Cowboys Break: Extra Credit?

episode number forty. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, live from the s WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. Got Nave, Dave and Nick with me. We're gonna be joined by Bucky Brooks here in a bit. Talk a little bit about the New England Patriots offense versus the Dallas Dve Vince. Before we do that, though, there a couple news and notes that we want to hit. Let's start first with injuries. What are we keeping an eye on this week? Dave, you just came from the coaches

press conference. Who are the guys we're kind of monitoring this week? We're keeping an eye on guys coming back? Derek Oh, who's coming back? Well? Coming back might be premature, but they're starting, they're starting their journey back. Calvin Joseph is going to be limited in practice today. Donovan Wilson is another one. Let's go. I'm blanking on the third. There was a Sean mccun thank you. You see you know it's on the internet. You've got an internet connection order.

I'm I'm like making sure my reports are right. I knew there was a third guy. It's Sean mckun. So those three will be limited in practice. Um, he can't practice, but we know it sounds I think the lyall Colin saga's finally over and so he's not going to be available this week, but he'll be available next week. So that's four guys that at least have a chance to be available for you after the bye week, which is exciting. Gets back. I wonder about that too. Um, I do

know McCarthy told me. I asked him about that last week and he said he thought it would be a stretch that he'd be ready for New England. Um, obvious, so obviously not going to happen. I get probably maybe something to watch when we get back from the bow. So to get those guys back, McEwen, Joseph, they don't have to be on the roster right now. Yeah, they could. You have a three week a three week exemption for them to get acclimated, so you don't have to do

anything right now. Um, and Gallimore is not in that group, I guess. Stephen Jones said last week that Gallimore and DeMarcus were still another month away, which I know kind of rubbed some people the wrong way with Gallimore because it was it was diagnosed as an eight week injury on August fourteenth. It's been about eight weeks, so he needs a little bit longer that Mike McCarthy said, it's not a setback, just maybe they were a little optimistic

with their timeline. But um, good part is that you don't feel like you got I was gonna say that any of these guys you don't find Oh my god, we gotta get this guy back right right. Yeah. I mean he was playing pretty well. I mean, but again, if you don't have your elbow strength to do what you need to do as a defensive tackle, that you're not going to be as effective. Yeah. I think the way I look at this is, and I agree with you. I think when he comes back, he's gonna give them

a boost. Obviously, Tank gives him a boost, some of

these other guys will give them a boost. The way I look at it, though, is if those guys are healthy and fresh in November, that's a good thing for this team because, like as you guys, you guys both mentioned this earlier this week, like there are more injuries that are coming because that's the nature of football, right, So if other guys are going out and those guys are coming in, or if those guys or if there aren't a lot of other injuries and those guys are

coming back and they provide depth or or jumping in and playing in rotations and they're fresh, like, that's a great thing to have in November and December of an NFL season. Yeah. Yeah, I want to see Kelvin Joseph I do. I mean, I want him to get in there and play and figure they need to figure out

how to do that. I just feel like the way this offense is, they're gonna score some points, you're gonna give up some plays with him, but he needs to get in there and at some point this year, and I think it'll happen, Like you said, nature of injuries and all that, I think at some point he needs to get to the offseason. They need to have a good understanding of the type of player that he is, because if you, I mean, they'll want to get too much into weeds. For no, let's talk draft, Let's go next.

You do because they were like, they gotta have a corner. I gotta have a corner and didn't work out, took a linebacker. I think that they're so happy that they did that. They took corners in second round, talking corner all over again. Right, let's do it well, and I find you know, you'll be picking. They're gonna be picking in the twenties. Okay, they'll be picking back there that this is a good football team. They'll be They'll be picking back there, you know, And do you go that

route again? You just need to know. You need to have an idea of what Joseph is. So I think at some point you gotta figure out ways to play him. I love that point, although I agree with you. But even if I mean, if they don't have an idea of what he is, it's not gonna I mean, if if the cornerback's there for you in the draft, do it. I don't care. It's true Anthony Brown, that's true. He's only on a three year deal. Jordan's only on a three year deal. Just just throw throw resources at the

problem until it's fixed. But that's yeah, we can do. Somebody Somebody damned me the other day was like, when is the Draft show coming back? I was like, we're a four game winning streak man, who it's the season? Who wants to talk draft right now? That's for bad teams? We did. God, we were getting those tweets in September last year and then we're staying in December. Yeah, And me and Nick were actually just having this conversation yesterday. Yeah.

I don't think we're still on this show untill at the earliest, maybe late enuite. I don't want to, don't We got we got something else to talk about, right, I don't want to talk draft until after Valentine's Day, preferably. Let's go It's take some time. Let's go Hey real quick. I didn't want to ask you this question, Nick, You're not talked a little bit about this morning. This earlier this morning off Mike McCarthy and I heard that there

was a question. There was a question during the press conference about Kellen Moore saying that one of Mike McCarthy's shrinks is his ability to stay even good bad times. He's an even steady leader, which I think is a great characteristic for a leader to have. One of the things I wanted to ask you guys about is do you think right now not enough credit is being given to Mike McCarthy for where his team is because I

think we talk a lot. We do it as well, but I think just nationally locally, everyone talks a lot about the offensive coordinator, the defensive coordinator and how well they are doing, how well the players are doing there four and one, they're in a four game win streak, But rarely do we hear people talk about Mike McCarthy and what he contributes to that. And I'm a personal believer that if a head coach has a team that's four and one, he has some should receive some credit.

How much? And do you think he's being overlooked? I do think yeah, I think that he's being overlooked for that. I think he deserves a more credit. But you know, that's that's just kind of the way that it's evolved here. And I'm not saying with all coaches I don't know if it has something to do with personality or what. I don't know what it is. It's just that, you know, dan Quinn's the fun guy, whereas the camera and everyone

love loves, you know, listen to him. Kellen, I mean it's different than that, but I mean Kellen is just you know, he's he's kind of the offense is rolling right now. And because those guys have kind of doing their thing, I think it's easy to say, well, what is McCarthy doing, you know, other than kind of over seeing all of it. But um, you know, he gets blamed for clock management, but nothing has nothing has hurt him at this point. Um this year, last year sort

of did. But so yeah, I do think that he's he's not getting the credit that that he deserves, and I don't know when that'll happen. I don't know how many games they have to win to do that. Well. I think I think you're right, and it's only natural.

I think people tie your worth to what they can see you doing for the window of time that you're visible to them, and to most people, the vast majority, even really especially in COVID times, even us, how much do we see McCarthy in person outside of like the press conferences and game day, you know, it's not the same. And so Sean Payton is my go to because I grew up following that team, and he gets so and

rightfully so he gets so much credit. He calls the plays, he's doing this, that and the other, and so it's easy to be like, this is what he does for you on game day. But there's credit to be given for just overseeing everything great. You do not know I'm talking to Derek for people that aren't watching this. You do not know what is going on as intricately on a day to day basis as like Nick and I

do you trust us to do that? That's our jobs, right, But you still get credit for what are what we do as a department and the ideas that we have. And you go up to people higher than you and they say how's that going. You're like, it's going pretty good, Like my guy's got it, and you I mean, that's how this all works. I just think it's it's easier to give people credit for what you can see during

a game. And I'll openly say it, I don't know what all Mike McCarthy does that gives you an edge on game day, except for maybe his decision making, which is sometimes suspect. But I do appreciate the aggressive nature of it. But absolutely Monday to Saturday, I definitely it feels like he's got this calming presence and I think it deserves credit for that, even though we don't really

get to see a lot of it. I've never thought about this before, but why do you think that there's a coach out there who had a team for a long time, had a Hall of Fame quarterback, they won

one super Bowl together in a long time. Why do you think that Sean Payton is viewed the way he is and Mike McCarthy is viewed the way he is when they the resumes are kind of similar in those regards about winning championship and the the m O. The rap sheet on McCarthy coming out of Green Bay is that they squandered Rogers like they should have won more

than one super Bowl, but which is so crazy. They won one, but they Brady ruined if for every No, but that's nobody really thinks that about Peyton, and the resume is very very similar. Yeah, I don't have an answer to that. Perception is a hell of a thing. I will say this, I do. I do remember reading that there were people in Green Bay who followed that team that felt like some of the same things that we've talked about here with regards to game management were

issues there. So that could also be part of it, where they felt like decisions that were being made in game actually affected their ability to win more championships, and they put that on Mike McCarthy, right, fair or not that that maybe a perception. Yeah, And I just I think you said it best about. You know, sometimes when you you're doing your job and you're saying, hey, I'm gonna let you do your thing. I'm not gonna micromanage you. I'm gonna get the hell out of the way and

let you do your job. And then it's like, if the people like you, then they'll say, oh, you know, good job. Wait wait, way to not step on anyone's toes. But if they don't, they're like, what did you do? You didn't really do anything, you know, And that's that's the way it is. I mean, you know, it's what we talked about. He comes in here and he says, what's what what I what I got? I got this young offensive coordinator who works well with the quarterback. We

got something going here. Okay, Well, even though I know quarterbacks and I know offenses, I ain't really gonna mess this up. I'm gonna hire this guy that I know to be my defensive coordinator. We're gonna have to go through COVID together and he can do it. Well, they didn't. It sucked and he had to fire him. He didn't want it, but he had to because it was so bad. Well, go get another guy. I got another guy that that

wants to come here. And this guy knows what he's talking about, and I'm gonna let him do his thing. So I think he should get some credit here, um a little bit more than he and I think if they win, I think they'll continue to come. I'll give him all the credit in the world. I'm sure there's no way you accomplish what Mike McCarthy's accomplished without having a bit of an ego about it, and so much in the NFL's driven by ego. I haven't seen it like.

He doesn't come across that way. He let he's letting Kellen Moore call the shots on offense and being very open about it and very complimentary of what a good job he's doing. Fired a guy that he had a history with in Mike Nolan. I mean, how how I don't like you pointing at me and said fire. Sorry, I'm sorry, but you said fired. Nobody likes that, likes it. But how how easy is it to imagine? I can

picture it in my head. Mike and Carthy's like, well, this, that and the other reasons or why we were bad. It's not Mike Nolan and we're just gonna stay the course and it'll be better next year. That is such an NFL thing. Yeah, and he didn't do it. He was like, Nope, you gotta go, and I'm gonna hire this guy who comes highly recommended, who I don't have as much of a relationship with. Um. I could probably

think of half a dozen other examples. Uh, he was a good sport about hard knocks, even if he probably didn't love it. Yeah, I just he's done. I think he's done a remarkable job of just kind of being like, yeah, no he goes here, I'm okay. And I will also say, and I think this a lot of the credit goes to the players, but also I think a part of leadership is creating an environment where your team is willing to accept the fact that they don't have to be

the ones getting the credit all the time. And we talk about this all the time, like this is an offense that's built around a number of parts that any one of them could go to another team and be the man, and they have all somehow decided for the better of the team. I'll be the man once every four games, or once every three games, or once every six games, because at the end of the day, I

want team success. That's about leadership, and that's about leadership that starts with the head coach and then filters down to the team. Well, let's also just remember this and I hope hopefully it doesn't happen soon or at all, but it probably will. They're gonna lose a game, somebody. When they lose a game, someone's gonna have two catches for nineteen yards or something. Somebody. You know, maybe Zeke didn't have a big game, or Pollard didn't have a

big game. You know, let's see what happens. Then. I'm not saying the bottom will drop off when that happens. I just I just when it's four. You know, when you're four and one, and you know you've won four straight. Yeah, everything's rosy. Well, we we've already kind of seen it. Week one, they didn't run the ball, Zeke didn't do much, and then in week two you saw Pollard like going crazy. So there were moments when Zeke could have been like, say, man,

what's going on with me? And I don't think that happened. And I also think this fast start could wind up being a great thing because a rough patch is coming right eventually. Yeah, but the fact that you've been able to stack four wins like this at the start of the season, you can point back to that later and say like, we're okay, we got this. It might not have been clicking these last two weeks because there's a couple stretches on the schedule where I'm like, yeah, there's

I mean, bumpiness could be in store. But at least you have the good times that you can kind of fall back. This is one of them. I think this is one of those games where it's like they should win. I think that they are more talented. They they're head and shoulders better. I think at quarterback, you know, I know Mac Jones is going to be good if he's not decent right now. But I think you know, you've got the advantage there. You've got talent all across the board.

You should be able to win um this game. But but you're going up against one of the best. No, you're going up against the best coach in NFL history. I think can we say that? I think I would, Yeah, I would think there's an argument certainly can be made. I don't think anybody can just be like that stupid, right because they you know, yes, he won all those and he had Brady, and we'll see where Brady's has successful that. I mean, there are guys that have their

names on the actual trophy that you like. But he's in that level of conversation like the Lombardi Do you ever think about that, like like when should we start changing that? And certain you don't change that ever, you can't change that. No, Well, okay, they'll not the Lombardi Trophy, but you know there's there's other there's other trophies and other sports. You know, the Bill Russell Award, and I mean, well,

when do we ever change that? You don't, that's the history, Like the history is you keep that that person's name alive because they were so great at what they did, Right, that's the whole point of naming that trope. That's why you don't take that for grant. You're like, you always name that after somebody who is legendary, I mean legitimately legendary. Heisman. Yeah, who, No, it's the Heisman. I don't know what are you gonna call it the Bush? I mean, like what we are doing,

I call that. They won't give it back to it? Yeah, I know, right, yeah, I was thinking like that, who who would you give it to? I mean, it had to be a two time winner. I mean, if y'all want to name it the Borough, I'm all for it. Let's go. It's okay with me. No complaints over there, right, I'm all right, all right, we're gonna take our first break when we come back. We got Bucky book, Bucky. We got Bucky Brooks on the line. We'll get to a little talk on the New England Patriots office versus

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find the full assortment of Salute to Service gear. Welcome back to the second segment of the break Life in s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the Star Guy Bucky Brooks on the line, ready to talk a little New England offense versus Dallas defense and Bucky Less start first with This is a team in New England that I think for a lot of Cowboys fans is pretty unknown. They don't have a lot of big names, particularly on their offensive side of the ball, if not including the quarterback.

Who would you say is the most dangerous weapon that Cowboys fans need to know about going into this game on the offensive side of the ball. Josh mc daniels awfensive coordinator. Because because the players are just a hodgepodge of good players, I wouldn't say great players. The team expected the offensive line to be the strength of the program,

but the offensive line has not played there well. Now, I will say this, they were out of there without four starters against the Houston Texas, so you don't really know what it's going to look like due to the injuries that they've been hit with. But really it kind of reminds me of the early two thousand Patriots, where you look up and you don't really know who the personnel is, but they find a way to win games. The problem is they haven't won games like that because

they shouldn't have won last Sunday. I was just gonna go to the Cowboys defense for a second. I mean, who who do you compare Trayvon Diggs too right now? Like whether it be in the league or old school corners, I mean, have you seen anybody play like this at this young into a career. He reminds me of the key to leap if you go back and look at a key to leave when he was coming out of Kansas, a key to leap at a very similar background, offensive

player moved. The defense understands how to read rouse and do those things, but it has outstanding hands. I think the funny thing for me when I look at Treyvon Diggs is out around him when he was a high school wide receiver and watching him him run rouse and watching him catch passes, and then watching him flipping go on the other side. You see all of those skills translate fear from other corners when the ball is in the air because they can't figure out where the ball

is going or how to judge in flight. He plays it like a wide receiver, and so he is exactly what you want to see in a conversion prospect meeting a guy who converts from wide receiver to dB. You want to see them pick up the skills of a defensive back while retaining the ball skills of a wide receiver. Trayvon Dix has that, and so that has made him a very dangerous playmaker on the backside because I don't think anybody expected the game to click for him this

early in his career. But you gotta give him his prost because he is playing at a high level. Hey, Bucky. Thinking back to March, the Patriots gave a lot of money to Hunter Henry and John hu Smith, and the talking point was kind of, oh, they're going back to a decade ago when they add Hernandez and Gronk together and they were kind of revolutionizing passing out of twelve personnel and being able to do this, that and the

other with these tight ends. I don't get the impression from the little I know about the Patriots that it's really working that well. So far, am I mistaken about that? Or are these what do these guys look like in this offense? Well? I mean it's still a team in transition. I will say this about the Patriots. The Patriots do this better than anybody else in the league, and they've

always done it. The way they start a season isn't necessarily the way they end the season in terms of the way they gain planning and the way they kind of build their team and build how they go about their approach each week, and so the first part of the season for them is really much like the preseason. Who are the players, who are the guys that we can lean on? And then once they figure out their best course of action. They didn't build a plan early

in the year. Jonathan Smith and Hunter Henry have not been contributors. Some of that is on the quarterback. Some of that is just the way the game is played out, but those guys have not been as big as we expected, a bigger part of the team as we expected in the preseason. But they can line up in twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends, to wide receivers and become difference makers. You just never know, because this is a

team that they're gay plans at night, snowflakes. They never look the same on a week to week basis, So this could be the week that we see more twelve personnel and watch those two guys go off. Hey, Bucky. As I was doing some study on this new England Patriot offense, I noticed something really interesting. They actually throw the ball a lot relative to the rest of the league their eighth right now in passing attempts. They also run the ball as little as like one of the

lower teams in the league. They're twenty eighth in rushing attempts. Is this a situation where this is happening because as strategic decision for them, or is this just the nature of the games that they've been in and they've just been in situations where they've had to pass a lot more than they've run. The struggles of the offense a line for them from playing the way they wanted to play. They would like to get in twenty one personnel. They kind of run it and pound it and grind it out.

They haven't been able to do it. And so when you watch the Patriots, the Patriots kind of operate like a service academy when it comes to their approach. They're what we call a sequential play calling team. So they started the game out and if something doesn't work, then they'll go Hey, let's spread it out. Let's go empty, let's go quick dinking up game. If we can't get that, let's go to the screen game. If we can't get that, let's go to the tricks and gadgets to try and

create an explosive play. And so as you're watching them, you will see them just kind of go down this checklist if they're getting stopped early, and whatever they hit on they tend to stay in. And so they haven't been able to successfully maintain an identity because they just haven't had those successful drives down after down, week after week after week. And so that's why they're a bit

of a hodgepode On offense right now. When I look at the quarterbacks Alabama that they've had, you know, especially under Sabin, most of them haven't had a ton of success. I guess this jury still out on tour and all that. But but what did you like or what did you how did you evaluate Mac Jones. He's got all the talent around him. What did you see from him when he was coming out? Were you a big fan of his?

In this quarterback class of Avengers right super heroes, I call Mac Jones iron Man because Mac jones superpower is nothing innate that he has. It's all the suit, it's all everything that is around him. It is the supporting cast, it is the coaching staff, it's the plan. And what he does is he distributes the ball to the open guy. But if you ask mac Jones to do it by himself,

he doesn't have any special talents. When you think about Trevor Lawrence, Zack Wilson, Justin Fields, Trey Lance, they all had extraordinary individual pology, whether it was the armed talent, the letticism, something about them that allowed them to dominate the game on their own. Mac Jones doesn't have that. Now we can talk about his IQ and his ability to process, but that's not necessarily a superpower in the same light. So he was dependent upon the system and

where he landed more than any other quarterback. Now he landed in a perfect system for him. But if the game ever gets out of whack where they can't protect it or they can't call it on the script, mac Jones is helpless. He doesn't have that ability to get you right. So he is a guy who needs everything around him to be right, and he can deal in dead vein, But if it becomes a sandlot football game. Mac Jones can't thrive in that environment because that's not

how he's built. Along that same line, I can't help but notice, I don't think he's even averaging seven yards per attempt this season, just a lot of short stuff. I know everybody made a big deal. I don't. He was averaging five yards per attempt against the Bucks the other day. Is that is it an unwillingness to take shots that are there? I'm sure they don't want him taking a lot of risks giving his level of experience. But what does it look like on film to you?

Is it like a reluctance? Can the Cowboys afford to sit on everything short? What's it looked like? It's a combination of factors. I'm not saying that if he won't push the ball down the field, I don't think he has the playmakers that will allow him to push it down the field when we line up, and the first thing that dan Quinn and the staff have to do is they got to look at, Okay, who are the threats.

Who are the guys that can hurt us? They have Nelson Aguilar, they have Kendrick Bourne, they have Jacoby Myers. Then they have the two tight ends, Jonah Smith and Hunter Henry. If you privately ask the Cowboys defenders who

are they scared of, none of them. And so what they have to do is they have to spread you out and see if they can catch you in zone coverage and beat you a bunch of five and six yard rouse and eventually you miss a tackle that turns to fifteen yards and they methodically dribe it down the field. But this is a team that lacks the explosive playmaking

power of some of the other teams. That's why we see the double passes, the fleet flickers, the reverse throws, because the only way they can generate chunk plays is about deception and misdirection. They don't have the ability to line up and say, we're better than your guy on the outside, so we're gonna throw it over your head. And so that has made Mac Jones have to be a deacon dunk passer because of talent around him doesn't

allow him to push you down the field. So, Bucky, one of my favorite things that you've done this year and added to your staple of writing is the your Blue Chips article. These are the best players on the other team. Tell me who the studs are. Every week that you've done it, it's been like eight to ten guys. So do they have eight to ten guys? I mean, are you? I mean, do they have that many what you would call blue chip players. No, they don't. They don't.

They don't have that many guys. So typically come from them. Oh, it might be most of their players. All the defensive side of the ball, they have about four or five guys. But it takes eight to twelve blue chip guys to field the championship team. This is a team that is probably sitting at six maybe seven, And that's being very generous when you compare their players to the players around

the league. It has always been the system. And maybe now I have to say, maybe Tom Brady didn't really elevate the team more than I gave them credit for. But right now, this is not a team that has a lot of A level players. They win because they typically a sail at the dbos don't beat ourselves penalties, turnovers, those things, explosive plays. When they don't give those things up, they put it on you to beat them. And more times than not, teams mess it up by making mistakes.

Just look at the Houston game. Houston was better, but they messed it up. Not that the Patriots necessarily went out and beat them, all right, But we're gonna let you go. Man. We're gonna get back with you tomorrow. We'll talk more about this defense, the Patriots defense versus the Cowboys offense. We're going to also take our final break right now. We'll come back and I have a question for these guys about Michael Parsons. Where's he best used in general and where's he best used this week

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the Star Real quick. Before we end the show, I did want to talk a little bit about the Dallas defense. I want to zero in a little bit on Michael Michael Parsons. He led the team with eight tackles this last game. He had three quarterback hits. My question for you guys, is he more impactful at defensive end or at linebacker? And I want you to think about it from Samue. There have been now a couple games where he's been primarily doing both. Where do you think he's

more impactful for this team in this defense? I think there's two elements to consider. Their one. I mean, rushing the passer is more impactful. Those guys make a lot of money. That's why we said when they drafted Parsons, I wasn't that thrilled about it because I was like, he's got to have a pass rushing element if this is going to be worth this pick. And then on top of that, it's just easier to see that stuff.

It's easier to see what the guys are doing chasing the quarterback out of the pocket than everything that a linebacker is bringing the table. Micah had a hell of a they wound up scoring. It was the dry It was the same as the Cocks play, but he's stuffed a goal line run. Just blew the guy up right in the hole, right there at the goal line. So it's not like he didn't make an impact. And I don't love the question to be honest with because I'm like, just let the guy play football, let him kind of

feel this thing out. I'm I don't like people saying like, well, he needs to be an end full time or this, that and the other. I think I love the fact that dan Quinn is changing what he's doing with him based on the opponent. I think it's fun. I think it's good for him, and it's good for the Cowboys defense agree hundred percent. Also, you know, when when d Law comes back, you know, and Randy's playing pretty Randy's playing at a very high level right now too, just

because he is pushing guys back. He's playing with strength that we didn't necessarily know he had, you know, like or you know, and he's he's a little older now, but I mean, you know, he's playing with leverage and strength. So those guys together, I can't wait to see those guys at the ends together. That being said, you know, I want to see Parsons play linebacker, but I also love the element of him doing his thing, So I

think he's a linebacker. He once he starts even being more aware of what's happening, he will be sidelined to silent. He'll play even faster. But every now and again, he's going to line up in a spot you don't recognize. If they see a mismatch, he can whip this guard. He doesn't know what's coming, but it's gonna come on third nine. And I love that element. So I would agree with Dave. I keep him the way where he

is mostly linebacker but occasional rushing the passer. I do. Yeah, I think there should be a split every week, and it doesn't always have to be fifty fifty. Yeah, I'm in favor of that. I would say this, and I heard somebody mentioned this yesterday, and I think it got me excited because I was like, think about it like this. Once Tanks back, you get into December, you get into the playoffs, and you get into passing downs. What if you had Micah Tank kicked down the defensive tackle, OSA

and Randy all rushed in the passer. That gets me

really exciting. And the reason why it gets me really excited is because I always go back to that Giant's team that went to the Super Bowl and won it and did it against some really great offenses that they took down along the way, including the Cowboys, and I think that the reason why they did that because they had a front four that could get after the quarter back, and so it allowed them to be able to basically say, we can come get your quarterback and we can apply

a ton of pressure with four guys. Any defense that can do that, especially when you got guys on the back end who are ballhawks, it gives you a really great advantage defensively, and I think that would be phenomenal. And so from that's end, when that side again, I agree both you guys. I think he's gonna be a

defensive man. I think he's gonna be a linebacker. But I love the idea on passing downs, especially when you get to Marcus back of putting them at defensive in I don't even know if you're being imagined him enough to be honest with you, because that was a very straightforward four man front. We've already seen dan Quinn do some goofy stuff. You could line up on a third and eight with Osa and Gallimore at tackle, Randy it right in, tank it left in, and then just overhang

Mica off of that as a stand up rush. What have you come up the gate eight? Yeah? Yeah, that's because what that does is that makes your running back and your guard and all that stuff. That's what they're focused in, so you don't have to worry about dumping screens to these backs or whatever. They're gonna have to worry about that part him right up the minute. I don't know if we've seen it. I loved it though

before when Jalen was still here. Against the Eagles, they would mug the a gap with Jalen on passing downs and Michael would be brushing on the edge and it was Curse that was playing behind all of that as kind of the guy who could catch everything if it got past him. Jalen is not that fast. Imagine doing that with Micah when you've got ends that are on the outside of it. I mean, there's just a lot of fun stuff that they can do. And that's why I don't want to put Micah Parsons in a box.

I want him to be able to do whatever he wants to do. And I guess really the point of that is more once Tank is back, they can really freelance a lot more with Mica. And that means defensive end, that means linebacker, that means just wherever you want to line him up. You can line him up as safety if you want to and figure out a way to get him involved in the play. I just think you got a lot more flexibility of being able to move him around and do whatever you want to do when

you get Tank back. You got three guys right now that are playing in positions that are you don't really know what their position is. Mica is one of them. Kean O'Neill, I mean you know his position, but he can play it like a safety. And Jalon curses another and those guys right there giving you so much flexibility versatility. When the guys get injured. Donald Wilson can come back, he can play safety, and you can maybe slade a

guy inside. I mean, there's just you got a lot of guys that I wouldn't call him tweeters, but they can just do multiple fox too. Jabril Cox is in. They see how much they'll use him over the next There are safeties in the league that bigger than him, but he plays linebacker and is one of them. But that I mean just to play just to catch Daniel Jones and the flat I mean that was a that was a safety type explosion from the speed standpoint, I

know okay, but it hit like a linebacker. That just gave me an idea of where the mail bag is going in the future because people people spent years trying to move Sean Lee to safety and so now it's gonna be Jabril Cox for sure. It's like, well he can play safety, Kenny. Yeah. What I love about to seem like that they don't worry about putting labels on guys and I'll just line them up and they just say, go play football, you know, And honestly, it's a fitting

week to talk about it. That's the Patriots are famous for it. They're like, we got two cornerbacks who can handle the boundaries and everything else is kind of up for grabs, and it's I love it. It's worth It's the best way to play offenses in this day and age when it's so tilted the other way. And you know this, this goes for life. This isn't just football.

But the best people in the world are the best or you know, the best teachers, you know, and it's explaining football on a Wednesday, Thursday, Friday to get ready, or explaining algebra, whatever it is. The teachers, you know, the best teachers are the ones that know how to get that can relate things. And I gotta give the credit to the Patriots for doing that. They do it on a week to week basis, and that's what dan Quinn is doing. He's doing it in a way that

these guys understand. But yet offensive coordinators are still having trouble with it. All right, we appreciate you guys, you want us, we'll be back tomorrow. We're going to jump into the new England Patriot defense versus the Cowboys offense. Still then for Nick even Danny McCrae, oh yeah, that's forty forty. I don't want, you know, I don't want to go upstair and have Danny McCay like, Oh, I mean I did have a T shirt as a kid said, here comes to the next Bill Bates. I mean that's

seven years old. He was forty. I loved Bill Bates. But you know, hey, we gotta watch Survivor to night. And by the way, check out my guy Danny A. Knight on Survivor and yeah, we'll see how that goes. So far, they are just running rough shot over everybody else. So what's your favorite forty Derek? Danny? Okay, well, did you have something. You thought I was gonna say, yeah, maybe a dream for from Devin White. Devin White forty here also, So we're just we're just we're just gonna

have somebody. Somebody on Twitter is like thirty eight John L. Williams played for Seattle, and I'm like, that's not the game we're doing. You're right, I'm sorry. Cowboys numbers only from now, All right, guys, let's see outmow. 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.