Cowboys Break: Seattle Scouting Report

be discussing plenty plenty of different subjects here. But before we dive into all the Cowboys stuff, I'm gonna say this number. You can call us in at eight eight five five twenty two ninety seven. Hopefully we have time to get a call in before the end the end of the show, so we'll see. How are you guys doing? Good? Good, good, awesome? All right, some roster moves. I know you guys talked about Bryce water coming back yesterday and it was all over the place for two days and he's finally he

has finally signed with the Cowboys. They did release safety Tyree Robinson and I wanted to check in with you guys. How are you expecting what is expected to be Bryce Butler's role here? And I know, Jason Garrett kind of said he's gonna wait until to get him into practice and figure out what to do with him. But what is the expectation here? I have no expectations. I mean, he's number he's the fiftieth. He's the fiftieth receiver on this team right now. It feels like, um, I don't know.

I mean, Jason Garrett was kind of talking about that today. I mean a lot more questions about this guy than you would expect from the seventh receiver on your roster because he used to be here kind of an acrimonious departure and they got six other guys. Um, I don't expect him to be like a starter right away. I probably expect him to mix in, probably do some of the stuff he did when he was here last time. Is a small percentage of snaps and hopefully some big

plays that make it worth it. And we talk about, you know, Dak having problems throwing down the field and all that stuff, But when you go back and look at the past and those games that Bryce Bailer was in, from what I remember, he was one of the main guys that I was able to catch Dak's ball at the end of the field like down the field, So again, couldn't they start utilizing him more in those scenarios to where, Okay, maybe this is a guy that does kind of work

with what Dak can do well. I think here's the thing for me. I look at this and I think the reason why Jason probably got all those questions and it kind of answers your question as well, is because everybody's probably sitting here saying, what changed. You entered the season thinking you didn't need this many wide receivers, and now you sign a receiver to add to it. And there may be more to the story. We'll keep watching

this thing to see if more plays out here. But the fact of the matter is, it just seems weird timing that all of a sudden, and it does beg the question. Are they saying that maybe they don't have enough receivers because they haven't gotten the production that they wanted out their receivers? Is it pointing to something bigger about what they think about their wide receiver group? And if so, how does he really solve that? Because what he's shown so far since he's since he's been here

before was he's okay receiver. But I don't know that you rely on him necessarily, and they certainly weren't thinking that when they when they let him walk this past offseason. Right, Yeah, it's I don't it's weird to me. Yeah, And it just comes down to what they don't have around him. And and like you said, there might be more to the story. I bet you by the end of the week, this makes more sense than it does right now. And

that's why it take. Things tend to happen around here, Like later we're like, ah, okay, and then it will make sense. They're bringing a guy that knows the offense and ken stretch the team, stretch the defense a little bit that yes, it would make sense in that context. But now, I mean, yeah, and I don't know Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett loves to do this thing where he looks at us like we're crazy. But I mean, you've been covering this team for twenty years. I've been here for

this is my six Derek, You've been here forever. Like seven receivers and four tight ends on a team that wants to run the ball. I'm sorry it doesn't make sense. I mean, it does not make a ton of football sense. I think because you know when you throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and you hope something sticks. Maybe hey, Quanta, nothing nothing works. I mean of those eleven players. Of those eleven players, how many would would the Packers want on their team? Three? Maybe they'd take Gallop.

They would probably have just thrown right, I don't probably not, Maybe, I don't know. Maybe I know more than three. Yeah, like Gallop, Hearns could find a job. Hearns well, I was thinking a green Bay specifically. I just threw them out there. I don't know. I'm just saying, but Green Bay employees a similar method now here. I mean they the Patriots, but they might take a few. I man, yeah, no, but the green The Packers are a team that has

I think, kind of this type of philosophy. Like I think they take receivers that they feel like are not necessarily the top receivers in the league. Their receivers that they feel like are pretty good that with Aaron Rodgers they can be great, right, And I don't think they're I don't think. I think they're closer to what the Cowboys do than they are a team like say Atlanta, where they go for trying to get as good A receivers as they possibly can, starting with that top guy. Yeah,

I just I don't know. I mean Garrett said this too. Is I mean, no guarantee Bryce even dresses this week. We'll have to see how that shakes out. I mean, if you can afford seven receivers on your roster, you certainly can't afford seven to dress for game day, I would think. And Bryce Butler's not a special team's savant, so I don't know something to watch. Should just sit Terrence? I mean, at this point when when you're paying a guy,

it doesn't matter if he plays or not. True, they basically are anyway, with the number of snaps that he's getting, right, I would rather just have a cold that could run, you know, down the field a little bit better. Yeah, wouldn't matter. And again, we don't know about the possible suspension. As far as I know, I haven't heard anything regarding that, if that's really going to happen, if so, when, or

anything in regards to Terrence Williams. And if it is, maybe this is something that Okay, you do sit Terrence down and just let Bryce get right after it. But think about it, this is the NFL, so anytime a player gets in trouble at any point, then you kind of sit with bated breath, like, when is the NFL going to do anything? Is the NFL going to do anything? When are they going to do anything? Right? How long did it take before they get put something, you know,

actually sent sent down a ruling on Ezekiel Elliott. I mean, it's my expectation when that thing first happened with Terrence was he's playing this year, maybe by next year. Sometimes they come up with something who knows. And that's the nature of the NFL and where they are right now. So I think it's kind of a little bit maybe

early to kind of go there. But I do think that, you know, you have to always keep that in the back of your mind because he did end up in trouble in the office at some point, the NFL is coming back on that. That's the only thing that you can come at least to meet to my mind, as far as like why did they even make this move? Like I'm trying to get my head around it and

understand why was this move necessary? And the only thing that pops up is Okay, well, maybe this is gonna happen, or maybe they know that it's about to happen, and you um feeling that spot with Bryce and I just spill all over my laptop. Sorry, Now, honestly, again, we don't know, don't You just don't know. And and with that kind of thing, you just wait for the NFL because the NFL is on its own timetable and you just never know when and what they're going to come

back with. When it comes to those kind of things, we'll see. And now another thing that Jason Garrett talked about was Randy Gregory, Xavier Woods, and Dayton Jones. He said that he's expecting them to be on a limited basis in practice. So with these three guys, any hopes that any of those three would actually play this weekend. I don't think you cut Tyree Robinson unless you're pretty

confident not that, and he has not done anything. But just from a number standpoint, you don't cut your safety depth if you don't feel pretty good that Xavier Woods can play this weekend. So yeah, I feel good about him. I feel I feel cautiously optimistic about Randy head injuries odds we always say are a little bit different. But I got into practice, He got into practice last week.

What glad you said that about Xavier Woods, because right now, if fancied that they just cut safety Tyree Robinson and that's it, they didn't do anything else. They just cut a safety as they head into this third game of the season. I mean, it's leading them to speculate that, let's see, you didn't add a safety yet, maybe you will after the Are you saying to making room they

need an extra seat on the plane. No, no, no, no, I know what I'm saying is is I'm glad you said you mentioned that this is for a Zavier Woods. It's not for another reason. But when you cut a safety and you're like, wait a second, I would hope that fans would take a closer look at the roster

because you still you have four. Now you have been listening all along, the fans have hopefully been listening to this show all along, and hopefully you have been following along to know that I would hope five safeties is something this team has done before, but they prefer for not with sound receivers and four tight ends. You're right, Actually, you're right. This is not the week for me to well, this is what they've always done, because forget they only

have two running backs that I mean to tailbacks. Jason Garrett got asked this question today. Todd Archer, the inimitable Todd Archers is like, you got a center who can't play, you got you got seven receivers, you got four tight ends, you got a third quarterback? Like, how do you juggle all this? Basically? Like you got about your long everywhere. You got about five guys who are not doing you any good right now. And I mean, Garrett didn't really

answer it, but I'm just saying, a couple of lemonades. Yeah, that's a couple of lemonade discussion. Uh, and it's a it's interesting, but yeah, so I feel good. I don't know what to think about Dayton Jones yet. We'll see how he goes. But Randy and Xavier, I'm optimistic that they'll both be able to suit up. Honestly, until I see Randy back out there, I would be cautious just because once again, we saw this whole thing play out last year with a concussion type situation, and yeah, so

you just never know. I mean, those are a whole day Randy to play. I don't care what I don't care what we thought about that to play. All I know is when it comes to head injuries in the NFL today, you can't predict that stuff. And so until you see him back out there, if I were fans out there listening, I would wait with kind of with

cautious optimism. You're going to be cautious optimism because he's Randy Gregory and you never know what could happen with him because he's been that type of player that it's always something. But he was cleared to practice last week. In terms of the concussion, he was cleared to practice. They just didn't. He hadn't practiced all week. They just decided not to play him. But I mean, I think I think you can always say, well, I'll wait and see until he gets there. But I mean, as far

as concussion goes, he has been cleared. That's something that other players last year. When was he cleared last week? Was it on he was limited on Friday? He did practice though they wouldn't put you in a helmet if you weren't. I guess that's my question, like when you're when you're clear, does that mean that you're completely healthy to be able to resume, And if so, why would he be limited Because he took the rest of the week off. I also had a knee injury, and he

also had a knee injury. Ye, so there's another injury that's involved here. Yeah, I mean, but as far as concussion goes, he was cleared about it. Oh yeah, well yeah, I mean, well, when we've talked about his concussion, I don't think we've talked much about his knee and tweet well because he came back from the knee injury in the same game, right, Yeah, what's we'regotting about? You know? It was okay? Yeah, so yeah, Russell Wilson is a freak. You need Mandy Greygrea to try so you need a

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I just don't like them. Okay, sometimes they their defense plays a little too aggressive for my liking, and I don't like that. Is the first time I've ever heard somebody say a defense was too aggressive. That's that's interesting because it's not my defense, So why would I want it to be? A? Does it every week? A good point? All the NFL does that? Yea? All right, So Russell Wilson and you're gonna give us our scouting report. But before we get into a you were talking, we were

talking all about Randy Gregory and all that. How necessary is to have Randy Gregory out there? Or based on what we saw, um with what the Cowboys died with their defensive line last weekend? Are they Okay? It would be based Russell Wilson, It would be nice to have him, but I don't know that they need him. Yeah, yeah, I was at I was gonna. I was gonna nitpick you for a second there and say like, Okay, well, it's it's the Seattle offense. It's not Russell Wilson. But

it is actually like, it's Russell Wilson. And you know, I'm not gonna say karmas a B because Russell Wilson seems like a great dude. I he's one of my favorite players to watch. I got nothing against the guy, um, but it's funny how his career has gone full cycle from when he got here, when he was the most underpaid asset in football and had talent at every position. Marshawn Lynch, Max Unger. I don't germ Golden Tate, Doug Baldwin.

When he was much younger. He had Jimmy Graham for a while, and he makes a lot of money now and all those guys are gone. Like, he does not have a ton of help on this team, and it is evident when you watch them. So you got Russell Wilson. His left tackle is Dwayne Brown, who they traded for from Houston, easily their best offensive lineman. Ethan Posic, an LSU guy at left guard, Justin Burrett center, Dj Flukers their preferred starter at right guard, but it's been Jr.

It was j R. Sweezy last week. And then your right tackle is Germaine if Fettie. Two young guys at tight end in Nick Vanette and Will Disley. About nineteen running backs that we can get into. Doug Baldwin has been hurt, Brandon Marshall is your one, Tyler Lockett has been playing in Doug spot. And then you got two late round draft picks at receiver David Moore and Jeron Brown, which I don't know how many how many of those guys would you classify as household names Doug Baldwin and

maybe and he's not playing Marshall for sure. Well, Brandon Marks, which one of my favorite and in my opinion, most underrated receivers in of all time. Really yeah, but he's he's on the way out. I mean, this is a This is not this is not Denver, Miami or even New York Jets. Brandon Marshall. Um, But yeah, I mean if you, I mean, we're lucky that the Seahawks just played a game on Monday night. You saw it. I mean, the Bears completely overwhelmed them, and the Broncos overwhelmed them

the week before that. And typically I would say, like, well, those are two of the most fierce pass rushes in in football. Well, the Cowboys are tied for the lead in sacks right now with the Bears, they look pretty fierce in their own right. And I think if the Cowboys want to win this game, they gotta do it again. They gotta overwhelm them. And I know Russell Wilson's a little bit more of a challenge than Eli Manning, but again they it has proven you can get to him.

He's been sacked eleven times in two weeks. When he tries to stay in the pocket, he is usual sol it just hasn't happened for him. Like the Seahawks by necessity basically have to use a lot of quick routes or they have to scheme up ways to get him out of the pocket. And we've seen them do that

when they play the Cowboys. You know they do like the if not play action then misdirection where you know they get the line to shift and he goes the other way and basically just creates a pocket out of space. Like they got to do stuff like that to give him time because if he's just standing back there, he usually gets mobbed. I don't think the Seahawks running game is terrible. It doesn't reflect because they just don't do it that much. Because they fall behind Chris Carson is

averaging like six yards per carry. I have no idea why the Cowboy, I mean, the Seahawks don't want to use him. He only got six touches in the Bears game, but he's impressive. He's straight up leaped over a cornerback in the season opener against Denver, like better, a better leap than I've ever seen Zeke do because he landed on his feet and kept running. He's a talented guy. They got Rashad Penny, who doesn't look like it's clicking

for him yet. Point being though, like it looks like they can run the ball, their line looks like it can block the run. They can't do anything in the passing game. And so again I'm looking at the Cowboys defensive front to have a real opportunity to blow this thing up basically. But I mean, from what I remember, it kind of has been that way, even last year or two, where it all basically depended on Russell Wilson to move it. Yeah, and he was successful a lot

of times. I will throw this out, though, I think there were two facets of that offense last year that were different than this year. One is Doug Ballwin, who has been his best receiver for the last I don't know how many years. He's now out presumably, and their big red zone threat last year is now gone to Green Bay. I mean he had ten touchdowns. I think it was glad you said that though, because they found they seem like they found another intriguing guy just Lee. Yeah, Yeah,

he's tell the story. He's kind of an interesting story, you know, a story. Yeah, he's a defensive end who moved to tight end and is pretty damn good at it, which ironically didn't do it much knowledge didn't do it at all, which he on And I'm not blowing smoke. You can go pull him back up. He was Brian's

favorite tight end on the draft. Loved him, loved him, talk about him all the time, and he probably I think he he had less than twenty catches in his entire career at Washington, and Dane was like, he can he catch the ball, And Brian was like, trust me, just give him the chance. And he's got one hundred and fifty yards through two games. He just he's a mismatch. He's like six six sixty seven. He's arguably he's arguably

their best blocker. Uh, seriously, like that's I don't know him fourth, which actually he was off the board when Dalton Schultz was drafted. He was taken before Schultz. He was taken after Dooran's armstrong though, so just saying I'm just saying, yeah, um, he can do he can do a little bit of everything. Like he's a good blocker. He is a mismatch in the passing game. That's again for the third straight week. Which it's different though, like this isn't Evan Ingram. He's not that. I mean, he

is a tight end. But I'll be interested to see who the Cowboys want to put on him. Maybe Jalen Smith. He's athletic enough to do it. Um, but he's a good blocker, which I want to impress on this Jermaine Effetti, which is I believe he's the guy that Seattle wound up with in the Denver trade. Denver traded up to get a quarterback. Am I making that up? He's a first round pick. He's he's awful. He's so bad. The way you set that up, I was not expecting you to

to say he's awful. He's terrible. Like if he's not on the ground, he's given he's being driven back into the quarterback DeMarcus Lawrence. I mean he's a Flowers type, maybe maybe worse. I am serious, Like, I mean it's two games. I didn't watch last year's tape, but he was the first round pick from Yeah, that hurt his knee, right, Yeah, he's bad. He's bad. Um he lines up on the right side, he will be DeMarcus Lawrence's guy again. Like that's a matchup you gotta win. And then the other thing,

this interior. I hate to say this about a guy that went to LSU. Ethan Postic is six seven, which is big for alignment, and like he has no leverage, he gets driven back into the quarterback. That's honestly, breakdowns on the outside are not a problem for Russell Wilson because he'll roll. He's just as good on the run as dak Is. He can hit guys sprinting, or he can step up. You know, I can picture Tank just whipping around the right side and Russell Wilson just eking

right up into the hole that he created there. Like he can do that stuff. But his interior is awful because Ethan Postic doesn't look strong enough to handle a remotely competent interior rusher and Seattle center Justin Britt is doubtful with a shoulder injury. That's something to watch this week is whether he can go, because otherwise I don't care who the Cowboys having their defensive tackle like. They need to push that thing back because again, outside pressure bad.

I want to collapse the pocket and not give Russell Wilson just anywhere to go. The other thing, this is a fun parallel for the Cowboys. I looked this up while I was watching their tape. Russell Wilson averages has averaged six carries per game in his career. That has been a component of their offense. He was their leading rusher last year. I think he was the only player who rushed for a touchdown for Seattle last year really all season, yeah, or at least until late in the season. No,

like it was a well documented problem. He has never had fewer than seventy two carries in a season, but he is on pace for forty right now. He's only carried the ball five times. I mean sacks obviously, but where he runs the ball forward only five times, And I just think he's a better pastor than he was when he was younger. But that's just that's part of his game and I don't think you're doing him any

favors by not using that. And that's why I think with the struggles they've had on the offensive line, I just feel like that's going to be a component of their game plan this week. Part of that could be the fact that they know right now offensively, he's all they got and they can't afford to lose him, and so they want to back down a little bit, not a lot, because you're talking about one less carry essentially

per game. Um, you said five now and he was doing so him He's had five total, he's average total through two games. Yes, I thought you were saying five. No. I wouldn't even bring it up if it was like, oh, one, No, he's not. He's averaging like a carry and a half per gamee wow, he's not running the ball. Yeah, And I'm sorry that maybe even hyper protecting him like he we know that's all. I mean, they may they may look at and say that's all we got, we cannot

afford to lose him. I'm sorry if you're worried about that, But like, I don't think the offense will be as good without it. I mean he, like I said, he's never had fewer than seventy two carries in a season, and he's never had less than like at least four or five hundred rushing yar, It's like very similar to Dak which again I think you probably need that. So the misdirection component role getting removing the pocket and getting him where he can run if there's no options there

for him. That Seattle, after watching the Cowboys tape and seeing how Jaylen Smith just punished Eli Manning and how these rushers but see all punished to punished too. Okay, Okay, I'm not trying to be smart. That's a fair but still it's still a big hit. It doesn't Okay if he hits Russell Wilson like that, oh sure, yeah. But I think the point, I think the point Dave is making is that Russell Wilson, well, Russell Wilson is much

more elusive. The likelihood that you're gonna get that that flush a hit on him like you did on Eli is probably a lot less. Right. Russell is stronger too. If I was if I was Seattle watching the tape of this, I would try to scheme Dallas's aggressiveness against them, like if they come out, if they come at me

like that, where everybody in their mother's blitzing. There's got to be some misdirection where again, get the defense and get the offensive line going one way and match Russell up with a very small number of defenders going the other way. And and I think you can punish him that way. I don't. I'm not saying he's going to run for one hundred yards, but when your offensive line

is this bad, you gotta do stuff. But how does it how does it look relative to let's say, how Carolina did it, Because I've the Cowboys rushed really well against Carolina from the standpoint that as they were rushing, they were rushing in lanes. It didn't really give him a lot of leaks to get out. And when he got out it was mainly because of his own read. And especially in the early part of the game, the

defense just wasn't staying at home. They were not paying attention to but but they got that corrected by the second half, which makes me think that they're better prepared maybe for those kind of misdirection plays. I actually asked Gara about I said, you know, you just played Cam two weeks ago. I know they're not carbon copies of each other, but does having that in your you know, you just game plan for that, does that help you? And he's like, well, we're not gonna run the same stuff.

Like again, like it's just he can't ever acknowledge that you had a good question, right or I mean he they literally could have just had that discussion in a

coaches meeting, but he's not gonna yell. But he did say that should not be his same He did say, like, you know, yeah, like some of the concepts will be the same for how you contain things, and you know, the basic idea is like, for instance, the play that sticks out the most in my mind from the Carolina game was I think it was either third or fourth and short, and they just they faked the hand the handoff inside and then Cam went right around Damian Wilson

was right where he needed to be and just bid on the fake completely and Cam got like fifteen yards. That's the type of stuff I would try to do if I was Seattle. I don't, and hopefully Dallas has learned from that and they can play test. You got to test if I were seat I'll definitely be testing them. That's what I would do, because again, if you just put him back there in the pocket and try to, you know, just traditional throws, I think you're in trouble.

Like no slow developing routes, he's gonna the ball's gonna come out like they can't. He can't even be in there for three seconds, like fast routes, quick routes, slants, curls, comebacks,

anything that gets the ball out quick. The extra thing too here is that if your corners are really as good as we think they are, they ought to be able to hold these guys man up without having much safety help over the top, which allows you didn't have that safety also help with making sure that you're containing the quarterback if he should get outside the pocket. I want to keep an eye on Baldwin. It's his injury.

I don't even know how serious it is. To be honest with you, Like what I thought i'd heard, and I don't quote me on this, but what I thought I heard was that he was out for a significant amount of time. I kept talking weeks, okay, but I don't know that for sure. That's what I thought I heard when he first got hurt. Tyler Lockett is definitely a really good player and he can hurt you, but

I'm not scared of him. If your corners was good, like I said, if you are as good as you think they are, they ought to be able to handle if Bacon Limit, Odell Beckham and Sterling Shepherd, they should be able to do their job against him. Now, how much of an upper hand does this give you given the fact that Chris hu Shart was over there and kind of knows and I think Seattle has a new

offensive coordinator, right maybe, yeah, Brian Schottenheimer. Yeah, so's it's gonna be a little different charger thing, the charge of the Jets. He's been a lot of places and hasn't been very good at most of them. Yeah, I don't remember. Sorry, no, no, you're good at so a little different from what Chris knows from the past. But even then, how much of an advantage does this gi give Chris Rusharon his secondary going up against a team that he's very familiar with.

I think that you find out what your quarterback. You've been with the same guy for six or seven years, you know when he loses, You know what happens when when they lose games, and what happened to the defenses and how they stopped him and control them. So you can make suggestions there to Marinelli and then how you'd

make the coverages. But I don't know if if if you know, it's different schemes and stuff like that, but you could just say, yeah, I remember he you know, when the games we would lose with him, it would be because we did this and that, which could be easier said than done. You get to him and bring him down, you know, that could be it. Yeah, good luck, don't give him any time to throw. There's a scout of report on how to beat Brady too, you know, just but yeah, do it. We kind of agree with that.

They're probably things that frustrate Russell. Yeah, and so he probably knows these are the things that doesn't mean you're gonna have success. It just means these are things that frustrating, These things he doesn't like to have to deal with. So if you can even more of those things, the whole get that, like Romeo Cornell and Josh McDaniels and any other former Patriot, uh, you know, assistant coach went to coach somewhere else and was like this is how

you beata Belichick and Brady and didn't do it. I will say this, Um, you know, as bad as it's been for them, like they're they're twenty seventh in total offense and twenty ninth and rush offense, twenty second in pass offense, like they still they took Denver to the wire on the road and they lost by They were so bad against the Bears, but like, but they had a chance against They were down seventeen ten with seven minutes to play and the Bears baited Russ into a

pick six, which only the second pick six he's thrown in his entire career. Amazing, that's incredible. Which he's good with the ball. Another I keep reminding myself with things he does fumble though, especially and it happened twice in that game, like get you know the classic tomahawk. He's not holding onto it like Aaron Rodgers in that playoff game. Like if you can get to him, I think you

and get fumble opportunities. So that's something to watch. But like again, as bad as it's been they've been in both of their games right until the end, I just he's gonna find a way because he's it's so terrifying how like he can turn a very obvious sack into not just buying time, but he can buy himself like

seven seconds. Like if you go watch his touchdown to Tyler Lockett in the Denver game, like it doesn't look pretty, doesn't look pretty, and then he just steps outside and again he's got like twenty yards around him and he just stands back there and uncorks this bomb. Like he can go from no time to all the time in the world because he's so elusive. They've been a fourth

quarter team to that's something to note. They've gotten They've scored seven points in the first quarter, six and a second, seven and third and twenty one in the fourth, so they've been a team that's been much better later in the game. They're also, I mean, okay, so they've scored twenty one in the fourth and lost both games. That means they're a team that's playing from behind two. So yeah, get on him early. I get on him early and

get out far enough I hope to meet. To my untrained eye, it looks like the Seahawks want to use Rashod Penny because he's their first round pick. But I think Chris Carson is better right now, but I hope they don't figure that out until this game's over. Margary rashot Penny and less Chris Carson. All right, let's take our final break. When we come back. What is going to be the biggest matchup between the Cowboys defense and

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And say again, they lost the Denver twenty seven to twenty four, and they lost to Chicago twenty four to seventeen. Now when you compare that to the Cowboys, I mean, they're still scoring points versus what we've seen the Cowboys put up at this time. The Cowboys are bottom five in the league and scoring I mean in a lot of categories, but scoring as well. That happens when you score less than ten points in a game. Yeah, better

watch out. Okay, biggest match of the toughest matchup here, who would you say, Derek Outside of the obvious switches Russell, Russell Wilson, I think it's Tyler Lockett mainly because he has the kind of speed that he does trying to get corral him, and I think these corners can. But let's say, for example, they can early get getting him, get him down feel and then they catch a big

play similar what the Cowboys did last week. I think when you when you have a defense that's now thinking, hey, we got to worry about what's happening down feel, that gives Russell a little bit more room to be able to maneuver. And that's the part that would be kind of scary. So I think Tyler Lockett is the one guy that can actually open this thing up for their offense to give their their quarterback a little more room to operate. So I think he's the guy that's the

X factor that's that's good to me. I mean, Brandon Marshall's not gonna hurt you. Um, it's obviously about stopping Russell Wilson and the run. Those running backs are by committee. I mean, I'm sure that they can do some damage, but I think, you know, Lockett is a guy watched him last week. He's a guy that that, like you said, he can get open, he can find that, he can go deep. He can also kind of be a possession guy as a unique player. Plus he's a return specialist too.

That that from what we've seen already this year, that could be a problem in the return game. So I would say from their offensive players, I would say Lockett because what he does in two areas. I didn't even think about that. Should we talk should well yes, that's a great point too. But should we talk about their punter today or tomorrow? Tomorrow? Okay, you you do this, you do the scouting report? Is it? Punter is a

defensive player. That's how I look at it. I don't your unit is going to make tackles right there in your in your depth chart? Oh well that they actually break it all? Yeah. The specialist. I mean typically it used to be the defensive defensive gay. Yeah. Either way, though, he's a stud is what's what's his Dixon? Michael Dixon? There? Did he come out early as a junior? Yeah? As a punter? Yeah. I think he came out. I know

he was good. He was really good weeks there were some games where like he was the only reason we were in him. Now he was the only the reason that we were all right, Well, we'll dedicate Australian. Yes, we will dedicate some time to the punter for the first time in history. But uh, I'm not scared of him. But I'm intrigued about this Will Disley kid like I to go from again, you know, look at look at our guy. Like Dalton Schultz played two snaps against Carolina

and was inactive last week. Will Disley looks like what people want Rico Gathers to be. Our guy played basketball. It's sure, it's our guy. You're right, our guy played basketball. Our guy, but our guy it's he's He is on the same page with Russell Wilson real quickly. I mean no,

not at all. And the scary thing too, is again it's not like Eli because you can have Russell Wilson dead to rights and not only does he get out of it, but then it doesn't matter what the coverage was because it's all broken down and he can just play pitch and catch like you can do a great job against these guys for four seconds and then on the eleventh second of the play, they're wide open, because

who the hell can cover? Again, Like we always talk in training camp like, oh, well, like one on ones are so dumb, like why you're doing a double move and one on ones that's so unfair? Like this is that it's like how big is that guy? This lee? Yeah, like six six six seven? Here he looks see, No, they don't do the highest it's on here he's he's a big boy. He's a blocking tight end. Who that's a kie. Oh no, he looks a little smaller than everybody looks small. He's a big dude. Rico's big. He's

a big dude. Um. But yeah, I mean that's sometimes you're gonna have to cover these guys for a lot longer than you're supposed to, and that's just part of the fun of playing Russell Wilson. So yeah, man, they

need to figure this than you. Just put Ricco back in my mind, I will say, especially what you hear the stories like this, it's like, Okay, I always I try to give a favorable view of the opposition because I don't think it's doing anybody any favors to come in here and be like, oh, these guys are terrible. The Cowboys don't need to worry about anything. But like, but this is this is as thank you, This is as manageable a Seahawks offense as I think the Cowboys

have played in recent history. Like the front seven, I give the Cowboys front seven a massive edge in this game. Like they Seahawks can't block them, the running backs shouldn't respect them. But like we're not talking about Marshawn Lynch and his prime here. Um, I think this is a favorable matchup for the Cowboy. But again, you guys talked. I think you guys talked about this yesterday. Um, the Seattle is O and two away games they're going back. I mean this is and that's and what It's a

favorable matchup for Dallas. But Russell Wilson is a big equalizer. And on top of that, they are going to they're gonna scheme some stuff up, like they got to win this game. I mean, this is the must win for them. I think it's they're gonna pull out all the stops, do that Owen two stuff. It's own three. That's the must win. What what I mean if it's if it's eighteen percent of teams make the playoffs at over two. What is it at it's probably like three percent. It's

not good. Yeah, yeah, that's probably for the Cowboys. Now the Cowboys, it's like they still got a lot of games left. Every game is important, it's not a mustle I'm steal and I remember Nick saying this like when I first got here, because it happened they played up at Seattle in Week three and twenty twelve and got their butts kicked, and it like they were supposed to try to build some momentum and then did not have.

And the same thing with the Chiefs the next year, where it's like, all right, you're one and one, like are you a good team? Can you go on the road and beat a similar team? And says a lot about you? So I don't know, we'll see. Did I see a stat correctly with the Cowboys have been two

and one for the last seven years? M really, I mean it went I don't Jason Garrett's never started and two, so okay, so that they've never been one in two so this third game of the year, unless I mean that right, that means I mean they haven't have they started two and oh um it happened. Okay, Yeah, I can't remember exactly. Well, they started one and so they were two and one last year because they lost to

Denver and then beat whoever they played next. Arizona obviously started two and one in sixteen because they won eleven in a row. Fifteen they would have been two and one because they started two and oz and lost to Atlanta. So they started two and oh that year, yes, okay, Philly in New York. Fourteen they lost to San Francisco and then they won six in a row a lot in a row. Yeah, thirteen they came back from losing to Kansas City and beat the Rams, so they would

have been yeah, so damn. How how worth the are these stats? Anyway? Well, um, they won, I mean, it's a fun fact. But I'm just saying, how much does that? I mean everything, everything changes, I mean basically what they're what this is saying is that week three of the season, the Coboys have been winning games. Um, but I don't know how much you can really say, you know, stats like that, there's not a lot of status you can

go back that far. One of them, I think you can is like teams coming off of a bye that that just shows how well you're being prepared usually, but I don't know about this one. It's just maybe more of a coincidence. I don't I don't think it's a coincidence. I don't think it says a lot. But I think it's the age old thing of Jason Garrett teams like love him or hate him, his teams are in the mix.

I mean even the four and twelve team wasn't even out of the mix until what mid October because and largely because of the games that Romo won for him. But like, it's it would be weird to see a Garrett team start super duper slow, like that doesn't happen to them before we go kind of do a little self promotion there. Oh I'm gonna do it anyway. I just wanted to let people know that No mass the

first episode is coming out today later this afternoon. Basically, it's a kind of what would you call a trivia game maybe guess Yeah. I got to know the Cowboys player on a more personal level, and the players are the ones making the guess. Yes. We have Tavon Austin and Cavon Frasier in studio this week, so check it out and let everyone's pretty funny. Yeah, it'll be good to see a different side of Tavon for you guys that don't really know his personality, haven't really seen him

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