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Speaker 1: how's everybody doing? Absolutely, the Cowboys back on the practice
Speaker 1: field or no practice yesterday, but they will be today,
Speaker 1: but it looks like it will be indoors because if
Speaker 1: you're not in that Allas Fort Worth metroplex, you don't
Speaker 1: know that it has been a very rainy morning up
Speaker 1: here in the metroplex. And so rob outside of getting
Speaker 1: a day off again yesterday, any news and notes popping
Speaker 1: up here from the Cowboys set two more guys on
Speaker 1: injured reserve as of yesterday, Brent Urban defensive tackle and
Speaker 1: Maurice Kennedy at cornerback. So that being said, so Brent
Speaker 1: Urban has a triceps injury. Kennedy got the concussion in
Speaker 1: the Patriots game. So minimum three games out for both
Speaker 1: those guys. But on the flip side, you got five
Speaker 1: guys that have started their practice window either on IR
Speaker 1: or on pup. So there's some flipping and flopping coming
Speaker 1: on the fifty three. I say, who are you laughing at?
Speaker 1: I say, league man, So Moe's gonna be out, Kennedy's
Speaker 1: gonna be out for three games for the concussion at least.
Speaker 1: So are you are you saying it's the league? Because
Speaker 1: this is all all substantial because of the people coming back,
Speaker 1: like this is all a situational deal. That's a head
Speaker 1: of a concussion, you think, So that's all we got
Speaker 1: guys coming back. You know, we've been talking about what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with this roster. You know when guys start
Speaker 1: coming back and guys are gonna start finding their way
Speaker 1: to the I R. Hello, there's there's a couple. But
Speaker 1: in my head, now Bret Brent Urban has a triceps, yes,
Speaker 1: so and he'll be able to come back from because
Speaker 1: I know triceps of taking guys out. As far as
Speaker 1: I know, there's not surgery involved. Okay. Um, So in
Speaker 1: the five guys that are have started the practice window,
Speaker 1: we talked last week about Kelvin Joseph and tight end
Speaker 1: Sean mccun Now you add Michael Gallup, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: big one. Francis Bernard and Tristan Hill on Pop Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm actually I'm pleasantly surprised by the Tristan Hill starting
Speaker 1: of the practice window. I thought he would be a
Speaker 1: little bit further behind, but I thought it would be
Speaker 1: Gallimore before Tristan Hill. It's this guy. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: sit here in the I need to do it. It's
Speaker 1: just amazing how things just fall in place. Oh, you
Speaker 1: stepped your toe, You're going you got an ear affection
Speaker 1: cabin man, you gotta be careful about the swinging cabinets. Bro,
Speaker 1: I think that hit you the hit swinging cabinet in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Well, you know, he got knocked out
Speaker 1: against New England. Yeah, Cannon, it's okay, but hopefully he's okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's That's the biggest thing for me is if there
Speaker 1: were gonna be moves made for those guys coming off
Speaker 1: of IR one, I feel like it wouldn't have happened
Speaker 1: until a little bit whenever those guys get closer. And two,
Speaker 1: I mean there's five guys coming back with a couple
Speaker 1: more on the way. I don't think it would just
Speaker 1: be a couple moves I think it'd be multiple moves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't think all five guys would be back
Speaker 1: this week. But you look at both guys Joseph and
Speaker 1: and McEwen that started last week, I would think they're
Speaker 1: getting closer. You would you would imagine, uh, Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: provided he's gotta go, we could practice. I think he's
Speaker 1: getting closer. Tristan Hill, I'm not sure. And it used
Speaker 1: to be on PUP that you not only had the
Speaker 1: three week window, but another two weeks after that. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if that's still in place. But they've got
Speaker 1: some time with him too to just kind of see
Speaker 1: where he's at. But Pete, let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: how much longer do they have to allow this to
Speaker 1: play out? You know how we have guys that are
Speaker 1: coming from, guys that are going on and all of
Speaker 1: this is a good problem to have with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: because they bringing talented guys back onto the roster. But
Speaker 1: how long can they continue to do this until they
Speaker 1: have to let someone go? Well, I mean, you may
Speaker 1: never have to do it, you guys, he getting hurt,
Speaker 1: which you don't want to see, but that's an easy
Speaker 1: way to just kind of flop it out with without
Speaker 1: having to cut somebody. And then you know, there's also
Speaker 1: the opportunity now with the expanded practice squads and more
Speaker 1: looser restrictions on how many veteran years you have to
Speaker 1: have to qualify for the practice squad, that's an option
Speaker 1: too with guys that they're able to come back. But
Speaker 1: you know, it could continue to be a situation like
Speaker 1: this where eyes or hurt. That's how you you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of swap out, you know, like line change
Speaker 1: in hockey or something. Well, I mean, you hope the
Speaker 1: guys don't get hurt, but that's always a possibility. Now.
Speaker 1: We talked yesterday a little bit about the Lyo Collins
Speaker 1: in Terrence Steel situation on whether or not Collins would
Speaker 1: be ready to jump back in immediately, and kind of
Speaker 1: went through our decisions on that. But what about Michael Gallop?
Speaker 1: Is Michael Gallop going to be ready to be inserted
Speaker 1: as of Sunday because he hasn't played since Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: A calf injury is something that you don't necessarily want
Speaker 1: to mess with, even though he's had an extended period
Speaker 1: of time to get over that calf injury. If he's
Speaker 1: out on the field, how much do you expect him
Speaker 1: to be a factor in this offense. But I mean
Speaker 1: you hope that he's one percent ready and he's back
Speaker 1: and not compromised in any way at all. He's had
Speaker 1: enough of an opportunity to be healthy and based off
Speaker 1: of everything I hear about mister Brown in those bands,
Speaker 1: that he about that life and so when you get back,
Speaker 1: you're ready. So I mean, Michael Gallup is the piece
Speaker 1: that we need on this offense. Said Wilson has come
Speaker 1: in and done a tremendous job and replacing him. But
Speaker 1: everybody knows that Mike G's demand and all of this
Speaker 1: talk about trade deadlines and all that means take his
Speaker 1: name off of the table for that because we know
Speaker 1: going into this last stretch he is going to be explosive.
Speaker 1: At least I hope he is. Yeah, I don't foresee
Speaker 1: him coming back for a couple more weeks. I think
Speaker 1: that you know that his windows has opened up. I
Speaker 1: think you want to make sure that he's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent good, especially with that calf at that position of
Speaker 1: him playing a receiver. That that calf is intricate, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you have so much cutting so many different angles,
Speaker 1: so much different force. Yeah, I mean, so you want
Speaker 1: to get a couple couple good weeks underneath your belt
Speaker 1: of seeing him performing practice before throwing him to the wolves.
Speaker 1: By the way, Chris Beam did the research at the bank,
Speaker 1: he did say those extra two weeks are on the
Speaker 1: pup lists. Yeah, okay, that that is indeed the case.
Speaker 1: So Tristan Hill does have a couple extra weeks to
Speaker 1: get ramped up and ready. So Michael Gallup would be
Speaker 1: back by Casey Well, no, no no, no, no, Gallup was
Speaker 1: still on IR. He wasn't on PUCK. He wasn't yeh,
Speaker 1: Trisphin Hill was on PUP. But yeah, Michael Gallup is
Speaker 1: as of now, the twenty one day window has started,
Speaker 1: so he's able to come back as soon as he wants.
Speaker 1: If not, it's through the end of the twenty one days.
Speaker 1: So do you feel the same way though about maybe
Speaker 1: holding him back a little bit, keeping him limited if
Speaker 1: he does play, if at all, It just depends on
Speaker 1: how how the week of practice goes. Now that they've
Speaker 1: got today Tomorrow is usually in pads and then kind
Speaker 1: of the light Saturday practice and they did something on
Speaker 1: Monday too, so we'll see just how much work he's
Speaker 1: able to do, and that'll that'll decide it. I think
Speaker 1: when he does get back, we talked about how he
Speaker 1: can take the top off that that's kind of the
Speaker 1: biggest thing he can do. Although Ceedee Lamb has done
Speaker 1: a nice job with that host two games m getting
Speaker 1: by the defense. Ceede Lamb did a nice job against
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings last last year, going deep that yards
Speaker 1: after the catch up, of course, the snag in the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. What you did. The thing
Speaker 1: about Michael Gallop coming back would be his deep threat
Speaker 1: against a banged up secondary for Minnesota. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: preview the Minnesota defense and the Cowboys offense tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: today it's the Minnesota offense versus the Dallas Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, this is gonna be a tough test. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of weapons on the Vikings and what
Speaker 1: they have to do or what they bring to the table.
Speaker 1: Rather with Dalvin Cook, you've got Adam Feeland, justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: kJ Costello who's having a great season so far, and
Speaker 1: then you got it all headed up by Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: So I ask you, guys, because of the weaponry that
Speaker 1: is around him. He's played exceptionally well through the first
Speaker 1: six weeks of the year compared to what he's done
Speaker 1: in the past. So how much of a threat is
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and where does he rank among some of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that the Cowboys that face so far. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is a veteran, first of all. I'm a very smart,
Speaker 1: savvy veteran who's been around. He's made a lot of money.
Speaker 1: He makes a lot of money for a good reason.
Speaker 1: He doesn't make a lot of bad decisions. You never
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get with him. In terms of
Speaker 1: the night games, obviously that's his thing that everybody holds
Speaker 1: over him, but I think that's more of a myth
Speaker 1: more so than a legend. This dude has thirteen touchdowns,
Speaker 1: two interceptions to that point, you know he is. He
Speaker 1: has sixty nine percent completion percentage right now. He has
Speaker 1: missed a lot of thrills, which is kind of scary,
Speaker 1: and I hope he continues that for at least another week,
Speaker 1: because right I mean at almost seventy percent completion rate
Speaker 1: with that low percentage in terms of interception ratio and
Speaker 1: the big plays that they're missing because of their ability
Speaker 1: to run the ball. They run a lot of play action.
Speaker 1: They run a lot of really good concepts in terms
Speaker 1: of three receiver, four receiver concepts to one side, they
Speaker 1: overload you. These guys do a really good job on
Speaker 1: offensive getting guys open. He has not hit his he
Speaker 1: hasn't hit the mojo yet. And let's just hope that
Speaker 1: we can keep that like that for at least another
Speaker 1: week because he's there are a lot of big plays
Speaker 1: if you turn on the film, man that he's missing
Speaker 1: guys over the top, I mean three four yards overthrown.
Speaker 1: That would be just easy walking touchdowns because of the
Speaker 1: schemes that they're doing offensively. So they're they're they're there's
Speaker 1: they're their officer coordinators in their bag right now as well.
Speaker 1: He definitely is. And you look at the numbers last
Speaker 1: year from Kirk Cousins against the Cowboys twenty two or
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred and fourteen yards, three or excuse me,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, no interceptions. I mean, he picked the part
Speaker 1: that Cowboys defense last year. This is Cowboys defense that
Speaker 1: at the moment still giving up a ton of yards
Speaker 1: through the passing game. So heckman, do you feel like
Speaker 1: we're better equipped to face a Kirk Cousins, even though
Speaker 1: he's playing better in twenty one than the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: better equipped last year. Yeah. Well, for me, I've had
Speaker 1: a hard time even liking Kirk Cousins over the years
Speaker 1: because he played for the football team, right, So I've
Speaker 1: never wished him well in anything he's done. Um and
Speaker 1: so like that. So um ever wished him well Friday?
Speaker 1: Not yet? No, no, no. What I mean is always
Speaker 1: and so and so. I agree with you what you
Speaker 1: say about him because I feel as though when you
Speaker 1: watch him on film, you see him making good decisions
Speaker 1: with the with the football. I think where he gets
Speaker 1: it is when he's getting pressure on him. Like most quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you know, when they feel that pressure, they get happy
Speaker 1: fee start burping the baby, and he will do that
Speaker 1: and he'll give you the ball. I think Kubiak's sons,
Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak's son is all right as an offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: and I understand Kazim's mind state with just wanting to
Speaker 1: keep that continuity from the offense that they had from
Speaker 1: last year. But it's really kind of basic. They get
Speaker 1: him going just like they get most college and high
Speaker 1: school quarterbacks going with those little short, dinking dunk throws
Speaker 1: and then they try and stretch it with Jefferson. So
Speaker 1: that's really not a lot of imagination to him. But
Speaker 1: I like what you said about the twelve personnel playing
Speaker 1: with a bunch of tight ends. They want to crowd
Speaker 1: you in so that they can get Dalvin Cook going.
Speaker 1: And the thing about Dalvin Cook to me is his splits.
Speaker 1: I mean, he lines up like a punter, so toime,
Speaker 1: he's so far back there because he wants to get
Speaker 1: going downhill. So our defense is going to have to
Speaker 1: punish number thirty three. It's gonna have to be one
Speaker 1: of those games. It's the Black and Blue Division. This
Speaker 1: is what they do. They're gonna run the ball right
Speaker 1: at us, and they want to try and get that
Speaker 1: going in order to kind of throw us off kilter
Speaker 1: in this game. Based upon their schemes. Man again, I
Speaker 1: keep reburning back to the film passing. Game wise, they
Speaker 1: do some some pretty ingenious stuff. It's kind of crazy
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that I'm seeing on film, and
Speaker 1: again he's just missing on a lot of it. So
Speaker 1: but it's there. Running game wise, they do an amazing
Speaker 1: job with their officer a line with their zone running scheme.
Speaker 1: They did a wide zone dude. Ever, they get a
Speaker 1: man on a man, yeah, and a lot of times
Speaker 1: it's Dalvin Cook against one guy and you better be
Speaker 1: a hell of a tackler to get that dude down.
Speaker 1: But that's what it's gonna come down to. Our guys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to tackle well because the scheme wise,
Speaker 1: they do a good job, right, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Obviously that makes sense with Koby Kubiak. So they do
Speaker 1: a good job of getting man on man in their
Speaker 1: office line working up to the second level and sometimes
Speaker 1: a third level. Somebody's gonna come down from that safety
Speaker 1: position and bring your big boy draws. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: Cousins is third on the list of the quarterbacks they faced,
Speaker 1: and it's not too far off from Brady than Herbert
Speaker 1: than Cousins if you going back further, I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings had this stat last sixteen games, going back to
Speaker 1: last season. He's got like thirty seven touchdowns and five interceptions. Wow.
Speaker 1: And I think when they've played him in years past
Speaker 1: with the football team, he would give you stuff. He
Speaker 1: would give you an interception, a fumble, something, and he
Speaker 1: got away with one in the last game. Carolina, but
Speaker 1: he's done a better job of taking care of the ball.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the more underrated quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league, and I think he benefits from that balance
Speaker 1: because Dalvin Cook's one of my favorite players to watch
Speaker 1: in the league, because, like you said, he gets downhill,
Speaker 1: he runs angry, and they've kind of got a Zeke
Speaker 1: Tony Pollar thing going with Alexander Madison too. Is this
Speaker 1: defense well equipped or ready for the challenge of a
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. He's a different runner, And yesterday I said
Speaker 1: the Cowboys may not have faced a good runner to
Speaker 1: this point. I don't think that's necessarily true. I think
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette's a good runner. I think Austin Eckler's a
Speaker 1: good runner. Like, you've faced good backs, but you haven't
Speaker 1: faced Dalvin Cook yet. Dalvin Cook is a different breed
Speaker 1: of a back. And this is a guy who you
Speaker 1: can afford to one get running downhill and two to
Speaker 1: break multiple tackles. He's led the league in miss tackles
Speaker 1: the last two seasons. You got to wrap him up
Speaker 1: on first contact because if not, he's going to be
Speaker 1: running for a little while. Yeah, I mean, even though
Speaker 1: it's a smaller statue of guy's tough, you know, and
Speaker 1: he also he's fast. He break a tackle and he
Speaker 1: will get away from you. So I mean, I think
Speaker 1: if you go back to the game last year, I
Speaker 1: think Alden Smith had a pretty good game vers and
Speaker 1: so we were able to get not only get pressure,
Speaker 1: but get him down immediately. So we have to go
Speaker 1: back to the same thing. And Layton vander esh is
Speaker 1: going to play a big role in this game because
Speaker 1: he's going to be at the line of scrimmage a lot,
Speaker 1: and when they go with those twelve personnel bunch that
Speaker 1: they do, we're going to depend heavily on our linebackers
Speaker 1: against the run to not allow him to get to
Speaker 1: the second level. Also with j run curse. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure dan Quinn has the recipe for this game. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of bringing pressure from different directions.
Speaker 1: But just going back to Dalvin cook Man, he does
Speaker 1: it all and not only running, he's also an excellent block.
Speaker 1: So I mean, he's just one of the as far
Speaker 1: as the dynamics of who he is. If you don't
Speaker 1: get him down, if you don't gang tackle, he can
Speaker 1: run away from me. He can make you pay I
Speaker 1: respect the heck out of Dalvin Cook, and I think
Speaker 1: he's a beast. I'm not as fearful of Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: as I am the actual schemes in office a line.
Speaker 1: He's not. He's not necessarily creating plays. He's not the
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna shake you up at the line of screamage,
Speaker 1: make two or three guys missing and just gas on you.
Speaker 1: He's not that guy. He's gonna run through the hole
Speaker 1: and if he meets you in the hole, you better hello.
Speaker 1: But what he's he is literally literally running through red
Speaker 1: seas right now. These guys are literally setting up walls,
Speaker 1: the Great Wall of China, and these guys are running
Speaker 1: through it. To understand this, as good as Dalvin Cook is,
Speaker 1: as much as we all respect him, he's only has
Speaker 1: twelve more carries in his number two back because I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: may but still right, I mean he has he has
Speaker 1: two fumbles out of what the six games they played,
Speaker 1: so he's getting off the ball once every three games,
Speaker 1: all right, on average? Okay, um Receiving wise, he's a threat,
Speaker 1: but he's not the big play threat that the other
Speaker 1: Madison is, right, So I respect the mess out of Cook.
Speaker 1: Don't let me don't think that I'm down playing him.
Speaker 1: I respect him just like I respect all the professionals
Speaker 1: in this league. But I'm more concerned with how do
Speaker 1: we approach this offensive line and what they're going to
Speaker 1: do to create the holes, because I think, no matter
Speaker 1: who they put in the backfield, these guys to be
Speaker 1: able to run through the holes that these guys have
Speaker 1: been creating. So is it a lot about getting pressure, Well,
Speaker 1: it's a lot about being in your in your gap,
Speaker 1: being as being sound and being in your gap. And Cook,
Speaker 1: I mean Cook if he can break a tackle right,
Speaker 1: But again he's not that. He's not that shifty back
Speaker 1: that I'm concerned about. I'm concerned about how are we
Speaker 1: going to be in our gaps? Are we gonna be
Speaker 1: be able to be sound, be stout and not allow
Speaker 1: these guys to sit up the wall, because that's what
Speaker 1: they want to do. These guys want to boo boom
Speaker 1: boom ba boom, work their way up, turn their turn
Speaker 1: their backs to the sidelines, and let these guys run
Speaker 1: off their butts. That's what this offense wants to do.
Speaker 1: And if you get playing site, if you get playing sideways,
Speaker 1: you know to the sideline. The sideline, they'll just throw
Speaker 1: you out the club and the moon there goes to seams.
Speaker 1: Kind of sounds like how the Cowboys run their own offense.
Speaker 1: H does a lot of that? Yeah, I mean you
Speaker 1: could have clipped before you said the red Sea part,
Speaker 1: even specifically, you could have clipped at that one part
Speaker 1: because you didn't say Dalvin Cook at any point. You
Speaker 1: just said that man a couple times. You could have
Speaker 1: clipped that and said, hey, that was a cow bye
Speaker 1: about the Cowboys offense, not even about the Minnesota offense.
Speaker 1: They do so many things well, but when we come back,
Speaker 1: what about the receivers? Who's the bigger threat out of
Speaker 1: Adam Feeland and Justin Jefferson. That's gonna be a decision
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Speaker 1: frat boy Friday? All right? Last year? How about eleven targets,
Speaker 1: eight receptions, one hundred and twenty three yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That was for mister Adam feeling against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson three receptions on five targets, eighty six yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. He had that thirty nine yard reception.
Speaker 1: That was a pretty big one in the Cowboys win
Speaker 1: over Minnesota thirty one twenty eight on the road. But man,
Speaker 1: that was a very different Minnesota team. Then we're gonna
Speaker 1: see on Sunday it's a very different Cowboys team. Then
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will put out there by Sunday. Can I
Speaker 1: ask you a question with you? I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: mean to interrupt you, but I got it because it's
Speaker 1: on tip of my tongue. Um, do you feel like
Speaker 1: the Vikings have the advantage at the wide receiver position? Yes?
Speaker 1: Right now? Yes, yes, that is why I mean with
Speaker 1: a bang up Amari and no, Michael gallup, A, you're
Speaker 1: talking about our receivers versus the receiver or their receivers
Speaker 1: versus are r dbs? No, no no, no, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: our receivers versus. Oh no, oh, our receivers versus their receivers.
Speaker 1: I think at this very moment, yes, I do believe so,
Speaker 1: because they're both healthy and they've got k J. Osborne
Speaker 1: playing very well. If you're asking me quarterback wise, I
Speaker 1: would even take a eighty percent Dak Prescott over Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins at the moment, But maybe that's what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: I like Adam Finland and Justin Jefferson a lot. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're better players than Amari Cooper and Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: but at this moment, they're both healthy and Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: still a little banged up. You don't have Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: I would believe that. I think the wide receiver Corps
Speaker 1: four Minnesota is right there with Dallas and maybe a
Speaker 1: tad bit better at the moment. What about their receivers
Speaker 1: versus R dvs. That's what really matters. That's a bigot
Speaker 1: pe Uh, that's a great question. I'm leaning towards the
Speaker 1: Cowboys still, but I think it's I think it's very close,
Speaker 1: very close. Yeah, And I think I think the Vikings
Speaker 1: are very happy with their draft pick a year ago,
Speaker 1: just like the Cowboys are very happy with their draft picking.
Speaker 1: Exactly right. And I don't I don't know this. I
Speaker 1: don't know the numbers right now. I just the way
Speaker 1: you were building that question up, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, because I don't. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I think even at a bang up of Martin Cooper
Speaker 1: is better than Feland in my eyes, and Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: and and I look at Ceede Lamb and Jefferson and
Speaker 1: this is all ifs here. But if Dak is healthy
Speaker 1: last year, I think Ceedee Lamb is leaps and bounds
Speaker 1: better than Jefferson in that offense. And we're not having
Speaker 1: the same conversation about these two players. Um fair, but
Speaker 1: four different quarterbacks. I mean that's just me. But I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. To me, I'm Treyvon Diggs is gonna be
Speaker 1: on Jefferson and I trust a b on Theeeland. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that was gonna be another one of my questions
Speaker 1: leading into it. It was is Treyvon Diggs going to travel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he will travel with Justin Jefferson. He's gonna he's gonna
Speaker 1: travel travel with Jefferson. Okay. And Isaiah, it's upset about
Speaker 1: I say, you do you do remember this is a
Speaker 1: podcast you're you're talking about with the audio you're talking.
Speaker 1: I was just I mean, come on, um, that was
Speaker 1: a very bold statement. Sir uh Anthony Brown. You take
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown over Feeling. Man and man coverage. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a B with Theland because I think
Speaker 1: they're stretching the field with Jefferson, and I'm gonna take Diggs.
Speaker 1: And you feel good about ab versus dealing. I feel
Speaker 1: good about ab in a in coverage getting help because
Speaker 1: that's where it's the help is going to be with Theeeland,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying even and the man, and yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take it even man to man. Feeland is gonna run
Speaker 1: crossing routes. Things. I trust ab there, I do. I
Speaker 1: like ab Um. Feeling is one of the most underrated,
Speaker 1: if not the most underrated receiver in this league. He
Speaker 1: is dominant and I agree and I agree that he
Speaker 1: is that he is freaking dominant. Okay Um. He is
Speaker 1: one of the best route runners in this league. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have the explosive speed that some of the other
Speaker 1: guys that we would throw in that conversation, and that's
Speaker 1: why you don't hear his name that much. But in
Speaker 1: terms of how he gets open, the fact that he's
Speaker 1: scoring a touch touchdowns and gets the artist that he
Speaker 1: gets with the lack of speed that he has is
Speaker 1: indicative to how great of a route runner this dude is.
Speaker 1: So you think I was putting him down by saying that.
Speaker 1: No, no no, no no no no no no no no no,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. No no no no no no no. I didn't no,
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I don't say. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is you. I asked very specific, do you feel in
Speaker 1: credible with ad on feeling? And I would I would
Speaker 1: wholeheartedly disagree. You would, you would take it the other
Speaker 1: you would put a b on Jefferson. I would let
Speaker 1: those guys. Whoever comes to your side comes to your side.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I would not travel. You feel like they
Speaker 1: got two number one. I mean, Feeling was their number
Speaker 1: one after Stefan Diggs left, right, and that for a
Speaker 1: year year two and then and then they brought in Jefferson.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's a tough it's a tough duo.
Speaker 1: I mean, I M And they move guys around too,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing Kyle you mentioned, um K
Speaker 1: j Osborne. Yeah, he's brought a different dimension to them
Speaker 1: because they put in mostly in the slot, it seems like,
Speaker 1: and that they've got three guys who can really beat you. Now,
Speaker 1: and then I don't know if they've had that in
Speaker 1: the past, and so to me, assuming if that's George
Speaker 1: Lewis on him, I think that's a real key to
Speaker 1: watch as well, and it theed him feeling excuse me,
Speaker 1: getting back up to speed a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had eleven receptions on twelve targets. Might I add
Speaker 1: eleven on twelve last week where one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six yards and he had a touchdown as well. That's
Speaker 1: a stat line very similar to the one he had
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys last year, except last year he had
Speaker 1: two touchdowns against the Cowboys. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: I trust be on that side either. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I also keep them to their side either. I
Speaker 1: kind of want to take away the top receiver. I
Speaker 1: want Trayvon Dix to travel with Jefferson. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Dix is basically in twenty twenty one three things
Speaker 1: guarantee death taxes and Trayvon did is gonna get interception,
Speaker 1: so you may as well put him with Wood Jefferson.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's keep this, let's keep this thing going.
Speaker 1: It's no look, man, we faced better wide receivers to
Speaker 1: this point. Than what we're gonna see on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: which ones, Oh, Tampa. I would say Keenan Allen, Kenlan Allen,
Speaker 1: and Williams. I would say, they're right up. Not better
Speaker 1: route runners. They're not better rounders specifically. That's what you're
Speaker 1: talking I'm talking about together, and I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: type of receivers those guys are. And those are big receivers,
Speaker 1: run catch it over you type receivers. These are route runners, Okay.
Speaker 1: And we haven't faced a route runner yet to the
Speaker 1: to date, everythinking back to whoever we face a he's
Speaker 1: a good route runner. Back, I don't route runner in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I don't. I don't agree with that. Okay,
Speaker 1: What I'm with you on how efficient is? I mean
Speaker 1: he that guy he's been productive is amazing, and in
Speaker 1: Jefferson is is feeling with speed and size. I am
Speaker 1: curious though. I mean, Trayvon faced Jefferson in college LSU Alabama. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so he didn't get to play in this game
Speaker 1: last year. I think he was he was injured. So
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised at all if that's ther because
Speaker 1: when there's been a clear cut number one receiver he's
Speaker 1: he's accepted. I only can only think of two games
Speaker 1: he didn't really travel against New England, and he didn't
Speaker 1: he was either Caroline or Philly. He didn't travel either.
Speaker 1: Other than that, he has taken on the best guy,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it wouldn't surprise me at all. But ye,
Speaker 1: when healan on whoever is gonna be tough. When I
Speaker 1: think about feeling and when I think about Jefferson, all right,
Speaker 1: I think about Antonio Brown in terms of their route running,
Speaker 1: in terms in terms of how how they run routes, right,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's I think I believe that's
Speaker 1: how they approached the game in terms of their techniques,
Speaker 1: the technical aspect of running routes and what happened when
Speaker 1: when we face Antonio Brown. Yeah, he's all by himself.
Speaker 1: That's no, No, I get it, I get it. But
Speaker 1: that's that's what I think about what we face to
Speaker 1: date in terms of how people approach the game at
Speaker 1: that position, in the ability to run routes and get open.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, I think he was a dog back in
Speaker 1: the day. He's not what he was. No disrespect to him.
Speaker 1: There are some really good route runners in this league. Ridley. Abe,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a ton of them, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's some really good guy, so there's there's no disrespect there.
Speaker 1: I think these guys have Jefferson has benefited greatly. He
Speaker 1: was already a great route runn. He's benefited greatly from
Speaker 1: being a teammate of Feeling, right, and I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that he's mentoring a crap out of him. And now
Speaker 1: you throw throw then other guy in the mix, and
Speaker 1: now you got a three hited monster. They're starting to
Speaker 1: if they if they had a tight end, if they
Speaker 1: had an old school Rudolf like they used to have,
Speaker 1: these guys will be a complete problem. I will say,
Speaker 1: pff backs up your your thinking. In terms of top
Speaker 1: route runners right now, the Cowboys have not faced a
Speaker 1: top ten route runner to this point. Keenan Allen is
Speaker 1: sixteen and Mary Cooper is fifteen. I think over the
Speaker 1: course of their careers they would be exceptionally higher. But
Speaker 1: at the moment number nine and number ten are Adam
Speaker 1: Feeling and Justin Jefferson. So top ten guys, two of
Speaker 1: them on the same team. I mean, it backs up
Speaker 1: you're thinking. But I think in terms of career wise,
Speaker 1: they're not nearly. Am not. I'm not looking at career.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this week. About right now, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this Withe that career don't mean nothing
Speaker 1: when you when in comparison to this week. That's what
Speaker 1: we got to do with this week. So that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like traveling like you're you're facing pretty much
Speaker 1: the same the same dude, just one faster than the other. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're three and three for a reason. And I'm looking
Speaker 1: at them and even with the weapons that they have,
Speaker 1: and you talked, I looked at I watched the Browns
Speaker 1: game and the one thing about the Browns that they
Speaker 1: presented it to the Vikings was pressure upfront, which made
Speaker 1: it obviously, you know, makes everything easier on the back end.
Speaker 1: And that's I'm not the disrespect for is not there
Speaker 1: for me. For theland, I recognize who he is as
Speaker 1: a runner. I just believe when you move coverage towards
Speaker 1: him and make him a priority and you have the uh,
Speaker 1: you could put seven over there by himself on Jefferson,
Speaker 1: that just opens up so many other things that you
Speaker 1: can do on your defense, even with the other the
Speaker 1: third receiver that they have, so I'm not really worried
Speaker 1: about it to that degree because we can get a
Speaker 1: b help. I don't need to get Diggs any help.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those of you wondering on Diggs
Speaker 1: and Jefferson in college, Jefferson had seven receptions for seventy
Speaker 1: nine yards twenty nineteen in that Classic against Alabama, but
Speaker 1: Diggs mostly played against Jamar Chase in that game, so
Speaker 1: it was mostly Jefferson. It was Jefferson against Hurtan, though
Speaker 1: it was Patrick Hurtanon that went up against Jefferson's part.
Speaker 1: So gosh, that was a good game. Forty six forty one.
Speaker 1: LSU won that game in route to their national title.
Speaker 1: But this this is a tougher game than most people
Speaker 1: are acknowledging. I'll put it like that. And this is
Speaker 1: a much tougher game and people are anticipating or they're
Speaker 1: acknowledging because these guys are sneaky. That's one of those
Speaker 1: teams that you can kind of overlook. But they're they're
Speaker 1: built well. They're built well, and that's not me gassing
Speaker 1: them up. They just they just are. They're one of
Speaker 1: those teams that you better respect who the heck you're
Speaker 1: going against, and you can't play them single high. That's
Speaker 1: what we like to do. We like to play them
Speaker 1: single high. We like to play teams single high. That's
Speaker 1: what we do, right. We like to be man to
Speaker 1: man coverage, get pressure upfront, and we're gonna get there
Speaker 1: before you can get the ball off. Hopefully that's the case,
Speaker 1: because if you try to play single high on these guys,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not something that you better get there.
Speaker 1: But we've switched up so much of our coverage. And
Speaker 1: that's the same thing that Zim has to his advantage
Speaker 1: on his we'll talk about and we'll talk about that tomorrow.
Speaker 1: These guys have the advantage and of having smart players
Speaker 1: that fit their system. I think you can do the
Speaker 1: same thing with the Vikings this week. You don't have
Speaker 1: to go single high safety against these guys. You can
Speaker 1: split it. You don't have to do that. You don't
Speaker 1: have to play it that way. And you're saying that
Speaker 1: that's the only option that they have is going the
Speaker 1: same because of the schemes that they run offensively, these
Speaker 1: concepts that they're running are not like what anything we
Speaker 1: face this year. That's just for me watching film. These
Speaker 1: guys are running four man, they are overloading the side.
Speaker 1: They're overloading one side of the field with three and
Speaker 1: four man concepts, and that's without Dalvin Cook. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: if you come out of the two high safety, where
Speaker 1: are they gonna hand a ball off too? Yeah? And no,
Speaker 1: I agree, no, And we talk about being able to
Speaker 1: be stout up front and being able to obviously stay
Speaker 1: in our gaps and how we haven't been challenging a
Speaker 1: running game. Go too high against this team if you
Speaker 1: want to, How import do you think tackling is too
Speaker 1: for the for the TVs? Because I didn't watch it,
Speaker 1: probably not nearly as much as you did, but it
Speaker 1: seemed like they try to get the ball in space,
Speaker 1: flares whatever to Jefferson deal and let them go to work.
Speaker 1: If you're playing off coverage, there's a hell you can
Speaker 1: only just stay in one coverage for this time. I've
Speaker 1: never said that, but I'm what I'm saying is this
Speaker 1: is not the team that you can go too high against. Right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go too high because this is
Speaker 1: probably the most most effective running team that we face.
Speaker 1: Are we have any argument in regards to that? Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is the most in terms of being adamant
Speaker 1: about the run. This is this team is going to
Speaker 1: run the ball. So if you go too high, I
Speaker 1: guess what that's welcoming the run, all right. But also
Speaker 1: when you go single high, you don't want to play
Speaker 1: man to man against these guys. As much as dominant
Speaker 1: as dix As has been this year, you don't want
Speaker 1: to play man to man because what these guys do
Speaker 1: concept wise, along with the personnel that they have on
Speaker 1: the outside, that's all I'm saying. So I have full
Speaker 1: confidence that will be okay. But you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: mix it the heck up because you have a smart quarterback,
Speaker 1: you have some really good route runners on the outside,
Speaker 1: and you have a heck of a dude that we
Speaker 1: can run the ball. So no matter what you present,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have an answer for it. So we've talked
Speaker 1: about a lot of the strengths for the Minnesota offense.
Speaker 1: But when we come back here on talking Cowboys, how
Speaker 1: can the Cowboys take advantage and take away a lot
Speaker 1: of those strengths. Who's gonna have to step up and
Speaker 1: who's gonna have to play better when we come back
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Speaker 1: how did the Cowboys stop these guys? Where are their weaknesses?
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about the strengths of the Vikings,
Speaker 1: but where are they weak enough to where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can take advantage from a defensive standpoint, because, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: it is pressure. I know that offensive line has been
Speaker 1: playing exceptionally well. They've lost three games, but against three
Speaker 1: quality opponents. Where do you think this defense can have
Speaker 1: some success? Hecla Brian O'Neill, the right tackle, it's your
Speaker 1: birthday for the Vikings. We got pressure coming down your way. Um,
Speaker 1: I think that's a front line, man, is where we
Speaker 1: have to dominate these guys, you know. And he talked
Speaker 1: about it and said the way that they want to
Speaker 1: dominate the line of scrimmage and they want to get
Speaker 1: the run game going with Cook and that's where it
Speaker 1: starts for us. And I feel like we've done a
Speaker 1: damn good job over the last couple of weeks of
Speaker 1: getting a penetration. Also DIGGI zeul, all of those guys
Speaker 1: call us Watkins being back now. I just feel like
Speaker 1: dominating up front is going to be the key to
Speaker 1: this game. And Randy Gregory is a load and I
Speaker 1: don't know a lot of left or right tackles that
Speaker 1: want to deal with what ninety four is gonna bring.
Speaker 1: I want to see what Michael Parsons. The way that
Speaker 1: they're going to use Michael Parsons in this game is
Speaker 1: also going to be pivotal because of the way that
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook runs and obviously getting pressure on the quarter
Speaker 1: on Cousins to force those turnovers. So and again, turnovers
Speaker 1: are going to be important for this game. Can we
Speaker 1: get now that two of those? That's the go and theme?
Speaker 1: And I think we're tied for a franchise history with
Speaker 1: ten games with two turnovers. We get to this game,
Speaker 1: we're going to break break records here. So this is
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Yeah, so you gotta go out
Speaker 1: and do it. There's really absolutely nothing other than that
Speaker 1: you gotta go force two takeaways. One thing that you
Speaker 1: said about Randy Gregory, this guy's playing so well. I
Speaker 1: mean I went back and watched the game from the
Speaker 1: New England game prior to the bye week, and I
Speaker 1: mean he is just mauling people at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I mean that guy is showing the athleticism, the strength,
Speaker 1: I mean, all of it. Bundled into one. Can he
Speaker 1: keep that up against Minnesotas. Minnesota better equipped up front
Speaker 1: than maybe New England is or was. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: block him with one person. Um, they're not gonna let
Speaker 1: him get off. I wouldn't if I was off as
Speaker 1: a coordinator. And to your point, heck, we have all
Speaker 1: watched the film. These guys get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: So Gregory there, I mean, that might be something that
Speaker 1: just takes him out the game in that regard for
Speaker 1: majority of the snaps that he plays. The guys are
Speaker 1: gonna to step up this game. Our defensive line are
Speaker 1: gonna have to win their individual battles. Brent Urban being gone,
Speaker 1: that sucks. That sucks for us because he's a large presence.
Speaker 1: It's big rotationals He's a big rotational piece, but he
Speaker 1: has a huge presence physically obviously up front, and he
Speaker 1: presents a problem against zone running schemes like this one
Speaker 1: because he cops up those blocks and those guys can't
Speaker 1: work up to the next level. Our front defensive alignment
Speaker 1: are gonna have to win their battles one on one.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to be aware that they're gonna get
Speaker 1: double team these guys are gonna be They're gonna be
Speaker 1: sifted blocking up all the way up to this next level.
Speaker 1: Our linebackers they got to flow. Then they got to
Speaker 1: trust their eyes because if you take one wrong cut, boom,
Speaker 1: one foot in the ground, they're cutting backside. And here's
Speaker 1: a scene. Parsons, Neil, be physical. You're gonna get on
Speaker 1: your bench press this week because you're gonna be fighting
Speaker 1: off as alignment of off your chest and shedding those
Speaker 1: blocks to be able to fill those gaps. This this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a test up front in this front seven.
Speaker 1: If we can win that battle, we win the ball
Speaker 1: game hands down easy. Yeah. I wonder if Quinn Bohanna
Speaker 1: is gonna have to play more snaps now with no
Speaker 1: Brent Urban in this game. Um so I agree with
Speaker 1: what you guys said. I mean, Hex stole my answer
Speaker 1: about Gregory, and you're right, they do try to get
Speaker 1: the ball out quick, especially in some circumstances. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, adding dirty the d line coach said he's
Speaker 1: coming into a mindset where he wants to take over
Speaker 1: every game and he's doing it. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: they've got a left tackle who's a rookie Christian Darisel
Speaker 1: was really talented, but he's gonna make life difficult on
Speaker 1: the edges there, I think, and I think this is
Speaker 1: a good game for Michael Parsons to play linebacker. I
Speaker 1: know we debate this like on a weekly basis, but
Speaker 1: I just think his speed back there in the run
Speaker 1: game is needed along with Count O'Neill has been back
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. Does Mike he need to have
Speaker 1: his best game since maybe the first three games of
Speaker 1: the year when he was really on a roll. Does
Speaker 1: he need to have a step up in this game
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to really have success. I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: his best game. He just need to play within himself
Speaker 1: in the scheme. He doesn't need to do anything outside
Speaker 1: of that. And going back to what Isaiah was saying
Speaker 1: about double team, double teaming Randy Gregory, That's why I
Speaker 1: feel like you got to use Michael at the edge
Speaker 1: as well, because you know that the Vikings are going
Speaker 1: to be doing that and he's gonna Michael would be
Speaker 1: man to man himself again short throws trying to get
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins off. It's going to be their m but
Speaker 1: we still have to create that pressure somehow. Someway. We've
Speaker 1: got to make him uncomfortable in the pocket. Do you
Speaker 1: want him on the edge? I do, okay, I thought
Speaker 1: you wanted him more or les. No, he wants him
Speaker 1: at linebacker. I want him on the want him at linebacker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially against a team like this because they're because of
Speaker 1: their blocking scheme in the run game, he'll just get
Speaker 1: washed out. And then when it comes to passing downs,
Speaker 1: if it's a passing down, sure, or throw him out
Speaker 1: there in third down, third and long, let him go
Speaker 1: ahead and puts it, put it, you know, his ears back,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. But yeah, I'm okay with
Speaker 1: that too. I don't have a problem with him being
Speaker 1: in at the defensive in position for those situations. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to earlier downs, first second down, get him.
Speaker 1: Don't even think about putting them on on the defensive
Speaker 1: line where he would get picked up and thrown on
Speaker 1: the into the second bleachers. With a running scheme like this,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I don't care how much. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It isn't even have the club you got, you got
Speaker 1: six hundred pounds working together. It doesn't matter who you are.
Speaker 1: They will wash you out, especially if you're an undersized
Speaker 1: defensive lignment. So there's no disrespect to him. That's just anybody.
Speaker 1: Lion's gotta eat. I hear you, man, I hear you.
Speaker 1: If there's food, I think him at the second level
Speaker 1: is gonna Yeah, he can impact this game at the
Speaker 1: second level with his speed. He he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: come in and rush. It's gonna be a solid mixture
Speaker 1: of it's gonna be everything, be everything. I mean, dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's gonna throw every scheme, every look, every look in
Speaker 1: the book over the next week. I mean he is
Speaker 1: going to throw the kitchen sink at this vikings Offen.
Speaker 1: I just had a WWE flashback when he said six
Speaker 1: hundred pounds working together. I'm thinking about the like earthquake
Speaker 1: and tugboat just getting back in Tea. It's like the
Speaker 1: old school wedge man. It's like the wedge. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how how dominant of a kickoff cover guy you
Speaker 1: are when you run into those two office alignment. Yes,
Speaker 1: night night, yea. He's already shown you what he can
Speaker 1: do physically, and he's seen a lot of that. And
Speaker 1: so look, linebacker wise, we have depth there. We're still
Speaker 1: forgetting Layton vander esh we're still forgetting, and that's why
Speaker 1: I brought up that second level of being able to
Speaker 1: shed blocks, because that hasn't been his mo over the
Speaker 1: last few years. So those guys are going to have
Speaker 1: to guess what I say, Get on the bench press,
Speaker 1: get some close bench going on this week, do some
Speaker 1: explosive work with some mitballs, because you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: shock and release off of these office linement because they
Speaker 1: are going to get up to the second level. Our
Speaker 1: d line will have their hands full with these guys
Speaker 1: working in unisons, pushing the line, pushing the line, pushing
Speaker 1: the line in if our linebackers get caught up in
Speaker 1: that wash, we're gonna this is a game that defensively
Speaker 1: we can maybe get exposed because of the way that
Speaker 1: they work together up front. Yes, okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a part of this defense,
Speaker 1: if not the whole defense that does get exposed on
Speaker 1: some points. But it's gonna be up to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense to keep pace with what they've been doing. They've
Speaker 1: been the number one offense in the NFL for a reason,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna preview the offense versus the Vikings defense tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which definitely has the Cowboys at an advantage, but we've
Speaker 1: got that coming up here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.
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