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Crusty's Corner: Broaddus takes a look at the ALL 22 game film of the Cowboys Defense
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(upbeat music) Thank you, Lucius, it's an overreaction Cowboys Monday, but Krusty's watched the film. He's got the real deal for ya. Krusty's corner brought to you by reliant air conditioning gimmick-free AC repair and replacement. Here's Brian. - Thank you very much, General, appreciate that. Yeah, McCarthy, he said something interesting. It's never as bad as it seems and never as good as it seems. He said that. - Yeah, one of the 15 cliches he said in the first second. - Yeah, a bunch of cliches today. You guys have more questions about the offense or defense today? - Defense. - What way? - I mean, how bad was this defensive line? What was it when it came to not being able to stop the run, especially along the edges, which is where the Saints have their success? - Yeah, there's people that, I know that John Oning and I kind of got into it a little bit of some discussion about, you know, I felt like that the edges weren't particularly good and John was arguing that the tackles weren't particularly good and the run fits weren't good. You know, I think there's some of that to, I think there's really kind of some blame to go all around with the run defense and the way they play. - I feel like though that there were times where the Saints did a really nice job of making you feel like that you were going to be single blocked and then it turned into double team blocks. And then when it turned into double team blocks, then guys were able to get off of those double team blocks and then get to other blocks. And this was one of those games where the defensive tackles, and I think John's right in this way, did you know favors in this football game? They were awful. - Yeah, they, you know, when it comes to, if, and I said this in the cross talk and some other things and some discussions we had, if this run defense is going to be any good at all, it's going to have to be because the linebackers go make plays. And your linebackers had absolutely no chance really to make plays yesterday when it came to playing run defense. Now, the ability of the Saints to come off the football, to use what I was talking about, the 21 personnel, the 22 personnel, they, they were able to secure edges and then they were also able to take their guards and centers and then get them up on your, onto your linebackers. And you played eight, you know, in this game, you played 88% of the time you played a, you played your base defense. That's, that was most in the league by far. Well, we have a game tonight, but I don't expect the Atlanta or Philadelphia to play base defense the entire game. That's, well, to be fair, the Saints are playing basically every play with the fullback and extra tied in. Exactly. So you were just matching up personnel. It was a matchup. Yeah. You were trying to match up the best you could and where the Saints were able to make things happen were was inside when they were, when they got those, we talked about McCoy, the center and the way that he was able to play Ruiz, the way he was able to play, you know, Patrick, the other guard, they just basically said that they took care of your triangle inside. Those, when you, when you look at the defensive tackles and then the linebackers and then they at the point of attack were able to take, and I said this earlier, I felt like that they took really a good advantage of, of knowing that where tank was or where Michael was in this. And there were a lot of times where those tight ends, those, those tackles were able to come off the ball and get in. And once they secured the inside, then they worked on the edges. And once the edges were secured, then that left your corners and your safeties to have to come up and make plays. And you just weren't good enough to do that. Last week, you know, Eric, we were talking about the, the Carolina last week was before Kamara got hit in the game, you know, three, almost three yards before he was even touched. Yeah, three yards before contact. This was very, very similar before, you know, that the Cowboys just could not get anybody in position. And, and I could say a lot of it had to do with the fits, the fits, but the fits weren't allowed because the, the blockers were on the linebackers before they even had a chance to react. What do you think about when McCarthy said that it looked like a young and inexperienced team? Well, on the defensive side of the ball, he said, he was talking generally without apply to the defense. Well, he was probably talking a little bit about Lea Fowl and what his situation was, you look at with overshone got on the field, he was a little bit, there was some struggle with him, you know, getting off some of the blocks. Some of the, some of the main problems that they, they did had, though, it's the veteran offensive tack, or something, the veteran defensive tackles Phillips and Joseph Phillips and Joseph. And yeah, I think it's better than those guys. It was, it was just so clear that these guys that, that, that the Saints really didn't have to worry about those down, those tackles as much. It's like, okay, let's step, let's try and secure. But we got guys that already got them cut off. And now you just take the guy and run them to the second level. There was, it was no, it was no, like, play the double teams and then allow the linebackers to go. It was, it was like brush and then go onto the linebackers. So the inexperienced part I could understand, he's probably talking a little bit about Carson as well. Yeah. If you look at the touchdown pass that, that they had the, the one that Shaheed, the 70 yard bomb, they're in cover too. And what, what Carson has to do is Carson has to, he's in a position where he has to jam that receiver. He doesn't do anything. He doesn't do anything to affect Shaheed. And all of a sudden you've got a vertical route, which is on hooker. And then he takes it to the middle. And now you've got the safety, you know, Wilson on the other side, trying to find the, you know, he sees what's happening, but he can't make the play over there. There's a perfect, there was only 1.6 yards of separation. I looked that up. Perfect. That's how close that play was. And so with 1.6 yards, I think Wilson did the best he could, but, but Carson has to help on the play by, if he gets some type of jam on Shaheed, then maybe that allows because you had late pressure from OSSA on the play. And that would have allowed maybe that if, if the, if a car has to hold the ball just a little bit longer because he's waiting for the, the route, the clear. Well, maybe you get OSSA home on that particular thing, but it, man, all around. That was just a, really a poor, poor, a defensive. And I don't know if I can't say the effort. I just say that physically, if you look at how the Saints played. Hey, Mike Valenti here host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they hit 80% of the games? When really they just lose like most of us think cash to tickets, the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash the Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. They, and he was talking about, you know, beat them to the punch. There's quicker off the ball. Oh, they just got into their blocks and they, and they were able to turn you, move you, wash you. You know, they were, they were able to kind of handle. Now you made some self-inflicted mistakes. I talked about it on the screen that went for 57 yards for a touchdown. You've got, you've got Kendrick's in coverage there. They run a blitz coming to cars right. They run the screen going left. You know, that's, that's a one on one right there with Kendrick's. And then also with, with Alvin Kamara, he overshoots the play. Now it goes back to the inside. Here's a young guy in experience again. Carson takes a terrible angle to the ball. And now you're out the gate and it's going to be a touchdown that way. So I, you know, there's, there were some things that, that happened to you on defense that were self-inflicted in a lot of ways. Yeah, the Saints got after you really well, but there's some things that you could have done to help yourself and you didn't do that. One other big defensive question I would have is what'd you notice when it came to Michael Parsons and then being able to mitigate his effectiveness? Yeah, there was, there was when Parsons against the run, and this is where John and I kind of got into it a little bit because there were some times where he, I felt like that Parsons got, got widened on the play. It was a couple of times where he was able to play out the block and get into play. Okay. Three yard gain. Fine. But they had some seven yard gains at a touchdown run where he got knocked too wide, but John was arguing that the tackle was so bad. Well, no, it was a one on one block. It was, they got the tackle there. You know, he's thinking like, Oh, well, Parsons is playing wide in order to, you know, if the tackle fills that spot, you know, and then the free that he, yeah, the line, but they had all three guys blocked at the point of attack. I don't know how you could say that Micah played that particularly well. He got too far of field. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's, he's washed. They sure they hooked the, they hooked the tackle and then they get a guy up on the linebacker, John's arguing, well, he's got to squeeze, you know, if they, the way that he played, they should have filled that better. Well, you know, Micah could have taken that on better. He could have played a little bit stouter at the point of attack. Yeah, the tackle, the defensive tackle wasn't particularly good on the play. But, you know, Micah could play with a little bit more power on that and kind of squeezed that a little more. Instead, you know, Kamara gets up through there and they, you know, and they gets in the secondary and it's a, it's a touchdown run. So the way they mitigated him though with Micah in the pass rushing stuff is that to me, they, they, they, when you watch, they were able to take a, take a full back or take a tight end, put them on one side of the field and bring them across. So Micah feels like that he's got a one on one. But now it's a, it's, it's a double team block on the outside right there. So he's like, all of a sudden now he's being double team. They also motioned to him as well. And then kind of kept in there. And then they also blocked him one on one. So they were, they gave him a lot of different looks as far as a back chipper, a motion chipper, and then across the pocket chipper to kind of help out with, with that, the pass rush, they clearly did not have any respect for anybody else rushing the passer. Right. On that, on that, uh, done that defensive line with, you know, with tank and others. Uh, but no, Micah was there, was their main concern there. And, and they were able to, like I say, create situations where he was always at least had one guy on him or two guys on him and not letting him have a fr, they didn't get any, many, many third down situations either in this football game. Yeah. There were a lot of second quarter. Yeah. There were a lot of big plays that they were able to make. And at one point in time, they're like four for four on third down. They were in the third quarter, well into the third quarter before, you know, so they really Dallas didn't do anything to, to slow them down on first down or second down to be able to get them the third down to where they could, they could really get after the passer. Yeah. They were playing ahead of the sticks the whole time. And then they never really do just like traditional dropback passes either. And it's like, I mean, Kubiak has this thing dialed. It's screens, it's play actions, it's moving stuff. So it's never just a traditional dropback pass where you get to rush the quarterback the same type of way. I mean, it's a brilliant offense. Yeah. And, you know, and I was thinking again, Dawson about the, when the area of your question that you asked, but there was a, there was a crossing route too. And I, and then I just remembered that there was a crossing route with a lobby on third down. And so what happens, they're playing zone coverage and it passes all the way to overshroom and he looks inside to see, he sees the crosser, but he doesn't react. So now a lobby's to him past him and then they fire him the ball and he's able to get up the field for the first down. So now you're looking at it, you're thinking like, okay, the, the, the crosser goes all the way from Lea Fau to Kendrick's to overshow. And now he's late to react and he looks inside to see the crosser, but he doesn't react quick enough to, to get to the play. And a lobby makes the catch and then, and then goes up the, up the field that way. Quickly, Brian, I know we're on defense here. I think it's great. Zach Martin wasn't hurt worse. Yeah. Is he still really good? And how would you say he's playing? I think that Zach Martin is, is playing at a level right now that is not to where his standards are. I think Zach Martin is playing, you know, just, if you look at, and I'm going to say to me, it's, he's, his bar is so high the way he plays. And maybe if we have time later on, I know we have a full show. Can I circle back on the offense? We have some things I want to get in. I've got this whole red zone thing broken down. And I'd like to get into that if I could too. But I think with Zach Martin, you're looking at a situation right now where clearly he is not at the level that he once was playing at, but it's still, it's still a winning level. And I, and I don't think there's any huge drop off here. I just think that he's more, more kind of of a medium player than, than the, than the great player of the Hall of Fame player. He's been in the path. OK, we'll do that coming up at 440. OK, yeah. I'd like to get it. I'd like to get into the crustaceans. There's some, there's some things on this offense. I want to get into the interceptions. The Tolbert extensions. And then I want to talk about this red zone. If I know you take it, we don't need it. We can skip around the bases, man. I'd rather listen to that. We got C note coming up next Cowboys news of the evening. Did you see what Dax said after the game? John Michodas coming up at 520 from the athletic. He'll be a chatting Cowboys with you here coming up in the expressway. That's next in the nation. Hey, Mike Villetti here host the cash to take it alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcast claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcast that claim they hit 80% of the games? When really they just lose like most of us think cash to tickets the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent, we're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash the Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music)