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COWBOYS SQUAD SHOW: The latest on Jadeveon Clowney, and Week 2 against the Giants.
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The Squad brings you the very latest on Jadeveon Clowney's visit to Dallas, and a must-win Week 2 match-up against the Giants.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Foreign Podcast Network your team every day.
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Marcus Moser
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Landon McCool
The big hits and game changing plays.
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Marcus Moser
From America's team the way only the Locked On Podcast network can get ready and squad up. It's the Cowboys Squad show starting now.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Well, week one is done and we are now getting ready for the Cowboys home opener against the Giants in week number two. We've got rumors, we've got unfortunate injury news and a whole lot more. Welcome to the Cowboys Squad Show. That is the co host, one of the two co hosts, Marcus Mosher and Landon McCool of the Daily Lynch Locked On Cowboys podcast. They crush it every single day. Which you already know if you're watching us now. And that is the coach, former Cowboys coach, the one and only Glenn Stretch Smith. All right, we got a lot to get to. We've got rumors, We've got the week two preview. What's going on with Jaden Blue, the Blues, what happened? And the Cowboys are actually favorites at for their home open. Not a surprise but we'll get into that. But want to start with the breaking news that literally came across about 10 minutes ago, guys. Not sure what. I don't think anybody knows much more but apparently Duron Bland injured his foot at practice according to multiple reports.
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Marcus Moser
I've got an update a little bit. So apparently this is an injury that happened during Monday's what they're calling a bonus practice. Nick Harris of the Cross Chop podcast actually first reported that. Now we're not quite sure whether it's a foot or ankle injury. We've heard a couple different reports, but the Cowboys are expecting him to be out in week two. They think this could be a multi week injury. It's not been determined whether he's going to be like an IR candidate or not. They're hoping that's not the case, but they, they're going to know more in the next couple days when they can do an MRI and get some more data. But one of the things I wanted to mention, this is not the same foot where he injured last year and had to have surgery on. It's the other foot. So at least that's I think, relative good news. Relative good news that the Cowboys aren't dealing with the same foot, but it's a big blow to their defense.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Yeah, yeah.
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Landon McCool
I think that there's probably a couple ways to look at this right now. Right. Like is the short term and the long term and then the long long term. Right. Like I, I think if we're talking about a foot injury that keeps him out two weeks, you know, that's something that happens in the course of the NFL season, that's fine. If we were talking about a re injury of the, the, of the previous injury he had because it was a Liz Frank, wasn't it, before Marcus, Is that right? The other foot was a Liz Frank, I think.
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Marcus Moser
Yes.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. So that would be obviously pretty devastating because usually when they get re injured, those Liz Frank injuries, it's, it's really, really bad the second, second time or, or potentially a new Liz Frank injury which again, like I think obviously be just as bad on the other foot. And, and if, if we were talking about a re entering that, that first one, then you'd be worried about the fact that you just signed a long term contract with Ron Bland and that that could be a potentially debilitating injury, especially for a position like cornerback where obviously they're using their feet a lot. So I, I think, you know, we're obviously in wait and see mode right now to see exactly the severity of it. Hopefully it's just a situation where he's missing a couple games and he's back, but obviously there's a concern for more long term stuff.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, anytime it's a foot issue to me, I, I, I wince from all that because I think there's so many different things that can happen and whether it's a Jones, Liz Frank. I mean there's a lot of different things that come with that particular scenario. And then having to put a boot on and then that affects, when you're wearing a boot, that affects the Achilles. I mean, there's a lot of things. I don't want to get into the, the negative side of it because hopefully, like you said, it's good that it's not the same one. But anytime you're back pedaling and you're sticking your foot in the ground and you're driving all the time, I mean the stress that your feet are under is really unbelievable for a defensive back. So hopefully, you know, hopefully it's not as bad and we'll have to wait, see how it comes out.
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Marcus Moser
A couple other little things here. So yes, we're waiting on the severity here, but it's just, it's really unfortunate. The Cowboys like really struggle to get Trayvon Diggs and Duron Bland on the field together at the same time.
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Landon McCool
Crazy.
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Marcus Moser
It's been back and forth like Bland missed most of last year and then once he came back, Diggs got injured and that was the case in 2023. It' it continues to be this yo, yo. Now I will say one of the things that's interesting is now that you have Diggs back and you have Kyra Elam on the outside, now you're trying to find the guy that can play in the slot. And this is a problem that they were trying to solve in the off season during training camp. You have Zion Childress in your practice squad. And I actually saw today Landon, that Keon hall who was competing for that spot, he's actually serving a three game suspension.
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Landon McCool
That's right.
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Marcus Moser
For I don't know what. So he's not even an option. He wasn't on the Cowboys practice. So I've got to assume that it's going to be Zion Childress or maybe we see more of like Wanye Thomas come down and play in the slot. But just based on what we saw last week, like they're probably just gonna play more base defense than anything.
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Landon McCool
Well, a lot of zone. I mean that's the one thing that they played. It's so much zone. In fact, I don't even know they played a snap of man coverage in, in a passing snap last week. So I imagine that they'll probably rotate a couple different guys and play a lot of zone. Real quick, coach, before you go, I just wanted to correct it was not a Liz Frank injury. I just looked it up with Bland, it was just a normal stress fracture. So we've avoided, obviously, a big bullet. So hopefully there's no Liz Frank in this or in the future either. So just.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, no, I mean, there. There's a difference in the two. And then I. I never have really understood the side of a Jones fracture or, you know, a stress fracture in your foot. And then how does it. How do those things.
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Marcus Moser
Well, I think a Jones fracture is.
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Landon McCool
It's a location, right?
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Marcus Moser
Isn't it the smallest toe? It's like it's a fracture of that smallest toe. And because there's not a lot of blood flow there, it's a really hard injury to heal.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Right. But it. Again, if you look at that, a Jones fracture damn near can go all the way to your ankle. You say it's the small toe because it's the outside of your foot. But, you know, I mean, I'm a doctor, but I'm only a doctor when it comes to playing dominoes, so I'll. I'll get after you. But I do. I do. I hope that it's not. You hope it. It doesn't work into that where it's the outside of your foot, because that's. That's the one that they have to usually go in and put the screw in. And then it's. And then it's a cast followed by a boot. Again, I don't want to. I don't want to get into the negative side of it. Hopefully it's just something that they. They can fix with a boot.
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Marcus Moser
Hopefully, it's just a rolled ankle and something that he needs to be in a boot and just let the swelling go down, and we'll see in two weeks where he's at. Like, that's what we're hoping. Let's even stop talking about Jones.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
All bad.
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Marcus Moser
All bad words that we're talking about right now.
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Landon McCool
The truth of the matter is. And this is what I was talking to Marcus about off. Off air is that, you know, with a boot, it could be such a wide variety of things, right? It could be preventative. It could be. You know, so it's like, let's. Let's all. Before we get freaked out about it, let's all. Let's get a little bit more information. Because you're right. You coach. It's like, you talk. You start going down the rabbit hole of all the negative things that it could be that with a foot injury, and it's not pretty, right? It's. It's really ugly. What could happen?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, that's what's the first thing you think of? Well, it's the foot. Well, that's farthest place in your heart. Look how long it takes to heal, how you get blood down there. Yeah, you know, we could get. We could get off the rails here in a hurry.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
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Marcus Moser
It's been a week. It feels like it's been about 10 years since the Cowboys had last played. Honestly, I think the more time passes between that game and week two, the more you feel like that game really slipped away. Like, you watch the tape and, man, the Cowboys had plenty of opportunities to win this game. And I think we can be encouraged by how some units played, how the offense got out to a great start by the coaching job by Brian Schottenheimer and Matt Eberfluss. But this was a very winnable game, and it's. It's going to be hard to win games this year, especially against NFC opponents like that. It feels like they let one slip through their fingers. Now you've got to come back in week two and get ready for another divisional game against a team that's just as desperate as you are to get a win. I. I know our friends at FanDuel think the Cowboys are going to win this game. It's going to be tougher than they think.
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Landon McCool
Yeah, I think. I think you just having been a week away from it, it feels like the Cowboys kind of squandered an opportunity of. Of really good football being played by. By Dak Prescott, specifically. He had a really good game. And, and. And I think the thing that you're encouraged by is the answers that you got from all the things that you had unknowns about. Right. And it's early in the season. None of these answers are permanent. All of this is a moving target. So nothing is resolved or solved here. But I think the early returns on what you've seen from Brian Schottenheimer and his ability to get his team up for a football game, I think those have been positive. Right. I think the early returns you've seen in this Cowboys run game and their ability to have success in key moments. You know, I think they ended up with the best run game by success rate in, in the NFL, if I'm not mistaken. It was, it was. Even though it wasn't explosive numbers. You had two touchdowns, they were converting third downs, they were converting goal line situations. That's what you're asking for in a run game. Let's see a little bit more of that, you know, and, and I think the way you lost the game was in ways that, you know, you don't feel like are going. You don't hope are going to be kind of ongoing issues in the, throughout the season. CD Lamb making a bunch of drops. You know, obviously some issues at tight end with the, with that as well. You know, the hope is, is that you can clean a couple things up and play much better football next week. But obviously, you know, there's still lingering issues with, with the defense and, and how quickly they're going to be able to grow and adjust. And I think, you know, they're going to have a little bit easier test this week, but it's going to be a little bit tougher test for groups like the, the offensive line that you felt like did well, but you still need to see them kind of take a step against what's going to be a really tough test, especially on the interior against the Giants.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You, you know, you were going to have to score 28, 31. Let me help you out. You're going to have to score 28, 31 and you're gonna, and we're gonna come on here in a week from now and you're gonna have to score 28, 31. I mean, that you got some critical stops from your defense in the second half. Yeah, you didn't score 28. And you point and you go, okay, well, why didn't we score 28? Ran the football pretty well. We got really good play out of the tight ends. We had a quarterback who hadn't played in over 300 days who went out, functioned, I thought, exceptionally well. And your $30 million receiver dropped three balls, and they were critical balls. And so the margin for winning and losing in the NFL is razor thin. And it's razor thin. And it's magnified when you have a defense. It's probably not going to get you a lot of turnovers and you're going to have to score. And I think it's something that, to me, the one thing I don't want to see is a team come out flat against the Giants. You ought to be, you ought to Be geeked up week one against the super bowl champions. You, you, you should have had some in your neck going into that game. That's what you should have had. And that's what they had. And they had an opportunity to win the football game. What I don't want to see is a Giants team come in here and you've been watching them on film and you don't think they're very good or you don't think Russell Wilson can beat you or whatever the scenario is. And then you go out and almost play down to that level. It's like, you know, it's like when you play golf, if you play golf with guys that are pretty good golfers, you find yourself playing pretty good. You play with guys that hack it around, all of a sudden you start hacking it around. So that's what I don't want to see out of this football team.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
That's my excuse.
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Marcus Moser
I thought that was directed at me because every time coach calls me, I'm on the golf course.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
So I've gotten to where now I just answer the phone. That's that. Say that. Let's welcome. For his 6:15 tee time playing out of the trunk of his car for Mary Pennsylvania. Rumbling, bumbling, stumbling gloves in the back.
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Marcus Moser
Of the, the truck every, every day.
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Landon McCool
You know, cup mosers.
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Marcus Moser
I'm just, I'm really proud of coach that he brought up CD Lamb's salary and not Dak Prescott salary improvement. But it's a 34 million dollar receiver.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Not 30, 31, 32, 34.
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Landon McCool
At some point it becomes real money coach, you know.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, just catch the damn ball.
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Landon McCool
That's fair. Fair enough.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
The Miles Sanders fumble too, was, that was a killer.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
That was brilliant.
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Landon McCool
Well, yeah, you didn't score. Yeah, that's the issue.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Outrun a linebacker and you don't feel him gaining on you. Just dart to the right and get the ball in the end zone. For crying out loud. Show me you have some, some football mentality of saying, man, I got this guy's gaining on me. Bang. I gotta dart a little bit.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. I feel like Jaden Blue doesn't get caught there. But the question is, does Jaden Blue get through that hole initially to get the run so.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Well, yeah, I want to say this about the run. I mean, what I liked about it was his patience.
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Landon McCool
Yes.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I mean, when you're pulling, when you're pulling both guards and you're chasing the outside hip of the tight end. Jeff, get ready to take you some notes. Don't stand there scratching back is shapes in the outside hip of the tight end. You got to stay patient in that situation because I do think they have two different running backs. I think that Javante is a downhill back. Yeah, he's going to see it and hit it now where Miles Sanders, I mean, I did like his patience. He's chasing that outside hip and then it got there and then he went. Now we just would like to see him get it. And I don't even say fifth gear. I say fourth gear out of four wheel drive. Low to go score with that thing.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. And you know, it's not even like he had perfect consistency in his vision either. There's definitely a couple other runs later in the game where it felt like he missed. He missed the reads. But yes, on that one specifically, man, that they strung that all the way out almost to the sideline before he hit it up field in the hole and then timed it perfectly. Yeah. Just wish he could finish in the end zone and then obviously finish with the ball in his hands. That's. That's a huge part of this as well.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Okay, well, could Jaden Blue get away from that? But the bigger question is, can he get out of the doghouse? We'll get into that when we come back. Also have a pretty big name former number one pick rumor floating out in the Dallas area. We want to hit on that and a lot more. We'll try to update some of these comments and as always, we appreciate it. We want to hear from you via the Cowboys comment crew. We'll do that when we come back. Great to be with you on this Wednesday night. Getting ready for week two, the Cowboys and the Giants. This is the Cowboys squad show. You can just move through life or you can find the things that move you.
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Marcus Moser
It's your choice. You can choose to get out there, choose your people.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You could choose to go for it.
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Marcus Moser
No, like really go for it.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Just choose to do something that moves you. Mazda crafts cars for those who choose to do more than simply move. Mazda move and be moved.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
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Marcus Moser
You want me to start with this one?
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Landon McCool
I mean, I. I kind of want to think coach should start. Go ahead.
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Marcus Moser
Honestly, this is. This is right up your alley.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
No, you're not drawing me off sides.
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Landon McCool
All right, Wanted to know. I. I'll start then. I get that. Look, I mean, I think, you know, the stuff that coach talked about, if he doesn't want to say it, I'll say it for him. The stuff that coach talked about, you know, in the off season, I think is kind of showing up here. I mean, look, this is a guy that. There were concerns about understanding and following specific details. It was a lot to learn. And, And I think, you know, when all of. When coach had mentioned what he had heard, I think every single time that's been brought up in front of a coaching staff or, Or a front office member and they've talked about it, they've done nothing to deny that it was an issue. You know, like, in fact, basically all but confirmed that. Yeah. Early on in OTAs, I just don't know if he understood what it took to be a pro and, and kind of saying stuff like that. But, you know, I think it's. It's easy to read between the lines and see that he didn't pick up on. On a lot of the playbook early on. He missed some time and a lot of time in training camp with an injury, which I think had an effect on his ability to digest and, and, you know, play the play through the. With the playbook. And I think that that obviously, in turn had a direct effect in his ability to be active on game days, you know, so if you can't trust him to do, Read the playwright to take. To take an audible. If Dak calls an audible and you're in suddenly understand the protections, then you probably can't make it out for too many plays. And at a certain point, if you're only going to be in for a certain amount of package play specifically for you. You become less valuable than a wide receiver who you need to play special teams so you become inactive and they play the guy that they feel like they can trust. Even if they don't know how talented Miles Sanders necessarily is.
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Marcus Moser
I just think he's gonna need to show in the classroom that he's ready to go and show in the practice field that he can be more consistent. Like Brian Schottenheimer, to his credit, has been pretty consistent about this. Like, guys that deserve to play are going to play. Just because you are a first round pick like Mozzie Smith does not necessarily mean that you're going to be active and playing on game days. Just because you're this big recruit at a high school Jaden Blue like he was and you're a fifth round pick and you're the most athletic running back on the roster doesn't guarantee that you're going to play. And I think this has been a little bit of the problem with the Cowboys culture over the last however many years you want to say 20 years, there's been this sense of entitlement that hey, I, I deserve to play or this guy deserves to play because he was a high pick. I think Shoddy's trying to change that a little bit and he's wanting these guys to really earn their spots before they get on the field. And I know what everybody's saying, well, what, what has Miles Sanders done to show that he deserves that spot? It's probably just more he knows what he's supposed to do. Like he knows where. Yeah, the coaches trust him now. They might not trust him as much now that he fumbled, but I think for the most part they, he knows what is expected of him. Blues got to earn that.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. And there's more to play in that position than just carrying the football. I mean, you've got, you've got to know how to protect. You got to go put your face in there. And you're usually going to have to get your face on somebody that's bigger than you are. Now. You don't want to cut him loose on a defensive lineman, but certainly every linebacker that comes and most safeties that come in the league today may be bigger than you. And so now all of a sudden that's, that's, that's, that's all about Shiva Getter. That's what it is. And so either you show that and you display that and how you handle your everyday business, or you don't I don't know that he is or he isn't. You know, I, when I gave an opinion, it was, it was an opinion from what I had seen and some folks had seen. And, you know, you don't have to be magna cum laude at Harvard to figure out how he went about his business in high school. And at Klein Kane High School, when he decided after his junior year he wasn't going to go through spring football, and then he decided as a senior he was not going to play football. Okay, super talented. I get that. I mean, I, There's a lot of guys that are really talented, but at the professional level, if you're going to get it done at the professional level and get it done with a consistent sense of urgency that you have to get it done with, then you have to go out and that has to be what your job is. That is your job. And so, you know, I don't go out there every day. I'm not going to go out there and sit around and thumb my nuts and jockey information with the rest of those guys. I'm not doing that. So I give you what I, you know, what I hear and, and what I know. And I, you know, I try to, I try to bring it with a little, a little different sense of urgency than anybody else brings it. So, I mean, I hope Jaden Blue, when you, when you look at his tape and you cut his tape on Texas, he, he can, he's a home run hitter and guess what? This offense needs home run hitters. So hopefully he can turn himself into, you know, getting the bat and cage get your swings in and make sure you get, you know, you're ready to go when your number gets called and hopefully you can be a home run hitter.
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Marcus Moser
I do think he's going to get chances. It's just, yeah, I don't think it's necessarily going to happen in September. I think it's more likely to happen as the season goes on. I just think they really want him to earn it. And Shoddy also said it's a special teams thing, like, he's the third running back on the roster. The first two don't play special teams. Hunter Lipke does and maybe if he carves out a role on special teams, we see him active with the other two, but that's not the case right now.
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Landon McCool
And it's also hard because he's small. You know, I mean, like, coach was talking about, like, you know, pass protecting being part of the issues and, you know, of or things you have to do when you're an NFL running back and it's not even just that being assignment sound. It's, it's, it's, you know, the concern about having 190 pound running back trying to stop a 235 pound moving train, right. That's got four yards of momentum. Like that's not always a physically, you know, a possible thing to do. So you have to deploy him carefully and I think it's just limiting the opportunities you have to put him out there. I tend to think that if once they do bring him out there, and I brought this up on, on social media yesterday, but I think that they should try to focus on giving him some first down looks because I think that you'll see a lesser variety of defensive looks. The Cowboys need more explosive plays specifically on first down. Like they've been really good on second and third downs when Dak has targets to throw to. But, but he, you know, he can't even earn those opportunities if you can't roster him. And so you've got to get him to a point where you can at least feel comfortable enough about his ability to play function as a running back that you can either roster him or get him good enough at a specific special team so that you can play him that way. But again, he's 190 pounds, so that's not always going to be the easiest thing to do.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
It is, it is tough work when you, when you are the second or third back. It, it's tough all the way around. It's tough if you think it's, it's not tough covering kicks or blocking and punt protection or any of the other situations that you would get in. From a special team standpoint, it is, it is tough. It is a tough ass business for tough ass people. And you gotta, you gotta determine if you're one of those guys or not because it really is, it's about, it's about want to, I mean, you know, I, I try to point to people all the time. If, if you don't, if you don't, if you're a Cowboys fan, you don't watch the Netflix series or you haven't watched it, you need to watch it.
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Landon McCool
Yep.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Because the one thing you need to take away from it is you need to, you need to just listen to Michael Urban and how he talks about, just how he went about his business every single day. I think I saw him somewhere on YouTube the other day and I, and I know this for a fact where he was talking about, no one ever clocked him under running about four or five. And I remember, I remember take going out on the track and, and literally clocking him and he, you know, 4, 5, 2, 4, 5, 5. And he would be so frustrated. But the difference is he had a fear of failure that burned in him every. And it burns in him today. I mean, look at him on the sidelines of a Miami Hurricane game. And he is a, I mean, he's, you know, he has a, he has a want, he has a drive, and he has a fear of failure that's, that's unlike anything. And, you know, it takes. If you're going to be great and you're going to be great in the NFL, you have to have something that really drives you and something that really burns inside of you. And, you know, it's a want to and it's a desire to do it. And if, if you don't have that, you, you eventually weeding yourself out. And I'm not saying, I'm not pointing to anybody in particular, so don't take this off the rails. I'm just saying playing in the NFL, it is a tough business period.
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Marcus Moser
Maybe skip the episode where Michael Irvin stabs a teammate, but other than that, I think you're right, Coach.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, you, you're sitting, if you're sitting in, you're sitting in the barber chair, and the, and the guy that's the star of the team walks in, dress up out of the, dress up, out of the barber chair. That's the moral of that story.
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Marcus Moser
Bad message. But okay.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Back to Jaden. I mean, I, I, hey, look, I always say, if you're gonna get the goal, you got to go through the fire. And I'm, I'm all for pushing him and trying to get him to be the best that he can be. And I, I hope, I hope it pays off. I mean, it's going to have to. Or, or as Coach said, he won't be around, period. You know, I didn't mean to speak for you guys, but I, I said that we all kind of like Javante Williams. What did you guys think?
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Marcus Moser
I thought he looked healthier, healthier than he's looked over the last couple years. And I think if you look at the yards per carry, which is a bad way to judge a running back, you'll see, like, what, 3.7 yards per carry. Not great. But he had the number one success rate in the NFL last week because he converted almost every short yardage attempt. I think that's all they're going to ask for him, is to be a physical between the tackle runner. He's not going to be the guy that's brought in to break big plays. He's going to be the guy that keeps the chains moving and you can, you can live with that kind of running back. I, I was very pleased by what the Cowboys got from Javante in week one.
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Landon McCool
Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I think again, just to kind of explain it out a little bit, success rate just adds the context of the down, a distance and what's, you know, considered to be a positive run based on those, that, that down and distance and, and you know, considering the situations that he was put in when he was running, he had the number one success rate in the NFL. So I think it wasn't spectacular. He didn't create a ton of explosive plays. That's what we need to see more of. And I think obviously that's where Sanders kind of stepped into that role a little bit. But as far as getting what you needed to convert, getting what you needed to score touchdowns, the, you know, getting what was, was blocked for for him, he provided a nice high floor for the Cowboys running game. I, I think the ceiling is what we're still kind of looking for at this point as far as a guy that could be a dynamic alternative. I think Sanders showed you a little bit of that, but obviously there are other concerns there.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. And I'm going to say, I'm going to go back to it, keep saying it. You got to be able to protect. I mean you have to be a, in the National Football League as a running back. It's great eight run the ball. It's great yards for carry. Yeah, he's got vision and yeah, he can stick his foot in the ground and yeah, you take it to the, you know, he can take it to the house and all those things. But you got to be able to protect. You got to be, you got, and you have to be able to understand the protection and a lot of times you have to, you, you might have, you might be dual reading guys. It may be, it may be inside out and you don't have. If you're thinking and you're not real sure where to go, that's the, that's what really causes the problem. And I mean I saw him multiple times now. It wasn't like he went in there and just road graded somebody, but I mean he went in there a couple times and you know, threw it on the line to know you, you gotta, you gotta bring it in and it is that it is tough work as a running back. It to, to be able to protect and be able to know that you're, you're, you're, you're going to be taking on a guy that's probably got a six yard head start on you and he's got a head of steam coming your way.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
All right. Good stuff all. And one little note too, I forgot to mention. Speaking of little former Cowboy running back, Du Vaughn signed with the Broncos practice squad today, just in case you're wondering.
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Marcus Moser
Good for him.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Yeah.
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Landon McCool
Fullback agenda continues.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
And there was another. Who, who was it? I'm drawing a blank. There was a running back that got, that also had a fumble that got cut.
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Marcus Moser
Oh, it was it Jets. It was a kick returner. Xavier Gibson.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
He got cut.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Yes.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Kick. He's a kick returner.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
That's right.
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Marcus Moser
Still very upset about that game, coach. It doesn't fumble. The jets beat the Steelers. But it's, it's fine.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, but I mean, how great is that? I mean, to me, if you're Aaron Glenn and you're going in and you're trying to change the culture of a building and.
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Marcus Moser
Right.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Winning. Winning is contagious and so is losing. And you go in there and you know, we could have won this football game. We hadn't done this and he gets cut. I mean, that, that sends a message throughout the building.
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Landon McCool
It's like, it's like the asthma thing. Go, go practice on the fumble field. This is the regular field, right?
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Exactly. All right. When we come back, there was a pretty big rumor this morning when I woke up and we have an update on that rumor, that big name rumor. We will do that and get into that and ask everybody what they think of that and what it means. We'll do that when we return. Great to be with you on this Wednesday night. We got to talk about the Giants and the Cowboys. With the Cowboys home opener coming up on Sunday, this is the Cowboys squad show.
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Marcus Moser
Well, they've got the second most cap space in the NFL, so I don't think they should rule out any available free agents that can help their team. And honestly I think Clowney probably is the best free agent out there. He's only 32 years old. He was productive last year for Carolina. He was really good with Baltimore. He stops the run. He's a pretty decent pass rusher. It's, it's, he's another big body that you can throw in there. He can line up in a lot of different places. But as always is the deal with Jadavian Cloudy. He's played on I think six teams over the last seven years. He's a mercenary at this point. Like he's, he's not loyal to any one team. He's going to wherever he can get the most money. And my guess is that the Cowboys are interested, but probably not at the, the contract that Jadevian clowney wants right now. Maybe they'll check back in in a week or two, maybe kind of seeing how their young guys do and maybe seeing what clowning's price is. But I gotta believe that's the case right now.
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Landon McCool
Yeah, I mean, I, I think, I think, you know, the clown is just another one of these guys. I mean, I think mercenary is, is the appropriate way to refer to it, right? Where he's just, he's out to get a paycheck year to year, which is fine and that's. And I think he's got value and I think he would help the Cowboys. I mean, look, it's not, you know, in any sort of way, any kind of Micah Parsons replacement, even in a play style like situation. It's more closer to a, a DeMarcus Lawrence type of filling and, and in with the way that you saw Marshawn Neal and play last year, last week, maybe you feel like you don't necessarily need to jump right into this. You could let it play out a little bit and, and see if the, his number comes down a little bit before you sign him. But I do think that he could be a guy that if the Cowboys ended up signing, could be a valuable part of a rotation. Just another, you know, a second kind of bigger body guy that, that is sort of a unique, more unique body style than what the Cowboys have basically in stock outside of Neyland. So I think he could be useful just kind of playing several different spots and just another veteran presence to kind of help with, with you, you know, a young group of defense events.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah, I'm more inclined to say that it'll be interesting to see if they, you know, what kind of medical look they took at him. I mean, did they, did they send him for some, you know, for some x rays or MRIs, something like that? I, I don't know that, but I'd like to know that information first to see if, if he's really healthy. Because I'm like Marcus. I mean, he can help, he can help this football team right now if he's healthy. He's got, you know, you can talk about him at 32 years old. Maybe he's a little stiff in the hips, whatever. I mean, you look at him and you watch some of his film from last year, he's still, he's still really flexible in his ankles. And to me that, that means a lot. I mean, when you have that flexibility, that means you can turn the corner. You can get up the field, you can do the things that they need to do. So I do think that I'm more inclined to say that they're probably taking a hard look at it to see where, where they think he is physically.
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Landon McCool
Which is probably why he was available at this point. Right. Like if you sign him before the season, he's a veteran, that contract's fully guaranteed. Right. You sign him after the first week, you take a look at the medical situation and, and it just gives you more tolerance for the medical situation. Like maybe he's got some arthritis in his knees or something. But it's like, you know, we'll handle that as long as his full year contract isn't guaranteed. If, if, if, if it becomes a problem, we can cut him and we can recoup that. So I think that there's just a certain class of these veteran guys who coach is right. Like, I mean playing eight to 10 years as a defensive end is going to put some wear and tear on your body. Maybe the Cowboys just don't want to guarantee that contract because of that medical. But it's enough that hey, now that this, now that we're not talking about a guaranteed contract, we don't mind paying the money for it. We just want to make sure that we're insulating ourselves in case of injury.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And I think, I think it comes a question of load management on your body. Yeah. I mean, can he practice? Is he a guy that's going to practice every day? Probably not. So then, you know, what, what is the, what does the medical team think about how you load manage all that? And then how are you going to then fit that under what you want to pay a guy that, that you're going to have to get into that situation with Again, I don't, I have zero insight into it. I'm just, I'm just guessing that that's what they're looking at is a guy at 32 years old. And yeah, that doesn't sound very old, but from an NFL standpoint, it's, it's playing that position and getting him into. And again, he is a big dude. This is a big guy and you know, load managing his body.
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Marcus Moser
He also has had quite an extensive injury history in the NFL. Now he's played through a lot, but you're talking about somebody who had micro fracture early in his career who's dealt with a history of soft tissue injuries. There's also a part of Jadevion Clowney that like, I don't know how much he loves to practice so that's probably why he's not signing, you know, in July and August, because, hey, if you can skip out on those two months of training camp, it's kind of nice just to walk right into the season. So I do think he gets signed at some point. We'll see if the Cowboys are interested here in a couple weeks. But coach want to let you know, Genevieve and Connie, he likes his area up here. He likes the cold, big time skier.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
He likes cold weather, loves the cold weather.
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Marcus Moser
Comes up here to ski, snowboard, you.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Sign to the Cowboys, sign the wrong team.
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Marcus Moser
Just want to tell you that even professional athletes come up here and enjoy the weather. So there you go, coach.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. Well, you ain't got to worry about old stretch coming up there.
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Landon McCool
I know toothless defense for a while.
- [43:45]
Glenn Stretch Smith
Run out for his ass and go.
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Marcus Moser
We'Ll get you up here one day. Don't you worry.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
You gonna get me up there one day. But it ain't gonna be in that seven months that that white stuff comes out of the sky.
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Landon McCool
Someday. Someday we're gonna, all three of us. Get a picture of us. Yeah. Like tobogganing down an eerie Pennsylvania hill.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Because I want to get out on that lake. I mean, anytime you want. Yeah. In April, going to do it. Let's go ahead and get. Let's go ahead and take the damn polar bear swim and the whole nine. Oh, come on up there. Get his ass up there, too.
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Landon McCool
I'm not volunteered for that. That's all y'.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
All. So let me ask you guys this, because I feel like we maybe glossed over it a little bit, but obviously going into the opener last week, it was a Cowboys defense now minus Micah Parsons. And so we kind of moved on from that. But with that said, we didn't really get it. We didn't get to see the Cowboys defense really at all until that opening game. Talk about the offense. What. What were your. I mean, were you pleasantly surprised with the Cowboys defense? Were you disappointed? What was your overall takeaway?
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Marcus Moser
I depended on the half right.
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Landon McCool
The first time.
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Marcus Moser
I wonder if they were ever going to get a stop this season. The second half, it felt like they did a really good job of containing Saquon Barkley. They got beat at the end by a scramble by Jalen Hurts, but it seemed like they settled down. Jeff, I'm going to be really curious to see, like, what does week two look like? Is it one of those first halves again where they can't stop a nosebleed, or did they settle in kind of like, what we saw in the second.
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Landon McCool
Half, it felt like in that game, especially early, the defense kept on getting beat in two very specific ways, right. They kept on letting Jalen Hurts break, contain and then scramble for big plays, and they couldn't cover the tight end for certain parts of the early part of the game. And, and that was enough of a Philly to create a pretty explosive, chunky offense that was able to move the ball pretty well. But I think in all the ways that we were concerned about this defense, they did pretty good. Like they actually were able to get off, get after the quarterback a little bit, create a little bit of pressure. Not, certainly not Micah Parsons level, and that shouldn't be the standard because you don't have him anymore. But I also think that in like, you know, normal designed run plays, they, they did a pretty decent job of limiting the, the bleeding there and they were not being blown off the ball like we saw in previous seasons. So I, I think the numbers don't look great, certainly. But the way that they were losing, the way that they were getting beat up on in the run game was a way that I felt like at least gave you hope that they have found some solutions and, and at least kind of the solving the interior of their defensive line and not, you know, being out bullied inside. If they can just play with a little bit better discipline on the edges and maybe not play the best offensive tackle combo in all of football, I think that that defense looks a lot better. I mean, especially when you look at how little the, the Eagles were able to do in the passing game. Right? With, with, with, with their passing attack, the Cowboys defense was basically able to shut down the, the Eagles passing attack, especially in the second half.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And they were going to give, they were going to give them those little five yard option routes to Goddard. I mean, they were not, they were not all that concerned with trying to shut that down. What they were more concerned with was not giving up the home run. And I, I thought they did a good job, you know, not giving up the deep ball. And that's, I think that's something you're going to have to see more of. You're going to have to see them kind of keep everything in front of you. Hey, let's, if they dump the football down, let's rally. That's tackle up. But they tackled okay. I mean, I thought defensively they, they rallied to the football, they took good angles. So I mean all of those things are, you know, plus, plus again, is it going to be some defense that's probably going to get you a bunch of turnovers. Probably not. And so we, we can talk about the defense if we want to. The money is spent on the offense and those guys are going to have to go win the football game. It is that simple. And we're going to be talking about it for the next 15 weeks. They're going to have to score 28 to 30 points to beat most of these teams. That's just how it is.
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Landon McCool
I almost made a joke about to get better. Yeah, I'm sorry.
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Marcus Moser
I almost made a joke about the, the Cowboys, you know, quarterback and how much he's making. But coach is right in this case, like that all their money is on offense. That's the group that has to be consistent every single game. We could live with the defense being a little bit more high variance. The offense can't.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. And like, like I was saying, like, I think the hope is all the youth is also on the defense too. Right. All, all the, the young guys that you're hoping to develop, they're all. That's mostly on the defense as well as well. So the hope is that as they continue to get experience, the, the variance that you're. You should expect for the early part of the season, you know, starts to, to kind of even out a little bit. Hopefully, you know, they raised the floor a little bit from where they were in the early season when they were an inexperienced team. Maybe you get one or two of these pass rushes to start playing at a little bit higher level than what you've. You have early on in the season. That's the hope. But. But yeah, as it stands right now, this is going to have to be a team that scores a lot of points to win these ball games.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
All right, good stuff. When we come back, we're going to have our final segment and want to talk about the Giants and the home opener and what the Cowboys need to do. And I think your latest episode, I think, is a perfect segue to kind of jump into that. So we'll do that when we come back. A lot of good comments. Brian says Clarence Hill reporting to the Cowboys. Not going to sign Clowney. What? I don't. I don't know if that was definitive or. I thought he just left without a comment.
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Landon McCool
Well, it sounded like that's where they were trending, but that, that doesn't. That. I think that just meant for today. I don't think that that means that they aren't necessarily going to snite him.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Right. That's what I thought. Okay. All right. More of your comments and our final segment coming up. This is the Cowboys Squad show from producer Jordan Peele. The movie him asks the question, would you sell your soul for greatness? What are you willing to sacrifice?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
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Podcast Host/Moderator
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Landon McCool
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Glenn Stretch Smith
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Podcast Host/Moderator
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Marcus Moser
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Marcus Moser
Yeah. So that was our Wednesday episode.
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Landon McCool
So today.
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Marcus Moser
Yeah. And the three positions that we looked at were linebacker. We just didn't think the Cowboys got enough out of Kenneth Murray and Jack Sanborn. And there's some reasons why we think those guys might have struggled for Murray. He has not practiced a ton. He missed all of the preseason. He also might not be good. Like, that's a reason why the Cowboys might need more of it. The tight end position. We thought the tight ends did a really good job blocking in the run game, but all three of them failed to bring in some big catches that would have helped the offense stay on the field. And then we want to see more from the tackles. I didn't think the tackles played terrible, but they're going to need to continue to get better. You've got some really good edge rushers that you're going to be playing, including three this week with Brian Burns, Abdul Carter and Kayvon Thibodeau, plus Chauncey Golston, old friend of ours. They're gonna have to continue to improve based on just what we saw from last week.
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Landon McCool
Yeah. And just kind of to piggyback on that, one of the reasons we brought up tackles and tight ends specifically together, those two groups are Going to need to work together on those terrible threesome that the Giants have. Right. So I think it's going to be really important that the Cowboys run game continue to be steady, that they attack those guys at the edge. They're a little bit undersized, obviously, pass rushers. That doesn't mean that they're bad at playing the run. But you hope that at least being physical with them up front might help loosen things up in the pass game a little bit more. You're going to need your tight ends and your tackles to not only play well individually as groups, but work together in coordination to kind of attack attack the, the toughest part of that Giants defense.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
Coach, any thoughts here?
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Glenn Stretch Smith
How can I help you today? Yeah, I mean, you know, I'm, I didn't hear, I didn't hear the, I didn't hear the episode, but certainly, I mean the tight ends, you know, they're going to need, they're going to need Ferguson, they're going to need soon Maker Span Ford. You're good. You have two really good wideouts. And when you have that, what you're going to have is you're going to have so many teams that are going to play a two deep or a 40 coverage and having the ability to get through the middle of the field is imperative and you got to have somebody that can stretch the field vertically for you. And that is something that I think Ferguson span forward, they can do. And so I do agree with that. Linebackers wise, you know, there's a reason that Tennessee let him Murray go. I'd like to see a leopard in the game a little more, but there's a reason why they didn't feel necessarily comfortable given him more snaps. This is a defense that did not play their starters. So again, understanding the speed of the game, I look for that group to be much better. I thought they covered okay from a, from a playing underneath coverage and but ultimately you gotta, you know, you gotta just continue to work on being gap sound with what you're doing to, to stop the run because everybody's going to see that film in the first half and they're gonna, they're gonna think that, you know, they can run the football at you and you're gonna have to shore up that, that you know, that second level, those guys getting second level opportunities. And I do think Kenny Clark and Osha will. They're going to take up your, your both guards in your center. So you got to have some linebackers that can come downhill and make plays now.
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Landon McCool
And obviously demarvi and Overshone will be back at some point, but that could still be another month away, as far as we know. And we don't know the state of exactly how he's going to look immediately when he comes back. So you need to have playmakers at the linebacker position. And like coach said, especially since you have the tackles to, you know, hold up up front, you really need to have linebackers who can take advantage of it. And I feel like what we saw this week was a lot of competent play from the younger players in that linebacker room. Right. I thought Damone Clark played well. Leofal only played, I think, six snaps, but he looked good out there. Certainly good enough that, you know, when you look at how Murray played, you know, and I think Murray played something like. What do we say, Marcus?
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Marcus Moser
61 snap. I think it was 61. 61 to 62 snaps.
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Landon McCool
Yeah, yeah, 60. I think it was 62 because I remember being two. 62 snaps to Leah file. Six. Six snaps. Like, come on, we gotta. We gotta at least balance that out a little bit more, if not only for the reason that it's a very long season and that you're gonna need all these guys, because linebacker is much like the running back of the defensive position in the sense that they're constantly getting into car crashes. Those guys get beat up a lot. You're gonna need these guys. So I think it's time for us to kind of see a little bit of the youth movement. Look, I mean, I think when you change defensive coordinators, this happens sometimes. Same thing happened with the moan Clark and Zimmer. You know, Clark was. Was in the doghouse with Zimmer for one reason or another, just didn't fit the style. Whatever the reason is, they didn't play him as much. But when they did play him, he played well, and I think he played well in this game as well. And I think the Cowboys are feeling better about his situation in Eberfluss. I think Lia Fowl may be dealing with a similar thing where all the coaches that drafted him originally aren't here anymore. He's having to re. Earn some of that trust with this new coaching staff. Hopefully he's doing that sooner than later.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
All right, so I've been doing this a long time, and this is not hyperbole by any means, but with that said, considering that they literally let the Eagles game through their fingertips, like you said, Marcus with. With the fumble and the drops, I mean, you gotta win on Sunday. I mean, I know that that's a stupid thing. To say, but you're home against the giants week two. You're, you're favored. You don't want to be 02 and you don't want to start your season off this way.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
And.
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Marcus Moser
No. And, and actually there's an episode coming out tomorrow that I did with Patricia Trina from Locked on Giants and we had this exact conversation. So make sure you go look at it, but go watch it. Yeah, it's kind of a must win game. Like, not only can you not afford to go Owen two to start the season, you really don't want to go Owen2 in your division to start the year because it becomes really hard to bounce back from that. But this is a home game against the team that you're favored against. We've been talking all off season, like, how difficult this schedule gets in the second half of the year and that they need to rack up these early season wins to give themselves a chance. If they're 02 and they, you know, they have a bunch of mental mistakes and fumbles and penalties and we're talking about an 0 and 2 team coming out of week two. I just have a hard time seeing them get to. I have a hard time seeing them go 10 and 5 over the next 15 games and getting back into the playoffs. I don't want to say your season's over before it begins, but we're getting real close.
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Landon McCool
You lose a lot of control is what it is, right? Like when you lose two division games, you just. All it is is that you lose more and more control of your own destiny. You need things to kind of break the right way. Look, anything can happen. I mean, I remember what was the 2023 season that we needed the Eagles to lose six straight games at the end of the game a season or whatever it was, and lo and behold, they did it. So, like, you know, sometimes these things will fall that way. But, but as you, like, lose these opportunities to gain control, to retain control of your own destiny in the NFL, that's, that's really where you start to like, lose opportunity. And, and the problem is not that you're. Oh, and two. Like, like Marcus said, it's, it's like, it's that these are division games that you've played these first two games, so you need to win these ones, especially the ones that you're expecting to win, like home games against the Giants. Right? Like, this is a, this is not going to be an as easy a game as I think a lot of Cowboys fans think it will be, because the Giants are Good in some very specific areas in which they can exploit and make this game difficult for you. However, the Cowboys are favored for a reason. They are the more talented team and they have to win the games that they are supposed to win. If they aren't going to win the games that they were given the opportunities to win and they couldn't, and they couldn't take advantage of it, you know, so.
- [60:31]
Marcus Moser
So, Jeff, since 2020, when they expanded to a 17 game schedule, only two teams have made the playoffs after starting 0 and 2. And actually one of them is Baltimore, who Dallas played in Week 3 last year. Remember that game? Ravens came in 02 and kind of beat up on the Cowboys early. So it's, it's incredibly hard to make the postseason. Even harder if you have the schedule that the Cowboys coming up and they have in the second half of the year. This. This is as close to a must win week two game as you'll ever get.
- [61:02]
Landon McCool
It's fair.
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Podcast Host/Moderator
I love it.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
I love it in week two.
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Landon McCool
Yeah.
- [61:07]
Marcus Moser
Yes.
- [61:10]
Glenn Stretch Smith
Yeah. I mean, you know, there's always one or two games that you, you look at and, and you think, man, we, we won that game when we should have lost. There's one or two you say, man, we lost, we should have won. I hope it's. I hope. No, I hope this is not the case. Win the one. You should win at this point in the season to get yourself the 1 and 1. Complete different mentality in the building. Complete different mentality. Even for, you know, anybody that covers the team, anybody that deals with it, it's going to be a complete different mentality. So I, I do think this is a, this is a big game and they, they made it a big game by, by missing an opportunity last week. And so you need to go get.
- [62:00]
Landon McCool
This done real quick before we go. Would you rather they announced that Russell Wilson is going to be the quarterback? It sounds like. Would you. Would you rather have faced Russell Wilson or, or the young rookie.
- [62:12]
Marcus Moser
What's the. The phrase you'd rather deal with? Yeah. The devil you know versus the one that you don't. I, I know what Russell Wilson is. I know how he. How he can. He's gonna try to beat the Cowboys. I'll live with that.
- [62:25]
Landon McCool
I think that's how I feel too.
- [62:27]
Podcast Host/Moderator
Honestly, at least to start.
- [62:29]
Glenn Stretch Smith
Right? Yes.
- [62:31]
Podcast Host/Moderator
All right.
- [62:32]
Landon McCool
Rookie catalyst in this situation. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
- [62:35]
Podcast Host/Moderator
So what do you got coming up before we go on the daily Locked on Cowboys podcast?
- [62:40]
Marcus Moser
Yeah, so we got that crossover episode with Patricia Trainer coming out on Thursday. And then Friday, Landon and I will Preview the Week 2 matchup between the Cowboys and Giants. Might be giving a bold prediction at the end of that show, so be on the lookout for that.
- [62:55]
Podcast Host/Moderator
Love bold predictions. They're very underrated, very underused. All right, guys. Well, hey, it was a pleasure this hour flew by. Really enjoyed the conversation. Love it when we're all together. Thank you for coming on today. Don't forget, check out Marcus moser and Landon McCool, the daily lockdown Cowboys podcast. And if you're in the greater DFW area, you can hear the fine vocal tones of the coach, Glenn Stretch Smith and your radio show coach. Talk to you on Sunday.
- [63:24]
Glenn Stretch Smith
Have a great evening, fellas.
- [63:26]
Podcast Host/Moderator
Okay, yes. Thank you everybody for getting in and watching. This has been the Cowboys squad show.
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Marcus Moser
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Glenn Stretch Smith
Head to the store for Pebbles Yabba.
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Marcus Moser
Dabba doo Fruity Pebbles, less blah, more yabba dabba doo.
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Glenn Stretch Smith
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Marcus Moser
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