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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, welcome to the Break. We're happy to
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Speaker 1: here you go. Okay, today we're gonna get into the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions offense versus the Cowboys defense. But before we
Speaker 1: get into that end, I'm sorry if you guys talked
Speaker 1: about this yesterday, but I wanted to go run down
Speaker 1: through a few of the injuries that the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: right now and how this may affect the game this weekend.
Speaker 1: Um defensive tackle Dayton Jones, he was moved to her
Speaker 1: I r out of here out most likely to go
Speaker 1: under surgery right on his hamstring, I believe. So that's
Speaker 1: that's surgery on a hamstring. That seems bad. I've never
Speaker 1: even heard of a surgery on a hamstring, honestly, Nier
Speaker 1: of I which I mean, you hear people like Nicks
Speaker 1: as this all the time. He's like, is it off
Speaker 1: the bone? Well, Dayton Jones is probably off the bone.
Speaker 1: I didn't remember the play where he was running fifty
Speaker 1: yards down the field. I mean usually usually hamstring it's
Speaker 1: something where you're running, you know. Yeah, No, I don't
Speaker 1: see a lineman with a lot of hamstring injury, especially
Speaker 1: severe hamstring injuries like that. Never never allow yourself to
Speaker 1: forget how brutal this game is. It's yeah, anyway, so
Speaker 1: he's on I Karen Read. They signed Koran Read and
Speaker 1: another guy dealing with hamstring problems, obviously Sean Lee. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it seems like this might be possibly a few
Speaker 1: weeks that he's out. I would call it a virtual
Speaker 1: guarantee that he doesn't play against the Lions. And you
Speaker 1: know see after that, by ye think the trainers and
Speaker 1: we know this through you know, emails and stuff like
Speaker 1: that over the years. One thing they hate is to
Speaker 1: bring a guy back and then have to take him
Speaker 1: back again, like he gets hurt. They don't want to
Speaker 1: bring a guy back to early or in this case,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they did, but you know, you
Speaker 1: have a hamstring injury, you come back, you have you
Speaker 1: reinjure it, then it's like cheeto, I believe last year
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, now we're gonna there's no rushing
Speaker 1: anything back. You're just gonna be back when you're ready.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty much how it works in a situation
Speaker 1: like that. And Sean dealt with this whole thing last
Speaker 1: year where it was a couple of different times pretty
Speaker 1: unfortunate because that we're trying to take care of him
Speaker 1: and you know, protect him during training camp and once
Speaker 1: we got back here the preseason. But do you guys
Speaker 1: think that maybe just kind of overprotecting him in that
Speaker 1: way could have affected him. No, it's just what it is.
Speaker 1: It's that's classic hindsight twenty twenty. And I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy that always says, keep those guys on the
Speaker 1: shelf if they need it. And well, I mean, if
Speaker 1: if you're going to hurt your hamstring, at least it
Speaker 1: happened in a real game. I mean we could be
Speaker 1: talking about he tores hamstring in a training camp practice
Speaker 1: and that would be even worse as I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the this is the fifth or sixth separate time
Speaker 1: that Sean Lee has had a hamstring problem, and I
Speaker 1: guarantee you they've approached it all kinds of different ways,
Speaker 1: and it's I mean, it's unfortunate. It's just a thing
Speaker 1: that that he has to deal with. This twenty thirteen,
Speaker 1: for sure, he had hamstring. I think he's done figure
Speaker 1: out all his injuries. I mean, it's it's at least
Speaker 1: three separate seasons now where a hamstring has been a
Speaker 1: problem for him. Like I said, I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it sucks like it. Yeah, it almost feels like maybe
Speaker 1: it's just genetic that you just can't quite get over
Speaker 1: that type of stuff. I don't know, but I do
Speaker 1: wonder just how great he would have been. And then
Speaker 1: the whole grand scope of the whole franchise when it
Speaker 1: comes to linebackers. You know, let's just say he never
Speaker 1: missed the game, but he played the way he played
Speaker 1: even missed a little bit. Maybe maybe the best linebacker
Speaker 1: in the history of the team. And you've got Leroy
Speaker 1: Jordan and you've got Chuck Howley. But he could have
Speaker 1: been that good. He really could have been, and he
Speaker 1: is still up there pretty good. How many How many
Speaker 1: games has he missed over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: like forty if I had to guess, I mean he
Speaker 1: missed one entire season. Yeah, and that's probably right, So
Speaker 1: we'll just say forty. And I mean, the dude averages
Speaker 1: ten tackles a game. That's not even an exaggeration. So
Speaker 1: another four hundred tackles on top of whatever he's already
Speaker 1: sitting on. Throw in another probably two or three dozen
Speaker 1: tackles for loss. I mean, yeah, it's he'd be unreal.
Speaker 1: He probably would be the best linebacker in team history statistically,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got um there are seven seven games
Speaker 1: in the history of the franchise that a player has
Speaker 1: had twenty tackles or more, and he's had five of them.
Speaker 1: He was on pace for that in Seattle Hole. Yeah
Speaker 1: in the first half. Yeah, he had eight after a quarter.
Speaker 1: I think I started getting pretty sad when I heard,
Speaker 1: you know that he might be out a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: because I started thinking, Okay, what if he's coming to
Speaker 1: an end here? And I don't want to know anyone's
Speaker 1: career any but just going back to how this team
Speaker 1: is being Tyro last year, yeah, and Romo before that,
Speaker 1: which sure she was right one, but just thinking of
Speaker 1: how this team is being reconstructed, and you know how
Speaker 1: the older guys are kind of walking out slowly one
Speaker 1: after the other and then pushing back into the youth.
Speaker 1: And now that the Cowboys have a linebacker group that
Speaker 1: is looking pretty good and pretty healthy, of course, it
Speaker 1: just just made me sad at about there's no doubt
Speaker 1: about it, and you know, we're still gonna have to
Speaker 1: find out how this team does without him. You know,
Speaker 1: we think, well, but Joe Thomas is better and late
Speaker 1: vander rash and Jalen's at a higher level, and Damian
Speaker 1: Wilson's playing well that they can they can handle this now,
Speaker 1: But let's be honest, and there's other factors involved there.
Speaker 1: But Sean Lee got hurt in the second half, fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: I guess of the Giants game with the hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: and that's actually when the Giants came back, scored like
Speaker 1: ten ten points that were moving down the field. It
Speaker 1: would have been nice to have him out there. It
Speaker 1: was a prevent defense, but I think he could have
Speaker 1: helped a lot more than what he was with a
Speaker 1: ball cap on. So this is, uh, this is we'll
Speaker 1: get into that. But this is as good of a
Speaker 1: Detroit rushing attack as they've had in a while with
Speaker 1: Kerry On Johnson coming on. So I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they're better equipped to live without him, But you
Speaker 1: gotta prove it. We'll see you gotta prove it. Then
Speaker 1: we have MALIEK. Collins with a knee injury. He's expected
Speaker 1: to be limited in practice, and then Jeff Heath ankle
Speaker 1: and Tyron Crawford elbow. They are supposed to be okay
Speaker 1: and but but still those are little injuries that popped up.
Speaker 1: And we have been talking about this defense being so
Speaker 1: good and kind of elevating their game, and now we
Speaker 1: come off this past game and they're a little banked
Speaker 1: up in a different different positions. You know, I love
Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford, I really do. I got a chance to
Speaker 1: get to know a little bit more about him this
Speaker 1: year and helped with one of the deep blues up
Speaker 1: in Canada. I really like him and where he came
Speaker 1: from stories awesome. Yeah, but when he gets hurt, doesn't
Speaker 1: it seemed like like it's over, Like the whole season
Speaker 1: is like it's over. Like he has a way. I disagree, No,
Speaker 1: because what do you mean you disagree? Into the game
Speaker 1: when he's on the ground, It's like, I just is
Speaker 1: it for the season? Like I maybe it heard that bad?
Speaker 1: Maybe how many games as this guy missed? No, you're
Speaker 1: missing the point of what I'm saying. When you say
Speaker 1: this is over that it looks a little goes down.
Speaker 1: What are you saying? Yes, Okay, training camp two years ago.
Speaker 1: Now he got hurt, you know, he hurt his ankle,
Speaker 1: was saying, saying the old Jason Garrett Lazarus joke, like
Speaker 1: you know, you thought he was dead and then he's
Speaker 1: up there like five minutes later. Yeah, okay, that's all insane.
Speaker 1: I kind of fools me a little bit. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: God is elbow? I mean, what it's hanging out over here?
Speaker 1: But you know comes back. The only reason I would
Speaker 1: disagree with that, The only reason I would disagree with
Speaker 1: that is because I know the type of stuff that
Speaker 1: he's played through in the recent past, Like he had
Speaker 1: a messed up shoulder for all of twenty sixteen. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: the toughest player on the team, he's toughest. Hell, But
Speaker 1: but when when that happens, and I still like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this is it? You know. Yeah, no, that's
Speaker 1: fair because it has been once. I mean, yeah, he
Speaker 1: tour his achilles and it looked what it was. I
Speaker 1: think it was twenty seventeen when it looked like he'd
Speaker 1: done something like that again at camp. I mean he
Speaker 1: got carted off and everything, and he missed. He was fine,
Speaker 1: and he missed the whole preseason and yeah, he opened
Speaker 1: fine is an exaggeration. Missing games. So so right now,
Speaker 1: looking at the Cowboys defense and based on this, all
Speaker 1: these little injuries that popped up here and there, what
Speaker 1: would be the most troubling part right now at this
Speaker 1: moment headline backer, which is just because has been the
Speaker 1: heart and soul the defense and they haven't proven that
Speaker 1: they could win with Adam. We'll see if they're better
Speaker 1: equipped there. Um, did you say in Tyrone Crawford? I mean,
Speaker 1: and now you're talking about some tackle issues inside, he's
Speaker 1: banged up, Dayton Jones is gone, and you've got Karen
Speaker 1: read Sorry, I was going to jump in whosition. Well,
Speaker 1: Malie Colin, I mean, you're you're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Yet one more week before Irving comes back I'm not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, David Irving some you're ready to play, No,
Speaker 1: I would think they've held and Tyrone Crawford's gonna play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not sweating it yet. What about
Speaker 1: the safety position. So you got Jeff Heath that he's
Speaker 1: looking okay, but he did suffer a little ankle injury.
Speaker 1: And then you got a Cavon who has been struggling
Speaker 1: with a shoulder injury and has been on the report
Speaker 1: every since that injury happened. I'm not trying to be cynical,
Speaker 1: but welcome to the NFL. Like, that's these are just things.
Speaker 1: I mean again, Tyron Crawford like played a whole season
Speaker 1: with his shoulder basically out of his socket. Like DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence gets tons of credit from this coaching staff for
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. He had a bum. I think
Speaker 1: it was his shoulder too, wasn't it, Oh, DeMarcus two
Speaker 1: or three years ago. That's just that's you know the game.
Speaker 1: The thing about it is is that, yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: name of the game, and you you have an ankle
Speaker 1: injury and you get retaped, but you know it's to
Speaker 1: your touchdowns happen. Yeah, when you're gone. So Jeff, you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's keep a lot of safeties at one spot
Speaker 1: that we have been talking about forever. So Jeff, actually,
Speaker 1: I mean he came back into that game after I
Speaker 1: don't remember ever hearing about a guy needing X rays
Speaker 1: and coming back into that game like that. Doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like it happens often. Yeah, it's true. So I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna play. I would expect that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: you can always tell just by what they're doing with
Speaker 1: with roster moves and things like that, which David bring
Speaker 1: to Abbe Robinson bag. He's not on the practice squad.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't remember that. I don't either. Should Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe we should know that right here. Maybe we should
Speaker 1: have a roster that just came out so I should
Speaker 1: be able to know. Well, they have Ibraheim Campbell, he's
Speaker 1: still here, and Irie Robinson practice squad. That's what I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: and they just signed ad. They signed a DT to
Speaker 1: the practice squad two, which, to your point, Christian Ringo
Speaker 1: going so that at least lets you know that they're
Speaker 1: a little concerned about their tackle depth because if Malik
Speaker 1: can't go this week, it's a little early to say
Speaker 1: if he will or not. But if he can't go
Speaker 1: this week, you're probably talking Daniel Ross, Antoine Woods, and
Speaker 1: um White Crawford and then they brought in Koran Read. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so something to watch. All right, Well, let's jump into
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lyon's offense, and let's start off with the quarterback. Now,
Speaker 1: Detroit did be the Patriots this past weekend. Toy six
Speaker 1: to ten. That's right. I'm pretty sure that's right. Interest
Speaker 1: everybody knew that was happening, right, very surprised you seeing
Speaker 1: the plane. Everybody was looking at you see a score like,
Speaker 1: that's not right. And it's funny how the NFL changes
Speaker 1: so much week to week. Like we're sitting here. It
Speaker 1: might have been off the air. But Derek's just like, well,
Speaker 1: Detroit's a w just choking it up. They're terrible and
Speaker 1: they go beat you know, the most successful team in
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, maybe the most successful team over
Speaker 1: any stretch in football history, beat him badly, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're like, oh, this might not be
Speaker 1: as easy as we thought. Well, and even in their
Speaker 1: first two games, even though they lost, I mean, they
Speaker 1: were still scoring points. They lost to the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers twenty seven thirty, but then to the Jets seventeen
Speaker 1: forty eight, which, as you Americans would say, that he
Speaker 1: got they got man handled. Yeah, that's the man handle.
Speaker 1: They also yeah, well they also no, it's okay say it.
Speaker 1: Well that may also put the winning score first. That's
Speaker 1: what they eight seventeen and thirty twenty seven. But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, do you get the point you Okay, you
Speaker 1: can figure out which number is low? Is that a
Speaker 1: soccer thing? Did they do that in soccer though? Two? Three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And so it just yeah, yes, okay, it's all good.
Speaker 1: Let's have culture in me. Okay, that's just a pet
Speaker 1: peeve of mine. And that's one thing I don't know why.
Speaker 1: That's just I hate that. Okay, forty seventeen there we go, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, all right? And that was bad that Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford and that game is bad for him. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: So let's go into Matt well, yeah, I mean, where
Speaker 1: else would you start? Which if there's one thing that
Speaker 1: gives me hope about this game, it's that Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: is definitely a doctor jack Old mister Hyde quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: he pound for pound He might be the most talented
Speaker 1: quarterback in the entire NFL, just in terms of like
Speaker 1: having a rocket arm. He's him and Aaron Rodgers probably
Speaker 1: like rocket arm, good mobility. He just he can do
Speaker 1: what ever he wants. But you know, much like Brett Farve,
Speaker 1: he's got that insane confidence that leads him to doing
Speaker 1: things that can be incredibly stupid. He threw four picks
Speaker 1: in that game of the Jets. He threw so many
Speaker 1: picks and took them so far out of that game
Speaker 1: that they put in his backup just because they were like,
Speaker 1: you can't dig us out of this whole. Thanks, But
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, he goes up and
Speaker 1: you know, he played a fantastic game against New England.
Speaker 1: He's got six touchdowns in three games. This is the
Speaker 1: eighth best passing offense in the league. And I mean,
Speaker 1: anybody listening to this show has seen Matt Stafford play football,
Speaker 1: because you've seen the Cowboys play the Lions recently. But
Speaker 1: you really should go watch this guy because, like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's stuff that we're criticizing Dac for, Like he can
Speaker 1: do all that stuff, Like he's got the anticipation throws,
Speaker 1: he can put it on a guy's shoulder. He can
Speaker 1: put it where only the receiver can get it. He
Speaker 1: will rifle it right through triple coverage, which when it works,
Speaker 1: it's incredible, but it also blows up in his face
Speaker 1: a decent amount. So this team typically, and like for
Speaker 1: the last five or six years, like they're as good
Speaker 1: as he plays, because if he plays great, they're hard
Speaker 1: to beat, and if he implodes, they suck. But one
Speaker 1: thing to watch is that this looks like the best
Speaker 1: Detroit running game that they've had in a long time,
Speaker 1: like the Lions have been like the Romo era Cowboys forever,
Speaker 1: Like throw it fifty times, you're not going to run
Speaker 1: for more than fifty yards, so Stafford better beyond. But
Speaker 1: they are running for ninety nine yards a game, which
Speaker 1: is sixteenth best in the league. Which it's not great,
Speaker 1: especially when you cover the Cowboys. You're used to top
Speaker 1: five rushing offense. But it's pretty good when your quarterbacks
Speaker 1: throwing for three four hundred yards a game. So it's
Speaker 1: a split backfield. Garrett Blunt, carry On Johnson and Theo Reddick.
Speaker 1: But Carrie On Johnson second round pick at Auburn, Hell,
Speaker 1: he was a hell of a player in the SEC
Speaker 1: last year, and he's going to be their feature back
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. If I had to guess,
Speaker 1: like maybe Blunt is their goal line guy. But well,
Speaker 1: this kids us last week when you were like, I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't run the ball to Carson More, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's not getting the carreas I kind of
Speaker 1: hope they don't. And then he gets thirty two and
Speaker 1: I mean thirty two carries, he should get a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: but he did and he was pretty effective. Which no, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks didn't run the ball that well, but I
Speaker 1: think I think they just knew the Cowboys couldn't move it,
Speaker 1: and so they were just going to pound on the
Speaker 1: defense all day. Remember they when they had a mirror Abdullah,
Speaker 1: Remember when he was like a good, good player for them. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still there, but he didn't pan out to be
Speaker 1: what they wanted him to be, which but that's what
Speaker 1: makes carry On Johnson so interesting. So yeah, and they're
Speaker 1: so versatile. Honestly, when I watched them play, this is
Speaker 1: what an NFL offense is supposed to look like in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Honestly, Um, obviously you got to have the
Speaker 1: quarterback to do it. But they're they're eleven personnel all
Speaker 1: the time, like they have Golden Tate, Kenny Galladay and
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones. Like those three guys can all line up everywhere.
Speaker 1: They're all versatile inside, outside, and then they throw to
Speaker 1: their running backs just as much as they run with them.
Speaker 1: I wrote this down somewhere Theo Reddick and Carrie on
Speaker 1: Johnson have combined for twenty seven receptions in three games.
Speaker 1: So you're throwing at your running backs nine times per game. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're just as big of a part of your passing
Speaker 1: off at Elliott and rod Smith have eleven? Is that right?
Speaker 1: And Elliott has eleven? I just threw rod Smith in
Speaker 1: there because t is that right? Elliott? It's almost like
Speaker 1: your running backs can be mismatches always Elliott, rod Smith,
Speaker 1: Jammay's old Wally eleven eleven. I just want to throw
Speaker 1: all the backs in there. What's what's Austin? What are
Speaker 1: we calling him? Receiver? Yeah? If you go sixty four
Speaker 1: yards your receiver, So he's a receiver. And how many
Speaker 1: actual handoffs has he taken to this point? Like, um,
Speaker 1: he's had three for thirty four Yeah, we're just eleven
Speaker 1: point three. Let's let's go ahead and take our first break,
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll keep talking about that,
Speaker 1: and then we'll go into their whole offensive liner. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Back to the break. All right, we're back, and before
Speaker 1: we togard break, we were talking about the Detroit's offense.
Speaker 1: Hold on real quick quick. Oh yeah, do you really
Speaker 1: want to go to that game? If you want to,
Speaker 1: like be in the stadium. You can't. You can't September thirtieth.
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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are doing bad and stuff. Nah, make
Speaker 1: sure and come out because it's an amazing experience just
Speaker 1: to be out there in presence. It's still a big game.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously a big game for both teams. Because
Speaker 1: you get to this point, well two and two after
Speaker 1: four games, that's like, it's not where you want to be,
Speaker 1: but you'll you'll definitely take it now. But one of
Speaker 1: three is certainly not when when what you see on
Speaker 1: the schedule with teams like Jacksonville, Washington, Tennessee at Philly,
Speaker 1: at Atlanta, it's I mean, we're already we're already an
Speaker 1: uncharted territory because Jason Garrett's never been one and two, right,
Speaker 1: But I don't I'm spitballing here, but I think four
Speaker 1: that's four and twelve twenty fifteen is the only time
Speaker 1: he's ever gone two games below five hundred since he's
Speaker 1: been the full time head coach. Right, you know, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do that and get back to eight
Speaker 1: n That's what I'm saying, like, yeah, this, I mean
Speaker 1: during the eight and eight years, being one game below
Speaker 1: five hundred was pretty normal. But I don't know why
Speaker 1: they're gonna win. I mean, that's that's the trend. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm picking them. I'll say it. I'm going to
Speaker 1: pick them to win. And that's the reason why, because
Speaker 1: I think that they will. That's the reason why I'm
Speaker 1: going to pick them to win, because I just because
Speaker 1: of how things usually tend to play out, imply I
Speaker 1: know what you're Yeah, I know. I mean that's why.
Speaker 1: That's why, because I really do. It's a weird, strange
Speaker 1: lady trouble. I'm not weird. I'm not ready to make
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday. How are y'all making that Pickle's Let's keep
Speaker 1: talking about their offense. I'll like what you said yesterday
Speaker 1: about it was it Dak You said I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to to call him a good quarterback or not or
Speaker 1: whatever because I don't have to. I don't. You don't.
Speaker 1: It's smart, I mean, but that's the world we live in.
Speaker 1: Every every play is he's not very good. He doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be playing, he doesn't need a job. Every
Speaker 1: with every play, it's not it's just like this is
Speaker 1: the end of it. I'll tell you that. I really,
Speaker 1: I'm not bssing. I don't know who to pick yet,
Speaker 1: but watching this Detroit offense does not inspire confidence because
Speaker 1: he I mean, and I'm not knocking the Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: They've been really good, but this, this is a difficult
Speaker 1: defense to defend, which you know, that's what we were
Speaker 1: talking about. Offense. They can run the ball. Sorry, thanks,
Speaker 1: difficult offense to defend. They can run the ball, throwing
Speaker 1: of their running backs nine times a game. Stafford averages
Speaker 1: forty five attempts per game. I think that's a little
Speaker 1: bit skewed because they were trying to dig their way
Speaker 1: out in that Jets game, and in the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers game, actually they fell behind by seventeen points. So
Speaker 1: ideally Matt Patricia wants to run the ball. I don't
Speaker 1: know how realistic that is. When Matt Staffords your quarterback,
Speaker 1: let that guy rip. But no, that's the other problem. Really.
Speaker 1: They have allowed three sacks this year. That is best
Speaker 1: in the league now, and he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: passing attempts. Yeah, well, here's a couple couple things. I
Speaker 1: looked this up. They've allowed three sacks. They've gone against
Speaker 1: pass rushes that are currently ranked tenth, seventeenth, and twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: The Patriots are twenty ninth. I think that actually gets
Speaker 1: worse as you get so the forty nine ers or seventeenth.
Speaker 1: The Jets are tenth in the league. Three sacks a
Speaker 1: little bit of two things at work here. The Giants
Speaker 1: chot geez, where am I today? The Lions offensive line
Speaker 1: is pretty good because they've invested in it. Taylor Decker
Speaker 1: is a first round pick at left accle Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Zeke's teammate Frank Ragnow, you're a guy from Arkansas, first
Speaker 1: round pick playing left guard instead of center. Graham Glasgow's
Speaker 1: your center. He's a third round pick. T J. Lange
Speaker 1: is a very good unrestricted free agent. Green Bay cut
Speaker 1: him in a contract dispute. Lions snatched him up right away,
Speaker 1: and they took Ricky Wagner, who's a starter from Baltimore.
Speaker 1: So literally, the whole line is either premium draft picks
Speaker 1: or veterans that they paid good money for. So you
Speaker 1: know I heard that before. Yeah, and it leads to
Speaker 1: a good offensive line. They're playing like it though. That's
Speaker 1: I know, sixteen best rushing game doesn't sound that great,
Speaker 1: but it's way better than the Lions are used to.
Speaker 1: Carry On Johnson's their first one hundred yard rusher on
Speaker 1: Sunday night, first time they've done that in five years.
Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. What carry On Johnson ran
Speaker 1: for one hundred yards against the Patriots. It's the first
Speaker 1: time a Detroit Lion has run for one hundred yards
Speaker 1: since the twenty thirteen season. That cannot be accurate, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent accurate. It was so accurate that Barry Sanders
Speaker 1: tweeted a congratulations to him, like, hey, way to go, man,
Speaker 1: like carry on that, carry on that tradition and get
Speaker 1: it crazy. He used to get one hundred yard half.
Speaker 1: That's well. I mean, honestly, the parallels to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: of Romo's you know, pre the pre Travis Frederick and
Speaker 1: Zach Martin Romo Cowboys, I think they're very similar. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a team couldn't rush for a hundred yards to
Speaker 1: save its life from like twenty ten to twenty two.
Speaker 1: What's weird about that is if any team, you would,
Speaker 1: especially here in Dallas, if the Cowboys did not have
Speaker 1: a hundred yard rushing game, they would go into the
Speaker 1: draft and it would be like the biggest thing that
Speaker 1: they didn't have a hundred rusher, and they would they'd
Speaker 1: get one, and then if they didn't have it for
Speaker 1: two years, it would be like, oh my god, you
Speaker 1: would try to get em it out of retirement or something.
Speaker 1: That's the funny. They've spent the resources, Like I know,
Speaker 1: Abdilla is not like the second round. Yeah, he's not
Speaker 1: like this bruiser back, but they've spent draft picks on
Speaker 1: running backs. They didn't have the offensive line, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know that this is like, you know,
Speaker 1: this insanely good offensive line, but they're talented enough to
Speaker 1: get that done. And then Stafford is a highly confident,
Speaker 1: competent quarterback who gets the ball out quick. And it's
Speaker 1: a hell of a combination. And that was part of
Speaker 1: it over the course of these years that you know,
Speaker 1: Stafford's probably up there high and passing yards too, because
Speaker 1: he's not running the ball a lot. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: choosen to throw. You know, Romo had that two for
Speaker 1: a lot of the years. Romo only had one one
Speaker 1: thousand yard rusher for the first five or those guys
Speaker 1: like to throw. They know where the stats are, then
Speaker 1: they know that's where the money is. But still in
Speaker 1: a game, one hundred yard rusher in a game for
Speaker 1: five years, I want to it was November of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: You do it against Belichick, you do it against the Pats.
Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive. Well, then you don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about for another five years. Well, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I said, la Garrett Blunt is their starter in name.
Speaker 1: I really think Carrie on Johnson's going to have something
Speaker 1: to say about that as the season goes. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 1: other Like I love these receivers, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they'd be as good as they are with a lesser quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see what Golden Tate, Kenny Galladay,
Speaker 1: and Marvin Jones look like here in this passing attack.
Speaker 1: With what we've seen so far, it would probably be better.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if they'd be as good as
Speaker 1: they are because with Matt Stafford, these guys are great.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tate's already on twenty catches. Galladay is underrated
Speaker 1: as hell, He's got nineteen catches already. Jones is there.
Speaker 1: These guys are yak monsters. You know, they'll take a
Speaker 1: ten yard route and gain forty. They're hard to tackle,
Speaker 1: kind of not as talented as O'Dell Beckham, but they
Speaker 1: just remind me of Odell Beckham in that sense that
Speaker 1: they can turn small games into big plays. Catches for Tate,
Speaker 1: Tate has twenty, in Galaday nineteen, and Jones has twelve
Speaker 1: fifty one. If I had to guess, all three of
Speaker 1: them have more than the cow oh no, not Beasley.
Speaker 1: What's Beasley at twelve? So that's fifty one catches for
Speaker 1: your top three wide receivers, right, yep. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: a combined fifty four catches between everybody, everyone and your
Speaker 1: top three receivers twelve and nine. That's twenty one and
Speaker 1: five twenty six. It's your top three receivers right there.
Speaker 1: Which this all of your receivers adds up to twenty
Speaker 1: nine thirty one thirty eight top three receivers or six receivers.
Speaker 1: They're not great, Bob, it's not great. It's not I mean,
Speaker 1: it goes back. I'm okay. I just gave you the catches.
Speaker 1: But look at the targets too. Tate's been targeted thirty
Speaker 1: six times. Jones have been targeted twenty three times. Galladay
Speaker 1: has been targeted twenty eight times. So this team doesn't
Speaker 1: have a number one receiver either. They just have three
Speaker 1: really competent receivers and a quarterback who can get them
Speaker 1: the ball. It's and then on and like I said,
Speaker 1: on top of that, theoretic can carry on. Johnson have
Speaker 1: twenty seven combined receptions in three games. So if you know,
Speaker 1: Stafford checks down a lot too. But actively. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: and that's that's my point. Like I watched this team
Speaker 1: and again I get it. Matt Stafford's the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. He is arguably the most naturally
Speaker 1: gifted quarterback in the whole league. But this is how
Speaker 1: I would want to play offense in today's NFL. It
Speaker 1: is a heavily passing oriented game with a good enough
Speaker 1: rushing attack to make you balance. And you know, and
Speaker 1: Rob talked about this yesterday on one of the shows
Speaker 1: that we did, and you know, I think it's a
Speaker 1: good point. It's it's not so much about how great
Speaker 1: this offense is, but it's like how many points can
Speaker 1: you hold them too? Because if, if, if they're still
Speaker 1: gonna be good enough to get to twenty one points,
Speaker 1: is that enough to win? That's what we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about tomorrow with the Lions defense against this offense. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's maybe not gonna score forty points,
Speaker 1: but half of that could probably win twenty one points.
Speaker 1: Would would beat the Cowboys in any three games this year.
Speaker 1: That's that's interesting. I mean for everything that you don't
Speaker 1: need that, yeah you're at I'm gonna break the mic
Speaker 1: for everything I just said, like this ain't this ain't
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen Broncos. Like they scored twenty six points,
Speaker 1: they had to settle for three field goals against the
Speaker 1: Patriot four and to settle for four field goals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Um, they scored seventeen against the Jets mainly
Speaker 1: because of turnovers. They're averaging right in the twenties. Wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have that written down. They're scoring offense is only
Speaker 1: fourteenth best in the league. It's so they can stall.
Speaker 1: And I think the way to do that. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're just gonna You're not gonna sack Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: five times. If I had to guess, what I would
Speaker 1: do is once this is not what people want to hear,
Speaker 1: but I would just try to clog the throwing lanes
Speaker 1: and play ben but don't break and acknowledge that you're
Speaker 1: probably going to give up some yardage and hope you
Speaker 1: can either get turnovers or stall their offense out when
Speaker 1: the field gets smaller, like get an interception that you
Speaker 1: don't have. I know they don't have one, but this
Speaker 1: is the guy to get you out of that. Right,
Speaker 1: he's got we need a bunch. He's got six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but five picks. Now, granted four of those came in
Speaker 1: Week one, but he threw one against It's been two weeks,
Speaker 1: maybe week four. He's like, Okay, this is the time
Speaker 1: to know a few. He is insanely talented. But we
Speaker 1: don't talk about him as one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league for a reason, and that's because he's
Speaker 1: going to try to give you the ball. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's take our final break and when we come back.
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Speaker 1: talked about this offense line offensive line being pretty good. Now,
Speaker 1: how does this really match up with the Cowboys defensive line. Well, well,
Speaker 1: my main thing is this is gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: week to see how good the linebackers really are without
Speaker 1: Sean Lee, because again, you know, this isn't This isn't
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with Ezekiel Elliott. You know, twenty sixteen Cowboys
Speaker 1: running for two hundred yards a game. But this is
Speaker 1: as formidable as the Lions rushing attack has been in
Speaker 1: recent memory and the linebackers. It's going to be on
Speaker 1: the linebackers to keep that from being a dominant story
Speaker 1: in this game. Because we just talked about the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle depth. I don't want to bet on Malik Collins
Speaker 1: to play this game. Tyrone Crawford is banged up, so
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, Layton vander Esh, Joe Thomas. Those guys gotta
Speaker 1: gotta limit that yards per carry. You gotta keep those
Speaker 1: guys from taking advantage in the passing game as well,
Speaker 1: because from what we've seen, I think the secondary can
Speaker 1: match up with these receivers. Okay, I mean you're gonna
Speaker 1: give up yards, you just are, but I think they
Speaker 1: can keep it from being I mean twenty thirteen comes
Speaker 1: to mind. Yeah, every time the Cowboys play the Lions,
Speaker 1: I think about that Megatron game. I think they can
Speaker 1: keep that from happening. Yeah, are you expecting the pass
Speaker 1: rush to be able to pressure the quarterback? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know the fact that he's only he's not the
Speaker 1: most mobile quarterback in the world. I mean, but he does.
Speaker 1: Those good quarterbacks, even like Peyton Manning, they know how
Speaker 1: to get around in the pocket and not prevent sacks.
Speaker 1: But that's it's not because of their mobility is so
Speaker 1: much as it is that it's a you know, designed
Speaker 1: to get the ball out quick and they've got receivers
Speaker 1: to do it. They've got receivers that will probably make
Speaker 1: the catch and go make some plays. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things Eli Manning has done well
Speaker 1: for so many years, So I think he does a
Speaker 1: good job with that. Getting to the quarterback is going
Speaker 1: to be tough. You're gonna have to get in his face.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. That's why Chris Rashard plays this type
Speaker 1: of defense. Get it, get in their face, make it
Speaker 1: tough to throw early, and then he has to make
Speaker 1: some decisions. And that's where that pass rush needs to
Speaker 1: get home. So I would imagine that they will get
Speaker 1: some sacks. I mean, it'll be their worst game as
Speaker 1: far as the Lions. As far as giving up sacks,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get at least two or three
Speaker 1: maybe now with Sean Lee being out possibly being out.
Speaker 1: Do you expect them to use the linebackers in the
Speaker 1: pass rush as well? Like that's probab, We've been seeing it.
Speaker 1: That's what I was about to say, because I mean,
Speaker 1: no disrespect to the edge rushers, but I don't expect
Speaker 1: them to just get sacks. I mean, three three so
Speaker 1: far this season is not good. And again Stafford's gonna
Speaker 1: get it out quick. Like I don't think you're just
Speaker 1: gonna beat the right tackle and sack Matt Stafford. But
Speaker 1: I say, I do think that Joe Thomas is going
Speaker 1: to play really well. He did a nice job in
Speaker 1: training camp. He really did when when Sean Lee was out.
Speaker 1: He's played in Green Bay for two years, He's faced
Speaker 1: this type of offense, you know, this offense. Actually, I
Speaker 1: think he you know, he's got he plays with a
Speaker 1: good chip on his shoulder. He's very physical. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be a really big game. This will
Speaker 1: be the best game the Cowboys defense has ever played
Speaker 1: without Sean Lee. I mean recent history, and there's been
Speaker 1: so many I don't know if it's the number one,
Speaker 1: but I mean it's been many of them. I did
Speaker 1: not like the idea of blitzing Russell Wilson last week
Speaker 1: a lot, because if it doesn't work, he's gonna kill
Speaker 1: you with his arm or his legs, preferably his legs,
Speaker 1: because if it doesn't get home, then you would imagine
Speaker 1: he's got the whole middle of the field to do
Speaker 1: whatever he wants. Stafford's more mobile than Eli. Anybody is
Speaker 1: more mobile than Eli, but he's not so mobile that
Speaker 1: he's going to get away from Jalen Smith if he's
Speaker 1: coming through. So that's how I would pressure him, and
Speaker 1: even if you don't get home again, that's how you
Speaker 1: force him into making dumb decisions because he's got an
Speaker 1: insane amount of confidence in his arm. Like his picks
Speaker 1: against the Jets are literally like dude on a plant
Speaker 1: was double covered and he just tried to fit it
Speaker 1: in there anyway because he thinks he can like and
Speaker 1: so if you can pressure him, hopefully he can he'll
Speaker 1: make those types of decisions. I definitely don't want to
Speaker 1: give him all day, but I think you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to blitz to do that, um, because again, these games
Speaker 1: bear it out. I don't think with just four down linemen,
Speaker 1: I don't know how how often you're gonna get to him. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: what's here's a question from Twitter. What's the toughest matchup
Speaker 1: between the receiver and corner? That's that's the we like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is again, this is the way the
Speaker 1: Cowboys would want to play. I think, like they don't
Speaker 1: have this. You know, this guy's gonna be on the
Speaker 1: left and he's their X receiver, like they all go everywhere,
Speaker 1: like and they bunch too. The Lions love to use
Speaker 1: them all. You know, they'll bunch all three of them
Speaker 1: on the same side and have Luke Wilson the tight
Speaker 1: end on the other side. Like. So I don't sit
Speaker 1: here and say like, well this is this is a
Speaker 1: big Cheeto game, because it's gonna be Cheeto verse eight.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be answer that because I
Speaker 1: think that there's a significant drop off between your first
Speaker 1: two corners and your third one. I mean, I don't,
Speaker 1: but I would argue that Brown has played well through
Speaker 1: three weeks. I think he's played well, but I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a big drop off between the three receivers
Speaker 1: that the Lions have, So I think that matchup there
Speaker 1: against Anthony Brown, I think he's somebody that you need
Speaker 1: to watch because they have three really talented receivers. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could say that about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going wrong with Jordan Lewis. Not
Speaker 1: sure why the guy can't get on the field and
Speaker 1: play a snap when he's when he's out there there,
Speaker 1: I mean, when you have injury issues at safety and
Speaker 1: he's having to play special teams and Jordan Lewis can't
Speaker 1: go down there and run on special teams. My goal
Speaker 1: for this week is to get an answer to that
Speaker 1: on the record or off the record. But like it is,
Speaker 1: I mean, even even if Anthony Brown's playing out of
Speaker 1: his mind like one snapt off the record answer, let's
Speaker 1: get an on the record answer. I got bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, well, I mentioned if you're
Speaker 1: not gonna talk about it, I think he could. I
Speaker 1: think he needs to be more physical and special teams.
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's part of it. But but
Speaker 1: still you're having issues on special teams. I mean, you'd
Speaker 1: like to think a guy could get on the field
Speaker 1: and play. If he's going to be active, you need
Speaker 1: him to be on the field and do something. I'm
Speaker 1: flabbergasted that a guy who started seven games as a
Speaker 1: rookie and played pretty well is so bad that he
Speaker 1: can't get a handful of snaps. I don't know, well,
Speaker 1: but like I said, Anthony Brown's playing well, so I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the reason. It's certainly not the reason
Speaker 1: why they're losing games, and the defense has been good.
Speaker 1: But it is weird or is he from like from
Speaker 1: like not college? Jordan Lewis, Detroit Man. I knew it
Speaker 1: was probably Michigan, but I didn't know he's I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he's a cast tech guy, which is like the
Speaker 1: big powerhouse up there wants to play this game probably.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you can look at
Speaker 1: this and just think, like, regardless of what Chris Rochard
Speaker 1: said in the offseason that he's the exception of the rule,
Speaker 1: they just don't think he fits what they want to
Speaker 1: do in this scheme. Clear. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what else, what other explanation there is very disappointing, especially
Speaker 1: after what you mentioned. Seeing a guy that played like
Speaker 1: that towards the end of last year, and it's like,
Speaker 1: to me, it's very sad. I like the guy, and
Speaker 1: it's seeing like somewhat of wasted talent. You know, I'd
Speaker 1: say this the cleaning crew that's here throughout the off season,
Speaker 1: they're probably confused because they're like, man, every time we
Speaker 1: come in and clean, we see Lance Lenore and Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 1: like the two guys that probably were here the most.
Speaker 1: That doesn't always mean you're gonna get on the field
Speaker 1: and play, but I'm just saying, but these two guys
Speaker 1: were very, very dedicated all off season, and you would
Speaker 1: you would think that it would be better, you know,
Speaker 1: especially if strength is an issue. You can't predict. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, they fired their DB's coach and brought in
Speaker 1: a new one, and I mean and chris Ter Shard
Speaker 1: has more control over the scheme than anybody in recent memory.
Speaker 1: But so you can't predict that stuff. But it feels
Speaker 1: like a wasted resource at this point, like you spent
Speaker 1: a top one hundred pick on a guy that you
Speaker 1: don't even want to play. Yeah, the one snap he
Speaker 1: got was when Byron Jones was hurt. So very confusing,
Speaker 1: But that story to answer the question, it will be.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be all hands on deck because all
Speaker 1: three of those guys can do a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play this game, Jordan, Yeah, for what, Like
Speaker 1: why it's gonna for what you just said, There's gonna
Speaker 1: be more passing, there's gonna be more more stuff going on,
Speaker 1: and I think that you'll you'll probably need to rotate
Speaker 1: that a little bit more. I hope, so for his sake, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I penciled him as as a starter
Speaker 1: in the spring. And what makes you say that? Though?
Speaker 1: For me, I just think this type of offense that
Speaker 1: they're gonna face that's more wide open, more passing. I
Speaker 1: think that you'll probably need to play more than three
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in this game. Maybe not against the um the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: or definitely not against the Seahawks who ran the ball
Speaker 1: thirty five times a lot of times. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna run it through different times that
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw it forty times. And I think Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis will be just more involved. It's it's fine. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would the Lions are balanced for what they want
Speaker 1: to do, Like it's very not balanced, but if you
Speaker 1: can get ninety eight yards rushing when your quarterback is
Speaker 1: capable of doing what he's capable of. This is a
Speaker 1: very pass heavy attack. And I think, I mean, but
Speaker 1: that's why it's got to be on the linebackers, because
Speaker 1: if you let them have that in the running game,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna stretch you even thinner in the passing game.
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