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October 12, 2007
Madden on the matchup
NBC's John Madden appeared on SIRIUS NFL Radio today, and broke down the Patriots-Cowboys matchup with Adam Schein. Thanks to the folks at the network for passing along the transcript. Here's some bits and pieces:
Madden on Cowboys-Bills: "Usually, when you have a lot of turnovers, your QB throws a lot of interceptions, you lose the game and everyone’s down. Here you can say, ‘Well, we dodged a bullet there. I was really lucky and I’m never going to let that happen again.’
"So I think that was a big, big plus that they could have so many things go wrong and still win because as a coach you can really get on your team now. It’s not one of those things where everyone’s celebrating and pouring champagne on their heads because they played lousy.”
On the challenge in facing the Pats defense: "Kind of figuring it out on the run. He’s not going to show you anything that you’ve seen before and there’s going to be surprises. He’s going to take away the things that you do best and he’s going to take away the guys that are most dangerous to him. You just mentioned T.O. and Jason Witten.
"He’s going to take them away. And in running situations he’s going to take the run away. But you don’t know how. That’s going to be the challenge for Tony Romo. You know what he’s going to do. I guarantee you he’s going to do something to T.O. And then number two he’s going to do something to Jason Witten. I know that but you don’t know how or where the guys are going to come from. So you have to figure that out during the game."
On how to stop the Patriots offense: "The answer isn’t you rush them, you blitz them, you zone them, you drop eight. I’ve seen them do everything to Tom Brady and he’s still going to get you. You just have to play your technique and when he completes passes, tackle the guy. Don’t get fooled. Don’t give him easy plays. Just play him hard. Play him tough.
"As far as an answer to how you take away Tom Brady I don’t know that there is one. I kind of think that one of the things you can do is just play the pass. Let them have the run and if they’re going to beat you with the run, so be it. But do everything in your defense for the pass defense.”
On where the Cowboys have an edge: “I don’t think they have any. The closest one that they would have would be DeMarcus Ware rushing and I don’t even know that that would be anything except even.”
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Madden on the matchup
NBC's John Madden appeared on SIRIUS NFL Radio today, and broke down the Patriots-Cowboys matchup with Adam Schein. Thanks to the folks at the network for passing along the transcript. Here's some bits and pieces:
Madden on Cowboys-Bills: "Usually, when you have a lot of turnovers, your QB throws a lot of interceptions, you lose the game and everyone’s down. Here you can say, ‘Well, we dodged a bullet there. I was really lucky and I’m never going to let that happen again.’
"So I think that was a big, big plus that they could have so many things go wrong and still win because as a coach you can really get on your team now. It’s not one of those things where everyone’s celebrating and pouring champagne on their heads because they played lousy.”
On the challenge in facing the Pats defense: "Kind of figuring it out on the run. He’s not going to show you anything that you’ve seen before and there’s going to be surprises. He’s going to take away the things that you do best and he’s going to take away the guys that are most dangerous to him. You just mentioned T.O. and Jason Witten.
"He’s going to take them away. And in running situations he’s going to take the run away. But you don’t know how. That’s going to be the challenge for Tony Romo. You know what he’s going to do. I guarantee you he’s going to do something to T.O. And then number two he’s going to do something to Jason Witten. I know that but you don’t know how or where the guys are going to come from. So you have to figure that out during the game."
On how to stop the Patriots offense: "The answer isn’t you rush them, you blitz them, you zone them, you drop eight. I’ve seen them do everything to Tom Brady and he’s still going to get you. You just have to play your technique and when he completes passes, tackle the guy. Don’t get fooled. Don’t give him easy plays. Just play him hard. Play him tough.
"As far as an answer to how you take away Tom Brady I don’t know that there is one. I kind of think that one of the things you can do is just play the pass. Let them have the run and if they’re going to beat you with the run, so be it. But do everything in your defense for the pass defense.”
On where the Cowboys have an edge: “I don’t think they have any. The closest one that they would have would be DeMarcus Ware rushing and I don’t even know that that would be anything except even.”
Posted by Albert Breer http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 5:07 PM (E-mail this entry)
