The Dallas Cowboys PROVED They Need Micah Parsons

The Dallas Cowboys PROVED They Need Micah Parsons

So, my biggest takeaway from last night was I did not miss Micah Parson’s one second. Wow. Go, you guys. I think I think I I think the the Dallas defense looked good enough for the most part that they didn’t miss Micah last night. Now, there was some there was a lack of pass rush and there was some pass rush pass lane pass rush lane, you know, uh undisipliness and and and let Jaylen Herz go. But I really think like would one more sack would have won won the game for them last night for Dallas. Would one sack here with one sack there? I think the pass rush definitely suffered. But I think as a whole, Dallas’s defense has to feel good about that outing. Now Jaylen gutted him with the legs and they got to get that fixed. Exactly. But they held him to 24 points, but they did fix that in when they They fixed it in the second half by bringing pressure. Not really. He ended the game on a Let me drop back and first down. Game over for y’all boys. I just feel like all right, they they did do a good job against the running back runs. Running backs had like 95 yards. Saquon had like 60. It was solid just against the running backs. Gil don’t look like that. But Jaylen Herz [ __ ] tore the game up with his legs. Now I feel like if Parson was there, it might be different. He may he may run him down on one of them touchdowns on third down. He may run him down on one of them third down conversions. So the pass rush was absent. Jaylen did what he wanted to do on his legs. I feel like that’s where Parson show up. Maybe they put Parsons to spying instead of the guy they have. Who did they have spying him? Nobody. Nobody. Was that Chicago linebacker? Maybe. And that was a joke. Yeah, that’s a joke. He can’t. He can’t. So he cannot spy Herz. He cannot tackle Herz in the open field at all because on the last third and five, Jack Sandboard, he made him look silly, bro. He can’t He cannot tackle Santa H. Maybe the Cowboys would have had Parson spawning. You know what I’m saying? So, I feel like they definitely missed him. They had one sack. It was up the middle. It was a It was a Kenny Clark and another guy. You know what I’m saying? It was Neand, but I feel like the pressure was not there. Parsons would have maybe had an impact on some of them running touchdowns that Jaylen Herz was able to do. Maybe did I I didn’t even know Kenny Clark was actually in that game. I’m going just be honest. I mean, no, I didn’t even know he was. Let’s just be No, let’s just be honest here, right? That that first half they had a runathon. Yeah. Them they was running all over the place. Kenny, the guy who was supposed to stop the run, was zero zero and zero, right? Zero sacks, zero assists. He he he deserved a half a sack on that one cuz he took Jaylen down. Give him a half. Going to give him a half point five cuz somebody else did work. Okay. But he was zero. Um and um he had zero influence on stopping the run in the first half unless his name is lightning and delayed then yes he did a great job in the second half when all the real athletes start slowing down then he can keep up. That’s where he got everything from. He was a nonfactor. The defense was a non-factor in the first half. the delayed what you said earlier, right? The helps the defense. It definitely does which helped them and then he started making plays in the second half when the game was reduced to what it was because other than that Jaylen Herz was back there on paid vacation. Yep. He was my my thing is this, right? So you’re you’re you’re going to get all this pressure from Micah. You’re going to get him coming off the edge. you’re going to get him in Jaylen Herd’s face, right? Who else is bringing the pressure on that defense? Jaylen was rolling out to wide open sides of the field, right? You know, maybe a little bit of a little bit of pressure, one other sack, maybe a sack Micah would have brought to the game, but I thought if Dallas is looking at that game and they’re evaluating that game, they got stops in the second half. They got Philadelphia off the field. They had opportunities to move the ball and they fell short. See, but maybe it’s not sacks though. You know how Micah played. He rush out. He don’t stop. He got a motor out this world. So maybe he ain’t sacking. But when Jaylen don’t see nothing, he start scrambling. Micah is coming and he faster than Bond. So he running [ __ ] down. Maybe it’s a field goal difference and a field goal difference. That’s a different ball game, right? Take away one of them touchdowns, right, that that Jaylen got with his legs because the rush was [ __ ] non-existent. You feel me? It might not have been That’s what I’m saying. It may not have been a sack that changed it. It may just been a a a three- yard gain or a five yard gain instead of a touchdown. Philly got to kick a field goal. But I mean, that’s I could have played quarterback. They wasn’t rushing like he felt comfortable. He just sitting there just Yep. He didn’t he didn’t have no He didn’t He didn’t look at no blind side. He didn’t have to do nothing because they’re still trying to run the same defense without that player, right? They didn’t really blitz in the first half. They they didn’t do nothing. And it was just that’s why nobody wasn’t open because they not blitzing. Y’all fourman rushing. So therefore, okay, y’all got all these guys covering. Nobody open. I’m going to get out. I’m going take out. Now when Parson’s there, we can fourman rush. And if you try to take out, we going to have somebody on your ass. It’s he almost like a spot. He going to rush you. Then he going to run your ass down cuz he got a motor out this world. So they definitely [ __ ] missed him last. But that’s what I said. It looks like it it looks like it because there’s a delay and then they it got shut everything got shut down in the second half. But if you look at the first half, they’re just walking through this. I mean, three running touchdowns by the quarterback. That’s where Superman comes in that he is watching that he is paying attention to the guy who’s trying to score the touchdown with his legs. So, when you take him off the field and you’re trying to stock Barkley, what about the other guy? I mean, it’s Yeah. Well, you know, Dallas Dallas definitely they they were trying to get home what they’re for. They were trying to see what they had in the pass rush. They were dropping back. That opened up things for Herz. But Dallas, even even if they had Micah, let’s say they had Micah in the second half, they have to start bringing pressure. They they weren’t getting home. Micah does give you an advantage in the fourman rush cuz he’s going to get pressure. He’s going to move the quarterback off the spot eventually, right? But if you’re Dallas and you’re looking at, we got this great pass rusher in Micah, but we’re still not getting home, then you got to dial up the pressure. Then you sacrifice on the back end. Micah is a dynamic dynamic player, but I think, you know, the way Jaylen Herz played last night, that big physical offensive line, like would Micah have made a huge difference in that game, maybe a couple rushes here and there, but I I think overall, no. Richie, he was so dynamic. Micah Parsons last year, he played both games against Philadelphia, and Philadelphia put up 41 on Dallas in one game and 36 on Dallas in the other game. Micah played like Kenny Clark. Was he even out there? That’s what I asked myself about Micah twice against Philly last year. Was he even out there? They rushed for 187 in the first game and 179 in the second game. And it was running back rushing. It was Squan rushing. It was Gainwell rushing. He’s not there this year, but but they’re just running all they’re running our asses off the field. We’re it’s it’s a joke game where you can’t stop anything that they are calling. None of these runs that hurt them last night were called runs. And I’m going to remind you that that Philly’s offensive line is the best in football. It still is. I know they lost Mai Beckton, but that kid who stepped in for him, Alabama kid, they they look just as suffocating and dominating and overpowering as they ever have. So you have to do degree of difficulty here. They’re really good and they can really protect him. But Gil, the scenario you’re describing, he’s just standing back there. He’s calling for a pizza. He’s having something to drink. You know, that kind of scenario means that he’s going to throw for 450 yards because he’s going to stand back there and think about it and say, “Do I want to throw it to AJ or Devonte or you know what? I haven’t thrown to God for a while. I think I’ll try GDDARD this time.” That wasn’t happening because they’re all covered. All of them are covered. Mhm. AJ Brown catches one late ball for eight yards and you don’t think he was trying to get open. You don’t think Jaylen was looking for him because he’s his guy and they have clashed before. Two years ago they had a big falling out. So you don’t think Jaylen is thinking I got to get my guy involved here and he finally forced him the one late ball. But my point is he’s not throwing for 450. He threw for what? 19 where we’re where Jay 152. 152. Okay. So he throws for 152 yards. It’s pedestrian. It’s it’s it’s below average for him because he’s he’s dropping back and he’s looking and he’s looking. He’s looking. Trvon Diggs played his ass off last night. I’m telling you, he he mostly had AJ and I didn’t even know if he could play or not, but he played and he played well. Bland played great. Everybody Kier Elim played pretty again. They’re they’re dropping. They’re playing coverage like crazy shell coverage, but Jaylen can’t find anybody, right? Every play that hurt the Dallas Cowboys last night was an uncalled scramble. And there’s no better scramble here. Here’s We were talking about Jaylen yesterday and I said he has average set of skills, but he has elite impact because he doesn’t have the biggest arm and he doesn’t have Lamar’s wheels. Right. Right. But he’s got what Emit used to have. Emtt Smith what what they used to call quickness in a confined space where EMTT was just this kind of quickness but he doesn’t have great downfield speed. Well, Jaylen doesn’t have great downfield speed, but you want to talk about shifty, shrewd operator in the pocket that this he is playing chess and and the rushers are playing checkers because they they can’t they can’t figure out. He’s he’s dissecting every angle and saying, “Well, he’s going to overrun me here and I can duck here and I can go here.” and he is gashing them with scrambles. And he he’s he’s a powerful man because he’s so his legs are so strong in the weight room. So he can run through you a at the at the marker. If if he needs to get the extra yards, he’ll run over you. He did that last night. He did it. And and that’s why the tush push is so overpowering is because his legs are so strong. You just can’t stop him. I thought Dallas did a pretty good job against the the tush push and and he just with a second effort he he just rammed the ball across the line. Okay, so Jaylen was sensational because every choice he made on his scrambles was brilliant. No, I’m telling you, brilliant where the rush was coming and and and he’s saying, “I can’t find. I can’t find. I can’t find.” He’s going through every progression and and then he’s saying, “I’m I’m going to get sacked, but I’m going to go here and then I’m going to shift here and I’m going to spin here.” And all of a sudden, he’s killing us with his legs. Every one of them was uncalled. If if you were killing me with a called quarterback draw, I’d said, “God, you got me on that one.” But none of these are called. They’re all This this shifty scrambling. But that’s what he was doing, Skip. He was taking what what Jayen going to take what y’all going to give them. Y going to drop seven people in place shell. Y drop. Okay. Y’all got a fourman rush and I’m I’mma do this. Taking what he can take. Taking what y’all giving them. Now if y’all now if y’all blitz the [ __ ] out of me now you got to guard my two goons, right? You know what I’m saying? And then I’m I’m I bet you one of them go up top eventually. So just taking whatever you get. And by the way, he had one deep throw to Dodson on the other side. And it was beautiful. Can you grade that defense in the first half? Grade my defense? Yeah. Yeah. Dallas defense in the first half cuz I I hear you when you’re talking you’re talking about the second half. So unless you’re bringing the Lightning every game. Yeah. You got to worry about that first half defense. How did that look? Okay. It looked like Jaylen Herz was playing the most special game of his life. I’ve never seen him play like that. How about Barkley? Okay. Nothing. In the first half in the first half he was walking. It was He got 60 total yards. He had he had it was tough sledding for he had 61 yards in the first half and there were a lot of minus one in the second. So I’m trying to ask you if unless you’re going to bring the lightning with you every road trip. Yeah. What about the first half defense the reality of it? The reality was Jaylen Herz was spectacular. Jaylen Herz was great last night cuz he was poised. I saw him calm in the pocket. I saw him going through reads. Of course, you want to throw the ball to AJ Brown and Dvonte Smith every single play, but he was poised. He was in the pocket. He went through his reads and when things opened up or he felt that rush, he made a decision to take the ball down and run. And he wasn’t running frantically. He wasn’t scrambling backwards. I saw him really poised, eyes downfield. Okay, defense is going to give this to me. Take the run. And what I love to see at the end of the runs was get down. Don’t even give the other team a chance to take out. What could have helped, Richie? What could have helped in that situation? What’s one thing that we could have added that could have helped? Pass rush lane integrity. Pass rush lane integrity. That’s what would have helped. That’s what would have helped if everybody was in their lane and they’re fresh. You better have a dog ass guy on line rushing the pass. Why didn’t it help last year when we got blown up? Because never had Bland and Diggs playing together. Because Demarcus Lawrence was hurt. Because Overshan was hurt. Because the whole damn Cowboys defense was hurt last year. skip fights back. Everybody was hurt. Here’s the thing. Now you got a healthy Cowboys defense and [ __ ] That’s how they look. Only thing they missing was Parsons. Fight back. Skip. This is Well, here’s the one thing that I’ll say about that. When you’re playing a physical team like the Philadelphia Eagles, right? They’re they want to run the ball. And as an offensive lineman, an offensive game planner, if they have 11 out there, we are running at him every single time. I’m bringing a tight end. I’m going to get in a wing. we are going to make it bloody for number 11. So I think it’s a win for Dallas last night because they were able to stop the run for the most part. Not Jaylen Hurst, but they were able to to keep Saquon in check. Um but you lose that liability in the run game. Now Micah is gone, Richie. And now you now you don’t have a weak side that you can run to. So Dante Fowler is that much better than Micah Parsons playing a run? No. No, not at all. Dante Fowler played [ __ ] 60 snaps last night. Yeah. So what we talking about? I thought he played pretty well. He played well yet are the same against the run. They going to jump out their lane. They going to do the same [ __ ] Dante F and Parson. They going to play the run. They miss Micah because Micah can track down Jaylen on a scramble. That’s all you’re saying to me. Not rush him. Not not track him down on scramble. That motor going to come into play. He could track his ass down on a scramble. Yes. He wouldn’t have said that. That’s what killed him last night. Scrambles. Yep. Yeah. Okay. I I’ll give you that. But you keep saying about me and lot you keep saying first half first it’s four quarters of football. Oh no no no no. You go in and you adjust at halftime. He wasn’t he didn’t adjust until the game was delayed and you got an hour that you have this question. I’ll ask you this question. If CD Lamb catches either ball in the fourth quarter, who wins the game? Either ball. Either one. There’s one at the start of the fourth quarter and one at the two-minute warning. I I mean either one. Either one. You still got to score the touchdown. Okay. Unless the unless unless the ref is going to help you get in there. No. But all all the momentum is flowing that way at that point in the game, right? Dallas. If they go score, Philly going to change how they called. They they just running the [ __ ] clock out. Now they got to open the playbook. We don’t know what’s going to happen. If there was no delay after they got that ball, they’re rushing downfield because you didn’t have nothing for it at that time. You wasn’t stopping them. They would have went right down the field. The delay helped that defense. It helped both slowed down everybody. It It slowed the game. It was three. Just three points in the second half. Slowed the game down. So it slowed the game down. Guess who it slowed down the most. You guys out. It slowed down my number 88. That’s who slowed down because he went blind. He dropped two balls and he didn’t mind my ass. He did. You know, before this game, if I were to tell you, Saquon Barkley had 60 yards rushing. AJ Brown and a TUD. Don’t forget that. AJ Brown, one catch, eight yards after the two-minute warning. Devonte Smith, three catches. If I would have given you that stat line yesterday and I said, “This is the statline of the game. Who wins the game?” But what if id have gave you uh then Jaylen Herz’s gonna have 60 yards rushing and two touchdowns as well? I would have said, “Shit, probably Philly, right?” But but but for they they hel the those runs those those runs weren’t designed runs right that’s Jaylen making a play could Mike have helped questionable but Jaylen Jaylen was the one that broke that game open right there but I think Dallas evaluating the film I think they held everybody else pretty much in check all all the all their big playmakers right Jaylen was the one that gutted them so you’re saying and I feel like Parson’s like like if I was gonna say all right I’m on the Eagles defense all right who’s gonna hold AJ All right, Bland and Diggs, y’all hold them in check. Who’s going to hold Saquon? All right. Uh uh I keep forgetting. Chicago, what’s it what’s the backer name? Jack Sam. Sam Burn. Sam Burn. And Kenneth Murray, y’all hold Saquon in check. Who’s going to hold Dak in check? Parsons, you hold Dak in check. I mean, who’s going to hold Herz in check? Parsons, you hold Herz in check. Y that was his job and he wasn’t there. That’s the guy who wrecked the game. So they [ __ ] missed him. So you see 61 yards in the first half. You’re saying that was a great run defense? No, I look at skip. I didn’t say that. I thought you that was the whole game. We played four quarters. That was the whole game. That was the first half. He had minus one rushing in the second half after Lightning. So that is a huge success for the Dallas because you’re using something that would never happen in a game. You’re talking about an hour being put, right? Yeah. That that before this hour being put. You’re talking about 61 yards at the half on the running back and you’re saying that’s great. Dickerson come back because it’s it’s disguised. They left guards in the heat and say, “Fuck that, bro. That that break was too damn long. I can’t even get in the stands no more, bro. I’m done. They put their backup guard in. Disguise. It’s disguised because the overall but when we’re saying both teams, here we go. You didn’t stop nothing.” Okay. But you you don’t have any I can’t I can’t I can’t evaluate the second half. I can’t evaluate the second. It wasn’t a real I can only judge you about y’all both warmed up. Y’all both went out there. What happened? You’re getting moonwalked through. It’s the Super Bowl champs on banner night in Philadelphia. Did he moonwalked through? Okay. You don’t understand. You You do. The first two home games last year, Michael Parsons rolling, baby. And all those guys you said got hurt. We’re not hurt at this point. and freaking New Orleans comes to Dallas for the first home game and it’s 35-19 New Orleans at halftime and then Baltimore comes and Baltimore is really good but it’s 28-6 after three quarters at Dallas and they go for 274 rushing and New Orleans goes for 190 rushing because Michael Parsons is a liability against the run if you run at him as Baltimore just ran at him every time. He backpedals like a DB. That’s what he does. He backpedals like like you on Tyreek. You’re just backpedaling, right? Okay. Seriously. So, my my point is you got to put it in the perspective of this was progress, man. This was we we did not get blow everybody. You thought it was going to be a blowout. You both said blowout. Blowout. That’s a blowout. You said it was going to be a game going into the fourth. Okay. But but you said his score was a blowout. I said 20 which you guys scored to 34 and almost had it have been a touchdown and three points. But look, you you said almost game going into the fourth and then a turnover or something going to happen. Philly going to score off of it. It’s going to be out of reach. So it was a game going into the fourth. Uh CD caught the drop seats and then it got out of reach. You said you But you said I pretty much was right. I feel like I got it. I hit it on the head. [ __ ] You said when a delay happens, you said it before we got to the top. When a delay happens, it helps the defense. It’s worse on the O line. Yeah. Both sides became great defensive teams. Yeah. Yeah. There’s nobody at the half, not one news, no commentator said, “Oh my god, Dallas defense looks amazing with Kenny.” No one said that. But nobody was expecting that. Huh? Was anybody expecting at the half at the half? Because they was walking moon walking through everything. Everybody was like, “Yeah, this Dallas defense kind of looks.” That’s what everybody was saying at the half. McGill, Dallas is moonwalking through Philly. Dallas right through. They didn’t they didn’t disguise and say they lost Carter, but but I’m but they didn’t have the excuse of we traded him to look better at the rush, right? At the half, they were talking how the rush looked amazing for for Eagles. That’s what the halftime show was, right? And and I’m thinking, damn, we can really run the ball this year, but there’s no Jaylen Carter. I give you this game so good. It’s like taking Reggie White out. It’s like, bro, we just not going to look the same. I give you that. But I thought Javvante Williams is washed like just gone and and he looked hard. He’s going to run hard. There was that one where he I’m a Broncos fan. I watched Javvante for a few years. He going to [ __ ] run hard. But let’s go. Blue and Miles Sanders be ready to go cuz he just ain’t going to give you that explosion. Jaden Blue. didn’t get on the field last night. They didn’t even He has power though cuz that was that run that run where he like he looked like he got hit with uh probably like the eight yard line and he carried it hard and [ __ ] got all the way. No no no Jaylen Carter in the middle of that defense allowed Dallas Cowboys offensive line to get started. You have a young crew on the offensive line. They’re all coming together and those boys were teeing off and they were going right at the middle of that defense. 96 power, 97 power scored right up here. To your point, Dak did say after the game, we were able to change our blocking scheme without Jaylen Carter in the middle of the line. So, whatever they had planned, which is two on him, that’s it. Yeah. I mean, you have Jaylen Carter in the middle, you need four hands, four eyes on you, we’re we’re in the huddle. We got we got someone looking which side is he on, where’s he at? Where’s he at? And we get up to the line of scrimmage. Great players like that. Where is his big ass at? And when he is gone, I mean, you literally you’re you’re drawing in plays in the dirt over there cuz you’re like, “Oh man, he’s gone. We can single some things up. We can double team other other bodies.” Jordan Davis was out there last night. He wasn’t ready to play all those plays. N big number 90 had the hands on the hips. You know, he’s he’s he’s thinking there’s going to be a rotation. And uh I think it was good for the Dallas Cowboys offensive line to get started and get some get some wins, get some positive runs against that defense because that gave them momentum. It did. Yeah. Okay. correction. He had 49 rushing yards at the halftime. Okay. And a touchdown. And a touchdown. And it was a good touchdown. That was his best run of the night. That was He ran physical. Physical. That was That was a physical run right there. Yeah. I was impressed. But I was So you’re h you’re happy with the defense. I just be You’ve given Yes. I’m ecstatic about it. I I’m serious. I I think our pass rush is way better than you guys are giving it credit for. Ezra Rawaku, the the rookie, he he had a couple of little flat number 41. Hey, I seen him get Okay, one time like, bro, what I I ain’t like it, Skip. I just like the rush. It was the rushing I was non-existent to me. I I think the rush for them is going to have to come from pressure. I think they’re going to have to not cover in the back end and bring some pressure and mix those guys up. They have a they have a good group of athletic guys up front. And last night they were playing the best offensive line in the NFL. Everybody not gonna have AJ and Devonte. So you’ll be able to get out that shell, play some man. Okay. So I’m tweeting all night. Bliss them just one time cuz Eber Flu came from Chicago and took over obviously. Well, we go all the way to the lightning delay. We we haven’t blissed one time. Notice and you’re playing not to lose to me where you’re just saying Ben don’t break. Ben, Ben, don’t break. and you’re breaking too. You broke in the first half because they had 21 points. Okay. So, go after him and and and try to you’re going to risk one big throw to AJ that’s going to break it open, but I don’t care. You you also might take down Jaylen and maybe he’ll lose the handle on it. Yeah. And then Jaylen Jaylen’s feet broke this game open. I mean, that was a back record. They weren’t just, you know, easy pickups. Those were backbreaking runs in critical parts of the game. Yeah. When you’re looking at the game, I mean, it was it was a incredible quarterback game. You came today with a Jaylen Herz jersey on.

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