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Speaker 3: and the official Dallas Cowboys at now Here are Bill Jones,
Speaker 3: Savannah Humoller, Everson Wolves, and Mickey Spagnola.
Speaker 2: Well, here it is.
Speaker 4: It is. What day is this? I know it's Thursday first,
Speaker 4: it's the twenty first, not quite Christmas. It's four days
Speaker 4: before Christmas. I was counting to Christmas. I wasn't counting
Speaker 4: the game day. I'm counting down the days to Christmas.
Speaker 4: And so here it is Thursday, and there are football
Speaker 4: players on a football field. Christmas has come early. We
Speaker 4: actually can watch players on the field today.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately we don't have a window.
Speaker 6: We can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first break, Mickey will be sneaking outside and
Speaker 4: letting us know, well what players are on that foot.
Speaker 5: There's all you need to know is Zach is doing better,
Speaker 5: he said, And Tyron they'll see on Saturday.
Speaker 4: That was the alarming thing on the injury report on Wednesday.
Speaker 4: It's not that Tyron missed practice. He did not participate
Speaker 4: in practice. Is no big deal because to the side
Speaker 4: it says veteran rest day, but when it says back
Speaker 4: next to him, then that's a concern.
Speaker 5: And evidently it happened in the game. So we'll have
Speaker 5: to wait till Saturday. The game he finished, a game,
Speaker 5: he finished, and then for Zach Martin, he said he
Speaker 5: thought he'd do.
Speaker 2: A little bit more today. So we'll see where that
Speaker 2: one goes.
Speaker 5: But you mentioned they would be on the practice field
Speaker 5: and it'll be their last padded practice.
Speaker 2: And I can't.
Speaker 5: Remember if they give you extra for the playoffs. The
Speaker 5: gut rightsume at least one a.
Speaker 4: Week, especially when you get the first round by yeah,
Speaker 4: so it's a short week next week and then yeah,
Speaker 4: and that's what he was talking about in the press conference.
Speaker 5: They asked him about you know this time of year,
Speaker 5: and he goes, well, he said it makes it tough
Speaker 5: because and his reference was, you've got Christmas coming up
Speaker 5: after the game, and it's a short week to Saturday.
Speaker 5: So I think he might be implying that they might
Speaker 5: have to do something on Monday.
Speaker 4: The coaches are going to be doing something right Monday,
Speaker 4: and you know maybe that the players, well, you're getting
Speaker 4: back at after midnight, right, Yeah, so they'll have it around.
Speaker 5: They'll have Monday off, but then you got you got Tuesday.
Speaker 4: Tuesday will be like Wednesday, right Thursday, and so they're
Speaker 4: like Friday, and then you're playing on Saturday. So just
Speaker 4: be fortunate. You feel fortunate that Christmas Day happens to
Speaker 4: fall on Monday this year and you can spend it.
Speaker 4: The players can spend it with family, but the coaches
Speaker 4: can spend the first part of Christmas morning if if
Speaker 4: with their families.
Speaker 5: Well, they'll spend all day Saturday preparing for Detroit. And uh,
Speaker 5: from a I mean practice standpoint, you know, on Mondays
Speaker 5: they don't practice, but they come in and they watch
Speaker 5: film and they do their running and get their lift.
Speaker 4: They got to make up that on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you want which is.
Speaker 4: Basically and the way they've been handling Wednesdays here recently
Speaker 4: has been the later practice. That's what they're gonna do.
Speaker 5: I've already seen the schedule, that's what they're going to do.
Speaker 5: So uh, yeah, you got to work around it. And
Speaker 5: so it's not ideal that the next game's on a Saturday,
Speaker 5: and I would imagine the following Monday, so that's.
Speaker 2: New Year's Day.
Speaker 7: They're probably coming in and then it's still right now
Speaker 7: the flex if it's on the sixth or the seventh
Speaker 7: correct for the.
Speaker 2: Washington game, it could be.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine that the Cowboy game will be that important.
Speaker 4: It would likely stay where it is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it has to they have if there's something
Speaker 5: on the line, they have to play at the same
Speaker 5: time the.
Speaker 2: Eagles play mm hmm, and the Eagles are.
Speaker 4: Playing the Giants.
Speaker 5: I know that, but I was trying to see on
Speaker 5: the road time.
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: They don't have times on the time and day is
Speaker 2: not set.
Speaker 5: That's not said right, so, but whatever it's said, it'll
Speaker 5: be at the same time. So so you can't sit
Speaker 5: there and say, oh, we don't have to.
Speaker 4: Play to both games on the East coast. It's likely
Speaker 4: to be noon games. Yeah, yeah, what happened with things
Speaker 4: basically decided maybe not. It's a real good chance it
Speaker 4: won't be.
Speaker 2: Did you hear Did you hear?
Speaker 5: Mike McDaniel answered that question yesterday. I was trying to
Speaker 5: print it out so I can read the whole thing,
Speaker 5: and the printers weren't working.
Speaker 2: Somebody asked them.
Speaker 4: With him, you need you need to hear it. With
Speaker 4: his delivery is unique.
Speaker 5: I'll paraphrase, and they I asked about this, I was
Speaker 5: able to write it. So he was asked about the
Speaker 5: stretch run, and he asked, and the question was, so,
Speaker 5: what do you think about this stretch run, you know,
Speaker 5: with so much on the line, you got three games
Speaker 5: to go.
Speaker 2: And his answer started out with not much. Then he
Speaker 2: went into this long explanation.
Speaker 5: He goes, all I'm concerned about is the next game,
Speaker 5: and the next game is Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, right,
Speaker 5: and he goes, so that's all, and that's a very
Speaker 5: good team we have to play. So basically I told
Speaker 5: the players that if anybody asks you about the stretch
Speaker 5: run and what's coming up and it has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with the Dallas Cowboys, I give you clearance with
Speaker 5: all due respect to tell whoever asked you that to
Speaker 5: f off. Yeah, with all due respect, it was great
Speaker 5: and you had to and you're right, his delivery is
Speaker 5: so good. So the last all due respect, he was like,
Speaker 5: and all due respect.
Speaker 7: So yesterday in the press conference, somebody asked Mike McCarthy
Speaker 7: if he had seen hard knocks and just if that
Speaker 7: gives the Cowboys any type of advantage or anything, and
Speaker 7: Mike McCarthy he said no, And so last night I
Speaker 7: get home and I went on a little deep dive
Speaker 7: into Hard Knocks. I watched four and a half episodes.
Speaker 6: No way, I did.
Speaker 7: I binge watched last night, but I just wanted to
Speaker 7: see their team, how you know they are just this season,
Speaker 7: and I didn't realize that they had been filming it
Speaker 7: since their first it was against the Raiders on November nineteenth.
Speaker 7: That's when they started filming it in season, and it's
Speaker 7: obviously week by week right now. So it's actually very
Speaker 7: interesting to watch last night. Their coaching dynamic with Mike
Speaker 7: McDaniels extremely interesting.
Speaker 6: He has a very, you know, very interesting coaching dynamic
Speaker 6: with that team.
Speaker 2: So did you learn anything?
Speaker 6: Not that well, the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: It's gonna help the Cowboys out.
Speaker 7: All I know is they said a lot in the
Speaker 7: show that his goal was to win all of the
Speaker 7: games in December, and that was based on the fact
Speaker 7: that they had lost all four games in December last season,
Speaker 7: and so it was still kind of haunting McDaniel. So
Speaker 7: his whole thing was, we need to win in December.
Speaker 7: So they beat the Commanders and so far this year
Speaker 7: in December, they beat the Commanders.
Speaker 4: They didn't. They've already failed because they lost to Tennessee.
Speaker 7: And then the following week loses to Tennessee at home. Right,
Speaker 7: then they won beat the Jets, right, and now you
Speaker 7: have the Cowboys on the line. So they're aiming to
Speaker 7: win this game because he wants to win in December.
Speaker 5: And on December thirty first they have Baltimore, so that's.
Speaker 6: Still December, right, So five games.
Speaker 4: Five they got. Well, he better win in January too,
Speaker 4: that wester game. Right, unless he wins it, wins the
Speaker 4: next two, then the Big clinches the division without having
Speaker 4: to beat Buffalo.
Speaker 8: But so.
Speaker 5: When you we talked about Zach and Tyron, Yes, so
Speaker 5: Miami's injury port Yes, if you saw that three fifths
Speaker 5: of their offensive line did not practice yesterday. So out
Speaker 5: was there, left tackle Tarren Armstead.
Speaker 2: Out was there.
Speaker 5: Starting right guard Robert Hunt. And also out was there
Speaker 5: starting right tackle Austin Jackson. So we'll keep an eye
Speaker 5: on where that.
Speaker 4: Will give you. I can give you an update as
Speaker 4: of just the last quarter hour ago practiced. Tyreek Hill
Speaker 4: returned to practice for the first time since ankle injury.
Speaker 4: All right, Now, as far as the offensive line goes
Speaker 4: this is you know you're familiar with Barry Jackson, who
Speaker 4: covers the team in Miami. Only Hunt, Robert Hunt, and
Speaker 4: Austin Jackson were not at the portion of practice open
Speaker 4: to the media today. Kendall Lamb, primarily a left tackle
Speaker 4: in his career, said he's comfortable playing right tackle if needed.
Speaker 4: On Sunday, he played at right tackle Sunday for a
Speaker 4: time after Jackson exited with his oblique injury, and then
Speaker 4: that was ten minutes ago from Barry Jackson and then
Speaker 4: seven minutes ago Toronto. Armstead might be the only offensive
Speaker 4: line starter available against Dallas. He's the left tackle. With
Speaker 4: Williams and win Connor Williams and Isaiah Winn on injured reserve.
Speaker 4: We already knew that, and Hunt and Jackson not healthy. Cotton, Iikenberg,
Speaker 4: Robert Jones, and Lamb if Jackson can't play, would likely
Speaker 4: fill out the starting group. And that's who started last
Speaker 4: week the interior offensive line for Miami. Last week against
Speaker 4: the Jets, they had Lester Cotton, who was an undrafted
Speaker 4: free agent in twenty nineteen Alabama who they picked up
Speaker 4: off waivers from Las Vegas last year. He was starting
Speaker 4: at one guard spot. Liam Eikenberg moved over to play
Speaker 4: at center, as Connor Williams had been their starting center
Speaker 4: and was basically one of the highest graded centers in
Speaker 4: the league this year before he went out with an
Speaker 4: injury and Eikenberg was playing. He had a boot on
Speaker 4: one of his feet this past week as he spoke
Speaker 4: with the media, so he's hobbled but playing. And then
Speaker 4: Robert Jones was the other starter, and he was an
Speaker 4: undrafted free agent in twenty twenty one by Miami signed
Speaker 4: by Miami, so they had two college free agents starting
Speaker 4: at guard and Eikenberg on one foot, and then their
Speaker 4: right tackle Jackson has not practicing this week with an
Speaker 4: oblique injury. Left the game against the Jets with an oblique.
Speaker 5: And seeing he it was the one guy on that
Speaker 5: offensive line that had started every game, and he just.
Speaker 4: Right and has been playing well enough that they signed
Speaker 4: him to a three year, thirty six million dollar contract
Speaker 4: extension on December seventh. Then he goes and gets hurt.
Speaker 5: Then he gets hurt, and Iikenberg has started three games,
Speaker 5: four games at soer and two games at three games
Speaker 5: at right guard, so he's played and they're already without win,
Speaker 5: which is their left guard that started the season one, two, three,
Speaker 5: four fights, six seven, seven games.
Speaker 4: And Ikenberg was a second round draft pick two years
Speaker 4: ago right forty second overall pick out of Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: So he even he started one game at left guard
Speaker 5: and then a bunch at center, and then three at.
Speaker 4: Right, and he right. He was hurt to start the year,
Speaker 4: missed the first couple of games.
Speaker 2: So they got injury.
Speaker 4: And so that's another reason too. It gets rid of
Speaker 4: the football so quickly right by design?
Speaker 5: Did did they give an update on the running backs
Speaker 5: because both of them did not play yesterday.
Speaker 4: Or did not practice?
Speaker 7: Nor Chan it was a vet restda for Matzer and then.
Speaker 2: Is it devon Chan divine Chan?
Speaker 6: I think it was a rust for Waitee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it says did not practice. And on this official
Speaker 5: deal here that I have, they've got monstered knee ankle
Speaker 5: rest So take your pick.
Speaker 2: Was he resting because he was hurt or did he
Speaker 2: have a knee in an ankle exactly?
Speaker 5: And Tyreek Kill, I think you said he returned.
Speaker 4: To practice to practice defense. E Manuel Ogba is questionable
Speaker 4: to play this week. Melvioyn Ingram is on their practice squad,
Speaker 4: by the way, and he could be elevated this week.
Speaker 4: So they had Ingram and Jason Pierre Paul on their
Speaker 4: roster and Ingram still with them and could be elevated
Speaker 4: this week.
Speaker 2: And they had nine guys listed as limited.
Speaker 4: It's December. It is no one's teams go through this.
Speaker 2: Everybody's got something.
Speaker 4: And there's a reason that you look at the top
Speaker 4: teams in the league that are ten and four or better,
Speaker 4: there's one common ingredient in those records. Those are healthy quarterbacks. Basically, Yes,
Speaker 4: think about San Francisco at eleven and three and they've
Speaker 4: got a healthy brock Party. Baltimore is eleven and three.
Speaker 4: They've got a healthy Lamar Jackson. Jalen Hurts for the
Speaker 4: Eagles is healthy dak here and then you've got two
Speaker 4: of there in Miami healthy with a ten and four record.
Speaker 5: So and the other game of attrition the others for
Speaker 5: the Cowboys, Hooker did not practice with the ankle and
Speaker 5: he did not play last week.
Speaker 4: Who was the other one, Jonathan Hankins.
Speaker 5: Hanks is out, Yeah, so that's a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 2: He's not he won't be. He's lucky.
Speaker 4: Well, as much as this team attacks the sea gap
Speaker 4: in wider I'm thinking Jonathan and Hankins would not be
Speaker 4: pursuing to the edge, right.
Speaker 2: That was one thing I want to do.
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Speaker 4: Okay, we have breaking news from the practice field here
Speaker 4: at the Star in Frisco. We have rain. They are
Speaker 4: out there. Oh boy, in the rain.
Speaker 5: There's rain forecast for Sunday too.
Speaker 4: And I was just looking up the forecast for Sunday.
Speaker 4: You say there's rain, and the forecast for Sunday in Miami,
Speaker 4: doesn't it. I don't know if it happens this time
Speaker 4: of the year, but there are certain times of the year,
Speaker 4: like in the summer months where rains day every single
Speaker 4: day about threel what would be four to twenty five
Speaker 4: in the afternoon.
Speaker 7: You're talking about in Miami, Miami, and then it gets
Speaker 7: a little humid, and then the sun peaks out and
Speaker 7: then it starts raining again and then you sweat exactly.
Speaker 6: It's just the cycle there.
Speaker 4: So you're saying, there's a I thought I saw.
Speaker 2: A chance of rain.
Speaker 7: Okay, Sunday, Miami, Florida, right, seventy seven degrees win, fourteen
Speaker 7: miles per hour, humidity, sixty four percent.
Speaker 6: Precipitation chance is fourteen percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, so you're telling me there's a chance.
Speaker 2: There's a chat.
Speaker 4: But and we take the Mike McCarthy show right before
Speaker 4: his press conference and asked him about the weather because
Speaker 4: he would know, and he's like, well, yeah, there's a
Speaker 4: chance of rain, and he is. They're monitoring whether they can.
Speaker 4: They're going to stay out in it for right now,
Speaker 4: the football players are still on the football field, and
Speaker 4: it's more of a drizzle right now. More that the
Speaker 4: The bigger accomplishment is that media is staying out there
Speaker 4: shooting practice.
Speaker 2: Are they out there?
Speaker 4: It ain't come running the scurry for the.
Speaker 5: Well, they had practice in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: It rained, yep, So it wasn't seventy seven degrees though.
Speaker 2: No, it was miserable.
Speaker 5: It was a miserable day all around, by the way.
Speaker 5: So anyway, you mentioned Jonathan Hankins missing, So I was
Speaker 5: just curious on because he's not like an every down player,
Speaker 5: and so I was looking and so he missed Buffalo Philadelphia,
Speaker 5: he got hurt. So if we go back to Seattle,
Speaker 5: he played twenty seven snaps Washington thirty one, Carolina twenty
Speaker 5: five Giants eighteen.
Speaker 2: Now, he did.
Speaker 5: Play forty two snaps at Philadelphia when they lost, and
Speaker 5: then twenty four thirty one. The most he's played, He's
Speaker 5: had a forty two snap game against the Chargers, in
Speaker 5: a forty snap game against San Francisco.
Speaker 4: So forty two against Philly and then forty against San Francisco.
Speaker 4: You said Chargers, Chargers had thirty one.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's right, forty San Francisco. The most he's
Speaker 5: played is fifty seven percent against Arizona. How can he
Speaker 5: played more against teams that were running all.
Speaker 4: Over him because they had leads and their formation dictated
Speaker 4: that he's going to be on the field when you
Speaker 4: fall behind. By now, the Philadelphia game, that is not
Speaker 4: the case.
Speaker 2: Well neither Arizona either.
Speaker 4: There but Arizona, no, they got they got out to
Speaker 4: a lead and so yeah, and so they're running the football.
Speaker 2: Oh you meant them right.
Speaker 4: The opposition which dictates why Jonathan Hankins is on the field.
Speaker 4: It's what formation the other team is in. H and
Speaker 4: if they are running a two tight end formation, then
Speaker 4: Jonathan Hankins is going to be on the field. The
Speaker 4: thirty five snaps against Arizona against the Jets. When the
Speaker 4: Cowboys blew out the Jets here at home, he was
Speaker 4: on the field for ten snaps because they're not running
Speaker 4: the football trying to catch up in that game.
Speaker 2: Or the Giants the first game eighteens.
Speaker 4: Huh yeah.
Speaker 5: So anyway, the way these teams are attacking the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: it's on the edge, not up the middle. So now
Speaker 5: San Francisco got him a lot up the middle and
Speaker 5: he ended up playing forty snaps. So anyway, look, I
Speaker 5: just don't you know, it just seemed like some people
Speaker 5: were giving him an excuse on the running game because
Speaker 5: he didn't play. It certainly didn't help that he wasn't there,
Speaker 5: but I don't think he was the total answer for
Speaker 5: why the biggest difference gave up to make sixty six
Speaker 5: yards rushing?
Speaker 4: And what did Dan Quinn indicate The biggest difference.
Speaker 5: Was talked about tackling tackling tackling?
Speaker 4: Was it twelve miss tackles?
Speaker 2: I thought I heard seventeen.
Speaker 4: Okay, it was like a scene, but by the they
Speaker 4: hadn't finished counting the miss tackles by the time Dad
Speaker 4: Quid talked.
Speaker 7: To the media on Monday, they were still did you
Speaker 7: ask how many tackles that we missed against Buffaloes seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there you go. She got my notes for me.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna I'm just going to send you a copy.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit better than my.
Speaker 4: Memory, right, so that has to improve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, I would like to go back and
Speaker 5: just look at what they count as miss tackles because
Speaker 5: I saw a lot.
Speaker 2: Of guys running free.
Speaker 4: It's like, so is it a mistackle if you don't
Speaker 4: touch the player you take the Seriously, I'm serious, you
Speaker 4: take the wrong and you take the wrong angle, you
Speaker 4: don't even get close enough to even get a hand
Speaker 4: on him. But is that still a mistackle from a
Speaker 4: defensive standpoint? Obviously from offense he sign but from different
Speaker 4: That's why usually after the coaches grade the film, there
Speaker 4: are more mistackles than what some neutral observer in the
Speaker 4: press box says there is because the coach knows what
Speaker 4: that player was supposed to do on that play, takes
Speaker 4: it a missed assignment turns into a quote unquote misstackle
Speaker 4: because you took the wrong route to lot of play
Speaker 4: or whatever.
Speaker 5: So the guys lined up wrong on the fan brought
Speaker 5: up the the speed that teams have beat the Cowboys
Speaker 5: with and they brought up ron Dale Moore.
Speaker 2: In the Arizona game.
Speaker 5: When he go forty two yards, he was untouched, so
Speaker 5: there were no mistackles because of the speed.
Speaker 4: He was untouched because of his speed.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, yeah, he just ran right by everybody, right,
Speaker 5: somebody up front didn't do their job.
Speaker 4: Mickey. I'm having this middle picture of Mickey running with
Speaker 4: the football. It still might have been able to go
Speaker 4: forty two years.
Speaker 2: I think I think I might have been able to.
Speaker 6: I agree, I'm here for that.
Speaker 2: That's funny, and for sure, we'll put on your pads.
Speaker 5: Nicky, the athletic savvy would have been able to do
Speaker 5: it too.
Speaker 4: You know, I was watching a little bit of the
Speaker 4: Dolphins against the Jets last week, and of course that
Speaker 4: was without Tyreek Hill, and you know, it's struck me.
Speaker 4: In the first part of that game. They were throwing
Speaker 4: wide receiver screens, little bubble screens out to the outside too.
Speaker 4: It was getting the ball out very quickly, and it
Speaker 4: was almost you could describe their offense early in that
Speaker 4: game against the Jets. It was a Hawaiian Island offense.
Speaker 4: You got a quarterback from Hawaii. It was like you
Speaker 4: got the mainland here where you've got a couple of
Speaker 4: running backs who can break it at any time. Rahem
Speaker 4: Mostert or a chan has elite speed, and then you
Speaker 4: can put Wadle out here on Oahu okay. And then
Speaker 4: you got Tyreek on Maui over here, and it's like
Speaker 4: these little islands that you got an island over here,
Speaker 4: you got an island over here, and you got the
Speaker 4: big island in the middle. And then Tua just decides, Okay,
Speaker 4: we're going to operate off of the big island on
Speaker 4: this handoff to Mostart. But you got to defend Maui
Speaker 4: and Oahu over here, okay, Kawhi, Well that's a slot.
Speaker 4: That's Braxton Barrios in the slot, okay. Or you could
Speaker 4: put a chan in the slot. Okay, you put Moster
Speaker 4: in the backfield, you put a Chan, and then you
Speaker 4: put and it's it's very stressful on a defense.
Speaker 2: I think, well it is.
Speaker 5: And what needs to happen is the Cowboys need to
Speaker 5: stress the Miami defense.
Speaker 2: You know, just because they ran.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys have those same type weapons.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And just because Buffalo ran for two hundred and
Speaker 5: sixty six yards doesn't mean the Cowboys offense can't get going.
Speaker 7: So I was looking at their defense a little bit,
Speaker 7: especially after watching a lot of hard knocks last night.
Speaker 6: Ye writing everything down, I want.
Speaker 4: To know you say what you're going to say here,
Speaker 4: but I also want to know who are the personalities
Speaker 4: on their team that struck you. But go ahead and
Speaker 4: say what you were about to say. Bradley Chubb, yes,
Speaker 4: had three sacks last week against the Jets, says nine
Speaker 4: and a half on the season.
Speaker 7: And he was the AFC player exactly named AFC Defensive
Speaker 7: Player of the Week against the Jets. Seven tackles, three sacks,
Speaker 7: two force fumbles, one fumble recovery.
Speaker 4: And by the way, that was also against a Jets
Speaker 4: team that featured at quarterback the AFC Offensive Player of
Speaker 4: the Week from the previous week, Zach Wilson, Sir Zach Wilson, Yeah,
Speaker 4: did I say that with tongue.
Speaker 6: And cheeks exactly?
Speaker 7: Well, the Jets verse the Jets that Dolphins allowed just
Speaker 7: one hundred and three yards, which is the second fewest
Speaker 7: allowed in a game in Dolphin's history. So I was
Speaker 7: looking a lot at their defense and one of the
Speaker 7: players that they feature. I haven't gotten to Bradley Chubb
Speaker 7: if they're talking to him, I think they do it
Speaker 7: in the next episode. But they did feature a lot
Speaker 7: with Jalen Ramsey, who was their edition this year. And
Speaker 7: then they actually went over Jalen Phillips before he was
Speaker 7: injured and when he was, you know, pretty hurt a
Speaker 7: few weeks ago within Achilles. But the Personalities two was
Speaker 7: one of them. They show Tyreek Hill in the first episode.
Speaker 7: He's unbelievable, but two was a character in the show
Speaker 7: that's for sure interesting.
Speaker 2: So you think Ramsey's on CD.
Speaker 4: Was on Garrett Wilson last.
Speaker 7: Week, okay, And he has twelve tackles so far, ten solo,
Speaker 7: three interceptions this season.
Speaker 4: And they've got another cornerback in Xavian Howard who is
Speaker 4: well paid for his services at A Baylor. Did I
Speaker 4: see him on but he was he got He did
Speaker 4: get hurt last week on one playoff saw in particular
Speaker 4: he got.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: It was a collision in the middle of the field.
Speaker 4: And what do they say as injury is hip? Yeah,
Speaker 4: you could tell on that play.
Speaker 5: He did not practice.
Speaker 4: In fact, looking to see if I charted their play No,
Speaker 4: I did not last week, but uh, And then you
Speaker 4: know Holland the safety was a really good player. They
Speaker 4: know Vic Fangio, and maybe we let's talk about their
Speaker 4: defense in depth here when we come back here. And uh,
Speaker 4: of course Fangio and McCarthy have matched wits a number
Speaker 4: of times in their coaching careers, and so we'll talk
Speaker 4: Dolphins defense with mixed shots continues in a moment.
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Speaker 4: from the practice field, breaking news from the Star. And
Speaker 4: there's our breaking news sounder. There are no longer football
Speaker 4: players the outdoor football field here at the Star and Frisco.
Speaker 4: The rain has intensified. It's beyond a drizzle. It's now
Speaker 4: what it was a little bit beyond a drizzle.
Speaker 2: A shower.
Speaker 4: Okay, we have a shower outside and there's nobody on
Speaker 4: that practice field. The media has deserted, the players deserted.
Speaker 4: I ran into a couple of media members as I
Speaker 4: walked outside, and they went indoors about five minutes ago. Yes,
Speaker 4: they were drink.
Speaker 6: Yes, I was going to.
Speaker 5: Sign Basically when they got to the team portion of practice.
Speaker 5: They went indoors so they didn't spoil the team offense
Speaker 5: and defense and spoil the final padded practice of the
Speaker 5: regular season, by the way, so.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. And tear up a brand new yeah,
Speaker 2: and the.
Speaker 5: Grass that they just laid down the other day, right.
Speaker 9: I I've never seen someone stair up a practice fill
Speaker 9: on a month day and have it done by Wednesday.
Speaker 5: It's crazy that quickly it was done yesterday.
Speaker 2: They were out there yesterday.
Speaker 4: It was Wednesday.
Speaker 5: They were rolling it on Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were.
Speaker 5: They had a roller on it yesterday patting it that bag. Well,
Speaker 5: they were doing it by hand before that. They had
Speaker 5: these big, uh kind of square metal things and they
Speaker 5: have a long stick on it and they were pounding
Speaker 5: the side.
Speaker 4: It was so tell me, George Tooma, is this a
Speaker 4: the difficult time of the year to plant new sod?
Speaker 5: I guess they did.
Speaker 4: Is it? Ideal?
Speaker 5: In the middle was dying, so you just once again,
Speaker 5: this is the second time they've done that this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is this is budgeted.
Speaker 5: I mean they replanted the whole thing when we were
Speaker 5: at training camp, yep, I remember, or just before we left,
Speaker 5: because I saw him rolling out all that side, and
Speaker 5: I'm going I.
Speaker 4: Could use that up.
Speaker 2: What are they going to do with it?
Speaker 4: Was that a product of the incredibly hot summer that
Speaker 4: we had.
Speaker 2: I'm going to let you say it.
Speaker 6: We were in California.
Speaker 5: It was an incredibly hot summer that we had here,
Speaker 5: and the sun shines off with doctor pepper tube.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, right, it's even hotter out there. That's exactly right.
Speaker 4: So we've got that in the budget now every year
Speaker 4: that we're going to grass.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, exactly the grass budget.
Speaker 4: All right, all right. This Dolphins defense, you've mentioned a
Speaker 4: couple of names. They have forty eight sacks on the season,
Speaker 4: and Jalen Phillips was injured tour's achilles a couple of
Speaker 4: weeks ago, out for the year. However, they got other guys,
Speaker 4: including Bradley Chubb, who has not only last week against
Speaker 4: the Jets, but throughout the season has been a top
Speaker 4: performer for them. It was a former number five overall
Speaker 4: pick of the Broncos about five years ago, and Vic
Speaker 4: Fangio familiar with him from his time when he was
Speaker 4: the head coach of the Broncos too.
Speaker 7: And then you have two of the top five defensive
Speaker 7: tackles in sacks Wilkins with Christian Wilkins eight sacks and
Speaker 7: Zach Siller.
Speaker 4: YEP Zach Seiler seven and a half sacks. Wilkins Wilkins
Speaker 4: first round draft pick in twenty nineteen, number thirteen overall
Speaker 4: out of Clemson, and he has established himself as one
Speaker 4: of the top interior defensive linemen in the entire league
Speaker 4: in his career, and he's a great team guy. Has
Speaker 4: he been featured on your binge watching of.
Speaker 7: Hard Knocks, They have not been totally featured yet, but
Speaker 7: they those two just they'll show some little cameo shots
Speaker 7: of them, and they're just specially practice.
Speaker 4: They combined last week early in the game, Wilkins sacked.
Speaker 4: Wilson is on end of the field. I think it
Speaker 4: was Siler who who recover the fumble at the one
Speaker 4: yard line that led to the Dolphins first touchdown of
Speaker 4: the game. But I mean, you combine, even disregarding Phillips
Speaker 4: who is a first round pick, with Chubb, Wilkins, Siler
Speaker 4: and Ogba who is a second round pick. It's going
Speaker 4: on nearly ten years ago now, there's thirty of their
Speaker 4: forty eight sacks right there on those four players.
Speaker 5: They've got what five five guys with one, two, three,
Speaker 5: four at least five sacks, with Chubb as you mentioned,
Speaker 5: leading with nine and a half, Wilkins with eight, Siler
Speaker 5: seven and a half, and Phillips six and a half
Speaker 5: and Agba five. So they've been pretty good getting pressure
Speaker 5: on opposing quarterback.
Speaker 4: I like going back and just researching when coaches match
Speaker 4: up against other coaches in their career that may not
Speaker 4: maybe it's definitely under the radar when you go back
Speaker 4: in time. But ten years ago when Fangio was a
Speaker 4: defensive coordinator with the forty nine ers, and well it's
Speaker 4: twelve years ago. Twenty eleven, the Packers went fifteen and
Speaker 4: one and they did not face San Francisco that year.
Speaker 4: That's the year they got knocked out of the playoffs
Speaker 4: by the Giants in the first round or divisional playoff round,
Speaker 4: after having the best record in the league coming off
Speaker 4: their Super Bowl year.
Speaker 5: Is that the year they won like thirteen straight.
Speaker 4: It may have been they went fifteen and one in
Speaker 4: the regular year twenty eleven, So twenty ten is when
Speaker 4: they won the Super Bowl. In twenty eleven they went
Speaker 4: fifteen and one. Twenty twelve, it was an eleven and
Speaker 4: five season, and they lost to San Francisco and the
Speaker 4: Opener I believe that year, and then lost to them
Speaker 4: in a wild playoff game forty five thirty one. So
Speaker 4: if and get this, San Francisco in that game in
Speaker 4: twenty twelve, eleven years ago in the playoffs against the Packers,
Speaker 4: they won forty five thirty one. They had three hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty three yards rushing in two sixty three passing.
Speaker 4: You know why they had three hundred twenty three rushing
Speaker 4: in that game because they had a quarterback named Colin
Speaker 4: Kaepernick who went for one hundred and eighty one yards
Speaker 4: in that game. Frank Gore went for one nineteen. So anyway,
Speaker 4: my point on this is when Fangio had the better players,
Speaker 4: he had McCarthy's number, but flip it to win. He
Speaker 4: was at Chicago and went up against McCarthy twice a year.
Speaker 4: McCarthy went six and one against him. So when McCarthy
Speaker 4: has the better players, he wins. When when Fangio has
Speaker 4: the better players, he wins. And of course they did
Speaker 4: meet though here a couple of years ago, was at Denver.
Speaker 2: Did Denver have the better I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: About that yeah, but on that day they seem to they.
Speaker 2: Did, so.
Speaker 4: I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 5: Oh you were talking about so check this out, Wilkins.
Speaker 5: He has not missed a game this year. Siler every start. Uh,
Speaker 5: their linebacker Baker miss out. Now he's out now, but
Speaker 5: he missed the last two games.
Speaker 2: Linebacker Long.
Speaker 5: Every start, Chubb, every start.
Speaker 4: You haven't got to van Ginkel. I was about to
Speaker 4: bring him up Andrew van Ginkel.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's only started one, two, three, four five that
Speaker 5: he's six seven, eight, the.
Speaker 2: Last three in a row.
Speaker 7: And he was featured in Hard Knocks because of the
Speaker 7: Jalen Phillips injury. He got his day against the Commanders
Speaker 7: to really try and step into those shoes, yep, and
Speaker 7: he had a pick and ran it in for a touchdown,
Speaker 7: so that he had a really good game and they showed.
Speaker 6: That on Hard Knocks.
Speaker 7: But I'm not sure what he has essentially done against
Speaker 7: the Titans and then the Jets.
Speaker 5: He's had He had eight starts and Phillips had six starts,
Speaker 5: so they basically shared that position. But they haven't had
Speaker 5: many injuries on defense.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be very interesting when you got
Speaker 4: the two top scoring teams in the league, matched up
Speaker 4: against each other, and yet you have question marks on
Speaker 4: the offensive line due to injuries both for both teams.
Speaker 5: Right, what do you think they're talking about? Like, what
Speaker 5: are they worried about with the Cowboys?
Speaker 6: It's a great question.
Speaker 7: I tried to tune into one of their podcasts and
Speaker 7: was kind of looking up some of their stuff, and
Speaker 7: they were actually doing an evaluation of just the Cowboys
Speaker 7: roster as a whole. So they were talking about DeMarcus
Speaker 7: Lawrence and Osa and a bunch of people. But I
Speaker 7: didn't get into the end of it what their concerns are.
Speaker 7: So I'll come back tomorrow with that INFIRA A.
Speaker 4: Right work assignment there. Tasing ahead, I tried, as I
Speaker 4: am prone to do, I tried to go ahead and
Speaker 4: listen to go behind enemy lines and listen to sports
Speaker 4: talk radio in that town. And I listened about an
Speaker 4: hour ago, and to the sports talk station. I'm probably
Speaker 4: the most popular one there. I don't know. They were
Speaker 4: playing some sort of Wheel of Fortune game and I
Speaker 4: wasn't niel to get much out of that. Why I
Speaker 4: don't listen to this. Rather, you you're going the right route.
Speaker 4: Go with the podcast and you'll get better from the team. Right.
Speaker 5: I'm always curious about that because you know, we sit
Speaker 5: here going on and on and on about what the
Speaker 5: Cowboys have to worry about, and I'm going, well, they
Speaker 5: probably see the Cowboys are ten and.
Speaker 4: You know they're running, they're looking at it, they're going, Okay,
Speaker 4: I talked about the Hawaiian Island offense, right, and they're
Speaker 4: sitting there doing some Mississippi or Louisiana analogy of dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: And who's gonna run with Brandy Cooks?
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly where you got Brandy Cook's here. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 4: How in the world are we going to stop these guys.
Speaker 5: With all these injuries? Who's gonna block Michael Parsons? H Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2: But that's I mean, we know that part.
Speaker 4: But in a what have you done for me lately? Yeah?
Speaker 4: League culture walk for the Dolphins. Yeah, they're gonna run
Speaker 4: all over this Dallas defense. I mean they had James
Speaker 4: some guy, as Mickey would put it, some guy named
Speaker 4: James Cook who went for one hundred and seventy nine.
Speaker 4: I guess, so imagine what Raheem will do in eight chan.
Speaker 4: This will be Denver all over again, seventy points, that's
Speaker 4: what they're saying. Okay, just tell you that's what they say. Well,
Speaker 4: they'd scored seventy against Denver eight Chan went for like
Speaker 4: two hundred and something yards rushing in that game.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, this is the first time and that
Speaker 7: the team has been ten and four the Dolphins since
Speaker 7: two thousand and they.
Speaker 5: Haven't it's two thousand all two.
Speaker 7: They haven't in those ten games beaten a team with
Speaker 7: a winning record.
Speaker 5: So it's the first time they've won. They've had a
Speaker 5: winning season in three was it three or four consecutive
Speaker 5: years since Bob Greasy, Jimmy Johnson and Dave Wanstadt were
Speaker 5: the head coaches for seven years and they had seven
Speaker 5: straight winning seasons.
Speaker 4: Wow, how about that?
Speaker 5: Ninety seven through two thousand and four, so that's eight seasons.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that was one of the things they pointed
Speaker 5: out in there.
Speaker 2: In their notes here.
Speaker 5: I think I circled it, make sure I got it accurate. Right, Well,
Speaker 5: you better hurry if you're I'm hurrying it up.
Speaker 4: I'm hurrying halftime here, and I've got to go tape
Speaker 4: a segment of the Mike McCarthy Show here, all right,
Speaker 4: So you Vickey's.
Speaker 5: Got winning seasons last last four years, ten and six
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty ninety eight, ninety and eight, and ten
Speaker 5: and four, four straight winning seasons since nineteen ninety seven
Speaker 5: through two thousand and three. So Jimmy had three of
Speaker 5: them and wants Dad had four.
Speaker 4: And how did Jimmy do when he matched up against
Speaker 4: the Cowboys? And that that was nineteen ninety six, wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: I think that was the first game, Yeah, ninety six.
Speaker 2: And the Cowboys I.
Speaker 4: Was in Miami all week leading up to that game,
Speaker 4: won that game.
Speaker 2: Cowboys won the game twenty nine.
Speaker 4: You know why the Cowboys won that game? Tell me
Speaker 4: because they had better players topense. All Right, that does
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