Cowboys and Niners Preview
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00:00 The Dallas Cowboys are the number one defense in the league.
00:03 The San Francisco 49ers are the number three offense, but they do not turn the ball over.
00:08 Right.
00:09 That is obviously going to be a huge key to this one.
00:11 And you can tell the defense is very motivated to switch all those trends this game.
00:17 And when we do the "here's where they're ranked" and "here's the..."
00:20 Some of it does depend on category.
00:22 For instance, if you're the number three offense, let's say they're number three scoring offense,
00:28 but you also never turn the ball over, that's pretty number one-y to me.
00:33 In the Cowboys' case, their ability to take the ball away from you, which is as good as
00:38 anybody in football the last two and a half years, their ability to come sack the quarterback,
00:42 which they've done at a high level here, that supposedly travels.
00:48 Dan Quinn, coordinator, likes to say "defense travels."
00:50 Well now it didn't travel to Arizona, but now we head back west.
00:55 And by the way, I'll be there with the Cowboys over the course of the weekend in San Francisco,
00:59 San Jose, and Santa Clara.
01:00 So I don't know if they're defense travels, but we are.
01:02 We're going to travel.
01:05 You'd like to switch those numbers around, and at the same time, both teams are elite
01:11 in both ways.
01:13 The 49ers' defense is one of the very best, so is its offense.
01:17 We don't need numbers to see that.
01:19 The Cowboys' defense and offense are the same thing, with the Cowboys having, of course,
01:22 the singular blemish, red zone conversions.
01:27 And we've kind of pounded away at this.
01:29 I think this is an important point to make.
01:32 The CD Lamb touchdown last week against the Patriots came from the 20-yard line.
01:37 Therefore, it's not in the red zone.
01:40 So it doesn't count, even though it was a perfect throw, perfect catch, perfectly executed,
01:44 perfectly blocked.
01:45 The touchdown pass from Dak Prescott to Schoon, the rookie, was in the red zone, except for
01:51 one problem.
01:52 He didn't catch it.
01:54 And so it's not a red zone touchdown.
01:56 If the assortment of defensive plays that have been made around here that end up in
02:00 touchdowns, if those guys get tackled, if Lake Vander Esch gets tackled at the one-yard
02:05 line against the Patriots after his strip sack, fumble recovery, do you think the Cowboys
02:10 score in the next three plays on offense?
02:13 I think they do.
02:14 So I don't think you can get panicky about the stats.
02:19 I think the eye test still rules.
02:21 The eye test says that the Cowboys aren't good enough yet in the red zone, but their
02:25 numbers and the eye test going back two years plus, last year this is the best red zone
02:31 team in football.
02:32 Why can't it be again?
02:33 I think it will be soon.
02:34 Maybe not against the 49ers, but soon enough.
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