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Speaker 6: I want to start first today Brian with yesterday, Cowboys
Speaker 6: make a roster move at a linebacker to the roster
Speaker 6: Rashaan Evans. What do you have in the way of
Speaker 6: a scattering report on this guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad we got to finally do that. My
Speaker 7: gang is seven or my general manager and player personnel friends.
Speaker 3: Around the league, and I always kind of lean on them.
Speaker 7: Because they're the ones that watch the tape and build
Speaker 7: emergency boards and all that. Rashaan Evans was a guy
Speaker 7: that when I asked him, I said, give me some
Speaker 7: linebacker names. When vander Esch went down, Rashaan Evans was
Speaker 7: the number one guy on four of the lists that
Speaker 7: I of these general manager and player personnel friends I have,
Speaker 7: and so I was good to you know, it's nice
Speaker 7: to see it that way. Just kind of a thumbnail
Speaker 7: on him. They was talking about how he you know,
Speaker 7: he's an instinctive inside linebacker. He's got some thump to him,
Speaker 7: high motor, high effort type of guy.
Speaker 3: The thing that they talk about.
Speaker 7: With him is everybody was mentioned he has played a
Speaker 7: lot of football, and that's something when we start to
Speaker 7: talk about, you know, Ambar always asks about, well, is
Speaker 7: he going to be ready. Is he gonna be one
Speaker 7: of these guys you bring in? Is he in shape?
Speaker 7: Is he you know, there's all these questions the ramp up.
Speaker 7: They make a really big deal about that, but everybody
Speaker 7: feels like it's gonna be felt like that. Evans was
Speaker 7: one of those guys that was ready to play, and
Speaker 7: so that's you know, I could see why he was
Speaker 7: first on a lot of these teams lists of their
Speaker 7: emergency boards, and so it that that itself, I think
Speaker 7: boats pretty well. But I think the thing that everybody
Speaker 7: was talking about was about, you know, this guy is
Speaker 7: a physical player. He will he will take on blocks,
Speaker 7: he'll get off blocks, he'll play in the running game and.
Speaker 3: The effort and the motor, all those things that you
Speaker 3: kind of like in a player.
Speaker 7: And they'll get him acclimated to what the Cowboys are
Speaker 7: doing scheme wise, and then incorporate him and let him
Speaker 7: go to work. So everybody that I talked to seem
Speaker 7: to be on board with this. Look at the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: They have a really nice track record with their pro
Speaker 7: department and their ability to go out and find guys,
Speaker 7: either find guys off the street, poach guys from other
Speaker 7: teams or sign guys, trade for guys.
Speaker 3: So I think they're on the right path with this signing.
Speaker 2: Right now, Why was a guy like this available?
Speaker 3: What was on the street?
Speaker 7: You never know, you know, there's sometimes you get to
Speaker 7: a point where maybe a guy's a veteran guy, and
Speaker 7: you know, maybe there's maybe it's not the exact scheme
Speaker 7: fit that you want, and there are other players to
Speaker 7: become available.
Speaker 3: You know, we've got this now with the.
Speaker 7: XFL and the USFL that a little bit more of
Speaker 7: an access to go out and get players. So maybe
Speaker 7: some players that were with teams won't get an opportunity again,
Speaker 7: or they get passed by because they're not the fit.
Speaker 7: And scouting is not perfect, and we miss guys all
Speaker 7: the time, you know, and maybe it's one of those
Speaker 7: things where, Okay, we kind of have an idea what
Speaker 7: he is.
Speaker 3: He's an emergency board guy.
Speaker 7: And in the cowboys sake, right now, are the Cowboys
Speaker 7: where they are right now? They're they're in an emergency
Speaker 7: just because of the lack of depth. But sometimes too,
Speaker 7: you have a situation where these personal departments just kind
Speaker 7: of pigeonhole a guy and put him to the side,
Speaker 7: and then other teams are kind of like, well, wait
Speaker 7: a minute, we know this guy, we have a history
Speaker 7: with this guy. Oh, a coach knew this guy. You know,
Speaker 7: that's George Edwards. Let's how you got Curse. You know,
Speaker 7: George Edwards has a history had a history with Curse
Speaker 7: at Minnesota, and so then you know, you sometimes you
Speaker 7: get guys that way and it's it's it's it's not perfect.
Speaker 3: But that's probably why he was on the street.
Speaker 7: Teams not really thinking about him in a way that
Speaker 7: now the Cowboys well, wait a minute, this is a
Speaker 7: better fit. We've got to find something better. Of all
Speaker 7: the guys that they were doubt, I'm sure he was
Speaker 7: the best one on their list.
Speaker 8: I think for those that are asking why why the
Speaker 8: Eagles released him from the practice squad, it's just a
Speaker 8: numbers game for the Eagles. Eagles as far as positional
Speaker 8: content for them as practice squad, I mean, they're running
Speaker 8: heavy on cornerback at the practice squad. They got three cornerbacks,
Speaker 8: they got two three wide receivers. So it's just when
Speaker 8: you look at that and the fact that they already
Speaker 8: have a lineback, another linebacker and vansomerin on the practice squad.
Speaker 8: They've already designated to Kobe Dean for a return. They're
Speaker 8: expecting him back on the field. They just don't have
Speaker 8: that need, but they have a need for CB depth.
Speaker 8: They have a need to make sure the wide receiver
Speaker 8: core stays strong as far as depth is concerned. So
Speaker 8: when you look at it from their aspect, you look
Speaker 8: at a guy one of the linebackers was probably going
Speaker 8: to end up going and it just ended up being
Speaker 8: Rashaan Evans.
Speaker 5: Their loss is hopefully the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had a chance to interview Brian Baldinger from
Speaker 7: the NFL Network yesterday. I went to five to three
Speaker 7: the Fan and we asked him his baldy is he
Speaker 7: lives in that area that Philadelphia. He has that background,
Speaker 7: and I believe Gavin Dawson asked him why why did
Speaker 7: the Eagles move on? And to Patrick's point, absolutely right
Speaker 7: about they're struggling at corner right now in their secondary.
Speaker 7: But he was saying, you know, he gives. It didn't
Speaker 7: feel like it was anything that was a negative as
Speaker 7: far as he's a bad guy. He's you know, he's
Speaker 7: he's being problems, he's being combative and all that.
Speaker 3: No, it was just it was like Patrick was talking about,
Speaker 3: it was very well put a numbers thing with them.
Speaker 3: So Baldy was very very much a fan of the guy.
Speaker 7: He has listen, I've seen him play at other places Tennessee,
Speaker 7: he goes at one time. This guy was a force
Speaker 7: to deal with when you watched him play. So hopefully
Speaker 7: the Cowboys, you know, in week six, you know, catch
Speaker 7: a break on one of these things.
Speaker 8: I mean, the talent is definitely there, and this is
Speaker 8: a guy who's not you know, he's used to the
Speaker 8: big stage. I mean he comes from the Alabama program
Speaker 8: and you know, uh, he understands the pressure of planting
Speaker 8: and performing in the NFL. He's, you know, a first
Speaker 8: round pick and I mean he's been there, done that
Speaker 8: as far as sure is concerned.
Speaker 5: And that's what he's coming into. A pressure packed situation.
Speaker 8: Cowboys coming off of a butt whooping and they lose
Speaker 8: their green dot you know, and LVE, which is also
Speaker 8: one of their best run defenders. So yeah, he's being
Speaker 8: asked to step in and do a lot. The ability
Speaker 8: is definitely Their question is you know where is he at?
Speaker 8: He's only twenty seven, so we're not talking about a
Speaker 8: thirty two or thirty three year old. He's still fairly
Speaker 8: young by linebacker standards, so there's still a lot of
Speaker 8: potential for him to come in and be that impact guy.
Speaker 8: But like we talked about on yesterday, I mean, there's
Speaker 8: no point in pretending that you know one guy is
Speaker 8: going to be the one that solves the LVE equation
Speaker 8: until LV returns. But I will say Evans has as
Speaker 8: good of a chance as anyone to at least help.
Speaker 5: Didn't resolve that.
Speaker 9: After the Sikh situation during the off season, heading into
Speaker 9: training camp, him being still being available and team's not
Speaker 9: really picking him up yet. I've changed my tune on
Speaker 9: guys that are available, like becoming more open minded.
Speaker 5: Yeah, mercenaries, Yeah, k Y Hilton was a mercenary.
Speaker 9: So you never know. And again seeks intention totally off
Speaker 9: topic and his production in New England, it's been you know,
Speaker 9: But the point is I've kind of become more open
Speaker 9: minded about that and how you evaluate certain talents and
Speaker 9: why you wrote there are still guys are are good
Speaker 9: or can be good that are still available there out there,
Speaker 9: but you always initially go into that. I thought, I
Speaker 9: was like, well, if this person was any good, why
Speaker 9: he's still out there in the streets.
Speaker 8: But also keep in mind, I mean, free agency is
Speaker 8: always a two way street. So you know, once he
Speaker 8: was released from the Eagles and like that we're talking about,
Speaker 8: it was a positional numbers game for them. They just
Speaker 8: didn't need that depth at linebacker. He's released and now
Speaker 8: he's able to pick and choose where he wants to go.
Speaker 8: And then you know, Dallas comes up as the blinking
Speaker 8: light they lose Lve. So maybe those other opportunities weren't,
Speaker 8: you know, such as that you're being thrown in as
Speaker 8: a starter. Maybe it was, oh, we was signing to
Speaker 8: the practice squad and we'll you know, we'll see how
Speaker 8: it goes. Now, even if the Cowboys do sign sign
Speaker 8: him to the practice squad, he's going to get a
Speaker 8: ton of burn he's getting early elevations often, he's getting
Speaker 8: a ton of burns. So if you look at it
Speaker 8: from that capacity, maybe he was waving off those others,
Speaker 8: waiting for the right spot and this, you know, is
Speaker 8: it works out wilful.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you hope this is uh, you hope this is
Speaker 7: the reincarnation of an Alabama linebacker that was also a
Speaker 7: first time pick. Going with this, Yeah, Rolando mcclan.
Speaker 6: Dude has talking about having some thump to you. He
Speaker 6: had dump to him.
Speaker 7: But only my only thing that I'm so disappointed about
Speaker 7: Rolando mcclan only no, no, no, no, man, Rolando mclan
Speaker 7: was all right, Ye disappoint I ever got to go
Speaker 7: fishing with him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I always wanted to go fish fish. He loved
Speaker 3: the fish.
Speaker 7: Like his house was on fire at one time and
Speaker 7: I think he was fishing and he just kind of
Speaker 7: watched it burn while he was fishing.
Speaker 5: So that is Cray.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys. But no, Rwando McLain.
Speaker 7: If they could find if you find out, we all
Speaker 7: know about a big thumping linebacker That was Rolando mclan.
Speaker 5: He's such a force, a continued force.
Speaker 6: But you know what I love about this, this particular
Speaker 6: move is the fact that I think the linebacker room
Speaker 6: needs some veteran presence and I think you're bringing in
Speaker 6: a guy that has some experience that could help Damon
Speaker 6: Clark because you really want to see him develop in
Speaker 6: only his second year. So I think this move could
Speaker 6: be not only a guy that can of the best
Speaker 6: of what's out there and available to you, but it
Speaker 6: also can have other ramifications to help you kind of
Speaker 6: develop some of your younger guys in that room without
Speaker 6: having LV.
Speaker 8: Because I mean a couple of weeks ago you brought
Speaker 8: in Michael Jones. He's a younger guy. Can't necessarily give
Speaker 8: too much mentorship to Damon Clark worked out Brandon Smith,
Speaker 8: but Brandon Smith young guy. Submit some familiarity there from
Speaker 8: the Penn State time he spent with Michael Parsons before
Speaker 8: Michael opted out in twenty twenty. But I mean, when
Speaker 8: it comes to the options as far as who has
Speaker 8: a ton of NFL experience, Rashaan Evans sixty seven starts
Speaker 8: and I think seventy three ish NFL games, former first
Speaker 8: round pick, knows how to be dropped into a pressure
Speaker 8: peck situation from a big program where he was an
Speaker 8: All American talent. So I mean it's kind of a
Speaker 8: no brainer that he would, like brand say, would be
Speaker 8: at the top of several people's list, and the Cowboys
Speaker 8: just kind of forratuitously looked into him because if he's
Speaker 8: not available and you go into this, uh, this absence
Speaker 8: of LV, you're kind of you're kind of up against it,
Speaker 8: and yeah, you're you're going to ask the mon Clark
Speaker 8: to step up and do more, but still trying to solve,
Speaker 8: trying to fill that whole is going to be a challenge.
Speaker 6: And just to give you an idea of the production
Speaker 6: he had just last year while he was with Philadelphia,
Speaker 6: he had eighty six tackles, not a bad year for
Speaker 6: a linebacker. Had six tackles for a loss, uh, and
Speaker 6: he had two sacks. So he's a guy that too
Speaker 6: a little bit of production. And especially when you're talking
Speaker 6: about this time of the year having to go out
Speaker 6: and find somebody, I'll take that guy. That guy is
Speaker 6: probably much better find.
Speaker 3: You're not finding this sky in week thirteen.
Speaker 2: Exactly, it's not that's it's not going to happen, exactly right.
Speaker 8: And and his numbers, some of those were career highs.
Speaker 8: His tackle tally last year career highs. And that includes
Speaker 8: not only combined, but his his solo tackles a career high. So,
Speaker 8: I mean he he had a very very solid you
Speaker 8: last year.
Speaker 6: And I said Philadelphi, I'm sorry Lana last year. All right,
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Speaker 6: You know, as you mentioned, you know, fast moving and
Speaker 6: action packed. I thought you were going to mention our guy,
Speaker 6: Stephen Thomas. Guess has got a race this weekend.
Speaker 2: For those who't know, he's like a friend of the program,
Speaker 2: of the program. It has been been there.
Speaker 6: You weren't around back when Stephen like one training camp,
Speaker 6: just invited our entire media bus, the entire media team
Speaker 6: that's just a bus, and take us to an open
Speaker 6: bar on the bus in Malibu. I guess it was
Speaker 6: right and had a special a special.
Speaker 2: Uh what was it the.
Speaker 3: Chef, the chef that won Chopped.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy and he like cooked this whole
Speaker 2: meal for us. It was it was this phenomenal. But
Speaker 2: that's our guys.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just giving.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna praises to Steven.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he runs.
Speaker 7: If you're familiar with the movie Ford Versus Ferrari, Yes, Stephen, Okay,
Speaker 7: Now Steven and I we talked about just I'll try
Speaker 7: and make this quick. His racing career started on a
Speaker 7: bar napkin in the Cowboys Club.
Speaker 3: We were fan, by the way, huge fan of the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: He was. He's a lawyer.
Speaker 7: He's one of the one of the most successful lawyers
Speaker 7: in the in the country, and so but he's a
Speaker 7: huge Cowboys fan. Well, now he's a huge racing fan.
Speaker 7: But he's known as a gentleman driver. And so have
Speaker 7: you seen the movie Ford vers Ferrari twenty four Hours
Speaker 7: of the Rolls twenty four He's run it. He's won, well,
Speaker 7: he's won at Lemon, he's won at Watkins Glenn. He's
Speaker 7: this guy's like, yeah, he just has been a driver
Speaker 7: for all three years now and he's won it all
Speaker 7: all these historic tracks, and he wanted Indianapolis two weeks
Speaker 7: ago the Innneapolis Motor Speedway on the road course there
Speaker 7: and he drives on an l m P two car
Speaker 7: which is a Leman's Prototype car running for the championship
Speaker 7: this weekend in Atlanta Roade, Atlanta. So going to see
Speaker 7: him because of the Cowboys Monday night game. But I
Speaker 7: know everybody here at Dallas Cowboys dot Com is fan
Speaker 7: he had.
Speaker 9: When we went to his house, he had a room.
Speaker 9: Do you guys remember where he had a big screen
Speaker 9: like a projector of simulator, a simulator and it's like
Speaker 9: you're playing a real video.
Speaker 6: With everything Grandismo where you know these kids, yeah, playing games.
Speaker 5: That they get it. I actually have that set up.
Speaker 5: I have a grand Risk I'm set up at home.
Speaker 3: This thing he has, he went to he went to
Speaker 3: he went to England.
Speaker 7: He went to McLaren and got a it's a two
Speaker 7: hundred thousand dollars simulator and put it so.
Speaker 3: Literally, when he drives, he can drive any track in
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 7: And he he puts his gloves on his helmet and
Speaker 7: straps in and then next thing you know, that thing
Speaker 7: is moving and it's shaking and moving, and you see
Speaker 7: him working his feet and but yeah, he's running for
Speaker 7: the championship, the IMSA championship.
Speaker 3: It's it's called petite Lamon is what we're running.
Speaker 2: It looks our guy. Just give him all our love
Speaker 2: rooting for him this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people that mentions are freaking out right now.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 6: Brought us all right, here we go, Brian, give us
Speaker 6: a breakdown of this Los Angeles Charger offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is clearly a different offense than what we've
Speaker 7: seen in the previous season with the Chargers because of
Speaker 7: Kellen Moore being there as a unit. As a unit, Uh,
Speaker 7: they they do things that we've kind of familiar with
Speaker 7: with Kellen Moore, but you've noticed and the numbers will
Speaker 7: tell you, but also on tape will tell you. They
Speaker 7: run more slants, they run more go routes or vertical routes,
Speaker 7: and they run more wide receiver screens.
Speaker 3: Uh. They like to run the ball.
Speaker 7: Out of the what the what we call a sidecar
Speaker 7: where which is next to the quarterback, or they'll go
Speaker 7: pistol where they're directly behind, so you'll either see uh,
Speaker 7: the running back next to you're justin Herbert there and
Speaker 7: they'll hand him the ball on the inside or they'll
Speaker 7: turn and spin and hand it to him from directly behind.
Speaker 7: But that's kind of the two primarily ways that they
Speaker 7: like to run the football. They're best players, Their best
Speaker 7: offensive threats are Keenan Allen, Jared Everett, and then Austin Eckler.
Speaker 7: In my opinion, I think these are the you know,
Speaker 7: when you start to talk about the players that the
Speaker 7: Cowboys have got to be alert for during this football game,
Speaker 7: those are the three main guys I mentioned the quarterback there,
Speaker 7: justin Herbert, He's he's one of these young and up
Speaker 7: and coming guys, super talented. You can't draw them up
Speaker 7: any better physically than what this guy looks. Total package
Speaker 7: when it comes to his makeup, his skill. He's a
Speaker 7: quick decision maker. He knows where he wants to go
Speaker 7: with the ball. He's not going to hold it, he's
Speaker 7: not going to delay in the process. He gets through
Speaker 7: his reads quickly there and he'll deliver a strike. Physically,
Speaker 7: he stands really tall in the pocket, but he's had
Speaker 7: to share plays. If you watch the pressure plays that
Speaker 7: he's dealt with, there's a lot of him getting out
Speaker 7: of there and running and trying to make something happen.
Speaker 7: He's going to find ways to escape. Cowboy's got to
Speaker 7: be alert for that. He is willing to run, So
Speaker 7: that might be a little bit of something you have
Speaker 7: to keep an eye on. Right there. He could throw
Speaker 7: on the line with deadly accuracy. He doesn't make the
Speaker 7: receivers at all work for these balls. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: he usually puts it right where they need to be.
Speaker 7: But you kind of make sure you get him on
Speaker 7: the ground when you have the chance, because I've seen
Speaker 7: him bounce off in the film and the Vikings had
Speaker 7: him sacked and he's spinning around in the pocket and
Speaker 7: the next thing you know, it's like a twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yard pass down the field for a first down.
Speaker 7: So got to wrap this guy up for sure when
Speaker 7: you get the opportunity in the pocket.
Speaker 3: I mentioned Keenan.
Speaker 7: Keenan Allen, he's Herbert's go to guy, the quarterback rating
Speaker 7: of one hundred and thirty point five when he's targeted
Speaker 7: this guy and so he's yet to throw an interception.
Speaker 7: By the way, when throwing the ball in Keenan Allen's direction,
Speaker 7: Keenan's a strong handed catcher. This guy can't run out
Speaker 7: of okay, He's just not He's not going to scare
Speaker 7: you with his speed, but what he'll scare you with
Speaker 7: is his initial burst off the line to gain some separation.
Speaker 7: He makes his share of contesting catches. He's a dangerous player.
Speaker 7: When you put him inside and you put him outside,
Speaker 7: it really kind of doesn't matter because he'll body up
Speaker 7: defenders and use his size as to his advantage. He
Speaker 7: catches the ball well on the move, and he is
Speaker 7: an outstanding finisher and they'll line him up all over
Speaker 7: the place. Quentin Williams has kind of taken over for
Speaker 7: Mike Williams. Mike Williams suffered a knee injury in the
Speaker 7: Minnesota game, so you don't have to worry about Mikey loss.
Speaker 7: That's a huge loss for them because he was having
Speaker 7: a pretty decent year. But Quentin Williams, if you follow
Speaker 7: the draft show here on our platform, we talked a
Speaker 7: lot about.
Speaker 3: Him last year from TCU.
Speaker 7: He's got that downfield ability, he's got size, the body control.
Speaker 7: He can be a difficult guy to handle in those situations.
Speaker 7: He's kind of feeling his way right now as far
Speaker 7: as learning how to deal with the press coverage stuff.
Speaker 7: They'll knock him around a little bit. When corners walk
Speaker 7: up on him, he kind of gets a little bit,
Speaker 7: a little bit skittish, so you know, be ready to
Speaker 7: maybe make it uncomfortable for him. Joshua Palmer is another
Speaker 7: receiver there. He's like a he's got a running back building.
Speaker 7: You have to almost do a double take when he's
Speaker 7: out wide. You're like, waitnute, they got a running back.
Speaker 7: Oh wait, that's number five. That's Palmer, So you have
Speaker 7: to kind of you understand what you're getting. He's a
Speaker 7: really good run after catch guy. He can make things
Speaker 7: happen with the ball in his hands. He was that
Speaker 7: way at Tennessee and he plays that way in the NFL.
Speaker 7: He's much more of a faster guy than he really
Speaker 7: is a quick guy, but you do see the ball
Speaker 7: go down the field to him. I mentioned Gerald Everett,
Speaker 7: the tight end. He's been outstanding for Justin Herbert early
Speaker 7: this season. He's an h back move guy. He's got
Speaker 7: the receiver movement and skills with the hands. You see
Speaker 7: him lining up in a lot of different spots. He
Speaker 7: really excels when they get him in space. He's one
Speaker 7: of the better receivers the Chargers have when it's creating separation.
Speaker 7: If you look at those numbers and metrics, he's right
Speaker 7: over four yards of separation. So he's opened a lot
Speaker 7: in these routes and that's why that Herbert's able to
Speaker 7: get him the football. You know, he's not the best blocker,
Speaker 7: but he's not afraid to block. He's not afraid to
Speaker 7: stick his nose in there. He's not going to just
Speaker 7: smash you and then drive you out of the hole.
Speaker 7: He's going to kind of get in the way and
Speaker 7: try and turn you. Donald Parham is the other tight
Speaker 7: end at that but Param's been dealing with a wrist sprain.
Speaker 7: It happened in the last game and they had the
Speaker 7: week off. They're hopeful that by practicing all week that
Speaker 7: he can maybe play in this game. But those the
Speaker 7: two tight ends you have to worry about. I mentioned
Speaker 7: Austin Eckler. I think he's I think he's a tremendous player.
Speaker 7: You just watch him. He's he's been in the league
Speaker 7: seven years now. He's dealing with a little bit of
Speaker 7: a hamstring injury. He's a compact, tough runner. He's got
Speaker 7: outstanding vision, patience, he could finish runs that way. He
Speaker 7: could be a tough guy. To bring on the ground
Speaker 7: due to his running style. He's built real low to
Speaker 7: the ground and he's got a powerful lower body or
Speaker 7: a base the leg drive the power. Where he's very
Speaker 7: difficult to deal with is that he is around the
Speaker 7: goal line when they hand him the ball, he finds
Speaker 7: these creases. I know, people that play fantasy football love
Speaker 7: this guy because he's always always scored touchdowns. He's one
Speaker 7: of those guys that he kind of takes it off
Speaker 7: tackle and it's kind of kind of muddy, and then
Speaker 7: he jumps back inside and next thing you know, he's
Speaker 7: in the end zone.
Speaker 3: The good thing you meant.
Speaker 7: But the good thing about him is Killen Moore doesn't
Speaker 7: throw screens to their running backs. He'll throw screens to
Speaker 7: the wide receivers. So but in the past, this guy
Speaker 7: was really a good screen catcher. But you don't see
Speaker 7: him catch the screens anymore. So that's kind of But
Speaker 7: after watching McCaffrey catch that screen on that first and
Speaker 7: fifteen player, whatever it was, don't be surprised if they'll
Speaker 7: work it in some way. But this guy as a
Speaker 7: real nose for the goal line. Their offensive line has
Speaker 7: been a little bit of an issue for them and
Speaker 7: it's it's funny because they're a team. They're a team
Speaker 7: that has has invested in their offensive line. Rashawn Slater
Speaker 7: and Zion Johnson are both first round picks and they
Speaker 7: both play on the left side together. And but the
Speaker 7: the the interesting thing is that Rashaan Slater has had
Speaker 7: some problems in pass protection. Uh, he has not been
Speaker 7: as good as we've seen him and the previous couple
Speaker 7: of years, when I went back and watched the pressures,
Speaker 7: I'm just curious, there was a lot of times where Slater,
Speaker 7: the left tackle, was having some issues.
Speaker 3: Now, you know, you're dealing with some teams that can
Speaker 3: rush the passer. The Raiders can rush the passer, the
Speaker 3: Vikings can rush the passer. The Cowboys can rush the passer.
Speaker 7: So keep an eye on on Slater on that left
Speaker 7: at that left tackle spot. And because there were some
Speaker 7: times where they were getting the edge on him and
Speaker 7: it was a struggle for him.
Speaker 3: It is only because of his.
Speaker 7: Athletic ability that it saved him from disasters a couple
Speaker 7: of different times. Guy that I think is the weakest
Speaker 7: of the group here is Trey Pipkins, who plays right tackle.
Speaker 7: There was a number of times He's one of those
Speaker 7: guys that gets way out over his feet when he
Speaker 7: passed blocks. He's scared that people are going to try
Speaker 7: and get by him, so he has to get his
Speaker 7: hands on people quick, so he gets a little bit
Speaker 7: over extended. So Pipkins would be the guy that I
Speaker 7: would attack, but keep an eye on Slater. It's just
Speaker 7: not been as clean in those games, those four games
Speaker 7: that I watched on him. I was surprised the pressures
Speaker 7: that he gave up, but that was that was something
Speaker 7: that I didn't expect. My final thing is they're a
Speaker 7: pull trap guards. We all remember Kellen Moore how he
Speaker 7: used to run. He'd like to pull guys, especially down
Speaker 7: on the goal line. They like to pull. Member Zach
Speaker 7: Martin used to pull and trap and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: They still do the same thing with the way they
Speaker 7: do it with their guards and their tackles and so
Speaker 7: they you know, they like to try and get that.
Speaker 7: You know, that's something that we've seen before with Kellen Moore.
Speaker 7: I will say this, I think Herbert and Eckler mask
Speaker 7: for some of the blocking sens of this group as
Speaker 7: a whole.
Speaker 3: So we'll see if the Cowboys can take advantage of that.
Speaker 6: I was going back and I looked at the game
Speaker 6: that they had their worst passing day. It was versus
Speaker 6: Las Vegas in Week four. During that game, they were
Speaker 6: thirteen thirteen and Justin Herbert was thirteen of twenty four
Speaker 6: fifty four percent completion rate.
Speaker 5: Not very good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, only one hundred and sixty seven yards, one touchdown
Speaker 6: in one interception.
Speaker 2: What did you see in that game?
Speaker 6: Particularly that maybe was the reason why they had their
Speaker 6: worst production.
Speaker 3: I think it was it was the pressure that they
Speaker 3: were dealing with.
Speaker 7: They did not handle the Vegas off the Vegas defensive line,
Speaker 7: Max Crosby's hand, Max Crosby to deal with. I'm sorry,
Speaker 7: and I don't mean to curse like that, but it
Speaker 7: really is. I mean, he is a problem to deal
Speaker 7: with because what happens is the way that Vegas moves
Speaker 7: them around and they've got guys that they've got inside,
Speaker 7: guys that caused pressure to get pushed. When you're bad
Speaker 7: at both tackle spots. We saw that when you played
Speaker 7: the Giants in Week one. When you're bad at both
Speaker 7: tackle spots, you know that makes sure it makes makes
Speaker 7: your scheme your your your offensive scheme looked really poor.
Speaker 7: The Vikings did the same thing. I mean, the Vikings
Speaker 7: were able to get pressure on these guys as well.
Speaker 7: It's just teams should have that type of pass rush
Speaker 7: ability and I remember the Titans game of that being
Speaker 7: is effective and the Titans could rush the pass a
Speaker 7: little bit, not like not like the Raiders can't. But
Speaker 7: with Crosby, they they just that was a big, big
Speaker 7: issue for them. They were able to take advantage of this.
Speaker 7: And it was a home game too for the Chargers,
Speaker 7: which you know you would think, oh, maybe crowd noise
Speaker 7: got it, maybe something was a problem there.
Speaker 3: No, it was.
Speaker 7: It was a home game for the Chargers. It just
Speaker 7: didn't do a very good job of handling that. That
Speaker 7: the key elements of what the Raider Raider defensive line
Speaker 7: presents to you.
Speaker 6: So that being said this week, where I mean talking
Speaker 6: about Google mic go back to linebacker this week that
Speaker 6: maybe you say, hey, let's just mix the safeties in
Speaker 6: and let them be lined back with the mount Clark
Speaker 6: Unlet's keep keep Micah rushing the passes.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I feel like that to me, the offense is
Speaker 7: going to dictate how your defense plays in this football game.
Speaker 7: You've got to find a way to get ahead, put
Speaker 7: points on the board. The Chargers are capable of coming
Speaker 7: back in games, but you've got.
Speaker 3: To find a way to make them.
Speaker 7: The forty nine Ers were never behind, never behind, and
Speaker 7: that way it kind of dictates the way that they play.
Speaker 7: They could do things. And you know with that, you know,
Speaker 7: if you make if you make the Chargers one dimensional. Yeah,
Speaker 7: their quarterback's good enough. Yeah they have skill guys and
Speaker 7: all that, but yeah, the pressure. I've seen pressure give
Speaker 7: them problems, you know, And but we saw pressure give
Speaker 7: San Francisco problems. It's a matter of can your offense
Speaker 7: generate enough points and continue drives and then make the
Speaker 7: Chargers kind of become a one dimensional team. Hey, don't
Speaker 7: let them be balanced, you know, make them throw the
Speaker 7: ball where you can maybe take advantage of that pass rush.
Speaker 8: Your corners are definitely going to have the work cut
Speaker 8: out for them, and your linebackers as well, because obviously
Speaker 8: what looms large is the likely return of Austin Eckler,
Speaker 8: which marries to the absence of Lve And we'll get
Speaker 8: to the injury update. I have an injury update here
Speaker 8: in the moment, so you will Rashaan Evans play and
Speaker 8: if he plays this coming Monday, you know, how quickly
Speaker 8: can he get into dan Quinn's system. What does it
Speaker 8: look like for Damon Clark to have more snaps? What
Speaker 8: does it look like for Malike Jefferson to be thrown
Speaker 8: into the fire in a big way in that capacity.
Speaker 8: But I will also say that when it comes to
Speaker 8: trying to contain the run game, I'm sitting here and
Speaker 8: I'm looking at next Gen Status, and I was looking
Speaker 8: at it yesterday and I just wanted to revisit it
Speaker 8: during Brian's excellent scouting report. Unlike the Cowboys, who are
Speaker 8: still trying to figure out things in the offensive back
Speaker 8: field with Tony Pollard, and you want to mix in Hunter,
Speaker 8: you want to mix in Douce Far, the Chargers don't
Speaker 8: do any of that. They look at the single back
Speaker 8: and they say, it's your game. You're going to have
Speaker 8: to make this happen for us.
Speaker 5: They don't run.
Speaker 8: They've literally run zero from A twenty one. They've run
Speaker 8: zero twenty two personnel. Contrarily, the Cowboys, as they're trying
Speaker 8: to figure things out, they've run nineteen plays through these
Speaker 8: first five weeks from twenty one. And I say that
Speaker 8: to say in twenty one being a two back set.
Speaker 8: What I'm saying that is what I'm saying is if
Speaker 8: the Cowboys can find a way to at least contain Eckler,
Speaker 8: they don't have to worry about the duality of, oh,
Speaker 8: well it's a two back set, who's the blocker and
Speaker 8: who's the decoy and who's getting the ball. It's just
Speaker 8: a matter of saying, we got to stop this guy.
Speaker 8: So from that capacity, it makes it a little bit
Speaker 8: more decisive. Then the execution comes into play. But to
Speaker 8: Brian's point, Eckler is he's more than a half full
Speaker 8: so you got a key in on him. But at
Speaker 8: least you know that they run typically a single back
Speaker 8: when they have a back back there, so not much
Speaker 8: the k in on, but the one you got a
Speaker 8: key in on is.
Speaker 5: A big deal.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've seen it before. We've lived this with Kellen Moore.
Speaker 7: What happens when he wants to play with the fullback.
Speaker 7: He'll put a tight end back there, right, you know,
Speaker 7: all of a sudden, he'll he'll put Parham back there
Speaker 7: in the backfield and be a league block and it
Speaker 7: won't be effective. They're better off running out of a
Speaker 7: single back back then they are running with a tight
Speaker 7: end that gets in the way of Eckler trying to
Speaker 7: find the hole.
Speaker 8: And really quickly because I know we got to go
Speaker 8: to brick. See I'm feeling that I'm feeling the flow there.
Speaker 8: Lve is heading to IR. That's been confirmed this morning
Speaker 8: by Mike McCarthy. Nashawan Wright will see his practice window
Speaker 8: opened this week, so he will have twenty one days
Speaker 8: to show that he's ready for active roster, otherwise he
Speaker 8: has to revert to season ending injured reserve. Peyton Hendershot
Speaker 8: is now a candidate for IR with that ankle injury,
Speaker 8: so that is very very interesting. Likely means, obviously, Sean McEwan,
Speaker 8: do they sign him to the active roster and you
Speaker 8: know what's about to be some roster shuffling because of
Speaker 8: IR moves. Cavante Terpin will start today with the rehab group,
Speaker 8: but he has a chance to practice, and Mike McCarthy
Speaker 8: said that Cavante is beating down the door to actually practice.
Speaker 3: So it's amazing.
Speaker 7: I thought that ankles brand thing came off high ankle
Speaker 7: for six you say the word high ankle, I'm thinking
Speaker 7: it might as well just be broken, you know.
Speaker 3: For anything. Well, some things that's okay.
Speaker 7: But you know, but this but this particular case, I
Speaker 7: mean I thought the absolute worst watching him go off
Speaker 7: that field there and listen to your guys reports, you know,
Speaker 7: from the from the locker room.
Speaker 2: Well, I will say this.
Speaker 6: Nick reminded me, we've seen a player come back within
Speaker 6: a week of a high ankle sprain.
Speaker 2: We saw I think it was Jason Witten do it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and.
Speaker 6: Player I can't remember, Yeah, I know, got played with
Speaker 6: last k explain. So yeah, he's a little different than
Speaker 6: most people. But Nick Mixon mentioned one other guy and
Speaker 6: I couldn't remember who it was. It was another player
Speaker 6: he mentioned as well that came back pretty quick off
Speaker 6: of high ankle sprain. But obviously it's a little different
Speaker 6: when you're Cavante Turpin and your best as set is running.
Speaker 6: That's a little different like coming back from a high
Speaker 6: ankle sprain that quickly.
Speaker 2: But we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 6: Hopefully he can he can get it together and he
Speaker 6: can play this week. We're gonna take our final break.
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Speaker 6: I found this stat on our next Gen Stats website and.
Speaker 3: It we're worthing that thing out.
Speaker 2: I know we are, but it's such fine information.
Speaker 3: It is great.
Speaker 2: But this is going to blow your mind. Check this out.
Speaker 6: Justin Herbert he has completed forty nine of fifty passes
Speaker 6: for four hundred and sixty nine yards and two touchdowns
Speaker 6: on attempts where he is targeting the seams. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: don't know if I've ever heard a stat like that,
Speaker 6: because that just means like that is deadly for them.
Speaker 6: How does that match up with the Cowboys and what
Speaker 6: the Cowboys like to do defensively?
Speaker 3: Got anything in mind with them linebacker play.
Speaker 8: That's the first thing popped in my head was the
Speaker 8: concern with the linebacker. I mean, that's what pops into
Speaker 8: your head immediately, because when you hear stat like that,
Speaker 8: you you immediately think of the linebackers and you say, okay, well,
Speaker 8: what's their coverage ability?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 8: And lve quite as it's kept, is not bad at coverage,
Speaker 8: and you're going to lose that and they're going to
Speaker 8: attack the seams. Forty nine out of fifty is insanity,
Speaker 8: That is lethality. And so that means you're going to
Speaker 8: have to get some help from those safeties and covering
Speaker 8: those seams. You don't have a choice otherwise that forty
Speaker 8: nine to fifty is going to become You got three
Speaker 8: of them, and you got three So because of what's
Speaker 8: going on with the Cowboys linebackers, you're gonna have to
Speaker 8: get safety out.
Speaker 9: Hard to Like, right now, I'm questioning everything, even the
Speaker 9: things that were good, you know, like even the good times,
Speaker 9: I'm questioning that was I.
Speaker 6: It's like you're getting divorced and you know you got
Speaker 6: cheated on.
Speaker 9: Start question everything, Bui, and I'm going back like, Okay,
Speaker 9: dan Quinn, I love him. Let me hold on to
Speaker 9: that love and respect and appreciation for his knowledge and
Speaker 9: ability to make things happen. But when you come off
Speaker 9: two games where the defense played a certain way, now
Speaker 9: you start questioning, Okay, can they do that again, or
Speaker 9: can they adapt or can they figure it out despite
Speaker 9: the injuries or the lack of depth that they currently have.
Speaker 9: So it's just it's very hard to visualize right now.
Speaker 9: But then I keep trying to remember the good times.
Speaker 7: Well, the problem you're running into now in trying to
Speaker 7: remember the good times is to out the last three
Speaker 7: games defense has been a really been attacked, you know,
Speaker 7: and they kind of figured things out in the second
Speaker 7: half of the Arizona game until they gave up the
Speaker 7: sixty nine yard past at Wilson.
Speaker 3: They had things kind of in control. But last week
Speaker 3: that tests your resolve a little bit of like like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: what's going on here?
Speaker 9: What do you think that does to your confidence for
Speaker 9: a group like this, Like we've always seen them very
Speaker 9: confident and and you know, competitive guys that come come
Speaker 9: out and play at a very high level. But coming
Speaker 9: off the beat down against the forty nine ers, what
Speaker 9: do you think that that does to this group's confidence?
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know if it has anything to do
Speaker 7: with confidence. Is it has to do with Maybe there's
Speaker 7: some players on that defense that masked some issues that
Speaker 7: you really had.
Speaker 5: Maybe maybe there's maybe about it, maybe.
Speaker 7: Maybe maybe yeah, absolutely, yeah, maybe the fact that Micah
Speaker 7: Parsons is one of the best deodorant sticks you've ever
Speaker 7: had when there's been stink, you know, if you put
Speaker 7: the deodorant on and you don't stink anymore, or maybe uh,
Speaker 7: Tank Lawrence or oh so Diggi's or you with digs
Speaker 7: or digs or digs maybe digs on the field. Maybe
Speaker 7: Digs was the great deodorant too. Yeah, And all the
Speaker 7: sudden when the thing that worries me, if we could
Speaker 7: circle back about what Patrick was talking about or you
Speaker 7: were talking about the seams and the linebackers, is the
Speaker 7: fact that you saw the other day and I don't
Speaker 7: know really if it's a seam passed, but with the
Speaker 7: way that Kittle, the way that Kittle got across into
Speaker 7: an area where it went middle to seam, you know,
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, you're you're, you're you're you're
Speaker 7: not seeing it right, You're not you know, and we're
Speaker 7: all were kind of having questions like is it Hooker's
Speaker 7: guy or is that there's bell supposed to.
Speaker 3: Carry that guy?
Speaker 7: And that's when all of a sudden that if you
Speaker 7: have a quarterback that's what was the word use lethality?
Speaker 3: What was lethality? It's impressive. But you're like, yeah, but
Speaker 3: see that's what I'm saying it.
Speaker 7: You just worry is that something that now other teams
Speaker 7: are going to see like, oh well, hey they can't
Speaker 7: they can't deal with drop depth of the linebacker. Wait,
Speaker 7: the safety is looking at two different things. They're getting
Speaker 7: put in bad spots. Yeah, I could say it the
Speaker 7: great deyodaan is Michael Parson sacking the guy before it
Speaker 7: gets to being that problem in the secondary, or somebody
Speaker 7: sacking that guy before it gets to be a problem
Speaker 7: in the secondary.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So when you look at that, Brian, I look at
Speaker 6: it and I'm like, this is not just a one
Speaker 6: game problem. We've seen throughout this year, even in some
Speaker 6: of the games where they won where receivers get lost
Speaker 6: like they there's the defense kind of loses them. And
Speaker 6: what we've heard from them in the post game has
Speaker 6: been communication. Yeah, communications wasn't right. I mean And in
Speaker 6: Arizona game, got a guy that's just wide open and
Speaker 6: again it was a crossing type route and they just
Speaker 6: lost him. And that's one of those situations where I
Speaker 6: am getting a little bit concerned and you talk about
Speaker 6: what the players are thinking, I do start to wonder
Speaker 6: if the players start thinking like there's there's maybe there's
Speaker 6: too much that they're thinking about and maybe in some
Speaker 6: respects they're gonna have to dial this down a little bit,
Speaker 6: to simplify things a bit, because there is this lack
Speaker 6: of communication or understanding or something in these moments in
Speaker 6: games where you're getting guys who are just getting it
Speaker 6: open because they're just busted plays, and they're busted plays
Speaker 6: in the secondary well other.
Speaker 9: Than the injuries, it makes me wonder what a game
Speaker 9: was it was it against Arizona where like guys looked
Speaker 9: confused or like Mike I was lining up. So it
Speaker 9: just makes me wonder how what is different really aside
Speaker 9: from injuries, Like what is different when you had such
Speaker 9: a connected, tight group in sync, And by that I'm
Speaker 9: specifically talking about when they're on the field acting and
Speaker 9: everybody reacting. We talked about, like literally starting the season,
Speaker 9: how every single player was having a good day. Everyone
Speaker 9: made a play, tackle, got the ball, did something, and
Speaker 9: it was all around an unanimous great effort from everybody.
Speaker 9: But then all of a sudden you start seeing games
Speaker 9: like that, Like, aside from obviously the opponent and what
Speaker 9: they're doing when it comes to communication and all of that,
Speaker 9: what has changed.
Speaker 8: Which changed and those two losses what I pinpointed was
Speaker 8: the fact that the Cowboys have so many quote unquote
Speaker 8: dogs on the defensive side of the ball, so that
Speaker 8: when they get down and out, everybody wants to be
Speaker 8: the hero. Everybody's chasing the big play. That's the difference.
Speaker 8: When you're blowing out the New York Giants, you don't
Speaker 8: have to chase the big play. You just get to
Speaker 8: play football and then you can go out there and.
Speaker 5: Kick them butt.
Speaker 8: Same thing against the New York Jets, same thing against
Speaker 8: the New England Patriots. But when you start struggling and
Speaker 8: get punched in the mouth by the Cardinals, and then
Speaker 8: you need in your offense is also struggling, and now
Speaker 8: you start feeling that pressure to score defensively and get
Speaker 8: those extra takeaways you want to be you're trying to
Speaker 8: be the guy to do it. On the very next play. Well,
Speaker 8: then maybe you're too aggressive on your pursuit for a
Speaker 8: tackle and then you chase the wrong shoulder and now
Speaker 8: it's to the house or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 8: So in those losses, this is why it's key that
Speaker 8: the Cowboys. Why I should say this way, that's why
Speaker 8: one of the biggest cas for the Cowboys continued success
Speaker 8: is they have to play from in front as opposed
Speaker 8: to behind, because once they start playing from behind, everybody
Speaker 8: wants to be the hero. And yes, you have a
Speaker 8: defense full of guys who can be the hero. But
Speaker 8: the more you chase the big play, the less likely
Speaker 8: you will get the big play. What's more likely is
Speaker 8: that you're going to give up the big play.
Speaker 6: All right, let's get our picks. See what everybody thinks
Speaker 6: is going to happen this week. Cowboys travel to Los
Speaker 6: Angeles take on the Chargers Monday night football.
Speaker 9: Amber, What do you say, sure, I'll start holding on
Speaker 9: to the good times and to the stat of holding
Speaker 9: on to that and holding on to the stat of that.
Speaker 9: The Cowboys are nine and one or I think that's
Speaker 9: ten and one of wins after a loss, so they
Speaker 9: have shown a tendency to be able to come back
Speaker 9: and win after they get bit beaten.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 9: But I'm choosing a victory. I'm choosing a win for
Speaker 9: the Cowboys. I think we will get a tight, like
Speaker 9: a close game score, maybe something like twenty three twenty.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think the I think it's gonna come down
Speaker 3: to a game winning field goal for the Cowboys. I
Speaker 3: think Aubrey's gonna have to knock one home. It might
Speaker 3: have to be for some distance, you know. I think
Speaker 3: it's it's one of.
Speaker 7: Those games where I've I've got this, I've got this vibe.
Speaker 7: I keep hearing the number keeps going in my head
Speaker 7: of you know, twenty seven to twenty eight, something like that.
Speaker 5: You're doing the fortune Tiller things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Dallas twenty seven
Speaker 7: to twenty four.
Speaker 8: In this one, I thought the Cowboys had a good
Speaker 8: chance of escaping with a close win against San Francisco.
Speaker 8: But I knew that that would be a tough one,
Speaker 8: and I thought it'd be emotionally draining, and I said
Speaker 8: it out loud, you know, off the air, but I said,
Speaker 8: they're going to win to San Francisco and that's going
Speaker 8: to cost them the charger. But Brian made an excellent
Speaker 8: point I think last week when he said, you typically
Speaker 8: lose the ones you aren't supposed to lose, and you
Speaker 8: win the one when the ones you're not supposed to win.
Speaker 8: I think that the flips they lost against San Francisco,
Speaker 8: and in the fashion in which they did, they have
Speaker 8: no choice but to bounce back. I believe wholeheartedly the
Speaker 8: defense will bounce back. I don't think they want that
Speaker 8: reputation of getting their butt kicked two weeks in a
Speaker 8: row offense and heading into the by offense. I don't
Speaker 8: know yet. So because I don't know about the offense,
Speaker 8: this is going to be a low scoring game. I
Speaker 8: think the Cowboys win it on an Aubrey kick. I
Speaker 8: agree with you there, but I think it's twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 8: I think defense does their job. Offense just I don't
Speaker 8: know yet.
Speaker 7: That's the There's a side of me that could have
Speaker 7: very easily picked the Chargers game.
Speaker 2: I think we all think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: close game, however it goes.
Speaker 7: I just don't trust the offense right now, to be
Speaker 7: honest with that, and I just did because of the again,
Speaker 7: the ten and one.
Speaker 3: I think there's some merit to that. That's just not
Speaker 3: hollow numbers.
Speaker 7: They do find a way to play, right, They better
Speaker 7: find a way to play better because they're three and
Speaker 7: three coming back. There's gonna be some hell to pay
Speaker 7: in that off week.
Speaker 8: Especially if the Eagles continue to win. They're going to
Speaker 8: start getting distanced, putting a gap and put space between
Speaker 8: one and two.
Speaker 6: So I also agree Cowboys win, but I think it's
Speaker 6: a very close game.
Speaker 2: I think it's a lower scoring game. I have a
Speaker 2: seventeen sixteen.
Speaker 6: It's going to be just it's gonna be a defensive game, really,
Speaker 6: I think, because like you said, Patrick, I've not seen
Speaker 6: anything yet that gives me confidence that this offense is there,
Speaker 6: and so I think this is gonna be a game
Speaker 6: where it's going to have to be the defense and
Speaker 6: they're gonna have to make some plays, and I think
Speaker 6: they will. I think they'll respond well, and the history
Speaker 6: is on their side, and like what they've done over
Speaker 6: the last two years, two and a half years, is
Speaker 6: we know when they lose, they come back the next week.
Speaker 2: And they give a really great effort.
Speaker 5: They usually get a win.
Speaker 3: Better figure it out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So we'll see what happens is Monday. Till then
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