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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, October twenty ninth, two thousand and twenty,
Speaker 1: season sixteen, episode number fifty four, and welcome to another
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Speaker 1: do this is actually, this is a really fitting U
Speaker 1: sums up where we are in the Cowboys season. That
Speaker 1: episode fifty four, h yes is wow. Wow, I didn't
Speaker 1: even get that. Oh my god, oh my god. All right,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be I'm talking about episode fifty four. It
Speaker 1: means it's gonna be a Ring of Honor type show.
Speaker 1: You know, there's two fifty four is in the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor, Randy White, thanks, mister historian. That's good. Fifty
Speaker 1: four you guys are referring to three? Will there be three? Now?
Speaker 1: Darren Hambrick won't get in, so I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: what do volunteer? All right, let's let's jump right in.
Speaker 1: We need to talk a little bit about this roster.
Speaker 1: There were a couple moves yesterday Darryl Worley and Don
Speaker 1: Terry Poe obviously Wave we talked about it on the
Speaker 1: show yesterday that was likely going to happen. It did happen,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys did also or they are expected to
Speaker 1: make another move at quarterback, bringing back an old familiar
Speaker 1: name and Cooper Rush. Question is where does he fit
Speaker 1: on the depth chart? Like they got a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that kind of well, two guys that they've added
Speaker 1: here in the last couple of weeks. Where does what
Speaker 1: does the depth chart really look like for this team
Speaker 1: at quarterback? Nick Well, I'm just hoping we can get
Speaker 1: the term ginger snaps somewhere on the headline of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, if we can get him and Andy Dalton,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you have to got it. We'll
Speaker 1: see how it goes Sunday. I mean like that they
Speaker 1: don't have to decide the depth chart. I mean, if
Speaker 1: if Nutch goes out there and plays well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he could be the backup when Andy comes back.
Speaker 1: But if not, I mean, this might be have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with Andy Dalton or Denuccie. It might be
Speaker 1: more about Garrett Gilbert and be like, all right, he
Speaker 1: doesn't he's still having a hard time learning the plays.
Speaker 1: This guy knows the plays. I mean, Cooper knows the plays.
Speaker 1: He knows Kellen Moore. So I don't know where he's
Speaker 1: gonna remember it's the practice squad next week, but you know,
Speaker 1: he could be the third quarterback moving forward, maybe the second.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I think. I mean in a
Speaker 1: perfect world that I think the hope is that neither
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush nor Garrett Gilbert ever needs to play this.
Speaker 1: I think, for one, you just got to cover yourself
Speaker 1: in case Andy takes longer than expected coming back, and
Speaker 1: or if something happens to Ben de Nucci. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's he's going to be running for his life one
Speaker 1: way or the other on Sunday. Like, hopefully he can
Speaker 1: stay healthy on Sunday. Cooper Rush gives you insurance. He yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said today, he was like, well, Cooper was
Speaker 1: part of our offseason meetings. I don't think that's completely
Speaker 1: true because Cooper Rush was cut on May fourth, right
Speaker 1: after Dalton signed, like so they weren't really into the
Speaker 1: meat of what they were doing. But he was here
Speaker 1: last year in the year before that, he knows Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore like, he's probably pretty familiar with the offense, so
Speaker 1: you would think he can pick it up pretty quickly
Speaker 1: if he needs to. But Andy Dalton was in meetings today,
Speaker 1: he was in the team meeting yesterday, He's in the
Speaker 1: position meetings today. So I would hope he's rounding toward
Speaker 1: being able to play next week if he can't go Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I would hope Cooper Rush doesn't need to do
Speaker 1: anything on the field. But it's just insurance Kenny at
Speaker 1: this point, I mean, with the COVID protocols, when will
Speaker 1: he be able to actually be with the team and
Speaker 1: Canny even be on the field this Sunday on the
Speaker 1: sidelines or anything. He won't be here till next week.
Speaker 1: He's got I think, Nick, you said it's six six tests,
Speaker 1: six negative tests, just to get in the door. That's
Speaker 1: the part that's a little curious to me, because by
Speaker 1: the time he would actually be able to come into
Speaker 1: the building, I would guess I would hope Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: his back and so you're at like he's even farther
Speaker 1: down the depth chart. Does that seem a little bit
Speaker 1: strange to you guys that they would bring him in
Speaker 1: at this point knowing that he really can't help him
Speaker 1: this weekend when you would be without Dalton presumable. Well,
Speaker 1: I here's the thing with the offensive line. You just
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure we're gonna talk about Bendy Nucci in
Speaker 1: a little bit, but I feel bad. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for the guy. He has talent and all that, but
Speaker 1: he's so tiny, and I feel bad that if he
Speaker 1: gets hit, it's not gonna feel good. And hopefully he
Speaker 1: doesn't get hit, but we know that's bound to probably
Speaker 1: happen with the kind of old line we have. But man,
Speaker 1: you just don't know at this point what kind of
Speaker 1: injuries starting from the old line, and then now it's
Speaker 1: carrying on to the quarterback position as well. Also, I would,
Speaker 1: I would. I would just say concussions are different. You
Speaker 1: know it's not. There is no specific timeline. No two
Speaker 1: concussions are the same. It's a very good sign that
Speaker 1: Andy's in meetings, but you know, he might I don't
Speaker 1: even know how that works. I've never had a concussion,
Speaker 1: but he might not feel as good Monday as he
Speaker 1: does right now. I don't know so and he had
Speaker 1: hurt to cover your neither as he. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: never had one, which is you know, that's good and bad.
Speaker 1: I think it's good that you know, this's not like
Speaker 1: it apparently keeps getting worse and worse the more that
Speaker 1: you have. But he know, he's never had one, so
Speaker 1: he doesn't really know the symptoms and feelings, you know,
Speaker 1: of what he should be, you know, having. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just think it again, I think it comes back
Speaker 1: to Gilbert. I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he's probably going to be the third Russia will be
Speaker 1: the third quarterback or maybe second, depending on how Ben
Speaker 1: plays in this game. Yeah, and let's not forget like
Speaker 1: when he was laying on the field that that certainly
Speaker 1: didn't look very good. It certainly looked like to me
Speaker 1: he was really injured. And so you know, you just
Speaker 1: never know the severity of this concussion. Obviously they don't
Speaker 1: really that kind of information, but it certainly didn't look good.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cast aspersions because again, all signs
Speaker 1: point toward Andy being fine in the long run. But
Speaker 1: I always think about it's a completely different sport. But
Speaker 1: Sidney Crosby once suffered a concussion that knocked him out
Speaker 1: for like half a season, like he could. Yeah he
Speaker 1: so hockey, right, yeah, yes, one of the best players
Speaker 1: the last day. Yeah yeah, I got you. H So
Speaker 1: you never know, and like I feel like people to
Speaker 1: you know, Zach Martin is coming back one week after
Speaker 1: his most people are like, okay, a concussions one week
Speaker 1: But that's not always true. So it's just something to remember.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about this Cowboys offense. Remember, in the second segment,
Speaker 1: as we do every Thursday, we'll have a Buckey Brooks
Speaker 1: calling and he's gonna talk to us about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense versus the Philadelphia defense. But I had a few
Speaker 1: questions for you guys, particularly about this Philadelphia. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: about this Cowboys offense in the matchup. I want to
Speaker 1: start with Ben Denucci. We heard Mike McCarthy talking this
Speaker 1: morning about the fact that he's a guy that that
Speaker 1: certainly can run. We've heard coming into the league, we heard,
Speaker 1: you know, stories of a guy he seems to be
Speaker 1: a mobile type quarterback, a guy that kind of can
Speaker 1: freelance as necessary and with this offensive line, I would
Speaker 1: think freelancing is something he might have to do. That
Speaker 1: all being said, do you think that he actually gives
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, not factoring in in I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be weird, but not factoring in his inexperience, do you
Speaker 1: think he actually gives them a little bit of an
Speaker 1: advantage knowing the offensive line isn't as good and he
Speaker 1: has the ability to get off script and be able
Speaker 1: to make things happen on the run and on the fly. No,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think if they were racing, like if
Speaker 1: it was a scramble drill and you run in, yes,
Speaker 1: he would be better than Andy Dalton doing that. But
Speaker 1: you know, like like the old saying Parcel says, you know,
Speaker 1: knowledge is confidence and confidence lets you play fast. So
Speaker 1: you don't have that knowledge. You don't even know where
Speaker 1: this s blitz is coming from. You haven't seen it before,
Speaker 1: you haven't even played big time college football. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough for him for him to just be aware
Speaker 1: of things and grasp stuff. So, yes, if if Fletcher
Speaker 1: Cox is running at him, he will probably be able
Speaker 1: to get away from it quicker than Andy Dalton. But
Speaker 1: will he even know that that that guy's coming, you know,
Speaker 1: as early as some of the other guys would. So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see the advantage. I know what
Speaker 1: you're saying, but I don't see the advantage just because
Speaker 1: he's so raw. I can I can answer that question
Speaker 1: with a refreshingly honest anecdote from Mike McCarthy yesterday, Calvin Watkins,
Speaker 1: our friend. He covers the team for the Dallas Morning
Speaker 1: He asked, it wasn't a funny Well, we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: He asked Mike McCarthy if it's harder to design a
Speaker 1: game plan for a seventh round rookie who's never played
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And McCarthy literally said, is that supposed
Speaker 1: to be a joke? I can't tell because you're wearing
Speaker 1: a mask, And Calvin was like, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: totally serious. And he was like, of course it's harder,
Speaker 1: and he's like laughing as he said it. So, no,
Speaker 1: it definitely isn't an advantage. But you know, Denucci is
Speaker 1: an athlete, like, he is an athletic guy. He's not
Speaker 1: even sneaky athletic like he is athletic, and so maybe
Speaker 1: that'll help him. But I can't call it an advantage.
Speaker 1: Well I made reference to it earlier and they've just
Speaker 1: called him athletic, and he cann't have athleticism. But in
Speaker 1: my eyes, he looks so fragile and skinny, and most
Speaker 1: rookies come into their first year, you know, a little skinny,
Speaker 1: and usually they start gaining some muscle as the years
Speaker 1: go by. So that's the aspect that scares me. The
Speaker 1: confusion that Nick mentioned him kind of hesitating and then
Speaker 1: because of that hesitation being tackled, being tacked and then
Speaker 1: causing a possible injury. And I guess I'm just panicking
Speaker 1: even more now that we've seen it happen, and then
Speaker 1: we're down to our third quarterback. It's just like you're
Speaker 1: more hesitant with everything. So I'm just I am honestly
Speaker 1: scared for him right now. You know. It's interesting. It
Speaker 1: reminds me of what Kellen Moore had to say yesterday
Speaker 1: in his press conference. I think it was yesterday, but
Speaker 1: he was saying, you know, one of the big things
Speaker 1: about Ben Denucci is he just got to make sure
Speaker 1: he can call the play. And that's where I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's where we are right now. Can you call the play.
Speaker 1: Can you get the play called in the huddle in
Speaker 1: a way to where everybody knows what they're supposed to
Speaker 1: do and get it right, because, by the way, that's
Speaker 1: the last thing that offensive line needs is more confusion
Speaker 1: in the huddle, right, So that tells you kind of
Speaker 1: where they are from the standpoint of experience. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is guy had no preseason action, even like, that's
Speaker 1: how hard this will make sure. McCarthy said another question
Speaker 1: about that today. Somebody asked, like, are you above putting
Speaker 1: a wristband on him? You know, like you typically associate
Speaker 1: that with high school and college football, And McCarthy was like,
Speaker 1: I think we'll be okay because we got the micro
Speaker 1: you know, we got the headsets and the helmets. But
Speaker 1: I'm not above anything if I think it'll work or
Speaker 1: whatever you gotta do at this point. All right, let's
Speaker 1: want to another question. Let's assume that and I think
Speaker 1: it's a fair assumption that Zach Martin will be back
Speaker 1: this week. Would you keep the offensive line the same
Speaker 1: or and just plug zach In at right guard? And
Speaker 1: if not, what would you do? Let's start with you day.
Speaker 1: Can I answer your question with a question? Sure? Do
Speaker 1: I get Joe Looney too, because I'd love to moves
Speaker 1: act to tackle. But who's sure, let's slay to Joe's back.
Speaker 1: Let's let's assume Joe is back. I actually tell me
Speaker 1: what you would do? You know, I think I might
Speaker 1: do it anyway, honestly, because Connor McGovern seemed to hold
Speaker 1: up okay, like he wasn't he wasn't awful the other
Speaker 1: day and that was a really good front. I'm terrified
Speaker 1: at Fletcher Cox's playing against Connor McGovern, But but are
Speaker 1: you more afraid of Terrence Steele up against who has
Speaker 1: killed cowboy quarterbacks in the past. Absolutely, I am so Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I probably would. Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: it starts with Steele As to being out, I mean
Speaker 1: you have to replace him some one way or another.
Speaker 1: He can't be your right tackle anymore. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: good good story, good player. I mean maybe he will
Speaker 1: be a good player at some point, but right now
Speaker 1: he's not there. I would move Zach Martin out there,
Speaker 1: from what I've been told, the guy that might not
Speaker 1: start this week as Connor Williams. Yeah, wow, if I'm
Speaker 1: just that's just what I've been told that it cut
Speaker 1: the mustard could be McGovern or, probably Irving Looney, Beaddish
Speaker 1: McGovern and Zack Martin. Don't hold me to that. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's they're thinking. Connor Williams. Say a little
Speaker 1: more than that, because I'm confused right now. What are
Speaker 1: you confuse about? Yeah? What's do you really think Connors
Speaker 1: played well enough where he shouldn't be above reproach? Here?
Speaker 1: I hold on before she answered, let me just say,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would do that. I wouldn't. I'm
Speaker 1: going with this. Many guys that have seen the Eagles
Speaker 1: are seen an NFL you know, front before, so I
Speaker 1: I think I would do that over Connor McGovern I
Speaker 1: haven't seen enough yet, But I'm just saying it's all
Speaker 1: being tossed around right now. If I have Joe Looney back,
Speaker 1: imagining his back already, this is what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would put Connor Williams and Sack Martin, moved them
Speaker 1: out to tackle, keep Connor McGovern guard and Joe Louney
Speaker 1: i ard and then Beatish at center. I think that
Speaker 1: at this point, because I feel that maybe that's I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it's gonna start giving you some
Speaker 1: kind of consistency because at this point, I mean injuries,
Speaker 1: you don't know when they're gonna happen, but at least
Speaker 1: you're It would make me feel better at the tackle position.
Speaker 1: And a guard like Dave bensh I mean McGovern he's
Speaker 1: been doing an okay job, so he seems like he's
Speaker 1: gonna hold up Biddish. He seems to be doing fine
Speaker 1: as well. And at least with Joe Looney, we know
Speaker 1: he's a vet, he has the experience and he can
Speaker 1: probably hold up a guard as well. Doing a good
Speaker 1: job there, So I would love I would love to
Speaker 1: go ahead and put Connor Williams at tackle. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna check our first break. When we come back.
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks should be joining us. We'll ask him some
Speaker 1: questions about this Philadelphia defense going up against this Cowboys offense.
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Speaker 1: What's up, Bucky, Welcome to the show. We'll start where
Speaker 1: we start every week. Give us the strengths and weaknesses
Speaker 1: of this Philadelphia defense and the right up front of
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Plus your talks, Brandon Graham, very
Speaker 1: really good have done. Did bring that rush you with four?
Speaker 1: They need to bring others and when they're able to
Speaker 1: control the line of scrimmage, they're a handful. I would say.
Speaker 1: The weaknesses already at the second level. They're linebackers. They
Speaker 1: don't really invest a lot in the linebacker position, and
Speaker 1: so if you want to get them, it's all about
Speaker 1: attacking their linebackers. But they're backed up by secondary the
Speaker 1: various lave that can cover, and so it's a defense
Speaker 1: where they have to be able to get it done
Speaker 1: with the front four. If they can't get it done
Speaker 1: with the front four, they can struggle at times. So
Speaker 1: holding up to get good team Bucky, I want to
Speaker 1: know we we just in the first time man we
Speaker 1: talked about the Cowboys online. I just want to know
Speaker 1: more in depth about the pass rush that the Eagles
Speaker 1: have right now and how that could be maybe a
Speaker 1: problem for the Cowboys. Well, it should be a problem
Speaker 1: because they have three guys that can get home Schleussian
Speaker 1: Cox is where it stars. He's an interior pass rusher,
Speaker 1: has size, has strength, has power, and when motivated, he
Speaker 1: can take over the game by himself. Brandon Graham is
Speaker 1: a guy that is an energize with Bunny off the edge.
Speaker 1: He's not necessarily a double visit chack artist, but he
Speaker 1: is persistent and he's problematic. His ability to play with leverage,
Speaker 1: his ability to play with a relentless spirit gives upon
Speaker 1: his problems. And because he is what I call an
Speaker 1: undersize pass rusher, tall pass protectors can have a problem
Speaker 1: because if he gets a funny that he can walk
Speaker 1: it back to the quarterback and then Derek Cornett is
Speaker 1: someone who is very sound technically doesn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of fanfare, but he also can create problems off the backside. Bucky,
Speaker 1: are you warm right now? I am? I am. I'm
Speaker 1: the one heart of my own home and perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's one I just want to make sure too far
Speaker 1: a question, man, if you were the Eagles defense, would
Speaker 1: you have to pull up James Madison tape right now
Speaker 1: if you were just to try to scout Jane ben
Speaker 1: de Nucci. Yeah, like you surely have looked at the
Speaker 1: Jmutabe just to get an idea of what he's been
Speaker 1: comfortably doing in his time, because you don't have enough
Speaker 1: from the previous game against the rushing football team to
Speaker 1: really know. So the advanced scout, the pro scout is
Speaker 1: looked at h him and he's given Jim Schwortz No
Speaker 1: if I'm sure Jim Schwartz has looked a little bit
Speaker 1: at the jamutabe just to get a feel for how
Speaker 1: he plays. But yeah, you got attack him based off
Speaker 1: of what he did at JMU. You realize that he's athletics,
Speaker 1: he can run. The Cowboys could add some wrinkles that
Speaker 1: can give you problems. So yeah, you have to look
Speaker 1: at the jamutage in the prayer. I doubt he faced
Speaker 1: a Fletcher Cox on that schedule at JMU, though I
Speaker 1: doubt it. Probably you know anybody like that, Bucky, I uh,
Speaker 1: you know, And I feel like all we've done is
Speaker 1: talk about the Eagles pass rush, but understandably so, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to pitch it to you. We were just
Speaker 1: talking in the first segment about what to do with
Speaker 1: Zack Martin. If I tell you, I mean, Zack Martin
Speaker 1: should be back for this game. One of the best
Speaker 1: guards in football. Is he more useful to you going
Speaker 1: against Fletcher Cox on the inside or on the outside
Speaker 1: against Brandon Graham. Where would you rather have him for
Speaker 1: this game? Geez, I think such a cut is a
Speaker 1: better player. But I think if Jack Martin can go
Speaker 1: out and play right tackle, I will put him in
Speaker 1: right tackle because I think we have seen the struggles
Speaker 1: with Terry Steel's head. I think you can kind of
Speaker 1: make a manage or make do. If you're struggling in
Speaker 1: a little inside, you can help. The center can help.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's a little tighter in the neighborhood. But the
Speaker 1: struggles off the edge have been the ones where we're
Speaker 1: seeing the turnovers happen. If zag Morton is comfortable playing
Speaker 1: right tackle or just playing tack housing in attack. Hey,
Speaker 1: Bucky talking about Ben Denucci. Take me back to pre
Speaker 1: draft and I know you're you're a draft guy. You
Speaker 1: look at all the players coming out. Give me your
Speaker 1: best scouting report on him, both strengths and weaknesses coming
Speaker 1: out of college. I mean in stress where his traite,
Speaker 1: I mean he had a big arm. He is that
Speaker 1: he has a bit of a gun slinger mentality, and
Speaker 1: so when he is rolling and streaky, he can make
Speaker 1: it happen. I think the weaknesses would be just because
Speaker 1: of his arm and because he has always been able
Speaker 1: to trust it. Particularly at that level, he could be
Speaker 1: a little late to fire, and sometimes he feels like
Speaker 1: he can overpower the defense and fit it into a
Speaker 1: small window. So his biggest weakness will be understanding who
Speaker 1: he is and how he has to play. And this
Speaker 1: game is so much faster when he gets to this level.
Speaker 1: How quickly can he adjust the quick reactions from the
Speaker 1: defense and Nick Jim Schwartz is not one that typically
Speaker 1: does a lot of disguise and complexity in terms of
Speaker 1: his scheme, But how quickly can he identify what they're
Speaker 1: doing pre snap? And how much does it change post snap?
Speaker 1: When they do try to rock a road? The safety
Speaker 1: can give him a different look after the ball has
Speaker 1: already been spent by let's say Bendy Nucci. It is
Speaker 1: constantly under pressure this Sunday, and then the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: to turn to the running game and the sea kilalia
Speaker 1: is that? I mean? Do you see this matchup being
Speaker 1: a game where maybe the Cowboys can be able to
Speaker 1: utilize the run and actually getting moving a little bit
Speaker 1: better than what we've seen so far. I think they
Speaker 1: can utilize the run. I think Mike McCarthy may have
Speaker 1: led the kid out the bag a little bit when
Speaker 1: he talked about Ben Dnucci's athleticism a running skill. Maybe
Speaker 1: we see some quarterback play some zone read stuff where
Speaker 1: they put it in Jigbellion read it and major quarterback
Speaker 1: takes off a couple of times just to stretch the
Speaker 1: defense in a different way. But this has to be
Speaker 1: a deep game. It has to be a big more game.
Speaker 1: We talked about it each every week. He has to
Speaker 1: get to a certain point. But I know, I now
Speaker 1: know that Kellen Moore has to know that he has
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback and he cannot think that a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback can throw forty times successfully. They have to find
Speaker 1: a way to run the ball. They maybe a more
Speaker 1: conservative game plan, but this has a big game where
Speaker 1: you kind of play old school football and you hope
Speaker 1: that your defense is up to the challenge that maybe
Speaker 1: create the turn lucky. When you watch the tape the
Speaker 1: other day, what did you see from cde Lamb obviously
Speaker 1: didn't have a catch the first time in his in
Speaker 1: his career. You know he kind of had I guess
Speaker 1: you would say he definitely had a down game. How
Speaker 1: do you think he bounces back? And also, like what
Speaker 1: did you see on tape from him? Was a concentration
Speaker 1: just just not you know, getting watching the ball in Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think there were like simple concentration drops, nothing
Speaker 1: that I would be alarmed at. Sometimes the ball jumps
Speaker 1: upon you quick as a receiver, beer a little quicker,
Speaker 1: and then in traffic, all it takes is one or
Speaker 1: two things to kind of catch the attention of the
Speaker 1: eye and you take your eye off of the ball.
Speaker 1: I think he would be fine. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: he's probably a little more determined to come back and
Speaker 1: have a big game. I wonder how the Cowboys would
Speaker 1: utilize and the quicker than passing game, because you don't
Speaker 1: really want to have these exectic or intestate. Ross would
Speaker 1: be in denuci a quarter. But I think early on
Speaker 1: you got to feed the ball to cd lad to
Speaker 1: get him comfortable, because he is certainly one of the
Speaker 1: best playmakers if I'm the best playmaker on the forma.
Speaker 1: I want to preface this by saying that I feel
Speaker 1: stupid asking so I understand, like you don't want to
Speaker 1: throw at forty times with Ben Denucci. I get that,
Speaker 1: but we have seen the Cowboys victimized this secondary in
Speaker 1: the past. You know, Marii Cooper has big games against
Speaker 1: these guys on a regular basis. Dak has thrown for
Speaker 1: four hundred on multiple occasions. I get you don't want
Speaker 1: to live that way, but you know, Ronald Darby's not there.
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins isn't there anymore. I mean, if they dial
Speaker 1: up five or six shots downfield, just drop back and
Speaker 1: let Gallup or Cooper go downfield and get it. I mean,
Speaker 1: is there a chance that that might be successful? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think it's all about Tommy. I mean,
Speaker 1: when I look at this secondary, Darious play is the
Speaker 1: only one that we would consider a little ship players.
Speaker 1: The rest of those guys are just guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: Vante Maddock is okay. We're seeing Cravon LeBlanc have some issues.
Speaker 1: He struggled a little bit against the Giants, Fiar Robie
Speaker 1: Coleman has also had problems. So yeah, there's some matchups
Speaker 1: that are there. But I think, but you have to
Speaker 1: wait when you tell them more and your Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: risk versus reward? How often are we willing to risk
Speaker 1: putting the ball in then demetri Canes and having him
Speaker 1: throw it versus what are the rewards going to be?
Speaker 1: What we do elect to take that strategy. It could
Speaker 1: be fruitful, it could be successful, but I still think
Speaker 1: you want to keep him on a pretty tight pitch
Speaker 1: count because you just don't know what he's going to do,
Speaker 1: particularly because it's his first game as a starter, and
Speaker 1: it's also the first time that an opponent has prepared
Speaker 1: to face him, which is different than him hopping off
Speaker 1: the dancing going to play. We're joined by Bucky Brooks
Speaker 1: of NFL Network, and Bucky, before we let you go,
Speaker 1: we want to get your final thoughts heading into this
Speaker 1: Cowboys Eagles matchup. What do you think happened and who
Speaker 1: do you think wins? Man. So, I think it's the
Speaker 1: great step this week to clean up the defense. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it will result in an immediate result
Speaker 1: in the win column, but I do think they've got
Speaker 1: the attention as the players. I think you see a
Speaker 1: better effort from the player. I still think this is
Speaker 1: a very wonderful game because when I've seen the Eagles played,
Speaker 1: I mean, they don't set the world on fire over.
Speaker 1: They're often. I think it's really all about can you
Speaker 1: get pressure to Carson Went pression Went will turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, But it comes down to you, can you
Speaker 1: for us them to turn it over behind the weak
Speaker 1: pensil Lionas to ring the twenty eight sex, I would
Speaker 1: like to think the energy and the effort from Randy,
Speaker 1: Gregory Braley and I to go with autism should be enough.
Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna be tough. I think this
Speaker 1: is the field goal game. Either way, it's you can
Speaker 1: get reach up the game in the season's problem. All right, Bucky,
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us. We'll have you back next week
Speaker 1: when we start getting ready for the next Cowboys game
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Speaker 1: Nick mentioned fifty four, So a lot of people are
Speaker 1: asking about him, Jalen Smith. Should the Cowboys bench him, slash,
Speaker 1: trade him, basically get him off the field? See? Oh no? Um?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I'm see with a caveat first. You
Speaker 1: can't trade him. You can't. Nobody would want him like
Speaker 1: it'll it'll kill your cap. Nobody's gonna give you something
Speaker 1: worthwhile for him if they watch the tape. So forget
Speaker 1: about that. I mean, if if I thought it was realistic,
Speaker 1: I would be in favor. But you can't. Um, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't bench him completely, like he can't just sit
Speaker 1: him down for the rest of the year. It's the
Speaker 1: most physical position on defense. You're gonna get hurt, YadA YadA.
Speaker 1: But when Sean Lee is ready to play, I would
Speaker 1: I would absolutely try to platoon them to try to
Speaker 1: have you know, if he's playing ninety eight percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps right now, drop it down into the sixties
Speaker 1: or seventies, try to do something to offset that. But
Speaker 1: I agree with the premise of the question that he's
Speaker 1: not playing well enough to deserve one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps. But there are only so many things you
Speaker 1: can do about it. Yeah, you got no options right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? Um, Nick, was there something that you were
Speaker 1: going to add? I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't, just because
Speaker 1: I don't see who like for what, you know, like
Speaker 1: who's who's coming in? Yeah? Who for what? I mean?
Speaker 1: Sean Lee? Yeah, I like the platoon system. I think
Speaker 1: that would be better for all of them to kind
Speaker 1: of do that, and Joe Thomas can still play something
Speaker 1: as well. But I just I think it's a scheme thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got to figure out as I watched Jalen,
Speaker 1: you know, like attack the quarterback. They've got to figure
Speaker 1: out ways where he can be effective. And I you know,
Speaker 1: I've been saying that all offseason. I just don't think
Speaker 1: that they they've done a good job with that. But
Speaker 1: it's not I mean, what is it, like, what is
Speaker 1: that I think he's got to go north? He can't really,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a sidelined to sideline player
Speaker 1: anymore in this day and age. I don't. That's that's
Speaker 1: not gonna cut it unfortunately. I mean, you're right if
Speaker 1: they want to transition him. We talked about it so
Speaker 1: much in the offseason about him rushing the passer a
Speaker 1: little bit more. If you want to try to transition
Speaker 1: him to being a DPR, the hell of an expensive DPR.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if that's what you want to do,
Speaker 1: that's fine with me. You think, like you said, nobody
Speaker 1: would want him. I mean, I think there's probably a
Speaker 1: team that would be like, oh, I could do something
Speaker 1: with him because all defensive coordinates, all coaches are heavy.
Speaker 1: You mean, use him in a certain role. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but is he so? I'm sorry, I don't want to
Speaker 1: cut you think he's a three four rusher. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I would love to see him try that, but I
Speaker 1: feel that we've seen it with the Cowboys in previous years,
Speaker 1: where there are certain players that maybe might not be
Speaker 1: as impressive, but the coaching staff always think that they
Speaker 1: can convert a player into someone better on the field.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying, but I mean, if you
Speaker 1: trade Jalen Smith, it's gonna kill your cap. I don't
Speaker 1: know the numbers off top of my hand, but it's
Speaker 1: not going to be good. This year is not the
Speaker 1: year and a team you know. Yeah. I mean if
Speaker 1: you were just desperate to get rid of him and
Speaker 1: somebody was like, we'll give you a sixth, sure, but
Speaker 1: is it worth it to do that, to just destroy
Speaker 1: your cap to get basically nothing in return. Here's I'll
Speaker 1: answer that. I will say that by next year, I
Speaker 1: personally don't think it would be a good idea for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to go into the season next year with
Speaker 1: him being a starting linebacker for them. That is the
Speaker 1: best answer I can give you. I don't think they
Speaker 1: have a lot of options right now because I don't
Speaker 1: think its sarily does you any good to take him
Speaker 1: off field right now with what you got left? If
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't address the linebacker position in a major
Speaker 1: way this offseason, to meet that as a mistake and
Speaker 1: a part of doing that means most likely the first
Speaker 1: person that you're going to be taking off the field
Speaker 1: is gonna be Jalen in my opinion, So I think
Speaker 1: that's how they have to address it. I think that's
Speaker 1: really the issue is by next year, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a good idea to go into the season with
Speaker 1: him being a major part of what you're doing on defense.
Speaker 1: I think next year, though, doesn't make a lot of
Speaker 1: sense just from a standpoint of cap because it will
Speaker 1: be a straight wash next year. So unless he's that
Speaker 1: much of a problem in the locker room, which I
Speaker 1: don't think that he is, where you're like, he's got
Speaker 1: to be away from this team. So if it's just
Speaker 1: a wash, I think i'd rather have the player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great, but I'm saying he should not be on
Speaker 1: he should not be a starter for you. He should
Speaker 1: be a guy that is a backup player or a
Speaker 1: role player for you. I don't think you should go
Speaker 1: into next year, even with the money being the money,
Speaker 1: because that's where you get yourself in trouble saying, well,
Speaker 1: because we got a money, we got to play the player. No,
Speaker 1: you don't. You may to keep him on your team
Speaker 1: and you use him his insurance, that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to play him. Then you better draft Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 1: Then you better draft a second or third rounder, if
Speaker 1: not a first, to say you know you're gonna make
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand and you have to be our starter.
Speaker 1: Exactly right. Every single year there is a player who
Speaker 1: like he is at the center of the offseason storylines,
Speaker 1: didn't live up to his contract, talking about cutting him
Speaker 1: June one cut, contract restructure. Sometimes it works out and
Speaker 1: they stay. I mean, people have been trying to get
Speaker 1: rid of Tyrone Crawford for years. He stayed, Brandon Carr
Speaker 1: restructured his contract, stayed. Des Bryant got cut. But it
Speaker 1: happens all. It happens almost every year where a big
Speaker 1: money guy is at the epicenter of this offseason, and
Speaker 1: it'll be Jalen Smith in twenty twenty one. It will
Speaker 1: be and I don't know for sure what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: but every time we have and I mean hopefully life
Speaker 1: is a little bit more normal and we can actually
Speaker 1: talk to Stephen and Jerry Jones a little bit more often.
Speaker 1: But he will be the guy that we're asking about
Speaker 1: at the Combine or the Combined Zoom conference, whatever the
Speaker 1: hell it looks like. We'll be like we're gonna do
Speaker 1: with Jalen Smith likes that's what's coming. And the question
Speaker 1: will be what does Jalen think of his own play?
Speaker 1: Because if he thinks that, oh, I'm still just as
Speaker 1: good as ever, then you get to that situation where
Speaker 1: it's like, will you take a pay cut? And maybe
Speaker 1: he says, I don't take a pay cut. Cut me,
Speaker 1: and I'll see what happens on the open market. If
Speaker 1: he knows that his skills are declining and he knows
Speaker 1: that he's not playing very well, he may look at
Speaker 1: that and say, I'm willing to take a pay cut
Speaker 1: because I want to just keep playing. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because I will say this, I think that at the
Speaker 1: time that he did the deal, I think most people,
Speaker 1: myself included, thought the deal was actually more slant toward
Speaker 1: the cowboys because he could have waited and maybe got
Speaker 1: more money. And there is some thought that maybe he
Speaker 1: did that deal at that time because he knew I
Speaker 1: need to cash in. Now. I don't know what my
Speaker 1: situation will be later, and now we're seeing his situation later, right,
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's honest enough with himself to be able to
Speaker 1: make that kind of evaluation. But you know, if he is,
Speaker 1: that I think will be at the upper center of
Speaker 1: the decision on whether they he will take a pay
Speaker 1: cut if they if they try to force him to
Speaker 1: do that or not. All right, next washing should be
Speaker 1: an easy answer, all right, not an easy, but quick answer.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about Benducci. Well, Bendyucci through his
Speaker 1: first touchdown pass this weekend. See you know no, see
Speaker 1: it'll be a deep pass to Michael Gallop touchdown. Okay.
Speaker 1: I liked your idea, Like, I think, just he's got
Speaker 1: he's got a big arm. Like, what's the worst is
Speaker 1: gonna happen? You just sling it down field and you
Speaker 1: hope either he catches it or you get a pass interference.
Speaker 1: I think you take a couple shots. You know that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have about eight in the box, Yeah, maybe nine.
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're gonna they're gonna sing. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got a big arm. Yeah, I can see it happening. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're only five days removed from Sunday, guys. And that
Speaker 1: was That was Andy Dalton, and I mean for for
Speaker 1: more than half of the game at least, that was
Speaker 1: And I mean Zach will be back. I think the
Speaker 1: world of Zach Martin. I can't convinced myself that that'll
Speaker 1: be enough of a difference that I just I feel
Speaker 1: bad for everybody involved. But when you're dealing with this
Speaker 1: sort of loss, like it looks like some of the
Speaker 1: bad high school football that I've covered, where there's just
Speaker 1: not a whole lot you can do and unless if
Speaker 1: it happens, it'll be a busted play where you know,
Speaker 1: some you know, Gallop gets behind somebody and Danucci throws
Speaker 1: it up, which is totally possible. Not saying it's impossible,
Speaker 1: I just I think no. And by the way, that's
Speaker 1: not me saying that I think he's gonna have some
Speaker 1: marvelous game where he's gonna throw over three hundred yards
Speaker 1: and just light up this Eagles. That's not what I'm
Speaker 1: saying at all. Do I think that he can get
Speaker 1: a good chunk of the ball downfield and Gallop happens
Speaker 1: to be open and here we go touchdown. I do
Speaker 1: think that's possible. I think it's very possible. We shall
Speaker 1: see on Sunday. We shall all Right, the Cowboys got
Speaker 1: rid of or said by two three of the varin
Speaker 1: veteran free agents. I don't think they said by. I
Speaker 1: don't think I just think they hung up. Wow. I
Speaker 1: really think Ontari Poe was like my card, like didn't
Speaker 1: even get you get getting like the you know, coach
Speaker 1: wants to see you in his office. Deal, No, I
Speaker 1: don't think all right, how are you guys expecting any
Speaker 1: other moves before the deadline. If there's one thing I've learned,
Speaker 1: it's that you should never say never. But I still
Speaker 1: think no, because I actually wrote about this today, like
Speaker 1: you know, their national publication and like, obviously cowboys get clicks.
Speaker 1: But people are like, oh, the Cowboys are in cell mode.
Speaker 1: No they're not. They got rid of a one year
Speaker 1: rental player and two bad veterans. Like, that's not a
Speaker 1: fire sale, right, Miami did a fire sale. They traded
Speaker 1: their franchise left tackle and their veteran receiver and all,
Speaker 1: and they dealt Robert Quinn to Dallas. They dealt their
Speaker 1: starting quarterback away. That's a fire sale. This is just
Speaker 1: a bad team purging some unnecessary guys. And you know,
Speaker 1: here's my question for you guys. Do you think that
Speaker 1: at all the guys that they got rid of they
Speaker 1: got rid of them not only because of the way
Speaker 1: they played, but also because maybe there was a thought
Speaker 1: that some of the talk that was coming out of
Speaker 1: the locker room, as anonymous sources may have been in
Speaker 1: that group of players. Maybe, I mean, I mean, Griffin's
Speaker 1: name was mentioned as possible here because he and that
Speaker 1: happens when you when you say some things like he
Speaker 1: did earlier about you know, just not used to this
Speaker 1: scheme and and all that. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: that I think it was sending a message. I really do.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I hope that you know,
Speaker 1: people in the locker room can you know, accept it,
Speaker 1: But but I think it was. I think it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's time to to you know, we got to do
Speaker 1: something here. We can't just sit there and and and
Speaker 1: continue to do what we've done. And so I think
Speaker 1: I think Dave's right. I mean, this is this is
Speaker 1: nothing to do other than the fact that for this
Speaker 1: season they were kp for this season. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that they haven't in their career, but they weren't. They
Speaker 1: weren't good, they weren't playing. And you know, it's sad
Speaker 1: that Jerry had to come out and call out Dontari
Speaker 1: Poe that way. But I don't know why he did it,
Speaker 1: because he's because he's not he doesn't want to get
Speaker 1: called out for other reasons when clearly that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1: And we'll find out how much that's the case, Let's
Speaker 1: see who signs Poe if anyone else signs him. I mean,
Speaker 1: well you've already have you already heard that. I saw
Speaker 1: a tweet the yesterday where there was someone saying, you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been right since some injury that he had,
Speaker 1: and so he's going to take a month to be
Speaker 1: able to kind of get himself right, and then this
Speaker 1: might be a late season signing for someone. So what
Speaker 1: we will see is is it a late season signing
Speaker 1: and when he gets back in there, is he able
Speaker 1: to do something? Because I will say this, you look
Speaker 1: at his numbers from last year, his numbers weren't bad,
Speaker 1: like he was a productive player statistically last season. Now,
Speaker 1: when you want to think about it, overall, that run
Speaker 1: defense wasn't great, And anytime the run defense isn't great,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna look at the nose tackle and the
Speaker 1: defensive end in a three to four because they're probably
Speaker 1: a part of that. But that all being and said,
Speaker 1: I do think that, you know, maybe there is something
Speaker 1: to the fact that he wasn't healthy that that may
Speaker 1: have contributed to him gaining weight and he didn't come
Speaker 1: in quite ready to play, and maybe he needs to
Speaker 1: get himself right and maybe he can get back to
Speaker 1: playing as he played last year to some degree. Very
Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy to demonize the guy that got cut,
Speaker 1: and we don't, you know, we haven't gotten to know
Speaker 1: these guys the way that we normally would. But he
Speaker 1: was always super professional and seemed like a very nice guy,
Speaker 1: had some you know, I think on one or two
Speaker 1: occasions he talked about why he was protesting, and he
Speaker 1: was very eloquent about it, like he clearly put a
Speaker 1: lot of thought into it. So, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: have anything bad to say about the guy other than
Speaker 1: that he did not play very well for this defense.
Speaker 1: And then you could see that like that was very
Speaker 1: very playing. You could see he wasn't playing well. Maybe
Speaker 1: there are reasons for it, maybe there aren't, but he
Speaker 1: just wasn't playing well well. He goes back to a
Speaker 1: lot of the conversations that I've started to see recently,
Speaker 1: whether the coaching staff did enough of a good job
Speaker 1: of evaloading some of these free a agents before they
Speaker 1: signed them. But here's the final question. If we have
Speaker 1: number one more, do you guys see any coaching changes
Speaker 1: happening mid season or at some point before the season ends.
Speaker 1: If it keeps up like this, see, I mean, see,
Speaker 1: think about how bad, like how bad it feels, how
Speaker 1: it's it's not fun being here right now. And that's
Speaker 1: not just because we're outside like the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: this isn't great, but just the vibe in the building sucks.
Speaker 1: When the team is struggling like this. It always has,
Speaker 1: it always will And they're only two and five. We're
Speaker 1: not even at the halfway point. And if this keeps up.
Speaker 1: See and I'm not not Mike McCarthy, but the defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: the DBS coach, like I hate to like, I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to throw people under the bus, but if if
Speaker 1: it looks like this nine more times with no side
Speaker 1: of him, I mean, are you kidding me? And by
Speaker 1: the way, don't forget they have what people are saying
Speaker 1: is the easiest schedule down the stretch in the NFL
Speaker 1: as far as the teams they will have to play.
Speaker 1: If it looks like it looked last week against that's
Speaker 1: what that's what I've heard is they have the easiest schedule.
Speaker 1: So if it looks like it looked against the Washington
Speaker 1: football team, which we know they aren't you know that
Speaker 1: that's not a great offense, but they look pretty good
Speaker 1: that day. If you got more of those kind of
Speaker 1: games against teams that are like that, then yeah, I
Speaker 1: think at some point something has to change if they start,
Speaker 1: if they start scrapping, and like I could bring up
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen all the time, like, go watch those games.
Speaker 1: It didn't look like this. They were. Those games were
Speaker 1: heartbreaking in their own right because you're like, they're doing
Speaker 1: the best they can with what they got and it's
Speaker 1: just not good enough. That's not what this has been.
Speaker 1: And if it stays like that, then who knows what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. That is a rap. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys joining us for the Fun Town RV tailgate. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll be doing the same thing. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit warmer, a little less windy,
Speaker 1: and we'll still have some great opinions from these guys
Speaker 1: until tomorrow. From Nick Eatman, Dave Elm and Ambergarcia. I'm
Speaker 1: Derek Eilton. This has been the Break live at Dallas
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