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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, October twelve, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: season eighteen, episode number forty nine. Welcome to the latest
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Speaker 1: you over there drinking Miller? Is that what you go? Not? Quick? No? No? Okay? Um. So,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of things to talk about today.
Speaker 1: We got probably the most important matchup of this game
Speaker 1: that we'll talk about today. The Philadelphia Eagles offense versus
Speaker 1: the Dallas defense. To me, Dad, is where this game
Speaker 1: will be won a loss for the Cowboys. We'll get
Speaker 1: into that and get some details on that. And second,
Speaker 1: let's start first though, with Mike McCarthy and what a
Speaker 1: here's saying his press conference This morning, he had an
Speaker 1: update on Dak that everybody's talking about, what do you
Speaker 1: say they're preparing for Cooper Rush to be the starter? Um,
Speaker 1: I think that's the McCarthy answer that you're going to
Speaker 1: get there of you know, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: you everything, but that to me doesn't seem like it's
Speaker 1: anywhere clothes for Dak. He also said Brian that Dak's
Speaker 1: gonna throw like after practice his a little throws the receivers.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not ready to play Sunday. I think
Speaker 1: I think another question is is he gonna be ready
Speaker 1: for next Yeah? Yeah, I think the thing is if
Speaker 1: they can get him to throw this week and they
Speaker 1: feel comfortable doing that, and then you know, maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see how things. I think he's going to have
Speaker 1: to throw two weeks before he's even gonna play, So
Speaker 1: at least they're going to try to do some stuff
Speaker 1: with him today to see how the you know, if
Speaker 1: he can as Jerry likes to say, spin the ball
Speaker 1: and things like that, so you know, it's it was
Speaker 1: always it wasn't going to be about this week, can
Speaker 1: you be ready to play? I felt like it was
Speaker 1: going to be two weeks. And that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: what the medical staff was telling me as well. So
Speaker 1: listen to expect him. You know, when he starts to throw,
Speaker 1: then you could start to start the clock on when
Speaker 1: he might be banging. I mean, this whole thing was
Speaker 1: four to six weeks, right, I mean it was the day,
Speaker 1: was the original it was out there, right, it absolutely was,
Speaker 1: until your general manager decided that he wanted to push
Speaker 1: the timeline because he didn't feel like that maybe Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush was going to win you four straight games, right,
Speaker 1: That's that's that's what he Well, but everyone knew he
Speaker 1: was going to win four in a row. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that's the I knew. Yeah, but that's the that's the
Speaker 1: things that happened. You know, you're you're selling you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry is the ultimate optimist, you know. I mean we've
Speaker 1: we've all worked for him a long time. We understand that.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's always going to say, you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's gonna push it. He's gonna he's gonna and even
Speaker 1: know that the medical guys will tell you it's a
Speaker 1: six eight week injury, Brian. You know, so that and
Speaker 1: that's that's what the timeline is going to be and
Speaker 1: and you know, you're you built a team that's good
Speaker 1: enough to win these games with a backup quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: And Mike McCarthy is the one guy that trusts the
Speaker 1: medical process. Doctors, trainers love working with this guy because
Speaker 1: he's going to not force somebody to get on the
Speaker 1: field that's not ready to play. Yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: not this is not the ideal game for him to
Speaker 1: come back. I mean we've talked about it. Yes, you
Speaker 1: want a guy like him back on the field because
Speaker 1: we believe he could give you more opportunities to score
Speaker 1: more in games than what Cooper Rush is currently doing
Speaker 1: for you. But at the same time, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: and I've gone back and for it. I know if
Speaker 1: it won't happen, he's not gonna play this weekend, But
Speaker 1: it just it wouldn't have been, at least for me,
Speaker 1: the right game and say scenario for him to come back,
Speaker 1: because depending how that game would go if they lose,
Speaker 1: I think it just more are you talking about the
Speaker 1: optics of how it would look if Dad comes back
Speaker 1: and they get smoked? Kind of, But more so than that,
Speaker 1: it's also like, you know, you guys mentioned it yesterday
Speaker 1: about his confidence when he comes back from an injury.
Speaker 1: I wondered, like what that would do in like a
Speaker 1: negative effect on him, like maybe playing mind games of
Speaker 1: things like that of some sort where now his confidence
Speaker 1: just kind of drops as we move forward with the season.
Speaker 1: But either way, there's no point really kind of getting
Speaker 1: into that BECA is not going to happen. But I've
Speaker 1: said that too. I mean, I've said that about you
Speaker 1: know that this is my mindset on this is the
Speaker 1: is one where it would protect Dak a little bit
Speaker 1: because you know what happens. You lose this game and
Speaker 1: some producer and ESPN's like pull up the split screen.
Speaker 1: Here's rush and here's numbers, here's five and oh as
Speaker 1: a career starter, and he's OZ and two. Here's his rating,
Speaker 1: here's his rating and all that kind of stuff, And
Speaker 1: it doesn't need to happen. Um, Dak needs to come
Speaker 1: back when he's healthy, when he when he's when he's ready.
Speaker 1: But as I've said all along, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think that's going to happen during this I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to be ready here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: That's why I've said what I've said about I'm not
Speaker 1: benching a quarterback that's undefeated. Yeah, but there is going
Speaker 1: to come a time when he is healthy and if
Speaker 1: he's still undefeated, and I still think that it still
Speaker 1: holds true that I think your starting quarterback comes back
Speaker 1: at that point. I know you don't agree with I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think okay, And I think I think
Speaker 1: there's only two people right now that's even like they
Speaker 1: don't agree with that, and I think it was me
Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones. Well, Jerry didn't quite say that because
Speaker 1: he said q r QB one's r QB one. What
Speaker 1: he said is I do believe in the mojo idea.
Speaker 1: But he also followed that up with he's our starter,
Speaker 1: like he followed. The last thing he said in that
Speaker 1: sentence was you don't mess up a good thing. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: I mean I can pull it up, but I but
Speaker 1: he also brought back the whole dak Romo thing, which
Speaker 1: I agree with you, guys, is not the same scenario here,
Speaker 1: you can't. He was you were looking for a quarterback
Speaker 1: and you were like, we've got one here. You wanted
Speaker 1: to move on, like you want looking for a reason
Speaker 1: wanted looking guy. We don't want Rush. They don't want
Speaker 1: Rush to be the guy. They just want you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that anything that we've seen necessarily says
Speaker 1: he is the guy. Like I think again, they're winning
Speaker 1: with great defense, and that's the point. And by the way,
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job of not messing that up. Great,
Speaker 1: thank you. That's what a good backup should be able
Speaker 1: to do. Right, No, that's what a good quarterback should do. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I know a good quarterback should be able to get
Speaker 1: you more than a hundred yards, But you know, the
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing, Like like, nobody in his right mind
Speaker 1: wants to wants to if they don't have to pass
Speaker 1: the ball, why would you, like, Seriously, the Rams have
Speaker 1: two great players. They have a shutdown corner and they've
Speaker 1: got a disruptive pass rusher. So if you can just
Speaker 1: run it up their ass the whole time, then why
Speaker 1: would you not, Like, I think we have a drop
Speaker 1: from Broad says that that's what you do. You just
Speaker 1: keep running it. So one hundred yards, I mean I
Speaker 1: saw that on Twitter. If they would have had a
Speaker 1: hundred yards and they would have lost, everyone had been
Speaker 1: going crazy, and I'm like, they wouldn't have they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have lost. They wouldn't have had one hundred yards. He
Speaker 1: would have had three hundred hollow yards that Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: had because they lost, and that you have to play
Speaker 1: the game differently. So I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think those stats are ridiculous. That ten of sixteen one
Speaker 1: hundred two yards. Okay, I mean, like, but they didn't
Speaker 1: have to. This big bad defense of the Rams could
Speaker 1: not stop Zeke and Pollard and then running and running
Speaker 1: and running. It's I mean, had three really bad throws.
Speaker 1: He had three bad throws early in the game. He
Speaker 1: had three that that that bounced off that you know,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't really trying to move that all. That's
Speaker 1: all great until you run into a team that has
Speaker 1: a better offense. By the way we're gonna get into this,
Speaker 1: run into a team that has a better offensive line.
Speaker 1: Run into a team that has more dimensions to their
Speaker 1: offense than just one receiver who might be great, but
Speaker 1: it's one receiver. Like, until you run into that, then
Speaker 1: maybe you have you're gonna have to do more than that.
Speaker 1: And that's where I mean, I thought I saw a
Speaker 1: stat where he hasn't trailed, where he's only trailed by
Speaker 1: a very very small margin a small amount of time
Speaker 1: since he started these games, Like that's a benefit. What
Speaker 1: happens when you get into that game where somebody comes
Speaker 1: in and smacks you in the mouth, then they're up fourteen?
Speaker 1: Ohis okay, that's first year ago. But by the way,
Speaker 1: and by the way, the defense wasn't what it was,
Speaker 1: so that goes to your credit. That's actually point for you.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is though this year he has not
Speaker 1: had that situation. This is about this defense, and we
Speaker 1: will see what happens when he has a different And
Speaker 1: I've been painted into this like that I hate Dak whatever,
Speaker 1: and and I'm standing by the eighty twenty I mean
Speaker 1: eighty percent thing from from yesterday. I mean I undred
Speaker 1: percent believe that if you got he got a quarterback
Speaker 1: with a bad thumb, then why would you play him?
Speaker 1: Why would you? I mean, yeah, it's not gonna be better.
Speaker 1: So we all agree on yeah, we all agree on
Speaker 1: I don't know, it needs to be healthy with the
Speaker 1: thumb before you put it back out there, Bryan, what
Speaker 1: do you think now? It's just it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: a very good discussion it really really is. And you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to believe when I went into the season,
Speaker 1: I said the biggest difference between these two teams was
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And I felt like you had the better one.
Speaker 1: You don't have the better one now you just don't.
Speaker 1: And to give credit though, to Hurts, he's played a
Speaker 1: lot better. He really has. I remember, you know it,
Speaker 1: working on the draft, um, you know, the draft show
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and we're not Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: everybody was like, God, he can't throw, he's not accurate,
Speaker 1: he's not this, he's not that. You can say the
Speaker 1: same thing about Jalen Hurts. Same thing. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: make him do this, make him do that. Well, when
Speaker 1: you make him do that, he's actually delivering a little bit.
Speaker 1: And that's what's making this offense much better. And you're
Speaker 1: you're going to lose the battle of the quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: this game, and your hope is that your defense can
Speaker 1: because it's it's going to be a struggle to have
Speaker 1: to deal with all the things that they do, but
Speaker 1: it's you're capable. There's teams that have slowed these guys down.
Speaker 1: They've scored early in games and all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Teams have kind of figured out what they're doing, but man,
Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot of discipline to do it.
Speaker 1: But you're I usually believe when Dak plays in this
Speaker 1: games against Philadelphia, I believe he's won five games. He's
Speaker 1: only lost a couple against them, you know, division opponents,
Speaker 1: he's usually pretty good. I mean, if you had Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott a healthy one, you're saying, Okay, now you know
Speaker 1: you could with this defense and Dak playing against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: The confidence you know that you would have that Dak
Speaker 1: would have in this game. It's like I don't lose
Speaker 1: against division opponents. I might lose to other teams, but
Speaker 1: I ain't losing these division opponents. You know, that's the
Speaker 1: confidence I think he would carry in this game. But
Speaker 1: you don't have that advantage. Now that's a problem real quick, Nick,
Speaker 1: Let's get some updates on a couple other defensive players,
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence. What are we hearing about them
Speaker 1: saying they're going to be held out a little bit
Speaker 1: and limited in practice on Wednesday of today's practice. I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking Wednesday's practice limits to Thursday probably ramped them
Speaker 1: up into getting ready to play. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: those guys you can easily say just leave him out,
Speaker 1: leave him out, But this is so important because of
Speaker 1: how much they move around, right, And the other guys
Speaker 1: are moving around too. It's not just digs at corner.
Speaker 1: He's not in. Put this guy in and then put
Speaker 1: him back in. It's like all the packages that dan
Speaker 1: Quinn wants to run, the very exotic moves, and you know,
Speaker 1: and you're moving the door and Armstrong around, You're moving
Speaker 1: all these guys around. So you gotta be careful with
Speaker 1: that so limited, but but I you know, just to
Speaker 1: make sure that he's okay. But he's got to get
Speaker 1: out there, at least mentally to be a part of
Speaker 1: all this. Yeah, Nick hit the nail on the head
Speaker 1: right there. There's so many things that you do scheme
Speaker 1: wise with Parsons that not having him it's a little
Speaker 1: bit like and I said yesterday on the radio with
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, when a Mariy Cooper doesn't practice and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're calling plays and the other
Speaker 1: receivers are going, wait, I've practiced this with somebody else
Speaker 1: I've been practiced with. And then Amory runs the out
Speaker 1: a thousand percent better than the guy he's practicing with.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a difference in that. So um, I'm
Speaker 1: hearing though that the injury with Micah is not severe.
Speaker 1: It's not severe. It's something that he's going to fight through.
Speaker 1: But it's not one of those ones where they're gonna
Speaker 1: pull him out there. They're gonna, you know, if he
Speaker 1: needs a little rest, so give him a little rest.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna they're gonna treat him like they're treating
Speaker 1: all their hurt guys. There's no more, no different. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's he's gonna be ready to play
Speaker 1: in this football game. For what I heard, well, like
Speaker 1: they were talking about after the game and my McCarthy
Speaker 1: talked about it. You know, they wouldn't have Micah Parsons
Speaker 1: finished the game. They wouldn't have put him back into
Speaker 1: the field to play if it was a type of
Speaker 1: injury that he would have reaggravated it or made it worse.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of a decision that they training
Speaker 1: staff and him made at the time that it was
Speaker 1: more something are you okay to deal with the discomfort? Yea,
Speaker 1: Other than that it should be okay, there's no signs
Speaker 1: of aggravating it and all that, so it seems like
Speaker 1: it's not really gonna be a problem. Look how he
Speaker 1: played even after he went out and came back in.
Speaker 1: He got the player of the week, right, Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: I think what they said was, I said, Micah, how
Speaker 1: are you feeling here? You're feeling okay? It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he come back. He's like, I think so,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, Dorn's Armstrong is pretty close
Speaker 1: to you in sacks, and so it's the law. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're they're gaining on you here, and they're like, what
Speaker 1: he's tied with you in sacks, and Adornce is give
Speaker 1: a helmet. Here we go two sacks. Now, Funny you
Speaker 1: think about that whole sequence. The final sack was that
Speaker 1: if you saw the sidelines and I know you guys
Speaker 1: were probably heading on down to the field. Like he
Speaker 1: gets the sack, he comes in the sidelights and Dak
Speaker 1: like slams him with his right hand and the chest
Speaker 1: and I'm going, wow, okay, we got a potentially hurt
Speaker 1: guy and then a really hurt guy just slamming his
Speaker 1: hand on his chest like you know, they're already's having fun,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, please, don't do that again. Don't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't want the extra swelling. They won't need that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go and take our first break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna dive in Philadelphia Offense versus
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Speaker 1: what's the best thing that this Philadelphia offense does? Keeps
Speaker 1: you on your toes and it Mike McCarthy said it
Speaker 1: today in the press conference. The stress levels that you
Speaker 1: have to deal with. There's a ton of movement with
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. There's screens to tie it ends. There's
Speaker 1: screens the backs, there's screens their receivers, they're delayed screens.
Speaker 1: There's a power running game involved. There's a RPO stuff
Speaker 1: where remember the Daniel Jones early in the game where
Speaker 1: he faked a handoff inside, he went to his left
Speaker 1: and then he threw as the Cowboys reacted, he threw
Speaker 1: the ball to the outside. That's what you get with
Speaker 1: this offense, and it is a it's it's really very
Speaker 1: creative in the way they do things. The quarterbacks playing
Speaker 1: at a very high level. They've got they've got outstanding
Speaker 1: personnel to run it. But they're a little banged up
Speaker 1: in this offensive line. And if you somehow catch a
Speaker 1: break where Jack driscoll is playing left tackle instead of
Speaker 1: Jordan my Alatta, then you're you're in pretty good shape here.
Speaker 1: But they've got a really good center the way that
Speaker 1: he plays, and you know, and that's that's really what
Speaker 1: you're dealing with, Like you're just dealing with a lot
Speaker 1: of skill. But they're very creative when you're thinking, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're running, we're getting a feel for the plays, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they get in another formation
Speaker 1: and there's that delayed tight end screen. They throw that
Speaker 1: delayed tight end screen to the left. Everyone I've seen
Speaker 1: all the games I've watched. So if you get Dallas Goddard,
Speaker 1: if you're watching the game and you're thinking, oh, this
Speaker 1: is kind of a crucial play here, he lines up
Speaker 1: like a wing left, they're likely going to get a
Speaker 1: screen to that side. So you know, I know the
Speaker 1: Cowboys do their advanced scouting. That's what I used to
Speaker 1: do for a living when I was here. You know,
Speaker 1: they go through all these things. You see the trends,
Speaker 1: but man, it is a it's a unique group to
Speaker 1: watch because of all the skill that they have and
Speaker 1: how they use all that skill. Let's assume they're at
Speaker 1: their best on the offensive line, all their guys are playing,
Speaker 1: where are they vulnerable. I think the best shot would
Speaker 1: be and I know Lane Johnson is a guy that's
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl type player, all Pro type player. I
Speaker 1: think he's the lightest of the two tackles for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, when you start to talk about the power
Speaker 1: and that, you know Tank has played pretty well against him.
Speaker 1: Tank can break him down if in the past I
Speaker 1: watched games where Tank has a feel if that guy's
Speaker 1: going to set him soft, you know, Tank kind of
Speaker 1: understands how to attack him. So I would say Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson would be a guy that maybe I would look
Speaker 1: at there. The thing with my alatta, he's just so huge,
Speaker 1: he's mammoth. Now, what they did was there were some
Speaker 1: the games that he played that I watched early in
Speaker 1: the season before he got hurt. He's so big that
Speaker 1: he just sets and it's hard to run around him
Speaker 1: because he's so wide, but he sets back off the line.
Speaker 1: So to me, I'm thinking about trying to take him
Speaker 1: up the field a little bit, get him to kick
Speaker 1: wide because he thinks he's gonna get beat on that
Speaker 1: edge and run that thing underneath on him. And then
Speaker 1: I would make Landing Dickerson, the guard have to deal
Speaker 1: with you know, he might have to deal with Osa
Speaker 1: or somebody like that. So if you get my alatta
Speaker 1: at one on one outside outside and then hit him
Speaker 1: back underneath and go straight directly inside, Now the problem
Speaker 1: with that is if you come running inside and you
Speaker 1: miss that quarterback spens and he's gone. That's the problem that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the problem there. There used to be a time
Speaker 1: when I was working with you guys, we always talked
Speaker 1: about the how to make some of these quarterbacks play
Speaker 1: in these games, especially the ones that can run. You
Speaker 1: got to make this guy play backwards, and I mean
Speaker 1: make him have to drop, don't let him come to
Speaker 1: the line. Throw It's a little like it's like the
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson thing. When you get Russell Wilson playing him
Speaker 1: and he's running at the line like back in the day,
Speaker 1: he could throw it that way. This guy, when you
Speaker 1: kind of get him playing backwards, it's problem for him.
Speaker 1: He does it. He's mechanics too. He's not the big
Speaker 1: behind the world. His mechanics go to hell, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean when it really really does. And so you
Speaker 1: know he's throwing off balance and one foot and all that,
Speaker 1: and the ball tends to go a little high. So
Speaker 1: if you could find a way to kind of keep
Speaker 1: him there and then make him go backwards, don't let
Speaker 1: him go towards the line, make him play backwards. Really
Speaker 1: love what we've seen and what you were talking about
Speaker 1: with you know, getting off the edge and making the
Speaker 1: guard to all that. I love what I'm seeing out
Speaker 1: of a tank and Micael working together right in the
Speaker 1: same side. We saw it if you if you watched, um,
Speaker 1: what's our show that uh Alex does? From the sideline,
Speaker 1: they were talking, yeah, if you watch, yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: good numbers for you. Yeah, it really, it really does.
Speaker 1: But this week, like you saw them, they were looking
Speaker 1: at something and d Law almost was offended. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you saw it. He was like they they
Speaker 1: they left me one on one and they had two
Speaker 1: guys on you to Mica, you know, and it's like
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Yeah yeah, And he was like what which is? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you have to be careful of? And you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: because I do worry about it. And I know I
Speaker 1: say this all the time because how aggressive this defense is.
Speaker 1: This is the best screen team that you've played and
Speaker 1: and and you're gonna get now. I worry about the
Speaker 1: chip chip chip on, you know, with Dallas chipping, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you get there and then
Speaker 1: he just circles back and they you know, they throw
Speaker 1: the ball to him and the flat stuff like this
Speaker 1: goes away. All the way back to the Eagles when
Speaker 1: Andy Reid was there, I was a really they're a
Speaker 1: great screen team. It's always been a great screen team Westbrook.
Speaker 1: People like that. They they they have some really creative
Speaker 1: ways to run the screen because they've got some athletic
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that can do it well. We know how
Speaker 1: important it is for Cowboys defense to play well this weekend.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking worst case scenario type. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: my guy is not okay, we just talked about him,
Speaker 1: but giving in a worst case scenario type of game
Speaker 1: that something happens and he has to come out, how
Speaker 1: do you feel that this defense would be able to
Speaker 1: play without him on the field. It's never easy because
Speaker 1: so much of your scheme is based around him. But
Speaker 1: you're starting to see some guys when he wasn't in there.
Speaker 1: Sam Williams stepped up and did some really good things.
Speaker 1: Uh Nick mentioned, you know with Tank and what you
Speaker 1: can do with him. Fouler's another guy that can kind
Speaker 1: of fill in if you have to. This game is
Speaker 1: going to come down to how well you play with
Speaker 1: your eyes because you're going to get so much movement
Speaker 1: and circling back and deception. It's really it's a it's
Speaker 1: a smoke and mirrors offense is what it is. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like going to Vegas and the Magic Show. Okay,
Speaker 1: here you go, and then you know and it's wow,
Speaker 1: how that happened? You know, that's how they run this offense.
Speaker 1: But they do have an element of it to be
Speaker 1: able to run the football. But they do it pulling
Speaker 1: guys and getting guys out on the edge and they
Speaker 1: and then the the you know with the ball handling stuff.
Speaker 1: So you know it's Mica not being in there is
Speaker 1: not great. I think you got guys, but how well
Speaker 1: you see things this week? How well you you're able
Speaker 1: to to give like, okay, don't get fooled and then
Speaker 1: go tackle. It seems like Philly does you know, like
Speaker 1: they're not worried about anybody. They go do their thing.
Speaker 1: You know, Jarrett used to always say that we go
Speaker 1: run our stuff. Um, but I also seen every game
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have faced this year, every quarterback they face,
Speaker 1: they have to see where Parsons is. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be an interesting part. Do
Speaker 1: the Eagles go and run their stuff or do they
Speaker 1: do they let Parsons dictate what they do and then
Speaker 1: go against it. You know, think I heard yesterday that
Speaker 1: their coach said he sits on every single place to
Speaker 1: know where Michael Parsons. And by the way, guess what,
Speaker 1: for the rest of this year and probably for the
Speaker 1: rest of his career, every team, if they're smart, we'll
Speaker 1: go to the line of scrimmage and identify where is it.
Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys won the Super Bowl nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: because Larry Brown had nine interceptions, including three in the
Speaker 1: postseason because Dion was over there, and but Larry Brown
Speaker 1: stepped up because of all of that, and because of
Speaker 1: you know, Deonka take his guy and all that. And
Speaker 1: that's why Dorance Armstrong is the Larry Brown of this team.
Speaker 1: Like Dorance Army, if he can continue to do his
Speaker 1: thing if Tank and Mike are going over here, if
Speaker 1: Drrence keeps making plays over here, I mean same with
Speaker 1: like Anthony Brown, if Anthony Brown continues to do things
Speaker 1: with Treyvon Diggs over here. I mean, that's what's gonna
Speaker 1: make this a really, really good, great defense. It is
Speaker 1: a great difference. Obviously, we talked about Dalen Hurts and
Speaker 1: how how well he's playing right now. Where do you
Speaker 1: think he's improved most, Like, what part of his game
Speaker 1: is the accuracy has Yeah, and it's just not the numbers.
Speaker 1: It's just there's been times where when he's on the
Speaker 1: move he's thrown the ball very well. There were times
Speaker 1: where you could get him outside the pocket and he
Speaker 1: would just completely kind of fall apart with his accuracy.
Speaker 1: But he is he's got almost that that like that
Speaker 1: you know, that whippy arm too. You know he can bring.
Speaker 1: I mean it minds me back in the day when
Speaker 1: you know Randall Cunningham used to be with Philly and
Speaker 1: he was here for a minute, but that long that
Speaker 1: throwing motion, you know, you get and get a lot
Speaker 1: of generating, you get the body into and stuff. He's
Speaker 1: throwing some really pretty deep balls, they get this guy,
Speaker 1: this this Quez Walkins that they're gonna they're gonna test
Speaker 1: Dallas on a couple of these deep shots in this
Speaker 1: football game, just because they have the speed on the
Speaker 1: outside to do it. But his his accuracy and ball
Speaker 1: placement has really improved. How about this, These two stats
Speaker 1: that go right into what you're saying. Hurts is fifth
Speaker 1: in the NFL in completion percentage at sixty seven point
Speaker 1: nine percent, which you know that's not as great. I mean,
Speaker 1: completion percentage is not as big as it used to
Speaker 1: be because all these little pot passes and screens and
Speaker 1: all that. But you say that he's also he's second
Speaker 1: in the NFL in average per gain at eight point five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so either he's chunking it down the field a lot
Speaker 1: or his guys are making a lot of yards after catching.
Speaker 1: Either way, that he's second in average gain and also
Speaker 1: fifth in completion percentage, that means it's working pretty well
Speaker 1: for them. They've got they've got some talented they've got size.
Speaker 1: With age J. Brown on the outside, he's gonna do
Speaker 1: ru well. Smith is more of a slot type move guy.
Speaker 1: The guy that could kill you is that Dallas Scott. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you that it's hard to cover.
Speaker 1: It's hard to cover these tight ends. And we look
Speaker 1: at in the league and it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: trend Kansas City, all these teams that have these tight
Speaker 1: ends that make plays down the field underneath the gates,
Speaker 1: and they can run after catch. You know that that's there.
Speaker 1: I tell you there's plenty of passes where it's been
Speaker 1: run after catch with these guys the games I watched,
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the thing. Catch tackle, catch tackle,
Speaker 1: you know, don't let them. The Cowboys did a great
Speaker 1: job with sception of the one play, the one time
Speaker 1: when Cooper cup caught caught the ball and went for
Speaker 1: seventy five yards. Other than that, they did a really
Speaker 1: good job of rallying and tackling. So when you think
Speaker 1: about these three wide these three receiving options A. J. Brown,
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard, which you think is the toughest
Speaker 1: matchup for the cold so obviously, and then then I
Speaker 1: want to I want to be clear about this. It's
Speaker 1: not so much which one is the better player, as
Speaker 1: much as I want to know which one do you
Speaker 1: think based on how Dallas will have to defend them,
Speaker 1: can give them a lot goes. A lot of their offense,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, does go through Dallas Goddard. It
Speaker 1: really does. It's just it's just such an easy throw
Speaker 1: for this guy to make, you know, and really got
Speaker 1: somebody like curse on him who has done really well
Speaker 1: against some of the best tight ends in the league.
Speaker 1: Absolutely that that's your that's your. I just I think
Speaker 1: in this game. I think in this game it's it's
Speaker 1: he They're going to try and get, you know, Brown
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I mean Brown. They threw a
Speaker 1: screen to Brown in the game. You know, Arizona dropped
Speaker 1: the ball, you know. I mean they've It's not that
Speaker 1: they always happens, but their wide receivers have had some
Speaker 1: problems with you know, the interception the Jacksonville game that
Speaker 1: went clanging off off Smith and our Pascal. It might've
Speaker 1: been Pascal. I'm sorry Zach Pascal. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's they. That's the thing about it is, though, the
Speaker 1: guy that's been the most sure handed for them has
Speaker 1: been Dallas Goddard. And can you match up with him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got the guy with the safeties and stuff like
Speaker 1: that to be able to do that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I feel like the Cowboys defense one
Speaker 1: of the best things that they have been doing is
Speaker 1: kind of when they get into like the field starts
Speaker 1: shortening and red zone area, even when they get around
Speaker 1: the thirties or so, right, is this a game where
Speaker 1: I mean, now you're at a point where you really
Speaker 1: really need to try to keep them out of that.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're they're not as successful as they've been
Speaker 1: with other teams, But now when you talk about punning
Speaker 1: and where you punt the ball, and you know where
Speaker 1: the offense has to come off the field, and now
Speaker 1: placement of the ball and all that. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: I guess where I'm trying to get at is even
Speaker 1: though that has been one of the best areas for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense, is this a team that's actually not
Speaker 1: going to allow the Cowboys to be so successful there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think because when you get down the red zone
Speaker 1: with these guys, they'll they'll run the ball, and they'll
Speaker 1: run the ball with the quarterback. They got in a
Speaker 1: situation in the what game was that they were playing,
Speaker 1: It was the it was they had five they had
Speaker 1: five illegal mint five illegal men downfield penalties in the
Speaker 1: game Eagles. The Eagles did and I think it was
Speaker 1: I think it was the it was the it was
Speaker 1: between it was the Jacksonville game. I think it was.
Speaker 1: But I was watching. They kept getting trying to get
Speaker 1: guys downfield, and so all of a sudden, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: then they get they kept getting backed up, and what
Speaker 1: do they do. They started just running the ball and
Speaker 1: they got in a situation where it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: first and twenty, and then they started running. And then
Speaker 1: the quarterback they got down in the red zone and
Speaker 1: it was like it was like third and goal to goal,
Speaker 1: but they were running from their own fifteen and the
Speaker 1: quarterback ran for like eleven and then he ran for
Speaker 1: five and they just powered that thing in with him running.
Speaker 1: So that's the thing about it. You can you could try.
Speaker 1: The quarterbacks ability to run really hurt you when you're
Speaker 1: when you're down there, especially in the red zone, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna pull it and then he's gonna take off.
Speaker 1: You're you're committing to stop in running backs or things
Speaker 1: like that, and he pulls the ball and he started
Speaker 1: and they do another thing that they get like in
Speaker 1: fourth down and one they put it. They do the
Speaker 1: Reggie the Bush push they do you know, they get
Speaker 1: they put it. They did touchdown last week, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: did it. They have a back that lines up right
Speaker 1: behind the quarterback and he just pushes the pot. I mean,
Speaker 1: they push the pot. They get just great surge on
Speaker 1: these plays and then they go no huddle on you too.
Speaker 1: So I know I'm saying a lot of things, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the red zone stuff is really dangerous because of the
Speaker 1: ability of a J. Brown to go get the ball,
Speaker 1: but the quarterbacks ability to run the ball. I think
Speaker 1: it's the thing. If you could keep him out of that,
Speaker 1: that's where he's That's where he kind of takes it
Speaker 1: upon himself to to to make these plays. I mean,
Speaker 1: is he the leading candidate for the MVP right now?
Speaker 1: I would say so him or Lamar Jackson, and I
Speaker 1: would go in there, Mahomes has been having he's playing them.
Speaker 1: Just look at numbers, yeah, Jackson, But yeah, but you
Speaker 1: look at your undefeated team right now, and also all
Speaker 1: that that stuff I was just saying about about passing,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, accuracy and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: then you also look at it and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's runch for two hundred and sixty six yards
Speaker 1: six touchdowns. But that those illegal man down fields. I
Speaker 1: mean I put that without even seeing the tape. I
Speaker 1: bet you a lot of that's on hurts because when
Speaker 1: you get those running quarterbacks like that, he's gonna take off.
Speaker 1: So the line, no, this is these are these are
Speaker 1: screens all these these are screens that go fit that
Speaker 1: like they're like they're set up like screens, and but
Speaker 1: the ball gets thrown forward and these guys are like
Speaker 1: already there, already down the field. Yeah. I was trying
Speaker 1: to make a the official what game it was? Man,
Speaker 1: I mean, these all these games going about hit, but
Speaker 1: there was like, I mean, they got to the point
Speaker 1: where the head coach Sianni was like losing his mind
Speaker 1: on the sidelines at the officials because they just kept
Speaker 1: calling it, just kept calling it, you know, And it
Speaker 1: was one of those one of those days. I hate that.
Speaker 1: I hate when you get a crew that that wants
Speaker 1: to kind of set the tone with a call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and we saw it in the Raiders game
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, I would I would do something. If
Speaker 1: I was Mike mccurthy, I would go up to the
Speaker 1: officials and talk about the alignment though of my a
Speaker 1: loot of the tackles way back there, he's way back.
Speaker 1: I would I would immediately go and say, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna let him line up that deep, we're gonna line
Speaker 1: up that deep too. We'll just we'll just put our
Speaker 1: We'll put Tyler Smith, We'll line him up too. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Jordan my Allott is having to line up deeper
Speaker 1: because he's not as quick. He's not as quick as
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, so he has to cheat. He has to
Speaker 1: cheat to be able to get to the outside. All Right,
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Speaker 1: as I was looking through some of the numbers around
Speaker 1: the offensive line play for some of Dallas's opponent opponents.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati twenty ninth in sacks alloud, Washington thirtieth in sacks allowed,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams thirty first in sacks alloud, even the
Speaker 1: Giants twenty fifth in sacks alloud. Question for you guys,
Speaker 1: do you think that these teams are so a rank
Speaker 1: solo because of the Cowboys or do you think they
Speaker 1: really are that bad and the Cowboys just took advantage
Speaker 1: of a poor offensive line. That's a good question because
Speaker 1: a lot of times that happens early in the year,
Speaker 1: and you have to factor that in, like we're the
Speaker 1: reason why you one of the reasons why your ranks.
Speaker 1: It may not be a coincidence that all the teams
Speaker 1: they've played or down the bottom of the league, but
Speaker 1: I think five games in, I mean that kind of
Speaker 1: goes to show that you know, and and also brought
Speaker 1: us his set it every time, like you know, this
Speaker 1: line has got some issues and so and they have
Speaker 1: and so even Tampa Bay, by the way, and so
Speaker 1: he saw those issues based off of other games. So
Speaker 1: I think it probably he does say that every week.
Speaker 1: So this off, I mean so I think it more
Speaker 1: than anything, the Cowboys have taken advantage of bad lines.
Speaker 1: Are decent to bad lines. This one has least issues
Speaker 1: played so far, but it's it has an issue like
Speaker 1: we were talking about. If in fact Jack Driscoll, if
Speaker 1: Jordan my Alatta is not healthy at left tackle, Jack Driscoll,
Speaker 1: you could take they will have two very light tackles.
Speaker 1: I mean light in a way of not very strong. Now,
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson is is a good player. Yeah, but there
Speaker 1: there has been some really really good They're all getting
Speaker 1: down the field. There's been some really good battles with
Speaker 1: UH with Tank and Lane Johnson and Lane Johnson. Tank
Speaker 1: knows how to play Lane Johnson. But Jack Driscoll is
Speaker 1: just hanging on to me personally. I if he's in
Speaker 1: this game, that's the guy I'm attacking right though. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you see sixty three in the game at left tackle.
Speaker 1: I'm doing everything in my part. But the thing about
Speaker 1: it is, if you're the Cowboys, if you get a
Speaker 1: free run at this quarterback, finish, Don't let him slide
Speaker 1: through or avoid and duck underneath or whatever. You've got
Speaker 1: to finish. I mean that that's the thing that could
Speaker 1: kill this I mean his you're right there, you have
Speaker 1: a great rush, the scheme works, and then you don't
Speaker 1: finish in the pocket. They've done a good job of
Speaker 1: doing that. But this guy kind of stresses you out
Speaker 1: that way because if you miss, he's going to be gone.
Speaker 1: He's gonna run and he's gonna and he's probably gonna
Speaker 1: probably put a big hurt on you for doing it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. There's good thinking outside the box
Speaker 1: looking into these staffs. But but yeah, yeah, but but
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. I'm gonna stick with the
Speaker 1: thought and believe that the Cowboys defensive line is just good.
Speaker 1: Yes that okay? So and that dominant you're not gonna
Speaker 1: know a yeah we did yeah yeah, um okay. So
Speaker 1: what happens then when the Cowboys do run up against
Speaker 1: because there's there's good offensive lines out there, there's some
Speaker 1: on the schedule. What happens when they run into those?
Speaker 1: And what happens if that's this weekend, let's say they're
Speaker 1: in full strength. What happens then? Because the way that
Speaker 1: they've been winning games more than anything else is they've
Speaker 1: been getting after the quarterback a half. So what happens.
Speaker 1: I just don't see a scenario. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: just won't be as easy, okay, But I just don't
Speaker 1: see a scenario where they completely shut them down and
Speaker 1: they're just protecting hers the whole time and it's like
Speaker 1: untouchable guy. I can't see that happen. And something's got
Speaker 1: to give. And I think that the Cowboys defensive line
Speaker 1: they have enough guys to be able to keep you
Speaker 1: on your toes, keep putting pressure and be successful at times.
Speaker 1: And they're not just gonna let you have like this
Speaker 1: whole game. You're taking over the game peacefully finding them.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some pressure created in whatever way that
Speaker 1: dan Quinn is gonna figure things out. I totally agree
Speaker 1: with that. But in your scenario, what happens They get
Speaker 1: blown out? I mean, the Cowboys get their ass kicked
Speaker 1: and they lose bad. I mean, go look at Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's record when when they he scores less than like
Speaker 1: fifteen points. I bet they. I bet the Bulls lost
Speaker 1: a lot. This team is predicated on Michael Parsons and
Speaker 1: this D line or getting after the quarterbacks asked, and
Speaker 1: if they can't do it. Then I don't see a
Speaker 1: four hundred yard game from Cooper Rush and they're gonna
Speaker 1: go and they just win thirty eight thirty five. Like,
Speaker 1: if that happens, then now let's starting that mately, start
Speaker 1: having that they win a game like this is one
Speaker 1: of those games. And we always talk about like measuring
Speaker 1: stick games. And it's kind of like when Carolina came
Speaker 1: in here with the number one ranked run defense and
Speaker 1: then you just smashed them on the ground last year,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody's like, oh, that was not the
Speaker 1: number one, you know. So you know, if whoever wins
Speaker 1: this game, the other one is going to have the
Speaker 1: bragging rights. The defense is legitimately going to say we
Speaker 1: shut down other than maybe Buffalo or Kansas City or
Speaker 1: maybe the Ravens, we shut down the best offense in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. That's the bragging rights for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: If it flips the other way in Philadelphia wins, you're
Speaker 1: going to hear the narrative coming out of Philadelphia, that's
Speaker 1: not the best defense we've played this year. Yep, you
Speaker 1: know that's you know, now you're going to start to
Speaker 1: hear now the doubt creeps in, Oh, is it only
Speaker 1: about a pass rush. Is it only bad bad offensive lines?
Speaker 1: You know, you win this game, everything is continue on
Speaker 1: the rise and you and you smashed a really good offense.
Speaker 1: You lose this game. Then all of a sudden that
Speaker 1: the doubt the doubters start talking about the stuff that
Speaker 1: n Nick was talking about. So as we've talked about
Speaker 1: Dayalen Hurtson's ability, Brian, you just mentioned it him kind
Speaker 1: of avoiding the rush and then he's out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: In a game like this, would you opt to say,
Speaker 1: I will be less aggressive with my rushers. I will
Speaker 1: muddle rush. I will tell them, yeah, you can rush,
Speaker 1: but rush very in a very disciplined way to make
Speaker 1: sure you maintain your gap integrity, to make sure you
Speaker 1: don't create lanes from him. Or do you just say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do what we do, which is we're gonna
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback and if he leaks out a
Speaker 1: few times, we'll deal with that. Yeah. I think there
Speaker 1: has to be this is I hate riding the fence,
Speaker 1: but this has to be one of those balance acts
Speaker 1: where you're like, you show him aggressive, you show him aggressive,
Speaker 1: and then you muddle him where he's like he's stepping
Speaker 1: up and he's going back. I think the longer you
Speaker 1: make him hold the ball, the more panicky he will
Speaker 1: get it. So that's to me, I'm I'm coming after him,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out, and then I'm gonna make him feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're in for this all day and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden and you muddle rush him where it's not
Speaker 1: or then you have uh, you know, you have Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: you have a you know him spy and wait, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of hovering, waiting, waiting, waiting if the guy takes
Speaker 1: off run. I'm whoever spine that that's gonna be my
Speaker 1: my best tackler, whoever that is. I would have a
Speaker 1: spy every place. YEA, so to me attack, attack and
Speaker 1: then muddle muddle attack, attack, muddle muddle attack, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of just mix it up to where he does
Speaker 1: not get a feel for how you're playing him in
Speaker 1: this game. And I think the good thing about having
Speaker 1: this depth a safety is that you have multiple guys
Speaker 1: that can spy. Yeah, so it's not like, oh, well
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Donovan Wilson, or it's gonna be Curse,
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be Dot would be hooker. But you know,
Speaker 1: I mean even even Layton at times that scares me.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah you might have he did. It
Speaker 1: was one week earlier this year where he actually came
Speaker 1: up and made a big sack that he was just
Speaker 1: basically waiting the quarter don't roll out somebody. We don't
Speaker 1: even we're not even talk like a Mukuamu or something
Speaker 1: like that, or you know he's put maybe bar yeah, CJ. Goodwin,
Speaker 1: Like I mean we've seen him like on Kamar. I
Speaker 1: mean we've seen things like that, so you never know.
Speaker 1: I mean it'll be it'll be a mixed bag. I
Speaker 1: just kind of feel like though to me, like the
Speaker 1: like this quarterback will run and he'll get as much
Speaker 1: as he can, but if he feels that like you're
Speaker 1: near him, he'll also get down real quick too. He's
Speaker 1: so insect time. Yeah, so if you're kind of if
Speaker 1: you're if if he breaks and he feels defensive pressure,
Speaker 1: he'll get down on the ground. So that's good. And
Speaker 1: similar to last week, I think the defense needs to
Speaker 1: set the tone right off the bat, like as soon
Speaker 1: as the game stars set the tone. And another thing
Speaker 1: that's actually scares me these pies the Cowboys offense running
Speaker 1: the ball and everything like that. There are times that
Speaker 1: the offense still like I look, they go in and
Speaker 1: the next thing I know, I look back up and
Speaker 1: they're about getting off the field. I'm like, that was it?
Speaker 1: What did they do? So it's like, how much is
Speaker 1: this defense? The Cowboys defense is gonna be getting tired
Speaker 1: playing in this kind of level. Going against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: They're gonna run no huddle. I know they are. They're
Speaker 1: gonna run no huddle. Almost everybody's done it. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna run no huddle because they don't want you to
Speaker 1: switch your personnel for sure. Yeah, all right, we appreciate
Speaker 1: you join us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagle defense versus the Cowboys offensive and for
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