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Our roundtable of local beat writers take a look at the Miami injury report, what the blueprint is to beat the Dolphins, and discuss the Cowboys’ recent special teams miscues.

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The following is a production of dallascowboys.com and the dallascowboys football club how about themo cowbo this is Media Mash a round table of cowboys insiders dropping wisdom and offering sizzling taste on the current state of your Dallas Cowboys now your host newie Scruggs all right here we are Med

Mash red star in Frisco home of the Dallas Cowboys s swbc podcast Studio we’ve got the author Sean jacqu Taylor we a riding today um I mean we I mean we ride every day we ain’t riding today yeah you ain’t got your horse today I was thrown off today no horse I was

Thrown off today let’s ride I mean come on man let’s ride here we go uh yeah yeah let’s ride got beat last week but um Joe ja Taylor uh he’s got the book coach Prime excellent Christmas gift so if you’re in the last minute shopping

Thing go ahead go go go get the book on Amazon go buy the stores go ahead pick it up the car Styles cowboys.com I like that shirt looking good looking good clar Hillar telegram I am new scru wow so like your jacket thank you sir I appreciate apprciate appreciate the love

Yeah it looks good appreciate appreciate the love sirate excellent I I love where purple and gold um according to Cameron wolf he says the Dolphins have a lot of injuries ahe of Sunday’s game against the Cowboys is not spotted at practice today entire starting line uh Tyreek Hill zaven

Howard Raheem moard and Devon aain all right so you hear that Jack what you say Tyreek probably making another baby wow wow wow DN that’s probably why he was abing today limited groin I mean is that his deal U here has an ankle from two weeks

Ago okay got hurt on M got hurt on what did you think what did you think Miami does integ great veteran rest day similar to how Dallas does Raheem moer hasn’t practiced a Wednesday all season so that’s that’s one example but uh Tyreek Hill I I fully expect him to go

This week he almost went this past week against the Jets and as far as the starting offensive line goes uh the starting center that’s the only one that I’m concerned about as far as not playing the rest of them they’ll be they should be fine and ready to go all right

Mr Hill yeah I mean I I think the big question is is Tyreek you know that offense is certainly different with the without Tyreek heeld and and so uh I think yeah certainly the line has been an issue certainly the great Conor Williams who’s actually revived his

Career and been a pretty good starter down in Miami after you know being a so-called bus well something but they put him in the right position but he’s a center and he’s been good and and so that’s been a setback for the offensive line not having car Williams but you know they

Bounced back certainly last week have went over the Jets but you know Tyreek Hill is is is the one you know will he play he had uh ankle sprain a couple weeks ago he didn’t sat out last week prob targeting this game they know they could beat the Jets without him me at

Home give extra week to play and certainly uh you know that’s something you know after what the Cowboys could not handle the speed in in Buffalo this they on another level with a whole lot of track stars uh with Miami and it’s not just Hill it starts with Hill and

You know but you got a chain you got moer uh you got Wadd I mean they can get up and Miss 12 tackles by four of them going to the house yeah yeah yeah they they they can get up and go so it’s job one for the Cowboys whose defense uh is

Embarrassed and and Miss tackles you know I talked to uh we we talked to Gilmore today and he said it was it was the physicality you know the lack of physicality getting pushed around and you know that was part of the Miss tackles but that’s the thing that was

Most embarrassing about the defense because they are a physical team and they don’t miss a lot of tackles and that showed up embarrassingly against Buffalo just looking at statistics NFL offensive leaders uh total of yards Miami’s number one San Francisco’s number two Detroit’s number three buffalo number four you look at passing

Miami’s number one San Francisco’s number two Kansas City’s number three Detroit’s number four rushing Baltimore is one Detroit’s two San Francisco is three Miami is number four then looking here when you dive more into the rushing totals and you look at the Cowboys uh losses this year you look at the top

Eight teams um Philly’s on that list Arizona’s on that list Buffalo’s on that list San Francisco’s on that list this is a bad matchup when you look at this right now Nick yeah especially when you factoring all of the speed and you think of how this defense has not

Done well against speed so far this season and the things that jump to mind immediately are Rond Del Moore against against the Cardinals Keenan Allen against the Chargers uh you could point to Debo against the 49ers I mean it’s happened all season and then you uh you

Throw in four Big Time speed weapons two at receiver two out of the back field I mean their fifth fastest guy is their punt returner that’s that’s crazy that Braxton baros is the guy that’s returning stuff for them so yeah they’re going to they’re going to have their

Hands full they’re going to have their hands full and that was that was kind of the rhetoric around the locker room today too was talking to guys and how do you limit the speed Stefon Gilmore was saying it’s going to be a big challenge you got to press them off the line get

Your hands on them as soon as they release and then try to keep everything underneath so it’s going to be big if Malle hooker can’t go again this week and trying to keep everything underneath again yeah ain’t no free releases this week man AB that’s uh especially with

All the but all the motion they use is designed to get free releases and so you know that’s it’ll be interesting to see how they match up but they also got to play better on offense and that will help their defense yeah and and it’s

It’s also a rushing cover I mean you you you want to help the defensive backs get to the quarterback well no that’s actually the best way like okay you got all the speed in the world we going to put you a quarterback on his butt worried about it right have him running

Around but yeah you know when you say no free releases but if you miss that that bump hey man it’s over yeah but if if you don’t get that yeah but if you don’t even try to bump it’s over you know but yeah one thing Gilmore talked about is

It’s it’s going to be a team effort it’s going to be a team running to the ball tacking effort you know and and the funny thing about it you know obviously you have to respect the speed so you want to take anle you want to give ground what against Tyreek Hill you

Playing right your hands I want you to take angles give ground and I can you know give that ground I can put that Juke on you yeah you know and take it the other direction so it’s a huge Challenge and Jack is right the the the Cowboys have had success this year you

Know because the offense has set the tone getting the lead early putting the defense in different situations you know you going to need to control the ball with the offense you know keep Tyreek and those guys on the sideline and score and make plays on offense and that’s

What they didn’t do against Buffalo you mentioned uh getting the ball out quick that’s or are trying to limit them getting the ball out quick to a tag of vioa this year averaging 2.38 uh 2.38 seconds and snap to throw it’s the fastest in the league so they’re gonna

Have to get after him try to get hit and we right and we we talk about the cowo to play above the 23 they like to play below the 2.3 you know what I’m saying cuz that’s been a talk all year but above 2.3 what you do above the 2.3 well

Well that’s what you want to to or to play above the 2.3 that’s when he makes mistakes yes yeah so Vic Fel is on the other side we know coach soul is a offensive coordinator for the for the Dolphins and so Vic fangio was the first guy that came out there here’s a

Blueprint how to beat the the blueprint I’m glad you brought it up the blueprint he was with the Denver Broncos and he’s now with the dolphins and they’ve got Jaylen Ramsey back here so what what’s our uh what’s our what’s what’s our concern level about what coach V can go

Out here and do clearance well as you know with the blueprint back then was you know manto man being physical to receivers you know playing bu a run they can’t get off you know in tight coverages you know you know you have a different receiving core now you know

And so you have guys who you know uh Cooks you know who can beat manto man and and get open you know you hope you got a tight end that they can make plays but it’s going to be again they talked about they going to play the same vision type defense

They’re going to play the two- out safeties make you beat them underneath you know make you go the long way and that has to be accurate certainly more accurate and he got to be patient yeah but patient and more accurate than he was last week against Buffalo because he

Was he was off the Mark I think the one thing that he will have this week is time um I think this offensive line will be able to give him time um and they’re going to have to I think this is going to have to be a shootout type game for

The Cowboys to be able to go in there and take a victory away um but yeah all the actions going to happen in the short to intermediate game because they’re they’re going to try their best to keep everything uh under the under the too high safety look um so it’s going to be

Really important for lamb Cooks all those guys get across the middle get open and find some production I agree and and and let’s stay away from Jaylen Ramsey people don’t throw on him when you do throw on him usually pick it off stay away from Jaylen Ramsey you

Know well that means you got to move I mean what if you can’t stay away if he wants to travel this week yeah well he can travel all you want to throw the other guy you know you got to get you got to you know you know make your

Living and and and zav Howard is good but you you can you can make plays on him he going to get some too but but Jaylen Ramsey you know you don’t really eat on Jaylen Ramsey with that in mind Jake Ferguson needs to have a big day I

Think there’s a lot of opportunities in the middle of the field against this defense get him open across the middle there might be some things that work how much should we look at the home field for Miami they’ve only lost one game all year at home that was that Tennessee

Game and they had 12 14 points late in the fourth and then gave that up there uh we talked so much about the Cowboys and how they play on the road so so what’s our thought process well you know it’s funny because you know I was

Talking to Omar Kelly and U in Miami and the same stuff that people say about the Cowboys say about the dolphins that you know they don’t beat good teams you know they call this the they call this the fraud Bowl you know you know the Imposter Bowl the the pre Contender Bowl

You know that’s what that’s the word down in Miami it’s so much that it it was funny because I look on Twitter early today surprise surprise but the McDaniel told his team when if the if the if media asked him anything about that narrative that narrative you know

Tell them you know shut the f up you know don’t or don’t answer you know and we’re only focusing talking about the Cowboys when I feed into your narratives about not being able to beat a good team and and all this other stuff but but that’s part of yeah they’ve been good at

Home and they you know obviously you can’t give up the ghost against Tennessee and that was again a game you know without Tyreek Hill but they’ve been good at home you know and again they haven’t beaten teams with winning records same thing about the Cowboys but

Yeah but it’s it’s not about them being good as home it’s about the Cowboys being so bad on the road got and and the frustrating thing about it for the Cowboys is they have no idea why they have no idea how to fix it you know Michael Parson said

Mindboggling okay that press said if I knew you know how to fix it I’ve never been in a I don’t I can’t answer the question why are we so good at home and so bad in the road I mean they have no they we that’s the mindset that’s the

Focus that’s to talk about but they have no idea I got one obvious idea and it ain’t even complicated flip the schedules put the home schedule put the road schedule in at AT&T and put the home schedule on the road and we be sitting there why are they struggling at

Home and they can they can win on the road they playing much better teams on the road now they ain’t got to get blown out well but but it’s not just the losses it’s it’s it’s the no-show performances that that’s the really thing what getting beaten by double digits by Arizona is unforgivable

Getting blown out by the r i mean 49ers and when you don’t compete that’s Unforgivable four losses all have in common these all been teams whove run on you we just mentioned before by the top top 18 right the these are the matchups they well the Eagles can run they didn’t

Run the second game I’m there other teams who want to run I mean Arizona ran on them but they’re not a good team they ain’t running nobody else all I’m saying Clarence is we look here at the top eight teams rushing the football they went on the road there’s four of that

They got BB here’s the other thing D and this is not complicated so I ain’t breaking news when plays are there you have to make them meaning second play to game I’m watching Brandon Cooks run wide open cuz he running toward the end zone

I’m like damn they F to hit him for six right they needed to and I so we talk about that okay that’s that should be six you talk about run the ball and take it off your putter foot that should be that should turn into a touchdown the

Plays are there to be made they didn’t make them so if you make them this week and you have a chance to win I’m glad you brought that up and so you’re looking at it should have been a black punt what I’m looking at it shouldn’t

Have been a rough in the punter penalty you know at at least have some discipline and not hit the punter cuz they’re off the field that’s that’s a score well if you if you now I ain’t no coach but if you use the proper techniques which I’ve heard which is

Take it off his foot as opposed to jump okay okay I’m glad you brought it up because the difference between jumping the most undisciplined player on the team the last two years okay who got the most special team p on the team last two years you going to talk about if you use

The proper technique when has he ever used the proper technique why are you you putting a guy who does not use proper technique who has more personal 15 yard penalties penalties since he showed up to anybody in that position to make that play and say use the proper

Technique that’s why McCarthy cussed out the special teams coach that’s say that’s why you saw a conversation with him and fossil like what and fossil admitted he said cuz cuz also fossil went rogue because uh he been to do that the Dirty Little Secret is he didn’t

Tell McCarthy he was putting block on it was return on he did he put a oneman block on with the most undisciplined player on the team so you can say well if he did it right now it’s the point why you doing it all with got trusted

Him to do it right why you trusted a guy what what did Bill parcel say dumb players do dumb things smart players new deck City M Scotty smart player do smart Mario people ask Scotty about what he did who he bet on yeah I bet on you you

Know I know we I know we love John fossil around here and it’s it’s it’s Justified he he’s great at developing he does phenomenal things for the guys that he brings in and his able to you know keep around but that’s back toback weeks now where it’s a coaching decision that

Led to a big special teams play for the other team so we’re talking about the Sam Williams play and you go back to the week before and it’s Jaylen Tolbert not seeing the fake punt that I feel like everybody in America knew was coming you

Know and he had took it he took account for that the next day and coordinator availability so it’s like you know we can’t we you can’t see those stacked coaching decisions get affected especially in special teams because that’s where the money is made sometimes yes sir you cannot lose that phase of

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Um guys I don’t like the match up no it’s not right now I don’t like the match up so this so this I I start to ask this you go to you jacqu Taylor how much of this is just a pride performance for the Cowboys to come back after

Looking so bad on national TV I don’t care about none of that if I’m a player it ain’t even about a pride thing it’s like the division is still there this is I mean screw some pride go win go get your shot at the division cuz that team

Up north the Philadelphia team they look Shady right now they should win but they look Shady they infighting they moaning they groaning opportunity is there and so we don’t know how it’s going to play out if you both went out so who cares about Pride the division is there go see

If you can go take it there are three major areas of concern that I look at in this game one the road as we’ve talked about three and four on the road so far this season and even worse against good teams number two deal being able to deal

With speed we’ve talked about that Tyreek Hill moard hn ETC number three being able to account for a good Rush offense and being able to defend that especially without Jonathan henkins if they can win that game and battle all three of those concerns and that’s a huge toward Pride I I would definitely

Say so but that doesn’t lead me to believe that there should be confidence going into this game if you’re a Cowboys fan but one thing you know you say it should have be a boon in the Cowboys you know you know for the Cowboys they haven’t lost backto Back Games MH since

2020 you know they have a history of bouncing back when you think that they can’t huh when you think that they they have a history of bouncing back you know they don’t lose back toback games I don’t know if they face The Gauntlet like Buffalo and Miami back to back on

The road m mhm you know I don’t know if they did now early in the season you know they lost to San Francisco got embarrassed then they had to go back to the chars we thought the charers pretty good and they you know they bounced back and played well against the Chargers on

The road but on the road you know you know but this is not the Chargers if we not I mean the uh Miami is not at home but not the Chargers at home and certainly we’ve seen what the Chargers have turned into so this this is a big

Road to I think that boun that bounce back streak dies you know I mean I would pick Miami yeah I think that bounce back one thing that we haven’t talked about that kind of has been under the radar and we giving him a pass oh who we giv a

Pass too cuz I snatch you back in Mazy Smith who gave him a pass what do you mean who gave him a pass I I went back you know I I read a story today about Cowboys need more from Mai Smith and you know last week Mike McCarthy was talking

About ma is doing good you know you don’t understand life in the a gap and I know he was a first round pick but it’s a veteran you know defensive line room and all this other stuff you know m Draft Day M Smith they told me I need to

Be elite run Defender first I need to come in and be elite run Mike MC talked about we looked at our defense and this is what we is a perfect fit for us to help our because we know people going to pass on us we know we know we stopped

The pass get the pass rushing we know we turn the ball up we had improved the run defense myy Smith was the pick first round pick to come in and immediately be a plug for that hole you know now was Jonathan hins a veteran he’s played well

And Miley Smith had 12 and 11 snaps the previous two weeks against Philadelphia and Seattle that’s not playing much uh he was forced on the field cuz Henkin got hurt and the Cowboys you know gave up more rushing yards than anybody than ever under Dan Camp I mean Dan Quinn

Excuse me uh now that all wasn’t ma Smith cuz they did some outside there was a lot of wanted but the point is the Cowboys need more should demand more from the guy they drafted in the first round to stop the run the be a elite run

Stopper on his defense he not been there what if there isn’t you can demand it all you want what if it ain’t there well then then that qu that then then it’s a disappointment cover cover they they’ve been covering for him he’s been a liability they don’t they don’t it’s not

Their job to come out and say our first round pick ain’t no good or our first you know I think uh and this kind of thing Nick gets off of is you know do do you I don’t know no what I’m about to say which is you know they going to sit

Up there and say and and I have it would make sense to me why I would not like this you sat up there and drafted a read and react nose tackle guy who’s supped to slow off the ball cuz that’s what he been doing for four years

I don’t know what you can ask the dude you’ve been playing this way for four years come in and now go attack and and be like well how come you haven’t done it cuz that ain’t what you did in college for four years when you were

Prepping for this role so instead I mean Mazy Smith has not done what was expected but the Cowboys organization put them expectations on him when they took him so all saying is and I hear you but remember training again I like to hit people I’m brute strength I got

Strong strong okay I did hit you know we have not seen none of thatall you know I don’t I like hitting people right we we’ve seen none of that you know and and I’m saying is it’s not his fault but at the end of the day you need him to play

Now because hkin is there and you invested in a first round pick and the fact that you know we are we go back to Bobby cup when the first round pick ain’t played that’s a story no it’s a big story first round when when your star linebacker tells you I told the

First round pick that we need him this week all of that and that’s why I you get exposed you look up on TV down there in the Red Zone you getting turned around all that so I’m just saying what what I’m saying is you can want him to

Give more that just might not be more to give well then then that’s the problem against coming to these next two games these team that like like to run the ball and you go to Washington and this one problem go back to you know this not

Showing up on the road you know show up last year at season in in Washington and so uh last year so you know it’s the same is true all three of these games you know you got to be able to stop the run show up on the road you need I’m

Sorry you need your your first round pick to to to show a he got to give you some yeah that that this he got to but I’m my only point is you can want to give something and if it ain’t there then it just ain’t there you can tell me

By it you ain’t I’m asking him to give me something Hein capable do the bottom line is this you you can say all that you want to and it it may not be his fault but I didn’t said I just said he might not be that dude that’s fine and

Then quietly two years later going to be like taco Chan going to get cut you know they made excus with Taco Chan he this with you know was always going to be patient he’s coming along when you listen as Bill par say said dogs bite

His pups I’m not argu they B his pups m b Michel bit C land B Big Dog by his pup Tyler Smith B you DFT the guy in the first round you want me to Big Dog I see two big concerns with Mazy Smith so far

This season one it’s it’s the get off and we’ve talked about that quite a bit slow get off he’s not getting off off the ball quick enough and second he’s lost weight since the season has started he is not at 325 or 335 whatever it was

When the season he’s down under 300 when you look at him he’s Slimmer so he’s under 300 I would say he’s under 300 if he’s under 300 then he can’t even do the job yeah how how big man lose more weight like it’s better it’s better when

He ain’t playing and sweating like well the thing is he’s coming in and he’s he has this world class strength and you watch the tape from college and whenever he was drafted you’re expecting him to throw guys out of the club at least once a week

I mean a highlight real play at Le the you haven’t seen that at all man but we know that’s a fraudulent League keeps coming from you talking about the big 10 wow I Manan I’m not going to sit here and take that do you take what cuz it’s

Not true what it is they doing a big 10 they they got big guys they they stop they can’t pass of everybody outside your school can’t go to go to college football playoff and get dusted up we’re just talking about individual players they they’re good strong brute strength

Guys so they need to go so they offensive line but you know all that stuff they got big they get you they do things in in the in the trenches they’re going to be in the third top three rounds next year looking to go to go get mazy’s

Replacement Texas or something they got tandre s would be awesome in this in this defense but I tell you what there’s another defensive tackle in Michigan that is like a late second round early third round guy this year I was like will mlay has the opportunity to do the

Funniest thing possible no he ain’t D another Michigan we a even talk we a even talk about the tight end we a even talk about the tight end could have told him all of this we a talking about the tight end fraudulent League that’s all I’m saying fraudulent League

Okay what we about to find y’all got a quarterback yet what’s your team this ain’t the college show Ohio y’all got a quarterback yet I’m sure we got one I’m sure we set money aside for it dein brown I think it’ll be no that’s the guy

You ain’t you ain’t push him out with de brown transfer portal don’t end today that dude went to Syracuse that’s all we need to say about him get Quin yours back see if you get y can get Malik Malik could go up there nah we need

Somebody who can play Malik go up there Malik like got said man we need a proven player frauding League proven player proven quarterback they had one team win went out that whole league and can’t nobody else win but they keep getting bids but oh well they the number one

Seed gonna get beat by Bama um we got we got coach mcarthy coming up here at the bottom of the hour so anything pressing before we go we want to get off I hope you get this bitterness at your hard than the holiday season well mean Carolina basketball lose last

Night ain’t nobody tell us did they lost they didn’t beat they didn’t lose Oklahoma did they you know it’s been a tough week oh now the truth come out tough week I didn’t even know not H Davis no not Hubert what does Hubert love stop you know see that’s why Santa

Always dropping cold like somebody stole that manj hey I did have mojangles on my flight uh when I I got I had a connector through um charl Charlotte and I had Bojo at the airport I thought I thought about you I had the one in Frisco actually yesterday yeah it was all right

I got I got you you got got the ters I got I got the Bony and chicken yeah that’s what I need I need to go to Charlotte was bad it was pretty good it was pretty good pretty good yeah no I know that one very well they they got to

Check the order though shut what’s my dirty rice they will they will conveniently forget your St you got to make I thought about y had a little layover let me go and do this Bojangles for new it I thought about you I thought about you Concourse B know it very well

Know very well uh h our telegram thank you very much Nick Harris dallascowboys.com the author the man he is Jones Jack Taylor get his book coach Prime it’s an excellent Christmas gift I’m new scubs we’ll talk to you tomorrow right here on dallascowboys.com radio this has been a production of

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