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Speaker 2: Hello? I'm Kyle.
Speaker 6: Yes, you know what I saw our buddies at Black
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Speaker 6: There was a Black Rifle.
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Speaker 6: They were there, and I stopped by our friends at
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Speaker 6: and my son got some stickers.
Speaker 2: To add to his water bottles. And it was good
Speaker 2: to see our folks. Man.
Speaker 3: They got good stickers. They got a good coffee, really
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Speaker 3: It's just the most American looking coffee. You see.
Speaker 6: I felt some type of way. Yeah, we haven't had
Speaker 6: any rt ds in a while. Yeah, yeah, just saying
Speaker 6: I saw. I was talking to them about it, but
Speaker 6: like they were like from out of town. They weren't
Speaker 6: like the local.
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Speaker 6: Is it still in there, the RTD in there.
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Speaker 2: Some Black Rifle. We've got it right here.
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Speaker 4: Week one is in the books in the NFL, lots
Speaker 4: to talk about around the league, goodness so much. We're
Speaker 4: gonna get into what we saw out of the NFC
Speaker 4: and what we saw out of the AFC here in
Speaker 4: a little bit. I want to start with the Cowboys though,
Speaker 4: as we went into the weekend. Of course, the Cowboys
Speaker 4: fall in Week one, twenty four to twenty the final
Speaker 4: score against the Philadelphia Eagles. But I think as we've
Speaker 4: gone on and as we've kind of looked at things, Isaiah,
Speaker 4: the more you watch the film, the more you see
Speaker 4: positives to take out of a loss. And I'm not
Speaker 4: trying to be mister positivity here. It's a loss, you're
Speaker 4: oh to one, don't you bring that moral? That's what
Speaker 4: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: It's not.
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to do any of that. But there
Speaker 4: are positives from this game. We talked about it briefly
Speaker 4: on Friday, having a hodgepodge of topics, But as you
Speaker 4: rewatch the film and go back through it, what's kind
Speaker 4: of the number one thing that stands out to you?
Speaker 2: Ha?
Speaker 7: Do you know?
Speaker 6: I watched more film this morning.
Speaker 2: Because I know you. I know what your routine is. Early.
Speaker 3: We've done another jobs that requires you to know a
Speaker 3: little bit more about the rest of the league.
Speaker 2: That's very true.
Speaker 6: No, I can hear about an hour before the show,
Speaker 6: and I watched film are there are a lot of positives.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of positives.
Speaker 6: One of the things that I feel good about is
Speaker 6: Dallas's ability to generate pressure. No, it was a big
Speaker 6: concern scheme pressure, scheme pressure in the first half. It
Speaker 6: was not scheme pressures in the first half. It was
Speaker 6: more or let's keep let's try to keep Jalen Hurts
Speaker 6: bottled up, and we would rather die on the sword
Speaker 6: of Jalen Hurts running around versus being killed by a
Speaker 6: J Brown, Davonte Smith and Sikue bar Cliar, right, so
Speaker 6: that you to pick your poison. I said it on
Speaker 6: one of our other shows. It's like, if you had
Speaker 6: the three portions of the game as a defensive unit,
Speaker 6: you got to stop the two receivers all right, and
Speaker 6: got her. Then you had to stop Saquon Barkley, and
Speaker 6: then you gotta stop Jalen Hurts. If you can only
Speaker 6: pick two of those, which is you can't cover all three.
Speaker 2: You can't.
Speaker 6: You cannot just it's not physically possible. So you have
Speaker 6: to pick two of them.
Speaker 2: Try and limit the three.
Speaker 6: So you limited sequon Barkie substantially, you limit it, limited
Speaker 6: the receiving core substantially. Jalen hurts, hurts you on some
Speaker 6: on some pass, on some on some broken play.
Speaker 3: If you're talking, pick your poison. It's between cyanide and
Speaker 3: killer mustard gas. For sure, it's all bad, it's all deadly.
Speaker 2: But in the second half.
Speaker 4: Here I am trying to be mister positivity and then
Speaker 4: Josh is bringing.
Speaker 3: Out well, I mean, I could be positive. A win,
Speaker 3: a loss is a win in a way.
Speaker 6: But as you watched the film in the second half,
Speaker 6: I was encouraged because you saw eber Flu's make adjustments,
Speaker 6: and the adjustments that were made were a ton of
Speaker 6: stunts on the defensive line.
Speaker 2: They and stunts.
Speaker 6: Good lord, they ran tt stunts, they ran te stunts,
Speaker 6: they ran all kinds of different forms of pressures with
Speaker 6: the four guys up front. In addition to bringing Don
Speaker 6: Bland Trayvon Diggs on numerous occasions, there was I think there's.
Speaker 2: Two plays where Deron Bland was a blitzer.
Speaker 6: One time he missed, Drehalen Hurts got out and another
Speaker 6: time he got upfield. Really caused havoc in terms of
Speaker 6: the blocking scheme and what they did up front. They
Speaker 6: actually ran a te stunt or ET stunt at the
Speaker 6: same time as bringing to Ron Bland. It really threw
Speaker 6: off the protection of the offensive line and we ended
Speaker 6: up getting a sack because of it.
Speaker 3: For the layman, what is an ET that's so?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: So tackles and ends when they start swapping out positions, right,
Speaker 6: So instead of just rushing, if you're a defensive end,
Speaker 6: instead of just rushing upfield to your tackle, you go
Speaker 6: upfield for a half a step or two, You get
Speaker 6: that tackle to commit to you, and then you go
Speaker 6: around to the guard. The tackle does the same thing.
Speaker 6: He engages the guard and then he goes and takes
Speaker 6: the tackle. What you're trying to do is you're trying
Speaker 6: to get one guy on the defensive line to consume
Speaker 6: two guys in a blocking scheme, right, so that you
Speaker 6: can free up one of your guys. So, whether you're
Speaker 6: freeing up your tackle or whether you're freeing up your
Speaker 6: defensive end, that's what you're trying to do. So there's
Speaker 6: different variations of that. There's times where the tackle will
Speaker 6: go up and then loop around. There's times where the
Speaker 6: d N will go up and loop around. Either way,
Speaker 6: that's what the TV or the ET stands for.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, what does that look like
Speaker 3: in a defense where you don't have a Kenny Clark
Speaker 3: and you're relying on a Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 6: Let's say, I don't think Mazzi has the mobility to
Speaker 6: do it, but I think with the guys that they
Speaker 6: were rotating through on a defensive front the other day,
Speaker 6: you did, right, you add.
Speaker 3: I just want to give the listeners sort of an
Speaker 3: idea of what he's bringing now that you ordinarily wouldn't
Speaker 3: be seeing at this point, even if your defensive ends
Speaker 3: were a little better for sure.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, Eberflus, let's talk about Eberflus. Eberflus clearly
Speaker 6: has a great understanding of what the responsibilities of the
Speaker 6: offensive line are and his ability to run those types
Speaker 6: of stunts, understanding where most likely these guys are going
Speaker 6: to be trying to block you right and then being
Speaker 6: able to find the free runner to go get the quarterback.
Speaker 6: Now the guys have to make the plays once they
Speaker 6: get there, and that's where we that's where Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 6: failed this past weekend. But seeing him dial those things
Speaker 6: up was awesome. That was very encouraging to me. There
Speaker 6: were some things offensively that were not necessarily the most
Speaker 6: encouraging in terms of some of the route running, the
Speaker 6: efforts that were exerted in that some of the.
Speaker 2: Ball back with your chest, what are you what are
Speaker 2: you talking about? Not going to go crazy this week?
Speaker 6: It's not Friday, But there there, there are, there are
Speaker 6: individuals that need to exert more effort so that they
Speaker 6: could be a more dependable resource for Dak Because as
Speaker 6: a quarterback, if there are times where you want to
Speaker 6: get the ball to one of your receivers and you
Speaker 6: don't feel that there is a sense of urgency or
Speaker 6: a sense of effort, I'm probably not going back that direction.
Speaker 6: So if people have questions as to why certain people
Speaker 6: weren't getting the ball, that might be playing a part
Speaker 6: into it. That's not to say that they're not able
Speaker 6: to get open, but you need to see that level
Speaker 6: of consistency in effort every single time guys run route
Speaker 6: so that you can feel confident as a quarterback that
Speaker 6: when I make my read and I turn my head
Speaker 6: to you and that split second I know that you're
Speaker 6: going to be there.
Speaker 3: Well, we talked about it a little bit last week,
Speaker 3: and I guess it kind of resurfaced over the weekend.
Speaker 3: You know, people are looking at all twenty two now
Speaker 3: George Pickens in terms of run blocking, and there were
Speaker 3: a lot of plays where there was just not a
Speaker 3: lot going on when he wasn't involved in the play.
Speaker 3: He really wasn't doing much. Does that concern you guys
Speaker 3: at all?
Speaker 6: I think that you have to understand the personalities that
Speaker 6: you have. And I don't know him any It's.
Speaker 3: One thing if it's George Pickens, and it's another thing
Speaker 3: when it's a guy like a Jalen Tolbert, who, yeah,
Speaker 3: so like relying on to be a good run block.
Speaker 6: So I mean call a spade a space. So Jalen Tolbert,
Speaker 6: let's talk about run blocking ceed Lamb. Please let's start
Speaker 6: at the top. So for Ceedee Lamb made some efforts
Speaker 6: in the blocking game, and in the run blocking he
Speaker 6: did make some efforts. Now, Ceedee Lamb's not the most
Speaker 6: physical blocker in a row, okay, so understanding what his
Speaker 6: capabilities are frame too exactly right, Like like when I
Speaker 6: played receiver in the league, Like I wasn't the biggest
Speaker 6: reception receiver, but one thing I did do was I
Speaker 6: blocked right. So there are certain situations that I was
Speaker 6: placed in in responsibilities I had as a blocking receiver
Speaker 6: that other guys wouldn't have. They're not putting Randy Moss
Speaker 6: in there to go block certain guys, right, So understand
Speaker 6: what your what your person what your personnel is Ceedee.
Speaker 6: Lamb did, however, make some relatively good efforts in a
Speaker 6: blocking game, so that was encouraging. Uh jaln Tobert's not
Speaker 6: a blocker. He's a big frame, but he's not a blocker.
Speaker 6: He doesn't want to really get in there. And you
Speaker 6: could tell right, It's just that his intent when he
Speaker 6: goes in there is not to demolish anybody. It's like,
Speaker 6: I want to catch you more than anything. Yeah, George
Speaker 6: Pickens didn't want anything to do with it. I felt
Speaker 6: the sense that he was kind of getting frustrated. And
Speaker 6: Kyle can kind of attest to this during the game.
Speaker 6: I said, you have to get the ball to him. Yeah,
Speaker 6: you wanted him to be fed pretty early on.
Speaker 4: You wanted him engaged him to be engaged in that
Speaker 4: first quarter, second quarter and then build from there. Doesn't
Speaker 4: have to be the big it doesn't have to be
Speaker 4: scheme it up to get him there.
Speaker 3: You just got to get him in the ball consistent
Speaker 3: with the ball.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like what they used to do with
Speaker 4: Ceedee Lamb early in his career. Get him the football,
Speaker 4: just get him in space a little bit.
Speaker 6: You want to have the they didn't do. You want
Speaker 6: to have the threat of both of those guys. And
Speaker 6: there was a I mean early on he got the
Speaker 6: ball right, he got the ball early on. I think
Speaker 6: he had three catches for thirty. He had probably four
Speaker 6: targets on the day. One was the big p I call.
Speaker 6: So he was a big reason why Dallas was able
Speaker 6: to get down there on that drive. But there were
Speaker 6: times where I felt like could have looked his way.
Speaker 6: But again, understanding the quarterback's mindset, I think there are
Speaker 6: some other factors that might have been at play in
Speaker 6: terms of why Dak may have looked Ceed's way on
Speaker 6: certain down and distances versus George Pickens way. What factors
Speaker 6: the effort, effort, just straight effort. So I think that
Speaker 6: again that's me just watching the film. I don't know,
Speaker 6: I haven't talked to these guys, but I would assume
Speaker 6: that probably plays a small part of it, and I'm
Speaker 6: sure that that will be addressed collectively as a quarterback
Speaker 6: and receiver room.
Speaker 4: I'm going forward Pickens just according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 4: and since it is the first time I'm mentioning PFF
Speaker 4: this year, Remember this is just for context. Don't use
Speaker 4: PFF as the bible when it comes to grading players.
Speaker 4: The all end all, Kyle, it's not the highest pass
Speaker 4: blocking or excuse me, highest run blocking grade for a
Speaker 4: wide receiver against the Eagles was Jalen Tolbert at sixty one.
Speaker 4: He got a sixty one, and everybody else below that.
Speaker 4: Pickens was at a sixty. Even his overall grade was
Speaker 4: a fifty eight, which is not super high. Highest offensive
Speaker 4: grade for the Cowboys in Week one was Dak Prescott.
Speaker 2: He had a ninety.
Speaker 4: Those are actually the two highest players was Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: and Jalen Hurts. Both of those guys were the highest
Speaker 4: graded players according to PFF in that matchup.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we've heard through training camp, through OTAs in
Speaker 6: training camp that they want to be a running team.
Speaker 6: We've also heard from the receiver group individually that they
Speaker 6: want to be physical in their run blocking and I
Speaker 6: didn't see it. I didn't see it. And the reason
Speaker 6: why that's important. And people are like, oh, well, there's
Speaker 6: was to be receivers. They supposed to catch the ball.
Speaker 2: That's facts. That's that's that is their primary role.
Speaker 6: However, the reason why you only saw one splash run
Speaker 6: is because there wasn't enough blocking happening at the second level. Right,
Speaker 6: So if you want big plays from your running back room,
Speaker 6: the linemen are only responsible for those front seven guys.
Speaker 6: Now your lineman, you're tight end, and your fullback at
Speaker 6: times that those guys are responsible for what we call
Speaker 6: the box. Those are the six to seven guys most
Speaker 6: of the time that are in that box right playing
Speaker 6: five yards or closer to the line of scrimmage. Beyond that,
Speaker 6: the corners in the safeties. That is the responsibility of
Speaker 6: the receivers. And if you want the big splash plays
Speaker 6: like you had with Miles Sanders, you have to dig
Speaker 6: out at what we call receiver, dig out those those safeties.
Speaker 6: You have to go in there and be willing to
Speaker 6: go crack on those safeties and then you leave the
Speaker 6: cornerback for the receiver, for the running backs, right. A
Speaker 6: lot of times, like a running back is perfectly fine saying, hey,
Speaker 6: you leave the cornerback for me. I'll handle him right
Speaker 6: like I'll run him over, I'll make him miss whatever
Speaker 6: it might be. But you don't want to allow safety.
Speaker 6: Safeties are kind of paid to go hit and make tackles. Right,
Speaker 6: that's not the guy that you want responsible. You much
Speaker 6: rather leave the corner. But either way, you have to
Speaker 6: get those guys blocked on the edges and at the
Speaker 6: secondary level in order to get those bigger plays. So
Speaker 6: there are, when I say encouraging things that you see
Speaker 6: on film, there are plays that are left out there
Speaker 6: that could have been bigger if there were more effort
Speaker 6: exuded towards those assignments. It's not to say that guys
Speaker 6: don't want to do their jobs or don't intend to
Speaker 6: do their jobs, but it's like maybe they were retired,
Speaker 6: maybe they're gased, maybe they didn't feel like, maybe they're frustrated,
Speaker 6: maybe they were thinking, Like there's a whole lot of
Speaker 6: factors that can go into I can say maybe all
Speaker 6: day long, but at the end of the day, there
Speaker 6: were plays that were left out there that could have
Speaker 6: been bigger.
Speaker 3: Effects drive results.
Speaker 4: For sure, it was week one. So having this conversation
Speaker 4: in week one, is that a problem? If it can
Speaker 4: I mean, if it continues, it's definitely going to be
Speaker 4: a problem.
Speaker 2: But is it a problem right now?
Speaker 3: Well, one thing, you know, especially about the coordinators and
Speaker 3: how prepared they were going into week one, and we
Speaker 3: talked about it. We were please with how prepared the
Speaker 3: coordinators were. They've already talked about this. They know, they
Speaker 3: saw the tape, they watched film, and they know that
Speaker 3: their receivers and the run blocking in general needs to
Speaker 3: be better. So they have to go in with the
Speaker 3: idea that in week two we're going to pound the rock.
Speaker 3: And it can be one thing to just say it constantly,
Speaker 3: but like I just said, affects drive results. If they're
Speaker 3: not willing to run block, if they're not willing to
Speaker 3: put forth the effort, you're not going to get the
Speaker 3: result of a better run game and wins. You see
Speaker 3: what happens now, if you're not engaged in run blocking,
Speaker 3: that's a loss when it could have been a win.
Speaker 6: You typically most teams, so I'll say this, most teams
Speaker 6: that are successful in the running game. Right, you can
Speaker 6: look at last night. It's amazing game. Oh man, freaking out.
Speaker 6: The receivers are the ones that allow for those big
Speaker 6: plays like Derrick Henry's long runs to happen. Right, The
Speaker 6: blocking upfront handles of their business. The front seven takes
Speaker 6: care of business, but those in order for it have
Speaker 6: to turn in from a five to ten yard run
Speaker 6: to the forty fifty yard run. Somebody downfield got blocked. Yeah, right,
Speaker 6: Either they got caught up in the wash right by
Speaker 6: getting to the line of screamers, and they got kind
Speaker 6: of got caught up in it in the mumble jumble.
Speaker 4: But either way they're gonna get caught because then then
Speaker 4: they have a headstart trying to catch up, right whoever.
Speaker 6: But you you see that usually there's one guy in
Speaker 6: every receiver room for successful running teams that is responsible
Speaker 6: for being that enforcer.
Speaker 3: Who's that guy here?
Speaker 6: I don't think that you have one?
Speaker 2: There, you go, that's that's the concern.
Speaker 4: That's where the problem is right now, because I agree
Speaker 4: with you when you look outside, and it's part of
Speaker 4: it is the wide receivers that you have in the room.
Speaker 4: Skill set wise. See, he's not going to be asked
Speaker 4: to block like that. George Pickens, he's a bigger receiver,
Speaker 4: but he's not gonna be Turps. Turpin's not gonna be
Speaker 4: asked like that. Tolbert might be asked to, but he's
Speaker 4: not going to he's And that's just part of how
Speaker 4: how it goes.
Speaker 2: And those are the guys that's where you need.
Speaker 4: The Ryan Flanoy's on the roster or the Jalen Brooks
Speaker 4: is on the That's why Noel Brown was so lo
Speaker 4: Noeh Brown, That's a great example of somebody that's willing to.
Speaker 2: Go and do that. Are they gonna catch a hundred passes?
Speaker 3: Probably not, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: But you need somebody like that to just give you
Speaker 2: that versatility.
Speaker 3: I would say. No Brown's also a kind of a
Speaker 3: receiving threat now too. Yes, a little bit, you know,
Speaker 3: a little play. He's still in the league for a
Speaker 3: reason exactly. He's been around for a little bit doing
Speaker 3: more than just blocking.
Speaker 2: For sure.
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Speaker 2: It is I. I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the back. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 4: Talked about the way that Dallas has to get involved
Speaker 4: in the blocking game, has to get involved with guys
Speaker 4: like George Pickens as well before we move on to
Speaker 4: the rest of the league. Dak Prescott had some some words.
Speaker 4: There's a good article from Tommy Yarish on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 4: dot com. It says a lot to grow from UH
Speaker 4: for Dak Prescott Cowboys offense.
Speaker 3: Following Week one.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 4: And this is just based off of the words that
Speaker 4: he had post game where he talked about how there
Speaker 4: was there were good, there was bad, but there's still
Speaker 4: a lot of good to grow on.
Speaker 2: Josh, what did you take away from his words?
Speaker 3: Mainly it was it was the spitting incident, which I
Speaker 3: know that's that we talked about. Yeah, the whole right,
Speaker 3: we have not talked about We haven't talked about it
Speaker 3: and it's been talked to death. I mean another need
Speaker 3: a whole Yeah exactly, said Dak tua I don't. The
Speaker 3: whole segment needs to be said on it. It was
Speaker 3: a ridiculous exchange. I don't think Dak Prescott meant to,
Speaker 3: you know, insult Jalen Carter, but you know, to spit
Speaker 3: on another human man is just uh, It's offensive for sure.
Speaker 3: But of course he obviously took blame for it. He
Speaker 3: was suspended for the game, and you know, maybe more
Speaker 3: we'll see, but that's just at That's what I mostly
Speaker 3: got out of Dak's comments after the game.
Speaker 4: I have to ask, though, I have to ask, what
Speaker 4: would you be doing, Isaiah if somebody did the same
Speaker 4: thing that Jalen Carter did to you. Would you be
Speaker 4: able to calmly stand there and just gesture toward the
Speaker 4: official waiting for a flag?
Speaker 3: Can I say, before Isaiah speaks, huh? I think Isaiah
Speaker 3: would keep his cool?
Speaker 2: Do you think so?
Speaker 3: I really do?
Speaker 2: Would you?
Speaker 3: He's a man of upstanding character I have.
Speaker 6: You do have a high I have high emotional intelligence.
Speaker 6: That's in this exact situation that Dak was in. I
Speaker 6: would most likely have done the same thing as Dak
Speaker 6: because literally as it happened, Dak sees the referee see happen, right,
Speaker 6: So knowing that it's going to be handled by the referee,
Speaker 6: you can sustain you can sustain yourself from doing something crazy,
Speaker 6: right because the referee.
Speaker 3: Middle of the is literally like.
Speaker 2: The slow mo like.
Speaker 6: However, if the referee had not been there, uh huh,
Speaker 6: it muld have been a little bit different situation.
Speaker 2: Why would have had a little fisticuffs?
Speaker 3: Huh? Maybe a little bit a little bit.
Speaker 4: Of fisticuffs just maybe what if you're just like walking
Speaker 4: down the hallway if somebody spits on you tool, Yeah,
Speaker 4: just like in a conversation like gets heated.
Speaker 6: Kyle, I don't allow myself to get that man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I don't. I'm the guy that blacks out when he
Speaker 6: gets that mad.
Speaker 2: So like I don't allow myself to I know I would.
Speaker 2: I would not be happy. Yeah, no, it wouldn't be winn.
Speaker 2: And then it happened in college You see that happened
Speaker 2: in college football?
Speaker 6: Yeah somebody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was bad right in a face.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that one was arguably worse.
Speaker 2: Now we're yeah, that's a fight. That's a fight.
Speaker 6: I'm finding your grandma.
Speaker 2: Everybody.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's my it's my mom's birthday. We're fighting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's getting it. Oh man, how interesting it wasn't
Speaker 2: I love you imagine trying to clean that off.
Speaker 4: He stopped people listening to this headphones in their car
Speaker 4: that kind to take a shower after that.
Speaker 3: Uh Jalen Carter all like, come on, man, dude, that's assault.
Speaker 2: Who's bidding for that game? Warn Dak Prescott? That's assault?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 2: What if he had COVID or.
Speaker 3: Something on his first captain Jersey?
Speaker 4: Seriously, murd all right, let's uh, let's take a look
Speaker 4: around the NFC a little bit. Here a couple other
Speaker 4: division foes facing off Russell Wilson and the Giants.
Speaker 2: Huh, oh man, this is the upcoming opponent for the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: Yes, and yeah, you say that they've they've had three
Speaker 4: straight season openers where they have not scored an offensive touchdown.
Speaker 3: You open with Russ, though, and I I can't say
Speaker 3: that I'm putting all of the blame on Russell Willison.
Speaker 2: So I don't think all of it's.
Speaker 3: On Let's ride, it's not him, it's not it's not Russell.
Speaker 6: You're not darting over that way.
Speaker 3: Not necessarily, and a big part of that is darting
Speaker 3: straight to the bench. Receivers and tight ends. Man, they
Speaker 3: were not helping him out in any way, dude. And
Speaker 3: they they were fourth last year and dropped passes. They
Speaker 3: did not address that over the offseason.
Speaker 4: Neighbors was targeted twelve times, had just five catches. That's crazy,
Speaker 4: twelve targets, five catches.
Speaker 3: And hey, seed, he dropped four balls. That's you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. Like, can't be pointing week one, week one,
Speaker 3: but that was rough. His offense was not helping him.
Speaker 3: The receivers mainly. I liked what I saw from Kataboo
Speaker 3: honestly physical.
Speaker 2: Hey yeah, he's get the attempts for negative three yards.
Speaker 3: But his blocking, he's getting in there.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: He did have two receptions for twelve yards. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, not necessarily the rushing attempts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just the overarching picture of yeh, skataboo. Whereas
Speaker 2: Jerry says scatter Bug was.
Speaker 6: Scat a bug, It's like scatt gattaboo skettaba Uh.
Speaker 4: Russell Wilson seventeen of thirty seven throwing one hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty eight yards, did not have a touchdown nor an interception.
Speaker 4: So you're going into week two, you're not immediately looking
Speaker 4: at Jackson Dart. I saw Brian brought us one of
Speaker 4: the friends of the show on Twitter. He was saying
Speaker 4: I'd be ready for Dart in week two. It was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if they're going to.
Speaker 3: Make that sus a really quick sat.
Speaker 2: That's abrupt trigger for it.
Speaker 3: To not fall completely on Russell Wilson either. I think
Speaker 3: that's a really bold move. And but then again, you know,
Speaker 3: this is Brian Dable we're talking about. I don't know
Speaker 3: how he still has a head coaching job in New York.
Speaker 3: I really don't. I don't understand it.
Speaker 2: But he liked it when he was hired though I
Speaker 2: remember that, yea.
Speaker 6: But everybody's not great head coaches.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it is what it is at this point.
Speaker 6: Yeah, at this point.
Speaker 3: And I'm not saying he wouldn't. I'm not saying he
Speaker 3: wouldn't be a bad coach, head coach for another team,
Speaker 3: another situation, another foster. But at this four.
Speaker 7: Years, right, is this four year four for him? It has
Speaker 7: to be four or four or five. It's definitely the
Speaker 7: time has it's passed. You've been able to see the
Speaker 7: time is passed for sure for Brian. I thought last
Speaker 7: year was it so I don't know, man, Yeah, this
Speaker 7: is your four this is your four year four. He
Speaker 7: was hired in twenty twenty two. Remember he was the
Speaker 7: offensive coordinator with the Bills yep till twenty one.
Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe maybe. Yeah. Eighteen and thirty three is
Speaker 2: his head coaching record right now.
Speaker 3: And I like their defensive line you got to say
Speaker 3: that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and D line is nice. I like Brian Burns.
Speaker 2: One thing you know about them.
Speaker 4: On dables supposed to be an offensive minded head kiss
Speaker 4: and their D line's nast what's their number one problem?
Speaker 3: But that's their identity. What we've talked about before, The
Speaker 3: New York Giants defensive line has always been their.
Speaker 2: Idea is disgusting. Yeah, their D line is nice.
Speaker 6: Got exter Lawrence ext they got sexy DEXI, they got Burns,
Speaker 6: Burns have Thibodeau, they have it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got some Yeah, some dudes.
Speaker 6: They got like a way, they have two waves that
Speaker 6: you have to worry about. So it's not They're not
Speaker 6: no scrubs.
Speaker 2: How did you feel like Washington looked in that matchup rusty? Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think they look rusty, But I think that their
Speaker 6: running game.
Speaker 3: Was a weak one for them too.
Speaker 2: It was that's a week one.
Speaker 6: For them, their running game a week zero. He's good though.
Speaker 6: Their running game was nice. Yeah, nice, And I think
Speaker 6: the fact that they're doing planned runs now for Jaydon
Speaker 6: and Daniels that was surprising to see. But you know,
Speaker 6: he has elusive speed.
Speaker 2: I'll say that they.
Speaker 4: Were averaged just under seven yards per carre. Yes, they
Speaker 4: was six point nine yards per care He.
Speaker 2: Totaled the rock and they had a rooky who kind
Speaker 2: of bought.
Speaker 3: Out Cross Crosskey Merritt. Yeah. Undrafted free agent he got.
Speaker 2: He got dropped in one of my fantasy before week.
Speaker 3: One drafted, he got dropped in.
Speaker 2: Did you check them up? I am planning to do so.
Speaker 2: Did you make sure you get that waiver claim? I'm
Speaker 2: all now.
Speaker 3: He was late in the seventh round.
Speaker 4: He was literally the two hundred and forty fifth overall
Speaker 4: pick and he's at Arizona.
Speaker 2: Got players the.
Speaker 6: Leading carrier for the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ten carries eighty two yards and a touchdown and
Speaker 4: a Teddy long forty two. Austin Eckler had like six
Speaker 4: carries for twenty six yards.
Speaker 3: To go back to the Giants, really quickly, and I
Speaker 3: know we're gonna talk about it at nauseum this week,
Speaker 3: obviously getting ready for a week two matchups.
Speaker 2: Yes, home game.
Speaker 3: Did you feel like their offense was I mean, obviously
Speaker 3: it didn't get going, but like, doesn't part of you
Speaker 3: feel like if they get things going, they might be
Speaker 3: a really good team here, not a really good team.
Speaker 2: I'm not threadned by their offense.
Speaker 3: Okay, not threatened at all, even with the guy like
Speaker 3: neighbors and Neighbors could be an elite wide receiver in
Speaker 3: the league.
Speaker 2: Not thread by their offense.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, we'll talk about that later that week.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about as we go on this one.
Speaker 4: I don't know if people really want to talk about
Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: Oh were they?
Speaker 4: Damn well, they're They're a good team led by Jordan
Speaker 4: Love on offense, and they're led by some guy that
Speaker 4: wears number one on defense.
Speaker 2: Now, he kind of had an impact on the game.
Speaker 4: Michael Parsons played well, garbage time played well.
Speaker 2: He did have a garbage time sack. But he was
Speaker 2: a terrorist.
Speaker 3: He was still he was still there.
Speaker 2: Was what he was, what you expect from him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is what it is.
Speaker 3: He looked fine.
Speaker 2: Listen, the back looked great.
Speaker 6: He played as he made the impact that you expect
Speaker 6: him to make, whether he was on your team or
Speaker 6: somebody else's team.
Speaker 2: He was him.
Speaker 6: You know, I wish him all the luck. I mean,
Speaker 6: he all the luck, all the health. I know people
Speaker 6: are mad about it, but it is what it is.
Speaker 4: He's I don't think people are mad at him, though
Speaker 4: maybe some people because somebody because of how it got handled,
Speaker 4: and there's always.
Speaker 2: Gonna be somebody. But I wish him nothing but luck.
Speaker 6: He's a He is truly one of the few guys
Speaker 6: in this league that you like might be fearful of.
Speaker 6: As an offensive coordinator, he like you just have to
Speaker 6: he impacts everything.
Speaker 3: The game changes west and.
Speaker 6: He impacts absolutely everything. And he showed up yesterday like
Speaker 6: you expect him to show up any other week. So good,
Speaker 6: good on them. They are a threat.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: They are my we made projections on the CBS. They're
Speaker 6: my favorites in the NFC just in general. Wow, just
Speaker 6: because there's across the board, across the board, because there's
Speaker 6: not they don't have guys offensively that you're like, all right,
Speaker 6: we need to shut down this one guy. If we
Speaker 6: can shut down this one guy. We're good, like they're
Speaker 6: good across the board, like everybody makes contributions. And I
Speaker 6: think teams like that are very dangerous. And I think
Speaker 6: obviously with their defense the way that it was last
Speaker 6: year as a top five defense and then number two
Speaker 6: in sacks last year, now you add Micah to that,
Speaker 6: like they are truly an organization that wants a team
Speaker 6: to be solid. They don't want just one guy to
Speaker 6: be solid. They they genuinely want they want.
Speaker 3: They want to be dangerous across the board.
Speaker 6: And I think teams that are like that, and I
Speaker 6: believe the Dallas is trying to work towards that. I
Speaker 6: really get that sense that. And then obviously the trade
Speaker 6: of Micah kind of kind of backs that up, Like
Speaker 6: they want to be good across the board.
Speaker 4: But Green Bay was in a position to where they
Speaker 4: were already good across the board, so that way they
Speaker 4: can make a move like that and then go get
Speaker 4: a superstar to try and push them over the top.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I mean, but even still like even by adding Micah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you have a player that you have to now highlight
Speaker 6: when you're on film, but they still have a bunch
Speaker 6: of other guys that make huge contributions. So it's not
Speaker 6: like you guys like we shut that that one guy
Speaker 6: and we're good, Like, no, you might be to shut
Speaker 6: him down, but somebody else, because we're good across the board,
Speaker 6: somebody else is gonna hurt you. And I think that's
Speaker 6: what Dallas is trying to get to. I truly do.
Speaker 2: I still think that Dallas needs to pick up one
Speaker 2: more piece.
Speaker 6: And Kyle knows that one piece that I want him
Speaker 6: to have been talk about it for the last two.
Speaker 3: Months, a piece or two.
Speaker 2: He played it close and Yep, he's free. He is
Speaker 2: a free agent. You say his name, he's I don't know,
Speaker 2: but but let's keep it a secret. Go ahead and
Speaker 2: say it. Oh, we don't want people.
Speaker 3: People be listening, other teams listener.
Speaker 2: He's a precursor to that. He's out there, free agent agent.
Speaker 3: He's out there. Okay. What really surprised me most about
Speaker 3: that game was Detroit's defense in their secondary Mainly yeah,
Speaker 3: because Jordan Love have all day, He had all all
Speaker 3: day to throw and every receiver was wide open sixteen
Speaker 3: of twenty two. Every play insane, dude, Uh, not something
Speaker 3: that you'd expect out of the Lions defense. They were
Speaker 3: sort of a bend, don't break situation, but they obviously
Speaker 3: generated a lot of pressure. They weren't necessarily getting it yesterday,
Speaker 3: even with a healthy aid and Hudges. Then, yeah, I
Speaker 3: was very surprised by them yesterday, and a part of
Speaker 3: that must be, you know, losing their top two coordinators,
Speaker 3: losing their offensive coordinator, losing their defensive coordinator. It was
Speaker 3: really surprising to see how poorly the Lion's defense was.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, they're not necessarily beating those allegations of no coordinators,
Speaker 4: no problem, that sort of deal. I mean, they struggled
Speaker 4: at and it looked out of sorts quite a bit
Speaker 4: for Detroit in that matchup. I think they'll still figure
Speaker 4: it out. They're just as talented as any other team
Speaker 4: in the NFC. Somebody something else to keep an eye
Speaker 4: on as they go on, because the Packers looked great,
Speaker 4: Lions did not.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's going to be the flip of that.
Speaker 4: But I think both of those teams have a shot
Speaker 4: to go to an NFC title game.
Speaker 2: Like, they're both very talented.
Speaker 3: You'd think that the Lions are gonna put it together
Speaker 3: at some point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Yesterday was a really tough showing in green Bay. Green
Speaker 3: Bay has all the momentum behind him. You got a
Speaker 3: Mica making his debut.
Speaker 4: I mean, come on, do you see Mike McCarthy getting
Speaker 4: a standing ovation as he walked out of the tunnel
Speaker 4: there what, Yes, there's a video he walked out of
Speaker 4: the tunnel. I don't know if it was he was
Speaker 4: like a legend of the game or they did like
Speaker 4: one of those things where but he walked out and
Speaker 4: the entire lambeau Field crowd gave him a standing ovation.
Speaker 3: This is AI. It was not.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was AI.
Speaker 4: If it was, then I got fooled and I'll put
Speaker 4: my hand up and say, yeah, sorry, that's on me,
Speaker 4: Paul fake whatever. I saw the video, so I'm going
Speaker 4: to throw it out there. One more NFC game I
Speaker 4: want to touch.
Speaker 2: On real quick.
Speaker 4: It was a sloppy one between San Francisco and Seattle.
Speaker 3: What a heartbreak.
Speaker 2: That was just a gross Sorry.
Speaker 3: The defense man, Seattle's defense, Seattle special teams, they were
Speaker 3: on one the entire game.
Speaker 2: They could not run the ball.
Speaker 3: They could not run the ball.
Speaker 2: Man didn't really pass it much better.
Speaker 3: Marcus Lawrence had a really good game. I thought he
Speaker 3: had a really good game. He'll block one of the
Speaker 3: field goals that they attempted to. Come on, man, interesting,
Speaker 3: it was good stuff.
Speaker 4: I like it, do you law? You just don't want
Speaker 4: to talk about it. No, no, you just want to
Speaker 4: move on. You're not a fan, though, you're you're a
Speaker 4: bipartial media party currently.
Speaker 3: Now what was with the offense? I saya what happened there?
Speaker 6: I honestly didn't watch the game. Oh, I was watching
Speaker 6: red Zone, okay, but I don't act the result.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're watching red Zone, you didn't see Seattle
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 6: San Francisco always always wins in Seattle, and I don't
Speaker 6: understand it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they always win to Seattle. Yeah, they figured it out.
Speaker 4: I mean Block Party threw a thirty five times and
Speaker 4: they only ended up with seventeen points. Usually you would
Speaker 4: put those two things together and figure out and say, hey, yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe they didn't play very well.
Speaker 2: They didn't.
Speaker 6: When games like that, it just takes a handful of plays, man,
Speaker 6: that's all it takes.
Speaker 4: Gave it to Christian McCaffrey twenty two times. Twenty two times.
Speaker 3: But McCaffrey didn't have an excellent game.
Speaker 2: No three point even nice. They were nice.
Speaker 3: They were holding it down the entire game.
Speaker 6: They got some dues. If they can figure out the offense,
Speaker 6: they're a dangerous team because their defense is nice.
Speaker 3: What was Sam Donald's statistics there?
Speaker 4: Twenty six of thirty five, two seventy seven, two touchdowns,
Speaker 4: two interceptions.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what it was. That's pretty much rock
Speaker 2: Dad to do it.
Speaker 4: That's the Brock Party experience on that occasion.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Tank looked good.
Speaker 4: Seattle's defense pretty solid across the board. The NFC was
Speaker 4: kind of I'm not gonna lie to you guys, it
Speaker 4: was kind of boring outside of that.
Speaker 2: But you know what wasn't boring, Oh my goodness, the AFC. Whoa,
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, the good game boy, the AFC.
Speaker 4: When we come back here on talking Cowboys will flip sides.
Speaker 4: Where does Dallas stack up amongst all the teams that
Speaker 4: we've got to watch in Week one? Both on the
Speaker 4: AFC and NFC side. Isaiah's got a great ranking for
Speaker 4: the Cowboys. When we come back right after this.
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Speaker 2: You know day it is? Oh my goodness, you know
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Speaker 3: Is it a Talking Tuesday?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is it Talking Tuesday. We're gonna take some phone calls tomorrow.
Speaker 2: It's been a little bit. Hello, hell first talking Tuesday.
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Speaker 4: We were on last Tuesday, but it was our only
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Speaker 6: And so do they have the phone number?
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Speaker 4: I like it all right, flipping attention to the AFC.
Speaker 4: I just I partially wrote this segment because I wanted
Speaker 4: to talk about.
Speaker 2: The game that happened last night.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 2: There was a game last night. There was a great
Speaker 2: game that was the game of the week, maybe game
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how there's a
Speaker 2: game that tops.
Speaker 4: That with that much talent, that big of a performance
Speaker 4: from some of the biggest names in the sport Insanity,
Speaker 4: lamar Conery both go.
Speaker 3: Off forty twenty five with like eight minutes left in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was thirty four to nineteen with nine minutes left.
Speaker 2: And then Baltimore even scored again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and got.
Speaker 6: To forties or sixteen points in four minutes.
Speaker 3: And then turns around and here comes Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: After the extra point. Dwink, Yeah, dwink, And I played
Speaker 2: a pard in it.
Speaker 4: The Buffalo kicker was picked up off of the Era
Speaker 4: practice squad. Yeah, Matt Prater flies in like seventy two
Speaker 4: hours before the game. He didn't even know the names
Speaker 4: of his teammates and a holder, not even close. He said,
Speaker 4: I've kicked here a couple times before. He's only played
Speaker 4: three games in Buffalo, but he was like, I'm comfortable.
Speaker 4: Comes through drills that they.
Speaker 2: Almost locked it. It was an easy kick, they almost
Speaker 2: blocked it. Yeah, you got to You got to sell
Speaker 2: out that one opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's the game right there.
Speaker 6: Doink doink ended up costing you a game plus a fumble.
Speaker 3: Oh that fumble was crip was big. That was huge.
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry of all players.
Speaker 6: Henry was running through that whole defense a game. Oh
Speaker 6: my goodness in the first half. Yeah, and then and
Speaker 6: change change. He's still a dog two touds.
Speaker 2: I mean he's still a dudey. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I I don't remember a Week one game being that exciting.
Speaker 4: And I thought the Dallas Philly game was extremely entertaining.
Speaker 4: Take work out of it, take the fandom out of it.
Speaker 4: I thought Dallas and Philly that was a fun game
Speaker 4: to watch, But man, it had nothing on Baltimore and Buffalo.
Speaker 2: A lot of talent on the field.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you think, let's just the two top MVP play
Speaker 4: a game here, MVP winner, MVP runner up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's play a game here.
Speaker 4: What do you think is more likely either one of
Speaker 4: those teams making it to the Super Bowl or the
Speaker 4: field the entire rest of the AFC.
Speaker 2: What do you think is more likely one of the
Speaker 2: I got Baltimore going to the super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of those teams.
Speaker 6: I think they figure out what their issue is and
Speaker 6: late late in the games they have to figure that out.
Speaker 6: Harve Ball has to help them identify what that is.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 6: They're probably like this right now, just taking their finger
Speaker 6: and trying to trying to point somewhere. It's like, there
Speaker 6: has to be this. No, it's not that it has
Speaker 6: to be. Eventually they're gonna be like, ah, that's it.
Speaker 6: And once they figure that out, you're not gonna be
Speaker 6: able to stop them. Because Lamar Jackson, the plays that
Speaker 6: he was making were insane. The throws that he were making,
Speaker 6: he was making even though he only had like nineteen
Speaker 6: attempts insane. Derrick Henry, the inability to stop him is insane.
Speaker 6: Zach Orr called a terrible game last night. Figure out, Hey,
Speaker 6: chill out, call it what it is. Chill gave up
Speaker 6: forty one points, caught a terrible game last night. He'll
Speaker 6: figure it out right because he has the players right.
Speaker 6: So the defensive line talent is the talent is there.
Speaker 6: So I mean when you got Humphreys and freaking Stars
Speaker 6: and everybody else in the back Hamilton, I mean, those
Speaker 6: guys have so much talent. Jyry Alexander is not gonna suck,
Speaker 6: you know, saying multiple games like he's gonna figure it out.
Speaker 6: He got Tostito last night, but he'll watch that film.
Speaker 6: He is too much of a competitor to not figure
Speaker 6: it out right. So those guys just have so much
Speaker 6: talent and so much size, yeah, that they can literally
Speaker 6: just command a game.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what's the best part about Baltimore And
Speaker 4: we talked about this in the preseason off air when
Speaker 4: I was building the preseason boards for our broadcast and
Speaker 4: just looking through when I put together the depth chart
Speaker 4: of the teams, Normally I can get a pretty good
Speaker 4: indication of Okay, this team is built well, or this
Speaker 4: team is big, or this team is fast or whatever.
Speaker 4: It ends up being the thing that stuck out to
Speaker 4: me with Baltimore. They have so much depth it's not
Speaker 4: even funny. They go three deep at making crucial positions.
Speaker 3: You were going into like their fourth and fifth linebackers,
Speaker 3: and you're.
Speaker 2: Like, that's a dude, that's that guy's a dog.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: I remember loving him out of school when they took
Speaker 4: him in like the sixth round. And we have a
Speaker 4: running joke on the Draft show every year where it's like,
Speaker 4: of course, Baltimore takes that guy.
Speaker 2: But that's what happens.
Speaker 4: Whenever they take good football players and they know how
Speaker 4: to build a roster. Their scouting departments as good as
Speaker 4: anybody's in the league, so any.
Speaker 2: Time their size. Yeah, like that was the one thing.
Speaker 6: Obviously we called the game, and obviously we worked for
Speaker 6: the Cowboys, but there was a substantial Yeah, there was
Speaker 6: a size difference when we played when Dallas played Baltimore
Speaker 6: in a preseason. I don't know if it's just the
Speaker 6: purple and black nose. Are some large humans, oh, quite
Speaker 6: measureable the hardball, But that's how the hardballs build their teams. Yeah,
Speaker 6: but I mean you saw it with the Chargers too.
Speaker 6: Same They Chargers the same exact way, like they build
Speaker 6: their team from the inside out. Like get us the
Speaker 6: biggest cats that you can find, and we'll teach them
Speaker 6: I play football.
Speaker 2: And if they're a really good player, awesome.
Speaker 6: If they're not good players, we'll teach them how to be.
Speaker 3: They have a hairline trigger, let's draft that.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the Chargers, Chargers get a big win down
Speaker 4: in Brazil.
Speaker 2: That was a That was a good game too.
Speaker 3: Herbert was killing him. Theyeah, Herbert was methodically marching down
Speaker 3: the field in those moments where you haven't expected Herbert
Speaker 3: to do. Like he's great in the first through the
Speaker 3: third quarter and then in the fourth. You know, something
Speaker 3: always happens to the Chargers. It feels like and in
Speaker 3: this moment when you're expecting, like, oh here we go,
Speaker 3: case he's gonna do their thing and you know, win
Speaker 3: the game, right justin Herbert very calmly, coolly collectively marching
Speaker 3: down the field, well ease.
Speaker 2: Qu Quentin Johnson.
Speaker 6: Quentin Johnston, he showed up Temple Texas first three years ago.
Speaker 6: I think it's been three years for him. He has
Speaker 6: not produced right, he's been he's been drops, He's he's
Speaker 6: a big receiver that can get open.
Speaker 4: My favorite meme of the entire weekend is it was
Speaker 4: a picture of Toby maguire Spider Man and he was
Speaker 4: looking at his hands like something crazy had happened when
Speaker 4: he just Scot has like web powers in that that
Speaker 4: first Spider Man movie, and the capture was Quentin Johnston
Speaker 4: as he figures out how to catch in year three
Speaker 4: find his hands.
Speaker 6: Based off that game. He figured it out.
Speaker 4: But he was a first round picks for a reason
Speaker 4: because he loved him out of TCU.
Speaker 2: He was a thirty visit here.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of conversation on whether or not
Speaker 4: he would fit in an offense with Ceede Lamb and
Speaker 4: now they're going to give him the opportunity to have
Speaker 4: the keys to the car.
Speaker 2: And Lamb McConkey and Eric he did fine.
Speaker 6: Keenan Allen, I mean those guys seventy nine, seventy four,
Speaker 6: sixty eight, Like when you can be like that, And
Speaker 6: that's what I'm talking about, Like the team aspect. You're
Speaker 6: seeing the kind of the theme here with some of
Speaker 6: these more successful successful teams that when you're and you're
Speaker 6: strong across the board, it's really hard to defend. It's like,
Speaker 6: and that's what I think teams are starting to try
Speaker 6: to get away from. I think that's what the Joneses
Speaker 6: are getting away from. Obviously with that Micah trade. It's
Speaker 6: like freaking dominant, amazing player. But like if we can
Speaker 6: be dominant across the board and dangerous across the board,
Speaker 6: like how much more dangerous are we as a unit?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: So that's when you start talking about the chargers, like
Speaker 6: if there's not one guy at the receiver position that
Speaker 6: we have to be super threatened by, but they all
Speaker 6: are fully capable, Like dang it, I much rather have
Speaker 6: a one guy, you know, And just to the point
Speaker 6: of like CD and George together, like the reason why
Speaker 6: you need to get George the ball and get him
Speaker 6: amped up and just kind of feed his ego, I
Speaker 6: guess in that sense because he needs that motivation.
Speaker 2: He needs to be engaged that way.
Speaker 6: So now you have multiple dangerous players out there, and
Speaker 6: then when they're focused on those guys, then you can
Speaker 6: get the ball.
Speaker 3: You know, you've seen what it looks like when George
Speaker 3: Pickens is not engaged. You want to prevent that at all,
Speaker 3: come sure, you really do. And and and the the
Speaker 3: benefit of that is having two receivers that are that
Speaker 3: are capable, that are open, you know, and that.
Speaker 2: Already has chances too.
Speaker 6: And unfortunately you know dak under throw for for uh
Speaker 6: for a big play. But like even the play where
Speaker 6: who took the shot that was that took the shot
Speaker 6: across the middle right and got got got destroyed in
Speaker 6: the end zone, right, they got to pull that in
Speaker 6: though no, not even a chance, not even a chance.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about the underthrow?
Speaker 6: The underwe got to hit to the helmet where the.
Speaker 3: Different one but the one in his hands.
Speaker 6: But even that one, when you go back and watch
Speaker 6: it, it was covered two right, really, but Tampa two if
Speaker 6: George Pickens spends the energy right because he knows he's
Speaker 6: not getting the ball. Now it's cover two, and they
Speaker 6: did that to him a lot. So that's something that
Speaker 6: they're going to have to fix. They just kept rolling
Speaker 6: coverage and it reminded me of my time when I
Speaker 6: was here in Dallas and what they did when we
Speaker 6: started having issues between Romo and the tight ends and receivers.
Speaker 6: They were doing that to t O. They want to
Speaker 6: eliminate to so they just roll coverage right and roll
Speaker 6: the Rother corner down, play safety over the top, take
Speaker 6: away majority of his routes that he will run. That's
Speaker 6: what they did to George Pickings. They eliminated him out
Speaker 6: the game. But underneath true that, but like if you
Speaker 6: have a route that converts and you're supposed to run
Speaker 6: a go and you have a tight end who's isoed
Speaker 6: in the middle of the field that you're as a receiver,
Speaker 6: you have to do what you can to get a
Speaker 6: real lease and get up the sideline to be a
Speaker 6: threat to that safety. Because if you're not a threat
Speaker 6: to that near safety, that safety can go take your
Speaker 6: tight end's head off like he did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I uh so, I called the rice Houston game
Speaker 4: for ESPN on Saturday. As I was walking down the
Speaker 4: stairs in the stadium, I ran into one former Cowboys
Speaker 4: tight end that goes by the name of Jason Witten.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, said hi to Witton. Clarence Hill was there.
Speaker 4: We were just having a conversation after the game, and
Speaker 4: we because Witt and son plays.
Speaker 2: For Rice, and so does Patrick Creighton.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Creighton sons on that team too. Neither one of
Speaker 4: them played a whole lot, but they were there. In
Speaker 4: talking to Witton, Chill was the one that asked the
Speaker 4: questions like what did you think about the Cowboys? Like
Speaker 4: what did you think about how they played on Sunday
Speaker 4: or on Thursday?
Speaker 2: And he was like, man, I thought they played well.
Speaker 2: I thought they played really good.
Speaker 4: We somehow got into the topic of conversation of the
Speaker 4: tight end position and he brought up that play specifically.
Speaker 4: He's like, you got to reel it in, but it
Speaker 4: wasn't a whole lot help either. He's like, it was
Speaker 4: it was a tight window. He's like, as a tight end,
Speaker 4: he's gonna beat himself up, is what he said.
Speaker 2: He's like, I think Ferg's gonna beat himself up for
Speaker 2: not having that catch, but you gotta have that he's
Speaker 2: not bringing it down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he got it. He got his head taken off.
Speaker 6: And there was the play with there's another Tampa two
Speaker 6: play where Dak under threw him should have been a touchdown.
Speaker 6: Dak severely under threw the pass. I mean, so it
Speaker 6: wasn't like I know, people are like, well where was
Speaker 6: ferg Att? Freg had his opportunities, you know, but the
Speaker 6: ball wasn't there.
Speaker 4: Or the landmark one that sticks out to me is
Speaker 4: the underthrown one on the It was also Tampa two.
Speaker 2: Bond covered him on that.
Speaker 4: That seems right hash mark if that ball is lofted
Speaker 4: in the back of the ends and that's.
Speaker 6: Sick severely underthrown. And there was a number of other
Speaker 6: plays that would have been but guys weren't on their landmarks.
Speaker 6: So again, there's just a number of things that just
Speaker 6: are all correctable. Yes, they're all correctable. Right, Nobody had
Speaker 6: to put to get that rust off.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Again the calibration calibration calibration.
Speaker 4: Uh, just because I'm looking at Floyd in the chat
Speaker 4: and he's upset that we're not talking cowboys twenty four seventh.
Speaker 3: Did we just did?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, we just did.
Speaker 4: But where would you rank top half of the league,
Speaker 4: bottom half of the league. I know they're zero to one,
Speaker 4: but in terms of performances through week.
Speaker 2: One, Cowboys, Cowboys, where would you put them?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm just gonna come up with the
Speaker 3: arbitrary number at this point. Fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so right right right there.
Speaker 3: In the middle. They haven't proven anything yet. We gotta
Speaker 3: say it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't get it, can't even get there.
Speaker 6: But I mean they're they're going to be a good team,
Speaker 6: especially if they add.
Speaker 2: This one piece. You're trying to will it into existence,
Speaker 2: aren't you.
Speaker 6: When it happened, feel is going to happen, bro, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I feel it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: If it happens. His name is Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 2: He's a free Oh on the tell the rest of
Speaker 2: the team, Kyle.
Speaker 4: And it's after week one, so veteran contracts are not
Speaker 4: guaranteed the rest of the year. So where's the SPOONYA
Speaker 4: is trying to pull out the crystal. We'll see if
Speaker 4: he's right whenever they get in that for five man
Speaker 4: thinks you have to wait until Tuesday, until that official
Speaker 4: their Wednesday.
Speaker 3: You imagine that first tomorrow. Let's talking Tuesday, buddy, Well,
Speaker 3: it won't happen on our show.
Speaker 2: It'll happen after our show that change. I'm talking Wednesdays
Speaker 2: in a wonderful Wednesday edition. Yeah, I hope it happens.
Speaker 2: Don't make that sound when talking about.
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