Babe Laufenberg previews Cowboys/Ravens, talks run defense & O-line play

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Can the Cowboys make up for their atrocious game against the Saints this weekend? Can Babe Laufenberg make up for his atrocious trivia performance with Shan & RJ from last weekend? We'll find out!

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00:00I do have something to bust your

00:18balls about though. Not trivial.

00:21Oh, go ahead. The run game. I I

00:25was shocked early in the season

00:26previewing. We're like, who

00:28cares about the run game? It's

00:29the Saints game. Change your mind

00:32about run defense.

00:36Um, don't be. You can't be that

00:39bad. You know what I'm saying?

00:41You can be an average. You can

00:43be an average running team and

00:44you'd be an average run defense

00:46and you go win the Super Bowl.

00:48Yes, you really can't. So but

00:50you know you can't get hammered

00:51for 200 yards on the ground. So

00:55yeah, but no, it didn't. It

00:56didn't change my mind in terms

00:59of again. I say it a million

01:01times and McCarthy says it

01:03right. He says it in a

01:04different way, but big plays

01:07come into passing game. Yeah,

01:08and points come off big plays.

01:11Shoot. We saw, uh, New Orleans

01:1370 yard one play drive, right?

01:15It was great. Cowboys dominated

01:17time of possession early, but

01:18guess what? They were down

01:20because they were given a big

01:22place to the Saints screen pass

01:24right to tomorrow. So the big

01:26plays come into passing game

01:27points come off big plays. I

01:29got a team. If I could take

01:31away the pass, I'm going to

01:32take away the pass. I don't

01:33care about the run. How bad is

01:35this? Here's the problem.

01:36Here's the problem. Excuse me.

01:38They gave up both the pass and

01:39the run against New Orleans.

01:41You got to take something away.

01:43How bad is this Ravens matchup

01:45from a run defense standpoint?

01:49Well, I guess anytime you know

01:51you got Lamar Jackson and Derek

01:53Henry in the same backfield,

01:55you're probably going to have

01:56some issues with them. And, uh,

01:58here's the thing, too. You know,

01:59everybody talks about, Hey,

02:00we're gonna run the ball. We're

02:01gonna run the ball. We're gonna

02:02be physical team. We're gonna

02:03run the ball. And five plays

02:06into it. They start throwing it

02:07all around. Baltimore has been

02:10a top three rushing defense in

02:12each of the last excuse me,

02:13offense. Top three rushing

02:15offense in each of the last six

02:17years. So when John Harbaugh

02:19says we're going to run the

02:20ball, they're going to run the

02:21ball. And obviously what makes

02:23them unique is Lamar Jackson.

02:25It's so funny, too. You know,

02:26you guys have been there. You

02:27go to a kid's game. You look

02:29out, and there's a kid out

02:30there, and you just say, Man,

02:31that kid is really good. He's a

02:32lot better than these other

02:33little kids. And you go to a

02:34high school game, and you say,

02:35Wow, that one kid really, it's

02:37good. And then college, it gets

02:38a little closer, and then you

02:39get to the pros, and there's a

02:41great athlete all over the

02:42field, right? And you might be

02:43marginally better than the

02:45other guy. Lamar Jackson is

02:47still the best athlete on the

02:49field. You still look at it and

02:50say, Wow, that that guy is

02:52a lot better than the other

02:53kids out there.

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