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Speaker 4: All right, good, We got Amber back with us today.
Speaker 4: Welcome back to we missed you yesterday.
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Speaker 6: We got a lot of things we're gonna talk about today.
Speaker 6: We're gonna start on some injury updates. Quite a few
Speaker 6: guys jumped onto the injury report yesterday that had not
Speaker 6: been there, UH, some top line guys. We'll talk about
Speaker 6: that here. In the second we'll get into the Dallas
Speaker 6: offense versus the Baltimore defense UH. Somewhere in the second
Speaker 6: segment and into the third segment, we may even have
Speaker 6: some time for some phone calls. We'll see numbers eight eight, eight, eight, five, five,
Speaker 6: two two nine seven and UH. As Again, as I
Speaker 6: said before, I'm gonna be your advocate on this show,
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna try very hard to get amber to
Speaker 6: give you time to be able to call in and
Speaker 6: UH and give us some feedback.
Speaker 4: Let's start first with injury updates.
Speaker 6: Trayvon Diggs, Seedee Lamb, Mozzie Smith all pop up on
Speaker 6: the injury report. Did not practice yesterday for foot, ankle,
Speaker 6: and back injuries, respectively.
Speaker 4: What do we know right now about these injuries?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we could start with Mozzie Smith.
Speaker 3: We saw him come off of the practice field during
Speaker 3: the media portion of the UH practice yesterday with head
Speaker 3: trainer doctor Jim Mauer. He was coming off and kind
Speaker 3: of holding his back a little bit. So there was
Speaker 3: some back issues that you know he's dealing with. And
Speaker 3: I think it's reflective of kind of what happened on
Speaker 3: Sunday as well, because if you go back on tape,
Speaker 3: you can kind of see Mozzi leaning back a little
Speaker 3: bit at times. I'm not theorizing, but there is times
Speaker 3: you can see Mozzi kind of leaning back and grad.
Speaker 8: I don't know which touchdown it was, but he Yeah,
Speaker 8: he kind of turned one time and you could.
Speaker 2: See him below her back and the left side. Yeah,
Speaker 2: grab him. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So definitely something to keep an eye on, especially with
Speaker 3: Jordan Phillips going on the IR yesterday. If they're down
Speaker 3: two defensive tackles going into going into Sunday, then there's
Speaker 3: probably an opportunity for a Denzelt Accent or a Phil
Speaker 3: high Skins to get elevated from the practice squad and
Speaker 3: the city lamb ankle did not practice and Trayvon Diggs's
Speaker 3: foot did not practice. At least from my conversations, there
Speaker 3: doesn't seem to be any major concern. It's more so
Speaker 3: just giving those guys some rest on a Wednesday practice,
Speaker 3: and I expect them to be in a limited fashion today.
Speaker 4: That's good to know.
Speaker 6: As soon as we saw the injury report yesterday, I
Speaker 6: think Nick came obviously, he's like, have you seen.
Speaker 2: The injury report?
Speaker 6: And it Obviously, when those guys pop up, you get
Speaker 6: a little nervous, especially for me CD because he didn't
Speaker 6: have a training camp, and so as they're ramping him up,
Speaker 6: you're like, Okay, don't you want to see him and
Speaker 6: you want to get more of him, but you also
Speaker 6: want to be smart and make sure that it doesn't
Speaker 6: overly expose him to injury. So glad to hear that
Speaker 6: that's not a major situation. My question becomes if let's say,
Speaker 6: for example, at this point where you are at the
Speaker 6: cornerback position, if this becomes a pop problem for Trayvon,
Speaker 6: what do the Cowboys do with regards to the cornerback position.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have options in Andrew Booth that they acquired
Speaker 3: via trade over the during training camp. They have Israel
Speaker 3: Kuamu as well that they could use in an instance
Speaker 3: like that. But you know, I'm I'm not too concerned
Speaker 3: about game availability, but just in case it did pop up,
Speaker 3: in a game and they needed somebody to fill in
Speaker 3: and you know, make something happen there. Those are two
Speaker 3: guys you look at. Also a couple of corners on
Speaker 3: the practice squad who have a lot of experience as well.
Speaker 3: So if they needed to elevate somebody just to have
Speaker 3: someone ready, there's options to do that.
Speaker 9: No, c J.
Speaker 2: Goodwining those games for you.
Speaker 5: No comment here, you go there, you go mix it.
Speaker 3: Ryan, Just.
Speaker 8: All right, you're with a different body now, so I
Speaker 8: can kind of go at you.
Speaker 4: You didn't have the same worries as before.
Speaker 6: He's like, you know, forget on the Plane's just like
Speaker 6: I don't have to get on the plane exactly. Talk
Speaker 6: to me about Jake Ferguson and Stevens.
Speaker 4: Who were both limited yesterday. But I hate that by
Speaker 4: the way, and hamstring is yeah, I know right. The
Speaker 4: best thing about.
Speaker 6: Literally I can literally be on the plane and I'm
Speaker 6: back home block in the morning.
Speaker 4: I wake up in my own bed the next morning,
Speaker 4: I'm home. Yeah.
Speaker 6: John Stevens and Jake Ferguson, who missed the last game,
Speaker 6: both limited in practice yesterday. Are we getting closer and
Speaker 6: is there a possibility that maybe we see one or
Speaker 6: both back playing this weekend.
Speaker 3: I think both of these guys are back on Sunday.
Speaker 3: I really good signed to see them both in a
Speaker 3: limited fashion yesterday. There's some confidence from Mike McCarthy from
Speaker 3: his press conference yesterday as far as you know, Ferguson's availability,
Speaker 3: and then to see Stevens walking around and getting a
Speaker 3: limited session in. He had that leg sleeve around his
Speaker 3: I believe it's a left leg that he's dealing with
Speaker 3: the hamstring. Don't quote me on that, but it's good
Speaker 3: to see both of those guys on the field. I
Speaker 3: think when you look at the rest of the injury report,
Speaker 3: I mean there's there's some good confidence that you can
Speaker 3: have Marshaw Neeland with the cat that he was kind
Speaker 3: of battling last week, he was a full participant. And
Speaker 3: then Zach Martin, you know, with the knee that he
Speaker 3: came out with for a few plays on Sunday, he
Speaker 3: was limited, so he was at least able to get
Speaker 3: on the field. Other than what you see with Monzie Smith,
Speaker 3: I really don't see any major concerns as far as
Speaker 3: game availability on Sunday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the having the we'll get into this, you know.
Speaker 8: The one thing that the Ravens have had trouble with
Speaker 8: is tight ends. They they've given up some past plays
Speaker 8: down the field to some tight ends. And the rape
Speaker 8: the Raiders are you know, got two of the better
Speaker 8: ones and and so yeah, this is this is anything
Speaker 8: that you can do to kind of bring up the
Speaker 8: you know, you could kind of bring up their their
Speaker 8: their availability and then working against you know, with Eddie
Speaker 8: Jackson and then Marcus Williams. That's that's a that's a
Speaker 8: good thing.
Speaker 10: I'm curious to know something.
Speaker 5: Me too, Me too.
Speaker 10: Deliveries. I forgot them up theirs so I needed them
Speaker 10: because my eyes hurt.
Speaker 6: Doesn't know how bad you talk about storyline, I just
Speaker 6: want to know.
Speaker 7: Anyway, I don't talk about friendly, no, But with John Stevens,
Speaker 7: I mean, I know he's he's a guy that we
Speaker 7: are all eager to see and have back on the field,
Speaker 7: and we've seen him be a very good player. But
Speaker 7: what are your current expectations knowing that he's been out
Speaker 7: this period of time and then once he comes back in,
Speaker 7: I mean, what's the level there of what you're expecting
Speaker 7: for him to do or.
Speaker 3: Look like, Yeah, there's low expectations, but I think they're
Speaker 3: going to give him opportunities in the receiving game. I
Speaker 3: think you'll see him in Learne. I think you'll see
Speaker 3: him split out in you know, some slot situations. He
Speaker 3: has this receiving background. They needed a little bit of
Speaker 3: receiving juice. So it wouldn't surprise me if he gets
Speaker 3: a couple two three targets in this game on Sunday,
Speaker 3: if he's active.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I said, but especially with the way the
Speaker 8: Ravens have kind of struggled in the second there, this
Speaker 8: is really unusual for them for the first two weeks
Speaker 8: of the season to be as poor as they played.
Speaker 8: You know, teams are finding ways to throw the ball
Speaker 8: on them, at least through the first two weeks. And
Speaker 8: we'll get into that. Running the football is a whole
Speaker 8: nother story. But throwing the football has been very successful
Speaker 8: for teams. So you know, him him being out there,
Speaker 8: you know, a vertical threat, an underneath threat.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean to me, that's if you threw the ball
Speaker 8: to him, and and this is no slam at span
Speaker 8: Ford on fourth down, I think I might have been
Speaker 8: able to make a catch. I know that was a tough,
Speaker 8: tough chance with you know, contested plays and stuff. But
Speaker 8: if you're saying you're going to throw the ball to
Speaker 8: that kid, I'm like, okay, I got a shot to
Speaker 8: make a play here, span Ford, I don't know that yet,
Speaker 8: you know. I mean that was the first time out
Speaker 8: of the Blox and you know, and that wasn't his
Speaker 8: you know, his cup.
Speaker 2: Of tea at Minnesota.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: The thing with Stevens is we've seen him make plays. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So having another guy that has length and has the
Speaker 8: ability to get down the field and can make some plays,
Speaker 8: You're just gonna need as many of those guys on
Speaker 8: the field as you can. So expectations, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 8: throw them out there and see what happens, because you
Speaker 8: could be you could be surprised by how well he
Speaker 8: could play.
Speaker 3: To that point about Baltimore, I know we'll dive more
Speaker 3: into it later on, but first in the NFL and
Speaker 3: opponent rushing yards allowed through two weeks thirty second in
Speaker 3: the NFL and passing yards allowed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you looking at my notes?
Speaker 5: Maybe so?
Speaker 8: And it's it's clear when we get into it. I mean,
Speaker 8: they've got a couple of guys inside you'd love to have.
Speaker 8: I mean, they've kind of figured out that like, no,
Speaker 8: you're not going to run the ball. But they play
Speaker 8: in a division that's like that. You know that NFC,
Speaker 8: the AFC North. You better be ready to play with
Speaker 8: some power up front, and they surely do.
Speaker 6: You know, it's ironic when when you talk about John Stevens,
Speaker 6: it's ironic that this week the Cowboys are playing a
Speaker 6: team that I think has a comparable type player likely
Speaker 6: is very much like, in.
Speaker 4: My opinion, like a John Stevens.
Speaker 6: He's a guy that can get downfield, he goes vertical
Speaker 6: on you like he's he has a really interesting game,
Speaker 6: and I think that's a dynamic. And the way that
Speaker 6: they use their two tight ends, I think that's a
Speaker 6: dynamic that can add something to this Cowboys offense because White, frankly,
Speaker 6: what I think we've seen in the first couple of weeks,
Speaker 6: or at least what I think is, I don't know
Speaker 6: how much I'm gonna want to rely as the season
Speaker 6: goes on on the depth of the wide receiver position.
Speaker 6: You've got one of the best, if not the best
Speaker 6: wide receivers in the game. The next thought is can
Speaker 6: you utilize those tight ends? And then utilizing those two
Speaker 6: tight ends that can open up some opportunities for some
Speaker 6: of the other wide receivers. I'm not certain. After I
Speaker 6: went back and watched the film. In that last game,
Speaker 6: there were a number of plays where those guys weren't
Speaker 6: getting open.
Speaker 4: They just weren't open.
Speaker 6: It was just a situation where they just weren't getting
Speaker 6: any any separation. And if that continues to be the case,
Speaker 6: I think the tight ends may end up being your
Speaker 6: next best option outside of Ceedee Lamb, and then maybe
Speaker 6: it opens.
Speaker 2: Up all week week weeks.
Speaker 8: I think in the I think in the you know,
Speaker 8: preseason and going leading up into the regular season, we
Speaker 8: kind of talked about if you had to say where
Speaker 8: the targets are gonna go, it's gonna be Lamb one,
Speaker 8: Ferguson two. Yeah, and then Cooks and everybody else was
Speaker 8: gonna have to kind of figure some things out. But
Speaker 8: I think you're absolutely onto something there. I think not
Speaker 8: having Ferguson in that game, yeah, I mean, yeah, it.
Speaker 2: Did it help? Know, you know, I mean, do you
Speaker 2: think it could have helped? Yeah? It could have.
Speaker 8: You know, maybe you know, that offense looked like it
Speaker 8: was there was times where they were just fighting to
Speaker 8: get first downs, you know, and maybe you could have
Speaker 8: made some plays down the fil you know, and you
Speaker 8: got down in the red zone and stuff. One thing
Speaker 8: Ferguson's good at is getting open. He knows how to
Speaker 8: kind of work and find space and is run after catch.
Speaker 8: You know, that's something big you talk about, you know,
Speaker 8: with the with the Ravens. You know there guys, that's
Speaker 8: what it is. Throw it to them short and next
Speaker 8: thing you know, likely he's running the up. You know,
Speaker 8: it's a short pass and now it's a you know,
Speaker 8: fifteen yard gain because of run after catch. And that's
Speaker 8: what you get out of Ferguson. You know, if you
Speaker 8: tell me every time, like last year, every time you
Speaker 8: throwing the ball it was ten yards, it was ten
Speaker 8: point seven every time you throw him the ball. So
Speaker 8: you know, taking that off the field didn't exactly help
Speaker 8: your chances last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they left a lot on the table in the
Speaker 3: red zone specifically, and I think Havin Ferguson would have
Speaker 3: changed that a little bit.
Speaker 6: Yes, Yeah, even when you look at Schoonmaker and some
Speaker 6: of the catches he made last week. I think an
Speaker 6: interesting point was there was some times when he was
Speaker 6: out and isolated with one guy. You have Ferguson out there,
Speaker 6: there's a good chance Ferguson makes that guy miss.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's what we've seen in his career.
Speaker 6: So even some of the stuff where I thought Schoolmaker
Speaker 6: did a good job, I think Ferguson may have been
Speaker 6: able to squeeze out even a little bit more out
Speaker 6: of those plays, and that could have been more helpful
Speaker 6: in a game like you said, Brian, we are struggling
Speaker 6: to get first down.
Speaker 8: You were struggling, and you know, the game might have
Speaker 8: turned into the Pelicans versut the Mavericks. It might have
Speaker 8: been one hundred and six to one hundred and five
Speaker 8: if you if you had because neither you know, neither
Speaker 8: team was. But to me, that's the one thing that
Speaker 8: I was encouraged by, and we talked about this was
Speaker 8: Luke Schoonmaker. So now, if say you do get guys
Speaker 8: going here, say you do get these two tight ends going,
Speaker 8: you know, if you get Stevens going and then Ferguson
Speaker 8: back in the mix, and Schoonmaker's shown as an option,
Speaker 8: you know as a guy that you know as many
Speaker 8: of those guys as you can get going because a
Speaker 8: lot of teams just don't have the ability to cover
Speaker 8: tight ends. They can cover wide receivers all day. These
Speaker 8: tight ends are a challenge, especially the big ones that.
Speaker 4: Are athletes, and then throw two at them.
Speaker 6: Yeah right, and that makes it even even easier to
Speaker 6: get the mismatches.
Speaker 2: You want simple throws.
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Speaker 6: Let's go Cowboys offense versus the Baltimore defense. As you
Speaker 6: mentioned before the break Cowboys defense, I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: Baltimore's defense dead lasting past yards allowed this season, which
Speaker 6: I'm not used to seeing a Baltimore defense be dead
Speaker 6: last in anything. They are typically a very very solid defense,
Speaker 6: but they are giving it up uh here in the.
Speaker 4: First two weeks of the season.
Speaker 6: My question for you, Brian is is this more function
Speaker 6: of who they've played or more function of the fact
Speaker 6: that they are just bad at it, or another option
Speaker 6: could be they're so good against the runs, as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: they're number one against the run that teams feel like, well,
Speaker 6: we have to throw the ball and that gets more
Speaker 6: yards because you're just doing it more frequently.
Speaker 4: What do you think it is?
Speaker 8: They're zero to two against Gardner Minshew. He's beat him
Speaker 8: twice now, beat him, beat him last year at Indianapolis,
Speaker 8: and beat him here with the Raiders. So they don't
Speaker 8: want to see Gardner Minshew play anymore.
Speaker 2: But he was he was a quarterback.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he might neither do the Raiders thirty thirty of
Speaker 8: thirty eight throwing the ball, you know, and if you
Speaker 8: watch the game and stuff, there was some stuff behind
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage and some screens and things like that.
Speaker 2: But when he had to make some clutch throws, he
Speaker 2: made some.
Speaker 4: Clues at DeVante Adams.
Speaker 8: Yeah absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And you know, and that's
Speaker 8: where that's where you got it there. They're not getting
Speaker 8: the pressures that they had in the past. Monabique, you know,
Speaker 8: their defensive tackle is one of the better ones. When
Speaker 8: you start to talk about those undertackles. Three techniques. Guys
Speaker 8: that play inside. He's his pressure rates are down and
Speaker 8: you can watch uh when he you know, he's not
Speaker 8: getting off blocks like he was. Kansas City did a
Speaker 8: nice job of holding him up.
Speaker 2: The Raiders.
Speaker 8: The Raiders had some some some problems. They had more
Speaker 8: problems with the edges with Away, the first round pick
Speaker 8: from Penn State, was a problem for them.
Speaker 2: For a couple of sacks.
Speaker 8: But they just haven't been getting the pressure that they
Speaker 8: have in the past. And what's happened to is a
Speaker 8: guy like Marlon Humphrey, who's been just an All Pro
Speaker 8: player for him, has got off into a really bad start,
Speaker 8: and you know, they've played him more in the slot.
Speaker 8: You can watch him play some slot. They're trying to
Speaker 8: get Nate Wiggins, who you know we talked about in
Speaker 8: the Draft show from Clemson. He was a first round
Speaker 8: pick last year. They're trying to get him on the field.
Speaker 8: Jalen Amore Davis is another backup they're trying to get
Speaker 8: on the field. So they're trying to rotate these corners
Speaker 8: with Brandon Stevens and then Humphrey. Humphrey's not coming off
Speaker 8: the field, but it's kind of like they're they're trying
Speaker 8: to get guys involved in the defense. But with the
Speaker 8: lack of pressure and then their best player coverage wise,
Speaker 8: having to place mostly in the slot so they can
Speaker 8: get Whiggins on the field. They've had a little bit
Speaker 8: of some problems there and teams have been able to
Speaker 8: complete some passes on them because there has been some separation.
Speaker 2: There's been a couple of different times.
Speaker 8: Where they have lost they have lost, you know, receivers.
Speaker 8: I mean, there was a couple of times against Kansas
Speaker 8: City where could have been huge plays. I mean, these
Speaker 8: guys are giving up these explosive plays, and that's something
Speaker 8: that they never ever do. But I think I went
Speaker 8: back and just looked at the metrics because I kept saying, man,
Speaker 8: that's unlike can't it's unlike the Ravens. They had fourteen
Speaker 8: of them. Wow that they explosive plays already in the
Speaker 8: passing game.
Speaker 4: Just in these two games, just in two games.
Speaker 2: Wow, And they could have given up more.
Speaker 8: If you watch Kansas City, they Checko on the wheel,
Speaker 8: they try and get up the sidelines. It looks like
Speaker 8: to me that Humphreys is kind of confused. Are they
Speaker 8: playing are they playing zone? They're playing man? And you know,
Speaker 8: but the balls too far up the field and they
Speaker 8: came back with it and missed it again, and you're like, going, man,
Speaker 8: those are two shots right there. But they're they're struggling
Speaker 8: a little bit on the back end. And what they're
Speaker 8: having to do too is Kyle Hamilton the safety, and
Speaker 8: I can't figure out, you know, his the way that
Speaker 8: he's playing. I'm just trying to get a bead because
Speaker 8: he's a guy you have to be aware of me.
Speaker 8: Where's number fourteen. He's almost playing like he's playing like
Speaker 8: a linebacker, like what we saw with Curse. So he's
Speaker 8: a nickel safety. They got two regular safeties. He's playing
Speaker 8: as a linebacker. He's playing in the slot. You know
Speaker 8: there he's going to match up against. I have a
Speaker 8: feeling he's going to be the guy that's going to
Speaker 8: carry Ferguson in this game. And that's a tall, long
Speaker 8: guy that can can move a little bit.
Speaker 3: To that same point, he's such an important guy for them.
Speaker 3: He did not practice yesterday with a back injury, so
Speaker 3: something to keep an eye on as a week goes down.
Speaker 3: But when I look at this Raven's defense, yes they
Speaker 3: have the ro qwand Smith. Yeah, Nominee Ameta buke. But
Speaker 3: it's Kyle Hamilton for me, that's the guy you need
Speaker 3: to be able to neutralize.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that Hamilton, because he could play all these spots.
Speaker 8: You see him at safety, you see him at nickel slot,
Speaker 8: and then you see him also though as the linebacker.
Speaker 8: But he's playing a lot more near the line of
Speaker 8: scrimmage than he ever has. And they're trying to you know,
Speaker 8: but you know, I don't know if it's trying to like, oh,
Speaker 8: they worry about things in the running game. To me,
Speaker 8: they're running game that they got. They got massive dudes
Speaker 8: up front. I mean when you look at like Michael Pierce,
Speaker 8: he's three hundred and fifty five pounds, I mean he's
Speaker 8: just a big and and but they're guys for big.
Speaker 8: Their guys are able to control and then get rid
Speaker 8: of blockers like you try and block. These guys they're
Speaker 8: holding up blocks, but they're also getting rid of blockers
Speaker 8: as they're you know, getting to the football. So you
Speaker 8: see them hold hold, hold, rid boom, now make a tackle,
Speaker 8: you know that they're really really good him Travis Jones.
Speaker 8: I mean, they've got some size inside and they got
Speaker 8: linked on the edge. Kyle van Noy is a veteran
Speaker 8: guy who's kind of bounced around a little bit.
Speaker 5: But uh oh ways, then other guy that did not
Speaker 5: practice yesterday by the way. Yeah, but yeah, that's it.
Speaker 5: That's a big one.
Speaker 8: But him in the in the first round pick away
Speaker 8: from twenty twenty one. They they've got some lenked on
Speaker 8: the edge and they've got size inside. And then they
Speaker 8: got Rokwan Smith who's a shorter middle linebacker. But he
Speaker 8: he's one of the like it's it's one of those
Speaker 8: things like, uh, you know, if you don't block him,
Speaker 8: he's going to make all the tackles. I mean, he
Speaker 8: just got a nose for the ball. He has had
Speaker 8: a couple of times, so where's interesting where he's had
Speaker 8: a chance to make tackles. So I missed in space,
Speaker 8: which is kind of not his But he's a very
Speaker 8: physical player. He runs to the ball. They take advantage
Speaker 8: of him a little bit some in coverage. Kansas City
Speaker 8: they matched Kansas City matched him up a couple of
Speaker 8: times on their tight ends and he had a little
Speaker 8: bit of a struggle. So Kansas City formationed him to
Speaker 8: have to play in some coverage and that was a
Speaker 8: little bit of a struggle for him. So as a whole, Yeah,
Speaker 8: you're probably not going to be able to run the
Speaker 8: ball against these guys. But if you protect, if you
Speaker 8: find a way they're you know, and slow down any
Speaker 8: type of their pass rush. But they've been I went
Speaker 8: back and looked at this too. Their metrics say they've
Speaker 8: been really slow off the ball. You know, these are
Speaker 8: the things that these are things that they look at.
Speaker 8: What's your get off time for your alignment? And the
Speaker 8: Ravens have been one of the slower teams in the
Speaker 8: league when it comes to getting off the ball for
Speaker 8: these pass rushes, so slow off the ball, not getting
Speaker 8: pressure when they blitz, they don't get home. That's been
Speaker 8: a problem. And teams have taken advantage. At least Kansas
Speaker 8: City and the Raiders took advantage of that, and they've
Speaker 8: been able to win on the outside against these these
Speaker 8: corners and these safeties. And that might be the trick
Speaker 8: for the Cowboys because I just don't think running the
Speaker 8: football is going to be anything that you can have
Speaker 8: any type of Oh let's hang our hat on this one.
Speaker 8: I just think it's going to be hard to block Pierce.
Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be hard to block Jones, And
Speaker 8: again the linked on the edge will probably give you
Speaker 8: a little bit of problem.
Speaker 6: To what which if you had to identify one matchup
Speaker 6: if you're the Cowboys that you would want to try
Speaker 6: to create, knowing their weakness in the secondary combined with
Speaker 6: a strength for you, what would be that matchup for
Speaker 6: this game?
Speaker 2: Did you have any idea? Did you look at them?
Speaker 8: I got one in mind I would try and get
Speaker 8: I would try and get Lamb on Brandon Stevens as
Speaker 8: who I would try and get.
Speaker 3: See, I was thinking Cook's on Stevens, but I think
Speaker 3: Lamb has some has some ability to be able to
Speaker 3: separate from him as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think Cooks, like Stevens is the guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, depends on who you want to get on it.
Speaker 3: It's not even necessarily like, Okay, you need to attack
Speaker 3: that guy because he's not good.
Speaker 5: He's good. It's just it's the it's the it's least
Speaker 5: of the powers. I guess I think I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to.
Speaker 8: I've seen Humphrey make so many damn plays in his
Speaker 8: day that I don't know if I want to challenge that.
Speaker 8: They they challenged the Raiders tried to challenge him on
Speaker 8: a play and Gardner Minshew threw the ball short and
Speaker 8: then being an interception.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and you're like going, oh jeez, why
Speaker 2: shoul you do that? Bro?
Speaker 8: But to me, Marlon Humphrey, when Marlon Humphrey in the
Speaker 8: slot has been it's it's not his. I don't know
Speaker 8: if that's his that's his game. I mean, he usually
Speaker 8: plays the left corner. He's very comfortable doing that. He's
Speaker 8: a good reader and he could he could adjust with you.
Speaker 8: It seemed like when Kansas City got him in the
Speaker 8: slot a little bit, they hit it quick and he
Speaker 8: would and it was before even had a chance to react.
Speaker 2: So maybe if if they if.
Speaker 8: They walk him into the slot to play against say Lamb,
Speaker 8: that might be an area. But on the outside, I
Speaker 8: don't know how much I would challenge him. On the
Speaker 8: outside in the slot, I might challenge him more. But
Speaker 8: if I'm going to go after one of these guys,
Speaker 8: I mean that depends on too. If how Wiggins, he's
Speaker 8: a rookie, you know, if you see number two out there,
Speaker 8: I would think that like, Okay, he's got quickness, He's
Speaker 8: he's really he's a.
Speaker 2: Small guy physically.
Speaker 8: He's a small Yeah, he's a small yeah, but he
Speaker 8: could run.
Speaker 6: Run at him like running the ball is that is
Speaker 6: he got a liability in the running.
Speaker 2: The problem is on the field on early no, not
Speaker 2: on early downs.
Speaker 15: No.
Speaker 8: But it's it's it's funny they're trying to get their
Speaker 8: corners all to play. It's it's not like they're trying
Speaker 8: to say, Okay, we're just gonna go with these, like
Speaker 8: there's sixty six plays and you look at the end
Speaker 8: of the day, and and and Diggs has played sixty
Speaker 8: six of them. You know, now they're they're trying to
Speaker 8: get their guys actam. I just don't know how much
Speaker 8: I would attack Humphrey, even though he's off to not
Speaker 8: a all pro start like he's had before.
Speaker 2: He's he's given up. He's given up some.
Speaker 8: Catches already in these two games, and that's very surprising
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 3: The reason I say Cooks on Stevens is and this
Speaker 3: is no shit against Ceedee Lamb. I think he's a
Speaker 3: phenomenal route runner. I think Brandon Cooks is the best
Speaker 3: route runner on this team from a fluid standpoint. From
Speaker 3: at the top of routes, he creates separation and from
Speaker 3: what I've seen from Brandon Stevens at least is.
Speaker 5: At those breaks he has a little bit of hesitation.
Speaker 3: If he has even just the slightest of hesitation on
Speaker 3: a guy like Brandon Cooks, and I want to be
Speaker 3: able to attack that. And I'm completely okay with Ceede
Speaker 3: Lamb going up against a Marlon Humphrey, just because Ceedee
Speaker 3: Lamb typically does kind of shine in those moments whenever
Speaker 3: he does have the star all pro corner on the
Speaker 3: other side.
Speaker 2: Like what you're doing here? I do.
Speaker 5: But there's going to be options, for sure.
Speaker 8: See the thing is and Amber they won't. They never
Speaker 8: used cooks like we want them.
Speaker 10: To use cooks.
Speaker 7: Exactly what I was thinking as Nick was speaking. I'm like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 7: sounds great if they use them. If they use them,
Speaker 7: that's a big if rest game.
Speaker 5: Last year, that's the only one I could think of me.
Speaker 3: Of course, I lost the bet and had to eat
Speaker 3: the hot ship, but you know they knew when to
Speaker 3: use them correctly.
Speaker 5: When I was on the line.
Speaker 10: It's gonna be a big challenge.
Speaker 7: And did you huh do you guys have the metrics
Speaker 7: on how they are in like the red zone defense?
Speaker 5: I'll cook that up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was to me when I was watching, I
Speaker 8: was I was curious of why they were so bad.
Speaker 2: Bad in the field on pass and then when you
Speaker 2: watch the pass rush lack of at.
Speaker 8: Times, and then then and then the pressures they that
Speaker 8: just I was more curious by how they were how
Speaker 8: they were playing those in the field. I was like,
Speaker 8: how can this team Sometimes if you're really good at
Speaker 8: run defense, they they throw the ball on you and
Speaker 8: that's all they can do. In this case, they they're
Speaker 8: not as good as they've been in the past. This
Speaker 8: is a top three now. They've lost a lot of people.
Speaker 8: They when coaches, they lost their they lost their defensive
Speaker 8: coordinator to Seattle as a head coach.
Speaker 2: They lost two of.
Speaker 8: Their coaches to defensive coordinator jobs. I mean it is
Speaker 8: a first time defensive coordinator. They got working here right now,
Speaker 8: so you might be catching them at the right time
Speaker 8: here before they kind of get things going here. But
Speaker 8: I was more curious about how they were playing in
Speaker 8: the field than I was with the red zone stuff.
Speaker 3: Nineteen in the NFL and allowing touchdowns in the red zone,
Speaker 3: just just for curious notes.
Speaker 5: Dead last is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Defensively and then offensively, they are tied for twenty ninth, So.
Speaker 5: Wow, really bad red zone on both sides of them.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well that may that may be the elixir the
Speaker 6: Dallas needs because the red zone is an area I
Speaker 6: think they're going to have to really, as Amber's been
Speaker 6: talking about here, stop kicking field goals like get down
Speaker 6: there and get.
Speaker 4: In the end zone.
Speaker 6: Maybe this is the week when they can they can
Speaker 6: do that real quick, Brian, before we go to break,
Speaker 6: I also want to ask you if there is if
Speaker 6: we come here Monday and we say the Ravens pass
Speaker 6: rush just really got after that, Yeah, who is the
Speaker 6: most likely person that could wreck this game?
Speaker 4: From that standpoint, it's it's Away.
Speaker 8: It's a number ninety nine, him and Manabique ninety two.
Speaker 17: I mean, if you they flip them or does he
Speaker 17: pretty much think no, Mnabik plays tackle tackle Okay, So
Speaker 17: but yeah you'll get You'll get Away and van Ney
Speaker 17: will be the two guys and yeah, you'll get some
Speaker 17: flip from those two guys, is what you'll do.
Speaker 8: But I kind of feel van Ney is a veteran guy.
Speaker 8: Nick mentioned he's a little banged up right now. Oh wait,
Speaker 8: I think just has.
Speaker 2: This length to him.
Speaker 8: You know and and his ability to capture the edge.
Speaker 8: And I know in the Raiders game the other day
Speaker 8: that you know, they really had a problem with him
Speaker 8: because they couldn't get out of their stance fast enough
Speaker 8: to get to out to you know. And maybe it's
Speaker 8: a situation because you're playing a road game and stuff,
Speaker 8: and you know you really can't you know, you're not
Speaker 8: hearing the snap counts and things like that. But I
Speaker 8: would worry about if they're going to get at you.
Speaker 8: I would worry about ninety nine being the guy, and do.
Speaker 4: They play him at the one the three like where?
Speaker 8: Well, on the way he places an end, he's really
Speaker 8: listed as an outside line.
Speaker 4: Okay, I thought you were saying they move him to
Speaker 4: defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: No, no, they moved They move him side to side.
Speaker 4: They moved him left and that I was asking initially.
Speaker 8: Okay, yet so left and right and then and then
Speaker 8: Minabk is the defensive tackle that you have to worry
Speaker 8: about because he's the one guy that when he does
Speaker 8: come off the ball, you know he's got the quickness.
Speaker 8: But he hasn't played that way through two games. The
Speaker 8: pressures are way down on all these guys. It's surprising
Speaker 8: to be honest with.
Speaker 6: You, Yeah, that's something that I want to talk about
Speaker 6: when we come back from break. I want to talk
Speaker 6: about specifically the Cowboys offensive line and some pressures that
Speaker 6: they've been giving up and how you guys assess their
Speaker 6: play through the first two and how they match up
Speaker 6: against his defensive front.
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Speaker 4: Here's what we're going to do.
Speaker 6: Let's talk about this Cowboys offensive line because I think
Speaker 6: as the season goes on, it's a storyline that we're
Speaker 6: going to continue to follow because of the youth and
Speaker 6: an experience of that line. Let's start first with Cooper BB.
Speaker 6: Tell me what you've seen from him in the first
Speaker 6: two games and where you assess his he is relative
Speaker 6: to where you want.
Speaker 4: Him to be at this point.
Speaker 3: This might be wild to say. I think he's been
Speaker 3: the most consistent guy up front, talking.
Speaker 4: Off on the entire offensive line all five.
Speaker 5: I think he's been the most consistent, more than Tyler.
Speaker 3: More than Tyler, I think he's been more consistent, especially
Speaker 3: in the run game as well. I think he's been
Speaker 3: able to pay some ways there, but it's been the
Speaker 3: pass game where it's the only the one pressure allowed
Speaker 3: in sixty two dropbacks.
Speaker 6: I think it's been I can I question a little
Speaker 6: bit about Yeah, I agree with you. In the passing game,
Speaker 6: I've seen some good things. I still think in the
Speaker 6: running game he's not quite getting to the second level, like, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's not. And I think there were actually a few
Speaker 6: times in this last game it was actually both for
Speaker 6: him and Tyler Geydon. I thought there were opportunities they
Speaker 6: had in the run game if they one of them
Speaker 6: would have gotten to the second level, like there's a
Speaker 6: there's a linebacker there, and it's like both of them
Speaker 6: are out there in space. They didn't get there, and
Speaker 6: I'm like, if they would have gotten there on that play.
Speaker 4: The first one was to I think it was to
Speaker 4: t Rico.
Speaker 6: It was early in the game and there was a
Speaker 6: linebacker there and it was Tyler who was out there.
Speaker 6: But if he could have gotten there and got in
Speaker 6: that block, I think you spring him probably ten to
Speaker 6: fifteen yards.
Speaker 4: But that's the part of his game.
Speaker 6: So when you say in the running game, I still
Speaker 6: feel like he's not quite getting to the second level
Speaker 6: like I want him to, and that's holding his running
Speaker 6: game back.
Speaker 5: I think that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 3: I think overall, though, there hasn't been a lot to
Speaker 3: pull away from the running game up front, and I
Speaker 3: do understand what you mean from a Tyler Smith's perspective.
Speaker 3: I think whenever you look at the product of what
Speaker 3: he's being asked to do coming in as a third
Speaker 3: round rookie, I think he's exceeded that really far going
Speaker 3: into second game exactly two games. Yeah, the snaps have
Speaker 3: been great, which that was the one thing we were
Speaker 3: really worried about. I think at a point in the preseason,
Speaker 3: there hasn't been anything where Dak's had to jump or
Speaker 3: come back and it's messed up a handoff.
Speaker 5: It's messed up timing, which is great.
Speaker 3: I think whenever you look at consistency, I look at
Speaker 3: BB as a guy who's just been consistent snap in
Speaker 3: and snap out. Tyler Smith right there though for.
Speaker 8: Sure, Yeah, you grade your sixty five plays and he
Speaker 8: probably has three bad wins. There was a time when
Speaker 8: they did the flip that down in the red zone
Speaker 8: we were talking about, and I thought that I don't
Speaker 8: know if Smith or BB maybe both of them went
Speaker 8: the wrong way.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe they.
Speaker 4: Heard them play.
Speaker 2: They both you know, it's.
Speaker 8: Funny because Zach Martin stepped one way and took his
Speaker 8: guy and then you know, the ball gets flipped to
Speaker 8: the outside the zeke and you know there's both linebackers
Speaker 8: are running him down and you're going, if you go
Speaker 8: back and watch the play, it's like Smith and bbe
Speaker 8: both stepped to their left as the ball's going to
Speaker 8: the right, and you're going, something happened there. And then
Speaker 8: we talk about with the Cleveland game, in the run
Speaker 8: game where there were things and and Cory Moore, the
Speaker 8: linebacker from you know here, Cory Moore, Roquan Smith. I mean,
Speaker 8: you're you know, you're dealing with these linebackers. Now. If
Speaker 8: you run, if you if you don't get take a
Speaker 8: good angle, these linebackers are going to make the play.
Speaker 8: And there was a couple of times I thought were
Speaker 8: bb Bibe has been really I mean, if you say
Speaker 8: the five guys, he he is in the top two.
Speaker 8: As far as as as you're like, man, this is
Speaker 8: this has been pretty good from him.
Speaker 2: You know, you you you were worried, you were worried.
Speaker 8: About him, and calls him making steps, him blocking guys,
Speaker 8: him getting to the second level. The sixty five plays,
Speaker 8: there's probably going to be three or four of them.
Speaker 2: They're bad. You just hope that not ones that kill
Speaker 2: you in the game, you know.
Speaker 8: I mean I thought week one, if you start talking
Speaker 8: about offensive lineman Steele was a much better player.
Speaker 2: Last week, I didn't think he was as good. You know,
Speaker 2: he kind of.
Speaker 8: Got beat up a little bit, He got turned around
Speaker 8: a little bit, you know, and Granderson took advantage of
Speaker 8: him a couple of different times. So but if he said, hey,
Speaker 8: who are the guys so far? I think Bbing and Smith,
Speaker 8: Tyler Smith have been you know, been just fine for
Speaker 8: you for those plays.
Speaker 10: Not many complaints from me.
Speaker 7: Again, when you look at him being selected picked in
Speaker 7: the third round and what he's done so far, he's
Speaker 7: exceeded expectations. In my eyes, I get it that we
Speaker 7: need to take it up a notch, but that's not
Speaker 7: just him, that's the line, the whole line as a whole.
Speaker 7: We talked about the running game and all that and
Speaker 7: the help that they need to be able to create
Speaker 7: those holes for those running backs there, but him specifically,
Speaker 7: I thought he's done a very good job. And one
Speaker 7: of my main concerns with him and Tyler that we've
Speaker 7: talked got in by the way that we talked about
Speaker 7: last week heading into the I forgot or two weeks
Speaker 7: ago whenever it was just penalties. I think he's handled
Speaker 7: that area where he's not making those kinds of mistakes,
Speaker 7: and for guys like him, rookies, those are things that
Speaker 7: I personally pay a lot of attention to. Can you
Speaker 7: minimize mistakes? And now is him getting to that next
Speaker 7: level of taking it up another notch? But as far
Speaker 7: as mistake, I think he's kept his game pretty clean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, speaking of guy, I've noticed that he's had quite
Speaker 6: a few pressures he's given up in Week one and
Speaker 6: week two, And I heard this this morning.
Speaker 4: It kind of puts it in context. For both these guys.
Speaker 6: This is the first time in their careers that they're
Speaker 6: playing the positions that they're playing significant Yeah, and it's
Speaker 6: in the NFL versus real competition. So when you think
Speaker 6: about it from that standpoint, I'm like, both these guys
Speaker 6: are ahead of where they should be at this point.
Speaker 6: I don't think either one of them is killing you
Speaker 6: to the point where it's a problem. And yes, they
Speaker 6: have some areas they have to improve on, but I
Speaker 6: think you're getting enough from them to where you should
Speaker 6: feel positive about where they're gonna be half the year,
Speaker 6: this year, by the time you get to the end
Speaker 6: of this year, and then going into next year, which
Speaker 6: is really the thing. It's a long term game on
Speaker 6: these two guys. But let's talk about Tyler Geyton. Now,
Speaker 6: what have you seen from him and do you do
Speaker 6: you think he's moving in the right direction? Are you
Speaker 6: all concerned about the number of pressures that he's allowing.
Speaker 3: For me personally, know just given the size of the
Speaker 3: competition that he's gone up against these first two weeks.
Speaker 3: And I think the thing that we were concerned about
Speaker 3: the most at points during training campus, Okay, how is
Speaker 3: he going to account for power rushers? Sure, and when
Speaker 3: you look at Miles Garrett, Carl Granderson, Cameron Jordan, and
Speaker 3: those guys that he had to go up against these
Speaker 3: past two Sundays, you like what you see. I mean, absolutely,
Speaker 3: the penalties are at least a note at this point,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to call it a concern because it's
Speaker 3: only two games. He's tied for fourth in the NFL
Speaker 3: for offensive lineman penalties. But I think going forward there's
Speaker 3: still a lot of I think you see him increase
Speaker 3: in areas of his game every single week, and when
Speaker 3: you look at week two versus Week one, Week one
Speaker 3: was definitely the better overall picture. But I think there
Speaker 3: are some things in Week two, like the hands are
Speaker 3: starting to come in just a little Biteah, they're not,
Speaker 3: They're not as wide. His feet are moving off the
Speaker 3: ball a little bit quicker. And you know, that's what
Speaker 3: I've always liked, from guiding to his ability to kind
Speaker 3: of get off and create that separation. But I think
Speaker 3: I think there's still a lot of things that he
Speaker 3: can improve on still going towards into the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that week one was survival. That's all that was.
Speaker 2: That was like, hey, you know, that's fair. I mean
Speaker 2: that it was just like play.
Speaker 5: The second half of the Saints game kind of looked
Speaker 5: the same way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 8: And that's what happens when you when all of a
Speaker 8: sudden it turns into what it was was a track
Speaker 8: meet and you have no running game to deal with
Speaker 8: and have no way. But all you're doing is dropping
Speaker 8: back and throwing the football and having to you know,
Speaker 8: and they know you're going to That's how Dallas, when
Speaker 8: Dallas gets ahead of the game, that's that's what That's
Speaker 8: what they do to opponents. You know what the New
Speaker 8: Orleans Saints that just okay, we're gonna rush, You're not
Speaker 8: going to run the ball. And I think, to me,
Speaker 8: where the technique has gotten better, the hands have gotten better,
Speaker 8: He's got to work on the feet. The feet get
Speaker 8: him in trouble sometimes where he gets but you know,
Speaker 8: he's also going to work to not getting tired and
Speaker 8: and and that happens that happens during games. You're just
Speaker 8: you know, the pressure of every single snap is just
Speaker 8: huge for these guys, and I think it wears him
Speaker 8: down at times. And you know, he's he's he's gonna,
Speaker 8: he's gonna develop mental toughness. You know that he can't
Speaker 8: take a playoff, you can't rest on a play because
Speaker 8: you'll you'll get the play blown up if you do.
Speaker 8: But the technique is getting better, the mental toughness will
Speaker 8: come along, and I think the kid will be fine.
Speaker 8: It's just a matter of you know, him having confidence
Speaker 8: that when he when he sets and gets away from
Speaker 8: the line, that he's in good shape, that he can
Speaker 8: get his hands inside and take care of that rusher
Speaker 8: when it's on his u when it's coming down the
Speaker 8: middle on him.
Speaker 10: And this is a no brainer.
Speaker 7: But I mean, again, speaking about rookies, you have to
Speaker 7: take into consideration the aside from hand placement, footwork, that's
Speaker 7: all gonna come with the experience. But also remember how
Speaker 7: different the training and everything it is from college to
Speaker 7: the NFL as far as strength, How much a player
Speaker 7: from the first year to the second year changes in physical,
Speaker 7: physical aspect and strength. So I think that's something that's
Speaker 7: also kind of come along as and it goes hand
Speaker 7: in hand with what Brian is saying, being out of breath,
Speaker 7: being tired. They're gonna get used to that the more
Speaker 7: and more they do it. But with that, in that
Speaker 7: same token, he's gonna get more strength, same with Bebi
Speaker 7: having being the one that has now the most power
Speaker 7: in the line when facing these defensive players. So I
Speaker 7: think they're gonna keep getting better as the sea and
Speaker 7: goes along, but hopefully it comes with Cowboys wins, because
Speaker 7: I think when you start losing these games and you're
Speaker 7: just constantly getting beaten down, that's when you just all
Speaker 7: get what's the word I'm looking for, just tire and
Speaker 7: worn down and it just starts weight. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 7: just it carries a different weight. So it's just harder
Speaker 7: to overcome those things when you're not winning games and
Speaker 7: constantly getting thrown on the ground or losing those battles.
Speaker 7: So hopefully, with that being said, my point is hopefully
Speaker 7: they win this weekend.
Speaker 8: You know the thing about real quick though, the thing
Speaker 8: with BB they've got, they're gonna have their hands full
Speaker 8: with those guys inside. These are big, big men that
Speaker 8: they're going to be dealing with and you know how
Speaker 8: he plays. They they don't need to give up anything inside.
Speaker 8: They need to be sound in the middle and make
Speaker 8: sure they handle the edges in this thing. But they're
Speaker 8: they're going to bb is going to be dealing with
Speaker 8: a lot of power inside, and he's a strong guy too,
Speaker 8: and this will be this will be a good test
Speaker 8: for them.
Speaker 3: I know that you had said you had some concern
Speaker 3: about uh Oway, but do you have more concerns about
Speaker 3: the interior or the edge guys here in this game?
Speaker 5: For me, it's the interior.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think that to me with well, considering that
Speaker 8: I think I saw Away, you know, Colton Miller. I
Speaker 8: was watching him with the Raiders and stuff, a veteran
Speaker 8: left tackle, and he kind of took him to task,
Speaker 8: and I was a little bit worried about about, you know,
Speaker 8: with Geyton on that edge, if all of a sudden,
Speaker 8: this guy gets into a little bit of a you know,
Speaker 8: gets into a rhythm, you know. And but but the middle,
Speaker 8: the middle is I think your better players are in
Speaker 8: the middle. I mean, I think you're better, Your better
Speaker 8: players are in the middle of this of the offense.
Speaker 8: So yeah, I think that edge with Oway I I
Speaker 8: just I don't want him to get into a rhythm.
Speaker 8: And if Dallas can't run the ball and it turns
Speaker 8: into Dak having to throw it thirty five times, I
Speaker 8: don't need to him to have three and a half
Speaker 8: sacks in this game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's part the worries you is that if Dallas
Speaker 6: turns it into a game with having to throw a lot, Yeah,
Speaker 6: then that just exposes Geyton even more. It puts a
Speaker 6: lot of pressure on all those guys and still figure
Speaker 6: it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I will say one thing that I would really like
Speaker 3: to see Dak work on if pressure does start get getting.
Speaker 5: To him and this game, get out of there. Get
Speaker 5: out of there.
Speaker 3: He didn't get out of there enough against the Saints.
Speaker 3: That was one of the first things that he said
Speaker 3: in his press availability on after the game on Sundays.
Speaker 3: He was like, one of the things I know I
Speaker 3: can correct is kind of get out and use my
Speaker 3: legs a little bit more. He was like, I did
Speaker 3: a really good job of that last year, but I
Speaker 3: didn't quite do that today. And so I think if
Speaker 3: pressure starts to get to him earlier in the game,
Speaker 3: hopefully he's able to use that athleticism.
Speaker 6: It'll definitely slows down the defensive rush if you get
Speaker 6: out of there and make.
Speaker 5: Them pay for it, makes them think twice at the
Speaker 5: very least.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, all right, we're gonna we'll be back.
Speaker 10: What happened?
Speaker 7: What happened to these calls, mister advocate, advocate of the fans?
Speaker 6: When I was, when I got into that third segment,
Speaker 6: I knew, I knew I was. It was like's gonna
Speaker 6: talk the whole segment and we're not gonna get.
Speaker 10: In patially waiting here with the fans.
Speaker 5: Sorry, Ready next time.
Speaker 6: Next time, I'll figure out how to get Amber to
Speaker 6: shorten her, be a little more concise with her answers,
Speaker 6: and we'll get to some calls.
Speaker 2: I see her looking at me.
Speaker 5: It'mates it is.
Speaker 7: You didn't say you can tell where I'm looking up
Speaker 7: with these glasses.
Speaker 5: I'm looking by the way.
Speaker 6: We know Amber, so we know what's going on behind
Speaker 6: those glasses, right, all right, appreciate you guys, go us
Speaker 6: moving back tomorrow. We'll wrap this thing up. Get you
Speaker 6: guys ready for Cowboys versus Ravens. So then for Nick
Speaker 6: Harris and Brian brought us in Amber Garcia. I'm Derek
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