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Speaker 1: here on a Thursday edition. Mix Shot got leaves on today.
Speaker 1: It's like he looks like he was once to sell
Speaker 1: some merchandise. I feel like I'm on DC right, that's right.
Speaker 1: You're inside the s WBC podcast studio at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco, and the Cowboys have just come off the
Speaker 1: practice field their biggest work day of this week in
Speaker 1: anticipation of a trip to Kansas City to take on
Speaker 1: those resurgent Chiefs at three twenty five on Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: And Mickey can't wait to tell us what he saw
Speaker 1: the practice field this afternoon. And I can tell you
Speaker 1: I'm very glad to be inside the FWBC podcast studio
Speaker 1: because our little half hour out there watching practice was
Speaker 1: pretty chilling. In the shade. Were in the shade, No,
Speaker 1: we were in the sun. And it didn't make any
Speaker 1: It didn't make any difference because that wind was blowing
Speaker 1: pretty hard. So, uh, they've got they got a little
Speaker 1: taste of maybe what Kansas City is going to be
Speaker 1: because it was in the low fifties out there. When
Speaker 1: it's sixty one. Now, well it wasn't sixty win you're
Speaker 1: saying the wind chill way down there. Absolutely there's Kansas
Speaker 1: City weather. There was no sixty one when we were
Speaker 1: out there. I guarantee you you needed a jacket and
Speaker 1: you needed a hat on two by the way. So
Speaker 1: but they did decide to go outside. We were speculating
Speaker 1: yesterday that perhaps they would take it indoors. But that's
Speaker 1: the experience that Mike McCarthy has, having been on the
Speaker 1: coaching staff with the Chiefs back in the nineties. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be out in the elements. You know. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize he was there six years. He started as a
Speaker 1: quality control coach and then he became an offensive assistant.
Speaker 1: So yeah, he spent six years there. So when he
Speaker 1: tells you Arrowhead is noisy, it's noisy, right, Hemius, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk like you guys, what was the auditory? Is
Speaker 1: that auditory elements that they faced out there today, like
Speaker 1: sound you know, noise, cloud noise. You know, at one
Speaker 1: point they played they played some music, but I still didn't.
Speaker 1: And you know what, when they play music out there
Speaker 1: and it's real loud, you hear it twice because it
Speaker 1: bounces off the building and it comes back at you. Right,
Speaker 1: But that could be effective if I don't know that.
Speaker 1: I heard usually when they're playing crowd noise, we can
Speaker 1: hear through the wind, right, But I didn't really hear much.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was and we just didn't. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: not the day or special win. Was the winds blowing
Speaker 1: like they're not blowing. That's Hurricane win And if they're
Speaker 1: going to play it, today's to day to play it.
Speaker 1: It's to day out there tomorrow, right, Yeah, And I
Speaker 1: think there, I think there was, I think there, and
Speaker 1: then they'll be Saturday when they go inside. Yeah. Then
Speaker 1: Saturday they'll go inside and that's when they'll really turn
Speaker 1: it up. So um, but yeah, Mike said, you know,
Speaker 1: when they play in Minnesota, the decibels are one twenty
Speaker 1: and he hears that when you go at Arrowhead it's
Speaker 1: one forty decibel level, so noisy, hey at stadium. I
Speaker 1: don't know where we hit, but we're pretty good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when the boys get going and the crowd gets behind them,
Speaker 1: we can be pretty loud. Have we ever imagined it
Speaker 1: at all? I don't know that they have. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, it is with a mess. We need some decibel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on, I like to. Zeke was trying to. They
Speaker 1: kept asking Zeke. I think he got tired of the
Speaker 1: question about the noise and and and they said, well,
Speaker 1: what's it like? And he goes, well, let me tell
Speaker 1: you what it's like. He goes, when you when you
Speaker 1: gotta bend down and you can't hear the quarterback giving
Speaker 1: you the call, that that's a problem because I gotta
Speaker 1: know what I gotta do, right. It was pretty funny,
Speaker 1: but he was getting irritated by the questions about that
Speaker 1: and about how important this game is. I was asking
Speaker 1: Bill about the show, the Mike McCarthy show. Indeed, all
Speaker 1: the coach is not gonna tell you much, ain't telling
Speaker 1: you mine gonna tell you much about just don't know
Speaker 1: how to pull it out of him. You know, you
Speaker 1: got you gotta ask piercing questions. But you gotta realize
Speaker 1: to show it is coaches show, and it's whether he
Speaker 1: or not he wants to reveal things. You gotta step
Speaker 1: over the line, Bill, you gotta step on just just
Speaker 1: just put a toe in there, man, but over the line.
Speaker 1: See what happens. Take it from me, I stepped over?
Speaker 1: How many times he stepped over the line? Well, so
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to wind up
Speaker 1: in any New York that's a shot. Uh So, But
Speaker 1: I can't Yeah, I can't tell you. I can tell
Speaker 1: you from the practice that Tyrann Smith was out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: he was in pads. He's probably going to be listed
Speaker 1: as limited from what we could tell how much he
Speaker 1: was participating in the uh positional drills, in the individual drills. Um.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he didn't do any team So we'll see. But
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're going to list him as limited. Um
Speaker 1: and I would imagine if he's limited, probably means he
Speaker 1: didn't take all the snaps. Now I don't know, uh
Speaker 1: and I imagine they got to have Terrence Steele ready
Speaker 1: to go, right. It can't just assume, Um, so who's
Speaker 1: the who's the who's the right defensive end for the Chiefs?
Speaker 1: And well, where are they going? What are we looking
Speaker 1: at it? See? I think they moved. They moved Chris
Speaker 1: Jones inside defense Chris Jones. So that's uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know how good that is unless he's over Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: If he's over Zach Martin, I'm now they'll move him.
Speaker 1: Leave the other white wasted time. And by the way,
Speaker 1: judging from some of their um like three man drills
Speaker 1: and whatever, um, it looks like they might have some
Speaker 1: competition going on at that left guard spot. Okay, by
Speaker 1: the way, so they mean the Chiefs, No, what is Mickey,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think that what you're saying competition
Speaker 1: there with Whnor McGovern, Connor Williams. Keep an eye the
Speaker 1: two Connors, the Battle of the Connors. So which is
Speaker 1: their competition at the fullback position. Maybe they in the
Speaker 1: jumbo pack. Maybe they bring up Nick Ralston. You never know,
Speaker 1: he's not as big as those other guys. I would imagine. Uh,
Speaker 1: They've got Chris Jones listed as their starting left defensive end,
Speaker 1: but from what I've read that they've kind of moved
Speaker 1: him inside. He's a he's a beast in there. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The right defensive ends Frank Clark, Um Farmer, Seattle, Seahawk,
Speaker 1: Right Michigan and they list. This is funny because he's been.
Speaker 1: He's every time I hate a team. I'm thinking eighty
Speaker 1: two was seventy two? He's been. I'm thinking Frank Clark.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it like a Cowboys? Yes, Frank Clark receiver seventies,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? No? No, I'm talking to his numbers? Is
Speaker 1: he no? Not the year? Like? Oh no jersey number?
Speaker 1: All right, show again, great player. And then the other
Speaker 1: pass rusher is Melvin Ingram and they've not listed as
Speaker 1: third team. That ain't right. He's been playing a lot. Uh.
Speaker 1: Just is he impactful? Yes? Okay, yes he's playing well
Speaker 1: he uh, let's look up, but he's going to look up.
Speaker 1: How impactful he's been here? Well in the meantime, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the stuff doesn't just pop? Right? That was really
Speaker 1: good at that stuff? You take too long? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: it's done. You know what I'm saying. Well, vamp, while
Speaker 1: you're looking, Oh, he only has tackle on each of
Speaker 1: the last two games, so he caught you on that
Speaker 1: one he had he being double team. He had twenty
Speaker 1: one snaps last game and one tackle. Yeah, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: oh right, But the guy you got to look out
Speaker 1: for is Nick Bolton. No, I'm looking at it. What's
Speaker 1: up with Nick? He leads the teams, the rookie out
Speaker 1: of Missouri and Crisco lone star star. Now he only
Speaker 1: had nineteen snaps last week. He gets the Raiders, well,
Speaker 1: now is here done? What give me the scouting report?
Speaker 1: The Raiders were so far behind, they were all I
Speaker 1: saw wide and they took the middle linebacker off the field.
Speaker 1: He leads the team with seventy five tackles, ten tackles
Speaker 1: for losses. That ten tackles for losses. Pretty impressive there, Yes,
Speaker 1: in ten games, that means he's got twice as many
Speaker 1: tackles for losses. So now anybody else that that means
Speaker 1: that ten games, ten tackles for loss So I mean
Speaker 1: we reading co Football Reference, I mean you know, he
Speaker 1: could have played a game that he did, can get
Speaker 1: the tackle lost. It's just those are those are his numbers. Okay,
Speaker 1: just checking modern Day. I gotta check you guys. As
Speaker 1: much as I trust you guys, I still have to
Speaker 1: check you whenever the stat is one per game to
Speaker 1: make sure. Yeah, if we're doing the game by game
Speaker 1: on it and it wasn't targets either, by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the other part. So here's why he has so
Speaker 1: many tackles for losses. Okay, against Washington he had four.
Speaker 1: The next week against the Giants. Wait, let me make
Speaker 1: sure he had four tackles. No, no tackles for losses
Speaker 1: against one team, that's Washington. Against Washington the next week
Speaker 1: against Tennessee had five. That's what the that's what their
Speaker 1: status sheet before you come in here putting this stuff
Speaker 1: on the age. Okay, oh wait, wait the four four
Speaker 1: the Giants. No, he had four against Tennessee. Tennessee for
Speaker 1: five yards. Okay, all right, we want me to read them.
Speaker 1: One against Cleveland, one against Baltimore, two against Buffalo, one
Speaker 1: against Washington, four against Tennessee, and one against Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Still very so what's your point? So it's ten still
Speaker 1: very tread, which we established off the four against the Titans.
Speaker 1: What was going? Yeah, what's up with Derek you Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry that game was playing? That he was playing? That game.
Speaker 1: I looked it up because I was taken aback by
Speaker 1: the four tackles for loss He only had eighty six
Speaker 1: yards on twenty nine carries. I believe I'm confirming that
Speaker 1: must have been one of those ye eighty six yards
Speaker 1: twenty nine carries, so that is less than check out
Speaker 1: this math, less than three yards of carry. There you go,
Speaker 1: that's easy and two point nine you can go. Now,
Speaker 1: come on so much twenty nine times three twin lives
Speaker 1: hose three that would be uh seventy eight seventy eighty seven,
Speaker 1: and he had eighty six yards, Chris, That's how I
Speaker 1: figured out it's less than three yards. Again, Chris Jones
Speaker 1: has three sacks. Okay, but those three three tackles for losses.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that is extremely impressive. Ten. He must have
Speaker 1: known something and I'd like to know who the heck
Speaker 1: he was going up against on those plays. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: had four in that game against Tennessee. That's crazy. He's
Speaker 1: fine final rookie. He's not gonna win Rookie of the year,
Speaker 1: defensive rookie of the year, but he's a fine player
Speaker 1: that maybe from the KFC. Okay, so he's he's very improved.
Speaker 1: Who would you say is the most improved? He checked
Speaker 1: his one? Yeah, hey man, yeah, Chris will cut me off.
Speaker 1: Now we have time to get Chris will sit back there.
Speaker 1: They're going into another subject. Most improved so far on
Speaker 1: the team this year. Yeah, let's go defense in offense,
Speaker 1: Let's go defense. Most improved from last year or last
Speaker 1: year from last year? All right, from last year? I
Speaker 1: got I mean, you got one of them. It's obvious.
Speaker 1: Were really two obvious ones to me. But the third
Speaker 1: is a little bit well, you know Diggs for sure.
Speaker 1: Of course, from like eighty percent to twenty percent. You know,
Speaker 1: as far as the percentage as far as up quarterbacks
Speaker 1: versus him, that's a huge drop, by the way, even
Speaker 1: though he's giving up big play. Still, you know a
Speaker 1: few Michael Parsons, he wasn't your last year most improved.
Speaker 1: He was improved because he didn't play last year. He
Speaker 1: played no football last year. Oh that's true. I mean
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys, be most improved from last year for
Speaker 1: those that signed with the Cowboys. Did not narrows the
Speaker 1: field down because there were so few who were on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys last year and so many of them were hurt.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, yeah, well I'm yeah, that's true. Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown missed half the season, right now, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I didn't think of Anthony Brown that he's improved. That's
Speaker 1: a good one. And of course that's an obvious more
Speaker 1: by the way, he the other obvious one you had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's been on the did not think Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: which should also be obvious. So he has to miss
Speaker 1: one more game. Uh oh, fucking defense. True. We need
Speaker 1: to ready to get this shot. I was ready to get.
Speaker 1: I was ready to get. It's not like we've set
Speaker 1: a high high level. Okay, so this is pretty much
Speaker 1: profit of course for us. Let's just be real. Let's
Speaker 1: just be real. Layton Vanderish what very good, but he
Speaker 1: was good less but he was hurt twice. Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: And we have been sleeping on him. We have not
Speaker 1: talked about him and stats. We'd have him talked about
Speaker 1: his snaps, about how important he's been to not just
Speaker 1: FoST down but third down success. I know the interesting
Speaker 1: thing about him, and I don't have his snaps from
Speaker 1: last year, but his snaps are down this year, and
Speaker 1: I think it's been by design, not only with scheme
Speaker 1: but also preserving him. Right. Yeah, he's fourth on the
Speaker 1: team with forty seven tackles, Anthony Brown second with forty nine,
Speaker 1: So he's one of the tackle leaders because the next
Speaker 1: person is thirty one. You don't want to you don't
Speaker 1: want to cornerback to be Wait, you got two cornerbacks
Speaker 1: that are what fifth and six in tackling on the team? No,
Speaker 1: Jamon Curse, not a corner but the safety kind of
Speaker 1: slash line said, has fifty five curse we're here last
Speaker 1: year improved and Anthony Brown has forty nine. M hm.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of tackles. Two of the of
Speaker 1: the top five are cornerbacks. A lot of that means
Speaker 1: they're a lot of completed passes and a lot of
Speaker 1: deep running plays into the second day. Yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: want to have to put your head in there like
Speaker 1: that all the time. See the scary thing about the defense.
Speaker 1: You got to go down to number nine to find
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman with twenty tackles? Is it scary or
Speaker 1: does that mean they've been rotating? That could be. That
Speaker 1: could be because they're rotating them, but no one has
Speaker 1: really you know stood out. Look number eleven with nineteen
Speaker 1: tackles is still Jalen Smith. That is funny. I was sorry,
Speaker 1: So wait, you know what you're saying, you want I
Speaker 1: could I could say that this this defense is definitely
Speaker 1: designed for the linebackers and the second day to make
Speaker 1: some of the plays, you know, to make most of
Speaker 1: the plays. It seems like the defensive ends, the defensive
Speaker 1: lineman the mate for for harassment, clearing the way for
Speaker 1: those linebackers, almost like the flex. Terrell Basham has nineteen
Speaker 1: tackles and OsO Diggi Zoo has eighteen. All Right, how
Speaker 1: about this, if we were going to look at I
Speaker 1: should have made sure I had the numbers in front
Speaker 1: of me before I brought it up. Snaps is what
Speaker 1: you know I've got. I'm looking at snaps and I
Speaker 1: need to go career snaps the snaps for vander esh
Speaker 1: As opposed to his past seasons. All Right, this year
Speaker 1: the last game, because the way the game played out,
Speaker 1: he only had twenty snaps in the game against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: The previous week he had fifty one against Denver, only
Speaker 1: thirty three defensive snaps against Minnesota, twenty eight against New
Speaker 1: England and thirty one against the Giants. That is markedly
Speaker 1: down from what he has been in passion. So what
Speaker 1: you're saying, tackles per snaps, he's pretty high, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But exactly because if we're looking at curse Um,
Speaker 1: he's played many more snaps he's played ninety one is
Speaker 1: it ninety one? It's hard to read all the way across.
Speaker 1: I think of the snaps. I'll give you an idea
Speaker 1: last year, h Vander esh Had. I'm just going through
Speaker 1: his game log last year. He had one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four games with sixty or more snaps last year. Yeah, right, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they didn't they didn't play it the same way,
Speaker 1: totally different. And I do think that there's probably part
Speaker 1: of the mindset and putting him in and as they
Speaker 1: put this team together with the acquisition of Kean u'neil
Speaker 1: and what dan Quinn wants to do, part of it
Speaker 1: is preserving him as well. And there was no Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons last year, right, let's face it, right, but Jaylen
Speaker 1: was playing those snaps last year? Was Jalen was not
Speaker 1: coming off the field last year? Yeah, for some whatever reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So all right, we continue with more. It's guided we're
Speaker 1: gonna I guess we need to look at the offense,
Speaker 1: the most improved on offense when we come back here
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Speaker 1: talk to me in real life. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that was, it says broadcast voice. That's an ugly past. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: anybody who atturned to practice, they did? Greg zerline is off.
Speaker 1: COVID saw him kicking field goals. They'd had a field
Speaker 1: goal session today and running backs coach Skip Pete back
Speaker 1: Pete practice, the brother of Rodney Pete. He was out
Speaker 1: for a week and missed the game with COVID. Skip Pete,
Speaker 1: who in of course, in his second tour of duty
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys as a running backs coach, also was
Speaker 1: first under Wade Phillips and then Jason Garrett from over
Speaker 1: seven to two thousand a twelve and then hired last
Speaker 1: year on Mike McCarthy's staff. And uh, it's interesting because
Speaker 1: he had been with the Rams by the way, he
Speaker 1: had been with the Rams the last four seasons in
Speaker 1: Chicago prior to that. The interesting one of the interesting
Speaker 1: things that it's timely his him coming back this week
Speaker 1: because he's going back to Kansas City. He went to
Speaker 1: University of Kansas to school and his dad was a
Speaker 1: long time scout Willie Pete for the Chiefs. I knew
Speaker 1: there was something wrong with him. Kansas. He was an
Speaker 1: all Big eight wide receiver for the Kansas Jayhawks coach Pete. Yes,
Speaker 1: coach Pete was. And of course everyone knows also that
Speaker 1: Skip's brother, Rodney was half the years he was at
Speaker 1: Kansas nineteen eighty five. He was all all Big eight
Speaker 1: wide receiver in nineteen eighty five. That's crazy with the Jayhawks.
Speaker 1: Did not know that. Yep, Okay, here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go. The connection between Skip Pete and Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: What do you think it goes to? Maybe when Mike
Speaker 1: was in Kansas City. Nope, you're going prior to that.
Speaker 1: I just noticed it just on his bio right here.
Speaker 1: It just occurred to me. First job Skipped Pete had
Speaker 1: was as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburghers
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty eight eighty nine, and he was a wide
Speaker 1: receiver's coach at pitt in ninety before he became the
Speaker 1: running backs coach there ninety two. And that would have
Speaker 1: been the time frame that Mike mccarthurs a Pitt before
Speaker 1: he went to the Kingsas So, you're in Kansas and
Speaker 1: you're all big eight wide receiver wide receiver, and you
Speaker 1: don't get a shot in the league. You're at Kansas,
Speaker 1: but he's all big eight. But he's at Kansas. But
Speaker 1: to be all big eight at Kansas at that time,
Speaker 1: that's a good segue into Dorance Armstrong and there you go,
Speaker 1: you all big twelve as at Kansas. And look what
Speaker 1: he's doing now you think he had at Kansas? Or
Speaker 1: points per game? I should say how many catches? No?
Speaker 1: No points per game? Oh, you're talking about basketball. I'm sorry. Football,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, we're talking football. But this show is
Speaker 1: when Chris Joe. Okay, thank you, Chris, Thank you Chris.
Speaker 1: This is a basketball so so sorry, Chris, it's so sad.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, we got it. I'm done. Title
Speaker 1: title for this show is that's how bad we are
Speaker 1: joined it Thursday. We thought we had uh influenced you,
Speaker 1: some infected you. We thought we infected you without incompetence.
Speaker 1: Bill got it for a second. Person is like out,
Speaker 1: I got it outside, I got it, but I was
Speaker 1: gonna let leave you hanging out. Appreciate that. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Don't you get something to do? Chris ye
Speaker 1: on the show? On the show, all right, back on
Speaker 1: track better talent, find three other people and so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys had one, two, three, four or five six injury
Speaker 1: report yesterday. Okay, Tyrant Smith was limited and everybody else
Speaker 1: was full. And Mike McCarthy was asked, so did full
Speaker 1: mean full because you had a short practice and you
Speaker 1: didn't have pads on, And Mike McCarthy said, full means full.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you again full. What did
Speaker 1: d Law look like? He's still rehabbing and looks great,
Speaker 1: looks great. And Randy Gregory was least stepping on the
Speaker 1: chords today, so that might be a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction. But do you want to step on the
Speaker 1: chords or are you stepping with the stepping on the chords? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had the chords on and he was stepping along
Speaker 1: with them. No, that's not how it goes. What do
Speaker 1: you mean You're not talking about the chords that you
Speaker 1: high stepped through the resistant chords, the resistance chords, not
Speaker 1: you don't step on. Stepping along with the cord is
Speaker 1: not what you say. I mean. I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: think I'm just gonna walk. I didn't know we were
Speaker 1: English class man. We're supposed to be going to our
Speaker 1: offensive most improved player. That's okay, somebody got keep Let
Speaker 1: me give you, let me give you the Chiefs injury report.
Speaker 1: You're talking about full practices. Everybody on their list at
Speaker 1: a full practice except Lucas Niang, the tackle out of TCU,
Speaker 1: who did not practice due to his rib injury, and
Speaker 1: Lugarius Sneed, a safety was limited with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Is your daughter? No? Okay, well, right now you're looking
Speaker 1: at the Chiefs China. You know we're playing them just
Speaker 1: as there, you know, hitting their stride three in a row.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a real good test for
Speaker 1: both of us, not just the Cowboys, but the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are gonna see. We're gonna see what they're all about. Actually,
Speaker 1: Legarius Sneed does play quite a bit on defense. Okay,
Speaker 1: but they stepped up defensively because they only gave up
Speaker 1: seventeen to the Giants, seven to the Packers, and fourteen
Speaker 1: to the Reader. Yes, say you know you look at them.
Speaker 1: Their first five games, the Chiefs average giving up over
Speaker 1: thirty two points a game, and their last five games
Speaker 1: they've averaged giving up around fifteen points per game. So
Speaker 1: what's up with the twenty seventh of the Titans and
Speaker 1: the only one that they lost in those five games,
Speaker 1: the last five. Don't they have the badger on their team.
Speaker 1: Funny badger, that's right, Tyron Matthew. Who you think he's
Speaker 1: gonna match up with? How do you think he wanted
Speaker 1: to be safe? I know, but one of those he
Speaker 1: is one of those guys. He's kind of like Parsons.
Speaker 1: You can line them up almost anywhere in the secondary.
Speaker 1: And as much as I saw Antonio Brown, you know,
Speaker 1: toast him in the Super Bowl, this guy is a
Speaker 1: very impactful player, whether he's blitzing or whether he is
Speaker 1: getting in the passing lanes. And that kind of makes
Speaker 1: me nervous because when the Cowboys would do one thing,
Speaker 1: we kind of start off, you know, like chev chevchev sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, we come out with the same old thing.
Speaker 1: We're gonna throw this this slap val, We're gonna you know,
Speaker 1: take the slot man, throw into the out. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna run him on the corner of the outside corner.
Speaker 1: Back off. And every once in a while you'll catch
Speaker 1: someone cheating the defense and they start to play the
Speaker 1: play and not play their defensive call. We saw that
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the game. It could have
Speaker 1: happened to us in the Falcons game. So I think
Speaker 1: we need to be careful starting off. I think Matthews
Speaker 1: is one of those guys. He's going to try his
Speaker 1: best to play the play because as much as we
Speaker 1: are very creative offensively, you know, we're kind of basic
Speaker 1: when it comes to our short passing game. So you
Speaker 1: answered your own question, you said, who does he match
Speaker 1: up against? He doesn't match up. He freelances, and you're right,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes him dangerous because you never know
Speaker 1: where he's gonna be or what he's gonna do, what
Speaker 1: he's keying on. Sort of like um oh, I forgot
Speaker 1: his name safety from the picture the Steelers that Patrick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he's out on COVID so but he still he
Speaker 1: still he still does what he does. Bill when will
Speaker 1: When Purcells was asked about Paulo Malo, he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: no one, no one knows what he does because he
Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's gonna do. And that's what makes
Speaker 1: him dangerous because you can't plan for that. And that's
Speaker 1: what he is. Extremely unpredictable. Uh, he's blockable. You can
Speaker 1: beat him. That is not the point. The point is
Speaker 1: the play is not the places that he doesn't make,
Speaker 1: it's the ones that he makes can really kill you offensively.
Speaker 1: And then but and by the way, the honey Badger,
Speaker 1: that part of him is dead. He's tying Matthew now. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he still plays. I think his attitude is state
Speaker 1: still plays. Yeah, he still plays like that. I don't
Speaker 1: know why he's dissing that. He's he's that he still
Speaker 1: isn't need that part of his life. Well, yeah, that
Speaker 1: got himself straightened down. Yeah, he's still honey badger to meat,
Speaker 1: which is a compliment as far as I'm concerned. Third
Speaker 1: round pick out of LSU bad Low. Somebody was third
Speaker 1: round because of the money badger quote unquote baggage. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Cowboy. Uh he played fullback for the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: one year he was in Houston. The Cowboys traded for him.
Speaker 1: Uh it like nineteen ninety one. Um, gosh, I can't believe.
Speaker 1: I can't think of his name anyway, Alonzo Heisman, Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you. Anyway, he's a scout now. Yeah, and he
Speaker 1: was pretty good, was really good. That was good. And
Speaker 1: I see him all the time because he's always round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he comes to the Cowboy games and I think scouting
Speaker 1: and anyway, so his when Honey Badger came to the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl that year and he hadn't played, remember he
Speaker 1: got kicked off LSU. And we had gotten there and
Speaker 1: we went to this place where a lot of the
Speaker 1: coaches and scouts hang out to watch the Sunday afternoon game.
Speaker 1: And Honey Badger comes walking in and he's got on
Speaker 1: a big old floppy hat. He's got baggy pants with
Speaker 1: this big old sweatshirt and sunglasses on right, And I'm
Speaker 1: looking and I'm going, you walked into this place with
Speaker 1: all these scouts and looking like that, And so next
Speaker 1: thing we knew he went in the back and then
Speaker 1: Alonso came walking back. He recognized me and he sat
Speaker 1: down with I said, so, did you get to talk
Speaker 1: to the Honey Badger? He said, I told that young
Speaker 1: man that the Honey Badger is dead. That you need
Speaker 1: to come in here like this is a job interview
Speaker 1: for you. And there's a bunch of scouts in here.
Speaker 1: There's some personnel from the front offices in here, from teams.
Speaker 1: You cannot come in here dressed like that, he said,
Speaker 1: I dressed them down there. You go, Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was probably the best advice. Yeah, you know, I remember
Speaker 1: Matthew at the Combine that year. It just workout at
Speaker 1: the combine. I went, whoa look at I mean, it
Speaker 1: was the workout, the DB's workout, and just his ball
Speaker 1: skills and everything. I went, wow, it's kind of explosive too. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but you could just see the natural. It was
Speaker 1: little wonder that he had so many takeaways, whether it's
Speaker 1: on fumble recoveries or interceptions or whatever in college. When
Speaker 1: you just saw that one little five minute workout at
Speaker 1: the combine and there he was easily should have been
Speaker 1: a top ten pick. And by the way, I just
Speaker 1: saw a headline in the Kansas City paper saying Chiefs
Speaker 1: want to resign Matthew. So he must be this is
Speaker 1: his last year of his contract and he'll be a
Speaker 1: free agent next year. He's getting up in age now,
Speaker 1: isn't he. He went what year did he come into
Speaker 1: the league? Uh? I don't have it written down here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know. And the other thing on him, you know
Speaker 1: how I got to Arizona. Why why Arizona even took
Speaker 1: the quote unquote risk of taking him in the third
Speaker 1: round is because of his relationship with Patrick Peterson and
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson's dad had a big impact on taking him
Speaker 1: under his wing, getting him straightened out before coming into
Speaker 1: the NFL's twenty nine So and by the way, he
Speaker 1: went to a very good place because of who his
Speaker 1: coach was at Arizona, which would have been Todd Boles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely Todd and knows how to take care defensive backs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he knows what's going on. That's right. God, that was
Speaker 1: nine years ago. We saw him at the senior time Flies.
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Speaker 1: Dallas dot dos too many dots all right? Most improved
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensive player from last year to this year? Who
Speaker 1: you got? Oh? You know mine, go ahead, SPACs who
Speaker 1: you got. I've been giving it some thought. Um, that's
Speaker 1: tough on offense. Well, I know what you got. I
Speaker 1: know what everybody's answer is going to be. But they
Speaker 1: forget he caught sixty three passes last year? Was Dalton Schultz?
Speaker 1: That was not my answer? Okay, good, So mine is
Speaker 1: Tyler Beatis. Oh I like that. How about Terry Steele?
Speaker 1: M hmm, well yeah, that one that's going from nowhere.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what people are shouting right now,
Speaker 1: are running back polock zeke zeke zeke. Oh, people are
Speaker 1: shouting at well, let him shout because the fumbles and
Speaker 1: things of that nature, just all the mishaps that he
Speaker 1: had last year. He was horrible last year with the fumbles.
Speaker 1: His offensive line was horrible too. Yeah, but he was horrible.
Speaker 1: You can see still holding to the ball and because
Speaker 1: the office not sucks. No. I think he was trying
Speaker 1: to do too. That he was. That is no doubt
Speaker 1: he was trying to do because he knew they weren't
Speaker 1: They weren't getting anywhere, so he was running harder, taking
Speaker 1: more blows. You know, Well, he people coming off of
Speaker 1: blocks faster and from the side yeah, he'd call last
Speaker 1: year an s show. Yeah, it was like my pick now,
Speaker 1: yeah it's not my pickage people are shouting. It's like
Speaker 1: when you say when you say improved, that means somebody
Speaker 1: wasn't very good and now all of a sudden they're good.
Speaker 1: He's been good. He had picked shels, so you know
Speaker 1: he was good last year. That was a coming out.
Speaker 1: He think he's taken it to another level. I do
Speaker 1: think that, Yes, I think he is now be honest,
Speaker 1: was good in college, but he wasn't in college last year.
Speaker 1: So you think has played better. Yes, I think from
Speaker 1: a center standpoint, the snaps have been I think better. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm still fussing about my pick to click. Y'all didn't
Speaker 1: get me no love when I picked him. You laughed
Speaker 1: at his performance. When did you pick him? Like five
Speaker 1: weeks ago or something? Yeah, five weeks I still want
Speaker 1: my pops many y'all didn't even pay attended to it.
Speaker 1: So we don't come into an agreement here. Who is it?
Speaker 1: We'll see ceedee lamb improved m Yeah, it's tough though.
Speaker 1: Well he was pretty good last year, yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think he's better this year. It's kind of hard to
Speaker 1: improve after that catch he made against Minnesota, Yeah, try, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he kind of came out and showed what he was worth.
Speaker 1: Yet I could, I could, You could argue the point.
Speaker 1: I could give you love, but it's a tough one.
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush. There you go, my head a little bit.
Speaker 1: And here's the deal. This offense, this offense is doing.
Speaker 1: This offense is doing what Yeah, he didn't have anything defense, right,
Speaker 1: The offense is doing what it shoot it should do. Right.
Speaker 1: They were good, They would have been good last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were good last year. For five games they were
Speaker 1: averaging thirty points a game. Problem was the defense was
Speaker 1: given up thirty six. All right, so han't said that
Speaker 1: the first five Mister consistency, Who's who's the most consistent.
Speaker 1: Then that's a good question. Most consistent, most consistent player
Speaker 1: of defense, special team. Yeah, Zack Martin, it's not bad.
Speaker 1: And then and then the Maury Cooper, Yeah, there you go,
Speaker 1: mister steady. Not spectacular last year, but last year, what
Speaker 1: eight plus catches? Nine he had a career high from
Speaker 1: how many different quarterbacks for four different That is amazing.
Speaker 1: That really, That's why I've always said love CD. I
Speaker 1: love all the guys on the offense especially, but Cooper
Speaker 1: to me the most. I guess it's because he's so understated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and the people you know, talk radio, it's like,
Speaker 1: well they can get out of his contract next year.
Speaker 1: It's like, why would you get out of the best
Speaker 1: receivers contract. He turned this organization around when he came
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Was that twenty eighteen everything changed? Everything changed.
Speaker 1: That was the year they were going to have receiver
Speaker 1: by committee and we ended up when he got here,
Speaker 1: everything just flipped and all of a sudden, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is the quarterback bands today. They were a playoff team.
Speaker 1: That's right. He went, Da knew whether to go. I mean,
Speaker 1: every time he looked up, he was just he was
Speaker 1: feeding on Cooper. So yeah, most consistent, I would definitely
Speaker 1: put him there. And right now, mister Cooper has forty
Speaker 1: four catches for five hundred and eighty three yards, thirteen
Speaker 1: point three a catch, and five touchdowns. So I bet
Speaker 1: if you factored out out over the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: knowing that they're going to play seventeen games, that's getting
Speaker 1: close to ninety catches, a thousand yards and ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I was going to call you out on the four
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who completed passes to Cooper last year, because I
Speaker 1: was thinking Ben de Nucci may not have done that,
Speaker 1: But I checked it and I didn't say. I didn't
Speaker 1: say he completed it to I just said he had
Speaker 1: to play with That's right. He did catch one ball
Speaker 1: from Danucci for five yards. So if Dak had played
Speaker 1: the whole season, he'd have had over a hundred catches.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, right, yea. If Dak would have played all
Speaker 1: the last year, it would have been a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on. Everyone would have would have had that.
Speaker 1: And now we're past the halfway point of this season.
Speaker 1: You can't really do the it's not clean math because
Speaker 1: of the seventeen game season. But CD's got forty six
Speaker 1: catches and the marrow he's got forty three right now,
Speaker 1: so they're right on pace to get up near ninety
Speaker 1: right around. And to have such talent four okay, to
Speaker 1: have such talent on the offense and for these guys
Speaker 1: to still get the numbers up, it just talks about
Speaker 1: consistency on this team, especially from a quarterback position. And
Speaker 1: of course you gotta give Kellen Moore love as well,
Speaker 1: because he's the one calling those plays and and give
Speaker 1: them a chance to get the numbers up. I'll throw
Speaker 1: another offensive player, and they're about Cedric Wilson. I love him,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's my dude, And maybe made the
Speaker 1: biggest stride because he's healthy and he's playing right. Last year,
Speaker 1: he got the opportunity a special teams guy. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: got the opportunity because Gallup was hurt so and that
Speaker 1: that long pass in Minnesota that kind of kind of
Speaker 1: kept us in the game. So let me give you
Speaker 1: what has been the biggest improvement. Okay, So these stats
Speaker 1: are against last year in this year on defense points allowed.
Speaker 1: Last year, at this point in the season, they had
Speaker 1: given up two hundred and ninety points two hundred in
Speaker 1: ninety points in nine games. In nine games this year,
Speaker 1: it's thirty three points again, thank you, in this year
Speaker 1: one ninety five. That's a difference too, that's a difference
Speaker 1: of how many mister, always the number. Again, they've improved
Speaker 1: ninety five points. How many points two ninety nine five
Speaker 1: net yards per game? Get your math ready? No, No,
Speaker 1: he's allowed three point six last year at this point
Speaker 1: three fifty four this year. It's an improvement of twenty
Speaker 1: seven point six yards. The game. But here may be
Speaker 1: one of the biggest ones. Rushing yards per game last
Speaker 1: year at this point one fifty seven a game this
Speaker 1: year one oh one point two huge rushing touchdowns a
Speaker 1: lot out eleven last year, seven this year. And how
Speaker 1: about at this point at this point right, how about
Speaker 1: this one interceptions this year fourteen last year at this
Speaker 1: time two three. That's improvement of eleven. He got it.
Speaker 1: Let's be real. I'd love to see how the second
Speaker 1: half compared, because that's when a defense got best started
Speaker 1: to play better. Thank you, Mike Nolan. Yeah, it took
Speaker 1: that long to figure it out, right, because they quit
Speaker 1: plan a three man front and a four man front.
Speaker 1: They quit plan the nickel every single down no matter
Speaker 1: what the game, and they didn't have a big nickel
Speaker 1: either way. Okay, as we wrap this up, who needs
Speaker 1: to be the most improved player in the second half
Speaker 1: of this season? Or you can just say who will
Speaker 1: be the who will be the open either one? Either way?
Speaker 1: Who will be the most improved player from the first
Speaker 1: half to the second half. And I'm not sure whinning
Speaker 1: he'll get out there, but it's starting to show up.
Speaker 1: Dorin's armstrong that just because there without Gregory now and
Speaker 1: without dons DeMarcus Lawrence, so he needs to really step
Speaker 1: it up. Michael Gallop Yep, that's who I was thinking of. Gallop. See,
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the offense. I think as we
Speaker 1: get into the tougher games, into those stretches like Sunday, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and beyond like this stretch coming up Thanksgiving and all
Speaker 1: of that, guys are gonna they're gonna get tired. It's
Speaker 1: just the way it is that and we're gonna need
Speaker 1: others to step up. You can't continue doing that stretch.
Speaker 1: You can't. If you have a player that improves doing
Speaker 1: that stretch from before that, you might look at him
Speaker 1: being a little bit overwhelmed as you go into the
Speaker 1: most improved player in the second half of the season
Speaker 1: is gonna be DeMarcus Lawrence. Oh that's a there's a stretch. Well,
Speaker 1: let's put it like this. It needs to be He's
Speaker 1: the one that needs to the team that you get
Speaker 1: the needs to be well, not improved. He just needs
Speaker 1: to be starting from He's starting from scratch yea and game.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the addition that the Cowboys can bank
Speaker 1: on if he can, If he can be healthy, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be huge for this team the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: Whenever he does get out there, man Gregory, for this
Speaker 1: game on Sunday and need tiring as well down the stretch,
Speaker 1: that would help. Yeah, all right, that does it for
Speaker 1: this make shots. This is that Denver game. We'll see
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