Mark Schlereth on Saints out-physicalling Cowboys; Why the Ravens are 0-2

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NFL insider Mark Schlereth joined the GBag Nation to discuss the Cowboys getting out-physicalled by the New Orleans Saints, the Shanahan coaching tree, why the Baltimore Ravens are 0-2 going into Week 3 again Dallas and more.

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00:00And a good afternoon, Mark. How the heck are you?

00:18I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? We're doing pretty good. You know, that one

00:22hurt a little bit. We're doing Trappy Stink. We just got our heads kicked in, bro.

00:26We crapped in our helmet again, Stink. Yeah, yeah, you certainly did. Listen,

00:32you know what? I said this on Breakfast Ball, the show here I do in New York. I've said it

00:39on my podcast. You know, I predicted the Saints going in there and beating the Cowboys.

00:47They're a physical freaking group, man. They're a physical football team. And it's so funny. I just

00:54got done doing an interview in Chicago, and it's amazing how you build a football team.

01:01And, you know, Chicago has built it from the outside in. Like, hey, we got so many, like,

01:08we got, you know, we got Keenan Allen, and we got DJ Moore, and now we got Roma Doomsday,

01:13and we got, you know, a tight end in Comed, and we got a running back in Swift, and like,

01:17we're going to be unstoppable. We got all these weapons. Well, guess what? You can't block anybody.

01:22Last Sunday night against Houston, 37 dropbacks by the quarterback, Caleb William, 36 pressures.

01:29So you do the math. Like, how's all that, how's all that weaponry doing as you're kicking field

01:34goals? Let me ask you that. So it's really interesting when you put a team together

01:40that can absolutely dominate a lot of scrimmage, and how it just basically beats the will out of

01:47you. And, like, one thing I would tell you is, you know, watching that game, and it's humiliating

01:52getting physically whooped at a line of scrimmage and physically just beat down. How do you respond

01:57to that? And the answer for the Cowboys is they had no response to that because they could not

02:02match the physicality of the Saints. And that's concerning. Like, because that's on film, that

02:08shows. And then you just start saying, well, hey, listen, guys, we might not be able to out-talent

02:13the right receiving corps. We may not be able to out-talent them, but we can beat them up. And

02:19that's going to be a recipe until they solve it. Like, every team's going to come in there

02:23and try to physically wear them out. So how do you become a physical team?

02:29Well, you've got to have the right players, obviously. I mean, that's probably the biggest

02:32thing. You've got to have the right players. And then you've got to have a dedication to it.

02:39It's got to become your identity. It's got to become what you do, who you are, and the way you

02:44go about handling your business. And so it's one of those things that you just come out and say,

02:49this is who we're going to be, and this is how we're going to work on it. And this is the way

02:54we're going to play the game. Now, unfortunately, listen, it's really hard to work on those things

02:59because, you know, I don't know, in a physical contact sport and, you know, where technique

03:06and coming off the ball and creating leverage and all that stuff is really important. We're

03:11no longer allowed in this league to practice. Like, we're no longer allowed to hit people in

03:16practice. And so it's really, if you don't have it, and it's not something you did in training camp,

03:23and it's not really how you're built or who you are, it's really hard to have that happen.

03:29You know, it's funny. I was calling a game in Detroit last year, and Roger Goodell came up to

03:34me and he said, Hey, Stink, how's it, you know, like, how's it going Stinky? He goes, you know,

03:38at this point, like all, like we had so many quarterbacks miss games. I think it was 68

03:43games missed by starting quarterbacks in the league or something at this point is what are

03:47we going to do about all these quarterbacks missing, you know, missing games. And I go,

03:51well, I don't know, Roger, you know what I mean? If you keep legislating contact out of a contact

03:55sport and you don't get to work on it as an offensive line anymore. And you like, you don't

03:59think there's a cause and effect of guys getting hurt at the quarterback position. I mean, come on,

04:05you can't work on it. You can't block people. You don't know how to block people. And now we

04:09wonder why the quarterbacks are getting hit and getting hurt. I mean, it's, it's silly to me,

04:14the way we operate as a league, but yeah, once, you know, once that shifts sell, it's hard to,

04:19it's, it's hard to all of a sudden go, okay, now we're going to be physical. Well,

04:23when are you going to work on it? I don't know.

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