Player's Lounge: Another Long Day?

It's a beautiful day in the Metroplex. You know, the voice is a little different. I may not sound like your news usual host NEWI scrubs, but you know he's he's on the Simon. He's on a signment right now. I'm not here, not here here. He's not in attendance right now, so he ain't getting that perfect perfect attendance record getting it. What a week this has been? Okay? Yeah, man, Barry Church got book I did. He was out and now we got New he out. You know what, he

is out every other Friday, but now he's out. New he's out. Who has perfect? Who got perfect? This week week, Yes, this week alone, Yes, you're talking about this week. This week, we're gonna talk about monthly. Man, it's a little different story. I got on the road this week, thank you. You know what I'm saying, I might get something a little extra up every day all time, ready to work, all right, shout out there and for getting this fired up over here.

But look, look, let's dive into last night's game. Were you able to watch the Ravens because I watched it. I was able to watch that, and to me, it was surprising, a little big. It's just it goes with what happened so far this or last week in the NFL, has all the teams that are, you know, supposed favorites kind of go down, have a bad game, and this was another one with the Ravens. I think we're favorite in this game going to a Miami team who they're

starting quarterback. To talk about Loa, he wasn't even you know, the starter out there, he was still dealing with an injury. Now he came back, you know, and played well. But I mean, that was that was an interesting game. What you think about the Yeah, you know, I think the Bengals may have put out the blueprint, but how to beat the Ravens. I'm saying. So the Ravens go out

and offensively, they did not look like themselves against the Bengals. Okay, I believe it had a bye week right before, and then they came back and last night the game comes on, and usually on Thursday nights you see like a high offensive, like a highly offensive. So usually you know, thirty five or forty two, something like that. And then yesterday you're watching the Ravens and I'm saying, what's going on? But

shout out to Flores. And then, man, when you talk about blitzing, every play, everybody them dudes blitz from the left, the right, the middle. They had dudes running out the sideline blitzing. And I've seen the status. I said it was twenty four twenty four snaps where defensive backs blitz. So nine times that didn't take you gonna be a cover zero. I mean, so if you you know Baron Jones, Xavien Howard, those guys, those are the type of games you're like, all right, and I gotta buckle up because

you ain't got no help. Cover zero and safeties is blitzing. How many times do we see haul in. The rookie safety out there blitzing off the they're trying to contain Lamar Jackson. But would you think of that game plan, because, like you said, they fired him up and they and they still kept him in the pocket. I think I think it was one of those old school game plans of listen, Lamar Jackson's gonna have to beat us, but

we're not gonna give him time. We're gonna put our athletes, the dbs as the guys who are rushing so we can, you know, so he won't have an advantage as if he was going against a linebacker, maybe a defensive lineman. Every once in a while, it was an athlete on an athlete, and those guys made the plays. Now the entire defense as a whole was making play. They was locking, they were locking up. They got them return for a touchdown. He stripped it, recovered and took it to the cup.

And they came out and they played complimentary football like they knew that their offense has not been rolling like like they expected it to be. So the defense had to come out and step up and they did and Lamar Jackson, you know, we ended up with two hundred twenty eight yards Garber yards. But the game when it mattered, Yeah, they stone walled. It was out of touch from the beginning. And try out to the Miami because I had, you know, Lamar ja I was going against Lamar Jackson and fantasy

and he only got twenty points. You know, it was projected to get thirty four. So shout out to Miami d on that one. But we got to get to the highlight of the game. I thought it was. I thought it was the funniest thing out of the scene. And when it comes to football in a long time, when my man, the officive lineman, I don't know if he was a guard, if he was a tackle, I don't know what he was. But my man thought the screen was for him, like he had flashbacks. And nobody

knows what I'm talking about me. It's an officive linement for Miami. They were in the red zone. It was a screen draw It was a screen drawn up for Gaskets, the running back. I guess he tripped a little bit. And the offitive lineman either he went out there and caught it like it was made for him, and he knows he's ineligible. He was a tackle or guard on there, but he set it up perfect, got the snag, had a couple of blockers played off the blocks with the

dive in a move they cut his legs. He's spinning in the air and he still reached for the end. That dude had to play some type of skill position in high school. Oh listen. First of all, Gaskets was still standing up. He was just a little bit behind the offensive line and something. Dude actually went snagged the ball from the ring back He's supposed to in front

of gascons. But I'll tell you this next week. Don't be surprised if you see him actually get a play out of the backfield because he has some sweet feet. They did the moves looked like he was a running back sometime in the in the recent path and not back in high school. He did some work like he did some work in college. Because I see, I know some running backs you wouldn't be able to do that. Yeah, shout out to the dude who took his legs out, because if I saw that he scored. Yeah, I saw

the flag. I saw the flag. What I'm not going in there with that. That's like three hundred pounds If he falls on top of you it's over. Yeah, it was. It was. It was a good place for him. Let me tell you something, no matter if it counted or not, his own film and his family is super excited. He got that TV town in prop tib only only show on TV only. He's going down as a legend. I

mean as in the officive lineman community. You know, they live for that, like you know, when the big guy catches a touchdown or something one of them trick plays. They live for that thing. So for him to do his sweet feet out there and score, well, would have been a score. But the penalty it was, it was pretty dope. To me, it was dope. But let's pivot a little bit. Let's pivot a little bit and let's

get into this Cowboys football. You know, they got a match up with the Atlanta Falcons, you know, the early game, twelve o'clock game on Sunday. One of our main defensive players, the guy that's been the catalyst of this defensive line since all the injuries went down, and pretty much she's passed a couple of weeks. The only guy that's able to generate some type of consistent pass rusher, and that's Randy Gregory and you know he's going he's gone down. He's on ir now, so he's gonna miss it at

least the next couple of weeks. How does this Cowboys defense, this top ten, this dan Quinn defense, how do they generate pressure and try to get after Matt Ryan because we know if we let him sit back there, he got the capabilities to dice our defense up. I'll say this, if you have faith in your secondary, you might want to take a page out of the Miami Dolphins book from last night. You might want to be bringing some

pressure with some skill guys. But I will say this, dan Quinn has been able in the past to manufacture pressure. We talked about this on previous podcast. When we went into games, We're like, how are we gonna be able to get this? I think this was beforeen Tank Lawns first one out, We're like, how are we gonna be able to get pressing? And we saw in the preseason that Michael Parsons will line up over the center, they would run twist stunts there, he would line up an end,

they would run twist stunts. So you're gonna see Michael Parsons in a lot of different positions. But I also think you're gonna see us blitz a little bit more than Gasle to get Maddie Ice off office spot and try to force them to make some of those mistakes, and then we're gonna have to depend on our secondary to hold up, all right, So play aggressive, go get your plays, but be ready to face some of those double moves. Yeah, And at the end of the day, Bro,

you have to stop the run, all right. If we don't stop the run, whatever everything else I just said doesn't matter. You won't be rushing the passing all right. You mean you're trying to stop somebody else from going one hundred and ninety yards on you rushing the ball like we had to face last week. So first things first, stop the run. Earn the right to rush the passer.

That is what Rod mary hillis always. So you got to earn the right to rush the passer by stopping them on first down, stopping them on second down, getting them in a passing situation. So stop the run. And then dan Quinn manufactured some some rush from from some some tricky type of scheme that you got drawn up back there. So you're going more with the scheme wise to go run a lot of you know, stunts or

some type of te stunt. You know that for those who don't know, the defensive end and the defensive tackle running a little pick stunt to try to get one of them free. So you're more about the games, you think they're gonna do it that way. So you don't see anybody individually having like the ability to beat one on one, you know, protection consistently. We saw would do a little bit, but you know, after that first or

second quarter, he was pretty much irrelevant after that. So do you see somebody along that deep SI line being able to step up because right now Tank out, Gregory out, and we got to bash them out there. Maybe it's gonna be tough. Yeah, step Michael Parsons. That's that's That's like if you said, because I'm thinking, so, yeah, okay, you showed a little bit what your keyword is consistent

that all right? So being able to cause that type of consistently and have coaches offensive coaches say hey, we have to take care of that guy. We haven't seen anybody else will be able to garner that type of attention so consistently. No, but if you put Michael Parsons out there. You can create someone on ones with some other guys, and I think you might find find some ways to get some wins. But it's going to be a team effort, right so our entire officer, I mean

defensive line. At some point, somebody's going to have to create pressure. That's true. I mean, and with that philosophy where we're getting pressure from somewhere. You know, we're running stunts. You got exotic blitzes, Baby sending to Jordan Lewis, maybe putting a you know double double a gap pressures with parsons and a bandar as we're getting after Mike Ryan somehow,

some way. Do you think that secondary with brown digs and maybe even having Cursed or Kazy or somebody like that mixed in at the slot, do you think they'll be able to hold up, Like if we can't get rushed with four because we don't I don't think we can get rushed with just Russia, where we don't think we can get after Matt Ryan by just rushing four people, do you think that secondary will be able to hold up in the back end against you know, a Russell

Gauge Pitts those guys at Atlanta possesses. Yeah, I think so. And you know we always say on defense, rush and cover they go together, right, So if you're if you're going to bring that pressure, it has to get home now. It don't matter who you got in the secondary. If you're rushing right and the quarterback can find a way to extend the play and get some extra time, your

secondaries in trouble, all right. So if we're gonna do all you know do, do the exotic blitzes and send Jordan Lewis, we're gonna have to get home and then UH forced Matt Ryan to get the ball out quick. If we don't, then we're in trouble. But if we do run cover one and we rush for I believe that our defensive backs have a good match up against their UH group. I think Kyle Pitts is the one

UH mismatch that we might have. But you got you gotta put your best cover guy on them, especially on those third and third and six and third and sevens when you know Matt Ryan is looking for him, right, So put you put your number one guy on them and tell everybody else, hey, man, hold up, hold up, all right, we'll dive into our first break right here on the Players Lounge twelve thirty pm. Here, when we get back, you talked a little bit about it, cow Pitts.

This is a guy that's a missmash nightmare for a lot of defenses out there. So when we get back, we're going to talk about how we think the Cowboys can match up against Pitts and how we think they're gonna take them away. That's when we get back. This is the Players Lous. We're at our SWBC studios, brought to you by Hotels dot Com. We'll see you on the backside. Honey, big news. Gary. Are you okay? Oh?

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Don't listen to Church. The Ultimate Survivor woke up with a lift this morning. I have ye think we're getting old're getting up. We're getting old. So tomorrow, if you wake up and you got an eight, are you still a better show up to this car game? That's what I'm trying to win money out. I need duck it.

So y'all ducks. They work at my house. So if everybody that's listening to Church has lost two bets already this season, go two bets you lost you took I mean sorry one last year you took me out to dinner. Yeah yeah, okay, you lost the interception the turnover bed. So that's an appetizer. That is. You don't want to count the golf because it didn't count. That's what. It did not count. What you what did you do? What I first face time? You just say this is not count.

Those were your first words. Okay, we're talking about it. After the first duccount And now he comes to the house to play card. So we're dealing with that. We do that. I'm all about it. Type of guy to churches. Okay, your average box safety, Yeah, just your average box safety. You know, had an average little box safety. Could you cover Kyle Pitts without a doubt. I'm locking him up. There was. So that's what we're gonna touch into now, Kyle Pitts coming there, If that's the solution. He they

just signed me up. But we touched on it a little bit earlier going in before we got into the break. Kyle Pitts. He possesses that that mismatch that you know, physical specimen type ability at the tight end. He's that new age hybrid type of guy, which I'm glad we didn't have to deal with those type of dudes when we