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Are you 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:04.520 more of a caso? Right? Oh? Me? Yeah, okay, so okay, 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.960 so yeah, I'm okay both but probably yeah, ok so 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.720 or sausa almost saucea the guy almost sauce the guy too. Well, 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.680 that reminds me, I actually have like a little tub 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.360 of queso for beam and for HECMA, and I forgot it, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.280 but maybe I'll bring it to you guys. And you 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:30.160 guys aren't lectose intolerant? That is m is that because 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.840 of the shirt that he's got that's lacost day or 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.880 whatever it is, that lactose intolerance. Well that is a stretch, right, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.840 so cost lacost lac lactose. And I don't know, I 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:41.560 thought you were just trying to make a reference there. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.759 But wow, that's okay. It's a Wednesday. Is there something 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.720 you want to tell? I got nothing that's interesting. Uh, 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:55.680 how's everybody doing? Absolutely, the Cowboys back on the practice 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.960 field or no practice yesterday, but they will be today, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.800 but it looks like it will be indoors because if 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.400 you're not in that Allas Fort Worth metroplex, you don't 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.320 know that it has been a very rainy morning up 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.240 here in the metroplex. And so rob outside of getting 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.680 a day off again yesterday, any news and notes popping 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.120 up here from the Cowboys set two more guys on 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:21.280 injured reserve as of yesterday, Brent Urban defensive tackle and 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:26.000 Maurice Kennedy at cornerback. So that being said, so Brent 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.000 Urban has a triceps injury. Kennedy got the concussion in 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.240 the Patriots game. So minimum three games out for both 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.840 those guys. But on the flip side, you got five 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.200 guys that have started their practice window either on IR 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:44.400 or on pup. So there's some flipping and flopping coming 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.560 on the fifty three. I say, who are you laughing at? 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.960 I say, league man, So Moe's gonna be out, Kennedy's 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.400 gonna be out for three games for the concussion at least. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.800 So are you are you saying it's the league? Because 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.080 this is all all substantial because of the people coming back, 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.600 like this is all a situational deal. That's a head 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.200 of a concussion, you think, So that's all we got 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.079 guys coming back. You know, we've been talking about what's 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.160 gonna happen with this roster. You know when guys start 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.760 coming back and guys are gonna start finding their way 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:19.280 to the I R. Hello, there's there's a couple. But 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.919 in my head, now Bret Brent Urban has a triceps, yes, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:24.800 so and he'll be able to come back from because 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.800 I know triceps of taking guys out. As far as 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.960 I know, there's not surgery involved. Okay. Um, So in 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.919 the five guys that are have started the practice window, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.320 we talked last week about Kelvin Joseph and tight end 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:40.320 Sean mccun Now you add Michael Gallup, Yeah, that's a 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:45.400 big one. Francis Bernard and Tristan Hill on Pop Wow. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.200 I'm actually I'm pleasantly surprised by the Tristan Hill starting 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.000 of the practice window. I thought he would be a 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.240 little bit further behind, but I thought it would be 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:59.280 Gallimore before Tristan Hill. It's this guy. If you're gonna 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.680 sit here in the I need to do it. It's 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:08.560 just amazing how things just fall in place. Oh, you 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:13.440 stepped your toe, You're going you got an ear affection 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.920 cabin man, you gotta be careful about the swinging cabinets. Bro, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.839 I think that hit you the hit swinging cabinet in 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.000 the locker room. Well, you know, he got knocked out 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:27.640 against New England. Yeah, Cannon, it's okay, but hopefully he's okay. Yeah, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.920 that's That's the biggest thing for me is if there 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.240 were gonna be moves made for those guys coming off 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.560 of IR one, I feel like it wouldn't have happened 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.040 until a little bit whenever those guys get closer. And two, 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.679 I mean there's five guys coming back with a couple 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.520 more on the way. I don't think it would just 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.520 be a couple moves I think it'd be multiple moves. Yeah, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.240 and I don't think all five guys would be back 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.559 this week. But you look at both guys Joseph and 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.640 and McEwen that started last week, I would think they're 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.560 getting closer. You would you would imagine, uh, Michael Gallup, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.960 provided he's gotta go, we could practice. I think he's 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.120 getting closer. Tristan Hill, I'm not sure. And it used 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.760 to be on PUP that you not only had the 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.720 three week window, but another two weeks after that. I'm 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.360 not sure if that's still in place. But they've got 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:11.920 some time with him too to just kind of see 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.719 where he's at. But Pete, let me ask you this, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.240 how much longer do they have to allow this to 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.480 play out? You know how we have guys that are 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.680 coming from, guys that are going on and all of 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.320 this is a good problem to have with the Cowboys 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.039 because they bringing talented guys back onto the roster. But 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.600 how long can they continue to do this until they 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.560 have to let someone go? Well, I mean, you may 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.640 never have to do it, you guys, he getting hurt, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.119 which you don't want to see, but that's an easy 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.719 way to just kind of flop it out with without 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.800 having to cut somebody. And then you know, there's also 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:46.040 the opportunity now with the expanded practice squads and more 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.680 looser restrictions on how many veteran years you have to 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.200 have to qualify for the practice squad, that's an option 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.200 too with guys that they're able to come back. But 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.320 you know, it could continue to be a situation like 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.359 this where eyes or hurt. That's how you you know, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.560 you kind of swap out, you know, like line change 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.240 in hockey or something. Well, I mean, you hope the 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.480 guys don't get hurt, but that's always a possibility. Now. 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.800 We talked yesterday a little bit about the Lyo Collins 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.920 in Terrence Steel situation on whether or not Collins would 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.800 be ready to jump back in immediately, and kind of 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:21.400 went through our decisions on that. But what about Michael Gallop? 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.279 Is Michael Gallop going to be ready to be inserted 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.800 as of Sunday because he hasn't played since Tampa Bay. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.120 A calf injury is something that you don't necessarily want 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.560 to mess with, even though he's had an extended period 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.080 of time to get over that calf injury. If he's 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.960 out on the field, how much do you expect him 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.600 to be a factor in this offense. But I mean 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.920 you hope that he's one percent ready and he's back 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.120 and not compromised in any way at all. He's had 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.160 enough of an opportunity to be healthy and based off 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.560 of everything I hear about mister Brown in those bands, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.040 that he about that life and so when you get back, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.520 you're ready. So I mean, Michael Gallup is the piece 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.880 that we need on this offense. Said Wilson has come 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.160 in and done a tremendous job and replacing him. But 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:07.320 everybody knows that Mike G's demand and all of this 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.960 talk about trade deadlines and all that means take his 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.160 name off of the table for that because we know 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.240 going into this last stretch he is going to be explosive. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.320 At least I hope he is. Yeah, I don't foresee 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.560 him coming back for a couple more weeks. I think 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.400 that you know that his windows has opened up. I 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:25.920 think you want to make sure that he's one hundred 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.360 percent good, especially with that calf at that position of 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.920 him playing a receiver. That that calf is intricate, right, 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.400 I mean, you have so much cutting so many different angles, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.840 so much different force. Yeah, I mean, so you want 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.000 to get a couple couple good weeks underneath your belt 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.000 of seeing him performing practice before throwing him to the wolves. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.920 By the way, Chris Beam did the research at the bank, 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.120 he did say those extra two weeks are on the 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.080 pup lists. Yeah, okay, that that is indeed the case. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.520 So Tristan Hill does have a couple extra weeks to 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.680 get ramped up and ready. So Michael Gallup would be 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.560 back by Casey Well, no, no no, no, no, Gallup was 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.920 still on IR. He wasn't on PUCK. He wasn't yeh, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.560 Trisphin Hill was on PUP. But yeah, Michael Gallup is 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.600 as of now, the twenty one day window has started, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.720 so he's able to come back as soon as he wants. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.200 If not, it's through the end of the twenty one days. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:14.880 So do you feel the same way though about maybe 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 holding him back a little bit, keeping him limited if 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.080 he does play, if at all, It just depends on 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.240 how how the week of practice goes. Now that they've 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.880 got today Tomorrow is usually in pads and then kind 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.960 of the light Saturday practice and they did something on 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.320 Monday too, so we'll see just how much work he's 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.000 able to do, and that'll that'll decide it. I think 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.079 when he does get back, we talked about how he 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:36.680 can take the top off that that's kind of the 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.080 biggest thing he can do. Although Ceedee Lamb has done 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.160 a nice job with that host two games m getting 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.560 by the defense. Ceede Lamb did a nice job against 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.120 the Minnesota Vikings last last year, going deep that yards 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:49.839 after the catch up, of course, the snag in the 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:54.959 back of the end zone. What you did. The thing 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.920 about Michael Gallop coming back would be his deep threat 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.320 against a banged up secondary for Minnesota. And we're gonna 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.480 preview the Minnesota defense and the Cowboys offense tomorrow, but 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.440 today it's the Minnesota offense versus the Dallas Cowboys defense, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.240 and gentlemen, this is gonna be a tough test. There 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.360 are a lot of weapons on the Vikings and what 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.400 they have to do or what they bring to the table. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.559 Rather with Dalvin Cook, you've got Adam Feeland, justin Jefferson, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.240 kJ Costello who's having a great season so far, and 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.400 then you got it all headed up by Kirk Cousins. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.840 So I ask you, guys, because of the weaponry that 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.079 is around him. He's played exceptionally well through the first 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.360 six weeks of the year compared to what he's done 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.880 in the past. So how much of a threat is 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.880 Kirk Cousins and where does he rank among some of 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.480 the quarterbacks that the Cowboys that face so far. Kirk 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.400 Cousins is a veteran, first of all. I'm a very smart, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.800 savvy veteran who's been around. He's made a lot of money. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.559 He makes a lot of money for a good reason. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.800 He doesn't make a lot of bad decisions. You never 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.319 know what you're gonna get with him. In terms of 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.520 the night games, obviously that's his thing that everybody holds 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.400 over him, but I think that's more of a myth 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:03.400 more so than a legend. This dude has thirteen touchdowns, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.760 two interceptions to that point, you know he is. He 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.320 has sixty nine percent completion percentage right now. He has 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.400 missed a lot of thrills, which is kind of scary, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.440 and I hope he continues that for at least another week, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.120 because right I mean at almost seventy percent completion rate 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:25.000 with that low percentage in terms of interception ratio and 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.120 the big plays that they're missing because of their ability 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:29.920 to run the ball. They run a lot of play action. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.680 They run a lot of really good concepts in terms 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:36.480 of three receiver, four receiver concepts to one side, they 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.200 overload you. These guys do a really good job on 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.880 offensive getting guys open. He has not hit his he 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.800 hasn't hit the mojo yet. And let's just hope that 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.319 we can keep that like that for at least another 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.040 week because he's there are a lot of big plays 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.680 if you turn on the film, man that he's missing 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.520 guys over the top, I mean three four yards overthrown. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.440 That would be just easy walking touchdowns because of the 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.040 schemes that they're doing offensively. So they're they're they're there's 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.720 they're their officer coordinators in their bag right now as well. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.959 He definitely is. And you look at the numbers last 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.640 year from Kirk Cousins against the Cowboys twenty two or 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.680 thirty three hundred and fourteen yards, three or excuse me, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.000 three touchdowns, no interceptions. I mean, he picked the part 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.280 that Cowboys defense last year. This is Cowboys defense that 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.040 at the moment still giving up a ton of yards 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:25.960 through the passing game. So heckman, do you feel like 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.559 we're better equipped to face a Kirk Cousins, even though 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.840 he's playing better in twenty one than the Cowboys were 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.400 better equipped last year. Yeah. Well, for me, I've had 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.680 a hard time even liking Kirk Cousins over the years 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.360 because he played for the football team, right, So I've 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.000 never wished him well in anything he's done. Um and 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:47.960 so like that. So um ever wished him well Friday? 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.600 Not yet? No, no, no. What I mean is always 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.920 and so and so. I agree with you what you 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.240 say about him because I feel as though when you 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.840 watch him on film, you see him making good decisions 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.280 with the with the football. I think where he gets 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.840 it is when he's getting pressure on him. Like most quarterbacks, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:06.640 you know, when they feel that pressure, they get happy 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.600 fee start burping the baby, and he will do that 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.840 and he'll give you the ball. I think Kubiak's sons, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.840 Gary Kubiak's son is all right as an offensive coordinator, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.520 and I understand Kazim's mind state with just wanting to 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.120 keep that continuity from the offense that they had from 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.480 last year. But it's really kind of basic. They get 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.600 him going just like they get most college and high 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.280 school quarterbacks going with those little short, dinking dunk throws 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.600 and then they try and stretch it with Jefferson. So 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.040 that's really not a lot of imagination to him. But 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.679 I like what you said about the twelve personnel playing 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.560 with a bunch of tight ends. They want to crowd 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.400 you in so that they can get Dalvin Cook going. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.920 And the thing about Dalvin Cook to me is his splits. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.120 I mean, he lines up like a punter, so toime, 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.000 he's so far back there because he wants to get 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.679 going downhill. So our defense is going to have to 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.080 punish number thirty three. It's gonna have to be one 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.520 of those games. It's the Black and Blue Division. This 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.240 is what they do. They're gonna run the ball right 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.240 at us, and they want to try and get that 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.640 going in order to kind of throw us off kilter 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.000 in this game. Based upon their schemes. Man again, I 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.880 keep reburning back to the film passing. Game wise, they 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.720 do some some pretty ingenious stuff. It's kind of crazy 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.960 some of the stuff that I'm seeing on film, and 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.880 again he's just missing on a lot of it. So 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.800 but it's there. Running game wise, they do an amazing 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.040 job with their officer a line with their zone running scheme. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.880 They did a wide zone dude. Ever, they get a 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.000 man on a man, yeah, and a lot of times 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.520 it's Dalvin Cook against one guy and you better be 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.720 a hell of a tackler to get that dude down. 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.680 But that's what it's gonna come down to. Our guys 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.800 are gonna have to tackle well because the scheme wise, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.640 they do a good job, right, you know what I mean. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.960 Obviously that makes sense with Koby Kubiak. So they do 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.640 a good job of getting man on man in their 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.800 office line working up to the second level and sometimes 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.240 a third level. Somebody's gonna come down from that safety 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.480 position and bring your big boy draws. Yeah. I think 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.640 Cousins is third on the list of the quarterbacks they faced, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.920 and it's not too far off from Brady than Herbert 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.600 than Cousins if you going back further, I think the 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.000 Vikings had this stat last sixteen games, going back to 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.280 last season. He's got like thirty seven touchdowns and five interceptions. Wow. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.120 And I think when they've played him in years past 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.520 with the football team, he would give you stuff. He 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.200 would give you an interception, a fumble, something, and he 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.599 got away with one in the last game. Carolina, but 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.240 he's done a better job of taking care of the ball. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.200 I think he's one of the more underrated quarterbacks in 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.120 the league, and I think he benefits from that balance 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.640 because Dalvin Cook's one of my favorite players to watch 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.720 in the league, because, like you said, he gets downhill, 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.880 he runs angry, and they've kind of got a Zeke 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.360 Tony Pollar thing going with Alexander Madison too. Is this 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.920 defense well equipped or ready for the challenge of a 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.880 Dalvin Cook. He's a different runner, And yesterday I said 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.480 the Cowboys may not have faced a good runner to 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.760 this point. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.040 Leonard Fournette's a good runner. I think Austin Eckler's a 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.880 good runner. Like, you've faced good backs, but you haven't 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:57.080 faced Dalvin Cook yet. Dalvin Cook is a different breed 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.440 of a back. And this is a guy who you 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.360 can afford to one get running downhill and two to 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.200 break multiple tackles. He's led the league in miss tackles 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.960 the last two seasons. You got to wrap him up 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.800 on first contact because if not, he's going to be 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.480 running for a little while. Yeah, I mean, even though 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.920 it's a smaller statue of guy's tough, you know, and 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.240 he also he's fast. He break a tackle and he 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.920 will get away from you. So I mean, I think 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.120 if you go back to the game last year, I 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.120 think Alden Smith had a pretty good game vers and 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.920 so we were able to get not only get pressure, 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.360 but get him down immediately. So we have to go 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.320 back to the same thing. And Layton vander esh is 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.920 going to play a big role in this game because 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.560 he's going to be at the line of scrimmage a lot, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.560 and when they go with those twelve personnel bunch that 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.800 they do, we're going to depend heavily on our linebackers 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.120 against the run to not allow him to get to 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.920 the second level. Also with j run curse. So I'm 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.400 sure dan Quinn has the recipe for this game. It's 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.320 going to be a lot of bringing pressure from different directions. 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.480 But just going back to Dalvin cook Man, he does 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.920 it all and not only running, he's also an excellent block. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.880 So I mean, he's just one of the as far 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.480 as the dynamics of who he is. If you don't 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:07.720 get him down, if you don't gang tackle, he can 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:09.960 run away from me. He can make you pay I 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.800 respect the heck out of Dalvin Cook, and I think 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.080 he's a beast. I'm not as fearful of Dalvin Cook 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.400 as I am the actual schemes in office a line. 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.880 He's not. He's not necessarily creating plays. He's not the 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.479 guy that's gonna shake you up at the line of screamage, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.600 make two or three guys missing and just gas on you. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.480 He's not that guy. He's gonna run through the hole 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.000 and if he meets you in the hole, you better hello. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.200 But what he's he is literally literally running through red 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.520 seas right now. These guys are literally setting up walls, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.680 the Great Wall of China, and these guys are running 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.320 through it. To understand this, as good as Dalvin Cook is, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:46.120 as much as we all respect him, he's only has 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:51.480 twelve more carries in his number two back because I mean, okay, 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.720 may but still right, I mean he has he has 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:55.480 two fumbles out of what the six games they played, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.280 so he's getting off the ball once every three games, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:01.200 all right, on average? Okay, um Receiving wise, he's a threat, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.920 but he's not the big play threat that the other 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.560 Madison is, right, So I respect the mess out of Cook. 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.400 Don't let me don't think that I'm down playing him. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.360 I respect him just like I respect all the professionals 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.560 in this league. But I'm more concerned with how do 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.520 we approach this offensive line and what they're going to 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.280 do to create the holes, because I think, no matter 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.240 who they put in the backfield, these guys to be 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.639 able to run through the holes that these guys have 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.840 been creating. So is it a lot about getting pressure, Well, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.400 it's a lot about being in your in your gap, 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.600 being as being sound and being in your gap. And Cook, 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.040 I mean Cook if he can break a tackle right, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:35.080 But again he's not that. He's not that shifty back 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.879 that I'm concerned about. I'm concerned about how are we 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:39.520 going to be in our gaps? Are we gonna be 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.840 be able to be sound, be stout and not allow 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:43.520 these guys to sit up the wall, because that's what 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.040 they want to do. These guys want to boo boom 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.119 boom ba boom, work their way up, turn their turn 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:49.000 their backs to the sidelines, and let these guys run 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.320 off their butts. That's what this offense wants to do. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.840 And if you get playing site, if you get playing sideways, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.920 you know to the sideline. The sideline, they'll just throw 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.800 you out the club and the moon there goes to seams. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.399 Kind of sounds like how the Cowboys run their own offense. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:03.359 H does a lot of that? Yeah, I mean you 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.600 could have clipped before you said the red Sea part, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.040 even specifically, you could have clipped at that one part 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.480 because you didn't say Dalvin Cook at any point. You 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.840 just said that man a couple times. You could have 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.359 clipped that and said, hey, that was a cow bye 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.320 about the Cowboys offense, not even about the Minnesota offense. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.440 They do so many things well, but when we come back, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.800 what about the receivers? Who's the bigger threat out of 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.800 Adam Feeland and Justin Jefferson. That's gonna be a decision 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.800 that's gonna be mulled over by this Dallas coaching staff 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.200 for the next couple days when we return with more 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.080 talking Cowboys. 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