WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Statement Win 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:17.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:21.639 training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:30.000 Star in fris Jollowing the line says, Goot pay and 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:35.120 now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:50.080 and Kyle Yeoman's day. It's a Cowboys picturing Monday on 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.160 Talking Cowboys, presented by Kaiker, excuse me, presented by Tostitos, 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:59.920 the officials and the official tip of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:04.000 come into the s WBC podcast studio here from the 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.440 Star in Frisco. We're breaking it all down for you 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.200 here over the next forty five minutes alongside Rob Phillips, 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.120 Isaiah stand Back, the Great, heck Ma Harrison, I'm Kyle 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.440 Yeoman's where the Cowboys take down the Philadelphia Eithers. Forty 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.320 one twenty one was the final score and it was 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.759 a dominant win from all three phases. Heck m, I'll 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:25.640 let you start things out on this one, and what 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.160 were your initial thoughts of the win? Chris, I'm echoing, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.440 there you go, I got you, you got me? Yeah? Man? 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.080 What were my initial thoughts, man, we put it on them. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:36.720 Those are my thoughts. We put it on them. We 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.319 did exactly what we said we were gonna do. Isaiah 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.520 wasn't worried. We went into this whole last week talking 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.560 about this what was going to happen in the game, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.840 and I think defensively, guys, you've seen some great things 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.040 over the last couple of weeks, especially the turnovers. I 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:52.760 know there's been a lot of talk about can they 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.600 continue this trend, and it looks like we can. Trey 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.040 vun Dix joins Everson Walls as the only Cowboys to 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.400 had was it three straight interceptions in the game. I 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.880 think great games to start. Yeah, I saw the season 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.480 first since eighty five, and so he went to me first. P. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.480 He went to me first. P. I was thinking that 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.040 he was gonna go to you, because you always go 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.079 first in the show that the most energy. I was 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.720 gonna pass it on to you. I was gonna say, good, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.320 I don't understand what's going on. We went last night 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.760 and I know you you've been up all night. You 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.000 look like a man that's been up all night with somebody. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.959 Oh he's dressed swaggy today. Man. I love it. I 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.360 love it. Yeah, I just threw on the easiest thing 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.320 I had in the closet. But I just came in 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:36.400 here this morning with big Dak energy and I want 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.880 everybody out there, a cowboy nation, to know what time 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.079 it is with this team, and uh, look, man, we 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.359 look at good. Let me come on, why's it? Come on? 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.280 What's up? Chris Mightney started this thing over again? I'm 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.400 just not getting the bushwhack this morning. What's up with? 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.840 Nobody else's talked other than you. My expectations for this 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.799 team has raised. I'm not excited. I'm as as you 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.639 mentioned right, I was not worried about Philadelphia now. So 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:03.799 am I happy that we want of course, But we're 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.919 supposed to beat up on those guys. They're not a 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.959 very good We're supposed to beat up on that. With 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.919 our current team, with the way our our organization is 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.079 put together right now, with the coaches and the players 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.320 that we have, we're supposed to beat up on that team. Yeah, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.200 And that's why I was unbothered earlier in the week, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.200 like I'm happy that we got to win. But even 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.079 you're watching the game live, like I'm there was nothing 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.840 else surprised by this is an NFC East game. When 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.359 you know, like records go out the window, it doesn't matter. 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:27.680 I hear you. But at the end of the day, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.639 like we still have a roster and we still have 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.079 a coaching staff. And they went out there and executed 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.359 what they were supposed to do, right. They played mistake 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.120 free football. Yes, and they did what they were supposed 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.600 to do when they played mistake free football. We talked 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.120 about earlier in the week. I talked about it in 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.000 the film room and some other things. Guess what Jalen 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:44.440 Hurts is gonna get out the pocket. He's gonn want 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.320 to throw the ball deep. They don't have the patience, right, 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.720 all those kind of things. That's what we saw, right, 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.720 inaccurate passes, in patience, and then their ability not to 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.440 move just move the ball down the field when they 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.480 were actually moving the ball down the field right, and 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.040 then they want to take their big shot. We made 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:58.920 them pay right. We went back on the offensi side 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.000 of the ball. We converted may big plays. We ran 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.680 the ball really well. We threw the ball well, that's 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.280 what we're supposed to do. I am not surprised at 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.680 the result of this game. Am I happy? Of course 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.720 I'm not elated because we're supposed to do that. I 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.480 was worried about this game, I'll admit it. I was 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.440 because I thought they'd win. The Cowboys would win this 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.040 game on the strength of their offense number one. But look, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.920 we've seen the defense. Last year's struggle with offenses that 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.440 had big play capability in terms of speed, and you know, 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.520 Hurts got behind the defense a few times. But this 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.120 Cowboys defense is special. It is a one eighty from 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.440 last year through three games. I mean more than a 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.600 one eighty. Ye what they've been able to do. And 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.760 if you draw up like everything we talked about in 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.360 camp in the offseason, kind of a template for what 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.400 we think the Cowboys can be as a good team 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.560 if things work out and it's a lights out offense 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:57.000 that's healthy and a defense that has notable improvement. Just 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.680 be solid, don't make a bunch of mistakes, get some 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.440 take of ways. It's like textbooked what we saw last 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.520 night for what they can be. And yeah, I think 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.840 you have to have your expectations raised after this game. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.080 I mean, I think Philly, you really to this point, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.160 you still don't really know how good every team is. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.040 But like heck said, it's a division game. You had 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.360 to win games like that, and you want it in 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.160 a fashion where I think you kind of put the 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.440 league on notice, like this is going to be a 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.560 very tough matchup anybody we play this year. I think 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.720 I'm kind of in between all three of you guys 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.320 because I was not worried. I agree with you and 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.920 the fact that you were supposed to beat up on 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.320 the Eagles, But man, I'm I'm right there with Heckma 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.080 in terms of saying the way you beat up on 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.880 them is what has me expecteel good. It makes you 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.760 feel great because it was the first it was the 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.240 first forty forty burger that we've seen that has also 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.120 come with a side of defense. It should have been 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.640 a fifty should have been a forty eight burger. Put 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.200 on them. They robbed us, They robbed us, They robbed us, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.360 and I don't I don't care what anybody he says. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.360 That was a touchdown and they which one the goal line, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.080 the goal line QB sneak with dak over the goal line. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.000 They were pictures to the surface later where the based 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:12.760 upon the evidence at that time, and it depends on 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.440 when they blew the whistle and where he was, I mean, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.800 based upon the camera angles did not show them. But 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.280 either way, I'm for that too. I'm for that too 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.640 because a lot of other leagues have it and it 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.240 makes it things more efficient in the technology they have it. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.679 But the first half man our offensive line was teeing 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.720 off on them and that was we were and I 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.039 tweeted it. Man, we were playing bullyball at that point 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.920 and you love to see that, and that hadn't been 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.120 something that we've done in quite some time. Seeing Zeke 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.160 finished runs, seeing Tony Pollard in that mix uh that 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.400 they do with them both, I think it's very unique, 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.480 uh in a in a passing setting and running. Um. 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.040 I just love what Kellen Moore is doing right now 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.880 with this offense having things clicking, but Dan Quinn's ability 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.359 to simplify the defense from last year. You see guys 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.280 playing fast at all, eleven guys to the ball, and 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.480 that's just something that we didn't see last year that 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.520 I think this year when it's right there and you'll 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:11.760 face and you're like, that's it. Do that. So yesterday 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.800 was a coordination for this defense in Dad Quinn and 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.080 I loved it. You gotta get the ground game going. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.720 It's kind of what goes back to what twenty sixteen 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.280 when the Cowboys had Zeke and they were able to 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.520 run the ball, wear down a defense and then have 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.000 your defense make some plays here and there to get 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.840 the stop and allow your team to win. It kind 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.560 of went back to that mindset, but it was balanced 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.280 at the same time. I mean, Dak still got his 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.560 throws in, Zeke got his carries, Pauler got his carries. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.400 The love was spread on offense. But kind of going 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.280 back to your point, and then Rob said it a 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.760 little earlier. This one eight for the defense is so 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.400 impressive to me because when we were entering this season, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.640 what were we saying about the defense. The offense is 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.480 going to be good, We need the defense to be adequate. 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:55.680 We need them to be middle of the road. This 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.840 isn't the middle of the road defense right now. This 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.680 is a top five defense in the NFL fell at 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.760 least in the way they've played through the three games. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.320 It's true there they're leading the NFL and takeaways, the 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.080 points per game are down. You're you're able to stop 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.680 some of the best offenses aka the Chargers, and I 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.080 know you didn't stop Tom Brady, but you limited Tom 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.840 Brady to a certain extent. I don't. I'm ultra impressed 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.080 with the way this defense is played, oh for sure. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.000 And I mean they've been able to stop the run too. 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.880 That was the biggest problem that they had last year. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.720 I think that kind of started everything with their troubles 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.200 last year. Have they given up a hundred yard rusher 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.640 rusher yet they gave even been those? I don't think so. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.920 I mean, you know, in last night, Philly only tries 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.400 to twelve attempts. There They're way behind throughout the game. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.040 So that's that's part of it. But that's part of 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.559 part of the problem last year is they had so 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.480 many injuries offensively, they couldn't build leads in play bullyball, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.400 as you said, And this was a complimentary win. This 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.160 was as complete a win that I've seen the Cowboys have, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.439 certainly under Mike McCarthy. And it did remind me of 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.439 twenty six team, but a lot of it reminded me 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.439 of of last week. And I'm sorry I'm shifting back 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.679 to the offense here, but I said it last week. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.520 Dak Prescott has become such an effective quarterback in this 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.640 league that I don't defenses don't know how to play this. 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.400 They don't know how and so you know, some of 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.319 it's the way defenses play. But it was like the 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.680 Chargers last week, they're gonna play coverage and try don't 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.400 let Dak beat us. Well, now we're gonna hammer you 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:28.920 and we're gonna move you off the ball in the 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.680 running game. That was I think that might have been 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.640 what impressed me the most last night was the way 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.199 the offensive line move guys a pretty good defensive line 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.040 around and got the run game going and another balanced 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.920 offensive win. And Kellen was in his bag last night. Yes, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.199 Sir Aaiah Asaiah talk about and I gotta ask you 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.600 this because you know, once you are able to get 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.200 the running game going and teams have to honor play action, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.400 what does that do as far as what you're able 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.559 to call as an offense, call whatever the heck you 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.920 want to, especially when you have, you know, guys that 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.720 are your Pollard and Zeke both can do the same things. Now, 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.480 one might be better in one category than the other. 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.240 Zeke's gonna be more more powerful, more downhill. Poler is 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.360 going to be more explosive, but they both can catch 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.360 the ball in the backfield. They both can run screens, 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.240 they both can come downhill. So when you have backs 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.680 that can do everything, and then you have the officive 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.120 line like we have that's able to punish guys, move 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.199 guys off the ball, and then you have tight ends 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:26.640 or receivers, I can get down the field, you can 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.160 do whatever the heck you really want to um killing more. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.720 Kudos to him for whatever he did this offseason. Whatever 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.480 he did this offseason, he needs to continue to do 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.360 it because he has gone in this bag and I 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:38.800 hope it isn't. I hope he's not like a bag 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.520 of skittles and it's like the last one, you know, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.199 I hope he has more in there. It's kind of 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:48.360 hope exactly. Yeah, I need to cost go back because 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:49.760 he's pulling a lot of stuff out. You know, you 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.600 see him a governing at fullback and I he's keeping 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.959 guys off balance, and that's what you want to do 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.040 as an officive coordinator. And I think when you have 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.520 the personnel that we have on officer out of the ball, 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.120 that's expected, but it's not necessarily always carried out. So 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.160 great job to kill him more and defensively A lot 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.880 of people are surprised. I think I think you guys 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.640 know from the day one dan Quinn. I know dan Quinn. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.959 I've had him matters a car. I'm not surprised. Like, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.480 this is what he does when he has the personnel, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.200 He gets the best out of his guys. He makes 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:23.679 it fun, he builds him creates a culture that's highly competitive. Right, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.000 nobody is above anybody else, right. Next man is always 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.360 ready to come in and fulfill his role because he 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.079 puts you in position to be successful. Robbie, if you're 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.920 fast and you run and hit guess what. I'm putting 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.240 you in a position to run and hit somebody in 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.960 the dog on chest and you're gonna have a great 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.719 time doing it, and then we're gonna celebrate it every 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.160 single time. That's what he does. And you're seeing, you're 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.319 seeing his cultivation of that come to fruition with with 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.760 dan Quinn, and I'm I'm just excited to see it. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.079 Actually everybody else to see it, because I was blessed 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.520 to see it when I was playing with Seattle and 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.760 we made a bunch last week out of how many 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.880 guys they were missing on defensively too, And it didn't 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.719 it didn't see it doesn't matter. Rocks at it. It 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.800 doesn't seem to matter. And and you're right, they're putting 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.040 guys in good spots and they're getting contributions from a 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.319 lot of young guys too, and it's not just Michael Parsons. 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.480 We can go down the list. We were doing our 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.800 smelly stickers later, So yeah, do it that. We want 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.079 to tell about that smelly stickers. I'll talk about the 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.599 debate we had about Michael Parsons how successful was he 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.680 at that position? Well, okay, so the debate last week 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.360 on Talking Cowboys was between mister Heck Ma Harrison and 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.679 then the other corner. It was Isaiah stand back and 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.680 think thinking, uh so the edge rusher with Michael Parsons 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.240 versus edge rusher with the linebacker I mean basically, or 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.920 I mean, excuse me, Michael Parsons as the linebacker. That 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.160 was the conversation. So I'll let Heck we go first 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.400 round round one. What did you think about Michael Parsons 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.559 last night in his contribution in both ways? Well, I 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.040 loved it. I love the energy that he brings to 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.199 the defense. I think when you have a young guy 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.840 out there that every snap his energy doesn't go away. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:57.760 You know, he's the same guy in the first quarter 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.040 that he is in the fourth. He's always actively getting after. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.719 You saw him get those holding penalties. There's a few 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.640 that they did not call that was obvious holding penalties. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.079 But I also see what it does for Randy Gregory. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.120 Last night, Randy Gregory became the player that I think 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.680 all of us have been waiting on him to become. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.760 There were points in time in the game where it 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.240 was just like he was dominating that one on one matchup. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.480 And I just think that from a value standpoint, he 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:28.480 showed you that he can change how quarterbacks look at 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.400 this defensive line because not only him, but Osa Diggi Zua. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.480 You saw him emerge. And that's all because offensive lines 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.719 have to attest our account for where number eleven is 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.040 at all time. He's a game wrecker. It's just this 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.040 is what he does. And I believe he got sacked. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.439 He did. I think it was it was combined between 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.760 him and I'll take it. Yeah, I mean, I don't 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.080 disagree with you. I think that he made He's gonna 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.599 make plays. It isn't. I've never disputed the fact that 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.600 if you put him at he's not gonna make plays. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.240 I just think that you isolate him. And there's a 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.520 many times last night I'm just like, God, dog, he's 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.880 getting washed up, you know, like he's getting swallowed up 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.200 by these guys, and he doesn't he doesn't have an 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:14.400 impact on those plays. So for every for every thirty snaps, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.439 he might effect really have an effect over two plays, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.760 you know, Versus at the linebacker position, I feel like 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.200 he would have an effect or at least affect the 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.600 play every every single play. Like he's in the middle. 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.160 He's in the thicket things, tight ends, he's in the 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.240 thicket things, running backs coming through the throat to the whole. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:30.880 He's in the thick of things. Receivers when I come 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.680 across the middle, he's in the thicket things. So I 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.600 like him much better there. And I think a lot 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:36.040 of people held their breath when he got us but 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.400 chipped yesterday at the defense end position too. That's all 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.280 it hurts, right, It's like, why, like what we don't 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.040 have to do that. We have other guys that can 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.080 go out there and put forth high effort, right, and 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.160 if he's only gonna be effective on ten percent of 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:50.760 the plays that we put him at defense end, then 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.760 I'd much rather have him at the second level. Yeah, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.280 he only played. He played thirty seven snaps last night. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.000 That's actually two less snaps than he played before. We 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.320 two the Chargers, and I asked Mike McCarthy about playing 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:06.360 mostly end again, and I didn't get a specific answer 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.360 of why, but I would imagine it's mostly out of necessity. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:11.920 I mean, you're losing. You didn't have a n eye, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.600 you didn't have tank, you didn't have Dorian's armstrong, and 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.920 so they needed somebody to fill in there. And he 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.840 dropped a little bit. He played a little bit off 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.040 the ball, but it was mostly rushing the passer from 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.600 different spots. He rushed inside, he didn't. It wasn't it 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.840 was both edges. You had Randy Gregory at left end. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.920 At times they kind of took turns against Andre Dillard 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.160 on the on the left side and the other guy. Yeah, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.600 and they had they had some success. Um, So I'm 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.680 curious to see what happens when they get they get 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.640 more whole. I think you're probably see him more linebacker. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.840 But it was interesting for them to say, hey, Jalen Smith, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.240 you spy Jalen Hurts and he busted his ass to 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.040 do that. Good job, you know, yeah, yeah, credit to Jalen. Yeah. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.280 I have to go out of our way to give 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.040 some credit to Jalen because we'd go out of our 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.120 way to give criticism. And I think, you know, he's 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:04.000 number nine, he's playing well and Layton vander Esh's crazy. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.120 What competition does well you can And I think it's 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.000 another one of those crazy things when your defense knows 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.520 what they're doing, when the scheme isn't so complicated that 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.040 guys absolutely can't play fast. It's also amazing when you 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.280 have a ninety five that the urban who can gobble 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.840 up blockers for you and allow guys to scrape and 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.520 shoot the gaps. And you see all of these things 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.440 coming to fruition for this defense. And I look, this 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.560 is only a sample size, so I don't want to 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.880 jump out the cake yet. But I'm just saying the 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.080 experience that Micah is getting after not playing defensive end 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.040 in college only in high school, I think those things 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.560 are just going to be add to what he does. 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.360 So by the time we get to the end of 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.800 this season, let's see what kind of defensive end he is, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.440 what kind of pressure he can get and when we 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.280 bring Tank back. I like the fact that he's getting 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:54.840 the experience. I just my thing is risk first reward. No, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.280 I get what you're saying. I mean, he's an athlete. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:59.960 He's a freakish athlete. He could do a lot of things. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.840 You can put him at kicker and he'll probably be okay. 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.159 But but the reality is, you know, again, that was 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.200 a wake up call yesterday when they chipped on him. Yeah, 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.600 he could have easily broke his ribs easily. He was 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.720 easy upset about that after the game too, he was 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.720 talking about him. Yeah, So I mean that's it's easy 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.240 to target him at that when he's coming off that edge. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.080 I could pick him apart all day long, and I 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.719 could put a tight end over back, but I can 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.760 make sure about running back eight take his ribs out 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.400 every single time. You know, those conversations happen. Sorry, people, 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.920 those those things, those things happen, right. So I just 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.879 don't like the risk there because where he's a because 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.399 he's such an athlete, people forget that he's human. Because 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.520 he's such an athlete, people forget these human Let's put 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:36.439 him back in his human form, and let's put him 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.800 back at the second level and protect him because honestly, 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.600 that's where he should be in Again, last night was 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.680 out of necessity, And yes, he's gonna be impactful no 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.880 matter where you put him, but let's not take advantage 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.760 of that to the point where all of a sudden 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.200 it's too late. Yeah, money, don't make money, We'll hear you, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.680 but until until Parsons is sitting on the sideline for 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.520 six games and everybody's gonna be like, why do we 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.359 put him at the end. So there's no part of 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.160 you that feels like, if they wanted to, they could 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.040 just make him a edge rusher full time. They could, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.119 they could, But would he have the impact that he 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.120 has at the second level? I think not. I don't 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:07.920 think so either. I don't think you want him to 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.000 be enough rusher. You want him to be a linebacker? 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.200 You exactly. I agree with y'all. I just there was 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.440 times again last night where he's screaming off the edge 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.200 and it's like a violent first step and it's like, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.000 I'm much and it's cool to look at you wear 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.440 style or von Miller. Yeah, it is cool to get 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.240 should he be doing this this his career? But he 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:28.840 you know, if he keeps it this should that be 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.480 his role? It's also think about. But Jalen was also 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.080 unbothered by a lot of it too, As I was 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:36.040 watching it right like they was screaming off the hurts 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.520 hurts me, It hurts. Was unbothered right right just to 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.399 the things I was talking about, Like he steps up, 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:42.760 slides out like you know what I'm saying, Like that 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.320 was cool, Like you came off the ball fast. I 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.800