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The following is a production of dallascowboys.com and the dallascowboys football club how [Applause] Thembo 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 were on the break with ambar Garcia Brian bris Patrick Walker and Derek

Eagleton it is Friday December 22nd 2023 season 19 episode number 94 welcome to the latest edition of the break we are live from the swbc mortgage Studios at the star I’m very happy to have our full crew back for Friday we’re getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus Dolphins

That’s going to happen this Sunday we got to get caught up on some injuries man there’s some real real concerns that the Cowboys are dealing with heading into this game we’ll tell you what we think is going to happen from the standpoint of some of the matchups in

This game Amber’s got some questions for us in the second segment and in the final segment of the show we’re going to focus in on the NFC talk a little bit about some of the scenarios of where they man they’re looking like a team nobody wants to play right that’s your

Answer right there but we’re going to talk about some of those scenarios in NFC and where teams are are lining up and how this thing is going toward the end and give you some of the ideas of there’s so many games this weekend that the Cowboys will have a vested interest

In so we’ll lay some of that out for you guys so you know how you should be rooting if you’re rooting for the Cowboys uh so let’s get this thing going let’s Jump Right In let’s talk about first injuries we got Tyron Smith and Zack Martin uh I think those are the two

That everyone’s really paying attention to what are we hearing at this point all right so ladies and gentlemen bear with me I am back I’m feeling better but my voice is still somewhere in hell I’m waiting for that to to join us um injury-wise Tyron Smith and Zack Martin

Like you said um in hearing with Jerry Jones owner general manager Jerry Jones and head coach Mike McCarthy said in their conversations with 1053 The Fan this morning uh it’s not a lot of optimism um Mike said that Zach is ahead of Tyron as far as the possibility of

Playing against the Dolphins um but basic on some conversations I’m having and it being a re-aggravation of that quad contusion it’s not exactly looking like sunshines and rainbows so I’d put Zack at about a 5050 maybe a little bit less than 50 I’m completely pessimistic

On if Tyron Smith is going to take the field at all and then that puts you again uh in a offensive line flux and then against a defensive line that is that excels they getting pressures and getting their hands on the quarterbacks so if one or both of those guys are out

And it looks like it’s possible that one or both of them will be out then uh you’re really going to have your hands full up front yeah that’s uh this morning they were saying that especially with Tyron they’re going to carry that thing all the way up until the very last

Minute is all and that and I was asking about will you know Sunday and they’re like we’re going to give him every possibility every minute so yeah hold your breath on that one Whatever football Gods you pray to go ahead and go for it so uh but yeah the the thing

With Martin we we interviewed Zach yesterday on 1053 The Fan first his week good interview by the way that was fun thank you he’s after we stopped asking about how to put Christmas toys together then we started getting the nuts and bolts of football and uh you know he’s

Always going to tell you he’s fine y he’s always going to tell you that hey I’m good you know everything’s good and all that uh but like Patrick says I think that uh these both are are we’re looking at probably maybe Martin with a Chance the I don’t think that the uh the

Tyron Smith one’s going to work out for you this game I I just just just talking I mean when you start to talk about the very last minute we’ve seen the very last minute before with Tyron Smith and it it’s gone the the bad way so uh I

Hate to be the the wet blanket guy here but man that that’s that’s going to be a tough one to deal with yeah whether right or wrong I think that the natural inclination for all fans or bystanders who who’ watched the Cowboys for the last several years the history tells us

That when you get into this kind of situation with tyon the likelihood is that you probably opt more on you fall more on the side that he’s probably not going to play uh but you just don’t know and we’ll wait and see until Sunday but that being said across the table you

Guys tell me what’s your level how much does this change your thoughts on where you were on the Cowboys possibilities of going to Miami and getting a win let’s start with you Amber uh a lot I mean I’m hoping for a win but it’s just really complicates things because you come out

Of the loss against Buffalo where the offense wasn’t able to really perform at a level that you expected them to or wanted them to and you talk about the o line and the running game how we started seeing an incline in that they started getting better now any type of injury

Happening there that’s going to take a hit and it’s going to affect the running game now that’s kind of taken out of the equation for for me cuz I don’t see it working very well if both of them are out or even one of them the key for me

In this game would be for Dak to go back to that quick quick quick get maybe take a few step back get rid of the of the ball very very quickly and connect with the receivers everyone’s going to have to be on like at the same pace and

Connected and know exactly what the route is what the call is what the plan is and hope that they’re in sync because that’s the only way that I see it right now knowing about these injuries even if they were to step on the field and play that doesn’t mean they’re 100% healthy

They’re still banged up and they’re still affected with these injuries so regardless I think for me yeah it it changes what I think of the outcome may be but I have hope holding on to that stat of them playing really really good after a loss and also hoping that the

Offense starts clicking again where D can just get rid of the ball very quickly had an advantage you had an advantage if you’re healthy you have an advantage because they’re really banged up on their offensive line and you were hopeful that maybe that your defense would be able to take advantage of that

They’re still dealing with Robert hunt and Austin Jackson being hurt so now it kind of if you lose two guys they lose two guys now it’s gonna be a battle of which backup group can find ways to block you know really good defensive lines especially with you know

With dealing with Bradley chub and and Wilkins and and that crew I mean they they they could present some problems but who has better backups right now I would say the Cowboys do that that would be where I would go right now when you start to

Talk about bass and adoga I think it’s better than what I’ve seen with you know with with what the Dolphins have thrown out there but the Dolphins do a really good job of scheming around the deficiencies they have in their offensive line they they don’t ask those

Guys to do a whole hell of a lot you know from what I was seeing uh it’s a lot of angle blocks a lot of uh you know halfman blocks uh never have to take anybody on toet to toe you know their scheme is built that way the way they

Run the ball they’re a perimeter running team and so everything is about movement and pulling and trapping and so it’s it’s not asking them to just go out there and just blow guys off the line of scrimmage they just don’t play that way I think Dallas has the better group but

I I’m I’m interested to see which offensive staff schemes better in this game to get their to to manufacture offense when they’re compromised on their offensive lines uh the Cowboys are going to have to learn from what the Arizona Cardinals taught them yeah um you go back and look at the Arizona

Cardinals film and and you know that’s what you draw from as far as what you need to do against the Miami Dolphins as far as uh supplanting um or trying to supplant Tyron Smith and Zack Martin it’s not going to be an easy task at all especially against this defensive front

Um but I I love ambar’s point you got to get the ball out quickly U don’t put your offensive line of position and includes chuma edoga and likely TJ bass don’t put those guys in position where they have to do a ton of pass Pro against some of the better pass rushers

In the league um get it out quickly the Dolphins love to run zone They Run Zone assuming they do it because I’m always traumatized by what the 49ers did with flipping that switch but assuming that the the um Dolphins remain true to what they’ve been doing which is running zone

Three out of every four defensive snaps you’re going to have the spacing there to get that ball out so get the ball out get it into the hands of your Playmakers move cidd lamb around move Brandon Cooks around get kavante Turpin involved use Jake Ferguson to attack that second

Level and attack the seams with the linebackers um applying pressure to the safety they run a lot of single high as well and that should help the passing game open up a little a little bit more which then should make things easier for Tony po at Rico in the Run game because

Quite as it’s kept while the Home and Away splits are massive when it comes to like penalties types of penalties um passing yardage things like that the running game the rushing attack has been pretty steady I think 4.1 yard average per handoff on the road 4.2 at home so

If you can get out to a fast start and that’s going to come down to getting that ball out quickly get out and uh score play from play ahead that running game should be your Steady Hand going forward you’re probably not going to get a lot of shots downfield without tyrona

There well I’ll say the thing that concerns me most about that strategy is uh last week they faced another team that’s similar to this one in the way that they get a fourman pressure they can have seven out in coverage and when they’re playing Zone with seven by the

Way they’re pretty good playing Zone with seven it clogs everything’s up and they got a traveler too yeah so yeah yeah they got a travel big it just makes it really I think it makes it really tough whether you’re talking about a quick passing game or a passing game can

TR let the passes let the routes develop either way I think it’s going to be really t for D to be able to find those openings especially if they’re being able to get pressure with four knowing that the Cowboys are compromised on the offensive line so I think that’s really

The challenge for me the key really going to come down to can the Cowboys find a way to run the ball that’s going to slow down those four pass rushers and give you that time that you need in order to to Really find those big plays

CU this offense is predicated on the big plays when they play well when they’re playing at their best they got big plays involved going to need those I think and the running game is the only thing I think that’s going to get them there and

The only way you’re going to be able to do that is if your defense bottles up guys like Tyreek Hill Jaylen wad kind of gets hands on Tua rattles him as much as possible because if you allow the Dolphins to do what the bills did which

Is get up on you and largely because of self-inflicted wounds but however it happens if you allow the Dolphins to get up on you early playing from behind against them gone right running game’s gone and you’re down to starting offensive lineman you’re you’re in trouble yeah yeah that’s going to be the

Thing that scares me about this game too a little bit is who the official is with Sean hawkey you know and and we all are very familiar seen this before yeah we’ve seen Sean hawkey insert himself and his crew into into games and and that’s the that’s the thing that that’s

Always terrifying to me I mean I just looking through his the metrics with him he’s had he’s had multiple games where it’s 18 penalties 15 penalties 14 penalties you know you just never know what you’re going to get you’re going to get calls but you don’t and it and it’s

At the worst time with this I I just you know I’ve always one of these guys just let them play Let the two teams figure it out but you got a guy that likes to put himself in the middle of the game and you know I’m not trying to make

Excuses for either team here but it it it is what it is you know sometimes you’re at the mercy of these guys and uh you know that’s the that’s the unfortunate part of the thing that you know you didn’t draw a crew this week that’s probably going to let let you

Play you’re going to get one that’s going to call the game probably pretty tight and and you know who will have an advantage of that Cowboys are one of the most penalized teams in the league I think the Dolphins are up there too so I

Would love to see if this is the week when maybe maybe Michael Parson gets a call like that’s ridiculous that he hasn’t gotten any of these holding calls maybe this is a week where he gets some of those yeah well it’s it’s it’s you know like I said it you just don’t know

With these Crews he had he a had a holding call against him since uh since the Chargers game yeah you know that’s how far back that thing goes but and and and they’ve got a compromised offensive line like you do right now so there’s going to be some holding in this game

Don’t don’t act like it’s not going to happen yeah yeah what are we hearing about Malik cooker have we heard anything more about him oh he he’s progressing um obviously he missed last week because of the illness um he didn’t practice as they gave him and his ankle

Some rest on Wednesday but he did practice in a limited par as a limited participant on Thursday so he’s taking on more work we’ll see what today Friday’s injury report looks like for him but he’s he’s tracking toward taking the field and uh that would be you know

Big W Thomas he played solid he had I think two or three Miss tackles but for the most part given the fire that he was thrown in and the situation he was thrown in it was much more run support than coverage because Josh Allen only

Threw 15 times um but yeah M hooker is tracking toward taking the field all right we’re going to take our first break we’ll come back Amber has some uh questions for us you all right I can’t smile no I’m just wondering like okay we’re gonna come back Amber’s got some

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Questions today hopefully I like it all right guys what’s more important for success in this weekend’s game offensive line dominates from the start or defensive line dominates from the start from the cowboy side do you prefer the offense to start off better the line or the defensive line to start off St oh

I’m I think you said offensive line twice no both offensive line or defensive line I think defensive line because the way I look at this game it goes back to what you said Patrick they cannot afford to get down in this game even if the offense offense is slow

Getting started as long as they don’t let Miami run away then you could play a close game and you can just kind of figure it out as you go you cannot get behind if you get behind we’ve seen how that goes that’s not going to be good yeah for me it’s defensive line

Defensive line has to set the tone deep defense has to set the tone especially after a game like what happened in Buffalo when you basically just got mauled um so they need to get their confidence back they need to get their res show their resilience and um they

Need to be um what everybody believes they can be and you already know the Cowboys offensive line might struggle a bit because they might be down two starters this defensive line is going to have to get it done scoring helps this defense give me the offense I I’m

Putting pressure on as much pressure as I can on Miami I’m going to make them have to you know the the one thing that I know is if I can build a lead hold a lead that that Dolphin running game will go away because it happens every single

Time the Cowboys score for 30 points teams don’t run the football on them and that’s my biggest concern right now give me the offense to come out blistering them right off the Jump give me one of those games where you got three drives Give me the give me the game that

Buffalo had against you in the first half last week that’s what I wanton you know 12 plays 75 yd drives wear them down score points points you know don’t give them a chance to have any offense I’ll take that all day real quick before you go to the next question if you guys

Go back to earlier in the season there was there were some times when Tyron Zach were out yeah what what do you recall from that time from the standpoint of how well the offense and I know some of it was when before the offense turned into what it’s become

That’s yeah that’s but but what just looking at the offensive line how the offensive line played with those backups what are your Recollections I remember that the line wasn’t really the problem like they play good for them to have won a game or or compete so I don’t going

Back I don’t remember us sitting here complaining how the how bad of a job they did it was like okay for the backups they actually held up pretty good and they did a good enough job so I don’t think that I mean it’s possible to survive is basically what I’m trying to

Say yeah I mean we we ended up giving um roses to choga for stepping up big we gave Ros play better than we thought he would exactly we gave roses to guys like Brock Hoffman TJ bass and Arizona those guys stepped up after being thrown in

The fire um I don’t think any any of those um I don’t think the Arizona loss was on the offensive line I do think that it’s hard for me to figure out um if the offensive line flux was part of the reason that the offense didn’t take

Hadn’t taken off quite yet um kind of times up that it took off when the offensive line kind of came together right so that yeah I don’t like where that goes if that’s why you’re making that face I get it um but yeah I mean I think that the offensive line was not

What cost you the game in Arizona and if you look at any of those losses San Francisco as well I mean the offensive line didn’t cost you that game either um your passing defense cost you that game George K gets three touchdowns I mean that’s game over so yeah I mean I think

This this offensive line can hold up well well but I mean we’ll see cuz again they got horses up front yeah that’s the big thing that’s the big thing just self-inflicted wounds and just don’t hoaky and the officials there going to be some bad calls and bad no calls just

Don’t exacerbate the problem by you know running into the pass when you don’t have to uh you know trying to I I want you to protect your quarterback but unnecessarily bumping like we talked about just careful because you’re in hostile territory you can’t afford any mistakes just keep your emotional

Discipline where it needs to be and help your team out I think the one thing that it it it’s weird because I felt like that his questions about his offensive line affected his play calling in Arizona I felt like the we affected his play calling or the threat of weather

Affected his play calling in Buffalo yep he’s got to put that aside you know he’s played games now with these guys and he has to say You know what last time I was too cautious the way I played I’m not asking you to go out there and sling it

All over the place and try and get your quarterback hurt but don’t go into a shell with your offense you know trust that these guys can get the job done you know I think Mike maybe I don’t know maybe overthink it a little bit there didn’t he wasn’t there a game earlier

This year where he actually admitted after the game he said he called the game Arizon was at Arizona yeah and so I’m like yeah that that’s when you talk about Buffalo I actually when I asked you guys the question yesterday about weather I actually thought that’s where

You guys were going to go because I I personally believe Mike called a little different game because either the weather or because what he thought the weather would do they would they it to me and I’m not out here watching practice every day but to me if you were

I was wondering okay is this a wet weather game plan you’re throwing at him right you know and and and I think when the weather broke nice for him all of a sudden it’s like well damn we worked on this all week you know and there was not

The creativity with the offense you know and and I know it was seven drop seven and Rush four I I get that but I’ve seen him call defenses or call plays against that and and have some success I I just don’t overthink this if there’s two guys

Out don’t overthink it go play football you know that’s you’ve got guys you got got one of the best quarterbacks in the league you got one of the best wide receivers in the league you got one of the best tight ends in the league you

Know go play football today you know I I don’t I don’t think Mike went into Buffalo thinking about the weather for the most part and the reason I say that is because before the Cowboys first offensive Drive probably could have made that argument but when you see Dak drop

Back and go deep to Cooks to try to get a home run ball on you know one of the first play they never went back to it right that’s thing right well they never went back to it because that’s just the game started to get away from them after

That drive cuz on that drive you get the holding and you get no points and then guess what penalty on the next Bills Drive they score again so that’s not a reason for them not to go back to the Deep ball especially if they saw some

Success on the like it was there they just didn’t connect on it and don’t get me wrong that’s a hard pass to connect on but I just felt like they they didn’t do the things that we were accustomed to seeing them do on offense and it left me

To at least question whether Mike made some adjustments because he was like ah oh you mean as far as adjusting pulling back as far versus walking into that game no what I’m saying is kind of going into that game with as as Brian was saying like I kind of agree that maybe

The game plan may have been set up for them to thinking cuz as we saw we we got to Friday we were like it’s going to rain the whole game like it was going to rain the whole game that’s what we went in thinking and it makes me think that

He went into the game in the same way like okay I need to protect my team knowing that this is going to be a game where weather will be a factor so here is how we need to call it in order to make sure we don’t put ourselves in bad

Situations rather than just going in and being like hey it’s it’s actually not that bad let’s just go right and I I do believe it kind of affect him but that’s just my opinion and I see where you’re going with that my where I depart on

That is because I just pulled back up the uh the opening Cowboys drive against the Cardinals and first two plays were handoffs to Tony PD and that’s different from what we saw in Buffalo first couple of plays he takes the Deep shot to Cooks so I think that to Mike’s Point after

The Arizona Cardinal game he was playing Uber cons conservative against the Cardinals but he started out the game being the exact being very liberal against the Buffalo Bills now I will agree that maybe after that in a in a in an adjustment capacity he probably went back to being more

Conservative than he would have liked to maybe be weather based maybe he saw that pass and was like oh well the wind on this field is not going to they didn’t connect right so that’s what I mean I think going in he didn’t have his scripted plays based upon the weather

But then after seeing that ball sail three yards past Cooks maybe at that point he was like okay maybe I should scale back that’s what I mean that’s the difference I think he went in Arizona being conservative on purpose yeah I do wonder if because he even admitted after

The Arizona game because of his compromised offensive line he was more conservative I wonder if that’ll push him to be less conservative this game if he loses those offensive Lin and be like I got to trust these guys I went through that in Arizona I didn’t give my chance

My team the best chance to win maybe that helps him this week just say let’s just go we’re going to play football one question down where to go dere asked two more questions from that that was a damn good question hey man when you’re the host you just kind

Of always back into being the host right damnn good question to that fan damn good question Brian Woodward he asks do you see the Cowboys staying with mainly men coverage against Miami especially if Hill plays it’s good one um it it wouldn’t be it probably wouldn’t be the best thing but that’s

Who they are that’s who Dallas is Dallas Dallas is they’re comfortable they’ll Rush four they’ll Rush five they like to bring pressure they like to bring pressure on second down uh you have a quarterback that’s really accurate in that near the line of scrimmage or underneath if you play a lot of man

Stuff you know they’re big they’re 53% of their offense comes run after catch that’s what you have to worry about here you have to worry about everything the short passes and and then them taking off with it and so um is it in their DNA to play zone coverage sure uh would it

Throw the Dolphins uh a curveball sure I think the Dolphins are expecting the cman coverage in this game I think I think Dan’s thinking like I trust my guys to be good enough this game I’m going to try and get pressure on this guy this quarterback doesn’t move so you

Know but the ball will come out quick we saw it at the Jets game last week he’s not going to hold the football that’s they’re terrified of what’s going on with their offensive line too so I think this I think to me if you’re playing Zone that means you’re playing with

Depth at depth and I hate that because all of a sudden then you got these guys that they get the ball and then it’s run after catch I would rather die quick don’t let me die slow let me play up on the line let me try and disrupt what

They’re doing and maybe I can affect the timing of this quarterback here’s what I worry about with man is it’s not even so much the Deep routes that I worry about with Tyreek Hill it’s those crossers where they rub and he gets a just a foot

If he’s got a foot you ain’t catching when he catch you’re not catching him and and that’s where I’m like your hope is his ankle ain’t great that’s what your hope but I will say this yeah test that thing before the before the game last week there were

Reports that he looked like he was running he was running really well but they were like yeah we’re still going to hold him out that’s also what makes me think he’s G to be fine for this week they thought last week he Pro I would guess if that would have been a playoff

Game Tyreek Hill would have played last week they were figuring let’s give him one more week we need him for 100 at 100% or close to it against Dallas I expect him to be Tyreek Hill this week I don’t expect him to have any ill um anything that’s coming from that ankle I

Think he’ll be fine what Challen what I where I think the real challenge is is trying to carry him across field especially if you’re having to run through traffic and I think that’s just going to be I mean that is a recipe for disaster against a guy like him well see

The thing about when you play zone that way though when they run the guys through do you lose track of where guys are and that can happen that’s that’s the thing with that’s the thing I worry about with Dallas because they don’t play they don’t play they play zone but

They’re I feel like they’re better playing man feel like they’re better if they they play man and if hooker can help them if hooker lines up deep and he could read it you know and we’ve seen we’ve seen teams play that cover two look and then play with a robber you

Know take the safety and drive it down you know drive that safety put the safety in the middle of the field that’s how that’s how the Cleveland Browns beat the the 49ers with all the crossing stuff that the 49ers do they played man but they put a robber in the middle of

The field so that they it made that that that Crosser have to run a little bit and all you’re trying to do hold all you’re trying to do is make these guys hold the ball a little bit longer because this quarterback when he holds the ball though like I say he’s not

Going to move he’s not going to run away from you the quarterbacks you played the last two weeks will run away if they see problems yeah and he will get down like he’s he’s not going to take the hit he’s going to get down he’s going to get down

If you get close to him you can get him down yeah so no I I I see Dallas being who they are I I I just do I just feel like if you’re going to play play man you better you better be damn good at um

At press at disrupting at the line of scrimmage disrupting those timeing routes because we talked about it too was trying to get that ball out quickly so his his passes are going to be based on timing and you have to make sure that his man is not at the spot where he’s

Throwing cuz he’s not throwing to the man he’s throwing to the spot he expects the guy to be um so I I I like a matchup like donon Bland he’s physical um and Tyreek Hill while he’s you know quick Speedy he’s all of those things not necessarily the most physical guy you

Can disrupt him jayen w a little bit bigger than Tyreek but you can disrupt him Jordan Lewis versus Cedric Wilson that would be an interesting one because Wilson obviously former Cowboy he’s bigger than both of those guys on the outside but he doesn’t necessarily have the speed so I think Jordan Lewis can

Handle Cedric Wilson so if you’re going to press if you’re going to be do man coverage don’t don’t play man and space them like don’t give them the space and man coverage that’s just a death s which we see them do quite a bit they love to

Give that five to seven yard cushion you’re gonna have to play run on the edge too and so you’re probably in a situation if you’re playing Zone you’re you know you’re not you’re gonna have to commit guys into the box yeah you know especially on the edge and if you’re

Playing if you’re committing guys to the box that means you’re one-on-one on the outside you can’t play zone that way they’re going to have to play man your linebackers are going to have to uh do damn well in coverage this this week especially if you choose to go to man

Because if you choose to go to man and you go press then of course you guys are at the line of scrimmage trying to disrupt once those guys get off of those routes guess what now it’s on your linebackers now your safety Malik he’s eyes forward and that’s good you want

Him to play forward as opposed to having to react backward to play going deep but your linebackers if you do man coverage I would suggest pressing and if you then do press your linebackers better be damn good in coverage well speaking of linebacker before we go to break here

Are these two questions um and sorry if I mess up y’all’s name but I’m going to combine the two first John tias he’s asking about Malik Jefferson and saying how he has a good size and he says that he understands he might not be that good

But if so why have him on the practice squad and then carine Polo he’s asking do you guys think there is a linebacker on someone else’s practice squad that they can use for run defense basically what can you possibly do right now to address the linebacker situation is Jefferson out of

Elevations uh I can check for you right now I think I thought he was out of elevations so they they’re they’re in a situation right now that they would if to get him on they would have to move somebody they’d have to take somebody off the roster to get him on and don’t

Think they’re going to do that in my opinion the best way that they solve the linebacker issue for the rest of this year at least is they got to get hanken back because I think if you get henkens back that gives you a big body as you

Talked about last week Brian a big body that’s that can move laterally as well I think that keeps your linebackers cleaner than what we saw this last game uh because otherwise like I just don’t know I don’t trust that there’s a guy on another team’s practice squad that’s

Going to be any better than what you got like I I just don’t I don’t think I if you got that guy even if you’re bigger if you don’t have the skill to to still be able to move around offensive linemen that get to the second level you’re

Still going to have the same problem right so I I just think that we keep talking about having that instinct of reaction how quickly can you guess or but how many guys on a practice squad have that level of in like right you know you’re still talking about guys

That don’t have the same level of skill as a as a starting linebacker in the NFL so I I personally believe you got to get Hank back and so you basically just steady the ship until you can get him back because otherwise I I just don’t

Know that there’s a better option from a Personnel standpoint out there yeah Malik Jefferson’s played three games yeah he’s he’s out New England San Francisco and Los Angeles unless you put him on the act of R you have you have you would have to elevate him and the

One that would be interesting though is Evans you know and uh rad Evans that would be I you know and we’ll see how that I watched the Green Bay game last year where Michael was playing allball linebacker the majority of that game and what they did was they took Fowler and

They took Armstrong on the right side and then they put a tank on the left and then Micah played as off ball linebacker early in the game he was really it was it was good the way he played and then it turned into he’s just playing so many

Snaps he’s having to rush and then he’s having to play off ball linebacker and so it it you know it’s a it’s a it’s a hard it’s a hard game for him that way so wait are you saying that it wasn’t necessarily about skill it was more

About fatigue as the game I I think the game I think he got tired as the game wore on and they and what happens is that then the Packers were able to get guys up on him and when Micah has problems is that he will he’ll he’ll

Jump around blocks and stuff like that and you know he’s athletic enough to make plays that way but you know the anticipation you got to play with that linebacker that’s why you’ve had such great ones here with the Cowboys the DAT wins the Dexter kley the you know the

Shawn Le’s the fton vander’s those guys they played with such Instinct they knew when they read a formation that they were going to play okay they’re G to they’re going to do this boom they’re running they’re half Step Ahead a full Step Ahead you know and right now you’ve

Got guys that are safeties that are trying to play with Instinct and trying to read blocks that are you know and it’s and it’s been difficult there’s no question about that all right let’s go and take our final break we’ll come back we’ll give our final thoughts on Dallas

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S WBC mortgage Studios at the star I got a couple questions for you guys about the Dallas and Miami matchup let’s start first with the uh offensive side the defensive side of the ball for the Cowboys outside of Tyreek Hill which Miami offensive player should Dallas be most concerned

About I’m I’m I’m stuck here between Jaylen Wad and aain um so much focus is rightfully placed on Tyreek Hill that if you if you place too much focus on him and you forget what wad is capable of he’ll break the game wide open um so I’m

Going to go with on this one I I think that it’s easy kind of low hanging fruit and it’s justifiable low hanging fruit to look at the running backs and moster the a chain and say oh well look at what you know cook did and I get that but circumstances permitted that hopefully

The circumstances don’t permit and the run defense can kind of do what it does but W don’t forget wad is absolutely I mean CU he’s a number one receiver on several teams that don’t have Tyreek Hill on the roster so for me it’s going to be Wadd Tyreek Hill obviously put a

Bottle on him as much as you can anyway but don’t look away from Jaylen wad because the moment you do it’s a big play moer moer has got like 20 touchdowns you know he catches the ball he runs the ball he’s he’s physical I mean he’s an

All round player and never comes off the field yeah wd’s great player but moer is going to make moer makes this thing go they they hand him the ball toss him the ball throw him the ball uh yeah you’ve got to find a way to knock him around a

Little bit and and not let him get going this game especially gets down in the down that tight Red Zone you know he just has a nose for the end zone and stuff like that he’s been outstanding this year so I’m I I would worry about

Him quite a bit going in this especially after what I saw last week against Buffalo yeah that’s exactly who I was going to say as well because he does two things that the Cowboys have shown not to be great at and struggle with last week one stopping the Run what is he a

Running back in runs and two he can break tackles what are the Cowboys defense what are they struggling with right now t tackling they’re having tackling issues and like you said he’s a physical player and he can break those tackles and those are just two things

Running and tackles all right flip it to the other side which Miami Defender should Dallas be most concerned about Ramsey Ramsey can eliminate your best player your best receiver he’s got that kind of ability he’s playing at a high level right now since he came back from injury it’s a 50/50 proposition throwing

The ball at his Direction you know he’s one of the he’s still one of the best in the league when it comes to uh challenging he loves that that he loves the ability to go out and take your best receiver away he’ll play left he’ll play

Right he’ll play in the slot that just shows you that he doesn’t care wherever you’re going to go he’s going to go I worry about him just completely eliminating CID lamb from this game Bradley chub uh the guy has almost 10 sacks already um and we talked at the

Top of the show about the likelihood that you won’t have Tyron Smith on the field so you better believe that mik M Danel was going to take try to take take advantage of that matchup as often as he can chuma is really going to have to

Hold up and that’s a tall task against a guy like Bradley chub so he’s a game wrecker and if you let him in that that back field to put hands on a pressure deck Prescott then you’re going to see a lot of broken offensive play so for me

It’s Bradley chub well after we got done talking about the o line issues and health uh guy like Christian Wilkins he’s a guy that you know he plays a guard but also can move and rush so that’s anybody on the defensive line this point is a good guess for me to be

A struggle for this game against this uh Cowboys offensive line all right so let’s talk about the NFC and what’s happening this weekend there are a whole Litany of games that that matter for the Cowboys because really when you look at the NFC east and who’s going to win the

Division a lot of it comes down to this final well not the final tie break I think it’s the fifth tie break which is strength of Victory strength of viory um and yeah so I’m going to lay out for you right now there are five teams that the

Cowboys really need to win and there are five teams the Cowboys need to lose uh as they keep going through the season to help their strength of Victory and that’s assuming both teams went out I’m talking Cowboys and Eagles so you got Buffalo who the Cowboys need to lose

They’re playing at the Chargers you need the Chargers to win convention says that’s probably not going to happen but that’s where you’re rooting you’re rooting for the Chargers uh you got Green Bay playing at Carolina Dallas Needs Carolina to continue to win or to win they have not continued to win

Because they haven’t been winning much but that’s the the team that you want to win there here’s one that the Cowboys really need to win but they actually have a chance of winning is Detroit Detroit goes to Minnesota Dallas needs Detroit to continue to win uh Washington

At the New York Jets the Jets are actually the team that the Cowboys need to continue to win so you’re rooting it it works out with your rooting interest you hate the Washington commanders it’s easy to root for the Jets root for the Jets to keep winning Seattle another

Team the Cowboys want to continue to win they’ll be at Tennessee that’s another game where you would think they have a pretty good shot to win um and then you you got Jacksonville at Tampa Bay Tampa Bay you want to lose uh Arizona you want

To lose at Chicago um and then the final one Los Vegas you want them to beat uh the Chiefs in Kansas City I don’t know how that’s going to work out but that’s how your rooting interest should go for the weekend I want us to pick the final

Three games uh that I think are by the way most important to the Cowboys let’s start first with Baltimore at San Francisco an interesting matchup what many people believe may be the best two teams in the NFL how do you guys pick it you know what give me Baltimore this one

Um it’ll be a fight to say the least we know it’s San Francisco is doing we know how dominant they’ve been both on the road and at home um but we’ve also seen Baltimore in these types of games step up and play some big boy football and

They are as um hellbent on being the bully as as any other team in the league so I think Harbaugh has them ready to go into San Francisco and take that one uh where do they play at San Francisco San Francisco I’ve been there done that I know that crowd I know that

Environment yeah um I think I think uh I can see the 49ers very well coming off with the win for sure uh but it’s going to be a really really good game to watch actually very very competitive so that’s one of the ones that we’ll definitely be watching but I

Think 49ers because they’re playing at home they end up with a win right yeah the the the Ravens feel like they’re getting not any respect at all for being as one of the best teams in the league it’s going to be tough they don’t give up any points Baltimore and they’ve got

A quarterback that can kind of cause some problems for you with uh you know with the Ravens and stuff give me Baltimore in that one I think Baltimore is one of the best teams in the National Football League and by the way the Rams went there a couple weeks ago and almost

Won a game there so maybe the Rams are the second best team in the National Football right now I’ll tell you this I just need somebody show me that San Francisco is beatable when they have all their parts I’m hoping that Baltimore can can show us that New York versus uh

Philadelphia there in Philadelphia for this game who wins if if if you don’t believe in zomie cutlets if if if if the Giants had beaten the Saints last week I would have felt better about their chances right now I feel like this Philadelphia gets back on the winning track it’s hard to

Uh it’s hard to think that Philadelphia even though they’re on a slide it’s hard to think they lose four in a row um but then when you look at everything that’s going on with them and the commitment being questioned by Jaylen Herz and serani admitting that he was playing for

Uh help from the RS I mean that just tells you how Dire Straits their their secondary is without Darius Slay and I I think Tommy cutlet and day ball going to Target Brad Barry in that that secondary and I I I think New York goes in and

Upsets them I think I think they do it might be by it might be by one point but I think they going an upset him I mean that’s secondary is toast just pass pass and keep passing I hope you’re right cuz I hope I hope I’m right too I hope

That’s the case that’s why I said it I hope I’m right um but but I mean even though I I do think the the Eagles are starting to crumble and fall apart I think it’s it’s just hard to see them not beating the Giants right now I mean

But I hope the Giants win but I will pick the Eagles for this one yeah I think it’s a bounceback game for the Eagles I think they get back on track it might not be pretty but I think they get the win final game Cowboys at Miami give me your pick and your

Score we talked about this when I said that the Cowboys messed up my twoe prediction plan because I predicted that take Buffalo um but then I predicted that because they took Buffalo they’d lose in Miami um but they lost in Buffalo and then it sticks me right

Where you are ambar that they don’t lose two in a row like I just keep coming back to that there are so many reasons that my gut says the Dolphins will do this the Dolphins will do this and the Dolphins will probably score points and

This will be a hell of a game but the resiliency in this team in the McCarthy era I just I can’t get over that so until they um lose two in a row they haven’t lost two in a row I don’t think they do it this weekend so dolphin I’m

Sorry uh Cowboys over Dolphins but it comes down to you know 55 yard kick by butter Aubrey to get it done so Dolphins 28 Cowboys 24 oh that didn’t give you a score yeah you didn’t 27 24 Cowboys Dolphins 28 Cowboys 24 all right my heart says one thing my brain

Say another that’s what that’s what I’m St so I went with the I went with the this tough I don’t want to pick this game cuz if I pi them to to win and they lose I’m going to be so mad because they like doing that to me but uh I don’t I

Don’t I I don’t know literally literally the only thing that’s that it’s pinning me towards them winning is the stat is that stat but how much can a stat really really stay true there’s no guarantee though right but it’s true until it’s not and it’s predict the future but whatever

What am I wearing s St about compromised offensive line it says they were in for a long day yeah all right let’s let’s go with the Cowboys all that’s close one um hopefully I don’t know this let’s give a score of 20 no yeah 28

26 uh it comes down to a kick yeah I was really prepared if they won last week to say that this would be a week that they were going to lose because I didn’t when we when we started five game stretch we talked about it I was like there’s no

Way they’re going to go undefeated in that five game stretch I do think they’re good enough to go four- one and so the fact that they lost last week is what gives me the belief that they’ll go in this week and they’ll win I do think though it’s going to be a high-scoring

Game I think this is going to be a game where it’s going to be a lot of scoring track I I absolutely do and I think that what we saw from those off I intimated it earlier in the show what we saw from those offensive linemen earlier this

Year is that they can play like I and I think that Mike will go into this game and say I’m not going to take put the handcuffs on my team I’m going in and saying we’re going to play football and we’re going to do what we do best and I

Think they’re going to go at Miami and by the way Miami is going to go with them and I think it’s going to be a high scoring game I think Cowboys win 3735 on the road Christmas Eve barn burner all right we appreciate you guys joining us

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