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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and Bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October third, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: season eighteen, episode number forty two. Welcome to the latest
Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We're alive from the s WBC
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Speaker 1: and man, this is becoming a normal thing. On Monday's
Speaker 1: Cowboys get another win. They win against the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: this weekend, twenty five to ten. Now moved to three
Speaker 1: and one on the season, sitting in second place in
Speaker 1: the division, and lots to be looking forward to. We
Speaker 1: will get into it a little later this week because
Speaker 1: now they get into a part of the schedule where
Speaker 1: these next two games we're gonna really see what they
Speaker 1: got and what they're working with this season. But certainly
Speaker 1: for what they've done right now. Very good for them
Speaker 1: to be sitting at a spot of three and one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's start first with stories of the game.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the table. Tell me what you think
Speaker 1: was the story of this game. Nick, let's start with you. Man.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go third, because there's a lot of stories,
Speaker 1: but I mean, the biggest what's the biggest story of
Speaker 1: the game. The biggest story of the game is that
Speaker 1: the defense is just just annihilating nasty. They're nasty. That's
Speaker 1: what we've We've been talking about all year, and they
Speaker 1: are I mean, I said it in my column. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this has been but don't break I mean,
Speaker 1: because they don't even been that much. They they are
Speaker 1: really really good and they are helping this offense, which
Speaker 1: offense has been okay, but they don't have to be
Speaker 1: that great because that's how good the defense it is.
Speaker 1: I think, to me, the story of this game is
Speaker 1: the fact that you ran the ball for two yards
Speaker 1: to carry and were managed to win this football game,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that has a lot to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, you know, you look at the it
Speaker 1: was really nice to see Michael Gallop out there playing
Speaker 1: again and it was really I think they've when you
Speaker 1: look at what Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy have done
Speaker 1: with this offense, I mean, I think they're doing everything
Speaker 1: they can. If you'd told me that, like I said,
Speaker 1: two yards of carried, that they were going to win
Speaker 1: this game, I would have said, no way, because that
Speaker 1: then that would have put a lot of pressure. But
Speaker 1: like Cooper rushed for the most time, I don't think
Speaker 1: this was Cooper Rush's best games of the victories they've had.
Speaker 1: You know, there were times he was thrown off his
Speaker 1: back foot. I think there were some problems in the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I think Tyler Smith had some problems. I
Speaker 1: know that Beadish had some problems. Heck, even Zach Martin
Speaker 1: had some problems along the way. This was going to
Speaker 1: be a difficult game because of that front. But they
Speaker 1: find a way. They just find a way. I'll see
Speaker 1: a huge play of the game. If this game was
Speaker 1: really really close, that tackle that your kicker made after
Speaker 1: the after the block extra point that saved you two
Speaker 1: points right there. You know, and you're thinking about in
Speaker 1: a game, you're like, man, this thing, it's like it's
Speaker 1: going to come down to the end, you know, they're
Speaker 1: gonna maybe make a play. You're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: a play. But you know, give credit to the guys
Speaker 1: like Digs. You know, give a lot of credit to
Speaker 1: the kid coming in and playing in the nickel bland.
Speaker 1: You know, the way he was able to step up.
Speaker 1: It's just Nick's right. It's a It's one of those
Speaker 1: defenses you were kind of like going, yeah, okay, it's
Speaker 1: it's good. It's got a chance. But the way that
Speaker 1: they attack you in different ways. You could see the
Speaker 1: fear in and wins his eyes when he was throwing
Speaker 1: balls in that in that football game. This isn't necessarily
Speaker 1: the story of the game, but I think that some
Speaker 1: credit should be given to Brent Moher and what he's
Speaker 1: been doing so far, because he's been keeping in games
Speaker 1: as well being able to it's gone to the point
Speaker 1: where now you're not necessarily holding your breath every time
Speaker 1: he's about to make a kick. So to this point,
Speaker 1: he's done a great job. And he keeps you in
Speaker 1: there scoring three points at a time, but it adds
Speaker 1: up and then once the offense is finally able to
Speaker 1: get into the end zone, it adds up points for them.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to give credit to him and
Speaker 1: what he's been doing, especially after last year and what
Speaker 1: we went through with the kick kicker position. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think finally the Cowboys have a kicker that you don't
Speaker 1: look at every kick, including extra points in one der
Speaker 1: are they gonna make this? Like you're getting comfortable. I
Speaker 1: know I'm getting comfortable. And the longer it is more comfortable,
Speaker 1: I seemed to get like, Oh, yeah, he's gonna kick
Speaker 1: this one. He's gonna make this one. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a really good situation. Brian, going back to
Speaker 1: what you said, I thought it was interesting because actually,
Speaker 1: you know, you grew up in obviously in football and
Speaker 1: from nineteenth and being a guy Nick, all of us
Speaker 1: kind of other than Amber, like you didn't grow up
Speaker 1: watching football, but from the time you grew up watch football,
Speaker 1: you always hear there are two things you gotta do
Speaker 1: in every in every game, you gotta run the ball,
Speaker 1: and you got to stop the run. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys didn't either. Like the Cowboys in this game, they
Speaker 1: they only average two yards of carry, as you said,
Speaker 1: they allowed the Washington Commanders to average five point three
Speaker 1: yards per carry, and they still won by double digits.
Speaker 1: That to me is where I look at this game
Speaker 1: and I'm like, they're winning games that they that You
Speaker 1: would look at the numbers and you'd be like, how
Speaker 1: did they win a game like that? Yeah, in a
Speaker 1: in a situation where you would think that's what teams
Speaker 1: need to be able to do against them. You gotta
Speaker 1: be able to run the ball because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have much time to throw. And somehow even trying to
Speaker 1: run the ball and running the ball as effectively as
Speaker 1: Washington did, they still couldn't get more than ten points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that they always talk about Bill Parcells
Speaker 1: would say the hidden yards Washington's penalties killed them. Those
Speaker 1: were some huge, huge calls in that game because that
Speaker 1: made up for the lack of what your running game was.
Speaker 1: I mean, they figured out, you know, especially in that
Speaker 1: second half, that you know what it's gonna be, okay
Speaker 1: if we max protected sing and throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field and let them get tangled up with a
Speaker 1: cowboy receiver. But every time that the Commanders had a
Speaker 1: negative penalty on offense, it killed a drive for them.
Speaker 1: You know, whether it was a holding penalty, they had
Speaker 1: a thirteen yard run get called back because of a
Speaker 1: holding penalty. So you know, you talk about the turnovers,
Speaker 1: you know, the interceptions they were able to get, and
Speaker 1: then the negative plays that because of the hidden yards
Speaker 1: with the penalties for the Commanders, that that more than
Speaker 1: made up for your lack of a running game in
Speaker 1: this one for sure. Yeah. And when you look at though,
Speaker 1: when't they really needed to run? I mean they there
Speaker 1: there was times where they obviously struggle for most of
Speaker 1: the game. But you look at the first drive after
Speaker 1: Washington takes the lead seven to six, and now you're thinking,
Speaker 1: all right, this is gonna be this's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough one. Because the Cowboys are one dimensional. They come
Speaker 1: out at the seventy five yard driving. Just here here
Speaker 1: are the running plays. Zeke for three, you know, and
Speaker 1: then it's Zeke for two, Zeke for six, Pollard for five,
Speaker 1: Pollard for four, Pollard for nine, Zeke for five. Touchdown.
Speaker 1: So they did run the ball pretty well on that
Speaker 1: drive to to you know, go seventy five yards like that.
Speaker 1: Obviously it wasn't as consistent, but you know that I
Speaker 1: thought that drive was huge because they got in a
Speaker 1: touchdown to gallop and kind of got the momentum back
Speaker 1: on their favorite before halftime. You know, I felt that
Speaker 1: and you mentioned penalties just now, Brian, but I felt
Speaker 1: that this was one game that the penalties were in
Speaker 1: the Cowboys favor this time, and usual, it rarely ever
Speaker 1: happens that way. Whether it's a wrong call or the
Speaker 1: right call, it just disciplined. It usually happens in the
Speaker 1: bad for the Cowboys, it goes against them, and this
Speaker 1: was the one game that watching them like, dang, okay,
Speaker 1: they got saved by that one. Yes, some were the
Speaker 1: right calls, but just regardless, it just worked out in
Speaker 1: Cowboys favor this time. And it was just a nice
Speaker 1: break in that aspect because we rarely ever get that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's give the Cowboys a little bit of credit
Speaker 1: for some of those because those penalties that that saved
Speaker 1: those interceptions. I mean, what's mugging is that? Okay, sure
Speaker 1: I can go for that. Okay, sorry, yeah, yeah, out
Speaker 1: a word in the press box that Derek was like, no,
Speaker 1: thank you, But they were mugging them up there, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they really were, and and and
Speaker 1: winning off the line. That's what Gallup you talked about.
Speaker 1: Gallup really helped you know, Um, those those players, you know,
Speaker 1: and then on the flip side, the Cowboys secondary guys,
Speaker 1: we're covering them. You know. I thought we put Gallup
Speaker 1: as our player of the game, and we did it
Speaker 1: today on the website. Gallup a player of the game.
Speaker 1: But you know, for everything that he did and then
Speaker 1: the penalties he drew. But Trayvon Diggs was amazing. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was he really, I can tell you McLaurin is
Speaker 1: pretty good about other corners. Hit don't want anything to
Speaker 1: do with Dicks. Diggs has his number, and he has
Speaker 1: for three games. And and and Anthony Brown's doing pretty good,
Speaker 1: not not great, but as he was. But we talked
Speaker 1: about tackling. I thought they did a nice job when
Speaker 1: they got the ball out quick, they tackled. But I
Speaker 1: mean that interception that Diggs makes, like next time they
Speaker 1: cow always have issues at receiver, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: he's tracking the ball, yeah, I mean he isn't. And
Speaker 1: that's where he's really good. I think that's where he's
Speaker 1: at his best too, because anytime you get him in
Speaker 1: a situation where he can just turn into a receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and that typically is when he's just running down
Speaker 1: field and he turns finds the ball, he tracks it,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make that get. Those are the kind of
Speaker 1: plays where I think he's at his very very best.
Speaker 1: And to me, like, I don't know why teams are
Speaker 1: challenging him like nine riots. I wouldn't challenge him like
Speaker 1: that because he's he's gonna have a good shot at
Speaker 1: the ball. Keep challenging. But it works when you when
Speaker 1: you go up against their best receiver, because then, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine the press conference where they're like, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't they get you know, why did you get
Speaker 1: Keenan All on the ball today? Or why didn't you
Speaker 1: get you know, A J. Brown the ball? It's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know Diggs, I mean, no, no offensive coordinator, they
Speaker 1: still got all. They're all arrogant enough. We're like we're
Speaker 1: we're gonna like our guy. You know, we like our
Speaker 1: guy one on one. I mean, yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: And I know I was very critical last week of Gallimore.
Speaker 1: I thought this was one of his almost like he
Speaker 1: heard you, Yeah it was. It was one of those
Speaker 1: games where you know, he played with physicality up front,
Speaker 1: and you know you're kind of saying, okay, and you
Speaker 1: wonder they're they're they're they're doing a decent job of
Speaker 1: playing the run in the middle, but you know, the
Speaker 1: stuff on the edge is going to be a problem
Speaker 1: for them. I mean, they did a much better job
Speaker 1: in the second half defending the run on the edge,
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden, it was like, Okay, bar
Speaker 1: doesn't get blocked, Wilson doesn't get blocked, Diggs doesn't give ground,
Speaker 1: Vanderish doesn't get caught inside. There was there were some
Speaker 1: times where they were they looked like everybody was supposed
Speaker 1: to be where they were supposed to be fit. But
Speaker 1: then you get blocked, you know, and now now the
Speaker 1: balls to the edge and it's a problem. Second half
Speaker 1: did a much better job of getting guys up the
Speaker 1: field and forcing the ball back inside and guys not
Speaker 1: being But Gallimore was a big part of what they
Speaker 1: were doing with the defensive line, the pressure that he
Speaker 1: was able to get the way he was able to
Speaker 1: play the run when the ball was to the inside.
Speaker 1: So you know, I got to be fair about that
Speaker 1: because he was not very good against the Giants on
Speaker 1: Monday night. He was really good against the Commander Shyster.
Speaker 1: I think it's it has to be said too, like
Speaker 1: you know, he's Superman out there. I mean, there's no
Speaker 1: doubt Michael Parsons is a phenomenal player, maybe the best
Speaker 1: player in the NFL and defense. And we'll find out,
Speaker 1: you know, this week with the Rams coup and then
Speaker 1: you know Donald have something to say about that. But
Speaker 1: when you put Michael Parsons on the edge every time,
Speaker 1: I obviously the Washington's like, okay, listen. I mean you're
Speaker 1: a linebacker slash undersized defensive end, and yes you have power,
Speaker 1: but we gotta run at you like that. And and
Speaker 1: he wasn't the best at it. I think they they
Speaker 1: cleaned it up. But you know that's one thing to
Speaker 1: kind of neutralize this is with with Parsons staying on
Speaker 1: the edge so much, and I sent in the second half,
Speaker 1: we saw him rush a little bit more from the
Speaker 1: flip side and the middle, but he stayed on that
Speaker 1: left side and they felt like they were running him.
Speaker 1: You know what I don't know, and I want to
Speaker 1: ask somebody about this is you saw that happen. You
Speaker 1: saw it happened with him, You saw it happened with
Speaker 1: Fouler a couple of times. Yea, they went up field
Speaker 1: and what I don't know is are they coaching these
Speaker 1: guys go ahead and go up. Feel our linebackers are
Speaker 1: gonna feel that gaps the linebackers are getting blocked because
Speaker 1: I saw him, probably the linebackers aren't getting off their block.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it was that they're asking
Speaker 1: the defensive end to actually hold that edge in which
Speaker 1: is their fault, or they're saying, you guys are going
Speaker 1: to get up, feel our linebackers are gonna fail those
Speaker 1: gaps and the linebackers aren't getting fall here. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, because there were a couple of times
Speaker 1: it looked like you'd like you're yelling at Vanderish like
Speaker 1: got over there, get over there, get over there. But
Speaker 1: then you're watching like, okay, the the end is getting
Speaker 1: knocked wide, and now you're Vanderis is trying to like
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to hold the gap to inside
Speaker 1: of him, so he's trying to kind of squeeze it.
Speaker 1: Now the balls bouncing, but you got this big gap
Speaker 1: and you don't have a safety coming down in there too.
Speaker 1: So I mean, so one of the three is not
Speaker 1: Because I was saying, I'm sitting there, I'm sitting there
Speaker 1: like Layton, get over and then I'm like, no, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, he's squeezing. You know, they got the A
Speaker 1: gap taken care of. He's squeezing the b Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: the end has got kicked way out of the sea.
Speaker 1: So now the space is so much that even if
Speaker 1: Vandrush were to get there, he can't cover. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what they're doing to Parsons now that that
Speaker 1: is going to be a problem for him is they're
Speaker 1: cutting him. They're cutting him now and there, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna start and everybody's gonna start going at his knees.
Speaker 1: And because that's what they were doing on those screens
Speaker 1: no matter where he was, if he was the side
Speaker 1: of the screen, immediate cut block and so now not rushing,
Speaker 1: hands down, hands down, protecting his knees. And so that
Speaker 1: was one of those times where I'm gonna I was
Speaker 1: watching the tape, I'm like, I counted three different times
Speaker 1: where sam Cosmi is chopping at his knees and he's
Speaker 1: not rushing or he's not I mean, he's playing off
Speaker 1: the block and then and then redirecting to the ball.
Speaker 1: But it but it, but you could tell he's like
Speaker 1: bro stay away from my knees, of course. And what
Speaker 1: another thing that does too, is that they throw it
Speaker 1: over his head. He's not the tallest guy anyway, so
Speaker 1: now when he's going down, make sure you know his
Speaker 1: hands are down too to protect himself. That's an easy
Speaker 1: throw over. I think I saw that two games in
Speaker 1: a row. I've seen teams kind of throw over him
Speaker 1: like that. But combat, is there anything you can do.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's tough. I mean it's tough because
Speaker 1: you know, we saw what happened to Thibadeau with the
Speaker 1: Giants in the preseason. They did the same thing. They
Speaker 1: chopped Armstrong coming across on a play, same situation. Armstrong
Speaker 1: is like spinning on one leg and you're like, you know,
Speaker 1: like oh look out. But yeah, he'll hurdle him. That's
Speaker 1: what he'll do. Well, it's he'll just jump over there
Speaker 1: to make a play and it'll be the play of
Speaker 1: the week. That's what'll happen. Well it, but it's something
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to deal with now because they're gonna
Speaker 1: get on a tape like Okay, how do you slow
Speaker 1: him down? Take the ball at him, but also chop
Speaker 1: him while you're taking the ball at him as well well,
Speaker 1: And did you guys notice him like dealing with something
Speaker 1: not back. He something was off and you could tell
Speaker 1: this was And it wasn't even towards the end of
Speaker 1: the game. It was early second quarter. He was just
Speaker 1: like the snap was gonna happen and he wasn't even
Speaker 1: ready just yet. He just looked like you know when
Speaker 1: you're a little just drained of some sort. He was still.
Speaker 1: I mean he was still, but he just looked like
Speaker 1: juice style for that game. Something was wrong with him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was more physically rather than
Speaker 1: he just looked tired. And maybe it was that short
Speaker 1: week coming out. But he plays a lot of snaps. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he plays a lot of snaps, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: you talk about those defensive linemen that get the rotate.
Speaker 1: He didn't get the rotate. Yeah, And when they and
Speaker 1: when they and when they don't have him out there,
Speaker 1: we're all like, where is he? Where? Why? Christy give
Speaker 1: me a report? So you know, you're I need to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom now, I mean, like, what's going on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good time. And one thing I do worry
Speaker 1: about for him is he's getting a lot more attention
Speaker 1: from from offenses. He's getting those double teams, he's getting
Speaker 1: those chips, he's getting like people going at his knees.
Speaker 1: I do wonder if at some point it's going to
Speaker 1: wear him down a little bit and they're gonna the
Speaker 1: cowboys are gonna have to think about how do we
Speaker 1: manage his time so he doesn't get worn down to
Speaker 1: the point because like you said, he's not the biggest guy,
Speaker 1: certainly not to be playing another thing that he needs
Speaker 1: to work on. And this isn't pick on Mica Day
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but he needs to realize that
Speaker 1: that this is successful, like like, And it's a tough
Speaker 1: balance because you want the lion to stay hungry all
Speaker 1: the time. But you know, they're teasing him in the
Speaker 1: locker room because he didn't get a sack, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like, are you is it that big a deal
Speaker 1: to get a sack that he had when he missed? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you going to play out of your game now? Like?
Speaker 1: They got to be happy about this. He needs to
Speaker 1: be happy, and I hope he is, but I get
Speaker 1: the sense that even he gets frustrated because he didn't
Speaker 1: get a sack and all that. But the way he's
Speaker 1: sound in the locker room last night, it did make
Speaker 1: me seem like he had perspective. That's like the way
Speaker 1: he was talking was like man our unit, and he
Speaker 1: was talking a lot about the scoring. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the way he's looking at it is the right way.
Speaker 1: I hope so. And they playfully teased with him and
Speaker 1: whatever pokes the bear or whatever gets him going, that's fine.
Speaker 1: But like you know, he's a huge part of this.
Speaker 1: He is he creates all of this stuff for the
Speaker 1: other guy. I don't practice him a couple of days
Speaker 1: during the week, maybe a day during the week, I mean,
Speaker 1: whatever day you determine that he could take off and
Speaker 1: just stand there and watch all day and heal up.
Speaker 1: Let me have a few of those days, listen, I
Speaker 1: mean you can, you know, hey, just watch what we're
Speaker 1: trying to do here. But he's so involved in all
Speaker 1: the scheme packages. You know, it's like, Okay, they're gonna
Speaker 1: line him up with Tank on that side too, and
Speaker 1: then Fouler on that. I mean, they're going they create
Speaker 1: things for mismatches. So if he doesn't practice, are they
Speaker 1: able to work on you know, It's it's kind of
Speaker 1: like Amari Cooper. When Amari Cooper didn't practice, do you
Speaker 1: confidently call a play that he doesn't practice, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, Maria is good enough, you should be
Speaker 1: able to run the play. Well, no, that's why you practice.
Speaker 1: So you run the play if it's a combination routes
Speaker 1: and you know, things like that. So you just gotta
Speaker 1: find time for him. You just gotta say, listen, broke
Speaker 1: away from the game today. Just stay away from the
Speaker 1: game because they are they're they're now taking offenses, are
Speaker 1: desperate playing against him. They're desperate to try and do
Speaker 1: anything they can to stop him from reckons shop. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. We're gonna come back,
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush yesterday was fifteen to twenty seven, fifty six
Speaker 1: percent completion rate, two hundred and twenty three yards, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interception, to one oh seven point five rating. He
Speaker 1: becomes the first quarterback in club history to win his
Speaker 1: first four games as a starter. Pretty impressive. What was it?
Speaker 1: What do you think is the key to his success
Speaker 1: so far? Well, I mean he's he's taking care of
Speaker 1: the ball. Statistically, he had a couple of interceptions, but
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he doesn't need to be thrown
Speaker 1: off his back foot. I can tell you that he was.
Speaker 1: He did a couple of that. But but I mean,
Speaker 1: he makes smart decisions. And also he's a good deep
Speaker 1: ball thrower. And and I thought that in Brian and
Speaker 1: I talked about this or after the game, is that
Speaker 1: this is where McCarthy comes into play. Yeah, because McCarthy
Speaker 1: studies officials. He knows what crews call, and he threw
Speaker 1: the ball deep a lot knowing that that good things
Speaker 1: were going to happen. Either you catch it. It's not
Speaker 1: fifty fifty that the ball gets down there. It's it's
Speaker 1: more seventy thirty you catch it or PI or whatever.
Speaker 1: Good things happen. He's a good thrower. And not only
Speaker 1: on that stat about the first quarterback in Cowboys history,
Speaker 1: first quarterback in NFL history to have whin his first
Speaker 1: four starts and the quarterback rating him ninety above every time.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the defense is helping him, but he's also
Speaker 1: making smart decisions where he's having a good quarterback ratings
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, it's you know, Nick's right about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to study these officials. You have
Speaker 1: to understand if crews are going to call pis excessively,
Speaker 1: and this was a crew that was going in. You
Speaker 1: knew that this was a This usually was a When
Speaker 1: you look at these officials, there's certain things that you
Speaker 1: can kind of tag them with. And I applaud McCarthy
Speaker 1: and those guys for being able to say, hey, Max protection,
Speaker 1: let's see if these guys can hold up. And once
Speaker 1: they kind of figured out two that Michael Gallup was
Speaker 1: going to be able to have the separation felt comfortable running. Hey,
Speaker 1: by all means, send him on the nine routes, send
Speaker 1: him on the go. See if you get tied up.
Speaker 1: I mean they sent Ceedee Lamb down one time on
Speaker 1: a You know, it was really a good play by
Speaker 1: the corner from the commanders. But that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: You got to take some shots down the field, and
Speaker 1: you know you're going to get a thirty eight yard pin.
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, a thirty eight yard penalty is just
Speaker 1: as good as a thirty eight yard run. You know,
Speaker 1: as long as they give you the yards and give
Speaker 1: you the fuel position, why not play to that strength.
Speaker 1: So that's where I think Cooper rushed. Those are really good.
Speaker 1: But I was really surprised on the one past row
Speaker 1: in the game that Noah Brown didn't adjust well enough
Speaker 1: on it. You know, I thought maybe that was an
Speaker 1: opportunity for a big play, but just didn't adjust well
Speaker 1: enough to it. But by all means, learn about these
Speaker 1: officials trying to take advantage of the situation. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: of those deep throw I'm watching again, I'm like, beautiful,
Speaker 1: that was beautiful, what a beautiful bass. But credit to
Speaker 1: the line, the old line. I think they've been giving him,
Speaker 1: making him what I'm not gonna say, they're making him
Speaker 1: what he is. They're just allowing him to process things
Speaker 1: and make those throws like he's not constantly under pressure,
Speaker 1: He's not constantly having to get outside the pocket and
Speaker 1: run for his life. So again, I think the old
Speaker 1: line has been doing a great job and helping him
Speaker 1: out in being able to carry this team along while
Speaker 1: Dak is out. So yes, I love everything that I've
Speaker 1: been seen with Cooper Rush, but after yesterday it made
Speaker 1: me wonder. I'm hum with what the old line is doing.
Speaker 1: I think Dak would be able. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: to start that whole conversation right now again, but I
Speaker 1: just it makes me wonder and think about you know,
Speaker 1: Dak would be able to play a lot better than
Speaker 1: what we saw that first game of the of the season.
Speaker 1: And I think he would be able to because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people the comments that you see
Speaker 1: is that, oh, Dak is not going to be able
Speaker 1: to do what Cooper Rush is doing but with yeah,
Speaker 1: which is insane. But I think you plug in Dak
Speaker 1: a healthy Dak full unhealthy with his thumb and everything,
Speaker 1: I think he would be able to give you what
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush has been giving you and the help that
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore has been able to create for the quarterback position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna this will be a big, big
Speaker 1: test for Cooper Rush this week because I've been told
Speaker 1: it's unrealistic that Dak is going to play this week.
Speaker 1: So look for Cooper Rush to go to as you
Speaker 1: guys load up and go to Southern California. It S
Speaker 1: been a good matchup for him. You know, when we
Speaker 1: get into when we start to talk about the defenses
Speaker 1: and the things that he'll have to do, you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to put up some points in this
Speaker 1: football game, I believe. You know, I haven't seen a
Speaker 1: whole lot. We'll see the Rams play tonight against the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, will you know, get an idea about that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is going to be probably the stiffest
Speaker 1: test that he will have when it comes to he's
Speaker 1: going to have to play in this game because you
Speaker 1: are playing against you know, they did a nice job
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati that was a Super Bowl team. Well here's
Speaker 1: the team that won the Super Bowl. So go find
Speaker 1: a way to win this game. But you're gonna get
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush this week. It's what you're gonna do, and
Speaker 1: we'll see if he can, if he can pull it off.
Speaker 1: You say that you're gonna get Cooper Rush, like you're
Speaker 1: gonna get like he is what he is this week,
Speaker 1: Like you're gonna no, you're gonna get him to play
Speaker 1: quarterback this week? Oh it's yeah, Dak, Yeah, it's you know,
Speaker 1: a post game I was told he was unrealistic that
Speaker 1: Dak was going to play this week, And that makes
Speaker 1: me wonder, you know, unrealistic, Like, no, no chance he's
Speaker 1: gonna play in seven days, so days, like like if
Speaker 1: you're if you're absolutely not on seven days, I mean,
Speaker 1: fourteen seems like a stretch. Well, I think the lock
Speaker 1: could happen in fourteen days. Like. The reason why I
Speaker 1: think it's unreally, in my opinion, the reason why I
Speaker 1: think it's unrealistic for this week is because he really
Speaker 1: hasn't practice. He really hasn't been doing much from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of actually throwing the ball. Um. So I think
Speaker 1: though this week, let's say, for example, he does towards
Speaker 1: the end of this week, he's actually out there and
Speaker 1: throwing and they're like yeah, yeah, exactly, and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's starting to so by then then you give him
Speaker 1: a week of practice next week, ye, then maybe he is.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like, right now, it doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: he's done any of that to this point, so it
Speaker 1: seems unrealistic that he can do I never heard the
Speaker 1: word close. You know, I never heard the word close.
Speaker 1: I mean it was I was asking because I thought
Speaker 1: Jerry in the postgame, did I think he did a
Speaker 1: good job of not really selling it, like you know,
Speaker 1: he kind of was very noncammital about it. But you know,
Speaker 1: and you guys live here in this building, you talk
Speaker 1: to people as well. You know. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I was told was like, no, it's it's not a
Speaker 1: realistic situation this week. Because of the things we talked about,
Speaker 1: the practice, the grip strengthen, all those things. I feel
Speaker 1: that had they've been losing, you would be here next week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll be hearing the word close. Do we have time
Speaker 1: to ask a question? Yeah? Sure, I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: because a lot of I feel that a lot of
Speaker 1: the times that we're watching the games, on their offense,
Speaker 1: they get the ball moving, they're moving the moving, then
Speaker 1: they just completely hit a wall as they approached the
Speaker 1: red zone. So what would you point out the biggest
Speaker 1: problem as to why that is happening. Well, I'm honestly,
Speaker 1: when you in this game, I mean, you can't run
Speaker 1: the football, like it's even harder to run down there
Speaker 1: in the red zone, So you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: take your deep shots. And that's why it always did.
Speaker 1: That's why I always say first and goal in the ten.
Speaker 1: It's the toughest, toughest to score because deep ball is
Speaker 1: out of the out of the equation obviously, unless you
Speaker 1: want to throw it the rowdy. So I mean, like
Speaker 1: it's right there, you've got to you've got to play
Speaker 1: in We've got to be able to push them back,
Speaker 1: and they couldn't push anyone back. So I thought they
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job down in there. I mean,
Speaker 1: but because it's hard to run at the fifty, it's
Speaker 1: definitely hard to run inside the twenty. Yeah, Monday night
Speaker 1: we talked about and Nick brought it up in our
Speaker 1: show on Tuesday, was about how they got against the Giants.
Speaker 1: They got down there and ran the ball what three
Speaker 1: straight time? And they ran it in I think what
Speaker 1: happened the touchdown when you go back and you watch,
Speaker 1: you're all twenty two. The touchdown you're gonna see to
Speaker 1: Gallop was a really good design because what they were
Speaker 1: able to do was and this is where I know
Speaker 1: I've been critical of Kellen Moore because you see guys
Speaker 1: like Sean McVay with the rams. He will get Cooper
Speaker 1: cup on linebackers and you're now you're like you're running
Speaker 1: against a linebacker and down there, and that that's what happened.
Speaker 1: He got Gallop on Holcomb the linebacker by by design,
Speaker 1: by formation, and now all of a sudden, Holcomb's you know,
Speaker 1: inside leverage is you know, great, but outside leverage is terrible.
Speaker 1: And that's where you know, you watch the ball. I mean,
Speaker 1: the route goes inside and then breaks and now you've
Speaker 1: got the quarterback rolling in the pocket and he's able
Speaker 1: to make that throw. You need more of that, you need,
Speaker 1: you know, you talk about running the football and then
Speaker 1: better design of how to get your guys in situations
Speaker 1: where okay, we're gonna spread you out a little bit
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make sure that your linebackers covering our
Speaker 1: wide receiver and then trying to stay in position to
Speaker 1: do that. More of that would be great in my book.
Speaker 1: You know that that would be the the that would
Speaker 1: be the fix that I saw that he had yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you called that out because we give Kellen
Speaker 1: a lot of flak. I think there a lot of
Speaker 1: people do for not scheming things up to get his
Speaker 1: playmakers in position to make plays. That was a really
Speaker 1: good example of that kind where he did. And another
Speaker 1: one who coming out of the third quarter going into
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I mean they set there, it's basically
Speaker 1: a time out. They come right out of that the
Speaker 1: first play. They schemed it up where Schultz and he
Speaker 1: got to give Schultz credit because he yeh down the
Speaker 1: field right and the scene took the safety with him.
Speaker 1: Guess what one on one to CD lamb. I mean
Speaker 1: that that was obviously called and he got the inside.
Speaker 1: So it was perfectly you got Nick's right there because
Speaker 1: Curl the safety is he's He's so focused on Schultz
Speaker 1: running vertically that it kept it gave enough space to
Speaker 1: allow CD to run and then the corner on their
Speaker 1: side was too wide, so there was that natural scene
Speaker 1: where he was able to throw the ball. Well designed play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about the running game. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Zeke Elliott and Tony Pollard. Yesterday, Zeke was nineteen
Speaker 1: carries for forty nine yards a two point six average.
Speaker 1: Pollard eight carries for six yards point eight average. Why
Speaker 1: didn't the running game work yesterday? Was the biggest problem?
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen is your biggest problem? J Allen was a
Speaker 1: pain and the what and both those guys were I
Speaker 1: mean that was they were as good as we've seen
Speaker 1: them before. I mean that that was a mean day.
Speaker 1: Yeah did but no, no, he's he'll fit in. He'll
Speaker 1: fit in good with that team. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: that that was just an unfortunate thing. Cowboys wanted him,
Speaker 1: but it just that they have injuries and we have injuries.
Speaker 1: You've got to figure out how to how to get
Speaker 1: around it, and you had to try to steal it
Speaker 1: practice squad spot and Washington needed help. Good good move
Speaker 1: for them, But I thought that they just couldn't run
Speaker 1: the ball as well. Because they didn't, they didn't win
Speaker 1: the physical battles um And I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: what what we see with Pollard and Zeke. Yeah, Pollard's
Speaker 1: great on the outside and he can do all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but running him in the middle like that. It's tough
Speaker 1: sledding and we didn't even average a yard. So you know,
Speaker 1: this is why they He'll have better days, I mean
Speaker 1: for sure, and Zeke will too. But this is kind
Speaker 1: of why, you know, the thunder and lightning situation is
Speaker 1: what it is, because you gotta get some tough running.
Speaker 1: I thought Zeke ran okay, but his stats don't really
Speaker 1: look good. They struggled because McGovern was playing in the
Speaker 1: game and coming back from the ends hurt to me.
Speaker 1: He wasn't moving very well, not look good to me.
Speaker 1: He struggled. He struggled with his movement and struggled with
Speaker 1: his power and couldn't sustain anybody. They struggled a little
Speaker 1: bit with with Beyondish at center. Zack Martin actually had
Speaker 1: a couple of them where he was he lost a
Speaker 1: little bit of his uh you know, the you know,
Speaker 1: being able to stick onto his guy. They just couldn't.
Speaker 1: And there was a couple of times too where guys
Speaker 1: like Steele was in good position and the guy went
Speaker 1: backdoor on him and now he's trying to adjust back
Speaker 1: and then there's really no place for the ball to
Speaker 1: cut and then there's the tackle right there. They they
Speaker 1: played it really well. They were. There were time they
Speaker 1: had an eight man box one time and Dallas ran
Speaker 1: it inside and I'm like going, okay, well, Coop, it's
Speaker 1: eight men in the box you've got You're not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to block all these guys, and they still
Speaker 1: ran the ball. That was one of those things where
Speaker 1: I think he would have checked out if he If
Speaker 1: he today, when he gets to watch his film, he's
Speaker 1: gonna go, oh damn, what was I doing. I mean
Speaker 1: it was four down and four behind, and they were
Speaker 1: not gonna let you run the ball in that particular play.
Speaker 1: But again, once you know, you look at Zeke the
Speaker 1: third one, he continues to have the success doing that.
Speaker 1: That to me but also too real quick and I
Speaker 1: know I'm talking a lot here, I'm sorry, But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is they put Farniac in the backfield.
Speaker 1: That's now. Farniac ran a route one time on a play,
Speaker 1: on a play that went to Noah Brown for a
Speaker 1: big catch. He ran a route, but but Ferguson stayed
Speaker 1: in and blocked the tight end, which was hilarious. You
Speaker 1: see Ferguson's like blocking on the end, and then here's
Speaker 1: Farniac running a route like you know, he's like up
Speaker 1: the fuel kind of like that throwing the ball and
Speaker 1: the ball goes over the top. But that's the kind
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy. I want to see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's you can watch to play, but it's
Speaker 1: it's funny to me that that you put the fullback
Speaker 1: in there, and it's it's just a telegraph we're gonna
Speaker 1: run the ball. Yeah we're gonna run. But that one
Speaker 1: time they threw the pass and you know, able to
Speaker 1: make a play out. But it was funny to see.
Speaker 1: I didn't stay in and offensive lineman go out and
Speaker 1: run the route. Peter Peters looked forty a couple of times.
Speaker 1: He looked forty in that game. He sure did, ye
Speaker 1: sure it did. Did. He looked more forty than he
Speaker 1: looked like at nine time pro bowler. But of course
Speaker 1: I know he's playing guard and it's not his position
Speaker 1: that he's used to play in. But it was tough,
Speaker 1: It was not It was not the best. I still
Speaker 1: wonder how this whole thing's going to shake out. McGovern
Speaker 1: you know healthy, and you know it's just Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: coming up this week, so I think they could figure
Speaker 1: it out figuring the fact that they only gave up
Speaker 1: one sack, because I agree with you guys, I don't
Speaker 1: think the offensive offensive line played particularly well, but they
Speaker 1: ended up only giving up one sack. I do think
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, as he's done since he's been in there,
Speaker 1: he's really good at getting the ball out, so I
Speaker 1: think it doesn't expose him as much as maybe you'll
Speaker 1: see from other quarterbacks. But all things being considered, this
Speaker 1: was not a great game for the offen to me.
Speaker 1: To me and the way I see it, to me,
Speaker 1: they played a well game as far as the passing game.
Speaker 1: The run game, that was a whole different thing. They
Speaker 1: could not run the ball, and this this is why
Speaker 1: this win makes it that much more impressive to me,
Speaker 1: because sometimes we see when they do not have that
Speaker 1: kind of balance where they can't run the ball, they
Speaker 1: end up losing the game. And for example, at the
Speaker 1: tight ends position, Dalton Schultz did not have a good game.
Speaker 1: He didn't but even then, like he was doing, it
Speaker 1: was not a good day for him. So keeping that
Speaker 1: in mind, and just the very few weapons that Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush and Kellen Moore had to work with last night,
Speaker 1: and they got away with the wind got too touchdowns,
Speaker 1: So to me that that was impressive. And this is
Speaker 1: the only reason why I keep giving the old line
Speaker 1: so much credit is the fact that you didn't see
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush just having to run for his life all night.
Speaker 1: They were just giving him time. And yes, Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: credit to him too. His legs, his feet, he can run,
Speaker 1: he can figure out where to go, So to me,
Speaker 1: that's a win in that aspect. I think that we'll
Speaker 1: see how they improve in the running game. But when
Speaker 1: you get away with without the running game working point
Speaker 1: eight average for Tony Pollard, that's pretty embarrassing. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: I think I think the thing to consider here, and
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of how they're going I think
Speaker 1: it's how they're gonna play football is you look at
Speaker 1: the total number of carries relative to the sole number
Speaker 1: of passes. They're right there about fifty fifties twenty nine rushes.
Speaker 1: Two of those rushes were rushed and so those are
Speaker 1: probably not called runs. So you look at about twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty seven, right, you're looking at about a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty split between run pass and by the way, I
Speaker 1: think that's how they think they're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: football right now. Because of the fact that they've got
Speaker 1: such a great defense. I think they look at it
Speaker 1: and say, hey, we need to keep the other team
Speaker 1: off balance, which means it even sometimes, as you say, Brian,
Speaker 1: you might have an eight man box, we're still going
Speaker 1: to run it off because for us, as we saw
Speaker 1: earlier this season, like you don't want to leave your
Speaker 1: defense out there too much, so you have to take
Speaker 1: the time you have to sometimes you have to run
Speaker 1: into bad situations. But the point is you're going to
Speaker 1: run the ball, and we're gonna trust the fact that,
Speaker 1: as I was saying to you Nick in the press box,
Speaker 1: like a punt is not a bad thing with this
Speaker 1: kind of defense. Sometimes you take a few plays, you'll
Speaker 1: take some time off the clock. You punt the ball,
Speaker 1: let your defense do his job. I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: When you punt the ball to your own twenty eight
Speaker 1: and don't give up points, you got a pretty damn
Speaker 1: good defense, really good, yeah, exactly right. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: when the putter messes it up. I mean the putter
Speaker 1: has been hit it like fifty two, fifty six, fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards. He punts one twenty two, and you're like going,
Speaker 1: this is not good, and then you don't give up points.
Speaker 1: That shows you got a pretty good And they went
Speaker 1: for a field goal. I mean they went for a
Speaker 1: fourth down because they they had to, but still, I
Speaker 1: mean they got down there to the nine good sack
Speaker 1: on third down to push it back forth and fifteen.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like they said, I mean it's been
Speaker 1: but don't break. But they're not been in a whole
Speaker 1: lot and it's it's really impressive. And you know that's
Speaker 1: what we said after they played Brady and Burrow. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now you get Daniel Jones and you and you get
Speaker 1: wins and they've taken advantage of that. Now it's Stafford
Speaker 1: and Hurts, so you know, yeah, but it steps up.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take our final break. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: of the game. Let's go around the table. Everybody give
Speaker 1: me one amber. Let's start with you. To me is
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. He's a guy that you know, didn't have
Speaker 1: a training camp. He was out for a really long
Speaker 1: time and he got in here and even though I
Speaker 1: know the kind of talent he has, it is one
Speaker 1: of those things that you always have some kind of
Speaker 1: doubt on how quickly they can be impactful inside in
Speaker 1: the game. And even when he didn't have the ball,
Speaker 1: he was he was drawing penalties, he was helping. That
Speaker 1: way that touched them, to me, was so impressive. And
Speaker 1: the way that Cooper Rush was able to get the
Speaker 1: ball to him and he was able to catch it.
Speaker 1: So to me, he was player of the game because
Speaker 1: not only what he did in that game, but what
Speaker 1: he was able to put on film for the next
Speaker 1: opponent coming up. He's gonna bring some attention to him
Speaker 1: and he's gonna keep making an impact on the offense
Speaker 1: and helping the other guys around him as well durn Bland.
Speaker 1: Like durn Bland found out he was going to start
Speaker 1: five maybe five minutes before they go to warm up.
Speaker 1: They go at, they get back from warm and he
Speaker 1: comes in. They walk in say, you're starting nickel corner today. Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you. Durn Bland did not get a lot
Speaker 1: of work this week playing nickel corner, which Jordan lewis
Speaker 1: out there, and they didn't practice a whole hell of
Speaker 1: a lot either. To be honest, what happened with Jordan
Speaker 1: do we know? I know you're growing? And did it
Speaker 1: happen in pregame? Pre game? So all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they come in they tell the kid he's going to start.
Speaker 1: He did a great job in that football game. That
Speaker 1: is not easy to play that that corner spot, especially
Speaker 1: with the receivers that they have over there at the Commanders.
Speaker 1: And then he gets the interception, great read. They're playing zone.
Speaker 1: He's right where he needs to be. He sees that
Speaker 1: what Carson Wentz is gonna do. He drives on the ball,
Speaker 1: gets in front. You know, the some of the initial
Speaker 1: runs that were run at him in the first half,
Speaker 1: he kind of struggled with a little bit second half.
Speaker 1: He was far better playing in that game. Hats off
Speaker 1: to him, helmet stick or whatever you want to give
Speaker 1: him for how he played in that football game. But
Speaker 1: two got two here us both? Well, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: i'd like to say Diggs because I thought Diggs played
Speaker 1: a great game and really kind of shut down their
Speaker 1: best player. But you know, as Brian said, when you
Speaker 1: average two yards to carry, and I mean this thing
Speaker 1: is supposed to keep a float here with Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: because they got help him out. You gotta run the ball,
Speaker 1: you gotta played good defense. They couldn't run the ball,
Speaker 1: yet they win a game by two scores. My my
Speaker 1: MVP of the game is Cooper Rush. Uh. He's four
Speaker 1: in a row of as a starter three this year
Speaker 1: and he's just kind of finding his rhythm. Offense is
Speaker 1: getting better. But they were really one dimensional and he
Speaker 1: had they had to pass the ball through it and
Speaker 1: they were able to do it. So, uh, to me,
Speaker 1: it's it was Cooper Rush. You give us your second?
Speaker 1: Well Diggs, I said, Jaker was one that I really
Speaker 1: would like to say Diggs, but and I thought he
Speaker 1: played great, But I it's it's Cooper for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what dan Quinn does with Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson and Curse both. Yeah, and you know now now
Speaker 1: how you yeah, and exactly how do you get these played? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you get these guys on the field, especially
Speaker 1: guys that can tackle, you know, and you're gonna need
Speaker 1: that if people are gonna start trying to run the
Speaker 1: ball on you, You're gonna need guys that make plays.
Speaker 1: Wilson's physical, Curse physical. They don't miss Hooker played pretty well, sure,
Speaker 1: says played great. Well, I'll tell you what the one
Speaker 1: play that went down they but we thought him have
Speaker 1: been intercept you each about Wilson. They're playing four across
Speaker 1: at the sticks and the ball's going deep, and who's
Speaker 1: running from the hash you know to get the on
Speaker 1: the cover John McLarin down the field. It's it's Wilson.
Speaker 1: So not only was he just like a physical player down,
Speaker 1: he was a deep player back and made a huge
Speaker 1: play in that game. Because your players game my players.
Speaker 1: Maher Amber Amber started the show talking about him. He
Speaker 1: had kicks of fifty three, twenty eight, twenty nine. Really,
Speaker 1: if you look at a great tackle in the open field,
Speaker 1: it's absolute points absolutely. And if you look at the
Speaker 1: first quarter of the season, outside of say Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: I don't know that you could say that there's any
Speaker 1: player has been more consistent during the first quarter of
Speaker 1: the season and made a difference for this team than
Speaker 1: Brett Maher. He has been really, really good for them.
Speaker 1: Has scored a ton of kicks and may kicks that
Speaker 1: are fifty plus, Like we're talking about some really tough
Speaker 1: kicks that most kickers in the league would struggle to
Speaker 1: have the percentage that he does, and he's been making
Speaker 1: those kicks. I think he has been phenomenal. I think
Speaker 1: it's the first time they had a kickoff return against him.
Speaker 1: He'd had he'd put every ball out of the end
Speaker 1: zone and then they brought one back on him yesterday.
Speaker 1: But up until then, through four games, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been putting every balls into great football. Yeah. I got
Speaker 1: asked this on the radio the day on one of
Speaker 1: five three the fan and I said, the question was,
Speaker 1: is which player has been the most surprising this year?
Speaker 1: I through four games? Is it? Is it Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: Maher or Tyler Smith? And and you know I in
Speaker 1: order or you know I put I put Cooper rush.
Speaker 1: I mean I would I wouldn't expected this, but I
Speaker 1: mean they're all great, great choices there. I mean, all
Speaker 1: three of those guys. Well, you think about what we
Speaker 1: were back in Ox and Ard. The thought was watching
Speaker 1: this is going to be a problem this year. It
Speaker 1: is going to be a significant problem. And then when
Speaker 1: they may kind of changes and all that, then you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll kind of back to where we were a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Like I don't I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's going to be better. But the guy has been fun.
Speaker 1: I don't know, he's played really good, getting good football.
Speaker 1: We'll see. The thing about it is you bring back
Speaker 1: Maher and you're like, okay, you couldn't scout better. You couldn't.
Speaker 1: You couldn't you. Why do you have to bring back
Speaker 1: somebody that we've already seen get sent away. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: sometimes you send them away and they come back and
Speaker 1: they work out better. But that was the one where
Speaker 1: I was like, I was proud of them for making
Speaker 1: the decision that the kicking game was not good enough.
Speaker 1: They could have just sat there and ranting with those
Speaker 1: guys and been Okay, hey, we're not weirdly like our
Speaker 1: guys Yeah, but to bring back Maher and have him
Speaker 1: to have success, you have to give him credit for that.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate you guys, Johnis. We'll back tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: do a big picture look around the NFC and really
Speaker 1: around the NFC East. All of a sudden, NFC East
Speaker 1: isn't looking pretty good. We'll talk about that tomorrow for NICKI.
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