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Speaker 5: Texas today. Amber did not get.
Speaker 6: The It's really not it's pretty messed up.
Speaker 5: It's really not because pretty much every Friday during college
Speaker 5: football season, I come representing you here.
Speaker 6: But look at the full cast, everybody here. We're in Texas.
Speaker 5: We've got our special guest, Tommy Yurs join us today.
Speaker 5: Nick wasn't able to join. Tommy's a Texas guy. He
Speaker 5: covered the long ONRNES. He went to tech like he's
Speaker 5: a Texas guy, so of course he's got to look
Speaker 5: into his Texas gear. So it is what it is.
Speaker 6: Is anyone relevant wearing this color that I'm wearing right now?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 2: Cowboys, Yes, Yes, you are relevant. You're relevant today.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 5: We got a lot we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 5: It is a Friday, so we'll get a catch up
Speaker 5: on some of the injury updates. We'll get into some
Speaker 5: talk around the Cincinnati Dallas matchup. Uh Amber has a
Speaker 5: game for us a little yety time in the second
Speaker 5: segment with AG and then of course we've got some
Speaker 5: fan questions in the final segment. We'll also take some
Speaker 5: phone calls if you want to call us eight eight
Speaker 5: eight eight five five two two nine seven. We already
Speaker 5: have some questions that have rolled in from X so
Speaker 5: we'll try to get to some of those at some
Speaker 5: point in the show, as long as we can keep
Speaker 5: Himber from not hogging the microphone. Uh So, let's go,
Speaker 5: let's jump in.
Speaker 6: I know Dark likes to promise things and then they
Speaker 6: don't happen. So he tells fans to call in to
Speaker 6: send messages and then we don't get to.
Speaker 5: Did we get to them yesterday?
Speaker 6: You got to one.
Speaker 5: Did we get to him yesterday?
Speaker 6: I didn't hear the phone ringing.
Speaker 5: Nobody called.
Speaker 2: Were problem. Maybe that's why Tommy's here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe we were like, maybe we.
Speaker 2: Need maybe on air, maybe Nick needs to be upgraded.
Speaker 5: When you miss the show, it take strays. All right,
Speaker 5: let's jump in. Let's talk about these injuries. There were
Speaker 5: a couple of things that popped out to me. A
Speaker 5: couple of full participants yesterday who've been out, Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 5: Marshawn Neeland. I assume at this point they're heading toward playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good sign. They're heading towards planning.
Speaker 7: Jake Ferguson officially cleared concussion protocol on Wednesday when he
Speaker 7: returned to practice. He was going through everything with Linda
Speaker 7: Wells during the media viewing, so he should be good
Speaker 7: to go. A good sign for Marshawn Neeland, just more
Speaker 7: depth at that edge spot. He's one of their better
Speaker 7: run defenders Cincinnati not really the best running team, but
Speaker 7: still can get the job done. So him being back
Speaker 7: is going to be important as well. Segey Lamb did
Speaker 7: not participate in practice yesterday, but he did tell us
Speaker 7: outside of the locker room yesterday that he feels like
Speaker 7: he'll be good to go on Monday night. I think
Speaker 7: that's more of just trying to rest that shoulder as
Speaker 7: much as he can.
Speaker 2: Say.
Speaker 7: He had an ac spraint in his shoulder. He's been
Speaker 7: dealing with that for a couple of weeks, so he
Speaker 7: expect him to be good to go. And then a
Speaker 7: good sign to see Trayvon Diggs being limited. That was
Speaker 7: kind of up in the air as to whether or
Speaker 7: not he.
Speaker 3: Would be able to play.
Speaker 7: That's going to be a big component for Dallas in
Speaker 7: this game, whether or not they have him. That's going
Speaker 7: to decide really a lot in terms of what they
Speaker 7: can do defensively with such a proficient pas sing attack.
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase t Higgins, Mike is sicky. So
Speaker 7: that's those are the notable ones for me. And then
Speaker 7: even to marve On Overshown limited on there with a hamstring.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's an indication of whether or not
Speaker 7: of him, you know, I don't think that's a sign
Speaker 7: that he's going to be out, but something to keep
Speaker 7: an eye on.
Speaker 6: I'm freaking out about it already, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 6: I mean, you can easily warsen on stream, especially with
Speaker 6: the way that he plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Uh, that's something. And I'm still getting over that period
Speaker 6: where we had so many him stream issues. Remember that time, Yeah,
Speaker 6: several years ago that.
Speaker 2: Everybody changed our stretching routine, didn't.
Speaker 6: Ye, it's gotten better. We we haven't.
Speaker 2: Stand around to talk anymore. We actually stretch. Yeah. But
Speaker 2: on top of that, Hams stay on top of that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, something concerning for sure.
Speaker 5: I would say, yeah, Brown, do you hear anything about
Speaker 5: Treyvon specifically? Because I do. I agree with Tommy. I
Speaker 5: think this is going to be a critical one from this.
Speaker 8: Tommy nailed this thing, and it's a great job of
Speaker 8: him kind of covering all the bases there.
Speaker 2: But you know, the thing with Diggs is a little bit.
Speaker 2: They feel like they get him.
Speaker 8: To a certain point and then it comes down to
Speaker 8: at the very end, then a decision is made about
Speaker 8: you know, you know, well I don't feel good enough
Speaker 8: to go and stuff.
Speaker 2: So it's really a two way street here.
Speaker 8: You know, the trainers, jim Maherbert Brown, those guys do
Speaker 8: a hell of a job of getting these guys ready
Speaker 8: and trying to keep them as healthy as possible.
Speaker 2: But it's really two on the player.
Speaker 8: You know, they're very concerned about the player and the
Speaker 8: players the one that says the final you know, hey,
Speaker 8: it doesn't feel right. I mean, we've seen digs come
Speaker 8: up to the heck with the time when you guys
Speaker 8: are getting on a plane going to a road game,
Speaker 8: you know, the commanders and stuff like that, and then
Speaker 8: all of a sudden it's not available.
Speaker 2: Things like that.
Speaker 8: So that's kind of where uh, they're they're they're they're
Speaker 8: they're good with how it's progressing, but they're they've now
Speaker 8: taken this approach of like, okay, we'll see, we'll work
Speaker 8: before the.
Speaker 2: Game and then we'll see kind of thing, and it's
Speaker 2: not like, hey, he's good to go. It is a
Speaker 2: good sign.
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right that he at least practicing, because when
Speaker 8: he doesn't even practice, then you know he's not gonna
Speaker 8: play even you know. So that's kind of where they're
Speaker 8: at right now. But it's a very much a with
Speaker 8: them and that particular player. It's been very touch and go.
Speaker 5: Let's assume for a second they don't have Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 5: What does this look like as far as the cornerbacks
Speaker 5: still roll out and how they match up against these receivers.
Speaker 7: I mean, you're gonna you're gonna have to lean really
Speaker 7: heavily on Deron Bland and Jordan Lewis to do a
Speaker 7: lot for you because that room is just so so thin.
Speaker 7: Israel mccalm's seen his snaps kind of go up here
Speaker 7: the last couple of weeks too. And then they made
Speaker 7: some signings as well to the practice squad in terms
Speaker 7: of guys to bring in as well at cornerback. They
Speaker 7: brought in Troy Pride Junior indeed Delaney. Those guys are
Speaker 7: out on the practice field yesterday, so maybe you see
Speaker 7: one or both of those guys get elevated for some
Speaker 7: extra cornerback depth to two younger guys. Pride Junior played
Speaker 7: fourteen games and his rookie he's had a pretty bad
Speaker 7: ACL injury in twenty twenty one that kept him out
Speaker 7: that season and then twenty twenty two as well. He's
Speaker 7: been bounced around on the practice squads since then. And
Speaker 7: then Delaney had three pretty solid seasons for the Bucks,
Speaker 7: but then was injured placed on injury reserve in August
Speaker 7: when he signed with Buffalo, so this will be his
Speaker 7: first action since then. Uh So, obviously, you know you
Speaker 7: signed those guys for depth and turned to him if
Speaker 7: you need him. But it's no doubt that you would
Speaker 7: absolutely want Trayvon Diggs on the field in this game.
Speaker 7: Is he been pract Yeah, that's another good point.
Speaker 5: Assume he's your fourth guy. If that's the case, right, I.
Speaker 2: Would guess yeah, yeah, I think that, you know, with
Speaker 2: with Carson's situation not being very good and then and
Speaker 2: then or warre A, i'd.
Speaker 8: Say that, right, didn't Yeah, yeah, I think to me
Speaker 8: that I just call him AO, That's what I do.
Speaker 8: But you know, that's that's one of those things where
Speaker 8: you kind of I don't know if they want to
Speaker 8: go with guys that they just signed to the practice squad.
Speaker 8: I mean, I know you did a great job of
Speaker 8: painting the picture there and it's absolutely right. But to me,
Speaker 8: you know that that we've seen Jordan Lewis play far
Speaker 8: more on the outside, and then you know with mcuamu
Speaker 8: playing some of the slot.
Speaker 2: So if if I.
Speaker 8: Think if you had to say no digs, you're right,
Speaker 8: you're going to go to battle with You're probably going
Speaker 8: to battle with Lewis. I'm not gonna say Lewis playing
Speaker 8: on the outside all the time, but but he's probably
Speaker 8: would get a pretty good dose of that usual more. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and you know, but this is this is an interesting
Speaker 8: group of receivers with t Higgins and you know, and
Speaker 8: then with Chase and that ball is going to go
Speaker 8: down the field. I mean that Joe Burrow is going
Speaker 8: to if he can get protection. And that's the big
Speaker 8: if you know, I've we've talked about it leading up
Speaker 8: to this game kind of feel like the Dallas this
Speaker 8: plays in if if like Tommy's talking about that Dallas
Speaker 8: can choke the run, you know somehow that that you know,
Speaker 8: Cincinnati says, Okay, we're not going to run. I don't
Speaker 8: know why since they wouldn't try and run. But Dallas
Speaker 8: has done a pretty good job against the Commanders and
Speaker 8: against the Giants. Are playing against some quality backs and
Speaker 8: teams that can run the ball. So here you are
Speaker 8: choke the run and now turn this thing into all right,
Speaker 8: Joe Burrow. Now Joe Burrow throwing the football. He'll throw
Speaker 8: it fifty times a game. He did it back to
Speaker 8: back weeks. You know, it's something that they probably don't
Speaker 8: want to do, but they're comfortable doing it. And so
Speaker 8: how you play these cornerbacks? And it's going to be
Speaker 8: really key, But can you get pressure, blitz pressure or
Speaker 8: just just you know, four or five man pressure that way?
Speaker 5: All right, let's move on. Let's talk a little bit
Speaker 5: about this matchup. I have a few questions for you,
Speaker 5: questions for you guys about the Cincinnati versus Dallas matchup.
Speaker 5: Let's start first with right now, where would you rank
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow relative to all the quarterbacks Dallas's face this season.
Speaker 5: I'll throw out some of the names, Lamar Jackson, Jared Goff,
Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins, Jalen Hurts, Jaydon Daniels, Brock Purdy, c J Stroud.
Speaker 5: What does he rank?
Speaker 3: I would say two behind Lamar Jackson, and he might
Speaker 3: be one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, might change.
Speaker 8: My LSU bias will come in here. I say, I
Speaker 8: might be wearing this an orange for you guys and
Speaker 8: my son, but I wear I wear an LSU outfit
Speaker 8: every single day. Yeah, I don't think I'm ever going
Speaker 8: to pull for you guys in this thing. But I
Speaker 8: will say, and you're right about Lamar jack I mean,
Speaker 8: just you talk about every one of these guys. Kirk
Speaker 8: Cousins was actually playing pretty well when he faced the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: And now this is the way.
Speaker 2: The schedule works. This is the way the NFL schedule works.
Speaker 8: It depending on when you catch certain teams, and you
Speaker 8: catch now they're talking about playing Michael Pennock in Atlanta.
Speaker 8: Time to play Michael Pennocks And we're sitting there like
Speaker 8: Kirk Cousins was like nineteen of twenty for you know,
Speaker 8: and not throwing intercept, not doing I mean, so that's
Speaker 8: just kind of shows you where quarterback play is at times.
Speaker 8: I think when you start to talk about the ability
Speaker 8: to throw the ball, just throw it. This is the
Speaker 8: guy that's the problem those other dudes, whether it was
Speaker 8: Hurts or or you know, or Lamar Jackson, those guys,
Speaker 8: the element of the run is what kills you there,
Speaker 8: and that's what hurts you there. So I would say
Speaker 8: that he's probably going to be the best quarterback that
Speaker 8: they play, just from the aspect of the weaponry he
Speaker 8: has on the outside, the challenge of that, and then
Speaker 8: his willingness to stand there and just throw.
Speaker 7: Balls all day, that's gonna be a problem. And to
Speaker 7: add on to that we were talking. We've been talking
Speaker 7: about this on Talking Cowboys in the last couple of days.
Speaker 7: I think this is the best season that Joe Burrow
Speaker 7: has had resetting the pocket, because his offensive line hasn't
Speaker 7: been good, but he has moved around really well, stepped
Speaker 7: into some throws, stepped away from pressure, and made the
Speaker 7: throws that he needs to make. And that's been one
Speaker 7: of the most impressive parts to me about this thing.
Speaker 7: And when you think about him and Jamar Chase, it
Speaker 7: is such a rare connection in terms of the fact
Speaker 7: that they played at such a high level in college
Speaker 7: and it's translated so well to the NFL. You don't
Speaker 7: see that often where two guys play together in college
Speaker 7: and then do the same thing in the pros. So
Speaker 7: they're kind of some unspoken communication like communication that they
Speaker 7: do non verbally where they're just on the same page
Speaker 7: and you don't see that.
Speaker 2: Damn right, Tommy.
Speaker 7: There's a couple of there's a couple of times where
Speaker 7: Burrow literally just.
Speaker 3: Goes like this and Chase is already there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And so having to defend against that with a
Speaker 7: battered cornerback room, for doubt, that's it's going to be
Speaker 7: interesting to see and then you think about, Okay, you
Speaker 7: take away let's say you take away Joe Burrow and
Speaker 7: Jamar Chase's connection, You've got another wide receiver, one caliber player.
Speaker 3: In te Higgins. Absolutely, So it's just it's just a
Speaker 3: really tall task.
Speaker 6: I put him a number one because again, I'm like, Brian,
Speaker 6: you have to look to me. I don't look at
Speaker 6: this as just a quarterback. And I know you're asking
Speaker 6: specifically about him, but you got to look at it.
Speaker 6: Who's the cast around him, because we know like having
Speaker 6: a balanced game, how much that betters your game as
Speaker 6: a quarterback. He has the running game, he has the
Speaker 6: ability of someone that just because let's say my cup
Speaker 6: pressures him and gets a sack, he's not going to
Speaker 6: be thrown off his game. He's gonna come back in
Speaker 6: and do what he needs to do. So he has
Speaker 6: every quality that you would want in a quarterback. And
Speaker 6: right now, when someone's trending hot, he's at at a
Speaker 6: pace right now that it's very it's gonna be very
Speaker 6: difficult to stop him. And like you said, all the
Speaker 6: weapons around him and the fact that they're scoring so
Speaker 6: many points, it's gonna be hard to keep up.
Speaker 5: Right, on to the next question. And I want to
Speaker 5: say this.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say, first, we didn't even talk about brock
Speaker 8: Party in that group too.
Speaker 2: No, and think about it.
Speaker 8: I'm not saying but at the time, you know, I
Speaker 8: think that the whole thing what you're saying, they played
Speaker 8: some really good quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that Troy. That list is the quarterbacks of the NFL.
Speaker 2: They've played.
Speaker 8: They've played some outstanding quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: No doubt.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, let's let's talk about this. And I'm
Speaker 5: going to say beforehand, the way I'm gonna term this
Speaker 5: this question. It might jump to you immediately lack well,
Speaker 5: of course, but I really want you to think a
Speaker 5: little deeper than that. Based on the expected matchup, and
Speaker 5: we're going to assume Trayvon Dick Dick's plays for the
Speaker 5: purposes of this question, who has the greater chance of
Speaker 5: wrecking this game for Dallas, Jamar Chase or Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 2: That's a really good question. I think I think that they.
Speaker 2: I think Chase does. I think Chase does.
Speaker 8: And because I feel like that, and I'm making a
Speaker 8: biggest assumption assumption here that They're going to try and
Speaker 8: find a way to take Hendrickson out of this game,
Speaker 8: whether it's by spacing him, doubling him, chipping to something something,
Speaker 8: I'm making that assumption that that's going to happen with Chase.
Speaker 8: I kind of feel like though, that he is one
Speaker 8: of these type of players that.
Speaker 2: Even if you try and take him away, he finds ways.
Speaker 5: Other than the last other than last.
Speaker 8: Time he faced Dicks And you know what, he opened
Speaker 8: a media availability saying that, So he's thinking about it.
Speaker 8: He's thinking about that right off the jump. So to me, man,
Speaker 8: I just worry about his ability to make plays down
Speaker 8: the field.
Speaker 2: I mean, and much like what CD does, they could target.
Speaker 8: Him, you know, twelve thirteen, fourteen times in this game,
Speaker 8: and like say, eight of those catches could be for
Speaker 8: I mean, he look at the Baltimore games this year,
Speaker 8: you know, and you kind of feel like Baltimore. I mean,
Speaker 8: I know Baltimore's got some defensive struggles and maybe the
Speaker 8: secondary a little bit, but man, he just light He has.
Speaker 2: The ability to light you up. But look what Hendrickson
Speaker 2: did against the Raiders. He had ford Am sacks. You know,
Speaker 2: it's a great question. I'm going to go with Chase again, lsu.
Speaker 3: Buiser, It's close for me.
Speaker 7: I would lean Hendrickson only because his motor is just
Speaker 7: unbelievable and the way that he just somehow find like
Speaker 7: I think somebody put it. I forgot who said this,
Speaker 7: but he doesn't do anything entirely special in term whether
Speaker 7: it be pass rush moves or whatever, but he just
Speaker 7: has a knack for getting to the quarterback. And if
Speaker 7: I'm not mistaken, he lines up on the right side
Speaker 7: right the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's gonna be on your offenses left.
Speaker 7: So so how good do you feel at left tackle
Speaker 7: if you're the Cowboys against a guy like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know how great I feel.
Speaker 7: And Cooper Rush has had a tendency to get the
Speaker 7: ball taken away from him in the backfield here a.
Speaker 3: Couple of times we're just fumbled at the snap exactly.
Speaker 7: So when you've got that threat, you know, the offensive
Speaker 7: line has been playing better at good points.
Speaker 3: As a whole.
Speaker 7: But that's a guy who who you're going to have
Speaker 7: to deal with the entire game, and he's going to
Speaker 7: give you a hundred percent every step of the way.
Speaker 7: So I think he has a bigger chance to wreck
Speaker 7: this game by making a play like that where he
Speaker 7: takes the ball away from Cooper Rush or he gets
Speaker 7: home two times on Cooper Rush.
Speaker 3: Because if they sack Cooper Rush two.
Speaker 7: Times and take possessions away from this Cowboys offense, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 8: My way of neutralizing him and neutralizing Chase is going
Speaker 8: to be trying to run the football. I'm gonna you know,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna I'm gonna make I'm gonna make Cincinnati's best
Speaker 8: linebackers not playing in this game. I'm gonna make Cincinnati
Speaker 8: have to defend the run. And you know what I'm
Speaker 8: gonna get. I'm gonna get Ezekiel Elliot involved too. I'm
Speaker 8: just going to We talked about the metric yesterday of
Speaker 8: teams that have run the ball over thirty times a
Speaker 8: game against These guys have found a way to win
Speaker 8: five of the six games that they played.
Speaker 2: The Giants the only team that have lost these guys.
Speaker 8: I think that's a pretty good metric to me to
Speaker 8: be looking at it, Like, listen what I've seen the
Speaker 8: last couple of weeks with ric o'dowdell running the ball,
Speaker 8: a healthy brock Hoffman at right guard, you know, a
Speaker 8: better play from Steel bebe these guys I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 8: try and load this thing up and try and stay
Speaker 8: ahead of the chains and not let Chase kill me
Speaker 8: in this game, and not let Hendrickson, you know, if
Speaker 8: he's if he's having to play run defense all day,
Speaker 8: him and Hubbard, those guys, well good, let let it happen.
Speaker 8: They've proven they can do that, you know. So that's
Speaker 8: that would be my plan going in. This game would
Speaker 8: last about ten minutes because I'd run the ball basically
Speaker 8: every snap if I could.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, the Cowboys have proven that they have a
Speaker 6: lot of problems on offense. So my answer would be
Speaker 6: Hendrickson because the Bengals offense, even if they take Chase,
Speaker 6: if the Cowboys take Chase out or neutralize him a
Speaker 6: little bit, they have so many other weapons that they
Speaker 6: can utilize to still score points. Now on the opposite side, Hendrickson,
Speaker 6: I feel like against this Cowboys' offense, it can take
Speaker 6: just a player like him to start throwing the game off.
Speaker 6: I mean, it doesn't take much for the for the
Speaker 6: Cowboys offense to get thrown off. So if he has
Speaker 6: a really good day, I could see this where because
Speaker 6: this is a game that you're gonna have it's gonna
Speaker 6: come down to who can score. This is gonna sound
Speaker 6: dumb because that's how the game works. But we know
Speaker 6: the Bengals can generate a lot of points, so you
Speaker 6: cannot fall behind. And if the Cowboys offense don't get
Speaker 6: it going right off the bat, if they take a
Speaker 6: whole first half of the game three and out, say
Speaker 6: you guys, back to the highline. Hey, guys, they need
Speaker 6: to be able to not allow a guy like Hendrickson
Speaker 6: to get to them and their nerves. So I feel
Speaker 6: that that that could potentially be the biggest problem.
Speaker 8: Which you said is really interesting because the Cowboys offense
Speaker 8: doesn't need Hendrickson to take them out of the game.
Speaker 8: They can naturally do it themselves. You know, they can
Speaker 8: naturally you know. They drive, they drive, they drive, They
Speaker 8: get in the red zone, they try a couple of waggles,
Speaker 8: it doesn't work. They try a handoff, doesn't work. Brandon
Speaker 8: Aubrey comes in and kicks a field goal. The Dallas'
Speaker 8: offense can naturally just stop itself, you know. So not
Speaker 8: only are they dealing with Trey Hendrickson, they're dealing with
Speaker 8: their own ghosts of not being able to finish drives
Speaker 8: with points and.
Speaker 5: Having someone like him on the opposite side can only
Speaker 5: further that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, where the Bengals can just yeah, they like you said, Chase,
Speaker 8: you know, t Higgins, they could score.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they find they fit.
Speaker 8: Best red zone team in the league, you know, and
Speaker 8: you're one of the worst defenses in the red zone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're going to take our first break. We
Speaker 5: will come back. We got a little yety time with
Speaker 5: ag will do that in just a second. This is
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Speaker 6: All right, well, so this segment is presented by Yetti
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Speaker 6: we're gonna go back to a game that we played
Speaker 6: last year, which was build your Perfect Player. And I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give you guys different qualities and you have to
Speaker 6: choose one player that can represent that quality. You cannot
Speaker 6: repeat anybody, and it has to be Cowboys players are
Speaker 6: currently on the roster. So who wants to start this off?
Speaker 10: Me?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 7: So just to clarify, we're picking a position first, right
Speaker 7: for this specific game against Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what position would this player? Your ideal player play?
Speaker 3: Running back?
Speaker 6: Okay, so you gotta running back? What would be his football?
Speaker 2: I Q.
Speaker 3: Give me the football I Q of.
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott, Dak the speed of Cavante Turpin's.
Speaker 2: I got another guy you can.
Speaker 6: Hand eye coordination.
Speaker 7: I probably wasn't his best displayed last week.
Speaker 6: But ceedee lamb Okay, strength, Tyler Smith, mental toughness, Oh,
Speaker 6: I can't repeat can uh?
Speaker 7: Brock Hoffman, he can't control himself sometimes.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 7: I want run a psychopath, right, you just don't run
Speaker 7: over everybody.
Speaker 6: Athleticism, athleticism, give me Jonathan Mingo Okay? Interesting? And then
Speaker 6: why would you name this player.
Speaker 3: Like a real name.
Speaker 2: It could be it could be a.
Speaker 8: Joke named dough too, because I am I got it
Speaker 8: one speedy mpower there.
Speaker 6: You go, Okay, I like speedy. All right, Dearrey, you're
Speaker 6: up all right?
Speaker 5: Uh, give me a safety because I look at this defense,
Speaker 5: This defense is starting to come together like they got
Speaker 5: a they got a difference making player on the front
Speaker 5: end in in the middle. Now give me that safety.
Speaker 5: Give me that Troy Palamalu type guy.
Speaker 2: So I'll take a safety football.
Speaker 6: I Q Kendricks good one speed, han eye coordination of.
Speaker 5: Course, overshelling, strength, Tyler Smith.
Speaker 6: Mental toughness, Zach Prescott athleticism perfect. And then name.
Speaker 5: Okay, so I got a name for you. He is
Speaker 5: actually the nephew of one DeMarcus Ware. His name is Ransomware.
Speaker 5: You inject him in the game and he wreaks havoc.
Speaker 5: He's that safety.
Speaker 3: Wow, much more creative than.
Speaker 2: You're a rookie to the game. Don't worry about.
Speaker 6: Ryan, You're up. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna take a corner back here. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 8: going to give you his name. His name is Larry Martin.
Speaker 8: Because I went from a combined to player from Larry
Speaker 8: Allen and Zach Martin. My player is going to be like, yeah,
Speaker 8: like a big tough guys when I'm gonna play here,
Speaker 8: that's my guy, Larry Martin.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, well football IQ football I Q. I'm going
Speaker 2: to give you Deron Bland Okay, speed, I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you overshown.
Speaker 6: Yep, mm hmmm, hand eye coordination.
Speaker 2: CD LAMB strength, I'm going to give you it's Tyler Smith.
Speaker 6: Mental toughness.
Speaker 8: Mental toughness is Dak Prescott and athleticism. That one now
Speaker 8: is going to be Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: Okay, I can't believe I didn't put Mike at Any
Speaker 5: of these.
Speaker 2: Guys are poor scouts.
Speaker 5: That is horrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Also, I can't believe only Tommy when would an offensive
Speaker 6: guy like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm like, y'all can handle the offensive side, the
Speaker 5: defensive point defense.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, Larry Martin.
Speaker 8: He's one of the best corners right, the best corner ever.
Speaker 2: A bunch of pick six you give me, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what.
Speaker 8: And I struggle with this because you were talking about
Speaker 8: h what was the one the category? The first one
Speaker 8: you gave is this is the i Q part. I
Speaker 8: struggled with Bland because I think Bland and Jordan Lewis
Speaker 8: are very similar when it comes to, like, you know,
Speaker 8: the football intelligence because you talk about the pick six
Speaker 8: is being in the right place, right time kind of
Speaker 8: a guy. So that's kind of where I was. But
Speaker 8: Jordan Lewis needed to be on this list for something.
Speaker 5: He really did. Maybe mental toughness.
Speaker 2: Maybe mental tough that's the guy he is not.
Speaker 5: He is not afraid. He's willing to go in there
Speaker 5: and does not get He's not dissuaded when things don't
Speaker 5: go his way. He just keeps coming, you know.
Speaker 6: Right, trash talk that's on the field. It's good.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll take that.
Speaker 6: He has that aggressiveness and.
Speaker 2: Hand eye too. Could be Jake Ferguson, you think about it.
Speaker 8: I've watched Jake Ferguson in a training camp practice when
Speaker 8: they juggle. Have you ever seen they throw those tennis
Speaker 8: balls and he's like he's not even looking he's catching them.
Speaker 8: They're coming to the top of his head and he's
Speaker 8: just looking in the you know. But he's made some
Speaker 8: pretty incredible plays that way.
Speaker 6: I agree and unconcussed. Jake Fergus, Yes, yes, health well,
Speaker 6: thank you guys for playing.
Speaker 5: You want to give us one me?
Speaker 2: I put you on the.
Speaker 6: Spot, okay, position quarterback.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2: She's not wrong, right, and I can't believe we did.
Speaker 6: We didn't think I'm trying to escore points. Okay, I'm
Speaker 6: not relying on just defense.
Speaker 5: Give yourself a Joe Brady right, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 6: Right, Okay. Quarterback football i Q. I would go with
Speaker 6: that's like interesting one because the guy I want to pick,
Speaker 6: I've seen it. I've seen it in action. I would
Speaker 6: say football IQ. A guy like Kendricks.
Speaker 2: Kendricks speed throw Brandy Cooks in there again, that's another
Speaker 2: guy to think about. Kind of guy, smart guy that
Speaker 2: kind of understands how to play the game.
Speaker 6: For speed. I like turping with speed, but he gets
Speaker 6: stuck too many times too, you know, so I don't
Speaker 6: need that from my quarterback. I would take branding Cooks
Speaker 6: for speed, hand eye coordination, a guy like CD strength,
Speaker 6: a guy like overshown because he can take hits, he
Speaker 6: can hit you back to if needed when he takes
Speaker 6: off running. Mental toughness dak for sure. And then athleticism.
Speaker 6: I would go with the guy like who haven't I said, hmmm,
Speaker 6: I would go with maybe a Durrone Bland. Yeah, he's
Speaker 6: pretty athletic, very a healthy, healthy Darne Bland. But like
Speaker 6: I said, I want my offense to score scare and
Speaker 6: well done. But again, thank you guys.
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Speaker 5: We got some questions from you guys that will throw
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Speaker 5: Here's we're gonna do. We got some questions from some
Speaker 5: fans and we'll see what you guys have to say
Speaker 5: about this. Dylan Jewett asks, considering the number of free
Speaker 5: agents the defense has this offseason, is there a realistic
Speaker 5: expectation that Eric Kendricks gets resigned? If you w do
Speaker 5: you think the team addresses a vacancy he'd leave behind
Speaker 5: in the draft.
Speaker 3: If he walks, I think he certainly. Yeah, absolutely drafts.
Speaker 5: I guess that the option would be either that or
Speaker 5: do you think there's somebody already on this team that
Speaker 5: could fill that vacancy.
Speaker 8: See, they just have not they have not played the
Speaker 8: mont Clark at all. Yeah, you know, and that's if
Speaker 8: the moon Clark. Now what about Maris Leafoul, right, you know,
Speaker 8: that's kind of.
Speaker 3: Where I think the possibility.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that would be a real possibility because
Speaker 8: you look at h kind of a very similar look
Speaker 8: to the two guys with all the hair and kind
Speaker 8: of running around and you know, crazy kind of the
Speaker 8: way that they play downhill and all. And you know,
Speaker 8: Maris has played and a lot of the nickel be
Speaker 8: a lot of the bass stuff, and he's every time
Speaker 8: he's been on the field like good things have kind
Speaker 8: of happened. There's been fumbles, there's been sacks, there's been
Speaker 8: you know, him making a tackle.
Speaker 2: So I think if they.
Speaker 8: If Kendricks were to move on, which you know, we'll see,
Speaker 8: he's played a long time. We interview him every week.
Speaker 8: He seems like he's still you know, rareing to go.
Speaker 5: And all that was his deal was a one year
Speaker 5: or two year deal?
Speaker 2: Was it a one year things this year anyway, I think.
Speaker 8: Yeah, make sure that fact check me on that. I
Speaker 8: kind of felt like that he was looking at a
Speaker 8: one year deal.
Speaker 3: There's a one year deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so but I think, yeah, I think that we'll see.
Speaker 2: But with Clark, but I think.
Speaker 8: That that that Maryslely, if that will be the guy
Speaker 8: that if they move on, he'll be your starting Mike linebacker.
Speaker 6: See, even though I like the guys that we currently
Speaker 6: have on the roster, those younger guys, I still would
Speaker 6: like more of a veteran presence there because we've seen it.
Speaker 6: If one thing we've seen this season, and personally I
Speaker 6: believe so, it's how important the linebacker position is and
Speaker 6: it affects the whole defense. So I would love to
Speaker 6: have somebody. If not him, I would obviously would love
Speaker 6: to have him back, But if not him, I would
Speaker 6: hope to go and address that during free agency with
Speaker 6: another veteran guy. No, No one does say sign a
Speaker 6: free agent. Yes, but I'm not saying break the bank either,
Speaker 6: because we don't got money. Don't worry, we don't got
Speaker 6: no money. Break the bank.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. We're good. We got we got we got that,
Speaker 2: we got that plan right down.
Speaker 6: If whatever would equal his current salary, So something like that.
Speaker 7: I kind of agree with Brian in the sentiment that
Speaker 7: Marius leah Foul might be your future there. I think
Speaker 7: that the sign of that that I saw at least
Speaker 7: was when Kendricks missed game.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's your green dot. That's a rookie. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: a smart player.
Speaker 7: So the question is has he grown enough to where
Speaker 7: you trust him and to get an uptick there. I
Speaker 7: also wouldn't hate if they draft a linebacker, maybe in
Speaker 7: one of the later rounds. I think there are some
Speaker 7: value guys there for you. But yeah, if Kendricks doesn't,
Speaker 7: I mean, I think you welcome him back if if
Speaker 7: you'd like to, just because he's your leading tackler. He's
Speaker 7: a veteran, he's been around a long time. He understands
Speaker 7: Mike Zimmer's system because he's played in it for so long.
Speaker 7: If Zimmer was to stay too, so you know, there
Speaker 7: are some options there. But I would lean kind of
Speaker 7: towards Lefoul maybe picking up one more in the draft
Speaker 7: if he was.
Speaker 8: Yeah, if it depends on you know, we don't know
Speaker 8: what the future holes. There's a potential coaching change and
Speaker 8: do you have a new defensive coordinator in here, and
Speaker 8: does that defense defensive Yeah, does that defensive coordinator have
Speaker 8: somebody that he worked with before. That's a young guy
Speaker 8: that all of a sudden that team that he just
Speaker 8: came from gave up on him, or Dallas can make
Speaker 8: one of those trades where you know, they send a
Speaker 8: you know, a sixth round pick to go get a
Speaker 8: guy like that. But I think that Lea fouls the
Speaker 8: guy that's going to take over that spot if if
Speaker 8: Kendricks moves on.
Speaker 5: That's a great point. Even with Kendricks, I think that
Speaker 5: was all about the fact that he had familiarity with
Speaker 5: what Zimer was trying to do, and Zimber want to
Speaker 5: have that guy on the defense to be able to
Speaker 5: help the transition, right right, Yeah, that makes a lot
Speaker 5: of sense. All right, we actually have our caller here.
Speaker 5: We got a car Mine out in Jersey. Carmine, what up?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 19: Yeah you don't. I tried to Actually I text you
Speaker 19: a couple of things too, But like always, I appreciate
Speaker 19: the show. You guys are great, Amber. I like the
Speaker 19: Yettie games, They're great. My question is, remember, like I said,
Speaker 19: thank you answering the question yesterday. I wanted to add
Speaker 19: on today because I understand that you guys think that
Speaker 19: maybe the scheme that people are having a hard time
Speaker 19: understanding it. But the difference between last year and this
Speaker 19: year was only Michael Gallop was going it's the same
Speaker 19: offensive people except for the line. So I don't necessarily
Speaker 19: buy that, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, what are you not buying?
Speaker 19: But I'm not really buying like people don't really understand
Speaker 19: the scheme because everybody understood it last year, you know
Speaker 19: what I mean.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know that yesterday when we I can't
Speaker 5: remember your exact question yesterday, But I don't think there
Speaker 5: was anything that I certainly don't remember me or anyone
Speaker 5: saying that the offensive problems were a result of people
Speaker 5: not understanding the scheme. I think when we talked about
Speaker 5: the defense was one point this week. We talked about
Speaker 5: the fact that it took them a little while to
Speaker 5: get accustomed to the new scheme, and it looks like
Speaker 5: maybe they're starting to get it now. But that certainly
Speaker 5: wasn't what we were saying about the offense.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I know what you're saying. I know I'm on
Speaker 19: the same page for you.
Speaker 11: Guys.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I'm pulling my hair out because I wanted to,
Speaker 19: you know, open it up.
Speaker 5: So yeah, no, and I I remember your call. I
Speaker 5: remember your question. Now you're asking if if they should
Speaker 5: now be looking to open up the offense now that
Speaker 5: that Mike McCarthy, I mean, shouldn't because the offensive line
Speaker 5: is playing better? Should they look to open up the
Speaker 5: offense more? And that's a question to me, I think ultimately,
Speaker 5: when you say open it up, what do you really mean, like,
Speaker 5: how are you going to because if you don't have
Speaker 5: the quarterback to open it up, or are you going
Speaker 5: to really open it up? Or do you have to
Speaker 5: play a certain kind of football because you're compromise at quarterback?
Speaker 2: They one games? Run the football. Yeah, they've won games.
Speaker 2: They have one game.
Speaker 8: They win the Steelers game, they won the Giant game,
Speaker 8: they win the Commander's game running the football. You know,
Speaker 8: the metrics are there for them to That just shows
Speaker 8: you right there, what's the one thing you're really pretty
Speaker 8: getting pretty decent at is taking rico'doddle and trying to
Speaker 8: run the football and be committed to doing that. And
Speaker 8: if I'm not, if it means opening it up to
Speaker 8: opening up to the run more. I'm all for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, the natural formula is your run game opens up
Speaker 7: your passing game. So part of what Carlin said answered
Speaker 7: his own question. In terms of the offense as shortcomings,
Speaker 7: I think it's been the offensive line. I mean, you
Speaker 7: lose a guy like Tyron Smith that left tackle. That's
Speaker 7: pretty significant. Zach Martin was playing most of the year
Speaker 7: pretty healthy last year. So you know, those are two
Speaker 7: big changes that you've had to face. And now you
Speaker 7: add on to that that you've got a backup quarterback
Speaker 7: in there who isn't necessarily the best at pushing the
Speaker 7: ball downfield like Dak Prescott was last year, and this
Speaker 7: offense is completely different, doesn't matter what kind of personnel
Speaker 7: you've got at the skill position. So I agree with Brian.
Speaker 7: I think you got to run the football here. Rico
Speaker 7: Daddles try to. Yeah, Rico Daddall has shown you that
Speaker 7: he can. He can get you good four yards to carry,
Speaker 7: and like I said yesterday, I'm talking four times, threes, twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 7: you need ten yards for a first down. Yeah, So
Speaker 7: if you can get him going in the run game,
Speaker 7: that's really I think how you win this. I know
Speaker 7: we'll geting to predictions here in a little bit. That's
Speaker 7: how you win the Cincinnati game. You've got to drain
Speaker 7: the clock and run the ball and keep Cincinnati's offense
Speaker 7: off the field as long as you can.
Speaker 5: I love how you let that Texas education just shine
Speaker 5: there four times.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Twelve That was the most math I did
Speaker 3: in Austin.
Speaker 5: Brian's still trying to figure out LSU.
Speaker 2: That's not what they do best. But thirteen was a
Speaker 2: yard short. You had eleven? Howd you get to twelve? Hey,
Speaker 2: eleven is still the first down? Right either way? It
Speaker 2: works all right.
Speaker 6: One of my favorite tools in college.
Speaker 5: Was the calculator.
Speaker 6: The calculator you can type down answers and then findal
Speaker 6: later in tests. It was great. But I was gonna
Speaker 6: say last week was a clear show of why you
Speaker 6: should run like the only one made Cooper Rush look better. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the run game. So I think being able to have
Speaker 6: the combination of both, I mean, we've seen it, We've
Speaker 6: seen how it just helps you. So yeah, agree.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 8: I try to do everything in my power to keep
Speaker 8: from the defense getting put in harm's way, because if
Speaker 8: I can, now I might not score enough points. But
Speaker 8: I feel like my defense is starting to play better.
Speaker 8: You know, they've they've they're starting to get guys back,
Speaker 8: they're getting a little bit more healthy, they're they're the
Speaker 8: scheme stuff is, you know, seems to be working for
Speaker 8: him right now. So you know, I'm doing everything in
Speaker 8: my power to keep the other team's offense off the field.
Speaker 8: Finish drives with points as much as I can bleed
Speaker 8: that clock, and and and and let my defense get
Speaker 8: after these guys. That's kind of my my plan the
Speaker 8: rest of the way.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to get our picks. Now, let's
Speaker 5: hear what you guys think is going to happen this Monday,
Speaker 5: Cowboys versus Bengals. Start with you, Tommy.
Speaker 7: I think Cincinnati's offense is just too good in this game.
Speaker 7: And when you look at the season that they've had, Yeah,
Speaker 7: they're four and eight, Seven of those eight losses are
Speaker 7: by one possession. Yeah, so they might be one of
Speaker 7: the better four and eight teams ever, But that also
Speaker 7: doesn't take away from the fact that their defense has
Speaker 7: been abysmal at points in the season. They lose a
Speaker 7: guy like Logan Wilson in their second level.
Speaker 3: That's a big hit.
Speaker 7: So you can have Trey Hendrickson, but you've still got
Speaker 7: to find a way to be better on the outside
Speaker 7: at the cornerback, in the defensive back spots. And I've
Speaker 7: got some playmakers out there like Cam Taylor Britt who
Speaker 7: I really like. But I just don't think Dallas's offense
Speaker 7: has the firepower when they're inevitably going to.
Speaker 3: Have to throw the ball in this game to win it.
Speaker 7: And I think that Cincinnati's offense does at such a
Speaker 7: high level and they can score so fast that it
Speaker 7: might just overwhelm them. So I've got Cincinnati in this
Speaker 7: game thirty one to twenty one.
Speaker 8: It's a good score. Give me the Cowboys in this one.
Speaker 8: I'm thinking that maybe the defense does get some stops
Speaker 8: and they do find a way to neutralize Hendrickson as
Speaker 8: a rusher.
Speaker 2: Running the football.
Speaker 8: I think this is going to be you know, they've
Speaker 8: they've played some really some tough, kind of grinded out
Speaker 8: games against the AFC, Nordy Meane, the early game against
Speaker 8: the opening day against the Browns, you know, having to
Speaker 8: kind of like you get ahead and then you're kind
Speaker 8: of trying to hang on and you know, but you're
Speaker 8: gonna have to play tough that way. The Steeler game
Speaker 8: I mentioned Baltimore was you know you rallied at the end.
Speaker 8: I mean Baltimore tried to kind of get you back
Speaker 8: in the game at the end, and so but I
Speaker 8: kind of feel like though this is going to be
Speaker 8: one of those games. I think Dallas is going to
Speaker 8: get some stops in this game. I think they're going
Speaker 8: to their pass rush is going to cause some problems
Speaker 8: in this game because I don't think they're scared of
Speaker 8: Cincinnati running the football and what's been happening. We always
Speaker 8: every week we come on here and talk about running game,
Speaker 8: running game, running game, running game. Cincinnati doesn't. It's their
Speaker 8: passing game, and I think that plays into Dallas's hands.
Speaker 8: Give me the Cowboys in this one, giving me the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: the Cowboys twenty six and the Bengals twenty.
Speaker 6: I just feel like the it's going to be a
Speaker 6: competitive game. I agree with the Cowboys defense being able
Speaker 6: to compete and get some stops, but at the same time,
Speaker 6: there will allow some touchdowns to my concern and main
Speaker 6: concern comes to the Cowboys offense and whether or not
Speaker 6: they'll be able to score enough points to keep up
Speaker 6: and also early enough not wait till the last few
Speaker 6: minutes of the game. So that's the biggest challenge, and
Speaker 6: I want to believe, but I don't know. I think
Speaker 6: even though it's going to come close to it, I
Speaker 6: think the Bengals end up winning the game thirty five
Speaker 6: twenty eight, right.
Speaker 5: I actually think this is going to be a lower
Speaker 5: scoring game than most people think. I think this is
Speaker 5: going to be a game where the Cowboys will get
Speaker 5: some pressure on Burrow, they will slow him down again.
Speaker 5: They'll still get some points, but it won't be the
Speaker 5: kind of points that they've been scoring recently. I think
Speaker 5: this Cowboys defense is getting markedly better every week that
Speaker 5: they're playing and getting healthier. I think they're getting much
Speaker 5: better now. A lot of this is me assuming that
Speaker 5: Trayvon Diggs is back, and I think if Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 5: is back, with him and Bland with your pass rush,
Speaker 5: being able to really see how they can use these
Speaker 5: linebackers in the pass brush pass rush when you actually
Speaker 5: have the corners out there to be able to support it,
Speaker 5: I see some turnovers happening, and I think that's how
Speaker 5: this game stays lower scoring. But I think Cowboys are
Speaker 5: able to pull it out. I think Cowboys have some struggles,
Speaker 5: so I think Hendrickson is going to be a bigger
Speaker 5: challenge than what we may believe. I think he's going
Speaker 5: to be a hard guy to stop for Dallas unless
Speaker 5: they're willing to divert a lot of attention to him.
Speaker 5: And if so, how does that affect their ability offensively
Speaker 5: to do the things they want to do? And I
Speaker 5: do think they get the win at home twenty three
Speaker 5: seventeen final score.
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