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Speaker 1: You're working you're training. I'm training. I will talking about
Speaker 1: I will not be denied. Preparation meets opportunity, man, I
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Speaker 1: I'm a whole lot of stretching and a whole lot
Speaker 1: of sprinting. Is that's what we're doing, right, We're sprinting yogging?
Speaker 1: Is that what is in between walking and jogging? Well,
Speaker 1: That's what I've been doing for the last ten years.
Speaker 1: But this is, um, you know, you're talking about taking
Speaker 1: out like I hadn't, you know, like K nine Union
Speaker 1: behind you run. That's a bad analogy, but that's a
Speaker 1: deep down, deep down, but that kind of running out
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Speaker 1: that's or maybe Chris can do that for us. I
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Speaker 1: I cannot get you. No, no, no no, y'all in this Olympics, guys,
Speaker 1: I think they just want to beating us. Some talks upstairs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might end up. Two we prepare for every thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I got cornhole. But you don't understand Chris is not
Speaker 1: going to be on our team yet. Chris, I mean
Speaker 1: because we're not having a draft. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: so if you had a choice of which podcast you
Speaker 1: would support, Chris saying it wouldn't be us, I support
Speaker 1: them all. Just let me all know. That's way too political.
Speaker 1: But whose best friend is on what podcast? I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, Heck and I were boys. Yeah, don't don't
Speaker 1: get caught up in that. Man. He would choose, he
Speaker 1: would choose hanging over us any day. No, no, I
Speaker 1: could see that it would happen. I love them all.
Speaker 1: I love him. It's like a It's like a proud
Speaker 1: pop up refector pick. Nobody. Nobody knows how to right
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Speaker 1: some cowboys, uh to dive into nothing crazy here on
Speaker 1: this Wednesday, we didn't have a pot or excuse me,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a press conference yesterday, but rob anything
Speaker 1: stick out over the last twenty four hours or so
Speaker 1: since we last We're on there, um not really. We
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Jerry said on the fan
Speaker 1: yesterday they're not going to practice today because they've got
Speaker 1: the extra day before Monday night, so they'll do a
Speaker 1: mock game style walkthrough and a couple injuries to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on this week. In addition to Amrii Cooper,
Speaker 1: they've got more D line issues. Dawnce Armstrong has an
Speaker 1: ankle injury out of here. Carlos Watkins has a knee injury,
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on those and their potential availability
Speaker 1: or non availability Monday night. And Basham was said to
Speaker 1: have that linkering ankle too, right, didn't McCarthy say that
Speaker 1: on Monday? I didn't catch that, Okay, For some reason,
Speaker 1: I thought he did say that. He mentioned Day and Watkins,
Speaker 1: And but you know, Randy Gregory is if all continues
Speaker 1: going well, he should be cleared from the reserve COVID today.
Speaker 1: So that would be very good news. Can we just
Speaker 1: take the Bill Belichick approach and just put everybody on
Speaker 1: the injury report? That would make so much sense. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady every week, was on it every week. Let's keep
Speaker 1: him guessing. He's gonna play every week absolutely no matter what. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So if Dorian's Armstrong is out and there's not any
Speaker 1: extra depth added, even with the return of Brandy Gregory
Speaker 1: to that edge rusher spot, it's Michael Parsons still in
Speaker 1: the rotation at that spot because of how well he played.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons needs to be spying Jalen Hursts the entire game. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's in that conversation. Just have him spying him because
Speaker 1: the reason Jalen Hurts is containable. I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to this, but if Jalen Hurts is allowed to
Speaker 1: break containment and get going on out on a perimeter,
Speaker 1: that's when he's a problem. I don't fear Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: sitting in the pocket. I just don't. Now, we can't
Speaker 1: give him time to sit up there and use his cannon,
Speaker 1: because he does have that, But we could take care
Speaker 1: of the defense and that side of things. On the secondary.
Speaker 1: He wants to go out there and be a dual threat,
Speaker 1: and we need somebody to keep an eye on him
Speaker 1: the entire game. And I think that we can handle
Speaker 1: this receiving slash tight end cores with our defensive backs
Speaker 1: and our schemes well enough to keep those guys taking
Speaker 1: care of We just need to make sure that he
Speaker 1: doesn't break out and get things going past the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. So I think our best athlete who can
Speaker 1: handle that. Parsons, I don't agree, but I do to
Speaker 1: a certain degree. We don't agree. And I mean, if
Speaker 1: you watch the tape from Michael Parsons that defensive end,
Speaker 1: and I was one of the people that were saying, look,
Speaker 1: let's not even fool ourselves after that tank attains coming back,
Speaker 1: Let's try and move him around. And you look at
Speaker 1: the sample size that we have, thirty seven, thirty nine players.
Speaker 1: I believe that he played at defensive end. Bro, this
Speaker 1: boy is the truth. I mean, unveiled the bazooka. Stop
Speaker 1: playing with it. I mean, it's the real deal. No,
Speaker 1: that got drop that thing in there and the bazooka bazooka.
Speaker 1: I mean, just let's stop playing because right now what
Speaker 1: I see is a young man that is everything that
Speaker 1: you need in a defensive playmaker and one of these
Speaker 1: generational talents possibly And I know I'm jumping out of
Speaker 1: the cake on just the sample size that we have,
Speaker 1: but I'm willing to because of his quickness right off
Speaker 1: the ball and we need that. And if you can
Speaker 1: do this to a guy like Jalen Hursts, continually continuously
Speaker 1: get pressure on him, the spy will matter, but the
Speaker 1: pressure up up the gut and also getting around from
Speaker 1: the edge I think will smoke him out and your
Speaker 1: linebackers can chase him down. Yeah, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm taking it from from a quarterbacks perspective. Who has
Speaker 1: who had the same skill set as Jalen Hurts. I'm
Speaker 1: not threatened by defensive end as a as a quarterback
Speaker 1: who had the ability to run. A defensive end did
Speaker 1: nothing to me at all. I faced some really good
Speaker 1: defensive ends in my in my collegiate career um and
Speaker 1: they never bother me. I would be more concerned about
Speaker 1: the person that has their eye. I mean the whole time,
Speaker 1: the whole game that I know I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: deal with. After I deal with the front line, after
Speaker 1: I avoid the defensive line, Now who do I have
Speaker 1: to deal with? That's what I'm worried about, because if
Speaker 1: you go up the field, I'm going inside. If you
Speaker 1: stay inside. I'm going outside. It doesn't matter how fast
Speaker 1: you are, it doesn't matter how big you are. I'm
Speaker 1: worried about. Now, who do I have to deal with
Speaker 1: once I get once I avoid that those first four guys.
Speaker 1: So we did talk about how his pressure off mainly
Speaker 1: off the left edge when they decided to move him
Speaker 1: there and face storm Norton. Who's the backup tackle for
Speaker 1: the Chargers? That I mean? You said it. I agreed.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't get those eight pressures the sack, they
Speaker 1: don't win that game. No, no, no, absolutely no, And
Speaker 1: to that point, absolutely, But let's not make the comparison
Speaker 1: that Herbert has the same running ability as as jal
Speaker 1: But we don't. We don't change that up based. It's
Speaker 1: a different All those inside spins that he got Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts would being gone, well, let's see in absolutely gone. Well,
Speaker 1: let's seed in okay, Well we see how Philly gets.
Speaker 1: They make their big plays off of opportunities like that.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying, Let's not give them the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. And I would much rather sit
Speaker 1: back and play coverage and have him spied, making sure
Speaker 1: that he can't run for first downs then allow him
Speaker 1: to have big play opportunities. That's how Philly beats you
Speaker 1: with big plays. You also got to think about the
Speaker 1: matchup that you have specifically with your personnel outside of
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, because if you don't have Parsons spying, who
Speaker 1: would do it. You're not gonna relegate this guy to
Speaker 1: just do He's gonna have to be important in your
Speaker 1: running game. He's also gonna have to be He's gonna
Speaker 1: have to generate that pressure. Look, thirty seven snaps, thirty
Speaker 1: nine snaps at defensive end. It was seventy one total
Speaker 1: defensive snaps. I'm saying, you can move him around, you can,
Speaker 1: you can spy him sometimes, you can do some other things.
Speaker 1: This what I'm saying is his ability to create pressure
Speaker 1: is something that if you cannot go away from at
Speaker 1: this point in the season period, he's gonna do it anyway.
Speaker 1: Because even in Week one he was a linebacker off
Speaker 1: the ball, but he rushed twelve times. Whether he lined
Speaker 1: up an end, he blitzed from the middle, he did
Speaker 1: all those things. I think there's like a I was
Speaker 1: talking to somebody about this the other day. There's like
Speaker 1: a balance to me between he's rushing the whole game
Speaker 1: and that's it. Yeah, and he's only getting he's getting
Speaker 1: less than forty snaps because they're trying to preserve his
Speaker 1: you know, keep him fresh. It takes a lot out
Speaker 1: of you. Yeah, I'd like him on the field longer
Speaker 1: than that. But maybe it's more than just twelve rushes
Speaker 1: like in Week one, because like I'm with heck like
Speaker 1: watching that and there's better tackles you're gonna go up
Speaker 1: against the season, But he's screaming off the head. I mean, somebody,
Speaker 1: Tom Paris Pellicero, i think, compared him to Von Miller.
Speaker 1: Somebody told him that as Yeah, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: what it reminds like watching that Super Bowl with the Broncos.
Speaker 1: And I'm not you know, I don't know about the cake,
Speaker 1: but that off the edge and that quickness, that's what
Speaker 1: it reminded me of in that game. I am not
Speaker 1: disagreeing with you, guys. I'm just telling you, guys, with
Speaker 1: the type of quarterback that we are facing this week,
Speaker 1: that type of pressure doesn't bother them. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1: And there's a thing called a green dog. You might
Speaker 1: be familiar with it. A green dog as a linebacker.
Speaker 1: If you put Michael Parsons that linebacker, green dog, the stay.
Speaker 1: The linebackers have responsibilities. If I'm watching you and you're
Speaker 1: a running back, you're selling You're Sanders right, you're a
Speaker 1: running back. If you step up in block, guess what
Speaker 1: I'm gone. I could blitz right. If you go out
Speaker 1: in a route, then guess what one of us have
Speaker 1: to go take you? Right. So there's a thing called
Speaker 1: a green dog where those guys would literally linebackers would
Speaker 1: sit it there. So imagine Parsons sitting there in middle linebacker.
Speaker 1: He sits there, he checks if the linebacker, if the
Speaker 1: running back the size of stay in. I could blitz.
Speaker 1: I could come My response ability still is Hurts. But
Speaker 1: I can come in. I can blitz it. I can
Speaker 1: shoot whatever gap I want to, as long as I
Speaker 1: keep him as my responsibility. Or if there's guys go out.
Speaker 1: If the receiver, the running back decides to go out
Speaker 1: and a route, now we have to go out there
Speaker 1: and field him. And I'm still Parsons, still keep my
Speaker 1: eye on Hurts. All I'm saying is Negate the guy
Speaker 1: who can actually make plays on this team. And if
Speaker 1: they can't make plays on this team unless Hurts throws
Speaker 1: the ball, and that's why your safeties are going to
Speaker 1: be so much more important in this matchup because of
Speaker 1: the read option. And I think you found something with
Speaker 1: Curse and what he can do in the running game
Speaker 1: as well. But I'm just saying watching the film on
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, I mean, look, man, I don't know how
Speaker 1: you replace that. And if I'm taking Lawrence, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at this and Oh, that's it. That's it. Not even
Speaker 1: hold on player. I'm like, oh, that's it. Because if
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to relegate a tight end or a
Speaker 1: running back to chip him, oh, I'm on an island
Speaker 1: by myself. And that's what Tank has had to go against.
Speaker 1: The whole NFL is on notice with the kind of
Speaker 1: speed that Michael has, and when you can generate what
Speaker 1: he's doing from the outside, trus me Jalen Hurts is
Speaker 1: going to be looking for number eleven now with Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons and his inexperience at the edge rusher spot. I
Speaker 1: know it's tougher to play this in a sound fundamental way,
Speaker 1: but wide nines are what we're probably going to see
Speaker 1: a lot this week, and the wide nines at the
Speaker 1: defensive in spot, putting him out wide to try and
Speaker 1: contain Jalen Hurts. We're gonna talk about it a little
Speaker 1: bit later in film room. That'll be on Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot com. But Isaiah, how much tougher is that to play?
Speaker 1: If you are inexperience at the defensive in spot? And
Speaker 1: do you believe that Micah could play that if he
Speaker 1: were to line up at the visitive I think Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons could play whatever he wants to. And it just
Speaker 1: really comes down to how do we want to utilize him.
Speaker 1: Do we want to throw him out at Dan and
Speaker 1: just have him say, oh man, he got he he
Speaker 1: beat that tackle. But guess what Jalen Hurts went inside
Speaker 1: of him and got outside contained. Or do we say, oh,
Speaker 1: can we put it? He put him at Dan again?
Speaker 1: I guess he goes inside and he forces Jalen Hurts outside.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, we lost him again, right? I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's what I foresee happened, because that's what myself,
Speaker 1: other guys who have the running ability do when you
Speaker 1: when you talk about defense is going against um who
Speaker 1: are just blanked out Baltimore Jesus Lamar Jacksonson, Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Do you not work defensive ends, don't get to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: They don't defensive ends, don't get to Lamar Jackson. He
Speaker 1: will make you pay either way, no matter if you
Speaker 1: get great upfield rush, he makes you pay if you
Speaker 1: stay inside and get you don't get a rush in it,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of kind of I am guess what,
Speaker 1: He's still gonna run by you. There's no winning at
Speaker 1: that level. I would much rather have my dogs at
Speaker 1: linebacker keeping an eye on that dude. Now guess what,
Speaker 1: Now he can't run around. Yeah, now he can't run around.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. I totally agree with you, Parsons.
Speaker 1: Is the beans he killed it. But in this particular game,
Speaker 1: that is not the advantage for us. And most of
Speaker 1: the time when you come against say running quarterback, assignment,
Speaker 1: alignment is important. You gotta stay in your land, you
Speaker 1: gotta do your job. But when you have a guy
Speaker 1: that can generate the kind of pressure that he does,
Speaker 1: if hurts, if Jackson, any of those guys don't feel
Speaker 1: that pressure coming on their back, that's the Sacks drip fumble,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you see it for Lamar Jackson. Look,
Speaker 1: you talked, and I get it. He's a special talent
Speaker 1: and you use the best of the best when you
Speaker 1: when you pull that out. But I'm telling you what
Speaker 1: we have on defense. There are ten other guys that
Speaker 1: are going to be pursuing with Michael Parsons as well.
Speaker 1: Put him down there and let him do what he do.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you this is this guy has the
Speaker 1: talent to get to the quarterback when he wants to.
Speaker 1: Just to play Devil's advocate here really quickly robbed. You
Speaker 1: want to point no, go ahead, go ahead something out
Speaker 1: You said, just using the point of Lamar Jackson that
Speaker 1: an ad rusher is not gonna get to Lebarn Jackson.
Speaker 1: Well that's not necessarily Lebron Jackson. Did I say Lebron
Speaker 1: Lamard Max Crosby in Week one? And the reason why
Speaker 1: I remember this because I was watching him as Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football and Lamar Jackson was as a running quarterback.
Speaker 1: Max Crosby was in his grill all day long. He
Speaker 1: had thirteen pressures in Week one, including two sacks and
Speaker 1: eight hurries. I'm not saying Michael Parsons is Max Crosby
Speaker 1: at the usher so so to that point, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a great stat However, again, as a quarterback who
Speaker 1: has ability to run, a pressure means crap to me,
Speaker 1: a pressure, Yeah, to semi hits and and that's that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be. That's that's a part that comes with it. Right.
Speaker 1: But what are you risking? Right? We talked about risk
Speaker 1: factors yesterday? What are you risking if you allow for
Speaker 1: me to get out the pocket and do what I do.
Speaker 1: I'm I believe that Jalen Hurts is more confident. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he doesn't have the ability to sit in
Speaker 1: the pocket. I think he's more confident outside the pocket.
Speaker 1: The big players for the Philadelphia Eagles come with him
Speaker 1: going where outside the pocket? Right, So, because he has
Speaker 1: a threat to run or throw your linebacker, your second
Speaker 1: level of defenders have to make a decision. Do I
Speaker 1: want to drop back and coverage and and and take
Speaker 1: care of the over routes in the in the end
Speaker 1: routes and all those things that come out when when
Speaker 1: I have more time, or do I want to come
Speaker 1: up from pressure him pick your poison when I'm in
Speaker 1: the pocket. I have to be more strategic. I have
Speaker 1: to be more justin Herbert, right, I have to make
Speaker 1: those kinds of tensions. And their offense isn't set up
Speaker 1: like like like like the Charges almost say San Diego,
Speaker 1: like the Chargers defense, I mean like Chargers offense. So
Speaker 1: they're not set up that way. They want the big chunks,
Speaker 1: that's what they want. They want the big chunks. And
Speaker 1: if you don't allow him to get out of the pocket,
Speaker 1: our secondary won't allow those big chunks because we're not
Speaker 1: going to take those risks, hopefully against these guys to
Speaker 1: come up and try to play press man and all
Speaker 1: that jazz. So that's that's all I'm saying. I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's that's all I'm saying. I'm saying, take
Speaker 1: the Bill Belichick, Ben, but don't break because you're they
Speaker 1: are going to make a mistake and give you the rock.
Speaker 1: Walk him down. I think y'all both right, Like I
Speaker 1: want to see him rush more just because it's fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was just fun to watch and they
Speaker 1: and he does bring a different element. And and you
Speaker 1: may not have Doorance Armstrong this week, and so you're
Speaker 1: you're still kind of weak, yeah, depth wise on your
Speaker 1: on your defensive line to what you normally are, but
Speaker 1: you're right. Like watching him on, hurts On felt like
Speaker 1: the play is never over. You get to play are dangerous.
Speaker 1: You can't touch him. And if you if you look
Speaker 1: back at what the Cowboys did last first time they
Speaker 1: played him right after Christmas last year, they put c J.
Speaker 1: Goodwin in the middle of the defense as a spy
Speaker 1: for sixteen snaps because they got you mentioned Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: They got burned by Lamar Jackson. Last year. They got
Speaker 1: burned by Kyler Murray and they and they got burned
Speaker 1: by Jalen hurts in the first quarter. He had over
Speaker 1: fifty rushing yards in the first half, and they put
Speaker 1: c J. Goodwin there as a spy and they they
Speaker 1: stopped it. They kept him basically in the pocket from
Speaker 1: getting to the second level and it worked. That's what
Speaker 1: you do it with the safety with a yeah. And
Speaker 1: now they've added more speed at linebacker, They've got more options.
Speaker 1: So that is an option. Use your best use your
Speaker 1: best athlete to take out their best athlete. But I
Speaker 1: do want to see him. I know you want to know.
Speaker 1: Nobody want to see it. But as think about our secondary.
Speaker 1: If you give receivers these receivers who are just they
Speaker 1: want to go down the field. If you give them
Speaker 1: more time to run their routes, and not only to
Speaker 1: their first route, but their adjustment right off of that.
Speaker 1: Once they see the containment has been broken, that's when
Speaker 1: they're dangerous. So because he has a cannon, he could
Speaker 1: throw the ball off boundless, he cold throw it across
Speaker 1: his body. He can get the ball to places that
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks can't. So don't give him that opportunity. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Get the opportunity. I get what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and I like your your thought process here. But just
Speaker 1: out of the four play a second out of the
Speaker 1: four here, would you would you put him at edge usher? Absolutely? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or no? No? Yeah? Sometimes see I say yes, some
Speaker 1: I would say I would say not every not for
Speaker 1: thirty nine snaps consistently, but some, Yeah, because fifteen snaps
Speaker 1: at edge rusher, yeah or twenty whatever, But yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and you remember you got counter Neil two. There's another
Speaker 1: guy as safety who who's got speed. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's not for three four, three, two five two fifth,
Speaker 1: he's not that Yeah, don't disrespect to him. He's just
Speaker 1: not yeah, all right. Well when we come back here
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Speaker 1: wouldn't there a sweat it. Training means that you're actually
Speaker 1: preparing for something. That's a good point. It's a difference. Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well are you working out? Are you training? Huh? Are
Speaker 1: you working out or are you training? Neither? Heckman's training training.
Speaker 1: He's focused. That's why I'm gonna walk him down first.
Speaker 1: I'm he's on my list. First, he's on the hit list.
Speaker 1: He's on the list. I made a list. Kyle Yomans
Speaker 1: on that list. Time. I've been on that list a
Speaker 1: long time. No, no, no, you just got on the list.
Speaker 1: He just got on the list. Here, you got your
Speaker 1: money on CBO. I got a few names. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it. Who Kyl and Heckman? Who you got your
Speaker 1: money on? And what that's a raising question? Is it's
Speaker 1: forty yard dash? Yeah? Forty Okay, I give you got
Speaker 1: forty yards? You got sixty sixty yard dash? That's what
Speaker 1: I ran you guys? Who you got CB? Open your mouth, Chris,
Speaker 1: I mean, oh boy, just when you thought, what that's okay,
Speaker 1: that's okay, that's okay. Transitation. No, I got you, I
Speaker 1: got you. I got training played college football, okay, I mean, Kyle,
Speaker 1: what's your resume, buddy, I don't know. He ran too
Speaker 1: the Star and back. Yeah, when I played baseball. But okay,
Speaker 1: that's the thing is played. I played baseball up until
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, and Heckman played in like nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't think. I mean, I don't think that
Speaker 1: sound anything that sounded good. That sound. I don't think
Speaker 1: age has anything to do with ever running. I feel
Speaker 1: like that I will see. I love that mindset for you, Chris.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I cree, but okay, do you
Speaker 1: think Michael Irvin can beat you? And okay, Michael Irvin's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame athlete said he doesn't make a difference.
Speaker 1: It makes a difference if you're not an elite athlete.
Speaker 1: So you hear this. The whole is just see the
Speaker 1: shoulder struck. Yeah, yeah, all right. I asked about the
Speaker 1: safeties and I want to hear more about Jameron curs
Speaker 1: in the day that Demante Kez had because both of
Speaker 1: which made an impact on the win over the Chargers
Speaker 1: this past Sunday. But when you look ahead, I mean
Speaker 1: we've already talked about creeping safeties up heck, mon, I
Speaker 1: want to get your opinion on this. What do you
Speaker 1: see the rotation looking like? Because Donovan Wilson, at least
Speaker 1: at the moment, looks like he should be healthy. There's
Speaker 1: still a question mark around him and he's questionable heading
Speaker 1: into the week returning from a groin injury. But do
Speaker 1: you think he is going to be challenged in terms
Speaker 1: of the rotation? There are you going to see a
Speaker 1: lot more cursing Casey. He's already been challenged. The tape
Speaker 1: is out, and I think Jeron curs and Jerry said
Speaker 1: yesterday on the fan, he's like the way that Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn is re revolution revolutionizing the strong safety position with
Speaker 1: that guy with his size and strength and what he
Speaker 1: can do even in the passing game. I think it
Speaker 1: makes him very valuable to this to this franchise, just
Speaker 1: being able to pressure the line of scrimmage and also
Speaker 1: do what he does in the passing games against tight ends.
Speaker 1: And you know what Philly's gonna bring. They have a
Speaker 1: tight end up well, I think one of them's hurt.
Speaker 1: But Urtz is on the COVID list. But against I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like a guy Dallas Goddard, he would be
Speaker 1: I would trust Curse, but I also trust Wilson. I mean,
Speaker 1: Wilson has done some really good thing. I think it's
Speaker 1: just back to the culture point, the competition point, and
Speaker 1: I love it, and I think Kurs should get a
Speaker 1: lot of the lion share of those snaps. Why has
Speaker 1: Donovan Wilson gotten so much flack through two weeks of
Speaker 1: the year. I felt like towards the end of the year. Black. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think he has You don't think so, No,
Speaker 1: he's injured, No, I mean he's Yeah, he hasn't. It's
Speaker 1: been kind of on and off since OTAs. He's had
Speaker 1: kind of been dealing with stuff, like I forget what
Speaker 1: he had. He had a little knee thing right before
Speaker 1: training camp, and then end of camp he's had the
Speaker 1: growing deal. So I don't I don't think he's played poorly,
Speaker 1: not necessarily in terms of his play, but just in
Speaker 1: terms of him having a starting role. Because at the
Speaker 1: end of the last year, we were saying, hey, sharpie
Speaker 1: him him as the starting safety going into twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, You're right, something changed,
Speaker 1: And if it's the culture, it's the culture. But also,
Speaker 1: I mean, he did have kind of a poor off season,
Speaker 1: So is that really the way that it went into it?
Speaker 1: I think I think what heck saying about the ability
Speaker 1: to cover that versatility is a different element that curse brings.
Speaker 1: And I asked Dan Quinn about it the other day
Speaker 1: and he talked about how they've got this big nickel
Speaker 1: formation with three safeties and it's they're using curse down
Speaker 1: in the box, They're using them over tight ends. They'll
Speaker 1: play him deep, they'll play him everywhere. And that's that's
Speaker 1: a different kind of dimension that he's bringing to this
Speaker 1: group right now. And you know, Donno's more i'd say
Speaker 1: more box safety he is, you know, and and so
Speaker 1: that's it's just two different types of players. I think
Speaker 1: that's part of it. But I think they've got four
Speaker 1: safeties they feel good about. I mean, Casey's gonna get
Speaker 1: his snaps. Curses obviously gonna get his snaps, and now
Speaker 1: Malie Cooker's coming on too. I mean, I think all
Speaker 1: four of them are going to play. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, has there ever been a six four, two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds safety that dan Quinn has coached
Speaker 1: in the past that was highly successful? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think you could think of one. Seattle Cam Chancellor,
Speaker 1: that Cam guy, Yeah, yeah, that guy. Yeah. This is
Speaker 1: not new to dan Quinn. This is not new to him.
Speaker 1: He knows exactly what he's doing. He's done it before this.
Speaker 1: He has a personnel now to be flexible. As we
Speaker 1: keep mentioning every single week, whatever you have, we can
Speaker 1: match it up. And I'm gonna scheme it up based
Speaker 1: upon my guys attributes in their skill sets and what
Speaker 1: they do best. We're gonna put our team in the
Speaker 1: best scenario to go out here and win games. Let's
Speaker 1: see what he has this week. But as a serious
Speaker 1: comp Cam Chancellor this you're talking. No, no, I did
Speaker 1: not make the direct comparison. No, no, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm that's jumping out the case. Okay, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: size wise, Cam is bigger, right, just wait wise, he's
Speaker 1: probably about ten fifteen pounds heavier. But he's he's had
Speaker 1: this before, he's had a big safety before, and he
Speaker 1: knows what to do with him. So he has he
Speaker 1: has the vision because he's done it already. He's not
Speaker 1: just this isn't an experiment for dan Quinn. Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: has already had success with somebody of this, of this
Speaker 1: of this nature, so he knows exactly what to do
Speaker 1: with it. He's got another really tall safety back there
Speaker 1: as well, in Israel Mukuama, who was active didn't see
Speaker 1: the field. He's not ready yet, he exactly. But that's
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about four guys they feel really
Speaker 1: good about. Like what Rob said a minute ago, and
Speaker 1: then you added Mukuamo into that factor. This is as
Speaker 1: deep as the Cowboys have been at safe very long time,
Speaker 1: in a very long that's a bad word, deep as safety. Sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't say anything. The interesting about Curses that
Speaker 1: he's he's been mostly like a special teams guy throughout
Speaker 1: his career, but he started twelve games in a couple
Speaker 1: of different spots. And I mean, like you said, Dan
Speaker 1: was talking about that yesterday, like, we will get a
Speaker 1: safety in here for a specific trait. It may not
Speaker 1: be everything, but just a specific trait, whether he's long,
Speaker 1: whether he's able to cover tight ends. And that's the
Speaker 1: thing about Dan that I think I just sense it
Speaker 1: more than I did with the previous DC in here,
Speaker 1: is that there is a clear vision for I know
Speaker 1: exactly what I want. I'm gonna bring this guy in here,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna have this specific role and we're gonna
Speaker 1: get it done. Like just when he talks to you,
Speaker 1: you just have a better understanding of what they're going
Speaker 1: to do. And I think the players probably do two
Speaker 1: this year. So who is the toughest matchup for the
Speaker 1: safeties this weekend? Is it Jalen Hurts or is it
Speaker 1: somebody that's gonna take the top off of a defense
Speaker 1: at a wide receiver spot. Jalen Hurts. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think coverage alone will prevent these receivers from getting off again.
Speaker 1: Coverage will prevent the initial route from getting off right.
Speaker 1: Double high safety will prevent these guys from getting over
Speaker 1: the top of our of our cornerbacks. But if you
Speaker 1: let Hurts out, if you allow here to go out
Speaker 1: and guess what, these plays get extended and in receivers
Speaker 1: start running around or wherever is open, regardless of what
Speaker 1: was drawing up on the play. Scramble drill and scramble
Speaker 1: drill works a high percentage of the time because you
Speaker 1: can't predict it and you don't see it on film.
Speaker 1: You don't say, oh, okay, when they line up in
Speaker 1: this formation, he's running this. As soon as he scrambles,
Speaker 1: this receiver's gonna go run right here. No, that's not
Speaker 1: it's not a you don't get to negate that. It's
Speaker 1: like if you want to react to Jalen Hurts, because
Speaker 1: you have to react to Jalen Hurts otherwise he will
Speaker 1: literally yawg his way to a first down and move
Speaker 1: the chains. Okay, And if you don't if you react
Speaker 1: to him. Once you do react, then that opens up
Speaker 1: things for big plays, whether it's a fifteen to twenty
Speaker 1: yard pass across the field because somebody's coming from the backside,
Speaker 1: or whether it's a receiver who had a ten to
Speaker 1: twelve yard round who had turned around initially and then
Speaker 1: as soon as they see him coming, they spin out
Speaker 1: and they go deep. That presents problems. And that's what
Speaker 1: I want to cut back, because I don't think that
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts sitting back in the pocket beats Dallas. I
Speaker 1: mean his impro improvalizational skills on a thousand, he gets
Speaker 1: into it, gets into trouble, he escapes, he's able to
Speaker 1: look up the field and do some great things. You
Speaker 1: just said it like they want to get the big
Speaker 1: chunk plays, and they typically get those big chunk plays
Speaker 1: when things break down. But when things break down, that's
Speaker 1: not actually a design play. That's you improving getting things
Speaker 1: where how it comes to you. That throws off the
Speaker 1: timing of their offense. And I think the defense of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys defense has an opportunity right now to
Speaker 1: bottle up Jalen Hurts. Once you do that and stop
Speaker 1: him for the like against the forty nine ers, ten
Speaker 1: carries for eighty two yards. You can't allow him to
Speaker 1: get into that kind of a rhythm. So keeping him
Speaker 1: bottled up, not allowing him to do to improvising and
Speaker 1: get those chunk plays is what the what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have to do to win this matchup. You gotta deal
Speaker 1: with their speed anyway, even before it breaks down. I mean,
Speaker 1: watching them watching their games, it's like, am I watching
Speaker 1: like on a podcast? Am I watching this like one
Speaker 1: point five speed as opposed to just one point oh?
Speaker 1: Like they are fast. That is a fast off I
Speaker 1: mean hurts for sure. But you mentioned for the show
Speaker 1: as Watkins, the rookie Smith, Gregor. I mean, they have
Speaker 1: acquired so much speed on this offense, and so that's
Speaker 1: even when things don't break down, that's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 1: present challenges for the secondary. And they hit some shots
Speaker 1: in this game, now that's kind of all they were
Speaker 1: able to do. But they had some some near misses
Speaker 1: in that in that game and a few Cisco I
Speaker 1: mean I think it was Ragor, they had one foot
Speaker 1: out of bounds touchdown he had he ran out of bounds,
Speaker 1: was called the legal touching, and they brought it back.
Speaker 1: They had a block field goal, they get all the
Speaker 1: way down a three yard line after a big catch.
Speaker 1: But I think, ys, yeah, they try to run the
Speaker 1: Philly Special and that didn't work, really did it. But
Speaker 1: they had they could have won that game. And I
Speaker 1: know they did the offense struggle, but they looked really
Speaker 1: good in week one though, so we'll see. Well, when
Speaker 1: you talk about the safeties and what this massive matchup
Speaker 1: is going to mean, I mean, Kazee, I believe it
Speaker 1: is going to be very important to you in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field, just kind of surveying all of
Speaker 1: that and stopping the big place from happening down the field.
Speaker 1: But man, guys, Anthony Brown have got to bring those
Speaker 1: for the looms of this game. He's got what he's
Speaker 1: got to bring it. I like that. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Anthony Brown and what we
Speaker 1: saw from him an improvement at wise maybe week one
Speaker 1: to week two, and then also look ahead to that
Speaker 1: matchup with those wide receivers that Rob was just talking about.
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Speaker 1: It sounded like the commercial from way back in the day.
Speaker 1: That's what that sounded like. He had all the all
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Speaker 1: He's Isaiah stand back, He's Rob Phillips. Heck my Harrison,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the back. We've got
Speaker 1: about ten more minutes left. Used to be mahomie here
Speaker 1: if this one still mad? Still upset? Man, it's okay.
Speaker 1: Threw Chris under the bus, um, let's talk about the corners.
Speaker 1: Trayvon digs with an interception. On Sunday, you saw Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis I think had a pretty decent day from his standards,
Speaker 1: and then Anthony Brown. Was he improved on Sunday? I
Speaker 1: don't really know. After going back and watching it, it
Speaker 1: was hard to tell whether or not he really had him.
Speaker 1: I know, whatever happened twenty two, they took it off,
Speaker 1: and I guess there's a revolt and I think they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be putting it back. That was, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like two weeks ago. Still, they lost a lot
Speaker 1: of sponsh a lot of viewer ship. I think membership,
Speaker 1: a lot of the reason why people paid for game Pass.
Speaker 1: But yeah, hopefully they'll get it back. But Rob, what
Speaker 1: did you see from Anthony Brown and what he put
Speaker 1: on the field Sunday? Where did you hear what Heckman thought?
Speaker 1: Because but no, But I think I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't he didn't leak, he didn't have
Speaker 1: the same matchup. Let's just say that now. We did
Speaker 1: talk about the size difference with Mike Williams, and Mike
Speaker 1: Williams made some play, especially near the sideline there. But I,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought it was it was fine. I
Speaker 1: was more impressed with what Trayvon Diggs did, even though
Speaker 1: he gave up some plays just because he's having to
Speaker 1: shadow a top eight receiver in the NFL. No, that's
Speaker 1: the same thing. I was impressed with Trayvon Diggs his
Speaker 1: coverage ability. I think he's gotten so much better in
Speaker 1: year two. I thought Mike Brown was having his way
Speaker 1: at a certain point with Mike Williams with Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, Okay, yes, sir, that guy, the big guy.
Speaker 1: I thought he was having his way. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have to remember he did have a touchdown taking back
Speaker 1: due to a penalty. Um. Yeah, I just look, it's
Speaker 1: tough matchup for Anthony Brown. He's he's finding his way
Speaker 1: through the season. He had seventy when he had all
Speaker 1: of the snaps on defense, and so obviously I'm trusting
Speaker 1: dan Quinn. Dan Quinn hasn't you know, they hadn't gone
Speaker 1: out into the free agent market brought in a big
Speaker 1: name like everybody would want and hadn't brought in and
Speaker 1: they hadn't elevated any of the rookies. So obviously there,
Speaker 1: I just have to trust that there's nothing better behind him.
Speaker 1: I need to see the all twenty two to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, to see and have a real, yeah,
Speaker 1: real recap on him. It's just it's just very difficult
Speaker 1: to judge that position without seeing that over here. And
Speaker 1: that was past interference too. Yeah, dude, are you guys
Speaker 1: surprised that Maurice Kennedy has not seen really any playing time?
Speaker 1: He's had two coverage snaps in the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: Any after the offseason that he showed. Are you surprised
Speaker 1: by that at all? A little bit? Yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, the matchups for ab have not
Speaker 1: been easy, but we've seen kind of a safety rotation.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm a little I'm a little surprised, and
Speaker 1: I'll be interested to see number one win Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 1: comes back, but number two when he can maybe get
Speaker 1: in this mix. When is he expected to come back?
Speaker 1: He's eligible next week, that's say, going into the Carolina game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: not sure what the timeline is. I don't think it
Speaker 1: could be too far away though. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we're not talking. He didn't have a serious, serious injury
Speaker 1: and that was the last week at camp, you know.
Speaker 1: And maybe Jordan Lewis is playing just that good when
Speaker 1: you when you talk about Mary's Kennedy, maybe twenty six
Speaker 1: is is holding up Anthony and Brown and Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: are making five million dollars a year. I don't expect
Speaker 1: anybody to get thrown in front of them unless they
Speaker 1: just freaking botchet. You're following the money. Yes, that happens
Speaker 1: in this league. I could see that Jordan Lewis three tackles,
Speaker 1: two stops. He's given up a seventy one point five
Speaker 1: passer rating in eleven point four yards per reception, which
Speaker 1: actually all those numbers are pretty decent. I mean those
Speaker 1: are oh yeah A numbers. So he hasn't played poorly.
Speaker 1: His grades aren't great, but the stats aren't bad. No,
Speaker 1: But I mean Kennedy's played on the outside too. Mainly
Speaker 1: was an inside corner in camp. But but you know
Speaker 1: he's a vet. He could play outside too. All right,
Speaker 1: So if you guys had one player outside of Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts that you're going to keep your eye on for
Speaker 1: this Philadelphia offense going into Monday night football, which player
Speaker 1: would that be? What? What? What matchup do you do?
Speaker 1: You feel like worries you the most when you look
Speaker 1: at this Eagles offense. I'll start with you, Isaiah good Radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know I don't good stuff wasn't prepared for
Speaker 1: you get your red line today? No, I didn't. I
Speaker 1: try to drink that once a week. Um, I'm really
Speaker 1: not too concerned. Is that bad? I'm really not too concerned.
Speaker 1: They're fast, but I think I think coverage really comes
Speaker 1: down to that. I don't think that there's gonna be
Speaker 1: too many one on one matchups. I don't foresee, I
Speaker 1: hope not, because we don't have the speed on the
Speaker 1: outside to go to run with these guys, and um,
Speaker 1: we obviously just have to take care of that dude
Speaker 1: back there. So I mean, that's and that's why I'm
Speaker 1: saying outside of hurts, they don't. They don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're what I've already are you to put my point
Speaker 1: today in terms of their ability to extend plays that
Speaker 1: scares me. That scares me, But there their base offense
Speaker 1: does not scare me, nor does anybody on their on
Speaker 1: their roster. They have fast guys, but you can have
Speaker 1: fast guys all day longing from running two man, you
Speaker 1: can't do a dog own thing. If just looking at
Speaker 1: the tape and just knowing our reputation from last year,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, if they're and because of the size of
Speaker 1: Philly's offensive line, they got a big offensive line and
Speaker 1: they're up too though awesome guys, all of that, all
Speaker 1: things being considered equal, I just feel like for them,
Speaker 1: they're better run blockers than they are pass blockers. And
Speaker 1: so I think Miles Sanders is the kind of running
Speaker 1: back that will lower you to sleep. You know, one
Speaker 1: drop here, one drop there, next thing you know, he's
Speaker 1: got a big run. So I think for this defense,
Speaker 1: every week is going to be stopped the run and Philly,
Speaker 1: if they're able to establish that, I think if they have,
Speaker 1: you know, a good day running, it's gonna spe spell
Speaker 1: disaster for our defense. I think LV and Jalen, I
Speaker 1: think I think they really negate that. I don't see
Speaker 1: their old line just washing our defensive line from what
Speaker 1: I've seen from our guys this year, um and I
Speaker 1: think that our second level guys have had a kick
Speaker 1: in the butt and they now have they've woken up.
Speaker 1: They've woken up right so where they feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if I don't play my best, then I won't play.
Speaker 1: I think they saw that Week one. I'm obviously aside
Speaker 1: from just the matchups, so I think that those guys
Speaker 1: have there, They're awake, and they're ready to make some play.
Speaker 1: So I don't I am not threatened by this running attack,
Speaker 1: this rushing attack. Now there's something that will come down
Speaker 1: the line that we'll have to take on. But in
Speaker 1: terms of this particular team, I'm really not concerned. Now
Speaker 1: he is a versatile back. If he gets going, it's
Speaker 1: all yeah, yeah, if you have to account for him,
Speaker 1: you know, in screens and things of that nature. But
Speaker 1: in terms of them just lining up running the ball,
Speaker 1: not concerned. In terms of them just lining up and
Speaker 1: throwing the ball down the field, not concerned in terms
Speaker 1: of them lining up and getting out the pocket and
Speaker 1: making some stuff happen. Better watch out, little concern. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I'm with you guys. Attack on the run
Speaker 1: game because the charges. We didn't talk much about it,
Speaker 1: but they got five yards of pop last week and
Speaker 1: kind of attack those edges a little bit. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned Miles Sanders, their rookie gain Well can do some
Speaker 1: of that stuff, and he can do stuff in space. Um,
Speaker 1: if I had to name one guy, I'd just say
Speaker 1: Quiz Watkins just because of his speed and um, he
Speaker 1: saw the play he made down the sideline last week,
Speaker 1: and they're just you know that they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: count for that speed as well as the RPO stuff,
Speaker 1: and they try, you know, not a lot of teams
Speaker 1: do this, but they do a lot of motion with
Speaker 1: their receivers and try to get you with their eyes,
Speaker 1: and that's that's dangerous. You know you got to watch that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get that eyewash in front of you, you lose
Speaker 1: a little bit of look, a little bit of I'm
Speaker 1: sorry context. I wanted to go back to what you
Speaker 1: said about lve Man when he's healthy, well he looks
Speaker 1: he is a stud. And the way that he attacked
Speaker 1: the run, the line of scrimmage versus the Chargers that
Speaker 1: just screamed the old LV E, the you know, two
Speaker 1: tackles for a loss type style LV. And I think
Speaker 1: when you have him going, that just screams. So also
Speaker 1: the defensive line and the job that they're doing holding
Speaker 1: blocks up and allowing these linebackers to scrape. And that's
Speaker 1: why Isaiah will say, I'm not worried about the running
Speaker 1: game because of Jalen and LV, but I just think
Speaker 1: it's just a much much improved defensive line. He's playing
Speaker 1: like he's playing for for for a new contract. Oh
Speaker 1: believe that drew three holding penalties two which means he's
Speaker 1: he's he's getting after it. And hey, and you know what,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna rip Jalen Smith every week, give him
Speaker 1: credit to because yes, I mean, he was well he
Speaker 1: was around the ball, he was moving sideline to sideline
Speaker 1: to go chase and pursue and make plays. They both
Speaker 1: played really well. It might have been the best I've
Speaker 1: seen Jalen Smith move since nineteen. The difference in their approach,
Speaker 1: like their energy is different, and that's a testament obviously
Speaker 1: to the culture. But they're they're also threatened now. The
Speaker 1: position is so wake up call. I think it's a
Speaker 1: combination between the new culture, right, new energy on the
Speaker 1: whole side of the ball, right, their expectation of what
Speaker 1: their play should be, and the fact that guess what, dude,
Speaker 1: I gotta play if I have to earn my opportunities,
Speaker 1: and I'm I can't take them for grantedy anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: not the guy anymore. I'm not the one that they're
Speaker 1: talking about every week anymore. I'm an afterthought now. I
Speaker 1: don't like that. That's the facts, That's that's the reality, right,
Speaker 1: So I have to make plays. And I think you
Speaker 1: saw a totally different energy between LV and Jyles Smith
Speaker 1: coming off a game where they only played fourteen fifteen snaps,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna look in front of them this week
Speaker 1: and see a lot of new numbers in the backs
Speaker 1: of numbers. If Carlos Watkins and Dorance Armstrong aren't able
Speaker 1: to go, and then it's going to be it'll be
Speaker 1: a patchwork job on the defensive line. So ohso, Dicky
Speaker 1: Zoo is gonna have a ton of play playing time
Speaker 1: in the middle. So we'll see what the challenges look
Speaker 1: like for the linebackers lying ahead as well. But you're right,
Speaker 1: they did play better and it looked like they were
Speaker 1: playing up to an X level. But that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. Here on this edition of Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: we previewed the entire your matchup between the Eagles offense
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys defense. Tomorrow, we flipped the script Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense taking on a Eagles defense that looks pretty darn
Speaker 1: good against Seattle. And in Week one, Eric, sorry, not Seattle.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry San Francisco. Oh no, I'm gonna be I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: the Titans, YEP, should have taken the Titans. I forgot
Speaker 1: about Seattle already. All right, that's gonna do it. Chris Bean,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, Isaiah bare Man, he's out of here. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: heck my Harrison, I'm Kyle. You want to see you tomorrow.
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