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Speaker 5: Episode ninety two.
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Speaker 2: How'd everybody do yesterday? Everybody have a good Christmas?
Speaker 3: Excellent? Yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got the glasses off for more reasons than well.
Speaker 6: Today for sure is not just the light. No, I'm
Speaker 6: just higher, like my eyes are swollen, going two straight
Speaker 6: nights in a row, going to bed really really late,
Speaker 6: and today it's raining again. So the mood is just
Speaker 6: like one of those that you're like, are we here, Like, no,
Speaker 6: don't get me wrong. I'm I'm happy about my job
Speaker 6: and everything. I'm happy to be here, but I'd rather
Speaker 6: be on home right now.
Speaker 3: This is one of those did you put together toys yesterday?
Speaker 3: Because Derek and I are beyond putting together toys, but
Speaker 3: did you put together toys the last couple of days?
Speaker 7: Yes, there were a few that I'm like, how like.
Speaker 3: Did you have you left over pieces? Like like if
Speaker 3: you ever made a swing set and you got like
Speaker 3: a couple of wingnut left leftover.
Speaker 2: Like, hope my kid doesn't go flying one day.
Speaker 3: You're kind of like like, okay, am I supposed to
Speaker 3: have like three of these nuts and bolts left over?
Speaker 3: Afterwards it's a spare. Oh no, it's supposed to be
Speaker 3: bear And but then you do wonder about the safety
Speaker 3: of your child, like the swing Oh push, mommy push,
Speaker 3: and then next thing you know, the kid just gets launched.
Speaker 7: Do you ever I have I haven't gone through that.
Speaker 3: No, yeah, no, I remember. I remember one night I
Speaker 3: was in college there at LSU. If you hadn't known,
Speaker 3: I love l s U. Uh the the I was
Speaker 3: in college and one of my teammates, his brother, played
Speaker 3: for the New Orleans Saints Stan Brock. He was an
Speaker 3: offensive tackle for the Saints. So Stan like, we're putting
Speaker 3: together Barbie's playhouse thing, right, the big building thing. And
Speaker 3: they're like, but he does it with like a bottle
Speaker 3: of Jack Daniels. So like Barbie, there was some like
Speaker 3: leftover pieces involved with Barbie's playouts. I'm like, like, Stan,
Speaker 3: I think all these pieces are supposed to go. And
Speaker 3: we were we were looking at the Oh no, it
Speaker 3: looks fine. Can't you tell that's the slide? That's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, Stan, I think there's some other things
Speaker 3: involved here. He's, oh, no, it's fine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 3: The kids will never kids will never know the difference.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm like, you can't put together toys that
Speaker 3: way under the influence. You know, you always leave you
Speaker 3: always leave pieces out that you probably needed to.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: Luckily, Amber's husband is a handy guy, so he'll be
Speaker 5: all right. Yeah, he'll be alright, So they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: All right, he's a fun guy to have a cocktail.
Speaker 2: No doubt, no doubt. All right, let's let's jump in.
Speaker 5: Let's catch up on a couple of injury updates for
Speaker 5: this week. Heading into the game. They had a few
Speaker 5: guys that were that did not practice. Now this was
Speaker 5: early in this week, This was Tuesday. They used a
Speaker 5: Tuesday just so everyone kind of understood. They used their
Speaker 5: normal Wednesday schedule, which is usually a walk through. That
Speaker 5: they did that on Tuesday so that they could then
Speaker 5: take what was usually an off day on Tuesday and
Speaker 5: move it to Wendesday allow the players.
Speaker 3: To be off for Christmas.
Speaker 2: So nice way to do it for the team.
Speaker 5: Uh, but that meant that the Tuesday injury report probably
Speaker 5: a little bit more cautious than than may have been
Speaker 5: if it would have been on a Wednesday. But that
Speaker 5: being said, Eric Kendricks, TJ. Bass, Jalen Broke, and Ceedeelamb
Speaker 5: were a few names that were on that list that
Speaker 5: were notable. Tell me what you know about specific lists.
Speaker 5: Start with Eric Hendricks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Eric is that that thing went all the way
Speaker 3: up to game time the other day, so.
Speaker 2: I was actually kind of surprised he didn't play.
Speaker 3: But yeah, what I've learned about Eric Kendricks a little
Speaker 3: bit is Eric's one of those guys he's very tuned
Speaker 3: into his body. You know, he loves cars, so it's
Speaker 3: kind of a passion. So he's talking about tuning and
Speaker 3: being involved. But he's one of those guys that kind
Speaker 3: of like to play. He needs to feel it. Gotta
Speaker 3: feel it, Yeah, I gotta feel it anyone out there.
Speaker 3: And if you know, he's very conscious because he doesn't
Speaker 3: want to play at a poor level, and that's why
Speaker 3: he wants to make sure. Now all these guys are
Speaker 3: nick I'm not saying it. Eric Kendricks is begging off
Speaker 3: games and all that. Now, you know, he's he just
Speaker 3: wants to make sure that if you know he's playing,
Speaker 3: that he is going to give the maximum to his
Speaker 3: team that day. So hopefully things will be turned back
Speaker 3: around this way. But it was really really close in
Speaker 3: the game the other day, so I think things should
Speaker 3: be okay weekend.
Speaker 2: What are we hearing about TJ Bass.
Speaker 3: TJ Bass is still dealing with the thigh jury a
Speaker 3: little bit, so that's something that they kind of have
Speaker 3: to monitor and and and hopefully that will get better
Speaker 3: with time. But these games, I mean, at the end
Speaker 3: of the season, you know as it is that it's
Speaker 3: just it's a problem. I mean, it's just something that's
Speaker 3: a little bit of a nagging thing that he has
Speaker 3: to deal with.
Speaker 5: Yeah, looking at the wide receiver position. There were a
Speaker 5: few names of these guys, Jalen told, but interestingly he
Speaker 5: was limited. But he had supposedly a pretty garrely fingering finger. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the one of the catches that he made.
Speaker 3: I remember looking at the tape and he was he
Speaker 3: came he it was it wasn't I think it was incomplete,
Speaker 3: and his hand got hit and it just kind of
Speaker 3: his finger. You could tell he was like looking at it,
Speaker 3: so I thought maybe he had a dislocated finger, and
Speaker 3: then they popped it back in the place. Is what.
Speaker 3: But you know these are things he makes.
Speaker 6: He ran off the field because he has been right
Speaker 6: in front of us, like inside the from the press
Speaker 6: box point of view, and I remember seeing him, yeah,
Speaker 6: holding his finger, yeah, right there in that corner, right
Speaker 6: in front of us.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: And when he came off, you could tell hurt his finger.
Speaker 6: He was holding a finger as he ran off the field.
Speaker 3: So I think they're dealing with this location there is
Speaker 3: what it is, So we'll have to deal with that.
Speaker 5: Jalen Brooks also missed practiced yesterday. What do we know
Speaker 5: about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's continues to be. That's a hamstring problem.
Speaker 3: So what that doesn't never seem to work out very
Speaker 3: well for you. That's hamstring injuries or or one of
Speaker 3: those things I anticipated.
Speaker 6: Is that hamstring or knee hamstring? It says knee on
Speaker 6: here the report, Yeah, hamstring is hall On halls a hamstring?
Speaker 3: Well, I thought I could say because I was, I
Speaker 3: know that. Let me let me make sure that one then,
Speaker 3: because I was hearing that was that was a hamstringe Well,
Speaker 3: what they put on the report was I'm sure the
Speaker 3: report's right then, but let me let me double check that.
Speaker 3: I thought I thought he was missed the game because
Speaker 3: of a hamstring injury. Oh oh, I take I take
Speaker 3: that back. My bad, he he uh he, Okay, that's it,
Speaker 3: my bad. He uh hyper extended his knee in practice
Speaker 3: in the practice the other day.
Speaker 2: And that's how he ended up up on.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you're right, Amber, I'm sorry. It's not saying
Speaker 3: it's his knee that he hyper extended. So I don't
Speaker 3: think that's uh well, we'll see how that how that
Speaker 3: one plays. I'll check on that one as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'll be an interesting one, just because now you're
Speaker 5: if you got told with a finger and obviously CD
Speaker 5: with his shoulder and now Brooks with a knee. You
Speaker 5: start wondering, like your depth to be able to finish
Speaker 5: these last two games. Uh, but we'll see where that
Speaker 5: that progresses through the rest of the week. At this point,
Speaker 5: are we hearing anything more about CD and and and
Speaker 5: his availability for this week?
Speaker 3: Nothing more? They're being really, I mean, they're just he's
Speaker 3: It sounds like to me, he's just gonna battle through
Speaker 3: this stuff.
Speaker 2: As long as his shoulders, as long as.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, as long as it's as long as he
Speaker 3: could suit up and play, he's going to try and play.
Speaker 3: But yeah, but nothing more that, nothing more than from
Speaker 3: what we talked about the other day.
Speaker 5: Absolute the man's that's a lot of pain tolerance right
Speaker 5: there to be able to go through that well, like we.
Speaker 6: Talked about it the other day, And I mean, that's
Speaker 6: where you take matters into your own hands and you
Speaker 6: tell somebody to sit it out and not make it
Speaker 6: their decisions, because most likely than not, I not every
Speaker 6: player is going to be this way. Some players would
Speaker 6: be happy just sitting it out. And you know, we've
Speaker 6: seen those kinds of players. City is not one of those,
Speaker 6: and he's gonna be wanting to go out there and compete.
Speaker 6: He's been showing that so far, regardless of the injury.
Speaker 6: So again, this is one of those that you just.
Speaker 3: I've had people tweet at me about this about this
Speaker 3: because they heard our discussion that we had the other day,
Speaker 3: and it's interesting. I think the fan base is like, listen,
Speaker 3: we understand what you're saying. It's damn Philadelphia. You know
Speaker 3: that that's there. The season might be lost and gone
Speaker 3: and all that. These fans do not want to lose
Speaker 3: the Philadelphia and they're thinking, like, listen, he could sit out, sure, great,
Speaker 3: but please don't let it be against Philadelphia. That's the
Speaker 3: kind of the vibe I'm getting. And I'm like, damn,
Speaker 3: I mean, guys, hurt. I don't care if it's Philadelphia
Speaker 3: or it's the I don't care who it is. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's hurt. He's legitimly hurt. But the fan base is
Speaker 3: very much like, it's Philadelphia, Brian. You know, he's got
Speaker 3: to play. He's got to play these games. And I'm like, well, no,
Speaker 3: he doesn't, you know. I mean, it's not you going
Speaker 3: out there and playing, you know, it's him. And that's
Speaker 3: where I can say I like what you're talking about,
Speaker 3: Ambar with sometimes you maybe have to like take these
Speaker 3: players out of that situation because they're going to play,
Speaker 3: They're going to try and play. But man, I just
Speaker 3: find it just you know that the hatred for the
Speaker 3: Philadelphia Eagles, Like, Okay Seed, he go out there and play,
Speaker 3: you know, with a with a compromised shoulder, just because
Speaker 3: it's the film.
Speaker 6: And I get the fans wanting to watch that. Also,
Speaker 6: you're not trying to watch a preseason game for your team,
Speaker 6: your own team in December at the end of December.
Speaker 6: You want to see the start players be out there
Speaker 6: on the field, and this is what you sign up
Speaker 6: for in the season as a player. But at the
Speaker 6: same time, I'm like, this season hit us in the
Speaker 6: face so hard. We won next year and again. And
Speaker 6: I'm not saying this is an injury that's predicted to
Speaker 6: keep him out of the beginning of the season or
Speaker 6: anything like that. But the sooner you can start that
Speaker 6: healing process, the better for her and the better for
Speaker 6: everybody else.
Speaker 2: I agree with all that. I get all that, I guess.
Speaker 5: The thing for me though, still is like these are
Speaker 5: these are professional athletes and the legendary, the legendary people.
Speaker 2: In this sport.
Speaker 5: You think about Himmi Smith, you think about some like
Speaker 5: Emma Smith would be one. I was actually thinking about
Speaker 5: Jason Whitten. When you think about Jason was the first
Speaker 5: thing you think about, tough as hell, Like dude broke
Speaker 5: his jaw play football, Dude busted his spleen play football.
Speaker 6: It's when you talk about him as putting weights in
Speaker 6: his right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, so he could make weights so he could
Speaker 5: play football even though he hadn't been eaten because he's
Speaker 5: got a broken jaw. Like, those are the things that
Speaker 5: I think make legends in this sport, and so I
Speaker 5: don't I would never, ever, if I win, in the
Speaker 5: situation where I would have him to make the call,
Speaker 5: I wouldn't take a guy off the field unless there
Speaker 5: was more damage that could be done. Now, if it
Speaker 5: was a situation you could do more damage, I'd be like,
Speaker 5: all right, man, we got to make sure we protect
Speaker 5: you for next year. But if you can't do any
Speaker 5: more damage, like I would allow that player to be
Speaker 5: able to make that decision. If they want, he's gonna
Speaker 5: make one right and if they want and if they
Speaker 5: want to do something that they feel like makes them
Speaker 5: more legendary.
Speaker 2: Like we're talking about Hall of Fame caliber players, right,
Speaker 2: you want to do something makes you more legendary, Man,
Speaker 2: go for it.
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
Speaker 5: Let's go, and it's gonna hurt. But if you're down,
Speaker 5: then they don't go for it.
Speaker 3: You know, No, I totally get it, and I totally
Speaker 3: understand what you're saying. I just found it really, you
Speaker 3: know that this that the rivalry maybe that focused the
Speaker 3: rivalry a little bit more for me that that fans
Speaker 3: are tweeting at me going, hey, I don't care, he's
Speaker 3: got to play against Philadelphia. We can't lose this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, and it's tough to imagine the the
Speaker 6: offense playing without c.
Speaker 7: It's a workable offense without him.
Speaker 3: Go back and watch go back and watch the game
Speaker 3: with with you know, with Cooper Rush. That was his
Speaker 3: first start. After the Atlanta game got awful. I mean
Speaker 3: that that offense was just god awful. And the defense
Speaker 3: and we'll get into this, the defense held you in
Speaker 3: that game. Well, I mean literally, they get you know,
Speaker 3: it's two minutes left in the half and they're down
Speaker 3: seven to three and they get a fumble and you
Speaker 3: have to kick a field goal because you can't even
Speaker 3: get the can't we get fined five yards to get
Speaker 3: a touchdown? There? So lots changed since, but yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's CD. I mean I will and I don't
Speaker 3: think you are. I think none of us will ever
Speaker 3: question touch on that kid.
Speaker 2: Not at all.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, my level of respect for
Speaker 5: his level of toughness has gone up this year, just
Speaker 5: seeing him go through this and seeing him like, man,
Speaker 5: I'm still playing.
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep playing. I respect that.
Speaker 3: All Right.
Speaker 5: We're gonna take our final first break when we come back,
Speaker 5: We're gonna jump into the Eagles. We're got to talk
Speaker 5: about a little bit of what we saw in the
Speaker 5: last matchup and maybe how some of that translates into
Speaker 5: this matchup, and then we'll dive into a little deeper
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Speaker 5: let's talk about the Eagles right now. They are twelve
Speaker 5: and three. They still have not wrapped up the NFC
Speaker 5: East after that loss last week to the Commanders. I think,
Speaker 5: if I'm not mistaken, they can wrap it up this
Speaker 5: weekend with a win. But if they lose this weekend,
Speaker 5: it's gonna get real interesting there for that final week
Speaker 5: with the Washington.
Speaker 3: Play the Giants final facts, you know that.
Speaker 2: Will they do they need to do? They need to win?
Speaker 5: Will they need to win that game in Washington lose,
Speaker 5: or would be a tie where Washington wins then they
Speaker 5: have the tybreak.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I haven't looked.
Speaker 3: At I haven't looked at when looked at before. For
Speaker 3: a while though, they were kind of competing for the
Speaker 3: number one overall seed, and now I think they're just
Speaker 3: trying to kind of get the division wrapped up. It
Speaker 3: sounds like that that the that maybe the number one
Speaker 3: seed might come down to the Minnesota Detroit game, which
Speaker 3: is Week eighteen, which, uh, you know, everybody's kind of
Speaker 3: looking at that mode right now of like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: the Dallas Washington game. But you know, there's two games
Speaker 3: that can get flexed. I think it's at three thirty
Speaker 3: and at seven, And my guess would be, I'm just
Speaker 3: guessing here that that Minnesota Detroit game would be one
Speaker 3: that they would put in that one of the probably
Speaker 3: the final time slot that night game, that night game,
Speaker 3: and then the and then maybe Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Cincinnati
Speaker 3: might be still battling for a playoff spot, depending on
Speaker 3: what happens with Denver, I think is so uh but yeah,
Speaker 3: that's I think Dallas is pretty safe if saying that
Speaker 3: they're going to play Sunday at noon for that final
Speaker 3: final game. I don't think there's any reason to put
Speaker 3: Dallas in the either one of the those time spots.
Speaker 2: They did get flex down this coming week against Philly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.
Speaker 5: My hope is that even maybe they'll do it on Saturday,
Speaker 5: like make it a Saturday game, but well, who knows.
Speaker 3: We'll see, We'll see how I go, see how it goes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: real quick too. On Brooks, he's working this week, okay,
Speaker 3: so he will be practicing today and then the next
Speaker 3: couple of days, so hopefully you'll have him back on
Speaker 3: on that on that that timetable.
Speaker 5: And at this point in the season, reps for young
Speaker 5: guys is very important, so I think he's in that.
Speaker 3: We've had a lot of young guys earned their letter
Speaker 3: jackets already.
Speaker 5: No doubt you want him playing in these last couple
Speaker 5: of games. But uh, let's let's get onto these Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 5: What would you say is right now as you're looking
Speaker 5: at this Eagles team, Brian, what would you say is
Speaker 5: like the biggest storyline around that team that Cowboys fans
Speaker 5: need to be aware of.
Speaker 3: Well, you got a guy still chasing an NFL rushing record.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's a big one, and
Speaker 3: it's a big one, and it's one that that that
Speaker 3: backs have come close to but have failed. And now
Speaker 3: you're in a situation too where he's got two games
Speaker 3: left and we're talking about Barkley and you're looking at
Speaker 3: two hundred and sixty yards or two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: yards and.
Speaker 2: That's what it is jocking range for him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And all of a sudden, do you do you
Speaker 3: try and get this? Do you try and get this record? Now?
Speaker 3: I don't think he's going to get two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty yards rushing against the Cowboys. Well no, maybe you'll
Speaker 3: think so, you'll think.
Speaker 7: There put some respect on our defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I mean, here's what I'm just I'm just
Speaker 2: saying it.
Speaker 3: I'm just thinking how close can he get? And the
Speaker 3: following week would be against the Giants, right, and that
Speaker 3: would be at home, And how much you're willing to
Speaker 3: play him knowing that you're probably going to be you know,
Speaker 3: could could possibly be now Green Bay keeps but green
Speaker 3: Bay would be green Bay's not going to win the
Speaker 3: division and so they'll be but Philadelphia they'll probably likely
Speaker 3: be the second seed if that's the case. So if
Speaker 3: that's the case, you're going to have to play you know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to play, likely the Commanders. I believe
Speaker 3: he would be the seven round of Plague. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you would, you know, you absolutely have to. You know,
Speaker 3: it'd be that turnaround. But do you try and get
Speaker 3: him the record or you try and get him close? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know that would be so. I mean, I couldn't
Speaker 3: imagine John maryeror the owner of the Giants have to
Speaker 3: sit there and watch Saquon Barkley break the NFL rushing record. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't think he. I don't think he gets there
Speaker 5: against the Cowboys. I do think he can rack up
Speaker 5: some yards and one hundred this game. Yeah, then I
Speaker 5: think one hundred and fifty against the Giants in the
Speaker 5: final game of the season, with it being his old team.
Speaker 2: The Giants, I think one hundred and fifty. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think he's doing that. I think I think he. I
Speaker 2: definitely think he's gonna break that record.
Speaker 3: I just you know, you look at the way that
Speaker 3: this team. And we all understand about with Smith and Brown,
Speaker 3: the receivers, we all understand, you know, with with the
Speaker 3: you know, with the wide receiver, with the tight end. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, this is a this is a
Speaker 3: good team. This is a good team. And for a
Speaker 3: half I went back and watch for a half, you
Speaker 3: played really really well against him on defense and and
Speaker 3: what and what you know what I was impressed by
Speaker 3: this game. And I just put in my notes there
Speaker 3: that I was really impressed the way that that that
Speaker 3: Mike Zimber attacked Philadelphia in that in that game, and
Speaker 3: you know, he did a really good job of mixing
Speaker 3: the fronts and the coverages. And that was a problem
Speaker 3: for the Eagles to identify. They really didn't handle when
Speaker 3: we talk about the mug the mug look when they
Speaker 3: put the linebackers in the in the in the a gaps.
Speaker 3: Philly didn't have a really good plan for how to
Speaker 3: deal with that, you know, And I wonder if Mike's
Speaker 3: going to go back to it. The problem is that
Speaker 3: overshown was such a big factor in that game that
Speaker 3: without him, how much of that can you really do?
Speaker 3: Because they got you know, he got a couple of sacks,
Speaker 3: he had eleven tackles, he had pressures. I mean, he
Speaker 3: was he was your defensive MVP. And without him, can
Speaker 3: Zimmer do what he can? You know what he needs
Speaker 3: to do now? The tradeoff here is though they crushed
Speaker 3: Carson in this game and that in that last game
Speaker 3: they went after Carson at cornerback. And so now you have,
Speaker 3: you know, with Bland and we'll see with Ao and
Speaker 3: stuff how this all kind of plays or how they're
Speaker 3: gonna you know, how they're gonna adapt to that, these
Speaker 3: receivers and the tied end. But you you were compromised
Speaker 3: at cornerback in this last time you met them. This
Speaker 3: time around, I think you're a little bit better shape
Speaker 3: now I say that, but then you don't have digs.
Speaker 3: But you know that's that's going to be. You know,
Speaker 3: how well can you get pressure on this guy? This Gure,
Speaker 3: it's a different quarterback when it comes to the pressure.
Speaker 3: You know, he can handle blitzes, but he wants to
Speaker 3: throw the ball from the pocket. He's not interested in
Speaker 3: getting outside the tackle box. When he gets outside the
Speaker 3: tackle box, he's not very accurate throwing the ball. He
Speaker 3: listen a fifty percent passer it's when he stands in
Speaker 3: the middle of the pocket that he that he can
Speaker 3: kind of kill you that way with the way he
Speaker 3: So I think Zim's got to be very mindful of
Speaker 3: that and you know, and try and do the best
Speaker 3: he can to take advantage of a couple of different
Speaker 3: situations with you know, Jordan Miyolotta didn't play the last
Speaker 3: time in this game. Uh, you know, the lane Johnson
Speaker 3: was really good against Michael Parsons, but they moved Mike
Speaker 3: around and kind of find found some spots, you know. Uh,
Speaker 3: Makai becked in at the guard. They they really they
Speaker 3: they they went after him a little bit and had
Speaker 3: some pressure. Keep an eye on this matchup though, this
Speaker 3: is the one I'm gonna give you. They ohso Diggy's
Speaker 3: every time he was matched up against Cam Jurgens the center,
Speaker 3: it was a pressure. It was pressure. And so if somehow,
Speaker 3: some way they're gonna try and double in help because
Speaker 3: they leave these tackles like eighty five percent of the
Speaker 3: time and they're good. Yeah, my a lotta and and
Speaker 3: and my a lotta. You can run around myle a lota.
Speaker 3: He's a big man, I mean, but to beat him
Speaker 3: you have to get around him. You have to win
Speaker 3: right off the jump and get to his corner and
Speaker 3: then dip him and then go because if he gets
Speaker 3: his hands on your your toast. But they've got big guys,
Speaker 3: Like I say, my lot is big, Beckton's big, and
Speaker 3: then this Landon Dickerson, he doesn't move all that well.
Speaker 3: But this is this still is a really really good
Speaker 3: offensive line when it comes to running the football, the
Speaker 3: pass protection aspect of it. Though. I just wonder if
Speaker 3: Dallas is going to be able to play their mug
Speaker 3: defense where they get those guys up there, because, like
Speaker 3: I say, that gave Jalen Hurts a little problems. And
Speaker 3: what's the health of Jalen Hurts in this game too
Speaker 3: coming up? That's that's the big question mark. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've been kind of following what's going on in Philadelphia
Speaker 3: there and there's still some questions. You mean, matter of fact,
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett is dealing the backups, dealing with some ribs problem.
Speaker 3: So Tanner McKee, who was from Stanford to the second
Speaker 3: year guy from Stanford, the third quarterback, he says, Hey,
Speaker 3: my reps and all this haven't changed all that much.
Speaker 3: So I'm just trying to get ready in case I
Speaker 3: have to go. But here they are. They're trying to
Speaker 3: win a division and they've got two banged up quarterbacks
Speaker 3: trying to trying to get that done. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the interesting thing about about Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 5: coming off that that game, he actually was trying to
Speaker 5: go back in the game they got taken off and
Speaker 5: they had to grab him and be like, oh man,
Speaker 5: you can't. He had put on his helmet like he
Speaker 5: was going back in and they pulled him back.
Speaker 2: So it makes me wonder if, like, what if.
Speaker 5: The severity of the concussion wasn't that bad or was
Speaker 5: he really just like I'm going back in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't care that it was bad, but we'll see.
Speaker 5: I mean obviously there that's where a professional step in
Speaker 5: and definitely make a call.
Speaker 3: See. That's the thing about I mean, it seems like that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure somebody out there is listening it will correct
Speaker 3: me if I'm wrong about this, But it just seems
Speaker 3: like when it's a concussion situation, when the player's taken off,
Speaker 3: that player misses the next week. I mean, it just
Speaker 3: seems like an automatic thing. Like I mean, if you
Speaker 3: look at like Cooper at Cooper Bebe's situation. You know, Now,
Speaker 3: maybe that was a short shorter time a week. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I mean it was just maybe it was.
Speaker 3: I don't think that was that a full week that
Speaker 3: he missed. Was did he get hurt?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean we saw it with how long was take.
Speaker 3: Out Jake Ferguson's house?
Speaker 2: A few weeks?
Speaker 3: Two games?
Speaker 7: Two weeks? Yeah, Yeah, so I.
Speaker 3: Just kind of think that. But I think that's something
Speaker 3: just to keep an eye on, because if it's if
Speaker 3: it's Kiddy Pickett, that's a whole different that's a whole
Speaker 3: different ball game. For now. Now you you now you're
Speaker 3: gonna get a bunch of run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now you're gonna now they're gonna run a ball
Speaker 2: a ton.
Speaker 5: But also on top of that, I think it does
Speaker 5: factor into something maybe helping this Dallas defense a little
Speaker 5: bit more because you don't have because they got some
Speaker 5: significant passing options out there, if they're compromised a quarterback.
Speaker 5: Now that that comes back to ear and you really
Speaker 5: have to worry about just stopping the run.
Speaker 3: Brown and Smith, you know, they're just they're they're really, really,
Speaker 3: really good when it comes to you know how how
Speaker 3: they have to deal with their passing situations.
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take our final break when we
Speaker 2: come back.
Speaker 5: I want to dive a little deeper into that running
Speaker 5: game that they have and uh, just look at some
Speaker 5: of the issues that Dallas had last week against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 5: The running game got away from Tampa, so they had
Speaker 5: to leave it, but it was actually successful in a
Speaker 5: lot of respects early in the game. I want to
Speaker 5: talk a little bit about that and what that may
Speaker 5: mean for this game against the Eagles.
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Speaker 5: at the Star. The running game we've been talking about,
Speaker 5: Saquon Barkley right now is averaging one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: three yards per game on the ground. He also has
Speaker 5: thirty one receptions for two hundred and seventy six yards.
Speaker 2: It's total. The fifteen touchdowns. He is their offense.
Speaker 5: But I think also the part you have to remember
Speaker 5: is Jalen Hurts can do real damage, particularly on the ground.
Speaker 5: He's averaging right now forty two rush yards per game,
Speaker 5: So you put those two together, that's a pretty substantial
Speaker 5: rushing attack. He also has thirty two touchdowns, eighteen of
Speaker 5: them passing, fourteen of them rushing.
Speaker 2: A lot of that.
Speaker 5: Being when they're in goal to go situations at the one,
Speaker 5: at the two. It's pretty much standard what they're gonna
Speaker 5: do and nobody can stop it. They're going to do
Speaker 5: the touch push and nobody can stop that. Yeah, and
Speaker 5: push right, and they just they know how to do it,
Speaker 5: and it's amazing to me that nobody else has kind
Speaker 5: of figured out how they do this to be able
Speaker 5: to replicate it, because nobody else gets the success that
Speaker 5: they do. But it is it is something that obviously
Speaker 5: they do really really well well.
Speaker 3: Not many quarterbacks. Have you ever seen Jalen hurt Slift weights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big dude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he's strong, he's in the weight room, he's
Speaker 3: he's really in the lower body. I mean he's the
Speaker 3: squat rocks and stuff like that. I mean, he is
Speaker 3: like legendary for the amount of so his ability to
Speaker 3: when he gets that. What's amazing to me is they
Speaker 3: never mess up the snap. Now, for example, your game
Speaker 3: against Clemson the other day, you guys are trying to
Speaker 3: get a fourth down play and what happens. The ball
Speaker 3: goes goes right through right through you know, Manning's hands
Speaker 3: and now it ends up. I mean, that could have
Speaker 3: been a disaster, it could have been a but it's
Speaker 3: like they get the snap, even with their center with
Speaker 3: Jurgens and it goes back to the Kelsey. They never
Speaker 3: mess up that snap. It's always like everybody's pushing and
Speaker 3: they get the snap. Every single time, there's never any
Speaker 3: the balls on the ground or it's a the ball sideways.
Speaker 3: It just you got to start with that snap and
Speaker 3: so they're able to get the surge, the quarterback surge
Speaker 3: because of his lower body power and that's why they
Speaker 3: get that thing home.
Speaker 6: Off topic, I mean, but going back to last week
Speaker 6: against Tampa with Baker Mayfield, what I don't remember what
Speaker 6: the center's name is, but with him in the snaps,
Speaker 6: there's so many times where he's just having to kind
Speaker 6: of jump to get the ball.
Speaker 3: Part of the rookie center. Yeah, it was threw off
Speaker 3: a couple of plays. You know, when you're when you're
Speaker 3: having to jump and then corral the ball and then
Speaker 3: try and execute the play.
Speaker 6: That's like, as a viewer me, you never truly think
Speaker 6: of that part of the game or truly appreciate until
Speaker 6: you see bat snaps and you're like, okay, because you
Speaker 6: just think of it as an automatic, perfect snap.
Speaker 7: But it's not always that way.
Speaker 3: No, say Derek, Derek's heart fell, I mean didn't. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 3: you saw that ball on the ground. You're like going,
Speaker 3: WHOA wait a minute, what I mean? They didn't even
Speaker 3: get the snap. It just goes flying out the skin.
Speaker 2: And then when he got on the ball, I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that'll stop your heart real quick. But let's go
Speaker 5: back to that Tampa game and let's talk about that
Speaker 5: running game, because I think we all agreed on Monday.
Speaker 2: But for the fact that Dallas was able to get.
Speaker 5: An early lead and keep that lead and put the
Speaker 5: pressure on them and really take them out of the
Speaker 5: running game, that could have been a whole different outcome
Speaker 5: from the standpoint of how successful they were using the
Speaker 5: running game early in the game.
Speaker 2: That being said, when you try to look.
Speaker 5: At what Dallas was where they were deficient against Tampa
Speaker 5: in the run, in their run defense, how does that
Speaker 5: match up with what Philadelphia likes to do and does
Speaker 5: that create opportunities for Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Philadelphia is a Philadelphia's offensive line is
Speaker 3: clearly better, and I think they're better from the standpoint
Speaker 3: of the physicality and not that Tampa is because if
Speaker 3: you know, their tackles are good, they're you know, their
Speaker 3: centers are rookie. But you look at you look at
Speaker 3: Philadelphia in the way that they come off the football,
Speaker 3: it is a down hill, you know, Tampa similar, Bucky
Speaker 3: Irvin similar, But the way the sa Kwon Barkley is
Speaker 3: just so explosive and they get holes they get I
Speaker 3: mean it, and it doesn't matter when you watch when
Speaker 3: you watch Phil, if you run the ball, sometimes you
Speaker 3: could get you can get a You look at the metrics,
Speaker 3: you know, like, oh, back is really good, running outside right,
Speaker 3: back is really good, running inside left. You know you
Speaker 3: could you could pick up metrics. Yeah, yeah, every metric
Speaker 3: about Saquon Barkley is just as successful. Runs at all
Speaker 3: points of the offensive line. It's not like it's not like, okay,
Speaker 3: you could run stuff. And like we were Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: when we when Cowboys played Houston several weeks ago, Joe Mixon,
Speaker 3: all his runs were outside left, outside left, outside left,
Speaker 3: pick and then he ran outside right, no game, no
Speaker 3: game stuff. You know, inside right stuff. You know there's
Speaker 3: some guys that have that and this guy doesn't have that.
Speaker 3: And where they where they where they really are good
Speaker 3: or with this guy though, too is they've got tackles,
Speaker 3: they've got they've got size, massive size on the left
Speaker 3: side of that offensive line. They get a really good
Speaker 3: athlete at the right tackle who can get out and
Speaker 3: like so you get the tight end, you get the
Speaker 3: tackle on the right side, that ball could get to
Speaker 3: the edge just because you've got the ability to kind
Speaker 3: of the double team blocks and things that they have
Speaker 3: going on over there. They want to run more power,
Speaker 3: they go behind Jordan mylotta over on that left side
Speaker 3: because that's where but this this back hits it at
Speaker 3: all levels, Dallas. Dallas is going to have their hands full.
Speaker 3: They're going to need, you know, Kendricks back in this
Speaker 3: one too. I mean, lea foul did a nice job,
Speaker 3: but but Kendricks lea foul, the Mazzi Mazzi had, Mazzi
Speaker 3: had five tackles. The last time these two teams played,
Speaker 3: Mozzi's played well against division teams. They're going to need
Speaker 3: to be really, really really stout aut front, especially if
Speaker 3: Hurts doesn't play, because I like, I'm with you, Derek,
Speaker 3: if it's picket, they're going to try and get this
Speaker 3: thing as close to one hundred and fifty yards as
Speaker 3: they can to maybe set it up for him the
Speaker 3: next week.
Speaker 6: I'm going through and trying to figure out when was
Speaker 6: the last When was the last game where an offense
Speaker 6: was able to run all over the Cowboys I'm trying
Speaker 6: to go back and made it.
Speaker 7: Let's see Washington seventy four yards.
Speaker 3: No, I mean they since the bye, since the buye,
Speaker 3: they've done a much better job.
Speaker 7: Remember like the last the last one.
Speaker 3: Oh, it goes back to like Baltimore's the Texans were, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Where they got up to one hundred and nine yards
Speaker 7: with mixing one hundred nine nine mix nine. He had
Speaker 7: one hundred and nine. He was a leader on that.
Speaker 6: But uh, yeah, that's the highest. And then after Houston,
Speaker 6: so against Commanders, the Giants, the Bengals, Panthers, Bucks, so far,
Speaker 6: all of those games, the Cowboys have been able to
Speaker 6: do a really good job as stopping the run.
Speaker 3: Played better.
Speaker 2: They definitely played better.
Speaker 5: And I think what I'm the reason why I was
Speaker 5: hesitating there is because I'm thinking, I don't think any
Speaker 5: of those teams necessarily considered great running, right, yeah, so
Speaker 5: so you got to have to factor that in a
Speaker 5: little bit.
Speaker 2: But but stopping the run and stopping the.
Speaker 5: Run, like early in the year, there was some teams
Speaker 5: that aren't I don't considered to be great running team,
Speaker 5: don't running the ball well against Dallas, So it does
Speaker 5: that's not just the indicator every time.
Speaker 2: So I think they've gotten better.
Speaker 5: If you guys were to say what you think is
Speaker 5: the reason why they're better or why they've been so
Speaker 5: much better, what would you say?
Speaker 14: It is?
Speaker 3: MMMM to me. I think they had They had some
Speaker 3: guys that have played that early the year. I don't
Speaker 3: think they were ready to defend the run. I think
Speaker 3: Mazie's gotten better playing the run. We've seen, We've seen developed,
Speaker 3: We've seen what Os has been able to do. Golston
Speaker 3: has played the run pretty well. You know, you've got
Speaker 3: some guys, Uh look at loss and and him having
Speaker 3: to play the linebackers as a whole. You know, overshown
Speaker 3: was running down making tackles for loss. They just had.
Speaker 3: They just did a better job with their fits and
Speaker 3: finished where Detroit Baltimore didn't. It seem like they were
Speaker 3: really out of whack. Yeah, they were the Saints. They
Speaker 3: were getting to the edge, Guys were getting compressed, guys
Speaker 3: were getting walled off, Guys couldn't get to the ball.
Speaker 3: Dallas is doing a much better job with their linebackers
Speaker 3: and the defensive lineman not letting guys get to second
Speaker 3: level blocks on them too. And I feel like earlier
Speaker 3: year they missed a ton of tackles and then it
Speaker 3: allowed them to allowed opponents to have a little bit
Speaker 3: better of you know, Okay, it should be a gain
Speaker 3: of should be a gain of three, but actually turns
Speaker 3: into a gain of seven because they had a miss
Speaker 3: and now they're now they're dealing with that. But I
Speaker 3: think they I think the play of the young players,
Speaker 3: like I said, the Masis you know, and and and
Speaker 3: overshown and guys like that were really leaf out, were
Speaker 3: really a big help for them playing the run, playing
Speaker 3: better run defense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think, uh, to me, a key area
Speaker 6: are the linebackers and what they were doing in each game.
Speaker 6: And you talked about them improving, but overall it's just
Speaker 6: like you just see collectively a group that's playing better,
Speaker 6: tackling better and connected in what they're doing and just
Speaker 6: more aware of what's happening on the field. Something that
Speaker 6: I think a lot in previous times when they were
Speaker 6: struggling with that was there quick with the read and
Speaker 6: knowing okay, making that quick turn and moving fat and
Speaker 6: being fast and getting there to the to the rusher
Speaker 6: the running back, sorry the running back and making that
Speaker 6: tackle be a successful one. So I think it's just
Speaker 6: the fact that everybody is more in sync and aware
Speaker 6: of what's currently happening and reacting a lot faster to
Speaker 6: the play.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I just went back and checked and bar you.
Speaker 3: The last time they really got gashed in the running
Speaker 3: game was against Philadelphia. They get one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: seven yards. You know that.
Speaker 6: But that's when you take into account Hurts and what
Speaker 6: he does in the running game as well.
Speaker 7: Let's see you what was your question.
Speaker 2: I was asking how many Barkley had.
Speaker 6: I'm wondering if six six h my god, sixty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well he only had sixty six years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then you had Herds with fifty six yards yeah,
Speaker 6: and then Shipley.
Speaker 2: But they had a total of one hundred and one
Speaker 2: hundred eighty seven eighty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They they they give up. They gave up over
Speaker 3: two hundre yards rushing to San Francisco after the bye
Speaker 3: and then and then you're like, oh, jesu, this is
Speaker 3: only going to get out McCaffrey. Yeah. So they've they've
Speaker 3: they've they've done a better job. Like I say that
Speaker 3: that the the one eighty seven, it was one eighty seven,
Speaker 3: then one against Houston, one against the commanders now the
Speaker 3: Giants one sixteen seventy four against the Bengals, sixty against
Speaker 3: the Panthers, one hundred and thirty four against Tampa. So
Speaker 3: they've they are better. They've gotten better. Yeah, the last
Speaker 3: the last five, the last four weeks, it was you know,
Speaker 3: the one sixteen seventy four, sixty one thirty four, So
Speaker 3: much better than where they were, you know, pre buy.
Speaker 3: You know that they had they had some one two
Speaker 3: seventy four, you know, one eighty four with the Lions,
Speaker 3: they had. They've had some bad days playing it.
Speaker 6: I mean, the way that they're doing it now, it
Speaker 6: makes it manageable where you can manage the game and
Speaker 6: they're not just winning time of possession every time and
Speaker 6: then killing you with the running game. But the problem
Speaker 6: has been before the cow is it goes back to
Speaker 6: the offense and then not taking advantage of what the
Speaker 6: defense was doing at the time.
Speaker 3: Their their their offense was absolutely no help in this game.
Speaker 3: Last time when you played, and that was Cooper.
Speaker 2: Rush's first start, six points, he was awful.
Speaker 3: He was awful. And then Trey Lance. Remember they tried
Speaker 3: to use Trey Lance a little bit and all that,
Speaker 3: but boy, there there was that was as bad as
Speaker 3: you can get offensively when you look at over all
Speaker 3: the metrics of that game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, when you look at this matchup, is the most
Speaker 5: concerning part for the defense going to be whoever is
Speaker 5: playing opposite Bland.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, because they they to me, this
Speaker 3: is how they went after Carson. You know, they they're
Speaker 3: not gonna mess with Bland. They're just not. That's why
Speaker 3: I kind of felt like that with you know, with
Speaker 3: Makuamu and then Lewis now Lewis Lewis, they were they
Speaker 3: were three for three for thirty five yards and a
Speaker 3: touchdown on Lewis in this game, you know, the last
Speaker 3: time that they met. I mean so I think that
Speaker 3: not that Lewis will be ready to play, Don't get
Speaker 3: me wrong, but maybe that's why I Isy And then
Speaker 3: also then with Lewis and then with h with Bland,
Speaker 3: I just kind of feel like you're matched up better
Speaker 3: across the board that way, but they don't see it
Speaker 3: that way. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think with Izzy too, like you're you're about to
Speaker 5: you're about to face one of the bigger receivers in
Speaker 5: the NFL.
Speaker 2: I think having somebody that has the size of Izzy.
Speaker 5: Actually I think would be a pretty good matchup, but
Speaker 5: I don't know. Obviously, you're right, they tend to still
Speaker 5: go away and you know, Ao, I'm sorry, Ao, and
Speaker 5: and just kind of think that it's okay throw them
Speaker 5: out there. But I don't know, I worry about that
Speaker 5: match up as much as I worry about them trying
Speaker 5: to stop Barkley in this game.
Speaker 3: I really do. I just think that I think, especially
Speaker 3: if we'll see with Hurts plays, but if it's picket,
Speaker 3: get ready. I just you're gonna get get ready for
Speaker 3: twelve personnel and just they're gonna try and just beat
Speaker 3: you up, and they're gonna try and get this guy
Speaker 3: as many yards as they can, you know, running the football.
Speaker 5: Chance in a little bit of rain too, so you
Speaker 5: had that in. It's definitely a game where you like,
Speaker 5: let's load up and run the ball.
Speaker 3: And they probably feel like that they can shut Cooper
Speaker 3: rush down defensively.
Speaker 6: And I was gonna say that what is encouraging, although yes,
Speaker 6: you're definitely missing having the Marvin over shown on the field,
Speaker 6: but it is encouraging.
Speaker 7: When you see what Leo file has.
Speaker 6: Been able to do, and he's he's been pretty good
Speaker 6: at what he's doing currently and the way they're utilizing
Speaker 6: him as well. And then you talk about Nick Vigil,
Speaker 6: he's another guy who is aggressive like he's been playing.
Speaker 6: When he's on the field, you notice him. And now
Speaker 6: he is in the injury report currently with the foot
Speaker 6: injury every week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think it seems like he doesn't practice done.
Speaker 6: But then the times that he's shown up on the field,
Speaker 6: he's making tackles and being there and so you see
Speaker 6: him he's making highlight plates. So uh, those two guys
Speaker 6: are encouraging in the fact that when you lose a
Speaker 6: guy like Overshown, and even with Kendricks dealing with what
Speaker 6: he's dealing with, you don't feel like, yeah, there is
Speaker 6: a drop off for sure, but it's not huge. There
Speaker 6: are still guys that are going out there and making plays.
Speaker 3: Philadelphia has to be happy that Overshown, it's not playing
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 2: Absolutely sure. They are all right, We appreciate you guys.
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