Jordan Love Looks to Take Advantage of Cowboys' Weak Defense

Albert, give me a game that you're looking for on Sunday. So I'm going to take the last one on Sunday. You took the first one. I'm going to take the last one. Dallas at Green Bay. You know, again, I think, you know, for both teams, they're not like at a critical point where like their season's on the line or anything. But I mean, the Eagles are, or the, the Cowboys are two and three tied with the Eagles and the Packers are three and two in a division that looks like it might have four, four teams finish the season above 500. you know so the Packers are in a situation where every game is critical the Cowboys are actually closer to first place at two and three than the Packers are at three and two um and I just I think like both these teams have relatively high ceilings you know and so like is what we saw from Jordan Love which was fantastic on Sunday is that real um how do the Cowboys hold up against that Packers offense defensively? Do we see more of Joey Porter now, right? Like, and are we now at a point where defensively it's going to be like kind of the group that we see them going forward with? Like, can you get more out of that group? You know, the Micah Parsons storyline is obviously the Micah Parsons storyline. So, look, I think there's just like a lot of interesting, a lot of interesting pieces to this one. And I do think it's like a, I think it's a pretty important game for both teams. i mean it could wind up it's it's also one of those like where these teams wind up as wild cards it could wind up determining where a playoff game is played this is a Mike Pettine revenge game uh him going against his former uh employer the Green Bay Packers he was a defensive coordinator for Matt LaFleur and uh Mike Pettine gave Christian Parker his start in the NFL so there's a relationship there but that said it's not as simple as hey there's a new guy that's going to come in and help you call the plays you know uh there's there's a socio-emotional dynamic to all this albert i mean it's it's hard for a young guy getting his first shot at this to come in and now have somebody kind of sitting next to him and and looking over his shoulder and we've seen additions like this fail spectacularly um i'm thinking about like the game management coach that was added to Nathaniel Hackett's staff in Denver uh i remember when Rex Ryan went out actually uh speaking of the rex ryan brought in brian schottenheimer connection when brian schottenheimer was struggling in 2011 brought in tom moore uh yeah and brian schottenheimer had to fax the game plans over to uh tommy who back then felt like he was 90 years old and is still in the nfl or still in football working on stuff but um yeah i i i the dynamics of this can be complicated but people roll their eyes at Pettin i think Pettin's a brilliant defensive coach has been in the league for a long time and i think this could be a net ad if you play it right so like i think like we're all wondering what would be the obvious here which is you're putting an experienced play caller on the staff are you doing it like in case of emergency break glass right do you read it that way at all well so it's hard not to right it's hard not to except for the fact that Pettin and Parker have a defined relationship now what is interesting about it is you could argue that they have two very different schematic and that's what i was going to get to is like that's where this guy right this feels to me this feels to me like if that was the plan that's a flawed plan and i'd take you back to the eagles in 2023 to prove it right where you had Sean Desai if you remember the eagles hired Sean Desai because they wanted Vic Fangio scheme they tried to poach uh Vic from miami if i remember it was right if i remember that correctly correct they tried to poach Vic from miami they couldn't get him and um and then and then they brought in Sean Desai to put that scheme in um for one reason or another didn't work they had matt patricia on the staff matt patricia also a really really high-end defensive mind but now he's running somebody else's scheme and it became impossible because like could he draw it up and could he explain what they were doing yeah of course he could but like when things went wrong could he fix it as things were happening in games could he troubleshoot it and that was the problem it's like when you don't have when you aren't at like a part of like building a scheme at the grassroots and you haven't taught it since you were younger and you haven't called it you haven't been part of calling it before then like now you're being asked to do it it's like a totally different deal it's hard you know patricia was asked to call Fangio scheme because that's what the players have been taught since the spring you know like he wasn't going to put in the Patriots scheme all of a sudden the same way Mike Pettine if they were going to go to if they were going to go to Pettine wouldn't be able to just put the Ravens scheme in you know right he wouldn't be able to do that so like that's why like i think i like this for what it is like i like this for giving Christian Parker a helping hand with some stuff I think where you get into trouble is if you start viewing this as like we're going to fire him in three games and then Mike Pettine's going to take over play calling because I'm not sure that that would really work I want to give you an image of something that you're going to do that like bringing Ed Donatell or something right you know what I mean I want to give you an image of something that Matt Nagy put in my head once because I would like people to understand that there is no real Vic Fangio defense. There's Vic Fangio, right? And there's working for Vic Fangio. And there's an idea of what he runs. But Matt Nagy told this story once, and he said, I remember walking by his office, and he's just sitting there by himself with a stack of papers on one side, hard copies of all the looks that he's going to see from the opposing offense on Sunday and by pencil by hand is just doing tendency breakers over and over and over again what can I do here what can I do here what can I do here what can I do here I love Christian Parker I think he's going to be a bright young coach in this league I think he's going to coach this league for a long time he it's impossible for him to have that experience It's because Vic Fangio has been doing that since Vic Fangio coached against my father in high school, like in 1978. Yeah. So like, I knew you guys had this Scranton connection I didn't know that he was the defensive coordinator of the Dunmore Bucks in 1978 doing tendency breakers for who was then one of the most legendary um uh uh hensis about that one of the most legendary coaches in area history and that Vic the guy who Vic Fangio coached for a hundred years right it's just impossible to expect Christian Parker to have that base of knowledge yet that's it you know what i mean and so it's hard to run the Vic Fangio scheme without the that part so without the without the robot brain in there right and like that's like comes back to like why the Shanahan McVey tree like why they'll all tell you you can draw our offense up but you don't know it unless you learned it from the grassroots like because you don't have the detail you don't know how we teach it you don't know like you don't know it you know what i mean like you don't know why we're doing all these things you don't know why this guard's hand is placed here you don't know why like you don't know and and essentially like so much of what they do i mean you bring it back to like my background like the Wing-T is like when i was a kid like it was like like oh yeah we ran like 50 plays but it was really just eight concepts with like six plays off of each of them you know and like the Shanahan offense for example there's these bigger like over overreaching concepts and they're running all these concepts off the same they're running these concepts but they're running all these plays off those concepts if you don't know how to teach those concepts because so much of it's based on detail then you got nothing because then you don't know how to correct it when something goes wrong right you have to be able to and then that's where i think it comes into where it comes in right like it's like it's like can i call can i can i can i draw it up can i call it yeah can i correct it that's a little harder it is you know and that's what you're talking about Fangio where it's like he can correct it because he's seen it up against almost anything you could possibly do to it you know and so yeah anyway that's a tangent that we just know it's but i think that's it's fun and it's like here's the difference like this is what we're gonna lose i mean so much of what i say this is like how i can feel my age so much of what i say now like comes back to it's not Madden you know what i mean like it's not Madden and it's not like like when you play Madden as a kid you can run every play in the playbook right yes you can run every play in the playbook like you don't have to get good at it you can just like i can punch this in i can run whatever i want right like these are actual human beings having to execute this and it's way more detailed than you realize and getting human beings to be really good at these things is really really hard and it takes a lot of detail and everything else it is not Madden you know it's the same as like the whole argument like we'll play them all in the preseason well those are human beings out there and they do have an odometer on their bodies and like throwing them out there for three preseason games might not be the best idea like when they still need to be standing in december january i will say this about madden one of my good friends uh to this day uh his dad was the high school football coach and so growing up you know he had the time on task in terms of playing madden he had the hours but his dad would sit down there and just because he had like a brilliant schematic mind would know exactly when to call like a cover three corner blitz and just like he was one step ahead of his son at every moment in time because he could see the game that way and it didn't matter that oh i'm good with the joysticks it was like no you can do nothing against this coverage right now right absolutely burying your ass so uh i always uh i always like uh thinking about that really quickly on the packers the i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna to just take a pause because last week was so exciting but here's it was like oh my god there it is right right oh my god there it is but here's a couple things that happened last week that I don't think are going to happen this week Tyson Bajan's not going to turn the ball over twice okay Dak Prescott is not yeah fair enough and and I and I wonder Dallas's defense is equally is is worse than chicago but how do you look at that tape and allow what happened a second week in a row um if you're mike betton if you're christian parker you talk about madden and it was obviously more complex than this and they were great in play action too but the packers were just bombing it down the field like they were just bombing it down the field and uh i i would guess that dallas is going to be more uh uh inclined to be like hey let's see if you can run the ball I'm not letting that happen again I'm not letting Christian Watson just absolutely destroy so we'll see we'll see what happens I think this is this is definitely an interesting one to keep an eye on