WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Scouting the Lions Offense 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.680 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.599 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:23.520 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:28.840 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.640 Good morning, guys, welcome to the Break. We're happy to 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:37.400 be here. Nick is very happy. Finally see a smile. Good. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.760 How are you guys doing? I'm awesome. How are you 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.400 That's good? That sounds done right there? Yeah, it's good stuff, smooth, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.000 here you go. Okay, today we're gonna get into the 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:54.000 Detroit Lions offense versus the Cowboys defense. But before we 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.600 get into that end, I'm sorry if you guys talked 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.320 about this yesterday, but I wanted to go run down 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.840 through a few of the injuries that the Cowboys have 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.400 right now and how this may affect the game this weekend. 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.760 Um defensive tackle Dayton Jones, he was moved to her 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:15.400 I r out of here out most likely to go 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.840 under surgery right on his hamstring, I believe. So that's 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.000 that's surgery on a hamstring. That seems bad. I've never 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.839 even heard of a surgery on a hamstring, honestly, Nier 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.600 of I which I mean, you hear people like Nicks 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.960 as this all the time. He's like, is it off 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.280 the bone? Well, Dayton Jones is probably off the bone. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.080 I didn't remember the play where he was running fifty 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.120 yards down the field. I mean usually usually hamstring it's 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.600 something where you're running, you know. Yeah, No, I don't 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.919 see a lineman with a lot of hamstring injury, especially 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:52.200 severe hamstring injuries like that. Never never allow yourself to 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.320 forget how brutal this game is. It's yeah, anyway, so 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.600 he's on I Karen Read. They signed Koran Read and 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.560 another guy dealing with hamstring problems, obviously Sean Lee. Yes, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.360 and it seems like this might be possibly a few 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.080 weeks that he's out. I would call it a virtual 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.480 guarantee that he doesn't play against the Lions. And you 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:19.120 know see after that, by ye think the trainers and 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.720 we know this through you know, emails and stuff like 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.080 that over the years. One thing they hate is to 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:26.880 bring a guy back and then have to take him 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.880 back again, like he gets hurt. They don't want to 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.079 bring a guy back to early or in this case, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:32.840 I'm not saying that they did, but you know, you 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.400 have a hamstring injury, you come back, you have you 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:40.720 reinjure it, then it's like cheeto, I believe last year 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.000 where it's like, Okay, now we're gonna there's no rushing 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.120 anything back. You're just gonna be back when you're ready. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.799 And that's pretty much how it works in a situation 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.720 like that. And Sean dealt with this whole thing last 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.520 year where it was a couple of different times pretty 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.960 unfortunate because that we're trying to take care of him 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:00.320 and you know, protect him during training camp and once 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.360 we got back here the preseason. But do you guys 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.440 think that maybe just kind of overprotecting him in that 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.760 way could have affected him. No, it's just what it is. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.320 It's that's classic hindsight twenty twenty. And I mean, I'm 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.280 the guy that always says, keep those guys on the 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.720 shelf if they need it. And well, I mean, if 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.440 if you're going to hurt your hamstring, at least it 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.080 happened in a real game. I mean we could be 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.480 talking about he tores hamstring in a training camp practice 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.240 and that would be even worse as I mean, this 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.120 is the this is the fifth or sixth separate time 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.880 that Sean Lee has had a hamstring problem, and I 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.280 guarantee you they've approached it all kinds of different ways, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.440 and it's I mean, it's unfortunate. It's just a thing 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.640 that that he has to deal with. This twenty thirteen, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:50.480 for sure, he had hamstring. I think he's done figure 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.600 out all his injuries. I mean, it's it's at least 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.720 three separate seasons now where a hamstring has been a 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.920 problem for him. Like I said, I mean, I don't know, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.360 it sucks like it. Yeah, it almost feels like maybe 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.640 it's just genetic that you just can't quite get over 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.520 that type of stuff. I don't know, but I do 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.160 wonder just how great he would have been. And then 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.720 the whole grand scope of the whole franchise when it 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.000 comes to linebackers. You know, let's just say he never 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.560 missed the game, but he played the way he played 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:23.640 even missed a little bit. Maybe maybe the best linebacker 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.279 in the history of the team. And you've got Leroy 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.960 Jordan and you've got Chuck Howley. But he could have 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.880 been that good. He really could have been, and he 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.719 is still up there pretty good. How many How many 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.599 games has he missed over the course of his career, 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.279 like forty if I had to guess, I mean he 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.720 missed one entire season. Yeah, and that's probably right, So 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.479 we'll just say forty. And I mean, the dude averages 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.800 ten tackles a game. That's not even an exaggeration. So 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.159 another four hundred tackles on top of whatever he's already 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.320 sitting on. Throw in another probably two or three dozen 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.320 tackles for loss. I mean, yeah, it's he'd be unreal. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.840 He probably would be the best linebacker in team history statistically, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:06.600 I mean, he's got um there are seven seven games 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.680 in the history of the franchise that a player has 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.600 had twenty tackles or more, and he's had five of them. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.120 He was on pace for that in Seattle Hole. Yeah 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.640 in the first half. Yeah, he had eight after a quarter. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.320 I think I started getting pretty sad when I heard, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.120 you know that he might be out a couple of weeks, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.440 because I started thinking, Okay, what if he's coming to 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.440 an end here? And I don't want to know anyone's 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.919 career any but just going back to how this team 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.480 is being Tyro last year, yeah, and Romo before that, 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.359 which sure she was right one, but just thinking of 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.839 how this team is being reconstructed, and you know how 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.000 the older guys are kind of walking out slowly one 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.440 after the other and then pushing back into the youth. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.279 And now that the Cowboys have a linebacker group that 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.599 is looking pretty good and pretty healthy, of course, it 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.200 just just made me sad at about there's no doubt 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.880 about it, and you know, we're still gonna have to 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.080 find out how this team does without him. You know, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.920 we think, well, but Joe Thomas is better and late 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.839 vander rash and Jalen's at a higher level, and Damian 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.640 Wilson's playing well that they can they can handle this now, 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.600 But let's be honest, and there's other factors involved there. 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.520 But Sean Lee got hurt in the second half, fourth quarter, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.320 I guess of the Giants game with the hamstring injury, 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.919 and that's actually when the Giants came back, scored like 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.719 ten ten points that were moving down the field. It 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.400 would have been nice to have him out there. It 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.479 was a prevent defense, but I think he could have 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.039 helped a lot more than what he was with a 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.080 ball cap on. So this is, uh, this is we'll 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.919 get into that. But this is as good of a 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.880 Detroit rushing attack as they've had in a while with 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.320 Kerry On Johnson coming on. So I think, yeah, I 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.040 think they're better equipped to live without him, But you 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.080 gotta prove it. We'll see you gotta prove it. Then 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.240 we have MALIEK. Collins with a knee injury. He's expected 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.280 to be limited in practice, and then Jeff Heath ankle 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:02.200 and Tyron Crawford elbow. They are supposed to be okay 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.480 and but but still those are little injuries that popped up. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.719 And we have been talking about this defense being so 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.200 good and kind of elevating their game, and now we 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.000 come off this past game and they're a little banked 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.240 up in a different different positions. You know, I love 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.440 Tyrone Crawford, I really do. I got a chance to 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.920 get to know a little bit more about him this 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.600 year and helped with one of the deep blues up 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:28.640 in Canada. I really like him and where he came 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.560 from stories awesome. Yeah, but when he gets hurt, doesn't 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.080 it seemed like like it's over, Like the whole season 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.320 is like it's over. Like he has a way. I disagree, No, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.920 because what do you mean you disagree? Into the game 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.840 when he's on the ground, It's like, I just is 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.480 it for the season? Like I maybe it heard that bad? 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.280 Maybe how many games as this guy missed? No, you're 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.440 missing the point of what I'm saying. When you say 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.480 this is over that it looks a little goes down. 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.200 What are you saying? Yes, Okay, training camp two years ago. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.560 Now he got hurt, you know, he hurt his ankle, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.360 was saying, saying the old Jason Garrett Lazarus joke, like 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.800 you know, you thought he was dead and then he's 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.040 up there like five minutes later. Yeah, okay, that's all insane. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.600 I kind of fools me a little bit. I'm like, oh, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.880 God is elbow? I mean, what it's hanging out over here? 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.560 But you know comes back. The only reason I would 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.160 disagree with that, The only reason I would disagree with 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:29.440 that is because I know the type of stuff that 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.280 he's played through in the recent past, Like he had 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.800 a messed up shoulder for all of twenty sixteen. I think, yeah, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.520 the toughest player on the team, he's toughest. Hell, But 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.040 but when when that happens, and I still like, oh 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.800 my god, this is it? You know. Yeah, no, that's 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.680 fair because it has been once. I mean, yeah, he 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.600 tour his achilles and it looked what it was. I 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.600 think it was twenty seventeen when it looked like he'd 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.440 done something like that again at camp. I mean he 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.320 got carted off and everything, and he missed. He was fine, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.240 and he missed the whole preseason and yeah, he opened 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.960 fine is an exaggeration. Missing games. So so right now, 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.760 looking at the Cowboys defense and based on this, all 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.520 these little injuries that popped up here and there, what 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.480 would be the most troubling part right now at this 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.480 moment headline backer, which is just because has been the 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.480 heart and soul the defense and they haven't proven that 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.480 they could win with Adam. We'll see if they're better 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.280 equipped there. Um, did you say in Tyrone Crawford? I mean, 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.240 and now you're talking about some tackle issues inside, he's 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.760 banged up, Dayton Jones is gone, and you've got Karen 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.719 read Sorry, I was going to jump in whosition. Well, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.800 Malie Colin, I mean, you're you're trying to figure that out. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.959 Yet one more week before Irving comes back I'm not 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.680 one hundred percent sure, David Irving some you're ready to play, No, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:45.280 I would think they've held and Tyrone Crawford's gonna play. Yeah, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.800 So I'm not I'm not sweating it yet. What about 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.480 the safety position. So you got Jeff Heath that he's 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.760 looking okay, but he did suffer a little ankle injury. 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.800 And then you got a Cavon who has been struggling 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.440 with a shoulder injury and has been on the report 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:04.280 every since that injury happened. I'm not trying to be cynical, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.600 but welcome to the NFL. Like, that's these are just things. 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.120 I mean again, Tyron Crawford like played a whole season 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.080 with his shoulder basically out of his socket. Like DeMarcus 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.319 Lawrence gets tons of credit from this coaching staff for 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.480 doing the same thing. He had a bum. I think 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.480 it was his shoulder too, wasn't it, Oh, DeMarcus two 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.280 or three years ago. That's just that's you know the game. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.839 The thing about it is is that, yeah, it's the 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.679 name of the game, and you you have an ankle 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.280 injury and you get retaped, but you know it's to 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.640 your touchdowns happen. Yeah, when you're gone. So Jeff, you know, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.920 let's let's keep a lot of safeties at one spot 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.160 that we have been talking about forever. So Jeff, actually, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.920 I mean he came back into that game after I 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.480 don't remember ever hearing about a guy needing X rays 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.840 and coming back into that game like that. Doesn't seem 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.240 like it happens often. Yeah, it's true. So I think 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.400 he's gonna play. I would expect that, you know, it's 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.240 you can always tell just by what they're doing with 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.800 with roster moves and things like that, which David bring 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.440 to Abbe Robinson bag. He's not on the practice squad. 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.600 I don't. I don't remember that. I don't either. Should Yeah, 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.320 maybe we should know that right here. Maybe we should 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.559 have a roster that just came out so I should 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.559 be able to know. Well, they have Ibraheim Campbell, he's 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.839 still here, and Irie Robinson practice squad. That's what I thought, Okay, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.360 and they just signed ad. They signed a DT to 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.199 the practice squad two, which, to your point, Christian Ringo 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.440 going so that at least lets you know that they're 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.080 a little concerned about their tackle depth because if Malik 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.280 can't go this week, it's a little early to say 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.840 if he will or not. But if he can't go 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:42.200 this week, you're probably talking Daniel Ross, Antoine Woods, and 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:44.280 um White Crawford and then they brought in Koran Read. Yeah, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.640 so something to watch. All right, Well, let's jump into 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:53.480 the Detroit Lyon's offense, and let's start off with the quarterback. Now, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:12:00.439 Detroit did be the Patriots this past weekend. Toy six 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.280 to ten. That's right. I'm pretty sure that's right. Interest 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:09.240 everybody knew that was happening, right, very surprised you seeing 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.320 the plane. Everybody was looking at you see a score like, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:16.040 that's not right. And it's funny how the NFL changes 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.280 so much week to week. Like we're sitting here. It 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.560 might have been off the air. But Derek's just like, well, 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.240 Detroit's a w just choking it up. They're terrible and 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.360 they go beat you know, the most successful team in 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.760 the last twenty years, maybe the most successful team over 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.920 any stretch in football history, beat him badly, and all 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.760 of a sudden you're like, oh, this might not be 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.359 as easy as we thought. Well, and even in their 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.800 first two games, even though they lost, I mean, they 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.400 were still scoring points. They lost to the forty nine 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.479 ers twenty seven thirty, but then to the Jets seventeen 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.640 forty eight, which, as you Americans would say, that he 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.120 got they got man handled. Yeah, that's the man handle. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:56.800 They also yeah, well they also no, it's okay say it. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.559 Well that may also put the winning score first. That's 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.240 what they eight seventeen and thirty twenty seven. But I'm 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.440 just saying, do you get the point you Okay, you 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.600 can figure out which number is low? Is that a 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.560 soccer thing? Did they do that in soccer though? Two? Three? Yeah? 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.920 And so it just yeah, yes, okay, it's all good. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.120 Let's have culture in me. Okay, that's just a pet 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.480 peeve of mine. And that's one thing I don't know why. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.439 That's just I hate that. Okay, forty seventeen there we go, Okay, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.200 thank you, all right? And that was bad that Matt 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.720 Stafford and that game is bad for him. Yeah yeah, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.640 So let's go into Matt well, yeah, I mean, where 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.200 else would you start? Which if there's one thing that 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.119 gives me hope about this game, it's that Matt Stafford 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:45.440 is definitely a doctor jack Old mister Hyde quarterback. You know, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.199 he pound for pound He might be the most talented 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.720 quarterback in the entire NFL, just in terms of like 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.800 having a rocket arm. He's him and Aaron Rodgers probably 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.520 like rocket arm, good mobility. He just he can do 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.679 what ever he wants. But you know, much like Brett Farve, 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.040 he's got that insane confidence that leads him to doing 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.839 things that can be incredibly stupid. He threw four picks 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.760 in that game of the Jets. He threw so many 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.560 picks and took them so far out of that game 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.000 that they put in his backup just because they were like, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.920 you can't dig us out of this whole. Thanks, But 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.360 at the same time, you know, he goes up and 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.680 you know, he played a fantastic game against New England. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.800 He's got six touchdowns in three games. This is the 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.440 eighth best passing offense in the league. And I mean, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:33.600 anybody listening to this show has seen Matt Stafford play football, 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.880 because you've seen the Cowboys play the Lions recently. But 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.800 you really should go watch this guy because, like, you know, 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.920 that's stuff that we're criticizing Dac for, Like he can 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.360 do all that stuff, Like he's got the anticipation throws, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.880 he can put it on a guy's shoulder. He can 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.080 put it where only the receiver can get it. He 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.320 will rifle it right through triple coverage, which when it works, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.080 it's incredible, but it also blows up in his face 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:03.160 a decent amount. So this team typically, and like for 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.040 the last five or six years, like they're as good 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.160 as he plays, because if he plays great, they're hard 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:11.960 to beat, and if he implodes, they suck. But one 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.080 thing to watch is that this looks like the best 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.920 Detroit running game that they've had in a long time, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:22.360 like the Lions have been like the Romo era Cowboys forever, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.800 Like throw it fifty times, you're not going to run 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.840 for more than fifty yards, so Stafford better beyond. But 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.440 they are running for ninety nine yards a game, which 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.440 is sixteenth best in the league. Which it's not great, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.040 especially when you cover the Cowboys. You're used to top 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.920 five rushing offense. But it's pretty good when your quarterbacks 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.200 throwing for three four hundred yards a game. So it's 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.120 a split backfield. Garrett Blunt, carry On Johnson and Theo Reddick. 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:50.160 But Carrie On Johnson second round pick at Auburn, Hell, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:51.760 he was a hell of a player in the SEC 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.440 last year, and he's going to be their feature back 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:55.840 by the end of the year. If I had to guess, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.720 like maybe Blunt is their goal line guy. But well, 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.120 this kids us last week when you were like, I 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.080 don't know why they don't run the ball to Carson More, Yeah, 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.000 I mean he's not getting the carreas I kind of 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.920 hope they don't. And then he gets thirty two and 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.040 I mean thirty two carries, he should get a hundred yards, 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.080 but he did and he was pretty effective. Which no, like, yeah, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.240 the Seahawks didn't run the ball that well, but I 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.680 think I think they just knew the Cowboys couldn't move it, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.120 and so they were just going to pound on the 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.720 defense all day. Remember they when they had a mirror Abdullah, 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.280 Remember when he was like a good, good player for them. Yeah, well, yeah, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.680 he's still there, but he didn't pan out to be 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.560 what they wanted him to be, which but that's what 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:39.000 makes carry On Johnson so interesting. So yeah, and they're 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.480 so versatile. Honestly, when I watched them play, this is 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.800 what an NFL offense is supposed to look like in 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:48.720 twenty eighteen. Honestly, Um, obviously you got to have the 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.040 quarterback to do it. But they're they're eleven personnel all 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.760 the time, like they have Golden Tate, Kenny Galladay and 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:59.040 Marvin Jones. Like those three guys can all line up everywhere. 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.520 They're all versatile inside, outside, and then they throw to 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.800 their running backs just as much as they run with them. 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.159 I wrote this down somewhere Theo Reddick and Carrie on 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.560 Johnson have combined for twenty seven receptions in three games. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.080 So you're throwing at your running backs nine times per game. Uh, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.879 they're just as big of a part of your passing 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.000 off at Elliott and rod Smith have eleven? Is that right? 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.480 And Elliott has eleven? I just threw rod Smith in 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:30.560 there because t is that right? Elliott? It's almost like 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:35.440 your running backs can be mismatches always Elliott, rod Smith, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.320 Jammay's old Wally eleven eleven. I just want to throw 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.000 all the backs in there. What's what's Austin? What are 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.439 we calling him? Receiver? Yeah? If you go sixty four 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.120 yards your receiver, So he's a receiver. And how many 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.959 actual handoffs has he taken to this point? Like, um, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.399 he's had three for thirty four Yeah, we're just eleven 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:56.399 point three. Let's let's go ahead and take our first break, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:58.280 and when we come back, we'll keep talking about that, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.360 and then we'll go into their whole offensive liner. Yeah, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:06.359 let's do that. Do that. If you're like me and 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:10.240 you love I mean, if you have a thing, then 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.080 cutting the chord is scary. 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