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Speaker 2: It is Monday, November twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 2: episode number seventy four. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 2: and man, do we have a game to discuss today?
Speaker 2: Craziest game had If somebody asked me last night, was
Speaker 2: this the craziest game in my twenty four years? And
Speaker 2: I still don't think it was the craziest. I still
Speaker 2: think the Buffalo game with the five interceptions by Tony
Speaker 2: was the craziest game I've ever been a part of
Speaker 2: or been to, But this one was right up there.
Speaker 2: It certainly was a top three for me. Uh, cowboys
Speaker 2: get to win thirty four to twenty six. Let's start
Speaker 2: with stories of the game.
Speaker 3: What is the real quick? Sure would the Atlanta game,
Speaker 3: that Watermelon Kick game be that one came up? Okay?
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn has been part of two games.
Speaker 2: Yeah and then yeah, yeah, it's kind of.
Speaker 6: Crazy on the opposite side both times.
Speaker 3: Yeah weird to say too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, I'm sure Dan is sitting there what just happened?
Speaker 2: Because you know, I've seen the graphics of you know,
Speaker 2: where the score was with you know, five minutes left
Speaker 2: in the game, and by and large, let's let's be honest,
Speaker 2: most of this game and were you up there, we
Speaker 2: were sitting like, yeah, I mean most of this game
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 7: Kind of like where's the coffee?
Speaker 2: There just was no real offensive firepower. There wasn't a
Speaker 2: lot of scoring. It was just kind of this back
Speaker 2: and forth, almost a comedy of errors, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, bam, it just hits it goes. So
Speaker 2: what was the story of the game. What was the
Speaker 2: story game? As you look back now over what happened yesterday.
Speaker 8: This team's fighting three and seven going into this game.
Speaker 8: I think you know you talked to most of the
Speaker 8: fan base.
Speaker 6: Heck, you talk to us. We're moving on to draft.
Speaker 8: But this team hasn't stopped fighting, and I think you
Speaker 8: saw that in the final five minutes last night. I mean,
Speaker 8: you look at the clock, five thirty to go, the
Speaker 8: score is thirteen to nine, and then it's thirty.
Speaker 6: Four to twenty six.
Speaker 8: So they had to weather a lot of storms, a
Speaker 8: lot of back and forth action, a little bit of
Speaker 8: luck involved too, no doubt, but this team's fighting on
Speaker 8: both sides of the ball. And I have to give
Speaker 8: credits to the defense more so just because it feels
Speaker 8: like all eleven are playing together right now, and it's
Speaker 8: trended that way. Over the course of the last couple
Speaker 8: of weeks. They haven't been able to finish games because
Speaker 8: the offense hasn't given them any help at all. The
Speaker 8: offense finally held them out yesterday, got them up twenty
Speaker 8: to nine, and then you know, that's when all the
Speaker 8: craziness happened. But I think this defense is continuously getting
Speaker 8: better as each week goes by, and once they get
Speaker 8: fully healthy, once they get everybody back, I think this
Speaker 8: is a solid unit for Mike Zimmer. But There's a
Speaker 8: deeper conversation about Mike Zimmer that I think we need
Speaker 8: to have moving forward. Is is he a guy that
Speaker 8: you keep around no matter what at this point, because
Speaker 8: I think he's a guy that has gotten this defense
Speaker 8: better as years going on.
Speaker 6: He's weathered these injuries.
Speaker 8: Might not be a conversation for today, but I think
Speaker 8: we need to have a deeper conversation about Mike Zimmer
Speaker 8: moving forward.
Speaker 2: We definitely are going to do that. Let's go on, Amber,
Speaker 2: what's your story of the game.
Speaker 7: My story is that man, when it feels good, I
Speaker 7: forgot what it felt like. No, Like seriously, it's just
Speaker 7: a different vibe coming in. I'm tired and everything, but
Speaker 7: it just feels different. The vibe around the office. Lights.
Speaker 7: All the lights were on today just for reference, like
Speaker 7: they turn in our floor where we were, they turned
Speaker 7: half of the lights off, so it's like dimmer and
Speaker 7: just people enjoy the moody desk watch filmy morning. All
Speaker 7: the lights were on and we're just over here working.
Speaker 7: Everybody is like happy to be here. And then another
Speaker 7: thing is like Derek's favorite things, favorite thing on the
Speaker 7: plane are cookies. Last night they ran out of cookies.
Speaker 7: They were like, sorry, the players and the coaches they
Speaker 7: all hate cookies. If they run out of cookies.
Speaker 6: I'm like, damn, so they're gonna be fa slow. On Thursday,
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't love that cookies. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Hey, I don't mind it.
Speaker 7: You celebrate with cookies.
Speaker 6: That's fine. Hey, it's fine.
Speaker 7: Learned absolutely, But just to that, I just think what
Speaker 7: the defense is starting to show. It's exciting when you
Speaker 7: start considering all the different things that they're having to overcome,
Speaker 7: mainly with the injuries. And once again maybe it's coincidence,
Speaker 7: I don't know, but it just goes to show again
Speaker 7: what Micah Parson's presence does to this defense, because that's
Speaker 7: when everything started to trend upwards. Was when he made
Speaker 7: his return to the lineup. Things just started improving slowly.
Speaker 7: And then when you think of a game without Trevon
Speaker 7: Diggs and then Kalen Carson. I know he wasn't playing well,
Speaker 7: but it's still another guy that's taking out of your
Speaker 7: defense their own bland he had. You know, he's working
Speaker 7: his way back in it. But just credit to those younger,
Speaker 7: less experienced quote unquote guys that are just working so
Speaker 7: hard on defense and it's just it's been impressive honestly.
Speaker 7: Now on offense you got to step it up more.
Speaker 7: But again, just celebrating and happy today.
Speaker 3: Tip the captain Mike Solari. We've been giving him a
Speaker 3: lot of crap this whole year, and the offensive line
Speaker 3: at times has it been very good.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: You go into the game yesterday, you get the inactive
Speaker 3: list ninety minutes for the game, you see Martin and
Speaker 3: Smith both out. Yep, you're thinking absolute disaster. They're not
Speaker 3: going to run the ball. They're not going to attempt
Speaker 3: to run the ball. They're not going to be able
Speaker 3: to protect well enough to even move the football, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're picking you know, Commanders thirty two Dallas six.
Speaker 3: You know, that's one of those games you're thinking about.
Speaker 3: But give the offensive line some credit. Yesterday the guys
Speaker 3: Hoffman came in, he brought he brought toughness to He's
Speaker 3: not as talented as what Martin is, but he brought
Speaker 3: the same amount of toughness. When you start to talk
Speaker 3: about the way that it was a kind of a
Speaker 3: chippy game, you know with those guys, they did a
Speaker 3: really good job with the combo blocks when they were
Speaker 3: able to you know, run the football, the pass protection,
Speaker 3: and there were plenty of times where Cooper Rush was
Speaker 3: able to get to find a receiver, to locate a
Speaker 3: guy and get the ball out. So you have to
Speaker 3: be fair about this. And Mike Silaria has been taking
Speaker 3: a lot of crap and but yesterday those he did
Speaker 3: a really good job of getting young guys ready a
Speaker 3: couple you know, not I say young veteran guys, but
Speaker 3: as a group, those five guys actually played. They played
Speaker 3: six guys yesterday. If you include awesome Richardson too, that
Speaker 3: that contest. But you know they need to work on
Speaker 3: you know, we go into the game. We talked about
Speaker 3: this a little bit, I know on our pregame show,
Speaker 3: uh you know one O five three the fan. We
Speaker 3: talked about the officials and Trey Blake. This is a
Speaker 3: crew that called when linemen were lining up deep. That
Speaker 3: was one of the calls, and we talked about it
Speaker 3: when we have a thing called the Zebra Report, and
Speaker 3: it played out that this is a crew that is
Speaker 3: going to call you if you line up deep. And
Speaker 3: there were a couple of times where he was deep.
Speaker 3: He was deeper than CD and the slot he can't
Speaker 3: be that deep. You know they're gonna call that. But
Speaker 3: other than that, those guys did a good job of
Speaker 3: holding up up front. They created lanes, they gave you protection. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know, they'll figure out two what needs to be
Speaker 3: done on that field goal protection thing with BB and
Speaker 3: Schoonmaker after the first first block kind of interlocked legs
Speaker 3: and it was better better that way. So, but tip
Speaker 3: of the caps of those guys for getting it done
Speaker 3: up front in that game. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was able to chop it up with Brock Hoffman
Speaker 8: and TJ Bass in the locker room after the game,
Speaker 8: just kind of being like, hey, when did y'all find
Speaker 8: out you were starting?
Speaker 6: How did you feel like it went?
Speaker 8: And TJ had found out earlier in the week obviously,
Speaker 8: and then Brock had found out the morning of, So
Speaker 8: yesterday morning he found out that he was going to
Speaker 8: be starting, And it was kind of a similar situation
Speaker 8: for both of them because they both started in the
Speaker 8: game in Washington last year in Week eighteen, but it
Speaker 8: was the roles were reversed. Brock found out the morning
Speaker 8: of and or excuse me, TJ found out the morning
Speaker 8: of Flip Flop. But I had asked him to, like
Speaker 8: what a part. What about these opportunities do you guys
Speaker 8: like relish the most? He's like, well, we're two undrafted
Speaker 8: guys like we take that personally. We want to be
Speaker 8: able to show that, you know, we were worthy of
Speaker 8: at least a draft spot. And Brock was like, yeah,
Speaker 8: it was pretty ugly, and TJ was like, that's just
Speaker 8: the way we like it. So I appreciated those two guys' efforts.
Speaker 8: Do you want to guess how many total pressures they
Speaker 8: gave up in the game three?
Speaker 3: What do you got?
Speaker 7: Total pressure?
Speaker 6: Total pressures allowed by TJ bat I didn't look.
Speaker 3: This up, but I was just watching the tape this morning.
Speaker 3: It seemed like they were pretty low. So I just
Speaker 3: guessed the really, I.
Speaker 7: Mean, based on your little giddy smile, I would say
Speaker 7: maybe two, Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I would say probably. I'd say probably three,
Speaker 2: But because I know BB had zero, Yeah, so I
Speaker 2: would say probably three between the two of them.
Speaker 6: According to Pro Football Focus, it's a fat goose egg
Speaker 6: for so.
Speaker 2: The interior gave Interiero pressure. I said, wow, possible.
Speaker 3: Didn't Paine get a sack?
Speaker 6: According to Pro Football.
Speaker 2: Focus, I think didn't get a sack there in the
Speaker 2: closer to the end of the game.
Speaker 3: I thought they gave. Yeah, they gave. I was trying
Speaker 3: to think about the that was a sack.
Speaker 6: They did regist a sack of pain. I'll see what
Speaker 6: he was lined up.
Speaker 2: I wont Yeah, I wonder who that who that was against?
Speaker 3: Trying to think who that was against, because he's.
Speaker 2: A defensive tackle. I think he gets one of those
Speaker 2: three you would think.
Speaker 3: But that's why I thought it was yeah, something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it was to me, it was good.
Speaker 10: It was good everyone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's not get lost in the details on that.
Speaker 2: The fact of the matter is when I first saw
Speaker 2: that those those two guys are out on the offensive line,
Speaker 2: I looked at Nick because on the show I said
Speaker 2: last week, I said, if you get all these guys back,
Speaker 2: I think this sets up for the Cowboys to be
Speaker 2: able to go up there and get a win. And
Speaker 2: and then when those two guys are out, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know how I feel too good about the
Speaker 2: possibilities here, because what we've seen all season is the
Speaker 2: offensive line has not been able to protect, haven't been
Speaker 2: able to to infective living run. Yeah, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you lose the two guys in the
Speaker 2: middle that are the most veteran of this group, and
Speaker 2: so I just didn't think it was gonna be a
Speaker 2: way that they were going to be able to get
Speaker 2: that done. But what we saw yesterday was and credit
Speaker 2: to I think you credit not only Mike Salari, but
Speaker 2: you also have to credit Mike McCarthy and the and
Speaker 2: the offensive staff of being able to call the right
Speaker 2: kind of game for these guys because they did take
Speaker 2: a there were there were a lot of quick throws coming,
Speaker 2: getting the ball out quick, and so that's just kind
Speaker 2: of understanding where you are and you're having to play
Speaker 2: that game.
Speaker 3: Kind of felt like we could take advantage of the
Speaker 3: commander's secondary said that, ye, and we talked about too,
Speaker 3: and I'm glad it worked out. You know, they they
Speaker 3: decided they don't want to cover scoon Maker going up
Speaker 3: the middle of the field. We talked about the fact
Speaker 3: that they'd given up five touchdowns too tight ends in
Speaker 3: the red zone. Make that six now, you know. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it was it was a good a good victory all
Speaker 3: the way around. I know there's the there's the folks
Speaker 3: out there that are like, you know, tank for the
Speaker 3: better positions and things like that. You you that's not
Speaker 3: going to happen with this this crew. I mean we could.
Speaker 3: We could sit there and all the guys and gals
Speaker 3: that love to talk about the draft and drafting positions
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. You know, I mean we I
Speaker 3: believe this Dallas is Dallas is capable of losing games
Speaker 3: just without tanking. They're also capable of winning games. They
Speaker 3: showed you that yesterday, So you know, good for good
Speaker 3: for the team to get a victory like that, and
Speaker 3: you know that that was a that was one of
Speaker 3: the much needed ones too. If you're well, also try
Speaker 3: and hang in this thing.
Speaker 7: I feel like some people tend to forget that when
Speaker 7: you're quote unquote trying to tank a season or what.
Speaker 7: It's not a unanimous decision. There might be people that
Speaker 7: I feel that way, but there are other people that
Speaker 7: are competing and looking for their next job, like these
Speaker 7: games are still important. They're having to go out there
Speaker 7: and play as good as they can. And that goes
Speaker 7: for coaching too, Like they're trying to put up a
Speaker 7: game because their next job might not be here, or
Speaker 7: if it is here, they're still trying to hang.
Speaker 6: On to that job.
Speaker 7: So it just it's it's not a unanimous thing and
Speaker 7: everyone has a different agenda, So don't expect them to
Speaker 7: just throw the towel and go through the rest of
Speaker 7: the season trying to lose games.
Speaker 2: Well, not only that, but it gets really interesting at
Speaker 2: this point because over the next four weeks, Dallas plays
Speaker 2: teams that are right there with them, Like they've gone
Speaker 2: through the guy of their season. This is the part
Speaker 2: of their season where they actually can make some Hey,
Speaker 2: so you start getting back guys and getting healthy at
Speaker 2: the time that you're going to be playing teams that
Speaker 2: are not considered to be the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2: This could get real interesting in December. Not to say
Speaker 2: Dallas has a shot necessarily to get back into the playoffs,
Speaker 2: because that's going to be a tough up here uphill road,
Speaker 2: just because the best they can do at this point
Speaker 2: is ten and seven, which means you got to go
Speaker 2: ten and seven and hope Philly comes back to the pack.
Speaker 2: Like there's there's a lot that would have to happen
Speaker 2: for you to get there. The point is, though, if
Speaker 2: the Cowboys just keep playing every game the way that
Speaker 2: they played yesterday, they will make it interesting and we'll
Speaker 2: see where it goes from there.
Speaker 3: Who is who is the last seed? Who is that?
Speaker 3: Do we know who is?
Speaker 6: It's Washington.
Speaker 3: It is Washington. At seven and seven and five, Dallas.
Speaker 3: Dallas plays in the last game of the year.
Speaker 2: Right Dallas is two and one right now in the division,
Speaker 2: could move to three and one in the divisions. As
Speaker 2: bad as their record, as bad as their season has been,
Speaker 2: they still have a pretty good record within obviously got
Speaker 2: the record in the division. You gotta win out at
Speaker 2: this point. Yeah, you got any shot whatsoever. But for
Speaker 2: those folks that think you want to tank like that's
Speaker 2: just the hard thing. As you said, Ambro, I don't
Speaker 2: think the players are necessarily thinking about it like that,
Speaker 2: because ultimately they're playing for their next job, playing for
Speaker 2: the next contract, coaches, playing for their careers. So it
Speaker 2: just it doesn't always pan out like that.
Speaker 8: I will say things get really interesting if this team
Speaker 8: does make a playoff push in some way shape, even
Speaker 8: if they come up just short. If they're going into
Speaker 8: week eighteen with the shot, Yeah, things are gonna get interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially because you start talking about all those conversations
Speaker 2: people were having prematurely about what's gonna happen with the
Speaker 2: coach and what's gonna happen with this AND's like all
Speaker 2: that has to change a little bit, especially you mentioned
Speaker 2: it with Mike Zimmer, Like this defense has gotten better,
Speaker 2: and you're starting to think maybe it wasn't the coordinator.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was just the fact he didn't have any parts,
Speaker 2: and now he's getting parts, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: his defense is playing better.
Speaker 3: Our next Gen stats, I was just looking this up.
Speaker 3: For the pressures. They had one for steel, one for Hoffman,
Speaker 3: zero for bass, one for BB zero for guiding, one
Speaker 3: for awesome Richards.
Speaker 6: Okay, and I'm looking at this.
Speaker 2: That's impressive. That's that's extremely impressive.
Speaker 3: It's thirty three thirty three snaps, thirty three drop back snaps.
Speaker 8: So I'm looking at this sack because it was not
Speaker 8: credited to anybody. According to PFF, it was not credited
Speaker 8: to any of the offensive linemen.
Speaker 3: They grade that different on those those things.
Speaker 8: I think that that one just loving have to play
Speaker 8: and pain just kind of ran free. It was a
Speaker 8: broken play, and I rush just kind of fair.
Speaker 3: They didn't give anybody the sack on the on the
Speaker 3: they didn't credit any next Gen did not credit anybody with.
Speaker 2: Giving the pressure on the sack with sack, yeah, giving
Speaker 2: up the sack.
Speaker 3: They did not, They did not pin the sack on anybody,
Speaker 3: but they but the pressures were one for Steel, one
Speaker 3: for Hoffman, one for BB and one for awesome Richards.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's really good day. All Right, we're gonna take our
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Speaker 2: the offense the day we got to star with special
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Speaker 2: Teams yesterday, I don't know, Nick said it was drunk.
Speaker 2: I think it was like, I think the whole game
Speaker 2: was drunk. But you look at the special team's portion
Speaker 2: of the find drunk. You at Rob's wedding, that's drunk.
Speaker 2: That was that was drunk.
Speaker 3: I would say, that's pretty drunk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty drunk.
Speaker 3: All right, let's uh, let's look at it.
Speaker 2: So they had they had a block thirty five yard
Speaker 2: field goal, They had a missed forty two yard field
Speaker 2: field goal, but then made a forty six and a
Speaker 2: forty eight yard field goal. They had a twenty three
Speaker 2: yard punt that was tipped so it only went twenty three.
Speaker 2: Got twenty three yards out of.
Speaker 3: That destroyed my poor center.
Speaker 2: Right, they had a ninety nine yard kick return for
Speaker 2: a touchdown. They had a forty three yard kick return
Speaker 2: for a touchdown on an on side kick. Let's go
Speaker 2: next to Washington. Right, Washington misses two field goals, misses
Speaker 2: two extra points. It was just all over the map,
Speaker 2: and it just seemed like on both sides, special teams.
Speaker 3: You forgot, you forgot another gas that table, that one
Speaker 3: right before hot a r right after how he kicks
Speaker 3: the ball at a bounce. Oh yeah, they kicked They
Speaker 3: kick it short of the landing area. Weird, and you
Speaker 3: give him the ball for forty yard line. McCarthy walked
Speaker 3: up the bones. He walked up and dropped a few
Speaker 3: f bombs on bones. Bones, was like, give that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what the head coaches coaching the coach, that's.
Speaker 3: What the coach. He took off his head said and
Speaker 3: he said, don't you ever f and do that again? Basically,
Speaker 3: he said, don't I mean? And he walked away and
Speaker 3: bones was just bones. He looked like white, the bones.
Speaker 2: But let me ask you this, are you starting to
Speaker 2: get it all concerned about the kicking union because Brandon
Speaker 2: Aubrey has been very, very consistent and very good. And
Speaker 2: now it's been a couple of times that you just
Speaker 2: blocked weird moments.
Speaker 3: The block you know, the the the commanders obviously saw
Speaker 3: something in the protection because the uh, they were able
Speaker 3: to jump like usually usually and this is you're talking
Speaker 3: to a guy who's a former long snapper, so I
Speaker 3: kind of understand protection. Usually the wings block inside out
Speaker 3: like you will, you will you will check inside and
Speaker 3: then work out is what you do on the on
Speaker 3: the outside. And what happened is scoon Maker went he
Speaker 3: immediately went wide and know what happened, he just planted
Speaker 3: his leg. When the cowboys and I watched the ones
Speaker 3: from there on, they usually interlocked their legs, so like
Speaker 3: BB and Scoonmaker will interlock their legs. What happened was
Speaker 3: they jumped right over. They just jumped right over Schoonmaker's
Speaker 3: legs because BB was blocking his guy, Schoonmaker went wide,
Speaker 3: natural natural gap right there, so they just jumped over.
Speaker 3: They just jumped over the leg and then we're onto
Speaker 3: the kicker. So later they were interlocked, which made it
Speaker 3: a little bit more difficult, a little bit tighter, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, to not allow the the why would they
Speaker 3: not you know what sometimes it happens where you know
Speaker 3: you're it's it's like you're doing you know, you do
Speaker 3: it a million times and then one time you don't
Speaker 3: do it. But I think the commander saw something off
Speaker 3: the edge. You're thinking, hey, if they're going to just
Speaker 3: keep blocking wide and block down and block white, there's
Speaker 3: a natural gap for us to be able to try
Speaker 3: and block this off that off that edge. And so
Speaker 3: uh but my experience has always been you block, you
Speaker 3: block inside, and then as you and then you bounce
Speaker 3: out inside and out. And Schoomaker just blocked out, bebe inside,
Speaker 3: and now you just get the commander just put right
Speaker 3: over it, just jumps right over and then he's onto
Speaker 3: the onto.
Speaker 2: The Do you think that affected the second kick that
Speaker 2: was missed.
Speaker 3: No, I just think he missed the second kick. And
Speaker 3: I always look at his plant foot when his plant
Speaker 3: foot hits and it kind of gets wonky, like he
Speaker 3: he he pulled one the last miss he had. Remember
Speaker 3: this plant foot hit and it went, it rolled on
Speaker 3: it and it hooked it. You know, it hooked it
Speaker 3: left this one, it's kind of like it hit it flipped,
Speaker 3: but he pushed it. So you know, sometimes he kind
Speaker 3: of punches the ball. He he punches it and he
Speaker 3: gets it's explosive off his foot, so he's able to
Speaker 3: kind of drive it that way. This one was kind
Speaker 3: of like he was just when he hit it, he
Speaker 3: was open and it just stayed right where he hit it,
Speaker 3: and so the plant foot, the snap was fine, the
Speaker 3: hold was fine. He just kind of shoved it over
Speaker 3: there is what he is.
Speaker 13: What he did.
Speaker 3: But I always look at his plant foot because if
Speaker 3: it flips on him sometimes he could, it makes him
Speaker 3: pull it. But this one looked like that everything was okay.
Speaker 3: He just shoved it out, shoved it outside. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting, I think.
Speaker 3: It affected the punter though, to be honest with you,
Speaker 3: the way the punter way they were punting at the
Speaker 3: end of the game. He he was kind of like,
Speaker 3: oh geez, what do we do because they tried to
Speaker 3: do it again. They tried to drive the center again
Speaker 3: and get back there and see you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: but let me be honest with you one way, jan
Speaker 3: Ye Thomas is the personal protector. He's got to step up,
Speaker 3: I mean, make him make those guys. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 3: two defensive tackles that are you know, Newton and and
Speaker 3: pain they're pushing and one it just kind of hand
Speaker 3: checks and then releases. Make every make them run over
Speaker 3: all you to get to the ball. I mean even
Speaker 3: if you you can't block a three hundred, but a
Speaker 3: speed bump, yeah, you just make them have to go
Speaker 3: over the top of you to get to the ball.
Speaker 3: And why did you really really do that? He he
Speaker 3: just checked and then released and that didn't help seek
Speaker 3: at all. You know, he's just got to throw his
Speaker 3: body in there, sacrifice himself. So the they you know,
Speaker 3: they they'd have to go over him to get to
Speaker 3: the ball.
Speaker 2: One of the interesting things for Aubrey he's missed four
Speaker 2: field goals in his career at Washington. Yeah, he's only
Speaker 2: missed three anywhere else in the NFL, Like Washington is
Speaker 2: just a weird place for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: Why field the field conditions were pristine, if you can.
Speaker 3: It wasn't bad that turf had been replaced ten days ago,
Speaker 3: so nobody had played on that turf. That is brand
Speaker 3: new turfsy you really can't. Usually you play there late
Speaker 3: in the year, it's all chopped up and some bags
Speaker 3: going on, but not.
Speaker 2: Just And it was a beautiful day, so everything was
Speaker 2: it was a little money.
Speaker 7: I mean our shoes got.
Speaker 2: A little outside our shoes.
Speaker 6: I got a little bit of grass and mud.
Speaker 9: Honest.
Speaker 6: No, but I think you know what.
Speaker 7: We all have bad days, right, we all have bad days.
Speaker 7: It's normal. It's I'm not gonna be mad, and I've
Speaker 7: said it happened.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you should be mad at the commander's kicker. You
Speaker 3: should be happy that he was not good yesterday exactly
Speaker 3: we had a day.
Speaker 7: It leveled out, you know, I think it canceled out
Speaker 7: each other with with that. And again, when when you
Speaker 7: look at everything that Aubrey has done for you and
Speaker 7: the amount of times where you're where most of your
Speaker 7: points are only coming from Brandon Aubrey and the field
Speaker 7: goals that he's made you, this is not enough for
Speaker 7: me to be alarmed or worried about special teams.
Speaker 6: And they made up for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's move on. Let's talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about the offense here before we take our final break.
Speaker 2: Let's get to Cooper Rush. Yesterday, he was twenty four
Speaker 2: thirty two seventy five percent completion rate, really high, two
Speaker 2: hundred and forty seven yards, passing two touchdowns, zero interceptions,
Speaker 2: a one hundred and seventeen point six passer rating. It
Speaker 2: was a career high for him. How would you assess
Speaker 2: his play overall, because it didn't I was actually surprised
Speaker 2: at the end of the game when I saw the
Speaker 2: numbers because during the game, during most of the game,
Speaker 2: I felt like the offense just kind of it was
Speaker 2: doing just a little bit, but just not too much.
Speaker 2: What did you think of his overall play?
Speaker 8: I thought the offense sustained drives, they just couldn't finish them.
Speaker 8: You look at the two miskicks in the first half,
Speaker 8: you could look at those two opportunities as potential chances
Speaker 8: to get into the end zone as well. But as
Speaker 8: far as Cooper Rush and how he played overall, it's
Speaker 8: what we got used to seeing from him whenever he
Speaker 8: took over a couple of years ago and he went
Speaker 8: four to one over that stretch. Doesn't try to do
Speaker 8: too much, but he does just enough to give you
Speaker 8: your team a shot. And I think what was different
Speaker 8: this week as compared to previous weeks is he really
Speaker 8: leaned on CD.
Speaker 6: And it makes sense.
Speaker 8: I mean, you got a guy that is a reliable
Speaker 8: pass catcher, but it was those first couple of drives
Speaker 8: where he was He got five receptions on those first
Speaker 8: two drives. You could see that there was an intention
Speaker 8: early on from CD saying like, hey, lean on me,
Speaker 8: I can sustain this offense if we can't get this
Speaker 8: running game going. I don't think this team expected to
Speaker 8: get the running game going because of how much they
Speaker 8: leaned on CD early. But then Rico was able to
Speaker 8: sustain some Rico Dawdle was able to sustain some carries
Speaker 8: nineteen carries for eighty six yards, and it really helped
Speaker 8: out Cooper rush. At the end of the day, I
Speaker 8: think when you look at those two touches or the
Speaker 8: one touchdown drive that ended with the third down pass
Speaker 8: to schoon Maker, that was one of the better drives
Speaker 8: we've seen all season.
Speaker 6: Well, no matter who was that quarterback.
Speaker 8: I think whenever you look at how the running game
Speaker 8: was able to sustain a finishing it wasn't the red zone,
Speaker 8: but practically finishing in the red zone, and then you
Speaker 8: see two backups being able to execute on a touchdown
Speaker 8: like that, I thought it was pretty cool, especially for
Speaker 8: Schoonmaker who has pretty much been in the doghouse but
Speaker 8: got an opportunity and he shined with it. But for me,
Speaker 8: the difference with Cooper Rush was he leaned on CD,
Speaker 8: he leaned on some guys and those guys answered for him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was good to see some improvement and them
Speaker 7: being able to move the ball, But totally the same
Speaker 7: with what Nick said. It's just finishing those and converting
Speaker 7: on those third downs that it gets to them not
Speaker 7: being able to get into the end zone as many times,
Speaker 7: or given the amount of chances that they put themselves
Speaker 7: in or situations as that put themselves in, you should
Speaker 7: be seeing more points being scored and that. But again,
Speaker 7: improvement given from last week and what you saw, and
Speaker 7: you're like, man, they can't do anything. So I got
Speaker 7: to give credit to the whole crew and also Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 7: I thought we saw a couple little nuggets that were
Speaker 7: a little different than what we've seen so far. So
Speaker 7: that's improvement in my books.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and you mentioned the nuggets and it
Speaker 3: really came off the play action stuff. You know, they
Speaker 3: early in the game, they ran a toss sweep and
Speaker 3: they got good yardage on.
Speaker 2: It, and what they do They fake lost that play.
Speaker 3: They fake tossed it and it brought every one of
Speaker 3: the linebackers up and then what happened? You get spanned four,
Speaker 3: then behind and now it's a but here's what here
Speaker 3: it is. You know, you get the running game going,
Speaker 3: you get some positive plays going, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: you play action that think Cooper rush was six to
Speaker 3: seven on play action passes for eighty nine yards in
Speaker 3: this game. That just shows you you have somewhat of
Speaker 3: a running game you can make. You could affect people
Speaker 3: in that way twelve yards almost thirteen yards in attempt
Speaker 3: off the play action game. Just get a running game
Speaker 3: going and you you know, or at least the thread
Speaker 3: of it, and that brings defenders up and then you
Speaker 3: have opportunities to make plays off that.
Speaker 2: Yea. If the running game doesn't have to be great,
Speaker 2: you just have to be committed to it.
Speaker 3: And that's what we show people that you can you
Speaker 3: could bust a couple of runs off them.
Speaker 2: But they, yeah, they had In the first alf Rico
Speaker 2: had nine rushes. He ended up with nineteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he got they.
Speaker 2: Were rushing the running the ball throughout the game. He
Speaker 2: had a three point nine average on the first half.
Speaker 2: But it was enough, I think, as you said, Brian,
Speaker 2: was enough to make the defense at least respect the
Speaker 2: fact that there could be a run and you had
Speaker 2: to You had to make sure you devote to people
Speaker 2: trying to let me let me.
Speaker 3: Let me also be fair too here because I'm not
Speaker 3: always fair and I need to be more fair. Ezekiel
Speaker 3: Elliott made a huge play in that game for you.
Speaker 3: He recovered that fumble, that high snap. All of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it's like they're scrambling the balls on the ground. That's
Speaker 3: on the twenty one yard line, that's on your own
Speaker 3: twenty one yard line. He had the presence of mind
Speaker 3: like it was all kind of messed up. It's on
Speaker 3: the ground. He dives, I mean into a pile of
Speaker 3: three hundred pound linemen to get that football. You know,
Speaker 3: that's the kind of thing we could talk about. He
Speaker 3: can't do this, can't do this. That was a very
Speaker 3: football intelligent heads up play right there to save your series.
Speaker 3: Because what happened you get the the next play is
Speaker 3: the past the lamb that ends up being rough in
Speaker 3: the passer. Now you're moving the ball down the field.
Speaker 3: You know, just think about giving the commanders the ball
Speaker 3: right there again, you know, and what could have potentially
Speaker 3: happens so in the in the spirit of being fair,
Speaker 3: nice job by Ezekiel Elliott making a play, not maybe
Speaker 3: as an offensive player, but diving in there and recovering
Speaker 3: that football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and on the flip side of that, I think
Speaker 2: as we gave a little a little bit of the
Speaker 2: flowers to Babie with regard to how he was playing yesterday,
Speaker 2: some of the snaps were errent yesterday, and we hadn't
Speaker 2: really seen that a lot from him lately yesterday, so
Speaker 2: these snaps were kind of.
Speaker 3: Those heavy dudes get right on him. Sometimes he's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I gotta get this blog.
Speaker 2: Oh there it goes. And that's a that's an experienced thing,
Speaker 2: I think too. The more you do it, the more
Speaker 2: you get comfortable with the idea you gotta snap first,
Speaker 2: get the snap there, and then you take care of
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Speaker 2: the ball. We got to talk about Josh Butler in
Speaker 2: his average yesterday a pretty interesting game for him. We'll
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Speaker 3: No's, I told you the SEC sucks. I mean every
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Speaker 2: I thought coming into this league, I was like, you
Speaker 2: get the Vandy's, the Kentucky's, and it's like any fun.
Speaker 2: Those are still hard games.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 3: You guys pummel Florida. Now, Florida is everybody right.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and finish this thing off strong.
Speaker 2: Talk about the defensive side of the ball. Josh Butler
Speaker 2: man yesterday playing in relief of Trayvon Diggs, another name
Speaker 2: that popped up yesterday, and they're like, he's not playing.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking to myself, okay, there's no way. Like
Speaker 2: I was thinking, you got Digs and you got Bland
Speaker 2: and you got Lewis, you should be fine. And all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you don't have digs and uh and
Speaker 2: you have to throw the youngster Josh Butler out there.
Speaker 2: But he gets twelve tackles, one sack, three pass defenses.
Speaker 2: How would you assess this play yesterday? Overall? Just not
Speaker 2: necessarily looking at the numbers, but overall, how do you
Speaker 2: assess this play?
Speaker 8: Can I can I get some contacts on Josh Butler
Speaker 8: really quick? This is a really interesting story. Graduated from
Speaker 8: Michigan State in twenty nineteen, and he actually lost both
Speaker 8: of his parents while he was at Michigan State. He's
Speaker 8: a graduate of West Mesquite High School, so he's a
Speaker 8: Dallas area guy. He's got a huge Dallas tattoo on
Speaker 8: his on his chest. He reps it well and went
Speaker 8: to Uh went to La to go act for two
Speaker 8: to three years and was actually starring in some in
Speaker 8: some shows that people probably seen All American on on
Speaker 8: the CW. He was on All American. He had he
Speaker 8: had a role on All American. Yeah, and uh like
Speaker 8: a prominent role. No, I think it was a supporting role.
Speaker 8: I honestly don't remember the character he was.
Speaker 2: I watched next year. I watched the first season. I
Speaker 2: didn't watch the past the first season, but I watched
Speaker 2: the first season. I didn't remember seeing it.
Speaker 6: He was easily the best football player on that show.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 8: I don't even remember when the show was, but they
Speaker 8: have awful football players on this show because they throw
Speaker 8: like anyway.
Speaker 4: Uh uh.
Speaker 8: Anyway, he had a couple of years acting in Los
Speaker 8: Angeles and decided, Hey, you know, I want to at
Speaker 8: least try out for the USFL. He tried out for
Speaker 8: the USFL, made the team for the Michigan Panthers, played
Speaker 8: really well, and I think we can all remember whenever
Speaker 8: he had the training camp opportunity. Last year in twenty
Speaker 8: twenty three, they brought him in. They lost somebody I
Speaker 8: can't remember exactly who, Derek, maybe you can remember a
Speaker 8: little bit better, but they had lost somebody to injury
Speaker 8: in camp. I think it may have been like Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 8: They knew they were gonna put him on IR or
Speaker 8: something like that. I don't remember what it was, but
Speaker 8: they needed an extra dB basically is just a body.
Speaker 8: He was one of three guys they brought into workout.
Speaker 6: He made the team.
Speaker 8: I think we were all looking around like, Okay, he
Speaker 8: won't be on the final fifty three, and he wasn't
Speaker 8: on the final fifty three, but he made the practice squad,
Speaker 8: stuck it through on the practice squad last year, made
Speaker 8: the practice squad again this year, stuck it through, got
Speaker 8: his first start last week, and then yesterday had a
Speaker 8: really good opportunity to play, and yeah, what was eleven
Speaker 8: twelve tackles? He had a sack, three pass breakups. Granted
Speaker 8: he was targeted a lot. He was targeted twelve times.
Speaker 8: He gave up nine receptions for eighty.
Speaker 2: Seventy yards tackles.
Speaker 6: That's how you get twelve tackles at corner. But he
Speaker 6: was feisty.
Speaker 8: He was Whenever I mentioned that this defense has been
Speaker 8: fighting for Mike Zimmer, I think Josh Butler kind of
Speaker 8: embodied that yesterday.
Speaker 3: Oh the place that he made though, I mean with
Speaker 3: Noah Brown is not easy when you know that big
Speaker 3: body and stuff, and for him not to it's really
Speaker 3: easy to go around somebody and put your arm around
Speaker 3: him and try and knock the ball down with the
Speaker 3: off hand. And the fact that he was able not
Speaker 3: to get any calls against him, I think he would
Speaker 3: love to have back the the the the long touchdown,
Speaker 3: the six. Yeah, they were they I tell you what, Honestly,
Speaker 3: you can't throw a ball any better than they pined
Speaker 3: that one on Jordan Lewis as the nearest receiver, you know,
Speaker 3: and Jordan Lewis I thought played really really well for
Speaker 3: you yesterday. Yeah, he got tagged with the the you know,
Speaker 3: the nearest player, so that you know, like he gave
Speaker 3: up one hundred and they said one hundred and three yards,
Speaker 3: but eighty seven of it came on one play. So
Speaker 3: that just showed you the kind of game that Jordan
Speaker 3: and Jordan Lewis had to play outside too. They played
Speaker 3: three different guys at that cornerback spot, you know, and
Speaker 3: talking to some people in the organization this morning about
Speaker 3: with Bland and his situation, and they kept asking him,
Speaker 3: how do you feel, how do you feel? And he goes,
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm good, that I'm good, you know, and
Speaker 3: they so they kept trying to go to him and
Speaker 3: keep him on the field the best they could. But
Speaker 3: that you know, for Jordan Lewis to line up outside,
Speaker 3: he carried that route if you remember McLaurin the ball
Speaker 3: that ended up out of balance. I mean, he carried
Speaker 3: Terry McLaren on a deep route and Jordan Lewis doesn't
Speaker 3: get to do that a whole hell of a lot,
Speaker 3: but him, you know, Bland Butler. Those guys they played
Speaker 3: really really well. Is he They all played really really
Speaker 3: well for you know, a quarterback that for a young guy.
Speaker 3: He throw it pretty well, spin it pretty well. They
Speaker 3: did a good job of covering those guys.
Speaker 8: Up and Blanze returned thirty five covered snaps that he played,
Speaker 8: allowed four receptions for twenty eight yards. Yeah, and one
Speaker 8: of those receptions was for twenty yards, so you take
Speaker 8: that away, that's.
Speaker 6: Three for eight. He was really good.
Speaker 8: I think that you saw the coverage unit and we
Speaker 8: we re talked about when everyone in the locker rooms
Speaker 8: talking about how they played as a unit yesterday.
Speaker 6: I think Deron Bland's a big part of that.
Speaker 8: You look at how how much trust they have over
Speaker 8: on the outside when twenty six is there, it's a
Speaker 8: lot different.
Speaker 3: Tay what too real quick on the defense, you know,
Speaker 3: we asked for them to use overshown like a poor
Speaker 3: man's Micah Parsons. Yeah, they they they're they're figuring it out.
Speaker 3: Thank god, Mike's figuring this out. You know, you bring
Speaker 3: him in as a pass rusher, uh, you know, he
Speaker 3: gets pressures, he gets sacks, you know. Unfortunately on the
Speaker 3: on the early run, the one where uh, where Daniels
Speaker 3: got like sixteen yards he was in position he felt
Speaker 3: on He's coming on the rush and he stumbles and
Speaker 3: so he's right there the holes. But he's going to
Speaker 3: the ground as Daniels is running by. If he's up
Speaker 3: on his feet, that's a gain of one or two
Speaker 3: right there. But but they've they the way that they
Speaker 3: use him with as a as a rusher. But the
Speaker 3: interception on the goldst in play, he's lined up as
Speaker 3: an off ball linebacker. Then he kind of shifts out
Speaker 3: to the outside and then comes on a blitzer on
Speaker 3: the backside forces Daniels to kind of have to run
Speaker 3: and he throws the ball early and then Robinson knocks
Speaker 3: it up in the air and they're Golston for the interception.
Speaker 3: So again pressure from the backside. He starts off at
Speaker 3: one spot, move him to another. He gets pressure there.
Speaker 3: So you got to love the way that overshown Lewis Butler,
Speaker 3: all these guys played yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, real quick talk to me about Johnson Goldston. You
Speaker 2: mentioned him. Yeah, here the last few weeks, it seems
Speaker 2: like we keep just seeing these solid performances from him,
Speaker 2: a guy that finally is playing in a position where
Speaker 2: he's not kind of moving around. He's he's a guy
Speaker 2: that that is a defensive end and it seems like
Speaker 2: he's he's adapting to that role.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I hate to see that he's gonna up
Speaker 3: with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers doing that and then you know,
Speaker 3: get the opportunity there. No, but that's really yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys are getting to play. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, you're getting to see these guys play and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, full time and it and it's really benefiting him.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: They they get maybe two three plays and then they're
Speaker 3: not in there for six seven plays and they're back
Speaker 3: in there for two plays. And you know with Golston,
Speaker 3: I mean him, oh so Diggy Zua though those guys.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you this, another game, another division opponent,
Speaker 3: another good game for Mozzie Smith playing football yesterday. You
Speaker 3: know power first the first the first play that Robinson,
Speaker 3: he takes Beaddish and drives him straight back. Robinson's got
Speaker 3: nowhere to go. There's osa right there, boom tackle. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: Robinson gets hurt. It affected him later in the game.
Speaker 3: He couldn't even play anymore. So, but that's that's you know,
Speaker 3: it seems like a divisional opponents. Mozzie Smith his best
Speaker 3: games Philadelphia Giants, you know, And now this one an
Speaker 3: interesting point. Yeah, so it's got Giants on Thursday's due
Speaker 3: for six tackles.
Speaker 8: But no, it's good with Chauncey Goldstone. Why was he
Speaker 8: played a defensive tackle for so long? Because now we're
Speaker 8: seeing him thrive at edge and he's doing so well.
Speaker 8: This is the guy that they could have used rotationally last.
Speaker 2: Year way too many that had so many defensive ends.
Speaker 8: We're still talking at the beginning of the season that
Speaker 8: I understand to a certain extent that I can understand
Speaker 8: because the depth was there, for sure. They had Dante Fowler,
Speaker 8: Dorn's Armstrong. But this year, when they come into a
Speaker 8: year where they know that there were some young guys,
Speaker 8: I just I think they didn't use him at the
Speaker 8: edge until they had to, and now they're starting to
Speaker 8: reap the benefits of that. You talk about, you know,
Speaker 8: he might end up going somewhere in the offseason. I'd
Speaker 8: pay to keep him here.
Speaker 2: I would too.
Speaker 3: See, that's that's your hope right there. If you're a
Speaker 3: Cowboy fan and there's there's a couple of guys right now.
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know if you could get all three,
Speaker 3: But on defense, Jordan Lewis be one for me, Goalsta
Speaker 3: would be another one for me, and Osa would be
Speaker 3: another one for three, and everybody else I could kind
Speaker 3: of like, Okay, well, I'll rally when I have to rally.
Speaker 3: But you know, if I if you could get one
Speaker 3: of those three guys me personally, Jordan Lewis, I think
Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis, Jordan Lewis might be your best defensive player
Speaker 3: right now. I agree when you start to talk about
Speaker 3: with I mean, I get it, Michael Parsons, you're gonna
Speaker 3: tell me Michael.
Speaker 6: Parsons, No, but Louis absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean from down after down after down after down,
Speaker 3: good or bad, up by never up, up by a
Speaker 3: little or getting really beat, Jordan Lewis is a good player.
Speaker 2: For honestly, those three plus Cavante turpin Is, to me
Speaker 2: are the priorities for the soft season. In my opinion.
Speaker 2: If you can get those guys and keep them here,
Speaker 2: then I think you're you're working with something.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know about Osa, the third guy. Just two
Speaker 3: up and down.
Speaker 8: You need you need beef in the interior and he's
Speaker 8: an undersized three tech. At the end of the day,
Speaker 8: I would just like a little bit more physicality and
Speaker 8: the I I would completely rehaul the interior.
Speaker 2: Here's what I don't like. But I don't like.
Speaker 3: It's just trying to tell you he loves this defensive
Speaker 3: tackle drave No.
Speaker 2: I like that concept. Problem. My problem is, man, there's
Speaker 2: so many areas of this team I'm gonna need to address.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to take that one.
Speaker 2: Like I got a guy who's serviceable to good at INOSA,
Speaker 2: Like I don't feel like I need to go crazy,
Speaker 2: Like I don't have to replace that one. There are
Speaker 2: other areas where I fel like I gotta do something,
Speaker 2: so I just want to. I want to cover my base.
Speaker 2: So for me, it's worth And I don't think this
Speaker 2: is knock on wood. I don't think you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to break the bank for an OSA And now, if
Speaker 2: you have to do that, then let him walk. I
Speaker 2: think you could probably get a deal that makes sense,
Speaker 2: that's doable, that that makes him happy and makes the
Speaker 2: team happy and fits within the confines of whatever they're
Speaker 2: yeah restraints.
Speaker 3: That we're in at fourteen to seven games, fourteen to
Speaker 3: seventeen game window where traditionally he doesn't play very well. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, let's see, let's see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ine, all right, appreciate you guys joining us. We'll
Speaker 2: be back tomorrow. We're going to do. We gotta jump.
Speaker 2: We got a quick week coming up here. So tomorrow
Speaker 2: we get into the Giants offense versus Dallas defense. So
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