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Derek, Ambar, and Bryan break down the Miami offense heading into a crucial Week 16 matchup, evaluate Cowboys players at this point of the season, and more news and notes.

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The following is a production of dallascowboys.com and the dallascowboys football [Applause] Clubo let’s go baby are you ready for a break yes are you ready for a break absolutely ready for a break yeah and um so much for that it’s time for the break on dallascowboys.com we on the break with ambar Garcia Brian brus Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton it is Wednesday December 20th

2023 season 19 episode number 92 welcome to the latest edition of the break we are live from the swbc mortgage Studios at the star today we start getting you ready for Cowboys versus Dolphins that’s happening this Sunday at 3:25 I think is the kick in Miami um and so we’ll get

Into this Miami offense and how it matches up versus this Dallas defense and well we can expect a little different outcome as far as how the defense plays this week versus last week um got a good shot I want to start first though uh Patrick’s not with us today

Usually gives us this but Brian I’m sure you have this information as well I want to start with some injuries and just kind of where we’re like set the table for where we are with the injuries I want to start first with Zach Martin because he left the game uh noticeable

Absence for the Cowboys obviously uh but what what are we hearing about his injury and and what kind of time he may or may not miss well the thing that you always worri about cuz last week we talked about what hooker’s situation and they felt good about hooker all the way

Up until game time and then it was well that the the ankle didn’t respond fully like we thought it would so all the things you’re hearing about Zach Martin are positive we’ve also uh you know on 1053 The Fan we have the Zach Martin Show uh every Thursday at 5: and you

Know you try and ask him questions he’s usually forthright oh yeah I’m playing and all that that and then we get to the game and then Christy scales tells us oh he’s inactive today so everything is positive from that uh stpoint we’ll see the practice designations and all that

These are these things with you know with Jerry Jones was on with us at 1053 The Fan talking about the you know what you deal with the the stiffness and the blood and the you know the bruise and all those things that you have to but all the indications were that he is

Getting better every day now let’s see if that translates into Zack Mar playing against the Miami Dolphins I feel by uh by Friday you should have a pretty good understanding of really where he’s at what do we know about at this point obviously Malik cooker was one as you

Mentioned they thought they thought that was that one what are we hearing now yeah that that’s that that one seems to be going in the right direction as well uh you know they last Thursday I was told I’m like I asked well hey what what’s your concern

Level of hooker and I got the should be good to go and then all of a sudden I think very last minute so you would expect his this that’s that’s the thing that bothers me and I asked was there a setback and they said no there wasn’t a

Setback so evidently it didn’t respond how they thought it would respond and so I felt like you know that they missed him in that game the other day nothing against uh W Thomas but there were some coverage things that they had uh not that they had to try and you know that

The Buffalo threw the ball a bunch but there was some things that they had to do with him not being on the field to to kind of combat that so uh that that’s but all indications that he will be available this week all right um henkins

What’s the what’s it was that that one was I heard a couple of games so I don’t the anticipation he’s not going to be I anticipate him playing this week now man how much how much did they miss I thought last time I heard it was it his

Return would have been closer to like the playoffs well they they initially what I was here and I I asked the question are we looking at a couple of games here and that was before the Buffalo game so my anticipation was or my expectations were he was going to

Miss buffalo in Miami and then we’ll see what happens with Detroit yeah I don’t think it was any guarant high ankle sprain sometimes can take six weeks for a guy that size too that’s a problem yeah so I mean you know that was I think it’s even optimistic when you start

Talking about playoffs too like it’s just you just never know how that’s going to work out how much did they really miss like let’s start with hooker how much did they miss hooker this week well they did you know it it’s with W there’s there’s Buffalo didn’t throw the

Ball but but there things you have to play around when you don’t have your starting safety in uh and so that just that going into the game of okay how are we going to deal with their passing attack again it didn’t really matter you know but just having him back there

Having that veteran player back there uh you know with some of the routes that they did run uh you know it it kind of was it was a little bit of a you know when you have a starter out of the game now you’re playing W in there okay now maybe

Have a plan for w and some other things and so you can’t do that because he’s having a start the game so when you take starters out people don’t realize the the backups that go in have other roles that they have to play in the scheme and

I think that hurt them a little bit in that game let’s talk about uh Justin Houston he’s a linebacker that got released by Carolina uh I know I Ms saw on Twitter you you watched a little film on I did I watched him yesterday could

He fit any role for the Cowboys at you he he plays as a three four outside linebacker a little different than me he’s he’s very much like a when we start to talk about 34 it’s a standup position he’ll occasionally put his hand down uh

He is when you when you there were times uh he hasn’t played since the uh the Houston game which is in week nine so I was watching tape from week one through week nine and getting ideas he doesn’t have the juice he once had he doesn’t

Take on blocks like he once did when he was in Kansas City he you know they they were running the ball at him and then you know they were able to push him aside ball going up inside on him so as a pass rusher you know that that was

Kind of his calling card and I didn’t see that that normal that you when you start to talk about a guy like okay what’s his calling card that’s his ability to rush the passer there were times where he was getting single blocked quite a bit in these games and I

Just don’t see Dallas going that route all right let’s uh we’re going to take a quick early break uh and then we’re going to come back we’ll dive into the Miami offense and how they match up with this Cowboys defense we’ll be back dallascowboys.com radio Todd thought it would be secure to

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Presented by Captain Morgan by casting your vote at nfl.com/fantasy it is the second segment of the break we are live from s swbc mortgage Studios at the star of today we’re talking Cowboys versus Dolphins let’s Dive Right into this matchup talking specifically about the Miami offense uh before that though

Presented by blockchain.com all right here we go um let’s talk about Tyreek Hill because I think for me looking at this team he’s everything starts well you want to know where this game’s really going to hinge where is that it’s on the offensive line okay go there

First all right tell me about the offensive line it’s going to told you he did yeah no no and I and I want to say this because it it’s this is where you can win this football game and it and it’s going to affect how Hill and moster

And other these guys get opportunities in this game Tua throwing the ball this group is really banged up along the front and you watch them play and it was so clear watching them play the Jets even though they win the game 30 to nothing and all that you know the skill

On the outside great for the Dolphins quarterback playing at a very high level they are masking a lot of problems they’re having with this offensive line right now and I I just feel like I just feel like that with all the moving parts that they have Dallas has got to take

Advantage of this you got to take advantage of in the running game and then you also have to take a excuse me take advantage of it when they throw the football because that’s where the Dolphins could lose this football game in my opinion yet we you could talk

About Hill and waddle and you know and smite the tight end two you could talk about all these guys but if they can’t handle you up front that is going to be a problem for them and I feel like Dallas has the advantage here I really

Really do and I watch the Dolphins play they’ve got a couple uh uh Liam iberg is the is taken over for Conor Williams BL out his knee so now they’ve got a center who’s kind of banged up tow they weren’t practicing him last week you watch him

Play he struggles with any kind of movement he struggles to kind of get to the second level he struggles to take guys one-on-one he struggles with guys that Blitz on him so they’re using backup guys uh for here Kendall lamb is playing for uh for Jackson at tackle

Robert Jones has been out uh uh so uh Robert Jones has been in for hunt they Robert hunt has been out they’ve lost him they got all these problems right now they’re dealing with and what they’re off what they’re what Mike McDaniel is having to do is he is trying

To what like we’ve seen with Dan Quinn when he’s dealing to try and stop the or stop running game Mike McDaniel is trying now it’s the and when you hear me say this everybody freaks out it’s the pin and pull stuff because they can’t block they can’t block anybody

One-on-one yeah they can’t physically come off the ball and get and and push you like so they have to down block they have to pull guys they have to trap guys they have to you’re going to see some of the weirdest formations to run the football uh that you’ve ever seen in an

NFL game you know you’re can see multiple a fullback a tight end a back a quarterback all in the back field together you’re going to see uh two backs a tight end move you’re going to see they have to do things in order to run the ball now they got quality backs

But they have to do it because their offensive line can’t hold up right now with the way it is they just can’t come off and blow somebody off the ball and and it struggles and they struggle a little bit with protection too Tennessee got after them the pre Tennessee had

Five sacks in the game couple of the sacks were because of two of fumbled the ball the thing with two is he’s not going to run away from you he’s not going to scramble away from you so if you get pressure on him you know you

Close on him he’s likely going to go down so that’s the thing for Dallas but you clearly watch the film against the Jets it’s the quick as they’ve got the ball out all all year long and I have a feeling it’s going to be the same game

Plan this week against the Cowboys I think they’re going to be scared like we can’t get in a mode here where we let the Cowboys Rush okay now it turns into a running game can the Dolphins block you with this current configuration of their offensive line that’s going to be

Their their issues in this game that that’s going to be the problem we’ve seen matchups where teams have had some success with quick passing game is that something that what can Dallas do to offset that knowing coming in this game that’s probably what they’re going to

Want to do you just got to know it it to me I am not I you know I’m GNA I’m going to I’m going to take I’m going to take the quick death here is what I’m I’m not going to take slow death I’m not going

To back up and let these you know these receivers can run don’t get me wrong I’m going to play these guys at press coverage though I’m going to make them try and win off the line which you know you probably could but but Tua wants to

Get rid I mean he wants maybe it’s not going to go with the quick game it goes to uh Smite the tight end it goes to one of these backs you know maybe you keep it away because that’s what the Jets were able to do yeah they hit on a deep

Ball down the field it was off of play action they got the protection the ball went way down the field but overall though I mean the Jets were getting pressure on him you know and so the I think with the quick game it might mean okay they they they’re going to throw

The ball maybe it goes more to the backs I could say more the tight ends maybe they try and get the receivers going uh in some of the inside breaking and things like that they’re a huge run after catch team yeah that’s their that’s their game like 50 like 54 55% of

Their offense a run after catch is what that is but what you have to do though is I think you have to disrupt their routes at the line don’t give them the free access if you’re going to die die a quick death don’t die a slow death you

Know by playing off and just letting them hit balls all day on you real quick going back to the o line and the issues that you mentioned for how long like how long has it been of them dealing with these they’ve dealt with it the last several weeks the last three games

They’ve had some problems with this line it’s now to the point where it’s like critical for them I think this is I I I just feel like that Dallas has an advantage against this offensive line with the with their personnel against this offensive line can Dallas take

Advantage of that that’s going to be the biggest that’s going to be the key in this football game it we we could talk about Hill and Wadd and all and all these other guys but but but if if Miami is able with this offensive line with

Banged up as it is blocks the Cowboys front Dallas deserves to lose this football game Dallas’s off defensive line is better than what this what this Miami this current Miami offensive line is configured right now when you look at this offense from the standpoint of their skill positions we talked about a

Little bit T cut you off on that one no no no that that’s actually great great uh it actually leads into where I’m going with this Tyreek Hill I could see a situation where Dallas may go in this game and say okay cool let’s press yeah

What I worry about is even if they don’t press what we’ve seen from this the these cornerbacks sometimes is they can get duped and and the double move can get them and if they get time you’re not going to if he’s even with you he’s going to leave you like he’s got that

Kind of speed how do you offset the speed of Tyreek hill whatever football God you pray to start praying now well pray pray to this that you know he’s banged up I mean that ankle is a significant injury for him that’s a high ankle sprain that he’s having to deal

With right now now and that’s something that you know I mean I I’d say he’s limited this guy okay I’m not it’s not government secrets or anything this one of the most dynamic weapons in the National Football League yeah we all have seen this guy puts fear in the

Hearts of defensive backs by the way he plays you’re terrified you know they get what they call three by one they get trips they get one they you know they put him in that Bunch they don’t let you double him he moves around he catches balls underneath he goes down the field

You know he’s going to go all over the field to catch the football so you have to be ready for that if you’re going to travel with him you have to be ready for that he is going to line up all the place you try and double him you know

Try and and this is where you need like guys like hooker and others to maybe to be able to bracket guys like this you know but I’m not giving these guys free access I I’m just not I’m not I’m I’m going to try and disrupt them at the

Line of scrimmage I’m GNA try and bang them around and if Tu wants to get the ball out then throw it into some in throw it into some uh cont Ed coverage I’m I’m not giving two any cuz two is already accurate enough throwing the football he is he he he’s underneath at

The line of scrimmage he he’s almost perfect when it’s down the field though that’s when it’s a little bit of a problem for him you know down the field like he’s I was looking at just some of the metrics on him interceptions left hash six you know down the field there’s

Some problems down there he’s not as accurate with some of his throws so I’m trying to make this as much of a contest game because if they’re going to throw quick you might as well be in the receiver’s face and make them have to make them have to fight for the ball as

Good as their offense has been there have been some games this year where teams have limited them they remind me a little bit of the Cowboys it’s kind of feast or famine like they can really blow you up they put up 70 on on Denver but they also had two games where they

They were under 200 yards passing both at Philadelphia and at Kanas City what did those teams do Philadelphia Philadelphia did a great job of when the ball was out they tackled great in that game Philadelphia I mean they didn’t allow any type of run after catch it was

Throw guy in play and it seemed like that every time that that Philadelphia excuse me that Miami ran motion and then were trying to they have a design motion and then throw the ball there was somebody in a kelly green jersey standing right there just waiting there

I mean they were disciplined I mean we we’ve seen Philadelphia just completely fall apart in the secondary they were outstanding in this game when it came to their coverage and then playing assignments and when when receivers came into their area but then again the Philadelphia pass rush affected Miami

You know Tua goes back he’s he’s feeling he’s feeling he’s feeling he’s trying to get rid of the ball but then you got the secondary you got coverage down there that that’s the teams have been able to play with some discipline you can’t I get it you’re scared of these receivers

They’re they’re they are they’re scary men when the way they play for a defensive back yeah but I’ll tell you what so this offensive line they’re having to mask things to get offense because they’re not good enough right now when you mentioned that they uh they

Do a lot of pin and pulls and that kind of stuff how much does the speed of their running back we talk a lot about the speed of of Hill yeah but man they got some runners in the back field with moard and with hn how much does that

Present a problem especially in a situation where because of the pin and pull kind of things like those all you need is a quick hit and if you got a quick back you can actually that’s the thing about it and the Jets did a pretty good job of this though

When the ball was going to the inside they the Jets were the Dolphins weren’t doing anything everything was let’s try and and if if it’s a you know they get what they call pistol formation where they stand directly behind behind and he turns and hands the ball and then they

Try and get to the outside or they’ll go they’ll send misdirection they’ll send the line one way back will counter step and then they come back the other and just toss in the outside they’ll crack on the outside that’s where that’s where I mean to me this is where you have to

Win you have to win on the edge you cannot let Smite the tight end pin you inside you can’t let Cedric Wilson pin you inside you got to know they’re going to want to run the ball you see a tight split and it’s Cedric Wilson number 11

You’re thinking he’s about to crack my ass you know so I got to be ready for this I got to be able and see that’s what happened to Michael Parsons the other day he got cracked he tried to spin out of it but it’s too late balls

Already so you have to play with some awareness in this game you know you can’t you know is and Tank’s really good at this too he understands like okay that guy right there is going to going to block down on me and they’re going to pull this guy I can read his stance

Right now Dallas has got to play with some anticipation in this game especially the way the Dolphins run the football when you look at a guy like cook obviously I don’t I don’t personally think he has more skill than these backs uh that you’re playing this weekend what would give you reason to

Believe that Dallas can actually match up with this running game better than what they did against cook yeah just I just I I go back to the offensive line I you’ve got to win you you Dallas got penetration in a lot in and in several of the snaps against Buffalo the ball

Just bounced on him you know you have got to play with some discipline in this game if you’re if you’re a backside Defender and you’re chasing the ball down inside and it bounces around the corner and all of a sudden it’s a a 10 yard gain because you didn’t play

Assignment that’s that’s on the defense because you’re winning on the front side but on the back side you’re not doing your job so I I I I would say that that Dan Quinn this week had practiced a lot of that hey let’s not let but the thing with the dolphins Buffalo will bounce

The ball the Dolphins are a attack attack and then or throw or get the ball to the outside so you’re naturally going to see it’s not a lot of bouncing going on it’s a lot of all right we’re determined that we’re going to go outside and they have to do that because

Their line can’t hold up in the running game if they have to play Toe to Toe with somebody I’m going to take you back to that offensive line where is the biggest point of failure for that offensive line that maybe Dallas can explore yeah they they they’ go to

They’ve got to work on the center though they’ve absolutely I talk about ikenberg the center he he’s a backup and the thing we all know Connor Williams Conor Williams was a really good athlete so Conor Williams has got a little bit of that uh of the of the Jason Kelce uh

Kind of that that kind of you know the play with him with the ability to pull and do all well he’s out he’s gone so now there they they’re in a situation where they don’t have a second level blocker he’s I he can’t get up on and he

Can’t sustain and also think lamb the right tackle Kendall lamb those were two areas right there where I kind of saw a guy you know Center can’t get in there and the right tackle given ground you know tank needs to like needs to drive because Tu is going to stand there Tu is

Going to try and you know he’s going to try and left hand make that throw and you know that’s that’s affecting him from that backside there yeah so if you’re right tackle poor that’s that’s where Micah and and and and Lawrence and these guys they need to work that but

They also need to work the middle because if you can if you get Tua to get that where he just stands there you can get him on the ground he is not going to run away from you like the quarterbacks that you’ve played the last couple of

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Back it is the final segment of the break we are live from s swbc mortgage Studios at the star we’re going to do a little player evaluation I got some names I’m going to throw at you and I want you guys to tell me what you think

Of their play uh maybe last weekend we can talk a little bit about it from that game but also just in general where are they and what you expect from them I guess into this game and in the coming games down the stretch let’s start with

Mazy Smith you know this one is a um cuz I’m a I am a fan of Mazy Smith and I’m fan of Mazy Smith because I don’t see a bad football player and I know people that uh you know the fan base I get it you know you’re expecting more from Mazy

Smith you see what Carter’s doing in Philadelphia he’s a first round pick uh there’s a lot you know where the Cowboys are struggling with run defense and all of a sudden Mazy Smith is supposed to be a run Defender and he’s not help in the situation I wish I had the opportunity

To sit down and I tweeted this last night I wish I had the opportunity to sit down with fans and watch the all 22 of Mazy Smith play Just so you get a little bit better of appreciation is Mazy Smith perfect no he’s absolutely not it’s been well documented we talk

About it whether it’s on this platform or on 1053 the fan on those shows when Mazy Smith is laid off the ball he’s a terrible football player he’s laid off the ball that’s a problem and that happens not all the time but there were times in the Buffalo game that he was

Actually when you watched him play and the way he was able to get rid of guys and and get and and and force the ball to balce and stuff it was because of Mazy Smith Mazy Smith played better in that game than Oso Digi zua played

Better I mean he played better than than Carl Davis who was in there a veteran player you know there were guys at defensive tackle that didn’t play very well Mazy Smith did he play great no absolutely not and I’m not sitting here defending it sounds like I’m defending

Mazy Smith but I think if people sat down and watched him play snap after snap after snap after snap you would have a different appreciation for him or you would say okay I see some of those things why they drafted him and I I’m I’m not defending him and I’m not

Defending the scouting staff for picking him but but there are times when this guy does exactly what he’s supposed to do and I don’t think people see that all the time and they and it’s lwh hanging fruit to me and I trust me I’ve dealt with all of you on Twitter I’ve dealt

With you you know you can come after me at Brian Broadus I know you will CU you always do you know but I challenge you to get that all 22 and sit down you don’t have to be a former Scout to figure this out go watch him play there

Are things about him that you see that he’s better than the guy playing next to him in those games so that’s that’s my two cents about Mazy Smith is he is he is he is he the is he a perfect player right now absolutely not but he is not

The bus that everybody thinks he is I think um it is Fair like we do get frustrated at times because we have set our own expectations of him and sometimes and that is quote unquote to be expected when you draft a first round pick you expect them to be the guy right

Away step on that field and and not have any issues be impactful and the reality is not everyone can do that we see how big of a change there is between year one and year two with these guys their B is um how much they learned how much

They changed throughout and to be fair he wasn’t drafted to be the main guy just yet they had they had signed Jonathan henkins back on the team and Mazy I think he’s shown he started to show so so Improvement like Brian said he’s not perfect and I don’t think he’s

Going to be for what’s left of the season but I do believe that he’s going to be so much better next year he’s going to he he’s going to grow from this and be a better player and become hopefully the type of player that the Cowboys drafted him to be but right now

I get it fans get mad but it’s it it’s early it’s early to say or call him a bust because you can’t just call someone a bust on year one yeah well that’s but that’s the that’s the world we live in and hey I I get it fans I I I totally I

I understand where you’re coming from you’re frustrated you’re your team got gashed bad and you’re thinking well why do you draft a guy he’s supposed to be a run Defender I could deal with him not getting sacks but but look where the ball was run mhm the ball wasn’t if you

If you if you look at the metrics the ball we I said it to you left outside 10 carries 82 yards that’s that’s not at Mazy Smith you know maybe a little bit of that with Mazy Smith and those guys of the tackles but Mazy Smith was not the problem in

That game the other day you had it was there was a he was part of was he the main problem no was he part of the problem sure if you want to put it on if you want to put it on the defense for how they played yeah absolutely let me

Ask you this question because I’ve heard a couple people mention this and I think it’s at least a fair thought right yeah is do you put blame on the defensive tackles and Mazy being a part of that more from the standpoint that you know when you have these safeties playing

Down in the Box they cannot handle a 300 pounder that gets onto them are the tackles not doing enough to keep those linebackers free so they can flow to the ball and maybe that would stop some of those outside runs I think the fact is that it you talk about keeping free free

Is about your ability to go run and you know and and so what happens is you get linebackers or these safeties that are playing linebacker maybe they need to flow a little faster when you’re not when you’re a sa is that about recognition yes you’re down there playing safety you’re a safety and

You’re playing linebacker there’s different sight lines that you have why guys like Shawn Lee Leighton Vander those guys you know they anticipated plays they saw away the guy that can anticipate plays and sometimes is too aggressive is Donovan Wilson you put Donovan Wilson down there sometimes he he’s overly aggressive running to the

Football so sometimes you know if you hesitate if you hesitate even even a split second playing linebacker they’re going to find a way to block you no matter who gets Who who how you’re holding up guys it’s not all combination blocks getting to the second level it that’s not you know

You know when you play as a when you play as a one technique you know you’re sitting there holding blocks but you play as a three you’re trying to kind of get up to you’re not holding blocks because they could the the guard can the

Guard can take you and then you know the backside Center can get up I mean it it’s there’s a lot of different things it’s not all about just holding up blocks inside it’s about anticipation and seeing where the ball’s going and getting to the ball and they’ve had

Problems with that with these with these safeties playing as linebackers it’s tough for them asking a lot for them to do in that situation talk to me about Deone Clark he’s he has not done as well as I thought he was going to do I thought that I I think last year Deone

Clark for him to come off the injury that he did and play the way that he did and and come back with Leighton Vander he was clearly a better player when he you know when he when he had with without Lon vanderesh uh it’s I think

It’s been a struggle for him I think he doesn’t see the I don’t think he always reads the play correctly I don’t think he reads the scheme in front of him correctly I don’t think he anti anticipates fast enough he could be a guy that when he gets in space he can

Make a tackle he could be physical but the problem is though he appears to play lost more than he does having the awareness of what he needs to do in the scheme that that that that’s an issue you could talk about holding up blocks all day like I was talking about but if

You don’t have the anticipation to read the play to get downhill to make the tackle to knife through to be that type of a football player you’re not going to win at that level yeah he’s such a talented player but again expectations our expectations were different in

Thinking that he could become a lead role um not everyone can be at dur own blend not everyone can step into a higher role where you’re asking more of them and be successful at it sometimes there are just leading roles and you’re just part of the cast supporting

Everybody else and I think the only thing that I’m going back to in justifying or giving them some Grace is because of all the injuries that the defense has suffered you talk about all the different things that you’re having to ask all these other guys and having

To make up for what’s already missing on the field and that’s tough to do so that’s the only thing but but absolutely don’t we did have even going back to last year him coming back so quickly from the injury him playing the way that he was playing I think it would

Be fair to say that right now we would be or I was expecting to see him shine better a lot more right now I year two I thought year two they was going to take that jump and it hasn’t he’s actually he’s actually probably in my mind gone

Down a couple of notches from where he was playing is any of that about health is there is there any I don’t know I I mean I I to me when you watch him play he looks like a healthy player out there I just think I think there’s some things that with instinct

Awareness understanding uh sometimes at linebacker you have to be a good guesser sometimes you have to take a gamble that okay I’m G to shoot this Gap and it’s going to work and I haven’t seen any of that from him and tough and I do

Remember like I I think all of us were very excited about I was but but also watching him play in college you like this guy is a playmaker he can make happen that’s exactly right and and you just haven’t seen that happen yet and uh and I’m hopeful that

That that’s just matter of he’s got to get acclimated to the game and it even goes back to the point you were making about being able to anticipate it it’s hard to expect that Bell would have that linebacker anticipation and that eye that a linebacker has to have when he’s

Never played linebacker he’s having to learn that he could run he could run and the one thing that Bell will do is he if he sees it he will go yeah and I think with Clark Clark there’s that little bit of hesitation you can’t have that hesitation to play linebacker in this

League yeah I was going to say even with Leighton it took him a about maybe two years cuz I know he had a great first year starting out and then in the in between when sea Lee came back and all that he Leon he kind of lost that and

You watched his his game and not to compare him to sha Lee but sha Lee was great at it with just guessing and anticipating and going for it before you know just knowing where to go or guess where the play was going and you saw

That a lot in in Leighton so him lacking that kind of skill or trait but then eventually he found it and he got better at it even when he was playing still you saw him be such a much like such a better player with in the maturity of it

It’s more of just the knowledge and being out there the amount of of snaps that you’re out there the amount of time that you’re out there it comes with the years of experience and being a veteran all right I got three more names for you and I’m take them all in one category

Carl Davis Oso oiga Neville gallamore I know you mention the tit the defensive tackles what were your thoughts on how they played that game and where they can be better going into this next yeah the the problem was I thought this was oa’s worst game by far uh there was he he was

Not he he he didn’t where he usually is winning is off the off the line and they were they they they handled him very well the blocking schemes the combination blocks the single blocks they handled him in this game he got up field a couple of times went past a play

You know and he wasn’t able to redirect back to get a play Carl Davis started off really poor in the game matter of fact the very one of the first plays he’s in he went to the ground he got better the last uh say three or four

Plays that he played in the game uh that he had to go in there and play there was a little bit better movement a little bit better you talk about taking on blocks he was able to grab a couple of guys and kind of freeze some guys up

Running uh to the ball gallamore had a tackle along the sidelines that I remember where he got to the outside and actually chased the play but didn’t play a whole heck of a lot I just think overall the defensive tackle group as a as a whole uh was nowhere where it

Needed to be they need to win inside this week with the configuration that the Dolphins have if they don’t they’re going to probably lose this football game but they’re capable of playing well against this uh this inside three for the Dolphins yeah um I mean if you were

To give some if you’re going based off this game against Buffalo there’s nothing positive you can say because it was an absolute domination against them so there’s absolutely nothing that I can recall that was good but um Neville and Osa they’ve shown that they can be really good that they are talented

Player alsoa I absolutely love the way he plays and to me I don’t see that being kind of the standard of the the level of play um so I don’t know I think that they’re they’re talented player this was a bad game and I hope they can

Bounce back Carl I’ll be honest I haven’t seen a whole lot of him and the the couple of plays that I did see where I was specifically just watching him it didn’t impress me it just looked like someone that just kind of kind of knew to being out there on the field right

There with everybody else so let’s give it some time and see what they’ve been working on this week and see how they can he doesn’t have the movement that henkins has yeah it’s more of a stationary type of a player you miss that with henkins and his ability to

Play down the down the line Davis doesn’t give you that real quick before we end the show W Thomas what do we see from him he did have a more pronounced role what do we see from him I’ll tell you what what I was watching with him

Though to me there was a couple times with the ball he was coming downhill forced the ball out of bounds I thought he was going to be more of a physical player in this game I think he was worried about everybody was kind of worried about Buffalo and the potential

Of throwing the football but then it turned into just a running game I thought he needed to be more involved going downhill and making plays and you know that that was just a kind of a a little bit of a hit and miss thing for him it wasn’t that game where I thought

He he’s he could have shown up and been a big presence he it it just didn’t work out for him that way the one thing I like about him and I I think and again I wouldn’t be able to list everybody like the fastest player in the whole list he

Is a fast guy and I think he can bring some of that speed that maybe sometimes you’re lacking on on the secondary so that’s one aspect of his game that I do like and I think um he can find and take advantage of that part but yeah like you

Said Brian there’s still a lot of stuff that he he hasn’t been out there much so you you still you’re seeing that happen and it’s unfair to kind of Mega criticize him when he hasn’t given that been given that whole amount of chance just yet all right we appreciate you

Guys joining us we’ll be back tomorrow we’ll wrap this thing up I’m sorry tomorrow no we’ll get into the the Dolphins defense versus the Cowboys offense I’m thinking it’s Friday already it’s Thursday wish all right we appreciate you guys join us we’ll back tomorrow for Brian BR stanberg Garcia

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