Cowboys Break: Eagles “New” QB

edition of The Break. We are alive from the s WBC Morty Studios at the Star. We are presented by Miller Light, the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Nick, you over there drinking Miller? Is that what you go? Not? Quick? No? No? Okay? Um. So, we got a lot of things to talk about today. We got probably the most important matchup of this game that we'll talk about today. The Philadelphia Eagles offense versus the Dallas defense. To me, Dad, is where this game

will be won a loss for the Cowboys. We'll get into that and get some details on that. And second, let's start first though, with Mike McCarthy and what a here's saying his press conference This morning, he had an update on Dak that everybody's talking about, what do you say they're preparing for Cooper Rush to be the starter? Um, I think that's the McCarthy answer that you're going to get there of you know, I'm not going to tell you everything, but that to me doesn't seem like it's

anywhere clothes for Dak. He also said Brian that Dak's gonna throw like after practice his a little throws the receivers. I mean, he's not ready to play Sunday. I think I think another question is is he gonna be ready for next Yeah? Yeah, I think the thing is if they can get him to throw this week and they feel comfortable doing that, and then you know, maybe, you know,

we'll see how things. I think he's going to have to throw two weeks before he's even gonna play, So at least they're going to try to do some stuff with him today to see how the you know, if he can as Jerry likes to say, spin the ball and things like that, so you know, it's it was always it wasn't going to be about this week, can you be ready to play? I felt like it was going to be two weeks. And that's that's kind of what the medical staff was telling me as well. So

listen to expect him. You know, when he starts to throw, then you could start to start the clock on when he might be banging. I mean, this whole thing was four to six weeks, right, I mean it was the day, was the original it was out there, right, it absolutely was, until your general manager decided that he wanted to push the timeline because he didn't feel like that maybe Cooper Rush was going to win you four straight games, right, That's that's that's what he Well, but everyone knew he

was going to win four in a row. Yeah, well that's the I knew. Yeah, but that's the that's the things that happened. You know, you're you're selling you know, Jerry is the ultimate optimist, you know. I mean we've we've all worked for him a long time. We understand that. I mean, he's always going to say, you know, he's he's gonna push it. He's gonna he's gonna and even know that the medical guys will tell you it's a

six eight week injury, Brian. You know, so that and that's that's what the timeline is going to be and and you know, you're you built a team that's good enough to win these games with a backup quarterback, you know, And Mike McCarthy is the one guy that trusts the medical process. Doctors, trainers love working with this guy because he's going to not force somebody to get on the field that's not ready to play. Yeah, and this is not this is not the ideal game for him to

come back. I mean we've talked about it. Yes, you want a guy like him back on the field because we believe he could give you more opportunities to score more in games than what Cooper Rush is currently doing for you. But at the same time, I'm just like,

and I've gone back and for it. I know if it won't happen, he's not gonna play this weekend, But it just it wouldn't have been, at least for me, the right game and say scenario for him to come back, because depending how that game would go if they lose, I think it just more are you talking about the optics of how it would look if Dad comes back

and they get smoked? Kind of, But more so than that, it's also like, you know, you guys mentioned it yesterday about his confidence when he comes back from an injury. I wondered, like what that would do in like a negative effect on him, like maybe playing mind games of things like that of some sort where now his confidence just kind of drops as we move forward with the season. But either way, there's no point really kind of getting into that BECA is not going to happen. But I've

said that too. I mean, I've said that about you know that this is my mindset on this is the is one where it would protect Dak a little bit because you know what happens. You lose this game and some producer and ESPN's like pull up the split screen. Here's rush and here's numbers, here's five and oh as a career starter, and he's OZ and two. Here's his rating, here's his rating and all that kind of stuff, And

it doesn't need to happen. Um, Dak needs to come back when he's healthy, when he when he's when he's ready. But as I've said all along, I mean, I don't think that's going to happen during this I don't think he's going to be ready here in the next few weeks. That's why I've said what I've said about I'm not

benching a quarterback that's undefeated. Yeah, but there is going to come a time when he is healthy and if he's still undefeated, and I still think that it still holds true that I think your starting quarterback comes back at that point. I know you don't agree with I don't. I don't. I think okay, And I think I think there's only two people right now that's even like they don't agree with that, and I think it was me and Jerry Jones. Well, Jerry didn't quite say that because

he said q r QB one's r QB one. What he said is I do believe in the mojo idea. But he also followed that up with he's our starter, like he followed. The last thing he said in that sentence was you don't mess up a good thing. Okay, right, I mean I can pull it up, but I but he also brought back the whole dak Romo thing, which I agree with you, guys, is not the same scenario here, you can't. He was you were looking for a quarterback

and you were like, we've got one here. You wanted to move on, like you want looking for a reason wanted looking guy. We don't want Rush. They don't want Rush to be the guy. They just want you know, I don't know that anything that we've seen necessarily says he is the guy. Like I think again, they're winning with great defense, and that's the point. And by the way, he's doing a good job of not messing that up. Great, thank you. That's what a good backup should be able

to do. Right, No, that's what a good quarterback should do. Honestly, I know a good quarterback should be able to get you more than a hundred yards, But you know, the hundred yards passing, Like like, nobody in his right mind wants to wants to if they don't have to pass the ball, why would you, like, Seriously, the Rams have two great players. They have a shutdown corner and they've

got a disruptive pass rusher. So if you can just run it up their ass the whole time, then why would you not, Like, I think we have a drop from Broad says that that's what you do. You just keep running it. So one hundred yards, I mean I saw that on Twitter. If they would have had a hundred yards and they would have lost, everyone had been going crazy, and I'm like, they wouldn't have they wouldn't

have lost. They wouldn't have had one hundred yards. He would have had three hundred hollow yards that Matthew Stafford had because they lost, and that you have to play the game differently. So I don't know. I mean, I think those stats are ridiculous. That ten of sixteen one hundred two yards. Okay, I mean, like, but they didn't have to. This big bad defense of the Rams could not stop Zeke and Pollard and then running and running and running. It's I mean, had three really bad throws.

He had three bad throws early in the game. He had three that that that bounced off that you know, but he wasn't really trying to move that all. That's all great until you run into a team that has a better offense. By the way we're gonna get into this, run into a team that has a better offensive line. Run into a team that has more dimensions to their offense than just one receiver who might be great, but

it's one receiver. Like, until you run into that, then maybe you have you're gonna have to do more than that. And that's where I mean, I thought I saw a stat where he hasn't trailed, where he's only trailed by a very very small margin a small amount of time since he started these games, Like that's a benefit. What happens when you get into that game where somebody comes in and smacks you in the mouth, then they're up fourteen?

Ohis okay, that's first year ago. But by the way, and by the way, the defense wasn't what it was, so that goes to your credit. That's actually point for you. What I'm saying is though this year he has not had that situation. This is about this defense, and we will see what happens when he has a different And I've been painted into this like that I hate Dak whatever, and and I'm standing by the eighty twenty I mean

eighty percent thing from from yesterday. I mean I undred percent believe that if you got he got a quarterback with a bad thumb, then why would you play him? Why would you? I mean, yeah, it's not gonna be better. So we all agree on yeah, we all agree on I don't know, it needs to be healthy with the thumb before you put it back out there, Bryan, what do you think now? It's just it's it's it's it's

a very good discussion it really really is. And you know, I wanted to believe when I went into the season, I said the biggest difference between these two teams was the quarterback. And I felt like you had the better one. You don't have the better one now you just don't. And to give credit though, to Hurts, he's played a

lot better. He really has. I remember, you know it, working on the draft, um, you know, the draft show and stuff like that, and we're not Josh Allen and everybody was like, God, he can't throw, he's not accurate, he's not this, he's not that. You can say the same thing about Jalen Hurts. Same thing. You know, hey, make him do this, make him do that. Well, when you make him do that, he's actually delivering a little bit.

And that's what's making this offense much better. And you're you're going to lose the battle of the quarterbacks in this game, and your hope is that your defense can because it's it's going to be a struggle to have to deal with all the things that they do, but it's you're capable. There's teams that have slowed these guys down. They've scored early in games and all of a sudden. Teams have kind of figured out what they're doing, but man, it's going to take a lot of discipline to do it.

But you're I usually believe when Dak plays in this games against Philadelphia, I believe he's won five games. He's only lost a couple against them, you know, division opponents, he's usually pretty good. I mean, if you had Dak Prescott a healthy one, you're saying, Okay, now you know you could with this defense and Dak playing against Philadelphia. The confidence you know that you would have that Dak would have in this game. It's like I don't lose

against division opponents. I might lose to other teams, but I ain't losing these division opponents. You know, that's the confidence I think he would carry in this game. But you don't have that advantage. Now that's a problem real quick, Nick, Let's get some updates on a couple other defensive players, Michael Parsons, DeMarcus Lawrence. What are we hearing about them saying they're going to be held out a little bit

and limited in practice on Wednesday of today's practice. I'm just thinking Wednesday's practice limits to Thursday probably ramped them up into getting ready to play. I mean, you know those guys you can easily say just leave him out, leave him out, But this is so important because of how much they move around, right, And the other guys are moving around too. It's not just digs at corner. He's not in. Put this guy in and then put

him back in. It's like all the packages that dan Quinn wants to run, the very exotic moves, and you know, and you're moving the door and Armstrong around, You're moving all these guys around. So you gotta be careful with that so limited, but but I you know, just to make sure that he's okay. But he's got to get out there, at least mentally to be a part of all this. Yeah, Nick hit the nail on the head

right there. There's so many things that you do scheme wise with Parsons that not having him it's a little bit like and I said yesterday on the radio with Amari Cooper, when a Mariy Cooper doesn't practice and then all of a sudden they're calling plays and the other receivers are going, wait, I've practiced this with somebody else I've been practiced with. And then Amory runs the out a thousand percent better than the guy he's practicing with.

You know, there's a difference in that. So um, I'm hearing though that the injury with Micah is not severe. It's not severe. It's something that he's going to fight through. But it's not one of those ones where they're gonna pull him out there. They're gonna, you know, if he needs a little rest, so give him a little rest. But they're gonna they're gonna treat him like they're treating all their hurt guys. There's no more, no different. I mean, he's you know, he's he's gonna be ready to play

in this football game. For what I heard, well, like they were talking about after the game and my McCarthy talked about it. You know, they wouldn't have Micah Parsons finished the game. They wouldn't have put him back into the field to play if it was a type of injury that he would have reaggravated it or made it worse. So that was kind of a decision that they training staff and him made at the time that it was

more something are you okay to deal with the discomfort? Yea, Other than that it should be okay, there's no signs of aggravating it and all that, so it seems like it's not really gonna be a problem. Look how he played even after he went out and came back in. He got the player of the week, right, Yeah, yep. I think what they said was, I said, Micah, how are you feeling here? You're feeling okay? It's like, yeah,

I think he come back. He's like, I think so, and he's like, you know, Dorn's Armstrong is pretty close to you in sacks, and so it's the law. I mean, they're they're gaining on you here, and they're like, what he's tied with you in sacks, and Adornce is give a helmet. Here we go two sacks. Now, Funny you think about that whole sequence. The final sack was that if you saw the sidelines and I know you guys

were probably heading on down to the field. Like he gets the sack, he comes in the sidelights and Dak like slams him with his right hand and the chest and I'm going, wow, okay, we got a potentially hurt guy and then a really hurt guy just slamming his hand on his chest like you know, they're already's having fun, and I'm thinking, please, don't do that again. Don't do that. Yeah, we don't want the extra swelling. They won't need that.

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what's the best thing that this Philadelphia offense does? Keeps you on your toes and it Mike McCarthy said it today in the press conference. The stress levels that you have to deal with. There's a ton of movement with the wide receivers. There's screens to tie it ends. There's screens the backs, there's screens their receivers, they're delayed screens.

There's a power running game involved. There's a RPO stuff where remember the Daniel Jones early in the game where he faked a handoff inside, he went to his left and then he threw as the Cowboys reacted, he threw the ball to the outside. That's what you get with this offense, and it is a it's it's really very creative in the way they do things. The quarterbacks playing at a very high level. They've got they've got outstanding personnel to run it. But they're a little banged up

in this offensive line. And if you somehow catch a break where Jack driscoll is playing left tackle instead of Jordan my Alatta, then you're you're in pretty good shape here. But they've got a really good center the way that he plays, and you know, and that's that's really what you're dealing with, Like you're just dealing with a lot

of skill. But they're very creative when you're thinking, like, Okay, they're running, we're getting a feel for the plays, and then all of a sudden they get in another formation and there's that delayed tight end screen. They throw that delayed tight end screen to the left. Everyone I've seen

all the games I've watched. So if you get Dallas Goddard, if you're watching the game and you're thinking, oh, this is kind of a crucial play here, he lines up like a wing left, they're likely going to get a screen to that side. So you know, I know the Cowboys do their advanced scouting. That's what I used to do for a living when I was here. You know, they go through all these things. You see the trends, but man, it is a it's a unique group to watch because of all the skill that they have and

how they use all that skill. Let's assume they're at their best on the offensive line, all their guys are playing, where are they vulnerable. I think the best shot would be and I know Lane Johnson is a guy that's a Pro Bowl type player, all Pro type player. I think he's the lightest of the two tackles for sure. You know, when you start to talk about the power and that, you know Tank has played pretty well against him.

Tank can break him down if in the past I watched games where Tank has a feel if that guy's going to set him soft, you know, Tank kind of understands how to attack him. So I would say Lane Johnson would be a guy that maybe I would look at there. The thing with my alatta, he's just so huge, he's mammoth. Now, what they did was there were some the games that he played that I watched early in

the season before he got hurt. He's so big that he just sets and it's hard to run around him because he's so wide, but he sets back off the line. So to me, I'm thinking about trying to take him up the field a little bit, get him to kick wide because he thinks he's gonna get beat on that edge and run that thing underneath on him. And then I would make Landing Dickerson, the guard have to deal with you know, he might have to deal with Osa

or somebody like that. So if you get my alatta at one on one outside outside and then hit him back underneath and go straight directly inside, Now the problem with that is if you come running inside and you miss that quarterback spens and he's gone. That's the problem that. Yeah, that's the problem there. There used to be a time when I was working with you guys, we always talked about the how to make some of these quarterbacks play

in these games, especially the ones that can run. You got to make this guy play backwards, and I mean make him have to drop, don't let him come to the line. Throw It's a little like it's like the Russell Wilson thing. When you get Russell Wilson playing him and he's running at the line like back in the day, he could throw it that way. This guy, when you kind of get him playing backwards, it's problem for him. He does it. He's mechanics too. He's not the big

behind the world. His mechanics go to hell, you know, I mean when it really really does. And so you know he's throwing off balance and one foot and all that, and the ball tends to go a little high. So if you could find a way to kind of keep him there and then make him go backwards, don't let him go towards the line, make him play backwards. Really love what we've seen and what you were talking about with you know, getting off the edge and making the

guard to all that. I love what I'm seeing out of a tank and Micael working together right in the same side. We saw it if you if you watched, um, what's our show that uh Alex does? From the sideline, they were talking, yeah, if you watch, yeah, it's really good numbers for you. Yeah, it really, it really does. But this week, like you saw them, they were looking at something and d Law almost was offended. I don't

know if you saw it. He was like they they they left me one on one and they had two guys on you to Mica, you know, and it's like that's crazy. Yeah yeah, And he was like what which is? Yeah, what you have to be careful of? And you're absolutely right, because I do worry about it. And I know I say this all the time because how aggressive this defense is. This is the best screen team that you've played and

and and you're gonna get now. I worry about the chip chip chip on, you know, with Dallas chipping, and then all of a sudden you get there and then he just circles back and they you know, they throw the ball to him and the flat stuff like this goes away. All the way back to the Eagles when Andy Reid was there, I was a really they're a great screen team. It's always been a great screen team Westbrook.

People like that. They they they have some really creative ways to run the screen because they've got some athletic offensive lineman that can do it well. We know how important it is for Cowboys defense to play well this weekend. And I'm thinking worst case scenario type. I'm not saying my guy is not okay, we just talked about him, but giving in a worst case scenario type of game that something happens and he has to come out, how do you feel that this defense would be able to

play without him on the field. It's never easy because so much of your scheme is based around him. But you're starting to see some guys when he wasn't in there. Sam Williams stepped up and did some really good things. Uh Nick mentioned, you know with Tank and what you can do with him. Fouler's another guy that can kind of fill in if you have to. This game is going to come down to how well you play with your eyes because you're going to get so much movement

and circling back and deception. It's really it's a it's a smoke and mirrors offense is what it is. It's like, you know, it's like going to Vegas and the Magic Show. Okay, here you go, and then you know and it's wow, how that happened? You know, that's how they run this offense. But they do have an element of it to be able to run the football. But they do it pulling guys and getting guys out on the edge and they and then the the you know with the ball handling stuff.

So you know it's Mica not being in there is not great. I think you got guys, but how well you see things this week? How well you you're able to to give like, okay, don't get fooled and then go tackle. It seems like Philly does you know, like they're not worried about anybody. They go do their thing. You know, Jarrett used to always say that we go run our stuff. Um, but I also seen every game the Cowboys have faced this year, every quarterback they face,

they have to see where Parsons is. Yeah, so that's I think it's going to be an interesting part. Do the Eagles go and run their stuff or do they do they let Parsons dictate what they do and then go against it. You know, think I heard yesterday that their coach said he sits on every single place to

know where Michael Parsons. And by the way, guess what, for the rest of this year and probably for the rest of his career, every team, if they're smart, we'll go to the line of scrimmage and identify where is it. Like the Cowboys won the Super Bowl nineteen ninety five because Larry Brown had nine interceptions, including three in the postseason because Dion was over there, and but Larry Brown stepped up because of all of that, and because of

you know, Deonka take his guy and all that. And that's why Dorance Armstrong is the Larry Brown of this team. Like Dorance Army, if he can continue to do his thing if Tank and Mike are going over here, if Drrence keeps making plays over here, I mean same with like Anthony Brown, if Anthony Brown continues to do things with Treyvon Diggs over here. I mean, that's what's gonna make this a really, really good, great defense. It is a great difference. Obviously, we talked about Dalen Hurts and

how how well he's playing right now. Where do you think he's improved most, Like, what part of his game is the accuracy has Yeah, and it's just not the numbers. It's just there's been times where when he's on the move he's thrown the ball very well. There were times where you could get him outside the pocket and he would just completely kind of fall apart with his accuracy. But he is he's got almost that that like that you know, that whippy arm too. You know he can bring.

I mean it minds me back in the day when you know Randall Cunningham used to be with Philly and he was here for a minute, but that long that throwing motion, you know, you get and get a lot of generating, you get the body into and stuff. He's throwing some really pretty deep balls, they get this guy, this this Quez Walkins that they're gonna they're gonna test Dallas on a couple of these deep shots in this football game, just because they have the speed on the

outside to do it. But his his accuracy and ball placement has really improved. How about this, These two stats that go right into what you're saying. Hurts is fifth in the NFL in completion percentage at sixty seven point nine percent, which you know that's not as great. I mean, completion percentage is not as big as it used to be because all these little pot passes and screens and all that. But you say that he's also he's second

in the NFL in average per gain at eight point five. Yeah, so either he's chunking it down the field a lot or his guys are making a lot of yards after catching. Either way, that he's second in average gain and also fifth in completion percentage, that means it's working pretty well for them. They've got they've got some talented they've got size. With age J. Brown on the outside, he's gonna do ru well. Smith is more of a slot type move guy.

The guy that could kill you is that Dallas Scott. Yeah, I was gonna ask you that it's hard to cover. It's hard to cover these tight ends. And we look at in the league and it's been it's been a trend Kansas City, all these teams that have these tight ends that make plays down the field underneath the gates, and they can run after catch. You know that that's there. I tell you there's plenty of passes where it's been run after catch with these guys the games I watched,

you know, that's that's the thing. Catch tackle, catch tackle, you know, don't let them. The Cowboys did a great job with sception of the one play, the one time when Cooper cup caught caught the ball and went for seventy five yards. Other than that, they did a really good job of rallying and tackling. So when you think about these three wide these three receiving options A. J. Brown, DeVante Smith, Dallas Goddard, which you think is the toughest matchup for the cold so obviously, and then then I

want to I want to be clear about this. It's not so much which one is the better player, as much as I want to know which one do you think based on how Dallas will have to defend them, can give them a lot goes. A lot of their offense, believe it or not, does go through Dallas Goddard. It really does. It's just it's just such an easy throw for this guy to make, you know, and really got somebody like curse on him who has done really well against some of the best tight ends in the league.

Absolutely that that's your that's your. I just I think in this game. I think in this game it's it's he They're going to try and get, you know, Brown and stuff like that. I mean Brown. They threw a screen to Brown in the game. You know, Arizona dropped the ball, you know. I mean they've It's not that they always happens, but their wide receivers have had some problems with you know, the interception the Jacksonville game that went clanging off off Smith and our Pascal. It might've

been Pascal. I'm sorry Zach Pascal. But yeah, I mean it's they. That's the thing about it is, though, the guy that's been the most sure handed for them has been Dallas Goddard. And can you match up with him. Yeah, you've got the guy with the safeties and stuff like

that to be able to do that. I mean, I was gonna say, I feel like the Cowboys defense one of the best things that they have been doing is kind of when they get into like the field starts shortening and red zone area, even when they get around the thirties or so, right, is this a game where I mean, now you're at a point where you really really need to try to keep them out of that.

And maybe they're they're not as successful as they've been with other teams, But now when you talk about punning and where you punt the ball, and you know where the offense has to come off the field, and now placement of the ball and all that. So yeah, it's I guess where I'm trying to get at is even though that has been one of the best areas for the Cowboys defense, is this a team that's actually not

going to allow the Cowboys to be so successful there? Yeah, I think because when you get down the red zone with these guys, they'll they'll run the ball, and they'll run the ball with the quarterback. They got in a situation in the what game was that they were playing, It was the it was they had five they had five illegal mint five illegal men downfield penalties in the game Eagles. The Eagles did and I think it was I think it was the it was the it was

between it was the Jacksonville game. I think it was. But I was watching. They kept getting trying to get guys downfield, and so all of a sudden, it's like, okay, then they get they kept getting backed up, and what do they do. They started just running the ball and they got in a situation where it was like, you know,

first and twenty, and then they started running. And then the quarterback they got down in the red zone and it was like it was like third and goal to goal, but they were running from their own fifteen and the quarterback ran for like eleven and then he ran for five and they just powered that thing in with him running. So that's the thing about it. You can you could try.

The quarterbacks ability to run really hurt you when you're when you're down there, especially in the red zone, because he's gonna pull it and then he's gonna take off. You're you're committing to stop in running backs or things like that, and he pulls the ball and he started and they do another thing that they get like in fourth down and one they put it. They do the Reggie the Bush push they do you know, they get they put it. They did touchdown last week, Yeah, they

did it. They have a back that lines up right behind the quarterback and he just pushes the pot. I mean, they push the pot. They get just great surge on these plays and then they go no huddle on you too. So I know I'm saying a lot of things, but yeah, the red zone stuff is really dangerous because of the ability of a J. Brown to go get the ball, but the quarterbacks ability to run the ball. I think

it's the thing. If you could keep him out of that, that's where he's That's where he kind of takes it upon himself to to to make these plays. I mean, is he the leading candidate for the MVP right now? I would say so him or Lamar Jackson, and I would go in there, Mahomes has been having he's playing them. Just look at numbers, yeah, Jackson, But yeah, but you look at your undefeated team right now, and also all that that stuff I was just saying about about passing,

you know, you know, accuracy and all that stuff. But then you also look at it and he's you know, he's he's runch for two hundred and sixty six yards six touchdowns. But that those illegal man down fields. I mean I put that without even seeing the tape. I bet you a lot of that's on hurts because when you get those running quarterbacks like that, he's gonna take off.

So the line, no, this is these are these are screens all these these are screens that go fit that like they're like they're set up like screens, and but the ball gets thrown forward and these guys are like already there, already down the field. Yeah. I was trying

to make a the official what game it was? Man, I mean, these all these games going about hit, but there was like, I mean, they got to the point where the head coach Sianni was like losing his mind on the sidelines at the officials because they just kept calling it, just kept calling it, you know, And it was one of those one of those days. I hate that. I hate when you get a crew that that wants to kind of set the tone with a call. Yeah, you know, and we saw it in the Raiders game

last year. Yeah, I would I would do something. If I was Mike mccurthy, I would go up to the officials and talk about the alignment though of my a loot of the tackles way back there, he's way back. I would I would immediately go and say, if you're gonna let him line up that deep, we're gonna line up that deep too. We'll just we'll just put our We'll put Tyler Smith, We'll line him up too. So, yeah, that's Jordan my Allott is having to line up deeper because he's not as quick. He's not as quick as

Lane Johnson, so he has to cheat. He has to cheat to be able to get to the outside. All Right, we're gonna take our final break. When we come back, I want to talk offensive line, particularly the offensive line of the Cowboys opponents. I found this really interesting stat about these offensive or where these offensive lines of Cowboys have placed or have played rank. Right now, we'll talk about that when we come right back. This is Dallas

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official ticketing provider of AT and T Stadium. Final segment of the Braake Life Mess WBC Mortgage Studios at the Start presenter by mill of Like the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. Checked this out Here's what I've found as I was looking through some of the numbers around the offensive line play for some of Dallas's opponent opponents. Cincinnati twenty ninth in sacks alloud, Washington thirtieth in sacks allowed, Los Angeles Rams thirty first in sacks alloud, even the

Giants twenty fifth in sacks alloud. Question for you guys, do you think that these teams are so a rank solo because of the Cowboys or do you think they really are that bad and the Cowboys just took advantage of a poor offensive line. That's a good question because a lot of times that happens early in the year, and you have to factor that in, like we're the reason why you one of the reasons why your ranks.

It may not be a coincidence that all the teams they've played or down the bottom of the league, but I think five games in, I mean that kind of goes to show that you know, and and also brought us his set it every time, like you know, this line has got some issues and so and they have and so even Tampa Bay, by the way, and so he saw those issues based off of other games. So I think it probably he does say that every week.

So this off, I mean so I think it more than anything, the Cowboys have taken advantage of bad lines. Are decent to bad lines. This one has least issues played so far, but it's it has an issue like we were talking about. If in fact Jack Driscoll, if Jordan my Alatta is not healthy at left tackle, Jack Driscoll, you could take they will have two very light tackles. I mean light in a way of not very strong. Now,

Lane Johnson is is a good player. Yeah, but there there has been some really really good They're all getting down the field. There's been some really good battles with UH with Tank and Lane Johnson and Lane Johnson. Tank knows how to play Lane Johnson. But Jack Driscoll is just hanging on to me personally. I if he's in this game, that's the guy I'm attacking right though. Yeah, yeah, you see sixty three in the game at left tackle.

I'm doing everything in my part. But the thing about it is, if you're the Cowboys, if you get a free run at this quarterback, finish, Don't let him slide through or avoid and duck underneath or whatever. You've got to finish. I mean that that's the thing that could kill this I mean his you're right there, you have a great rush, the scheme works, and then you don't finish in the pocket. They've done a good job of

doing that. But this guy kind of stresses you out that way because if you miss, he's going to be gone. He's gonna run and he's gonna and he's probably gonna probably put a big hurt on you for doing it. Well, that's a good point. There's good thinking outside the box looking into these staffs. But but yeah, yeah, but but I don't care about that. I'm gonna stick with the thought and believe that the Cowboys defensive line is just good. Yes that okay? So and that dominant you're not gonna

know a yeah we did yeah yeah, um okay. So what happens then when the Cowboys do run up against because there's there's good offensive lines out there, there's some on the schedule. What happens when they run into those? And what happens if that's this weekend, let's say they're in full strength. What happens then? Because the way that they've been winning games more than anything else is they've been getting after the quarterback a half. So what happens.

I just don't see a scenario. I mean, it's it's just won't be as easy, okay, But I just don't see a scenario where they completely shut them down and they're just protecting hers the whole time and it's like untouchable guy. I can't see that happen. And something's got to give. And I think that the Cowboys defensive line they have enough guys to be able to keep you on your toes, keep putting pressure and be successful at times. And they're not just gonna let you have like this

whole game. You're taking over the game peacefully finding them. There's gonna be some pressure created in whatever way that dan Quinn is gonna figure things out. I totally agree with that. But in your scenario, what happens They get blown out? I mean, the Cowboys get their ass kicked and they lose bad. I mean, go look at Michael Jordan's record when when they he scores less than like fifteen points. I bet they. I bet the Bulls lost

a lot. This team is predicated on Michael Parsons and this D line or getting after the quarterbacks asked, and if they can't do it. Then I don't see a four hundred yard game from Cooper Rush and they're gonna go and they just win thirty eight thirty five. Like, if that happens, then now let's starting that mately, start having that they win a game like this is one of those games. And we always talk about like measuring

stick games. And it's kind of like when Carolina came in here with the number one ranked run defense and then you just smashed them on the ground last year, you know, and everybody's like, oh, that was not the number one, you know. So you know, if whoever wins this game, the other one is going to have the bragging rights. The defense is legitimately going to say we shut down other than maybe Buffalo or Kansas City or maybe the Ravens, we shut down the best offense in

the National Football League. That's the bragging rights for the Cowboys. If it flips the other way in Philadelphia wins, you're going to hear the narrative coming out of Philadelphia, that's not the best defense we've played this year. Yep, you know that's you know, now you're going to start to hear now the doubt creeps in, Oh, is it only about a pass rush. Is it only bad bad offensive lines?

You know, you win this game, everything is continue on the rise and you and you smashed a really good offense. You lose this game. Then all of a sudden that the doubt the doubters start talking about the stuff that n Nick was talking about. So as we've talked about Dayalen Hurtson's ability, Brian, you just mentioned it him kind of avoiding the rush and then he's out of the pocket. In a game like this, would you opt to say, I will be less aggressive with my rushers. I will

muddle rush. I will tell them, yeah, you can rush, but rush very in a very disciplined way to make sure you maintain your gap integrity, to make sure you don't create lanes from him. Or do you just say, hey, guys, we're gonna do what we do, which is we're gonna get after the quarterback and if he leaks out a

few times, we'll deal with that. Yeah. I think there has to be this is I hate riding the fence, but this has to be one of those balance acts where you're like, you show him aggressive, you show him aggressive, and then you muddle him where he's like he's stepping up and he's going back. I think the longer you make him hold the ball, the more panicky he will

get it. So that's to me, I'm I'm coming after him, I'm coming out, and then I'm gonna make him feel like, Okay, you're in for this all day and then all of a sudden and you muddle rush him where it's not or then you have uh, you know, you have Donovan Wilson, you have a you know him spy and wait, you know, kind of hovering, waiting, waiting, waiting if the guy takes off run. I'm whoever spine that that's gonna be my my best tackler, whoever that is. I would have a

spy every place. YEA, so to me attack, attack and then muddle muddle attack, attack, muddle muddle attack, you know, kind of just mix it up to where he does not get a feel for how you're playing him in this game. And I think the good thing about having this depth a safety is that you have multiple guys that can spy. Yeah, so it's not like, oh, well it's gonna be Donovan Wilson, or it's gonna be Curse,

or it's gonna be Dot would be hooker. But you know, I mean even even Layton at times that scares me. But you know, yeah you might have he did. It was one week earlier this year where he actually came up and made a big sack that he was just basically waiting the quarter don't roll out somebody. We don't even we're not even talk like a Mukuamu or something like that, or you know he's put maybe bar yeah, CJ. Goodwin,

Like I mean we've seen him like on Kamar. I mean we've seen things like that, so you never know. I mean it'll be it'll be a mixed bag. I just kind of feel like though to me, like the like this quarterback will run and he'll get as much as he can, but if he feels that like you're near him, he'll also get down real quick too. He's so insect time. Yeah, so if you're kind of if you're if if he breaks and he feels defensive pressure,

he'll get down on the ground. So that's good. And similar to last week, I think the defense needs to set the tone right off the bat, like as soon as the game stars set the tone. And another thing that's actually scares me these pies the Cowboys offense running the ball and everything like that. There are times that the offense still like I look, they go in and the next thing I know, I look back up and they're about getting off the field. I'm like, that was it?

What did they do? So it's like, how much is this defense? The Cowboys defense is gonna be getting tired playing in this kind of level. Going against the Eagles, They're gonna run no huddle. I know they are. They're gonna run no huddle. Almost everybody's done it. Yeah, they're gonna run no huddle because they don't want you to switch your personnel for sure. Yeah, all right, we appreciate

you join us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into the Philadelphia Eagle defense versus the Cowboys offensive and for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us an Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. 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.