WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who Ya Got? 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:18.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.239 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.599 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:31.960 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:38.279 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.080 It is Friday, September seventeenth, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.680 Episode number twenty three. Welcome to latest edition of The 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.159 Break Life in the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, Nick, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:54.200 give me a twenty three. Kevin Mathis, Ah, that's a 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.760 good one. Actually, that's a really good one. I almost 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.240 went with Dwayne Goodridge, but I just started going, Yeah, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.720 let's go Kevin messes on that. What's a good twenty 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.000 three for you? You have a good choice, Like Darian 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.640 Thompson has worn twenty three the whole freaking time I've 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.760 covered this team. I know that's an exaggeration, but barely. Um. 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.560 I don't know Tyler Patman were twenty three. I think 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.919 he was twenty six. Yeah, that's twenty. I thought maybe 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:18.800 he's one of those that had a couple. It's not 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:21.480 a number with an illustrious history. I forgot that he 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.800 hasn't He wasn't here at that time. So when I said, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.760 do you have a good choice for twenty three, he 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.959 didn't really get the shard choice was twenty three? That 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:32.440 was years before my years. It was too two years 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.759 before your time. When was the last year he played here? 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.280 I don't remember. He was in the O eight draft, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.880 so yeah, probably, But like whenever he got the autograph 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.760 from Michael Vick, I mean I remember that. I remember that. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.880 Remember watching as a football fan. I was like, it's 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.640 kind of weird. I liked he was ahead of his 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.360 time because now, man, everybody's getting autographs and trade and 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.720 jerseys and all kinds of stuff after the game. It's 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.520 a trade show. Yeah, following the guy into the locker 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.920 room to do it is kind of weird, though maybe 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.760 really happens like out on the field whatever usually but whatever. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.080 Robert Williams, by the way, is my favorite. Twenty three. 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.800 Oh Robert Williams. Producer Chris Beam says, Robert Williams, Yeah, 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.079 he played like eighty seven to ninety two, ninety three. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.960 Thank he's coaching somewhere in Donald's really good. Okay, all right, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:19.600 all right, let's jump into it. We got a lot 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.480 we're gonna get into today. Today we're gonna do. I'm 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.200 gonna do this as kind of our typical format on 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.519 a Friday. I'm gonna throw out some storylines to you guys, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.360 and I'm gonna try to hit different storylines around this team. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:30.960 Some have to do with the offense, some have to 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:32.840 do with the defense, I have to do with special teams. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.440 And get your opinions on what you think is going 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.520 to happen, what you think the current state is, just 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.720 your general overall thoughts on these different storylines as we 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.720 head into this game. But before we get to that, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.120 I want to catch up on a couple of injuries 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.000 for the Charges. We haven't talked a lot about their team. Obviously, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.840 the Cowboys are dealing with a lot of stuff when 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.720 it comes to players that are not going to be 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.680 available them to them this week end. But the Chargers, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.680 I think they have two guys that are very, very 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.000 interesting that are on their injury report that have now 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.720 practice all week. Let's start first with tackle Brian Bulaga. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.639 He has a growing back issue, has not practiced all week. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.400 How does that affect the Cowboys as they prepared to 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.000 take all the Chargers? Well, I mean it would. You know, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.760 they're looking at it like, well, you know, the Cowboys 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.000 have lost some defensive ends too, you know, definitely d 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.120 Law probably Randy Gregory. So you know it's gonna be 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.600 it's gonna look like a preseason game. Really, I mean, 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.040 it'll look like a second preseason game. They're backup, going 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.840 up against Dorn's armstrong or bash them. So yeah, it's 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.600 got it's a tough break that because I mean we're 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.200 you know, we're sitting here, Joey Bose is going against 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.800 Terrence Steele and that's the predominant storyline in terms of matchups. 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.200 And the guy that can't play for the Chargers plays 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.480 a position where DeMarcus Lawrence isn't going to be there 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:53.000 because DeMarcus All doesn't move. He very rarely moves from 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:55.680 left end, so that would have been his guy. So 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.440 that's a bad break that you don't get to take 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.960 advantage of a possible absence. See I look at it 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.200 the other way. I look at it like as the 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.520 equalizer because it starts with the Cowboys. So I look 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.280 at it like, oh my God, like you know they're 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.400 gonna get any pass rush. It's like, well, yeah, probably 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.400 because I mean if you if you look at um 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.920 Dorn's Armstrong and the way he's played and the way 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.000 he played in the preseason, the stuff he did in 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.760 that Arizona game, you're you're impressed by it. But then 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.919 you kind of be like, well, you know they're not 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.760 really playing it against their starters, but if that's the way, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.279 you know, he he looked great in training camp too, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.080 going up sometimes against Tyrn and Lyle, sometimes against the backups. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:35.280 So I would feel better about it, you know. From 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.520 that I mean, maybe I'm just no one's ever said 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.279 glass half full for me. But I get the point 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.640 that you're trying to make. I got it from that angle. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:48.360 I get the point you're making. But having to Marcus Lawrence, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.520 like having a guy of his caliber going against the 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.040 backup you have a chance to wreck their game plan. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.680 I don't know. I don't trust Dorn's Armstrong and Terrell 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.280 Basham to be that good. Yeah. The difference is you 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.080 kind of and I agree with both guys. The difference 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.120 is you look at a Doran's Armstrong and what we've 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.480 seen so far, you would think, Okay, I feel good. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.839 If somebody told me, hey, Durrance is gonna have a 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.960 sack in this game, I feel good about that. Durrance 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.880 will get a sack or make a play in this 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.080 game in the PA in his pass rush direct their 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.240 game plan. I don't know if I'd go that far 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.599 right where you would think, if it's DeMarcus, maybe you 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.599 could wreck their game plan. You know, this reminds me 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.479 back the last time the Cowboys, I guess it was 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 at the last time they played at the Chargers in 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.840 a regular season game. It was twenty thirteen, and every 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.160 offensive lineman on their teams was out. It was it 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.599 was it's gonna be a field day, and it was 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.520 I think Rivers through for like four hundred yards and 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:49.640 they hurries covered Danny Woodhead Woodhead. It Seawan Lee pick 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.240 six Rivers or Danny Woodhead. They took a twenty one 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.120 ten lead into halftime, and they lost like thirty to 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.279 twenty one, and it was it was one of those where, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.520 like you know, it was such a just a mass 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.120 unit for their offensive line, but they figured it out, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:08.400 So you know, it's I remember that game a lot 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.880 when I think about situations where you're like, oh, how 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.640 is this team going to do this? Or you know, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.120 and a lot of times it's been with Washington. You know, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.400 the last few years, Washington's offensive lines been a train 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.320 wreck and all that, and you know a lot of 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.160 it was you know who they you know, Trent Williams 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.880 was out and all that. But that kind of teams 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.800 seem to kind of figure it out. Yeah. But the 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.560 one thing I do like about this is I think 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.120 Drance Armstrong is the kind of guy that he probably 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.920 looks at this is Okay, here's my opportunity. This is 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.240 my big opportunity. And the matchup actually favors him in 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.920 this instance. So let's see what he does. I'm interested 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.480 to see what he can do in this kind of situation. 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:44.839 If he's going to be the guy that's gonna be 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.040 on that side, that I feel like Durrance is more 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.600 likely to be on the right. Basham said yesterday he 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.080 prefers to be on the left. So and he actually 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.120 he talked about Bulaga. He was like, I was looking 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.400 forward to going against him. Apparently he had a great 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.640 game against him last year. I looked it up. He 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.440 was like, I had a lot of fun playing him. 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.360 Last year, I hit the quarterback a lot in that game. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.960 He was credited with two tackles and one quarterback hit 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.160 in that game. So I mean, I think guys have 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.040 a way of embellishing a little bit, and it might 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.200 feel a little different when you're playing too. You know, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.760 the stats say one thing, but yeah, you get you 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.000 get a little scar on the quarterback. You might know 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.480 what the quarterback might know. You might not actually might 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.840 not show up on the statue exactly. So it happens, 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.240 it happens, all right. One other guy I thought was interesting, 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.320 Chris Harris or cornerback. Chris Harris Junior has a shoulder injury. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.560 He is not practiced all week. Once again, when you 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.080 think about the San Diego defense, or from my perspective, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.760 I look at this defense and I think the passing 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.600 defense is the best thing that they do, and he's 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.640 a part of that. Without him, how much does that 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.320 change their ability to cover this hypoton I feel better 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.400 about it since I'm not the only one that's done it. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.320 Oh did you say San Diego? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Los 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.360 Angeles charges. I'm so sorry starts Los Angeles charge yea, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:59.280 let's go. Um, Honestly, I'm not sure how much he's 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.200 I mean, was he starter Chris Harris, He's listed on 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.600 their depth charts, one of their outside starters. Yeah, I 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.200 mean it's yeah, it's it's the same type of deal 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.920 where like the you know, it's like which which news 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.160 did you hear first? You know, and from my perspective, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.080 it's like, well they lost Gallop, Okay, well let's you know, 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.040 and then it's like, well, if they lose a guy too, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.600 then it kind of equalizes. I think Cedric Wilson could 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.000 probably go up against their backup or however it's gonna 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.880 shake out, so you know, it's kind of those two 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.440 losses there are kind of kind of playing off of 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:32.679 each other. So now it's the Chargers can lose one 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.920 of their pass rushers, um preferably Bosa that you know, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.000 to to not wish injury on anyone. No, just no, 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.280 you can just on the way to stadium, just get lost, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.200 just gets It's it is fun the way these mirror 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.200 each other. Because Sire Monsieur Adderley's out as well. Well, 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.719 I mean he hasn't been ruled out for the game, 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.840 but he hasn't practiced yet this week. If you don't 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:57.160 practice Thursday. That's usually not good. Uh So Cowboys are 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.960 having some safety issues as well. Adderley's obviously not He's 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.199 not the star Derwin James is, but but he was 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:04.960 on the injury report earlier in the week. He did 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.640 practice yesterday. I think Derwin James is a guy that'll 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.040 probably be on the injury report every week. Doesn't mean 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.599 he's gonna doesn't mean it's gonna affect how he you know, 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.640 whether or not he plays. So let's go ahead and 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.520 move into some of the storylines that the Cowboys will face. Actually, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.559 we're gonna take a quick break before we do that. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.320 We'll come back. We'll talk a little bit about this offensive, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.439 this offense. We'll start with the offense first and go 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.520 through a couple of storylines for this game that won't 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.680 come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.040 Before there was a draft, you could size up a 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.400 cowboy by three simple factors. 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It'll be a I think 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:08.040 a three thirty kick time here Central time Zone. Let's 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.480 start the offense Lyle being replaced by Terrence still facing 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.880 Joey Bosa. Is dad good enough to make that that 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.160 doesn't become a big issue for this offense and their 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:19.959 ability to still be able to move the ball? I 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.160 think yeah, I think so. Yes. It's not just Dak either, 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.920 Kellen Moore as well. Kellen Moore is smart enough to 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:30.120 design a game plan that will not allow that to happen. Now, 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.679 we talk about this a lot because tackle has been 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:37.720 a problem a lot. Twenty seventeen against Atlanta as an 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.439 aberration like that is not that should not be and 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:42.439 I get it. It was painful to watch and it 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.400 is burned into people's brains. But that's not what happens. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.560 Nick just pointed it out when they played the Chargers, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.920 like this happens to teams all the time. This is 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.800 a one hundred injury league. To quote Terrell Basham from yesterday, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.880 It's going to happen to everybody, and ninety five percent 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.200 of the time teams don't let it completely derailed him 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.160 like that. Dak is good, he is mobile, Kellen Morridge smart. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.160 They'll be I mean, I don't know if they're gonna win, 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.760 but they'll be fine in the sense that they'll be 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.720 able to move the ball and score points. Nick, if 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.040 you take us back to last year when Dak was 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.560 playing and he didn't have both those tackles at some point, 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.920 were the tackles as big of a problem as they 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.120 were later in the year when Dak wasn't there. Yeah, Well, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.760 they had their moments that of hurting the offense, and 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.400 they in the Rams game, I believe, you know, Terrence 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.280 Steele played and he played, you know, he played pretty 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.920 well based off our expectations. But at the end of 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.600 the game, the last drive, he gives up a big sack. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.880 He gave up a sack to Miles Garrett that forced 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.720 the fumble. I think he had a couple of plays 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.040 with the whole offensive line did against Atlanta early on. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.679 And so yeah, I mean, they have their moments. You 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.800 hope that they don't they don't happen at the wrong time, 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.280 and so you know, with with both, So I think 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.240 with any any of those speed rushers that love to 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.160 get up the field, you gotta take advantage of it. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.679 You got it. It's a chess match on those plays 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.440 that he wants to get up the field, that's where 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.400 you can maybe get some runs inside, trap him, gash 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.320 him in there. So it'll it'll be up to Kellen Moore, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.839 Dak and all that to really figure out how to 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.079 how to offset that. And you know, I think Terrence 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.280 steals up for the challenge. He's played a lot of football, 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.080 He's an athletic guy, and he's gonna you know, this 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:24.560 will be this will be an outstanding, you know, opportunity 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.960 for him. The Chargers defense allow one hundred and twenty 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.520 four rush yards in Week one and Dallas on the 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.800 flip side never really got their rushing attack established. Does 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.880 Dallas take advantage of the run this week? I don't 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.960 like the phrasing take advantage of just because I do think, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.520 I mean, the Chargers have the capability to stop it. 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.400 And that's who was talking about this yesterday where we 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.920 talking probably maybe it was Bucky talking about it, and 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.560 he was just like, they're gonna Yeah, it was Bucky, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.600 You're right, just like they're gonna key on Zeke. That's everything. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.480 I'm like, well, surely one of these days somebody's gonna 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.040 be like, I don't know if I agree with that. Like, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:02.680 one of these days, somebody's gonna be like, man, this 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.960 quarterback's capable of putting four hundred on us. Deal with that? 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.120 Are doing that? Like do we think teams? If you 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.360 were a defensive coordinator you were getting ready for the Cowboys, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.400 would your first priority be Zee? Now let's let's also 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.680 be honest that in the NFL, I think every defense 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.720 defensive coordinator step one every week is you got to 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.320 stop the run, because if you can make a team 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.360 one dimensional, that's your better chance. But just thinking about 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.560 where you're king, I think Dak is the more important piece, right, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.960 I think about there's an interesting precedent here. And I 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.080 know Brandon Staley's not calling the defense. He's not the 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.720 defensive coordinator for the Chargers, but he was the DC 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.000 for that Rams game last year, and they played a 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.120 boatload of too high and dared Dak to take deep shots, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.640 and like the one time he got it done, they 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.040 called offensive past interference on Michael Gallup. It was a 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.120 dumb call. It was a dumb call, but he averaged 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.520 ian He averaged less than seven yards per tenth in 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.160 that game. So I wouldn't be shocked if that is 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.320 a similar approach here, where you're like, yeah, you know, 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.000 we'll let you run the ball. We're just not going 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.440 to let you just kill us with big plays. Having 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.840 said that roundabout point, but like they have the personnel 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.800 to stop the run if they want to. Joey Bose 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.520 is great against the run. We talked about Linvall, Joseph. 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.800 I don't know how good Jerry Tillery's been. I'm not 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.640 I don't have a good read on his career, but 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.440 he's a first round pick in there in the middle. 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.360 And then they drafted Kenneth Murray last year to kind of, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.480 you know, very similar, not comparing him to Micah Parsons, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.600 but a guy who can clean up and make life 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.600 easier on your defensive line. So I mean, if that's 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.200 what they want to do, they probably can. It's just 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.680 a matter of I tend to doubt that they want to. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.000 I think they'd rather take big plays from Dac Away. Yeah. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.120 I mean, you're right, stopping the run it's always it's 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.880 always going to be a key for defensive coordinators, and 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.600 I think that they do that. But you know, the 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:54.360 thing is about the passing yards and the passing attempts 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.280 and all that with Dak. I mean, they were there, 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:58.200 but I don't think you could you would say that 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.120 they took a ton to shut down the field, So 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.239 you know, I mean it was it was a passing thing. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.879 I think Dave said it earlier in the week. I 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:08.800 agree with it. I mean, it was a different way 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.359 to run. It was through the pass. It was still 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.800 you know, outside passes, quick ball control, moving the chains. 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.240 So you know, you look at the stat sheet, it's 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.520 like wow, but it's not like he's throwing it down 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.280 the field fifty eight sixty times. I wrote this in 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.040 my column yesterday. He threw ten balls that didn't go 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.480 past the line of scrimmage, seventy yards of offense through 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:36.560 balls that traveled four feet or less or you know whatever, 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.440 ten feet or less. So that's an element of it 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.080 for sure. And I yeah, Callen said that on Monday. 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.040 It's like people kind of get hung up on Well, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.040 Zeke only ran it eleven times. That means you didn't 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.760 care about moving the ball that way. No, that's not true. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 They control the time of possession, so that's a big 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.399 part of that too, you know, but not only want it. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.840 They controlled it, you know, But as I keep reiterating, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.480 when you get into down inside, it's not even in 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.040 the red zone. I'm talking about goal to go get 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.520 inside ten, something's got to happen here. You gotta figure 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.840 out the ways to run it. You gotta figure out 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.120 passes that you can complete down there because you want 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.720 to be safe. You know, you don't want to throw 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.040 picks down there, but you also want to figure out 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:18.840 how to how to you know, get the job done. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:24.080 Is if CDs the you know jump ball guy, I 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.920 don't love the play because I don't. I don't really 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:28.840 think it's a fifty fifty ball. I don't. I don't 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:30.840 seem like it's always fifty percent. It seems like it's 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.480 a less you know, percentage play than that. But they're 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.239 gonna if they can't run it, and they're not going 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.280 to run it, they gotta figure out ways to score 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.080 because they're gonna end up kicking field goals. And we 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.520 saw what happened there. Ye all right, Michael Gallup is 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.320 out in a week where they face a really good secondary. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:51.760 Does Dallas continue the same level of explosive explosiveness without him? Yeah, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.520 I'm I don't know. Maybe I'm weirdly not worried about 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.640 not having Gallop and that's not a knock on him. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.360 But if you still have CD Lambing and Mary Cooper, Yeah, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.879 and then Cedric Wilson is about as good as you 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.200 could hope for from your fourth receiver. I mean not 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.879 many teams have a fourth and fifth receiver with as 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.600 much experience as these two. So between all those things 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.200 and then the you know, the opportunities that will be 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:18.600 there for guys like the tight ends because of all 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.359 the attention paid to the receivers. Chris Harris might not 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.520 play in this game. Yeah, I mean plays, plays will 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.800 be there, I think, and plays are gonna. Plays should 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.240 be there with this group as long as everybody's not 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.359 even everybody, as long as Dak's healthy, plays should be 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.160 there against almost everybody. I think this is a really 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.399 big opportunity for him and for Cedric Wilson and for 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:43.360 the Cowboys to evaluate him moving forward. I mean, he's 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.440 a this will he'll be a free agent next year 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.040 and he could be a Swiss Army Knife type of player. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.399