Cowboys Break: Need To Trade For a WR?

Hid we missed you yesterday? Great? Thank you. I listened to the show and I heard all the gumbo talk. Yeah, did do it? It was interesting, Yeah it was. It was an okay show, all right, Yeah, okay, it was okay through the whole show, but should be bad. It was good enough for me to finish listening to the host. Okay, we'll appreciate you listening. Thank you. Um So, first of all, I want to to talk about Tavon Austin. There's still

questioning about him and his growing injury. Jason Garrett today said that he'll be getting a second opinion, so there's still a pending status as far as his injury. But I see on Twitter a lot of talk about this wide receiver Amari Cooper from the Raiders and reports of maybe would this be an option for the Cowboys to make a trade here. So I wanted to get your opinion on this. Am bringing out the Louisville Slugger for the first five minutes of the show right into No No,

I'm waiting for Dave answer. It was such a serious question. Well, yeah, anytime you're talking about trading for a Pro Bowl player, it's kind of a serious issue for sure. Um or sensitive A should say, I don't know, I would absolutely do it. Do I think the Well, I would absolutely do it if the price was right, Marie. Cooper is heading into the This is the last year of the rookie part of his deal. The next year on his deal is the fifth year option that first round picks

come with. So you be talking about paying him something like twelve million dollars I think in twenty nineteen. So I think you better think about it, and you better be you better think you want to extend him before you do it, And then what's the price? I think I heard the Raiders are saying they want a first round pick. Not no way. Um, maybe yeah if they would part with him for a third or maybe a second, but probably not. She Hell yeah I would. What did

they give for klomacy? Like freaking nothing? They got everything and nothing? Okay, No, they got they got they got two first round picks, but then they gave away their second, so they and they, so they swapped. They got a first round pick and then they swapp the first and second. Yeah, so they got rid of a generational talent for one first and one second basically okay, which is not good

enough when you're trading a guy like that in my opinion. Well, we see what difference he makes to the Chicago Bears. The defense had been that good years and all of a sudden it becomes this really really great defense. I mean, I think Dave's right on the on the Mark Cooper thing, but I personally, you know how you talk about telling people what you would do versus telling people what you think will happen. Yeah, I don't think this is a kind of deal that cowboys do. This sounds like the

kind of deal that the Eagles are doing. Last year, Yeah, excuse me, where they were going out and they were pretty pretty aggressive in going to get guys, either via trade or whatever. But this doesn't sound kind of deal to Cowboys have typically made over the last So we've said all along that Sammy Watkins was their number one free agent target. We didn't think that he would make a big difference on this team. We didn't think that Dez would make a big difference on this team. You know.

I mean when you're talking about the Raiders have an offensive line. I don't know if it's it's as good, but it's been pretty good. Their quarterback is a better quarterback I think as a passer than Dak So what's the problem with the Mark Cooper? If that's the case of me, would he definitely make an you know, impact here? I don't. I don't know if if these other guys aren't, I don't know how he would. I think Amari Cooper

sounds like he's having a very deslike season. Derek Carr's not playing as well as the contract indicates that he should. There's just a whole host of problems there. He's dropping balls, he's getting lost in game plans, Defenses are scheming him out of the out of things, which I'm not here. I'm not saying he's not a good player or that

he wouldn't be good on this team. But he's got troubles of his own and kind of like what we talk about with Dez and yes, Sammy Watkins is like he is he gonna be the magic pill that fixes this offense. I kind of doubt it, you know, I think that there's it's like first round grades. You know, there's how many first round grades typically are there about seventeen or eighteen something like that. Well that means, you know, there's fourteen fifteen guys that are getting picked in the

first round. They don't have a first round grade. And it's the same to me with number one receivers, Well, what's the number one receiver? Are there thirty two number one receivers in the league. There's like there's like six or seven. So there's guy out there that are getting paid like number one, drafted like number one, and are the number one receiver, but they're not actually playing like a franchise player. And I think he's one of those guys.

I think Dez was in that same boat too, So it's like, yeah, you're the starting wide receiver on a football team, but you're not really a number one. I think there's only about ten. Okay, I have a fun little game here for you. Then before we start talking about the rest Kings. I would do it for a third round pick, though, oh I would for if the number was right. I mean, and to me, maybe even fourth round, like I don't know if I'd get up to third, but somewhere in that range. I think it's fair.

I think it's fair. Well, again, the biggest discussion is, Okay, what what wide receiver? Wide receiver you could bring it here that could actually make a difference to where it would work with Dak and get the offense moving. So six to ten that you were just with that being said, I want each of you to pick one wide receiver you think would absolutely make a difference on this team. Obviously this is not realistic at all, but if you could choose, doesn't matter of the prize, doesn't matter of

where the players coming from. Yes, did you watch The Happy Hour last night? I did not. Sounds kind of yeah, sounds kind of familiar with what we do. You guys talked about that, well, we taught it, not not specifically. There was a there was a fan that came in and basically just wanted us to poach from the Chiefs. Yeah, just take what you want from the Chiefs. I don't know why he was so from the Chiefs. Yeah, from the Chiefs. I don't know why. This is all around

the NFL. Yeah, I know. But it wasn't a bad question because because it all hit positions that you thought, you know, that this team would would need. Yeah, it doesn't mean and I thought it was good answers by you guys too. By the way, it's good. I'm always gonna go with the speed game. Okay, So who would be your wide receiver? Okay, sorry, let's play the game. I got my, I got mine too, good to go. Yeah,

I'll give me Michael Thomas from New Orleans. Honestly, uh DeAndre Hopkins is another guy just because he's such a free take two. Sorry, I'll take Michael Thomas, and I'll tell you why. Because for this offense, I don't care about speed. I don't. That's not to take the top off the defense guy. He's not that accurate the further down the field that he gets. Michael Thomas is an incredible route runner. He's six three. He can box out

any defensive back in the league. He's a better Dez in terms of route running, in terms of catch radius, just beating guys off the ball. I think he would be great for this offense because this, you know, this, ain't this, ain't that high flying throwing the ball eighty yards down the field offense anyway, And I think he would complement what they want to do perfectly. Okay, the reason I say I don't take two is because you're

taking Hopkins. I would take Hopkins. And the reason I take Hopkins is because of all the number one receivers in the league, all of all those six to ten guys that you mentioned that would be considered number one guys, he's the only one I can think of right off the top of my head that has been able to

produce regardless of the quality of the quarterback. And so if you have issues about whether you think this quarterback is accurate enough or can throw the ball in the right place and be able to throw guys open, as we hear people say all the time, then DeAndre Hopkins is the guy you want because he's shown that he can do it no matter who the guy is that's

throwing the ball, he will make that quarterback better. Um and So from that standpoint, if you want to put somebody in that immediately helps this offense, somebody like DeAndre Hopkins can do that. Let's take Antonio Brown might as well. If we're gonna play the game, let's just play the game. I mean, I would say the other guy in New York, but he's a problem, you know, and he always is, and and and you know as well as you guys. Well, no, it's not that. It's just he's he's the typical wide

receiver diva. I mean, unbelievable talent, but he's got so much distractions. And and if if you know, Elis is a problem for him, I'm sure Dak would be too. So you know, Antonia, Roethlisberger is great, I get it. I get your point about Hopkins, and all of them would be good. Antonio Brown's not not a diva. I mean no, absolutely, he has a share of m as well from him. Yeah, I understand, Yeah, seriously, that position. Julio is another guy. Julio's not a diva. I don't know,

That's what I'm saying. Julio is for the same reason I like Michael Thomas. Julio does a lot of the same stuff. And yeah, I don't He's said like eight words in his NFL career. But like Golden Tate, who I don't like really, but I love Golden Tate really, what did he is? Like? He is like Hind's war to me, like he is that tough wide receiver that just can do a little bit of everything. I've never been a fan um that he. I mean, anybody like that would help right now, DeVante Adams would would help.

I think't Hind isn't a isn't a Golden Tate a free agent AF this year? I think he is. I don't know. I got a buddy who's an Alliance fan. He told me that. Now. I don't know if I completely trusted, but he told me he's a free agent after this year. What about aj Green? He would be pretty good here. What I love is just tamper the

whole league. Really, let's just get him all with the exception of as the commissioners on the TV right there, with the exception of Odell and Julio, Like all the guys we just named were not super duper premium draft picks. Hopkins was picked twenty seven, Thomas was pick forty three, forty four Antonio Browns. Tom Brown's a sixth round pick. Y man. Gives you a little made of optimism that the Cowboys could find a guy like that in the draft this year. We were on the show last night.

But I also remember real quick also remember all those guys have really, really good quarterbacks. So maybe a function of getting a guy later means that you got to have the quarterback that can get them the ball and make them into much better players. Course, Hopkins has been good, You're right, Hopkins has been good with I mean Weedon. Yeah, he's he's He's the only one I could think of off the top of my head that didn't have a premium quarterback. Yeah. I think it depends on what show

show you listen to. If you listen to The Talking Cowboys, it sounds like Michael Gallup is not getting used at all. And I think because we're on the show last night, and and Mickey and and I'm I'm sure Ryan and you know, Nate and everybody was like they got to get Gallop the ball. Say I agree with that, though, but you know, I mean, it's still a small sample size. He's played six games, he's had a couple of moments. You know that are good. Right, He's had a couple

of moments where he hasn't really performed. I mean, I still think that's what rookies do, right, I get it. I'm just saying I think he's getting a fair amount now. I mean, yes, he'll be nice to see it. But then I think that would be a replay of what we saw with des and just kind of when you try to force the ball to someone and he just doesn't work out that way. I'm not saying forced the ball to him. I'm saying, maybe give him more reps. But right now they got this rotation where they got

a bunch of guys that they're throwing at it. I would I would probably shrink that a little bit, and maybe that happens out of necessity with you know, sounds like it is if Tavon's gonna be out for a while, then maybe that that happens just by necessity. But I'd just like to see him get more opportunities because I've seen him go deep. I've seen him make an athletic non catch, but I thought that was a great catch

non catch. I just think he's got some skill and I think you got to develop that he's a young guy. Young receivers typically have those moments of good stuff and then bad stuff. Receiver is one of those hard positions where guys usually don't come in and immediately are great. You know, all right, let's take our first break and when we come back, we'll dive into the Redskins offense. If you're like me and you love I mean, if you have a thing, then cutting the chord is scary.

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is the second segment up the break. The Cowboys are sitting on a nice three and three while the Redskins are three and two coming off a win twenty three seventeen against the Panthers. So, Dave, let's start talking about this offense and what it brings against the Cowboys defense. Have you watched the Cowboys play offense this year? Yep? Yeah, podcast you're good, you're good, then you're good. You don't

need you don't need almost, so it's pretty equivalent. It's the same thing, really, I mean not really like it's I felt like the quarterback has experience, has had more success. Lark quarterback is Dak Prescott? Okay, Alex Smith is what is Dak Prescott's ceiling? And people people hear that and think it's this terrible thing. It's really not Alex Smith. It sucks for him that he's always going to be compared to Aaron Rodgers. But like he has had a

damn good career. He has taken two different franchises, you know, to the cusp of a Super Bowl. He never got to an ANFC title game with the Chiefs, I don't think, but they had some prett damn good teams in Kansas City. He was a muffed punt away from Super Bowl forty two, forty forty six, forty whatever, forty sixty six. I don't remember remember a forty nine er guy dropping a punt, but Kyle Williams Super Bowl, I remember the game. I

remember numbers Giants, forty nine ers, two eleven. Anyway, Alex Smith has had a very nice career. He protects the football, he's smart, he's mobile, very mobile, he can do all kinds of that type of stuff. Like I if Dak Prescott turns out to be as good as Alex Smith as a fourth round pick, it'll be incredible. But so they just play similarly. Um the Redskins lean on their run game their twelfth in the league. Their pass game doesn't leave a lot to be desired. They average two

hundred and thirty yards per game sometimes not even that good. Um, and they're not scoring a ton. They're they're twenty fourth and scoring in twenty fourth, in twenty fifth in total offense. Um. You see a lot of the same stuff, but it's different personnel. So like you know, we talk about how we hate the Cowboys commitments to the tight ends. Given the tight ends on their team, the Redskins run a ton of twelve and thirteen personnel, but it works better

because their tight ends are better. They got a freak in Jordan Read. Got a former first round pick in Vernon Davis who definitely found new life when he got to Washington. Jordan Read healthy. He's he's playing, yes, yeah, I mean he's not asked. He always no. No, that's I think it's a fair question, well founded. But he's

he's played every week season or most of them. That's good. Yeah. Um. They also have Nix's guy, Jeremy Sprinkle, underrated little third tight end Sprinkle like Arkansas Sprinkle me Woo pig Sue. He'll steal a catch. He'll steal a catch or two from you if you're not careful. Belk Um Anyway. I don't know why we're already talking about Jeremy Sprinkle, but yeah, so you see a lot of the same stuff run to set up the pass. You know, Adrian Peterson's the

story here. I shudder to think what this offense would look like with Darius Guys if he was healthy. It's good for the Cowboys that he's not for this year. Um. Yeah, Adrian Thompson too. And that's that's the thing here. Is Chris Thompson and um Jamison Crowder really make this thing go. In terms of the passing game. I mentioned the tight ends and they love to use them, but everything else is really pretty mad. Like again, it reminds me of the Cowboys, like they don't have they don't have a

bona fide receiver that they trust. Josh Dockson is trending toward a bust of a first round pick. Really, is it that bad? I mean, he's been hurt for so much of his career. He's he makes nice plays and he shows the potential for the circus catch. He's just hasn't done it on a regular basis. I think he's got eight catches this year. Yeah, it ain'try, It's not great. M Paul Richardson's the free agent that they brought in from Seattle. He'll get behind the defense. He's fast. He

had a big long touchdown against Green Bay. But again, not any kind of consistency. Like the consistency here is the tight ends are versatile and can play in line and out. And then Jamison Crowder is kind of your Tavon Austin for lack of a better comparison. You know, he runs underneath, they motion him, they do all kinds of stuff with him, and then Chris Thompson is your web back. The thing is Crowder and Thompson are hurt right now. They did not play against the Panthers, and

it showed. Look they didn't. They didn't look super impressive to me. Keep an eye on it. We'll see. I don't like, I don't have an answer right now. I think they'll start watching the injury report. They're hopeful that both will be able to play this week, but we'll see. Um. I think it actually when Chris Thompson is there, it actually makes Adrian Peterson even better because, yeah, they have

that compliment to what Adrian Peterson can do. So Chris Thompson is I think one of the most underrated players in that league. Just he can't stay healthy, which sucks for him. Dunbar. Yeah, I mean a much more productive lance Dunbar. But very similar when you when you're talking about guys like that, I mean, in same with Tavon Austin goes all the way back, rocket ismile all the way back. Those those guys like that. Yeah, they're really

good and fast, but just don't let them get hit. Yeah, I mean you look at just go look at NFL players. I was taking my family down on the field before the game last week and they were just looking that. The kids were looking at these mammoth of niggs, mammoth men, and it's like, yeah, that's what NFL football is. But then you see the little guy and you're like, if he takes a hit from this other guy. There are

sports cards. Yeah, they can win, they can win races, but if they get hit, you get hit, it's done it. Yeah it's a loss. Yeah, so um it. Watch Crowder and Thompson because their offense changes when those guys are in because Crowder gives them that, you know, option for the run underneath and the easy pitch and catch. They

love to wrote and RPO types. I mean, like I said, it's like watching the Cowboys, like they give to Peterson Smith Polls and Crowder's right there on the slant like it's a carbon copy of the play that Cole Beasley runs. So well, it's the same exact stuff, a lot of the same designs, um but Adrian Peterson is the guy that it's been flowing through. He looks fantastic. He's averaging one hundred yards a game in their wins, and when they lose it's because they can't get him on track.

Like in their wins they've run for one eighty two, one sixty six, and one thirty two, and then their losses they've run for sixty five and thirty nine, which obviously, well you know, causation is not correlation, Like you know, I get that, But they're much better when they're eating up ardage. And obviously if you're running the ball, it means you're not falling behind. Was it last week when he sustained the shoulder injury with a shoulder peeped out?

He played with a shoulder injury in New Orleans and that contribute. I mean, they didn't run the ball right they did in the second half. He pretty much they had stood on the side of the the thirty nine yards in the super That was nice. You're watching for fantasy, weren't you? Yeah, me too. It was great. I was like, keep him on the bench. I was going against him that which I was like, yeah. As soon as he went out, my wife is like, you're really cheering an injury.

I was like, yeah. For the week though, yeah, he against it. He looks fine. He played well against Carolina. They ran for one thirty two as a team on the Panthers, which, if you remember, the Cowboys struggled, so uh. And this is a good offensive line. I mean, Brandon Sheriff is still there, Trent a good offensive line coach, Their left guard running game Moses Um. Their left guard Sean Lavaw is dealing with some stuff. So that's another thing to watch. But this, like I said, this looks

a lot like the Cowboys. Like when they can do what they want to do, it looks really good they're running the ball, and then when they're not, they don't have a lot of fallback options. So the big difference for me is the tight ends. Because Reid can do everything. It's not fair because they're eleven personnel when he looks when he's out there, looks way different from the Cowboys eleven personnel. He can sit down in zones in the middle of the field, he can go down the field,

he can run routes as if he's a receiver. And then Vernon Davis only has nine catches on the year, but he's averaging sixteen yards per reception. Like defenses just lose him and I don't one hundred percent understand why because he's a talented player, but it seems like every time Malex Smith finds him, he's twenty five yards down field. So that's something to watch. And yes, I think Smith has at least like six completions of forty yards or more so, like he can hit you for the big

play despite not having that bona fide receiver option. So but all things considered, trying to think this is a better offense than Jacksonville, but it's not as explosive as some of the other like it's not as explosive as Detroit or Houston in my opinion. So well, it is fair to say that after well hearing your report and

seeing the Cowboys, I think now I'm speaking Spanish. Sorry, after seeing the Redskins offense playing, you would say that obviously the Cowboys defense is the better team against the Redskins offense. But it is also fair to say that after what we saw last weekend against Jacksonville and the expectations going into a game plane against the NFL's best defense at the time, you saw what happened. So with

that being said, anything could happen. Therefore, what would be the most concerning thing as far as the Redskins offense matching up against the Cowboys defense. I like the matchup in the run game. I mean, Dallas is a top ten in run defense and they haven't just I mean, I know, you know, the Seahawks just pounded them, but it took them thirty five carries to get to one hundred yards. But they didn't Yeah, yeah, no, they were

averaging like three point two yards per carry um. So the Lions did gash them like they didn't give carry On Johnson anywhere near enough touch. That's a much better passing game, though, right, and those received those three receivers that they got in Detroit, probably the third best is as good, if not better as the best one in Washington, Right, yeah, yeah, no,

I would agree with that. I think if you line up these six players, right, line them up, Bordles, Eli, Stafford, Watson, Russell, Wilson, and Cam Newton, who wins the ray? Who's what? Three guys win the race there running just yeah speed, probably Watson, Russell, Wilson, probably in Cam Newton. Yeah yeah, so they all won two.

I mean they all beat the Cowboys. So I think that the running part of the quarterback, you know when you think about part, yes, just I mean just the mobility of it like that, so that that would be the one thing that you know, I think we could have to worry about you. And that's I mean Alex Smith is mobile. They haven't like, they don't use him

that way, at least they haven't been maybe. I mean this is where would you rank his mobility compared to these guys that you talked about, not as nineteenth in the league. I don't think. I don't think. I don't think he's better as a runner than either of those three. No, but he's the guy, he's the guy that yeah he's well no, I wasn't gona say that, yeah, because he's when they but no, when they when they scout him they're not scouting him based upon him being a white quarterback.

I think the thing about it is he seems to be that kind of quarterback that'll catch you, like it's a part of the offense for those other guys to run. But I don't know that it's necessarily part of the offense. But he will catch you in a in a bad situation and before you know it, he's twenty yards down the field. That's why he's so damn And that's kind of what Dak has been unless the Cowboys are going to use them a little bit more. But Dak will

definitely catch you as well. But if they're going to start running one of those plays but they don't really run, they they don't scheme runs for him. But the thing and he can do that, which you know, we said Blake Bortles could do that too, and he can. The other the thing that sucks is, you know, he can take a well covered play and just turn into a six yard game, and he does that with regularity, just

because I mean, he's athletics. So what I like, though, is I like these two rookie quarters, these two rookie lots. I'm not rookie, these two young linebackers that can both run, so that helps. I like them for another reason too, which is like, yeah, like that's awesome that Sean Lee might be able to come back this week. But like Leyton, vander Esh sounds like a guy who can help you

with these tight ends a lot. And so that both of them, obviously they're both pretty good in coverage, and I think that's the thing that scares me the most. Cowboys don't deal well with tight ends in recent history,

and Byron Jones doesn't do that anymore. So the more athleticism to cover at Jordan Reed you have, the better, I think, because I that is the mismatch that scares me the most with this often just re and Vernon Davis like, again, he's he's not a high volume guy, but he will break your back if you're not paying attention to him. So would you go the option of maybe saying I'd rather put a linebacker Vanderesh in this case, covering him than I would a safety bring a safety

down to cover him. Yes, absolutely, because I you know, vander Esh said this on the conference call yesterday. He's like, well, I can't run with DD Westbrook. I mean that's you know, I can't, which yeah, obviously, but I think he don't know if there are many cornerbacks that run with d I think he can run with Jordan Reed and and he's not giving up size to him the way that a Cavon Frasier or certainly Xavier Woods would. So yeah, yes,

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that we're gonna release tomorrow. There's a video. I would just wanted to kind of let people know this thing's pretty good. If you haven't seen No Moss. Tomorrow, we're gonna be releasing a new episode of No Moss. And we happened to get or these guys happened again, I shouldn't say we, Amber and Nick happened to get got them. Well, Amber got Dak and Zeke and I just watched it before we went on the air. You guys are gonna want to see it. It's fun. It's a lot of fun.

It was a fun and it's a game show. Just like if you don't know what No Moss is. It's a game show where players have to guess what their teammates would say about some pretty off the wall kinds of questions, and the two of them faced off in this particular episode and it was good stuff. So make sure you check it out tomorrow. We'll have it out tomorrow for you to watch on all of our different platforms, GOAD. So we'll release a little tease today, so check it

that out. Thank you Eric for the little promo there. All right, so, very important game this weekend, and according to Nick this might be and a lot of people would agree that this might be a very turn decisive point in the season, turning point in the season for the Cowboys. Now, we keep talking about the road games and home games, and as of right now, clearly the road games have not been working out for the Cowboys.

But we know that Jason Garrett knows how to play against the Redskins and kind of figure them out a little bit. Why are the expectations going into a road game again? And obviously after coming up this kind of win, could they keep this going this weekend? Well, you know, I think that it is a turning point game if they want to turn if they don't if they just want to keep going back and forth, then it won't be a turning point, and then that'll be a loss.

I mean if for them to turn this thing and you know, upward, then then they're gonna have to win. And like you said, I mean, this is a place that I think all Division games are like that, where you're you're you're familiar with everything. You get there, you know exactly what the locker room is, you know exactly where the twenty five second play clock is, you know

all that kind of stuff. There's a lot of Cowboy fans there, so it's it's you know, away from home, you're still comfortable being there, and you know, and I think that the Cowboys have always just you know, they've been a better team than the friend than the Redskins for a long time. So um, it helps when you go on the road and you're comfortable and you win, and they're gonna have to hope that this time. I

don't know if they're a better team. This this interesting thing is even when they haven't necessarily been a better team, they've always, like recently in recent history, like it is a lopsided affair. Now the games aren't lopside they're close games, a lot of them. But for whatever reason, the Cowboys have managed to win and win consistently against this team,

whether they're at home or on the road. Eight and two since RG three and Alfred Morris swept them in twenty twelve, five years eight and two amazing five and oh at FedEx four No with dak and yeah, shouts out to all y'all in the DMV. I know there's a bunch of y'all listening to this, Like this isn't gonna be a road environment. They're gonna be a ton

of Cowboys fans like FedEx. I mean, I don't want to go into hard but like I can just I could go for fifteen minutes about all the things I don't like about FedEx Field and want to like, sure, let's do it. No, it's just it's it's it's out of the way. It seems it seems like it's a pain to get to and maybe because I mean, the Redskins haven't been good and forever uh Redskins fans don't really seem to like their franchise that much, you know what I mean? Like press box view. The press box

views the worst in the league, and the food. The food is the worst in the league. Stadium. Traveling to the stadium is the worst. Like it was built in I wasn't gonna go all in before. Yeah, it was the cop guy seeing the cause with them with the yeah is uncomfortable. And stadium was built in the what nineties? Right they played at RFK UP until not that longer than nineties? Pretty yeah? Right? Is it not a dump? It is a dump, And I'm not gonna go as

far as it called the stadium a dump. It's a dump. But it's shocking that it was built in the nineties. It's shocking that it was built the first game was like ninety seven or now, I would have thought it was as old as like Texas Stadium before four was torn down. My view, like when we go to Washington, it's it's either rainy or cold. Half their fans don't show up or they're wearing ponchos, so you can't tell

if it's their fans anyway. And then the whole Lower Bowl is Cowboys fans from the DMV that are just like, we're here to take this thing over. Get ready, So I don't want to Cowboys get rolling. You can tell I don't want to. I don't want to hear about the road environment this week, because it's gonna it should

feel an awful lot like home. I mean, every every day when we would look at that chart beat to show where our fans that were on the website where they're from, it was always like the big stage right there, Texas, California, Florida, Virginia. Always those four right like lots of respect to all the Cowboys fans in the Philly, New Jersey, New York area, Like I know there's a lot of y'all too, but I just DMV Cowboys fans, Cowboys country. They are a

special breed of passionate. It seems like like all the craziest people I hear from seems like they're from that area. Yep, there's a question from Bulldocks to you, do you guys see our offense running as many naked boot boots as we did last week? Seems like the defense is a really keen on in on that now either way. I mean, whatever it is to kind of get him in space and let him roll out there, whether whether it's the run pass option, whether it's the bootlegs, just get him

out there like that. And make them think about it, because I think he can. He can, you know, he needs to kind of make that decision. A little earlier. There was a play where he got the first down. He was rolling to the right, there was a linebacker chasing him. He was still looking to throw, looking to throw. I think when he gets out there like that, he needs to run. He needs to take off when he gets out there, unless there's a guy just streaking down

the field. Because you know, he eventually got the first down, but I think that he needs to look at it more like talking about Dak move the chains, move the chains. When you get out there and you see it, it's open, go take go get it, and let's let's get a first down. Here he was looking down the field and that's that's just something that's got to be a feel for the quarterbacks or if there's a way that you can like fake the defense out on that, because it

has worked at times. But I think at least once a game he gets blown up trying to run, like it happened against Jacksonville. Like as good as the offense looked, he turned around and I think it was in Goguay was like right there to give him a bear hug, and it definitely happened. You know, Carolina sniffed all that stuff out, so did Seattle. I wonder if there's a way you can misdirect, like run a different play off of that look, because it's obviously a look that defenses

are familiar. That play has a ton of options built into it, you know. So so yeah, it may be that they're not doing the other things enough to where teams are like, hey, we know if we just play the percentages you go get Dak, you're gonna cut it off most of it. When you're in this formation and the receiver's motioning, we know you're doing that boot where you're gonna have a guy five yards away like that,

they see it coming. So that's kind of like them running when they take a wide receiver and motioned him down into the box, like every single time, maybe once or twice this season them not run, but almost all the time they run. I bet, I bet we'll see that. Here's another question from Twitter. There have been we've seen three explosive plays too tight ends. Should the passing attack focus on them more instead of the wide receivers. I'm

a big fan of that. Just folks, I mean, I don't think that these are tight ends that are like, you know, guys that you just have to focus on and say we got to get them the football. I think they're more of a product of what's open and there. Yeah, I think swam gathers. You know, they're pretty athletic. They can make some plays, but I don't think you've forced the ball to them. I don't think that type of guy.

These are sorry, go ahead, good, these are these plays are literally designed to like sneak the tight end out of the trash, like Rico snuck behind the whole defense and it didn't work out. But the play everybody talks about when Dak got sacked by j J. Watt, they could have won the game because Blake Jarwin, you know, fake blocked eight yards downfield and just snuck down the sideline. Like why they're designing these plays so that the tight

ends can be open because they're an afterthought. I don't know if that translates to scheming your offense around them like that, like Jordan Reid. I mean, when you are a big, physical freak who can block adequately and run routes like a receiver, you can do that type of stuff.

I don't know if the Cowboys have that guy. Not only that, but if you're going to scheme somebody open, I'd rather scheme somebody open that when they get the ball in their hands they have the ability to do more with it than just kind of what it is like.

I don't think the tight ends are necessarily the best run after catch options the Cowboys have, And to be honest, I don't know they have a lot of great run after catch options, but I would if I'm going to scheme somebody open, I'm looking to scheme somebody open that when they get the ball in their hands they can

actually make more of it thens there. Yeah, Now, after seeing, after hearing about the Redskins offense and all that, what defensive guy would you expect to have the best game this weekend to play the best this weekend defensive guy for the Redskins? Now from the Boys, Okay, I would Betterers kept it up. Yeah. Between between Adrian Peterson and and these tight ends, I think they both Chris Thompson,

I mean there's a lot to worry about here. Yeah, and the quarterback running and that's a lot of stuff to running. You know, these are famous last words because I I slandered Keenan Allen for a week last year and he made me eat every word of that. But I like Byron. I like these cornerbacks against their receivers like I don't. I'll be surprised if these receivers just

eat them for lunch. How much do you worry though, that the best option they have at wide receivers a slot guy in the weakest point of your cornerbacks is the slot. I don't know that I'm ready to concede that. I'm really really well the Anthony Brown's better than Cheeto or as of right now, it's Jordan Lewis anyway, like we I gotta. I mean, Cheeto hasn't played in two weeks so and I think Jordan Lewis has played really

well in those opportunities. So I'm I'm okay, I feel all right, We'll see, But that's not that's my point. You're right, it's still the weak point. Yeah, I just I don't know. That doesn't bother you, that that doesn't make you concerned at all. They've been better about rallying to plays since what happened against Detroit, So oh yeah, I'm I'm feeling I feel all right, right, Um, I

think it's something worth keeping an eye on. I don't know if I know if if I would say I'm worried, but I do think it's something to keep an eye on. I mean, none of these receivers are are guys I think that will just absolutely kill you, or they haven't in a lot of the games that Cowboys have played.

They some of them have pretty good games here and there, but they have just killed you, like it wasn't a situation where you just can't do anything with them, right, So I don't think it's worth worrying, but I do think it's something to keep an eye on. That'll be a matchup that I will look at a lot. Carolina didn't have those receivers really either, and Seattle had some pretty good guys, I mean some speed guys. I mean, I don't think Tyler Lockett's any better necessarily than Crowder.

So I just think that you know, you've got to watch those speeds. Well, I was talking. I wasn't talking about the previous teams they've played, talking about when they've played the Redskins with this contingent of receiver, right right, I just I'm just saying that you know, just because you don't have one of those elite receivers doesn't mean that this team hasn't given up some some plays. We have a I disagree with you a little bit though,

especially when Kirk Cousins was here and DeShawn Jackson. I mean, are you going way back? Not really? That was twenty sixteen. Kirk. We know you're not very good with time. See Kirk Cousins in the two games in Washington, in the two games, in the two games the Cowboys beat Washington in twenty sixteen, Kirk Cousins average like four hundred yards per game and was just taken deep shot after deep shot, and um, Paul Richardson can do that. Josh Dockson can't too. But

they just they don't. They haven't been doing it often, so it scares me a little bit less. So maybe they'll break that out this week. It's something to watch. But I still like Sean Ain't there anymore? Need his Kirk Cousins. I like what I like Byron in that matchup, and I can go I like him too. Swbert Connell's not there either, And I know Michael Westbrook and what about Santana Moss Albert Connell. That is a name I have not heard way back a long time. Art Monk

Art Monk. He is still there, He is still there. Yeah, we'll see him in the press box with Doug Williams in their cheering press box. Yep. If we went to Oakland on a regular basis, that would be my least favorite trip. But we don't, so it's FedEx. It's just well, it's the worst as in probably two or three years. I think the Raiders trip will probably be one of your favorites. So yeah, you're probably right about the Yeah,

all right, very very fun conversation. Their interesting topic. We'll be back tomorrow to discuss the Redskins defense against the Cowboys offense for Derrek Eagleton, Nickimmnt, David Hellman, I am Amburgercia will be back tomorrow on Cowboys Break. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club min