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Speaker 1: Season fifteen, episode number eighty seven, eighty seven. Welcome to
Speaker 1: another edition of The Break. We're alive in SWBC Mortgage
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Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys versus the New England Patriots. That
Speaker 1: happens this Sunday three fifteen here Central Time, and today
Speaker 1: Dave He's going to dive into the Cowboys offense versus
Speaker 1: the Yes, Yes, I am right, I was playing New
Speaker 1: England defense. I think typically you start off with the
Speaker 1: team that you're not familiar with God and you're like
Speaker 1: the New England defense. The matchup the New England defense
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys offense. Before we get to that, though,
Speaker 1: we are going to talk a little bit about some injuries.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of guys are actually yeah, there
Speaker 1: were two guys that did not practice yesterday. M yep,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about them. Lyle Collins didn't practice, Joe
Speaker 1: Thomas didn't practice. Joe Thompson was an illness, but Lyle
Speaker 1: dealing with a knee and a back. And then you
Speaker 1: had three guys that will limited, Zach Martin, Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: which that's actually the improvement that he's actually back out.
Speaker 1: There's some m and then Antoine Woods talk to me
Speaker 1: about the guys first that did not practice and then
Speaker 1: the guys that were limited. Well Lyle, Lyle's still out
Speaker 1: with his knee and probably will be until tomorrow. That's expected.
Speaker 1: They think he's gonna play just like last week. Manage
Speaker 1: him until Friday and hope he can get out there.
Speaker 1: So all things situation normal with that. Hopefully we'll see
Speaker 1: him tomorrow. It's a good indicator that he can play.
Speaker 1: And Joe Thomas he wasn't there today, so I guess
Speaker 1: typically you know these guys, you know, you can strap
Speaker 1: him up to an IV and flush him out and
Speaker 1: get him out there after a day but maybe he
Speaker 1: needs a little more time, Maybe he won't be able
Speaker 1: to go. We'll see. But you're in a pretty good
Speaker 1: spot when he's your fourth linebacker, so that's nice. Maybe
Speaker 1: flu season, he got the flu. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Sometimes when that happens, though,
Speaker 1: you know, you need forty eight hours not just for
Speaker 1: him to be away, but for him not to be
Speaker 1: around the players. Good point. That could be part of
Speaker 1: it too. And you want to take twenty four hours
Speaker 1: after the fever as his parents know when they will
Speaker 1: no longer be contagious. So that is a good point.
Speaker 1: But the other guys that I mean, if if Lyle
Speaker 1: doesn't play, Cameron Fleming will be the guy. Of course,
Speaker 1: Cameron Fleming has started a Super Bowl for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: So there a lot of talk about Bennett playing is
Speaker 1: former team that he was there for for about you know,
Speaker 1: six games, but Fleming was also there. Not to say that,
Speaker 1: yeah he's motivated or more or anything like that, but
Speaker 1: the I mean, I get, you know, the Patriots benched
Speaker 1: him and he got it in you know, he didn't
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and then yeah, I guess I get why
Speaker 1: it's a storyline. But I was thinking about that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he talked yesterday and he was there was
Speaker 1: this crush of media trying to get at him, and
Speaker 1: I was like, it's not like this guy played ten
Speaker 1: years for the Pats, like he was there for he
Speaker 1: was a one year come half a season. Yeaheah great
Speaker 1: things to say about the Patriots. Yeah, if there's animosity there,
Speaker 1: he didn't show any of it. Yeah, which so I
Speaker 1: guess my point being is like it feels a little
Speaker 1: bit overblown to me, Like if if he was playing
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, I get why that would be a big story.
Speaker 1: And the thing about it is he got bitch, but
Speaker 1: it was more like he got in trouble with because
Speaker 1: he got into it with his position coach. Before that,
Speaker 1: his lack of playing I thought was not so much
Speaker 1: about him as it was just how they were playing defense.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a fit and that probably was something that
Speaker 1: was a mistake on their part of bringing him in
Speaker 1: as a free agent because he just wasn't a fit
Speaker 1: for what they were trying to do. That that I
Speaker 1: think could probably be taking a lot less personal by
Speaker 1: a player that it wasn't me, it was you, right,
Speaker 1: you just didn't need my skills in the way that
Speaker 1: I should be. You, there's gotta be more to it
Speaker 1: than that, though, because I mean Belichick's the master of
Speaker 1: figuring out what you've got and making it work, and
Speaker 1: he can rush the passage. That's if he wanted to
Speaker 1: get him in. But if by the way, they were
Speaker 1: doing quite well on defense, So the scheme that they
Speaker 1: were running was working, it just didn't include him. So
Speaker 1: you know, you can't you can't say that it wasn't
Speaker 1: working and they weren't figuring out how to get him involved. Well,
Speaker 1: they didn't need to figure out how to get him
Speaker 1: in involved because it was working. You know, we're about
Speaker 1: to say something to him. Not really. I mean I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know, you called it a mistake that
Speaker 1: they traded for him, and I was sitting there thinking, yeah, like,
Speaker 1: in the off season is for compiling the talent that
Speaker 1: you want to use and developing a game plan. Like
Speaker 1: it sounds just like Belichick for him to halfway through
Speaker 1: training camp be like, oh, yeah, we don't really need that,
Speaker 1: like I've figured out something new and better, Whereas I
Speaker 1: feel like most coaches would be like, well, we got him,
Speaker 1: so we have to use him, and he's like, I
Speaker 1: got something better in mine. It's fine, like a god
Speaker 1: instead as talent as he is. Right. Absolutely, It's like
Speaker 1: the same thing that we've talked about different players here.
Speaker 1: If they have an issue off the field or whatever
Speaker 1: kind of issues around the team, you put up with
Speaker 1: it if they're performing well on the field and giving
Speaker 1: you something. So if that was a guy that they
Speaker 1: didn't feel like they really needed to be producing on
Speaker 1: the field and then he's given them issues with the
Speaker 1: coach and all that, then just get rid of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine. And for them, like there was no mean again,
Speaker 1: they could run their defense without him. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: we saw, is they could run their defense without What's
Speaker 1: funny is that he had two and a half sacks
Speaker 1: in his time with the Patriots and in the amount
Speaker 1: of games he played and you know, deep Laws got
Speaker 1: four and a half sacks here, and so it's like
Speaker 1: if a guy had two and a half sacks for
Speaker 1: any part of the season, half the year, like for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, that's like that, that's that's good, you know, MALIEK.
Speaker 1: Collins or something like that. So it's just funny how
Speaker 1: two and a half sacks is like, we're gonna move
Speaker 1: on from that Cowboys. What does he have right now here?
Speaker 1: He's got three with the Cowboys. Yeah, he did five
Speaker 1: and a half of the season. It's a pretty pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good player. He'll probably in the season right up
Speaker 1: there around eight nine. That's a really good year for
Speaker 1: especially a guy that's playing interior defensive a lot. As
Speaker 1: much as he plays interior defensive line. That's a really
Speaker 1: good number to be in at eight to nine. Zack
Speaker 1: Range definitely. Um Connor Williams was running with the first
Speaker 1: team again today. We don't get to see the real
Speaker 1: part of practice, so who knows? Um He said yesterday
Speaker 1: in the locker room he expects to be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent today, which is crazy to me. It's nine days
Speaker 1: out from knee surgery. I get. I get arthur'scopic surgery
Speaker 1: is you know, sudden, very small incision. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Something's like you about it. It It wasn't just a needle.
Speaker 1: I especially when you're talking about guys that big, you
Speaker 1: carrying around walking around with all that weight, and you
Speaker 1: know the knees supporting all of that weight. That's just insane.
Speaker 1: These dudes a hardcore h I trend toward thinking he
Speaker 1: might be back in the starting lineup. Did you guys
Speaker 1: talk about Monday? I wasn't here, so if you did,
Speaker 1: say we already talked about it. Do you guys talk
Speaker 1: about Xavier and how he played in the game? We
Speaker 1: hit on it. Yeah, And I mean, like the consensus
Speaker 1: is that, I mean in general, obviously the whole line
Speaker 1: was better against the past than the run. I think
Speaker 1: that goes for Xavier too. So I thought he was fine.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was so amazing that I'm holding
Speaker 1: out saying, you know, if if Connor's good to go,
Speaker 1: I'd put him back in the lineup. He wasn't. I
Speaker 1: guess my question would be, was he appreciably better than Connor?
Speaker 1: Because if he's not better than Connor, then yeah, go
Speaker 1: back to the young guy and put him back in there.
Speaker 1: But did you see anything that suggested he was better?
Speaker 1: And Nick, I know that was one of the guys
Speaker 1: that you would see that kind of move. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he's a better player at all, but they
Speaker 1: do for whatever reason, they don't think who's a better player.
Speaker 1: I don't think Connor is a better player than Xavier Suphilo.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I think he's a he is
Speaker 1: a more of an investment for their team and and
Speaker 1: they want him to be better. Um, he might have
Speaker 1: more of an upside. I think Suafilo kind of might
Speaker 1: be what he is, you know, journeyman guy. He's stronger,
Speaker 1: but he's just not dynamic where maybe Connor can get
Speaker 1: to that point. That's I think how they they see it,
Speaker 1: and they're seeming like like they're gonna they're gonna sack her.
Speaker 1: I mean they're going to They're willing to deal with
Speaker 1: whatever growing pains there might be with him to kind
Speaker 1: of get him to that level they think he can
Speaker 1: be at. So I don't you know, with a head
Speaker 1: coach that is on a one year deal or last
Speaker 1: year of his deal, I would play the best guy.
Speaker 1: I think it's Suaphilo. I'm not a practice they are,
Speaker 1: that's who they think. I just I don't feel strongly
Speaker 1: about it one way or the other. But I don't
Speaker 1: think Suahilo was drastically better to the point where I'm like,
Speaker 1: like I said, like, whoa Connor take your time, like
Speaker 1: you're healthy, Let's go, Let's do it all right real quick.
Speaker 1: I want to hit a couple other things on the
Speaker 1: injury front. Just looking down at the Patriots, they have
Speaker 1: two wide receivers now on the injury report. You got
Speaker 1: Philip Dorsett, who has a concussion. He did not practice
Speaker 1: for them. You also got Mohammed Sanu, their wide receiver,
Speaker 1: who did not practice because of an ankle injury. Twitter
Speaker 1: is telling me right this moment that they're both at
Speaker 1: practice today. Okay, so both a practice probably limited and
Speaker 1: probably limited in some capacity, all right, but trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction yea. Which, again, that would be big
Speaker 1: for them if they weren't there. We talked yesterday about
Speaker 1: the fact that they really don't have that down feel
Speaker 1: threat Dorset could represent that for them because he has
Speaker 1: the speed to do it. Maybe they haven't used him
Speaker 1: like that, but he does represent that for them, And
Speaker 1: obviously Mohamed Sanu is a big body for them. Those
Speaker 1: guys didn't play, that would be a significant, I would think,
Speaker 1: a significant, yes, problem for them. I'd be worried about
Speaker 1: the guys that did, though. I just feel like they
Speaker 1: just kind of grab some guy that we've never seen
Speaker 1: down a lot this year, it seems like, but they are.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just like Aaron Rodgers and that whoever
Speaker 1: they put in there, they seem to function well and
Speaker 1: move the ball, and so yeah, you would like it
Speaker 1: to be their second or third guy as opposed to
Speaker 1: their starter. But I don't know if it matters that much.
Speaker 1: Probably not, I don't. All right, we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: first break when we come back. We're gonna get it.
Speaker 1: To Dave's assessment of this New England Patriots defense, it
Speaker 1: is a very very good unit. Dave will tell us
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Speaker 1: back to the second segment of the break. We a
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Speaker 1: Let's get into this new England Patriots defense. They are
Speaker 1: a unit that ranks top among the league and a
Speaker 1: lot of categories, very very good unit. Dave tell us
Speaker 1: why it feels like a lot of pressure and I
Speaker 1: don't like it, Like you don't like pressure. Explain, Dave,
Speaker 1: explain why the best coach of all time has his
Speaker 1: defense playing is always at this level. I know this
Speaker 1: has been an offensive unit for a long time. It
Speaker 1: just kind of to me just kind of popped out
Speaker 1: of nowhere to become this good, this fast. It's just fun.
Speaker 1: Like even watching the Patriots feels intimidating because like I
Speaker 1: don't know, Mark, Like you're like, well, it's a four
Speaker 1: three or three four and they do this. This guy's good.
Speaker 1: That guy is good. With the Patriots. You're just like,
Speaker 1: this is just like an amiba of players and they
Speaker 1: do something different on every like it just looks and
Speaker 1: feels different. And I feel like part of that is
Speaker 1: just the reputation. You know, You're like, well, Belichick's like
Speaker 1: the Jedi Master. Like of course, of course it's different
Speaker 1: when they do it. As opposed to everybody else, But
Speaker 1: it really does feel that way. The big thing that
Speaker 1: jumps out to me right off the bat is just
Speaker 1: like typical Patriots, like they've got basically a bunch of
Speaker 1: cast offs playing at an absurdly high level. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're not talented. I saw somebody point that out,
Speaker 1: Like this defense is littered with first and second round picks,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them weren't good where they or before,
Speaker 1: Like Cason point, Danny Shelton was a first round pick
Speaker 1: right now he was out of Washington. I believe Danny Watkins.
Speaker 1: I think anyway, go ahead, yeah, firefighter now m Danny Shelton,
Speaker 1: first round pick of the Browns. Traded him to New
Speaker 1: England for pennies. He's starting at nose tackle. He's got
Speaker 1: forty tackles, two sacks. Kyle van Noy maybe the greatest
Speaker 1: example of this, top forty pick for Detroit out of BYU,
Speaker 1: bust of all busts, like he was trending in a
Speaker 1: terrible direction. Detroit trades him to New England for pennies.
Speaker 1: He's got thirty two tackles, six sacks. Just plays great
Speaker 1: rush linebacker for them. Jamie Collins was great in New England,
Speaker 1: left because he wanted too much money, messed around in
Speaker 1: Cleveland for a little bit, came back on a bargain deal.
Speaker 1: Fifty tackles, three picks, five pass breakups, six sacks. Patrick
Speaker 1: Chung again, Patrick Chung, great for New England for years,
Speaker 1: left to get money in Philly. Sucked. Don't even think
Speaker 1: he made it through his contract there, comes back to
Speaker 1: New England starting at safety. Twenty two tackles. Jason mccordy
Speaker 1: came at He's been all over the place. He comes
Speaker 1: to New England late in his career. He's playing great
Speaker 1: opposite Gilmore at cornerback. So they just turn other people's
Speaker 1: trash into treasure. Treasure basically their first against the past,
Speaker 1: their second against our second overall eleven points per game,
Speaker 1: first by far. Not as great as you would expect
Speaker 1: against the run, but again, maybe part of that is
Speaker 1: just because nobody wants to throw the ball against him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know about the takeaways twenty eight on the year,
Speaker 1: nineteen interceptions, most of which coming from the DBS. But
Speaker 1: their linebackers are really good at it, Like Jamie Collins
Speaker 1: has I think three interceptions. Yeah, I just said that
Speaker 1: three interceptions this year, They've gotten at least one takeaway
Speaker 1: in every game this season. They've gotten multiple game multiple
Speaker 1: in seven of the ten which I went back and
Speaker 1: looked at. This just something to consider if you think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or want the Cowboys are gonna win. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have committed at least one turnover in eight of
Speaker 1: their ten games. Like, they haven't been very good with
Speaker 1: the ball. I will say a decent number of those
Speaker 1: are like last minute hail Mary picks thrown by Dak
Speaker 1: which maybe you don't want to count that, but eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the time they're committing a turnover. That doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like a great recipe for success against this defense
Speaker 1: that's got to be better. What makes them good, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, is the back seven really is that talented
Speaker 1: when it comes to defending the past. Like you know,
Speaker 1: in this day and age, with the way the rules are,
Speaker 1: it's hard to be good against the pass. But these
Speaker 1: guys really seem like they are. Like, for my money,
Speaker 1: I think Stefan Gilmour's probably the best cover corner in
Speaker 1: football right now. He's certainly up there. If it's not Lattimore,
Speaker 1: Ramsey Lattimore even Patrick Peterson still, but like, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's right up there. How do you quantify best overall?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I stole this from a Patriots
Speaker 1: beat writer this morning. He's been targeted fifty one times
Speaker 1: this year. He's given up nineteen receptions for two hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty yards, no touchdowns. They put him on Earth's,
Speaker 1: They they will put him on the best guy. He
Speaker 1: played Earth's on third downs in this Eagles game and
Speaker 1: handled him well. So being said, do you expect that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? I mean that they entered this game and
Speaker 1: they say, let's put our best corner on the best receiver.
Speaker 1: Because I've heard it two ways. I've heard it. They
Speaker 1: do it that way, or they go put him on
Speaker 1: they go put him on your second best guy, whoever
Speaker 1: you think that might be, and then they kind of
Speaker 1: bracket cover. So here's all right, They'll do that on
Speaker 1: first down, second down, change it up on third down
Speaker 1: a little bit, all of it, everything, and that it'll
Speaker 1: always be like it's never as easy as like, well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna shadow Amari. But I do wonder like, do
Speaker 1: you put Gilmore on Gallop and just trust that he
Speaker 1: can handle it and then double Amari or do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. The thing is I was surprised to see
Speaker 1: I guess I shouldn't be. But Cordy's pretty damn good
Speaker 1: in his own right, like I think, and again that's
Speaker 1: I think what makes them so good is in the
Speaker 1: two and a half games that I watched they beat
Speaker 1: they just single receivers with their with their like mccordy's
Speaker 1: on wide receiver two, Gilmore's on wide receiver one. They
Speaker 1: move them around in certain situations, but they just put
Speaker 1: those guys on islands and send everybody they help clogged
Speaker 1: the box, and if they bracket anybody, they bracket the
Speaker 1: slot with their safety and their slot corner, and they
Speaker 1: just trust that those two guys more often than not
Speaker 1: are not going to get beat. If they can do that,
Speaker 1: then it's hard. It's hard to do anything because now
Speaker 1: you're two guys on outside are right best fifty fifty
Speaker 1: Let's say you're safety, I mean you're you're slot guys.
Speaker 1: Now got two guys he's got to deal with, and
Speaker 1: you got a situation where they still have a number
Speaker 1: of guys they can put in the box to stop
Speaker 1: the run, Like, how do you beat that? How about this?
Speaker 1: That the Cowboys are first in the NFL and third
Speaker 1: down conversions on offense, they get fifty two percent of
Speaker 1: the time. That's number one in the league is getting
Speaker 1: it fifty percent of the time. The Patriots are first
Speaker 1: and third down defense and they're allowing nineteen point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the third down. That's a hell of a stat.
Speaker 1: Let's figure out how this is gonna go ahead. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that that's one of those big on big
Speaker 1: but it's a lot bigger over there with what the
Speaker 1: Patriots are doing less than I mean a twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the time. Yeah, basically in every game, one of
Speaker 1: every five times you get the third down, you're getting
Speaker 1: off the field. It is and I kind of mentioned
Speaker 1: that at the top two is like get the third down.
Speaker 1: Belichick just seems like he's mastered the art of finding
Speaker 1: like versatile guys. So like he's got he's got two
Speaker 1: corners that can pretty much handle whatever he wants. And
Speaker 1: then the middle of the field, it just looks ridiculous,
Speaker 1: like they never have more than two or three down linemen.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just one, it's Danny Shelton and somebody else.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a rush linebacker. Sometimes it's like a three
Speaker 1: four end. Then Jamie Collins and Van Noy or your
Speaker 1: rush guys, they cover pretty well for rush linebackers, Like
Speaker 1: they're not They're not in that Von Miller type of mold, right,
Speaker 1: they're more additional linebackers. They'll put Collins on running backs.
Speaker 1: Van Noy can do it too. And then even you know,
Speaker 1: Dante high Towers their big name in the middle, and
Speaker 1: he like he covers pretty well, but he also like
Speaker 1: he looks thick on tape, like he looks big and bulky.
Speaker 1: He can rush the passer, he clogs up space. And
Speaker 1: they'll just put seven guys in between the numbers and
Speaker 1: they're just like, well, have fun figuring out who's doing what,
Speaker 1: and offenses aren't good at it. I don't blame him
Speaker 1: because I'm sitting there and I'm not an expert, but
Speaker 1: I'm watching. I'm just like, what's going on, Like this
Speaker 1: guy's a down line, and this guy's dropping, this guy
Speaker 1: looks like he's rushing, and then or you know, they'll
Speaker 1: send both the safeties down and have them sprint back
Speaker 1: into coverage right before the snap. It's just a lot
Speaker 1: of moving parts. And I don't know that a lot
Speaker 1: of defenses can do it because not very many defenses
Speaker 1: have that many guys that can wear that many hats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you think about the strategy of how the kind
Speaker 1: of players they have, think about it. For the last
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe last fifteen to twenty years, the
Speaker 1: Patriots have been drafting pretty consistently in the thirties, maybe
Speaker 1: in the late twenties, but that's the earliest that they're drafting, right.
Speaker 1: So when you start thinking about the draft, and the
Speaker 1: guys that go early typically are the guys that have
Speaker 1: really high measurables. They're your greatest athletes, they have all
Speaker 1: the things that they check all the boxes. By the
Speaker 1: time you get down to where they're drafting, they're taking
Speaker 1: guys that may not have that level of skill. They
Speaker 1: got some skill, but not that level of skill. And
Speaker 1: then they what they're really looking for though, is people
Speaker 1: that are smart, people that are versatile definitely, right. So
Speaker 1: you start getting those guys and you get a good
Speaker 1: collection of those guys and it ends up being like
Speaker 1: this defense where they got some skill. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: they're not your top skill guys. They're guys that are
Speaker 1: just smart and versatile. And if you get smart and
Speaker 1: versatile guys that have some skill, you can create a really,
Speaker 1: really great unit. Can't you just see like a conversation
Speaker 1: Like this guy, we should look at him? His forty
Speaker 1: is this? He benched this at the comp what's his
Speaker 1: wonder ALI score? Yeah, well, I don't know, I haven't checked,
Speaker 1: like find that out. Yeah, I bet you that they
Speaker 1: do that. I bet they have a high I would
Speaker 1: bet they put a high premium on that. I also
Speaker 1: don't think it's a coincidence that they love guys from Alabama. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean the Saban Belichick connection is so obvious. But again,
Speaker 1: I mean Saban's very similar in the way that you
Speaker 1: know he asks a lot of his players on the
Speaker 1: mentally emotional thing. Yeah, it's like the guy that the
Speaker 1: story I heard from a scout that says, you can
Speaker 1: tell Alabama guys when they walk in the room because
Speaker 1: they have that look like PTSD, like they've just been
Speaker 1: beaten up for four years because physically and mental, mentally
Speaker 1: and physically, right, exactly, you've been beaten down because you're
Speaker 1: kind of battle hardened at that point. Right, most of
Speaker 1: their good players have been there three years. That's true.
Speaker 1: I told you I would. They don't get the four.
Speaker 1: I told you I would, and I did. I watched
Speaker 1: the Baltimore game. Baltimore made them look pretty foolish though,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to suggest that the Cowboys can't,
Speaker 1: but it's hard to watch that and really get a
Speaker 1: good sense for how the Cowboys are going to replicate it,
Speaker 1: because the Ravens were basically running the wishbone like they
Speaker 1: have a mobile quarterback and Dak's mobile, but obviously Lamar's
Speaker 1: a different animal entirely. They've got a mobile quarterback. They
Speaker 1: were putting two tight ends in the backfield with mark
Speaker 1: Ingram or a fullback in mark Ingram and just readoption
Speaker 1: these guys to death to a comical degree, like to
Speaker 1: the point like tight ends or flexing off the line
Speaker 1: coming through the backfield, give and go Ingram, you know
Speaker 1: Ingram hits the hole and gets fifty three or Lamar
Speaker 1: keeps and gets sixteen, and like for the first two drives,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Ravens weren't even throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: They were just doing that, and the Pats took a
Speaker 1: half to adjust to it. They eventually did. I think
Speaker 1: a big not I think like a big part of
Speaker 1: the reason that game looked as lopsided as it did
Speaker 1: was turnovers. Marlon Humphrey had a fumble six touchdown that
Speaker 1: kind of blew it open in the second half, but
Speaker 1: the Patriots had a really hard time adjusting to all that.
Speaker 1: Misdirection counterplays seem like they work really well, like get
Speaker 1: a guy going one direction and have them reverse field
Speaker 1: and saw the Eagles got that to work a couple
Speaker 1: of times. So if traditional running team has been successful
Speaker 1: against them, or was it just did it get blown
Speaker 1: out by that game, which is not a traditional running game.
Speaker 1: I didn't watch anything from further ago than three weeks
Speaker 1: or whatever the Ravens game was. But I mean they're
Speaker 1: giving up what three three in something yards per carried,
Speaker 1: still less than a hundred yards per games, So if
Speaker 1: you're lining up and making it easy on them, I
Speaker 1: don't know how well that's gonna go for you, which
Speaker 1: is what like. But at the same time, I don't
Speaker 1: expect the Cowboys to do anything drastic in the sense of,
Speaker 1: like all of a sudden they're running read option exclusively,
Speaker 1: like that's not who they are. That's a but it
Speaker 1: sure did work against New England, which honestly, I was
Speaker 1: watching it last night to the point where I was like, Belichick,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I probably wouldn't do it because Belichick was
Speaker 1: probably so pissed off by how poorly they played against
Speaker 1: that that they worked on it. And they know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have a mobile quarterback, so so they're prepared if
Speaker 1: you get Yeah, they're like, if you want to try it,
Speaker 1: they'll probably play a lot better against it than they did. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: we're talking about smart players, right. Yeah. I looked this up.
Speaker 1: I went through all their games and looked up how
Speaker 1: many purely offensive scoring drives they've allowed. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: They've allowed excuse me, not scoring touchdown they have allowed
Speaker 1: in Okay, in all their other games, they've only allowed
Speaker 1: one touchdown drive like pure offense, so nine plays, seventy
Speaker 1: five yards. The Eagles only touchdown of that game was
Speaker 1: a sixteen play ninety five yard drive. So just making
Speaker 1: them convert down after down piece at a time. Then
Speaker 1: the Ravens had four in one game. They just they
Speaker 1: cut them to shreds. And I mean, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of that is kind of unique. Not saying that
Speaker 1: you can't do it, but I think misdirection could be
Speaker 1: a big part of that outside of the Ravens, obviously,
Speaker 1: had there been another offense that they've played this year
Speaker 1: that has been near the top of the league as
Speaker 1: an offensive unit, like Cowboys? Obviously they're number one in offense.
Speaker 1: I think right now, is there another team even in
Speaker 1: the top ten that they've beaten? Because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get a gauge for is this defense a really great
Speaker 1: defense on its own? Or is this a really great
Speaker 1: defense because the people that they've played haven't had great offense.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in taking credit away from the Pats,
Speaker 1: but they have had a bit of a perfect storm
Speaker 1: of playing crap offenses. I mean, they play so well
Speaker 1: right off the bat. They played Baltimore, who's two in
Speaker 1: Baltimore kicked their ass? Yeah? Um, who else we got?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know they they've played two games against
Speaker 1: the Jets, they played the Giants, they played the Browns,
Speaker 1: who were nowhere near as good as their talent has
Speaker 1: suggests the Dolphins. Thank you. Hang on one second, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you besides the raven who's the next best that
Speaker 1: they've did they played? They haven't played the Chief shit,
Speaker 1: you know they have not. That's coming up next. I
Speaker 1: think it's the Bills guys. Yeah, and again, but I
Speaker 1: don't think the Bill is a top ten I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think their defense seventeen. Yeah, they I mean the
Speaker 1: Eagles would be the next best one, and they are
Speaker 1: probably a mid league I would think offensively where they at,
Speaker 1: where they at, I don't even see them in here.
Speaker 1: So I mean you're right about that. But part of
Speaker 1: that is, yeah, they're no, they're bottom third. They can
Speaker 1: make you look like you said yesterday, they can they
Speaker 1: can take you out of your game and make you
Speaker 1: look even worse than what you are. So I mean
Speaker 1: there are a reason the Patriots or the reason why
Speaker 1: some of those teams are ranked as low as they
Speaker 1: are because they've had really bad games against them, and
Speaker 1: obviously that doesn't help your you know, help help your rating.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I think you're right. I wouldn't give
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take any credit away for what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they haven't faced the best guy, right, and
Speaker 1: that's what gives me. I guess, if you want to
Speaker 1: call it, hope that the Cowboys will go into this
Speaker 1: and it won't be a situation maybe like what you
Speaker 1: saw in New Orleans where they just couldn't do anything,
Speaker 1: couldn't get anything going. Maybe this defense is good, maybe
Speaker 1: it's not great. Maybe it hasn't been challenged yet. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that's kind of what I was trying
Speaker 1: to get. There's no secret here the Cowboys what the
Speaker 1: Patriots like to do. They're playing a lot of linebackers
Speaker 1: on the field at once a lot. They're smaller than
Speaker 1: than most. They fly around the ball. You've got to
Speaker 1: actually run them over. That's the best way that they
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys can do this as mallum, and that's
Speaker 1: not hasn't been their strength, but you have to do
Speaker 1: that get you out of third down. It moves the
Speaker 1: chain and it forces them to kind of play bigger
Speaker 1: than maybe the Patriots want to play. Which is why
Speaker 1: going back to yesterday, I don't care what Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: and the written. The Ravens did run them over. They
Speaker 1: ran for two hundred yards. I don't care what Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is doing. If I were the Pats, I would
Speaker 1: load up to stop the run like that would be
Speaker 1: my emphasis and say, again, it's wintry conditions outdoors in November.
Speaker 1: We've got great cornerbacks. If you're gonna beat us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make the quarterback do it. And that's not that
Speaker 1: Dak can't. But if they give up, I mean, if
Speaker 1: they give ground a zeke, I think the Cowboys could
Speaker 1: just pound on them all day. Yeah, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take our final break when we come back. I did
Speaker 1: have a couple of questions for you guys about this team.
Speaker 1: You just start touching on it, Dave. The weather weather's
Speaker 1: gonna be a little different than what maybe with the
Speaker 1: cow was of experienced this season. I wonder how much
Speaker 1: that's gonna affect the game plan and what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are able to deal on do on offense. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: you guys calls eight at eight eight five, five, two
Speaker 1: two nine seven real quick though, our producer Kyle actually
Speaker 1: told us in the break that check this out Ball
Speaker 1: Ravens number two offense in the league. Obviously, they beat
Speaker 1: the Pats pretty good. The next best offense the Pats
Speaker 1: have faced this year is the nineteenth offense in the
Speaker 1: league that would beat Buffalo. Everybody else was below that.
Speaker 1: So going back to that original point, and again I
Speaker 1: think we can't reiterate this enough. This is not to
Speaker 1: take anything away from this defense, because they have been
Speaker 1: remarkably spectacular. The point is, though they have not had
Speaker 1: they have not faced the better offenses in the league
Speaker 1: to this point other than the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore
Speaker 1: beat them pretty good. So something to think about. Let's
Speaker 1: see how how good this Cowboys offense is number one.
Speaker 1: Let's also see how good this Patriots defense is. Also.
Speaker 1: I told you I was going to do this earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, so I did. I looked up not
Speaker 1: just their home record, but where those losses came from,
Speaker 1: which is highly enlightening. Not that it has doesn't really
Speaker 1: have bearing on what happens in the future, but in
Speaker 1: in eighteen years, they've lost twenty one games at home, period,
Speaker 1: and right, yeah, they've gone undefeated at home seven times
Speaker 1: and since that stadium was opened in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and they're working on number eight right now. Of the
Speaker 1: twenty one teams that have beaten them, twelve wound up
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. Only three finished the season with a
Speaker 1: losing record, and one of those three was a BS
Speaker 1: Week seventeen Patriots already have the division locked up game.
Speaker 1: So twice in eighteen years has a team that was
Speaker 1: bad enough to finish with a losing record beating them
Speaker 1: in Gillette Stadium. Four of those sorry, four of those
Speaker 1: twelve playoff teams wound up winning the Super Bowl. So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying history suggests you gotta be pretty damn
Speaker 1: good to win this game. So you can think about
Speaker 1: that negatively if you want to. On the flip side,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys managed to pull this off at it
Speaker 1: says something pretty big. If they managed to win this
Speaker 1: game and where it is in the season, I mean,
Speaker 1: like we talked about seven and four, you know, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna be a team that has a losing record.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not gonna go seven to four and
Speaker 1: then probably finish five straight losses. They're not gonna be
Speaker 1: seven and nine. They're not gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: teams and they're probably going to be a playoff team
Speaker 1: if they can win this game, especially if Seattle goes
Speaker 1: and beats Philly. So if they win, get to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, can they beat the Patriots? Can it happen twice?
Speaker 1: As long as you want to do that? The Patriots
Speaker 1: have a big track record of not playing well in Miami.
Speaker 1: So here we go. Just say here saying here we go?
Speaker 1: How I hate myself? No, But you know, like when
Speaker 1: I start listening to all those stats, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: that sounds good for the Cowboys at least you're trying
Speaker 1: to find something positive and to kind of hold on
Speaker 1: to for this weekend. But at the same time, it's like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, yeah, that's irrelevant to me. Like it,
Speaker 1: I mean, it is, it's irrelevant to this matchup, but one,
Speaker 1: I mean you stack it up over enough years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But it's like the I mean, the Cowboys, they're issues.
Speaker 1: They're doing it like themselves. It's not who they're facing necessarily.
Speaker 1: It's like if they can clean up their crap and
Speaker 1: tied it up and you know, tackle better, get some takeaways,
Speaker 1: keep doing well in the passing game, that's gonna be big.
Speaker 1: I mean, are they now becoming a passing team or
Speaker 1: are they still a running team? That's still a question
Speaker 1: mark there. How they're gonna be using Zeke And we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what Bill Belichick thinks about that. And
Speaker 1: he's the best guy to ask are the Cowboys a
Speaker 1: passing team or a running team? Because he goes out
Speaker 1: and stacks the box and says, Zeke's not gonna beat this.
Speaker 1: That tells you exactly what the number one coach thinks
Speaker 1: about what this team is. I'm anxious to see just
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. Yeah, And the fact of the the matter
Speaker 1: is he's probably gonna show you a little bit everything.
Speaker 1: So maybe hard to really decipher what he thinks, but
Speaker 1: if you look at inside the game and really look
Speaker 1: at when he does what If he's stacking the box
Speaker 1: on specific downs, that tells you something he sees. If
Speaker 1: he's not stacking about him, if he's playing more coverage
Speaker 1: on specific downs, that tells you a little bit about
Speaker 1: what he's seeing. Like, there's so many I'm just interested
Speaker 1: to see how he looks at this team and how
Speaker 1: he attacks the team, because to me, that does tell
Speaker 1: you a lot about what he thinks of the team.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play four three, He's gonna play three four,
Speaker 1: He's gonna blitz. He's gonna na blitz. He's gonna travel
Speaker 1: with Amar and he's not gonna travel with Mar. And
Speaker 1: that's the first series. I don't know about that. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. He can adjust so fast and just every
Speaker 1: after every play. But the Cowboys they're not known to
Speaker 1: really adjust. And I don't think they have the quickness
Speaker 1: to even respond to something like that, Like what this
Speaker 1: coach does? You know, even with the halftime they go
Speaker 1: in the locker room and then come back, is Dyga
Speaker 1: still gonna be enough then playing better in the second half.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna be interesting. Oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where fast starts matter because you
Speaker 1: get down to this team on the road, good luck.
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's just not that just doesn't know.
Speaker 1: They don't lose those kind of games, so fast starts
Speaker 1: are important. And not to be honest with not to
Speaker 1: give away my pick this week, but I honestly think
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be about turnovers. Cowboys turnover to get
Speaker 1: the ball. They're gonna lose. The Cowboys can manage to
Speaker 1: play a clean game where they can protect the ball.
Speaker 1: They got a shot to win. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be all about terms because you look at it,
Speaker 1: like you were saying earlier, most of the games this
Speaker 1: year they get the ball, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: they're getting the ball at scoring. So you just you
Speaker 1: have to minimize the mistakes with this team because they
Speaker 1: will take advantage of them. Cowboys also haven't, like I said,
Speaker 1: they haven't played very many clean games, right and that
Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about that while you were talking,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you, but you know, if they
Speaker 1: can clean it up, they haven't they consistently. They have
Speaker 1: not been able to do that. One week it's so
Speaker 1: and so fumbled, the other week it's this past Scott
Speaker 1: tipped or Dak made a bad read. But over ten weeks,
Speaker 1: they haven't shown that ability to consistently play cleanly and
Speaker 1: that's what worries me. So how much do you guys
Speaker 1: think whether we'll be a factor in this game, because
Speaker 1: what we've seen so far in these last at least
Speaker 1: last week, for sure, we've seen that this team will
Speaker 1: chunk the ball around the yard when they need to.
Speaker 1: If the past the Patriots come out in this game. Patriots.
Speaker 1: Patriots come out in this game and decide they are
Speaker 1: going to stack the box and they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: stop Zeke first foremost. But the weather is rainy and wet.
Speaker 1: What do you think happens? It is going to be
Speaker 1: that is taken away what Dak will want to do
Speaker 1: and throw the ball around like that. I mean you
Speaker 1: also got to remember, it'll take away somewhat what what
Speaker 1: New England likes to do, even though he's certainly been
Speaker 1: a guy that can throw the ball and that way
Speaker 1: in that weather and by the way, better at it
Speaker 1: than Dak. Their offense is we talked about yesterday. They're
Speaker 1: doing these little short passes so that doesn't get affected
Speaker 1: as much as you know some of the downfield throws
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys really have lived on. They had some
Speaker 1: big plays this year with all three of their receivers.
Speaker 1: You start messing with that. How effective is their offense
Speaker 1: and being able to just dink and dunk down the film.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're practicing, well, are they? Is there practice
Speaker 1: field outdoors the Pats? Yes, yeah, so they are practicing
Speaker 1: whatever in this kind of weather. They have so much
Speaker 1: experience in it and the Cowboys. I mean, we get
Speaker 1: what we get here in Dallas and then we have
Speaker 1: the indoor field. So, uh, it's gonna be interesting because
Speaker 1: I definitely think that's gonna affect the passing. Then they
Speaker 1: can always take it outside tomorrow because I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna be raining starting this evening into tomorrow, so maybe
Speaker 1: you can take them outside and get a little practice
Speaker 1: in the rain. Who knows. That's always been a tough
Speaker 1: situation there when you when you're dealing. Do you want
Speaker 1: to practice where what you're gonna play in or do
Speaker 1: you want to have a good Chris practice. There's two
Speaker 1: sides to it. I think I kind of lean towards,
Speaker 1: you know, getting used to what you're going to be in.
Speaker 1: But you know, then you could have a bad practice
Speaker 1: where you're not focused right, But but then you know
Speaker 1: what to correct, Like if you know this is happening
Speaker 1: in these kind of conditions, maybe I do a little something,
Speaker 1: maybe I use different gloves, maybe you know, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about the little weather apps that we
Speaker 1: all have, you know, when when you go through no
Speaker 1: but but the thing is that they do tell the
Speaker 1: truth most of the time. It's just that. No, it's
Speaker 1: just that when you look at your little go to
Speaker 1: Sunday and then have he have showers. Okay, well from
Speaker 1: ten to eleven thirty, it's gonna pour. So yeah, what
Speaker 1: you have to put it on there because it's gonna rain.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's gonna be twenty four hours a
Speaker 1: day rain. Well, right, if you break it down by hours,
Speaker 1: it'll tell you what's gonna rain, and it'll say it's
Speaker 1: at that point it said, yeah, I mean, of course
Speaker 1: it can be wrong. It says four o'clock Sunday, seventy
Speaker 1: percent chance of rain forty five degrees. That sounds like
Speaker 1: rain's gonna happen. Okay, at the very least, I will
Speaker 1: be in a press box. Can't tell you if it's
Speaker 1: gonna rain, but I can tell you the weather won't
Speaker 1: be ideal for throwing the ball. You know, we do
Speaker 1: work with someone that is very good at weather and
Speaker 1: keeping up with all of that. Oh, mister Spagna, Oh
Speaker 1: Bred is the weather god. I just I took an
Speaker 1: inadvertent shot. I took an inadvertent shot at Mickey because
Speaker 1: he likes to talk at the about the weather. But
Speaker 1: Fred literally has like Fred is a guy that works
Speaker 1: he's one of our graphic designers. Fred is like, you, guys,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go home, go now, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: start raining in eight minutes. I'm like, what, okay, Jim Cantory.
Speaker 1: Cool anyway, But you know the other thing to consider here,
Speaker 1: and you see this all the time in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We all talk about weather and how that affects. But honestly,
Speaker 1: if you watch games and rain, these quarterbacks and these
Speaker 1: receivers are very, very skilled. I have not seen unless
Speaker 1: there's a lot of wind, I've not seen a lot
Speaker 1: of games where just rain has affected teams to the
Speaker 1: point where they can't throw the ball. Typically, they'll still
Speaker 1: be throwing the ball around. There's still make plays through
Speaker 1: the passing game, but it can I'm just saying, though,
Speaker 1: I've not seen a lot of games were throughout the
Speaker 1: entire game unless there's big wind where that's been a factor.
Speaker 1: I do the Probably the only game I can remember
Speaker 1: is that game We're in Miami and now, of course
Speaker 1: I thought a funnel cloud was coming down because it
Speaker 1: was this huge black cloud that kind of came over
Speaker 1: the stadium. But that was only four period. That was
Speaker 1: maybe for a couple drives where the rain was so
Speaker 1: hard that it really was affecting things. But then it
Speaker 1: was kind of this lighter rain. And that's how rain
Speaker 1: typically goes. It typically doesn't just storm and pour down
Speaker 1: for three hours. I still weather. Regardless of weather, I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots have the personnel to make it a chance.
Speaker 1: All John Dak, he's still a young quarterback going against
Speaker 1: the greatest coach ever. If I were the Patriots, I
Speaker 1: would take I would try my best to take the runaway.
Speaker 1: And again, like it's not that Dak isn't good, but
Speaker 1: I still think that gives you the best success to
Speaker 1: get turnovers and stop the Cowboys. Their defense will be
Speaker 1: a much bigger factor than the weather in my opinion. Well,
Speaker 1: New England and has expert analysis, you know Cowboys right, Well,
Speaker 1: New England has played, think about it. They play and
Speaker 1: you know, the road to the super Bowl has gone
Speaker 1: through New England a lot of times. And it's not
Speaker 1: just the rain, it's it's snow and the cold and
Speaker 1: the wind, and you know, and if the you know,
Speaker 1: especially if the balls aren't you know, one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: you know, with air, I mean it's hard to win
Speaker 1: some of those things like that shot I'm saying, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's part of it, right, that's happened. You're gonna say
Speaker 1: something about videotapes, but anyway, No, I don't know. All right,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you guys, you want us, We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you guys all wrapped up and ready
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