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Ask Greg Cosell: What Can Eagles Do Anything To Mask Adoree' Jackson's Deficiencies? · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The following is a shortened version of our Ask Greg
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Greg, I love your breakdown of the defense. I
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  was kind of wondering with your hot tampbell kind of
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  the range and instincts that he showed you. You see
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  like them doing something differently to kind of make up
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  for some of the deficiencies on the back end as
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  far as like still not knowing and the number two
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  is with the Dory kind of struggling, like when they
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  have two ranging linebackers, what can they do to cover
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  some of that up.
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  Speaker 3: If those guys can handle more, well, you can't really
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  make up for corners who outside the numbers. So you
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  know that I mean, if you're talking about stuff inside,
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  possibly so yeah, and we'll see it's game one, you know.
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  I think I think they knew when they brought in
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  Bennett that they probably were a little uncertain about a
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  Dori Jackson, because I think it's been pretty clear that
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  they don't believe that Kailee Ringo is good enough to
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  be the starter or he'd be the Starughter at this point.
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  We'll see how it continues. But you can't really in
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  the context of a defense. You can't really make up
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  for your corners with your linebackers. That's just not really possible.
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  Speaker 4: My question for you is, and again we didn't get
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  to hear the offensive side, so I want to ask
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  you about the offensive line. I thought Lane or Lane,
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  I thought Jordan my Latte and Landon Dickerson from the
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  naked eye, looked like they kind of struggled, and I
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  wanted to get your thoughts on how, especially the left
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  side of the offensive line played it.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny you say that, Frank, because I actually thought
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  that Cam Jurgens was the guy who struggled the most.
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  I even thought Lane Johnson had some tough snaps and
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  pass protection, which is very rare to see. It was
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  not the best performance by the offensive line. You know,
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  it's week one. They won the game. If you could
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  argue that this game was very similar to the way
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  they played a year ago, so in many ways offensively,
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  even though the old line did not have a great game, overall,
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  it was kind of the way the Eagles play. I
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  mean they you know, they rarely throw for a ton
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  of yards.
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  Speaker 5: So what do you what do you think about our
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  other rookie at safety? How do you think he played
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  the Sunday excuse me Thursday?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I thought maccoba played well. You know. The one
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  thing about McCook and do you notice this in college
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  and this translates, is he just sees the game fast.
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  He's really good playing downhill. He's got an incredibly quick trigger,
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  he understands route concepts. He's just one of those guys,
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  that's who he is. But he's a good player.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the blown coverage that Vick was talking
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  about this morning? He was saying that he had a
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  couple of blown coverages.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see that. I'd have to know the play
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  only because he could be talking about blown coverages on
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  plays where you know you and how coaches are it
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  could be on plays where nothing nothing happened, and you know,
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  so I don't know those plays. And if nothing happened
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  on the play that was a big play, so to speak,
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  you know, I might not know it was a blown coverage.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, you're saying, so it could have been where
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  he wanted him to be and he wasn't there, no
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  matter if the ball was thrown to him or not correct.
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  Speaker 3: Correct, Okay, thank you. I'm concerned about A. J. Brown's
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  health like Glenn him South with his knees. Have you
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  seen anything in the tape to say maybe he's losing
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  a step or we should be concerned. So I don't
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  know the answer to that, Dan, to be honest with you,
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  I mean, I don't know. You know, guys want to play,
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  so you know, I don't you know, there have been
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  games in his career here where AJ Brown has not
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  been targeted, and then he usually lets someone know about
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  it and then he gets targeted. So one game, I'm
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  not willing to say that there's something wrong, you know,
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  the way this game kind of played out, But I
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  can't imagine that AJ Brown is going to have one
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  target against the Chiefs on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: So I wanted to ask you, you know, we're looking
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  at the tape, did you see anything good, bad, and different.
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  Speaker 3: From cal Katara and Grandson. Well, I would say this,
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  and they'll know this, and it'll be interesting to see
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  what they do going forward. Is Calcatara, they played a
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  lot of twelve personnel and they asked him to block
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  as an attached tight end, and he was not very
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  good at it. In fact, he had three or four
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  plays where he was bad at it. So Grandson will
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  not be asked to be an inline blocker. He's never
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  been that guy. Not big enough. They had twenty one
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  plays in twelve personnel and thirty plays and eleven personnel.
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  Now that when it's week one, you never know if
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  that's specific to an opponent. You never know if that's
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  the way they want to play. You don't know that
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  until they get further into this season. But you know,
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  they could look at Calcutar and say he just had
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  a bad game, or they could look at Calcuatar and say,
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  you know what, he's not really the guy we want
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  blocking defensive ends in the run game. And we will
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  know the answer to that mark until you know, we
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  get to you know, next game, because you know what
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  he's going to be playing against guys like Carloftis, you
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  know on Sunday, and Carloftis is a very good player
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  and a very physical player. You know, even Mark Dana
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  is a very physical player. Even though he's not super big,
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  he's very physical. So we'll get an idea of how
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  they see that. On Sunday he had a Hunt on
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  Smith pulled up as starters for the first time, kind
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  of full time starters that they look like the g
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  Handla Load or they look like they were rough states
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  that we kind of I think they're counting on Smith
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  because he came on last year. There'll be games where
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  he's not a big factor just because he's smaller, and
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  there'll be games where just the physicality could eat him
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  up a little bit. He did have some good pass
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  rushes on Steel in this game. You know, I think
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  they've told you that Jaylex Hunt is not quite ready
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  to be that guy because they played josh Usha twenty
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  snaps and he flashed throughout the game, and they signed
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  this week Zadarius Smith. So I think they're telling you
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  that they believe that that Hunt's not quite ready to
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  be that guy. On the edge, and don't forget Carter
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  wasn't in there, so they played with three defensive tackles.
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  Jomo did not have a really good game. I know
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  he had a really good camp, and I don't think
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  this will mean that they're not going to play in
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  meaningful snaps, but he did not have a really good game.
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  So and I think the other d tackles they probably
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  don't really feel are ready to play meaningful snaps. You know,
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  It'll be interesting to see what happens with Jordan Davis
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  because with Carter back, Davis played fifty three snaps, which
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  was the second most snaps he's ever played in the NFL.
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  And my guess is they did not anticipate him doing
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  that if Carter was playing. But Davis played at such
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  a high level and even showed some good pass rush,
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  they may feel that, hey, we can play him forty
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  forty five snaps and we can use him on third down.
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  You know, I guess we'll see how that goes. But
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  I think they're telling you. Teams sort of tell you
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  how they feel about players in what they do and
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  how they use their players. So the fact that they
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  signed two things, the fact that US played so many
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  snaps and the fact that they signed to Darius Smith,
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  I think tells you that they're a little uncertain about
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  Jay Alex Hunt right now as a pass rusher.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I've heard a lot about Adora Jackson getting cooked.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, see it or was that the worst of it?
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  Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking, you know, Kansas City probably doesn't have
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  I know, they don't have somebody as good as Ceedee Lamb.
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  You know, is a Doory going to be serviceable if
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  he's going against somebody or you know, is this gonna
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  be Are we gonna be seeing that, you know, more
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  of this every game until we find our of replacement
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  for him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the way I'd answer that is this, first of all,
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  I do watch every play, and you have to understand
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  that obviously not on every play to corners, even if
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  they're struggling at times when they get beat on every play,
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  that just doesn't happen. Just like an offensive lineman if
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  he struggling and he doesn't get beat on sixty five plays.
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  But I won't think Kansas City. You know, in this
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  game against the Cowboys, the Eagles clearly made a decision
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  that they were going to have Mitchell for the most
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  part travel with George Pickens. Now, I'm obviously not in
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  the meeting rooms with Vic Fangio, but my guess is
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  there's not likely a Chiefs wide out that they would
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  think that Mitchell has to travel. Now, again, I don't
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  know that, but that would be my guess. So the
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  Cowboys had two really tough wide receivers. Pickens is, you know,
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  let's put aside what we've read about his character and
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  all that. I don't care about that. I'm not talking
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  about that in terms of pure physical traits, is probably
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  a top seven to eight receiver in the league. And
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  then you got Ceedee Lamb, who may well be a
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  top five receiver. So with Dori Jackson often had to
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  match up, not all the time because Lamb does line
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  up in the slot, but when Lamb did line up
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  outside in specific situations, Dori Jackson had to match up
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  to him. That's not a great matchup for a dory.
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  Is he going to get beat every single time? No,
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  but it's not a really good matchup. And there were
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  certain plays that the Cowboys handled really well, like that
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  third and one where the thirty four yard are down
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  inside the red zone. It was third and one. They
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  shifted or motioned lamb tighter to the formation. They gave
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  him a two way go a Dori Jackson was kind
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  of stuck. That's a tough cover right there. So you know,
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  is he going to get beat by everybody all the time. No,
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  of course not. They'll decide how they feel about his
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  overall play. You know, unless Jeff, you have other information.
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  It's only Twesday, obviously, you know, I assume he'll still
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  be the starter on Sunday. We don't know that, but
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  that would be my guess. All right, guys, thanks so much.
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  We'll do to it next week. Appreciate it. Greg, thank you,
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  thanks for appreciate it.