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Speaker 6: We got to talk about some injury updates. Patricks can
Speaker 6: give us an update on Tyler Smith. Let just so
Speaker 6: everyone knows, at this current moment, Mike McCarthy is also
Speaker 6: talking to the media, So we've got our trustee, our
Speaker 6: trusted reporters, Nick Eatman, Nick Harris that are also in
Speaker 6: that press conference. They'll be giving us some updates as well.
Speaker 6: So Patrick may at some point revised whatever he says
Speaker 6: at this point with regards to the injury status of
Speaker 6: a few players. Let's talk first about Tyler Smith. What
Speaker 6: do we know based on what we'd known yesterday about
Speaker 6: his MRI.
Speaker 8: Well, it looks as if based on yesterday, it's being
Speaker 8: described as a hamstring strain. But like brought Us said
Speaker 8: before we came online, that's no different from what the
Speaker 8: Cowboys their diagnosis was on Monday when he exited practice,
Speaker 8: So that kind of falls in line with what Jerry
Speaker 8: was saying on Tuesday when he spoke one to five
Speaker 8: point three of him the fan and saying that as
Speaker 8: of yesterday he didn't have any concern about Tyler Smith's
Speaker 8: availability for Sunday night. We'll see if that changes here
Speaker 8: in real time when McCarthy starts speaking, and if so,
Speaker 8: then we'll update you guys before the show was over.
Speaker 8: Sam Williams obviously no change there as well as we
Speaker 8: know it prior to McCarthy speaking and prior to practice
Speaker 8: getting underway within the next hour, so he's.
Speaker 5: Dealing with the turf toe.
Speaker 8: There's optimism there, but not nearly as much as you'd
Speaker 8: see probably from Tyler Smith and then from there. Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 8: no change in what we know from yesterday. But today
Speaker 8: is going to be one of the bigger days for him.
Speaker 8: This is where the Cowboys really kick things up in practice.
Speaker 8: So let's see if he's still on the cords as
Speaker 8: he was on Monday, or if he takes part in
Speaker 8: even individual drills, which would be a step forward for him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess that we will find out today on
Speaker 6: all three of those guys, because they will be back
Speaker 6: out of practice. We'll start seeing a little bit more
Speaker 6: of how they're moving and probably get more of an
Speaker 6: update on how they're progressing throughout the week heading into
Speaker 6: this first game, Let's start turning the page to the Giants,
Speaker 6: and we're going to talk about the Giants here in
Speaker 6: the second segment, Brian's going to give us a scouting notebook.
Speaker 6: We're going to talk today specifically about the Cowboys offense
Speaker 6: versus the Giants defense.
Speaker 3: But before we do that, I'd like to at least
Speaker 3: lay out four.
Speaker 6: Fans what we think are the biggest storylines for the
Speaker 6: Cowboys heading into this week one game against the Giants
Speaker 6: on Sunday Night Football. I'd like to go around the
Speaker 6: table in each of you, I'd like you to give
Speaker 6: me what you think is the biggest storyline for the
Speaker 6: Cowboys heading into this game.
Speaker 3: Let's start with you Patrick.
Speaker 8: Can Dak Prescott continue his winning against the Giants?
Speaker 5: I think too. I think yeah. He's up to ten
Speaker 5: games now.
Speaker 8: He has not lost a game against the Giants since
Speaker 8: twenty sixteen, his rookie season, And if you talk to
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott after those after he defeated the Giants last year,
Speaker 8: he kind of alluded to using the two losses against
Speaker 8: the Giants in an otherwise stellar rookie season as motivation
Speaker 8: to continue to beat up on them as much as possible.
Speaker 8: So he's got the twos to do it. To say
Speaker 8: the least, yesterday we talked about Deuce Vom Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 8: You have versatility in Hunter Limpke, and you know the
Speaker 8: tight end room and how tight ends usually dominate at
Speaker 8: MetLife Stadium for the Dallas Cowboys. So for me, the
Speaker 8: question mark is as we try to find out if
Speaker 8: this Cowboys offense can met serve and doing so, can
Speaker 8: Dak Prescott extend a ten game win streak to an
Speaker 8: eleven game win streak, which would give them a very
Speaker 8: nice leg up going into or going into Week one
Speaker 8: or Week two, I should say, because they will have
Speaker 8: not only going to want to know, but at the
Speaker 8: expense of a division rival. So I want to see
Speaker 8: if he can stretch ten to eleven.
Speaker 4: The big question for me going in will be, and
Speaker 4: I feel like, is has the offensive turnover at coaching
Speaker 4: on the coaching staff. Is that going to make a difference.
Speaker 4: Are we going to initially see this offense, is it
Speaker 4: going to come out blazing or is it going to
Speaker 4: come out struggling, and I don't think it has anything
Speaker 4: to do with what's going on in the preseason with
Speaker 4: playing the players or not playing the players. I think
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy again him getting back on the horse, is
Speaker 4: the primary play caller. But there's a lot of turnover.
Speaker 4: There was turnover at running back, there was turnover at quarterback. Coach,
Speaker 4: there was turnover on the offensive line. You know, here
Speaker 4: we are, we're in the situation now we're in the
Speaker 4: regular season. I know they had three preseason games to
Speaker 4: try and iron some things out, but things come fast
Speaker 4: and furious during the games. Is the coordination there with
Speaker 4: the offense. Is the play caller, the OC everybody on
Speaker 4: the same page in order to put these offensive players
Speaker 4: in the best position to succeed. I feel like the
Speaker 4: defense will be ready to go. The uestions I have
Speaker 4: will be the offensive staff. Can they come out of
Speaker 4: the gate with it blazing?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think we're all on the same stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm trying, don't try.
Speaker 7: I think we're all on the same page as far
Speaker 7: as that. Because we haven't seen this team come together
Speaker 7: and play a game just yet. The question for me
Speaker 7: is is can this team be better than last year.
Speaker 7: And everything we've seen at training can, for me, in
Speaker 7: my opinion, indicates that it very well can. But we
Speaker 7: know how elusive or how training cap magic happens, and
Speaker 7: you're not necessarily always seeing what you think you're seeing,
Speaker 7: and then the season starts and then you start seeing, Okay,
Speaker 7: these are the holes, these are their weaknesses and all that.
Speaker 7: So I think, like Brian just presented, just everything coming along,
Speaker 7: I'm not necessarily scared or concern about the Giants and
Speaker 7: we'll break them down and famous last words. But but
Speaker 7: historically speaking, given the past years, the Giants haven't necessarily
Speaker 7: been a huge threat for the Cowboys, So on that aspect,
Speaker 7: that doesn't concern me so much. It concerns me can
Speaker 7: they all come together as we think they can? So
Speaker 7: super excited and Mike McCarthy, he's being very very protective
Speaker 7: of this week and just covering everything and nobody's gonna
Speaker 7: see anything and this is top secret because no one
Speaker 7: has seen anything happen yet, so hopefully he puts on
Speaker 7: a show this weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting, Brian.
Speaker 6: You mentioned all the turnover and all the change, and
Speaker 6: it does make me wonder if we get into this
Speaker 6: game and the offense starts slow. I know you said
Speaker 6: you wouldn't blame too much on what happened in the preseason,
Speaker 6: but is it fair to say, because there's been so
Speaker 6: much change and turnover, change the personnel, play call or
Speaker 6: all those things, if it is a slow start for
Speaker 6: the offense, maybe the fact that they didn't play the
Speaker 6: preseason could be a reason why.
Speaker 4: You know, I from my former background of being in
Speaker 4: player personnel, I disdained the games, the preseason games. At times,
Speaker 4: there were five games. If you played in the Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame game, you talk about holding your breath sitting
Speaker 4: there watching games like please get up, Please get up.
Speaker 4: You know, and we saw what happened to overshown, and
Speaker 4: you know, and there's a primary piece of a you know,
Speaker 4: a player that even though he was a rookie, I
Speaker 4: had a plan for him, and I don't right now
Speaker 4: have a suitable backup for him. I don't think I do.
Speaker 4: But it's so hard for me. I understand. The reason
Speaker 4: why I'm taking the approach of I've not I don't
Speaker 4: really care about preseason football for your starters is the
Speaker 4: fact that I felt like there's not a better defense
Speaker 4: than they could have gone against. I'm talking about the offense.
Speaker 4: You know, there was a reason why maybe Mike McCarthey
Speaker 4: doesn't like to work against the Rams or the Chargers
Speaker 4: or Seattle, you know. I mean, he played the preseason games,
Speaker 4: he kind of figured out some things about some of
Speaker 4: his backup guys. I don't think we all knew that TJ.
Speaker 4: Bass could play as well as he did, but three
Speaker 4: preseason games he earned his letter jacket. He played a
Speaker 4: ton of snaps, you know, with the way, and you
Speaker 4: learned about Awesome Richards along the way, you learned about
Speaker 4: Juan Yea Thomas along the way. I'm good with that.
Speaker 4: That helps me going forward when I'm building my fifty three.
Speaker 4: But the fact that I got to work against I
Speaker 4: couldn't block MICHAEH. Parsons, you know, but I knew that
Speaker 4: was going to be a problem. But the times I
Speaker 4: did block Michael Parsons, Hey, look, it's a positive play.
Speaker 4: I just kind of feel like those Tuesday Wednesday padded
Speaker 4: practices probably got them more work than eight to ten
Speaker 4: plays against Seattle or Jacksonville or the Raiders. That's kind
Speaker 4: of how I would rather take that scripted type of
Speaker 4: practice is and get that work.
Speaker 7: I wasn't keeping up with anybody else's preseason, but just
Speaker 7: out of curiosity, do you guys know.
Speaker 4: Andy Reid, Andy Reid, well not withheld Andy will play
Speaker 4: as guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But like I'm just curious as to like how
Speaker 7: many other teams did the same as the Cowboys of
Speaker 7: just keeping their starters out.
Speaker 4: There's there's a few, like the Rams are a team.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's coaches, some of these young coaches. I
Speaker 4: know with Andy. Andy's the flip. Andy, You'll say, well, Andy,
Speaker 4: they won the Super Bowl. They play, But a lot
Speaker 4: of it has to do with the health of your team.
Speaker 4: You know, Zach Martin was not in camp for the
Speaker 4: majority of it, you know, until we got back to Dallas. Basically,
Speaker 4: you know, if you're asking me to put Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: out there with the unknown offensive line just so we
Speaker 4: could get five, six, seven snaps, I don't find that
Speaker 4: very sensible, not at all.
Speaker 9: Not.
Speaker 4: All I need is all I need is awesome Richards
Speaker 4: to bust on a play and then Dak get hit
Speaker 4: that part they do. You know, in a this they're
Speaker 4: not going to hit Dak, but in a game, they're
Speaker 4: going to light him up. If they get the chance.
Speaker 4: We saw what happened to Tony Romo in a game
Speaker 4: in Seattle. You know, Dak's I almost said freshman year,
Speaker 4: first year in the league. You know, I mean that
Speaker 4: those are the things that happen when you play guys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm right there with you, and I've been an
Speaker 8: advocate for sitting these guys, these starters for the entirety
Speaker 8: of the preseason for that reason, and then eloquently put
Speaker 8: by broadest when you talk about who they were going
Speaker 8: up against, who this offense was going up against daily
Speaker 8: in training camp, for me, the only scrimmage that you
Speaker 8: could have held that would have been an equivalent of
Speaker 8: what they were going up against in practice anyway, would
Speaker 8: have been either against the forty nine ers who would
Speaker 8: have had to have Nick Bosa and they didn't because
Speaker 8: he's holding out, or the Philadelphia Eagles defense.
Speaker 5: With the starters playing.
Speaker 8: If it's not one of those two, I had no
Speaker 8: interest in scrimmaging against those those kinds of defenses because
Speaker 8: if you look at what we saw every single day
Speaker 8: and Oxner, the level of competition for this offense in
Speaker 8: Trevon digg Stell, find Gilmore and Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence,
Speaker 8: the list goes on, and all I'm Alik Hooker, j
Speaker 8: Ron Curse. What benefit would you have gained from playing
Speaker 8: them in a preseason game?
Speaker 5: The offense?
Speaker 8: I mean, because the only thing that you're doing is
Speaker 8: risking them unnecessarily against defenses that aren't as good as
Speaker 8: the defense you're gonna go practice against anyway. So I
Speaker 8: saw all of that to say, I was all out,
Speaker 8: and I'm glad that Mike McCarthy and the staff chose
Speaker 8: to sit Dak Prescott for all of those reasons and
Speaker 8: the additional reason though Zach Martin wasn't there and Tyler
Speaker 8: Smith and Tyron Smith. Smith is still working for chemistry.
Speaker 8: But then if you played Dak, you gotta play Tyron.
Speaker 8: But then if you play Tyron, then you're risking Tyron Smith,
Speaker 8: who has had injury issues in the past every single
Speaker 8: year for nearly the past you know, most of the
Speaker 8: past decade, is.
Speaker 5: Just not worth it.
Speaker 8: So for those that are wondering, well, what if they
Speaker 8: come in and have rushed, my question being contextually thinking,
Speaker 8: what would make you believe that they would have rust
Speaker 8: against a New York Giants defense that's not nearly as
Speaker 8: good as the Cowboys defense they win against every single day.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you this, I personally think both things
Speaker 6: can be true. I think there is a real possibility
Speaker 6: they get into this game and it doesn't flow as
Speaker 6: smoothly offensively to start the game and maybe even throughout
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 3: I think that's the nature.
Speaker 6: Of you've got a new play caller, You've got a
Speaker 6: lot of new parts. I think that is very, very realistic.
Speaker 6: I also agree that you don't necessarily need to play
Speaker 6: your starters in the preseason because, by the way, you're
Speaker 6: not gonna be doing all the things you're gonna be
Speaker 6: doing in Week one in the preseason, So it's not
Speaker 6: like you're really gaining an advantage because you're gonna just
Speaker 6: run out there and do some vanilla stuff and get
Speaker 6: your starters off the field. That's not really getting them
Speaker 6: ready to be able to operate an efficiency.
Speaker 3: So I think both things can be true.
Speaker 4: I do expect that the.
Speaker 6: Offense will probably get better as the season goes along
Speaker 6: because mich McCarthy will start figuring out a little.
Speaker 3: Bit more like what am I doing?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, what am I doing?
Speaker 6: My personnel They're going to start figuring out morell We
Speaker 6: know what Mike likes to do in these situations, so
Speaker 6: it makes sense Dak's gonna have a little more autonomy
Speaker 6: this year.
Speaker 3: According to reports. If that's true again, as season goes.
Speaker 6: On, he will get better and he will get more depth,
Speaker 6: and the rest of the offense will know, like Dak
Speaker 6: likes to do these things in these situations. So it's
Speaker 6: going to get better as the season goes along. There's
Speaker 6: a real possibility it won't look great at the first
Speaker 6: In the first game, because that's just the MAGA football.
Speaker 4: Two years ago against Tampa looked great even though they
Speaker 4: couldn't run the ball. Dak lit them up. You know,
Speaker 4: Tampa was not I mean that was But then last
Speaker 4: year again the rematch in Dallas, Dak and the offense
Speaker 4: did not look great. So you're you're kind of caught
Speaker 4: in between. I only I do agree with you about
Speaker 4: there's advantages and disadvantages of this. But to me, the
Speaker 4: fact that I have a healthy offense going in well
Speaker 4: with the exception of what's happened with Tyler Smith, but
Speaker 4: overall I'm pretty healthy going into this game. Uh And
Speaker 4: you know, and so we'll see how that.
Speaker 7: Plays honestly, I think more so than them playing or
Speaker 7: not during the p seasons, something that I think will
Speaker 7: be very beneficial and that was a really cool opportunity
Speaker 7: was just having Dak calling plays in that last game
Speaker 7: against the Raiders, right, and just them working together because
Speaker 7: most of the time it was Mike McCarthy alongside with
Speaker 7: Dak next to him, and that rarely ever happens. So
Speaker 7: I think them working alongside, going through plays, okay, letting Dak,
Speaker 7: seeing what Dak would call in certain situations, and just
Speaker 7: kind of getting the feel of more of that what
Speaker 7: he's thinking, what the quarterback is thinking versus Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 7: and then hopefully examining after, you know, getting back in
Speaker 7: the building and just going through things together. And I
Speaker 7: think that just it's a whole different perspective that I
Speaker 7: think was and can be very beneficial for their relationship
Speaker 7: and what they can be doing in the offenses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Greer probably wishes he called plays all three games,
Speaker 4: just the last one, you know, because Will Greer, you know,
Speaker 4: now practice squad with the Bengals spend Will Greer looked
Speaker 4: the best he's looked all camp in that final game
Speaker 4: against the Raiders.
Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna take our first break. We will
Speaker 6: come back and we'll get into the Scouts notebook. Brian's
Speaker 6: gonna break down the Dallas offense versus the Giants defense.
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Speaker 6: Speaking of the pressler, we did get a quick update
Speaker 6: on some of the injury issues.
Speaker 3: Patrick, what are we hearing?
Speaker 5: We did so?
Speaker 8: Donovan Willson neither Donovan will Send, nor Tyler Smith nor
Speaker 8: Sam Williams will participate in practice today. All three of
Speaker 8: them will be off to the side with the rehab
Speaker 8: group with Britt Brown. Mike McCarthy did say that the
Speaker 8: hope is to ramp all three of them up to
Speaker 8: get in some practices at some point this week.
Speaker 5: So that's where we are on all three of those players.
Speaker 6: So basically, we don't know much more than we knew before.
Speaker 6: We'll just keep an eye out and see how they
Speaker 6: progress throughout the week heading into the game. Brian, let's
Speaker 6: get to the scouts notebook. Let's talk Cowboys offense versus
Speaker 6: Giants defense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this one would be an interesting matchup just for
Speaker 4: the fact that the skill players that the that the
Speaker 4: the Giants have be a little bit different than what
Speaker 4: we've seen in the past, going with rookie cornerbacks at
Speaker 4: a couple of different spots for them. They if you
Speaker 4: want to everybody knows about the Giants is that you're
Speaker 4: going to have to deal with their front. But I'll
Speaker 4: come back to that. I want to focus a little
Speaker 4: bit on Deontay Banks and then Trey Hawkins. Those are
Speaker 4: two rookie corners. Banks was selected in the first round
Speaker 4: out of Maryland and Hawkins was selected in the sixth
Speaker 4: round out of Old Dominion. Now Dori Jackson will be
Speaker 4: the starter opposite Banks. But when they go to Nickels,
Speaker 4: So when the Cowboys get an eleven personnel, that means
Speaker 4: and you're going to see that probably a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Dori Jackson will kick inside. Banks will play one corner
Speaker 4: and Hawkins the other. Okay, let me tell you a
Speaker 4: little bit about what we got with these two rookie corners.
Speaker 4: Is with Banks, this guy has got ideal size. He's
Speaker 4: got the physical side to his game. And I know
Speaker 4: why the Giants did what they did with Wink Martindale
Speaker 4: the defensive coordinator. He is big about this and when
Speaker 4: it comes to his ability to pressure, he turns into
Speaker 4: man to man coverage situations is what he does. So
Speaker 4: Banks is a press man corner and then also to
Speaker 4: Hawkins is a press man corner. So both these guys
Speaker 4: are kind of sturdy, long guys and you know, not
Speaker 4: afraid to kind of mix it up at the line
Speaker 4: of scrimmage. So he's going to play man on the
Speaker 4: outside and he's gonna that way he could bring his
Speaker 4: pressure packages in this football game and they run, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they can't. They can't. Both of these guys can run
Speaker 4: a little bit. So we'll see if Dallas can, if
Speaker 4: Dallas can find ways. Now, the thing with Hawkins is
Speaker 4: that when you watch him play, he has troubles when
Speaker 4: routes break inside on him. So keep an eye on
Speaker 4: how they attack him. Both these corners, believe it or not,
Speaker 4: have problems when you go back shoulder on him. They
Speaker 4: don't cover it. They kind of get with you. But
Speaker 4: both guys have struggled with I was talking with a
Speaker 4: scout that watched their practice against the Detroit Lions, and
Speaker 4: the Lions kind of ate them up on some back
Speaker 4: shoulder stuff. So keep an eye on on that. So
Speaker 4: but with Hawkins, again, young guy got some length, banks,
Speaker 4: he's got something. Both these guys will tackle. Both these
Speaker 4: guys want to be physical in the way that they play.
Speaker 4: So and then adri Jackson is a guy that in
Speaker 4: the slot, he's comfortable playing that role where he can
Speaker 4: kind of carry guys all up and down the field,
Speaker 4: all inside and stuff. So again, young group on the outside,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna probably have their moments where they're going
Speaker 4: to struggle a little bit but both are gonna probably
Speaker 4: play pressman. Dallas is gonna have to win on the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. Okay, up front, now you're dealing with
Speaker 4: with with with Dexter Lawrence. I think Dexter Lawrence is
Speaker 4: the biggest problem here. Three hundred and forty pound type
Speaker 4: of a player. You know, he had seven and a
Speaker 4: half sacks last year. Okay, twenty eight quarterback hits, seven
Speaker 4: tackles for loss. He on the on the two games
Speaker 4: against Dallas, he had the five tackles in one quarter.
Speaker 4: Dallas did a pretty good job of handling him. Another
Speaker 4: guy you kind of need to keep an eye on, though.
Speaker 4: I know everybody talks about Cavon Thibodeau, and his first
Speaker 4: start against the Cowboys was in Week three, did nothing.
Speaker 4: In Week twelve he had five quarterback hits. So his
Speaker 4: game got better as the season war along for him.
Speaker 4: Aziz Ojelari, they him around, Yeah, they move around, they
Speaker 4: move him around. Yeah. Aziz Ojelari is the one guy
Speaker 4: that I think that you need to also keep a
Speaker 4: close eye on. This guy had five and a half
Speaker 4: sacks and seven games. Okay, So every time you're thinking
Speaker 4: about dealing with Thibodeau, you got Ojelari. Now again you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to deal with that. But the power that
Speaker 4: they play with inside with Lawrence and then the outside
Speaker 4: pressure they get from Ojelari and Thibodeaux will be a
Speaker 4: little bit of a factor there. And the young corners.
Speaker 4: How can you take advantage of the young corners on
Speaker 4: the outside, two rookie guys veteran inside on the nickel
Speaker 4: though again struggle with some inside breaking routes, Gonna play
Speaker 4: man coverage. Maybe some back shoulder throws might be in
Speaker 4: the in the carts for the Cowboys this week.
Speaker 8: What I love about that is that exactly hits on
Speaker 8: my biggest matchup as far as once I was looking
Speaker 8: at dissecting the excuse me, the Giants defense and looking
Speaker 8: for weaknesses, and their defensive front is one of the
Speaker 8: stronger ones as are as it goes in the NFC
Speaker 8: East right now, Commanders, Eagles, Giants, that's what the Cowboys
Speaker 8: are up against. But if the Cowboys can protect up
Speaker 8: front and really execute as far as getting the ball
Speaker 8: out quickly, which we believe they will do via the
Speaker 8: Texas Coast offense, then these young corners, I mean, you
Speaker 8: gotta test them, and you gotta test them often. I
Speaker 8: love the fact that Brian said that, you know they
Speaker 8: struggle a bit when it comes to back shoulder. Well,
Speaker 8: guess what we saw him An Oxnard that Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: has become kind of lethal with that back shoulder right
Speaker 8: ceedee Lamb Brandon Cooks. So I think that's something to
Speaker 8: exploit there. But I harken back to, you know, seeing
Speaker 8: what Aaron Rodgers was able to do against a young guy,
Speaker 8: and Kelvin Joseph, seeing what Trevor Lung Lawrence and Peterson
Speaker 8: were able to do against a young guy and Kevin Joseph.
Speaker 8: This is what the Cowboys need to do. Look at
Speaker 8: both of those young corners and say, we know that
Speaker 8: you have some ability. But number one, here's the psychological game.
Speaker 8: Because when they line up, they're lining up coming from
Speaker 8: not I mean not Power five schools, Maryland, Old Dominion,
Speaker 8: No knock to those schools, but it's a different level. Okay,
Speaker 8: you saw Jaylen Torbert struggle with that. They're going to
Speaker 8: be primetime week one against the Dallas Cowboys lining up
Speaker 8: against Cook's lamb gallop. Sometimes, is it going to be?
Speaker 8: Is the moment too big for these young guys? Maybe
Speaker 8: maybe not find out test them early, try to rattle them,
Speaker 8: get in their nerves, get in their head. And I
Speaker 8: think that's something that Mike McCarthy and Brian Schottenheimer are
Speaker 8: very capable of doing, and they have the talent on
Speaker 8: the offensive side of the ball to do it. So
Speaker 8: for me, as long as you can get the ball
Speaker 8: out quickly, which will help neutralize guys like Dexter Lawrence,
Speaker 8: my former dog Azizo, delay some of these other guys
Speaker 8: Leonard Williams, then you can really take advantage of those
Speaker 8: young guys because yes, so Dory Jackson is going to
Speaker 8: be on the field, but primarily when they're in the
Speaker 8: nickel set. Put these young guys to the grinder. Seriously,
Speaker 8: talk to me about their ability.
Speaker 6: I'm talking specifically about the Cowboys wide receivers, that group
Speaker 6: you just mentioned about their ability to get off press
Speaker 6: because that obviously is something that giants are gonna want
Speaker 6: to do and they got long guys. And typically when
Speaker 6: you got long guys, especially when youre trying to get
Speaker 6: the ball out quick, they have ability to be able
Speaker 6: to if they got good ability, they can get you
Speaker 6: off the line scrammants, draw off your timing, and then
Speaker 6: because they're long, if it's a slant route, they can
Speaker 6: get that hand in there like they have the ability
Speaker 6: to be able.
Speaker 3: To cover those kinds of routes.
Speaker 6: What do we see from these from the cowboys receivers
Speaker 6: with the guards getting off the press, Well, what.
Speaker 4: We've noticed been the practices an ox Nard is that
Speaker 4: what's the one thing that the McCarthy and Schottenhammer trying
Speaker 4: to create for DAK separation separation because they understand that
Speaker 4: some of the things that he's had to deal with
Speaker 4: with the turnovers have dealt with some contested throws or
Speaker 4: not finishings routes and things like that. So to me,
Speaker 4: when you start to talk about the route combinations that
Speaker 4: I would run against, I would I would drag these
Speaker 4: kids through traffic, is what I would do. And we
Speaker 4: saw that a little bit in an ox Stark with
Speaker 4: the crossing routes, the underneath stuff, the seed lamb. You know,
Speaker 4: with the old the old administration, it was more run
Speaker 4: routes and then kind of get to a spot here
Speaker 4: you got the cowboys with when you talk about cooks
Speaker 4: and lamb and got these guys play better on the move.
Speaker 4: Gallup is a little bit more of a vertical player.
Speaker 4: But if you could run, if you run receivers through trash,
Speaker 4: and especially if they're going to play man coverage, you
Speaker 4: know the way that Wink Martindale wants to attack you
Speaker 4: with the blitz, then you have to be Then then
Speaker 4: you have to put them to task that if you
Speaker 4: run them through and all of a sudden you've got uh, say,
Speaker 4: you got Ferguson and now you've got picks, you're creating
Speaker 4: these opportunities. They're going to try and create a lot
Speaker 4: of separation. I think that's where the Cowboys could definitely
Speaker 4: do some good in this football game because these young kids, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they play well in man, but like I mentioned with Hawkins,
Speaker 4: he tends to have a little bit of a problem
Speaker 4: when you run him inside, like in that trail and
Speaker 4: like the eyes turn into oh I'm running through the
Speaker 4: forest here right now, and then you lose track. But
Speaker 4: that gives Dak a little bit easier for a throw.
Speaker 4: I think that's the whole thing with the Cowboy offense
Speaker 4: this year. How can you give Dak those easier throws
Speaker 4: and these receivers have the ability to play on the move.
Speaker 8: Separation that's the word that's the word. That's something that
Speaker 8: the Cowboys receiver struggled with last year. That's something that
Speaker 8: the Cowboy maybe a little bit to do with scheme
Speaker 8: that as well. So you got McCarthy's calling in the
Speaker 8: plays now in coordination with Schottenheimer and Dak Prescott. Dek
Speaker 8: Prescott's going to have a lot of feedback in that
Speaker 8: as well. And you have the you have the skill set,
Speaker 8: you have Cooks, you have Tobert ready to take the
Speaker 8: lead gallop looking for a bounce back. CD has now
Speaker 8: ascended to the role of WR one. So separation is
Speaker 8: now a thing in Dallas, and that's exciting.
Speaker 7: I think it goes along, sorry with like confidence looking
Speaker 7: back at where they were.
Speaker 4: Confidence.
Speaker 7: Okay, listen, my eyes are sensitive. It's very bright in here.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to act cool. So just okay, I
Speaker 4: thought were.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, Maria.
Speaker 4: Go ahead. I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 7: Don't know what the heck I was saying. Confidence.
Speaker 4: Confidence, there we go, Okay, let's go back.
Speaker 7: Confidence. I think this team, looking at where we're at
Speaker 7: right now and looking at where they were at the
Speaker 7: same time of the around last year, it looks very different.
Speaker 7: You look at what happened at training can be They
Speaker 7: talk about the receivers. These receivers have speed. Everyone seems
Speaker 7: to be on the same page they are. They just
Speaker 7: have better chemistry with Dak And it's just as opposed
Speaker 7: to last year we were wondering, Okay, who's gonna be
Speaker 7: the guy? There were a lot of questions in the
Speaker 7: wide receiver groups still even wondering, can't see the lamb
Speaker 7: really be the number one guy for the Cowboys? And
Speaker 7: this year I think you more set, you know what
Speaker 7: you got, and there's a lot more confidence in the
Speaker 7: aspect of Okay, everyone knows who can do what. Everyone
Speaker 7: is on the same page. They've been practicing, they've been
Speaker 7: connecting a lot. And at the same time, this if
Speaker 7: it goes well, which I have a feeling that it will,
Speaker 7: and you talk about these young corners, it should be
Speaker 7: a really really good matchup for the Cowboys and them
Speaker 7: being successful in this game, in the passing game like
Speaker 7: that should give them a really good boost of confidence
Speaker 7: to start the year. Ride and then trying to face
Speaker 7: Aaron Rodgers week two here at at and T Stadium.
Speaker 4: Protection about this game, because if you're going to run,
Speaker 4: if you're going to try and separate on routes and
Speaker 4: crossing routes and stuff like that. Man, it has to
Speaker 4: be you cannot let dexter Lawrence and Ojulari and Thibodeaux
Speaker 4: just wreck shop up front.
Speaker 7: Would this be more of a running game or passing
Speaker 7: game or just.
Speaker 4: A think it's going to be if you if like
Speaker 4: Patrick was talking about, I think if you could protect,
Speaker 4: I think you can make some place. To me, I'm
Speaker 4: not I don't know if I really want to challenge
Speaker 4: inside with Lawrence and then now even though with Martin
Speaker 4: and then also steal on that right side and throw
Speaker 4: in a better blocking Ferguson and then what we get
Speaker 4: from Schoonmaker as a blocker. I think, you know, there
Speaker 4: there's some there's some opportunities. But again, I think it's
Speaker 4: going to be more when it's at I think it's
Speaker 4: going to be more when you're talking about going at Thibadeau,
Speaker 4: because he wants to get up the field so much
Speaker 4: so if you could find a way to widen him
Speaker 4: and then attack that that gap that he's that he's
Speaker 4: on the outside, and I think that's your best bet.
Speaker 4: I'm not Lawrence and and those guys inside, and you know,
Speaker 4: I just think it's a it's a difficult ass to
Speaker 4: sit there and have to move those guys all day.
Speaker 8: I think you have, like Brian said, I think you
Speaker 8: have opportunities to run, especially with you know, a guy
Speaker 8: like Zach Martin on the field, and if Tyler Smith
Speaker 8: does take the field, then you have that power inside
Speaker 8: as well. Tellabiadis looks like he's taking in another step
Speaker 8: over his Pro Bowl season last year, so you'll have
Speaker 8: opportunities to run.
Speaker 5: I think you need to attack.
Speaker 8: This Giants team in space and on the outside, and
Speaker 8: that's how you're going to.
Speaker 5: Neutralize those pass rushers.
Speaker 8: That's also going to set you up for plays down
Speaker 8: the field because now those safeties they're going to start
Speaker 8: cheating forward. They're going to have their eyes forward because
Speaker 8: they're getting attacked at the second level more so than anything.
Speaker 8: That's when you tell Michael Gallup or Brandon Cooks or
Speaker 8: Cee Lamb go and then it gets past them. It's
Speaker 8: over the top and that's a big play. So now
Speaker 8: they have to start playing back a little bit. So
Speaker 8: guess what, there's the yo yo. It opens up the
Speaker 8: underneath the game. So I think all of it plays
Speaker 8: into the next thing. But for me, the primary goal
Speaker 8: would be to attack outside in space at the first
Speaker 8: and second level and then let everything else open up.
Speaker 5: Because of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you go back and watch the Thanksgiving Day game,
Speaker 4: they were able to hit some plays on the edge.
Speaker 4: Pollard's quickness was a problem for the Giants when he
Speaker 4: hit the hole and he was able to second level
Speaker 4: that thing. That's where they were able to make some good.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna give you four names. I'm gonna have you
Speaker 6: rank them in order of how important they are to
Speaker 6: the Cowboys offensive success this particular week. Tony Pollard, CD Lamb,
Speaker 6: Jake Ferguson, and Brandon Cooks. We'll talk about that when
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Speaker 6: As I as I said before or the Break, the
Speaker 6: question I have for you guys right now is I
Speaker 6: want you to rank these four players in order their
Speaker 6: offensive skilled players, and I want you to break them
Speaker 6: in order of how important they are to the Cowboys
Speaker 6: offensive success, particularly the particularly this week against this team
Speaker 6: and the matchups that we just finished talking about. We're
Speaker 6: talking about Tony Pollard, Ceedee Lamb, Jake Ferguson, Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 3: Let's put them in order. Brian, you're up first.
Speaker 4: One more time because I was answering a text message.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm doing like eight things.
Speaker 3: I know, I get it.
Speaker 6: Tony Pollard, Ceedee Lamb, Jake Ferguson, Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 4: As far as okay, Ceedee Lamb Cooks. The other two.
Speaker 6: Again, Ferguson and Pollard Pollard, Ferguson, so what was Jordan again, Lamb.
Speaker 4: Lamb Cooks Pollard, Ferguson explain, I feel like you're gonna
Speaker 4: have to find it. We just went through this whole
Speaker 4: thing with the giants on the you know, with what's
Speaker 4: going on at their corner situation with the two rookies.
Speaker 4: I think you have to take advantage of that. Then
Speaker 4: when if you could take advantage of that, then you're
Speaker 4: gonna be able to need to run the ball a
Speaker 4: little bit. You can't just totally go into a passing game.
Speaker 4: They're going to talk about balance. I think Pollard in
Speaker 4: that point, his ability to pop some runs, you know,
Speaker 4: get you some positive yards, kind of stay ahead of
Speaker 4: the change, I think is always a good thing for
Speaker 4: the play caller to deal with. And then Ferguson, I
Speaker 4: think is kind of the wildcat player in this thing
Speaker 4: in a way, or the wild card excuse me, the
Speaker 4: kind of player where Okay, boots waggles ball to the outside,
Speaker 4: maybe him on the drags and stuff like that. Maybe
Speaker 4: that's two or three first downs in a game with him.
Speaker 4: So if he has five catches three first downs, I
Speaker 4: think that's kind of but you got to win on
Speaker 4: the outside, run the ball a little bit and then
Speaker 4: two or three first downs from my tight end.
Speaker 7: I think for me, I would go Cooks, CD, Ferguson,
Speaker 7: and then Pollard. I think. I mean, I love everything
Speaker 7: that CD has shown so far, but I cannot go
Speaker 7: with cook as Cooks as number one right now because
Speaker 7: I've loved every single thing I've seen from him. And
Speaker 7: when you talk about these young corners and the speed
Speaker 7: and the ability that Cooks has, not that Cit doesn't,
Speaker 7: because he does, but it's just something fresh, and I
Speaker 7: think he's been having great chemistry with Dak and it's
Speaker 7: gonna be this game to me right now, the way
Speaker 7: I see it, it'll be relying more on the passing game.
Speaker 7: Ferguson I mentioned before yesterday how for some reason, every
Speaker 7: game against the Giants, Titans tend to do very well.
Speaker 7: So I can see a game where he has a
Speaker 7: good game too in the passing game, and then Parler.
Speaker 7: I still the running game. I still have questions. I'm
Speaker 7: not one hundred percent sure there is a lot of
Speaker 7: talent there, but also what's happening with the O line
Speaker 7: right now? Questions there are they gonna be able. I
Speaker 7: don't want to sound like I'm liking confidence to start
Speaker 7: the season with the O line because you still have
Speaker 7: veteran guys. They are very well experienced, but there's still
Speaker 7: some question marks for me as far as the running game.
Speaker 5: For me, I'm going to go Lamb, Cooks, Pollard Ferguson.
Speaker 8: And my reasoning is, and I love and we all
Speaker 8: love everything Brandon Cooks is put in front of us
Speaker 8: in training camp. You can't help but love it. And
Speaker 8: I feel that he's going to want to hit the
Speaker 8: ground running. Cowboys gonna want him to hit the ground running.
Speaker 8: They're going to try to take advantage of these young
Speaker 8: corners that we talked about. So between Cooks and Lamb,
Speaker 8: you're going to see a lot of targets. I just
Speaker 8: think Lamb is walking with a different level of swagger
Speaker 8: than we've seen him in his young NFL career.
Speaker 5: I mean, he just he.
Speaker 8: Looks every bit the part talk about confidence, His confidence
Speaker 8: right now is absolutely bulletproof. It is the exact opposite
Speaker 8: nearly of what we saw going into the beginning of
Speaker 8: last year when he was trying to figure out and
Speaker 8: navigate being the top wide receiver and there was maybe
Speaker 8: some self doubt that crept In can I do this.
Speaker 8: But now he's walking in like I'm the man. I
Speaker 8: am absolutely him. So I think that he wants to
Speaker 8: prove that and he's going to play off of any
Speaker 8: success that Brandon Cooks has as well. So I think
Speaker 8: Lamb is going to be the top pro or the
Speaker 8: biggest impact player for the offense then Cooks, which is right,
Speaker 8: there's like a one A one B equation. I struggle
Speaker 8: between Ferguson and Pollard only because to Ambarn's point, tight
Speaker 8: ends typically wreck the New York Giants if you're in
Speaker 8: the Cowboys uniform. So I think that Ferguson, which also
Speaker 8: goes to Brian's point, he will have some key third
Speaker 8: down conversions. He'll have some key plays in the middle
Speaker 8: of the field that's going to help Lamb and Cooks
Speaker 8: keep things uperating on the outside.
Speaker 5: But I think once you established.
Speaker 8: Lamb and Cooks, you're gonna hit Tony Pollard like Tony
Speaker 8: Pollitt is going to give you that pop, gonna give
Speaker 8: you that big play here or there. And that also
Speaker 8: goes to the running back group as a whole. Douce
Speaker 8: vall Ricododo. So I think that as far as impact goes,
Speaker 8: Ferguson he could walk away with it. You know, a
Speaker 8: day where it was fifty yards receiving, but if you
Speaker 8: look at, yeah, the catches, it was you know, four
Speaker 8: catches fifty yards with three of those were third down conversions.
Speaker 8: But then in all in all, when you go back
Speaker 8: and look at how the game flow went, I think
Speaker 8: Pollard will have had a bigger impact than Ferguson.
Speaker 5: So that's that's my line.
Speaker 4: One of the better, real quick, one of the better
Speaker 4: two point plays they practiced with it Camp involve Ferguson
Speaker 4: when they drove cooks inside and like picked and then
Speaker 4: Ferguson just released so stuff down on the goal line
Speaker 4: when you start and you know we're you're going to
Speaker 4: have to replace that ability to hammer the ball. Then
Speaker 4: they're like when you had with when you had with
Speaker 4: Ezekiel Elliott. So maybe it comes to be a little
Speaker 4: bit more deceptive, and maybe that's where Ferguson also one
Speaker 4: of those five catches is something a little creative in
Speaker 4: that time.
Speaker 6: One thing I will say, I kind of agree with
Speaker 6: the Amber on the order of cooks and Lamb taking
Speaker 6: cooks first. The reason why I say that is because
Speaker 6: I do think that teams will go into this year thinking, Okay,
Speaker 6: the one player I think that they'll look at, or
Speaker 6: if you want to even pay two players. Pollard and
Speaker 6: Lamb are the two players that opposing defenses, at least
Speaker 6: at the early part of this season, are going to say,
Speaker 6: if you're playing the Cowboys offense, those players you need
Speaker 6: to be concerned with. I think it is incumbent on
Speaker 6: Cooks and McCarthy early in the season to force teams
Speaker 6: to recognize that Cooks can beat you deep and he
Speaker 6: can do it regularly if you let him. He can
Speaker 6: also beat you on crossing routes that he could turn
Speaker 6: into a forty yard touchdown.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: I think that's where it changes the whole dynamic and
Speaker 6: makes this offense really go. So I put Cooks maybe
Speaker 6: as the most important offensive player at least in the
Speaker 6: week one for me, because I think it changes how
Speaker 6: defense is going forward. Will have to respect the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 6: I think what we saw last year in that final
Speaker 6: game against San Francisco, they basically said, we're gonna take
Speaker 6: Lamb away who you got, and I think they have
Speaker 6: to for that's why the Cowboys went out and got Cooks.
Speaker 6: They got a foce Opponents to realize Cooks is a problem,
Speaker 6: and so you can choose which one you want. But
Speaker 6: if you're going to devote a lot of extra attention
Speaker 6: to Lamb, we got a guy that's gonna kill you
Speaker 6: another side.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: It's funny Lamb had that he was not very good
Speaker 4: the first half the game that was played at the Meadowlands,
Speaker 4: and then in the second half he just ate the
Speaker 4: Giants up. He took over that third quarter. I believe it.
Speaker 3: That was just coming out part that was that.
Speaker 4: Was when all of a sudden. So if you could
Speaker 4: get something like that, you know, start right off the
Speaker 4: jump and then like you said, get Cooks down the field.
Speaker 4: I think, uh, it's five really good names to to
Speaker 4: think about that have to I think, have to play well.
Speaker 8: The Giants defense just doesn't have the personnel to match
Speaker 8: up man to man against the Cowboys offensive personnel. That's
Speaker 8: just the bottom line. So if you can protect up front,
Speaker 8: you're not buying these rookies.
Speaker 5: I'm not buying these rookies.
Speaker 4: And Banks is a Banks is a good player.
Speaker 8: This isn't me saying that these guys don't belong in
Speaker 8: the league. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying
Speaker 8: they're trash.
Speaker 5: I'm not. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I'm to go ahead and say it if you want, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean San Francisco Matt, I want to douse.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that will make me no different than the engagement farmers.
Speaker 8: So objectively speaking, yeah, I don't want to be a
Speaker 8: shady guy. So objectively speaking, these guys have skill sets.
Speaker 8: Those two rookies, they have skill sets, but their skill
Speaker 8: set right now is nowhere near as developed to the
Speaker 8: point where you can look at them and look at
Speaker 8: who they're matching up against, the Lamb Gallop Cooks, maybe
Speaker 8: Kelante Turpin, whatever the case may be, and objectively sit
Speaker 8: back and say that's a matchup that works in the
Speaker 8: giants favor. It absolutely does not work in the giants favor.
Speaker 8: So attack those young guys. See if the moment is
Speaker 8: too big for them, See if the lights are too bright,
Speaker 8: because I promise you, the first big play that one
Speaker 8: of those young guys gives up, they're going to try
Speaker 8: and start sinking into themselves a little bit, and then
Speaker 8: you can snowball that impact and then really have a
Speaker 8: field day against that particular guy or both of those guys,
Speaker 8: which then makes the day that much harder for those
Speaker 8: safeties back there, because if your corners are struggling, your
Speaker 8: safeties are in for a long afternoon.
Speaker 5: But it starts with protecting up front.
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