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Skip Bayless and Keyshawn Johnson react to linebacker Leighton Vander Esch medically retiring due to injuries following his release from the Dallas Cowboys.

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I’m going throw it back to you what do you consider a little dirty so how why anything from behind anything Blind Side just doesn’t sit well with me and the league has gone out of its way to eliminate anything that’s crack backy around the line of scrimmage and again

This didn’t threaten his knees it was just from behind it’s just it’s gray area at best to me it’s it’s a little sneaky it’s a little ambushing it’s just a little bit dirty to me and I have an affinity for Trent Williams in part because he played at

The University of Oklahoma and I have nothing but respect because he’s a first ballot Hall of Famer just as a guy we just lost in Tyron Smith who played obviously at your school but the point is it’s just it’s borderline to me because the play has broken and busted and gone

Right past them and that ain’t got nothing to do I know but it’s just the defense but it became irrelevant to the play it did not impact the play it did not free the back up for the play because the back was already about to break free well what I would say first

Of all skip there’s nothing dirty about the play he caught him from the side okay when you engage pushed him from the back no no when you engage yeah you’re taught to drive the man and continue to push him however however you need to turn him whatever the case is he didn’t

Catch him from the back he caught him from the side and then when you catch a dude yeah he caught him from the side clear as a day he he catches it from the side when you catch him from the side and he’s going full speed like that

You’re going to eventually slide he’s going to eventually slide off of you now all you’re doing is you just pushed him to the ground unfortunately Michael Parson was in the way okay Trent Williams that was just an accident to me yeah unfortunately Michael Parson was in the way so when

You shy a guy hits him his neck gets jammed but think about it uh vanders came into the league with questionable issues with his neck I agree and you think about the times that he missed in 2019 2022 now obviously 2023 well he needed a neck surgery yeah he had to

Have a a neck surgery back in 2019 he missed several games because of it this is nothing dirty about that nothing at all whatsoever as somebody that has blocked for a living not like the rest of these receivers I’m talking about really get in get in the trenches I give

You that when you are losing your guy skip you tend to just you know you turn him and you push him you push him but he did not turn him to his face he did not engage him to his face you can’t turn him to the face once you engage on the

Side again Michael Parson happened to be there if Michael Parsons wasn’t there he pushes him to the ground he lives to see another day Micah’s in the way what is he G to do he just gonna hold up no that’s not his job his job is to

Dominate his Defender at the I mean his Defender at the point of attack that’s exactly what Trent did he dominated him in the rest his history you think vrush even saw him cuz I don’t think he did absolutely saw him how you how you not

Going to see a dude as massive as his room cuz he’s looking at the ball carrier and it’s coming from The Blind Side no it’s not coming from The Blind Side he knows he knows based on the position he plays that he has to scoop slide over they’re pulling the tackle he

Knows all that he knows it he thought he was going to get there before Trent Williams is what he thought but he didn’t realize big fast and strong is different than little and slow it’s a big difference I would not call vanderesh slow I mean he ran four

Five at this point in his career yeah he’s a slow linebacker he’s not the guy that you drafted back way way back when the guy who made a pro bowl legit Pro Bowl he’s not that guy he’s just not it’s okay though really in year six he

Lost it it’s okay I don’t think neck injuries take away from your speed well over time you wear down you wear down the neck injuries does take away from your speeds yeah because when you banged up your body doesn’t react the same I like him too but I’m not about to sit

Here and say Trent Williams that was an illegal contact and illegal hit I won’t even go illegal I’m not going to throw a flag on it I just thought it was a little bit cheap it’s a little bit blindsided and you know I’m right about this so damn wrong it’s just it’s

Ambushing it’s it’s from from the back pushes him from the back you catch a dude on the side and when you’re getting when you’re losing him the first thing you do is you push him to the ground just so happen his teammate was there that’s all yeah but he’s made so many

Great pile driving you know pancaking blocks face to face nose to nose that wasn’t one because the guy is outside of him so he catches him on the side he didn’t catch him from the backside yes he catches him from the side I wish I could stand up illustrate this for you

So you can see where he catches him on the side and he’s losing him so he pushes him down to the ground that’s all it is oh that that I like watching the dude put his arm up let me just figure up go to the house this is Jordan Mason

Undrafted in his second year out of Georgia Tech help me out I don’t know I don’t know he’s holding his finger up I told you this in the break before we come on that the dude is holding his finger up after five yards well he knows

He’s gone you see it that’s your defense and you know what that that made it 42-10 42- 10 I I just I don’t know what you be sometime when you watch videos and stuff skip I have no idea what you’re looking at really well I I have

No idea what you’re not looking at because all I know is I read the Twitter thread on this yesterday and there were Cowboy fans and they thought it’s like ban him from the lead okay here here you go again you read Twitter that’s your first mistake okay well I never read Twitter

That’s your first mistake you’re the one who makes that mistake that’s your first mistake and then you read Twitter in every break and then you no not no Twitter and then you listening to Cowboy fans about a Cowboy player I just wanted to see because that was one where I’m

With him emotionally because I didn’t want to see this kid go after six years it felt unfair to me his body did betray him but it was to your point it was betraying him coming out of Boise you know out Bo State drafted he was already banged up there was already next issues

You guys cleared him signed off on him and many teams would have two in the NFL yeah you took him you got six years out of it it was going to happen at some point because again he had neck issues in 2019 2022 and then again in 23 19 he

Had the surgery he missed seven games with a pinch nerve in his neck in 16 so think about that think about all the littlest thing derailed his career so what is Trent William supposed to do like oh man I forgot you got a bad neck

Let me let you go ahead and hit my running back yeah there are some great tackles who would not have pushed him they just would have let it go are you crazy I’m not crazy because what does he know what is Trent known for nobody was

Letting go what what is Trent known for he plays a nasty brand of football am I right yes but that’s his job his job is to annihilate the defender to put my hand hands on his ass yeah that is that’s pretty much what he did he put

His hands on his ass I’ll give you get ready to do thank you and then I’m getting ready to push him to the ground so he doesn’t hit my back yeah if Trent allows him and we call it brother-in-law because you just let a guy go cuz he’s

Your brother-in-law if he decides the brother-in-law let him goone and then all of a sudden he hits that back that back either gets back is gone no he’s not yes he is he’s gone maybe he is maybe he’s not depending on if he doesn’t touch him if he doesn’t touch

Him maybe he is maybe he’s not who knows flash color in his face all of a sudden he see vanderish there and he SL slows down instead of hitting a hole the way he did you never know Jordan Mason has already stuck his foot in the ground and

Pushed and he is gone but the reason he stuck his foot in the ground and pushed because Trent Williams slowed down the linebackers slowed him down yeah he slowed him down he slowed him down will you agree it’s a push in the back it’s

Not a push in the back he got him on the side he was losing him and then eventually he just pushed him okay yeah it’s not exactly a pancake like a traditional classic I traditional classic get you on a pancake if I’m hitting you from the side because we’re

Not straight ahead I’m a pancake you when we straight ahead I would say when I see you I can dump you but from the side I can’t dump you do I think if Trent Williams got into the second level and met Leon vanderesh face to face you

Know would have been over he’ been 30 yards down field knock 30 yard down field AB okay so this is that gray area where he’s a nasty player he’s going to do anything he he he’s going to try what this is a whatever it takes whatever it

Takes I Wish I Could Break Down many films right now for you and show you the same exact block without a linebacker in in Parson being in the way I can show you this so many times on I can pull out a clip I can almost guarantee you I’ll

Just pick a game I don’t even know if they play each other I can pick out the Cincinnati Bengals against Seattle and I can find on both sides of the ball for Seattle as well as Cincinnati that same block but a defender’s not in the way in those same offensive lineman pushing

Down a Defender yeah I I don’t think you that’s pretty blatant to me from behind well it just is and I don’t think it helped the play at all I think he’s go that’s the the biggest part he’s not gone he’s gone he’s not skip if if he never gets there

You’re not listening to me man ref you refuse to listen I don’t know why but he’s not gone it the reason he’s gone is because Trent got there to be able to free his guy up if you allow a guy Scott free to just run into the

Into the hole he’s gonna get tackled anything can Happ he get hurt he can lose a fumble now Dallas Cowboy that’s probably what you was hoping that he got there can fumble y’all can pick it up and go scored it’s 42 to 10 doesn’t matter though 42 to 10 that that ain’t

Got nothing to do with me that’s your defense I mean I I I I’m probably not even watching at this point I’m I’m tweeting that I’m ready to throw Dax jersey in the trash that’s what I’m fault okay got it well he was he only threw how about how about the fact that

The line D Dak only threw three interceptions in that game all in the third quarter how about the linebackers congratulations how about your 200lb linebackers getting off blocks yeah well that’s a problem yeah cuz cuz for the most part some of these Defenders did their job in forcing the action back

Inside they supposed to be scraping over the top get off the blocks instead of sitting there playing chicken and hand fighting you got me on that I can’t fight back but that was not Christian mcaffrey that was Jordan Mason who I barely had heard of I I don’t even know

Who he is well that’s cuz it’s blocked up perfectly and it’s why when we went back and forth about running backs being devalued it’s why the league looks at Kyle’s system and he says wait you can you can stick Jordan Mason you you can go get him out of Georgia

Tech and not even draft him and look what he did he’s got his hand up in the air in your system right he’s great that’s right he ran against the Cowboys I forgot something that Barkley wouldn’t able 42 to 10 right see so the the point about last year’s Cowboys is you said

Well it’s not dak’s fault but he was horrible in that game and he was horrible in the previous game at Arizona right and then he was horrible was all the rest of your team when he went to Buffalo he was horrible and the rest of your team was all right so I the

Rest I I just gave you three that should have told you so should have told me so I’m this is my fault this is silly me the the at Arizona that at at San Francisco and at Buffalo should have told me that Green Bay was coming but I

Did not see it coming I didn’t see 27 to nothing before halftime but they’re already getting exposed exposed exposed exposed when you watch film well the odds makers didn’t see when you watch film odds makers whatever I don’t care I mean we’re seven and a half Point

Favorites when when you watching film no skip I see what you have on defense Y and those liabilities that I keep trying to tell you and Michael that y’all have on defense those linebackers those guys that supposed to be scraping over the top when those sort of things happen to

To your to uh your linebacker yeah where’s the help where’s the other guys they sitting over there you can’t do that and expect a win okay but San Francisco does that to just about everybody that may be true and they probably got the same issues y’all got where the linebackers are sitting

There going but they didn’t do that to Baltimore how come they didn’t San Francisco didn’t do that to Baltimore no Baltimore came into San Francisco in boat raced them yeah okay and so did Joe burrow he boat rised them even worse than Lamar did and so and so did Joe

Burrow yeah and they went to Cleveland and lost y so but that was on a Miss late I don’t care a loss is a loss is a l buy that I agree okay and they lost the Super Bowl because Brock py couldn’t make a couple plays but it wasn’t you it

Wasn’t that mcaffrey ran over the Chiefs because he didn’t the quarterback on the chiefs made more plays when they counted he when it really counted as in overtime right exactly oh well Leon vanderash had a decent career for six years he did he should be proud of himself injuries

Happen in this league it’s a violent sport yeah and as he said his body just betrayed him I don’t thanks for watching Undisputed fans do you want more highlights from the show make sure to click that subscribe button for all the exclusive content from Undisputed