Talkin' Cowboys: Promising Returns

Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company. As we preview the Dallas defense going up against the Indianapolis Colts on offense, we move into the latter parts of the NFL season alongside Isaiah stand Backpatrick Nose Walker, Chris Beave in the backup, Kyle Yeoman's Week thirteen is officially upon us. As we turned the page. Took a little bit to get here because it felt like the Cowboys played the Giants on Thanksgiving a week ago. Oh wait, it was

nearly a week ago by this point. This is where the long week pays off though, right Finally we get a little bit of rest. Do you get this? Just a schmidgen, not a ton, not a lot, but just a schmid sid in a pancake and they normally. You made me sad by saying coming to the end of the regular season, that's a little somber. I mean there's still six weeks left, ye go by so fast. Plus postseason it's a thirty six games plus it is gonna go by quickly by I mean, think about it. The

college football. College football regular season is over, Mario bean reality. But the college football regular season is done now. That is going on. That is going to the conference. Yeah, you're going to the conference I don't come, we should be there, but sorry, Bud. Yeah, I was about to say, you kind of got the short end of the stick and the utes ended up in that title game. Tell you who will be there? Who's there? You're doing right? They will be facts go mean Green taking us down

in the Alum. I don't know where you does gonna be at yet. You have to wait and see what happens with the with the conference game. You gotta have set in the conference game. The conference game has like I think, if USC wins something weird so I don't remember what it is, the USC versus Utah and whichever. Depending on what team wins, we might get bumped up and get into one of the big boy ball. If USC wins, then they have a chance to go to the playoff. Yeah, but if they don't make the playoff,

I'll probably be in the Rose Bowl. And then if they lose, I think Washington would probably be in the Rose Bowl. Is kind of how it is. And your boy will be there. Yeah you want to extra ticket, I'll go with you. Freaking I'll wear all the purple. Oh yeah, I'll wear all the purple. I've always wanted to go to the Rose Bowl. That's smart. I can do that. I've That's a sports bucket list thing for is the Rose Bowl. I've always wanted to go. I watched it every single year, no matter who the teams

are in it. I love the Rose Bowl. That's like one of my my go to one, like the actual stadium or actual game, the actual game. Okay, like I can buy it. Taking to go to a UCLA game actually not the same. They even didn't do anything for me really. Yeah. I like playing the game though. Yeah, one hundred thousand strong making me quiet. Mmm. Oh you want to go to shut them? Shut them down? Shut them down. Nothing like shutting up one hundred thousand people. Yeah,

I've never had that. That instance have you, Patrick, you ever had that opportunity. I didn't have to do a snoddy nose m all right, all right, let's talk some some news and notes for the Cowboys. Believe it or not, yesterday was not a quiet Tuesday. It was not. There were a couple of things that happened around the Star. Please do hell, Patrick, what's going on? Well? First and foremost, the Cowboys waved defensive end Terrel Basham on yesterday afternoon.

There was no corresponding roster move, which leaves, you know, a little bit to the imagination. For me, not a lot is left to the imagination. I know there are people on Twitter who immediately jump into OBJ or they're making room for Obj. Obj hasn't even started his visits just yet, those who are supposed to start in a couple of days or so. But somebody is about to get a really good freaking defense in oh in Terrel Bashem.

Yeah yeah, once he's he's going to get because he and the point of housekeeping for those that don't know, after the NFL trade deadline, everybody is subject to waivers, every single player. So Basham was not released. He was waived, so he has to clear waivers. In order for the Cowboys to reconsider him for the practice squad. I do not see him. John ridge Way didn't clear waivers. Terrell Basham ain't clearing waivers now. I would love to eat those words later on What time does that kind of

come down? Uh? Today of like three? Right? Yeah, it has to be by four pp of Eastern time, three people centralime you would utilize your Christmas wish. Yes, he can back, it's just chance. It's not going to happen. But and and also the waiver order changes on a week to week basis based upon the NFL standing. So the Cowboys with a record of eight and three, they're towards the bottom as far as the waiver order. But but is that in relation to a possible deceptive contact

you posted on your on your Twitter account. And that's where I was leading. And so those that are saying we'll get to that, those that are the same, it's for OBJ. It's too soon for OBJ. Didn't have to make the move for a guy who's not in the building yet or even imminent to be in the building yet.

Number two, I don't see how it would be for either to Ron Smith or James Washington, because if You're not going to just throw those guys into practice and then say, guess what, you're on the active roster for this coming Sunday. No, they have to have their twenty one day windows activated. Both would be acclimated, and now we go to so okay, that's it sounded kind of robotic at first, but then you actually said the word

decepticon and it totally messed. It went away. It sounded like it sounded like you were that sound like Elf or something like. Wow, that was good Tech McKinley. Who I feel like this would be a great opportunity for Tech McKinley. Um My gut tells me not. Nothing is official obviously, but it will be interesting to see if today or before the week is out, if the Cowboys make the decision to activate Tech McKinley from the practice

squad permanently to the fifty three man roster. Because now you have a seat and guess what, it's a vacancy created by a defensive and um being waived. Did he always look like that? Tech more yells me for a second, but then I realized I was no days off, no days off, like seriously, no days off? Angry? Yeah, he was focused. He was focused, So the Cowboys elevated him from the practice squad last Saturday. It appears as it was insurance because they were dealing with illness and going

back to the manybody. That came at a perfect time because the Cowboys were retired from three days, three games and twelve days plus illness was you know, virls virus was making its rounds, so they're getting healthy. But while elevated from the practice squad on Saturday, he was made inactive on Sunday, complete surprise to a lot of us. But now does that utilize one of there? It does?

It does, which would be a moot point if they signed him to the active rosters this week, right, So yes, it does clear the way for Tech McKinley, which would be an official reunion with Dak Quinn or Dad Quinn. Dan Quinn chops out to Dak. See I got Dak on the brain. Shout out to Quin, but a reunion with dan Quinn. We see what dan Quinn was able

to do with Dante Fowler. If Tach McKinley can get back to the form he had in year one, two and even three before restruck in Atlanta, and you're talking about it from a rotational capacity behind during some Armstrong behind DeMarcus Lawrence in addition to Sam Williams, Dante followers Dallas Cowboys right now, Yeah, I'm I'm ready for my guy, and I pounded the table those that followed me back in twenty seventeen New and they know Tack McKinley was

my dude. That was my guy and Dan Quinn, by god, I love you, but you stole them from me. You stole them from me. The Cowboys were going to take you stole them. Yeah. They really liked him back then and it led us to it led us to the burrito. He was. He was destroying Dallas in the first was the first series or two whatever it was before he pulled us growing. Yeah, that was it. Last year. Last year he was just like getting off the ball like a madman and like had issues and then he pulled

us grown and I was violent. Yeah, And we talked about it when we were talking about in dumb Kinsue, you said wanted an a hole. Yeah, he wanted the d head. As far as in between the lines, Tech is visceral, He's nasty, he's filthy McNasty. It is time to get after the opposing quarterback. And you saw the video I posted, and uh, it's even more impressive in real life. I still I can't get past the fact that Isaiah thought that Tach looked like him held that

in there. I think it didn't. I didn't catch that. I thought it was old folk outside. Oh yeah, I thought it was me, really old. I think it looks more like DeMarcus Lawrence. It looks. But yeah, so Tech Mike, we'll keep eye on it. But there's a seat available for guy like Tech McKinley to come in and start contributed to a pass for us. That's already the best league. There's room. And he's also a very a very effective run stop. So for those things. That's kind of know

where I was about to go there. The sack numbers have never been massive with Tach McKinley. He had twenty sacks throughout his career, and most of those came in the first two seasons when he had thirteen, so he had six and twenty seventeen. He had seven and twenty eighteen, so most of his sacks came in the first two seasons in the NFL. However, he's always been good at stopping the run. He's able to get from gap to gap. He's able to control the edge and set the edge.

There are things that he can benefit this defense. While other guys will be the pass rushers. You can get Dlaw, you can get Michael Parsons, you can get Dante Fowler Junior, and Dorance Armstrong. Those guys. Wow, I just named four guys that can absolutely wreck a pass rushing all this padded pass rushing in defensive ends. Does this mean that Mica is going to be a second, second level boar.

For those that have followed a little bit of not necessarily breaking news, but news that people have been waiting for, James Washington has been officially designated to return to practice from IR. His twenty one day window starts right now. I didn't answer Isaiah's question, didn't right down the back. So yeah, OK, back to what you were saying. That's really good news back toward you because I was concerned. Yeah, we talked about Yeah, you're talking about yesterday. So here

we are good to have him there. So he's got twenty one days of a window. Two always have to put him on the active roster, be on the active roster for him back to season ending niner. That's kind of scary with James Washington, it would be there. YEA, So question for you, if he's not health let's just say he's not by the twenty one day window at the end of the twenty even right now. If he's not even, say he's not even in the ninetieth percent town right now, what would be the motivation for this

training staff to activate that window right now? Right now? Yeah, there's no benefit, right, no motivation at the moment. Yeah, Okay, So for them to designate him to return, he should be relatively close to healthy. Yeah. Yeah. He told me a few weeks ago that he was one hundred percent healthy and that the final hurdle was in fact the mental aspect because he had never suffered a major injury in his football career, so he had to figure out how to come back from that. Mentally, he's still gonna

be dealing with that, and yes he is. And game reps, yeah, you need actual live reps in order to get that. To this feels a lot like last year. Man, Why just guys, your team getting better coming back towards the playoffs, towards the playoff, potential playoff friend sure, you're getting stronger, you feel the momentum, you feel like you're kind of you're playing better. You're playing better, you guys are getting healthy,

you're getting guys back. Like it just feels very much like last year, which is what the season won't end in six or seven games. But it wasn't that, and I realized that it came a little bit off time as far as the news is concerned, but it was right. It's right there in the rundown. It just it worked. No, it worked. It worked. So there's no word. If I saw it on NFL Network everything as I was walking in, it was talking about how Tyron Tyrone Smith might return

to practice next week. Is that Do you have anything on that? Uh? No, Okay, it's possible that the rumor that they're they're throwing out there, it's possible, and I mean it was possible for this week. Yeah, So being that it was possible for this week, it's absolutely possible for next week. And it's going to continue to be

possible until it doesn't happen. But I will say that it becomes increasingly more possible and likely as the weeks progress, because now we're about to cross paths across the threshold until the month of December. And my thought process on you know, in the conversations that I've had, is that the Cowboys in the beginning, we're looking at a mid December return for Smith, for the older Ty Smith. So we're going up against that because it doesn't look like

it's going to happen this week. James Washington gets today, but we'll see because they still have until three pm Central time today if they want to do another move. So just because James is up right now as nine thirty doesn't mean toront won't be yelped at two fifty nine. But if it doesn't happen this week, then next week makes it that much more likely, aren't you guys to put on your coach McCarthy has Okay, Tyron's right, Big T Smith. He comes back, Okay, he opens up his window,

he comes back to practice first full predate live live practice. Okay, yep. Who do you put against him for the first live rep? Him out attack McKinlay, huh, I like that, Micah Dlaurrance, Sam Man, it's not Micah, No, it's not. It's not de Lawdrance. Who are you putting as the first rep? If you want to, you want to, you want to know where he's at right first day back, I want to let's see what he got. Maybe d Law, Maybe just because I know de Law is a veteran and

he knows how to control. Is his body easy? No? I want him to hurtles though, take in a good way. No, But he can lock him up quick saying that because he's said he knows, he knows how to control his body, and he's not gonna hurt Tyrann Smith. That's what I'm saying. So d Law is not gonna get tangled up on accident because he's going up against the veteran Beamer. He's been up against the four billion times. You sai, I got Sam William Beamer got Sam Williams. You got d Law.

You got I'm going with Dorance. I think Dorance has a similar mode of the Sam with the refinement of d Law. So I think he's a good mix between the two. Yeah, he's probably an in between. Yeah, I want twin. You want those arms again? I want by I want violence, violence. You want to reason that, you want to test them out? Give me violence, violence, Give me the biggest, the biggest colon hole that you have

lent that needs to be a T shirt. The thing about okay, you know what the more than I'm thinking about, you're thinking here if you want to get here's here's the thing when when Tyron Smith went down in the preseason, when he went down in training, came freak accident. It was a freak accident. It was something that nobody everybody anticipated, but nobody intimidated at the same time, like that exactly. It wasn't like it was a normal thing. Plus, what's

been the biggest problem with Tyron Smith? It's not as play. No, it's his health. It's his it's his health that's the problem. But never this body part. I don't think you really want to test it, but maybe you do. Come on like morality wise. Morality wise, no, come on, co want to put him in hard. You need to test it, but not push correct. That's kind of where I'm That's so that's as a head coach, to test it in practice. Everybody's watching how you respond to this. Who are you

putting against Tyrn Smith? Tyrn, if you're watching Talking Cowboys, you're putting got a chair with asking this question. We got Dorance d Law, Sam and tech In The fact that you got four guys that you would put out there is crazy, but I like it all. We're all thinking differently. I want the mad Man. Get well, if you want the mad Man, then you'd put Michael out there. I don't think Mikea is a man man. I think he's I'm saying like not in that regard. I'm talking.

I'm talking about violets. Yeah, I'm not talking about just peered. Mica doesn't know the difference between uniforms. If he's on, if you're on the other side of the line of scrimmage, he's gonna flat Yeah, animal, so sad I feel however, you did it all right. We're taking our first break when we come back. Oh yeah, you gotta find this. You gotta find it. When we come back. We're gonna

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How many have you guys received? At over two hundred? Probably legitimately, I've I've got I mean, I've put out a tweet, got a lot of homework to do. Yeah, I'm not up there with two hundred. It's probably because your dms are closed. Patrick, nobody could send you a DM. Buddy's probably why? Yeah that way? What was that beer? Yeah? I got a text or excuse me, a d M

from a lady this morning. She gave me her name four Patrick and says, what y'all let Pat know that his dms are disabled, trying to call him out on the door. Sliding the back door hit the producer buttons trying to slide at the DMS to hit the wood door, banging broken angles. Uh, he's not getting any of these great names that people are trying to send them. I sent out a tweet the other day to him. It has two hundred and forty five reply. Oh yeah, people are.

People are having fun with it, sending them to keep sending them. If I haven't replied malts here, she's probably listening mail. I've got a bunch of one cowboys lay exactly. I haven't read them all yet. I promise I will get to them, because there's like a bunch of them that are unread. I will get there. Uh, and we will have some fun on Friday. Send it to me as a raven. Send it the user, the sound, the

sound effects you're getting there. They're trying to they're trying the sound effect, but they're just not cutting it for like two seconds. But it was on point. You can clip that. You can put it on the look. I don't know what that raven call. I don't know what that what that was that he's trying to the the mean green eagle. Oh no, no, do they have a sound They just have an Yeah, they do call like a call like an eagle call. C aw call. Yeah, there you go. I don't have the voice to do

it right now. I can't do it. You're protecting the voice box for this weekend. Yeah, I've got a big week here. Brother, We're gonna turn up. If this was that clears up, we're about to turn up. Oh man, I hope it clears up. I'm nervous. Cowboys, y'all sends him up for your boys, because I promise you, if this weather passes and we're able to be out there on Sunday for the pregame live show, I'm doing a cart wheel and we're gonna take pictures with everybody that

has a sign by the way to film. No, I can't. I got you, got you back like Turpen no hands yep, straight up. I don't have that in my inventory. All right, let's take a look at the Dallas defense going up against the Colts offense. It is a Wednesday, so we're previewing the defense. This Colts offense has some weapons. Who does Michael Pittman Junior on the outside former USC wide receiver. Uh, you have guys. At least Chilanni Woods had his best game.

Jonathan Taylor of course he's still a great player. But what about Matt Ryan. Can he test you through the air still when you look at him on film? Is he still somebody that's a threat for somebody to maybe potentially challenge the Dallas defense. I don't believe. So, yeah, I don't believe. So. I think he locks in on his receivers. He doesn't really work through his progressions anymore like he used to. I don't think that he has the time. He has his offensive line actually on the

stat line on paper pretty good, it's pretty dog gone good. Yeah, but he's not getting the time that I think he wants, and he's locking in on one receiver in going there forcing it doesn't matter if that person is open or not. It's causing him to have some turnovers and some inconsistencies on the offens side of the ball. And I think with Dallas's pass rush that we just talked about for fifteen minutes, and those guys are gonna cause havoc for

him and really cause some issues. He's older, he doesn't like getting hit anymore. He can't handle getting hit anymore. So he's just like, hit this ball out of my hands. Whatever happens, happens. Yeah, I'm going to go with a hard no as well. When you look at a game, and obviously the league is a week to week league, but when you look at the game they played, it'll be six days from when they played the Cowboys Monday

night against the Steelers. Ye, I don't think they had any passing yards in the first quarter from not mistaken. I think it was zero passing yards through five total

attempts through the first half. Was it was abysmal and Matt Ryan eleven touchdowns to ten interceptions when your top three receivers have a combined touchdown tally of six between three of them, right, So his age is catching up with him because whatever mobility he had, he was never a supermobile quarterback, but he had a little a little bit of a scapability in his prime in Atlanta. That's gone.

The offensive line hasn't been poor, but the time he needs to be able to allow the play to develop with receivers that aren't stretching the field is what's leading to his sax. So a lot of that is coverage sex as well. And guess what the Cowboys do well. They covered well and they sacked well. Coverage sax. I think Ryan is in for a very long day. Now. There is a part of me that is traumatized by Christian Watson. UM, So you just never know. Michael Pittman

he has some he has some legs on him. Paris Campbell can go up and attack the ball. So you know, keep an eye on those guys and make sure that they don't, for whatever reason, have an explosive day. But if you can even remotely just do your job against those guys, UM, from a past defense aspect of it, you're you're going to feast on Matt Ryan. The real question is is Jonathan Taylor? That's the question. He is lethal with a capital lee. M. Yeah, he's dangerous. Oh

my goodness, he's. I mean, he's It's very much like what you just face in the sense that if you can shut down say Quon, if you can shut down Dalvin Cook, if you can shut down these guys, then you're probably in a good position. Um. But even more so, this team, this team is less dangerous than those that we've faced as of recent weeks. Um just as dangerous as a running back. It's Jonathan Taylor more dangerous. He's

he's just dangerous. I mean, we face some of the league's best Let's keep it one hundred right in terms of running backs talent wise, we face some of the best backs in the league. And when there's a couple more, they have to come across the table. Yep, we have to face going forward the rest of the season. But regardless of their talent level, if they can't execute their

game plan, that talent can't be utilized. So if Dallas can come out and shut down and put all their attention on Taylor, right, they That's the thing about this defense. They're allowed to focus on one aspect of the game because the other aspect they're so much more dominant in versus. Okay, these teams are so equally yoked all across the board, we can't really dial in on one thing. We have to be able to stop this, and we got to

stop this. This isn't that, This isn't this isn't a Miami, this isn't a sam frand this isn't any of those teams, you know, the Kancity Chiefs, that are just equally yoked across the field, and you have to respect and regard everybody. This is literally like, hey focus on shutting down Taylor. You shut down Taylor, Mattie Ice has to drop back, and we know what we do. It's you know what I'm saying, Like, that's that's literally all the defense has to focus on because they can't hurt you in the

air because of their front seven. The Coats have no victories. When Jonathan Taylor rushes for less than ninety yards this season, that tells you what needs to happen. So if you had to make the team one dimensional, goly, I can't even speak one dimensional, it would it would take away the run, make them one dimensional through the air, right, and then would throw the football from the Coats. That's absolutely what you want. Have you shown defensively that you

can do that? Yes? Yes, you showed in Minnesota you have Minnesota. Okay, yea. And Minnesota was more dangerous in the air than Indianapolis. I agree with that, right. I would say that the running backs are equally yoked. If I had to put those guys side by side, Dalvin Cook and Jonathan Taylor, I would say those guys are both talent wise about the same level skill set. But

if you shut down that aspect. If you shut down that aspect and Minnesota didn't didn't hurt you when Jefferson and Hawkinson, then this team definitely doesn't stand a chance in the recause we're literally focusing on one receiver. Yeah, that's your Pittman in Paris Campbell. Those are the two exactly. And Jelanni Woods kind of had a coming out party

last night, no disrespect to the others. That was basically out of you're really concerned about shutting down, you know, Pittman because that's where that's where Matt Ryan wants to go with the ball. So does that put more pressure on a secondary? In a secondary that hasn't necessarily played particularly well the last couple of weeks. Um, if I was Al Harris and Um and mister Edwards, I would say go up there and get your hands on these guys at the line of scrimmage. And I'm taking Minnesota

out of the last couple of weeks. In that conversation, by the way, quarterback in Matt Ryan, who doesn't want to go through his reads, and yeah, go get in their hip pocket because our front seven is going to get home. And when they get home, Matt Ryan's going to give you an opportunity. Right His stats show it. His film shows it. He's gonna throw it up, He's gonna lock in on one guy. He's throwing it there,

whether he's guarded or not, so he'll fumble it. Yeah, that too, But why why give them the space to beat you on a route? Why get them to space? Why give them the time to even get their route started up? There you get your hands on him by the time that he even remotely gets five yards down the field. We should be in the backfield or the ball should be an air. Looking at the film, one thing that stood out to me this past week is

how far off the ball Anthony Brown plays significantly. Trayvon does it too from time to time, But Trayvon has the reaction and the closing ability to get there. Does Anthony Brown have that? Because it looked like there were a couple of times where the Giants picked up on it at the line of scrimmage, had a quick little check with me, looked over to the side, and then threw the football that direction. It was a big reason why there were some completions, especially in the second half.

But why is he playing so far off the ball and is there a benefit in doing so? I don't know why he's doing it. I mean there's times where you know, based upon the weapons, based upon the scheme up front, right the rushes, the coverage underneath, you know, Al Harris, and the defense is asking you to play

a particular technique. Sure, so I don't I'm not heavy as to why they may be doing that, but I know that that changes from week to week, even when you turn on the Colts film even though we're not talking about their defense their series where they'll literally go man man coverage press for one series, they'll go man man off for one series, and then they'll go cover two for a series, and it's like the theme of

the series. So sometimes Defense is just change it up. Um. I don't know if that's that's what they were doing in that particular instance, but obviously that wasn't to Hayeb's favor. Yeah, I wonder, and we had this conversation offline. I wonder if Anthony Brown is maybe dealing with something physically because normally one of the fastest guys on the roster is I don't want to say struggling, but he's not consistently able to stay glued to the hip of the receiver

on these goal routes. Um so, And this is complete speculation. So I don't want to draw a circle around in any particular area, but I just wondering there's something that's kind of taking half a step away from him at this point in the seat. People need to understand that. I mean, again, this is all speculation, but people need to understand that if you're playing in a game, it does it does not mean that you're one hundred percent

right now, you know. I think I think some people, I think I truly believe that some people believe that if guys are on the field playing that you should be in one hundred percent. That's that's not the case people, right And if if it is in fact a situation where Anthony Brown is not one hundred percent and maybe there's a soft tissue issue kind of nagging him stealing, then you're going to You're George Edwards, You're Al Harris,

you're Dan Quinn. You're going to say, back him up a little bit, back him up because he needs that space to recover if they're going to go on a goal route. Otherwise, you play them up front, you press them and you might win that battle. But if you lose and they get that release, and this might be a guy who's not one hundred percent. That's toast. That's toast. That might be the case. It could be, like you said, complete speculation. We haven't heard anything, but teams went away

from Anthony Brown. The first four games of the season, he was targeted at least nine times and he gave up at least six receptions in each of those games. First five games of the year, he was at least targeted nine times to give up four against LA in Week five, But after that the largest total that he's been targeted was seven, and that was in the most

recent game against the Giants. There was four three four three five in the middle of the season because he was playing hands on, he was right on top of people. He was shutting guys down. Having a really good season kind of what we saw last year from Anthony Brown. I don't want it to go back to the first five weeks of the season when we were questioning whether or not he should even be a starter, because he

shut that up. He had seventeen pass breakups last year, so quiet as it's kept, along with his three interceptions, but quiet as it's kept. He's been a strong performer for the Cowboys, especially opposite Treyvon Diggs. He was a key reason why teams would not throw away from Treyvon Diggs last year, but because they didn't want to throw it at ab But this year looks like he's you know, obviously he batted the concussion, but he didn't miss any games due to that. But he's been on the injury

report more than once. And I just wonder, to Isaiah point, at this point of the year, as we crossed into December, who's playing healthy, Who's one hundred percent? You know, you're hard pressed to find somebody who's one hundred percent not playing through something. And I just wonder if looking at the film, because of the spacing that they're they're scheming him up forward. They weren't doing that in twenty twenty one. I just wonder if there's something nagging him a little

bit that he's playing through. But then you would I know that the robotal for that would be, okay, well, let's let him heal up, let him rest. Okay. Well, when Kelvin Joseph was in, he didn't acquit itself himself. Well at opposite Trevon Diggs, Nashan right, we got a lot of love for n Sean right, but doesn't seem like he's ready to step in that role just yet, which is why the Cowboys aren't putting him in that role. Duran Bland, He's play, He's the jaylu role. He's in

the Jay Lou role right now. If Jordan Lewis was present and healthy, then Bland would be an option to allow a b to heal. But as as insane as the depth is for the Cowboys defensive line in their safety unit and some of these other positions, linebacker, the cornerback room doesn't benefit from that amount of depth. Yeah, talent wise, so I wish it did. That would definitely be another surplus of talent, But yeah, you can't have

everything right. Yes, even as nasty as this defense is, five PBUs by the way for Anthony Brown last year yet seventeen, So keep that in mind as we are heading into week thirteen when we come back, who has the most pressure on them on the defensive side to

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you know, players and all that kind of stuff. But you know, I spend a little time to Seattle. Yeah, and Dan Quinn is a product of a dude name Gus Bradley, and Gus Bradley just happens to be the defens a coordinator for the Indianapolis Coats. So you have this since a going against Hmmm, very interesting, very interested to see how this is from my hand. Now, Bradley doesn't have nearly the weapons. He has some dogs over there. We'll talk about it tomorrow, but they're a little banged

up there, bang up scheme wise. Anybody understands what DQ does? Is that guy? Is that guy? Yeah, we'll preview the Colts defense tomorrow against the Cowboys offense. So it should be fun Patrick who has more pressure on them on the defensive side of the football to slow down the scary Jonathan Taylor? What what unit? Or it could be a specific player either one. It's it's going to be the linebackers. Mmmm l the wolf hunter, you know what?

Tabon Clark, Yes to both of those, but I put more of the onus on LV Okay from both a veteran capacity and how he schemed up if LV is playing how he played against Sae Kwon Barkley and helping, you know, fill those gaps and be disciplined and you know, and helping to set the edge that makes it that much easier for the rookie and Damon Clark to be able to do the same and do a little bit of patrolling back there in the event that Taylor, who does have speed, gets out on the edge and does

burn it. So I'm looking at those two guys, I'm looking at LV and Damon, and yes, that is a lot to ask of a rookie who didn't have training campbell preseason. But you know what, number one, welcome to the show. Demon number two. He's going to have continue to have his rookie hiccups, but he's also shown flashes of ability. So I would love to see him meet Jonathan Taylor end in one of those gaps and introduce himself. But I'm gonna go more so, let's say fifty one

forty nine l V to Demon. But for me nine that's not by a lot. It's not by a lot because because of when the Moon is being tasked to play, he's being tasked it is in a pure fifty one point or no, we're not not not specific number one point four forty whole numbers stick with the into us um. Yeah, so you're going to linebackers. Okay, I'm going to the one in three techniques. I need Galla more, you know what I'm saying more, And I need Hankins. I need

those two big fellaws to clog up the middle. If you can force these guys to the outside, I'm fully confident that Dallas is outside coverage. D End's outside linebackers have learned their lesson and they have more than enough speed to run to the edges. The inside needs to be sure that. I would much rather a team try to test us on the outside than on the inside. And Jonathan Taylor does a heck of a job of coming forward. Yeah, he's north to south. He's north to

south guy. So in terms of where we need to be sure at until one of these yeah, until he's not. But those one of three techniques have to be on points. So Nevill Gallamore and Big Hankins and the rest of the crew qball, I need those guys to lock it down, to consume those inner three offensive linement. Just take away the center and guards, just just literally take that element out of it and put the game on the tackles. Yeah, I think I would go with the interior as well.

And I want to throw Osagizooa in there as well, because I think I think I think Osa has gotten better as the year's gone along in terms of stopping the run. His best game by far against the run was against Sequon Barkley and the Giants. The way that he's able to take up multiple blockers, the way he's able to to shoot a gap and at least take it up because early in the season he was getting

turned around. There were offensive guards and centers were having their field day because they were just turning them around. He's getting skin. He's done. Yeah, that's that's okay. That's a great way to put it. Great term, because that's what he's doing. He's staying firm and he's staying square, and it's clogging up running lanes and it's allowing for

those linebackers to run free behind him. As it relates to, um know, the context of how deep the Cowboys defensive line is in comparison to where Osa could potentially be. He's all things consider, he's having kind of a breakout year. It's like a mini breakout year because he's really getting the job. We're trying to talk about stuff. Derek's trying to get us out of the studio. And even though he's time, it's fine. He should tell the head coach the cash cow. They they know what the cash cow

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