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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hello, guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of The Break. I am here
Speaker 1: with Nick and Dave. Who are you gonna give us
Speaker 1: a little report on these injured guys? Who was a
Speaker 1: practice today and who wasn't um. The main guys have
Speaker 1: been out of practice and one of the biggest returns
Speaker 1: would be Connor Williams, who has been spotted out there
Speaker 1: doing some things after a nice scope last week. Thoughts
Speaker 1: on this, That's pretty impressive, legitimately shocking. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: not expecting to see that. But he's out there running
Speaker 1: went the first team. It's been eight days since he
Speaker 1: had surgery on his knee. So was he doing like
Speaker 1: rotating with Xavier or just talk over and as we
Speaker 1: always say, I mean we saw fifteen minutes. They don't
Speaker 1: really get into the nitty gritty of playing football. While
Speaker 1: we're out there. It's mostly position drills and you know,
Speaker 1: warm up reps. So I don't know what it's going
Speaker 1: to look like when they actually go through their game
Speaker 1: plan for today. But he's I mean he had a
Speaker 1: scope on his knee eight days ago. That's great. I
Speaker 1: mean even Michael Gallup needed like three weeks. I think
Speaker 1: Gallup missed two games. You know, Gallup obviously is running
Speaker 1: routes and true, you know, that's what you do the
Speaker 1: entire game. You can't really have a big bulky knee
Speaker 1: brace there. You could do that probably with Connor Williams
Speaker 1: if you wanted to. That is also assuming he's head
Speaker 1: and shoulders above the guy behind him. But I think
Speaker 1: they believe that he is. The Cowboys believe that Connor
Speaker 1: Williams is definitely a better player than Zabor Supilo. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. What you see from last game
Speaker 1: when they were playing against the Lions. Do you notice
Speaker 1: where you I know I heard you say you were
Speaker 1: going to watch that position. Did you notice a significant there.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice any big problems with him on the
Speaker 1: passing game. I thought he did actually a good job there.
Speaker 1: They didn't run the ball well and so it wasn't
Speaker 1: just on him, but he didn't provide as much of
Speaker 1: that strength and push as you would have wanted. Collectively,
Speaker 1: they didn't run it well, but they also made sure
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys weren't going to run on them. That
Speaker 1: was something that the Lions did. So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if if you know, Nate Newton and Larry Allen, Larry
Speaker 1: probably would have pushed people around. But yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure if anybody was going to be
Speaker 1: able to run the ball the way the Lions were playing.
Speaker 1: So when that happens, you have to throw for four
Speaker 1: forty four. That's what you have to do, and you
Speaker 1: have to be the NFC Offensive Player of the Week
Speaker 1: if you're the quarterback and you're not going to take
Speaker 1: away your running game like that. I'm curious, Like we
Speaker 1: just said what this means. I mean, Connor's out there.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that he's going to play against the Patriots.
Speaker 1: We'll see. Um, it's a good sign. Another guy though
Speaker 1: that is important for the line and wasn't out there today.
Speaker 1: Le Collins, he's dealing with you know, he got h
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's that's the thing is like Lyle
Speaker 1: told me after the game, He's like, yeah, my back
Speaker 1: flared up. It's you know, it's the thing I was
Speaker 1: dealing with leading into the game. But then they're saying
Speaker 1: it's his knee, and that was something that was already
Speaker 1: aggravating him too. Like these guys are just beat to hell. Man.
Speaker 1: We were told on the plane that he had reaggravated
Speaker 1: the mcl sprain. They're gonna watch it this week, but
Speaker 1: you just got the sense from the trainers and from
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett that it was a positive thing. It's going
Speaker 1: to be okay, just just from a sense of he'll
Speaker 1: probably be able to play. I think that they think
Speaker 1: he can play now, but I also think he probably
Speaker 1: won't show up on the field until Friday. Here's what's
Speaker 1: not good is that you're facing the best defense, the
Speaker 1: best team in the league, the best team over the
Speaker 1: last twenty years, and they are a very physical team,
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna do everything they can to play
Speaker 1: this game. And I'm not trying to look ahead of
Speaker 1: the best team of all time. But you got a
Speaker 1: game in four days after that, Yep, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's you might take everything you have to get through
Speaker 1: this game, and even that might not be enough for win.
Speaker 1: And think I've turnedund to play a really physical Buffalo
Speaker 1: team in four days. It's a really good point. It's
Speaker 1: a tough stretch right there. From we've seen that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they've had good luck on Thanksgiving the last
Speaker 1: few years, but I remember in fourteen who they yeah,
Speaker 1: and they they sold out to win the game before
Speaker 1: Philly and the Eagles came in on Thanksgiving him beat
Speaker 1: beat him up because they were Yeah, it was I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a short week, and that was the year
Speaker 1: Romo was balanced. I'm sorry, it's actually it's kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: he was managing his back, but it's it's a little
Speaker 1: bit comparable because they went up to New York. That
Speaker 1: was the Odell game, the Dez game at Ride and High.
Speaker 1: You get this impressive win against the Giants, and then
Speaker 1: they just they were hurt and flat and and got
Speaker 1: beat pretty bad by the Eagles in that game. So
Speaker 1: that is, of course, you're not going to look past
Speaker 1: playing the New England Patriots in Gillette Stadium. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough to turn around and play a good
Speaker 1: Bills team, right It's gonna be tough for those guys.
Speaker 1: That are like the Lyle Collins of the world, and
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's not what they do. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: they look at it and say, we're not doing that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna, We're gonna. Actually, if they're not one hundred
Speaker 1: percent healthy, let's see if they can get healthy for
Speaker 1: next Thursday. You'd hate to say that when you're playing
Speaker 1: the Patriots, but surely the smart thing to do that
Speaker 1: then this. I mean, I'm so to finish off the
Speaker 1: injury stuff. Amari Cooper, Tank, Lawrence, Jeff Heath, they were
Speaker 1: all out there. That's great Amari. Actually this is the
Speaker 1: first time he's practiced on a Wednesday in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: so that's positive. But again, how's he going to feel
Speaker 1: on Monday morning? And you don't have the benefit of
Speaker 1: having seven days to get ready. You gotta get ready
Speaker 1: in three. So that'll be a challenge for everybody. And
Speaker 1: I mean, sit these guys somebody else and let him
Speaker 1: play against the Bills. No, you can't, which I typically like.
Speaker 1: I like that line of thinking typically, and like you know,
Speaker 1: load management has taken over the NBA, and we talked
Speaker 1: about let's think about this. I was about to say,
Speaker 1: you can't do that in this situation against the team
Speaker 1: that's good. Sorry, if you feel that you're gonna lose,
Speaker 1: I mean that's not the mentality basically. But it's like
Speaker 1: against the Beaches when you're like, Okay, you can't concede,
Speaker 1: and if you sit guys, I mean, guys will know.
Speaker 1: Guys will know. If you're starting to sit guys that
Speaker 1: are kind of injured but they could play, they're gonna know. Basically,
Speaker 1: you're conceding this game. You can't do that. I just
Speaker 1: don't think you can do it. Not saying you're conceding
Speaker 1: this game, but but let's let's all strategiz. But but
Speaker 1: let's think about like this. Okay, tomorrow you go to
Speaker 1: these guys that have been battling with things all year.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Zach Martins and Tyren Smiths and all that.
Speaker 1: Can you play? I'm talking about on Thursday you say,
Speaker 1: can you play? No, not today, but I'll be all
Speaker 1: right by Sunday. That's what you're dealing with next week.
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is for a guy like that,
Speaker 1: and particularly Lyle Collins who was dealing with something last week,
Speaker 1: it may not be in the best interest to do
Speaker 1: that because he played this game, he may not be
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and then you're not gonna get him
Speaker 1: at all for Thursday. That sounds good. I get your logic.
Speaker 1: Good point though, point though, still remains that how does
Speaker 1: that play in the locker room. I think in the
Speaker 1: locker room, it'll feel like, well, he could play, Like
Speaker 1: we know he could play. They're saving him for next week?
Speaker 1: So what does that say about this week? Are they
Speaker 1: conceding that we just can't beat them? I think that
Speaker 1: first of all, if you can play him, say in play, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna argue semantics with you, like, you're not
Speaker 1: conceding defeat. You're saying we run the risk of like
Speaker 1: not having this guy for a longer stretch of time,
Speaker 1: or do we just sit him for one and then
Speaker 1: hopefully that helps him be right for the final five.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not deceding defeat. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they are conceding defeat. What I'm saying is you have
Speaker 1: to think about the optics and you have to think
Speaker 1: about how that plays in the locker room with fifty
Speaker 1: three men, Like that's a part of this. Don't don't
Speaker 1: act like it's not. It is a part of this,
Speaker 1: and if they're looking at it, and the players in
Speaker 1: there for one minute start to think this guy can play,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna sit him this week because they figure
Speaker 1: it's we'd better just to have him for next week,
Speaker 1: then they certainly start having those conversations. I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys have been around groups. Anytime you have groups of people,
Speaker 1: you always have to be concerned about one guy planning
Speaker 1: a seat. All it takes is one guy to think
Speaker 1: that and he said to the guy sitting beside him,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it becomes a man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he could play. Why are they not playing
Speaker 1: that they think we can't win this. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that can happen from that. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's good for the team dynamic to ever sit
Speaker 1: a guy that that can play. In this culture, like
Speaker 1: in football, it's about if you can play. And we
Speaker 1: say it all the time, how crazy these guys are
Speaker 1: for getting out there with some of the injuries they have.
Speaker 1: But if you can play in a football culture and
Speaker 1: you decide not to or the team decides not to
Speaker 1: play you, I think they're always going to be questions.
Speaker 1: I hate that we're in the weeds on this right now,
Speaker 1: it's irrelevant. If you can play, he'll play that. I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean it's all about do you want to got
Speaker 1: to play two games or one? I mean, that's really
Speaker 1: what it comes down to you. Yeah, there's always really
Speaker 1: the one on one to one right because they just
Speaker 1: wouldn't play this week and they play next week, right,
Speaker 1: Or if they play this week, then you're saying they
Speaker 1: might be ready for next week, but they're ready for
Speaker 1: the Bears game, right, Yeah, So it's one to one.
Speaker 1: Either you want to play this week, you want to
Speaker 1: play him next week unless you heard the guy even
Speaker 1: worse and it keeps him out even a longer amount
Speaker 1: of time. So you just never know to every game.
Speaker 1: I'm only five five, Like the weeds are so tall
Speaker 1: above me. I can't see it. I can't deep in
Speaker 1: the weeds right now? All right, go ahead? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: I thought you were taking over over you got this
Speaker 1: thing all right? Right? Well, I wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: real quick. I don't know if you guys talked about
Speaker 1: the cornerback position, Anthony Brown being out and who's gonna
Speaker 1: kind of take over his role in what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: There are there any updates on that. They poached a
Speaker 1: guy by the name of Deonte Burton off the Colts
Speaker 1: practice squad. He's a journeyman, practice squad type of guy.
Speaker 1: He's been I mean, he's been in the league for
Speaker 1: three years. I think he's been in three games at
Speaker 1: something like like just practice squad kind of guy. I
Speaker 1: think their hope is that he doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: active for this game. It's more of a I mean,
Speaker 1: you need the fifth cornerback, you need that guy. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like a sign him on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: throw him into the game against Tom Brady on Sunday
Speaker 1: type of deal. Hopefully yep. I remember when you sign
Speaker 1: a guy off a practice squad, it'll be here three weeks,
Speaker 1: so you have to be here at least for three games, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think a lot of times though, when
Speaker 1: they do sign there's a lot of cornerbacks on practice squads,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys have two of them that right there
Speaker 1: is kind of weird to me, Like what does it
Speaker 1: say for the guys that are know your system and
Speaker 1: here that are playing that aren't good enough to be
Speaker 1: called up? Like when when is it ever going to
Speaker 1: be good time for Donovan Lumba. I guess not this week.
Speaker 1: Maybe if he could run a little bit faster. But
Speaker 1: then the question is why do you have him here? Like, well,
Speaker 1: is he on the practice squad? You need you have
Speaker 1: to be able to get through practice. I get that.
Speaker 1: My point is, is it a situation where he's never
Speaker 1: gonna be Yeah, he'll be it here for this year
Speaker 1: and all that because he knows it and that's what
Speaker 1: they're doing and all that. He understands the terminology. But
Speaker 1: there's no sense in probably bringing him back for next
Speaker 1: year for another go round on this unless he's just
Speaker 1: kind of banged up or something. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: I were him, I certainly would be like what the hell?
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yeah, i'd be what am I doing here?
Speaker 1: If I'm out here practicing every day and I know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing helping them get through practice. Like the
Speaker 1: cruel reality of the situation is that's the ideas you
Speaker 1: want to develop these guys, but that they're not all
Speaker 1: gonna be good enough to call up to the fifty three.
Speaker 1: And that's what this guy that's played three games and
Speaker 1: three years is Like. That's again I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: just think this he if he's better than them, then
Speaker 1: they got to really be questioning, like what that they
Speaker 1: don't see value in me? They are the lumba right
Speaker 1: now is like he's scratching his head, like I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on here. If you're not I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're not good enough to be secure, the NFL
Speaker 1: is a sucky job. I mean, it just it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Like they could they could cut you
Speaker 1: right now, Like you're you're making good money. I think, um,
Speaker 1: somebody wrote a story about this last year, and like
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make anybody feel terrible for these
Speaker 1: guys that make six figures, but practice squad guys like
Speaker 1: you make like one hundred and twenty thousand dollars before taxes.
Speaker 1: You can't really like buy a lease or you know,
Speaker 1: lease in apartment or anything because you don't know how.
Speaker 1: I mean, they could cut you at a moment's notice,
Speaker 1: and then you're stuck with a lease on a place
Speaker 1: you can't pay. There's no residual money that comes after
Speaker 1: that when they cut you and cut you right and
Speaker 1: and they'll bounce you back and forth, so like one
Speaker 1: week you've got active roster money, one week you don't, uh,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, like if you're in that situation, it sucks,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it probably sucks for for a lumba.
Speaker 1: And who's the other cornerback? I don't I can't even
Speaker 1: think of his name. Oh the guy they got from
Speaker 1: Georgia Teche or DJ read Jay Jones. You're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean think about that, Like he's throwing out names.
Speaker 1: If they liked them enough, they could bring them up
Speaker 1: for this game. And like a fifty three man roster
Speaker 1: game check is like eighty grand, Like you're basically getting
Speaker 1: half of your practice squad paycheck for one week's worth
Speaker 1: the work. And they're like, no, we think this guy
Speaker 1: might have more juice. Sorry about it. Maybe us on
Speaker 1: the corner. If you can help us get through practice though,
Speaker 1: that would be great. But if you if you suck,
Speaker 1: we'll cut you. And then you got to figure it out.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's again business. It pays well, but if
Speaker 1: you're not good enough to have a guaranteed spot, it
Speaker 1: can be kind of tough. All right, Well, let's take
Speaker 1: an early break. When we come back, Dave is going
Speaker 1: to have his counting rapport and then Nick, I know
Speaker 1: he has some storylines dealing about the Patriots when we
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Speaker 1: the break, Welcome back, Nick, take it away for already
Speaker 1: for months? Seriously, you had a whole break to and
Speaker 1: get Renty here we go? Is this what happens when
Speaker 1: I'm not here? All happens when you are here? There
Speaker 1: are the storylines that the Patriots are kind of going
Speaker 1: through right now. Obviously their offense is not what, you know,
Speaker 1: what they're used to seeing here. And Brady was very
Speaker 1: frustrated the other day. It sounded like he was about
Speaker 1: to jump off a cliff. I think he's been calmed
Speaker 1: down and realized they're nine in one. But he's he's
Speaker 1: you know, they hold himself to a higher standard and
Speaker 1: so that the offense is not something that is on
Speaker 1: par right now for what the Patriots are used to.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons is their red zone scoring. They've
Speaker 1: only scored a touchdown forty eight percent of the time
Speaker 1: inside the twenty They ranked twenty fifth in the league.
Speaker 1: They're hoping that their first round picking to kill Harry
Speaker 1: who's a big bodied guy. He's been on injured reserve
Speaker 1: till last week. He came back made his debut. They
Speaker 1: think he might be an option in there. He's at
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Why didn't they get it back? That's my
Speaker 1: third point. Isaiah Win is coming back off of r
Speaker 1: He's another first round pick from twenty eighteen, hasn't played
Speaker 1: a lot. They expect he's going to be active. He
Speaker 1: may just jump right in and play there at left tackle.
Speaker 1: They're going to see about that. Another point is that
Speaker 1: their their defense could be we could be talking about
Speaker 1: the two thousand and nineteen Patriots like we say some
Speaker 1: of the other two thousand Ravens maybe the eighty five Bears.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've been that good. Their first in total
Speaker 1: yards allowed and points scoring. On that They've got six
Speaker 1: total touchdowns on defense and special teams. They've only given
Speaker 1: up nine on offensive. But they there bucks defense from
Speaker 1: the early two thousand that were scoring a ton. They
Speaker 1: were really good, but they were scoring a ton as well.
Speaker 1: Last point for them is they've won seventeen straight games
Speaker 1: at home, dating back to October twenty seventeen. Cowboys have
Speaker 1: not won there since eighty seven. Don't play a whole lot,
Speaker 1: but they certainly have never won in this stadium, Gilette Stadium.
Speaker 1: Not many teams do the It's kind of what's going
Speaker 1: on with the Patriots there, but I need to look
Speaker 1: that up. I'm going through for my column tomorrow. Just
Speaker 1: like who has beaten the Pats at Gillette? Lost two
Speaker 1: that year in twenty and seventeen, lost the opener to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and then the Panthers came in there and
Speaker 1: beat them. I know they, I mean they do looking
Speaker 1: after them. I know they have, but it's I bet
Speaker 1: it's not a super long list. Um, that's cool. That's
Speaker 1: another thing. Yeah, let's just sit everybody, you know, although
Speaker 1: I will say, I you know, I'm I'm the pessimist.
Speaker 1: I get that. I already said I'm gonna pick the Patriots,
Speaker 1: but like I dove into the offense and kind of
Speaker 1: to Nick's point, I was like, okay, like you can
Speaker 1: you can beat these guys may the offense. I haven't
Speaker 1: watched the defense yet, and that's kind of the bread
Speaker 1: and butter. That's the bread. A good team. Yeah, don't
Speaker 1: don't no, only some Miami crap. No. I always yet
Speaker 1: It's it's tricky because I always try to watch I
Speaker 1: always try to watch the most recent game, but I
Speaker 1: feel like if the most recent game isn't super super
Speaker 1: indicative of who they are, I try to go back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like I'm not gonna watch them play the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: It's a way. I think that's a waste of time. Ravens.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch him play the Ravens to see what
Speaker 1: it looks like when somebody kicks their ass, because nobody
Speaker 1: does that. And I'll probably watch him play the Eagles
Speaker 1: just because that was the most recent opponent anyway, and
Speaker 1: they played him tough. The Eagles played him tough. I
Speaker 1: watched I watched the Eagles game on offense, and then
Speaker 1: I watched the first half of the Ravens game, and
Speaker 1: then I went back and watched some of the stuff
Speaker 1: they did before that. Um, yeah, they're they're they're pretty
Speaker 1: mediocre and even bad by their standards. Um, their sixteenth
Speaker 1: in the league until offense. Which so here's the thing,
Speaker 1: like we all know they reinvent themselves, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: big cliche. They've got nineteen running backs. They've been like
Speaker 1: a sneaky, powerful running team for the last few years.
Speaker 1: Like they're not even good at that this year because
Speaker 1: their offensive line has been so banged up. Isaiah Wynn
Speaker 1: left in Week two. Another one of their starters whose
Speaker 1: name I don't think I wrote down it has been out.
Speaker 1: They also lost their fullback James Devlin. He's been uninjured reserve.
Speaker 1: They only average three yards per carry. They've got nine
Speaker 1: hundred yards on the year. Um, so like you know,
Speaker 1: even with Sony Michelle and like that whole storyline. Sorry, Um,
Speaker 1: they're they don't run the ball very well. They're twenty
Speaker 1: fourth in the league. Having said that, they're third in
Speaker 1: the league and scoring, which is kind of funny. Um,
Speaker 1: they scored forty two points off defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: And that's not even including when defense and special teams
Speaker 1: gives them short feels. I just mean six touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the year from defense and special teams. Their average drops
Speaker 1: a whole four points to twenty four per game when
Speaker 1: you take that away. And I know, I know you
Speaker 1: can't because that's part of it, right, you got to
Speaker 1: protect the ball and all that. But like their offense,
Speaker 1: I think it's misleading. Like you would think, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Brady's averaging thirty points a game, really good. No, the
Speaker 1: offense is getting a lot of help. They had a
Speaker 1: game yet this year where they didn't win the terrible battle.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. Actually, you like every week
Speaker 1: you like, I'm like, I got five pages, I'm killing it.
Speaker 1: I feel good. And Derek's like, explain to me, they're
Speaker 1: splits over the last month and damn it. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a very horizontal team. In my opinion, they don't
Speaker 1: like that. For my money, they lack like real downfield threats.
Speaker 1: A b was there at the beginning, he's gone. Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon was there for a while, he's gone. Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: can go downfield, but he's he's a slot guy. He
Speaker 1: plays at all three levels, but you don't think of
Speaker 1: him as a vertical threat. Philip Door said, has speed,
Speaker 1: but there hasn't been a ton of consistency there. I
Speaker 1: looked this up. His longest game of the year's fifty eight.
Speaker 1: He did that in week one. There's not a huge
Speaker 1: element of downfield ability. They got Mohammed Sanu in a
Speaker 1: trade right around the deadline. He hasn't done a lot
Speaker 1: yet he has in his career. And then nikis the
Speaker 1: chains kind of got too right. Yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: got speed again. I mean he did wonders with Julio,
Speaker 1: but obviously Julio is a big part of that equation.
Speaker 1: Nikkil Harry's coming back off ir He's a big bodied,
Speaker 1: more of a possession guy. Sixty three, two thirty, like
Speaker 1: a big bodied Guy'd be interesting to see what he does.
Speaker 1: He caught three balls for eighteen last week against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: so kind of getting his feet wet. When I say
Speaker 1: they're horizontal, I mean you see a lot of screens
Speaker 1: from the receivers and the running backs to offset the
Speaker 1: fact that they don't have that stuff Like James White
Speaker 1: is probably their most reliable weapon right now. I crunch
Speaker 1: the numbers on this running backs have caught eighty five
Speaker 1: balls so far this year. White is caught catching sixty
Speaker 1: percent of those. He's got fifty catches already this year.
Speaker 1: That's the funny thing is like, and I wrote this
Speaker 1: down too, So they're in eleven perconnel fifty four percent
Speaker 1: of the time and then they thirty percent of the time.
Speaker 1: They're running a two back set. So you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they got White and Michelle on the field. They got
Speaker 1: Burkhead and White. They got Burkhead and Michelle. They can
Speaker 1: do all this different stuff with all these running back
Speaker 1: but they seem a lot more predictable than that because
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle has one hundred and fifty carries on the year,
Speaker 1: the next best guy has forty, and then James White
Speaker 1: has forty eight of their eighty five catches, the next
Speaker 1: best guy has like eighteen. Like Michelle is there running back,
Speaker 1: and then they have a committee of pass catchers. And
Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised that like it wasn't more
Speaker 1: evenly split, you know, like like when Michelle's on the field,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna I mean, if he's gonna get the ball,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be on a run and the other
Speaker 1: guy's catch. White is super dangerous. You remember him from
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He's got the longest gain of the
Speaker 1: season for them. Let's talk about Tom Brady. He looks
Speaker 1: not like the goat and for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 1: My main thing, if you've watched the Cowboys play Eli
Speaker 1: Manning in the downturn of his career, that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it reminds me of. Like he's a super he's
Speaker 1: he makes he's smarter than Eli Marry, Like he makes
Speaker 1: better decisions. He can still get the ball out, he
Speaker 1: still has really good accuracy. But my main point is,
Speaker 1: like if you pressure him, he kind of falls apart.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I think, I hate to use the
Speaker 1: word a fraid for a pro football player, but like
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to take contact, and so like the
Speaker 1: minute there's pressure, he's looking for a way to get
Speaker 1: rid of it or or get down and get out
Speaker 1: of the way. That's that's kind of been them and
Speaker 1: him his whole career. It has gets him the problems
Speaker 1: you haven't been able to always get to. You're right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, and like you can go back
Speaker 1: to two thousand and seven and like that's how the
Speaker 1: Giants beat him. I get that, but like it looks
Speaker 1: even more obvious because I think and he's never been mobile,
Speaker 1: but at forty two, like there's just not a lot
Speaker 1: he can do with a twenty five year old defender
Speaker 1: putting pressure on him. So are they putting him in
Speaker 1: situations where he's making bad decisions because of that? Or
Speaker 1: is it just the thing getting a lot? No, Well,
Speaker 1: he's taken sixteen sacks, which isn't a ton. But that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, is like he's got so many incompletions.
Speaker 1: He threw fourteen first half incompletions against the Eagles the
Speaker 1: other night, and that's just because like if it's not
Speaker 1: there immediately and he's worried about something bad happening, he's
Speaker 1: just throwing it at somebody's feet or throwing it out about.
Speaker 1: I don't think they have any real playmakers. They don't
Speaker 1: on this team, and Keelman is, but I'm just saying
Speaker 1: he's not a guy that's just gonna, you know, throw
Speaker 1: it fifty yards down the field, go up and make
Speaker 1: a play like Galladay did against them. Are you saying
Speaker 1: there's nobody that really scares opposing defenses that you have
Speaker 1: to have added. That's why you say they're not very vertical.
Speaker 1: I mean that's not something that offsets a huge blitz.
Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys would be crazy not to get
Speaker 1: after him. And just you know, I'm anxious to see
Speaker 1: what they do with Edelman. You know, they have a
Speaker 1: they have a cornerback right now that nobody's really trying
Speaker 1: to touch at all. And maybe it's going to be
Speaker 1: a situation where Bryan Jones needs to be with Edelman
Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you think that will happen? Though, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: have they done that before. I put him in the
Speaker 1: slot a lot, Like when when you face the team
Speaker 1: with their best guy as the slot guy, follow him
Speaker 1: into the slot A lot? I don't. I mean, here's
Speaker 1: a guy that played safety, right, I mean he should
Speaker 1: be able to sort of do it. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's great at slot Barmon Jones. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: though I really want to. I want to see. I
Speaker 1: know where you're gonna have one time one Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: one and not so much because I think like maybe
Speaker 1: Edelman will win some He Edelman will definitely win something.
Speaker 1: He's a great player, but like the yapping and the
Speaker 1: extracurricular just sounds way too entertaining not to and I
Speaker 1: want to just see for myself. I want to see
Speaker 1: how good Jordan situation where he's about to have to
Speaker 1: play a good part in the game, and can he
Speaker 1: take that step, because that's gonna tell I think it's
Speaker 1: it should tell you a lot about what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: should be thinking about it about him going forward. And
Speaker 1: this guy, you said you didn't think the corner would
Speaker 1: play the burden John Trey Burton, I don't think so. No,
Speaker 1: who else would be a corner though, I think your
Speaker 1: fourth corner would be CJ. Goodwin, which I mean it's
Speaker 1: not exciting, but well, they've been keeping them all active.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brown was active. So I think when they
Speaker 1: sign a guy, I think they sign them for a
Speaker 1: guy that's the most ready. I didn't finish that point.
Speaker 1: I think that's what the determining factor is. Who can
Speaker 1: play right now? Who can play today? And so I
Speaker 1: would imagine he is going to play just because they've
Speaker 1: been they've been keeping all five corners active. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's talk I want to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: more about that, but let's take a final break, we
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Speaker 1: go back and talk about Jordan Lewis a little more.
Speaker 1: I know, when I was watching the Patriots playing, a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that I saw Tom Brady doing
Speaker 1: was what do you call those passes where you kind
Speaker 1: of toss it, you know, you're not really throwing it,
Speaker 1: It's just kind of like a level password. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I noticed him doing that a lot. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that could be a perfect opportunity for the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: create some takeaways. And who better than Jordan Lewis, who
Speaker 1: has been seen getting his hands around the ball pretty often.
Speaker 1: So when you mentioned that about, well, you did kind
Speaker 1: of putting Jordan Lewis there. I love that whole idea
Speaker 1: of possibly utilizing him that way and starting to see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys create some more turnovers this way. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's remarkable. Their running backs are the way that
Speaker 1: they try to move the ball more than anything. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I mean it's really Michelle doing the
Speaker 1: majority of the work actually running it. But Burkehead, Bolden,
Speaker 1: James White, they can all line up. I mean they
Speaker 1: flex them out, they motion them back, lots of screens,
Speaker 1: Brady loves I mean, Brady throws like three swing passes
Speaker 1: to James White per game. And we know the Cowboys
Speaker 1: aren't good at that. I would assume that's that's going
Speaker 1: to be a big point of emphasis. And yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, misdirection kind of trickling, the running back back
Speaker 1: over behind the line and giving him room to run.
Speaker 1: They do that all the time. I don't mean to
Speaker 1: discount the things Edelman in even Philip Dorset can do
Speaker 1: down the field. I think Edelman is a lot like
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, Like he's got that reputation of being the
Speaker 1: shifty in you know, fifteen yards and shorter guy, but
Speaker 1: like he can go downfield and hurt you there too,
Speaker 1: Like he's dangerous at all three levels. But I really
Speaker 1: there's not a guy and this is always famous last words,
Speaker 1: but there's not a guy where I'm just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do with him. Like
Speaker 1: they have the personnel to defend these guys if they
Speaker 1: play well and That's the thing that gives you pause
Speaker 1: is they haven't. And with a guy like Belichick and
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniel's drawing it up, you would think they can. Probably,
Speaker 1: I think they're going to try to take advantage of
Speaker 1: how aggressive the Cowboys are. But that's the thing I
Speaker 1: wonder about. The Ravens blitzed the hell out of Brady
Speaker 1: and it worked. Earl Thomas sacked him linebacker sacks and
Speaker 1: I actually kind of like what I just joked about
Speaker 1: with Byron Jones, like do you really think he'll travel?
Speaker 1: But Stephen Jones went on the radio yesterday and he
Speaker 1: said they were talking about, you know, how can the
Speaker 1: defense play better? This is buried in a wall of
Speaker 1: tex But he said, as we move forward, we may
Speaker 1: do a little more here and there in terms of
Speaker 1: getting some pressure and making plays on the ball. Do
Speaker 1: a little bit more, like do a little bit more
Speaker 1: than which I'm like, I mean, that's what that's my
Speaker 1: immediate thought to. You have to get after him, and
Speaker 1: you have to hope the linebackers, you know, because because
Speaker 1: the one thing that you do when the team is
Speaker 1: blitzing you is you get ready for the screen. It's
Speaker 1: the linebackers have got to be able to make those plays.
Speaker 1: And while they didn't do a good job on Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: there's not that type of back out there. It's look
Speaker 1: at the backs that have kind of hurt him here lately,
Speaker 1: Scarborough a little bit, Dalvin Cook. It's the big strong backs.
Speaker 1: So you know, not to say miss tackles, Yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of miss tackles. Not to say that those shifty
Speaker 1: I mean they're good for a reason. I mean Burkehead
Speaker 1: and um like almost said Dion Lewis, but James White,
Speaker 1: I mean they just kind of rotate them in and
Speaker 1: shift either Sonny Michelle. But I think those guys have
Speaker 1: to go and get them on the ground because I
Speaker 1: do believe they're going to be sending a lot of
Speaker 1: people at Brady. But I think we have seen with
Speaker 1: these linebackers though, is they do sometimes over run over.
Speaker 1: So that's where you're worried about the shifty guy being
Speaker 1: able to get them. But you're right, they've they've been there,
Speaker 1: they just haven't made the tackles. If they can wrap up,
Speaker 1: I think they can manage this. They just they gotta
Speaker 1: make tackles. Sonny Michelle is a little more powerful than
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people want to give him
Speaker 1: credit for it, like he's not dainty. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I agree with you in theory, and
Speaker 1: that's I don't know, out Blitz. I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: and get at Brady because, like I mean, if he
Speaker 1: even like senses the plays going south, he's gonna get
Speaker 1: rid of it. And he's smart enough that, like he
Speaker 1: can throw it away from the pocket and make it
Speaker 1: look like an incompletion. He does that all the time,
Speaker 1: Like he'll just chuck it at a guy's feet, knowing
Speaker 1: full well that it's not going to be a completion.
Speaker 1: Whether that's Jeff Heath, whether I mean I would assume
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith's going to be part of it again, Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: he's shown an ability to do that. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: bring pressure on Tom Brady, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to sit back and count on just the
Speaker 1: down linemen to do it, because they've had games where
Speaker 1: they've been able to but they've I mean, and Jeff
Speaker 1: Driscoll obviously is so much more athletic than Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: but but they still they didn't get at him as
Speaker 1: much as I think we thought they would, and so
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trying my best to make him uncomfortable because
Speaker 1: I think their offense really struggles when he is. That
Speaker 1: was gonna be my next question, just kind of looking
Speaker 1: at how the Cowboys defensive line played last week against
Speaker 1: the Lions, and you know, we did expect them to
Speaker 1: be able to pressure Driscle a lot more. And now
Speaker 1: when you mentioned about the Patriots offensive line then being
Speaker 1: banged up, and do you I mean, are you guys
Speaker 1: really expecting the Cowboys to kind of come back to
Speaker 1: that fiery defensive line that we keep hoping to see
Speaker 1: from last year and even instances this year. I do.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win this game, and I think
Speaker 1: the defense is gonna I think they're gonna get out.
Speaker 1: Are you still picking them to work? Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: probably double digit win. I'm not joking. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna win by maybe eleven points, like twenty eight seventeen
Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, I do. I'm listening to know.
Speaker 1: It's not proper to drink on the job, right, I know.
Speaker 1: I know. The funny thing is like having so much
Speaker 1: to hang out with them now A right, Sorry, that's funny.
Speaker 1: It's really funny. I haven't watched their defense yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they're putting up historic numbers, but like, just
Speaker 1: having watched their offense, I'm like, if the Cowboys can
Speaker 1: score twenty points, they I think they've got a good
Speaker 1: chance to win this game. Just I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: see I can't see the Patriots just absolutely lighting them
Speaker 1: up unless the defense is just forcing, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: if Dak throws three picks against these guys, then a
Speaker 1: lot and they maybe won. But if they don't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over a lot, I think the Cowboys will win.
Speaker 1: I do. I think they're I think they're a better team.
Speaker 1: I think they're coach, I think I'm sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: but what you know about this coach, though you have
Speaker 1: to do this, what you know about complying stuff? And
Speaker 1: right it's like bullets flying around him right now. What
Speaker 1: you know about this coach is he has a way
Speaker 1: of masking his deficiencies and exploiting yours. Right, and so
Speaker 1: if he knows about if we know what, you kill him.
Speaker 1: If he knows well, first of all, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that this quarterback is not like he's just
Speaker 1: he's not getting the protection he needs. He's not being
Speaker 1: able to really be able to throw it like that,
Speaker 1: then he's going to do something to help. And so
Speaker 1: I don't think going back to that original question of
Speaker 1: do you think the front can can get pressure without blitzing,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think this week they're gonna
Speaker 1: go into this game saying, Okay, let's max protect a
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's scheme open a guy if we max protect.
Speaker 1: And this is a team that loves to do those
Speaker 1: little you know, they call him rubs, but we know
Speaker 1: their picks, right. They do it all the time. That's
Speaker 1: a part of their offense. They're gonna say, let's max protect,
Speaker 1: let's put two guys out there, we're gonna run a
Speaker 1: little they'll run a route combination that gets one of
Speaker 1: them free. And here we're often running. That's the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff you gotta worry about because this coach, again,
Speaker 1: he looks at ways to mask his deficiencies and take
Speaker 1: advantage of yours, and he changes the game plan every
Speaker 1: single week, really, every single possession. To be able to
Speaker 1: adapt to what you're doing. This is not going to
Speaker 1: be as simple as just hey, cowboys can put their
Speaker 1: front four out there and they're ferocious enough, and they're
Speaker 1: better enough. They may be they're that much better to
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be able to take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that will be the case. The other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is and Isaiah wins only played like two games in
Speaker 1: his NFL career, so I hesitate to you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's like all world, but he was
Speaker 1: good enough to be a first round pick. We were
Speaker 1: dying for the Cowboys to draft him to be the
Speaker 1: left guard the year they drafted Connor. He went way
Speaker 1: too high. But he's a really good player and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have gotten so many lucky breaks. Well he's back,
Speaker 1: like that's an unlucky break, which is he Tyrn Smith?
Speaker 1: Probably not, but having your starting left tackle in there,
Speaker 1: you'd think will help matters with the pressure. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would blitz Brady because I don't I
Speaker 1: don't trust the front four to get home consistently enough
Speaker 1: on their own. But yeah, I mean they definitely they've
Speaker 1: been they've been pretty met. I think we watched the
Speaker 1: Eagles game on the flight home from Detroit seventeen ten,
Speaker 1: like all you need is a good enough drive to
Speaker 1: get down and get a field goal and you can
Speaker 1: put it away. I think they punted on their last
Speaker 1: eight possessions of the game. That's I mean. Brady was
Speaker 1: furious after the game because he played like crap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it is possible to make them look very pedestrian.
Speaker 1: And that's the defense the cup we put thirty seven
Speaker 1: points on, you know, the Eagles, the Eagles defense. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that the Eagles played way better in that game
Speaker 1: that everybody plays seemingly plays better at home. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, that's a that was a defense
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys were able to kind of move the
Speaker 1: ball on. So it'll be interesting to see. I just
Speaker 1: the more I'm listening to this, I see I vision.
Speaker 1: I can envision the Cowboys win in this game. I
Speaker 1: really do. I think that they're I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: look up in the third quarter and it's going to
Speaker 1: be like ten to three Dallas or you know. I
Speaker 1: think the defense canna play really well in this game,
Speaker 1: really well. I just think they're playing complimentary, complimentary football.
Speaker 1: And so Brady even said a few weeks ago, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, what I have to realize is right now,
Speaker 1: the strength of the team is on defensive special teams.
Speaker 1: We just basically don't need to mess it up. And
Speaker 1: I think that's probably why he's like, Okay, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of ball. If things look like they
Speaker 1: can go south, get rid of the ball. Because my
Speaker 1: defense is good enough. Not only can they stop the
Speaker 1: opposing offense, they might be able to take the ball
Speaker 1: away and they might be able to score. So they're
Speaker 1: just playing complimentary football. I would suspect if their defense
Speaker 1: wasn't this good, you'd probably be see that offense doing
Speaker 1: a lot more things. But right now, they're playing complimentary
Speaker 1: football and their defense is playing that level. The big
Speaker 1: key to this game, in my opinion, is not how
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense matches up with the Patriots offense. It
Speaker 1: is more so, can the Cowboys offense continue to be
Speaker 1: a juggernaut that it's been throughout most of the season
Speaker 1: against a really, really, really as you said, possibly great defense.
Speaker 1: That's the challenge. Here are their kicker, that's a really
Speaker 1: good while they had one of the best in the league,
Speaker 1: but Stephen got s I R and then he missed
Speaker 1: last week. Him up today, Oh saw he missed last
Speaker 1: Some reasons for that. Though Nick Folk is five of
Speaker 1: five since he joined the team. But I thought he
Speaker 1: missed last week. Not according to the staff, that's unless
Speaker 1: almost nugent is there too. Are we sure that folkus
Speaker 1: from last week where he missed a kick, but maybe
Speaker 1: I missed it focus I'm walking off the field and
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, I'm nick Folk makes missed but
Speaker 1: they have not. Um, folks, long is only thirty nine
Speaker 1: so and that's uh, here's a funny stat. The Patriots
Speaker 1: have not even attempted a kick from fifty plus and
Speaker 1: they've only attempted three from forty to forty nine. Like
Speaker 1: they're doing all of their kicking from the twenty to
Speaker 1: the thirty nine, which stall around the thirty five yard.
Speaker 1: No they stall, which I mean they stall. No, they
Speaker 1: don't even stall in the red zone. They stall in
Speaker 1: pretty normal kicking range. But with Gaskowski out of the lineup,
Speaker 1: they clearly don't trust these guys to be booming big.
Speaker 1: That's I'm not sure. I feel like I'm a bad
Speaker 1: reporter because I focus so much on the offense. That's
Speaker 1: all right, that's all right. Well, the cow was just
Speaker 1: need to kind of clean it up, and it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Nick Folk on Sunday Day. That's yeah, and
Speaker 1: he has not missed this, Suson, I must ms. Derek
Speaker 1: tried to throw me under the bus. No, I wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to throw you know, I was kidding, just checking.
Speaker 1: And hopefully the Cowboys um run defense gets some more confidence,
Speaker 1: I should say, because you said them not being so
Speaker 1: good in the red zone, maybe this is a good
Speaker 1: matchup there with the Cowboys run defense, red zone defense
Speaker 1: kind of get him back on track. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Patriots can just line up and run him over
Speaker 1: the way that like Dalvin Cook did or even you know,
Speaker 1: Bo Scarborough at times. But I do last words, it
Speaker 1: always is, it always is. But I mean there. I
Speaker 1: mean on the season, even with as many bad teams
Speaker 1: as they play, they're averaging three yards per carry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's the screens and the flare routes and the swing.
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of seeing James White like, you know,
Speaker 1: the perfect little wheel, you know, screen not screen wheel
Speaker 1: up the field, like Brady just puts it right in
Speaker 1: his bread basket as he's crossing the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: It looks like arena football. He's off to the race
Speaker 1: and he always gets at least eight, if not like
Speaker 1: sixteen or more. Yeah, all right, well that is all
Speaker 1: the time we got for today. I appreciate mix optimism.
Speaker 1: The defense is going to clean up on their tackles.
Speaker 1: They're gonna pressure Tom Brady, they're gonna create some turnovers.
Speaker 1: They're gonna keep them out of the end zone. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna walk out with the wind this weekend. So
Speaker 1: that's impressive. If they get the wind, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: walk out of there. They're gonna all be doing the
Speaker 1: Dak dance out of Jelette Stadium everybody. They win this game,
Speaker 1: I'll do that dance on the show with Rob on
Speaker 1: the field quote and I'll have Rob do it. Let's
Speaker 1: say Rob's not doing that. They both get to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Can they beat them twice? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're like twenty step. I worry that I'm the hover
Speaker 1: on this particular. You know, like she just took the polls,
Speaker 1: started running with it, just bull vaulted all across the top.
Speaker 1: I look at probability, so I'm like, can you beat
Speaker 1: somebody twice like this? I don't know. I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about that, right, I know, I thank you worried about
Speaker 1: all right. I'll say this, if they played the Jets again, though,
Speaker 1: they would beat them again. There there you go. All right,
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