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Speaker 3: And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda,
Speaker 3: and Kyle Yeomans.
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Speaker 4: In the SWBC studios, we have John Machoda, Nick Harris,
Speaker 4: Isaiah Standback, Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 5: It is a Thursday that.
Speaker 4: Means we're gonna preview the Dallas offense versus the Giants defense.
Speaker 4: It's no more Leonard Williams, but we'll have QB vision
Speaker 4: coming up in a couple of moments. Isaiah's stand back, So, what's.
Speaker 5: Going on, dude killing man? Yeah? I need to put
Speaker 5: something out there. Yeah, get something off.
Speaker 4: I had a feeling for all those who are from Texas.
Speaker 5: I love my Texas State home.
Speaker 6: Now I think it should be mandatory, Okay, whenever you're
Speaker 6: going through driver's education that they have to go spend
Speaker 6: at least a month in Seattle driving in the ring,
Speaker 6: because I.
Speaker 5: Feel as if nobody from Texas knows how to drive
Speaker 5: in the ring. Nobody nobody.
Speaker 7: My uber driver's Seattle when we were there for the
Speaker 7: preseason game almost killed me. So I don't want to
Speaker 7: hear this.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 8: That's true, Ray, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 7: It was on the way back, Yeah, on the way
Speaker 7: back from your beautiful birthday dinner.
Speaker 5: They're probably a transplant.
Speaker 9: Probably probably oh, from the birthday dinner.
Speaker 2: Oh, because you guys.
Speaker 10: Were downtown and we were in Bellevue.
Speaker 5: Yah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they put us in a completely different hotel.
Speaker 2: We didn't get the high. I don't even know.
Speaker 11: I don't even think of it as just the rain.
Speaker 11: I just think of the fact of, like, how many
Speaker 11: things in life is everybody decent to good at? Like
Speaker 11: I can think of nothing, but everybody gets to drive.
Speaker 11: Like it doesn't mean everyone's gonna be a good You're
Speaker 11: gonna have to deal with you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: They just imagine an NFL game. They're like, well, you
Speaker 11: gotta let some of the fans play, and you're just
Speaker 11: like this is gonna be terrible, Like no, but that's
Speaker 11: just the way it is. Everybody gets to play, so
Speaker 11: you gotta work some fans into the game, like just
Speaker 11: how terrible it would be even if you have Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 11: But then it's like, well, yeah, but we have some
Speaker 11: fans that block so we don't even have a chance
Speaker 11: to get Tyreek the ball. But everybody gets to drive.
Speaker 11: Everybody like they're gonna pull me.
Speaker 7: Out of the press box, put me at right guard.
Speaker 7: You're like, all right, baby, it's time.
Speaker 6: Somebody has explained to me, what is this thing again?
Speaker 6: Textans Yock Texas and help me understand that? What is
Speaker 6: this thing? And Beamer maybe you know? Okay, you've been
Speaker 6: here for your whole life. I think, right, but what
Speaker 6: is this? What it rains people put their hazard lights on?
Speaker 6: Oh I hate Daun because they just they're terrified and
Speaker 6: driving a middle lane and just chill.
Speaker 8: I couldn't tell your middle lane part.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 5: Help me understand it.
Speaker 8: Well, a middle lane.
Speaker 5: I keep trying to be safe, but that's not safe.
Speaker 5: All that is is just a roadblock. Is what does
Speaker 5: the hazards mean that? I don't know what I'm doing exactly.
Speaker 7: It does, but if you're in the middle lane, it
Speaker 7: basically means that you're expecting like the water to be
Speaker 7: on the sides, but if you're on like a major highway,
Speaker 7: that's not going to happen.
Speaker 5: Take the service road.
Speaker 11: Do you think people are concerned about flooding like that
Speaker 11: They're going to get around a corner or something and
Speaker 11: then there's going to be like a big area where it's.
Speaker 5: Like a tornatic type conditions. Yeah. Right, I'm coming back.
Speaker 6: I coming back from a restaurant out in South lay Cable.
Speaker 6: My family we're coming back from. And it was I
Speaker 6: mean maybe two years ago. No listen, I just a vision.
Speaker 6: Now that's how I'll go when I come back. Very church,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure church. So it's pornering. I'm talking about
Speaker 6: like literally like a tornado is like about to come
Speaker 6: through your problem right, like crazy, you can't see right,
Speaker 6: you're looking at the lines, Okay, you're literally.
Speaker 5: Just focusing on those little lines and you're just following
Speaker 5: those wherever they go.
Speaker 6: People had literally stopped hazard lights on, stopped under the
Speaker 6: overpasses on the freeway in the middle of the freeway.
Speaker 5: Make it make.
Speaker 4: Sense you're not on the shoulder, because I've seen people
Speaker 4: jo work on the shoulder.
Speaker 6: They were just on the freeway hazard lights on because
Speaker 6: it's rainy. Stop in the middle of the freeway underneath
Speaker 6: the overpass.
Speaker 5: No thanks. Yeah, I'm like, so you're.
Speaker 6: Protecting yourself, but you're gonna put everybody else at risk.
Speaker 10: Yeah, while also putting yourself at risk.
Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, if you scoffering through some pretty bad
Speaker 11: Heil damage in your car, you'll do whatever you're.
Speaker 5: Talking weather man, because it happens.
Speaker 2: Everybody stay safe out there.
Speaker 11: The morning, were eating at him a helicopter and he's not.
Speaker 5: I'm not getting a helicopter in rain.
Speaker 10: Driving the I called Isaiah this morning.
Speaker 4: I was like, hey, are you on your way or
Speaker 4: you at the star yet? Usually he's he or early
Speaker 4: and I was like, are you at the starry yet?
Speaker 4: And he goes no irritation.
Speaker 9: I was like, all right, sorry for asking, I'll talk
Speaker 9: to you a minute.
Speaker 5: Irritation all the time high.
Speaker 4: All right, let's hit some news and notes before the
Speaker 4: irritation level skyrockets.
Speaker 5: For Cowboys fans.
Speaker 10: They want to know what's going on.
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 2: Neck?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure. We'll start with the injury report from Wednesday.
Speaker 7: The Cowboys. They did not hold an actual practice. Yesterday
Speaker 7: they held a walk through, super late walkthrough too. I
Speaker 7: think they started right around four point thirty. But here
Speaker 7: is the here's the list of guys that were on
Speaker 7: that injury report. We got a Marquise Bell with a
Speaker 7: calf injury was limited on Wednesday, Tyler Biattish battling an
Speaker 7: ankle injury, he was a full participant, j Ron Curse
Speaker 7: with a toe full participant. Also a Diggi Zoo with
Speaker 7: the hamstring injury was limited. And then two did not
Speaker 7: practices in Tyron Smith who's battling an illness, and Cavante
Speaker 7: Turpin with a shoulder, which I assume that's going to
Speaker 7: be the same injury that he suffered against the Eagles,
Speaker 7: even though they initially called it ribs over the intercom
Speaker 7: in Philadelphia, but I guess it's more of a shoulder
Speaker 7: thing now. So two guys that I would probably be
Speaker 7: a little bit concerned with moving forward, obviously turping and
Speaker 7: not practicing today. And then, you know, typically an illness
Speaker 7: would not you know, scare me on an injury report,
Speaker 7: but it's Tyron Smith, so kind of scares me a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy talked about the possibility of just completely nixing
Speaker 4: practice right for him throughout the season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he said, it's an option.
Speaker 7: He was asked I believe it was by I believe
Speaker 7: it was Todd Archer that asked him about do you
Speaker 7: just shut Tyron Smith down for the season on Wednesdays
Speaker 7: and Thursdays? And he said, it's certainly an option, like
Speaker 7: it said, something they can look forward like they could
Speaker 7: possibly do, and not saying that they would.
Speaker 8: But I don't know. I guess.
Speaker 7: I guess being here thirteen years just means you can
Speaker 7: miss half a week of practice.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that, Isaiah?
Speaker 2: I do you like that? Do you not like that?
Speaker 5: Listen?
Speaker 6: I have played with some really good players along along
Speaker 6: the way.
Speaker 5: I played with t O.
Speaker 6: T O was up in age at the time I
Speaker 6: was playing with him here at the Cowboys seven o
Speaker 6: eight to never took a day off.
Speaker 5: I played with Randy Moss, Okay, Randy Moss.
Speaker 6: Did take a day off, okay, but it was Wednesday,
Speaker 6: and it was just a known thing that he was
Speaker 6: going to be in the swim x on Wednesdays and
Speaker 6: he was going to get his condition in and other
Speaker 6: than that he would watch practice and that was just understood.
Speaker 6: I played with Wes Welker at the time. Wes Welker
Speaker 6: would get beat the crap I'm talking about, like beat up,
Speaker 6: bruised ribs, all that stuff, taking shots, and he wouldn't
Speaker 6: refuse to take the day off that the coaches gave him,
Speaker 6: Like just wouldn't. He would not accept it, Like there's
Speaker 6: no way I'm taking the day off of practice. So
Speaker 6: I say that to say everybody's different, I can't. I
Speaker 6: can't put my finger on as to why they would
Speaker 6: want to shut him down. Obviously for prevention purposes, but
Speaker 6: like you got games prepare for and old line is
Speaker 6: one of those chemistry type things. You can't operate unless
Speaker 6: you know that the dude on your left is gonna
Speaker 6: be working with you hand and foot.
Speaker 5: And I'm not sure I understand that he can.
Speaker 6: Be prepared for games, but unfortunately he's not playing a
Speaker 6: position that doesn't require his chemistry with another man next
Speaker 6: to him. He has to have chemistry with Tyler Smith.
Speaker 6: And I'm not saying that they haven't had enough games together.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, him saying that they have
Speaker 6: not have enough games together for him to be ten
Speaker 6: days that's awesome. They need to continue to practice. They
Speaker 6: need to continue to practice. There's all listen, there's so
Speaker 6: many different forms of treatment and recovery tools out here nowadays.
Speaker 6: Cowboys are top tier when it comes to preventative care,
Speaker 6: when it comes to restorative care, all those things. They
Speaker 6: have all the resources. Trust me, Okay, I've utilized them right,
Speaker 6: and they have more. Now he needs to practice. I'm
Speaker 6: not saying that he needs to practice every single day,
Speaker 6: but two days out the week, when you're really only
Speaker 6: practicing two real days, then all you're doing is getting
Speaker 6: mental reps. You're only getting mental reps and you're not
Speaker 6: You're not just a receiver. You're not just a kicker.
Speaker 6: You're not just whatever. Like you need to work hand
Speaker 6: in hand, hand and foot with the guy next to you.
Speaker 6: Tyler Smith is still young. He still needs to know
Speaker 6: that when we look see these looks, this is what
Speaker 6: we're going to be doing together.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: You're not on your own island just because you're out
Speaker 6: there on the at the tackle position.
Speaker 5: So I'm not in.
Speaker 6: Agreeance with I understand why they will want to from
Speaker 6: the injury prevention standpoint and the longevity and just getting
Speaker 6: him through the year. But there there's a there's a
Speaker 6: double Ed's sword here in terms of, yes, he might
Speaker 6: be healthy for the game, but at what costs.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm all about it, to be honest with you,
Speaker 11: just because I think and then you get plenty of
Speaker 11: time to practice reps with whether it's Tuma or whoever's
Speaker 11: going to be in at left tackle, you might have
Speaker 11: to turn to that player during the season, and I
Speaker 11: just wear Tyron's at in his career. I think that
Speaker 11: gives him his best chance to be there on Sundays.
Speaker 11: And if he's not out there on Sundays, this offensive
Speaker 11: line is in big time trouble. It's it's kind of
Speaker 11: in trouble with him. So they're just so thin on
Speaker 11: the offensive line that I just feel like, Yeah, you
Speaker 11: can't be doing this for every player, but he is
Speaker 11: the type of player that if I got to do it,
Speaker 11: I got to do it, and I just move on
Speaker 11: with it.
Speaker 5: It's fine with me.
Speaker 4: I was going to bring up the practice reps for
Speaker 4: Chew Madoga Awesome Richards as well, kind of on the
Speaker 4: back side of it, because I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: about you guys, I have a.
Speaker 2: Pretty good idea practice.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about practice, my confidence level that he makes
Speaker 4: it through all the nine games left is super low.
Speaker 4: I do not think he makes it through those final
Speaker 4: nine games, especially with a full practice schedule. We've seen
Speaker 4: Thursdays hit him in the past. I mean, I don't
Speaker 4: think he makes it through nine more games uninjured, unimpeded.
Speaker 2: And healthy the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: But something that might give him an opportunity to do
Speaker 4: that as taking practice reps off. Plus it gives you
Speaker 4: more of that continuity that Isaiah you're talking about with
Speaker 4: guys behind him. So I understand the mentality of I
Speaker 4: don't want to give up my spot. I don't want
Speaker 4: to do I don't want to give an opportunity for
Speaker 4: somebody else to come in and take a position or
Speaker 4: to take those reps.
Speaker 2: But Tyron Spence at.
Speaker 4: The point of his career where he's not losing those
Speaker 4: reps even if he is missing, because we've already seen
Speaker 4: him missing for the twenty four games over the last years,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, he's still back.
Speaker 5: In the fold.
Speaker 6: I get it now, And I don't think that he's
Speaker 6: feeling like he's threatened in that regard. I believe that
Speaker 6: he's fully confident in his position in his role. It's
Speaker 6: just the reality is the old line. They have to
Speaker 6: work together. So I'm not saying to not cut back
Speaker 6: on his reps. I'm definitely saying you do that for
Speaker 6: most veterans, right, Yeah, we'll get over ten years, they
Speaker 6: don't have to practice as much.
Speaker 5: That's just to understand.
Speaker 4: If it was a Wednesday off Thursday practice, deal.
Speaker 6: With you one day off, but we're talking about two days.
Speaker 2: He's talking about wrapping them up, get the bubble wrap.
Speaker 5: Like, I understand you.
Speaker 6: Yes you need the other guys getting their reps, and
Speaker 6: yes you want those guys to get some experience and
Speaker 6: all that jazz for the just the possibility, right, what
Speaker 6: may happen? Right, what's the probability of Tiring not being
Speaker 6: in a game. It is relatively high over recent history.
Speaker 6: So you prepare for that by cutting his reps, not
Speaker 6: by not allowing him to practice at all. Like, I
Speaker 6: just don't see the overarching benefit of that outweighing that
Speaker 6: his being available, outweighing the chemistry that he needs to.
Speaker 5: Have with the man that's next, one that is still learning.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't think we can just crowned tytter
Speaker 6: Smith and say, hey, ttta Smith, You're good now, just
Speaker 6: go take care of business. Like he's still learning and
Speaker 6: he still has a lot of dogs that you gotta
Speaker 6: face the rest of this season. And there's a lot
Speaker 6: of big games coming up the rest of this season.
Speaker 6: And you could take that same point and say, well,
Speaker 6: that's why you don't practice them.
Speaker 5: I get it. There's like I said, there's give and take.
Speaker 6: However, limit his practice reps, don't remove all practice.
Speaker 8: Do we have time for one or two more?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: I one more?
Speaker 8: One more?
Speaker 2: Let's do two more?
Speaker 5: Two quick?
Speaker 7: We could do two quick ones. Martavis Bryant spoke to
Speaker 7: the media yesterday for the first time since being signed
Speaker 7: on We'll signed yesterday technically, but agreed to terms on Tuesday.
Speaker 7: It was pretty interesting. It just kind of described what
Speaker 7: he's kind of gone through over the course of the
Speaker 7: last five years. I had asked him, you know, whereas
Speaker 7: life taking in the last five years. He said, to
Speaker 7: places that you can't even imagine, some really dark places
Speaker 7: and times, And he said, I didn't really want to
Speaker 7: get into the details of that, but he said, I
Speaker 7: worked so hard to get through those moments, but it
Speaker 7: was a dark time for me. I'm so thankful for
Speaker 7: the opportunity. It's been a long process for me, but
Speaker 7: I stayed the course and didn't give up on myself.
Speaker 7: I'm very grateful to be here. So thirty one years
Speaker 7: old Marteves Bryant back in an NFL locker room yesterday,
Speaker 7: you could definitely tell you you could feel like the
Speaker 7: genuine gratefulness that was kind of coming off of him.
Speaker 7: And then talking about what he can do on the field,
Speaker 7: he said, I know I'm thirty one, but I'm still fast,
Speaker 7: still big, and still want to play football. I haven't
Speaker 7: lost anything, he said. The biggest thing for him is
Speaker 7: just going to be ramping up to football speed. He
Speaker 7: says he's still fast, but he's the football speed's a
Speaker 7: little bit different. So yeah, I guess we'll see what
Speaker 7: Martave's Brian has to do over the next few weeks.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he was asked about as forty times. He didn't
Speaker 11: know what that was, but he did say he's gotten
Speaker 11: up to twenty two twenty three miles an hour, So yeah,
Speaker 11: it's a great story.
Speaker 2: Work with a GPS, right, I just don't know how much.
Speaker 11: I don't see him making a huge impact on this season,
Speaker 11: but it would be interesting to see if he gets
Speaker 11: into football shape what he could potentially bring. But I mean,
Speaker 11: the way I look at this team right now, I
Speaker 11: just don't see, barring some injury, is where he would
Speaker 11: make a notable impact on this year's team.
Speaker 4: Do you think he has a better chance of being
Speaker 4: elevated from the practice squad over a guy like Jalen
Speaker 4: Cropper and Tyron Billy Johnson that have both been here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, probably, especially given like the history of the organization
Speaker 7: and bringing in a big name like that like that,
Speaker 7: he would get the chance before I think any of
Speaker 7: those other guys would.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Last thing, the NFL sent out a memo to all
Speaker 7: thirty two teams yesterday saying that juniors can now participate
Speaker 7: in college all star games. The Senior Bowl and the
Speaker 7: East West Shrine Bowl presidents have both come out saying
Speaker 7: that they will allow juniors in their games starting next year.
Speaker 8: So I thought that was interesting. I think it's cool because.
Speaker 7: Obviously juniors will get opportunities to be able to showcase
Speaker 7: their skills for the same exact draft process that everyone
Speaker 7: else is going through. But at the same time, I
Speaker 7: think it's really going to hurt a lot of these
Speaker 7: seniors that are coming out in the draft process as well,
Speaker 7: and we've seen seniors explode in those type of settings
Speaker 7: and rise their draft stock. And now you know a
Speaker 7: few of those won't have those opportunities anymore. So I'm
Speaker 7: curious to see how they balance that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: We cover the Senior Bowl every year, we go to
Speaker 4: the Reese's Senior Bowl, we go to Mobile were part
Speaker 4: of that, and we've seen some great senior quarterbacks just
Speaker 4: explode out there on the field now South Alabama, Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott being one of them.
Speaker 10: Jalen Hurts another one, Justin Herbert.
Speaker 4: He was already a high draft prospect, but certainly somebody
Speaker 4: who impressed throughout the week. I mean, it happens every
Speaker 4: single year, and then this year especially, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: more eyes on it because of the East West Shrine
Speaker 4: Bowl being.
Speaker 10: Played just across the hallway at the Ford Center.
Speaker 4: So not only will the Senior Bowl have better prospects
Speaker 4: from a top to bottom standpoint, but the Shrine Bowl
Speaker 4: will also have better prospects. I do feel bad for
Speaker 4: the seniors though, especially this class of seniors. I mean
Speaker 4: you think about it, like, Okay, I'm going back to school,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have a chance to play in one of
Speaker 4: these All Star Games, then we can maybe put our
Speaker 4: name on the MAPP and then hit that draft process.
Speaker 4: That's I'm sure this is kind of a punch to
Speaker 4: the gut because you've waited it out to this point
Speaker 4: and now everyone gets an opportunity to come and join
Speaker 4: the All Star Game roster. I mean, what do you
Speaker 4: think about that from a general standpoint? I know you
Speaker 4: keep up with at least Washington College football.
Speaker 6: Yeah no, I mean, you guys just pretty much mentioned it.
Speaker 6: I mean, it sucks for those guys, especially the guys
Speaker 6: that overcame COVID, stayed there, you know, came back for
Speaker 6: that extra year, and they're now trying to get their opportunities.
Speaker 2: The last class that has the COVID year yep.
Speaker 6: So you know, the guys have been pretty much waiting
Speaker 6: for this opportunity. The reality is, if you have taken
Speaker 6: full advantage of the opportunities that have been presented to
Speaker 6: you during the regular season, then you'll still get that call.
Speaker 6: If you're one of those bubble guys, then you're not
Speaker 6: going to get those calls because you know, there's gonna
Speaker 6: be plenty of juniors that can steal a ball that
Speaker 6: will be high draft picks that are going to get
Speaker 6: the nod before you. So you know you still have
Speaker 6: games left to go out there and make your mark.
Speaker 6: I mean, you can sit up there and complain about it,
Speaker 6: but ultimately you still have time to go out there
Speaker 6: and showcase in the season why you should get that call.
Speaker 7: Yeah, as I was committing a crime this morning and
Speaker 7: watching film while I was driving up here, I'll probably
Speaker 7: one of the drivers at Isaiah was very upset with.
Speaker 8: Yeah I did. It was just you know, clinking and
Speaker 8: and and in his face.
Speaker 5: You admitted it. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: But now I was looking at a defensive end from Houston,
Speaker 7: Christian Jylex Hunt, and he's just bawling this year. And
Speaker 7: I look at him and I'm like, gosh, this is
Speaker 7: a really good senior that's rising. And I'm like, he's
Speaker 7: gonna be one of these guys he gets left out
Speaker 7: of the Senior Bowl. And he's a really athletic pass
Speaker 7: rusher who's you know, super super physical as well violent.
Speaker 7: But you know, those are the type of guys that
Speaker 7: are gonna get left out that could be third fourth
Speaker 7: round draft picks.
Speaker 8: But I don't know, let's neither.
Speaker 5: Hear nor there the winners.
Speaker 10: There's winners and losers with this deal.
Speaker 4: The winners are the fans because it's just gonna be
Speaker 4: better football in these All Star games. The winners are
Speaker 4: also the Bowl Game specifically because they're going to get
Speaker 4: more pub because guys like Caleb Williams, who might leave
Speaker 4: as a junior will come in and bring that name
Speaker 4: notability to all of these All Star games.
Speaker 9: Losers are probably the seniors.
Speaker 4: And then small school guys too, because there's just going
Speaker 4: to be more big school names, these more Power five
Speaker 4: names that are going to be available. And you think
Speaker 4: about some of the Wisconsin Whitewaters and the North Dakota
Speaker 4: and I'm not talking about North Dakota State. I would
Speaker 4: consider them as a big time program. But like North
Speaker 4: Dakota with Matt will Wood, lets go, he was a
Speaker 4: senior Bowl guy. Multiple winners, multiple losers in a deal
Speaker 4: like this, but certainly something that can shape the way
Speaker 4: that the draft process looks like in the future.
Speaker 9: All right, when we come back here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 2: We'll do some QB vision.
Speaker 4: We take a look at the Giants defense, how the
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Speaker 4: we got a text message in.
Speaker 2: About the weather.
Speaker 4: Please weather said, it's because we're afraid some goofball isn't
Speaker 4: paying attention, doesn't see you driving a hundred and rear
Speaker 4: ends you. That's why you've got hazards on. So it's
Speaker 4: for everybody around you.
Speaker 11: It's a good response.
Speaker 2: That is a good response.
Speaker 8: I don't get it, but that's fine, So I don't
Speaker 8: need if you're going.
Speaker 4: To Honestly, I think it's legal to drive like that
Speaker 4: with your hazards on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's supposed to be supposed to be stopped.
Speaker 9: Yeah, hazards.
Speaker 6: So the only time I think this is legally allowed
Speaker 6: to drive with your hazards on is if you are
Speaker 6: in a in a uh in a carpool right, like
Speaker 6: like what do you call it? Yeah, your procession, or
Speaker 6: you are like you have a flat tire, you know,
Speaker 6: like you're you're about you're veering off the road, like
Speaker 6: you're trying to get off the road, or what.
Speaker 5: Was the third one?
Speaker 6: Or if you're an emergency, like you have a baby,
Speaker 6: like somebody's having a baby, you have your hazards on,
Speaker 6: like we're busting tail and the police will come up
Speaker 6: behind you. They'll see you that you're rushing, and they'll
Speaker 6: help you, probably escort you. But like those are the
Speaker 6: only to my knowledge, to my knowledge, that's the only allowed.
Speaker 6: You know, it's situations where you can have your hazards
Speaker 6: on and driving. But it's okay, thank you for texting that.
Speaker 6: If you're gonna have your hases on, just go to
Speaker 6: the right lane.
Speaker 7: Let me add one more. If it's ever I think
Speaker 7: I've done this maybe once or twice. If it's just
Speaker 7: pouring ring like I can't see you, Like that's how
Speaker 7: boring it is. I'll turn my hazards on just so
Speaker 7: people can sit. Yeah, but that's that's it.
Speaker 2: But not like today where it's just a light sprinkle.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like I could like stand outside and you know,
Speaker 8: you know the.
Speaker 6: Other thing about Texas, the left lane do they teach
Speaker 6: Like the left lane is like the fast lane and
Speaker 6: passing lane, only they do they teach it.
Speaker 5: They do teach it.
Speaker 8: We just.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be h you're that guy number one. We
Speaker 7: don't do that here, you're that guy. Yeah, I'm going
Speaker 7: ninety in the in that lane.
Speaker 5: Okay, But I'm saying, but everybody else is not. Everybody
Speaker 5: else does not.
Speaker 7: Oh I thought that's where you were saying. You were saying,
Speaker 7: like only the left lane is used for passing and
Speaker 7: getting around. I'm going like just ninety. We're gonna we're
Speaker 7: gonna get out of this podcast.
Speaker 8: While watching you'll see me going ninety. Watching the film,
Speaker 8: I'm like, huh, Houston, Christian, this is.
Speaker 5: Why you can't have an electric vehicle.
Speaker 4: A law enforcement officer standing by to arrest Nick Harris, I've.
Speaker 9: Heard about your traffic violation, sir.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 4: Somebody else also said bad weather in Alaska this morning.
Speaker 4: Got to enjoy the podcast and the fine analysis. So
Speaker 4: hope the drivers in battle Alaskan weather are better than
Speaker 4: the ones in Texas.
Speaker 8: I can imagine that.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: With that being said, it's time for Isaiah stand back
Speaker 4: to break down some.
Speaker 5: Why Eddie, why Eddie put up?
Speaker 3: It's time for QB vision with Isaiah's standback.
Speaker 9: What you got today, there's not a lot, Kyle, not
Speaker 9: a lot.
Speaker 5: There's not a lot, not against these guys that.
Speaker 9: Does it for us on it quarterback vision.
Speaker 5: So let's let's go through some of the some of
Speaker 5: the facts. Okay.
Speaker 6: The Dallas Cowboys, we know that they love to do
Speaker 6: play what kind of coverage man man?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: Would you say that Dallas Cowboys are the number one
Speaker 6: in the league in terms of man as far as usages,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say as far as effective, they're actually number
Speaker 6: two in effectiveness, you know, in actually useage. Okay, you
Speaker 6: know who's number one? The Giants, the freaking Giants, the
Speaker 6: New York freaking Giants actually played more man than.
Speaker 5: The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: So the Dallas Cowboys played man forty five point eight
Speaker 6: percent at the time. The Giants play it forty eight
Speaker 6: point five percent at the time. Okay, So they are
Speaker 6: up there a little bit more than than the Dallas
Speaker 6: Cowboys in terms of playing man and they do not
Speaker 6: shy away from it.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: They don't have the personnel to necessarily play man in
Speaker 6: the secondary, but yet they still do it. If you
Speaker 6: go back to the first game, obviously Week one, where
Speaker 6: we destroy them, they played man, and Dallas Cowboys fully
Speaker 6: took advantage of it. Coach McCarthy Schottenheimer, they did a
Speaker 6: heck of a job scheming up some different concepts that
Speaker 6: really exposed that. Actually, it is probably one of the
Speaker 6: more explosive games as you're thinking about it in terms
Speaker 6: of offensive production from this from these guys. But they
Speaker 6: like to play man to man. Okay, zone coverage. Dallas
Speaker 6: Cowboys are thirty first in the league in playing zone.
Speaker 6: You know who's thirty second.
Speaker 8: The New York Giants.
Speaker 6: The New York Giants, so number one in man, last
Speaker 6: in zone. All right, If that doesn't tell you the
Speaker 6: story in terms of what to expect against these guys,
Speaker 6: and I don't know what else can paint that picture.
Speaker 6: These guys don't want to play zone. They want to
Speaker 6: play man. Even if it's thirty long. These guys want
Speaker 6: to play man and man, which means that you're going
Speaker 6: to have plenty of opportunities to do what from the
Speaker 6: receiver's perspective, create some freaking separation.
Speaker 5: You have to get off the ball. That is no
Speaker 5: numero uno.
Speaker 6: And the Dallas Cowboys had a lot of rub routes,
Speaker 6: pick routes, whatever you like to call it, Kyle.
Speaker 5: In week one.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, it's not basketball, but Dallas played basketball in
Speaker 6: Week one because they definitely had some picks that were
Speaker 6: not and I'm not mad at it, which freed up
Speaker 6: CD Lamb on some big plays. Okay, there's a lot
Speaker 6: of times where he went to CD, but Brandon Cooks
Speaker 6: was still available as well.
Speaker 5: I say all that to say, you're going to have
Speaker 5: your opportunities.
Speaker 6: If they want to play man to man coverage, they
Speaker 6: want to do it from press. They don't want to
Speaker 6: do it from off because it just gives a little
Speaker 6: bit too much space. But if you're gonna come up
Speaker 6: and press, you have to do a good job of
Speaker 6: condensing your sets, right. I talk about condensed sets all
Speaker 6: the time, because we played actually a good share of
Speaker 6: Mando man teams this year. Okay, you think about the
Speaker 6: cardinalising about the Giants, thinking about the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: All these guys like to play man, so condensed sets
Speaker 6: gives you a little bit of breathing room. If you're
Speaker 6: not going to have that breathing room, then you need
Speaker 6: to do a heck of a job of making sure
Speaker 6: that you hit your landmarks. All right, people don't understand
Speaker 6: lamb mark your landmarks landmarks. I'll give you a prime example. Okay,
Speaker 6: let's what you try to do. Okay, let's make sure
Speaker 6: Manda man defense. Last week, schoonmaker. Okay, schoonmaker almost scored
Speaker 6: on a play where somebody did not do a good
Speaker 6: job of a reb rout.
Speaker 5: Do you guys remember who that was.
Speaker 8: You're talking about the dB no tight end? Oh, coming
Speaker 8: to uh a third?
Speaker 5: It was Fergie. Okay.
Speaker 6: So when we talk about how important it is to
Speaker 6: be on your mark and do your job, duyj whenever you're.
Speaker 5: Facing man to man. What play was that? That was
Speaker 5: the play where he got down at the one inch line.
Speaker 9: Oh, this is the schoonmaker, the schoolmaker.
Speaker 6: The schoonmaker was getting freed up by Ferguson, but Ferguson
Speaker 6: did not run his.
Speaker 9: Route so had to cut off the route a little
Speaker 9: bit early.
Speaker 6: No, it's not that he had to cut off his
Speaker 6: route early. It's just that he should have been freed
Speaker 6: up more. That should have been a walk in touchdown.
Speaker 6: But it wasn't a walk in touchdown. Everybody's looking at
Speaker 6: Schoonmaker and saying, well, Schoolmaker should have ran the route deeper,
Speaker 6: and no, no, no, but he did his job. Who
Speaker 6: did not do their job was Ferguson?
Speaker 5: All right? And I'm not trying and I'm not trying
Speaker 5: to point the finger.
Speaker 6: I'm just giving you guys an example of how minute
Speaker 6: the details are when it comes to man to man coverage.
Speaker 6: Had Ferguson did a good job of running his route
Speaker 6: to the right, to the right spot, running it to
Speaker 6: the underneath shoulder instead of the upfield shoulder, that would
Speaker 6: have been a walk in touchdown.
Speaker 5: Ball game, Cowboys win.
Speaker 11: And they probably practiced that and it didn't and it
Speaker 11: didn't work out. Well, it didn't work out, but Tyron
Speaker 11: Smith did in practice and he played great.
Speaker 8: Oh so that's how important we need to mic breed exactly.
Speaker 5: But that's how important small details are.
Speaker 6: Where we started talking about Manda Man, Okay, we look
Speaker 6: at what a wink Martindale, right, wink he likes to
Speaker 6: bring it a little bit. Okay, wink Martindale brings it
Speaker 6: the second most in the NFL. Okay, he blitzes forty
Speaker 6: six percent of the time. This dude doesn't care. He
Speaker 6: doesn't care. Now this historically, this goes back to his
Speaker 6: time in Baltimore as well. His all his Baltimore defenses
Speaker 6: always brought pressure. But the difference is he had the
Speaker 6: personnel to actually play man to man behind it. Now
Speaker 6: he's still blitzing that much, but he doesn't have the
Speaker 6: personnel to guard it, to guard these guys, and he
Speaker 6: does not have the personnel to match up against the
Speaker 6: Dallas Cowboys and what they should present. Obviously, you got
Speaker 6: Ceede Lamb. That's doing a heck of a job. He's
Speaker 6: just had two games over one hundred and fifty plus
Speaker 6: yards back to back. He's killing it. Brandon Cooks, this
Speaker 6: should be his coming out party. Brandon Cooks should have
Speaker 6: over one hundred yards receiving this game. Because I think,
Speaker 6: even while playing man the Man, I could foresee wing
Speaker 6: Martin Dill making sure that he has somebody on the backside,
Speaker 6: cutting a backside safety, cutting off any crossing rouse Recidi Lamb,
Speaker 6: really preventing him from being able to have those big
Speaker 6: plays that he's been typically having over the past few weeks,
Speaker 6: which then frees up who BC B C Okay, not
Speaker 6: Bury Church, Okay, talking about Brandon Cooks. So Brandon Cooks
Speaker 6: should have a day in that regard.
Speaker 4: With that being said, so when you said it earlier,
Speaker 4: you're talking about man and separation. The first name that
Speaker 4: popped in my head was Brandon Cooks because we talked
Speaker 4: about how much separation he's been getting, or at least
Speaker 4: he'd gotten this past game and still didn't receive a target.
Speaker 4: He was second on the team behind Tony Pollard in
Speaker 4: terms of separation or an average separation according to the next
Speaker 4: Gen stats. I went back to the forty to Zhering
Speaker 4: beat down. I went back to see what the average
Speaker 4: separation was from the receivers, and I only did the
Speaker 4: first half because the second half, of course, it was
Speaker 4: out of hand by that point. Ceedee Lamb nine yards
Speaker 4: of average separation.
Speaker 2: Nine.
Speaker 4: That's unbel believable, how much separation he's been getting. Second
Speaker 4: on the team was Tony Pollard, followed by Cavante Turpin,
Speaker 4: then Michael Gallup, then Brandon Cooks. Brandon Cooks only had
Speaker 4: two point seven average yards of separation against the Giants.
Speaker 4: In the first half of that meeting, he actually finished
Speaker 4: with two point three, so for the entire game, he
Speaker 4: only he had under two and a half yards of separation.
Speaker 2: So he's got to do a.
Speaker 9: Better job than even he did in Week one.
Speaker 10: But he may have that opportunity again to try and
Speaker 10: bounce back.
Speaker 6: I think you will, and I think if you're Withink Martinelle,
Speaker 6: you're not gonna sit back. Right your season's pretty much gone.
Speaker 6: Who had your two and seven? Whatever it might be.
Speaker 6: Your team sucks, just call it what it is. Right,
Speaker 6: they're not producing offensively. They are the worst in the
Speaker 6: league in terms of providing points or averaging what ten
Speaker 6: or eleven points per game, which is the bottom of
Speaker 6: the league. So you're losing the time of possession, which
Speaker 6: means that your defense is out there a heck.
Speaker 5: Of a lot of the time. So you're out there,
Speaker 5: you're tired.
Speaker 6: Your offense isn't putting up any points, so you're gonna
Speaker 6: take more calculator risks right on an not even calculat
Speaker 6: You're just gonna take a lot more risk if you're
Speaker 6: blitzing the second most the NFL, but your pressure rate
Speaker 6: is a twenty second in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Then you're not getting.
Speaker 6: Home right, so you're exposing yourself defensively, but you're not
Speaker 6: going You're not actually making any impact with your pressure,
Speaker 6: right because you're not getting pressure, which means that you're
Speaker 6: gonna have plenty of opportunities to have big plays underneath
Speaker 6: and over the top in terms of your playmakers. Okay,
Speaker 6: I don't care if that comes in the form of
Speaker 6: yak yardage yards have to catch you hit and be
Speaker 6: cooks on a five yard shallow and he takes that
Speaker 6: thing of the house, or you throw it to the
Speaker 6: ceedee lamb over the top. I really don't care how
Speaker 6: you go about it, but there are going to be
Speaker 6: those opportunities. There's a handful of guys that they have
Speaker 6: on their defense that you actually need to know about now,
Speaker 6: being that they traded away Lenna Williams. He's now gone.
Speaker 6: He's playing in Seattle. For those that didn't know, Dexter
Speaker 6: Lawrence is their dude. Okay, but I'm not that impressed
Speaker 6: with Dexter Lawrence. I have to tell you guys straight up,
Speaker 6: I'm really not that impressed with Dexter Lawrence. He's a
Speaker 6: big name, but I don't see why he's a big
Speaker 6: name right now. These guys, the reason why they don't
Speaker 6: get a lot of pressure on the quarterback is because
Speaker 6: their technique is trash.
Speaker 5: Okay, he's sinning. He's sending guys home.
Speaker 6: They're not getting home because they're all sinding straight up
Speaker 6: and down. Dexter Lawrence has bad pad levels, bad leverage.
Speaker 6: He's standing straight up. I don't care how big and
Speaker 6: heavy he is. He's coming off the ball standing up.
Speaker 6: His feet are getting tight to each other. You think
Speaker 6: he drives with hazards and traffic. His his feet are
Speaker 6: driving with hazards because he has no base, zero base
Speaker 6: at all. And when you decide to try to run
Speaker 6: the ball against him, you're getting underneth him. When you
Speaker 6: have two guys, now, if there's one on one, okay,
Speaker 6: he's usually just stale, mating you because he's so heavy.
Speaker 5: Right, he's still mating you. He's getting his hands on you.
Speaker 6: He's trying to two gap, but it's his feet are
Speaker 6: so narrow that he can't get you behind a line
Speaker 6: of scrimmage.
Speaker 7: There might be an explanation for it. He has been
Speaker 7: sitting out of practice on Wednesday.
Speaker 6: That's what you did that I'm not gonna give all right,
Speaker 6: So Dexel Lawrence is a big name out there.
Speaker 4: I love these these drawbacks to the first conversations.
Speaker 6: The one guy that actually like obviously you know, Keavon
Speaker 6: Thibodau is another big name out there. But Kavion Thibodau'
Speaker 6: is not playing with great leverage either. He's getting thrown
Speaker 6: around the club. He's not the biggest of defensive ends
Speaker 6: around the league. He's a He's a try hard guy,
Speaker 6: but I think that his his technique still needs a.
Speaker 5: Lot of work. The one to organ pretty much exactly
Speaker 5: what happened there. Those guys are such high ep for guys.
Speaker 2: I really like what they turn out.
Speaker 5: Ducks.
Speaker 2: Those good all right.
Speaker 6: The actually guy that actually like okay on film, he
Speaker 6: may not be the most popular in the room, but
Speaker 6: it is going to be Bobby Okurak.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bobby Oka. I like him. I like him. He's
Speaker 5: very decisive, He's very instinctive. He'll hit you.
Speaker 6: He does a great job if not only seeing taking
Speaker 6: care of his responsibilities, but also making plays off of those.
Speaker 6: If the gap that he decides right basic on his
Speaker 6: responsibilities are nothing happens there, he's able to scrape across
Speaker 6: the top and come up there and be physical at
Speaker 6: the point of contact. I think he will try to
Speaker 6: hit you guess where he went to school. Where's that
Speaker 6: Stanford smart guy? Smart smart guy.
Speaker 8: Question for you?
Speaker 7: Just kind of taking into account what this Dallas offense
Speaker 7: needs to do as far as getting certain weapons involved,
Speaker 7: as far as getting certain weapons involved the run game.
Speaker 7: Where do you see holes in this defense where they
Speaker 7: can try some things that have not worked or that
Speaker 7: they just haven't really explored so far this season.
Speaker 8: If that makes Does that makes sense?
Speaker 5: No, for sure? I think I think.
Speaker 6: This is the game where you work on your big plays,
Speaker 6: where you're working on trying to push the ball down
Speaker 6: the field a little bit more. Because of the fact
Speaker 6: that you're gonna be facing man man, you don't have
Speaker 6: to worry about Dak, you know, being concerned about the zone.
Speaker 6: You know, not seeing guys in zones, like what you
Speaker 6: see is what you get. They're going to walk up,
Speaker 6: They're not trying to disguise it. They're not rolling safety
Speaker 6: is late, They're not doing any of those things. This
Speaker 6: is about as Madden as you can get. You know,
Speaker 6: you walk up there, they're lining up. Okay, he has
Speaker 6: him if I go in short motion, he's going to
Speaker 6: follow him. If we come out and condense it, they're
Speaker 6: going to back up. They're not going to in and
Speaker 6: out it, right, they're not gonna combo with They're playing
Speaker 6: man to man. So you're you're if you're running rub routes,
Speaker 6: you know exactly who you're who you should be going
Speaker 6: in rubbing, right, you should be knowing who you're picking off. Okay,
Speaker 6: to free up your guy. If you're what I see
Speaker 6: what you do there, Okay.
Speaker 5: You should be knowing. You should know it. So I paused.
Speaker 6: You should know exactly who you're going to pick off. Okay,
Speaker 6: I know exactly what you're talking about. Please, here we
Speaker 6: go again. And then as far as your routes, okay,
Speaker 6: this is when you open up your route tree a
Speaker 6: little bit. You test these things out, you know, Jayleen Tolberg.
Speaker 6: Give him opportunity to be cooks and be cooks down
Speaker 6: the field. Don't let them just be clear out cooks
Speaker 6: again this week. Actually, if he's going to clear it out,
Speaker 6: actually throw it to him. Right, Let's see if he
Speaker 6: can get down the field. Let's put him on some
Speaker 6: wheel routes. Le's put him on some posts. Let's push
Speaker 6: this thing past twelve yards in terms of your route tree,
Speaker 6: because majority of the routes are in the Dallas Playbook
Speaker 6: as of right now is.
Speaker 5: Fourteen and under.
Speaker 6: It's really fourteen and another slants out you know, shallows,
Speaker 6: quick ends, know those type of things. Right, that's pretty
Speaker 6: much the foundation of this offense. Now, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: this game where you don't want to look past this opponent.
Speaker 6: But this is a game where you can explore, right,
Speaker 6: you can try some things out. You know, obviously, take
Speaker 6: care of your business, get up to a good lead,
Speaker 6: and then open up the playbook a little bit. Go
Speaker 6: to that back page where you like to doodle and
Speaker 6: draw some things up, the kind of come to your
Speaker 6: head and see see what happens, and you might be
Speaker 6: able to spark some You might be able to spark
Speaker 6: a little confidence of some players. You might see some things,
Speaker 6: some attributes and players that you didn't expect, you know,
Speaker 6: guys that you have kind of you know, like like
Speaker 6: a Jalen Tolbert. Okay, hey, right now we have you
Speaker 6: in a particular role. Right, We're asking you to do
Speaker 6: these these handful of things. Block well, make some contest
Speaker 6: contested catches and be a special teamers. Well maybe maybe
Speaker 6: he's a big play guy. You just didn't know it.
Speaker 6: You know, may give him a chance to have to
Speaker 6: get that thing back from college. You'd be like, oh, crap,
Speaker 6: I can still do this. Some players in the NFL
Speaker 6: need to know that sometimes they need to be reminded
Speaker 6: that they can make certain plays because you get subjected
Speaker 6: to doing certain things and being asked to do a
Speaker 6: particular job, and that's all you really become. And that's
Speaker 6: why you see a resurgence of guys whenever they go
Speaker 6: to a different system, because that system's asking them to
Speaker 6: do things that they used to do and they're like.
Speaker 5: Oh, man, I can actually do this still. Shoot, that's right.
Speaker 5: I'm a dude. They have to be reminded.
Speaker 6: So I'm saying, utilize this game to remind be Cooks
Speaker 6: that you're a thousand yard receiver. You utilize this game
Speaker 6: to remind Jalen Tolbert that you're that you're a down
Speaker 6: the field, big play threat. You're not just a blocking
Speaker 6: receiver anymore.
Speaker 4: So when we come back, I want to hit the
Speaker 4: three name names, John Nick, and then I'll let you
Speaker 4: give your three names as well. Based off of what
Speaker 4: you just said that need to click in this matchup
Speaker 4: and need to kind of see that confidence boost when
Speaker 4: we come back with more talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 6: and you're going to big hills. Yeah, people put under flasheres.
Speaker 6: It's you know, icy conditions or things like that. But
Speaker 6: we're just talking about water going through tires that are
Speaker 6: designed to handle rain.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: By the way, I got a text from my our
Speaker 4: media intern Lydiana.
Speaker 9: She said, running a little late.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of bad accidents on the highway,
Speaker 2: so you're.
Speaker 11: Caused by stand.
Speaker 5: I still think I think it's Nick.
Speaker 4: I think it's drive the ninety and watching Houston Christian
Speaker 4: past Rushers. Also Todd from Georgetown giving Nick some credit.
Speaker 4: He said, Nick has been a great addition to the show.
Speaker 4: He's a great fit.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it about that.
Speaker 5: You gotta gotta love text, all right.
Speaker 8: I love Georgetown.
Speaker 7: By the way, Georgetown I had some of the best
Speaker 7: press box food I ever had during my high school
Speaker 7: high school football days.
Speaker 8: Just just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 10: That is the most Nick Harris thing.
Speaker 8: They had like a German night there. It was incredible
Speaker 8: to go.
Speaker 11: That's besides several times when we go on the road
Speaker 11: that I think about how much better blocks the hat
Speaker 11: Cheese press spot it was and sell my press box.
Speaker 11: And then so many of these NFL teams, it's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: And then you've got Highland Park.
Speaker 4: Hyland Park is literally flatbread, pizza and sushi in a
Speaker 4: high school press box.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it was good times, it was awesome.
Speaker 8: It was better than Philly. I'll tell you that I
Speaker 8: actually kind of let them press box food.
Speaker 11: I didn't think it was that bad.
Speaker 8: I'm not, I have not that's yeah.
Speaker 11: Let's magic, John Chow to.
Speaker 5: Make a lot of changes.
Speaker 4: Bring your thumbs, all right, Three names in order, one, two,
Speaker 4: and three. Who needs to see their confidence build here
Speaker 4: in this week against the Giants offensive defense, offensively offensively
Speaker 4: only Brandon Cooks one, Jalen Tolbert two, Terrence Steell.
Speaker 2: That's a good one.
Speaker 10: Really, I would honestly think about putting Terrence still.
Speaker 2: Higher on that.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I didn't maybe even two or one those just just three.
Speaker 6: I didn't put him in any particular one.
Speaker 2: I asked you to put them in order.
Speaker 5: Okay, what in Brandy Cook's Terrence Steele? All right? And
Speaker 5: jal Okay, what do you think?
Speaker 11: Yeah, Terrence Steele for sure number one for me, I'll go,
Speaker 11: I'm gonna go Tony Pollard two and I'll go, I
Speaker 11: guess I'll go Cooks three. I don't know that. I
Speaker 11: feel like he has a lack of confidence. He's just
Speaker 11: not getting the ball. The reason I said Pollard though,
Speaker 11: is because he only has two rushing touchdowns this season,
Speaker 11: both were in that first game against the Giants. He's
Speaker 11: averaging around three point nine yards per carry. I think
Speaker 11: he had a brown five against the Giants. I could
Speaker 11: see Mike McCarthy wanting to get some momentum off of
Speaker 11: building with this run game having some success there because
Speaker 11: up to this point, there just haven't been many opportunities
Speaker 11: to get that going. And you know, as Isaiah said
Speaker 11: before the season, I remember being out in training camp
Speaker 11: about just how important it would be to get that
Speaker 11: running game going for everything else to come off of it.
Speaker 11: So maybe this is a game where and I say
Speaker 11: Tony Poller, but I really mean the entire running game
Speaker 11: more so than just Tony power.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go one Terrence Steele. I think that's very healthy.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 7: Gosh, I have like five guys that I want to
Speaker 7: fit into this rapid fire. Throw them all out, all right,
Speaker 7: Michael Gallop, Brandon Cooks, Tyler Biottish, and Tony Pollard. Like
Speaker 7: those are those are like the next Those are the
Speaker 7: next guys up offensive line for obvious reasons. Terrence Steele
Speaker 7: and Tyler Biottage for obvious reasons. Tony Poller just to
Speaker 7: get one hundred yard game. I think that would be
Speaker 7: huge for his confidence in the confidence of this offense
Speaker 7: to be able to open up. If you had to
Speaker 7: tell me, hey, you can have one one hundred yard
Speaker 7: guy on Sunday, I'll said give to Tony Poller then,
Speaker 7: because I want to see that a running game be
Speaker 7: able to open up everything else for the offense. I
Speaker 7: think that's like the last step to just kind of
Speaker 7: unlocking everyone else. And then Brandon Cooks for obvious reasons,
Speaker 7: of Michael Gallup for obvious reasons that tie into each other.
Speaker 7: They just need more targets, more play, and more yardage.
Speaker 4: Tony Pollard averaging forty two rushing yards per game since
Speaker 4: Week four, and we think back and John talking about it,
Speaker 4: weeks one through three, he was at averaging eighty eight
Speaker 4: rushing yards per game. So even in the first three weeks,
Speaker 4: where he still wasn't the Tony Pollard of last year,
Speaker 4: he was averaging twice as much on the ground as
Speaker 4: he has been since Week four. So I think I
Speaker 4: would put Tony Pollard as maybe number one, probably number two,
Speaker 4: just because I think Terrence Steel needs a good game
Speaker 4: to kind of help, and I think those two go
Speaker 4: hand in hand. So I'd say Terrence Steel won Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard two.
Speaker 2: And then I kind.
Speaker 4: Of agree with John where I don't think it's a
Speaker 4: lack of confidence.
Speaker 2: It's a lack of confidence.
Speaker 4: In Brandon Cooks around him to be that number three name.
Speaker 2: But I'll put him number three.
Speaker 5: Ask this question.
Speaker 6: I know we gotta get off not speaking to the
Speaker 6: player and their capabilities, but who were you most disappointed
Speaker 6: with in terms of their productivity? Not because of the
Speaker 6: un necessarily the player, Maybe it has to do with
Speaker 6: how to being utilized. Who are you most disappointed with?
Speaker 7: It's a tie between Pollard and Cooks, but I'll give
Speaker 7: it to Pollard just because I expect a little bit
Speaker 7: more from.
Speaker 8: The Run Game.
Speaker 4: When you're saying production, you mean are you talking about
Speaker 4: stats specifically, or film or both?
Speaker 6: Just overall production production? You know, how they're being utilized. Yeah,
Speaker 6: how they're being utilized.
Speaker 5: All that goes into it.
Speaker 7: I would throw in Pollard just because I expected a
Speaker 7: lot more from the Running Game, especially given what Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy has done with the Running Game and his time
Speaker 7: as a play caller.
Speaker 8: Easily it'd be that for me.
Speaker 2: I think this is more so just on the player.
Speaker 4: But I would say Terrence Steele, I mean, you expected
Speaker 4: him coming off of the injury. I know he's he
Speaker 4: was coming off the injury. Before that, he was playing
Speaker 4: really good football. I mean, he was all the way
Speaker 4: through your right tackle of the future, and he was
Speaker 4: going to be. Now you're having second questions on whether
Speaker 4: or not he should be the right tackle of the current,
Speaker 4: and that's where I'm I'm not questioning Tony Pollard as
Speaker 4: the tailback for this offense. I think he can be better,
Speaker 4: but I don't have questions about what he could do
Speaker 4: in the future. Terrence Steel, I'm starting to have questions
Speaker 4: about what he could do in the future if he
Speaker 4: continues to play consistent poor football, which has been over
Speaker 4: the last three or four weeks.
Speaker 11: Suck because I want to say Pollard, but I know
Speaker 11: it's not just because of him. It's because of the
Speaker 11: offensive line too. It's obviously all goes hand in hand.
Speaker 11: So I mean, I know it's a cop out, but
Speaker 11: I just want to I feel like it's the run game,
Speaker 11: like I just expect. I didn't expect it to be great,
Speaker 11: but I thought it would be better than what it
Speaker 11: is right now, especially with.
Speaker 4: As much emphasis as McCarthy was putting on it in
Speaker 4: the offseason.
Speaker 2: I thought the same thing.
Speaker 11: Statistically, I would say Brandon Cooks. I didn't think there's
Speaker 11: any to be any way that we'd be almost halway
Speaker 11: through the season and he'd have the numbers that he
Speaker 11: has right now. But again, I don't know. I can't
Speaker 11: sit here and say that that's just Brandon Cooks, like
Speaker 11: he's not getting open and then when they throw to
Speaker 11: him he's dropping the ball and stuff like. That's not
Speaker 11: the case, you know, So it's hard to just point
Speaker 11: to just one person for the reason why that that
Speaker 11: isn't that hasn't been working. But if you're just talking
Speaker 11: about the individual stats of a player, it's got to
Speaker 11: be between Pollard and Cooks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 7: I think you should expect Tony Pollard to carry the
Speaker 7: ball about twenty two or twenty three times on Sunday.
Speaker 7: It's fully expected. I think with that it's going to happen.
Speaker 7: Getting ready for him to get.
Speaker 5: Who have more carries? Pollard or Pollard?
Speaker 7: I don't know who you're saying, but Pollard more than Barkley.
Speaker 7: Oh well, yeah, gosh, it's just gonna be That game's
Speaker 7: gonna be over in like two and a half hours.
Speaker 5: So sweet.
Speaker 11: So maybe Isaiah's talking about Matt Barkley.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the Barkley backfield.
Speaker 11: He is the he is the backupfield. He is the
Speaker 11: backup to Tommy DeVito.
Speaker 10: Could you imagine the Giants radio?
Speaker 4: Like second down and three from the forty three yard line,
Speaker 4: Barkley snaps back hands into Barkley and he breaks right side.
Speaker 4: He fumbles it, but Barkley recovers like it's just kind
Speaker 4: of all over.
Speaker 8: The place, really good.
Speaker 11: I was thinking. I was thinking more along lines of that.
Speaker 11: Did you see that? Uh the play that USC ran
Speaker 11: on the on the reverse like that? So he hands
Speaker 11: it to Barkley, but then Barkley pitches it back to Barkley.
Speaker 11: Then Barkley throws, so you do the flee flicker.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like Barkley on the on the snap hands toss
Speaker 4: to Barkley.
Speaker 2: They need to sign a receiver.
Speaker 11: Tommy DeVito isn't playing well. You gotta make some moves here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, gotta make a move.
Speaker 8: We should do all off play by play for just
Speaker 8: a whole episode deal.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of what I should name this episode.
Speaker 4: It's got to be something with traffic and hazards and whatnot.
Speaker 4: It's got to be something like that slippery slope.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 4: All Right, that does it for us here on talking Cowboys, John,
Speaker 4: what's your prediction for Sunday?
Speaker 11: I mean, it was forty to nothing in the season opener.
Speaker 11: I don't think it'll be quite as bad, but it'll
Speaker 11: be bad, So I'll say forty to seven Cowboys. I
Speaker 11: don't think it's gonna.
Speaker 2: Be very close. Forty to seven Cowboys.
Speaker 11: And to be honest with you, the thing I keep
Speaker 11: think about is if this game is really close, or
Speaker 11: the Cowboys were to lose this game, just how wild
Speaker 11: things would be in the week following, Because there is
Speaker 11: something about the NFL and pro sports in general when
Speaker 11: you just think, oh no, we know what's going to
Speaker 11: happen here. I mean, there's a reason things are so
Speaker 11: successful in Vegas.
Speaker 2: So we so I did the math.
Speaker 4: We've done sixty three pregame and postgame shows as a
Speaker 4: crew with Isaiah and me, Barry and Nate from last week.
Speaker 4: This would be the upcoming game would be sixty four.
Speaker 4: That would be by far the most disappointed and sad.
Speaker 4: It has been all the way through.
Speaker 5: Are you holding a.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl ring currently?
Speaker 5: Isaiah? Are you just be off the air? Dude?
Speaker 8: Are you are.
Speaker 11: You holding me?
Speaker 18: Hold it up?
Speaker 5: Showed up not the team.
Speaker 9: That's not the team that you're wanting. But I mean,
Speaker 9: he just wow, pulled it out and I was like, what.
Speaker 5: Are you talking about?
Speaker 8: That's nice.
Speaker 5: I'm going to an event. I like it, very nice.
Speaker 10: All Right, They're not going to win one this year,
Speaker 10: so I hope you're talking about it.
Speaker 4: So let's that's it for us for Chris Pye, isaiahs
Speaker 4: stand back Super Bowl Champion, John Machoda, Nick Harris, I'm
Speaker 4: KYLEI Yoman saying so long, We'll see.
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