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Speaker 2: So this might be my final chance. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 2: any mirrors. I haven't reaped any mirrors year. That's why
Speaker 2: they met the playoffs. I went to. I went to
Speaker 2: the game where they beat up on the Rangers, though
Speaker 2: they weren't alone in that regard. The Rangers won the game.
Speaker 2: You went to, No, we definitely beat up on them boys.
Speaker 2: There it is. I don't think they want a game
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Speaker 3: Okay, we have one of the greatest players of all
Speaker 3: time in our history. Multiple we got like the Nolan
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Speaker 2: Yeah we have Griffy Randy Johnson. Okay, how many championships
Speaker 2: did they win with you guys, doesn't matter. It's absolutely matter, doesn't.
Speaker 2: It totally changes from year to year. THERAPD is going
Speaker 2: on back then. Yeah, years, I represent the grips. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those are my size, not your side. You know how
Speaker 2: it goes exactly. I love postseason baseball, I said to baseball,
Speaker 2: just watched all sorts of October baseball.
Speaker 3: And for those that didn't get that, okay, that was
Speaker 3: an underlying joke there in the in the hood. Okay,
Speaker 3: if you grow up in a bad neighborhood, if you're
Speaker 3: if you're walking on the street, okay, and some fellows
Speaker 3: or maybe some ladies and you never know, I asked you,
Speaker 3: what your.
Speaker 2: Side, what side shoe you wear?
Speaker 4: The bad news?
Speaker 3: Don't even respond, Just look for the nearest exit or
Speaker 3: the best exit plant and just take off. Try me
Speaker 3: at that point, like not not creasing your shoes. Is
Speaker 3: not worth.
Speaker 2: Losing your shoes. Okay, so just take.
Speaker 3: Off running because back in the day, somebody asked you
Speaker 3: what side shoe you wear?
Speaker 2: You look down, You look down at your shoes.
Speaker 3: By the time you look up, you're gonna be straight
Speaker 3: uh louty tunes with the little stars. See that's what
Speaker 3: that's what we were a little bit different from where
Speaker 3: I'm from because where I gave you.
Speaker 2: Is the answer.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, but you're right, don't take your eyes off
Speaker 3: the person, like, don't look down. It depends on how
Speaker 3: many people they got. It depends how many people they
Speaker 3: got if it's one person. And okay, you may answer
Speaker 3: my size and you square up because this is about
Speaker 3: to go down because.
Speaker 2: As they say in Las Bogs, making bigger desertion, you
Speaker 2: can return it and say you can say they're your
Speaker 2: size and just really know that's how U n t stuff.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no. That was actually told to
Speaker 2: me by one Bury church. Yeah, said I'm about to
Speaker 2: blow up to that's a South Lake statement. You know,
Speaker 2: you know you don't say that.
Speaker 4: That's on your rough oil on yourself and you start
Speaker 4: running at them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, freaking out.
Speaker 4: They're like never want baby oil.
Speaker 2: Sorry, maybe that a stock nowadays.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just gotta out weird the per game.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's agreed. Agreed. That's the way you get news
Speaker 2: and notes.
Speaker 3: Pat save this place, all right, So we got you yesterday,
Speaker 3: DeMarcus Lawrence was moved to IR, which was completely expected.
Speaker 3: He will be down a minimum of four games with
Speaker 3: that foot spring so verrez that Yeah, the corresponding, well,
Speaker 3: I should say, that's the corresponding move to the Cowboys
Speaker 3: poaching kJ Henry off of the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad.
Speaker 3: It's a two year deal. He's going to be on
Speaker 3: the active roster for a minimum of three weeks per
Speaker 3: poaching rules in the NFL.
Speaker 2: So he's here.
Speaker 3: But so they had to make the corresponding move expectedly,
Speaker 3: they put DeMarcus launch on IR. Michael Parsons remains week
Speaker 3: to week. He is quote unquote frustrated. He said, this
Speaker 3: injury is humbling the high ankle sprain. He's talking as
Speaker 3: if he's going to miss against the Steelers. He's not
Speaker 3: been ruled out yet, but looks like a foregone conclusion
Speaker 3: at the moment.
Speaker 2: But again he's still week the week.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy did say, however, that the team is preparing
Speaker 3: to play without him, so don't expect him to be
Speaker 3: on the field.
Speaker 2: I'll be shocked if he is too valuable for the
Speaker 2: long run. Then you got the Lions and then the bye, and.
Speaker 3: Then the forty nine is coming up, games that are
Speaker 3: going to be that much more challenging than even the
Speaker 3: challenge of.
Speaker 2: The Steelers in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Kayln Carson missed last week with a shoulder injury suffered
Speaker 3: in the loss against the Ravens. We'll see if he
Speaker 3: practices today, but McCarthy said he's making some progress. See
Speaker 3: if you can take the field to Ron Bland. Do
Speaker 3: not expect Dron Bland on the field against the Steelers.
Speaker 3: Too soon for that, but his twenty one day practice
Speaker 3: window could be opened as early as today, And for
Speaker 3: those that don't know, once that window was opened, you
Speaker 3: have twenty one days to either put the player on
Speaker 3: the active roster or they revert to season ending ir
Speaker 3: that's the in house news, and I'm just driving in
Speaker 3: this morning. Happened to casually catch a couple of reports
Speaker 3: saying the Cowboys might be interested in a big name
Speaker 3: guy from a big name place. At a particular position.
Speaker 3: But it kind of raised my eyebrow because of the position.
Speaker 3: So brow yeah, rocks eyebrow. Okay, right, you're down Micah
Speaker 3: for at least maybe one game. Yep, you're down to
Speaker 3: Marcus Lawrence for a minimum of four games out We
Speaker 3: talked to about the running back position struggling and where's
Speaker 3: Dalvin in whatever the case may be. But the Cowboys
Speaker 3: themselves in training camp kind of left the door open
Speaker 3: for a possible trade scenario at running back if things
Speaker 3: didn't kind of work.
Speaker 2: Out the way they wanted to work out.
Speaker 3: I guess my question to you guys is, would you
Speaker 3: if you were to strike a trade before November fifth,
Speaker 3: what position would it be?
Speaker 2: Would it be wide receiver? Would it be running back?
Speaker 5: I was, I was standing on business a few weeks.
Speaker 4: I need I need a wide receiver.
Speaker 5: I need another wide receiver personally, Uh, just me, just
Speaker 5: for I would love to have a wide.
Speaker 2: Receiver just so why that? Yeah, That's what I'm.
Speaker 4: Going to me. There's we've talked about it. The separation
Speaker 4: I don't think is there.
Speaker 5: I think Brandon Cooks is have and all wide receivers
Speaker 5: outside of Brandon Cooks are having trouble getting open and
Speaker 5: Dak is having to throw these like pristine, perfect window throws.
Speaker 3: Uh, demirror, Yeah, yeah, exactly, Demur.
Speaker 5: I just don't think that the spacing is out there.
Speaker 5: I don't think the threat is out there. I don't
Speaker 5: think anybody's necessarily afraid of any of the receivers outside
Speaker 5: of CD Lamb. So to me, you add another weapon,
Speaker 5: I think that opens up a lot of windows. That
Speaker 5: opens up not only throwing windows, but that opens up
Speaker 5: your running game a little bit. That kind of pushes
Speaker 5: the defense down the field if you have another threat
Speaker 5: on the other side that isn't Cede Lamb.
Speaker 2: There was sorry, go ahead, I was gonna say. We
Speaker 2: talked about it a little bit with Brandon Cooks. Though.
Speaker 2: If there's no running game, how much separation are you
Speaker 2: going to get when teams sell out to stop the pass.
Speaker 4: But you also would have Brandon Cooks in the scenario.
Speaker 2: Right, you would, and he would be your wide receiver
Speaker 2: three hopefully, But even then as a wide receiver two,
Speaker 2: he hasn't been able to get it done. Bringing in
Speaker 2: another guy, whoever that may be on the open market.
Speaker 2: Bringing in another guy, does that immediately make you a
Speaker 2: better football team just by having another wide receiver two here.
Speaker 2: I think there's other ways to improve this team at
Speaker 2: rather than spending high dollar, high draft capital, high picks
Speaker 2: to go get a guy in a spot where you
Speaker 2: already feel like you're good enough but you just aren't
Speaker 2: having the cohesiveness.
Speaker 3: Outside of that, you're talking about drafting for somebody who
Speaker 3: was of the caliber to be able to complement CD Lamb.
Speaker 3: It's going to be costly. Oh, it's going to be costly,
Speaker 3: so you have to you have to take that into account.
Speaker 3: For me, it's it's about establishing the run and that
Speaker 3: should open up opportunities for Brandon Cooks to separate and
Speaker 3: things like that. That'll force guys teams to stop playing
Speaker 3: too high safety maybe they go single high because they
Speaker 3: have to put another guy in the box.
Speaker 2: And now you give.
Speaker 3: Brandon Cooks the opportunity to impact you on those deep
Speaker 3: crossers and on those gold routes and things like that.
Speaker 3: Uh So, I don't know, man, for me, is it
Speaker 3: a signs that you is this a party?
Speaker 2: God's like, what's side of those? But I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't know that whide receiver would be it.
Speaker 3: I think you have the talent here in the Brandon
Speaker 3: Cooks to complement CD Lamb, and once Jake Ferguson really
Speaker 3: starts to get gone, I think you have that for
Speaker 3: the passing to take. But I look at a position
Speaker 3: like defensive end. Yeah, kJ Henry, he has some talent,
Speaker 3: but what does that look like? You have a depth
Speaker 3: chart at defensive end that doesn't have depth right now.
Speaker 2: That's very concerning for me.
Speaker 3: And thankfully the cornerback position is about to be resolved
Speaker 3: by Doron Bland coming back here soon. But if I
Speaker 3: were to strike a trade, the only two positions I'm
Speaker 3: willing to really entertain unless the price was just something
Speaker 3: you can't pass up on at wide receiver, which I
Speaker 3: don't think that's gonna happen at all, would be maybe
Speaker 3: running back and most certainly defensive end, depending on how
Speaker 3: the progress of DeMarcus Lawrence goes and if the Cowboys
Speaker 3: starts slipping backward in the absence.
Speaker 2: Of the Marcus Lawnce you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Of course, there's so much that you that you put
Speaker 3: into that that update there. I have to let us
Speaker 3: go backwards. Come go back a little bit, Come on,
Speaker 3: rewind it. You're about to play the Pittsburgh Steelers. Correct
Speaker 3: their quarterback currently is Justin Fields currently, Yeah, Justin Fields.
Speaker 3: He's been he's been doing okay this year. He's been
Speaker 3: doing okay this year. He's playing with more confidence. And
Speaker 3: I tell people all the time, this is a game
Speaker 3: of confidence. I don't care what your history has shown.
Speaker 3: I don't care that you're at the highest level of
Speaker 3: your competition field. If you're if you have confidence, you
Speaker 3: were going to be the best version of yourself. And
Speaker 3: I think that's what we're starting to see with Justin Fields.
Speaker 2: Everything that he was.
Speaker 3: Capable of doing in Chicago, he's gaining on that every
Speaker 3: week while he's in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: They lost last week obviously, but that was still his
Speaker 3: best numbers he's had his.
Speaker 2: Time in the league. So he's gaining, he's getting better.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you have a dual threat quarterback and you're
Speaker 3: missing both of your defensive ends. Can we start there both?
Speaker 3: Can we both both? Should be em both of them?
Speaker 3: So no shirts plays on that one. That's a best
Speaker 3: of bad shirt. But that's a problem. That's a problem,
Speaker 3: and we've talked about Marshall Neeland had a good week
Speaker 3: one against the Cleveland Browns. But I've also said that
Speaker 3: I don't feel personally my opinion, I don't think that
Speaker 3: he's a true defensive end. I think he's more of
Speaker 3: an interior I as alignment. I think that's his style
Speaker 3: of play. I don't think he's quick enough, not doesn't
Speaker 3: have a quick twitch. I don't think he's as powerful
Speaker 3: as a mouse Garrett to be able to just overpower you.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that he has an overarching speed
Speaker 3: to be able to get around the corner. I just
Speaker 3: don't think he possesses those abilities.
Speaker 4: Bar for Barr, Kyle said this for you yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I said Isaiah would say yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's like I can hear him right now. It's
Speaker 2: like I don't want to put words in his memory,
Speaker 2: but I guarantee this is what he would say exactly
Speaker 2: what we look like. So yeah, so there's a problem there.
Speaker 2: There's a depth there.
Speaker 3: Law and Isaiah carl I also said in the preseason,
Speaker 3: after watching you know, calling those games for the Cowboys
Speaker 3: this preseason and seeing him play, no no, no shade
Speaker 3: on him, I just I think he's a one I
Speaker 3: think he's a one trick pony, and that's not that's
Speaker 3: not a negative thing. Is just like if that, if
Speaker 3: you're gonna have one trick, you better be dominant with it.
Speaker 3: And I don't believe that he is so well.
Speaker 2: He's also a rookie. He's four games into his career. Okay,
Speaker 2: but that's I get what you're saying. I don't want
Speaker 2: to knock the guy. I don't know. I'm not knocking
Speaker 2: the guy. I'm not. I don't listen not I don't
Speaker 2: take shots at people. Y'all know this, right.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, from what I've seen on film, he
Speaker 3: has not displayed an ability to make contributions to this
Speaker 3: team that affect and impact the game.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying today. I think it's running today.
Speaker 3: Okay, his run defense is there, correct, there but two
Speaker 3: and I'm about to agree to Marshawn's own point.
Speaker 2: His past rush is not there. He's just saying himself.
Speaker 2: He needs to know. I'm sorry I left the marshaon Neeland.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about lost. Now Carlo show that he can. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about Carloston just to show. That's how I
Speaker 2: went back to that. I went back to the preseason
Speaker 2: and said they brought in Carl Loston like his guy.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen anything on film that shows me that
Speaker 3: he can make an impact on the game. Kneeland, yes,
Speaker 3: run game right, He's He's an interior defense alignment in
Speaker 3: my eyes, and Marshall Kneland is okay, he will turn
Speaker 3: into something, you know, in terms of a.
Speaker 2: D N hopefully.
Speaker 3: I just think his body type and all that, naturally
Speaker 3: he's interior defense alignment. That's just that's just my opinion, Okay.
Speaker 4: With Carl Loston, I feel like his simple size is
Speaker 4: too small.
Speaker 5: I mean if you consider the preseason where if he
Speaker 5: played one game I think it was, and they were
Speaker 5: basically like, all.
Speaker 4: Right, we're gonna put them on in the practice. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he's not ready, he's not ramped up.
Speaker 3: But he was Also what's concerned about Carl Lawson is,
Speaker 3: and I said this yesterday, we were assuming and under
Speaker 3: the assumption that in the absence of Micah and Tank,
Speaker 3: that the McCarthy would then start talking about obviously Marshaw Kneeland,
Speaker 3: but also Carl Lawson's kind of that combo package. That's
Speaker 3: not what McCarthy was talking about now, it's talking about
Speaker 3: Marshaw Kneelan and Chauncey Ghoston. What does that tell you
Speaker 3: about Carl Lawson. It tells you what Isaiah saym. He
Speaker 3: has to show that he can contribute. Yes, So I'm
Speaker 3: not confident there. Right, So you're about to play a
Speaker 3: dual threat quarterback. You're talking about a team that runs
Speaker 3: the ball just as much as Baltimore and New Orleans, right,
Speaker 3: these guys, these guys running the ball. And by the way,
Speaker 3: those are both teams that you've lost to this year.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: So these guys run the ball thirty four times a game,
Speaker 3: thirty four times a game.
Speaker 2: And that's not just turning around the hand of the
Speaker 2: ball off.
Speaker 3: That's also quarterback rounds that he's getting out the pocket.
Speaker 3: These are mocked up, whether it's it's not that's not
Speaker 3: him breaking the pocket on a pass, that's him actually
Speaker 3: having pulling guards, tackles, going after the going after your
Speaker 3: second level guys, hooking your defensive hands and getting out
Speaker 3: on the edge.
Speaker 2: So I don't feel confident there.
Speaker 3: But when you start talking about what position would you
Speaker 3: go try to trade for, there's a lot of there's
Speaker 3: a lot of issues right now with this team. There's
Speaker 3: there you have a depth issue that you knew that
Speaker 3: you had at defense end. You were hoping that nobody
Speaker 3: got hurt if you were to have you have two
Speaker 3: guys missing at the defensive line. If you had one
Speaker 3: guy you missed at receiver.
Speaker 2: Three Sam Williams, that's true. Sam William's gone, Yes, so
Speaker 2: you didn't.
Speaker 3: Nobody anticipates losing three guys, right, So Dallas. Dallas did
Speaker 3: not have a depth issue at that position coming into
Speaker 3: the season. But injuries now put you in a position
Speaker 3: where you have a depths one.
Speaker 2: You have one at receiver coming into the season.
Speaker 3: If you had one injury at receiver, you had a
Speaker 3: depth issue.
Speaker 2: Donezo. If you had one, right, you have one.
Speaker 3: You didn't lose any contributors this year coming into the season.
Speaker 3: You had one of the top offenses last year. Yep,
Speaker 3: you're coming in with that same personnel. You're coming in
Speaker 3: with the same personnel and your offense is just just
Speaker 3: not getting it done. So yes, part of it is separation.
Speaker 3: When I when people talk about Brandon Cooks and his separation,
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily agree with that narrative wholeheartedly because I
Speaker 3: think that he's open when he's supposed to be open.
Speaker 2: But if the ball's not on time. Now he's not open.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, he's quick, he's not get Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the ball's not getting out in a timely fashion,
Speaker 3: which anybody right. If you don't continue to work back
Speaker 3: to the quarterback, you're no longer open.
Speaker 2: Right. If I run my route and I'm open, I
Speaker 2: stop my feet. Now that defensive back has closed that gap.
Speaker 2: Now I'm not open.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I think Brandon Cooks is getting open. If
Speaker 3: the ball was to be on time, you're not getting
Speaker 3: the contributions from the other receivers the way in which
Speaker 3: you in which you need to. You're not seeing the
Speaker 3: creativity offensively like we've seen in the past from coach McCarthy.
Speaker 3: I know Christmas is a couple months away, but we
Speaker 3: need to get into that back a little bit earlier
Speaker 3: because your offense is not doing what it needs to do.
Speaker 2: Usually that's the opposite of what you said. Usually you
Speaker 2: say let's save the bag. Absolutely, let's push it. They're like,
Speaker 2: fill out a little bit. So we have to get
Speaker 2: that to the part you're talking about, the running game.
Speaker 2: The running game is hasn't a direct effect on this
Speaker 2: offense's ability to move the ball down the No doubt,
Speaker 2: if you don't have a running game. You're now teams
Speaker 2: know you have to throw.
Speaker 3: Now I can sit two guys over the top, right,
Speaker 3: I don't have to put seven eight guys in the box.
Speaker 3: I can play six guys in the box and run
Speaker 3: stunts right all day long and get pressure in the
Speaker 3: backfield and stop your running game. So now I can
Speaker 3: sit back and I could double up on guys, I
Speaker 3: could take care of crossers. I can have multiple safeties
Speaker 3: back there to take care of the big splash plays
Speaker 3: that we've had historically. When you see CD running those
Speaker 3: over routes, when you see Cavartae Turpin running an overroute
Speaker 3: like you ran in the first first week or second
Speaker 3: week of the season, whatever it was, you don't see
Speaker 3: you don't get those plays anymore because they have extra
Speaker 3: guys back there.
Speaker 2: So now Dak is in a position where he has to.
Speaker 3: Be precise with every dog on pass that he throws,
Speaker 3: and he can't get creative and he can't do play
Speaker 3: action because that's what he does best. So the running
Speaker 3: game has to be affected. And it's not just a
Speaker 3: personnel thing in the backfield. It's not just a backfield thing.
Speaker 3: Everybody's looking to that Room. We're gonna do a breakdown
Speaker 3: on film room this week. I'm not sure how they
Speaker 3: distribute that anymore. Right, it's on social right, but we're
Speaker 3: gonna do a breakdown to show you just how close too,
Speaker 3: just how close this running game is this.
Speaker 2: This is just guys just not taking care of their assignments. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not scheme.
Speaker 3: It's the same old line coach, it's the same offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: it's the same play called. This is just guys not
Speaker 3: getting their blocks, and there's usually one guy that doesn't
Speaker 3: do his job. You got ten guys doing their job,
Speaker 3: but one guy misses his blocking assignment. The whole play
Speaker 3: is crap, and we're going to show that on film
Speaker 3: this week. So definitely take a look at that whenever
Speaker 3: we get it put out. And I think that's good.
Speaker 3: I think that's part of the point that I was making.
Speaker 3: Compared to Josh wanting a wide receiver, it would be
Speaker 3: a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. You go get a high caliber
Speaker 2: wide receiver. We've seen it in the past when they
Speaker 2: traded for Amari Cooper in twenty eighteen. The fact that
Speaker 2: it does provide a jolt to your team that's great
Speaker 2: when everything else is also set in place. I don't
Speaker 2: think everything else is set in place right now. And
Speaker 2: if you if you think that's the case, go get
Speaker 2: a wide receiver, Go do it. But if you really
Speaker 2: think so, if you want to spend that type of
Speaker 2: capital to go get it done, go get it done.
Speaker 2: If you believe it will help. I don't think it
Speaker 2: helps to the significance of what it's gonna take to
Speaker 2: go get something like this is a water bed with
Speaker 2: multiple holes in it right now? One band date, Oh
Speaker 2: the waterbed the water eighties. Maybe if you guys don't
Speaker 2: know what a water is like an industrial those like
Speaker 2: when it gets well, it's gonna fall off. Almost made
Speaker 2: a joke.
Speaker 3: But this sponsor, uh listen, water beds and I know
Speaker 3: Beamer in the back probably knows his back.
Speaker 2: He probably had one of those. He still has one waterbed.
Speaker 3: You did not get in a water bed with pins,
Speaker 3: any anything sharp in your pockets, because you will poacher
Speaker 3: the water bed and all of a sudden you got
Speaker 3: leaky bait.
Speaker 2: You guys have sharp things in your pockets.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about pencils, pins, You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Bobby pin whatever, right, if you puncture a water bed, right,
Speaker 3: you only have one trade if you were to if
Speaker 3: you're the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: You got one shot.
Speaker 3: You're one shot, but you have multiple areas that need
Speaker 3: to be addressed. Okay, the Office of Lines not playing
Speaker 3: as a unit. All right, talk about in the running game.
Speaker 3: Your running backs are not getting get done in terms
Speaker 3: of being They don't even possessed ability to accelerate and
Speaker 3: get through some of these holes or make a guy miss. Right,
Speaker 3: The blocking scheme has to be perfect. We talked about
Speaker 3: this running back room. I said, there's only one guy
Speaker 3: in the entire room that has the ability to make
Speaker 3: anybody miss and win their one on one.
Speaker 2: Right, if you left the safety.
Speaker 3: Most blocking schemes, I don't know if people know this,
Speaker 3: Most blocking schemes leave one guy for the running back. Yep,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I don't know if the general
Speaker 3: public knows that. Right, you can't block everybody, right, but
Speaker 3: you could block most guys. And you say, you know what,
Speaker 3: that last guy, usually a safety or usually a corner,
Speaker 3: that's for you running back. If he presents himself, beat
Speaker 3: him right, Well, rico daddo not gonna shake nobody.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna sake him bak. Okay, it's not Talladega Nights.
Speaker 2: Ezekiel Elliott not going to do it either.
Speaker 3: Okay, we've seen that early in the season when it
Speaker 3: took about fifteen minutes for him to make make a move. Right,
Speaker 3: it happened, he did it, but I don't want you
Speaker 3: to count on that if Dalvin Cook was to come up.
Speaker 3: We don't know what Dalvin has right now.
Speaker 2: We don't know, right.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell a man what he can't do, right,
Speaker 3: So I've seen We've seen his body work in the past,
Speaker 3: but that's the past.
Speaker 2: So I would like to see what he's capable of doing,
Speaker 2: to see if he has that go juice.
Speaker 3: We know Deuce could do it, but Deuce is not
Speaker 3: being played put in a situation where he can do it. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's getting very close when he does have opportunities, but
Speaker 3: he's not being given enough opportunities.
Speaker 5: And we just don't We don't throw the ball to
Speaker 5: running backs very often, like we did it twice in
Speaker 5: this game and that you know, resulted in two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: It worked, and it works. Can I say something that's
Speaker 2: really gonna bother you? How many? How many plus ten
Speaker 2: run plays. Do you think that Dallas has plus ten? Yes?
Speaker 4: Like one of those four three of those are by
Speaker 4: who Ceedee Lamb?
Speaker 2: Yep, yes, yeah, there you go, so drawing one by
Speaker 2: a running back and that's Rico right yep. Yeah.
Speaker 3: But even the Giants then figured that out because the
Speaker 3: last two handoffs to Cede Lamb were negative one yard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so now teams are two of them are sweeps,
Speaker 2: one of them was him. Teams are figuring that out now.
Speaker 2: So I want to take our first break, but I
Speaker 2: want to give it get an answer from everybody. If
Speaker 2: you had one position group to make a trade for,
Speaker 2: what would it be to what are you spending your
Speaker 2: one band aid on? What's the one band aid going on?
Speaker 2: The water beds holes? I'm going I'm going to receiver, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to receiver. Because you need to be confident
Speaker 2: in something kind of shocked that you went that dirt.
Speaker 3: You need to be You're not confident in your complete
Speaker 3: defense right now because the dude defensive coordinator and guys
Speaker 3: are still trying to figure it out. Offensively, you have
Speaker 3: the faith in MacArthur. You have the faith in these
Speaker 3: players that they've shown you before.
Speaker 2: That they can do it.
Speaker 3: So give him more weapons and out and you're hoping
Speaker 3: that they just figure it out along the way because
Speaker 3: they've shown you.
Speaker 2: That they that they can.
Speaker 5: Let me say, just to be a little different. I
Speaker 5: know I said large saver before, but just to change
Speaker 5: it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: Defensive line.
Speaker 3: Okay, go get a D line. He's looking at my homework.
Speaker 3: Defensive line for me. This is a Cowboys team that
Speaker 3: outside of last week, they struggled against the run. They've
Speaker 3: not gotten the pass rush over the past couple of games.
Speaker 3: And that was with Michael Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence in
Speaker 3: the mix. Without DeMarcus Lawrence or Michael Parsons in the mix,
Speaker 3: I don't see how it improves.
Speaker 2: At best.
Speaker 3: You could try to, you know, keep the dam from breaking,
Speaker 3: but that's that's that's terrifying. So yeah, I'm going defensive line.
Speaker 3: What part of the defensive line you think? Interior interior?
Speaker 2: You could sell me on either.
Speaker 3: You could sell me on and and if the interior
Speaker 3: defensive lineman that you get is someone who has some
Speaker 3: versatility to flix from like a three to a five
Speaker 3: or something like that, then I could buy into that
Speaker 3: even more.
Speaker 2: I don't think that.
Speaker 3: And I like what Mazi is going and we still
Speaker 3: need to see more from Mozzie, but he's at least
Speaker 3: now trending in the right direction. I wouldn't make a
Speaker 3: trade for like a definitive one tech because I need
Speaker 3: somebody that can also in a pinch. If I wanted
Speaker 3: to go a three down man front, then they can
Speaker 3: impact the game and give me a four pound want
Speaker 3: to because because the law is gonna get healthy, Mike
Speaker 3: is gonna get healthy. And when I don't want the
Speaker 3: guy that we just acquired sitting on the sideline. That's
Speaker 3: why I said you could sell me on a on
Speaker 3: an interior. That's that's what I want. I wanted if
Speaker 3: if I was gonna go d line, give me the
Speaker 3: big nasty that just can't give you. And you're not
Speaker 3: wrong the problem, because my problem is smaller. This wind
Speaker 3: tank comes back, good news. He will be back when
Speaker 3: he comes back. Is this going to be because he's
Speaker 3: at foot issues before? This is going to be something
Speaker 3: that he deals with the remainder of the season. Sure,
Speaker 3: And if that's the case, then yeah, if you sell
Speaker 3: me on a defensive lineman interior guy, I just I
Speaker 3: would love for him to have some kind of flix
Speaker 3: to be able to pop out if he needs to
Speaker 3: pop up.
Speaker 2: I would probablyte guy.
Speaker 3: I'd say edge rusher, cause sometimes you got to pop
Speaker 3: out and show there's an edge rushers out there that
Speaker 3: you could go get and you won't have to spend
Speaker 3: a bajillion dollars or a bajillion draft picks to go get.
Speaker 2: You think.
Speaker 4: The salary cap is not a billion, No, it's.
Speaker 2: Not a bajillion. The the that's the thing for me
Speaker 2: is you can go get an edge rusher. They're available.
Speaker 2: Teams have them. There's some teams that have a surplus
Speaker 2: of them. Dallas had a third plus previously. Even whenever
Speaker 2: Sam Williams went down in training camp, you and you
Speaker 2: and you and me all had a conversation about is
Speaker 2: this defensive end group? Then now it's nothing. That's what
Speaker 2: it is. It's Marshawn neland that's who you got right now.
Speaker 2: I would go get an EDG rusher. Figure it out
Speaker 2: and if it adds depth to your team, great, once
Speaker 2: they come back, once the Law and Michael Parsons come back,
Speaker 2: then you got that. I just think wide receiver.
Speaker 3: If you're thinking white receiver, which It's fine if you're
Speaker 3: thinking that, because I could see the logic. But after
Speaker 3: everything we're talking about, you fix the run game, you
Speaker 3: force the defense to play differently, single high versus two
Speaker 3: man high, things like that, then you will see Brandon
Speaker 3: Cooks get more of the deep shots and things like that.
Speaker 3: We've seen Cook's cook, but we've seen him over the
Speaker 3: back half of last season get involved heavily. So the
Speaker 3: talent is there. Maybe there's some frustration there because the
Speaker 3: Cowboys rushing attack isn't there, which then leads to the
Speaker 3: next issue, which then leads to the next.
Speaker 2: Part of my reasoning for saying a defensive end is
Speaker 2: because of what Isaiah said, you have confidence in your offense.
Speaker 2: I think they'll figure it out. I think Brandon Cook
Speaker 2: just think. I think the creativity will be think they can.
Speaker 2: I think Jason Ferguson coming back into the fold will
Speaker 2: be there. I think all of these things will lead
Speaker 2: to the point where it will be figured out. Offensively.
Speaker 2: I'm not confident the defense will figure it out in
Speaker 2: terms of stopping the.
Speaker 3: Run and rushing the pat We address that question when
Speaker 3: we come back, which one what part of your what
Speaker 3: part of your team are you most confident in, most confident.
Speaker 2: In Yeah, I guess sure. We've also got to do
Speaker 2: our defensive preview of Pittsburgh Steelers defensive versus just as office.
Speaker 3: This is the same Isaiah Stambeck going into the Giants game,
Speaker 3: who was right there with me when the Cowboys were
Speaker 3: allowing over four hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 2: That was with Micah in tank gets a field, that's
Speaker 2: where you need a big, nasty but they also couldn't
Speaker 2: get after the quarterback. We will be right back with
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna dress up as a quack, kind of like
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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, I have his name. What's his name?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not that you're going to pick him the segment, all.
Speaker 2: Right, it's got to be something organic. We'll find out.
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out, all right, like Oaks, Just like Oats,
Speaker 2: Cowboys defense versus the Pittsburgh offense missing a couple of pieces,
Speaker 2: And I'll kind of phrase this, Isaiah, you wanted to
Speaker 2: answer that question. Does it waiver your confidence in the
Speaker 2: way that this defense is constructed whenever you don't have
Speaker 2: DeMarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons? Absolutely it does, right, it
Speaker 2: waivers your confidence. But where's the confidence level in each
Speaker 2: of the units for this Cowboys team? Offensively?
Speaker 3: I feel like you have hope because they you've seen
Speaker 3: it in the past, and you're just trying to figure
Speaker 3: out what's the missing link. Just after watching film. I
Speaker 3: have faith that this running game will get going. I
Speaker 3: have faith offensive passing wise. I just think that's honestly,
Speaker 3: the majority of that's on McCarthy. I'm gonna put that
Speaker 3: responsibility on him. I would tell him that to his
Speaker 3: face as well. I just I think the office on
Speaker 3: line is doing a really good job. I think they
Speaker 3: have the six best protection in the league right now.
Speaker 3: So Deak's having time. Actually, Dak has a higher completion
Speaker 3: percentage when under pressure, which is odd, So don't protect them.
Speaker 3: So he's getting time right office lines given him time.
Speaker 3: So I put that oncarth I've seen guys get open.
Speaker 3: So the fact that he's getting time, I'm seeing guys
Speaker 3: get open. We have to find ways to be more
Speaker 3: creative in terms of getting guys to take it splash
Speaker 3: plays outside of yak yardage yards.
Speaker 2: Have to catch.
Speaker 3: Defensively, I I'm not convinced. That's just my my real response.
Speaker 3: The defense of the running game hasn't been good. The
Speaker 3: run defense hasn't been good. And then my concern that
Speaker 3: I had coming aga into the season is kind of
Speaker 3: coming true. And that was in regards to the defensive
Speaker 3: end position, which we put a lot of emphasis on
Speaker 3: right and a lot of trust in their inability now
Speaker 3: within this scheme to get after the quarterback. And that
Speaker 3: was my concern and we can go back, there's receipts
Speaker 3: for that's my concern with this new defense, Like, okay,
Speaker 3: these guys are no longer the feature now the feature
Speaker 3: players are the linebackers. But if you can't stop the
Speaker 3: offensive lineman from getting up to the linebackers, then they
Speaker 3: can't do what you're asking them to do, nor be
Speaker 3: the superstars that you want them to be.
Speaker 2: So now who is the superstar?
Speaker 3: If the defensive ends aren't your superstars, if you have
Speaker 3: no real interior defensive line presence, if your linebackers are
Speaker 3: getting reached right now we're asking your dbs that are
Speaker 3: playing a lot as own, Is that what we're asking?
Speaker 3: And no, So I don't have a lot of confidence there.
Speaker 3: And it's not because of the players. It's because mostly
Speaker 3: because of the scheme. And I think Zimmer has to
Speaker 3: He's gonna get I don't know if he has a bag,
Speaker 3: he might have a ziplock, but get in there and
Speaker 3: pull something out, not the zip right, pull get into
Speaker 3: zipp and get in there and grab whatever the snacks
Speaker 3: you have. Okay, until you can make a costco run
Speaker 3: and throw something out there, man, because right now we
Speaker 3: just haven't seen enough. You haven't seen enough. And it's
Speaker 3: the same same thing that we know that we knew
Speaker 3: coming into the season. Okay, this is the type of
Speaker 3: style of defense he likes to run. They have you
Speaker 3: figured right now, They have you figured out.
Speaker 2: You got to get in that Crown Royal bag purple
Speaker 2: Crown Royal kept a pistol in that one, all right,
Speaker 2: how you no, that's smart?
Speaker 3: Like you know what I'm saying, though, I saw that
Speaker 3: there isn't one aspect of this team that I feel
Speaker 3: amazing with right now. But I have most confidence in
Speaker 3: our kicking game and I have confidence you know. I
Speaker 3: guess special teams is probably one and then offense to
Speaker 3: defense three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. We talked about it the other day
Speaker 2: and we did. We went through the high five article
Speaker 2: that was on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Uh, and one
Speaker 2: of the five reasons to be optimistic going into the
Speaker 2: rest of the year is the fact that you probably
Speaker 2: have the best special teams unit in football right now
Speaker 2: with Brandon Aubrey, Brian Anger and Cavante Turpin as your returner.
Speaker 2: Can I as a real question and I want to
Speaker 2: ask this.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Today's not do not ask.
Speaker 4: It was asking real questions.
Speaker 2: We're not talking.
Speaker 3: You're not talking to the people today. When you cross
Speaker 3: the fifty yard line, I need I need your real
Speaker 3: answer right now. When you cross the fifty yard line,
Speaker 3: are you thinking touchdown right now as a spectator or
Speaker 3: are you thinking field goal?
Speaker 2: Field goal?
Speaker 3: That's a problem, it is, and this is we talked
Speaker 3: about this in training camp when it was the question
Speaker 3: was is it a good thing that you have a
Speaker 3: kicker that can kick sixty sixty five yards? And I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, it's a great thing because that's rare
Speaker 3: but not lean. But I also want you to forget
Speaker 3: that your kicker can kick sixty plus yards because that
Speaker 3: will force the offense to stop relying on it and
Speaker 3: say all we have to do is get across the fifty.
Speaker 2: No, what you need to do is get in the
Speaker 2: end zone. That's what you need.
Speaker 5: The fact that you have a kicker that can kick
Speaker 5: sixty yard field should only spring into your brain when
Speaker 5: there when there are five seconds left.
Speaker 4: Yes, in the court in the half or the game.
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Like, that's when you're like.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, by the way, games, god on in if.
Speaker 4: It's the first series of the first drive of the game,
Speaker 4: absolutely not. What are we doing dude?
Speaker 2: And I mean I get kicking field goals and putting
Speaker 2: points on the board, but there have there have been
Speaker 2: many drives and well, I'll write the highlight reel for
Speaker 2: whenever we go back through them postgame and whenever I'm
Speaker 2: riding the highlight reels like, well, they had one completion
Speaker 2: the Hunter lipke and it ended up in a field goal.
Speaker 2: That's We've seen too many drives like that. But it's
Speaker 2: one completion, you get a field goal. Great, everybody feels
Speaker 2: happy about it. And Brandon Aubrey is still Brandon Aubrey
Speaker 2: doing Brandon Aubrey thing.
Speaker 3: And the opposing team runs it down your throat for
Speaker 3: a touchdown and they now you're touchdown touchdowns.
Speaker 2: For field goals. Yeah, you can't do that. The of
Speaker 2: the office used to be your spark. Yeah, they used
Speaker 2: to be number one.
Speaker 3: That was your spark, right, that was your that was
Speaker 3: my I got that in the bag, Like we're good,
Speaker 3: like we're good there, we're gonna score some points.
Speaker 2: Now now you're holding for three down field.
Speaker 3: They're proven, they can you know, have extended drives, but
Speaker 3: penalties and it's miscues and things like that that's what
Speaker 3: kills them in the red zone. Between and up to
Speaker 3: the red zone, they're effective, but then they get close
Speaker 3: to the red zone and it's it's holding, its false start,
Speaker 3: it's you know, MISSQ here. So if they clean those up,
Speaker 3: so to Calla's point, I believe that they have the
Speaker 3: ten on an offense to get it figured out. But
Speaker 3: when you look at defensively on the defensive line, now,
Speaker 3: who's your superstar, who's your headliner?
Speaker 5: Well, to Isaiah's point, I don't even think it's necessarily
Speaker 5: a red zone issue. We are not even getting to
Speaker 5: the red zone as consistently as we should. You know,
Speaker 5: it's it's getting into the past the fifty and it's
Speaker 5: like all right, yeah, it's field goal time.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's not the it's the place that gets you
Speaker 4: to the field goal.
Speaker 5: It's not exactly taking the field taking points where you
Speaker 5: can get them, right, sure, it's the second and tent
Speaker 5: that you're facing and you're like Okay.
Speaker 4: Well let's run up the military yards.
Speaker 5: And then that becomes a third and long and then
Speaker 5: they're like, okay, now we got to take a deep
Speaker 5: shot incomplete fourth and lossit.
Speaker 3: You know, that was my concern in having It's right
Speaker 3: to have the weapon you have in Brandon Aubrey, but
Speaker 3: you have to use it correctly. You can't walk into
Speaker 3: that that drive saying oh, all we need to do
Speaker 3: is get across the fifty noo that drive saying we
Speaker 3: need to touch down. And I don't think that they're
Speaker 3: doing that. I just think it's in their subconscious status,
Speaker 3: like Okay.
Speaker 2: If we don't do it, we're good. You know, if
Speaker 2: you're doing it subconsciously, you're still doing it. It's the
Speaker 2: same thing like about our kid.
Speaker 3: You know, everybody has kids, right, so it's like we
Speaker 3: mess up because growing up we didn't have a lot, right,
Speaker 3: most of us didn't have a lot.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 2: We had a grinding and get it out of my side,
Speaker 2: whatever it might be. So now that we have kids, right,
Speaker 2: we mess our kids up because like you know what, there.
Speaker 3: We're gonna make sure that they're taking care of They
Speaker 3: have better than we had, right, and they don't have
Speaker 3: that same drive to be amazing majority of the time
Speaker 3: because guess what, I'm good.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, there's something I can
Speaker 2: rely on it. So that's kind of the approach.
Speaker 3: And not to say that you don't work hard, not
Speaker 3: to say that you don't have the same intent, but
Speaker 3: when you have it in your subconscious that I'm good.
Speaker 2: If I don't, then there's something that you now can
Speaker 2: lean on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you know you don't have a safety net,
Speaker 3: correct much more correct getting not falling off the high wire.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be another week where you cannot trade
Speaker 2: field goals for touchdown because they controlled the time of possession.
Speaker 2: Justin Fields has been playing lights out, lights out stuff.
Speaker 4: He is no longer just in Soldier Fields.
Speaker 2: Day Yeah, yeah, Seal. Actually to go to your point there,
Speaker 2: to go to your point there. The last six starts
Speaker 2: for Justin Fields, he's had at least a ninety passer rating.
Speaker 2: At least he's four and two in those starts. His
Speaker 2: touchdown to interception ratios eight to one. This of course
Speaker 2: dates back to the final two games of last year
Speaker 2: as well his first thirty six starts when he was
Speaker 2: justin Soldier Fields. Josh Rodriguez. Right, he was nine of
Speaker 2: twenty seven nine wins twenty seven losses in his time
Speaker 2: with the Bears. In early time with Pittsburgh, total touchdowns
Speaker 2: interceptions it was fifty one to twenty nine and his
Speaker 2: passer rating was at eighty two, So not good.
Speaker 4: He was a playmaker still in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think some numbers.
Speaker 5: At least now when you're seeing Justin Fields with the Steelers,
Speaker 5: he's been decisive in the pocket without having the sort
Speaker 5: of hairline trigger to run the ball right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when scrambling.
Speaker 5: His mechanics has gotten so much better than his time
Speaker 5: with the Bears, in his footwork, like being able to
Speaker 5: plant while on the run, being able to plant and
Speaker 5: throw the ball has been obviously a huge step up
Speaker 5: from his time with the Bears. Definitely no Russell Wilson
Speaker 5: for this game, so you're gonna rely on Justin Fields,
Speaker 5: who is, like we said, a dual threat quarterback.
Speaker 4: He's looking really, really solid.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean he has fourteen first downs using his arm.
Speaker 3: He has another seven first downs on this time, my
Speaker 3: third down. That is fourteen first downs through the air,
Speaker 3: seven of them on the ground. They're forty forty forty
Speaker 3: four percent on third down efficiency. So these guys are
Speaker 3: top top ten in the league in terms of third
Speaker 3: down So they're staying within drives. They're gonna run the
Speaker 3: crap out of the ball. They running the ball, like
Speaker 3: I said, thirty four to thirty five times a game.
Speaker 3: So they're playing keep away. They're playing keep away. They're
Speaker 3: gonna make you load the box. And you best believe
Speaker 3: if they're is ever a coach in the NFL outside
Speaker 3: of Dan Campbell, outside of Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2: Okay, will who will relentlessly run the ball? It is
Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin. Yeah. And if he sees that you have
Speaker 2: a weakness, is there a weakness on the d line?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Okay, if you see that you have a.
Speaker 3: Weakness and that's already their tendency to run the ball
Speaker 3: thirty five times a game, then what are you going
Speaker 3: to get?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 3: And then you can't load the box because you if
Speaker 3: you if you lay out to try to stop the run,
Speaker 3: there's dudes on the outside too, right, you got pickings
Speaker 3: on the outside. Right, you got Jay Fields like you
Speaker 3: outflank you if you get out, if he gets out
Speaker 3: of the pocket.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what the approach is I really
Speaker 2: don't know what the approach is. You have to try
Speaker 2: to find a way to shut him down, though to
Speaker 2: the approaches.
Speaker 3: The approach is this is even though he's young, and
Speaker 3: typically young quarterbacks don't do well against the blitz, don't
Speaker 3: blitch justin fields. No, don't blitch no, because that's the
Speaker 3: number one that's given him an out because he wants
Speaker 3: to run anyway, right, force him to contain him in
Speaker 3: the pocket, which then allows time for your st glean
Speaker 3: defensive front to get to him. Because here here are
Speaker 3: the numbers, and this is via nex gen right versus
Speaker 3: the blitz. He's only well, he's twenty three for thirty two.
Speaker 3: He has two touchdowns, no interceptions, one twelve passerrating. That
Speaker 3: passer rating drops down to ninety two point two when
Speaker 3: he's not blitzed. Completions are only fifty four of seventy seven.
Speaker 3: He's been sacked six times when he's not blitzed. So
Speaker 3: don't blitz him. So make him make the reads. He
Speaker 3: has improved upon that, but he's still not quite that
Speaker 3: dude to sit in the pocket and dissect the game.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna payt and man in you, No, he's
Speaker 3: not gonna Tom Brady. You So if you had to
Speaker 3: pick a poison, is what I'm saying, don't let the
Speaker 3: poison be with his legs, because you're already struggling to
Speaker 3: stop the run and Nag he's going to get his presumably,
Speaker 3: So what you want to do is keep from adding
Speaker 3: and compounding onto that problem. By then now you have
Speaker 3: to deal with Naja on the ground, and you got
Speaker 3: to deal with Justin on the ground as well.
Speaker 2: No deal with Naji on the ground, deal with Justin
Speaker 2: in the air.
Speaker 3: Of those six sacks, four of those sacks came from
Speaker 3: two high safety safeties.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's just the through film study.
Speaker 3: Okay, so of those Yeah, so you're playing coverage, right,
Speaker 3: you're playing over the type he's he is being very
Speaker 3: he's being very intentional about when he actually decides to
Speaker 3: throw the ball.
Speaker 2: He's he's deliberately not turning the ball. He's not taking risk.
Speaker 3: And I think I know why he's not taking risks
Speaker 3: because he knows if he messes up, there's somebody that
Speaker 3: can step into his position.
Speaker 2: There's a guy there.
Speaker 3: So he is being very intentional about when he's going
Speaker 3: to release the ball and how he's going to release
Speaker 3: the ball, the position's going to put it in. So
Speaker 3: whenever you're in a position to have a two high shell,
Speaker 3: you have more defenders. We just talked about it in
Speaker 3: regards to the detail the Dallas Cowboys defense. He's not
Speaker 3: letting the ball go, he's not airing it out, he's
Speaker 3: not trying to throw it in small windows. So he
Speaker 3: has a tendency to hold on to the ball when
Speaker 3: you have those extra defenders. But in order to have
Speaker 3: those extra defenders, you have to put them in third
Speaker 3: and long situations.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then one more step when it comes to
Speaker 3: blitzing versus not blitzing. When you blitz him, his completion
Speaker 3: percentage over expectation is over expectation. When you don't blit him,
Speaker 3: it drops down to three percent. Got to have a
Speaker 3: plan contain him, got to force him to throw, make
Speaker 3: difficult make difficult throws, make difficult reads. But don't send
Speaker 3: that extra dude. And you also don't have the luxury
Speaker 3: to send that extra dude.
Speaker 2: Right, Who does that put pressure on on the defensive
Speaker 2: side of the football. We'll answer that question when we
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Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys, Patrick no C Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah Stanback,
Speaker 2: Chris Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yelmans. We asked
Speaker 2: the question, now, if you're not blitzing Justin Fields, who
Speaker 2: is without Michaeh Parsons, without DeMarcus Lawrence, who's the most
Speaker 2: pressure on defensively to get the job done and contain
Speaker 2: Justin Fields?
Speaker 4: Demarvian over shoo right back to him.
Speaker 5: He needs to fly around the field. I want to
Speaker 5: see him on the blitz as well. I want to
Speaker 5: see him give Justin Fields some issues.
Speaker 2: We just said said, don't blitz, don't want to.
Speaker 4: I want to see it when you're guys that fast,
Speaker 4: I want to see it.
Speaker 2: I agree. It is just like I get the science.
Speaker 2: I understand, but I still want to try it all
Speaker 2: I guess, but don't blitz what was the line lay.
Speaker 4: With your science second of the week blitz.
Speaker 3: By extra large degree, it is the man, but extra
Speaker 3: large disagree. Don't use him to blitz, use him to
Speaker 3: help seal those edges in spy just the feels to
Speaker 3: keep him from burning the edges. But I also say
Speaker 3: another reason you don't need to send to Marve on
Speaker 3: overshown is what we didn't talk about is the as
Speaker 3: much as the Cowboys defensive line is dealing with injury
Speaker 3: right now, Pittsburgh offensive line.
Speaker 2: Is wricked with injuries.
Speaker 3: Right So, yeah, we have Cooper Bob as a starting center,
Speaker 3: we have Tyler Gotten as a starting left tackle where
Speaker 3: they got Zach Fraser as a starting center, and Mason McCormick.
Speaker 3: Quite likely you will start at left guard, So you
Speaker 3: should if you're talking about Mozzie taking a step, if
Speaker 3: you're talking about Marshawn kneeling, Chauncey Ghost and maybe Osa
Speaker 3: should eat well against this injured offensive line of the
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2: You shouldn't have to blitz.
Speaker 3: So not only do you not need to blitz, or
Speaker 3: not only should you not blitz, but you may not
Speaker 3: need to blitz.
Speaker 4: But sounds nice. It sounds nice, but I want to
Speaker 4: see at least spy.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you got to use him to spy fields,
Speaker 3: but don't send him at field, use him to kind
Speaker 3: of hover. And then as soon as Fields breaks left,
Speaker 3: all right, unleach the demons following me.
Speaker 2: The first snap that overshown, bully or rushes and blitz,
Speaker 2: his first snap that he does this crew message on
Speaker 2: Sunday is gonna My answer is Eric, I'm going with
Speaker 2: Eric Hendricks.
Speaker 3: And I say that because Eric Kendricks is now thrust
Speaker 3: it into the position of the undoubted leader on this
Speaker 3: side of the ball on the field on game day.
Speaker 3: There's nobody else in that front seven that will have
Speaker 3: the voice that he has and that will be respected
Speaker 3: like he's respected. So not only from that regard in
Speaker 3: terms of trying to keep these guys on the rails mentally,
Speaker 3: but also putting guys in the best position. And he
Speaker 3: is your quarterback on defense. So as you're having this
Speaker 3: chess match, right, the play comes in too justin Fields.
Speaker 3: He gets that from Arthur Arthur Smith, he gets that call,
Speaker 3: and then obviously Coach Zimmer gives a call to Eric
Speaker 3: Hendricks and then from that point on you.
Speaker 2: Those are the two guys that are playing chess on
Speaker 2: the fields. It is green day. It is literally those
Speaker 2: two going head ahead.
Speaker 3: So Justin Fields versus Eric Hendricks, I would hope that
Speaker 3: Eric Hendricks will win that mental game from his experience alone.
Speaker 2: So I would see Justin Fields quite a few times
Speaker 2: too during the time in the same division, So I
Speaker 2: would like to see him.
Speaker 3: Mess with him, mess with the looks, mess with the gats,
Speaker 3: mess with all those things, stunts.
Speaker 2: Whatever it might be.
Speaker 3: That, yeah, it's because you're gonna have to run stunts, hospol,
Speaker 3: let's just call it what it is. You're gonna have
Speaker 3: to run stunts if you want to get any type
Speaker 3: of pressure, if you want to get any type of
Speaker 3: containment while eliciting pressure, you're gonna have to do all that.
Speaker 3: That's all coming from Eric Hendricks. So he's gonna be
Speaker 3: getting those guys lined up and he's gonna be playing
Speaker 3: those mental games with with Justin Fields. So I'm looking
Speaker 3: at him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. I think there's ways that you
Speaker 2: can contain him, even with some of the lack of
Speaker 2: depth that you have and some of the star pieces
Speaker 2: that are out. But it's not gonna be easy. Justin
Speaker 2: fields is not. If you're expecting to see Chicago Bears
Speaker 2: justin fields when you're watching Sunday Night Football this week,
Speaker 2: don't watch. That's not who you're getting. But it will
Speaker 2: be a chess match. Like you said, between those guys
Speaker 2: in between, the coordinators are trying and get the job done.
Speaker 2: All right. That does it for us here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Hope you had fun with us here over the last
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. We'll be back tomorrow. Cowboys offensive preview
Speaker 2: versus the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. We've got some fun to
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