WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: That Patriots' D 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.520 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:18.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.400 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.759 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.960 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:37.239 ware with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia and 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.199 Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, November twenty first, twenty nineteen, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.960 Season fifteen, episode number eighty seven, eighty seven. Welcome to 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.800 another edition of The Break. We're alive in SWBC Mortgage 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.760 Studios at the Star and appreciate you guys joining us today. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:52.080 We got a lot to talk about. We're going to 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.240 talk about the Cowboys versus the New England Patriots. That 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.640 happens this Sunday three fifteen here Central Time, and today 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.160 Dave He's going to dive into the Cowboys offense versus 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.119 the Yes, Yes, I am right, I was playing New 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.399 England defense. I think typically you start off with the 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.520 team that you're not familiar with God and you're like 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.600 the New England defense. The matchup the New England defense 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.920 versus the Cowboys offense. Before we get to that, though, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:19.840 we are going to talk a little bit about some injuries. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.360 There were a couple of guys are actually yeah, there 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.920 were two guys that did not practice yesterday. M yep, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.640 so let's talk about them. Lyle Collins didn't practice, Joe 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.679 Thomas didn't practice. Joe Thompson was an illness, but Lyle 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.840 dealing with a knee and a back. And then you 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.920 had three guys that will limited, Zach Martin, Connor Williams, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.480 which that's actually the improvement that he's actually back out. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.200 There's some m and then Antoine Woods talk to me 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.679 about the guys first that did not practice and then 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.440 the guys that were limited. Well Lyle, Lyle's still out 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:55.240 with his knee and probably will be until tomorrow. That's expected. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.480 They think he's gonna play just like last week. Manage 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.360 him until Friday and hope he can get out there. 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.280 So all things situation normal with that. Hopefully we'll see 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.080 him tomorrow. It's a good indicator that he can play. 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.840 And Joe Thomas he wasn't there today, so I guess 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.120 typically you know these guys, you know, you can strap 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.080 him up to an IV and flush him out and 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.120 get him out there after a day but maybe he 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:17.799 needs a little more time, Maybe he won't be able 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.960 to go. We'll see. But you're in a pretty good 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.400 spot when he's your fourth linebacker, so that's nice. Maybe 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.360 flu season, he got the flu. I don't know, but 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.760 I don't know what it is. Sometimes when that happens, though, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.520 you know, you need forty eight hours not just for 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.440 him to be away, but for him not to be 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.320 around the players. Good point. That could be part of 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:41.040 it too. And you want to take twenty four hours 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.000 after the fever as his parents know when they will 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.080 no longer be contagious. So that is a good point. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.239 But the other guys that I mean, if if Lyle 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.040 doesn't play, Cameron Fleming will be the guy. Of course, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.679 Cameron Fleming has started a Super Bowl for the Patriots, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.600 So there a lot of talk about Bennett playing is 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.359 former team that he was there for for about you know, 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.920 six games, but Fleming was also there. Not to say that, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.239 yeah he's motivated or more or anything like that, but 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.919 the I mean, I get, you know, the Patriots benched 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:13.800 him and he got it in you know, he didn't 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.880 appreciate it, and then yeah, I guess I get why 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.600 it's a storyline. But I was thinking about that, like, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.280 you know, he talked yesterday and he was there was 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 this crush of media trying to get at him, and 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.359 I was like, it's not like this guy played ten 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:27.800 years for the Pats, like he was there for he 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:31.120 was a one year come half a season. Yeaheah great 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:34.160 things to say about the Patriots. Yeah, if there's animosity there, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.840 he didn't show any of it. Yeah, which so I 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.000 guess my point being is like it feels a little 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.280 bit overblown to me, Like if if he was playing 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:44.640 the Seahawks, I get why that would be a big story. 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.400 And the thing about it is he got bitch, but 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.720 it was more like he got in trouble with because 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:52.040 he got into it with his position coach. Before that, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.119 his lack of playing I thought was not so much 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:58.600 about him as it was just how they were playing defense. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.920 He wasn't a fit and that probably was something that 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.160 was a mistake on their part of bringing him in 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.000 as a free agent because he just wasn't a fit 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.400 for what they were trying to do. That that I 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.400 think could probably be taking a lot less personal by 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.360 a player that it wasn't me, it was you, right, 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.120 you just didn't need my skills in the way that 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.320 I should be. You, there's gotta be more to it 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.039 than that, though, because I mean Belichick's the master of 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.279 figuring out what you've got and making it work, and 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.479 he can rush the passage. That's if he wanted to 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.800 get him in. But if by the way, they were 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.240 doing quite well on defense, So the scheme that they 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.480 were running was working, it just didn't include him. So 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.560 you know, you can't you can't say that it wasn't 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.680 working and they weren't figuring out how to get him involved. Well, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.000 they didn't need to figure out how to get him 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.520 in involved because it was working. You know, we're about 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.080 to say something to him. Not really. I mean I 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.000 was thinking, you know, you called it a mistake that 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.960 they traded for him, and I was sitting there thinking, yeah, like, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.719 in the off season is for compiling the talent that 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.800 you want to use and developing a game plan. Like 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.000 it sounds just like Belichick for him to halfway through 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.400 training camp be like, oh, yeah, we don't really need that, 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.640 like I've figured out something new and better, Whereas I 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:07.680 feel like most coaches would be like, well, we got him, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.120 so we have to use him, and he's like, I 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.000 got something better in mine. It's fine, like a god 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.440 instead as talent as he is. Right. Absolutely, It's like 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.800 the same thing that we've talked about different players here. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.400 If they have an issue off the field or whatever 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.520 kind of issues around the team, you put up with 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.279 it if they're performing well on the field and giving 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.400 you something. So if that was a guy that they 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.279 didn't feel like they really needed to be producing on 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.960 the field and then he's given them issues with the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.200 coach and all that, then just get rid of him. Yeah, 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.240 it's fine. And for them, like there was no mean again, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.800 they could run their defense without him. Yeah, that's what 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.680 we saw, is they could run their defense without What's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.279 funny is that he had two and a half sacks 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.279 in his time with the Patriots and in the amount 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.480 of games he played and you know, deep Laws got 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.320 four and a half sacks here, and so it's like 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.240 if a guy had two and a half sacks for 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.760 any part of the season, half the year, like for 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.120 the Cowboys, that's like that, that's that's good, you know, MALIEK. 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:05.640 Collins or something like that. So it's just funny how 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.680 two and a half sacks is like, we're gonna move 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.440 on from that Cowboys. What does he have right now here? 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.960 He's got three with the Cowboys. Yeah, he did five 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.360 and a half of the season. It's a pretty pretty good, 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.520 pretty good player. He'll probably in the season right up 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.760 there around eight nine. That's a really good year for 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.760 especially a guy that's playing interior defensive a lot. As 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.960 much as he plays interior defensive line. That's a really 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.159 good number to be in at eight to nine. Zack 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.560 Range definitely. Um Connor Williams was running with the first 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.599 team again today. We don't get to see the real 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.360 part of practice, so who knows? Um He said yesterday 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.279 in the locker room he expects to be one hundred 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:41.360 percent today, which is crazy to me. It's nine days 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:46.800 out from knee surgery. I get. I get arthur'scopic surgery 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.600 is you know, sudden, very small incision. I don't care. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.440 Something's like you about it. It It wasn't just a needle. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.440 I especially when you're talking about guys that big, you 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.000 carrying around walking around with all that weight, and you 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:02.719 know the knees supporting all of that weight. That's just insane. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.720 These dudes a hardcore h I trend toward thinking he 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.840 might be back in the starting lineup. Did you guys 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.480 talk about Monday? I wasn't here, so if you did, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.560 say we already talked about it. Do you guys talk 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.240 about Xavier and how he played in the game? We 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.400 hit on it. Yeah, And I mean, like the consensus 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.280 is that, I mean in general, obviously the whole line 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.200 was better against the past than the run. I think 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:30.440 that goes for Xavier too. So I thought he was fine. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.840 I didn't think he was so amazing that I'm holding 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.160 out saying, you know, if if Connor's good to go, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.280 I'd put him back in the lineup. He wasn't. I 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.680 guess my question would be, was he appreciably better than Connor? 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.480 Because if he's not better than Connor, then yeah, go 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.680 back to the young guy and put him back in there. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.880 But did you see anything that suggested he was better? 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:50.880 And Nick, I know that was one of the guys 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.120 that you would see that kind of move. Yeah, I 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.040 don't think he's a better player at all, but they 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.280 do for whatever reason, they don't think who's a better player. 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.080 I don't think Connor is a better player than Xavier Suphilo. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.440 I don't. I don't. I think he's a he is 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.320 a more of an investment for their team and and 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:15.000 they want him to be better. Um, he might have 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.400 more of an upside. I think Suafilo kind of might 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.000 be what he is, you know, journeyman guy. He's stronger, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.720 but he's just not dynamic where maybe Connor can get 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.520 to that point. That's I think how they they see it, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.840 and they're seeming like like they're gonna they're gonna sack her. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.360 I mean they're going to They're willing to deal with 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.880 whatever growing pains there might be with him to kind 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.679 of get him to that level they think he can 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:43.840 be at. So I don't you know, with a head 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.079 coach that is on a one year deal or last 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.720 year of his deal, I would play the best guy. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.400 I think it's Suaphilo. I'm not a practice they are, 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:54.640 that's who they think. I just I don't feel strongly 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.240 about it one way or the other. But I don't 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.640 think Suahilo was drastically better to the point where I'm like, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 like I said, like, whoa Connor take your time, like 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.880 you're healthy, Let's go, Let's do it all right real quick. 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.280 I want to hit a couple other things on the 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.400 injury front. Just looking down at the Patriots, they have 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.880 two wide receivers now on the injury report. You got 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.160 Philip Dorsett, who has a concussion. He did not practice 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.080 for them. You also got Mohammed Sanu, their wide receiver, 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.960 who did not practice because of an ankle injury. Twitter 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.680 is telling me right this moment that they're both at 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.040 practice today. Okay, so both a practice probably limited and 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.920 probably limited in some capacity, all right, but trending in 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.959 the right direction yea. Which, again, that would be big 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.360 for them if they weren't there. We talked yesterday about 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.800 the fact that they really don't have that down feel 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.000 threat Dorset could represent that for them because he has 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.839 the speed to do it. Maybe they haven't used him 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:49.760 like that, but he does represent that for them, And 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.640 obviously Mohamed Sanu is a big body for them. Those 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.840 guys didn't play, that would be a significant, I would think, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.400 a significant, yes, problem for them. I'd be worried about 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.719 the guys that did, though. I just feel like they 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.280 just kind of grab some guy that we've never seen 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.520 down a lot this year, it seems like, but they are. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.160 I mean, he's just like Aaron Rodgers and that whoever 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.320 they put in there, they seem to function well and 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.200 move the ball, and so yeah, you would like it 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.360 to be their second or third guy as opposed to 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.800 their starter. But I don't know if it matters that much. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.880 Probably not, I don't. All right, we're gonna take our 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.280 first break when we come back. We're gonna get it. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.600 To Dave's assessment of this New England Patriots defense, it 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.760 is a very very good unit. Dave will tell us 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.360 why when we come back. 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Dave tell us 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.960 why it feels like a lot of pressure and I 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.240 don't like it, Like you don't like pressure. Explain, Dave, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.240 explain why the best coach of all time has his 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.920 defense playing is always at this level. I know this 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.200 has been an offensive unit for a long time. It 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.240 just kind of to me just kind of popped out 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.040 of nowhere to become this good, this fast. It's just fun. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.320 Like even watching the Patriots feels intimidating because like I 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.160 don't know, Mark, Like you're like, well, it's a four 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.440 three or three four and they do this. This guy's good. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.760 That guy is good. With the Patriots. You're just like, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.000 this is just like an amiba of players and they 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.800 do something different on every like it just looks and 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.000 feels different. And I feel like part of that is 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.160 just the reputation. You know, You're like, well, Belichick's like 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.240 the Jedi Master. Like of course, of course it's different 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.480 when they do it. As opposed to everybody else, But 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.640 it really does feel that way. The big thing that 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.600 jumps out to me right off the bat is just 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.439 like typical Patriots, like they've got basically a bunch of 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.760 cast offs playing at an absurdly high level. That doesn't 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.959 mean they're not talented. I saw somebody point that out, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.640 Like this defense is littered with first and second round picks, 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.520 but a lot of them weren't good where they or before, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.800 Like Cason point, Danny Shelton was a first round pick 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:09.800 right now he was out of Washington. I believe Danny Watkins. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.800 I think anyway, go ahead, yeah, firefighter now m Danny Shelton, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.160 first round pick of the Browns. Traded him to New 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.680 England for pennies. He's starting at nose tackle. He's got 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:24.840 forty tackles, two sacks. Kyle van Noy maybe the greatest 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.640 example of this, top forty pick for Detroit out of BYU, 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.200 bust of all busts, like he was trending in a 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.200 terrible direction. Detroit trades him to New England for pennies. 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:39.360 He's got thirty two tackles, six sacks. Just plays great 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.360 rush linebacker for them. Jamie Collins was great in New England, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.360 left because he wanted too much money, messed around in 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.240 Cleveland for a little bit, came back on a bargain deal. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.480 Fifty tackles, three picks, five pass breakups, six sacks. Patrick 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.600 Chung again, Patrick Chung, great for New England for years, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.520 left to get money in Philly. Sucked. Don't even think 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.960 he made it through his contract there, comes back to 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:07.280 New England starting at safety. Twenty two tackles. Jason mccordy 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.000 came at He's been all over the place. He comes 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.040 to New England late in his career. He's playing great 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.120 opposite Gilmore at cornerback. So they just turn other people's 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.640 trash into treasure. Treasure basically their first against the past, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.120 their second against our second overall eleven points per game, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.120 first by far. Not as great as you would expect 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.720 against the run, but again, maybe part of that is 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.880 just because nobody wants to throw the ball against him. Yeah, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.400 you know about the takeaways twenty eight on the year, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.480 nineteen interceptions, most of which coming from the DBS. But 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.120 their linebackers are really good at it, Like Jamie Collins 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.880 has I think three interceptions. Yeah, I just said that 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.200 three interceptions this year, They've gotten at least one takeaway 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.880 in every game this season. They've gotten multiple game multiple 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.360 in seven of the ten which I went back and 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:03.280 looked at. This just something to consider if you think 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.760 the Cowboys or want the Cowboys are gonna win. The 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.480 Cowboys have committed at least one turnover in eight of 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.120 their ten games. Like, they haven't been very good with 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.800 the ball. I will say a decent number of those 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.200 are like last minute hail Mary picks thrown by Dak 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.440 which maybe you don't want to count that, but eighty 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:24.240 percent of the time they're committing a turnover. That doesn't 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.600 seem like a great recipe for success against this defense 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.280 that's got to be better. What makes them good, in 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:36.160 my opinion, is the back seven really is that talented 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.800 when it comes to defending the past. Like you know, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.240 in this day and age, with the way the rules are, 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.960 it's hard to be good against the pass. But these 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.120 guys really seem like they are. Like, for my money, 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.720 I think Stefan Gilmour's probably the best cover corner in 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.960 football right now. He's certainly up there. If it's not Lattimore, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:59.080 Ramsey Lattimore even Patrick Peterson still, but like, I mean, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.080 he's right up there. How do you quantify best overall? 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.920 I don't know, but I stole this from a Patriots 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.800 beat writer this morning. He's been targeted fifty one times 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.480 this year. He's given up nineteen receptions for two hundred 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.679 and thirty yards, no touchdowns. They put him on Earth's, 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.240 They they will put him on the best guy. He 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.480 played Earth's on third downs in this Eagles game and 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.399 handled him well. So being said, do you expect that 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.560 the Cowboys? I mean that they entered this game and 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.560 they say, let's put our best corner on the best receiver. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.119 Because I've heard it two ways. I've heard it. They 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:30.800 do it that way, or they go put him on 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.439 they go put him on your second best guy, whoever 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.000 you think that might be, and then they kind of 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.560 bracket cover. So here's all right, They'll do that on 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.680 first down, second down, change it up on third down 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.800 a little bit, all of it, everything, and that it'll 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:45.679 always be like it's never as easy as like, well, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.600 he's gonna shadow Amari. But I do wonder like, do 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.840 you put Gilmore on Gallop and just trust that he 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:54.000 can handle it and then double Amari or do whatever 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.160 you want. The thing is I was surprised to see 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.760 I guess I shouldn't be. But Cordy's pretty damn good 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.520 in his own right, like I think, and again that's 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.679 I think what makes them so good is in the 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.880 two and a half games that I watched they beat 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.359 they just single receivers with their with their like mccordy's 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.240 on wide receiver two, Gilmore's on wide receiver one. They 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.000 move them around in certain situations, but they just put 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.520 those guys on islands and send everybody they help clogged 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.000 the box, and if they bracket anybody, they bracket the 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.360 slot with their safety and their slot corner, and they 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.560 just trust that those two guys more often than not 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.640 are not going to get beat. If they can do that, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.000 then it's hard. It's hard to do anything because now 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:38.520 you're two guys on outside are right best fifty fifty 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:41.080 Let's say you're safety, I mean you're you're slot guys. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.280 Now got two guys he's got to deal with, and 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.160 you got a situation where they still have a number 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:46.639 of guys they can put in the box to stop 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:48.439 the run, Like, how do you beat that? How about this? 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.240 That the Cowboys are first in the NFL and third 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.240 down conversions on offense, they get fifty two percent of 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.320 the time. That's number one in the league is getting 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.240 it fifty percent of the time. The Patriots are first 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:03.440 and third down defense and they're allowing nineteen point nine 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.920 percent of the third down. That's a hell of a stat. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:07.800 Let's figure out how this is gonna go ahead. I'm 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.880 just saying that that's one of those big on big 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.520 but it's a lot bigger over there with what the 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.840 Patriots are doing less than I mean a twenty percent 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.600 of the time. Yeah, basically in every game, one of 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.760 every five times you get the third down, you're getting 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.200 off the field. It is and I kind of mentioned 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.320 that at the top two is like get the third down. 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.760 Belichick just seems like he's mastered the art of finding 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.520 like versatile guys. So like he's got he's got two 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.119 corners that can pretty much handle whatever he wants. And 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:39.959 then the middle of the field, it just looks ridiculous, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.840 like they never have more than two or three down linemen. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.440 Sometimes it's just one, it's Danny Shelton and somebody else. 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.919 Sometimes it's a rush linebacker. Sometimes it's like a three 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.359 four end. Then Jamie Collins and Van Noy or your 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.000 rush guys, they cover pretty well for rush linebackers, Like 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.359 they're not They're not in that Von Miller type of mold, right, 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.840 they're more additional linebackers. They'll put Collins on running backs. 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.119 Van Noy can do it too. And then even you know, 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.880 Dante high Towers their big name in the middle, and 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:11.639 he like he covers pretty well, but he also like 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.640 he looks thick on tape, like he looks big and bulky. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.240 He can rush the passer, he clogs up space. And 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.840 they'll just put seven guys in between the numbers and 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.600 they're just like, well, have fun figuring out who's doing what, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.399