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Speaker 1: episode number one hundred. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the start
Speaker 1: talking Cowboys football. If you guys for forty five minutes
Speaker 1: here today, we're gonna talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay offense the Tampa Bay defense. Day we'll get
Speaker 1: us give us a Scotter report on both. In the
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Speaker 1: from Draft Kings talk a little bit of championship fantasy football,
Speaker 1: and we'll also take questions. You guys got some questions,
Speaker 1: some comments? Eight eight eight eight five five two two
Speaker 1: nine seven is the number. Well, we'd love to hear
Speaker 1: from you guys. So everybody doing today, I'm being I
Speaker 1: was waiting, I'm so good. I was waiting to see
Speaker 1: what everybody else said. But I'm why me, I'm great, okay,
Speaker 1: but I just want to I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to speak for everybody else. You did have to,
Speaker 1: You could have spoken for yourself, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: to jump in in front of everybody else. My perception
Speaker 1: is that everybody seems to be in a good mood today.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, you're in a good mood today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, good good. This is gonna be a spicy show. Then.
Speaker 1: I like it when you're in a good mood. Nick,
Speaker 1: you're good, good, fair, all right, let's jump in. Let's
Speaker 1: talk first about injuries. Thank you for asking. Yes, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm very good today. All right, so let's talk about injuries. First.
Speaker 1: We got three guys that did not practice You back
Speaker 1: Martin's back. Oh. I was just about to mention his
Speaker 1: name as I did not practice yesterday. Is he healthy? No?
Speaker 1: Would you sit him? Hasn't been healthy. He hasn't been
Speaker 1: healthy all year. I know, but I'm no, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: sit him. You're like, we gotta go all in, the
Speaker 1: best player on this team, tough m effort, he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. Wow, Okay. I mean, well, I scratch that
Speaker 1: last statement. I don't know if he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday. It's very encouraging that he's back to practice. Um,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. But I mean, he's he's a tough
Speaker 1: son of a gun. He's a great player. I think
Speaker 1: that if their backs had truly been against the wall
Speaker 1: against Indy, he probably could have gutted through that too.
Speaker 1: It's just a it's an assumption on my part, but
Speaker 1: just knowing the type of guy he is, I think
Speaker 1: he could have uh and I definitely think he can
Speaker 1: get through it this week. So there's no opinion. I
Speaker 1: guess on this panel that if he's not and I
Speaker 1: don't even say one hundred percent, if he's still hurt,
Speaker 1: that you would sit him this week because you're thinking
Speaker 1: of the big picture and the playoffs. Big picture starts
Speaker 1: to look kind of iffy. If I'm gonna win this game,
Speaker 1: this is the playoff, I'm not trying to go to
Speaker 1: the meadowlands. I think that's a bad idea. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think you go win this game. You
Speaker 1: get him out there or play, and let's win this
Speaker 1: game and then set him for the Giants. Game you
Speaker 1: need to or you probably would, you'd set a few
Speaker 1: people for that game. And you gotta win this one.
Speaker 1: This is the one to win. This is the most
Speaker 1: winnable game on your schedule right now. So outside of that,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys injury report looks actually pretty good. The only
Speaker 1: other guys that did not practice yesterday and David Irving
Speaker 1: Jeff Swain, which we expected, we don't expect that they'll
Speaker 1: be back this week, so you can pretty much just
Speaker 1: kind of write those guys off. But there were a
Speaker 1: couple guys that were limited. Tavon Austin limited with the
Speaker 1: growing injury, Colby's foot, Sean Lee still with the hammy
Speaker 1: even though he played last week, and then Xavier Suafilo
Speaker 1: was limited with the eye injury. How we what are
Speaker 1: we hearing about those guys? Any of those guys looking like,
Speaker 1: specifically for Tavon Austin, Xavier Suafilo because Tavion still hasn't
Speaker 1: come back yet, and and for Suafilo that injury is
Speaker 1: just so gruesome. You just don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to play. But what are you guys hearing? Uh?
Speaker 1: Xavier said yesterday that he in he's hopeful he can play,
Speaker 1: and he intends to and he's feeling a lot better.
Speaker 1: You know, he was rocking the tom Ford sunglasses keep
Speaker 1: the light out of his eye, probably keep people from
Speaker 1: having a look at it too, kind of probably kind
Speaker 1: of gnarly looking, but he's out there. I yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel good about him being available. And Tavon, you don't
Speaker 1: want to read too much into it, but he was
Speaker 1: part of the kind of pre practice walk through that
Speaker 1: they do today where they kind of they go through
Speaker 1: some of the stuff they're gonna work on on air
Speaker 1: instead of against the defense, and he was he was
Speaker 1: part of that. So and usually if you the expectation
Speaker 1: is that that's preparation for game like, that's game prep, right,
Speaker 1: which would be a positive sign, right. So, and I
Speaker 1: think they they're excited about getting him back for a
Speaker 1: punt return. I mean, Basiley, he's not giving you anything
Speaker 1: really there other than the guy that catches it. So
Speaker 1: I think they they're excited about having him back. I
Speaker 1: don't know about kickoff returns, but they're always kick it
Speaker 1: over their head anyway. So yeah, but he's your gadget player.
Speaker 1: That's at least the hope you're able to do a
Speaker 1: lot of different. Yeah, I think much much like Sean
Speaker 1: Lee only played seven snaps. I you know, if let's
Speaker 1: say Tavon plays, I bet it would be They're not
Speaker 1: just gonna open every everything up with him, not that
Speaker 1: they really ever were, but I think he would mainly
Speaker 1: be your return man to start and a very limited
Speaker 1: offensive role would be my guest. But yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: good about him playing. I was just gonna make a
Speaker 1: comment about Xavier for those who don't really know. Um.
Speaker 1: He basically told me that it looks It looked like
Speaker 1: when a fighter gets punched writing the eye and then
Speaker 1: he gets super swollen too, where your eyes literally shut.
Speaker 1: So he said, the swollen it's going down. He's putting
Speaker 1: in drops throughout the day. And he didn't really show me,
Speaker 1: but I saw it from the side. It did seem
Speaker 1: a little less swollen, but all of it is still purple,
Speaker 1: like a whole black eye, all the whole area. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go watch that, if you go watch the
Speaker 1: video of him, Yes, you know, he did a media
Speaker 1: interview and there's a video. He wore his sunglasses in
Speaker 1: the interview, which is great, but he's not the only
Speaker 1: one to wear sunglasses in the house. Yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, Jalen does that every week, so right,
Speaker 1: but underneath you can see it's like purple and gray,
Speaker 1: just all yeah, like can you see it outside of
Speaker 1: the Gnarly is a great word for it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: can I get illegal hands to the face. I mean,
Speaker 1: if this is going on, what if it was Lyell
Speaker 1: that did it, You're gonna flag your own teammate? Was
Speaker 1: it that? Xavier said he didn't know for sure, but
Speaker 1: that's kind of the word coming from everybody. It was
Speaker 1: that Lyell was the guy. Xavier said he didn't know
Speaker 1: for sure, but because I did go back and look
Speaker 1: at it, and it does look like the Colts guy
Speaker 1: has got his hands like right there, so I mean
Speaker 1: he's got his hand on his face. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: mean it would have been a nice penalty. I mean,
Speaker 1: if if you're gonna have you lose your regard for
Speaker 1: the game on fourth down and the guy fumbles, it
Speaker 1: would have been a nice penalty to have first and
Speaker 1: goal first out of it. Might gotta feel goal maybe
Speaker 1: at the half yard line, I don't know, some goal.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they score out of that. With
Speaker 1: Adam Redman coming into the game right off the bat
Speaker 1: got three shots, so four shots probably three Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I just I think that it would just one of
Speaker 1: those plays where you know, you talk about a fighter,
Speaker 1: you know, it happens every whether they get punched on
Speaker 1: fifty times or like in Rocky, like a thousand times,
Speaker 1: and that's what happens. One punch, one finger to the
Speaker 1: eye inadvertently. Yeah, but that's like I wasn't there. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I think he had somebody's digit, like
Speaker 1: a couple knuckles deep in his eye. Said that a
Speaker 1: couple of times. I don't need to. I'm just saying like,
Speaker 1: this ain't like he got you know, he didn't poke
Speaker 1: himself while he was putting his contact right and this
Speaker 1: thing was like all the way in there. Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 1: It's real gross. Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry, Let's move on,
Speaker 1: all right, So let's go ahead and get into the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay offense. Dave, give us your scoutter report on
Speaker 1: this Tampa Bay offense that right now is ranked third
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Big plays good and bad. That's I mean, well, no,
Speaker 1: for you and for them, for real, this is I mean,
Speaker 1: it's backyard football. You got a cannon armed quarterback and
Speaker 1: some really scary wide receivers, especially if DeShawn Jackson comes
Speaker 1: back this week, which it's trending that that will happen.
Speaker 1: We'll see. But Mike Mike Evans is averaging eighteen yards
Speaker 1: per catch, which as a as a thirteen hundred yard receiver,
Speaker 1: that's hard to do. Like when you're talking about a
Speaker 1: high volume of catches, that's hard to do. DeShawn Jackson's
Speaker 1: been missing with a broken thumb for a decent chunk
Speaker 1: of the season. Nineteen yards per catch. We knew that
Speaker 1: about him, but he's he's still pretty scary even I
Speaker 1: mean what this is like year twelve for him or
Speaker 1: something like that, third and total offense first, and passing
Speaker 1: offense twenty eighth and rushing only twenty five points per game,
Speaker 1: which that's the other thing. They just they just love
Speaker 1: to give the ball away, which to Nick's point from yesterday,
Speaker 1: that's why Jameis Winson has been the quarterback all year.
Speaker 1: He's obviously suspended to start. Ryan Fitzpatrick comes in, plays great.
Speaker 1: Jamis comes back. They've been swapping him him in and out.
Speaker 1: Thirty two total giveaways this year. They are minus sixteen
Speaker 1: in turnover differential. Jamis has thirteen interceptions and he's missed
Speaker 1: like five starts. So thirteen interceptions in nine or ten games,
Speaker 1: but he's missed how many starts? Well, he got benched
Speaker 1: for two and then missed another two. Yeah, but he
Speaker 1: started the season, didn't He start a season with four
Speaker 1: was it four? Three nuts? So he's missed like five games.
Speaker 1: I was just figuring out. I didn't know if you
Speaker 1: factored that in the games the beginning of the season
Speaker 1: for the suspension. Um. Yeah, thirteen picks in nine games,
Speaker 1: give or take. Um, yeah, no, not great, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: and that's why, Yeah, they benched him. He has he's
Speaker 1: been back for a little while. He's been back since
Speaker 1: like October twenty eighth, I think, so he's been in there. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's feast and famine with these guys. Um.
Speaker 1: They are better at running the ball than I. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to fall into the same trap two
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. Like, you know, the Colts were
Speaker 1: supposedly terrible at running the ball. The stats say they're
Speaker 1: not great. They ran it twenty one times for eighty
Speaker 1: five yards against Baltimore last week. Peyton Barber was averaging
Speaker 1: five yards per carry, So I don't want to say
Speaker 1: that they can't do it too good. Defense they did
Speaker 1: that again, yeah, exactly, but they're not great at it
Speaker 1: and pay I mean, I want to say it for
Speaker 1: the second week in a row either. Peyton Barber is
Speaker 1: not the scariest running back that they're going to play
Speaker 1: this year, but neither was Marlon Mack. So something to watch.
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to see how they run, defense rebounds.
Speaker 1: I don't think this offensive line is as good as
Speaker 1: the Colts. They've given up thirty seven sacks this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know any any questions. Yeah, I do have
Speaker 1: one question. You talked about their big playability. I can't recall,
Speaker 1: but has there been a game this season where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have particularly been susceptible to big plays? Like Seattle
Speaker 1: just gotten beat up like that? Seattle was early on.
Speaker 1: They didn't have they didn't have Xavier Woods at the time,
Speaker 1: but they gave up a fifty two yard touchdown to
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett and a thirty something yard or too um
Speaker 1: one of their Jeron Brown I think. And then Detroit
Speaker 1: the week after that, Golden Tate tortured him twice. So
Speaker 1: it was a while early in the year. A couple
Speaker 1: of times, I mean, and Hopkins didn't have big play,
Speaker 1: like down the field. It was just like leaving through everybody.
Speaker 1: But I think in the last few weeks they've sort
Speaker 1: of I mean, really last seven weeks. If they didn't
Speaker 1: give a big play this last game, But it wasn't
Speaker 1: to me. I didn't think of that as a problem
Speaker 1: for them. They couldn't stop the run. That was the issue.
Speaker 1: And so I know they've had moments and they've given
Speaker 1: up big plays. I didn't recall them that being like
Speaker 1: the theme of the game where they just could not
Speaker 1: they were just getting beat up downfield. They have another
Speaker 1: thousand yard receiver, they have Godwin. Does he have a thought?
Speaker 1: I don't think he has a thousand yards? He shocking him?
Speaker 1: And they well they have Adam Humphries too, which I
Speaker 1: mean Cole Beasley two point zer. Hello, he's the he's
Speaker 1: the same guy, I mean, carbon copy almost slot receiver.
Speaker 1: Maybe cheaper. Well, I guess we'll see. Was like, was
Speaker 1: he doing Twitter? He is he rap? He does not rap? No,
Speaker 1: what does he do on Twitter? He's got got Godwin's
Speaker 1: got a Godwin's got about seven hundred yards five touchdowns,
Speaker 1: um inconsistent and just Godwin and and honestly Evans like Evans,
Speaker 1: Evans can He'll drop one on you from time to time.
Speaker 1: Godwin definitely, I liked him a lot coming out of
Speaker 1: Penn State. He's hid and miss and that's I would
Speaker 1: rather play Chris Godwin than Deshaan Jackson. Just Deshan Jackson, Yeah,
Speaker 1: kills these guys all the time, which I I fascinate.
Speaker 1: If DeShawn Jackson does play, I would you know, you
Speaker 1: would assume Byron Jones wants to match up with Mike
Speaker 1: Evans as much as possible, which welcome to the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Have fun dealing with a tight end that can run
Speaker 1: like a receiver basically. But then, well, what do you
Speaker 1: do with Deshan Jackson? If you mean getting you gotta
Speaker 1: pick your poison between those two guys, and I I
Speaker 1: just Cheeto Woozier like once again, tough luck loser, Like
Speaker 1: you're going to draw a tough assignment regardless because it
Speaker 1: will be the guy that Byron isn't on. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's the thing too, I don't know that this is
Speaker 1: a leek. I necessarily say I want to travel, I
Speaker 1: usually I think of traveling a guy when it's like him,
Speaker 1: it's one receiver and then everybody else is just whatever.
Speaker 1: I think this is a week where you've got a
Speaker 1: couple different good players, So you stick with where people
Speaker 1: where your guys are. You don't necessarily have to travel
Speaker 1: just wherever they line up. You just cover the guy
Speaker 1: that's in front of you, right, I agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: and this team, they don't travel an extraordinary amount anyway,
Speaker 1: But like I want Byron Jones on Evans as much
Speaker 1: as possible because Byron is so physical and he's got
Speaker 1: the athleticism to hang with a guy like that, which
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get away with the amount of contact
Speaker 1: that Byron prefers to play with, it would be against
Speaker 1: a bigger receiver like this. So you got a blitz
Speaker 1: Jamis because I mean, he's obviously not going nowhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. But that's where the big plays
Speaker 1: probably come in because he's like, all right, if I'm
Speaker 1: getting you know, pressured, I'm gonna throw it up. I'll
Speaker 1: throw it up to Evans. I like my chances there,
Speaker 1: or throw it deep to Jackson. That's where I bet
Speaker 1: they get a lot of chunk plays and they probably
Speaker 1: get a lot of you know, bad plays as well.
Speaker 1: Jamis is just gonna heave it downfield more times in
Speaker 1: this game than Dak probably has all year. Seriously, like
Speaker 1: I believe that, wait, Heath's gonna get two interceptions. This
Speaker 1: would be This is the game where I mean, Jamis
Speaker 1: has a ridiculous right there. It's got a ridiculous amount
Speaker 1: of confidence in his arm, probably too much. Thirteen picks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like this defense should be able to get a pick
Speaker 1: or two in this game. And even I don't, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to like break in front of
Speaker 1: the ball, like bat it up and let somebody else whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever it takes. But they need to force some takeaways
Speaker 1: in this game, playing at home against the quarterback that
Speaker 1: likes to give the ball away, and they're gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing it a lot, So you can't you can't let
Speaker 1: them embarrass you on the ground for lack of a
Speaker 1: better word, because they shouldn't be able to dictate this
Speaker 1: game with their running game. Obviously the Colts did that.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I don't, you know, Ali Marpet's a
Speaker 1: good player, Diamond Smith is a pretty good player. I
Speaker 1: don't think this offensive line is as good as the
Speaker 1: Colts was though, So yeah, all right, looks like our
Speaker 1: first break. We'll come back. Dave's gonna give us a
Speaker 1: scattering report on the defense, the Tampa defense, and how
Speaker 1: that matches up with the Cowboys offense. Will do it
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Speaker 1: It is the second segment of the Breaklock from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortal Studios at the Star talking Cowboys Versus Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Dave gave us is offensive scouting report on the Bucks,
Speaker 1: and now they'll tell us a little bit about the defense.
Speaker 1: Dave take away they're bad. They're bad, Derek Nick, your
Speaker 1: stat was the best one. Tell everybody your stat from yesterday.
Speaker 1: While I was looking at the red zone offense for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and if you notice, the Cowboys have struggled
Speaker 1: in the red zone with their offense. So I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they have that. They're not very good. Actually they're thirty
Speaker 1: first in the NFL. Yeah. Forty three attempts, nineteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's not's not good at all. Um. So I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: real quick. The guy was telling me stats and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, real quick, what are the Bucks on defense?
Speaker 1: He's like, hum their last I was like, what, really
Speaker 1: are they bad? He's like forty you know, fifty one
Speaker 1: attempts that teams have gotten in there, they've scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown forty times out and that's good teams. Bad teams
Speaker 1: at ames field goals. So fifty one trips inside their
Speaker 1: twenty and only three times that they've got a turnover
Speaker 1: or turnover on downs or missed the field goal. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are allowing a touchdown seventy eight percent of
Speaker 1: the time when the opponent gets to their twenty. Cowboys
Speaker 1: are scoring a touchdown forty four percent of the time
Speaker 1: when they get to the opponent's twenty. That could fix
Speaker 1: a lot of your problems. Problems. Yeah, buck break right now,
Speaker 1: we're break. We're finally going up against an offense we
Speaker 1: can stop. H that that right, I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: it's just called like that, Mickey drop. We've got perfect.
Speaker 1: If you cannot win in the red zone against this team,
Speaker 1: then you have some serious, major problems. And they do,
Speaker 1: they do they have problems. Then it happens. That's that's
Speaker 1: a I'm firing somebody. Okay. That's Amber speaks for the
Speaker 1: fans because she's like, I don't know who's got to
Speaker 1: get fired, but somebody's got to go. Somebody's going. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if Christmas, somebody's gotta go by next week.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the rant that you had the
Speaker 1: other day. You were just ranting and you didn't really
Speaker 1: have an ending, like oh, she just let us know.
Speaker 1: That's the ending. Somebody's getting fired. She just went straight.
Speaker 1: Think I would be the case. I would imagine they
Speaker 1: could be successful here because obviously the Cowboys don't struggle
Speaker 1: getting to that point to the twenty yard, and they
Speaker 1: have the tools. They have the tools to do it,
Speaker 1: and especially going up against this team that it's so
Speaker 1: bad at that they should be able to. What are
Speaker 1: they bad at though, just in general, like run, let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. I mean, they're bad at everything.
Speaker 1: They're giving up three hundred and eighty seventy yards per game,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty nine passing yards, one twenty eight
Speaker 1: rushing yards. That's all twenty seventh or worse. They're giving
Speaker 1: up twenty nine points per game, which is thirtieth in
Speaker 1: the league. But the funny thing is, like they do
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff similar to the Cowboys. I mean
Speaker 1: that sounds dumb because the Cowboys are obviously good at
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But they've got sixteen takeaways, which is
Speaker 1: just as many as the Cowboys. They've actually got more
Speaker 1: sacks than the Cowboys. They've got thirty six. I was
Speaker 1: surprised to hear this. I mean, Tampa Bay is just
Speaker 1: a waste land in terms of like they're not covered
Speaker 1: on a national level. You're not going to learn about
Speaker 1: the Bucks by watching Sports Center. Um Jason Pierre Paul
Speaker 1: has eleven and a half sacks. They've got some talent.
Speaker 1: That's the interesting part about all it would not have guessed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the NFC East cast off defensive line. Here, Jason Pierre
Speaker 1: Paul's got eleven and a half sacks. Bo Allen, you
Speaker 1: remember him. He's starting at d tackle for these guys.
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy, first round pick. Gerald McCoy is probably the
Speaker 1: new Joe Thomas in the sense of just like a
Speaker 1: badass player who nobody thinks about because he's stuck in
Speaker 1: a bad situation. Carl Nassip comes over from the Browns.
Speaker 1: They claimed him off waivers at the end of the preseason.
Speaker 1: He's got sorry, sorry, he's got six and a half sacks. Sorry.
Speaker 1: Do you know how many the highest amount of sacks
Speaker 1: they've gone in one single game the Buccaneers. Not off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, no, because I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: if if it's kind of well divided and they have
Speaker 1: just one game, they got half their sacks, and I
Speaker 1: would I would argue the fact that they've got I mean,
Speaker 1: JPP would be leading this team in sacks. And then
Speaker 1: they've got two guys in nasibin McCoy who are better
Speaker 1: doing better than the Cowboys guys. I mean McCoy's got
Speaker 1: six from the d tackle positions. So it's significant to
Speaker 1: have three guys with pretty healthy sack numbers. I would
Speaker 1: guess that it's pretty evenly distributed, but I do not
Speaker 1: know that off the top of my head. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but yeah, so, I mean they do. They do a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff the same except and I mean
Speaker 1: they got Lavante David, who we were talking about this
Speaker 1: before the show. If I mean, Jalen Smith's not happy
Speaker 1: about getting Snubb by the Pro Bowl, like Lavante David's
Speaker 1: got one hundred and five tackles, four sacks, and a
Speaker 1: couple recovered fumbles, Like he's a damn good player too.
Speaker 1: It's linebackers can tally up stats, and there's only so
Speaker 1: many spots to go around. Um I wonder mental toughness,
Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, Like you see a
Speaker 1: lot of similarities here, and then you see that they're
Speaker 1: giving up a score seventy eight percent of time in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Cowboys defense, for comparison, is fifty percent
Speaker 1: twenty times. Only twenty times and forty trips have they
Speaker 1: given up a touchdown. And then they forced at least
Speaker 1: five or six turnovers and missed field goals and things
Speaker 1: like that too. So faring far better. And I just wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder like the mental aspect of that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, when things aren't going your way, can you
Speaker 1: buckle down and not let it get the better of you?
Speaker 1: Or is also part of that you're coaching the person
Speaker 1: who's making the calls. Yeah, the things that they do
Speaker 1: in the red zone can actually stop teams from scoreing
Speaker 1: touchdowns a lot, at a higher rate than maybe somebody
Speaker 1: who doesn't change those things or doesn't have the ability
Speaker 1: to give put a team in the right position in
Speaker 1: those situations. Yeah, this seems like a bend and break defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like that they're bending all the way because fifty one trips.
Speaker 1: There is a lot of trips in there, and then
Speaker 1: and then they're breaking when they're in there, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like they're sounds like this is what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would be but for the fact that they're able to
Speaker 1: make stops in the red zone, and that's well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't want to go that far, because
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys are fifth in total defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: they don't I know, they got gas, they don't, like
Speaker 1: they don't let people in the red zone as frequently. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: one eleven fewer times were game fewer. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: hear level. I mean if you if if people are
Speaker 1: getting to the twenty and then zipping down or so,
Speaker 1: let's say you go to the red zone four times
Speaker 1: in a game, that's eighty extra yards of offense per game.
Speaker 1: I mean that stuff matters. So it really is. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, people don't want to hear ben but don't break.
Speaker 1: But like in this day and age, it's so easy
Speaker 1: to accumulate yards between the twenties. Like, it's all about
Speaker 1: how you handle those scoring opportunities. And clearly the Bucks
Speaker 1: are not good at it. The Cowboys are pretty good
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah. Did you say that the Bucks have
Speaker 1: sixteen turnovers, takeaways, takeaways? Yes? Did you also say that sixteen?
Speaker 1: They're minus sixteen. So my math says that their offense
Speaker 1: has turned the ball over thirty two times, twice as
Speaker 1: many times as their defense has gotten takeaways thirty two giveaways.
Speaker 1: It's on it like it's like that Obervation Army. It's
Speaker 1: I think it's it's easy to it's easy to make
Speaker 1: the argument that turnover differentials like the most important stat
Speaker 1: of football. It's one of them, and thirty two giveaways
Speaker 1: on the year. I'm surprised their record is not worse, honestly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that also made sell you how good their offense
Speaker 1: really has been. As far as they're they're scary and
Speaker 1: they're gonna get yards in this game. Again, red zone
Speaker 1: is what it comes down to. Um, I worry the
Speaker 1: good stuff on this defense is like down the middle.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Gerald McCoy's a beast. They drafted Vita Vea,
Speaker 1: who is definitely not living up to being a top
Speaker 1: ten pick right now, but he is a highly athletic,
Speaker 1: gigantic three hundred and fifty pound nose tackle could give
Speaker 1: you problems on the interior of your defensive line. Maybe
Speaker 1: for one has banged up as this one. Lavante David
Speaker 1: uh is probably there's well he's he's one of their
Speaker 1: better defenders. He's been one of the better linebackers in
Speaker 1: the NFC for a while. And then um Brian's really
Speaker 1: high on this kid, Jordan Whitehead. I remember, he's a
Speaker 1: rookie safety out of pit He started as a fourth
Speaker 1: round pick. Rookie. You know, he's not Earl Thomas, but
Speaker 1: he's playing pretty well. So you've got good players all
Speaker 1: down the middle of your defense. And for a team
Speaker 1: that likes to run the ball and doesn't like to
Speaker 1: have pressure up the middle, and their quarterback doesn't like
Speaker 1: to throw it over the middle of the field, those
Speaker 1: things could all be problematic. So talk to me a
Speaker 1: little bit about Gerald McCoy vitavea matching up against the
Speaker 1: center and guards for this team. I mean, do I
Speaker 1: need to explain it to you? I mean, did you
Speaker 1: watch did you watch the Colts Gant? Well, that's when
Speaker 1: I relieve that, Derek. No, I'm just asking. I'm asking
Speaker 1: the question of do you think that that can be
Speaker 1: a big enough problem where it really affects the Cowboys
Speaker 1: ability to what they want to do? Because you can
Speaker 1: talk about the run game, Cowboys aren't afraid to run
Speaker 1: the ball on the outside too, so don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to run it up the middle in order to be productive.
Speaker 1: My question is, can these defensive tackles wreck this game?
Speaker 1: Are they that good based upon what you have? I'm
Speaker 1: just going to say, because if they were that good,
Speaker 1: they're not get letting forty touchdowns go inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: That's where you buckle down. That's I mean that. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think we're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy that was a really good player a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh McCoy, McCoy, I mean he's probably still up there,
Speaker 1: um vita va. I mean he's probably got some ways
Speaker 1: to go as a first round picks still. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just don't think numbers will tell you they're not
Speaker 1: wrecking anything right now. Like that doesn't mean that Adam
Speaker 1: Redman is gonna push him off the ball or anything,
Speaker 1: or anybody or just Looney or or Connor Williams or whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this is definitely one of those games
Speaker 1: where you don't look at it and you say they're
Speaker 1: not that good on defense. We can rest Zack. No,
Speaker 1: you need to play Zach. That's don't neutralize yourself. I
Speaker 1: sure would, I sure would feel better about this game.
Speaker 1: If Zach can play like that will make me feel
Speaker 1: a lot better. DA can still feel you feel pretty good.
Speaker 1: They can hold up against that defensive and that's yes,
Speaker 1: so so although they're good, they're not so good to
Speaker 1: where they should be able to consistently beat. If you've
Speaker 1: got your guy, if it's justly beat you guys, you've
Speaker 1: got your guys. And I agree with Nick on one instance,
Speaker 1: but not the other, which I mean Gerald McCoy is
Speaker 1: a badass player. He's on a bad defense. But you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones loves to say like they pay their guys
Speaker 1: too likes he's a really really good player. And yeah,
Speaker 1: if he's going up against Adam Redman, he probably can
Speaker 1: wreck this thing for you. So make me feel great. Well,
Speaker 1: don't play your eighth guard. I mean I would, I
Speaker 1: just Zach, please play, Zach, Please play the game, and
Speaker 1: then it'll be okay, all right, let's go and take
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Speaker 1: our guy, got our I got our guys. Steve Buchannon
Speaker 1: from DraftKings Steve, what's up? How's it going with one? Good? Good?
Speaker 1: How you been very good? Very good? God to do
Speaker 1: that good? Let's yes, we gotta jump on this and
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about championships. I of course have
Speaker 1: won one championship and in another championship this weekend. So um,
Speaker 1: for people like me, pat yourself on the back. Just
Speaker 1: just wanted to throw that out there. But anyway, um,
Speaker 1: just for people like me, give me, give me just
Speaker 1: a couple of things. There are a couple of different
Speaker 1: instances around the league where where players are are are
Speaker 1: out or you're having to kind of fill in. Give me, ah,
Speaker 1: I guess we can start first with a guy like
Speaker 1: Jaylen Samuels and and Connor H. Connor Um James Connor.
Speaker 1: James Connor, I'm sorry that every being out. Yeah, James
Speaker 1: Connor being out. What do you think about a guy
Speaker 1: like Jaylen Samuels. I know he had a big week
Speaker 1: last week, but this week playing a really good New
Speaker 1: Orleans defense, What would you do with a guy like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this is not really a week to be
Speaker 1: looking at those guys on the ground. I mean New
Speaker 1: Orleans has how the star defense overall, about where they've
Speaker 1: been strong is on the ground. And we've seen Samuels
Speaker 1: in a couple of games now and yeah, that huge
Speaker 1: game against the Ringold but that's like night and day
Speaker 1: when you're going up against the Saints. Uh, they've just
Speaker 1: been absolutely stifling to compose their running backs. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is gonna be a bad spot. But I mean,
Speaker 1: here was this is really a game where it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the on the shoulder of San Brothelisberger and
Speaker 1: what he can do third the air and one of
Speaker 1: the spots the Saints have been so poor against his
Speaker 1: flower receivers and yeah, you know Juju spith Shuster jumps
Speaker 1: right off there. So I feel like that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the guys they're gonna have to rely on this spot.
Speaker 1: It's just a really flew that matchup for their running
Speaker 1: backs this week, Steve. For guys like you know that
Speaker 1: are in the consolation game, maybe in the third third
Speaker 1: place game. Um, look at the Bucks and Cowboys matchup.
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like the Bucks. So we just
Speaker 1: talked about their offense. They don't put up a lot
Speaker 1: of points to this put up a lot of yards though.
Speaker 1: Think those are guys that you want to look at. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And one thing too is that DeShawn Jackson
Speaker 1: was talked to again today and that gives them that
Speaker 1: deep spread they really they've been missing. And Chris Godwin's
Speaker 1: taking most of the snap over since jackson has been out.
Speaker 1: But the thing with Jackson is he can just get
Speaker 1: down field so quickly. You have just about eighteen point
Speaker 1: eight yards perception while god was around twelve. So that
Speaker 1: isn't that deep stress that they've been missing. And that's
Speaker 1: something that I think that Winton can kind of rely
Speaker 1: upon in this game. By mean, if there's a bounce
Speaker 1: back spots for the Cowboys, I mean, this is definitely
Speaker 1: the defense you want to look at. I mean, three
Speaker 1: hundred eighty six total yards per game that they allow,
Speaker 1: the fifth highest in the league. And then they've also
Speaker 1: run over over one hundred and three rushing yards straight
Speaker 1: It's five straight weeks. Now, that's when an area just
Speaker 1: getting ripped. So you know, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: a great spot for you know, for the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: this spot. But I think Jackson will definitely help that often.
Speaker 1: We had a question from a fan. He was asking
Speaker 1: for his championship game. There were three running backs that
Speaker 1: he listed, Gus Edwards, James White, Melvin Gordon. Obviously Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon coming back from the industry injury. I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure what his status is right now, But what do
Speaker 1: you think about those guys and where you would go
Speaker 1: assuming first of all, that Gordon is not going to play,
Speaker 1: because obviously if he's playing, he's I think the best
Speaker 1: of these three, I would guess, Oh yeah, I mean absolutely,
Speaker 1: And if you can get Gordon in your lineup, that's
Speaker 1: obviously somebody you look at. But one of the best
Speaker 1: run defenses in the game. I mean, it doesn't really
Speaker 1: matter who they've been playing. I mean, they've really been
Speaker 1: top dogs the type from the Titans when it comes
Speaker 1: to defending the run. I'm a little inclined to kind
Speaker 1: of go with White here, especial was gonna news that,
Speaker 1: you know, Josh Gordon's alonger with the team, stepping away
Speaker 1: from the game of football because he's got the suspension incoming.
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna split those targets on somewhere. You know,
Speaker 1: Chris Hoak is not really a guy you want to
Speaker 1: rely upon, so the scould open up some opportunities for
Speaker 1: James White, especially going with those defense that as I'm
Speaker 1: strong against the past, we're not so strong on the ground.
Speaker 1: So I'm a little inclined to go with him here.
Speaker 1: Um post the news that Gordon is along with the team,
Speaker 1: if you'd ask me yesterday, one wouldn't have been my
Speaker 1: first choice. But I wos little more interesting now what's
Speaker 1: the news there? I'm kind of curious about that. You
Speaker 1: talked about the Patriots. When you're you're putting values on
Speaker 1: on guys. Are the Patriots the most frustrating team to
Speaker 1: to try to assign point values too, because they've got
Speaker 1: seventeen players over there and they all do a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean Brady's the one going to do Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brady's the one that's gonna you know, throw the ball around,
Speaker 1: but you never know. They have like three backs and
Speaker 1: five receivers and the tight end hasn't been that good.
Speaker 1: And well, running back is the most maddening thing because
Speaker 1: you know the guys, uh Sonny Michelle, they have James
Speaker 1: White and then when it comes to the goal line,
Speaker 1: you think it's rust Bertay, but no protection going to
Speaker 1: be James Devlin because you know, what the hell why not.
Speaker 1: It's the most nivating things in terms of fantasy purposes
Speaker 1: to try to decipher. But uh, you know, at least
Speaker 1: without Gordon, at least you can condense some of the
Speaker 1: receiver targets a bit more this week. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: just really it's such a craps you when you're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who to pair Tom Brady with because
Speaker 1: it always seems like the game plan is different every
Speaker 1: other week. But the loss of Gordon is gonna be
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be pretty yuh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty tough on them. He was that guy that you know,
Speaker 1: it seems like you could catch anything, and that deep
Speaker 1: downfield threatening. It really don't have that anymore without Gordon.
Speaker 1: That's the receivers are pretty sin this year and Insid's
Speaker 1: really going to make them tough down the stretch. As
Speaker 1: a paid professional, how do you cope with the silliness
Speaker 1: of this game? Like just and I'm asking because I'm
Speaker 1: still I'm still butt hurt for lack of a better phrase,
Speaker 1: about the way my season ended. And if you're not
Speaker 1: in the championship game, you probably are right. You can
Speaker 1: have you can have the best laid plan in the world,
Speaker 1: and this game will just smash your heart into a
Speaker 1: million pieces. So you know, like I said, you get
Speaker 1: paid to do this. Obviously you know better than anybody else,
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Speaker 1: know what, you get paid to do this, and you know,
Speaker 1: come week eleven, I'm thinking on purpose, like a good draft.
Speaker 1: That's nice year, Wow, got do what you gotta do. Hey, hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry what you say. Yeah, no doubt, definitely we
Speaker 1: appreciate your secon up some some time with us. Good
Speaker 1: luck to you this weekend, Have a great, great, great
Speaker 1: Christmas and a happy Holidays, and we'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thanks, take care. All all right, that
Speaker 1: was Steve Buchannon with bath Ke talking fantasy football with us. Nick,
Speaker 1: what is Layton Vandert? Connor Williams Like? What are they
Speaker 1: this year? Rookies? Rookies? I like it, she says, rookie.
Speaker 1: All right, let's jump back in. We got we have
Speaker 1: a question from a fan horse in Atlanta. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: go to him on the phone lines. What do we got, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how you doing? Hey? I agree with Amber Um. I
Speaker 1: believe that they can't really get it in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Somebody's got to go, and I believe that should be
Speaker 1: the office of coordinator. Now, I don't agree with Nick.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak should go or maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I didn't say that question came up, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't say should well you said the one of
Speaker 1: the office coordinator n QB, somebody's got to go or
Speaker 1: something like that. So I don't know, but we know
Speaker 1: what it's like to have a bad quarterback, and there's
Speaker 1: no way I would trade a quarterback in three seasons
Speaker 1: that has just as many wins as Tom Brady. That
Speaker 1: would be ludicrous. I would think that, Yeah, that's not
Speaker 1: the way to go. Who you arguing against? Like who
Speaker 1: who would you argue against? Like who who says that
Speaker 1: that you should trade away Dak Prescott? Oh No, I
Speaker 1: didn't say. I didn't. I don't think that we should.
Speaker 1: Don't think but to do that that the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: or Scott Linahan or Dak because something is wrong after
Speaker 1: we didn't score, right, you know That's what I was.
Speaker 1: That's what I was wondering, because after that I appreciate it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but because I believe, you know, our quarterback is we
Speaker 1: hit people in the hands from balls and they're dropping them.
Speaker 1: But my question is is is that when we get
Speaker 1: in the red zone, why don't we just give the
Speaker 1: ball to Zeke like three times in a row? What
Speaker 1: is the what is the fault with that? Or just
Speaker 1: saying look, I'm going I would get in Zachharden space
Speaker 1: and Lion Collins space, and I say, look, we're running
Speaker 1: on your side. You're the highest paid player, you, you
Speaker 1: were supposed to be a good draft pick. You run,
Speaker 1: We're gonna run behind you. You make a hole in
Speaker 1: the score, you your first round draft picked back, get
Speaker 1: in there in the end zone. I see why we
Speaker 1: can't do that? All right? Thanksna, appreciate And I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone here disagrees with you. And I think one
Speaker 1: thing that the Cowboys fail to realize or remember. It
Speaker 1: seems like that they look at the stacked boxes or whatever.
Speaker 1: Nobody in the league pushes the pile better than Zeke
Speaker 1: to me, and not only that he is crafty with
Speaker 1: how he gets the ball and finds the you know,
Speaker 1: the marker and stuff like that, and like let him
Speaker 1: and those that you know power that he's got. He's
Speaker 1: gonna drive some people. Just because you're in his way
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're gonna bring him down. Imagine if they
Speaker 1: did that regulate, he'd have twenty five, twenty six touchdowns
Speaker 1: in a season. Like he's just I just think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys way too. I mean, because you're asked, don't know maybe,
Speaker 1: But I'll say this, I think that you're right. I
Speaker 1: think he know he has a knack for getting the
Speaker 1: ball where it needs to be, whether it's for a
Speaker 1: first down on third or fourth and short, or whether
Speaker 1: it's on the goal line. And so I think if
Speaker 1: you give him those opportunities, I think he's gonna figure
Speaker 1: out a way to do it without taking a lot
Speaker 1: of flush hits, Like he just knows how to find
Speaker 1: that little scene and dip through it and get the
Speaker 1: ball out and there you go, you gotta touchdown. I
Speaker 1: would give him more opportunities to do that. For the
Speaker 1: sake of argument, I will point out that Zach did
Speaker 1: not play in Indianapolis, right, so he wasn't there to
Speaker 1: do that. But as a season long trend, yes, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely ludicrous. I don't know how many more ways we
Speaker 1: can frame it. I mean, we talk about it every week,
Speaker 1: and we should. Obviously they suck at it, and but
Speaker 1: so we need to talk about it. But they they
Speaker 1: don't want to do the obvious thing. They think that
Speaker 1: the obvious thing will be stopped by an NFL defense
Speaker 1: that is keyed up to do it. Which that's kind
Speaker 1: of insane to me, since We've praised them for so
Speaker 1: many years. They built this around the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: that's they're gonna run it when nobody thinks they can.
Speaker 1: And I know that there's been injuries and not having
Speaker 1: Travis is huge, but they've played well enough that you
Speaker 1: should be able to get a yard if you try
Speaker 1: it three times in a row, like you just you
Speaker 1: just should. It's almost like saying I have Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: so they know I'm gonna throw it something. You have
Speaker 1: a you have an offensive line and a running back.
Speaker 1: You put resources in because you wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to run the ball against anybody in any circumstance. So
Speaker 1: why take that away from yourself? What Jimmy chit? Would
Speaker 1: I make it? You guys still don't have seen I
Speaker 1: haven't seen still, but I'm just gonna keep throwing it up,
Speaker 1: keep doing it, so we decide if we're going to go.
Speaker 1: Their total lack of willingness to play bullyball this year
Speaker 1: is frustrating and just for the I could say this
Speaker 1: till I'm blue in the face, like I the offense
Speaker 1: has been bad, and if it stays this way, like
Speaker 1: a change will happen, Like if if they don't win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and their thirty first in red zone
Speaker 1: and twenty sixth and total offense. Something's got to give there,
Speaker 1: and so us not sitting here calling for people be
Speaker 1: fired every day is like I'm not ignoring that fact.
Speaker 1: I'm just we're in a different spot. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I've said this before, Like the season is
Speaker 1: still going on. They're not gonna do something like that
Speaker 1: right now. Just let's see where we are in a
Speaker 1: month and then we can ride through and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Let me clarify that real quick. What I said last
Speaker 1: week was I don't think Dak and Lenahan are a
Speaker 1: good pair. I really don't. I think Lenahan calls plays
Speaker 1: that a more accurate quarterback should probably be able to make. However,
Speaker 1: I think Dak needs a coordinator that can do a
Speaker 1: little bit more with what his skill set is. And
Speaker 1: if one's got to go, it's certainly not going to
Speaker 1: be either or you keep Dak. Dak is a winner.
Speaker 1: He's proven that. I believe that is the way to go.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much you want to pay him,
Speaker 1: but I think he'll pay him something. But I do
Speaker 1: not think anything short of a Super Bowl keeps the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator here at all. All right, appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: Jones from back tomorrow. We're gonna let you guys know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna think is gonna happen this Sunday Cowboys
Speaker 1: versus Buccaneers. Still then for Nick Even, Dave Helm and
Speaker 1: Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Hilton. This has been the Break
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