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Frisco and the SWBC Studios. We've got Isaiah stand Back, We've got Patrick Nose Walker, I'm Kyle Yeoman's with Chris Pam in the back running everything. As we've continued to preview the divisional round man Chuck between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco forty nine ers. Today we're gonna preview the San Francisco defense. Lots of dudes on that side of the ball too, Oh, there's a few. And then you've got that Cowboys offense that's been firing on

all cylinders. Gentlemen, how are we doing fantastic? Can't wait? Oh yeah, bars, cut boys, we're getting already into that. That's right. You know why these guys that are gonna be Victor Moons on the side of the ball, Kyle, let's talk about it. Oh okay, so did you get you three hours of film? I did? Okay. I saw Patrick was diving into the film yesterday too. Runch yesterday. Science Lab Ladies and Gentlemen's Shameless blog will be up on the dot com within the next hour or so,

and there's a lot of science you know what. I was sitting there having breakfast this morning. Yeah, they're just chilling, and you know the specialist roll over there, you know Money Marth and the new guy you know in the long Snapper NBA, Travis Viscayano, this guy Bran. So I'm over there. I'm sitting there and watching my film and eating my breakfast and uh some of Isaiah. Yeah, turn around, I'm like, what's up? And Brian Ainger we were teammates, right,

I was. I was his personal protector in Jacksonville. So he's like, and they're all looking at me. He says, why do you watch so much film? I said, I gotta know what I'm talking about. Man, He's like, you watch you watch like way more film than than anybody else, Like you ever imagine. I'm like, yeah, just what I do He's I guess it's easy for you. It kind

of scares me. I'm not gonna lie. Well, I mean from a I mean from a punter standpoint, how much film fair the specialist saying that it doesn't bother me as much as anybody if like Cooper Rush was over there and that would be completely different. No, but but it was funny. Yeah, it was just one of those funny moments. I was just like, yeah, because you because you watch the film. I want to know what I'm talking hot football, Like here, I try my best to take to do pretty I take a motion out of it.

I really take a much. What's that science? Oh wow, you know what Nate calls it? What logic? Yeah? It does. It works, It's not I'm not I'm too mad that that the punters watch the film. I mean I'm not mad about it. How much filmed with with the punter watch I mean, he'd watch a little bit of the returner of the same game, but that doesn't care. I was just more I'm saying yeah, because because you know, there are some people are going to hear this and

they're gonna say, oh, well, the Cowboys don't. It's the punter, right, regardless of what the return who the returner is coming up in the next game, Brian Anger is still going to try to make the same punch in the same fashion. He's going to try to cough and corner you every time. Anyway, I think he was asking in the light of like, dude, you're not playing anymore, Like what are you doing? You know? I think that that was probably translation like how many

fans going from Brian leave Brian out of this? You're gonna say, I've seen a couple of your punch Leave Brian a figure out how to catch the snap? How about that? Uh, there's a guy over there needs to much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that one. I'm sure. Now, how many hours of film do you watch per week? What do you think on average? On the average, I mean, it really depends on an opponent. On this week, I put it probably put in about ten hours. Yeah, that's what

it should be. I think I watched three hours yesterday. So I went back and watched our game, went through that, and then I went through Seat or A San Francisco's game. So I'll probably I'll probably do two more hours by the end of the week, and some of that is on draft stuff later, like once it gets the draft time. I'm right around ten hours a week and trying to get that on the opponent, right, So, like I'm not

going back and watching a thousand games. I'll go back and look at teams that have similar schemes or I feel I have similar personnel matchups, and I'll go back and I will do like deep dives until I watched one game like over three or four times. Well, it depends to go back some information and you know, look for little things here and there. For me, it depends on a couple of things. But one of the opponent.

Is it an uncommon opponent versus a common opponent. I watched way more film on, say the Jacksonville jaguarries than I did the Giants or the Eagles, because familiar opponent versus non familiar opponent, magnitude of the game. Obviously, I would we would watch film on the forty nine ers

if it was a regular season game. But given it's an NFC divisional round, you're gonna dig that much deeper into it to see if there are any tales that you can kind of you know, put out there for the fans to know about so forth and so on.

So I mean, I don't have as much time nowadays to watch as much film as I used to, But I mean this game, I went back and rewatched the hour game, the Cowboys game, and then I dove right back into the forty nine Ers game against the Seahawks, and then I went back against forty nine Ers game against the Chiefs, forty nine Ers games against the Raiders. I was basically looking at games that they struggled against, struggled in to try to figure out what those opposing

teams did well. So I probably got seven seven and a half hours of film between rewatched with the Cowboys and then looking at those several games for the forty nine Ers, And then you use the film and then you start digging into the stats and you put it all together in for context. And I found some things. You found some things, some unpleasant things and some pleasant things. Yeah. Yeah, those this defense we're about to talk about, those are

some horses. But they got some weaknesses. They found him, I see, and we're gonna talk about it in the second segment. Let's get to news and notes. Cowboys injury report as They were back into a walkthrough yesterday pretty light, which is good, but there were a couple names on there. There were nothing, you know, that should concern anyone outside of what we've already discussed. Jason Peters did not participate as expected with that hip injury suffered in the victory

over the Buccaneers. Short week, you know, and let's just be honest. It's a forty year old on a short week with a hip injury. I don't believe that he'll be available, but the Cowboys have not ruled him out. They are just using precaution to see how he goes over the course of this week. Jay Ron Curse good news. Everything's going as expected there. Jron Curse said yesterday that he is one hundred percent sure he will be on the against the forty nine ers. He was limited in

the walkthrough. That makes sense. Short week, Protect that guy. You need him at all costs. DeMarcus Lawrence limited as has been the case for several weeks, now listed as foot, but he's dealing with several things. Continues to play at a Pro Bowl level. Israel Mukuamu had a hamstring injury. Tweaked it just a little bit. Nothing major though, because he was a full participant one in practice on yesterday,

so he's a full goal tyrant Smith. He was a full participant, although listed on the injury report in the worries there, and Trayvon Mullin cornerback who was inactive with the illness that popped up last week late last week, was a full participant as well. And as far as the forty nine ers are concerned, there's really nothing of note there. The only thing is Trent Williams didn't practice, but he was Rusting. It's literally listed as Rusting. Biggest news and note if you want to take it as

that guy I RS kind of mentioned it. Cowboys signed a kicker to the practice squad. Kicker by the name of this guyant Am I pronouncing that right guy. This guy an this guy you know signed him to the practice squad on yesterday. Cowboys prior to signing him have continued to double and triple down on their confidence in Brett Maher. We had that discussion here yesterday. I'm not moving off of Brett Maher. Everybody has a bad day

the office. Dak had one on in Week eighteen. Bounce back at the best game of his year, of his season. Brett Maher has saved this team on several occasions during the season. Not willing to move on from this guy with that body of work. But the Cowboys are bringing in this guy ain't no yep as insurance against the forty nine ers, and this guy Ano has some experience kicking in Levi's stadium from his short stint with the forty nine ers, So a little bit of an insurance there.

But Mahur is still expected to be the starting kicker. He's expected to be the kicker on the field when the Cowboys visit San Francisco. But it's it's notable that they brought in some insurance there. Now sidebar, this is

a subjective tax bar. I wonder if that's just more so um just to create a sense of competition with Brett Maher, just to mentally get him sharpened up a little bit, which is likely the case, because you know, Tristan isn't exactly lights out if you look at his numbers seventy five percent on extra points fifteen of twenty, you know, so it's not like he's coming in here to completely snatched Brett Mohr's job. I don't think it's more so just hey, Brett, it's it's just in case. Yeah,

we believe in you. But if you go out there and miss two pats, are they even going to elevate him? Because I doubt think that's That's what I'm saying. I think he's a practice guys, just a practice squad guy, just kind of some mind games by owner and general

manager Jerry Jones, which I'm not entirely mad at. I mean, I get where you're going with that, but I also want to show confidence in the kicker because if he has another game like that, where he was already in his head for one game, you can't allow him to have another game like that. Two. You got to you got the offense and the Whippons to do it. Just starting just start to love you, Tristan, but not don't necessarily need you look start going for two. Did you

guys see the sounds of the sideline? She sees what that was? It was phenomenal Alex Alex Lily put that together and he did it so fast and it's out there. It's phenomenal content. There was a part of it where Ceedee Lamb was sitting on the bench and Brett Mohurt comes over and Maher visibly frustrated after another miss. Pat and Cede looked at him. He said, hey, don't worry about it, said it in a different way, wasn't necessarily clean, said don't worry about it. You've bawled out for us

plenty of times. You've had our back plenty of times. It's our turn to have your back. So that response, to me is what it should be from a locker room. That's what it should be from a team, when somebody struggles, your teammates rally around you and you pick you right back up right. That's what it felt like, Isaiah. Back when you were in various locker rooms, you always had great culture. Yeah. Is that a good sign from from what CD was able to do and we hadn't even

talked about in the offseason. Was CD ready to take on a leadership role? That was a plain and simple way of seeing, Okay, there's there's a role being had here. I'm just glad everybody gets to see that. So shout out to Alex on that for being able to show that footage list than forty eight hours. He's after a Monday night, very might see him. He's sitting, so shout out to him. A lot of people don't get credit

behind the scenes, but he gives you that access. But it's very telling and it's great to see the brotherhood that that has formed now with his Dallas Cowboys team. And I think a lot of people kind of disregard kickers, punters, long snappers as Okay, the specialists they're their own unit and very much so. They really are right. They're like the little wolf pack that kind of travels around doing their own thing. Because they're not they don't have to

be in meetings like everybody else does. And the special teams meetings is a very short period of time in comparison to offensive defensive. Okay, a lot of film, not a lot of me. It's got a ton of film to watch. Um, they're scheming up stuff there that the sports teams coordinators bones is right, But in terms of

the operation, your operation is pretty much the same. Um. But for people to see how much players on the team and high caliber players you know, you know highly um uh criticized players in terms of like guys like CD, how much they care about that guy. He's that important to you to where you it's not like you're walking by him and disregarding him, me mugging him, you know,

just just not even acknowledging him. He is your brother, yeah, right, regardless of what he's required to do during the week, he's your brother. He's a part of your team. And so many people try to just put the specialists like they just not a part of the team and they're just therese a little isolated guys that are just super replaceable. They're not right, they're not and you and you love it even more so from the aspect of if you

look at what CD said, he said, you've saved us before. Yeah, and you know, we got your back, bro, we got your back. And coming from someone like like Ceedee Lamb, who's had to demonstrate aliency himself this season, be it on. We're talking about an interception earlier in the season where he didn't come across the safety's face and that you know, tallied on an interception against Dak Prescott, so forth and so on. They had to kind of get on the

same page. And then hey, even against the Buccaneers, he had two drops in the first three plays because t Y Hulton had the third drop on that first series that ended in a punt. So then for Ceedee Lamb

to come back and continuously fight through. He knows what it feels like to have a bad play, to have a bad day at the office, to field the criticism from outside the building, outside the locker room, and how important it is for your brothers to look you in the eye and say, you know what, man, shake that off. That didn't even happen. It's all about the next play we got. You don't worry about it. That means a lot, and it carries, it carries week to week. And that's

why this locker room. One reason why this locker room is just so close knit, so tight knit, and that's why they've been able to continuously bounce back from bad days at the office and be it as a team or as individuals. And you just you love to see it. Yeah, you absolutely do. And it's something that I know fans will keep an eye on going into the divisional round, because fans are gonna keep an eye on Brett Maher. Whether or not he makes his pats is going to

be a massive talking point. If he makes them all great, I think we're back to normal. If he misses one, the topic of conversation is back. But you also want to see the way that your teammates react, and there was a positive reaction there from Ceedee Lamb. You could say a negative reaction from Dak Prescott, but even then that's just frustration. Dak's in the heat of the competitor, heat of the most straight up competing. That's all that

was bad. Of course, he wants to go for two. Yeah, it's fair, he wants he wants to take his nap. Plus Dak Prescott was was hot enough in that game to where he could say something like that. But I do love it from Ceedee Lamb, somebody that we've had those question marks around that we wanted to see step up as a leader. The Cowboys signing Tristan Viscayano to the practice squad, however, I think it's Brett Maher moving forward.

I agreefully. All right, let's take our first. When we come back, it's time to preview the San Francisco defense and what they bring to the table. They've got a couple all pros on that side of the ball, and can the Cowboys offense with Dak Prescott have a repeat game like they did against Tampa Bay when we come back, Right, after this. When you build, you start with the foundation,

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on the laptop. I was clicking around, got a couple votes in there, actually did it twice in foote go vote for James. Good dude. By the way, we were talking a lot and we were referencing the Ceedee Lamb moment in Sounds of the Sideline. I just retweeted just now the Sounds of the Sideline video on Twitter. It's at at Kyle Underscore Yeomans, but you could also find it. It's the pin tweet on the Dallas Cowboys Twitter as well if you want to check it out. Really cool

piece of content. Again, shout out to Alex Lily for putting that together. He does a great job with that every single week. All right, let's talk about this forty nine ers defense, gentlemen, linebackers check. Fred Warner and company are just flying around. They fly to the football. How about that edge rusher? Got a guy by the name of Nick Bosa, former second overall pick back in twenty nineteen. Oh, just one of the best hedge rushers to play. Javon

Kin Law on the middle. You've got Armstead, he's a problem. You've got green Law. You've got Ward on the outside, who's been locking up number one receivers across the league. What you don't like that? You don't agree with that one? Why is that he's getting toastito? You're talking about Ward? Are you talking about Lenora? Lenora's getting toastito? What do you see, Google, No, that's what I want to talk about. I talked about the front seven. Front Seven's coming after it.

But where are they susceptible? Put it out there? It's in that secondary. It's in a secondary. Oh yes, it yeah, it's out there in the edges. And you talk about Ward and Ward has done and whatever whatever Ward got exposed last well, DK Makeoff said, I don't give a dog on what your name is. I'm gonna disrespect you. I'm bigger than you, I'm fastening you, I'm stronger than you, and I'm gonna run right by you every single time.

If the dog on forty nine ers want to go single high coverage and they want to come out of that two two shell and roll down to that single high whether it's cover three or cover one. Ward likes to sit on his heels. You sit on his hills. You can run right by us. But throw the ball up there. You can look at it and say it's not a high percent of his pass. But you have things working in your favor. You have receivers that can go get the ball. You have Ceedee Lamb, you have

t Y Hill, and you have Michael Gallop. All these guys can stretch the field. All these guys can get on his toes, all these guys can get to his backside. And you throw the ball up, you're either gonna get a heck of a play, a heck of a catch right, You're gonna get an open catcher, You're gonna right by him, or you have a high probability of getting a pass interference call. Test these guys on the outside. But in order to do that, you have to block Bosa and

the boys up front ensure that they're good. So I think that you could to see all these guys on the outside all day long. Get them out of this one high. You have to get him out of the one high. As soon as you get him out of that, then you can start attacking them on the ground. Game. And instead of letting Bolsa chase you down, how about you chase him down. Instead of letting Warner come downhill, how about you go to the uphill and you want to run through these guy his face, that's my mackage.

That's what I'm looking at, and that's what I think we can do. It exposes So his numbers against Seattle, he was targeted or his receiver was targeted eight times, gave up six receptions for ninety eight yards in a touchdown. So Toastito, no doubt about it. He's a good corner though, because you look at the rest of his stats, there's only three games all year he's given up more than fifty yards in a single game Seattle, Seattle in the playoffs,

and then Kansas City Kansas City. Oh, it's because of DK Matcalf. It's because you've got a physical receiver on the outside. Dallas doesn't have the physicality though they got the speed, do they from CD? Sure t y T? Why he can burn it slowest of the three, thinks wheels of those three receiver CITs is slowest gallop gallops faster, gallops fast. He can't cut the same way though. We aren't talking about cutting a straight straight line. I haven't

seen it since the injury. But all he does is make a big catches, regardless of he's running for two yards. That's all they tried to do. I'm saying, this is the game that you have to stretch the field. I thought I hope wasn't a strategy though, No, no no, no, no no, no, no no, no, there's no hope. When you throw the ball at the Michael Gallop, he usually comes down with it.

Now they just harm they haven't pushed it down the field to take advantage of what he used to do, because he's not what he used to be yet, right, But that doesn't mean that this is an opportunity for you to push the thing down the field. Test these guys out. They just showed you on film that they're susceptible on the outside. That's their weakness. Their linebacker corps

is pretty dog on solid. Okay, they're not better than the guys we faced last week in this totality, but Warner is one of the top five linebackers in the league hands down, right, So he's gonna give you some problems. He's gonna come downhill. He doesn't care if you're a running back and fullback. He doesn't care if you're a three hundred and thirty pound lineman. He's gonna hit you underneath the chin and test you out. Okay, so you better bring you bring your your hacky sack with him

when you come at him. Okay, so that's gonna be a problem. Bosa, go at him. Go at Bosa right, get him on his heels, put him on skates, kind of like teams are doing the Michael Parsons. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely get right at him, Take a couple of guys at him, and go his deplete his energy storages. He's gonna be juiced up, geeked up. The whole Bay Area is gonna be going ham. They're gonna be listening to

E forty in the stadium, it's gonna be hype. Then coming down the tunnel with the boombox, these boys think that we're gonna drop back and try to throw the ball all day long, and they're gonna be geeked up and on their tolls ready to come downhill and get around the edge. On freaking Tyrant Smith or on Tyler Smith one or two. All either way, they're gonna be trying to come around the edge. Go at these guys. Tyrn, you have the size advantage. Tyler, you got the tenacity.

Go at these guys and run them downhill. And then when they start trying to roll those guys back down into the box with that single high, Hey, we got some guys that can go downhill. Go go out and beat your guys in the secondary. Make somebody other than Nick Bosa beat you, please, period. I like that show. Show. Look at those other guys across that defensive front and say, one of you guys are gonna have to prove that you can wreck this game because we're doing everything. We're

selling out to delete this guy. And that means be it. You know, Chips sending extra help over there. And in addition to how you scheme to play call is burning the edge of whatever everything you need to do to tire him out, neutralize him. That's what you do. And it's Jordan rules, right, it's do whatever you can to contain this one guy, and didn't dare everybody else to try to be you. So once you do that, you

build off of that. And in looking at the film of the forty nine ers, go back and look at some of the teams that they have the loss to or struggle against. Atlanta Falcons. Why they struggle against the Atlanta Falcons for the same reason they almost lost to the Las Vegas Raiders, for the same reason they did lose to the Kansas City Chiefs, so forth, and so on. This team, as stout as their run defense is, as stout as their past defense can be, they struggle when

you have a quarterback that's even remotely mobile. Does this self familiar ladies and gentlemen, even remotely mobile? So if Dak Prescott continues to utilize his legs and his mobility like he did against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, that is going to create havoc, especially in the linebacker corps. You're talking about Fred one, Yes, all pro got absolute He's a dog. He's an animal. However, if you have to make him second guests, if you have to make Bosa

second guests. In that pass for a second guest, well you know rpo. The next play is this a keeper for Dad? Because is he gonna hand it off to Pollard with the speed or Zeke up the A and B gap with the strength. The more you make them second guests, the more opportunities you will have to not only run the ball, but to also be successful in getting the ball down the field. And keep in mind, their interception leaders are their safeties. So there's there are

meals to be had. Talk about Jimmy Ward getting grilled cheese by DK Metcalf. There are meals to be had at that second level. But you have to neutralize the second level by making them play sideline the sideline instead of downhill. Once they start playing downhill, their pass rush is just out of this world, similar to what the Cowboys can do keep them off balance timing. You know,

I don't want them to second guess. You mentioned second guests. Yeah, okay, last year they bully bought us correct Yeah, strength, straight bully ball. Right. They came out of the locker room with confidence, just thinking that they're just gonna come out in de bow and then they did deebo saying you, okay, they get the change. Absolutely, make them second guess their toughness, Yes,

make them second guess their toughness. When you have an opportunity to go against a very viable opponent, you have to take their will. And the only way you can take their will is by taking away the one thing that they feel they have the utmost advantage in, and

that is just toughness. So if you go out there and you and you start running the ball downhill on them, even though their weakness is on the outside, if you start running the ball downhill at them, and that's what they feel that they can, they do the best in terms of being physical and pushing you back. Now all of a sudden, you want to talk about second guessing. Now, these boys don't have any confidence exactly. And look at

it this way. The Falcons, first of all, this is a run defense in the forty nine is who have not allowed a single one hundred yard rusher as an individual all season. However, the Atlanta Falcons beat them, and they had one hundred and fifty yards rushing on the ground, will watch that A third if that came from Marcus Mariota. Jared Stidham pushed them to the limit in overtime. A third of those rushing yards, which was about one hundred and forty a third of those came from Jared Stidham.

You know, Patrick Mahomes can do rather he chooses to do it or not. You know, he's a threat on the ground and his speed is comparable to Dak Prescott. Neither of them are Lamar Jackson as far as straight line speed, but they have enough mobility and speed to say, you know what, we're going to keep you second guessing. The Cowboys have the artillery and the quarterback who can do that and then make the forty nine ers pay by over committing to a possible run play or keeper

from Dak Prescott. Because you got Tony Pollard and you got Ezekiel Elliott. And if you start to kind of integrate, obviously t Y Hilton and Ceede lamb is going to get here's Michael Gallop. But then mix it up even more. Three tight end sets every once in a while, so now you get to send a tight end to help on Nick Bosa. But then you get the other tight end to be able to release down the seam, and now Fred Warner has to make a decision. Right. You know what else I want them to second guess? What

is that? I want them to a second guess their defensive coordinator, Oh, Demikol Damiko Ryans has had one hell of a year. Yea, he has one hell of a defensive coordinator and he's highly sought after right now. And I want them to second guess his his his preparation. No, h, I want them to say, you know why that dude I think has four interviews lined up between now in the game for hand coaching posiness. Yes, I'm glad you brought it up because there are so many questions that

all three of us are getting on social media. Well, are you concerned that dan Quinn has these interviews? Demiko has more interviews than the Cowboys defense been a head coach. There's more stress there. Damiko Ryans has four opportunities. You want talking about somebody who's who's working their way up the ranks right now. This is his biggest opportunity that he's that he's had to date. He is going to be locked in on these. Not to say that he

can't multitask. But the reality is he's he's a younger decordinator. He played, he had one hell of an NFL career as well, right, hell of an NFL career. Now he's a great defensive coordinator. This is big shot. If there's ever an opportunity for him to get the opportunity to be a head coach, this is it right now and it's showing because guess what, he's gonna go do four interviews before between now and the game. He has to

get up for those. Emotionally, he has to be locked in and those he has to do that with one hundred percent confidence, which means that he can't be one hundred percent on his game plan. And if you take him out of his game plan, and then what does he start doing? Well, Now I have to start panicking now to start blitzing, right. I don't like the blitz all the time, but now I gotta start blitzing to create some pressure. And now we can do that. Guess

what toasted? No time on the outside and don't don't mess around it and let Demiko start calling his z own blitzes because Dak Prescott versus the zone he saw last one is the best in the NFL in twenty twenty two, and the numbers show that too. Yeah, personage not a subjective take, Nope, facts Dak Prescott eats his zone coverage for breakfast lunch, especially blitz. Yes, So in the forty nine ers have shown that they have a

proclivity to lean towards ze coverage. They can definitely play man, but how willing are they going to be to play man in a game that is on the heels of seeing Jimmy Ward gets slapped around. They're playing man, they're blitzing. If they're playing man, they're blitzing. Okay, they don't like they don't. They don't like to play a lot of man. That's my point. And slab when it drops that their weaknesses on the outside the zone. They know that and

loves the zone, you know what I mean. Even they try to run they try to run cover three last week, but what does covered three on the outside? Man? Man? Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna really quickly before we hit the break of field up, we're coming up on that. Here's a list of quarterbacks the forty nine ers have gone up against. And I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now, only two maybe three, and the third has

an asterisk around it next to it. Justin Field, Gino Smith three times, who had him on the ropes before he Geno in the playoffs, Russell Wilson, that's not the same Russell Wilson, Ladies and gentleman, Matthew Staff. That's my asterix asterisk. If he's healthy, then he's up there. If not so much. Baker Mayfield slash PJ. Walker, Marcus Mariota, Patrick Mahomes elite, Justin Herbert, He's getting there, but not quite there yet. Colt McCoy No, Andy Dalton, no to

a tiger viola. Yeah, got the weapons, he can do it. Tom Brady elite, Taylor Haneke, stop it, Jared Stidham, stop it, David Bluff and Trace mcsoley stop it. Of all of these, that's a long list that they faced and been dominated against. Patrick Mahomes won, They defeated Tom Brady, so really they've only defeated one elite quarterback all season, and now they're about to face Dak Prescott in a situation where their

defense likes loves their own. Guess what DA's love. DA loves his own too, So I say all that to say not to take away from what the forty nine ers defense has accomplished. They have a bunch of horses, they have a bunch of dogs, or whatever animal you

want to use. They can get after you. However, too, for those that are constantly buying into the narrative that the forty nine Ers defense is this brick wall, that it's unstoppable, where's the beef in that sandwich that I just listed all of those quarterbacks, the goat, the two goats, Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady. You defeat it, Brady, fair enough. Cowboys just did that too. Patrick Mahomes dropped forty four on you. M Okay, I'll just let's just put a

pin in that. No. I like it because everybody's susceptible in the playoffs, no matter what, you could be the most unstoppable defense you could possibly be. And San Francisco has been really, really good defensively, but they've also had some lapses early in the season. They have some holes. Now they haven't necessarily played that competition. It all kind of adds together. But I want to talk about when

we come back. There's a tale. It's really a tale of two teams with the San Francisco Bunch, the team that played before the bye week and the team that played after their bye week, completely different when it comes to their record and it comes to their performances. And there's one common denominator that has taken away from both things for San Francisco pre bye week and post bye week. I'm gonna talk about how the Cowboys can maybe try and have that rare, it's ugly head again against that

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that y'all are the smartest. It's gonna be a little chilly, Okay, just put on the jacket. Bundle up, yeah, bundle up, bring the blankets, bring the lawn chairs. When you're sitting side by side with nothing but Cowboys fan and never cold. That's a big TV out there too, Yeah it is. That's a huge TV. We're all over it, all over it. If the Cowboys have a chance to appear in the NFC Championship game for the first time in twenty seven years, and you're gonna lit a little bit of gold, don't

do it. They listen up out there at the stadium was packed over eight thousand people. Yeah, we need to get ten out there. You need ten thousand people out there. Ten out there, and then we want to overflow at Tostito. Yeah, yeah, whatever you need to flow, all right, Isaiah Standbackpatrick nose Walker. I'm Kyle Yeoman's let's take a look at this. This is the San Francisco forty nine ers. They were four

and four going into their bye week. Their bye week was almost smack dab in the middle of the season. Week nine, they were four and four. In the first eight games, they only forced nine turnovers. They had nine takeaways. As a defense. They also didn't really do a great job of holding onto the football. They had twelve takeaways on the offensive side of the ball. Since then, since their bye week, they've rattled off ten straight wins, ten straight.

They have not lost since prior to their bye week. Since then, they've had five turnover is on offense, so they've taken care of the football more impressively than even the five turnover turnovers on offense. That defense has forced twenty one takeaways. From their bye week. They had nine in the previous eight games, and the ten after that

they've had twenty one twenty one different takeaways. If you can win the turnover margin, you can win the turnover battle, you're gonna have a really, really good shot at winning the football, correct me if I'm wrong. But the couple boys, they're they're pretty good at taking the ball away themselves. Yeah yeah, so so to your point, yeah, win the turnover margin, so they'll take the football away. I have the utmost confidence that dan Quinn's defense will force a

takeaway maybe two. Now, there haven't been multiple takeaways against the San Francisco offense since Week seven. When did it? Why? Because teams haven't forced him to throw the ball. That's why. Now you're gonna do that. Now you're gonna do that. But if in order to do that, you have to obviously take points. You got you got score points. Okay, score points, that's number one. Okay, you gotta just totally

just disintegrate this defense. But then you have to take away their ability to run the ball, and that's the most difficult task there is. Yeah, they have to find a way to stop their run at least they gate them from running as effectively as they want to. And then on the outside, you have to do what you did last week. And the more film I watch the heart that Shannahans are freaking Jedi. He's a Jedi. I'm put it out there for y'all. Okay, he's a freaking

the forces with this dude. The schemes that he creates, and they he creates these schemes so that it is so easy for Purdy to make good decisions. It's not difficult. I mean, he's protecting the rookie from himself. Yeah. So there might be four decoys on a particular play, five potential guys that throw the ball too before real decoys, and those four decoys jobs to take away to defense, to create a void in your defense regardless of the coverage,

where that one guy can win. And that's what they're doing to him. He's forced pushing. It's what he did. He just forced pushed the defense out of the way. Shanahan's with a heck of a job. But you gotta get home. And that's kind of my point with the preview that we have with the Cowboys offense and the San Francisco defense is the defense is going to force a turnover. I fully believe that. Can your offense take

care of the football. That's one of my biggest questions, because yes, you're gonna have to get up, you're gonna score points. You gotta take care of the football. You did it against Tampa Bay. Check you check that boxing, you pass it with flying colors, Patrick, But doing in two games in a row, that's where you've got to keep locked in. You got to stay that way and be not mistaken. Nothing we're saying here discounts from the

challenge that's being presented to the Cowboys in this round. Right, the forty nine Ers are better than the temp of the Buccaneers, even with Tom Brady quarterbacking the temporary Buccaneers versus Purty, a rookie, you know, mister irrelevant, as the label goes, quarterbacking the San Francisco forty nine Ers, just as a unit on all sides of the ball, all three phases of the ball, forty nine Ers get the

job done. My problem is when people aren't digging deeply enough to see, well, who who did they get the job done against? What were their trends or the quarterbacks they win against, and who did they struggle against and why did they struggle against them? You know, rewind the episode back if you want to get some some some examples. Mariota Stidham, you know, Mahomes, But I also found a trend. Also found a trend when writing the Science Lab and

doing the research there. And I'll go ahead and put this out there, Dallas Cowboys, if you win the second quarter against the San Francisco forty nine ers, the odds of you winning the game rise exponentially. Here's an example. What I mean forty nine is offense averages nine point two points per quarter in the second quarter. That team does not often get off to a fast start. They're averaging five point one in the first quarter, five point three in the third quarter, and it bumps up a

bit to seven point one in the fourth quarter. They make their money in the second quarter. Right, if the Cowboys can can defeat them in that quarter, outscore them in that quarter, then the odds are exponentially higher they'll win the game. And I wrote this in the Science Left in the thirteen wins, not counting the postseason, the forty nine is outscored opponents to the tune of one hundred thirty five to thirty six in the second quarter.

That team doesn't get off to fast starts. So if you see them not getting off to a fast start, don't don't think the game is over, Ladies and gentlemen. That's the first quarter. The second quarter is going to ultimately be the tale of this game. Obviously the fourth quarter as well, because the Cowboys need to if they establish a lead, they to keep their foot on the gas. We've seen Green Bay, Jacksonville, they can relent in the fourth quarter. You love that they kept the foot on

the gas against Tampa Bay. Talk about silence from the sideline. Tony Powler comes over there and says, what this is too much smiling. We need the ball back. Too much smiling, We need the ball back. Dak Prescott said, do not let up, not one play, not one second. Keep that

Momba mentality. You're gonna need it. But if the Cowboys can defeat the forty nine Ers and the second quarters specifically, the Seahawks did, and the Seahawks were in the game all the way until Gino Geno at the top of the fourth quarter, that is how you can punch a hole right through the forty nine ers. So keep that in mind, ladies and gentlemen, get off to a fast start if you're the Cowboys, and the Cowboys actually do average more in the first quarter five point four than

the forty nine ers offense. So if the Cowboys can get off to a fast start and keep the forty nine ers from getting off to a fast start. That's part one. Part two is can you outscore them in the second. If you do that, you'll probably have the lead going in the halftime, and all you have to do is not let up for the final two quarters.

They've outscored opponents throughout the entirety of their regular season by eighty six points in that second quarter, forty two in the fourth quarter, and then the first and the third quarters are very similar. They're right around and they're in the teams they've outscored both of those teams, are all of their opponents in the teams through the first and the third quarters. So I'm right there with you.

I love that as a stat because if you can get off to a hot start this Dallas defense, I believe I'd have to go back and look to double check. I think they've only given up a one first quarter touchdown one they're all year long. They're averaging only three point six points allowed per first quarter. Yeah, so a lot of that is field goals. Magnificent. Yeah, defense from

the Cowboys. Keep that energy, keep that you need this and then that should give you if you get off to a fast start and your defense holds teams like we just said, averaging three point six allowed in the first quarter, then you might even be able to withstand a second quarter surge that seems inevitable from the forty nine ers. But if you can withstand it or just cap or you know, stop it from happening altogether. Oh, let's go through the roof of you walking away with

this wind, Detective Walker, detective stand back. You guys have done a phenomenonal job today. Thanks Kyle, dissecting what is going on? What's tomorrow? Kyle? You know what tomorrow is? What's that? And honestly, I got some some tweets yesterday that you've been saying it with your chest all week. You have Cowboys Nation has been saying it with its chest all week. But tomorrow is different. Tomorrow is a divisional round. Say what's your chess? Friday? M M. You

gotta say what's your chest tomorrow. We're gonna do that starting at nine am. M. What was that? Nothing had to put myself back from? Okay, listen, if you've never done what's going on? If he had, if he had to pull himself back, we're gonna we're gonna talk about that in a moment, all right, That doesn't for us. Here, I'm talking Cowboys for Chris Ban, Isaiah stand Back, Patrick nose Walker. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see you tomorrow with say It

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