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Speaker 1: up to Game week and the Los Angeles Rams Sunday
Speaker 1: Night Football at seven twenty Kyle Yeoman's alongside Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: heckm Harrison, and our residence Super Bowl champion Isaiah standback, guys,
Speaker 1: it's four days away. I saw the Cowboys posted today
Speaker 1: that it was dac days away, and so I feel
Speaker 1: like that's a pretty fitting way to describe it. But overall,
Speaker 1: it's it's inching up. You're starting to kind of dive
Speaker 1: into these matchups. We're gonna preview both the RAMS offense
Speaker 1: and the RAMS defense over the next two days. Today
Speaker 1: is specifically going to be centered around the offense, and
Speaker 1: then we'll move into the defense tomorrow. However, we do
Speaker 1: have some RAMS defensive breaking news and I just before
Speaker 1: we went on, actually about twenty seconds before we went on,
Speaker 1: Chris Beam, our producer in the back, was the one
Speaker 1: that broke the news to us. But Isaiah, I know
Speaker 1: you've got the numbers. Jalen Ramsey just signed his new deal.
Speaker 1: He's been waiting on it for a long time. It
Speaker 1: was actually a centerpiece in the HBO series of Hot
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks this year, and he turns around and actually
Speaker 1: gets it signed today. What were the specifics on that deal, Isaiah, Man,
Speaker 1: it looks like we got five years up to one
Speaker 1: hundred and five million dollars with seventy one point two
Speaker 1: million dollars guarantee. Mister motormouth will be talking a lot
Speaker 1: this Sunday. He will be talking a lot. God goodly,
Speaker 1: he's got that. He's got that brake truck for real
Speaker 1: now right? Seven one million garon t is that that's
Speaker 1: the highest paid dB contract ever I think has to be.
Speaker 1: We're talking about that's quarterback money. That is, that's an
Speaker 1: insane amount of money. And you look at what he
Speaker 1: was making previously. He was on a four year deal
Speaker 1: which was twenty three point three million. I believe that
Speaker 1: was signed during his time in Jacksonville before he was
Speaker 1: actually traded over and became a part of the lost.
Speaker 1: So you see, he got a little bit of a
Speaker 1: rais he got a raise, and he's somebody who's just hey, Kyle,
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a raise, right, Yeah, just
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's a raise that I know I
Speaker 1: would at least want to be a part of my paycheck.
Speaker 1: But it's okay, I'm not going to get into that.
Speaker 1: I could, Yeah, I could this week many different Maybe
Speaker 1: somebody else who got a new deal was actually on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys side of things. Randy Gregory signed his new
Speaker 1: deal in an extension yesterday as reported by ESPN and
Speaker 1: Ian Rap Report, and also Zack Martin restructuring his deal
Speaker 1: as well. Rob What were some of the specifics on
Speaker 1: each of those new UH deals? One an extension one UH?
Speaker 1: What's it called a restructuring from restruct Jack Martin. Rob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's something the Cowboys do with some of their
Speaker 1: cornerstone guys, and it's just a way to kind of
Speaker 1: move money around and create some money for probably mostly
Speaker 1: for next year when you're when you're thinking about Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott and a potential franchise tag again to keep negotiating
Speaker 1: throughout the offseason. They did it with Tyrant Smith a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, restructuring his deal, and then Gregory.
Speaker 1: He is now signed through twenty twenty one. He was
Speaker 1: set to be a restricted free agent after this season,
Speaker 1: and it was something the Cowboys were looking at doing
Speaker 1: in the past, but it couldn't happen because of his suspension.
Speaker 1: So now he's got a couple of years at least
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. Hey, Rob, you know what everybody's thinking
Speaker 1: that that restructure of Zach Martin, that money is for
Speaker 1: you know who? Right, So I'm not gonna start that.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking well that, Yeah, I mean that that
Speaker 1: was what was the Tyran restructure was the day the
Speaker 1: man you're talking about got released from a certain team
Speaker 1: in the AFC North. So yeah, connect the dots and
Speaker 1: all that. I think it's for next year. I think
Speaker 1: it's for next year, but it's fun to talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's fun to talk. I just love the looking up
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for Monday's show. I was just
Speaker 1: a big fan of Isaiah's face and he was just
Speaker 1: like looking around like, Oh, were getting into the again.
Speaker 1: Can I smell it? This is going to happen again overall,
Speaker 1: But I think I'm right, I'm right there with you, Rob.
Speaker 1: I think this is a next year move. I think
Speaker 1: this is freeing up cap space for potentially trying to
Speaker 1: bring back your quarterback. I think that's probably the number
Speaker 1: one priority in everyone's mind going into next year. So
Speaker 1: potentially restructuring Zac Martin could help that out moving forward.
Speaker 1: But well, just remember too, the cap right now is
Speaker 1: like one hundred and ninety eight million, and it could
Speaker 1: drop significantly next year. We don't we don't really know.
Speaker 1: I think the floor is like one seventy five. But
Speaker 1: you got to prepare for that because you just don't
Speaker 1: know what the revenue losses are going to be around
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, things are going to definitely be different
Speaker 1: moving forward, and you expect it to hopefully stay similar
Speaker 1: after COVID nineteen and after everything kind of works itself
Speaker 1: out there, but it's it's still something that's a little
Speaker 1: bit uncertain across the league. And I mean that's even
Speaker 1: across the league. It's not just the Cowboys that are
Speaker 1: having to deal with that sort of thing moving forward.
Speaker 1: But let's get into this Rams matchup, and we kind
Speaker 1: of previewed it a little bit yesterday just speaking on
Speaker 1: exactly who could come out and have that that breakout
Speaker 1: game if this fifty three man roster is good enough
Speaker 1: to challenge the Rams. And we'll make our predictions on Friday.
Speaker 1: But I think overall this has been and just looking
Speaker 1: back at the history of the Rams and the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: this is one of the more interesting series I think
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have had against the franchise across each of
Speaker 1: their organization's history. I mean, it's the thirty second all
Speaker 1: time meeting and the Cowboys lead the all time series
Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen, and so it's been even, which is not
Speaker 1: something you can say with a lot of the series
Speaker 1: throughout the Cowboys organizational history, especially those who they have
Speaker 1: played since nineteen sixty. Of course, this being the sixty
Speaker 1: first season of Dallas Cowboys football, this is a team
Speaker 1: they played in their first season as a franchise, and
Speaker 1: they've been able to kind of go back and forth
Speaker 1: and trade blows all the way through. Now. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: have one four of the last five regular season matchups,
Speaker 1: and they defeated the Rams last year forty four twenty
Speaker 1: one and a beat down at AT and T Stadium
Speaker 1: on Week fifteen of last year. But guys, this is
Speaker 1: not the same Los Angeles Rams team by any means.
Speaker 1: And heck, I know you've been doing your research and
Speaker 1: you've been looking at the Rams overall, but on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football, this isn't the same running
Speaker 1: attack that they've had in the past. No Todd Gurley,
Speaker 1: no C. J. Anderson. Of course he's been Yon for
Speaker 1: a little bit longer than Gurley has. But this is
Speaker 1: a team that might struggle to run the football a
Speaker 1: little bit, aren't they. No, Well, Sean McVeigh is a
Speaker 1: pass he wants to be. He is the passing guru,
Speaker 1: right and last year, based off of the numbers, they
Speaker 1: just completely abandoned the run all together. And so thinking
Speaker 1: about them going forward as a running team, and I
Speaker 1: know we're going to get into their offensive line and
Speaker 1: some of their woes that they are experiencing there, but
Speaker 1: the rookie that they picked up from Florida State cam Acres.
Speaker 1: If you read any of the beat writers stuff coming
Speaker 1: out of Los Angeles, these guys are high on him,
Speaker 1: really expecting for him to make a step this year
Speaker 1: and being I wouldn't say an improvement over Todd Gurley, no,
Speaker 1: but at the same time be someone that can be
Speaker 1: productive in that backfield. Which Rams team are we going
Speaker 1: to see her? We're gonna see the Rams from last
Speaker 1: year again, who abandoned the run? Sean McVey, the boy
Speaker 1: genius three years ago. I mean, the guy can't remember
Speaker 1: what he ate for breakfast in first grade. So we
Speaker 1: just have to you just have to know it and
Speaker 1: just understand that no matter what, the Cowboys know that
Speaker 1: they're facing a very multidimensional offense that can play a
Speaker 1: plethora of tempos. So it's gonna be interesting, especially being
Speaker 1: the first game without having any tape on what they
Speaker 1: did in the preseason. Isaiah, whenever it comes to this
Speaker 1: this running attack, and we'll start we'll start kind of
Speaker 1: going through the passing attack here in the second segment.
Speaker 1: But well, what is it like replacing a face of
Speaker 1: the franchise? I mean, that's what Todd Gurley was. I mean,
Speaker 1: he will the equivalent of what Ezekiel Elliott has been
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys the last couple of years. He was
Speaker 1: the equivalent of that to the Los Angeles Rams, even
Speaker 1: from the move from Saint Louis to LA. He was
Speaker 1: really that first face of the re established La franchise
Speaker 1: of the Rams. What is it like replacing a guy
Speaker 1: like that, not only from an organizational standpoint, but specifically
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Yeah, I wish I could talk
Speaker 1: to the locker room side of things over in terms
Speaker 1: of how things went down over there, because I know
Speaker 1: it was a little it was a little shaky. Um
Speaker 1: in terms of his exit, right, I mean, obviously they
Speaker 1: started cutting back his ramps. Say, they were out there
Speaker 1: putting out reports that he was, Oh, he's healthy, he's
Speaker 1: just we're just getting some other guys some raps, and
Speaker 1: he'd come to find out he has a bad and
Speaker 1: his knees really bothering him. So I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: the locker room setting was there, But in terms of
Speaker 1: somebody with his stature, somebody in his position leaving the organization,
Speaker 1: I think those are hard shoes to feel. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: you got you got, you got uh Malcolm Brown, who's
Speaker 1: been there, who's probably going to be the starter in
Speaker 1: game one. Um, then you have a kind of a
Speaker 1: whole onslaught of rookies behind them that are going to
Speaker 1: be helping out, you know. And you hear McBay talking
Speaker 1: about it's going to be a running back committee. I
Speaker 1: don't see three running backs rotating through a game. You
Speaker 1: just not in this league. You don't see it happening.
Speaker 1: So collectively, I think these guys will figure it out,
Speaker 1: as you know, as my guy Heck already alluded to,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about more of their office line is
Speaker 1: not where they want to be. So the combination of
Speaker 1: their office a line and some new running backs, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you really replace that. Dueta Gurley, Well,
Speaker 1: you also mentioned the offensive line, and one of the
Speaker 1: keys to overcoming a little bit of offensive line deficiency
Speaker 1: rob is to have a receiving running back, somebody who
Speaker 1: can dump the football off to the two guys that
Speaker 1: are backing up, or at least the two guys that
Speaker 1: are up in the top three of the depth chart
Speaker 1: of that running back by committee. Darrell Henderson out of
Speaker 1: Memphis and Malcolm Brown out of Texas. Those two last
Speaker 1: year combined for six receptions in just over fifty yards
Speaker 1: all year as receiving threats. What is it like? And
Speaker 1: I know they've got a rookie and Cam Akers out
Speaker 1: of Florida State that's gonna make it impact in the
Speaker 1: receiving game. But is that something that you could potentially
Speaker 1: foresee because of the offensive line issues, Rob Yeah, potentially. Um,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. That's a lot different from having Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: on your team who could pretty much pretty much do
Speaker 1: it all right. Um, it's interesting about Henderson skip Pete,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys running backs coach coached him last year and
Speaker 1: actually was familiar with Tony Pollard here in Dallas because
Speaker 1: of the Memphis tape because they were they were teammates
Speaker 1: in college. Um, you guys spoke to the to the
Speaker 1: depth chart and I'm with Isaiah like, I just don't
Speaker 1: I don't see how you have three different backs rotating
Speaker 1: in the game. I think Cam Akers is the third
Speaker 1: running back listed on their unofficial depth chart. But you know,
Speaker 1: Sean McVay, Sean McVay came out the other day and said, Hey,
Speaker 1: we may come out with all three backs in the
Speaker 1: same formation to start off the game. Y may go
Speaker 1: five wide with nobody nobody back there. So they're trying
Speaker 1: to They're trying to do what the Cowboys are doing
Speaker 1: and keep you It has been a staple of their
Speaker 1: offense to have, you know, have that passing game, have
Speaker 1: that versatility with your running backs. We'll see what they do.
Speaker 1: You know, they're a little different offensively in their passing
Speaker 1: game because they traded Brandon Cooks. So somebody's gonna have
Speaker 1: to help supplement some of that somewhere. Oh, they have
Speaker 1: it too. Yeah, I think they need somebody to supplement that,
Speaker 1: and they've said that they're going to rely on cam
Speaker 1: Akers quite a bit. I mean, this is a second
Speaker 1: round rookie. They didn't have a first round pick, but
Speaker 1: they had two second round picks, and each of them
Speaker 1: are on the offensive side of the football. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about Van Jefferson, the other pick that was in that
Speaker 1: second round, coming up in the second segment. But I
Speaker 1: think whenever you look at the identity, and HECKMA mentioned
Speaker 1: it a minute ago, and I'll go back to you
Speaker 1: here in a second, but they did abandoned the run
Speaker 1: last year and they went to the passing attack, which
Speaker 1: was kind of interesting. I mean, they ended up as
Speaker 1: the fourth best passing attack in all of football, and
Speaker 1: you had Jared Goff who turned around and put up
Speaker 1: some pretty impressive numbers third in the league and passing
Speaker 1: yard behind of course Dak Prescott and Jamis Winston. And
Speaker 1: he was actually second in the league with past completions
Speaker 1: of twenty plus or more yards, so he had those numbers.
Speaker 1: They abandoned the passing attack. They went with Sean mcvay's
Speaker 1: genius boy genius style of play, like Hackman was mentioning,
Speaker 1: but it was just going away from that identity. Do
Speaker 1: you think the passing attack is the new identity though? Heckma, no,
Speaker 1: I really don't. And when I look at the similarities
Speaker 1: between the Rams and the Dallas Cowboys last year, they're
Speaker 1: just a lot of empty calories. And I'm talking empty
Speaker 1: calories because of this keto that's killing me. It's just
Speaker 1: one of those things where I feel like a team
Speaker 1: that waits to the second half to become a part
Speaker 1: of what's going on. You see those late late game
Speaker 1: rallies where they try and come back nine and seven,
Speaker 1: and the numbers don't lie. Twenty two touchdowns forty six
Speaker 1: hundred yards from Golf. But when I do a comparison
Speaker 1: between Golf and Dak, I mean I'll take Dak every time.
Speaker 1: That's just me, right, But you know, both of these
Speaker 1: guys coming in at the same time in the league.
Speaker 1: The passing game looked really good late in the season.
Speaker 1: But with the additions of Van Jefferson for Florida, I
Speaker 1: think that really man, that the Cooks free agency, I
Speaker 1: mean they kind of nullified it with this guy Jefferson
Speaker 1: because I think he is probably as dynamical receiver as
Speaker 1: we've seen coming to the league. Just really smooth and
Speaker 1: a coaches kid and coaches kids, man, when you turn
Speaker 1: on the tape, they just do consistently the good things
Speaker 1: over and over and over, no wasted motion. The kid
Speaker 1: is just really explosive, smooth route runner. And Isaiah I
Speaker 1: know that's somebody you can look at it and can
Speaker 1: appreciate what he's doing from a rookie perspective. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean these guys are I mean, they're the receiving cores.
Speaker 1: There's no question about whether these guys are gonna be good, right.
Speaker 1: I was surprised to see that they kept four tight ends.
Speaker 1: That's very odd, to say the least. But I think
Speaker 1: that's a testament also to their officive line, as we
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday, in terms of being able to help
Speaker 1: when you're not when you're at that sure of your
Speaker 1: off your office a line, especially your tackles. But um,
Speaker 1: they're receiving corps solid, man. I mean there's no questions there.
Speaker 1: We know about Cup, we know about Woods, we you
Speaker 1: know obviously we got we got the Rickie coming in. Um,
Speaker 1: they're solid in that regard. A question is are they
Speaker 1: gonna be able to protect right and I and I
Speaker 1: and I don't really see that happening against our front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the biggest thing. That's absolutely sorry that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean Goff, you know, he put up some numbers,
Speaker 1: like like Kyle said, but I don't think it wasn't
Speaker 1: his best season of his of his young career so far.
Speaker 1: I think he was picked off maybe fifteen sixteen times.
Speaker 1: I think he was sacked like the fewest times in
Speaker 1: the league. But he's a guy that had had to
Speaker 1: get the ball out quickly last year. I just don't
Speaker 1: think they found the rhythm of their offense. And and
Speaker 1: like Heckma said they got behind him games last year
Speaker 1: and had to play had to play catchup. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the new trend. I think they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to be balanced. I think everybody wants to be balanced
Speaker 1: if you can, and they do have the receivers to
Speaker 1: do that. And Tyler Higby's an excellent tight end, and
Speaker 1: they do try to use both their tight ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Everett is is another guy that they try
Speaker 1: to get involved. So their offense is all about versatility, tempo,
Speaker 1: different formations and uh and try to throw you off
Speaker 1: that way. I mean, the biggest dynamic and Gerald Everett
Speaker 1: uh as well. We've talked about the NFC East and
Speaker 1: the tight ends that we're going to see in this division.
Speaker 1: We get a good sample size of what we're gonna
Speaker 1: see with Higbye and Everett once you started Sunday. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: now that that one two punch is gonna be nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, but to Kyle's point, Uh, these guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Rams are based around a run. I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: even though they have the ability to throw the thing
Speaker 1: all over the field, they need a solid run game.
Speaker 1: And that's why they had the season they had last
Speaker 1: year because they didn't establish that, and you know, and
Speaker 1: Gurley was heard and they you know, they're bringing guys
Speaker 1: from from home to come play, and you know, and
Speaker 1: and all guys other stuff. You know, So they just
Speaker 1: really never got that, never got that established. And I
Speaker 1: think even with amongst their abilities and I mean their
Speaker 1: talents that they have at every other position, if they
Speaker 1: can't tote the rock and then then you know, then
Speaker 1: it becomes one side in as defense, you can stop that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't even had a problem with that. They haven't
Speaker 1: had a problem with being one sided. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the surprising thing about McVeigh and the scheme that
Speaker 1: he'd used it is that he looked, if all else fails,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna throw that pork all over the field.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fantastic way to put it, because
Speaker 1: even though they were a little bit one dimensional last year,
Speaker 1: they still were the seventh best total offense because one,
Speaker 1: they put up so many good numbers on the passing side,
Speaker 1: even with the turnovers that Rob was mentioning, because I agree,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was Jared Goff's past year, but
Speaker 1: he just had more passing attempts to accumulate those numbers
Speaker 1: with that's why they ended up with the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: best running game in all of the NFL, so the
Speaker 1: fifth worst running game in the NFL last year. But
Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty to talk to, and we'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of these receivers coming up here in just
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Speaker 1: number two. Here of talking Cowboys, Kyle Yeoman's heck my
Speaker 1: Harrison Isaiah stand back and Cowboys insider Rob Phillips. Glad
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Speaker 1: One week one, Episode two is where we're at, and
Speaker 1: of course the Cowboys playing the Rams. This Sunday night
Speaker 1: seven o'clock is the broadcast time, seven twenty is kick off,
Speaker 1: And almost said first pitch. Almost went back to my
Speaker 1: baseball days there, but that's not the case. I don't
Speaker 1: I would hope it's not the first pitch. But they
Speaker 1: are going to be throwing the ball around a little bit.
Speaker 1: And we were just talking about the passing attack and
Speaker 1: exactly what what comes to the table whenever it's the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams and with the Cowboys right now. We
Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday some of the concern is in the linebacking corps,
Speaker 1: but really the biggest concerns are in the secondary. And
Speaker 1: I think the secondary has been something that we absolutely
Speaker 1: have really a lot of question marks about heading into
Speaker 1: this season. And I think this is a game where
Speaker 1: they're gonna get tested rob and this is a tough
Speaker 1: challenge already with Cooper Cup and Robert Woods, who were
Speaker 1: each eleven hundred yard receivers. But then you turn around
Speaker 1: you've got Van Jefferson added to the mix. That's a
Speaker 1: trio of wide receivers that's just as good, at at
Speaker 1: least on paper as what really the Cowboys are starting
Speaker 1: to put out there. Maybe not as good, but they're
Speaker 1: at least in that conversation. As one of the better
Speaker 1: wide receiving cores in the entire NFL, how is this
Speaker 1: secondary gonna stack up? Well, don't forget Josh Reynolds. There,
Speaker 1: you go out there, gig them. Yeah, I mean now
Speaker 1: the rookie is probably pushing him for playing time though.
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson, like Heckma mentioned earlier, having a great camp
Speaker 1: from what we've heard in La. So, uh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting. I'm very curious to see how the Cowboys
Speaker 1: deployed their cornerbacks. And I know we saw the unofficial
Speaker 1: depth chart and it's got you know, it's got Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: it's got Trayvon Diggs potentially as a starter. Um. I
Speaker 1: wonder how they how they use those guys and how
Speaker 1: they might rotate guys possibly, uh to combat that. The
Speaker 1: other thing I mentioned the tight ends earlier, that's something else.
Speaker 1: You know, it's all about matchups and the Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: will say this, the Boys have enough versatility to handle that.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, a guy like Daryl Worley can
Speaker 1: step down in the box cover tight ends. I think
Speaker 1: Cheeto could do it. You know, Byron Jones, that was
Speaker 1: kind of his job in the past. But they do
Speaker 1: have some versatility to be able to do that. But
Speaker 1: you're right, Kyle. I mean it's this is a really
Speaker 1: potent receiving cores on paper, and what we've seen from
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, we saw it a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: in the playoff game when they really protected him well
Speaker 1: against Dallas. When he has time to set his feet. Man,
Speaker 1: he is really really accurate. He can throw balls in
Speaker 1: the tight windows to guys. So it's gonna be about
Speaker 1: the pressure upfront more than anything for me. Hey, Rob, question,
Speaker 1: But I don't want to let this slide because I
Speaker 1: feel like this might be a little topic that we
Speaker 1: can touch on real quick. It sounded like Kyle was
Speaker 1: super confident that the Cowboys receiving Corps is better than
Speaker 1: the Rams receiving Corps. Sounded like it, Yeah, I'm confident. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would be confident in that. I wouldn't say there's
Speaker 1: a ginormous gap, nonetheless, no no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: But but if we were putting it on the scale,
Speaker 1: would you say the Cowboys roster the Cowboys Receiving Corps
Speaker 1: or the Rams Receiving Corps. I love it. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear a heck, but first and then Rams.
Speaker 1: For sure, the Cowboys have the best receiving corps in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I have no doubt after seeing what Cede
Speaker 1: Lamb has done in training camp and then expectations that
Speaker 1: I have already for Cde Lamb because of how much
Speaker 1: stock I put him in him during draft time. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the best wide receiving corps. Heck, well, look, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's do it. That's what we're here for, right,
Speaker 1: So were we here? Were here? All? Right? Uh? No?
Speaker 1: To me, the Rams with with Woods and Cup just
Speaker 1: what they dynamic together and I and I believe two
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers, and that's why I did the whole
Speaker 1: comparison between the Rams uh and the Cowboys. But I
Speaker 1: just I feel like there's a bit of an advantage
Speaker 1: there between that duo. But as far I mean Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper for us, I would take a Bark Cooper over
Speaker 1: any two of those, any of those guys. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I want to see how Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: fits in this in the our scheme. But I think
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson has the same thing that Ceedee Lamb has.
Speaker 1: All the pressures not on him he knows that he
Speaker 1: has two thousand yard receivers and you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: respect what Cooper Cup does because he's a guy that
Speaker 1: can catch it in just a slant route to the house, right,
Speaker 1: And so all of those things being combined, Like I said,
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson coming into the league, coaches kid is his father,
Speaker 1: Sean Jefferson. Hey, Kyle, he was he was catching balls
Speaker 1: in the NFL when you were being swallowed. Had a
Speaker 1: little baby cap on just against our our listeners don't
Speaker 1: know this. This young man is six one two pounds
Speaker 1: around a four three eight correct, Okay, just just making
Speaker 1: sure that everybody knew that speeding, And I mean, and
Speaker 1: he has that real in game speed. It's one thing
Speaker 1: to run a four three's discustom practice stuff for, but
Speaker 1: this is another thing to be actual four three field speed.
Speaker 1: That's what Van Jefferson has. So he's one of those
Speaker 1: zero to sixty guys and one hundred guys. And when
Speaker 1: you ask me that question, come of threw me off
Speaker 1: my point. But at the same time, I just want
Speaker 1: to I just want to make sure. I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure that I don't jump out the cake
Speaker 1: on that because and again it's not a one A
Speaker 1: one B. It's just as far as the separation raw.
Speaker 1: But I would give I would tilted a little bit
Speaker 1: over to you. Scared. So Isaiah, Wait, Isaiah, you got
Speaker 1: the rams number one. That's that's I have the RAM.
Speaker 1: I agree with Kyle. I mean give Kryle some kudos, right,
Speaker 1: I agree with Kyle when it comes to an Heck,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Cooper, I'd rather have Cooper than
Speaker 1: than any of any of those guys rather are on
Speaker 1: the table. But when we look at the receiving corps holistically, right,
Speaker 1: you cannot bypass the fact that they have Robert Woods
Speaker 1: and Cooper Cup Right, those guys are two of the
Speaker 1: best in the league that are doing it right now
Speaker 1: when you don't think about them as in the same
Speaker 1: conversation as a Cooper or or or Jones or any
Speaker 1: of these guys. But when they're on the field together,
Speaker 1: these boys is putting up yards with eleven hundred yards
Speaker 1: right each right, and all the super efficient right. And
Speaker 1: now you throw in another you know, super qualified rookie
Speaker 1: that's gonna come in there and just and played the
Speaker 1: role of the third guy that that that's been that's
Speaker 1: a proven a collegiate player. Holistically, these guys are better.
Speaker 1: I think they're well, they're more rounded, um better well
Speaker 1: rounded receivers than just a Cooper who really, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a he's he's a dude, right, But
Speaker 1: you're not putting Cooper out there to run every route,
Speaker 1: Let's be honest, right, And you're not putting Gallop out
Speaker 1: there to run every route. Right. But you when you
Speaker 1: talk about you talk about Robert Woods and you talk
Speaker 1: about a Cup. These guys can run everything, right, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna catch the ball, they're gonna they're gonna break tackles,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna get that yack yards. Right, So all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you throw a third guy in there,
Speaker 1: who's who's complimentary? I think overall they have a better
Speaker 1: receiving corps, rob But you got you know, that's I
Speaker 1: hadn't compared the two, to be honest with you. But
Speaker 1: I think you make great points because I think if
Speaker 1: they had Cooper Cup two years ago, they might have
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. They might have beaten the Patriots,
Speaker 1: you know, because they needed something, somebody else to make
Speaker 1: plays in that game. Maybe nobody was beating Belichick in
Speaker 1: that game. I don't know, no, but but but yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think they're very comparable in
Speaker 1: terms of having a a kind of a wild card
Speaker 1: in a rookie receiver with a lot of talent that
Speaker 1: could elevate the whole group. And I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: if Cedee Lamb can carry over what we saw in camp,
Speaker 1: I mean he looked like a number one wide receiver
Speaker 1: in practice, so I mean, if he can, if he
Speaker 1: can do that as sometimes the third option, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys do have a chance to be
Speaker 1: right up there. I think Tampa Bay obviously, and with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady as the quarterback in Tampa, they have a
Speaker 1: chance to have the best receiving cord in the NFC too.
Speaker 1: I completely agree. And the fact that all three of
Speaker 1: these are being compared and we are going to throw
Speaker 1: Tampa in the mix because I think what they have
Speaker 1: down in Florida as fantastic as well. I put them
Speaker 1: number one. I still, here's the thing I've been pitching.
Speaker 1: Isaiah put me. Isaiah wanted to kind of put me
Speaker 1: on the spot, and I'm ready for this because I
Speaker 1: completely disagree. I think it's Cowboys one, Tampa two. Rams three.
Speaker 1: And here's why. So, Mary, last year you're talking about Okay,
Speaker 1: first off, let's just say off of what your answer was, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I respect the hell out of you, but your answer was, Oh,
Speaker 1: the Rams have two eleven hundred yard receivers and a
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver that's qualified and is going to come
Speaker 1: in and be NFL ready. What is different about that
Speaker 1: than what the Cowboys have. They each have two eleven
Speaker 1: hundred yards returning receivers and a rookie that's way better
Speaker 1: than Van Jefferson. I was really high on Van Jefferson
Speaker 1: coming into the draft, but celam is different. Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: is the what could be one of the best receivers
Speaker 1: in the NFL if he continues what we've seen in
Speaker 1: training camp and continue what the stock was of him draftwise,
Speaker 1: because of what he could do to change a franchise.
Speaker 1: So I think if you're talking about these three guys,
Speaker 1: the only one that you're disrespecting right now I still
Speaker 1: feel like would be Michael Gallop. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Gallup led all five of those six of those receivers
Speaker 1: who talked to you, and yards per reception. He had
Speaker 1: a whole seventeen per reception when Cooper Cup had twelve
Speaker 1: and a half and Roberts wood Woods just barely had
Speaker 1: twelve and a half. Gallup, it's more per reception, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: And this is a guy who's just clearly emerging and
Speaker 1: it's still ascending in the end life. Well, this is receiving.
Speaker 1: You can't even fight me on it because they are goodness,
Speaker 1: thank you, Hey, Cole. If you have hate in your heart,
Speaker 1: let it out. I'm waiting on that to come out
Speaker 1: of you all dog out here. That's what I need it.
Speaker 1: I needed you to had that. I was. I was
Speaker 1: really just poking the bear right there. Well, now, what
Speaker 1: about I mean, are we not gonna are we not
Speaker 1: gonna include New Orleans and receiving New But Tampa, Tampa
Speaker 1: is the Tampa's the best, that's the question. Tampa's the best.
Speaker 1: They have the as for not even a conversation, not
Speaker 1: even conversation, not even a conversation, you got something personal?
Speaker 1: Not at all? Hey, hey, not at all. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I respect these guys. But to your point, yes,
Speaker 1: two eleven hundred yard receivers hand to head boom. I'm
Speaker 1: not really a stats guy. I'm really not a stats
Speaker 1: guy because there's so much more that goes into the game.
Speaker 1: Just the Rams receiving cores is a lot more versatile
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys facts, their route running ability is better. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think I still think you're Michael, Cowboys have lamb.
Speaker 1: I think those two guys at school as what you
Speaker 1: could see out of Cup now now CD, CD, yes, CD, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: But when we're looking at it overall, I'm putting Woods
Speaker 1: or Cup all over the place. I don't have to
Speaker 1: put them at Just when you think about when we
Speaker 1: think about a Marie Cooper, Marie Cooper, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the outside. He could be here putting them outside.
Speaker 1: And if he's inside, he can if he's gonna or
Speaker 1: go you're gonna run an overall or go like you
Speaker 1: you know what he's gonna run, you know, or or
Speaker 1: one step slamp. So he's limited in that regard versus
Speaker 1: Cup and Woods. Those guys you don't know what route
Speaker 1: they're gonna run. It's true, it's interesting, Hey, but what
Speaker 1: about what about factoring in just the rest of the
Speaker 1: offense though, that can make those guys. But I mean,
Speaker 1: we just talked about the Rams running back group. They
Speaker 1: don't have a Zeke. They don't have a guy right
Speaker 1: right now that can you know, take the pressure off
Speaker 1: and create that that balance. I think having Zeke is
Speaker 1: and vice versa two. I think when you if you
Speaker 1: put the three top ride receivers on the field with
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin that in certain packages, man, that's gonna make
Speaker 1: Zeke's job so much easier to say. And you know what,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys should be on paper, are substantially more
Speaker 1: efficient and better team on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball than the Rams are. That's not even a question,
Speaker 1: right You're just talking about just straight up, straight compared
Speaker 1: to wide receiver's head to hit. Yeah, our offense is not.
Speaker 1: It's not even comparable right now, not until they showed it.
Speaker 1: They have a running game, no tamp. You have a point,
Speaker 1: especially with Gallup and COMPARI comparing them him to Woods
Speaker 1: and Cup and that may be where the difference is.
Speaker 1: But to your point, Rob, about the running game, even
Speaker 1: with cam Makers, one of the things coming out of
Speaker 1: camp about him is the fact that he can't pass protech.
Speaker 1: So being that he can't pass protect and they have
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars quarterback, I think that may be
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tilting of your hand every
Speaker 1: time we see cam Makers on the field, but it's
Speaker 1: it's the tight ends for me and what they do
Speaker 1: in that offense, and I think it's gonna make the
Speaker 1: difference in this football game. And so I want to
Speaker 1: see how the Cowboys defensively, whether it be with Worley,
Speaker 1: I don't know if Jordan Lewis is going to be able.
Speaker 1: I think it's a game time decision or is not
Speaker 1: gonna play. But either way, in our nickel and dime
Speaker 1: packages is going to be very important. Whether we relegate
Speaker 1: a linebacker to that tight end, you know, covering the
Speaker 1: tight end, we're gonna have our hands full with that,
Speaker 1: not only with Cup, not only with the other Woods,
Speaker 1: and not only with Jefferson, but in the passing game.
Speaker 1: I think the tight ends they make a lot of
Speaker 1: us for the Rams, absolutely, Higbee and Everett. That's a
Speaker 1: cold one two punch at the at the tight end
Speaker 1: position um. And since we're in the season of comparing,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that that's a that's the
Speaker 1: comparison either. I think that they definitely have the edge
Speaker 1: on us in that regard. I think that's probably God.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm yeah, I can't disagree with that. Higby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he throw the whole office away. Our offense collectively is
Speaker 1: better than the Rams offense. I'm gonna put that out there,
Speaker 1: so that so that could be quoted, however, Zeke. Not
Speaker 1: only because of Zeke, you got it. We also factor
Speaker 1: in the officeive line as well. Right, Our officive line
Speaker 1: is more established, right, you know, and and Dak is
Speaker 1: there too, But Jared groff Is is pretty dugar and
Speaker 1: good himself. Right, So Dak and Jared goff you know,
Speaker 1: Dak probably has the edge, of course, but overall our
Speaker 1: office is better. Um now, offensive coordinators, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: see what happens with that in terms of their their battle,
Speaker 1: because that's a battle that nobody ever talks about. We
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time talking about the players when
Speaker 1: we talk about the offensive cour das, they're having a
Speaker 1: battle as well in a defensive coordinators. So we'll see
Speaker 1: lots of debate. And that's what makes this matchup fun
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Speaker 1: not the fact that you're going into this matchup thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a one and oh season to start
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Speaker 1: Cowboys Kyle Yeoman's heck Ma Harrison and Rod Phillips. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to mention Isaiah Standback because he thinks that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys receivers are not as good as La. It's
Speaker 1: all up. That's Isaiah stand Back. He's outstanding and he
Speaker 1: knows football probably better than any of us because he's
Speaker 1: the only one that's got a Super Bowl ring, so
Speaker 1: probably not probably. Yeah, you're right, I can't concede that
Speaker 1: just yet. I gotta argue with them sometimes. So, guys,
Speaker 1: over the past twenty four hours, the Cowboys did their
Speaker 1: weekly media release and they kind of give out their
Speaker 1: game notes and they release the depth chart officially from
Speaker 1: the PR team. And there was something kind of intriguing
Speaker 1: on here that I wanted to break down. And if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, it's on tard Archer's Twitter account.
Speaker 1: You can go find tard Archer. That's the one I'm
Speaker 1: at least looking at now. I might even tweet it
Speaker 1: out later on just so you can look at it.
Speaker 1: But there were four down linemen. It looks like where
Speaker 1: it says DeMarcus Lawrence, Dantari Poe, Tristan Hill, and Tyrone
Speaker 1: Crawford are your defensive linemen better on the first string
Speaker 1: up the depth chart. Then there's this thing called the
Speaker 1: strong linebacker, the same linebacker. And there's an Alden Smith
Speaker 1: right there, and there's a there's a there's a Doran's
Speaker 1: Armstrong right there as well, Robin and and Isaiah and
Speaker 1: Heck about, guys, we've we've talked about this all offseason.
Speaker 1: Are we starting to see a little bit of a
Speaker 1: scheme change? Now, this wouldn't be three four, it'd be
Speaker 1: more like a four three under type of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is like the same thing, which is exactly honestly,
Speaker 1: which is pretty much the same two seventy pound exactly. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: that's kind of that's what we're we're throwing out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that Alden Smith and Doran's Armstrong
Speaker 1: were listed on here as as the same linebacker, otherwise
Speaker 1: known as the strong side linebacker, means they're gonna be
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage. They're gonna to be standing up,
Speaker 1: which we've seen during training camp from time to time.
Speaker 1: But do we take any stock in this or is
Speaker 1: this Mike McCarthy still playing games with not giving up
Speaker 1: any kind of information. Yeah, that's playing games and giving
Speaker 1: you a little bit more of that mystery juice. Let's
Speaker 1: call it that before the first game, because I mean,
Speaker 1: they have players all out of position. We have Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb returning kicks, Tony Poller returning punts. So I don't
Speaker 1: put any stock in it at all. You got ten
Speaker 1: players listen on offense. That'll work. Yeah, that's that's the
Speaker 1: main reason. I know. But but yeah, I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I mean we talked to all offseason. This is going
Speaker 1: to be a multiple defense, So you know, I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna give a lot of different looks. And actually,
Speaker 1: when Mike Nolan was asked about what Randy Gregory could
Speaker 1: give him when he comes back to practice in games,
Speaker 1: he mentioned sam slash, you know, designated pass rusher. So
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the same role they look
Speaker 1: at Alvin Smith. But but yeah, I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: You can't look at that and say, oh, yeah, we
Speaker 1: gotta figured out now, I gotta we gotta see what
Speaker 1: happens on the field. And of course, with Sean Lee
Speaker 1: being a part of or being placed on the ir list,
Speaker 1: you even have Luke Gifford who was banged up and
Speaker 1: Rob you mentioned yesterday, there was a point in time
Speaker 1: this past weekend where there were two healthy linebackers on
Speaker 1: your entire roster before they were able to go out
Speaker 1: and resigned Joe Thomas and make sure that everything was
Speaker 1: kind of put back into place after they cleared waivers.
Speaker 1: But is this just a direct proponent of maybe the
Speaker 1: multiple defensive look. Is it? Is it really something that
Speaker 1: in Isaiah you might be able to answer this? Is
Speaker 1: this just something coaches do, especially at a time like
Speaker 1: this when there really isn't a whole lot of information
Speaker 1: out there or is this just Hey, we're filling a
Speaker 1: position of need when Sean leaves out at the moment. Man,
Speaker 1: I played for this dude named Bill Belichick, and you
Speaker 1: wouldn't talk about somebody who puts out some smoking and
Speaker 1: smoking guns. I mean, this guy would would throw anything
Speaker 1: out there. He would put out there on the injury
Speaker 1: report that everybody's injured on the injury report every week,
Speaker 1: every week, right, and you get no information. So this
Speaker 1: is definitely something that coaches just do. But I also
Speaker 1: think that there is some truth to it. I think
Speaker 1: that there. I think that with our linebacker woes that
Speaker 1: we currently have, um currently, I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: three linebackers. I think sometimes you're gonna see two linebackers.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna gonna see Jaylen Smith and Vanderessh
Speaker 1: in there, and you're gonna see three true defensive linement,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see two defensive ends that are standing
Speaker 1: up as outside linebackers. I think you're gonna see all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff, and no one's gonna have a heck
Speaker 1: of a time playing around with these guys. But you
Speaker 1: have to think about how deep we are at that
Speaker 1: D line position. Defensive line position. You have to rotate
Speaker 1: guys in at linebacker or whatever else you want to
Speaker 1: call them, because we just have too many guys. If
Speaker 1: you if you only played the art defensivelignement, ask true
Speaker 1: D lineman, nobody would get in the game. You only
Speaker 1: have you know, maybe six guys rotating through. So that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be the case officuely. We're gonna be rotating
Speaker 1: guys in and out like crazy, And so don't be
Speaker 1: surprised when you see just Vanderish and Jaylen Smith and
Speaker 1: there as true linebackers that everybody else's defensive alignment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's absolutely a chance that the defensive line
Speaker 1: is going to play a massive role in this game
Speaker 1: coming up on Sunday. And just to get you a
Speaker 1: little excited about maybe some of the past success that
Speaker 1: these two teams have had, or at least that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had. The players that are on the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin, when he was with Minnesota, played four career
Speaker 1: games against the Rams. How about this stat line eleven tackles,
Speaker 1: four sacks or four tackles for lost, two sacks, twelve pressures,
Speaker 1: in an interception in four games. That's four games worth
Speaker 1: of a stat line that's called dominance. Then you've got
Speaker 1: Then you've got to Marcus Lawrence. Seven tackles, a sack,
Speaker 1: seven quarterback pressures and two tackles for lost and only
Speaker 1: three games against the Los Angeles Rams of all time
Speaker 1: in his career. Yeah, it's thirty eight years old. He's
Speaker 1: going to be battling against two of some of the
Speaker 1: better edge rushers in all of it. Do you guys say,
Speaker 1: is there a way that we could make Whitworth retire
Speaker 1: in the second quarter? Like you know how the kids
Speaker 1: doing behind about the games the second quarter? Just sign it.
Speaker 1: I'm quitting right here. Just imagine, just imagine if you're
Speaker 1: Whitworth right and you're watching the Cowboys offseason acquisitions. You
Speaker 1: just every week you're like, come on, come on, man,
Speaker 1: we one. Yeah, he's sitting over there by himself. He goes, Man,
Speaker 1: I should have retired last year. If if this is
Speaker 1: going to be the case. Here's the thing though about Whitworth.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about respect in the league. That's
Speaker 1: a guy. That's a guy if he gets it done.
Speaker 1: No it didn't. It doesn't matter where he's been It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how long he's been in the league. They
Speaker 1: said it on Hard Knocks. There was a line on
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks last night where where they said, well, he's
Speaker 1: been playing in the league for a hundred years, and
Speaker 1: the reason why he will play in the league one
Speaker 1: hundred more years is because of his demeanor and his
Speaker 1: leadership and everything that he brings to the table. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you can joke around about how he's thirty
Speaker 1: eight years old and he's been in the league forever,
Speaker 1: but he's been in the league forever for a good reason.
Speaker 1: And there's the reason he's the only left tackle on
Speaker 1: the entire Los Angeles Rams debt chart at the moment,
Speaker 1: because he's a cornerstone and he's somebody that's going to
Speaker 1: protect Jered Golf quite well. He's got a tough task
Speaker 1: ahead of him, though. Everson Griffin and DeMarcus Lawrence, those
Speaker 1: are two guys. Alden Smith, you can throw him in
Speaker 1: there as well. Those are three guys. A lot of
Speaker 1: fresh guys that are coming right at him, and we'll
Speaker 1: see that on Sunday night. But that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: here for talking Cowboys. Hope you enjoyed it. Over the
Speaker 1: last forty five minutes. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll preview
Speaker 1: the Rams defense and talk about how the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: and that top wide receiving group in the entire NFL
Speaker 1: will match up against that MS secondary. It'll be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. We'll debate some more. But for isaiahs
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