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Speaker 6: It is Thursday, December fourteenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number eighty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 6: The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 6: at the Star and today we're going to be talking
Speaker 6: a little more about Cowboys versus Bills. Today we'll get
Speaker 6: into the Buffalo defense versus the Cowboys offense. Depending on
Speaker 6: how the show goes, we might have time to talk
Speaker 6: a little bit about playoffs. We might get into that
Speaker 6: here at some point, and what all has to happen
Speaker 6: for Dowan Glint maybe maybe, And and really the big
Speaker 6: question i'ma have for you guys, and we're going to
Speaker 6: talk about either today or tomorrow, is the question is
Speaker 6: Philadelphia broken?
Speaker 2: H Because I think that's gonna be interesting this weekend.
Speaker 6: They got an interesting matchup where we're about to see
Speaker 6: if they really are broken with Seattle or is it
Speaker 6: just they had two tough games against two better teams
Speaker 6: and that's what we're seeing. But we'll talk about that
Speaker 6: maybe a little bit later in the show.
Speaker 2: Let's start first.
Speaker 6: I want to talk about some injuries. Malie Cooker did
Speaker 6: not practice yesterday with an ankle injury. There were lots
Speaker 6: of people that were listed on the injury report, but
Speaker 6: that's the one that stood out to me.
Speaker 2: What do we know about Malik and his ankle?
Speaker 7: Asked around about it, doesn't seem to be any concern
Speaker 7: with it. Sounds like it was a rest day for
Speaker 7: Milie Cooker, just as it was for all others. However,
Speaker 7: his was in fact injury related, so you couldn't list
Speaker 7: it as NI R on the injury report. So we'll
Speaker 7: see if that holds true today when n I are
Speaker 7: not you. Yeah, we'll see if that holds true today
Speaker 7: with a full practice being undergoing by all these guys,
Speaker 7: and these guys should be returning. So if at three
Speaker 7: pm when the injury report pops up for Thursday, if
Speaker 7: Malie Cooker is still there and D and P I
Speaker 7: mean if he's limited, it still goes to rest and
Speaker 7: kind of making sure he's ready for Sunday. But if
Speaker 7: he's DNP again, then it would raise an eyebrow. But
Speaker 7: it doesn't seem like a lot of concern right now.
Speaker 6: If they ever didn't have a game with if they
Speaker 6: ever had a game when Malie Cooker couldn't play, is
Speaker 6: it Janye Thomas the guy that would step in, who
Speaker 6: would step in that free safety.
Speaker 8: The guy that has the best range, best coverability. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you probably put him on the back end. I think
Speaker 8: that would be the best plan of attack. That way,
Speaker 8: you can keep Wilson and then cursing those guys down
Speaker 8: low where they played better.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Think Thomas is a guy that you never I'd never
Speaker 8: shy away from putting him in coverage. Yeah, he's super competitive.
Speaker 8: He's got some corner skills to his game. You know,
Speaker 8: you would have to see if you know, how he
Speaker 8: sees the field and stuff like that. You know't ever
Speaker 8: want to get trapped back there, you know, going the
Speaker 8: wrong direction or making the wrong read. But man, the guys,
Speaker 8: you know, he plays as your personal protector on the
Speaker 8: punt team. So the aptitude, the smarts, all those things
Speaker 8: are probably lined up for you right there.
Speaker 5: Ye. Well, he's great. That's why I would drop back there.
Speaker 7: I mean, he's got all the physical abilities, the quickness,
Speaker 7: the football IQ, the tackling ability and willingness to tackle. Obviously,
Speaker 7: what you'd be losing there over Malee Hooker is you
Speaker 7: have to wonder how more easily deceived he would be.
Speaker 7: One yea from a guy like Josh Allen and you know,
Speaker 7: a veteran offense for coordinator. But as far as skills
Speaker 7: setting football like Q concerned, je yay is there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does concern you a little bit, Brian. Yes,
Speaker 2: so you mentioned this offense.
Speaker 6: They'll try to fool you so well, so you get
Speaker 6: a little less experienced than that could put you in
Speaker 6: a compromise position in some instances.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about a few guys from the
Speaker 2: Buffalo team.
Speaker 6: There are four guys that were on their injury report
Speaker 6: that popped out to me, and I really want to
Speaker 6: get an idea of Obviously we are not there, so
Speaker 6: we don't know the extent of these injuries, but certainly
Speaker 6: from the standpoint of what it would mean if they
Speaker 6: don't have these four players. Uh, let's see what what
Speaker 6: what what do you think, Brian Uh defensive end AJ
Speaker 6: Panessa huge rib injury?
Speaker 3: Huge?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a big that would be a big problem
Speaker 8: because what's happened is von Miller's you know, playing less
Speaker 8: and less for them, and so now you've got Greg
Speaker 8: Russo at Oliver and Panessa in the way that he's playing.
Speaker 8: And yeah, he tried to play in the game, he
Speaker 8: got his ribs hurt in the Kansas City game, tried
Speaker 8: to come back into.
Speaker 3: The game and then you didn't see him anymore the
Speaker 3: rest of the way.
Speaker 8: That one sounds like in the podcast I did with
Speaker 8: the Buffalo guys and talking to some people outside of Buffalo,
Speaker 8: that would be a big, big loss for them.
Speaker 2: How about a safety Micah Hyde with the next stinger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Micah Hyde's been doing with this now.
Speaker 8: He had surgery on his neck in September of last
Speaker 8: year and it caused him to miss the whole season.
Speaker 8: It's had It's happened to him twice. It's very similar
Speaker 8: to what Leyton Vanderish deals with. And so uh, you
Speaker 8: know that's something that if he doesn't play in this
Speaker 8: uh in this game, and that his replacement that in
Speaker 8: that particular situation would be who.
Speaker 3: Did I have down here that they had? Who did
Speaker 3: they move?
Speaker 8: I'll get to it on my notes here, but but yeah,
Speaker 8: it's one of those things that that Oh it's Taylor Rapp,
Speaker 8: the veteran Taylor rap used to be at the Rams,
Speaker 8: and so Rapp would take his spot, but that would
Speaker 8: be a that would be a significant loss for him
Speaker 8: as well.
Speaker 2: How about a cornerback Tarren Johnson with ankle?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Tarren Johnson is that's their nickel and so but
Speaker 8: I've got a plan for how to attack Tarren Johnson
Speaker 8: in this game. I think even if he's playing, even
Speaker 8: if he's playing, I think this is where this is
Speaker 8: a guy that has problems with speed, and to me,
Speaker 8: now the matchup turns into how do you get Brandon
Speaker 8: Cooks in the slot more to have to deal with
Speaker 8: somebody that's dealing with an ankle, but also struggles with
Speaker 8: guys that can really really run. So that to me
Speaker 8: was a matchup that I was looking.
Speaker 5: At right there.
Speaker 2: And then tight end Dalton Kincaid rookie, that's.
Speaker 3: A big play for them too. They've got the two ends.
Speaker 8: Him and Dawson Knox are two really good players, and
Speaker 8: you know that with with Kinkaid, it's down the field
Speaker 8: that we mentioned, you know, how would you deal with
Speaker 8: I feel like that they're okay dealing with the Buffalo receivers.
Speaker 8: We'll see with Diggs and how they play him. These
Speaker 8: tight ends, though, are really capable players. Not I wouldn't
Speaker 8: call them great blockers, but.
Speaker 3: I would call them those guys that try.
Speaker 8: They try and create mismatches with athletic ability.
Speaker 3: They are very reliable catching the football. They have huge
Speaker 3: catcher radius.
Speaker 8: For both guys, so that that would be not having
Speaker 8: not having Kincaid would would be be significant for them.
Speaker 2: All right, So let's jump in.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about this Buffalo defense versus the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 6: I'll start with a big picture question. If you had
Speaker 6: to define one player on that defense that you would
Speaker 6: say is the most should be the most concerning for Dallas,
Speaker 6: who would that player be.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with Leonard Floyd.
Speaker 7: I think Lynn Floyd can be a game wrecker, and
Speaker 7: the Cowboys are familiar with him from having played him
Speaker 7: frequently over the course of his career.
Speaker 5: You know, but when you talk about somebody who's.
Speaker 7: Coming in with nine and a half sex, he's the
Speaker 7: heartbeat of that pass rush with the Buffalo Bills. And yes,
Speaker 7: von Miller contributes in a major way as well, so
Speaker 7: does up in necessary. I mean that they have contributors
Speaker 7: up there, but it feels like it goes as Leonard
Speaker 7: Floyd goes. So if you can figure out a way,
Speaker 7: or not necessarily figure out a way, but if you
Speaker 7: can win your matchup against Leonard Floyd on that offensive line,
Speaker 7: then that's going to give you a huge leg up
Speaker 7: to helping to neutralize the pass rush and then from
Speaker 7: there you can try to attack that secondary.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say that that Floyd makes a lot
Speaker 8: of sense. I worry about Greg Russo going against Terrence
Speaker 8: Steele in this football game. And you know that because
Speaker 8: the way that the way that Russo brushes you as
Speaker 8: a passer, he covers a lot of ground. His first
Speaker 8: two steps are like really long and all of a
Speaker 8: sudden now and the one thing that Steal has had
Speaker 8: over the problem is if guys.
Speaker 3: Can get the corner on him, can he get over quick.
Speaker 8: Enough to push that guy past, uh, the past the
Speaker 8: quarterback in the pocket and stuff. Uh you know his
Speaker 8: uh it's it's you know in the way he fights
Speaker 8: you too. The hand fighting, the way he gets kind
Speaker 8: of breaks guys down. I I do worry about that
Speaker 8: that matchup there. Ed Oliver would be a guy in
Speaker 8: defensive tackle that you should be concerned about. But the
Speaker 8: problem but the problem with that is that Ed Oliver
Speaker 8: is going up against two of your better blockers. When
Speaker 8: you start to talk about Smith and then you talk
Speaker 8: about Martin, and you know, those are your two inside
Speaker 8: players right there. That and Oliver's leading the team and
Speaker 8: and pressures and and you know, and and he's really
Speaker 8: good at defending the run.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: Coming out of Houston, he was an undersized guy that
Speaker 8: was worried about how light he was. But he plays
Speaker 8: that three technique under tackle outside shoulder of the the
Speaker 8: guard and then he works his way up the field.
Speaker 8: But I feel like the Cowboys matchup pretty well dealing
Speaker 8: with him with the two guards russo uh.
Speaker 3: And then as as you mentioned.
Speaker 8: Floyd, that's a little bit different story, especially if they
Speaker 8: could they find ways to get them over on steal.
Speaker 8: Even though Steel's playing pretty well though, there's always that
Speaker 8: you worry about those those those those other moments.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I wouldn't point out a specific player, but like
Speaker 10: you guys mentioned I think the d line as a
Speaker 10: group as a whole, they're really good with four man pressure,
Speaker 10: with rushing the passers. So I would say, if there's
Speaker 10: any area and Brian, you're about to break it all down.
Speaker 10: But if there isn't an area, it would be just
Speaker 10: the defensive line what they do all together.
Speaker 8: Well, you're absolutely right, you know, that's their their whole thing,
Speaker 8: Their whole game plan is based on. They really rely
Speaker 8: on their four man front to carry the day because
Speaker 8: they're one of the best. They don't blitz a ton
Speaker 8: and you could watch and I went back and I watched, Okay,
Speaker 8: sort all the blitzes.
Speaker 3: For me, there were five in a game, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're like going, oh wait, And as you.
Speaker 8: Watch the Cowboys sort blitzes, there's you know, there's twenty
Speaker 8: seven blitzes that you know, and some teams are.
Speaker 3: Really good at it.
Speaker 8: But here's a team that could put a lot of
Speaker 8: pressure on you with the four man line, the third
Speaker 8: in the league in sacks, and that's what they do.
Speaker 8: They rush you with four and they have to rush
Speaker 8: you with four because if you look at their secondary,
Speaker 8: their secondary gives up a lot of space. When you
Speaker 8: watch them play zone coverage. There are a lot of
Speaker 8: open guys tight window throws. They're one of the worst
Speaker 8: in the league when it comes to tight window throws.
Speaker 8: You could see it on tape. You know Rashul Douglas
Speaker 8: out there. We're all familiar with his game from Philadelphia.
Speaker 8: He's bounced around a couple of times. But if their
Speaker 8: four man rush doesn't get home or you pick up
Speaker 8: the blitzeres when they do, their secondary gets put into
Speaker 8: a world of hurt because they find ways to not
Speaker 8: cover the guys as tightly as they need to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 6: What jumped out to me is I noticed that they
Speaker 6: are four man team the vast majority of time, twenty
Speaker 6: fifth in the league, and blis percentage. They don't blitz
Speaker 6: very much at all. Here's an interesting thing. And you
Speaker 6: mentioned the sacks the third in sacks fifth and sacks percentage,
Speaker 6: so they're getting.
Speaker 2: Home at a rate that's that's up there at the
Speaker 2: top of the league.
Speaker 6: Here's the interesting part though, when you look at just
Speaker 6: their pressures, they're all the way down at fourteenth in
Speaker 6: the league as far as their pressure percentage when they're
Speaker 6: in a four man front, So it's almost like they
Speaker 6: don't always consistently get pressure, but when the efficient they
Speaker 6: get home, they get home, they make the sack. Does
Speaker 6: it also like it also suggests to me that maybe
Speaker 6: they don't get consistent pressure enough. Is that what you're
Speaker 6: saying on tape, is that they're not consistently getting pressure,
Speaker 6: but when they do they get home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 8: It's It's one of the things I watched, like the
Speaker 8: couple of games where the last two games where it's
Speaker 8: Philadelphia and then also then this Kansas City game, and
Speaker 8: when when they don't get home, like I said, it's
Speaker 8: a problem for them because their secondary just can't hold
Speaker 8: up long enough in the back end.
Speaker 3: And so you you know, if you find a way to.
Speaker 8: Block these guys and they've got they've got legitimate I mean,
Speaker 8: they've got legitimate pass rushing. It's very similar to what
Speaker 8: the Cowboys do with the way that they play their
Speaker 8: and you know, you get four man but you get
Speaker 8: four man games, you get the twists and get picks
Speaker 8: and all these things like that. So they know how
Speaker 8: to get those guys home. But when they don't, you
Speaker 8: do see completions, you know, And that's that's the thing.
Speaker 8: If Dallas goes into this game with the idea this
Speaker 8: is going to be a game. In my opinion that
Speaker 8: the running backs of the Cowboys are going to be
Speaker 8: huge in this game. And I'll tell you why because
Speaker 8: the ability to be that extra blocker to help on
Speaker 8: the four man rush. But also though this team, when
Speaker 8: they do rush or they do blitz, which could be
Speaker 8: occasionally it's slot pressure or its secondary pressure, they use
Speaker 8: their linebackers and coverage is what they do. So now
Speaker 8: you're dealing with safety pressure or you're dealing with slot pressure.
Speaker 8: So Tony Pollard and rico'doudle when they look they're usually
Speaker 8: keying off linebackers. Now you have to be ready for
Speaker 8: the pressure that comes on the outside of that. Okay,
Speaker 8: where's that safety walking up and coming from? Where's that
Speaker 8: slot player? Because they'll run the safety over the top
Speaker 8: to cover a slot blitz and they'll try and catch
Speaker 8: it up much like when the Cowboys used to do
Speaker 8: it with Orlando Scandric Yeah, you know, like he would
Speaker 8: line up tight to the line and then all of
Speaker 8: a sudden come flying down and nobody would ever blocking.
Speaker 8: They try and do the same thing. But how Pollard
Speaker 8: and doubt will pick up actually help on four will
Speaker 8: be key in how they pick up extra any extra
Speaker 8: blitz that they might see in this game. But they're
Speaker 8: gonna need to get pressure because the problems.
Speaker 3: That they have.
Speaker 8: It's not a secondary to me that it's like as
Speaker 8: bad as like what they've seen with the Giants and
Speaker 8: some of the others back in the past, but you
Speaker 8: see completions on them, and just because of the space
Speaker 8: that they give up.
Speaker 7: It'll be interesting to see how the Cowboys attack the
Speaker 7: linebacker call, like you mentioned right, because of the twelve
Speaker 7: interceptions that the that the Bills have, five of those.
Speaker 5: To their linebacker corl.
Speaker 7: Yeah, their cornerbacks and their safety their safeties one or two,
Speaker 7: but their cornerbacks aren't good with taking the ball away.
Speaker 7: It's also a defense that you mentioned they play zone.
Speaker 7: They'd love to play zone. Almost eighty one percent of
Speaker 7: the time they're playing zone.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 7: Of course you go back to week five and the
Speaker 7: team can try to flip that on you high forty
Speaker 7: nine ers, but Dak Prescott is playing at a different
Speaker 7: level right now as far as it really doesn't matter
Speaker 7: if you're going to do zone or man, he's going
Speaker 7: to attack it. But the reason they go to zone
Speaker 7: is because they don't have a lot of confidence Without
Speaker 7: Trey Devis White on the field, don't have a lot
Speaker 7: of confidence, so they give that space to try to
Speaker 7: protect their guys. But in doing so, the Bill secondary
Speaker 7: is allowing one of the worst completion percentages in the
Speaker 7: entire league. It's over seventy percent, almost seventy one percent.
Speaker 7: So the play, yeah, so the players are going to
Speaker 7: be there, the catchers are going to be there to
Speaker 7: be made. And also of I think they're at twenty
Speaker 7: nine hundred yards allowed passing yards allowed, roughly fifteen hundred
Speaker 7: of that is yack. So not only are you able
Speaker 7: to make passes and get catches against this secondary, but
Speaker 7: they'll give up the yards after the catch as well.
Speaker 7: And then you look at what Ceedee Lamb and Cooks
Speaker 7: and and Jake Ferguson can do in that capacity. I mean,
Speaker 7: it's a favorable match for the Cowboys if, like Brian said,
Speaker 7: you can stop that front four and if that means
Speaker 7: you have to you know, tast Tony Pollard and Rico
Speaker 7: Dalde with helping on the rare occasion they do blitz,
Speaker 7: then do so. But yeah, there's lunch to be had
Speaker 7: for Dak Prescott all.
Speaker 8: Right, smart, Yeah, they're small at linebacker, and that's why
Speaker 8: teams have had some success running the football at these
Speaker 8: guys a little bit. And that's what you kind of
Speaker 8: have to do with. This might be a game where
Speaker 8: Dallas tries to run the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Matt Mulano out for them.
Speaker 8: That injury that he suffered in Week six just really
Speaker 8: crush this linebacker crew. He's really good at playing the
Speaker 8: pass and playing the run. And so they've struggled now
Speaker 8: with some of their size at linebacker and people have
Speaker 8: taken advantage of that. And by the way, I just
Speaker 8: got to report that Hooker should be available for this game,
Speaker 8: so don't worry about him.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Great, all right, we're gonna take our first break.
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Speaker 6: about some strategies maybe that we might see from Dallas
Speaker 6: offensively when it comes to taking advantage of the sees
Speaker 6: wide open targets, as well as the running game where
Speaker 6: they can maybe take advantag of the run. This run
Speaker 6: defense that may be a bit undersized. We'll talk about
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Speaker 6: Let's we're diving back into the Buffalo defense to kind
Speaker 6: of give it some context. We were talking about the
Speaker 6: wide open nature of what they give up in the
Speaker 6: passing game. They are seventh right now, and the most
Speaker 6: attempts allowed to wide open talks about twenty five percent
Speaker 6: of the time when you got to pass attempted against
Speaker 6: this defense, the receivers wide open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot, that's a quarter of the time.
Speaker 2: That's a ton.
Speaker 6: And then when you think about the pass rushing and
Speaker 6: what they can can can really create some some challenges
Speaker 6: from the pass rushing standpoint, It makes me wonder if
Speaker 6: this is a game where we should see at least
Speaker 6: early a lot of the quick passing game just so
Speaker 6: you can get the ball out, because it looks like
Speaker 6: they're gonna have some open targets. There are opportunities for
Speaker 6: you do, especially if you're scheming guys. My question is,
Speaker 6: is the quick passing game what we should expect to
Speaker 6: see much more than just their kind of the deep
Speaker 6: ball as much as this game?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say so, I think that you want
Speaker 8: to you know, to me, they just they don't have
Speaker 8: the quality at corner that most teams have. And I
Speaker 8: mentioned Rashuel Douglas, Christian Benford. You know, he's a guy
Speaker 8: that's a second year player and you know he's kind
Speaker 8: of feeling his way right now.
Speaker 3: They really just don't have that. They don't have anybody
Speaker 3: that could really shut anybody down.
Speaker 8: I mentioned about Terran Johnson though, you know with the
Speaker 8: nickel he's he's struggled at times. So they just don't
Speaker 8: have that one guy that can walk over there and
Speaker 8: take your best guy. And so yeah, anything to anything
Speaker 8: to alleviate just you know, any type of pressure holding
Speaker 8: the ball against these guys, I think is a terrible idea,
Speaker 8: you know, just because eventually these guys, one of their
Speaker 8: three guys is going to win. You know that that's
Speaker 8: just the way that they that's the way they They're
Speaker 8: able to rush the passer. But somehow, you we've talked
Speaker 8: about this full before. If you could block the front,
Speaker 8: they blocked the front in Philadelphia and what happened. You
Speaker 8: have passing game involved, you know, so if you can
Speaker 8: handle pass rush with your players, then your receivers are
Speaker 8: much better than what these secondary guys are, So anything
Speaker 8: quick or you know, maybe even really normal passing game,
Speaker 8: because because if they're going to play a ton of
Speaker 8: zone on you, I mean, every every time I looked
Speaker 8: up and was watching them, you know, there was just
Speaker 8: so much space. So when the ball gets out, you
Speaker 8: know that the things that affect is there. Like I say,
Speaker 8: their their pass rush can't affect you control that though
Speaker 8: you can make some plays against these guys. You've heard
Speaker 8: me say that.
Speaker 2: Before when you talk about the pass rush.
Speaker 6: Just to give people a perspective, this front four, would
Speaker 6: you say it is comparable to San Francisco? Would you
Speaker 6: say it's more like Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: It's which one.
Speaker 8: It's more like Philadelphia, but more like Philip more like Philadelphi,
Speaker 8: well different than Philip like Philadelphia with the edge, different
Speaker 8: from the inside players because ed Oliver can rush from
Speaker 8: the inside. I don't think Philadelphi mean Fletcher Cox and
Speaker 8: they got those big body guys and they just pushed
Speaker 8: the front. Ed Oliver's got some wiggle to his game.
Speaker 8: He's got some quick maybe a bunch like what we've
Speaker 8: seen like with the when the rams with with Aaron Donald,
Speaker 8: that kind of you know, when you have that quick,
Speaker 8: three technique guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So that's.
Speaker 8: That's kind of where you're at with this team, because
Speaker 8: they've got a legitimate defensive tackle that can rush, and
Speaker 8: they've got two legitimate edges that can rush. So now
Speaker 8: you've got three guys that are involved. The other guy
Speaker 8: for them is more of a push guy. But you know,
Speaker 8: when you play Philadelphia, it's really two guys and big
Speaker 8: bodies trying to push in the middle.
Speaker 6: There have been games here in the last thing, and
Speaker 6: you know, when we look at the like the pre
Speaker 6: the first five games this season and then the posts
Speaker 6: after that and how Dak's been playing, there have been
Speaker 6: some games where Dak has been on this stretch where
Speaker 6: he's playing phenomenal football, well, he's been under pressure.
Speaker 2: And still been able to make it work.
Speaker 6: So my question becomes like, is this really a problem
Speaker 6: for Dallas, because it seems like Dak is being able
Speaker 6: to operate even when he's under pressure. Although the offensive
Speaker 6: line has played pretty well in most of these weeks,
Speaker 6: even when he's under pressure, Dak still has a way
Speaker 6: of making plays, playing a.
Speaker 8: Lot better with his feet, you know, and he understands
Speaker 8: where when things do break down, just immediately take off
Speaker 8: and run.
Speaker 3: Don't try and hold.
Speaker 8: The ball and you know, and and and make a play.
Speaker 8: Just take off running and play for the next down.
Speaker 8: Get your six, seven, eight, ten yards whatever you're gonna get,
Speaker 8: get down and go for it. So yeah, that to me,
Speaker 8: that's Dak is dealing with pressure just fine.
Speaker 3: You know, Like I said, hopefully, hopefully the pressure is
Speaker 3: it to.
Speaker 8: The point where it happens quick and now they're on him.
Speaker 3: That kind of thing. That's that's what I would worry
Speaker 3: about writing this game.
Speaker 7: I said, get like you said, Derek, I said, get
Speaker 7: the ball out quick, get your guys in rhythm. Lamb Cooks,
Speaker 7: Jake whomever else, trping Michael Gallup. Get those guys out
Speaker 7: and get them running early. Put the secondary on their heels,
Speaker 7: kind of help neutralize to pass Russ frustrate those front
Speaker 7: four pretty early. And you know, when you look at
Speaker 7: a guy like and we talk about uncommon opponent, but
Speaker 7: then you look at the roster and see who who
Speaker 7: are common opponents.
Speaker 5: Within the roster.
Speaker 7: Rasseuo Douglas, he's won from the time he spent with
Speaker 7: Philadelphia he was there from twenty seventeen through twenty nineteen.
Speaker 7: Seven times he's played against Dak Prescott, it's been awful. Yeah,
Speaker 7: he's had in those seven games one interception, one pass breakup.
Speaker 5: That's it in seven outings.
Speaker 7: So if you're Dak Prescott, you got to be looking
Speaker 7: your chops to say, okay, well, when we move ceed
Speaker 7: Lamb to the slot, that's Russello Douglas.
Speaker 5: Douglas.
Speaker 7: We're eating cooks in the slot, turping in the slot,
Speaker 7: we're eating So in that type of situation, it's all
Speaker 7: all the more reason for you to drop back, get
Speaker 7: the ball out quickly, and then I mean the big
Speaker 7: players are going to develop themselves. You just have to
Speaker 7: establish the rhythm early. Especially in a hostile environment like
Speaker 7: Ultra Park.
Speaker 6: You mentioned that the running game has had some challenges,
Speaker 6: particularly because these linebackers are a little undersized. Is there
Speaker 6: a particular area of the defense where you've noticed their
Speaker 6: most vulnerable to the outside, to the inside. Yeah, like
Speaker 6: where if teams had a lot of success running the ball.
Speaker 8: Dallas has done a good job and they've tried to
Speaker 8: run the ball in a lot of different ways. Now
Speaker 8: they're not just it's not outside zone stuff all the time.
Speaker 8: They've done the crack toss stuff. They've done it's just toss.
Speaker 8: They've run the jet sweeps. Those plays are all going
Speaker 8: to be good in my opinion. To me, I would
Speaker 8: try and do things that are misdirection plays. You know,
Speaker 8: the Cowboys ran a double screen the other day, which
Speaker 8: you know tells me they're trying to affect to get
Speaker 8: guys to move, to get guys out of the way.
Speaker 3: This linebacker crew, they're small and they want to run.
Speaker 3: They don't want.
Speaker 8: To play toe to toe with you, because if they
Speaker 8: play toe to toe, they.
Speaker 3: Get swallowed up.
Speaker 8: So to me, if anything is how quickly you can
Speaker 8: secure down guys and then get guys up on the
Speaker 8: second level and effect there because Philadelphia was able to
Speaker 8: do that a couple of different times. Kansas City was
Speaker 8: able to do that couple different times. You get them
Speaker 8: going one way with the read and then all of
Speaker 8: a sudden, you get them to commit and now the
Speaker 8: ball's coming back the other way. So Dallas, we've seen
Speaker 8: Dallas with their ability to play that way in the
Speaker 8: running game to be able to affect the lineberyer with flow,
Speaker 8: getting like the motions, quick motions to get the linebackers
Speaker 8: to step and then take the ball behind them. And
Speaker 8: that's the problem that because when these guys get hooked up,
Speaker 8: they don't get off blocks very well at that linebacker,
Speaker 8: especially that second level.
Speaker 6: Let's flip over and talk a little bit more about
Speaker 6: this Cowboys offense. They have had their four lowest point
Speaker 6: totals this season when they've been on the road. That
Speaker 6: would be sixteen points at Arizona, ten points at San Francisco,
Speaker 6: twenty points at the Chargers, twenty three points at Philadelphia. Typically,
Speaker 6: I'm one that doesn't believe home versus road is really
Speaker 6: a big deal, but you look at stuff like that,
Speaker 6: and you look at how they're scoring at home, and
Speaker 6: there's something there. Have you guys been able to identify
Speaker 6: anything you can point to where you say this may
Speaker 6: be the reason why Dallas is so much more effective
Speaker 6: at home offensively than what they are on the road
Speaker 6: better opponents.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're in.
Speaker 2: Right, but the different let me ask you that.
Speaker 6: So so then if you do that, then what's the
Speaker 6: difference between Philadelphia on the road versus Philadelphia at home?
Speaker 6: Because there's a big difference in how well Dallas played
Speaker 6: at home. We gets Philadelphia, then maybe how they play
Speaker 6: Dallas at home.
Speaker 3: Is impossible to deal with. I just do I think that.
Speaker 8: I think the conditions and I'm gonna be honest, I
Speaker 8: mean this the field, the conditions, the things that they
Speaker 8: deal with, they they just they.
Speaker 3: Find a better rhythm playing offense, you know.
Speaker 8: And maybe what happens too is you get on the
Speaker 8: road and now you're dealing with crowd noise, and now
Speaker 8: you're dealing with trying to communicate, and not everything gets
Speaker 8: you know, not everything gets taken care of, you know,
Speaker 8: like it needs to be. But against Arizona, they were
Speaker 8: really they were bad in the red zone. You know,
Speaker 8: they were just really bad.
Speaker 2: In the red zone at this point.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think I think they've gotten better at it.
Speaker 8: I think they actually have gotten better at it because
Speaker 8: they've been more willing to use DAK if they have to.
Speaker 3: But the receivers are doing a good job.
Speaker 8: You get guys like guys Guy Turpin involved, you know,
Speaker 8: I mean, he's had a couple of catches down there,
Speaker 8: Ferguson making plays, Cooks making plays. You know, they've they've
Speaker 8: gotten guys, you know, Gallup had a touchdown the other day.
Speaker 8: They're getting guys involved in the scene. The schemes have
Speaker 8: been good, you know, the ways that they've been able
Speaker 8: to operate, the running backs running the ball better. So yeah,
Speaker 8: they I feel like they've gotten better in that red
Speaker 8: zone stuff.
Speaker 5: And they have.
Speaker 7: And to answer that question statistically, I was, you know,
Speaker 7: doing some science lab last night and it's it's up
Speaker 7: on the dot com right now, shameless plug. But one
Speaker 7: interest in that I came across was the red zone
Speaker 7: red zone efficiency for the Cowboys. Obviously a huge talking
Speaker 7: point over the first you know, charmester of the season,
Speaker 7: even first portion of the second trimester. But as we
Speaker 7: have this conversation, Cowboys have scored inside the red zone
Speaker 7: seventy one percent of the time over the last three games.
Speaker 7: That's good enough for sixth best in the NIT. Now
Speaker 7: guess what they're going up against. The Buffalo Bills defense
Speaker 7: has allowed the opponent to score inside the red zone
Speaker 7: eighty eight percent of the time in the last three games.
Speaker 8: Forty six completion percentage down there, yeah, forty six. Half
Speaker 8: the passes stone.
Speaker 7: In the red zone are completely The Cowboys over the
Speaker 7: last three games have heated up in the red zone
Speaker 7: and the Bills are ice cold as far as stopping
Speaker 7: teams from scoring in the end zone.
Speaker 6: That's the only challenges office really has found. Also, like
Speaker 6: they get moving and when they start moving, it's hard
Speaker 6: to stop them. But the red zone has been the
Speaker 6: issue in it.
Speaker 2: That's wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 5: Going to get better in the red zone.
Speaker 10: That's one of the issues that they've definitely gotten better
Speaker 10: the red zone because I'm going back to the beginning
Speaker 10: of the season some of the things that we were
Speaker 10: talking are they were still moving the ball pretty well,
Speaker 10: and it's always when they hit the red zone, they
Speaker 10: just couldn't get in and get the touchdown. And I'm
Speaker 10: going back, I mean, the away games hasn't been that.
Speaker 10: I mean, yes, the losses have come from away games,
Speaker 10: but it hasn't.
Speaker 2: Been that terrible.
Speaker 10: You can go back to the game against Philly that
Speaker 10: was a very close game that it came down to
Speaker 10: inches that.
Speaker 3: You didn't handle the nine situation.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well yeah, but very close, could have possibly been
Speaker 10: a win for the Cowboys. Then you go to the
Speaker 10: forty nine ers, that's yes, yeah, we know, we know,
Speaker 10: we know.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 10: The when they play against the Giants, you completely dominated them,
Speaker 10: scored forty points, and then with Arizona you they were sleepwalking.
Speaker 12: Yeah, that was my point.
Speaker 6: My point, I guess that's the point of it is
Speaker 6: the four times this season when they've had the lowest
Speaker 6: points scored on offense, they've been on the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had.
Speaker 6: Some outliers, like the Giants game on the road where
Speaker 6: they scored a ton of points. But even I think
Speaker 6: we all came out of that game even saying offense
Speaker 6: that it wasn't really clicking. Yeah, you have some defense, Yeah,
Speaker 6: there was other things that were going on in that
Speaker 6: game that that kind of made that score what it was. Now, again,
Speaker 6: a lot of that happened in the early part of
Speaker 6: the season, in which case, now we think the offense
Speaker 6: has made some changes and they're they're playing a much
Speaker 6: different level, did much different type of game, and they
Speaker 6: were playing back then, but the road was the road
Speaker 6: back then.
Speaker 8: They they've improved on things that they've improved on when
Speaker 8: you start to talk about pre snap motions and things
Speaker 8: like that, and you know, it's just you know, every
Speaker 8: every every week it's gotten better and better. And to
Speaker 8: the point when you look at week five was kind
Speaker 8: of the water mark where we say, okay, things flipped
Speaker 8: from that point on that that their motion stuffs up
Speaker 8: about eight percent. You know, I mean, they went from
Speaker 8: being one of the worst teams when it came to
Speaker 8: pre stap motion to at least middle to back respectable
Speaker 8: prestap motions. And you know, whether it's coming across or
Speaker 8: going out, you know, they're they're finding ways to set
Speaker 8: plays up with their motion and as long as they
Speaker 8: keep doing that, they'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 6: I really want to see very interesting to see what
Speaker 6: they do this week and what they do next week,
Speaker 6: because that will tell me a lot about their capabilities
Speaker 6: in the playoffs. Because if these if they continue to
Speaker 6: have lackluster offensive performances in these next two games, then
Speaker 6: you have to start saying it's something about the road
Speaker 6: that's different than at home. And the likelihood is, if
Speaker 6: all things play out as a lot of people expect
Speaker 6: them to, Dallas is going to have to go on
Speaker 6: the road. They have to if they want to get
Speaker 6: to their ultimate their ultimate goal. So uh this, I
Speaker 6: think these two games will do a lot for telling
Speaker 6: us what we should expect from them in the playoffs
Speaker 6: based on how they handle these two road games. Are
Speaker 6: we gonna take our final break when we come back.
Speaker 6: Let's jump into the NFL NFC. Let's talk a little
Speaker 6: bit about some of those teams, and man, it's gotten
Speaker 6: crazy down there at the bottom of the NFC playoff race.
Speaker 6: There are a lot of teams that are involved, including
Speaker 6: one New York Giants team that is making a push.
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Speaker 2: let's talk about the NFC. Interesting here, man, it's gotten
Speaker 2: really interesting.
Speaker 6: Let's first start with the Cowboys have an opportunity this
Speaker 6: weekend to clinch a playoff spot, which, let's be clear,
Speaker 6: the likelihood of Dallas clinch is a playoff spot is
Speaker 6: like ninety nine percent. They're going to clinch it at
Speaker 6: some point unless there's some sort of epic epic fail
Speaker 6: on their part going down the stretch. But they can't
Speaker 6: clinch this weekend with a win, and there are fourteen
Speaker 6: other scenarios or thirteen other scenarios that could also allow
Speaker 6: the Cowboys to clinch if they should lose the game
Speaker 6: this weekend. So suffice to say, there's a pretty decent chance,
Speaker 6: depending on how you think the game is going to
Speaker 6: play out with the Bills, that's a good chance the
Speaker 6: Cowboys will be in the playoffs by the time we
Speaker 6: get to next Monday. That all being said, you look
Speaker 6: at the standings right now. You got the top four
Speaker 6: teams that are clearly ahead of everyone else. You got
Speaker 6: San Francisco at ten and three, Dallas ten and three,
Speaker 6: Philadelphia ten and three, Detroit one game at nine and four.
Speaker 6: After they take a loss, they're starting to get a
Speaker 6: little wonky there.
Speaker 2: I was really high on Detroit, but I'm.
Speaker 6: Starting to wonder now, starting to wonder now, like was
Speaker 6: that fool's goal?
Speaker 5: A little bit?
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 6: But then you get down below that, and you're talking
Speaker 6: about Minnesota at seven and six, Tampa Bay at six
Speaker 6: and seven, Green Bay at six and seven, the Rams
Speaker 6: at six and seven, Seattle six and seven, Atlanta six
Speaker 6: and seven, New Orleans six and seven.
Speaker 2: And then that's not enough.
Speaker 6: You got the New York Giants at five and eight
Speaker 6: and Chicago at five and eight. Both those teams had
Speaker 6: a little bit of success, definitely in the last week
Speaker 6: the Giants and now are on a three game win streak,
Speaker 6: including the win last week that they got against the Packers,
Speaker 6: who are also a playoff contender.
Speaker 2: So here's my question for you guys.
Speaker 6: We know those top four teams, who are going to
Speaker 6: be the other three teams If you have to name
Speaker 6: three other teams that'll make the playoffs in the NFC
Speaker 6: out of Minnesota, Tampa Bay, Green Bay, the Rams, Seattle, Atlanta,
Speaker 6: New Orleans, New York Giants, and Chicago, who are you three.
Speaker 3: A lot?
Speaker 7: It's it's such a it's a muddy mess below that
Speaker 7: top four.
Speaker 5: So let's say San fran Dallas. Who does Detroit take
Speaker 5: the NC North?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the Ty.
Speaker 7: And then number four let's just label the NFC South
Speaker 7: because ain't no telling.
Speaker 5: Philadelphia, give me the Rams.
Speaker 8: Give me the Rams in there at the Rams to me,
Speaker 8: are the team that they they've got, They've got their
Speaker 8: quarterback is I mean, they were at the Baltimore last
Speaker 8: week and they should have won that game.
Speaker 3: Yep, they absolutely should have won that game.
Speaker 8: And I think that Baltimore is one of the best
Speaker 8: teams in the league. And for the Rams to go
Speaker 8: all the way across the country play basically a one
Speaker 8: o'clock game over there, they showed up that used to
Speaker 8: be roadkill for teams that did that, go all the
Speaker 8: way across the country and play in one of those
Speaker 8: they the Rams played physical against a physical team.
Speaker 3: I feel like I can't trust Seattle to beat Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: I want to believe. I want to believe that.
Speaker 8: But Seattle, to me seems like they're even though they
Speaker 8: get all that skill at wide receiver and all that.
Speaker 3: I just I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, they need to they need to kind of
Speaker 8: figure things out on defense. But the Rams seem like
Speaker 8: the team them in Green Bay. I know Green Bay
Speaker 8: had a bad loss against the Giants, but I kind
Speaker 8: of feel like that they're still in the mix with
Speaker 8: I thought they had. I thought they had a shot
Speaker 8: to kind of get themselves ahead of Minnesota. I don't
Speaker 8: trust Minnesota. Minnesota's look at their quarterback situation every week
Speaker 8: and they're drawing it out of a out of a hat, you.
Speaker 10: Know, Josh crazy that they've gone to this point that.
Speaker 8: They've just I mean, they're trying to hang in there,
Speaker 8: but there's no consistency there.
Speaker 3: The Rams of the team that you probably don't want
Speaker 3: to play.
Speaker 8: You just don't want to play them because of how
Speaker 8: good Pukin Deakua and and the Cooper Cup the tight end,
Speaker 8: the quarterback they get.
Speaker 6: Running back now Karen Williams, Yeah, I'm kind of glad.
Speaker 8: Dallas played the Rams earlier then later, because that's a
Speaker 8: team I don't think you want to deal with.
Speaker 3: I think the Rams are the last team to get in.
Speaker 5: That's interesting because you Philly's five.
Speaker 3: I don't trus San Francisco at the end, yea, what
Speaker 3: you do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't trust Minnesota.
Speaker 7: I could see Green Bay kind of bouncing back from
Speaker 7: a loss that they should not have suffered against the Giants.
Speaker 7: Giants I was surgeon, so credit to the Giants and
Speaker 7: Tommy Cutlet's three game Winistrey, I do like the Rams.
Speaker 7: I'm torn between Rams and Seahawks because you know, you
Speaker 7: got the Rams and they're playing good football and McVeigh
Speaker 7: he's got those guys rolling. And Seattle contrarily, they're stumbling
Speaker 7: right now, and that includes allowing forty one points. But
Speaker 7: you know it's too one of the highest scoring, if
Speaker 7: not right now, the high scoring offense in the league.
Speaker 5: So take that for what it's worth.
Speaker 7: I like that Seattle was competitive with Drew Locke in
Speaker 7: Santa Clara against San Francisco for the majority of that game.
Speaker 5: That tells me they're not quitting.
Speaker 7: So if they do get Gino Smith back, We've seen
Speaker 7: that Gino Smith in that offense with his quick release,
Speaker 7: they can put up some points. So I believe that
Speaker 7: that versus a Philadelphia secondary that has to visit Seattle,
Speaker 7: talk about home field advantage, twelfth man advantage and gene
Speaker 7: cross country right, cross country trip, Gino and that arsenal.
Speaker 3: Right, what you guys are trying to do.
Speaker 7: You know, and that arsenal against the secondary in Philadelphia
Speaker 7: that's basically toast. I think we can all admit that
Speaker 7: that secondary's toast. So I do like Seattle in this
Speaker 7: game against Philadelphia I'm not saying it'll be a blowout,
Speaker 7: but I like them more than I trusted a team
Speaker 7: like Minnesota. Hell more than I trust a green team
Speaker 7: like Green Bay. Right now, I do like the Rams do.
Speaker 7: I think the Rams are dangerous.
Speaker 3: Seattle's perfect for Philadelphia. Seattle's perfect for Philadelphia.
Speaker 8: Philadelphia's won ten games with the team at the end
Speaker 8: just gives it away.
Speaker 3: You know, they've won all these.
Speaker 8: Games where all of a sudden, you know they should
Speaker 8: they shouldn't win, but they shouldn't win, but the opponent
Speaker 8: falls apart at the end. What did Seattle do against Dallas?
Speaker 8: They fell apart at the end. You know, that's what
Speaker 8: they're gonna do. And so I I appreciate you guys
Speaker 8: talking about it this way, but I think the next
Speaker 8: two weeks, you look at the Rams. They've got the
Speaker 8: Commanders at home, and they got the Saints at home.
Speaker 8: They're about to be eight and seven with the Giants.
Speaker 8: They go to the Giants and then that San Francisco.
Speaker 8: That San Francisco game might be important to them, and
Speaker 8: it might maybe it'll help you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it'll help you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, because it'll be important to them to
Speaker 8: make sure that they get into.
Speaker 6: This, and you got also remember division is still gonna
Speaker 6: be hard. The Vision's always hard.
Speaker 3: Well you the Commanders.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And my point is like, if you got the
Speaker 6: Rams playing their best football toward the end of the season,
Speaker 6: which I've been saying is for a few weeks. The
Speaker 6: reason why I like the Rams is because they're a
Speaker 6: veteran team. A lot of these guys were in the
Speaker 6: Super Bowl a few years ago. Like, this is a
Speaker 6: veteran team. They know what they're doing, they have a
Speaker 6: really good coach, they got really good schemes. I think
Speaker 6: that you look at it from that standpoint, if they
Speaker 6: get on a roll, they become very scary for a
Speaker 6: lot of teams. Everybody in the NFC has to be worried,
Speaker 6: Like I don't necessarily to match up with that team
Speaker 6: if they're playing their best football at the end of
Speaker 6: the season. So yeah, I think the Rams are the
Speaker 6: team that the team out of all these teams that actually.
Speaker 2: Could get in the playoffs and causeys, yeah.
Speaker 8: That's that's that's like a six to seventh seed that
Speaker 8: could go and be one of those two or three.
Speaker 8: Absolutely because of the way they play. I'm talking myself
Speaker 8: into that, but seriously. I mean they had the Ravens
Speaker 8: on the ropes. Yeah, they had that game over and
Speaker 8: they you know, that had been a that's that's been
Speaker 8: four straight after the bye with the Commanders and the
Speaker 8: Saints on the horizon, You're looking at a five game
Speaker 8: heater right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, is Philly broken?
Speaker 3: Amber Hopes. I don't think they're broken.
Speaker 10: I mean, they still have all those talented players in there.
Speaker 10: I think they just they're still hurting from them beat
Speaker 10: them against the forty nine ers. But I'm rooting for
Speaker 10: the Giants right now. You talk about the perfect time
Speaker 10: and crazy time for them to to start winning some games,
Speaker 10: and he hasn't been anything extravagant, extravagant. It hasn't been
Speaker 10: like that. But it's crazy because they're they're about to
Speaker 10: face the Eagles pretty soon twice to end the year
Speaker 10: and maybe gives them some some troubles. But I don't
Speaker 10: think Phillies were it's broke. They're just hurting.
Speaker 3: I would trade schedules with them right now.
Speaker 10: Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 3: They went through that run.
Speaker 8: They went through that run where they beat they beat Miami,
Speaker 8: they beat Buffalo. You know, I mean they're ten to
Speaker 8: three with now, they're gonna play I'd love to play
Speaker 8: Arizona again. You caught Arizona at the wrong time. You
Speaker 8: caught the Rams at the right time, Arizona at the
Speaker 8: wrong time. So but yeah, I to me, the Phillies
Speaker 8: capable scoring points. The problem they have is they can't
Speaker 8: stop anybody. That's their issue right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're beating, they're bloodied.
Speaker 5: They're not broken. The offense is not broken. The secondary
Speaker 5: is broken.
Speaker 2: Are you sure?
Speaker 6: And that's really where I was gone when you say
Speaker 6: the second Well, but I'm saying when you say the
Speaker 6: offense isn't broken, like you go back to what Nick
Speaker 6: Bosa said, and since they've played that, like we will
Speaker 6: see this weekend if they have the horses to do it.
Speaker 2: But he's like, we got the blood.
Speaker 5: But it's what you just said.
Speaker 7: If Seattle has the horses to do it, Cowboys and
Speaker 7: the forty nine Ers have the horses to execute the blueprint,
Speaker 7: Maybe Seattle does. We'll find out, but do the Giants.
Speaker 7: We'll have to find out. These are some of the
Speaker 7: lesser teams who are not of caliber of the Cowboys
Speaker 7: and the forty nine ers, but offensively, you know is
Speaker 7: Jalen Hurts in that offense, light and scoreboard up. Nope, Nope.
Speaker 7: They need to figure some things out. But they've shown
Speaker 7: that they can score points more often than struggling to
Speaker 7: score points. So I don't think I think they'll figure
Speaker 7: that out. Offensively, however, they need to. But defensively, the defense,
Speaker 7: defensive line is what it is, which is great, but
Speaker 7: that secondary it is just it's it's lunch.
Speaker 5: It's lunch.
Speaker 3: It's time for the Eagles to say, Jalen Hurts, start running. Yeah, now,
Speaker 3: become a run.
Speaker 2: It looks like they were trying to do that last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he didn't do it enough.
Speaker 5: He jumped out early.
Speaker 8: You were to the point in the season now that
Speaker 8: we got to make sure that we win this division.
Speaker 8: You start running the ball, yeah, and do whatever it takes.
Speaker 8: Do whatever you have to do. We're not We're not
Speaker 8: keeping the bubble wrap on you anymore.
Speaker 7: You run the ball, contrarily, New York Giants, whatever it takes,
Speaker 7: whatever it takes.
Speaker 5: Quick update of just gotta update.
Speaker 7: Malik Hooker is expected to be limited in practice today,
Speaker 7: so wrapped up from yesterday's work, D and P from
Speaker 7: the walkthrough. So he's turning toward Like Brian said, being available.
Speaker 5: So all right, so well.
Speaker 2: That's a wrap.
Speaker 6: We'll be back tomorrow. We'll wrap this thing up. Let
Speaker 6: you know what we think is gonna happen this weekend
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