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Speaker 1: It is Wednesay, October seventh, twenty twenty, season sixteen, episode
Speaker 1: number thirty nine. Welcome to an exciting edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We're live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Got my crew with me, Dave, Amber and Nick, and
Speaker 1: of course we're joined by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network,
Speaker 1: as we do every Wednesday and Thursday. Today, Bucky's gonna
Speaker 1: break down the upcoming game Cowboys versus the Giants, and
Speaker 1: today we're focusing in on the Giants offense versus the
Speaker 1: Dallas defense. Bucky, how you doing today? Man? I'm great.
Speaker 1: How are you guys doing? Awesome? Awesome? I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start the verse with the question that we normally ask,
Speaker 1: but at some point I got to ask you about
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith because you had some comments a couple weeks
Speaker 1: ago that I think we got to go back and
Speaker 1: revisit a little bit. But before we get to that,
Speaker 1: let's start with give me the greatest asset and the
Speaker 1: greatest weakness of this Giants offense. Okay, we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: it real about the New York Giants to New York
Speaker 1: Giants offensively, don't have a lot of weapons. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of firepower. This should be a get right
Speaker 1: game for the Dallas Cowboys. When you look at the Giants,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is where it starts. He is the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's three and thirteen since being the starting quarterback, twenty
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, twenty nine turnovers As a starter. This year,
Speaker 1: he has the second lowest passer rating in the league.
Speaker 1: The only person who is playing worse at the position
Speaker 1: in him would be Carson Wentz based on those numbers.
Speaker 1: Devanta Freeman is their running back. He has forty three
Speaker 1: yards since stepping in for sae Quon Barkley. Darius Slayton
Speaker 1: would be considered their number one receiver. He's an explosive athlete,
Speaker 1: a big time playmaker. Has their only receiving touchdown, and
Speaker 1: the other weapon that they have is Evan Ingram. You
Speaker 1: hear people talk about Golden Tate, but Golden Tate is
Speaker 1: just a guy at this stage of his career, and
Speaker 1: the offensive line has really really struggled. They have been
Speaker 1: pressured at a rate that only ranks with Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: in terms of the amount of pressure that they have
Speaker 1: allowed on the quarterback in the league. And so if
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys get right in play to their potential,
Speaker 1: this should be a game for their defense to regain
Speaker 1: their confidence and really use it as a building block
Speaker 1: to start to perform better. Well, Bucky, you just basically
Speaker 1: answer my question right there at the end. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you between when you have one of
Speaker 1: the worst offense in the league versus one of the
Speaker 1: worst defense in the league, which side of the balls
Speaker 1: should usually win. The one thing that is kind of
Speaker 1: the X fact, and I will say this, I think
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett is certainly familiar with some of the personnel
Speaker 1: on defense, so maybe that gives him an advantage in
Speaker 1: game planning and play calling, just kind of understanding some
Speaker 1: of the strength and weaknesses of the personnel. That's it.
Speaker 1: This should be a game where if it comes down
Speaker 1: to which who has the better players offensively for the
Speaker 1: Giants and defensive for the Cowboys. That advantage should go
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. Now, it's about putting the Cowboys defenders
Speaker 1: in a position where they can go and make plays
Speaker 1: and dominate this game. And so it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how Mike Nolan approaches this because this should be
Speaker 1: an opportunity for the Cowboys to going to run facing
Speaker 1: an NFC East opponent. How does he attempt to kind
Speaker 1: of get them going, because you would like to use
Speaker 1: this game as a game that propels them to start
Speaker 1: to play better and make incremental improvements as a defense.
Speaker 1: I was gonna I was trying to write a story
Speaker 1: this week about a familiar face coming to AG and
Speaker 1: T Stadium, But that's not really the case with Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett because you don't ever see that their faces anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, but he's gonna be here and he's
Speaker 1: gonna be the offensive coordinator he lost Sequon Barkley. Is
Speaker 1: it hard to evaluate what he's doing on an offense
Speaker 1: because he took that job probably thinking he's got one
Speaker 1: of the most dynamic players in the NFL. I think
Speaker 1: with Jason Garrett, the thing that sometimes gots struggle with
Speaker 1: when you go from being the head coach back to
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator. And it's been such a long time
Speaker 1: since he's been the coordinator, his offense hasn't necessarily involved
Speaker 1: to the twenty twenties and generic offense. It's very not
Speaker 1: a lot of motion, not a lot of tricks, not
Speaker 1: a lot of gadgets. We won't see all of the
Speaker 1: things that the La Rams presented as problems with the
Speaker 1: motion and doing those things. And so it is a
Speaker 1: pretty line up and go offense. And so this is
Speaker 1: when we talk about this being a game where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense can get right. It really is that because
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of trickery and stuff that's going on.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a lined up with ball out there,
Speaker 1: let's go play. And so for a team, a defense
Speaker 1: that has been struggling, this is exactly what you want.
Speaker 1: You want to see someone who's going to play a
Speaker 1: pretty vanilla Let's talk draft Bucky because it feels like
Speaker 1: ancient history at this point. But the Giants had the pickup.
Speaker 1: You know, we all knew they were going to pick
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle. They had the pick of all the
Speaker 1: ones they wanted, and you know it seems like McKay
Speaker 1: beck Then and Tristan Worth's and Jedrick Wills are all
Speaker 1: having really great rookie seasons. What does Andrew Thomas look like?
Speaker 1: And is it early to think that maybe the Giants
Speaker 1: picked the wrong guy. I mean it's the earliest four
Speaker 1: games into it. He didn't have a full compliment of
Speaker 1: a training camp in preseason. But like everyone on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, he has struggled. Part of the fascination that
Speaker 1: Dave Getleman had with Thomas, he was experienced, he was long.
Speaker 1: He kind of fits what I call that Giant's molde
Speaker 1: going all the way back to when George Young was
Speaker 1: the general manager there. The Giants always like big guys.
Speaker 1: They want big, long, athletic guys to play on that
Speaker 1: offensive line, and so he fit the prototype. We can
Speaker 1: debate whether he was a better player than mackay Beckton
Speaker 1: in terms of upside and potential and Tristan Worths, who
Speaker 1: was a fantastic player on the right side of Iowa.
Speaker 1: But he's been okay, but he's had his struggles, like
Speaker 1: that offensive line, and I think there's so many moving
Speaker 1: parts when you have a new coordinator, a rebuilt offensive line,
Speaker 1: a second year quarterback moving into a second system. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of things in place, and I just
Speaker 1: don't think it's come together for the New York Giants
Speaker 1: at the time. Yeah, Bucky, I assumed, and this is
Speaker 1: going back to previous question about Barkley. I assumed that
Speaker 1: when he went down, their offense would take a huge hit.
Speaker 1: But last week against the Rams, I noticed that they
Speaker 1: had their best by far the best rushing day with
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty six yards on the ground. Their
Speaker 1: previous high on the season was seventy five at Chicago.
Speaker 1: What do they do differently last week in the running game? Particularly?
Speaker 1: That made them, I guess better running the ball than
Speaker 1: they've been in any of the previous games before that.
Speaker 1: Even with bark you know, yeah, I think he's just
Speaker 1: a commitment and I think with sae Quon Barkley, going
Speaker 1: back to him, he's kind of a hit or miss
Speaker 1: type running back. It reminds me a lot, and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna put him exactly in his class, but it
Speaker 1: reminded me a lot of like the debate that you
Speaker 1: would have with Barry Sanders and Emma Smith. Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: would have two negative one negative three fifty and he
Speaker 1: would end up with a great day where Emmett was
Speaker 1: a steady and consistent four and five and four and five,
Speaker 1: and it would tally it up. Sae Quon Barkley is
Speaker 1: a running back that is like that. He is a
Speaker 1: big play running back. So when you lose him and
Speaker 1: you bring on DeVante Freeman's just a little more of
Speaker 1: the persistent three and four and five yard games. That's
Speaker 1: kind of steadied out their offense. Maybe Jason has made
Speaker 1: a little more commitment to it. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: against the Rams, their defense played in a way where
Speaker 1: they were able to stay in the game. And because
Speaker 1: they could stay in the game, they could be a
Speaker 1: little more stubborn when it came to handing the ball off,
Speaker 1: from really sticking with the running game. Now, this next
Speaker 1: question isn't necessarily about the Giants because honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: have many more questions on them right now. But I
Speaker 1: do believe that the Cowboys are going to win this game.
Speaker 1: Let's say they do win, but regardless of them winning,
Speaker 1: the defense just played a bad game once again. If
Speaker 1: that happens, I mean, is this a point Let's say
Speaker 1: Week five, it's it's a point where you start seeing
Speaker 1: players maybe giving up, not giving up on the game,
Speaker 1: but giving up on their coach. You know, it's interesting
Speaker 1: being on the outside looking in. You do want to
Speaker 1: because you've heard the questions, You've heard guys talk about
Speaker 1: like the game and simplifying in those things. It's obviously
Speaker 1: a difference in terms of leadership and management style between
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan and Rob Mary Nelly and Chris Rashard, and
Speaker 1: I think everyone is adjusting. I think the big thing
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan have to get on the
Speaker 1: same page and they have to figure out what they
Speaker 1: want to demand from each of the defenders. And Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has to figure out what does he want to
Speaker 1: demand from Mike Nolan, because the head coach's job is
Speaker 1: to solve problems, to go to the dcord and say, hey,
Speaker 1: it appears that we're having a lot of communication errors.
Speaker 1: Let's scale it back. Let's put them in something that
Speaker 1: they can just go play so they can get comfortable with.
Speaker 1: And then it's really on Mike Nolan to challenge the guys.
Speaker 1: He has to get them to play at a high level.
Speaker 1: And I know it's tough because you're a new staff,
Speaker 1: and depending on how you relate to your players, you
Speaker 1: want to always protect them. But at some point they
Speaker 1: know what it looks like because we've seen how the
Speaker 1: defense is supposed to look in recent years in terms
Speaker 1: of the effort and the energy. Now it's on Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan and his assistant coaches to kind of hold them
Speaker 1: to their standard. Well, I don't want to get into
Speaker 1: the whole Waldo thing. Again. We spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time last week and I even got a couple of
Speaker 1: tweets that said, we have eleven Waldo's on this dam
Speaker 1: this defense, but what's the ope? What's the opposite of that?
Speaker 1: And by the way, I was somebody pointed out that
Speaker 1: Waldo spelled backwards. Is o d law? Don't know where
Speaker 1: what that means? That pointed out, however, what's the opposite
Speaker 1: of that? When when you're in the scant ye're like,
Speaker 1: who's who's the one guy to target? Is there a
Speaker 1: term for the one guy that you have to target
Speaker 1: for the other reason he's the badass of the group,
Speaker 1: And who's that for the cowboys? So so we used
Speaker 1: to talk about that guy is the one who wears
Speaker 1: the big sombrero um, meaning that the game is on him.
Speaker 1: Whoever has that matchup, he has to wear the big
Speaker 1: hat that week because he has the toughest matchup. Um.
Speaker 1: If you want to say, for the Giants, who who
Speaker 1: is the guy that you're worried about in the matchup?
Speaker 1: I don't defend. I don't think you know, like so
Speaker 1: so like It's funny because early on in the season,
Speaker 1: I think Alden Smith has to be the guy that
Speaker 1: you would point out as he has been the best defender.
Speaker 1: And in saying that, there were some bad snaps that
Speaker 1: he put on tape against the Cleveland Browns where he
Speaker 1: didn't really fight hard to fight against a reach block
Speaker 1: which allowed guys to get around the corner. He wasn't
Speaker 1: always a guy that was running fully to the ball.
Speaker 1: But he has been the most disruptive player. He's the
Speaker 1: one that obviously leads him in sacks. He has created
Speaker 1: more of the disruptive plays from their front line. There's
Speaker 1: some talented players there. I really don't know what is
Speaker 1: going on in terms of why they're not playing to
Speaker 1: the potential that we should see based on what is
Speaker 1: on paper. But they're not playing well. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Dantari Poe is a guy who should be on
Speaker 1: notice because his lackluster performance has really stood out. And
Speaker 1: he was brought in to be a guy that really
Speaker 1: helped him against the run, and they have struggled so
Speaker 1: poorly against the run. And when you see him dropped
Speaker 1: into Jaylen Smith's lap and Joe Thomas's lap and they're
Speaker 1: knocked off the ball, that's problematic. And when a team
Speaker 1: runs for three hundred yards on you man. We could
Speaker 1: talk about schemes and all that. At some point, pride
Speaker 1: has to come in. This week. We would just like
Speaker 1: to see the Cowboys fight back up front if they
Speaker 1: get hid in the mouth by the offense, where if
Speaker 1: we're punchback. I think it really comes down to as
Speaker 1: simple as that. I'm glad you said that, Bucky, because
Speaker 1: that I mean if I'm looking, if I'm looking for
Speaker 1: something for the Cowboys to be afraid of, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You can laugh at me, but I think it's got
Speaker 1: to be Daniel Jones because he's athletic, he can extend plays.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys aren't pressuring the quarterback, and their front seven
Speaker 1: hasn't been disciplined, so you put them up against the
Speaker 1: quarterback who can make plays with his feet and extend
Speaker 1: plays to give himself time to throw. How troubling should
Speaker 1: that be? You know, I know he's not Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but Daniel Jones has some of that adaptability to his game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: now he does have some of that, and ming no
Speaker 1: mistake about it. The Jats are going to view the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as a get right game as well, because offensively,
Speaker 1: when they pop in their tape and they see that
Speaker 1: the Browns had five hundred yards and three hundred yards
Speaker 1: rushing the ball, their coach is gonna stand in front
Speaker 1: of me and say, hey, we're gonna try and jam
Speaker 1: it right down the Cowboys throat. And so if we
Speaker 1: can run it and throw play action like the Browns
Speaker 1: were able to, this can make a game very easy
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. So a lot of what we'll see
Speaker 1: very early in the game would be a replication of
Speaker 1: what the Cleveland Browns did early. And they want to
Speaker 1: see if the Cowboys have fixed the problems. If the
Speaker 1: Cowboys having fixed the problems, they can get a steady
Speaker 1: diet of the game plan today. Yeah, last week against
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. That game plan also works for a
Speaker 1: young quarterback. Because the Cleveland Browns were hiding Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: with the way that they played, the New York guys
Speaker 1: won't to do something similar to take some of the
Speaker 1: pressure off of Daniel Jones, to give him easy throws
Speaker 1: on the outside. So I would think we would see
Speaker 1: a lot of run early to say Daniel Jones be
Speaker 1: able to make some plays on play action. All right,
Speaker 1: So I got I want to get to this question.
Speaker 1: I was going to throw out you at the beginning
Speaker 1: about Jalen A couple of weeks ago, Nick ask you
Speaker 1: the question of who you thought was performing best on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, and you threw out Jalen Smith's name.
Speaker 1: I had a question, and I'll set it up by saying,
Speaker 1: after looking at this last game, I was really concerned
Speaker 1: about Jalen Smith and how he's playing. But what I
Speaker 1: want to get to the heart of is what may
Speaker 1: be the reasons if you agree that he is he
Speaker 1: at least struggled in that Cleveland game. Is it more
Speaker 1: a function of him being slow to read to play,
Speaker 1: him being slow to react to the play, him being
Speaker 1: slow to get to the play, or do you think
Speaker 1: it's more a function of poor defensive tackle play that's
Speaker 1: now not being able to allow him to float to
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, Derek, I think it's a combination of everything.
Speaker 1: I think the one thing that every defender has to
Speaker 1: have is they got to have belief that the coordinators
Speaker 1: putting the best plan for everybody out there, and sometimes
Speaker 1: that belief has to believe. It has to be blind
Speaker 1: faith that regardless of what has happened, I'm gonna trust
Speaker 1: and believe that Coach Nolan's putt him in a position
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna make plays. The other thing that has
Speaker 1: to happen with Jalen. A lot of what linebackers are
Speaker 1: doing are depending upon what the guys up front are doing.
Speaker 1: So our Antoine was in Tristan Hill and Don Terry part.
Speaker 1: Are they occupying blocks and now I can run clear
Speaker 1: and free to the ball so I can make plays?
Speaker 1: Am I uninstructed? Or am I having to run around
Speaker 1: this trash that's preventing me from making it. The final
Speaker 1: point is you talked about him looking slow to the ball,
Speaker 1: not necessarily running. He's not alone because counted players with
Speaker 1: Alden Smith and Jalen, even Trevan Diggs didn't run to
Speaker 1: the ball. I think what has changed. And you guys
Speaker 1: know because you've been there. I will say this and
Speaker 1: say what you want to about Rod, mary Nelly and
Speaker 1: christih Chard are one thing I do believe When I
Speaker 1: used to go to Oxnard and I ask players this,
Speaker 1: Rod mary Nellie had a standard of effort when they
Speaker 1: talked about loafs. And I heard you guys. I listened
Speaker 1: actually to the podcast the other day and you guys
Speaker 1: were talking about professional players. I believe they give effort.
Speaker 1: I don't believe professional players loaf but there's a difference.
Speaker 1: And what I will ask everybody to do, you guys
Speaker 1: and Cowboys fans included, rewatch the game and if you're
Speaker 1: looking at the defense, do the defenders change speed? Do
Speaker 1: they slow down then speed up? Are they running all
Speaker 1: the way to the ball? And do you see eleven
Speaker 1: hands at the ball when the guy is tackled. Because
Speaker 1: if you don't see that, that is a change from
Speaker 1: what the expectation was previously under Mary Nelly. And what
Speaker 1: Mary Nelly and those guys did is they called everybody
Speaker 1: out when they didn't do it. When I used to
Speaker 1: talk to Jeff Heath, he said, that's the culture, that's
Speaker 1: the standard. What happened with players. Players are the same
Speaker 1: and pros, college, high school, youth ball. If you let
Speaker 1: them get away with things, they will continue to get
Speaker 1: away with it. De Lard look d Law. It was
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. But d Law has cut corners
Speaker 1: this year that I didn't see them cut corners in
Speaker 1: other years. And so somebody in that room, being a
Speaker 1: player or a coach, they have to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: And if the coaches aren't telling the truth to the players,
Speaker 1: it's going to be hard to fix the problem. So
Speaker 1: I think some of it happens when you're getting rolled
Speaker 1: over like the Browns were rolling over the Cowboys. You
Speaker 1: get discouraged, and your discouragement just like our kids, they
Speaker 1: get discouraged so they don't give effort. So some of
Speaker 1: that plays into it. But another part of it is
Speaker 1: are you coaching it or are you allowing it to happen?
Speaker 1: So I think they have to have those hard conversations
Speaker 1: about what is the standard expectation for everyone on this
Speaker 1: side of the ball. That's great stuff. I do remember
Speaker 1: that them having that loath standard that they would check
Speaker 1: like literally after every game they had. They had a
Speaker 1: statistical category for loaves and I remember players talking about
Speaker 1: that back when Rod marinellos here. We appreciate you joining us, Bucket.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow and we're gonna have you talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about this Giant's defense against the Cowboys offense.
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Speaker 1: gonna talk a little bit more about this matchup Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense versus a Giant's offense. We'll also get into a
Speaker 1: couple of things at Mike McCarthy had to say today
Speaker 1: on his press conference. A couple of guys coming back
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Speaker 1: Market Barge Studios at the Star. We just finished our
Speaker 1: second with Bucky Brooks. Some good stuff he had there
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys defense versus the Giants offense. Before we
Speaker 1: get back into the conversation on those matchups, let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit of about some players that coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: talked about this morning. It seems like there's a growing
Speaker 1: list of guys that are out due to injury, and
Speaker 1: some of them, it looks like this week may start
Speaker 1: their their progress toward coming back. Dave, why don't you
Speaker 1: line out some of the guys that have been out
Speaker 1: and kind of where they are in their process of
Speaker 1: coming back to the team. Well, I probably want to
Speaker 1: start with the guy that McCarthy mentioned unprompted, which is
Speaker 1: always a good idea. He was asked why they released
Speaker 1: Brandon Carr, and he specifically said, we feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about where Anthony Brown is in his recovery. So you know,
Speaker 1: Brown's been out for a couple of games at this point.
Speaker 1: I think that's something to watch. Um. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that means he's ready on Sunday, but I mean
Speaker 1: if you're willing to release a guy because of that,
Speaker 1: that seems like a good sign. So I would be
Speaker 1: keeping a close eye on Anthony brown situation. Hopefully he
Speaker 1: can get back to the secondary Leyton vander Esh McCarthy
Speaker 1: kind of I want to be careful about this because
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, you know, he's gonna try to start ramping up.
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure what he's gonna do.
Speaker 1: He might not leave the rehab group, but we want
Speaker 1: him to start practicing. So it's easy to hear that
Speaker 1: and get excited and say, oh, yeah, Leyton's coming back.
Speaker 1: I don't one hundred percent know the timeline on that.
Speaker 1: I think it's great that they're gonna start trying to
Speaker 1: ramp him up, but I need to see more before
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here saying he might be ready to go. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's been three weeks since he went on IR. He
Speaker 1: can come back whenever he wants, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if he's still a little ways off. And Dave
Speaker 1: just and then the other real quick, I want to
Speaker 1: bump in on that LV thing. That was a broken
Speaker 1: collar bone. So my assumption that's not the kind of
Speaker 1: injury where you're testing out to see if he feels good.
Speaker 1: That's more a thing of what are the x rays saying?
Speaker 1: Is is the bone healed right? Right? Okay, that's always right,
Speaker 1: I think, And yeah, that's that's kind of yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's been out there working with Britt
Speaker 1: Brown in the rehab group for a while, like he
Speaker 1: can move around round and run and take part in
Speaker 1: football stuff. But yeah, I just don't think he's at
Speaker 1: a point where he's ready to be hitting people in
Speaker 1: football action yet. So that's kind of my point is
Speaker 1: it's easy to get excited that they're ramping him up,
Speaker 1: but if I had to guess, I think he's probably
Speaker 1: still at least a couple weeks away, at the least
Speaker 1: that's just my guess. The other big one is Randy Gregory.
Speaker 1: He can start practicing today. They're gonna let him mix
Speaker 1: into practice. I don't think it'll be a big workload.
Speaker 1: He's not eligible to play until the twenty fifths, so
Speaker 1: he's again he's still a couple of weeks off until
Speaker 1: you would expect to see him in the lineup. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna start trying to get him ready and condition
Speaker 1: so that when October twenty fifth rolls around, he can
Speaker 1: jump in as soon as possible. So Amber and Nick,
Speaker 1: I want you guys to chime in on this part.
Speaker 1: Who do you think of those three guys he mentioned,
Speaker 1: who do you think the Cowboys need back most? Who
Speaker 1: is more of the who would give this team more
Speaker 1: of a lift by returning to the line up. Nick,
Speaker 1: let's start with you. Well, I think that Layton vander
Speaker 1: esh would gives them more of a lift. But like
Speaker 1: Dave said, I'm not thinking it happens this week. Let's
Speaker 1: you know, don't move down down the line too far.
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown returning this week is gonna help them. I
Speaker 1: mean I think that it just will. So um he's
Speaker 1: the one that I that I would you know, if
Speaker 1: they're all come back at the same time, I would
Speaker 1: probably say Layton. But you know, I do think it's
Speaker 1: important for have Anthony Brown back. I never thought I would,
Speaker 1: you know, say it like that. Well that that's also
Speaker 1: the part I'm kind of wondering, like I think everybody's
Speaker 1: looking at him as somewhat of a savior, but I
Speaker 1: just I look at it and and I'm like, I mean,
Speaker 1: Anthony was to me, he's an average cornerback. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a great cornerback. Think he's an average cornerback.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it gets it. Does it get
Speaker 1: a lot better? Well, I would assume maybe he's better
Speaker 1: than an average defense, and no, no, it's not. So
Speaker 1: if you can get an average player, it's going to
Speaker 1: elevate the defense. Good point, gooint Amer. What do you
Speaker 1: think who give them the big, biggest jump. I think
Speaker 1: that that will probably get the most right away from
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, just because again when you talk about late
Speaker 1: and I am ready to have him back on the defense.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys do need him. But it makes
Speaker 1: me wonder because you know, when players get hurt and
Speaker 1: they come back, You've seen it in the past where
Speaker 1: it creates some kind of hesitation just in their game.
Speaker 1: Not that they want to do that, but it just
Speaker 1: naturally happens because of the things that your body has
Speaker 1: had to deal with. It creates certain hesitation when trying
Speaker 1: to tackle or hit somebody. So in that scenario, it
Speaker 1: just makes me wonder just how late In will really
Speaker 1: feel once he's actually in the game. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see Randy Gregory come back in, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: I don't think neither of those three guys it's just
Speaker 1: gonna come in and just completely change the defense like
Speaker 1: a miracle. So the Cowboys need a lot more help
Speaker 1: than that, a lot bigger change than just having these
Speaker 1: guys come back. But it's good. It's good to hear
Speaker 1: that they're on their way to making him back to
Speaker 1: the field again. There were two players that left the
Speaker 1: game Sunday, Joe Looney and Dalton Schultz. We already know
Speaker 1: that Looney's gonna be out for a few weeks. Tyler
Speaker 1: Beadiest will be the guy that's going to be playing
Speaker 1: for him, presumably. Let's talk about Dalton Schultz. Though I
Speaker 1: personally believe Dalton Schultz has been a bright spot for
Speaker 1: this offense from the standpoint that, what if you talk
Speaker 1: about any player on this team where your expectations were
Speaker 1: one level and they've played significantly above that. Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: to me, is hands down the player I put in
Speaker 1: that category as the player who has exceeded his expectations
Speaker 1: way more than what I had for him coming into
Speaker 1: the year. So my question is, let's assume for a
Speaker 1: second that he can't play for a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and this is already a position where you don't have
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin. How much does that affect this offense not
Speaker 1: having Dalton Schultz in the lineup? And now I know
Speaker 1: that sounds weird asking that, but how much does that
Speaker 1: affect this office day? Let's go to you ten personnel, baby.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Dalton Schultz has had He's been a
Speaker 1: bright spot. I've been very impressed. Um, but let's just
Speaker 1: roll these receivers out here. Cedric Wilson and Noah Brown
Speaker 1: are showing you what they can do. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: they're kind of us. They've been using their tight ends
Speaker 1: as big receivers anyway, So just let's play some ten personnel.
Speaker 1: That's my response, Nick, how much this dog Chiel hurts. Well,
Speaker 1: it's hurt. It hurts just from you know, being able
Speaker 1: to run your offense the way they want to in
Speaker 1: the in the passing game and all that. But you
Speaker 1: know the fact is is that Blake Darwin would have
Speaker 1: done this, you know, even and probably better than this.
Speaker 1: And this is this is the product of the offense
Speaker 1: the way it is is that the tight end is
Speaker 1: gonna get open a lot. Uh, And this set up
Speaker 1: The problem is they don't they don't block very well,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't been that good of a blocker, and
Speaker 1: none of them have really and they don't they don't
Speaker 1: do a great job of blocking on short yardage and
Speaker 1: down in the red zone. But they're passing their way
Speaker 1: in which which helps, especially in the second half. So
Speaker 1: it's it's not gonna be I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a huge difference. I really don't. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think they'll slide somebody else in there and they'll be
Speaker 1: able to catch and eight ten yard passes. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been better than I thought, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it's been like really dynamic. All right, Amber, what do
Speaker 1: you think I think the Cowboys will be fine considering
Speaker 1: all the other offensive weapons that they have, but the
Speaker 1: tight end position it always I've always seated as a
Speaker 1: comfort spot for Dak. I know Dak does like just
Speaker 1: finding that tight end and connected with them in certain
Speaker 1: scenarios where he can find open guys as the wide receivers.
Speaker 1: But just overall and considering also the way that Dak
Speaker 1: has been playing, how dynamic has been, and how well
Speaker 1: he's been connecting with his receivers, I think that they
Speaker 1: should be okay, just with everyone else and changing the personnel. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our final break. When we
Speaker 1: come back, I want to get to this topic that
Speaker 1: Amber brought up earlier this week of how to fix this.
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Speaker 1: but I have a few areas where I want to
Speaker 1: throw out to you guys and get your opinions on
Speaker 1: how the Cowboys can fix some of the things that
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Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and we're gonna
Speaker 1: now take a little bit of a turn and we're
Speaker 1: gonna put on our fix it hats, Like we're gonna
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with this team and how
Speaker 1: we can fix it for them, and hopefully, hopefully right
Speaker 1: now the team is listening to the show and they
Speaker 1: will walk away with some real bullet points that they
Speaker 1: can go out and you know, do some things and
Speaker 1: see if we can get this thing back on track.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's start first with the right tackle position.
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins is now gone for the season. My question
Speaker 1: for you guys is who is best to replace him?
Speaker 1: And does that make a big difference in what we've
Speaker 1: seen through the first four games relative to going forward.
Speaker 1: You've got Brandon Knight, You've got Zach Martin, or do
Speaker 1: you look somewhere else. Let's start first with you Amber.
Speaker 1: I think I would go with Brandon Knight, um and
Speaker 1: just have him there. We've seen what the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: capable of. They just need to limit their mistakes and
Speaker 1: over as a whole, the offense as a whole, just
Speaker 1: make it work. We've seen it all the time in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. It might be the sense of urgency
Speaker 1: and you know, you got adrenaline rushing in and that
Speaker 1: competitive side of you kicks in and maybe get gives
Speaker 1: you extra talent. I don't know where. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but we've seen it happened, so we know that they
Speaker 1: can do it. I would stick to Brandon Knight and
Speaker 1: just actually stick to it. Stop shuffling around. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about it on the show. Just quit shuffling, figure
Speaker 1: out exactly which combination you want and stick to it
Speaker 1: throughout practice and until you know something else crazy happens.
Speaker 1: As far as an injury, all right, Nick, Brandon Knight
Speaker 1: would be the guy right now. The Looney injury affects
Speaker 1: things because you could you could see maybe sliding Zach
Speaker 1: out and putting Looney it right guard. But now that
Speaker 1: that's not happening and he's hurt, and I don't think
Speaker 1: Conrad mcgovernin looks like he's ready or they don't think
Speaker 1: he's ready, So then then I would go with Brandon Knight.
Speaker 1: I think he'll can continue to get better. I think
Speaker 1: the right side is the better spot for him, um and,
Speaker 1: especially if Timan could stay on that left side, um
Speaker 1: and and be healthy. Yeah, I think that that's the
Speaker 1: best that's the best route. But also I think that
Speaker 1: you need to to chip more, you need to block more,
Speaker 1: keep those guys in. Those receivers can get open on
Speaker 1: their own. I don't think you need to have five
Speaker 1: six guys out in every route. Yeah, you can max
Speaker 1: protect with this offense and still be able to get
Speaker 1: guys open that you can get exact ye, Dave, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm the guy that said ten personnel
Speaker 1: in the last segment. But if Brandon Knight is struggling,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he will against this team. But
Speaker 1: you know, next time they go against the badass pass rusher,
Speaker 1: Blake Bell is there and you can attach Blake Bell
Speaker 1: to Brandon Knight's hip, uh, you know, tiring his back
Speaker 1: at left tackle, and he can help Williams. I think
Speaker 1: it's fine the way it is. I haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: from Brandon Knight that hurts my confidence that he can
Speaker 1: handle the job. All right, let's move on to a
Speaker 1: personnel question. I know this week there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of talk of shit to Cowboys be looking in free agency,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of players right now that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have that are out due to injury. So
Speaker 1: my question for you is, if you take the whole
Speaker 1: lot of them. You got Sean Lee, you got Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh, you got Randy Gregory, Cheeto, you got Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: If you get all those guys back, do you think
Speaker 1: that's enough to change the tie, particularly of what's happening
Speaker 1: on defense, or do you think the Cowboys still need
Speaker 1: to look outside for reinforcements. Let's start first with you, Nick.
Speaker 1: You know it's just so hard to look outside now,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you really think about it. There's five
Speaker 1: hundred players on rosters now or you know, or allocated
Speaker 1: to teams I are or practice squad. Five hundred more
Speaker 1: players than there were last year. That's just the is
Speaker 1: just shrinking of players that are available now, the veterans
Speaker 1: that you know, what kind of shape are they in?
Speaker 1: You know? And now the NFL's protocol of the they
Speaker 1: have to whether you have to test six, you have
Speaker 1: to pass six tests. Now, I think they loved it
Speaker 1: from three to six. So you got to think a
Speaker 1: whole week ahead now that you know that that you
Speaker 1: you need to get somebody in here. So which is
Speaker 1: why now it would be the time. Now you think
Speaker 1: New York you can manage see kiss through the game,
Speaker 1: come back to the next game. You got a Monday
Speaker 1: night game the following that. So so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just I just don't think that they believe that
Speaker 1: there's a there's a there's guys out there that can
Speaker 1: really help them. Um, and they've looked at all the names,
Speaker 1: and they've they've seen them. They they've looked at the tape.
Speaker 1: I just don't think that they've So they answer your question,
Speaker 1: I think they have. It has to be. It has
Speaker 1: to be enough right now to patch it through amber.
Speaker 1: That's just a it's a really hard question because it's
Speaker 1: such a mix, sure, a mix of everything combined. I
Speaker 1: don't think that even if you get let's say, a
Speaker 1: guy like Earl Thomas, the defense is not just magically
Speaker 1: gonna change. I think it's something bigger than just talent
Speaker 1: specifically speaking of it and these guys, the return of them. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help the Cowboys. It should help them, but
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they need something bigger,
Speaker 1: something bigger needs to happen as far as and I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is because me, I said it
Speaker 1: the other day, my patience in football is very very low.
Speaker 1: So me right now I'm thinking, Okay, who do I
Speaker 1: need to fire? Who do I need to bring in here?
Speaker 1: And when I started thinking that way, I am I, Okay, well, shoot,
Speaker 1: who would I bring in here? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know who I would bring in here. I don't
Speaker 1: know who would be available to come in here and
Speaker 1: start changing things around as far as the defense go.
Speaker 1: So it should help, but it's not gonna That's that's
Speaker 1: not the solution, Dave. I don't get why they don't
Speaker 1: have any interest in Max Harrison. I never really understood that,
Speaker 1: especially once the season started and it was obvious that
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle position is a problem. Get I mean,
Speaker 1: on one hand, I think I even said during the offseason,
Speaker 1: I was like, he's a two down player. He's not
Speaker 1: going to help you rush the passer. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: think I counted on the run defense being this bad.
Speaker 1: So it sounds pretty nice to have somebody who could
Speaker 1: really be a force in the run game right now, somewhat,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say. Fortunately, it sounds like Snacks
Speaker 1: is going to Seattle, so I mean, that's not good
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, but at the very least we don't
Speaker 1: have to talk about him anymore. Well, you know, Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas is Earl Thomas is obviously the other one. But
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm comfortable in the knowledge that dude's
Speaker 1: been out there for a long time. It ain't just
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that are ignoring him, and nobody seems interested,
Speaker 1: which there's just got to be something there. So I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna kill him. I'm not gonna kill him for
Speaker 1: not doing that. But those are a couple names. Eric
Speaker 1: Reid's another one, Tony Jefferson. Yeah, like I would look
Speaker 1: at some of these guys. It can't be worse than
Speaker 1: what they're putting out there, and no, it's not going
Speaker 1: to transform you into a top tier defense. But they
Speaker 1: don't need to be a top tier defense, so they
Speaker 1: need to be average to below average. Like if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were twentieth in the league in total defense right now,
Speaker 1: they would have a winning record. But they're in the
Speaker 1: bottom three in like every important category, So I don't
Speaker 1: really buy that there's no way to improve this defense.
Speaker 1: I do think getting some of these hurt guys back
Speaker 1: will help, Like if Sean and Leyton and Cheeto and
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown are all healthy and contributing, I do think
Speaker 1: that'll make a difference. But that still wouldn't stop me
Speaker 1: from kicking the tires on some better players. You know.
Speaker 1: I'll throw something in there about Earl Thomas because we
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to talk to a lot of
Speaker 1: people anymore, but I did this week talked to a
Speaker 1: couple of people, some scouts, coaches. They had looked at
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas multiple times, and the reason why he hasn't
Speaker 1: been signed by the Cowboys is on the field now
Speaker 1: off the field probably certainly doesn't help, but it's on
Speaker 1: the field tape that is the reason why he hasn't
Speaker 1: been signed. And so I know a lot of us
Speaker 1: is to say, well he's a bad guy or bad
Speaker 1: teammate or you know whatever, undisciplined. It's it's on the
Speaker 1: tape that is the issue versus I think the other
Speaker 1: stuff that's out there, plus the money he's looking for.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's the type of player that you know.
Speaker 1: Now you can look at it and say, well, it's
Speaker 1: got to be better than Darren Thompson. Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be my question. Better than what I think it's. I
Speaker 1: think it's on the tape combined with just some of
Speaker 1: the things that that's happened in the money and all that,
Speaker 1: and I would yeah, And honestly, if he is not
Speaker 1: a drastic upgrade over over DT and he brings all
Speaker 1: of that other baggage, like it makes sense, Like I said,
Speaker 1: like it really it doesn't bother me that they haven't
Speaker 1: signed Earl Thomas, Like between the off field stuff the
Speaker 1: money he's probably looking for, and I don't have a
Speaker 1: problem believing that the tape has declined so purely from
Speaker 1: a football standpoint, he is probably better than darry and
Speaker 1: Thompson and Donovan Wilson, but not so much better that
Speaker 1: it's worth all of that crap. And so I get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've moved on from the Earl Thomas thing for quite
Speaker 1: a while. But where I am and I agree with
Speaker 1: Dave on this, where I am still a little bit
Speaker 1: perplexed is that they didn't make a play for Snacks Harrison.
Speaker 1: If Poe really isn't performing at the level that everybody
Speaker 1: and I have yet to hear anybody say disagree with that,
Speaker 1: that Poe was playing at a level where he should
Speaker 1: be playing right now, and I think it's affecting that
Speaker 1: second level as well as as Buck you mentioned. You know,
Speaker 1: when you're getting guys that are pushing pole back into
Speaker 1: the linebackers, that's a problem for the linebackers as well.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of shocked that they wouldn't at least look
Speaker 1: at a three hundred and fifty pound guy who wasn't
Speaker 1: at one point in all pro I mean, to me,
Speaker 1: that just makes a lot of sense. And I will
Speaker 1: say this, Dave, you mentioned he's in Seattle. What I
Speaker 1: read this morning is that he's on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: and the rules are if he's on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: you can go sign someone from someone's practice squad. So
Speaker 1: it's still not lost cause at this point, I do
Speaker 1: think it's something that Cowboys should at least take a
Speaker 1: look at, right and just because I think that they
Speaker 1: that is a position where if you clear that position up,
Speaker 1: you actually might make two or three positions better by
Speaker 1: just clearing up that position. And I don't think they
Speaker 1: have that guy on this team right now. Derek. Derek
Speaker 1: turns out that it doesn't matter what we think, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what you think. They're gonna do what they're
Speaker 1: gonna do. And I mean, I don't understand why. I
Speaker 1: don't understand why not at least try to bring someone
Speaker 1: in just to look at them in person, get at
Speaker 1: work out. I know that COVID doesn't help. All these
Speaker 1: protocols doesn't help, and I'm sure that's a factor. I
Speaker 1: still okay, So I really want to spend time trying
Speaker 1: to examinate this if I'm not fully convinced because of everything,
Speaker 1: but that's the perception. It's a big thing, and to
Speaker 1: me right now, it is upsetting. And I know that
Speaker 1: fans are upset to the fact that they're not even trying,
Speaker 1: and we don't know what happens behind doors, but at
Speaker 1: least what we get to see or hear, we don't
Speaker 1: hear or see anything happening. And that's when it makes
Speaker 1: you just upset. Day. Were you about to say something
Speaker 1: it does No, it doesn't upset me. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it is what it is. They teams think they're
Speaker 1: smarter than everybody else, and sometimes they are, and sometimes
Speaker 1: they have to swap tackles in the middle of the game.
Speaker 1: It just is what it is. Like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't let it upset me, but it is. It's interesting
Speaker 1: to see how these decisions play out. And I mean, Derek,
Speaker 1: you're right, there's nothing stopping them from looking at snacks.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if they weren't interested when he was unemployed,
Speaker 1: why are they going to be interested once he's in Seattle.
Speaker 1: I just I don't see saying that with my with
Speaker 1: my tongue firm, with playing it in my cheek. But
Speaker 1: the point is, like, I think that that's an area
Speaker 1: where they could clearly, in my opinion, could upgrade the
Speaker 1: position and give yourself a guy in the middle that
Speaker 1: at least won't get pushed around. I don't think at
Speaker 1: three fifty and everything I've ever watched of Snacks Harrison,
Speaker 1: you can claim maybe he doesn't always go as hard
Speaker 1: as he should. You can claim he's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to do much more than be a two
Speaker 1: down player. What I've never heard anybody says he gets
Speaker 1: pushed around. So if you can give me a three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound guy that I can put in
Speaker 1: the middle that at least keeps those offensive lineman from
Speaker 1: getting to the second level to my linebackers and allow
Speaker 1: my linebackers to float to the ball, I'm good with that.
Speaker 1: I'll take that right now, and I think that can
Speaker 1: help your defense. It's a lot. Yeah, I just three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds, and I don't know him at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, but number one, he has a nickname for
Speaker 1: a reason. And two, he's three hundred and fifty pounds,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't had any training camp any offseason. And
Speaker 1: then nobody's signing him, and the team that is signing
Speaker 1: him is putting on their practice squad, which means to me,
Speaker 1: it looks like there's no way he's in any kind
Speaker 1: of football shape. And that maybe think that may be true.
Speaker 1: But again, the way I look at that is three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds playing defensive tackle. Hey, until we
Speaker 1: get you in shape where you can run to the sideline,
Speaker 1: all we're gonna do is just put you in there
Speaker 1: and say don't let anybody move beyond you, like, just
Speaker 1: hold the point, right. What do you mean they're moving
Speaker 1: Poe moving him around? Okay, but I think snacks will
Speaker 1: be a little bit more and if he's if he's
Speaker 1: as snack hungry as you think he is, then maybe
Speaker 1: it's even more of him to push around. So you're
Speaker 1: not gonna push him around. I just feel like, give
Speaker 1: me another body and let's see if that big body
Speaker 1: can stop people from getting to the second level. Okay,
Speaker 1: it really it just it. It reminds me of the
Speaker 1: same thing like we said it at the start of
Speaker 1: the season. It's like there's always there's always a threshold
Speaker 1: for when you break the glass in case of an emergency.
Speaker 1: We I mean, Zach Martin had never played right tackle
Speaker 1: in his entire career until everything completely hit the fan
Speaker 1: and they were like, we gotta do something or it's
Speaker 1: gonna go south. And through four weeks, the Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: feel like they're there. But if this keeps up, there
Speaker 1: there's a threshold. There is a threshold for where they say,
Speaker 1: ef it, we gotta do something. We can't just keep
Speaker 1: expecting to get better results with what we have. So
Speaker 1: you know, this is gonna be a topic of conversation
Speaker 1: until the guys that are here either get better or
Speaker 1: the results get bad enough that they can't take it anymore.
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Speaker 1: Bucky on and we'll get some opinions from these guys
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