean.
Speaker 11: You're still yeah, and then now you're not yet.
Speaker 3: Hold No, I mean that's what I'm saying. I think
Speaker 3: that to me, you're right.
Speaker 11: About the higher percentage passes though. You're absolutely right about
Speaker 11: that though, and so to me. But I just wonder
Speaker 11: because it's going to be about I think there's gonna
Speaker 11: be times where in the playoffs s it's they're going
Speaker 11: to have to keep the clock going, but it it's
Speaker 11: probably not going to be running the football. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 11: I mean their best chance of winning and their best
Speaker 11: chance of maybe not exposing the defense to what Amber
Speaker 11: was talking about being tired and holding up the way
Speaker 11: they have the whole game is they're going to have
Speaker 11: to go get first downs, and they can get first
Speaker 11: downs throwing the football. They could do that for sure.
Speaker 11: I would incorporate more quarterback running myself, no doubt. Oh yes,
Speaker 11: and maybe the jet sweeps, yeah, anything other things you
Speaker 11: can do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying. I'm just trying.
Speaker 11: Maybe I'm here at the time, maybe I haven't shown
Speaker 11: you anything. Maybe I haven't shown you that quarterback pulling
Speaker 11: the ball. But I'm going to do it in that
Speaker 11: four minute drive, trust me.
Speaker 5: And when you do it.
Speaker 10: No penalties to negate that because we've seen that a
Speaker 10: couple of times here recently with Dak Prescott gets a
Speaker 10: chain mover with his legs and there's laundry on the field.
Speaker 5: So play clean football real quick.
Speaker 9: Before we end the show, I did want to mention
Speaker 9: Cowboys get seven Pro bowlers name to the Pro Bowl yesterday.
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott, Ceedee Lamb, Zach Martin, Michael Parsons to Ron Bland,
Speaker 9: Brandon Aubrey, Brian Anger all get to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 9: Were there any surprises for you and guys.
Speaker 3: That could not make it? When we were sitting there
Speaker 3: a Knox Star, the ball was hitting the times.
Speaker 2: I literally telling my wife about that story.
Speaker 3: I told the story on the radio. I told the
Speaker 3: store in the radio.
Speaker 5: None of us would expect.
Speaker 11: Now It's like we're standing there like poor you know,
Speaker 11: Ambar's getting hit with a ball, you know, and we're
Speaker 11: like thinking, well, man, she's gonna own part of the
Speaker 11: team now for injuries and stuff here.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it's great that it's great that it's
Speaker 3: great that they.
Speaker 11: Made the right decision on that death, you know, and
Speaker 11: it's great for Bland, you know, good job with bland and.
Speaker 3: Stuff like that. Well done.
Speaker 2: You know one of the things I told my wife
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 9: We were talking about this because she said, man, they
Speaker 9: got lucky with Aubrey, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 9: you can look at it that way, but I actually look.
Speaker 2: At it the other way, because how do you look
Speaker 2: at it?
Speaker 9: Well, if you look at how you're played during training camp,
Speaker 9: I know none of us thought this guy could play.
Speaker 2: Let's because none of us. Not only that, not only that,
Speaker 2: they got rid of the other guy that was there
Speaker 2: with it and didn't bring anybody else. I know they
Speaker 2: doubled down on it that stuck.
Speaker 9: No. So to me, that's not them being that's being
Speaker 9: confident in what they scouted and saying this guy can play.
Speaker 2: We feel he can play. And they were right.
Speaker 3: They got it.
Speaker 13: Weren't we all seeing the same thing.
Speaker 11: Clearly right once they got rid of Once they got
Speaker 11: rid of the other kickers, he started making kicks.
Speaker 3: He didn't miss.
Speaker 11: It's like it's like this guyana would miss, then he
Speaker 11: would miss. Then this guy would make and he would
Speaker 11: It was like they were going back and forth back and.
Speaker 2: Who can miss most?
Speaker 3: And it's funny. Once once they got rid of this
Speaker 3: guy in. This guy never missed, never missed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I got to give them credit for that
Speaker 9: because I think that was about their confidence in what
Speaker 9: they'd scouted and believing this guy could be man if it's.
Speaker 13: Good for them.
Speaker 12: And at the same time, I'm like, let's don't put
Speaker 12: me under that stress, Like I don't like.
Speaker 13: Feeling stress. And guys live.
Speaker 11: In the building And when bones Fossil goes upstairs, the
Speaker 11: pull take your drink, sit down next to him and.
Speaker 3: Ask him, really, how that all went down? I want
Speaker 3: to know.
Speaker 11: I want to know how that all went down, because
Speaker 11: there's no way they we saw the same thing.
Speaker 3: How did they choose one less misser over the other missery,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: How did they decide they were going to not only
Speaker 9: level down on him by letting him noting somebody else in.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm like, they felt really confident about where
Speaker 2: they were company over a miller.
Speaker 3: Lite will tell you how that all went down.
Speaker 13: Well, that's the crazy, crazy thing. Training camp. We get
Speaker 13: to see all of the practice like it's open. It's
Speaker 13: not here.
Speaker 3: We only got sometimes were involved in practice.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so that's crazy.
Speaker 12: Like during that time we were all It's not that
Speaker 12: we were crazy. We all saw the same thing. So
Speaker 12: but anyways, congratulations to him.
Speaker 3: That's all the surprise.
Speaker 10: And the only thing I will say is seven guys congratulations.
Speaker 10: Guys like Brandon Aubrey, you know, Covenance, but a couple
Speaker 10: couple of snobs that I'd be remiss if I didn't mention.
Speaker 10: I feel like de Marcus Lawrence is having another outstanding season.
Speaker 10: I feel like his resume, especially you talk about those
Speaker 10: critical stops. I mean, the Cowboys are probably plus two
Speaker 10: in the win column because of DeMarcus no question play.
Speaker 10: And then when you look at Tyler Smith, I feel like,
Speaker 10: although he has had an issue with some penalties here
Speaker 10: or there, for the most part, he's already proven that
Speaker 10: year two he's one of the best interior offensive linemen
Speaker 10: in the league. I don't see how you don't get
Speaker 10: Tyler in there as well.
Speaker 5: So outside of those.
Speaker 10: Two very very obvious snubs, for me, the other seven
Speaker 10: are more than deserving whatsoever. And keeping eye on the
Speaker 10: alternates because a couple of these guys might still sneak in.
Speaker 3: The goal is not to any of these guys plays,
Speaker 3: None of these guys. None of these guys involved with
Speaker 3: tuger War or Dodgeball or any of that.
Speaker 5: Stuff you just wanted for.
Speaker 10: You want it for these guys, for the fact that
Speaker 10: it's being honored, the honor for the work. And also
Speaker 10: you know, when it comes to contract negotiations.
Speaker 3: Here you got Pro Bowl steal.
Speaker 9: All right, We appreciate you guys. So back tomorrow we
Speaker 9: will wrap this thing up. We'll let you know what
Speaker 9: we think is gonna happen this weekend Cowboys versus Commanders.
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