Cowboys Break: Down the Line

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all that throughout the course of the show today. Let's start first with Mike McCarthy's press conference that you were just able to hear here on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. He did say. One thing I thought was interesting about Tyron Smith saying that they're hopeful that Tyrone will be able to start his twenty one day window next week. From what you guys are hearing and everything you've surmised, when should fans expect maybe to see him back on

the field. I think that's probably the bigger question for them. I think it's just going to come down to, first of all, what did they want to do with him as far as do they want to just throw him out there and say you're back play left tackle, or do they want to give him a little bit of work. I think these couple of games he's got some opportunities against, like next week against Houston, maybe he can get some work there. Jacksonville, who knows, maybe you can play some

against Houston. Start against Jacksonville, get ready for the next game. And if it sounds like, you know, you're kind of gearing up to the games that really matter, you have to you know, that's how you have to play. It was final three of the ones that matter the most, you would think, well, yeah, I mean, like you should be able to win against Houston without Tyron Smith. You're eight and three without him. You should be able to

beat Jacksonville without him. I mean, he's only gonna make you a better so you can kind of ease him back in, and you should be able to beat Philly without him, but be nice to have him. I think it's a really exciting time of the year because for many reasons. For Christmas number one, yes, no, but the position that the cows are currently at, like they're in a really really good position, and usually you tend to you know, loose players or players I really banged up

during this time of the year. But in this instance, when you talk about Tyron Smith return, we're still talking about Odell. He's gonna be on Monday with the team and there's a lot of high hopes and a lot of extation that they're going to be able to work out a deal. So having those two major pieces, thinking if it goes that way to be added to the Cowboys roster towards the end of the year, you heading into the playoffs, that's it's just it's not something I've

seen it happened. I haven't been here when at that point of the year or the season, you get some key pieces like that that can take you to another level. So it's very exciting and the Cowboys are just in a really, really good position right now. Yeah, the thing with we were kind of all along getting the idea that when you go back, and I'm sorry, I was texting a lot of things. There seems to be someone

that's ill in Steele's family and stuff. That's what they're dealing with right now, and they're right now they don't know if he's going to be available to play, So we'll see how that all plays out over the weekend. But the thing about with Tyrn Smith, all indications, like we've talked about, I think we've been very consistent on the show ton of talking about a potential timetable and

things like that to him coming back. You know it was going to be they were going to try and get him ready to start to work for or ramp up during the Colts week, and then after the Colts week then you were going to start that that practice time. I think we've talked about that a couple of different times here, and then you know you have Jerry even saying, you know, you know, hey, Tyren Smith's back left tackle.

You know, Guard, We've had some discussions here as well about you know, I think it was Nick was talking about when do you play You go ahead and play Peters a little bit at left tackle to maybe get Tyler Smith a little bit more work at guard. But yeah, these games, you know, you never know in the in the NFL, I've liked my line has always been the

NFL as a strange lady. You just never know how things are going to play out here, and you hope that you can go in this game and find a way to beat the Colts, beat the Texans, you know, beat the beat the Jaguars, and then get everything, all the pieces back, whether that's a wide receiver, whether that's a tackle, whether that's moving a tackle to guard, you know, and make a run at this thing. Um, you know how you need to make him. Yeah, let me ask

you guys this question. And this this is a little bit of a bigger picture question, but I think it's worth discussing. Um, there was a time in this franchise, not that long ago, when you lose Tyron Smith and everything fell apart. He was your best player for a long time. And then came Zack Martin. You lose your quarterback. Things fell apart. Yeah, it was all and Sean Lee was in that category too. You lose Sean Lee. Things

fell apart. How much credit do you guys give Mike McCarthy for the fact that they're eight and three this year. They have missed Tyron Smith all season, They missed Dak for a good part of the season. Things didn't fall apart. Not only did not fall apart, they're actually in contention as one of the best teams in the NFC. Yeah, go ahead, And he gets a lot of credit. I mean, and he gets the credit for building the team him. Uh, you know, Jerry, Will McClay, you know, Stephen, all of them.

I mean, they get credit for building a team that can compete and get getting the guys ready, um and training camp. Look at what has happened at training camp. We can say why does this guy playing or this guy not getting enough snaps or reps, or why are they doing it like this, Oh he's playing left guard, And everybody says, we're doing it differently because we're getting the team ready to go. And it's because when that happens, when things like that happen, these guys are ready to play.

I say it all the time. You've heard me say it for twenty years. You've heard me say, built this team. Built a team from one to fifty three, not your ten best players, one to fifty three. That's what the Patriots did so well because when guys got hurt, other guys would step up. And that's what they've done. They've got a football team. It's not even fifty three, it's more like sixty five to seventy. But guys that come

in and it's trusting the system. It's why you don't fire a coach every time they lose a game or not have a great season. You have to build consistency with a coaching staff, a scouting department, everybody together to know what type of player we want, especially at the back end. You mentioned Will McClay, and he's a guy he has been here for a really long time and he's had a lot of his staff being here, so he's been here. He brings in talent and that that

hasn't changed. But you look at the difference between what was happening when Jason Garrett was here versus what now is happening with Mike McCarthy, and it's night and day like your team would just crumble and go down. Like you said that, I mean It's not something I thought about, but yes, Sean Lee, all those players you listed, absolutely true, you wouldn't know what to do or how to replace. And we've seen this happened, not just in key positions,

but just since the moment McCarthy got here. Even last year, a player went down and they knew how to just kind of plug someone else and figure things out and just keep going. So it's something that me, in my time being here, I have never had the chance to kind of witness that or experience that. So it's it's great to see that kind of change in McCarthy. I give him all the all the credit in the world.

There are some things that he's been doing here that has been really, really amazing, and some people want to criticize him, but I think right now he deserves a lot of praise for everything he's been able to handle. No. Absolutely, yeah, there's there's been plenty of times I know myself have

talked about him. It's you saw Mike McCarthy what he's capable of doing, or what he can do when they lose, when they lose their quarterback in week one, and they lose their starting safety in week one for multiple games and it was going to take somebody to kind of rally the troops and get everybody on the same page and kind of say, listen, we're down right now, guys,

but you know we can do this. We can rally, we can do I give Mike McCarthy a ton of credit, and like I say, I admit I've been very critical of him at times. I think Mike McCarthy, as we look towards even twenty twenty three, I think that he will be your coach to the Dallas Cowboys. I don't

think there'll be anything. You know, we could talk about falling apart and all that, but no, I mean he has earned the right to come back and be your coach because we've had this discussion yesterday one oh five three.

When it pertains to DAK and when you talk about contract extensions and things like that, one of the things that we said was, Okay, you're evaluating the coaching staff this year, then in twenty twenty three you really have to evaluate DAK, maybe with the potentially a new offensive coordinator and a new head coach, and then you get into that. I think Mike McCarthy has secured his job right now. When you start to talk about Sirianni and all these the guy down McDaniel down there in Miami.

This guy has I don't think there's been anybody in the league that's done his job better than this guy. Because if you look at all the things that they've gone through, losing their tackle, their quarterbacks say I mentioned it, all the changes that they had to make in order just to get to this point in the season, and people talk about them as a possible Super Bowl favorite coming out of the NFC. I mean, you know, week one,

you would have never had any of these conversations. And I think a lot of it has to do with Mike McCarthy, what he's been able to do with Dan quinn, whatever he's been able to do with Kellen Moore, and how he works with Will Clay. Yeah, and to jump on that, like she said, Will mcclay's obviously been here, Stephen, Jerry, they've been here. You know what's been different? What does McCarthy do differently than what we've seen. Go back and look since the start of training camp. You know, what

do you what do you call an impact player? I would say a former first round pick or a pro bowler, or in some cases both. If they signed Odell Beckham, that will be the fourth player in that category they've brought to this football team since training camp. They brought in an Anthony Barr who's both. They brought in um Jason Peters who's All Pro, maybe a Hall of Famer. They've brought in Tack McKinley, a former first round pick. Odell Beckham could be a former first round pick and

Pro bowler if he comes in. They're bringing in high profile guys. They they're they're they're taking a chance. This guy won the MVP of the USFL. Try let's bring him. Let's see what happens. And he's a difference maker too, So they they bring a more high profile guy. They're not afraid to say, Oh, I've played against Anthony bar for eight years. I'm tired blocking against them. Let's bring

them on. Kind of feel like two, you have coaches that are better evaluators, maybe some from the previous regimes, maybe not as much at certain positions that you might have needed. I think that's dan Quinn has got his stamp on a lot of these defensive players. But then you look at you know what they were able to do. You know that will is in a unique situation because of having to deal with coaches who have a lot

of opinion. Here the front office with Jerry and Steven have their opinions, and then he also has to deal with the scouts. It's a very very difficult thing to have to navigate, but he's brought them all together in order to build. Like Nick was talking about a one to fifty three Nick, I'm sorry, Brian actually brought up an interesting point. I'd love to get y'all's thoughts on it. You threw out that term coach of the Year and I hadn't really. I mean, you think about all the

names that are being thrown around as potential candidates. I haven't heard anybody really talk about Bike McCarthy, but I think he would have my vote. I think you make a valid point because what he's done has been different than those other guys from the standpoint that he didn't have key pieces of his team. Not only did he not fall apart, he thrived in that. What do you guys think do you think he should be in the consideration? Do you think maybe he is the coach of the

Year in the NFL in the consideration? Yes, Unfortunately, I don't believe that that the voters vote that way. Just like for comeback Player of the Year, they don't vote for the guy that was in like drug rehab or whatever and comes back and play in It fixes like it's it's the whoever, it's the broken leg, quarterback whatever. Yeah, and it's same with the coach. It's it's the But

because because what it is, because you gotta remember who's voting. Media, Are they arrogant, Yes, they don't ever say that they were wrong. Yeah, this regular media. I'm arrogant too. But how many times do you see it if you rank somebody number one in the in the nation and then they finished six and six and barely make a ball. They underachieved. It wasn't that you don't know how to evaluate. It happens all the time. So no one's gonna look at the Cowboys and go, wow, great job, Mike McCarthy,

this is we thought. Where it happens in the playoff, they're gonna look at the Jets, who they thought sucked, and they're gonna like that coach just turned them around. Or there's got to be another example of Seahawks a great example. Yeah, I mean yeah, they were they were selling at their quarter. Yeah, they were selling everything, and they got better. Yeah. So it's it's all about their expectations that they don't look at it like maybe we

were wrong here. It's like, wow, good job Robert sala or or um what's his name, McDaniel, No, McDaniel, but I'm thinking of the USC just couldn't remember. I mean, but on that she's gone. That's all I know. But on that point, like I thought, it's the same thing for the It's the same thing for the Cowboys coach though, too. He he they got rid of parts that everybody said would kill this team. True, like they were like, you

cannot be better. I heard so many times last year people saying, there's no way anybody can convince me that this team is better by losing Amari Cooper and Lyle Collins and Randy Gregory. And guess what, this team is better. Yeah, And and so it may go to your point about the their rogance of the media, but the fact of the matter is, for every argument you can make about any coach in the league and what they've done this year, you could probably say the exact same thing about Mike McCarthy.

What he's accomplished. The Eagles coach. I mean, you gotta give him credit too. I mean they've they've done a great job as well, and they're developing a quarterback that not everyone thought was a real quarterback, you know, in that offense and now well so, I mean the people that drafted him maybe you know they draft the second round, you know, I mean the Cowboys were thinking draft drafting

him in the second round as well. I mean, not to replace Dak to do some kind of hyper thing, but if if people thought he could play like this, he would have been drafted a lot higher. And you know, he's a winner, and they've done a great job. I mean, you gotta give you gotta give them credit. I think they keep winning. Their coach will be thrown in there too. Yeah, yeah, I think he should absolutely be consider I don't know if he would win, but for sure to be in

that category. And in conversation, you look at the type of offseason he had, the amount of criticism he was receiving in front of his boss, Jerry Jones, asking questions like that that training training camp, that's stuff. The fact that he was used as a joke at the NFL Honors Awards, by the comedian. What was key? I always forget him, But anyways, was it funny, Yes, it was funny,

but it was embarrassed. It is embarrassing for you to bring light to something like that in front of all your peers and people that you work with, and then you ask your quarterback. I forgot what the question was, but he asked some question, you know, I don't remember. But the point is when you're putting that so much light about how bad and like how much you should be fired, and the fact that he's handled this season so well, and I think he's done such a great job.

If anything, I like him even better in the way he speaks to the media and everything. He hasn't lost his composure, He's kept it going, He's kept his focus. He knew going into the season he was in a very, very hot seat. He knew there were two passible candidates ready to sign some papers and become the head coach

and take his job. So all in all, he's kept his school and he's done such a great job with the team so far, with the coaching staff, making the changes that need to happen, and just not crumble under all this type of pressure. Yeah, I challenge Nick Siriani to win five game four or five games with Gardner Minshew at quarterback. Okay, book, I Book, you know, if you look, tell me any team that's right now is fighting to be in the tournament, and I'm gonna take

your starting quarterback away for five games. I challenge you to win four of those five games. You know, and you could talk about it's the defense, dan Quinn. Yeah, I mean you could talk about, you know, maybe some of the schedule and how they're playing. Fine, it's hard to win in the NFL. Well, two of the hard division games. One was a team that's gotten hot now in Cincinnati, Like there were some good wins in that, no question, Yeah, absolutely, no question. And see that's that's

the thing about it is. I challenged Nick Siriani to go and win four five games with Gardner Minshew at quarterback. We'll see how good your fifty three is playing without with that guy him Ian Book, I don't care who you put in there a quarterback, go win four your next five games. That's why the Jets might their coach might slide in here because he's winning with with Mike White, and he benched this quarterback and we'll see, I mean, we'll see what happens. But that seems like a pretty

favorable pick there from New York Media. From from you know, just the Jets. I mean, you talk about a laughing stock. I mean, the punch line all the time, Mike White. Let's let's be honest here too. And I'm a guy at in the Draft show that absolutely loved Mike White. Love to pick Mike White. He was my guy. I mean, and I realized this about Mike White. He wins one game a year when you ask him. He's playing this week at They're playing Minnesota at Minnesota, and then they

go to Buffalo. Let's says, Bill would say, let's knock it out. The anointing oil yet the horn. I'm just telling you, I was telling you right now, is he's good for one game a year and then everybody falls in love with him and he breaks your heart. That's what That's how he is. So yeah, the Jets, the Giants, those teams that they are, they surprising everybody. Sure, were you surprised how bad the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been? Yeah?

You surprise how bad the Packers have been? Yeah? You know, there's things that happen, and in this league, you surprise how bad the Rams are. Yeah, you know, there's a lot of things in this league right now that you know that are that are kind of out of whack, you know, but you're You're a team here that survived the issues. You survived your quarterback being down for five games and won four of those. Not many teams can do that in this league, not with the rosters they

currently have. Real quick, before we go to break, I did need to get a quick update on this. You mentioned Terrence Steele if and this might not even be about this weekend, but it made me think about this. If the Cowboys have to play without Terrence Steel, what do they do with tackle? That's a good question, great question. Everybody's a left side player. Yeah, no, I don't know what happens. I mean really, I mean, Jason Peters hasn't really played a lot on the right side. Neither has

Tyler Smith. Yea, neither has Tyrant has his rookie year, which was like sixty three years ago. I don't know, I don't I don't know. I think maybe it's just gonna sound kind of crazy. But we talked about this. If even after week one when Terrence Steele wasn't really good in Week one, and and here I am throwing the dirt on him and saying, hey, that's a liability over there. He's played so much better. His running game stuff has been really good. He's getting better as a

pass protector. He's a guy. If you if you want to say, what's the most important free agent guy you might want to sign? Might be might be a right tackle. Honestly, I think he might be the best offensive line you got it. But we talked about could you if Tyrand Smith were to play, could you put you know, could you put Tyler Smith at right tackle and then go that route? You know? I I don't know. I mean where where we are in the the in the in the scheme of and I hate to say this, where

are we with Ball? And well, let's go and all those guys, I mean, Ball's active every game. Well let's go. I guess is still on own I R So I mean that that's probably that's probably what they would do. They would probably start ball at at at right tackle, is what they would probably do. It Just even though well, let's go played the last game in the preseason and you're like, oh, damn why was he hurt? You know that kind of remember Ball played eight stains Minnesota when

remember when they started pulling people. Yeah, it just seems weird if you're playing a big game here late in the season and your backups would be Connor McGovern and Jason Peters, but Ball's playing, you know, like that just seems kind of or or say McGovern isn't a backup and it's Tyler Smith and Jason Peters. Football, somebody learned right tackle, Like yeah, Like, well see that, you would think,

how difficult is that transition? Because if you're a pro and again I've never obviously played football, but going through it in my mind and if okay, you can get used to one side, but it seems like you could eas not easily, but you can definitely make that trans As Tarred Steel how it was to play left tackle, he was like, I make this pretty plain for all of us to kind of think about. If you're right handed, try going through a full day doing everything with your

left hand. Yeah, and how different is that? It's it's different, but I can handle it. Yeah, but professionally at the speed that that that it's going, can you handle it? Like? Can you do it at that level. It's it's not the same as just kind of I'm gonna pick up this glass with my left hand versus right. Like you're now having to do all of this against maybe a pro bowler on the opposite side that's coming at you in a way that's now. But we are talking about

holding holding a pencil or doing surgery. If I got to slap with my left hand, if I got to slap you, I can slap to you just as good. Just I don't know, because because think about at the footwork, because what happens is when you're when you're playing left tackle, it's left it's right foot up, left foot back, and then you flip it the other way. And then also well tackles will tell you this. They play with they play with really with half their eye. They play like

with their eyes, but they use like to watch. You have to keep eye on ball and then see the guy coming and then so it's the adjustment of how you see and then where you put your hands. So if you're a if you're a punch, punch and then you know it's opposite the other way, so you have to use your hands the opposite way. But the footwork is the biggest problem. And they also tell you how they see the rusher coming at them is another issue that they do because your right eye left eye. But

they have swing tackles all the time. You know, people are like, it's a swing tack because swing tackles not very good. It's like, but that's a swing tackle. Yeah, exactly why you got switch hitters. There are people that learn how to do it right. The point is that doesn't mean they're always hearst of all, it doesn't mean they're great at it. And and sometimes being able to do that means I have to work at it to get somewhat proficient on the side I'm not accustomed to.

I'm not gonna be great at it, but I can get That was kind of my question. It's I could it be at least enough to keep you going? Obviously, and maybe it can. That's just about time. The question is have they had enough time to do that? And I don't know if you can get that in a week, I don't know. I mean, playing the NFL is hard. It's hard when you're I always on the right side, if you've always been on lest side, trying to move over this it's probably not an odd thing to do.

I'd put Tyler Smith over there. If Steel can't play, I'd put Tyler Smith over there, putting McGovern at left guard and and put Peters at left tackle. You know what, I'm just I'm hopeful. I think what happened to Tyler Smith last weekend was three games in twelve days, and he and he needs now. He needs the work over, he needs the practice time. He does need the practice time. We learned that as well. All right, we're gonna check our first break and we come back. We're gonna jump

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that it was in your backyard like the kids? No, I haven't done that. You've never done the bounce house thing. No, I'm always worry you're talking about kids bouncing around. It's like midair collisions, is what it is. I've never I mean it's like every oh, okay, you know, you're always like you're just kind of a bouncing lawsuit. Yeah, exactly, Like kids bounce out of the arena into the into the grass and you're like going, oh, you're okay, You're okay.

Maybe you need some juice box over here, come on, let's go here. You know that. To me, the bounce house is a terrified thing almost as much as slipping slide. You ever done that thing? Yeah, that's a that's a that's a compound fracture of an ankle. Yeah, slide always looked cool in the commercial. Yeah, and the commercial with this until you were on the grass and you were rolling like it was never, It was never as simply and easily as it does on the commercial that Yeah,

they make it look really Yeah. Then you get off the edge of it and you're on the grass and you look like Evil Knievel hitting the payment at Caesar's Palace when he's trying to jump over the fountain, you know, just bouncing around, you know, like just awful. Anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead, question Yet it is there are toys. There are toys in the seventies. There are toys in the

seventies that are outlawed darts. You ever see that thing, a huge spear on your throw in the air and it's like, okay, Eric comes and this read that was similar to a war in peace. I had things like helicopter rides, yeah, DeMarcus where tours of the stadium. But no, it was the inflators that got that got it that look. Yeah, you ever, I'm just telling you, hey, I'm sure, I'm sure we're gonna be fine with our inflatable. We're gonna

be fine. We're gonna be fine. But you know, in your backyard, it's one of the most terrifying things you could ever deal with. When when we were growing up, it was just the trampoline and there was no sides to you. We got my kids got sized. So if they kind of get off the trampoline, they're gonna bounce right back in. But you didn't, you didn't have it. You're gonna hit the ground. Yeah, you're gonna separate, and you're like, oh it hurt a little bit. You're gonna

keep going. Yeah, and you're and you're playing dodgeball on it. You're like you're bouncing and you're and you're trying to avoid the ball, but then you end up in the springs. You know, your face and smashed. The backyard is so small. If they if they had we had that and they fell out, it would be next door to the basketball court. Next door's still go right over the fence. The good thing about it is like back we were kids, Like you're actually trying to push your friend off. Yeah, it

was just part of it. Like there were sis in the seventies eighties, there were some dangerous damn games. I'm so okay. Then we were fine with it. Made stuff. Mom and Dad reped front smoking a cigarette. You didn't have a seat belt on, and that's kind of what you did, all right, that's so funny. All right, let's jump into this Indianapolis versus Dallas matchup. Start first telling me I'm gonna around the table. Biggest concern you have for the Cowboys offensively? And I know it's gonna be

ill playing right here we go. I don't know it's the biggest concern. That would be a concern throwing the ball over the middle right before halftime, like to CD and Dak. Just that that play right there, the turnovers, you're not going to take that out. I take that play out. And Brian said it yesterday about the Giants game. Don't give them anything like, don't don't And that's the way my approach is, don't don't give the Colts any life. Just play your game. They play your game. You'll win

by three touchdowns probably maybe maybe seventeen points. But just play your game. If you give them, you get greedy and you get turnovers, and you go for it on fourth down because you think you can get it at your own thirty seven and they don't, then they score and all that. Just play your game and you will, you will wipe the floor with him. But but don't give them anything cheap. Yeah, the thing I would worry about is four man rush not a much a lot

of blitz pressure and stuff like that. Now, did did the Colts watch the Giants play and say, wow, we got they got some guys home on some blitz pressure stuff. You know, maybe that was because of the short week. I just hope that the four man rush and a bunch of movement in the front, the twist front and especially if you're compromised at right tackle right now and now you haven't Zach Martin hasn't worked with and this, that and the other, and now you're having some indecisions.

Oh Peters is over here. Wait McGovern's back in. Okay, there's there seems like a lot of moving parts. What's going on at right tackle? And the one thing I think with the Colts they don't blitz, but they twist fronts and overload sides and stuff that that would be worrisome to me if they have to get if they're going to get pressure on Dallas, those are the you know, you've got to be prepared for that kind of attack. To me, I think it would be something like starting

the game a little too comfortable with your team. How about starting slow? You always talk about that that's a problem for sure, But uh, just in general, I think that this is a team, this is a game that to me personally, I just see it as an automatic win. They can definitely beat them. They got all the they every reason to beat this team. They got it, you know. Um,

but that's when something happens. Those teams like those are the ones that just kind of surprise you and all of a sudden, the Cowboys, and not because the opposing team necessarily beat them, but because the Cowboys just beat themselves and started making mistakes. So penalties things like that, starting the game slow, penalties, yeah, and just kind of

not you know, just stepping on their own feet. And that's my biggest concern when it comes to offense for this game, just cowboys not being able to take care of their own business and just getting too much in the I was leaving, I thought you were gonna go with starting slow, because to me, that's how you're gonna win this game. You're going to offensively, You're going to put more pressure on them than they can than they can take offensively trying to keep up with you. Their

their game. Their game is to try and run the ball and throw the ball underneath ten yards and let people run and do all that and then hope for the best. So I was leaving that for you. She always has a great idea. Don't start slow. Put pressure on the Colts from the jump. Make it like we were talking about a seven to three game, a fourteen to six game, a twenty one to six game, a

twenty eight to you know, nine game. Make it that type of game where the Colts have to keep up with you, and it makes them very very one dimensional. Biggest concern defensively, I guess just you know, Jonathan Taylor are just getting getting hot and running the ball and finding finding a rhythm there, and they have a guard that's really good, you know, and Nelson, I mean, you know, just just him getting hot and break because he can break off the long runs too. That's one thing that

we've seen from him. So you know, it would have to be all those things that is not starting out as hot as you want to. The Colts that think they're still in this game, that the score is close, they're still running it, they still have success, and I think just a growing confidence in the running game from the Coals. I think, yeah, I worry about that. You have an officially called Carl Scheffer's this weekend, and he is one of the most penalizing. He loves home teams.

Home teams. Home teams win a lot of his games since twenty sixteen. Home teams. That's the one thing you got going for you. The thing that I worry about. They're very high, and they're very high and unnecessary roughness penalties. They're very high in defensive holding, They're very high in

defensive pass interference. My biggest fear is, all of a sudden, you get pressure, you get off the field, and then there's that backside defensive holding penalty, or there's that there's that Donovan Wilson taking a run at Taylor as he's going off the sideline, he's running to the sidelines, he's two steps off and then Wilson just blasts Taylor and then it's a penalty and it's fifteen yards going the other way. Don't do anything we talk about that. My

biggest fears those defensive penalties. You know, it's the ones, the hands to the face, the defensive holding, the unnecessary roughness. You know, this guy has proven he will call those penalties. Don't be that team this week and give the Colts life after you've got him off the field. They have got to change that rule in the Competition committee where we saw it, I think in the Packer game with Rogers rolled away from the field, roll to his left,

he was running for his life. He threw a quick pass, it was incomplete, and they call it I think Diggs way down here on a holding that you know, what I don't understand is that if he would have thrown the ball forty yards in the stands, they call that uncatchable as an uncatchable pass or doesn't matter if you were roughing him up over down the field, it was uncatchable. Well, this was pretty uncotchable too on this side, like the plays that don't matter, there's no way that they should

be calling that. And that's one thing. If he's going through five reads and he's looking at everybody and then he throws it and this one was holding, I get it. But if you never even look that way, there's no reason to call that. You got it to the opposite of your really your point though, you had an interception taken back off the charts because Diggs held a guy. Yeah, I mean, and you're like, you know, you tackle guys

until your point. Though. Every time, every time, when I'm sitting this in the press box and I'm watching them get off the field on third down, I immediately scan the field because I'm thinking, okay, back judge is thrown a defensive holding. They grabbed the tight end here. Oh no, by the way, on the other side, Anthony Brown got all out of whack and he just pulled the guy down because he thought he was going to get run by. You know, Dallas has got to They are a penalized

team and I and I believe this. I don't think penalties changed. We can talk about it. Mike McCarthy can continue to talk about it. The presnap penalties and stuff are bad, but they get the worst penalties at the worst time. And this is an official that will call penalties at the worst time. And that's what worries me about this, especially on the defensive side of the ball. Kelvin, Joseph Plane, we gotta worry about that, um. But on defense,

I don't have a lot of concern. Just run defense, don't don't somebody well there and we know the quarterback he doesn't move a whole lot. But I think that's one area I mean we've talked about it that they'll benefit a whole lot there. But if the running back gets lose and gets going, I think that's one area that it can definitely. Yeah, this is one of those games too. You know, the ball is completely going underneath

every play. It's just you know, and to me, it's put digs on Pittman and put ten in the box and see if they can run the ball. I'm not gonna let you run the ball in this game. I am not. And if you want to throw the ball short all day, I'll play press coverage and make you fight the jam all day long. You know that's they're tall receivers. You know they're capable of making plays, contested plays. But Matt Ryan is also like he is going to get the ball out quick. He is not going to

hold the ball. If he holds the ball, it's a sack. They've proven that. I think they've given up forty three of them this year. Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our final break. Will come back and we'll get some predictions. We've got a few fan questions too. They will come back. Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio season is finally here. For months We've been gearing up to win. Now it's time

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available and we'll sell out fast. Book your visit now at The Star and Frisco dot Com Slash Tours Welcome Backfinal segment of the Break Life ins WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star presented by the Light the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. All right, I did have one other question. Jelanie Woods is an interesting character for the Colts. He had not been very much a part of their offense, and then this last game he just explodes. I think he had like nine targets or nine catches something like that,

and then he's missed all practice this week. If he misses the game, my thought is like they really other than Pittman, they don't really have receiving threats that you have to worry Pierce. Pierce is, Yeah, pierces think about Christian Watson just saying Pierce is a guy that's capable from Cincinnati. He was you know, when you watch him play coming out of college, he made so many big catches and you watch him in these games. He is a he's a running traffic guy. He takes big shots.

Like you know, sometimes Ryan is good with the balls, sometimes he's not. And there's a big hit. Their their receivers do have toughness. They're they're really both are tall. That's the thing that you know you have to deal with is you know that length in the reach, especially the stuff that goes up in the air or the stuff that goes across the middle. So I'm not trying to say, well, no, no, they you know, they they have guys that are capable. They don't have that over

the top guy. They really really don't. And what's interesting about when you say about Woods, he came out of a draft last year that was just a ton of tight ends. I mean that my tight end board or probably was the deepest when you talk from one to seven. And you know, this guy's like six seven, he's two hundred and fifty three pounds. And the Cowboys have done a lot of good work against against tight ends this year.

They really haven't allowed them to kill. But this guy, when you look at Woods at Virginia and he was going back and looking at my notes. You know a guy that they play him and we call three by one the trips formation stuff, they flex him out. He's up the field. You know, he's one of those guys that he catch the ball in traffic at Virginia. He had a feel for how to find space some of the things that we saw on the Monday night game.

You know, I mean, it's it's it's it's really kind of strange to see him not be used the way he was at Virginia. But you know, maybe they found something with him. And I think you just have to be worried about a guy that's six seven, two fifty three running down the middle of the field. Questions becomes easy, gonna be able to play because he hasn't practiced all week and uh and obviously if he doesn't play that that's one more thing that helps the gallup, absolutely one

less got away worry about. All Right, let's get to uh, actually it's forty two, so let's go ahead and get our predictions. It's just getting close to the end here. Let's let's start with you, Nick, which way do you go on this? I think that the Cowboys are just gonna be too too good for them, And I think that the Cults will be a game for a while. It'd be similar to the Giants, even though I don't think the Giants will I mean, I don't think the Cults will score like the Giants did late. I think

it'll be a little bit more one sided. I'm gonna say thirty four sixteen four sixteen, all right, Amber Cowboys. UM I would say this is a game where I wonder if we're gonna even get to see like Cooper Rush go in and just you know, kill some time at the end of the game. UM, I would say

probably thirty eight twenty or something like that. Cowboys. I think this The only thing, like I said, the only thing that concerns me is that this becomes one of those games that we all all think the Cowboys should definitely win, and then they come out of Green Bay, but well that was different, and even then, because yes, green Bay was that way, but you knew it was still Aaron Rodgers. You don't know what he does to

the Cowboys. This is a game that I don't think there's anything that really makes you be fully concerned about or scared or worried. So it's just an automatic win in my head. But then those are the ones that kind of they surprise you and then somehow they find a way to lose. But I think that hopefully it doesn't go that way and they still win another game at home and just kind of keep the street going.

I'd like to believe that the Dallas Cowboys could score on this defense and just put so much pressure on him. I don't know if the number is going to be real high though. I don't know if the Colts are going to allow you a lot of extra possessions, you know, and if you turn over the ball, that's kind of a problem there. I've got the Cowboys winning this one.

Twenty seven to sixteen. I think that it. You know, it's sixteen points for the Colts is a lot, you know, but I just do worry about them running the ball, maybe busting a run, then they kick a field goal, you know that kind of thing. They don't score a whole hell of a lot of points. But I just wonder about if their game plan is that Jeff Saturday, the old offensive line coach, is like, listen, the best chance we have to win this game, it's just running

the football. Let's just load up and see if they can stop the run. And you know, maybe you lose some possessions there. Maybe they try the game plan that the Vikings didn't try. You know, that might be a twenty eight to sixteen Dallas I'll tell you this, this team, this Cults team, I think they're better than people give them credit. I think this defense is actually not a bad defense. I think the struggles on the offensive side of the ball, and they've beat some good teams this year.

They beat the Kansas City Chiefs, who I think is the best team in the NFL. So this is not a team that we should be taking as lightly as we are. I do think the Cowboys win this game, and I do think the Cowboys should win this game. I think they have more talent. I think they are a better team, clearly, but this is one of those games that I don't think and really, to be quite with you, this week, next week and the week after that, each of those teams have some some things about them,

particularly their offensive run game. Right that we're gonna find out if Dallas has fixed their run defense, because all three of those teams have running backs and running games that if you're not paying attention to them, and if you're not doing what you're supposed to do, they can bust some some long runs on you. So I do think the Cowboys win. I was right along with you, Bryan. I don't think it'll be as high school. I don't think the Cowboys get into the thirties. I think the

final score twenty seven ten. But I do think this is a game where I'm a little bit more concerned than than other people. There's there's what if you go back and do really further study on this team. On the Colts, They've only had a lead in the second half for fifty snaps and all their games, and people go, well, you know, why is their pass defense so good? Well, they're never ahead. They don't ever get to you know, I mean, people just run the ball. Nobody throws the

ball on them. You know, they get to be lead and they're like trying to kill the game. You know, their run defense is capable, but if you look at the number snaps that they face when teams throwing the ball on them, it's not as much as you know, they're like, man, they're really good on a pass defense. It's a lot of it has to do that. Teams just get leads, and the Colts can't. They never have a lead in the second half. That's a huge problem

for them. Yeah, I saw an interesting stat earlier this week. They are they're ranked pretty high in yards that they're giving up in passing, but when you look at their yards after catch, they're down at the bottom of the league. I want to say, in the bottom five or so of the league in yards after catch, because it's a situation where they're just it seems like teams are being able to complete passes and then from near like they are getting a lot of extra yards after they complete

those passes. But we'll see it all plays out. It'll be an interesting game, I think, but I do think Cowboys end up winning. We'll be back on Monday. We'll let you know what went right and wrong for the Cowboys untill theyn for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eilton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.